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It's an IPS rather than TN, that's where the money's going
got a new laptop specs are :
i5 m430@ 2.27GHz
4Gb ram
ati mobility radeon hd 5470 dedicated card
how many leagues and how many players do you think i could run ?
buying for University,will use for surfing the net(mutiple tabs),football manager,watching TV,etc...
which is the better deal???
or i should get a 4GB ram laptop?
This one?
Add some 4GB RAM yourself for a lot less, if you need it(You won't).
How many leagues and players with this? Just about to build this maybe if you could suggest something further to improve potential performance. By the way it will be Overclockers to 4.5ghz
- Samsung S24A350H 24" Widescreen LED - Monitor
- Microsoft Office 2010 (3 users)
- Sony AD-7261S-0B 24x Internal DVDRWRAM SATA Black Lightscribe - Optical Drive
- Corsair TX650 V2 High Performance 650W - Power Supply
- Asus 1GB Ge-force GTX 560ti - Graphics Card
- Crucial m4 64GB 2.5" SATA-III - SSD
- Corsair 600T White Graphite Series Mid - Tower Case
- G-Skill Ripjaw x DDR3 8Gb (2x4) 1600Mhz - Ram
- Asrock Z68 PRO3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 - Motherboard
- Intel Core i7 3.4Ghz 2600k - Processor
- Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB - HDD
- Noctua NH-D14 - Fan
- Windows 7 HP 64 bit - OS
OK how many leagues and players for this spec. I'm about to order the parts if you can suggest ways of improving FM performance please do say!
- Samsung S24A350H 24" Widescreen LED - Monitor
- Microsoft Office 2010 (3 users)
- Sony AD-7261S-0B 24x Internal DVDRWRAM SATA Black Lightscribe - Optical Drive
- Corsair TX650 V2 High Performance 650W - Power Supply
- Asus 1GB Ge-force GTX 560ti - Graphics Card
- Crucial m4 64GB 2.5" SATA-III - SSD
- Corsair 600T White Graphite Series Mid - Tower Case
- G-Skill Ripjaw x DDR3 8Gb (2x4) 1600Mhz - Ram
- Asrock Z68 PRO3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 - Motherboard
- Intel Core i7 3.4Ghz 2600k - Processor
- Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB - HDD
- Noctua NH-D14 - Fan
- Windows 7 HP 64 bit - OS
Load everything.
Would it be worth overclocking?
No and don't load really everything, because by the second season you will wait half a minute to process the day. Not to mention the initial set up of the database will take hours.
What really matters is CPU and RAM and they surpassed what FM is capable of utilizing a couple of years ago.
I have a core 2 quad q9500 with 4GB of DDR2 ram and 64bit windows 7
I would like to turn into 8GB of ram.
Football manager uses 1.8GB Ram and 2 GB for Windows+other
Will football manager using more than ram?
PS: I am sorry for my english, it is bad.
Thank you and
the limit on the number of players will she grow?
What do you think this will run Ishu?
Processor: Intel Core i5 2410M 2.3GHz (2.9GHz Turbo Boost)
Graphics: Nvidia GeForece GT 540M 1GB
(cheers for the help by the way in choosing the laptop )
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Cheers Ishu
Hey there, is this any good please? Acer Aspire 5742-486G50Mnkk
15.6", Core i5-480M, 6GB RAM, 500GB HDD, DVD-RW, Win 7 Home Pre (64-bit)
Sorry but I can't really understand what outdated refers to. Thing is, I'm from Malta and am on a budget of 600 Euro. I thought that a core i5 with 6gb RAM would be good, but it's a good thing I have experts like you advising me then
By any chance, could you recommend something for me along that budget from www.scanmalta.com? I'm looking for a laptop for FM which I'd also take to college.
Also, just for my personal knowledge, I'd really appreciate if you could better explain what outdated refers to in regards to laptops.
Again, thanks for your time and expertise
Similar specs but with much better graphics.
Much better but 700 bucks.
Hehe thanks a billion. So, from those two, I assume I should go for the more expensive one, right? I will probably stretch it that far if it has better graphics.
Also, would you recommend increasing it's RAM? Or is 4gb enough?
Thanks again.
Ishu, my new PC arrived. It's amazing! Thanks for all of your help in picking it out.
I have tested it on FM and I get 5 stars for performance and 3D. I can load a ton of leagues, which is amazing. I'm planning a big journeyman career for FM12!
Also tested on Minecraft and I can max it out, so I'm extremely happy with that too.
Not sure if I told you but in the end I went with the Intel Quad Core I5 2500 at 3.30GHz. I also went with the 8GB RAM and the NVidia Geforce GTS450.
All in all, it's a superb machine and I'm delighted so far.
How many league can this run
Acer Aspire 4752G:
Intel Core i7-2670QM Processor (Quad Core 2.2Ghz with 6MB Cache)
- 4GB of Memory
- 750GB Hard Disk
- 14 Inch HD LCD Screen
- Nvidia GeForce GT540M 2GB
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Hey, I'm hopefully going to be getting a MacBook Air 13" in the next couple of weeks. I would just like to check however if the specs aren't good enough for playing FM12? I'd prefer to go for the Air because I'm going to be carrying it around a lot but if it's not good enough I'll just go for the Pro 13". Specs are:
1.7ghz Dual Core i5
4gb RAM
128gb SSD
Intel HD 3000 Graphics.
25 .
Ishu - do you know of any good sites in the UK that do high-end laptops (i7s)?
I only know of Dell (XPS 15) and Cyberpower (perhaps this one, customised).
Having read through the last 2 pages of this thread, I have settled on the following from PC Specialist. Does this look ok overall? Priced at £670
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
ASUS® P8H67-M LE: M-ATX, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0Gb/s,
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTS 450 - DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply
450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER
Sound Card
Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI-E CARD
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
Getting almost what Crouchy did. Looks good.
Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz 3.10GHz
Graphics: ASUS GeForce GTX 460 Direct CU TOP Edition 1GB
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What could I expect with this? I know pretty much next to nothing about computers / laptops!
Also when you say load 25 leagues for example, does that mean full leagues from 25 countries or just 25 different divisions?
CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-350M processor
Operating System: Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium
Clock Frequency: 2.26 Ghz
Memory size: 3 GB
Hard disk capacity: 320 GB
Screen size: 43,9 cm (17,3")
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Resolution: 1600x900 pixels
Screen Type: Glare Display
LED Backlight: Yes
Intel® HD Graphics with digital HDMI connector
8x multi-standard DVD/CD burner with DVD-RAM and Dual Layer support
High Definition Audio with 2 speakers & 1 subwoofer, Dolby Home Theater® v3 certified (Dolby®, Dolby Home Theater® and the double-D symbol are registered trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.)
Additional integrated second hard drive bay
Digital display port and HDMI output for a brilliant multimedia experiences
DVB-T TV-tuner including remote control
Integrated 1.3 MP webcam and microphone
eSATA connection - extremely fast transfer rate for high performance data transfers
Whats the deal with this card?
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD, doesnt really offer much information.
"HD Graphics (GMA HD)" and downward.
Note that the Sandy Bridge ones are the only ones really worth considering.
Could someone tell me how many leagues I could run please?
Acer Aspire 5532
Windows 7...64 bit operating system
AMD Athlon (tm) X2 Dual-score processor TK-42 1.60ghz
220gb Hard drive
4gb RAM
ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics Card
All the information I know how to get at the moment lol Thanks for any help.
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Not FM11, but for anyone interested, this is from Steam's 'Football Manager 2012' pre-order page.
PC System Requirements
OS: Windows XP/Vista/W7
Processor: XP - 1.4GHz or Faster, Vista/W7 - 2.0GHz or Faster. Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon.
Memory: XP - 512MB RAM, Vista/W7 - 1.0GB RAM
Graphics: 128MBSupported Chipsets - Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.
Earlier cards may only display 2D Match Viewer Mode and are not supported.
Earlier cards may require the DirectX 9.0 SDK is installed to run the game. This can be downloaded from the following url:
DirectX Software Development Kit
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.
DirectX®: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 2GB
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
LAN: TCP/IP compliant
http://store.steampowered.com/app/71270/?snr=1_4_4__13Mac System Requirements
OS: OS X 10.5.8/10.6.8/10.7.x or higher
Processor: Intel Processor
Memory: 1GB
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce 7300 GT or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 or greater.
Hard Drive: 2GB
Last edited by pigfacemonkeyman; 23-09-2011 at 18:26. Reason: Removed "Football Manager 2012." title in quote which I included in error.
Looks like they have posted the last year's specs. Probably SI didn't change them.
Does FM work on Intel Graphics HD Family?
Yes .
Thanks, does it work well? Salesman in PC world was trying to tell me FM wouldnt work without specialised large graphics card
Unless they are using really old CPU's in their systems the stock integrated graphics will be fine.
software.intel.com/sites/billboard/article/intel-integrated-graphics-deliver-football-manager-2011]This article mentions using integrated graphics to play FM2011.
Last edited by Barside; 26-09-2011 at 18:08.
Thanks a lot. I thought it was strange as iv been playing fm for years and never had to worry about this, but i really know nothing about how a computer works so was a bit worried.
Thanks again.
Hi guys. I currently have a desktop and laptop. How will the specs fare for FM 2011 and possibly the upcoming FM 2012 and how many leagues max is suitable? I will be using 2D more than 3D graphics for the games.
So far for FM 2011, I can only reach 7 leagues using my desktop. Anything more will leads the processing to a crawl. As I've just gotten the laptop, I'm not too sure of its capabilities just yet.
Laptop: Acer Aspire 4755G
Processor: Intel® Core i5-2410M processor (3 MB L3 cache, 2.30 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 2.90, DDR3 1333 MHz, 35 W)
Ram: 8GB
GFX: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M with NVIDIA® Optimus technology (2GB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM)
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Desktop: DIY
Processor: Intel Core2Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Ram: 4GB
GFX: Asus GTS 250 (1gb)
HDD: More than sufficient space
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
Thank you!
Ditch the desktop, your laptop is top draw but I'm sure you knew that
As for how many leagues that all depends on what you consider to be an acceptable processing time but it should offer good performance on as many as 40-50 leagues. I always mess around with game size for a few weeks just to get a feel for how it will perform 20+ seasons in & thankfully you no longer need to start a new save on FM12 if you find that you can get away with a couple of extra countries or need to drop a few.
Last edited by Barside; 26-09-2011 at 19:18.
The laptop's CPU is like 50% better than the desktop's.
Thanks guys!
edit: managed to get it displayed accordingly.
Last edited by PhYsIcS; 26-09-2011 at 20:59.
can anyone recommend a decent desktop pc for fm12 and moderate gaming? ive got a maximum budget of £500 (not much i know). was thinking of looking in argos but if somebody can point me in a better direction i would be grateful. many thanks in advance.
My current laptop takes an age (by which I mean it often takes a minute or so processing) to run 1 playable league, no stadiums and a small database so I'm thinking of upgrading for FM2012. Is it possible to get a laptop that'll run, say, 6 leagues and display the 3D matches with stadiums with a medium-large database for around £500? Any suggestions? Don't really play the latest in cutting edge games so it's really only for FM. Thanks.
Thanks you Sir! Very speedy response.
I Have a laptop with 4gb memory i72630QM CPU and Nvidia GT540m GPU and when i max the game out the matches lags a little. Is this normal with thoose specs?
Br D
No. Try to install fraps and see what FPSs you are getting.
How many leagues please ?
i7 920@ 4.3GHz (HT on)
6gb ddr3 ram 1333 mhz
4870x2 GPU
55 - 60 .
If you have a decent GFX card that can handle FM (and is PCIE) then look at these bundles on Scan that are pre overclocked. Some good stuff there IMO http://www.scan.co.uk/3xs-overclocked-bundles
When I run windowed mode I never get more than 30 fps which makes the game seem slow. When going fullscreen mode I get 60 fps but drops down to 30 at times which makes the game seem choppy. Could it be optimus setup that is causing this? Game gives me almost 5 stars 3D rating. Please help, bought this laptop mostly because of FM.No. Try to install fraps and see what FPSs you are getting
Can I see which graphic card the game is using? It should be using nvidia card. Im guessing FM wouldnt give Intel HD graphics 4,5 stars? Or am I wrong?
