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Here is my new (and only) Kyusu.
Bought it from "Zencha" for only 32 USD. It is a charm.
It holds 9 oz or 260 ml cca. I guess is the right size for Sencha for me.
Could I use it for Gyokkuro also?
Chip wrote:Welcome to the forum, Silje. An authentic Japanese Kyusu should pose little threat of lead contamination. But you can always get a lead testing kit ... in the USA anyway, not sure where you are located.
Victoria wrote:Nice Kyusu! I love the large top opening. I have a couple that are a bit hard to clean out.
Chip wrote:Silje, where did you get them?
If they are from a reputable source, they should be authentic Tokoname, and therefore I would not worry about the lead issue, personally.
Not sure I ever saw either of those before. I hope you enjoy them! Thanks for sharing them with us.
Chip wrote:Thanks again for posting John! I am starting to "get it!"
amafaj wrote:My first and only 280ml (9.4oz) Tokoname Kyusu.


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Last week, in the Lausanne Diamond meet, Gay was trumped by fellow-American Justin Gatlin in his first race back. Gatlin won in a blistering 9.80, with Gay trailing in second in 9.93.
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Nokia retained a substantial lead in the worldwide smart phone market in Q2 2010, achieving a 38% market share. But Nokia's market dominance is not as unassailable as it once was, with its performance outpaced by growth in the smartphone market as a whole, which grew 64% annually worldwide in Q2 2010, according to Canalys market research firm.
Nokia shipped a record 23.8 million smartphones during the second quarter, representing growth of 41% on a year ago, as it focused on delivering affordable smartphone offerings to the market, such as its popular 5230 touch-screen handset, based on the Symbian operating system (OS). Shipments of RIM's BlackBerry smart phones grew by 41%. Helped by the continued strong performances of devices such as the Curve 8520, it was once again the second placed vendor with an 18% market share, while also retaining its leadership position in North and Latin America. Despite a period of turbulent PR, initial shipments of the iPhone 4 were predictably strong and contributed to Apple's 61% growth and worldwide market share of 13% for the quarter. But analysis of Canalys' detailed, globally consistent data shows it is the collective growth of Android device shipments across a range of handset vendors' portfolios that is most remarkable. With key products from HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG, among others, shipments of smart phones running the Google-backed Android operating system grew an impressive 886% in Q2 2010.
"The latest release of our [...] country-level smart phone shipment data for Q2 2010 clearly reveals the impressive momentum Android is gaining in markets around the world. In the United States, for example, we have seen the largest carrier, Verizon Wireless, heavily promoting high-profile Android devices, such as the Droid by Motorola and the Droid Incredible by HTC," said Canalys vice president and principal analyst Chris Jones.
The United States smart phone market grew 41% year on year. It is the largest smart phone market in the world by a significant margin, with 14.7 million units accounting for 23% of global shipments in Q2 2010. Android devices collectively represented a 34% share of the US market in the quarter, and with growth of 851% Android became the largest smart phone platform in the country.
"Android devices are gaining good traction in markets such as mainland China and South Korea, with growing numbers of consumers wanting more sophisticated smart phones," said senior analyst TY Lau from Canalys.
China was the world's second largest smartphone market in Q2 2010 for the sixth consecutive quarter, with shipments of 6.9 million units representing 11% of the worldwide total. Android devices combined reached almost 475 thousand units in Q2 2010 from no presence in the country a year ago. It is also important to note that China Mobile is committed to developing its own platform, OMS, based on Android, and an additional 174 thousand smartphones shipped in the quarter running OMS.
"Nokia's Symbian devices continue to dominate the market, but other vendors are clearly making good headway with Android in China. Motorola and Samsung, as well as local vendors, such as Dopod, Lenovo and Huawei, are achieving promising volumes on the platform, and Android devices held a 7% share in China this quarter," said Mr. Lau.
Growth in the worldwide smart phone market reflects the increasing importance of smartphones in device vendors' and operators' handset portfolios, as growing numbers of consumers appear eager to engage with mobile applications and connected services.
"Expect to see smart phones accounting for a growing proportion of the wider mobile phone market as they become increasingly affordable to more customers. By 2013, smart phones will grow to represent over 27% of shipments worldwide, with the proportion in some developed markets in Western Europe surpassing 60% and 48% in North America," said Canalys' senior analyst Pete Cunningham.
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Guest commentary: What will be your farm's legacy?
By Ryan Batalden
We often think of our legacy as related to our farm's financial success. Our legacy will show how we were able to weather hard times – floods, droughts, hot weather, cool weather, low prices, pests, weeds, the farming crisis of the '80's, changes in production methods, and other enormous challenges. Our legacy will show that not only did our farm survive, it prospered. Maybe it even grew in numbers of acres or livestock.
These are all important parts of our legacies.
But, what is our legacy in relation to our community? What is our legacy in relation to all of those pieces of our community that make it the place we love, and make it what it is? What is the legacy we leave for those who wish to move to or live in our area? What is the legacy we want to leave for the next generation of farmers?
We all want the next generation of farmers to succeed, just as the generations previous to us wanted us to succeed. Are we leaving them with the opportunity to do so? Can anyone who wants to farm have that opportunity? Shouldn't someone who wants to farm have that opportunity? I was able to farm for two simple reasons. Reason No. 1 – my family supported me. However, my parents did not farm enough land to support two families. The other reason I was able to farm was because of two landowners. Both valued helping a young farmer as much as they valued "top dollar." In return, I have treated their land with the care and respect I would as if I owned it. Because of this, and because I raise crops for specialty markets, they have both been rewarded financially as well.
As land ownership changes hands, are our values being accurately and honestly reflected? When you see land changing hands, does it show to others what we truly value? Without creative transition solutions, where will the next generation of farmers worship, shop, and send their kids to school? Will they be able to farm at all?
What are some ways we can show our values and ensure our legacy – not just financially, but also in other ways – when we transition our farm to the next generation?
This question can be quite hard to answer.
However, there is a large and continually growing number of examples of creative ways that retiring farmers have found to transition their land to new farmers. There are all sorts of different examples that have allowed retiring farmers to ensure that their farm's financial, family and community legacy is preserved for the next generation.
I know, without a doubt, that if we look hard enough, we can all find ways to ensure our legacies in a way that truly reflects our values.
Ryan Batalden, along with his wife, Tiffany, and their two children, live and farm near Lamberton. They raise numerous grain crops and livestock on their 350-acre farm.


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Prices of food
Event types, dj/live music
Equipment use at events
Sound team action day
Cups and pots
Project Beano..
Kata... Nix has got some beanos (old comic) suggestion for toilet, tullals work not really finished, also more vandalism.
stephen... was at place in sweeden graffiti on top of posters looked okay we could just keep adding to the posters and beanos.
anne sophie... blackboard paint other ideas...
stephen... we will be redoing the toilets...
catalina...no point if we build more...
Scout...Beano idea good
Stevie.. proposes that we could use the beano as a background and the add to it with tags posters etc..
Anna sophie... how would it work
Would other people post stuff...should we have wallpaper paste etc...
Sub point by stevie...people who put on nights dont seem to make so many posters... should we have a poster making workshop... gimp photocopier etc... once every two weeks etc
? how to try to encourage
catalinia... do we have an archive...
Ap... all down with the idea of the beanos
.......when will the toilets happen
Will the toilets happen the same time as sanding the floors...
Ap is any one up for doing the toilets with beanos......Maybe 4 - 6 hours work with 3 people
Stephen..... yes and no, maybe we could try and ask some old heads etc, who are working on the x birthday compendium...
Lets have beano meeting soon
If people want to do it and have the time and energy and are not to precious about their creation have a beano meeting... kata and anne sophie are up for it... so is stevie kinda of, likes doesn't have the time
Sanding floors....
