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When he began work at Parks, fresh out of the Air Force, Charles (Razorback) McKinney dedicated himself to Riverside Park, outlining a master plan for its restoration. That was 1981. Twenty years later, he has implemented the changes described in that master plan. And he has done much more for one of Manhattan's best-loved, most used parks. As community residents will attest, 20 years ago, Riverside Park was badly rundown. Large sections of the park were abandoned and others had been taken over for illegal activity. As the Director of Riverside Park and later the Riverside Park Administrator, McKinney grew the relationship between parks and neighborhood volunteers into a public/private partnership. The Riverside Park Fund plays an active role in the life of the park today.
With a combination of public and private funds, McKinney leveraged major park innovations and improvements. Under his watch, the City's first skate park opened in a formerly abandoned section of the park. The use of artificial turf enabled the West Side Soccer League to claim a portion of the park. That league is one of several that make extensive use of the park's fields and have helped define Riverside Park as a recreation hot spot for kids and adults in Manhattan. Most recently, McKinney has overseen the creation of Riverside Park South, the more than 20-acre addition to the park and the near completion of bicycle and pedestrian pathways on the waterfront.
The friends he's made at countless community board meetings, art commission reviews, and on his daily trips through the park will remember McKinney fondly. We wish him the best of luck as he turns his imagination and ability to the 2,700-acre Doris Duke Estate in Princeton, New Jersey where he will serve as director.
Parks and the Riverside Park Fund have named K. C. (Jones) Sahl Acting Riverside Park Administrator. Sahl will return to Manhattan on November 9, 2001.
Sahl began at Parks after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya. In November of 1995 the California native accepted a position as an Analyst for Operations and Management Planning. He was the first Parkie to analyze the WEP program. He also acted as Commissioner Moss' liaison with lifeguards. One year later, he moved to Manhattan as the first Manager of Washington Square Park. In that role, Sahl sought private funding from New York University and other local organizations with a vested interest in Washington Square Park. He was able to raise more than $250,000 in private money for Gardeners, CPWs, and PEP Officers in his first year on the job. Sahl was made Employee of the Month in July of 1996.
Sahl's responsibilities grew in November 1997 when he became Park Manager for Districts 1 and 2 in Manhattan. He worked with other borough staff to devise a special maintenance plan for the newly renovated City Hall Park. Under his supervision, Districts 1 and 2 maintained the highest ratings in the City.
Sahl moved to Brooklyn as Deputy Chief of Operations in November 2000. There he has worked to improve the operations of the borough's technical trade shops and created an operations manual. He regards his new appointment in Riverside Park as a "fantastic challenge", and notes that early in his career, "Charles McKinney helped me develop my skills as a manager." Sahl plans to spend his first weeks on the job becoming better acquainted with the park, how it used and by whom. Once he understands this, he will work with residents and community organizations to realize their priorities for restoration and programming as well as daily maintenance and operations.
Commissioner Benepe expressed his satisfaction with the appointment saying, "There were a number of superlative candidates from within Parks and from the private sector. K.C. was the top candidate. His broad range of experience at Parks in many different positions, his prior experience in the Peace Corps, and his energy and his passion for public service will make him an outstanding administrator of this important park. I look forward to working with him and with the Riverside Park Fund and all the friends and neighbors of Riverside Park to continue the renaissance begun so capably by the first administrator, Charles McKinney."
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James R. Ryan has been appointed Bronx Parks Commissioner, Mayor Edward I. Koch and Commissioner Stern announced today. Ryan had been the Acting Bronx Parks Commissioner since July 1987.
"Jim Ryan is a career civil servant who has served the Parks Department with distinction since he joined city government in 1963," said Commissioner Stern. "He has been doing an excellent job as Bronx Parks Commissioner for over a year now, and it is to his credit that Parks has experienced a resurgence of good working relationships with Bronx community boards, neighborhood groups and elected officials."
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I am new to this board, and I would like some information on obtaining a divorce.
I married a sh*te muslim man over three years ago.I am Canadian and my Husband was living in Canada too on refugee status. We married at registra office. After 4 months together he was deported back to his Country..never to come back again to Canada.
I have tried to contact him, and he has replied..but when my LAwyer sent him divorce papers by fax, he ignored them.
The question I want to ask is..is there a mosque or learned man such as Iman..that could help me..get the papers to him..as this might help me to obtain a signature..by the way my Husband now lives in Riyadh Saudi Arabia..
I am living in VAncouver BC Canada..if this is of any help..
