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Globalfoundries Starts on 22nm Fab & Announces First non-AMD Customerby Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/29/2009 4:01 AM EST
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drwho9437 - Saturday, August 08, 2009 - linkI think Anand is correct that FABs are ridiculously expensive and that the volume leader has a major advantage. However, it remains to be seen if the spin off is a good move for AMD.
The honest truth is that 15 nm is probably the end of the road for gate lengths. That is a few generations away. Lithography can improve all you want it to, but leakage and process variability become more and more important as you go down in size. At 10 nm cube of Silicon has about 100,000 atoms in it. Even at 10^20 /cm^3 doping levels you are talking about 100 atoms in the channel. That's 10% variability in doping... 32 28 22 18 end of the road my friends. Of traditional Silicon that is. There really isn't anything right now to easily replace it, its just so nice chemically...
People will say the end has been predicted forever, and then claim I am wrong (at least that is what normally happens when I say this). I may be wrong but that isn't why. The sun comes up every day but one day it won't. One day we will hit the physical limits of Silicon and from my point of view it will be the statistical that will certainly be a problem. I think you'll see problems at around 10-15 nm.
What is exciting it the idea that we will have to finally be more cleaver than drawing smaller lines in Si and think of something truly original to make progress...
But given that that original idea may either take time to materialize or that it might be expensive, I think you will see reliable Si for a LONG time at some dimension. 40 or 32 nm may be with us a for decades in many types of systems... Given this, the cost of upgrading FABs may stop because there will be no more upgrades. Then you ask do you want control over them or not... I can see arguments on both sides. Certainly in the near future AMD had no choice cash flow wise.
There are other ways to innovate other than die shrinks, and leaning on optics and chemistry. We shall see if we are cleaver enough. Reply
cosminliteanu - Monday, August 03, 2009 - linkThank you for this article :) Reply
zodiacfml - Sunday, August 02, 2009 - linkThanks Anand! Some good posted comments too. Reply
toyotabedzrock - Saturday, August 01, 2009 - link$88M / 1,400 Jobs = $62,875. So a lot of the jobs must be for not highly skilled people? I consider highly skilled to be worth $80-100K.
Doesn't the US control how much of our most advanced tech is exported to certain countries? We only just recently allowed Intel to build a 65nm fab in China. Reply
drwho9437 - Saturday, August 08, 2009 - linkTypical FAB worker would probably hold a BS in EE, Chem, Mat Sci, starts at about 42-50K when I graduated undergrad. Those 10K slots add up for the MS/PhD who run the line or whatever. Reply
mesiah - Thursday, July 30, 2009 - linkGreat article! I love reading stuff like this. I am by far not an expert in the field, but it sounds like EUV could revolutionize the chip making process. Although it looks like it still has a significant number of hurdles to overcome, especially when it comes to WPH. Also an exciting prospect but many more years off is the current research with graphene. Its hard to imagine the processing power we will be able to harness in the near future. Alot of people take for granted the devices we use today. Things like iphones and netbooks were hardly dreamed of when I was a kid. Sure, we talked about seeing stuff like this 15 years ago, but I guess I never believed it would happen so fast. Reply
MODEL3 - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkGreat article.
I just have some questions regarding fab companies such TSMC:
Until 180nm, we had a very good tempo for manufacturing proccess transitions.
Then suddenly, from 180nm to 90nm there was a very profound deceleration.
Then from 90nm to 40nm (and for the medium-term future) we have an increase of the tempo again.
Why they keep increasing the tempo?
You said that the R&D cost increased dramatically and that the Fab Start-up Cost increased dramatically also. (I am not arguing, after all I don't have a technological background)
So if for a company such TSMC, the cost has increased so much more in relation with the past then it should charge their customers per wafers (per size counted in) much more, right?
Then Why between 90nm and 55nm:
The die size per price range increased exponentially (I have done the calculations with Nvidia chips because the "die information" was more easily found on the net)
This is a fact.
Unless that your explanation is simply that Nvidia & ATI made way way more money back then, or that TSMC was robbing Nvidia/ATI back then, what is your explanation?
I mean that, yes it is easy to figure out that Nvidia & ATI made more money back then, but the financial data does not support such a huge difference.
My guess (out of the conspiracy book) is that already exists a valid successor of silicon based type methods and they just milking the current technology (for the next 5-10 years)
(I am not talking about technologies to scale down lithography, like alpha EUV, I am talking about THE next step to silicon based types)
In another subject you said:
Note that this 28nm process is a "half-node" (between 32nm and 22nm) and where I'm expecting to see ATI (and NVIDIA) GPUs made at Globalfoundries"
Why are you expecting 28nm to be that process?
Do you think that after 28nm the TSMC will skip 22nm (like they did with 45nm) and focus on 20nm (so the transition will take them more time), so GF will find an opportunity to offer something competitive?
drwho9437 - Saturday, August 08, 2009 - linkHigh K and SOI both expensive gave new breathing room. But they both are stop gap measures... Bigger problems to come. Expect 32 nm and the next node to go OK then bigger fish enter the picture.
Also don't expect way higher frequencies. 2 GHz is pretty easy to design. I can do a PCB that is flat to 2 GHz in about an hour... Designing in the X band however is painful.
Still all sorts of interesting things going on outside Si, organics, molecular switches, terahertz, optics on chips, the return of magnetic. They are all pain in the butt compared to better lithography though :-) Reply
Zagor Tenay - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkGreat article! It is so relieving to see that the whole semiconductor industry is not a captive at the hands of an ugly, greedy beast called INTEL. Reply
Zingam - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkDon't forget that AMD owns the GF. If GF makes a profit. AMD gets revenues.
I don't think that AMD does not have foundries anymore. They are just not attached to it. It isn't the same as NVIDIA - they do not possess anything like GF. Reply
iwodo - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkThere are loads of questions to be asked, I hope Anand could provide some insight.
1. AMD's problem is not having enough fabs to manufacture its chip therefore to keep healthy supply. Considering AMD have had 30% market share before without much help from OEMs. They were doing very good. And discounting ATI 's chip are not even produce from GF. They dont even have enough capacity to keep up with their own products. Why are they signing up other players?
2. The X86 issues - i believe everyone is allowed to design an X86 CPU, but to manufacture it require a license from Intel. Now GF has the license to make X86 for AMD. Doesn't that mean other players could theoretically make x86 CPU ( Nvidia ?? ) Ofcoz, getting X64 from AMD is a different story.
3. What is the current Physical Limit we can downsize to? Since Atom are measured in size of pm ( 1nm = 1000pm ) . I know Intel has an up to 11nm roadmap. If, and if we can get to single digit nm scale then i honestly believe ARM dont have a fighting chance against Intel. Not to mention 3D and Muti Gate tech will help.
4. Any info on how many fabs Intel, Samsung and other players owe?
5. Are fabs for Flash a lot cheaper?
willstoddard - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkI think the limit is not necessarily going to be physical limit as much as a fiscal limit. The photo lithography process is the Fab limiter. It always has been. The Nikon S620 is just beginning to ship to customers (Currently Intel only). It is targeted for the 32nm node. ASML has the XT:1950Hi at the same node. Intel will push these machines beyond advertised specs to produce 22nm gate layers.
Both Nikon and ASML have EUV (x-ray) machines in second stage beta. However there are still significant hurtles to overcome. EUV requires exposure under Cryo vacuum pressures. This is new to both companies. X-rays do not penetrate quartz or CaF2 optics, so only mirrors can be used, including the projection lens system. This causes significant amounts of flare. They will work through these and many other issues, but my crystal ball tells me the the biggest hurtle will be making the technology economically viable to IC makers. The cost of one 32nm node lithography immersion scanner is 40+ million dollars. You can negotiate a better deal if you buy more. ASML tends to be ~7 to 10 million more per machine than the comparable Nikon because they have to buy the projection lens from Carl Zeiss. Nikon makes their own. The larger fabs have as many as 40 of these machines. These machines have a throughput of 170 (300mm) wafers per hour (ASML) and 200 WPH (Nikon). The EUV machines will cost $80M+ and will have ~40WPH (300mm) throughput, limited by the illumination source and delivery system.
When the machines cost twice as much and have 1/5th the output capacity, it is difficult to make a viable business model.
So what will happen? I think EUV will still need to mature for another 5-7 years before it is a viable option.
