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OTTAWA — With the May primary election less than a month away,
campaign signs and billboards are popping up faster than daffodils. A
sign that you will not see officially is one which promotes a 1.6 mill
levy to support existing services at Brookhill Center and Industries.
to Bill Clifford, Superintendent for the Putnam County Board of
Developmental Disabilities, the decision was made to spread the word via
flyers, face-to-face meetings and an open house on April 25 from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. which will include tours as well as a lunch that will be
served until 1 p.m.
"I think getting the word out about what we do
is important," said Clifford. "Most every Putnam County citizen knows
the name 'Brookhill Center.' When they go by our buildings, they know
it's where some of the folks with developmental disabilities do
services. But what happens inside these buildings is probably foreign to
the general population."
There are two facets of service provided
at Brookhill Center and Industries. The early intervention program is
headquartered in the northeast building on the campus located at the
junction of State Routes 115 and 108. Early intervention is geared for
children age birth to three.
"We work with infants and toddlers,
but as importantly, we work with those family members so when the
services aren't delivered here, the physical, speech or occupational
therapies, then family members can emulate what's going on in the homes.
The goal is that by the time they're age three, we at Brookhill never
see them again. That's not to say that happens with everyone, but many
of those infants and toddlers, it was just enough intervention to get
them over the hump."
Brookhill Center serves about 130 adults. Out of that 130, about 100 are receiving services directly at Brookhill Industries.
the day that Clifford was interviewed, there was a noticeable
difference in noise level and atmosphere between the two buildings.
Clifford explained that the noise level is higher at Brookhill
Industries because of the factory-type setting.
"You have about
100 individuals in a cavernous area," he said, adding that the Early
Intervention and Family Services building includes more classroom
settings. "We have early intervention at one end, and down further are
adults who either aren't working today, choose not to work, are retired,
or they have such sever cognitive and physical limitations they need
specialized services. We have five settings like that in this building."
primary focus at Brookhill Center has been sheltered employment.
According to Clifford, more effort is being given now to community
employment. Brookhill Industries employees build a number of items and
parts for local manufacturers, everything from the small notches squares
of cardboard that pad the corners of washers and dryers to refrigerator
shelving. One are of the building is devoted to building wooden
"We're also working closely with public schools in a
transition-to-work program." During the summer of 2013, participants in
that program worked in a variety of Putnam County locations, including
the Meadows of Kalida and the YMCA in Ottawa. The 2014 school-to-work
program is already underway.
Clifford said the Putnam County Board
of Developmental Disabilities decided to seek a levy for several
reasons. The Brookhill Center and Industries buildings are over 35 years
old. All individuals who are served by the center require bus
transportation, with the exception of infants who are driven to and from
by their parents. There are over five bus routes that travel over 800
miles a day.
"In the last five years, the State of Ohio reduced
assistance to our program and every governmental entity. We lose about
$400,000 a year now," said Clifford. "You have a choice as a county
board. You can reduce services, retool and be more efficient at what you
do, or go back to the local taxpayers. This program has always had the
distinction of lean and mean—there's not a lot of anything essential
Sixty percent of Brookhill Center's funding comes from
local dollars, he said, adding that the levy will cost each Putnam
County taxpayers $56 for every $100,000 home value. Thirty percent of
the center's funding comes from Medicaid, and ten percent is from the
state. PCDD operates six group homes in the county in various
communities. Any time someone is in the home, a staff member must be
there. Individuals who are able to live on their own still have need of
drop-in staff. Others still have high emotional needs which require
round-the-clock care.
Despite the scope of its outreach, Clifford
said Brookhill Center and Industries is a small program compared to
those in other Ohio counties. PCDD shares a business manager with Van
Wert County. Clifford himself is part-time.
"I would say we're second to none in terms of what we provide," he said.
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App of the Week: Augusta Chronicle Masters Tournament Coverage
The Augusta Chronicle has released an iPad app that covers the 2013 Masters Tournament, golf's rite of spring and first major of the year. The Augusta Chronicle takes advantage of overlays such as video, audio and scrolling frames in order to share historical information about the championship and the renowned golf course. During the week of the tournament, the app will be updated with videos, photos and stats so that fans can follow along at home.


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|FYI — August 2003
|By Brad Dunn
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In May a woman taking a fancy dinner cruise around Manhattan noticed an odd electronic contraption hidden by an air freshener in the ladies room. Afraid that it might be an explosive device, she quickly found the ship's engineer. It turns out the suspicious gadget wasn't a bomb planted by terrorists, but a hidden camera planted by the disc jockey who was hired for the cruise, according to The New York Times.
The DJ had been watching live images from the camera all night at his DJ stand while playing music, according to investigators. The boat, named Cornucopia Princess, had departed from Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and was hosting a party for the staff of a local federal credit union.
At approximately 9 p.m., when the unidentified woman summoned the ship's engineer, the DJ must have noticed that his secret had been discovered. While the engineer dismantled the air freshener and inspected the mysterious instrument, the DJ rushed to the bathroom, grabbed the device from the engineer's hand, and tossed it overboard, according to the Times. Though the crew did not know what the device was at the time, they immediately contacted the U.S. Coast Guard and the New York City Police Department, which sent a harbor patrol boat to escort the ship to a pier in Brooklyn.
All 150 passengers and 46 crew members had to disembark, while law enforcement officers combed the ship. Though the DJ was placed under arrest and no other illegal devices were discovered, the party's spirit had, needless to say, died out.
At presstime, the DJ, whose name was being withheld by police, had not yet been formally charged.
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Klein Honored at State Capitol
Klein Honored at State Capitol
April 3, 2013
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Former K-State quarterback Collin Klein was a guest of Senators Garrett Love and Tom Hawk Wednesday at the state capitol as the record-setting signal caller was honored and recognized by the State Senate, House of Representatives and Governor's office for his outstanding career as a Wildcat.
Klein capped his Wildcat career with a senior season that will go down as one of the best in school history. The 2012 Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year and Heisman Trophy finalist finished his K-State career with a 22-6 record as a starting quarterback to tie the school record and led the Wildcats to their third conference championship in school history and the first since 2003 in 2012.
Klein, who also was the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award winner, finished out his senior campaign with 920 rushing yards and 23 touchdowns, a mark that is second in school history to his 27 scores in 2011. He also greatly improved his passing as he went 197-of-304 for 2,641 yards and 16 touchdowns and finished with the second-best completion percentage in school history at 64.8.
Predicted to finish sixth in the Big 12 prior to the 2012 season, the Wildcats tallied an 11-2 overall record, including an 8-1 mark in Big 12 play, while winning a school-record six games against ranked opponents in 2012, including its conference-championship clinching victory over No. 18 Texas. Additionally, the Wildcats obtained their first-ever No. 1 ranking the BCS standings following their win at TCU.
Klein was also recognized for his contributions off the field as the Academic All-Big 12 selection was named to the AFCA Good Works Team while also being a finalist for the ARA Sportsmanship Award and Senior CLASS Award.
Following the annual spring game on April 27, the Wildcats will host two-time defending FCS champion North Dakota State August 30 in the 2013 season opener, which also will mark the opening of the new West Stadium Center at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
The game will be televised nationally on FOX Sports 1. Season tickets for the eight-game home schedule remain available. For more information regarding tickets, contact the K-State Athletics Ticket Office at 1-800-221-CATS or visit www.k-statesports.com.