This should be tied with the toilet redoing...
Possibly mid may etc when possible....
It will happen....
If the toilet rebuilding is postponed we will go ahead and sand the cafe...and maybe hall,
Price of food
We are busier but our profit margin is the same
Stephen... when did we last raise the prices, since i have been hear the cost of nearly all our produce has increased due to economic factors...
Anne sophie. streamlining portion sizes
Stephen. kitchen managers should get together and talk about this....and night managers
... we should work a fancy salad making guide
We need to arrange a day for this...
Pictures of stuff etc
KM's will get together to standardise portions etc
We will have a pricing meeting soon to work out rough ingredient costs of meals vs sale price etc etc
will this ever happen.... we should hold doing the menus until the price is changed
Events Dj vs live bands
cafe and events can not condone the creation of a hierarchy of kinds of events, however we can encourage forest people to work together to create the most kick arse mother fucking events they can.
Also we do not have a licence to play copy write music.
Scoutt suggests an events advice hotline
Equipment. put it back
Cups and pots
Organisation of pots etc
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Catalina ...spare teapots post on bb
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When good houses go badPosted Wednesday, November 4, 2009, at 7:29 AM
This is the new water heater, which came to live in the basement after the last one gave up the ghost - as usual - when I had a house full of company! In its defense, it was 21 years old! This one has a 6-year guarantee, and my handyman friend Chester says that it'll outlive us!
This epiphany came to me Saturday, Halloween night 2009. My sister and my daughter arrived to spend the week with me, and my daughter's boyfriend came to spend the weekend with us. We visited till late, and I was the first to go upstairs to take my bath.
You guessed it! NO HOT WATER! The familiarity of it was crushing: A house full of company, and something major goes out on me. Also as usual, it's too late to call anyone for help.
After taking icy cold sponge baths, we all went to bed and had nightmares all night. The next morning I called my good buddy Emma, whose husband is the Handy Man Extraordinaire, and they - get this - went to Cape, bought me a new water heater, came out Sunday morning while we were in church, and installed it!!! How did I ever deserve friends like this??
Anyway - my point: My house is out to get me! This isn't the first time, by a long shot. In fact, while we were heating water on the kitchen stove, and my daughter Kristin was carrying it upstairs for warm sponge baths, my sister said, "You know, this really isn't too bad! (since she didn't have to carry her own water) In fact," said she, "It's been much worse. At least we have water, the toilets flush, and we have electricity!"
She's right. One Thanksgiving when she, my brother, my daughter, her boyfriend, and an Indiana acquaintance of mine were here, the line to the septic tank stopped up, and I had a basement full of sewage.
Another time, something happened with the electric line, and I had so little voltage that the lights went dim, the clothes dryer quit, and the water heater and the kitchen stove wouldn't work. In fact, the low voltage ruined the television, the washing machine, and the well pump.
Shortly after I had the well pump replaced, the water line went bad, and had to be dug up and replaced. When the water pressure increased, a small leak became a big leak and I had more water in the basement.
We've all agreed that these failures really make us appreciate the daily amenities of modern life. My sister and I remember Mom telling us about how they used to take baths in the kitchen with water heated on the wood cookstove.
Well, I'll have to conclude this blog, because my sister is up -- and I'll have to take her to the doctor this morning. Why, you ask? It seems that she was sitting on the front porch glider yesterday morning, enjoying the view of the pond, when my outside cat bit her! This morning she can hardly move her hand, so we're taking her for a tetanus shot!
I think the cat is now in league with the house.
From the sunny, golden hills of Tillman, Missouri, this is your rambling reporter Madeline, holding onto what thin fragment of sanity she has left...
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Oh my, what a way to start a weekend with house guests. It could be freezing outside, snow, sleet, oh I'll hush now. It's nice to have friends to help out with those appliances and to install them it's even better. Sending best wishes now for your sis, hope that bite can be handled with good results. Cheers.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Wed, Nov 4, 2009, at 8:09 AM
Oh, my...now I don't feel so bad. I just thought our house had issues until I read this!
-- Posted by fun2teach on Wed, Nov 4, 2009, at 6:44 PM
I think people who live in town have problems with the upkeep of their houses, too, but it can get so much worse in the country. Makes you wonder if a cave might be a good idea!
-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Nov 5, 2009, at 5:57 AM
I think my car is in cahoots with Madeline's house. Right after coming to her house for a week long visit, the air conditioning in my 2003 Subaru died. This just hasn't been my week so far. It's the first week after losing my 28 year old job (much better one on the way), my airconditioning died (just takes money to fix), her cat bit me (it's much better now-only feels like it's going to fall off part of the time) and I've had to take cold sponge baths (hot water heater fixed). It could be worse. At least I'm with Madeline and we've been laughing our heads off. Of all God's gifts to Man, I think the gift of humor may just be the most important.
-- Posted by mokath52 on Thu, Nov 5, 2009, at 8:22 AM
Fortunately my landlord fixes everything as soon as it breaks. He sends repairmen the same day as I call. He's the best! I recently got a new dishwasher.
-- Posted by Youngest Child on Thu, Nov 5, 2009, at 8:42 AM
Mokath52, seems you can still find a smile after all the events recently. I wish an attitude like yours was catching like the 'flu'.!!
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Thu, Nov 5, 2009, at 9:04 AM
When you live in Florida, the worst thing to go is the AC. The day before our daughter's wedding, ten years ago last June, the AC died.(tons of folks coming and going) By the way, someone ran over the front end of our car in front of the restaurant,as we enjoyed a rehearsal dinner inside. Think she was supposed to reconsider? A friend of my husband's was here within an hour to fix the AC. Car repairs took much longer. One year, the furnace went out just after Mom arrived for a visit. Who knew it didn't work? We seldom need it for ourselves, but she's accustomed to the furnace blowing out 80 degree air in MO. Same fellow was on the job in a flash. Living in Florida,it pays to have a friend in the AC/furnace business. Now, we need to make friends with the pest control folks, and perhaps a good auto restorer.
-- Posted by GONENOW on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 8:59 AM
Gonenow, there's seems to be a hurricane 'IDA" heading to Miss, Al coast, hope you're away from that area.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 10:08 AM
Oh, my, I wish I could get the news, so I would know if hurricanes were hitting the coaast!
-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 5:22 PM
gl, my home page is Yahoo.com and all the news is highlighted there including local(Southest Mo).
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 6:03 PM
Ah, I sometimes look in on Yahoo.com, but I don't usually see the local news. I'll check it. Thanks, D! I did manage get some of the Paducah station this morning to see the hurricane news.
-- Posted by goat lady on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 7:24 AM
Where I live is probably not in danger--we're in the middle of the state, not on the coast. We can use the extra rain the hurricane will likely send our way. I do pray for those who might be in line with the storm. We will probably have some heavy winds, but no worse than SEMO in March! We call it nature's pruning. GL, you can check weather.com for updates, too. Now--I just hope what I said is true remains true through this storm! Thanks for caring, dexterite!
-- Posted by GONENOW on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 7:41 AM
I hope to be heading to Navarre for the winter, storms should be gone by then. Have a good day.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 10:20 AM
Dexterite, we have more in common all the time. I'd love to have a second home in Navarre, but I settle for a vacation there occasionally. Is there still a fishing peer, or did the last storms take it away? Destin, Pensacola, Navarre--there is no place I'd rather vacation. Sad thing--if I pass you walking barefoot in the sand, I'll never know it's you. I guess you could always have some t-shirts printed with "Dexterite" on front and back! I'll put "GONENOW" on mine. Ha! It will give people something to wonder about. I DO hope the storms aren't too bad in that area. I think they've been hit hard enough in the past few years. I'm just getting ready to check the news. See you on the beach sometime--whether we know it or not!
