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Survey of London: Volume 47, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville
Lloyd Baker Estate CHAPTER XI. Lloyd Baker Estate 346. Lloyd Square ... as the former Lloyd Baker estate, laid out between about 1820 and the early 1840s ... the pedimented pairs...
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retorned. 2. Wednesday, Robert Lloyd came about 12, he would not eate, ... betwixt my sonne, Lloyd and Roberts; it held us till 8; then we supt; had some further debate about it, after supper had a bottle of wine...
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House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 28 September 1654
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of this House, was attending at the Committee of Privileges, William Lloyd, menial ... Madryn, being now present, doth affirm, that the said Wm. Lloyd ... That the said Wm. Lloyd be discharged of...
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and Marg't his Wife, Elizabeth Lloyd Widow and Executrix of Richard Lloyd Esquire, deceased, who was Son and Heir of Sir Richard Lloyd, and Richard Lloyd, William Lloyd...
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1 2 Exchange at 4/2 per Dollar. (Errors excepted.) THO. G. LLOYD, Acc t Gen l.
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Corsair Vengeance Cup $10,000 Call of Duty 4 Tournament
"Corsair have recently held a Gaming Tournament around the game Call of Duty 4, to which 256 teams were all competing for a share of the $10,000 prize pot. "
Published: 21st December 2011 | Source: Corsair |
Corsair Vengeance Cup Call of Duty 4 Tournament
Corsair have recently held a Gaming Tournament around the game Call of Duty 4, to which 256 teams were all competing for a share of the $10,000 prize pot.
This just happens to be one of the biggest purses for an online Call of Duty 4 tournament to which $6,000 went to the winners Anexis eSports after a thrilling final which was watched by over 5,000 viewers.
The Cup was a great way to celebrate their launch of their new FPS-optimished Vengeance K60 gaming keyboard and Vengance M60 laser gaming mouse. An ideal match for the intense action of Call of Duty 4.
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Anexis eSports 1st place winning the top prize of $6,000
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Team-Dignitas 3rd place winning a respectfull $1,000
With a huge thanks from everyone who took part from the VP and General Manager Ruben Mookerkee at Corsair
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I've definately not set a -oneunit flag, but it keeps creating them randomly. Any ideas?
Edit: Restarting the rig seems to bump it into life
Do the same for SMP as well if you do SMP I have had this happen to me before but not with GPU just SMP and deleting the WU worked. It might be something different though, one of the more experienced folders will know if it is anyway.
EDIT: forgot to mention there is an update for GPU tracker so make sure your version is up to date, just go to setup > check for updates it should then find them and ask if you want to download them.
I'm just guessing but the same goes for any other client, if it is a corrupted WU
Cool. Thanks for the info, will come in handy for the future .
Just so we're all on the same page here, GPU Tracker uses the -oneunit flag as part of its "featureset"...this allows you to make changes to your config while folding a WU and having the changes be reflected in the very next WU you start folding (automatically). I'm not sure if this has changed or not in the newest version...but that would be why the OP has the -oneunit flag set even though they have not manually set it.
I'll keep an eye on that too. Cheers.
Many thanks all.
Edit: Just for info's sake, the client update (3.54) has fixed it. Cheers again.

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Coordinates: 50°32′31″N 3°48′50″W / 50.542°N 3.814°W The West Webburn is a stream on Dartmoor in Devon in south-west England. It rises on the eastern side of the moors flowing off the east side of Hameldown ridge. Its source is extremely close to Grimspound Bronze Age settlement and it was probably the main source of water for the settlement. It flows south going past Widecome in the Moor and joins the East Webburn River at Lizwell Meet in Oakmoor Wood. These combined streams then join the River Dart at Buckland Bridge in Holne Chase.
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2001: A Space Odysseyby Arthur C. Clarke
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Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, made into one of the most influential films of our century, brilliant, compulsive, prophetic, 2001: A Space Odyssey tackles the enduring theme of man's place in the universe. Including a new Foreword by the author and a fascinating new introduction by Stephen Baxter, this special edition is an essential addition to every SF reader's collection.
On the moon an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. But, before they can reach their destination, things begin to go wrong. Horribly wrong.
The first book in Philip K. Dick's final trilogy (followed by The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer), VALIS encapsulates many of the themes that Dick was obsessed with over the course of his career. A disorienting and bleakly funny novel, VALIS (which stands for Vast Active Living Intelligence System) is about a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip Dick); the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime. Taking place in the same universe as Dick's soon-to-be-published Exegesis, VALIS is a dense novel, but one that is absolutely essential to understanding the author's off-kilter worldview. Much like Dick himself, the reader is left wondering what is real, what is fiction, and what the price is for divine inspiration.
Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally addicted to a drug that whips its users helplessly back and forth across time--and is hell-bent on making Eric suffer along with her. And Sweetscent's newest patient is not only the most important man on the embattled planet Earth, but quite possibly the sickest. For Secretary Gino Molinari has turned his mortal illness into an instrument of political policy--and Eric cannot tell if his job is to make the Male better or to keep him poised just this side of death. Now Wait for Last Year bursts through the envelope between the impossible and the inevitable. Even as it ushers us into a future that looks uncannily like the present, it makes the normal seem terrifyingly provisional--and compels anyone who reads it to wonder if he really knows what time is.
A masterwork by Philip K. Dick, this is the final, expanded version of the novella The Unteleported Man, which Dick worked on shortly before his death. In Lies, Inc., fans of the science fiction legend will immediately recognize his hallmark themes of life in a security state, conspiracy, and the blurring of reality and illusion. In this dystopian vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into cramped industrial hothouses. For those sick of their depressing reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never return. When a neurotic man named Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that the promotional films of happy crowds cheering their newfound existence on Whale's Mouth are faked, he decides to pilot a spaceship on the eighteen-year journey there to see if anyone wants to come back.
Not too long from now, when exiles from a blistering Earth huddle miserably in Martian colonies, the only things that make life bearable are the drugs. Can-D "translates" those who take it into the bodies of Barbie-like dolls. But now Palmer Eldritch has returned after a mysterious disappearance a decade ago, bringing with him a new drug, Chew-Z, even more powerful than Can-D. Marketed under the slogan, "God promises eternal life; we can deliver it," Chew-Z is as mysterious as Eldritch himself. As the readers learn the true origins of Chew-Z and Eldritch, it becomes clear that in a world fueled by hallucinogens, nothing can be taken at face value. In this wildly disoreinting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch moving as well as genuinely visionary.
In the final act of Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy, we finally reach the conclusion--of a sort--to his search for the identity and nature of God. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer primarily concerns the eponymous priest and his daughter-in-law, Angel Archer, as they attempt to find their place in the world while dealing with what may or may not be divine possession. After Episcopalian Bishop Timothy Archer finds ancient scrolls bearing the words of Jesus from two centuries before his birth, he journeys to Israel in the hopes of finding more about Christ's true identity--and whether psychedelic mushrooms had anything to do with it. Haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress, Archer cannot prevent himself from falling deeper into the rabbit hole. This quiet, introspective book is one of Dick's most philosophical and literary, delving into the mysteries of religion and the mysteries of faith itself. As one of Dick's final works, it also provides unique insight into the mind of a genius, whose work was still in the process of maturing at the time of his death.
