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Intel's Pentium and Core i3 Desktop Ivy Bridge CPUs Arriveby Jarred Walton on 9/7/2012 3:03 PM EST
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Patflute - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI don't get why the T version, that performances the weakest, is priced higher. You think having it clocked lower would decrease price... Reply
ananduser - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkThe T consumes less, it's greener at 35W. Reply
Ammaross - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkAnand did a bench comparing "T" models to their regular counterparts and found that even though they're running at a lower TDP, they take longer to, say, transcode (on CPU) a video, or zip a bunch of files, and thus end up expending MORE power over the long run, as both chips will go to the same idle C-states when work is done. The advantage to running a "T" CPU is the TDP your chassis/heatsink is rated for. Nothing else. Reply
bill4 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - link" and thus end up expending MORE power over the long run, "
Well, that type of nonsense is typical of "green" products in all walks of life. They're forced on us by laws passed by liberals, but more often than not they're actually destructive to the environment. They're for stupid people who vote Democrat (especially lets say, the demographic of young females, who are particularly gullible and unintelligent) to "feel good", not any actual help to the environment. Reply
andyo - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkHow did you end up writing all that? Reply
pablo906 - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkanyone ever tell you you're an ignorant mysoginist Reply
KorruptioN - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkWe're talking about CPU TDP yet you had to chime in with your hurr-durr ignorant gubmint tripe.... Reply
Azethoth - Sunday, September 09, 2012 - linkIts not even true on the face of it. Data centers use low tdp chips not because of young girls but because of sheer naked economic factors. Chilling chips costs money.
Google and Apple use them because they have actual smart people in charge, not dumb hicks angry at the world frothing cheetos laden curses from their mom's basements. Reply
GotThumbs - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkUnfortunately your use of a slur also displays your level of ignorance.
Have you really put Bill4 in his place by responding in a like manner?
The answer is NO. There will always be ignorant people on BOTH sides. It's important to remember that these individuals are NOT an reflection of all people.
You may not agree with someones opinion...but as an American...You should respect their right to have one.
Best wishes, Reply
madmilk - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkThe same is true for server CPUs, and is why a E5-2690 costs more than the 2687W despite the latter being faster. In servers' case, you're limited by how much electricity is available for you to use at any instant in time. Break that, and the datacenter will get pissed at you. Reply
MadMan007 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkValidating for lower TDP costs money. Reply
SlyNine - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkIt all comes down to yields, You get less chips that can stay stable at a lower voltage.
But I've never heard that the validating process was more expensive. Reply
A5 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkEvery extra round of testing costs money. Also, the users who have to have it are willing to pay a premium for something that is validated for low-TDP applications (think OEM SFF systems). Reply
Hector2 - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkValidation is done for new designs and takes months. You're referring to "testing" which takes seconds each in the factory after wafer sort & after packaging. While testing costs money, that's spread over all cpus tested. What causes the price to vary (as others point out) is the bin split yield --- the % of parts that pass testing at the lower voltage while consuming less power. For example, if only 10% of the cpus pass at the ultra low voltage, you can expect to pay a price premium. Reply
fic2 - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkI would think getting a T version to put into my Mac Mini. I'll have to wait for benchmarks, but it seems like it would be a pretty good jump. AFAIK, the current Mac Mini can only use 35W max cpu. Reply
Pirks - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkWho would buy $100 two core Intel POS when you can get AMD 3.4 GHz quad core Phenom II X4 for less? Only Intel cock suckers and brain dead idiots will buy this Pentium shit. Reply
fr500 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkwhy are you allowed to post? Reply
Pirks - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkyour brain is too small to understand why Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkHere's a G620 vs. A8-3850:
Here's the G620 vs. A6-3560:
Add roughly 20% more performance to the Intel to get the G2120 and you can see why it might be interesting for some users. Plus it would still less power (probably even less than the G620), which means less heat and noise. Would I recommend the G2120? Nope, but the G530 is still an awesome deal.
As for quad-core Phenom X4, sure it would be faster; it would also consume 65% to 130% more power than a G620 (depending on how you're using it), which means probably two to three times the power draw of the G2120.
If you're not running highly multi-threaded workloads (and many users aren't), these CPUs are quite good and you can find reasonably priced motherboards to go with them. Reply
Pirks - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkYeah I meant it's faster because it has more cores and can do more things simultaneously. And if I need dual core CPU I can get some cheapo 3.2GHz Athlon II for $60. Wake me up when Intel lowers its Pentium price to $70 or so, then I'd consider it as a competition for AMD. For now all the people looking for best bang for the buck stay with AMD. Intel is for the lame fanboys and cash rich bench boasting "enthusiasts" IMHO. Reply
SlyNine - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkHow about watts per performance. Why are you so utterly in capable of considering that.
That was his argument, are you so fing dense that you can't see that? You just hear what you want to hear and see what you want to see and stick your fingers in your ears and yell la la la la la apple apple apple. Reply
silverblue - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkPirks is hardly an Apple fanboy, if that's what you were implying. Reply
SlyNine - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkLOL, have you been to daily tech??
If he changed his tune, its a VERY RECENT change. Reply
silverblue - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkI thought that was Tony Swash? Reply
Belard - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkAre you some sort of nutty troll?
Intel does actually sell their CPUs at competitive fair prices.
The AMD FX series is blowing chunks because the price doesn't match the performance.
The new lower-cost i3's are going to give the AMD-A series a run for their money... other than graphics, of course.
That G620 ($60 newegg) competes pretty well against the AMD quad ($100). AMD's main market nowadays is the $150 and less market.
AMD is all over the place with its FM1, FM2 and AM3+ motherboards, none of them support PCIe 3.0. Reply
madmilk - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkThe Celeron G530 is $45 on Amazon, and beats a $60 Athlon II 250 in most benchmarks and power consumption. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI linked it in the article, but right now you can get the G530 at MicroCenter for $30 + $8 shipping. Reply
MonkeyPaw - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkMicrocenter = awesome. I am fortunate enough to have one in my city, so I can do in store pickup. They have successfully taken most of my business away from newegg. Reply
Taft12 - Sunday, September 09, 2012 - linkJarred posting a serious reply to Pirks. I think the apocolypse is upon us. Reply
JKflipflop98 - Sunday, September 09, 2012 - linkLOL bro, AMD sucks on every front. Anything AMD does, Intel does twice as fast. Reply
Patflute - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkIt performs better than the Phenom II X4 and consumes less power...
Go away AMD fan boy, just realize that AMD processors suck...
The stock cooler is fine... I'm getting 35 degrees Celsius idle with a i5-3450... The i3 is cooler so... Reply
Pirks - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkyeah sure, two cores perform better than four, LOL
Intel fanboys are such a funny bunch Reply
yuchai - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkTwo cores do perform better than four if your workload doesn't use more than two cores at once, which is probably the majority of desktop workload. IMO single core performance is still king in a desktop environment. You do still need dualcore, but not really any more than that. Reply
pablo906 - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkYa his AMD cpu goes to 11, and that's louder than 10 because you know it's 11..... Reply
SlyNine - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkDon't reply to trolls. Reply
Hector2 - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkNot all cores are created equal. I forget which review it was, but Anand has published reviews with benchmarks showing various Intel dual cores out-performing AMD quad cores. AMD just doesn't have the process technology that Intel does anymore and they're struggling to catch up. Similarly, do you expect an ARM quad core to out-perform either an AMD or Intel dual core ? I hardly think so. Reply
tammlam - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkPirks...I've seen your posts on another website. I think it's Fudzilla. You're better off staying over there...this is not a forum for you. Reply
silverblue - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkOf course IB is going to use less power - you get four times the number of transistors per mm2. Performance varies on what you're trying to do; in some cases, the 965 BE's extra cores will completely obliterate the new Pentium... but who expected any different? In gaming, the G2120 will win far more than it loses, at least until games really become threaded.
