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United Nations – Never Mind The Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures
When United Nations dropped their self-titled effort a couple of years back, it literally happened right out of the blue. Here was this bombshell, this vitriolic slab of emo-violence that turned out to be much more than it initially led on. I've been a Thursday fan for longer than I can remember, so when a friend alerted me to a new project that involved Geoff Rickly, I jumped at the gut. I purchased a copy online and, suffice it to say, I was surprised. I expected this brutal cacophony of sludge and crust, and instead I got something analogous to Portraits of Past mating with Tragedy. It exploded through the speakers. My yearning for crust is nearly as insatiable as my praise for Thursday, and this was particularly refreshing; However, after a closer listen I noticed something beautiful amidst the impenetrable noise. Rickly's vocals soared; Guitars would build up and fall apart, every note sprinkling like rain before firing off the burner like grease in a barbeque. The mix was pretty flat, but it didn't matter because the aesthetic and message was sincere.
Here was a band pissed off, taking swings at our international leaders, the Wal-Mart Deathstar, and Dennis Lyxzén's failure to rally the troops in Refused. Better yet, the only known active member is Rickly: While it's been assumed that Converge mainstay Ben Koller smashed the skins, no one's true identity is known. The band sport Ronald Reagan masks, further hearkening back to the violent anti-everything of hardcore's heyday in the 1980s. Head over to the band's website and take a look at their Frequently Asked Questions section; take a look at any number of the band's flyers. You're going to see a sociopolitical message with a satiric spin, and this is truthfully the best one could hope for in a band that claims its central influences as Reversal of Man and Orchid, two artists I would say I fell in love with not just because of their chaotic music but also their lyrical aims and Frankfurt School aesthetics. Needless to say, United Nations have a lot on their chest and use music as their weapon of choice. Their media assault would make Chomsky proud.
It's been a good long while since any new content's been announced for these guys, but today saw J. Bannon and the Deathwish family throw this seven-inch EP again out of the blue. Without the slightest hint as to its release, the messageboards filled with news of a new UN outing, and I managed to scoop this up without having to wait through a preorder. Never Mind The Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures is sure to stir up another shit-storm. The first and most obviously noticeable element of this package is its cover. UN had to chuck a lot of their original covers for their self-titled effort due to copyright infringement. The cover featured The Beatles' famous Abbey Road cover reversed and with each Beatle in flames. This seven-incher lifts the origins of its namesake: Yes, that looks like a certain album by The Sex Pistols and no, I would not want it any other way.
Though this outing only features four tracks, these are the four best tracks United Nations have released yet. "Pity Animal" starts without a hitch, octave chords and blastbeats immediately jumping out from the stereo. The production is much crisper, the bass is fuller. It isn't a sellout move, but a move that better captures a band that couldn't be contained in a recording that worked for Tragedy. United Nations simply have too much up their sleeves to sacrifice their ideas to recording quality. Noticeably lengthier than a large portion of tracks on the Self-Titled release, "Pity Animal" crumbles, builds itself back up, and utilizes the quiet-loud aesthetic to a startling degree. Where many bands would have used such a track as a blueprint, UN change directions on "O You Bright & Risen Angels." A parable of the questionability of Christianity, the song uses a melodic hardcore template that owes as much to Modern Life Is War as it does to Texas is the Reason. Seriously, listen closely. While the vocals are the same as they were the first time around, there is a whole lot more happening with the instrumentation. Additionally, Rickly and his counterpart (whomever that may be) are taking more risks with their trade-offs. When Rickly sings the title of the track, he could have a clapping section behind him. "Communication Letdown" is average. It features more of what categorized the band as such an intensive and enjoyable listen in the first place. The title track closes the record, and it returns to some of the motifs brought up in the first full-length: About a minute in it sounds similar to "The Shape of Punk That Never Came," perhaps further lamenting the inability of Refused to move the masses.
Altogether, this is an excellent EP that will whet the appetites of fans and newcomers alike. Each track is strong, but there simply isn't enough of a change here to warrant any drastic reassessment. If you're a fan of punk or hardcore, you have to get on this if you haven't already. This is essential stuff. I'm pretty sure it'll sell out fast and go out of print with the best of the genre. Here's to hoping the powers that be don't censor this review like they've censored so many of this band's webpages. Long live powerviolence.
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Really dig this. I was a fan of the full-length (even ordered that limited edition that was around initially), and this EP is even better.
Great review too.
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There's good news from our tests for both original manufacturers and third-party ink makers. All four original manufacturers' inks scored well in the fade tests, with those from Canon, Epson and HP coming top across-the-board, irrespective of the photo paper brand used. Lexmark's own-brand paper came second in the assessment.
Good news for Cartridge World again, since it scored as well in both the Canon and HP printers as the own-brand inks did. The fade resistance on these two printers was really very good, with little discernible fade on any of the samples. Cartridge World didn't do as well with its Epson and Lexmark compatible inks, though most of these prints were still usable. JetTec pipped Lexmark at the post by a single point and so should be considered a very good alternative on fade resistance.
Looking further down the scale, some of the third-party inks gave very poor results. InkTecShop, JetTec and Stinky Ink each had a worst score on one of the printers, with Stinky Ink being worst on both Epson and HP. In particular, Stinky Ink's score for its HP-compatible ink was pretty atrocious. None of the prints we tested was usable after three months in the window.
Prints from the internal wall showed little signs of fading and we will have to wait till the end of the full six-month test to make any judgements on these.
When it comes to the smear tests, there are a couple of particularly interesting results. Neither HP nor Lexmark pass the smear test using their own inks on their own glossy photo papers. We went back and retested just to make sure, but both smeared.
The differences in both the fade and smear tests may be due to deficiencies in specific inks, but can also be incompatibilities between ink and paper types. As you may be aware, there are two types of colourants used in printer ink: dye and pigment. Dyes have smaller molecules and to retain their – normally brighter – colours, they need to soak into the paper for protection. Pigments are larger molecules and can resist the effects of ultraviolet rays, the damaging parts of daylight. They don't need to soak into the paper body, but sometimes don't offer the same colour brightness as dyes.
Although you can usually find out what type of colourant a printer ink uses, this information isn't signed on cartridges or printers. The type of coating on different papers is also not made clear, with suppliers preferring to claim 'Works with Canon, Epson, HP and Lexmark models'. While these papers might work with all makes of printer, they're unlikely to work equally well with all, particularly when it comes to fading and smearing.
Ilford, one of the leading photo paper makers, offers a compatibility chart, showing which of its papers are best suited to which makes and types of printer ink. The chart can be found as a PDF file on the Ilford website.
We are only halfway through our planned fade tests, and will be continuing for a further three months to get a full six-month picture of the samples' fade resistance. That report will follow in due course.
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By KRISTEN GELINEAU and SCOTT MCDONALD, AP Thursday, March 20, 2014, 2:15 pm TWN
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Four military search planes were dispatched Thursday to try to determine whether two large objects bobbing in a remote part of the Indian Ocean were part of a possible debris field of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.
One of the objects spotted by satellite imagery had a dimension of 25 meters (82 feet) and the other one was smaller. There could be other objects in waters nearby in the area that's a four-hour flight from Australia's southwestern coast, said John Young, manager of Australian Maritime Safety Authority's emergency response division.
"This is a lead, it's probably the best lead we have right now," said Young, while cautioning that the objects could also be seaborne debris along a key shipping route where containers periodically fall off cargo vessels.
Young told a news conference in Canberra, Australia's capital, that planes had been sent to the area about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth to check on the objects. He said that satellite images "do not always turn out to be related to the search even if they look good, so we will hold our views on that until they are sighted close-up."
