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CTC AGM & Dinner
CTC comes to Glasgow for 2014 AGM – Saturday 10th May, 2014
Glasgow loves a gathering and next July the world will come to Glasgow for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. CTC Glasgow invite you to get in ahead of the crowd for CTC's AGM and National Dinner on Saturday10th May. Join with CTC Councillors, staff and members to be part of CTC's future. Companionship, cycling, the many pleasures of the city and indeed of Scotland, will also be on offer.
The venue the 'Radisson Blu' hotel is right next to Glasgow Central Station, just four and a half hours from London by train, and just 200 yards from the Clyde and NCR 75. Glasgow is a hub for National Cycle Routes, leading to Edinburgh, the Clyde Coast, the Highlands and the Borders.
After the success of the Volunteer Networking Workshop last year's we will be running the sessions again in the morning of the AGM. This gives the opportunity for CTC Member Groups, Clubs and individual CTC members to take part in a series of informal round table workshops exploring various aspects of organising cycling activities, which will be followed by a buffet lunch. Registration for the event is essential and to find out more contract Sue Cherry (details below).
Cycling is now rapidly moving centre stage nationally. The AGM in the afternoon will deal with how CTC is meeting the opportunities and demands of this new cycling landscape, and its own status and image within it. Motions for the AGM as now closed.
The 2014 Agenda is attached below.
In the evening of the 10 May CTC Glasgow will be hosting the National Dinner being held at the same venue. It will be a chance to meet fellow CTC Members for an enjoyable evening. For booking you need to complete the Dinner booking coupon below and email it to Sue Cherry.
A good reason to come to Glasgow is to see cycling preparations for the 2014 Games. The new Commonwealth Games facilities mean that, in addition to Sunday's programme of rides, there will be the opportunity to try out the new Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome (bikes and tuition are supplied). Or get an idea of what faces the elite Road Race and Time trial cyclists by riding, where possible, the unique city centre course. Unfortunately road closure has to wait until the Games!! Those mountain bikers amongst you can have fun on the nearby the Cathkin Braes Mountain Bike Trails (again bikes are available to hire).
Rides on Sunday, hosted by CTC Glasgow, will include a short family ride taking in the new Glasgow Transport Museum with its historic cycle collection and the renowned Burrell Art Collection in Pollok Park. A moderate 30 mile ride goes out to Whitelees, the largest mainland wind farm in Britain. For the energetic, a 60 mile ride will go into the Trossachs national park and the edge of the Highlands.
Further information will be available nearer the time or you can contact Sue Cherry on 01483 238302 or via email firstname.lastname@example.com
To find places to stay click here Places to stay and other attractions The city has the best shopping outside London, and the new Zaha Hadid Transport Museum by the Clyde, voted best in Europe, with its bicycle display will be part of a family ride. Longer options will include going up to Whitelees Wind Farm visitor centre.
CTC Glasgow Newsletter is below for some more information on the Sunday rides.
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The Grant County Parks & Recreation and the Grant County Community Educaion programs are planning the following summer camps:
Lady Braves struggle at Tenn. tournament
When: March 31 - April 2
Where: Riverdale and Murfreesboro, Tenn.
What: The Lady Braves were not able to muster up a win over spring break as they lost four consecutive games in the Riverdale/Worth Invitational and Lady Warrior Invitational. Grant County only had three runs in the four games.
Upcoming: The Lady Braves will host county rival Williamstown April 7 at 5:30 p.m.
Lonnie King, 46, of Williamstown, shot this buck during a hunting excursion at a buddy's farm in Owen County with Keith Waldroop and Ernie Tobis. King said hey had hunted all week with bows, but couldn't find many bucks or doe. On Nov. 13, 2010, King shot a 10-point buck with his arrows. King also said he was the only one out of the group to bag a deer.
When: March 26
Where: Grant County Library
When: March 12
Where: Sherman Church of Christ, 1055 Sherman-Mt. Zion Rd, Dry Ridge.
What: The final registration for the Sherman Church of Christ's Upward Soccer Progam will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. This program is open to all boys and girls in the community, ages 4 to 12 years old. For more information, cal (859) 428-0929.
When: March 12, 13
Where: GCHS baseball field (in gym if required due to weather.)
What: The Grant County Youth Baseball Clinic will be held at GCHS and allows those ages 6-15 to learn the fundamentals of baseball. Any questions, call Tracy Goe at 859-322-6739 or coach Darrick Lee at 502-319-4645. Registration forms are available at all Grant County elementary schools and Grant County middle schools.
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Pretty much agree - they were too powerful in LRB4 (no decay, started with mighty blow and had General access) but we've gone too far the other way now. Taking away G access is fine but I'd have either taken away MB or added decay, not both at the same time.
04-02-2013, 06:49 PM #602I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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In all seriousness I would hire black orcs at some point too, but 4 blitzers were enough to carry the team against other rookie sides - and goblins are simply great on the orc team.
They still terrify me even without general access, although I do see your and Janek's points.
If you opponent lets fear control their behaviour and makes high risk blocks and dodges then yes, the Tomb Guardian has earned its pay.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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Dog Pants secured a handsome 2-1 over my mutated horrors through canny positioning and some surprisingly elf like plays, I increasingly feel that underworld need something between morg and dribble (who I swear people get a bonus against as they always seem to catch his bombs), ripper would have been useful.
Also side note, does the game no longer show accrued spp from the game until its validated? Wasn't showing on my MVP and I noticed it in my last game in the open where I had two journeymen skink and got one to score, then didn't know which was which to buy.
I've not seen journeymen in a while, but they definitely used to show SPPs when it came to hiring them. Could be another bug from the server move.
With Dribblesnot (or any bombardier) you don't throw your bombs at people, or they get to catch it like an accurate pass. Throw it next to them instead and hope the blast gets them. Although tomb guardians are as good a target as any if you want to risk the catch (it's unlikely they will make the return throw even if they do).
And damn, so I have to not-lose to Dog Pants to secure the division...
Speaking of validations, can we get Division A validated and rolled on again please? :D
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Div A: The Splinters Rejects (UW, LowKey) 1 - 2 Anupshi Rises (KHE, Dog Pants)
The Splinters Rejects hideous mutant caged rat thing cheerleader steals the show as the game begins with a home team kick off. Anupshi Rises recover the ball and push up the centre of the pitch to be met by a bomb tossed by the Rejects' hired Star Player. Nobody is more astonished than the Tomb Guardian who intercepts it, and the bomb explodes in his hands as he tries to work out what to do next, temporarily removing him from the pitch. The Rejects exploit the hole in the defences to rush forward with the troll and several skaven to harass the ball carrier, but the Thro-Ra escapes and switches across the pitch to hand off to his colleague. The second Thro-Ra rushes up the left field with a few teammates, most of the Underworld players still bunched up around the centre line. The Rejects' bomber lobs another explosive at the charging Thro-Ra, who deftly returns it to a nearby skaven despite having one hand full with the ball. A quick hand-off later and the ball is being shuttled lineward by the more hardy Blitz-Ra. A lone goblin gets line side of him, but he is put into the injury box for his temerity and the Blitzer runs on to score.
The Splinters Rejects begin their offensive with another lobbed bomb which again takes a Tomb Guardian off the pitch. Shortly after, however, his luck runs out as yet another interception puts the bomb back at his feet. The squishy goblin's body is less resistant to explosives than the skeletal Khemri, and to the cries of an ice-cream seller he is carried off to the injury box. The ball, meanwhile, is carried forward to a goblin who is launched over the defensive line to a penetrating colleague, but unfortunately lands on his face. The ball is recovered by a lurking Thro-Ra who, with time running short, makes a medium pass to his colleague. The other Thro-Ra dashes lineward, and a pair of intercepting goblins look like they might halt him at the last minute, but a combination of their own misfortune and a bony fist to the nose leaves them both on the ground and the Khemri 2-0 up just before half time.
