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Five police officers are under investigation over an inquiry into a murdered pregnant teenager who was reported missing more than two weeks before her body was found.
Former Colne Primet High School pupil Jayden Parkinson was strangled by violent ex-boyfriend Ben Blakeley, 22, - 24 hours after she told him she was expecting his child.
The 17-year-old who had spent around a year living in Nelson with her father Paul, was murdered on December 3 last year.
Mr Parkinson, 48, died of a heart attack just days before the trial of his daughter's killer was due to start.
Following Blakeley's conviction for murder, police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission revealed details of its investigation into how Thames Valley Police dealt with the case.
Investigators are looking at what the force did between December 4, when the teenager was reported missing by staff at the hostel where she was staying, and December 12 when Blakeley was arrested on suspicion of murder and a major crime investigation was launched.
Her body was found on December 19 in a Blakeley's uncle's grave at the Great Western Cemetery next to All Saints' Church in Didcot, Oxfordshire.
Jayden had previously alerted police that her ex-boyfriend had indecent video and pictures of her that he was threatening to put on Facebook, and investigators are looking at whether the officers who questioned him over the claim on December 4 knew whether Jayden had been reported missing.
They are also examining why Jayden was first classed as a medium risk missing person, and then later moved to high risk on December 10.
Five officers have been served with misconduct notices to tell them that they are under investigation, and the IPCC team is in the process of interviewing them.
IPCC associate commissioner Guido Liguori said: "Jayden's family continue to go through an incredibly difficult time, and I again offer my condolences to them.
"Now that the murder trial has concluded, we can provide a clearer picture of our investigation and the progress that has been made in recent months in parallel with Thames Valley Police's criminal investigation.
"As well as examining the individual actions of officers and staff in response to Jayden being reporting missing and whether these were appropriate, our investigation has also been looking at the force's policies and systems around missing person reports.
"There is still work to do and it is vital that we establish as full a picture as we can as to how the force responded to Jayden being reported missing, and the contact officers and staff had with her and Ben Blakeley in the months before her murder."


