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Seriously, I have not been keeping up with DDR4. Is this going to work with the upcoming gen. processors? Will it fit into a DDR3 slot or do we have to look forward to a CPU revision later this year?
The last i heard of DDR4 was that we should be looking to 2014 for wide availability, as the JEDEC spec has not been finalized yet i would assume 2012 to 2013 would be the kind of time we will start to see more news about desktop usage although i would love to be wrong about that. Also as far as i knew it would once again be a new socket as it has been with past generations. I would guess probably the generation after ivy bridge, that could possibly be out at the end of 2011 or start of 2012 according to rumors floating around.
doesn't standout for me When we are talking about tech products that are still years away then i want to be blown away with how amazing they sound but all this seems to be is a small step up in speed and a energy reduction. GDDR4 failed and graphics cards moved quickly onto GDDR5. Is DDR4 based more on the former or latter?
The designers of DDR4 memory are looking forward to 1.2V and 1.1V voltage settings for the new memory type and are even considering 1.05V option to greatly reduce power consumption of the forthcoming systems Also another thing that seams interesting is this "At a recent MemCon conference in Tokyo, Japan, Bill Gervasi, vice president of engineering at US Modular and a member of the JEDEC board of directors, revealed that the target effective clock-speeds for DDR4 memory would be 2133MHz - 4266MHz" Would that mean 4266mhz at 1.2v as if so i would be very impressed
I would assume so, as far as i know there would be no difference between the move from DDR3 to DDR4 as with the move between between DDR , DDR2 and DDR3, as in a new one each time.
same as between EDO to SDR, and so on with SDR, DDR1/2/3 previously, before IMC's it was just a mobo upgrade away (example: see all the combo boards that ran DDR2/3 on the same mobo, common on G41 boards atm) but now with IMC's it means a new CPU and board at minimum.
I was asking because for example the hd3800 could run both gddr3 and 4 on the same controller(and the hd4800 could run 3,4 and 5 for that matter). I know video cards and CPUs are quite different in operation and this is a bad example but that aside both ddr3 and ddr4 are dual pumped and should therefore work in similar way, no?
Is no one else just a little disappointed with the talked about specs? I was really hoping for something much better, frequencies in the 5000MHz region so we can put the RAM back in sync with CPU frequency again, maybe even something like triple or quad data rate, maybe even a massive switch to XDR RAM. Just something to get excited about. We are talk about 2014, at that time nVidia is talking about graphics cards with 20x the performance of today's, Intel might have their first tera-scale 48-core CPU out, AMD might be in profit! But in the RAM world we can look forward to improved efficiency!
look at socket AM3 CPU's. they have a DDR3 and DDR2 controller. that doesnt mean they have a controller for DDR4 built into them in advance. when AMD release new CPU's they could build in a DDR4 controller and DDR3/2 support if they want - but it works backwards, not forwards. ram and CPU have never been in sync, except maybe back in/prior to the 486 days. The rest of your comments seems to be rambling, so i'll ignore them.
LOL, I was thinking in the days of syncing the FSB to RAM speed. OK so maybe i didn't express myself too elegantly but is DDR4 really the step up you hoped for? DDR3 has been out for years and DDR4 is not due for years, just think about how many other leaps in tech there have been in every other department except system memory.
its lower power (thus heat and wattage), higher JEDEC standard clock speeds... so yes. its the perfect step forward, and completely in line with previous memory updates. (faster, cooler running)
I have heard the ddr4 memory will be available only in 2012 and what is more, PS4 and XBOX 3D(a.k.a 720) will take place in 2012 too Also there wont be 2013
But if every component upgrade was like that then we would still be on single core CPU and low power cooler GPUs. We need big step ups in generation like in the CPU arena with dual core, quad, hex..., especially when generation are so many years apart! Let me put it another way, if you analyse DDR3 performance when it first came out in 2007 and also look around at CPU performance and GPU performance. Then in 2014 when DDR4 comes out compare the two performances' together along with what CPUs and GPUs are out in 2014. Which do you think will stand out massively and hardly moved on at all? I know its so much easier to complain than to do something about it but i believe the main problem for such poor performance increases is that system memory is so closed to innervations as it all has to conform to JEDEC specs so closely to work. There is no completion, no alternative to DDRx.
no we wouldnt. every generation upgrade gets us more speed for the same (or lower) wattage. the dual core analogy is a perfect contradiction: dual/tri/quad channel memory is more than possible with DDR4 (and 3/2/1) if the memory controller supports it.
