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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Intel Corp. is the king of microprocessors, the semiconductors known as the brains of computers. Since the 1980s, the Silicon Valley giant has stayed ahead with a simple mantra: Make its chips faster.
But 2 1 /2 years ago, Intel made a risky decision to abandon that narrow focus. Speed was becoming less important to personal-computer users, who mostly used the machines to surf the Web and run a few simple programs. So, in a shift that transformed its culture, Intel pushed its engineers to pursue an entirely different goal: Build chips that fit the new ways people actually use their computers.
That bet is beginning to pay off, helping Intel become one of the biggest winners to emerge from the long tech slump. In the new world of digital wireless gadgets, computer users care about other things besides speed — such as long battery life and small size. Intel has reorganized the company to deliver chips that offer just that.
Intel recently reported its highest third-quarter revenue growth since 1996, amid a broad comeback in personalcomputer sales.
Net income more than doubled from the same period last year, and profit margins are approaching the record levels set during the tech boom. The company posted all-time sales records in most product categories, in a quarter that is not usually its strongest. Its stock has more than doubled this year to about $32.
Intel got a big boost from one of the first fruits of its new strategy: The Pentium M, a specially designed microprocessor for laptop computers. It's no speed demon, but it gobbles a lot less power than typical chips, giving portable computers a couple of extra hours of battery life, and its small size makes it inexpensive to manufacture.
Aided by the new product, Intel's gross profit on chips for notebook systems is about 75 percent of sales, 10 points higher than its margins on desktop PCs, estimates UBS Securities analyst Thomas Thornhill.
Intel is whipping up demand with a huge advertising blitz for a combination of chips called Centrino, which includes the Pentium M plus wireless networking and other accessory chips. The line's strong sales are expected to help Intel's gross margin — profits before operating expenses — to swell to 60 percent in the current quarter, up from 51 percent in the second quarter and near all-time peaks.
One sign of the new approach: Intel this year boosted the speed of its desktop microprocessors just once, compared with six times last year. Yet Intel has gained market share against chief rival Advanced Micro Devices. More Centrino-style product bundles are on the way, which Intel hopes will make it even harder for rivals to keep pace.
''We are not playing the same game we played for 15 years,'' says Paul Otellini, Intel's president and chief operating officer, and the favorite to succeed Chief Executive Officer Craig Barrett.
The results are all the more striking because of the doubts swirling around Intel as recently as a year ago. Barrett had sank more than $10 billion into acquisitions in an attempt to lessen Intel's reliance on the PC business, with little to show for it.
''I don't know of anything that we purchased that was worth what we paid for it,'' says Andy Bryant, Intel's chief financial officer. Its newer Itanium products, aimed at the largest computers, have won technical acclaim but few customers. And its cellphone and communications-chip units continue to lose money.
Meanwhile, Intel's rivals are pushing hard. AMD in September introduced new desktop chips that are more powerful than Intel's by some measures, a blow to Intel's image as technology leader. Sun Microsystems is adopting a version of those chips in its server computers, as part of a technology partnership that could help AMD gain a stronger foothold in the corporatecomputing market.
In rethinking how it made and sold chips, Intel had to change the rules, because the old rules no longer worked. The focus on speed dated from an era when faster chips were needed regularly just to keep up with ever-more-complex software. By the late 1990s, however, most PC users no longer needed the hottest new chip for basic office tasks and surfing the Web. That meant they could hang on to their desktop machines for years, keeping down demand.


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Northfield, Minn., says he'd like to see more citizen education in
He says conservative evangelical denominations may be more overt in their "electoral politics" than Lutherans for two reasons: There is less political diversity than in a Lutheran congregation with "Republicans sitting next to Democrats," and other denominations clearly teach and preach that belief leads to political action on issues such as school prayer and abortion.
Pastors walk a religious and political tightrope, he says, but need to remember not only that faith leads to politics but also "transcends politics."
If Kathleen and Peter Braafladt wanted to protest the movement of nuclear waste by sitting on railroad tracks during the week, parishioner Stewart Dall wouldn't much care. But come Sunday, his pastors better say something about Jesus when they step into the pulpit of Messiah Lutheran Church, Vancouver, Wash.
Dall is one of more than 50 readers who responded to The Lutheran's call asking how pastors handle politics from the pulpit.
"What I want to learn is not their stand on current issues, but how the teachings of Jesus can best be exemplified in life's daily challenges," he says.
Most who responded agreed, calling any attempt to endorse from the pulpit a candidate or a position unethical, unwise, inappropriate and even a misuse of power.
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The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is opening portions of its land for wild hog and deer hunting for two days near the end of October.
Refuge rangers have scheduled the hunts for next Friday and Saturday. Parts of the vast refuge will be closed to all but permitted hunters from 5:30 a.m. to noon both days.
The Okefenokee refuge will issue only 40 permits for the hunt on a first-come, first-serve basis. Hunters must use shotgun slugs or muzzle-loading rifles only.
All hunters must have a valid Georgia hunting license. Permits for the Okefenokee refuge hunt are $12.50 apiece.
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge covers 402,000 acres of federally protected land near the Georgia-Florida state line. The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Spotted: Jennifer Garner Makes a Coffee Run With Her Girls (Photos)Shana Aborn
Aren't they sweet?
Seraphina (left) and Violet Affleck enjoyed a little girls'-time errand with mom Jennifer Garner, accompanying her to the Brentwood Country Mart as she got her morning coffee.
Both girls went for striped shirts over pants, while Jennifer donned a gray sweater and skinny capri jeans.
Jennifer's back at home after filming her new movie in New Orleans – and it must have felt good to get back into her regular routine at one of her favorite hangouts.
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Need a lift? 1 of 6Violet gets an assist out of the family car.
Breakfast time 2 of 6While Jennifer enjoyed her coffee, Violet had a croissant. Seraphina may have gotten her treat to go.
A growing Violet 3 of 6The Afflecks' oldest daughter is getting so big!
Fashion sense 4 of 6The typical kid style - hood on, coat wide open.
Come on, girls! 5 of 6You just know she's trying to round up the offspring.
Morning cup 6 of 6Jennifer does love her caffeine.
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Parents should not be worried about the games content. It is extremely cartoonish and impossible to re-enact, unlike the chop-socky that results from too many Power Rangers episodes. The value of Bomberman Tournament goes up exponentially with the number of friends you have with Game Boy Advances.
If you are one of the few who can logistically get four willing players with Game Boy Advances in the same room, this is currently the best title to own.
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Intel's 90nm Pentium M 755: Dothan Investigatedby Anand Lal Shimpi on July 21, 2004 12:05 AM EST
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Sixteen months ago, Intel released a confusing little thing called Centrino; it wasn't a new processor or chipset, but rather a "technology". Intel pumped billions into the marketing of this technology and even to this day, we still see the same "What is Centrino?" question. But unlike most multi-billion dollar marketing campaigns, Centrino wasn't a hip name masking uninteresting technology; instead, Centrino encompassed one of the most impressive microprocessor architectures to ever come out of Intel: Banias.
