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Intel Core 2 Duo 'Conroe' E6700 & X6800 Benchmarks
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Intel have certainly done their homework with the Core 2 Duo 'Conroe' processor, resulting in quite possibly the biggest advancement in processor performance we've seen in a few years. With benchmark results completely annihilating Intel's last generation of processor, and reports of mid-ranged Conroe chips taking on the high end chips from AMD, the Conroe is set to be a big success.
As always though, there is a downside - price. Despite the mid-range Conroe chips actually being very reasonably priced, the new architecture will mean a new motherboard and possibly graphics card & memory depending on your previous platform, which could result in quite an expensive upgrade.
In terms of overclocking, you may wonder why we didn't push any of these chips to their limits. Well needless to say we DID have fun overclocking the Conroe's all the way up to 4ghz (and maybe even beyond), but at the end of the day these are 'Engineering Sample' chips, and are notorious for their overclocking success. Retail chips will under most circumstances not yield as high results, and for this reason we decided not to give you false hopes of how far you may be able to overclock your next purchase.
+ Improved memory bandwidth and lower latency.
+ Cache sharing improves performance between the cores.
+ New architecture greatly improves gaming performance.
+ Lower power consumption ensures cooler running.
+ Very very fast!
- Requires a new motherboard and DDR2 in most cases.
- X6800 pricing is far too high to be considered by most.
Thanks to Intel for providing the motherboard and processors for review.
Intel Core 2 Duo 'Conroe' processors and motherboards are now available for purchase from SpecialTech and many other reputable online retailers.
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Not to be a nit picker but I don't think the review is fair. If you used an Intel Pentium D 3GHz, it'd be more fair, but that's Dual Core vs Single Core..
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A lot of those benchies are still single core. I kind of agree with you but the P4 D's were a bit of a patch-job operation from Intel. I think looking at old P4 vs was more of an illutrative thing tbhQuote
..and i'm afraid at present we don't have a big tray of processors to choose from
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Reminds me that I have an article here written about the true cost of conroe, its not only the cpu but also the board as well and now taking into account the depreciation of value on the AMD market, where lets face it most people will jump from. Does seem expensive. Still if you game then its gota be worth itQuote
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Great review again Jim. Intel really have stepped up to the plate and given AMD the 'birdie salute'...bring it on!!! Although, Intel certainly have learned a lot from the opposition, it's just taken them a while to get there. - like reducing the pipeline length, and how the processor handles dropped/out of order instructions more effectively etc. Definitely a step in the right direction.Quote
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A Drug Bust, a Paternity Suit—Troubles Come in Battalions for Jockey Ronnie Franklin
Before him in Delp's small house in Laurel, Md. was Ronald Joseph Franklin, the 19-year-old jockey and protégé whom the trainer has called "my third son." Two days earlier Franklin, who rode Spectacular Bid to victory in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, had been picked up on charges of possession of cocaine in the parking lot at Disneyland.
"The guard looked in the car window," Delp says, "and saw Ronnie with his two cousins. He had the coke between his legs. They recognized him, and that's why he bit the dust. They handcuffed him and put him behind bars for five hours. He's a tough little boy, but when he got back here I mean he was whipped."
The arrest was the most damaging in a series of misfortunes that have threatened the career of the country's most successful young jockey. Not long after the Preakness in May, Ronnie was fined $100 for kicking one of his mounts, then $25 for cursing a Pimlico security guard, finally $250 for fighting with fellow jockey Angel Cordero. Things got worse. He rode badly in the Belmont and wound up third. A young woman who works at a Pimlico concession stand named him in a paternity suit. And after his drug bust, Delp announced that veteran jockey Willie Shoemaker would replace Franklin on Spectacular Bid. It was perhaps the unkindest cut of all.
"He's my baby," said Ronnie's mother defensively. "I think they're picking on him, and I don't understand why. There's a heck of a lot of pressure, and he doesn't know how to deal with it." Delp now agrees. Under his supervision, young Franklin has submitted once again to the harsh discipline of a jockey in training, including an early curfew. Delp justifies changing Bid's jockey as the only way to "take the pressure off Ronnie. He's all mixed up, and we want to let him go back to being a teenager."
It may be his salvation. The balky son of a truck driver, Franklin dropped out of 10th grade three years ago "because I wasn't interested in learning about the past." Determined to escape the factory town of Dundalk, Md.—"I didn't want to be behind no windows"—Ronnie took a job walking horses for Delp and was soon apprenticed as a jockey. In his first year up he won purses of $1.7 million, made $200,000 of his own and acquired a taste for Bloody Marys and a life-style he couldn't handle. "He's a kid," Delp says. "He's going to be a kid for many more years because that's the way he wants to be."
Delp is hopeful that Ronnie's luck may be turning. He could win dismissal of the drug charge since his record is clean and there is some question as to whose cocaine it was. Franklin also denies even having dated the young woman who has accused him of fathering her 5-month-old boy. "Her first name is Shirley—I don't even know her last name," he says. His difficulties with Cordero and other jockeys appear to be behind him.
Most important, Bud Delp, the man responsible for Franklin's climb from nowhere, is now defending his protégé on all counts: the paternity suit ("It wasn't Ronnie—she's not going to get anything from him"); the horse-kicking episode ("Hell, all the riders do that"); and sassing the security guard ("He wouldn't let Ronnie through the gate in my Lincoln Continental even though it's got nine stickers on it").
