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40k of unpaid debt for me, all from attending undergrad.
how much do you still owe?
I get my undergrad degree in December and I'll be about 35k in the hole.
haha spill it snook.. problems with IRS, debt collectors, negative credit ratings etc xD i'm sure you aren't alone. Loan officers are already hounding me
I had no debt out of undergrad but graduate school put me 68k under! Still trying to figure out how to balance it....it blows! Or maybe its 120k now haha
20k from undergrad, and going to grad school soon. hoping for some scholarships!!!
6k from undergrad and 28k from grad school...without scholarships and co-op it would have been double.
about 19k total for undergrad and masters. Luckily Canada Student Loans forgives about 35% of your debt once you graduate.
Same here - I wonder if I would be better off the other way
And the winnner is......... roughly 30k left from undergrad & 65k from Grad
Not exactly the contest I want to win
Stephanie - does everyone get the 35% loan forgivness? Is that only after you're finished with masters?
Graduated with $32k, mostly from grad school, and am half done paying it off.
@ accesskb
I don't think it has to be masters, it's if you are finished with your education and won't be taking any further loans.
Also, they don't guarantee that you will get a certain percentage forgiven, but I feel like the higher your loan the more likely they are to forgive more. I tried to pin down the exact amount I'd get taken off before I graduated, but the lady I spoke to said she had no way of knowing and that it depends on how much you owe in total.
My Alberta student loan was forgiven by 50%, that was pretty awesome. Provincially they seem to be more generous?
A combination of relatively modest Canadian tuition, working well paying jobs (one year of hell in the oil-industry before going to university, nice job with the municipal park department during summers), and having a modest scholarship, helped me get through undergrad without any debt.
This time around (Masters), I'll definitely be dipping into savings, but hopefully not too much. I don't pay any tuition for grad school in Germany per se (just a 280euro semester fee which includes public transit) and the cost of living is actually lower here than in Canada.
So I guess I'm doing reasonably well financially, but I still feel like the (by the standards of their time, very normal) middle-class lifestyle held by my parents (having enough to own a home, cars, raise children, afford vacations, etc.), is unattainable to me, or at least a very long ways away. I can't imagine how I'd feel with 50 thousand extra dollars bogging me down!
Graduated undergrad with about $62k, down to about $36k a little over 10 years on. On the schedule I'm on, within 3 years I'll have that down to about $20k debt. The saddest part is that my partner is paying it for me from a non-college-degree-required job that pays more than arch. We also will not be able to afford a house for years although my parents were on their 2nd house by this age and my dad only made it to the 10th grade. Standard of living is definitely going down for my generation. (And before people hop on me for taking on debt... this was the cheapest route of all those I applied for, including the lone state school in my state that offered a professional degree (and gave me zero financial aid). I literally could not have become an architect if I hadn't taken on this debt. Although of course the wisdom of that decision is up for debate...)
The student loan companies must LOVE architecture degrees. They make a KILLING off us! Slowly strangling us over years and years and years, and adding to the interest all the while... must be a pretty awesome industry.
Higher education: Not what it used to be, via the Economist:
"Some signs suggest that universities are facing up to their inefficiencies. Indiana University has just announced innovations aimed at lowering the cost and reducing the time it takes to earn a degree. More of this is needed. Universities owe it to the students who have racked up $1 trillion in debt, and to the graduate students who are taking second degrees because their first one was so worthless. They also bear some responsibility for the 17m who are overqualified for their jobs, and for the 3m unfilled positions for which skilled workers cannot be found. They even owe it to the 37m who went to college, dropped out and ended up with nothing: many left for economic reasons.
Universities may counter that the value of a degree cannot be reduced to a simple economic number. That, though, sounds increasingly cynical, when the main reason universities have been able to increase their revenue so much is because of loans given to students on the basis of what they are told they will one day earn."
It sounds as though the tide is beginning to shift, which is certainly good but it might mean that anybody taking out a large loan in 2012 will end up looking like a fool.
I graduated with around 55K and am on track to pay it off in about 5 years, even with a typical entry level salary. I don't like that I owe that much, but I definitely don't want to double the amount I owe by paying it back for 20 years.
I don't like the "standards of living" comment, and don't really think it is applicable. Standards are different, and the way people are living is still changing and evolving. I wish I could afford a house too, but I wouldn't use it as a measure of the quality of my life.
my dad went to the same school as i did. he was able to pay for it with a little help from his parents (5th grade education, poor italian farmers), two semesters of co-op, and no loans. my two semesters of co-op almost bought me a semester of school.
As far as the "standards" go, they're down.
my loans in canada was 50% forgiven (manitoba). that was early 90's. no loans for grad school only undergrad so was less than 10k and it is all paid off. still can't buy a house but that's because i am in expensive city, not changing times. average cost home here is crazy as hell unless sign up for insane commute. my cousins back on canadian prairie are all my age and all have homes and better off or same as their parents. maybe canada didn't fall into the same pit as usa?
yep, Will, correct about the pit. Our school costs more in the first place, there's no forgiveness of any of it (even if you go bankrupt!), and our economy imploded while Canada's goin' strong. Also wage stagnation is a real issue in US over the last 20-30 years and as far as I understand that is not a problem in Canada.
Fullofit, you may not think standards of living are decreasing, but it is a measured, factual phenomenon, not anecdotal. Many studies are tracking this. Sorry to burst your bubble, but glad you're the exception and not the rule. Be pleased with your good fortune but don't climb up onto any high horses.
orgufiel, I don't know what to say. I'm assuming you have a plan to pay that off that hopefully doesn't solely consist of "work as an architect".
yikes Orgufiel! good luck on that loan.. That would take me a lifetime to save/pay off... might just declare bankruptcy to start over infact xD
accesskb, you can't get rid of student loans in bankruptcy
i'm america-centric, so this may not apply if my assumption of his citizenship was wrong. seems to me $92,000 of unsecured debt before you've had your first real job is also an america-centric thing.
since i'm posting anyway, my number was 65k and is down to 50k. only 20 years left.
I have a plan I want to follow and back up plans which are a mix of working 2 jobs if I don't make the amount of money that I want once I graduate. I'm actually looking into construction management after I graduate so hopefully that will be more lucrative than architecture.
Another Canadian here...
Schools are less expensive in Canada, but the pay in architecture is lower than in the US.
More relevant is how loans work. I can't speak to every province, but basically how it works is that gov't loans are capped at how much you can receive, AND how much you have to oay back. I believe the numbers are different for undergrad and grad school, but let's say you receive $10k in loans, you'll typically be forgiven down to the maximum repayment amount, which is let's say $7k. Using these numbers as examples, you'd have to pay off $28k of your $40k loan.
Seeing as my folks have never had the means to be able to support me in school, I took out loans for 8 years of school, or roughly $40,000, almost all of which I still owe.
The other major difference is that in Canada you have 10 years to pay off your loan, extendable to up to 15 under extenuating circumstances. THAT'S really what makes loans a bitch here - it's such an aggressive repayment schedule that realistically It's next to impossible to save any money if you're paying back $600+ per month, as I am. My fiance has no loans, works as a server at a cafe part time, and is able to save significantly more money than I am, at the end of the month.
Apparently the Americans are avoiding this thread - I'll post my Canadian stats as well. Similar to what someone else stated above, between a few small scholarships each year, working part-time through school, having a full-time summer job throughout highschool and university (plus a co-op semester in there) and a little bit of help from my parents when things got extremely tight, I was able to finish my undergrad with about $1500 on the line of credit, which was paid back within two months of my first post-school internship. Now the problem becomes trying to figure out how much I can realistically save before starting grad school... I'm very interested in what the above posters have stated about getting loans and the repayment forgivenesses (particularly in Ontario)...
BenC, I went to schools in Ontario and Manitoba, but my loans came from Ontario, so the stuff I wrote above would apply to you, most likely.
I have $52k+ in student loans just from undergrad and considering going to grad school for architecture...but if more loans are required for that I'm definitely gonna consider skipping grad school.
Its not too bad my American friends... Your Senator Rubio just paid off his college loans.
No loans from schooling due to having a job throughout my youth, attending yniversity in state and gifts from gramps. But I borrowed 30k to start a business.
to all of my canadian friends who appear to be gathered in this thread, i would like to apologize to you on behalf of the US, especially our southern states (including, as always, Texas and Florida). We thought at the time it would be a good idea and be highly profitable for ownership to move ice hockey teams where there is no ice. now you guys lost a season of NHL. again, my sincerest apologies go out to you.