Thanks ahead of time for all who would like to steer me in the right direction
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Assalamu alaikum,
I am so sorry to hear this has happened to you. You are not alone. Many western women have been tricked into marriage by men who are only after citizenship, then they take off.
I wish I could be of more help, but all I can offer are two good websites where you might be able to find some help or direction. I hope this is of some help.
www.karamah.org (Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights)
www.wluml.org (Women Living Under Muslim Laws)
Also, I am not positive, but I believe that abandonment for a certain length of time would get you a divorce by Canadian law, without his signature. Check and see if this is so.
Peace, ummziba.
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first of all never marry a muslim! it is the biggest mistake u cn make! i was in the same situation, i married a gay muslim guy from pakistan(smelly) so he could stay in the country i thought our relationship was real, as soon as he got citizenship, he undid his circumsision(plastic surgery-dont ask) and went of wiv prozzies, i felt used! i myself am a bisexual muslim!, you are very unfortunate, i know a solicitor that can help you, it is immiration, but he will give advice on immigrants marrying and divorcing-in my opinion they shouyld make a law-only marry a person who has citizenship in that country. The solicitopr is based in the UK, but he has branches around the world and one in Vancouver:
i hope this will help, he is a specialist in this case, and i am sure he has a branch in Saudi-Arabia.
Good Luck!
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I don't know how it works in Canada, but a similar situation happened to my Aunt in Washington, DC. She married a Phillipino man and found out later that not only had he only been after his green card, but that his supposedly deceased spouse in the Phillipines was alive and still married to him. She was able to get an annullment based on the fact that he entered the marriage for illegal purposes. I know that doesn't help you very much. My heart goes out to you. The other suggestion is to contact the Canadian Embassy in Saudi Arabia (if there is one) or the Saudi Embassy in Ottawa (if there is one.)
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thanks alot for all the imput, you have all given me..Iwill try and get info from that LAwyer at Georgia street in VAncouver,,I have tried to contact an Imam in a shiite mosqe...but they do not seem to reply for whatever reason..it really is annoying..anyways just have to hang in there...thanks to all
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"Archaeology in Progress" is one of the Association Archaeologica projects, where through a new and creative way we try to promote and present archaeology. We wanted to bring archaeology closer to the people by providing a window into the daily lives of archaeologists. We decides to make an exhibition of working archaeological photographs and to let everybody see what is happening behind closed doors at the archaeological digs. Exhibition of this kind was a novelty in our country, the photographs were showing the preparations and the actual work at one archaeological dig. The motives were exclusively archaeological and showed the most interesting moments that occur at the archaeological excavations. The main goal was to promote the archaeology and to present the best photographs taken in the last couple of years on the archaeological sites in our country. The exhibition presented pictures from professional photographers who have participated at archaeological digs, and from amateur photographers who are usually the archaeologist taking the role of a photographer. Participation was open to all the people who have worked on archaeological sites, archaeologists and archaeology students from the country and abroad and all the admirers of archaeology and photography. Everybody who have worked on a research or at some archaeological site and had an interesting archaeological photo could participate in the announced competition. The exhibition aroused great interest among the experts and the general public. A great number of photographs came on the competition organized on the social networks, the best 30 were selected by a professional jury, and by giving votes on the Facebook page of our association – Archaeologica. The best three photos were awarded with symbolic prizes.
Through these archaeological photographs we wanted to present the real situation of archeology in Macedonia, to give incentive for the development of the culture, to increase the offer of cultural events in our country and if we are able to, to create a traditional exhibition that will be held every year. This year association Archaeologica is organizing a second exhibition of working archaeological photographs – "Archaeology in Progress – Volume 2", that will be held in September. Again a Competition will be announced to collect photographs made during the archaeological excavations of various sites in the country and abroad. The competition will be public and will take place on the social networks – on the Facebook page of Archaeologica. All the photographs that we will receive will be published in an album where you can vote simply by pressing the Like button. A jury and the votes from the people will choose the best 50 photographs This exhibition will be a collection of the best archaeological photos and a celebration of the Macedonian archaeological culture. The video is the catalogue from the previous Archaeology in Progress exhibition. Elena Karanfilovska


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ST. PAUL, Minn. - Jason Pominville had a goal and an assist, Nate Prosser scored for the first time in 68 games, and the Minnesota Wild beat the new-look Edmonton Oilers 4-1 on Thursday night.
Justin Fontaine and Jason Zucker also scored to help the Wild win for the sixth time in eight games and bounce back after getting shutout on Tuesday.
