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A unique sonic chisel for a renowned tone sculptor.
Specialized features of the Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar Electric Guitar include custom-wound, Bare Knuckle Johnny Marr single-coil neck and bridge pickups; custom-shaped maple neck with rosewood fingerboard based on Marr's 1965 Jaguar; vintage-style truss rod; lacquer finish; and Marr's signature on the front of the headstock.
The 4-position blade-style pickup switch is mounted to the lower-horn chrome plate (bridge; bridge and neck in parallel; neck, bridge, and neck in series) while 2 upper-horn slide switches control pickup brightness. Other distinctive features include a Jaguar bridge with Mustang saddles and nylon bridge post inserts for improved stability; vintage-style, floating tremolo tailpiece with chrome cover; and "taller" tremolo arm with arm-sleeve nylon insert to prevent arm swing.
Marr is best known, of course, as the strikingly dynamic and influential anti-hero guitarist-arranger-allaround-musical-wunderkind behind Manchester quartet the Smiths, which virtually redefined and ruled U.K. pop throughout the 1980s. A master of melody, layering, and texture, Marr has always brought his own instantly identifiable ringing, jangling genius to the proceedings, as he has done in post-Smiths stints with The The, Electronic, the Pretenders and Johnny Marr and the Healers, and right up to the present with Modest Mouse, the Cribs and innumerable guest appearances. Includes case.
- Body shape: Double cutaway
- Body type: Solid body
- Body material: Solid wood
- Top wood: Not applicable
- Body wood: Alder
- Body finish: Gloss Lacquer
- Orientation: Right handed
- Neck
- Neck shape: Custom signature
- Neck wood: Maple
- Joint: Bolt-on
- Scale length: 24"
- Truss rod: Standard
- Neck finish: Gloss Lacquer
- Fretboard
- Material: Rosewood
- Radius: 7.25"
- Fret size: Vintage-style
- Number of frets: 22
- Inlays: Dot
- Nut width: 1.653" (42mm)
- Pickups
- Configuration: SS
- Neck: Custom wound single-coil
- Middle: Not applicable
- Bridge: Custom wound single-coil
- Brand: Fender
- Active or passive pickups: Passive
- Series or parallel: Not applicable
- Piezo: No
- Active EQ: Yes
- Special electronics: Dual upper-horn slide switches
- Controls
- Control layout: Master volume, tone
- Pickup switch: 4-way
- Coil tap or split: No
- Kill switch: No
- Hardware
- Bridge type: Tremolo/Vibrato
- Bridge design: Jaguar bridge with Mustang saddles
- Tailpiece: Vintage Style Floating Tremolo
- Tuning machines: American vintage
- Color: Chrome
- Other
- Number of strings: 6-string
- Special features: Signature model
- Case: Hardshell case
- Accessories: None
- Country of origin: United States
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- Fun to play (4)
- Good feel (4)
- Good pick up (4)
- Good tone (4)
- Solid electronics (4)
Best Uses
- Jamming (3)
- Practicing (3)
- Reviewer Profile:
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- Cool look
- Cheap Case
- Expenseive
- Flat Sound
Best Uses
Comments about Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar Electric Guitar:
Being a huge Johnny Marr/Smiths fan, I was eager to try this guitar. Perhaps that made the reality an even greater disappointment.
Compared to my MIM Baja Telecaster, the sound of the Marr Jag was flat. The Marr Jaguar didn't have nearly the same shimmer or chime as the Telecaster. The Baja Tele also has the four-way switching, and the sounds are much more flexible on the Tele compared to the Marr Jag. To be fair, the Marr Jag sounds nearly as good as the Tele, but when I can get an even richer shimmer and growl from a Tele for 1/3 the price, the Marr Jag seems like a raw deal.
For me, the neck was a pain. The fretboard radius didn't agree with my playing at all.
The case looks supremely cool, but it's cheap.
- Fun To Play
- Good Feel
- Good Pick Up
- Good Tone
- Light
- Solid Electronics
- Poor Quality Craftsmanship
Best Uses
- Jamming
- Practicing
- Recording
- Rock Concerts
- Small Venues
Comments about Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar Electric Guitar:
This guitar fixes everything that previously stopped me from purchasing a Jaguar. The complicated switching system is replaced with a 4 way selector, and the rhythm circuit is replaced with 2 high pass filters. This guitar really shines when it comes to clean tones. The pickups are bright and jangly. There are however a few issues. The low E string is far too close to the edge of the neck. There are times when the string actually slides of the side of the fretboard when too much pressure is applied, so that's something to keep in mind. Another issue is that the tremolo arm sometimes doesn't stay in place. This is only a minor issue and can be fixed by tightening the socket where the arm inserts. These are minor issues that don't really majorly detract from the guitar, and can easily be worked around. When the guitar arrived the case was damaged, but Musician's Friend promptly sent a replacement case at no extra charge. In summary I'd say that this is an excellent guitar for people who love the bright percussive sound of a Jaguar, but were always wary of the convoluted switching system of a traditional Jaguar.
- Fun To Play
- Good Feel
- Good Pick Up
- Good Tone
- Solid Electronics
Best Uses
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I had the pleasure of playing a Johnny Marr jaguar for a few weeks and it's a solid, nicely made instrument. I loved the feel of the neck personally, which is a vintage smaller radius 7.25" and may take some getting used to if you're accustomed to a flatter fretboard. The bare knuckle pick ups are extremely punchy and IMO almost to a fault -- a bit too modern and bass heavy sounding for my tastes. They don't really do that thinner single coil 60's Fender sound at all. But they do ROCK, no doubt about that. I'd say though if you want a vintage sounding Jag, look elsewhere -- but try a 7.25" neck. You might find it to be the most comfortable neck you've played!
- Fun To Play
- Good Feel
- Good Pick Up
- Good Tone
- Solid Electronics
Best Uses
- Jamming
- Practicing
Comments about Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar Electric Guitar:
It has what I need and I enjoy it very much. I played other Jags and being a novice had difficulty understanding the switches.
I love the body and the color of this and the fact Johnny Marr is one of my all time favorite players made it an easy decision.
- Fun To Play
- Good Feel
- Good Pick Up
- Good Tone
- Smokin Hot Looks
- Smooth As Butter
- Solid Electronics
- Tone Cuts Through The Mix
- Laquer Easily Scuffed
Best Uses
- All Around Player
Comments about Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar Electric Guitar:
From the moment I strapped this baby on and strummed a chord I was transformed as a musician. Like Johnny Marr says, this jag encourages you to stretch yourself beyond simply playing blues or pentatonic styles (although it handles these just fine).
The character of the guitar has brought out a creativity in me that I have very much enjoyed.
Everything about this guitar feels precise and solid, very different from the traditional jags. Johnny Marr put so much time and design into this and it shows. The bare knuckle pickups are amazing, and the improved switching is easy and useful. THE TONE IS OUT OF THIS WORLD, both clean and overdriven.
The thin laquer finish is easily scratched, but hey, so are all my US made Teles and Strats with the same finish. Plus over time I can naturally create my own "road worn" or "relic" look with daily use.
The trem is the smoothest of any Fender guitar I've played.
This guitar is made in the US and may be one of the finest instruments I've played in the last 30 years.
- Al The Flaws Corrected
- Sounds Like 4 Guitars
- The Best Jag Out There
- Complex Options
- The Strings
Best Uses
- Jamming
- Practicing
- Recording
- Rock Concerts
- Small Venues
Comments about Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar Electric Guitar:
Everything the jag is infamous for is now fixed! No annoying switches, wird bridge, skinny neck, too-bright pickups, jazz circuit, floppy trem arm. If you want a jag GET THIS ONE! It is still a jag so short scale, little sustain, ringing cleans, and low output are still the norm...but if your considering this guitar you probably know this anyway. Unlike many Jaguar re-issues this is VERY versatile. You can get strat, tele, jazzy, gretch, rickey, even humbucker-esque tones out of this thing.
So if you dig jags, but have been scared off by some naysayers, have the dough, and want a good all around axe. PLAY THIS! you will not be disappointed. Nearly every jaguar fan, and many other guitarists, I have talked to say this is the Jag to get. I agree. There is really nothing, short of metal, that this guitar can not do.
Warning: Do not judge this by it's stock tone! Pretty much all jags sound pretty bad with anything below 11 gauge strings on them. The 9's mine came with made it sound terrible--I almost returned it! Then I put on some 11s and it just sang.