The article states that immersion technology lowers the wavelength of the light as it passes through water. In fact, it does no such thing. It simply changes the refractive index of the medium the light is travelling through from ~1.00 of air to ~1.44 for water. This changes the angle of the light leaving the projection lens and allows higher order diffected rays to reach the wafer surface which increases contrast of the image.
I think we will see other innovations in the current lithography systems that will get us to 12nm. Researchers are looking for a replacement for DI water to further increase the index of refraction in immersion systems. Exposing with polarized light allows much greater lens NA values without a loss of contrast or depth of focus. Unfortunately 157nm as an exposure wavelength is not viable because the optics (PL and beam shaping) degrade to fast and would have to be replaced too often.
If solutions for the EUV issues are not found within the next 5 years, we may see a very large price spike in high end ICs (both logic and memory).
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link1) I don't believe AMD is presently capacity constrained. Also remember that AMD is effectively only running on 1 fab right now, as Fab 1 Module 2 migrates to 28nm it shouldn't be a problem taking care of both ATI and AMD needs.
2) I don't believe GF gets the license to make x86 CPUs, AMD retains the license and it's their belief that they can use that license to produce the CPUs at GF. So far I haven't heard any more about what AMD is trying to do as being illegal.
3) GF is saying that down to 22nm isn't an issue and with EUV moving down to 16nm should be possible too. I've heard that moving beyond that is going to be possible as well but we're going to start seeing the use of a lot more interesting techniques to put transistors together. Multi-gate and through silicon vias are coming.
4) Intel has a ton of fabs, but not all of them are at modern manufacturing processes. Some are still producing 130nm and 90nm I believe for chipsets. The number to pay attention to is 4 x 32nm fabs for 2010 for Intel.
5) I don't believe the fabs themselves are much cheaper, but the chips are far simpler to produce. Reply
Shilohen - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkFor 3, you're not exactly correct. Atoms are often measured in Ångström which is 0.1 nm, so quite far from the 1pm scale. Therefore, I fear there isn't much room left for miniaturization. Furthermore, as you reduce the transistor size, you start getting strange quantum effects, the most problematic one for computers being the tunnel effect where the moving electron more or less decides to escape its potential well, "tunnelling" through the barrier. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling.
Basically, I don't think Moore's law is going to hold much more longer, maybe 5 years and AFAIK, Quantum computing is incredibly far from being ready. Reply
OccamsAftershave - Thursday, July 30, 2009 - linkIn a decade, when memristors, memcapacitors and meminductors begin mass production, completely revolutionizing circuit elements and computing itself, the current bumps from new lithography processes will seem like baby steps.
Add 3D, and Moore's Law is left gasping in the dust. Reply
sdsdv10 - Tuesday, August 04, 2009 - linkAnd so begins Skynet... Reply
nubie - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkDon't forget they will be using optical tech to transmit the data around, so you can lose all of the signal-boosting transistors that allow the data to be routed around the chip, and their supply circuits.
Don't forget chip stacking and 3D processes, if you could get 256MB of Level 3 cache on-package ("on"-die), you would be able to keep the cores working much longer and see more efficiency from them.
If you could design the chip with a corrugated cross-section and build onto it you would have much greater surface area, combined with the Caches on a secondary layer and optical data routing you would see a great gain.
I don't think we are going to hit the "wall" anytime soon. I recall an article from ~2000 in PopSci that claimed 32nm was the wall, but it doesn't look like it is.
I think that the tech will get smarter, there are always more ways to get something done, you never know x86 might obsolete and provide even more efficiency, or be replaced by on-die co-processors for all compute intensive tasks, leaving only a couple x86 cores for general purpose duty.
Great article Anand, keep up the good work :) Reply
Matt Campbell - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkAlways cool to see the entry and upkeep costs of fabs. I'm glad that they're coming here (being an upstate resident), but I hope they negotiated some very substantial ongoing tax breaks - that is a major detriment of doing business in NY. Reply
Kibbles - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkDid the licensing issue on x86 ever get cleared? Last I remember reading was AMD arguing that: the license was only for technical help from Intel and that they haven't needed Intel's help so they don't need the license?
I'm curious because if that's true, then does that mean anyone, at least those that don't need help from Intel, can make a x86 processor? (nvidia?) Reply
philosofool - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkGood article. It's nice to understand the business perspective on the need for a foundry partner. I'm very interested to see where this actually goes, but it seems like a wise move if the rest of the world's microprocessor making companies decide to outsource their fabrication (which only makes sense as costs go up.) Reply
aguilpa1 - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkMT Reply
vol7ron - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkThis is good and bad.
It's good because the costs could be driven down, but as said it seems like Intel will be on 22nm-12nm before AMD gets a deep breath of the 32nm market. Not to mention, when you branch out into a new factory and new process like that, you're likely to run into other problems.
Time will tell. Maybe this will give AMD some time to really think about its chip architecture. Reply
TA152H - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkThis article is full of nonsense.
AMD could easily own fabs without owning the PC market. IBM does. Does IBM ship as many processors as Intel? Hmmmm, doubtful.
It's kind of funny how AMD couldn't afford fabs when their processors suck, but could when they the better processor.
Fabs ARE expensive. So is not owning one. Buying ATI gave them plenty of uses for their fabs, except they never built ATI stuff on them. Especially with the chipsets, they could have used their older equipment to keep building them.
Let's face it, AMD ran into trouble because they can't make a decent processor. They make a large processor that can't perform. It's the same size as the i7, but it surely can't sell like one, so they have to sell it really cheap so it makes sense to buyers.
Real men have fabs. That's from Jerry Sanders, and he created AMD, only to have Hector Ruiz castrate it, and destroy it. They Phenom is just a bad design compared to its competition, and they have no answer for the Atom, which is gaining acceptance. That's the problem. The slow market share gains AMD was making ended when they ran into a buzzsaw called the Conroe, and so did their profits. Sure, it's the fabs. Uh huh. Funny, though, how Conroe made them a lot more expensive, isn't it?
Selling their fabs was like cutting their arm off, and thinking they would win in a heavyweight boxing match. Sure, they got their weight down, and will have a little more stamina, but they are a one-handed fighter now. It's fine against half-rate companies like Nvidia, that also have no fabs, but against Intel, it just won't cut it.
Inferior design and no fabs :( . Little wonder why they are losing money? The worst part is, it just looks worse for them. Intel's roadmap is full of interesting new products. AMD's? Good grief. Does Jerry Sanders have any kids???? He could pull magic out of hat. These ass-clowns running AMD are just running it into the ground. Thank goodness they have ATI though. ATI still makes great products, and was a very good move for them, despite the cost. I wish AMD would just stop trying to compete with Intel on performance - let's face it, they can't. They're not smart enough, and they don't even own fabs. If they could make a chip that's smaller, and less expensive to make, and slower, instead of one that's the same size and slower, they'd have a market. If they could make something 60% of the size, with 75% of the performance, they'd have something. Or something close. Something between the Atom and i7. But, nope, they make something 100% of the size, with 65% of the performance. Give them credit, that's hard to do. I don't know anyone else who would reward such incompetence with jobs. Something has to change there. They can't compete with Intel in performance, but they might be able to make something smaller that offers good enough performance. It's a huge market. Selling an expensive to make chip into it isn't the right approach, but it's all they have with their awful design. ATI executed perfectly with their designs, by not trying to make it huge and super-fast. AMD should borrow some folks from there. Reply
brybir - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkI fail to see why this article is full of nonsense as you say.
The point of the article is that building fabrication facilities is a very high cost capital element for a company that does not have the scale to adequately absorb the costs.
For example, AMD had two fabs. Say they get close to maxing out those fabs producing the Athlong X2 XXXX+ stuff. Their decision is "do we invest in a new fab to the tune of $4bn dollars or not". Now, say they commit the money to build it, $4bn, and then they produce something called the "Phenom" which ends up being a gigantic turd. Suddenly they are hemoraging a lot of cash. That $4bn they started to spend on a fab is no longer needed as they lose market share. This only can happen a few times for a company the size of AMD before it is bankrupt.
The article basically implies that the company needs to be the size of Intel, IBM, Sony etc who can infact take the risk to build a new fab. If Intel, the current majority owner of the CPU market, builds a fab and in the next generation after i7 and i5 they produce another P4 esk piece of crap, they can absorb the extra cost of the foundry they started to build. Its about size and scale. Intel also can draw its fab's out over longer lifetimes making chipsets and flash, whereas AMD does not make much of that stuff these days.
