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"A Chris Drury Tribute"
FULL DISCLOSURE: I 100 percent supported and was beyond thrilled on July 1, 2007. While I thought signing Gomez was nice, I was hyperventilating when the Drury signing was announced. While I did actually want Nylander to return (Jagr would never end up being the same), I gave Sather my proverbial stamp of approval on the 2007 offseason.
Drury's tenure would go on to provide the best/most fodder for this blog. When historians look back on the Drury era, only two words come to mind: EPIC FAIL. With that in mind, I decided to embark on a seemingly impossible journey: finding Chris Drury's best moments in a Rangers uniform.
So, click on the links, sit back, relax, and enjoy the "Chris Drury Greatest Hits!"
(Panthers at Rangers, 10/4/07) (Drury goal at 1:50)
Opening night of the 2007-2008 season. The Rangers fans were primed and ready for what was thought to be a long run into the playoffs. But, after Roszival scored a quick goal in the 1st, the Rangers curdled for two periods and were down 2-1 heading into the third. Petr Prucha would tie the game at 2 in the third. Later in that period, "Mr. Clutch" would find possibly the juiciest rebound in the history of hockey to put the Rangers up for good.
Now, I was at this game. When he scored, the crowd was going berserk and I could remember screaming at my brother (who likewise loved Drury as he was a BU graduate) "THIS IS WHY WE GOT HIM!" Needless to say, I miiiiight have been putting the cart before the horse. However, that was a fun night…except for the fans chanting "WE WANT THE CUP!" during the first game of the season. I should have known we were doomed right then.
(Rangers at Devils, 3/19/08) (Drury goal at 2:07)
This was just an epic game during a season in which the Rangers won 7 of 8 games against the Devils in the regular season (also beating them 4-1 in their first round playoff series). One could argue this was the best regular season game between the two that season. Zubrus put the Devils on the board in the first and the game would be nip-and-tuck after that. With under five minutes in the third, Drury's likely replacement as captain, Ryan Callahan, had the puck behind the net and wheeled out in front and Drury was there for another juicy rebound. He did, however, have to roof it above Brodeur's glove and he did just that to tie the game at 1, which cause the many Rangers fans in attendance at the Pebble to go crazy.
I suggest you stick with the video beyond Drury's goal because this is also the game where Nigel Dawes COMPLETELY undresses Brodeur in the shootout (Brodeur would later claim Dawes "got lucky"). Incredible stuff all around.
(Penguins at Rangers, 4/1/08) (Drury goal at 4:32)
With the playoffs mere weeks away, this game had the intensity and feel of a playoff game (of course, these teams would later meet in the second round of the playoffs that same year). This was another Tom Renney special (a.k.a. 1-1 defensive struggle that went into overtime), except, this time around, the shootout would not be necessary as Drury unleashed a snap shot from the slot less than two minutes into the overtime to win the extra point and gain some crucial momentum heading into the final games of the 2007-2008 season.
(Rangers at Devils, 4/18/08 – Game 5 of Eastern Conference Quarterfinals) (Drury goal at 1:50)
What a fun series this was. This game really was a fitting end as it had it all: lots of goals, some timely goaltending, and, perhaps most significantly, an epic handshake line for a couple reasons. But, lost in the mayhem of things like a goal from center ice and a stopped penalty shot was Drury's goal that would turn out to be the game winner. At that point, the Rangers were up 3-1 and Drury's goal, off a beautiful feed from Nigel Dawes, put the Rangers up 4-1. However, the Devils would not give up and made it 4-3. But, in the end, after Henrik stopped John Madden on a penalty shot and Dubinsky buried an empty netter, the game and series would be clinched at the Rangers' home away from home (a.k.a. MSG West).
(Capitals at Rangers, 4/22/09 – Game 4 of Eastern Conference Quarterfinals) (Drury goal at 2:10)
I like to block this series out of memory because it was really like a train wreck happening in slow motion. But this was a game the Rangers flat out stole (thanks to Henrik) to take what was thought to be a comfortable 3-1 lead in the series. And, once again, Drury scored what turned out to be the game winner. Drury did so with literally a broken hand. The goal is hilarious as Drury meekly throws a 6 mph shot on Varlamov but he somehow could not corral it and Drury got to the rebound and was able to put it in the top shelf to take a 2-0 lead in the MSG crowd went absolutely bonkers.
The title of this video says it all. This might be the most skillful goal of his tenure.
When this happened, I started believing that this ragtag group was going to make the playoffs. This was no fluke or juicy rebound. This was Drury being in the right place and executing after Tortorella used his timeout.
(Devils at Rangers, 4/9/11) (Drury goal at 0:35)
What a surreal day this was. The Rangers were playing Game #82 and had to win then wait anxiously for Carolina to take on Tampa Bay later that night. This would also be the day where Drury would return from injury after being out for two months. And, wouldn't you know it, he would end up scoring the first goal of the game after the Devils jumped out to an early lead. It would turn out to be his only goal of the season (banging head on desk).
I am sure I left other moments out but these are the ones that stick out in my mind. So, while I join everyone else in being thrilled that he is no longer on the roster, we must give him at least a little due that he did provide some great moments in what was an otherwise disappointing tenure for his favorite team growing up. I wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors, whether that be managing a pizza place or a LLWS team.
Thanks Carp for letting me do this once again!
P.S. Tuesday night my friends and I won a Seinfeld Trivia contest in Hoboken! Our team name: "We Prepared It As We Bathed." Figured you all could appreciate it!


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>Off the Beaten Path>Meet the teenagers...
Now that was a bath...
So I thought I would be a total bitch and go on my daughter's webpage to see what Geoff's webpage is like as I knew that they would be linked.
He rather nicely lists his hobbies as pimping and smoking doobies.
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So I thought I would be a total bitch and go on my daughter's webpage to see what Geoff's webpage is like as I knew that they would be linked...
He rather nicely lists his hobbies as pimping and smoking doobies.
This is the sort of situation where you have big, burly men with baseball bats have a little chat with this self-styled "pimp". He wants the title, he needs to learn a little about the lifestyle.
Alice's father is crap. He lives in England and when we flew back to England in August last year she phoned him up to go meet him. He said that he had forgotten she was coming and that he had gotten married that day and had to go on honeymoon. He has never rang her back.
JK, this has been different for John as he is not Alice's father and they have never been close. In part I think that this is why Alice behaves the way she does. I think she desperately wants a Father replacement but she won't let John in and she goes about it in all the wrong ways. John is angry. We told this 'boy' not to enter our house and John feels disrespected. I feel hurt, for me but mostly for Alice and I feel sad and lost for a solution.
And JK - I have an iron bar next to the front door, but unfortunately guns aren't legal here.
I also beat up one of the male guests at my wedding when he tried to steal one of the flower arrangements from the tables. 100% pure class, that's me! Living on the streets for a while certainly hardens you up and I can flip from middle class housewife to white trash broad with the flick of a smile. .
And sure enough, just like clockwork, within about 3 months she grew bored with the punk and dumped him. Problem solved.
As others have said, there might be something to that: for some reason, rebellious teenage girls find guys they're parents hate really attractive.
Only people with daughters should be allowed to vote on gun control. That would take care of that problem.
You would *really* fit in around here. Nash Vegas, Tennessee holds the international trademark on white trash redneck women. And I think a bride getting in a fistfight at her wedding gets automatic membership in the redneck hall of fame. Congrats.

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State Park Economic Returns Exceed Operating Costs
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John Crompton, Ph.D., a professor with the Texas A&M University Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences, made a presentation to the advisory committee on May 19. The committee was appointed by Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Chairman Joseph Fitzsimons to examine funding alternatives for state parks and other issues.
Crompton and his colleagues were commissioned to study the economic value of 80 state parks across Texas by the Texas Coalition for Conservation, a nonprofit umbrella group formed to support parks and natural resource conservation in Texas.
"I read the 1998 report A&M put out called Texas Outdoors: A Vision for the Future, which had a small blurb on the economic value of parks, and I told [State Parks Director] Walt Dabney that we needed to get the A&M experts to expand on this topic," said George Bristol, Texas Coalition for Conservation director. "The department didn't have the resources to do it, so we raised close to $100,000 to fund the study."
As a result, the A&M team interviewed 11,709 state park visitors for "The Economic Contributions of Texas State Parks" research report issued in 2005.
