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Free Printable: Robert Fulghum's 'True Love' Quote Poster
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this quote is actually Dr. Seuss's! R.F used it for his book and added the "true love" as opposed to love.ReplyDelete
Just letting you know : )
Your poster is super cute, and it's still a great quote!Replies
oops, i knew it was quoted from Dr. Seuss AND Robert Fulghum but I wasn't sure where the original one came from. Anyway I like Fulghum's version, seems more romantic o.o But thanks for clarifying Olivia! :DDelete
Super cute! Love it. Pinning for future printing!ReplyDeleteReplies
enjoy it, kelly! :DDelete
This is so perfect for my husband! lol (guess that means we are weird?) I'm printing and will be framing for above his desk.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing!
Debbie :)Replies
If you both are then I'm sure he'll love that poster. Haha! You're welcome Debbie :)Delete
Love it so much, thank you for sharing!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey, glad you liked it! You're welcome! :)Delete
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100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
User Score
5 point score based on user ratings.
Advertising BlurbsMagazine ad:
You've stumbled into an unknown computer system.
Now what?
One word appears on your screen.
What do you do now?
You don't know the password.
You don't even know what computer system you've hacked into.
But you do know that you must find out more.
There are no instructions.
No rules.
No clues.
You're completely on your own.
You've found your way in.
But is there a way out?
Contributed by Pseudo_Intellectual (60508) on Jul 27, 2013.
Ganz zufällig geraten Sie in ein völlig fremdes Computersystem. Was nun?Log on
Nur dieses eine kleine Wort ist auf dem Bildschirm zu sehen.
Wie geht's nun weiter?
Das Passwort ist nicht bekannt. Der Firmenname auch nicht. Aber als ordentlicher Hacker werden Sie dies schon herauskriegen
Es gibt keine Anleitung. Keine Regeln. Keine Hinweise.
Sie sind ganz auf sich selbst angewiesen.
Den Weg in das Computersystem haben Sie zufällig gefunden. Finden Sie auch wieder hinaus?
Eine total neue Spielidee!
Contributed by Patrick Bregger (211106) on Jul 31, 2011.
"Log on, please." That's your only clue. What's going on? It's up to you to figure out. We can't tell you. We won't. As every hacker knows, there just aren't any instructions for this kind of thing.
Contributed by Belboz (6576) on Oct 06, 2001.
You've Stumbled Into An Unknown Computer System.
Now What?
Welcome To The Next Generation Of Home Computer Software.
"Plunge into every hacker's dream." -Rick Manning/Louisville Times
"...the most mysterious game ever." -Rawson Stovall/"The Vid Kid"
"An open screen says 'logon please.' That's it, no instructions." -Technology Notebook/Gannett News Service
"Just like in real life, there are no rules, no clues, no instructions." -David Greising/Technology Memo
What more can we say? Well, someone as clever and smart as you certainly wouldn't want any hints, right? So all we'll say is it was created by legendary designer, Steve Cartwright.
Contributed by Belboz (6576) on Apr 12, 2001.
Front of box:
To stumble into somebody else's computer system. To be someplayce you're really not supposed to be. And to get the strange feeling that it really does matter:
"LOGON PLEASE:" is all you get to start with. That's it. From there, it's up to you. If you're clever enough and smart enough, you could discover a world you've never before experienced on your computer.
Very tempting.
Back of box:
What's going on here? Who are these guys? What are they doing? What am I doing?
In Hacker, it's up to you to figure it out. We can't tell you. We won't tell you. As every hacker knows, there just aren't any instructions for this king of thing.
Contributed by -Chris (7565) on Aug 13, 2000.

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Im not seeing a problem with this plan in any way, shape or form
Im not seeing a problem with this plan in any way, shape or form
Ty Tg and staff is a great site with great people.
I'm game for a road trip to Tampa. Haven't been their for almost 10 years. My old boss just had a 5 bedroom house built guess I got my place to camp at.
DJ Crimefighter @ Insaneradio.us
"Here's an idea! Don't worry about sports and run the ****ing country!!!" - PsychoWard to Obama
She may want to rethink having us all down there, or better yet, go ahead and retain her law services awhile in case Lloyd gets us into trouble
Hey i always got my lawnmower with me.
OMG! Just the thought of getting to see Scorp in person! I keep that great picture of him right here by my computer.....
just to remind me that I'm glad he's up there and I'm down here!!!
The mental images this thread is portraying are scary
I don't post much here, anymore but I do stop by and read almost everyday.
There are alot of great members here and I enjoy reading their input on our team that we love.
I also want to thank Top Gun, AZ Steelerfan and BR7 for the their help and support in the past with what I have been doing.
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Recap: Amerks @ Syracuse Crunch, 03.16.2012
"I'm headed east to another town … I'm moving on." (Will Hoge, This Highway's Home)
My family and I ventured to the safe, peaceful confines of the OnCenter in Syracuse (ha!) in order to partake in an Amerks road game against an Eastern rival. Since the days of the "Thruway Rivalry" (way back when I was in high school), games between these two teams – no matter what conferences they have been in – have carried a certain sense of electricity, a certain physicality, and a certain sense of excitement. The Amerks seemed to have missed the memo for this game, though.
Rochester (30-22-6-3, 62 points) headed into this contest with Syracuse (27-27-4-4) riding a four game winning streak, and having won seven of their last eight. The Amerks and Crunch had met six times prior to this game, with Rochester's four wins leading the series and all coming on Rochester ice. The Amerks got off to a stellar start, scoring just 1:21 into the first period. It was a bit of a strange play with just about everyone on the ice getting caught out of position, but most importantly Syracuse goaltender Iiro Tarkki leaving a wide open net for Paul Szczechura to score his 15th of the season. Luke Adam and Derek Whitmore were there to assist him. Syracuse didn't waste much time in getting it back, however, tying the game at 6:34 of the first. The goals, however, were not the most awesome part of the first period. Following Rochester's goal, Travis Turnbull laid quite the pounding on Syracuse's Ryan O'Marra. It was quick, slightly dirty, and Turnbull came out the victor. Then the 11:42 mark hit. I'm not entirely certain what triggered The Wrath of Joe Finley (as it happened in an area along the glass that our seats did not provide a clear view of), but we watched TJ Brennan and Syracuse's Brittain exchange words while a linesman tried to pull Joe Finley out of the fray. Finley was fine with that, but was also more than happy to engage Smaby in a fight and … I mean … why would anyone want to fight Finley? I think I've seen him lose one fight and it was because he didn't have good footing. The guy is massive, I'd imagine his fists feel like getting hit with lead pipes, and he just wins. His size dictates it. Early in the scuffle, Smaby fell to the ice, and Finley kindly helped him back to his feet so he could continue the altercation. All four players would go to the box, with Brennan and Brittain getting five each for fighting, Brittain also getting two for roughing, Smaby getting two for roughing, and Finley pulling a double minor for roughing. Finley was quite lucky that he didn't get more for being 3rd player in an altercation. I'd like to pretend that this was because the refs were afraid that Fin would turn his rage on them. The first period ended with teams knotted at one-each, and Rochester with a slight (read: one more) edge in SOG.