Anupshi Rises kick off the pitch to allow the Rejects to push hard on the right. The defence wraps around the aggressive offensive, and the ball is passed over them to a dodging goblin who has made space for himself in the opposing half. His possession is short lived though, being immediately sacked by a Blitz-Ra. The defenders push the Underworld players away from the ball as the Khemri struggle to pick it up, when a fireball erupts from the crowd and flattens most of them. This is all the opportunity needed to rush a Blitzer to the end zone, and an impressive long pass later the Splinters Rejects pull a point back.
A little time is left to play, and the Anupshi Thro-Ra doesn't help his team by failing to pick up the ball again. A nearby goblin takes the chance instead and returns with it to his own lines, and a fight breaks out behind him which claims a player on each side. Spotting the Tomb Guardian shaped hole in the defences, the goblin hands the ball to a Thrower who dashes down the right. The Khemri deep defence pays off again though, sacking the Thrower and recovering with a skeleton. However, there are more Underworld bearing down on the ball, still deep in the Khemri half, and despite the entire Underworld team being on the ground or off the pitch at once stage, they still threaten a recovery. The referee proves to be their undoing in the end, and the whistle blows before either side can make anything of the situation.
The post game sequence xp doesn't show properly any more. Odd bug really... It's hard to miss.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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Awesome, thanks!
(Also yay, got my first level 5 blitzer - and my first Diving Tackle!)
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Grinn and I played the last game of the Champs Day 1, so it can be rolled on. It was a terrible game for me - the worst I've played in a long time. My apologies to Grinn for being such a poor challenge. No permanent injuries at least, despite my dwarves apparently deciding to wear their paper armour.
05-02-2013, 09:05 AM #613I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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I plan on returning next season, do I add myself on the end of the sheet?
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Might as well, Kelron.
I have validated a handful of matches in assorted divisions.
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Division E
Street Sweeping Scrubs [Delusibeta] 0-2 Da Blu Moonz [Dentharial]
Going in, I new I was at a large disadvantage, so Morg n Thorg recieved a phone call, along with a wizard. Nuffle agreed, and gave Blu Moonz a set of loaded attack die for the first half. Most of the first half was basically a brawl (or more specifically my ogre & Morg hitting people and everyone else doing their best pillow impression), until the DBM ball carrier succeeded in a pass (impressive for an orc) and a tactical error (I used a fireball instead of a lightning bolt) giving the first point for Da Blu Moonz.
Second half also started well: the ball fell out of play, so Morg got it. And then Nuffle came to reclaim his debt: moving a Blitzer across the field (since everyone else was occupied due to a Defence free turn), I took one Go For It space.
"You rolled a 1, you needed at least a 2, do you want to re-roll?"
Bah, go on then.
"You rolled a 1, TURNOVER!"
Just my luck. Morg got his face bashed, the ball nicked and I spent the second half doing basically the same as the first half, except not as well.
Frankly, however, I can't blame Nuffle for this one however: I was simply out-bashed, and DBM really deserved to score far more. In addition, the injuries actually was surprisingly fair: two on my side (one niggling) and one for DBM on my last turn of play (of which is a niggling injury). I'm reasonably happy with that.
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Division I
The Leaflickers [BigC90210] 2 - 0 Goes well with Port [Alini / Sadface]
The game started, Goes well kicks off, The Leaflickers Wardancer blocks a Skaven Lineman in the first turn and instantly kills him outright
Ports' turn 1 involved the Giant Rat Ogre blitzing and not only causing a serious injury but also KO'ing himself.
From this point it all went down hill for the poor ports, horrendous dice rolls both in game and for recovering KO's were abound. The Rat Ogre failed to get up every time and spent the whole game in the KO box.
I have missed the opening of my 6pm game against Zoraster (Div G), suddenly realising while fixing my other PC what time it was. Will wait around for a bit, but I know he said his schedule is really tight today, so if he's unable to play now, I think it might be necessary to call this one a 2-0 against me.
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Today is the last day of the opening round. Only 4 games outstanding which is good going given the late start, and at least one more of those is due to happen tonight. I've rolled all the other divisions onto week 2 so get arranging.
Groovy I'm not going to request an extension for my game in G. I've got a lot on over the next few days and having been stood up twice I'm not prepared to waste my time trying to find another window.
I gave you several hours' notice on Sunday, and today I apologised as soon as I realised I was late. There's really no need for hyperbole or that attitude.


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Le Cercle Molière, the St. Boniface-based francophone theatre, is building a bridge across the language gap with Winnipeg's English majority.
Canada's oldest continuously operating stage company is introducing English subtitles to some of its performances next month with the intention of regularly allowing Canada's two solitudes to come together to be entertained under the same roof.
Subtitled Soirees will kick off Tuesday, April 1, during the run of Le Dieu du carnage (God of Carnage), which closes Cercle's 88th season. It will also be offered April 2, as well as April 8 and 9.
"We're definitely trying to access new audiences," says artistic director Geneviève Pelletier. "The experience can be different here than anywhere else in the city. I'm hoping that cachet will lure some new folks in."
The company will make 10 iPod Touch devices available to non-francophone patrons, on which they can read a translation of the dialogue onstage. To minimize any distraction with other members of the audience, those using the handheld devices will be seated in the back row of the theatre.
For year, Franco-Canadian theatre companies from Toronto to Vancouver have been experimenting with several translation strategies in the hopes of encouraging cross-cultural bonding. Toronto's Thé¢tre Française offers English Surtitles in over half of its performances and has reported increased attendance.
For most of the last decade, Cercle has not had to worry about filling up its theatre, especially since 1997, when it moved into the 85-seat Thé¢tre de la Chapelle, a 19th century-era church, where it sold out regularly. It was the same when its $9.7-million, 19,000-square-foot facility on Provencher Boulevard opened in 2010 and season-ticket holders filled its 125 seats.
While this season, the number of season subscribers has slipped, single-tickets sales are up significantly. Le Cercle shows still play to about 90 per cent capacity -- a number no English theatre averages -- but company brass would like to put bums in those empty seats, too. On their radar is the growing number of mixed marriages between francophones and anglophones. While it's great to get one partner to Le Cercle, it would be better to get both. Also, this initiative will make it more comfortable for Winnipeggers who don't think their French is good enough to follow a play.
Surtitles -- projected above the stage -- are ubiquitous in the opera world, both as translation devices and as aids to the hearing impaired. They have also become quite popular in Europe, where companies want to welcome foreign tourists to their theatres. In Dubai, screens are embedded in seatbacks like on airplanes to display subtitles.
Pelletier wanted to avoid hanging a screen on the theatre's stage that could disrupt the concentration of other spectators.
"We looked at the possibilities and decided to put our own twist on it," says Pelletier, in her first season since succeeding Roland Mahé after his 44-year tenure. "I just wanted to explore the notion of subtitling without it being intrusive on stage where everyone would read it.
"We are hoping to get feedback from users and offer up something even better next year."
Last weekend, Winnipeg's Samantha Hill returned to Broadway in the role of Cosette in the latest revival of Les Misérables.
The reviews were generally very positive for the 1980s Alail Boublil/Claude Michel Schnberg mega-musical, starring Iranian-born Canadian Ramin Karimloo as Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel.
The same can be said for Hill, the University of Winnipeg graduate who took her first Broadway bow as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera in 2012.
The Hollywood Reporter praised Hill's "crystalline soprano lending purity to the discovery of love that signals the end of childhood." Newsday said Hill "keeps the soubrette saccharine to a minimum as Valjean's ward Cosette."
The New York Times critic Christopher Isherwood declared Hill "sings and looks pretty, which is about all that is required of her."
The Frenzy of Queen Maeve, which was a hot ticket at the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival last summer, opens March 27 as part of the Tara Players' 40th anniversary season.
The dark comedy, written by Toronto's Anthony MacMahon, is set in 1972 during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A Belfast woman finds herself torn between an idealistic IRA operative and the responsible son of an English landowner. Whichever lover she chooses will mean the loss of either her country or her safety.