"Our research proved that state parks attract non-resident visitors to local areas," Crompton said. "These visitors spend money locally, and this new money from outside the region creates income and jobs for area residents."
The 80 state parks in the study generated an estimated total of $793 million in sales, $456 million impact on residents' incomes and an estimated 11,928 jobs.
Crompton emphasized that only expenditures of park visitors from outside the host counties were measured. Spending by local residents and "casual" visitors attracted to the community for other reasons was excluded. The research thus measured only economic benefits drawn to local areas by state parks.
For example, during the study Mustang Island State Park cost $52,000 more to operate than was covered by park revenue from entrance and camping fees– Crompton said this represents the state's net investment. In return, the park generated 47 jobs and more than $1.4 million in income for Nueces County residents.
In a recent survey, Crompton said tourists from outside Texas ranked the things that were most important to them. The top 10 were 1. Pretty Scenery, 2. Historical Sites, 3. Beautiful Beaches, 4. Interesting Wildlife, 5. Opportunities for Adventure, 6. Museums, 7. State Parks, 8. Festivals or Special Events, 9. Lakes & Boating Activities and 10. Good Hiking Trails.
"Tourism is a major component of the Texas economy, attractions drive tourism, and state parks operate more of these desired attractions than any other entity in the state," Crompton said.
Further, he argued that investing in maintaining and improving parks increases their economic value.
"State parks are analogous to retail stores," he said. "Economic success depends on what happens inside the facility. Investments in park services and amenities thus mean more visitors and higher per capita expenditures, which equals higher revenues to the state and more jobs and income for local residents."
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Bridgwater & Albion 21, Clevedon 10
BRIDGWATER & Albion battled to their second successive victory on Saturday as they beat local rivals Clevedon 21-10 in an enthralling encounter, writes Tony Pomeroy.
First-half tries from Ollie Dunn and Will Kerry fired Albion to the win, whilst fly-half Stuart Heal added 11 points from his trusty right boot.
On a pitch that, by the end, resembled a paddy field, Clevedon had first use of the elements but it was the home side with early dominance.
A great run by Bryan Webb, playing out of position on the wing gave them field position and it was left to Heal to kick a short-range penalty for the opening score.
Immediately, Clevedon hit back and when Bridgwater offended at a tackle, Mike Taylor equalised with a 35 metre penalty that went over via the crossbar.
The Bridgwater pack then put together a superb driving maul that went from halfway deep into the Clevedon 22 and when the ball was recycled, Bridgwater eventually scored through Ollie Dunn - Heal converted easily for a 10-3 lead.
From the kick-off, Bridgwater scored a try that would have been remarkable in good conditions let alone in those in evidence on the day.
They ball was moved left and went through half a dozen pairs of hands before it reached Kerry for the second time on the visitors 10 metre line - and he cruised through the visiting defence for a wonderful try.
There was no further score before half time although Clevedon scorned three points by opting for a scrummage instead of a very kickable penalty when Spellissy was shown the first of his yellow cards.
At the same time Hastie left the field with an injury that will probably keep him out of the game for some time.
Bridgwater changed into white shirts for the second half but to little avail as within ten minutes, the sides were again almost indistinguishable.
Despite being down to 14 men with Spellissy in the bin, Bridgwater started the half in control and Heal extended their lead with a short range penalty.
Indiscipline by Bridgwater - throwing the ball away at a lineout – then cost them a penalty.
But Clevedon opted for a scrum and, following concerted pressure on the home line, eventually were credited with a try from second row Alex Giltrow - converted by Taylor to narrow the gap to 18-10.
Almost immediately another Heal penalty took the score to 21-10 and much of the final quarter was played deep in the Bridgwater 22.
Clevedon were awarded a series of penalties and with five minutes to go, the referee lost patience with the home defence and gave Spellissy his marching orders with a second yellow card.
Clevedon thought they had scored with two minutes left but the referee awarded a penalty to Bridgwater under their own posts.
A couple of good kicks and a spirited run by Joe Bussell out of defence meant there was no further scoring, as Albion came away with the four points, while the visitors left with nothing.
Albion head coach Kevin Innalls was pleased with the result in the difficult conditions. He said: "We started well and the second try was brilliant. We had to defend for a lot of the second half, but again we ground out the result in the mud."
With them now on 38 points, some 16 points clear of the bottom three, Albion can look forward to another season in South West One West and concentrate on the visit of North Petherton next Saturday (February 8).


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Welcome to Friday's The Crap We Missed where Jennifer Lopez continues to be the worldwide conflict area entertainer of choice, because butt surgeons don't give a fuck if your money's soaked in blood. And speaking of ice cold, permanently bitch-faced women, here's Nicole Kidman in a pic where the joke really writes itself, but I'll take a stab at it anyway — Haha, her husband's probably gay!! Was that not it?
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Art Renewal Center - Angel Academy Speech, By ARC Chairman Fred Ross
You are all making us feel very welcome, and I want to thank Lynne Barton for organizing this event.
You all have been wonderful friends and steadfast and dedicated supporters.... true believers in the undying need of humanity for well crafted, life affirming fine art, compelling, sincere, with technical excellence and imbued indelibly with humanity, beauty, and truth.
The Art Renewal Center and the ARC Approved Atelier schools, together are all doing our utmost at finding the most talented young people in our population, and the ARC website is playing an indispensable role in helping them wherever they may be, to find us, and to find their way to you, where they will be appreciated, encouraged, nurtured and if they are prepared to work very hard, where they will be able to become "Real artists", living artists, producing "Living Realism™".
The Art Renewal Center's Mission has been to protect and preserve and to advance, traditional classical, academic fine art.... well crafted images about life and humanity. Let me briefly tell you a little about the incredible success that ARC has enjoyed, in the past 3 and a half years since we went on line.
First, we scanned over 5,000 of history's greatest masterpieces and offered them to the world free of charge.
"Build it and They will come" was our thought (from Field of Dreams), and come they did, first hundreds, then thousands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands.
As much as this is an indication of the great accomplishments of these schools, it is an even greater indictment of the world wide art establishment, that takes tens of thousands of dollars from parents and students, usually far more than the tuition charged by your schools, and teaches them less than nothing about the methods, techniques, discipline and training needed by any artist who wishes to realize the vision of their creativity.
In that same time we've had 3 scholarship competitions, and to date have awarded $40,000 to the training of 16 highly talented, hard working and very deserving artists studying all, at one or another of our ARC Approved schools.
Eventually we hope to offer $1,000,000 per year in scholarships.
Just a few weeks ago, ARC had its first International ARC Salon CompetitionTM, with over 1100 entries, we have learned that since announcing the winners, there has been a total to date of $126,000 in prizes, purchase awards, and purchases by collectors from the top 6 winners of the competition.
ARC's influence and prestige and so too all who are associated with us has growing faster than we can take our breath. One of the award winners, Tim Tyler, who won first prize in Still Life, and the Chairman's Choice Award... Tim just told me that within 3 days of the announcement going up, he had 15 new students, he landed a major commission in his state, and now a month later, he's struggling with the decision as to which of the 3 major galleries in Santa Fe, San Francisco, and New York City, he should permit to represent him. Similar anecdotal stories keep arriving every week.
I strongly urge all of you who are sufficiently advanced, and especially your instructors and alumnae, to enter the competition next year and every year, so that we can establish a world wide event of high merit attracting attention as the emergin focal point of a new 21st century art establishment. We hope to find a major venue in Manhattan to exhibit the finalists. We're currently in discussions with the International Fine Arts Fair, 2 museums, Sotheby's, Christie's, and other possible major venues including a couple of major galleries, for a live exhibition. You all may be interested in knowing that Hirschl and Adler, one of New York's most prestigious galleries has just initiated a policy of "Realism only." After a century of Modernist control of the NY art market, this is no small event. If any of you have not seen the current ARC Salon announcement, please go to our website at artrenewal.org and have a look. I'll be surprised if you don't all feel more than a little pleased at the qualitative level being achieved today.
ARC now has over 28,000 images of the greatest works of art in history by over 2600 artists including all of the greats.
Our services are now used by thousands of schools, universities, libraries, corporations, scholars historians, museums, publishers, and the list keep growing exponentially.