Jordan Eberle scored his 15th goal for the Oilers, who haven't won on the road in their past six tries.
Edmonton spent most of the second period in the Wild's zone, but didn't generate many shots.
When the Wild got set up on the other end, Prosser's slap shot hit Ben Scrivens' left glove and fluttered in to give Minnesota a 2-1 lead.
It was Prosser's first goal since Feb. 7, 2012, in Columbus.
Fontaine stuffed in a rebound 2 minutes later and Zucker scored 8 seconds into the third on a give-and-go with Dany Heatley.
Scrivens had 29 saves in his Oilers debut after he was acquired Wednesday in a trade from Los Angeles. Scrivens replaces Devan Dubnyk in goal, who played in 32 games for the Oilers and was traded to Nashville for centre Matt Hendricks on Wednesday.
While the Oilers were incorporating new players into their lineup, the Wild carried on without several of their key players.
Zach Parise (foot) and Mikko Koivu (ankle) remain out and top goalie Josh Harding hasn't played the past eight games as he recovers from an adjustment to his multiple sclerosis treatment.
Darcy Kuemper had 20 saves and improved to 3-1 since being recalled from Iowa of the AHL. He's stopped 111 of 116 shots over that span.
Edmonton — the worst defensive team in the NHL — has allowed 28 goals in its past six road games and desperately needs the gritty Hendricks to provide more toughness and Scrivens more consistency in the net.
Scrivens allowed 1.97 goals per game while filling in for the injured Jonathan Quick in Los Angeles, but will probably see that number rise on the defensively challenged Oilers.
NOTES: Scrivens is the fifth goalie to play for the Oilers this season. ... Parise (foot) practiced on Wednesday, but did not give a timetable for his return. ... This was the 1,000th regular season game in Wild franchise history. ... Oilers RW Nail Yakupov left the game with a head injury in the third period. ... Zucker's goal was the fastest to start a period on home ice in franchise history.


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Thursday (October 17)
Daniel Boulud with Budd Mishkin
Thursday, October 17th, 8:15 p.m. Join Daniel Boulud for a talk and book signing. $29. Buttenwieser Hall, Lexington Ave at 92nd St, New York, NY; tickets and event details
Friday (October 18)
Cider Week NY: The Intoxicating Apple
Friday, October 18th, 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Join Rowan Jacobsen for a book discussion on his latest book, Apples of Uncommon Character. Tickets include four ciders, small tastings and cheese pairings. $40. The Wythe Hotel Screening Room. 80 Wythe Ave, New York, NY; tickets and event details
Saturday (October 19)
Meze Brunch
Saturday, October 19th, 12:00 p.m. A pop-up brunch party is happening this Saturday and Sunday at The Old Bowery Station. Dishes served include shakshuka, flat breads and desserts. Ticket also includes two glasses of wine and coffee. $40. 10 Kenmare St, New York, NY; tickets and event details
Cider Week NY: Harvest Beer & Cider Sessions
Saturday, October 19th, 1:00 p.m. Jimmy's No. 43 hosts a regional cider tasting with food pairings. Learn what ciders come from where, and what the differences between them are. $50. Jimmy's No. 43. 43 East 7th St, New York, NY; tickets and event details
Fritanga (Mexican pig roast)
Saturday, October 19th, 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. B'klyn Burro is hosting a fritanga, a Mexican-style whole pig roast with unlimited pork, chicharrones, and tacos. $25. Havemeyer Park. Kent Ave btwn S. 3rd and S. 4th, Brooklyn NY; tickets and event details
Cider Week NY: Domaine Dupont Tasting
Saturday, October 19th, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Join Anne-Pamy Dupont, of Domaine Dupont for a French cider discussion and tasting. Tickets include a tasting of three ciders. $18. The Queens Kickshaw. 40-17 Broadway, Astoria, NY; tickets and event details
Sunday (October 20)
Grub Street Food Festival at Hester Street Fair
Sunday, October 20th, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. New York Magazine and Grub Street are throwing their fourth annual food festival. Highlights include Dominique Ansel Bakery's release of "Cocoa Chowder" and a cronut giveaway. There will be over 75 vendors and a beer garden at the festival. Admission is free, pay per item. Hester Street Fair. Corner of Hester & Essex St. New York, NY; event details
Danish Red Sausage Event Hosted by Revolving Dansk
Sunday, October 20th, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Try danish hot dogs and drinks while listening to Europop and Scandinavian rock music. Admission is free, pay per item. Aamanns-Copenhagen. 13 Laight St, New York, NY; event details
Monday (October 21)
Fresh Mozzarella Making at Del Posto