Sorry if my english is bad at times, Im from Sweden
Br D
The 60/30 jump sounds like vsync. Try disabling it for FM in your video card driver's control center. You may get some screen tearing instead though, but eh, pick your poison.
Just bought this, loaded up FM and first impressions are brilliant, I have never had a laptop so good.
What do you guys think?
How many leagues?
Inspiron N5110 (FCG41) - i5-2410 (2.30GHz, 3MB cache, Dual Core)
4096MB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [1x4096]
2nd generation Intel® Core i5-2410M processor 2.30 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 2.90 GHz
Internal Keyboard
500GB Serial ATA (5400RPM)
Primary 6-cell 48 WHr Lithium Ion battery
1 GB nVidia GeForce GT 525M
8X DVD+/-RW Drive
Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1030, Bluetooth v3.0+HS
Power Cord : 1M
Documentation Inspiron N5110
15.6" (40 cm) High Definition (1366X768) WLED with True-Life
Integrated 1.0 Mega Pixel Widescreen HD (1280 x 720) camera
Inspiron N5110 Resource DVD (Diagnostic & Drivers)
i have been told that building my own computer is a lot cheaper than buying from stores but the thing is i dont even know where to start?
if some one can point me in the right direction i would be forever grateful
for example how much would something like this cost? 7 920@ 4.3GHz (HT on)
6gb ddr3 ram 1333 mhz
4870x2 GPU
and where would you recommend i purchase from?
Start at around £1000 & count upwards from there, for such a high overclock you'd need top end parts everywhere to handle to heat generated by the cpu.
At a guess I'd suggest a price of around £1500 if you were to do it right & not risk the system melting within a year.
What sort of budget do you have & other than FM what other PC games do you play & would it just be used as a gaming PC?
bloody hell i cant afford that much! thats how useless i am i had no idea that all that was so powerful.
i only play fm on pc but the missus like to use it for photos and music ( most of which is ****!!! ) i would like to be able to load numerous leagues along with the 3d pitch view without it being slow or sluggish as time is very limited
How much money are you able to part with? Can you hide some extra from the missus? I'm guessing that your other half will store her music files on the PC.
building it myself will also enable me to buy the parts in stages if necessary.
If you're comfortable doing your own build then I would check out http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ , they have a range of builds plus the site has the added benefit of letting you play around with the parts & will tell you if there are any compatibility issues, from there you can either order it & let them do the build or note down all the parts & source them yourself.
It's also worth considering what can be cannibalised from your current pc (graphics*/sound card card, PSU, HDD etc), as the saying goes 'every little helps' & you can show the missus how good you are at saving money which might be worth some browny points.
*if you get a 2nd generation i3/5/7 cpu you will not need a graphics card. these have a 4 digit number code (i7-xxxx) rather than a 3 digit code (i7-xxx) that is given to the 1st gen models, just to make things easy Intel are still shipping both versions.
Last edited by Barside; 28-09-2011 at 12:52.
Almost ready to order my new pc for FM12 now it's nearly payday, but before I do, does anyone know the main differences between these 2 motherboards? There only seems to be £10 difference in the price so which would be better?
ASUS® P8P67 LE: USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, CrossFireX™
ASUS® P8H67-M: M-ATX, DDR3, USB 2.0, SATA 6.0Gb/s, CrossFireX™
Without looking the P8H67-M - M-ATX - I would guess it's MicroATX?
Tuffers Ill spec you a machine for 800quid depending on your need, any preferences? I'm an IT Engineer so I (presumably, debatable) know what I'm doing.
I'm looking to replace my 8yr old Desktop with the new release coming up. I'd like to get a quality package with enough quality to hopefully get me through a few more versions of the game and play with quite a few leagues loaded.
I'm way out of my depth here, I have a Pentium 2 for crying out loud. Now they're talking about multi core processors...... ??
Would really appreciate it somebody could give me a good spec to aim at, I haven't played with a lot of leagues loaded since FM05 as the old slugger couldn't really handle too much. I'm not keen on building my own, but if it keeps the costs down I'm more than willing to try.
I threw tuffers a build - Intel i5, 12gb ram, GeForce 550Ti, 1tb Sata II drive w/ 64mb cache (FM/general use only, wouldn't recommend for hardcore gaming) and it's sitting at sub £600 from Scan.co.uk. Thats with no monitor or OS.
I just recently bought a new PC with the following specs:
Intel Quad core 2.9 GHz
64 bit Win 7
1.5 TB hard drive
When starting a new game i can select just over half of the countries in Europe with the star system going down to about 3 or less but not sure if this would be an accurate relection of my system performance.
Bump up to an i5-2500K if you can overclock (or get someone to do it), which shouldn't add much. The biggest room for improvement will be the video card - given your PC is nearly 8 years old, you never know what you might want to do with your new PC (you might think it's just for FM and light gaming, but once you get a new PC, you will become greedy).
It also depends if you are building your own, or buying it assembled.
Feel free to come back here once you have a rough idea, and other forum members can comment.
It also depends on what the processor is ("Quad-core" just about represents every Intel processor out there in the last few years, and some AMD processors too). It could be a Core 2 Quad (not very good nowadays), for example.
Last edited by x42bn6; 29-09-2011 at 12:52.
As x42bn6 said, Star ratings are pretty bugged - with that kit I would ignore star ratings. My Centrino laptop with 4gig ram gets the same as my i5 desktop with 8gig.
Tbh Overclocking for FM is a waste and generally a lot of people who "know all about overclocking" really only know "all about destroying your pc". True story - I was on the receiving end of that one when i was 19 and my mate told me he had been overclocking all his kit for years. One burnt out processor later, I decided it wasn't worth the risk lol
Not really paid much attention to this so might be a stupid question, but will Fm 12 take advantage of hyper threading?
What I've found is that hyper-threading is only currently (FM11) utilised when the game is processing 'full detail' matches.
