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There has been considerable rhetoric in recent days because of misunderstanding of the "Fair Tax." The Fair Tax replaces the current federal income tax with a federal sales tax, but the advantages are is in the details. John Kupiec and some other candidates suggested it as a possible simple solution to eliminate the many evils of our multi-thousand-page federal tax code.
What makes the Fair Tax fair is what is known as a prebate, which favors the economically disadvantaged by issuing a monthly check to each household based only on the number of occupants at that household. For those at the bottom of the economic ladder, this payment, from approximately $800 to $3,000 per month, more than covers the cost of the added sales tax. Those in the upper income levels receive the same amount, but because of their higher spending level, are only partially compensated. More detail can be found by Googling "Fair Tax."
The proponents of the Fair Tax, which was proposed by economists a few years ago, list the following advantages:
• It eliminates the IRS, which is one of the largest bureaucracies in our federal government.
• It encourages saving and investing instead of spending, thus growing the economy.
• It is tilted to favor the economically disadvantaged.
• It eliminates the huge cost of compliance for businesses and individuals, which in some cases rivals the amount of the tax payment itself.
• It captures revenue from underground economic activity.
• It lowers the cost of doing business in the USA, thus making our products more competitive in a world economy.


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An Iowa mother is charged with arson and child endangerment after telling her children to set a relative's trash can on fire, reported KJAN radio.
The Mills County Sheriff's Office reported Angie Dabney's arrest on Monday. She was taken to jail with bond set at $25,000.
The sheriff's office told KJAN that Dabney allegedly asked her children to light a trash can on fire at a relative's home in Pacific Junction.
Authorities said that after a children lit the fire, Dabney took off. The fire was put out and no one was hurt.
KJAN reported four children were in the home at the time, three were under the age of 12.


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Not unlike most English majors, writing a book was a dream Jenna Hager hoped to one day realize. However, the 2004 graduate of the University of Texas realized it much sooner than she imagined. It happened because she heard a story that needed to be told.
As an intern with UNICEF in 2006, Ms. Hager was using her writing skills to document the lives of children and mothers in Latin America to be used for internal and fund-raising purposes.
"I was moved by their willingness to tell their stories," said the 29-year-old Ms. Hager. The daughter of President George W. Bush, she will be the keynote speaker at Historic Richmond Town's Literacy Luncheon on Tuesday.
A teacher and author, Ms. Hager is also a correspondent on the NBC "Today" show and chairwoman of UNICEF's Next Generation. She lives in Manhattan and was en route to a "Today" show assignment when she spoke with the Advance.
She spent time traveling in a number of countries, but spent most of the year in Panama where she met Ana, a 17-year-old mother infected with HIV. Ana lost her mother when she was 3 years old and her father and sister also died, all from HIV/AIDS.
"She embodied everything about being resilient, living in poverty with HIV/AIDS," said Ms. Hager who wrote "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope."
The time she spent listening to Ana shows in the intimacy of the details. Ana was living with secrets and abuse and yet she was "just like any other 17-year-old girl. She loved to be with her friends; she loved to dance," said Ms. Hager.
Through Ana's story, she hoped to shed light on the life of the many children whose lives are overshadowed by circumstances such as neglect, poverty and illness, and who enjoy all the ordinary things kids do all over the world.
Ms. Hager moved to New York last year. After commuting to her teaching job in Baltimore for a year, she has taken a hiatus from teaching, but plans to teach in New York in the fall.
She and her mother, Laura Bush, collaborated on a picture book, "Read All About It," about Tyrone, who loves to do everything but read. Listening is the key, says Ms. Hager, to encouraging a reluctant reader.
"As soon as they were listened to and given a book that interested them, they were active readers," said Ms. Hager. Whatever the subject -- videos, skateboarding -- it "seems pretty simple" but it works, she said. The love of reading will see them through when they are older students and have less choice and are assigned more difficult literature.
The "House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros was at the top of her list of favorite books when she was growing up. She also loved teaching it to sixth graders, who may not have understood the mature parts, but "loved the beautiful words and understood the poetry of it."
More favorites were "Love that Dog" by Sharon Creech, "Little Women" and "Catcher in the Rye."
Not everything was high-brow though.
"We read every single 'Babysitters' Club.' We even started one," said Ms. Hager who grew up with her twin sister Barbara.
"Let kids read everything. R.L. Stine got more boys to read than any other author with 'Goosebumps,' she advised.
The daughter and granddaughter of former presidents, she feels strongly about making a contribution and trying to make a difference.
"I teach because I love it. And I love working for UNICEF. It is important to give back, and it is a privilege to do so," she said.
She laughed appreciatively that coming to Staten Island will distinguish her among residents of Manhattan.
"As a new New Yorker, I'm excited to come to Historic Richmond Town, and especially because they are honoring people for contributions to literacy. It's really important to me as a reading teacher and writer."


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AVON, Ohio – Would you like to become more involved in planning for the school district's future?
The Avon Local School district is beginning to review its Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP) and has scheduled a public meeting for Jan. 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the media center at Heritage North Elementary School for those interested in assisting with the process.
The CIP committee will include school board members, administrators, teachers, community members and parents. The invitation is open to anyone.
"The plan is typically looked at yearly," Superintendent Mike Laub said. "We are using a slightly different approach this time and starting with an overall vision of what we want to see in the next two to three years. We will then set goals and action plans to meet those goals."
The CIP document posted on the district's website was last revised on July 18, 2009 and reflects CIP committees for 2009 through 2010.
According to Laub, the plan will have focus areas such as curriculum and instruction, professional development, buildings/grounds and finances, communication and technology.
"Also any other area that the committee decides we need to focus on," he said. "These areas cannot be looked at separately because they all relate to one another in some way. We need to focus on constant development as we grow and education changes. It is important to constantly focus on how to improve as an organization. It will be a two- or three-year plan."
People attending Monday's meeting will work in groups to identify the major ideas that district will want to tackle in each category over the next two to three years.
"From that we will take those ideas and create goals with action plans to help us reach those goals," Laub said. "We will continue to meet one or two times per month to refine the plan until it is ready. We are hoping that it is ready for the May Board of Education meeting."
Based on the emails already received, Laub is expecting a big turnout Monday.
"We are looking forward to creating a plan that becomes a decision-making framework for the district."


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You don't need to "crane" your neck to get a good look at these elegant birds. At the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, one of the first exhibits near the entrance is home to a pair of West African crowned cranes, and other types of cranes—East African crowned, blue, Indian sarus, white-naped, wattled, red-crowned, and demoiselle cranes—are featured in a variety of settings, including Nairobi Village, African Woods, and field exhibits.
Cranes living in the Park's huge field exhibits share their space with large mammals like giraffes, rhinos, and Cape buffalo, but get help from keepers to ensure that any eggs laid remain intact. When the cranes lay their eggs, keepers pull the eggs from the nest and replace them with "dummy eggs" so the parents will continue their natural nesting behaviors. The keepers place the eggs in incubators until just before hatching. The eggs are then placed back with the parents. This minimizes the risk of damage to the precious eggs and still allows the chicks to imprint on and be raised by their parents. Once hatched, the entire family is taken to another location until the chicks are a bit older.
