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Vsync and its Effect on Frame Rating – Does it fix CrossFire?
After publishing the Frame Rating Part 3 story, I started to see quite a bit of feedback from readers and other enthusiasts with many requests for information about Vsync and how it might affect the results we are seeing here. Vertical Sync is the fix for screen tearing, a common artifact seen in gaming (and other mediums) when the frame rendering rate doesn't match the display's refresh rate. Enabling Vsync will force the rendering engine to only display and switch frames in the buffer to match the vertical refresh rate of the monitor or a divisor of it. So a 60 Hz monitor could only display frames at 16ms (60 FPS), 33ms (30 FPS), 50ms (20 FPS), and so on with a 120 Hz monitor could also being capable of 8ms (120 FPS), etc.
Many early readers hypothesized that simply enabling Vsync would fix the stutter and runt issues that Frame Rating was bringing to light. To test this we looked for a game that ran right around the 60 FPS mark in our in normal testing with Vsync disabled and then set about to re-run results with it on. We are using a standard 60 Hz monitor with the goal of being able to test some 120 Hz capability soon after we figure out a final bug or two with our capture configuration.
First up, let's take a look at the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 and GTX 680 SLI and see what shows up.
Because the average frame rate per second graph averages out the frame times for a total of one second of time, the averages won't quite be the straight lines you might have expected. Looking at the GTX 680 SLI Vsync enabled results the only key item is that the frame rate doesn't go above 60 FPS like it does with Vsync disabled.
The single card and SLI configurations without Vsync disabled look just like they did on previous pages but the graph for GTX 680 SLI with Vsync on is very different. Frame times are only switching back and forth between 16 ms and 33 ms, 60 and 30 instantaneous FPS due to the restrictions of Vsync. What might not be obvious at first is that the constant shifting back and forth between these two rates (two refresh cycles with one frame, one refresh cycle with one frame) can actually cause more stuttering and animation inconsistencies than would otherwise appear.
Based on our graph here we found that with Vsync enabled we had about 87% of our frames running at 60 FPS (16 ms) and 13% at 30 FPS (33 ms). You might be curious how there could be 60 FPS frame rate so often with Vsync on but very few frames at 60 FPS with Vsync off, and the answer lies in the rate limiting caused by Vsync. Because of the back pressure on the game engine caused by the longer frame times (30 FPS, 33 ms) from Vsync there is more time for the GPUs to "catch up" and render another frame at 16 ms.
Our ISU graph on stutter potential tells the story in a more damning light; starting at the 30th percentile the Vsync enabled setup of GTX 680s in SLI are already running at much higher frame variances and it only gets worse as we hit the 60s, 80s and 90s. At the 90th percentile we are seeing frame variances over 12 ms, which is nearly a complete monitor refresh cycle!
Now let's see how the AMD Radeon HD 7970 results change.
Something interesting is already happening here – the Vsync enabled results from the HD 7970 CrossFire configuration are running at HIGHER average frame rates per second than with Vsync disabled! The orange line clearly never hits the 60 FPS mark while the black line (Vsync) does.
Without Vsync we clearly see the runts affecting the plot of frame times here on the HD 7970s in CrossFire but enabling Vsync does appear to eliminate them!
With our observed frame rate we have the same results for the HD 7970 CrossFire as we did with our FRAPS results, indicating no dropped frames or runt frames. Standard CrossFire mode still shows the horrible results we have come to expect from our analysis today.
Our Min FPS percentile graph shows us that we are running at 60 FPS (16 ms) 85% of the time and 30 FPS (33 ms) the rest. Because our data here is based the observed frame rates and not the FRAPS frame rates, there is no correlation between the two CrossFire runs.
The ISU graph of stutter potential again indicates that the Vsync enabled option is introducing higher frame variances than we would like and it is doing it more dramatically and earlier than the GTX 680s in SLI.
It does appear that enabling Vsync will help alleviate the runts issue seen with AMD Radeon cards in CrossFire but at the cost of much more frame variance and stuttered animation on games that previously didn't exhibit that problem.
Let's take a look at another example using CrossFire that has another particular set of circumstances. I theorized that in a gaming scenario that bordered just under 60 FPS with a single GPU, we would still see problematic results when jumping to HD 7970s in CrossFire. Take our Battlefield 3 2560x1440 testing: with only one HD 7970 we are running just under 60 FPS most of the time which would, with Vsync enabled, force the game to run at 30 FPS with 33ms frame times. Ideally we would like to see that move from 33ms frame times to 16ms frame times when adding in another HD 7970 in CrossFire due to the extra performance pushing the card over 60 FPS steady.
Our FRAPS graphs looks how we would hope and expect real-world performance to look. While the single HD 7970 ran at a non-standard frame rate when performance was under 60 FPS, towards the end (50 sec point) where it could, we see a flat line that is partially hidden behind the pink line. That pink line represents CrossFire HD 7970s and by doubling the number of GPUs we expected to maximize performance at 60 Hz with Vsync enabled, and we have.
Observed frame rates calculated by removing runts are showing the Vsync DISABLED results on the HD 7970s in CrossFire mirror what we have seen before with much lower performance. However, the Vsync ENABLED results did not change!
The somewhat complicated plot diagram of frame times indicates that at no time did the frame rate of the HD 7970 cards in CrossFire go below 60 FPS or above the 16ms mark - even though there are thousands of frames under 16ms (runts) when Vsync is disabled. Not only that but performance over the single HD 7970 with Vsync enabled is improved - rather than having jumps between the 16ms and 33ms frame times, we are locked in at 16ms - matching the 60 Hz refresh of our panel.
The minimum FPS percentile graphic shows the same story - the pink link representing the HD 7970s with Vsync turned on looks solid.