Quick question, With a game like Fm which is better, better processor or more ram?


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HILLSBORO (February 14, 2013)-A man wanted in the knifepoint theft of four snakes from the Waco PetSmart store was in custody Thursday after a car chase Wednesday night in northern Hill County.
Itasca police Detective George Willoughby said officers attempted to stop a driver on a traffic violation but as the driver stopped, he attempted to run down the officer and sped away.
Willoughby said the suspect was clocked at 102 miles per hour heading north on I-35.
Police finally were able to stop the speeding driver after DPS troopers laid spike strips near Waxahachie and placed him under arrest.
Ramando Hughes, 24, was held in the Hill County Jail Thursday facing evading arrest charges, Itasca Police said.
When police searched the silver Silverado pickup truck Hughes was driving they found a knife, and four snakes that they later learned had been stolen earlier in the evening from the PetSmart store.
Willoughby also said officers determined the pickup truck was stolen and that the driver was wanted on a warrant out of Killeen charging aggravated robbery in an incident at a Killeen convenience store.
Representatives of PetSmart went to Itasca Thursday morning and retrieved the snakes.
Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said at about 6 p.m. Wednesday a man walked into the store at 4600 Franklin Avenue and asked to see some snakes.
A clerk at the store brought out four snakes, a python, two corn snakes and a Mexican king snake.
As the clerk took the snakes to the counter to check the man out, he placed them in a box and began to leave the store.
Swanton said the clerk confronted him about paying for the snakes and the man pulled out a knife and threatened to kill the clerk if she tried to stop him or follow him.
The snakes were valued at about $200.


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How to get value from TextField, before blur event
I have a TextField, and as soon as user starts to enter characters, I want to enable a button. Seems like the text field's getValue() or getCurrentValue() always return null until user hits enter or leaves the field. For example, if I add a keyDownHandler to the textfield, as keys are typed, does not seem that I can get access to the current value of the text field. Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way however.
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A little over a week ago, the Putnam County Courier joined the list of regional newspapers that have begun asking serious questions about Porkulus job accounting. The Courier goes as far as to call the "saved or created" claims of the Obama administration "Recovery.con," in its headline. Michael Brendan Dougherty finds many of the same kinds of fraud that newspapers around the nation have in the claims by the White House of stimulus success:
Recovery.gov, the Obama administration's attempt at creating transparency in the $787-billion dollar stimulus program, is a transparent failure in Putnam County.
The Federal government claims that when Putnam County purchased five Paratransit vans with $319,000 of federal stimulus funds, 60 jobs were saved. A casual visitor to Recovery. gov might think that those 60 jobs were in Putnam County. But John Lynch, Putnam County's Commissioner of Planning/Development and Public Transportation, said, "That number of 60 jobs is incorrect."
In fact, the number of jobs that should appear on the report is not 60, but just 1.54, and those one and a half jobs are actually in New Paris, Indiana. Whether by bureaucratic error, or deliberate maneuvering, the administration has inflated claims of job creation based on Putnam County stimulus spending. Other stimulus-funded projects in Putnam County are riddled with reporting errors and inaccuracies.
Recovery.gov reports that Putnam County has received $1,092,595 of stimulus money for projects, $319,000 of which was dedicated to purchasing five new Paratransit vans, manufactured by Turtletop Busses in Indiana. Lynch told the Courier that the inaccurate number of 60 jobs created by the purchase of vans "counted both the second and third fiscal quarters, when it was only supposed to count the third quarter." Putnam County officials tried to correct the number before the third quarter report was issued, but were "frozen out of the system" according to Lynch.
As in other jurisdictions, the Courier finds that most of the money went to education — where jobs really weren't at risk at all:
Many of the other projects listed on Recovery. gov relate to local schools. Education related stimulus spending was first dispersed from the federal government to states, and then the states in turn awarded grants based on applications. In Putnam, the Carmel Central School district received over $2.2 million dollars. According to the government's own reporting, this money has saved and created no jobs whatsoever. Superintendent Dr. James Ryan did not immediately respond to inquiries for this story. But according to other school officials, such numbers on the government's transparent Web site are inaccurate.
The Brewster Central school district received $1,828,466. "Basically a lot of it went to saving jobs that were slated to be eliminated last spring," said Assistant Superintendent Timothy Conway. "Then a fair amount of it has gone to help children who are from low socio-economic backgrounds or those who need extra help in school. All of it is going in those areas of direct instruction."
"I think it is somewhere between ten and twelve [jobs that were saved]," said Conway, "I think they were almost all teachers and one administrative position." Documentation for these claims was not immediately available, though the Courier has requested it. Asked how long these jobs were off the chopping block, Conway said, "My understanding is the stimulus money is a two year commitment" Asked whether any of the teachers knew that their jobs would have been cut absent the federal money, Conway responded, "No."
That's because those jobs weren't at risk. Porkulus funds allowed the states to shift money from education to other areas of the state bureaucracy by pasting over their budget gaps. States would not have laid off teachers, police officers, and firefighters in the absence of that cash. They would have been forced to cut other areas of the budget, trim bureaucracies and red tape, and position their states for better tax and spending policies in the future.
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What do you think? Is mardek chapter 3 better than epic battle fantasy 3?
Here's my opinion: I've played both games (and completed them both). I really enjoyed them, but I think mardek 3 has a better story and better gameplay.
I think Mardek 3 has a cool story with a lot of different stuff. Epic battle fantasy 3 doesn't really have a story – it's just 2 boys and a girl who try to save the world and kill one boss every part…
I think mardek 3 also has a better gameplay. At epic battle fantasy 3 and mardek 3 you can move arround, which is great. But at the battles of battle fantasy 3 you have to click for every attack and click for everytime one of them says something. At mardek 3 you can simply select with cursors and x or y. I find this a lot better
I think the sense of humour is great at both games. Mardek 3 has a lot of sarcasm jokes and epic battle fantasy has a lot of sexist jokes. Their humour (and the badges) kept me playing and completing the game.