To date, 114 cranes have hatched since the Safari Park opened in 1972, and 57 of those have been East African crowned cranes. In 2014, we welcomed the hatch of a wattled crane, a first for our organization!
Safari Park guests can also see an East African crowned crane named Taji fly overhead during one of the Park's daily Frequent Flyers bird shows.
Cranes in trouble
All crane species are rapidly dwindling. The Siberian crane Grus leucogeranus is at critical risk, due mainly to hunters shooting them during their 4,000-mile migration between the Russian arctic and India. The red-crowned crane Grus japonensis is endangered mainly due to loss of habitat; cranes need large areas of habitat, which are gradually being turned into farms or housing sites. Even the marshes where cranes nest are being slowly drained for agricultural purposes. The gray-crowned crane Balearic regulorum is endangered due to the illegal trade in the species.
The whooping crane: back from the brink
Whooping cranes Grus americana are the tallest birds in North America. They were once numerous in the prairie wetlands of the US and Canada, but settlers drained the wetlands to build farms and cities, and hunted the large birds for their meat. By 1941, only 15 birds were observed at their wintering area on the Gulf Coast of Texas. To help save the birds from extinction, refuges were established, the birds were carefully monitored, and hunters were educated about the harm they could do to the species.
Through intensive efforts, there are now two distinct migratory populations—the only natural, self-sustaining whooping crane flocks left in the world. There are also small, nonmigratory flocks of whooping cranes in Florida and Louisiana. Whooping cranes are still endangered, but there is certainly more hope for the species these days, with their numbers currently at almost 600 birds in managed care and the wild.
Help for cranes
In 1973, the International Crane Foundation was founded to be the world center for the study and preservation of cranes. It has become a world leader in crane conservation, including the breeding of endangered species. San Diego Zoo Global works with the Foundation, providing cranes for breeding and helping with wetland conservation work in China. The founder of the International Crane Foundation, George Archibald, Ph.D., is the 2005 San Diego Zoo Global Conservation Medalist.
San Diego Zoo Global is dedicated to crane conservation and, in particular, an artificial insemination program involving sarus, red-crowned, demoiselle, and blue cranes.
You can help, too
You can help us bring crane species back from the brink by supporting the San Diego Zoo Global Wildlife Conservancy. Together we can save and protect wildlife around the globe. It is hoped that the haunting calls of wild cranes will continue for many generations to come.


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On the Road: ONEOK Down, ONEOK to Go In Tulsa
As you could probably tell by the tone and tenor of the post, my Thursday night at the Oklahoma City RedHawks game was fairly sedate. I was left more or less to my own devices, and had plenty of time for leisurely wandering.
Friday night with the Tulsa Drillers was an entirely different animal. There was a sellout crowd of 8,707 (largest in the three-year history of ONEOK Field), the game was played in an exceedingly crisp two hours and 16 minutes, and I did not have a single moment of down time.
This was a good thing.
It all moved so fast that I didn't even have time to get a proper shot of the stadium exterior — I got this one the next day before leaving Tulsa and heading to Springdale, AR.
ONEOK Field is located in Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood, which has a fascinating and tragic history. It was one of the most affluent black communities in the United States throughout the early part of the 20th century, but destroyed wholesale in 1921 during the devastating Tulsa Race Riots. I'll re-visit this topic in a future post — John Hope Reconciliation Park, which explores the legacy of the riots, is located just across the street — as this one will, by necessity, focus on the present.
I made it to the stadium some 35 minutes after I had intended, even though my hotel was about a mile away. The Tulsa Tough bike race was happening in the area around the stadium, so many streets were blocked off, and my unfamiliarity with the area combined with a naturally poor sense of direction stymied all attempts to bypass the road blocks and get to the facility. Eventually I had to be talked in to the stadium by sympathetic Drillers staffers, as if I was the wife of a pilot trying to land a plane after her husband suffered a heart attack at the controls.
Or something like that. Upon arriving, promotions manager Mike Taranto gave me a quick tour of the facility. I took pictures as we walked about, and I'm glad I did because some of these areas I never visited again.
The stadium has 25 suites, 23 of which were sold on five-year contracts. Views from the suite level:
The suite interiors were classy, but generally pretty standard. Except one, which had this!
In case the glare makes it unclear, that's a Frank Thomas "Big Hurt" pinball machine! This joins Harrisburg, State College, and Delmarva in my far-from-comprehensive list of Minor League stadiums that have pinball machines; please get in touch if you have one to add.
I was a bit disappointed that, by one day, I was missing the team's tribute to Oklahoma legend Mickey Mantle. There was to be a replica jersey giveaway, memorabilia displays from his career, and his two sons in attendance. I did snag a replica jersey later (to be given away on Twitter, follow @bensbiz), but on this evening the only Mickey Mantle content of any kind that I was able to procure was this picture of a statue outside of the Driller's "Tycoon Club."
My final second-level stop was the control room, featuring top-of-the-line technology and, in a Minor League rarity that was nonetheless common with ONEOK Field's staff and player areas, plenty of room to move.
That's enough "reporting" from the elevated environs of ONEOK's second level. Time to move on down…
The team installed a "splash zone" in the outfield concourse area this season — an awesome addition, although when I strolled by it had yet to be turned on.
The entire stadium was like this — in a state of suspended animation, just waiting for the hordes to be unleashed.
Inflatables! Picnic areas! Concessions! I am of the mistaken belief that exclamation marks add a sense of excitement to my pedestrian photos!
Finally, it was time to visit that area of the stadium where the magic happens.
The bowels.
The team is blessed with an auxiliary dressing room, which also serves as a one-stop shop for all your greenscreening needs.
Located nearby is an area in which, throughout the Minors, surreal images abound: the mascot dressing room.
I almost feel that it is sacrilegious to post pictures such as the following. But, in the interest of showing you, the fans, how the sausage is made here's a shot of Hornsby deconstructed. Avert your eyes, children.
[And, nevermind. This photo has been removed at the request of the Committee for the Non-Propagation of Severed Head Mascot Photos.]
Meanwhile, mascot coordinator Vincent Pace (one of the few full-time costumed performers in the Minor Leagues) was hanging out nearby. And, apropos of nothing, he was wearing a gorilla mask.
(Blurry photo was a thoughtful artistic decision, intended to heighten the bizarre and disorienting circumstances, and in no way indicative of chronically poor photography skills).
You want more subterranean magic? Well, I've got it!
Here's the laundry room — and, as you can see by the chair in the bottom left corner, this tedious task won't deter-a-gent from getting comfortable. (Some people will like that joke, others will hate it. Call it a wash).
The basement tour continued past a storage/repair room (notice the stacks and stacks of chairs in the back), into the batting cage (where an unidentified Springfield Cardinal was taking his final cuts), and then past the weight room.
Finally, we entered the playing field via a ramp that runs past the home dugout.
