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This article was published 21/8/2014 (1096 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
This is the most painful column I write.
Columns on taxes or CRA penalties hurt, but taxes are a fact of life. And I can usually suggest ways to reduce taxes.
No, the column that hurts the most is talking about back-to-school season, meaning the inevitable end to our all-too-short summer is looming on the horizon.
Oh, well, best get on with it.
Tip No. 1 is to avoid being sucked into overspending on back-to-school clothes, supplies and accessories. Try to set a budget and stick with it. Unless you have unlimited funds, it's very easy to overdo it and have a credit-card hangover in September.
People with university-aged kids may be thinking now about Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) withdrawals. There are subtleties to those rules that can fool people, so let's review them.
The maximum first withdrawal from an RESP is $5,000. After that, there is no limit. The money does not have to be specifically spent on tuition, supplies or other verifiable education expenses, and no receipts are required.
But to request a withdrawal from the financial institution holding the RESP, the student must receive from the post-secondary educational institution a form or letter called Proof of Enrolment, on the institution's letterhead.
This is different than a receipt for tuition paid, and must be specifically requested.
When planning your withdrawal strategy, remember any deposits you made to the RESP plan can be withdrawn tax-free any time. The financial institution keeps track of how much of your account comprises original contributions versus government grants and investments.
The government-grant portion and any investment growth is taxable to the student when withdrawn. You specify the proportion from each area for each withdrawal.
Assuming the student only has income from summer and part-time jobs, we generally recommend withdrawals from the growth and grant portion while they are in school. The government grants and growth are thus withdrawn while the student has education credits and deductions.
If there are any RESP monies remaining after graduation when the student is working and taxable, these amounts can be withdrawn tax-free.
Tax breaks for students
Tax credit amounts for students include:
- Tuition tax credit
- Education amount
- Textbook credit
These are all non-refundable credits, meaning they will reduce tax a taxpayer would otherwise owe, but won't create a refund if the taxpayer is not paying any tax.
A student with less than $10,000 or so of total income will likely not be paying any taxes, so be careful not to waste these credits.
CRA allows a transfer of up to $5,000 of these tax credits onto the tax return of a supporting spouse, parent or grandparent. In that situation, the taxes for the supporting person are reduced. Alternatively, the student can carry these amounts forward to offset taxes in a future year, instead of transferring them.
Claiming the education-related credits requires an official receipt, in the form of a T2202. Most universities now only provide these online (as opposed to paper copies), and many only allow them to be printed once. Kids, this means it is very inconvenient for your parent or your tax preparer if you lose that one-time receipt. My suggestion is to only print it at the time you will be using it, next March.
We suggest the student file a tax return, even if there are no taxes due. This builds up eligibility for future RRSP contributions at a rate of 18 per cent of any employment or self-employment income, eligibility for future TFSA contributions, carryforwards of unused credits and deductions, and other valuable information.
Low-income students may also be eligible for refundable credits and grants, such as the GST (HST) tax credit at age 19.
I guess it's best to think of back-to-school as the start of a new adventure, rather than the end of Manitoba as tropical paradise. I'll try.
David Christianson, BA, CFP, R.F.P., TEP, CIM is a financial planner and adviser with Christianson Wealth Advisors, a vice -president with National Bank Financial Wealth Management, and author of the book Managing the Bull, A No-Nonsense Guide to Personal Finance.

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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
We have talked about how the average short-term memory can only hold around 7 pieces of information. Here is a test to see how good your short-term memory is.
Slowly read each line once and then look away and try to recall the numbers. The first few should be easy. Once you get to 7 or 8 digits, you will start to have a very difficult time.
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Competitive Overclocking: The GIGABYTE OC Lab and HWBot.orgby Ian Cutress on 6/19/2013 4:00 PM EST
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mwildtech - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkHi Cookie! Reply
BobGentry - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - link"The principle of the OC Lab is simple – a place for HiCookie to dismantle any PCB he wishes.." LOL, So Ian did you see boxes of Asus ROG boards sitting there dismantled and being copied? Also, tell HiCookie my Z87X-OC with BIOS F5 still overvolts CPU Vid and VDimm plus booting more than 2 SSDs in RAID results in lost or corrupted drives. Maybe he can fix it as their tech support is clueless. Otherwise it was an interesting read and good to put names and faces together. Reply
Trefugl - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - link"Every so often I came across a dead Titan PCB and wept softly." The only appropriate response.
I have been OCing for years, but really only benchmarked to make sure I got as much as I could out of my 24/7 rig. Tho recently I've taken part in some small events for fun. Thanks for the article. Reply
jamyryals - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkAwesome article! I'm not really into the extreme overclocking scene, but I'd definitely read the articles. Reply
DigitalFreak - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkAnother competition for Chinese to stab each other over. Reply
epoon2 - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkDigitalFreak,
You obviously haven't watched House of Cards.
Great read, Ian. Reply
gamoniac - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkDigitalFreak,
You a damn fool and a racist. Reply
ct760ster - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkFor what they are using the can of Red Bull, does it give you some wings? Reply
OC4/3 - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkReading more about extreme oc is always welcomed! Reply
I.M.O.G. - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkGood read Ian, rare to see proper framing and presentation of the really extreme stuff in more mainstream media outlets. I know a lot of people that would like to see more of it. - I.M.O.G., Overclockers.com Community Manager Reply
Xtreme Addict - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkVery good article. Easy to read, it explains some basic ideas about extreme oc. Good job :) Reply
c3p - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkThe part from "HWBot is supported by several hardware manufacturers, including GIGABYTE[...]" till "push world records higher."
is pretty redundant to that at the top. I'm pretty sure that was not supposed to be there. Reply
goinginstyle - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkConsidering Gigabyte is the primary sponsor (just look in the HWBot forums as it is not neutral for other board suppliers) I think the comment was supposed to emphasize Gigabyte's role. Kind of like this whole article reads as a Gigabyte advertorial for the most part, which is fine if that is the intent. Reply
c3p - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkYep, as a "normal PC guy" it's always pretty interesting to see the real pros pushing the limits! Reply
Massman - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkWhat exactly is interesting for you to see pros push the limits of? I have been looking closer at the comment rates of overclocking records posted at various mainstream media, and don't really see that much interest generated for let's say another memory frequency record.
So, essentially the question is: what makes your "normal PC guy" clock tick? Reply
iamkyle - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkRoots shirt! Canada represent! Reply
c3p - Saturday, June 22, 2013 - linkIt's like in other areas (for example swimming):
It is not so much the individual record that interesting, but more the big picture of what is actually possible.
So i'm not always in the forums and up-to-date about the newest stuff, but i like to read a bigger piece once/twice a year summing up the possibilities, what tricks they use and what they want to do next. Reply


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A PLAY bus is hitting the road to bring fun to families who struggle to travel into Bacup.
The On The Doorstep project will see a brightly-coloured wagon with a 36ft trailer staffed by qualified carers and stocked with toys, activities and educational tools set up on streets free of charge.
The scheme is being run by The Maden Centre and received around £2,000 in small grants from Rossendale District Prevention and Early Intervention panel to fund the project.
Jeanette Topham, an outreach worker at the centre in Rochdale Road, who organised the scheme, said: "The play sessions are for parents and their children aged five and under.
"I wanted to get the out and engage with families in the area who might not be able to access the centre easily, because a lot of people struggle to get to the centre because of money or travel reasons.
"There are a lot of families with under-fives who aren't registered with a centre because of these barriers and we wanted to be able to engage with them.
"There will be baking, crafts, role playing, singing, rhyming, books, messy play - everything you could expect in the children's centre, but on the bus.
"It will be staffed by two qualified play workers and one member of staff from the centre.
"There will be a free healthy snack provided."
Mrs Topham previously worked at Rochdale Council's play ranger and asked them if the On The Doorstep project could use their play bus for the project and the council agreed.
She said: "Rossendale Council doesn't have the provision for one and the bus is great because it is so brightly-coloured and people will see it when it's on the estate."
The play bus will be parked in Hawthorn Road in Bacup on Thursday and Cutler Crescent in Stacksteads on January 16, on alternating Thursdays from 11am to 1pm, until April 1.
Call The Maden Centre on 01706 871740.