For the second period, I had to pleasure to link up with a Twitter-friend and to sit with her and her husband. The way that the OnCenter is set up, the Amerks players enter from a spot across the ice from the actual players bench, and the backup goaltender (Drew MacIntyre) sits on a bench at the end of this tunnel. So, on one side of me, I had my friend and her husband, and on the other I had DrewMac. I rarely sit along the glass, and I'll let you in on a secret. It's not because I am all "oh, I like to sit high up in the arena, so that I can see everything!" or because I am broke and can't afford glass seats. I don't like to sit on the glass because I spend my whole time in fear that two players will smash into said glass, shattering it and sending it flying, and filling my lap with glass and hockey player. While this may be some hockey fan's dream somewhere, I'm really way too anxious and awkward to handle this. HOWEVER, I felt completely better sitting next to DrewMac, and he jumped every time his friends on the ice slammed into the glass in front of us. He also talked to myself and the young boy on his other side THE WHOLE TIME. He talked to the little Crunch fan about the DS game the kiddo was playing, and to me about my tattoos. We also talked a little about this here blog, and about my (completely adorable) niece, as Mac had seen us sitting (in the seats we paid for) right behind the Amerks bench during warmups. Syracuse pulled into the lead nearly four minutes into the second, when McMillian sank his second past David Leggio. Syracuse was issued a too many men penalty, leading to Evan Rankin's ninth goal of the season, and the tying tally, with assists to Brennan and Phil Varone. When compared to a first period that saw two goals and ten penalties, the second period's two goals and four penalties made for a quick period. Or maybe it was the unexpected company that made time fly.
I ventured back to my own seat for the third period, which did not really go the way that us Amerk fans had hoped. The Amerks did regain the lead, on a "Captain Amerk" Colin Stuart goal at 6:54. This was really the last thing that went right for Rochester. Syracuse tied it, then ended up scoring their fourth and final goal on a sloppy slashing power play, issued to Igor Gongalsky. While the Amerks have been a third period team all season, this game just wasn't their game from the start. The Amerks have really demonstrated a simple but effective style of playing, and they seemed to complicate the game every step of the way against this Syracuse team. In hindsight, Rochester's first goal, where nearly every player on the ice was not where he should have been, was a horrific foreshadowing of how this game would go. At one point, I wondered if our Amerks had been secretly replaced by a bunch of guys who hadn't played hockey in several years, because that's how sloppy and confused they looked. I can only hope that the Amerks will clean up their game, as they look to face Binghamton in Bingo on March 17.
Game notes: The Amerks offered up 26 SOG (10-7-9) to Syracuse's 35 (9-19-7) … Five Amerks ended the evening with a negative plus/minus – Brennan was -3, Finley was -2, and Stuart, Rankin, and Varone were each -1. Dennis Persson, Nick Crawford, and Shaone Morrisson all ended +1 … Speaking of Phil Varone, he secured third star of the night honors, with the first and second stars going to Nick Schaus and Brandon McMillan, both of the Crunch … After the game, I spotted Mike Ryan getting on the Amerks bus, so he (and his eyebrows) are alive and well. Unfortunately, "alive" doesn't qualify one to play hockey for this club. It was nice to see him out and about, though, and I continue to wish him nothing but the best in dealing with whatever plagues him … Luke Adam continues to refuse to allow me to hate him and his big doofy-ness. He, Varone, and Whitmore lead the team in shots, with four a piece. During the second period, Adam got caught without his stick, but was more than able to go charging (not the penalty kind of charging) two-hands-first into Syracuse's Holland to help keep him out of the play. He also managed to garner an assist and to stay out of the penalty box. Someone please give that man a gold star.
On a slightly personal note, I have to continue to give these guys all the credit in the world for being fan-friendly and not carrying around big bad "we lost, so go away" attitudes following this mess of a game. As we waited by the player's bus for my sister to get her now-retired Jay McKee license plate signed (no, you actually read that right. Go ahead, you can go read it again, let it sink in a bit. She is easily his biggest fan. Easily. You good? Ok, moving on …), several of the guys stopped to chat before getting on the bus. DrewMac came over to ask my niece if she was his "friend" from warmups, and if she would like to take a picture with him. He shared with us that his daughter is similar to my niece, and just stood with us, talking for a bit. Joe Finley extracted himself from several puck-bunnies-in-training to run for the bus (I can't blame him). When he caught sight of my niece, he came over to ask her for a high five. She wouldn't high five the giant man, but she was also amenable to having her picture taken with him. And he thanked us for coming out to the game. These Amerks are not the Amerks of previous seasons, which is awesome both on and off the ice. I think that, should this team really screw their heads on straight over their remaining games, they will make the playoffs and will make a lot of us very happy hockey fans.
The Amerks boarded a bus bound for Binghamton following this game, and will meet the B-Sens for the third time in nine days for a St Patrick's Day tilt on March 17. If David Leggio gets the start, it will be his tenth straight and 18th start in 21 games. He's currently in the top five in the AHL for both saves and wins. However, it wouldn't come as a great surprise to me to see DrewMac start the game against Binghamton. This Binghamton game will be the seventh time the two teams have met this season, with the Amerks continuing to look to improve their chances of securing a playoff spot. The Amerks return home on March 21 against Syracuse. See you at the game!


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How To Track Your Child's Phone Without Them Knowing?
Parents of teens and tweens are not only facing the moodiness of their growing child, but they are also faced with an obstacle that parents of previous generations may not have dealt with on such a great scale – technology. Cell phones, video games and social media sites are taking over many teenagers' lives, and some parents may be wondering how to battle the technology and the risks that come with this issue. A number of parents are worried not only about their child doing poorly in school, but they are also concerned with the danger of cell phone use and various social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. According to The Seattle Times, parents can find ways to monitor and educate their children about their limits with technology – Track Your Child's Phone Without Them Knowing. Parents need to set restrictions such as shutting off technology at a certain time each night. In addition, parents need to start talking about the internet and cell phones, and the implications of what can happen if the teen breaks the rules. Parents who feel as though their child is partaking in bad behavior on the internet or a cell phone may want to purchase parental control software, which can allow parents to view texts, pictures and call details to ensure that their teen is safe. Parents may also need to talk to their children earlier than they expect. So, it may be advisable for parents to have a frank discussion when their son or daughter gets their first cell phone.
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This story appears in the January 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Some places on this planet are so wondrous, and so frangible, that maybe we just shouldn't go there.
Maybe we should leave them alone and appreciate them from afar. Send a delegated observer who will absorb much, walk lightly, and report back as Neil Armstrong did from the moon—and let the rest of us stay home. That paradox applies to Kronotsky Zapovednik, a remote nature reserve on the east side of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, along the Pacific coast a thousand miles north of Japan. It's a splendorous landscape, dynamic and rich, tumultuous and delicate, encompassing 2.8 million acres of volcanic mountains and forest and tundra and river bottoms as well as more than 700 brown bears, thickets of Siberian dwarf pine (with edible nuts for the bears) and relict "graceful" fir (Abies sachalinensis) left in the wake of Pleistocene glaciers, a major rookery of Steller sea lions on the coast, a population of kokanee salmon in Kronotskoye Lake, along with sea-run salmon and steelhead in the rivers, eagles and gyrfalcons and wolverines and many other species—terrain altogether too good to be a mere destination. With so much to offer, so much at stake, so much that can be quickly damaged but (because of the high latitudes, the slow growth of plants, the intricacies of its geothermal underpinnings, the specialness of its ecosystems, the delicacy of its topographic repose) not quickly repaired, does Kronotsky need people, even as visitors? I raise this question, acutely aware that it may sound hypocritical, or anyway inconsistent, given that I've recently left my own boot prints in Kronotsky's yielding crust.
