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It's clear that NVIDIA know exactly what they want to do coming into the 2014 holiday season, and that is ultimately get your money. At launch, we got a pair of GTX 980 4GB cards that we had planned to run in SLI as quickly as possible. With a couple of retail versions coming in, though, and our first GTX 970 4GB in th... |
Having got those few cards out the way, it was time to finally throw the two cards together to see just what kind of performance we could get out. With a recent price drop to the AMD R9 295X2 8GB, the $1,000 market becomes a whole lot more interesting. The Radeon R9 295X2 8GB sees a price point of around $999, while a ... |
Since we've already looked at the GTX 980 4GB in detail and the fact that we're dealing with a reference card that has no bundle, we'll be going from here into our test system setup. The main thing we want to know, though, is that SLI is indeed working. So with everything said and done, let's get into it and see just w... |
The couple confirm their rumored relationship. |
The singer contempleted adapting the MTV series for Broadway. |
Josh Groban, Glenn Howerton Trade Hollywood for 'Coffee Town" |
Alicia Keys holds steady at #2 as Outkast slip to #3. |
Still-untitled flick also features Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone. |
On Tuesday evening, during the 5 p.m. hour, Fox News’ ensemble show The Five experienced its second-highest rated total viewership since the program launched in July 2011. |
The show racked up 2,063,000 total viewers, handily beating MSNBC’s Chris Matthews (934k), CNN’s Wolf Blitzer (535k), and HLN’s Express (141k). The Five‘s highest total viewership was achieved on June 28th of this year. |
Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Burundi in year 2015 is -4.423 %. Data are based on individual countries' national accounts statistics. For many countries, the estimates of national saving are built up from national accounts data on gross domestic investment and from balance of payments-based data on net foreign ... |
This makes Burundi No. 169 in world rankings according to Gross National Savings (% of GDP) in year 2015. The world's average Gross National Savings (% of GDP) value is 17.53 %; Burundi is 21.95 less than the average. |
In the previous year, 2014, Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Burundi was -2.93 % Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Burundi in 2015 was or will be 51.21% more than it was or will be in 2014. |
In the following or forecasted year, 2016, Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Burundi was or will be 4.79 %, which is 208.21% less than the 2015 figure. |
If you have this magazine in your hands, I'm sure I don't need to go over the importance of embracing e-learning as an educational method, and why it's worth all the challenges we face in implementing it. |
The blogging platform will allow users to make money off the optional ads placed on their blogs. |
The upcoming Anniversary update of Windows 10 will leave users unable to disable Cortana. |
The app and media store will allow up to six people to share purchases across a range of different devices. |
The e-tailer now sells some of the results of successful Kickstarter crowd-funding projects. |
Electronic road signs in Melbourne, Australia warn motorists not to play Pok mon Go while driving. |
The Independent Electoral Commission says Pok mon Go will not be allowed at voting stations on 3 August. |
Pok Vision.com shows an accurate map of nearby Pok mon, complete with a countdown timer as to when they will disappear. |
UCT Masters student Joseph Morrison asks IT workers for their feedback on attitudes towards working from home in SA. |
Three high school learners discuss the value they get from coding, in a series of short videos for Code for Cape Town. |
The social network has binned a feature that lets users send messages that disappear after 24 hours. |
Michelle Avenant is ITWeb portals journalist. |
Everyone was surprised yesterday when the White House issued a statement warning Israel to tone down its settlement construction announcements, faulting them for large unilateral moves and asking them to hold off pending future talks between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
Israeli officials seemed less surprised by the comments, deciding that they’re going to official interpret the comments as a full endorsement of continued settlement expansion, amounting to giving the Israeli government “carte blanche” to build as they wish with no restrictions. |
How they were told “stop” and heard “go” appears to be related to previous statements from President Obama, which Trump’s statement yesterday closely mirrored. Israeli officials saw the Trump statement as softer in tone than Obama’s calls for Israel to stop building settlements, and are therefore presenting it as a net... |
