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NVIDIA 7800 GT Mini-Roundupby Josh Venning on December 8, 2005 12:05 AM EST
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The NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series has been around for a while now and there's no denying that these are among the most powerful cards available right now. Only recently has ATI released a graphics card that could compete with the mighty 7800 GTX, and though the X1800 XT does compete, current prices still favor NVIDIA over ATI parts in terms of value. This is especially significant given the time of year, as sales, obviously, will be high for both companies, but it's value that will ultimately determine which parts the average consumer will buy.
As many already know, the 7800 GT was released by NVIDIA shortly after the 7800 GTX as a more cost-friendly version of the 7800, and while it's not as fast as the GTX, it's still a very powerful high-end card. We've enjoyed testing and playing a variety of games with this part, and we have a high regard for its capabilities. For those with monitors that are only able to display resolutions up to 1600x1200, the 7800 GT is more than enough to play just about any game at the highest settings possible with smooth results. For those with monitors that can handle higher resolutions, the 7800 GTX or ATI's X1800 XT might be needed to run certain games smoothly at those high settings, but that kind of elite performance is far from cheap.
We've seen some good quality mid-range parts from ATI and NVIDIA lately, like the X800 GTO and the 6800 GS, both of which offer good performance for around or under $200. The X800 GTO in particular at about $170 is an excellent graphics solution from ATI, especially given its overclocking potential. As Christmas gets closer, we will no doubt be seeing deals on other graphics cards as well, and we know many will be hoping for an upgrade under the tree this year.
NVIDIA's 7800 GT is a graphics card that stands out above the majority as being a top performer with competitive prices as well. Today, we'll be looking at three variations of this card: the ASUS Extreme N7800 GT, the XFX GeForce 7800 GT Overclocked, and the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GT CO. Each of these companies have a reputation for quality, and we'll be comparing them to see how they rate to each other in different areas, such as performance and price. We will also be testing power loads and user-overclocking for each of these cards. The first of these 7800 GTs that we'll be looking at is the ASUS Extreme N7800 GT.
ASUS Extreme N7800 GT
ASUS is a company that is fairly well known for making quality parts, and their 7800 GT is no exception. There are, apparently, two versions of the ASUS Extreme N7800 GT and they are exactly the same except that the blue LED edition sports a different look than its competitors in this review. It's the only 7800 GT that we've looked at that has unique LED lighting in the heat sink, making the card glow a soft blue color. The heat sink itself is modified from the reference design by replacing parts of the sink with raised pins and ribs on the edges. This might mean more efficient heat dissipation for user- overclocking, and we were, in fact, able to get a high clock speed on this card when testing it, which we will talk about later in our review.
The box that the ASUS EN7800 GT came in was much larger than the boxes for the other two 7800 GTs, and we can't help but think that this is a bit wasteful. At any rate, the box, like the card, is impressive-looking, with a colorful image of a CG character's face wearing an intense expression above the card name (the "EXTREME" in the name adds to this effect).
The ASUS Extreme N7800 GT is factory clocked at reference clock speeds, with a core clock speed of 400MHz, and memory clock of 1.0GHz. This means that it won't be quite as fast as our other two cards, but as our performance tests will show, the card is anything but slow. The only thing extra bundled with the card aside from standard drivers and software was Project Snowblind, an older game whose graphics wouldn't even begin to tax the 7800 GT.
XFX GeForce 7800 GT Overclocked
XFX is another well known company that makes quality graphics cards, and their version of the 7800 GT comes with a factory overclock. The core clock is set at 450MHz and the memory clock at 1.05GHz, which should give it a slight increase in performance over the ASUS 7800 GT, and we will see by exactly how much a little later in the review.
As you can see, the XFX GeForce 7800 GT OC looks exactly the same as NVIDIA's reference 7800 GT with the standard gray cut-out over the HSF. The only difference is a tiny XFX logo in the head of the fan that's easy to miss if you aren't looking closely.
The box is the standard X-shaped box in which most XFX parts are shipped; smaller than the ASUS box, but just as frustrating (if not more) because of how difficult it is to get to the card inside without ripping it to pieces. The art on the box is interesting and the green is signature XFX color. Also, the card comes bundled with a few games: FarCry, X2 The Threat, and Moto GP2. We aren't sure about the other two games, but FarCry is still a decent game with graphics that the 7800 GT will run easily at the highest possible settings.
EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GT CO
The last card that we have in this 7800 GT mini-roundup is by EVGA, a company who we've consistently had good experiences in regard to their quality of hardware coupled with their low prices. We've talked before about their lifetime warranty in past articles and we still consider it to be one of, if not the best warranty policies for a VGA card right now. They are also well known along with XFX for their impressive factory overclocks, and the e- GeForce 7800 GT comes with a factory overclock of 470MHz core and 1.1GHz memory clock speeds.
The front of the card has the same general features of the reference 7800 GT, with the standard glossy black sticker on the heat sink with the EVGA logo on it.
The box for this card is the least interesting of the three, but we prefer it more over the others because of its simplicity and tasteful design. It's also easy to get into and has probably the least wasteful packaging of them all. There aren't any extra games bundled with the card, but one thing worth touching on is EVGA's warranty policy. Both EVGA and XFX have lifetime warranties, but EVGA's policy is slightly different than XFX's. The way it differs from XFX's, or any other graphics card manufacturers' that we know of, is the fact that EVGA will replace the card for any reason except deliberate physical damage. That means that if you accidentally damage your card by excessive overclocking, EVGA will replace it for the cost of shipping. This is why we feel that their warranty policy stands out. You can take a look at the full terms of their policy on their site. Now, let's talk about overclocking.
Overclocking/Power Load
We've overclocked a few 7800 GTs in the past, with positive results, and we put each of these three cards to the test for this review. It is important for us to note here that overclocking any graphics card over the factory clock can be hazardous to the card, and also, the results of these tests are subjective. Many times, two cards of the exact same brand and model will have different results when overclocking, but these tests are to give us a general idea of each card's overclocking abilities.
Something that we want to touch on briefly is the issue of scaling frequencies for the 7800, which we first saw when overclocking the 7800 GTX. To recap, because of the way clock frequencies scale for the 7800 GT and GTX, increases in core clock speeds don't always represent actual increases in performance. There are "plateaus" where several consecutive clock speeds (i.e. 468, 469, 470MHz) yield nearly exactly the same performance, and then we see a sudden step up in performance between certain frequencies (i.e. 477MHz, 478MHz ) to create a "stair-like" graph when visualizing the performance scaling. You can take a look at a similar graph and some information about this from a past article here.
To give you an idea of how we overclock our cards beyond their factory speeds, we first use coolbits to detect optimal settings for each card. Then we loop some benchmarks, and lower the clock speeds if we see any graphical tearing or artifacts. A good thing about NVIDIA's overclocking tool is that it will keep the card fairly safe from damage caused by attempting to overclock it too high. We simply use trial and error, raising or lowering the core and memory clock speeds until we find settings that offer the maximum performance while running the tests completely stable.
When we overclocked the ASUS EN7800 GT, which is clocked at reference speeds (400MHz/1.0GHz), we find that it clocks up to 468MHz core and 1.2GHz memory. The XFX 7800 GT OC overclocked to 462MHz and 1.2GHz, not much higher than its own factory overclock. The EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GT had a fairly high overclock, considering that it already came factory OC'ed pretty high: 479MHz core and 1.22GHz memory clock. We ran some Splinter Cell benchmarks to see what kind of framerates would result at the different clock speeds, and here they are for your reference.
Power Load
To test the power load of the card, we measure the total watt usage of our test computer at the wall outlet, recording the power usage of our system in two different states. The first state is with the card installed and the computer is idle, and the second is during intensive performance tests (looped Splinter Cell benchmarks). This way, we are able to get a general idea of how the power usage varies between cards.
As you can see, the ASUS 7800 GT has the lowest power consumption of the three, which (because of the fact that it's clocked lower than the other two) is understandable. The EVGA 7800 GT CO has the highest load power draw here, which also makes sense given its high factory overclock.
Test Setup/Performance Tests
We ran a number of performance tests with these cards to give us a good idea of how well they perform relative to each other. This lets us see first-hand the actual difference between a reference factory clocked and factory overclocked card. This means that we should see the ASUS numbers slightly lower than XFX's or EVGA's. We tested three games at 1600x1200 resolution with and without AA enabled. The games that we used (Battlefield 2, Quake 4, and Halflife 2: Lost Coast) were chosen because they represent a wide range of game engines. This is the test system that we used:
NVIDIA nForce 4 motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6 GHz Processor
Seagate 7200.7 120 GB Hard Drive
OCZ 600 W PowerStream Power Supply
You can see that in each of these games, the tests show how there isn't a great performance difference between these three cards. We find that the XFX 7800 GT OC and the EVGA 7800 GT CO show framerates that only differ for the most part by a frame or two. This is because even though they are clocked at different speeds, they are close enough to each other to fall in the same scaling frequency "plateau" that we mentioned earlier.