The game was less than 20 minutes from its starting time, and the scene on the field was buzzing. Local dance teams performed for friends and family behind home plate, while down the first base line a concatenation of Drillers — the equivalent of a "pride" of lions or a "gaggle" of geese — were signing for fans. (The team has a policy that all non-starters sign autographs from 6:30-6:45, and the specific angle of the sun in the pictures below suggests that the time was 6:41.)
Ever since making it to the on-field area, I had been staring longingly at my recently acquired signed Hornsby photo. When, oh when, would he be enlivening our spirits with his joyous antics?
The answer, in this case, was…NOW! Hornsby burst onto to the field on his scooter, fell off of it in an exaggerated fashion, and immediately started busting out some '70s-era dance moves. All was once again right with the world.
Hornsby also got some laughs with one of his recurring moves — giving a ball to a kid, but on the other side of the net. These kids were absolutely stymied, trying their best to get it through, and left in tears when they were unable to do so.
Just kidding. What really happened was that girl in the yellow shirt took out a Swiss Army knife and used the scissors to cut a small hole in the net. Thus, the ball was extracted. Or maybe a Drillers staffer simply took the ball and handed it to the kids on the other side.
Who really does know?
What I do know is that this post has stretched to nearly 1200 words, and we haven't even gotten to the ceremonial first pitch yet. Therefore, this is going to have to be a two-parter from Tulsa. Stay tuned for the exciting next chapter of this seemingly never-ending serialized Oklahoma adventure!
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+1 for the the deter-a-gent and wash joke.


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You have filed an application at the Régie du logement, or you have
received a copy of an application.Whether you are the applicant or the
defendant, it is important to prepare yourself for the hearing and leave nothing
to chance. The defendant has no written procedure to file at the Régie du
logement, but it does not mean that he has nothing to do before the hearing The
present leaflet is a guide for the applicant and the defendant.
Serving the application
The party against whom the action is being taken must know the grounds and the object of the application in order to be able to prepare his response at the hearing.
The applicant must, as soon as possible after filing the application, serve a copy on the other party (défendant). The applicant has the responsibility to prove, at the hearing and to the satisfaction of the commissioner, that the other party received a copy of the application.
The applicant may serve the application by :
Registered Mail
Since January 1st, 1999, there are three methods to prove the other party received a copy of the application.
The bailiff's Return of service constitutes proof that it was received.
HAND (person to person)
If the application is served by hand, the confirmation of receipt signed by the addressee, or the testimony of someone who was present when the copy was received by the addressee, may constitute proof that it was received
The applicant may also use any other methods that will allow him to prove that the application was received.
However, regardless of the method used, if the commissioner is not satisfied with the proof presented at the hearing by the applicant to the effect that the other party received a copy of the application, he may request that the proof be completed or order that it be served again.
If the applicant is unsuccessful in serving an application by any of these methods (e.g., the application is sent back to him by return mail), a commissioner may at any time and upon request, authorize another methods to serve it. If this occurs, you should contact one of the Régie's offices immediately.
If the applicant wants the defendant to be condemned to reimburse the costs of serving the application, he must give to the commissioner the receipt from Canada Post or the bill of the bailiff to prove he paid those costs. However, the commissioner has discretion to grant or not those costs.
The applicant may, without charge, complete or modify the application by an amendment. This amendment must be filed and served on the other party before the hearing. You must submit to the commissioner, at the beginning of the hearing, proof that your amendment was served.
If an amendment adds a new party, a copy of the original application must also be served on the new party.
Please note that a commissioner may, during the hearing and in the presence of the other party, accept a verbal amendment.
If, for a serious reason, you are unable to attend the hearing, you may mandate someone else to represent you.
Who may represent you? A lawyer, your spouse, a relative, an in-law (e.g., brother-in-law, or sister-in-law) or, if need be, a friend.
A corporation or cooperative may be represented by an officer, a director, an employee exclusively employed by it, or a lawyer.
If the application only concerns a claim of $15,000 1 or less, a lawyer cannot represent you.
How do you give a mandate? Unless you are represented by a lawyer or your spouse, the mandate must be in writing, signed by you, and must indicate the reasons for your absence. The person to whom you give the mandate must agree to represent you without being paid to do so.
Except for lawyers, the mandatary of a corporation or cooperative must be authorized to act by a resolution of the Board of Directors.
The role of the mandatary. At the hearing, your mandatary acts in your name. He must have first-hand knowledge of the facts or, barring that, be in a position to prove the facts through witnesses or otherwise, as you would have done.
Barring that, you or your mandatary may request a postponement in writing, or verbally at the hearing. In this instance, the request for postponement is not granted automatically. It is the commissioner's responsibility to decide whether it is justified given the circumstances of the case.
However, to avoid unnecessary costs, you should give the other party a copy of your letter or inform him that you or your mandatary will ask for a postponement at the hearing.
If, before the hearing takes place, you reach an agreement, the Régie will close the case upon the filing of a copy of the agreement signed by the parties. However, should the applicant require it in writing, the case will be suspended. Thereafter, the case will only be placed on the roll upon the written request of one of the parties.
Read carefully the application and its amendments, if any. In it, you will find all the elements you will have to prove or refute during the hearing.
The applicant must prove each allegation in the application by means of documents and testimony.
In the same way, the application informes the other party of the elements that he must admit, clarify or refute, through documents and testimony.
However, the person claiming to have fulfilled his obligation must prove it (e.g., a tenant who claims that he paid his rent must prove this; the landlord who claims that he did repairs must prove it).
The law establishes the rules about how evidence can be given before the Régie, and the commissioner must apply these rules.
Proof to present at the hearing
Besides the proof of the serving, in all cases, you must produce :
And, depending on the nature of the application, the following are additional pieces of evidence you may need.
N.B. When you send documents to the other party, you must keep the proof that they were sent and received and bring you must produce this at the hearing.
If there is something in writing that you want to use as proof, you must produce it at the hearing.
N.B. : Petitions are only admissible if the signatories are present at the hearing.
To ensure the presence of a witness, you must, at your own expense, have a bailiff serve him, at least 3 days before the date of the hearing, with an Order to Appear issued by a commissioner of the Régie du logement. A commissioner may reduce this time limit.
The witness must have first-hand knowledge of the facts. Having been told that facts occured or that something was said proves neither the facts nor what was said. Only the person having first-hand knowledge of the facts, or who participated in or was present during a conversation, may testify about it.
Depending on the nature of the application, you may require the testimony of an estimator, expert or inspector. Such witnesses must be present at the hearing in order to present their estimation, expertise or report. Do not forget to summon the person who signed the document (the signatory) with an Order to Appear as soon as you receive the Notice of hearing.
Written testimony
If the orther party agrees, a written declaration may replace personal testimony at the hearing.
If the other party does not agree, the commissioner may, in exceptional circumstances, accept the written testimony of a person who is not present. The party wishing to obtain such an authorization must so advise the other party or give him a copy as early as possible before the hearing unless the commissioner decides otherwise.
The commissioner will only accept the document if it is demonstrated that it is impossible for the witness to appear or unreasonable to require it, and that the declaration was made under circumstances that reasonably guarantee its accuracy.
