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OK, OK, it's just Sports. I get it. Yet, as a writer and hobbiest/Journalist I sometimes hyperventilate when reading blatant hyperbole or ignorance jism ala mode from so-called College Basketball experts who expect a sliver of respect from others despite being wrong 85% of the time.
Click-bait aside, here's what I read today in SBNation's College Basketball Edition.
College basketball isn't "wide open" anymore. Duke has built a legitimate juggernaut entering the season.
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Puke by copy/pasting the writer's utterly bewildering lack of knowledge about the upcoming basketball season, I'll paraphrase his idiocy in polite but concise nonsense about Duke being above the clouds this year in comparison to other college basketball powerhouses. This, due primarily to the fact that they signed five 5-star high school players from the class of 2016 and field six overall. (Note: when referring to this phenomena as it relates specifically to Duke, the proper description will avoid the use of the popular phrase in the vernacular, such as "one-and-done"). The reporter also clearly understands that Duke has also maintained a bevy of "not-so-fasts"; those players who for whatever reason failed to make the early jump from paying the school to play ball to being paid to play professionally (that is if they are indeed good enough for the latter).
It's not certain whether Duke has more than one such player outside the freshmen phenoms this year who would be expected to hear their name called in the 2017 NBA draft. One such student athlete answers to the name of Grayson Allen, a white jumping jack who can be an effective albeit streaky 3-point shooter, but who excels in the open court and driving to the basket. Likewise, Kentucky returnee and 5-star legend Isaiah Briscoe is a unique blend of quickness and power that almost certainly will hear his name called come NBA draft time next year in the same vein as Allen.
Duke currently fields a total of six 5-star HS players, exactly the total that Kentucky fields. One 5-star transferred from Duke during the summer, exactly like what happened at Kentucky. Most real experts like the Kentucky guard tandem's potential of Malik Monk and Isaiah Fox well above the excellent Duke guards of Allen and newcomer Frank Jackson. For my money I'll take the two future NBA All-Stars MM and IF over Duke's tandem.
Duke gets the frontcourt edge due to the depth it created by landing three excellent frontcourt Freshmen to go with three stellar returnees, who all gave adequate efforts if not consistent effort at times last season. Kentucky's starting frontcourt matches up well with Duke considering returnee Derek Willis will start his senior year healthy and motivated to succeed. He is a lights out 3-point shooter at 6'9" who should trouble even the meanest wing defender. It appears to this writer that Kentucky will hold a decisive defensive edge over the Blue Devils, that being a calling card of Calipari teams and this one by all indications having the potential to be one of his best ever.
To the contrary, Duke seems precariously perched at the top of a virtual Basketball Jones jam, with several teams who rightfully feel they could as easily been named slightly above Duke and others. Duke will be good, very good by the time march rolls around. But, Duke will enjoy some disappointments this year much the same as they do every year. Only time will tell if they are good enough to weather the entire season and win the gauntlet of all gauntlets commonly referred to as The Big Dance as a prohibitive favorite.
Odds are not kind to these scenarios, especially when the chip is placed squarely on another team (of near or slightly superior talent in one UNC) for a change. Respect is earned, and respect is The Holy Grail to 19-20 year old basketball players looking to forge a lucrative career out of their chosen avocation.
The idea that only five players can be on the court for any one team eludes the cerebral mathematical rationale of many so-called experts. One has only to look back two years ago to a Kentucky team who had virtually been awarded the trophy before the Final Four started due to their incredible dominance during the season. But every game is a brand new proposition, each being affected by statistical analysis, metrics, and word-of-mouth communication between players and coaches, dumb luck, the stripes, etc. Gone are the Lew Alcindor days. There are no upsets, only "Any Given Sundays" in a lose one game and pack up tourney like the NCAA Tournament.
The allure and the folly is that only sometimes the best basketball team is crowned champions, and there are NO guarantees despite the idiocy of so-called experts. In fact, the expert selection is reliably akin to "the kiss of death".
Below are my comments which I hope qualify to a degree some of the ire pointed directly at the writer of this irresponsible piece; a crime which is now prosecuted by prompt promotion, swift and decisive accolade, or simple but effective misinforming the public as to the irreducible value said brother Mason, or nephew of owner, or just likable Joe-Shmo brings to the Go! Not Now Movement, appropriately labelled The Falsehood in Media Paradox.
jargon for the sake of jargon, confusion at every turn is information branding at its best said no one outside of the cabal.
below are my comments:
Agree with breck.h…
that this Duke team, while formidable, is clearly NOT head-and-shoulders more talented than a sprinkling of other teams. Five star at this juncture means nothing, except for good food and luxury accommodations outside the HS basketball area. The fact that these youngsters are all growing and improving at various rates, and play whole seasons against a wide spectrum of talent individually typically means that several "sure things" have games that will not especially translate on a vastly more complex, superior and different level.
Not to mention that if one were to look at talent potential with an eye toward the NBA, it would not be a stretch to say that Kentucky now holds 3 of the top five 2017 NBA choices if certain expert projections materialize. Sure I own some Florida land… I'll sell it at a BARGAIN too, lol.
But when the BBN salivates over their (perceived by many, with me included) best EVER recruiting class… EF Hutton is talking… and NOT about junk bonds. Best listen up.
Of course, too many factors enter the fray and this here is no place to enumerate every possible future occurrence using the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, or relate recruiting success to the stars using applied chaos theory algorithms.
What's important is to understand that Duke should be proud to be so highly "projected" by the so-called experts, much like Kentucky has been in several of the past few years. How'd that work out for them/us? Well… uncertain and choppy at best. And they (those KY teams) did not have a handful of closely talented opposing teams; that to consider them contenders early on would have stretched the imagination of many prognosticators, who saw more beauty in youthful age and less in maturity and experience on some giddy metaphysical, albeit unnaturally idiotic level. Most of those grandiose dreams came to abrupt ends, and a few even wet the bed.
What other teams might end up smoking Big 'Backa (uh, nod to James B. Duke) like a fine fat Cuban roll jockey? Kansas for one comes to mind with their late Spring hiccups and early Summer pickups (trending on twitter) of two formidable 5-stars, including one as in #1 Josh Smith, to go with their usual hodge-podge of stable able stability. And, never count out the magic of a perhaps even more versatile than Coach-K; Rick Pitino; a man who can seemingly mold elegant Tiffany China from clay feet and river brick-rock while avoiding all foreknowledge of a pornographic reality show playing at a downtown-uptown-campus dorm 5-star recruit Par-tay. These high paid "had no idea" Coaches are beginning to make me think they aren't really Coaching except when the bright lights go on.
The Yellow-bellied Red-tailed Cardinal surprise sightings should be NO surprise (as they say, a young bird will watch a bird-bath and a shower dance with a hot chick in nest, with egg on their face from an open fly), but that don't mean Big Bird HAD to pick up the tab. Or something? Coach speak.
And then there's the illustriously dirty 'Ole Roy, who now has a renewed lease (and contract) on life, considering his Houdini-like escape from a tragic and certain demise, one that only the best deny-deny-deny-den-lie-then-lie-and-lie-and-lie-la-lie-te-de-ny-big-lie with a simple-minded confused and contorted facial expression vaguely reminiscent of Barney Fife whisperin' sweet nothins' to BO-NEE-TAAH…
"Cit-ah-zens aye-rest", as Gomer would conclude.