We had all heard about Banias, which was officially named the Pentium M, for almost two years, but most shrugged it off as a rebranded Pentium III. With the Pentium 4's power requirements climbing, it was all too easy to believe that Intel would just go back to a much cooler running architecture for the future of their mobile processors. Pentium M became known as a Pentium III with the Pentium 4's Front Side Bus long before it ever shipped, before the first benchmarks were ever run. But as we just finished mentioning, this processor was far from rehashed technology.
Last year, we took an in-depth look at the Pentium M and came away from the experience extremely pleased. Our sentiments were echoed by manufacturers and end users alike, with the Pentium M and Centrino notebooks that use the processor selling extremely well and truly enabling high performance, long battery life, thin and light notebooks. Offerings like IBM's Thinkpad X series grew extremely popular among business users while more stylistic options, like the Sony VAIO X series, brought a new meaning to portable, with Pentium M designs weighing less than 1.8lbs. What Pentium M brought Intel was the portability and form factor advantages of Transmeta, with the performance that Intel customers were used to.
To put it bluntly, Intel's Pentium M was an instant success and well deserving of the success at that. But in our long running history at AnandTech, we've never been quite satisfied with one successful product - we want to see improvements, perfection of the perfect, if you will. And thus, it was no surprise that we were quite eager to take a look at the follow-up to Intel's 0.13-micron Pentium M, code-named Dothan.
We first heard about Dothan before Banias ever hit the streets as Pentium M. If you'll remember from our original article on the Pentium M, Banias only missed its target completion date by a matter of days. One by-product of on-time execution was that a number of architectural tweaks that the design team wanted to get into Banias had to be left out, a sacrifice made to preserve on-time execution. As soon as the Banias design was complete, those final architectural tweaks and enhancements that didn't make it into the first Pentium M incarnation were at the top of the list for its successor. As a result, Dothan is best viewed as a more polished evolution of Banias, with higher clocks and more cache made possible by Intel's 90nm process.
But unlike Banias, Dothan wasn't the perfect student on time to its launch; instead, Dothan was released after months of delays. Intel has already publicly released the reason for Dothan's delay. There was apparently an analog design issue with Dothan; more specifically, a PLL was too jittery. Dothan was actually in the hands of OEMs back in January, but the yields were extremely low, thanks to the jittery PLL issue. The solution to the problem required another spin of the silicon, which takes a long time (even longer at 90nm) and resulted in Dothan's lengthy delay.
Being an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary part, Dothan isn't nearly as exciting to talk about as Banias was, but as you'll soon see, that doesn't take away from its worthiness of carrying the Pentium M name.
A quick look back at BaniasThe core technologies of the Pentium M remain unchanged in Dothan. We've already explained them in great detail but here's a quick recap for those of you who haven't read or don't remember the original article.
The Pentium M is characterized by the following 7 design features and principles:
Mid-Length pipelineThe Pentium M has a pipeline that's shorter than that of the Pentium 4 (much shorter than that of Prescott), but longer than that of the Pentium III. Intel needed a longer pipeline to ensure that higher clock speeds would be possible, but shunned the Pentium 4's extremely long pipeline as it is quite a power hog. Although extremely high clock speeds can be wonderful for performance and marketing, they are a nightmare when it comes to power consumption. The longer your pipeline, the harder you have to work to keep that pipeline filled at all times and the bigger the penalty that you pay if the pipeline is ever left idle or has to be flushed (thanks to a mispredicted branch, for example).
To this day, Intel has still not disclosed the number of stages in the Pentium M pipeline out of an extreme desire to protect the processor's underlying architecture. The only thing we know is that Dothan's pipeline remains unchanged from Banias; a very good thing considering the surprise we all got with Prescott .
Much of Banias (and also Dothan) remains unpatented and protected using trade secret law in order to prevent the underlying ideas behind the CPUs' design from being picked up by competitors.
Micro Ops FusionThe Pentium M, like all of Intel's modern day microprocessors, decodes regular x86 instructions into smaller micro-ops that are the actual operations sent down the pipeline for execution. Micro Ops Fusion takes certain micro-ops and "fuses" them together so that they are sent down the pipeline together and are either executed in parallel or serially without being reordered (or separated from one another). Micro Ops Fusion can only apply to certain types of instructions, which Intel has not officially disclosed.
The benefits of Micro Ops Fusion are multi-faceted; first, you have the obvious performance improvements, but alongside them, you also have reduced power consumption, thanks to not wasting any cycles waiting for dependent micro ops to retire before working on others.
Dedicated Stack ManagerBanias' dedicated stack manager is another power saving tool integrated into the Banias architecture that is designed to manage stack pointers and other stack-related data. Remember that stacks are used to store information about the current state of the CPU, including data that cannot be kept in registers due to limits in the number of available registers; thus, a dedicated manager can help performance considerably. As usual, whenever efficiency is improved, power consumption is optimized, which is the case with Banias here as well.
High Performance Branch PredictorBanias' branch predictor reduced mispredicted branches by around 20% when compared to the Pentium III (when running SPEC CPU 2000 tests, but the improvements are very real world). The improvements are thanks to a larger branch history table (for storing data used to predict branches) and better handling of branching in loops, the latter of which is improved in Dothan.
Pentium 4 FSB, Pentium III Execution UnitsThe execution back end of Banias is identical to that of the Pentium III, making the Pentium M a relatively narrow microprocessor when compared to AMD's Athlon 64 and Intel's Pentium 4. Given the low power target for Banias, this decision makes a lot of sense as it reduces power consumption and die size; but keep in mind that the lack of extreme width in the pipeline means that technologies like Hyper Threading will be kept away from the Pentium M. Instead, we can look forward to having multi-core Pentium M designs, which is made somewhat easier to implement, thanks to a relatively small die.
In order to keep the processor fed, however, Intel implemented the Pentium 4's 64-bit quad-pumped front side bus. Currently, the FSB clock on all Banias (and Dothan) parts is 100MHz quad-pumped (effectively, 400MHz for 3.2GB/s of bandwidth), but by the end of this year, it will move to 133MHz (effectively 533MHz).
Power Saving CacheBanias (and Dothan) implement an 8-way set associative L2 cache, which is not uncommon amongst modern day microprocessors. A set associative cache increases hit rate (likelihood that something you want will be found in cache) at the expense of increased cache latency. Cache latency is increased because once the location of data is found in cache, in which "way" it exists must be determined and selected - an incorrect determination will further increase cache latency.
In order to optimize the 8-way set associative cache for low power consumption, each "way" is further divided into quadrants. Once a "way" is selected, the L2 controller will determine in which quadrant the needed data resides and only activates that part of the cache. With such a large cache, it is important to save power here as much as possible.