Short story is that AMD is not in the position to build fabs and capitalize it on the way a larger company that makes a diverse set of products can.
As to ATI...the designs are build on a process years before we see them, its not like they sit down 6 months before product launch and start designing. Its a constant cycle with the planning done for years in advance. Could AMD have produced ATI chips in its fabs? Yes, as they are going to start doing it on GF in 2010+. But, AMD is in the same position, what happens if "bulldozer" ends up being a rockstar and ATI produces a nVidia killer GPU and everything is being made on two fabs in Germany. Its possible there will be product shortages and how would that look...AMD finally makes a good competitive product and its cant make enough....certainly has never happened in the past....
As to your last rant about price/performance....I dont even know what to say. You say things like "something between the Atom and the i7"...thats not even a statement. It means nothing. They execute designs years ahead (notice the trend here on the planning thing) and something it does not go according to plan. Remember when AMD had better CPU designs for a good while during the P4 years, when Intel made huge CPU's with extremely deep pipelines that were also as large or larger and often had to be sold at discounts. There was that bit about Intel abusing its monopoly status and such too but we can ignore that for now. The point is, things are planned and sometimes they go accordingly and sometimes they dont. Your ranting statement could change AMD to Intel and it would be true a few years ago.
Today its AMD that is failing to execute as well as their competition. But to say that they are not as smart or that no one should give them jobs etc....give me a break. What do you want AMD to do, just stop producing their current CPU's and wait a yaer or so until their next generation is ready to go? But wait, im sure they can design one of the most complicated mircoprocessors in the world in like 6 weeks or something right? Reply
jconan - Tuesday, August 04, 2009 - linkbut IBM is also a foundry like GF, though not as large as TSMC they also manufacture chips for other companies ie Nintendo, AMD, Sony, and etc... Reply
TA152H - Thursday, July 30, 2009 - linkI'll repeat my other statement. IBM is making money with their fabs, because they sell decent processors that they can get margins on. AMD isn't. This article has it all wrong. They could have fabs, if they sold processors with a decent margin. That's the root cause.
I'm not saying AMD shouldn't second source some of their production, which you're implying. I'm simply saying they need their own fabs. There's a synergy between manufacturing and design, and now they don't have it. Intel does though.
I'm not suggesting they build another fab, yet. I'm suggesting that in order to compete with Intel on anything near equal terms, you need your own fabs. As Winston Churchill said, wars are not won on retreats. Losing your fabs is a HUGE retreat, and now they have a big competitive disadvantage compared to Intel.
Intel's Pentium 4 showed just how smart they were, and how stupid. It was an extremely advanced design, far more advanced than anything available at that time, and also a bad performing one. AMD is still making a K7 with some changes now, and not enough of them.
The remarks about the Atom and i7 are insane. I'm not suggesting AMD should have known about the Atom, or they are smart enough to design something like it. Clearly they're not. But, why are they still using a huge x87? They got rid of x87 instructions in x86-64 back with the Athlon 64. Why are they still supporting 3D Now! SSE came out around 2000? The Conroe came out in 2006. It's 2009. Why are they so far from being competitive?
They should ditch their current designers, and hire some from IBM. Not that it would be easy, but if you offered a guy third in line to be your lead designer, you'd get a lot of guys with that type of promotion. Two companies still know how to make processors, IBM and Intel. AMD can't. They need to get some designers from IBM, or another company that doesn't make failure after failure, and stop rewarding the people that are in charge. They haven't advanced the design NEARLY enough since 2000. Something has to change, and the constant delays to Bulldozer aren't the type of change that's needed. Maybe they can get some SPARC designers. I don't know how good they are, but they at least can introduce some new ideas. Besides, how can they be worse?
I still think AMD is best served by their ATI approach. A size that makes sense, and don't try to be the fastest. That's been AMD's approach for almost forever, and it can work. From 2000-2006 they competed for absolute performance, because Intel made a pig, but that's not the norm, and AMD got sucked into it a slugfest they can't win. It's like watching an old fight with guys fighting Marciano. They think they can outpunch him, and slug for a while because they aren't entirely unsuccessful, but then get worn out while he doesn't. In the end, they end up flat on their back wondering why they tried such a strategy. It's tempting, but ultimately disastrous. AMD's flat on their back, with their feet in the air, losing massive amounts of money any quarter. Selling fabs won't change it - designing a good processor might. Reply
bh192012 - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link"Short story is that AMD is not in the position to build fabs and capitalize it on the way a larger company that makes a diverse set of products can. "
Then the other route they could have tried would be to become a larger company and make more products. Like their own GFX chips, SSD hard drives, stmicro chips etc. Bascially everything described in the article could have been done w/o breaking off the fab, except maybe hoping to make Nvidia graphics chips. The biggest difference would be the 6 billion in cash, which is probably the main real reason they did what they did? Reply
zebrax2 - Thursday, July 30, 2009 - linkIf only its as easy as you say it is. Going to other markets needs money and money is what they don't have. Plus add to that the time needed for R&D of the said new products. They would have already bled to death before they were even able to release it. Reply
B3an - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkI dont know why you have bothered write such a long reply to such an amazingly stupid post by a moron that obviously knows absolutely nothing.
I particularly like the part:
"AMD could easily own fabs without owning the PC market. IBM does. Does IBM ship as many processors as Intel? Hmmmm, doubtful."
That made me LOL. As if AMD even have 1/4 the money IBM have to build and maintain fabs. Reply
JonnyDough - Monday, August 03, 2009 - linkYeah, that's what I was thinking. I don't think this moron realizes who/what IBM is...they're a giant. Reply
TA152H - Thursday, July 30, 2009 - linkObviously, you're a moron.
Think before you post, OK?
IBM CAN afford just about anything, but they don't afford things that lose money. Perforce, IBM's fabs make money, or they'd jettison them. How is it they make money with their fabs, and AMD can't? AMD sells a lot more processors. The answer is simple, except for you. AMD is making a crappy processor they can't sell for much money.
I'll say it again, because you're obviously slow. IBM has fabs that make money, or they'd get out of the business. They sell less processors. Therefore, AMD having to own the x86 business is a idiotic remark. They just need processors that they can sell for a higher margin. Got it now, simpleton? Reply
HVAC - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkDear Brybir,
Here, let me help you by writing the reply you should have written instead of the diatribe you did submit:
"@TA152H .... MORON!" Reply
brybir - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkYou are correct.
I got caught in a moment of weakness in my desire to keep the trolls away. I am also bored at work. A very bad combination.
What I have done here represents all that is bad and wrong with the world. I will turn in my nerd card at the door and go sit in a shallow pool of cold water in a dark corner of the room until I am better. Reply
DFranch - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkstrikeback03: I did not realize that Malta, NY had a reputation for rain. It's not exactly Seattle. Reply
strikeback03 - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkI lived in the area for 4 years, it rains enough, and snows more Reply
karhill - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkMalta's annual rainfall is about 43.5 inches, compared to 37 inches for Seattle. Reply
Tuor - Thursday, July 30, 2009 - linkHeh. You shouldn't be looking at rain totals, but days per year that it's mostly cloudy/cloudy. I'm pretty sure Seattle will beat out Malta pretty easily in that regard... but maybe not. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, July 30, 2009 - linkhttp://countrystudies.us/united-states/weather/was...">Olympia is much worse than http://countrystudies.us/united-states/weather/was...">Seattle, according to that site. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkHa! You leave my lovely state of WA out of this. At least here in Olympia, we get very little (if any) rain during the time of June-August. My grass is dead, and current temps are in the mid-90s (supposed to hit 101F today!), which totally sucks. Anything above 80F is too hot for me. :-(
FYI, Olympia gets more rain than Seattle: estimate is around 180 days of rain per year. LOL Reply
just4U - Thursday, July 30, 2009 - linkYeah it's really hot here in Calgary, Canada right now. It's like 61F .. and were expecting it to get up to 82F tomorrow.. Ugh!!