Keep Tampa out of this, we support our team. But you can have the Panthers in exchange for some of that sweet Canadian debt forgiveness. I'm looking at you Nova Scotia.
As of right now i owe about 20k and i have many years to go of course this debt is from a state college though. I estimate that i will owe at least 80k to 100k by the time im finished
many years to go thru valencia/ucf/uf that is, the UF city lab program started in fall 2012 and is going great from what i can gather thru phone calls
I think it is a 40k degree to finish
I like people who tell me it was their only route when we know other routes exist. Here is one route I chose.
Spent 4 years in the military before going to undergrad. Paid into the GI Bill for college, saved some more during my time served, took several college courses while serving. Got out of the military and went to community college for one year. Worked part time during school year and full time in summer. Went to undergrad school and applied for veterans assistance through Illinois VA. Basically covered my tuition along with GI bill, savings, always working part time or full time jobs.
I did take out student loans for about $15,000 and kept the money in the bank. Used that money when I graduated for new/used car, honeymoon and a condo down payment.
Paid off the loan within 3-4 years.
15k bought a new/used car (whatever that is), a honeymoon AND a down payment on a condo? Unfathomable.
used car. new to me.
living within my means
one month in Europe.
Small condo.
I see lots of people wanting to be a part of this discussion.
Live within your means? In college? F that shit, the name of the game is lux learning these days. How's this for a trend in student housing: Resort Living Comes to Campus.
"Most of these kids are going to have a step down in lifestyle when they have to enter the working-world environment after they graduate,"
This would be funny if it wasn't so sad, yo!
let me help you out handsum
"Most of these kids are going to have a step down in lifestyle when they have to enter the working-world environment after they graduate,"
when banks can profit by losing money, everyone wins!
living now vs living later. i think thats kind of the mentality these days isn't it? i know people that are living in city apartments they can barely afford while they pay off their loans and look for a real job just to have that city lifestyle. comes at a cost. here i am stranded out in the middle of nowhere saving money. definitely not living out my 20's to the fullest, thats for sure.
I don't know Due, I think it would be hard for me to pay back as much of my loans if I didn't live in a city. I live with my girlfriend in an old apartment (character?) and have a pretty low cost lifestyle. I have bought about $50 worth of gas in the past 4 months, and that's just for trips out of the city.
Handsome, I thought that article was pretty funny, and then I realized my firm was in it as the designer for one of those places.
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Sorry for the delayed response. This is my first time actually logging in here (except to join). The new job is going great. I'm really working exclusively on commercial buildings now. I kind of miss working on homes.
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CHIPPENHAM Town manager Mark Collier was dismayed to be handed an example of his side's inconsistency as they slipped to a dismal defeat at Bashley last night.
The Bluebirds became the first side to slip to a loss at Bashley Road in the league this season, with the hosts moving off the foot of the table and notching up only their third win of the campaign so far.
"It was poor. We weren't at the races in the first-half and myself and Tom (Jones) were scratching our heads as to the reasons why," said Collier.
"No disrespect to Bashley but they were down at the bottom of the table for a reason and we should be able to go to places like that and win.
"We got a fortuitous equaliser after they went ahead but then conceded a sloppy goal right before half-time. Then they got a penalty late on and killed off the game.
"There were three or four good individual performances but too many out there played well below what we expect of them."
Collier also dismissed any suggestions of a bad-tempered encounter after a number of his players were cautioned, with Corey King, James Guthrie, Luke Hopper, Callum Wright and Joe McClennan all going in to the book.
Assistant Jones was also asked to leave the Bluebirds dugout after clashing with the opposition management team but the Chippenham chief says that there was nothing in the incident.
He said: "Tom went to get the ball back into play quickly and went into their technical area. The referee asked him to step away from out dugout to calm the situation down but he wasn't sent off and we were told it wouldn't be in the report.
"It wasn't a nasty game at all but the referee was very nit-picky for both sides. It was difficult to get back into the game when he was constantly stopping it to caution people.
"I didn't mind the yellow cards that were for tackles but we will be having a chat with the players about the ones that were for dissent because I can't accept that."
Striker Jack Odam put Bashley ahead with just ten minutes on the clock before Chippenham looked to have found a way back into the game when top-scorer Alan Griffin nodded in from Wright's cross.
But the Bluebirds were dealt a suckerpunch as home defender Brad Strickland fired home from a cleared corner-kick in first half stoppage time to restore the hosts' lead.
Half-time substitute Lee Phillips had the ball in the net 12 minutes into the second period but saw his effort ruled out for offside before Bashley drove the final nail into the Chippenham coffin in the 70th minute as Odam fired home his second of the game from the penalty spot after Aaron Oakley tripped Manny Soetan in the box.
Collier's men kick off a tough double-assignment next weekend, with the Bluebirds turning their attentions to the other end of the table on Saturday as they visit title-favourites Hemel Hempstead Town.
Then, two days later, Chippenham make the trip to promotion-chasers St Albans City.
CHIPPENHAM TOWN: Ben John, Callum Wright, Pete Monks, Bryan Smith (Harley Purnell 77), Greg Tindle, Aaron Oakley, Corey King (Joe McClennan 34), Rob Dean, Alan Griffin (c), Luke Hopper (Lee Phillips 45).
Subs not used: Tyron Leigh, Kent Kauppinen.
Attendance: 93
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Royals now second-oldest team in Major Leagues
PHOENIX -- Forget that image of the Royals as a fuzzy-cheeked band of youngsters, just trying to make their way in the adult baseball world.
In fact, according to STATS.com, the Royals are now the second-oldest team in Major League Baseball at an average of 30 years, 231 days for the 25-man roster. That's right, the second oldest in the Majors.
Only the Yankees, at 31 years, 275 days, are older.
"That shocked me," Royals manager Ned Yost said.
That's largely a result of the Royals loading up with veterans to help in the push for a postseason berth -- guys like outfielder Raul Ibanez, 42; pitchers Scott Downs, 38, and Jason Frasor, 37 next Saturday, and catcher Erik Kratz, 34. Pitchers Bruce Chen, 37, Jeremy Guthrie, 35, and Francisley Bueno, 33, were already in house.
"Our core is young but our team is obviously not anymore," Yost said.
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Ex-soldier convicted in Iraqi death granted parole
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former U.S. Army lieutenant from Oklahoma convicted of killing an Iraqi prisoner has been granted parole, the Army said Wednesday.
Former 1st Lt. Michael Behenna of Edmond had served five years of a 15-year sentence for his 2009 conviction on a charge of unpremeditated murder in a combat zone.
Behenna's mother, Vicki Behenna, an assistant federal prosecutor in Oklahoma City, said she "immediately started crying" after learning about her son's release.
FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2008 file photo 1st Lt. Michael C. Behenna, center, walks out the courtroom flanked by his defense attorneys in Camp Speicher, a large U.S. base near Tikrit, north of Baghdad, Iraq. Behenna of Edmond, Okla., who was convicted of killing an Iraqi prisoner has been granted parole after serving five years of a 15-year sentence, the Army said Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera, File)
"He called me today (Wednesday), actually on my way into work at about a quarter 'til 9," Vicki Behenna said. She said he was scheduled to be released on March 14.
The Army Clemency and Parole Board denied Behenna's request for clemency but granted him parole, Col. David Patterson said. He said the decision was based on factors "including a strong parole plan with family and community support."
Vicki Behenna, of Edmond, said her son would work on a southwest Oklahoma cattle ranch and take classes at Oklahoma State University.
"He thinks he wants to begin ranching, to raise cattle," she said.
Efforts to contact Michael Behenna, 30, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where he was being held, were unsuccessful.
"He's not been allowed to talk to the media at all," his mother said.
There was no dispute that Behenna was supposed to take the Iraqi prisoner home, but instead took him to a secluded railroad culvert, stripped him naked and shot him twice after interrogating him at gunpoint about an April 2008 roadside bombing that killed two men under Behenna's command.
Behenna said he acted in self-defense when the man reached for Behenna's handgun. The Army argued he could not claim self-defense because he was conducting an unauthorized interrogation at gunpoint.
Behenna's family had fought to overturn the conviction, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the decision.