The comparison to the top Llano would be interesting but for most uses, Llano's extra cores go wasted. Desktop Trinity is the thing we need to compare it to. Still, looking at the comparison between the G620 and the 965 BE, using approx. 2.5x the power whilst performing at 1.6x the speed isn't too shabby, given that it's an entire process behind (Llano is on a less mature 32nm process and as such, the gap closes a bit). That's just the one usage case, though, and that's only against the G620.
That i3-3225 is looking like it'll be in a fair few HTPCs. Reply
SlyNine - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkWhether its a node behind isn't the issue. Why should consumer worry or care about that?
Its all about, performance or power usage or price. Or any combination of the three that is important to you. Even if performance is your most important factor, The Intel can still win many tests and not just games.
I use AMDs for many of my builds, but it seems to be less and less. Reply
StevoLincolnite - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI've had a Phenom 2 x4, Athlon 2 x4 that unlocked into a Phenom 2, Phenom 2 x6 1090T, AMD FX 8120 and now have a Core i7 3930K.
One thing all these processors have in common is that they can ALL be undervolted, AMD generally has very high voltages, more than what they need so they don't have to be so aggressive with validation and hence save money.
The end result is you can get some pretty significant energy savings by undervolting to the point where it can close the gap in terms of TDP between Intel and AMD.
When I had a Phenom 2 x6 1090T for instance the stock voltage was 1.35v, I dropped that down to 1.15 volts and kept the same clockspeed which made a massive difference, the FX you can get even more aggressive with the voltages.
But in the end, if you compare Intel and AMD's TDP's directly, then you are doing it wrong, AMD and Intels TDP values are not comparable because they measure them differently, a 100w TDP Intel chip will not use the same amount of power as a 100w TDP AMD chip. Reply
pablo906 - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linksomeone should take away your keyboard Reply
Hector2 - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkUsually, tech posters have some class --- something you definitely lack Reply
Articuno - Friday, September 07, 2012 - link$30 for 0.1 GHz? Reply
madmilk - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkThe Xeon E5-2690 is $300 for 0.1GHz more than the 2680. Processor pricing is exponentially increasing. Reply
Ananke - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI have to agree with the AMD comparison here. I have always had Intel CPUs and only one AMD Athlon, yet even I think the price is too high for these. I don't know what AMD Trinity will bring as performance, but considering the good integrated graphics, AMD low and mid range is still way better choice than Intel as price/performance. Reply
Patflute - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkThe i3s for the desktop side is meant to accompany a dedicated GPU, so it performs so much better than a A8 in processing. Reply
Taft12 - Sunday, September 09, 2012 - linkYou'll find many millions of i3 CPUs in Dell and HP desktops and almost none of them will be accompanied by a dedicated GPU. Why would they put a GPU on the die if you aren't supposed to use it??? Reply
randinspace - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkAnybody heard whether the 3550P will have the same overclocking potential the model it's replacing had? The last thing I heard was that rumors were pointing to "no," but one can dream, right? Reply
randinspace - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkargh. 3550P=3350P.
While I'm double posting anyway, for those that are curious the SB variants were the Core i5 2380P (same clocks as 3350P) and 2450P. Reply
Taft12 - Sunday, September 09, 2012 - linkDon't you need a K-series CPU to overclock at all? Boy do I miss the good old days! Reply
extide - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkIt won't be unlocked (not K series as other comments have mentioned) so you get at best the 'free' +4 multipliers that Intel allows. The benefits are TDP and price, only. Reply
overseer - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkI found it much more hilarious reading the comments than the article. While It happens all the time on AT, this is the funniest occasion in months. Reply
stuhad - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkSo is the NDA lifted? Is there going to be a review or didn't Intel send out any review samples? Anand mentioned he was going to review some of the new lower power of T and S series ivy bridge cpus, is that still happening? Reply
stimudent - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkI'm the only one I know who still has a desktop computer. Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkI have five! LOL. And about twice that many laptops probably. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkAMD, wherefore art thou, AMD? Where are your low priced, low power competition? Hm? If AMD ever wonders why they're getting soundly thrashed all across the x86 marketplace, it's because they aren't showing up for most of the battles that actually matter. Reply
Taft12 - Sunday, September 09, 2012 - linkPay closer attention. Trinity is already on the market in Acer and HP desktops and will be on Newegg any day now. Reply
Bekenn - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkI'm looking to put together an HTPC very soon, and was hoping the i5-3475S (with HD4000 graphics) would finally make an appearance. Any word on availability?
I'm considering the 3225 as an alternative, but I'd be more comfortable with the extra CPU headroom that the 3475S should provide. Reply
jwcalla - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkHonestly you're probably better off getting a low-powered CPU and a $10 GeForce card. At this point NVIDIA is about the only one I trust for reliable video playback. Reply
extide - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkI just picked up a 3225 for my HTPC. It will be an upgrade from a Core 2 Duo E6600 + HD 4870, and should drop my power consumption a decent amount. I also wanted the HD 4000 as well, as I wanted to use the IGP and wanted as much performance as possible from it. Reply
VTArbyP - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkI haven't seen in the article or the comments, any mention of the new low end ivyBridge processors supporting pci-x 3.0 with the X77 chipset (and others?)
I would think that they do, but I wouldn't put it past Intel to turn that off on the low end procs. If they can run PCI-X 3.0 I expect that would enable one to go to 2 or 3 way SLI / Crossfire, because you only need / use PCI-X 3.0 X8 bandwidth per card. That would change the value of these babies relative to their Sandy Bridge predecessors. Reply
C'DaleRider - Sunday, September 09, 2012 - linkYou're correct, PCIe 3.0 is not available on the i3 IVB cpus. It takes going up to the i5 versions to get PCIe 3.0 support. Reply
extide - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkCareful about your nomenclature, PCI-X is an entirely different thing than PCI-Express. You are talking about PCIe not PCI-X. And it's the Z77 chipset, not X77. Reply
Balzy - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linknot gonna lie, i have a 3570k and MAN O MAN i am lovin this processor. but honestly these cpu's are a total letdown, let me tell you why i believe this. intel said that when you put a 22nm codenamed IVY BRIDGE cpu into a z77, you could essentially unlock pcie 3.0 amongst other things that i didn't really buy my board for. the cpu's aren't even part of the new revision meaning still on 2.0. i've been waiting and waiting for these very processors so i can upgrade my wife's pc' i even bought a 7770 2gb so she can play ALL the games she want, cause after researching we figured out that is literally all she needed. look it's not THAT bad, but maybe that's why they've been holding out on them for so long. sittin there in the giant towers... like sauron man. waitin to see whats happening with the 2ng gen i3's. prolly saying somethin along the lines of "OH WAIT they are selling fine, well i guess we gotta make sure that this is the most worthless upgrade ever" not gonna lie i have thought about the igp but the more and more i think about it, if the 3570k's igp wasn't as good as the 3770k's because of a 2mb dif in cache, it just doesn't sound like i have any worthwhile reason to even look at this. Intel still makes the banginest processors in teh whole world, so i'll stick with them.
doesn't mean i gotta like all of their methods Reply
DanNeely - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkUnless you're running 3+ GPUs, PCIe3.0 won't let you run higher image quality settings when gaming (and on an i3 your CPU would probably bottleneck first in a 3/4gpu setup). It's only high end raid controllers, and some scientific computing workloads (the ones that need frequent CPU/GPU coordination) that benefit from PCIe3.0 in single/dual card configurations. Reply


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A CAR repair boss set up a potential £24,000 cannabis farm in an old lift shaft at Vine Mill in Oswaldtwistle.
Nicholas Whittaker, 50, had 44 mature plants growing in zipped-together tents in an underground service area, as well as 54 seedlings and had learned how to do it on the internet.
He was caught after workmen came across the find and was to tell police he had been a burglary victim six months before, had suffered financially and someone suggested it would be a way out of his problems.
