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I've been programming in web based languages for over 10 years but am at a point in my career that I want to hire firms to create my projects. Have been using Odesk since 2009 to outsource most jobs like programming, design, content creation etc, but to tell you the truth I am burnt out. I just want a company that doesn't go over the top in terms of trying to sell me everything under the sun. A company i can give an idea to, give a template to, and give a deadline to and have them take care of everything. I don't want marketing, and seo, hosting, or a sales pitch. I basically want a project manager with a team of skilled developers, who is dependable and hopefully from the United States. One that can do fairly complex projects for somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000 reliably assuming i spell out all the details for them and provide a template.
Anyone here understand where im coming from? Thanks
This may need to be moved to another section of the forum. Im referencing PHP & MySQL development project management. Thanks guys.
Yes, i understand your need, unfortunately its hard to find reliable people that keep their word till the end. But you should be happy. There are also reliable people that cant find work because they aren`t recognised
s hard to find reliable people that keep their word till the end. But you should be happy. There are also reliable people that can
It is near impossible to find reliable people that can meet deadline yes
Also IM not wanting someone from sitepoint to do my work (i keep getting private messages) I was rather looking to find some like minded persons and see what they were doing.
Big thanks more would be appreciated
Most of the large companies in India I have found are reliable, but the people doing the work refuse to do ANY problem solving when it is required. They also tend to exaggerate their hours in order to get more money out of the deal.
I'd be happy to talk to you about working together on some of these projects if you are interested. Our average turnaround time on a website is 7-10 days.
This is the issue im having, and that's why im here. Lol Thanks for the reply.
Managing the people reliably is on of the part of project management.Getting the work done in timely manner is one of the challenges .I make use of the project management templates for the purpose of managing my activities.


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The early days of May are chock-full of toast-worthy celebrations: Since today is May Day and Monday is Cinco de Mayo, combine the celebrations with this Lavender Margarita where our favorite south-of-the-border cocktail combines with a spring-centric floral aroma.
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Evgeni Malkin: 'My motivation now is very good'
Mike Kadar was curious how the 20 days he spent in Moscow this summer working over Evgeni Malkin would translate to Penguins training camp.
He received his answer Monday morning. He walked into the Consol Energy Center workout room and saw Malkin, shirt soaked in sweat, waiting for him.
"First guy in the gym," said Kadar, the Penguins' strength and conditioning coach. "I'd never seen that before."
In the two years since he won the NHL scoring title, led the playoffs in points and lifted the Stanley Cup, Malkin has missed 54 games, scored only 43 goals, had his right knee surgically repaired and been dropped from the conversation about the planet's finest hockey player.
He can recite those numbers. He can see his scars. He can read English well enough now to know "superstar" looked better than "star" before his name.
He senses that Penguins teammates and fans are calling for this, his sixth season, to be a "comeback year."
This is no comeback, though.
"I hope people understand this is (a) new me," Malkin said. "I've changed my workouts because maybe I was lazy before. Maybe I just played hockey, and that (was) good enough, but (there) is more for me to do.
"My motivation now is very good."
The sight of Malkin -- the only Penguin besides Mario Lemieux whose name is on the Calder Trophy, Conn Smythe Trophy and the Stanley Cup -- beating Kadar and teammates to the club's weight room validates a prediction from former Penguins defenseman Sergei Gonchar, Malkin's close friend and one-time mentor.
"I've worked out with him for years, and it seemed to me this summer he was more motivated, more focused, so it doesn't surprise me that has carried over," Gonchar said.
"His conditioning before didn't let him perform at the level people expected of him. That won't be the case this year. He'll be able to do whatever he wants on the ice."
Gonchar, who now plays for Ottawa, and Kadar know what Malkin wants. They heard him say it repeatedly this summer.
"I've always said to him before, 'Geno, you can be great if you just put in the work,' and he wouldn't say anything in response," Kadar said. "He hired me to train him this summer, and the first thing I asked before saying yes was, 'Geno, do you want to be great?'
"Geno started talking about the Cup."
Painful blessing
He hasn't completed a hockey game since Jan. 18. He missed five games because of a sprained left knee, then returned for a home date against Buffalo on Feb. 4. It was his last of the season.
That was the Penguins' 12th straight game without concussed captain Sidney Crosby, who had teamed with Malkin to form a 1-2 center tandem that had become known as "The MegaPowers." The Penguins were banking on Malkin to carry them in Crosby's extended absence, as he famously had in the past, starting with that game against the Sabres.
Second period, first shift, Malkin collided with Buffalo defenseman Tyler Myers and ...
"Sounded like (a) pop," Malkin said of tearing of his right-knee ligaments.
The Penguins finished the regular season admirably, racking up points with stout defense, sturdy goaltending and shootout victories. Malkin watched games on a TV in the dressing room, frustrated he could not contribute when his teammates needed him most.
"It was the first time I haven't played hockey in a long time," he said, "and of course it made me appreciate it because it was a tough moment in my life.
"I know I could (have) helped."
He pushed to play in Game 7 of a first-round playoff series against Tampa Bay -- despite being told he couldn't -- and said he hoped to dress in Round 2. The Penguins didn't make it that far, but they scored a victory for down the road.
Daily rehab sessions that maxed out at three hours with team physical therapist Mark Mortland convinced Malkin his hard work couldn't end after his knee healed.
"I never worked with a personal (strength) coach before," he said. "Sid, (Jordan Staal and Kris Letang), they work with personal coaches, and I wanted the same idea. I wanted to take a coach and work with him, for him to show me how to do it right because sometimes I'd do it wrong.
"Now I understand a little more how to do the work."
Best Geno yet
Malkin finished last season with 15 goals and 37 points in 43 games. The prior season, during which he battled shoulder and foot injuries, he totaled 28 goals and 77 points in 67 games. Two seasons, 110 games, 43 goals, 71 assists.
Absent from his game was the effortlessness, fearlessness and confidence. His shots looked flat. He measured passes. His once-mesmerizing moves appeared stale.
He wasn't himself in form or production, Malkin said. He wondered what happened to the player who tallied 82 goals and 219 points while not missing a game from 2007-09.
As the Penguins open the regular season opens Thursday in Vancouver, they don't care what happened to that Malkin. They believe this Malkin, whom Kadar said has "bulked up without losing his agility or gaining a pound," might be the best version.
"If not completely, he's at least right there," said defenseman Paul Martin, who witnessed Malkin's zenith when Martin played for New Jersey prior to joining the Penguins last season.
"From playing against him and now watching him, it's pretty easy to see how good he really is when he's out there trying. In one (exhibition) game, I saw him beat a guy off the wall, take a loop across the zone and bring another guy to him and find someone else open. He was just taking complete control by himself.
"That's the guy who is scary good."
Singular focus
The Cup is the only thing teammates hear Malkin talk seriously about, and he is talking more than ever -- and not just to them.
He opened a Twitter account this summer, gaining 10,000 followers in one day. He posts tweets in English and Russian. This past week alone he congratulated Steelers safety Troy Polamalu on a touchdown and joked about bumping Crosby, who still isn't cleared for contact, during a faceoff drill.
Malkin said it is no accident he is often photographed wearing Steelers, Pirates or Pitt gear. He wants Pittsburghers to know he thinks of the city as a second home.
He also wants the Penguins to know he appreciates that his duties go beyond dominating on the ice. This is the reason he approached the media relations staff recently and asked to handle more media interviews and promotional requests.
Malkin said since he is paid as much as Crosby, the Penguins' face, he should do as much, too.
The development of this new Malkin -- better conditioned, more comfortable -- does not surprise his idol and legendary Russian superstar Igor Larionov.
"He is genuine to want to win for the team in Pittsburgh," Larionov said. "That is what I like most about him.
"He cares -- about his team, his fans in Pittsburgh -- and he wants to be great again for them. If he shows that more, that side of him, you will see the real Geno more than ever before."
A typical day in Malkin's training regimen
Penguins center Evgeni Malkin hired the club's strength and conditioning coach, Mike Kadar, as his personal trainer during the summer. Here's an example of one of their 20 days together in Russia:
• 7:30 a.m. (breakfast)
Light meal (fruit, grains, protein)
• 9:30 a.m. (gym work)
Warm up (quick run)
Dynamic warm up (plyometrics, jumps and stretches)
Activation (strength bands)
Weight training (upper and lower body, on alternating days)
• 11:30 a.m.
Cool down (stationary bike)
Stretch and massage
• 12 to 2:30 p.m. (recovery)
Drink supplement shake
Lunch (sushi, sandwich and soup)
Sleep (approximately 60 minutes)
• 3 to 5 p.m. (conditioning work)
Ice drills (starts and stops, rushes, weighted pucks)
Swimming (laps, sprints)
• 6:30 p.m. (dinner)
Normal meal (borscht, pasta, fish)
• 10 p.m. (bed)