Behenna drew support from Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and the state's congressional delegation following his conviction.
"I am glad this long ordeal has finally come to an end for Michael Behenna and his family. Michael went to Iraq to serve his nation and to defend liberty both here and abroad. Instead, he found himself mourning the loss of his friends from the inside of a cell," Fallin said in a statement Wednesday.
"I believe the Army acted appropriately and compassionately in offering him parole."
Sen. Jim Inhofe and Reps. James Lankford, Tom Cole, Frank Lucas, Markwayne Mullen and Jim Bridenstine, all Republicans, also issued a joint statement praising the decision to parole Behenna.
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Powers gives Brown vote of confidence
Updated 12:25 am, Friday, December 7, 2012
AUSTIN — In what might be a first at Texas, and maybe in college football everywhere, the university president on Thursday gave his coach an unsolicited vote of confidence by blogging about it.
On his official UT blog, president Bill Powers wrote: "I'd like to state unequivocally that Coach Brown has my full support as well as the support of Men's Athletics Director DeLoss Dodds. Put succinctly, Mack Brown is and will remain the Longhorns' head football coach."
Powers cited "an increase in media speculation" about Brown's future as his reason for voicing his support. The Longhorns just completed an 8-4 regular season and will finish with fewer than 10 victories for the third year in a row after reaching that mark in every season from 2001-09.
Brown said last week he intends to return to the Longhorns next season. And at a Thursday news conference hyping UT's Dec. 29 Valero Alamo Bowl matchup with Oregon State, Brown continued to insist things are improving.
"The future looks very, very bright," Brown said. "Football coaches don't look back. You don't want to sit back and talk about all the things that you didn't get accomplished. I'm fortunate to be at a place where the standards are very high, and we're going to fight to make sure we get back to those standards.
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On some threads, I'm unable to post because there's a solid grey box on certain threads. Just wondering what that is?
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On some threads, I'm unable to post because there's a solid grey box on certain threads. Just wondering what that is?
same and I can't edit my post to fix my typos really pisses me off lol
Which threads? If you're both seeing it, you should compare and see if it's in the same threads.
I would need to know what threads you are experiencing this, otherwise there is nothing I can do
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Just to let you know, I too am getting the Grey box in various threads. Using both Fire fox and safari on a Mac. the grey box appears in the reply input field, which means you can't type anything. Its very random.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
It's been happening to me too, completely random threads. I'm using the nightly Aurora builds on Windows, also happens on Chrome.
I experienced this last night as well. I believe it was when I created my Danny post-ASG thread. I posted it, then I went to edit it, but the box that came up was gray and I couldn't do anything with it. Refreshed, shift + refreshed, didn't help.
I'm Win8 using Chrome latest ed.
Just happened to me in my Colin Cowherd thread.
I'm trying to fix a typo I just noticed here but I can't because I get a gray box:
I've been getting it, too. I'm reasonably certain it has to do with the new feature that auto-saves posts so you can restore them at a later date in case you leave/crash/whatever.
That feature has been here long before now. Don't see why that would be it now.
I'm starting to get them pretty frequently now. It didn't start until a few days ago, but it's been fairly common since then. It's repeatedly happening in the Granger thread.
never happened to me before this week, and still doesn't always happen, but often enough to annoy
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Just had it happening in the Granger ASG thread.
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Add me to the list as well. I get it mainly in the Granger ASG thread and sometimes in the Trade Deadline thread.
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I still suspect it has something to do with the auto-save feature. It seems to me that it's only happening in threads where it's auto-saved my text. It's as if it's trying to restore it yet it can't complete the process for some reason.
Actually, here may be a better solution: Go to your General Settings page, scroll down to near the bottom of the page, where you'll find Message Editor Interface. From there, select the Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing option and then save your settings. That looks like it's fixed the issue for me.


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A PREMATURE Black Country baby dubbed 'the girl who couldn't wait' has become an internet sensation.
More than 22,000 people are regularly logging on to Facebook to follow the progress of Daisy-Mae Little, who was born three-and-a-half months early at Russells Hall Hospital in December last year.
Her father, Wayne Little, regularly posts photographs and updates on the social network site and has been overwhelmed with the support that has flooded in from all over the world.
He said since the Pensnett tot, who spent 108 days in hospital, was featured in national newspapers at the weekend, the Facebook page had received an additional 7,000 likes.
Wayne told the News the youngster, who weighed just 1lb 13ozs when she was born, is now "blooming" and added: "She's still putting on weight and now weighs 11lbs 2oz."
Daisy-Mae was set to join Wayne and his wife Jennie, on the Good Morning Britain sofa this week as they spoke about her fight for survival.
Sadly for Wayne, who was looking forward to meeting his "secret idol" Susanna Reid, the appearance on the ITV breakfast show was cancelled due to a full schedule.
He had hoped to plug 'Little Daisy-Mae - The Girl Who Couldn't Wait', a book featuring his frequent Facebook posts, photographs and heartfelt personal diary entries, ahead of its release in September.
For every copy pre-ordered, publishers will donate £1 to a charity of Wayne and Jennie's choice.
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Hi all,
To analyze a real-time application you typically have to write a custom solution. Think about a developer console, or a transparent head-up display (HUD). But that can be quite a bit of work even it you try to keep things simple. The poor man's option is often to use a log file to output diagnostic information, and a configuration file for input parameters. But that's limited to just text and clearly not interactive...
So what I'd like to present here is a solution that is as powerful as a console & HUD, but almost as simple as a log & configuration file. The key is to use existing web technology. By letting a browser take care of the interface rendering you get a lot of possibilities, just by writing a bit of HTML code. To make it interactive, you need an embedded server that will serve the web page and responds to input.
So were do we find a simple embeddable server? Actually, it's really easy to write our own!
The first thing we need to do is to open a network socket and make it listen for TCP/IP connection requests. In Windows, we can use Winsock for this (similar API's exist for other platforms). Note that you'll have to link in Ws2_32.lib before you can make use of Winsock. The code for opening a socket looks like this:
// #include <winsock2.h>
// #include <ws2tcpip.h>
SOCKET listenSocket;
WSADATA winsocksData;
WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &winsocksData); // Initialize Winsocks 2.2
addrinfo hints = {0};
hints.ai_family = AF_INET; // Internet Protocol (IPv4)
hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM; // Sequenced, reliable, byte stream
hints.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP; // Transmission Control Protocol
hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE; // Listen for connection requests
addrinfo *info;
getaddrinfo("localhost", "80", &hints, &info); // localhost, port 80 (HTTP)
listenSocket = socket(info->ai_family, info->ai_socktype, info->ai_protocol); // Create socket
bind(listenSocket, info->ai_addr, (int)info->ai_addrlen); // Bind it to the address
listen(listenSocket, 1); // Start listening for one connection
This may seem a little complicated at first, but this is just some one-time initialization code. Note that sockets are extremely powerful and you can use practically the same code for lots of other communication protocols between various applications and devices. So now that we have a socket that listens for incoming TCP/IP connections on localhost, we have to actually wait till a connection request arrives. This will happen when you open a browser and type the URL [http://localhost](http://localhost[/url]), possibly followed by a path to a resource. Waiting for an incoming connection is done by the accept function:
SOCKET clientSocket = accept(listenSocket, 0, 0);
Note that this will freeze execution. Or more precisely, it suspends the current thread until a connection is accepted. So in an actual real-time application you will want to put this and the remaining embedded server code in its own thread. Note also that the accept function returns a new socket. That is to allow multiple clients to connect to a single server, each with their own independent data stream. Here we're accepting only one client though.
Once accept returns, you can start exchanging data with the browser! You only need to know two more functions; recv and send. As the names already imply, recv will wait for a request from the client, and send can be used to reply. All communication happens using simple byte strings, and the HTTP protocol uses messages that are fairly easy to read. So let's receive our first request message:
char request[65536];
int bytesReceived = recv(clientSocket, request, 65535, 0);
This function again freezes until the client actually sends something. But when you type for instance [http://localhost/panel](http://localhost/panel[/url]) into your browser and hit enter, the accept function will first establish a communication session and right after that the recv function will return the following text in the request buffer:
GET /panel [...]
The [...] is a bunch of additional information the browser decided to send us, like the browser name and language, and what formats it accepts.