Monday, October 21st, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Del Posto is hosting a class on making three different types of mozzarella. Pull your fresh cheese, then have a family-style meal made from your hard work. $200. Del Posto. 85 10th Ave, New York, NY; tickets and event details
Wednesday (October 23)
Five Course Cider-Paired Dinner
Wednesday, October 23rd, 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Celebrate cider week with a five course dinner paired with various ciders. Menu highlights include cider churro, cheese course, and quince tart. $60. The Queens Kickshaw. 40-17 Broadway, Astoria, NY; tickets and event details
The Food Film Festival Opening Night: The Kings of BBQ
Wednesday, October 23rd, 7:00 p.m. Watch barbecue themed films including 1 Minute Meal: Blessed by Brisket, Mile High Pie and The Kings of BBQ: Barbecue Kuwait. A BBQ brisket dinner with beers and lemon meringue pie will follow. $95. AMC Village 7. 66 Third Ave, New York, NY; tickets and event details
Himalayan Mixology Series
Wednesday, October 23rd, 7:00 p.m. Participate in a private group tour of Gateway to Himialyan Art and the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine room and a how-to on mixing drinks with a Himalyan twist. $25. Rubin Museum of Art. 150 West 17th St, New York, NY; tickets and event details
Chefs Mat Clouser & Zack Northcutt of Swift's Attic at City Grit
Wednesday, October 23rd, 7:30 p.m. The chefs of Austin's Swift Attic come to City Grit. $75. 38 Prince St, New York, NY; tickets and event details
After the Storm: Hurricane Sandy Anniversary Benefit for Shore Soup
Wednesday, October 23rd, 7:30 p.m. A celebration of local food and drink—and the Rockaway Rescue Alliance's work and progress in hard-hit Sandy-affected areas. All proceeds will go to The Rockaway Rescue Alliance Shore Soup Project. $85, $200 VIP. The Bowery Hotel. 335 Bowery, New York, NY; tickets and event details
Thursday (October 24)
Eating Asian America
Thursday, October 24th, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Discuss the newly released new New York University anthology: Eating Asian America. Topics to be covered include politics of school lunch in Hawaii, the history of Kikkoman, the rise Asian food trucks, and much more. Free, must RVSP. 19 West 4th Street New York , NY; event details
The Food Film Festival, Edible Adventure #008: The Surprise Inside
Thursday, October 24th, 7:00 p.m. The Food Film Festival kicks off with a selection of films on pocket foods like macaroons, dumplings, and tacos. You'll taste some of the dishes you see on the screen as you watch. $85. AMC Village 7. 66 Third Ave, New York, NY; tickets and event details
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PICTORIAL: Gigabyte GO OC 2009 Inside out
Gigabyte recently held its GO OC 2009 Pan American Finals. The event's winner will pack his bags and fly to Taiwan on June 3rd to compete for the world title and 5000 U.S. dollars in prize money. Today we are covering this event as we stated in our previous article on both days of the event with a plethora of images.
Here is the banner that greeted all of the visitors and competitors, introducing us to the "Dirty Dozen + 1", overclockers that competed in the GO OC 2009.
Here is a shot of the room where the entire event went down. The picture below can be described as "calm before the storm". The setup was very well done and hey made sure that nobody was tripping over any wires while walking around.
And here, you can see the equipment that they were given in order to compete. This includes a Gigabyte EX58-UD4P, a Gigabyte mouse, keyboard and monitor. It also includes an Enermax Revolution 1050W PSU, 3GB of Kingston HyperX DDR3 memory, and an Intel Core i7 Extreme i965 Processor. They will be cooling all of this using LN2 which is commonly known as liquid nitrogen.
Soon after, the overclockers began to arrive and started to mingle with each other and began to prepare for the event. Even though respect and jokes were shared among many, we noticed couple of "serious faces".
Here they are on one of the display systems that was running Far Cry 2. As you can see, the GO OC competitors are already trying to overclock before the event even began. This just shows how crazy these guys are, they are almost always overclocking. One could expect a lot of cellphone and netbook overclocking when theye guys are on the road.
Next, they began to randomly draw tiny soccer balls with numbers from 1 to 14 in order to make the selection of the hardware given to them entirely random to make the event as fair as possible. This is because no hardware is created alike and Gigabyte wants to make sure that nobody has an unfair advantage, for the most part.