-- Posted by GONENOW on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 3:07 PM
The old pier was destroyed by the last hurricane but they're building a longer one now and it's been approved to be 45 feet longer. My late wife loved the Navarre island, we have stayed there many times and taken the kids and grandkids over the years. I like the Emerald Surf Condo, have stayed at the Pearl but wasn't really impressed. Love 'Cocodries" restaurant, they have the very best crab cakes. Take care. I read the Navarre Island website, Kenny has a web cam and you feel sometimes the water and smell the gulf.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 3:25 PM
FYI, I was in Ocala last month for my uncle's funeral.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 3:26 PM
gonenow, the website is www.navarrebeachlife.com and the web cam show the waves coming now at 4pm central time and according to the ones who live there the waves are 15 to 20 feet now. They have a discussion forum that folks post pictures and comments. Very interesting if you're a Navarre Lover.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 4:21 PM
I'll go there in a few minutes. I thought I saw you here in Ocala...Our favorite restaurant is across the second bridge to Pensacola--Jones', I think. It's been awhile. Last few times we went to Destin. We stay at San Souci when at Pensacola Beach. It's good to be too poor for a beach house when the storms are here--don't have to worry about it ending up in Texas.
-- Posted by GONENOW on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 4:41 PM
Dexterite--restaurant is Hall's. I knew that didn't sound quite right. Pardon us, other readers, for a banter of beaches.
-- Posted by GONENOW on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 6:14 PM
Thanks gonenow, I was gonna add the same thing, perhaps MD will forgive us. I like the navarre website, always nice to see the Gulf.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 9:17 PM
Hehehe! You two have been having a really cool conversation here! I checked that webcam, but it said I needed to download java script.
I'm sure MD doesn't mind that you've rambled out through the seashore in her little hot water heater blog... The beach is infinitely more fascinating than MD's basement, to be sure!!!
I want a photo of those tee shirts!!
-- Posted by goat lady on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 10:29 PM
GL, I'd send you one for free, but mine are all GONENOW! (I couldn't resist--and yes, a trip to the beach is always wonderful, even if it is in our dreams.) It is a rather soggy beach today!
-- Posted by GONENOW on Tue, Nov 10, 2009, at 8:34 AM
gl, you can download a free java program at the bottom right corner of the square where web cam shows. Java stays on your computer, no charge and you can view the 2 different cameras.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Tue, Nov 10, 2009, at 8:50 AM
MD, during the ice storm, we had a gas hot water heater. It was the only thing that still worked. About 2 months later, my hot water heater went on the blitz, and my landlord had to replace something on it. Until they figured out what was wrong w/ it, however, we had 2 days w/ boiling hot water for baths, and dishes, etc. What's worse, hot water doesn't stay hot long in a cold cast iron tub! So it's definitely not just your house! Oh well...at least mine made it through the worst part of our year thus far!
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Tue, Nov 10, 2009, at 10:16 PM
Dexterite, I did install Java Script. That is VERY COOL!!!
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, Nov 11, 2009, at 6:03 AM
Glad you found it gl, I enjoy the view from the bridge leading to the Island of Navarre. On the lower left there's a Forum you may view and see all the comments much like MD's column. It will be easy to see who I am there. Only one from Missouri now.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Wed, Nov 11, 2009, at 6:22 AM
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Elections supervisors in eight counties can post signs at polling places that say a vote for the disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley is really a vote for his Republican replacement, as long as they name the Democrat, too, the 1st District Court of Appeal said Friday.
By JENNIFER LIBERTO
Published October 28, 2006
TALLAHASSEE - Elections supervisors in eight counties can post signs at polling places that say a vote for the disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley is really a vote for his Republican replacement, as long as they name the Democrat, too, the 1st District Court of Appeal said Friday.
Despite Foley's resignation nearly a month ago amid accusations that he sent lurid e-mails to congressional pages, his name is stuck on the ballot.
While more than 11,000 voters in 16th Congressional District have already cast votes without signs during early voting, the signs will go up and stay up, because the Florida Democratic Party said it will not appeal the ruling.
The appellate court both overturned and kept parts of a circuit court injunction that blocked the use of signs at polling places.
The appellate panel said that elections supervisors can use neutral signs drawn up by their association that inform voters that state Rep. Joe Negron of Stuart is the Republican candidate and also that Tim Mahoney of Palm Beach Gardens is the Democratic candidate. The signs also say that Emmie Ross is running with no party affiliation.
The panel kept in place the part of the injunction that would ban signs drawn up by the office of Secretary of State Sue Cobb, which only mentioned Negron. Those signs "suggest favoritism on behalf of the Republican candidate," the judges wrote.
During debate Friday morning, judges asked attorneys pointed questions, especially about a concern raised by Circuit Court Judge Janet Ferris. She wrote that allowing signs creates a "slippery slope" that might lead to other intrusions at polling places.
"What are we opening ourselves up to if we let this information be put in the polling places?" asked Judge James Wolf.
In their opinion issued later in the day, the panel wrote that they were concerned about bias and partisanship, and it's important to balance the "desire for an informed electorate with strict enforcement of impartiality mandated by the Legislature."
The counties that make up the 16th District are Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Okeechobee, Glades, Hendry, Highlands and Charlotte.
Democrats declared a truce on Friday and said they would not appeal to the Florida Supreme Court.
"The Florida Democratic Party accepts the courts ruling, which distinguishes between the wrongful partisanship of the Secretary of State and the nonpartisan recommendation of the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections," said chairwoman Karen Thurman in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Republicans and the Joe Negron campaign declared victory.
"Thankfully, the Democrats' intentional and malicious attempts at disenfranchisement have been thwarted by the law, and the voters of the 16th Congressional District are better off for it," said Jeff Sadosky of the Republican Party of Florida.
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Rated 4 out of 5 by Sharon2549 Capri Stools We ordered 4 of the stools in white. They were shipped promptly, easy to get out of the heavy box and was fully assembled. So far, so good. When setting up the bar stools, some of the bolts in the base of two stools had fallen completely out and the bolts in the other two were just loose. Not a problem, we tighten up all the bolts but noticed that each of the 4 stools had a dent in the big round base. The boxes they arrived in had big dings in the sides. We love the bar stools, they are just what we wanted but without dents. We will be contacting customer service for replacements - we'll see how that goes. September 18, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by BBeard Love them We purchased these stools in red a few weeks ago, they arrived nicely shipped and in perfect condition, no need for assembly at all. They are very comfortable and swivel so smoothly, like sitting in a barber chair. We did notice that the levers for up and down motion are a little hard to reach and may need some breaking in time for them to move up and down easily. My husband has no trouble with that, but it is a little hard for me. The only concern we do have is that the bolt underneath the base became a little loose after the first week. We used an allen wrench and a touch of "Locktight: and re-screwed them in. That seems to have solved the problem. October 2, 2014
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Answer:We appreciate your interest in this item. The seat height of this stool varies between 21.7" and 31.5".
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Loss of NRG is a major threat
Monday evening, we heard the voices and saw the faces of our fellow Chautauqua County citizens as they addressed the New York state Public Service Commission. More than 2,000 teachers, firefighters, senior citizens, business owners, and residents from across Chautauqua County mustered in the Williams Center at SUNY Fredonia.
This powerful forum was made possible by the strong leadership of state Sen. Cathy Young. Her masterful testimony was punctuated by Assemblyman Andy Goodell who skillfully questioned the presenters to peel back the layers of rhetoric and expose the truth. Then, over 70 speakers covered the devastating impact on our community if NRG Dunkirk Power is not repowered with state of the art clean natural gas. At 11:35 p.m., the hearing adjourned. So now what?
Every now and then there comes a time and a cause when our citizens rise up to a challenge. Remember the words: "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant." Although we are not facing a wartime attack, we are facing a threat to our economic security and quality of life here in Chautauqua County.