No its not, dual/tri/quad channel memory is like talking about SLi and Crossfire or dual CPU motherboards, of course you can increase performance by adding more 'devices' to do the job. The ever increasing number of cores in CPUs eg the jump from single core to dual core was like the jump from SDR to DDR, my point is we haven't seen a jump like that in a long long time. I can't believe you are defending the rate of increase in memory performance. CPU and GPU performances would have increase several time, maybe even an order of magnitude in the time from DDR3 to DDR4. I would expect DDR4 to bring 5-10% increase at most.
they say they've doubled the speed, i beleive them. how did you make up the 5-10% gain? oh nevermind you DID make it up. if you've actually checked with modern hardware, boosting memory speed gives us minimal gains. the boosts need to be made on the memory controller end. giving us faster MHz, tighter timings and lower operating voltages is all we need memory to do, and improve on.
ok fine, we will wait and see but lets not forget it took almost a year for DDR3 to even beat DDR2 as the frequencies were about the same and latencies were very poor. I just think it would be better for everyone if there was some competition as to what RAM was used. It wouldn't be easy but if say ASUS somehow released a motherboard with, for example, XDR2/3 memory that was able to run Sandy Bridge as normal and it had a good performance lead in memory intensive benchmarks then i think there would be a much greater rate of development on the old DDRx front. PS looking at your computer specs it doesn't seem 'saving power' is high on your list of priorities!
yes as my HTPC is lower you power hungry jerk. back on topic i didn't see this on the AMD roadmap wonder what the chips will come with DDR4/3 i assume they kill DDR2 as its kinda dead. any info on capacities? 4gb mainstream would be nice.


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Time to stop the Christian exodus from the Middle East, says Vatican
THE PLIGHT OF Christians in the Middle East is threatened by an "extremist current" of "political Islam" and is being ignored by the world, the Pope has said ahead of a new Vatican report.
In a working paper released during Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cyprus, to prepare for a crisis summit of Middle East bishops in Rome in October, the Church cited Islamic fundamentalism as a major threat to Christians in the cradle of Christianity.
The Synod, the working paper said, would aim to "help to focus the attention of the international community on the plight of those Christians in the Middle East who suffer for their beliefs. Often times, relations between Christians and Muslims are difficult, principally because Muslims [make] no distinction between religion and politics, thereby relegating Christians to the precarious position of being considered noncitizens... The key to harmonious living between Christians and Muslims is to recognise religious freedom and human rights."
The document said the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, the war in Iraq and political instability in Lebanon, where Christians are now barely a quarter of the population, have forced thousands to flee the region.
In his final Mass in Cyprus on Sunday Benedict XVI said he was praying that the meeting would focus the attention of the international community "on the plight of those Christians in the Middle East who suffer for their beliefs".
The Vatican estimates there are about 17 million Christians in the region, and although new Catholic immigrants from the Philippines and South Asia have settled in the Gulf, the native Christian populations has declined.
In Lebanon, which was over 70 per cent Christian at the time of its creation by the French in 1926, Christians account for between 25 and 40 per cent of the population, and have declined because of higher emigration levels and
Pope Benedict walks in the UN-controlled area dividing the capital of Cyprus before celebrating Mass in the Church of the Holy Cross AP Photo lower birth rates. Egypt's large Coptic population suffers official discrimination from the government and terrorist attacks from Islamic extremists. Palestinian Christians have declined to barely two per cent of the population, down from 15 per cent at the time of Israel's creation. But the most immediately threatened population are Iraq's Christians, half of whom have fled since the 2003 invasion, driven out by sectarian attacks, the most recent of which was a bus bombing in Mosul.
The Pope symbolically delivered the document at the end of a Mass during his visit to Cyprus last weekend. The working paper, known in Latin as an Instrumentum Laboris, will be the basis for two weeks of discussions.
The 46-page document said clerics in the region blamed the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories for inhibiting freedom of movement, the economy and religious life, alleging that access to holy places is dependent on military permission that is sometimes denied on security grounds. "For decades, the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict, disregard for international law, the selfishness of great powers and the lack of respect for human rights have disrupted the stability of the region and subjected entire populations to a level of violence which tempts them to despair,"
the document said. The Vatican backs a Palestinian homeland alongside Israel but its relations with the Jewish state have been strained. It said: "The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories is creating difficulties in everyday life," including restrictions on access to holy places. Because of security restrictions it can take Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim, hours to travel distances that should take minutes. In particular the Church is worried that the conditions suffered by Palestinians were fuelling radicalisation across the region, and encouraging further emigration to the West.
The document said: "Today, emigration is particularly prevalent because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the resulting instability throughout the region."
It said the situation for Christians in the Middle East had been exacerbated by the menacing social situation in Iraq "where the war has unleashed evil forces".