So let's reply with "Hello World!":
send(clientSocket, "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n"
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n"
"Content-Length: 25\r\n"
"Hello World!", 104, 0);
You should now magically see the words Hello World! in your browser!
The first line of the response message tells the browser that the request was understood and this message contains the reply. The second line tells it the reply consists of html code, encoded using UTF-8 (a popular ASCII extension that can also represent Unicode). This is followed by the length of the body. Next is another carriage return and newline to separate the headers from the body of the message. And finally we have the HTML code (not standards compliant, but most browsers will take it anyway). The send function also takes the client socket and the total message length as a parameter.
From this point forward the possibilities are almost endless. HTTP and HTML are fairly simple so I'll leave it up to you to decide what you want to do and explore tutorials and documentation. To make things interactive you probably want to create a form with a submit buttom. This is what SwiftShader 2.0 does. Just run the demo and point your browser to [http://localhost:8080/swiftconfig](http://localhost:8080/swiftconfig[/url]) (and have a peek at the HTML code if you're not sure how it's done). With a form the browser will send the server a "POST" request, containing the enabled checkboxes and selected drop down box elements. Beware that some browsers will send that in a second message. After parsing just resend the entire page with appropriately selected controls.
Note that the essential code is really just a few dozen lines, hardly any longer than for reading and writing configuration and log files. You now have all the power of HTML at your fingertips to create any interface you like. You can even change your application's behavior remotely (try with your smartphone)!
You can also get back diagnostic information from your application. However, when you use forms you'll have to click a button to get updated information. That can be annoying, especially when you're waiting for a specific event to happen. Also, forms require redrawing the entire web page. So isn't there a way to automatically get regular updates, without reloading the entire page?
Absolutely, but for this we'll need JavaScript. So make sure you're fully comfortable with using HTTP and HTML first. The key to dynamically update your web page is the use of the XMLHttpRequest JavaScript API. It can be used to make an HTTP request from within JavaScript, and the response can be plain text or XML. The latter case gave birth to a suite of techniques known as Ajax, but here I'll keep things simple by using the plain text version to create a framerate counter. Here's the essential JavaScript code for making a request:
var xhr;
function request()
xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('POST', 'http://localhost/panel/fps', true);
xhr.onreadystatechange = update;
Notice that we're making a "POST" request. This avoids any browser caching. Next comes the URL for our framerate service. The last parameter to the open function specifies that we want to make an asynchronous request. This means the browser won't halt waiting for the server's response. Instead, it will call the onreadystatechange function when it receives something. Here we set that function to our "update" function, which I'll explain below. Up to this point no actual request has been made yet, we've just set up our XMLHttpRequest object. The send function sends it off to the server. Here's the update function, responsible for refreshing part of the web page with the data we receive:
function update()
if(xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 200)
document.getElementById('fps').innerHTML = xhr.responseText;
setTimeout('request()', 1000);
The XMLHttpRequest object will call the onreadystatechange function (which we've associated our update function with) multiple times before the complete response has been received. That's why we first have to check the readyState and status properties to make sure that we can use the response. The plain text sent by the server will be available in the responseText field.
So we want to assign that string to a certain HTML element where the framerate should go. This can be achieved by navigating the Document Object Model. The DOM is a tree-like structure representing all the elements of an HTML (or XML) document. In this case we locate the element that has the "fps" id and we overwrite the HTML contained within that element with the server response containing the framerate as a string.
Finally, we also make the script call the request function again after 1000 milliseconds. This way you'll see the framerate get updated automatically every second. Note that this is a 'pull' approach. If the sever has some updated data sooner it can't send that to the browser before it asks for it. However, an alternative solution is to immediately make the next request, and have the sever send it when ready. Anyway, on a local network you can have hundreds if not thousands of updates per second without stressing anything.
So finally lets put it all together:
#include <winsock2.h>
#include <ws2tcpip.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <string>
class Server
enum Status
NotFound = 404
void loop();
std::string page();
std::string fps();
void send(SOCKET client, Status code, std::string body = "");
SOCKET listenSocket;
WSADATA winsocksData;
WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &winsocksData);
addrinfo hints = {0};
hints.ai_family = AF_INET;
hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
hints.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP;
hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE;
addrinfo *info;
getaddrinfo("localhost", "80", &hints, &info);
listenSocket = socket(info->ai_family, info->ai_socktype, info->ai_protocol);
bind(listenSocket, info->ai_addr, (int)info->ai_addrlen);
listen(listenSocket, 1);
bool match(char *url, char *string)
return strncmp(url, string, strlen(string)) == 0;
void Server::loop()
SOCKET clientSocket = accept(listenSocket, 0, 0);
char request[65536];
int bytesReceived;
bytesReceived = recv(clientSocket, request, 65535, 0);
if(bytesReceived > 0)
request[bytesReceived] = 0;
if(match(request, "GET /panel "))
send(clientSocket, OK, page());
else if(match(request, "POST /panel/fps "))
send(clientSocket, OK, fps());
send(clientSocket, NotFound);
while(bytesReceived > 0);
std::string Server::page()
"<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd'> \n"
" \n"
"  \n"
" <title>Panel</title> \n"
"  \n"
"  \n"
"
FPS: -
 \n"
"  \n"
"  \n"
" \n";
std::string Server::fps()
char buffer[256];
sprintf(buffer, "%f", 45.0 + 15.0 * sin(timeGetTime() / 1000.0));
return buffer;
void Server::send(SOCKET client, Status code, std::string body)
std::string status;
char header[256];
case OK: status += "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n"; break;
case NotFound: status += "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\r\n"; break;
sprintf(header, "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n"
"Content-Length: %d\r\n"
"Host: localhost\r\n"
"\r\n", body.size());
std::string message = status + header + body;
::send(client, message.c_str(), (int)message.length(), 0);
int main()
Server server;
return 0;
You'll have to link with Winmm.lib for the timeGetTime function. This application produces a sine shaped "framerate". Just run it and open [http://localhost/panel](http://localhost/panel[/url]). In this case the HTML code does pass conformance validation. Also, if the server gets an invalid request it will respond with status code 404. This may occur when some browsers make a request for the vaficon.
That said, this code may still not work under all circumstances. The XMLHttpRequest API has only recently become available on all popular browsers, so you may want to update your browser to the latest version or look for backward compatible implementations. I also didn't add any kind of error checking, so if you need this to be more robust check the documentation of the used APIs. And of course you may want to extend this with convenient methods to extend the HTML code with certain controls and asynchronously updated diagnostic information. You can even update images to create things like graphs...
Either way I hope I've convinced you that with relatively little code you can get access to a wide range of possibilities to diagnose and control you application with a neat interface. Please let me know if you use this anywhere, or if you know any other web based technology that is useful during development!
Nicolas "Nick" Capens
A big thanks goes out to the people in the Framerate in a browser thread for helping me get started with asynchronous updates!
Very inspiring, thanks!
Offtopic: I never bothered to do more Javascript than an occasional assignment for my study, but I'm very surprised that it allows (or forces?) things like "xhr.readyState == 4". Now that is ugly!
Oh my God, so application analysis is what it was all about :> Although I really like the nice tutorial on implementing quick-and-dirty dynamic web servers I really don't think it's worth it given that creating another form with .NET (for example) takes two lines of code. As always though, you manage to demonstrate a very large number of concept within a few lines and you do it very clearly. And I'm serious on it, it's not just blabla nice job blabla.
I'm very surprised that it allows (or forces?) things like "xhr.readyState == 4". Now that is ugly[/sub]
Yeah, the specification defines symbolic names for these constants, but no browser actually implements them. I don't think it's really that ugly though. Whether it's a number or a symbolic name you still have to look at the documentation to write the correct code. Also, you could define the symbolic names yourself, but what exactly would you win by doing so?
You may want to add a clarifying comment though...
Oh my God, so application analysis is what it was all about :>
Actually it can be used for more than that. For instance you could create a test suite that can be accessed from all over the world (checking status and starting new test runs). And I'm sure there are many other creative uses.
But yeah, personally I'm using it to analyse and control real-time applications. :happy:
I really don't think it's worth it given that creating another form with .NET (for example) takes two lines of code.
Sure, in many cases that's a quick and easy solution. But it has some limitations. First of all you need a visual framework like that, which isn't always an option. Also, it wouldn't work remotely (or at least not with two lines of code). And when you're creating just a component instead of a complete application you often lose control over keyboard and mouse input.