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Connolly was transfer-listed at the end of last season and had yet to feature in manager Neil Warnock's plans in the current campaign.
The 29-year-old was on loan at troubled Portsmouth earlier in the season. He will now return to League One at Deepdale, where he will remain until the end of April.
Since signed by Warnock's predecessor Simon Grayson in 2010 from Derby County, the right-back totalled 64 appearances for Leeds.
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I have no idea whether the task I am undertaking would be considered Big data, all I know is it got too big for excel so I have had to switch to a different method. I have made my first few scripts in python creating RSS feeds Scraping websites and comparing dicts. But I know this is all just getting me ready for the real reason I started using Python, machine learning on a scale I couldn't achieve with excel and its solver engine(I used to leave it running for weeks to optimise my models.)
Now I have about 150k results in my date each one of them with 120 different parameters( 85% of which require either calculating of some form of standardisation). Now what I don't know is should I be creating the model by queering a database or should I be creating the model from standard datafiles. How would a model like this normally be done in python.
One other query I have is can standard workstations handle the solving of said models (8gb ram i5) or would i need to invest in a dedicated 16/32 core workstation?
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I thought Ancestry might give their subscribers a Christmas gift or two and this release is a useful addition to their genealogy offerings. Maps are essential to family historians, if you don't know where your ancestors lived, was it a rural or an industrial location,which towns and villages were within walking distance, was there a railway or canal nearby? All this information can give important clues to the lives of your family.
This dataset comprises 122 Victorian maps dating from 1896. The maps show railways lines & stations, schools, roads, canals, public houses, farms and rivers & streams. The originals are the Ordnance Survey Revised New Series.
Unfortunately the individual maps aren't dated on the database,but as the time period only spans six year I don't suppose it matters greatly. Lastly there is also a facility to purchase a paper copy of the maps via a link to Cassini Maps.
A good addition to the Ancestry stable of genealogy resources.


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By Ben Ellison - October 2003
Ask me about places I'd like to explore by boat, and I can always rattle off a dozen without pause, and the names will vary according to the weather at home and my latest nautical reading. But, until this summer, the list never included the Great Lakes. What a silly saltwater snob I was! How thoroughly a few days chartering Lake Michigan demolished my prejudices!
It didn't hurt that my virgin voyage was aboard the 72-foot Ferretti Lysandra—nicely suited to the task and bodaciously beautiful to boot—and the weather was completely copacetic. I'd learned beforehand that Lake Michigan is really a freshwater sea, about 300 miles long and averaging 75 miles across, whose smooth coastline lacks inside passages; the waters can get right rough, and a boat is exposed the moment it leaves the harbor. Harder to envision from research was just how pleasant it might be to hole up in any of the ports we visited, even downtown Chicago.
I joined Lysandra at Montrose Harbor, just a half-hour by cab from O'Hare airport and within sight of the city's striking skyline. Considering the location, this marina is amazingly clean and quiet, surrounded by parkland and adjacent to both a fine beach and a golf course. Had the lake been kicking up, the opulent Ferretti, ensconced here, could have served as a haven from which to explore this world-class city. But the Lake was flat and the air dry, clear and in the 70's (and it's worth noting that tropical cyclones making up in the Caribbean were at a very safe distance—a real plus of chartering in the Great Lakes during hurricane season). Capt. Roger Sardina suggested that we take a sunset spin, then cross the lake the next morning.
Wow! I've always enjoyed putting around urban waterfronts, feeling the wild pulse of a city from the orderly self containment of a yacht, but Chicago is exceptional, its stunning high-rise heart concentrated right on the open lakeshore, where a boater can admire it freely. We watched the lights twinkle in one famous work of architecture after another, and then glided in close to bustling Navy Pier with its giant Ferris wheel and blaring blues clubs. Sardina pointed out the Chicago River locks from which Lysandra emerged after her spring trip across the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi River system, a reminder that we were at the epicenter of our big country's extraordinary transportation network. We saw more large and well-appointed municipal marinas like Montrose, and many of their habitués were out enjoying an evening afloat with us. Who knew that Chicago was such a boaty town (besides, ahem, all those happy Midwestern boaters)?
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The Riviera Maya is a tourism district following Highway 400 along the coastline of Quintana Roo, Mexico. This district historically started at the city of Playa del Carmen and ended at the village of Tulum. Although the towns of Puerto Morelos, situated further north, and the town of Felipe Carrillo, located further south, are both currently being promoted as part of the Riviera Maya.
This entire district is famous for its large-scale, all-inclusive resorts and smaller boutique hotel. Luxury travel entities have been instrumental in increasing luxury villa rentals and yacht charters in the area; however, these only represent a small fraction of the total tourism accommodations available. Tourists of all budgets will be able to find clean and updated accommodations in the Riviera Maya.
The major attractions throughout the Riviera Maya are the beautiful coastal water and the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (aka Belize Barrier Reef), which begins near Cancun and continues along the whole length of the Riviera Maya continuing southward to Guatemala. This barrier reef system is the second longest in the world. Activities at the most visited locations include jet skiing, snorkeling, scuba diving, swimming with dolphins, zip-lining, horseback riding, and guided jungle tours. Archeology is also a big tourist draw in the area, including the popular Tulum, Xcaret and Xel-Ha sites.
Another very popular activity is swimming in cenotes. Cenotes are large sinkholes that occur in these limestone regions exposing a network of underground rivers. The cenote water temperature stays at 76 °F year round while coastal waters range from 78 °F in January to 84 °F in August. In 2008, the Quintana Roo Speleological Society reported more than 700 km of flooded cave passages within the limits of the Riviera Maya. The groundwater resources are accessed via the thousands of cenotes throughout the Riviera Maya.