Artificially Limited Clock Speed DesignGenerally speaking, when you design a microprocessor, you want it to run as fast as possible. Normally, there's an initial idea of target clock speed and once the chip is actually back from the plant, it's not uncommon to find parts of the chip that run slower than your clock target, while others run faster (sometimes much faster). In desktop microprocessor design, the goal is to speed up the slowest parts of the chip (or critical paths as they are known among chip designers) and tweak the chip and the manufacturing process to run as fast as the fastest parts.
With Banias, Intel took a different approach. The design team set a clock speed target, and if any part of the chip exceeded that clock speed target, then that part of the chip had to be slowed down. The idea was that if a chip can run faster than its target, then you're wasting power - a luxury that isn't present in mobile chip design. The upside to this design methodology is that power consumption is further reduced, and when coupled with the other power-saving advancements that we've talked about, we're dealing with a fairly low power chip. The downside is that each generation of the Pentium M has a very well defined clock speed wall, and the only way over that wall is to use a smaller, cooler and faster manufacturing process. This is why you will see Pentium M ramp much slower in clock speed than any other Intel chip and why you will see clock speed bumps coincide with new manufacturing processes. It also means that if Intel ever has yield problems with a new manufacturing process (which isn't uncommon), the Pentium M will suffer. It's a risky move, but it's the type of move that is necessary to truly build a good mobile CPU.
The 5 Things that Comprise DothanThere are five basic parts of Dothan that differ it from Banias, but unfortunately (just as was the case with Banias), Intel is not very forthcoming with details about Dothan out of a desire to guard their intellectual property. Even a year after its release, we have yet to see any serious competition for the Pentium M and Intel wants it to remain that way for as long as possible.
That being said, we will try to be as specific about the details of Dothan as much as possible; and we'll start at the most obvious - its 90nm process.
90nm process and 2MB L2Banias was built on Intel's 0.13-micron manufacturing process at its peak. The tried and true manufacturing process meant that Banias faced no manufacturing delays and could hit its target clock speeds without a problem.
Dothan gets its most noticeable improvements over Banias, thanks to the move to Intel's smaller 90nm manufacturing process. This is the same process that's used in the manufacturing of Prescott, which means a couple of things. For starters, it explains why availability of Dothan hasn't been incredible, since its launch as 90nm production is still ramping. The availability problem aside, 90nm gives Dothan the ability to cram almost twice as many transistors onto the chip without increasing the overall die size compared to Banias.
Dothan is now a 140 million transistor chip (up from 77 million in Banias) with those 140 million transistors occupying the same 84 mm2 die area as Banias (almost, Banias is about 1 mm^2 smaller). Almost twice the transistors with no increase in die size? It's a chip manufacturer's dream. Because of the stagnant die size, yields should not differ between Banias and Dothan (once Intel's 90nm process has truly matured) and it shouldn't cost Intel any more to produce Dothan than it did Banias.
The majority of the increase in transistor count is thanks to Dothan's 2MB L2 cache, twice that of Banias' 1MB cache. The 64KB L1 cache remains the same that was present in Banias.
We believe that Intel is using the same 90nm SRAM cells from Prescott in Dothan. If they are indeed, then the extremely small 84 mm2 die is further enabled by the significantly smaller 90nm SRAM cells that Intel developed. However, we are not clear as to how independent Banias and Dothan's SRAM cell design remains from the desktop chips, thanks to their unique power requirements.
Along with a larger L2 cache, Intel has increased how aggressively Dothan prefetches data into its cache in order to take advantage of the extra on-die L2. This is a fairly normal practice that microprocessor designers employ whenever an architecture stays the same, but cache size increases in order to help improve performance.
The 90nm process will also allow Dothan to scale up in clock speed, thanks in part to Intel's strained silicon technology, something that we're already seeing the fruits of today with its introductory 2GHz clock speed (up from Banias' 1.6GHz intro speed). Dothan will break the 2GHz barrier by the end of 2004. Remember that Intel's design philosophy with Dothan, just like Banias, is to design the chip for a specific power consumption and to leave clock speed scaling mostly up to the manufacturing process to enable.
Dothan's 90nm manufacturing process, in the end, gives it the higher clock speeds and larger L2 cache, which offer some of the more tangible advantages over Banias. Another very important fact to keep in mind is that these are the only major changes to Banias that make up Dothan; unlike Prescott, the pipeline has not been changed at all. Even Intel's Dothan design team views Prescott as a bit of a risky move, to try out significant modifications to the architecture alongside a brand new manufacturing process. Thus, it's no surprise that Dothan remains relatively unchanged architecturally outside of the move to 90nm; the pipeline and L1 cache are identical to Banias.
Micro Ops FusionIntel has been deliberately vague about Banias' micro ops fusion and they continue to be such with the modifications to the micro ops fusion engine in Dothan. All that we are allowed to publish is that Dothan now allows more types of micro ops to be fused, which isn't a bad thing, it would just be nice to know which ones and what enables Dothan to support the fusing of more micro ops.
Local Branch Prediction ImprovementsWith Dothan, there have been some improvements to branch prediction performance in order to reduce power consumption and increase performance. Remember that the fewer branch mispredicts you have, the less power that is wasted on refilling the pipeline after a flush.
One of the biggest improvements to Dothan's branch predictors is in its loop detector. Although most don't think of a loop as a branch, all loops either end or begin with some sort of a comparison statement that determines whether the loop should continue to execute (e.g. if i ‹ 10, then keep looping). Loops are normally handled by a static branch predictor that always predicts taken once a loop is detected, and usually the only mispredicts that exist once a loop is detected are at the end of the loop. While this works fine for larger loops (100+ iterations), it does not work so well for extremely small loops (e.g. 5 iterations). What ends up happening is that the 5th, 6th and 7th time around, the predictor will mispredict a taken branch when, actually, the loop is finished with. Mispredicting 3 times for a loop that only runs for 5 iterations does not help branch prediction accuracy, so we have a problem on our hands.
Dothan includes a more sophisticated algorithm in its detection and prediction of branches involving small loops; once again, Intel was purposely vague about exactly what Dothan does that Banias did not, but just know that Dothan has better overall branch predictor performance, thanks to modifications like improved detection of short loops.
Faster Integer DivisionWhen moving to a small manufacturing process, it's often possible to include logic that didn't make the cut originally due to space constraints, such is the case with Dothan and its integer division performance. Once again, all we know is that integer division is faster on Dothan, but no idea how fast or why.
Enhanced Register Access ManangerAs we mentioned at the beginning of this article, much of what went into Dothan were tweaks to Banias that couldn't be implemented without pushing the design completion date further out. One such fix that didn't make it to Banias was a workaround to a register access issue that caused the entire pipeline to stall in Banias. The situation was a unique one, where a partial register write followed by a full register read would cause the pipeline to stall. Dothan features a workaround for the problem and there is no longer a performance penalty for performing a partial register access followed by a full register access.
The Pentium M SocketThere's a bit of confusion regarding the Pentium M's compatibility with desktop Pentium 4 motherboards. Remember that although the Pentium M is electrically compatibile with the Pentium 4's FSB, it is not pin compatible with the Pentium 4.