Notice as well that with a static 16ms frame time we see no frame time variance at all in our ISU graph indicating that the kinds of stutter we are searching for are not showing up at all.
How is this happening? How is enabling Vsync 'fixing' the runts and frame time issues of CrossFire? The secret lies in the inherent back pressure of vertical sync to pace the graphics card and AMD's CrossFire engines even against its own will. By forcing the GPUs to only render one frame every 16ms (at the maximum), Vsync is able to force the GPU to pace itself in a way that it would otherwise not. This doesn't happen in every game though as we saw in the Crysis results first, and there is a lot more testing that needs to be done with Vsync to make a firm decision.
NVIDIA has a couple of different solutions in the NVIDIA Control Panel that might help: Adaptive Vsync and Smooth Vsync. Adaptive Vsync was released with the first Kepler GPUs last year and we found it to be very effective at reducing stutter while also eliminating tearing. Smooth Vsync is a little known feature that only exists in the driver when SLI is enabled as it takes advantage of many of the same frame metering features that SLI uses. It attempts to keep frame rates "settled" at a level until it decides it has enough horsepower to move up to the next frame rate option for an extended period of time. It is a very dubious description at best and NVIDIA didn't go into much detail on how they decide if they have enough GPU overhead remaining or how long that "period of time" really is.
I decided to run through the same Crysis 3 sequences at 1920x1080 on the GTX 680s in SLI with all four NVIDIA options enabled: Vsync off, Vsync on, Adaptive Vsync and Smooth Vsync.
Our FRAPS based results show the same similar looking results for standard Vsync on and off, but the adaptive and smooth Vsync options appear to be fixed at 30 FPS with the occasional hiccup on the Smooth Vsync.
The plot of frame times is kind of confusing but the important data is to compare standard Vsync On to Adaptive and Smooth. With the exception of the 6 or so spikes on the smooth configuration the frames are basically fixed at 33 ms, resulting in a perfectly smooth gameplay experience but at the expensive of limiting performance.
The observed FPS doesn't change at all.
Another view here shows the same thing with a fixed frame rate of 30 FPS for adaptive and smooth Vsync options.
NVIDIA's Adaptive Vsync shows basically 0 variance and only very minimal variance on the Smooth Vsync option at the 96th percentile. So even though performance is lower on average, the experience is smoother.
NVIDIA's additional Vsync options are definitely a strong point in favor of its technology though the Smooth Vsync only exists on SLI configurations. I have been told that they were considering adding it to single graphics card configurations and I certainly hope they do as it adds some significant value in the same way Adaptive Vsync and Frame Rate Limiting do.
For both NVIDIA and AMD multi-GPU solutions with standard Vsync, enabling it definitely changes the story. NVIDIA's cards pretty much perform as we expected but for CrossFire we didn't really know what expect with the various visual concerns. It does appear that the runts problem was at least mostly solved with the enabling of Vsync though to be clear we are only testing a couple of game at this point – much more needs to be done.
However, enabling Vsync creates a whole host of other potential issues that gamers have to deal with. Even though the goal of removing visual tearing is met with the option turned on, you do add latency to the gameplay experience, as much as 60ms in some cases, from input to display. Putting back pressure on the GPU pipeline, for both NVIDIA and AMD, means that some frames are going to be running behind schedule or behind the input timing of the game itself. Many gamers won't want to deal with those kind of input problems and that is why many still play games with Vsync disabled. Turning on Vsync does help AMD's CrossFire performance but it isn't the final answer just yet.
I agree. I have 2x 6970 and the Crossfire results here are just embarrassing for AMD. It clearly don't work well and i've noticed myself with certain games, because you don't need graphs and stuff, as often you can see it with your own eyes. It's just BAD.
I used to build hundreds of PC's with both Nvidia and AMD, and from that experience i also noticed that 1) NV's drivers are generally better and less problematic and 2) Crossfire don't work as well as SLI.
The only reason i use AMD is for image quality. Not 3D/gaming stuff but general image output on the desktop. Colours and whites look better and more intense with AMD cards on my high-end monitors (but without being saturated), and no amount of tweaking on NV hardware will get this stuff to look as good. I've tried it with multiply different monitors and AMD just looks better. NV hardware is washed out in comparison. Most people wont be able to tell the difference and you need a good IPS diplay to properly notice but it's always bothered me because i'm a graphics designer and image quality freak. If NV sort this out i'll switch to them instantly.
I agree. I have 2x 6970 and the Crossfire results here are just embarrassing for AMD. It clearly don't work well and i've noticed myself with certain games, because you don't need graphs and stuff, as often you can see it with your own eyes. It's just BAD.
I used to build hundreds of PC's with both Nvidia and AMD, and from that experience i also noticed that 1) NV's drivers are generally better and less problematic and 2) Crossfire don't work as well as SLI.
The only reason i use AMD is for image quality. Not 3D/gaming stuff but general image output on the desktop. Colours and whites look better and more intense with AMD cards on my high-end monitors (but without being saturated), and no amount of tweaking on NV hardware will get this stuff to look as good. I've tried it with multiply different monitors and AMD just looks better. NV hardware is washed out in comparison. Most people wont be able to tell the difference and you need a good IPS diplay to properly notice but it's always bothered me because i'm a graphics designer and image quality freak. If NV sort this out i'll switch to them instantly.
Dont know if you read the patch notes for Radeon, But they stated that they have improved crysis 3 and more performance with their latest releases AND that they are working on GREATLY increasing CROSSFIRE performance. Keep an eye open PCPER!
lol - it's just amazing isn't it. We'll have the same excuse the politicians always give us...
" "Tired of dropping frames instead of opponents? Find a CrossFire™-certified graphics configuration that's right for you."
" We had no idea!!!! "
I want to know how many YEARS this has been going on.