Megan Andres directs a cast of Eric Rae, Mallory James and Justin Otto. Showtimes at the Irish Association of Manitoba (654 Erin St.) are 8 p.m. March 27 and 28, 8:30 p.m. (after dinner) March 29 and 2 p.m. March 30. Tickets are $15 ($45 for the dinner show) and can be reserved at 204-774-8272.


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Discussions are once again heating up around the possibility that this may, finally, be the year of desktop virtualization. What's different this year from last -- or the year before that, when similar predictions were made?
Software and hardware companies have been addressing many of the challenges associated with desktop virtualization technology. But one of the major hurdles in any virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment has been the issue of storage -- more specifically, the cost and storage-related IO bottleneck (or IOPS) problems. Let's be honest: Currently deployed enterprise storage wasn't designed to deal with the types of load coming from a VDI-equipped data center. This has caused many VDI initiatives to either stall or completely fail.
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One of the answers to this challenge has been to replace traditional spinning media with flash arrays. While that would certainly drive enough IOPS to address many storage issues currently found within a VDI deployment, it would also be fairly expensive to purchase this type of flash storage in the large quantities needed.
That's where a company like GreenBytes might come in handy. The company's IO Offload Engine is a dedicated solid-state disk array that was designed from the ground up as a desktop virtualization appliance. It integrates at the hypervisor level and manages specific data stores: the golden images (provisioning), replica datastore (boot), and linked clone area (swap).
The platform's secret sauce is the combination of massive bandwidth, patented low-latency high-IO inline deduplication (removing redundant data before or as it is being written to a storage device) and compression. It diverts OS and swap disk activity away from primary storage (SAN) to high-speed flash, solving the performance and latency problems and poor user experience that occur during peak usage.
Instead of throwing high-performance flash-based storage at the problem, GreenBytes says it zero latency inline deduplication process reduces the amount of flash storage space required by as much as 97 percent.
GreenBytes also makes a point of saying it can support both persistent or full virtual desktops (which change state as the user makes updates, keeping configurations and personalizations from session to session) as well as linked clones (which do not store and maintain user changes) or some mixture of both types. The company's inline deduplication technology adds value to all types of deployment scenarios and gives virtual desktop architects the flexibility to choose based on real business needs.
What happens when you've already invested in local SSD, a PCIe-based flash card or a flash-based storage controller and external flash storage for your VDI environment? In that case, GreenBytes has split out its IO Offload Engine's software from the hardware appliance, making it available for use with other flash storage vendor platforms. This new virtual storage appliance is called the vIO (pronounced "vee-oh").
According to the company, the vIO enables consistent and persistent virtual desktops with the infrastructure and architecture already in place, at a market-leading price point -- although as of this writing, pricing was not disclosed.
"It is the simplest way to deploy desktop virtualization, from departmental to cloud-scale," said Steve O'Donnell, chairman and CEO, GreenBytes. "All the cost, performance, and user experience advantages of the IO Offload Engine are now available to smaller enterprises, cloud-scale service providers and OEMs with the vIO."
The vIO was designed to be cloud-scalable, meaning it can easily be expanded to handle future virtual desktop growth by simply adding another vIO instance to the mix. The company said a single vIO is designed to provide enough IO offload for around 100 or more persistent or nonpersistent virtual desktops. But if an organization plans for a 1,000-plus virtual desktop deployment, it should consider going with a preconfigured IO Offload Engine hardware appliance, which can support up to 4,500 persistent desktops over 10GbE iSCSI or 8Gb or 16Gb Fibre Channel.
The GreenBytes vIO virtual storage appliance will be generally available on March 1.
Is a solution like this the answer to your VDI concerns? Will this storage and IOPS offering be enough to finally make your company pull the trigger on a virtual desktop strategy? If not, what else is holding you back? What's missing?
This article, "GreenBytes attacks storage costs and IO bottlenecks within VDI," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in virtualization and cloud computing at InfoWorld.com.


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Ezra Klein might be one of the smartest people to fill out an Oscar pool ballot in 2012, but he wants you to know that doesn't make him qualified. "My taste in movies is horrible," says the Washington Post columnist and blogger, who writes about politics and economics. "Schlocky action and romantic comedies." (A couple of his favorites last year: X-Men: First Class and Bridesmaids.) So it's not surprising that the Oscars generally run counter to his interests. "I saw every comic-book movie released, but like, The Descendants? No way." As such, he won't be building any models to predict the Academy Awards' outcome anytime soon. But it turns out Klein does have opinions, so we pushed him to weigh in on some of this year's choices — and add one of his own.
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The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Midnight in Paris
The Help
War Horse
The Tree of Life
WRITE-IN: Wall-E
"I have seen exactly two of these movies — Moneyball and Midnight in Paris — and didn't think either deserved the Oscar. So I'm voting for Wall-E, which I thought should have won it a few years back. That's my main, overarching frustration with the Oscars. They discriminate against robots.
"I just thought Wall-E was an incredibly ingenious, epic feat of filmmaking. Frankly, the leap to have a movie with almost no humans and no speaking for that long was a tremendous achievement in the way that the other movies that year, good though they may have been, were not sort of game-changing.
"I loved the book Moneyball. I enjoyed the movie — it was fine. I thought Midnight in Paris was clever, although a little thin. They just didn't strike me as Best Picture quality. They were no Wall-E. Tree of Life — nobody was ever able to explain to me what it was about. The Descendants honestly just looked like quite a bummer. I'm not a huge fan of bummer movies.
"The Best Picture nominees this year do not seem to be particularly crowd-pleasing. To my knowledge, people didn't seem to really like War Horse that much. And why the hell do I want to go see a movie about a horse?"
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LG Optimus Vu is a Korean ONLY smartphone that follows in the best traditions set by the Samsung Galaxy Note. With a 5-inch screen with an unusual aspect ratio of 4:3, it catches the eye, but we kept on wondering whether such a huge device can really become the mainstream. Here are all the details about it: a 5-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1024x768 pixels, thin 8.5mm body, screen supports a stylus, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 8MP camera, LTE connectivity, huge 2080mAh battery, Gingerbread initially, to get updated to ICS within 3 months after launch.


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After posting the previous article about being able to merge LCA files, another colleague contacted to say "This is great – but we need to generate LCA files from source as part of our build process". It's never enough is it? 🙂 Since most of the work was done I figured, why not add this functionality. I learned some interesting things along the way too.
I created a new class (com.adobe.tm.ant.tasks.GenerateAppInfoFile) that extends the Ant MatchingTask. My goal for this task is scan the src folder specified in the build.xml and process any LiveCycle ES applications it finds. Yes, you can create LCAs in batch! The rule is that you create a folder in src for each LC ES application you want to package. each folder MUST follow typical LCA structure. My Ant task will process each folder as a separate application and generate one LCA file per LiveCycle ES app.
Now that I have a little more experience with writing Ant tasks, I realize that it's better practice to simply have a ant task property that points to the src folder and include the folder processing logic in the Java code [versus my approach in the previous post where I left file processing up to the build.xml author]. You will notice the simplicity in build.xml task definition. However, I feel that it's up to the build.xml author to choose to support batch LCA file generation. For that reason, I have left the ant-contrib loop.
Here is an interesting tidbit… In the app.info file, each top-level-object (application asset) node contains a child element called properties. When I first had a look at some sample LCA files, I noticed that this node was different than the others. It's value is clearly a Base64 encoded string. When I decoded the string, imagine my surprise when I realized that the value that was encoded is actually a serialized java.util.Properties object. After doing some investigations with my contacts in engineering, I found out that this was an element that was originally planned to contain LiveCycle ES asset configuration information, but in the end never gets used. It was planned to remove this element in the 2.5 release, but fell off the priority list. The bottom line is that although the properties element must be present with a Base64 encoded serialized java.util.Properies object – even if it's empty. The reason is that the LCA importer looks for this entry, even if it's not used, to validate the app.info file. I explain this, because if you look at the Java source code you'll wonder what I am doing :o).