What if you discovered that everything you knew about the world was a lie? That's the question at the heart of Philip K. Dick's futuristic novel about political oppression, the show business of politics, and the sinister potential of the military-industrial complex. This wry, paranoid thriller imagines a future in which the earth has been ravaged, and cities are burnt-out wastelands too dangerous for human life. Americans have been shipped underground, where they toil in crowded industrial anthills and receive a steady diet of inspiring speeches from a president who never seems to age. Nick St. James, like the rest of the masses, believes in the words of his leaders. But that all changes when he travels to the surface--where what he finds is more shocking than anything he could possibly imagine.
In The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's alternate history classic, the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the east and the Japanese in the west. In this world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San Francisco, unsure of his standing within the beauracracy and Japan's with Germany; and Juliana Frink, Frank's ex-wife, who may be more important than she realizes. These seemingly disparate characters gradually realize their connections to each other just as they realize that something is not quite right about their world. And it seems as though the answers might lie with Hawthorne Abendsen, a mysterious and reclusive author whose bestselling novel describes a world in which the US won the War... The Man in the High Castle is Dick at his best, giving readers a harrowing vision of the world that almost was.
In The Crack in Space, a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black President of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr. Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress there; billionaire mutant George Walt wants to make the empty world all his own. But when the other Earth turns out to be inhabited, everything changes.
In The Divine Invasion, the second book in Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy, the author continues his search for meaning, and for God. And, once again, his search takes him off of planet Earth. Indeed, Dick shows the Nietzche was wrong: God is not dead, he has merely been exiled to an extraterrestrial planet. It is on this planet that Yah--as this possible God is known--meets Herb Asher and convinces him to help Yah return to Earth, which is itself under the control of the demonic Belial.To do this, Asher must shepherd a woman pregnant with Yah past the tight security of Earth, avoiding missiles, capture, and forced abortion along the way. Featuring virtual reality, parallel worlds, and interstellar travel, The Divine Invasion blends philosophy and adventure in a way few authors can pull off.As with VALIS and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The Divine Invasion questions just how much anyone really knows--or really can know--about the nature of reality and God. Part science fiction adventure, part religious inquiry, The Divine Invasion stands strong as the most accessible of Dick's famous trilogy.
Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug-dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred are the same person. In order to infiltrate the drug ring he hopes to bring down, Fred has had to use Substance D, but Substance D, or "Slow Death," causes the consciousness to split in two, creating distinct personalities that are entirely unaware of the other's existence. Now, Bob must keep from being caught by Fred, while Fred must keep his suspicious superiors at bay.In this semi-autobiographical novel, Dick looks back on his own drug abuse and his own friends who he lost to drugs. By turns thrilling, mind-bending, laught-out-loud funny, and heart-wrenchingly sad, A Scanner Darkly is an award-winning book made into a cult film and may just be Dick's best novel.
Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android. Against this backdrop, Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, is struggling to practice in a world full of the maladjusted. Ian Duncan is desperately in love with the first lady, Nicole Thibideaux, who he has never met. Richard Kongrosian refuses to see anyone because he is convinced his body odor is lethal. And the fascistic Berthold Goltz is trying to overthrow the government. With wonderful aplomb, Philip K. Dick brings this story to a crashing conclusion and in classic fashion shows there is always another layer of conspiracy beneath the one we see.
On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, a First Lady who calls all the shots, and the worlds last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with an underclass that is beginning to ask a few too many questions, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien.
In classic Philip K. Dick fashion, The Simulacra combines time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids, and Neanderthal-like mutants to create a rousing, mind-bending story where there are conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it seems.
"Dick is one of the ten best American writers of the twentieth century, which is saying a lot. Dick was a kind of Kafka steeped in LSD and rage."—Roberto Bolaño
What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dicks ground-breaking novel, and the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy, or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world.
VALIS is essential reading for any true Philip K. Dick fan, a novel that Roberto Bolaño called "more disturbing than any novel by [Carson] McCullers." By the end, like Dick himself, you will be left wondering what is real, what is fiction, and just what the price is for divine inspiration.
About the Author
Sir Arthur C. Clarke has over twenty million copies of his books in print, including three million of 2001, and has won every imaginable science fiction award, including the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986. A former radar officer for the RAF, he invented the Communication Satellite, garnering him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1998 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for Services to Literature.
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Kissed in a Moment, Caught in Time. ~ Amanda Robb
Sometimes in our hurriedness we can forget how just one kiss can stop time and remind us our heart can beat to another's drum.
Lips parted, slightly, in readiness for touch. The tongue dances in waiting and glides itself slowly over the lips, causing them moist and inviting to touch. The tongue slides back into the mouth and settles in anticipation to reappear, and in angst to be needed once more…
Breath is heated and quickened with each move closer to touch. With any palpable movement, the breath engenders a gasp in arousal and knowing of what to come. The breath is responsive to chemistry and allows itself time to build, owning its place in arousal.
Head is gently arched, raising the jaw to accommodate willingness in its composure. Thin scented strands of hair fall down over the forehead and cover cheeks that are rogue and warm to touch.
Animalistic in their stare, the eyes are wide open and aware in a softness most tempting and inviting to their gage. Their other, who stands before them, accepts the invitation to pleasure and leans forth. In one deliberated moment, the two connect and deliver, the kiss.
When was the last time you were really kissed?
Amanda Joy Robb lives in Sydney, Australia where she works as a Sexologist/Sex Therapist and Media Commentator. Feeding her passion in supporting women, Amanda also works for a feminist organization where she is able to empower and support survivors of sexual trauma. Amanda easily gets excited over quality music, yoga, boxing, cats and putting pen to paper about anything and everything she can to do with the wonderful world of sexology.
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The thing is so many men mis-read the moment when a woman is ready to kiss and "rush" her………It shows in her eyes when she is ready to be kissed…..They make little darting movements, her pupils are dilated, as she looks into your eyes and her lips are slightly parted………That is the moment to kiss a woman. And there is a way to kiss a woman that does not involve mashing her lips or deep throating her. And a severe case of tongue wrestling.
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One of the key qualities all game developers and console makers are shooting for is immersion. In this context, it means making what you play seem as real as possible.
Microsoft, though, may take the gold medal with their latest patent.
The idea behind the device is essentially a 360 degree projector that surrounds you in the game environment by putting images on all four walls. So, for example, if you were playing Halo 4 and a Promethean was creeping up on you just off screen, that would be projected onto the wall so you could see it and blast it accordingly.
Need to see what's behind you? Look over your shoulder. The system would also use a depth camera to determine your exact location inside the game and how distant targets are from you.
While it's just a patent, and nothing may ever come of it, it's a clue as to where Microsoft sees games heading.
Our Take: We doubt this technology will ship with the next Xbox, but it's certainly interesting to talk about. We've seen versions of this idea elsewhere, such as projecting a Pac-Man game onto all four walls and the ceiling, but this seems to be the first serious attempt to bring those projects, which were essentially art installations or proof-of-concept works, into the home.