- GREAT sound
- Plays Nice
- Subtleties Come Through
- Almost Too Bright
- Some Bridge Buzz
- Vintage Tuners And Frets
Best Uses
- 60s Rock
- Blues
- Cw
- Indie Rock
- Rock
- Surf
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What a sound. Big, bright, jangly yet unique and full of subtle nuances. It's a Jag for sure but new and improved. Simpler wiring scheme, great pickups and a fat neck, the tone is very, very good. Not for totally saturated metal shredding, warm and woody jazz tones or people with big hands. You can get the chunk, the twang, the wail and the riff and with some reverb, delay, chorus and the like you can get all atmospheric as well. You can also cut through the mix like you wouldn't belive. The character of this guitar comes through no matter what you run it through short of a Boss ML-1. Simple chords and little melodys jump out of this thing, you just play and it's like you're writing songs. The 24" scale makes it feel loose but the 7 1/2 neck needs a good setup to get those big bends without fretting out. The pickups are sweet but in keeping with the general retro vibe they are on the mild side and need to be set up properly. Speaking of which, the set up on mine not so good, the high E was off the fingerboard, the neck had too much relief and, like every other new guitar I've ever bought, the nut was cut way too high. Everything else was good and the workmanship is top notch. I got it fixed up but if you can't do guitar set ups, take it to a pro you will be much happier. Due to the design of the bridge these guitars are bright, ringy and sometimes buzzy. You'll need a new relationship with your EQ for the brighness and maybe some easy and inexpenive mods for the buzz. Even with a set bridge and humbuckers I don't think you could make an an SG out of it, though. Why would you want to? It's great like it is.
Comments about Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar Electric Guitar:
Overall, I still rave about the model, because it's a Jag. I play Jag's because of the tone, and because of the short scale. I have small hands. I have carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis. I can play Jaguar's every day with no impact on my hands. As much as I love Strats and Teles, they hurt my hands. Jags don't. Plus, I love the tone, the snappy, spicey tone of the Jag and it fits well with the type of reverb drenched staccato Spaghetti Western style music I play. It's the underlying offset body and scale that makes the Jag a great, if not the greatest, guitar design--and these new variations are interesting and worthwhile, but not Revolutionary. The supposed fixes for the trem tail piece, the bridge, and the switching -- these are small potatoes and easy to address with the RI model. However, the new pickups, the new switching patterns, and the beefy neck make the new version worthwhile.
Let me state that I am a long time Jaguar fan. I first fell in love with the design back in the summer of 1966, having previously been a devotee of the Gibson SG. I have owned a number of Jags, have worn the frets off at least 2 necks, and currently have a 62 reissue with a Japanese neck, which I prefer.
There are a lot of interesting features with this Jaguar. I would say that if you are a Telecaster guy looking for a short scale guitar, this might be the ticket. I am not really a big fan of the smaller radius and vintage frets, but I can live with them. But why can't they put the truss rod adjustement at the other end? And why not locking tuners? If they were going to diverge the design, why not add the obvious improvements?
I am not a fan of the big switch knob that is now just below the main strumming area of the strings. That could have been smaller and more discreet. The position is not, after all over to the right like it is on a Telecaster. That is a mistake. And the mustang bridge, which I have tried on other Jags before, is not really the best solution for the bridge saddles. They could have bargained for a Mastery bridge and charged more for the guitar.
All that said, for me the tone is the definitive issue, and, this doesn't really sound like a Jag. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but if you are looking for classic Jag tone, this is a different beast, IMO. I like the new tone, and the strangle switches are now actually functionally useful. With the trad Jag, I would never mess with either the strangle switch or the switches on the upper bout.
I hated the slimsy strings they put on it. I tune down a half step and that was difficult with these joke strings. I usually use Thomastik swings on regular Jags, I think I will try the Fender stainless stell flats that came with just to see what they sound like.
I ordered this guitar back in Feb, got it the middle of May. I don't think I was ever more excited to get a new model after hearing all the marketing videos, and I am not exactly let down, but I do think that Fender focused on selling the sizzle. Not that the steak is bad, but this instrument is not an evolutionary leap forward, it's just a different take building on the foundation of the offset body and short scale.
I like the tone, and will probably keep the guitar--whether I keep the neck remains to be seen. Iike the beefier profile, but you can get that on a Japanese replacement neck but with decent frets and truss rod positioning. I don't know, I debating getting a Thin Skin Jag instead, but was intrigued by the promise of the new circuitry. And I have to confess, the new circuitry (toggle position aside), is the real value add proposition here.
It's not a boutique guitar, it came off an assembly line--that said, I haven't noticed any flaws, and there seems to be a little more attention to detail than with the stock models. The neck does have quite a few interesting knots, which I don't usually see in a guitar neck, however I choose to regard that as Wabi Sabi character--doesn't affect playability or tone.
This is a mixed proposition. Anybody could take a stock jag and make these modifications. They demand a premium for the famous signature--which, let's face it, as much as I admire Johnny Marr as an artist, I didn't get the model to try to emulate or sound like him. That said, I got a decent discount and considering the price of some boutique guitars these days, I think you get a lot for the price.
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I will give it a 10 because I got exactly what I expected/wanted. Johnny really thought this guitar through. I cant believe it took fender 50 years to get this guitar right. Button switching system that no one can figure out? Gone and repaled with a telecaster 4 way blade selector. Low output (no balls) pick ups? Gone and replaced with custom wound Bareknuckle pups that sound awesome. Awkward thin neck that feels like you got a hockey stick in your hands? Gone and replaced with a fat vintage profile neck. Etc Etc Etc. If you are a Jag fan then I think this is the best and most versatile Jag you can buy. Highly recommended to all Fender guitar fans alike.
All the features I disliked about the Jaguar are now gone~
Fender makes cheap guitars, That was the intent of the compamy in the begining and apperantly is still the intent now. IE: Basic woods, Gap in neck body joint, Cheap pots.Etc. But this Jag doest really need much upgrades. Johnny caught all the details.
Again I think fender makes cheap guitars even at street price I still wonder what I could have got for the money ( like a used vintage Les Paul Jr. Etc.) But not a bad price.
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5 Everyday Rip-Offs That Are Surprisingly Easy to Avoid
#2. Movie Snacks
According to a panel of angry fathers, a thing of popcorn costs 10 goddamned cents to make, and charging $5.50 for it is highway goddamned robbery. It turns out that a staggering amount of box office revenue goes directly to the studios, which leaves theater owners few options to actually make money with their business other than setting massive, father-enraging margins on their popcorn, and candy, and nacho cheese -- which is particularly insulting, as many organizations actually pay movie theaters to dispose of excess "nacho cheese" generated by various industrial processes.
How to Avoid Being Ripped Off:
Sneak your own candy into the movies. This is a time-honored pastime that everyone's probably done at one point or another. I think this is why those huge puffy vests got so popular for awhile.
"Please don't hug me. This thing is filled with cheese."
How to REALLY Avoid Being Ripped Off:
Sell your own snacks inside the theater. Wear your puffiest vest, concealing one of those camel packs that hikers and backcountry skiers use. Fill that bastard with Dr. Pepper, and when the movie starts, begin prowling the aisles, muttering, "Get your Pepper. Pepper here. Pepper, Pepper, Pepper, Pepper, Pepper." When you find a buyer, simply give him a toot through the mouthpiece concealed in the enormous carnation that you obviously wear at all times.
#1. University Textbooks
This is a tough one. On the one hand, every bit of statistical evidence we have suggests that if you don't have a university degree, the best career available for you is $10 Handjob Technician. On the other hand, universities are incredibly, outrageously expensive, because the people who run the things know their students will pay anything to ensure a life of having to provide merely recreational handjobs.
Compared to the big costs like tuition, textbooks are kind of a footnote, but a frustrating one. They're rarely usable for more than one course, get regularly updated and "refreshed" to make them harder to resell to next year's suckers and in many cases are barely even referred to by the professor. What are we buying 800-page books for if we only need 70 pages? Have you heard of the Internet, you colossal dinks? Little demons packing up electric O's and I's, and giving them to tiny robots to carry long tubes? (I think that's how it goes; I refused to buy the TCP/IP text during my undergrad.)
How to Avoid Being Ripped Off:
You could study less. That's always been a popular choice.