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Provides a perfectly flat viewing surface for graphic and data video projection. Designed for permanent mounting to the wall or in a wall opening. Front or rear projection surfaces snap easily on to the front of the silver aluminum frame.
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Meet the CODE Keyboardby Jarred Walton on 8/28/2013 3:07 PM EST
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Brunnis - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkThis keyboard seems extremely similar to the Ducky Shine 2 MX... I have one that looks almost the same, costs the same, has MX Clear, white LED backlighting (one LED per switch), detachable USB cable, DIP switches, etc. Perhaps made by the same manufacturer? Reply
elitegibson - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkIt's manufactured by WASD keyboards http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/ Reply
Inteli - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkIt's not manufactured by WASDKeyboards, it's labeled as such. It's actually CoStar, who also Manufactures the Quickfire Rapid, Filcos, and the Quickfire XT. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkHave you considered supplementing the 10-keyless compact keyboards you're trying with a standalone mechanical 10key pad?
The Adesso AKP-220B Mechanical Numeric Keypad is available from a number of vendors for ~$30. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkA Newegg reviewer says it uses Chery Blue switches. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkYeah, I could try one of those, but of course I have enough other keyboards floating around that it's not a huge priority. I've taken to having two keyboards connected so I can "get stuff done" when I need the 10-key. Heh. Reply
Chapbass - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkYeah, I have a standalone 10key that I keep under a monitor that I can whip out if I REALLY need to be doing number work. That said, using my Kinesis Advantage, considering that the numbers are also separated into right and left hands, I've become VERY quick at using the top row for numbers. Maybe not quite as fast as I was when doing 10key work all day (I worked at a bank), but definitely in the same ballpark. Nowadays I very rarely use the 10key pad just because I rarely am typing in that many numbers to necessitate the use. Reply
Impulses - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkI've been thinking of switching from my Corsair to a TKL and getting a pad like that plus one of those Griffin knobs for volume... Just not sure it's worth it just to have more desk space or the mouse closer to the rest of the keyboard. Reply
Kougar - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkI've been wanting a good Cherry MX Clear keyboard for some time. Although this is pricey, the feature set is exactly what I've been looking for!
I initially went with a Cherry MX Brown keyboard as it was the best compromise in actuation force, bottom-out force, tactile feedback, and noise compared to what I was seeking. I'm incredulous, if I had designed my own mech keyboard the CODE would have been exactly it. No more compromising on keys, time to get one of these! Reply
odieqd - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkWhat is the advantage to remapping keys in hardware rather than just doing it on the host computer with complete flexibility? Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkPermanence, plus some keys (Fn) can't be remapped in software. Reply
adsmit14 - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkIf you have lots of virtual machines and Remote Desktop sessions than remapping from the OS gets very annoying. You would have to do it for all of them. Reply
ShieTar - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkAnd I'm sure it only gets worse if you build and test PCs for a living, and the average survival time of any OS you install is just a few days. Reply
fridsun - Tuesday, May 06, 2014 - linkIf you bring the keyboard to another computer you can still use the remappings you have configured. If you never use your keyboard on different computers then there's no difference. Reply
Pinkynator - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkI'm sure it's technically a nice keyboard, but it's a shame that it only comes in the ANSI layout. If you're in an ISO country, you probably can't use the CODE keyboard at all, as it's missing a key; that's a no-go. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkThe manufacturer has a sample kit including one of each type of cherry key-switch. Assuming it's possible to get a good feel for the switches without having them mounted on something (Does anyone know if this would be the case?), it'd fulfill a wish of mine in the form of a cheaper option to try all the types out than ordering 5 keyboards and eating the shipping/restocking fees to return 4.
http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/wasd-sample... Reply
Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkI bought the sample kit and it was definitely interesting, but I came away from it feeling like you can't really get a sense of what you want from messing around with unmounted switches, unfortunately. Before I got it, I thought I wanted brown switches, but now I'm sort of torn between red (light, no tactile feedback) coupled with soft O-rings and clear/white (where the spring is strong enough to keep you from bottoming out after you feel the bump). Now that it's available, I'm tempted to just pick up a CODE and see how it goes. Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkThat's disappointing, if not surprising.
I wonder how much more it'd cost to add a mini-backplate to hold the switches in place. Wouldn't need to be anything fancy; for its intended purpose a bare frame that needed taped to to a desk to hold it steady would suffice.
Or even a model file for a 3d printer... Reply
sticks435 - Friday, August 30, 2013 - linkDon't supposed you have a MicroCenter by you? I'm sure they have keyboards will all the different kinds of switches to play around on. Reply
Ancillas - Friday, August 30, 2013 - linkI stopped by my local MicroCenter about a year ago with this exact idea in mind. They had the same number of mechanical keyboards on display to try that BestBuy had: 1. And that keyboard was only testable because the manufacturer exposed some of the keys via a hole in their packaging. It was a huge disappointment. Reply
overzealot - Sunday, September 01, 2013 - linkYou could always get the MAX sampler to test red, black. blue and brown.
And if you're adventurous, you could grab white/clear elsewhere and try to mount them to the board yourself. Actually, just talking about it has convinced me to give this a go once I have some income again :D Reply
bobbozzo - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - link"The Fn key provides access to the multimedia shortcuts as well as backlighting functions, but I personally use the Menu key regularly; it looks like there's a right hand Windows key, which I would be more than willing to give up in order to get both, but it's not clear if the DIP switches allow this or not"
FWIW, there are numerous programs to tell Windows to re-map keys; SharpKeys seems to be well maintained, and there are some older ones mentioned at http://ask-leo.com/how_can_i_disable_my_windows_ke...
(the mapping table is part of Windows' registry, the programs just provide a front-end). Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkNot all keys (Fn in particular) can be remapped via the registry, unfortunately, but it could work in a pinch. Reply
MarcusMo - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkIf you consider software such as AutoHotKey and the likes of it, you could easily create your own keyboard mappings using another key as "Fn" (I use my right Alt-key). Since you can map any key to alt, that pretty much mirrors the functionality of a movable fn-key. The exeption of course is for keyboard hardware specific stuff such as backlight control. Reply
nportelli - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkSooo less clicky, does that mean it is not loud as hell? Can't someone make a quiet keyboard with the satisfying feel? Reply
MarcusMo - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkBrown switches are pretty quiet. Combined with rubber o-rings that you place under the keys (also sold by wasd-keyboards), I'd say you're pretty close if not more quiet than your standard membrane keyboard. Reply
wardl - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkDid you ever review the Das Keyboard and how it would compare to the others. It seems very good and I am almost ready to purchase a new high end KB. Reply
jimbee - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkA coder keyboard the the control key still isn't in the home row? Or is it settable using the DIP switches? Reply
Azethoth - Friday, August 30, 2013 - linkOr, a bunch of G Keys (3x6 of them imo). Remap those to Ctrl X,C,V the debug controls, code collapse / expand, etc.
Avoid having to press cmd-whatever to begin with except for rare unmapped things. Dedicated editing keys are the one thing I miss from the old Sun keyboards. Reply
lyeoh - Friday, August 30, 2013 - linkWhat's the latency like? Same goes for stuff like mice if Anandtech reviews them. Yes latency matters a lot in some games. Reply