These tools need to be used on 3870 Cf on up - 4850 4870 5850 5860 6850 6870 6950 6970 and so on....
So for many years we have been fed a complete freaking lie across the board, and from every "scientific unbiased tester website"....
Just wow. If there are conspiracy theorists here, you missed this one, because right now full blown conspiracy (if amd seemed it knew what it was and is doing) would be the conclusion. (instead amd marketing lies and incompetence and pure luck at the massive cover up over many years looks correct)
I also have to say, PALMFACE !
This also SHAMES EVERY REVIEW SITE OUT THERE. lol How stupid they have been - they should have spent far less time attacking nVidia looking and hunting for every tiny chink in their armor they could dream up and squared off at AMD since these COMPLAINTS about Crossfire have been present since DAY ONE.
Just think, all those reviewers, all those tests, all those years, and complete obliviousness till now... and a CONSTANT HAMMERING on people like me who tried in vain to point out the CF issues.
"it's your imagination"
"you're crazy"
"nVidia shill"
"paid operative"
"I don't see anything wrong ! "
Just W O W.
You're a moron and have some real issues.
I ran that HD 2900 CF setup up to 200 HZ and haven't had a SINGLE frametime issue with it.
I was playing Cube on it at 160 HZ on a Diamondtron SB2070 and it didn't skip a SINGLE beat.
LOL - a single example, untested, swears the amd fanboy, on an obsolete hd2900 said to be the most terrible hd flagship even by amd fanboys, and one game, from the historical mind of the fanboy....
R O F L - and you call me names.
No, we need the entire lineup of amd tested for the YEARS their scam has existed.
I feel a MASSIVE VINDICATION coming.
BTW - hold onto your undies feller, AS THIS SOFTWARE FCAT WITH THE COLOR BANDS IS BEING RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC FIRST ON MSI AFTERBURNER ON MONDAY AND THEN ON EVGA PRESICION X LATER IN THE WEEK !
ROFL - The truth is coming amd fan. NOTHING will stop it now.
I bought those 2900's because they were fucking cheap as hell because I bought them SECOND HAND and had a couple of PULSE Digital PWM's and 512-bit bus with a ton of memory bandwidth and HDCP onboard.
How many words in that text did you had to Google?
Hey I, that's ME, I loved the HD2900, but all the amd fanboys were crying, it lost miserably to the nVidia flagship.
Have a good friend who got a Sapphire hd2900 "pro" version, but it wasn't the pro, as I recall it had an unlisted weird and in between 320 shaders with the 256 bus.
He had EXTENSIVE trouble with it - I spent countless hours hammering out the bugs in every board he ever ran it in - a Dell dimension 4700 for instance kept it locked at 500mhz core and 600mhz memory.
He hammered the crap out of it for years, he broke it three times, I resurrected it three times, then finally against advice he kept the pink rubbery foam strip off the VRMs upon reassembly after cleaning - he was told NOT to but insisted it was just a cushion and not needed - that freaking cooked it for good -
I didn't hate the HD2900 but every amd fanboy did, and said so, it was a crushing blow to their egos, as nVidia stomped it on performance.
yet another fan boy, this time on the nvidia side. (paid?)
i wish you all disappeared.
I've never been paid by anybody in my entire life to speak garbage about a product.
You have absolutely no idea who I am, which just goes to show how much of an ignorant idiot you are.
Have a nice and a long life.
He was replying to me, please be able to follow the threading insets.
Now you were calling whom an idiot ? Uhh, nevermind.
The more you speak to yourself, the more of a retard you'll realise you are.
Well it could just as well be "lazy" game developers not bothering to optimize for AMD and just going with nVidia and then just accepting the faults that comes when using AMD and just hoping no one notices??
Well it could just as well be "lazy" game developers not bothering to optimize for AMD and just going with nVidia and then just accepting the faults that comes when using AMD and just hoping no one notices?
My only concern is that in my country are a bunch of people don't care about this kind of stuff. They think is too boring and the readers don't care.
We are years behind what you are trying to demostrate and bring to light, but definitly I'll follow you like an example.
Thanks for you hard work
Hi Ryan
I was wondering if you could also post the RUN graphs for the 680 sli. I didn't get a clear picture from the article if the 680 sli also dropped any frames, had any runt frames or totally avoided those behaviors.
I'll do that now!
No drops no runts for nVidia 680 SLI - NONE
That's why they were left out... like no news is good news.
I feel so good about myself, so many years, so many attacks on me by so many raging amd lovers.
I sooooo want to see them cover their heads in shame and admit how treasonous they were.
Yes treasonous liars. (lol whatever couldn't think of the word)
I suspect heck would freeze over first.
Oh look at that the river styx has ice skaters on it.
Great job on the article! This is how GPUs should be benched in the future.
What I would also like to see is how the input latencies are affected by things like vsync or nvidia frame metering. Also, digging deeper into how frame rate limits can help alleviate the stutter issues would be welcome. I found that back when I was testing 6950cf that a 3rd party fps limiter was the best solution combating micro stutter.
In the end CF is just not worth it atm, regardless of vsync or fps limiters. AMD has a lot of work to do to get CF sorted out. I doubt a new driver 2-3 months down the line will be the end of it, but hopefully they're good to go when the next gen arrives.
Input latency testing is my next target!
Great work and great review/article!
I do wish you guys had included the effects of a framerate limiter in addition to vsync, though... I've actually had a better experience using a framerate limiter through Afterburner on 7970 CF than I do with vsync; it seems to almost always remove stutter completely while also preserving the scaling.
I'll definitely be giving that shot!
What about older Nvidia cards?
What about Crossfire 6970s?
We played a bit of Natural Selection 2 the other day..meh..silly bunny jumpy game..imbalanced..go Marine..