Whether anything will come of it, who know? But we suspect this idea will make its way to market somehow.
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By showing a positive attitude toward the game and all of its participants, your child will benefit.
Emphasize skill development and practice sessions; show how they benefit your player.
Know the rules of the game and support the umpires on and off the field. This will help in the development of the sport. Criticism only hurts the game.
Applaud a good effort in both victory and defeat; reinforce the positive points of the game. Never yell at or physically abuse your child after a game. Recognize the importance of volunteer coaches. They're important to the development of your child and the sport. Support them.
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BRUNSWICK -- A gut-busting battle is chomping its way into town Friday night.
Champion competitive eater Joey Chestnut is ready to jam his jaws with a belt-breaking amount of apple pie at Mapleside Farms in Brunswick.
PHOTOS | Joey Chestnut wins July 4, 2013 hot dog eating contest
"I'm looking to make a new world record tonight," Chestnut said during an interview live in our studios.
Chestnut, the multi-record holder in Coney Island's July 4 hot dog eating contest, will go belly to belly with other seemingly bottomless pits like Tim "Eater X" Janus, Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas and Adrian Morgan.
The first place winner will claim a $2,500 cash prize. The event is sanctioned by Major League Eating.
The apple pie eating contest is set to kick off the 40th annual Johnny Appleseed Festival, which runs from Friday through Sunday.
The contest starts at 7 p.m.
Admission is $4 per person and $2 for seniors. Children ages 2 and younger are free.
Mapleside Farms is located at 294 Pearl Road.
This past July 4, Chestnut gobbled down 69 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes, which bested his own personal record.
During his time at our studios, Chestnut also refereed an apple cider chugging contest between our own John Anderson and Hollie Strano. Who won that battle? Watch the video above to find out...


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609. Performance: Riots, Uprisings, and Terrorism II
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Ark Adventures Cake
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Ark Adventure Cake - Roof Top, Cabin Sides, Small and Large Waves
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- 18 x 15 in. plywood or foamcore board (1/2 in. thick)
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In advance: Make fondant waves. Add 1 teaspoon Gum-Tex to 10 oz. tinted fondant; roll out 1/8 in. thick. Use patterns to cut 20 small waves (four 5 1/2 in. wide, eight each 4 and 3 in. wide in various shapes) and 4 large waves. Let dry on cornstarch-dusted surface. Paint on swirled details using white and blue Pearl Dust mixed with lemon extract.
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Also: Make fondant cabin and windows. Tint 4 oz. fondant lime green (reserve 2 oz. green for railings), 2 oz. yellow. Add 1/2 teaspoon Gum-Tex to each. Roll out 1/8 in. thick. Use patterns to cut cabin side and roof. Tint 2 oz. fondant dark violet. Roll out 1/16 in. thick. Cut a 1 x 1 3/4 in. top window, each 1 1/2 x 2 in., and a 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. strip to edge roof. Attach with damp brush. Let dry. Reserve remaining dark violet. Attach roof to wall using Thinned Fondant Adhesive. Attach 2 lollipop sticks to back of wall, allowing 2 in. to extend at bottom to insert into cake. Let dry.
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And: Make fondant animals on waxed paper-covered boards. Attach monkeys to window.
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Bake and cool 2-layer cakes. Prepare for Stacked Construction and rolled fondant. Tint 51 oz. fondant blue, 24 oz. yellow. Cover cakes and board with rolled fondant. Stack cakes on prepared board. Roll out reserved dark violet fondant 1/8 in. thick. Cut 4 windows 1 1/2 x 2 in.; attach to cake sides with damp brush. Use toothpicks to mark position for 3 stripes on cake sides; begin 3/4 in. down from top edge and mark stripes 3/4 in apart. Mark cabin wall for 7 vertical stripes, 1/2 in. apart. Roll out yellow fondant 1/8 in. thick. Cut 1/8 in. wide strips and attach over marks using damp brush. Attach waves around cakes using fondant adhesive; insert 1/4 in. diameter fondant logs as spacers between sections for layered effect. Roll out reserved lime green 1/8 in. thick. Cut two 1/2 x 13 in. strips with rounded ends for railing; attach around cake using fondant adhesive. Position cabin and insert animals.
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Richard Chamberlain and David Gulpilil in The Last Wave
Australia's Leading Actors and Directors Tell How They Conquered Hollywood
A new book by Michaela Boland and Michael Bodey
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Films shot in Australia by Australian casts and crews evolved into a modest nouvelle vague by the 1980's: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) and A Cry in the Dark (1988), both by Fred Schepisi; George Miller's popular series of apocalyptic adventure—Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)—as well as his darkly comic Babe: Pig in the City (1998); Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), The Last Wave (1977), Gallipoli (1981), and The Year of Living Dangerously (1982); and Bruce Beresford's Don's Party (1976), The Getting of Wisdom (1978), 'Breaker' Morant (1980), and Puberty Blues (1981).
Most of these helped to supplant the adult entertainment all but abandoned by American studios, then in the throes of the toddler-savvy Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies and their innumerable, sugary imitators. But Michaela Boland and Michael Bodey, the authors of Aussiewood, a tight and breezy examination of sixteen contemporary Australian actors and directors whose careers have extended to (and profited from) Hollywood, contend that it was Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career (1979) that "opened America's eyes to Australia, the climate, the characters and landscape."
Not to imply that the Australians single-handedly rescued mainstream cinema from absolute Disneyfication, but we should pause to give thanks. Aussiewood is less interested in the aesthetic merits of the pictures than the foreigner's plunge into American business and culture, and the ensuing, sometimes immediate conflict of ethics for those with strong ties back home. Unlike the smattering of Europeans who've been relocating and prospering in Tinsel Town ever since the '50s, Australians arrived nearly en masse during the '80s, while American production companies began frequent location shoots there in the '90s.
"Hollywood came Down Under in the mid-1990's and early 2000's," according to the authors, "at the invitation of the Australian and New Zealand governments eager to lure 'runaway' film and television productions and their apparent riches from the U.S…The influx of made-in-Australia American productions—including The Matrix, Pitch Black, Mission: Impossible 2 and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones—brought new skills, brighter careers and money. They also initiated a boom or bust economic style that was dependent upon the largesse of capricious Hollywood studios and a weak Australian dollar."
A seamless transfer to America: Nicole Kidman, excellent in To Die For (here seducing Matt Dillon)
Australians Nicole Kidman, Paul Hogan and Naomi Watts have won awards and made fortunes; Hugo Weaving, Heath Ledger and Hugh Jackman have cultivated loyal fan followings. But Boland and Bodey venture beyond the fame and bank accounts to tap into the sense of idealism, heritage and belonging all these people share 'down under' while farming themselves out to Los Angeles, the Emerald City of avarice and stone-hearted capitalism. To say nothing of the films they've been offered, crass multi-million-dollar productions short on character but heavy on action and effects, consciously geared toward 'demographics' rather than people.