(WTH who thru that shoe at me! oO)
ClownPuncher - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link98 F in Redmond currently, no AC in my house...I'm glad I went with some high CFM fans in my air cooled PC! Reply
BillyAZ1983 - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkPffft, here in lovely Bullhead City is a very chilly 120F. Pretty soon I might have to go get my jacket. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, July 30, 2009 - linkAh, but I'd wager you have AC. Washingtonians don't believe in such things (at least not for homes), since it "never" gets that hot here. Ugh.... My house started at 86F this morning (8AM), got to 91F by noon, and reached a high of 96F by 6PM. Currently it's back down to 92F - yes, at 10PM. The fan by the door isn't helping much, considering it's only a few degrees cooler outside. Reply
strikeback03 - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link...until I read that it was in Malta. Where there would certainly be rain if it was outdoors. Reply
Sottilde - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkHey Anand, thanks a ton for turning me on to CNSE. I was just starting my search for a graduate program. I'm determined not to be a CS code monkey the rest of my life! Reply
Pirks - Thursday, July 30, 2009 - linkI don't see how being a wafer pressing monkey is any better Reply
nunocordeiro - Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - linkGood luck fort you! CNSE does look like a good carrer investment. And don't mind Pirks. He is our own little private joke around these parts. Reply
blyndy - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkThe graph shows GF starting 32nm production in Q1 2010, which sounds great considering Intels 32nm product will start selling in Q4 2009.
But it's easy to forget that it's many months between the start of volume production and the start of retail availability.
So, realistically, how long before a 32nm AMD CPU is available in retail? I would imagine the very end of Q3 2010 at the earliest, more likely mid-Q4, with a majority 32nm lineup a year after that. So, that is still roughly a year after Intel, but given previous transition timetables, not bad at all! Reply
blyndy - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkI like reading about the insides and technologies in fabs. Reply
Einy0 - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - linkYes, very interesting stuff... Nice to see this working out for GF / AMD... In fact to whole semi-conductor industry gets a new player with big money to build new high quality chips on cutting edge technology. Reply


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text: On Susie Fields daughter's death certificate, Susie is listed as Susan Fields, father Esau Fields and Sarah Williams. I have been trying to find a death date and burial place for Susie. Since later in life she had married a Saylor, I am assuming she would have been buried as a "Saylor". I would love to find her burial place. I cannot find a birth or death certificate for her. My grandmother, Susie's daughter died in 1939. Any information would be dearly appreciated.


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AN INQUEST into the death of a young woman in York will finally take place this week - almost eight years after she died.
The hearing about Naomi Coley-Rogan's death on the railway tracks at Dringhouses in September 2006 is just one of a number of investigations which have been outstanding for a number of years, York's new acting senior coroner has revealed.
A spokeswoman for Jonathan Leach said he became aware of the delays when he was appointed to the position, following Donald Coverdale's retirement as York Coroner last month.
She said: "The acting senior coroner is, as a matter of urgency, arranging for them to be concluded as soon as possible."
She added that all investigations which had not been completed or discontinued within a year had to be reported to the national Chief Coroner by September 5, and Mr Leach would be doing this.
Ms Coley-Rogan was killed by a London-York express train at 6.30am on September 6, on the railway line south of the Askham Bar Tesco, a day after she caught a train to York from Manchester.
The Press reported in October 2006 how mystery still surrounded why she came to York and lost her life.
British Transport Police said that a month after her death, they still had no picture of what happened to her from the time she left her home in Manchester until she was killed on the railway, but stressed they were not treating it as a suspicious death.
They said it was thought she would have stood out because she was a 'striking young woman' who was "notably pretty," with light brown skin and collar-length dark brown or black wavy hair.
Mr Coverdale told The Press in June 2008 that he hoped to hold inquests into her death, and that of another unconnected person who had also died on the railway tracks, in August that year.
He said he was having difficulties finding suitable accommodation for lengthy jury inquests but he had reserved New Earswick village hall for a number of days in August. The other inquest was eventually held in November 2009.
The Press attempted to contact Mr Coverdale to give him opportunity to comment on the delays with Ms Coley-Rogan's inquest but he was unavailable.


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If a person says, "I am pious," then he must support Islamic Union. You must support the Qur'an, all of it, and the Sunnah of our Prophet (saas), but you must also want it to prevail and spread across the world. If not, this is dishonest and abnormal.
In the same way that prayer must be espoused night and day, so Islamic Union must be espoused night and day. Our Prophet saas) strove night and day for the reign of Islam. His every breath was so that he could spread Islam. Islamic Union is the greatest religious obligation. There is something wrong if people disregard it. There is also something wrong if they try to postpone the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). The reason for postponing the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) is because they do not want him. If someone says, "He will come after a century," that is the end of it. The Companions of our Prophet (saas) sought Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) in their own time, but these people are unwilling to seek the Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) who was sought by the companions. If you want to adopt the moral values of the companions, this is part of them.
The life of this world is over. They must see that from there being no more scholars. Look at the new scholars, then compare them to the old ones. Do any scholars like the old ones appear now? No. So you must understand. They will not appear again. That shows this is the end. No scholars like the old ones appear anywhere any more. Nobody like Sheikh Nazım hodja appears any more. There should be, but there aren't. There should have been by now. Nobody like Bediüzzaman appears any more. No-one like Suleyman Hilmi Tunahan appears any more, or like Muhammad Rashid Erol. They are rapidly coming to an end. Do these people see nothing odd in that? But they are talking of 300 or 500 years' time. We do not have 300 or 500 years. We have come to the end. We have 70 years at most.
Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and Islamic Union will all come in the next 70 years. That is it. It may annoy them, but it is the truth.
(Mr. Adnan Oktar's statements about the importance of the morning prayer)
There can be no tiredness in prayer. You must get up with passionate love. Saying "Bismillah" in the morning. The morning prayer is crucial. All prayers are crucial, but the morning prayer is very important. Its Sunnah reinforces the Sunnah. The Sunnah of the morning prayer must absolutely be performed. It cannot be abandoned, insha'Allah.
You tell people, "If you are a Muslim I will not let you listen to music, and you cannot dress so finely, you cannot wear make-up or have fun, and you cannot laugh or speak or go out." You say, "That is the system I will introduce". You are literally telling them to die. They will oppose you with all their might. You make people opposed to Islam for nothing. But I have thwarted this devilish scheme. The great mass of people in Turkey are modern, rational and enlightened people. They listen to music and dance at weddings, don't they? They laugh and dance and have fun. They dress well. The young ladies are very smart and wear make-up and are spotless. But if you regard people as apostates, as not being part of Islam, that is very wrong.
I shall say something very important about Bediüzzaman. They asked Master Bediüzzaman Said Nursi about the music broadcasts on the radio. "What do you think? Is this lawful and permissible?" Said Nursi said; "Yes. People need enjoyable passions as much as they need the truth," he replied. Look, I did not realize that Bediüzzaman said that. I have just learned. The Master and I are in total agreement.
Greetings bring beauty and abundance. You can cut back on other things. Cut back on empty words and gossip; but you cannot cut back on remembrance of Allah and fine, propitious words. Greetings means abundance, insha'Allah.
We grow with love. Love is the greatest weapon and beauty, insha'Allah,as a manifestation of Allah, insha'Allah. Allah is the finest manifestation of all.
They have diminished us by dividing us into countries and making us enemies. That is the method. "This is your enemy, that is your enemy." We have ended up squeezed into tiny countries. We grew and spread with love in Ottoman times. Muslims reached as far as Spain with love in the time of Rasulullah (saas). Not with terror and hatred, but love. Love was the weapon of the time, insha'Allah.
(In response to an e-mail asking "Could you share your thoughts about Zionism?")
There are two kinds of Zionism. One is atheist, political Zionism. That is capable of anything. It is a cruel and ruthless system. The other Zionism is the thinking of the Jews being settled in Israel. In fact, there is no need to call it Zionism at all. It espouses the right to life in the region containing Israel. That is quite legitimate. But there used to be a really ruthless conception of Zionism. Utterly ruthless. But that has disappeared with the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). That ruthless system has vanished from Israel. The reason for this calming down is the King Messiah, or Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). People are not really aware of it now, otherwise Israel was very aggressive and would have drowned the region in blood. It would have ruined it. It has the military force and the means and the technical ability. It wanted to enforce a really ruthless policy. But the Messiah (pbuh), Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), did not permit it, and they have become as quiet as lambs.
Hazrat Jesus the Messiah (pbuh) is also active in America and Europe. And also in Israel. But Texas is the state where we have the highest viewing figures. Our technical analysis and feedback has revealed that hundreds of thousands of people watch us in Texas. There is something about Texas. Such a thing does not happen for no reason. Why is that not so in other states? Viewing figures are very low in other states. We even have viewers in Cuba, but they are very few.