It also complained that some Christian fundamentalists use biblical texts to justify Israel's occupation, "making the position of Christian Arabs an even more sensitive issue". Some extreme evangelical Protestants believe that the Jews must all return to Israel for the Rapture to begin.
A further exodus of Christians from the Holy Land would be a great loss to the Church in the "very place where [Christianity] was born", it said. "International politics often pays no attention to the existence of Christians and the fact that they are victims, at times the first to suffer, goes unnoticed."
The document lamented that with the exception of Turkey, in countries with a Muslim majority Islam is generally the religion of the state and the principal source of legislation, inspired by sharia, or Islamic law.
"In some countries, the state is Islamic and sharia is applied in not only private life but also society, even for non-Muslims, with the consequent deprivation of human rights. Islamic states generally do not recognise religious freedom and freedom of conscience," the statement said. It said that Middle Eastern countries often identity Christianity with the West, and that with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism "attacks against Christians are increasing almost everywhere".
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POPE BENEDICT XVI has upbraided Cardinal Christoph Schönborn for the second time in six months, Italian media have claimed.
The Pontiff has written to the Archbishop of Vienna over comments to journalists in which he accused a Vatican cardinal of impeding a sex abuse investigation, according to Il Foglio newspaper.
Cardinal Schönborn had said that Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the dean of the College of Cardinals, had blocked an investigation into allegations against his predecessor, Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër, who stepped down in 1995.
He also said Cardinal Sodano had offended abuse victims by referring to media attacks on the Pope's conduct as "petty gossip".
The Pope told Cardinal Schönborn he was "stunned" by his remarks, Il Foglio said.
In January the Pope summoned Cardinal Schönborn to explain why he offered public support to the alleged Marian apparitions in Medjugorje in spite of the insistence of local Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar that the claims of the six seers were false. Hours later the cardinal faxed a letter to Bishop Peric to express his "regret" that the bishop felt he had done "a disservice to peace".
The suggestion of a new rift between the Vatican and Cardinal Schönborn comes weeks after he caused a stir by saying priestly celibacy must be reviewed as part of reforms to protect children from abusive clerics.
Cardinal Schönborn has also recently angered the Vatican by saying that the Church needed to reconsider its position toward remarried divorced Catholics, who are not allowed to take Communion, and toward gay people in stable relationships.
Last week Profil, an Austrian magazine, revealed that the cardinal would attend neither a meeting this week of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, of which he is a member, nor the closing events of the Year for Priests.
Pope's life inspires Rome stage musical
Italian tenor thanks mother for gift of life
JOHN PAUL II: the Musical – it's an unlikely concept, but it's taking to the stage in Rome next week.
The musical is entitled Be Not Afraid, "one of the emblematic phrases of his papacy", according to its writer Fr Giuseppe Spedicato. "This is a man who changed the history of the Church, and of the world," he said.
The musical's song and dance routines cover key aspects of the late pope's life, including his youth under the Nazi occupation of his native Poland, his love of football and the day in 1981 when he was shot in the stomach by a Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, as he was driven in his popemobile through St Peter's Square. "We've been told there will be cardinals and monsignors in the audience and we're hoping that Pope Benedict XVI will come and see it too. We're a bit nervous about how they might react," said director Gianluca Ferrato.
ANDREA BOCELLI, the blind opera singer, has praised his mother for rejecting the advice of doctors to abort him on the grounds he would be disabled.
The Italian tenor, who has sold 70 million records worldwide, paid tribute to his mother, Edi, for persevering in her pregnancy.
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Following Team USA's 1 – 1 "win" over England in the Football World Cup this summer, the whole of Europe now lines up to challenge another Team USA this weekend – at the Ryder Cup. Armed with CoPilot Live v8 (with traffic, naturally) two of ALK's more fanatical golf-loving employees are lending the European team their support and heading down the M4 to the Celtic Manor to take-in the matches and the intense atmosphere.
Being a native of the City of Newport, (which the BBC never fails to ignore when mentioning the venue) I've equipped my colleagues with a couple of additional POIs that they may want to check out in between the antics of Rory, Tiger etc on the course.
The Roman Settlement of Caerleon
Sitting on the river Usk and just 10 minutes down the hill from the Celtic Manor Resort is the village of Caerleon. This was the location of one of three Roman fortresses in Britain and the furthest the Romans were able to establish a foothold in Wales while battling with the locals.
Their present to the region? An amphitheatre – its a few years old now but you can still wander around the main staging area and take your place on one of the remaining stone seats and let your imagination do the rest.
Caerleon is also rumoured to be the location of King Arthur's Camelot – although equally, it's rumoured it's not.