The Pentium M CPU has the same number of pins as a Pentium 4. However, the pinout is completely different, meaning that what's actually carried on those 478 pins is not the same between the two chips.
Intel went one step further and changed the location of the keying pins to make sure that you could not physically install a Pentium M CPU into a Pentium 4 motherboard.
The Pentium M on the right is keyed differently than the Pentium 4 on the left. Thus, you can't put a Pentium M into a Pentium 4 socket, mobile or desktop.
That being said, there's nothing stopping a motherboard manufacturer from producing a desktop motherboard that supports the Pentium M processor - because once again, the Pentium M is electrically compatible with the Pentium 4 and should thus work with any desktop Pentium 4 chipset.
Dothan's Model NumbersIntel started their model numbering system with Dothan's launch. For those of you who are confused by the "helpful" system, here is a table to tell you at what clock speeds the various processors are really running:
|Clock Speed
|Thermal Design Power
|Intel Pentium M 755
|Intel Pentium M 745
|Intel Pentium M 735
|Intel Pentium M 733
|Dothan Ultra Low Volt
|Intel Pentium M 725
|Intel Pentium M 723
|Dothan Ultra Low Volt
|Intel Pentium M 715
|Intel Pentium M 713
|Banias Ultra Low Volt
|Intel Pentium M 705
For the most part, a higher number means a faster processor when it comes to the Pentium M, but there are a few exceptions.
First of all, the 715, 725, 735 and 745 all have one thing in common - for every 10-point increase in model number, there is a 100MHz increase in clock speed. The 755 is the only exception, which has a 10-point increase in model number for a 200MHz increase in clock speed.
The 705 runs at the same speed as the 715, but it uses the older Banias core - so that's a chip that you'll want to stay away from as it offers lower performance and is more power hungry.
The Ultra Low Voltage Dothans run at 1 - 1.1GHz, but have model numbers close to that of the 1.6GHz and 1.7GHz Dothans. Although they consume far less power, keep in mind that they will not perform similarly to the 725 and 735 processors. Then again, these chips are normally found in ultra portable notebooks that wouldn't offer normal Pentium M chips, so it's not usually a decision that you'll have to face. If you want an ultra portable, you'll have to put up with lower clocked processors.
Looking at the TDP values, you see that clock for clock, Banias consumes more power than Dothan, making Dothan better for performance and battery life. For those who look at Prescott as an example of how "bad" Intel's 90nm process is, take a look at Dothan as a more accurate measurement. Without any architectural changes, 90nm allows Dothan to run cooler and faster - the opposite of what we've seen on Prescott, leading us to believe that the reason for Prescott's heat issues isn't Intel's 90nm process, but rather the architectural changes to Prescott.
The TestFor this test, we used a Winbook W360:
For all of our Pentium M (Banias and Dothan) and Celeron M tests, we used the Winbook W360 as our test platform.
However, for our Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 tests, we had to use desktop platforms configured to the specifications of the Winbook W360 in order to produce comparable numbers. Thus, we used a laptop hard drive (IBM Travelstar 5400RPM drive), a Radeon 9600 clocked to the speeds of the mobility 9600 in the W360 (351MHz core, 189MHz memory) and limited ourselves to single channel DDR333 memory run at the same timings as the memory in the W360 (2.5-3-2-7).
The only drivers installed on the Intel platform were the Intel Chipset drivers 5.00.1012. The mobility Radeon 9600 drivers from Winbook were installed on both the notebook and desktop platforms, the driver revision was: 7.98-040120a-013600C.
While you can obviously find faster desktop platforms than this, our goal was to do as close to an apples-to-apples comparison of the mobile CPUs as possible - and remember that if you have a mobile Athlon 64 or mobile Pentium 4 system, they are going to be configured like this and not like a dual channel DDR400 desktop system (presently, there are no dual channel DDR mobile chipsets).
We are saving battery life comparison tests until we have more Dothan notebooks in house, but rest assured that even at 2GHz, the Pentium M 755 offers about the same battery life as a 1.6GHz or 1.7GHz Banias based Pentium M.
General Usage Performance - Winstone 2004First up, as usual, we have Business Winstone 2004 to measure the overall office productivity performance of Dothan. Since this is the type of usage most laptops will fall under (checking email, editing documents, surfing the web, etc.), this is quite possibly the most important benchmark to consider when looking at Dothan.
For those of you not familiar with the benchmark, Business Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:
- Microsoft Access 2002
- Microsoft Excel 2002
- Microsoft FrontPage 2002
- Microsoft Outlook 2002
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
- Microsoft Project 2002
- Microsoft Word 2002
- Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003
- WinZip 8.1
Business applications are one area where Banias originally dominated. If we look at our Pentium M 1.6GHz scores, we see that in business applications, Banias is actually slightly faster than a 3.2GHz Pentium 4. Looking at Dothan, we have performance that's competitive with an Athlon 64 3000+.
What's very important to note about the Dothan vs. Athlon 64 comparison is that at the same clock speeds, Dothan is able to equal and even slightly outperform AMD's offering - and this is without an on-die memory controller, and at lower power consumption.
It's clear that as a general usage mobile CPU, the Pentium M 755 can truly bring desktop class performance on the go.
Let's see how well it stands up when we throw some more content creation applications into the mix using Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004.
Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:
- Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1
- Adobe® Premiere® 6.50
- Macromedia® Director MX 9.0
- Macromedia® Dreamweaver MX 6.1
- Microsoft® Windows MediaTM Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
- NewTek's LightWave® 3D 7.5b
- SteinbergTM WaveLabTM 4.0f
Here, the Pentium 4 does a lot better and the Athlon 64 manages to creep back up to the top of the charts, but the Pentium M still hangs in there, offering performance basically on par with the Athlon 64 3000+ and still faster than the Pentium 4 3.2GHz.
General Usage Performance - SYSMark 2004Like the Winstone tests, SYSMark is an important suite to look at as this is how most users will use their notebooks. Just like Winstone, SYSMark is divided into both office and content creation suites; let's have a look.
This time, we look at content creation performance first. Here's what happens with the Internet Content Creation suite:
"In this scenario, the content creator creates a product-related website targeting a broadband and narrowband audience. The user first renders a 3D model to a bitmap, while preparing web pages using a web site publishing tool. The user opens a video editing package, creates a movie from several raw input movie cuts and sound cuts and starts exporting it. While waiting on this operation, the user imports the rendered image into an image-processing package, modifies it and saves the results. Back in the 3D modeling software, the user modifies a 3D model and exports it to a vector-graphics format. Once the movie is assembled, the user edits it and creates special effects using one of the modified images as input. The user extracts content from an archive. Meanwhile, he uses an animation creation tool to open the exported 3D vector graphics file. He modifies it by including other pictures and optimizes it for faster animation. The final movie with the special effects is then compressed in a format that can be broadcast over broadband Internet. The web site is given the final touches and the system is scanned for viruses."