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Well I am one happy camper today. My parents live on a very psh golf course and the sacrifice to living so close to such an upscale course, in addition to the odd golf ball somehow making it over the 50 yards of tree line seperating the backyard from the course, is tight restrictions. Couldn't park your car outdoors unless it was one of a select few sports cars, so much of house exterior had to be brick or concrete, etc. While a great neighbourhood it bothered me that you couldn't have any sort of fire pit, including a true brick bbq pit! but thankfully that restriction has been lifted after intense lobbying..
Anyways I am searching for the best bbq desigins for puchase to build a brick bbq pit, my Dad was originally just going to hire a contractor but I thought it would be a cool father-son project. Plus his designs avalible sucked.
Any advice you can lend me or plans on the web you'd recommend would be appreciated.
Dreams really do come true, cause they also have a stone counter built into there deck with 2 built in Viking grills, a mini bar, beer keg and a few other gadgets... and I am house sitting for a whole month!!!! MASSIVE BACKYARD BBQ PARTY!


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A Kansas State University faculty member in the College of Veterinary Medicine is one of six professors throughout the country to win a 2012 Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences Regional Teaching Award.
Dan Thomson, the Jones Professor of Production Medicine, received the award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. The award recognizes six outstanding faculty members on the basis of their ability as classroom teachers, use of innovative teaching methods, scholarship and service to students and their profession.
Kansas State is first in the nation in terms of teaching awards received, with a combined total of 13 national and regional awards.
Thomson teaches courses in feedlot production medicine, animal welfare and clinical nutrition at Kansas State.
"My philosophy is to motivate and transfer usable knowledge to students so they will walk out of my classroom wanting to continually learn new ways to improve animal well-being, food safety and animal health," he said.
Thomson is also director of Kansas State's Beef Cattle Institute, which provides education, research and outreach to beef producers. His research efforts have brought more than $33 million in grants to his program. He serves as the animal welfare adviser to McDonald's and the Food Marketing Institute and has chaired the World Organization for Animal Health's Beef Cattle Production and Animal Welfare Committee.
Thomson has been recognized for his teaching before when he received the Kansas State Novartis Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005 and 2009, and also when he was named teacher of the semester at Texas Tech University's College of Agriculture in 2000.
The Regional Teaching Award is sponsored by the APLU, USDA and American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Thomson and the other award recipients each receive a $2,000 stipend to improve teaching at a school of their choice.
"This may be an individual award," Thomson said, "but I couldn't do this job without the aid of others along the way."


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Topic: Wedding
I just thought I would let all know that our daughter's wedding went off without a hitch. She was the most beautiful bride and managed to only cry three times. I got teary when she broke down at the reception. Mark was able to walk her down the aisle and have the Dad-dtr dance. He was tired but was able to make it through the wedding and the reception. It was a really good day and made a good change of pace for both of us.
I really wish I could post pics so you could all see.....I am not a proud mommy or anything.


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Opportunities for employment are particularly prolific in London, where personnel are often paid substantially higher salaries. Earnings in the industry range from about £19K to £50K per year, and it is a relatively lucrative employment sector. Electronics recruitment agencies frequently offer positions for VLSI engineers, technical wiring and assembly experts, RF engineers, and digital signal processing specialists. The overall average salary for electronics professionals in the UK is about £33,000, and salaries show little fluctuation from region to region.
For entrance into the industry, most positions require relevant academic degrees, and many roles also require post-graduate study. 91% of professionals in the field are full-time employees, and a very low percentage of those working in the sector are self-employed. Outside of London, the South East and South West employ the highest concentrations of electronics personnel.
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Pirates again pound D-backs 'pen, which hits back
Amid seven runs in last two frames, Cutch drilled in back with pitch
PHOENIX - Tension gripped the early afternoon in the desert. The report came in that Paul Goldschmidt had a broken hand, courtesy of Ernesto Frieri's pitch Friday night. Would the D-backs seek eye-for-an-eye retribution for their fallen star?
They did, but not until identical circumstances arose: with the Pirates up by four runs in the ninth, on their way to another win, 8-3, over the D-backs on Saturday night.
With the Pirates leading by 5-1 and first base open, Randall Delgado bounced his third pitch off Andrew McCutchen's back -- drawing an immediate ejection from plate umpire Ron Kulpa and the Bucs' postgame ire.
"I understand they want to retaliate because their guy goes down," said McCutchen, who was livid. "There's just a right way to do it."
"The game takes care of itself," said tight-lipped manager Clint Hurdle, who repeated that disclaimer several times, ominously.
"We won," McCutchen said. "That's what matters. So we can show up tomorrow and try to take three out of four."
With one game to go on this rough 10-game west swing, which had begun with two losses in Denver, the Pirates are 5-4 and with the latest win moved within 1 1/2 games of the National League Central lead.
"We've put ourselves in position to have a winning road trip," Hurdle pointed out.
They have done so with two nearly identical blowouts of Arizona, a return to their infamous rope-a-dope tendencies: wait out the starter, take it out on the bullpen. Of their 17 runs the last two games, 15 have come in the eighth and ninth innings.
McCutchen's eighth-inning RBI single off third baseman Andy Marte's glove snapped Saturday night's 1-1 tie, and, as they had the night before, the Bucs didn't know where to stop. Brent Morel applied the eighth-inning punctuation with an RBI double that made it 5-1 and added a two-run single in the ninth.
"I feel like I've been having good at-bats without results," said Morel, who was 1-for-14 when he came off the bench to replace Pedro Alvarez in the seventh inning. "So it was nice to finally have some balls land to help us break open a close game."
Morel's contributions, moving forward, may become more significant. There was a postgame vibe that the Bucs had used up their patience with Alvarez, who made three throws to first base -- none of them cleanly. He bounced two throws short-hopped by Ike Davis and sailed the third over the 6-foot-4 first baseman's head for his 24th error of the season.
"I'll talk to [general manager Neal Huntington], and everything will be taken into consideration," Hurdle said. "You want to take care of every individual player, but you've also got to take care of the team."
While starters Vance Worley and Chase Anderson pitched to a 1-1 standoff through six, Arizona's rookie right-hander did slightly out-pitch his more-veteran opponent. Anderson pitched so well, in fact, they named the park after him.
Anderson allowed only five hits in Chase Field -- to seven off Worley - but one of them gave the Bucs a 1-0 lead in the third in familiar style: an extra-base hit by Josh Harrison. His 10th homer of the season gave him extra-base hits in four consecutive at-bats, as well as a string of seven straight extra-base hits.
Harrison broke that streak with a single in the eighth that turned into his biggest hit of the night, igniting the put-away four-run rally.
"Got to just get on base, set the table for the guys behind me," Harrison said.
The D-backs got even in the fifth, when David Peralta's single drove in the first run off Worley in 14 innings -- and only the second earned run off him in 20 innings.
Jared Hughes took over in the seventh and got out of a bases-loaded jam to earn the sixth victory that befell him when the Bucs rallied in the eighth.
"It got a little dicey there," Hurdle said, "and Hughes made pitches when he had to. And then our offense was able to agains show up in the eighth and ninth."
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Topic: Venus and the sky
did anyone get to see Venus traversing across the sun yesterday eve? It was cloudy here until the sun was just about to go down behind the mts, we checked (with double sets of welding goggles and sun glasses- safety first!) but could not make out anything. Last month my husband and i were able to veiw the Solar eclipse on our anniversary! This past week the full moon has been spectacularly huge as it rises and sets. I had a pleasant surprise the other evening when i went outside to grill.... the full moon was rising just above our Lupine in that purple twilight magic hour... We must remember to look up! Have a great day.