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Some people look for reasons not to go into the gym. They find reasons to call an exercise dangerous. When I first got into the fitness industry, it was Olympic weightlifting, followed by Behind the Neck Presses. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. For several years it has been leg extensions getting a bad rap. Oh well. I still do them.
Let's face it, I love leg work. It's simple and basic. One exercise that I feel is very important, if you want strong, powerful legs, is the humble leg extension. If you can find a machine that fits you, machines can be fine. I have one that I love, but most of them don't fit me. What does fit are my Iron Boots. There are a million exercises that I can do with Iron Boots. They really are dumbbells for the feet. Unfortunately, to get some exercises right, you actually need some extra equipment, like a bench or seat of some sort.
Garage gym guys take note. The York Barbell Flex bench is a great one to
pair up with Iron Boots. Amazingly, it was sitting right in front of me for about fifteen years, since I worked at York. They even used me as a "short, but real lifter" model for that piece, when it was originally being designed. The current version has a few more positions than it used to have. The one you need for BOTH Iron Boot Leg Extensions and Iron Boot Leg Curls is that butt pad adjustment. That pad also has a wide, rolled edge. That is very important for both exercises.
Check out these Leg Extension and Leg Curl photos. You don't need tons of weight, but getting the right angles and support IS KEY. That York Barbell Flex Bench paired up with Iron Boots is an economical, efficient tool for your garage gym. Like or hate Leg Extensions they work. This pairing will remove two more excuses.
All the best,
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Facing severe budget problems if the legislature agrees to Gov. John Hickenlooper's proposed budget, the Jefferson County School District took a new and dramatic approach to cutting its budget. A budget summit with representatives of the Board of Education, the teachers union, the classified employees association, the administrators' association and district leadership spent a weekend with a federal mediator and came up with a $40 million reduction plan that has pain for everyone.
More safety measures needed for boating at Evergreen Lake
I read your incredible story with pictures of the Hunter family and their grandchildren about to drop off the dam. Also a plea from Dan Markey for greater safety in using the boats. This family was very fortunate that calm heads were present. I would certainly think that safety would be the most important factor in the use of boats on the lake.
Bob Smith — you know that name. You may not be sure from where or how many of them you actually know. Idledale boasts Robert Rainsford Smith, and I use his middle name to distinguish him, although surely his long and prolific career as a studio potter has done that already.
People in civilized societies understand that we have collective needs that can be met only through the coordinated efforts of citizens. Many of those collective needs are met through the activities of governments. We expect our federal, state, local and special-district governments to do things that it makes no sense to do individually. We drive on public roads. We get water and dispose of wastewater through governmentally owned utilities. We educate our children in public schools. We protect our homes and businesses through governmental fire departments.
Sometimes I wonder whether we use the right nomenclature to describe the basic political divide in America. We see "liberals" on this side and "conservatives" on that side, with Democrats generally representing the former and Republicans the latter.
But a compelling case can be made that the political landscape is really more sensibly divided into those who believe government should have a limited role (libertarians) and those who prefer government to have a more active role (statists).
I am now a permanent resident and registered alien after 10 years of struggle. The alien part notwithstanding, to a poet like me, this is like saying, a bird authorized to sing, a dog authorized to bark, and a mother to suckle her young.
Andrei Guruianu, a Romanian immigrant poet, said this about his poem, "Alien Authorized To Work":
At what point will we finally have enough surveillance cameras? It's hard to go anywhere without being watched by at least one, and often several, closed-circuit eyes in the sky. On a typical five-minute walk in downtown Denver, you don't have to look very hard to find 20 or more cameras. They're on lampposts, the sides of buildings, on ceilings, atop traffic lights and along walls.
Every community needs a cheerleader like Angela Bassano, the most enthusiastic supporter of Conifer and its many nonprofits. Having a fund-raiser? Need silent auction items? Want to move a road? She can make it all happen.
While some may call her "Mayor," I choose "Cheerleader" because Angela is not only enthusiastic, she is vocal. Her infectious energy is spread not just by example but with all kinds of verbal exhortations to, as she says, "Get up off your butt and participate."
Women. More specifically, suburban women. Most specifically, independent and Republican suburban women.
Now that we've made it through the primary process and have a race for Colorado's U.S. Senate seat between Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck, it looks to me like the key to victory in this year's race will be unaffiliated and Republican women voters from the suburbs.
So it's come to this. In perhaps the most favorable Republican year since at least 1994, scandal-plagued GOP front-runner Scott McInnis can't even close the deal on his own party's nomination, much less the general election.
Abby Posner has leapt from the gold pans of Colorado to the "Frying Pans and Freeways" of L.A. Many know this former local artist from her solo career as a singer/songwriter. The high caliber of her musical talent began when she studied guitar under Kevin Alumbaugh at the Evergreen School of Music. I have friends who still remember her inspired performances with the Kamikaze Kids, an '80s theater group conducted by Clear Creek's Jimy Murphy.
In the week following the Sept. 11 attacks, Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette attended religious services at both a Jewish synagogue and an Islamic mosque. Her visit to Temple Emanuel coincided with our Rosh Hashanah services, which are very well attended, and Rabbi Steve Foster, the spiritual leader of the congregation, welcomed her publicly and made a point of telling everyone in attendance that she was attending the mosque that week as well.
Negative attacks, they say, have long been part of politics. In "Going Dirty: the Art of Negative Campaigning" by David Mark, we're told that in the 1828 presidential election, Andrew Jackson's political allies nicknamed John Quincy Adams "the Pimp," a reference to "a rumor that while he was ambassador to Russia a decade earlier, he had coerced a young woman into having an affair with a czar."
From county commissioner to Colorado governor, Jeffco voters face very crowded ballots this year, and as the primary election approaches on Aug. 10, our opinion pages will no doubt become more crowded as well.
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Looking back on the just completed "Arts Alive Evergreen," it's remarkable how many opportunities to participate in the arts there are in a community of this size.
Did you ever have a really great teacher? Someone who changed your life?
I've been lucky to have more than one. In elementary school, I wasn't the easiest kid — you could say I was pretty tough. These days I'd surely be diagnosed with ADD (actually, to say I had an attention deficit is a huge understatement). But Mrs. Arnold and Mrs. Ballangee stuck with me. It would have been easy to ignore this rowdy kid, but they put in extra hours, helping me learn what I couldn't have learned on my own. I'm grateful they did.
Legal access to marijuana in Colorado seems to be a constantly moving target. As new medical marijuana laws go into effect in our state, a number of other things are coming together as well.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is considering a more flexible definition of post-traumatic stress disorder at virtually the same time as the state health department is being asked to add PTSD to the list of medical conditions for which medical marijuana could be prescribed. If both these things come to pass, it would liberalize access to medical marijuana for PTSD sufferers.
Wake up, America: Even France gets it
Leaders of the world's 20 industrial economies recently met in Toronto to discuss global economic problems, including the worrisome developments in European sovereign debt. The meetings resulted in a group statement announcing a concerted effort to reduce government spending.
"Advanced economies have committed to fiscal plans that will at least halve deficits by 2013 and stabilize or reduce government debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016," G-20 leaders announced last week.
One of Congress' fundamental responsibilities under the Constitution is budgeting. With large majorities in both houses of Congress, the only hurdle Democrat leaders have in developing and garnering support for the annual budget resolution is themselves.
Yet, this past week House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer officially announced during a speech that Congress will make no attempt to develop and pass a budget this year.
By any account, Colorado has a robust citizen initiative process. Both by law and practice, we are asked to vote on more proposed constitutional amendments and initiated laws than people in other states.
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BYESVILLE Members of the executive board of the Byesville Area Board of Trade still entertained questions Wednesday as to the role the organization will play in the future operation of a passenger train in the village.
However, Executive Director Woody Biggs will be among those meeting next week to discuss train issues, President Brenda Cooper said Wednesday during a meeting of the executive board.
"All of you are welcome to attend, too," she told board members. "I encourage you to attend [and ask] your questions."
Cooper said that, as soon as she learned the day, time and place of the meeting, she would pass along the information to the executive board members.
Board members also discussed the finding of a portion of the original Byesville depot. A resident living several blocks from the depot site had a portion of the building in the back yard, serving as a storage shed.
There has been talk of purchasing the building and moving it to village property, some Board of Trade members said.
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Intel's 90nm Pentium M 755: Dothan Investigatedby Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/21/2004 12:05 AM EST
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eBauer - Friday, November 19, 2004 - linkI'd like to see a P4 3.2-3.4 w/ dual channel DDR3200 used instead of single channel DDR2700 that was used for the P4 testbed - as a rough idea where a Dell 9100/XPS, for example, would fall in line with the Dothan. Reply
bhtooefr - Saturday, July 24, 2004 - linkSomething else I noticed - where's the Banias 1.7 and the Dothan 735? It would make comparing Banias to Dothan so much easier to do that...
Also, what motherboards did you use on the desktop chips?
#25: Take a look at http://cpu-museum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1089. PowerLeap actually DID have something in the works, and was going to release in Quarter 1, but they cancelled it because of (well, at least this is what they said - I wouldn't be surprised if it was because Intel held them at gunpoint) LGA775 coming out (which can't really work with an adaptor) and the fact that the P-M wasn't running at 2.0GHz (I told them about Dothan, though). Reply
Zebo - Saturday, July 24, 2004 - linkWhat are you talking about #4 and #17?
Intels "dominace" in encoding? Those days are history my friends. If they ever were.
Anandtech's article published just before this one was proves it. Here's a quote:
"It was difficult to resist being a little sensationalist in this 939 roundup and titling the review, "Who needs 925X?" That would have been a fair title, however, since you can clearly see that all of the Socket 939/FX53 boards completely outperform Intel's top 560 on the top 925X motherboard. Even Media Encoding, the last bastion of Intel dominance, has fallen in benchmarks with our new AutoGK benchmark. "
As a matter of a fact it's always been a mismoner if you look at other suites/Codecs such as:
Codecs: xVID
Consumer programs: Ulead VideoStudio 4,5,6 and 7. Roxio videowave 4,5,6 and 7. Pinnacle studio 7.
MPEG2 Encoders: Canopus procoder, Ligos, bbMPEG.
DVD transcoding: DVD2AVI, VirtualDubMod
Freeware: VirtualDub.
Streaming: Quicktime.
Shot out to alex;) Reply
T8000 - Thursday, July 22, 2004 - linkSince the Pentium M shares its bus protocol with the Pentium 4, I think companies like Powerleap should be more then able to provide an adaptor for desktop use.
This would likely result in an "Intel unknown" detection, along with a lack of power save options, but previous experience with the "Tualatin" P3(1400) learned that this could work and even offer full performance compared to a full recognition.
Also, I think the limited memory bandwith did not hold Athlon 64 back, because I still remember seeing Athlon FX (dual channel) and 64 (sinle channel) perform almost equal for the same clockspeed. However, the Pentium 4 would benefit from more bandwith, as happened before on every FSB bump it got. So I think adding faster memory would only make a noticeable difference for the Pentium 4. Reply
SKiller - Thursday, July 22, 2004 - linkI didn't say it would make up *all* the performance, but enough to make it competetive. For example: the P4 is essentially faster than A64 in those tasks but the A64 is still sufficiently close to be a viable altermative. Dothan doesn't have to beat the P4 in media encoding or content creation, just come close enough to be a good desktop CPU. It should be possible by increasing the FSB. Reply
Xentropy - Thursday, July 22, 2004 - link#3 - "As you'd expect from 90nm, the leakage power has shot right up, meaning that in its low power states, the CPU is draining a great deal more power than Banias."
Oh? Link to more info on this, please. Reply
TrogdorJW - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkOne comment I forgot to mention: even with the talk of thermal design targets and clock speed limitations, I imagine that a Dothan CPU in a desktop motherboard with a large copper heatsink would have quite a lot of overclocking headroom. I know there was a French site that claimed to have overclocked a Dothan to 2.4 GHz, and the performance was quite impressive (if true). I would really like to see overclocking results for Dothan (and Banias) on a desktop system. With processors designed to generate 1/4 the amount of heat of a P4 3.2+, it could be interesting. Here's hoping some motherboard manufacturers will accommodate us! :) Reply
TrogdorJW - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkOverall, I thought this was a great article. Those complaining about various configuration issues need to stop whining. Never once did AT actually give out any numbers for battery life or low-power performance, or claim that the Dothan was beating a desktop Athlon 64/P4. All we're looking at is what the various can do in typical *laptop* configurations. Getting a P4 and A64 laptop would make them into real laptops, but then we would have the laptop manufacturer's configuration, and likely it wouldn't be the same as what they had for the Dothan system. What we've got is three platforms running the same RAM, Hard Drive, and graphics card. Yes, it's limiting what some of the CPUs could do, but it's about as fair as you can get.
Of course, if history is any indication, I'm fairly confident that Dothan is going to dominate other mobile architectures in battery life - when using the same screen, hard drive, and battery. Too bad it's so difficult to actually meet those criteria. Screens differ quite a bit, and many P4 and A64 laptops are shipping with 90+ kWhrs batteries, while Banias and Dothan laptops often get by with 60 to 70 kWhrs. Anyway, the Banias was generally the best laptop CPU before (i.e. most efficient while still providing good performance), so why shouldn't the Dothan be similar if not better? The results are hardly surprising.
I really hope that we one day see some desktop boards designed for Dothan, though. I imagine that getting the FSB up to 200 MHz quad-pumped should be possible, although even 133 or 166 would be helpful. Combine a Dothan CPU with all the other desktop accoutrements, and it would likely be a formidable gaming platform. Of course, it would really only be about the same as Athlon 64, and Intel is currently milking the Dothan/Banias line for all they can. $600+ for a processor that probably costs Intel less money to create than their P4 chips.
Again, great article, Anand. (And for the interested, Jon "Hannibal" Stokes over at Ars Technica put together as much information as I've seen anywhere about how the internals of the Banias/Dothan function. Not much detail in comparison to other CPU comparision articles he's written, but there is some additional information about what ops can benefit from the fusion technique, IIRC.) Reply
rocketbuddha - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkAcer(for sure) & Emachines(AFAIK) use a 4200 RPM HDD not a 5400 RPM HDD.
The problem is that the available Athlon laptops are castrated in some level
a) Poor Graphics card(This changed with A64).
b) Lower speed HDDs.(Of course Aleinware, FNW fix with high end components pricing goes to the roof.)
c) Only 4 from a list of 32 varying modes by PowerNow!
With these either of these three there no way would a mobile A64 laptop would be in its best form for comparision.
SnakeJG - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkI would also like to see this review updated with an Athlon 64 with 1 meg L2 cache. It seems a shame to compare an expensive 2 meg L2 cache Dothan with the cheaper 512KB L2 cache Athlon 64's. In addition, by keeping Athlon 64's to the slower/single channel RAM, you are making the L2 cache more important than normal, and hindering the Athlon 64. Reply
phtbddh - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkWhat is the battery life of a Dothan compared to a Banias? I know the Dothan is suppose to be better, but can we see some numbers? Reply
tfranzese - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkNot quite SKiller, a large part of the P4's dominance in media encoding is the high core frequency attributed to such a long pipeline. Reply
SKiller - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkI think the assertion that..
"With Intel's vision for the future being centered on media encoding and content creation, the Pentium M is the last thing that Intel would want to build their future desktop CPUs around."
..may not be correct as by your own admission:
"Partially constrained by its 400MHz FSB and single channel memory interface, the Pentium M is not the successor to the Pentium 4 that many will make it out to be."
So all Intel would have to do is up the FSB on a desktop version to improve media encoding and content creation performance and be competitive with P4. Reply
mkruer - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkyou know i wonder just how much of the preformance is gained from the 2MB of L2 cache. If I recall from Aceshardware the 2MB is the sweetspot For mico op code, any more, and there is a preformance hit in either direction, Also on a side note. The 90nm Athlon 64 show a ~5% improvement across the board. Reply
dvinnen - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkYea, I was wondering the same thing. Why not just use a mobile A64 system with a mobile 9600. Acer and emachines make systems with them. Reply
alexruiz - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkAnother one: Was that difficult to get an eMachines M68xx for the review? Mobile against mobile. Reply
alexruiz - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkAnand made a huge mistake in the Athlon 64 CPU selection. The mobile [b]A64 3000+ is clocked at 1.8 GHz with a 1MB L2 cache[/b]. He used a desktop 2.0 GHz with 512 K. This will affect the outcome, specially because clock speed matters more cache.
I knew Dotham was going to give a very good fight, but I didn't expect it to win any gaming application ot Business Winstone. As reference, my M6805 A64 3000+ scores 22.2 and 27.8 in the BW and CCMW tests (7K60 hard drive, so not the same setup)
A very good review, but we can do better. I still want to see video encoding tests run with a commercial application, preferably 3 (Ulead Video Studio 8, Roxio Videowave 7, Pinnacle 9) and 2 alternative programs for DivX encoding (DVD2AVI and virtualdubmod are suggested. We have seen enough XMPEG from other sites)
Run some photoedition benchmarks not only with Adobe, but also with Corel Photopaint 11 or Roxio Photosuite.
AutoCAD is also expected to give an idea of what be attained. SolidWorks or UG would be fantastic, but those 2 are more of a wish.
How about more scientific or technical programs? Electrical simulators (PSpice for example), FEA (Nastran), MathCAd, Maple, etc.
More games were expected to be run. Howe about chess programs? How about OSmark, the succesor of COSBI by Van Smith?
I stressed the use of 2 or more applications that do the same to highlight the fact that software optimization matters a lot and that some myth about a CPU being "the best for that activity" are only myths.
All in all, Dotham is a potent rival that uncovers some weaknesses in the K7/K8 architecture that were noticeable against the P6 (Pentium II/III) but forgotten against the P7 (Pentium 4): [b]L2 cache performance[/b] and integer performance.
Regarding battery life keep in mind that the CPU is not the biggest spender in a laptop, the screen is. The K8T800, the most popular chipset for AMF64 laptops is a desktop part, and is quite voracious. Keep those factor when battery life is evaluated.
I foresee that SOI will give AMD the edge in battery life once they implement power saving caches, the biggest energy conservation feature in the P-M.
Comments are welcome
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dacaw - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkWell Dothan looks very much like a copy of a 32-bit AthlonXP to me.
Comparing it to an Athlon64 makes no sense. Dothan is not 64-bit.
I bought an AthlonXP Barton mobile 2600 for $99 and it runs barely warm under PowerNow. What could you buy for the price of a Dothan? Maybe 5 top-of-the-line Athlon XPs?
Let's compare apples to apples and have a review of top-of-the line Dothan to top-of-the-line AthlonXP.
Oh, and drop those fake synthetic benchmarks. What point are they if they simply "favor" Intel processors (your comment in the review).
Come on Anand, lets have a review that really means something. Please! Reply
Jeff7181 - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkCan't wait to see battery life tests. Reply
mino - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkNice review, however it is a shame you didn't include Celeron 2.4 (which could be find in many SLOW notebooks) and also AXP-M 2600+ would be nice. -> this way it would be a complete notebook market review. - The best one.
I'll love to see bench results of Cely and XP added (by using same desktop platform as you did in case of P4)
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nserra - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - link#3 I agree. Banias is a better chip. It would be nice to see Banias at 0.09 with 1MB cache, would be smaller, cheaper and a lot more chips per waffer, but Intel isn't interested in these yet, at least maybe a Celeron line when Banias phased out.
Isn't Ati 9100 chipset compatible with Banias and P4 compatible? A bios change or something more wouldn't do the trick? Reply
Matthew Daws - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkInteresting read. Some comments though: the Dothan has a HUGE L2 cache, which people, in a thread over at Ace's, suggest gives it a large edge in many applications (there were complaints that it excels in SpecInt simply because of this, and with very large datasets, performance rapidly tails off). Nothing wrong with that, but it might explain why the Dothan has issues with media-encoding and the like, where the volume of data is so large that the size of the L2 cache becomes less important.
Also, the test was a little bit of comparing apples to oranges. I see why this was done: to try and give a laptop-like playing field. But Dothan is almost certainly highly optimised to run with, say, single channel, slow RAM. By forcing this on Athlon64 and Pentium 4 desktops, which are optimised for fatter memory channels, you are slightly crippling performance. As such, it's probably a fair test for laptop performance, but probably doesn't indicate how a Dothan-like desktop chip would hold up. This might explain how well it holds its own against the Athlon64 and beats the P4 in many tests.
Anyhow, good to see a great test of Dothan! Cheers, --Matt Reply
xsilver - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkJust a question... I thought the new sucessor to the prescott was going to be the derivative of the dothan -- eg merging back the mobile and desktop solutions? I'm wrong right? So what exactly are they going to replace prescott with? Reply
morcegovermelho - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkWhere are the Athlon 64 3000+ scores in Sysmark 2004? (page 8) Reply
DigitalDivine - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkinteresting to see that we are going back to the old days when intel and amd matches each other clock for clock. a 1.8ghz centrino about the same as a 1.8ghz athlon64.
still another note that the p4 is still king in media encoding.
overall a nice review.
adntaylor - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkExcellent chip. However, it's bloody expensive. At $637 it is exactly the same price as a 3.6GHz Prescott 560 or right between Athlon 64 3500+ and 3700+, so it's not a good choice for the desktop.
Also Anand's comment "...it's faster and uses less power than Banias" is not quite accurate.
Under full CPU load, yes this is certainly true but, as you'd expect from 90nm, the leakage power has shot right up, meaning that in its low power states, the CPU is draining a great deal more power than Banias. How much time does a laptop spend idling relative to flat out? My guess: quite a bit. I'd still choose a Banias in my laptop for that reason alone.
Still good article, and I'd love (from a purely academic point of view) to see what this baby could do when coupled up with a dual-channel memory interface and a good desktop chipset! Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkProbably the best heat vs. performance processor out there, at least for x86. Why Intel is dumb to shove Prescotts which use 5x more power for the same performance is beyond me; I would get this for a desktop quicklike.
Of course, we have Intel's TDP instead of what the processor may acutally put out on worst case conditions. That and we don't know what the Athlon 64 at 90nm will put out, at least at 2.0ghz, since all they are doing is a few tweaks to the core (isn't it smaller than 100mm?) That and I guess if you really meant unpatented, that was what to make sure no one really knows why it's so great? Reply
mkruer - Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - linkI'm glad that Intel seem to be moving in the right direction with the Dothan, but I do have a question. Why on half the benchmarks is the Athlon benchmarks missing? Reply