Looking a little like a sideways Eiffel Tower, Newport's most striking landmark is the Transporter Bridge, one of only four of its kind in the world.
Based on a design by French designer Ferdinand Arnodin and completed in 1906, its purpose was to provide a downstream river crossing that at the same time, allowed shipping access to the local docks.
The primary method of crossing for cars and pedistrians is on a gondolier, suspended from an overhead gantry. However, on special occasions you can also choose to cross by foot on the supporting structure – but this is only recommended if you have a serious head for heights!
Set in 90 acres of woodland, Tredegar House is a fully restored 17th Century mansion and ancestral home of the Morgan family.
As it will also be close by to one of the main car parking areas for the Ryder Cup it may be hard to avoid but it's still worth a visit within its own right. The Morgan family history spans over 500 years with some notable eccentrics including a pirate who has subsequently been immortalised in a famous brand of rum.
With these attractions and easy access to the coast and surrounding countryside, there are plenty of other distractions nearby, including the obligatory consoling or celebratory drink at the 19th hole!
The contest will also be keenly followed by many at ALK's Worldwide HQ in Princeton New Jersey, not least by our Chairman and Founder Dr Alain Kornhauser. As with the football in the summer, a draw in the golf would once again rank as win for team USA, as the Ryder Cup is retained by the previous winner in the event of a tied-score come the end of the day on Sunday.


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Posted Feb 12, 2013 11:39 UTC (Tue) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]
Posted Feb 12, 2013 23:09 UTC (Tue) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736) [Link]
I use OpenNX on Linux and Mac, and it has the best performance I have ever seen for remote application usage. What used to take 3 minutes over coffee shop wi-fi goes down to like 5 seconds with NX.
A great pity that it has gone proprietary for the latest version.
Posted Feb 13, 2013 1:26 UTC (Wed) by dtlin (✭ supporter ✭, #36537) [Link]
NX does not depend on any sort of hacked X server, unless it is doing so under the covers, a la Xnest, which it may be doing.
It absolutely is. nxagent is a fork of Xnest, although I'm not quite sure what version.
Posted Feb 21, 2013 11:06 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
NX started as proprietary... yet http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8477?page=0,1 "In these various messages, Gian hinted at the commercial NoMachine NX Server product. The features he outlined sounded exciting enough, but it was another message I took from his postings that thrilled me the most. It was how he outlined that NoMachine had released its main intellectual property, the core NoMachine NX libraries, under the *GPL license*. He wrote, "It is there and everybody can use it." ---------------------
So the mechanism (protocol addition) is free... still is... but blindness has a price... why maintain a free version when there is no "support"... i would do the same, improvements only on the proprietary "version"...
And the funny thing is that NX seems to address many of the issues that were discuss about wayland... most could be used not only on the context of remote display, but local also...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8477?page=0,2 NX combines three essential ingredients:
* an efficient compression of what normally would be X traffic
* an intelligent mechanism to store and re-use (cache) data that is transfered between server and client
* a drastic reduction in multiple, time-consuming X roundtrips, bringing their total number *close to zero*. ----------------------- (there goes the walala hype down the drain)
So it seems clear to me its not a copy or derivative of Xnest.. at all..
And i couldn't think of a better addition to the all X protocol than this... but sometimes wonder if Xorg has any say, or only does what its told to do, and that is why it has been "striped" and now positioned to be "finished"... hope the distros could take a serious look at this situation and take over, hire a "Ninja" or two, fresh ideas, specially the desktop oriented ones... their future is in jeopardy.
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Osho,Why do I feel that if life is meaningless and empty? It seems that I am deathly afraid of being alone. How can I go totally into my aloneness with joy instead of fear?
The word meaning is irrelevant to life.
Life is neither meaningful nor meaningless. But for centuries man's mind has been conditioned to believe that life has great meaning. All that meaning was arbitrary. Hence only in this century, for the first time in the whole history of man, has the question, "What is the meaning of life?" become one of the most important, because all old lies are exposed.
Life was meaningful with a God. Life was meaningful with a life beyond death. Life was meaningful because the churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, were continuously hammering the idea in man's mind.
A certain maturity has come to man, not to all, but to a very small minority.
I would like you to remember five significant names. First is Soren Kierkegaard. He was the first man who raised this question and was condemned universally, because even to raise the question created suspicion in people. Nobody had dared, ever, to ask, What is the meaning of life?
Even the atheists who had denied God, who had denied the afterlife, who had denied the existence of the soul – even they had never asked what the meaning of life is. They said, Eat, drink and be merry – that is the meaning of life." It was clear to them that these joys – "eat, drink, be merry" – were what life is all about.