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott had earlier told Parliament about the debris, and said Orion search aircraft were expected to arrive in the area Thursday afternoon.
Young said visibility was poor and may hamper efforts to find the objects. He said they "are relatively indistinct on the imagery ... but those who are experts indicate they are credible sightings. The indication to me is of objects that are a reasonable size and probably awash with water, moving up and down over the surface."
Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand have been covering a search region over the southern Indian Ocean that was narrowed down from 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) to 305,000 square kilometers (117,000 square miles).
The hunt for the Boeing 777 has been punctuated by several false leads since it disappeared March 8 above the Gulf of Thailand.
Oil slicks that were spotted did not contain jet fuel. A yellow object thought to be from the plane turned out to be a piece of sea trash. Chinese satellite images showed possible plane debris, but nothing was found.
But this is the first time that possible objects have been spotted since the search area was massively expanded into two corridors, one stretching from northern Thailand into Central Asia and the other from the Strait of Malacca down to southern reaches of the Indian Ocean.
Abbott said he spoke to the prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, about the latest developments. Australia's envoy to Malaysia, Rod Smith, joined a meeting of senior Malaysia search officials at a Kuala Lumpur hotel after Abbott's announcement. Smith did not respond to reporters' questions.
"As I've been doing from day one, I've followed every single lead. And this time, I hope it is a positive development," Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters.
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Core Requirements: 20 semester hours
- One genre course: ENG2200; ENG/THE2220 or ENG2240 (4)
Note: Creative writing students should take ENG2200 or ENG 2240.
- One American Literature course: ENG3320; ENG3350 or ENG3370 (4)
Note: Creative writing students should take ENG3370.
- One British literature course: ENG3400; ENG3420; ENG3440 or ENG3460 (4)
- One course in literature outside the Anglo-American canon: ENG3200; ENG3500; ENG 3510 or ENG3520 (4)
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English majors will also select one of three tracks within the program to complete requirements for the degree.
General Studies Emphasis: 20 semester hours
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Turkish Women React to Sexist Remark with Laughing Selfie Social Media Campaign
Women around the world have become empowered by hashtag 'DirenKahkaha,' which means 'resist and laugh'
For people of Islamic faith, the month of Ramadan is the most sacred month of the year. After having fasted from dawn until sunset for 30 days, the people of Turkey annually hold the Sugar Feast, a three-day celebration where plenty of sweets are eaten to jubilize the end of Ramadan. It was during this festival, which took place last week, that Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc made a sexist comment about the moral decline of today's society, sparking a social media campaign that is empowering women.
According to Arinc, women should know what is decent and what is not, and laughing is not decent. 'She should not laugh loudly in front of all the world and should preserve her decency at all times,' he said, adding that women should not watch soap operas because they promote a bad lifestyle, not should they spend hours on the phone having conversations that should take place in person. Though he touched on other topics, as well as some that pertain to men, these comments made women around the world extremely angry. As a way to fight back, Turkish women have began posting photos of themselves laughing on various social media websites with the hashtag 'direnkahkaha,' which translates to 'resist and laugh' in English.
Arinc is a co-founder of Turkey's Justice and Development party, of which current Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is also a part of. As presidential elections are set to occur on August 10th, the comment has raised already high tension between the political parties. In fact, the comments could make a big difference for Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Erdoğan's main rival, who took to Twitter to say 'We need to hear the happy laughter of women.'
Now that the campaign is gaining some attention, women around the world are joining the cause, including British actress and Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women, Emma Watson. Though not all women have as much influence as Watson, a simple selfie and a hashtag is enough to share outrage at Arinc's comment, as well as a powerful step towards demanding gender equality across the globe.
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The Pineview Conservative Mennonite congregation at Barwick, Ontario began services and formally organized in 1964. The first building was occupied about 1966. The congregation originated through outreach by Conservative Mennonite Church of Ontario.
The congregation has been affiliated with the Conservative Mennonite Church of Ontario in 1964 and the Fellowship Church in 1978. In 2000 it was a member of the Conservative Mennonite Church of Ontario.
Minister Peter Krahn served in 2001 as congregational leader.
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Frey, Aden. "The Markham-Waterloo Conference of Ontario." Research paper, Conrad Grebel College 1972, 38 pp.
Cressman, Kenneth. "The Development of the Conservative Mennonite Church of Ontario." Research paper, 1976, 70 pp.
Cressman, Kenneth. "A Descriptive Analysis of the Conservative Mennonite Schisms in Ontario, 1956-1979," Research paper, 1979, 92 pp.
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Address: Box 13, Barwick, ON P0W 1A0
Location: 2 km west, 2 km north on Hele Road, Barwick, Ontario
Phone: 807-487-2273
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Williams College tops U.S. best university list again
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - For the second consecutive year Williams College in Massachusetts was named the best university in the United States, ahead of Harvard and two top military schools.
With less than 2,100 students it nudged past Princeton and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which took the second and third spots on the annual list compiled by Forbes.com.
Another small western Massachusetts school, Amherst College, came in fourth, while Stanford University in Palo Alto, California rounded out the top five, edging out Harvard University, which was No. 6.
"We try and evaluate the college purchase as a consumer world," said Forbes Executive Editor Michael Noer. "Is it worth spending as much as a quarter of a million dollars for this degree?"
The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs won the No. 10 spot, while Haverford College in Pennsylvania, which has just 1,190 undergraduates, placed seventh.
The smallest school in the top 50 was Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, with only 763 undergraduates.
Most schools cost around $55,000 a year, but Houston's Rice University was a relative bargain at just under $48,000, or some $10,000 less than a year at either the University of Chicago or Columbia University.
Forbes and the Washington D.C. think tank Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) compiled the list, its fourth, after considering the cost of tuition, the salaries of graduates and students' experiences.
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COLUMBUS -- Ohio's nonpartisan judicial races often fly under voters' radars, with candidates limited in what they can say and how they say it.
But at least one of three races for the state's high court is garnering increased attention, with a pointed television advertisement released in recent days by supporters and a challenger who is questioning campaign contributions to the incumbent by parties involved in cases before the court.
That race involves Justice Robert Cupp, seeking a second term on the Ohio Supreme Court, and Bill O'Neill, a former appeals court judge.
Voters also will decide between Justice Terrence O'Donnell, who is facing Democratic state Sen. Mike Skindell, and Justice Yvette McGee Brown, who is facing Sharon Kennedy.
The Cupp-O'Neill and O'Donnell-Skindell races are for full six-year terms on the court, while the McGee Brown-Kennedy race is for the remainder of a term that ends in 2014.
McGee Brown vs. Kennedy
McGee Brown was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Court by Gov. Ted Strickland during his final days in office. She was Strickland's running mate in his unsuccessful bid for reelection and took the seat formerly occupied by Justice Maureen O'Connor, who was elected chief justice.
McGee Brown formerly was president of the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children's Hospital. She served from 1993-2002 as a common pleas judge in central Ohio.
McGee Brown is the lone Democrat on the Supreme Court but has sided with the majority most of the time. The handful of times she has dissented in a case, she was joined by Republican members.
McGee Brown was one of two Supreme Court candidates who received a "highly recommended" rating from the Ohio State Bar Association's Commission on Judicial Candidates.
Her challenger is Judge Sharon L. Kennedy, who is in her third term in the domestic relations division of Butler County Common Pleas Court. She also served as a special counsel for former Attorney General Betty Montgomery and as a part-time magistrate. And she served as a police officer in the city of Hamilton.
Kennedy has snagged endorsements from the Buckeye Firearms Association, Ohio Right to Life, the National Federation of Independent Businesses and other groups, though she was the lone candidate to receive a "not recommended" rating from the Ohio State Bar Association's Commission on Judicial Candidates.