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Washington Report: Workers of the World Unite?
Local protesters prepare to hit the doorsteps of their state capitols to have their voices be heard
The battle over union rights will spread across the nation on Saturday when supporters gather…
By Joyce Jones
February 25, 2011 Tags: Center for Economic and Policy Research, Chris Larsen, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Gov. Scott Walker, Indiana, Keith Ellison, Mark Miller, President Obama, Raúl Grijalva, Wisconsin


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Tysons Status Report
2011 Report to Board of Supervisors on Tysons Corner
On June 22, 2010 the Board of Supervisors adopted a new Comprehensive Plan for Tysons. Much of what exists today will need to redevelop in order to support the new vision for Tysons. Monitoring the progress of the Plan is critical to ensure that the vision for Tysons is achieved.
The 2011 Report to the Board of Supervisors on Tysons Corner is the first of a series reports on Tysons that staff will prepare for the Board throughout Plan implementation. The report sets forth baseline data and monitoring actions planned over time in an effort to evaluate the progress towards achievement of the vision. The 2011 Report covers activity related to Tysons from the Plan adoption in June, 2010 through September, 2011.
Activities covered include;
- Public outreach since plan adoption, including two community open houses , the creation of the Tysons Partnership, and establishment of a Tysons ZIP code,
- Major land use requests both approved and under evaluation, including the recently approved cases at Spring Hill Station,
- Plans for monitoring traffic within Tysons, including existing counts and progress towards completing a number of important transportation studies, such as TMSAMS,
- Monitoring environmental stewardship and sustainability,
- Progress towards the development of Urban Design Guidelines for Tysons,
Update on the status of each of the 20
Follow-On Motions adopted at the time of Plan approval.
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PEOPLE who need to record a birth, death or marriage could soon have to travel to Taunton under plans to close Wellington's register office.
The Corams Lane facility may shut its doors in three weeks if cost-cutting proposals by Somerset County Council are pushed through.
Bosses say the move is an "integral part of changes" as it looks to find £100million in savings over the next four years.
In a letter to Wellington Town Council, the authority said: "When we considered all the information we concluded that while premises costs are minimal at Corams Lane, the low availability and take-up of appointments is not making best use of staff time.
"Making these changes is crucial in order to reshape the registration service across the county to be more efficient and to deliver a better customer service."
The office is open eight hours a week over two days and is run by part-time staff.
The authority says no jobs will be lost and, subject to engagement, workers will be redeployed to the registration office at Taunton's Old Municipal Building.
It also said talks are underway with Somerset Skills and Learning over the lease of the building.
Cllr Andrew Govier said he plans to write to the county council to see if it could open the facility once a week. He said: "It is a real shame that this facility is being lost, however I do accept that changes and savings need to be made."
Cllr Janet Lloyd added: "I think it's quite sad that the county council is proposing to close the office.
"When people have to register a death they are distraught enough anyway and when I lost somebody it was nice to be able to do that in Wellington."
According to the county council, Wellington's registration office is the least used out of 12 in Somerset.
Between April 2012 and March 2013, it said 156 births, 102 deaths and 34 notices of marriage or civil partnership were registered.
The facility will be closed subject to a county councillor decision.
The nearest registration office is at the Old Municipal Building, Taunton, which is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm.


