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From: "Regena Lally" <>
Subject: Searching for a J.P. GATES in PA
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:42:03 -0700
I am searching for information on one J.P. Gates. He was born in PA the year
of 1781. It has been theorized that this J.P. Gates is the son of Jost/Yost
Goetz, a Prussian immigrant who came to the area in the late 1700's. I am
not yet convinced that this gentleman is the father of the J.P. I seek. I
have yet to find the complete name for J.P. so that of course hinders my
J.P. does appear to have removed PA to somewhere in NC. Which again makes
him appear to be connected to Jost/Yost who traveled a similar route. J.P.
married a NC woman by the name of Elizabeth. I have not yet found proof of
her surname or a marriage record in NC. Possibly Bullon or Bullion.
Since I lack conclusive proof or source linking Jost/Yost to J.P. I feel
compelled to continue my search. I would appreciate hearing from those who
might have had an ancestor with a name similar to my possible 5th great
grandfather. Thanking you in advance for any information.
Gena Gates Lally
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As Samsung figures out how to tackle the big Note7 fiasco, it has found a temporary solution for existing users of the phone. It plans to roll out an over-the-air (OTA) update on September 20 which would limit the battery charging cap for the Note7 to 60 percent. ZDNET reports: The Over-the-Air (OTA) software upgrade will commence on September 20, 10 am in South Korea. Samsung is in talks with telcos from nine other countries where the phablet is available to deploy a similar software upgrade. Galaxy Note 7 has a battery capacity of 3,500 mAh, but the forced upgrade will enforce it to 2,100 mAh. The measure is meant to protect consumers who are still using the Note7 despite a recommendation to halt use. When the exchange starts on September 19 in South Korea, the tech giant will also offer to pay parts of the data fee.
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The historic windmill, New Wimbledon Theatre or the world-renowned tennis championships – what image best sums up Merton?
Young artists from across the borough submitted their answer to the question in an exhibition at Cannizaro House on May 20, the culmination of a competition created by estate agents Ellisons in honour of its 25th anniversary.
Such was the quantity and quality of the submissions, the company has promised to make the competition – which challenged primary and secondary schools to get involved with the chance to win £4,000 – an annual event.
Taking first prize at primary school level, and earning not only Priory School the cash but herself an iPad mini, was seven-year-old Lois Johnston for her image of Sophie Hosking's golden postbox.
Laura Alfie, 12, of Ursuline School, collected the secondary school level prize for her drawing of Merton Abbey Mills.
The winning designs were chosen by members of Chelsea Arts Club and local artists Chris Townsend, Susie Prus and Emma van Klaveren Finlay.
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"I think they have probably exited prematurely. The next five to 10 years will be the golden years for Australian agriculture," he said.
Mr McKillop, formerly of Stanbroke Pastoral and Elders, has strong views that Australian farmland and the products those farms produce will be in hot demand.
In January this year he became a director of CS Agriculture – the Chinese and Japanese-backed company that purchased Cubbie Station last year for $232 million.
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A RADIO presenter who swapped land-locked Worcester for island life in the south Atlantic is now officially entertaining the troops.
Chris Keen is settling into his new role on the Falkland Islands after he joined the British Forces Broadcasting Service to present its breakfast show.
The 24-year-old, of Claines, who was formerly the voice of Worcester station Youthcomm's morning show, spoke of landing his dream job and taking a life-changing step on to the career ladder. The former Worcester Sixth Form College student said: "I've been here almost a month now and so far I have enjoyed every minute of it.
"Working so closely with the military is great.
"I live, eat, and socialise with them so I can really get a sense of how they work away from home during an overseas deployment.
"My passion is presenting and to do this for BFBS is a dream come true.
"This has been a huge, life-changing move for me, so I'm very excited, but at the same time a little sad to have left home.
"I grew up in Worcester and loved it as there's beautiful countryside on the one side and a great city centre on the other.
"Working in the Falklands is totally different to any job I have ever had.
"For a start, just to get to the studio I have to walk down what seems like the longest corridor in the world – that's weird.
"I love being on air here and having interaction from the guys and girls, especially when I meet them in the mess and they tell me they're listening to the show.
"Hopefully I'm making a difference and brightening up their day by playing their favourite song or just by saying hello."
The City University London graduate joins BFBS Falkland Islands as the station reaches its 30th year broadcasting entertainment, sport, music and live news to British forces and Islanders.
Station manager Anthony Ballard said: "We were delighted when Chris decided to join the presentation line-up here in the south Atlantic.
"He has settled in well and is popular with our audience and has become a valuable member of the BFBS Falkland Islands team."
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This website will serve to educate the general public on Black people and the Stuff That Black People Don't Like. Black people have many interesting eccentricities, which include disliking a litany of everyday events, places, household objects and other aspects of their everyday life. Black people are an interesting subject matter and this website will chronicle the many problems in life that agitate this group of people. To suggest material, please contact email@example.com
Saturday, December 13, 2014
On The First Day of Christmas... (SBPDL Needs Your Help)
Much going on, but need to take a few days to do some fundraising.
A new name is coming on 1-8-15 (and a new site).
A big post is coming tomorrow.
Two new books are coming within the next month.
But, we need your help.
Please look on the right-hand side of this site, and consider making a donation to SBPDL via PayPal.
Your donation will power SBPDL into 2015.
There's a set amount we need to raise, and any amount will help SBPDL.com move forward.
Merry Christmas in advance, and we'd like to thank each and every reader who has helped make 2014 the top year in our history.
But we need your help.
Thanks in advance.
Merry Christmas -- PK
27 comments:
- Woodsy InNYC said...
Winter Wonderland 2 (Radio Version)
Sirens ring, there's no snitchin'
Roaches crawl, in the kitchen,
A gun and a knife, EBT for life.
Running through the negro monkey land.
On the block, making fires,
Smokin' rock, burning tires,
Look what mama made, some purple kool-aid,
Running through the negro monkey land.
In the ghetto we could score some crack - and
See the kids supporting Michael Brown
Stealing everything they get their hands on,
and burning all the businesses in town.
Filthy spawn, in the carriage,
Don't believe, there's a marriage,
Obama is great, we're on Section 8,
Running through the negro monkey land.
- December 13, 2014 at 7:39 PM
- bernicegreenbaum said...
My check's on its way PK! A very Merry Christmas to you, the Mrs., and the newest addition to your family.
- December 13, 2014 at 7:40 PM
- Medic Bear said...
Sent a little in.
Keep up the great work, PK ! You are voice of reason in this increasingly insane multicultural diversity nightmare we're all in.
- December 13, 2014 at 7:54 PM
On the 12th day of Christmas
Paul Kersey gave to me...
12 buildings burning
11 looters looting
10 youfs a-yelling
9 sheboons screaming
8 zip codes failing
7 schools a-closing
6 pants a-sagging
5 Air Force Ones!!!
4 EBT's
3 sail foams
2 Cadillacs
And a web-site with a new name!
- December 13, 2014 at 8:33 PM
Ex New Yorker here.....I don't know if this is the proper place to ask this question. Is it true that Al Sharpton is really Newt Gingrich in black face.
- December 13, 2014 at 10:21 PM
Great news! Excited! Money on its way...
Good work. You're a warrior for the Truth.
- December 14, 2014 at 3:22 AM
Donation is on its way!
Over at CNN at http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/14/world/americas/haiti-prime-minister-resignation/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Haiti has been mired in extreme poverty and instability for years. It is still grappling with the aftermath of a catastrophic 2010 earthquake that killed more than 230,000...
"We are ruled by corruption..."
Now, here in the US we have banksters who have bought our politicians. That is bad people buying immoral people.
Over in Haiti a force called "corruption" was created by an earthquake which created some kind of quicksand which mires people in poverty.
- December 14, 2014 at 5:44 AM
PK: This site is a public service, offering much-needed news and commentary by you, and permitting Americans to give voice to their concerns about the savagery afflicting our country.
Once it's demonstrated that this site will be a going enterprise, I pledge to modestly support you with a periodic money contribution. I realize that my approach regarding support is a kind of Catch-22 bit of reasoning, but you'll only have to wait till January when you unveil the new site.
I've been heartened to read the comments here from fine Americans about the reality and direction of our country. Still, I don't see any solution to our problems, short of a severe national conflagration.
- December 14, 2014 at 6:28 AM
PK, I will donate again, but I will not use Paypal as my identity could be compromised. Last time I sent you cash through VDARE.
Everyone please compare these two videos:
Amazing, isn't it? Now share it with your friends & on Social Media.
Keep up the good work PK, I will purchase two signed books for my library.
- December 14, 2014 at 6:54 AM
Hark! The Magic Negro sings
Glory to Martin Looter King
Burn this bitch, it's goin' down
Cuz we be pissed, 'bout Mike Brown
- December 14, 2014 at 8:45 AM
I will buy a paypal cash card and give when i can---probably not until early 2015 . Good luck. Keep up the good work!
- December 14, 2014 at 8:54 AM
- NemoMeImpuneLacessit said...
The only thing missing from the first video was the Monolith.
- December 14, 2014 at 9:11 AM
A little more work and we'd have enough parody songs to make a Kwanzaa CD.
Who here can sing? Someone could record a base track, put it on a file-sharing service, and everyone could contribute vocals (preferably by blind-drop e-mail). An audio engineer could mix it down.
Get the rights to the base music (such as is still in copyright) and put it up on SoundCloud or something. It might well become a novelty hit. All profits to SBPDL?
- December 14, 2014 at 9:15 AM
I have to share this with you evil racists.
I dreamed a racist pun last night. Yes, dreamed it.
I don't remember the context of the dream but I was checking out at the supermarket and paid with my American Express card. The person behind me had an EBT card and I said to myself in my dream, "I have my American Express card and you have your African American Express card."
WTH? I'm turning my unconscious mind in for sensitivity training.
- December 14, 2014 at 9:49 AM
Very big things happening. Did anyone else here see this?
He flat out said Israeli criminals bought out congress and control American politics. This is beyond big.
This is why you have all the uptick in media carried incidents of youfs dat din do nuffins and distraction.
Watch the speech. This is a huge altering event here!
Baltimore Watcher
- December 14, 2014 at 10:31 AM
Race Realism is a joke until it stops shaking hands with neo-Nazi, anti-Jewish bullshit.
Milton Friedman, Michael Savage, Medved, Prager, all conservatives and all very much race realists; and all Jewish.
We conservative, White, America-first Jews are losing patience with your tolerance of Jew hatred.
Any movement, blog or reporting that comes with a big dose of Jew-hatred is going nowhere.
- December 14, 2014 at 11:48 AM
Please cover this story. The Murder of Jessica Lane Chambers
- December 14, 2014 at 12:34 PM
In the previous article someone posted:
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I love Italians. I love Asians, Indians, Whites, Natives, and Latinos..
December 13, 2014 at 7:56 PM
I've got to agree with him that our issue is with the BLACKS (and also with those who call the political/economic shots). It's not with any of the non-Black groups on the planet.
And that brings me to the post about the slurs against the Jews. What we've got to realize here is that the squids are composed of Protestants, Catholics, Atheists, and Jews.
So if we aren't directing our hostility at all Catholics or at all Protestants, then why should such hostility be directed at the Jews?
We've got to keep focused. Our civilization is being destroyed by the blacks AND the DWL's who promote and encourage them AND the squids (who represent many different religions and beliefs/non-beliefs).
To the Jew haters: If your inclination towards bashing the Jews is so uncontrollable, then how about posting your thoughts on a site that's focused on that kind of mindset. This site is about BLACK dysfunction.
This blog site is much too informative...much too crucial for our survival...much too vital for the awakening of the masses...to compromise.
United We Stand, Divided We Fall.
Please try to understand that the other non-black ethnic groups are facing the very similar dilemmas with black dysfunction.
I AM bold, I AM vocal, and even on this blog site I AM unafraid to present my side of an argument.
Philadelphia Mike
- December 14, 2014 at 4:14 PM
Ex New Yorker here....America is some kind of fantasy place where people live in their own little world that is based on what kind of fairy tales they believe. Their mind is boxed in by the kind of political and religious believes they have. The two largest groups under mind control are those who believe they are victims being punished because of their religion, race, sex, etc,etc,etc. People love suffering and being victims.
The next group are idol worshipers which can includes sports, politics, religion, entertainers, etc, etc, etc,. These various idols are paid massive amounts of money. TV preachers rake in 50 to 90 million a year. Oprah is a billionaire. People enjoy having something or someone to worship and keep them happy.
Politics and entertainment have become so merged together that it is hard to tell which is which. All preaching the gospel of VICTIMIZATION with a little bit of dancing and singing to relieve the tension and also a WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR (Shit Burger and Prozac). Entertainers and talking heads earn fortunes while they blabber on for hours with nothing but lies and bullshit. Right wing and left wing gatekeepers are super rich while VDARE and SBPDL need fundraisers to keep alive. Telling the truth doesn't pay very well. Being a bullshit artist will make you rich.
- December 14, 2014 at 7:56 PM
Saw 3 articles in a row on the Google news homepage and they all had something in common:
1) Auburn player shot, killed at party
Gets into an argument at a party, shot in the chest in the parking lot. Victim: Black Murderer: Black
2) Cops make second arrest in school shooting. Big picture of a black male to go along with the article.
3) Chicago twin dies trying to save brother from armed robbers.
Two twins got jumped on a way to a basketball game, one looked like Urkel, the other like a future member of the 10%. I wonder if it was a gang of whites that jumped and killed this young black man?
Literally in a row. An in your face to all the BS about police killing and hunting blacks and whites are all of the school shooters.
I know, I know, putting up more facts and incidences to prove your case is useless against blacks, yet we whites feel compelled to keep doing it.
As one vibrant recently said, "We don't care about no facts. We mad."
- December 14, 2014 at 8:06 PM
Dashing through the hood
In a stolen escalade
To the crackhouse they go
Laughing all the way
Weed and crack cocaine
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to rape and rob
And kill white girls tonight!
Jigga boos, jigga boos
chimping all the way
Oh! what fun it is to ride
in a stolen escalade.
- December 15, 2014 at 3:35 AM
- December 15, 2014 at 6:06 AM
A majority of young black males are urban terrorists. A blight to America.
- December 15, 2014 at 6:34 AM
Jessica Chambers IS Mississippi burning
"Research well indicates that Jessica's story is in essence a story of Panola County. A rural community with a multicultural population, sometimes at odds with itself."
In a nutshell, living rural isn't enough. You MUST segregate yourself & your family from BRA. To start, this means no Cable/Satellite, no Rap/Hip Hop in your kids lives, no DRUGS...etc.
And we MUST, MUST, MUST teach our children, especially our white daughters that blacks are a death sentence & dating/associating with them will result in being disowned from the family. Period.
- December 15, 2014 at 8:24 AM
"I voted for Barack because he was black. ... I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years."
Sammy L. Jackson
- December 15, 2014 at 10:06 AM
Rebel here.
I've got to agree with Philadelphia Mike.
All I know is what I see. It's difficult for me to understand conspiracy theories and it seems like some go out of their way to twist any event or circumstance into some proof of jews controlling the world, or whatever.
I'll confess that I've never been around jews. I don't know anything about them or their culture. But none of them have ever stated their intention to want to kill me and my family, as far aw I know. So my attention is focused on immediate threats.
Muslims are doing what muslims have done for centuries: Killing non-muslims and invading every nation they can reach. Their stated goal is to convert or kill me and my family. They're killing Americans in bunches. But this site isn't about muslims, so I never talk about them here.
Black leaders openly call for the killing of white Americans. And blacks are killing us one at a time in every city where they exist. Just like muslims, they don't care who we are or have any personal reason to kill us other than we are white Americans.
I will stay focused on the immediate threat to me and my family and my nation. If you folks who have a beef with jews think you've got some secret worldwide conspiracy figured out about how to stop the people pulling strings, more power to ya. I must not be smart enough or have enough time to unravel the mystery.
Staying focused is not a bad thing.
- December 15, 2014 at 4:29 PM
I will stay focused on the immediate threat to me and my family and my nation.
How about some attention to the BRA enforcers who will sentence you to life without parole plus 90 years if you defend yourself against a brandished weapon from a vehicle carrying multiple Black males?
(I have to wonder if the sentence was deliberately outrageous in order to get the conviction overturned on appeal.)
- December 15, 2014 at 5:12 PM