Ronnie's attitude is measurably improved. "I was scared," he admits of his arrest. So far racing officials have taken no action on the charge and won't until his day in court. "There'll be no more limelight for that kid," vows Delp. "He's going back into the house where he belongs. In a year or two, when we get another big horse, well, that's another story." Delp adds, in genuine remorse, "It's too bad. I let him get too big too quick."
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A few University at Buffalo players were standing on the sideline during practice this week when one of them announced he was about to mimic a Brandon Murie mannerism. He put a slight bend in his arms. He placed his hands just outside his hips, fingers slightly bent. It was close to a dead-on imitation of an omnipresent Murie's mannerism.
When he's around the football field Murie carries himself in a way that suggests he's poised to grab on to something. And that's pretty much the truth of it. He arrived from Iroquois High School as a walk-on hoping to grab on to a roster spot. Once on the roster he yearned to take hold of some playing time and lay his hands on a scholarship. Upon making his mark on special teams and joining the scholarship set he strived for inclusion within the offense, an opportunity that fully arrived last week at Connecticut when an injury to Bo Oliver thrust Murie into the role of starting running back.
Murie carried 18 times for 58 yards and a touchdown. He also took a pitch from Alex Neutz off a wide receiver screen and sprinted 50 yards down the sideline for another score. He became the first player in UB's FBS history to register a 50-50-50 in terms of yards accumulated running, receiving and on returns.
"I'm not happy with last week at all. I'll tell you that right now," Murie said. "I thought I ran bad. I mean, 3 yards a carry isn't really anything. I don't want the level of play to drop at all at the running back position. I want to be right up there with Bo."
Murie's come by nothing easily during his football career, perhaps because of the bias that comes with being a 5-foot-9, 185-pound running back, albeit one with eye-opening quickness. He was a back-up from his youth football days right right through his time on the Iroquois JV. It was on the varsity that he emerged, becoming a two-time All-WNY selection and the Chiefs' career rushing leader. Colleges were so impressed that not a one came a calling with scholarship in hand.
"I really didn't have any DI-A offers," Murie said. "I had a few DI-AAs. I was looking at Marists and Colgates, those types of school where it's academics and they can't give scholarships. I was kind of looking all over the place."
UB invited him to walk on and, at the urging of his mother Barb, Murie acquiesced.
"My mom told me to go to UB but I was looking elsewhere. Then I was like, 'OK, I'm going to UB.' That's where I decided I wanted to be, play in my hometown. It's expensive here but it's not bad so I decided to come here."
Murie sat out his first year and saw time in two games as a redshirt freshman, making enough of an impression to be put on scholarship. His breakthrough came last season, on special teams, with numbers that included a 93-yard kickoff return that fell just shy of a touchdown.
"He spent a lot of time on scout team demo, as we call it, and he got noticed," Bulls coach Jeff Quinn said. "I put him in a game two years ago and last year he became the (team's) Special Teams Player of the Year. To see him in a backup role for Branden Oliver just shows what (can be done with) hard work and determination and sticking with the plan and being a great team player."
Murie's a temporary solution at running back. The job belongs to Oliver, although it's doubtful he'll be ready for Saturday's Mid-American Conference game at Ohio. The No. 2 spot has been owned by James Potts, although he's out for the season with an ACL tear. Murie's accepting of his situation but determined to show that he belongs.
"Here I'm behind a Doak Walker (nominee). I completely understand that," he said. "And James Potts is a helluva running back, No. 1 recruit we've ever had. Having those guys in front of me feels good. Like it feels good to be among these guys, playing amongst this type of talent. So I'm always pushing towards that greatness."
At the least Murie's shown there's a place for him in the offense. He can be deadly off a screen pass. He can even line up at receiver. Four games into his junior season, he's forcing people to take notice and recapturing the attention of high school friends who slipped out of touch. The texts and phone calls rolled in after his two-TD day at UConn.
"Everyone's surprised because they see my size and they don't think I'm able to do a lot of things besides special teams here," Murie said. "To see me at running back again, everyone's like, "Whoa." It feels good."
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Ranching, Wetlands Collide in North Coast
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WILLITS, Calif.—The construction of a long-sought highway bypass around this small town in Mendocino County has spurred a unusual dispute over whether ranchers should be allowed grazing rights in an area set aside as wetlands.
The conflict pits the California Department of Transportation, which has wanted to accommodate ranching displaced by the road construction, against the Army Corps of Engineers, which says it is following a federal mandate to protect vulnerable wetlands. Caught in the middle are a handful of ranchers, who say their livelihood is being threatened just as demand for locally produced beef is growing.
A group of four cattlemen stand to lose most of their summer grazing land—about 1,000 acres—under restrictions proposed by the Corps of Engineers. The restrictions are intended to replace wetlands being acquired by Caltrans to build the proposed U.S. Highway 101 bypass around this city of 5,000 residents. The bypass project, planned for nearly 50 years, is designed to alleviate notorious traffic bottlenecks in the area without having a highway cut through the center of town.
Under state and federal law, Caltrans has to offset the roughly 50 acres of wetlands being disturbed for the bypass by enhancing a much bigger area of surrounding wetlands, including areas where grazing now takes place. Caltrans is in the process of completing purchases of 1,800 acres of wetlands from 14 landowners for $16 million.
About 500 acres is used by ranchers John and Charline Ford, who say losing the grazing land could cripple their business of selling meat to local markets, including those in the Sonoma cities of Santa Rosa and Healdsburg.