Villanova, that unlikely Beast as tradition suggests… NOVA will lie in deep weeds, re-cocked, re-loaded, and re-shoulder-chipped waiting to prove to the world that no fluke 2016 is NO FLUKE once again. And, did I mention 'Zona and their Area 51 alien Giants, those freaks of nature whom they always seem to haul in late, and are well over the 4-star radar? They'll add 3 future NBA 5-star freshman saucers to their hanger, while returning three 5-star tall-whites and a couple of menacing Reptoids, who always seem to slide by TSA, but then slip into the quick sand bracket of death so as to accommodate some Deep-Pocketed-East Atlantic Coast Committee Nerd who does NOT ever want Arizona to confront the (dis)likes of Duke… ANYWHERE. He's usually an accountant who earned his mystery cred in Gold and Silver Pawn shops, brokering Cecil Rhodes diamonds in Shady Downtown Durham, NC.
And, yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus, but Rick Majerus who had coveted the job passed, and Tony Bennet is not the same guy with the golden voice your dad used to play on his 78 Hi-Fi. With all the disappointing dance trips of late perhaps Fred Astaire would be the better choice come late March? Or, is it manifest destiny that five 6'5″ men with ten left feet show up each time it appears that the BIG DANCE curse may finally be broken?
Whatever the anomaly, wrap up your presents like TB's defense and no one will notice that there is no star on top of the tree, just hungry elfs who always out do their own talents year-in and year-out. Gonzaga? Quit it. Can some other team draw the Bulldog bye beside Duke this time? Their March-Melt is beginning to sound like a Steak and Shake classic… a feast. Don't drink the Kool-Aid Splash either.
Sure Dookies, it looks like you won't need the "Friends of Mike" Selection Sunday Lobby this time around to make your well-oiled travel plans weeks in advance. It would be more than cool to see you win the Natty actually having the BEST TEAM for once (well you have maybe once or twice, but not the last two Karmic-Azz-Kisses). I know I don't need to explain that truth to HONEST Dookies, who exude the Grand epitome of class, money, humility and education while living on a smoky, dirty land locked island well South of the Mason-Dixon. Then again, think New Jersey. Remember, Alumni donations from Italian Union chiefs don't win Championships. Or, do they Mr. Magoo… I mean… Magette?
The truth is Dookie-child, I'm making fun of you-ins, but the reality is I love almost everything about you entitled, talented, brain synthesizers. Who else can get knee-walking drunk, study Kant and Kiirkegard till 3 a.m. and still get up early enough to make hate posters for a Cameron stint later that night in a 200 degree oven? To my knowledge only average Dookies who've paid their dues snow camping second term.
High functioning Dukesters pay no attention to players names or rules of the game, etc. Too much info, so they concentrate only on winning since they may be working on the Madagascar Rainforest Monkey habitat issues every night after class or shooting analog 4by5 Haselblad black and white portraits, then developing the film for a National Geographic photo spread, except before the games they spend rehearsing and memorizing the lead singing part in Les Miserables, or doing something way more impressive.
But those 5-star arguments register as simply; we're Duke, we're better. let's get a beer.
Envy is the highest form of flattery, but we at Kentucky envy NO other CBB team or school. It's in our bloodstream, our birthright… while it has just reached your small intestines.
Honestly, these crazies will drop everything on the quad to watch Grayson Allen pretend he's picking his nose, while extending his right NIKE under the hobbled feet of a recently discharged Duke hospital geriatric trying to push her grocery cart down to the 501 bus-stop. They'll (these pyromaniac fans of the quad couch burnings) will hysterically and drunkenly laugh hysterically drunk, BUT give the Gray-Baby-son high kudos as they call 911 and slip the old Gray lady a few hundred bucks for her trouble. Ya' know, the ole Gray mare ain't what she used to be, but Grayson epitomizes the sixth grade. Always calling foul though he himself never does?
Daddy-money sure, but with a calm self-assuredness that someday they'll take the reigns off New Jersey Power and Automobile like great-granddad and Carnegie once tried, and maybe he'll run for the Senate between philanthropic evasion-tax planning setting up shell companies? You know if this B-ball thing falls through. Meanwhile the cheerleaders were just too hot and too in love for him to go back to rookeying. Duke is his Oyster.
Even more bizarre are these student NERD brainiards who inhabit 'Ka-chef-ski-ville' (pronunciation only) every January-March while living in veritable Igloos/tent city with rentable study lanterns. I understand sex is a persuasive reason though sex after a night in Cameron would require a spin through the local car wash. And Duke has coed dorms though not all students are so lucky.
I personally spent close to 20 heretical years there (camped in the basement of Flowers Building next to the Duke Chapel) with the words "Big Blue Nation" twisted under my tongue. The students whom I had the pleasure of knowing and working with taught me more about Publishing than what they had hired me to teach them. They really didn't want or need my help except in very technical moments, so dinner and drinks became our habit. The key to any student's heart is through his stomach. We/they ate and drank well and I was always a welcome sight.
Arrogantly humble, most rich beyond my scope, yet each new set of "thank god these new kids are in our future" thoughts made my ball-hate subside and my appreciation for their unique plight soar. In those days I loved Duke in many more ways than meets the eye, basketball notwithstanding. Duke, to me epitomized the headiness of youth and immortality. I was just a peep. My retirement now history, I see it more clearly as, 'Times they are a changin'…
The Pitino years were heady ones indeed, as we saw the Baby Blue falter only to see the dark Blue Devil looming menacingly in the rear view mirror closer than it appeared, riding our bumper and attempting to pass on Grant Hill, then again on the dangerous and windy Hurley-Laetner Road. Slippery pavement at times for both, there was ice running in both team's veins. The 1998 Regional final was the capstone to 90's dominance. For me more memorable than '92, '96, '97.
Toting a press pass for a few years at Cameron was/is a highlight of my life, and almost beyond description (especially when I got home soaking wet to my family smelling of locker room), but I also managed to sneak away many weekends to follow and party down in BIG BLUE NATION fashion, as only those of us involved in that institutionalized party-fest can dare understand. Fun. Too much. Just another tequila sunrise.
So… I'll say now what I dared not articulate then, when huge Duke dollars represented a fair portion of my subsistence. Duke is NO Kentucky as it relates to basketball tradition and fan (lifetime) enthusiasm, though while students and/or undergrads Dookies are pouring (in more ways than one) through their liberal education heavy on beer and basketball as their constitutional God-given right would suggest, and even most Kentucky fans seem to pale in comparison during that short-ish stint. But then… life.
Kentucky fans seem to me to embrace the faith ever more tightly through the years while dookies work the wheels and make the deals, and try to look up and catch the score when they can. At Duke its about then and Now, at Kentucky it's always was and always will be.
Sure they remain loyal and even do large tax gifting to their Gothic homeland, but rare do they pre-season handicap with positive certainty a National Championship prediction with man-sized tattoos that refuse to wax, wane, or waffle; and never do they bludgeon grandma for mindlessly turning off Cawood during a commercial break, and its doubtful Dookies carryout self-sacrifice after painful losses as do some zealot cat fans who may decide that a loss to Florida means a mile long swim through the everglades.. come next Spring break.
These and more craziness is what drives Cat fans to lower the actuarial tables Nationwide.
OK, OK I digressed to the point of leaving the real issue under the table. Like our Presidential election, sometimes what's left unsaid is all the news that is fit to print. Mark this down though, and I'll cut the key knashing at the quick:
Kentucky will have a slightly better rendition of five-on-five basketball than almighty Duke this very year; the year of Duke's Super Team. Don't trust me… keep score and report my errors promptly at firstname.lastname@example.com. But then, read my weekly analysis which I expect to be biased, but only slightly so.
