 a mat to try. Today, those same yoga instructors and key influencers continue to use the mats and the company’s philosophy revolves around user experience, highlighted by an ambassador program.
Even if you don’t get bites initially, you have to continue to try. It makes me think of Sophie the Giraffe and how it’s become the teething toy every baby is literally drooling over. People tend to get sticker shock when the find out that a piece of rubber for a baby can be so costly, yet it remains the gift that givers keep on giving for baby showers. Importing it from France to the US posed a challenge, but the French expat who brought it over knew that the quality and timelessness of Sophie would outweigh the price tag. 
My acquaintance, the inventor, has left his career because he obviously truly cares about what he’s created. I’ve heard good things about it from our other friends who have received prototypes of the product. Whenever I see him, it’s almost always come up in conversation. I know he’s passionate about it, but for now I hope he can get through the hurdles of creating buzz, thinking big, and continue to keep that passion going.
How would you get a client’s product noticed?A Change Agent is the individual within a company who is using their talents and position to enhance the corporate culture and create a more inclusive environment - calling attention to the talents of all types of people. This can be part of or beyond the scope of that persons' primary role.
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Vernon Brian Anderson, age 82 of Grand Haven, passed away peacefully in his home on Thursday, January 12, 2023 after a long illness. Brian was born on December 1, 1940 to the late Vernon and Mamie (Leeper) Anderson in Murray, Kentucky. He married Joan Tandler on May 30, 1992 in Clinton, New Jersey.
Brian held several degrees, including his BA in Chemistry from Murray State University, Murray, KY, his MS in Chemistry from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and his MBA in Management from Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ.
Brian worked as a Research Chemist, then Operations Supervisor at Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals in Somerville, NJ. He was employed there for 27 years during which he co-developed 14 patents and co-authored 5 publications.
After living in New Jersey for 43 years, Brian and his wife of 30 years, Joan, retired and moved from New Jersey to Grand Haven, MI in July 2013. Brian became an active member of the Lakeshore Church of Christ in Holland, MI and enjoyed activities in the adult communities of Four Pointes and Evergreen Commons.
Brian’s grand passion was genealogy and research of his family and Scottish roots. He was an active member of many genealogical societies during his years in the New Jersey/New York area. He enjoyed deep friendships in genealogical societies and it was his great joy to serve in several leadership positions. Brian was involved in societies including General Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Descendants of Washington’s Army at Valley Forge, General Society of the War of 1812, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and St. Andrew’s Society of the State of NY. He ably used his genealogical skills to assist family and friends in their personal research.
Brian and Joan loved traveling; especially throughout the East Coast, visiting many Revolutionary War historical sites, and exploring their family roots throughout the UK.
Brian is survived by his wife, Joan Tandler; his step-children, Kristen Vogel of Flemington, NJ and Philip and Nora (Flaherty) Vogel of Chicago, IL; his children, Julian Dennison and Abigail Gonzalez of New Jersey; and two grandsons, Alexio and Aidan Gonzalez of New Jersey. Also surviving is his sister, Gayle (Bob) Saville of Springville, TN; and a brother, Lawrence (Emily) Anderson of Flower Mound, TX.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Meredith (Walling) Anderson; and his brother, Philip Dan Anderson.
The Funeral Service for Brian will take place at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, January 23, 2023 at Klaassen Family Funeral Home, with Pastor Mike Scholten and Rev. Dr. Troy Hauser Brydon officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
Interment will be at Grand Haven Township Historic Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, Memorial Contributions may be made to Hospice of North Ottawa Community.
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Its here. A new monster. The newest addition to the Intel processor range, the Core i7, with highly improved memory throughput, 4 logical, and 4 virtual cores. While morphed to socket 1366, the X58 chipset and Triple Channel DDR3, this new generation again means a new architecture with a corresponding leap in performance comparative to the introduction of the Core 2 platform.
One of the more predominant changes is the re-introduction of Hyper-Threading and relocation of the integrated memory controller (IMC) directly into the processor. As a result of those changes the new CPU’s show a notable performance boost in especially multi-threaded applications. Not enough evolution you say? Well, thats not all. No more overclocking with Front Side Bus (FSB), the challenge now is the QuickPath Interconnect solution (QPI). Basically the QPI frequency is the functional replacement of what used to be the FSB, linking the CPU and the Northbridge together. The QPI is a so called point-to-point bus, providing communication between each processor core as well as data transfer to the chipset.
My extreme overclocking preview is based on my experiences at the Overclocking at Intel Nordic 2008 event, where I used the following test setup: Intel Core i7 965 Extreme (Engineering Sample), Intel X58SO “SmackOver” and an ASUS P6T Deluxe, 3×1 GB OCZ DDR3-1600 CL9, a 150 GB Western Digital Raptor X, two ATI Radeon 4870X2’s and a Silverstone Zeus ZM1200 power supply. With regards to cooling I kicked off on air with the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme (LGA1366) and got down to business with my Kingpin F1EE.
Enough stone walling, check out what this baby will do. First off, Superpi 1M with the Intel Core i7 965 clocked in at 4.35 GHz and finishing off at 9.6 seconds. For comparison an Intel QX9770 would need an approximate clock speed of around 5 GHz to accomplish a similar result. Note that due to a wrong read out by CPU-Z 1.47, I had to make use of the previous version at that time. I then cranked up the speed on the Core i7 to roughly 4.5 GHz and had a go at Wprime 32M.
That said, it crashed on me while trying to run Superpi. I usually think there’s always room for improvement and set out to look for the ultimate maximum speed of the Core i7 sample, Thomas had provided me with. Lets just say this next photo took a lot of effort, and sadly, this was not stable enough for booting into Windows, and time was quickly running out for the event itself. Although for an Intel reference X58 motherboard thats still quite impressive!
Last but not least I had a limited time to run some 3D benchmarking with the two Radeon 4870X2, thus only managing a couple of runs with 3DMark Vantage (Performance preset) of around 23.700 points and 25.600 points. Note that the graphics cards were not overclocked at all. As you can tell from four logical cores and added simultaneous multi-threading (SMT), the overall system performance is a lot better with the Core i7. Check out the listing for CPU score in 3DMark Vantage.
In summery I’d note that a multiplier above x29 had a tendency to freeze or even crash the setup, as all of the other teams also experienced. Having said that, it may have been related to that specific batch as Delph1 noted in his article, and there are no indicators to this being an overall issue for the Intel Core i7. I do however have share the feeling that retail samples of the Core i7 965 processors will be more overclockable.
In retrospect, the Overclocking at Intel Nordic 2008 event was a lot of fun. I especially enjoyed meeting some new overclockers (Elmor, MeanMachine, Kinc and the Norwegians), and to be honest I really felt a lot more at ease compared to last year, where the main goal was to try to really push the envelope. Last but not least I’d like to thank Intel Nordic, Thomas and Camilla, for once again giving me the opportunity to enjoy a fantastic overclocking event. And also thanks to Silverstone for sponsoring my Zeus ZM1200 power plant.
Special kudos to Thomas for having gone to extraordinary lengths preparing the event, with 400 litres of liquid nitrogen from AGA Sweden, dream dinners, acquiring all the necessary hardware and giving me the chance to try out two different “SmackO