ICC SYSMark 2004 has always favored Intel processors; more specifically, the Pentium 4. Under the older SYSMark 2002 benchmark, this was the only test where the Pentium M could not hang with its older brother. This time around, we see that the Banias based Pentium M doesn't fair well at all, but with a few architectural tweaks, twice the cache and a higher clock speed, the Pentium M 755 is nipping at the heels of the Pentium 4.
The Pentium M also manages to outperform the Athlon 64, but that is to be expected here; once again, SYSMark has always favored Intel processors.
Next, we have the Office Productivity suite:
"In this scenario, the office productivity user creates a marketing presentation and supporting documents for a new product. The user receives email containing a collection of documents in a compressed file. The user reviews his email and updates his calendar while a virus checking software scans the system. The corporate web site is viewed and the user begins creating the collateral documents. The user also accesses a database and runs some queries. A collection of documents are compressed. The queries' results are imported into a spreadsheet and used to generate graphical charts. The user then transcribes a document. Once the document has all the necessary pieces in place, the user changes it into a portable format for easy and secure distribution. The user edits and adds elements to a slide show template. Finally, the user looks at the results of his work (both the slide show and the portable document) in an Internet browser. "
Here, the Dothan based Pentium M 755 manages to outperform the Pentium 4 3.2 and the Athlon 64 3000+, both by a significant margin. Further echoing our results from Winstone, it's clear that for business users, the new Pentium M is the king of the hill when it comes to mobile computing.
The overall SYSMark graph takes both ICC and Office Productivity performance into account. For reference, we show it below:
DivX and XviD Encoding PerformanceNow, as we step out of the applications that the Pentium M was designed to run and into the realm of media encoding, we see how well Dothan stacks up against the kings of the desktop world.
For our DivX and XviD encoding tests, we used AutoGK (a front end for DVD2AVI) and DivX 5.1.1 as well as the latest XviD release. We converted Chapter 11 of "Pirates of the Caribbean" using 75% quality as the target file size in AutoGK. We decoded audio and the rest of the settings were left as defaults. Results were reported in frames per second, higher numbers meaning better performance.
As usual, the Pentium 4 dominates the DivX encoding charts, outperforming the Pentium M by more than 26%. The Pentium M 755 is close to the Athlon 64 3000+, which is still impressive, but it's clear that the Pentium M's dominance does not extend into the realm of media encoding.
XviD encoding performance is pretty similar, with the performance differences shrinking considerably.
Gaming PerformanceMobile gaming is still nowhere near as popular as desktop gaming, but thanks to the efforts of ATI and NVIDIA, it is finally possible.
Under UT2004, the Pentium M manages to outperform the rest of the chips, delivering the highest frame rates. But, keep in mind that even at the low 800x600 resolution we were testing at, the game was still mostly GPU limited by the mobility Radeon 9600.
The performance under Halo, even at 800x600, is mostly GPU limited and thus we see the Athlon 64 3000+ at the top with most of the other contenders.
Under Final Fantasy, the Pentium M takes a backseat to only the Athlon 64. Clock for clock, the Athlon 64 does come out ahead by a negligible 4%.
Here, we have yet another close call, thanks to GPU limitations. Really, only the Pentium M 1.6 and Celeron M 1.4 perform poorly here.
Under Warcraft III, thanks to Blizzard's excellent work at reducing GPU requirements while still making a beautiful game, we finally see some differences between the chips. The Athlon 64 3000+ and Pentium M 755 once again battle it out at the top; and even the Pentium M 745 doesn't mind giving the Pentium 4 3.2 a run for its money.
It would be nice to see what the Pentium M could really do without being held back by a mobile GPU. Unfortunately, there are no decent Pentium M motherboards with an AGP slot that were readily available at the time of this review. Needless to say, the Pentium M can hang with the best of them when it comes to mobile gaming.
Workstation PerformanceAlthough it's clear that the Pentium M isn't a workstation CPU, we wanted to see how well it stacked up to the competition in some of our workstation tests.
First up is our Visual Studio compile test, where we compile the Quake 3 source code and report compile time in seconds.
Shorter pipelined, higher IPC designs do much better when it comes to compiler performance and thus, we see that the Athlon 64 and Pentium M 755 tie for the lead at the top of the charts.
Those of you who do software development on your laptops may want to consider the Pentium M 755, but remember that another major performance factor here would be disk performance, so make sure that you get a fast drive with your notebook as well.
Next up, we have 3D rendering performance in 3dsmax:
Here, the Pentium M takes a serious backseat to the Pentium 4 3.2. The Athlon 64 3000+ also outperforms the Pentium M in this test.
Under Lightwave, the performance results are similar. The Pentium M just isn't cut out for 3D rendering applications as much as the Pentium 4 and Athlon 64 are.
Final WordsBanias was revolutionary; it changed the shape of the mobile CPU world and it changed how we perceive mobile chip design to be pursued. It would be nice if the same mobile-oriented design methodology spread to companies like ATI and NVIDIA. Maybe then we would truly be able to game while on the go.
Dothan, as an update to Banias, leverages Intel's 90nm process and some architecture tweaks to not stun us, but to keep us happy with the Pentium M platform. At 2.0GHz, the Pentium M 755 is easily the best chip that money can buy for a notebook. Clock for clock, it's faster and uses less power than Banias - there's really no reason not to like it.
If you're using your notebook for office applications and even for content creation applications, there's no beating the new Pentium M. Even developers will find short compile times, competitive with that of a similarly clocked Athlon 64, possible with the Pentium M at lower power usage as well.
What the Pentium M isn't, however, is as strong of a media encoding or workstation processor as either the Athlon 64 or Pentium 4. Partially constrained by its 400MHz FSB and single channel memory interface, the Pentium M is not the successor to the Pentium 4 that many will make it out to be. In many ways, the Pentium M is much like Intel's version of the Athlon 64, sans memory controller. The short pipelined design and accurate branch predictor give the Pentium M a nice and high IPC, similar to the Athlon 64, which give it strength in areas like business applications and are also responsible for its high performance in our compile tests.
With Intel's vision for the future being centered on media encoding and content creation, the Pentium M is the last thing that Intel would want to build their future desktop CPUs around. That being said, the Pentium M is quite possibly the best solution that Intel has for the office PC. It would be nice if Intel used the Pentium M as the basis for its desktop Celeron processor, instead of just a castrated Pentium 4.
The Pentium M will continue to be an excellent mobile chip, and the next incarnation of the Pentium M should be yet another revolution as it may even receive multiple cores as a part of Intel's overall threading strategy.
On the desktop, we may see features like micro ops fusion and some of the Pentium M's power saving technologies make their way into the Pentium 4's eventual successor. Dropping Prescott and moving towards Dothan would be a step back, using each architecture for their strengths and borrowing technologies for use in another would make much more sense for the future of Intel's microprocessors.
In the more short term, we may see some motherboard manufacturers make Pentium M based motherboards for desktop usage. Shuttle, in particular, is currently working on a small form factor box based on the Pentium M. That should be out by the end of this year.