They tried to turn being Muslim into something totally different. They literally made it dead. Music was banned, art was banned, and sculpture and laughter and talk and television and walking in the street. That is telling people to die. You ask what they are describing, and they say, "That is Islam". But they are not describing real Islam at all. That is the way of the dajjal. Being a Muslim means love, peace, brotherhood, passion, joy, art, science, goodness and beauty and all good things. Where do they get their ideas from? What kind of mentality is that? And they are so dishonest. They tell you not to listen to music, but they listen to it all day themselves. Then they ban other things, but they allow themselves to do whatever is banned. And that is not permissible.2012-03-04 13:13:59


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Last week, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) kicked off StartUp Africa. StartUp Africa is a program designed to spur entrepreneurial thinking among Africa's youth and develop the strongest ideas into operating enterprises. Targeting young people between the ages of 12-18 in schools across the continent, the goal of the initiative is to help start 100,000 youth on their entrepreneurial journey.
The program was created by the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Youth Unemployment and Global Council on Africa, and is piloted by NFTE and GEMS Education Solutions. The program consists of 8-hour Innovation Day programs in schools in both Kenya and Ghana. NFTE held an inaugural teacher training and student innovation in Kenya day over the weekend of April 11, 2014. Overall the three days were a success, but with some interesting challenges.
The venue for both teacher training and Innovation Day was Kenya High School (KHS). It is one of the top public high schools in the country and an all-girls school which has been in operation for 102 years. 45 Students from KHS and from Kibera Learning Center, a school in the largest slum in Nairobi, attended the innovation day.
Six teachers and two GEMS staffers were trained over two days. There were four teachers from KHS and two from Kibera Learning Center. The teachers were enthusiastic and responded well to the training considering that Easter vacation had started that day. They enjoyed the experiential activities and several said that they will incorporate some activities into their lessons.
One of the challenges on Innovation Day was the huge disparity in the students from Kibera and KHS. The students from Kibera had challenges with the English language (KiSwalihi is spoken at home and all the conversations among the students was in KiSwahili), while the KHS girls were totally proficient in English. We worked hard at balancing out the groups and tried very hard at selecting kids from Kibera to participate, but the language barrier proved to be difficult to overcome.
A lot of material was covered, but the students had fun and enjoyed the product innovation game and the elevator pitches. Though there were some challenges, Innovation Day was overall a great success. StartUp Africa will continue in Ghana, where we are expecting 100 students participants in the Innovation Day activities.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Last Saturday, September 15, the Saint Leo women's basketball spent the morning assisting other in cleaning up the embankment of the Withlacoochee River.
Assembling at the Withlacoochee River State Park in Dade City, Fla., the Lions spent four hours beautifying the river front of one Pasco County's most visited parks.
The team removed trash from the river bank, while assisting the local community in helping preserve the local wildlife sanctuaries.
View a short video below, as well as series of pictures of the team and their adventures.
For more on the women's basketball program, visit SaintLeoLions.com.
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Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale Head to the Studio Hand in Hand
Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale showed a little PDA yesterday, holding hands as they headed into a Burbank, CA, recording studio. Gwen's schedule has been hectic this Summer with the release of No Doubt's first album in more than 10 years around the corner. The singer has made several radio-station stops this month to promote the album, Push and Shove, and last week, Gwen and the band kicked off NFL season with a live, pregame performance in Rockefeller Center. Gwen also covers Marie Claire's October issue, showing off her rock-hard abs and talking career and family life in the magazine. The Stefani-Rossdales will have a lot to celebrate this month on both fronts: Gwen and Gavin mark their 10-year wedding anniversary on Friday, and Push and Shove will be released Sept. 25.


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Sure, we all love cranberry sauce served alongside the turkey or ham on Christmas Day, but especially when slathered on the day-after sandwich. But I propose that there is another condiment that is equally (if not better) suited for festive seasonal fare: curried apple chutney. Made out of local apple varieties and warming, fragrant spices, it's the perfect complement to your starring bird. Best of all, this is a recipe that not only can be made ahead, but actually improves with time. This recipe is safe for water-bath canning, so you can prepare the chutney quickly and easily, then store it on the shelf until you're ready for the big day.
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Pair of Goals Gives Liberty 11th Win
The Liberty women's soccer team picked up its second straight win, Thursday afternoon, defeating VMI at Patchin Field, 2-0.
Liberty's pair of goals came from the feet of forwards Rebecca Smith and Helena Pereira. Junior defender Dawn Elmers was also credited with an assist on Pereira's goal. With her fifth marker of the season, Pereira is now tied for the team lead with freshman forward Jaime Bouffard.
Goalkeeper Karen Blocker played the entire contest in the net for the Lady Flames, making three saves and extending her career shutout record to 19. The shutout is also the netminder's eighth of the season.
The win helps Liberty improve to 11-6-1 on the season and 5-3-1 in Big South play. VMI falls to 1-14 on the year and 0-9 in conference action.
Freshman Alex Mack attempted to put Liberty on the board early in the first period, firing a shot on goal in the third minute. VMI goalkeeper Mackenzie Harrmann stuffed the attempt to keep the Lady Flames from gaining the advantage.
Liberty lit up the scoreboard just before the 17th minute. Senior Lauren Stell lofted a ball from behind the midfield line to the right side. Senior Heather Bentley then flicked the long pass forward with her head before Smith settled it. The sophomore dribbled up the field and broke through the goalkeeper challenge before airmailing it into the left corner. Smith's second goal of the year put Liberty ahead, 1-0.
After Harmann thwarted an attempt by freshman Rebekah Page at 18:33, Elmers nearly gave the Lady Flames another goal in the 25th minute. The defender blasted a shot at the VMI net, but the attempt ricocheted off the crossbar.
In the 31st minute, VMI had a look at the Liberty net. Forward Liz Affronti booted a shot from 25 yards out, but Blocker was there to make the grab, allowing Liberty to maintain its 1-0 edge at halftime.
Liberty wasted little time in the second period, posting its second goal in the 50th minute. A through ball from Elmers landed between two defenders and was settled by Pereira. The forward dribbled past the VMI defense and placed a 12-yard shot in the back of the net, giving Liberty the 2-0 lead.
Stell tried to add to Liberty's advantage, taking a shot on goal in the 54th minute. Harmann corralled the attempt, preventing the Lady Flames from extending their lead. Later in the 63rd minute, Mack had a look at the VMI net, but the freshman's shot in front of the goal mouth was blocked by a Keydet defender.
VMI took two shots on goal in the final 10 minutes of the contest, resulting in two Blocker saves. With five seconds remaining, Blocker stopped the final attempt by Affronti, giving way to the 2-0 victory.
Liberty outshot the Keydets in the contest, 15-6, and held a 4-3 advantage in corner kicks. Like Blocker,
Harrmann played the full 90 minutes in the net for VMI, finishing with two saves.
VMI heads to Longwood on Saturday for a clash with the Lancers at 6 p.m.
Liberty returns home on Saturday to host defending Big South champion Radford. The contest will serve as the Lady Flames' Senior Night, as eight Liberty seniors will be honored prior to the matchup. Game time is slated for 7 p.m.


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PHILADELPHIA -- In the last dual meet of the season in Sheerr Pool, the University of Pennsylvania men's swimming and diving team broke three pool records in Saturday morning's loss to Harvard, 182.5-115.5. The Quakers won five events, including wins in the 200 medley relay and 400 free relay.
Penn got off to a slow start, only winning two events in the first half of the meet, but picked up the pace in the second half.
The Red and Blue put up its first points of the day as the 200 medley relay "A team" – freshman Phillip Hu, sophomore Kyle Yu, senior Rhoads Worster, sophomore Eric Schultz – finished at 1:29.10, breaking the previous pool record they set against Brown (1:29.94).
In the 100 back, Worster put up the second first place finish with his time of 49.65, beating the Crimson's Jack Pretto by 24 hundreths of a second.
After the wins in the 200 medley relay and in the 100 back, Penn wouldn't win another event until Worster took a second individual first place finish. This time, Worster broke the pool record (48.94) in the 100 fly with his time of 48.65.
In the following event, sophomore Brendan Crystal took the fourth first place finish for Penn in the 400 IM with his time of 4:00.94. He defeated Harvard's Christian Carbone by five hundredths of a second.