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
It's hard to go anywhere these days without catching someone flicking their fingers across a smartphone screen. The Pew Internet Project estimates that one in four U.S. adults now uses mobile apps, and of those, nearly two in three people use their apps every day. To date, more than 6.5 billion apps have been downloaded just by Apple users.
As apps have gone mainstream, we're now seeing businesses and institutions creating enterprise-level apps and mobile sites to represent their brands. And while there have been quite a few blockbusters that have produced great revenue and publicity, many of these new enterprise apps are not downloaded very often, get poor reviews, and fall short of their goals.
So how do you build a successful app for your brand? What do the winners do differently?
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Brittney Griner is arguably the best female basketball player in the world, but shooting hoops is not her only passion. What most people do not know about Griner is that she is also an avid skateboarder. As you might expect, this causes a bit of anxiety for the Phoenix Mercury, who took Griner with the top overall pick in the WNBA draft last month. According to TMZ, Griner's contract with the Mercury includes a clause about her skateboarding habits that is aimed at decreasing her risk of injury. "I agreed with the Mercury that I would only ride in a controlled environment," Griner said. "No tricks or hill bombing. I know what is at stake, so I'll just be cruising. I'll get my adrenaline rush on the court." That's probably for the best. Griner once broke her wrist while riding in a parking structure while she was playing for Baylor. Griner and her 6-foot-8 frame will not only ideally turn the Mercury into a top contender in the WNBA, but she is also a major marketing tool because of her ability to throw down dunks like this one and ignite the crowd. The last thing the team needs is her breaking her ankle attempting a kick-flip. "Once my basketball career is over though, I will be building a skate ramp in my yard, that's for sure," she said." As long as her days of dominating the sport are over, I'm sure that will be just fine with her employer. Photo Credit: Rick Osentoski-US PRESSWIRE
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Criminal Process as Morality Play
Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear
Category: Criminal Law & Process, Legal History, Legal Scholarship, Public
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My review of Stephanos Bibas's book The Machinery of Criminal Justice is now available on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Stephanos Bibas's new book, The Machinery of Criminal Justice, looks back to colonial-era criminal justice as an ideal of sorts. Criminal trials in that time were a "participatory morality play," in which ordinary members of the community played a crucial role. In Bibas's view, the subsequent professionalization of the criminal-justice system, as well as related developments like the introduction of plea bargaining, have led to widespread contemporary distrust of the system. The present essay reviews Bibas's book and suggests additional reasons besides professionalization why the morality-play model broke down in the nineteenth century. Taking these additional considerations into account, the prospects for reviving the morality-play model may be even dimmer than Bibas recognizes, although a number of his proposed reforms nonetheless appear attractive.
Entitled "(The History of) Criminal Justice as a Morality Play," my essay will appear in the Penn Law Review's on-line journal, PENNumbra.
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Cross Country and Track Programs Earn another Program First
FULL CoSIDA CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA RELEASE
SAINT LEO, Fla. (June 25, 2014) – Adding to a long list of accomplishments for the 2013-14 year, rising junior Carl Dunne adds Capital One Academic All-America honors to his list of sophomore year accolades.
Announced on Wednesday by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), Dunne becomes the first member of the Saint Leo cross country and track teams to be named to the Capital One Academic All-America team.
To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his or her current institution, and be nominated by his or her sports information director. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 20,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.
The Monasterboice, Ireland native earns Second Team Academic All-America honors after a stellar sophomore slate that saw him earn All-Conference and All-Region honors while also winning the individual title at the 2013 Sunshine State Conference Championship meet. Dunne's efforts helped the Lions to Nationals, where his hard work helped the team earn a 26th place team finish overall.
In the classroom, the Accounting and Economics major performed just as admirably, earning him the title of 2013-14 Saint Leo Male Student-Athlete of the Year. Dunne has been a four time member of the President's Club while also earning Commissioner's Honor Role, Dean's List, and USTFCCCA Academic All-Region and CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team honors this year.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo men's cross country and track teams, be sure to visit SaintLeoLions.com. Fans can also stay up-to-date on the latest Lions news by following Saint Leo Athletics on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube.


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SANDWICH, England (AP) The craziness wont end until someone has the claret jug.
At this British Open, that could be anybody.
Thomas Bjorn finished with 11 straight pars Saturday for a 2-under 69 at rugged Royal St. Georges, giving him the lead for the first time in a major championship.
He feels like the underdog, and well he should.
Right behind is a roll call of the best players in golf Davis Love III, Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Kenny Perry and Sergio Garcia.
Theres some big names up there, said Bjorn, who was at 1-under 212 and was the only player under par. Ive got to play solid golf to beat them.
Mark Roe of England wont get that chance.
He blew kisses to the gallery as he walked off the 18th green with a 67 that put him in the thick of the championship only to discover minutes later he was disqualified for putting Jesper Parneviks score (81) on his card.
Ive just played one of the greatest rounds of my life, said Roe, who would have been two shots off the lead. And I cant play tomorrow.
Bizarre? Not at this British Open, where Woods lost a ball in the rough and Love hit a tee shot that ricocheted off a 3-inch wide out-of-bounds stake.
Sanity comes from the scoreboard.
Love, a three-time winner this year, recovered from a bad start to make an eagle and four solid pars down the stretch for a 72, leaving him at even-par 213 and one shot behind.
Woods dazzled the crowd with two eagles, but four bogeys over his final eight holes dropped him to a 69 and left him two shots behind.


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Apartment in the Historic Heart
Size55 m²
Floor No.1
- Air conditioning
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Baby cot
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|Castello, 30122 Venice, Italy
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The bright and attractive apartment features a stylish bedroom with a comfortable double bed, a sofa and a large wardrobe. The living area contains a double sofa bed, a flat-screen TV and a dining table. The open-plan kitchen is fully fitted, and the bathroom includes a tub and a shower.
Guests will find themselves excellently placed for enjoying all that the city has to offer. The surrounding streets are lined with attractions and monuments to be explored.
The nearest supermarket is only a one-minute walk away, making it easy to stock up on any basic essentials. A Vaporetto stop is located by Rialto Bridge, and offers frequent services throughout the city.
In the price of the initial and final cleaning of the apartment is also included organizing, the meeting and handover the keys, towels and clean linen.
House rulesAn obligatory city tax of €1.50 per adult guest per night applies for the first 5 nights of your stay. An city tax of €0.75 per child between the ages of 10 and 16 years is also required.
In the price of the initial and final cleaning of the apartment is also included organizing, the meeting and handover the keys, towels and clean linen.
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Reviews of this property
Appartement très bien agencé. Très bien situé dans Venise . Commerce à proximité. Un peu bruyant le soir jusque minuit car la chambre est situé au dessus d'un restaurant. Accueil au vaporetto par une jeune fille pour nous conduire à l'appartement: très agréable et utile car nous aurions eu du mal à trouver...
Das Appartment ist gut ausgestattet und liegt sehr zentral. Es ist jedoch nachts sehr laut, da sich direkt darunter die Abwaschküche eines Restaurants befindet. Die Nachtruhe ist erst ab 1.30 Uhr gegeben.
Sehr gute Lage zwischen rialto und fondamente novo. Gepflegt mit kleinen Fehlern. Die Klimaanlage im Schlafzimmer tat es nicht bei nachts fast 30 Grad und das Thermostat der dusche machte nur heiß!
Well equipped and good location.
Too much emphasis on garbage collection and none at all on the facilities in the yellow book.
There is no explanation of how to use the gas stove, the front burner is very difficult to turn off and actually leaks gas if not turned off at the wall, this is not mentioned anywhere.
Nothing to light the gas stove, we had to go out and buy a cigarette lighter to light the gas.
The refrigerator needs defrosting the freezer is useless.
The light over the bathroom sink does not work.
No chopping board for food preparation.
Using the jug and toaster simultaneously blows the circuit. We did not see ay warning for this either.
These items should have been checked and addressed, before our stay.
We enjoyed our stay very much, but little niggles such as those mentioned above detract from the overall experience.
Reviews for this host's other properties
This is a lovley appartement located in the very center of venice! We did't lack anything, it is clean and well equipped! We even got advise on restaurants, museums and the public transportation! Supermarkets to do daily shopping for breakfast, dinner etc. are very near by, too!
Would, with no doubt, come back again!
L appartamento era assolutamente fedele a quanto descritto nella presentazione. Molto pulito e completo di ogni comfort. Nella cucina c è il forno il forno ol microonde il bollitore e anche l apparecchio per fare i tost. In bagno il phon. Aria condizionata in tutte le stanze.La posizione è strategica molto vicina al ponte di rialto in una zona molto tranquilla e silenziosa. Consigliato se avete dei bambini. Al nostro arrivo siamo stati accolti dal figlio del proprietario che è stato molto gentile e ci ha anche dato alcuni utili suggerimenti per il nostro soggiorno.
Wir waren 3 Nächte Im Appartement. Freundlicher und zuvorkommender Empfang des Gastgebers. Die Wohnung ist sehr zentral gelegen, sauber und alles nötige war vorhanden. Wir würden wieder dort hin gehen.
Great apartment in really good location. Arriving was easy with good communication from Stefano (check in manager), who arranged to meet us, took us to the apartment, made sure we were happy and even showed us where the closest supermarket was. The apartment had good facilities and was very comfortable and we would recommend it to others with no hesitation.
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Fund Established in Honor of Professor Zillah Eisenstein to Support Student Research and Activities
Politics Professor Zillah Eisenstein is leaving teaching at Ithaca College after a long and distinguished career. To honor and preserve the legacy of Zillah's work and her invaluable contributions to student learning, the Politics Department is pleased to announce its establishment of the Zillah Eisenstein Fund for the Study of Power: Sex, Gender, Race, and Class.
This departmental fund will support student scholarship and activities that contribute to greater knowledge of, engagement with, and societal change related to, issues of sexuality and gender and their intersections with race and class.
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Emerson Research Dual-Alarm AM/FM Clock Radio with SmartSet Automatic Time Setting System
The SmartSet clock literally sets itself. I don't know if it uses radio waves, something in the electrical wires, or just plain magic -- but it's spooky and I love it. You don't even tell this clock where you are. You just take it out of the box, plug it in and BING it sets the exact right time, and the date. I'm still slightly afraid of what powers this thing, but I love having it.
A clean minimal wall clockAdded 8 Years Ago from Burkedecor
easy to see, easy to work, plus it talks!
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Pop-Up Stores Have Businesses, Consumers Rethinking Retail
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The concept of "Pop-Up Stores" has a long history in the retail world. Years ago apparel retailers traveled to different cities displaying their merchandise in trunks. After World War II, discount chain stores soon appeared as manufacturers set up pop-up stores to sell their excess merchandise. Today, pop-up stores are popular holiday season destinations, particularly… Read More →