At one time poised on the brink of superstardom in the States, actor Bryan Brown recognized how strained these ties could get under the weight of Malibu beach homes and Bel Air estates. "His generation views Hollywood differently to the next generation," write the authors. "In the '70s, Australian actors gained a voice they hadn't had." Brown believes "That voice is taken for granted by a lot of the young guys now…I've been there when it wasn't there and I know how fragile it is." After nearly losing it in the meaningless action of F/X (1986), the hollow Tom Cruise movie Cocktail (1988), and Gorillas in the Mist (1988), a picture whose good intentions were undermined by lofty marketing goals, Brown retreated to low-key projects at home. "That whole period of Twisted Tales and Dead Heart was really stimulating," he says of the Australian TV work he did in the '90s. "And there's the difference; I do something like that and feel great, and I do something like a Cocktail or F/X and I think, that was nice, thanks for the experience, but I don't feel anything."
A familiar name and face on the blockbuster circuit (thanks to The Matrix and the Lord of the Rings series), Weaving admits, "I've always felt more of a foreigner in L.A. than in Delhi or anywhere else." Such thoughts of alienation echo throughout the book: "I always felt lonely in Los Angeles, dreadfully lonely, and wanted to come back and be with my family and work." As a result, the authors point out, "Weaving is determined but not driven to succeed in the U.S."
One very notable exception, Kidman has miraculously balanced glamour and talent, b-material (Days of Thunder [1990], Batman Forever [1995], Bewitched [2005]) with the highbrow (The Portrait of a Lady [1996], The Hours [2002]), and experimental (To Die For [1995], Eyes Wide Shut [1999], Dogville [2003]), becoming one of the most interesting and diversified actresses working today. Despite Hollywood, she's cognizant of her roots: "I do have a strong sense of being an Australian contributing to the world," she tells the authors. "I hope than when I'm older it will be seen as a good contribution and I would like for my country to be proud of me…I do feel a huge part of my success comes from the uniqueness of [Australia], the way in which we view the world…the way in which we Australians experience things."
Director Phillip Noyce, who made his best pictures Down Under (Back Roads [1977], Newsfront [1978], Dead Calm [1989]) and his fortune shilling popcorn for corporate America (Sliver [1993], Clear and Present Danger [1994], The Bone Collector [1999]), confesses that he's "made movies that were good, bad and in between." But as far as the Hollywood executives were concerned, "it didn't matter. All that mattered was, how were they going to sell it?" Noyce understood the power of compromise: "One of the advantages of making films in Australia was the freedom to make almost any movie you wanted. One of the disadvantages was that so few of these movies have been seen by anyone." When he made Patriot Games (1992), a Harrison Ford action vehicle commissioned by Paramount, "Its budget was reported as close to double the combined budgets of Noyce's previous four films," note the authors. Bankable and reliable, he now enjoys the privilege of doing modest, intelligent and critically sound work: Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), was filmed in Australia, while The Quiet American (2003) alternated between Australia and Vietnam.
Delivered in crisp journalistic fashion (the authors are both employed by the Australian media), Aussiewood profiles all of its subjects with equal enthusiasm. They cap it off with a brief history of the country's cinema, from the 1890's on. The end result is a work which uncovers the dimension and human side of a culture generally pigeonholed by many Americans as dusty, archaic and rough, something out of Crocodile Dundee. Boland and Bodey quickly reveal how shortsighted that mindset is, and whet the appetite to see more work by this roster of dedicated, unique actors and directors.


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Secretary of State Albright calls for Permanent Special Envoy to the Middle East Former Secretary Opens Religious Action Center of Reform Judaisms Consultation on Conscience
April 16, 2007 Washington, DC Describing herself as an optimist who worries a lot, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called for a permanent special envoy to the Middle East during her keynote address to the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaisms 2007 Consultation on Conscience.
Secretary Albright encouraged religious communities to continue their pursuit of justice and peace in the world saying that the Israeli Palestinian conflict should be resolved for its own sake.
After her address, Secretary Albright sat down with Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, for a candid conversation about Human Rights, the genocide in Darfur and the War on Terror. When asked about the War in Iraq she said, I believe the [it] will go down in history as the worst mistake in US foreign policy. The biennial Consultation on Conscience offers intensive, high-level briefings on current issues and critical legislation that are aimed at educating the participants about issues of importance to the Reform Jewish community and motivating them to return home energized and engaged in their home communities. The delegates attending the conference include congregants, social action committee chairs and members, rabbis and rabbinical students, cantors and cantorial students, youth groups, brotherhood and sisterhood leaders, college students, and other Reform Jewish activists from across the country.
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Eucharistic Prayers for Advent, Year A
The prayers provided here are designed to assist worship leaders and planners in their efforts to engage the five sacramental practices recommended in Invitation to Christ. We hope these resources will facilitate deeper and more regular reflection on the sacraments in your community of faith.
These brief Eucharistic prayers are drawn from the themes and imagery of the lectionary texts for the season of Advent, Year A. Note that there are four options in each of the three sections that make up the body of the prayer; these are to be used as indicated on the appropriate Sunday in Advent. In this format, the Words of Institution should be used at the Invitation to the Table or the Breaking of the Bread.
See related pages: Season of Advent, Great Thanksgiving, Presbyterian Worship
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Edward joined Channel 4 in autumn 2005 for the launch of More4. He also had brief stints on Channel 4 and E4. Whilst at Channel 4, Edward was a freelance announcer for ITV 2, ITV 4 and Men and Motors.
Edward is now freelancing. Recent work: the voice of the 'Fresh 40 Chart', syndicated across ten commercial radio stations; promo voice for MTV Networks (MTV Base and TMF).
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Freelance ITV 1 announcer from October 2002. Certainly one of the great television voices of all time, with warmth and reassurance.
David's broadcasting career started in the 1960s at Radio 390 where he presented a country music programme called 'Country Style'.
He was a BBC TV voice only announcer for 25 years - from 1969 to 1972 (freelance) and from 1972 to 1994 (staff). He also provided voice-overs on BBC TV's 'Points of View' in 1987 and was a BBC Radio 2 presenter from 1976, including 'Country Club' with Wally Whyton. David was also a BBC World Service TV announcer in 1992.
Since 1995, he has been heard on ITV as a relief announcer for Carlton TV in London and for a couple of years from October 2002, he was a member of the national ITV 1 announcing team, working as a freelancer covering overnight shifts. David is also one of the main announcers on the satellite History Channel in the UK, along with Charles Nove and David Miles.
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Graham Bannerman
Graham was an announcer with BSB in 1990 and later Carlton in London. He was the senior continuity announcer when national ITV 1 continuity was introduced from October 28 2002.
In addition to continuity announcing, Graham has worked as a presenter and voice-over artist; his clients include BBC TV, Ford Motor Company, Royal and SunAlliance and Braun. He has fronted travel bulletins for Carlton and LWT and presented shows on Essex local radio.
From his studio he voices commercials, promotions and imaging for stations in the UK, America, Spain, Dubai and Malta. For more information, visit Graham's website (link below).