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Spray three 9-inch round baking pans with vegetable pan spray. Prepare Hummingbird Cake batter; divide between the prepared pans (Note: layers will be thin). Bake 30-35 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan and cool completely.
Tint buttercream icing light violet. Stack cake layers on prepared cake circle with icing between layers; spatula ice cake smooth. Mark cake sides at 1-in. intervals; pipe tip #48 vertical lines (serrated side up) at marks. Pipe three tip #48 lines crossing each other on the cake top; pipe a line around bottom border. Carefully remove violets from waxed paper; arrange flowers on cake top and top and bottom borders.


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Coenzyme Q10
Coenzyme Q10
Coenzyme Q10, or CoQ10, is a naturally occurring, lipid-soluble antioxidant and an essential electron carrier involved in the mitochondrial respiratory chain. In mitochondria, CoQ10 functions as a coenzyme that assists in the oxidative phosphorylation of nutrients, leading to production of cellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP), or energy.[1–4] It is endogenously synthesized by mammals and plants and is found in virtually all aerobic cells.[5]
The best food sources of CoQ10 are meat and poultry, and the typical US diet provides approximately 5 to 10 mg of CoQ10 per day. The highest levels of dietary CoQ10 are found in red meat products, particularly organ meats (liver and heart), from which this compound was first isolated.[6] After absorption, CoQ10 is circulated to the liver and incorporated into very-low-density lipoproteins.[2]
In the body, more than 90% of CoQ10 is converted to its active form, called CoQH2-10 or ubiquinol. Ubiquinol has strong antioxidant properties. Although humans are capable of producing adequate amounts of CoQ10, certain medications, such as statins, beta-blockers, antidepressants, and antipsychotics, may decrease the body's natural production of this compound. Conditions that cause oxidative stress, such as liver disease, have been noted to decrease the ratio of ubiquinol to CoQ10, and tissue levels of CoQ10 have also been found to decline with age.[4] Serum concentrations of CoQ10 have been shown to increase after consumption of supplemental CoQ10 and after meals containing CoQ10. It is absorbed well, although rather slowly; peak plasma levels occur 5 to 10 hours after ingestion.[2] Serum levels of CoQ10 have been used to determine the amount of ingested CoQ10 needed to raise endogenous levels of CoQ10. Research suggests that a range of 150 to 300 mg of dietary CoQ10 may be needed to achieve physiologic effects.[7,8]
How Is CoQ10 Currently Used?
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While CoQ10 has been used for several decades as a dietary supplement for general health maintenance, the benefits of its administration have been most extensively evaluated in a variety of cardiovascular and neurodegenerative conditions. In patients with congestive heart failure, CoQ10 supplementation in addition to conventional medical therapy may improve quality of life, New York Heart Association classification, and congestive symptoms including dyspnea and edema.[9–13] Similar benefits were seen in a study of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.[14]
Rosenfeldt et al, in a meta-analysis of 12 published clinical trials, reported that CoQ10 administration decreases systolic and diastolic blood pressure.[15] These cardiovascular changes may be a result of effects of CoQ10 on vascular endothelium, including improvements in the activity of superoxide dismutase, an enzyme thought to protect the vasculature against oxidant-induced damage.[16,17] Equivocal results have been described following efforts to prevent myalgias and myopathy in patients receiving HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors—the "statin" drugs—with CoQ10 supplementation.[18–21]
Some data suggest high-dose CoQ10 administration may slow functional decline in patients with early Parkinson's disease.[22] Unfortunately, 300 mg CoQ10 twice daily did not improve total functional capacity in 347 patients with early Huntington's disease.[23] CoQ10 supplementation has been shown to be effective in the uncommon primary CoQ10 deficiency syndromes associated with specific genetic defects in the CoQ10 biosynthesis pathway.[24–26] Placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trials have demonstrated efficacy of CoQ10 in men with idiopathic infertility.[27,28] Supplementation led to increased seminal plasma and sperm motility, but it is not clear if these changes lead to increased rates of pregnancy.
In light of its role in mitochondrial energy generation, CoQ10 supplementation has been evaluated in a variety of patient populations with fatigue. It has clearly been demonstrated to improve the symptoms of weakness and fatigue in the rare patient with inherited defects in CoQ10 biosynthesis.[24,25] As described, CoQ10 may have beneficial effects on dyspnea and exercise tolerance—cardiac fatigue—in patients with congestive heart failure and/or cardiomyopathy.[11,29,30] However, conflicting data exist regarding the effect of CoQ10 on fatigue in a normal population. Cooke et al described a trend towards an increased time to exhaustion following 2 weeks of CoQ10 intake.[31] A number of other placebo-controlled studies have failed to demonstrate an improvement in physical functioning in similar trained and untrained populations.[32–36]
What Is the Evidence Related to CoQ10 and Cancer?
During cancer treatment, many patients experience flavor aversions, particularly to meat, and may not be able to consume adequate amounts of dietary CoQ10. In addition, antineoplastic therapy may have a direct impact on CoQ10 synthesis.
Unfortunately, clinical and epidemiologic investigations of CoQ10 in cancer are limited and the few studies that have been reported have involved small numbers of participants. Importantly, the incidence of CoQ10 deficiency has been found to be significantly higher in cancer patients than in healthy controls.[8]CoQ10 deficiency has also been reported in women diagnosed with breast cancer. In a study conducted in 200 women hospitalized for breast cancer surgery, a CoQ10 deficiency was noted in patients with both malignant and nonmalignant breast lesions.[37] In contrast, CoQ10 deficiency at baseline was not observed in a prospective, placebo-controlled trial of CoQ10 administration in women with breast cancer and self-reported fatigue who were receiving adjuvant chemotherapy.[38] Additionally, Folkers et al reported reductions of total CoQ10 levels in patients with myeloma.[8] The importance of potential CoQ10 deficiencies in these patients is unclear, however.
Of some concern is the finding reported from the largest epidemiologic evaluation of CoQ10, in which investigators described a positive association between higher prediagnostic levels of CoQ10 and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women.[39] In contrast, Rusciani et al reported an association between low CoQ10 levels and metastasis and progression of melanoma, while Palan et al reported an inverse association between cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical cancer with circulating levels of CoQ10.[40,41]
A number of trials have evaluated the ability of CoQ10 supplementation to ameliorate or prevent cardiotoxicity in patients receiving anthracycline chemotherapy. Iarussi et al reported a protective effect for CoQ10 on left ventricular global function during anthracycline therapy in a prospective, randomized, controlled trial in 20 children.[42]
Okuma et al described no changes in QRS voltage or QTc duration in a heterogeneous group of 39 patients receiving CoQ10 along with doxorubicin-containing chemotherapy, whereas decreased QRS voltage and lengthened QTc duration was seen in a 41-patient control group.[43]
Until recently, no published data existed on the effects of CoQ10 on fatigue in patients with cancer. As a result, we performed a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study of Co-Q10 in women with breast cancer and self-reported fatigue while receiving adjuvant chemotherapy.[38] Between 2004 and 2009, a total of 236 women were enrolled.
Treatment arms were well balanced with respect to age, performance status, ethnicity, and planned chemotherapy. At 24 weeks, there were no significant differences between the CoQ10 and placebo arms on the POMS-Fatigue, FACIT-Fatigue, or FACT-Breast subscales despite sustained increases in serum CoQ10 levels in treated patients. No serious adverse events were noted. Therefore, these data provide no support for an effect of CoQ10 supplementation on fatigue in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients.