Reflective of Israeli officials interpreting the statement as is most politically expedient to them, settler officials also took the White House comments that the settlements “might not help” the peace process as saying that the settlements definitely don’t hurt the peace process, thanking Trump for that statement. |
The White House has not responded to the reinterpretation of everything they said by the Israeli government, though since President Trump has been eager to style himself as “pro-Israel,” the fact that the Israeli government is virtually re-writing his statements to say what they want them to say may well be a convenien... |
It is all a lot of noise in the dog and pony show. We all know what the parameters of the endgame between Israel and the Palestinians is likely top be. A lot depends on where the other pieces are on the chessboard when the endgame happens. |
It is not Iran testing us (their missile test was perfectly legal) but Netanyahu testing our patience (with the illegal settlements). |
Why is building housing for your people in your own land “reckless”? It’s only reckless if you are supporting the Arabs in their fantasy that they didn’t lose the 1948 and 1967 wars. They did. They lost. That’s pretty much it. When you lose a war and you lose territory, you don’t get to tell the winning side what they ... |
It is a sad and bitter irony indeed that perhaps the most dangerous, vicious, evil and vile criminal leader in the Middle East wasn’t from Iraq, or Libya, but in fact from Israel. Clearly so much of the violence and hatred and terrorism is a direct result of the crimes and atrocities committed by Israel. It would have ... |
MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. -- A thrift shop is transforming the lives of veterans in one part of Cumberland County. |
Providing them with work, job skills, and even a place to call home. |
The transition from military to civilian life can be difficult, just ask Johnathan Locke. |
“When I got out I was dealing with PTSD. I had lot of issues with that. I was trying to get the help that I needed," said Locke. |
After Locke deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, he struggled, and he says the United States Department of Veterans Affairs didn’t quite understand the extent of his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). |
“I was told my issue wasn’t as bad as it was, and they kind of downplay things," he said. |
To help others facing similar difficulties, Locke founded Operation Veterans' Hope. |
“One of the gentleman that I was helping during the time, he was homeless, and I took it upon myself to find himself a place to stay, not realizing how hard it was," explained Locke. |
Veterans taking part in the 'Work2Stay program with OVH have a job and a place to eat, sleep, and live so long as they work at the organization’s thrift shop on North Baltimore Avenue in Mount Holly Springs. |
“Veterans fought for our country so now we want somebody to fight for them," said Violet Rivera, a board member. |
Violet Rivera found herself homeless after serving ten years with the United States Air Force. |
Now, she's serves on the organization's board and provides some veterans relief. |
"It's a place where if you need things you can go and get help. Sometimes, you know, you just want to be able to talk to somebody and just know somebody else has walked in your shoes," explained Rivera. |
Community members can help by donating money or items to be sold at the thrift shop. Veterans in need of support just provide a copy of their discharge papers. |
“It’s helping me give back, pay it forward if you will," said Rivera. |
Right now, the organization needs men's clothes. Board members say they also take baked goods as donations. |
One of OVH's main goals is to purchase the building on North Baltimore Avenue to expand veterans' services. |
Last week, the United States Department of Justice filed a robust complaint against Ferguson, Missouri, charging the city with violations of federal civil rights statutes in maintaining a “pattern or practice” of unconstitutional deprivation of rights by law enforcement officials. The complaint is remarkable not only f... |
The complaint is the result of a multi-year investigation into the law enforcement practices of the city. It is also refreshingly comprehensive, attacking the city’s practices from stem to stern: the government alleges constitutional violations along the entire spectrum of law enforcement, from stops and searches, thro... |
Such a comprehensive complaint sets the stage to fashion a reform plan just as comprehensive that can act as a blueprint for other communities. If the Ferguson action is indicative of a willingness by the DOJ to aggressively pursue civil rights actions against localities, it could set the baseline for other cities eage... |
In essence, by pursuing Ferguson for its entire law enforcement regime, the federal government can move to standardize best practices for localities that operate outside of constitutional norms. |