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A STAGECOACH driver was injured in Andover when the door of his bus was blown in by high winds.
Kevin Cooper was driving the 6.05am bus from Andover to Basingstoke through Walworth industrial estate in Walworth Road when the glass was broken.
Mr Cooper's face was cut in the incident but he was able to safely stop the bus before he went into shock.
Local campaigner Manuela Wahnon was a passenger on the bus, she said: "It sounded like a bomb had gone off.
"Another passenger had headphones in and even she thought it sounded like a bomb!"
"We ran down to see if the driver was OK and helped him out of his seat, there was glass everywhere.
"We got him up but he went limp with shock so we got him into the recovery position.
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The Australian election has been fun to observe from the other side of the planet, what with the back-stabbing of Kevin Rudd, the shaky campaign and the hung Parliament.
I have a curious fact about voting Down Under which you may not know about. In elections for the senate (their upper house) there are multiple candidates for some states such as Victoria and New South Wales. Because the system is AV* you have the "below the line" choice of listing up to 80 candidates in order of preference. Read more


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Wednesday night of last week, Mrs G informed me that she had some co-workers coming over after work Friday and that we were having a pizza party. Really not sure why she didn't ask me and just told me, but oh well. Thursday, I whipped up a batch of dough and some sauce and tossed them in the fridge for Friday night. Friday, I went to do a full clean up of the Egg and pulled out all the guts. I noticed my charcoal grate cracking about a year ago, but its still holding on. I've got a replacement for when I do need to toss it. Crack hasn't grown much, but its expanded on the edge a bit.
I got the dough all prepped and let the girls go to work on their own pies. First up was a pepperoni, Italian Sausage, jalapeno, tomato and peppadew peppers.
The second one was for a vegetarian. I am not sure how I am always cursed/blessed with having a vegetarian come over. Tomato, basil, peppadew and fresh mozz cheese.
Then, I got to finally make one. Pepperoni, salami, Italian sausage,peppadew peppers, red onions and black olives.
By this point nobody was really hungry anymore but we had one more dough left. Not sure what Mrs. G put on this one but it looks like pepperoni, Italian Sausage, black olives and red onions.
Everybody had a great time and raved on the pizzas. First time using peppadew peppers on pizza and I got to say that I really like them. They start off a little sweet and then you get just a bit of heat. Nowhere near a jalapeno (and what I saw was about 1,100 on the Scoville unit) so non spice lovers can stand them. Gonna use them more in the future for sure. Already got another idea for them as we speak.
One of the women brought her dog, a Morkie (part maltese and part yorkie over) All three dogs played hard all night long. I love it because its so cute and also the next day, our dogs are usually like this all day long:
We totally forgot about cooking on Saturday. We decided to take it easy, still didn't know what we were cooking until I stumbled on a show about chili on Travel Channel. Chili it was. Mrs. G ran to the store and got home just at A&M was kicking off. I guess I could have cooked the chili on the Egg, I've done it before, but laziness took over and we ended up doing it on the stove. Texas Chili, no beans y'all, ya hear? And yes, the Shiner went in the chili.
We really enjoyed the game. I wasn't sure who to root for. Part of me wanted to root for the Texas team, but part of me still feels like they are traitors for leaving the Big 12. I ended up rooting for whoever was on offense.
Sunday, we took it even easier and hit up three little parties and ate their food and drank their beer. Sometimes lazy is good, even if you know can cook better food. It's more important to spend time with good friends.


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For Temple orchestra saddened by Brubeck's death, Grammy nomination doubly sweet
It has been an up-and-down week for the Temple University Symphony Orchestra.
On Wednesday, orchestra members learned of the death of Dave Brubeck, the jazz legend who, three years ago, wrote a classical piece on commission for Temple University and a handful of other orchestras.
The next day, that composition, "Music of Ansel Adams: America," was nominated for a Grammy.
The piece premiered in 2009 in California performed by the Stockton Symphony, the lead commissioner. That performance featured the 23-minute piece as a score for hundreds of projected images by the famous landscape photographer.
The recording by Temple University Symphony Orchestra was made earlier this year, making the piece eligible for a Grammy.
"The music itself -- that's why we did this recording -- it stands by itself," said Robert Stroker, dean of arts at Temple University. "It can be performed either way -- by itself, or with photographs."
Brubeck wrote the piece with his son, Chris, who felt his father and the photographer shared an artistic affinity. Both men were from Northern California, and Adams studied to be a concert pianist before discovering photography.
Father and son were closely involved in the nearly yearlong process of arranging and recording with the Temple orchestra.
"Chris describes it as the musical version of a father and son fishing trip, working with his dad on this project," said Stroker. "You know, we're very saddened by the loss of Dave Brubeck this week, but I think Chris really, really treasured this experience of being able to work with his dad on this piece."
Also this year, the Temple University Symphony Orchestra recorded a piece composed by a former faculty member, Bill Cunliffe. "Overture Waltz and Rondo," a melding of jazz and classical styles, was also nominated for a Grammy.
Both recordings were released on Temple's own music label, BCM&D Records (Boyer College of Music and Dance). They are in competition for a Grammy with three other compositions.
"For a nonprofit educational program, to receive this recognition is a really great outcome of the dedication of our faculty, students, and staff," said Stroker. "We're going to have fun with it. The students are thrilled, and -- for me -- that's what I care about."
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Hello everyone:I reading some really exciting stuff on JQuery and started to skip pages but can't find what I am looking for regarding Selectors.I have an Un-Ordered List like this:

First Paragraph

Second Paragraph

I want to use classes at a minimum because I already have an ID on the P tag for ASP.
How do I select the second tag exclusively? I could filter by value or content but all the P tags in the list have similar stuff. I also see that I can use the contains() to find the tag based on specifics; but are there other ways to simply select the tag based on it's position?
Thanks for your help.
You haven't shown this in your example, but if you're saying that each P element inside the list has an id, then it would be simplest to select using that, e.g. $("#my-p-id");
If you don't have ids that you can select on, you could do something like this: $("li p")[1]; which will select all the paragraphs inside li tags, and give you the second match.
$("li p")[1];
Although it's good to avoid over-using classes and ids by putting them on every other element in the page, don't hold back from using them where it's going to simplify your jQuery selectors.
To elaborate on what fretburner says, $("li p")[1] will indeed select all the paragraphs inside li tags, and give you the second match.
$("li p")[1]
However, it will also return a DOM Node, as opposed to the .eq() method which will return a jQuery object (which is useful for chaining).
$('li p').eq(1).css('background-color', 'red');
=> Turns the background red.
$('li p')[1].css('background-color', 'red');
=> No effect.
Both have their uses, depending on what it is you are trying to achieve.
Here are a few more selectors:
$("ul > li:eq(1) > p") //:eq is 0 based
$("ul > li > p").eq(1) //jquery docs recommend eq() over :eq
$("ul > li:nth-child(2) > p") //:nth-child is 1 based
Thanks everyone for responding, I really appreciate your help.
The page is an ASP page: So I already have an ID doing things for the Server. So if I put JQuery via the ID, I risk causing a conflict between what the Server is doing on the Tag verses what I need JQuery to do.
But you all make a valid point and I think I should look more into how I can make both Systems use the same tag if at all possible. Maybe there is a way.
Either way, based on your responses I jave more options to move along and see what the best approach is.
Thanks again my friends.
P.S. How do I mark a thread or question as answered?
I risk causing a conflict between what the Server is doing on the Tag verses what I need JQuery to do.
I don't know anything about ASP, but I'll still say, "That's impossible."
Hi there,
I don't see any reason that this would not be possible as jQuery and ASP are two completely unrelated technologies.
You can't, I'm afraid.I asked the same thing a while back. The rationale is that it's always possible that someone with a better answer turns up and adds to the discussion.
It is not impossible but it depends on your project: There are hundreds of books that will tell you the pain it can take to do some simple things. Inf act, this is the biggest selling points of MVC as it outputs pure HTML and sits very well with JQuery.
Just out of interest, could you give us an example of what you mean.
Sure, no problem:
The following code is a section of my primary form: I find it better to put all of my form elements in a list, this way I can align or place them in precise position as if they were in a table:
<fieldset id="contact">
<legend class="category">Contact Information</legend>