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Blink-182's 1999 album, Enema of the State. It made fun of the movie Enemy of the State, a popular film earlier that year. It contains the songs Dumpweed, Don't Leave Me, Aliens Exist, Going Away To College, What's My Age Again?, Dysentery Gary, Adam's Song, All the Small Things , The Party Song, Mutt, Wendy Clear, and Anthem.
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RichyDitch - Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - linkHey there, I'm still not sure what would be better. I have an AsRock P35 motherboard, and am totally confused as to what would be better when it comes to DDR2 or DDR3.
The motherboard it's self can hold up to 8gb of PC2 8500 1066mhz duel channel DDR2 memory, and up to 4gb of PC3 10600 1333mhz duel channel DDR3 memory.
What would end up being better, if I get the max amount of memory for the motherboard. The DRR2 specifications I mentioned or the DDR3 specifications mentioned? Reply
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Shadowmaster625 - Thursday, May 17, 2007 - link
Two conditions would shift the recommendation to DDR3 instead. When DDR3 prices come close to DDR2 then buy DDR3 instead. More significantly, when DDR3 becomes available at higher speeds and/or faster timings then definitely choose DDR3 if you are looking for performance - even if the price is higher.
No there are not just two conditions. There is a third condition that I wish you'd start considering: How it screws over everyone who wants to upgrade. This article has proven that Intel can squeeze more performance out of their memory controller. What this ultimately shows is that improvements in memory controller design actually outweigh the change to a new memory standard! Is DDR2 18% faster than DDR? (Maybe now, just barely. After 3 years!) Yet intel just pulls a new memory controller out of their wazoo that does 18% better? I smell a big rat and anadtech aint talking about it. Reply
TA152H - Thursday, May 17, 2007 - linkYou're not the first person to be frustrated by how poorly memory speed increases, but there are a few things to consider.
For one, the new controller is NOT 18% faster than the old, that is only in bandwidth, not latency. Latency is VERY important, and discounting is a huge fallacy. And yes, bandwidth has increased a lot more than 18% from DDR.
Secondly, this isn't by any means the end of DDR2, it's a forward looking move that paves the way for DDR3. DDR2 will continue to dominate the market, and by the time it's obsolete you'll have DDR3 ready. What would happen if Intel waited for DDR2 to already be obsolete before they introduced DDR3? You'd have that long wait while memory companies worked on the new technology, and prices were very high and performance wasn't what it should be. After a couple of years, DDR3 would finally be mature in performance and cost, but nearly obsolesence itself. So, Intel is just getting things started so when DDR3 does become necessary, it is ready. It's like a pipelined processor, Intel is starting DDR3 in stage one while DDR2 is in stage 2.
Also, keep in mind that DDR2 is not made to go much faster than it is, and will run into a wall. That's where DDR3 comes in. Again, it's forward looking by Intel. DDR2 can still increase a bit, but by the time it runs into a wall, DDR3 will be right there to go to higher speeds.
Also keep in mind the number of people that upgrade is very, very small. It's not their intention to screw people over, but it's something they are willing to do because of the importance of evolving technology, and the miniscule percentage of people that upgrade processors without motherboards. It's a necessary evil. Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - link
We can tell you that Intel does not really have an NDA, but they have been very aggressive in holding first tier manufacturers to a May 21st performance embargo and retail distribution on June 4th
Funny how we can let you benchmark hardware not coming out till this Autumn but we can't let out any info or benchmarks on a new chipset coming out in 5 days. Reply
cornfedone - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - linkAnyone who thinks 2-5% increase in system performance is a big deal needs to get their head examined as it don't mean nothing real world. Most people couldn't even see a 2-5% system performance increase on their best day. Bearlake is more hype with no tangible performance increase. Reply
TA152H - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - linkWow, that's a really uninformed remark.
You might not notice X-Rays, but they can kill you. So don't talk about this babble with tangible (it's a poor choice of words, since it literally means "touchable" and it's bad enough Anand overuses it) and what's noticeable. You're getting an amazing increase from a chipset, and this is the mainstream chipset. On top of that, it supports DDR2 and DDR3 so it pushes the technology envelope forward. Getting any increases in memory performance is simply amazing at this point, since chipsets are so mature it's not like there is a low hanging fruit, and Intel processors have such a large cache it makes memory performance less important than would otherwise be. It's a fantastic chipset, arguably the next 440BX. I knew it was good, but even I'm shocked at just how good it is. Kind of kills the argument for the on-die memory controller, which I never was completely sold on. It's scary though, it makes you wonder just how well Intel will do with that if they can get this type of performance with the memory controller on the chipset.
It's an amazing chipset, it is shocking in terms of performance, so much so I doubt anyone thought it was possible. Give them their kudos when they deserve it, because they do with this bad boy. I wish I knew how they did it, but my guess is by finally moving their chipsets to modern lithography, they were able to include a lot more buffers and run it faster without using too much power. I am really clueless though, that's pure speculation. I don't know how they made this so much better than everything else. It's shocking. Reply
bldckstark - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - linkShockingly enough, 2% is within the error of the tests performed, and therefore is not, statistically speaking, significant. Not only that, but the cost of progress is passed on to the consumer, who usually rates the speed of their computer based upon how fast their favorite website loads, not on how fast it performs computations. Shocking, I would say. Reply
TA152H - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - linkSo, you're saying that on every single test by weird coincidence, the Bearlake is higher just be statistical scatter? You're saying the huge increase in bandwidth is somehow also weird coincidence?
How do you know what the margin of error is anyway? When you get repeatable results where one is always higher, you can conclude pretty easily that they are real and not statistical scatter.
And you know the cost of Bearlake how? You are sure it's more expensive? It probably uses less power, since it's made on finer lithography. So, you're talking about something you probably don't know anything about. I do agree that most people don't need the latest and greatest, so I fundamentally agree with that part, but who is going to make them buy this chipset? If they want cheap, they can still buy something cheap, if this isn't, which I don't know. But, some people need performance, and this is a great item for that, and it's a real accomplishment from Intel.
By your perverse logic, all improvements that don't increase web speed are immaterial. That's clearly wrong. That only applies to some people.
You're completely illogical.
OrSin - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - linkThats total system performance, from 1 part. Memory performance is 16% and that huge from a low cost part. Unless your adding a $400 video card over $200 card you will not notice the diffenecen either. One part theats 15% more in price then a similar part will rarely give you 5% improvement.
Remember this is a systems and it mean each part gives some improvement to make a better system.
Yeah you will not notice 5%. Bet then why get a part that works 5% slower when the cost is similar. Some people are never happy. Reply
13Gigatons - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - linkSuddenly it doesn't seem like a bad decision on AMD's part to hold off on their move to AM3 and DDR3 until 2008/2009. I really don't get why we need to change the memory technology so fast, with DDR2 finally dropping in price so fast.
I'd rather have 4GB of DDR2 then 1GB of DDR3. Reply
Sunrise089 - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - linkActually, a 2%-5% performance jump is very impressive from anything other than a CPU or GPU. Running a Raptor versus a 7200RPM drive, or a high-end motherboard versus a budget model, or a add-on sound card versus onboard audio all are choices many people make without any huge double digit performance gains in most applications.
Thats said, the 2%-5% gain isn't from the memory standard (did you even read the article?) but from the new chipset. So these numbers have absolutely no bearing on AMD's choices. Reply
Googer - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkIf you wanted to test bandwidth effects, why use a processor that is not very bandwidth dependant? Instead a bandwidth hungry LGA-775 Prescott should have been one the CPU's used in these DDR3 benchmarks. I'd like to see this article updated with a dual core netburst processor added. Reply
TA152H - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - linkAre Prescotts even relevant anymore though? I mean, how many people are going to be perspecacious enough to buy a P35 based motherboard, and care about memory performance, and then go out and buy something as foul as a Prescott? It might make for an interesting data point, but it's a very little practical value. Reply
vailr - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkPlease include, in your forthcoming P35 board review: enabling SATA AHCI mode. Still remains puzzling, especially when a board uses a non-Raid Intel chipset, such as the ICH8. Gigabyte says on their web site, that on the GAS-965P-DS3, that AHCI should only be enabled when running Vista. Several other questions remain, such as: AHCI seems to work fine under WinXP when using the latest 1.17.17 JMicron drivers (single HD connected to a JMicron SATA port). Connecting the same HD to an Intel port, and AHCI won't work. Intel's offical AHCI drivers only seem to install when a Raid array is present.