During the second half of last year I was happily telling people that we were entertaining as many visitors as America's second largest museum, the National Gallery, with 3,000,000+ yearly visitors. But in the past 6 months we sailed right past that level leaving them far behind, as we currently are clocking nearly 400,000,000 hits per year from 5,500,000 visitors which we have now learned is more even than America's number one such institution, the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan, who has only a paltry 5,200,000 visitors come through their doors each year. But half of them are tourists and children on class trips. ARC's targeted audience is fully 100% ahead of the Met, as most of those who visit are artists, gallery owners, auction houses, educators, historians, scholars, students, curators, conservator's, and art lovers of every kind.
Our influence and reach are growing daily, and our goal is to right the wrongs of 100 years of decadence, decay and decline in the fine arts of painting and sculpture.... to expose the hoax of modernism and the destructive of empty conceptual concepts.
It is clearly impossible to fix things from within the art establishment, as those in power won't even permit a single painting by a living realist hang in their midst, and when an opening occurs on the faculty in a college art department, or on a newspaper staff in the art editorials department, or an opening for a curator or director of board member is available in most of the thousands of museum in the world, they are always filled by modern and post-modern ideologues, clones of the clowns who now run these austere institutions.
ARC is building a parallel network of our own institutions: our virtual museum; Board of Advisors and affiliated network of historians, art experts, and scholars; ARC Approved schools, and with the increasing prestige and credibility and the clear pattern of success that has emerged, we now believe we will be able to organize a network of ARC Affiliate Galleries most of whom are already representing ARC Living Masters™, whose growing success in representing our artists, is already building a viable dynamic and exploding market for traditional Living Realism™, as collectors, if given half a chance, overwhelmingly prefer that which they can recognize, and that which can tell with poetry and grace the story of what it means to be a human.
And now I hope you'll all excuse me as I go into one of my usual rants.
As I said, over two years ago, we decided to list on ARC the few ateliers that we knew of to be the last vestiges, the final and only locations on earth where the methods of the masters and the methods of how to pass their knowledge down to the next and successive generations, had been, Protected and Perpetuated. Somehow in the most inhospitable and adverse of environments, in an art world gone mad, in an art world quite literally teetering on its head, ...in an art world descending in free fall into the abyss of darkness and shadows.... into the bowels of vengeful pride down into the depths of banal self importance and vicious vanity, where excrement, blood, and urine, piled on canvases, or globs of rancid glop heaped onto our earthly plazas.... or here I suppose our Piazzas... in the hearts of our major city's.... bulldozed between office towers.... amassed within municipal apertures and corporate complexes. lacking only the smell and morbidity of their moronic portrayals.... where indeed Manzoni's actual excrement in a number 10 can is purchased for $30,000 by the brilliant acquisition committee... or Comedy of the Tate in London... who with flourish and fanfare again the following year awarded their most prestigious of all their accolades to an empty room... that's right..... Their most officious and famous of awards went to an empty room.... which had been engineered to automatically have the lights turn off and on every 5 seconds, a vapid testament to their emptiness where "conceptual" cabals building "installations" are being each and every one... celebrated by flapping journalists who flatter flatness while fawning over "fakes" .....feigning consternation and erudition.... whose asinine "creations" have been elevated by gaggles of clucking sycophants, dilettantes all..... patting each other's foolish fannies..... telling themselves how brilliant they all are and how incredibly special it is to be oh-so clever.... while in the dead of night behind closed doors they are banning, censoring and relegating to the gutter of oblivion the truly talented, the incredibly accomplished and their unique achievements which are the real genius the "real" masters along with their greatest creations. I'm talking about masterpieces with compelling inspirational themes conceived with visual beauty and compositional poetry, by the most original and artistically brilliant minds of our day.
Somehow! the Philistines of society, and the self anointed mediocrity of mindless institutional bureaucrats all of them over reaching wretches.... now run the great citadels of our culture, and the great temples to human creativity, and they do so without beauty and without sensitivity... with the subtlety of stampeding bulls, covered in accolades of dishonor, defying all logic, coherence and common sense, .. they have somehow been passed the helm, handed the keys to the city, and given the controls to the world's greatest museums, civilization's most prominent universities, as well as the editorial powers of the most influential periodicals and news organizations, with the voice and protection of a captured press by which they barricade themselves in their vaults of corrupted power.... seemingly untouchable..... while the rest of us for a century have been banned, banished, and censored, along with the hearts, the hopes the needs the dreams and the aspirations, of the human psyche as well as the moral imperative which obligates all of humanity including each and every one of us, to protect and preserve that which is dear and to nurture and sustain all that is precious, and to elevate and enshrine true excellence... for our children for future generations, and for ourselves, as an ethical duty, a sacred commitment and a sanctified covenant that we all here cherish...... to keep faith, to keep good and honorable faith, to those who have gone before who have spent their lives, their sweat and energy and have made all of us who we are, and upon whose names and souls we must dedicate our work and efforts.
The Art Renewal Center was born out of a frustration with the current art establishment, and consecrated with the determination to tell this story to the world with the faint hope that perhaps we might play some small role in waking up the conscience of a cynical culture, deadened by an endless barrage of mind numbing sound bites and vacuous commercial imagery.
I am here before you today to tell you that we are having our D Day. We've amassed a thousand ships of individual creativity, backed by the needs and dreams of 5 billion human souls who want their art back.
They want what is rightly theirs... their art.... their culture... their civilization,... their history. With ARC and with Angel Academy, Cecil Academy, Florence Academy, with the American Society of Classical Realism, with the California Arts Club, the Plein Air Society, and the American Society of Portrait Artists, and with ARC's 53 Approved schools, and with all of you, we already have our beach head. And with the continued work, dedication and perseverance of our combined forces and with the certain knowledge and conviction that we represent what is right and good and sacred and just,... and what is truly best for the human soul, we will surely prevail,... as the modernist monolith withers from the empty shell of deceit as its former supporters and apologists race hastily for the exits.
Thank you.
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The Grain Cradle Maker
1844 — Flowerfield Township, Van Buren County, Michigan
Taken from; Portrait and Biographical Album of St. Joseph Co., Michigan. Chapman Brothers. 1889. Chicago.
Milo Ingraham, a pioneer of 1833, made his advent into Michigan Territory when a youth of fifteen years, having been born April 29, 1818, in Vermont. His early home was on the shore of the beautiful Lake Champlain, but before he was able to appreciate the world renowned scenery of that region, circumstances induced his parents to change their residence from the Green Mountain State to Ohio. They settled in the town of Madison, Lake County, where they lived until coming to Michigan in the spring of the year above mentioned (1883). Here they settled in Kalamazoo County, where the father improved a farm, and where the education of our subject was completed in common school. Upon approaching manhood he began an apprenticeship at the cooper trade, which he followed afterward in Flowerfield. In the spring of 1844 he, in company with his brother Alvin, purchased the cradle manufactory of Ami Palmer, which they conducted successfully three years together, when Milo purchased the interest of his brother in the business, and has since carried it on himself. This has proved a very profitable enterprise, he some years turning out as high as 600 cradles, which he shipped to different States, and which have attained a wide reputation throughout the West.
Mr. Ingraham has been a resident of Flowerfield Township for a period of over forty years. Here he was first married, Aug 4, 1844, to Miss Jane Leonard, who became the mother of four children, and died at the present homestead Sept. 14, 1863. Mr. I. was married a second time, Nov. 2, 1867, to Mrs. Ann (Hair) Briggs. This lady was born in Lincolnshire, England, May 26, 1830, whence she came to the United States in 1852. She was first married to John E. Briggs, who served as a Union soldier in the late Civil War, and died of fever at Fairfax Court House at the age of thirty-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs were the parents of the following children: Hannah is the wife of John Beam, and lives in Howardsville, Mich.; Sarah Elizabeth, Mrs. Frank Roach, is a resident of Flowerfield, Mich.; Edward W. is married, and engaged in the Upton machine works at Port Huron, Mich.
Our subject's children by his first marriage were: Mary, who became the wife of Harrison Surdam, and they are living in Western Oregon; Isabelle, Mrs. Robert Pashby, is a resident of Iowa City, Cal.; Irene is the wife of John E. Jones, and they live in Iceland, Ore.; Celia married Mr. Mark Stoughton, and they are residents of Waverly Township, Van Buren County, this State, living on a farm. To our subject and his present wife there has been one child born only, a son, John M., Feb. 1, 1870. He is a bright and promising young man, and has obtained a practical education in the schools of Flowerfield.