Trish Bertram
Trish started her announcing career with London Weekend back in 1982. She went on to announce at the Super Channel, TVS, British Satellite Broadcasting, Westcountry and UK Gold. Trish was LWT's senior announcer from the mid-1990s.
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Sonia Clark
Staff ITV 1 announcer since early-2003. She joined the network from local radio in Essex.
Jane Farnham
Jane started out as 'Pippa Horn', the travel and breakfast co-presenter at Red Dragon FM in Cardiff. Whilst working on the breakfast show she was approached by HTV Wales to present 'Time Out', a holiday programme based in Wales. She then went on to present her own drivetime show at Medway FM in Kent, which also involved producing features and organising competitions and roadshows.
In 1998, Jane started work at Metro Networks presenting travel reports for the Chris Evans breakfast show on Virgin FM and she also landed a job on the continuity sofa at ITV 2.
In May 2000, she started working for 'Earth and Space' at NOW - a pioneering convergence channel broadcasting to Asia and worldwide on the web. The work involved anchoring live science programmes, interviewing guest scientists, writing web pages and occasionally working on location for special reports.
During 2001, Jane worked in Holland and Athens for five weeks at a time directing and presenting travel programmes for a new broadband/linear channel called "Viewing 4 Leisure".
In 2002, she worked with Ant and Dec on ITV 1 as a regional presenter on 'Record of the Year'.
In 2004, Jane filmed kids show 'X-perimental' for BBC One. Working as the science reporter, it was Jane's responsibility to get the science across in an unpatronising, no-nonsense, yet easily understood manner.
Also in 2004, Jane worked as a studio/location presenter for TV Travel Shop, which involved a shoot in America filming 'Go Florida'.
Jane is currently working as a freelance presenter for Price-drop.tv, where she has to talk and sell non-stop for three hours at a time. She can also be heard on Five and Challenge, where she works as a continuity announcer. She is also a children's presenter for British Forces TV.
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John Hillcock
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Oliver Jackson
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Oliver also works as an actor in theatre, television and film. He trained as an actor at Rose Bruford.
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Having gained a degree in journalism (distinction), travelled the world and worked the red carpets as a showbiz reporter for BBC Radio 1's 'Newsbeat', she then (in 2004) moved to ITV where she became one of the main live network announcers on ITV 1. She's still there now.
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John started in continuity as a freelancer for ITV 2 in January 2005. He remained there for two years. He also worked as part of the Five continuity team between mid-2006 and early-2008.
As of late-2008, John was announcing for Virgin 1. His acting career was also taking off, with appearances in various short films behind him, such as 'Hammered', written by Noel Clarke ('Doctor Who' and 'Kidulthood'). He also stars in the feature film, 'Do Elephants Pray?'.
John has a BA (Hons) in Media Performance from the University of Salford.
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Mark Lipscomb
Started his television career as a cameraman and moved into continuity with TVS before joining Thames Television as a continuity announcer in the 1980s. He stayed until Carlton took over and was the only member of the Thames continuity team to move to the new station when it took over on January 1 1993. Mark was Carlton's senior announcer until October 2002 when the station's London identity was dropped. However, Mark continues to present weekend bulletins for Central News South - a role he has been performing since 1991. He has also presented the main early evening news programme during the week.
Mark spoke to TTVRP in January 2006: "Over the past three-and-a half-years I have had the opportunity of working on a number of projects at Central News. I was Assistant Producer on a few outside broadcasts including Central's pan-regional 'Britain On The Move' campaign and the Fairford Royal International Air Tattoo. More recently while our studio was being redesigned for the ITV rebranding, we took Central News outside and presented the programme from five of the region's hospitals. I helped produce this and was also the roving reporter each night taking on a variety of tasks, from sampling the hospital Christmas dinners to being a cleaner for the day and hospital porter. My skills were also put to the test one night when due to sickness with one of our directors, I ended up directing the outside broadcast. It was a great week and well received by the viewers. That together with some radio presenting and voice-over work, I have been a busy man since leaving Carlton."
Mark Manchester
Mark started out in student radio; he became the voice of the National UK Student Radio Chart in the late-1990s.
He was programme controller for the Student Broadcast Network until shortly before it's demise, and then took on the role of software support specialist for RCS UK, providing training and support to TV and radio industry users of Selector, Linker and Master Control in the UK and Ireland.
Mark became a freelance continuity announcer for ITV 2 in 2001 at a time when continuity was still broadcast live, and subsequently moved to ITV 1 where he has been a staff announcer since 2004.
Mark is also a freelance music programmer and has worked for Classic FM and several smaller GCAP Media stations.
David Mitchell
Freelance announcer for ITV, providing sickness and holiday cover.
Emily Morris
Emily provided live continuity links for CITV during the period leading up to the introduction of live in-vision presentation (1998). She had only just turned 17, making her the youngest continuity announcer the channel had ever had.
In 2004, Emily was a continuity announcer on the Disney Channel and since 2005, she has been performing a similar role at the Sci-Fi Channel.
Emily is a freelance voice-over artist for TV and radio; she also manages to fit in occasional acting and scriptwriting work.
Rachel Murray
Rachel has been a freelance announcer on ITV 1 since May 2005.
She started her TV career at British Forces Television (BFBS) in 1994 where she announced, did transmission control and also made programme promotions.
She then moved to the BBC to be a presentation network director from 1997 to 2000 before returning to BFBS to manage the Promotions Department from 2000 to 2003.
Since 2003 she has been a freelance announcer, voice-over artist, transmission controller and promo producer.
Graham Rogers
Graham has been a staff ITV Network announcer since October 2002. He is a former Radio 210 disc jockey who fronted TVS' overnight service, 'Late Night Late'. He joined Meridian from TVS to present the overnight service 'Nightime'. He went on to become one of Meridian's four duty announcers also providing continuity for Anglia and HTV West. Graham has also announced for Channel 4.
Additionally, Graham continues to freelance as a presenter and voice-over on programmes for Sky, Channel 5 and ITV 2. He also produced and presented the 'Exercise Helping Hand' documentaries in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Lucy Sassoon
Freelance announcer for ITV, providing sickness and holiday cover.
Paul Seed
Staff ITV 1 announcer since October 2002. Before this, Paul was stationed at Southampton providing continuity to Meridian, HTV West and Anglia Television. Paul used to host the breakfast show on Gloucestershire's Severn Sound radio station.
Rosie Thewlis
Rosie is a continuity announcer for UKTV History, UKTV Documentary, ITV 3 and the Biography Channel. She is also the voice of BBC London.
Glen Thompsett
TVS announcer who later joined LWT just as in-vision announcing was being phased out in the early-1980s. Glen remained with LWT until October 2002. From 2002 to 2004, he was a freelance announcer at ITV 1. He has also presented for 'Meridian News' in the South East, Sky Television, and on several satellite travel and shopping channels.
Glen has worked at a number of radio stations: he was a member of the launch team at Severn Sound in Gloucester in 1980; GWR in Wiltshire; Mercia Sound in Coventry; host of the breakfast show on Kent's Invicta FM during the late-1980s and early-1990s, gaining some of the highest audience figures in the station's history.
Glen runs his own audio production studio in Kent and produces work for a variety of independent companies and corporate clients.