But Soren Kierkegaard went very deeply into the question. He created, unknowingly, a movement: existentialism. Then followed the four other names: Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel, and the last but not the least important – in fact the most important– Jean-Paul Sartre. These five people went on hammering on the whole intelligentsia of the world: that life is meaningless.
Now, anybody who has some kind of intelligence is bound to come across this question, and he has to find some way to encounter it.
I do not agree with these five great philosophers, but I give them the respect that they deserve. They were courageous, because once you take meaning out of life, religion disappears, because religion up to now has been nothing but an effort to give meaning to your life: to fill it so that you don't feel empty; to surround you with God and angels so that you don't feel lonely…. You have not been going to the church, the synagogue, and the temple without any reason.
For thousands of years man has not been bowing down to the priests without any reason. He was gaining something. Of course they were exploiting him, but even in their exploitation man was finding a certain consolation. He was not alone, he was being looked after. Life was not futile, it had tremendous meaning, spiritual, esoteric, profound…so high and so deep that your intellect could not comprehend it.


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1. The Sanford Arts & Vine Festival kicks off Friday with a concert by folk singer Shannon Whitworth at 7 p.m. at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center. The Arts & Vine Festival replaces the Sanford Pottery Festival and will be Saturday and Sunday. In addition to pottery for sale, there will be a wine tent featuring more than a dozen wineries as well as works by painters, sculptors and other artists.
Tickets to Friday's concert, which features several opening acts, are $20. The festival is open Saturday and Sunday at the Civic Center, 1801 Nash St., Sanford, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A one-day festival ticket is $5. A one-day ticket to the wine tent is $10. Go to sanfordartsandvine.com for more information.
2. Attend a Happiness Yoga seminar Saturday with the theme of Anxiety and Happiness. In addition to yoga exercises with chairs, Dr. Ghanshyam Dwivedi will discuss the causes and impact of anxieties on health.
The free session is 9 to 11 a.m. at the Kiwanis Recreation Center, 352 Devers St. No yoga mats required. Reservations required by calling 433-1568. Space is available for up to 75 people.
3. The Quaker House will host Explore Mindfulness classes, which some say provides relief for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. The group is for beginners and those interested in the practice. Sessions will be Thursday, May 9 and 16 and three dates in June from 6 to 7 p.m. The Quaker House is at 223 Hillside Ave. For more information, call 323-3912 or go to quakerhouse.org.
4. The Rogue Rollergirls. Fayetteville's roller derby team, will take on the Kill Devil Derby Brigade Saturday at 4:30 p.m. The bout will be at Round-A-Bout skate center at Eutaw Village, 880 Elm St. Tickets are $10 for ages 16 and older; $6 for 8 to 15 and free for 7 and under. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Army's Army. Go to roguerollergirls.com for more information.
5. The Cumberland Oratorio Singers and the Fayetteville Symphonic Band present Hansen's "Song of Democracy" Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Methodist University's Reeves Auditorium. Tickets are $17.
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By Andrew Barksdale Staff writer
Gov.-elect Pat McCrory can expect a cooperative Republican-led General Assembly next year when he rolls out his agenda.
On Tuesday, McCrory defeated Democratic Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton to become the first Republican to win the office since 1988. He will succeed outgoing Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue in January.
And he'll do so with the GOP in control of both the House and Senate. No Republican governor has had such a clear legislative path in North Carolina for more than 140 years.
Many conservatives and moderates are embracing the former Charlotte mayor's talk of solving problems and fixing the economy, and they say the 56-year-old retired Duke Energy vice president can bring fresh ideas to a state government that has been controlled by Democrats for decades and, more recently, rocked by scandals.
GOP House Speaker Thom Tillis told The Associated Press he expects to have a "very collaborative relationship" with the governor-elect, and Amy Auth, spokeswoman for Senate leader Phil Berger, said he shares McCrory's "commitment to reducing the tax and regulatory burden, achieving better results in education and exploring our domestic energy resources."
"We are eager to begin working with him," Auth said.
Republicans expanded their majorities in the state Senate and state House with victories last week that were aided in part by 2011 redistricting that favored the GOP.
That has some left-leaning political organizations, such as N.C. Policy Watch, expressing worry about a too-cozy relationship between the new governor and a Republican-led legislature they believe has staked out extreme positions.
That potential for collaboration between the governor and the legislature has conservatives excited. John Hood, president of the conservative-leaning John Locke Foundation, said the incoming governor and returning legislature seem to agree on policy priorities that will be good for the economy, even if the details have not been worked out.
"I think the most important lever the new GOP leaders can pull to produce a stronger economic recovery would be to lighten the regulatory burden on growth companies," Hood said Friday. "The next-biggest item would be to reform the tax code to reduce North Carolina's punitive tax treatment of savings and investment, which chases entrepreneurs and investors away."