Essentially, what we see in these tests is that the difference in performance between a 7800 GT clocked at reference speeds and factory overclocked to 470MHz/1.1GHz or 450MHz/1.05GHz isn't enough to affect gameplay in a significant way. It's true that you can get a few fps higher in a game with an overclock like this, but it hardly ever makes it worth paying extra money for a card that's factory overclocked, especially when you can easily clock it yourself as high as or even higher than any other card out there. Interestingly though, in the case of these three 7800 GT's, the lowest clocked card (ASUS EN7800 GT) is also the highest priced, and the highest clocked card (EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GT) is the lowest price of the three.
Final Words
We really can't say enough about the 7800 GT. It has proven itself over and over as a top performer among the ranks of 3d graphics solutions. Anyone lucky enough to own one of these cards will attest to its capability of handling any of the most demanding games out now with style. The 7800 GT is still one of the best choices available for those with monitors limited to resolutions of 1600x1200 or lower, and seeing as this is still the case for the majority of PC gamers, sales for the 7800 GT will be high this holiday season.
ATI's X1800 XL does offer comparable performance to the 7800 GT, and is probably its main competition right now in the graphics card market. Prices have been dropping lately for certain ATI products, which is a good thing, and you can find the X1800 XL for as little as $360 at the time of this writing. However, the 7800 GT can be found for as little as $300 right now, and given that the 7800 GT does in fact out-perform the X1800 XL (more or less depending on the game) , the 7800 GT is clearly the better choice. This isn't to say that the X1800 XL is not an excellent video card in its own merit, and we are pleased to see this ATI part at more reasonable prices, given the relatively brief time that it's been available for purchase.
Our performance tests have shown that each of these three 7800 GT's do very well in handling the graphical demands of a variety of games. It can be a difficult thing to sort out where different graphics cards fall performance-wise when looking for an upgrade. It makes it even harder when you have differences in clock speeds between different manufacturer versions of cards of the same type. Many times, a card that is billed as "faster" because of a factory overclock isn't really that much faster as what the manufacturer of the card would have you believe. This is especially true for NVIDIA's 7800 series, given the confusion surrounding the clock scaling frequencies that we've seen in the past.
Sorting out these little differences is enough to give anyone migraines, especially those not very familiar with gaming hardware looking for an upgrade or a gift for someone else. We can say with all confidence that all of these three 7800 GTs are good quality and would please any PC gamer with their performance. That said, these cards are not the same, so let's talk about how they differ for a moment.
Perhaps the biggest factor in distinguishing these cards is their price. The EVGA 7800 GT CO is the cheapest at $300, and the XFX GT is second at $320. The (standard) ASUS 7800 GT is about $380, which doesn't make much sense to us given that it is technically the slowest of these three cards. This fact, in addition to the fact that ASUS's warranty policy is the worst of the three companies (two years limited warranty from the date of purchase), puts the ASUS Extreme N7800 GT at the lowest on our list of 7800 GTs to recommend. The XFX and EVGA GTs are both very close to each other in terms of value, as they are nearly identical in performance and are also relatively close in price.
We would recommend either of these over the ASUS 7800 GT; however, EVGA's exceptional warranty policy, as well as the lower price, puts their e-GeForce 7800 GT slightly higher, at the top of our list. All the same, we're giving both the XFX GeForce 7800 GT Overclocked and the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GT our editor's choice award.
To the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GT and the XFX GeForce 7800 GT Overclocked for excellence in performance and value.
We recommend staying as far away as possible from the blue LED edition of the ASUS EN7800 GT, as the current price of $430 is much too high for a 7800 GT, especially considering that it's only clocked at reference speeds. The extra $150 apparently only gets you a slightly modified heat sink fan and some pretty blue lights on your card. The regular version of the ASUS EN7800 GT offers the same performance at $380, so if you must have an ASUS 7800 GT, for pity's sake, choose this one, but we don't see any reason to go with either of these over the XFX or EVGA 7800 GTs.