Actually it can be used for more than that. For instance you could create a test suite that can be accessed from all over the world (checking status and starting new test runs). And I'm sure there are many other creative uses. But yeah, personally I'm using it to analyse and control real-time applications. :happy:
Yes, it certainly adds another perspective to browsing and abstracts the idea of "what" is being browsed. In that sense, it's an innovative and therefore interesting work. Besides, it's implementable with a few strokes.
I was about to point at X11 before reading the "not with two lines". After reading, I agree, although technologies are evolving fast and it's certainly possible (using a decent framework) to achieve the same although it will not reach that many people as your solution. I'm personally interested in trying it out with Lynx. :w00t:
Yeah, the specification defines symbolic names for these constants, but no browser actually implements them. I don't think it's really that ugly though. Whether it's a number or a symbolic name you still have to look at the documentation to write the correct code. Also, you could define the symbolic names yourself, but what exactly would you win by doing so? You may want to add a clarifying comment though...
Ok: I skimmed through your code, and thought: "what on earth could these weird numbers mean?". Then I read the documentation. If the line would have been something like if (xhr.readyState == XMLHttpRequest.DONE && xhr.status == HTTP.OK) I'd probably not even noticed that line.
I see this as a tremendous debugging utiliy, you run your engine on the main pc and with an internet connection you can debug on another pc connected trhough the net , both local or global, brilliant...
Writing the HTML 'page' as a string can be a little annoying. You have to add quotation markts to every line and you have to run the application to see the result of every change. So here's a little addendum to try and facilitate that:
Using Visual C++, you can easily add resources to your project, so instead of writing the HTML as a string just store it as a resource. This way you can easily view and edit it within the IDE. The code to locate and load the resource looks like this:
HMODULE module = GetModuleHandle(0); // Current process
HRSRC html = FindResource(module, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_HTML1), RT_HTML); // Locate resource "IDR_HTML1"
HGLOBAL resource = LoadResource(module, html); // Load it into memory
const char *data = (char*)LockResource(resource); // Get raw data pointer
int size = SizeofResource(module, html);
std::string string(data, size);
send(OK, string);
Note that you can also always load the HTML from a file, but the above approach has the advantage that it's still completely embedded so you don't have any additional files floating around. The resource is always there.
The only disadvantage compared to construcing the page directly as a string is that it's not that straightforward to create dynamic content on-the-fly. However, you can easily just add placeholders that you can search for and replace once you've loaded the HTML resources into the string. One suggestion is to use the \<%...%> tags, also used by ASP, which get ignored by the browser. Note that ASP, as well as PHP, are powerful server-side scripting languages meant exactly for generating web pages dynamically.
Please forgive this total n00b question, but would it be possible to use this technique to add a simple GUI to a program like OpenFOAM? Since I use all Win7 OS's on my computers, I was looking at picking up a used server rack (local high-school sale, 10 quad core blades) and installing the Linux OS. If I could use this great technique to access the server cluster with a GUI to run simulations over my LAN, it would be great!
Heck, at that point, I may even be able to allow others to log in and use my server remotely!
Please, if you think this is a possibility, you can email me directly to ask any questions or give any advice!
hey If I use this technique as well get the server cluster with a GUI to run simulations over LAN, would it be great?
Absolutely! Lots of sever applications have web interfaces. And as I tried to make clear it's not all that difficult to get started.
Sure, but beware that doing the opposite, making sure certain people do not get access, is more challenging.
The best advice I can give is to get coding. Get the above code running (under Windows), modify it for Linux, and then integrate it with OpenFOAM.
Good luck!


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(11-5) The Falcons hope that the great play of rookie quarterback Matt Ryan continues and they can beat a tough Cardinals team that has possibly lost a little steam towards the end of the regular season.
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AMD to erupt Volcanic Islands GPUs as early as Q4 2013?
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Graphics Cards, Processors | May 8, 2013 - 09:32 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Volcanic Islands, radeon, ps4, amd
So the Southern Islands might not be entirely stable throughout 2013 as we originally reported; seismic activity being analyzed suggests the eruption of a new GPU micro-architecture as early as Q4. These Volcanic Islands, as they have been codenamed, should explode onto the scene opposing NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 700-series products.
It is times like these where GPGPU-based seismic computation becomes useful.
The rumor is based upon a source which leaked a fragment of a slide outlining the processor in block diagram form and specifications of its alleged flagship chip, "Hawaii". Of primary note, Volcanic Islands is rumored to be organized with both Serial Processing Modules (SPMs) and a Parallel Compute Module (PCM).
So apparently a discrete GPU can have serial processing units embedded on it now.
Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) is a set of initiatives to bridge the gap between massively parallel workloads and branching logic tasks. We usually make reference to this in terms of APUs and bringing parallel-optimized hardware to the CPU. In this case, we are discussing it in terms of bringing serial processing to the discrete GPU. According to the diagram, the chip within would contain 8 processor modules each with two processing cores and an FPU for a total of 16 cores. There does not seem to be any definite identification whether these cores would be based upon their license to produce x86 processors or their other license to produce ARM processors. Unlike an APU, this is heavily skewed towards parallel computation rather than a relatively even balance between CPU, GPU, and chipset features.
Now of course, why would they do that? Graphics processors can do branching logic but it tends to sharply cut performance. With an architecture such as this, a programmer might be able to more efficiently switch between parallel and branching logic tasks without doing an expensive switch across the motherboard and PCIe bus between devices. Josh Walrath suggested a server containing these as essentially add-in card computers. For gamers, this might help out with workloads such as AI which is awkwardly split between branching logic and massively parallel visibility and path-finding tasks. Josh seems skeptical about this until HSA becomes further adopted, however.
Still, there is a reason why they are implementing this now. I wonder, if the SPMs are based upon simple x86 cores, how the PS4 will influence PC gaming. Technically, a Volcanic Island GPU would be an oversized PS4 within an add-in card. This could give AMD an edge, particularly in games ported to the PC from the Playstation.
This chip, Hawaii, is rumored to have the following specifications:
- 4096 stream processors
- 16 serial processor cores on 8 modules
- 4 geometry engines
- 256 TMUs
- 64 ROPs
- 512-bit GDDR5 memory interface, much like the PS4.
20 nm Gate-Last silicon fab process
- Unclear if TSMC or "Common Platform" (IBM/Samsung/GLOBALFOUNDRIES)
Softpedia is also reporting on this leak. Their addition claims that the GPU will be designed on a 20nm Gate-Last fabrication process. While gate-last is considered to be not worth the extra effort in production, Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FD-SOI) is apparently "amazing" on gate-last at 28nm and smaller fabrication. This could mean that AMD is eying that technology and making this design with intent of switching to an FD-SOI process, without a large redesign which an initially easier gate-first production would require.
Well that is a lot to process... so I will leave you with an open question for our viewers: what do you think AMD has planned with this architecture, and what do you like and/or dislike about what your speculation would mean?
Although we must take this with a sea of salt, assuming these specifications are true, there's multiple implications:
1. This architecture is not going to be replaced anytime soon (think 5 years).
2. GDDR6 is farther away than previously thought.
3. x86(assuming those serial cores are it) processors as a dedicated silicon might see the end soon.
i dont believe that the cores are x86...the reason that they have the serial processing cores is becuase gpu cores are bad at calculations with multiple branches, so the serial processors are for calculations which would otherwise be done slowly on a parralell processing gpu core.
it's possible they add at least one or two x86-64 modules, since they created the extension, assuming the chart is correct. However, it'll be a cut down set of cores, just to make the PCIe TDP headroom, which, by the way, is in some serious need of updating.
AMD supporting Websites fakes AMD Fanboys WorldWide: AMD's Answer to GeForce GTX 700 Series: Volcanic Islands
TSMC 20nm products exclusive for AMD only in 2013 - pushing Nvidia out of the GPU Business !!!
I did not know PC Perspective entertained retards and trolls. We need some banning done here. In other, relevant news, AMD's always been first to new nodes since 90 nanometer. It's nothing surprising, realy, if they end up releasing this in Q4 with a 20 nm fabrication process. They'll just have to be a little more careful with the leakage due to shrinking, that's all.
The lava from this gpu will melt Nvidia thus eliminating Nvidia in the gpu world.
Haswell is the competitor for sea islands since haswell are waterproof.