Email Address Already Registered:
Forget your login? Recover your username or reset password

Invalid Email Address:
Max lenght 20, cannot start with dash or underscore:
<asp:TextBox ID="txtEmail" runat="server" TabIndex="7" MaxLength="50"></asp:TextBox>
* Email

Please Confirm Email:
Both email address entered must match.
<asp:TextBox ID="txtConfirmEmail" runat="server" TabIndex="8" MaxLength="50"></asp:TextBox>
* Confirm Email
Originally the idea was, when the page loads, the error is hidden, not by CSS but on the Server, because I did not have JQuery at the time: All I did was:
[highlight="C#"] protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e){ //hide all error message on page load}
If you look at the code: I am using HTML tags but adding the Server Attribute which allows me to hide the error messages:
Why did I do this? Because ASP.NET labels are a bunch of  tags.

Email Address Already Registered:
Forget your login? Recover your username or reset password

Invalid Email Address:
Max lenght 20, cannot start with dash or underscore:

Please Confirm Email:
Both email address entered must match.
Something like this:[highlight="C#"]<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Whats your name"></asp:Label>
Will look like this after it is rendered by the server:[/B][/I]
What is your name
I decided to use paragraph tags and control them from the server by adding the server attribute and an ID.
Another thing I did for the sake of [I][B]performance[/B][/I] is to remove the ID of any tags that is not used immediately by the server:
[B][I]Something like this:[/I][/B]
<asp:Label ID="lblThisIsMyId" runat="server" Text="Whats your name"></asp:Label>
Will look like this:
Whats your name">
This may not same like much but it reduces ViewState and provides a more cleaner HTML. Especially for pages where there are hundreds of tags with ID.
Now how does this affect JQuery? It doesn't, however it does affect my approach and design.The problems I had is that when ASP.NET is using a specific tag, then I have to work around it so that JQuery has access to the same tags.
Example: I can no-longer hide the ID's. But the biggest hurdle is with the error messages. If the server is hiding the error messages on Load, then JQuery cannot access those tags. So instead of hiding the error messages on the server,I simply had to add the CSS dynamically by the server. But to do this I still need an ID on the p tags because that's the only way the server can interact with them (I do not know another way).
So the code looks like this:
[highlight="C#"]userNameError.Attributes["class"] = (Validated.IsValidUsername ? "default" : "error"); txtUserName.CssClass = (Validated.IsValidUsername ? "" : "alert"); lblUserName.ID = (Validated.IsValidUsername ? "" : "lblUserName");
This line removes the ID if the tag is not in use of if there are no error messages:[/I]
lblUserName.ID = (Validated.IsValidUsername ? "" : "lblUserName");
The result of all of this is that I have a cleaner more usable HTML.
I am not saying ASP.NET does not work with JQuery, I am saying ASP.NET is not like PHP where tags can love each other side by side. ASP.NET needs an ID for everything and if those ID are doing other things, you may need to add JQuery directly to the tags or add a class.
Lastly, the plan to switch to ASP.NET MVC which is more cleaner, I am a purist I hate a page fill with bunch of span tags. I also cannot stand anything dynamic generated (html). With MVC you write your own HTML, so nothing is really generated. You have control of what tags goes where.
Thanks again!
Thanks for taking the time to reply.I think we are talking about slightly different things.I thought you meant that by including a class or id attribute on a tag (e.g. ), you could cause some kind of conflict between ASP and jQuery.However, having read your reply, this does not seem to be the case.