It must be absolutely impossible for a witness to appear (e.g., a deceased witness or one living out of the province). Simple difficulties, such as the witness not wishing to appear, the witness expressing fear or the witness having to work the day of the hearing, are not sufficient.
In certain cases, the law allows a report to be presented even if the author is not present. These cases involve reports from certain municipal and provincial inspectors.
Remember that these are exceptional cases and that, as a general rule, witnesses must appear.
As soon as you receive the Notice of Hearing from the Régie, make sure that you :
You must arrive at the time stated on the Notice of Hearing.
The parties and those attending the hearing must behave respectfully and be suitably dressed.
In almost all cases, the hearing is recorded.
At the beginning of the hearing, the parties must identify themselves and take a solemn oath to tell the truth.
Then the applicant presents his proof first and subsequently the other party presents his. Each party has the right to question the witnesses.
Throughout the hearing, the commissioner assists each of the parties in a fair and impartial manner.
The hearing must deal exclusively with the contents of the application and its amendments. The commissioner may refuse to hear a witness or accept a written document if he decides it is not pertinent to the case.
In rendering his decision , the commissioner may take into account only the evidence presented at the hearing.
N.B. If you have produced the originals of documents as proof at your hearing before the Régie du logement, it would be recommended to recover them when the decision is rendered.
The contents of this brochure are for information purposes only and not intended to substitute for the legislation.
The Decision
Depending on the nature of the application, a decision may be appealed with the permission of a judge of the Court of Québec or be reviewed by the Régie du logement.
In certain cases, no appeal is possible (e.g., a decision regarding an application having as its sole object the recovery of a sum of money of $15,000 1 or less). Under certain circumstances, a revocation is possible. Consult the Régie if you need further information.
Where to go to have a decision of the Régie executed? :
When executable, a decision of the Régie can be executed after having been registered at the office of the Court of Québec that will issue a writ of execution. You must bring to the office of the court a certified copy of the decision.
Once the writ of execution issued, a bailiff may proceed with the execution of the decision.
The procedures of execution are not performed by the Régie but by the applicant and at his own expenses.
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text: Songs like the bruising "Unsatisfied" dig deep to reveal monstrous dirges that rival any doom metal artist. While the Slayer influenced "Bloodwolves" is as volatile and infectious as a song can be. Though the aforementioned songs are truly brilliant works, it is Pulling Teeth's new found mastery of emotional ebb and flow which shines as their real strength. This awe inducing quality is revealed in the stunning two title tracks, "Paranoid Delusions | Paradise Illusions". Collectively both songs are a monumental achievement of soulful guitar work, Moog driven textures, and insightful prose. A near perfect example of how a band can evolve without abandoning the heart and raw energy that defines the "hardcore/punk" genre at its very core.


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Sunday afternoon, it was so hot, even the mosquitoes stayed home and watched old movies. That offered me the perfect opportunity to work in the garden uninterrupted by man or beast.
We don't have enough hot summer days in our lives, and I don't have nearly as many to look forward to as I used to.
So I put on the clothes used to sweat, and went to work clearing out those monster tomato vines. There's nothing like the odor of tomatoes rotting in 90-something degree heat to make you glad you don't have to fiddle with them anymore. I'm on to better (but, I hope, not bigger) things, and my eggplants, peppers and okra finally have room to breathe and grow.
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QUESTION: Which is more effective for keeping out weeds and protecting plants in the summer: pine straw or wood chip mulch?
ANSWER: The best mulch for reducing weeds would be neither pine straw nor wood chips. For eliminating weed sprouting, not much beats good ol' oak leaves. Really, they're much, much more effective.
For benefiting the plants you want to grow there, you'll also need a mulch that breaks down in a reasonable amount of time and produces good topsoil when it does so. Oak leaves win again, breaking down not too fast, not too slow, and releasing a big wallop of nutrients and minerals when they do.
Pine straw makes decent topsoil but the nutrients available won't be quite as high, and it takes a lot more straw and a bit more time to produce the same amount of topsoil. If for some odd reason you don't like the look of oak leaves, just throw a thin sprinkling of pine straw on top of the leaves.
There are many confounding issues with wood chips, so the best I can say is ... it depends. Wood chips make good soil when they break down, but that can take a while. In the meantime, some folks worry the big wood chips may concentrate termites and overwhelm termite barriers, so you may not want to use them within six feet of the house.
Some people claim that wood mulches, in particular, tie up nutrients. In fact, they don't do any such of a thing, as long as you leave the mulch ON TOP of the soil. Never, ever dig it in. The soil creatures in your garden will do what they've done for 400 million years or so -- they'll gradually break that mulch down and draw it into topsoil. As the decompose it, they'll slowly add nutrients to the soil.
Mulches of any kind can create problems if left to stand too close to the trunks and stems of plants. Allow a space of at least 6 inches between the plant and the mulch. That's particularly true for wood, wheat straw, hay or other mulches that tend to get wet and stay wet. It's less of a problem with smaller quantities of pine straw or oak leaves, which don't absorb a lot of moisture until they're almost broken down into mold.
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QUESTION: Friends on Facebook sent me a message claiming you can have a garden by planting a bag of Zatarain's Crab Boil. The message says a Louisiana nursery told them that there are 21 different pepper seeds in each bag of crab boil, and you can see which one fits your own garden.
Should I try it?
ANSWER: Tell your friends on Facebook they'd have much better success emptying the contents of their kitchen garbage on the garden.
The Louisiana nursery mentioned on the Facebook page doesn't seem to know anything about this obvious Facebook prank, though (being from Louisiana) they do acknowledge using Zatarain's frequently in crab boils.
It's safe to say that there are NOT 21 different pepper seeds in Zatarain's. If you open up a package of crab boil, you'll discover that it includes exactly what's described on the label. There are no pepper seeds of any kind. What you will find is mustard seeds, coriander seed (aka, cilantro seed) and dill seed, along with a sprinkling of the skins of dried chiles, the leaves of bay, and allspice, which is the withered, seedless fruit of a tropical tree.
I suppose there's a chance a tiny percentage of those mustard, dill and cilantro seeds would germinate -- it would be about the same percentage of seedlings you could expect if you emptied the spice bottles in your kitchen cabinet on the garden.
But really, why would you do that when, for much less than the cost of crab boil, you can easily obtain a genuine seed packet of mustard, dill or cilantro that would germinate at better than 90 percent?
On the other hand, if I were desperate enough to germinate the contents of my garbage can, I could have two avocado trees, five kinds of peppers, dozens of kinds of tomatoes (since there were hybrids), four or five kinds of eggplants, two kinds of basil, perhaps oregano and probably some okra, too. Beat that, Facebook!
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QUESTION: You've had articles about watering the lawn and deep watering. I have a husband that I think has OCD when it comes to watering.
Earlier this year, on two consecutive Fridays, we got 5-7" of rain each time. On the following week, he watered our lawn three different times for an hour on each zone. I thought it was overkill. Should he not be watering so the plants' roots grow deeper to seek moisture?
In July when it rained on and off all month, he still had the lawn being watered an hour each zone.