The 400 free relay "A team" – junior Alex Porter, Schultz, junior Dillon McHugh, Worster – completed the Ivy season with a perfect record and capped it off with a pool record time of 3:00.08. The "A team" had set the previous pool record, 3:01.13, when the Quakers hosted Brown.
The Red and Blue will be back in action next weekend for the Cavalier Invite in Charlottesville, Va.
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Adconion, an online advertising company, has acquired most of Joost, bringing to an unhappy end the online video venture backed by the founders of Skype.
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who founded Joost in 2006, raised $45m from investors including Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong tycoon, before launching the service to great fanfare in 2007.
But Joost struggled to compete with online video sites run by broadcasters, such as the BBC's iPlayer and Hulu, owned by NBC and Fox. It abandoned its consumer-facing business in July to focus on selling its technology to other media companies.
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Danks' go-ahead homer in 11th caps White Sox rally
Ramirez ties game with two outs in ninth after Sale's stellar start
KANSAS CITY -- Jordan Danks entered Monday's game as a pinch-runner in the ninth inning. But in the end, it was his bat that provided the key contribution to a comeback victory the White Sox sorely needed.
Danks struck a big-time blow in the 11th inning with a 413-foot homer to right-center off Kelvin Herrera that lifted Chicago to a 2-1 victory over the Royals at Kauffman Stadium.
It was a sweet moment for Danks as he rounded the bases. With the White Sox rallying in the ninth, he had been caught in no man's land while aggressively rounding third base, and that cost Chicago an opportunity to potentially plate the go-ahead run after an RBI infield single by Alexei Ramirez with two outs had tied the game.
"Any time you've got a guy throwing 97-98 mph, he's going to provide most of the power," Danks said. "You just have to put the barrel on it. With a hitter's count [3-1], you're looking in one spot. I took one bad swing, and then he was probably thinking I wouldn't be able to catch up to a fastball."
On Sunday, the White Sox were one out away from victory and came up empty. On Monday, the Royals experienced the same frustration.
In an old-fashioned pitchers' duel featuring James Shields and Chris Sale, it appeared to be Shields' day. He had a 1-0 lead after eight innings when Kansas City manager Ned Yost went to closer Greg Holland. Shields had thrown 102 pitches.
"[Holland] has been great all season long, and that's the right move," Shields said. "Unfortunately, it didn't work our way."
The White Sox responded with three consecutive singles to load the bases with nobody out. But Holland roared back by getting Paul Konerko on a 1-2-3 double play. That left runners at second and third, and Conor Gillaspie drew a walk before Ramirez came through with the game-tying hit.
Ramirez had made a bid to put the White Sox ahead in the seventh with a towering shot that had home run distance with a man aboard. The umpires went to the replay monitor but told manager Robin Ventura they didn't have the proper angle to see whether the ball was fair or foul. Therefore, the ruling on the field of foul ball was upheld.
"They don't have a view of it, and I'm kind of confused with that," Ventura said. "It's not their fault. They want to see it, but somehow they didn't have a shot of it. I thought that's why we had [replay] in the first place."
When Danks homered in the 11th, it provided closer Addison Reed with an opportunity to get right back on the mound one day after suffering his first blown save this season.
This time, Reed worked a clean inning and the White Sox could all breathe a sigh of relief as they packed their bags for a flight to New York City.
"He doesn't suffer from a lack of confidence," Ventura said. "That's the No. 1 thing in being a closer."
Reed said he woke up Monday morning with hopes that he would have another save opportunity by late afternoon.
"You don't want to be sitting on a blown save for too long," Reed said.
Sale needed 36 pitches to get through the first, as Billy Butler's RBI double put Kansas City on top. Sale allowed five hits in the opening two innings, but he settled down to go 7 1/3 innings -- at one point retiring 15 straight batters -- while keeping his team within a run. He left after tying his Major League high with 119 pitches.
The White Sox (13-17) salvaged one game in the three-game set, while the Royals (17-11) had a four-game winning streak snapped.
"This win means a lot," Sale said. "Sweeps will kill you. If you can just take one, it builds up in the end. James Shields was tough on us today, but we kept grinding it out."
Sale couldn't have been happier after seeing Danks emerge as the 11th-inning hero.
"Emotions are high, it's tense and he goes up there and does that," Sale said. "We all went nuts. It was fun to watch and I'm very happy for him. He deserves it."
Robert Falkoff is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Cycle with a happy medium.
Not cold enough for your insulated cycling gloves, but too cold for your standard roadies? Throw on the Castelli Unico Cycling Glove for a researched balance of warmth, breathability and grip. This one-size-fits-all knit cycling glove features a silicone dot pattern palm to enhance grip, and a Castelli logo across the knuckles.
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Great gloves for the shoulder season
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Look... these are not your deep winter gloves. However, for the spring and fall, those days where the temps start in the low 40's and climb into the 50's and 60's, these are the best I have found. Surprisingly effective at blocking the wind (where I had assumed they would disappoint), layered over a pair of short finger gloves they provide plenty of warmth. And, when your body heats up and the sun has had a chance to warm the earth, they fold up nice and small and sit in your pocket like air. And all of this for <$13.
Toasty digits....
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
The fit was good, grippers work well on the handlebars. Now to the chase, do they work? Yes, for temps down to the high 30's and anything above. I went for a ride on morning the temp was 37 and breezy. They are not wind block gloves, but if you want and inexpensive alternative to a full winter glove without spending a fortune, this is your glove. NorCal doesn't get all that chilly, but this glove will work for the rest of the winter. Worth the $$$$
Less is more
These are amazingly versatile and effective for how simple (and affordable) they are. Highly recommended for about 50-65F if there is no rain and not too much wind. Given the relative thickness of the cotton (compared to cheaper cotton gloves), the absence of padding is not a big downside for me.
Worth it
I have the fluorescent yellow and they're a great 45 - 65 degree glove. I usually wear a men's L in pearl izumi and craft gloves, and they stretch to fit just great. The only drawback is that the wrist is a bit high - not as much coverage as I prefer. The grip dots are fantastic, the yellow really stands out the way I want for non-summer riding, and they breathe quite well. Easy to roll and stash. No real wind resistance against a real raw chill, but surprisingly warm in most conditions for their weight.
Every time I read "one size fits all" I'm...
Every time I read "one size fits all" I'm skeptical. My hands are huge. Should I expect these gloves to fit?
Perhaps. These are stretchy so, they may be a little tight if you have monster hands. If you have smaller hands & they are to big, wash them in warm water, and hang to dry. (they should shrink a little - doing this)Bottom line, they are $12.95 & the defeat ones are $20. You do the math, if they don't fit, give'em as a gift to a person that needs them. "You have had 2 pairs of gloves the whole time?" "My hands are freezing?" Loyd: "Duh, it's winter time & we are in the rocky mountains" "...Shaa"
Total Steal!
These gloves are great. Just recently tried them out during a December warm spell and I loved them. They are not as warm as a heavy wind proof glove, but in 45 degree sunny weather they do the job perfectly. As the day heated up I stashed them in my back pocket and forgot they were there. Unlike some cheap big box store knit glove, these have little rubber grippers on the inside to help keep your hands in place.
what's the word on these? i'm not looking...
what's the word on these? i'm not looking for a cold weather glove but i am looking for a decent cheap glove that i can stash and bring out if need be that can pack real small. Will these do the trick or are they just glorified cheap knit gloves that fall apart after 20 minutes?
If I were you I would get them. I didn't even notice them when I stashed them in my pocket. I had them on while it was early morning cool and then took them off and didn't think about them again. As a heads up they come as a free gift with some of the castelli jerseys
These gloves rule. i have about 5 pair. I have worn them in 40-42F, rainy weather and my hands were fine.
In dry cold temps, i have worn them down to 38F.


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- Are All of the Televisions in the Household DTV-Prepared?
- Applying for $40 DTV Coupons
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- Antennas and Reception Issues
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- Portable and Large Projection TVs; S-Video and Composite A/V Cables
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Just found this site today, my 55yr old father has advanced cc doc's have placed a stent in last thursday for relief of bile fluid he came sunday only to tell us they don't give him much time 4/5mths a year if he is lucky. We are told this is rare but i have found many people with same experience.
I'd like to talk more because i can't find any sites in Australia that cover what i'm going through.
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The Suspicious BanditSituation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
A young girl is going on a journey. A masked bandit finds her and wants to steal something from her. You and the girl tell the thief not to steal and he simply walks away. Why was it so easy to get rid of the robber? What is going on?