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NVIDIA's GeForce 700M Family: Full Details and Specsby Jarred Walton on 4/1/2013 9:00 AM EST
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Torrijos - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkHope they'll carry on giving mac user drivers quickly. Reply
Jorgisven - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkHaving spoken with nVidia technical engineers as part of my job, nVidia does not handle drivers for OSX. They "advise", but don't do any of the actual driver writing. Apple does that in-house. Boot Camp Windows, however, follows the same driver update path as everyone else using Windows. Reply
Boland - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linknVidia's job descriptions page says otherwise. They're actually looking at expanding their mac driver team.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/job_descriptions.html Reply
cpupro - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkYeah right, nVidia is giving specs of their GPU's to Apple developers so they can write GeForce drivers for OSX. nVidia is not crazy to share their knowledge to competition, because for writing drivers you need to know how GPU internally work. Reply
kasakka - Thursday, April 04, 2013 - linkTo my understanding it used to be Apple who wrote the drivers but Nvidia has possibly taken the reins back to themselves. There have been some Nvidia driver update releases that are newer than what is found in Apple's updates. Reply
TerdFerguson - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI'll never, ever, buy another laptop with a discrete GPU. The extra heat and power drain, together with the inflated prices and dishonest marketing just aren't worth the modest performance increase on a machine that will never really provide the same level of gaming performance that even a dirt cheap desktop machine will.
If a pair of 680M cards in SLI performs worse than a single 660TI, then it's just plain dishonest for NVidia to keep branding them thusly. I don't see onboard graphics overtaking desktop video boards any time soon, but for laptops the time is near and it can't come soon enough. Reply
geniekid - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThere are a number of laptops that let you switch between discrete and integrated graphics on demand so you can save power when you're on-the-go and still have that extra power when you're plugged in.
As for value versus desktops, yes there's a premium for mobility and the value of that mobility depends greatly on your lifestyle and job conditions. Reply
Flunk - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkYou have a point when it comes to high-end "gaming" laptops that weight 20+ pounds, cost a fortune and perform poorly. But there is a place for mid-range discrete GPUs in smaller systems that allow you to play games at moderate settings if you're on the go.
I think the best option would be a small laptop that connects to an external GPU but it appears that the industry disagrees with me. Reply
nehs89 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI totally agree with you.... all laptops in general and also win8 tablets should connect to an external GPU....that would be the solution to many problems.... you want to play heavy duty games just plug in the external GPU and If you want or need portability then use the ultrabook alone....I have also read that with the current technology this is not possible Reply
KitsuneKnight - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkSony shipped a laptop that supported a (low end) external dGPU. Another company showed a generic enclosure that could be used to connect a GPU to a computer via Thunderbolt (I'm not sure if it ever actually shipped, though). It certainly is possible, even if there's currently no link that could provide enough bandwidth to let a top-of-the-line GPU run full tilt.
I would think nVidia and/or Intel would want to push that market more, but it doesn't seem like anyone really cares, unfortunately. It would be nice to be able to 'upgrade' a laptop's GPU without having to replace the entire thing. Reply
crypticsaga - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkWhat possible reason would intel have for pushing a product like that? In fact if some sources are correct they are trying to do the exact opposite by bottlenecking even internal dGPU by limiting available PCIe lanes in Broadwell. Reply
shompa - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThat problem have been solved for over a year with Thunderbolt. Use a Thunderbolt PCIE with graphic card. Reply
fokka - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkafaik this is not entirely correct since even thunderbolt is too slow to properly utilize a modern graphics card.
this is not surprising, since thunderbolt is based on 4x pci-e 2.0 (2GB/s) and current desktop class graphics are using 16x pci-e 3.0 (~16GB/s) which is about eight times as fast.
so i wouldn't say the problem is completely solved throughput-wise, but thunderbold sure was an important step in the right direction. Reply
MojaMonkey - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkNo, shompa is correct, it has been solved with Thunderbolt and I'm personally using a GTX 680 connected externally. Works great. Reply
Wolfpup - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkUgh. You're either ignorant or reaaaaally generous with the hyperbole. "20+ lbs notebooks"? Really?
In real life, mid-range notebooks/GPUs do fine for gaming, and high end notebooks/GPUs do...REALLY fine. When you can max out today's games at 1080p, that isn't "performing poorly", and is orders of magnitude better than Intel's video.
If YOU guys don't want high end notebooks, fine, but I don't see how they're hurting you. Reply
lmcd - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkMy cheap A8m (Trinity) can play Rage at high texture res at panel res (1366x768), just for starters. And that's $400 level I think right now. Reply
superjim - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkI can confirm this. An A8-4500M does really well for $400 or below on 1366x768. Now if the A10 would come down to $400 we'll really be in good shape. Reply
xenol - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI had a laptop with discrete graphics that lasted for over 9 hours on battery, while surfing the web. It was a laptop with an early form of Optimus (you had to manually switch), but still, you can have graphical performance xor battery life if you don't need the performance. But asking for both? Now that's silly.
As for your issue with marketing the 680M as it is when it can't outperform a midrange desktop card... You do realize that this is a different market segment? Also you should tell "shame on you" to all the display companies who mislead customers into think they're buying a panel that can do 16 million colors (which last I checked, 18-bits is not 16 million) or have a 1000000:1 contrast ratio (which you need to be in a pitch black room and being shown a black/white checkerboard pattern to see). Reply
Wolfpup - Monday, April 01, 2013 - link"Modest performance increase"? I wouldn't call my GTX 680m a "modest performance increase" over Intel video lol
Are you KIDDING?!? Notebook hardware is ALWAYS worse than desktop. This applies obviously to CPUs too, which you're inexplicably not complaining about. You always pay more to get the same performance. That doesn't mean it's "dishonest" or the like.
And quite obviously integrated video can never catch up with a discreet part so long as they make high end discreet parts, so the time is "never", not "near".
Regarding the article...Optimus...eh, Nvidia's driver team is impressive as always, but literally the first program I ran that I wanted to run on the GPU wouldn't run on the GPU...thankfully my notebook lets you turn off Optimus. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkWhich program did you run that you wanted on the GPU? Please be very specific. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - link*Crickets* (again)
And this is why I don't buy into such claims; I had some issues when Optimus first launched, but I haven't had any I can specifically pinpoint in the last year or more. If anyone has something under Windows that doesn't play right with Optimus, please post it here so I can verify the issue. Otherwise, with no concrete evidence, it's just FUD. Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkVLC for starters. I seriously have no idea how you can be unaware of issues with it-any big notebook forum will have threads about it all the time, people trying to disable it. Reply
mrhumble1 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkSpeaking of dishonest, you are not sticking to the facts. You obviously don't own a nice laptop with a 680M inside. I do, and it performs amazingly well. I output games from my laptop to my TV via HDMI and they look spectacular.
You also obviously don't understand that desktop PCs (and their components) cannot be directly compared laptops. I also highly doubt that a "dirt cheap" PC can run The Witcher 2 at almost Ultra settings at a playable framerate. Reply
tviceman - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkYou're missing out then if you like to game. I've got a 560m that still performs admirably, running many of today's games with max settings (no AA) at 1600x900 60fps. I'm spoiled by fast frame rates and decent graphics settings, I can't imagine using even the upcoming haswell to play games like Bioshock Infinite on. Reply
xTRICKYxx - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI will never ever buy a laptop without a discrete card. Video cards 7770M/650M or above can play any game on 1920x1080 on high if there is a good enough CPU as well. Mobile graphics are starting to become powerful enough.
Look at Intel CPU's. My i7-2600K at home is slightly slower than my i7-3720QM clock for clock. Reply
jsilverstreak - Monday, April 01, 2013 - link680m sli is about 10% faster than a 680
and the 780m's leaked benchmark was on par with a 660ti Reply
jsilverstreak - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkoops it's actually the 680 the 780m is on par with
although its leaked Reply
nerd1 - Saturday, April 13, 2013 - linkYou obviously dont game, do you? Reply
Mr. Bub - Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - linkSure, maybe most mainstream users who facebook and email all day on laptops don't need anything more than integrated graphics, but guys like me (engineering students) who actually do stuff on computers will still rely on discrete GPUs. I can't properly run any of my CAD software without a discrete GPU. Reply
nerdstaz - Monday, April 22, 2013 - linkhttp://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-68...
Your comparison is a bit off base <3 Reply
moep - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThe slide deck does not work (404).
Technical difficulty or did you have to pull it? Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkIt's there now... our gallery is set to post things by day only, and since the NDA was at 9AM Eastern I didn't want the gallery going live nine hours early. So I set it for 4/2 and then just changed it to 4/1. Reply
nunomoreira10 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI was hoping to get an 15 inch normal size laptop with a gk106 fully enabled this summer, but this just crushed my hopes.
they will just keep using those highly clocked gk107 and call it mid-high end... Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkA fully enabled GK106 is almost certainly in the works, but it will be something like a GTX 770M. GTX 780M is likely to be GK104, but it will be interesting to see if NVIDIA can do a full enabled GK104 while keeping it within the typical 100W power envelope that gaming notebooks target. GTX 680MX is a full GK104, but I understand TDP is ~125W or so and that's why the only product using it is the iMac 27. We'll likely see the high-end 700M parts launch in June or July. Reply
transphasic - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkJared, a question for you regarding the 700m line out this year- are these going to be backwards compatible with our current HM laptops from 2012, or are they only for the new Haswell design?
Due to the issues that we have had with AMD, there's quite a few of us that want to get rid of AMD, and upgrade to the newest Nvidia card, and this 780m is quite a bit faster than the 680m.
I would like to swap out my 7970m GPU for the upcoming 780m card, and was wondering if this is do-able or not. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkKeep in mind that I'm guessing at 780M -- I could be off. As for backwards compatibility, given that we're essentially looking at minor tweaks and revisions to Kepler, they should all work fine in existing laptops. Getting a replacement GPU might be a bit difficult/expensive, though. Quick question: did the latest 13.3 beta drivers help you at all with 7970M? I Haven't had a chance to test then yet. Reply
transphasic - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThe new Catalyst 13.3 beta drivers are fine, and have no problems yet with them. My concern, though, is that these last few driver releases from AMD have not/are not dealing with increasing the FPS rates on current games, while Nvidia's has.
Even though the new games that are out like Bioshock are AMD-coded, Nvidia is winning the battle on better gaming performance. While Nvidia is releasing their standard (and better) drivers for newer games at a faster rate than AMD is (as is usual), AMD is falling further and futher behind in other areas as well in terms of hardware specs- in this case, their 8000 series gaming GPU for this summer which has been very disappointing in it's specs, to say the least.
This is why I want to upgrade to the new 780m GPU. From what was said on another forum, the preliminary specs for the 780m is the equivalent of the 680MX for the Imac released late last year.
It is said to offer a 20%+ improvement over the 680m, and if it's backwards compatible to the HM series motherboards that we currently have, it's worth thinking about upgrading to this year for our existing Sager laptops.
You're right about the cost, though. If the price is prohibitive, then it would make sense to wait for the Maxwell release next year with whatever Nvidia has out then.
It really depends on cost at this point. Reply
nunomoreira10 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkA fully enabled gk106 may be asking to much
maybe with 1 smx and a 64-bit memory controler disabled
leaving it with 3 smx a fast 128-bit memory controler and call it gt755m or gtx760m
it would be the gt555m of this generation and a sweet spot for a standart perfomance 15 inch laptop. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI'm about 99% sure we'll see a full GK106 on mobile this year; the only question is what they'll call it. Well, that and how much power will it use and what will its clocks be. For clocks, 2500MHz (5000MHz effective GDDR5) seems likely, and clocks will probably be in the 600-700MHz range with Boost taking it up to a max of around 800MHz. That's my guess anyway. TDP will be ~70W, though, so this will be a part for larger gaming notebooks only.
/speculation Reply
tviceman - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkBased on the products announced today, it looks like GK106 based mobile GPU's will start with the gtx760m, and will surely be available in a 15" form factor. Reply
Kevin G - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkWhat I'd like to see is an ExpressCard version of the low end parts. I've been working with numerous business class laptops with this expansion slot and I've run into the situation where I could use an additional display. I've used USB adapters but they've been less than ideal. I fathom a low clock GK208 chip and a 64 bit wide memory bus could be squeezed into an ExpressCard form factor. I'd expect it to perform around the level of Intel HD4000 but that'd still be far superior to USB solutions. Reply
arthur449 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkWhile some ExpressCard slots give access to the PCI-E bus, the problem is that the laptop's BIOS/UEFI has to support the device in its whitelist. In almost every situation where people have modded their laptops and attached them to external GPUs, they had to flash a custom ROM to remove compatibility restrictions put in place to limit the amount of compatibility testing the vendor had to conduct. Reply
rhx123 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkA surprisingly low amount of laptops needed modification to remove the whitelist on the express card slot, and it is possible to do it with software pre-windows if there is whitelisiting.
I did not have to whitelist on my Lenovo X220T. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkCooling would require the majority of the GPU to exist outside of the slot if you go this route. I don't think you could properly route heat-pipes through the relatively thin slot opening with a radiator/fan on the outside. Once you go external, the number of people really interested in the product drops quite a bit, and you'd still need to power the device so on most laptops without a dGPU I expect the external ExpressCard option would also require external power. At that point, the only real value is that you could have an external GPU hooked up to a display and connect your laptop to it for a semi-portable workstation. Reply
Kevin G - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkIt would be crazy to put any of these chips into an ExpressCard form factor without reducing power consumption. I was thinking of dropping the clock down to 400 Mhz and cutting power consumption further with a corresponding drop in voltages. It wouldn't have to break any performance records, just provide full acceleration and drive an external display.
In hindsight, the GK208 may be too power hungry. The 28 nm Fermi parts (GF117?) should be able to hit the power and thermal allocations for ExpressCard without resorting to an external chassis. Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI like the IDEA of a connection to an external dock that allows ANY video card to be used (heck, why not go for SLI?) but notebooks would have to be able to support it-sounds like lots don't, plus tons of notebooks don't have ExpressCard slots anymore (plus not sure if the bandwidth would start being a bottleneck or not). (Or obviously Thunderbolt could theoretically pull this off too...IF you could just boot with any GPU installed and have the external GPU active by the time Windows boots at least). Reply
rhx123 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkYou can make an external graphics card if you want, I have a 650Ti desktop card attached through ExpressCard.
It's powered by an XBox PSU.
http://imgur.com/239skMP Reply
rhx123 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkIt can drive the internal laptop display through Optimus. Reply
Flunk - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkDisappointing, this is a really small bump. Mostly a re-labelling of existing parts. Although I suppose it is to be expected seeing as almost all Geforce GT 640m LE-650ms can be clocked up to 1100Ghz with a little bit of bios hacking. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkBesides the fact that nothing runs at 1100GHz (or Ghz, whatever those are), I dare say you've exaggerated quite a bit. Many laptops with even moderate dGPUs run quite warm, and that's with the dGPUs hitting a max clock of around 900MHz (GT 650M with DDR3 and a higher clocked core as opposed to GDDR5 with a lower clocked core). If you manage to hack the VBIOS for a laptop to run what is supposed to be a 500MHz part at 1GHz or more, you're going to overload the cooling system on virtually every laptop I've encountered.
In fact, I'll go a step further and say that with very few exceptions, overclocking of laptops in general is just asking for trouble, even when the CPU supports it. I tested old Dell XPS laptops with Core 2 Extreme CPUs that could be overclocked, and the fans would almost always be at 100% under any sort of load as soon as you started overclocking. Long-term, that sort of thing is going to cause component failures far more quickly, and on laptops that cost well over $2000 I think most would be quite angry if it failed after a couple years.
If you understand the risks and don't really care about ruining a laptop, by all means have at it. But the number of laptops I've seen running stock that have heat dissipation issues urges extreme caution. Reply
StevoLincolnite - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkNot really. Overclocking is fine if you know what you're doing.