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HEALTH chiefs have launched a recommissioning process for key services, prompting fears they could soon be run by private companies.
East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) wants more patients with minor or long-term skin, eye and muscle problems to be seen by GPs and community nurses, rather than specialist staff in acute hospitals, as this will save money and 'reflect people's changing needs'.
The community-based opthalmology, dermatology and musculoskeletal services are largely delivered by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and other NHS providers, but the CCG is now 'looking at options' which could include tendering.
It comes after warnings were published in the Lancashire Telegraph last year, that the government'sl health reforms would mean that £53 million worth of NHS contracts could be snapped up in a potential 'bonanza' for private firms.
The recommissioning process will not affect patients needing emergency or specialist care.
The data obtained from East Lancashire CCG at the time included an opthalmology contract worth £6.8 million, a dermatology contract of £3.4 million, plus musculoskeletal and pain service contracts worth £4.2 million.
It is not clear whether the contracts being redesigned will equate to similar amounts as the CCG would not clarify this.
Russ McLean, chairman of the Pennine Lancashire Patient Voices Group, said: "If they are suggesting for one minute that a private company could come in and run these services then I'm very worried about it."
The CCG said in a statement: "There are a number of options for this, which could include tendering, although there is currently no formal tendering process in place."
In April, the Lancashire Telegraph revealed how new independent providers have been chosen for a physiotherapy contract in Chorley, South Ribble and Greater Preston, which was previously held by Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.


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"I am extremely happy to continue building this program with someone who is deeply passionate about this University," Allen said of Bowman. "The career Ira had here has been well documented, and I know he will put forth every effort working to make this program the best that it can be."
"It is with great appreciation and honor that I return to the University of Pennsylvania," said Bowman. "It was a privilege to play here and I am equally grateful to have an opportunity to coach here alongside Coach Allen, whom I deeply respect. Jerome was a tremendous teammate at Penn; his character, humility and determination are the building blocks of what it means to be a Quaker. I share his passion and commitment in making Penn basketball the elite program we believe it is. I could not be more excited!"
Of Polykoff, Allen said, "Jason comes to Penn after a short but remarkable career at the high school level. I feel like our hiring him is a home run for this program and the University as a whole, and I am happy to welcome him to our staff."
"Having an opportunity to coach at Penn is essentially a dream come true," said Polykoff. "If you combine the history of Penn basketball with the Big 5 and the Palestra, it is too good of a situation to pass up. Also, to have the opportunity to work with Jerome Allen, Dan Leibovitz and Ira Bowman -- three great coaches and even better people -- I know I am going to learn a lot. Just as important, I've been affiliated with high academic institutions my whole life, coming from Friends' Central, to Haverford College, and back to Friends' Central. I feel a sense of comfort at a place like Penn."
Bowman returns to Penn after spending the last four years at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The year before Bowman arrived at NJIT, the Highlanders were winless (0-29), and in his first season they went 1-30. Since then, NJIT has improved dramatically-just two years after that 1-30 campaign, the Highlanders went 15-15 overall including a 9-3 Great West Conference mark in 2010-11. This past season, NJIT went 15-17 overall and advanced to the Great West Conference championship game.
Bowman played two years at Penn, the 1994-95 and 1995-96 seasons, after transferring from Providence College. His first year with the Quakers was Allen's senior season, when Penn went 22-6 overall and 14-0 en route to its third straight Ivy League title. Bowman was second-team All-Ivy that season. As a senior, Bowman was the Ivy League Player of the Year and first-team All-Philadelphia Big 5 as he led the Quakers to a 17-10 record including a 12-2 mark in Ivy play. Penn tied Princeton that year for the conference title, but fell to the Tigers in a one-game playoff to determine the Ivy's NCAA Tournament bid.
Following his Penn career, Bowman enjoyed a professional playing career that included stints with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers and Atlanta Hawks. He also played overseas, in Italy and Australia, as well as in the Continental Basketball Association.
Before returning to college basketball as a coach, Bowman spent four years as director of the Assist by Knight Foundation. In addition, he has experience with several aspects of the NBA including serving as an administrator at the NBA's FIBA Tournament in Las Vegas in 2007 and participating in the NBA's Player Development Assistant Coaches Summit in 2007.
Polykoff comes to Penn after spending the last five years as the head coach at Friends' Central School (FCS) in Wynnewood, Pa. He accumulated a 113-28 record in that time, winning four consecutive Pennsylvania Independent Schools State Championships (2009-12). FCS played in four straight Friends Schools League finals, from 2008-11, winning the title in 2010 and 2011. Polykoff's 2011 team was ranked as high as No. 21 nationally as well as No. 1 in Pennsylvania by MaxPreps and No. 1 in Southeastern Pennsylvania by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Earlier this year, he was selected to coach the Derby Classic All-American Game in Louisville, Ky.
Polykoff coached four McDonald's All-America nominees, including Amile Jefferson who was a McDonald's All-America recipient this season. (Jefferson will play at Duke next year.) More than 10 of Polykoff's former players at Friends' Central have moved on to play college basketball. Polykoff was the Main Line Life Boys' Basketball Coach of the Year in 2008 and the "Best High School Coach" for Main Line Magazine's "2012 Best of the Main Line and Western Suburbs" edition.
In addition to his coaching duties at FCS, Polykoff has been a middle school math teacher at the school and its Sports and Information Director since 2006.
Polykoff played college basketball at Haverford College, where he was team captain in 2005-06. He was the Fords' MVP that year, as well as a Philadelphia Area Small College All-Star, and graduated with six top-10 individual career statistical records.


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Rail passengers face paying hundreds of pounds extra for their annual season tickets next year.
From January, prices will rise by an average of 3.5 per cent, the Government has confirmed.
Colchester commuters travelling to London Liverpool Street could be forced to pay an extra £164 on top of the existing £4,680 for an annual ticket.
Regulated fares are determined by the Government, which allows train companies to increase price at a rate of inflation plus one per cent.
Next year's prices were set after July's retail price index was confirmed as 2.5 per cent.
Full story in tomorrow's Gazette


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Today's games
Whittier at La Verne
Kickoff: 1 p.m.
Records: Whittier 0-3, 0-1; La Verne 2-1, 1-0
Matchup: The La Verne ground game got rolling last week in a 30-6 conference-opening win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Matthew Biggers led the way with 117 yards and a touchdowns on 25 carries, part of a rushing attack that averaged 4.5 yards per carry on the way to a team total of 311 yards. If the Leopards are to challenge for a SCIAC title this season, they'll need to keep it rolling this week against winless Whittier.
Redlands at Cal Lutheran
Kickoff: 7 p.m.
Records: Redlands 1-2, 1-0; Cal Lutheran 1-2, 1-0
Matchup: This could be the most significant matchup all season in the SCIAC, seeing as Redlands' only conference loss last season came at the hands of Cal Lutheran. Following last season's 45-35 loss to Cal Lutheran, Redlands won out to finish 6-1 in the SCIAC. Each team played difficult out-of-conference schedules, but opened SCIAC play with resounding victories.
Chapman at Pomona-Pitzer
Kickoff: 1 p.m.
Records: Chapman 3-0, 1-0; Pomona-Pitzer 0-3, 0-1
Matchup: The Pomona-Pitzer defense will have its hands full trying to stop a Chapman offense averaging 55 points per game. The schedule-makers didn't do the Sagehens any favors by beginning SCIAC play with games against Chapman and Cal Lutheran, which dealt Pomona-Pitzer a 42-7 defeat last week. CMS managed 320 total yards last week, but could only translate that into 6 points.
Citrus at Chaffey
Kickoff: 1 p.m.
Records: Citrus 3-1; Chaffey 3-1
Matchup: Chaffey may be catching Citrus at the perfect time, coming off a crushing one-point defeat to Mt. SAC last week. Chaffey started Foothill Conference play with consecutive victories but will get a break from conference play against Citrus. The Panthers cruised to a 53-0 win over Compton El Camino last week, but aren't expecting something similar against a strong Citrus squad.
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Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino says he will not be employing the security detail used by his predecessor Andy Spano. That detail included three bodyguards who shadowed Spano, even for travel, and racked up hotel and meal expenses beyond the thousands in payroll and benefits.
Find out how much he proposes to save taxpayers in a special report from Jorge Fitz-Gibbon exclusively in print editions of The Journal News on Sunday.