I love me some Duke. I'd die for Kentucky. Hope its not by the rim and nets…


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I'm a student of Life here in the incredible Florida Keys. I'm interested in my relationship to the god of my understanding, I do mosaics and stained glass, I snorkel and SCUBA on Looe Key, the most beautiful reef in North America. I divide my time between here at the corner of heaven and earth, and my new Asheville digs, with my adorable dog.
In former professional incarnations, I was a fashion diva (laughter is appropriate here), a real estate salesperson (a shudder here is understandable), a publicist and a newspaper reporter and columnist.
The last was my longest and most beloved job. I quit when I tired of writing other people's stories,
and thought I wanted to write my own. I soon learned I don't have the tolerance for being that much alone. I still enjoy writing, though.
Today, I am a web master. I design websites and I am certified in search engine placement and ranking. More information on my business and links to the pages of clients can be found here: Cyber-Key.com.
But who I am has really little to do with my business. I am more interested in my friends, the world around me and the Divine within all, lucid dreaming, being physically active (yoga, swimming, kayaking, walking -- especially my dog) and enjoying the outdoor activities in the keys and western North Carolina and the Florida Keys. Reiki and other forms of healing are very important to me - I am trained in several Reiki paths (Traditional Usui, Karuna and Shambala) and in Chinese Energetics as taught by Dr. Kam Yuen.
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Summer in the keys ... used to find me in, on and under the water as much as possible ... so, created an online cruise/dive log.
Read about the Dolls Dive on the Dry Tortugas, one of my favorite places for diving, snorkeling or just relaxing on a desert island beach. This group of islands is just 70 miles west of Key West.
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People Before Profit host public meeting to plan campaign for more local authority housing on public and NAMA development sites in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, as housing and homelessness continues to spiral out of control.
Coveney Housing plan will not deliver urgently needed council housing, will cost the state a fortune, and will effectively privatise public land unless radically changed , says PBP TD.
Dun Laghaire-Rathdown is being "socially cleansed" as a result of the failure to provide council housing and the effective privatisation of the entire housing sector in the area.
Richard Boyd Barrett TD for the People Before Profit Alliance, along with local councillors, Melisa Halpin, Hugh Lewis and Dave O' Keefe, will host a public meeting tonight, Monday Oct 24th at 8pm in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, to plan a campaign calling for a far higher proportion of local authority housing on public land and NAMA sites currently or soon to be developed in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown.
The public meeting has been called against the background of the waiting list for council housing in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown now reaching 16 years or more and a dramatic rise in rents in the area. Rents in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown now among the highest in the entire country and are completely unaffordable for those on low and even middle incomes.
The meeting will specifically call for the current development on the former Dun Laoghaire Golf Club site, the soon to be developed Cherrywood Strategic development Zone (SDZ), and the former Shanganagh Prison site to have a far higher proportion of local authority housing than is currently envisaged under the Coveney, Rebuilding Ireland plan.
According to People Before Profit, unless current plans are radically changed, these large development sites, which have the potential to solve the social and affordable housing crisis in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, will deliver a "pathetically small number of council houses and ensure the crisis continues and worsens across the entire county."
Deputy Boyd Barrett said a process of "social cleansing is already well underway in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, with less well-off younger families and individuals, being driven out of the area by the totally unaffordable cost of accommodation and the disastrous lack of local authority housing stock."
Deputy Boyd Barrett said, "This process of social cleansing in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown will accelerate over the coming number of years because of the catastrophic failure to provide council housing and the utterly unaffordable level of private rents in the area."
Deputy Boyd Barrett concluded: "The Convey plan simply will not work to solve the country's dire housing and homelessness emergency because it depends utterly on the private market to deliver the majority of the hoped for social housing through HAP's, RAS, Leasing and Public private partnership schemes.
If this is true in the country at large, it's doubly and trebly true in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown because rents and house prices are multiples of what they are in most other parts of the country.
All Coveney's plans are based on sourcing social and affordable housing from private developers at a discount on the market price, but the market price of rents and purchasing in this area are so far out in the stratosphere, that even at a discount, it will still be totally unaffordable.
Against this background, the plan, under Rebuilding Ireland, to allow private developers to dominate the development of these three large sites at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club, Cherrywood and Shanganagh is total insanity.
The level of human misery and suffering being experienced by families and children from low income households in this area is simply unbearable. People think because some wealthy people live in this area that somehow everybody is better off. In reality, for those on social welfare or low wages, it is actually much worse to be without housing here because the cost of accommodation is so much higher. You don't get higher social welfare or a higher minimum wage because you're from Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. The consequence is that families and communities, that have lived here for generations and who's children go to school here, are being ripped apart and driven out of the area.
We are determined to fight the social cleansing of our area and demand that more of these development sites are used for actual local authority housing, rather than being handed over to private developers."


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Hate your free service? Go tweet yourself
Twitter users by the thousands — or maybe even the hundreds! — stubbed their scrolling fingers yesterday at the news of a new default setting in the popular service. Previously, links to photos or videos in tweets hosted on Twitter servers did not appear in a user's "timeline." Now, visual previews "will be front and center in tweets," the company announced.
By Web standards, the Twitter change was incremental. But as Wired's Mat Honan and BuzzFeed's John Herman explained, it nonetheless infuriated longtime users who like their information-compressed, character-based Twitter just the way it is. These veteran users regard the inclusion of visuals to their Twitter timeline like the addition of a fistful of arrowroot to their miso soup, and don't care that the visuals will make it easier for the company — as it approaches a public offering — to sell ads and compete with the visually richer Facebook and Google+ services.
Aside from growling about it on Twitter, what can the 140-character minimalists do? Not much. Free Web service outposts like Twitter, Facebook, Google, SkyDrive, Dropbox and the rest can change their features and their terms of service (ToS) at will unless the Federal Trade Commission intercedes with a privacy audit or ruling. The only real resort for irate users is to delete their account and take their cheapskate ways to another free service. For the most part, this never happens. Back in 2010, "Quit Facebook Day" organizers convinced only 33,313 out of 400 million users to disconnect from the service, as Alex Howard reported. It turns out to be easier for someone to leave a marriage than it is to abandon a Facebook or Twitter account. If you're fed up with your marriage, there's a bottomless stock of potential spouses. But there is only one Twitter and one Facebook. Grow heavily invested in a free service — Google would be mine — and you'll grudgingly surrender your golden retriever, your first-born, and your left kidney if and when the new ToS require it.
It's only fair to offer some sort of defense of expanding terms of service: Free online services like Facebook and Google are, after all, not static products like a head of lettuce, a new car, or even a piece of packaged software. Because the product is changing almost weekly, invariably becoming "better" in the company's eyes, ToS creep is justified. A "new" product requires a new agreement from the user.
But everyone now knows that the ToS noose is designed to grow tighter and tighter until it turns customers into the service's revenue-producing slaves. Not to single Facebook out, but its history perfectly illustrates the progression of a free service — from partner-in-symbiosis with users, to bloodsucking parasite. An Electronic Frontier Foundation timeline and a Matt McKeon visualization, both from 2010, demonstrate the speed with which Facebook's privacy policies eroded as the service got larger and desired more user information to sell to advertisers. Locking users in is a profitable strategy. Recruiting millions of users and selling them to advertisers has garnered Google a projected 33 percent share of the global online advertising market.
