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There's a lot of talk in IT and vendor circles about the need to manage mobile applications, and there are a lot of tools to let in-house and commercial developers alike add control mechanisms around access, usage, and compliance to mobile apps, both native and HTML5. But there are actually very few such apps to manage or control. The bottom line is that IT organizations and their vendors are not developing, porting, or making accessible traditional applications to mobile users.
I've been hearing about that paucity for more than a year. That sad state was confirmed yet again this week by a mobile security firm MobileHelix study that shows that only 22 percent of corporate apps can be accessed by mobile devices, yet 87 percent of users want mobile acess to the 400 or so corporate apps an average enterprise works with. "Access" includes simply via a mobile-friendly Web portal. When you realize that more than half of enterprise apps are Web apps, the fact that only 22 percent of corporate apps can be used on a mobile device is even scarier -- nearly all those Web apps could be adapted to smartphone and tablet usage while remaining Web apps.
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For vendors, the data are worrisome because it means there aren't that many IT customers for their mobile app creation and management wares. For users, it means they can't be as productive when on a mobile device, which in turn limits business effectiveness and flexibility. For IT, it likely means further irrelevance, as users find commercial apps or build their own departmentally -- in a return to the "departmental computing" phenomenon of the late 1980s and early 1990s that saw dBase programmers in every department.
Today, we already have SaaS offerings like Salesforce.com refueling on the departmental-computing phenomenon, and the fact that marketing departments are poised to spend more on technology than IT further shows that business users can and will take over "IT" when IT doesn't deliver. As more and more computing happens on smartphones and tablets, the more business users will go their own way, using commercial apps from app stores, mobile-friendly Web services, and homegrown mobile apps (there are dozens of drag-and-drop "development" tools to create simply workflow-style apps, for example).
The reasons for the lack of mobile app support, according to the MobileHelix survey of 300 companies, are the usual ones: costs for development and support, as well as security concerns. Basically, IT or perhaps business management is unwilling to invest in mobile apps despite saying they are valuable, leaving users to figure it out on their own in a sort of "gray market" approach to productivity.
This is not a bad thing, except to IT departments that become less relevant to getting business done and instead grow further entrenched in infrastructure activities like managing networks and email accounts -- critical but not valued until something goes wrong.
For users and business managers, it's clear that if you want to go mobile, you will need to do it largely on your own. At most companies, IT won't be there to help in any meaningful way. For those companies that pay more than lip service to the value of mobile apps, there's a competitive advantage just waiting to be exploited.
This article, "IT is a no-show when it comes to mobile apps," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Galen Gruman's Smart User blog. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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THE west of the Wycombe District should bear the brunt of some development as the east "has reached saturation point", a campaign group has said.
Stokenchurch, with its access to the M40, and Saunderton, which has a train station, are two areas that should "share the load".
The Pimms Action Group said "too much focus" has been put on building homes and employment areas in High Wycombe. It urged Wycombe District Council to look west and preserve sites such as Gomm Valley.
The group calculated there are 7887 people per square mile in the Wycombe town area compared to 726 residents per square mile in the wider district.
In response to WDC's public consultation on the proposed Local Plan – which will outline where homes and economic sites will be built up to 2031 – the group said: "This demonstrates too much focus is put on the development of the eastern side of Wycombe, [it has reached] saturation point.
"Now is the time and opportunity to develop the western areas. Saunderton, with the benefit of a station, could be one area to contribute to the housing requirements.
"Stokenchurch could benefit from substantial investment creating houses and commercial development.
"The result would be an uplift to the declining shops available to the existing population and prospects of local job creation.
"The proximity to the M40 is a bonus to prospective commercial investment."
Focusing on the patch it is trying to save, the Pimms Action Group said WDC recognised the Gomm Valley's importance when it tried to have it registered as Green Belt land.
It said the roads around the area are already congested – which was one of the factors in the scrapping of a previous plan to develop the area in 2001.
Building houses now would only encourage future development, leading to the "gradual erosion of the valley".
The group added: "The valley has existed for hundreds of years. It is unique because of its variety of content; there is no other like it in Bucks. Why destroy and demolish this valuable habitat, [which would be] lost forever?
"The Gomm Valley should be preserved and considered for development only when all other areas have been developed."
Wycombe District Council may have to build between 500 and 700 new homes every year between now and 2031 to keep up with growth. Up to 400 dwellings are currently built every 12 months.
A review of the green belt will be carried out by the council, which previously said it "can't see an answer" that doesn't involve the use of some green belt land.
Saunderton and Stokenchurch are both in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which is designated by the government.
WDC said it would need "an extremely good reason" to develop AONB land but both villages have been identified as potential growth options in its Local Plan public consultation book.
The authority's public consultation on the Local Plan closes on Friday.
To have your say visit www.wycombe.gov.uk/newlocalplan or email your views to firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Outstanding gluten free! They make all the pizzas to order using mixed in house mix! The pizza tastes so fresh and is nice and moist where can you find wood fired gluten free pizza? Here and it is great!
18521 E Queen Creek Rd, Queen Creek, AZ 85142
One of the 1st local Places to offer GF!! One of our long time favorites!!
1880 S Alma School Rd, Chandler, AZ 85286
I had a small gluten free pizza with sausage and mushroom and did not get sick. I would recommend this pizza place for those with Celiacs
15475 W McDowell Rd, Goodyear, AZ 85395
Really nice manager when came out to check on us. My gluten-free pizza came out soggy. I think gluten-free crust needs to be perfected before serving to the public. Frozen was better then this. But he tried!! It's a great family place and I wish they made the wings gluten-free. I don't know why they aren't??
24762 N Lake Pleasant Pkwy, Peoria, AZ 85383
Tasty GF pizza & so happy the wings are GF as well. We eat at this location frequently & have had no issues.
15403 W Greenway Rd, Surprise, AZ 85374
Delicious!!! I order my pizza extra crispy and can't even tell the difference its gluten free!
20165 N 67th Ave, Glendale, AZ 85308
Love Love Love their gluten free pizza! my family and i have ordered so many times...I am quite gluten sensitive and have never gotten sick with their food. Total confidence.
1925 E Brown Rd, Mesa, AZ 85203
Was a fantastic gluten free pizza! Definitely will order again.
41111 N Daisy Mountain Dr, Anthem, AZ 85086
Great tasting pizza but occasionally get celiac sick- guess it depends on who is in the kitchen that day Not worth the risk
3053 West Agua Fria Freeway, Phoenix, AZ 85027
lost of cross contamination :( sad I love their pizza
4030 E Greenway Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85032
Great Staff, and pizza always tastes great!
5135 N Dysart Rd, Litchfield Park, AZ 85340
Excellent GF crust and the loaded veggie pizza is good if you make it crispy ;-) sauce is tasty and they're pretty conscious of keeping the dough away from regular pizza
1939 E Baseline Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85233
They have gluten free pizza and will make the salad without croutons. We have eaten at Barro's many times since both of my daughters were diagnosed with celiac disease - about 18 months now. Neither one has ever gotten "glutened." Although, we did once catch a crouton crumb on a salad and had to get a new one before she ate it. Just because they are very, very good at providing a safe environment, no one is perfect - you still have to be vigilant. Both my girls love their gluten free cheese pizza. It's a very thin and crisp crust.
1545 S Power Rd, Mesa, AZ 85209
Probably my favorite gf pizza crust. Tastes good, isn't a weird texture and a nice size for the price.
950 E Riggs Rd, Chandler, AZ 85249
GF pizza, separate prep area, cook on parchment to prevent cross contamination. ate here several times, no celiac issues.
1939 E Baseline Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85233
Never been sick from here.. The crust kind of taste like cardboard... And sometimes it's burnt but I guess that's just cause it's gluten free. Kind of expensive to for a small pizza.
1545 S Power Rd, Mesa, AZ 85209
I have Celiac and have ordered here several times over a couple of years and never really had an issue. One time they delivered the wrong pizza, but that was a one time mistake that was obvious and corrected very quickly. The manager makes the pizza themselves to ensure risk of cross contamination is minimized.
1113 S Signal Butte Rd, Mesa, AZ 85208
My go-to for gluten free pizza!
8940 E Indian Bend Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85256
15475 W McDowell Rd, Goodyear, AZ 85395
So good! Didn't have a problem!
3053 West Agua Fria Freeway, Phoenix, AZ 85027
It's $3 more for a GF pizza here but they take what they offer seriously. The manager proactively explained that it takes a little longer for a GF order because they use different pans and utensils and always keep parchment paper under the food. I've eaten at this location at least once a week for several months and never had any contamination issues.