So, I think my husband is obsessed and I think it's his fault that our pindo palms are under stress and one may be dying.
ANSWER: My skills at marriage counseling aside, I should note that this idea of watering to train roots to "grow down" is creating unnecessary tension in your relationship. Makes it sound like deep watering is some kind of high-falutin physical fitness program for plants. The last thing your husband wants to do is enroll in another fitness program.
You should make clear to him that the problem with excessive watering is that it kills plants outright and directly.
Plants drown just like people do. When the spaces in the soil get filled up with water, all the oxygen is forced out, the plant roots suffocate and damaging bacteria proliferate.
Plants can hold their breath for a short while. But the longer the soil stays saturated, the more likely it is that your plant will be killed or seriously weakened. Even if your plants don't die immediately, they may never fully recover.
So the secret is to water long enough that the water sinks in deeply where the roots can get to it and absorb it slowly. Then you should let the soil dry out and get restocked with oxygen. Figuring out when to water again is simple: Make sure the first two or three inches of your soil is dry before turning on the irrigation.
Plums plumbed again
QUESTION: You recently wrote that you couldn't name any reliable plums for the Gulf Coast (other than the loquat, which is not a true plum). But my neighbor in Midtown Mobile has been bragging on Facebook about how many plums her tree had, and how she was cooking them down into jams and jellies. Maybe she knows something you don't.
ANSWER: Your neighbor certainly knows lots of things that I don't. But I have three simple requests of any plum I plant:
1. It must produce fruit at least once every three or four years.
2. It must produce fruit for at least 5 years before it dies.
3. It must taste OK.
I've never gotten as far as number three, because every named cultivar of plum I've so far been affiliated with fails number one and number two. Wild plums are a little different, but they generally don't meet most folks' grocery store expectations of what a plum should look and taste like. (Upstate Alabamians, please keep your plum opinions to yourselves -- the Gulf Coast climate is very different.)
I've seen plums that escape disease and insects long enough to fruit about once every five to seven years here along the coast. The best I can determine is that this fruiting usually follows very cold winters (most plums need more winter chill than we can provide) and perfect springs (so that blooms aren't killed by frost). This past winter was very cold. I doubt the next one will be so.
Ergo, enjoy while you can. I wouldn't expect a big plum year again for quite a while, at least on the immediate coast.


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Every NHL team prefers to retain its stars, but sometime issues arise which force a general manager to consider trading away a notable player.
Free agency is often the main reason for such a move, especially if a player is in a contract year and seeking a significant raise. Age can also be a factor, for while a player's name might still have star power, his declining skills combined with a high salary could make him a liability. A rebuilding club sometimes shops one of its best players to bring in additional roster depth. Clashes with a head coach or personal off-ice matters can also make a star player expendable.
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During a filming break, Harry Connick, Jr. jokingly 'auditions' for Keith Urban on last night's 'American Idol.'
Love won't keep them together: After 39 years of marriage, the pop music songwriting team Captain and Tennille are filing for divorce. The title song of Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon's debut album, 'Love Will Keep Us Together,' won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1975.
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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. – Audrey Hepburn
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Baseball Law: The longest games are the ones that have the shortest turnarounds for the next one.
Bad news: Orlando Arcia struck out.
Good news: Orlando Arcia struck out for the first time in 33 plate appearances. I'm pretty sure that's an acceptable interval between strikeouts.
Gooder news: Orlando Arcia also had three hits, drove in a run, and stole a base.
Six straight River Bandits reached base between the third and fourth innings. They did not score. They ran into three outs on the bases in the third after two walks and two singles. In the fourth, they drew two walks to start the inning, but a double play and strikeout ended things for them.
In an alternate universe, the line drive off the bat of Alfredo Rodriguez in the fifth inning lands about a foot to the left, hits the line for a two-run triple, and the Rattlers win this game 23-5. Tonight, this is the darkest timeline.
We don't normally talk about other teams prospects in this space…BUT…Lance McCullers, Jr. was a supplemental first round pick of the Astros in the 2012 draft. He is rated as the #4 prospect in the Astros organization. He was the starting pitcher. He gave up a two-out double to Mitch Haniger in the bottom of the first inning. Quad Cities got a reliever up in the bullpen and took McCullers out of the game after the inning ended. I saw the QC coaching staff talking to McCullers a lot during the break before the start of the second inning. He went up to the clubhouse without a trainer. He was back on the bench later in the game. Reason? I don't know. Maybe I'll hear tomorrow.
Also…Carlos Correa…um, wow. The #1 overall pick in the 2012 draft was 3-for-5 with a double, two runs, and two RBI. He made some solid to spectacular plays and showed great range. It looked like Chris McFarland had beat out an infield single in the bottom of the seventh, but it has to count as a spectacular 6-3 putout. He is hitting .263 against the whole league and 9-for-23 (.391) against the Timber Rattlers.
Back to the Rattlers prospects:
Michael Reed 2-for-4 with a walk and a stolen base. His hitting streak is at 9-games and he is 15-for-32 during the streak.
I am just going to point this "stat" out there because it's…I don't know what it is…because it's there?
There have been 75 innings by Wisconsin pitchers on this homestand.
There have been 18 1-2-3 innings by Wisconsin pitchers on this homestand.
Seven of those 1-2-3 innings by Wisconsin pitchers on this homestand belong to Tyler Wagner.
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The upshot: Copeland's family is paying for a permanent stage for musical performances in what will be named the Al Copeland Concert Gardens and, in exchange, may install a "serenity garden" and statue of the Popeye's fried chicken founder.
The statue illustration shows what appears to be a life-sized, broad-shouldered Copeland holding a box of fried chicken. A powerboat, a nod to Copeland's fondness for racing, juts from the base.
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Some parents in Lehigh County want to know why Emmaus High School's championship rifle team was not included in the school's new yearbook.
They hoped to find out what happened at Monday night's school board meeting. But no explanation was offered by school board members, the superintendent or other administrators at the meeting.
"This is a high school issue," said Superintendent Thomas Seidenberger after the board meeting.
Chris Donatelli, a Republican candidate for school board in the November election, was the only parent to address the board about the matter. But he was accompanied by two other "disappointed" parents of rifle team members.
Donatelli said 10 high school rifle teams competed in the 2012-13 district competition, which Emmaus High School won in February. "The team went undefeated in the league and in the district," he told the school board.
After the meeting, Donatelli said parents don't know if the rifle team was not included in the 2013 yearbook because of an oversight – or if someone was afraid to include anything about its victory because of the national debate over gun control.
"I'd hate to think it would be that," he said. "We're just trying to get answers."
His son Stephen was a member of the rifle team before graduating in spring. When Stephen got his yearbook two weeks ago, he saw it did not even mention the rifle team and there was no photo of the team.
A photo of the rifle team was taken by Don Herb, a professional photographer hired to take pictures for the yearbook. It shows 21 team members posing with their advisors. Most of the students are holding rifles.
Parents said Andrew Moxey, the high school's yearbook advisor, suggested that Herb did not turn in the picture on time. They said that angered Herb, who told one of them: "I'm really upset. I feel like I got thrown under the bus."