More practically, many students are now getting together to share texts with friends, or using reference copies available in the library. Many textbook excerpts can also be found online -- whole textbooks can occasionally even be found on those websites that are not in any way going to be linked here, but we're all cool, so you know what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about Amazon.com obviously.
How to REALLY Avoid Being Ripped Off:
Twenty dollar handjobs. Nobody out there gives a good handy any more; the manual genital manipulation sector is ripe for a hot new business venture. Work on your technique, establish a premium product and the world will come to you, or at the very least, near you. Then, with the right business case sent to A&E or TLC, you'll soon find yourself the star of a show called Handymen or Tug Stars or something like that. The only textbooks you'll need then will be to decorate the set of your "Fantasies of Soft-Handed Librarians" exhibit, and even those can be written off as a business expense.
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on February 2, 2013 - 10:51 PM
Rather than Fight the Power, it is simpler to immerse yourself in the extravaganza. Which, for the casual observer, prompts the question: Who to root for, Baltimore Ravens or San Francisco 49ers?
Ever-helpful, we provide a subjective guide for the uninitiated on real-world factors and central themes that may influence partisanship. Ready, begin:
INNOVATION: Fittingly, Silicon Valley's home team incorporates the strategic NFL giant step of recent years, the "pistol" offense. It requires a quarterback – the offensive trigger – who possesses not just traditional passing skills, but the speed to alternatively run with the ball. This advanced weaponry is embodied by the 49ers' Colin Kaepernick, who melds a laser-shot arm with the swiftness of a wide receiver.
Kaepernick looks like the new prototype of an NFL quarterback. At times in the 49ers' late-season victory over perennial contender New England, he made his exemplary but immobile counterpart Tom Brady seem like the equivalent of a rotary-dial telephone next to the iPhone 5. In comparison to the 49ers, the conventional Ravens are firm traditionalists.
Local Angle: Kaepernick is among a legion of players whom the chronically mismanaged Bills have passed over for lesser talents in the NFL draft. Regrets, we've had more than a few.
Partisan Advantage: San Francisco.
BUFFALO-SIMILAR: It is no contest in the competition of cities that Buffalonians can better relate to. Our communal inferiority complex is mirrored by the second-city insecurity fed by Baltimore's proximity to political-power base Washington, D.C. Add Baltimore/Buffalo dual membership on Forbes' Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities list, and laments about the state of public education in both cities, and the two burgs are nearly brothers-in-arms.
Added Value: The Ravens 17 years ago were rudely re-located from Cleveland, our Great Lakes neighbor.
Partisan Advantage: Baltimore.
EQUAL RIGHTS: Although reputedly curt with the media, Niners' Coach Jim Harbaugh has earned a stockpile of enlightenment points. As a rookie quarterback with the Chicago Bears in 1987, he spoke out in defense of a female reporter's right to enter the team's postgame locker room.
Harbaugh's progressive history was counter-balanced this week by 49er Chris Culliver's comment that he would not want a gay teammate (ignoring the likelihood that he, at some point, has had one). The remark did not sit well in gay-rights stronghold San Francisco, the city that elected Harvey Milk, America's first openly gay public official.
Partisan Edge: It depends on how one balances Harbaugh's women's rights progressivism against Culliver's bigotry.
RAY LEWIS: Whether it is ancient Greek heroes, or sporting-world icons, people throughout history seemingly have a need for secular saints. The media is often complicit in fashioning idealized figures out of mere mortals. I recall when Baltimore was in the Super Bowl 12 years ago. A Baltimore-based reporter of my acquaintance confided that a Ravens player being lauded for his gruff charm was actually an obnoxious lout. "Of course, by game day," he told me, "we will make him look like the second coming of St. Francis of Assisi."
Lewis's tale of redemption after his murky role in the 2001 street killing of two men comes with large lumps in the porridge. Aside from questions of his involvement in the deaths, of which his two companions were acquitted, Lewis reportedly used deer antler extract, a banned substance, to speed his recovery from a recent injury. He also has fathered six children by four women. Although Lewis reportedly is financially supportive of the brood, the nontraditional structure conflicts with the secular-hero narrative and raises the obvious question: Which "family" does he go home to every night?
Partisan Edge: I think most folks got sick of the Ray Lewis saga a while ago. San Francisco.
Add all of it up, sift it through your personal-feelings filter, shake well and choose sides. It is Super Bowl Sunday. Neutrality is not an option.
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quote: Way to put bars and restaurants out of business. .05 could be a single micro brew these days. What's the point of going out if you can't even drive home anymore?
quote: How about we just allow drivers to take rigorous tests that prove they can drive safely at a certain BAC and then grant privileged licenses as such? I could house a case of beer and still drive better than 99% of the moron drivers out there.
quote: I agree. I had a buddy back in the day who could be piss drunk but some how managed to drive no different then he was sober. I would like to see evidence of how many drunk driving crashes are caused due to high speeds. The majority of the time that I here a drunk driver caused a crash it is because of speed.


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As those gloomy Starks are always warning in the "Game of Thrones" HBO series, winter is coming.
It's time to think about energy savings and hoping that maybe this winter, if we use less electricity, the savings will truly be reflected in our bills.
That will only happen for SCE&G customers if the utility changes course and agrees to eliminate its "electricity weather normalization adjustment" program, as consumer advocates have urged.
South Carolina's Public Service Commission obligingly approved the eWNA program in 2010, following a cold winter, after SCE&G assured regulators it would smooth out weather-related spikes in customers' bills, and reduce billings by tens of millions of dollars.
The idea was, during unusually cold winters or hot summers, the adjustments would lower bills, but during mild weather eWNA would raise them.
The problem is, eWNA's purpose is to smooth out SCE&G's revenues — this is abundantly clear in the annual financial reports of parent company SCANA Corp. The eWNA allows them to essentially charge customers for the electricity that the utility thinks they should have used.
"Mild weather in the future could diminish the revenues and results of operations and harm the financial condition of the Company and Consolidated SCE&G if the eWNA is not extended on a permanent basis," SCANA said in its 2012 annual report.
Let me take a shot at rephrasing that statement: "Mild weather in the future could lower SCE&G customers' electric bills and improve their financial condition, unless eWNA is extended on a permanent basis."
According to my calculations, my bills have been increased by a total of $155 during the past two years, thanks to eWNA.
And rather than smoothing out my bills, eWNA increased my six highest bills (the top 25 percent) during that period.
This is what "normalization" really means. My yearly cost for electricity stayed the same, because the utility tacked on eWNA charges, despite a 16 percent plunge in the amount of power I actually used,
If consumers want electric bills that don't fluctuate they can simply sign up for budget billing, which averages the bills over 12 months. Raising or lowering bills based upon a secret formula is something entirely different.
I've written about this before, and my earlier column was cited in a report issued on Halloween by the South Carolina Office of Regulatory Staff, which non-bindingly called for the utility to cease the eWNA program by the end of this year.
The ORS, which is supposed to represent ratepayers in utility cases, also cited complaints about eWNA from advocates for the elderly, the poor, and the environment.
The utility claims that without the program, customer bills would have been nearly $38 million higher since mid-2010. Curiously, SCE&G refuses to say customers saved money.
I'm all for saving money and paying less for electricity, but I'm not for paying more for less electricity.
That extra $155 I paid during the past 24 months is more than my average monthly electric bill, so I basically paid SCE&G for an extra month of power that I didn't use.
The ORS says the utility should end the eWNA adjustments after the December billing this year.
An SCE&G internal review of the program concluded no changes were reasonable or prudent.
What we have is SCE&G on the one hand saying their impossible-to-decipher formula for adjusting rates up and down has reduced consumers' bills by tens of millions of dollars. And on the other hand they report that the company would suffer financially without the adjustment program.
"It is worrisome to both ORS and consumers that only SCE&G can generate and verify the calculation of the eWNA factor," the ORS report said.
Now, I don't regret making my home more energy efficient. And I urge other consumers to take simple, cost-effective steps like using a programmable thermostat, and insulating attic drop-downs, to reduce power consumption.
Now, if I could be charged only for the electricity I actually use, I'd be able to realize the full savings.
Reach David Slade at 937-5552


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Since 1997, the number of hotel rooms on the peninsula will have increased by more than 62 percent after all those that have been approved are actually built.
That was the last time the city updated its accommodations plan.
And more hotels are in pre-approval planning stages.
The hotel boom has led some neighborhoods to complain about overcrowding. The problem has been exacerbated by the increase in cruise ships in which cabins are like hotel rooms and bring additional thousands of people to the streets of Charleston.