Years ago I had a Pentium M 1.6ghz notebook with a Mobility Radeon 9700 Pro.
Overclocked that processor to 2.0ghz+ and the Graphics card core clock was almost doubled.
Ran fine for years, eventually the screen on it died due to sheer age, but I'm still using it as file server hooked up to an old monitor still to this day, with about a half dozen external drives hanging off it. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkHence the "with very few exceptions". You had a top-end configuration and overclocked it, but that was years ago. Today with Turbo Boost the CPUs are already pushing the limits most of the time in laptops (and even in desktops unless you have extreme cooling). GPUs are doing the same now with GPU Boost 2.0 (and AMD has something similar, more or less). But if you have a high-end Clevo, you can probably squeeze an extra 10-20% from overclocking (YMMV).
But if we look at midrange offerings with GT 640M LE...well, does anyone really think an Acer M5 Ultrabook is going to handle the thermal load or power load of a GPU that's running twice as fast as spec over the long haul? Or what about a Sony VAIO S 13.3" and 15.5" -- we're talking about Sony, who is usually so worried about form that they underclock GPUs to keep their laptops from overheating. Hint: any laptop that's really thin isn't going to do well with GPU or CPU overclocking! I know there was a Win7 variant of the Sony VAIO S that people overclocked (typically 950MHz was the maximum anyone got stable), but that was also with the fans set to "Performance".
Considering the number of laptops I've seen where dust buildup creates serious issues after six months, you're taking a real risk. The guys who are pushing 950MHz overclocks on 640M LE are also the same people that go and buy ultra-high-end desktops and do extreme overclocking, and when they kill a chip it's just business as usual. Again, I reiterate that I have seen enough issues with consumer laptops running hot, especially when they're over a year old, that I suggest restraint with laptop overclocking. You can do it, but don't cry to NVIDIA or the laptop makers when your laptop dies! Reply
transphasic - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkTotally agreed. I had a Clevo/Sager Laptop with the 9800m GTX in it, and after only two years, it died, due to the Nvidia GPU getting fried to a crisp. The heat build-up from internal dust accumulation was what destroyed my $2700 dollar laptop after only 2 years of use.
Ironically, I was thinking about overclocking it prior to it dying on me. In looking back, good thing I didn't do it. Overclocking is risky, and the payoffs are just not worth it, unless you are ready to take the expensive financial risks involved. Reply
Drasca - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI've got a Clevo x7200 and I just cleaned out a wall of dust after discovering it was thermal throttling hard core. I've got to hand it to the internals and cooling of this thing though, it was still running like a champ.
This thing's massive cooling is really nice.
I can stably overclock the 485m GPU from 575 Mhz to 700Mhz without playing with voltages. No signifigant difference in temps, especially compared to when it was throttling. Runs at 61C.
I love the cooling solution on this thing. Reply
whyso - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkIt depends really. As long as you don't touch voltage the temperature does not rise much. I have a 660m and it reaches 1085/2500 without any problems (ANIC rating of 69%). Overclocked vs non overclocked is basically a 2 degree difference (72 vs 74 degrees). Better than a stock 650 desktop.
Also considering virtually every 660m I have seen boost up to 950/2500 from 835/2000 I don't think the 750m is going to be any upgrade. Many 650m have a boost of 835 core so there really is no upgrade there either (maybe 5-10%). GK107 is fine with 64 GB/sec bandwidth. Reply
whyso - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkWhoops sorry didn't see the 987 clocks, nice jump there. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkFunny thing is that in reading comments on some of the modded VBIOS stuff for the Sony VAIO S, the modder say, "The Boost clock doesn't appear to be working properly so I just set it to the same value..." Um, think please Mr. Modder. The Boost clock is what the GPU is able to hit when certain temperature and power thresholds are not exceeded; if you overclock, you've likely inherently gone beyond what Boost is designed to do.
Anyway, a 2C difference for a 660M isn't a big deal, but you're also looking at a card with a default 900MHz clock, so you went up in clocks by 20% and had a 3% temperature increase (and no word on fan speed). Going from 500MHz to 950MHz is likely going to be more strenuous on the system and components. Reply
damianrobertjones - Monday, April 01, 2013 - link"and their primary competition in the iGPU market is going to be HD 4000 running on a ULV chip!"
Wouldn't that be the HD 4600? Also it's a shame that no-one really states the HD4000 with something like Vengeance ram which improves performance Reply
HisDivineOrder - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkSo if the "core hardware" is the same from Boost 1 and 2, then nVidia should go on and make Boost 2.0 be something we all can enable in the driver.
Or... are they trying to get me to upgrade to new hardware to activate a feature my card is already fully capable of supporting? Haha, nVidia, you so crazy. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThere may be some minor difference in the core hardware (some extra temperature or power sensors?), but I'd be shocked if NVIDIA offered an upgrade to Boost 1.0 users via drivers -- after all, it looks like half of the performance increase from 700M is going to come from Boost 2.0! Reply
HisDivineOrder - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkYeah. I kinda figured. Still, if it's the same, then it'd be foolish not to ask.
I knew when I heard about Boost 2.0 in Titan that all that time spent discussing it was going to mean it would show up in Kepler refresh products relatively soon afterward. I wouldn't be surprised to see nVidia refresh even the desktop high end with something like that. Minor changes, including slightly higher clocks and a newer Boost.
Even a "minor change" would probably be enough to ruin AMD's next six months. Reply
Guspaz - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI've been using GeForce Experience, and have some comments. It's definitely a timesaver, and it's nice to be able to "just click a button" and not have to worry about tweaking the detailed settings (although it's nice to still be able to if I want to override something). I find that the settings it picks generally do run at a good framerate on my rig. It also makes driver updates easier, since it presents you with notification of new drivers (even betas), gives you a nice list of changes in each version, and makes install a one-click affair (it downloads/installs inside the app).
Downsides? First, it doesn't support very many games. This is understandable since supporting a game means they need to have setting profiles for every one of their cards, but also a whole lot of other configurations such as different CPUs and different monitor resolutions. Unless there is some sort of dynamic algorithm involved, that would be an enormous number of potential configs per game. Still, the limited game support is unfortunate. Second, the app will continually notify you that new optimized settings are available, even when the new settings it downloaded are not for any game you have installed. So it keeps telling me there are new settings, but when I go into the app to check, there are no updates for any of my games. Reply
Wolfpup - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI hadn't heard of this program, and have to say it's kind of a cool idea. Heck, *I* don't always like messing around with sometimes vaguely settings in games, I think for the average user this could be really cool, and does indeed help make it more console like. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI like that they went in and started supporting prioritizing resolution. So instead of just abstractly telling me to change my 2560x1600 to 1920x1200/1080, they leave it at 2560x1600 now. That's good.
Plus, their latest release notes also said they were adding SLI support, which is great.
The thing that I think this program lacks is the option to set certain settings that you want to be true regardless and then have the program adjust to recommend specs around certain "givens" that you won't ever change.
For example, I'm not a big fan of AA unless there is ABSOLUTELY no performance setting that can't be turned all the way up. I can imagine some people might want AA at all costs because jaggies just bug them.
I think we should both have the option to prioritize for the setting we want. I'd also love it if we had a program like Geforce Experience that let us alter the settings for a game before we entered it and also served as a launcher (much as Geforce Experience does), but I think instead of just doing the defaults, we should have the option to select the settings, choose the "Optimal" as determined by nVidia, and also the option to do the tweaking from right inside the Geforce Experience interface.
And if I'm adding in wish list items, I'd love it if nVidia would integrate SMAA and FXAA into the program. Hell, I think I'd really prefer it if Geforce Experience would serve a similar function to SweetFX except in an official setting kinda way. So we could tweak the game from Geforce Experience in addition to just it serving as a simple optimizer.
It could come with an "Advanced" mode. I think a quick launch and/or settings for the control panel might be nice to help us move between different UI's, from adjusting the game to adjusting the profiles to adjusting the settings of the video card. Maybe it should be the same interface with different tabs to interact with each element.
And... nah. That's it. Reply
cjb110 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkmmm, I don't like it seems to push the pretty too much hurt performance no end.
Now it might be that its looking at GPU only, in which case...duh pointless.
Nice idea, but needs to be a bit more balanced in its options! Reply
tviceman - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkJared, can you confirm or not if these parts have the same (or very similar) power envelope as their like-named 600 series parts that are being replaced? Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkMy understanding is that they do have the same approximate power envelopes. However, keep in mind that NVIDIA doesn't disclose notebook power TDPs -- they simply say that they work with each OEM to provide what the OEM desires. Thus, two laptops with GT 750M could potentially have TDPs as much as 5-10W apart (or not -- I don't know how much of a difference we're likely to see). Reply
Einy0 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI hate this up to crap for specs. This leaves way too much wiggle room for OEMs to under clock the chips to fit a certain cooling profile. This messes with performance way too much. There should be clearly defined specifications for each GPU model. The typical consumer doesn't understand that the bigger number doesn't mean faster. It doesn't make sense that you pay more for a higher end part only to have it nerfed down to the OEM's cooling solution, etc... Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkNVIDIA's policy is that a GPU has to score within 10% of the "stock" GPU in order to have the same model name, so a GT 650M with DDR3 can't be more than 10% off the performance of a GT 650M with GDDR5. Of course, there's a catch: the 10% margin is measured with 3DMark Vantage "Performance" defaults, which aren't nearly as meaningful as using a suite of games for the testing. So basically, I'm with you: it sucks. Reply
random2 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - link... but again considering Windows 8 almost requires a touchscreen to really be useful that's expected ...
Really? Once this OS is set to boot to the desktop, it's a great little OS for those of us who don't run tablets or touch panels. Reply
kyuu - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkHaven't you heard? Windows 8's desktop is apparently unusable, you are forced into the Start screen for everything. And, it's really, really hard to click the tiles with a mouse. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkObviously I'm referring more the the OEM feelings than what people really need; I probably should have put requires in quotes. :-) But, I will say that I find the Start Screen to be much more useful with a touchscreen vs. a mouse. I will also say that I'm still running Windows 7 on all my personal use laptops and desktops, and on most Windows 8 laptops I install Classic Shell. Reply
lightsout565 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI wonder why Vizio chose to go with AMD for their dGPU's, putting the 8670M in their new 15.6" thin and light Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkAlmost certainly thanks to pricing, but don't forget to note that the 8670M is only in the AMD A10 based model -- oddly, at least right now, the Intel model doesn't support a dGPU? Reply
lightsout565 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkExactly. Samsung's new Series 7 Chronos offers a quad core i7 (identical to the Vizio's) with an 8870m. Look's nice. Reply
willy54 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkMy 670mx in my g75vx is a gk104 will that make any difference in overclocking or does the memory width hold it back? Reply
karbom - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkdoes it mean that gt 730m which appeared earlier this year in laptops such as dell inspiron 14r still uses GK107(128 bit memory bandwith) rather than just announced 64 bit GK208. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkI think so... but you'd have to see if it's a 64-bit or 128-bit interface. To my knowledge, only GK208 supports 64-bit interface configurations. (Well, along with Fermi of course.) Reply
karbom - Saturday, April 13, 2013 - linkThnx i guess i have no other option than to 1st buy inspiron 14 and then check it out myself for 128/64 bit interface LOL........! Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkWell played, nVidia!
Nobody bothers any more to complain about Fermis still being used in the "700 series", let alone the same Kepler chips as in the "600 series". Maybe they should start to simply attach years to the model numbers, to make it clear that they say nothing anymore about the technological generation or capabilities of the chips. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkThey're so low end that I hardly worry about them. Anyone buying a 710M or GT 720M ought to know what they're getting, and at least they're 28nm. Reply
Notmyusualid - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkI used to shake my head when I read comments about supposed 20+ lbs laptops, noise, heat, cost, etc.
They are not as noisy, nor as heavy as you think. Sure, if you run wPrime all day, you are going to hear it...if you OpenCL compute, you'll hear the GPUs too.
But nobody is forcing you to buy it, and there is clearly a market out there.
Now I smile at the ignorant comments. Like another posted said, making these big laptops is not hurting you, so why hate?
My M18x R2 gets 5+hrs on discrete graphics (nice for typing reports in airports, when you've no lounge access, and unsure of the batteries current capacity).
On it's dual graphic cards I push 3DMark06 33,500, 3DMark11 11,250+, under Linux, Pyrit crunches 130,000PMK/s - all with NO GPU OVERCLOCKING.
Can YOUR desktop do that? I know of many that can't.
What are valid opinions here, is the confusing GPU-naming-game, that both AMD & Nvidia play.
Forcing many uninformed / incorrect purchases, the world over.
If the average consumer knew what they'd get with GDDR3, and 128bit bus width, they might run a mile. Let alone what architecture might reside beneath... I'd welcome a more consistent naming approach, like BMW, for example. (You can be sure your 550i is gonna smoke a 316i). And I'm not saying that is a perfect system either.
Anyway, like they say on Youtube, "Haters are gonna hate". Reply
Rishi. - Monday, April 22, 2013 - linkummmmm........yes , its the confusing naming schemes they follow , coupled by somewhat more confusing spec. sheet.! Reply
nerd1 - Saturday, April 13, 2013 - linkSamsung released chronos 7 with 8870m, which lasts 10+ hrs, 20mm thick and more powerful than 670M and weighs slightly more than rmbp 15.
Mobile gaming really gets awesome. Reply
Rishi. - Monday, April 22, 2013 - linkYeah , it certainally does.!!!
I just wished I had a portable beast with GTX675 ,or around that.!!!
Desktop users gonna hate , though.!!! Reply
karbom - Sunday, April 14, 2013 - linkHi Jarred. I have a confirmation that acer laptop v3 571g has 730m with 128 bit memory bus bandwidth interface. What do you think about other OEMs like Dell, will they implement the same 128 bit interface or 64 bit interface as specifications tend to differ among OEMs also Notebookcheck.net indicates interface as 128/64 bit. Reply
Mr. Bub - Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - linkAnd here begins the obsolescence of my 6 month old laptop with a GT640m. Reply
Rishi. - Monday, April 22, 2013 - linkTHe only thing I am pissed off about from Nvidia is that their technical specifications about their mobile dGPUs. I have a hard time finding out the difference b/w some of their cards by looking at the spec. sheet. They all apper to be almost same (unless you consider the clock variations.)!!
Overclocking is safe , but only as long as you don't mess with the voltages and step up the clock speed slowly. And its not at all a good idea to push the dGPU around the upper limits.
I don't know much about the newer 700m series , but I used to have two models of Kepler600m series. I overclocked the GT640m to touch the values around a DDR3 GT650m , using a modded vBIOS. The temperature for GPU never exceeded 76C with the help of a powerful cooler at 99% load for several minutes.
Performance was on par with GT650 DDR3.!!! :)
However , for me the major issues was the blazing hot cores of 3610QM.Under 60-75% load for 30mins , it reaches 90C , just like that.!!!! Its probably either a poor thermal paste.
And to those who think the laptops with dGPU are poor performing and are overpriced , " are you new to this world , baby!!!! ?? ". Cause here on Earth , I have never heard of a Notebook which performs better than a Desktop at same price point. You have to pay the price for mobility.!!!
"Haters gonna Hate.!" Reply
sdubyas - Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - linkyou see for many consumers, like myself, we appreciate your efforts to interpret what is going on with the the specs of tgese chips. however even with this information i am weary of trying decipher what and when I should actually purchase a machine that is not just a rebrand or fail chip. I got burned on a Toshiba satellite with sli of their 8600M and it was a piece, one that failed in just over two years. anyway, that was 2007 and I said I'd never buy another "gaming laptop" but it's time to try again. would anyone of you recommend a laptop that is already available or will soon be. I am really looking at a 680m as it shold be relevant for a couple of years. however, I really don't have more than 1.5k to burn especially on another fail laptop. I also looked at the macbook but they are running only 650m and I'm not sure when their next gen is forthcoming.
here is something I am also considering: http://www.villageinstruments.com/tiki-index.php?p... has anyone looked into the vidock? Reply
Menetlaus - Monday, May 06, 2013 - linkI realize this likely won't be read or replied to, but it would be GREATLY appreciated to have a few laptops reviewed with the 7 hundred series nVidia GPU's prior to the Haswell launch.
In my case it would be much easier to compare a Ivy Bridge/660M to IB/750M and finally the to a Haswell/750M in a midrange gaming system rather than skipping the IB/750M step and wondering how much of the change is CPUvsGPU based.
Lenovo had/has some IB/750M gaming laptops for sale (replacing an IB/660M offering) and will likely have a Haswell/750M available shortly after the Haswell launch. MSI also has lines with IB/660M and is likely to be at the haswell mobile launch party. Reply
Trollinglikepong - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkIf only Nvidia would ditch ddr3 for GPU ram, rebadge 500M Kepler with higher clock speed, what Nvidia has always done, nothing to see here folks. Reply