Mardek 3 has a rating of 4.31, and Epic Battle Fantasy 3 has a rating of 4.51. I feel really sorry for Pseudolonewolf (the creator of mardek 3) that his game rating is lower than the game rating for epic battle fantasy 3. I think Epic Battle Fantasy 3 got a higher rating just because of Nat's boobs (not that I don't like them, but it doesn't make epic battle fantasy better than mardek 3).
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I'm attempting to install Open Office and when I drag the app over to the application folder. Both by dragging it onto the provided shortcut or if I drag it directly to the folder I get this error message:
The operation can't be completed because you don't have permission to access some of the items.
Later I also tried to install calibre an ebook manager and the same thing happened. I can't even copy from the mounted image into my home folder.
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Simplicity. If it's too complicated or too long to enter or sort bugs, nobody will want to use it.
Integration with SCM, so that any fixes can be traced back to the code, and code changes can be traced back to an issue. This does require vigilance to check in only code related to the issue being promoted/checked in against. i.e. no "Added feature xyz, and fixed random bugs in 4 different locations and a quick refactor of feature zyx".
Another good feature is workflow management, so that the business process is followed with the code. For example, may have a workflow path that goes something like this: Bug reported -> Triaged for priority and validity -> assigned to dev -> worked on -> assign to QA -> pass testing -> mark as closed.
Enforced ownership of bugs. It shouldn't be possible to have an open issue that is not somebody's responsibility. Other than that, simple is better.
I find it quite important to be able to link issues (and specify a link type, e.g. Depends on). Apart from that the usual suspects of version that the bug was found in, what version we're aiming to fix it (so we can drive road maps), an estimation field is good for project/agile planning.
Nice to haves for me are voting from the public, the ability to notify users of changes to the issue and having a fairly flexible system of categorizing the issues.
In fact pretty much everything that JIRA supports out of the box :)
Any feature that does a task for the programmer. Shouldn't it really be part of the IDE? There's the list of bugs. Pick one to work on and all of the status and time stamps are taken care of. The code changes are linked. Required tests are associated. Check it as fixed, update the status and let everyone else know about it.
Hability to identify similarities on tickets that already closed.
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Every time I create a query and run it to create a report I save the query in my Projects folder in case I have to rerun the query in the future or if I have to modify it for any reason but it seems that for some reason a query which I ran sometime in mid June was not saved. I need to see the code I used in the query because I am looking at the report and some numbers do not look right so I need to check the query to see if there was something written incorrectly in the code.
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But because I asked it first on the wrong website somebody downvoted me. Now if I delete my question then will I be banned from asking questions as the question was downvoted. It might create an impression that I deleted it because it was downvoted. Also, why downvote somebody who already has agreed to delete the question from the wrong place and ask it on a correct place. I mean I lost my 2 reputation points because of that. Below is the url to my question, Text revolving around planet effect photoshop


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I'm thinking about developing a viral invite type function to allow users to invite some of their contacts from popular OAuth services like gmail, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc. Before I go there, though, is there any research on how often users use these functions if they are around?
How often do users of social websites use viral inviters, like gmail/twitter/facebook integrations to invite friends?
I've never used such a feature, nor have I seen any data one how often such a feature is used.
But I do have a strong hunch that in many (and possibly the majority of) cases when the address-book inviter is enacted, the user does not have full awareness of its implications, and is often pushed into it somewhat coercively. Developers often prey on less-sophisticated users with these features.
I know that I have been rather annoyed in the past by invitations to obscure web services sent to me by obscure former contacts. I know that I would be mortified were I to somehow unintentionally spam my address book. And I know that I am quite turned off by websites that aggressively promote such features.
Bearing this in mind, recognize that such a feature could lend your service a certain air of sleaziness. Thus, if you are certain that your service is of such high appeal that your users would affirmatively desire to invite their contacts by automated means, implementing this feature in a fully transparent and explicitly optional manner is crucially important.
The obnoxiousness of the inviter can be somewhat ameliorated with clever implementation, such as allowing the user to selectively invite only certain contacts. But a machine-generated invitation will always be inherently spammier than the personal email that would constitute a true recommendation of a service.
Users will add contacts if they needed.
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Update 8:20 p.m: Late Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius extended the deadline until Dec. 14 for states to decide whether to run an exchange on their own.
Come Friday, states will have to decide whether they will run their own insurance exchanges under President Obama's sweeping health law.
These exchanges will be where people and small businesses go to shop for insurance.
The policies offered will have to meet minimum standards. And there will be subsidies on a sliding scale for people who need them. Those will be available for people earning up to four times the federal poverty level, or about is about $40,000 to $45,000 for a single person.
At noon Thursday, we'll convene a Twitter chat about the exchanges: why they matter and how they could transform the health insurance marketplace.
Look for the hashtag #healthexchange
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NPR's Julie Rovner, who put together this explainer on the exchanges.
Colorado Public Radio's Eric Whitney, who recently reported on the state's early decision to build an exchange.
Health economist Austin Frakt, part of the brain trust at the Incidental Economist blog, will chime in.
Avalere Health's Caroline Pearson's will bring her insights to the party.
And NPR's Richard Knox will help fill us on what's happened with the pioneering exchange in Massachusetts.
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Update 3:45 p.m.: David Schultz pulled together highlights from the chat.
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Unanswered: Compatibility with Sencha Touch
Touch Charts 1.0.0 comes packaged with the Sencha Touch library.
I have noticed that the file sizes of sencha-touch.js and sencha-touch-debug.js are different between the latest releases of Sencha Touch and Sencha Charts.
So, this leads me to a couple of questions:
- When we use Charts, do we have to use the version of Sencha Touch that is distributed with Charts, or should Charts also be compatible with (at least) the version of Touch that is current at the time that version of Charts was released? This is important, as many of us have had to bug fix the library due to Sencha being behind on integrating bug fixes into the released code (see my post in the bug forum...). So, having to re-test all those bug fixes on the Charts library is a lot of extra work.
- How do we determine the precise version of a library? I would have expected, at least, some comments at the top of the sencha.touch.debug.js file, but there are not any.