State Sen. Wesley Meredith, a Republican from Fayetteville who won a second term, said the GOP-led Senate and McCrory will share an agenda on key issues such as job creation and tax reform.
"I think all of us have the same thought process," he said. "We've got to reform our tax system. I think that's the first thing we should tackle, but it will take years to phase in the changes."
McCrory has announced his senior advisers and begun planning his transition to power at the start of the new year. He has not, however, divulged any details of his policy agenda. He said the state's tax incentives for economic development, environmental rules and the N.C. Department of Transportation, which spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year building new highways, will all be in his cross hairs for changes.
"I like to help set the vision, with input from a lot of people," McCrory said at a news conference last week. "Then put together teams to make it happen, and let the teams do their work. That's how I plan to govern."
He said his administration would reach out to Democrats and people from across the state.
McCrory won the popular vote in 77 out of the state's 100 counties. He won in western North Carolina, the Piedmont and coastal areas. He also won the state's two largest counties, Mecklenburg and Wake, which have seen booming economies and growing populations over the past two decades.
A majority of voters in Cumberland County, however, voted for Dalton.
Ferrel Guillory, a journalism professor who directs the Program on Public Life at UNC-Chapel Hill, said McCrory won in large part as the result of voter fatigue with the Democratic Party.
"The campaign phrase of 'It's time for a change' is a strong argument that was made stronger for McCrory by high unemployment and a slow economic recovery in our state," Guillory said.
David Rohde, a political science professor at Duke University, said the Democratic Party's current crop of leaders is politically weak.
"On the other hand, the state's demographics are moving slowly their way," he said, referring to numbers of Latino populations and younger voters.
North Carolina, which narrowly favored President Obama in 2008 and gave Mitt Romney a slim victory this year, has moved from a safe GOP stronghold in national elections to a swing state.
Rep. Rick Glazier, a Democrat from Fayetteville who won a sixth term, pointed to several Democratic Party wins in statewide Council of State races to show that the party still is relevant in North Carolina.
But he acknowledged that the way Democrats communicate their message has to be reassessed in the wake of their historic losses.
"That's got to be a discussion in our caucus and at the party level across the state," he said.
David Parker, chairman of the N.C. Democratic Party, said there was no reason for Democrats to panic. He said the state appeals courts could force a redrawing of legislative districts for 2014, and he called McCrory's election an aberration following his narrow loss to Perdue four years ago.
"Our policies are sound," Parker said.
Glazier and another senior Democratic lawmaker, Marvin Lucas of Spring Lake, said that they hope to see a bipartisan spirit out of the state's next top elected executive.
"Let's just wait and see how they do," Lucas said of the governor-elect and Republican leadership in the General Assembly. "I don't think we need to worry until we see how they lead."
Glazier was upbeat, too.
"I have some confidence that the governor-elect is not going to engage in all of the extreme positions and social agenda, but will concentrate on mainstream, centrist views of moving the economy of North Carolina forward," Glazier said.
As mayor, McCrory led a politically divided Charlotte City Council in the state's largest city. He fought for a sales tax increase to expand light rail, and he spearheaded the effort to bring the NASCAR Hall of Fame to the Queen City.
"As mayor, Pat McCrory had a talent for assembling coalitions across partisan lines to advance his priorities," Hood said. "He was rewarded with re-election margins that often exceeded 60 percent."
In his run for governor, especially in a Republican primary with a crowded field, McCrory took a conservative tack, espousing tax and spending cuts.
"Which Pat will come to Raleigh?" asked Dan Crawford, director of the N.C. League of Conservation Voters. "We hope the former mayor of Charlotte comes to Raleigh with a reasoned approach to environmental protections."
The league opposed GOP-penned legislation this year to allow the controversial practice of natural gas drilling called fracking to begin in two years while new regulations are developed.
McCrory has pledged to expand energy exploration.
"I think (McCrory's agenda is) likely to take the state backwards," said Rob Schofield, N.C. Policy Watch's director of research and policy development.
He worries that under the GOP, the state next year will attempt to privatize the education system and adopt a new tax code that hurts the lower-income and generates less revenue for services.
"They are portraying government as the enemy and problem," Schofield said. "But we need robust, healthy public structures in order to bind our society together and make our economy work."
North Carolina Women United, a coalition of progressive groups in the state, said in a statement the Republican Party that took over the state legislature in 2011 made startling efforts to dismantle programs for women and low-income families.
"Looking forward, we are also concerned about potential cuts to public education, attempts to minimize implementation of key health reform provisions in the state, and an overall lack of commitment to tackling the inequities women struggle with daily," the statement said.