"My feeling is they will be taking away our ability to supply food, and that's not right," said the 69-year-old Mr. Ford, who along with his wife, 67, say they sold about 500 acres to Caltrans in December 2010 under an agreement that they would be able to lease back the land for grazing for at least four years. Caltrans says it can get out of the lease-back agreement under a termination clause in agency's contract with the Fords.
Another 500 acres was sold to Caltrans by other property owners who had leased the land for grazing, with an agreement to continue leasing it to three other ranchers. That property is part of the land that might be restricted from grazing.
"I'd probably have to find another place, but it would be hard," said Mike Fonsen, a 31-year-old rancher who now grazes cattle on 120 acres of the property being affected.
The land available for ranching in the region and statewide has been shrinking steadily for decades, as cattlemen sell out, often to developers. In all, about 1.3 million acres of land in California have been converted from ranching and other agricultural uses in the past quarter century, according to the California Cattlemen's Association. In the nine-county Bay Area, about 1.75 million of the region's 4.5 million acres of land is used for grazing, but that acreage has been going down steadily, said Darrel Sweet, a Livermore rancher and past president of the cattlemen's association.
Meanwhile, the number of ranchers has declined, including to 40 ranchers from 65 in Mendocino County over the past 15 years, said Peter Bradford, a local rancher and past president of the Mendocino County Farm Bureau.
In the Bay Area, the shrinkage in ranches and ranching comes amid surging interest in locally produced food. "When you have meat at a farmers' market it makes the whole thing whole, like a supermarket," said Jen Lyon, former manager of the Willits Farmer's Market, where the Fords' beef products are a big draw.
The Fords have maintained a summer pasture for their cattle outside Willits for about 25 years. Mr. Ford says he and his wife own or lease an additional 52,000 acres of grazing land, but mostly on rugged terrain that their cows use to forage on during the winter.
The Fords say they were informed by Caltrans in March that the Army Corps had determined their Willits land, along with 500 other acres acquired by the state agency, wouldn't receive needed Clean Water Act permits unless grazing were eliminated. The reason, Caltrans officials said: The property includes wetlands that the Corps believes are incompatible with grazing.
Caltrans officials say they and most of the other permitting agencies involved believe the grazing would be appropriate. The officials say they are continuing to negotiate with the Corps and that a final plan for the wetlands should be announced in August.
Dan Martel, a Corps wetlands specialist, said Caltrans never informed his agency of any leasing agreement with the ranchers. He said grazing can hurt wetlands by harming water quality.
But Mr. Martel said his agency has allowed grazing in permits where a federally threatened species might benefit from it in part by reducing invasive vegetation. He added the Corps' San Francisco district has assisted farmers and ranchers by helping Humboldt County with a project to reduce flooding in dairy pastures.
Mr. Ford, the rancher, said Caltrans in 2009 initiated eminent domain proceedings to acquire his land, helping to motivate his family to sell. Caltrans spokesman Phil Frisbie said the proceedings were undertaken to fulfill a technical requirement to secure some state funding for the project, and not to scare the ranchers.
The squabble over grazing has even divided environmentalists. The Western Watershed Project believes there is no place for wetlands grazing because the cows trample fragile soils and destroy much of the vegetation, said Jon Marvel, executive director of the Hailey, Idaho, environmental group.
But grazing can help some wetlands, said Andy Mackey, a local environmentalist and manager of the Mendocino Farmers Market. In addition to reducing invasive vegetation and clearing brush-choked creeks, ranchers like the Fords practice environmentally friendly techniques such as moving cows around to give land a rest.
"This," Mr. Mackey said, "is an example of sustainable ranching."
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"Colonial Life in the Americas"
February 16th-17th, 2007
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This Is Bananas
September 19, 2011
(This was part of my first pitch to Cracked. It turns out they did a piece about the history of the global banana trade a couple years back. So you, fine reader, are the beneficiaries of these comedic dregs. Enjoy. BTW, my first actually-published Cracked article can be found here.)
You probably knew that your Nike's are made by forced child labor in Pakistan and Cambodia. But that's cool, because everybody knows that. And old news = taken-for-granted = guilt-free jogging or snacking in place! But maybe you didn't know that the most mundane foods that you eat every day have been brought to you by brutal political oppression and murder? Well, read on, and feel like an asshole all over again!
Americans eat more bananas per year than apples and oranges combined. That's really fucked up, considering that both apples and oranges are native to the U.S., whereas bananas originally came from the other hemisphere.
Bananas were introduced to the U.S. in 1876 at the nation's Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. It was thus perhaps no coincidence that these exotic little yellow phalluses would predate the erection of Washington Monument by just a few years.
On the other hand, initial sales of bananas were weak. This was the prudish Victorian era, after all, where the socially elite one-upped future 12-year-olds everywhere, by thinking that eating a banana looked like sucking a dick.
The United Fruit Company (which would later be renamed to the I think less catchy sounding "Chiquita") launched its own anti-prude advertising campaign, distributing postcards that depicted hoity-toity, morally upstanding women sitting around a table with half-peeled bananas. Showing off such culinary circle jerks worked, apparently, and bananas became all the rage.