The government of Russia recognizes such spectacular fragility with that categorical zapovednik, connoting roughly this: "a restricted zone, set aside for the study and protection of flora and fauna and geology; tourism limited or forbidden; thanks for your interest, but go away." It's a farsighted sort of statutory designation, bravely and judiciously antidemocratic in a country where antidemocracy has a long, brutal history. Scientists are permitted to enter zapovedniks, though only for research and under stringent conditions. Kronotsky is one of 101 such reserves in Russia, by the latest count, and was among the first, decreed in 1934. Before that it had been a sable refuge, established in 1882 at the prompting of local people, hunters and trappers who valued the forests surrounding Kronotskoye Lake as prime habitat for Martes zibellina, the sable. The Kamchatka Peninsula is very distant from Moscow (as distant, in fact, as Moscow is from Boston), and to Joseph Stalin's Soviet government in the mid-1930s (with much else on its agenda) the opportunity costs of putting a modest chunk of that wilderness within protective boundaries probably didn't seem high. In 1941 a second kind of asset revealed itself within the reserve, when a hydrologist named Tatiana I. Ustinova discovered geysers there.
In the cold springtime of that year, Ustinova and her guide were exploring the headwaters of the Shumnaya River by dogsled. They paused near a confluence point and happened to notice, at some distance along the water's edge, a large outburst of steam. With hungry dogs and other urgencies pulling her away, Ustinova wasn't able to see much more, not then, but she returned several months later to map and study what proved to be a whole complex of geothermal features, including about 40 geysers. She named her first geyser Pervenets, meaning "firstborn." The tributary she ascended is now called the Geysernaya River, and above one of its bends is a slope known as Vitrazh, or stained glass, for its multicolored residue from a score of large and small vents. Kronotsky's Dolina Geyserov (Valley of Geysers) took its place as one of the world's major geyser areas, in a league with Yellowstone, El Tatio in Chile, Waiotapu on New Zealand's North Island, and Iceland.
Geysers are generally associated with volcanic activity, and that's certainly the case in Kronotsky. Kamchatka as a whole is abundantly pustulated with volcanoes, of which about two dozen, including some inactive ones, lie within the zapovednik or along its borders. Kronotsky Volcano is the tallest, a perfect cone rising to 11,552 feet. Krasheninnikov Volcano (named for Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov, a hardy naturalist who explored Kamchatka in the early 18th century) is its nonidentical twin, lying just southwestward across the Kronotskaya River. Still farther southwest is what would be, but no longer is, the third in a huge three-peak sequence. Instead of a high cone, it's a broad, low bowl, up to eight miles in diameter, filled with fumaroles and hot springs and sulfurous lakes, blueberry-and-heather tundra, forest patches of birch and Siberian dwarf pine, all rimmed by a circular ridge left behind when a vast volcano blasted itself open about 40,000 years ago. The bowl is called Uzon Caldera. Its name comes from the kindly spirit Uzon, a powerful figure in the legends of the native Koryak people. The exploration and study of Uzon Caldera by scientists, as well as Ustinova's finding of the Valley of Geysers, gave additional purpose to the zapovednik: protecting geological wonders as well as biological ones.
The story told by Koryaks about Uzon and his caldera has the ring of a parable. He was a friend to humanity, quieting earth tremors, stifling volcanic eruptions with his hands, doing other good deeds; but he endured a lonely existence, living secretively atop his own mountain so that evil spirits wouldn't come and destroy the place. Then he fell in love. She was a human—a beautiful girl named Nayun, with eyes like stars, lips like cranberries, eyebrows as dark and glossy as two sables. She loved Uzon in return, and he took her away to his mountain. So far, so good. But after some years of marital bliss and isolation, Nayun began to pine for her human relatives. Couldn't she have a visit with them somehow? Uzon, wanting to please her, made a desperate and tragic mistake: He spread the mountains with his mighty arms and created a road. People came, curious and disruptive. Now everybody knew Uzon's secret hideaway, including those evil spirits. "The earth yawned with a horrible crash having absorbed a huge mountain," in one telling of this tale, by G. A. Karpov, "and mighty Uzon turned into stone forever." You can see him there even today, petrified into a high peak on the northwestern perimeter of the caldera, his head bowed, his arms stretched around to form the rim.
If you do see him, you'll be among the few. The ban against tourism has been relaxed, but not much, for Kronotsky. About 3,000 nonscientific visitors now enter each year, and of those, only half make a stop in Uzon Caldera. Regulations limit the number, but so do logistics, lack of infrastructure, and cost. For starters, there is no road into Kronotsky Zapovednik from the more settled parts (which are not very settled) of Kamchatka. No roads within the reserve either, notwithstanding the legend of Uzon. The in-and-out transport consists mainly of Mi-8 helicopters, thunderously powerful machines such as once ferried troops for the Soviet Army. Sitting in an Mi-8 as it powers up for takeoff, strapped into a rickety seat beside a porthole window, you feel as you would in a crowded school bus with a sizable sawmill bolted to its roof—until the whole thing levitates. Tourist flights leave from a heliport 20 miles from Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka's capital, and are permitted to land only on helipads in the caldera and the Valley of Geysers. Neither place offers overnight accommodation for tourists, so a visit to the reserve constitutes a very pricey ($700) day trip with lunch. The customer traffic seems mostly made up of wealthy Russians, Europeans on adventuresome holidays, and the occasional American. Five hours in Kronotsky isn't something that ordinary families in Petropavlovsk could normally afford; it's not like loading the kids into the van for a summer trip that includes an ice cream cone at Old Faithful. Choppering in to see geysers and volcanoes and maybe a few brown bears (fleeing across the tundra as your pilot hazes them at low elevation to provide a good look) is nature appreciation for the affluent, sedentary elite. It's dramatic and thrilling and privileged and rude. It makes me dyspeptic, but ... how would I know that if I hadn't been there and done it myself?
The authorities who manage Kronotsky and the scientists who study it are sensitive to the downside of such tourism. Everybody leaves a footprint of some sort, the crucial questions being how deep and how many. At the beginning and the end of each summer season, investigators look for impacts at the caldera and the geysers. Their report helps inform decisions about the next season's visitation limits and dates. But the greater conundrum of Kronotsky, the one that provokes thought and not just sour belly, is how the concern over human-caused degradation should be reconciled with the inherent, violent dynamism of the place. This conundrum came to a point on June 3, 2007, when a massive wall of rock, mud, clay, and sand broke loose from a high ridge and slid, roaring, down a small creek valley, obliterating a hundred-foot waterfall, damming the Geysernaya River (all in a matter of seconds), and burying much of the Valley of Geysers beneath the resulting new lake. George Patton's army, marching through in hobnailed boots, couldn't have made such a mess.
Pervenets, Ustinova's firstborn geyser, is gone. So are a few other famous spouts. The rest remain. Vitrazh, the stained-glass mosaic, is intact. Alarming reports reached the international press, vacations were canceled, and people immediately disagreed about whether the slide was a tragedy or simply a fascinating natural shrug. "We scientists believe we are quite lucky to witness such an event," according to Alexander Petrovich Nikanorov, a researcher who briefed me at the zapovednik headquarters near Petropavlovsk. "Our lives are very short, and yet we witnessed it."
Geologists have good reason to feel that their lives, relative to the phenomena they study, are short. Rock usually moves slowly through time. But of course it's true for the rest of us also: Life is short, the world is big, and we're lucky to witness as much as we can. Whether that means we should all climb aboard the helicopter is another question, which I can't answer, not even to my own satisfaction. What I can tell you (and what Michael Melford's photographs show you) is this: Kronotsky Zapovednik is an extraordinary place, fragile and magnificent and changeable. Maybe you can take that on faith?


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Phoronix: Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop Comparison: 6 Desktops, 5 Driver/GPUs
In this article are benchmarks of six different desktops (Unity, GNOME Shell, GNOME Classic, KDE Plasma, Xfce, and LXDE) on five different GPU/driver configurations (Radeon, Catalyst, Intel, NVIDIA, and Nouveau) running the very latest Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" development packages to look at the latest state of the Ubuntu Linux gaming OpenGL performance.