AnswerYou are watching Dora the Explorer. When Dora says "Swiper, no swiping", Swiper, the thief, leaves her alone.
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The Devil's Water Trap is a set of traps laid by Mokuzu Island's criminal gang in which the ship sails through the bay in circles and encounters a reef system, a huge rock and a whirlpool. The criminals wait for the ship to sink and then loot the wreckage.[1]
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Bentley Prices & Values: Bentley was founded in Great Britain in 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley and has since become the ultimate expression of power and luxury. With custom interiors, high-powered engines and traditional qualities of sumptuous trim and fabrics, Bentley is tailored for the elite. Volkswagen now owns Bentley, but the time-honored qualities still remain. See Bentley models below or browse Bentley deals.
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I have written this query to extract information from a database to produce a foreach statement for rows in a table. It is however very slow, and it takes between 6-15 seconds to load the page.
$depquery = "SELECT * FROM phpvms_schedules
WHERE code = 'FE'
AND locate(dayofweek(convert_tz(now(),'+1:00','+0:00'))-1,".TABLE_PREFIX."schedules.daysofweek)>0
AND phpvms_schedules.enabled = '1'
ORDER BY deptime ASC";
$deplist = DB::get_results($depquery);
Then I echo the table and elements inside it, and I use a foreach statement like this...
foreach($deplist as $flight)
How can I speed this query up?
Run an explain in PHPmyAdmin to get an idea of how the query is being put together and how long each step is taking.
SELECT * FROM phpvms_schedules
WHERE code = 'FE'
AND locate(dayofweek(convert_tz(now(),'+1:00','+0:00'))-1,".TABLE_PREFIX."schedules.daysofweek)>0
AND phpvms_schedules.enabled = '1'
ORDER BY deptime ASC
Pay attention to what indexes it's choosing. If you have no indexes, that's likely a large source of the problem.
Requesting thread move to the database forum.
I had to remove the following line because of an SQL syntax error:
AND locate(dayofweek(convert_tz(now(),'+1:00','+0:00'))-1,".TABLE_PREFIX."schedules.daysofweek)>0
Add an index on code, see if that helps
Apologies for a stupid question, but how do you add an index? Never did it before.
ALTER TABLE phpvms_schedules ADD INDEX (code);
I think. There's a checkbox toggle for it on the table structure tab of the PHPmyAdmin interface.
Either I didn't index it properly (although it gave me a message it did) or it didn't sadly make any improvement to the speed of the query I did it using the above code, and also using the checkboxes you've mentioned in the table structure.
That's because when you run the query in PHPMyAdmin you have to manually substitute all PHP variables and constants in the query. In this case TABLE_PREFIX.If for example the value of TABLE_PREFIX is phpvms_, then that line would become:
AND locate(dayofweek(convert_tz(now(),'+1:00','+0:00'))-1,phpvms_schedules.daysofweek)>0
So please run the EXPLAIN again on the entire query, let's see if it uses the index you have created.
Right. I understand now. I've ran EXPLAIN again, and it shows the exact same result as in the thumbnail in my post above.
You think correctly
I have added an index to the code column, however it is still slow, any ideas? It is slow even if I take out the 'AND LOCATE (dayofweek...)' line or 'AND phpvms_schedules.enabled = '1'
AND locate(
convert_tz( now(), '+1:00', '+0:00')
)-1, phpvms_schedules.daysofweek) > 0
It's likely this. What is the datatype of that field, and what are you attempting to accomplish with this section of the query?
Apologies for a late reply.
I've removed it and the query was slow without it. Basically, what it does is it gets only the schedules from a table in which 'daysofweek' is current day. i.e today's a Monday. Monday is represented by 1 in 'daysofweek' column, hence it will only show schedules with 1 inside that column.
Can you please post the output of a SHOW CREATE TABLE for the table?
What is the intended output of the query?
The output I intend the query to generate, is a list of upcoming flight departures for a virtual airline. The query is then ran by a foreach($deplist as $flight) statement which produces table rows, each being a single departure with all the information required.


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Place the oil in a heavy medium saucepan and heat up. Slice the tofu into 5 or 6 equal size rectangular slices. Place the slices in the hot oil. Fry until golden. Remove and drain on paper towels. The tofu is now ready to prepare for sushi or soups and stews
Sushi: Place the fried tofu slices, water and shoyu in a saucepan. Taste the water, it should be a little salty. Add more shoyu, if desired. Cover, bring to a boil and then reduce the flame to medium-low. Simmer 5 to 7 minutes. Remove slices, drain and slice into 1/4 inch thick strips. The strips are now ready to use in making sushi. For sweet tofu, add 1/4 cup pure maple syrup to the tofu cooking liquid.
Soup & Stew: Simply cube and add.
Per serving - 190 calories, 16 gram fat (73% calories from fat), 12 gram protein, 2 gram carbohydrate, 0 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 320 milligram sodium


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Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System
The Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS) measures the impact schools and teachers have on their students' academic progress. TVAAS measures student growth, not whether the student is proficient on the state assessment. TVAAS helps educators identify best practices and implement programs that best meet the needs of their students, as well as make informed decisions about where to focus resources to ensure growth opportunities for all students.
Access TVAAS Reports
- TVAAS Public Site provides school and district level reports for parents and the public.
- TVAAS Educator Site (login required) provides reports for teachers, principals and administrators.
Both sites provide detail on value-added methodology, descriptions of each report, and instructions on how to compare the performance of different schools and systems.
How TVAAS Works
- Three Facts about TVAAS
1. TVAAS measures student growth, not whether the student is proficient on the state assessment.
For example, a student who is behind academically may show significant academic growth but not be proficient on the end of year test. Another student may also not be proficient on the end of year test, but not show any growth. The teacher added a lot of value to the first student's academic development (and increased their likelihood of being proficient in 6th grade), and little value to the second student's academic development. TVAAS allows educators to consider their students' achievement (their score on the end of year assessment), as well as their growth (the progress students make year to year).
2. Low-achieving students can grow and their teachers can earn strong TVAAS scores.
When students grow more than expected, that growth is reflected in a teacher's TVAAS score – regardless of whether the student earned below basic, basic, proficient or advanced on the state assessment. For example, Treadwell Middle School in Memphis had low entering achievement in middle school math (students performed in the 33rd percentile compared to their peers across the state), yet they were among the top 20% of schools in the state on growth in 7th and 8th grade math in 2013-14.
3. High-achieving students can grow and their teachers can earn strong TVAAS scores.
Just as children grow in height each year, they also grow in academic ability. If a second grader is tall in relation to her peers, she will need to continue to grow each year to be tall relative to her peers in fifth grade. A tall second grader who does not continue to grow will soon be a short fifth grader. Likewise, our highest performing students still have room to grow academically and their teachers can still earn high TVAAS scores. Even students who consistently earn advanced scores can demonstrate growth. For example, Ravenwood High School in Williamson County had among the highest entering achievement in the state among their Chemistry I students. They also had strong growth, and made substantially more progress than the state average in Chemistry in 2013-14.
- Resources
For Everyone
In addition to the value-added reports on the two TVAAS sites, there are a number of resources to support educators and the public in better understanding TVAAS.
- Frequently Asked Questions - 2016-17 TVAAS Data
- Three Facts about TVAAS
- Short video on using TVAAS reports to improve your instruction
- Common Misconceptions about TVAAS
- Technical Documentation for 2017 TVAAS Analyses
- Technical Documentation for 2016 TVAAS Analyses
- Technical Documentation for 2015 TVAAS Analyses
- Stories from Tennessee teachers on how TVAAS impacts their instruction
For Educators (all resources listed below are free)
Online courses on value-added measures through the Battelle for Kids portal
- To access the courses, you'll first need to create an account. Request your school access code from your principal and create your own account from the Battelle for Kids login page.
- After you log in, click on the "My Learning" link. From here you can select the course or learning path you wish to enroll in. Helpful courses on TVAAS include:
- MG1140: Interpreting Teacher-Level Value-Added Reports
- VA1020: Progress and Achievement
- MG1130: Interpreting Individual Student Reports


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They're best friends, collaborators and their own worst enemies. Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter star as the hosts of a fictitious sketch show, and boy, do they have issues: jealousy, conspiracies, undermining and more.
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SWINDON Women's Aid has welcomed a change in the law meaning the refuge will now be exempt from the benefits cap.