They should name the amd 9990 "Of Elimination" / "its over 9000!"
If you want more insight, I suggest taking a look at the Semiaccurate.com forums. There you can see that this "leaked" block diagram is just a color-inverted form of a diagram that's been around for a while.
I thought the next-gen graphics card from AMD was code named "Sea Islands" for the HD8xxx series coming out late 2013, or am I missing something?
Seems to me that AMD is fully dedicated to bring us its promised PC platform, that can be upgraded with both cpu and gpu computational power without switching the main CPU or APU.
So if you/I need more power of any kind, just ad a G-CPU card to gain the needed performance.
Based on an AMD interview on Rage3D the customer currently spreading through the web, AMD's "Volcanic Islands" graphics chip generation would already appear this year in the 20nm technology. Whether this have said so interviewed AMD employees would, however, be doubted, and is at least not clean assignable because Rage3D have the interview is not reproduced in the original, but only a summary offer - which may also include some of my own thoughts & inserts so of course, without this being immediately recognizable. Probably is AMD's statement only that the next graphics chip generation this year appears - and Rage3D have mistakenly "Volcanic Islands" listed on this point, although the next GPU architecture from AMD according to previous AMD roadmaps doubt on "Sea Islands" reads.
Then, when reading this and other websites bring the "Volcanic Islands" graphics chip generation with the earlier vermeldeten 20nm manufacturing these graphics chips together, the message will end up out of it quickly, AMD would already begin this year with 20nm graphics chips. It should not be denied that AMD and nVidia would like to do this - only the possibilities of contract manufacturer TSMC leave this year still pretty sure no large graphics chips to 20nm. TSMC is likely to be rather glad to get to the end first 20nm SoCs in mass production - up to 20nm graphics chips is assuming another (at least) several months way. Of course we can at this point belonging wrong - only that probability is clearly against 20nm graphics chips already in 2013 (even in 2014 will see the rewards of not exactly rosy.
In connection with this, the rumor about an alleged AMD "Hawaii" 20nm graphics chip has appeared with 4096 shader units and 512-bit DDR memory interface at WCCF Tech and other websites below. This is based on an alleged block circuit diagram of that Hawai GPU - which in itself but shows an APU processors with 16 cores together with the connected iGPU with 1024 shader units and 512-bit DDR memory interface, but only for DDR3 memory. Moreover, that block circuit diagram seems to have been a pure idea of any Board member at the end of what could be achieved in a maximum APU approach because in the upcoming 20nm manufacturing. With a Volcanic Islands-based GPU thus this has nothing to do for two reasons: First, because it is a pure assumption - and secondly because it is an APU and not a pure GPU.
*mastrdrver*: Everyone realizes that this picture is about a year old and posted by the same person about a year ago?
xbit has a completely different take folks this could be a Kavari apu or an engineers wild fantasy time will tell.
"The chip could easily be a next-generation Kaveri-like APU for high-end desktops as well as servers with 16 integer cores, 8 floating point units, L3 cache, graphics engine with 1024 stream processors as well as eight-channel DDR3 memory controller with ECC (which should actually support GDDR5 memory as well, based on previously published information). "
I quite like the new style of writing guys! :) Good job!
As previously mentioned xbitlabs is reporting that these are indeed 8 modules(16 cores) based on steamroller. It makes sense. AMD is not yet building anything for arm except servers, arm doesn't use modules, they have said they won't make chips for android and the graphics are too high end for an arm chip
Even at 20 nm 8 modules would take up a lot of space. Now, if they have greatly simplified Bulldozer cores that have crap for IPC, then they could cut them significantly down in size to fit in such a large design. Still, I give this rumor about a 25% chance of being right.
Let's see... hmmm. I give this rumor about a 0,25% chance of being right.
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My wish for Joe Maddon is simple, a lot simpler than he is. I want him to end this quirky run as baseball's groovy hipster skipper — you know, ditch the black glasses and unorthodox strategies and even the '56 Chevy Bel-Air — and find a conventional baseball team to manage far, far away from downtown St. Petersburg, Fla.
That team will have money, resources, fans, a real ballpark.
That team will not have a 20-foot python and penguins in the clubhouse, a 10,000-gallon fish tank with live cownose rays, and stadium catwalks that are in play if a ball strikes one.
I think he would dig such a change, too, dig being his word.
It's the only way Maddon will be perceived nationally as what he truly is — a wonderful manager and all-demographics ambassador of a sport that needs fun, smart characters — and not as that crazy old dude in Tampa Bay who loosens up his players with live animals and, in his latest stunt, uses a record nine pitchers in a futile try to survive a postseason series. The man has taken this adorable little puppy about as far he possibly can, and after yet another divisional-round elimination, it's now been five years since the Rays played in their one and only World Series. Without local movement on the stadium issue, this franchise seems maxed out as a cost-efficient, shrewd-thinking miracle that makes the most from the least. One large reason for that consistent overachievement is Maddon, but after awhile, even he must wonder how he'd fare with a Boston payroll, a San Francisco ballpark, a Mike Trout in the lineup.
His latest October setback was a 3-1 loss to the Red Sox, who advance to the American League championship series, that can be viewed as either a chess match or a farce. Understandably showing little faith in Game 4 starter Jeremy Hellickson, whose talents are overwhelmed by his erratic streaks, Maddon yanked him at his first sign of trouble in the second inning — four-pitch walks of David Ortiz and Mike Napoli and a single by Daniel Nava. Maddon summoned 18-year veteran Jamey Wright, who made his manager look brilliant by getting an inning-ending double play. But this led to a calvalcade of relievers who performed well until the inevitable crash — Joel Peralta's wild pitch in a two-run Boston seventh and Fernando Rodney's latest failue in the ninth. In the end, the Rays simply don't have the offense to mash the Boston mashers, and consider it a byproduct of having only a $62 million payroll. You can scratch out only so many victories before bigger lumber prevails.
"The way it was working at the beginning there, I could see it was just not going to work and we had to do something differently," Maddon said of the Hellickson quick hook. "We hoped once he got through the order, maybe through (Dustin) Pedroia again. Just could see it wasn't gonna work. We became a little more extemporaneous at that point."
Wild improvisation doesn't win championships. The norm still applies — a quality start, an effective relief performance, a closer with the lockdown — and Boston's Jake Peavy, Craig Breslow and Koji Uehara were better than Maddon's nine-man roll call. Crazier still, David Price was warming in the bullpen for a 10th-inning stint in case the Rays rallied. Other than Raymond, the team mascot, just who was going to be left to start Game 5?
The topic is moot. The Rays have been beaten, again.
Every time he is asked, Maddon says he has no interest in leaving the Rays. He is opening an Italian restaurant next year near his home in South Tampa, but he also still owns a home in southern California from his days as an Angels coach. Though it appears Mike Scioscia and Jerry Dipoto will remain as that franchise's manager and general manager, the two have had disagreements and likely will have a short shelf life together. That could open a managerial job for Maddon if, say, Scioscia moves upstairs as GM. Imagine managing a team with 40,000 in the stands every night, a $165 million payroll, a lineup with Trout and Albert Pujols and a wayward soul named Josh Hamilton who could use faith-healing.
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Albert Thweatt Presents at National Conference
Albert Thweatt, a sixth grade teacher at Lipscomb Academy, was a speaker for the second year in a row at the Association for Middle Level Education on November 8.
The theme for the 40th annual national conference, held in Minneapolis, was "Thrive". With educators from around the country gathering to focus on ways to help middle school students thrive in their learning environment, Thweatt presented a session called "Innovative Ways to Engage Middle School Students."
After speaking at the conference in Portland, Oregon last year, Thweatt submitted a proposal to speak again this year and was accepted into the prestigious group of presenters.
With 150 middle school teachers from around the nation attending the session, Thweatt offered suggestions about how to organize and present lessons that cater to the interests of students and how to make classes a "real life experience."
Thweatt was also able to attend sessions himself and share ideas and teaching tools with other educators.
"It is an extreme honor to be able to present for the second year in a row at this conference. I received a lot of positive feedback, it was humbling," said Thweatt.
Next year's conference will be held November 6-8 in Nashville.


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In accordance with Major League Baseball policies, the Red Sox have received permission to release a limited number of tickets for World Series games that may be played at Fenway Park. Games 1, 2, 6 and 7 of a possible 2013 World Series will be available via automated phone only (888-REDSOX6) beginning at 2 p.m. tomorrow, October 11.