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I for one am disappointed by the lack of quality of the article. Don't get me wrong, the data is great. But, with a massive comparison like this, it would have been great to glean a little more insight from the article itself.
For example, the World of Padman V1.2 test, shows that for the Radeon test, KDE got 15 FPS, on hardware that is clearly capable of delivering almost 200 FPS on EVERY other DE, using the same drivers. No matter how bad KDE is at gaming, it shouldn't lag that far behind. Clearly there is some sort of anomaly. If you don't want to take the time to figure out why, at least mention it as an anomaly. Perhaps the test machine had a problem?
Secondly, and yes it's been mentioned before, but I feel it should be mentioned again. The colours are REALLY annoying. You can clearly see KDE, and the rest all look the same.
Thirdly, I don't think you should allow data to be compared for any values that are unplayable, such as 10 FPS. The bars seem to indicate that DE X is slightly better than Y, when in reality, all of them are unplayable.
EDIT: In short, at least give us the impression that you've given a few minutes thought about the results. Currently, it feels like the entire article was simply run by a script and then copied as an 'article'.Last edited by StephanG; 12-15-2012, 10:34 AM.
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I am not familiar with the current state of xfce, but I do believe that its compositor is 2d only, you wouldnt notice a difference with 3d apps... and again the reason that glxgears gave differing results is because it is not a benchmark.
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I?m glad someone did bite. Thanks .
I just did a few benchmarks with and without Xfce compositing.
without compositing: 1230 fps
with compositing: 1450 fps
Trackmania Nations Forever (lowest possible settings):
1280?960 windowed:
without compositing: 37.6 fps.
with compositing: 37.6 fps.
1920?1200 fullscreen:
without compositing: 29.4 fps.
with compositing: 30.1 fps.
(Intel Core i3 550, linux 3.6.9 64 bit, mesa 9.0.1, xf86-video-intel 2.20.15, wine 1.5.19, vblank_mode=0)
So it appears that under Xfce compositing has no impact on a ?real? game, but improves things on a program that renders very little. (Unfortunately I don?t think I have another game to benchmark.)
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Originally posted by stqn View PostMaybe Xfce had compositing enabled and it slows things down?
However, last time I tried the excellent benchmarking tool glxgears under Xfce, enabling compositing actually improved the frame rate significantly!
Again glxgears is not a benchmark. it is useful in showing that direct rendering is working, thats all, and even then its just for a show.
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Originally posted by blackiwid View Postbut how can there be significant differences sometimes between xfce and lxde?
However, last time I tried the excellent benchmarking tool glxgears under Xfce, enabling compositing actually improved the frame rate significantly!
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I am a bit shocked about the differences from the Desktops in gaming... I mean ok I can understand why the "3d"-Desktops perform sometimes bad... but how can there be significant differences sometimes between xfce and lxde? And is there no general rule, which one is faster? I just dont get it... the window manager should open a window in full-screen and then the driver should directly write in this window, does it say to the window manager please draw me a poligon in this window or something like that?
So is there a general rule, if as example I would use something like awesome-wm which is pretty low-end would it perform best in all test? whats the bottle-neck, does the dms eat some ram behind or does they calculate some tetris games its playing with it self? Strange...
but very interesting that at least if you use the right dm in some game radeon driver kicks ass... at least in speed terms the radeon driver improves very well, even I think thats not the most important field...
another thought... does that differences go away at least in the cases where the desktops switch properly to 2d in background if a 3d window in fullscreen gets startet... with wayland... so is wayland be more direct in rendering games?Last edited by blackiwid; 12-14-2012, 06:32 AM.
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Originally posted by padrikas View Postyeah.. really.. especially considering AMD card costs ~160$, Intel graphics are integrated in CPU, and GTX is just a high-end card for ~500$
ha ha, you were few minutes faster on posting exactly same thing I was thinking
Also why test modern GPU with old, OpenGL 2.0 games when you got Serious Sam, TF2 and Unigine Heaven out there... WTF
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The micro-blogging platform Twitter was the breakthrough social media tool for journalists in 2008. It became a pipeline for breaking news for both professional reporters and citizen journalists, with the massacre in Mumbai, the Hudson River plane crash and Obama's inauguration highlighting its effectiveness as a source of live, user-generated online content.
Journalists increasingly used it to cross-promote their own stories, comment on others, and connect with contacts outside their usual silos. Ultimately, mainstream media outlets from the New York Times to the BBC adopted it as a news feed service for story dissemination, and even journalism academics began joining the Twitter conversation. The potential of the platform as a vehicle for journalism education also became apparent when I began implementing it as an event-coverage training tool for my journalism students during a regional Australian election.
So, while Barack Obama tweeted his way through an historic U.S. election, my University of Canberra radio journalism students used Twitter as a political reporting device for live online election coverage. This resulted in both improved speed and clarity in writing as well as a breakthrough engagement with democratic processes and political journalism by a generation of student reporters frequently cast as disengaged and averse to political news.
Joining the Twittersphere
For those of you who've managed to escape the recent media attention devoted to Twitter, a working definition: It's an interactive facility based on the open publication of messages 140 characters long. Instead of finding "friends," you accumulate "followers." Twitter identifies itself as "a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" It could also be described as a public sphere form of instant messaging, a global open chat room or, as I tweeted when I first joined the network in February 2008, "Isn't Twitter just Facebook status updates on steroids?" The language of Twitter describes users as "twits" or "tweeters" and the updates as "tweets" — appropriately evocative of chirping birds. (MediaShift also has published a guide to Twitter.)
Yes, I was skeptical about Twitter at first. Some of my ex-students convinced me to try it out and I later felt compelled to tweet with greater regularity when people began following my updates, but I frankly didn't see the point. Then I watched a fellow journalism academic tweet an international communications conference in Stockholm last July, and it finally clicked. Twitter is a great way to note-take in instantly publishable form, making it perfect for live-blogging events. It's also reminiscent of radio news reporting which requires journalists to file headlines, or what are often known as "news briefs," from the field for instant broadcast.
Twitter is, I think, the closest a text-based form of journalism comes to a "live cross" — a long-standing feature of broadcast journalism where a reporter files content, unfiltered, live to air. And that's how I started to use the platform — as a way to publish news briefs from events I was observing or participating in, to share links to stories that infuriated or delighted me, to share entertaining life moments and Haiku poetry, to communicate about journalism issues with like minds (and those with alternative perspectives) around the globe, to connect with new people from within my industry and, increasingly, as a first base for news headline consumption from my favored sources. Ultimately, Twitter displaced my RSS feeds and demanded my daily attention. Beware folks, it's highly addictive!
Tweeting an Oz election
My J-school is situated in Australia's national capital, Canberra. It's only a few miles from the seat of federal government and the elite Australian media hub that is the Canberra Press Gallery. At the University of Canberra, we have a reputation for producing job-ready journalism graduates with a capacity for original story-generation and critical thinking abilities but, like many journalism educators, we've found engaging Gen Y students in political reporting activities to be a challenge.
However, my background as a former member of the Canberra Press Gallery helps me persevere with the struggle and seek innovative and appealing ways to engage my students in political journalism. In the past, I've taken them to the Tally Room on national election nights to produce radio news reports for a community radio network as the vote counting unfolded. And when the regional Canberra elections were announced last year, I was keen to do something similar. But time-constraints, logistical difficulties and security concerns made setting up an election-night post in the Canberra Tally Room for our online student publication NOWUC impossible.
Nevertheless, I managed to secure permission from the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government for 12 of my students to join the media throng in the Tally Room's live broadcast center under my supervision. We were allowed to bring recording equipment into the arena to cover the event, but we were told we would not have access to desk space or Internet connectivity. So, instead, I turned to Twitter and mobile phones.