No, seriously, banana importation caused so, so much rage. Like when Samuel Zamurray (who would later head up United Fruit) just straight up took land from people in Central America, essentially turning the Honduras into his personal private plantation. The balls on this guy. He loaded up boats with a small army led by mercenaries with Saturday morning cartoon-sounding names like General Lee Christmas and Guy "Machine Gun" Maloney, and proceeded to install a government who looked more favorably upon being a fake government. You know what was even more of a dick move? He forced the very people whose land he took to work on it as de facto slave labor.
With such low labor costs (zero is low, right?), United Fruit transported and sold these bananas to Americans so that, despite traveling 1,000 miles, they were actually cheaper than the apples that you could buy next fucking door.
No, wait, this get so much better. To keep banana prices low, the U.S. government got in on the act, and has even overthrown a government or two in Central America. Like, in the 1950s, The United Fruit Company started a propaganda campaign that Ecuador was a rising communist power in cahoots with the Soviet Union, and was taking the land that United Fruit
stole paid fair price for, and giving it to the fucking people they stole it from in the first place insurgent commies. But here's the thing. They got the fucking C.I.A. in on this shit. The U.S. quickly deposed the democratically elected government, and replaced it with a military junta.
But whatevs. As so much political oppression is solved with cartoons, and as Chiquita just so happened to need an advertising mascot, they went with the obvious choice of turning Carmen Miranda into a singing jaundiced penis, who came into every American home, urging us not to refrigerate our bananas. You see, the peels of refrigerated bananas turn black, which, as every 1950s household feared, once you go black, you never go back.
But, what's this? After decades of painstaking yet foolishly daredevil research, it has been discovered that refrigerated bananas last longer, and taste juuuuust fine. But you probably won't use up your bananas as quickly, which means you and your bloated wallet are kind of being a shitbag towards Chiquita.
Thank god the 1950s are over, and all of this is behind us.
Whoops. Nope. Wrong. The U.S. Marines have since been used to put down banana worker strikes and other efforts to organize themselves. And Chiquita has very recently paid millions of dollars to Colombian paramilitary groups to protect its banana harvesting zones. Dudes, as of 2007, Chiquita has been dealing with what could end up being the biggest terrorism-related lawsuit in history, in which the associated death toll is three times that of the World Trade Center attacks.
The rest of us live in the fucking Matrix:
Speaking of the Matrix, this story wouldn't be complete without some techno-horror genetics-gone-wrong component. Indeed. 99% of the bananas we eat now are of the "Cavendish" variety (surely named as such because its letters can be rearranged to get "I vend cash"). These are now all genetically engineered to be the inbred retarded dalmatians of the fruit world.
Cavendish bananas are all technically sexless and sterile (so I especially appreciate the irony that so, so many people have gotten fucked over by them). They are also highly susceptible to fungus diseases, especially the insult-to-injury named "Panama Disease."
Just like bloated cookie-cutter hair metal bands from the 1980s, this is what happens when massively cloned fruit goes globe-trotting. They get the fucking clap. Cavendish bananas from Ecuador might be resistant to a particular fungus, but then they're brought to Asia, where they run up against mutated version of it. Hence the Panama Disease, which can wipe out entire plantations in a matter of a couple of years, has been spreading across that other hemisphere, and experts predict that it will come full circle to Central America soon. So the people there, whose lands were stolen from them, and who were essentially enslaved to work on said lands, and whose political economies depend entirely on MOTHERFUCKING BANANAS, could very well lose their one tyrannically imposed livelihood.
But they are still delicious on corn flakes, so I'm really torn.
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September 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm
I'm never eating another banana again.
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Biological control of weeds has been practised for over 100 years and Australia has been a leader in this weed management technique. The classical example of control of prickly pears in Australia by the cactus moth Cactoblastis cactorum, which was imported from the Americas, helped to set the future for biocontrol of weeds in many countries. Since then there have been many projects using Classical Biological Control to manage numerous weed species, many of which have been successful. Importantly, there have been no serious negative non-target impacts – the technique, when practised as it is in Australia, is safe and environmentally friendly. Economic assessments have shown that biocontrol of weeds in Australia has provided exceedingly high benefit-to-cost ratios.
This book reviews biological control of weeds in Australia to 2011, covering over 90 weed species and a multitude of biological control agents and potential agents.
Biological Control of Weeds in Australia will provide invaluable information for biological control researchers in Australia and elsewhere. Agents used in Australia could be of immense value to other countries that suffer from the same weeds as Australia. The studies reported here provide direction to future research and provide examples and knowledge for researchers and students.
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"This book is a compendium of examples detailing the many vectors of control utilised in the biological control of weeds and the methodologies implemented. It addresses over 90 species of weeds that organic and conventional agriculturalists will relate to or have experience with."
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"This book compiles valuable information from a wide range of sources into one easily accessible publication. It will be an excellent resource for biological control workers the world over and provide useful insights into the biological control process for anyone involved in or interested in weed control and management."
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Washington, Oct 28 : TV personality Kendra Wilkinson has revealed that she and hubby Hank Baskett keep the spark alive in their long-distance marriage - by sexting.
"We definitely keep things spicy even though we''re not together in person, we know how to keep things fresh, romantic and sexy," People magazine quoted Wilkinson, 25, star of the E! series, Kendra, the new season of which premieres Nov. 7, as saying.
"There''s Skype, yeah, that''s definitely our number one, we also have our Blackberries. This morning, Hank woke up to a surprise text. Let me tell you, sending a naked picture to my husband definitely keeps him going."
Still, Wilkinson says nothing replaces being with Baskett, 28, in person.