The stakes are enormous: reliable power, clean energy, $500 million private investment, hundreds of jobs, and $8.3 million in tax payments affecting our property taxes and the education of our kids. State Gov. Andrew Cuomo was just here in Chautauqua County discussing the 30-year declining Western New York economy. When questioned by the media on the NRG repower initiative, he said let the Public Service Commission's public comment process play out.
My fellow citizens, the time has come for each of us to respond through our written comments.
For those who were unable to testify Monday evening, your comments will be accepted by the Public Service Commission through Aug. 16. We need you to make your comments known to both Gov. Cuomo and commission Chairman Garry Brown. Reference case 12-E-0577.
Please mail your comments to:
Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor
Executive Chamber
NYS Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
Chairman Garry A. Brown
Acting Secretary Jeffery Cohen
NYS Public Service Commission
Agency Bldg. 3. Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY 12223
Information can be found online at www.dps.ny.gov by searching case number 12-E-0577. Comments may be submitted online, by mail or by calling the commission at 1-800-335-2120.
Vince Horrigan is a member of the Chautauqua County Legislature and the Republican Party candidate for Chautauqua County executive.


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Skip to comments.Deport British Citizen Piers Morgan for Attacking 2nd Amendment
Posted on 12/22/2012 9:02:10 AM PST by Morris70
Use 1st amendment and protect 2nd amendment. Overwhelm it. Tell everyone you know to sign petition.
Deport British Citizen Piers Morgan for Attacking 2nd Amendment.
19,919 signatures needed by January 20. 5,081 signatures made.
I have no desire to put my name on yet another white house list. Agree with the effort though.
Absurd. We should not deport someone for "speech" unless it's violent speech. Having a different ideology isn't a crime. This mocks the 1st amendment.
Thanks Morris70.
As if there's any power behind these polls, but hey, FReep it anyway:
Deport British Citizen Piers Morgan for Attacking 2nd Amendment
It's all free speech.
He's not for my right to bear arms, and I am not for his right to speak freely.
He can go live in England if he is so against guns.
Deport him.
Oh, who cares? He's a creep and a non-citizen.
Doesn't the 1st protect the right to speak out against the 2nd? Piers and others have said things we don't like or agree with but the consequence shouldn't putting a muzzle on him or booting him out. He's exposed himself as anti-American so let the natural consequence of a further dwindling audience be his reward.
Piers probably loves all this pot-clanging from the right, it's like a liberal merit badge. Don't give this clown the individual attention he craves. Rightfully reduce him and his ilk to an anti-rights, anti-freedom stereotype. That'll probably irritate the heck out of him.
Personally, if he is a British Citizen and NOT an American Citizen, then my belief is that the First Amendment does not apply to him. He should seek redress of his grievances from his own country. Wait, he's not welcomed there because of faking reports about British soldiers in Afghanistan.
"Absurd. We should not deport someone for "speech" unless itâs violent speech. Having a different ideology isn't a crime. This mocks the 1st amendment."
Exactly — well said!
This petition mocks conservatives, that they only believe in free speech with which they agree.
If CNN had any sense, they would dump him. Wait, they don't have any sense.
Justice Scalia would ask you, "how come the First Amendment refers to 'people,' instead of 'citizens,' then?"
It's okay if he asks. It is my opinion. There is plenty of other precedent for different treatment for citizens vs. foreigners.
I understand the sentiment behind this petition but I won't sign it.
That segment was dreadful and shameful, but he has the right to his opinion.
The best thing is just not to watch, which most people don't do anyway. I venture to guess that only a small number even know who he is.
You have your opinion, I have mine. It is no different that not allowing foreigners to vote, or avail themselves of our publically funded service - at least it used to be.
Decades ago, before a legal immigrant to this country could enter it, someone had to warrant that the entrant would not become a public burden. I had to certify this for my wife.
You can word game it all you want, but I suspect if the Founding Fathers were alive today and saw what is going, they would be very much clearer in what they said.
I remember many, many, years ago when the Daily Mirror circulation was six million daily, a statement about it's technique and style. It was to the effect that many of the revered columnists did not "believe half of what they wrote". It was further stated that the object was to have readers "choke with rage over their breakfast as they read these columnists".
Morgan will have a shrewed eye on the figures, relating to viewership of his CNN program. He cares not for any tragedy and is simply trying to milk it for all it is worth.
It is not for me to say whether he should be deported though, not being a citizen. What I do say is that the man fits the description of being a subversive. That being someone who tries to change the laws and the system that creates those laws. A rough definition I will concede.
I think he likes to "push buttons".
The way I see it is this: People have every right to start a petition calling for the deportation of someone on the basis of exercising their right to free speech, and the government has a responsibility to ignore it for being completely unconstitutional.
Of course, you are free to your opinion [pun intended]. It simply does not hold up very well in the eyes of the law. And someone with the mind of Scalia (sadly, I'm not so smart) would be greatly amused at the suggestion he is playing "word games."
Protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Would you sign a petition if Piers Morgan was using his platform at CNN to ban the 1st Amendmemt?
OK, BK it.....bye
Whoa there, cowboy. In your hypothetical, is Morgan advocating for another Amendment, or is he engaging in sedition?
The fascist snake was tossed out of the journalist business in Britian for knowingly pushing fake photos of soldiers abusing Iraqis as "news."
CNN picks up and employs the Brit's journalistic trash. He fits right in with the little commie diversity, Soledad O'Brien.
Isn't there some child abuse perverts the BBC wants to get rid of? CNN is waiting in the wings for any and all manipulative, dark and ignorant losers.
The way I see it, he is a foreigner attacking the Constitution while on our soil. He should be deported.
And I'll ask again, is he attacking the Constitution with small arms and RPG's, or with words?
So are you defending a foreigner advocating gun confiscation while on our soil?
These petitions are the equivalent of giving a child a toy steering wheel in a car so they can pretend to be driving it just like the big people do.
Brilliant idea by the Obama Administration to get people to waste their time.
Signed and bumped.
Are you saying we don't have the freedom of speech to call for Morgan's deportation? Interesting.
With all due respect, I believe there are no British Citizens. They are, rather, "Subjects of The Crown". That would go a long way towards explaining the submissive attitude of Mr. Morgan, he is a subject. Our Forefathers shed blood, to lift that yoke from upon them. I truly think that the men of that era were "The Greatest Generation", no disrespect to the World War II era Americans. Thank you.
Piers was the wrong choice to host that show. I laugh out loud when that limey starts talking about the 2nd Amendment.
So, these are not God given rights that belong to all men?
Gun Control. Please contact your Democratic leadership and call for unilaterally disarmement.
My fellow moon-bats, er, progressives. I plea that you, er, we, contact our legislators and begin to draft legislation for the unilateral disarmament of all our fellow democrats and associated constituencies. I.e. Gangsters, Federal employees, Unions, The Downtrodden etc., you know, the usual suspects. Pass a resolution demonstrating your, er, our good faith. RESOLVED: It is hereby understood that to own a firearm is dangerous and immoral. Furthermore our best strategy is to follow our Dear Leader, Chairman O, and lead from our behinds. Therefor effective immediately you, er we will hand in our firearms and other such defensive weapons of potential mass destruction, fertilizer, gasoline, matches. Thank you for your time.
You don't strengthen the Constitutional right to bear arms by eviscerating the Constitutional right to free speech.
Sounds like he might have been emulating Dan Rather's pushing fake documents alleging that George W. Bush was AWOL from the Air Force National Guard.
Seems as if the Brit MSM may have less tolerance for fraudsters like him than CBS had for Rather.
Yes they are but..
President Obama wins another..
SCOTUS: Inalienable Rights Are Unconstitutional
Inalienable rights are religion.. only human rights granted by government are Constitutional.
Dear Leader wins another..