Fans with disabilities may call (877) RED-SOX9 to purchase accessible seating (while supplies last). The Red Sox' TTY number is 617-226-6644.
Fans who registered and were selected in the random online drawing for the opportunity to purchase World Series tickets will be notified today of their selection via email. Those fans will have the chance to purchase tickets starting at noon tomorrow on redsox.com.
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There will be a 4 ticket limit per fan for World Series games. Ticket prices for those games range from $125 to $375. A breakdown on pricing in each seating category is attached.
Game times for this weekend's American league Championship Series (ALCS) have been set. Game 1 of the series at Fenway Park on Saturday is scheduled to begin at 8:07 p.m. on FOX. Game 2 of the series on Sunday will start at 8:15 p.m. on FOX.


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A big day in presidential politics: Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the race. Certified results from the Iowa caucuses show former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum finished ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, but party officials are calling it a tie. And Newt Gingrich's second wife sat down with ABC News for an interview about their marriage and messy divorce. All this comes on the same day the four remaining candidates gather in Charleston for a debate. Robert Siegel discusses it all with NPR's Mara Liasson in Charleston.
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THE Malvern Wells Players production of Jack and the Beanstalks will have all the usual fairytale characters of Jack, his mother, the Wicked Baron, the Giant, plus a number of others.
But in their version Jack has five beanstalks to climb before he finds the one leading to Giantland.
The other four take him to Toy Town, Panto Land, Nursery Rhyme Land and Alice in Wonderland, and once he finally arrives and escapes from the Giant his friend Jill wants to return and rescue her friend the Singing Harp.
He also needs to steal the Hen that lays the Golden Eggs to save his mother and sister from being evicted and so everyone can live happily ever after.
Performances take place in Malvern Wells Village Hall from Thursday to Saturday, February 20-22 at 7.30pm.
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It was a spectacular cookie selling season for Girl Scout Troop 30537, of Saint Theresa School, in the Oakland hills.
This past spring was their first year taking on this new venture. Not only were these girls able to gain confidence in their leadership skills through the process of selling to the general public, they also acquired invaluable life lessons in becoming a change in their community and society as a whole.
Last spring's third- and fourth-graders sold nearly 5,000 boxes of cookies and earned about $15,000 for the Girl Scouts of America. From their own personal proceeds, Troop 30537 generously donated $1,500 to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
In addition, these Girl Scouts created a slogan "From Our Troop to Yours" and generated more than 200 donated boxes of cookies for the U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
With another cookie selling season right around the corner, Troop 30537 is already gearing up for another successful venture. The girls hope to make a significant donation toward another worthy cause in order to continue making the world better than they found it.
These Girl Scouts would like to thank their parents who tirelessly supported them through their efforts. A special thanks goes out to Juan Perez, their official cookie manager, who coordinated their cookie selling season which led to their incredible success.
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Once called the 'Pearl of Asia', when you book a flight to Phnom Penh with Qatar Airways you'll discover that it preserves much of that old charm. It was built by the French in what was then Indochina. Today, Phnom Penh preserves in some of its attractions the exuberance and brilliance of Khmer art and civilisation. Fly to Phnom Penh and sample some of the beautiful, rich and distinctive Cambodian culture on offer.
The magnificent Silver Pagoda stands in its own compound, which also includes a life-size gold Buddha statue adorned with 9500 diamonds. The nearby sprawling Royal palace is off-limits, unfortunately, but one can't help wondering what treasures are hidden away in there, taking into consideration the magnificence of those that are on public display. Your trip to Phnom Penh should also include a visit to the twin pagodas that stand in the palace grounds.
You can't miss the Independence and Liberation memorials in the city centre, which celebrate the ousting of the French. On your trip to Phnom Penh also drop in to the National Museum of Cambodia, which has lots of interesting exhibits about the country's history and cultural influences.
The best way to savour the city's delights on your trip to Phnom Penh is to simply stroll along its wide avenues and look at the old colonial architecture. You can also take a river cruise along the Mekong and Tonle Sap Rivers, typically lasting two hours. There's a Mekong Islands Bicycle Tour each day, and you can hire a bike yourself to explore the city.
Watch performances of classical and folk dance at the Plae Pakaa National Museum, where a range of performing arts is on display throughout the week.
There are lots of French, Thai, Indonesian and Vietnamese dishes to savour on your visit to Phnom Penh. The riverfront is particularly alive with music and bustling restaurants. Khmer street restaurants are found throughout the city, if you're planning to eat on a budget. Look for stand-up stalls and bistros for a wide selection of international and local cuisine.
Cambodia is also well known for its more 'exotic' culinary experiences, such as duck embryo eggs, day-old chicks and frogs (eaten whole, rather than just the legs). Grilled chicken feet, lobsters, prawns and even insects are all on the menu, so do ask before you eat just in case you have an aversion to fried grasshoppers!
For anyone travelling to Phnom Penh for some shopping, there are plenty of malls and markets to head for, where you'll find the best in Asian handicrafts. Silverware, silk, curios and crafts are much in evidence. You should look for the Heritage Friendly Business Logo when buying handicrafts of this sort, as you'll be helping Heritage Watch to preserve the country's culture by supporting local craftsmen and women.
For a truly magnificent retail experience try shopping in the grandeur of Central Market, which is renowned for its architecture, and in City Mall if you're looking for Western-style products. Big brands can be found at the Russian Market and traditional dress materials at the Olympic Market.
Flights to Phnom Penh arrive at Phnom Penh International Airport, 7km outside the city.
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The new Zone Offroad radius arm suspension lift features tough replacment radius arms that are considerably stronger, made of 1/4 inch steel, fully boxed, and utilizing large 2-1/2 inch, greasable urethane bushings. The arms bolt directly into the stock location, and position the axle for the proper caster and wheel location. The lower mount point at the axle utilizes our popular cam lock design, making it adjustable for 4 or 6 inches of lift. Engine specific front coil springs are designed to not only ride great, but will hold up over the long haul. A 1-1/2 inch solid steel track bar is included to properly center the axle after lifting. This track bar features new oversized, high-durometer (hardness) urethane bushings for long term performance and improved handling. The system is comes with custom valved Zone hydraulic or choose to upgrade to the Nitro shocks for better towing and handling performance. The rear is lifted with a 5 inch block used to replace the factory block instead of stacking blocks. This system is also one of the easiest installations on the market becuase of the use of a front track bar and rear block kit. If you are looking to not only lift your Super Duty, but improve the looks, strength, and feel of your suspension, choose the Zone Offroad radius arms system.
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I started a new job and the training sessions are filled with a lot of information including some math. Because it's not a classroom or seminar setting I'm sticking with pen and paper. In a situation like a new job I don't really feel like standing out too much. I can take notes pretty quickly and when I get home I check my scribbles and type everything important into Google Docs.
It got me thinking that in 2009 there must be a better way. With a quick search I came across the "Livescribe Pulse Smartpen". It's not so simple to explain but in general it records audio as you write and later you can click on your writing and it will be the audio that it recorded at that moment in time. Later, you can sync it to your computer where it does some OCR ala Evernote style. After I Twittered a "Wow this is cool!" and a link, a friend Chuck in Berlin said he owned one and loved it.
So as with all things I want I scoot over to YouTube to see a few videos of people using whatever said item is. The first video that came up was the one above. Things get awesome at 1:27 in… I didn't know Livescribe could teach and talk to you let alone be a freakin Piano, drum machine, vibraphone, steel drum, fiddle and translator!
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Details surrounding the unusual death of a young man whose car exploded after being pulled over by a U.S. Border Patrol agent are slowly beginning to emerge as a lawsuit unfolds in San Diego federal court.
Authorities have released little information since the 2012 death of Alex Martin.
But court documents filed by both sides in the case now reveal the identity of the Border Patrol agent who fired a Taser at Martin's car, possibly sparking the deadly explosion, and answers the question why.
Martin, 24, was heading home to Texas after a visit to San Diego the night of March 15 when he caught the attention of the Border Patrol.
His rented Ford Focus was going the wrong way on Interstate 8 near Pine Valley Road, then made a U-turn and exited, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office's account. The area is a known pickup point for drug and immigrant smugglers.