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These aquariums better become popular once the economy starts picking up. Like the 80s when everybody had those clear glass tiles everywhere, these better be a marker of the economic boom of the 2010s. So incredibly cool - the aquarium's filtration system goes through tubes inside the stainless steel hangings. The tanks can be all linked together and hung as far as 500 ft apart. So cool.
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If you think the only danger for a driver using a cellphone is the distraction from the phone itself, think again. A recent study conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that drivers who use cellphones for phone calls while on the road are more likely to have other dangerous driving behaviors, such as speeding, not using a seat belt, driving while drowsy, and using the phone to send texts or emails.
The 2012 Traffic Safety Culture Index, a nationwide study that was released earlier this month, found that drivers who said they used their cellphones "fairly often" or "regularly" were more likely to engage in other dangerous driving practices in their cars than respondents who reported they never used a cellphone while driving.
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The report by Sir Philip Green into Whitehall efficiency is now out* and it makes interesting reading, not least his suggestion that maybe the state shouldn't be paying for mobile phones for desk-bound junior personnel. (There are 105,000 government mobiles).
One of his discoveries is the lack of reliable central government data. For example, his team was first told that Whitehall spent £2bn a year on travel. The second estimate was £500m. The third was £768m – before the final figure came in at £551m. (This will seem familiar to all political journalists).
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Genealogists have been able to access historic gazettes for some years and very useful they have been in family history research. A recent press release from National Archives tells us that access to the gazettes has been improved and the website re-designed and re-launched.
The London Gazette is the oldest, continually published newspaper in the world. Although the three publications are know as the London Gazette, Edinburgh Gazette and the Belfast Gazette they contain details of individuals from all over the United Kingdom so a search is always worthwhile taking the time to do. A history of the gazette is available on the National Archives website.
A search for one of my family names "Pottinger" came up with 654 entries dating from 1742 – July 2013 a wide range of dates and information. The earliest entry concerns an ancestor of mine John Pottinger of Compton, Berkshire, it calls for creditors to register with the Court of Chancery and the latest entry is a listing of a business in Belfast owned by a Peter Pottinger who almost certainly is a descendant of the Pottinger family who left Berkshire and moved to Northern Ireland. All sorts of genealogy treasure will be hidden amongst the other 652 entries. A good, wet Sunday afternoon, project to work through them all !


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ONCE Upon A Time was the theme for this year's Great Malvern Floral Festival, and town businesses rose to the challenge with their accustomed creativity.
The first prize went to the Lyttelton House Gallery on Priory Steps, off Abbey Road, with an enchanting display based on Alice in Wonderland.
Gallery owner Andrew Morgan said, "We're bowled over to have won. It was a real team effort and we're delighted to have been part of such a great competition."
The displays will remain on show throughout the weekend, with many traders opening specially on Sunday to show off their creations. A leaflet with a map is available from the TIC, Church Street, and local shops. You can also vote for your favourites at floralfestival.moonfruit.com.


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South Middle School Principal Joyce Crimminger stood before a crowded Bundy Auditorium at the University of South Carolina Lancaster on March 19, with one of her 534 students, a beaming young man named Chandler Hinson.
Chandler is a special needs student, Crimminger explained, with a developmental disorder characterized, in part, by a smiling, happy demeanor and sweet disposition.
Crimminger said Chandler has overcome some significant obstacles in the years he's been at South, struggles balanced in the scope of things by his ability to light up a room.
Monday, Nov. 24, was a long day for Columbia City Ballet principal dancer Claire McCaa and the 29 other members of the professional company.
They left the state capital before dawn for the annual performance of "The Nutcracker" at Lancaster High School auditorium.
"We left about 6:45 (a.m.) she said. "It wasn't light yet."
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Ya'Dynasty Douglas had perfect attendance during her fourth-grade year at Brooklyn Springs Elementary School during the school's 2013-14 year.
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Anna Weeks Howey was named to the 2014 spring president's list at Winthrop University for maintaining a 4.0 grade-point average at the university. She is majoring in physical education and will graduate in December 2014.
INDIAN LAND – The Indian Land High School band finished its marching season with what ILHS band director Matt Willis called the "program's crowning achievement over the past decade."
On Oct. 25, the Warrior marching band placed fourth at the S.C. Band Directors Association's 2A state finals with its "So, This is Earth..." show.
"This was the band's highest finish at state finals in a decade," Willis said.
Lancaster County School District officials said recent changes in standardized testing and ongoing uncertainty over its future in the state is having an effect on local educators and may have played a role in this year's mediocre PASS and HSAP test results.
The item was among the topics discussed during this month's school board meeting Tuesday, Aug. 19.
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Bells will ring for the first day of school on Monday, Aug. 18, and throughout the county, students will re-enter and enter for the first time elementary, middle and high schools in the Lancaster County School District.
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Lancaster County School District officials have chosen Buford High School Principal Butch Dutton to serve as the district's director of secondary education.
Dutton appointment fills a position vacated in June when former secondary education director Jonathan Phipps left for a job as superintendent of Abbeville County schools.
York Technical College announced Wednesday, June 11, it will open a new Indian Land instructional site in August.
Located on the first floor of the Verian Technologies building at 1245 Rosemont Drive, the center will initially offer classes for 120 students. To celebrate the opening, the college is giving scholarships to the first 100 students who sign up
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s clouds loomed overhead outside, spirits remained up in the Lancaster High School gymnasium. Just after 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 30, LHS administrators made the decision to move the graduation exercises indoors.
Indian Land High School graduate Leander McCall and the class of 2014 expressed their thanks, admiration and farewells "Hunger Game"-style during their commencement ceremony, Friday, May 30.
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Pronunciation: me • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Interjection, Adjective
Meaning: 1. [Interjection] Whatever! So what? Blah! Meh is a verbal shrug, an expression of apathy. 2. [Adjective] So-so, blah, uninteresting, indifferent.
Notes: Although today's expression (I hesitate calling it a 'word') is an expression of apathy, it seems to have excited the editors of the Harper Collins English Dictionary, for they decided a few days ago to add it as a new entry. It is too soon to see how this nonce word will fit into English—if it does at all. The noun mehness is already out there but no one seems to have tested the adverb (mehly?) or the comparative (meher, more meh?) and superlative (mehest, most meh?). We all await the verdict with bated breath.
In Play: As an interjection, this word indicates absolute indifference if not boredom: "So, kids, what did you think of the cheese-whip surprise I made for dinner tonight?" In unison: "Meh!" As an adjective it is the modern equivalent of blah: "I was surprised when Maude Lynn Dresser came to the party in such a meh outfit."
Word History: Back at the turn of the millennium some English speakers in the US needed a worse interjection for apathy than Whatever! The Simpsons to the rescue! In a 2001 episode Homer asked the kids if they want to go to Blockoland and their reply was, "Meh!" While the word probably was around before this episode, it is the first instance of the word that anyone recalls. While we do not accept the contention that entering a word in a dictionary (someone's selection of words) legitimizes it, it does mark a watershed for the word's progress and alerts us to watch out for it. (Our gratitude to Evelyn Hershman for suggesting this new English expression is anything but meh.)