Crossfire enabled 72 FPS
Crossfire disabled 64 FPS
What a ripoff!
Then we tried it on 2 GTX 580s same room and systems and almost the same results..
Multi GPU setups are just a ripoff unless you get Exactly DOUBLE for performance.
Scaling depends on A TON of factors. GPU's, drivers, applications so on and so forth.
You need to understand the basics of these things before you throw out such pointless and silly statements.
If you want to compare scalability, first compare a pair of single cards in FurMark. Then SLi/CF them and compare again.
CF is failing in half the games across the board, and has been for some time.
TPU for instance is an example where he mentions it if you don't believe me.
That's the other big laugh, shouldn't have been recommended for a long time now.
Maybe AMD will actually do something now, I doubt it though, I suspect apologetics, misdirection, and lies.
What is or isn't a ripoff is completely subjective and will never be an agreed upon issue. However, you can get a great experience moving to multi gpu setups that isn't necessarily double performance. Hi resolution gaming especially, at 2560x most single cards can't quite get you to >40fps avg with everything turned up in most modern games and what we will see in the next year. If i can get 15 more fps at that resolution it really DOES make all the difference.
However, if I buy 2 graphics cards because AMD says that framerate is how i should rate their cards, and their are frames being counted that detract from the quality of the experience, and essentially bloat their test scores up to 300% over what is actually being displayed, then not only have we been deceived, but AMD has really scammed you, since the extra card is actually detracting from the experience in many ways.
Moral of the story, get this before it goes out of stock.
It's a card of limited availibity and is one hell of a damn good, limited custom design.
I'm eagerly waiting for mine to be shipped.
2GB is not enough for 1080p this days.
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"Barrycades": Park workers fled after cameras started filming. No wire ties on the gates.Submitted by barracuda_trader on Wed, 10/02/2013 - 12:03
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Obama thinks a fence will stop the men that stormed Normandy?
The men that landed at Guadalcanal would flee from some yellow tape?
This entire action shows how out of touch with reality our society has become.
Thanks for posting. I sent it on to my 89 year old WWII and Korean conflict veteran father.
A Barrycading we go. A Barrycading we go. High Ho the Merry O
A Barrycading we go! How many Barrycaders does it take to screw in a free country?
Hint: ˙sǝuıl ɹǝʇɐǝɥʇ lɐɔıʇılod lɐıʇuǝssǝ-uou ɹoɟ pǝsn ƃuıǝq sǝǝʎoldɯǝ lɐıʇuǝssǝ-uou ʎlsnoıʌqo ƃuıʍoɥs sı 3102 'lɐıoɯǝɯ ıı ɹɐʍ plɹoʍ sn ǝɥʇ ʇɐ uǝʞɐʇ oʇoɥd sıɥʇ ˙ʎɹʇunoɔ ǝǝɹɟ ɐ uı lɐıʇuǝssǝ ʇou ǝɹɐ sɹǝpɐɔʎɹɹɐq ˙oɹǝz :ʇuıɥ
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LoL! Now, they disobey?
It's a bit late, but ookayy...
The military doesn't make men.
It makes dogs.
Dogs obey.
The "greatest generation" joins the army...and learns to obey.
They get out and half go to college on the GI Bill to begin obeying professors who, regardless of the fact that they've never done a real day of work in their lives, think they should run things.
They other half keeps worshiping anything in uniforms.
Two factions
1. Those that worship anything in uniform.
2. Those that worship professors.
What do they have in common? They obey.
One group supports meaningless loser wars for nothing.
The other supports meaningless loser social experiments.
Save the world!!
Back down, back down, back down...thumping your chest all the way!
Surrender is the tough thing to do!
Do the tough thing!
Result: 1/3 of the world, 1.5 billion people, controlled by Communist tyranny.
That's how they saved the world.
Then, thanks, dogfaces, they give us the Baby Boomers,
more failed wars + more failed social experiments.
Never mind the Constitution! That old piece of paper?
A broken country, broken by meaniningless wars and failed social programs. That's what we inherited from the little men in paper hats,
who fought so bravely, for our open borders, trillion$ of debt, and Obamacare.
Why would Obama give them respect?
Love everything you just wrote
except for the part about dogs... dogs actually have enough brains to ignore uniforms!
I kinda expected this not to be very well received as it is not the typical tribute to those who call themselves the "Greatest Generation".
However, this is, more or less, how it was explained to me, by my great uncle, a dyed-in-the-wool, drafted, Leatherneck who went on an island hopping excursion across the Pacific Ocean back in the day. Apparently, the training didn't "take" very well in his case. His favorite story was about cooking, over an open flame, and eating an entire can of bacon that he found in the sand during a beach-landing on some island paradise.
His next "favorite" story was about how it was all for nothing. "We were rooked."
May he rest in peace.
Thanks for saying it, it needs to be said,
and more often too!!!
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere".
It's hard not to be a menace to society when half the population is happy on their knees. - unknown
Semper Fi WW II vets
from a Desert Storm Marine Vet
bump for the word "Barrycades"
and bump for veterans who don't give a darn. I wonder how much more expensive it was to erect Barrycades and hire goons than it would have been to leave it alone?


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Staff Absent: Desi-Rae Mason & John Rioux.
Members Present: Brad Brown (Bureau of Insurance). Peter Doran (ALAM), Carol Eckert (MIOHE), Ginger Jordan-Hillier (DEP), Jonathan Lepoff (Consultant), Jeff Levesque (Maine Workers' Compensation Board), Kim Lim (Bureau of Labor Standards), Dwight Littlefield (Maine Bureau of Health), Ivan Most (Strategic Occupational Health), & Leslie Walleigh (Workplace Health).