The optimal [and the only] way is to actually check all of the hardware and bin all of it to see which chips go the furthest, which Gigabyte traditionally does before its events. In the picture below, you can see Rita Kao, Gigabyte's marketing lady.
After the drawing was complete, Colin Brix from Gigabyte Taiwan gave an introductory speech to the overclockers and present media, preparing to start for the event.
Let the overclocking mayhem begin! The opening of the event and the "rules of engagement".
Here is a shot of all of the overclockers going to their number designated stations with their hardware. Each overclocker had a judge who was responsible for taking down their scores as well as recording them and bringing them to the even organizers as well as getting screenshots to verify the CPU-Z validation , SuperPi, and 3DMark06 scores.
After the dust had settled they began to unpack their hardware and the best prepared started to insulate the surroundings. When LN2 cooling is used, any possibility of condensation must be dealt with – a single drop of condensed water is enough to kill a couple of grand worth of hardware, so precaution is a must.
As they are beginning to unpack the Hosts of the Gigabyte event try to drum up some excitement and begin the opening speeches.
Tony Liao, VP of North American Sales gave a speech about the event, followed by the representatives from each of the sponsors.
After Tony finished up with his speech, the time was for sponsors to give out motivational speeches to the overclockers or talk a little bit about thier companies.
First came Francois Piednoel from Intel. In his typical fashion the charming Frenchman who is "guilty" for the Skulltrail platform and a lot of overclocking efforts of late -gave a short but sweet speech and wishes them all luck. If you're asking yourself why a once buttoned-up company that prohibited overclocking is now a staunch supporter, Francois is one of best examples how to change the company from the inside.
Mark Tekunoff from Kingston Technology talked about Kingston HyperX line-up and how the memory been designed for overclockers by overclockers and wished them all good luck.
James Lee of Enermax fame gave a speech about their power supplies and how they modified the PSU design to make it more OC friendly. Just like Francois, he ended up with wishing the overclockers good luck. Out of all, his company was most on the line, as a good PSU is that fine line between "overclocking yes" and "overclocking fail". This was also the reason why Enermax came out with the big guns – a 1.05KW PSU for this hardware setup should be enough for a 5 GHz clock and beyond 😉
Speeches ended up with Jack Chen, Channel Marketing Manager from nVidia Corporation, giving out a short speech about the technologies from the other giant in Santa Clara and wished all the best to the overclockers.
After the opening speeches, they all take a group photo together before the overclocking event really had begun.
Then, the overclockers begin to prep their hardware to start overclocking. You can take a note that almost every overclocker had a different approach on how to insulate the CPUs. As we all know – a single drop of water created by condensated humidity is enough to kill a motherboard and even the $1000 CPU. Thus, it came as no surprise that clockers hoped that their way was the right way for the conditions in the room, and gettign this right meaning that you're half-way done to winning the competition.
Some opeted to start off with water-cooling to begin with, and then follow up with LN2…
And here are some tools of the trade…
As you can see, there aren't any rules[other than use provided parts]… overclockers use different methods and all in all, this brings us memories about how car racing developed – the different methods resulted in wildely different resutls. Overclocking is no different – these "engines" work the same, but the way how to cool them varies greatly from overclocker to overclocker.
And the prep continued… with some overclockers using good luck charms. We didn't notice any ritual dancing, but it was too early in the day.
Most of the overclockers went on to boot up the CPU first and see how it would go, but the other approach calls for an immediate overclock of everything, in order to see the limits of the setup itself, followed by upgauging of each individual component. This GTX260 won't be cooled by air… ever again.
After the prep has finished, the overclockers began to test their hardware's boundaries remembering that they can only go to about -108C until the Intel processors begin to become affected by the extreme cold. This is commonly known as a cold bug, but in reality what is happening is that the transistors at that temperature no longer become semi-conductors and start to become conductors. That is when they basically lose thier functionality as processors. It is interesting to see that now, the tide has turned and Intel has a CPU that suffers from the "cold bug", while AMD's Phenom II processors can go to as low as -200C, as witnessed in an YouTube video. This is a complete reversal from a year ago, but this is how this industry moves.
Yes, this is a superoverclockerman.
The overclockers predominately use Styrofoam cups because they are insulated and make good funnels when regular funnels would simply freeze up. From one side, one could argue this isn't exactly a "green" activity, from another – you cannot argue that these guys didn't "cool the planet" with all the LN2 that evaporated into thin air.