If ToS creep has worked so well for Google, Facebook and Twitter, why don't more companies make their products and services free or free-ish and then, after having pacified the customer, drain him of his net worth? Amazon appears to have adapted this business model to shopping, resulting in Matthew Yglesias's pithy observation that the company behaves like "a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers." Amazon's goal, everybody concedes, isn't that much different than Facebook's or Google's. It wants to become the ultimate company in its category, and harvest its customer base over the long haul.
Free services probably worry less about angering users (as they slowly strangle them) than they do about new competitors. Freeness bestows upon incumbents great power but also great vulnerability, as Friendster and MySpace's founders would gladly explain. Rapid advances in technology, which steadily make it cheaper for competitors to enter online services, put extraordinary pressures on the incumbents who must simultaneously battle in new markets while protecting their older, profitable ones. The best example of the pain of incumbency is Google's long and hopeless war on Facebook. Google owned the Internet until Facebook arrived, and nothing it has thrown at the Zuckerberg express (Orkut, Google Friend Connect, Google Buzz, and now Google+) has succeeded. Meanwhile, Facebook has neatly transitioned from desktop/laptop dominance to mobile device success, but how long will that position hold? The tech press tells us that the smartphone era has peaked and will soon to be replaced with wearable devices like Google Glass, "smart" clothing, bracelets, watches and even implants.
No matter which new technology supplants today's established order, I expect the circle to repeat itself, with the new entrants creating simpler services governed by simpler terms of service — until, of course, they too grow fat and unwieldy and start issuing bloated terms of services of their own. At which point I fully expect that the bosses will insist on inserting pictures and video in the new text-based timeline and some budding entrepreneur will turn the wheel once more.
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If your anything like me you probably didn't even know PCIe risers were a thing until you got into mining.
One of the hardest decisions I made when building my mining rig trying to figure out the differences between all the PCIe risers.
I've seen this question come up on countless forums and similar queries like what version of riser should I buy?
In this post, I'll be revealing what the main differences between all the PCIe risers are.
And why version 006c (Ver 006c) is the smartest choice.
Bonus material- I'll also be revealing a little trick some genius has come up with using a 3D printer to help keep your PCIe riser firmly in your motherboard (they tend to slip out after time).
Why use a riser
If it's not obvious most motherboards have limited space and you can't physically plug more than 2 graphics cards into most common motherboards.
From a gamers perspective, you'd be rocking it out with an SLI / Crossfire set up of two graphics cards in your PC.
However, in the mining community a 2 card set up is rather limited.
6 cards...
Most miners start small with the plan to expand to at least 6 graphics cards for their first mining rig.
You just can't fit that many cards into a PC case. As such the mining rig frame was born. However, there was an evolution to the PCIe riser.
PCIe risers have not always been available and the first generation of crypto miners had to use workarounds.
First, there was the PCIe ribbon cable extender. This worked well but you were limited to the amount of 16x slots you had in your motherboard.
There were also power concerns about mixing voltages from the motherboard PSU and the possible separate PSU powering your GPUs.
Old school
This then evolved into the powered PCI ribbon cable extender. This was, in reality, a fire hazard. The majority of the older style extenders included a 4 pin power connector that you would find on a floppy drive.
The problem with this type of connector is that the cables were too thin to carry enough power and would literally melt.
Then came the 1x to 16x ribbon cable which allowed miners to use the smaller PCIe slots on their motherboards for mining.
Eventually, this moved on to the PCIe riser we are no accustomed to with a separate PCB to hold the card in place. This works very well for most mining rig frames as it acts as a kind of shelf to keep the GPU's balanced on the rig frame.
Evolve or die
This evolution is still going to some degree with all the PCIe riser versions on the market today.
The newest kid on the blog is the 1 PCI-e to 4 PCI-e Lanes adaptor card. I don't really want to go into detail about this card as that's not what we're here to talk about.
However, the 1 to 4pcie cards require some of the PCIe slots not to be in use with the motherboard and there have also been reports of compatibility issues with certain motherboards.
As such, I'll be steering clear of this, which a standard PCIe riser and a modern motherboard this no real need for one of these anyway.
Let's get down to business
Legacy Risers (Update 10/5/18)
A number of the older versions of risers are no longer available to purchase. I have updated the list below. I believe the main reason these older version are no longer in stock is due to safety concerns that have been raised.
Difference between riser versions
Version 002 (SATA Power connector) (Legacy no longer in stock)
Version 003 (Molex Power connector) M193 G1084-33 voltage regulator (Legacy no longer in stock)
Version 004 (Molex Power connector) (Legacy no longer in stock)
Version 005 (Molex Power connector) (Legacy no longer in stock)
Version 006c (PCIe Power Connector) FS1084 voltage regulator
Version 007 (PCIe Power Connector)
Version 008 SATA, Molex & PCIe power connector
Version 009 PCIe Power Connector
This list was put together using a google search and varying the version number. Most came back fine. There are some variations to the list and that's usually a trailing "s" at the end of the version number. This usually indicates a SATA powered version of the riser card.
Why Version 006c (Ver 006c) is the best riser
The main reason version 006c is the best riser to choose is because it's the safest. There is two reason why it's the safest riser.
1) Comes with a PCIe connector. The older style 4 pin and some SATA powered risers have been reported in the mining community as the culprit behind a mining rig death. See these pics for evidence.
Basically, the 4 pin connectors and SATA power are not rated high enough to carry power required for a PCI riser.
2) The second safety reason 006c is the best is down the fact it has an onboard voltage regulator. Not all the PCIe risers have this regulator as some manufacturers skip this component to save costs.
It's actually required so your graphics card has a stable voltage and choosing a PCIe riser without it is asking for trouble.
There you have it = the main 2 reasons why this is the best riser. It's might work out like an extra $1 more than some of the other risers but it's well worth paying to protect your graphics cards.
Linus also recommends this model!
Shout out to @ogbtc who helped inform Linus
3D Printed PCIe riser lock
I came home from work a few weeks back and went to check on my mining rig. Turned on the monitor and there was no sign of life from the system.
What was weird was the fact that all the fans were still spinning and there was definitely hard disc activity so Windows 10 had definitely not crashed on me.
I was at a loss to what the problem could be and had to do a power down of the entire rig. I was reluctant in doing this as I prefer a graceful shutdown 100% of the time.
Anyway, the system sprung back into the boot cycle but something was up. Still nothing on the screen though. At this point, I was like fuck I bet it is a graphics card that has gone.
I proceeded to shut down and power off the rig completely. My number one tip for troubleshooting a PC is a process of elimination.
Test each graphics card out separately.
This took some time but I soon got to the bottom of the problem.
It turns out one of the PCIe risers had become loose in the motherboard. This apparently happens all the time to some miners and is usually caused by temperature fluctuations of just the fact that PCIe risers can't be locked into place....or can they?
Enter Ethem Bilgin - he has designed a PCIe riser lock that can be 3D printed and is completely free and downloadable from here.
This is an elegant solution to a problem that has been troubling many miners over the years so I just had to include it here. Very useful
Do risers reduce performance?
There's been some thought and questions about the performance of a PCIe riser compared to plugging the graphics card directly into a motherboard slot.
This mainly comes down to the fact your using a USB cable to transfer the data compared to having the graphics card in the 16x slot.
After watching a few youtube videos on the matter I've come to the conclusion that for mining crypto there is no performance drop.