Daniel and Betsey (Day) Ingraham, the parents of our subject, were natives of Vermont, and spent the last years of their lives with their son Milo, in Flowerfield, who provided for their needs with filial care until they no more required his affectionate services. Daniel Ingraham departed this life in 1845, and the faithful mother Oct. 8, 1867. They were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters, of whom there are living three sons and two daughters. Norman and Alvin have arrived at the advanced ages of eighty-three and sixty-seven years respectively; the former makes home in Three Rivers, and the latter in Flowerfield Village. Marie, Mrs. John Barto, is seventy-six years old, and a resident of Lansing; Martha Ann, the wife of Joseph Williams, lives in Iowa. The father served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and one brother of our subject, Lysander, was a soldier in the late war, and died at Three Rivers when sixty-one years old, from disease contracted while in the army.


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Ancestry.co.uk doesn't seem to be announcing their new data releases with the normal trumpet fanfare and drum roll, so I was surprised to see that this set of valuable records for those with London ancestors was simply listed under this month's feature. Never mind they are online which is the important thing.
Although this data is headed Overseers Returns, and that indeed is what they are, we normally expect anything to do with the parish overseers to concern payments out of or into the poor funds. This set of records are in fact a list residents within the parish who are claiming a right to vote. The Reform Act of 1832 required voters to be registered and the parish overseers were used to collect the information to compile the registers.
What we are seeing in this dataset is the returns that were used to list all the voters in the registers. The London Metropolitan Archives which hold the originals calls them "raw material" which is a good description. The returns are organised in bundles by polling district and each bundle is for a set year. Within the bundle the parishioners are arranged alphabetically.
The information likely to be found is –
- name
- address
- residence year
- voting qualification
- description of qualifying property
The records on Ancestry.co.uk can be searched by surname or can be browsed by location.
A search for any entries for the surname Pottinger came up with two results both for the same man John Pottinger one in 1885 and one in 1886.The information given is as follows
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|John Pottinger
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The records are printed so there must have been forms that either the resident or the overseers filled in, I wonder whether they have survived? However there are plenty of names crossed out, names added to the bottom of the page and spelling corrected so this shows that what we are seeing is not the final copies.
This record set is useful for those years where the electoral rolls either haven't survived or aren't available online. A very useful tools for tracking families between the census. Remember that you will not find any of your female ancestors or men who did not qualify for the vote in this dataset.


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TORONTO -- Ricky Ray will return to the Toronto Argonauts lineup at Rogers Centre tonight when the Argos take on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Ray missed Toronto's last three games with a knee injury, but he practised with the first team this week and proclaimed himself fit and ready to go following a light workout at the Argos practice facility in Mississauga on Thursday.
Ray was asked if he was concerned that his timing with his receivers might be off tonight after his absence. "I really don't know. Obviously not being in there and not throwing to guys in a game situation -- hopefully that will come back right away... "
The Argos were led by backup QB Jarious Jackson when they defeated the Bombers at Canad Inns Stadium on Sept. 29, the only game the Argos won during Ray's absence from the lineup.
Bombers head coach Tim Burke said Ray's return tonight will allow Argos head coach Scott Milanovich -- a former Montreal offensive co-ordinator -- to operate his offence from his comfort zone.
"I think they can run their offence a little more the way Scott would like it to be run, more like Montreal does," Burke explained, "whereas I think with Jarious they probably used more play-action and threw the ball down the field more, plays more similar to what (Jackson) was used to in B.C."
The production the Bombers have gotten out of their CFL rookie tandem of tailback Chad Simpson and wide receiver Chris Matthews puts the twosome in some very elite company.
CFL statistician Steve Daniel crunched the numbers this week and determined it has been 29 years since Winnipeg's leading rusher and leading receiver were each first-year players in the same season.
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It is just wrong that depositors, even large Russian tax-avoiders, are suffering while other senior bank creditors are excluded. It is wrong that Greek depositors in Cypriot banks are excluded, even though it was the Greek assets bought in large part with those deposits which caused a lot of the problems. And it is particularly wrong that small depositors are being hit, making a mockery of the deposit guarantee scheme.
Yet, there is risk in everything, and depositors were being compensated for the riskiness of Cypriot banks through higher interest rates. This chart shows the deposit rates paid on fixed-term deposits of less than a year (much of Cypriot deposits are fixed term, although even overnight deposits pay more interest than the rest of the eurozone).
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ASUS Introduces Z87-Deluxe/Quad: World's First Thunderbolt 2 Certified Motherboardby Jarred Walton on 8/19/2013 9:55 PM EST
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PaulRod - Monday, August 19, 2013 - linkASUS? Lame... Reply
etamin - Monday, August 19, 2013 - linkso what IGP is expected to push those three 4K displays?? (or can PCIe GPU's be run behind them?) Reply
aruisdante - Monday, August 19, 2013 - linkThere are some software hacks to enable it (Lucid's Virtuo-MVP for example). Apple does it in all of their Macs. So it's definitely possible, it's just a matter of the drivers properly supporting it. Reply
solipsism - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkThe only Mac that supports 4x 4K displays is the new Mac Pro, which isn't out yet. I'm certain the next MacBook Pros will have 2xTB2 ports but that would only mean 1x 4K display if the Mac Pro can support 3x 4K with 6x TB2 ports.
The new Mac Pro will also have one HDMI 1.4 port but Apple hasn't noted you can support 4x 4K displays on that display. I'd say that has to do with the GPU power not merely drivers or having ports that can support the bandwidth. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkThe new Mac Pro has enough GPU IO to drive twelve 4k displays (six off each GPU). The catch is that there are only three TB2 controllers and each controller appears to support only one 4k display.
The good news is that the HDMI1.4 port will like be able to drive a 4k display at 30 Hz independent of the TB2 connectors. Reply
repoman27 - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkPretty sure the limiting factor is the number of available pixel pipelines, which for AMD cards (regardless of how many you have in a CrossFire style setup) is 6, and the fact that all existing 4K displays treat the panel as 2 or more separate regions. Thus 3 is the limit for 4K displays at the moment.
The HDMI port on the Mac Pro is still subject to the 6 pixel pipeline issue, but could be used for a third 4K display at 30 Hz on any Haswell Mac with a discrete GPU, Falcon Ridge Thunderbolt controller and HDMI port. Reply
repoman27 - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - link"Pixel pipeline" isn't really the correct term for what I was trying to refer to. I think maybe "display pipe" or "display output" would have been more appropriate. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkEach DisplayPort on AMD's FireGL cards has full DP 1.2 bandwidth. Though you are onto another limitation of AMD cards: they do support a maximum of 6 displays per card but that is not resolution dependent. The idea of that multistream transport (MST) is used with early 4k displays would indeed make each display appear as 2 and thus be easier to bump up against that limitation.
The HDMI port is likely coming off of the second GPU card. Remember that the new Mac Pro packs two GPU's and thus it would be trivial to support more than 6 displays. Reply
solipsism - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkI have doubts Apple would say it can support only 3x 4K/60 displays when you can say it can feasibly support twice that amount. I guess we'll have to wait for people pushing its limits but I have to wonder why Apple would cut the number in half instead of marketing it. Reply
shompa - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkAMD dont support crossfire on FirePro GPUs + Mac Pro uses 1 graphics for graphics. The other GPU is dedicated to Compute. And that will revolutionise computing.
Finally we will have optimised OS and programs for compute including Final Cut X and Aperture.
To bad that MacPro will cost 5K+ + 3x3499 4K Cinema displays. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkThe FirePro cards do support Crossfire on the PC side. The lack of support on the OS X side has always been a driver issue.
As for the one card being dedicated to graphics, I'd be surprised if that was absolutely true. The chassis has ports for 7 directly connected monitors and the each individual card has a limit of 6 displays. Reply
solipsism - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - link1) Will the Xeon not include an IGP?
2) I think it's silly to assume that just because Apple offers 6TB+1HDMi that they intend for all ports to be used for displays. They surely wouldn't include an extra AMD GPU just to get that 7th display because they have 7 ports that can all be used for a display, just as they didn't add 5 additional display-capable ports to bring that total to 12. Reply
repoman27 - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkThe Xeon E5-26xx v2's that will likely be used in the new Mac Pro lack integrated graphics.