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Nebbiolo from Piedmont, Italy
Winemaker's Notes
#57 Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2011
Deep ruby red in color. The nose has full, sweet, ripe red fruit, plum jam and sweet wood notes. Flavors are vigorous, quite soft, warm, tannic, fresh and persistent.
Try with grilled red meat or seasoned cheeses.
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Hallie Todd (born 7 January 1962; age 54) is the actress who portrayed Lal in the Star Trek: The Next Generation third season episode "The Offspring" in 1990. She was born as Hallie Eckstein in Los Angeles, California, and was the stepdaughter of "The Trouble with Tribbles" actor Guy Raymond from 1972 until Raymond's death in 1997.
Todd's first television appearance was a 1980 episode of the drama series Family with Karen Austin. She then made her film debut in the 1982 cult hit Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which starred Vincent Schiavelli, Scott Thomson, and Ray Walston. The following year, she appeared in the television movie Who Will Love My Children?, directed by John Erman.
From 1984 through 1989, Todd starred as Penny Waters in the Showtime series Brothers, which was produced by Paramount Television. Star Trek Generations actor Tommy Hinkley was also a regular on this show during its fourth season. Todd was nominated for a CableACE Award for her performance on Brothers in 1987.
In 1984, Todd co-starred in Michael Landon's drama film Sam's Son. She worked with Landon again the following year on an episode of Highway to Heaven. She guest-starred on both The Golden Girls and Growing Pains in 1986; on the former, she played Blanche Devereaux's niece, while on the latter, she played a homeless girl in a Christmas episode.
In 1989, Todd appeared in an episode of the mystery drama series Murder, She Wrote with Robert Pine and Garry Walberg. The following year, she won a recurring role on the show as Rhoda Markowitz, during which time she worked with such actors as Melinda Culea, Jim Metzler, Ricardo Montalban, Nehemiah Persoff, James Sloyan, and Nana Visitor. Two of her episodes were directed by Vincent McEveety. During the 1990-1990 television season, Todd acted alongside Alan Ruck on the comedy series Going Places.
In 1996, Todd reunited with her TNG director and castmate Jonathan Frakes when he cast her in an episode of Diagnosis Murder. She also appeared in an episode of Murder One with Barbara Bosson, John Fleck, Concetta Tomei, and Ned Vaughn. She then starred in the short-lived WB series Life with Roger. Todd has since guest-starred on such series as Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Malcolm in the Middle (with Kenneth Mars and Kurtwood Smith), and Brandy & Mr. Whisker (2005).
Todd is perhaps best known for her role as Jo McGuire, Lizzie's mother on the hit Disney series Lizzie McGuire. She played the role from 2001 through 2004 and in the theatrically-released The Lizzie McGuire Movie in 2003. She also contributed to the show's soundtrack.
In 2011 Todd portrayed Nancy in the thriller The Mooring on which she also worked as writer and executive producer. Her husband Glenn Withrow served as director and writer on this film and her daughter Ivy Withrow also co-wrote the story. For several years she has also been working as acting coach at the Hallie Todd Studios.
External links
- HallieToddStudios.com - official site
- Hallie Todd at the Internet Movie Database
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Ok we'll shut up now....please don't take away our cake....what will we have left to live for?
Not long in - been doing more posts etc with daughter. B's merchant hasn't phoned back so I'm a bit annoyed with them. Could have got planks on tomorrow on the posts we did today and yesterday but they sent wrong size - too short - and I don't want to wait ages for them now.
Dinner soon. Feeling hungry - having to make it tonight - daughter on strike after doing it yesterday!
Matty hope you're ok. Always viruses and things going round too. Felt a little bit off myself at work today but fine now. Get your feet up
Have feet up have sore throat, But feel better after doing nothing for half the afternoon. Thanks. I am sure it will pass.
Hello folks - rotten day at work, then came home to see buds on my Graham Thomas honeysuckle I only planted it last year and it hasn't flowered yet
Good idea Bev with the B & Q plants.Hope your meeting goes ok tomorrow.
Fairygirl.sorry you have,nt felt so good today,glad you are feeling better now.You must be so fed up with your fence problems,hopefully it will get sorted out tomorrow,maybe you will be able to negotiate a discount.
Woody can I just say,thanks for your saying thanks to us for saying thanks....lol. Ok ending now!
Good evening FORKERS ....sorry to all those who are not too good, fed up or have problems.. Tomorrow is another day and it will be good then.
Someone gave me a pack of mini doughnuts today....18 in all. Had one before I got to my car, another as I settled into it,and another,as I drove off. Before you could say "greedy pig" I had eaten the lot. That's the kinda guy I am.....alas!
Tried to get a plant from my local GC via their "click and collect" service but it couldnt provide. This is the third time without success so I bought online again. I complained and the manager said they would improve the service. Frustrating. Good to have a grumble eh?
Busy day but no gardening. Cloudy, warm, humid but very little sun. Ah well!
Have nice evening folks
!8 mini doughnuts in one go is that a record?
Verdun, there isn't a little piggy smiley, but you deserve one. You greedy chap. But you can always work it off tomoz Luckily no one gives me anything I like to eat. Good job salted peanuts don't grow in a GH in S.Yorks.
What's up with us all ? Soon as weather bucks up we are stricken. Must be gardening in wet shoes. Done my anti-biotics, so can now go in sun, if we had some
Tiny can't have been nice, hope you've had a rest and some good food, not cake!
To everyone else whose feeling off it, hope you're much better tomorrow.
Done some hoeing, bit of weeding but still not got Dahlias in, cooked meal and nearly choked us. Chicken kebabs on griddle & our salad. Last bit of spices in packet to use as marinade...yeah..all the hot stuff was at the bottom of the pack, should have had an idea when my eyes watered during cooking them.
Did sort the sewing out and friend happy so at least one good result today.
Enjoy your night everyone.
KEF sorry but I chucled when I read that bit about the spices. I'm always overloading on the heat when I do chilli-the girls are frightened to eat it!
Verdun...you'll need a bigger coat now....
Gilly- it's frustrating,but had so many nice comments about the fence from passers by so that always helps. Would like to get all the posts in and planks on for end of next week when schools stop. Then they can all b****r off into their own gardens instead of swanning through mine!
Dove - you've had a lot of rubbish days at work recently. Roll on your retiral my love!
Verdun - I'm off to have a cup of tea and a big (Scottish)crumpet...
Just the one though...I'm not a greedy piggy.... Oink oink...
Verdun isn't the only piggy today. I have just finished dinner, steak pie brought back from a farm in Kernow on Saturday, plus calabrese, Lady Christl potatoes, and carrots - all from garden or allotment this afternoon - I feel well and truly stuffed. Methinks a few hours at the allotment tomorrow needed to work it all off!
I though we were supposed to eat less in the summer? But it's not here yet is it?
Fairly I wish I could stand guard for you..little so and so's. But you won't have the problem for long. What about a sign please keep off the grass hornet's nesting in it.