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Giving mom the a handmade gift is the perfect Mother's day present that she will appreciate and treasure for years to come.
Giving mom the a handmade gift is the perfect Mother's day present that she will appreciate and treasure for years to come.
Making handprints with young children is a classic activity that never goes out of style for any mom.
With a little help from an adult, children of any age can make their own artwork that will be sure leave a mark on mom's heart.
This crafty gift idea for mom gets even better if it's done once a year. Since children's hands grow all the time, the finished piece always looks a little different each year. You can imagine what a wonderful collection Mom will have as her child grows - it's something she'll look back on with her son or daughter years and years later!
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- paper
- markers, glitter - for embellishment
- frame
- paint brush
- glitter (optional)
Check out these easy instructions for mom's handmade Mother's Day gift!
Step 1: For a less messier process, instead of dipping the child's hand into the finger paint, take a paint brush and paint the paint onto the child's hands. Make sure you get all the little crevices. Have the kid stamp their hands onto the piece of paper, making sure that all the fingers are down on the paper.
*If you want to get even more creative, let your family pet join in on the fun too! First make sure the paint is toxic safe. Paint the paw of your furry friend and have them stamp their paws on the project too!
Step 2: If you want to dazzle the handprints up a bit, add some glitter! While the paint is wet, hold the paper over a trash can and sprinkle some glitter over it. The glitter will dry and stick to the handprint.
Step 3: After the paint dries, start decorating! You can cut out the handprints and paste them on a colored sheet of paper or you can just decorate around the handprint. Make this handprint craft worthy of gift giving by mounting it in a frame and adding personalized embellishments.
This will sure be a great Mother's Day gift that mom will cherish forever!
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I adopted a cockatiel from a friend about a week ago. She is about 10 years old. I have TWO questions.
First, she won't do anything. She'll get on my hand and shoulder, but she won't play or do much but sit in her cage, on top of it or anyplace I put her, but she won't play. Does she just need time adjusting for a while? Her previous owner did not take her out of her cage or interact with her at all. Is there a way I can teach her to play? I had parakeets before and they played as soon as you put a new toy near them....so I'm not sure about cockatiel behavior.
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7 Comments:
- RAJESH said....
Its very glad that your posted your schedule here. Two questions
1) from your schedule we can infer that there will be too much delay (may be a Week or so) from you in answering questions in Asktom ;)
2)But why "Where is Tom?" calender in AskTom is not visible now? is that completely removed?
- Thomas Kyte said....
1) I answer when I have time (I do other things, not just travel :) )
2) I just need to get in and fill it - I did the blog post yesterday, no I have to transcribe that to the calendar in asktom!
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I've heard about changes in Denver in January - but that was a different topic.
Changing your location does also mean changing your scope of functions within Oracle Corp. ? Are we allowed to hear more about that ?
- Thomas Kyte said....
No, the move doesn't change what I do. I'm still "asktom" and the Product Manager for the optimizer (something I picked up last year).
with what I do, I can live anywhere I want as long as it is near a major airport :)
- Sokrates said....
I didn't know that you have taken Maria's job.
I liked her "Insights into the workings of the Optimizer" on https://blogs.oracle.com/optimizer
Can we expect a continuation of this series ?
- Hoek said....
I'll be in Breda! :)
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Would you please upload your slides from your RMOUG keynote and sessions before you get snowed under with more travel and talks next week?
thanks and good luck with the rest of your upcoming events and travels.