Although FirePro cards do support CrossFire Pro, I doubt that Apple will implement an actual CrossFire setup. I'm guessing it will be more along the lines of what AMD did for their dual-GPU FirePro S10000 server cards. I would also wager that despite having two physical cards and 7 digital display output ports, there will still be a 6 display limit. I'm sure it won't take too long for someone to try connecting displays to all 7 ports though. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - link1) as pointed out by others, the Xeon chips I the new Mac Pro do not have integrated graphics.
2) While the second card is seen as many compute, adding an HDMI connector for 2d display purposes really would't have a meaningful impact performance for GPGPU workloads. In fact, it would be odd if OpenCL could only use one of the cards at a time.
Also depending on how the ThunderBolt ports are linked to each GPU, it maybe possible to connect 12 displays using an MST hub to the new Mac Pro. Reply
shompa - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - link*hint* MacPro don't have crossfire. FirePro GPUs don't support it.
Thats why MacPro only support 3 4K screens. Reply
aruisdante - Monday, August 19, 2013 - linkIt makes me sad that they came out with this so soon after I bought the Delux/Dual (exact same motherboard, but thunderbolt 1). Reply
Assimilator87 - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkWow ASUS, way to screw over everyone who bought the Dual. Reply
Sivar - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkYes, because tech companies releasing new products is "screwing over" those who bought their previous products.
Sometimes it's like I'm reading comments from a Youtube video on here. Reply
p1esk - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkWhat does "dual" or "quad" refers to? Reply
critical_ - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkI really wanted the Z87-Deluxe/Dual but the lack of dual Intel NICs killed it for me. I went with the Z87-WS. Asus needs to realize that they need the feature-set of the Z87-WS with Thunderbolt 2 outputs and then also have a solution to output not just from the Intel IGP but nVidia/AMD add-on cards. Whether that is with Lucid software or through another method remains to be seen.
Also, Anandtech did a story on the Asus ThunderboltEX card. Guess what? It never materialized. Rumors say Intel won't validate the outputting of video via nVidia/AMD GPUs. I'd love it if we could get clarification on this issue.
Ulitmately, it seems like 3x 4K displays is nothing more than a specification line for these meaningless press releases that start with "WORLD'S FIRST..." instead of being usable at realistic refresh rates on modern hardware. At the moment, it seems like Thunderbolt outside of Apple is just another Firewire for storage arrays instead of a medium for displays. I'd love to be wrong so perhaps Intel/Asus/Gigabyte can clarify the point of these motherboards in real-world-getting-work-done scenarios.
/soapbox /rant Reply
r3loaded - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkThat's great and all but apart from some incredibly expensive enterprise-grade storage systems and laptop docks, what would I use Thunderbolt for? Not trolling, I seriously want to know what stuff is available that I can actually use. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkOne thing I've seen that doesn't fit into storage, laptop docking or displays have been done video capture boxes. They're outside of consumer prices but they're out there.
The other devices I've seen are Ethernet NICs or FireWire adapters. Both these could arguably be out into the laptop docking category. Reply
repoman27 - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkhttps://thunderbolttechnology.net/products gives a pretty decent overview of what's available. As for what you can actually use, that's sort of dependent on your particular situation. Reply
Zalansho - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkI for one am very interested in the NFC functionality, though after a little digging on the Asus site it doesn't seem to support some of the neater things like Android Beam. Any chance of a review of this or the Dual, or the NFC unit by itself? Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkI'm just irks that Intel hasn't gotten channel bonding to work right until now. A four channel, 10 Gbit/channel has enough bandwidth to drive an 8k display @ 30 Hz. That would truly be a significant jump for professionals who have generally been limited to 2560 x 1600 from 2004 to 2012. Even now 4k is barely in the market place and the new IO standards are being slightly modified to just support it (ie no 120 Hz 2D or 3D @ 60 Hz per eye). Demand is there in the market place for higher resolution displays and Intel could have provided *the defacto* standard to get there if they hadn't botched TB bonding initially. Reply
DarkXale - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkCareful there with channels with lanes. Thunderbolt has 4 lanes, each which is capable of transferring only in one direction - and when paired producing 2 channels.
(10up + 10down + 10up + 10down = 20up + 20down)
The lanes would need to be come half-duplex capable in order to drive 8k @ 30hz.
For another example: PCI-E 16x has 32 lanes, each which transfers only in a single direction. Reply
repoman27 - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkIs there any evidence that Intel ever intended to implement channel bonding on the original Light Peak / Thunderbolt silicon? There is scant little to indicate that they even intended to support dual channel links, let alone channel bonding.
The high end display market generally moves far slower than those responsible for penning the interconnect or content delivery standards. DisplayPort 1.2 has been around for almost 4 years, and DP 1.2 capable GPUs for nearly three, yet the first DP 1.2 HBR2 and MST capable displays only hit the market less than a year ago. Furthermore, I don't think there are any native eDP 1.2+ panels with support for HBR2 out there yet.
20 Gbit/s for Thunderbolt 2 vs. 17.28 Gbit/s for DP 1.2 is not a significant difference, and Thunderbolt is just a meta-protocol used to transport DP and PCIe packets anyway. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkThe bonding functionality was to be similar to how multiple PCI-e lanes work together to form a wider channel. Thus all 40 Gbit of bandwidth going over a single copper cable was supposed to be able to be utilized by a single device. The catch is that DP didn't play well in this mode. Reply
repoman27 - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkI understand the theory, but as far as I can tell there is zero evidence to suggest that channel bonding was ever on the table prior to Falcon Ridge. When did anyone from Intel ever allude to this? Why would Intel possibly implement DP 1.2 in a Thunderbolt controller before doing so in their own IGPs? Do you have any links to back up the notion that they even attempted channel bonding with the early silicon? (I'm genuinely curious, btw, not just trying to be argumentative.) Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkThe context of bonding has often been mentioned in reference to TB networking (note that Intel's optical based interconnects for rack based servers seem eerily familiar). Most of this was when Thunderbolt was known as LightPeak. Intel's presentation on the matter:
And there is bit of research done at MS with regards to Thunderbotl/LightPeak too (PDF):
Of note from the above MS paper:
"We built a prototype network interface card using Light
Peak technology (shown in Figure 1) The prototype card is a
Gen2 x4 PCI-Express add-in card and contains one host
interface, an integrated crossbar switch and transceiver pair
with four 10 Gbps optical ports with modified USB cable
connectors. The integrated non-blocking crossbar switch is
capable of delivering an aggregate bandwidth of 80 Gbps (40
Gbps receive and 40 Gbps transmit) through the optical ports
and 10 Gbps to/from the host system. Traffic from one
optical port to another optical port can be transmitted directly
without any interaction with the host CPU. Each transceiver
module supports two interfaces and provides electrical to
optical conversion. "
There are a couple of odd ball things in that paragraph. First is the obvious asymmetrical bandwidth nature of the IO card: 4x lanes at PCI-E 2.0 speeds is 20 Gbit in each direction while the networking side was capable of 40 Gbit aggregate. As discussed in the paper, this was for multipathing and fail over as most enterprise networking has to support. Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkOoops, hit submit a bit too early.
The link to the Intel PDF:
This describes at a higher level the usage of Thunderbolt/LightPeak as a network topology.
Here is another research paper that briefly mentions a 40 Gbit aggregate bandwidth for LightPeak:
The unique thing here is that it shows two different implementations, a two channel implementation using standard fiber found in data centers and then a four channel implementation using a single cable but two LightPeak controllers. Reply
repoman27 - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkWhile I appreciate the links, they actually tend to reinforce my point. The front end of a 4C Light Peak / Thunderbolt controller does provide 80 Gbit/s aggregate bandwidth, but that is not the same as saying that there is a provision for link aggregation. That 80 Gbit/s comes in the form of 4x 10 Gbit/s full-duplex channels, which prior to Apple's implementation were always treated as 4 separate links.
The description in the MS paper isn't odd at all. It describes the on-die crossbar switch as essentially being a 5-port 10 Gbit/s switch with 4 ports being for the optical interfaces and one as an uplink to the host. That 10 Gbit/s uplink port is connected to a protocol adapter which has a PCIe 2.0 x4 (16 Gbit/s) connection to the host. And just as you can have a 5-port Ethernet switch, that in no way guarantees that the switch is capable of link aggregation. In fact, pointing out that the connection to the PCIe protocol adapter was limited to 10 Gbit/s underscores that channel bonding was not happening from the outset.