O'Donnell has served on the Ohio Supreme Court since 2003. Prior, he served nearly a decade on the 8th District Court of Appeals and for more than a dozen years as a judge in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
O'Donnell also was a law clerk for Ohio Supreme Court Justice J.J.P. Corrigan in 1971 and for two other judges in the 8th District Court before becoming a judge himself.
He received a "recommended" rating from the Ohio State Bar Association's Commission on Judicial Candidates.
Skindell was a state representative for seven years before winning election to the Ohio Senate, representing a Cleveland-area district. He also served as a member of the Lakewood City Council from 1998-2002, did a stint as an assistant attorney general and served for a decade as a hearing officer in the Ohio Department of Health.
Skindell did not run in the Democratic primary for the Supreme Court race, however. Austintown attorney Bob Price secured the party nomination but dropped out, saying he didn't have the resources to run a successful campaign.
Skindell received a "recommended" rating from the Ohio State Bar Association's Commission on Judicial Candidates.
Cupp is seeking a second term on the Ohio Supreme Court. He was elected in 2006 after serving as an appeals court judge in the 3rd District (northwestern Ohio).
He served in the state Senate for 16 years and was forced out due to term limits. He also did stints as the city prosecutor and assistant law director in Lima and as an Allen County commissioner.
Cupp was the only other court candidate this cycle to receive a "highly recommended" rating from the Ohio State Bar Association's Commission on Judicial Candidates.
O'Neill served 10 years on the 11th District Court of Appeals and was an assistant attorney general for a dozen years prior to that.
This is the retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel's third run for the state's high court, in addition to an unsuccessful campaign for Congress. He currently works as a registered nurse in a hospital pediatric emergency department.
O'Neill received a "recommended" rating from the Ohio State Bar Association's Commission on Judicial Candidates.
Ad Issue
The race between Cupp and O'Neill has gained increased attention in recent days, due to a television ad released by the Ohio Republican Party that alleged O'Neill "expressed sympathy for rapists" when he was a judge.
Cupp did not review the ad in advance or offer his endorsement of it.
Rhetoric in the race was already somewhat heated, with O'Neill making pointed comments about Cupp's campaign accepting contributions from plaintiffs in a case before the Supreme Court and chastising the Republican-dominated court for failing to deal with the state's school funding issue.
The Republican Party ad drew increased criticism from Democrats, with Skindell saying, "There's no place for this shameful behavior on the part of the Ohio Republican Party and their Chairman Bob Bennett. Mr. Bennett, have you no sense of common decency? Pull down this ad and please deliver the apology to the people of Ohio they so rightly deserve."
Cupp quickly distanced himself from the ad and urged the Republican Party to pull it.
"Justice Cupp and his campaign disavowed and criticized the state party's independent ad the moment we found out about it and we call on the state party to remove it from all forms of public distribution," Mark Weaver, spokesman for Cupp's campaign, said in a released statement.
And the Ohio State Bar Association's Campaign Advertising Committee sent a letter to Bennett seeking the same.
"The committee unanimously determined that statements in the ad, taken as a whole, violate committee standards in that they impugn the integrity of the judicial system, the integrity of a candidate for the Supreme Court of Ohio, and erode the public trust and confidence in the independence and impartiality of the judiciary by attempting to lead voters to believe that a candidate will decide issues or cases in a predetermined manner," wrote committee Chairwoman Maxine Thomas.
Marc Kovac is the Dix Capital Bureau Chief. Email him at email@example.com or on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog.
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The real reason that the GOP is attacking Judge O'Neill in this exceptional manner at this time is because of the lawsuit my wife and I filed in Federal Court on Oct 16th against Firstenergy naming five Republican Justices of the Ohio Supreme Court as "nominal"
Defendants (Lisa G. Huff et al v. Firstenergy et al-12 CV 2583). My wifes permanent disability confining her to a nursing home directly involves issues surrounding a utility generated hazard.
Both my wife and I are lifelong registered Republicans. As such we could not be more concerned and disgusted at the state of the Ohio Judiciary and in particular the Ohio Supreme Court. Our suit charges that Firstenergy, through its top executives, loaded a super majority of Republican Justices up with ILLEGAL (straw donor) campaign cash with the expectation of and in exchange for specific exclusive improper official acts in a specific case redounding to illegal control of the Ohio Supreme Court for their exclusive and otherwise unobtainable benefit.
Channel 21 WFMJ did a good and fair story on this case on Oct 18th in which a predicable irrelevant statement of recrimination released by Firstenergy was announced. Other news organizations have since been investigating and the Ohio GOP is anticipating a big shoe to drop in the final days of this campaign.
The decision to file this suit was made earlier in the year without concern about the election. We did not know anything about Judge O'Neill. While it is true that Judge O'Neill's Aug complaint filed against Justices Cupp & O'Donnell is mentioned in our suit because it lends credibility to it, Judge O'Neill otherwise had nothing to do with our case.
As Republicans my wife and I must support Judge O'Neill because he has proven himself principled on the issue of "MONEY AND JUDGES DON"T MIX". As Republicans we are always talking about wanting our public officials to be principled so they are at least somewhat predictable.
As far as the "rape" case is concerned, at a time when so many rape cases have been thrown out post-conviction due to DNA and some prosecutors have been exposed as being overeager to the point of being corrupt (Duke Lacrosse) do we really want a judge who is not principled and worried about future political attacks to rule on these cases? As Republicans, freedom and liberty are a hallmark of what we stand for yet the slightest misuse of the power of the state can destroy all that in a second. As a tough on crime Republican I Applaud Judge O'Neill for holding the trial court accountable for rushing to convict someone, guilty or not, without giving that person a fair chance to defend himself. This is precisely what appellate court judges are supposed to do and far too many do not do.
Justice Cupp supports our current election system for judges on the basis that it allows the people to hold judges accountable and then supports a self-serving system where judicial complaints are secret. In order for the system to actually work as stated the people have to be informed of all newsworthy events especially those that cause an entire political party to go off the rails.
The Ohio GOP runs an ad so bad that the candidate it supports and the Ohio Bar Association rejects the ad. And these GOP are the people that many in this state support? Bob Bennett was hand picked for the job by Kasich.


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Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin has been installed as the sixth leader of the Indianapolis Archdiocese during a special Mass at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral.
Catholic leaders from across the country joined representatives from the archdiocese's 147 parishes and civic leaders at Monday's Mass.
Tobin was named to the post in October. He succeeds Archbishop Daniel Buechlein, who retired last year.
The 60-year-old Tobin was a former high-ranking Holy See official who tried to resolve tense relations between the Vatican and U.S nuns before his transfer.
The Detroit native was ordained in 1978. He told priests and others at his installation Mass Monday that he will be their "chief pastor," not their only pastor.
The Indianapolis archdiocese has about 225,000 Catholic parishioners in its 39 counties in central and southern Indiana.
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COLUMN-Carbon capture's energy penalty problem: Kemp
(John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
By John Kemp
LONDON Oct 6 (Reuters) - SaskPower's Boundary Dam Unit #3, the first utility-scale power plant to be fitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS), has produced a surge in media interest since becoming operational this month.
But it also illustrates the formidable challenges that must be overcome before CCS is ready to play a significant role in the fight against climate change.
Refurbishing the 45-year old Unit #3 to extend its life for another 30 years and retrofitting it with equipment to capture carbon dioxide emissions has cost almost C$1.3 billion, according to the company's accounts, about three times as much as a similar-sized plant without CCS.