6450 E Cave Creek Rd, Cave Creek, AZ 85331
Good choice for pizza. Helpful, understanding employees. Crust is thin(as expected w GF) but ours was cooked correctly and was tasty.
44600 W Smith Enke Rd, Maricopa, AZ 85139
love this place. tastes better when you eat in. Good menu
44600 W Smith Enke Rd, Maricopa, AZ 85139
Tried the gluten free pizza a couple of years ago. Not really a fan but something changed!!!! Love it, I get the mega meat minus the meatballs of course and the sub mushrooms!!!!
1925 E Brown Rd, Mesa, AZ 85203
The gluten-free pizza is very good. I always look forward to eating here every time I visit Arizona.
1431 E Williams Field Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85295
Favorite gluten free pizza so far! I love this place! Kid friendly and it's clean and family feel to it! Definitely coming back!
41111 N Daisy Mountain Dr, Anthem, AZ 85086
They do a good job with their gluten free crust at this location. They do need a gluten free alcohol though.
6450 E Cave Creek Rd, Cave Creek, AZ 85331
At one time they struggled with gluten free. The past year we have eaten their on a very regular basis. We are picky about quality and think their gluten free crust has been good for a year and great for the last 6 months. They have really figured out how to cook the gluten free crust at this location.
5135 N Dysart Rd, Litchfield Park, AZ 85340
I love the regular pizza and my wife and kids love the gluten free pizza. DELICIOUS!!
8940 E Indian Bend Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85256
Great service and pizza was super yummy!
18521 E Queen Creek Rd, Queen Creek, AZ 85142
Excellent gluten free pizza. The staff is very helpful. They also home delivery.
15475 W McDowell Rd, Goodyear, AZ 85395
My daughter really likes their crust and we've never had a problem with cross contamination.
2510 W Thunderbird Rd #6, Phoenix, AZ 85023
Love the GF pizza. Always safe to eat.
1113 S Signal Butte Rd, Mesa, AZ 85208
great pizza - no gluten there. got the salad, and it had croutons on it, and I couldn't eat it. bummer!
24762 N Lake Pleasant Pkwy, Peoria, AZ 85383
I loved Barros before I went GF, and bow I live their gluten free crust. we order pizza every Friday night from here, and the whole family looks forward to it!
24762 N Lake Pleasant Pkwy, Peoria, AZ 85383
Very good pizza never have had a problem
15440 N 7th St #13, Phoenix, AZ 85022
This location does not offer gluten free pizza. Update (8/8/2013): they now offer gf pizza. The gf.pizzas are cooked along side the regular pizzas, same pizza oven, so there is lots of cross contamination. I have not tried their gf pizza because of this.
24762 N Lake Pleasant Pkwy, Peoria, AZ 85383
Their GF pizza crust is dry and overcooked. It was hard as a rock. There are certainly better places in town (Cibo's or Picazzo's) to enjoy GF pizza. Also, they must have a high level of cross contanimation because I ended up in a great deal of pain the day after eating there. Won't be visiting again.
5135 N Dysart Rd, Litchfield Park, AZ 85340
New crust is not as good as the previous. Was disappointed.
15440 N 7th St #13, Phoenix, AZ 85022
This location DOES offer gluten-free pizza.
1939 E Baseline Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85233
They have a dedicated area for cooking GF Pizza. Have been eating hear for years and this is one of the few places my Celiac family can eat out, regularly.
41111 N Daisy Mountain Dr, Anthem, AZ 85086
GF pizza was good and dough was thicker than a lot of other GF pizzas I've tried. It was only a 10" pizza but with 3 toppings for $11 definitely worth the price. Staff was friendly and very helpful. I will definitely go back.
28260 N Tatum Blvd, Cave Creek, AZ 85331
GF pizza is pretty tasty but need to make it larger for GF families to share
8390 W Cactus Rd, Peoria, AZ 85381
My favorite gluten free pizza!
37 W Baseline Rd, Tempe, AZ 85283
I haven't been able to eat pizza in forever! I am so glad we found this place while on vacation. I had the GF pizza which was great and my family had the regular pizza which they also enjoyed. And they delivered!
1431 E Williams Field Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85295
The gluten free pizza is beyond amazing! I get it from this location all the time and have never had an issue. Barros customer for life.
37 W Baseline Rd, Tempe, AZ 85283
Good, flavorful crust and sauce. Decent toppings. According to their website they started offering GF after a family member was diagnosed. This is my go to pizza place now. Oh, and they deliver!
2510 W Thunderbird Rd #6, Phoenix, AZ 85023
I loved Barro's before I went gfree 1.5 years ago and I'm very happy they have a gluten free crust.
18521 E Queen Creek Rd, Queen Creek, AZ 85142
Very good about gf pizza issues. They have gf beer too. Feel safe.
1939 E Baseline Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85233
I am not severely allergic to gluten, so I wouldn't have any serious reactions, but this pizza is pretty good and I didn't feel sick afterwards. It only gets four stars because it's not the best gluten free pizza I've had.
1113 S Signal Butte Rd, Mesa, AZ 85208
Good gluten free pizza, delivered, fast. A favorite for me when I'm too busy or too tired to cook.
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This article was published 6/11/2012 (1751 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Will Tishinski is a former vice-president of Manitoba Hydro. In this, his presentation at a recent environmental review hearing of the new transmission line, Tishinski reveals the political bungling of the now $4-billion Bipole III that will hit ratepayers hard.
My entire 36-year working career was spent with Manitoba Hydro, the last nine years as vice-president. Most of my years were involved in the planning and operating of generating stations and high voltage transmission lines.
It's a travesty that the scope of this Clean Environment Commission hearing has been made so restrictive that no review can be made of reliability, nor of the "Need For and Alternatives To" -- NFAAT -- the Bipole III project.
Manitoba Hydro spent the better part of the afternoon of the first day describing the catastrophic consequences of an outage of the existing DC transmission lines and explaining the need for Bipole III. Reliability was advanced as the primary reason for construction of this line.
Despite all of the arguments for reliability, that topic was ruled out of scope. It is incredible that the project's most important purpose has been eliminated from the review process.
Likewise, elimination of an NFAAT review prevents any discussions of the alternative route on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. Any major project should be able to withstand the tests of a NFAAT review.
The crucial need for having an NFAAT review is best understood by reviewing the history of Bipole III.
Ever since bipoles I and II were placed in service, Manitoba Hydro recognized that Bipole III would be required at some future date.
In the early 1990s, when a sale to Ontario was in place, Hydro began planning a route for Bipole III on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. The professionals within Hydro considered all of the relevant issues involved in planning a transmission line, including technical, economic, reliability, environment and social.
Later, when Hydro established a need for Bipole III for Manitoba's own needs, it stayed with the east-side option. This plan initially called for a line only and no conversion equipment. Hydro had the right plan! Aboriginal consultations and route selection process commenced and continued for several years.
In 2004, the Government of Manitoba asked Hydro to cease work on the east side. Reason given was that the province intended to apply to UNESCO for a heritage site designation of some 43,000 square kilometres of forest on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. There was also a concern over the habitat disruption for woodland caribou in the area.
Hydro professionals reviewed these reasons and deemed them insufficient to cause a costly rerouting, documenting their concerns in reports in December 2004 and January 2005. These reports were presented to Hydro's board and eventually leaked to the public.
Undaunted, the government directed Hydro to abandon all work on the east side; the option for the line was a route on Manitoba's west side, near the Saskatchewan border.
After an approximately two-year period, engineering studies discovered a shocking engineering condition: The west-side route, which was some 54 per cent longer than the east side, would not work in conjunction with the existing bipoles. Costly conversion equipment was needed.
The conversion equipment requirement was a crucial revision to the engineering plan. This discovery figuratively threw a monkey wrench into the Bipole III plan. What started off as a perceived simple rerouting of a transmission line, exploded into a costly engineering revision.
The prudent course of action would have been to put the line back to the east side. Government stubbornly refused. It reminded Hydro the east side was not an option. At this juncture the project essentially fell off the rails.
Hydro now had to find a way to help pay for the costly conversion equipment. The electrical-demand growth within Manitoba was modest and a steep increase in costs could not be absorbed by Manitoba ratepayers. The obvious solution was to acquire new power sales to the U.S. to help pay for the conversion equipment.
In April 2008, a government announcement was issued that 500 megawatts of power had been contracted with Wisconsin Public Service, accompanied by a new transmission line to the States. This announcement simultaneously triggered a spin by government, that the Americans, not Manitobans, would pay for the additional costs of Bipole III. This spin will be addressed later.
Now facing the government's 54 per cent longer west-side line, plus the addition of conversion equipment, Hydro made a quick re-estimate of the project cost. A new cost of $2.247 billion for Bipole III was entered into the 2007 financial plan.