All of the networking examples use individual 10 Gbit/s links between nodes, and link aggregation is never attempted.
The 40 Gbit/s depiction in the Avago paper actually shows one controller but two optical modules. The modules they designed only supported 2 channels, so a 4C controller required two of them. The odd thing about that diagram, as crude as it is, is that it appears to show one port for 4 channels, which is something we have not seen yet. Reply
Kevin G - Monday, August 26, 2013 - linkThe Thunderbolt/LightPeak networking schema in those papers included failover and multi-pathing. The implication is that there would be a means to use multiple channels to send data between two hosts, similar to how Ethernet does bonding.
With fail over from active-to-active connections, their is a desire to regularly operate below 50% of the available bandwidth between connections. This would ensure that when fail over does happen, the single remaining link can handle the through without a degradation of service. In the context of these paper, the proposed 40 Gbit adapter with a 10 Gbit PCI-e host interface wouldn't necessarily be at a disadvantage in this scenario.
The 4 channel device did mention the connector: an early LightPeak connector that was an adaption of USB. Take a look at it here:
The USB style connector also had some talk of being able to use the copper connection for native USB or a slower, copper based version of Light Peak. With the USB board forbidding Light Peak to piggy back on their standard, this idea was only talked about. Reply
RussianSensation - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - link$350 USD for a non-ROG board that can only do 3-Way CF as PCIe 3.0 x8/x4/x4?
....Crickets.... This is a $220 board max with a $130 mark-up for Thunderbolt. You can just as easily get $180 MSI GD65-Gaming, buy $20 wireless USB and skip the overpriced Thunderbolt. Reply
DarkXale - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkOr get the Asus equivalent without the Thunderbolt ports. See the "Pro". Also, who would ever want to subject themselves to the horrors that is USB Wi-Fi. Reply
RussianSensation - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkNot sure what you are talking about. My USB WiFi delivers 150 Mbps. My ISP cannot even come close to those speeds at reasonable cost.
However, if you insist, I can propose plenty of other superior options like Gigabyte UD4H for $115 at MicroCenter or even Asus' more impressive VI HERO board for $215 + $30 WiFI n Adapter:
Either way you slice it, this board is $130-150 overpriced, easily. If someone is going to throw dual Thunderbolt ports, it better be on a high end ROG board.
The MSI Z87 MPower that passed 24 hours of Prime95 at full CPU overclock has Wi-Fi with dual antennas + Bluetooth for only $215, free RAMDisk software, 16 power phases, digital power, etc.. So where is the $350 premium Asus charging coming from?
http://www.microcenter.com/product/414817/Z87_MPow... Reply
DarkXale - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - link150mbps - and at what range. Hell, is it even dual-channel capable? I'm not sure why you even mention your Internet connectivity, when the point of reliable wi-fi is internal communication, with in particular, a networked NAS. When you throw in a few extra devices which has to share transmit time, then 150mbps becomes quite slow. (1/3rd of the time becomes 50mbps for example)
And yes, in case you didn't know - TB controllers go for about 50 USD each. It is -not- a cheap technology, which is also the reason for its scarcity. An in lieu of TB not having any 'gaming' purposes at this time, it does not make sense to put them on their 'gaming' motherboards.
It -would- make more sense to find it on the E-class motherboards though, yes. Reply
glugglug - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkWiFi is a joke for a NAS. Yes, I'm including 802.11ac in that. Reply
kwrzesien - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkIt can do PCIe 3.0 x16 or dual x8 or x8/x4/x4, that is as flexible as Haswell allows without adding some kind of bridge chip. I'm pretty sure that PCIe 3.0 x4 (and PCIe 2.0 x8) don't bottleneck CF based on real world tests. Certainly PCIe 3.0 x8 doesn't, and who has three 7970's?
In fact until GPU's and LCD's have a connection option that supports 4K@120Hz, or at least 4K@60Hz nonsense, I'm not sure we even need this level of performance. Maybe for extreme multi-monitor gaming in 3D you need three GPU's, but not for single monitor gaming or multi-monitor productivity. Reply
RussianSensation - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkIf I am spending $350 on a board, I want the option of putting 3x 7970s in it. I already have 2 7970s. Also, you are not taking into account that people don't just throw out this board in 2 years. What about getting Maxwell/Volta GPUs? Put it this way, if you only care to buy 2 GPUs, then at MicroCenter, the Gigabyte Z87 UD4H is just $115 USD!!! It has 16 power phases and everything you need, minus the overpriced WiFi and Thunderbolt. But if you still insist on WiFi, there is MSI Z87 MPower for $215, or Asus own Pro board with WiFi. Then there is the ROG VI HERO which blows this Deluxe board out of the water in terms of quality overclocking components:
If you only want to run 2 GPUs, there are so many boards out there for hundreds less and some for less $ with higher quality components. Reply
repoman27 - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - link@Jarred, "Thunderbolt supports up to 10GB/s bandwidth (bi-directional) for each port..." You want a little "b" there, and actually, it's 10 Gbit/s, full-duplex, per channel, up to 20 Gbit/s, full-duplex, per port. This is true even for OG Thunderbolt; Thunderbolt 2 merely allows channel-bonding for devices requiring greater than 10 Gbit/s of either display or data bandwidth. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkFixed. Basically, I messed up when I said bi-directional on the four channels; it's uni-directional I believe, but TB2 allows bonding with bi-directional. Or put another way, TB1 was two 10Gb/s up and two 10Gb/s down; TB2 is two 20Gb/s and that can be either up or down. I think it can switch on the fly as well? Not entirely sure about that, and maybe I still need to clarify. Hahaha. As for the little b, that was one typo out of four Gigabit references; probably just holding down Shift still from typing the G and didn't notice. Reply
repoman27 - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkBoth Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2 host controllers provide 4 simplex 10 Gbit/s lanes per port, configured as 2 full-duplex 10 Gbit/s channels. Thunderbolt 2 allows bonding of the two channels to create a single 20 Gbit/s full-duplex link. The direction of the individual lanes is fixed; the active cables have two transmitters and two receivers at each end. Reply
StrangerGuy - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - link"but given the Z87-Deluxe/Dual runs $350 we'd expect the new board to come in above that price point."
So I heard there is huge mass market demand for >$350 mobos. Reply
boeush - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkStupid question: why insist on including 8 x USB 2.0 ports, *in addition to* 8 x USB 3.0?
Who in blazes, I'd like to know, ever used or wanted to use more than 8 USB devices simultaneously on the same computer?
Aside from the above, I just don't get the persistence of USB 2.0. USB 3.0 has been out and around long enough already; why does USB 2.0 still keep showing up in new and supposedly premium products?? Someone please enlighten me... Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkBecause Intel only offers 4 or 6 USB3 ports (to get six you either need to drop to 4xSATA6 or 6xPCIe2 on the southbridge); and each additional pair of 3.0 ports beyond that requires an additional controller and PCIe lane to connect it. The boards that offer a dozenish 3.0 ports probably are also spending more on a PLX chip to multiplex all the IO onto the southbridge's limited supply of pcie lanes.
The single picture isn't entirely clear; but it appears to be 4 and 4 on the back; and presumably 2 headers of each type for front panel connections. At least for the next few years 2 headers of each type is IMO the way to go since some people will be using older cases with only 2.0 ports and others new cases with 3.0 built in. Some of the former will add a 3rd party bay device for front panel ports; some of both groups will have a card reader which as a bottom denominator device will probably stay 2.0 for a few years (if anything; this argues for a 3rd 2.0 header in addition to the pair of 3.0 ones). Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkPS The reason why only some of the USB ports on the chipset are the 3.0 variety is that the chip is a low margin part whose size is primarily defined by the number of IO pins that need to be squeezed onto it; and that USB3 controllers need significantly more die area than USB2 controllers. Since Broadwell is planned a BGA(mobile) only part, most likely this means that we won't see an increase until Skylake launches in 2015 (since that chipset will presumably have gotten a process shrink as well). Intel could launch a desktop chipset refresh with more 3.0 ports next year even if we don't get a new CPU; but with AMD foundering there's no real pressure for them to do so. Reply
boeush - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkThanks for answering, but I still don't completely get it.
USB 3.0 is supposed to be completely (and transparently) backward-compatible with 2.0 (or am I missing something??) -- so if a motherboard provided only and exclusively 3.0 ports/headers, any legacy 2.0 ports/cables on the case or legacy devices should be able to plug into those 3.0 extension points without any issue or degradation of performance.