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GIVE a homeless pet a fresh start and a reason to be cheerful in 2013.
Basingstoke's devoted registered animal charities care for all sorts of animals and they need your help. STARescue, Cats Protection and the RSPCA are full to bursting with abandoned dogs, cats, guinea pigs, mice, hamsters, rabbits and birds.
If you can help by adopting any of the potential pets on this page, they'd be delighted to hear from you.
Shirley King, who runs STARescue from her home, said: "In 2012, all rescue centres have seen more abandoned and unwanted animals than any previous years. There has been a much higher volume of kittens and young dogs than other years, despite the assisted neutering that is offered by all rescues.
"Many animals have gone to good homes this year, but so many are still waiting. If you feel you can offer an animal a home, or a donation of food or money towards helping feed and provide veterinary care for these animals, we would be most grateful if you got in touch."
Coco: This very cute young male cat has been neutered and is ready for a new home. He's five months old and was found dumped at a shop in Basingstoke with some other kittens. His distinctive face is a result of his being a Burmese cross.
Clarence: Clarence has been at STARescue with his sister, Nahla, for a few months, since he was born to a stray mum found in a garden. He is aged approximately seven months old and has a lovely temperament so would fit in anywhere. He can be rehomed with or without his sister.
Gypsy and Laurie: This duo are a male and female pairing aged approximately two years old. The rabbits need a hutch with plenty of straw to bed in, and they enjoy munching on fresh vegetables. Full dietary and care advice will be given upon adoption.
Fred and Ginger: These guinea pigs are a male and female pairing of approximately 10 months old. Fred is the darker guinea pig, whilst Ginger is ginger and white.
Call 01256 330532 and leave your details, speaking clearly and including a contact number. Alternatively, email shirley.king860@ ntlworld.com with the same information. Full details are on the website starescue.org.uk, the Facebook page and from the charity's shop in Basing View.
Cats Protection Basingstoke and District Branch
Susie: Susie is two years old and is a friendly girl, who came to Basingstoke's Cats Protection branch as a stray after she had kittens in someone's garage. She's not had the best start in life, but is a gentle, good natured cat. She really deserves a loving home.
Tails and Smartie: Tails and Smartie have been together since they were kittens, and get on well, so are looking for a new home together. Tails is a five year old white/ginger boy and smartie is a five year old tortie girl. They reluctantly came into the care of Basingstoke's Cats Protection branch after a relationship break up, and have been well loved. They are both really friendly, and like a lap to sit on.
George: George came to Basingstoke's Cats Protection branch as a stray - a family had been feeding him, and he'd made himself quite at home! But unfortunately they were moving and couldn't take him with them. He's a lovely big friendly boy, between 8 & 10 years old. He would be suited to a new home without very young children.
If you wish to adopt a cat from Cats Protection's Basingstoke and District Branch, email adoptacat-basingstoke@ hotmail.co.uk, telephone 0845 177 1364 or visit Basingstoke.cats.org.uk.
RSPCA Basingstoke and Andover Branch
Bobby: Bobby is a lovely eight year old Cavalier King Charles spaniel who is happy just to have one or two short walks a day and a comfortable place to snooze. He can be left for a few hours and just quietly goes to sleep in his basket. He loves meeting new people and is good with other dogs. Although Bobby is a friendly dog, he doesn't like to be disturbed when resting and he can be possessive over things, especially treats. He would therefore suit a home with a previous dog owner where he was the only pet. He can be homed with children over 14. Bobby has been in foster care for a very long time. Can you offer him his forever home?
Koala: This rough diamond cat came to us as a stray. He is a black and white male, roughly nine years old and is one of the most affectionate cats we have had in a while who loves to talk to you! He has some brown staining due to some treatment he is having and even though he is responding well to the treatment we are unsure if the brown staining will disappear. He likes lots of love and he purrs like an engine and would suit a family with children over the age of seven.
Lucy: the golden labrador cross has been in care for nearly two ½ years and was initially found in a bad condition roaming the streets. We are unable to age her any more specific than between five and 10 years old. She is very sweet and playful and she loves getting cuddles and lots of fuss and she can also be quite demanding for your attention so would suit a family where someone is at home during the day to give her the attention and cuddles she needs. She has arthritis which limits her to only short walks and as she does not like other dogs we advise that she remains on the lead. We would love a home where she would be the only pet and she could be homed with children over the age of 10. The RSPCA will continue to fund any existing medication for Lucy. Lucy's ideal home would be where someone is at home during the day and a big enough garden and someone to go out and play for twice a day. Lucy has so much love to give someone, could it be you?
Chocco and Gingy: Two Guinea pigs who are looking for a new home together as their owner is no longer able to care for them. Chocco is around 18 months old and Gingy is around six months old and they would suit a family with children over the age of five.
Call Mandy on 01256 353209 and leave a message on the answerphone or email rehoming@ rspca-basingstokeandandover.org.uk. You can find out more from the Facebook page – just search for RSPCA Basingstoke and Andover Branch.


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Clinique Full Potential Lips Plump and Shine
A few seasons about on ANTM (hush! I know I shouldn't watch it), they had a girl who had the poutiest lips I'd ever seen. My lips, aren't so pouty. So, they are always glossed up so that their lack of pouty isn't so apparent. Being the Clinque girl I am, I, of course, went to their full potential line to pick out my pouty gloss. I love the color selection and the way it slides on (like sliding into silk).