Burnley Crown Court was told Whittaker, said to have no relevant convictions, was now facing a proceeds of crime hearing.
The defendant, of Sussex Close, Church, had admitted producing cannabis and had been committed for sentence by magistrates.
He was given 20 months in prison, suspended for two years, with 180 hours unpaid work.
Mark Lamberty, prosecuting, said that the workmen found the cannabis farm on January 7.
The police were notified and when they went there on January 8, it was apparent overnight that somebody had tried to board the farm up.
As well as the plants and seedlings, some cannabis had been hung out to dry. The potential yield of the operation was 2,457 grams of cannabis bush, with a wholesale value just over £10,000.
Mr Lamberty said the farm had a lighting system, two transformers and electric fans.
Police inquires took officers to the defendant, who has a car repair business in Oswaldtwistle.
He was immediately frank and was equally frank when questioned. He said he had grown the plants in the underground service shaft with equipment off the internet and nobody else assisted him.
The defendant told officers he tended the plants himself while working at the units, had rented a garage for 12 months and just used the unit for things he didn't want.
The prosecutor told the court Whittaker said he had been burgled.
He was also entirely frank about a previous crop, said it was of poor quality and he had sold it to a third party for £3,000. The defendant apologised for his actions.

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MIDLAND, Texas - Four veterans were killed after a train slammed into a parade float stuck on a railroad crossing in West Texas, officials said Friday.
Midland city spokesman Ryan Stout said Sgt. Maj. Gary Stouffer, 37, and Sgt. Maj. Lawrence Boivin, 47, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident Thursday afternoon. Army Sgt. Joshua Michael, 34, and Army Sgt. Maj. William Lubbers, 43, were pronounced dead later at Midland Memorial Hospital.
"Obviously, these are dark hours in Midland, Texas, in the state of Texas and in the United States," Mayor Wes Perry said. "The only emotion I can describe it as is the same feeling I had at 9/11."
"The tragedy of yesterday's train incident transcends the community who gathered to honor those who have given so much in service to their country," Gov. Rick Perry said. "Their collective grief is being shared by Americans across this country as we mourn those who were lost. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families, and our hearts remain with the community as they began to heal."
Federal officials joined investigators looking into why the freight train slammed into the float, killing four and injuring 17 others. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, there were 10 incidents at the railroad crossing between 1976 and 1997. None of those incidents resulted in fatalities.
NTSB officials said the black box on the train revealed that it was traveling 62 mph in a 70 mph zone. The scene of the crash is in a "quiet zone," which means there are restrictions on when the train's horn is blow. Officials said they were working to determine if that was a factor in the crash.
Witnesses described a harrowing scene Thursday afternoon as the Union Pacific locomotive bore down on the decorated flatbed truck as it tried to clear the rail crossing on its way to an honorary banquet.
The train was sounding its horn and people on the flatbed truck -- mostly wounded veterans and their spouses -- were scrambling to jump off before the collision around 4:40 p.m. in Midland, according to witnesses and Union Pacific spokesman Tom Lange.
Pam Shoemaker from Monroe, La., said she and her husband, a special operations veteran, were on the float ahead of the one that was struck. Shoemaker described how the celebration so quickly turned sour.
She said her truck had just crossed the tracks and was moving slowly but never stopped. All around, the crowds lining the parade route cheered.
"It was beautiful," she said Friday. "There were lots of people with signs. Children yelling `thank you!' waving flags."
Then they heard the train coming. There was no warning -- she hadn't seen or heard it until it was upon them. The Shoemakers jumped from their truck and ran toward the other one, knowing it would be hit in a matter of seconds. The crossing barriers had just started to come down, she said.
"We started to jump off of our trailer. We saw people jumping from the other trailer and then there was the impact," Shoemaker said.
Sudip Bose, who was a front-line physician in Iraq, said Friday that the immediate aftermath reminded him of a combat triage situation. Veterans were already tending to the wounded when he reached the crash site. Bystanders tried to help with the limited medical supplies available.
"Instincts kicked in. They were applying tourniquets, holding pressure to the wounds," said Bose, who served in Fallujah and Baghdad and was volunteering at the parade.
Sixteen other people were hurt in the crash.
"It was a scene of total chaos," said Bose, of nearby Odessa.
Shoemaker credited the training and courage of the veterans who jumped to help the injured. Her husband, Tommy, resuscitated one person and applied a tourniquet to a bleeding woman.
"They are trained for tragedy," Shoemaker said.
Four people remained hospitalized Friday morning, including at least one in critical condition and four in stable. The other 13 people injured have been treated and released, hospital officials said.
About two dozen veterans and their spouses had been sitting in chairs on the float, set up on the back of a flatbed tractor-trailer decorated with American flags and signs identifying each veteran. Many seemed to panic as the locomotive's horn sounded, said Patricia Howle, who was waiting in her car at a nearby traffic light as the train approached.
"I was on the phone, and I just started screaming," she told The Associated Press late Thursday night. "The truck was on the other side of the train, but I did see the panic on the faces of the people and saw some of them jump off."
The float was among two flatbed tractor-trailers carrying veterans and their spouses. Police said the first truck safely crossed the railroad tracks, but the second truck's trailer was still on the crossing as the train approached.
"The train honked its horn, but the 18-wheeler could not go anywhere because of the other one being right in front of it," said Daniel Quinonez, who was in traffic that had been stopped by sheriff's deputies to allow the parade to pass.
"It was a horrible accident to watch happen right in front of me. I just saw the people on the semi-truck's trailer panic, and many started to jump off the trailer. But it was too late for many of them because the train impacted the trailer so fast," he told the AP.
Several police vehicles remained at the crash scene late Thursday night. Flood lights illuminated the wreck as investigators in reflective vests and hard hats carefully took measurements of the site, which was cordoned off by yellow police tape.
The parade had been scheduled to end at a "Hunt for Heroes" banquet honoring the veterans. The wounded service members were then going to be treated to a deer-hunting trip this weekend. The events were canceled.
The events were organized by Show Of Support, a local veterans group. Its president, Terry Johnson, did not immediately return an email for comment and his phone number was unlisted; the phone rang unanswered at the group's offices.
Stout, also the police department's spokesman, said he had no information about the individuals who died or the driver of the truck.
Lange said Union Pacific is offering help to the community and victims' families, as well as peer-to-peer counseling for the train crew, who did not sustain any injuries.
"There is going to be a very thorough investigation," Lange said. "It's obviously a very tragic incident."
The NTSB said it's investigation could take up to a year.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta "was deeply saddened by news of the tragic accident involving veterans heroes and their spouses in Midland," Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement. "His thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims, with those injured in this incident, and with the entire community."
Midland is about 320 miles west of Dallas.
Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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With that being said, I'm now a big fan of brining. If it would make an improvement, aesthetically, I would even consider brining my own face.
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Kentucky true freshman punter Landon Foster continues to earn national praise for his impressive season. This time, Foster has been named a second-team Freshman All-America by College Football News.
The native of Franklin, Tenn., had a fantastic first season with the Wildcats, ranking 27th nationally in punting and eighth in the conference with a season average of 42.9 yards per punt. Foster is fourth among freshmen nationally in punting. Overall, Foster launched 61 punts this season for 2,617 yards and 13 punts inside the opponent's 20-yard line. The freshman only had three touchbacks on the year, while his longest punt of the season was a 58-yarder against Arkansas. Foster averaged a staggering 50.7 yards per punt in the win over Kent State, while he hit at least one punt over 50 yards in nine of UK's 12 games.
Foster, who became the first UK punter ever to be selected to the SEC All-Freshman Team, was the first UK player to earn first-team Freshman All-America honors from Scout.com and the first kicker to earn such honors by any organization last week.
During the season, Foster was named Honorable Mention Punter of the Week by the College Football Performance Awards four times and was selected to the National Freshman Performer of the Year Watch List by the CFPA.