Even some hoteliers have waved cautionary red flags about overbuilding. (Apparently there's a limit to professional courtesy.)
Consequently, City Council is considering some adjustments to zoning ordinances to reduce strain in historic areas and encourage hotel growth north of the Crosstown.
Both are good goals.
Some historic areas need relief from the additional tourism that has come with Charleston's designation as the world's best travel destination.
And if commercial growth marches up the peninsula as projected, there will be a need for more hotels to accommodate out-of-town visitors who have business to do nearby.
The revised ordinances would ease pressure downtown by eliminating some of the hotel overlays currently in place. Hotels can be built only in areas where hotel overlays have been approved.
The 50-room cap on new hotels, a restriction now applying everywhere south of Calhoun Street, would extend up to the Crosstown, but new hotel overlays would be added farther up the peninsula. Tim Keane, chief planner for the city, says that 50-room hotels are a good scale for Charleston.
And should council approve the ordinances as presented, new 50-room hotels would be allowed to have restaurants and bars only if they are intended primarily for their guests' use. Those areas could occupy no more than 12 percent of the hotel's square footage.
Mayor Joe Riley isn't ready to say that Charleston has too many hotel rooms. Indeed, he says that hotels have "put people on sidewalks" and in local businesses, brought jobs and added to the local economy.
"But we want to make sure we don't overdo anything," he said.
Cities should rethink their zoning ordinances regularly, and it's time for Charleston to do so, he said. The initial ordinances for accommodations zones were established in 1982 and updated in 1997.
Preservationists and neighborhood residents seem pleased by the proposed changes, but some commercial property owners aren't so happy about added restrictions.
Both sides will have an opportunity to speak up when the city's Planning Commission considers the proposal. That will occur as early as May. Another public hearing will be held when City Council takes up the Planning Commission's recommendations. The proposed zoning changes are in effect pending City Council's decision.
Given the dramatic growth in hotels, it might have made sense to do this re-evaluation some time ago. Still, it is encouraging that the city is recognizing that there are limits to the amount of construction and number of people that the peninsula can handle without compromising the quality of life for residents and the experience of working in or visiting Charleston.


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We are beef producers, too!
We are beef producers, too!
Twenty-two percent of the beef in the US is from dairy cattle. And while only 6 to 8 percent of dairy producers' total dairy income is from the dairy beef, it is an important component in dairy operations.
Each year, a national Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) award is given to one dairy producer and one beef producer in the United States for operators who incorporate BQA principles in their day-to-day activities. This year, the dairy producer winner is John and Judy Ligo of LiTerra Farms in Pennsylvania.
Their closed herd consists of 200 dairy cows and 180 replacements. They also operate a beef cow-calf enterprise and grow feed for their cattle on 1,500 acres. Some of the practices that John and Judy employ on their dairy operation include:
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• Sparingly use antibiotics (danger of meat or milk withdrawl times)
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John and Judy have also been certified in Dairy Beef Quality Assurance for 10 years. John also has served as chairman of the Pennsylvania Beef Council and has seen first-hand the promotion efforts of the check-off dollars in action.
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For decades, Western New Yorkers have been arguing over what has generally been viewed as misuse of the waterfront area.
Members of the music community, likewise, have long decried the lack of a permanent large-scale performance venue, and claimed the absence of such a venue as a significant factor in the lack of human traffic downtown.
But with the recent explosion of activity along the waterfront – the hugely successful Inner Harbor summer concerts, the addition of the Outer Harbor as a summer concert destination, the new builds happening around First Niagara Center – the Cobblestone District surrounding the arena and adjacent to the Inner Harbor would seem an ideal location for a live music renaissance.
Already, several restaurants and bars are doing good business in the region, much of it ancillary to events at First Niagara Center, but some of it runoff from the influx of temporary population caused by the major summer concerts, some of which bring as many as 15,000 people to the area several times a summer.
Those people are drawn to the area by a desire to hear live music. It seems only logical, then, that providing them with more live music options would keep them in the area longer.
For two local businessmen, it's not just an idea; they're putting their money where the music could be.
Real estate developer Sam Savarino and his partners Roger Trettel, Ed Plata and Dan Mania have purchased the building at 49 Illinois St., adjacent to First Niagara Center, and are planning to open the building as a live music club, bar and restaurant in the coming weeks. The area already includes the restaurant Lagerhaus 95, which Savarino and his partners own, as well as the Cobblestone Bar and the Helium Comedy Club.
The new club on Illinois – to be known as the Iron Works – will open in early July, and will feature live music five nights a week, with local bands figuring prominently in the bookings. Touring national acts will also frequent the two-story club, which will have a capacity of between 300 and 400 persons, and a garage-style door opening onto Illinois Street, with a patio area fronting the club's entrance.
The one thing Savarino and his crew building it cannot provide is the key element for success: people.
But they're working on it.
A musical journey
The precedent for success surrounding the Buffalo Place summer concert series was well-established when that series still made its home in Lafayette Square. The runoff to area clubs within walking distance of the Square during this time was considerable.
Mohawk Place, for example, built a post-Square weekly event that found bands performing both inside the club and on the sidewalk area in front. These shows were routinely packed to bursting. People came downtown for the Square shows, and stayed around to patronize Mohawk Place once those shows wrapped up, in the neighborhood of 9 p.m.
The Lafayette Tap Room enjoyed considerable runoff as well, and routinely featured live bands hitting the stage just as the Square concerts ended.
When the Buffalo Place shows moved from Lafayette Square to the Harbor, Mohawk Place took a serious hit, eventually closing, with the club's mangers citing the loss of this Thursday business as a primary reason for doing so.
Already, the Liberty Hound bar and restaurant – located just outside the Inner Harbor concert site – has become a go-to destination for concert-goers, with local bands enjoying the opportunity to perform for capacity crowds on a weekly basis, immediately following the Canalside concerts.
"The music scene here, though pretty amazing talent-wise, is definitely disjointed," said veteran area musician Geno McManus.
McManus said Buffalo could use a district or a string of music venues in the mold of Austin, Texas. The city was headed that way in the early 1990s, but then dance clubs and deejays came into vogue.
"But more people are moving downtown now, and the new hotels going up, combined with Canalside and the arena, make it a good location to start building the reputation," he said. "That's something that has to be done, because for the Cobblestone District to work, it can't become solely seasonally dependent on Canalside shows or Sabres games."
McManus raises points that have not been lost on Savarino, who says his plans for the Iron Works include live music "at a minimum of five nights a week, and always when there is an event at the FNC or Canalside." Savarino's long-term goals are based on the idea of connecting the portion of Perry Street that runs between Main Street, at Canalside, and Michigan Avenue, which he sees as prime real estate for an entertainment district.
But Savarino has no experience running a music club. His plans involve staffing the Iron Works with sound and booking professionals. Over the past few months, he and his staff have been meeting with independent promoters in the area, and though the position has remained unfilled, Savarino believes that the club must pursue specific branding and a clear image. In the world of live music, this means booking the right bands.
"The type of music being played is important," said Craig Maedl of Buffalo.
"I remember going to Thursday at the Square some years back, and the variety of music – rock, R&B, blues, '60s and '70s music, alt-country, bluegrass – kept things exciting. If the club sticks to one style – strictly blues or hard rock, for example – it would be more difficult to draw the casual music fan. But if the people had a good time their first visit and heard a different type of band the next time, maybe more to their liking, they will return again."
In the interest of consistent variety, the Iron Works hopes to host both national touring bands and local artists, according to Savarino.
"The goal was to create a nice club – something classy, with a sense of the area's genuine history in evidence, that's also a great place for touring acts used to performing for crowds in the 400-person range," he said. "And there will be a strong local music presence. The club has a large main stage, as well as a smaller second stage for more intimate, acoustic performances."
The construction of an appropriate venue staffed by professionals, and committed to a full roster of touring and local acts does not in itself guarantee success, of course. Some members of the music community remain at least a little bit skeptical about the Cobblestone District's prospects.
"On any given night," said Roy Bakos, a longtime member of the live music community and a manager at the Pearl Street Grill & Brewery, "we have 900 seats at the Town Ballroom and the Waiting Room. Then throw in another 600 at Ani DiFranco's church, 200 at Nietzsche's, 150 at DBGB's, 300 at the Sportsmen's Tavern, and that is 2,150 'seats' to fill within a 2-mile radius.