"You can take a breather and actually think about why you miss each other, then when we see each other, we''re fresh and re-energized and it''s time to get it on again," Wilkinson added. (ANI)
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Visiting the Killing Fields
In debate, you are forced to take both sides of an issue. You can become very detached about the subjects you research, and in all the years I was involved in debate there was really only one subject that really influenced me on a personal level. That was the genocide in Cambodia. My knowledge of what happened in Cambodia from 1975-79 wasn't something I learned about when I got to SE Asia. (I will not outline in detail what happened there. There are plenty of resources online where you can learn more about it. Suffice it to say that between 1 to 2 million people, out of a population of 8 million, were killed in a span of four years through famine and outright murder.)It is a sad commentary on a capital city of a country, when the biggest tourist draw revolves around mass killings. Sadly, that is the main attraction in Phnom Penh. The guesthouse I stayed at played the movie The Killing Fields every other night, and a documentary on the Toule Seng prison on the nights in between.
I wasn't sure how I'd react to visiting the Killing Fields. I've never been to places such as Auchwitz before, so it was a totally unique experience for me. What happened in Cambodia has never quite stuck in the public's conscious like Holocaust. In fact, one of the odd things I found myself doing (and I know I'm not alone in this) was trying to make comparisons between what happened in Cambodia and what happened in Germany. It doesn't take long to realize how foolish it is trying to compare or rank degrees of evil, especially when the monstrosities you are talking about are so great.When you visit the Killing Fields, you are struck by how underwhelming it is. Prior to gaining its notoriety, it was an orchard. There is only one permanent structure there; a large pagoda filled with the skulls and bones of the victims found in the mass graves. The closer you get, you begin to realize the enormity of what is inside. Piles of human skulls, many of which have holes in the top of the head.
The area around the pagoda is so cratered, it looks as if it were bombed. The craters are the remains of the open mass graves were victims were left. Up to a hundred people would be dumped into a single hole. They system for killing people was very organized, like what you saw under the Nazis. Records and photos were kept. Unlike the Nazis, they didn't build elaborate camps. Bullets were deemed too expensive, so most people were killed by hand via strangulation, blunt weapons or blades.I didn't go through phases of grief, sadness and astonishment. I quickly went directly to being pissed off. The more I learned about the events before and after the Khmer Rouge rise to power, the more pissed off I became. The details surrounding that is another post.
After the Killing Fields, my tuk tuk driver took me to the Tuol Seng prison. Like the Killing Fields which turned a simple orchard into den of madness, the Tuol Sleng prison used to be a Phonm Penh high school. This was where prisoners were taken for interrogation before they were taken to the Killing Fields. Of the over 17,000 people who were taken to Tuol Sleng, only seven are known to have survived. (The official name the Khmer Rouge used for the prison was Security Prison 21 or S-21 for short).Toul Seng was a torture center. It is hard to call it anything else. Prisoners were chained to the floor and many of the school rooms were bricked up to create more, smaller cells. Some of the rooms had prisoners chained to the floor as if it were the deck of a slave ship. There were hundreds of photos on display of the victims who came through the prison. It was chilling to look at them knowing that they were no different than the people you meet on the street, and that every one of them was tortured and murdered in cold blood.
Electrocution was a preferred method of torture in Toul Sleng, but they hardly stopped there. A bar in the courtyard of the school originally built for exercises was turned into a gallows and some inmates were hung. A painting in the prison also depicts water boarding.
I can't help but think what Cambodia would be like today if it wasn't for the Khmer Rouge. Cambodia is far behind its neighbors economically and has a high amount of corruption. Most of the educated class was killed, actually targeted because they were intellectuals, by the Khmer Rouge. It made it very difficult to rebuild when the people who ran things were systematically eliminated.
In the movie The Killing Fields, Sam Waterson's character said that "Cambodia was a country he had learned to love and pity." I think that sums it up quite well.
Off to Hoi An
I'm off to Hoi An tonight on a 12-hour overnight bus ride. I am not looking forward to it. The buses are sleeper busses, which means you have a sort of bed instead of a seat. That sounds great for an overnight trip, but it really isn't. The beds are uncomfortable and you are more inclined than lying flat.
It has been raining almost the entire time I've been here. The last few days I have been totally lazy. I've been on an anti-vacation. When you travel for a living, an anti-vacation is when you stay in your room, do nothing, and watch TV. Oh yes, and the World of Warcraft expansion came out and I took advantage of it. (I'm level 74 now thank you very much).
However, it is time to get moving. The really interesting parts of Vietnam are up in the Hoi An/Hue region in the center of the country where I'm going next. I assume I'll be spending the next several days in tourist mode and taking photos before I head up to Hanoi and Ha Long Bay.
I got some new items for the contest which I'll be showing off in a new video I'll shoot when I get to Hoi An. Hopefully, it wont be as wet there.


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Tauranga to have CBD uni campus
Posted at 9:09am Thursday 26 Jan, 2012 | By Andrew Campbell email@example.com
The first step has been taken this week towards establishing a $55 million university campus in Tauranga's central business district.
The Tauranga City Council has agreed to provide the land for the campus – the outdoor car parking area in Durham Street.
A design drawing of the campus superimposed over the Durham Street car park site where it will be built.
It is being built by a tertiary education partnership of the University of Waikato, the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi.
The campus will be the first in the country established by such a partnership, though there is a similar partnership idea being floated concerning the Canterbury rebuild.