Hydro commenced to work actively on many fronts, including obtaining more detailed costs.
For several years the cost of Bipole III remained constant in the financial plan. Then rumours surfaced that costs had risen significantly to $4 billion. Knowledge of the new number was denied by government and Hydro's CEO as recently as December 2010.
At about the same time, a report was leaked from Hydro, signed off by the two most senior engineering vice-presidents within the corporation, confirming the new number of $4 billion for Bipole III.
While a debate was raging in public about the project cost, retired Hydro executives and university professors, using data from leaked reports, calculated the additional cost of the west-side route as being $1 billion. This $1 billion number pertained only to the line and had nothing to do with the converters. It was a present-value calculation that took into account the cost of the additional line length, increased losses and reduced security.
Hydro was now confronted with a troublesome issue whereby the total project cost mushroomed from $1 billion to $4 billion. And sadly, but coincidentally with the astronomical cost increase, we get reduced transmission capability, reduced security, increased losses and increased environmental and agricultural impact.
Confronted by such a dramatic increase in the project cost, the CEO of Hydro rejected the estimates prepared by his own engineers and hired an outside consultant to review the estimate, hoping for a lower cost.
In March 2011 the consultant submitted a lower estimate of $3.28 billion, which now stands as the official estimate.
The lower estimate contributes nothing towards lowering the power rates. Rates will be determined by the true cost, which will be known when line construction is completed and work orders closed out.
I am personally convinced the Hydro engineers' estimate will be proven to be correct. They have 40 years of experience with DC transmission and more years of proven methodology for estimating costs.
There has been much political chicanery since the government directed Hydro to build the line on the west side.
Initially, government had claimed there would be "mass deforestation" of the boreal forest if the line was built on the east side. Not true! If the line were routed through the narrowest points, the cleared right-of-way in the boreal forest would be no more than 150 kilometres in length. The cleared area would be less than 10 square kilometres, out of the total 43,000 square kilometres proposed for the UNESCO site. This is equivalent to cutting 10 trees out of 43,000.
Some proponents of the east-side line have called the line through the forest nothing more than "a thread on a football field," which is a good analogy.
There would be no mass deforestation.
Another government representative stated that the reason the line was being built on the west side was so that we could sell power to Saskatchewan. Nonsense!
DC transmission is used for point-to-point transmission and nobody would build a costly converter station (more than $1 billion) to sell a small amount of power for which transmission already exists.
The next spin was that Americans would pay for the additional cost of the west line and it would not cost Manitobans a cent. Not true. Purchases by American utilities are based on least-cost alternatives, not Manitoba costs. If a cheaper line is built on the east side, the savings become pure profit for Manitobans.
Another spin was that if we damage the forest on the east side the Americans will not buy our power. American legislation was passed to purchase clean hydro power, but nothing is said about locations of transmission lines.
A NFAAT review, with expert witnesses testifying under oath, would have clarified all of these points and eliminated public confusion surrounding the project. The review would have also shed light on other outstanding issues. Here are some of the more notable.
Since the line is being rerouted to preserve the forest on the east side of Lake Winnipeg, in order to enhance UNESCO heritage designation, we need to see a business plan for the heritage site.
It is claimed by the heritage site proponents that huge ecotourism benefits will flow when this forest receives its designation. No business plan has been prepared to illustrate the claimed benefits. We don't know if all the ecotourist revenue will come from a Banff-style operation or from leaving the forest in a pristine wilderness state.
If tourism revenues are to be derived from an operation such as at Banff, then we must have development of roads, service stations, hotels, night clubs, sewage lagoons, etc. This kind of infrastructure is far more intrusive than any transmission line.
On the other hand, if we leave it as a wilderness area, then how is it possible to derive all the ecotourism benefits? A billion-dollar decision was made without backup information.
Regarding disruption of the woodland caribou, a road with its traffic will kill more caribou than any transmission line.
Another issue that needs to be reviewed is the in-service date. When the west-side line was announced, the in-service date was pegged at 2017. Since that time, our economy has changed dramatically. A recession has struck North America. Hydro's load growth has decreased, the American economy has softened, as evidenced by the Wisconsin Public Service sale reduction from 500 MW to 100 MW, natural gas prices are lower and a host of other parameters have changed.
A project delay is not new to Hydro. In 1976, construction of the Limestone station was started and then stopped two years later because of a reduction in the predicted electrical demand.
Construction was resumed in 1985 and, fortuitously, the plant came in under budget, concurrently with profitable American export contracts. It would be prudent to re-examine the Bipole III in-service date.
Hydro also seems to be paralyzed in its creativity. With the government ostensibly doing all of the planning for Bipole III, it appears as if Hydro is so intent in pleasing its political bosses, there is no attempt to minimize the west-side line costs. Significant cost-savings opportunities exist with a re-examination of the preferred location for the receiving-end converter station, which is currently at Riel.
The Riel station location was established with the expectation Bipole III would approach Winnipeg from the northeast side. Given that the line will now approach the city from the southwest side, it makes economic sense to consider moving the converter station to the southwest corner of Winnipeg. The line length could be shortened by 120 kilometres leading to an immediate saving of at least $120 million.
The shortened line would also give us increased security, reduced losses and avoidance of negative environmental impact on valuable farmland south and east of Winnipeg.
The restrictions placed on this commission by the government have prevented any investigation of these and other important aspects.
But the real tragedy of all is that the environmental impact of the east-side line is not compared to the west-side line because any discussion of the east side has been ruled out-of-scope.
The severe restrictions placed on this commission have not served the public interests at all.
The only rationalization I can offer to the process, and the Bipole III saga, as it has unfolded, is linked to the adage "no person is totally useless; he can always serve as a bad example."
Likewise, this line, with all its inferior qualities, will also serve as a bad example. For the next 100 years, future generations will gaze at the towers and ponder how it happened that reckless politicians built this crazy west-side line instead of the vastly superior east-side line, as proposed by experienced, competent professionals within Manitoba Hydro.
Will Tishinski is an electrical engineer. He made this presentation as a private citizen to the Clean Environment Commission Nov. 1.


text: The French yachtsman rescued by an Australian ship from the Southern Ocean says it's a miracle he's been given a second chance at life. Alain Delord, pictured, spent three days in a life raft before being rescued by the cruise ship Orion on Sunday night about 500 nautical miles south-east of Tasmania after his yacht Tchouk Tchouk Nougat was dismasted on a round-the-world voyage. ''It's a second chance at life,'' he said through a translator after arriving in Hobart on board the Orion on Tuesday. ''It's a miracle the Orion was on the way back.'' Delord said it had been more than three months since he had left home. The cruise liner arrived at Macquarie Wharf just after 9am on Tuesday. Mr Delord lost his personal belongings, including his passport, and new documents were organised before he could disembark.


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Did you know?
The old Sanatorium in Belgravia was Cecil John Rhodes' headquarters during the Siege of Kimberley, which happened during the South African War (also known as the Anglo-Boer War), fought between 1899 and 1902.
Kimberley's McGregor Museum is based in the old Kimberley Sanatorium building in the upmarket suburb of Belgravia, but it has a number of satellite venues spread around the 'City of Diamonds'.
It is also a major Northern Cape research institute specialising in natural and cultural history. When you look at a general map of Kimberley and surrounds, you'll see markings for places that include the Duggan-Cronin Gallery, Rudd House, Dunluce House, the Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre, the Magersfontein battlefield site, the Pioneers of Aviation Museum and, further afield, the Wonderwerk Cave near Kuruman and a museum at the Mokala National Park.
The displays at the old Sanatorium are eclectic and highly interesting if your bent is general knowledge. You will glean all kinds of snippets on your ramblings downstairs and upstairs in this massive old building.
Some examples:
• When Jan van Riebeeck arrived at the Cape in 1652, there were only 500-million people living in the world;
• In 1800, the international average life expentancy was 25;
• Africa's first mine was established 110 000 years ago in Swaziland;
• Rock art was a 'creative explosion' that happened 40 000 years ago and spread around the world;
• The earliest-known chicken found in Africa dates back to 700 AD.
Your explorations of the central McGregor Museum will take you from cave dwellers to the dawn of humanity, ancient tools and hand-axes, the Stone Age, the arrival of Europeans in South Africa, conflict over minerals, Olive Schreiner, Chief Galeshewe (a local hero) and right through to the Siege of Kimberley.
Designed to pique your interest in southern African history, the exhibits range from various details on travellers and explorers through to the heady diamond field days of Kimberley and its huge role during the South African (Anglo-Boer) War period.