Glazier, meanwhile, who has to work with the new governor and GOP legislative colleagues and could be elected House minority leader, sounded a much more conciliatory note.
"It's our job to work together, and I'm very optimistic that we will be able to do that," he said.
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The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) and the Georgia Parent Teacher Association (GA PTA) are recognizing six parents from across the state with the 2013 Georgia Parent Leadership Award.
The award was created by GaDOE and GA PTA to recognize parents for their outstanding leadership in creating a foundation of support for student achievement and success. Research shows parents make a difference in student achievement - no matter the age of their child.
"We know that parent engagement helps create a better learning environment for our students," said State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge. "I commend these parents for their leadership and involvement in the education and overall well-being of all the students in their child's school and school district."
The parents will receive the honor during a ceremony tomorrow at the GaDOE.
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· Electria Barnes, Sanders Elementary School, Cobb County Schools
· Debra Mainor, Hillcrest Elementary School, Dublin City Schools
· Kellie Martin, Elcan-King Elementary School, Decatur County Schools
· Capucine Pansy, Eastside Elementary School, Douglas County Schools
· States Wing, Sharon Elementary School, Forsyth County Schools
Parent leaders are nominated each November during Georgia's Parent Engagement Month by public school personnel. Any caregiver who assumes the responsibility for nurturing and caring for a student's entire well-being consisting of educational, emotional, spiritual, and physical health is eligible for the honor.
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HOUSTON (KPRC) - It's no secret the debate swirling about an assault weapons ban is turning into a business boom for gun dealers.
The same is true for the sale of machine guns and military-style weapons. They're huge and powerful and they can be bought legally in Houston.
"If you can buy a handgun, you can buy a machine gun," said Cris Parsons, general manager of Houston Armory.
The small gun store in Stafford, Texas is packed full of machine guns, short-barrel rifles, even 50-caliber weapons. Customers are paying big bucks for it all.
"The guy spending $800 at Academy is not the guy who comes in here," said Parsons. "The average gun in my shop runs $3,000 and up."
Parsons has plenty of weapons that cost much more.
"It's not the need for the gun, it's the desire for the gun," said Parsons. "People want things that other people don't have and can't have. The exclusivity behind NFA weapons are what drives people."
NFA is the National Firearms Act.
It's the federal rule that makes buying these kinds of weapons legal. For every sale, there is loads of detailed paperwork, federal background checks and a $200 tax that goes to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Then, there's a six- to eight-month waiting period to take the weapon home. The ATF also tracks nearly every move the weapon makes from there.
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Dollars and counting.
That's so much money a parent volunteer allegedly stole from the PTA in -- -- I'm one of the most disturbing things about this case is that the money was taken by a trusted individual.
Someone who we counted on.
Cameras were allowed inside -- rivers parents gathered in this neighboring church.
To hear details of the alleged that that was discovered and reported to police about a month ago yeah.
See people win the government got money from the -- singing now more people particularly many -- school.
And that's really bad.
According to the police report the parent volunteer allegedly picked up more than.
Dollars in checks from your peachtree road United Methodist Church we'll put them in her own bank account instead of the PTA bank account.
Now the PTA says that's just the tip of the iceberg.
She had access to the money before it was deposited into the account.
So we.
Did not know that that money had command and was taken.
The bta said his parents personal Jackson checks from other nonprofits were also taken.
All according to the police report were deposited not in the school bank account.
They -- -- an account accurate signature back with a suspect allegedly work cities even up part owner.
We've already recovered greater than 55000 dollars.
And we hope to recover even more.
For -- said he rivers the alleged theft of tens of thousands of dollars by a trusted volunteer.
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Groups stage rival protests in Downers Grove for and against gay marriage
DOWNERS GROVE – Activist groups on opposing sides of the gay marriage debate demonstrated their views on Saturday outside of state Rep. Ron Sandack's office in Downers Grove.
Sandack, a Republican, has voiced support for the same-sex marriage bill awaiting a vote in the Illinois House of Representatives. That stance has drawn the ire of the Illinois Family Institute, a conservative group that opposes the bill.
"We invited Rep. Sandack to come on out to talk to the group and to talk about his views on marriage," IFI Executive Director David Smith said. "We're trying to encourage him to uphold what marriage has been throughout history. And encourage him not to cave into the rhetoric of the left, which is trying to redefine marriage."
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Local groups offering new caregiver support group
The First United Methodist Church of Newton, Willowbrook Adult Day Services and Park Centre are offering a new free caregiver support group for those of all denominations and faiths.