You will, however, notice a performance drop if you use the graphics card to play video games or are rendering 3D models. Don't ask me exactly why there is a difference - I'm no hardware engineer but there are countless videos out there. I'm guessing its to do with the type of calculations that are being done when mining for the cryptocurrency.
We Do Tech is a youtube channel that tested a PCIe riser for his gaming audience. There was a noticeable drop in performance but for mining, it's not a worry.
Two Tech Tutors has a video where he tested out the difference in mining to confirm - he's a little nerdy but so was I at this age.
The Future of PCIe risers
Motherboard manufacturers have now caught up with the mining community. There are a few motherboards now on the market that have multiple PCIe slots (16x) properly spaced apart on the motherboard. These type of motherboards are fairly new on the market and it's not a big name manufacturer like ASUS of Gigabyte that has come up with this solution.
The Onda B250 8xGPU Motherboard is a perfect example of this. (image below) Whilst you won't find this in a regular PC retailer you can purchase in bulk from Alibaba if you are serious about mining.
It's a great idea, however, I think for the home miners it's something that won't really be a success as they are actually designed for rack mount mining cases.
Data center?
If you were mining in an actual data center they'd make perfect sense but most home miners don't have a rack mount server case and ain't gonna start investing is hardware like that. 1 - it's costly 2 -having a free standing classic mining frame is far easier to cool.
Lets conclude
With all my hardware purchases for mining, I always come from fire safety perspective. It just makes common sense to make sure you've got the right type of power connectors powering such a small PCB. Of course, there are other factors that come into play like your power supply unit which we also have a guide on.
As new risers are release I will include them in the list above - with a full breakdown on what type of power connectors these newer cards will have. It's safe to say the newer the version, the safer it probably is in your mining rig.
Thanks for reading!
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Anatole France (born François-Anatole Thibault, April 16, 1844–October 12, 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature
in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament. Anatole France was also documented to have a brain volume just two-thirds the normal size.
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Who is the real winner in the American midterm elections? Trump and the Republicans, or the Democrats?
By Bianca Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Usually, a US President who has just lost a party majority in the House of Representatives would cut himself a slice of humble pie. Not the defiant Donald Trump, who declared a victory as Republicans retook the Senate with a bigger majority.
The reactions to the November 6 midterm election results have been as divided as the US government itself, with Antony Zurcher from BBC writing that Democrats "have clawed their way back to a measure of power". Bret Stephens and Nicholas Kristof, centrists from The New York Times, were less effusive, as they declared the so-called "blue wave" – i.e. a huge Democratic win – a mere ripple that should stand as a warning to the liberals.
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So, do the Democrats have grounds for celebration? A little – but not too much. Democrats faced formidable structural barriers in turning votes into seats, as they had to compete in districts where the electoral boundaries were altered unfavourably by Republicans. Liberals tend to win by huge margins in urban areas like California and New York – but in a winner-takes-all electoral system, where 99 per cent of votes is no different to 51 per cent, such large margins fail to translate into electoral success, as Republicans control the smaller rural cities and towns.
With all this against them, the Democrats' performance was still better than some have been willing to credit. Still, these geographic disadvantages existed in the 2016 presidential election and 2014 midterm elections, and the concept of gerrymandering – manipulating the boundaries of a constituency to favour one party – can be dated to 1812. For all their whining about politics being rigged, liberals have not managed to come up with a solution to fix it. This is the challenge facing incoming Democrat congressmen as they redraw district lines in 2021.
Secondly, will Trump now reign in his racist comments and harangues against traditional allies and China? The chances are slim. Edward Alden from Nikkei Asian Review suggested the midterm elections would be more likely to embolden – rather than weaken – him.
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Trump waged a primarily fear-based, racially-charged campaign, based on the dangers of illegal immigration rather than boasting his economic record. His efforts – and refusal to follow expert advice – paid off as Republicans solidified their control of Senate and defended their seats in Ohio and Florida.
This could explain why Trump did not hesitate to pick a fight with CNN's reporter Jim Acosta at last week's news conference, or fire US Attorney General Jeff Sessions the day after the election. Trump seems to be more concerned with satisfying his loyal voter base than broadening his national appeal. Meanwhile, the trade war against China has received support from both parties.
The only thing that emerged unequivocally from this election is that America is divided along the lines of identity and politics. As The Economist ominously wrote, "this is a recipe for gridlock, poor governance, and disenchantment".
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According to market analysts, enterprise security market in India is expected to touch USD 548.7 million (about Rs 3,400 crore) this year logging a growth rate of over 14 per cent.
"Businesses today depend a lot on applications, which means to open up one's network without compromising on IP property," Palo Alto Networks Managing Director (India and SAARC) Anil Bhasin told PTI.
In today's time when bring your own device (BYOD), mobility, cloud, etc have become important in raising a firm's productivity, at the same time keeping a check on costs and a fully integrated network security solution are must, he added.
"India is rapidly expanding in terms of such disruptive technologies and we believe it is the best time for firms like us who provide personalised security solutions to expand with the market," Bhasin said.
Presently, the company has about 180-200 clients in India and is rapidly expanding its operations.
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Another RMA depot is coming up in the next three moths in Delhi, he added.
In a bid to strengthen its channel presence in India, Palo Alto Networks is also doing a marketing campaign across 8 cities in the country, where the firm's executives are educating its partners about the network security landscape.
Globally, Palo Alto Networks has over 14,500 customers in more than 120 countries across multiple industries.
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MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) - Operators of the Monticello nuclear power plant are investigating what caused a transformer to lock out, prompting the plant to automatically shut down.
Xcel Energy says the plant shut down safely Friday afternoon. The company says the shutdown was not expected to last long. Xcel Energy spokeswoman Patti Nystuen says the process of getting the plant back online had not started as of 5:25 Saturday evening.
Xcel says the transformer lockout briefly interrupted non-safety-related power from the grid to part of the site. The company says all plant safety systems functioned as designed, and there is no danger to the public or plant workers.
The 600-megawatt plant produces enough electricity to power a half million homes.
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Johnny Dawes - Full of myself.
10th Feb 2012
I first met Johnny Dawes over 25 years ago. It was a chance meeting at a cliff called Millstone Edge in the Derbyshire Peak District of England, where we were both climbing on a beautiful summers evening. I say climbing, I was climbing, Johnny was doing something far more dynamic! Over the next few months I bumped in to Johnny a lot on the short Gritstone outcrops of Derbyshire and Staffordshire and on the larger cliffs in North Wales. On one occasion we even gave Mr.Dawes a lift as his car was temporarily out of action, he'd rolled it while negotiating a "tight hairpin" Legend!
About 3 years ago whispers started to emerge in the Sheffield climbing scene that Johnny was writing a book about his life, I initially took it with a pinch of Salt, I'd heard similar rumours before. In the interim Jerry Moffatt, perhaps Britain's most famous rock climber released his autobiography, everybody loved it. Then a year later another legend of British rock climbing "Big" Ron Fawcett released a book, I was in nostalgic climbing nirvana, Ron was my all time hero - come on JD what are you playing at? The Jerry, Ron, Johnny triumvirate needs to be completed - Nothing.
A year later I was on a trip to a small Scottish Island in the Outer Hebrides called Pabbay, part of the team was Steve McClure, Britain's best rock climber. One night we were all huddled round the stove waiting for dinner to finish cooking and he pulled out some crumpled sheets of paper and started to read them. "What you reading Ste" I asked, "Johnny's life story" he answered with a wry smile, bloody hell gold dust! The pages got passed around and after an hour or so of "pass the paper" everyone agreed it was dynamite.