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POLICE have arrested three women in connection with the alleged murder of Poole nurse Rui Li.
The women, who are all from Bournemouth, have been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
A spokesman from Dorset Police said: "Today three women aged 25, 28 and 65-years-old respectively, all from Bournemouth, were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and are helping officers with their enquiries."
The 44-year-old nurse was found dead in the boot of a silver Fiat Punto in Verwood Crescent, Bournemouth, on Friday evening.
Today an inquest heard the mother-of-one died as the result of blunt force trauma to the head.
Rui Li's husband, 60-year-old Pierre Legris, has been charged with her murder.
His 26-year-old son, Jonathon Legris, has been charged with assisting an offender.


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University Commencement Day
When and where is 2016 University Commencement?
Who will be speaking at the 2016 Columbia University Commencement ceremony?
Is there a video recording available from University Commencement?
What should I do if I'm sick or one of my guests isn't well on the day of University Commencement?
Are children allowed at the University Commencement ceremony?
If I have a disability or limited mobility, need assistance to the seating area, or need sign language interpretation, how should I arrive to campus?
Commencement Week
When do graduating CC and SEAS undergraduate students need to move out of the residence halls?
Where can I get information about the Class Day or graduation ceremony for my school?
When is the Baccalaureate Service and who can attend?
Are there services for people with disabilities during Commencement Week?
Are there tickets for Columbia's University Commencement ceremony, and how many tickets can I get? Can anyone attend?
Degrees and Academic Attire
When are degrees and certificates awarded?
How do I obtain my cap and gown for graduation?
Parking and Accommodations
Are there on-campus accommodations available for families during Commencement week?
Is there parking available near Columbia during Commencement week?
What is the difference between graduation and Commencement?
What are the dates of future Commencement Ceremonies?
When and where is the 2016 University Commencement?
In 2016, University Commencement will be held on Wednesday, May 18, from 10:15 a.m. to noon. The degree candidate procession will begin at 9:30 a.m. General admission gates open at 8:30 a.m. The ceremony is a ticketed event held outdoors on the Morningside Campus. All guests must present a ticket for scanning on the morning of the ceremony at any of the entry gates.
October 2015, February 2016, and May 2016 graduation candidates from every Columbia school are invited to participate in the ceremony.
In addition to University Commencement, each of Columbia's eighteen schools will hold a graduation ceremony (sometimes called Class Day) during Commencement week (May 15 - 19, 2015.) Inquiries about these ceremonies should be made directly to the schools.
For more information about University Commencement, please visit the official Commencement page.
Who will be speaking at Columbia's University Commencement ceremony?
It is the Columbia tradition that the president of the University speaks at University Commencement. There is no guest speaker at University Commencement. However, many of the schools within Columbia have guest speakers at their individual ceremonies. Please contact the schools directly for this information.
A webcast of the University Commencement ceremony is available for viewing online live the day of Commencement as well as after the ceremony via the Commencement website.
In addition to University Commencement, webcasts of the graduation and Class Day ceremonies for the Gradaute School of Arts and Sciences, School of General Studies, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Columbia College, Columbia Law School, and the School of International and Public Affairs are also available for viewing on the website.
The webcasts are available in RealPlayer and Live Multicast. If you need the required software, please follow the links on our webite to download the free players to your computer.
Please note: these webcasts are available to be viewed on demand via the Commencement website. There are no DVDs or downloadable copies available for purchase.
Photos of University Commencement are not available for distribution or purchase. Please direct any inquiries about photos taken at Class Day ceremonies directly to the schools. Appropriate school contact information can be found on the Commencement website under "School Ceremonies and Events."
If you or one of your guests is feeling ill on University Commencement day (i.e., experiencing muscle aches, fever, fatigue, coughing, etc.), we respectfully request that you reconsider your attendance, for the sake of your own health and the health of those around you. To safeguard against the spread of illness, it is recommended that anyone feeling sick remain at home and rest until 24 hours after the symptoms pass. If you or one of your guests becomes ill during the ceremony, please notify an event host, an information booth staffer, or a member of Public Safety, all of whom will be able to find you immediate medical attention. You may also call Health Services at Columbia University at 212-854-2284.
To learn more about precautionary measures recommended for preventing the spread of illness, please visit the University's prevention tips page.
Children are welcome at University Commencement. All children over the age of three must have a ticket to attend.
Because of the tight space constraints, it is recommended that you leave strollers at home. There is no stroller parking or storage available, however, if you must bring a stroller to University Commencement, please do not use the general admissions gate to enter. Please enter at the accessible gate at Amsterdam and 115th Street.
Please keep in mind that the University Commencement is a very crowded outdoor event with no extra space to move around and may prove to be a challenging environment for small children. Weather may vary, so please be prepared for a variety of conditions.
If I have a disability, limited mobility, need assistance to the seating area, or need sign language interpretation, how should I arrive to campus?
There are designated gates for guests with disabilities, limited mobility, the elderly needing assistance, or those needing sign language interpretation.
The following gates should be used for University Commencement Day:
• 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue
• 115th Street and Amsterdam Avenue (between Wallach and Hartley Halls)
It is important that guests with disabilities enter campus through the above designated gates. The general admission gates on 114th Street have stairs and are a considerable distance from the designated disability seating areas. The large crowds at Commencement will make movement on campus difficult. Additionally, there is no access across campus on Commencement Day. Movement from Broadway to Amsterdam Avenue may require traveling long distances around the campus perimeter. Therefore, we suggest you consider the location of these gates when planning your arrival to campus.
Unless they have made arrangements for summer housing, graduating CC and SEAS undergraduates must move out of university housing by noon on the day after (Thursday, May 19, 2016) the University Commencement ceremony.
Columbia University tradition holds that all degrees are conferred at the University Commencement ceremony in which members of all schools are invited to participate. However, each of the eighteen schools in the University also honors their graduates with a separate and unique event.
Please note that these events are organized separately by each school, take place at various times and locations, and may require tickets. Any questions that are not answered on the official Commencement website should be directed to the contact listed for each school. Although the Commencement website is updated regularly, please confirm all dates, times and locations with your school before making final plans, as some information may change.
Undergraduates from Columbia College and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences should visit Gradzone for more information.
For more information on specific ceremonies, class days and receptions, as well as diploma pick-up times and locations, choose your school from the list of school ceremonies.
Columbia University will hold its annual Baccalaureate Service on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. The service will be held at St. Paul's Chapel on the Morningside Campus. This service is for degree candidates from the undergraduate schools: Columbia College, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, General Studies, and Barnard College.
Families and friends of undergraduate candidates are warmly invited to attend. No tickets are required.
Seating inside the chapel is limited and reserved primarily for the candidates. Guests will be accommodated in alternative seating outside the chapel with a simulcast of the service shown on monitors. We encourage all guests interested in attending this service to arrive by 8:45 a.m. on the day of the service.
There is a host of services available at the University Commencement ceremony for guests with disabilities and their parties. General admission tickets are sufficient to access these services. No special tickets are required.
Guests in need of disability services and their parties should come to a specially designated gate (noted on the map on the back of the ticket) to facilitate easy entrance. They will then be escorted to an accessible seating area equipped with hearing assistance devices, closed-caption monitors, and large print programs.
We are not able to offer special parking for guests with disabilities. However, a shuttle bus will be driving the campus perimeter before the ceremony to help transport guests to the designated gate.
Visit the Disability Services website for more detailed information about services during Commencement week.
Tickets to University Commencement are required for everyone except degree candidates and officers of the University in academic attire participating in the ceremony and are valid only for the University Commencement ceremony taking place on Wednesday, May 18, 2016.
Information on the number of tickets per student will be announced in the spring semester. Your graduation from Columbia University is a memorable occasion in your life. While we wish that we could issue an unlimited amount of tickets for your loved ones, we must accommodate some guests. Kindly note that ticket allocations are determined by this year's impressive number of graduates along with the spatial and security contraints of campus.