Peter Tompkins
(Also known as Peter James for a brief spell). Peter was one of the main announcers for ITV's Nighttime service from 1997. He was also a Carlton Television (London) announcer from January 2000 until October 2002. Peter left Carlton in 2002.
Sasha Twining
Sasha was a Network BBC announcer from 1998 until 2003, her voice being heard on BBC One and BBC Two as well as BBC Prime and BBC Learning. In August 2003, she crossed over to ITV, where she announced on ITV 1, ITV 2 and ITV 3.
Sasha left ITV in early-2005, and in August 2005 she moved to Russia Today (a new 24-hour TV news channel, broadcasting worldwide) as a news anchor. A natural progression perhaps - Sasha is a fully-qualified broadcast journalist. She was also the launch anchor for the channel.
In April 2007, Sasha moved back to the UK, where she is now a regular face on Sky News.
Sasha started her career in radio. She worked as a DJ for several years at various local and regional radio stations. During her time in radio, she produced a wide spectrum of programmes, ranging from countless celebrity interviews to a week spent in orphanages and refugee camps in Bosnia during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
She was also a presenter for a national cable kids TV channel, dishing up a weekly talk show and a series of location-based programmes about life at university.
Catherine Whale
Catherine has been writing and voicing live links as a continuity announcer for ITV 1 since 2008, where she has introduced everything from the final of 'Britain's Got Talent', which attracted over 19 million viewers, to 'The X Factor'!
Catherine is also an accomplished radio presenter and broadcast journalist, having risen from breakfast co-host on Lite FM to presenting her own daily lunchtime show, networked on sister station Connect FM. She has also enjoyed a spot as a TV critic on the UK's national commercial sports station talkSPORT.
Her attractive on air personality and instantly recognisable voice means that she is regularly in demand by creative producers.
A red carpet regular, Catherine can often been seen at film premieres interviewing stars for Leicester Square TV.
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Setting efficiency goals for data centers
For the past decade, we have been working to make our data centers as efficient as possible; we now use less than half the energy to run Google's data centers than the industry average. In the open letter below, I am very happy to welcome a group of industry leaders who collectively represent most of the world's most advanced data center operators. -Urs Hoelzle
Recently, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) added data centers to their building efficiency standard, ASHRAE Standard 90.1. This standard defines the energy efficiency for most types of buildings in America and is often incorporated into building codes across the country.
Data centers are among the fastest-growing users of energy, according to an EPA report, and most data centers have historically been designed and operated without regard to energy efficiency (for details, see this 2009 EPA Energy Star survey). Thus, setting efficiency standards for data centers is important, and we welcome this step.
We believe that for data centers, where the energy used to perform a function (e.g., cooling) is easily measured, efficiency standards should be performance-based, not prescriptive. In other words, the standard should set the required efficiency without prescribing the specific technologies to accomplish that goal. That's how many efficiency standards work; for example, fuel efficiency standards for cars specify how much gas a car can consume per mile of driving but not what engine to use. A performance-based standard for data centers can achieve the desired energy saving results while still enabling our industry to innovate and find new ways to improve our products.
Unfortunately, the proposed ASHRAE standard is far too prescriptive. Instead of setting a required level of efficiency for the cooling system as a whole, the standard dictates which types of cooling methods must be used. For example, the standard requires data centers to use economizers — systems that use ambient air for cooling. In many cases, economizers are a great way to cool a data center (in fact, many of our companies' data centers use them extensively), but simply requiring their use doesn't guarantee an efficient system, and they may not be the best choice. Future cooling methods may achieve the same or better results without the use of economizers altogether. An efficiency standard should not prohibit such innovation.
Thus, we believe that an overall data center-level cooling system efficiency standard needs to replace the proposed prescriptive approach to allow data center innovation to continue. The standard should set an aggressive target for the maximum amount of energy used by a data center for overhead functions like cooling. In fact, a similar approach is already being adopted in the industry. In a recent statement, data center industry leaders agreed that Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is the preferred metric for measuring data center efficiency. And the EPA Energy Star program already uses this method for data centers. As leaders in the data center industry, we are committed to aggressive energy efficiency improvements, but we need standards that let us continue to innovate while meeting (and, hopefully, exceeding) a baseline efficiency requirement set by the ASHRAE standard.
Chris Crosby, Senior Vice President, Digital Realty Trust
Hossein Fateh, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dupont Fabros Technology
James Hamilton, Vice President and Distinguished Engineer, Amazon
Urs Hoelzle, Senior Vice President, Operations and Google Fellow, Google
Mike Manos, Vice President, Service Operations, Nokia
Kevin Timmons, General Manager, Datacenter Services, Microsoft
Joseph F. Dzaluk, VP, Global Infrastructure and Resource Management, ITDelivery, IBM
Update (4/20/10): Added Joseph F. Dzaluk (IBM) as a signer.
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I have written my own blog post http://www.greenm3.com/2010/04/google-microsoft-amazon-nokia-digital-realty-trust-dupont-fabros-vs-ashrae-standard-901-requirement-for-economizers-li.html referring to the above. I am encouraging readers to comment on this blog to allow Google to collect public opinion. I agree with the industry position Google has presented. -Dave OharaReplyDelete
I strongly support Google et al and their opposition to the proposed changes to ASHRAE 901. Every data center faces unique cooling challenges that vary based on region, rack density, HVAC architecture, and more. A focus on metrics and benchmarking, as Google notes, is the most holistic means of ensuring efficiency in the data center, not a "one size fits all" methodology. - Todd Boucher, Leading Edge Design GroupReplyDelete
Please see the following response from ASHRAEReplyDelete
The proposal to address data centers was made because a significant amount of energy is required to cool and ventilate computer rooms. Through this addendum, ASHRAE is proposing cost effective measures in the prescriptive path of Standard 90.1 to save energy in data centers. The addendum includes eight exceptions to requirements for the use of economizers in data centers. The addendum does not change the portion of the standard that already allows, through the Energy Cost Budget method (an alternate method of compliance), for data centers to be designed without economizers if other energy saving methodologies, including power usage effectiveness (PUE), are employed. ASHRAE is committed to excellence in the consensus standard development process and encourages anyone with comments regarding the proposed addendum regarding data centers (addendum bu) to participate in the public review process. The draft addendum and instructions for submitting comments may be found at http://www.ashrae.org/technology/page/331. Comments are due to ASHRAE by April 19, 2010.