In summary: please include comments on any differences and/or improvements in AHCI support between the 965 v. P35 chipsets. Reply
Comdrpopnfresh - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkThere was an article a few months ago saying that speed increases on ddr2 didn't really matter, the architecture for the memory was old enough that there was a decline in performance advantage as speeds increase. If ddr3 is basically the same as ddr2, wouldn't the same be expected? Does anyone have any idea when the timings will come down? The voltage is nothing to gawk at- it's the reason for the increased speed. On the gate level, the less space between high and low, he faster a gate can transition. I'm most interested to see ddr3 performance and bandwidth numbers w/ amd processors. Reply
R3MF - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linki currently have
an X2 system with PC3200 dual channel
and a C2D system with PC6400 dual channel
i definitely see a quad core 3.2GHz chip running PC12800 in my future.
hooray for technology! Reply
DeepThought86 - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkI wonder how long before Intel gets impatient and starts not-so-gently shoving DDR3 down people's throats long before the price or performance justify it?
"Oh look, our chipsets for Nehalem don't support DDR2, woops you'll have to dump your DDR2 and get this spiffy new stuff. Look, it went from 2 to 3, it must be better!"
theprodigalrebel - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - linkI remember reading an article somewhere where the interviewer asked an AMD person about Intel pushing for DDR3. The guy admitted that DDR3 is the way of the future - though not ready/relevant today - and only a company like Intel can drive that change.
In his words, AMD's move to DDR2 came at the right time - in terms of price and advances in bandwidth/latency where DDR2 finally defeated the best DDR kits. He admitted that the move wouldn't have been possible unless Intel had moved the market in that direction over the past year or so.
Intel has driven changes from AGP to PCI-Express, IDE to SATA and DDR to DDR2. It seems forced at first - and it probably is - but you don't HAVE to be an early adopter. You had the 925 chipset introducing DDR2 and 915 boards supporting DDR. That is exactly what is happening here. Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkYou need for Intel to push stuff down people's throats, or you'd never get these changes. No other company is in a position to, it's like IBM used to be almost 20 years ago.
The price of the memory will go down as production goes up, which of course is driven by demand, which of course has to be driven by Intel. If not Intel, then who?
By offering a chipset that offers both, they are slowly starting the transition and the prices should get closer. At some point, supporting DDR2 is just a waste of chipset space and is costing people money that have no intention of ever using it, so you get rid of it. At that point it might cost a little more still, but that's the price you pay for transitioning to a better technology, and making that technology cost effective. I think they're extremely important to the industry for exactly that reason, not a malicious force. Reply
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just4U - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - linkI don't really know what to think with ddr3 .. or even ddr2.
When I jumped from PC 2700 memory (cas 3 i think) up to PC3200 memory cas 2 I noticed a increase in the overall speed of my computer.
When I jumped to DDR2 PC5300 I noticed no speed increase. When I jumped to PC6400 I noticed no speed increase. When I overclock my memory I notice no...
You get the picture.
I have a question. DDR3 with tight timings, Will we accualy notice it over ddr2? Or will it be one of those things where only a benchmark tends to notice anything. Reply
Starglider - Friday, May 18, 2007 - linkDepends on what applications you're running. But based on your recent experience, probably not. Reply
defter - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkThe article says that P965 board was running at 1066MHz FSB and then writer is suprised when P35 + DDR2 running at 1333MHz FSB is slightly faster??? Then in the conclusion it's said that the reason for an increased performance is the chipset instead of a higher FSB???
If you want to make P965 vs P35+DDR2 comparision, why not use the same FSB..... Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkThe P965 was running at 10x266 or 2.66GHz. The P35 boards ran at 8x333 or 2.66GHz. 1333 is not a natural CPU ratio on the P965 so when you choose 1333 there is no way to also choose DDR2-800. At 1333 the closest you can get (at a different strap) is 833. We believe the way we tested was as close to apples to apples as we could design. Remember we are looking at MEMORY PERFOMNACE, and the FSB should not matter as long as memory speed and timings are set the same on all test boards, which we definitley insured.
Despite that, we know that Sandra XI results can be influenced a small amount by CPU speed and possibly FSB. To make sure our results were still as close to apples to apples as possible we did run 10x266 on all boards and compared results to our test setup. The MEMORY PERFORMANCE results were virtually the same as we have reported.
We do agree that were we testing CPU performance the differing bus speeds at the same resulatant CPU speed could make some difference. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - link
Despite that, we know that Sandra XI results can be influenced a small amount by CPU speed and possibly FSB. To make sure our results were still as close to apples to apples as possible we did run 10x266 on all boards and compared results to our test setup. The MEMORY PERFORMANCE results were virtually the same as we have reported.
Defter is right. You guys were just testing performance increase by using a 1333FSB instead of 1066FSB. Memory bandwidth tests like Sandra will show HUGE differences. Remember, the CPU will not benefit from faster memory when FSB isn't faster. It's different from AMD where Hypertransport is only used for northbridge to southbridge communications(which yields into 0% improvement ) for PC. Reply
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - linkP35 is a combination of an increase in bus speed to 1333 and an improved memory controller. We are working on a followup article to appear in a few days that shows the breakdown of the bus speed contribution and the memory controller contribution.
That does not change the fact that memory bandwidth for P35 is improved 16% to 18% over P965, but we have run additional tests to show the individual impact of the bus speed increase and the memory controller improvements.
In approaching testing it is not possible to run 1333 FSB on the P965/975x and also run memory speeds like 800 and 1066 as we would like. On P35 if 1066 FSB is selected then 1333 is not available as a memory option. We can, however, run 1066 FSB on P35 to roughly determine Memory Controller contribution compared to P965, and then compare those results to 1333 equivalents (8X333 instead of 10x266) to see the additional impact of the 1333 bus on memory performance. Those results will be reported as soon as testing is complete. Reply
defter - Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - link
1333 is not a natural CPU ratio on the P965 so when you choose 1333 there is no way to also choose DDR2-800
Why not report results at 1066MHz FSB then?
Remember we are looking at MEMORY PERFOMNACE, and the FSB should not matter as long as memory speed and timings are set the same on all test boards, which we definitley insured.
Intel's CPUs are FSB limited since memory traffic goes through FSB. For example, 1066MHz FSB can transfer 8.5GB/s while dual channel DDR2-800 can provide 12.8GB/s. Thus, increasing the FSB also affects memory performance. Reply
vaystrem - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkI'm curious:
A) Why did you chose Farcry?
B) Why you didn't include more game tests?
I think it would be particularly interesting to see how a game like Supreme Commander or Company of Heroes performs. In strategy games you have the stress from the graphical component and a heavy AI load which may take better advantage of all that bandwidth than a simple FPS. Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkThis was a comparison of DDR3 and DDR2, not a launch review for P35. You will see that when the performance embargo lifts on May 21st. Far Cry is part of our standard memory test suite and we are very familiar with how it behaves with variations in memory bandwith and timings. That is why it was chosen.
You will see test results with many more games when we review the chipset on May 21st and the new P35 motherboards on June 4th.
Consider this a preview, and all the advance info we could give you at this point. The NDA for DDR3 memory has lifted, but the performance NDA for P35 is in place until the 21st. Reply
vaystrem - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkThank you for your response :) Reply
cool - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkWhat am I missing? How can you have DDR2 800 results for the DDR3 Bearlake mobo?
Look at the 3rd row, 4 column of the Sandra benchmarks results on page 5. Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkTheir chart is a little bit off. It is how they did their best to speed normalize DDR2 and DDR3, so for the DDR2 column for the Bearlake it is DDR2 memory they tested, for the DDR3 version, it is DDR3 memory.