Note: A ticket will allow admission into campus but does not guarantee a seat. Seats are on a first-come basis and cannot be reserved.
Note: The selling or buying of University Commencement tickets is strictly prohibited. Please be cautious of offers to sell or buy Commencement tickets. Tickets hold no official resale value and may be an unauthorized copy, therefore deemed unusable and denied on University Commencement day. Commencement tickets are solely for the purpose of allowing the friends and relatives of graduating students to attend the ceremony.
The campus will be closed to the general public until the ceremony has ended. Tickets will be checked at designated entrance gates to the Morningside Campus, which open for ticket-holders at 8:30 a.m.
Non-graduating students and employees with CUID may be on campus but should not expect to attend the ceremony without a ticket, as seating is very limited.
All children over the age of three require a ticket. Lost tickets will not be replaced.
For complete information on Commencement and diploma issuance, please visit the Commencement page.
Degrees are awarded for all schools in October, February, and May. They are also awarded in June for some Health Sciences programs. Every candidate, regardless of graduation date, is invited to participate in the annual University Commencement ceremony held in May when degrees are officially conferred.
For May graduates, diplomas are distributed only after degrees have been conferred at University Commencement.
All academic attire, including the cap and gown, is ordered through the Columbia University Bookstore.
Undergraduates and master's candidates do not need to pre-order regalia but can purchase their gowns at the bookstore. Master's candidates at Columbia do not receive hoods.
PhD candidates must pre-order academic attire for rental or purchase.
There are limited on-campus accommodations available for guests during Commencement.
The Commencement room package includes a double room with two twin beds and a shared bath for three nights. The suite package includes two double rooms (total of four twin beds) and a private bath for three nights.
For more information, updates, pricing, and to make reservations, please visit the Housing Services Commencement Housing website.
In addition to on-campus housing, off-campus accommodations for Commencement are also convenient. Some area hotels may offer special rates to Columbia guests. For a list of these hotels, please visit the Conference Housing website. It is recommended that you make your reservations for hotels in the Columbia neighborhood early.
Please note that if neighborhood hotels become booked, the city's numerous midtown hotels are only a short subway ride from the University.
Parking in Morningside Heights on University Commencement morning is challenging. On-campus parking, which is extremely limited, is not available to the general public during Commencement Week. If you must drive, please leave plenty of time for a parking search and also allow time for walking to campus. There are only a few parking garages near campus. These fill up early during Commencement Week and cannot be counted on for convenient parking.
A shuttle bus is available to take guests with disabilities and their families to designated campus gates near the accessible seating area on University Commencement day. These passengers can be dropped off anywhere around the perimeter of Morningside Campus and will be shuttled to the designated gate. There is no designated parking for guests with disabilities.
Finally, city parking rules will be in full effect during Commencement Week; please take note of meters and other parking regulations. Please note that many of the streets surrounding campus are blocked off very early on the morning of University Commencement. If you park in a location near campus the night before University Commencement, please diligently check for any signage indicating that the street will be closed. Failure to notice these signs may result in your car being towed.
Graduation is the term for completing your course of study at the University and fulfilling all the requirements for your degree. In order to graduate and obtain your diploma, you must submit an Application for Degree or Certificate with the Office of the Registrar. Each of Columbia's eighteen schools holds a graduation ceremony (sometimes called a Class Day) to honor the accomplishments of the graduating class.
Commencement refers to the ceremony celebrating those who are receiving their degrees from all Columbia schools in a given year. At the University Commencement ceremony, degrees are symbolically conferred on candidates by the president of the University. Attending University Commencement is not required to graduate from the University and receive your diploma. There is only one University Commencement ceremony for the year, which is held in May. All graduates from the previous October and from February and May of the current year are invited to attend.
For more information about graduation please visit the Office of the Registrar. For more information about the University Commencement or individual school graduation ceremonies please visit the Commencement website.
What is the date of future Commencement Ceremonies?
Information on the schedule and timing of future Commencement Ceremonies through the 2019-2020 Academic Year can be found on the Columbia University Registrar's website by clicking on the Academic Calendar year on the right-hand side.


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GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo senior history majors Danny Bailey and Andreas Meyris won two of the six best-paper prizes at the recent Phi Alpha Theta undergraduate research conference in Buffalo, N.Y.
Bailey's paper was titled "'Stop, Stop, Stop the Board from Making the Buses Go': The Fight for and against School Integration in Rochester." Meyris' paper was titled "The Common Ground of the Ballot Box: Defining Americanism in Post World War I America."
Adam Reinemann received an honorable mention for his paper, "The Righteous Against the Plantocracy: Baptist Missionaries in Jamaica and Beyond, 1831-32."
Bailey was mentored by Emilye Crosby, professor of history; Meyris was mentored by Kathleen Mapes, associate professor of history; and Reinemann's paper was written for Justin Behrend, assistant professor of history.
"I applaud the outstanding work of these talented students and the guidance their faculty mentors gave them in this accomplishment," said Joseph Cope, associate professor of history and acting department chair. "Six of our students presented papers at the conference so two winners and a honorable mention was a particularly strong showing for Geneseo this year."
Mapes and David Tamarin, associate professor of history, served as commentators on panel discussions at the conference.
Phi Alpha Theta is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history. The society is a charter member of the Association of College Honor Societies and has more than 350,000 members and 860 local chapters.
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Former state Supreme Court judge to defend Pa. in ACLU suit over same-sex wedding ban
The Corbett administration is getting some outside help to defend Pennsylvania's marriage law in federal court.
William Lamb, a former state Supreme Court justice, has been picked to join the administration's defense team, at a rate of $400 an hour.
Associates with his West Chester firm, Lamb McErlane, will be hired at a rate of $325 an hour.
The governor's Office of General Counsel doesn't have a cap on funding as far as hiring outside lawyers, according to spokesman Nils Hagen Frederiksen.
"Outside counsel in most cases for us is driven by cases. We can't control ... cases that come through the door. We don't have a fixed amount for outside counsel," he said. "We're doing our best to reduce the amount for outside counsel year in and year out."
Lamb's firm reportedly gave tens of thousands of dollars to Tom Corbett political campaigns going back to his time as a state attorney general candidate. Hagen Frederiksen said political donations are not considered in the hiring of outside counsel.
"The only factors that weigh into when and if a firm, any firm, is retained by the Office of General Counsel is what's in the best interests of a particular case," he said. "There are no other considerations asked for, there are no other considerations given."
The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in July against the law defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
It is separate from a lawsuit over marriage licenses being issued to same-sex couples by a Montgomery County court official.
The Corbett administration is handling the ACLU suit after Attorney General Kathleen Kane said she wouldn't.
The state must file its legal response to the federal suit by Sept. 16.
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Australia-China Center to Map Entire Wheat Protein Genome
Date Posted: January 10, 2013
A new joint research centre at Murdoch University is aiming to improve international competitiveness for Australian grain growers by mapping the entire wheat protein genome.
Professor Rudi Appels, Director of the new Australia-China Centre for Wheat Quality, said his researchers were looking to duplicate the Human Genome Project, but for the 100,000 proteins found in wheat.
"Wheat proteins control attributes for disease resistance and climate adaptability as well as quality traits such as colour, texture and taste," Professor Appels said.
"Right now only about half of the grain proteins, known as glutenins, have been identified, leaving producers with a 50-50 chance of breeding to the grain quality standard they want to achieve.
"Our goal is to define attributes for the other 50 per cent, which will have a major impact on future food security in the region and boost Australian wheat products abroad."
Professor Appels said the idea for the centre arose on Perth's Cottesloe Beach in 2004 when he and Professor Wujun Ma were hosting Professor Zhonghu He from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
"We were watching the sunset over the ocean and had this idea to integrate our work, because we realised we were the only ones looking at wheat quality at the molecular level in this region," Professor Appels said.
"Professor He and his team are among the globe's best.