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Magis Table_One Outdoor
In Table_One, Konstantin Grcic created a design so light and spare, it looks good just about anywhere, and especially in spaces outdoors. Table_One's understated looks don't compete with nature's beauty, and its generous surface area offers plenty of room for entertaining. And with a weather-resistant, attractive black finish, Table_One is so nice you'll want to use it for gatherings in your dining room or patio.


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PHILADELPHIA – It was déjà vu all over again for the University of Pennsylvania football team in its season finale against Cornell as the Quakers watched the Big Red build a big lead before mounting a furious rally which would ultimately be blocked at the most inopportune time in a 42-41 loss at Franklin Field on Saturday.
In the 120th meeting between these programs, the 83 combined points were the second-most in the history of the series - college football's fifth-most played rivalry. Cornell (3-7, 2-5 Ivy) also claimed the Trustees Cup from the Quakers (4-6, 3-4 Ivy) for the second time in the last three years.
After it appeared the Quakers would cruise to the win with leads of 14-0 and 21-7 in the first half, the Red and Blue found themselves staring down a 21-point deficit with 7:49 to play, trailing the Big Red, 42-21.
Freshman Alek Torgersen would lead the comeback attempt, connecting with sophomore wideout Cameron Countryman from 45-yards out with 7:09 to play on a strike which was the first career touchdown for both players. After Penn's defense put up a stop, Torgersen again went to the air for a Penn score, connecting with senior Ty Taylor on a 25-yard touchdown pass to pull Penn within one score, 42-35, with 2:52 to play.
After struggling during the middle stages of the game to halt Cornell's aerial attack, the Quakers dialed up a turnover at the right moment, senior Sam Chwarzynski stepped into a Jeff Mathews screen pass on 3rd-and-18 and returned the pick 39 yards for a touchdown, bringing Penn within one pending the extra point. The point after attempt was blocked, however, by Cornell's Tre Minor to deny Penn the tie.
On Senior Day, fifth-year quarterback Ryan Becker helped stake Penn to a 21-7 lead midway through the second quarter, throwing a career-high three touchdown passes along the way. His first score came three plays after senior Mason Smith recovered Cornell's muffed punt at the Big Red's 13-yard line. Junior Kyle Wilcox took the handoff on the first two plays, before Becker slung a pass Wilcox's way for a seven-yard touchdown.
Becker's next completion also went for a score, finding Ty Taylor from 20 yards out just before the end of the first quarter to cap a brief, three-play, 56-yard drive. Sophomore running back Mike Elespuru had a big assist, breaking a 21-yard run to set up first down at the Cornell 20.
Cornell mounted its best drive to that point following Taylor's touchdown, marching 61 yards on 10 plays, reaching the Penn six-yard line before lining up for a Joe Pierik 23-yard field goal. Chwarzynski got to the ball first though, blocking the field goal and keeping the Big Red off the scoreboard.
The shutout did not last for long. Cornell's Jeff Matthews, who threw for 476 yards on the day, finally found rhythm with favorite target Grant Gellatly on Cornell's next drive. Matthews was 4-for-4 passing on the drive, the last two going to Gellatly for 31 and 25 yards, respectively, and Cornell's first touchdown of the game.
Freshman Danny Ferens did his part to help the Quakers answer, returning the ensuing kickoff 53 yards to the Cornell 45. On first down, Becker would find senior Conner Scott for a 31-yard gain down to the Cornell 14. Two plays later, Becker would slip his third touchdown pass of the half to Elespuru from seven yards out for a 21-7 lead.
Those points would be the last Penn would score over the next 29:52 of play as Cornell mounted a rally and scored 35 unanswered points.
Matthews had a hand in four of the five touchdowns, throwing for three and running in a one-yard sneak of his own to help the Big Red build a 42-21 lead. The lone non-Matthews touchdown came off a blocked punt that was recovered in the end zone by the Big Red.
The game was the final contest for Penn's Senior Class of 2014 who will graduate with a 24-16 record and two Ivy League championships.
Scott had a team-high six catches for 88 yards, with classmate Taylor finishing his final game with four catches for a career-best 70 yards and two touchdowns. Taylor led the team with five touchdowns this season - tied for ninth-most in a single season at Penn. Senior Ryan Mitchell left the game early with an injury, but had three catches for 15 yards, including his 100th career reception early in the first quarter. He ends his career with 102 receptions, tied for sixth-most in Penn history. Scott, who is eligible for a fifth season next year, also reached the 100-catch plateau and ranks ninth in the school record book.
Becker threw for 146 yards in the game, and notched his third multi-touchdown game of the season. Fellow fifth-year quarterback Billy Ragone was extremely limited in action, but was placed in the game for the first two plays of the game. He capped his career with a six-yard pass which served as Mitchell's milestone catch. Ragone finished one of the greatest careers in school history. In addition to a school record 56 total touchdowns (36 pass, 20 rush), Ragone finished his career as the second-most productive offensive player in school history with 6,724 total yards (Gavin Hoffman holds the Penn record with 7,188). Ragone also finished third all-time at Penn in career passing yards (5,104), career completions (437) and career passing touchdowns (36).
Matthews was sacked six times, including twice by Chwarzynski. Feerooz Yacoobi and Dan Davis each had 1.5 sacks, while Austin Taps and Dan Connaughton combined on one. As a team, Penn had 11 tackles for loss in the game. Davis led all players with nine tackles, including seven by himself. Trevor Niemann added an interception for the Quakers.
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Monday Morning Memo
Here's a brief synopsis of what's going on this week in regards to Physics... and beyond.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Tuesday December 3:
Fall Seminar Series - Please join us for a talk wtih Monica Lilly, Northrop Grumman
Monica Lilly received her undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland College Park where she studied the fabrication and testing of electron doped superconductors. After graduation she pursued a masters at University of CA, Riverside with a master project based in the integration of carbon nanotubes as templates for one dimensional superconductors. For the past five years she has been working at Northrop Grumman as a process engineer, lab manager, and now principle investigator of the carbon nanotube field effect transistor project.
Her talk will focus on using semiconducting carbon nanotubes in radio frequency electronics: what can they be used for and why is the radio frequency industry interested in a one-dimensional semiconductor? She will also discuss the process of growing carbon nanotubes and turning them into transistors.
12:10 in CNS 206B
Pizza and refreshments provided for $1. Please bring your own cup - remember to reuse, reduce, recycle.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Tuesday November 12:
Seminar talk with Driss Takir, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of Physics, Ithaca College
Title: Spectroscopy of Outer Main Belt Asteroids and Carbonaceous Chondrites.
Abstract: The carbonaceous chondrite meteorites I study are primitive meteorites that consist of some of the most pristine matter known in the Solar System, unaltered since the original condensation from the solar nebula. These meteorites have been shown to contain amino acids that are the precursor molecules to life. Some of these meteorites even contain diamonds from a highly energetic event- possibly from a supernova that occurred before the formation of our solar system's nebula. These carbon-rich meteorites are relatively rare in our earthly collections and are thought to come from primitive asteroids that orbit the Sun between 2.5 < a < 4.0 AU (between Mars and Jupiter). They are also thought to be the source of water and organics delivered to terrestrial planets during their formation. In this talk I will discuss how I developed reliable spectral signatures that can place constraints on the degree and location of thermal energy deposited in these meteorites that may have aqueously altered the minerals. Using the SpeX spectrograph/imager at NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), I measured near-infrared (NIR: 0.7-4.0 micron) spectra of 45 outer Main Belt asteroids and I used the JHU APL lab spectrometer to measure 10 meteorite spectra that allowed the identification of four spectral groups, each of which reflects a distinct surface mineralogy AND THESE GROUPS HELP US TO UNDERSTAND THE DIVERSITY OF THERMAL HISTORIES IN THE ASTEROID REGIONS - POINTING THE WAY TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION ENERGETICS.
12:10 P.M. in CNS 206B
Pizza and refreshments provided for $1. Please bring your own cup. Remember to Reuse, Reduce, Recycle.
Friday November 15:
Join us for Public Viewing night, Friday, November 15th from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
You are invited to join the Ithaca College Department of Physics for a Public Viewing of the night sky at the Clinton B. Ford Observatory on Friday, November 15th from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
To attend a Public Night
Just show up the vehicle 'turn around' in front of the entrances of Smiddy Hall and CHS (F lot side). A shuttle van will make regular runs to convey people up to the observatory and back down. Please note that there is NO parking available up at the observatory and that the access road is NOT lighted. For your own safety, please do not walk up.
Bad Weather Plan
The "go/no-go" decision for any public night will be made at 3:30 pm on the scheduled date. Our web page and the recorded message at the observatory will be updated shortly thereafter to reflect the decision for that evening. So if you check our website or call the observatory at 607-274-3012 after 4:00 pm you will get the final decision for that evening.