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As stated in the release notes, we bundle the current head version (from SVN) of Sencha Touch which is 1.1.1. This version is currently in QA and should be released very soon. It includes some fixes for multitouch in Android 3 (tablets) and the Blackberry Torch, as well as other fixes since 1.1.0 was released. Touch Charts do work with 1.1.0, but will have issues with Android 3 tablets and the Torch.
The Ext.version property should give you the version of Sencha Touch you are currently using.
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When did most Christians (possibly excluding exceptions such as Seventh Day Adventists) and Jews start celebrating Sabbath on different days of the week and why?
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To be clear, most Christians do not celebrate "The Sabbath" on Sunday. Strictly speaking, Christians do not celebrate the Sabbath at all* (although many Christians still refer to their "day of rest" as their "sabbath day", even though this has no direct relationship to the Jewish Sabbath.) Christians traditionally celebrate on Sundays because this is the day Christ was raised from the grave.
I have not yet found a specific, authoritative reference for the fact that Christians worship on Sunday because that is when Christ was raised, but some references include here and here
*Apparently some Christian groups do call Sunday "the Sabbath" (with a capital S), but I believe this is a minority view, and is rarely considered dogma
The Sabbath will always be Friday night into Saturday. However, the celebration is not the Sabbath. Christians can worship God whenever and wherever they please in spirit and truth!
Early Christians (who were also practicing Jews) celebrated the thanksgiving sacrifice in the Jewish temple on the first day they could, which was the day after the sabbath.
More info from the Reverend Know-It-All (I heard the priest in charge of that site give this explanation on Relevant Radio a few months ago)
I have never previously heard anyone claim that Sabbath is on Sunday.
Rather, I think Sabbath is on Saturday and the reason (a lot of) Christians have Sunday as the holy day has to do with the early church. There are passages from which it could be deduced that the early church met on Sunday, the first day of the week, to remember Jesus's resurrection that happened on that day of the week:
Here are some quotes from and references to Catholic and Protestant sources that attest to the changing of the Saturday Sabbath to the Sunday Sabbath (to speak simply).
There are many more quotes from the Catholic Church which I can provide. The Protestant view is presented next.
As with the Catholic quotes, there are more quotes from the mainstream Protestant churches I can provide.
Early followers switched from the Judaistic tradition of having the Sabbath on Saturday to having it on Sunday to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, which was on a Sunday.
In Old Testament times, the Jewish people observed the Sabbath on the seventh day of the week because God rested on the seventh day when He had created the earth. After the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which occurred on the first day of the week, the Lord's disciples began observing the Sabbath on the first day of the week, Sunday.
Acts 20:7 (KJV)
Wikipedia talks about Sunday and the Sabbath and also references Acts 20:7 as a sign of the change. It cites in AD 363 a seventh-day Sabbath was prohibited by Canon 29 of the Council of Laodicea.
Judaism continues to celebrate on Saturday because they do not recognize the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The Old Testament day of rest was a prefigure for the rest we have in Christ. As the author of Hebrews says, we "cease from our own works" every day (see Galatians 5:19-21), not just on a particular day of the week.
Christians do not worship on the Sabbath, we live in the Sabbath, because every day in Christ is a day of rest. Christians hold worship services on Sunday in honor of the resurrection, which occurred on the first day of the week.
Personally, I spend Sunday mornings and evenings at church, and the rest of the day in fellowship with other Christians. There isn't time to mow the lawn, clean the car, etc. The Pharisees around the time of Christ had strict laws against, for example, carrying a stick too far on the Sabbath. They even accused Jesus of breaking the Sabbath laws for healing people!
Should you work on Sundays? I defer to Paul...
While there are references in the Bible to disciples meeting on a Sunday, I compiled a quick (non-authoritative) list to demonstrate that there's no strong argument to claim from the Bible that the early church met exclusively on Sunday. Bear in mind that the very early church met in people's homes and worshiped in the temple up until it was destroyed in AD70.
I suspect that the gradual move from every-day to Sunday worship coincided with the Jewish proportion of believers becoming a minority and the (related) adoption of Christianity as the official religion of Rome which removed the 'underground' element and resulted in church buildings for worship.
References to worshiping/meeting daily: Acts 2:46 Acts 2:47 Acts 5:42 Acts 16:5 Acts 17:11 Acts 17:17 Acts 19:9 Heb 3:13
References to worshiping/meeting on Sabbath (Fri eve/Saturday): Acts 13:14 Acts 13:42 Acts 13:44 Acts 16:13 Acts 17:2 Acts 18:4
References to worship/meeting on a Sunday John 20:19 Acts 20:7
The New Testament clearly retains a distinction between the Sabbath day (seventh day of the week) and "the first day of the week" (cp. John 20:19; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2 v. Acts 13:14, 13:27, 13:42, 13:44, etc.). The Sabbath cannot be moved. It is simply the seventh day of the week as defined in the Torah.
Since Christians are not under the Law of Moses (certainly not Gentile Christians who never were) and all Christians rest in Christ, there would be no need to "move" the Sabbath. Although there is no commandment to observe the first day of the week as a specific day of worship, some Christians may insist they do so because Christ resurrected from the dead on the first day of the week.
Each Christian has liberty to worship "in Spirit and in truth" as the Holy Spirit moves him.
Using a perspective from the past, America's greatest theologian, Jonathan Edwards, has a different take from most of the above answers here. In his sermon he argues that the 4th commandment (Remember the Sabbath day....) is binding on all people for all time. He says further, that is only the risen Christ Who has authority to change the day which His church is to keep the sabbath on. That He did at His resurrection. Edwards argues his point from Scripture.
This is also the plain teaching of the Westminster Confession of Faith, (chapter 7) which was written by over 120 Anglican clergy and is the adopted standard of Biblical interpretation by Presbyterians. The London 1689 Baptist Confession has the same wording on this subject.
The Jews of-course do not recognise the change of day as they do not agree that Jesus was the Christ or that He rose from the dead. Hence they continue to observe the 4th commandment on the last day of the week.