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Lindsay Lohan caught snorting cocaine
A friend of Lindsay Lohan has leaked a video of Lindsay snorting cocaine and shoving it up a friend's nose while the two were crammed in a toilet at club Teddy's. The video was taken just 20 days after she left rehab and in it she's also heard saying: "I'm going to New York tomorrow to fuck Jude Law." The friend that leaked the video says she's worried about Lindsay and "that's why I'm showing this video. So the world can know what Lindsay has been doing and she can't lie about it to herself or anyone else." She also says:
"That night I saw her do more than 20 big lines of cocaine. She was still up doing drugs at 11am even though she had started about 8pm the night before. She wasn't even trying to hide it and was blatantly doing it off table tops, keys, books and in the wardrobe, where she was hunched over with her legs crossed almost bent in half doing it off some magazine on the floor. I remember looking at her and thinking how pathetic she looked and how out of control she had become. When she is on coke, which is most of the time, all the attention has to be on her. I have lost count of the number of times I have watched as she stripped naked in front of everyone. Then she loves to check herself out in the mirror as she parades around with her boobs hanging out. One night we had gone back to her place and, as always, as soon as she walked through the door she stripped down to her thong, bent down and snorted cocaine off her coffee table and then off her toilet seat. She has told me that she has slept with James Blunt, Jude Law, Calum Best, Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Jared Leto and James Franco. She loves Brits and has told me she has slept with the singer James Blunt a few times over the past month. The last time was on April 15 after another house party. I think they went back to a hotel together afterwards. She is very protective over him and when she heard I had met him she sent me a text saying, 'Stay away from him Bitch, he is mine.' Lindsay told me she has messed around with Leonardo DiCaprio a while ago too but claimed that she didn't sleep with him. She also flew to New York about two months ago to go to bed with Jude Law. Last November she slept with Calum Best. She didn't tell me if he was any good but she is usually too wasted to know what is going on anyway. Going to rehab was all for publicity. She wanted people to see her seeking help but it hasn't got her off the drugs at all. In an average night Lindsay will do two and half grams of coke on her own. She doesn't buy it – she is given it by friends and acquaintances, and it turns her into an angry monster. I have watched many a time Lindsay treating her staff like crap."
I know you were tempted to skip that giant quote above, but do yourself a favor and read it. It's not like anybody believed Lindsay was sober, but this is just ridiculous. If Skeletor wrote an autobiography it'd probably be less dramatic.
EDIT: Had to take down the pictures. Go here to check them out.