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Did you know?
The first Spur was opened in Newlands, Cape Town, in 1967. It now has 237 branches throughout South Africa, as well as a few international ones in the United Kingdom, Australia and Mauritius.
There are plenty of great places for families to eat out when visiting the coastal city of Durban, from coffee shops that cater for the little ones to steakhouses with play areas to keep the kids occupied.
uShaka Marine World is currently Durban's top family attraction, and has some themed dining too. Kids will love the Centre Court restaurant, aboard the Phantom Ship flanked by open ocean exhibitions. In the stern of the same ship is the Cargo Hold restaurant, surrounded by the glass of a shark tank, where diners can see sub-adult silvertip sharks, black-tip reef sharks, guitarfish and barracudas (among others) while they eat.
There are over 35 food outlets at the sprawling Gateway World shopping centre in Umhlanga. Some are better than others, of course, but you won't go hungry as the kids get to skate, action kart, watch movies or visit the ScienCentre.
Another delightful eatery is the Waterberry Coffee Shoppe in a forest setting in Ballito. The children will be entranced by the small antelope running around, the sand art area and the jungle gyms. Milkshakes, macaroni and cheese, French toast and spaghetti bolognaise are popular items on the kiddies' menu.
Lucky Bean in Hillcrest, with a 60m bike track, jungle gym, swings, a gated outdoor play area and indoor play shed with equipment, is considered a great family outing. Light meals and cakes are also on offer.
La Spiaggia Trattoria on the Umhlanga promenade is easy to access if you are spending the day on the beach with kids. No need to dress up; you can rock up in your beach clothes. Pasta, pizza and line fish of the day are on the menu.
The Roma Revolving Restaurant, situated downtown in John Ross House, also welcomes children. Here the food is Italian, and kids are catered for with half portions.
Then there's the Spur chain of steakhouses in South Africa, which are ultra-family friendly. There are a number of branches in KwaZulu-Natal offering all sorts of deals to attract families, including loyalty cards, kids' specials, free meals for the under 12s on Wednesdays, a Secret Tribe Club and more. The Mustang Spur in Berea is a popular outlet of this chain.
Another restaurant chain that gives special attention to juniors is Primi Piatti, with five restaurants in the Durban area, including at the Pavilion and Gateway shopping centres. The Primi Pod concept seats children in a special area where they are shown how to make their own pizza and biscuits by dedicated caregivers.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
The Waterberry Coffee Shoppe
Leonora Drive Dolphin Coast 4399
Tel: +27 (0)31 946 2797
Primi Piatti
Shop 213, Musgrave Road, Musgrave
Tel: +27 (0)31 201 0158
uShaka Marine World
1 Bell Street Durban 4001
Tel: +27 (0)31 328 8000
Mustang Spur, Durban
115 Musgrave Road, Shop 300, Musgrave Centre
Tel: +27 (0) 31 202 8040
Best time to visit
Durban is a great destination all-year round. During the festive season it does get pretty crowded, so make sure you book long in advance. Durban is also warm during the South African winters (May to August) and a good place to soak up some sun.
Around the area
Durban has superb beaches, and the Funworld Amusement Park on the beachfront is a great place for kids to enjoy fun rides and entertainment. The Gateway Theatre of Shopping is great for older kids where the Wave House, Skate Park and Sports Arena offer hours of fun. For littlies, Mr Funtumbles Funfair has activities and fun games for smaller children.
Tours to do
For older children, a trip out to sea with the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board is educational and informative. A tour of the Moses Mabhida stadium is another great outing for kids.
Get around
Having your own car to get around and see all the attractions is a good idea. Some of the hotels will have transport to the main attractions.
What will it cost
Most kiddies' meals are less than R50 per head.
Length of stay
Durban is an ideal destination for families. Spend a long weekend or even a week exploring the area.
What to pack
Wet wipes are always a good idea when travelling with kids, as is sunscreen if you are going to be outdoors.
Where to stay
There are superb holiday apartments in Umhlanga and Ballito, not too far from Durban (about a 30-minute drive). Durban also has a number of beachfront hotels that cater for families.


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Summertime in the Valley means soaking up the sun, but before you take the plunge and buy a new swimsuit, hear what Scottsdale 16's Jenna Wood says is trending this summer.
The Scottsdale 16, a part of Steve LeVine Entertainment & Public Relations, is a group of young, beautiful women in Arizona who are booked for a variety of events across the Valley by Steve LeVine Entertainment & Public Relations, including corporate parties, special events, and modeling for promotional or runway shows. Wood is no stranger to bikini trends and the proper pool party etiquette for the summer.
This summer, bikini trends are about standing out and nothing about Wood's favorite styles are boring. For her, it is all about being more unique then the traditional triangle top. She really likes cut-out styles and strappy tops and bottoms. Bright colors have definitely worked their way into swimwear designs.
"I've noticed I have been buying a lot of exotic prints lately," she said. "Anything from tribal to tropical, as long as it's bright I love it!"
With all the unique prints and eye-popping colors out there, Wood's go-to style is mixing and matching. Wood has a few bottoms that fit her body type and then pairs them with all types of tops, primarily bandeaus or anything bright. But most importantly, no matter what your preference is, Wood stresses that "women know how to dress to their body type. Not every style is the best look of everyone.
One of the major perks of living in Arizona is the plethora of pool parties around the Valley and what you wear to these events is just as important as a night on the town. A great bathing suit is a must, but accessories make just as big of a statement. Wood likes to stand out.
"I'm in love with my gold body chain right now," she said. Wood matches it with small gold stud earrings, bracelets, strappy sandals or wedges and, of course, sunglasses for the perfect look.
A pool party is a great place to make a statement, but also opens the door for a lot of potential mishaps.
"Nothing is worse than a girl who shows up in a bikini she doesn't intend to get wet," Wood said. Wood advises to stay away from sequins, beads or anything more than $200 for a pool party look.
All the bikinis and accessories shown in these three looks can be found at the W Hotels The Store located in W Scottsdale. The store offers the latest looks from the most desired designers including Yumi Kim, Dolce Vita and Vitamin A.
Meet Scottsdale 16's Jenna Wood! Read our interview here.


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Few employment sectors can boast the cutting-edge science, advanced technology, and technical complexity offered by this exciting industry. Careers in space and satellite are some of the most intriguing and fascinating jobs to be found anywhere in the UK, and the field only employs a limited workforce of about 20,000 individuals.
The space industry is a highly technical field, and requires professionals with advanced qualifications and education. It is also a primarily science-based industry, and successful candidates will need a particularly strong background in physics. Post-graduate degrees are required for most roles, as is a fair amount of experience working with complex mechanical systems. Recruitment agencies frequently recruit for positions in software development, operations, and quality assurance.
The sector is traditionally a high paying one, and the compensation reflects the extensive training and qualifications required for the positions. It can also be a demanding profession, and in some positions the level of responsibility is enormous. Applicants will need to be efficient team workers, mathematically proficient, and meticulous. Most positions are full-time, but there are also a number of internship and part-time opportunities available.


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Nice weather expected to give way to cold
Weather forecast for coming months calls for colder, wetter weather
Wednesday, Jan 15, 2014 06:00 am
In case you�ve already come to accept the warmer, thawing temperatures outside, don�t get too used to them, said a local meteorologist.
Dan Kulak with Environment Canada in Edmonton said despite this week�s warm spell, the forecast for the next three months anticipates below normal temperatures and above normal precipitation.
That means it�ll likely be colder and wetter than usual.
�It doesn�t mean it will be ten degrees below normal,� said Kulak. �Really, with below normal it can be 10 degrees below normal but it can maybe only be two degrees below normal and still be classified as below normal.�
Kulak said meteorologists create the weather forecast based on data from the past 30 years. They look at the 10 coldest years, the 10 warmest years, and the 10 years in the middle, he said, and then compare them with the weather today.
The average temperature for January is a high of minus eight, and a low of minus 18, he said. In March, temperatures move to above zero, with daytime highs of one or two degrees and a low at night of minus eight.
Unusual warm spells, as seen this week, are created when warm air moves in from the Pacific Ocean across British Columbia, he said. Cold air is created by winds moving in from across the northern, arctic regions where there is not much sunlight and lots of ice, he said.
�In the mid-part of winter, February, it tends to be drier because the cold air is across us and the warm air is much further south,� he said. �And in the spring the days get longer and the warm air starts to come back north and we get more snow in March and April.�
In November and December of 2013, the region received almost 2.5 times more snow than in other years, he added.
The weather station at the Edmonton International Airport counted 100 centimetres of snow since November, while Stony Plain had 149 centimetres. On average, he said, the two stations get about 118 cm and 132 cm throughout the entire year.
For the coming months, he expects the region will continue to receive about 20 centimetres more snow than on average.
For this week, the weather is forecasted to remain sunny, with a high of ten degrees on Saturday, and highs between zero to six degrees on all other days. How long that warm spell will last, Kulak couldn't say.
�If you like the mid-winter thaw, then this is your week,� he said.