SaskPower received $240 million from Canada's government to help with construction costs and will realise additional revenues from the sale of CO2 to an enhanced oil recovery project. But the high capital costs of Unit #3 underscore how far away CCS remains from being competitive with conventional power stations or renewables such as wind and solar.
SaskPower insists that the lessons learned from building the plant and CCS system mean that it could be done much more cheaply next time. But construction cost is not the only problem with the plant.
The refurbished and retrofitted Unit #3 is also much less efficient than its predecessor. It will supply "over 110 megawatts" of electricity to the grid compared with 139 MW previously, a reduction of around 20 percent, according to SaskPower.
The reduction in net output is in line with published estimates for the "energy penalty" imposed by CCS systems, which is the major barrier to their widespread adoption. Continued...


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Rev. Dr. Tommy Davis is a New York Division deputy chief chaplain for an international ministry (Chaplain Fellowship Ministries) and oversees chaplains working in law enforcement, jails, hospitals, and the community at large. Dr. Davis is a conservative Republican with articles appearing in periodicals and blogs. Dr. Davis is a
graduate of Apex School of Theology, Tennessee Temple University/ Temple Baptist Seminary and has degrees in Theology, Religious Education, Ministry and Chaplaincy Studies and often writes on American/Church history, Economics from a biblical worldview, and political perspectives. He is often consulted by Republican politicians for ideas that shape social policy. He received a volunteer civic participation award from U.S. President George W. Bush in 2007. Dr. Davis is also the Spiritual Advisor for the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York and serve as a full-time chaplain at a detention facility in upstate New York.
Mrs. Providence Crowder loves to serve God through serving people. She is married with two children and has worked for the past twelve years as a Deputy Sheriff Jailor. She has earned a bachelor's degree in Organizational Management from Roberts Wesleyan College and is currently pursuing a dual Master's in Divinity and Social Work from Northeastern Seminary and Roberts Wesleyan colleges. Mrs. Crowder is a conservative Republican with a biblical worldview. She belongs to several organizations whose mission is to educate people about the importance of fiscal responsibility and adhering to conservative values. Mrs. Crowder is a board member of the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York.
The First Black Congressmen in America were all Republican
Some Notables From History
Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901) was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate. Since he preceded any African American in the House, he was the first African American in the U.S. Congress as well. As a Republican, he represented Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during Reconstruction. As of 2009, Revels is one of only six African Americans ever to have served in the United States Senate.
Benjamin Sterling Turner (March 17, 1825, Weldon, North Carolina – March 21, 1894, Selma, Alabama) was a US Congress Representative from Alabama.
He was born near in Halifax County, North Carolina near the town of Weldon. His parents were slaves. He was taken to Alabama at age five. Turner received no early education. By clandestine study he obtained a fair education. He seems to have remained enslaved until the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. He engaged in mercantile pursuits. He set up a livery stable in Selma, Alabama. He was also elected tax collector of Dallas County, Alabama in 1867; then latter councilman of the city of Selma in 1869.
Turner was unanimously nominated to be the Republican candidate from the Alabama First District which at that point encompassed South-west Alabama. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873). He did feel that the northern Republicans living in his district had not supported him in his run for office enough. In congress he worked to restore political and legal rights to those who had fought against the United States in the American Civil War. He also fought for the repeal of the tax on cotton on the grounds that it hurt poor African-Americans. In 1872 Turner again received the Republican nomination in the first district. However another African-American, Philip Joseph ran as an independent. This caused a split in the Republican vote, and allowed F. G. Bromberg, a fusion candidate of the Liberal Republicans and Democrats to win. Turner was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880.
After his political career, he engaged in agricultural pursuits in Alabama. He died in Selma, Alabama on March 21, 1894, aged 69; interred in Live Oak Cemetery.
DeLarge, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina. He was born in Aiken, South Carolina on March 15, 1842. He received such an education as was then attainable and was graduated from Wood High School, after which he became a farmer. He was a delegate to the South Carolina constitutional convention in 1868, and then a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1868 until 1870. In 1870 he was elected State land commissioner, where he served until his election to the House of Representatives later that year. He was also one of the commissioners of the State's sinking fund.
De Large served in the House of Representatives from March 4, 1871 until January 24, 1873 when the seat was declared vacant as the result of an election challenge initiated by Christopher C. Bowen. After leaving Congress he served as a local magistrate until his death in Charleston on February 14, 1874.
The First Hispanic Governor was a Republican
In 1863, Romualdo Pacheco was elected state treasurer of California, and then to the state legislature. In 1871, he was elected Lt. Governor. Four years later, the incumbent governor was elected to the U.S. Senate, making Pacheco the 12th Governor of California. Following his ten months in office, he won three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and then served as ambassador to Honduras and to Guatemala during Republican President Benjamin Harrison's administration.
Republicans Freed the Slaves
At the suggestion of President Abraham Lincoln, RNC Chairman Edwin Morgan opened the 1864 Republican National Convention with a brief statement:
"The party of which you, gentlemen, are the delegated and honored representatives, will fall far short of accomplishing its great mission, unless among its other resolves it shall declare for such an amendment of the Constitution as will positively prohibit African slavery in the United States."
Abolishing slavery became part of the platform. Congressional Republicans passed the 13th Amendment unanimously – against nearly unanimous Democrat opposition – and it was ratified within the year.
Republicans Passed the 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment guarantees due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens. It enshrines in the Constitution provisions of the GOP's 1866 Civil Rights Act. The original purpose of the 14th Amendment was to defend African-Americans from their Democrat oppressors in the post-Civil War South.
The principal author of the 14th Amendment was U.S. Rep. John Bingham (R-OH). In Congress, all votes in favor of the 14th Amendment were from Republicans, and all votes against it were from Democrats.
In 1868, the Republican Governor of New Jersey vetoed an attempt by the Democrat-controlled legislature to rescind the state's ratification of the 14th Amendment.
Republicans Passed the 15th Amendment
In 1869, the Republican-controlled 40th Congress passed the 15th Amendment, extending to African-Americans the right to vote. Nearly all Republicans in Congress voted in favor, though a few abstained, saying it did not go far enough. Nearly all Democrats in Congress voted against the 15th Amendment.
The 15th Amendment was ratified the following year, but using intimidation, poll taxes, registration fraud, and literacy tests Democrats prevented most African-Americans from voting for nearly a century.
The First African-American Senator was a Republican
Born a free man in North Carolina, Hiram Revels moved to Baltimore, where he became a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. He served as a military chaplain during the Civil War. The end of the war found him in Mississippi, where he settled.
Hiram Revels began his political career, as a Republican, on the Natchez City Council. He then won a seat in the state senate. When the state was re-admitted to the Union in 1870, the legislature elected Revels to the U.S. Senate.
Republican Outlawed the Ku Klux Klan
In 1871, the Republican-controlled 42nd Congress passed a Civil Rights Act aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. Guilty of murdering hundreds of African-Americans, this terrorist organization had also eradicated the Republican Party throughout most of the South. The law empowered the Republican administration of Ulysses Grant to protect the civil rights of the former slaves in federal court, bypassing the Democrat-controlled state courts.
The 1871 Civil Rights Act, along with the GOP's 1870 Civil Rights Act, effectively banned the Klan and enabled Republican officials to arrest hundreds of Klansmen. Though the U.S. Supreme Court would eventually strike down most of the 1871 Civil Rights Act, the Ku Klux Klan was crushed. The KKK did not rise again until the Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson.
Republicans Passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act
On his deathbed in 1874, Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) told a Republican colleague: "You must take care of the civil rights bill – my bill, the civil rights bill. Don't let it fail." In March 1875, the Republican-controlled 43rd Congress passed the most comprehensive civil rights legislation ever. President Ulysses Grant signed the bill into law that same day.