Kimberley is so replete with historical keepsakes and artefacts that much of what you see in this building comes from the personal collections of the older families whose roots lie deep in the city.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
McGregor Museum
Tel: +27 (0)53 839 2700
Fax: +27 (0)53 842 1433
Tour bookings: +27 (0)53 839 2717
Diamond Visitor Centre (Kimberley)
Tel: +27 (0)53 832 7298
Fax: +27 (0)53 832 7211
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Kimberley Tour Guide: Steve Lunderstedt
Mobile: +27 (0)83 732 3189
How to get here
The central museum is in Atlas Street in the Kimberley suburb of Belgravia.
Best time to visit
Autumn (April-May) and Spring (September-October) are about the best times to visit Kimberley, which experiences boiling summers (December to March) and very cold winter nights (June to August).
Around the area
Why not do a day drive to the diamond diggings at Barkly West, or visit the evocative Magersfontein battle site south of Kimberley? Central to the entire city and its beginnings is, of course, the Kimberley Big Hole.
Tours to do
Steve Lunderstedt is one of the leading historical guides around Kimberley, and his tours are very popular: see the listed details under Contacts. He also does an excellent Ghost Tour of Kimberley.
Get around
Because the satellite museums of the McGregor complex are so spread out, it's best to have your own car.
What will it cost
Entry fees are R10 per adult, R5 per child.
Length of stay
To do full justice to the entire McGregor Museum complex and its satellites, one would need at least 3 days. At the least, spend a few hours inside the McGregor Museum itself.
Where to stay
There are a number of good hotels and b&bs in the Belgravia area, which would situate you close to the central museum and other historical Kimberley sites.
Best buys
Buy 1 of a number of good books on the Kimberley Siege, on sale at the Museum Shop.


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Same homophobia as the old one.
You may not know the name Rod Dreher…
Au contraire, mon frere.
Yes, I expect to see many of these dirtbags attempt to reinvent themselves as kinder, gentler dirtbags now that they sense they've made themselves massively unpopular. Don't worry, they'll keep fucking that chicken.
We saw the post-election head scratching from the GOP. Today on TPM there's a bit about Erickson of all critters, bewailing the fact that conservatives are too angry and incoherent. (While at the same time not passing on the chance to whine about the liberal media.)
But it won't work for two reasons, the eternal memory of the Internet is one. But more importantly, these people are assholes. They enjoy being assholes. They've made a living off assholery for years. You can't undo that just by thinking warm fuzzy thoughts because someone you know died.
I had EXACTLY this reaction.
I've heard of Rod Dreher. To paint him as a "reformed conservative" seems to be like saying the John Birch Society is just a reformed Klan.
He was not reformed as of Feb. 25, on which date he goes off on the Post for being unfair to anti-gay hateniks.
Cry me a fucking river, stuff rocks in your pockets and hop in.
Yeah, Edroso's been on this beat for a while. (Googling "crunchy con" also produces some gems.)
I'll give this to Drehrer — I didn't expect him to be on the ball enough to realize that he could tap the indefatigable well for popular entertainment saying how much moral superiority people who live in small towns have over the rest of us. Maybe they'll make his book into a Reese Witherspoon movie.
Dreher's one of those people who brings out the best in Roy (by which I mean, the most hilariously, viciously bitchy).
I didn't expect him to be on the ball enough to realize that he could tap the indefatigable well for popular entertainment saying how much moral superiority people who live in small towns have over the rest of us.
According to a a link from the article Scott links to, Dreher is being paid somewhere around $1 million dollars for this particular paean to the moral and spiritual superiority of small towns in the American South. This money, of course, will be used to fund Dreher's numerous jaunts to Paris. This is good news, because Dreher is "happy in Paris in a way that I'm not happy in Altoona: Because most of the things that matter most to me in life — faith, food, beauty, contemplation, conversation — exist here in a degree of harmony and intensity that they do not anywhere else. Put another way, I am most myself here, or so it seems to me."
Fucking small-town American hillbillies who don't know Délice de Bourgogne from Dietrich Bonhoeffer – why can't you be more like Rod Dreher's imaginary best friend from Paris?
He was a free man in Paris,
He felt unfettered and alive.
My first thought is that is from "Giovanni's Room", which is just all wrong. Now let me google…
Ok, not "Giovanni's Room".
To the best of my recollection, nobody in Giovanni's Room felt unfettered and alive.
(although the sexual orientation of the hero of "Free Man in Paris" is ambiguous)
How does anyone not know one of Joni's best?
You go, wjts.
How you gonna keep them down on the farm after they've seen Paree?
In one of my all time favorite Dreher bits, he wearily shakes his head at the decline of Europe (because socialism) as evidenced by the fact that the bread he buys in Paris just doesn't taste as good anymore.
Obviously a lot of people already believe that small town America is "real America", but the idea of cons taking over the airport bookstore with their propaganda is worrying.
Have you looked in an airport bookstore recently? It's always the lowest common denominator in there, and it always will be. The NYT bestseller list and a double handful of genre crap for those desperate for a fix of romance, the old west, or vampires. All three at once if you're lucky.
Storytelling is inherently conservative; readers wish to see the worthy rewarded and the unjust punished. They want a narrative arc grounded in morality so they can identify with, and root for, individual characters.
Non-fiction is worse; I dare you to find a business book that isn't an inherent celebration of "free-market" capitalism.
I'm uncomfortable labeling all romance or vampire-related fiction crap. Having been a reader of both–often at the same time*–I'm rather fond of genres, and I'm not quite sure why they're any sillier than any other niche genre.
No, not "Twilight."
*No, not "Twilight."
Geez. Really in need of an edit button today.
I read a ton of genre myself, and it's made me a firm believer in Sturgeon's Law. Tanya Huff's vampire books were inconsequential fun*, Time Powers' were…unsettling. Lois Bujold's novels almost always have a substantial romantic sub-plot, which sometimes becomes the main plot.
But good luck finding any of those three authors in an airport bookstore. There will be some conflict technoporn from Baen Books, Star Wars and Star Trek tie-in novels, and some angsty supernatural handwringing that reads like Anita Blake fanfic.**
So. Mass market publishing kinda sucks, airport bookstores' selection totally sucks, and whatever kind of book you like to read is fine by me.
*Not a knock; light entertainment is much heavier lifting than it seems.
**Which isn't to knock fanfic either. I'm just not willing to pay $8.99 for it.
Electoral politics made me a believer in Sturgeon's Law.
Airport bookstores cater to people who want distraction that can be put aside quickly. Not a market for deep-dish readers.
I don't disagree that mass-marketing publishing is the pits, but I'd argue it reflects the tastes of a conservative and poorly educated society; it has nothing to do with the politics of storytelling.
Anita Blake fanfic is just so meta, given that LKH's female protagonists are not-very-thinly-veiled Mary Sues.
I'm not sure if that was Hanks' point, or he was just pointing out the fact that people who dig a particular genre will often read some terrible, terrible books because they just want something in the right genre.
But yeah, people who making dismissing statements about genre fiction in toto tend to be myopic at best, if they're not just trendy nonsense peddlers who care about books as culture signifers more than anything else.
What would be some recommendations for kinda like Twilight, but good, Dr?
Yes, I'm threadjacking, but who wants to talk about Rod Dreher?
OK, I should admit up front, I was a romance reader. Until they got a little too silly & schlocky and hackneyed and repetitive even for me and gave it up. Then someone turned me on to this series. So far as I can tell she's the only one out there doing decent paranormal romance (and, no, I can't imagine any of the guys and gals of LGM liking it. At all.) But anyway, if you're into it, you'll be elbow-deep in Lore and magic and vampires, werewolves, demons and witches. Also hot sex. Fun.
I recently went on a "teen girl saves post-apocalyptic world" jag. Everyone knows that "Hunger Games" is incredibly good, but not everyone may know that "Enclave" is a light, quick, quality read, as well. Plus, zombies.
This put me on another path: dark YA fairy tales. Currently I am reading this, and it's shockingly well-written. And apparently, some people think this is the most sinfully delicious thing since chocolate. It is next on my reading list.
Now everyone can back away slowly with horrified looks on their faces.
I'm being moderated. :(
That seems to happen randomly now. I've been stuck in moderation for no apparent reason twice recently.
meant as a reply to dr kenneth above.
I think it may be my links.
I think more than one or two links make the spam-filter nervous.
Also, for dark YA fairies I s'pose you done read all the Weetzie Bat books already.
Everyone knows that "Hunger Games" is incredibly good
I honestly did not care much for the Hunger Games, but that probably shouldn't have surprised me since fight sequences tend not to engage me.
I stopped halfway through the second one when I realized that no, seriously, they were gonna go fight the Hunger Games again.