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Reaching out to the local community, Saint Leo Men's Basketball Coach Lance Randall hosted a clinic for over 60 Wesley Chapel youth that was sponsored by the Wesley Chapel Athletic Association and held at the Marion Bowman Activities Center on Tuesday evening.
The first night in November served as an opportunity for the Lions' first-year coach to allow his completely rebuilt team to meet the Pasco County community as excitement builds for the start of the new basketball season.
During the free clinic the Lions divided into multiple stations that focused on the fundamentals of the game with each station being supervised by Saint Leo student-athletes. A surprise visit from the NBA's Anthony Parker, who addressed the youngsters, helped to solidify a night that many will remember for a long time.
The Lions will next turn their attention to game action on the hardwood when they tip-off an exhibition with Florida Gulf Coast University on November 5. The game will be played at Alico Arena in Ft. Myers and will tip-off at 8 p.m.
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When it comes to spicy food, people all over the world love to play with fire. Cooking Channel's Roger Mooking and Aarón Sanchez are taking it to a whole new level.
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WASHINGTON: There's no surprise in Hamas eulogising the man whose assassination last week – by Israeli drone-launched missile — sparked this all-out war between Gaza and Israel. But get past the requisite Israeli demonising of Ahmad al-Jabari and you find something that approximates respect and, in some quarters, even a belief that taking out Jabari was a strategic error by Israel.
Hamas gives away little about the living, but in death there are nods of agreement that Jabari was the military strategist who made an army with a serious arsenal out of a militia once armed with such amateurish home-made rockets that some Israeli analysts dismissed them as "flying stove pipes".
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RAW VISION: The Israel Defence Force assassinates Ahmed Jabri, the head of Hamas' military wing, in the Gaza Strip.
Much of the detail on the 51-year-old Jabari's success in rebuilding Hamas's military wing – the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades – is articulated by Israeli security sources who, as was proved by the targeting information they had for the death strike on Jabari, still run a formidable network of informers in Gaza.
This point was borne out by Israeli Air Force colonel Uri Dromi, who told Britain's Daily Telegraph after the death of the Hamas leader: "You must have human intelligence."
The most sophisticated weapon known to be in the Hamas munitions bunkers, reportedly acquired this year, is the Iranian Fajr-5 rocket, which carries a 90-kilogram warhead and has a range of more than 70 kilometres – putting both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem within striking distance.
Israel estimates that Hamas had about 100 Fajr-5s, but claims to have destroyed a good number of them in the air strikes of the past week.
Unnamed Israeli security figures told The New York Times that trained crews used underground pads to launch the rockets, which were hauled from Iran to Sudan and then trucked to Egypt, where they were broken into parts, which were then smuggled into Gaza by tunnel.
"The smuggling route involves salaried employees from Hamas along the way, Iranian technical experts travelling on forged passports and government approval in Sudan," the report said, giving credence to the widely held belief that a mysterious air strike on a Sudanese munitions factory at the end of October was an Israeli bid to interrupt that supply chain.
The same goes for an Israeli hit in Dubai early in 2010, in which a Hamas operative was assassinated — purportedly because he too was a key part of the weapons supply chain. That case confirmed that Israel resorts to forged passports, dozens of which were revealed to have been used by the Mossad hit team and its associates.
The Fajr-5 is a quantum leap ahead of the early missiles Jabari's Gaza workshops first produced in 2001. Called the Qassam-1, they flew erratically for just four kilometres, carrying a very small warhead. By 2005, the Qassam had evolved to a range of 12 kilometres and a warhead of 15 kilograms, but still rated poorly as a targeted weapon.
It was not until 2008 that Hamas reportedly acquired its first foreign-produced rockets: the Grad from Iran and Libya and, in time, produced locally (with a range of almost 20 kilometres and an 18-kilogram warhead); and the WS-1E from China (45-kilometre range, 22-kilogram warhead).
The Grad stocks reportedly are counted in the hundreds; the Qassams and other smaller homemade weapons in the thousands.
The Israeli sources claimed Jabari was also producing long-range rockets and drones he intended to fly in Israeli airspace — just as Israeli unmanned aircraft are constantly patrolling the skies of Gaza.
Alluding to a particular air strike on Friday night, one of the Israelis was quoted as saying: "What we took care of last night was their own production facility for [unmanned aerial vehicles]. This was all the work of Jabari, who was a very sophisticated and strategic thinker."
Israeli officials express amazement that the Farj-5 rockets, more than six metres long and weighing more than 900 kilograms, could be trucked through Egypt unnoticed. But Hamas, no doubt, would argue that its foreign arms deliveries are no different to Israel's.
In the wake of the Israeli assault on Gaza at the end of 2008, Amnesty International accused both sides of using foreign-supplied weapons for attacks in which civilians died.
In a briefing paper released weeks after the fighting, Amnesty said: "Munitions from the USA, Israel's main foreign arms supplier, were used by Israeli forces. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups fired hundreds of rockets that had been smuggled in or made of components from abroad."
Referring to the briefing paper's list of artillery and tank shells, mortar fins, the remnants of Hellfire and other airborne missiles and big F-16-delivered bombs, Amnesty's Middle East director, Malcolm Smart, said: "To a large extent, Israel's military offensive in Gaza was carried out with weapons, munitions and military equipment supplied by the USA — and paid for with US taxpayers' money."
Known in Gaza as "the general" or "the chief of staff" and obsessive about his personal security, Jabari had survived four earlier assassination attempts – one of which claimed his eldest son and several others from his extended family. He had been jailed by Israel, for 13 years, and by the forces of the Palestinian Authority, run by the secular Fatah political faction.
He had a key role in the 2007 battle for control of Gaza, in which Hamas forces defeated American-trained and funded forces from Fatah.
He is credited with being the architect of the 2006 cross-border mission that resulted in the capture of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was held for more than five years before being exchanged late last year for more than 1000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
Jabari was also deeply involved in the negotiations for Shalit's release, personally delivering his hostage to Cairo after his release was agreed and, surprisingly, allowing himself to be filmed by television cameras.
It was the Hamas strongman's role in the Shalit saga that provoked one of the more intriguing Israeli responses to his death, by Gershon Baskin, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, who initiated the secret back channel through which the young soldier's release was negotiated.
"I believe that Israel made a grave and irresponsible strategic error by deciding to kill Mr Jabari," Baskin wrote in The New York Times last week.
His point was not that Jabari was a man of peace. But in the prisoner exchange negotiations, Baskin conclude that Jabari was interested in a long-term ceasefire and that it was Jabari who had been responsible for enforcing previous ceasefire agreements – to the extent that they had held.
"On the morning that he was killed, Mr Jabari received a draft proposal for an extended ceasefire with Israel agreed upon by me and Hamas' deputy foreign minister Mr Hamad, when we met last week in Egypt," he wrote.
The difference here was that there was to be a new system of early warnings, based on Israeli intelligence, which on being relayed to Jabari would give him time to intervene to prevent the launching of a rocket – particularly by the more headstrong, non-Hamas factions that operate from Gaza.
"Other key Hamas leaders like Jabari understood the futility of successive rocket attacks against Israel that left no real damage on Israel and dozens of casualties in Gaza [after Israeli retaliation]," Baskin wrote. "Mr Jabari was not prepared to give up the strategy of 'resistance', meaning fighting Israel, but he saw the need for a new strategy and was prepared to agree to a long-term ceasefire."
According to Baskin, the possibility of a long-term ceasefire died with Jabari. He concluded: "This was not inevitable, and cooler heads could have prevailed. Mr Jabari's assassination removes one of the more practical actors on the Hamas side."