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April 2, 2011
Drilling Rig Fire at Village Creek State Park Contained, May Take Days To Extinguish
AUSTIN – Authorities estimate it could take 10 days or more to extinguish a natural gas drilling rig fire that started yesterday in the southeastern corner of Village Creek State Park in Hardin County near Lumberton.
Oil field firefighting experts with Boots and Coots are working to put out the blaze. Meanwhile, they and rig operator Choice Exploration have arranged 24/7 security and EMS service at the incident site, located in a remote area about 2.5 miles southeast of the park headquarters.
Boots and Coots now plans to drill two water wells in order to provide adequate support to fight the fire. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has tested the air quality at the rig site and in the camping loop of the park and found normal conditions.
Fire intensity continues to push the smoke plume high, although no smoke or residue is settling in state park camping areas. some park visitors are nonetheless leaving due to the noise. Even at two miles, the fire can be clearly heard, described by some as a jet engine sound.
The Lumberton fire department and Texas Forest Service remain on call but are not on site. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department park peace officers and other staff likewise remain on call.
The burning rig created a wildfire that was extinguished yesterday, burning about 50 acres of brush and trees. The Texas Forest Service bulldozed a firebreak around the rig to contain the fire and prevent it from spreading.
The state park remains open to the public for business as usual, except that the park's Water Oak Trail and associated Yaupon Loop Trail nearest to the fire location are closed to the public until the fire is put out.
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Okay, it's clear the categorization of the pages on the wiki has gotten a little crazy. I think we should remove the category awards from the leaderboard because that is clearly what it's from. Anyone disagree? fingernails 02:17, July 12, 2010 (UTC)
- I fully agree because this will keep going on, and the wiki will become disorted. --Auror. plus the great Andrachome 02:18, July 12, 2010 (UTC)
PHUNK THE AWARDS!!!!! ♥Fward'sOpheliac♥
I'm in agreement. The only way I've actually got my 5 category badge was fixing vandalism. People are trying to find any little category to add. On another note, when did we get forums? Have we always had these? LuckyTimothy 02:21, July 12, 2010 (UTC)
XD yeah ♥Fward'sOpheliac♥
- Agreed, the category awards must go. -TagAlongPam (talk) 04:13, July 12, 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, they really need to go. I just looked through GODKING OF ICE CERBERUS WERE-GARURUMON history. He made about 40 edits today on the Eclipse page where he added every category known to man... deleted them all and then started back up again. Yep, some people just love shiny badges a little too much. LuckyTimothy 23:11, July 14, 2010 (UTC)
- Bad news, it's impossible to remove the awards. I guess we just have to hope people will eventually stop. fingernails 03:08, July 15, 2010 (UTC)
- Oh, well. Yeah, here's hoping it stops at some point. LuckyTimothy 03:25, July 15, 2010 (UTC)


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Taking Pictures of People Who Take Pictures of Themselves
Our exclusive pics from photographer Sidney Lo's new concept book of fashion portraits
Featuring an array of the Internet's most devout fashion enthusiasts, "Taking Pictures of People Who Take Pictures of Themselves" is 23-year-old photographer Sidney Lo's self-published monograph. The San Francisco native traversed the world to capture a handful of the 60,000 people who responded to the question "What are you wearing today?" with photos of their daily threads on Superfuture's message board Supertalk.
Often uploading images with blurred faces, Lo shot previously anonymous Supertalkers in their hangouts, neighborhoods and open spaces alongside their screen names, bringing the online style forum to life.
The three-year-long project spans Singapore to Seattle, with Lo perspicaciously documenting his subjects in their surroundings. Shane "Doctorworm" exudes his wacky wares at the base of a fun slide in Philadelphia, while in Oakland, Onochie "Wesley Pipes" stands before leafy trees in his slightly preppy attire. CH colleague Jose "Onemancult" savors some sorbet on a hot day in the Bronx, sporting his summer style.
Recently celebrated at the Self Edge x Superfuture party in San Francisco, "Taking Pictures of People Who Take Pictures of Themselves" now sells online for $35.
See more images from the book and party in the gallery below.


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The retiring chairman of the Otley-based Resource Association has been presented with a personalised cycling shirt.
Founding chairman Andy Doran has stepped down after four years in the role for the organisation, which represents the reprocessing and recycling industries.
Mr Doran was presented with a framed road cycling shirt, bearing the legend 'Andy Doran - Tour de Force', at the association's pre-Tour de France meeting at its Boroughgate base - on the Tour's route through town - on Friday, July 4.
He said: "I am gratified at the generosity and ingenuity of my colleagues in the Resource Association and like to thank them, not only for the fabulous gift but also for the tremendous support they have given me and continue to give to Ray Georgeson and the team.
"I'm very much still on board as a member of the board, but promise not to wear the shirt at board meetings!"
MP Greg Mulholland (Lib Dem, Leeds North West), who presented the gift, said: "As Otley's MP I can tell you how proud we are to host the headquarters of the Association and I continue to support your valuable work in building a stronger resource industry that can only bring economic and environmental benefits to our nation.
"Since supporting the launch of the Association in 2011 I've watched your development with great interest and congratulate Andy on his fine leadership of your board."
Jonathon Short, of ECO Plastics, has succeeded Mr Doran as chairman. He added: "Andy's 'grand départ' as chairman has been magnificently emulated by Le Tour de Yorkshire itself last weekend.
"The event provided a fitting backdrop to Andy's wise chairmanship of the organisation and a great opportunity to thank him properly for his efforts.
"I have big shoes to fill but am very much relishing the opportunity of carrying on his sterling efforts for the Association."