The parents said Herb told them the rifle team photo was one of the best he took for the yearbook. He's offered to send it to all rifle team members for free.
Donatelli said some families purchased the yearbook even though their children have not yet graduated, because they fully expected the rifle team's accomplishments would be in it.
He said parents trying to find out what happened first contacted Dennis Ramella, the high school athletic director, "who claims no involvement. Mr. Herb says he fulfilled his requirement and Mr. Moxey, to date, has not come back with a satisfactory answer."
He asked the school board for the name of the person who oversees Moxey's position as yearbook advisor.
Donatelli suggested that everyone who gets a yearbook should receive a supplemental page showcasing the accomplishment of the rifle team.
"This issue, if not addressed, will only fester," he warned the school board.
"I'm not going to let it lie," said Donatelli after the meeting.
"Me either," said parent Lorraine Husack, whose son Jonathan, an EHS junior, is on the rifle team.
Husack said she was shocked that the team's photo was not in the yearbook.
Rochelle Bachman said her daughter Siera also is a junior on the rifle team.
Bachman said Moxey told her he never received the photo of the rifle team to include in the yearbook. She then contacted Herb, who assured her the picture had been sent.
Seidenberger said the high school's co-ed rifle team has been winning routinely for the last couple of years. He said not many high schools still have rifle teams, adding: "We go hither and yon to have a shooting match."
Also during the board meeting:
* Kristen Campbell was sworn in as assistant district superintendent by Lehigh County Judge Douglas Reichley.
* Seidenberger announced that on Friday a new ticket booth -- designed and built by Emmaus High teacher Scott Didra's students -- was moved to Memorial Field. He said Didra's students now are considering constructing a new press box for the football stadium.
* Seidenberger told the board he has begun writing pieces for the district's web site in a section called Superintendent's Timely Messages. He plans to write at least one every week. He said he will stick to pertinent themes that focus more on fact than opinion.


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The armored, faceless bounty hunter seemed to cringe without moving at all, "...Sathik."
"Hey," Sathik put up his black gloved hands and then casually folded them across his chest, "I wasn't the one who tripped onto the door opener."
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Sathik unslung his shotgun cockily, and began putting in new shells. His voice took on a darkened tone of lethality, "It means Rancor Steak for everyone."
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INDIANAPOLIS – Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert said he has no regrets sending a 2014 third-round pick to the Browns for the chance to draft safety Shamarko Thomas a year ago.
"We'd do it again today," Colbert said when asked to grade the trade.
The Browns have 10 overall picks in the upcoming draft, including two in the third round.
Thomas played in the Steelers' sub packages before suffering a late-season high-ankle sprain. He appeared in roughly 20 percent of the team's defensive snaps.
The club remains high on the potential of the 5-foot-9, 217-pounder. The hard-hitting Syracuse product nicknamed "Headache" is expected to compete for a starting spot next season if, as expected, the Steelers don't re-sign Ryan Clark.
The Browns surprised many last April in trading their fourth-round selection (No. 111 overall) to their division rival. It was the first deal between the teams since 1968. Thomas recorded 29 tackles and seven special-teams stops, but did not play defensively after the Week 9 ankle injury. Defensive back Will Allen took his spot in the sub packages.
The Steelers missed the playoffs for a second straight season.
"The result was the 8-8 [record], and we'll see whether Shamarko can help change that," Colbert said. "If he does, it was a good deal. If he doesn't, it wasn't."
Thomas' teammates are anticipating a big jump in his production.
"By the time the end of next season comes, I'm going to say I told you so," cornerback Ike Taylor told The Plain Dealer in December. "Once Shamarko gets an opportunity to start, ya'll going to see why we call him 'Headache' as a nickname. He's a young explosive guy that can run and hit. If you're going to have a knock on him, you may talk about his size.
"Everybody talked about Earl Thomas' size, but those guys in Seattle have been balling. So a football player is a football player, and that's Shamarko."


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Podcast #369 - Fable Legends DX12 Benchmark, Apple A9 SoC, Intel P3608 SSD, and more!
Subject: General Tech | October 1, 2015 - 02:17 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: podcast, video, fable legends, dx12, apple, A9, TSMC, Samsung, 14nm, 16nm, Intel, P3608, NVMe, logitech, g410, TKL, nvidia, geforce now, qualcomm, snapdragon 820
PC Perspective Podcast #369 - 10/01/2015
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Apple Dual Sources A9 SOCs with TSMC and Samsung: Some Extra Thoughts
Subject: Processors | September 30, 2015 - 09:55 PM | Josh Walrath
Tagged: TSMC, Samsung, FinFET, apple, A9, 16 nm, 14 nm
So the other day the nice folks over at Chipworks got word that Apple was in fact sourcing their A9 SOC at both TSMC and Samsung. This is really interesting news on multiple fronts. From the information gleaned the two parts are the APL0898 (Samsung fabbed) and the APL1022 (TSMC).
These process technologies have been in the news quite a bit. As we well know, it has been a hard time for any foundry to go under 28 nm in an effective way if your name is not Intel. Even Intel has had some pretty hefty issues with their march to sub 32 nm parts, but they have the resources and financial ability to push through a lot of these hurdles. One of the bigger problems that affected the foundries was the idea that they could push back FinFETs beyond what they were initially planning. The idea was to hit 22/20 nm and use planar transistors and push development back to 16/14 nm for FinFET technology.
The Chipworks graphic that explains the differences between Samsung's and TSMC's A9 products.
There were many reasons why this did not work in an effective way for the majority of products that the foundries were looking to service with a 22/20 nm planar process. Yes, there were many parts that were fabricated using these nodes, but none of them were higher power/higher performance parts that typically garner headlines. No CPUs, no GPUs, and only a handful of lower power SOCs (most notably Apple's A8, which was around 89 mm squared and consumed up to 5 to 10 watts at maximum). The node just did not scale power very effectively. It provided a smaller die size, but it did not increase power efficiency and switching performance significantly as compared to 28 nm high performance nodes.
The information Chipworks has provided also verifies that Samsung's 14 nm FF process is more size optimized than TSMC's 16 nm FF. There was originally some talk about both nodes being very similar in overall transistor size and density, but Samsung has a slightly tighter design. Neither of them are smaller than Intel's latest 14 nm which is going into its second generation form. Intel still has a significant performance and size advantage over everyone else in the field. Going back to size we see the Samsung chip is around 96 mm square while the TSMC chip is 104.5 mm square. This is not huge, but it does show that the Samsung process is a little tighter and can squeeze more transistors per square mm than TSMC.
In terms of actual power consumption and clock scaling we have nothing to go on here. The chips are both represented in the 6S and 6S+. Testing so far has not shown there to be significant differences between the two SOCs so far. In theory one could be performing better than the other, but in reality we have not tested these chips at a low enough level to discern any major performance or power issue. My gut feeling here is that Samsung's process is more mature and running slightly better than TSMC's, but the differences are going to be minimal at best.