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January 9 – Al Ain, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
(Written by Raakel Toppila, photos and video by Aubree Pack)
(Although Al Ain Wildlife park is currently a zoo, it's focus on conservation includes plant life)
We began our day in the 4000 year-old oasis settlement of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates, home of the late Sheikh Zayad, founder of the UAE. Sheikh Zayad's reverence for nature and deep concern for the wildlife of the Arabian Peninsula inspired him to develop the Al Ain Zoo in 1968, now called the Al Ain Wildlife Park.
Video Link – A clip of the African Mixed Exhibit (if you turn it up loud, you can hear about the antelope collection from Michael Maunder)
(Felicia and James look in on Lady, a resident Gorilla)
Dr. Mike Maunder, the Chief Collection, Conservation, and Education Officer at Al Ain and Nabil Zakhour, Advisor Public Relations and Media Communication Manager were our gracious guides for the day. Dr. Maunder described the developing government project , which involves the ambitous expansion of the 90 hectares (222 acres) park into a 900 hectares (2224 acres) project. The development involves the creation of geographically themed safaris, world desert gardens, a learning center, hotel, and sustainable housing. True to the legacy of Sheikh Zayad, the project is intended to reconnect citizens of the UAE to plant life and the natural world.
(Mike Maunder shows us the master plan for the new Wildlife park and Resort)
The park is home to some of the most endangered species in the world such as the Arabian Oryx, now extinct in the wild, and the Arabian leopard with only 200 wild species remaining. These animals are being assessed for their potential for Al Ain breeding and reintroduction programs.
The horticulture department is preparing for the large expansion of the gardens by testing the most physiologically adaptive plants in the world. Horticulturalists are trialing species that can tolerate irrigation by sewage effluent and soaring summer temperatures reaching 52 degrees Celsius (126 degrees Fahrenheit). To locate some of these plants, Jamie Hilyard, horticulturist on staff travels around the world in search of plant species to incorporate in the park. One of his latest discoveries involved over 100 Boabab trees, forgotten in their pots by a woman in Bankok who had intended to use them for bonsai. The 20-foot trees were transported from Bangkok to Al Ain, and seem to be adapting to the new conditions beautifully.
(One of the largest Acacia tortilis that was salvaged/saved for the new installations at the Wildlife Park)
We left the animals and went "behind the scenes" with Dr. Maunder. His face lit up as he showed us the largest tree salvage project in the Middle East. Countless native Acacia tortilis trees were successfully transferred into wooden containers to rescue them from destruction during park construction. Our tour ended with a fly-by presentation of the project by Noushadali Kayalmadathil, Program Control Systems Manager. Our group also had the opportunity to meet with members of the education department.
(The group, in front of Pachycereus pringlei)
In a single day we travelled from Al Ain, a 4,000 year-old oasis settlement to the sparkling city of Dubai, a small fishing village just 30 years ago. We explored the world's tallest building outside the immaculate Dubai Mall before hopping on a red eye flight for Trivandrum in the South of India.


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On Saturday, April 26, the Baltimore County Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will collect potentially dangerous prescription/medication drugs from area residents. The DEA National Take Back Initiative is an effort by law enforcement to get unused, and in some cases, dangerous prescription drugs out of the house and disposed of in a safe and secure manner.
The following precincts have been designated as drop off locations.
- Precinct 2/Woodlawn, 6424 Windsor Mill Road, Woodlawn 21207
- Precinct 7/Cockeysville, 111 Wight Avenue, Cockeysville 21030
- Precinct 12/North Point, 1747 Merritt Boulevard, Baltimore 21222
Baltimore County police officers and DEA agents will be at the sites from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
The public should use this opportunity to discard potentially dangerous prescription medications. Those dropping off a controlled and/or non-controlled substance will not be asked questions about the drop-off, nor will they be asked for identification.
Residents should drop off medications in the original packaging, or remove them and place the drugs into the disposal box. Liquid medications should be tightly sealed and in the original containers. Remove any identifying information on the prescription label. Over-the-counter drugs will also be accepted.
Illicit drugs or syringes will not be accepted, as these items can pose a health hazard to those collecting the drugs.
Permanent Drug Drop Boxes at All Baltimore County Precincts
Baltimore County now has drug drop boxes at all 10 police precincts. Residents can anonymously and safely dispose of unwanted and expired drugs and medications 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at these locations:
- Precinct 1 Wilkens - 901 Walker Avenue, 21228
- Precinct 2 Woodlawn - 6424 Windsor Mill Road, 21207
- Precinct 3 Franklin - 606 Nicodemus Road, 21136
- Precinct 4 Pikesville - 215 Milford Mill Road, 21208
- Precinct 6 Towson - 115 W. Susquehanna Avenue, 21204
- Precinct 7 Cockeysville - 111 Wight Avenue, 21030
- Precinct 8 Parkville - 8532 Old Harford Road, 21234
- Precinct 9 White Marsh - 8220 Perry Hall Boulevard, 21236
- Precinct 11 Essex - 216 North Marlyn Ave., 21221
- Precinct 12 North Point - 1747 Merritt Boulevard, 21222
Liquid, tablet and capsule forms of medication should be disposed of in the drug drop boxes. All medical waste (needles, lancets, syringes, and razor blades) should be securely enclosed in a metal or plastic container and thrown in the regular trash. These items should not be placed in the drug drop boxes.
For more information, visit the Baltimore County Health Department website: http://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/Agencies/health/healthservices/substanceabuse/drugdropbox.html


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In what looked like it was going to be a short outing for Johan Santana turned into six shut-out innings as the Dodgers couldn't take advantage of runners in scoring position. Santana threw 115 pitches, more than 40 of those in the first two innings, earning his third win of the season.
David Wright scored on a wild pitch, Jason Bay finally homered and Luis Castillo drove in two to account for all of the Mets' runs. The bullpen was brilliant once again, only using Pedro Feliciano and Fernando Nieve to close out the game. This is good, so the rest of the bullpen can be rested when Oliver Perez pitches in the nightcap.
The Mets are on a five-game winning streak and are 11-9. They are tied with the Marlins and are just a half game behind the Phillies for first place. They'll try to keep the mojo going tonight, but it might be a tall order. Teams playing doubleheaders usually split the difference and have to let the rubber match decide the series winner. The Mets will face knuckleballer Charlie Haeger.