Fast forward to the summer of 2011 and I bump into a long term friend and designer Al Williams who, as it turns out has been working very closely with Johnny pulling the book together ready for print, hearing this got me really excited, it wasn't just rumours anymore, it was fact. A month later my phone buzzed, txt message. It was from the great, little man himself, Johnny Dawes, asking me if he could use one of my photos in his book. Years before, way back in 1986 Johnny had climbed a route called Slab and Crack E8 6c, which was, and still is pretty cutting edge and he wanted to write about it, but didn't have any photos to include. Some 22 years later Lucy Creamer became the first British woman to climb a Gritstone route of this grade with her ascent and I was there taking the photos - Of course you can have some photos Johnny, I'd be honoured, It's not everyday you get the opportunity to contribute to one of your very own hero's books, bring it on.
To cut a long story short said photo was dually dispatched and a couple of months later JD turned up at the house with a copy of his newly printed book "Full of myself" what a great title.
Here are a couple of pages from the finished book, with my image of Lucy on the right. - I'm chuffed to say the least, looks good doesn't it?
For anyone who knows Johnny the book is a "blast into the past" for those that only know him by reputation it's a glimpse into the workings of a genius and for anyone wanting a "rip roaring read" straight out of "Boys own" but with a slightly dysfunctional twist to it, it'll hook you and pull you slowly but surely all the way in.
If you fancy reading a review on the book by top climbing writer John Horscroft you can find one on his website, or indeed buy the book on either Amazon or Johnny's own website.
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This is a picture of the crap waiting for me in my mailbox today….100% of my mail had QR codes printed on the packaging. I know exactly what a QR code is, I have MULTIPLE apps on my phone to decode them and I fancy myself as a marketer. Want to take a guess at how many of them I scanned?
You're right….ZERO
There are two things responsible for the demise of the QR code:
1) Decoding a QR code is difficult…
I laid eyes on my first mobile optimized QR code in 2007, 6 years later it's still not a "native" feature of any mobile operating systems. Google and Apple could have done marketers a huge service by allowing the stock cameras to simply notify the user when there was a scannable QR code in the frame. Instead, there are over 50 applications (most of them free) on the iPhone app store with a similar amount on Google Play.
2) Marketers have failed at creating an experience…
If you have by chance scanned a QR code in the past, chances are you've been burned. You go to the work to dig up (or re-download) your favorite QR code application, scan and BUM…BUM….BUM….you get directed to a website (sometimes optimized for your mobile phone), maybe something fancy like a phone number or a contact form *YAWN!* You probably didn't make that mistake again…
So that's it?? They're just done?
Many fads never last long enough for them to actually catch on and I fear the QR code is about to meet this fate as well. If you're considering QR codes on anything customer facing, make sure it's purposeful. Here are a couple of ways I would utilize QR codes if I were running their mobile strategy (one national, one local):
24 Hour Fitness – Virtual Trainer: Instead of having an application that just finds 24 Hour Fitness locations around me, take the opportunity to engage users inside of your club and collect information on how they use your equipment. After picking a customized workout plan online, enable your customers to track their workout by posting unique QR codes on each machine, checking off routines and charting progress in real-time. Who knows, maybe going to the gym could become fun….
Bier Station – Bier Experte: Bier Station is my favorite new watering hole in town (if you're in KC, go check it out). One of the best things about this place is discovering new beers. They could use a QR code to link customers into their sales database to view top-selling/trending beers…making it even more fun to go pick out the next one! Who needs a menu?
While QR codes could be on their way out, mobile technology is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Those who come up with ways to engage customers in unique experiences with mobile technology will always win out over those who simply slap the next mobile fad into their marketing materials.


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Dr. Shields Kick-off National Book Tour
Learning to read is critical to a child's success – both in school and in life. Literacy is one of the best predictors of a child's future success. But a child without access to books won't have the chance to become an engaged and capable reader. Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields kicks off his national book tour to combat these challenges.


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In one of my first ADHD: from A to Zoë blog posts, I tried, unsuccessfully, to find a definitive statement about what ADHD is.
It turns out, we ADHDers are not the only ones who have a difficult time understanding what defines ADHD.
For most of us, our family doctors are the front-line person whom we approach first when we're looking into a diagnosis. Unfortunately, many family physicians are as in the dark about it as we are.
The grocery list of ADHD traits
Anyone who's read a book on adult ADHD, or who's taken an online ADHD screening questionnaire, is familiar with the grocery list of symptoms that are said to comprise the typical traits that exemplify ADD.
If you're like me, you've shared some of these characteristics with friends, family members, and others, only to have them say, "Bad memory? I've got that!" Or, "Distraction? Tell me about it!"
I never quite know how to take these responses. Punching someone in the face for minimizing my situation doesn't feel like an option to me. Comments like this seem either cavalier, or a denial of the lifetime of losses that I've suffered as a result of undiagnosed ADHD. Or, they seem like ill-founded attempts at commiserating with me, trying to make me feel that they understand, and that it's okay, I'm just like everybody else. This belies the fact that my life's journey is anything BUT the same as the experience of a non-ADHDer.
This is one of the fundamental problems with a list of symptoms or character traits: it's all too easy for every human being on the planet to identify with at least one, or more likely, many of them. It's not a far jump from there, to concluding that either, 1) adult ADHD doesn't exist; or 2) adult ADHD does exist, and everybody has it – or at least a little of it – or at least have it some of the time.
I mentioned in my blog post, Zoë Kessler: Double Agent, that I'd interviewed Dr. Timothy S. Bilkey, an adult psychiatrist specializing in adolescent and adult ADHD, at his ADHD Clinic in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
According to Dr. Bilkey, you can't have "a little bit of ADHD." That's like being "a little bit pregnant," says Bilkey. "You either have it, or you don't."
Bilkey has developed a relatively new approach to the adult ADHD diagnosis to enable Canadian family doctors to identify ADHD in adult patients, without having to resort to a shopping list of symptoms.
This program highlights typical patient presentations and has been nationally accredited for the past 2 years through the Canadian College of Family Physicians for clinical use by Canadian family doctors. It is based on clinical studies and research from some of the foremost experts in the field, and Bilkey's private clinical practice and research.
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Bilkey's approach to ADHD diagnosis, a unique and innovative one as far as I'm aware, is comprised of 10 profiles which typify the various presentations of an adult with ADHD.
When Dr. Bilkey first told me about these profiles, I was dubious that they would represent the full range of adult ADHDers. Being the drama queen that I am, I was insulted that someone would suggest that we adult ADHDers could so easily be pinned down into just 10 simple categories. "We're much more complicated than that," I thought, defensively.
I kept asking questions. I kept an open mind. I listened (incredible, I know, but I'm learning to do that!).
By the end of our interview, Bilkey had alleviated my doubts, assuaged my tender ego, and convinced me of the merits of his approach. For one, Bilkey's diagnosed over 3,000 adult ADHDers, and no matter how much research and interviewing I've done to date, there's no way I can compete with that!
He also explained that it would be far more likely that a clinician would pick out an adult with ADHD if he used these profiles then if he or she referred to a dry list of symptoms.
As I think we'd all agree, family doctors on both sides of the North American border are swamped. As Bilkey explained it, a general practitioner has to diagnose so many different conditions on a daily basis, that this two-page patient presentation screen is far more likely to yield a diagnosis, given the real-life experiences of adult ADHDers. It's either that or pulling huge tomes of reference books from their shelves and referring to bloodless, clinical descriptions.