I have only entered this because the question appears to have been talked around, with most viewpoints represented, but without anyone bringing the pieces together. All pious Jews and some Christians celebrate Saturday, the last day of the past week, as Shabbat or Sabbath, and most Christians celebrate Sunday, the first day of the new week, as the Lord's Day. Unfortunately some Christians call this the Sabbath which confuses the issue and probably originates from a misunderstanding of the meaning of the days.
The Sabbath commemorates the period of rest after the completion of creation. The Lord's Day commemorates the beginning of a new creation, brought about by Christ's resurrection. The first recorded occasion of a possible celebration of the Lord's Day is his appearance to Thomas two weeks after the resurrection, eight days after the appearance of the risen Christ in the upper room: 'Eight days later the disciples were again together in the house (John 20:26)'. The first gathering was in obedience to Leviticus 23: 7 to complete the Passover feast on the seventh day. This they did, albeit in a locked room for fear of being caught. But they next came together on the eighth day, our Sunday, when Thomas apparently was there reluctantly. A later mention is in Luke's Acts of the Apostles 20: 7, 'On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.' the practice became more generally accepted in the second century (Eusebius - life of Constantine, Ignatius, Magnesians. 9:1, and two early second century apocryphal gospels: Peter 35: 50 and Barnabas 15:9)
There are therefore two days, the Sabbath and the Lord's Day, a day of rest and a day of delight. Even though Christians may not feel bound by the rules of Sabbath, because Christ has freed us from the bonds of the Law, they should still respect it just as, celebrating new life in Christ, they worship on Sunday. All references seem to have been covered above.
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From what I understand, aftertouch in MIDI is a parameter (like a continuous controller) that a synthesizer can respond to. I have heard that some keyboards can send polyphonic aftertouch data, where the aftertouch information is sent per-note. But how does this work, if aftertouch is just one parameter? Is there a mechanism where the note data can be set alongside the aftertouch data, or is it just aftertouch per-channel, which would max out at 16 "notes" and intrude on the other channels? Or are these two sent as entirely different data in the first place?
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Aftertouch and polyphonic aftertouch are two different event types in the MIDI standard:
Both kinds of aftertouch are tied to a specific MIDI channel. In addition, the polyphonic variant is also, as you noted yourself, tied to a specific note.
A synthesizer or MIDI controller can send an arbitrary amount of both polyphonic key pressure and channel pressure events (or at least as fast as the MIDI link allows).
Kim Burgaard pretty much hit the nail on the head, but I wanted to add just one small bit of explanation.
The reason that we have two different types of aftertouch is that the sensors used to measure aftertouch are somewhat expensive from a manufacturing perspective, and therefore most mid- to low-end MIDI keyboards have only one sensor for all keys. More expensive keyboards have per-key aftertouch sensors, but both types are capable of sending some type of aftertouch data.
Some better googling led me to the answer. They are indeed separate data and aren't the same thing.
"Normal" aftertouch actually isn't aftertouch. It's Channel Pressure and uses a different status byte than Aftertouch.
Channel pressure is just a pressure value, global to the channel, while aftertouch sends the note number in addition to pressure as part of its data. Only one channel is required.
i guess this question is old, but it should be noted that VERY few keyboards can generate polyphonic aftertouch (a note specific control - also known as "note pressure"), but almost all synth keyboards can generate CHANNEL aftertouch (a control for affecting all the notes in a channel - "channel pressure").
ALSO, it should be noted that not all synthesizers even RESPOND to polyphonic aftertouch. I mean, what does monophonic aftertouch (channel pressure) =do= to the sound? Usually adds something like vibrato, same sort of thing a mod wheel would do.
What does polyphonic aftertouch (note pressure) =do= to the sound? Mmmm, whatever the synthesizer is programmed to do. But it's PER NOTE - so maybe the 3rd of a chord gets vibrato, but not the 1st and 5th (for example).
The reason not many synthesizers even respond to note pressure (poly aftertouch) is


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What are some major open problems in Riemannian Geometry? I tried googling it, but couldn't find any resources.
The book "A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry" by Marcel Berger includes a number of open problems.
There are many surveys and books with open problems, but it would be nice to have a list of a dozen problems that are open and yet embarrasingly simple to state. A list that is "folklore" and that every graduate student in differential geometry should keep in his/her pocket.
Here are the ones I like best:
1. Does every Riemannian metric on the $3$-sphere have infinitely many prime closed geodesics? Does it have at least three (prime) closed geodesics?
2. If the volume of a Riemannian $3$-sphere is equal to 1, does it carry a closed geodesic whose length is less that $10^{24}$? Same question with $S^1 \times S^2$ if you like it better than the $3$-sphere.
3. Does $S^2 \times S^2$ admit a Riemannian metric with positive sectional curvature?
4. If a Riemannian metric on real projective space has the same volume as the canonical metric, does it carry a closed, non-contractible geodesics whose length is at most $\pi$ ?
5. What are the solutions of the isoperimetric problem in the complex projective plane provided with its canonical (Fubini-Study) metric?
6. Up to constant multiples, is the canonical metric on the complex projective plane the only Riemannian metric on this manifold for which all geodesics are closed?
7. Does every Riemannian metric on the $2$-sphere that is sufficiently close to the canonical metric and whose area is $4\pi$ carry a closed geodesic whose length is at most $2\pi$?
There is also this long review paper by Yau from 2000:
where he discusses many big open problems in Riemannian geometry, symplectic geometry, algebraic geometry, and geometric analysis. This can keep you occupied for a long long time...
Here are two possibly relevant references, a decade apart (1998 and 2008), neither of which I can knowledgeably assess:
(1) Thierry Aubin, Some Nonlinear Problems in Riemannian Geometry, Springer Monographs in Mathematics, 1998.
(2) Simon Donaldson, "Some problems in differential geometry and topology," Nonlinearity 21 T157, 2008.
Here is one sentence from Donaldson's paper:
Gromov's "Spaces and Questions" sketches some big themes and associated questions in Geometry. Atiyah's lectures discuss themes inspired by physics.
One of my favourite open problems is this:
Are there any examples of irreducible, compact, simply-connected, riemannian manifolds with vanishing Ricci curvature with generic (i.e., not special) holonomy?
You can find some open problems in the last section, called 'Problem section', of Shing-Tung Yau's book 'Seminar on differential geometry'.