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Zac Efron and Ashley Tisdale Join Together to Complete Ice Bucket Challenge
High School Musical reunion on Instagram today! Zac Efron and Ashley Tisdale both completed the Ice Bucket Challenge to spread ALS awareness.It was a
In two videos posted to Ashley's Instagram account, you can see Ashley accept the challenge from Shenae Grimes and another HSM co-star, Vanessa Hudgens. After getting the bucket poured on her head, Ashley immediately nominates Zac! Then Zac pops out of nowhere to complete the #IceBucketChallenge. Check out the videos below!
It's nice to see that these two are still friends after all this time! What do you think about these Zac and Ashley videos? Sound off in the comments!
Zac and Ashley are just the latest stars to complete the Ice Bucket Challenge. CLICK HERE to see more celebrity videos!
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This is from a store I went to in Barrow, Alaska - the northernmost city in North America. After a nice stroll around town enjoying the breeze from the Arctic Ocean, what better way to warm up than a nice bag of potato chips where you will enjoy each and every chip as if it were Beluga caviar rather than wolfing down the whole bag like a hungry bear.
This was from the only supermarket in town. The reason it's so expensive is that no roads lead to Barrow. You either fly in or take an ocean ferry to get there. I'll do a longer write-up soon.
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(1) The employer shall be responsible for compliance with:
(A) All provisions of this standard of general applicability; and
(B) All requirements pertaining to specific modes to the extent diving operations in such modes are conducted.
(2) The employer shall not:
(A) Require a dive team member to be exposed to hyperbaric conditions against the employee's will, except when necessary to prevent or treat pressure related injury.
(B) Permit a dive team member to dive for the duration of any physical impairment or condition which is known to the employer and is likely to affect adversely the safety or health of the employee or other dive team members.
(b) Requirement for a Manual for Diving Safety. The employer shall develop and maintain a Manual for Diving Safety which shall be made available to each dive team member. The emergency evacuation and emergency medical treatment sections of the Manual for Diving Safety shall be abstracted and with the decompression, repetitive, and no-decompression tables (as appropriate) be available at the dive location.
(c) The Dive Team.
(1) Person-in-Charge:
(A) Definition and Authority: The employer or a person appointed by the employer shall be designated as the person-in-charge. This person shall be in charge of all aspects of the diving operation and shall be at the dive location or the dive site during the diving operation.
(B) Qualifications: The person-in-charge shall have experience and training to conduct the diving operation.
(C) Responsibilities.
1. Coordination. Diving shall be coordinated with other known activities in the vicinity which are likely to interfere with diving operations.
2. Briefing. The dive team members shall be briefed on:
(i) Dive objectives;
(ii) Any unusual hazards or environmental conditions likely to affect the safety of the diving operation;
(iii) Any modifications to diving or emergency procedures necessitated by the specific diving operation;
(iv) Immediately reporting any physical problems or adverse physiological effects including symptoms of pressure related injuries.
3. Pre-Dive Inspection. The designated-person-in-charge shall ascertain that the diver has conducted a functional check of his or her own diving equipment and shall inquire into the diver's current state of diving fitness.
4. Post Dive Procedures.
(i) After the completion of a day's diving, the designated-person-in-charge shall observe the physical condition of each diver and shall conduct an interview with each diver regarding any physical problems or symptoms of decompression sickness.
(ii) When diving outside the no-decompression limits, deeper that 100 fsw or using mixed gas as a breathing mixture, the employer shall insure the diver remains awake for at least one hour after diving (including decompression or treatment if appropriate), and in the vicinity of the decompression chamber (if required at the dive location), or in the company of a dive team member who is prepared to transport the diver to a decompression chamber if necessary.
(2) Diver. Qualifications: The diver shall be trained and qualified for the diving mode being used and shall have the training and experience to participate in diving activities in a safe and healthful manner.
(3) Diver-in-Training. Qualifications: The diver-in-training shall have the training and experience to participate in the training activity in safe and healthful manner.
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(A) The use of the instruments and equipment appropriate to the diving activity to be conducted.
(B) Techniques of the diving mode to be used.
(C) Dive planning and emergency procedures.
(2) All dive team members shall be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, diver rescue techniques and diving related first aid.
(3) Dive team members who are exposed to or control the exposure of others to hyperbaric conditions shall be trained in diving-related physics and physiology and recognition of pressure related injuries.
(e) Warning Flag. When diving in areas capable of supporting marine traffic, either:
(1) A rigid replica of the international code flag "A" at least one meter in height shall be displayed at the dive location in a manner which allows all-round visibility, and shall be illuminated during night diving operations, or
(2) The use of a smaller code flag "A" shall be permitted for shallow diving, commensurate with the size of boats, skiffs, or other surface floats used in the dive operation, or
(3) A flag and/or other signal required by the agency which has jurisdiction at the dive location shall be displayed to indicate that diving operations are being conducted.
(f) First-Aid Supplies.
(1) A first-aid kit adequate for the diving operation shall be available at the dive location.
(2) When used in a decompression chamber or bell, the first-aid kit shall be suitable for use under hyperbaric conditions.
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(1) The following information shall be recorded for each diving operation and retained for a period of one year.
(A) Names of dive team members including designated person-in-charge;
(B) Date, time and location;
(C) Diving modes used;
(D) General nature of diving activity;
(E) Approximate underwater and surface conditions (visibility, water temperature and current);
(F) Maximum depth, bottom time, surface interval time and mixed-gas profiles (if used) for each diver.
(G) Diving tables used if other than U.S. Navy Standard Air Table.
(2) If pressure related injuries are suspected or if symptoms are evident, the following additional information shall be recorded and retained with the record of dive for a period of 5 years.
(A) Description of symptoms (including depths and time of onset); and
(B) Description and results of treatment.
(3) Pressure Related Injury Assessment. The employer shall:
(A) Investigate and document any incident of pressure related injury.
(B) Prepare a written report of the incident resulting in the pressure related injury, including any corrective action taken, within 45 days of the incident. This report shall be retained for a period of 5 years.
(C) Take appropriate corrective action to reduce the probability of recurrence.
NOTE: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.
1. Amendment of subsection (c) filed 12-8-86; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 86, No. 50).
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"It reads like a thriller, and one that makes you think hard, to boot. I've already placed this one on my favorite-books-for-book-clubs list."—The Book Case
"An utterly engrossing story, driven by a heroine as layered and magnetic as Hester Prynne herself, and reminiscent, too, of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Absolutely a must-read."
—Booklist, starred review
"The Scarlet Letter could unfurl from no better a speculative pen than that held by Hillary Jordan. She takes the seeds of that story and roots them in a world where 'right to life' is the law of the land . . . The result . . . is as compulsively readable as it is thought-provoking."
—The Denver Post
"In the chillingly credible tomorrowland of Jordan's second novel, Roe v. Wade has been overturned, abortion has been criminalized in 42 states and a vigilante group known as the Fist of Christ brutalizes violators . . . Jordan's feverishly conceived dystopia holds its own alongside the dark inventions of Margaret Atwood and Ray Bradbury."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Hannah's fight for freedom is both a sober warning and a gripping page-turner. Already it reads like a classic." —AARP
"Jordan's take on the hot button issues of our time—separation of church and state, abortion, an imperfect criminal justice system—is compelling."
—San Antonio Express-News
"An inventive tale about a new America that has lost its way . . . When She Woke is, at its heart, a tense, energetic and lively paced story about self-discovery and reclamation in the wake of enormous shame. It is a story about the price of love."
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"[A] provocative, politically charged novel . . . [Hannah's] journey to reclaim herself is equally chilling and riveting." —Family Circle
"Will spark many an intriguing book club discussion." —The Cleveland Plain Dealer