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Are you worried about the backgrounds of the people working at your child's daycare center, the people you hire, the people living in your neighborhood, or whom your son or daughter is dating? With a new online service offered by the state of Nebraska's official Web site (www.Nebraska.gov), more than 7.1 million state court case records are now accessible with a single mouse click.
Nebraska's Court Case One Time Search service provides online access to court case records in all 93 county courts and 92 of the state's 93 district courts (excluding the district court in Douglas County). The service was launched through a collaborative effort between the Nebraska Office of the State Court Administrator and Nebraska.gov.
The Nebraska Office of the State Court Administrator introduced a service in 2005 that provided fast and easy online access to court records for Nebraska.gov's high-volume subscribers. Prior to the introduction of the JUSTICE subscription search service, users wanting to access court records had to know what specific county or district court they needed to search. Requestors would then be forced either to call, email, or visit the courthouse to request this information. Even after requesting a court record via phone or email, an immediate response was not guaranteed.
Nebraska's justice system now processes approximately 62,000 county court record requests per month. With the addition of the One Time Search service, ease and convenience have been expanded and now any citizen with a credit card can access court record information on the Internet 24 hours a day and seven days a week.
"One time court searches make accessing state court records more available for the general population," said State Court Administrator Janice K. Walker. "We are very pleased to add this online service for Nebraska citizens."
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Chris Robinson reviews commodity markets. Corn started to move higher three weeks ago and wheat has now moved up to a six month high.
George Tkaczuk talks about the selling pressure in this market, and how stocks that look attractive in this environment
Joe Cusick talks about how the trends are up and three of risk indicators are all positive.
Chris Robinson talks about the USDA Report coming out tomorrow. This report may provide a little action tomorrow.
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Florida, receiver recruit part ways
Published: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 12:29 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 12:29 p.m.
Florida has lost a member of its 2014 class for the second time in a week.
Fort Myers Dunbar receiver Ryeshene Bronson parted ways with the Gators on Tuesday. It was a mutual decision between he and UF, a source close to the situation said.
Bronson has work to do in the classroom and also wants to visit other schools in the summer and fall.
The 6-foot-3, 183-pounder was the first 2014 prospect to pledge to Florida. With the loss of Bronson and Columbia (S.C) Spring Valley linebacker Christian Miller, who decommitted from UF on Friday, the Gators now have seven commits in the class.
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text: GKANG 165 Report post Posted February 14, 2013 I want to code something similar to how the animate function works with jQuery: var duration = 500, moveY = "50px", moveX = "70px"; $("#someBox").animate({top: moveY, left: moveX}, duration); Here I have a box or container which would move right 70px and down 50px, and that animation would take 500 milliseconds. Now to make this relevant to my game, I'm attempting to make Pokémon style, grid-locked movement: - Press right --- Player loses control --- Character runs through one animation cycle --- Moves right one tile (eg. 16px) --- Happens over 0.5 seconds --- Character stops, player gains control Right now I can make it so that the character moves in a direction for X amount of time, but it doesn't explicitly move a set amount of pixels per say.. I have a float for moveSpeed and it's just playerPos.x += moveSpeed for the amount of time. I also tried doing playerPos.x += GRID_SIZE, which guarantees that he moves the exact amount of space, but it just teleports and doesn't animate in a transitional movement. It's important that the player sticks strictly to the grid and is never off-centre. In short, I'd like to make this function: player.move(direction, distance, duration); I'm also having trouble with limiting my game loop / making things happen at regular intervals, so this is likely making my problem much harder. Anyway I hope this is clear enough. If not, I'd be happy to try and explain further. Thanks in advance. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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When Jamie Conyngham saw mobile phones equipped with near field communication, he saw a business opportunity.
With many years of experience in the mobile phone sector, he and one of his business partners, David Kainer, had seen technologies come and go, but saw something new in near field communication (NFC).
"We just knew NFC was going to be huge because it was so simple," says Conyngham.
Near field communication allows smartphone users to interact with almost any real-world objects such as posters, clothes and shop windows through a chip embedded in the object. Its appeal lies in its simplicity – all users do is tap their phone on the object to start transacting or downloading information.
Conyngham and his partners decided to build a business to take advantage of the new technology. While mobile payments were an obvious application, it was already a crowded space, dominated by the banks and large specialist payment companies such as PayPal.
So they founded Tapit, which uses NFC to deliver marketing content to smartphones.
Their first client was radio station Nova FM, whose parent company was recently purchased by Lachlan Murdoch. Users entered a competition and got the radio station streaming on their mobile phones, just by tapping it against the Nova poster. Among other projects, the company has also installed the system on The Rocks Walk, which gives tourists information about different sites as they walk around the historic area in Sydney's CBD. The company is also working with the Australian Museum in Sydney to "tapify" its exhibits.
Retailers can use it in-store to provide information about products and to cross-sell other products.
The chips embedded in posters or shopfronts don't actually transfer information to the phones. Instead, they tell the phone to go to Tapit's servers to retrieve the content. This is important because it means a company can easily update its marketing content at hundreds or thousands of sites from a desktop without needing to change the chips.
Andrew Davis worked in marketing before joining Tapit as a founder after he saw how simple it was to use. Unlike other systems, Tapit doesn't require users to download an app, use their phone's camera, or search any information.
"My problem working in the marketing side was always getting content onto the phone and when they showed me the possibilities of NFC and how you use it I just knew straight away that it was going to be a major force in the future," says Davis, 30. "It's really effortless. My mum can use Tapit and that excites me, because she doesn't know how to download an app."
With a $130,000 New South Wales Department of Trade and Investment grant, and a $400,000 investment from Sydney Angels, the Tapit founders started building their system and launched the company in August last year.
While investors believed in the system, potential clients were initially unsure about the technology and whether NFC would take off. "You were saying 'they will come', but no one really believes you and they want proof," says Conyngham, 42.
Whether mobile phone makers would stick with NFC was always a risk for the business. But a year later, all of the major phone manufacturers bar Apple have committed to the technology. Deloitte forecasts that 300 million NFC-enabled smartphones, tablets and e-readers will be sold in 2013.
Apple, in a long-awaited decision, recently announced it would not include near field communication on its iPhone 5.
Conyngham, speaking before Apple's announcment, said that it would be better for Tapit if Apple adopted the technology, but not essential. The iPhone is not nearly so dominant in other countries as it is in Australia.
While Tapit has competitors in the US and the UK, it has several overseas clients in Singapore, Dubai, the UK and other parts of Europe among others. Conyngham says the company is seeking $2 to $4 million in venture capital funding.
"We're looking for expansion capital now because we've got too many leads coming through," he says. "We've got worldwide interest now."
Like many other local start-ups, Tapit is considering going to the US for funding. "If you're seeking [funding] in the US there's more money chasing fewer deals, so you end up with a better deal," he says. "You've got about 500 [venture capital firms] in Silicon Valley, and you've got about five or six in Australia."


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That's awesome! Berkeley Campus Rebuplicans were pretty big when I was on campus, but I never got too involved in politics. I was involved in some youth ministry locally and with campus ministries. I had a lot of friends in seminary at Pacific School of Religion too.
For me, Cal was never about any certain "belief" system. In fact, I felt that a very broad spectrum of beliefs were held by various groups on campus. Although, I did have to be "smart" later about working in the oilfield. As a campus recruiter for Exxon from 1986-1995 I did help organize the recruting team "off" campus and do interviews in a bit more clandestine fashion.
The MBA recruiters for Exxon didn't attend Cal (they went to Penn St. and A&M), so they did the typical "wine and cheese" parties etc. This worked OK until the year of the Valdez spill ... putting flyers up in Sproul that year was like inviting the entire campus to a protest .... their wine & cheese party ended up with protesters pouring coffee cans of oil on them ...
Us Cal grads understood the situation and moved all of our engineering recruiting to Henry's after that!
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I'm in Section F, row 41, seat 10. Happy Holidays! See you during the week of the 7th!
If you are still close with Gould you may want to pass this information along. I also sent this to Grey and Moraga.
My son follows CJ Anderson's tweets and forwarded a copy of his tweet today that read as follows:
What do you do if your teammtes hate you wana kill you? And you have ppl ok with that?
It may be that Gould or Tedford is aware of this already but I wanted to pass it on. My son says CJ has been tweeting similar things all day.
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Got my Big Game tix , Oregon and Washington tix this morning. Go Bears!
Hi Chet,
I just sent a note to say you prolly meant to say "3-4" defense, not "4-3" in a Kennard thread...no biggie.
I've got my fingers crossed for Tuesday!
taho will try to get by your seats at MSU game, where do you usually tailgate???
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text: Trayless Tuesday Trend Takes Wheaton Wheaton experiments with waste reduction through tray elimination. Wheaton College students entered the dining hall on Tuesday, Dec. 11, and were greeted not with the familiar stacks of brown food trays but, instead, clear tubs of compacted food waste that occupied the cart shelf beneath the silverware. The message was to "go trayless." More > Middle-earth Meets Wheaton Tolkien society to host "Hobbit" showing. The Wheaton College Tolkien Society (WCTS) along with over 400 Wheaton students, faculty and staff is joining Bilbo Baggins on his unexpected journey through Middle-earth this evening, Friday, Dec. 14. Baggins, protagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," will make his appearance on screen at the Regal Cantera movie theater in Warrenville during a 7 p.m. film showing of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, " Peter Jackson's adaptation of the novel. More > You're Not the Only One Student-written play explores themes of loneliness at Wheaton. The Arena Theater black box will be home to the opening performance of "Sitting Alone: A Play about Loneliness at Wheaton" on Friday, Dec. 14. The piece is the brainchild of senior Sarah Neff, who began writing the play as a class project for a course called Theater and Culture last semester. More > Here Comes the Thunder Wheaton ranked ninth nationally following takedown of Washington University. It was the biggest shot of Tyler Peters' career. Deadlocked at 64-64 with three seconds left against No. 6 Washington University (Mo.), the junior guard received a pass outside the paint and turned over his right shoulder for a fade-away shot that beat the buzzer, sank through the net and sent 927 home fans into a victorious frenzy. More > Thunder Swimming Enjoying Strong Year Team hosts Wheaton Invite and defeats Olivet in dual meet. The Wheaton men's and women's swim teams have been in the pool for quite some time this year, and they have put together strong team races heading into the holiday break. Wheaton first hosted the 32nd annual Wheaton Invitational two weekends ago, welcoming five of the nation's top swimming programs into Chrouser Natatorium, including Hope College (Mich.), Washington University (Mo.), UW-Stevens Point and UW-Whitewater. More >


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Part of Speech: Noun, proper
Meaning: 1. An English workman toward the end of the Industrial Revolution who was a member of a movement that sabotaged innovative machinery that it thought threatened jobs. 2. An opponent of technological progress.
Notes: The Luddites made up a movement that opposed the technological innovation that had come to the textile industry as a result of the Industrial Revolution. They resorted to actual sabotage, rendering inoperable as much of the new machinery as they could. Their movement and attitude was known as Luddism or Ludditism.
In Play: Today's Good Word is used mostly in the metaphorical sense of someone opposed to anything new: "Andy Belham is a luddite who opposes any innovation at the company." However, it still applies to those who would sabotage new equipment: "Security is still looking for the Luddite who hacked our database and changed everyone's password."
Word History: According to George Pellew's Life of Lord Sidmouth (1847), Ned Lud was a person of weak intellect who lived in a Leicestershire village about 1779. In a fit of rage he rushed into a weaver's house and completely destroyed two modern stocking looms. The saying "Lud must have been here" came to be used throughout the hosiery districts when a modern loom had undergone extraordinary damage. This story lacks confirmation, though. The nicknames 'Captain Ludd' and 'King Lud' were commonly given to the ringleaders of the Luddites from 1811 to 1813. (Jeremy Busch proved himself no Luddite by his long-standing participation in our web-based Alpha Agora and his electronic suggestion of today's Good Word.)