Among its provisions, the 1875 Civil Rights Act banned racial discrimination in public accommodations. Sound familiar? Though struck down by the Supreme Court eight years later, the 1875 Civil Rights Act would be reborn as the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Republican Wrote the 19th Amendment
In 1878, U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduced in Congress the proposed 19th Amendment, according women the right to vote. Over the next four decades, it was primarily the Democrats who would oppose the measure. Not until 1919, after the Republican Party won majorities in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, did Congress approve what would become the 19th Amendment
A Former Slave Chaired the 1884 Republican National Convention
An African-American former congressman, John Lynch, chaired the 1884 Republican National Convention. A speech seconding his nomination for the post marked the entrance onto the national stage of a 25-year old delegate named Theodore Roosevelt.
Lynch was born into slavery in 1847. After emancipation, he joined the Republican Party. At the age of 22, Lynch was elected to the Mississippi legislature. Within three years, Lynch became speaker of the state House of Representatives. In 1872, at the age of 25, Lynch was elected to the first of three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, making him one of the youngest persons ever to serve in Congress.
John Lynch was a delegate to five Republican National Conventions. He chaired the Mississippi Republican Party from 1881 to 1889 and was the Republican National Committeeman for Mississippi from 1884 to 1889. He later served in the Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley administrations.
First Women Mayors in the United States
In 1887, Susanna Salter (R-KS), daughter-in-law of a former Lt. Governor, was elected mayor of Argonia, a Kansas town of some 500 people. Support from the local Republican Party was key to her victory. The first woman to serve as mayor, Salter became a national celebrity. On March 2, 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower honored her with a proclamation celebrating her 100th birthday.
Bertha Landes, a Republican, was the first woman to serve as mayor of a large American city. Elected in 1926, Landes campaigned that Seattle needed some "municipal housekeeping." Among her accomplishments were curbing corruption and reducing crime.
First Democratic president of the 20th century
In 1912, Woodrow Wilson became the first Democratic president of the 20th Century. Wilson led the country through World War I, fought for the League of Nations, established the Federal Reserve Board, and passed the first labor and child welfare laws.
The First Hispanic U.S. Senator was a Republican
Octaviano Larrazolo had three times run unsuccessfully, as a Democrat, for congressional delegate before joining the Republicans in 1911. Seven years later, he was elected Governor of New Mexico.
In 1928, while he was serving in the legislature, a vacancy occurred in the U.S. Senate. Larrazolo won the special election to fill the seat. He served for the last three months of the term, but did not run for re-election due to ill health.
FDR and the 'New Deal' era
Franklin Roosevelt was elected president running on the promise of a New Deal. This has been added as an accomplishment though I, like many economists, see the policies of Roosevelt as having prolonged the depression. There were components of the new deal package most notably deposit insurance, and doubling the fixed exchange rate for dollars relative to gold that had positive affects, but by and large it was monetary policy that pulled us from the brink.
The First Asian-American U.S. Senator was a Republican
Born in Honolulu to Chinese immigrants, Hiram Fong entered politics as an influential advocate for statehood. Running as a Republican, he won a seat in the territorial legislature in 1938, rising to House Speaker a decade later. When Hawaii became a state in 1959, Fong was elected one of the state's first two U.S. Senators. He served three terms in the U.S. Senate, where he strongly supported civil rights legislation. Hiram Fong received votes for the presidential nomination at the 1964 and 1968 Republican National Conventions
The Republican Party First Called for Ending Racial Segregation in the Military
In 1940, the Republican National Convention approved a plank in its platform calling for racial integration of the armed forces: "Discrimination in the civil service, the army, navy, and all other branches of the Government must cease."
For the next eight years, Democratic presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman refused to integrate. Not until 1948 did President Truman finally comply with the Republicans' demands for racial justice in the U.S. military.
Harry Truman Integrates Military 1948
Harry Truman, Democrats succumb to Republican pressure to bring down the final barriers of race and gender. Truman integrated the military
Republican Integrated the University of Mississippi
Elbert Tuttle became a leader of the Georgia Republican Party in the 1940s. In 1952, Tuttle was instrumental in securing the Republican presidential nomination for Dwight Eisenhower.
After first appointing him general counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department, President Eisenhower appointed Tuttle to U.S. Court of Appeals in 1954. Recognizing that Brown v. Board of Education was a "broad mandate for racial justice," Tuttle ruled in favor of civil rights activists in a number of important cases. It was Judge Tuttle who, in 1962, ordered the University of Mississippi to admit its first African-American student, James Meredith.
Republican Wrote the Brown v. Board of Education decision
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The author of Brown v. Board of Education was a Republican, Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Warren entered Republican politics in 1938 with his election as Attorney General of California. Four years later, he was elected Governor. Earl Warren delivered the keynote address at the 1944 Republican National Convention and was the GOP's 1948 vice presidential nominee. President Eisenhower appointed him Chief Justice in September 1953. Instrumental in the appointment was Warren's friend, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, a former chairman of the RNC.
Republicans Passed the 1957 Civil Rights Act
During the five terms of the FDR and Truman presidencies, the Democrats did not propose any civil rights legislation. President Eisenhower, in contrast, asked his Attorney General to write the first federal civil rights legislation since the Republican Party's 1875 Civil Rights Act.
Many Democrats in the Senate filibustered the bill, but strong Republican support ensured passage. The new law established a Civil Rights Division within the Justice Department and authorized the Attorney General to request injunctions against any attempt to deny someone's right to vote. The GOP improved upon this landmark legislation with the 1960 Civil Rights Act.
Republicans Ended Racial Segregation in Little Rock
Just a few days after passage of the GOP's 1957 Civil Rights Act, the Democrat governor of Arkansas ordered the National Guard to prevent the court-ordered racial integration of a public high school in Little Rock. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower refused to tolerate defiance of the federal judiciary. Under a plan suggested by his attorney general, the President placed the governor's soldiers under federal control and ordered federal troops to the state, where they escorted African-American children to school.
Republicans were unfazed by the many Democrats, including John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, who criticized President Eisenhower for the action he took to uphold civil rights.


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1. Re: Export vm template out of Oracle Virtual Machine.user12273962 Feb 14, 2013 2:23 PM (in response to Abhijit)Why would you want to export it? You can create another repo and move it or clone it. Are you wanting to use it in a different VM installation?
2. Re: Export vm template out of Oracle Virtual Machine.Abhijit Feb 15, 2013 12:06 AM (in response to user12273962)Yes, i want to use it on another vm installation ... on the Oracle Database Appliance ... Problem is my current vm's use physical disks. The ODA install can only be discovered via OVMM and not added or configured under any Server Pool. I think i will need to perform a file based install and just transport that image file and create the new vm.cfg


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Google Play Music rolled out a new version of its app several hours ago that seems to bring a big bug in tow: many users are reporting that the app is crashing on launch so they can't listen to their music or use it at all.
The culprit version is 7.9.4920 and based on the reviews being left on the Play Store, the issue isn't limited to just a few users.
Latest Google Play Music v7.9.4920 is crashing on launch for a lot of users was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
With Amazon enabling voice calling and messaging on its Echo line-up, the rumor of the Echo also gaining intercom ability that had circulated back in March was bound to come true sooner than later. And it's now here so all of you multi-Echo households can start, erm, echoing each other from room to room.
In the latest Amazon Alexa app (v2.0.1216.2), you can enable the option by turning on Drop In from your household in your Echo's settings and making sure your device has a friendly name so that people in other rooms can easily specify which Echo they want to contact you on.