SCOTUS: Inalienable Rights Are Unconstitutional
Inalienable rights are religion.. only human rights granted by government are Constitutional.
I would be happy if someone would simply kick his limey ass, preferably on his TV show.
Instead of petitioning for the deportation of this British blowhard, we can be more effective by boycotting his show and the whole CNN lineup. (I suspect a lot of us already have pretty much done so.)
Even as a non-citizen, he has a right to say pretty much any nonsense he wishes over the airwaves, provided he doesn't directly advocate killing or violence or the immediate overthrow of the government.
But let's check that he isn't voting in our elections nor making political contributions in the United States, both of which he is barred from doing by law.
Lookit, I know petitions don't mean a damm legally. Furthermore, I don't care if the 2nd amendment applies to him or not.
But let me say this.....any petition with thousands of names including a media "celebrity" name inspiring the petition will actually get a modicum of attention....from the internet media, from the conservative media....from many in CNN's audience....and from the Brit Twit himself.
So I'm going to have some fun by signing my name and I'm not going to twist myself into a pretzel thinking of every academic reason not to sign.
We deserve to have some lightness once in a while....and poking our collective fingers at that lightweight prig of a socialist talk host is going to make my day.
Nobody watches his show anyway. If CNN gets enough complaints, they might tell him to shut up. Considering his borderline criminal past, they can't be too proud of him anyway.
It's just a public condemnation.
Nothing will come of it except everyone's right
to exercise free speech in a public forum against a visitor who publicly incited discourse to the laws of the land they were visiting.
Two people from UK visiting the US were deported this year for posting on twitter they were going to destroy the US. Any of us did the same police would investigate the seriousness of the threat and make charges if appropriate .
All visitors to the US are given the same protection as any citizen.
Rights given to citizens aren't necessarily given
to any visitor.
Idiot. Get out of my way, so I can save the country.
Oh lordy, we're doomed.
Grandiose much?
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Last week, Living Blues magazine announced the results of its 18th annual Living Blues Awards. In its Reader's Poll category, the Best Blues Album of 2010 (Historical Recording) went to Dinah Washington: The Fabulous Miss D! The Keystone, Decca, & Mercury Singles 1943-1953 (Hip-OSelect/UMe). I wrote the liner notes. Hats off to Universal producer and vice president of A&R Harry Weinger. It's a terrific set. For the full list of winners, go here. For the box set, go here.
Frank Foster. In the wake of my post last week on the late tenor saxophonist Frank Foster, singer-lyricist and producer Morgan Ames (Deedle's Blues, Quietly There) sent along the follow note:
"Frank and I wrote a song in the late '80s when I co-produced an album for Diane Schuur and the Basie Band. GRP Records' Larry Rosen had asked me to write a song for Diane that would have the effect of It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)—but not be that song.
"I immediately got a headache. The whole project was a classic last-minute rush. Before I knew it, we were all on our way to Japan to tour the CD's songs, all of which I had chosen or written with Diane's input—just days or weeks beforehand. The idea was to introduce the songs on the road and then record in the studio and tape live for video at the end. [Pictured: Morgan Ames]
"I had most of the freshly copied, not-yet-played band charts on the plane with me. To meet Larry's challenge, I came up with You Can Have It at the start of the flight. Then I walked over to Frank's seat and gave him the lyrics, telling him about Larry's suggestion, and went back to my seat to sleep.
"Halfway through the Japan tour, Frank brought in the song one night and sang it down for Diane. It must have been a hair-raising assignment, even for Frank, considering the model had already been written and arranged by Duke Ellington. As Larry had said, 'Do it like that but don't do it like that.' Now I understand why it took Frank half the tour to write and arrange it.
"Besides the lyric, all I said to Frank was that it had to be fast. His chart still blows me away. It was all that and a bag of chips. The CD, Diane Schuur and the Count Basie Orchestra, remained at No. 1 on the Billboard jazz chart for 32 weeks, Diane won a Grammy for Jazz Vocalist of the Year, and Frank won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals. And we got to keep our publishing, too!"
You can hear You Can Have It here.
Pops on stage. Terry Teachout is a busy guy. In addition to serving as the Wall Street Journal's drama critic, he also writes arts criticism for a variety of publications and recently authored Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. And then there were the two opera librettos (he's working on a third). And he's currently writing a Duke Ellington biography. In the remaining minutes of each day, Terry [pictured] managed to write a play, Satchmo at the Waldorf. It opens on September 15 in Orlando, Fla., starring Dennis Neal, centering on Armstrong's last performance in 1971 before his death. For more information, go here.
Fran Landesman (1927-2011), who is best known for writing the lyrics to Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most and Ballad of the Sad Young Men, died last week. Rather than say more, let me quote from my interview with Jackie Cain, who with husband Roy Kral, put Landesman [pictured] on the map.
JazzWax: In 1955 you were the first to record Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most. Did you know the song's composer?
Jackie Cain: Actually we did. We had met Tommy Wolf in St. Louis in 1954. Tommy had come to hear us at a local club. After we finished, he came up and introduced himself to us. He was very ecstatic about what we had done, and he told us we were great and how much he loved our work. He made us feel real good. He pointed out parts of the song that he liked best. Some things we did were contrapuntal, and we used a lot of harmony and we went in and out of harmony. So there was a lot to listen to. Tommy got it all.
JW: What happened next?
JC: Tommy asked us to come see him at the Crystal Palace nearby, where he was the house pianist. The Crystal Palace was co-owned by the husband of lyricist Fran Landesman. Fran would write lovely lyrics and Tommy would put them to music. So we went over to hear him at the Crystal Palace on our night off. [Photo of Fran Landesman seated atop the piano and Tommy Wolf at the keyboard]
JW: How was Tommy?
JC: Seeing him perform was an eye-opener. He was doing all these wonderful original tunes he had written with Fran. Tommy played and sang at the piano. His songs written with Fran included Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most, You Inspire Me and I Love You Real. Their songs were very clever and sounded as if they had been written for us. After the set, Tommy told us about Fran.
JW: What did you tell him?
JC: We asked Tommy to send us a copy of Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most. He said many people had wanted to record it since he and Fran wrote it [in 1952] but that no one ever did.
JW: Why?
JC: Tommy said it was too avant-garde for some audiences. Which is true. It's not an easy song. It has become an underground hit and standard just by being done by so many artists who do it love it. The lyrics don't circle back and repeat. It's not like a true pop song. It's poignant, beautiful and one big, long story.
For more infromation on Landesman, go here.
Dizzy Gillespie and James Moody. Another superb mini-doc from Jazz Journalists Association award winner Bret Primack...
Still hungry for Helen? Last week, I forgot to share with you my favorite Helen Shapiro hit, Stop and You'll Become Aware. By the way, a Comment that was posted during the week about a rock concert performance in the '80s was spam and has been removed. Dig the jazz bass opener here...
The World of the Teenager. Back in 1966, Frank De Felitta, director Raymond De Felitta's father, filmed a documentary on the restless teenage youth culture in Lexington, Mass., for NBC. For more about the documentary, go here. You'll find the documentary here...
Cool. Dig this funny clip that past president of the New Jersey Jazz Society Joe Lang sent along. It's a jape on today's digital social networking world, set to the music of West Side Story...
CD discovery of the week. Pianist Junior Mance's Letter From Home (Jun Glo Music) was recorded live at Cafe Loup in New York this past March. The album features Junior, 82, in a robust funky-gospel mood. He's joined by Hide Tanaka on bass, Kim Garey on drums, Ryan Anselmi on tenor sax and Andrew Hadro on baritone sax. Junior gives Home on the Range a deep, soulful treatment, recasting it as a prairie companion to John Brown's Body. Junior also adds fire to Ellington-Strayhorn's Sunset and the Mocking Bird and A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing. You'll find this one here.