The agents saw Martin get out of the car, look at a sign, then continue north on Pine Valley. Thinking he was involved in criminal activity, they decided to stop him.
Martin refused to stop, and the agents pursued. Martin stopped near the Sunrise Highway off-ramp at one point but sped away as the agents got out of their car, prosecutors said.
As he neared the Highway 80 checkpoint, the agents radioed ahead that the car was approaching. Agents set out spike strips to deflate the tires, and Martin drove over them and continued for another mile before stopping.
Agents yelled at Martin to get out of the car with his hands up, but he ignored the commands, prosecutors said. They tried to open the doors, but they were locked.
The agents saw Martin reach for something in his center console, prompting one agent — identified by defense lawyers as Roy Salcedo — to break the a passenger side window with a flashlight. He then fired a Taser at Martin in an effort to subdue him, prosecutors said.
What came next was a fiery explosion that engulfed the car. The intensity of the flames prevented a rescue.
Salcedo was thrown backward from the blast and suffered minor injuries, the Border Patrol said.
The wrongful-death lawsuit, filed by San Diego attorneys Eugene Iredale and Julia Yoo on behalf of Martin's parents, said the Taser manufacturers warn against using the stun gun where flammable gases or fumes could be present.
The suit said the spike strips that punctured Martin's tires or the rough terrain he drove over before stopping on the side of the road could have compromised the gas tank, releasing flammable vapors.
The family's lawyers also said the agents pursued Martin in unmarked cars not equipped with lights or sirens.
The Medical Examiner's Office has never released the cause of death, saying the case is sealed. The Sheriff's Department, which is investigating the death, has also declined to release details about the explosion.
Iredale said Wednesday that he hopes to begin receiving the official reports in the case soon, as part of the discovery process, and he and his investigators will finally be able to examine the evidence and identify the other agents involved.
They can then start taking sworn depositions of the agents and inspect the car.
He said authorities conducted some forensics tests locally, while other material was sent to the FBI's crime lab.
Martin's family is suing on grounds of excessive force, negligence, improper training, assault and battery, and wrongful death.
"There are no indications he had any drug paraphernalia or drugs or anything illegal in the car," Iredale said.
The family is requesting damages to be determined at trial.
The U.S. Attorney's Office has filed a motion asking the judge to dismiss at least two of the claims, saying the government can't be held responsible under federal law.
Prosecutors note that Martin had resisted law enforcement before.
Nine months prior, Martin fled from a police officer in Texas after a hit-and-run crash. The pursuit ended when Martin struck a light pole. In his pickup was a .38-caliber pistol, ammunition and fully-charged speed loaders, prosecutors said. He was arrested on suspicion of evading arrest, offering a bribe to a police officer and driving while intoxicated.
Martin was studying biology at the University of Texas at Arlington and had lived as a child in the San Diego area, a family friend said.


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How can you get custom designed disc golf discs made? I have a couple of disc golf discs that I bought that were custom designed by the seller. But how can I design a disc, pay to get it made, and then get it sent to me? Are there are website companies or disc companies that you can submit designs to and they create your disc for you?
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Governor's Challenge Basketball Tournament Returns to the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center
For years, the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center has brought high school boys basketball players together to compete on the hardwood over the holiday break. In 2010, a unique spin was put on the event as Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley issued a challenge to Delaware Governor Jack Markell. The wager: a Maryland Smith Island Cake to a Delaware Peach Pie. The inaugural Governor's Challenge was born, bringing with it a new level of excitement to this holiday basketball classic.
Now in its 4th year the Governor's Challenge is growing even more by adding an AAU division! Five age groups will compete in the AAU division including 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades. The addition of an AAU division nearly doubles the size of the Governor's Challenge Basketball Festival, as the event is now hosting participants anywhere from 9 to 18 years old. The Wicomico Youth & Civic Center will continue to host the event. With four courts playing in one building, all at once, this year's Governor's Challenge will be a basketball lover's dream!
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This year's Governor's Challenge Holiday Basketball Festival will take place December 26-29th, 2013 at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center in Salisbury, MD. This event is open to the public.
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Tickets will provide you access to the entire building for the entire day (includes high school games and AAU games). Advanced Tournament Pass, includes admission to all games, every day of the tournament (on-sale after Thanksgiving through the first day of the event) $30 Adults / $15 Youth (11-18) / Under 11 years old free.
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Daily Admission will be sold at the gate: $10 Adults / $5 Youth (11-18) / Under 11 Free
The Governor's Challenge Holiday Basketball Festival is not a Board of Education sponsored event. Teachers, administrators and other school employees are not entitled to free admission.
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thereductor wrote:Last night the wife, kids and I returned home from a good evening swim. We washed the kids and turned 'em loose to play a while before bed. Shortly afterward I shouted at them to stop running around. Because it is usual for them to do that, I didn't really intervene -- just bellyache. I should have done more.
My son tripped and slammed into the closet door, and my wife was quick to scold my daughter for chaseing him around. While she was doing that, my son came into the kitchen. I looked at him only to realize that something was very wrong: he was staring at the ceiling with hist mouth agape in a silent scream. His face was contorted and white. Then he began reaching up to claw at his mouth.
I grabbed shoulders and said (yelled) "son, are you alright!" he kept staring and grabbing, then his eyes went out of focus and ceased to move around. He went limp, so I laid him on the floor. My wife was screaming, my daughter was crying and my little boy wasn't breathing. I told the wife to call 911 and to shut up (she was in a panic). I laid my ear to his mouth as I remembered that I had to check his breath. I placed my palm on his chest, and felt that his heart was beating hard and fast. My wife was shouting our address into the phone.
"Why isn't he breathing? is he as good as dead? is his head in the right position for a breath? how far in am I going to compress his chest, if his heart stops?" so many questions and no certainty.
I realized that he would need artificial respiration (AR), because his heart was still beating. But luckily I didn't even begin, because he started struggling to breath on his own just as I was placing his head in position.
I sat him up, propping his body against my leg, and started talking to him. He took a deep breath and started kicking, urinating all over the floor. Then he started screaming. The whole event last two minutes, maybe. May it never be repeated.
After a quick assessment to see if he knew where he was and what was happening I checked him over more carefully. Then we cancelled the ambulance, but didn't go to the hospital (although I wanted too). I didn't sleep well that night as I was checking on him every 20 minutes to make sure he was alright. He has a doctors appointment monday, just in case he has some condition that will make him prone to seizures.
It was definitely the most horrifying experience of my life.
What I want to say, to everyone, is that if you haven't had First Aid training of some kind, get it! If he hadn't started to breath, then what would have happened? What if I hadn't ever been taught anything at all, as I know is the case for most people? Would he then have died on my kitchen floor?!
Get some training, just in case you find yourself standing over a loved one -- or a friend or stranger.
FYI: Canada loves the universal health care, but it sure ain't free. No free ambulance, and a 12 hour wait in the ER for those that don't come by way of stretcher.
Viscid wrote:I work in a Canadian ER and in Ontario the ambulances are $45 (unless it was unnecessary), there isn't a 12 hour wait unless you're waiting to be admitted into a bed (maybe 2-4 to see a doctor depending on how busy it is) and it is pretty stupid of you to wait until Monday. If he hit his head, your kid could have a concussion! He needs a CT!
lojong1 wrote:Sometimes the little blighters can be shocked and embarrassed, and work themselves up to breathlessness, fearing the worst for themselves.
Hone that spidey-sense.
Suffering is asking from life what it can never give you.
mindfulness, bliss and beyond (page 8) wrote:Do not linger on the past. Do not keep carrying around coffins full of dead moments
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Artist Pledges Coaching and Nas Scholarship Fund to Focus on Real World Training.
The music-based documentary, "Time Is Illmatic," based on Nas' 1994 album has recently settled on agreements at the Cannes Film Festival to release the film internationally throughout Australia, Europe, Japan, and more.
Tribeca Film announces plans for a simultaneous theatrical and Video On Demand release of Filmmakers One9 and Erik Parker's documentary, "Time Is Illmatic," this October, along with performances by Nas in select cities.
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jamsisjams wrote:Very cool. I took a sharpie to 150 Z Flick that I once had and attempted to transcribe two different Chinese characters for dragon. Your dye looks a little cleaner than my attempt.
SkaBob wrote:The REAL question is, do you say ohm when you throw, and does it help?
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