The next piece of info that we can glean from this is that there just isn't enough line space for all of the chip companies who want to fabricate their parts with either Samsung or TSMC. From a chip standpoint a lot of work has to be done to port a design to two different process nodes. While 14 and 16 are similar in overall size and the usage of FinFETS, the standard cells and design libraries for both Samsung and TSMC are going to be very different. It is not a simple thing to port over a design. A lot of work has to be done in the design stage to make a chip work with both nodes. I can tell you that there is no way that both chips are identical in layout. It is not going to be a "dumb port" where they just adjust the optics with the same masks and magically make these chips work right off the bat. Different mask sets for each fab, verification of both designs, and troubleshooting the yields by metal layer changes will be different for each manufacturer.
In the end this means that there just simply was not enough space at either TSMC or Samsung to handle the demand that Apple was expecting. Because Apple has deep pockets they contracted out both TSMC and Samsung to produce two very similar, but still different parts. Apple also likely outbid and locked down what availability to process wafers that Samsung and TSMC have, much to the dismay of other major chip firms. I have no idea what is going on in the background with people like NVIDIA and AMD when it comes to line space for manufacturing their next generation parts. At least for AMD it seems that their partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and their version of 14 nm FF is having a hard time taking off. Eventually more space will be made in production and yields and bins will improve. Apple will stop taking up so much space and we can get other products rolling off the line. In the meantime, enjoy that cutting edge iPhone 6S/+ with the latest 14/16 nm FF chips.
Samsung Announces New Gear VR at Oculus Connect
Subject: Mobile | September 26, 2015 - 10:00 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Samsung, oculus vr, Oculus, gear vr
Oculus Connect was last week, including a lengthy keynote on Thursday that featured Tim Sweeney, John Carmack, Michael Abrash, and others (even Mark Zuckerberg made an appearance). Within the first dozen minutes, they brought Peter Koo, Senior Vice President of Samsung Mobile, to the stage, who announced the new Samsung Gear VR. Its main advantage is that is supports more of their flagship phones than their previous model did, and, more interesting, for half the price of the previous version.
The Gear VR is the first consumer version as they consider the previous one to be a developer kit -- err -- "Innovator Edition". It will support the Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 edge, S6 edge+, and the Galaxy Note 5. The device is lighter and "much more comfortable to wear" than its predecessor. It will cost $99, plus the cost of one of the aforementioned phones unless you were getting one for a different reason, and it will be available in November.
Podcast #368 - full GTX 980s in notebooks, Samsung's NVMe 950 Pro, Jim Keller leaving AMD and more!
Subject: General Tech | September 24, 2015 - 03:22 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: podcast, video, amd, Jim Keller, Zen, Samsung, 950 PRO, NVMe, M.2, vnand, Thrustmaster, tx f458, Lenovo, Thinkpad, x1 carbon, x250, t450s, helix
PC Perspective Podcast #368 - 09/24/2015
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Samsung Launches 950 PRO - 300,000 IOPS and 2.5 GB/sec from a M.2 V-NAND SSD!
Subject: Storage | September 22, 2015 - 02:39 AM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: vnand, V-NAND, ssd, Samsung, pcie, NVMe, M.2 2280, M.2, 950 PRO, 512GB, 256GB
I've been waiting a long time for Samsung to put their V-NAND flash memory into a PCIe connected SSD, and such a product has just been officially announced at the Samsung SSD Global Summit.
Samsung's new product launching will be called the 950 PRO. This will be an M.2 2280 form factor product running at PCIe 3.0 x4. Equipped with Samsung's 32-layer V-NAND and using the NVMe protocol enabled by a new UBX controller, the 950 PRO will be capable of up to an impressive 300,000 random read IOPS. Random writes come in at 110,000 IOPS and sequential throughputs are expected to be 2.5 GB/sec reads and 1.5 GB/sec for writes. Available capacities will be 256GB and 512GB.
- 1TB - (early next year with the switch to 48-layer V-NAND)
The 950 PRO will be shipping with a 5-year warranty rated at 200 terabytes written for the 256GB model and 400 TBW for the 512GB. That works out to just over 100GB per day for both capacities.
These hit retail in October and we currently have samples in hand for testing.
(for those curious, both capacities only have components on the front side of the PCB)
Full press blast after the break.
Good Morning (Night) From Seoul! New Samsung SSDs Are Coming!
Subject: Storage | September 21, 2015 - 11:32 AM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: vnand, Summit, ssd, Seoul, Samsung, M.2, Korea, Global, 2015
As I hinted during last week's podcast, I am in Seoul, Korea to cover an upcoming press conference.
To those keen readers who have followed my previous trips here, it can only mean one thing -
..and with a Samsung SSD Global Summit comes product announcements. Those don't happen until tomorrow (late tonight for you folks back in the states), but I did notice a clue on the cover of our itinerary folder:
See it? Here, let me help:
A VNAND powered M.2 (presumably NVMe) SSD is *exactly* the thing I have been waiting for Samsung to unleash into the wild ever since we reviewed their NVMe SM951. Given that Samsung's prior M.2 offerings gave the Intel SSD 750 a run for its money all while consuming half the power, and did so with Samsung's older 2D Planar NAND, you can bet a VNAND version will be something to behold. Let's hope this new model is released as a consumer product and doesn't end up as OEM-channel unobtanium like the NVMe SM951 was!
Keep an eye out for additional posts from our coverage of the 2015 Samsung SSD Global Summit!
Report: TSMC To Produce NVIDIA Pascal On 16 nm FinFET
Subject: Graphics Cards | September 16, 2015 - 09:16 AM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: TSMC, Samsung, pascal, nvidia, hbm, graphics card, gpu
According to a report by BusinessKorea TSMC has been selected to produce the upcoming Pascal GPU after initially competing with Samsung for the contract.
Though some had considered the possibility of both Samsung and TSMC sharing production (albeit on two different process nodes, as Samsung is on 14 nm FinFET), in the end the duties fall on TSMC's 16 nm FinFET alone if this report is accurate. The move is not too surprising considering the longstanding position TSMC has maintained as a fab for GPU makers and Samsung's lack of experience in this area.
The report didn't make the release date for Pascal any more clear, naming it "next year" for the new HBM-powered GPU, which will also reportedly feature 16 GB of HBM 2 memory for the flagship version of the card. This would potentially be the first GPU released at 16 nm (unless AMD has something in the works before Pascal's release), as all current AMD and NVIDIA GPUs are manufactured at 28 nm.
Meet the Galaxy S6 Edge+
Subject: General Tech | August 13, 2015 - 01:37 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Samsung, Galaxy S6 Edge+
We all knew it was coming and now we have the official information on the Galaxy S6 Edge+ from Samsung. It is as Edge-y as the non-plus model and sports the same 5.7in 1440x2560 QHD Super AMOLED dual screen. As you would expect there is a 64-bit octa-core Exynos 7420 inside, using the same 14nm process but the RAM has been upped to 4GB from the previous 3GB. The metal and glass housing is similar to the Edge but discerning eyes should still be able to tell you forked over money to upgrade to the newest model. The Inquirer has some of the press release here but don't watch the full release video as it is only slightly less terrible than last years horror show from Blackberry.