Unlike several recent competitions, there were virtually no limits here… overclockers went to overclock the GTX260-216 cards with LN2 and achieve the highest score in 3DMark06…
Then the overclockers began to get into the zone and start going for scores and possibly even records. At first, the overclockers did SuperPi calculations as benchmarks and then moved towards 3DMark06.
One of the very smart ways to avoid condensation is the submersive method. This system is not actually submerged under water, but rather under a fairly expensive mineral non-conductive fluid. Not only does it dissipate heat, but it also helps prevent condensation which most overclockers know can be the death of any component when benching below the dew point. You could use cooking oil as well, but then any issue would result in throwing the motherboard and every other submerged component away. As the time progresses, we expect to see a lot of overclockers switching to the submerged method of cooling the motherboard, memory, graphics etc – as it is a great time saver when it comes to insulation.
As you can see for yourself, Charles Wirth a.k.a. FUGGER is not using an LN2 Pot to cool down Intel's CPU. Fugger's special sauce is using a cascade setup. This device is capable of delivering subzero temperatures consistently and reliably allowing for stable overclocks and high scores. Many of these are capable of reaching as low as -150 degrees Celsius. This one was running at a good temperature as FUGGER was at the front of the pack all day long, even though he was not necessarily competing for the win because he and Vapor were both already going to Taiwan. The reason is simple: "defending champion" title.
In all honesty, this is the setup we personally like the most, because unlike LN2 and its time limitations [you have to continuously pour LN2 into the pot], you can even game using a cascade vapor-chamber concept – you should be able to run the system for days with no issues…
If you're loaded with the dough, you can get a setup built for yourself too, but be prepared to write a lowly five-figure check. Make sure that you squeeze him out for a GPU cascade as well. We know that both Intel and AMD use Fugger's cascades in their R&D facilities.
Cascade setup from the other side of the table.
As the time moved on, the overclockers continued to do their own thing and had a good time. Regardless of the awards in the tournament, spirits were up throughout the competition.
Here is one of the Gigabyte staffers pouring LN2 out of the Dewars into thermoses for the overclockers to use.
Here are some filled LN2 thermoses waiting to be poured.
Here are some Super PI results 15 minutes before the end of the superpi half of the event. Gigabyte opted to go for highest scores in Super PI 8M. The lowest number of seconds needed to calculate eight million iterations – wins. Note where the cascading setup is compared to the "conventional" LN2 setups.
And here are some 3DMark06 results that came in the second half as well…
Here are some more shots of the LN2/Mineral setup as this setup was the most unique and intrigued us the most. You can see that the whole setup is around 10cm deep into the mineral liquid.
Seven minutes before the 3DMark06 part of the event concluded, more people were standing than sitting as the pressure to achieve a good result.
Here is some LN2 being poured int the Copper Pot… LN2 functions at a -196C temperature, but don't think that this 4.6 GHz CPU setup churns out less than 200 Watts of heat. Once you start clocking the Core i7, TDP [Thermal Design Power] will shoot up through the sky… and that is the reason why Intel isn't selling 3.5 or 4.0 GHz models – 3.2W is specc'ed at 120-130W and that is a stable wattage bin for an i7 with Turbo mode on [3.33 GHz, Ed.]. 3.6 GHz would probably fluctuate around 160W TDP, but with Turbo mode reaching 3.73 GHz, you could have a repeat of Prescott-like TDPs.
Here are some other setups as well…
Notice the ice build up as a result of all that cold air…
This is not a gum, but you're not exactly far off. Once that the competiton part was over, some overclockers went to quickly tear the setup apart, change what they feel it was necessary and get back into the action. Same thing applied for some setups where components went "poof".
Updated 3DMark06 scoreboard – four minutes before the end of the run, it was just enough time to do one final push – you can compare this to Formula 1 racing, four minutes before the end of qualifying session, all the cars go out on the track to get that one final qualifying lap. In this case, the award was a ticked to Taiwan and a lot of dough.
Some shots people trying to get in one last run…
The last second…. will the scoreboard change and Fugger finally meet his match?
The answer will be revealed soon.
After the 3DMark06 scores had been collected, the judges began to add up the overclockers' scores in order to determine who had won between SuperPi and 3DMark06 with the competitor with the most points winning the competition. The overclockers were given a 30 minute break between the end of benching and the announcement of the winner in order to give judges some time to calculate the final order and of course, the winner.
And the winner is announced….