"That number doesn't count smaller venues, and oddballs like Pearl Street, or Adam Mickiewicz, or Dnipro. In order for a place, or even a district, to work, we would need 5,000 to 7,000 people to go out every week to have all of those places filled to 30 percent capacity for live music.
"That might be a tall order. Not impossible, but hard. People would have to be in it for the long haul."
A new, healthy optimism?
For Gov. Cuomo's Western New York spokesman Peter Gallivan, the issue of growth in the area comes down to dollars, cents, and common sense.
"The whole direction the Canalside area is taking is incredibly exciting, and speaks of a new and healthy optimism regarding downtown in general," Gallivan said.
"Already, between $40 and $50 million in public money has been invested in the area, in order to get it to where it is right now. The new builds – the Donovan Building, Terry Pegula's projects – are evidence that success breeds success. That's $250 million in private investment. The whole idea with public investment is to plant seeds for private investors to come along and build upon. We're seeing that now. It makes perfect sense for the Cobblestone District to be a part of this growth, and it's incredibly encouraging to see private investment happening there."
Still, naysaying remains significant among the music community. Much of it has to do with parking in the area, the lack of foot traffic, and the fact that the Cobblestone District would be a specific destination point for people who live outside the immediate area – not something they would stumble upon simply strolling through their neighborhood.
The growth in the area, however, suggests that these problems are surmountable.
"Nietzsche's may pull in neighborhood walkers, but that isn't the norm in [the region's] recent music club history," said longtime live music supporter Dave Radka of Buffalo.
"The Continental was the only viable bar near Franklin/Chippewa for years. The Mohawk had a 20-year run with nothing nearby. I don't go to the Town Ballroom or the Tralf or the Sportsmen's Tavern because I can bar-hop in their neighborhoods afterwards – I go there specifically for the bands. McVan's, the Icon, Stage One, Rooftops, Lafayette Tap Room, Club Infinity, etc. – they were all 'destination' clubs that you drove to. Take some of the good suggestions being thrown around in the community, take advantage of the new construction going on nearby, and a music club in the Cobblestone area could work."
And the parking situation? It would certainly seem reasonable to suggest that more paid parking will become available as the scene grows.
"Put it this way," said Gallivan. "Eighteen thousand people come down to the area for every single Sabres home game, and they all find places to park."
Savarino said that parking has not been an issue for Lagerhaus 95. "In addition to what's available now, we have asked the city to return parking to Illinois Street, and that looks like it will be happening soon," he says.
Savarino is also the landlord for the building on Illinois Street that houses the Helium Comedy Club, which is run by owner Marc Grossman. According to Savarino, Helium patrons "use the Sabres surface lot. Parking has not been a problem. If everyone cooperates – and so far, they have – then there is a surfeit of parking."
Comedian and Helium Comedy Club Manager Kristen Becker said she sees potential synergies between the Iron Works and Helium. "Obviously, any additional business down here is great," she said. "We are two different genres of entertainment that should complement each other nicely. The two clubs could become the core of a new entertainment destination in Buffalo."
It would seem, then, that pieces are beginning to come together, and that synergies long believed to be the key to the area's future success are at last being capitalized upon. The prime mover in all of this activity? Surely it's that indomitable belief that, when given the opportunity to support growth and positive change, the majority of our population will grab it.
"The key to innovation in the Cobblestone District is to think big, act small, fail fast, and learn rapidly," said Tom Fischer, bassist with the Buffalo band the Outlyers. "Whether it is music, food service, or retail, the formula is the same. Big fish eat little fish. Little fish need to be spawned and nurtured. Start with small, high quality venues, and see what the market bears."
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Attica Village Administrator Greg Martin presented options for funding the village's new sewer plant. He recommended council choose the option from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency that would allow the village to have 50 percent of the principle forgiven because Attica qualified as a low to moderate income community.
The village must first obtain a $600,000 Community Development Block Grant toward the total cost of the $2.1 million project. Subtracting that leaves $1.5 million of which 50 percent is forgiven, leaving the village to acquire a loan for $750,000.
Martin believes that if soil bores are completed this fall, they should have the project under contract by the end of 2013 and ready for work to begin in 2014. The EPA should notify the village if they qualify in the autumn to move forward.
Martin also reported that the emergency siren in the village failed to sound when tested again recently. After informing Dan Stahl, county EMS director, that they believe vibration from passing trains is affecting the siren, Stahl requested Martin investigate and solve the problem.
Martin said that several new stop signs have been erected and a four-way stop at Cook and Buckeye streets has been eliminated. Buckeye St. now has a yield sign.
Village Solicitor Rick Palau recommended council join a class action suit against Syngeta, a firm that manufactures atrizine that may have an adverse affect on water users. Members approved joining the suit since Attica qualifies and must provide ten years of atrizine amounts in the village water.
Police Chief Keith Turner informed council that the department has developed a Facebook page where village residents with special medical needs can sign up from a link on the village website at atticaohio.us or may visit the office. This will enable the department to assist in an emergency.
Turner stated the new police cruiser preparation is nearly completed and should arrive soon. Council passed a motion to authorize the mayor and fiscal officer to purchase and finance a 2013 Ford Interceptor SUV with equipment from Reineke Ford Inc., financed through Sutton Bank for four years at 3.5 percent interest and cancel the order for a 2013 Dodge Charger. They also heard the first reading of a resolution pertaining to the issue.
Fiscal Officer Pat Krebs reported the total of all funds is $701,748.93. She noted that the 2013 local government funding is being reduced by $10,000 to $32,750. They are already taking measures to cut back on expenses. She also relayed that several alternative energy companies have contacted the village since electricity has been deregulated. She will compile figures for presentation at the next meeting.
Krebs also reported that the Myers Park swimming pool lost approximately $6,500 this year.
The Sons of the Legion are sponsoring a softball tournament on Sept. 1 and 2 at Myers Park. Musical entertainment and a beer garden are planned. More teams are needed for participation.
Council welcomed two new businesses to the community. They are the Backroads Diner, previously located in Bloomville, and Reser Chiropractics.
Beginning in October the recycling process will change. Receptacles for Attica and Venice Townships are to be placed at the village water plant for recycled materials to be dropped off anytime during daylight hours. In October, Reed Township is to have receptacles placed at the township house on SR 162.
IT manager George Yakoubian stated that residents can register on the village website to receive informational messages.
The meeting moved into executive session for discussion of land acquisition.
In other matters, council:
Adopted the resolution accepting the amounts and rates by the budget commission and authorizing the necessary tax levies and certifying it to the county auditor.
Approved the process of aerating the tower water and changing from chlorine to the use of chloramines in the water purification process.
Noted a meeting with the Ohio Public Works Commission on September 6 to seek funding for the aeration, chloramines and carbon room at the water plant.
Heard the first reading of a resolution authorizing Mayor Bryan Shock to submit an application to participate in the OPWC state capital improvements program for grant funds for the water treatment plant.
Heard the next farmers market at Honey Creek Park is 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sept. 2.
Learned recycling is 4:30-6:30 p.m., Sept. 6 with Venice Township in charge. Volunteers are needed.
Council is scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 30.


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The New Year is a good time to refresh our memories when it comes to certain etiquette and norms. I am entering 2013 visibly pregnant and had forgotten that a pregnant belly seems to be an invitation for people to overstep boundaries that they ordinarily would not.
So today I give you:
What not to say or do to a pregnant woman
1. If you are a "belly toucher," for the Love of all that is Holy, ASK FIRST. Give her the opportunity to say no graciously, too. Believe it or not, not all women enjoy their belly being rubbed! Do not assume that because the belly is within proximity for a quick rub, that she'd be OK with it. She may just have no idea that her belly is indeed that close to you. (You start to lose track when you can't see your shoes.) Try to resist, no matter how "cute" she is, unless she gives you explicit permission. For people like me, the anxiety level goes through the roof at the idea of people touching the belly. I sweat. I shake. I HATE IT. Say something like, "Would you be OK if I touch your baby belly? I really enjoy it, but understand if it makes you uncomfortable." This provides an out for her so she doesn't feel pressured into saying yes.
2. Try to avoid commenting on her size, even if you think what you're saying is a compliment. If you mention that she is "so small," a mother brain might worry that her baby isn't getting the nourishment that he or she needs. If you mention that she is "so big," you might get a well-deserved black eye. The standard "You look great!" is sufficient. You are not her doctor. Let her doctor decide whether her size is worth discussing.