No. World-building completely implausible. Character and plot were okay, but not the world-building. The economics don't work (supply chains? we don't need supply chains. We can build all electronics inside a single self-contained district. And weaponry in a different one. And aircraft seem to grow on trees.). There is literally nothing outside of what used to be America (Canada? Mexico? What are they?). Gah.
Oh, ok. Weyull, I liked it.
I will defend it. Kenneth, I am on your frequency.
Two things:
1) Worldbuilding doesn't matter as much as the fable, the thematic/metaphorical level of the story which is about war, slavery, genocide, torture, propaganda, and other such atrocities. It's about the present, not the future. I think this aspect of the story works well: there are no good guys; even the hero is tempted by the dream of redemptive violence and learns that there is no such thing; war is always evil. It is undercut, yes, by the way the "games" become a videogame-like spectacle for the reader, but even that has a metafictional level which asks the reader to think about why that's entertaining.
2) Worldbuilding: perhaps realizing how many gaping holes her worldbuilding had in the first volume, Collins dropped in details that would rationalize it a little bit in the second and third. By the end of the series, it seems that the "districts" are actually small isolated colonies surrounded by vast wilderness, and that the world has been so entirely disrupted by global warming that only a few tens of thousands of people are left. The characters worry that if they can't learn to give up war, humanity will go extinct. This is a little bit less incoherent than the first volume makes it appear.
you'll be elbow-deep in Lore and magic and vampires, werewolves, demons and witches.
zrm, I see a niche. It's up to you fill it.
Isn't that pretty much the plot of Warm Bodies?
June, buddy. Your turn comes in June.
It's a very different kind of paranormal, but check out Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books. And I'll check out Cole; apparently I can read Philippa Gregory with pleasure, so I must not be entirely allergic to romance.
(Also, check out Janice Radway's Reading Romance, a sympathetic ethnography of romance readers.)
Radway is so good. There was a class in library school that I took specifically because it covered that book, which I became interested in because I read her essay "Reading is Not Eating" in a different class.
Storytelling is inherently conservative; readers wish to see the worthy rewarded and the unjust punished.
The first clause is incorrect (*), and the second has no relation to the first.
* See, for example, pretty much all of Jesus' parables. Or all of Ursula LeGuin's work. I can go on.
Perhaps I should have said most storytelling. Where would you rank the parables and LeGuin in the ranks of printed fiction? Top 10%? 1%? 0.001%?
Most fiction is comfort food.
Okay, Mark Twain. Irving's Ciderhouse Rules. Melville. The Grapes of Wrath.
Story can subvert the status quo every bit as easily as preserve it.
Yep, it can. It usually doesn't. Check out the other bestsellers from 1939. Other than The Grapes of Wrath, d'you recognize any of 'em?
Just, Dog help me, The Yearling. So I'd argue that subversive literature is more likely to stand the test of time. But I have nothing but anecdata to support that.
Petroleum V Nasby. Rex Beach. Eugene Stratton Porter(not O. Henry the short story writer). Joseph Hergesheimer, and God help me, Charles Brockden Brown.
In fairness, "inherently" implies that there are outliers, but the first instinct of a storyteller is a morality tale, because people like simplicity.
Ex: Jesus' parables are inherently liberal, except the ones that aren't (the ten virgins, for instance)
Worthy rewarded, unjust punished? Sounds like the conservative nightmare to me.
That depends on what you think of as "worthy" and "unjust". They probably think that Hester Prynne got her just desserts, but Uriah Heep was treated shamefully.
It says not good things about me that when I try to imagine your common or garden neo-con sitting down with either of those books it MAKES MY BRAIN HURT.
That's a thought – David Brooks missed a trick in not covering Uriah Heep for The Humility Course…
The "small town = real America" thing really drives me nuts sometimes.
More people live in NYC than the combined populations of just about any 3 states in the deep south, but I have to constantly hear how the rural South is "real America".
I've always wondered where the dividing line is between "Real" and "Fake" America. Growing up in suburban Atlanta (in Newt's old district, BTW), but now living in the city, I think what people mean is that "Fake America" is any place where a black/brown person may look at you in public. It counts double if they look at you on a bus or the subway.
Pretty much. Real America(TM) can only truly be found in The God Old Days(R). However, people believe (and not incorrectly so) that small towns tend to lag behind larger cities in terms of ideas and behavior and number of brown people.
I regularly visit a place that at first glance would meet the requirements. But then you start talking to people, especially the 20 somethings, and you realize cable TV and the Internet are rapidly killing off Real America. There just isn't any way to keep all those outside influences and ideas away any more.
I've often wondered if my hometown would qualify as real America to this bunch or if all the Native Americans turn it into unreal America?
I have the same question from where i live.
that depends on how you define "real america". if you define it as the place where the vast majority of the population resides, then yes, of course NYC,Chicago and LA would be "real america".
"but I have to constantly hear how the rural South is "real America"."
if you define it as the place where the people are routinely under-educated, ill-informed and easily swayed, by virtue of their virulent prejudices, then yeah, the sparsely populated, rural south is "real america".
That's "Reel 'Murka," there, Bub!!!
I haven't flown in a few years, but it was disturbing when I did do a lot of flying in the early-mid 00's, how many books by O'Reilly, Hannity, Coulter, et al, were front and center at the airport book stores, right next to the latest "The DaVinci Code" book-clones.
I also found tons of Conservative magazines, but I discovered early on, not to even bother asking for the latest issue of "The Nation" there, because no one's ever heard of it – at least down in NC, GA, SC, and FL, which is where I mostly flew to and from.
Most southern airports these days have Fox News playing on the TV screens in the gate areas.
As do most military facilities that have TVs. I get tired of seeing that crap all. The. Damn. Time.
Not in the biggest southern airport of them all. Atlanta is CNN country. And I've definitely bought a copy of The Nation at Hartsfield-Jackson.
I was speaking of "airport bookstores" as a more general term for "pop book culture." I wasn't so much thinking of Limbaugh or O'Reilly's vomit, since that is easily identifiable. I am thinking more about the next few Mitch Alboms or Malcolm Gladwells being hardcore wingnuts pushing their agenda under a guise of fuzzy, feel-good pop writing.
Isn't that based on where you are? When I fly out of here I always dart into the airport bookstore because I always decide I don't have enough books for a trip. I don't recall seeing any of that crap.
Dreher's Proof:
Premise 1: Gay = Alcoholic
Premise 2: Gay = McCarthy
Theorem Application: Transitive Property
Conclusion: McCarthy = Alcoholic
Hmm, I cannot fail him for this, much as I would like to. Results matter.
Not bad. Like what my calculus teacher referred to as a "lie sandwich", where your proof slips into falsity and back via two invalid steps. Or maybe this is more of an open-faced lie sandwich.
You mean, like a Dagchester?
Don't forget the racism! Pretty much every time there's a black group crime at a mall anywhere, Dreher is all about posting a cell phone video of it and a comment that's basically "TNB, amirite?"
This. I was fooled for (short) time by Dreher's sweet and civil vocabulary. Then I hit one of his OMG THE BLACKS posts.
He's so scared of those brown people he wets himself.
Plus… Steve Sailer in the comments! Except his post on this controversy, which has comments closed.
I actually kind of love Steve Sailer because I can't imagine a more hilariously inept propagandist for White Nationalism.
It still makes my skin crawl to read him, of course.
Robert Stacey McCain.
I… had forgotten about RSM.
Sailer's in my mind right now because he had a hilarious rebuttal of K-Drum's lead piece that proved nothing except that he doesn't understand data gathering, statistics, or the basic concept of the scientific method.
It boggled me to see Andrew Gelman treat Sailer with respect on his blog. Like… do you know who this guy is?
"And last year, Brooks placed Dreher among the conservatives of the future, who 'tend to be suspicious of bigness: big corporations, big government, a big military, concentrated power and concentrated wealth.'"
I'msorrywhatnow? 99% of Republicans (and the majority of conservatives) are on the jock of big business, big military, and concentrated power and wealth. Who is Brooks trying to kid?
Who is Brooks trying to kid?
Nieporent, and other glibertarians.
First of all, apparently so!
New conservative, same as the old. Two thumbs down.
Second of all, I love your posts.
Also, his readers, his bosses at the Times, Robert Siegel, your aunt, the American public, any aliens listening in to our broadcasts.
Probably the reason why the aliens have stayed away so far.
I always assumed fooling himself was a pretty big part of the equation.
I'm sorry. I had no idea Dreher was known as anything other than full-on wingnut.
Dreher wasn't the guy who bragged about letting his gay brother die alone and unloved (probably of AIDS!!!!!) in San Francisco?
I'm not sure. He was the one who applied the term "Lavender Mafia" to the bishops in Rome, however.
That is correct, although I'm not sure it was bragged so much as fantasized about.