Oddball album cover of the week. Last week, Julie London was under covers asking for the record-buyer's phone number. This week, a tarty party model is shown in a house of blue lights reposing for a Dick Garcia album from 1956. And quite a superb album by the guitarist at that. Unclear is whether our model is returning Garcia's call or leaving him a message. Either way, that pre-cordless receiver looks like it weighs a ton. I'll leave it to the shrinks to figure out why photographing a woman in bed with a phone sold records.


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FlightSafety Vital 1100 Reaches Level D Benchmark
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FlightSafety International announces that five of its simulators equipped with the recently introduced VITAL 1100 visual system have been qualified to Level D by EASA and the FAA. Three additional VITAL 1100 equipped simulators are scheduled to receive Level D qualification in the next few months.
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Topic: Controller Code Tutorial
Hi. Most tutorials do a bang-up job teaching WHAT a controller is, and WHAT an action is in relation to the rest of a rails project. But I have yet to read a tutorial that does a good job explaining HOW the code in a controller actually works.
class UsersController < ApplicationController
def action
Obviously, it is Ruby code. But learning the Ruby code is too much of a "bottom-up" approach to learning these things. It seems like there should be better "top-down" methods of learning about such code. So, here are some questions that, if answered by RoR geniuses, might help a great deal:
(1) What are the 10 most common code snippets you use in the controller (what do they do and how do they work)?
(2) How do you know which way data is flowing? (From the model to the view, from a form to a model, etc..)
(3) What are common misconceptions about code in controllers?
(4) What are the most common mistakes people make when writing code in controllers?
Thank You.
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Testbed Configuration and Testing Methodology
All graphics cards were benchmarked in a closed system case with the following configuration:
- Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-X58A-OC (Intel X58 Express, LGA 1366, BIOS F5b from 05/19/2011);
- CPU: Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition, 3.33 GHz, 1.225 V, 6 x 256 KB L2, 12 MB L3 (Gulftown, B1);
- CPU cooler: Thermalright Archon (2 x Thermalright TY-140 fans at 800 RPM);
- Thermal interface: Gelid GC-Extreme;
- System memory: DDR3 3 x 2GB OCZ Platinum Low-Voltage Triple Channel (Spec: 1600 MHz / 7-7-7-24 / 1.65 V);
- Graphics cards:
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 Super Overclock 1.5 GB, 772/1544/4008, 855/1710/4100 MHz and 935/1870/4860 MHz;
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 2 GB Toxic Edition 880/5200 MHz and 940/6000 MHz;
- System drive: RAID-0 of 2 x Kingston V-series SNV425S2128GB SSD (SATA-II, 128 GB, MLC, Toshiba TC58NCF618G3T controller);
- Drive for programs and games: Western Digital VelociRaptor (300GB, SATA-II, 10000 RPM, 16MB cache, NCQ) inside Scythe Quiet Drive 3.5" HDD silencer and cooler;
- Backup drive: Samsung Ecogreen F4 HD204UI (SATA-II, 2 TB, 5400 RPM, 32 MB, NCQ);
- System case: Antec Twelve Hundred (front panel: three Noiseblocker NB-Multiframe S-Series MF12-S2 fans at 1020 RPM; back panel: two Noiseblocker NB-BlackSilentPRO PL-1 fans at 1020 RPM; top panel: standard 200 mm fan at 400 RPM);
- Control and monitoring panel: Zalman ZM-MFC2
- Power supply: Xigmatek "No Rules Power" NRP-HC1501 1500 W (with a default 140 mm fan);
- Monitor: 30" Samsung 305T Plus.
The super graphics card from Gigabyte will be competing today against Sapphire product, which we have already reviewed before:
In fact, it is the fastest single-GPU AMD graphics card available today, so GeForce GTX 580 doesn't really have any other competitors. We tested it in nominal mode and overclocked to 940/6000 MHz:
In order to lower the dependence of the graphics cards performance on the overall platform speed, I overclocked our 32 nm six-core CPU with the multiplier set at 25x and "Load-Line Calibration" (Level 2) enabled to 4.5 GHz. The processor Vcore was increased to 1.46875 V in the mainboard BIOS:
The 6 GB of system DDR3 memory worked at 1.44 GHz frequency with 7-7-7-16_1T timings and 1.5V voltage. Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading technologies were disabled during our test session.
The test session started on September 14, 2011. All tests were performed in Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 with all critical updates as of that date and the following drivers:
- Intel Chipset Drivers 18.104.22.1680 WHQL for the mainboard chipset;
- DirectX End-User Runtimes from November 30, 2010;
- AMD Catalyst 11.9 beta Driver for AMD based graphics cards;
- Nvidia GeForce 285.27 beta driver for Nvidia based graphics cards.
The graphics cards were tested in two resolutions: the today's most popular 1920x1080 and the maximum 2560x1600. The tests were performed in two image quality modes: "High Quality+AF16x" – maximum texturing quality with enabled 16x anisotropic filtering and "High Quality+ AF16x+MSAA4(8)x" with enabled 16x anisotropic filtering and full screen 4x anti-aliasing (MSAA) or 8x if the average framerate was high enough for comfortable gaming experience. We enabled anisotropic filtering and full-screen anti-aliasing from the game settings or configuration files. If the corresponding options were missing, we changed these settings in the Control Panels of Catalyst and GeForce drivers. There were no other changes in the driver settings.
The list of games and applications used in this test session includes two popular semi-synthetic benchmarking suites, one technical demo and 14 games of various genres:
- 3DMark Vantage (DirectX 10) – version 126.96.36.199, Performance and Extreme profiles (only basic tests);
- 3DMark 2011 (DirectX 11) – version 188.8.131.52, Performance and Extreme profiles;
- Unigine Heaven Demo (DirectX 11) – version 2.5, maximum graphics quality settings, tessellation at "extreme", AF16x, 1920x1080 resolution with MSAA 4x;
- BattleForge: Lost Souls (DirectX 11) – version 1.2 (08.18.2011), maximum image quality settings, shadows enabled, SSAO technology enabled, two runs of the built-in benchmark;
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (DirectX 11) – version 1.6.02, Enhanced Dynamic DX11 Lighting profile with all parameters manually set at their maximums, we used our custom cop03 demo on the Backwater map;
- Left 4 Dead 2 (DirectX 9) – version 126.96.36.199, maximum graphics quality settings, d81 demo (two runs) on "Gold Stream (Beta)" map of the "Alpine Greek" level;
- Metro 2033: The Last Refuge (DirectX 10/11) - version 1.2, maximum graphics quality settings, official benchmark, "High" image quality settings; tesselation, DOF and MSAA4x disabled; AAA aliasing enabled, two consecutive runs of the "Frontline" scene;
- Just Cause 2 (DirectX 11) - version 220.127.116.11, maximum quality settings, Background Blur and GPU Water Simulation enabled, two consecutive runs of the "Dark Tower" demo;
- Aliens vs. Predator (2010) (DirectX 11) – Texture Quality "Very High", Shadow Quality "High", SSAO On, two test runs in each resolution;
- Lost Planet 2 (DirectX 11) – version 1.0, maximum graphics quality settings, motion blur enabled, performance test "B" (average in all three scenes);
- StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty (DirectX 11) – version 1.0, all image quality settings at "Ultra", Physics "Ultra", reflections On, two 2-minute runs of our own jt1 demo;
- Sid Meier's Civilization V (DirectX 11) – version 184.108.40.206, maximum graphics quality settings, two runs of the "diplomatic" benchmark including five heaviest scenes;
- Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 (DirectX 11) – version 1.04, maximum graphics quality settings, shadows On, tessellation Off (not available on Radeon), two runs of the test scene;
- Crysis 2 (DirectX 11) – version 1.9, Adrenaline Crysis 2 Benchmark Tool v184.108.40.206 beta, "Ultra High" graphics quality profile, High-Definition textures enabled, two runs of the demo in "Times Square" scene;
- Total War: Shogun 2 (DirectX 11) – version 2.0, built in benchmark (Sekigahara battle) at maximum graphics quality settings;
- DiRT 3 (DirectX 11) – version 1.1, built-in benchmark at maximum graphics quality settings on the "Aspen" track;
- World of Planes (DirectX 9) – alpha-version (from 08.19.2011), maximum image quality settings (see screenshot below), one test run.