Getting the Students Twitter-Ready
I devoted one radio production class to training the students on the finer points of Twitter and getting them registered to use the platform. I first established a Twitter account connected to NOWUC (I'm the administrator of this Twitter page) to host the collective tweets on election night. I then got each of the participating students to create their own individual accounts, connecting them to their mobiles. The next step involved getting them to follow me, NOWUC and one another. I, in turn, connected my own accounts to theirs by following them.
Next, I devised traditional radio reporting assignments and allocated them to the students for election night coverage, with a view to producing and uploading longer form audio reports to NOWUC in the days following the election. Attempts to embed the Twitter feed to the NOWUC site failed, but we did install a link to the @NOWUC Twitter page which gave the main website the appearance of having a dynamic role in the election coverage process.
Interestingly, none of the students involved had used Twitter before and only a few were even familiar with its existence. Most, however, were Facebook addicts, and the idea of using a social media platform for journalistic purposes excited them. In fact, I saw news value just in the novelty of this reporting task, so I assigned some students to cover this Canberra election student tweet-a-thon as a story in itself. Challenge #1 — getting the students interested in political reporting — had been achieved, with the help of Twitter.
Election Night
Challenge #2 was election night itself, October 18, 2008. The plan went like this: Each student was assigned a Tweet Beat in the tally room. Some were attached to government desks, and some were dispatched to the Opposition parties' representatives. Others mingled with the voting public who'd gathered to watch the action, and the remainder stalked the main media outlets in the broadcast hub or went in search of "color."
They were told to tag each of their tweets with #ACTelection08, using a hashtag so they could be aggregated by Twitter's search function. Each of the students was then paired in a traditional radio reporting duo to undertake their broadcast production assignments and they alternated between roles as tweeters and broadcast journalists.
I had toyed with the possibility of getting the students to value-add their tweets with photos or even video generated by their phones (using Twitter applications like Twitpic) but decided to keep our first Twitter reporting exercise as simple as possible in the interests of both the speed of publication and the quality of learning.
Challenges and Obstacles
The actual process of tweeting proved logistically tricky. Given the direct link to a University of Canberra sponsored publication, I needed to filter the tweets before aggregating them on the NOWUC Twitter page in the interests of legal and ethical propriety. This was also an important part of the educational process — teaching the students about the perils of live reporting. But this meant that I had to re-tweet (abbreviated as "RT") each and every student post manually via my iPhone, on which I'd installed the Twitterific tool — one of several which works as an interface between Twitter and iPhones, avoiding the need to SMS posts. I edited the students' tweets only very minimally so as to downplay the "gatekeeper" role and, thankfully, I only had to intercept one defamatory tweet. By the end of the night, I'd re-tweeted about 70 student news-briefs from the Tally Room via my phone and I had the Repetitive Strain Injury symptoms to prove it!
But there were other challenges as well. The students were using their personal phones to tweet, but the Twitter-based mobile phone interface available at the time required users to SMS posts to a UK number. That meant every Tweet counted as an international call and cost the student reporter approximately $1.50 in U.S. dollars. Many of my students are cash poor and some had only limited credit on their phones, so they needed to tweet frugally.
Twitter's limit of 140 characters per post also posed significant journalistic challenges — restricting students' capacity to use quotes and provide attributions and analysis, for example. Indeed, Twitter, like many social media applications, provides just as many opportunities for discussion on issues in journalistic ethics and practice as it does challenges to traditional news processes. I'll explore these issues, along with questions surrounding Twitter's use as an online "contact book" and pseudo wire service by the news media and citizen journos, in detail in my next post here on MediaShift.
Great Lessons Learned
The content of the NOWUC Twitter feed reveals the diversity of student experience, talents and the lessons learned. Some tweets were pithy and witty, full of colorful political observations, while others were heavily fact based, like a a seat-by-seat count of election results. Some were clunky, while others were good examples of clarity and brevity in writing. Some students tweeted prolifically, others were slower and less productive.
For some, the highlight was meeting prominent politicians and broadcasters, while for others it was breaking a news tidbit ahead of the mainstream media. Many learned something new about the Australian political process and picked up fresh reporting skills. But, most importantly, they all thoroughly enjoyed the learning experience, describing it variously as "awesome," "a blast" and an "adrenalin rush." Although, admittedly, the biggest thrill of the night for most was probably gaining access to the National Press Club, a traditional meeting place of politicians, journalists and political apparatchiks — where they continued to tweet the aftermath of the election, including the victor's speech.
Some of the lessons learned from this exercise included how to overcome the logistical obstacles outlined above. For example, I've since discovered a Twitter tool called Grouptweet which allows groups of connected users to post on a single Twitter page using a shared Twitter identity. This tool allows for public or private usage, meaning it can be locked down for training exercises or discussions about sensitive themes, or opened up to all comers for publication purposes, like the NOWUC Twitter election coverage.
Applying this tool in the election coverage scenario would have saved me from having to re-tweet all of my students' posts to group them @NOWUC, but it wouldn't have resolved the need to clear posts for legal and ethical reasons. As counterintuitive to social media principles as it sounds, a Twitter tool that allowed for a hold to be put on such group tweets until cleared by a "super user" or group editor would be useful and more appropriate for professional journalistic application.
Two of the student tweeters, Joe Sullivan and Michelle Fielding, produced a radio current affairs package about the role of Twitter in reporting and their experience covering the Canberra Tally Room.
"Our mission was to tweet…as the politics played out around us we were sent into a tweeting frenzy…We were embarking on a new journalistic dawn, competing against the traditional media outlets to break the news first," they reported.
This great piece of student audio production highlights the value of the Twitter election coverage experiment as a journalism training exercise. From this lecturer's perspective, the main benefits were in watching the students work as a reporting team, seeing their excitement as their tweets went "live," their amusement with the novelty of reporting using mobiles and social media tools and their willingness to "mix it" with prominent mainstream journalists, along with their rising interest in political reporting as the night unfolded.
"This isn't so boring after all!" they realized. Using these contemporary reporting tools helped bridge the gap between "digital natives" and traditional political reporting. And, it's a lesson worth repeating.
Julie Posetti is an award winning journalist and journalism academic who lectures in radio and television reporting at the University of Canberra, Australia. She's been a national political correspondent, a regional news editor, a TV documentary reporter and presenter on radio and television with the Australian national broadcaster, the ABC. Her academic research centers on talk radio, public broadcasting, political reporting and broadcast coverage of Muslims post-9/11. She blogs at J-Scribe and you can follow her on Twitter.


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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Authorities in Connecticut and Tennessee confirmed Tuesday they are investigating a charity that raised money for those affected by last year's school shooting in Newtown.
Only $30,000 of the $103,000 taken in by the 26.4.26 Foundation was used for the organization's purpose, co-founder Ryan Graney of Nashville, Tenn., told The Associated Press last week.
Graney said she filed complaints with office of Tennessee Attorney General Robert Cooper Jr. and the FBI after her former partner, endurance athlete Robbie Bruce, could not account for the missing money.
Investigators in Tennessee are looking into the organization, Cooper's office confirmed in an email Tuesday, and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said he offered help and also was told Cooper's office was making the investigation a priority.
"He fully understands the gravity of the situation," Jepsen said in an interview Tuesday.
An FBI spokesman said the agency does not comment on specific investigations but confirmed that there are ongoing fraud investigations related to Newtown.
The IRS was also asked to investigate in a letter from U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat. An IRS spokesman did not immediately respond to a phone call and email seeking comment.
Bruce didn't return repeated telephone messages. No one answered the door at his apartment last week.