It's probably the most useful thing in there, in my opinion. It shows you get extra speed even at the exact same timings, with memory using lower voltage. It's pretty impressive. Reply
cmdrdredd - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linknot very impressive to me considering the prices you'll be paying. That's $300 difference between a good DDR2 kit and a DDR3 kit (probably not even high bin or binned at all). Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkWell, agreed, currently you're not getting much bang for the buck, but that's always the case when new memory comes out. Look at the price of RDRAM, it never got better :P.
But, obviously, the prices today mean essentially nothing for the future of the technology, it's just representative of it being a very new technology right now. I'd expect it should be a tiny bit more expensive everything else being equal because some of the additions to it, but it should be insignificant. It's a much cleaner design, and you get some performance on top of it, so I think it's a good technology. I agree, for now, it's difficult to validate the price of it. It's not even like you could say that you're better off getting a DDR3 based design now so you can reuse the RAM. The latencies are so poor on the current stuff you'd probably be aghast at using it a year from now, and you'd probably be able to buy 1 GB of DDR2 today, and 1 GB of DDR3 in a year for less than 1 GB today. So, right now, I don't think it makes much sense to anyone.
Good thing for Intel pushing it though. Anyone that dislikes them needs to recognize how important they are for moving technology forward even at their own cost. Sometimes they've failed though, such as with RDRAM and, so far, EPIC. Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkDDR3 will run at DDR3-800 6-6-6-15 timings. We will add this to the DDR-800 5/6-6-6- line to clarify. The point was to run all 3 boards and the two memories at the exact same speed and timings. 800 was the only speed that allowed this. Reply
cool - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkThanks for the explanation, Wesley.
I was confused thinking the P5K3 was maybe one of those motherboards that can take 2 types of different RAM, namely DDR2 and DDR3. But that is not the case. Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkI see timings of 5/6-6-6-15 and such. What does 5/6 mean? The P965 is running at five and the others at six? Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkWe added this clarification to Page 4 - Memory Test Configuration:
"While memory timings were matched to the same memory speed wherever possible, there were a few settings where the chipsets did not allow a direct comparison. DDR3-800 runs at 6-6-6-15 timings. The P965 has options to set 6-6-6-15 timings but the board would not boot under any settings or voltage we fed it at 6-6-6 timings. The closest timings that would work on the P965 at 800 speed were 5-6-6-15. The P5K DDR2 board, based on the P35 chipset, would allow setiing and running 6-6-6-15 timings. This is reflected in our charts with the line ID of 5/6-6-6- for timings. We also tested DDR2 at the fastest timings it could achieve with complete stability on both the P5B Deluxe and P5K Deluxe. This was 3-3-3-9 at DDR2-800 and 4-4-3-11 at DDR2-1066." Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkThat's clear, I think that will remove any questions relating to the charts. Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkYes. The P965 would not boot witha a CAS setting of 6 even though it could be selected. So the P965 was tested at 5-6-6 timings. The same DDR2 on the P5K was tested at 6-6-6, which would work and also matched the DDR3 timings. We will clarify this in the article.
TA152H - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkOK, thanks.
One thing I would suggest when you do the final tests for the Bearlake and DDR3 is to use the 2M processors as well. You'd expect the 4M cache to hide the differences better, obviously, so the 2M cache processors would be pretty interesting to see as well, if for no other reason to see how much the larger cache does mask the difference in the chipset and memory. Since Intel is planning on increasing cache sizes, it would be a pretty useful data point. Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkYou measured the performance of the memory, but why not take a power measurement of it as well. That is one of the draws of the technology, it uses lower voltage, and therefore should use a little less power and generate less heat. Both are significant.
Good article though, I just wish that had been included. Reply
kalrith - Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - linkPage 2, second line of second-to-last paragraph says, "which is a 16% reduction form DDR2". "form" should be "from".
Last page, fourth line of third-to-last paragraph says, "the shift to DDR2 may be further delayed". "DDR2" should be "DDR3".
BTW, I found the article interesting, informative, enlightening, and unbiased (as usual). Reply
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3. Almond Hand & Nail Butter: You already know how I feel about body butter, well this is made especially for your hands and nails. It smells so yummy and goes on nice and thick. It is made with sweet almond oil and Community Fair-Trade brazil nut oil. Available October 2011.
4. Extra Virgin Minerals Foundation: Any product with the word "mineral" it, doesn't catch my attention. I'm afraid it will be too light and not provide coverage. This foundation was light, but it did cover. And it left a dewy fresh look. Available September 2011.
5. Wild Rose Hand Cream: I'm going to be honest, I'm not a fan of anything rose scented. In fact, I originally didn't want to try it. But, I tried a little bit and it's not overwhelming at all. It smells like an actual rose, with a powdery finishing scent. This is made with rosehip oil and Community Fair Trade brazil nut oil. Available October 2011.
The Body Shop Shimmer Cubes & Carbon Eye Definers (New shades now available!): I got my hands on Palette 20, and the colors are amazing for a smokey dramatic eye.
The Body Shop Rainforest Radiance Hair Butter (Available starting October 2011): Yay for hair butter!! I finally wanted to try and I did. It wasn't as thick as I thought it would be, but that didn't matter. It still made my hair soft. I used Rainforest Radiance "sourced from the seed of the pracaxi tree which grows organically in the Amazonian rainforest, a few drops of this oil turns even the most difficult hair into manageable, shiny strands, boosting softness and helping you style and comb your hair easily."
*The item pictured is not the type I tested.
What's your favorite Body Shop product?
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Blissful Loft
A short 5-minute walk from Clarke Quay MRT Station and the Singapore River, Blissful Loft offers dormitory and private rooms with bunk beds and free Wi-Fi. Located at the start of Chinatown, it is surrounded by charming shophouses and local eateries.
Simply furnished, all rooms come with lockers and air conditioning. Each sleeping space comes with adjustable reading lights. Bathroom facilities are shared and equipped with a shower.
Blissful Loft is a 15-minute walk to Chinatown and a 10-minute walk from the nightlife options at Clarke Quay. Changi International Airport is a 25-minute drive away.
Guests can enjoy a book in the quiet reading corner, or check e-mails at the computer station. Self-service laundry facilities are available at an extra charge.
A simple breakfast is offered at the shared kitchen. Soft drinks and snacks are sold there as well.
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Reservation of bed for booking is 3 hours from the stated time of arrival after which the the hostel reserved the right to cancel with no refund. A $20 refundable deposit is require for your key card access upon check-in. A replacement fee of $20 If you lost the key access card. Smoking,drinking,visitor and bicycles are prohibited in the rooms.
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The people of Melksham pulled out all the stops for another successful carnival last Saturday, with the streets lined with the biggest crowds in years.
Brightly decorated floats were led around the town by assorted walking groups, as music played and dancers lined the streets.
This year 18-year-old Carnival Queen Lauren Clarke was joined by former Queen Marina Skuse, who was selected as the first ever Queen of Queens, while local pubs, businesses and schools were represented alongside the police and fire service.
Carnival secretary Beth Dark said: "The highlight for me was the royalty, they were just amazing. They're always polite and courteous, but this year they went above and beyond, and really added a touch of sparkle to the proceedings.
"The Pig and Whistle won the award for best float. They always put an awful lot of effort in, and they were brilliant, they got the crowds up and moving."
Pub licensee Debbie Mitchell said: "We had a Nightmare in Wonderland theme, based on the idea that the Queen won not Alice, and it was the after effects of the Queen winning.
"There was lots of music, and they all came back absolutely exhausted. The crowds were fantastic; they said they had never seen so many people on the streets of Melksham for years."
Other winners included the Enigma Baton Twirling team, who were named best performance group, Candy Jax sweetshop for best walking group, and Melksham Oak Community School, which was named best school, with the biggest entry in the carnival's history.
The Manor School also won the Queen's Choice award, for their space-themed float.
Miss Dark said: "Yet again I am amazed at the amount of goodwill out there. People will do things for us year on year.
"They do it because it's Melksham and they love their town. I am so proud of my town, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else."