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Prevention Data Advisory Group Update – Leslie Walleigh. At the last meeting of the Prevention Data Advisory Group, Kim Lim did a presentation of the Occupational Safety and Health Indicators Project by the Council of State Territorial Epidemiologists. This project developed a formula for using data sources already existing in various states' occupational health indicators. Also, Leslie had asked the work group to review the missions, which are to write a report which reviews the sources of information are in the state in occupational health and evaluate how those sources would be improved. A report is due to the Legislature in mid-January. Bill Peabody stated that there are two areas for the work group: data and research and prevention efforts.
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Operative Document. Discussion ensued. Several changes were made. Some of the key issues to be looked at are: 1) Define trends – look at economic community development; 2) Phase I – Employment Report – BLS, Occupational Injury by various – BLS; 3) Characterize hazards – exposure data; 4) Objective – Phase I - Assessment; Phase II – Projection; 5) Do we flip-flop Goal I and II. Ginger Jordan-Hillier suggested that Ivan Most present the update document to the group at the November meeting. In the meantime, Ivan will get together with Saskia Janes and present the updated document at the November meeting.
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A vertical garden covering 1492m2 has been created in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. The garden, which adorns the the Palacio de Congresos Europa (Palace of Congresses Europe) and incorporates over 33,000 individual plants, was designed by Alicante-based sustainable architecture firm Urbanarbolismo.
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> the building is expect to increase its thermal insulation by 270 percent.
The amount of spiders too, I bet. *shivers*Darkoneko
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Very impressive building!GoForward
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What timing! Apparently our bad neighbors have to be out of their house by the end of the month! Not sure what is going on and it is non of my business but everyone I have talked to in the cul-de-sac are happy they will be gone.
Very odd that they haven't listed the house yet. We came home late Sunday afternoon and there was a small Remax rental truck in their driveway and we thought they were just cleaning out the loads of crap they had in their garage. I was talking to the neighbor right next to the bad ones the next day and he said that they told him they had to be out by end of the month. The house wasn't listed in the paper as in foreclosure. I would think you would want to show and list the house before you moved out. Glad it is not my problem and for the kids sake I hope things work out for them as long as it is in another town. I have been hoping for this day for a very long time and didn't think it would ever come.
We are just happy they will be gone and hoping a better family moves in.
Maybe AK1971 can buy it and host drunken midget stripper binges! Or maybe some hot single 19 year old will buy it and wash her car in white tee shirts a lot and need me to teach her guitar or work on her pc...
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On 15 December 2009 at 21:37, Dan S wrote:
> If you think 64ms is fine then you're probably not doing live
In a recording project a few years back I looked at track
waveforms and found that when my drum tracks were within 5ms
of the other players, then we sounded really tight. But, when
we wandered by 25ms from each other, then we started to sound
sloppy. This isn't specifically a latency issue. I bring it
up just to give some sort of feeling to the numbers.
Later recordings of Steely Dan might be in the sub 10ms tightness
zone, though I haven't looked. Greenday might be greater than
50-75ms on some of their stuff. ;-) Which just goes to show
that while there is engineering in all of this, there also is
art and feel.
I hope that's useful....
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|Look up tokophobia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Tokophobia, or unreasoned fear of childbirth, is the suggested name for a form of specific phobia.
In 2000, an article published in the British Journal of Psychiatry (2000, 176: 83-85[1]) described the fear of childbirth, despite desperately wanting a baby, as a psychological disorder that has received little attention and may be overlooked. The article introduced the term tokophobia (from the Greek tokos, meaning childbirth and phobos, meaning fear).
Phobia of childbirth, as with any phobia, can manifest through a number of symptoms including nightmares, difficulty in concentrating on work or on family activities, panic attacks and psychosomatic complaints. Often the fear of childbirth motivates a request for an elective caesarean section. Fear of labor pain is strongly associated with the fear of pain in general; a previous complicated childbirth, or inadequate pain relief, may cause the phobia to develop.
Tokophobia is a distressing psychological disorder which may be overlooked by medical professionals; as well as specific phobia and anxiety disorders, tokophobia may be associated with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Recognition of tokophobia and close liaison with obstetricians or other medical specialists can help to reduce the severity of tokophobia and ensure efficient treatment.
A few reactions to childbirth include the following:
"The truth is that the very thought of having something almost alien-like growing inside me is disgusting."
"It's not too strong to say that the very thought of childbirth disgusts me in a big way."
"It's much more than an anxiety - I am actually physically repulsed by pregnancy and childbirth."
"I even struggle to be around friends when they are pregnant and can't bear to watch or listen to anything about the process of having a baby."[2]


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Steventon Choral Society
Concerts in 2003 - 2004
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Friday 9th July: Concert with The Isleys Primary School Choir
St Mary's Church, East Ilsley
The choir joined with the children from The Ilsleys Primary School Choir to sing two popular pieces for young people - Josepth & the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Jonah Man Jazz.
Saturday 12th June: 45th Anniversary Concert
Steventon Village Hall
Musical director: Terry Pearce
an introduction by John Hunt, Steventon Choral Society's 45th Anniversary
Concert began with two popular songs from shows of the 1950s - Old Devil
Moon by Burton Lane and Henry Mancini's Moon River - as a reminder of
the era when the choir was founded. Alex Freeman and Rachel Vevers then
sang a version for two voices of When the Gentle Avon Flows. This was
followed by another duet - Terry and Helen Pearce singing Wunderbar from
the Cole Porter favourite, Kiss Me Kate. The choir returned to sing Santa
Lucia - a song made famous by Enrico Caruso. A bass solo - Lonely Room
from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma by Bert Branker was followed by
a quartet of Helen Pearce, Debbie Jordan, Gerry Brewer and Terry Pearce
- accompanied by their teddies - singing an arrangement of The Teddy Bears'
Picnic. John Hunt returned to tell us the story of young Albert Ramsbottom's
visit to the zoo and to sing the Flanders and Swan's well-known Hippopotamus
Song - Mud, Glorious Mud! The choir ended the first half by singing an
arrangement of the Yorkshire favourite, On Ilkley Moor Baht'at and music
by Rodgers and Hammerstein - You'll Never Walk Alone and a medley from
The King and I.