"Partnering with them provides us with world-class expertise as well as invaluable information on what consumers in China and Asia want from their grain products.
"For example, China is incredibly differentiated in the type of noodles they eat.
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"My dream is to be able to tailor our breeding to what these markets want and stake Australia's reputation as an exceptionally reliable and desirable producer."
In addition, Professor Appels said that improving wheat used in bread would be beneficial for future food production.
"Australia generally gets a hot finish to summer, which affects protein levels and impacts bread quality. Our overseas competitors produce grain that is 13 to 14 per cent protein, but ours is typically 10 to 11 per cent, which puts Australia on the back foot," Professor Appels said.
"We think the world is going to face warmer climate conditions in the future, so if we can find the right combinations of genes to produce strong dough at lower protein levels while improving taste, the world is going to be turning to us.
"Not only is this Centre good for Murdoch University, China and Australia, it stands to have a huge impact for consumers around the globe."
Funding for the Australia-China Centre for Wheat Quality was announced by Minister for Tertiary Education Senator Chris Evans and Chinese Vice-Minister of Science and Technology Mr Wang Zhigang in December.
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Crosby's, Pens' efforts to end lockout wasted
NEW YORK — Sidney Crosby would do it all again.
He would call Penguins majority co-owners Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle today if he thought they could help end an NHL lockout that, after a Thursday night collapse, has no end in sight.
"I didn't expect this," Crosby told the Tribune-Review.
Three days of talks between the owners and union at the Westin Times Square began with a flourish but ended with an emphatic, emotional rejection of the players' final proposal by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and the owners, most of whom were "as upset as I've ever seen them," Bettman said.
No new talks were scheduled, Bettman and union chief Donald Fehr said, though neither would pronounce the 2012-13 season as being in jeopardy.
More games, likely the rest of December, could be canceled before this weekend.
Part of a Penguins-led power play to save the season, Crosby said he never broke ranks with his Players' Association and that no fellow players said they took issue that he and Burkle flew together from Los Angeles to New York in advance of these talks.
"It was never brought up," Crosby said. "I have not done anything wrong. I don't see how anybody would have a reason to be mad."
The sudden breakdown caught Crosby off guard. His face soured even as he stood behind reporters during Fehr's news conference.
He called the initial talks Tuesday and Wednesday "great, productive," adding, "Ron carried a lot of the conversation. There was really good feedback — from both sides, from what I know."
Burkle, Lemieux's primary ownership partner since their group purchased the Penguins out of bankruptcy in 1999, rarely addresses the media out of his position, but he put out a news release of 306 words, the last 10 resonating most with Crosby's agent, Pat Brisson.
"I hope that going backwards does not prevent a deal," Burkle says.
Brisson said he thought the influence that comes with representing Crosby, being longtime friend to Lemieux, and his close ties with other owners of the Los Angeles Kings and Montreal Canadiens — like the Penguins, a moderate in this labor dispute — could jump-start talks that stalled Nov. 29 after two days of federally mediated bargaining.
Owners of the Penguins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Winnipeg Jets and Toronto Maple Leafs joined talks with players this week, and there was enough progress on Day 1 that union special counsel Steve Fehr said Tuesday, "This is our best day so far."
Brisson said his conversations with Burkle over the previous two days convinced him Thursday morning that a new labor contract would be finalized, at least in principle, by Friday.
"I was shocked — everybody was — to see it go this way," he said.
Crosby said he wanted to let "this sink in" before he started "seriously considering my other options," notably playing in Europe. His plan is to resume practicing with Penguins teammates at Southpointe next week, but signing with a club in Switzerland now looms as a possibility, he said.
Brisson said an expected next round of canceled games would not impact Crosby's decision. He also said Crosby will not represent Team Canada or any team at the Spengler Cup, a Swiss tournament held annually between Christmas and New Year's.
Crosby said signing with a Swiss club is not the message he wants to send to players, owners or fans.
"It's not the insurance or any concern about my head, or any other reason that I believe we're too close not to do a deal," he said. "Nothing has changed my mind on that, and I still do. But I'm going to play hockey somewhere this season. I want it to be in Pittsburgh. That's what this week was about for me."
The scene at the Westin became more dramatic throughout the day.
As of Wednesday night, according to Winnipeg Jets defenseman Ron Hainsey, the players "thought we had the makings of a deal" and invested Thursday morning toward a formal proposal to close it out.
According to Fehr, the union accepted the owners' wishes related to "all dollar values." But they balked at two items in particular:
• The owners, at the behest of Burkle, pushed for a 10-year term for the labor agreement in hopes of securing longstanding labor peace to rebuild confidence in the NHL brand among fans, sponsors and networks.
When the union resisted, it was amended to eight years, with a six-year opt-out clause for either side.
Fehr stuck by the original five years, insisting that "it's not fair to the next generation of players to not have their own say."
• The owners are demanding contract term limits of seven years for players staying with their current team, five years for free agents.
Fehr balks at them entirely, and he cited Crosby's 12-year, $104.4 million contract as an example of one that was struck in a manner befitting both team and player.
The owners' response — delivered to Fehr via voicemail from deputy commissioner Bill Daly — was a resounding no. But the real response was evident hours earlier when owners began leaving for the airport, just a day after they had vowed to see the process through.
Daly pinpointed the contract term limits as "the hill we'll die on."
Fehr and Bettman conducted passionate news conferences, Fehr doing two — one before learning of Daly's voicemail in which he buoyantly predicted a "deal could be coming soon," then another after the rejection in which he called it "inexplicable" that the owners responded as they did.
Bettman was even more animated, visibly agitated and raising his voice in expressing exasperation with the union.
"I am disappointed beyond belief at where we are," Bettman said. "We're going to take a deep breath and look at where we are."
Bettman reiterated that there is no drop-dead date for the season to be canceled.
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- Routinely post materials provided by Jay Peak to inform student body of upcoming events and prices. We recommend doing this both on and off campus.
- Consistently host a table each week during college pass sales, offer students information and opportunities to purchase a pass. Jay Peak will provide materials.
- Update Jay Peak sales team on the number of upcoming events where Jay Peak could be involved.
- Attend events on campus sponsored by Jay Peak.
- Personally organize events on campus.
- Seek out opportunities to advertise on campus (school paper, Facebook, movie premiers, mass emailing, Twitter, mail boxes, radio, club meetings, promotion table in student union, etc.)
- Identify area business and brands that we can partner with.
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Hello, lovely ladies (and gentlemen)! I am thrilled to be the newest bloggess here on the Bridal Bud block. I have been engaged for nearly three months, but I'm off to a slow start for the wedding plans because my fiance was overseas until a little under a month ago. However, my fiance and I are hurriedly putting our ducks in a row now that he is back in the states. We are getting married on August 10, 2013, and I've never been more excited! Let me give you a bit of a back story for our relationship:
How we met:
Mr. Cotton and I met as random opponents on the phone app game Words With Friend. Now, I know that might sounds crazy; I myself still have a hard time believing it actually happened! I grew up in the era of the "don't talk to strangers" curriculum in my elementary classes. But after the initial awkward conversations through the Words With Friends chat feature, we eventually moved on to adding each other as friends on Facebook, texting and calling and Skype video calls. A trust was built. The attraction had been there from the very start, but after three months, we felt confident in our connection enough to meet in person. We've been inseparable since – well, when we can be in the same geographical location, we're inseparable. Mr. Cotton is finishing up his degree in Arkansas, and I live and work in Texas. We will have been rocking this whole long distance relationship thing for two years and a day when we finally get married. We met on August 8th, started dating August 9th, and will be married on August 10th – of course not all in the same year, nonetheless it's pretty cool to say. Our engagement date is kinda cool all by itself – 10/11/12, but more on that in the next section.