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Ondansetron tabletsPronunciation
Generic Name: ondansetron (on-DAN-se-tron)
Brand Name: Zofran
Ondansetron tablets are used for:
Preventing nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy, radiation treatment, or surgery. It may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.
Ondansetron tablets are a serotonin 5-HT3 receptor blocker. It works by blocking a chemical thought to be a cause of nausea and vomiting in certain situations (eg, chemotherapy).
Do NOT use ondansetron tablets if:
- you are allergic to any ingredient in ondansetron tablets
- you have a certain type of irregular heartbeat (congenital long QT syndrome)
- you are taking apomorphine
Contact your doctor or health care provider right away if any of these apply to you.
Before using ondansetron tablets:
Some medical conditions may interact with ondansetron tablets. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you have any medical conditions, especially if any of the following apply to you:
- if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding
- if you are taking any prescription or nonprescription medicine, herbal preparation, or dietary supplement
- if you have allergies to medicines, foods, or other substances
- if you have had an allergic reaction to another serotonin 5-HT3 receptor blocker (eg, dolasetron, granisetron)
- if you have liver problems, heart problems (eg, congestive heart failure, slow or irregular heartbeat), electrolyte problems (eg, low potassium or magnesium levels), poor nutrition (eg, eating disorder, extreme diet), diabetes, nerve problems, or recent brain problems (eg, stroke, injury)
- if a member of your family has a history of congenital long QT syndrome or sudden cardiac death at younger than 50 years old
- if you take any medicine that may increase the risk of a certain type of irregular heartbeat (prolonged QT interval). Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are unsure if any of your medicines may increase the risk of this type of irregular heartbeat
Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with ondansetron tablets. Tell your health care provider if you are taking any other medicines, especially any of the following:
- Many prescription and nonprescription medicines (eg, used for breathing problems, cancer, chest pain, depression or other mental or mood problems, fluid retention, high blood pressure, immune system suppression, infections, irregular heartbeat, nausea or vomiting, pain, sleep problems, stomach or bowel problems, swelling, Tourette syndrome), multivitamin products, or herbal or dietary supplements (eg, St. John's wort) because they may interact with ondansetron tablets. Ask your doctor or pharmacist if you are unsure if any of your medicines might interact with ondansetron tablets
This may not be a complete list of all interactions that may occur. Ask your health care provider if ondansetron tablets may interact with other medicines that you take. Check with your health care provider before you start, stop, or change the dose of any medicine.
How to use ondansetron tablets:
Use ondansetron tablets as directed by your doctor. Check the label on the medicine for exact dosing instructions.
- Take ondansetron tablets by mouth with or without food.
- It is important to take ondansetron tablets as directed to prevent nausea and vomiting. If you forget to take a dose of ondansetron tablets, take it when you remember as directed by your doctor. If you are not sure what to do, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
Ask your health care provider any questions you may have about how to use ondansetron tablets.
Important safety information:
- Tell your doctor or dentist that you take ondansetron tablets before you receive any medical or dental care, emergency care, or surgery.
- Serotonin syndrome is a possibly fatal syndrome that can be caused by ondansetron tablets. Your risk may be greater if you take ondansetron tablets with certain other medicines (eg, certain medicines used to treat depression, pain, migraines). Symptoms may include agitation; confusion; hallucinations; coma; fever; fast or irregular heartbeat; tremor; excessive sweating; and nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. Contact your doctor at once if you have any of these symptoms.
- You may need to have an electrocardiogram (ECG) checked before starting ondansetron tablets and while taking it. Discuss any questions or concerns with your doctor.
- Use ondansetron tablets with caution in the ELDERLY; they may be more sensitive to its effects.
- PREGNANCY and BREAST-FEEDING: If you become pregnant, contact your doctor. You will need to discuss the benefits and risks of using ondansetron tablets while you are pregnant. It is not known if this medicine is found in breast milk. If you are or will be breast-feeding while you use ondansetron tablets, check with your doctor. Discuss any possible risks to your baby.
Possible side effects of ondansetron tablets:
All medicines may cause side effects, but many people have no, or minor, side effects. Check with your doctor if any of these most COMMON side effects persist or become bothersome:
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Samsung Announces big.LITTLE MP Support in Exynos 5420by Brian Klug on 9/11/2013 1:22 AM EST
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- Exynos
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- exynos 5 octa
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akmittal - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkNow we can call This SoC true Octa core, Snapdragon 800 have competition now. Reply
MarcusMo - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkI don't think it's correct to say this is true octa core since afaik only four cores can be active at once. Reply
garadante - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkIt looks like Brian said Samsung was switching to the third option, HMP (global task switching in the visual), for their new SoC. Which would mean it could actually use all 8 cores at once. Wonder how power consumption would be during this, and if there'd ever be a use for it. I'm guessing it wouldn't be useful at all really. Seems like the most useful scenario would be running the A7 cores for normal lifting and powering up 1-2 A15 cores when you need the performance. Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkNot sure 4+4 HMP is really needed on a phone (more like 2+2 or 2+4), but from a general computational point of view this could be really useful: delegate threads of lower priority to the small cores if the big guys are busy, or tasks where you know they'll be finished soon, so that waking up a big one is inefficient. Intelligent task scheduling does not exactly become easier, though. Reply
ivanatpr - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkLooks like an HMP scheduler for big.LITTLE was added to the kernel for 3.10 via the Linaro Organization (funded by ARM and SoC manufacturers). Seems like it would be a beast of a problem to get right but the kernel is certainly the most logical place to put that decision making logic into. Reply
tuxRoller - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkIt will be fantastic.
I don't know how the heuristics work for the scheduler (how the scheduler makes its descisions will make or break these early efforts) but it should end up using mostly a7s with only bursty a15s. The exception will be games, of course.
The battery life, ideally, will be better.
Now that we've got a heterogenous aware scheduler we can look towards future designs where you have more A7s than A15s (or A53 and A57). That is probably the balance that would make most economic sense, but when sammy first released their devices the best we could do was use the cpufreq driver to migrate within PAIRS of A7/A15. Reply
krazyfrog - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkYou should read the article and/or watch the videos, then. All eight cores are now working simultaneously. Reply
mjv.theory - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkWatch the third video, all 8 cores can be active at the same time Reply
Krysto - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkThis should've been obvious. ARM is making its Mali GPU's very integrated with its Cortex CPU's, and it's only going to do more of that in the future. If you're looking for heterogeneous computing, you're not going to find it in a 3rd party CPU+Imagination GPU. You can expect it from Nvidia and Qualcomm, too, though, because they will make their own CPU's and GPU's. Reply
SKRG - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkYou said final model is coming by end of Quarter 4, suppose I buy Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in first lot, then the final model of the Exynos 5420 can be updated on Note 3 via software update? Reply
Kenan_sadhu - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkThis is what I want to ask too. So early in its life, note 3 and the new note 10.1 won't have this, and it will be enabled by software? Or, god forbid, the next revision will have this, hardware-wise, anf the early adopters are screwed? Reply
tuxRoller - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkIt shouldn't require any other than big.LITTLE. Even the CCI is intended more for the older, hypervisor driven core migration (but, I'd imagine, it would come in use when migrating tasks, but with since we are doing aSMP I'd expect you'd see less of that). With this the new scheduler the system should be seen as a sort of weird 8 core cpu mixed with a cluster. Reply
jjj - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkMakes me curious about how 2xA15 + 4xA7 would do. Reply
mmrezaie - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkI was thinking about the same thing, but I suppose Snapdragon's solution is better when you can just play with the voltage on just four cores. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkSeems like you'd have either low performance required scenarios that need only a few low performance cores or high performance scenarios where you need lots of high performance ones.
Why would you ever want lots of low performance cores and few high performance cores? Reply
jjj - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkFor lower power/heat and smaller die(smaller is cheaper). If you looked at the videos you don't have all 4 A15 at peak all that much and with only 2 A15 you can clock them higher.
Anyway, i wasn't hoping for such SoC, it's a known fact we'll get some, just curious about perf and power since it might be a very solid combination. Reply
willstay - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkI thought Exynos 5420 was coming to Note 3 Intl version. End of Q4 is December and Note 3 is releasing this Sept 25. I suddenly don't want to buy Note 3 given that I want latest cpu. It is bad in the part of Samsung to release this news just at the verge of releasing flagship phone. Reply
boris81 - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkI'm confused too.
The way I understood it from reading GSMarena is that GS4 has Exynos 5410 with Cluster Migration, Note3 has Exynos 5420 with CPU Migration and that another Exynos is coming later this year (possibly 5430) with Global Task Scheduling.
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phoenix_rizzen - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkI don't understand the need for HMP in a phone, or even a tablet. Core migration makes sense (the OS only sees 4 CPU cores, the SoC switches between the A7 or A15 as needed on a per-Core basis). IOW, the system would be using one of the following setups, depending on the load:
- 4x A7 + 0x A15
- 3x A7 + 1x A15
- 2x A7 + 2x A15
- 1x A7 + 3x A15
- 0x A7 + 4x A15
That setup makes sense to me, and can be done all in hardware. HMP doesn't; sounds like a lot of extra complexity and scheduler "magic" to make it work, and lots of ways to make it not work. Reply
frenchy_2001 - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkThe goal is to allow more flexible configurations, like 4xA7+2xA15 or the next Tegra with 4xA15 and 2xA7 for power reduction (instead of 5xA15).
This should allow for both better instant power and lower idle/low usage power, while keeping area under control (A7 is MUCH smaller than A15). Very powerful for the future.
I hope we will see more of those and I'm sure we'll find great new combinations for the best overall experience. Reply
phoenix_rizzen - Monday, September 16, 2013 - linkA SoC with 4xA7 + 2xA15 would be interesting. Or, the opposite of the Tegra setup: 4xA7 (main cluster) + 1x A15 (for when you actually need the raw speed). :)
In those situations, yeah, the HMP makes sense. But in a situation where the big and LITTLE sides have the same number of cores, CPU Migration makes more sense (IMO). Reply
frenchy_2001 - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkNo, Exynos 5410 had a hardware bug limiting it to cluster migration (CCI-400 problem).
The Exynos 5420 fixes this problem, however there was no software to take fully advantage of it, so the hardware would manage the migration and the scheduler would only see 4 virtual CPUs (each a pair of CPU, A7+A15).
Linaro worked on the Linux Kernel scheduler for Heterogeneous Multi-Processing, which allows to show all 8 cores to the scheduler and let it decide what to run where (while caring for power/temp limits). This is a software patch, that will be distributed around the end of the year. There will be no need for newer hardware. Reply
ddriver - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkHey ANAND admins, how hard would be to block this spam, considering it always begins with "Live my job" and always has the $82h and sitting in front of the new imac - I mean come on, what is the excuse to keep tolerating this? Like it is not bad enough there is no edit button... come on, what are you people being paid for? Reply
jljaynes - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkIf Anandtech pays me $82/hr I will sit at my computer and delete spam for them. Reply
wintermute000 - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkI'll do it for $80/hr Reply
retrospooty - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - link"Hey ANAND admins, how hard would be to block this spam"
They would probably have to put in one of those irritating pictured phrases with jumbled letters to confirm you are human. The cure is worse than the disease LOL. Reply
Roland00Address - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkCan we get a button to report said post to the moderator like we have for the forums? Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkGenerally speaking, any of us editors (Brian, me, Anand, Ryan, etc.) can mark something as spam and delete it, and we do it as soon as we see it. Of course, posting a reply to said spam ends up with your posts getting pushed to the bottom of the comment chain as a response to nothing. Considering this article has only been live for less than 12 hours and the spam is gone, I'd say we're doing okay. Just ignore the spammers and we'll take care of them within a few hours, or if you must you can email firstname.lastname@example.com and tell them which article has a spam comment.
And as a final note, if we mark a comment as spam, it will delete all comments everywhere by that user, so if you value your account and comments please don't spam. Reply
tuxRoller - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkJust to be clear, this is not a "Samsung Innovation" but a project that has been coordinated, and fulfilled by Linaro, and others.
I don't expect Samsung to play this any other way than "Look what WE'VE done!" but it'd be nice if it wasn't portrayed as something Samsung did since all you need to support the work is to have a compliant big.LITTLE system and run the new linux scheduler. Reply
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Hi, i'm new to this forum and I'm approaching to jquery with a sitepoint production "Jquery novice to ninja".I'm testing the "Ajax load" method, and I've got this code:
$('#bio a').click(function(e) {
var url = $(this).attr('href');
it works, but I would like to transform the #bio in a toggle button, rather then a #div with a link, so I can switchon and switchoff everytime I want on the html that I load with this method.It's possible? I've tried several solutions, but nothing, (I'm not so prepared!!!! :rolleyes:)
Sorry for my english!
thanks a lot
That would seem to be as easily as replacing the link with a button with the location in a different attribute such as value, and using '#bio button' instead.
Hi paul, thanks for the answer.I've tried this code, but it works just one time and works not good.
$('#portfolio a ').click(function(e) {
var url = $(this).attr('href');
$('#divMain1').load(url) .toggle("slow");
I've got other two button on the page that works good with this code:
$('#mailme').click(function() {
$('#contact').toggle('slow', function() {
//here others functions
$('#bio').click(function() {
$('#divMain1').toggle('slow', function() {
//here others functions
but I'd to put biography and contact informations in the index.html.Now I need one button that load another html in a div on the index page with the .load (url)But I want that this button has the toggle behaviour.
I hope I was understandable.....
You can use the toggleClass method when it's clicked, and check if the button has that class.
if ($(this).hasClass('active')) {
// Add content to div
} else {
// Remove content from div
thanks paul...I'm tying to follow your reasoningI supose that //Add content to div must be replaced by: var url = $(this).attr('href'); $('#divMain1').load(url); e.preventDefault();It's right?sorry i'm just approaching for the first time to jquery...with your and other help I would like to understand quickly this language......
Yes, that seems right, though I doubt you'd need the preventdefault part with a button now.
ok...I'll test tomorrow morning...now it's too late to test code....thank a lot.....
hi paul...I've solved and it was very simple....I've tied with yoour code but it still didn't work....so I've thought and I've tried to give two jquery instructions in the code:1) I've assigned a toggle function to the "#div"2) I've assigne the .load function to "#div a"in this way it works good.... but now I've got a new problem..I've a page with a jquery script to modify a div scrollbar (shape, color, behaviour....)when I test it works so good, but when I load in a div on the index.html with jquery function .load(url), jquery scrollbar is not visible...I think it's a jquery conflict, but I don't understand where it is...can you help me or I must open a new tread?thanks a lot....you helped me a lot to activate my brain......
Yes, a new thread is the best option for you here.
ok thanks, but I solved....do you know a reason why ajax load instructions seem not to work on Konqueror and Opera 12?thanks