The 7800 GT is undeniably a high-end graphics solution, and the prices reflect this, so not everyone can afford it, unfortunately. But for those who can or who are lucky enough to receive one as a gift this holiday season, count your blessings and be sure to put it to good use (we recommend Call of Duty 2, Battlefield 2, Black and White 2, Quake 4, F.E.A.R, etc.). Our congratulations to EVGA and XFX, as well as NVIDIA, for providing us with this excellent card.


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The mainstream comics writer is something of an alchemist. His task is to make something worthwhile out of what can be very base material. The usual approach is to introduce elements from outside the genre. Alan Moore works differently. He will examine a genre and try to bring its best elements out of it, while staying, for the most part, within its conventions. For example, when given a comic about a swamp monster, rather than fight against the absurdities of such a concept, he tried to make the most intelligent swamp monster comic possible. He succeeds more often than not.Fiore's description of Moore's approach as analytical is accurate, but he suggests that Moore's goal is to produce the Platonic ideal of a particular type of story, and it's hard to go along with that. Moore tends to pull apart a concept and identify the various discourses and resonances that inform it. He then builds his stories through reconstructing the concept in ways that critique the old discourses and create new resonances. In Swamp Thing, for instance, the main character as originally created was a scientist who had been transformed into a humanoid plant creature, and his goal was to turn himself back into a man. Moore identified a discourse behind this concept as denial: the tendency to reject one's present circumstances in favor of clinging to a rosy view of the past. He then constructed a narrative that played off the emotional resonance of this by pulling the rug out from under it. It's an approach that informs most of his major work, and it may be why he's most comfortable working with reductive material, e.g. pastiche, pulp genre stories, and historical fiction--it's always easier to build off another's foundation than to create one's own.
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Moore's first effort in this vein was Miracleman. In the early 1980s, at the behest of editor Dez Skinn, he and illustrator Garry Leach took a moribund British knock-off of the American superhero Captain Marvel (of Shazam! fame), and used it to reimagine the idea of an omnipotent costumed character in the Superman mold. The initial premise of the story was that the character's alter ego, Mike Moran, was now middle-aged, and he had lost all memory of his life as Miracleman, including the magic word he used to transform himself. Moore and Leach set things up with a gritty naturalism. The setting was contemporary (1982) London. Moran was a freelance journalist with a working wife, and their conversation revolved around financial anxieties. The initial villains were domestic political terrorists, essentially the Weathermen or Symbionese Liberation Army of the environmental movement. Despite the realist trappings, the initial episode plays out in the typical fashion of superhero stories: Moran encounters the terrorists at an anti-nuke rally outside a nuclear power plant, he remembers his magic word and defeats the terrorists as Miracleman. A threat emerges to the established order, the hero confronts it, and the threat is contained.
Moore illustrates the basic reactionary discourse of the superhero genre with this opening episode, and then he turns around and explodes it. Miracleman may be a modest do-gooder in the Superman/Captain Marvel mold, but he does not function as a pacifying force in society; he's a disruptive, ultimately transformative element. The government sees him as a threat capable of incalculable destruction, and their first response to his reemergence is to destroy him as expeditiously as possible. They know his true origin, and that as Moran he's a normal human being, and they send a special operative to take him out. The irony is that they're perfectly justified in their fear, and that fear is horribly borne out.
Another discourse informing the superhero genre is that it's a response to a sense of personal and physical inadequacy. It's why the genre is especially popular among male teenagers: as adolescents, they're caught between being boys and men, and they're filled with anxiety over whether they are or will be physically and personally up to the role of being an adult. Many also feel frustrated and emotionally beaten down by their circumstances. The superhero is a powerful fantasy for this mindset: it's a character who transcends inadequacy to become a powerful, ultra-competent figure, and no one is capable of telling a superhero no.