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Friday, August 04, 2006
Earth Cooler During Little Ice Age Than AfterThe Washington Post reports today that "since 1880 the duration of heat waves in Western Europe has doubled and the number of unusually hot days in the region has nearly tripled."
The paper does not tell readers the Little Ice Age ended in the middle of the 1800s.
Tim Graham of Newsbusters notes more strange things in this article.
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Mascot is a style checker for Objective Caml sources. It checks for overloading of built-in elements, useless constructs, deeply nested constructs, 'open' statements, magic numbers, complex conditions, presence of comments, spelling, empty interfaces and the number of exported elements, coupling, Halstead, and McCabe metrics, matching of regular expressions, and spaces, tabulation, headers, and file/line lengths. It supports CheckStyle, CSV, HTML, JDepend, bare text, and XML outputs, and supports plugins for custom checks and outputs.
Release Notes: Support for checks based on binary annotations, and for binary output mode have been added. Two new checks ('catch_all' to detect patterns catching all exceptions, and 'code.ignore_unit' check to detect application of 'ignore' to expression whose type is 'unit') have been added. Numerous bugs have been fixed. The codebase has been updated for OCaml 4.00.0.
Mutt Folder List is a mutt patch that adds a sidebar showing all mail folders and the total and number of new messages each contains. It allows users to hide or display the sidebar with a single keystroke, and optionally highlights folders with new messages. Users can scroll up and down the list of folders and open the selected folder, and configure the sidebar width, colors, and key bindings.
Release Notes: The sidebar patch was updated for mutt 1.5.21. 16 patches were incorporated from Julius Plenz and his mutt sidebar patch improvements blog.
FFTW++ is a C++ header class for the FFTW Fast Fourier Transform library that automates memory allocation, alignment, planning, and wisdom. In 2D and 3D, implicit dealiasing of convolutions substantially reduces memory usage and computation time. Wrappers for C, Python, and Fortran are included.
Release Notes: Support was added for multithreaded transforms and convolutions.
HPCC (High Performance Computing Cluster) stores and processes large quantities of data, processing billions of records per second using massive parallel processing technology. Large amounts of data across disparate data sources can be accessed, analyzed, and manipulated in fractions of seconds. HPCC functions as both a processing and a distributed data storage environment capable of analyzing terabytes of information.
Release Notes: This release includes fixes and enhancements for browser issues with the ECL Playground, and other updates.
SOGo is a very fast and scalable modern collaboration suite (or groupware). It offers calendaring, address book management, and a full-featured Webmail client along with resource sharing and permission handling. It also makes use of documented standards (IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, etc.) and thereby provides native connectivity (without plugins) to many clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, the iPhone, Mozilla Lightning, and a plethora of mobile devices via SyncML. It can reuse any existing email and database infrastructure, avoiding long hours of site restructuring.
Release Notes: Mail filters (Sieve) are no longer conditional on each other. The tasks list display was improved. The transition from text/plain message templates to HTML was completed. New packages were provided for Debian 7.0 (Wheezy). It also fixed passwords prefixed with {none} when not using a password algorithm, handling of duplicated contacts in contact lists, handling of exception dates with time zones in recurring events, validation of the interval in daily recurring events with a day mask covering multiple days, and name quoting when sending invitations.
OpenNMS is the first enterprise-grade network management platform developed using the open source model. The three main functional areas of OpenNMS are service polling, which monitors services on the network and reports on their "service level"; data collection from the remote systems via SNMP in order to measure the performance of the network; and a system for event management and notifications.
Release Notes: This is the latest in the stable 1.10 series. It contains a few bugfixes and enhancements, including an important fix for those using the remote poller.
ufdbGuard is a URL filter. The URL filter blocks access to sets of Web sites and cooperates with the Squid proxy. It integrates with LDAP, Kerberos, Active Directory, MySQL, and others to define different ploicies for different groups of users. ufdbGuard also enforces SafeSearch for many search engines, blocks Skype, UltraSurf, Tor, unsafe HTTPS sites, and dynamically detects proxy tunnels. The multi-threaded daemon uses a fast algorithm that does 50,000 URL verifications per second on an Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe) at 2.4 GHz.
Release Notes: This release fixes 10 issues and has 12 enhancements, including support for the URL list of Phishtank, performance improvements, and support for new subcategories of URLfilterDB.
The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop an all-in-one Internet application suite. It contains an Internet browser, email and newsgroup client with an included Web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat, and Web development tools, and is sure to appeal to advanced users, Web developers, and corporate users. It uses much of the Mozilla source code powering such successful siblings as Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, Sunbird, and Miro.
Release Notes: This release adds support for SPDY networking protocol v3. It implements WebGL enhancements, including compressed textures for better performance. Optimized memory usage for add-ons. Implements the CSS word-break property. Implements a high precision event timer. HTML5: native support has been added for the Opus audio codec. Support has been added for the source element media attribute. Support has been added for the audio element and video element played attribute. Several stability issues have been fixed.
SecureCRT provides terminal emulation with secure remote access, file transfer (SFTP and X/Y/Zmodem), and data tunneling. Supported access protocols are SSH 1 and 2, telnet, telnet/SSL, and serial. It has emulation support for VT100/102/220, ANSI, SCO ANSI, Wyse 50/60, Xterm, and Linux consoles. It provides session management and tabbed sessions in one or more windows. The program is fully scriptable via VBScript, JScript, PerlScript, or Python.
Release Notes: The xterm set title escape sequence ending with \033\\ is supported in addition to \007. Various bugfixes.
Nag is a Web-based application built upon the Horde Application Framework that provides a simple, clean interface for managing online task lists (i.e. TODO lists). It includes strong integration with the other Horde applications and offers shared task lists.
Release Notes: A completely redesigned user interface. Adds recurring tasks and smart tasks lists. Converts categories to tags. Further bugfixes and improvements.
Kronolith is the Horde calendar application. It provides a stable and featureful individual calendar system with integrated collaboration and scheduling features. It makes extensive use of the Horde Framework to provide integration with other applications. It implements a solid, stand-alone calendar system, allowing repeating events, all-day events, custom fields, keywords, shared calendars, iCalendar support, generation of free/busy information, and managing multiple users through Horde Authentication.
Release Notes: A completely redesigned user interface. Allowed to set individual timezones for events. Adds work week view, complete recurrence and exception editing, resource scheduling, and quick task adding to the dynamic interface. Adds heatmap to year view. Further bugfixes and improvements.
Turba is the Horde contact management application. It is a production level address book, and makes heavy use of the Horde framework to provide integration with IMP and other Horde applications. It supports SQL, LDAP, Kolab, and IMSP address books.
Release Notes: More interface improvements. Further bugfixes and improvements.
IMP, the Internet Messaging Program, allows Web-based access to IMAP and POP3 mail servers and provides a range of features normally found only in desktop email clients.
Release Notes: Many improvements to the smartphone view. Allowed to automatically update calendar events from iTip messages. Allowed to edit the address whitelist for HTML message images. Fixes the iTip request handler. Further bugfixes and improvements.
The Horde Application Framework is a modular, general-purpose Web application framework. It provides an extensive array of classes that are targeted at the common problems and tasks involved in developing modern Web applications.
Release Notes: More interface improvements. Small bugfixes.
APServiceBox provides dependency injection for your iOS projects.
Release Notes: Now when you call the fill: method for the first time, the dependencies themselves are filled with other dependencies from the container. This allows you to create service objects that depend on other service objects.
GroupOffice is a groupware suite that takes your office online, implementing online collaboration and CRM. It allows you to share projects, calendars, files and email online with co-workers and clients. It is easy to use and fully customizable. It also features synchronization with PDAs and Outlook.
Release Notes: Translations were updated, and a problem with GOTA and a Java update was fixed. Some other bugfixes are in this release as well. Upgrading is highly recommended for everyone.
GriF is a collaborative grid framework to support computational chemistry applications. It is meant to be used as a tool to facilitate massive grid calculations and also to improve scientific collaboration. Accordingly, GriF facilitates profiling the users of grid communities in order to systematically evaluate the work carried out in a grid and to foster its sustainability.
Release Notes: This minor update includes the ability to support new Grid Service applications and bugfixes.
SchilliX is an OpenSolaris-based live CD and distribution that is intended to help people discover OpenSolaris. When installed on a hard drive, it also allows developers to develop and compile code in a pure OpenSolaris environment. SchilliX tries to be as Sun Solaris compatible as possible and to be the optimum development platform for Solaris and OpenSolaris.
Release Notes: This release is built from SVr4 packages created from the SchilliX-ON project. The man pages are now included in the base of SchilliX-ON. Star now acts as a replacement for the formerly closed source "pax". Hdump now acts as a replacement for the formerly closed source "od". A new OSS implementation of a POSIX compatible "patch" program has been added. The SchilliX-ON base is available as a set of compressed SVr4 packages that can be installed via "pkgadd" directly over the network.
WombatDialer is a platform to provide mass outbound calling. This can be used to implement many different services. By offering a set of ready-to-use components and a monitoring GUI, it lets you create complex solution in minutes. It can work on predefined call lists or can dynamically create them over an API (e.g., dial number X after 10:30AM). It shares the load on one or more PBX servers and has flexible rescheduling logic to handle missed calls. It is built to be used with your existing Asterisk PBX, and does not require separate servers or a separate set of lines. It can call over VoIP or through the public telephone network. It is built to integrate with your business processes, and can receive calls to be made over HTTP and/or notify an external system in realtime of calls made and results gathered. It works natively with the QueueMetrics Call-Center Monitoring Suite to produce state-of-the-art campaign analyses and insight.
Release Notes: WombatDialer is now in beta stage after being tested for a few months in a number of call-centers worldwide in its initial alpha stage. A number of small changes have been implemented in order to correct errors found in the alpha; a powerful QueueMetrics integration mode has been developed as well.
Sally is a tool for mapping a set of strings to a set of vectors. This mapping is referred to as embedding and allows techniques of machine learning and data mining to be applied for the analysis of string data. It can be used with data such as text documents, DNA sequences, or log files. The vector space model or bag-of-words model is used. Strings are characterized by a set of features, where each feature is associated with one dimension of the vector space. Occurrences of the features in each string are counted. Alternatively, binary or TF-IDF values can be computed. Vectors can be output in plain text, LibSVM, or Matlab format.
Release Notes: Support for stop words and frequency thresholding has been added. The configuration has been simplified and is more transparent. Several bugs have been fixed.
Simblog aims to be one of the most easy-to-use and lightweight blogging platforms. It emphasizes user experience, workflow, and ease of use without neglecting usability and extensibility. It will take full advantage of what HTML5 and CSS3 have to offer without delving too deeply into experimental features. It is built on its own lightweight framework, which allows a high degree of extensibility and modularity for your blog. It uses Smarty as a templating engine (which also provides a caching mechanism), jQuery and Kendo UI for frontend design, and MySQL as a database.
Release Notes: The first alpha release is here. You can perform basic operations on a blog platform, like adding, removing, or changing posts, and commenting on posts.
Android Vitosha Poker Odds is a simple Texas Holdem Poker calculator for Android.
Release Notes: Initial release.
Android Yuriy's NodesUP is a tool for checking the online status of IP addresses or hosts, RDNS, and MX records. It also provides a field where you can test a service running on a port.
Release Notes: Initial release.
DataNucleus AccessPlatform is a standards-compliant Java persistence product. It is fully compliant with the JDO1, JDO2, JDO2.1, JDO2.2, JDO3, JPA1, JPA2 and JPA2.1 Java standards, and provides a REST API. It complies with the OGC Simple Feature Spec for persistence of geospatial Java types. It allows access to all popular RDBMS available today, together with the MongoDB, LDAP, NeoDatis, JSON, Excel/ODF spreadsheets, XML, BigTable, HBase, and Neo4j databases.
Release Notes: Support for persisting to Neo4j graph datastores was added. A hook for transaction event listeners was added. Many improvements to in-memory query evaluation were made. Improvements to invocation of query methods with RDBMS were made. Improvements to querying with MongoDB were made. More flexibility for querying of spatial types was added. Vendor extension annotation for specifying indexes with JPA was added. Many minor feature enhancements and bugfixes were made.
Amms is a high-performance traffic accounting system for SQUID.
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Hot on the heels of its success with Kart Rider Rush, Nexon has brought another one of its free-to-play MMO titles to iOS. Dungeon Fighter Online is one of the most popular titles in the lineup, save for another game called MapleStory. Dungeon Fighter Online is a free-to-play 2D action RPG that came to North America on the PC last year, and now it's out on the iPhone as Dungeon Fighter Slayer Edition, a version that seems to be a more offline-centric setup of the popular MMORPG. Just like the original game, the action is in 2D and fast and furious, but this version costs US$4.99 outright. While there is Game Center integration, it's not clear how this ties into the PC MMO, if at all.
Unfortunately, the reviews on iTunes aren't great. The game currently carries a 2-star rating, so it doesn't seem like Nexon has been able to bring over what made the original version of the game so popular. There are in-app purchases in the game for expanding your inventory and some extra in-game cash, but it's interesting that the company chose not to try for the full MMO experience, especially when games like Pocket Legends have proved that it does work.
We'll have to see how the game goes as it moves forward. Nexon undoubtedly has even more plans for the App Store, but this may be one title that doesn't pan out.
Update: Apparently the game's been pulled -- it's no longer on the US App Store. Maybe after the slow reception, Nexon has headed back to the drawing board