Another thing I didn't consider
Bilkey emphasizes that ADHD is a context-driven condition. This means that our symptoms can be exacerbated under stress, and can be brought out in certain situations, while we function fairly well or very well in other contexts. Bilkey emphasizes that, for a diagnosis, our symptoms must exist in the context of everyday life (work, academics, relationships, etc.); they must be long-standing challenges; the patient has to give real-life examples of their symptoms; and someone who knows the patient well would be helpful in confirming the patient's input and providing additional information.
On the second page of this two-page screening instrument, the 10 patient profiles are summarized.
In Dr. Timothy S. Bilkey, ADHD Psychiatrist and…Storyteller? – Part II, I'll outline the 10 profiles. Maybe you'll see yourself in one, or several, of them.


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Most professionals of any kind have to do some continuing education. As web developers, we have an especially urgent need to be constantly learning because the technologies we work with change so rapidly. It's just not optional for us. For those of us who work primarily with WordPress, it's crucial to be sure we're not left behind as this amazing platform evolves and moves forward.
I find that my work on client projects forces a certain amount of learning. There is almost always something a client wants which I don't immediately know how to do, or that I'm not sure how to do in the best way. This forces me into research-and-experimentation mode, and I learn a lot from these challenges.
But I believe it's also important to study and experiment outside of client work, so that there isn't the pressure of having to produce a polished result and move on. I find that working on some of my own non-critical websites can be a fun way to try new things. In fact, that's one of the main reasons I have my personal/hobby websites.
Making it fun is about 3/4 of the battle, in my experience, and a lot of that comes from my attitude. I originally got into working on websites because I was intrigued and fascinated by it, and I try to nurture that sense of wonder and curiosity. Remember staying up half the night, forgetting everything except the magical stuff you were doing with HTML and CSS and graphics? I try to keep that state of mind. At the time of this writing, I'm genuinely impatient to learn everything about WordPress, and that really helps me to move forward in knowledge and skills.
There are times when I'm too busy with paying work for continuing education, and there's not much that can be done about that. Client work has to come first, at least until I'm fabulously wealthy. But I'm not always super-busy, or at least I try hard not to be, so that I can take advantage of slower times to study.
Some of my favorite sources of material for my continuing education are:
- Free online tutorials
- Online courses such as those offered by Lynda.com
- Books | WordPress.org list
- An RSS Reader stacked with expert WordPress blogs
- The WordPress Codex
- Following WordPress people on Twitter
- Joining and participating in WordPress groups on LinkedIn
- Attending Word Camps
- Attending Local WordPress Meetups
This is another area where having colleague/friends in the industry is really valuable, whether or not you ever meet them face to face. Not only do I learn from them, but their own drive to learn helps to spur me on, and when I help somebody else, I usually learn something too.
Whatever works best for your learning style, don't forget that continuing education is a must for web developers.


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How could budgeting leave your bank account £1,000 better off?
Published 17 August 2012 by Daniel Culpan
Half an hour of budgeting a week could leave you almost £1,000 better off every year - and there are several straightforward budgeting methods that could help you.
According to new research from cashback website Quidco, spending just half an hour every week planning a careful budget could save you £936 every year.
At a time when many households across the UK are feeling the pinch when it comes to their finances, the figures show that the average person could be £18 a week better off by following some straightforward money-saving steps.
And it seems that in the current climate, many of us are getting savvier when it comes to being frugal with our finances. Indeed, 89% of us aren't embarrassed about using vouchers and discount coupons when paying for things, compared with just 38% before the recession.
72% of people said they regularly collect reward points in order to save money and boost their bank balance. Taking a packed lunch to work (31%), hunting for bargains in charity shops (25%) and growing vegetables (22%) were also found to be popular ways of making cutbacks.
Furthermore, people with smartphones have turned to money-saving 'apps' to help them rein in their spending - with 16% of people using them regularly. All in all, just 12% of people think that being frugal is 'uncool' - and 71% even believe that flashing the cash is 'inconsiderate' to people around them.
A spokesperson for thinkbanking said: "Planning a careful budget can be a great way of cutting back on your outgoings and giving your finances a boost. If you want to go that extra step, a budgeting bank account could be a useful way of making sure you don't overspend the money you need for your essentials, such as food and bills.
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This disbursing process utilizes a "Payment Voucher". This voucher is given to subcontractors and suppliers by the general contractor as a means of payment. The payee follows the instruction on the voucher and forwards the voucher and backup documentation to us. We write and mail the check directly to the payee.
Draw requests are submitted to us by the general contractor and owner. The request is reviewed, entered into the system and forwarded to the lender for funding. Checks are issued to payees presenting vouchers once funds have been received. The spreadsheets are updated and circulated to the lender, owner and general contractor. At the end of the year, we issue 1099-MISC documents as required by the IRS.
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Zero Balance Account (ZBA)
The ZBA disbursement method utilizes a dedicated checking account. The account is opened by the borrower at the construction lender's bank. This checking account is used to make the payments to the general contractor, subcontractors, suppliers and vendors.
The process begins with the general contractor submitting a draw request to the borrower. The draw request consists of a series of invoices and conditional releases from the general contractor's subcontractors and suppliers for the current billing period. The borrower reviews the draw request and writes checks from the dedicated checking account for each payee. In some cases, the general contractor is the custodian of the checkbook and processes the checks for the borrower. Only the borrower can sign the checks. Once the borrower has approved the draw, the entire package is forwarded to our office. We review all the documents, compare the request with the most current inspection, update the disbursement spreadsheet and send the approved draw to the lender in the overnight mail. The lender funds the draw and mails the checks directly to the payees.
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The Class "A" method of disbursing is patterned after the A.I.A. G-702, Application and Certificate for Payment. The general contractor completes the G-702 and G-703 forms. He then forwards the forms to the owner with invoices and conditional releases from the general contractor's subcontractors for the current billing period. The owner reviews the request, approves it, and forwards it to our office. We review the documentation, update the disbursement spreadsheet and forward the approved draw to the construction lender.
Ordinarily, one check for the general contractor is included with the draw package for the net amount of the draw. The general contractor uses these funds to pay the various subcontractors and suppliers that were included in the request. Successive draw requests require unconditional releases from those subcontractors and suppliers verifying proof of payment.
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The Rams' trademark toughness and efficient play on offense led them to a 75-66 win at #22 Dayton on Saturday.
Rhody never trailed in the ballgame, jumping out to an 11-0 lead early on. Dayton did not tally its first field goal until the 15:19 mark. Jared Terrell drained a 3-pointer as time expired in the half, giving URI a 38-25 lead at the break.
The Rams kept their double-digit lead throughout much of the second half, building its largest lead of the contest - 19 points - as Jarvis Garrett drained a 3-pointer with 6:06, making it 65-46.
Dayton pulled to as close as seven (65-58) with 3:15 to play., but the Rams connected on 7-of-10 from the line down the stretch, battling through the Flyers last-ditch pressure efforts.
Inside the Box Score
- Jared Terrellached double-digits in the scoring column, led by Jared Terrell's game-high 18 points. Terrell finished 6-of-8 from the floor and 5-of-6 from the charity stripe, to go with three assists and two steals.
- Four McGlynn added 16 points, knocking down 4-of-7 from the perimeter and 4-of-4 from the foul line.