If the game allowed recording the minimal fps readings, they were also added to the charts. We ran each game test or benchmark twice and took the best result for the diagrams, but only if the difference between them didn't exceed 1%. If it did exceed 1%, we ran the tests at least one more time to achieve repeatability of results.


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It's Not Elementary, My Dear Watson. It's Sherlock Holmes at the Dryden
If I tell you that I'm a certified Sherlock Holmes nut I hope that you believe me. Sitting in my home office writing this blog I am looking over several editions of Arthur Conan Doyle's seminal works including an old and handsome two-volume edition that I stole from my father before moving to Rochester (sorry dad). Behind me, standing vigil everyday as I work, is a fairly large theater poster of William Gillette's 1932 farewell appearance of Sherlock Holmes.
I have read every novel, every short story, and nearly every other author's take on the world's favorite sleuth. I have studied Joseph Bell, the scientist who was professor to a young Arthur Conan Doyle and who was the admitted basis for the Sherlock Holmes character (for a great fictional account of this Bell/Doyle relationship may I point you to the wonderful series of books and movies entitled Murder Rooms.) I have seen umpteenth versions of Sherlock Holmes on film from Basil Rathbone, to Jeremy Brett, to the great modern day retelling of the consulting detective appearing on PBS Mystery! this very month.
It came to my great surprise and delight when, while pouring over the new Dryden calendar, I came across a version of Holmes I have never seen before and in fact had never even heard of before. The 1923 production of the second Sherlock Holmes novel, The Sign of Four, stars Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes who must protect the young Mary Morstan as she is pursued by an escaped convict and one of the titular four.
I don't want to give much of the plot away but The Sign of Four was the true beginning of the Sherlock Holmes character that we have all come to know and love. It was this novel that introduced Sherlock's cocaine addiction, and the character Mary Morstan who would become the future wife of Sherlock Holmes biography Dr. John Watson. It also has one of the more complex plots of all the Sherlock Holmes stories which, while all great, are not always the layered mysteries we fans tend to make them out to be.
I would be remiss not to mention that this silent film will be accompanied by live piano performed by a true Rochester treasure Philip C. Carli. I have had the distinct pleasure to see Mr. Carli accompany many movies at the Dryden and can attest to the awe-inspiring performances he gives every time he takes to the piano.
See you at the Dryden!
Tuesday, November 23 2010, 8:00 pm The Sign of Four
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Every once in a while we make some sort of ranking concerning Maccas album. Here is another try. There are five ways to describe an album
Outstanding - that means it s a landmark album - a true classic
Great - That mean s it s very, very good-a least a minor classic
Good- That means it s very pleasant listening with at least some great stuff
Average- The same as boring
Below average - Sorry not this time
Here are my choices
Outstanding - Ram, Band on the Run, Mccartney, Chaos and creation
Great- Tug of war, Flaming pie, Mccartney 2, Red rose speedway,,WOA(the only live album included), Flaming Pie, Run Devil run,
Good- Wild Life, Back to the egg, London town, Pipes of peace, Memory almost full,Kisses on the B , Flowers in the dirt, Electric argument, Speed of sound
Average- Driving Rain, Give my regards to broad street , Of the ground, that russian covers album
Below average - Press to play
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Jamestown Man Charged For Allegedly Striking Juveniles
A Jamestown man is facing several charges after police say he punched two juveniles in the face Tuesday night.
Robert A. Hannah, 21, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, second-degree harassment and third-degree assault. Officers of the Jamestown Police Department responded at 11:30 p.m. to 142 Anderson St. for a report of two males assaulted.
Police spoke to a 12-year-old and 15-year-old and their parents. According to a police report, the victims were involved in an altercation with Hannah.
Hannah allegedly struck both males in the face, causing injury to the 12-year-old, police said.
Following an investigation, Hannah was taken into custody and charged. He was arraigned Wednesday morning in Jamestown City Court and released under the supervision of probation, a court clerk said.
The Jamestown resident is scheduled to be back in court Aug. 27.
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Eight-core Zambezi flagship to challenge Intel's Core i7
AMD has launched its much anticipated FX series of desktop CPUs using the
architecture. Codenamed
, the 32nm chips represent the company's top offerings for enthusiasts.
is the first complete redesign of AMD's processor architecture since the K7
was launched in 1999, and features significant improvements in manufacturing, design, and cost reduction.
The drive for efficiency and greater instructions per clock (IPC) was the original impetus for
. Long gone are the days of simply increasing clock speed for easy performance gains. AMD and Intel have been increasing the number of CPU cores, but that takes up a lot of die space. Intel has been pushing HyperThreading as its way of maximizing efficiency, and is pretty good when a CPU stalls due to a cache miss, branch misprediction, or data dependency. However, AMD has decided to go a markedly different route.
module provides an independent, dedicated integer and scheduler unit for each core. A single floating point unit is shared between the two cores in a
module, along with the fetch and decode units and a 2MB L2 cache. There is a 16KB L1 data cache per core, as well as a 64KB L1 instruction cache per module. This adds up to an impressive 128KB L1 data cache, 256KB L1 instruction cache, and 8MB L2 cache for an eight-core FX processor.
Theoretically, this should provide much better performance than HyperThreading, which functions best when there are a lot of CPU stalls because all threads must compete for available execution resources. HyperThreading increases performance by approximately 30% at a cost of 5% extra die space, but the second integer core in Bulldozer could almost double integer performance at a die cost of only 12%.
The Bulldozer architecture was originally supposed to debut in the first half of 2009, and would've enabled AMD to compete toe-to-toe with Intel on pure performance, rather than on pricing alone. However, various financial difficulties and a major recession led to delays, while the divestment of its
manufacturing capacity into GlobalFoundries
led to some technical delays. Almost three years late, the design has been updated significantly in order to accommodate the latest technologies and manufacturing processes.
FX chips are built by GlobalFoundries on its 32nm Silicon on insulator (SOI) process. The eight core
chips have around two billion transistors and a die size of approximately 315mm
. An integrated northbridge unit supplies an 8MB L3 cache, four 16-bit HyperTransport 3.0 links, and the integrated memory controller. Depending on the model, it runs at either 2.2Ghz or 2.0GHz. The most significant update to the integrated dual-channel memory controller is native support for DDR3 memory at 1866MHz (DDR3-1866/PC3-14900). ECC memory is still supported; a welcome relief to those who are planning on FX-based workstations, as Intel only supports ECC memory on its much more expensive Xeon workstations.
There are instruction sets aplenty: SSE3, SSE4.1/4.2, AES, and AVX. AMD is also introducing support for FMA4 and XOP. FMA4 can be thought of as specific instructions designed to speed up Fused Multiply–Add (FMA) operations. XOP is a revision of the SSE5 instruction set, redesigned to be more compatible with Intel's AVX.
The four new FX chips being launched today will require motherboards with socket AM3+, but the good news is that enthusiasts will be able to upgrade to a top of the line FX-8150 for $245. The FX-8120 will be available for $205, while the six-core FX-6100 will be priced at $165. The four-core FX-4100 with a 95W TDP is available for only $115. All FX chips are unlocked, and AMD has already set the Guinness World Record for the "Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor" by overclocking a
chip to 8.429 GHz.