The idea behind the 26.4.26 Foundation was for runners to participate in marathons, raising money for each of the 26 miles they ran and dedicating each mile to one of the 26 victims of the 2012 school shooting in Newtown — 20 children and six educators. The fundraising effort was featured in Runner's World magazine and was the subject of several local news stories.
The charity held its first marathon in Nashville a week after the shooting, with more than 1,000 participants raising $30,000. Another was held in New Hampshire last April. More than 1,400 runners raised about $22,000 for the foundation, organizers said. The charity also received donations from runners in other events, Graney said.
The $30,000 was presented last January by Bruce to a youth sports center in Newtown.
Graney said she noticed something was amiss last spring, when she discovered suspicious charges to the foundation's PayPal account, including $1,200 billed for paddleboards.
"I went on (Bruce's) Instagram page," she said, "and he had posted a picture of a paddleboard in the back of his truck."
Graney said she confronted Bruce and he promised to meet her and go over the organization's finances. She said he never showed up and then cut off contact with her in September.
She said she shut down the foundation's website and contacted authorities.
"If I knew what was going on, I would have stopped it sooner," she said. "I feel terrible. I couldn't sit by and let this happen."


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season two...
I've thought about this for so long and the whole, you won't know until you die thing confuses me.
There's only 1 conclusion where you could know what happened. And that's if you go to Heaven or Hell. If you're reincarnated you won't have memories of your past life and if you really just die and then start decomposing how are you to figure out what happened if your brain has shut down and all possible thoughts can no longer happen?
I'm very torn on this subject, I'm Christian but, I also believe in reincarnation to an extent. I believe that Heaven and Hell do exist and that God judges your soul once you pass on. I also think that God can choose whether or not you return to Earth and, think about it, who's going to disagree? Any Christian would agree that God is almighty, and can do whatever he so desires but chooses not to. He's not your personal miracle worker or someone you call to for help when you need it and forget about after the pain is gone.
Despite that, I also sometimes believe that the flashing light is you being remade as your past memories are destroyed and you are sent to live your life again as a new person. I don't know what to think but, my first idea is my strongest.
Midnight ramen is the best ramen.
you rot in the ground, insects consume your flesh and you just cease to be that's it.
Living life one day at a time
You go to a magical place in the sky where angels spoon feed you ice cream.
Wait no...
A narrative has power, even when its hero is a dirty rodent carrying the plague.
All aboard.
i'll get back to you on this question in a minute, let me just go stab myself first.
I'm hardly active.
You go to your grave, where you will be questioned.
After that, you wait until Judgement Day.
At Judgement Day, God will judge you and send you either to Paradise or Hell.
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Personally I just think you come back as someone else, but that is my opinion. what are everyone else? but I really don't want this to become a religious topic, just the simple question to what happens after you die.
However much I would like reincarnation to be the end, the whole "population keeps growing and growing" thing kinda puts a doubt on it. typically if reincarnation was in effect, death and birth rates would be in equilibrium.
Birth rate (b) − death rate (d) = rate of natural increase (r).
birth rate expressed as number of births per 1000 per year (currently 13 in the U.S.);
death rate expressed as the number of deaths per 1000 per year (currently 8 in the U.S.);
So the rate of natural increase is 5 per thousand (0.005 or 0.5%).
So basically more people are being born than are dying.
I wish for the day that Hikaru no Go is added to CR.
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Rory Boland, Which? Conversation: Electronic Arts (EA) has shut down online servers for a number of its games. But some gamers are losing more than just the chance to trade punches with opponents around the world…
Just wondering... What happens to Sim City when EA decides to shut off its servers a few years from now? Does the game become completely useless?
This is my biggest fear when it comes to people talking about 'always online' consoles, like the rumored new xbox.
Servers don't stay online forever for these games. And it sucks when a game you love, even years down the line, goes under and becomes useless.
This is why free to play is not good for gaming. What happens when those games get shut down and all that money you wasted was for nothing?
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Included are 2 instruments - Fender Precision Bass, picked and damped, and ARP Odessey Buzz - and 20 styles. Experiment with the automation, play manually, try out the DSP section and get familiar with the power of the Control Octave and Staccato modes etc. (Note: all samples above D3 are omitted to keep file size down.) Demo versions are available for both Mac and PC platforms, and there\'s a downloadable pdf manual.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — A pickup truck packed with explosives blew up at an Iraqi vegetable market on Saturday, police said, killing 17 and wounding dozens in the latest outbreak of violence to hit the country.
They said the nighttime bombing in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of the capital, also wounded at least 35 people and damaged several shops.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in Iraq since attacks began accelerating in April following a deadly security crackdown against a Sunni protest camp in the northern town of Hawija.
Meanwhile in the country's north, gunmen broke into a family's house at night in the city of Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, killing a man as well as his wife and son, police said. They gave no further details except that they were investigating the attack.
The latest surge in violence has raised fears that Iraq could be returning to widespread sectarian killings similar to those that brought country to the edge of civil war in 2006 and 2007.
Places such as markets, cafes and mosques have been favorite targets for Sunni insurgents who aim at undermining the Shiite-led government in Baghdad.
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Now in the second year of a newer, tougher FCAT, Alachua County students are holding their own.
Now in the second year of a newer, tougher FCAT, Alachua County students are holding their own.
District third-graders' reading and math scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test improved slightly over the past year, while fourth-, eighth- and 10th-grade writing scores varied.
Most notably, 61 percent of third-graders achieved a reading score of 3 or higher on the 5-point scale, which is the state's benchmark for satisfactory progress. That's an improvement of four percentage points from last year.
The state average this year is 57 percent.
On FCAT math, 58 percent of third-grade students scored a level 3 or higher, the same as the state average.
"We're always trying to be ahead of the state," said Diana Lagotic, director of elementary curriculum for Alachua County Public Schools.
FCAT writing results for fourth-, eighth- and 10th-graders were also released Friday.
Fifty-four percent of Alachua County fourth-graders scored at least a 3.5, the passing score. That reflects an improvement of two percentage points from last year.
The eighth-grade FCAT passage rate fell from 55 percent last year to 53 percent this year, and the 10th-grade rate fell from 61 percent to 57 percent.
All three groups were a few percentage points short of their state average passing rates.
However, the passing score of 3.5 this year is higher than last year, when the passing score was dropped to 3 after many districts found the writing prompts controversial.
No matter the opinions on the FCAT's validity in testing student achievement, the test is currently the only statewide assessment Florida has.
Scores matter for the students, who must pass the reading test in third and 10th grades, but they also matter for others.
Student scores are the largest contributing factor to school grades and teacher evaluations.
In a conference call, Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett said he was excited about the FCAT writing scores, which showed the most improvement statewide over last year's scores.
But he said he was displeased with the marginal statewide gains that third-graders made in reading and math.
"I am a person that doesn't believe that static scores are ever acceptable," he said.
Lagotic said Alachua County Public Schools officials are pleased with their third-graders, who did make significant gains.
She said they're looking forward to seeing the fourth- and fifth-grade scores, which should be released sometime next month.
"We're feeling very positive," she said.
Hidden Oak Elementary School had the highest scores of any public school in the district, with 82 percent of third-graders earning a 3 or higher on the reading test and 83 percent in math.
Charter schools Healthy Learning Academy, Expressions Learning Arts Academy and Micanopy Area Cooperative School all had 80-90 percent of students earning satisfactory scores in reading and math — but with far fewer students taking the test.
Seven Alachua County elementary schools had their days extended by one hour for reading instruction following a ranking last year that listed them among the 100 lowest-performing schools in the state.
For the most part, the extra hour appears to have helped.