The city's agreement to provide the car park as the land for the project is the key to getting other partners involved in the design build side of it.
It's being undertaken as a Bay of Plenty initiative because neither the government nor the university can do it alone, or without free land.
The 0.4 hectares is being kept in council ownership and vested in the tertiary trust.
It's essentially a 33-year loan, by which time the campus is expected to be able to pay rent.
The parking lots provide $110,000 in annual income to the council.
The loss of this income, and a request to waive development impact fees, caused much discussion among councillors when deciding on the issue.
There was an amendment voted on to keep the parking issue alive, with a codicil by Councillor Larry Baldock that the council would, if required, revisit the issue if the council's stance threatened the project.
Councillor David Stewart says the long term benefits of the city campus will far outweigh the parking income.
Waikato University, with 10,500 full time equivalent students, brings $130 million into Hamilton every year.
The initiative is a response to a demonstrated need for further tertiary facilities in the Bay of Plenty and the inability of the tertiary institutions to provide them.
Tertiary institutions do not have the resources to establish new facilities, government capital funding is not available, and the capping of domestic student numbers limits tertiary provision to current levels.
University of Waikato Professor Natalie Jackson says the Bay of Plenty needs increased tertiary education.
Her demographic study shows there will soon be fewer young people in the region than are currently leaving secondary school to enter tertiary training or the workforce.
The problem is magnified because a large proportion of Bay of Plenty students leave the region to go to other university cities – while at the same time, many Bay of Plenty industries are facing a shortage of people to replace their retiring older employees.
The city campus will increase the ability of the city's tertiary network to retain young people and Maori within the Bay of Plenty and enable first generation students to study at university level without leaving the region.
University of Waikato Vice Chancellor Professor Alister Jones says it will also attract foreign students to study at Tauranga at a postgraduate level, and research funding.
The campus will provide tertiary education from pre-degree to postgraduate and a university experience for the community, industry and schools.
With a focus on innovation, it will be used for teaching and research, business incubation, schools technology and science engagement, management and executive education, and research and development projects.
A viable campus requires a size of 1-1.5ha says Alister, additional land which will eventually be bought.
The entire Cameron-Elizabeth-Durham block is designated for educational purposes.
If construction starts this year, stage one will open in 2015 for 500 full time students, but with capacity for 700.
Construction of stage two would take place in 2019 to create capacity for 1000 full time students, followed by stage three in 2025/26 to create capacity for 1500 students by 2032.
The 0.4ha car park land provided by the council will enable construction of stages one and two.
Mayor Stuart Crosby says just building the campus will provide a boost to the city's building and construction industry.
There will also be spin offs with private developers stepping up to provide student accommodation.
Posted on 29-01-2012 13:08 | By RORTSCAM
Wrong location with no thought to traffic or parking in middle of City. Providing land is one thing just hope this pack of clowns are not getting into funding education.No room for any future expansion hope TCC are about to build a 6 storey carpark at Hamilton St.very soon. Durham St. site should have at least 3 levels of underground parking as well.
Posted on 27-01-2012 08:43 | By marama
There are some ratepayers who can't even repair their leaky homes - why are they being forced to contribute to organisations which have more income than Council. Tertiary education is governments responsibility, stay out of it. This Council is the next for Minister Nick Smith fix I am thinking
Posted on 26-01-2012 15:55 | By jeans
I've been a Tauranga ratepayer for over 30 years and have watched the city grow and develop in many ways. Although Bay of Plenty Polytechnic provides excellent educational facilities it has limits to what it can provide and many young people have had to leave to area to complete their studies. Tauranga has lagged behind other similar-sized cities like Hamilton and Dunedin when it comes to appreciating the economic value that a university brings to a city. Congratulations to TCC and the tertiary partners who are working together to retain the area's young people and ensure the future growth of this city.
Posted on 26-01-2012 15:11 | By rastus
I just complimented our council for not giving in to the tourism crowd and they were certainly justified when just this day the news advises that tourist occupancy rates are up on last year despite the Rena episode! Now our councilors pull the mat once agin - this land belongs to the ratepayers of Tauranga so first off they should be consulted before you start giving our property away - Secondly they obviously have not thought this one through - after just about already destroying downtown Tauranga (CBD) they are now encouraging more demand on car parking spaces and for what - if the courses are just an extension of what is now being taught then heaven help us - turning out heaps of students with skills totally useless for them getting a real job (other than continuing to expand the 'invented' jobs at TCC and other publicly funded organizations - man I have had a guts full of this continued lack of common sense and lack of responsibility towards those they were elected to serve
Posted on 26-01-2012 15:00 | By dstewart
It is great to see our council at last looking towards the future. Having a greater student community downtown will go a long way to revitalise the CBD and there is an acknowledged responsibility for this generation to provide for the next as our grandparents did for us.