Amazon's Echo devices now double as in-house intercoms was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
The Fitbit Alta may not be the coolest trendy kid on the block — that's the Alta HR now — but it's certainly still a good option for all-day activity tracking. It logs your steps, distance, and calories, automatically recognizes your exercise and sleep, and reminds you to move every hour if you've been sitting for a while. It comes with a small screen that shows the time, your daily stats, plus call and text and calendar notifications.
[Deal Alert] Fitbit Alta down to $69.99, its lowest price yet on Amazon was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
When multi-user support launched for the Google Home back in April, the functionality was made available only in the US with the UK said to be "coming soon" in the next months. Now the wait should be over and multi-user support should be live in the U…
Multi-user feature is rolling out to Brits starting today.
The UK is the second country to get multiple user support in Google Home, following the feature's rollout in the United States back in April. The update begins rolling out today, allowing Home devices in the country to distinguish between up to six different voices, giving each member of the household access to their own personal data on a Google Home.
To activate multiple user support, simply look for "multi-user is available" in the Google Home smartphone app, and Home will begin the process of learning the ins and outs of each individual's voice — simple.
From there, each person can trigger Google Home with the "OK Google" wake phrase, and get access to their own playlists, appointments, commutes and other information.
There's no word on which countries will be getting multi-user support next; Google Home arrived recently in Canada, so that's a good possibility. Home will be launching in Australia, Germany, Fran…
T-Mobile is launching support for unlicensed spectrum to bolster download speeds in smartphones and tablets on its network.
T-Mobile has announced the first rollout of its unlicensed LTE strategy in the U.S., which lets carriers attach themselves to spectrum in the 5GHz range that is traditionally used for Wi-Fi signals.
T-Mobile is the first national wireless provider to make LTE-U available to customers. LTE-U uses publicly available 5 GHz airwaves to bolster existing LTE capacity and give a speed boost to what is already America's fastest, most advanced 4G LTE network. T-Mobile LTE-U is live in select locations in Bellevue, WA; Brooklyn, NY; Dearborn, MI; Las Vegas, NV; Richardson, TX; and Simi Valley, CA, with more rolling out later this year.
The idea behind LTE-U is quite simple: the spectrum used by Wi-Fi standards, typically 2.4GHz and 5GHz, are not "controlled" the same way that cellular airwaves are overseen by the FCC, since companies don't have to purchase access t…
OnePlus CEO talks about the OnePlus 5's benchmark scores, retail pricing, and lack of water resistance.
OnePlus came under fire last week after it was revealed that the OnePlus 5 was manipulating benchmarks to gain a favorable score on synthetic benchmarking apps like GeekBench. The company's co-founder Carl Pei responded to the issue, stating that when running a benchmark, the phone "performs the same as when running resource intensive apps."
Meanwhile, in an interview with The Indian Express, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau took a different approach, noting that effective heat dissipation influences the CPU performance:
If there is heating the performance of the CPU will not reach the maximum. We only try to tap the full potential of the CPU. We don't even know how to overclock.
For a company that obsesses over specs (you don't need 8GB RAM on a phone), Lau said that giving customers the best experience is what matters when asked about the lack of a QHD panel on the OnePlus 5:
It's late on a Monday night and I finally got around to getting the first app sales post of the week together — it's a labor of love, so you're welcome. There are quite a few, as is usual for a Monday, so buckle in.
Here are 45 temporarily free and 61 on-sale apps to start off the week was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
You can now pick up the OnePlus 5 in India.
The OnePlus 5 made its debut in India late last week, and the phone is now up for sale exclusively on Amazon India. The variant with 6GB of RAM and 64GB storage costs ₹32,999 ($510), and the version with 8GB of RAM and 128GB storage is available for ₹37,999 ($590).
Both variants are currently in stock, and if you're ordering today, you'll be able to take advantage of several launch day offers. Customers with SBI credit and debit cards get a flat ₹1,500 cashback, and you'll be eligible to receive ₹500 in credit toward Kindle e-books once you sign in to the Kindle app. You can also get ₹250 as Amazon Pay balance after streaming a video on Amazon's Prime Video.
OnePlus' service partner Servify has teamed up with Kotak to offer subsidized 12-month accidental damage insurance for those opening a Kotak 811 account and paying ₹1,000. If you're a Vodafone subscriber, you can get up to 75GB of free 4G data al…
Quite a few Google apps were given minor version bumps today, but nothing has been all that interesting until it was teardown time for the latest release of the Google Home app. It doesn't seem to have any changes in the live interface quite yet, but …


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text: AMD Performance Edition 1600 MHz DDR3 2x4GB Memory Kit Review James White May 16, 2012 Reviews 5 Comments 3 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Google+ 0 Pin It Share 1 Reddit 2 Email -- 3 Flares × Prev1 of 2NextUse your ← → (arrow) keys to browse It is always a good idea for a company to grow into other markets as it expands. As they say "It's simple: Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death." I will not argue the validity of this statement, but it seems to be true at least for large corporations and AMD is no different. The most recent expansion in the public market for AMD is to offer memory kits bearing their brand. Today I will be testing the AMD Performance Edition 8 GB memory kit to see if memory is going to be the third market AMD plans to fight over. Specification and the Packaging The first thing you see with any item is the packaging it comes in. In this case Patriot Memory, the company that AMD has hired to brand their modules, decided to go with a simple approach. The box is mostly black. The front image is a picture of the RAM with a gray metal panel in the background with ventilation holes. The entire rest of the package seems to be focused on ensuring that people know that this is an AMD product. Their name is everywhere and I actually like this approach as the red from the AMD logo and white writing brings some much needed color to the packaging. The AMD Performance Edition memory kit is the middle child so to speak as AMD will offer three memory kits. One for the entry level user, one for the performance user, and one more suited to enthusiast and overclockers. As noted earlier, AMD's product is manufactured by US based Patriot Memory LLC. The Performance Edition memory I am testing is DDR3 1600 MHz (PC 12800) with 8-9-8 timing at 1.65V. It has a all black aluminum heat spreader, RoHS Compliant, and designed to work with either Intel or AMD systems. The black aluminum heat spreader is complemented by the all black PCB used for the memory as well. Much like the packaging of the RAM, the AMD Performance Edition memory is highlighted with red and white. The other thing you notice is the head spreader does not add any additional height to the RAM. This ensures it can be used with even the largest coolers. This is a good move as the larger head spreaders are often not needed and do not help with DDR3 RAM nearly as much as it did with previous generations of RAM. The memory modules are backed by Patriot Memory's standard Lifetime warranty and retails for around $54.99 US at most retailers. Test System Setup This time I am going to minimize the number of tests. Some sites like to use several different programs that test the same feature over and over again. This creates confusion in my opinion. I will be using the same core software package I normally use, but will focus on the influence of the new memory kit. I will be emphasizing total system performance, the effect on CPU, and raw memory throughput. All comparisons are done against the memory I have been using for all my testing thus far which is the G.Skill Patriot Ripjaws 2133 MHz 8 GB kit. I normally use this RAM at 1866 MHz (9-10-9-27) at 1.65V and these test will be no different. It will also give us a chance to see if the the increase in memory clock speed has a bigger impact than the AMD Performance Memory more aggressive timings. Test System Memory: AMD Performance Edition 2 x 4 GB CL8 Memory kit CPU: AMD FX-8150 3.6 GHz (4.2 GHz max turbo) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD7 PSU: Antec High Current Pro 850W 80+ Gold SSD: Patriot Pyro 2.5" 60GB SATA III HDD: Seagate Barracuda XT 2 TB 7200 RPM Audio: On-board Realtek ALC889 codec OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Software PCMark07 SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Cinebench 11.5 Now that we've established our test environment, let's move forward to the benchmarks shall we? Prev1 of 2NextUse your ← → (arrow) keys to browse EricG It's tough to say any memory is better than another when only minimal differences are ever implemented. For example, it would really make a memory brand stand out if they skipped the standard timings and used better quality ICs. Or, at least use good quality ICs and make sure there's a lot of overclocking potential. That's how it use to be to mix things up but not these days. Unfortunately, the ball is in AMD's court to make profiles. Nate_marine01 Your review is unbelievably comparison biased. Of course you will have greater bandwidth with the Ripjaws..... because they are clocked higher. That is a known fact about memory, and one which most competent users already know about. You cannot fault the memory for this at all, because it wasn't a fair comparison. When comparing memory, the only real comparison could come from a test setup utilizing only the same 1600 MHz for all chips. So, how about you do a real comparison and then post that instead. I will wait to read your updated review whenever you are finished. James Edward White Jr. Well I didn't hold the clock speed and thus reduced memory bandwidth against it. I used the comparison on purpose to illustrate when and if there is a difference due to the clock speed. The difference was very minimal and only effects loading certain programs.