Pursuant to federal civil rights statutes, the government is seeking injunctions requiring the city to impose reforms to bring its conduct within the bounds of the Constitution, primarily the First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendments. Such injunctions, known as “structural injunctions,” are “equitable,” or non-monetary remed... |
Monitoring typically continues until particular benchmarks are met, and can usually only be ended through a subsequent court order. Structural injunctions are rare in American courts, and disfavored by conservative jurists who see them as essentially usurping legislative and executive prerogative. |
The complaint was linked to two civil rights statutes: 42 USC 2000d under the Civil Rights Act that deals with deprivation of rights by federally-assisted agencies; and 42 USC 14141 which covers unlawful patterns and practices of rights deprivation by law enforcement agencies. These statutes were passed in 1964 and 199... |
A search showed only a handful of cases brought under these laws going back to 2002, with two of these being brought in the last few years as a result of local law enforcement agencies targeting Latinos for referral to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities, and one the result of “invited” scrutiny of th... |
Similar actions were undertaken against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, stomping ground of national xenophobia icon Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and against the Alamance (North Carolina) Sheriff’s Office. Both of these suits, while important, were relatively narrow, focusing on the conduct of sheriffs’ offices in their tr... |
In 2010, within two days of taking office, New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu wrote a letter to then-Attorney General Eric Holder asking for his “support and partnership” in transforming the New Orleans Police Department “into one of the best police forces in the United States.” This was necessary, Landrieu wrote, bec... |
The case against Alamance County failed after a bench trial and is on appeal in the Fourth Circuit; the suit against Maricopa County was settled in part, and the rest is awaiting appeal in the Ninth Circuit. |
The complaint brought against Ferguson though, is broader than any case brought under civil rights statutes 2000d and 14141 in the last decade. Although Ferguson is a small community, the complaint targets the practices of not only the Police Department, but also the Municipal Court and the Prosecuting Attorney. |
The facts in the complaint are revelatory and, at times, jaw-dropping. The DOJ puts into black and white facts that are no doubt understood in the bones of anybody who has lived in Ferguson or any of hundreds of similar communities. They show that the power of the state is wielded arbitrarily against the powerless – sp... |
The complaint tells a story of a city government that ensares an individual arbitrarily for offenses such as “Manner of Walking,” imposes fines arbitrarily “without regard for the individual’s ability to pay,” and then prosecutes them arbitrarily. |
It is a story of a city preying upon one class of citizens to raise revenue. The administration of justice in Ferguson completely collapsed in the face of the city’s thirst for cash in an era of cratering tax revenue and capital disinvestment. |
According to the DOJ, the city used its power to create infractions, harass individuals, pull them into the legal system and hound them – including through incarceration. This was all done not as a means to protect public safety and the general welfare, but as leverage to squeeze the maximum amount of cash from a vulne... |
Not only was the inability of individuals to pay not taken into account when punishing them for offenses like the aforementioned “Manner of Walking” or “High Grass or Weeds,” it actually worked against them. Those not represented by counsel were often treated more harshly than others who could afford a lawyer. |
Whether Ferguson will litigate the case vigorously or seek to enter a consent decree remains to be seen. For the public, a contested case resulting in a structural injunction could have derivative value in that it would impose a model for reform. |
Structural injunctions are generally opposed by conservative jurists, who see them as an attempt by elite judges to undertake what is essentially a legislative task. The most high-profile recent structural injunction case, Brown v. Plata, dealt with the overcrowding of California prisons and featured a harrumphing diss... |
Despite Scalia’s dissent, the majority upheld the structural injunction requiring de-crowding of the California prison system. Scalia’s concern that the Court was expanding the structural injunction as a tool for reform may have been prescient if for the wrong reasons; the recent vacancy on the Court may bode well shou... |