Jodi Scott
ASHRAE communications manager
As a matter of principle, I support a industry-wide, consensus based position as Google has presented here. Yet, it should be noted that ASHRAE does recognize and allow for various exceptions to the measuring methods prescribed in the proposed amendment to 90.1 – in so far as stipulated in the proposed language… The question would be which ought to be accepted as the "norm" and which is the "exception". Wilhelm Wang, TransReg LLC, Westwood, NJReplyDelete
PUE and DCiE are dimensionless ratios (kW/kW). They show data that may be valuable to the owner/operator, in terms of IT equipment power and total facility power, but they do not measure efficiency. For example, if there are two exact data centers side by side in one city, with the same square footage (say 100,000 sf) and the same number of servers and same HVAC equipment, if they both have the same PUE of 2.5, but for one facility it is 1000/400 kW and for the 2nd facility it is 2000/800 kW, how can they be considered to have the same "efficiency"? Or, if one data center has a PUE of 2.5 (1000/400 kW) and another one has a PUE of 2.0 (1000/500 kW), which one is more "efficient"? The only difference is that one facility uses less electricity for non-IT functions. They have the same electric bill. More useful metrics would be kWh/square foot/year (or month or day), peak Watts / square foot, overall Watts or kWh used per teraflop of server function, Btu/square foot/year (or month or day), Watts or kWh per square foot of raised floor area / year or month or day, etc.ReplyDelete
Also, if you look at the Energy Star survey results, the EPA is supporting an "EUE" metric, which incorporates an incorrect "source energy factor" to distort what is happening. EPA does not support PUE.ReplyDelete
ASHRAE 90.1 does have a performance path to meeting the standard. The prescriptive path that Google is commenting on is used by building owners/ design teams that do not have the resources to (or choose not to) go through an energy analysis to optimize their design. The prescriptive path attempts to determine what will work best for most projects to achieve a baseline efficiency, without requiring much analysis.ReplyDelete
Building Energy Engineer, Enermodal Engineering
I also agree that a very prescriptive approach is non constructive and only helps engineers in conformity and the ability of judgment of a process compared to a scope of works. (I'm an engineer and I certainly know the risk averse drives engineers use)ReplyDelete
Energy efficiency of a data centre is easy to understand.
1- Reduce the number of servers & IT equipment you need to do a task (Initial power & cooling drop) Eg; virtual server, non rotating storage, and low loss communications ect.
2- If you put power into it you have to cool it and the less energy required to cool the better. The best way it to place your data centre in cooler environment areas (less than 35degC in summer) and use outside air cooling.
3- Use energy efficient support process like UPS systems, Mechanical systems, correctly or slightly over sized cabling & switchgear to reduce resistance, purchase renewable energy and quality insulation.
Dave Mc
There is really no point in directly imposing a restriction on datacenter efficiency. If using too much electricity has impact on the environment, closing coal mines and raise its import tax should do the trick. This is just another attempt to redistribute power among various regulators.ReplyDelete
'Unfortunately, the proposed ASHRAE standard is far too prescriptive. Instead of setting a required level of efficiency for the cooling system as a whole, the standard dictates which types of cooling methods must be used.'ReplyDelete
You don't have to know anything whatsoever about data centers of cooling systems to know that dictating particular methods is the wrong way to go. If you want increased efficiency, require increased efficiency. Counting on technology NOT improving has NEVER succeeded, and it never will. Google et al are right on in opposing these standards.
Great posts, all. Fascinating thread.ReplyDelete
We've been designing / refitting an 80,000 s/f, 12 - 15mW co-lo facility atop a large aquifer. 100% groundwater cooled data center, where chilled (48.5 degrees F) groundwater is pumped and circulated through CRAHs. N+X. Open loop system, with the added mechanical efficiencies of a siphon effect because of the recapture wells. For every 1mW of critical load our total cooling load is <65kW!
Very efficient. Zero water loss, to boot.
We look forward to proving our theoretically low PUE through operating history over time.
Capital and operating costs are significantly offset.
If any of you might be interested in participating in a test bed / pilot of this project in what we call Dataville, please feel free to get in touch with me directly. I'm happy to share our engineering diagrams for 100% groundwater cooling freely, open-source -style. Perhaps you might help improve / refine them.
This year-round solution requires zero chiller plant, and even works around the need for free airside economizers.
I would be delighted and honored if any subject matter experts and thought leaders who posted to this blog might critique or contribute thought / engineering rigors to our groundwater cooling schematic.
Incidentally, we are also recipients of a $2 million CANARIE research grant to create a 100% carbon-neutral next-gen Internet / utility computing platform across Canada, and are the East Coast IX / node in this project - the GreenStar Network. The project just started.
We are opening GSN to peering and benchmarking arrangements, and welcome your interest.
Anton E. Self, Bastionhost Ltd.
direct: 902-482-6466
I would strongly advise Google, Amazon, MS, and similar premier companies to use the performance based compliance model offered in the same standard. The prescriptive path would be what I would expect to see applied to a small data center, under 1,000 sf tucked in the basement of an 100,000 sf office building, never to a purpose built and engineered facility. Is Google concerned that local officials will adopt only the prescriptive path and strike the performance path when implementing in local code? That is something to fear - never underestimate the ability of a local government to screw up badly...ReplyDelete
ASHRAE's (American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers) forte is the use of air to heat and cool. And quite naturally they will prescribe an air based solution to cool data centers.ReplyDelete
The sad thing about the prescription is that it is far from optimum. Air cooling in any form is horribly inefficient. For example, Facebook estimates that with free cooling their energy cost for cooling is about 15% of IT load. But this IT load includes the server fan energy which accounts for about 10% of the total. Moving this to the cooling side of the equation shows that the real cost of cooling is about 38%.
The other problem with air cooling is that it is difficult to manage. Baffles, screens, raised floors, actuators, humidifiers, dehumidifiers etc. are all required. Tight control loops are impossible to realize as air moves in complex ways and time constants are very long.
Our tests of liquid based direct touch server cooling show that cooling overhead in a climate similar to Facebook's location (pacific northwest) would be about 5% of the real IT load. Control is also much easier as time constants are much shorter and fluids move in predictable ways through set channels.
If the 90.1 changes become ratified, the only way innovative data center cooling solutions can be approved by the individual States' planning organizations is through the mechanism outlined in chapter 11. The tools available to perform the calculations are both arcane and out of date. To all intents and purposes, this kills all chance of innovation.
ASHRAE is opening itself up to questions on its competence to be the arbiters of data center cooling design. Their actions to date also have the potential of hurting America's competitiveness worldwide.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that my company, Clustered Systems Company, Inc. designs and manufactures advanced direct touch liquid cooling systems.
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Plymouth shop robbed by knifemen three times in five weeks
Posted: September 04, 2012|
POLICE are investigating a third raid on an off-licence after two men wearing rubber gloves robbed staff at knife point.
Sunday night's robbery is the third similar incident at Clifton Wine Store in Clifton Place, Greenbank, to have taken place within the last five weeks.
A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "We are looking at the robberies as a series."
But officers have not said whether they believe the three robberies are related or not.
The latest attack on Sunday evening, happened just before 9pm, when two men wearing yellow rubber gloves entered the store and threatened two members of staff with knives before making off with cigarettes, money and alcohol.
The man and woman, who were on duty in the store, were said to be shaken up by the ordeal.
Officers from Charles Cross police station were sent to the area to carry out a full-scale search for the offenders.
The first suspect in the latest raid is described as a white male, around 5ft 10in to 6ft tall, muscular build, wearing a light coloured jacket, dark jeans or tracksuit bottoms, yellow gloves and a maroon and blue striped face covering.