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Whilst ancedotes about Olympic fever are two a penny at the moment, do we actually have any evidence about how interested people are? Well these power demand charts, courtesy of the National Grid, perhaps offer one rough and ready way of looking at how engaged the stay at home audience has been at key points.
Firstly, of all the highest TV audience to date – the opening ceremony. The annotations on the charts are from analysts at the National Grid.
The pink line shows electricity demand for the equivalent Friday a year ago, and the blue line the actual demand during the opening ceremony – which drew an average of 22.4m viewers, the highest since 1998, and a peak audience at 9.45pm of 26.9m.
On it you can clearly see the suppression of electricity demand for key parts of the ceremony, and then above trend (demand excess) usage as the evening wore on.


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Well it was only a matter of time but it's finally happening, Google are dropping support for older browsers:
As of August 1st, we will discontinue support for the following browsers and their predecessors: Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3. In these older browsers you may have trouble using certain features in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs and Google Sites, and eventually these apps may stop working entirely.Read their blog entry here.
What is everyone's thoughts and reactions to this news?
I don't think it will have too much of an affect on home users as many may well be using the newest versions. Where I feel it will have the most impact will be users in the workplace, where they might not be able to upgrade to the latest version. It may push some business and education users back towards other office software suites, eg MS Office.
It probably will affect the workplace. Although, workplaces that actually use google apps/docs tend to be a bit more progressive and keep up with updates reasonably well.
Specualtive, but I think we'll see lots of the IE6 stuff finally fall off. The apps that were built for IE6 are starting to age out. PCs and OSes with IE6 are starting to age out. World is moving past things enough that people see value in modern browsers.
Why would Google dropping support for IE7 have any affect on IE6 use? Surely IE6 users were impacted as much as they were going to be by Google back when Google dropped support for IE6.
Or are you thinking about those workarounds that were needed for IE7 that also worked for IE6 - eg. a workaround for CSS tables.
I think this a right step forward in encouraging people to update their browsers allowing devs to express themselves without too much legacy support issues. But to say some Google apps may eventually stop working entirely with old browsers seems a bit harsh to me. They should maintain fallback versions of their apps if they can.
Who is going to pay for that? If Google is only earning enough from advertising to support modern browsers and adding support for IE6 and 7 will approximately double the cost then just who is going to pay Google this second half of what it will cost them? I suppose if they charged everyone for accessing their site then they could afford to provide that extra support but would you be prepared to pay your share of the extra cost to Google to allow them to support those few people who live in mud huts and hunt mastodon for a living or would you expect those people to pay for the extra cost themselves (and mastodon hunters are less likely to pay to use Google than they are to move out of their mud hut into a modern house).
The more the big players like Google abandon these older browsers, the faster people will be moved to upgrade, so I'm all for this. I know there's an argument for not forcing people to abandon old technology, but the reality is that technology moves at a fast pace, and people who want to use it need to move with it. Those who hold on the the old stuff slow down progress for everyone, and really, it's not exactly expensive to upgrade to a newer browser. OK, it sometimes requires upgrading the OS, but even that's not hugely expensive … and there's always Linux. The big companies that hold on to old technology have the resources to upgrade, too. At worst, they could make a little cut into those huge executive salaries to pay for the upgrade.
You missed my point a bit; I said "if they can" and you also make it sound like Google is struggling financially (Maybe they could start selling Mastodons on the side). What I'm suggesting is keeping the simple html versions like gmail for slow connections etc. Its perfectly understandable that some if not all of the Google apps will require newer technologies and will not be able to support older technologies.
Of course this is not the case as the did say they will support up to the last three generations of the browsers. So overall I think its a good move.
Overall it's a good move but I think Google does it in a nasty way because they simply state their web pages may stop working in those older browsers. The proper way to go is graceful degradation - sure, it takes a little bit more work but not as much as striving for full support. If someone uses an older browser they don't necessarily die for cutting edge html 5 gimmicks like file drag&drop - just make the small effort to ensure these features simply don't work in older browsers without breaking general usability.
Apart from that, not all google inventions requiring newest browsers are really more user-friendly than their older plain-html counterparts. Take for example the new image search result page - unreliable and jittery scrollbar, slower scrolling, no back button support, no visible information about image origin - I just can't see the point.
I think it is a good move because it forces users to move to new browsers such as Firefox or Google Chrome. I am not sure as to why people still use old browsers, other than the fact that they cannot find the time to update it.
By the time the web is really ready for features like that, I'd expect the older browsers we are talking about to be long gone. Perhaps I'm wrong …
Huh, I've not found that at all. Works fine for me.
f**k yes!
Which is completely retarded when all they do is deliver plaintext -- though if you look at the bloated train wrecks their latest versions have been, it's no wonder. Seriously, 39k of markup, 245k of external javascript, and 4 images totalling 97k for this:
Go 380k pageload for a dozen static links, one presentational image and one form! (sheesh, no wonder they keep having to build new data centers)
I swear, it's like they're forgetting what made them great in the first place... though they're so well established that at this stage of the game they could take a dump in a waffle cone, call it ice cream and people would yum it up. Remember what I was saying about the dark future of the internet? THERE IT IS. Bloated ******** for nothing other than wasting bandwidth and cutting into their own profits thanks to their own coders ineptitude.
... and then we wonder why ISP's are trying to implement pay as you go in most every market more than 20 miles from a backbone.
Devils advocate response ...
They're relying on almost every bodies browsers already having that data cached. A single visit to store the cached data and the download is done and dusted. Even if the user clears their browser cache, the chances are that their ISP has already cached it anyway in which case it wouldn't Google's servers anyway.
It only means Google will not test their services with very old browsers. But they may still work. Anyway, I think it is about time that browsers made in 2006 (IE7) go away.
For the Scripting I can see that as a semi-valid way of looking at it -- except that then it's wasting everyone else's storage space and with a 20-40 meg default cache size in most browsers, it's just as likely to get flushed if you visit enough sites.
It does NOT explain the completely nonsensical bandwidth wasting 39k of markup for less than half a k of plaintext and one form! That just screams ineptitude of the highest order and if you look under the hood, it's all inlined CSS, static scripts, redundant attributes and a nasty case of "not every ejaculation deserves a name"!!! They want to leverage cache, maybe they should consider writing code to do so!
It's turning into such a bloated mess I'm starting to look at Bing as a practical alternative just because it's 100k smaller and loads twice as fast now! SHOCKING given the giant stupid image they put behind the main page for it!
Agreed. Where I work (over 1000 employees), we're in the middle of upgrading from IE6 to IE8, but more than half are still on the old system and we don't yet know when it will finish going through. I'm sure we're not alone in this!
Businesses will have to review their policies, and be pragmatic about what can and can't be allowed. If a company's essential email functionality stops working because of a niggling IT policy, most businesses will take the sensible approach.
The main reason people are using old browsers are (i) old computers that don't support newer versions, either because the OS doesn't or just because they are too low spec, (ii) corporate networks where upgrading the browser can be a major job, particularly if using an older OS.
Point taken.
I doubt it would affect their resource usage though, as most of their resources would be used for processing search queries, their static page content would create negligible load for them in comparison.
I don't disagree in the slightest that their main site code is totally borked though. I have no idea why they write it the way they do.


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I updated the boots to the Season 12 Honor boots, and changed to the Argent Crusader's Tabard (it still has the nice gold trim). It looks a bit more cohesive now I think.
Looks much better now Really digging the boots model, had no idea they were from season 12.
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Anyone know where to get the pieces to make gear that looks like Basutei?
http://www.wowhead.com/item=18480 There you go
Is that the guy from Illegal Danish? Or am I completely mistaken?
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More Male Draenei you say?
This is what I've got on my Paladin currently. Thinking of other possible sets, but I like this right now.
Note: You can't really see it in the screenshot but I am using http://www.wowhead.com/item=28606 for my shield and http://www.wowhead.com/item=78479 for my sword
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Even though they're slippers, does the tier 10 boots even show up on space goats or it turn invisible?