Just to make this answer self-contained, I pasted the content from the wiki article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shing-Tung_Yau#Open_problems
Yau has compiled an influential set of open problems in geometry.
One of Yau's problems is about bounded harmonic functions, and harmonic functions on noncompact manifolds of polynomial growth. After proving non-existence of bounded harmonic functions on manifolds with positive curvatures, he proposed the Dirichlet problem at infinity for bounded harmonic functions on negatively curved manifolds, and then proceeded to harmonic functions of polynomial growth. Dennis Sullivan tells a story about Yau's geometric intuition, and how it led him to reject an analytical proof of Sullivan's. Michael Anderson independently found the same result about bounded harmonic function on simply connected negatively curved manifolds using a geometric convexity construction.
Again motivated by Mostow's strong rigidity theorem, Yau called for a notion of rank for general manifolds extending the one for locally symmetric spaces, and asked for rigidity properties for higher rank metrics. Advances in this direction have been made by Ballmann, Brin and Eberlein in their work on non-positive curved manifolds, Gromov's and Eberlein's metric rigidity theorems for higher rank locally symmetric spaces and the classification of closed higher rank manifolds of non-positive curvature by Ballmann and Burns-Spatzier. This leaves rank 1 manifolds of non-positive curvature as the focus of research. They behave more like manifolds of negative curvature, but remain poorly understood in many regards.
It is known that if a complex manifold has a Kähler–Einstein metric, then its tangent bundle is stable. Yau realized early in 1980s that the existence of special metrics on Kähler manifolds is equivalent to the stability of the manifolds. Various people including Simon Donaldson have made progress to understand such a relation.
He has collaborated with string theorists including Strominger, Vafa and Witten, and as post-doctorals from theoretical physics with B. Greene, E. Zaslow and A. Klemm . The Strominger–Yau–Zaslow program is to construct explicitly mirror manifolds. David Gieseker wrote of the seminal role of the Calabi conjecture in relating string theory with algebraic geometry, in particular for the developments of the SYZ program, mirror conjecture and Yau–Zaslow conjecture.
You can try one of these: http://www.aimath.org/WWN/nnsectcurvature/nnsectcurvature.pdf. All of them concern with nonnegatively curved Riemannian manifolds and Alexandrov geometry. In the same context I know a couple of surveys: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3091 and http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701389. It has been conjectured (you can check in those papers) that any nonnegatively curved manifold is rationally elliptic. This is an important open problem in Riemannian geometry.
Here are two more to add to the listed above:
Conjecture of LeBrun and Salamon : Quaternionic-Kahler metrics whose universal covers have only discrete isometry groups?
Alekseevsky Conjecture: http://www2.math.ou.edu/~mjablonski/math/
AIM maintains a list of open problems from workshops that it hosts. You could try looking there (but they may be too specific for your needs).


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As the investigation into the shooting over night continued this morning, Cowley County deputies responded to a call for service from a woman who reported an accident near Winfield Lake. Upon interviewing the person, the deputy notified El Dorado investigators he had one of the people being sought for questioning in the shooting incident reported earlier. She was transported to El Dorado for questioning in this matter.
Later that morning, a white male (earlier identified as being present at the scene of the shooting) reported an automobile accident near Atlanta. The description of the vehicle matched that being searched for in connection with this case. The subject was taken into custody for questioning in the investigation and transported to El Dorado. Subsequent aerial search of the region resulted in the discovery of the suspect vehicle apparently abandoned after being driven into a ravine in a rural area near Atlanta. The vehicle will be transported back to El Dorado for processing for possible evidence.
The third party, the black male known to have been with the pair now in custody remains outstanding. He is considered armed and dangerous and is described as a black male, in his late twenties wearing a dark hooded sweat shirt.
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A correction on the age of the victim is that he is 23 years old.
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Memorial services for Robert L. Jenkins, 83 of Lakeland, FL and formerly of Viola and Moline, will be Saturday, February 2nd at 2:00 PM at Speer Funeral Home, Aledo. Military Honors will be provided by the American Legion Post #121. Visitation is Friday from 4 to 8 PM at the funeral home. Private burial will be at the National Cemetery , Rock Island Arsenal. Memorials may be made in Robert's name for the Good Shepherd Hospice of Florida or SPCA.
Robert died Saturday, January 19, 2013 at Good Shepherd Hospice in Auburndale, Florida with his "girls" by his side.
Robert was born on December 3, 1929 in Rock Island, Illinois to Cecil & Margaret Lafevre Jenkins. He graduated from Alleman High School and enlisted in the United States Air Force, serving from 1947 to 1956. Robert married E. Maribel Moreland on July 1, 1962 in rural Viola.
Robert retired as a distribution manager for Lucky Stores, Inc., Midwest Division, in 1988. After retirement he was State Director for AARP in Florida . He also was a published freelance writer. Robert loved animals, especially his canine companions. He was a member of the Moline VFW, The American Legion and the Lakeland Presbyterian Church.
Those left to cherish Robert's memory include his wife of 50 years, Maribel; daughters and spouses: Loretta & Darrell Thirtyacre of Bloomington, IL and Rhonda & John King of Medina, Ohio; brother, sisters and spouses: Douglas & Lois Jenkins of Fenton, MO; Deanna & James Moore of Knoxville, IL; Arlene & William "Bud" Walthall of Seaton and Carol & Ronald George of The Villages, FL; Sisters-in-law: Joan Jenkins, Viola; Saku Jenkins, Belleville, IL and Dorothy Jenkins of Riverdale, IA; Brother in law: Bradley Waugh, Neponset, Il. Grandchildren: Kirk Thirtyacre and his special friend, Laura; Kelsie Thirtyacre; Benjamin King and fiancé, Valerie, and Abigail King and 3 great-grandchildren: Emoree, Abram and Eli Thirtyacre.
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County commissioners voted Tuesday to approve a $1.6 million contract with Rodda Construction to build the second phase of the county park on the south end of Poinciana.
Construction is expected to begin about the first of the year, said Mike Callender, the county's parks and recreation manager.
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