Duval, Lake Forest, Metcalfe, Shell and Waldo elementary schools, along with the charter Caring and Sharing Learning School, all saw improved reading scores compared with last year.
Caring and Sharing made the greatest jump, with 54 percent of third-graders earning a score of 3 or above, up from just 16 percent last year.
Verna Johnson, director and co-founder of Caring and Sharing, said in addition to the extra hour of reading instruction, students received extensive after-school tutoring that catered to their specific needs.
"We were able to do a lot of things that we weren't able to do before," she said.
Rawlings Elementary was the only school of the seven that didn't improve its reading scores. The percentage of students who scored a 3 or above fell 19 percentage points from last year.
Thirteen percent of Rawlings' third-graders achieved a satisfactory score on FCAT reading this year, and 62 percent scored a level 1, leaving them at risk of being held back.
Principal Jen Homard said it was too soon to tell what factors contributed to the lower scores, but that her staff already is starting to examine the scores to determine the weak points.
She said teachers will spend all summer tweaking their practices and developing lesson plans that are most effective for Rawlings students.
"We'll go back to the drawing board," Homard said. "We fully expect to see great gains next year, though, when we re-evaluate the strategies."
Of the seven schools that received the extra hour, Shell Elementary saw the greatest overall improvement, with 48 percent of third-graders scoring a 3 or higher in reading, up from 31 percent last year, and the same percentage scoring a 3 or higher in math, up from 27 percent last year.
Both scores are still below the state average, but it's a start, Principal Libby Hartwell said.
"We are over the moon out here," Hartwell said.
After last year's disappointment with FCAT scores at Shell, the teachers, parents and students banded together, she said. Everyone worked hard, but a positive attitude helps, too.
"It has just been a total community effort, and it has paid off," Hartwell said, adding that the morale boost from this year's scores is sure to help the school keep improving next year.
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The spouse may be eligible for the Basic Employee Death Benefit, which is equal to 50% of the employee's final salary (average salary, if higher), plus $15,000 (increased by Civil Service Retirement System cost-of-living adjustments beginning 12/1/87). The $15,000 has increased to $32,423.56 for deaths after December 1, 2016.
The Basic Employee Death Benefit may be payable to a former spouse (in whole or in part), if a qualifying court order, awarding a benefit, is on file at OPM and the former spouse was married to the deceased for a total of at least nine months and did not remarry before reaching age 55.
If a FERS employee dies, recurring monthly payments may be made to the surviving spouse if the deceased employee completed at least 10 years of creditable service (18 months of which must be civilian service)
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Unmarried children who are dependent upon the employee may receive monthly benefits until they reach age 18, marry, or die. Monthly survivor annuity payments for a child can continue after age 18, if the child is a full-time student attending a recognized school. Benefits can continue until age 22.
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CHICAGO (AP) — A 1,200-room hotel will be built near McCormick Place to accommodate the crowds that come to Chicago for conventions and trade shows.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans to build the hotel in a news release Tuesday. They say the project will create nearly 2,500 construction jobs and 500 permanent jobs.
Quinn says McCormick place is already an asset to Illinois and the hotel will help bring in more business and fuel the state's economic recovery by putting more people to work.
Emanuel says the new hotel will further establish Chicago as the best destination for conventions and trade shows.
McCormick Place is the largest exhibition and meeting facility in North America with 2.6 million square feet of convention space.


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Once predicted to be back in the Bruins' lineup for the start of this road trip, defenseman Andrew Ference remained out of action Tuesday but continues to practice with the team.
Today he told the assembled media in Nashville after Boston's practice that "it's been good progress" and he's getting "better each day." Ference has been out since Feb. 26 with a lower-body injury and he started skating about a week ago.
Ference said he went through a hard skate Tuesday morning with fellow injured defenseman Shane Hnidy. Today he said he did more "quick stuff" down low chasing forwards and doing for game-like actions.
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The Jets have much more pressing needs at the other skill positions. Joe McKnight and Bilal Powell are out for a little while, and their top receiver Santonio Holmes is out for the season. Why work out a quarterback who has played for the Jets in the past and the team parted ways with already?
Whether for good or ill, we all know the Jets always have a reason for whatever they do. Just ask Fred Thompson as the wily Naval commander in Hunt for the Red October.
Jets don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
With stories emerging about Tebow potentially being "frustrated" with his role in New York and the NFL trade deadline coming up soon, could the Jets be considering a move? It's not like Tebow's presence has changed ticket sales much, and his passes are still highly questionable for a QB.
Our old pal Kristine Reese now writing for the NJ.com conjectures that it's at the least, possible.
All conclusions are speculative at the moment, but the idea that the Jets would need an additional quarterback "in an emergency" is curious, especially when you consider that third-string quarterback Greg McElroy, who played more than capably in the preseason, is also sitting behind both Sanchez and Tebow on the sideline.It is interesting. It's more interesting when I needlessly stir the pot by mentioning Kansas City. As of today, they have a quarterback controversy and a wide receiver looking to hit the eject button.
There is no way of knowing what the Jets' desire to have another quarterback on hand is about, but O'Connell's workout - the only workout the team conducted Tuesday, even with injuries to running backs Bilal Powell and Joe McKnight - is interesting, if nothing else.
Matt Cassel was cleared for practice and is Romeo Crennel setting himself up for the best worst quarterback controversy between Brady Quinn and Cassel?
Crennel made it clear Tuesday that Quinn and Cassel are now in head-to-head competition.Cassel threw nine interceptions in the team's first five games and had to sit due to a concussion last week. I'm sure some Chiefs fans weren't that saddened when that news came out. Backup Brady Quinn played in his stead and threw two picks in a 38-10 loss to the Buccaneers. Cassel of course was the Patriots backup to Brady and steered the ship in New England in 2008 and was the guy that Scott Pioli traded for in his defection to Kansas City. Brady Quinn of course is the spawn of another former Belichick disciple Charlie Weis. So with the Chiefs in such a mean state, why not add another bad quarterback from another branch in the Belichick coaching tree?
"What I told them is I'm rotating the quarterbacks. They will get equal reps," Crennel said. "Both of them will get work and then we'll evaluate it and then next week we'll get ready for game week and then we'll make a decision and go from there."
Tebow of course was hand picked by Josh McDaniels when McDaniels was head coach of Denver, and the AFC West rivals would have seen enough of Tebow in the past few years to be more familiar with his skillset than most.
Of course the Quinn-Cassel controversy has the team's troubled but extremely talented wide receiver wanting out, now.
I can report this: Bowe wants out of KC very badly. Not exactly a revelation, but true.Bowe of course begrudgingly signed his franchise tender this summer, but being on a 1-5 team in a contract year might be giving him more reasons to do his best to shoot his way out of town. It's a tactic that rarely works in the NFL, but this might be the last chance for the Chiefs to get any compensation for Bowe should he be allowed to walk this coming offseason.
— Jason Cole (@JasonColeYahoo) October 17, 2012
Of course, it could mean that he would walk from the Jets too as they might have enough trouble with the salary cap themselves this coming year. The Brandon Marshall trade could be a good guide given the situation and the personal history of the player.
And that's where Tebow comes in. The Chiefs might be open to what Tebow could offer their team and if the Jets were looking to step up their talent at receiver while minimizing the compensatory aspect of the trade, then Tim Tebow could help to cushion the fall for the Jets and save them some value for the 2013 Draft.
Of course from a pure cap numbers perspective this wouldn't be enough, the Jets would have to find cap relief from somewhere else. According to our buddy Jason, the Jets have around $4.6 million on the books to spare and Tebow's salary is around $2.1. That cap number alone is starting to get close to what it would cost to pay Bowe ... but it's no cigar.