Our Engagement Story:
Mr. Cotton signed up for the study trip of a lifetime, just a few weeks before meeting me. He was set to travel to Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Cambodia and Japan for three months in the fall of 2012. He told me about the trip as we were getting to know on another, but I pushed it to the back burner of my mind – it was over a year away! Unfortunately, like the old cliché, time flies when you're having fun. Before I realized it, I was kissing the man I loved goodbye for a semester. I tried to be brave and happy for him. I wanted to show him my support. I tried to be brave. But try as I tried to ignore the feeling and stay busy, loneliness crept into my life. One night, when Mr. Cotton had internet connectivity in New Zealand, he video called me. I could tell something was up with Mr. Cotton, he was smiley and giggly and very pleased with himself. He told me he had gotten me something "actually worthwhile." I told him then that all the gifts he had ever given me were worthwhile. He told me what he had gotten me was better than any of the gifts he's ever given me before. That was when I knew what he was talking about. He asked me to guess my present. I made some absurd guesses, like a kangaroo or an airplane. He laughed and asked me what I really thought he had bought me. I cautiously asked if he got me a ring. He left the screen at that moment and brought back a little purple box. I nearly fainted. He then took out the most gorgeous ring! I cried. It was beautiful. We decided then to keep the engagement secret until he got back. Sadly, neither one of us is very good at keeping secrets. The next day he asked for the blessings, and we announced our engagement to our friends and family. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Cotton, with the help of his parents, surprised me by arriving back in the states earlier than I expected. He got down on one knee to present my ring to me. I felt like the luckiest girl in the world!
Our wedding plans:
We have a few of the bigger things in place for our wedding: my dress is ordered, his tux is fitted, and we have our venue. We're getting married in a botanical garden on an August evening. My dress is fabulous – a one shoulder number with a mini train. Our colors are a deep sapphire blue & light leaf green. When I asked Mr. Cotton if he liked those colors, he smiled and informed me that those were "Seahawks colors." I think he's pleased!
Well that's about it for now. I look forward to posting updates about my wedding and learning wedding tips from the other Bridal Buds!


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The Lodge at Kauri Cliffs has been named to Condé Nast Traveler's 2013 Gold List, a catalog of the world's best places to stay. Kauri Cliffs is the only destination in New Zealand to make the list and received a near perfect score of 99.2 out of 100. Furthermore, The Lodge at Kauri Cliffs was recognized as one of the Top 10 World's Best Hotels Ranked for Food, again enjoying prime position as the only New Zealand property named.
This Gold List is derived from the Condé Nast Traveler Reader's Choice Awards where 50,000 readers in the United States evaluate hotels based on rooms, service, food, location, design, and activities. The Gold List amasses only the best and top-in-class from Reader's Choice Awards for the January 2013 Gold List issue.
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Learning to feed herself will be a messy business for your toddler. Let her have fun with her food because the more practice she gets doing it for herself, the quicker she'll master the skills.
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OMG, this is the funniest EVER, poor kitty!!!ReplyDelete
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so darn adorable! Hope you had a fabulous Christmas!!ReplyDelete
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We keep it in the guest bathroom (also known as the cats bathroom since we don't really have overnight guests often).ReplyDelete
It is December 26th. You and baby Limestone are in my thoughts. Both my boys were late and they had to induce. The first was ten days late and the second a week. You haven't complained but I know it is hard. Your family are in my thoughts and prayers.ReplyDelete
Thanks. Baby is not late just yet but who knows? I'm not looking forward to the labor part but my pregnancy has been pretty easy all things considered.ReplyDelete
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – It was a split day for the University of Pennsylvania swimming teams, as the men and women defeated Dartmouth but fell to host Yale at Kiphuth Pool on Saturday. The women captured their first Ivy win and are now 1-4 in the Ivy League; the men are 3-2.
First to swim were the women.
After winning six events, Penn's women found their first Ivy League victory over Dartmouth, 210-90, but fell to Yale, 163.5-137.5.
The first victory for the Quakers came in the second event, the 200 medley relay. The "A team" – junior Lauryn Brown, freshman Haley Wickham, sophomore Lauren Church, freshman Rochelle Dong – finished at 1:45.70. Coming in just over a second later at 1:46.90 was Yale's "A team".
The Red and Blue then went on to win three events in a row – the 200 free, 100 back, and 100 breast. Senior Shelby Fortin took the top spot in the 200 free with a time of 1:51.79. Church followed suit with a first place finish in the 100 back at 56.61. Also placing in the 100 back was Brown, who came in third at 57.22 and junior Taylor Sneed, at 58.24.
Another one-three-four finish came in the following event, the 100 breast, where Wickham finished with a time of 1:05.98. Senior Katherine Ashenfelter placed third at 1:07.61 and freshman Lia Lombardi came in fourth at 1:08.20.
Two events later, three Quakers placed within the top five in the 50 free. Dong finished behind Yale's Kina Zhou (23.57) and took second place with a time of 23.73. Taking third was junior Irene Katopodis (24.18) and rounding out the top five in fifth was junior Christina Hurley (24.26).
Katopodis and Hurley would again find themselves in the top five, this time in the 100 free. Katopodis captured another third place finish in the 100 free at 52.83, and Hurley took fourth at 52.95.
Church won her second individual race and third overall in the 11th event, the 200 back, with a time of 2:02.32. She defeated Yale's Michelle Chintanaphol who was right behind her and finished at 2:02.47.
Next up was the 200 breast, where Lombardi kept the winning streak going with a time of 2:23.92. Finishing in second was fellow freshman Ellie Grimes, won touched at 2:24.13.
In the 500 free, Fortin took the second place spot with a time of 4:59.56 and sophomore Annie McCotter came in fourth with a time of 5:04.75.
After the 500 free was the 100 fly, where Dong and Yale's Sydney Hirschi tied with a time of 56.03. Coming in third was Sneed at 57.81.
Grimes landed the last second place finish for the Red and Blue – a time of 4:30.07 in the 400 IM.
The last event of the meet was the 400 free relay. The "A Team" – Dong, Hurley, Katopodis, Fortin – completed the race with a time of 3:29.40, which was five hundredths of a second behind second place Dartmouth "A Team". Finishing fourth and behind the Penn "A team" was the "B Team" – Church, Brown, sophomore Emma Siewert, and Sneed at 3:34.86.
After the women, the men swam and claimed six wins in the tri-meet. The Red and Blue defeated Dartmouth, 192-108, but fell to Yale, 155-145, where the winner was determined in the last few races.
Up first was the 3 meter dive, where freshman diver Jack Stein placed second with a score of 301.20. Stein also finished second in the 1 meter dive with a score of 272.40.
Following the 3 meter dive was the 200 medley relay, where the Penn "A team" -- freshman Philip Hu, sophomore Kyle Yu, senior Rhoads Worster, sophomore Eric Schultz -- started the meet with a win (1:31.14). Yale and Dartmouth's "A teams" followed at 1:31.51 and 1:31.87, respectively.
It was a Yale-Penn finish in the next two events: the 1000 free -- with sophomore Chris Swanson (9.23.73) coming in behind Bulldog Brian Hogan (9:19.96) -- and the 200 free – with junior Dillon McHugh (1:40.65) coming in behind bulldog Rob Harder (1:40.21). Penn also took third place in the 200 free, with freshman Kevin Su's time of 1:41.52.
In the 100 breast, three Quakers finished right in a row, taking third (Yu- 56.21) fourth (sophomore Bobby Francis- 56.95), and fifth (freshman Cole Hurwitz- 57.46). Three consecutive place finishes also came in the 200 breast – Yu (2:04.06), Hurwitz (2:05.48), Francis (2:06.52).
The Red and Blue notched a second place victory in the 200 fly from Worster at 1:49.28, after another Yale-Penn finish. Worster later found his first individual win in the 100 fly, with a time of 48.75.
Schultz followed up with two-first place finishes in the 50 free (20.73) and the 100 free (45.25). Also racing was junior Alex Porter, who took third place in both the 50 free (21.22) and 100 free (46.15).