To clarify: he knew for a fact his brother was dead, but seemed to put a lot of thought into imagining how awful his last days were.
Odd that that didn't make it into the Alternet link, especially as it contrasts with the death of his sister.
Eww. Links? I've read a lot of richly-deserved Dreher bashing over the years, but I don't recall that one. I didn't assume I'd be lowering my opinion of Dreher any more.
Oops, I'm thinking of Dan Riehl: http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4065.html
That makes a lot of sense. Dan Riehl, for those keeping score, is also the fantasy subway car battler of those dusky hordes of D.C.
Good times.
Reading about the fucktoads' adventures in Chocolate City is even better than watching them because you see what they were thinking. It's like they're aware that black people are here, but they're shocked to find we're allowed to walk around and interact with normal people. Either that or they can only conceive of perhaps a dozen black people in the entire U.S. So when they see number 13: Brain assplodes.
Everybody knows there are not these "dozens" of black people.
The second funniest thing about the Riehl thing is his contrasting description of a good sized bunch of Republicans riding on the metro and talking about politics loudly enough for everyone to hear and his description of what those terrible nogoodniks in the back were doing.
Sorry, ever mind. Google tells me that was actually Dan Riehl.
Riehl has always fascinated me, because he manages to stand out as just plain stupid even among right-wing bloggers. That's like being the least qualified member of a state legislature.
The leopard does not change his shorts. Here he is earlier this week, shitting his pants because (according to his totally not biased clips of an email exchange) the Washington Post doesn't provide fair coverage of gay rights issues (i.e. refuses to include the latest spittle flecked invective from fucksticks like Dreher.)
The reader isn't asking the Post to take the side of traditionalists; he or she is simply asking the Post to report the news in an evenhanded way. And the reporter refuses to do so. I suppose we should be grateful that the reporter doesn't feel the need to make the preposterous claim that there is no bias; the reporter lays it right out there, saying that bigotry in news reporting against orthodox Christians and other marriage traditionalists is an act of virtue.
Boo. Fucking. Hoo. The attempt to recast anti-gay bigots as traditionalists makes me laugh. Through out the ages Tradition! has been the bigots' countersign, mating call and battle cry.
The Post will be "evenhanded" in its reporting (and I am not saying they are or aren't) when Fox News is. So, in other words, never.
The reporter's statement he highlights does make me a little itchy as a reporter myself, because it couches coverage of gays and gay issues in the sorta squishy terms of "fairness and justice" as opposed to something more like "well, that's the world, we're not going to pretend it's otherwise because it makes Rod Dreher feel a little weird in the pit of his stomach."
But Dreher and his pal seem to want to get to register their displeasure every time that gays or gay issues are mentioned, because that's how "traditionalists" maintain their traditions, by trying to bully people into following them.
Conservatives seem to almost always experience neutrality as opposition, because their world view doesn't allow for them to go their way and us to go ours, because the government or the Post not enforcing their worldview on us means it's discriminating against them.
And I guess their right, because a big part of their worldview is the demand that they get to set the standards and we have to respect their autoritah and keep our various sins against grand old tradition out of public view.
I read more Dreher than is probably healthy, just because his worldview is so fascinatingly fucked, and I have to say, seeing him on Oprah would be… interesting. Would he go into his theory about how 'traditionalists' are losing the battle against gay marriage because the kids care too much about this new-fangled thing called love? Would he explain how the Church could solve it's pedophilia problem by chasing the gays out? The possibilities are endless.
I give Dreher credit for realizing his side is on the losing side of history with regards to gay rights despite his own inability to evolve morally on said issue.
Don't give him too much credit; the whole Besieged Minority thing comes straight from his longing for martyrdom.
Standing athwart history yelling 'QUEER!'
I am in Maine right now, and reading your comment in the local accent is more hilarious than it should be.
Rod Dreher is very hurt that someone would use his own words to suggest that he is an asshole, and he would like you to know that the lurkers support him in e-mail.
And you're not allowed to call him a homophobe! No! Stop that!
All he wants is a free and open debate about homosexuality where he gets to police the terms. Is that so unreasonable?
Homosexuality: godless threat or Satanic menace?
Or Perversity for Profit.
That's the most contemptible load of self-pitying butt-heart I've read since Andrew Sullivan's most recent complaint (I think? I confess I haven't been keeping up) about how mean people are to him just because he's a stupid sack of racist shit.
That's the most contemptible load of self-pitying butt-heart I've read since Andrew Sullivan's most recent complaint (I think? I confess I haven't been keeping up) about how mean people are to him just because he's a stupid sack of racist shit.
You read Dreher and Sullivan? Does the phrase "glutton for punishment" mean anything to you?
Only when someone like Roy or Scott points me towards something of theirs. I have a delicate constitution, which is easily upset by too much bathetic piety.
And he bravely disallowed comments on the post. The heart stirs to see such courage of one's convictions.
One of his little minions is whining similarly on the Alternet thread.
Speaking of that piece, that's …. an interesting photo there, isn't it? Rod cuddling an, erm, rooster?
It just means he can control his instincts around domestic fowl.
Keep fucking that rooster, Rod.
Um, Rod's barnyard shenanigans are strictly opposite sex. Are you implying he's some sort of homo?
He likes a little cock, yes.
It's called "self-love"
I value the generosity of spirit and openness to civil dialogue that is the true mark of tolerance
That is, if you're gay, you can't marry, which means that you can never, ever have sex, but we're all being very civil here, so I won't call you a pervert to your face.
I enjoyed this comment on the article by SnowyOwl:
If you read enough of his columns, you'll find that while Dreher is intelligent, articulate, and well-read, he's also stuck at an adolescent emotional level regarding sexuality. He's clearly uncomfortable with sex in general, female sexuality in particular, and gay sex most of all. Yet he writes about it at every opportunity. More than that, any sort of aberrant sexuality fascinates him, even as he goes on about how disgusting and awful it is. He's written more than one column about bestiality in the news, for instance. It's as if he can't NOT write about sex, especially the "Lavender Mafia" to use one of his pet phrases.
He's quite similar to someone like Ross Douthat, in fact. Both have that erudite, above-it-all air of intellectual spirituality, as if they long to be free of something so vulgar, mundane, and just plain icky as the flesh. You may have known people like them in high school — smart, lonely, picked on, desperately eager to be regarded as grownups, unable to really fit in. To that extent, I'm sympathetic. The problem is, when their bodies grew up, their emotions never really did. Notice how often a childish snarkiness creeps into their otherwise well-written columns. They basically live in their heads and barely tolerate their bodies, even as they can't stop thinking about them, obsessing over them. And not just theirs, but everybody else's.
If you read enough of his columns, you'll find that while Dreher is intelligent, articulate, and well-read, he's also stuck at an adolescent emotional level regarding sexuality. He's clearly uncomfortable with sex in general, female sexuality in particular, and gay sex most of all. Yet he writes about it at every opportunity. More than that, any sort of aberrant sexuality fascinates him, even as he goes on about how disgusting and awful it is. He's written more than one column about bestiality in the news, for instance. It's as if he can't NOT write about sex, especially the "Lavender Mafia" to use one of his pet phrases.
He's quite similar to someone like Ross Douthat, in fact. Both have that erudite, above-it-all air of intellectual spirituality, as if they long to be free of something so vulgar, mundane, and just plain icky as the flesh. You may have known people like them in high school — smart, lonely, picked on, desperately eager to be regarded as grownups, unable to really fit in. To that extent, I'm sympathetic. The problem is, when their bodies grew up, their emotions never really did. Notice how often a childish snarkiness creeps into their otherwise well-written columns. They basically live in their heads and barely tolerate their bodies, even as they can't stop thinking about them, obsessing over them. And not just theirs, but everybody else's.
Wait, hold everything! Apparently "lifestyle liberalism" entails children playing video games and even (brace yourself) watching raunchy Game of Thrones YouTubes!
Ah, Rod "Big Government is Bad When it Helps Other People" Dreher
"Broadband access at my house is frustratingly slow. We had to cancel Netflix, because we can't stream. My iPad apps can't update, and have been permanently hung up for weeks (I've rebooted the iPad several times, to no avail). Skyping is very spotty. You can't watch any online video, even YouTube, without transmission being interrupted.
This is such a small town that I don't know that AT&T has any real economic incentive to upgrade its equipment to provide first-class broadband to people here. Is this something the town, or parish government, would have an interest in subsidizing, as an economic development initiative?"
Then he goes on to quote approvingly of an Obama initiative to expand broadband connections to small towns and rural areas, whining that a majority of his fellow citizens don't want their tax dollars to be used to support his lifestyle choices.