I fully understand that this is totally far-fetched, but it's just these sorts of situations that teams see align themselves and then they consider going into a trade. Both teams are looking for a positive outcome, and this could be one for both the Jets and the Chiefs. The Jets are trying to remain relevant in the face of some very real injuries this season, while the Chiefs are mired in a bad quarterback situation with little to lose.


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I must comment on "LePage reads to school kids, offers his opinions" (Feb. 2).
What Gov. LePage said at St. John Catholic School on Feb. 1, and apparently at a Waterville Junior High School presentation last year, is wrong on so many levels.
The Portland Press Herald reported that the governor read "Baxter at the Blaine House" to more than 100 children from kindergarten through sixth grade at St. John Catholic School in Winslow.
This book is classified as a "first reader." I'm not sure why it took him 12 minutes to read this short book; however, what possible value could this have been to any student above the second grade?
Quoting from LePage: "Kids in this school — in this type of environment — are readers. They understand." So why would he waste at least half the audience's valuable school time reading literature meant for very young readers?
LePage takes many opportunities to belittle Maine schools. How can the governor say, "By the time I'm gone, education in Maine is going to be great," when he makes huge cuts in funding to our towns and cities, which will require further cuts in staff and programs so instrumental in helping our students learn and reach their full potential?
What I find frightening is his ability to influence the students' opinions regarding Maine newspapers at these schools. These students are a captive and easily influenced audience; there was no one else there to give an opposing view.
It appears that LePage uses these opportunities because he is reluctant to have any kind of an equal forum with adults with the possibility that someone might disagree with him.
Finally, do the parents of these children know how they are spending valuable school time?
Maybelle Blanchard
As a regular subscriber to the Portland Press Herald, I was astonished as to what our governor had to say to the young people of our great state of Maine telling the youngsters that reading newspapers is nothing but a pack of lies ("LePage reads to school kids, offers his opinions," Feb. 2).
I find this very appalling as a former educator myself and having resided in this wonderful state for more than 60 years.
Let me go back to my high school years, when a class in civics was a requirement and our great newspaper served as a great resource for our class. I have always loved being able to be informed with my morning paper, and, no, it is not a pack of lies.
It is very sad to me that the governor of our great state is trying to tell us that our editors are informing us that everything we read is just not true.
I must go on to say that most things that we read on the Internet with Facebook, etc., are probably the biggest and foremost pack of lies that we will ever be faced with. We should be informed with great information that our editors are trying to provide us on a daily basis.
It will be a very sorry day for me when our great newspaper doesn't exist because we have to accept our abnormal society as it exists.
All I can say to you, our state of Maine governor, that you should be more careful in your analysis of our great Maine newspapers. Please, let's not replace the wonderful people with more Facebook. Please, no.
Loretta Anderson
City, agencies show progress on solutions to homelessness
More than a year ago, a diverse and impassioned group of community members came together to serve on the city of Portland's newly formed Homeless Prevention Task Force. I had the privilege of serving as one of the task force chairs and was consistently impressed with the level of discourse and deliberation we achieved.
As one can imagine, the work was at times daunting and overwhelming, but it was driven by thoughtful analysis of data, system complexities and best practices nationwide.
While the recommendations of the task force cannot immediately address the concerns of all, they do offer sound solutions, which, if implemented, will start to reduce the number of people who are homeless.
Already, the city of Portland and Preble Street, without any additional resources, have strengthened and improved the intake process so that people who are homeless can more readily connect to the services most appropriate to helping them move out of homelessness.
Already, Preble Street and the Portland Housing Authority are partnering to move people more rapidly into open housing units throughout the city, leveraging housing resources that already exist.
In the face of meeting the immediate needs of record numbers of people who are homeless every night, incredible work is being done to implement long-term solutions in smart, innovative ways. A spirit of community-wide cooperation, partnership and compassion will go a long way in helping this work move more quickly.
Suzanne McCormick
Democrats ready and able to regain the Blaine House
Our newly elected Democratic majorities in the Maine Senate and House of Representatives clearly have their work cut for them.
Rather than investing in Maine's future, Gov. LePage has proposed a budget that suspends revenue sharing with municipalities for two years, shifting more than $200 million in costs to localities, forcing them to either slash vital services or raise property taxes to make up the difference. We know our legislators will propose a reasonable alternative that mitigates as much of this damage as possible.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a chief executive who could see a bigger picture — a picture that strengthens, rather than depletes, Maine's unique assets?
In 2014, Democrats will not back down from any challenge, be it from Paul LePage or Eliot Cutler. In regaining the state Legislature in 2012, Democrats did what all the pundits said was impossible, and we'll do it again in the 2014 governor's election.
It's time for a chief executive who will offer a plan to strengthen our economy and grow our middle class. Although we don't know yet who that Democrat will be, we do know that he or she will be a formidable candidate!
Mark C. Aukeman
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Team Health Holdings (TMH) is a staffing company in the U.S. healthcare industry. The company sources physicians, physicians assistants, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, as well as administrators for hospitals and other medical practices across 47 states. Team Health provides these services to a vast assortment of treatment facilities in both permanent and temporary engagements. The company asserts to being "physician-founded", which ensures leadership by actual physicians capable of best dealing with any concerns throughout all levels of the organization. Team Health also provides similar services to military treatment facilities.
President Obama's signature legislation—the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)—is expected to have a major impact on Team Health's business. Though complete implementation of all facets of the bill cannot be expected to be altogether rolled out immediately, we do anticipate a net benefit in the near future. It is entirely possible that the ACA will cap, or similarly attempt to limit the amount of payments to healthcare providers, in which case, we could expect lesser revenues per visit than prior to the healthcare reform. However, the ACA vastly expands the amount of people under coverage—the bill's provisions dictate universal healthcare for Americans—so the number of visits to medical practices will eventually climb to an implicit saturation point. As a result, healthcare providers will continue to increase their payrolls to the point where healthcare is adequately available to the entire U.S. population. Essentially, Team Health and other healthcare staffing companies, such as Kelly Services (KELYA), and AMN Healthcare Services (AHS), among others, will be busy over the next few years, and should ultimately reap the benefits of heightened demand for capable medical practitioners and administrative personnel.
Given that the United States' Supreme Court ruled in favor of upholding President Obama's healthcare bill in mid-2012, we can reasonably expect that implementation of the universal healthcare legislation will continue. Given such, the healthcare industry should begin to see a major influx of new opportunities, both temporary and permanent in nature, over the next several years. TMH management recently attempted to quantify the benefit that it expects to realize from the new healthcare policies; the company figures that the healthcare reforms may boost annual revenues by more than $30 million once the full impact of the new law is in place.
Acquisitions are fairly regular within Team Health's operations and accounted for the majority of the company's revenue growth in 2012, ahead of volume growth and same-contract revenue growth. Continuing on this trend, just over a week into 2013, management announced its first acquisition of the year. In order to expand TMH's California presence, the company acquired San Francisco Physicians Internationale, Inc., a group that provides services to a Northern California emergency department that cares for approximately 16,000 patients annually.
Company management continues to prepare for the possibility of more M&A activity in the short-term; towards the end of 2012, the company amended its credit facilities. The move increased the borrowing limits available on its revolving and senior credit facilities, which enables TMH to continue its shopping spree for the foreseeable future. The ability of TMH to support major expansion through acquisitions separates it from some of its competitors, as these moves expand the geographic reach, as well as the breadth of the type of positions it can fill within the medical community.
The expansion of healthcare coverage in the U.S. should prove to be majorly beneficial to TMH, though we believe some of this perceived potential may already be priced into the shares at this juncture. Those investors interested in a more detailed analysis of Team Health should study our full-page report in The Value Line Investment Survey.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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