An 'intense' USB usage scenario might involve 1 keyboard and 1 mouse, plus maybe 1 microphone, 1 camera, 1 printer, 1 gaming controller, 1 card reader. I'm counting 7 ports (and not including WiFi, since this premium mobo already provides WiFi), leaving 1 port free. That's before considering that USB can chain, so for instance a lot of monitors these days integrate USB hubs and provide extra ports (and come with a USB extension cable), meaning you get 2-4 additional ports "for free" with each of your monitors (and most of the devices I listed, don't need the full bandwidth of USB 3.0 so would work perfectly fine over 2.0 links through hubs.)
I'm just saying: *in practice*, already having 8 USB 3.0 ports should make any additional 2.0 (or 3.0) ports utterly redundant and unnecessary. So why continue bundling in the expense and taking up the space? Still not getting it... Reply
jwcalla - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkI can't answer all your questions, but the on-board USB 3.0 headers are not compatible with the USB 2.0 connectors. It's a completely different connector style. So cases and devices with USB 2.0 connectors would require USB 2.0 motherboard headers. Of course the user interface USB ports are backwards-compatible as you mention.
It could be that servicing USB 2.0 motherboard headers requires a USB 2.0 controller, and so maybe that is the reasoning for including it. In such a case it would make sense to throw any leftover USB 2.0 ports onto the back panel.
PS for Jarred: The source link to the ASUS press release points to the wrong URL. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkMotherboard headers aren't the same; for whatever reason instead of doubling the pin density for 3.0 they went with a header 2x as large and noone's making adapters for the header cables that I'm aware of. You really can't drop below 3 headers on the board itself without causing problems for some people building higher end systems (4 case ports and a card reader); and you still need a full set on the back for people who don't only have 2 front ports or just want most of their wiring to be neatly out of sight. You can drop the number down on low end boards to cut manufacturing costs; but higher end boards are equal parts feature check and combining multiple peoples edge cases into a single package to keep the size of your product line within reason.
The total number of ports grew as USB2 replaced various legacy ports and board vendors wanted to replace the space with USB ports. Besides which, USB2 controllers were tiny so it barely cost Intel anything to add an additional pair every other year or so during the last decade. At this point I'm not really expecting the total to go up again; with the possible exception of the PS2 keyboard port there's not really any legacy IO left to replace; and with a 10GB USB standard in the works I expect Intel/AMD will be busy using process shrink southbridge transistors to update more ports to the faster standard instead of bumping the totals.
Counting charger/device cables I've currently got a total of 10 plugged in; not all have something attached at all times but there're 3 different device end plugs (B, mini, and micro) and I've got stuff that goes with each size. I actually do use a hub for some; but that's equal parts cable routing (my tower is farther away than normal), not wanting to spend money replacing all the tiny cables that came bundled with gadgets, and tradition (the hub's been in place since at least my amd 939 system when my board didn't have enough total ports built in). Reply
colonelclaw - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkIt's a bit of a shame that Thunderbolt has so far been slow to be adopted, breaking out PCIe to a cable makes a lot of sense for many situations. I guess it all comes down to cost? Here's hoping TB2 makes the difference. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkOnly putting a controller in their next south bridge might make a difference. If you define making a difference as adding more TB ports to computers, not getting more TB devices on the market. The other thing Intel should do if they want to promote TB is to up the number of PCIe lanes available; the situation has been squeezed since Intel dropped the legacy PCI controller's 4(?) connections but didn't add PCIe lanes to compensate. While OEMs can add a PLX to work around the problem that adds to costs and has a slight hit on performance; with PCIe-SSDs potentially becoming a major enthusiast item in a few years, walling off a lane or four for TB ports very few people will use isn't an appealing option. Reply
Hrel - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - link$350? Lol.
thunderbolt is a great idea, but no one cares until motherboards with it are under $150.
Now, I'm an enthusiast so was willing to go around 200. But there's not a chance in hell I'd convince the corporation I work at to pay that much extra for something with such limited support.
If they're serious about Thunderbolt they have to give it away. Google knows this, you don't see them charging $soft money for Android. Because they know the way in which you penetrate a market is by giving your product away for free; the money comes later.
Such a simple idea that alludes so many. Reply
solipsism - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - link1) Do you realize you just said the key to running a for-profit business is to not charge a profit?
2) Google's business is advertising. Search, email, Android, etc. are free because we're the product. We're the Eloi. Their customers are the ones paying for advertising or for info on herd's habits.
3) Also remember we're talking about SW v HW where your argument continues to fall apart. Reply
thomasxstewart - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linktundra is good, yet in primary tests all 3 pci-e3 3 slot game card macines fluttered image. there are 4 slot pci-e3 mainboards, yet only 48 lane pci-e3, so two slots are 8x. ahso, claim for another 2x pci-e3 might bee stutter. basically with 64 pci-e3 lanes, might be god to go with thunderbolt advantage.
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ReneGQ - Thursday, March 13, 2014 - linkI recently purchased an Asus Motherboard and the problems started from day 1. The drivers update never works, the same for AI Suite III (there´s a lot of updates for this model in Asus webpage). After 2 months I still can´t install BitDefender cause a clock watchdog error.
Asus technical support is the worst, mails comes and goes with no solution.
I will not recommend this brand to anyone. The brand has a very good Marketing but the product and the service are very disappointment. Reply


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Intel XMM7160 LTE Modem Demonstrated on Live Networkby Brian Klug on 9/11/2013 7:54 PM EST
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nofumble62 - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkLook like a 1x2 inch device. How can this fit into a phone? Reply
Zalcorus - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkLast sentence "This kind of module would go into a notebook or tablet form factor for multimode 3G/4G LTE connectivity."
Would this card include 802.11n/ac? Or is it LTE/3G only? Reply
ZeDestructor - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkIf its like intel's older basebands, Cellular data only. Wifi+BT comes in the form of their excellent Centrino chips. Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkThis would be cellular only, it's a WAN card essentially.
-Brian Reply
wintermute000 - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkWhy is this (and other laptop WAN cards) so big if obviously the ones in smartphones are much smaller? Reply
dealcorn - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - linkI look forward to your review of this chip. The review will provide insight whether Intel may gain significant smartphone share near term. Second, there is a position help by some haters that Intel's success is solely attributable to a combination of their dominant market share and superior process technology. Preliminary reports are that this chip is smaller than the competitors, more energy efficient than competitors, and fabbed at TSMC just like competitors. If accurate, this supports the position that by virtue of it's investments over time, Intel is flat out smarter than competitors. The chip lacks any process advantage and Intel is starting with an inferior market share. If Intel' TSMC product is better than competitor's TSMC product, Intel is scary good. Reply
ZeHank - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkWhy is Intel not launching an LTE product and bring an end to all the wait? Their VP's were talking about imminent launch of Samsung Galaxy Tab3 LTE a few months back, is it out yet? Reply
ZeDestructor - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkIntel builds it. It's up to Samsung to launch the end device when they see fit. Either that, or buy this card and fit it to your laptop. I'm slightly tempted myself.... Reply
Homeles - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - link"If accurate, this supports the position that by virtue of it's investments over time, Intel is flat out smarter than competitors."
While it's obvious that "smarter" people are "better" innovators, usually superiority in this sense is attributable to one company having more resources (read: money) than the other. I'd imagine pretty much all of the engineers are brilliant -- individual intelligence is unlikely to be a major factor at play here. Instead, Intel likely just has more smart guys, not smarter guys. Reply
leidegre - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkIs this in anyway related to the digital radio announcement Intel did about a year ago? Reply


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For HD video editing you'll require one, as do you for blender.
And games..
I might have missed your real question. But it seems kind of dim to ask this (no offence).
I mean, go to a store and ask why you'll need a 'normal' user reply for what a gfx-card is.
They'll tell you its for games, videos and pictures etc. They won't even think about password cracking.


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The Doc sat down with Harvey Organ Wednesday for the first of several interviews regarding the recent massive cartel intervention in the gold and silver markets post the QE4 announcement, the fiscal cliff, the CFTC's silver probe, and the unprecedented 20 million oz of silver still standing for December delivery.
Harvey stated that the end game is being played out, and that an Asian group has decided to take on the cartel and drain the physical silver from the COMEX. He states that the bullion banking cartel's suppression of the gold and silver markets is the ultimate treason against Americans, as 350 years of US wealth is being drained East due to the price suppression of gold and silver.