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• gemutlich •
Pronunciation: gê-mut-lik • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Pleasant, amiable, friendly.
Notes: Today's Good Word was borrowed from German in the middle of the 19th century but its use has been so limited that some still spell it the German way, either gemütlich or gemuetlich. It is a good way to add a German flavor to your conversation should you have reason to do so. The noun for this word, gemütlichkeit, is almost always written with the 'umlaut' over the U, an indication that it isn't a fully assimilated English word.
In Play: Today's adjective applies to people who are simply pleasant all the time: "Molly Coddle is a rosy-cheeked, zaftig, gemutlich young woman to whom everyone is immediately attracted." (Why limit yourself to English?) However, it also describes places and things that bring pleasure: "The decor of Lacie Curtain's apartment was so gemutlich that I found myself immediately at home there."
Word History: Today's Good Word was borrowed from Middle High German gemüetlich (Modern German gemütlich), derived from gemüete "spirit, feelings". The root here, müet, came from Old High German muot "mind, spirit, joy", the same word that became mood in English. This word is probably related to the Latin word men(t)s "mind" that we find in mental, but showing the effects of our old friend, the Fickle N that comes and goes mysteriously across Indo-European languages. (Today we must be grateful to the ever gemütlich Carla Puky for finding today's Good Word for us.)


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Emergency Well and Septic
Emergency Well and Septic System Information After Flooding
People who rely on private wells for their water should consider their well contaminated if it was submerged or they believe it is possible the well became submerged during the hurricane.
Water should not be consumed until bacteriological testing indicates the well is not contaminated. Two samples taken on consecutive days are recommended. See Water Bacteria Testing below for information on testing your well water.
If you are unsure if the well was flooded, assume that it was and use another water source until the safety of the well is confirmed. Disinfect your well. by adding household bleach mixed with water to the well. The recommended amount of bleach varies depending on the amount of water in the well; however a half-gallon of unscented bleach should be adequate for most home wells. To be certain that your water lines have been disinfected, turn on the faucets until a chlorine smell is detected. Turn off the faucets and allow the bleach to sit in the well for at least four hours (overnight is preferable). The water should then be turned on until the chlorine smell dissipates.
Water must be tested after this is done to ensure that the chlorine has destroyed bacteria. High levels of contamination may not be controlled by a single chlorine treatment.
Until the well water is confirmed to be safe, water used for drinking, brushing teeth or cooking or preparing food should be either bottled water or water that has been boiled for a minimum of one minute.
Water Bacteria Testing.
In the event of a hurricane or tornado emergency, the Fairfax County Health Department Laboratory is available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day to perform Water Bacteria testing. If you are in need of these services, please use the following contact information:
Main office during normal business hours (Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) 703-246-3218
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Septic Systems
If flooding has occurred, homes may have a damaged or failing onsite sewage system. The system should be checked to determine if septic area has been flooded or the system has been damaged. If any part of the system is exposed or appears damaged, people should contact their local health department to receive recommendations for proper corrections.
If the septic system has been flooded, sewage can back up into the home. This is more than just a serious nuisance. Sewage contains disease causing microorganisms. When cleaning up be sure to wear gloves, disinfect contaminated surfaces with diluted bleach water, and thoroughly wash yourself and your clothing immediately after cleaning.
If there is an electrical outage septic systems utilizing pumps will not function. A continued use of water in the home could lead to a sewage backup. Water usages in the home should be held to a minimum until the electrical power is restored. If there is evidence that the pump chamber has been flooded, be sure to check that surface water did not leak into the system. This can be accomplished by removing the concrete lid of the pump chamber. Excessive water entering the pump chamber can easily overload the drainfield causing more expensive repairs. Contact the health department for guidance or a septic system contractor.
If the system is acting sluggish, this may be a normal reaction to saturated soils around the drainfield. Sewage leaving the septic tank may not be able to seep into the ground because the soil is already saturated. After a major rainfall event like a hurricane, it may take several days for the soils to drain and allow your system to return to normal. When the system is sluggish due to saturated soil around the drainfield, simply pumping the tank may not provide any improvement. Water will simply flow in reverse, filling the septic tank. Water use should be held to a minimum.
After a Power Outage
Septic Tank Systems with Pumps
Interruption of the electrical power supply will prevent sewage effluent pumps serving septic tank systems from pumping sewage effluent into the drainfield area of the system. Alarm systems installed to indicate failure of the pumping system will also be inoperative. Occupants of homes or other structures with such systems should conserve water use by taking laundry elsewhere (to a Laundromat), showering/bathing less often, using disposable foodservice items, and by not flushing the toilet after every se. Overflow of the septic tank, pumping station, and/or sewage back-ups into the structure can be avoided by having the contents of the septic tank and/or pump station pumped by a licensed sewage-handling contractor. If an overflow outside the dwelling occurs, the tanks must be pumped and the affected area spread with hydrated lime.
Well Water Supply Systems
In the event that electrical power is not available, well water cannot
be supplied unless an alternate source of power is available (generator
power). Purchase and use of bottled water for drinking and culinary
purposes is recommended. Water for use in toilets can be obtained from
other sources such as creeks and streams. Some water may be obtained by
draining water storage tanks (including the hot water heater) and melting
ice cubes. Water conservation methods must be employed.


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TAUNTON Food Bank has received over 100 items donated by staff at Knightstone Housing.
Employees gave items such as powdered milk, tinned vegetables, spaghetti, tinned fruit, tea and coffee, tinned meat, pasta sauces, rice, noodles, jam, cereals and biscuits.
Vicky James, individual empowerment team manager, said: "Our team refers residents who are in particular need of services such as food banks all year round.
"It's great that our staff have got involved and donated so many items for people who need them."
The housing association holds bi-monthly collections, donating to a different food bank every time.


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