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The Gunslinger Guide to Gordon Willis #3
from The Godfather
(Francis Ford Coppola; 1972)
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The series is: Gunslinger Guide: Gordon Willis
4 comments:
- mister muleboy said...
thank you thank you thank you.
I'm such a dim bulb about film (ooooh; pretty picture) that I usually forget that there is a contematographer, or director of photography.
I just think a megalomaniac who's been given millions of dollars turns around and coughs up a finished film. . . .
This WIllis fella -- not bad.
- June 24, 2010 8:09 AM
- -K- said...
Buffers? Yeah, the Family had a lot of buffers, Senator.
- June 25, 2010 5:38 PM
- Tom Sutpen said...
God bless and keep Joe Spinell . . . wherever he is.
- June 25, 2010 9:24 PM
- Fred said...
My thoughts exactly, Tom. This film gave Joe his big break, and he just ran with it.
And yes, it was one of the most incredible endings in film history. "Do you, Michael Corleone, renounce Satan?"
- June 25, 2010 11:04 PM
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Celebrate the flavor of Chicago with a Taste of Dr. Dawg
Hot dogs are considered by many to be America's favorite food. The first U.S hot dogs have roots in New York, St. Louis and Baltimore. But it's nearby Chicago which brought the flavor of authentic Vienna beef to the Midwest.
This Sunday, a local eatery will celebrate all that makes the Chicago dog famous.
Dr. Dawg, a Glendale eatery specializing in Vienna beef hot dogs and other gourmet sandwiches, will host its First Annual Taste of Dr. Dawg, a free tasting event and kick-off for the restaurant's partnership with Hunger Task Force.
The event will feature guest speaker and author Bob Schwartz, writer of the book "Never Put Ketchup on a Hot Dog." As former senior vice president at the Vienna Beef Company, Schwartz spent almost 40 years developing and enhancing strong emotions for the business and for the people who operate hot dog stands.
Schwartz's book is a must-read for anyone who loves hot dogs. A tome of classic proportion, it provides a true insider's view and reflects a true appreciation for hot dogs and the joys of eating them, selling them and talking about them.
According to Schwartz, the inspiration for the title of his book, came from his 5-year-old granddaughter, Edie, who said – knowingly – on a trip to Herm's Palace in Skokie, Ill., "Silly, you never put ketchup on a hot dog."
"A sliced tomato augments," Schwartz explains. "Ketchup detracts. It's too sweet and acidic and detracts from the natural taste of the dog."
Instead, Chicagoans, who are proud of their hot dogs, swear by what is called the "Chicago 7" of condiments: mustard, onions, relish, tomato wedges, pickle spear, jalapeño peppers and celery salt.
"It all blends ... hence the term dragging it through the garden," Schwartz explains. Schwartz theorizes that Chicago's aversion to ketchup dates back nearly a century, when the "dragged-through-the-garden" style of hot dogs made additional condiments unnecessary.
Schwartz himself is a simple guy, who likes his hot dogs "MOT-style," with mustard, onions and tomatoes. Unless, of course, he's indulging in a char dog, a hot dog grilled on an open fire. "Then it's just mustard and grilled onions," he explains.
Schwartz also has a number of beloved stories about the origins of the hot dog.
"One of my favorite stories begins in about 1946 when a tall reckless guy, resembling our remembrance of the Marlboro cowboy, decided to open a little hot dog place on the near-west side of Chicago," he recollects.
"It was on the corner of Polk and Western, and since he was more interested in selling hot dogs rather than marketing an identity, he just called it Polk & Western. Business grew, but he was a restless gambler and just like in the movies he put up his hot dog place as a bet in a poker game ... and lost it.
"But a year later he and a buddy got together and opened another one out further west and called it Gene & Jude's, named after the two friends. They offered only Vienna beef, skinny, natural-casing hot dogs with the fries on top of the sandwich and just mustard, onions and relish as condiments. Absolutely no ketchup allowed. That place is now over 60 years old. Another hot dog operator told me that his Uncle Tony was first in the family in the business when he won a hot dog stand in a card game back in the late '40s."
But, even Schwartz admits that Chicago isn't the only place to find a great hot dog.
"Chicagoans are passionate about their hot dogs and their favorite hot dog places," Schwartz comments. "And folks from Milwaukee should be too. You have great places like Martino's, a 33-year-old icon on the south side, the Dogg Hauses, and now Dr. Dawg and his quality sandwiches in the northern 'burbs."
To chat with Bob Schwartz yourself and learn more about the history of the hot dog, attend The Taste of Dr. Dawg Sunday, Feb. 19 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Dr. Dawg, 6969 N. Port Washington Road in Glendale. David Ross, a.k.a. "The Doctor" and founder of Dr. Dawg, will host the event.
Schwartz will present the origin and history of the famed Chicago hot dog. Autographed copies of "Never Put Ketchup on a Hot Dog" will be available for purchase, with 25 percent of all book sales donated to the Hunger Task Force.
The Taste of Dr. Dawg event will also feature free samples of sandwiches like Da Dawgs (Chicago-style hot dogs), Da Burgers (natural angus beef burgers), Maxwell Street Polish Sassage, veggie sausages, Italian beef and Dr. Dawg's famous hand-cut French fries. The Taste of Dr. Dawg is free and open to the public.
High_Life_Man | Feb. 23, 2012 at 6:21 p.m. (report)
Ate here today and talked to the Dr. himself. Love their food!
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Aardvark | Feb. 20, 2012 at 8:33 a.m. (report)
There is a place like this on every corner in IL, but it's hard to find a good beef or hot dog in Milwaukee. This place is pretty good and reminds me of home. Much better than Martino's which is expensive and below average.
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The future belongs to our children, our grandchildren, and those who still believe in American excellence, American greatness, and the greatness of our Country. I believe this Country will thrive, prosper and shine again. The "tax and spend" agenda is NOT an effective means of reviving an economy but an effective means towards high unemployment, redistribution, low standard of living for all, and looming fiscal crisis--this fact has been proven throughout American history. We know what it is like to have a free-enterprise system that creates capital, jobs, affordable debt, and a higher standard of living for all; an economy that represents all Americans and does not attempt to redistribute. President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Carolyn McCarthy and other Democrats have penalized good, honest, hard-working Americans for believing in the American Dream. Some of their harshest legislative blows hit small businesses, the primary source of job creation and the solution to our struggling economy. As Americans living in the greatest Country in the world, we must focus our efforts towards the future, address the problems facing us today and fix this broken system. We can do this by keeping informed, staying involved, and only electing/re-electing government officials that will abide by the Constitution as it was written by our forefathers, who will institute pro-growth tax policies and reign in government spending. I, Fran Becker, will do just that. I believe in creating jobs and restoring the American dream for this generation and future generations. I will bring to Washington the experience and ability to restore fiscal sanity, accountability, and end the incompetence.
Let's dream a new dream and fight day and night to take back our Country!
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Pastora de Occidente
Pastora de Occidente joined the Venezuelan League in 1953-1954 and won the pennant behind manager Buster Mills. They finished fourth in the 1954 Caribbean Series on a club featuring Howie Fox, Ramon Monzant, Thornton Kipper, Johnny Temple and Luis "Camaleón" García. The team then folded. A club by the same name appeared decades later when the Petroleros de Cabimas changed their name in 1995 to Pastora de Occiente. After six seasons without a title, they were renamed the Pastora de los Llanos.