Ramsin Canon is an attorney at Canon Law Group, practicing in Illinois and California, and a co-founder of Aldertrack.com. His writings have been published by In These Times, Alternet, the Oxford Journals Community Development Journal, the Seventh Circuit Review, the Chicago-Kent Law Review, and the International In-Ho... |
Barbara Kaltenbacher, Igor Kukavica, Irena Lasiecka, Roberto Triggiani, Amjad Tuffaha, Justin T. Webster. |
xiii, 307 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
Lasiecka, I. (Irena), 1948- author. |
Triggiani, R. (Roberto), 1942- author. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307). |
An introduction to a fluid-structure model.- Linear parabolic-hyperbolic fluid-structure interaction models.- Flow-plate interactions: well-posedness and long-time behavior.- Some aspects in nonlinear acoustics coupling and shape optimization. |
This book is devoted to the study of coupled partial differential equation models, which describe complex dynamical systems occurring in modern scientific applications such as fluid/flow-structure interactions. The first chapter provides a general description of a fluid-structure interaction, which is formulated within... |
Tax increases throughout Colorado typically result in a knee jerk reaction of “no!” causing special districts to go the voters to mitigate future service cuts. Colorado Mountain College last year attempted a localized version of this that would have automatically increased its mill levy when the assessment rate went do... |
What’s impacting these special districts? Why do they continually face declining revenues even though property values increase? |
Booming home values along the Front Range are triggering cascading statewide property tax cuts, providing relief to urban homeowners but squeezing government agencies in rural areas where property values weren’t growing in the first place. |
The reason is a little-known property tax-limiting provision of Colorado’s state constitution: the Gallagher Amendment. |
Enacted in 1982, the Gallagher Amendment to the Colorado Constitution was designed to maintain a constant ratio between the property tax revenue that comes from residential property and from business property. To simplify a set of complex formulas, the effect of Gallagher was to reduce the assessment rate (the percent ... |
As a result of the Gallagher Amendment, the assessment rate for residential property has declined by more than two-thirds over the years because of Colorado’s population growth and because of increases in residential real estate values. The net effect has been a marked decline in revenues collected from property tax. |
In layman’s terms, when home values grow faster than business values, homeowners pay proportionately less and commercial property owners pay proportionately more. |
That sounds great on the surface for individual property owners, and terrible for commercial owners. The downside of paying lower residential property tax rates is reduced services from local metro districts and special districts. |
Since 1982, residential property values in Colorado have grown faster than nonresidential properties, causing the assessment rate on residential properties to drop from 21 percent in 1982 to 7.2 percent today. The assessment rate on Colorado businesses is a staggering 29 percent. |
Established in 1982, the Gallagher amendment set a limit on how much of the statewide property-tax load could fall on homeowners. Residential properties under the Gallagher formula could make up no more than 45 percent of the state’s property-tax base. Other properties make up the remaining 55 percent. |
That means whenever home values rise faster than those of commercial, industrial and agricultural properties, the residential assessment rate — the formula that determines a property’s assessed value — must drop. This reduces the ability for local special districts to fulfill their services (fire, school, recreation, m... |
We need to protect our rural communities by addressing the intense, negative impact the Gallagher amendment has had, and will have, in the future on our businesses as well as our special districts. Completely eliminating the complicated interplay between Gallagher and the Taxpayers Bill of Rights — TABOR — statewide wo... |
Until then, it’s up to individual districts to make their cases for sales taxes, mill levy overrides, and other localized solutions. We encourage voters to avoid the knee-jerk reaction to tax increases, and to thoroughly research each ballot initiative. That’s not to suggest that every tax increase is worthy, but rathe... |
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GOSSIP GIRL LOVES THE ’90S: Lisa Loeb makes a cameo. |
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OPRAH IS A SERIOUS JOURNALIST: Or so the promo for her chat with Tom Cruise would have you believe. |
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?: Angela Bassett is coming to E.R.. Plus, we love Tina Turner. |
I’LL BE IN THE HOSPITAL BAR: Lucille Bluth is moving to the 90210 zip code. |
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