2b. Do not laugh when she tells you her due date. It's the wordless equivalent of mentioning how big she is.
3. Do not tell labor and delivery horror stories - especially to first-time moms. Once the baby is here safely and soundly, she may want to hear your story, but if she is a first-time mom, the last thing she needs to hear are words like "hemorrhage" and "blinding pain." There are enough worries and fears floating around in her head without her having to add your bad experiences to them. Pregnant women, if someone starts telling a story that you don't want to hear, please be bold enough to stop them - for the sake of your sanity. Just say something polite like, "I'm sorry, but I would prefer not to hear horror stories before I go into labor myself. Do you mind waiting until after my baby comes to tell me this?" If they insist on continuing to talk, excuse yourself from the conversation.
4. Do not offer a 'healthy alternative' if she asks for a donut/ice cream/cheeseburger/fill-in-the-blank-with-whatever-unhealthy-food. Does this really need more explanation? Let her eat the donut.
5. Do not be surprised by erratic emotions - cut her some slack if you can. She's just as surprised by them as you are, I assure you. She will likely cry more. She may not be completely rational. My very loving, sweet husband tried to calm me down not long ago and made the mistake of saying, "You're not being very rational right now." I knew that, and I didn't care. He was forced to listen to me rant anyway and his attempt to calm me down probably just made it worse. I also had unexplainable irrational anger during labor. I wasn't in pain; I wasn't mad at my husband, but I was MAD. Fortunately for me, I didn't say anything out loud, but the slew of words in my head would have colored the air blue had I said them out loud!
6. You've heard the old adage, "Never wake a sleeping baby?" Well, the corollary to that is, "Never wake a pregnant woman." Let her rest as long and as often as she can. There are not enough words in the English (or any) language to describe the level of exhaustion that comes from creating a human being from scratch.
7. Do not expect her to be as "on the ball" as usual. Realize that forgetfulness, or "pregnancy brain" is a real phenomenon.
8. I can't remember.
9. Do not assume that she will automatically realize that she's uncomfortable doing a task that she normally does. Ask her regularly to honestly assess (at work, home or wherever) what kind of physical tasks she is capable of. I will not be bathing my children as often as usual because leaning over the tub hurts. This also leads to a forgone conclusion that I also will not be cleaning the bathtub anytime soon. We will survive.
10. Do not immediately look from her pregnant belly to her left ring finger. You're not subtle and we notice. Save your judgment for when you get that plank out of your own eye. It may be as simple as her fingers were too swollen that morning for her ring to fit. It may be much, much more complicated than that, and in that case, the last
thing she needs is a critical spirit from someone who doesn't know how it feels to walk a mile in her shoes.
The bottom line is to let the pregnant woman take the lead on what she is comfortable with or not. And a note to pregnant women: Be confident in asserting yourselves if something makes you uncomfortable. It's OK to say, "Nope," when somebody wants to touch the belly. Do not feel guilty for the nap you took today when you got home from work! Let the dishes sit until tomorrow. Ask your family to pitch in with household chores.
Do *not* try to be Super Woman. (I am preaching to myself here, too, people.) You are growing a human being. That's basically a super-power by itself, and one super-power is all you get.
Now, if you can all please remember these things next time you see a pregnant woman, it would be much appreciated. I'd love to hear from readers if I missed anything: What have your experiences been? What should be on the "What Not To Say Or Do To A Pregnant Woman" list? Chime in on our Facebook page!
Allyson Zadeh is married with two children and one on the way. Read her Wednesdays on Greeley Moms.
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The following comments are in response to citizens coming before the Tucker County Commission to voice concerns regarding EMS. The trivial word "gobbledygook" came to mind....
Wow, what a powerful message...well said and directly to the point. Maybe this will be the wake-up call needed to open the eyes of those who serve as TCAA board members to quit complaining and finding fault with each other who serve in the same capacity. Why not always focus your full time attention on fulfilling your managerial responsibilities in providing the best EMS service possible for the citizens of Tucker County. The key to this success was well stated: Don't let hidden agendas and self-serving actions by the disgruntled (inside or outside the organization) distract you from your primary objective. Good Luck.
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Don Shifrin, MD, FAAP, is a pediatrician in practice in Belleview, Wash., and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a former chair of the AAP committee that studies and comments on the impact of media on the social, emotional, and physical health of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. He is clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.
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Gwenn O'Keeffe, MD, FAAP, is a pediatrician and the founder of PediatricsNow.com. She is the author of the book CyberSafe: Protecting and Empowering Kids in the Digital World of Texting, Gaming and Social Media.
Ari Brown, MD, FAAP, is a pediatrician in private practice in Austin, Texas, and was the lead author on the AAP policy statement, "Media Use by Children Younger Than 2 Years." Dimitri Christakis, MD, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington and director of the Center for Child Health Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute.
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Victor Strasburger, MD, FAAP is a professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Craig Anderson, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Iowa State University. Ed Donnerstein, PhD, is a professor of communications at the University of Arizona. This audio recording was originally created for PREP Audio, the continuing medical education program developed by AAP to help pediatricians stay current on topics relevant to their practice.


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Visualizing Concurrency: VS 2010 Beta 2 - Parallel Performance Profiling Advancements
- Posted: Oct 19, 2009 at 10:21AM
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In Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, you were introduced to new analysis and profiling capabilities (Parallel Profiling and Performance Tools) designed to make concurrency understandable and, ultimately, debuggable. Today, with the release of
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, we introduce an updated and significantly more capable concurrency visualization and profiling tool which is available with other profiling features in Visual Studio 2010 Premium and Ultimate. What does it do, exactly? How does
it work?
What's new?
Here, Architect Hazim Shafi, Dev Lead Sasha Dadiomov and PM Bill Colburn tell us all about the Concurrency Visualizer Profiling Tool, including a demo. So, fire up Beta 2, spin up some threads and visualize concurrency. You should profile an already-existing application that employs concurrency and, perhaps for the first time, get to see what your concurrent code is actually doing at run time.
Parallel visualization tools team blog:
The parallel computing dev center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/concurrency/default.aspx
Hazim's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/hshafi/default.aspx
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Witch edition do I need to get access to this?
This is available in Premium and up.
What's "Premium?" Is that the equivalent of VS 2008 Pro?
What version of Windows does this feature require?
On my Server 2003 R2, it says "Requires infrastructure not available on this version of Windows"
Looks like you need a 6+ kernel... http://blogs.msdn.com/hshafi/archive/2009/10/17/vs2010-beta-2-parallel-performance-tool-improvements.aspx#comments
Hi, sorry, but this is the least informative webcast I've seen on "going deep" so far, and I watched quite a few. And it's really surprising since you have 3 developers in the room with the camera and they keep talking marketing...
First off, all this functionality existed for years in Intel Thread Profiler for native applications. Additionally Thread Profiler is displaying transitions (transition from thread1 to thread2 is when thread1 leaves a critical section and thread2 acquires access to it by acquiring the synchronization primitive). From what I understood VS 2010 shows you that the thread was idle/waiting on a sync primitive, but it does not show you which thread needed to release the mutex, so the current one can advance. Another feature, or whole analysis engine is a Critical Path analysis. Which, as I understood it, is also missing from VS 2010 profiler.
From the "going deep" host I was expecting questions like:
Story about helping codec people was a lot of fun! I might be missing something, but it sounded like codec developers could not just figure out to actually time their "encode" and "decode" functions running on a stream/image loaded in memory, then take the inverse and guess the only reasonable explanation for the difference between 90 and 24 FPS. But rather decided to substitute thinking with a GUI tool. Cool
Wow. Thanks for the detailed feedback. This was an introductory piece, to be fair.
Great! Looking forward to hearing more about the Profiler, it really did look like a good starting point. I do realize that half of my questions can be answered with "well, this is the ETW limitation/purpose", but still I was wondering if there's a plan to implement EBS or TBS to provide answers to some more complex questions that arise during performance analysis. Support for TPL and PPL is something I'd very much like to see implemented.
First, let me say that I will follow up with a more detailed walkthrough of the product asap, so keep an eye out for it. Let me address some of your questions:
1. Profiling Overhead: This is of course application dependent and also platform dependent. For CPU-intensive phases of your application the overhead is negligible. Because tracing involves I/O, it can interfere with your I/O intensive applications. On some platforms, collecting callstacks is more expensive (e.g., x64 vs. x86). That's due to the calling conventions that are being used and the information necessary to walk the stack. I don't know of any profiling tool with zero impact, but this has thus far not been a source of feedback from customers. Do you have data to the contrary?