Pentille, at least you had a sensible meal, Veron will need to take new trousers back and exchange for elastic waisted ones
KEF- he'll start looking like Simon Cowell if he's not careful
Nice high waistband is what he needs ..
Pentillie- nice dinner!
Bev- hope it goes well for you tomorrow. I can understand why you must feel a bit anxious about it. Treat yourself afterwards
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KEF- he'll start looking like Simon Cowell if he's not careful Nice high waistband is what he needs .. Pentillie- nice dinner! Bev- hope it goes well for you tomorrow. I can understand why you must feel a bit anxious about it. Treat yourself afterwards
Dunno what's happening but if it's work returning related . They will have missed you more than you've missed them
Reading back Matty has lurge as well, get well soon.
I'm off now in case it's catching.
KEF yes it's about getting back to work,,,in last meeting she was really nasty- told me that me being off had given my department really bad moral ... that she didn't think I would really ever be fit to return etc etc Still I shall go in with a big smile on my face - say my sick note( now called fit to work forms) ends on 26th June and that I will be ready to return then. I shall smile and be positive about everything,,, but she is horrid.
I will ask Billy to go out with me afterwards- have something as a treat as you suggested fairygirl- or I could just get an 18 pack of mini doughnuts Verdun.
Tina not about tonight.....perhaps she is too weak after not eating yesterday
Matty hope you feel better tomorrow.
Bev, don't you have the option of a return to work "under certain criteria" note? If your being off caused bad morale, shows how much they missed your input. Since when was she whoever she is a G.P ?..tell her you're keen to return as you've missed her. Don't know what you do, private info..but you are entitled to have a union rep' or someone that employer agrees to, with you. I know you'll be worried, but she'll be worse, she's got to be careful what she says, sit with pen and pad on your knee as though you're going to write down what she says..It'll worry / puzzle her. I know it will be horrid but would you rather be you or that monster of a female?
It will be ok, be strong and eat cake afterwards.
Bev you'd better get some doughnuts quick - that greedy Verd will have bought them all up
Frankly I'd buy 18 normal sized ones...
She sounds pretty vile Bev. Maybe the bad morale is because of her. Go in with a smile and use that trick about imagining people naked if they're intimidating !
Evening all,
Today I have planted out a few sweetpeas dwarf ones
will upload more pics later here's a nice one of Woodgreen wonderboys wheelbarrow planter
and then one pic from another garden - at Avon View house - I think there was a bit of a theme running through the village.
One more, not planted up this time - at Le pre house.
Great way of using old barrows.
I tried that trick once - and only once ..... Not nice ......
Lovely pics garden girl - sorry I missed you yesterday - I loved the wheelbarrows too!
What time did you see WW garden, we were there at 12ish
I was there about 1ish- then visited the other gardens til about 3.30 - I bet we passed each other. What fabulous gardens though, and a lovely spot. So many beautiful flowers


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Candice's Dodrio often carries Candice around on its back. Apart from Medicham it is the only one of Candice's Pokemon that is not an Ice type. Dodrio has never been seen in battle so its combat abilities are unknown.


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Amazon lets you put a little code snippet on your web page that sets up context links. Keywords that Amazon recognizes are formatted as links and if someone clicks on it and buys stuff, you get a few percent back in their affiliate program. This sounds simple and painless.
I just did a link-type report for July 1-30 and this is the result of having Amazon links on my main web sites:
|Click Thr. Rate
|Items Ordered
|Referral Fees
As you see this is 232,055 impressions.
The unanswered question here is the Earnings per page impression. That number is just about 8 cents per thousand links. Comparing this to the competition, I get over $2 per thousand clicks from my context sensitive text ads (a mix of YPN, MSN, Google and a few others). I get 5700 clicks on these ads, which is about twice as many as the Amazon clicks, but they pay 0ver 30 times better.
So the question is this: is the $18 worth it? By placing these context links did I loose a click to the more lucrative text ads on my site? Is Amazon diverting clicks that could have gone to the text ads?
The Amazon context links are getting better. I think that the system is learning about my web pages and highlighting better keywords as the preferences of my readers are analyzed. They are about twice as good this month as they were last month. I will try another month and see if they produce over $30 next month. If this is a trend it might be worth it.
I wonder why Yahoo, Google or Microsoft don't create the same kind of link strategy? I would like to put pay-per-click keyword context links on my pages, I think that it would pay well. I wonder why they don't have a product that will scan my pages for keywords the way Amazon does?
Here's a link that hit Del.icio.us a few days ago.
Make Money Online: 100+ Tools and Resources
This has an interesting section on sites that will pay you to review products and websites. You get about $6 per review, but you can do a couple a day, every day and have to have a blog that you reserve for this. It has to have a good Google Page Rank, but you can usually get a good rank if you have interesting content and a you link to it from your other pages and a few dozen other people link to it. I am thinking that you could make $400 a month reviewing stuff. Your regular readers will forgive you if each good blog post is separated by a couple of evil capitalistic blog posts.
I have signed up with a few of these sites. They have to approve you and so far no have contacted me back. You have to have an established blog with at least two entries a week for over a year. I hope that they will want reviews of musical gear. I don't have my hopes up that they will want reviews of SF novels, but they may want movie reviews. I can knock off a 500 word review of a movie that I've never seen in about 5 minutes. That comes to $180 an hour!
I will review the review process as soon as I can get an assignment from one of these sites.


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Historic Preservations, Bankers And 15 Minutes of Fame
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Well, they are after us again, and now it's the nonprofit Advertising Council. Seems it is running a campaign for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The ad depicts a class of grade school kids posing in front of a parking structure, with a small picture of a great-looking school under it. The copy: "No one looks back fondly on the time they spent in a parking garage."
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Dear Dex Media, publisher of the "Yellow Book,"
Why are you still around? I considered this question last year when you left this dinosaur at my doorstop. I haven't used a phone book since the 90s, and suspect many have dismissed them as well. Who would choose to page through this inky yellow mess when you can find a phone number, address, or business in seconds using Google or any other search variant – national or local. On the road? There's Google Text, Google 411, and many others.
Point being anywhere a phone exists there's most likely internet access or WiFi, making your product obsolete. Even in my office at work I don't see phone books in cubicles or workstations anymore. They're as useful and as relevant as cassette tape answering machines, VCRs, and Blockbuster Video.
Stop publishing these. It's a waste of paper, and a waste of the plastic used to wrap them in. (Actually those make decent dog poop bags.) Also the only revenue these bring in – which is advertising, is sold under false pretenses. Just like magazines, phone book publishers base ad rates on circulation. So my handling of this book for five seconds between lifting it up, walking it to and heaving it into the recycle bin counts as an impression and/or user. Yeah right.
As with 90% of everything else I comment on I'm certainly no expert. So if you work for Dex, sell phone book ad space, or sell any other product that nobody uses – please comment and let me know how you're able to put food on your family. I'm honestly curious.