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By Duane Pemberton
Winery website: http://www.saviahcellars.com
A lot of wineries have figured out that in order to grow revenue, coming up with a quality second-label at the sub-$20 price-point is a great idea. Even though Saviah has been lavished in praised by both fans and crititcs, owner/winemaker, Richard Funk launched the "Jack" line of second-label wines a few years ago and has seen it really help pick up with widespread acclaim.
2010 Jack Riesling – W.E.P. Rating: 90%
Technical Data:
- Appellation: Columbia Valley
- Vineyards: Evergreen Vineyard
- pH: 3.12TA: 8.4 g/100mL
- Residual Sugar: 1.79%
- Alcohol: 12.4%
- Price: $15
Nose: Lemon curd, kiwi, papya, granite, oyster shell, wet stone, pear and fuji apple.
Taste: This is a very "well-rounded" riesling in that it's one that will cater to a HUGE audience – it's not bone dry and not too sweet at all. Think of it as the bed that Goldilox fit "perfectly" into. Subtle "roundness" to it with enough acidity to keep it from seeming "flabby". The mid palate is super "bright" without being "candified" (i.e. too much sugar), yet the finish feels nice and off-dry. A solid riesling that will easily placate well to a wide audience.
2010 Jack Cabernet Sauvignon – W.E.P. Rating: 120%
Technical Data:
- Appellation: Columbia Valley
- Vineyards: Pepper Bridge Vineyard, Stillwater Creek Vineyard, Bacchus Vineyard, Seven Hills Vineyard, Mirage Vineyard
- Composition: 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Frac
- pH: 3.71
- TA: 0.57 g/100mL
- Alcohol: 14.1%
- Price: $18
Nose: Black currant, tinderbox cigar shop, dark cocoa, leather glove, bramble, pencil lead and black cherry.
Taste: Beautiful, balanced flavors of black cherry, black raspberry, bramble berry, dark chocolate, spice, leather, tobacco and tar. I really appreciate the tannin and acids acros the mid palate which really do a lot – quite easily the best-tasting WA cab that I've had for the money.
2010 Jack Red Wine – W.E.P. Rating: 110%
Technical Data:
- Appellation: Columbia Valley
- Vineyards: Pepper Bridge Vineyard, Stone Ridge, Mirage Vineyard McClellan Estate Vineyard, Stillwater Creek Vineyard, Destiny Ridge, Frenchmen Hills Vineyard
- Composition: 80% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot, 3% Malbec,
- pH: 3.63
- TA: 0.59 g/100mL
- Alcohol: 14.1%
- Price: $18
Nose: Black cherries, black raspberries, cigar wrapper, old socks, leather, pipe tobacco, leather and a hint of shoe polish.
Taste: Plum skins, raisins, pepper corns, blueberries, game, beef jerky, pie crust, black mud and tar. This is one heullva glass of wine for the money – it's so on-point in regards to its overall complexity, drinkability and food-friendliness that it's really hard to fault it. For $18 – it is in fact a total no-brainer and shows that Washington State can easily compete with the likes of Spain or Argentina at this price point.
2010 Jack Syrah – W.E.P. Rating: 90%
Technical Data:
- Appellation: Columbia Valley
- Vineyards: Lewis Vineyard, Stillwater Creek Vineyard, Songbird Vineyard, Ranch at the End of the Road, Elephant Mountain Vineyard
- Composition: 75% Syrah, 21% Sangiovese, 2% Malbec, 2% Cabernet franc
- pH 3.75
- Total Acidity 0.55 g/100mL
- Alcohol 14.3%
- Cooperage: 100% American oak barrels – 20% New
- Production: 980 Cases
- Price: $18
Nose: Charred wood – an almost burnt match-like aroma – is what I'm getting right off the bat. This is followed by smells of root beer, black cherry, pencil lead, leather and shoe polish.
Taste: Super tight tannins speak to the youth of this wine – they are nicely complimented by dark fruits, a splash of wild game and nice acids. This is a young Syrah that shows good potential to be even better in 2-3 more years – until then, decant it and enjoy. The finish isn't nearly as long as I'd prefer but overall not a bad wine at all for the money.