Several speed bumps are already planned for Q1 and Q2 of 2012 as GlobalFoundries 32nm process matures. However, Bulldozer won't move into into the mainstream until the
refresh next year.
cores featuring DirectX 11
Fusion technology
will replace
, while the 10-core
processor will supplant
as the FX flagship.
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Crape Myrtle Allee
Sweeping crape myrtle trees enclose a stone walkway to create this magnificent garden. This natural tunnel leads visitors to the popular "frog fountain" water feature, Polliwogs.
Opened to the public in 1994, Crape Myrtle Allee was originally funded by the Communities Foundation. Dedicated to John and Thelma Black by their daughter Peggy Braecklein. The Allee features a new lane of crape myrtle trees, which replaced the original trees planted by the DeGolyers. Paved with Pennsylvania bluestone, the Allee runs from the Paseo to Toad Corners. The Crape Myrtle Allee is a popular destination for family photo shoots and engagement photos.
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Rena Wang traveled to at least 25 tournaments around the globe en route to qualifying for the 2012 U.S. Olympic badminton team.
Rena Wang feels like she has hardly been home during the past three years.
Playing in international badminton tournaments has kept Wang on the go, though she's going to enjoy a little time at home in Southern California until her next road trip — to London.
After a busy 12 months, Wang, 20, qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games in women's singles, pending U.S. Olympic Committee approval.
"We had such a hectic schedule," she said. "The race was so tight on points this year, so I think we traveled to at least 25 different tournaments."
Luckily, Wang had her family by her side the entire time.
Wang traveled, trained and played with younger sister and doubles partner, Iris. Their mother, Dora, traveled to tournaments all over the world to be with her daughters. Their travels took them from Peru to Russia.
"I wouldn't have able to do it without my parents support," Rena Wang said. "We don't get a lot of funding so I'm really happy that they're really supportive, both financially and emotionally. It's like a family affair."
Wang said her family paid for most of the international travel, and that wasn't the only sacrifice. Rena also took two years off from her undergrad studies at UCLA while Iris finished her high school credits with independent study.
"It's like they realize I can only do this while I'm younger and they support me every way possible to make my dreams come true," Rena said.
Wang's dream of playing in the Olympic Games grew as she and her sister advanced from junior tournaments to adult tournaments to the international level.
"We started playing more adult tournaments and traveled internationally to just one or two (tournaments) and did OK," she said. "So we set a goal and planned out our two years."
The Olympic qualification was based on the Badminton World Federation's world rankings after one calendar year — May 2011 to April 2012 — of competitions.
Wang was ranked No. 57 when the Olympic invitations were announced on May 3.
The Olympic invitation was met with excitement and a sigh of relief from Wang.
"We've been traveling for two years, almost three," Wang said. "I had to take off time from school and sacrifice a lot of things. I'm just really happy that it paid off."
After the Games, Rena Wang plans on returning to Southern California to continue her undergraduate studies in biology in preparation for medical school.
But her focus now is on the near future, and this summer, Wang joins Olympic veterans and doubles partners Howard Bach and Tony Gunawan in representing the United States in London. Bach is going to his third consecutive Olympic Games and Gunawan, who won the Olympic gold medal for his native Indonesia at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, will be going to his first with Team USA. He became a U.S. citizen in September.
"I feel so honored to be part of the team and to go to London alongside Tony and Howard," Wang said. "It's a big honor. They're such good role models."
Gunawan has acted as a coach for the Wang sisters during the past couple of years, giving them an experienced guide during training sessions in between international travel.
Wang hopes her experience at international tournaments, where she saw a lot of the world's top players in singles and doubles matches, will help her advance out of pool play in London and into the knockout stages of the tournament.
"I think it's realistic," she said of reaching the final 16, "but it's still a big achievement for U.S. badminton."
As always, her family will be there to cheer her on. Wang just wishes her sister also qualified for the Games.
Iris Wang was ranked No. 83 on the world rankings at the end of the qualification period and the sisters were No. 32 in the doubles rankings.
"It's disappointing because she made so many more sacrifices and it was so much harder on her because she had to do (high) school," Rena Wang said. "I feel so bad that we didn't make it. But I think she has so much potential and she'll definitely make it for 2016. I think it will prepare her better for 2016 and allow her to achieve better things as a player later on."
Iris Wang, who graduated high school this spring, started playing with the San Gabriel Valley Badminton Club nine years ago, and Rena followed a month later.
Rena Wang said playing with her sister helped her reach the Olympic Games.
Iris Wang will be there to help train her sister for the Olympic Games — an opportunity for the sisters to stay in Southern California after a busy year. Rena Wang will play in the U.S. Open at nearby Orange County Badminton Club in July before heading to London.
"It's so fun just traveling with your best friend, playing together, going through training together," Rena Wang said. "I could not have done it without her by my side."
Story courtesy Red Line Editorial, Inc. Tom Glave is a freelance contributor for TeamUSA.org. This story was not subject to the approval of any National Governing Bodies.


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i3 Detroit - The Metro Detroit Hackerspace
Page of the Week
Every week or so, there will be a different wiki page up here for you to pay a little extra special attention to. Give it some love!
Oct 22nd
Members. Who are ye?
Those that have been lost shall soon be found
scribeth thy name upon these grounds
amend a fine link for those to engage
that doeth wish to spy thine user page
Oct 6th
Note: This page of the week will stay up until the potlock is done with on Nov 19th. Typically there will only be one page of the week.
Feeling like things should happen around the space, but you don't want to do it yourself? Like stuff should just fix itself, magically? Put in requests and ideas for things to do for our next Potlock! The magic of food and a don't-leave-until-it's-done attitude will allow us to work together and unleash fury on this list of tasks with the might of a thousand demi-gods.
Upcoming Events
- Regular Meeting every first and third Tuesday at 7pm at i3 Detroit
- Board Meeting every second Tuesday at 7pm at i3 Detroit
- Classes and Events - our current schedule on Eventbrite.
- Members
- List of Active Members
- Member Projects
- Independent Projects in Progress
- New Member Orientation
- Info for new and potential members, including the FAQ
- HOWTO Get a Wiki Account
- Because contributions to the wiki are always good!
Great Global Hackerspace Challenge 2011
Information and safety procedures for our tools and equipment organized by location:
- Craft Room
- Electronics Room
- Machine Shop
- Wood Shop
- Welding Area
- Bicycle Shop
- Fab Lab
- Workbench (General shop/tool areas)
- Lost and Found / Graveyard
- Chem Lab
- Network
- The i3Detroit network information page.
- Breaker Panels
- The circuit breaker panels.
Resources and Records
- By Laws
- Organizations Governance. In this document 'Members' refers to voting members as apposed to all 'key holders'.
- Standing rules
- Rules for the space. *** NEW: Please check out the Standing Rules Rewrite 2011-03, which will be voted on in the month of March, 2011. ***
- Officers
- A list of the current officers.
- Meeting Minutes
- Minutes from our past meetings.
- Proposals
- Archive of proposals and votes.
- Committees
- List of committees and their resources
- In the Media
- Published articles, videos, etc. about i3 Detroit.
- Material and Tool Sources
- Places to get materials and tools.
- Community Contacts
- Groups and people to collaborate with.
- Reports
- Various reports for the organization.
- ToDo
- The ever-changing list of maintenance and improvement tasks.
- Forms
- Group Forms, Waivers, Sign-Ups, etc.
- Uploads
- Useful uploaded files, such as flyers, graphics, and more.
- Historical
- Old versions of Bylaws, Standing Rules, etc.
Procedures and Instructions
- HOWTO Park your car
- Rubber side down.
- HOWTO Close up the space
- A checklist to complete if you are the last one out at the end of the night.
- HOWTO Host an event at i3detroit
- Scheduling, publicity, day-of tasks.
Other procedures, including membership processing are on the Procedures and Instructions page.


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