Also, check out his classic tirade after he attended a wedding where the bride sported a (gasp!) tattoo! The slut! (his word)
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Pay attention all you Buck Pierce fans who were eager to rush over to The Bomber Store to get outfitted in the new quarterback's jersey...
Initially we reported Pierce would wear No. 16 -- the same as Matt Dunigan -- because that's the number he wore during his time with the B.C. Lions. Also, after the Bombers signed Pierce this week he was listed as #16 on the club's roster on CFL.ca.
But Bomber media relations guy Darren Cameron informs me Pierce will actually wear No. 4 this season, not 16.
And just in the interest of fairness -- the coaches have insisted Pierce has not been anointed the starter -- it's worth noting that Steven Jyles will wear No. 3 while Ricky Santos is No. 7. Adam DiMichele, who came over from Calgary last September, wore No. 4 last year but will have to surrender that to Pierce.


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Given the year-long delay in the opening night of Investors Group Field, Winnipeg football fans were justifiably surprised to find themselves in the middle of an apparent construction site when the Blue Bombers played their first pre-season game.
On Wednesday night, fans struggled to avoid tripping across a ladder and dolly left on the west-side concourse. An asphalt machine was puttering outside the southeast corner of the building.
Some seats were congealed in a layer of construction dust, paint-flecked clothing was left in a stairwell and some surfaces remained unfinished.
Winnipeg Football Club president and CEO Garth Buchko described the remaining work to be done to the $200-million stadium as "touchups, mostly" and noted he personally assisted the final beautification efforts in the lead-up to Wednesday's kickoff.
"Two hours before, I was pushing a broom, cleaning up cement dust. That's just the reality of the situation," Buchko said at a press conference Thursday to address the issues with opening night.
Work on the stadium went so close to the wire, the City of Winnipeg only issued a final occupancy permit on Tuesday, a day before the first football game. Hence the visible presence of construction materials and equipment.
"If you saw those things, they shouldn't have been there," Buchko said.
On the bright side, a long-rumoured failure to complete concession stands at the new stadium turned out not be true. Many concessions were not open on Wednesday because roughly one-quarter of the concessions staff were unable to attend the game in time, Buchko said.
This resulted in long lineups at the concessions that were operating, restricting the movement of fans throughout the stadium's much-vaunted open concourse -- and restricting views of the playing field.
The west-side stands wound up being just as congested as the concourse at the MTS Centre, a building that was crammed into a small footprint. Investors Group Field was designed to provide a superior fan experience, at least in comparison to the one offered by Canad Inns Stadium, currently under deconstruction at Polo Park.
Buchko, who has been forced to come before the media to address disappointments before, was again contrite on Thursday when asked to consider the significance of Wednesday night.
"We're looking at this as a great learning experience. We have to learn from it. We have to get better," he said.
"I don't think it was a disaster. It was certainly disappointing when we don't satisfy our customers."
Despite the disappointing game-day experience on opening night, most fans interviewed by the Free Press and other media outlets seemed happy with the venue. The sightlines from almost all seats are as excellent as they were advertised to be. The seats are spacious and comfortable. The new public-address system is exceptionally clear.
There were also short lineups in most men's washrooms, which are not only devoid of troughs but adorned with touchless sinks and hand-dryers.
Playing devil's advocate, it's possible to accept the failure of the event-day transportation plan on Wednesday as a necessary part of the learning curve associated with the new stadium. But it's tough to understand how a stadium delayed by a year can require so many "touchups" at the last minute.
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epiv - Friday, June 04, 2004 - linkWhat is wrong with AnandTech? With all the new stuff at Computex. The first article has to be about a new standard that is not very exciting. I am not impressed with the BTX products offered right now. I am sure there are other more interesting products in Computex. Reply
justly - Friday, June 04, 2004 - link#23 – I did see that only micro and pico BTX boards where the only ones referenced in the article but unless Anand made a mistake in the article (very possible) it does state that "Chenbro had a full BTX tower on display". If you look at that case guess what you find, only 4 slots, again this may be an error in the article but that is why I mentioned it. The thing is if micro BTX is about the same size as micro ATX adding more expansion slots to a micro BTX should result in the same size increase as adding more to Micro ATX. Simple logic dictates that if two micro size boards are "about the same size" and adding expansion slots increases both by the same amount then they will end up being about the same size, so it would appear the claim that they are smaller is not accurate.
As for moving the CPU to the front, well all I can say is welcome back BAT with ATX features, anything more would end up in a rant about Intel.
Madcat - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - linkNow that I've had a chance to see a few examples of the BTX format, I like the idea of more outside airflow over the cpu, but I don't like the idea of buying a lot of other new parts.
The way I see it is that there is a lot of flexibility in the ATX format but very limited in BTX as far as placement of motherboard components. I don't think the enthusiast motherboard makers will like that, but OEM type would.
By looking at the designs I don't see why Intel wanted to develop a whole new format when they could have stuck with a ATX one. There are a lot of current solutions out there that bring in outside air directly to the cpu that would work just fine. I can imagine a few routing options that could be included with new cases to route fresh air from the front and still stay in an ATX format, without having to much of an impact on airflow.
I also don't like the fact that the case would open on the opposite side. My main PC sits on my desk and I like that I can get to the side panel without having to pull the case completely out of the mini-cubbyhole in the shelf system that is part of my desk to turn it around. In order to make it easy to access it I'd have to buy a whole new left oriented facing shelf versus my right oriented one. No thanks to that extra cost.
If they really felt that a change was needed they really should have gone with standards hashed out by industry leaders as a group instead of going it alone like they did with rambus.
Personally I don't see the format sticking, since they are abondoning the P4 platform to go with the far better and cooler running pentium M core which they are developing for the desktop. I do see it as best for the OEM crowd. I do like the idea just not how it morphed into a completely different format.
#13 - I agree. WTF was Intel thinking by not providing a transitory chipset? So my $450 9800XT is useless if I want the latest and greatest P4 tech? Ugh....
However...as to no AGP slot on the 9xx chipset boards, that's apparently baloney. ECS is making a board that implements both AGP AND PCI-E. =) Not sure how they enabled it, but from what I've read it performs pretty well. I hope the other makers can do that as well. Reply
bupkus - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - linkSince I'm a fan of AMD who's memory traces are at odds with BTX, I reject Intel's arrogant unilateral push. However, if I were ever to purchase Intel at a client's insistance, I would consider BTX. For my own use though I agree with #16 about Shuttle as now my best option for reduced size and gaming portability. Reply
mkruer - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - linkBTX is all based upon the assumption that the air in front of the pc is cooler then the back. I also like Lian-Li case idea. Move the PSU to the bottom, and move the motherboard to the top. I would say then next thing to do is to pull air directly in from the back, and exhaust out the top, so the air come right in then out for the CPU. As for the other peripheral, a nice slow rotating 120mm fan should be more then sufficient for the entire case. Reply
Xentropy - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - link#21 - "Did you notice that BTX only has as many upgrade slots as micro ATX?"
Actually that's because the only BTX boards produced/displayed so far are microBTX and picoBTX. There IS a "full-sized" BTX standard that will have the same number of slots as a full ATX motherboard. Anand's previous article on BTX (several months ago) mentioned the three sizes in the standard.
The fact there aren't any full BTX boards is the main reason I won't be going BTX this go around. Hopefully some are available by next year. Mind that while a full BTX board is the same size as a full ATX board, the case around it can be made smaller due to a need for less fans and a lower ambient temperature. Think of a Lian-Li PC30 w/o the cooling issues. Small, light case but which can easily handle a full-sized motherboard.
As for the turbulance issue, I see the biggest change in BTX as moving the CPU to the front of the case, not moving the ATA connections. PATA routing is important, but SATA connectors can be just about anywhere without issue, and BTX is a future standard which assumes SATA. If ATX motherboards start placing the CPU at the front center where a direct path of fresh outside air can flow over FIRST the CPU then the video card and then out the back, well, they'd basically have a BTX board there. Reply
bhtooefr - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - link"Although these aren't BTX based, Intel showed off some set top box form factor solutions running ultra low voltage P4s and i815E chipsets"
WHAT? The i815E is for Socket 370 chips - the Mendocino, Coppermine, and Tualatin Celerons, the Pentium III, and the VIA C3.
Also, if you look at the photo of the set top MSI box, it says ULV Celeron up to 700 or 750MHz (I couldn't tell). Reply
justly - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - link19, Did you notice that BTX only has as many upgrade slots as micro ATX, or this statement in the article "Most of the motherboards we saw were micro BTX, meaning they had four expansion slots and are about the size of a micro ATX motherboard". So as for it being smaller I would say that is only marginally true (and at the expense of expansion slots and drive bays).