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Guy Bailey has been on the phone a lot lately, talking athletics.
Talking stability. Talking money. Talking heartland football.
These are uneasy days for the president of Texas Tech and his eight counterparts across the shrinking Big 12 Conference.
The 16-year-old league appeared to have averted another implosion last week when its remaining nine schools' athletic directors met in Dallas to pick up the pieces after Texas A&M announced it would become the third member to leave the league in the last 16 months.
Various involved parties sent mixed signals about the league's stability, which is still threatened as the University of Missouri reportedly considers following A&M to the Southeastern Conference.
One theme has emerged since the universities of Colorado and Nebraska defected last year: The Big 12, for now, is low in the college athletic food chain. It is prey to Pacific 12, Big 10 and SEC predators.
What's driving all this?
Bailey said he can't say for sure, but he has a theory — theories, really — about a confluence of factors gathering over the past few years.
Implications about the league, particularly, and the sport, generally, are at play in all this, Bailey said, as evidenced by similar conference swaps to the north, where last month two Big East schools announced they'll move to the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Big 12's internal loyalty issues play a big role. There's also timing, as many of the nation's largest conferences have returned to television contracts. Another factor is the concept of potential large "superconferences" eventually dominating the sport.
Geography is a play, too. Located in the nation's center, the Big 12 is a prime target for its more aggressive siblings.
"If you want to poach from somebody, you have to go to the middle," Bailey said, referring to conferences like the Pac-12 and ACC. "It's location."
But college football historian John Sayle Watterson says money looms largest over the recurring realignment chaos.
"As far as television money, I think television is definitely fueling the current thing that nobody wants to get behind the eight ball. Nobody wants to get left out and get left holding the bag," said the retired professor from Virginia and author of "College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy."
Not that Watterson is surprised. Few insiders are.
Similar realignment frenzies have recurred nearly a half-dozen times over the past three decades, beginning with a 1982 lawsuit challenging the NCAA's collective bargaining power, which dates back more than a half-century.
Television coup
A September 1939 matchup between Waynesburg and Fordham universities was the first televised football game, according to Watterson's book.
College officials largely ignored the technology throughout the following decade until its post-war surge in popularity raised the ire of many administrators as they saw attendance numbers decline, at least in some regions, according to a 1950 study commissioned by the NCAA.
In January 1951, hundreds of delegates from NCAA member schools met at the organization's annual convention to grapple with the study's results and to vote in overwhelming favor of a total ban on college football broadcasts.
But the blackout didn't last long.
By the 1960s, as the National Football League's broadcast-friendly regulations thrust it ahead of its college counterpart in popularity, NCAA regulators embraced the lucrative medium and began negotiating for its members, sharing revenues widely.
But in 1982, the University of Oklahoma and University of Georgia filed a joint antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA's grip on television contract negotiations. In 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 7-2 decision in favor of the two schools.
Administrators across the nation reacted by forming the College Football Association as an ersatz collective bargaining body. The CFA afforded stability until Notre Dame branched out in the early 1990s and signed a contract with NBC.
The CFA collapsed when other schools took Notre Dame's cue and joined conferences prized most by television executives, including some from various upstart cable networks, engaged in a turf war over the new conferences' television markets.
Loyalties shifted. Rivalries were forgotten. Conferences swelled and shrank.
Soon Penn State joined the Big 10. Florida State joined the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Big East Conference annexed the independent University of Miami. SEC officials snatched Arkansas away from Tech's old league, the Southwest Conference.
By the time the dust settled in the mid-'90s, networks and newly expanded conferences sat center.
Still reeling from a string of 1980s scandals landing it square in NCAA cross hairs, the 82-year-old SWC had disappeared.
Then there were 12
The crippling blow for the SWC was staged in the Kansas City headquarters of the Big Eight Conference. League officials there had zeroed in on the SWC's vulnerability and hatched a plan to poach the Lone Star State's two highest-profile schools, Texas and Texas A&M.
Big Eight expansion triggered alarms down in Austin, where strings were pulled. Then-Gov. Ann Richards jockeyed for inclusion of her alma mater, Baylor. Influential state Sen. John Montford, a Tech alumnus, did the same for his.
Within weeks of the Bears and Red Raiders entering the picture, Big Eight invitations were sent to Austin, College Station, Waco and Lubbock.
The SWC was dead, and the Big 12 was born.
That's the end result, but some of the grittier interim details of that merger bear a striking resemblance to today. Arkansas' move from the SWC to the SEC accompanied a brief courtship between A&M and the SEC. Colorado flirted with the Pac-10. So did the Longhorns.
This sort of conference cannibalism would repeat several times over the coming years, most recently last summer and again this fall.
"(The United States) is the only country in the world that does this," said Charles Clotfelter, a sports economist at Duke University. "Right in front of our eyes is something we all take for granted. This has little to do with education. It has to do with money."
Network executives nudging their way into already crowded luxury boxes every Saturday joined deep-pocketed boosters and obsessed fans, as the newest voice into the cacophony of powerful outside influences.
Also arriving were league commissioners, the nouveau power brokers at the helm of the sprawling conferences.
For athletic directors, school presidents and chancellors, the rewards were immense, and growing.
NFL genie
College athletics got its first taste of the billion- dollar figure in 2006 when the Big 10 signed a 10-year agreement with ESPN.
A few years later and about 700 miles south, SEC Commissioner Mike Slive penned a 15-year deal with ESPN for about $2.25 billion, and about $17 million annually for each member school. That was in addition to the conference's other 15-year, $825 million contract with CBS Sports.
The Big 12 entered the billionaire's circle in April when it announced a $1.17 billion, 13-year agreement with Fox for an estimated $90 million to be split among its 10 schools, provided the league replaces SEC-bound A&M.
This came a few years before the conference, if it remains together, returns to the negotiating table with ESPN once the current, eight-year $480 million contract expires in 2016.
Barely a month later, in May, the newly expanded Pac-12 signed a record-breaking $3 billion contract with Fox and ESPN. Beginning next fall, the contract is expected to earn the conference $225 million annually, or roughly $21 million per school.
Craig Depken, an economist at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, who has researched many aspects of professional and college sports, points to these numbers as a sign of the sport's push to "capture the NFL's money-making genie into the college-football bottle."
And then there were nine
Bailey links the timing of these television contracts over the past two or three years with a corresponding spate of conference upheavals, beginning with last summer's defections by Nebraska and Colorado to the Big 10 and Pac-12, respectively.