Friday 14th May: Concert for Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre, Milton Park
Didcot Civic Hall
Steventon Choral Society sang a selection of popular songs from the shows and other pieces in a concert with the Wantage Barbershop male and female choirs, the Benson & Roke Brass Band and the Benson & Roke Wind Band which raised £300 to support the work of the Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre, Milton Park.
Sunday 4th April: Mozart's Requiem
St Michael & All Angels, Steventon
Proceeds to Volunteers for Chennai - £364 raised to sponsor the travel of two young volunteers to India to help at St George's School in Chennai (formerly Madras)
Musical director: Terry Pearce
Organist: Debbie Jordan
Soprano: Helen Pearce
Alto: Wendy Moore
Tenor: Stephen Thompson
Bass-baritone: Leslie Macleod-Miller
|The concert began with the choir singing Schubert's Sanctus. This was followed by four short pieces of sacred music - Kyrie Eleison by Dufay, a setting of Psalm 145 by Scutz, Come Holy Ghost by Charpentier and Evening Hymn by Bach (the middle two sung by a trio consisting of Rebecca Joisce, Rachel Vevers and Pat Napper) - and Cesar Franck's Panis Angelicus. After the Requiem, the choir ended the concert with Ave Verum by Mozart
|Sunday 21st December: Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
St Michael & All Angels, Steventon (with the church choir)
Organist: Debbie Jordan
|Thursday 18th December and Saturday 20th December: Countdown
to Christmas
Christmas music with audience carols for everyone to join in
Proceeds from the first concert were donated to The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
|Steventon Village Hall
Musical director: Terry Pearce
Pianist: Debbie Jordan
|Groups of carol singers began the concert with verses from
In the Bleak mid Winter, We Three Kings and Good King Wenceslas. The choir
joined together to sing Holst's Christmas Day (soloists: Helen Pearce, Rebecca
Joisce and Tom Hartley) and List Our Merry Carol, before Rebecca Joisce
sang a 14th Century lullaby accompanying herself on a 20th Century folk
music harp. This was followed by the first group of audience carols, A Child
This Day Is Born and Lo He Comes. The choir then sang On This Day Earth
Shall Ring, before we heard from Caroline Miller, Mo Hunt, Gerry Brewer
and Trish Napper of the trials and tribulation suffered by the Christmas
tree, the Christmas pudding, the turkey and the cracker. After the audience
had joined the choir to sing Unto to Us Is Born a Child and While Shepherds
Watched Their Flocks By Night (to the tune of Ilkely Moor), John Hunt provided
some examples of what not to say in your Christmas thank-you letters and
performed the Flanders and Swann song, When the Gasman Came to Call. The
first half of the concert ended with the choir singing Sleeep my Little
Jesus (a carol composed by a former guest pianist, Michael Evans) and the
first chorus from Handel's Messiah, And the Glory of the Lord.
The second half began with two Christmas songs Happy Christmas War is Over and Mistletoe and Wine accompanied by Steve Thompson on guitar and Debbie Jordan on piano. Then it was time for two traditional carols for the audience, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and Once in Royal David's City. Jack Jarvis then read some humorous gems on the theme of doctors and dentists and, on a more serious note, Debbie Jordan played a piano arrangement of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The choir returned to sing So Gentle the Donkey, the Crown of Roses and Golden Slumbers (ladies only) before Helen Pearce sang The Star of Bethlehem. The old favourites, O Come All Ye Faithful and Hark the Herald Angels Sing, were the final two audience carols and the choir ended the concert with Christmas Fantasy, We Wish You a Merry Christmas and Auld Lang Syne.
|Saturday 6th December: Concert with Wantage Silver Band
Wantage Civic Hall
The choir was a guest of Wantage Silver Band, singing two groups of items in each half of the concert. In the first half, the choir sang songs featured on our CD Come to the Fair, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, De Battle of Jerico, Love Changes Everything, Unchained Melody and the Black Hills of Dakota. The Band then accompanied the choir while it sang the first chorus from Handel's Messiah, And the Glory of the Lord. The choir and audience then sang along with the band as the Sisters led a rousing Sound of Music Special.
Christmas was the theme of the second half of the concert, with the choir singing Holst's Christmas Day (soloists: Helen Pearce, Rebecca Joisce and Tom Hartley), Golden Slumbers (a ladies only piece), We Wish You a Merry Christmas, List Our Merry Carol, Mistletoe and Wine, and Jingle Bells. The evening ended with the choir leading the audience in singing a selection of popular carols.
|Saturday 11th October: Handel's Messiah
St Matthew's Church, Harwell, Oxfordshire
This concert raised £217 towards improvements to Harwell Village Hall, which will go towards redecoration of the Hall.
|Musical director: Terry Pearce
|Continuo: Debbie Jordan
|Organist: Robert Thomas
|Soprano: Helen Pearce
|Mezzo-soprano: Rebecca Joisce
|Tenor: Tony Selby
|Bass: Leslie Macleod-Miller
|The programme was as performed at Steventon Church the previous week.