Moore subverts this discourse with the character of Johnny Bates, aka Kid Miracleman, who was Miracleman's superpowered boy sidekick years earlier. Unlike Miracleman, though, he did not forget who he was, and he abandoned his human alter ego to grow to adulthood in his superhuman form. He has quietly used his powers to climb to the pinnacle of society, and when Miracleman encounters him, he's the wealthy, glamorous owner of a major British electronics corporation. But he's thoroughly amoral and malevolent, capable of casually murdering people in the most ghastly ways, and he holds a grudge against the older hero for what he recalls as patronizing treatment decades earlier. Their battles ultimately destroy London, and the carnage is horrific--it's everything the government officials were terrified of and more. The imagery from Bates' final assault is chilling: human skins flapping on clotheslines, bodies impaled on the hands of Big Ben and assorted fenceposts, a woman with her arms torn off wandering with her crying children through the city wreckage. The most disturbing image sneaks up on one. Moore and the episode's illustrator, John Totleben, show a family screaming in terror in their car. One then notices that the skyscrapers in the background are shown from an extremely odd perspective, and one sees other cars hanging in midair at various angles. The full impact of the panel then hits one: Bates arbitrarily picked up those cars and flung them high into the air, one after the other. It's as unsettling an image as one will ever encounter, in comics or elsewhere. Unchecked will and absolute power--the heart of the superhero fantasy--are shown taken to their nightmarish extreme.
The violence in adventure fiction often has a glamour to it, and Moore attempts to subvert its appeal with the imagery from London's devastation and elsewhere in the series. He and the illustrators rub one's nose in the ugliness of violence from beginning to end. But as dramatic as it is, the violence is not what gives Moore's storytelling its power. His great contribution to comics was in demonstrating that intricate novelistic narratives were possible in the medium. His sense of characterization is superb; the story's principals are all strong, fully-realized personalities, and thanks to Moore's exceptional ear for dialogue, they all have distinct voices. Every scene is constructed in terms of narrative effect, and the various strands of the story are orchestrated into a larger whole. Moore's also astute enough to recognize the more immediate absurdities of the superhero genre, and he uses those for narrative purposes, too; he treats them as mysteries to be solved. He is such a strong storyteller that he can take such overtly ridiculous elements as the mad scientist Dr. Gargunza, Miraclewoman, and even Miracledog, and make them seem satisfying and integral elements of the story he's telling.
Miracleman has its flaws. Moore's interest in crafting dynamic scenes sometimes gets the better of his judgment. The most egregious instance occurs early on, when a lovemaking scene between Miracleman and his wife is crosscut with a jaguar hunt in the South American jungle; the wife's climax is juxtaposed with the moment the cat is gruesomely
There's also a problem with consistency in the artwork. The first third or so is fine despite Garry Leach turning the illustration duties over to Alan Davis; their styles are so interchangeable that it's hard to tell where one ends and the other picks up. The consistency problems become glaring in the middle section. Davis is replaced by Chuck Austen (credited as Chuck Beckum), and their work is not at all compatible. Austen's panels lack the skill and sophistication of Davis's, and the change in the figurework is extremely conspicuous: Austen's posed stiffness can't begin to compare with Davis's fluid dynamism. The team of Rick Veitch and Rick Bryant is much better, but the art still isn't on the level of Leach and Davis; it's hard to escape the feeling that Moore's scripts are being manhandled by less-than-capable talents. It's only in the final third when Leach and Davis's work is matched and exceeded. John Totleben does remarkably skilled and detailed work, and its lush, dreamlike quality is perfectly appropriate to the fantastic, phantasmagoric direction the story takes.
And the final third of Miracleman is its most impressive. Moore began with the idea of a superhero in the real world, and he develops it to a natural conclusion: this is a god in the real world. He resolves all the narrative questions he developed over the series, and Miracleman embraces destiny by accepting godhood and establishing himself as the world's ruler. It's not an easy path; his wife and his human identity (whose personality becomes increasingly separate) abandon him, and he must confront his dismay at the refusal of many to accept the utopia he brings them. These final episodes are framed through Miracleman's recollections, and the birth of this new world order (and the death of the old) is presented with a remarkable sense of awe. The story ends on a pensive note, with Miracleman wistfully looking down on the planet's lights from his palace in the sky.
Miracleman is no longer commercially available through publishers or first-run book retail. It's sadly only available on the used and collectors' market, and if one is looking to buy the three volumes discussed here on eBay or elsewhere, be prepared to spend a thousand dollars. Dez Skinn, the original editor, never properly acquired the rights; he assumed it was an orphaned copyright and trademark, and just commissioned new material. His arrangement with Moore and the illustrators was for them to keep the copyright for their specific episodes, and this arrangement was maintained by the U.S. publisher Eclipse, who thought they had purchased Skinn's share of the character rights. At least one bankruptcy and lawsuit later, all the episode copyrights and printer films reportedly now belong to Neil Gaiman, who took over writing the series from Moore. However, he can't do anything with them until the legal questions are resolved, which doesn't seem likely anytime soon. There are so many conflicting claims that no one knows who owns what with regard to the character's underlying copyright and trademark. I don't think Gaiman is exactly hurting for money, and he's got plenty of ultra-wealthy celebrity friends like Bono who could easily put up the money to bring the series back into print. Which he should do; as one person recommended recently, just publish the books and see who files a lawsuit. Get the claimants deposed and settle things. This is a historically significant work in the comics field, and it's a shame the legal mess has turned it into a notoriously unavailable work of fan fiction. It deserves so much better.