The recently introduced cap has limited the amount of benefits people can receive to reduce the overall welfare benefit. However, it had the unintended consequence of hitting victims of domestic refuge who had been forced to flee their homes.
The law has now been changed so refuges are not covered by the cap.
Olwen Kelly, the director of Swindon Women's Aid, said it was good the government had brought in the change that could in the end save lives.
She said: "When a victim of domestic violence is making the decision on whether they are leaving home, whether they can afford it should not be a consideration they need to take into account.
"Many victims will have to pay rent for their home and then the refuge. "The cap on the benefit meant it would not cover both which means the victims are left deciding whether they need to get rid of their flat.
"A lot of the time victims arrive at our door in the middle of the night, in the back of police cars, with children. In those circumstances it is not right that finances should be considered.
"At the end of the day, if they are forced to stay in an abusive relationship then their life could very well be in danger. If this happens then a full review will cost far more than anything which could be saved by the cap."
Olwen has also praised Swindon Council for their approach in helping with the financial issues. Under legislation over council tax, all the apartments in the refuge would each have been liable to council tax, leaving the refuge with a potentially crippling bill of £22,000 per year.
With cross party support, the council took the refuge out of council tax and made moves to make them exempt from the benefit cap.
"There is no chance we could have found the money to pay for council tax on all the properties," said Olwen.
"I am delighted with the unanimous support the council have given in being the first authority in the country to do this. I think the actions of all the parties in the council have meant that other authorities around the country have been able to look at themselves and start to take appropriate action."


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Well, after several days of catching a whole slew of comments and observations on the Char-griller's hinge assembly, I'm convinced the pin-deal is gonna be OK, although I do like the X-arrangment on Z's. Really appreciate the photos. I missed the Bobby Flay show and regret that - would have liked to see my (almost mine) grill turnin' out the meat.
Thanks guys for all the information. I think the Char-Griller is comin' home this weekend. And brisket's on sale..... and chicken's on sale...... and ribeyes are on sale.... and T-bones, well T-bones are never on sale, but that's OK.
Have a great 4th and keep the flames down and the smoke up.
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The Future of Technology In Arizona: Where Do We Go From Here?
March 5, 2012 by in AZ Business Magazine | Tech
The future of technology: Science and engineering turned Arizona's first 100 years upside down, so where do we go from here? Think about the achievements in technology that came during Arizona's first 100 years. The first transcontinental telephone service between New York and San Francisco (1915). The world's first radio broadcasting station goes on the… Read More →


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The International Gem & Jewelry Show produces the largest exhibition of gems, minerals and jewelry in the world. The Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center will be the site of this event taking place November 22-24, 2013. There will be one of a kind creations, precious and semi-precious stones, antique jewelry, and many more exhibits. Visitors will be able to peruse fashionable creations that are exquisite. There will be displays that feature jewelry of celebrities.
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This Forum has been archivedVisit the new Forums
|Forums: Index → Narutopedia Discussion → Minor Technical Changes Coming
Hey all, just wanted to stop by and make you aware of some tweaks coming to this wiki. They shouldn't really affect much in the overall scheme of things, but wanted to give you a heads up anyway.
First, we are going to be changing the way the edit page looks. You can read more about it here, but we're giving it a little more structure and organization. No functionality will be lost (like EditTools) and most of the improvements are just to help users of the Rich Text Editor.
Also, we are going to be getting rid of the little gray history toolbar that appears below the page title as part of our initiative to continue to improve upon the new Wikia look. We simply found that toolbar was getting in the way for most of the major editors and that page interaction improved when we sent out an A/B Test without that line. History will end up in the drop down "edit" menu and, of course, it will remain in your floating toolbar at the bottom (unless you have customized the toolbar not to have it). --daNASCAT (help forum | blog) 14:58, April 18, 2011 (UTC)
- The RTE should be completely disabled here, it has caused problems breaking our pages in the past, and promotes destruction of the WikiText most of us edit. If it gets re-enabled as a side effect of editor improvements expect complaints.
- History has been something I've been fairly critical about. I don't know if this change will help or hinder, but I hope it'll help.
- The way that the history was hid away by Oasis seamed to cause a noticeable raise in the number of new users who don't understand that there is a history, don't understand they can revert vandalism, don't understand that when something is reverted it's not deleted, and start sending e-mails saying "X page has been hacked" instead of understanding they can revert the vandalism. Simply, it seams to have contributed to making new users stupider.
- Btw, "grey history bar", in other words the bar that also lists a few featured categories from the page... ;) wasn't that supposed to be a feature? Any irony being lost here?
- ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Apr 18, 2011 @ 16:47 (UTC) 16:47, April 18, 2011 (UTC)
- Irony is never lost, and the Rich Text Editor will not be gained ;). The redesign will still affect the base editing page, no matter if you have the RTE turned off personally or wiki-wide, but it will be a minor difference compared to the wikis that rely on the Rich Text Editor. --daNASCAT (help forum | blog) 03:27, April 19, 2011 (UTC)


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Frank Craycroft Stabbed
4 May 1895 — Macon, Illinois
Sam Bell Stabbed Frank Craycroft In The Lung
Frank Craycroft, a prominent young farmer, is laid up at his home near Macon suffering from a wound in the left lung inflicted Saturday evening by Sam Bell in a fit of rage. Craycroft's injuries are extremely serious but the result cannot yet be told. The particulars of the affair are as follows.
Craycroft and Bell live near the Grand Prairie district school near Macon of which it is understood that the men are directors. Some improvements were being made about the building Saturday and Craycroft and Bell were there. They disagreed about a trifling matter and Bell flew into a rage. Several blows were struck and Craycroft who is a powerful man over six feet tall, was getting the best of it when Bell drew a wicked looking pocket knife and plunged it in the side of his adversary. Craycroft was badly hurt but stopping the flow of blood as best he could he got into his buggy and drove to Macon where Dr. Boggs dressed the wound temporarily. Dr. Boggs made an examination and found that the knife blade had penetrated to the cavity of the body inflicting a serious wound in the left lung. He sent the patient home and at once telephoned to this city for Drs. Chenoweth and Jones who received the message at 12 o'clock Saturday. They went at once to the Craycroft home about two miles from Macon where they found the injured man weak from loss of blood. The doctors stopped the internal bleeding and when they left the patient was doing very well and with fair chances of recovery. Craycroft displayed considerable nerve in allowing the doctors to probe in the wound without showing the slightest sign of pain. He was getting along well at last reports.
A warrant was sworn out for Samuel Bell charging him with assault with a deadly weapon and placed in the hands of Sheriff Nicholson, who arrested Bell Sunday and placed him in the county jail. Bell afterwards was released on a $300 bond to await a hearing.


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This is the term for the exchange of genes during cell division among similar (homologous) chromosomes from the mother and father. Homologous chromosomes make non-sibling chromatids spiral. Gene exchange takes place where the two chromosomes touch one another. Crossing-over leads to a change in the chromosome gene sequence. Thanks to this phenomenon, genetic variations arise in living things, which in turn lead to intra-species variation. However, there is no question of one species changing into another.
Crossing-over makes for variation within a given species. Exchange of single or paired components takes place between similar chromosomes during crossing-over. Since this will give the chromosomes new combinations of genes, offspring can possibly display characteristics that do not exist in either of their parents.
This is an example of a typical variation. Genes already present in the mother and father are brought together, and new combinations formed. But contrary to what evolutionists would have us believe, there can be no question, of a new species emerging. Therefore, the examples of variation proposed by evolutionists actually constitute no evidence at all for evolution. (See Invalidity of Micro-evolutionthe; Macro-evolution Myth, the.)
Some remarkable things have been done by cross-breeding . . . but wheat is still wheat, and not, for instance, grapefruit. We can no more grow wings on pigs than hens can make cylindrical eggs. A more contemporary example is the average increase in male height that has occurred the past century. Through better health care, males have reached a record adult height during the last century, but the increase is rapidly disappearing, indicating that we have reached our limit.96
In short, such research into plants and animals merely gives rise to certain changes within the genetic information of a species. No new genetic information is ever added. No matter how much you interbreed different types of dogs, cows or horses, the result will still be dogs, cows or horses. No new species will emerge.
96 Edward S. Deevey, Jr. 1967, "The Reply: Letter from Birnam Wood," Yale Review, 61, pp. 631-640.2009-08-14 15:48:55