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Almond Brussels Sprouts Recipe
I have no trouble getting my kids to eat their vegetables. I exposed them to a variety of vegetables at an early age helped. They love these tender brussels sprouts, which have just the right amount of nutty crunch.—Kathie Morris, Redmond, Oregon
- 1 pound fresh brussels sprouts, halved
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds, toasted
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 1. Place brussels sprouts and broth in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 6-8 minutes or until tender. Add almonds and butter; stir until combined. Yield: 6 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 each: 85 calories, 5g fat (1g saturated fat), 2mg cholesterol, 103mg sodium, 8g carbohydrate (2g sugars, 4g fiber), 4g protein.
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"I made this last night. It was extremely easy and very good. I cooked mine a little longer than the recipe called for just because I like them a little softer. I also grated some Parmesan cheese on top just because I had some out for another dish. It would have been fine without the cheese, though."
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Just went to both coaches' press conferences. They were pretty bad. First of all, there's nothing that anybody can ask at 1 p.m. that's going to still be relevant at 3 p.m., much less at 6 or 7 tonight or when our papers come out tomorrow.
Second, these teams have played one game the last five days, so we've had all these practices and they've answered every question imaginable over that time. Third, they're really not in the mood to do these things on a short game day, but they have to.
Quotes to follow shortly (and I mean shortly).
John Tortorella:
Has the second-period long change been a problem?
"No. No."
On the young team gaining experience and drawing something from an elimination game:
"What do I look for? … We're ready to play today. Young, old, middle aged, we're ready to play today. Is that what you're getting to?"
What lessons can be gained from playing an elimination game?
"You can ask me after. I probably won't answer, but you can ask me after. We're going to be ready to play. You guys are thinking up questions because it's been two days … I'm sorry, go ahead, ask your questions."
Do some players do better in adversity?
What qualities shine in that situation?
"Making a big play."
Nobody could think of anything else, and you could clearly see no good answer was coming. So I asked him his favorite color as he left. He laughed.
Bruce Boudreau:
"I think in the end it's going to be who wins more one-on-one battles, and like a lot of games, who's going to win the special teams. And then the third thing, if you were going to ask me after watching the first four games, would be who gets a break. Who gets the lucky bounce. That's the way the series has been going, so I assume it's going to continue going that way."
On seeing Mike Green looking more like he was pre-concussion:
"I think he's playing better and better and better every game. He missed 26 out of 28 games there. He's being responsible, he's doing everything we've asked him to. If he scores he scores, but if he doesn't he doesn't. There's a chance eventually that one of his shots is going to go in."


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 21/11/2012 (1732 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
There is an obvious connection between Family Services Minister Jennifer Howard's ordering of a review of Sagkeeng Child and Family Services yesterday and the inquiry into how Phoenix Sinclair's file was handled by child welfare before she was murdered at age five in 2005.
The first, most obvious tie is that child welfare workers were -- and are -- buckling under the weight of caseloads too large to manage safely. Thirty, 40 or more cases on the desk of each worker -- more than twice professional standards for case management. That was the case when Phoenix was born; that's the case now.
As a result, children, and families, suffer. Some, like Phoenix, die.
The details of these families' lives would scare the bejesus out of most ordinary folk. But to social workers at child welfare agencies, the dysfunction, abuse, neglect and risks to children are commonplace. That was true of Winnipeg CFS in 2000, when Phoenix was born. It is true, according to what Sagkeeng social workers have told CBC, of that agency today.
That's why the little girl was regarded as a low-risk case while her file was sliding in and out of the hands of various social workers, being opened and closed as things did and didn't come to the attention of Winnipeg CFS, which, by its own admission, didn't have much face-to-face contact with her parents and rarely saw Phoenix at all.
Social workers testifying before the Sinclair inquiry this week have been quite blunt in telling lawyers they had kids and families that were at much higher risk than was Phoenix, who was returned to her parents the first time at about four months old in 2000.
Investigators called in to assess the details, examine CFS's actions in the Sinclair file -- what it did and didn't do in line with professional standards, policies and the law -- came to starkly different conclusions about the wisdom to close her file the first time about a year later.
A Sec. 4 report by the province in 2006, after Phoenix's death, found that when the file was closed the first time, as Phoenix was in the lone care of her father, Steven Sinclair, the baby was at high risk of abuse or neglect.
Other reviews, internal and external after the death, noted the service to the family, while appropriate in the first months following her birth, was substandard.
As background, both parents were very young, recently just out of the child welfare system themselves, had case files that warned of their aggressiveness, their substance abuse, their trauma from their childhoods with parents who were alcoholics and neglectful.
Samantha Kematch, Phoenix's mother, was abandoned by her mother at 13, had a history of depression, involvement with a street gang, and was seen as a threat to her last foster parents and other kids in the home.
Steven Sinclair, badly neglected by his abusive parents, was regarded by one worker to be a threat to children in his care. Within two years of having sole care of Phoenix, he was binge drinking, doing drugs, leaving Phoenix with others, some inappropriate to care for her, and involved with the Indian Posse.
So how to explain the discrepancy?
Well, first, investigators who came in after the fact were not burdened with balancing Phoenix's needs against the hundreds of other kids. Only tangentially do the after-the-fact reviews note that, to front-line workers, risk is relative, not something strictly dictated by a manual.
The social workers often referred to the fact they needed hard evidence of child protection issues -- something they could put before a judge -- to justify keeping a file open and to continue to intervene in families' lives when they were not welcome. Hard to gather that evidence when you're rarely in a family's house; rarely if ever in the company of parents and children.
That and the abiding faith a social worker had in Steve Sinclair's desire to nurture his daughter, and the fact he had help of friends and family, led to the decision this "low-risk" case would be closed for the first time in fall 2001.
An illustration of the disconnect between front-line workers and case review investigators is outlined by the following exchange.
Worker Kathy Peterson Epp was asked about a passage in one review that noted her belief Phoenix was being cared for by Sinclair's sister, who was a Christian and had not drunk alcohol for two years, was misplaced, that being a Christian or dry for a couple years was no guarantee of anything.
Peterson Epp responded that her notes were intended to guide other workers of the agency, should the file she was closing be reopened. Those workers would know that in the aboriginal community of the North End, being a "Christian" home meant no alcohol was allowed in the house. That, in her eyes, was truly significant. That, she noted, was something perhaps the investigator was unaware of.
Here's another example. Laura Forrest, an intake worker who reopened the file in 2003 (Phoenix had been taken to the hospital by a "godfather" because she'd had something stuck in her nose for months) was praised for her work, while criticized at the same time in the Sec. 4 report.
She found there was abiding risk to Phoenix due to unresolved problems with her dad, but did not herself physically see Phoenix.
Forrest disagreed with the report writer, Andrew Koster, that Phoenix should have been taken back into care. That requires proof of risk and a child in need of protection, she stressed. Koster evidently felt the evidence was there; child welfare workers had to prove that to a judge.
What the investigators had was the benefit of considering the whole picture, the luxury of reading carefully through the story laid out by the file histories of Kematch and Sinclair, the reports of "collateral" agencies and of professionals involved by the agency or with Phoenix.
In totality, the agency repeatedly failed the little girl, failed to give the family the service warranted, failed to make contact directly, investigators found. Again, those investigators have a very different idea of when intervention is required and justified.
Social workers have cases histories available. But if they don't have the time to chase down a family they were supposed to make personal contact with, do they have the time to put the jigsaw puzzle together?
In an age of professional standards, where everyone can know what is expected of child welfare workers, the fact is social workers and investigators can come to starkly different conclusions about where to rank cases that, as I said, would scare the stuffing out of most of us.
I have no doubt that if an objective assessment of Sagkeeng's handling of the files in front of it were to be done now, it would be discovered there are children at risk who are not being watched by social workers.
That means, eventually and tragically, we'll be hearing about them, too.
Indeed, Forrest had the last word at the inquiry yesterday. First, she never was interviewed by any of the reports' investigators. She never read the reports -- even though they could have helped her review her work and correct shortcomings.
Lastly, she noted, changes have been made. But Forrest, a family services worker with CFS now, says the problems out there, in the community, the addictions in families, the need for basics such as food, are exacerbated now. "It's not easier to do my job."