Posted on 26-01-2012 14:54 | By algail
Tut Tut TCC again not thinking, not planning not even borrowing a brain from someone else to look at bulling a new tertiary education faculty in Tauranga. In the first place folks why does the damn thing need to built in the city which can be a nightmare driving through as it is without cramming more student and tutorial drivers into the narrow streets of Tauranga and increasing the nightmare of Cameron road at peak time.. There is cheaper land available not all that far from the city. Why not build it out of town. There is no accommodation or parking for students and professorial staff in town, get it out into the nearby suburbs on cheaper land and provide accommodation and parking. I disagree with any land being given away by any council it belongs to me and you not them. I also degree with a waiving of lease fees. Once completed the centre will earn enough money esp for foreign students to be able to pay rent. The TCC should consult the Tauranga Port people and learn how to go about things. The Port will not sell land, they will not lease land unless the lease holder will establish plenty of traffic in and out of the port. About all the tertiary building will bring to Tauranga once competed is a huge increase in the sale of fish and chips buns, cakes and sandwiches along with traffic snarl-up's. Shares in the Port were first sold for $1 per share which currently are selling for around $10 per share. What would a share in the TCC be worth now were it possible to own one. NOTHING you would probably owe money Alastair Bethlehem
Posted on 26-01-2012 14:25 | By xnekobasux
no student is going to wont to come here , unless they have are 30+. As Tauranga has nothing to do !
Posted on 26-01-2012 14:10 | By traceybjammet
for goodness sake whats the fixation with car-parking catch the bus or walk from a little further away its good for the health and councils and governments never pay for anything the people pay through taxes and rates and levis and thats why we live in a beautiful city with running water and sewerage
Posted on 26-01-2012 13:21 | By PLONKER
There are two aspects, first: tertiary education available in Tauranga, no problem there soon with this project, second: 'Jobs' once educated, right now the Council based ideas via PriorityOne have not produced any results where significant industrial units have been established that are significiant employers so offering advanced employment. That is the real reason why the educated leave Tauranga, there are not the jobs available to keep people here. In fact it is like car parking in the CBD, no where to park means less people in the CBD/No jobs means people go elsewhere for the duration of the working life.
Posted on 26-01-2012 12:33 | By Donnaw
Take away more car parks to add more buildings....as it is there is NOT sufficent carparking in Tauranga....so just where are all these students going to park? waste of our hard earned money.....we seriously do have clowns running this place. I wonder what would happen if we all refused to pay our rates....oh wouldnt it be great to be able to get everyone on board for that!
Posted on 26-01-2012 10:31 | By Gee Really
Just read the story again and noticed the bit about retaining "young people and Maori" within the Bay. What's wrong with retaining people fullstop? Saying that, most young people with any drive want to get away and experience a bit of study life away from their parents in a new environment. The top brains go to the better universities. Not sure how Waikato and BOP Polytech rank on that. But basically I don't think Council should be propping up education which is the role of government. Also hands off our TECT and regional council money too. I'm sick of hearing how these sort of projects are going to contribute zillions to the economy. Look at the Rugby World Cup, even our own surf reef, to see how they didn't.
Posted on 26-01-2012 09:53 | By bigted
Our council is now so wealthy that it can GIVE AWAY prime CBD Land, with a vaporous promise... A 'land grab' as the Polytech building is clearly in the wrong place, as there is no room for expansion. Expand at Windermere campus by all means NOT in the CBD's prime real estate. Another crucial city descision has been made by council, with no input from the ratepayer. Democracy at it's best? I think not!
Posted on 26-01-2012 09:47 | By charob
who is paying for this??????? why dont the council sell the land and pay off some debts......
Posted on 26-01-2012 09:45 | By Gee Really
Just can't wait for council to use my rates money to provide education. I guess they'll soon take over paying for all schools and kindergartens. It must be great to be flush with cash and not have debts to worry about.
Posted on 26-01-2012 09:25 | By charob
and who is paying for this. why dont the TCC sell the land and use tht money to pay off some of its debts
Posted on 26-01-2012 09:21 | By Colleen Spiro
The city council is paying for this....NO THE RATEPAYERS ARE.
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BELDEN – In about 14 months, the first Toyota Corolla will be rolling off the production line at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi.
To make that happen, the Japanese automaker will need about 1,350 hourly production and maintenance workers, and it needs to hire as many of them as quickly as possible.
In a long-awaited move, Toyota announced Monday that it had begun accepting applications online for the hourly jobs at the Mississippi Department of Employment Security's website at www.mdes.ms.gov.
"The reputation of the work force in Northeast Mississippi played a significant role for Toyota to choose Blue Springs for our newest location," said David Copenhaver, vice president of administration for Toyota Mississippi. "Today marks a big milestone for Toyota Mississippi as we begin building our team."
MDES Executive Director Les Range said the agency's website was activated at 9 a.m. Monday and had was receiving applications.
In June, Toyota announced that it was resuming operations at its plant in Blue Springs. In December 2008, citing the economic downturn and slide in sales, the automaker idled the plant until conditions improved.
After the June announcement, Toyota said it would need 2,000 workers by the time the plant was fully operational in the spring of 2012.
Officials anticipate 100,000 to 400,000 people to apply for the hourly jobs, which start at about $15 an hour and go up to as much as $25, based on the job and applicants' experience.
Last month, about 5,000 people applied for 57 salaried jobs.
Salaried job information is available online at www.toyota.com/jobs.
"We're facing a very aggressive schedule to have Corolla production by next fall," Copenhaver said.
Applicants for the hourly jobs can go to any WIN Job Center, where they can get help in filling out the online application. Applicants also can access the website from any computer with online access, including home computers. Public libraries also have computers available.
The hourly jobs will include stamping, body weld, paint, assembly, quality control and facilities.
Copenhaver said hourly production jobs will start at $15 an hour with the top rate at $21 an hour. Hourly maintenance jobs will start at $18 an hour and top out at $25 an hour.
The average manufacturing wage in Northeast Mississippi is about $13 an hour.