Saturday 4th October: Handel's Messiah
St Michael & All Angels Church, Steventon, Oxfordshire
sing-in was led by Steventon Choral Society as part of Voices
for Hospices 2003 and raised £1,062 for Sir
Michael Sobell House, Oxford. Most of Handel's famous work was performed,
including all the well-known solos, and with the choir of some 50 voices
singing 15 choruses.
|Musical director:
|Terry Pearce
|Debbie Jordan
|Robert Thomas
|Helen Pearce
|Rebecca Joisce
|Tony Selby
|Leslie Macleod-Miller
|Front row: Rebbeca Joisce, Debbie Jordan and Helen Pearce
|Back row: Terry Pearce, Leslie Macleod-Miller, Tony Selby and Robert Thomas
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Siem Reap Travel Guide
Siem Reap Local History
Siem Reap Town serves as a gateway to the temple ruins of the remnants of the Angkor Capital and is actually a cluster of old villages. Angkor means Holy or Capital City and Khmer was the dominant ethnic group in ancient and modern Cambodia. Angkor was the capital city of the Khmer Empire that existed in the area of Cambodia between the 9th and 13th Centuries.The temple ruins represent the pinnacle of the ancient Khmer architecture, art and civilization.
At its height, the Age of Angkor was when it contained over a million people. Vast waterworks and grand temples were constructed and its military, economic and cultural dominance held sway over a large area of Cambodia.
After the 13th century, Angkor suffered repeated invasions by the Thais and the capital was moved. The temples remained active, although their function changed over the years. Angkor Wat was visited several times by Western explorers and missionaries between the 16th and 19th centuries, but today, Angkor is visited by tourists from all over the world.
Siem Reap Attractions
Top Attractions
Angkor Thom - It is a 3km two-walled and moated royal city and was the last capital of the Angkorian empire. Some of Angkor's greatest temples are situated in this city, constructed in the 12th century. There are five entrances to the city and each gate is crowned with four giant faces.
Angkor Wat - It is visually, architecturally and artistically breathtaking and is a massive three-tiered pyramid crowned by five beehive-like towers rising 65 metres above the ground. It is surrounded by a moat and exterior walls, with the walls of the temple itself, covered with bas-reliefs and carvings. Although originally constructed in the 12th Century as a Hindu temple, it has served as a Buddhist temple since the 14th Century.
Cambodian Cultural Village - An unique attraction designed to introduce visitors to Cambodian history and culture. It is a wax museum with scenes and figures from history and it also has scale models of sites, such as the Royal Palace and the Phsar Thmey. There are also models showing a variety of Cambodian architectural types and a traditional Khmer wedding show twice a day.
Tonie Sap - The Great Lake. It is one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world with floating fishing villages doted around the semi-submerged forest and offers an excellent place to see rural Cambodia and its unique eco-system, rich in birds. There are boat trips that range from 2 hours to 3 day excursions on the lake.
Giddy Gecko Lounge & Bar Take time to relax at the uniquely decorated GIDDY GECKO bar/lounge which is located on the alley right behind Temple Club. Giddy Gecko offers a full range of drinks and juices plus a chance to experience and relax with music and fruit flavored water pipes the only shisha, hookah or water pipes in Siem Reap. Ask for food menu. Bring your laptop and check your email. Enjoy a relaxing time in the evening.
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Siem Reap Restaurants and Bars
Siem Reap Restaurants
Angkor café - opposite Angkor Wat. The restaurant has finely prepared Khmer food, western breakfast, cake and ice cream in a garden setting with airconditioning. It is also an upscale souvenir shop, which lends a stylish edge to its polished ambiance.
Bay on 1 - Wat Bo Rd, just north on Route No 6. A restaurant serving Cambodian and Chinese food buffet and a' la carte with reasonable prices and a traditional shadow puppet performance.
Borey Sovann - on the road to Angkor Wat. An extensive, moderately priced menu of Cambodian cuisine with covered and open air seating. There are also traditional Aspara dances.
Siem Reap Bars & Clubs
Angkor What - Old Market area. Popular, friendly bar which can be crowded in the evenings with ex-pats and travellers alike. A young, welcoming bar atmosphere that has good music and is reasonably priced.
Buddha Lounge - Old Market area. Indoor and outdoor seating, a full bar at reasonable prices with a free pool table and good music.
Easy Speaking - "Bar street", Old Market area. New friendly pub/cafe that has a full bar, Angkor draft and complimentary popcorn, peanuts and fruit. It has a relaxed atmosphere with reasonable prices and a happy hour.
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Jane Soderstrom's troubles began three years ago, after she got an unexpected raise and public praise by her boss at her new nursing job. Apparently, that didn't sit too well with some of her coworkers at a home-healthcare office in central Florida. Led by a long-time employee, a clique of nurses started to give Soderstrom the silent treatment, even when it came to work matters. They sighed and rolled their eyes when she walked by; they made a show of sending each other text messages that were clearly about her. As they isolated and undermined her, Soderstrom realized she was the victim of something she thought she'd left behind long ago: Bullying.
"It reminded me of junior high, only they were a lot meaner than the girls I remembered," says Soderstrom, 51. "It really makes you question yourself because you don't realize adults can behave this way."
Bullying is usually associated with kids. Tragic cases like that of Phoebe Prince, the Massachusetts teen who killed herself after being tormented by her peers, have raised awareness of the menace of school-age harassment. Yet experts say that adult bullying is just as prevalent, and often as vicious. "It's a silent epidemic," says Gary Namie, co-founder of the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI). All too often, though, it gets trivialized or worse yet, glorified. Consider the backbiting aggression and unseemly cat fights that dominate reality shows like Bravo's Real Housewives series. Kelly Killoren Bensimon of The Real Housewives of New York City called her treatment at the hands of her cast mates "systematic bullying" and filmed a homemade anti-bully PSA that she posted on YouTube.