I've posted this tens of pages ago and I haven't changed the look apart from the weapon, but I love my transmog so much that I have to link it again. So please excuse my repost!
I've always wanted my paladin to look more like a demonslayer than a holy knight fighting undead, so I was really excited when Firelands/DS came out with these items. I guess the shoulders are dragon heads, but I think of them as demon heads ^.^
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Shield http://www.wowhead.com/item=34675
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http://www.wowhead.com/item=647/destiny, actually used it back in the day
Theres mine
love the DS/Firelands gear for transmogs and the higher res textures on more than just shoulders is great but shame it shows when you try to combine old xpac gear with new


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Penumbra Exceeds Fundraising Goal; Resumes Programming
Penumbra announced today that it exceeded its fundraising goal and will resume programming this spring. Over 1,400 individuals, corporations and foundations donated $359,000 by December 30, 2012.
"The response was inspiring and humbling with donations coming in from across the nation. We are fortunate to have such a passionate family of supporters," stated Bill Stevens, Chair of the Penumbra Board of Directors. "The matching grants from corporations, foundations and individuals had a huge impact. The board and volunteers leveraged it with calls straight through the holidays. The response speaks to the importance of Penumbra and its mission."
"We are grateful for the tremendous support - and excited to present SPUNK, a George C. Wolfe adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's Three Tales. This sensuous and witty show has a great cast to bring its rich mixture of storytelling, dance and the blues to life," stated Lou Bellamy, Penumbra Founder and Artistic Director. He added, "We are proud to have RBC Wealth Management as the presenter of our spring season which will also feature the popular Let's Talk Theatre and REEL Talk events. Tickets are available now. It will be good to see everyone in the lobby again." The Penumbra Summer Institute, a nationally recognized three-year arts education and leadership training program, was not impacted by the fall suspension and continues as scheduled.
Due to an income shortfall in August, Penumbra made the critical decisions to suspend its fall programming; to reduce its FY13 budget by $800,000 including eliminating six full-time staff positions; and, to set a goal to raise $340,000 by calendar year end. Observed Michael Kaiser, President of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the DeVos Institute of Arts Management, "It is a great testament to the vision and commitment of the board and staff of Penumbra that this remarkable goal has been achieved. It is especially gratifying that so many individuals have made contributions towards this goal. Of course, the organization must now build on this foundation to ensure that its programming can thrive and that Penumbra can maintain its leadership position in the arts ecology of the Twin Cities and the nation."
Penumbra has also committed to develop a seven-year business plan (FY14 through FY20) by June 30, 2013. The plan will identify the most effective structural and financial models to ensure sustainability while incorporating artistic and administrative succession. 3M is providing members from their Strategy Development and their Lean Six Sigma groups to help lead the project and to provide analysis on the viability of the key revenue streams. The 2020 vision remains true to Penumbra's mission and legacy and will not change what it does but it will change how it activates the mission. It is a vision of a sustainable and vibrant culturally specific theater that uses technology to connect people to the art, and, that supports itself through profit generating business units.
"Penumbra has strong internal systems in place to complete implementation of the business model changes. The discovery of the cash flow problem this summer surfaced a weakness in the system that was addressed with authority and speed," stated Kate Barr, Executive Director of Nonprofits Assistance Fund. Barr added "I believe that with continued commitment from staff and board leadership, support from key stakeholders and supporters, and a shared vision, Penumbra can rebound from this serious setback and build an institution for the future."
Presented by RBC Wealth Management
All activities take place at Penumbra Theatre, 270 North Kent Street, St. Paul, MN. All tickets for the play or any other activities can be made online at www.penumbratheatre.org or call the box office at 651-224-3180. Check the Penumbra website which is updated continuously with more details and news at www.penumbratheatre.org or call the box office at 651-224-3180.
Adapted by George C. Wolfe from Three Tales by Zora Neale Hurston
Directed by Patdro Harris
Featuring T. Mychael Rambo, Dennis W. Spears, Jevetta Steele, and Austene Van.
March 14 - April 7, 2013
Tickets: $40 adult, $15 students
Based on the folklore collected by literary icon Zora Neale Hurston, SPUNK is a sensuous and witty journey through African American life at the dawn of the 20th century. A rich mixture of storytelling, dance and the blues, SPUNK is both a celebration of life and a testament to the travails black Americans have endured. A pillar of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston's voice is lovingly brought to the stage through a lively adaptation by award-winning playwright George C. Wolfe.
Other related activities:
§ Study guides will be available mid-February. These guides provide a context for the art and enrich your theatrical experience. These guides can be downloaded free from our website. They include an overview of the artistic process; the history of African American theater; play specifics; a contextual essay; and an annotated bibliography. Standardized curricula with innovative lesson plans are also included for teachers and students. These comprehensive guides are highly regarded by theater professionals for their historical and cultural depth.
§ Let's Talk Theatre is an intimate social gathering paired with thought-provoking topics about theatre and the making of culturally specific art, hosted by Sarah Bellamy, Associate Artistic Director - Education. On Monday, February 18, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, we will explore the Harlem Renaissance and the Little Theatre Movement, and celebrate the generative spirit and cultural wellspring of Black Thought and art in America during the 1920s and 1930s - the era in which SPUNK is set. Tickets are $15.
§ Bookends are an informal, content rich way to prepare for and reflect upon SPUNK. At the first Bookend on Monday, March 18, you will explore the script and study guide together, as well as hear insights about the production. After you see the play, the second Bookend on Monday, April 1, is a lively discussion about your experience and the themes in the play. These facilitated discussions are hosted by members of the Penumbra Education team. Tickets are $20 for both sessions.
REEL Talk
These specially selected films will definitely stimulate a lively discussion. Share your reactions and thoughts at this biannual event, hosted by Sarah Bellamy, Associate Artistic Director - Education. Tickets are FREE however, reservations are required. Reserve online at www.penumbratheatre.org or call the box office at 651.224.3180.
· Monday, January 21, 7pm to 10pm: The Language You Cry In
1998. Producer/Directors: Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano
An amazing detective story reaching across hundreds of years and thousands of miles from 18th century Sierra Leone to 20th century United States - this film is the story of a song with legendary powers to connect those who sang it with their roots. Recounting how African Americans retained links with their African past, the film dramatically demonstrates the contribution of contemporary scholarship to combat the "non-history" imposed on African Americans.
· Monday, May 20, 7pm to 10pm: Killer of Sheep
1977. Producer/Directors: Charles Burnett.
Starring: Henry Gayle Sanders and Kaycee Moore.
This film was declared a National Treasure by the Library of Congress and deemed one of the "100 Essential Films" of all time by the National Society of Film Critics. Killer of Sheep examines Watts in the 1970s - a black ghetto of Los Angeles - through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Frustrated by money problems, he finds solace in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a teacup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife, and holding his daughter.
Around the Country
Lou Bellamy will direct Two Trains Running by August Wilson at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The play runs in repertory from February 23-July 7.
Penumbra Theatre was founded by Lou Bellamy in 1976 as an artistic response to the fight for civil rights and equality. However, to set a theater down inside a black community was an especially courageous act. The theater had to run the risk of its own humanity to find itself. It had to convince itself of its right to exist, and, that art created from the content of black American life could offer sustenance in spite of society's profound denial. For 36 years, Penumbra has undertaken that investigation, thus opening avenues to reconstruct the American narrative to include and celebrate the black experience. The invitation to participate and explore the themes of racism and social justice raised by the art is the core of Penumbra's mission to create lasting social change. This mission is accomplished through stories that are told by, for, and about African Americans-through art that is unapologetic and authentic. Penumbra uses the main stage as the starting place for this important dialogue about race, difference, and acceptance. This authenticity and veracity define the standards of the art it develops and produces, and drives the education programs to support the art with rigorous, cultural and historical scholarship, as well as to create a point of entry for everyone.
The arts culture is an ecosystem whose vibrancy depends on a balance among a diverse range of organizations, artists and disciplines. As the state's only professional African American theater, Penumbra is vital to this mix.
Pictured: Lou Bellamy


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