"SAMSUNG HAS SURPRISED NOBODY with the unveiling of the Galaxy S6 Edge+, the firm's latest smartphone for big-handed folk."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Preparing System Image for Windows 10 Upgrade @ Benchmark Reviews
- Twitter EMBIGGENS users' inboxes to THOUSANDS of CHARACTERS @ The Register
- Thirty five Flash Player holes plugged (and there's one quick fix) @ The Register
- Microsoft: Surface hub will ship from January 1, 2016 @ The Register
Podcast #362 - Benchmarking a Voodoo 3, Flash Media Summit 2015, Skylake Delidding and more!
Subject: General Tech | August 13, 2015 - 01:14 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: podcast, video, amd, nvidia, GTX 970, Zotac GTX 970 AMP! Extreme Core Edition, dx12, 3dfx, voodoo 3, Intel, SSD 750, NVMe, Samsung, R9 Fury, Fiji, gtx 950
PC Perspective Podcast #362 - 08/13/2015
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FMS 2015: Samsung's New 256Gbit VNAND Enables 16TB PM1633a Datacenter SSD
Subject: Storage | August 11, 2015 - 04:59 PM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: Samsung, vnand, 48-layer, tlc, 16TB, FMS 2015
I get these emails and comments all the time - "I want a larger capacity SSD". Ok, here ya go:
Samsung's earlier 48-layer VNAND announcement was exciting, but we already knew about it going into the keynote. What we did not know was that Samsung was going to blew the doors off of their keynote when they dropped this little gem. It's not just the largest capacity SSD, as this thing is more dense than any HDD's available today as well. That's 16TB of 48-layer TLC VNAND packed into a 2.5" form factor SAS-connected SSD.
...now what do you do once you have such a high density device? Well, you figure out how many you can cram into a 2U chassis of course!
Yup, that's 48 of those new SSDs, making for a capacity of 768TB in a 2U chassis. Samsung described this as a "JBOF" (Just a Bunch Of Flash), so processing the 2 million IOPS this array is capable of will have to be left to the connected system.
No word on pricing, but I'd think we are in 'mortgage the house' territory if you want to put this into your home PC.
There is more to follow from Flash Memory Summit, but for now I've got to run to another meeting!
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For those of us wondering how bad the untested genetically modified food experiment is going to get before it gets any better, a ray of hope was just offered. A San Francisco judge, the very honorable, Judge Jeffrey White just ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service violated environmental law because of inadequate environmental testing of genetically modified sugar beets. He ruled that the agency failed to see if the genetically altered beets would eventually share their funky pesticide proof genes with other crops. Judge White noted that pollen from sugar beets can be blown long distances and pollinate other crops, including table beets and chard.
White wrote, "The potential elimination of farmers choice to grow nongenetically engineered crops, or consumers choice to eat nongenetically engineered food … has a significant effect on the human environment."
The judge ordered the federal agency to produce an environmental impact statement after taking a hard look at the issue. A lesser look by the agency found that the sharing of genetically altered pollen was no cause for concern.
This is the second blow for Monsanto and according the Associated Press, a "similar ruling in 2007 forced a ban on planting Roundup Ready alfalfa until a re-examination was done." That environmental impact statement has yet to be completed, so it effectively halted the growth and sale of GMO alfalfa.
About half of the sugar beets used in the United States are currently Monsanto's genetically modified variety and the judge didn't rule about the harvest of the current crop.
If you haven't been already, it's wise to avoid sugar for a while to make sure you're not consuming genetically modified sugar beets.
Genetically modified foods have been linked to smaller, less developed brains, livers and testicles. GMOs have been found to enlarge other tissues, including the pancreas and intestines. They've been known to atrophy the liver, while causing structural changes in the stomach and intestines. GMOs have additionally been linked to infertility and allergies. Here`s more:
In the U.S., the news wasn't covered by mainstream outlets. As a consequence genetically modified foods are not labeled and consumers remain largely unaware. Genetically modified ingredients are available in the large majority of processed foods, and in the U.S. it's actually illegal for manufacturers to label GMO products, as GMO products.
U.S. officials have been cited as saying that such labeling would "confuse consumers," and it's widely known that the large majority of consumers don't want to eat genetically modified foods. Their logic has been: if consumers knew which foods were genetically modified, they would avoid them and thereby make the wrong choice. The official said to have explained the government's logic at an international Codex meeting later denied doing so.
Organic farmers, food safety advocates and conservation groups brought the lawsuit. According to Earthjustice attorney Paul Achitoff, on Oct. 30 they will ask the judge for an injunction to ban new plantings until the environmental impact statement is complete.
Healthy eating classed as a mental illness, it will make GMO companies happy*
GM Propaganda: Poverty And Climate Change Used As An Excuse To Push For More GM Crops
UK state attempts to bring in Genetically Modified sweetcorn containing a pest killing toxin
US Doctors' association calls for Moratorium on GMO Foods *
The significance of the successfully developed GM food vaccine *
Monsanto sues Germany over GMO maize ban – EU set to overrule Germany's sovereignty


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A racket is a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a problem, such as for a problem that does not actually exist, that will not be put into effect, or that would not otherwise exist if the racket did not exist. Conducting a racket is racketeering.[1] Particularly, the potential problem may be caused by the same party that offers to solve it, although that fact may be concealed, with the specific intent to engender continual patronage for this party. The most common example of a racket is the "protection racket." The racket itself promises to protect the target business or person from dangerous individuals in the neighborhood; then either collects their money or causes the damages to the business until the owner pays. The racket exists as both the problem and its solution and is used as a method of extortion.
Racketeering is often associated with organized crime, and the term was coined by the Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters union.[2]
RICO Act[edit]
On October 15, 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968), commonly referred to as the "RICO Act", became United States law. The RICO Act allowed law enforcement to charge a person or group of people with racketeering, defined as committing multiple violations of certain varieties within a ten-year period. The purpose of the RICO Act was stated as "the elimination of the infiltration of organized crime and racketeering into legitimate organizations operating in interstate commerce". S.Rep. No. 617, 91st Cong., 1st Sess. 76 (1968). However, the statute is sufficiently broad to encompass illegal activities relating to any enterprise affecting interstate or foreign commerce.
Section 1961(10) of Title 18 provides that the Attorney General of the United States may designate any department or agency to conduct investigations authorized by the RICO statute and such department or agency may use the investigative provisions of the statute or the investigative power of such department or agency otherwise conferred by law. Absent a specific designation by the Attorney General, jurisdiction to conduct investigations for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1962 lies with the agency having jurisdiction over the violations constituting the pattern of racketeering activity listed in 18 U.S.C. § 1961.[3]
In the U.S., civil racketeering laws are also used in federal and state courts.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Racketeering". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
- ^ David Witwer, "'The Most Racketeer-Ridden Union in America': The Problem of Corruption in the Teamsters Union During the 1930s", in Corrupt Histories, Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan, eds., University of Rochester Press, 2004. ISBN 1-58046-173-5
- ^ "Organized Crime and Racketeering". Usdoj.gov. Retrieved 2012-02-18.