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Originally Posted by Alrik Fassbauer
For me, the default running speed of Divinity 2 is too fast - now when I say in a forum that I let my character almost only walking in towns, people will very likely call me stupid, because I 1. I refuse to use the running speed in towns (just looks unrealistic to me (I'm *not* running towards the next shop to buy my newspaper in real life !) and 2. because I decide to "slow the game down" at all.
No matter what I do, I'm lost, because I'm not doing what the majority does.


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I changed my server and moved to a different hosting provider. I am Experiencing Few Difficulties. I can't able Install or Uniinstall any components, modules or plugins. What is the problem. Everything was working fine with the old provider. I just Moved the same data to the new server .
Please help.
I think either the property rights are set incorrectly for the joomla directory or the ftp is setup incorrectly and the user cannot get to the proper location.
In order to change the FTP settings, just download your configuration.php and edit your FTP details like this.
var $ftp_enable = '1';var $ftp_host = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX';var $ftp_port = '21';var $ftp_user = 'XXXXXXX';var $ftp_pass = 'XXXXXXXX';var $ftp_root = '/mysite.com';
And don't forget to set
var $ftp_enable = '0';
var $ftp_enable = '1';
save configuration.php and upload to your root directory.


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AHA: Hospitals a $2T Economic Driver
With Congress and states looking to trim healthcare spending, the American Hospital Association this week issued a none-too-subtle reminder that hospitals are economic engines for the communities they serve.
Citing various data sources, AHA said that the nation's hospitals employ 5.5 million people and create $2 trillion dollars in economic activity, even as "some in Congress continue to threaten access to hospital services."
"It's important that people understand that hospitals are not a drain on our economy. They are a driver," Caroline Steinberg, AHA's vice president for trends analysis, told HealthLeaders Media. "They not only provide medical care to support a healthy and productive workforce. They also act as an economic engine supporting trillions of dollars of economic activity nationwide."
"Very few people really understand that," Steinberg says. "I remember some years back being at a conference where they were talking about national health expenditures. Everything they said, if they had said it about another sector of the economy, it would have been a positive. 'It's growing as a share of (Gross Domestic Product). It has this many more people employed. It's a growth industry.'"
Steinberg noted that the healthcare sector added an average of 28,000 new jobs each month in 2012. "Throughout the recession healthcare was a steady producer of jobs and you can't really say that about any other industries," she says.


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The three works collected in this volume, all written in 1924, explore the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation. In St Mawr, Lou Witt buys a beautiful, untamable bay stallion and discovers an intense affinity with the horse that she cannot feel with her husband. This superb novella displays Lawrence's mastery of satirical comedy in a scathing depiction of London's fashionable horse riding set. The Princess portrays the intimacy between an aloof woman and her male guide as she travels through New Mexico in search of new experiences, while in The Woman who Rode Away a woman's religious quest in Mexico brings great danger – and astonishing self-discovery.
About the Author
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was born into a miner's family in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the fourth of five children. He attended Beauvale Board School and Nottingham High School, and trained as an elementary schoolteacher at Nottingham University College. He taught in Croydon from 1908. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, just a few weeks after the death of his mother, to whom he had been extraordinarily close. His career as a schoolteacher was ended by serious illness at the end of 1911.
In 1912 Lawrence went to Germany with Frieda Weekley, the German wife of the Professor of Modern Languages at University College, Nottingham. They were married on their return to England in 1914. Lawrence had published Sons and Lovers in 1913; but The Rainbow, completed in 1915, was suppressed, and for three years he could not find a publisher for Women in Love, completed in 1917.
After the war, Lawrence lived abroad and sought a more fulfilling mode of life than he had so far experienced. With Frieda he lived in Italy, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Mexico and Mexico. They returned to Europe in 1925, settling in Italy again, where he finished Lady Chatterley's Lover. This, his last novel, was published in 1928, but did not appear in its complete form in England and America for thirty years. The tuberculosis which had first been diagnosed in Mexico was becoming increasingly serious by this time, and in a last attempt to find a cure Frieda took him to Germany and then France. He died aged forty-four in Vence, in the south of France. After his death, Frieda wrote that 'What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life ... a heroic and immeasurable gift.'
Lawrence's life may have been short, but he lived it intensely. He produced an amazing body of work: novels, stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, translations, paintings and letters (over five thousand of which survive).
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: General
For Ages: 18+ years old
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 272
Published: 1st March 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.68 x 13.34 x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.2
Edition Number: 1


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Histories of Monongahela, Charleroi intertwined
For one year in the late 1980s, Terry Necciai balanced his time serving as president of the Monongahela Area Historical Society and as the Main Street manager in Charleroi.
He likened it to Friday night between two rival towns.
"I was always fighting this feeling they were like two football teams. But they're not. Each has its unique features."
For the first time, the two communities' historical societies came together for an event Thursday in the parlor of First Presbyterian Church, Sixth and Chess streets, Monongahela.
Six years after his work on Charleroi's successful nomination as a historic preservation district, Necciai spoke on the historical connection between the two communities.
"When I was Main Street manager in Charleroi, I thought they were developed the same," Necciai said. "But Charleroi was opposite in lot of ways. Charleroi has a busy business district and is 100 years younger than Monongahela."
The development of Charleroi's business district "all happened at once," Necciai said. When The Charleroi Land Co. in 1889 began selling plots of land that sold "like magic" and the nickname of "The Magic City" was born.
"In Monongahela, you'll find buildings which played off each other," Necciai said. "That did not happen in Charleroi — they all happened at once. There was a conscious effort to form a boom town.
"Monongahela's buildings were built to make each other better," Necciai said. "They were dependent upon each other for how they looked, for aesthetics."
Monongahela was developed in several different town plans over several decades. Each plan follows the bend of the Monongahela River, which frames the city. With each subtle bend of the river, a new plan was developed.
For example, Necciai noted, from the 100 block of East Main Street to Fourth Street was the Joseph Parkinson Plan.
The next plan stretches along Fifth and Sixth streets and was developed by Adam Wickerham.
Wickersham's daughter, Mary Chess, developed a plan that centers around the street named for her.
But in Charleroi, the town was laid out when trolleys were in place, Necciai said. Shoppers could jump on and off trolleys to shop from block to block. Because the lots were only 20 to 25 feet wide, they were conducive to small, narrow shops like shoe stores. As a result, as recently as the 1970s, there were 13 shoes stores in Charleroi; five still existed in the 1980s.
"Every block had a hotel, shoe store, clothing store, cigar store, confectionary," Necciai said.
Charleroi was laid out as the light bulb became popular. Thus the buildings didn't need side light. They were built without side windows, unlike the businesses in downtown Monongahela.
Monongahela was laid out and developed over a century. In contrast, the first 1,000 lots in Charleroi were sold within a year.
The Charleroi Plate Glass Works was founded in November 1889. The same day, the Charleroi Land Co. was founded.
"That shows they were just as interested in selling land as selling glass," Necciai said.
J.K. Tener, the former baseball player and future governor, founded the Charleroi Savings and Trust Co. in the late 1890s.
"Tener got the idea that stores were more important than the glass company, so he started the chamber," Necciai said.
Necciai said although Monongahela had been around for nearly 120 years at the time, by the beginning of the 20th century, Charleroi had grown larger than the nearby city.
But it was some of Monongahela's prominent families who were developing Charleroi. For example, the Yohe family built a block of homes on Fourth Street in Charleroi.
According to the records of the Charleroi Area Historical Society, Dr. A.F. Chandler is responsible for the community's name. He visited Charleroi, Belgium, encouraging skilled glassworkers to come to the Washington County town to help develop the growing industry.
But when he died suddenly, Chandler's wife had him buried in Monongahela Cemetery, Necciai noted.
"If you think of these towns as competing, you have to wonder why she chose to bury him in Monongahela," Necciai said.
According to the Charleroi Area Historical Society records, M.J. Alexander was a showman who helped develop Charleroi and coined the phrase "The Magic City."
Alexander must have liked the nickname, Necciai said, because Alexander used it to promote Barberton, Ohio, home of Diamond Matches, after he left Charleroi.
By 1897, he developed Monessen, and in 1900, he helped to develop Donora.
Chris Buckley is a staff writer for Trib Total Media.