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Intel Confirms Falcon Ridge Production in 2013, Ramp in 2014by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/9/2013 1:51 PM EST
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Hrel - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - linkUntil it comes standard on all motherboards and SOC's for all things, who cares? Reply
name99 - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - linkUhh, what?
This is a blog devoted to telling us the FUTURE of tech. What do you expect?
Do you make the same comment when Anand discusses Haswell (which I can't buy yet) or 802.11ac (which has only just become buyable) or next generation LTE?
There are plenty of complaints you can make about TB, but yours has to be the most foolish. Reply
SomeoneSimple - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - linkIn Hrel's defense, if anyone outside of fruity companies would actually make an effort supporting Thunderbolt by implementing this in both devices as well as peripherals, information about its successor would be a lot more exciting. Reply
repoman27 - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - linkThe same could be said about laptop displays with resolutions higher than 1366x768 that come calibrated from the factory.
Hrel's comment isn't really defensible. Reply
Tams80 - Sunday, April 14, 2013 - linkThunderbolt is essentially the Apple implementation that Intel are now using to describe it as a whole. Light Peak is the name for the actual technology (though I guess at least in terms of publicity this has been dropped) and had other implementations, such as on the Sony Vaio Z 2011. It used a USB 3.0 port and another pin connector.
If I recall correctly, Intel aren't exactly in favour of this, as Alexvrb pointed out, because they pretty much lost control of USB. Reply
epobirs - Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - linkIntel never had control of USB. It didn't start at Intel and has always been a collaboration of multiple companies, although one of the five founding members (Compaq) acquired another of the founders (DEC). The USB TA has always had final say over any additions to the USB standard and controls the logo certification process. Intel wield a lot of power within the TA but they always wanted it to be independent for the purpose of encouraging wide adoption.
Intel simply doesn't want multiple versions of the connectors creating confusion. Sony has done this before. I have an old VAIO laptop that has a four pin 1394 port and a 2 pin power port next to it. Using a cable that combines the two you can connect a standard six pin FireWire cable. It's a bit of a hack because Sony got impatient waiting for the FireWire connector spec to be finalized.
Compare the history of USB to FireWire and you'll see why one took off and the other remained a niche technology. It better served the purposes of the companies involved to not kept close control and try to monetize the technology itself rather than take the long view of benefiting from the overall improvement to their products. Reply
Alexvrb - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - linkIntel worked with Apple to make TB an Apple exclusive for a while. Between the exclusive head-start, their high-cost proprietary machines, and Apple's constant need to sell new devices with interfaces that won't work with older hardware, it's pretty obvious why Apple is such a strong Thunderbolt supporter.
Not to mention that Intel was never interested in an actual standard that anyone can implement. They'd rather use their muscle to push TB on the world and sell TB controller chips, and prevent other parties from making compatible controllers. Reply
inovice - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkActually the whole concept behind Intel`s Light Peak was to have one cable/connector to connect to multiple devices. I know someone who was working on Hybrid Silicon Laser technology and research (back in 2007). It was brought up by Steve Jobs himself, while having a chat with Intel folks. Apparently Steve complained about laptop ports (need USB, display, Ethernet etc..) and was seeking for alternatives. I think Apple was still working on MacBook Air prototype around that time (2006/2007). Apple had their hands on TB first before anyone because the idea to simplify laptop peripherals came from them. TB was developed and tested at Silicon Photonics (Google it). Light Peak would have seen the day without input from Apple. Just wanted to share:) Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkAFAIK, Apple only designed the connector. Reply
russdarens - Monday, April 15, 2013 - link"High cost proprietary machines"?
Apple laptops dont cost any more than comparable HP or Dell business class laptops. And there is nothing proprietary about a Mac. It's Intel hardware. You can load it up with windows and it will run just fine as a windows computer.
You may as well be complaining about Subarus that have that dang 5 bolt lug pattern so they can't fit Honda wheels. Reply
repoman27 - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - linkYou are right, comrade. We should only concern ourselves with technologies that are provided to all at no additional cost and that are capable of operating within the most meager power of power budgets.
Then again, even Volkswagen produced the Phaeton.
Anywho, a bit of a bummer that Falcon Ridge appears to be Redwood Ridge with channel bonding, but I guess it makes sense. I'm also a little concerned after watching the video of Intel's Falcon Ridge demo that the PCIe back end is still 2.0 x4, seeing as 2 SSD's capable of 1 GB/s each only hit 1259.87 MB/s combined. Reply
p_giguere1 - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - linkWhy would it come standard on your average cheap laptop when it only targets a niche market? Consumer products like external hard drives can't even saturate USB 3.0. Thunderbolt displays, arrays and external SSDs are too expensive to target most consumers.
Should something not exist only because not 100% of people use it?
I don't understand your logic, I basically just read that as "I won't use it so I don't care". Reply
GNUminex - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkNot even high end mobile computers can be obtained with thunderbolt save one Vaio and Apple's laptops. With hardware like the apple monitor or sony's apparently short lived TB dock, you only have to plug in one cable to connect to all of your peripherals, and you can have expandability options not traditionally available in laptops. In the not too distant future ultrabooks are going to be fast enough but we will still be stuck with two usb ports and a minihdmi port and plugging in peripherals when using the computer at desk is going to be a pain. Reply
Tams80 - Sunday, April 14, 2013 - linkDocking.
It's useful for using several devices through one port, so that port can be saturated. It's also better for EGPUs, as ExpressCard does get saturated and is being used less and less by manufacturers, not to mention being somewhat clumsy when used for EGPUs.
My worry is that manufacturers will go "Oh, you only need one or two ports now. You can just dock using the Thunderbolt port" and in the process forgetting that while mobile that is less practical than having multiple ports. That's providing Thunderbolt doesn't go the way of Firewire. Reply
CSMR - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - linkWho cares? Displayport is the modern standard for computer video, and USB3 & firewire for data. This is no better than these standards and just adds extra connectors, extra processing, and incompatibility. Displayport can already do 4k at 60hz and 30bpp not that anyone uses it. Reply
A5 - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - link1) Firewire isn't standard for anything. Even Apple doesn't have FW ports anymore.
2) You have a basic misunderstanding of what TB is for if you think it's competing with USB 3.0. Reply
p_giguere1 - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - linkExtra connectors and incompatibility?
Are you aware that Thunderbolt uses a mini DiplayPort connector and is retrocompatible with it? It's basically just a mDP port that happens to transfer data really fast (if you want to). You can also still use it strictly for video outside without any downside if you wish. Reply
p_giguere1 - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - link*video output Reply
CSMR - Friday, April 12, 2013 - linkI did not realize it uses a displayport connector. That will confuse users who will connect thunderbolt devices to displayport outputs. So using it as displayport brings no disadvantages? But you have an extra chip in the computer, adding cost and space and increasing power consumption, and an extra source of unreliability.
A separate external PCI express connector and interface would have been a better idea than combining two very different connections with different protocols into one. Reply
erple2 - Friday, April 12, 2013 - linkIt doesn't matter if you plug in a monitor to a tb port on a Mac. The hardware figures it out and does the right thing. It's a pretty nice solution from apple. I think that is the right way to implement it - the connector figures out what you've plugged in, mini display port or thunderbolt peripheral and acts accordingly. It probably adds a little bit of cost, but it is apple you're talking about, so... Reply
epobirs - Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - linkThunderbolt IS an external PCI-e connection. It is PCI-e over a cable and uses the same protocol. This is why it is so easily applied to things like external GPUs. Splitting off the DP signals from the Thunderbolt signals is already handled by existing adapters in the market.
By having both on a single port it simplifies docking, especially when used with a monitor that has a USB 3.0 hub integrated.
The extra chip is a temporary situation. It wasn't that long ago that having USB 3.0 in a system meant an extra chip on the motherboard. Now it's part of core chip set, which in turn is increasing integrated to the CPU.
Millions of machines have eSATA ports but only a fraction of them are ever used. Just pointing it out can be a good way to get a blank star from a lot of people. But it doesn't add much cost and has great value for those who need it. How many PCs even need more than two SATA ports for the hard drive and optical drive? Many business desktops are so limited. But would you buy a motherboard today for a full size machine that didn't have at least six ports available? Even though you might never use more than half of them?
When you're measuring in nickels and dimes across millions of units, you have to make educated guesses over what is simply a waste and what is a valued feature, even if it goes largely unused by a large portion of the consumers.
Once the premium falls within a certain cost envelope you'll see nearly every new machine equipped for Thunderbolt. By our presence in this forum, we're the sort who tend to be a bit ahead of the curve and likely to discuss a technology before it is ready to be mainstream. Reply
AggressorPrime - Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - linkNo progress since Thunderbolt first launched. Just an optimization that should have been there since the beginning. That said, if I am running a DP 1.2 signal on the up-link channel, can I split the 20Gbps down-link channel into a 10Gbps bidirectional channel and use that to manage a device that wants back and forth communication?
Also, can I have 2 up-link channels running at 20Gbps, like to run 2 4K monitors from a single cable? Reply
repoman27 - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkThe only thing that has apparently not progressed one iota since the launch of Thunderbolt is the understanding of the technology by most of those posting comments about it online.
Why would Intel have included DisplayPort 1.2 support in Thunderbolt controllers before they included it in the processor platforms they were designed to accompany? How could Intel have improved the power characteristics of their first gen controllers without performing these generational iterations and moving to progressively more efficient fabrication processes? You may as well say that Haswell should have been there since Sandy Bridge.
That said, I believe the way it will work is that Falcon Ridge devices can connect to each other as one 20 Gbit/s, full-duplex channel, or connect to a previous generation controller via 2 separate 10 Gbit/s, full-duplex channels. Each direction in a channel can carry DisplayPort and/or PCIe packets. Each controller has a crossbar switch, so you wouldn't actually be splitting the channel, you'd just be using the switch to share the channel's bandwidth between devices.
It is unlikely that Falcon Ridge will offer 2x 20 Gbit/s channels, and even more unlikely that Intel would ever offer a simplex or half-duplex Thunderbolt arrangement. Since there aren't any 4K Thunderbolt displays yet, running 2 would not be possible until such time as they become available (and one could afford them) anyway. You could run two 4K displays via a single DP 1.2 link, just not at 24 BPP, 60 Hz. Or you could simply use both ports of a host with two ports. Reply
ShieTar - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkSo, how many more generations until can start putting the GPU into the monitor? Reply
kwrzesien - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkNow we're talking! Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkUgh. If you did that you'd need to throw out your monitor every time you upgraded your GPU. Even a cheap crappy monitor costs at least $100; a good one will be at least that. A a stroke you've doubled the cost of a GPU upgrade. Reply
ShieTar - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkNo you would not. You would have to remove the old GPU from the monitor and place the new in. I see no technical reason not to make this easily achievable.
The point is just, that at some point with increasing resolutions and refresh frequencies, we are likely to come to a point where we need to transfer much more data from the GPU to the screen than from the CPU to the GPU. And at the same time, we will build CPUs which are good enough for GPU-restricted tasks into more and more of our devices. So by moving the GPU into the screen, you can connect your Laptop or your mobile or your TV-Receiver to your screen, and it is always capable of 8K resolution at 200Hz (One might dream). Reply
epobirs - Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - linkHigh-end video cards are not small items. I wouldn't want to bulk up my monitor with such a thing. A small box inline between the user device and the display should serve just fine. It would be another role for a good docking station that takes your highly portable device and instantly turns it into a powerhouse desktop system.
On the one hand, that means no need to sync data between a desktop and a portable. On the other, it means losing the use of both modes if you lose the portable portion. Reply
Alien959 - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkWhat about upgrading notebook graphics? I have an older Clevo laptop with core 2 duo T7250 but with integrated S3 Graphics GPU if something like thunderbolt was around then probably it can bring new life in that notebook with external gpu. Reply
nickeditor - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkIs not clear if current computers with Thunderbolt can bump up to 20Gb/s
New chip implies new computers?
Are they talking about Thunderbolt 2.0? Reply
repoman27 - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkThe 1st-3rd gen Thunderbolt host controllers provide 2x 10 Gbit/s, full-duplex channels per port. It would appear from this post that in certain configurations, Falcon Ridge (4th gen) controllers will be able to bond those two channels to provide a single 20 Gbit/s, full-duplex link. It is highly unlikely that earlier controllers will ever be able to provide a 20 Gbit/s link in this fashion.
According to Anand's post, Falcon Ridge won't be available until 2014, so we won't see PC's or devices with these controllers until then.
Intel has been iterating Thunderbolt continuously, apparently targeting a refresh to accompany each new processor platform release. Calling Falcon Ridge "Thunderbolt 2.0" would be odd—sort of like calling Broadwell "Sandy Bridge 2.0". Reply