"We'll have competitive benefits packages beginning Day One," he added.
While TMMMS will employ 1,350 hourly workers at full production, the remaining 650 or so jobs will include managers, human resources, engineers and other support staff.
Toyota has not said when the remaining salaried positions will be posted on its website, but Copenhaver said in an earlier interview that it probably would be several more weeks.
Meantime, the hourly positions will be filled as quickly as possible. The link on website where applications can be made – at www.mdes.ms.gov – will be available at least a month.
Copenhaver said maintenance employees would be brought on board first since they'll need to learn about the equipment.
"Later in the year – the end of September, first of October – they'll be brought in when equipment is installed to see how it works," he said.
The production workers will get started in late winter or early spring.
"This is going to be a tremendous facility for our state that I believe literally will change the face of Northeast Mississippi," said Gov. Haley Barbour.
"If you go to Georgetown, Ky., where Toyota went 20 years ago and see what has happened there or go to Princetown, Ind., and see what has happened there, those were small towns that are alive with economic development. Those communities are so different from when Toyota came and for the better. Candidly, I think there will be opportunities for you, your children and your grandchildren with Toyota."
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BELDEN – Governor Haley Barbour and officials from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc. (TMMMS) announced today that the company is resuming hiring at its Blue Springs, Miss., plant.
"We have looked forward with great anticipation to the day when Toyota was ready to fully staff its Blue Springs facility, and that day has come," Governor Haley Barbour said. "I am so pleased that Toyota is moving forward with its hiring process and is creating so many high-quality jobs for the residents of Mississippi. Today is a great day for not only north Mississippi but the state as a whole."
When Toyota Motor Corporation announced in February 2007 that it was locating an automotive assembly plant in north Mississippi, it committed to creating 2,000 direct jobs.
While in 2008 the company announced a delay in its plans to start producing vehicles in Blue Springs due to market conditions and a weak economy, Toyota completed construction at the north Mississippi facility and retained its existing workforce there. Recently, the company announced its plans to resume preparations for production at the plant, where it will begin producing the best-selling Corolla model in the fall of 2011.
"The reputation of the outstanding workforce in northeast Mississippi was a major factor for Toyota when we chose Blue Springs for our newest U.S. plant," said David Copenhaver, vice president of administration at TMMMS. "Today marks a big milestone for Toyota Mississippi as we begin building our team."
TMMMS is coordinating all hiring for its hourly production and skilled maintenance positions through the Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES) and the Workforce Investment Network (WIN) Job Centers.
Individuals interested in employment opportunities at Toyota's Blue Springs plant may apply online at www.mdes.ms.gov. Persons needing assistance with the application process or access to an internet accessible computer may visit any WIN Job Center in Mississippi. For a complete list of the WIN Job Centers in the state, please visit:
– Visit www.mdes.ms.gov, and click the "Toyota" link underneath the "Access Mississippi Online Services" section.
– For applicants with an existing account, log into the system with a username and password. For applicants without an account, follow the easy steps to create an account.
– Once logged in, select the "Search for Jobs" link.
– Enter keyword "Toyota" to view a complete list of available jobs
at the Toyota plant.
– Follow the prompts to apply for a position of interest.
"We are pleased to be working with Toyota to help the company staff its facility," said MDES Executive Director Les Range. "Thanks to an investment by Toyota and the Mississippi Development Authority, we have been able to expand our online system to help Toyota take job applications for its Blue Springs facility."
"Residents may apply for Toyota jobs at any computer with Internet access: at home, at libraries, at a friend's home or anywhere else, and help is always available at one of the 53 WIN Job Centers across the state," Range said.
Individuals interested in salaried positions at the facility are encouraged to visit www.toyota.com/jobs for more information and to apply online.
1. Visit www.toyota.com/jobs.
2. Click on the "Search Jobs" link in the middle of the page.
3. Another dialogue box will open with the list of available job openings.
4. Review the open positions and click "Apply" underneath the open position of interest.
5. If you have applied for positions with Toyota in the past, enter
your username and password.
6. If you have not applied for positions with Toyota in the past,
select the "New User" button.
7. Create a unique username (utilizing letters and numbers) and a
8. There are several pages of the application process. Please complete
all in order to be considered.
(a) Select how you heard about the position.
(b) Complete your contact information. Required fields will be marked
with an asterisk (*).
(c) the easiest way to tell us about your work experience is to attach a resume. To do so, click on the "Browse" button. Select the file
you want to attach. Select "Open". Then select the "Attach" button. If you do not have a resume to attach, scroll down to the
bottom of the page and type in your information; OR
(d) You may enter your Work Experience & Education in the next section.
Select your places of employment and the timeframe when you worked there. Then you can select your school, major and degree.
(e) The next page asks whether or not you require sponsorship to work in the U.S. If you are a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident, select "No".
(f) The next page is around qualifications and skills. Please answer to the best of your knowledge.
(g) The next page is Diversity information. This information is not viewable by the recruiting staff. If you are not comfortable providing this information, then there is an option for "I do not wish to provide this information"
(h) There is a summary page. Please review the information and edit any that needs to be changed. When everything is correct, click on the "Submit" button.
(i) You will then receive a Thank You page.
"We were delighted when Toyota announced in early 2007 it was locating an automotive assembly plant in north Mississippi and would create 2,000 jobs in the area," said Gray Swoope, executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority. "Today, I am pleased Toyota is ready to start filling those positions and putting Mississippians to