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STAFF from energy giant npower will be getting active to support their charity partner.
Heather Tyrer, Simon Homer and Jo-Anne Yeomans, who work at the firm's Worcester offices in Warndon, will join about 50 other employees from across England to take part in a 21-mile row across Lake Windermere for Macmillan Cancer Support.
It forms part of a company-wide campaign to get employees to raise £150,000, which the energy supplier pledges to match pound for pound.
Heather Tyrer, a community manager at npower, said: "I can't wait to get out on the lake. I think it will be tough, but our team will get us through. Sadly my dad has lost his fight with cancer and therefore he will be with me all the way through the row."
Simon Homer, an analyst at npower, said: "I'm looking forward to the row, especially with what has happened in recent weeks. My father was cared for by a Macmillan-funded nurse, and she was amazing in the last weeks and days of this life, so this row is important to me."
Teams of four will be put into old-fashioned wooden boats and it's expected to take eight hours to complete.
The '10 for 10' campaign aims to support people affected by cancer who are struggling to pay their energy bills.
Part of the amount raised from '10 for 10' will go towards funding new energy advisors on the Macmillan Support Line who will support people affected by cancer who are struggling to pay their fuel bills and refer them to this programme, as well as other schemes.
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A Goucher College student has died of injuries sustained yesterday when he was struck by a vehicle as he was crossing Dulaney Valley Road.
Mathew Gabriel, 19, of Austin, Texas, was crossing Dulaney Valley Road at Southerly Road at 1:44 a.m. when he was struck by a 2013 Mazda 3 traveling northbound in the right turn lane of Dulaney Valley Road. Gabriel was crossing west to east and was not in a crosswalk when he was struck.
The operator of the Mazda, Kayla Wiseman, 23, of the unit block of Transverse Avenue, 21220, did not remain at the scene and was later located and charged on citations with hit-and-run and driving under the influence.
The victim was transported to the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Unit, where he died this morning.


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With the ending of BGWS, I've decided to sell some of the games I've picked up over the years. Some of these have been sent to me by companies, but I don't know what else to do with them! (note - this is my first geeklist auction, so please excuse any mistakes.)Recommend
1. US shipping addresses only. Buyer will pay priority mail shipping from zip code 13066. You may also pick up the games in Syracuse, NY. I will combine items.
2. All bids must be in increments of $1 or more.
3. I will sign the inside of the box lid of any game if you want something "From the collection of Scott Nicholson", but only if you request it.
4. Transactions will be run through the BGG marketplace, unless you pick up in person, in which case you can pay in person and I will pay the BGG commission manually.
5. I hate sniping! The auction will end May 22nd at 10pm server time, although anti-sniping rules are in effect. If there is a bid above the minimum bid within 30 minutes of the close of the auction, the bidding will stay open for that item for another 24-hour period, with the same anti-sniping rules in effect. This auction could go on forever!
6. Reserves confuse me. My minimum bids are what I'd be happy taking for the game. You may bid lower than the minimum bid listed, and I will decide if I will accept it. (The more you buy, the more likely I am to accept a low offer!)
7. Games are in the shape you would expect for their age. I have a playing collection, so if you are looking for mint games, head elsewhere; these have been on shelves, carried in bags, etc. These are for players, not collectors.
8. I may lower minimum bids at any time. I reserve the right to pull items from the auction. (This would most likely be because I screwed up on something, not because I'm being a jerkface.)
9. Remember all those good times we had together? Remember how I painted myself blue and 18XXXtreem and Caylus Commandos and taught you Die Macher? Bid early and often!
- NOTE: There has been some confusion (certainly by me) about what "Server Time" means. I made the assumption that everyone saw the same timecode on messages (like in an MMORPG), but that's not the case. To be fair to all, I am re-opening the items where there was some confusion (i.e., where I posted), until 10PM CENTRAL time on May 23. I am PMing those people involved in the final bidding for items 1, 26, 49, 86, and 111 to alert them. -
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Cross-city traffic snarls for motorists have cleared after a truck caught fire on CityLink this afternoon.
The fire began about 3.30pm near Yarra Boulevard at Burnley, forcing the closure of all inbound lanes on CityLink's Southern link.
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Trading vacation for volunteering: SMWC group dives into the tornado cleanup effort for spring break
March 20th, 2012 | SMWC
The van, vibrant with chatter about midterms, cafeteria food and term papers, fell coldly silent as it turned off I-65. Rounding the corner into Henryville, Ind., piles of twisted scrap metal peppered with children's toys dotted open fields where houses once stood. The beautiful village of Marysville, Ind., was reduced to shards of wood and broken glass, like a jigsaw puzzle clumsily cast aside. Instead of a welcome sign, a slab of plywood clung desperately to a mangled tree, greeting the van with an optimistic epitaph: "God is still good."
"It honestly looked like a bomb went off," said student Jade Scott, a volunteer from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC), who traveled nearly 200 miles to help cleanup after a series of tornados devastated parts of southern Indiana in early March. "You could look at one house with little damage to it and then the next house had been ripped from its foundation and tossed away."
Organized by Jeff Malloy, SMWC's dean of students, and Elizabeth Coley, assistant director of campus life, more than 20 students, staff and alumnae from SMWC trekked down during spring break with donations, supplies and able bodies. "When it happened, I just knew we had to do something," Malloy said. "We were overwhelmed by the student response."
Surrounded by the shattered remains of Marysville, three wind-torn houses prevailed, one of which belonged to Helen Hunt, who softly laughs at the sad irony of her name and the movie that made it famous. "I'm the real Helen Hunt in the real 'Twister' movie," she said. SMWC volunteers swarmed Hunt's ravaged yard, sifting through broken fencing and hauling off cumbersome chunks of crushed concrete. "Those students heaved and hoed," she said. "They worked really hard and made a lot of progress."
One SMWC student even watched Hunt's dogs so she could take time to reach out to her neighbors, whose homes were reduced to bare foundations and bittersweet memories. "People think they're doing something small, like just watching dogs for an hour, but it's huge to someone in my situation," Hunt explained.
The College made two trips, on March 13 and 15, leaving around 6:30 a.m. and returning to campus around 9:30 p.m. The six-hour round trip drive gave the students time to reflect on the solemnity of their mission. "We are helping to make life a little easier," said Jordan Pirsch, a senior psychology major from Terre Haute, Ind. "Without volunteers, the town would not get cleaned up as quickly, displacing people for a longer period of time."
During the cleanup, a tumultuous medley of volunteers, victims and military personnel, the SMWC group relied mostly on their own initiative for guidance. "The students learned how to just go into a situation and do what's needed without a schedule or a lot of direction," Malloy said. "When you see someone struggling, sometimes the best thing to do is just walk up and ask how you can help."
The SMWC group didn't know exactly what to expect, Coley said, "but they were ready to work." They helped people take stock of what's left, separate scrap metal and cut fallen trees. "We went through yards and fields looking for personal items and picking up glass and other debris," said Amanda Vester, a 2005 alumna from Terre Haute, Ind. "There was so much glass."
As a central part of its mission, the College emphasizes service learning in both the campus and distance programs. "While we provide the opportunity, our students provide the passion," said Dottie L. King, Ph.D., president of SMWC. "They are innately enthusiastic about helping those in need. We are so proud of these students and honored to have a Woods group so willing to devote their time during spring break to lend a hand to their fellow Hoosiers."
Leaders don't emerge during quiet times of comfort. They arise when people need their guidance to forge through tough times. At The Woods, commitment to helping others and building leadership skills go hand in hand. "We present students with opportunities to help others," said Coley. "It helps them develop a mission heart for life."
Scott, a junior journalism major from Rockville, Ind., shaken by how similar Marysville is to her little hometown, believes that communities can rebuild even stronger when people come together. "If something like this happened to my home, my family and my town, I would be so grateful for those that came out of the kindness of their hearts to help," she said.
Thankful for the aid, Hunt, like many of her neighbors, finds hope underneath all that rubble. "We don't have a lot out here, but what we have is ours," Hunt said. "We really appreciate this outpouring of love from strangers and volunteers like the kids from The Woods."
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FAMILY and friends of a young couple who died in a car crash will remember them at a joint funeral service tomorrow (October 12).
Sophie Lack, 19, and Luke Porter, 22, both of Bridgwater, were killed in a collision on the A38 at Thurloxton on Sunday last week.
Police say they were in a Vauxhall Astra heading from Bridgwater to Taunton which lost control and hit a tree.
At their funeral service at St Mary's Church, which starts at 11am, mourners will be invited to wear an item of red clothing to remember Luke, and an item of pink to remember Sophie.
Sophie's family said she was a loving daughter, step-daughter, sister, niece, granddaughter and cousin.
In a statement, they said: "Sophie will be sadly missed by all her family and friends.
"She was a bubbly, kind and loving person who cared about everything and everyone."
Luke's parents, Patricia Jenkins and Andrew Porter, said he was a loving son and a loving brother to Kirsty.
Luke and Sophie worked at Robert Wiseman Dairies in Bridgwater, and a company spokesman said their loss had shocked everybody at the factory.
Tributes to the couple have continued to pour in on Facebook.
Chaz Salter wrote: "Sophi - when god reached out and took you, he took a part of me too!"
Katie Webber wrote: "RIP to u both, we are all going to miss u both and I love u Luke."