The winner is Jeremiah Allen e.g. Miahallen. Note that the Fugger was excluded as "already qualified".
While second place goes to…
Jeremy Clifton a.k.a. Sno.Icn .
While the third place went to…
Mark LeaMaster a.k.a. Maxi .
Here is Miahallen getting his prize from Tony and Francois…
The interesting part was that the show was not over then. In a real case of camaraderie, Francois from Intel actually awarded two intel X25-M SSDs to those two individuals who scored the lowest as both of them had the unfortunate accident of working on hardware that was unresponsive and at times did not give them any scores or points at all… for the next time around, we would advise that a tournament organizer does have one or two setups as backups, if things go awry. Not all hardware can handle the pressure of sub -100C temperatures.
Here is Guatam recieving his consolation prize in addition to all of the overclockers getting to keep their GPUs and motherboards.
Here is a picture of all of the winners with a representative from each of the sponsors.
The person with on the left is Rita from Gigabyte, and she could have been considered the life of the party.
Here are the winners with their celebratory bottles of champagne.
Here is a picture of all of the overclockers with the sponsors' representatives.
All of the competitors received commemorative plaques to congratulate them on making it this far…
Conclusion on the next page: Coverage of the freestyle overclocking session where the overclockers went for world records in a very laid back manner.
After a good night's sleep… or just partying – the overclockers gathered in the room again and started to work on their setups, preparing for overclocking with various hardware going for various world records.
Some triple-SLI GTX285 lovin'….
For those who dont know, that is indeed vaseline which is intended to insulate the board and components from condensation that occurs when using LN2 (liquid nitrogen). In a way, vaseline was much simpler to apply than variation of flexible gums – then again, after this competition was over, these motherboards were going to be given back to the overclockers.
Here are some overclockers with Rita from Gigabyte…
And here are some people's setups for that day…
And look… someone got bored with LN2…
That little boy is actually TiTon's little 5 year old son helping his dad out while overclocking…as they say, you can never start too early.
And there you have it… the Gigabyte Open Overclocking Competition.
Here are some of the final results and scores from the main competition…
Once again, we would like to thank Gigabyte and all of the sponsors for making this event possible and we cannot wait to see the results in June when the finals in Taiwan are held. Good luck to all and happy overclocking.
Original Author: Anshel Sag
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There's no better time than the present to be a white rapper. In fact, if you're African American, Latin, Asian, f*ck, anything else but white with pasty skin, you may want to consider f*cking around in another genre of music. White people own this sh*t right now. Which is sort of bad, but good. But also bad. And good. Let me explain, because the onslaught of white rap is not exactly a new thing. Hip-hop is now old as f*ck. In the 80s and 90s it was cute to be all like "oh, the genre is only x, y and z years old" and so on and so forth. And in that time when the culture was still shaping itself, it was hard to really assess the importance of what was going on. Luckily, the culture kind of self-policed itself in a way, ejecting wack sh*t (Vanilla Ice), and cosigning the good sh*t (3rd Bass). But that was back when there was a filter on music, and looking at it now, it's easy to see that even despite this, white people and rap have had a weird relationship as it pertains to success dating back to the culture's salad days. To wit, despite Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" being revered as one of the first extremely popular rap songs, the first rap-influenced song to ever top the Billboard Hot 100 was, in fact, Blondie's "Rapture," in 1981. See, it took a hot blonde white girl rapping to put hip-hop on top. Strangely, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
We are in 2011, and who has been dominating the conversation for the past few months? Kreayshawn. To a lesser extent, V-Nasty. On the less controversial side, there's Mac Miller, Yelawolf, and Machine Gun Kelly (who strangely reminds me of Milkbone, a 90s-era rapper from New Jersey who had a few noteworthy tunes- one, consequently titled "Keep It Real," go figure- before fading to black). And there are others. Macklemore. Hoodie Allen. Chris Webby. Sam Adams. Iggy Azalea. Action Bronson. Even Riff Raff. I could probably list twenty more white rappers who are semi-popular right now to the average high school and college kid, but who most rap critics and "serious" rap people never heard of. But what difference does that make, really? It's unfortunate, but rare as it is an Odd Future-like situation where the internet hype machine and actual fans are aligned in their interests in an act. Now, more often than not, tastemakers who feed the hype machine are feeding it bullsh*t that arguably nobody really cares about, and fans are making their presence felt with metrics on social networks that really matter- Facebook and Youtube. The old system was built on a top down model, where the old guard- artists, executives, fans, "the industry," etc- would have to give you their blessing for you to really make it in the game. Despite selling millions of records, Vanilla Ice never got that far. Eminem did. It's this weird, sort of hard to define thing where artists who are perceived to be "of the culture" maintain some sort of relevancy in it. That relevancy is tough to fade. Look at Paul Wall. The guy hasn't had a hit record in years, but his popularity in hip-hop circles is still high. No matter how sh*tty his music may be, Paul Wall is seen as being "down."