The second offender, who was also wearing rubber gloves, is described as around 5ft 10in tall, of stocky build, wearing a dark top and dark tracksuit bottoms, a similar face covering to the other suspect, and was carrying a black holdall.
The latest incident is the third knifepoint robbery to take place at the store in the last six weeks.
On Thursday July 26 a female worker at the shop was threatened by a man brandishing a 10-inch knife at around 11pm.
The robber, who had concealed his face and body, walked up to the woman cashing up the till, brandished a knife towards her face and demanded the money before making off with over £300 in takings, police said.
The male wore a baggy black hooded top with the hood pulled down over his eyes and had a scarf tied around the rest of his face. Police said the offender had also pulled his sleeves down over his hands. He was described as around 5ft 9in and of medium build.
Detective Constable Sally Johnson, who was investigating July's armed robbery, told The Herald that no one had yet been arrested.
A month later, on August 26, a very similar incident happened at the store when an armed robber threatened another female worker with a knife before making off with shop takings.
The suspect in that raid is described as a white man, 18 to 23-years-old, approximately 5ft 10in tall and of slim build.
He was described as wearing a black lightweight waterproof jacket with the hood up over his head and black tracksuit bottoms. He had a pale blue and white scarf covering his face.
Police are now urging local residents to look out for any items that may have been discarded overnight following the latest robbery.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the police on 101, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111, quoting crime reference number EC/12/8416.


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Sensors & Checkweighers Provide Process Quality Control
Specialized devices overcome production-speed and environmental challenges.
A series of ultrasonic proximity sensors designed to provide reliable sensing in harsh environments are encapsulated in epoxy to resist shock and vibration and to withstand dusty, humid, high-pressure, and washdown conditions. The noncontact Superprox Model SM600 sensors offer an advantage over inductive proximity sensors in that they can be backed off from the object being detected by 1 to 12 in. They feature a 1-in. dead band, sinking-type (NPN) and sourcing-type (PNP) outputs, and an 18-mm-barrel package for mounting convenience; they are designed for easy installation in difficult-to-mount areas. Available with threaded barrel housings of either blue Ultem plastic or Type 303 stainless steel, the tamperproof 500-kHz sensors are configured at the factory for a specific sensing range and a fixed sensing window that can be as narrow as
1/8 in. They detect objects of all colors and materials, transparent or opaque and liquid or solid, including objects perceived through small openings or moving back-to-back at speeds of more than 2000 objects per minute. Hyde Park Electronics Inc., Dayton, OH.
A miniature through-beam laser sensor provides high-reliability performance in restricted-space applications. The OSDK/OEDK 10 consists of a pulsed Class 2 laser diode emitter and matching receiver in housings the size of sugar cubes; the entire sensor measures 10 x 33.5 x 16.3 mm. Offering a sensing range extending to 8 m, the tiny, lightweight sensor can perform both highly repeatable small-parts detection at close range and long-range sensing of nearly any type of material. The device has a response time of 0.2 microseconds. Featuring LED power, output, and soiled-lens indicators, a power supply range of 10–30 V dc, reverse-polarity protection, and true background suppression, the sensor detects pieces of any color, texture, and reflectivity while ignoring background objects. Baumer Electric Ltd., Southington, CT.
A pair of pharmaceutical checkweighers have been specially designed to perform both precision in-line weighing of tablets, liquids, and cream fillings and final carton and tray checks. The Rx2 has a weighing range of 5–600 g, can handle packages as long as 200 mm and as wide as 150 mm, and features an air-blast rejecter. The Rx3 offers a weighing range of 50–6000 g, accommodates larger packages measuring as much as 450 x 300 mm, and includes a push-off rejecter. Both Rx-series checkweighers are made of stainless steel and anodized aluminum, have a height-adjustable cantilevered frame, offer a maximum throughput of 300 packages per minute, and feature force-restoration weigh cells that can provide accuracy down to 20 mg. Both machines incorporate a touch screen interface, servomotors, and quick-change belts, and are capable of detecting missing tablets, leaflets, or blister packs. Hi-Speed Checkweigher Company, Inc., Ithaca, NY.
Designed for flexibility, cleanability, and speed, a checkweigher can sort many products, including capsules, tablets, and many odd-shaped items, without changeover parts. The open design of the Sade P2 and P4 checkweighing systems makes for easy cleaning, and the operator interface is user friendly. Also available is a SPC data-recording package, WinSort, that allows for batch reporting and statistical analysis. AC Compacting LLC, North Brunswick, NJ.
A machine-vision sensor provides high-resolution imaging at 640 x 480 pixels along with Ethernet and field-bus connectivity. The Series 600 Smart-Image sensor has an embedded Power PC processor in a package whose footprint is just 1.6 x 2.2 x 4 in. Using patented technology to maintain good image stability and repeatability, the sensor can deliver such important data as QC inspection results; it can coordinate information for motion control applications, statistical process control data, and 2-D code verification. It is supplied with the Framework 2.1 software interface, an updated program whose algorithms include template matching and math tools that have been enhanced to accommodate the speed and resolution of the Series 600 system. The camera, image-acquisition electronics, and computer being integrated in a single unit allows dynamic access to the charge-coupled device without image float or fluttering. DVT Corp., Norcross, GA.
Programmable digital vacuum and pressure sensors designed to provide precise monitoring in systems, process-control, and leak-testing applications offer two switch outputs for control of multiple devices. The 1.25-in.-square sensors feature solid-state components and dust- and drip-proof enclosures rated to IP 65. They perform as both an output device and a digital gauge, providing three-digit red LED display indicators and a choice of eight readout scales. Available with either PNP or NPN output, the sensors are able to monitor high and low limits for vacuum or pressure control, as well as system conditions. In process-control and leak testing applications, the sensors' 1- to 5-V dc analog output easily interfaces with a programmable logic controller. Vaccon Co., Medfield, MA.
A compact, lightweight digital pressure sensor with two-color digital and analog display is designed to offer mounting flexibility. The UZU3-series sensor has a response speed of 2 milliseconds or less and can sense vacuum or positive pressure ranging from –14.70 to 152.2 psi (–100 kPa to 1.000 MPa). The sensor weighs 1.062 oz without cables and offers a minimum panel cutout of 0.669 x 1.452 in. When multiple units are mounted, no space is necessary between any two. Sensor features include DIN rail mounting in four orientations, snap-fit cable connection, and output-indicating display function, with the display switching between green and red. Aromat Corp., Automation Controls Div., New Providence, NJ.
A miniature inductive proximity sensor is a self-contained unit that provides a full 1-mm sensing distance without an external amplifier. The 3-mm-diam x 27-mm-long Long Ranger has a smooth stainless-steel barrel housing and polyurethane cable and is rated to IP 67. The durable sensor has an operating temperature range of –25º to 70ºC, runs on 10–30 V dc, offers reverse-polarity protection, and is available with both PNP and NPN outputs. With a 3-mm mounting bracket, the sensor can be installed quickly and easily on robotic grippers, pick-and-place machines, and other space-restricted automation equipment. An LED status indicator confirming that output is on is designed to accelerate setup. Balluff Inc., Florence, KY.