2. We actually sample on both context switches and at regular time intervals (1ms). So, we provide you with data about why threads blocked and where as well as data about what threads are doing when they're executing. You can get at the sample profile data by clicking on the "Execution" legend entry or by clicking on the execution segments in the time line. When you do the latter, we show you the sample callstack and give you a visual hint to where that sample was taken. Does this help?
3. We do have some support for PLINQ, TPL, and PPL. We show markers for PLINQ queries and some PPL and TPL parallel constructs that allow users to identify the region when they are executing so you can focus your tuning on them. Try it out! For PPL, you have to opt into this feature by calling the Concurrency::EnableTracing()/DisableTracing() methods.
4. I had a hard time parsing your comment about the active legend and the checkbox. Can you elaborate more? If this is a usability related question, I am very well aware of some of the warts in the product. We spent a huge amount of time improving the tool from that perspective. Look at our CTP, Beta 1, and Beta 2 bits and you'll agree that we've come a long way. We've also made significant investments in usability studies and worked with designers. We've learned a lot during this process and hope that we can avoid some of the pitfalls in future releases.
For more information about the tool, please visit my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/hshafi. You might find some useful information there. I also have a detailed article in MSDN magazine at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee336027.aspx.
Finally, Intel's Thread Profiler is very different from our tool in both methodology and diagnostic information provided in addition to our tool being fully integrated with the development experience. I don't want to get into a competitive analysis here, so choose what you find useful for your needs.
Hi, thanks so much for all the info and especially the link to the paper on MSDN, this is exactly the level of details I was looking for. Had a couple of follow up questions after I read it.
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Thanks for your feedback; we always appreciate it!
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But the Scandal star, who is expecting her first child with husband Nnamdi Asomugha, was more than willing to weigh in on a subject that continues to pique certain fans' interest: her sexuality.
In a new interview with The Advocate, the 36-year-old sounds off on rumors that she's a lesbian, owing mainly to her radio silence on her personal affairs – and despite the fact that she's married to Asomugha.
The chatter doesn't bother her one bit.
"It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration," she says. "I like how people will post pictures of me with other women that I adore, hugging on red carpets, and say, 'See?' "
But, she wonders, "Are we so uncomfortable with love between two people of the same gender that we immediately label it as sexual?"
Adds the actress: "But I've never been bothered by the lesbian rumor. There's nothing offensive about it, so there's no reason to be offended."
Washington, who stunned fans earlier this summer after it was revealed that she had married Asomugha in secret, also cheekily riffed on why viewers respond to her take-no-prisoners character on Scandal, political fixer Olivia Pope.
Ladies and gents: Bow down to the strut.
"It's all about her walk in the outfits," Washington says, laughing, before striking a more serious note.
"I think they probably appreciate that Olivia is an underdog who's risen to power. She's a woman and a person of color," the actress explains. "She's overcome a lot of limitations that society places on us, and she collects others who have been victimized or rejected by society. She looks out for the disempowered."
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Mens Hoops Travels to Ohio for MAC TV Game
The Ball State men's basketball team makes a second straight road trip to a Mid-American Conference East Division opponent to face Ohio in an 8 p.m. tipoff Wednesday.
The game will be televised as part of the MAC package on the Time Warner Cable Sports Channel. The broadcast will also be streamed on ESPN3 and the MAC Digital Network.
Ball State (3-10, 0-2 MAC) got off to a hot start Saturday at Kent State before eventually falling, 86-74. Ohio (11-4, 1-1 MAC) is coming off a double-overtime loss at Akron in a rematch of last year's MAC Tournament championship game.
Game Information
Ball State at Ohio
Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 8 p.m. -- Convocation Center (Athens, Ohio)
Live Coverage
• Television: Time Warner Cable Sports Channel/ESPN3; Michael Reghi (play-by-play); Tony White (analyst)
• Radio (Flagship): Ball State Radio Network (104.1 FM WLBC); Joel Godett (play-by-play); David Eha (Analyst)
• Internet: Live audio available through the Ball State All Access package at ballstatesports.com; Live stats at ohiobobcats.com.
What You Need to Know
• Ball State visits 2013 Mid-American regular season co-champion Ohio for Wednesday's game as the Cardinals continue a stretch of five straight games against MAC East Division opponents to open league play.
• The Cardinals dropped an 86-74 decision Saturday at Kent State in a game they led by double digits early in the second half.
• Freshman guard Mark Alstork led Ball State in points (15), rebounds (10) and assists (5) at Kent State, becoming the first Cardinal to lead the team in all three categories since 2008.
• Senior center Majok Majok is one of 15 players in the country averaging a double-double at 11.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game. His rebounding average ranks 11th in the nation.
• Freshman point guard Zavier Turner leads the Cardinals with averages of 12.7 points and 4.0 assists per game.
• Seniors Chris Bond (11.1 ppg) and Jesse Berry (10.7 ppg) are also averaging double figures.
• Turner is the top free throw shooter in the country at 95.0 percent (38 for 40).
• For the season, freshmen have accounted for better than 42 percent of the Cardinals' minutes and scoring.
• The Cardinals' strength of schedule is rated No. 30 nationally by Ken Pomeroy and No. 38 by Jeff Sagarin.
• Ball State is playing its 93rd season of basketball and its first under head coach James Whitford.
Scouting Ohio
• Ohio is 11-4 on the year after having a four-game winning streak snapped Sunday with a double-overtime loss to Akron.
• The Bobcats shared last year's MAC regular season championship with Akron.
• Nick Kellogg (15.3 ppg) and Maurice Ndour (15.2 ppg) lead Ohio in scoring, while Ndour (7.6 rpg) tops the Bobcats on the boards.
• Kellogg shoots 43.3 percent from 3-point range and 89.4 percent from the free throw line.
• Ohio is holding opponents to 38.7 percent shooting from the floor and outscoring them by a margin of +7.4 (72.8-65.4).
The Series with Ohio
• Ball State and Ohio will be meeting for the 75th time with Ohio holding a 41-33 all-time lead.
• Ball State's last win in the series came by a 76-73 score in overtime at the 2011 MAC Tournament.
• Ohio has defeated Ball State each of the past two seasons, including a 69-42 win last year in Muncie.
• The Cardinals are 10-24 all-time against Ohio on the road.
Familiar Coaches
• Ball State head coach James Whitford and Ohio head coach Jim Christian served together on the staff at Miami University during the 1995-96 season when Christian was an assistant coach and Whitford was an administrative assistant.
• Herb Sendek (now the head coach at Arizona State) was the head coach of that Miami team.
• That staff produced six future head coaches: Charlie Coles (Miami), Christian (Kent State, TCU, Ohio), Thad Matta (Butler, Xavier, Ohio State), Sean Miller (Xavier, Arizona), Rob Senderoff (Kent State) and Whitford (Ball State)
• Coles had also previously been the head coach at Central Michigan.
Alstork Does it All at Kent State
• Saturday at Kent State, freshman Mark Alstork became the first player since 2008 to lead Ball State in points, rebounds and assists in a game.
• Alstork finished with career highs of 15 points and 10 rebounds and matched his career best with five assists.
• The last Ball State player to accomplish the feat was Peyton Stovall on Jan. 16, 2008 against Western Michigan. Stovall led the team with 18 points and tied for team-high honors with seven boards and one assist.
One Constant in the Lineup
• Senior forward Chris Bond has made 44 consecutive starts dating back to the last game of the 2011-12 season.
• Bond is the only Ball State player to start every game this season and was one of only two (Jauwan Scaife) to start all 30 a year ago.
• He has started 82 games in his career, including all 71 in which he has played over the past three seasons.
Bond Keeping Good Company
• Chris Bond enters Saturday's game with career totals of 829 points, 498 rebounds and 130 steals.
• He is one of only three players in Ball State history to surpass 800 points, 475 rebounds and 125 steals for a career, joining Bonzi Wells (1994-98) and John Williams (1979-82).
• Wells finished with 2,485 points, 843 rebounds and 347 steals. Williams had 973 points, 497 rebounds and 167 steals.
Turner's Fast Start
• Freshman point guard Zavier Turner is leading the Cardinals with averages of 12.7 points and 4.0 assists per game.