The new generation, though, they don't give a f*ck about that. While radio and older more established media outlets are still feeding off rap industry hype, waiting to post the next Wale or J. Cole song, other blogs and more progressive folks are searching the internet far and wide for rap that appeals to their multi-cultural sensibilities. And that's how these white rappers wind up popping off. Not because they're being posted on mainstream rap blogs (which they eventually graduate to, like Mac Miller), but because they land on some blog sandwiched between a Skrillex remix and a Foster The People video. And who's looking at that? Some young white college kid who just wants to go out, rage and have some dope party music to do it to. Before you know it, Becky who goes to Villanova is gonna share it with Sally at Umass, who's gonna pass it to Dom who's in Alpha Phi Delta, and so on down the line. A million YouTube views later, a couple thousand Tumblr reblogs, and such and such white rapper is now being booked for red cup-infused college parties across the Northeast. Why does it work so efficiently with white rappers and not anyone else? And why now? It's really hard to narrow it down to a specific answer, but whereas in years past white rappers were looking to downplay their purported levels of "whiteness" (anyone remember the characters on the VH1 "White Rapper Show"?) now rappers like Hoodie Allen, among others, seemingly revel in it. There's a level of authenticity in their music and how they present themselves that wasn't there before. Years ago white rappers didn't want to be white. They didn't covet the white audience. They wanted the respect of the black kids. And I think to a large extent that still remains true. But it's not an overt gesture. It doesn't come across like a big "F-U!" to white people, as it once did. In fact, it's a lot more welcoming, and that's why white people- and really, all people- are embracing white rappers a lot more easily.
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"I'll be home for Christmas…if I only in my dreams," croons Bing Crosby on this classic holiday song staple.For many of us getting home for the holidays may be more of nightmare than a dream, often times including headache-inducing travel. Whether you take to the sky, the rails or the highway to get to your loved ones, there is no denying that the holiday season can send the 'ol carbon footprint soaring higher than Santa Clause on Christmas Eve.
While one could make the environmentally friendly choice of forgoing the trip home altogether, that would likely result in enduring an avalanche of guilt brought on by e-mails and phone calls from a disappointed mom for weeks and months to come. Trust me, "I am worried about my carbon emissions" is not an adequate excuse for skipping out on the holiday festivities unless your Dad happens to be Captain Planet.
So, you suck it up, and travel the hours and miles that it will take to make your family happy, and if you are lucky, you are glad to do so. So what can one do to assuage the gnawing green guilt over the amount of fossil fuels your holiday trek will release into the environment?
One option to easing this guilty conscious is purchasing a Carbon Offset, which is a financial instrument aimed at a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. In simpler terms, you give money towards projects whose aim is to reduce Green House Emissions. At first glance this practice appears to be the perfect solution to the sometimes unavoidable toll our day-to-day actions, such as that cross-country flight home for the holidays, take on the environment.
Critics and cynics alike, however, are quick to point out the flaws to this seemingly positive system. While regulations for this field do exist, some say they are not strenuous enough, allowing certain greedy individuals the opportunity to scam money off well-meaning environmentally minded individuals. It is also argued that a program that allows people to feel better about their less-than environmentally friendly habits only encourages people to continue to make poor choices.
It seems clear that this industry, like many, is far from perfect. And although it is not without its faults, one could argue that any money put towards a thoroughly investigated Carbon Offset is money well spent. As long as you, as with any purchase, know who you are buying from- check credentials and check how funds are allocated towards benefiting the environment. It is also important for people to remember that while it is nearly impossible to keep your carbon footprint at zero, one should try to make as many environmentally responsible choices as you can possibly make.
While a trip home for the holidays may be good for the soul and for a mother's happiness, it does end up costing a little more than the plane ticket or gas for your car. Try making environmentally responsible choices in your day-to-day life, choose to travel for only one holiday- spend Thanksgiving locally and Christmas with the folks, or vice versa.
Nothing clears a guilty conscience as much as living well, and if you try your hardest, you can keep both your mother and Mother Nature happy as clams.
-Meghan Hurley