Several remaining schools, including Tech, also entertained an invitation to the Pac-12 when Commissioner Larry Scott landed in Lubbock on a private jet in mid-June last year and delivered what Tech Chancellor Kent Hance later called a "very impressive" pitch.
The Big 12 limped away with 10 teams, but this summer, with the ink barely dry on its billion-dollar contract with Fox, the Big 12 found itself in another, similar fight for survival after Texas A&M announced its intentions to join the SEC next year.
Now the conference's remaining schools appear to be on the brink of reaching an agreement to tie their television revenues to the league for the next six years, making it harder to leave.
Fallout of the league's second near-collapse in 15 months cost Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe his job earlier this month. With murmurs still swirling of another defection, this time by the University of Missouri to the SEC, uncertainty looms.
Regardless, Bailey is confident the league will remain intact, even if Missouri departs.
"I think the Big 12 is going to survive fine," he said, adding, "But remember, it's not a done deal until it's a done deal."
Other factors come into play.
The Big 12's membership generally perceives an inequity rooted in the league's revenue-sharing framework. Bailey also cited "underlying issues that festered for a while and created dissatisfaction."
Finally, there is the underlying current toward a system of four or five superconferences, Bailey said.
"I think some very savvy folks in some office in New York decided that you need 16 teams so you can have a playoff," Clotfelter said. "It seems to have been dictated from on high …. The whole thing is being driven by market-savvy folks, and that means people in these athletic departments don't want to be left out when the money is passed out."
Coming full circle
Unlike its professional counterpart and just about all other college sports, Division 1-A college football lacks a formal playoff system, relying instead on postseason bowl games and a hybrid of computer programs and polls to determine ranks.
Critics have assailed the system since its inception in the late 1990s and rallied for a more standardized — and potentially lucrative — playoff approach made easy through a small handful of superconferences
Superconferences are not a new concept. Watterson said they've existed in similar forms before. For instance, the Southern Conference was what he called a "fairly decentralized" league that swelled to 23 teams during the 1920s before splitting into the SEC and ACC some 30 years later.
So, in a sense, college football's gravitation back to that structure indicates the sport is "coming full circle," Watterson said.
"The speed at which it's happening kind of surprised me," he said. "It's like all the dominoes are falling at once.
Russell Wright, executive director of Collegiate Consulting sees the same trend. Wright has helped dozens of American colleges frame athletic strategies.
His fear: A concentration of 70 select football programs in a handful of leagues threatens to consolidate power, money and recruiting muscle. The feared result is today's dynasties — Alabama, Texas and Florida, for example — will remain dynasties while smaller programs fight from the margins to remain relevant or fade entirely from the game.
"It's going to lead to further separations from the haves and the have-nots," Wright said. "You're going to see such a separation from those top 60 or 70 programs and everybody else. That's the way it's going."
In such a scenario, Tech is likely to sit directly in the center. Not quite a dynasty and more than an upstart program, the Red Raiders may or may not claw their way up through the rankings of the nation's elite 70-team power pocket.
Bailey said it's a familiar concern for him and Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt. Keeping Tech competitive in the sport's future landscape demands the Red Raiders play an "exciting" game, he said.
"The other thing we have to do is continue to improve academically," he said. "Academics do play a part in this. They can help you get into a conference or keep you out of a conference."
Bailey isn't convinced the superconference model will work. Such geographically spread leagues burden student athletes, who may have to play a game in Oregon on Tuesday night before boarding a plane and returning the 1,500 miles to Lubbock for classes the next day.
He's also unconvinced television networks are keen about the potential stranglehold superconferences might have on the sport.
An ESPN spokesman declined to comment specifically on the network's stance on superconferences. But the network released a statement several weeks ago about the Big 12's instability.
"The driving force on realignment lies with the conferences and universities," the statement's first sentence reads before addressing the network's contract to carry Texas' Longhorn Network, which some regard as the league's single most destabilizing force.
Football fever
During a recent hourlong interview, Watterson repeatedly wondered how much more college football it might take to satiate the American public's appetite.
He said one needs to look no further than the buffet of college football games available to weekend channel-surfers, a ballooning array of options that show the extent of college football's reach.
Clotfelter offers the corresponding numbers. In researching his most recent book, "Big Time Sports in College Universities," published this spring, he went back through the years and counted the number of television games airing on the Chicago market during the first weekend in October.
In 1983, a year before the Supreme Court's ruling, there were two. In 1990, there were 10. In 2009, there were 29.
For Watterson, this saturation of college games begs the question: How many televised games are enough?
"It's going to work for a while, and I may be wrong about this, but I do wonder how long you can keep it at the current or even at a level they're actually aiming at," he said.
Bailey doesn't doubt there may be a point where ubiquitous football broadcasts exceed demand, but, if the newly formed Longhorn Network is any indication, "whatever the limits are, we haven't gotten there yet. There is still quite a ways to go."
Or, in Clotfelter's words: "I wouldn't hold my breath for the moment the American public gets tired of college football."
Conference calm?
The Big 12 appears to have survived this newest siege, but it remains to be seen how long it or any conference will survive.
The experts seem to agree: Nobody knows for sure the sport's future.
Despite what some of the conspiracy theorists might say, the nation's college football system has no single force calling the shots.
"I don't think there's anybody with a plan," said Depken. "If there is, then I've never seen it."
Depken, Watterson and Wright said the factors driving the sport are as varied as they are numerous. Whether commissioners, NCAA authorities, administrators, boosters, networks or fans, many voices and many opinions weigh in.
They agree the conferences are likely to find and settle on their magic number of members, which could stabilize the sport's makeup. More equal revenue sharing could solidify existing conferences, particularly the Big 12.
Bailey said he and his counterparts throughout the league are working toward that end.
Most of the latest bundle of major conference television deals expire in the early- to mid-2020s.
Bailey said that could spark the next round of conference swaps. Or, he added, it could happen sooner. Or maybe not at all.
Whatever awaits, he said, college presidents must police the sport and look out for the students' and institutions' best interests.
"It's incumbent on us as college presidents," he said, "to work together to create governance structures to keep things within reasonable boundaries."


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Humanities Teacher, Qatar
Job details
|Doha British School
|Contract type
|Full Time
|Contract term
|This job has expired
|Job starts
|September 2017
Doha British School is a premier international school in Qatar, delivering the National Curriculum of England up to and including GCSE/IGCSE. The school caters for ages 3 – 18 and offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma and AS levels as post-16, pre-university qualifications. From its origin 19 years ago, the school now occupies two modern campuses, with 1700 students on roll in the Primary and Secondary schools at Ain Khaled. The Primary school at Al Wakra has over 300 students and is expanding. Cultural diversity is celebrated and currently the student body compromises 84 different nationalities. The school has full accreditation from CIS, BSME, BSO and QNSA and almost all of our teachers are UK graduates and PGCE qualified.
We are looking for dedicated and dynamic teachers to join both our Secondary and Primary School teams and continue to provide a high quality education in a structured environment. Applications are welcomed from professionals who can have a significant impact on Teaching and Learning throughout our school. Recent experience in the United Kingdom is preferred.
We are offering:
- Tax free monthly salary
- Fully furnished accommodation with paid utilities
- School fee discounts for dependants
- Annual flight allowance
- Health insurance
- End of service gratuity
Current Vacancies:
Secondary: We require a teacher of:
- Humanities
(Promoted positions may be available for suitable candidates)
For more information about our school, please visit our website www.dohabritishschool.com. To apply for a position, you will need to send a letter of application clearly stating which position you are applying for and curriculum vitae to: email@example.com.
Closing date for applications: Friday Jan 6th 2017
Interviews: January 17th to 24th in London
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|All-through with sixth form
|Funding status
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