• He has reached double figures nine times this season.
• Turner became the first Cardinal with at least 17 points and at least four assists in the first three games of a season since Larry Bullington in 1973-74 and just the second to accomplish the feat since Ball State began tracking assists in 1973.
Turner Leading the Nation at the Stripe
• Zavier Turner ranks first in the country with a .950 free throw percentage, having made 38 of his 40 attempts from the charity stripe.
• He had a streak of 27 consecutive made free throws snapped in the first half Saturday at Kent State but then made his last four.
Turner from Beyond the Arc
• Zavier Turner also leads the MAC in 3-pointers per game (2.2) and is tied for fourth in the league in 3-point percentage (.460).
• Turner has hit at least three 3-pointers in six of the Cardinals' 13 games, including a career-high four at Marquette.
• He has been held without a trey only twice.
More Turner Rankings
• Zavier Turner also ranks in the top 20 in the MAC in minutes per game (31.7, 6th), assists per game (4.0, 6th) and points per game (12.7, 16th).
• He leads MAC freshmen in each of those categories (including the ones in the previous note) except 3-point percentage, where he ranks second only to teammate Mark Alstork (.484).
Majok One of the Nation's Best on the Boards
• Senior center Majok Majok leads the MAC and ranks 11th nationally in rebounding at 10.5 boards per game. He has recorded 52 rebounds over the past four games.
• He owns eight double-digit rebounding games, including a career-best 18-rebound effort Jan. 3 against Oakland City. The 18 rebounds against Oakland City are the most in a game by a MAC player this season.
• Majok led the MAC last year and ranked 18th nationally at 9.8 rebounds per game.
Majok Majok's Double-Doubles
• Majok Majok owns six double-doubles on the year and 15 for his Ball State career, including a 16-point, 13-rebound performance in the Jan. 8 MAC opener against Akron.
• With 25 points and 18 rebounds in the non-conference finale versus Oakland City, Majok became the first Ball State player with at least 20 points and 15 rebounds in a game since Terrance Chapman did it in a January 2005 game at Eastern Michigan.
• Majok is now averaging 11.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game as one of 15 players in the country averaging a double-double.
• The last Ball State player to average a double-double in a season was Theron Smith, who tallied 19.6 points and 10.9 rebounds per game in 2001-02.
• For his two-year Ball State career, Majok is averaging 10.9 points and 10.0 rebounds per game.
Alstork Developing as Scorer
• Freshman Mark Alstork has reached double figures in seven of the past nine games, including a career-high 15 points Saturday at Kent State.
• Alstork has been efficient from beyond the arc this season, knocking down 48.4 percent (15 of 31) to rank second the MAC in 3-point percentage.
• He hit a trio of 3-pointers against both Marquette and Oakland City.
Persistent Crowder Gets His Chance
• Ball State walk-on senior guard Kindon Crowder has seen action in three of the past six games. He knocked down a 3-pointer against both Marquette and Southern Illinois.
• Crowder is a former team manager for the Cardinals who first earned a roster spot as a practice player a year ago.
• He played high school basketball his freshman year at St. Francis de Sales in Chicago but did not play his final three seasons at Munster High School in Indiana.
Youth and Experience
• Ball State's lineup this season is heavy on both experience and youth.
• There are only two scholarship players on the Cardinals' roster outside the freshman and senior classes, so those two classes account for the majority of the minutes on the floor.
• Ball State's freshmen have stepped in to make an immediate impact, accounting for more than 42 percent of the team's minutes and scoring.
Berry Reaches 1,000
• Senior guard Jesse Berry surpassed 1,000 points for his career Nov. 30 at Cleveland State.
• He now owns 1,059 career points, the most of any current Ball State player.
• Berry is the 27th member of Ball State's 1,000-point club. Former teammate Jauwan Scaife, now a graduate student manager for the Cardinals, became the 26th member last season.
Berry from Downtown
• Jesse Berry matched his career-high with six 3-pointers Dec. 30 at James Madison.
• Berry has moved into third place on Ball State's all-time 3-pointers list with 185 for his career. He ranks second in school history with 538 3-point attempts.
• Former Ball State teammate Jauwan Scaife set the school record for 3-pointers last year, finishing his career with 203 treys. Patrick Jackson (1998-2002) is second with 202.
Varying Lineup Combinations
• Ball State has utilized seven different starting lineup combinations through its first 13 games.
• Nine different Ball State players have started at least one game.
• Chris Bond has started all 13 games, while Turner and Majok have each made 12 starts.
Whitford Era Underway
• James Whitford, who was introduced April 10, 2013 as the 19th head coach in program history, earned his first career win in the Cardinals' 73-53 victory Nov. 12 over Taylor.
• Whitford came to Ball State after serving the previous eight years on Sean Miller's staff at Xavier and Arizona, including the past two as the Wildcats' associate head coach.
• He also has previous MAC experience with 11 years at Miami University under head coaches Herb Sendek and Charlie Coles.
• During his career as an assistant coach, Whitford's teams posted an overall record of 400-208 and reached the postseason 13 times, including 10 NCAA tournament appearances.
Kamieniecki to Miss Season
• Senior post player Matt Kamieniecki is sitting out the season after undergoing wrist surgery. He will redshirt and return to the floor as a fifth-year senior in 2014-15.
• Kamieniecki has played in 74 games through his first three seasons at Ball State. He averaged 4.6 points and 5.9 rebounds per game as a junior, starting 11 of the final 16 games after being limited by injury in the first half of the season.
• At this point, Kamieniecki will be the only senior on next year's Ball State roster.
Returning for the Cardinals
• The loss of Matt Kamieniecki leaves Ball State with six returning letterwinners from last year, four of which are seniors -- center Majok Majok, guard Jesse Berry and forwards Chris Bond and Tyler Koch.
• Ball State's two additional returning letterwinners are both sophomores in forward Bo Calhoun and guard Chase Brogna.
Majok Tabbed Preseason All-MAC
• Majok Majok was named preseason All-MAC West Division in a vote of the league's media. He was joined in the West Division by Toledo's Rian Pearson and Julius Brown, Western Michigan's Shayne Whittington and Eastern Michigan's Glenn Bryant.
• The preseason All-MAC East Team consisted of Buffalo's Javon McCrea and Will Regan, Akron's Demetrius Treadwell and Quincy Diggs, and Miami's Will Felder.


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What old people, generally your grandparents, call "youngsters". The word is derived from the term "snapping your whip" which means getting a b0n3r. So basically your granddad is calling you a whipper snapper because you can get it up and he can't. The term has been used less frequently since the development of viagra
"You young whipper snappers!! Always sticking your business in places were it doesn't belong!"
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A term generally used by old persons, to insult the younger generation.
Get off my damn lawn you whippersnappers!
Por Michael 31 de enero de 2005
A disrespectful and rude child. Used by older people to refer to much younger.
The whippersnapper ran right by me and almost knocked me over.
Por Scottmana 25 de noviembre de 2007
most often used by old people (see geezer) to describe an arrogant young person.
"why, did you just hear that young whippersnapper talk to me?"
Por Arrrrr...bagel... 03 de noviembre de 2003
General derogatory term used by old people to refer to children as way too carefree and chaotic compared to their own childhood. The name comes from the famous painting 'Snap the Whip', depicting children running through a grassy field.
"Back in my day, kids got the newspaper themselves, now they're all just mean and rude, like you, ya' whippersnapper!"
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a young person that is caught by an elder, either vandalizing or being a punk
Hey, get off my lawn you whippersnapper
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someone under 15 years of age who doesn't take life too seriously, wants to have fun, chill out, be a kid - maybe play harmless pranks
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Bitch, you abousta be donkey punched if you keep runnin' yo mouth.
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Used when conveying one's intention to perform a certain activity in the very near future.
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Students at Flowertown Elementary School walked in their own miniature Relay for Life on Mar. 15 to raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Society. Classes sponsored "luminaries" that were on display around the school track. Students walked the track in honor and memory of loved ones who have been affected by cancer. Throughout the month, students are collecting canned goods, donating money, and celebrating life in support of the Flowertown Elementary School "Bee Team" which will walk at the Relay for Life in April! Shown here are second graders Daniel Fersner, Palmer Jackson, Jackson Hansborough, and Jonathan Pengra walking the track in support of the American Cancer Society and the Flowertown "Bee Team."
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