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Posted on May 30, 2006
Mexico's coach downplays the importance of the international friendlies as the team prepares for their June 11th match versus Iran.
After losing 1-0 to France and getting ready to face Holland Thursday, Mexican national team coach, Ricardo La Volpe, said the only thing that matters is the World Cup 2006 debut, not so much the team's performance in the friendlies.
For the Argentinean coach, the important date will be June 11th, when El Tri will face Iran in their World Cup '06 kick off.
La Volpe, who had not spoken to the media since arriving in Europe, made it clear that "we can't forget that what really matters to us is the first match in the World Cup."
After the team ended Sunday's training session in the Netherlands, the coach asserted that after three years at the Mexican team's helm, he knows what their objective and how his players will respond on the field.
"We know what this team is about, as we've worked together for three years and I know I have 23 players who will leave it all on the pitch."
La Volpe added that they are only concerned for their own actions, not what the other teams are doing. "To be a great team we can only worry about what we are doing."


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The character derived from the adductor ridge, just alluded to, is remarkable.
There is no hollow or crest for the adductor muscle, which is small.
Thus, when the valves are closed, there is always a strain upon the adductor to overcome the elastic resistance of the cartilage.
The orbit is not completely walled off from the adductor chamber.
Finally there is evidence for an adductor between the temporal and masseter masses.
There is a deep and conspicuous pit for the adductor muscle.
Neither is there anatomical evidence for an adductor arising from the quadrate wing of the pterygoid.
In one leg, the entire muscle is indistinguishably fused with M. adductor profundus and they appear as a single muscle.
The thickness of the valve sometimes varies a little, and when thick the adductor ridge does not appear quite so prominent.
When a pelecypod dies and the pull of the adductor muscles is released, the valves gape open.
adductor ad·duc·tor (ə-dŭk'tər)
A muscle that draws a body part, such as a finger, an arm, or a toe, inward toward the median axis of the body or of an extremity.
A muscle that draws a limb or part of a limb toward the midline of the body. Compare abductor.


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Using Punctuation this Halloween
Don't let grammar get ghoulish this Halloween! Practice using punctuation with a spooky worksheet. Can your student find the errors and add all the missing punctuation marks in each sentence? She'll even get to enjoy a fun "Dracula" joke as she works.
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|Not in FusionFall Retro.
| The following article is about something that appeared after the Birthday Bash update in FusionFall, and so will not appear in FusionFall Retro.
As such, it solely exists for archiving part of the original game.
|World Mission
|A Thanksgiving Delicacy (Part 2 of 2)
|V.V. Argost
|Peach Creek Commons - The Future/The Suburbs
|My Notes
|Argost tricked me into appearing on an episode of Weird World! THat was a very dangerous mission and he didn't care about finding the cryptid lair at all. He wanted hunting footage and ingredients for his Thanksgiving "Cooking with Cryptids" episode.
|V.V. Argost
|The Weird World Tipline is getting overwhelmed with reports that the Townsville Blowfish has somehow been infected by the Fusion Matter and has mutated. Look for a giant "P" and begin your search there in earnest.Can you help us track down this mutated cryptid?
|Step 1
| Find the Fusion Blowfish Lair
|A Thanksgiving Delicacy (Part 2 of 2)
|One of our tipsters claims to have seen more Townsville Blowfish roaming underneath a giant "P". It sounds like the ramblings of a lunatic, but it might be a clue as to where the Fusion-altered beast has made its lair.
|V.V. Argost
|Of course! Peach Creek Estates! It seems so elementary. Perhaps you should go into the beast's lair and see what awaits?
|V.V. Argost
|Greetings and bienvenue faithful viewers! You're watching Weird World's "Cooking with Cryptids," Thanksgiving Special. Please welcome our special guest, Piecemeal!
|Step 2
| Collect Five Fusion Blowfish Skin.
|A Thanksgiving Delicacy (Part 2 of 2)
| Fusion Blowfish Skin: 0/5
Tres bien! Look at all of those Fusion Blowfish! There should be plenty of them available from which to obtain "samples." Collect for me five Fusion Blowfish Skins and I shall make you a star!
|V.V. Argost
|My word, that's the biggest Fusion Blowfish I've ever seen!
|V.V. Argost
|Ladies and gentlemen, please note that our hero has no idea that we're watching thanks to hidden cameras set up in the lair by our production team!
|Step 3
| Defeat Hootie.
Partially Digested Turkey Beak Mask: 0/1
|A Thanksgiving Delicacy (Part 2 of 2)
|What a delightful surprise! Defeat that giant Fusion Blowfish and our ratings will skyrocket. Wouldn't you agree, Piecemeal? Not to mention that we have no idea what a cryptid that large could have amassed in its lair. It could be worth your while. You may need to bring a friend to defeat him.
|V.V. Argost
|That explains what happened to the production assistant that set up the cameras! Perhaps the full Turkey Costume slowed him down a bit. Pity. Return to me.
|V.V. Argost
|I've got a newer cleaner version of the Turkey Beak Mask awaiting you upon your return.
|Step 4
| Deliver the Fusion Blowfish Skins
Fusion Blowfish Skin 5/5
Partially Digested Turkey Beak Mask 1/1
|A Thanksgiving Delicacy (Part 2 of 2)
|Yes, you may have figured it out by now that you were being taped the entire time. I urge you not to take it to badly. I'll make you a star. Now if you'll bring those Skins back here, I'll show you how we make Piecemeal's favorite Thanksgiving Dish, a Jellyblowfishjackalopeducken. That's a roast duck inside a roast chicken stuffed with braised Jackalope and Jellyfish wrapped up in a Blowfish skin and baked to perfection. It's a Maltese family tradition!
|V.V. Argost
|Your performance was c'est magnifique! I really BELIEVED you were in danger. I hope the audience will as well.
|V.V. Argost
|Here is a newer, cleaner version of the Turkey Beak Mask. And just for being a good sport, I'll throw in a brand-new Turkey Tail from wardrobe as well. No need to thank me.


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Some evidence has emerged to test the Chief Rabbi's hypothesis that a society without religion is doomed to moral and social collapse. "You cannot expect the foundations of western civilisation to crumble and leave the rest of the building intact."
A new YouGov poll confirms that religion among the younger generation is in headlong retreat. A mere 25% said that they believed in God. A further 19% said that they believed in a "greater spiritual power", while a full 38% now claim to have no religious or spiritual beliefs at all. The remainder were agnostic. Essentially, then, this is a non-believing generation. 10% said that they attendend religious services at least once a month (this is quite close to the long-term average for the population as a whole), but the majority (56%) said that they never went. In perhaps the most significant rebuff to traditional religion, 41% thought that it was the cause of more harm than good in the world. Only 14% (a considerably smaller figure than that for belief in God) thought that religion was, on balance, a good thing.
So much for Dr Sacks' contention that Dawkins et al have failed to get their message across.
Has this absence of religious faith produced a generation of shallow hedonists or depressed, angst-ridden nihilists, as the Chief Rabbi would presumably expect? Not a bit of it. For the survey confirmed that young people today are in most respects more levelheaded and conventional (if somewhat more selfish) than their predecessors. Two thirds looked forward to marriage and children. No fewer than 70% expected (perhaps over-optimistically) to one day own their own home. Slightly more than half thought that "the traditional role of the family" had declined in modern Britain. 30% thought this was a bad thing, but almost a quarter disagreed that the family was in trouble at all. In other words, a clear majority expressed approval for traditional family structures. (They also expressed fairly negative feelings about immigrants and benefit claimants.)
The Chief Rabbi might want to take comfort from these findings. Society is evidently not collapsing for want of religious practice and belief. As for non-believers who hope that a decline in religion would lead to a radically new type of society, they are probably wrong too. There was very strong support for same-sex marriage among young people, confirming that this particular argument, though not quite over, is largely settled in the long term. But even that, scandalous as it remains to religious traditionalists, is essentially a conservative idea: at root, it is about assimilating gay relationships to a traditional monogamous norm (a less tendentious way of putting this is to say that gay people are just as conventional as everyone else).
Religion isn't a necessary conduit for traditional values, it seems. Communal norms can just as effectively be transmitted in other ways: through families, in schools, in the media and through social networks. Perhaps earlier societies did need religion to keep people on the straight and narrow. Modern society may have alighted upon other, more effective methods.
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Young people reject religion: society somehow survives
Some evidence has emerged to test the Chief Rabbi's hypothesis that a society without religion is doomed to moral and social collapse. "You cannot expect the foundations of western civilisation to crumble and leave the rest of the building intact."