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THE HOTLY-anticipated Under 20's Six Nations is set to return to Colwyn Bay next month.
Wales will once again play their home games at Eirias Park, and tickets are now available for two mouthwatering matches against Ireland on Friday February 1, and England on Friday March 15.
WRU Head of Rugby Joe Lydon said: "The north Wales public came out in force last season to support our youngsters, with all three of our home matches sold out ahead of matchday and we wanted to repay that faith by freezing the prices for this season.
"Eirias proved to be a fantastic venue for our Under 20 Six Nations matches last season with everyone involved in staging the matches showing a professionalism and enthusiasm for the games that helped to create a unique international experience for the players, coaches and supporters.
"We are delighted to have committed to Wales Under 20 playing their home Six Nations games in Colwyn Bay for this season and next.
"Danny Wilson's side performed superbly to finish third at the Junior World Championship in South Africa and they will be looking to build on that success this season starting with Wales Under 20 v Ireland on Friday, 1 February, 2013."
Tickets for the Eirias games are £15 for reserved seating and £10 (adults) and £5 (concessions) in the terrace and with last season's games all selling out well in advance of matchday, supporters are urged to act quickly to avoid disappointment.
Tickets are available from: Colwyn Leisure Centre, on 01492 577900; Venue Cymru at www.venuecymru.co.uk or 01492 872200 or via www.wru.co.uk/tickets.