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Guilford Battle Chapter National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution: 11:45 a.m. second Thursday, Greensboro Country Club, 410 Sunset Drive, GB. September-May. Regent Dot Freeman, 336-288-6451.

Clear Lake-based One Vision recently received a three-year accreditation from Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, or CARF, following a three-day onsite visit in October. The review included a look at programs, services, employment, policies and procedures. The evaluation highlighted One Vision’s "dedication, compassion, and enthusiasm for the services they provide," according to a release. One Vision, which provides personal and employment supports for individuals with disabilities in 30 Iowa communities, has been accredited by CARF since the 1980s.

Nate Lemmon, sales consultant with Pritchard Family Auto Sales, completed six missions and 12 objectives over Ford’s three-month sales staff challenge based on the EcoSport. Lemmon finished with a perfect score among more than 2,600 participants and received a check.

“However, the royalty which Apple Inc. and other patent holders initially demanded from users of FireWire (US$0.25 per end-user system) and the more expensive hardware needed to implement it (US$1–$2), both of which have since been dropped, have prevented FireWire from displacing USB in low-end mass-market computer peripherals, where product cost is a major constraint.”

HEADS UP — “There’s a time bomb for U.S.-Mexico relations ticking underground,” by Quartz’s Zoë Schlanger in College Station, Texas: “All along the 1,250 miles of border between Texas and Mexico, hidden under hundreds of feet of soil and rock, lie more than a dozen underground aquifers—areas of permeable earth that hold water—that crisscross the national boundaries. They might be the only sources of water the region will have left when the Rio Grande, hit by a one-two punch of climate change and a booming population, inevitably dries up. And yet there is no binational agreement for all this shared groundwater.” Quartz

> Remember, the Soviets in 1952 were not designing a device to broadcast sports games to consumer’s homes when they launched Sputnik. They just wanted to put a ball into space, and eventually a use for it was found.

All of the numbers you see in today’s piece are fresh, using updated drivers. For Nvidia, we’re using build 417.54 for every card. AMD’s cards utilize Crimson Adrenalin 2019 Edition 18.12.3, which was the latest at test time.

Elderbridge Agency on Aging and Elderbridge Alliance board member Steve Kruse received Governor’s Volunteer Awards from Gov. Kim Reynolds on June 21 in Cedar Falls.

We were first introduced to the Turing-based TU106 processor when Nvidia launched its GeForce RTX 2070. The Founders Edition board was a bit faster than GeForce GTX 1080, but seemed overpriced at $600.

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If there’s any reason other than price that past iPad users might complain about the new iPad Pro, it’s this: In one fell swoop, Apple all but killed the iPad Pro’s ability to connect wired accessories previously supported by iPads. The 3.5mm headphone port is gone, the Lightning port is gone, prior Smart Connector accessories don’t work, and there’s nowhere for the past Apple Pencil to plug in. If you really invested in decking out a prior iPad Pro, you now have a lot of legacy products that you’ll have to abandon or buy dongles to use with the latest iPad Pro models. And for the time being, you might even need to use different accessories with your iPhone and iPad.

Next on the program is a second Baroque ensemble, consisting of Tema Silk, soprano, Mark Silk, flute, Monika Kinstler, violin, Laura Mazza-Dixon, viola da gamba, Jennifer Mayo Curran, viola, and Anne Mayo, harpsichord. The ensemble will perform George Frideric Handel’s Sweet Bird.