Also, most turbulence is going to be caused by to many (improperly placed) fans, not the difference between case designs. If anything BTX may reduce dead air zones, and even that is mostly due to one change in board design (moving the PATA connection to the top, behind the drive bays). Then again good routing of PATA ribbon cables or the use of round PATA or SATA cables pretty much take care of that problem.
As far as I am concerned there isn't enough of a (well actually any) benefit to BTX that warrants switching from ATX. On second thought there might be one good thing about BTX, case manufactures seem to have very little flexibility in their design so it might reduce the amount of poorly designed cases and just leave people with a poorly designed standard to go by :)
epiv - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - linkATX only have been around for about 10 years. Reply
Xentropy - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - link#16-"BTX has no relavence to going smaller and quieter..."
What? Have you read anything about BTX besides the Inquirer's FUD?
From this article:
"Smaller form factors (although not as small as the ones championed by Shuttle), cooler internals and quieter overall systems are all benefits that cannot be ignored."
By creating a more direct path for airflow, turbulence is lowered, resulting in lower noise. More efficient use of the air also allows for lower CFM fans, which of equal quality will mean lower noise as well.
At any rate, I've been using Lian-Li cases for several years now, and they ARE in fact wonderful cases, but certain improvements would require some rearrangement of components on the motherboard to effect. Workarounds like air ducts can be installed in ATX cases to bring cool air directly to the CPU, for example, but that wouldn't be as efficient as just putting the CPU at the front of the case directly in front of the intake fans.
So I guess I still don't understand. Why all the opposition? No one's being forced to buy BTX, and ATX will still be around for years to come, especially if AMD never makes the switch due to the memory trace issues. Since Intel and AMD systems obviously already require different motherboards, using different form factors as well wouldn't be much of an issue. I don't know a whole lot of people who'd take an AMD system out of a case and build an Intel system in the same one, or vice-versa. Generally they'd buy a new case for the new system so they can use or sell the old system as a complete package.
Most of the outrage seems to be over the price of a new case, but I guess I don't agree with most people's assessment that BTX will suddenly 100% phase out ATX overnight and thus require everyone buy a new case the next time they build a system. Reply
srg - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - linkAnother thing, there are hardly any expansion slots compaired to ATX, I don't care about these tiny systems, I want expansion.
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Kai920 - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - link#9,
YES! Those new Shuttles have me droooling all over. I'm waiting for the new SN95 (AMD 939) in a G5 chassis... estimate waiting time would be another year from now before prices fall to my desired levels. Reply
tfranzese - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - link#15, BTX has no relavence to going smaller and quieter. It's biggest benefit is cooling and even then you can reap much of the benefits by just having things rearranged in an ATX case as demonstrated by Lian-Li. Reply
Xentropy - Thursday, June 03, 2004 - linkWow. I've never seen so much opposition to smaller, cooler cases. As a regular LAN gamer and overclocking enthusiest, both changes are quite welcome to me.
I generally build a system every year, and generally buy a new case each time anyway. That said, I'm set to build out a system in a couple of months now, but it probably won't be BTX thanks to a dearth of availability. However, I'm hoping it catches on so my 2005 system can be smaller, lighter, quieter, and more overclockable.
Other than having to buy a new case to enjoy these benefits (and even if there were a smaller ATX design, you'd STILL need to buy a case for it to be smaller...what are they going to do, sell you a shrink ray to make your existing case smaller?) I see no drawbacks to the new design. And no one's forcing anyone to buy anything; it's just the smart way to go for a NEW purchase--or will be when they're available. I'm sure ATX isn't going to vanish the moment BTX starts being mass-produced. You can even still find AT cases and power supplies pretty easily years after that standard became ancient.
The arguments that this isn't "necessary" for an AMD system are silly. It isn't *necessary* for an Intel one, either; it's just better. And it would even be better for an AMD system. If you overclock, you'd get a few more speed steps or a lower Vcore; if not, you'd get a cooler case ambient temperature and longer theoretical system life.
I'm sure the trace length issue will be solved; I only hope it won't involve AMD designing *another* spec (CTX?) and causing even more of a stir. In a perfect world, AMD and Intel would actually sit on a panel *together* to design this sort of thing (we have standards committees for everything else, why not motherboard and case layout?) and we'd get a design that was both friendly to on-die memory control *and* allowed for another few degrees cooler computing and a few pounds shaved off that hunk of metal I have to sling over my shoulder now and then. Alas, the world isn't perfect, so one of them has to step up and be the "bad guy" and try to improve technology. Of course, if AMD were doing it they wouldn't be bad at all; it would suddenly be the best thing since 64-bit. The "underdog" psychological phenomenon is an interesting one. Reply
tfranzese - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkLian-Li has the best option IMO. An ATX case with zones much like the BTX and mac case layouts. Reply
StrangerGuy - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkJust like the 9xx chipsets. No AGP? Only PCI-E? I was like thinking WTF. Many of us here have quite a lot money spent on our AGP cards, and many of these cards are 9700/9800/5900/X800s which is still very capable for the time being.
Even if Intel needed to push PCI-E, at the very least give us a transitionary product so we can keep our AGP cards and upgrade to a PCI-E one some time later.
But now Intel wants us abandon our ATX casings, motherboards, AGP video cards if we wanted a Intel-based CPU upgrade just for this silly BTX spec, which the advantages still remain unproven. Result? Almost everyone
flock to A64s or AXPs. Bottom line? Less people buy Intel.
epiv - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkCan Intel just improve the ATX standard or create a new standard competible with ATX? I beleive it is possible to design a new standard that have all the benefit of BTX and still competitlbe with ATX.
Intel loves to ignore other people's investment. They have failed many time for this reason. For example, Rambus which is a lot more expensive than DDR because memory manufacturer cannot use exist equipement to produce and test Rambus memory. Also Itanium which cannot rum 32 bit program well which most company invest a lot money on. Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkThe ATX standard has been around since 1997 or so. Remember that with the AT standard there was no real i/o ports, and most of the stuff was in front of the pci/isa slots. And the power button was not full logic either. That right there was a nice improvement: Having computers with the ability to turn on and off without pushing buttons. Reply
shabby - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - link4 of the mobo's pictures have the power connecter above the x16 slot.... whose idea was that?!? Reply
Zak - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkTwo intake fans at the side next to PCI and AGP and one exhaust at the very top helps to relive the PCI/AGP/CPU heat buidup in an ATX case. Plus if there are two 8mm fans on the back, as in Chieftec cases, it helps. Sure it can get noisy if you pick lousy/cheap fans.
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CrystalBay - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkThe shuttles' seem to be the most intrigueing of the bunch. Reply
jliechty - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkAnybody remember WTX? (*crickets chirping*) ... well, I don't suppose many would. Anyway, Intel was behind that also, and heck, some people even _liked_ it - and look where it is(n't) today. I'm not saying that's what will happen to BTX, but I'm certainly not going to be an early adopter here. Reply
Dasterdly - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkBTX is a small step considering how long we've been using ATX (20+ yrs!).
There's no cooling at the bottom for the expansion cards and they are still mounted flat, trapping heat under them.
Intel is still fiddling around with this seems like it's not happening.
It's almost time for upgrading for me I dont want to wait another year for BTX and Im not buying another ATX based system. Reply
Cygni - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkIve hated BTX since day 1. Its just completly un-needed in my eyes, even for a prescott. I see no reason for BTX to even exist. Reply
ZobarStyl - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkThe hate is simple...they want to change everything and the only semi-decent reason they have for it is improved cooling. The idea that all of our mobos and cases will be rendered obsolete by Intel for cooling reasons is frankly quite stupid; the only cases that have real trouble cooling are those lousy Dell/HP boxes that don't even have a single 80mm in them...changing the whole factor to facilitate even crappier designs by OEMs isn't exactly good news to me. Personally I think BTX would be good to implement only in SFF if indeed the cooling is beneficial...since pretty much every SFF case has a custom mobo it wouldn't affect the end user very much. However for those of us who love the ATX cases we plopped down so much money for, we'd like to keep putting new mobos in, thanks but no thanks Intel. Why not champion some effective standard of water cooling if you are worried so much about your flamethrowing Prescotts? Frankly I hope AMD and all the manufacturers completely ignore this and let it die rather than let Intel use its monopoly to push the industry into some silly, unfinished standard. Reply
tfranzese - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkI must agree. Aside from some vague explaining of the BTX delima which has yet to be finalized by Intel there was a lot of good pics in there and descriptions. Reply
mcveigh - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkgreat pics, clear explanations.....this is why I love Anandtech :) Reply
tfranzese - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - linkI wish you guys did more investigating. The Inquirer gives much more reason for the hate behind BTX.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16294 Reply


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