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The group will meet at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, at the First United Methodist Church, located at 210 N. Second Ave. E. in Newton. Enter through the lobby at the front of the church and take the elevator downstairs to the dining room. Meetings will take place the second Monday of each month at 1 p.m. For more information, call Margot Voshell at (641) 791-4500.
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State and Tribal Habitat Please see links at left for workshop information. Under the auspices of the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration and its Habitat-Species Work Group, the Great Lakes Commission conducted nine one-day workshops across the Great Lakes region, one in each of the eight Great Lakes states and one dedicated to the tribal communities within the U.S. drainage basin to the lakes. These workshops were conducted between December 2008 and March 2009 to facilitate dialogue between federal and state agencies, cities and municipalities, tribes and non-governmental organizations on collaborative approaches toward ecological conservation, protection, restoration and remediation. Funding to conduct these workshops was provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The workshops had a particular focus on: 1) promoting development of a region-wide web-based habitat/species project repository and linked database on available funding / technical assistance sources; 2) identification of systemic challenges that impede restoration progress; and 3) identification of innovative partnerships and approaches for meeting local, state, tribal and regional ecological restoration goals. The meeting agenda, summary notes, attendance list, presentations and project summaries for each of the nine workshops are temporarily available through this web page. The permanent home for this information is being transferred to: www.glrc.us. |


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As I have mentioned before, there is somewhat of a debate when it comes to the safety of using the fumigant methyl iodide to sterilize soil in which strawberries are grown for human consumption. California produces the vast majority of American strawberries. And, Californian farmers depend on the highly effective fumigant to meet the ever-increasing demand for affordable strawberries in supermarkets and grocery stores across the country.
However, there is great concern that using the chemical during the production of strawberries will contaminate the final product and will make the berries unfit for eating. The government has consistently proclaimed the use of methyl iodide safe. Independent groups have consistently proclaimed the use of methyl iodide unsafe. Each side is summarily represented by the comments left by Robert Dolezal (pro) and Mike Robertson (con) in the comments section of this post.
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The Salvation Army is looking to raise $100,000 this year
MARQUETTE -- When you hear the bells ringing, you know it's that time of the year: the giving season.
For the Salvation Army, they do that all year long, but during the colder months, they're putting in the extra effort. And they're asking you to do the same.
"We're trying to ask everyone to dig a little deeper this year. You know, you make that dollar, maybe you could turn it into a two dollar gift, and so on," said Salvation Army Captain Joel Arthur.
And this year, the Salvation Army in Marquette is setting serious goals for this season.
This Christmas season, the Salvation Army is looking to give back more than they ever have. Their goal is $100,000. Last year, their goal was $85,000, but they came up short by about $2,000.
They're not stopping there. Along with the kettle bells, they're continuing their daily lunch service during their busiest time of the year--a program that fed 24,000 meals last year. And they're partnering up with the Mining Journal, just as they do every year, for the 34th annual "Cheer Club," an effort to give presents to children in need.
"We've had a lot of generosity from the community over the years. Whenever we ask for help, they seem to come out and they open their hearts and their wallets. So we get an awful lot of money and a lot of support," said Mining Journal General Manager and Publisher, Jim Reevs.
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Marquette1009 W. Baraga Avenue Marquette, MI 49855 (906) 226-2241
Ishpeming222 E. Division Street Ishpeming, MI 49849 (906) 486-8121
Hancock408 Ravine St. Hancock, MI 49930 (906) 482-3420
Escanaba3001 5th Ave., S., Escanaba MI 49829 (906) 786-0590
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The development of the Digital Citizenship Community 21 programme and toolbox is going well. We are busily drawing together all of the material and fantastic output from the young people both at the summer school that we ran in August and the subsequent course module as part of the undergraduate programme in the School of Art, Design and Media. more >
The Ambition Lab hackathon was a huge success and brought together over 50 hackers across Swansea, Sunderland and Strathclyde.
The hack kicked off on Friday 29th November at 12.00pm as Keyfund CEO Hannah Underwood presented to the nodes highlighting the issues young people were facing and putting the challenge to the hackers.
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We ran an Open Data workshop in Bristol yesterday. The day was kindly hosted by the Pervasive Media Studio in Watershed with attendees from Environment Agency, Apache Foundation, ODI as well as local charities from England and Wales. Thanks to the people who attended for the stimulating discussions. more >
Big White Wall's members create bricks for the wall – hundreds of images every month which show what's on their mind that day. Some have swirling grey clouds, some sunshine on a beach, some pictures of a favourite pet. Some are expressions of deep pain and fear, others celebrations of a small (or a big) step forward. One recent brick simply listed all the mental health diagnoses the member had been given; they filled the whole image.
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