- Andre Berry came off the bench and posted a career-best 15 points. The sophomore forward was Jarvis Garrett-7 from the floor in 13 minutes of play.
- Jarvis Garrett added 11 points (3-5 3FG), seven assists, and five rebounds. Kuran Iverson added 11 points, six rebounds and six assists (zero turnovers)
- As a team, Rhody connected on 56.0% for the game (28-50) - including 9-of-17 from the outside. The Rams are now 11-0 when shooting 50.0% or better.
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18 - Rhode Island dished out a season-high 18 assists.
What's Next
Next up for Rhode Island is the final home contest of the 2015-16 season, as the Rams host long-time rival UMass.
The Rams and Minutemen tip off at 7 p.m. in a game televised live nationally on CBS Sports Network. The Rhody Sports Network will also carry this - and every game - live on B101 (101.5 FM), with Steve McDonald and Don Kaull.


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The Muppet Elmo is one of the most beloved characters among children across the globe. Meet the unlikely man behind the puppet - the heart and soul of Elmo - Kevin Clash.
The film traces Kevin Clash's rise from his modest beginnings in Baltimore to his current success as the man behind Elmo, one of the world's most recognizable and adored characters. Millions of children tune in daily to watch Elmo, yet when Kevin walks down the street he is not recognized. Pivotal to the film is the exploration of Jim Henson's meteoric rise, and Kevin's ultimate achievement of his goal to become part of the Henson family of puppeteers. In addition to puppeteering Elmo, Mr. Clash is arguably the creative force behind today's Sesame Street, producing, directing and traveling around the globe training other puppeteers. Includes interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O'Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg, Carroll Spinney, Joan Ganz Cooney, Marty Robinson, Fran Brill, and Bill Barretta.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University's Center for Food and Agricultural Business will host the 2015 Executive Agri-Marketing program Aug. 31-Sept. 2 in West Lafayette.
The program targets agribusiness managers responsible for making marketing decisions in companies that serve farmers or dealers in roles that include branding, product management and strategic direction.
Scott Downey, assistant director of the center and associate professor of agricultural economics, and Justin Funk, managing partner of Agri Studies Inc. based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, will lead the program.
This year's program focuses on best practices in marketing, the discipline of segmentation, aligning the organization around the customer experience, marketing decision tools and putting ideas to work. Participants will have the opportunity to consider the gap between organizational intention and customer perception and will use marketing decision tools to address financial and managerial metrics, planning and analysis.
"The purpose of Executive Agri-Marketing is to go beyond traditional marketing advice," Downey said. "We'll offer participants the strategies and tools they need for marketing in today's volatile agricultural climate."
Find more information and apply for the program at http://www.agribusiness.purdue.edu/seminars-and-events. Register by June 30 for the early registration rate of $2,245 per person. The regular rate is $2,395 per person. Team rates also are available by calling 765-494-4247.
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Most of us try to lead balanced lives, so why do we often find ourselves frantically juggling a million things at once? Whether you say yes to too many social engagements, get bogged down by endless work meetings, or just never have time to yourself, packing a calendar too tightly can seriously threaten your sanity.
While there are only so many events you can decline, there is a way to avoid overbooking. Read on for expert advice about why you always overschedule — and how to knock it off.
Know Your Patterns
Take stock of your current calendar and figure out why you're so overwhelmed with engagements. Ask yourself whether you're "trying to prove something," or if "overscheduling is a distraction from something else," says integrative nutrition health coach and lifestyle expert Lula Brown. If it's tricky to do on your own, talk out certain tendencies with a good friend. If deeper issues come up, consider finding a therapist or coach, Brown suggests.
Brown also encourages taking stock of which events you end up canceling (or want to cancel). Then you can identify what kinds of commitments drain you — maybe it turns out that you need to stop scheduling anything on Sunday, or cut back on get-togethers with one particular person.
Overcome Approval Addiction
When you don't want to disappoint people, it can be tough to figure out what to say no to, says health and lifestyle strategist Kara Martin Snyder, INHC. To combat this, Snyder suggests looking over the activities you've committed to and asking yourself two questions as you review each one:
- Does just thinking about this energize me or drain me?
- How is this activity serving me or helping me grow?
The answers will tell you your true motivations for RSVP-ing yes, and you can make sure you have a good reason beyond people pleasing.
Steve Siebold, a psychological performance and mental toughness coach to executives, athletes, entrepreneurs, and other high-performing people, says that to overcome what he calls "approval addiction," it's important to "realize that you are responsible [for being] honest and sincere, and acting with integrity in all that you do, but you are not responsible for other people's attitudes or behaviors towards you."
Prioritize What Makes You Happy
Make the activities that leave you "feeling like the best, most energized version of yourself" a priority, says life coach Hannah Braime. In fact, "the more regularly we do these things, the more productive we feel in other areas of our life," she says.
Psychotherapist Sharon Martin, LCSW, agrees. She also adds that many of us make the mistake of thinking about our personal goals or hobbies as optional — things we do only if there is time left over. Instead, be sure to schedule time for exercising, lunch with friends, crafting, reading at home, or anything else that makes you happy. And stick to it — no canceling on yourself.
Take Your Time Responding to Invites
So how do you make sure you're not taking on too much? Sophia Dembling, author of The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World, suggests buying some time when someone invites you out.
Instead of responding with a knee-jerk 'yes,' "take an hour, a day, or whatever time you need," says Dembling. Say something like, "I need to check my calendar" to give yourself some breathing room. It's better than going to an event you don't want to attend, or backing out at the last minute.
Just Say No
Saying no isn't easy, especially since we often feel obligated to give a reason for why we can't make so-and-so's birthday party or squeeze in coffee when an acquaintance is in town, says therapist and wellness coach Nichola Brown, LICSW. She suggests practicing saying no without providing an explanation. Try declining without making excuses by saying something like, "I'm sorry, but I can't make it."
If you're not sure whether you want to say no, career and workplace expert Cachet Prescott has an easy trick: "If it's not a 'heck yes,' it's a 'no.'"
Leave When It's Time to Leave
Outings can be especially draining when you linger too long, so remember that you aren't "obligated to stay at most events past the point where you are enjoying yourself," Dembling says. "If you give yourself permission to go home when you've had enough, accepting invitations is a lot easier." As you gain confidence in doing this, she says, you'll feel more in control of your time and get more done.
Avoid Meeting Overload
It's easy to get bogged down by work meetings, which can prevent you from completing the work you were actually hired to do. Try this trick: Block off your calendar, allowing only certain times for meetings. That way you've reserved time when you can't be derailed by meetings so you can get your work done.
When Donna Talarico, entrepreneur and publisher of Hippocampus Magazine, used this trick, she says that she'd tell people to "look at [her] Outlook calendar to see [her] availability," so they couldn't schedule over her work time. Take a cue from her and take back your time.
Enjoy Missing Out
Instead of feeling down about missing a night out, find joy in controlling your schedule, says psychotherapist and coach Dr. Perpetua Neo. When you decide to turn down an invite, reward yourself — and "whether it is a bubble bath, your favorite meal, or a lazy morning in bed, make it joyful," she says. This kind of reframing can "build and strengthen brain pathways, so you learn to consistently treat yourself better," she says.
This concept is especially helpful when it comes to last-minute obligations. Say you're invited to a random work happy hour at 5 pm when you've had a rough week and can't wait to leave the office. Rashelle Isip, an organization, time management and productivity blogger, offers this advice: Rather than worry about what will happen if you don't go, give your downtime the respect it deserves.
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