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This review is from: Piriform CCleaner Professional – Unlimited Home Use
Pros: CCleaner Professional cleaning features while somewhat limited in terms of supported applications, work well with reliable predictable outcomes (i.e., my systems continues to function properly with increased hard drive space).
Cons: The pros and cons of registry cleaners aside, running the CCleaner Professional Registry Cleaner on my computer results is multiple corrupted applications and unstable system performance and the need to recover from a drive image every time I have used it.
The system tools are simply links to existing windows system or applications for which superior alternatives are available free of charge.
The CCleaner Professional license is based on an annual subscription (i.e., as opposed to free within version updates) as I discovered after receiving a renewal notice.
Other Thoughts: The problem that I have with the annual renewal fee is that the Newegg.com description, piriform.com description, piriform.com CCleaner Professional purchase page, software about screen, CDROM sleeve, and CDROM installation and registration card unequivocally fail to identify that CCleaner Professional requires an annual subscription fee.
I personally feel that this is misleading and deceitful. The annual subscription fee should be overtly identified on the first page of the product description page and a day's remaining or expiration date information should be displayed or accessible from within the software application itself (e.g., on the about page). To add insult to injury, piriform.com does not offer a renewal discount for existing customers.
The annual fee information is buried in the license agreement, which I located using a Google search.
The above noted, if you understand that CCleaner Professional requires an annual renewal fee, are comfortable with misleading and deceitful licensing practices, found the features of the free version helpful, and can purchase the software for a 50% or greater discount, I would recommend the product for the cleaning features only.
This review is from: TRENDnet TEW-805UB AC1200 Dual Band Wireless USB Adapter
Pros: -2.4 GHz 802.11b/g/n and 5 GHz 802.11a/n/ac with up to 867 Mbps Wireless AC or up to or 300 Mbps advertised wireless speeds.
-Backwards compatible with IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11b, and IEEE 802.11a networks.
-Multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) technology which should allow for expanded coverage.
-Windows XP (32/64-bit) through Windows 8 (32/64-bit) compatibility.
-USB 3.0 connection which should equate to greater I/O bandwidth and higher speeds.
-Protected Setup (WPS) button and nonobtrusive status light.
-3-year limited warranty.
-Very reasonably priced.
-Very easy and quick installation using the TRENDnet utility (see utility cons below).
During my testing, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz signal strength was consistently at 80% or above when the adapter was placed at less than approximately 45 feet from my Netgear AC1200 capable Gigabit wireless router. However, signal strength degraded quickly at distances greater than 45 to 55 feet, and was less than 30% by approximately 65-70 feet. TEW-805UB in door coverage is advertised at up to 100 meters (330 feet). USB 3.0, 5 GHz connection speeds were 150-175 Mbps and 2.4 GHz connection speeds were 80-110 Mbps when tested at approximately 40-45 feet from my router.
The adapter never lost connectivity during testing when the adapter was placed at less than approximately 45 feet from my wireless router.
Cons: The adapter is a bit bulky and could easily block access to adjoining ports. This problem could be easily addressed with a USB 3.0 extension cable, but an extension cable was not included with my TEW-805UB package.
It appears that the TRENDnet utility is necessary for the adapter to work; I could not get the adapter to work properly by only installing the drivers. Acknowledging that the utility works well, such utilities can cause problems and/or conflicts. Additionally, it was not possible to connect with the utility without creating a profile.
I was not able to obtain advertised maximal wireless speeds or advertised maximal coverage range.
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Other Thoughts: All said and done, I have mixed opinions about the TEW-805UB. That is, the TEW-805UB is a slightly bulky AC1200 dual band wireless USB 3.0 adapter that is very reasonably priced at less than 40 dollars, very easy to setup and configure using the included setup utility and drivers, and includes a generous 3-year limited warranty. In comparison, this adapter performs better than my N600 wireless dual band USB 2.0 adapters and was on par with a few AC1200 adapters that I have tested.
In contrast, the package should ship with a USB 3.0 extension cable, installation without the utility should be possible, and I was not able to obtain anywhere close to the advertised maximal wireless speeds or advertised maximal coverage range.
In fairness, maximal capabilities are seldom obtainable, individual findings may vary greatly based on factors such as hardware and environment, and I was not able to test the TEW-805UB on a paired AC1200 TRENDnet wireless router. Equally, while my Netgear paired AC1200 adapter has greater speed and distance performance, the cost was double that of the TEW-805UB and it only included a 1-year limited warranty. I was torn between a rating of 3 and 4 and given that 3.5 was not an option, I chose a rating of 4 based on product features, ease of setup, warranty and cost.
So when would I recommend this adapter – For users with an AC1200 Gigabit wireless router that are in need of economic performance gains above that which a typical N600 wireless dual band adapter can offer, and for an environment where the adapter will be no more than 50 feet from the wireless router.
Disclosure: I am not paid by Newegg.com, Newegg.com subsidiaries, partners, and/or vendors to test products or write product reviews. I am provided with sample products which I may or may not be required to return to Newegg. I make every effort to test products under real world and end-user conditions, and to report my individual experiences in a respectful and fair manner.
This review is from: WD Black 3TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD3003FZEX
Pros: WD Black series, 5 year warranty, large capacity with one terabyte platters, 64 MB Cache, SATA Gen3, 6 GB/s capable, 7200 RPM, Native Command Queuing, efficient power profile, and low acoustic levels.
Installation and setup: The disk was quickly installed and easily setup using a GPT partition in windows 8.1 (64 bit); the formatted capacity was 2.72 GB. No problems were identified with the hard drive via a surface test, SMART attributes or by Hard Disk Sentinel PRO.
Benchmarks: Because there are a lot of very good benchmarks and comparisons already posted in other reviews, I decided to add something new and benchmark this drive on a 3 GB/s and a 6 GB/s AHCI Controller, as well as an external USB 3.0 docking station with a compatible SATA-to-USB bridge chip. Noting that 3 GB/s and 6 GB/s AHCI Controller benchmarks are often mixed; I was not surprised by the nominal differences between the two. However, the external docking station performed better than I anticipated.
Intel(R) ICH10R SATA 3 GB/s AHCI Controller
Transfer Rate Minimum: 113.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum: 166.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average: 145.2 MB/sec
Access Time: 9.1 ms
Burst Rate: 196.7 MB/sec
Marvell 9128 SATA 6 GB/s AHCI Controller
Transfer Rate Minimum: 113.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum: 167.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average: 145.3 MB/sec
Access Time: 9.1 ms
Burst Rate: 207.4 MB/sec
ORICO 6518SUS3 External USB 3.0 HDD Docki
Transfer Rate Minimum: 113.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum: 128.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average: 120.6 MB/sec
Access Time: 9.2 ms
Burst Rate: 99.8 MB/sec
Intel(R) ICH10R SATA 3 GB/s AHCI Controller
Sequential Read: 164.689 MB/s
Sequential Write: 162.268 MB/s
Random Read 512KB: 53.862 MB/s
Random Write 512KB: 81.134 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1): 0.706 MB/s [172.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1): 1.330 MB/s [324.7 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32): 1.463 MB/s [357.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32): 1.306 MB/s [318.9 IOPS]
Marvell 9128 SATA 6 GB/s AHCI Controller
Sequential Read: 166.493 MB/s
Sequential Write: 163.202 MB/s
Random Read 512KB: 53.201 MB/s
Random Write 512KB: 79.722 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1): 0.702 MB/s [171.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1): 1.312 MB/s [320.4 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32): 1.425 MB/s [347.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32): 1.346 MB/s [328.6 IOPS]
ORICO 6518SUS3 External USB 3.0 HDD Docking Base
Sequential Read: 136.073 MB/s
Sequential Write: 100.352 MB/s
Random Read 512KB: 50.622 MB/s
Random Write 512KB: 67.150 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1): 0.751 MB/s [183.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1): 1.460 MB/s [356.4 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32): 0.737 MB/s [180.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32): 1.319 MB/s [322.0 IOPS]
Cons: The drive is not compatible with SATA cable latch connectors. This was the only minor con that I identified based on my preferences.
The price is higher than drives with lesser performance and reliability; this may be a negative if a performance oriented drive is not needed (e.g., a seldom used external backup).
Other Thoughts: Shipping and packaging: Newegg shipped this OEM drive in a suitable and protective HD bubble enclosure specifically designed for the task. Two Raptors that I purchased a few months ago also shipped in the same protective HD bubble enclosures. This is a LONG NEEDED change and I hope all OEM drives will continue to be shipped in such a manner.
Installation and setup: Because traditional MBR partitioning in Windows is limited to 2.2TB, an EFI/UEFI BIOS, compatible storage controller/firmware/driver and a GPT/GUID partition table will be needed to fully utilize the capacity of this hard drive. While Windows XP and later support GPT, an unsupported BIOS on an older motherboard may be the limiting factor. In this case, Windows dynamic volumes can typically be used to combine two partitions into a single drive letter. If you want to use this drive to boot an OS, I believe that you will need to run a 64-bit version of Windows Vista or above, a 64-bit version of Linux or use a Mac.
WD Support and RMA experiences: I have has three WD RMA's in the past five years and in all three cases, the drives were replaced with new and equal or greater capacity drives. I think the trick is to play the RMA game according to WD rules. That is, setup the online account, register the drive, run diagnostics, politely consult with technical support but remain firm if they attempt to dismiss a legitimate issue, and then RMA the drive. A drive that will no longer spin up or that becomes inaccessible is a straight forward path to a replacement.
Overall experiences with WD: I have been using Western Digital hard drives for well over two decades and most of my Western Digital hard drives were fully functional when decommissioned for faster and higher capacity drives. I have also used many Seagate, Maxtor, IBM, Toshiba, and Hitachi branded drives. Overall, I have had very good luck with Western Digital Raptor, Black and RE series hard drives based on reliability, longevity, performance and RMA support. I have had comparatively worse experiences with drives from other manufacturers based on reliability and failure rates, performance in some cases, and poor RMA experiences.
I would highly recommend the WD Black WD3003FZEX 3TB for individuals in need of a high performance and large capacity hard drive.


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Q: Could a Exhaust leak cause P0420? on 1999 Toyota 4Runner
I recently have been getting the P0420 code in my 4runner with CA emissions. Which means I have two catalytic converters. I took it into a shop where they took the voltage readings for the o2 sensors and they said it looked good. I was under the hood playing with the throttle while passing "Seafoam" through to clean the engine and noticed that some of that seafoam smoke was coming from in between exhaust pipes. The leak is at the connection right after the headers so I'm assuming it is just bad gaskets. I get the CEL P0420 code usually under hard accelerations, rainy weather, or stop and go driving. Unusual thing is that when I took it for a road trip from Portland to San Diego, and also from Portland to Seattle, the code never came on! Please help!!
Here is a ton of great info about the P0420 code, what causes it to come on and how to diagnose it: http://repairpal.com/OBD-II-Code-P0420-Toyota
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