Meanwhile if you're not building a time capsule here is where to recycle your phone book. James Van Dellen


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By: Cecilia García Ruiz, Women Deliver 100 Young Leader from Mexico
This blog is part of a series, edited by Women Deliver, in partnership with Impatient Optimists, on youth perspectives to celebrate World Contraception Day. Share your thoughts in comments and join the conversation at #WCD2012.
World Contraception Day will be celebrated for the 6th time on September 26, 2012. For six years we've worked to shine a spotlight on these key issues, but some people still disregard the importance of providing universal access to quality contraceptive services and information to prevent unplanned pregnancies, especially among young people.
Even today, there seems to be a maintained reluctance to accept that the healthy and pleasurable exercise of our sexuality is desirable regardless of our age. This includes the right to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of one's children and to have the information and means to do so. This helps to understand why young people's increasing demand to access contraceptive methods and information remains unmet.
Yet this not the only barrier we, young people, face. Lack of timely and comprehensive sexuality education, limited choice of methods, violence and traditional gender roles are also underlying causes of the high rates of unwanted teen pregnancies worldwide. Adolescent pregnancy can lead to unsafe abortion practices and maternal death, health problems during and after pregnancy, school dropout or poor school performance when teen pregnancies occur, and high rates of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.
In Mexico, one in three women have their first pregnancy in adolescence, according to the report, "La situación demográfica de México 2009." However, sexual and reproductive rights of young people continue to be neglected, and access to contraceptive methods denied. The lack of recognition that adolescents and young people are sexually active and entitled to exercise their reproductive rights beyond family planning has lead to the prioritization of married women to access contraceptives. And even though the Ministries of Health and Education committed to change this trend by signing the Ministerial Declaration "Preventing Through Education," in 2008, little has been done to implement and/or strengthen strategies of comprehensive sexuality education and promotion of sexual and reproductive health among young people.
These problems not only undermine our well-being, but also hinder our possibilities to develop our full potential. Therefore, young people's access to contraceptive information and services becomes a human rights issue.
But how can this right be acknowledged, respected and guaranteed? There's neither an easy nor a unique response to this question. Interventions at all levels are needed and youth involvement is fundamental. Raising awareness and sensitizing government representatives, parents, health providers, and church leaders to accept that youth contraception must be addressed is the first step. However, it is also necessary to develop laws and policies that recognize our sexual and reproductive health and rights; create mechanisms to ensure young people's significant involvement in decision-making processes that affect our lives and health; and allocate resources to comply with the commitments governments have made to guarantee the availability of and accessibility to contraceptive methods for young people. Furthermore, measures to ensure accountability have to be implemented.
Work must be done at an individual level as well – and boys and young men must be involved. For instance, it is important to educate young people to eradicate the idea that women are solely responsible of preventing unwanted pregnancies. And, more and better programs to end dating violence need to be implemented as violence often prevents young women from negotiating safer sex with their male partners and/or puts them at higher risk of sexual abuse. Encouraging peer education in different contexts and advocating for investments in youth-friendly health services can really make a difference to girls and boys around the world.
Finally, when thinking about the most useful tools to disseminate information about our sexual and reproductive rights, including access to a variety of contraceptive methods, we must not overlook the potential of the new information and communication technologies. Whether you decide to receive an SMS (short message service) on your mobile to inform you about different family planning services in your neighborhood, or create a binding virtual community through Facebook and Twitter, numerous possibilities exist.
In the end, World Contraception Day is about recognizing people's right to choose what is best for them and working towards building a future where every pregnancy is planned and wanted.
Cecilia García Ruiz is a young activist who has been working to promote and defend the rights of young people since 2006. As the current Gender Projects Coordinator of Espolea, a Mexican youth-led organization, Cecilia has participated in different initiatives to promote young people's sexual and reproductive rights, foster young women's empowerment and prevent gender-based violence through peer education. She also conducts research on the situation of young people in Mexico and Latin America to identify the challenges they face when exercising their rights, and assists in the development of materials and resources that address the aforementioned topics from a youth and gender-sensitive approach.


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What is Web Design?
News flash: the yellow pages are extinct. The new version of the yellow pages is called "google.com", and the new version of your entry in the yellow pages is called your website. So yeah, you could say that websites and important. And to answer my own question, web design is the process of visually designing, coding, and deploying a functional website on the internet.
The year that I was born, there were no web designers. Like all technology, the internet has developed at an unbelievably fast rate. When I was just a toddler, all that web designers had to do was figure out how to create a paragraph, page title, and a link. Now web designers deal with a range of issues: cross-browser and cross-OS compatibility, command line version control programs, full fledged visual design, interaction design, 3d css transitions, etc. Web design is without a doubt its own field, and to keep up with the constantly morphing standards and technologies requires steadfast dedication and research skills, as well as the willingness and ability to rapidly learn and re-learn anything in the field of graphic design and programming.
What do you know about it?
To say that I know how to make a website would be an understatement. I am what some people may call a 'web nerd'. I am on a constant and relentless quest to gather the best design and coding resources together for web design. I read a number of web design articles every day on feedly, meticulously file away websites and resources I like, and write articles myself on web design and related fields.
A website to me is an integral piece of your company's identity. It may in fact be 100% of your company's identity (google, for example). Web design is absolutely not something that should be taken lightly or rushed. It is often your first impression on potential clients, your appearance and face on the web, and quite possibly a generator of millions of dollars of revenue. In one case, the changing of one button on a major e-commerce website increased their revenue literally by $30 million/year. I take it that seriously.
With me, you are in safe hands. I am 100% fluent in the most efficient and cutting edge web technology. I code quickly and efficiently in html5, css3, and jquery, using less, zen coding, and git. I design in photoshop, illustrator, and fireworks. I know how to work across all browsers and operating systems. I can develop for mobile devices. I know how to tastefully animate any and all elements of your site. I know what people expect to see, and where they expect to see it. I can create beautiful, clean visuals. I will make your site load faster than anyone else can. I can work with almost any CMS, from wordpress to tumblr to perch. I write clean, semantic, and well-documented code. And if there's anything I don't know, I will learn it for you and implement it on the job, free of charge.
How can I learn more?
Check out the links below to learn more about web design and get involved in the web design community:
- Smashing Magazine - Absolute #1 resource for graphic and web designers. So good I can't even believe it
- CSS Tricks - My favorite resource for any type of web coding. Gorgeous design, great community.
- Think Design - More design focused, but still great for thinking about websites
- Ajaxian - A very thorough blog on all sorts of web scripting
- Signal vs. Noise - Blog by 37signals about design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture, etc.
- Veerle's Blog - Fantastic (and beautiful) web design blog
- Unstoppable Robot Ninja - Blog of Ethan Marcotte, features advanced web scripting discussion
- Well Medicated - Design focused, but great web inspiration
- Abduzeedo - Ok, this is a graphic design blog. But it's fantastic and should be used for tutorials and inspiration
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