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HOUSTON - The historic Felix Mexican Restaurant sign can be yours.
The sign is being sold on eBay -- in several parts.
Two of the auctions are one side of the sign that contains "Felix Mexican Restaurant." They are each 10 feet across. The third auction is for both sides of the man in the sombrero.
Each auction has an opening bid of $1,500. The proceeds of the auction will go to the League of United Latin American Citizens. The former restaurant's owner, Felix Tijerina, served four terms as the organization's president.
All of the signs are sold as-is and the auctions close on Dec. 3. The winning bidders must pick up the signs.
Felix Mexican Restaurant stood on Westheimer near Montrose. It was open for 60 years before it closed in 2008.
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ALBANY — A Livingston Parish sheriff's deputy on Wednesday shot and killed a man who threatened to kill himself and brandished a handgun at authorities near Albany, according to the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office.
Deputies responding to an attempted suicide at 3 p.m. near 31000 Old Baton Rouge Highway found Freddie W. LeBlanc, 48, who refused to drop his gun after multiple requests, said Lori Steele, a Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office spokeswoman.
LeBlanc then pointed his gun at the officers, at which point deputies opened fire, Steele said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene by the Livingston Parish Coroner's Office.
The Sheriff's Office is still investigating along with Louisiana State Police, Steele said.


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A generous Carshalton man's plan to give away hundreds of Easter eggs is taking the nation by storm.
Last year, on a whim, Dan Usher decided to buy 100 Easter eggs from Tesco in Sutton and then gave them all away by knocking on people's doors in the Benhilton Estate.
He said the feeling the random act of kindness gave him was so good he wanted to do it again but on a bigger scale, so he and a small group of friends founded Share The Miracle with the aim of handing out 5,000 Easter eggs this year.
Mr Usher (far right) and his team of volunteers
The team spread the idea as far as they mcould and encouraged other groups to get involved. Already this year 7,500 free Easter eggs have been distributed by groups all over the UK, including one in far-flung Falkirk.
Recipients have included random strangers, homeless charities and elderly groups. Volunteers from Sutton handed out eggs and toys in Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
Mr Usher, 38, said; "Last year the thought came to me so I went to the local supermarket and got 100 Easter eggs and just handed them out in the nearest estate.
"The response was phenomenal. It was so uplifting and gave people a sense of the restoration of the goodness that's in people that can be lost in the day-to-day business of life.
"That warm feeling prompted a great vision for what we could achieve this year and people have really bought into that vision.
"Everyone can participate in Share the Miracle - groups of friends, work colleagues, social networks, churches and even schools and government organisations are getting together to buy or source chocolate eggs and are then giving them away.
"It's great fun but we also believe that the giving of an egg can be a catalyst to grow new relationships and bring us all closer together. This intentional simple act of kindness can potentially transform a community.
"It's been amazing to see how one act of kindness prompts another. We gave one gentleman an Easter egg and he invited us into his restaurant for some free food!"
To find out more about Share the Miracle, visit www.sharethemiracle.org