Bullying can occur in numerous spheres. An August 2010 survey by Zogby International and WBI found that 34 percent of the nation's workers, or 53 million people, have been the target of bullying on the job. It's harder to quantify bullying in social settings, but plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests that it's widespread, especially among women. "I frequently hear about moms who move to the suburbs and find themselves ostracized from the established cliques, or the working moms getting shut out at the PTA by the stay-at-home moms," says Cheryl Dellasega, author of Mean Girls Grown Up. "I've even heard of power elites in churches."
In her book, Dellasega says that bullying behavior is usually traced back to habits formed in high school. "Some women never outgrow these behaviors, turning into adults who slay with a smile and wound with a word," she writes.
Because this sort of aggression isn't always overt, it's sometimes difficult to recognize as bullying. "It is completely possible to be bullied and not realize it, because it is subtle, it's behind closed doors, and totally deniable," says Namie. He says targets start to blame themselves for the criticism rather than realizing they are under assault.
In both personal and professional settings, the most common hallmark of bullying is social isolation. It's usually accompanied by constant criticism and a campaign to demoralize and humiliate the target through destructive gossip. Sabotage or taking credit for your ideas is also frequent -- think of a co-worker "forgetting" to give you an important message or a fellow PTA member asserting your idea for a theme for the school carnival as her own.
The effects of all this can be debilitating, especially in the workplace. According to a 2007 WBI study, 45 percent of bullying victims in the workplace suffer stress-related health problems, like anxiety, panic attacks and clinical depression. Yet despite the damage to their careers and well-being, 40 percent never tell their employer.
For Soderstrom, her two years of persecution took a profound toll. She became depressed and anxious, put on weight and came to dread going to the office. Eventually, she filed a grievance with the human resources department. Even though the company held several meetings about the bullying complaint, including one with Soderstrom and her nemesis, Soderstrom continued to be ostracized. Unsatisfied with the company's investigation, Soderstrom took unpaid medical leave and filed a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Her chief tormenter was ultimately demoted, but Soderstrom couldn't bring herself to return to her job because she felt it was still a "toxic environment." Only recently has she begun to emerge from her depression and consider a return to nursing after an extended leave. "I've finally started to enjoy some things again," she says.
If you're being harassed, experts offer the following tips on how to deal with a bully:
Confront the situation directly. A bully may be trying to undercut you because she perceives you to be a threat. Sometimes, a direct conversation can soothe her fears and turn her into an ally. Invite her to a neutral location to talk, ask for her opinion of your relationship or work performance, and request her help in resolving any failings she points out. Ideally, you can enlist her as a mentor rather than an enemy.
Don't respond emotionally. Keep your cool when dealing with aggression. Breathe deeply and take a walk if you get upset. If you're at work, take a few days off to calm down and collect your thoughts. If you burst into tears or fly off the handle in public, it will only give your tormenter more ammunition.
Assert yourself. Take the bully aside and look her in the eye. Tell her what she's doing that you find unacceptable and what you'd like her to do instead. Tell her, "I don't appreciate how you demean my ideas in public. Please be more respectful."
Stop blaming yourself. The tendency, especially among women, is to assume that you are doing something wrong if a relationship goes awry. But the reality is some people are insecure, power-hungry and conniving. Don't allow their behavior to change your perception of yourself.
If all else fails, consider how to exit the situation. Ultimately, you have to determine whether it's worth being part of a group or institution where you are being harassed and bullied. If you find your work environment unbearable, look for ways to escape the hostility, such as changing your schedule or transferring to a different department. If that isn't possible, it may be time to start looking for a new employer. In the end, your mental health is more important than your job.


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Animal Control Director Debbie Dobbs says that her officers responded to Bailey's house after receiving a citizen complaint.
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LONDON (The Deal) -- Global stocks were mixed on Tuesday, with strong trade data from Germany failing to provide sufficient impetus to break a three-day losing streak for some European indices.
Both German exports and imports rose more than expected in January from the previous month, rising 2.2% and 4.1%, respectively, after contracting in December, Germany's Federal Statistical Office said.
In the U.K., industrial output rose 2.9% in January from the year before, well up on the 1.9% December growth rate but a shade lower than consensus expectations, the Office for National Statistics reported. Manufacturing output rose 3.3% in the year, as expected, with the 0.4% monthly rise just ahead of forecasts.
In London, the FTSE was down 0.22% at 6,674.95. In Frankfurt the DAX crept up 0.04% to 9,269.64 and in Paris, the CAC-40 dropped 0.08% to 4,267.4.In London, African Barrick Gold pwas down almost 13% after Canada's Barrick Gold (ABX) sold a 10% stake in a placing, reducing its holding to 63.9%. Investment bank Close Brothers Group rose sharply after delivering first-half results ahead of expectations with profit growth across all three divisions -- banking, securities and wealth management. Daniel Stewart & Co. analyst Simon Willis put its share price on review for a potential upgrade, writing that the valuation is "not demanding." Real estate consultancy Foxtons Group edged higher after it delivered its first full-year results since its September IPO, noting that revenue rose 16% in 2013 to 139.2 million pounds ($231.6 million), with pretax profit up almost 57% at 38.9 million pounds. It said it's had a good start to the year but the eventual outcome will depend in large part on how many homes get put on the market. Its shares are trading at 377.90 pence, up from their IPO price of 230 pence. In Switzerland, bathroom fittings maker Geberit rose after announcing former McKinsey & Co. consultant Christian Buhl will become CEO next year, replacing Albert Baehny. Posting full-year results that met forecasts, the company warned that 2014 would be a demanding year because of continued weakness in much of the European construction market. It also warned that a weak pipeline of public construction projects in North America will affect its business. In Tokyo, the Nikkei closed up 0.69% to 15,224.11 as the Bank of Japan left monetary policy unchanged. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng was little changed, closing at 22,269.61, 0.02% up on Monday.
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