Swanson claimed his first event win of the afternoon in the 500 free and swam it in 4:34.56. Two Bulldogs came in after Swanson, both finishing at 4:36.49.
The 400 free relay "A team" – Porter, McHugh, Schultz, Worster – was the last to swim in the afternoon's meet. The Quakers closed out with a win and a time of 3:01.29, beating Yale's "A team" which finished at 3:05.98. Penn's "B team" – sophomore John Germanis, freshman Zach Fisher, Su, and freshman Jimmy Jameson – placed third (3:08.28).
Penn will be back in action when the Quakers host Brown on Saturday January 18 in Sheerr Pool. The meet is set to begin at noon.
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Hey guys and girls, thanks for taking the time to read this. Lets get straight to the point. I've decided I want to learn how to program. MIT has an online course 6.00 that is an introduction to programming and computer sciences. I started to get the tools I need for this course, which are Python 2.5.4 and IDLE. Two problems right off the bat; (<-- is that right punctuation?)
1. I have never set up, downloaded, or installed any software like this before
2. I am brand new to Mac comps, and it is making this even more difficult for me because I am trying to figure this out in an unfamiliar environment.
Now I have come to figure out that Macs already have Python built into OS X, I checked my version and its 2.7.5. So my questions are:
A. Can I downgrade my built in version of Python to the 2.5.4 that I need for the course? Or is there also lower versions built in (someone had mentioned it on forum I read while trying to find the answer).
B. If not, what do I do? I have downloaded a compressed version of 2.5.4 but I am not sure how to install it on my computer
C. How do I install this IDLE program and then run Python in it?
I know these questions may seem pretty low brow to most (all) of you here, as you can see I am pretty green to the whole computer programming thing, but I assure you I am a quick learner and no better way to jump in and start mucking about.
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On topic and a good idea. Sir, I salute you.[RIGHT]
06-06-2012, 01:40 PM #182a system where the comment thread on each article became a matching forum thread.
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Interesting -- I thought it must have been on the radar (the technology behind the issue is, of course, indistinguishable from magic as far as I'm concerned).
Personally, I would happily forgo comment nesting in favour of greater thread longevity. It seems a shame that people have interesting discussions in the comments that are then lost in the mists of time within 24 hours. Anyway, RPS is generally very excellent so I'm not complaining.
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I haven't read all 10 pages, so apologies if this has been pointed out already in some way.
There is a saying in France, "c'est la ton qui fait la musique". It's the tone that makes the music.
You can't control what people do on your website, but you can influence it. What articles you write, and in what way, influence what sort of discussion will follow in the discussion in the comments. After all, you're making the first impression and the comments are, as is their nature, comments on what you write.
There are several mechanisms at work here, these are not scientific terms, just stuff I just made up at 4am:
- Triggers.
Certain subjects attract certain types of discussion. As a simple example, if you don't want half the front page to be Diablo 3 flamefests, don't make half your front page Diablo 3 posts. I'm not very impressed by the 'But it's news' argument, since posts like that tend to be relatively lacking in content and effort, including research*.
- Spillover.
Negative discussions can easily infect other posts as well. To continue the theme above, any post about a Diablo-alike runs the risk of Diablo comparisons followed by further derails in that direction. This can be partially prevented by not making such comparisons in the post itself in the first place. I'm sure a comment thread would have a much more positive tone if the article invited comparisons between Torchlight, Path of Exile, Grim Dawn, etc. than when you release the 800 lb gorilla in the room from the start.
- Find games with interesting angles, or make them up yourself.
On today's front page the article named 'I Shall Remain Is A Game You Can Play', about a zombie shooter, has attracted 28 comments so far. Right below that, 'Freudian Quips: Polymorpheus Perversity' is at 60. Over twice as many. I know it's hard to find something truly interesting in an age when quirkiness has become its own cliche, but writing about games that are conceptually interesting or have a relevance outside itself (or even gaming!) keeps the attitude of the commenters fresh and less blase as well.
I hope that helps a bit. :)
Edit: I just noticed I'm overlapping a lot with the subject in the 'Please RPS tell me what's wrong with everything' thread. I'll just leave it here but feel free to move it if you like.
*I'll try writing a seperate post about that sort of thing elsewhere later
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If a game looks good, it looks good, and we'll wait and see. But if you post an article about a massively popular and divisive game, there are bound to be more comments and arguments.
I come to RPS because of the obscure indie stuff, and the general writing style. It's actually kind of irritating that comments are being used as the metric for my enjoyment. Perhaps I should start commenting "I read and appreciated this article." on every post.
I love reading all the indie news, all the interesting opinion pieces and all of the other random brilliance that I have come to love from RPS.
But you know what? I love reading about Diablo 3 too.
I don't read a lot of gaming sites these days. I have been spoiled by the quality of writing here at RPS, and what's more, I find that RPS does an excellent job of covering all of the major news in an interesting way, in addition to covering all of the lovely gems and opinions that it is famed for.
I have literally no idea why people get upset about seeing posts about big games.
Keep up the great work RPS. You know you know what you're doing, and I love you for it.
I've been reading for years and started being somewhat active in the forums about two years ago. I visit once or twice a day to see if something new has shown up, and a lot of that interest is driven by the community in the forums. There is no other website that I visit as often, barring Google.
We are now living in a world where RPS has been around for some time (since 1873, actually), digital distribution has increased the number of players releasing "indie" or small games... I'm sure John and the krew are getting 50x as many requests nowadays to cover this or that game.
Going back to John's example of Gateways, I can't remember if I'd read that post or not. Think I skimmed past it. I know that 5 years ago the game would have seemed more unique, when there were fewer puzzling retro platformers. Whether or not the game is unique, it's playing in a crowded marketplace at this point. And also in a world where more of the mainstream gaming news sites are covering smaller games as well. So I blame the times for things feeling less special, not the site for being less quality.
RPS still stands out for its features and wry personality, though there's less of a sense of who some of the newer contributors are than there was for Kieron and Quinns. Is Adam Smith part of the Hivemind?
Ever since reading this, I haven't been able to stop taking notice of the comment post counts on varying threads.
As a point of interest, are the number of article reads in rough proportion to the comment post counts?
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Here is another vote for a redesign that keeps stories on the front page or even more findable.
That being said, I do have to comment that I think the quality of RPS is different without KG and Quin. I think those two were different enough (Especially Quin) that meaningful debate often emerged. I found myself questioning the use of the word hivemind before, but accepted it as a joke because clearly RPS was made up of different types of gamers. I don't find that to be the case anymore. Either the core writers all agree, or the work is outsourced because they can't be bothered to step outside their groupthinking ideals to explore. (The TF2 Wot I think is a good example. It was a great chance to look at the game and think about the lauded Valve support and what it has done to a game over a course of years. To actually review it now as an FPS having reached the end of its expected content with meet the pyro. Instead it was a fanboy discussion of his favorite class).
I still read RPS, but I have to restrain myself from commenting on some of the utterly poor articles covering FPS games I am interested in. It is just very obvious that no one here actually care about that genre beyond the STALKER-alikes and Quake alikes. Not saying it doesn't get covered, it just doesn't get covered well. The MOH: Warfighter coverage is a perfect example of someone RPS knee jerk responses to something they don't care for. Failing to even recognize that the name of the game was derived from a U.S. department of defense term before going all silly. The number of errors like this seem to have risen quite a bit with the number of posts, maybe that is inevitable, but RPS seems to be following the internet trend of "react first...figure it out later."
Plus, the majority of "comments" in the big stories are just memes. RPS has gotten very repetitive. If you are wondering why interesting games don't get high comment counts, maybe you should look at the number of memes that make up the comment counts on the other threads. There is actually getting to be less and less discussion on this site and far more "WARFACE," "What a shame," "hipster," COD kids, "neckbeard," puns thread, and other space fillers.
I think that is why I enjoy the Sunday Papers so much, nearly none of that.
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