Other posts in the Comics Renaissance--Alan Moore series (click to read):
- American Flagg!: Lustbusters
- Batman: The Killing Joke
- Big Numbers 1 & 2
- Big Numbers 3
- Superman: For the Man Who Has Everything
- Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
- Swamp Thing, Book 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
- Swamp Thing, Book 2: Love and Death
- Swamp Thing, Book 3: The Curse & Book 4: A Murder of Crows
- Swamp Thing, Book 5: Earth to Earth & Book 6: Reunion
- Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Tygers
- Watchmen


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Digital wallets are fast-growing in the UK and beyond, a development enabled by the advances in cloud computing and mobile devices. As consumers look for easier ways to transact, the technology provides them with a real solution.
They represent a revolution in the payments space and are enabled by an advanced cloud computing setup. Details are stored securely online, and are ready to be accessed by customers logging in and authorising a transaction.
The idea of digital wallets is to offer a system that is analogous to physical wallets, holding all of the information without the need to carry it all and enter details at each transaction. They also offer greater security: by storing the data, consumers no longer have to hand over their credit card information to online retailers they have not purchased from before.
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The digital wallet market is still fairly young, and there is a lot of development activity going on. To some degree, this means different ideas on direction between the providers. However, our vision is for a standardised method of payment, because this means it is much easier for consumers to go everywhere and have one system to use. Obviously, we do not want to hamper innovation, but it is vital that there is simplicity.
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The growth of mobile devices, including tablets, creates a fantastic future for digital wallets. In addition to customers using the devices to make purchases at home or while travelling, there is a real opportunity in-store.
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Digital wallets exist within an ecosystem of traditional card payments, cash, and NFC devices (that enable customers to make payments by touching their card or enabled phone on a reader). We think that the market will continue to evolve and many systems will coexist, with customers and retailers choosing what is most appropriate in each situation.
By 2020, fifty per cent of transactions are likely to be sourced from a mobile device, be they for initial information or direct payment. It is important that we remain device agnostic, so that we can enable simplicity and access for all customers. The growth in mobile will only serve to advance the popularity of this fascinating payments technology.
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The trick is likely to be simplicity, as Jonathan notes. People need one easy system that works in lots of places. When there is a critical mass of retailers/banks, it will grow more and more.


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George Marshall Conference Center, U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC
February 23, 2010
As prepared
Secretary Cordova, Secretary Sebelius, Director Rodriquez Ajenjo, Director Medina Mora, Director Kerlikowske, distinguished guests: on behalf of Secretary of State Clinton, I'm pleased to welcome you to the State Department's Marshall Conference Center and to join my American colleagues in welcoming our Mexican friends to this important undertaking.When the Secretary made her first visit to Mexico in March 2009, she made clear that Mexico's counter-narcotics challenge was one we shared. Several factors make that shared responsibility crystal clear, but none of them surpass the driving force that demand for illicit drugs in the United States plays. So this gathering is part and parcel of our joint effort to confront a shared threat to both of our nations.
This meeting represents a critical advance in forging our partnership (eight bi-national drug demand reduction conferences) to combat illicit drug use. It reflects our understanding that a genuine bi-national security partnership requires more than dismantling narcotics networks, destroying caches of illicit drugs, and addressing the flow of guns and money. Yes, we must do these things and do them well. But to sustain the gains we make there – and to protect the health and safety of our citizens – together we must make significant progress in preventing and treating drug abuse.
This week's conference is an important opportunity for the government and NGO sectors of both our countries to join together to share ideas, experiences, and discuss best practices to reduce drug use, to advance the fight against gangs and violence, and to build partnerships from the ground up to improve people's lives.
The United States is proud to partner with President Calderon in his fight against drug cartels, and with our partners in Central America and the Caribbean. Our joint efforts support our neighbors throughout the region in the fight against organized crime and drug trafficking. Under this partnership we aim to create a cycle of declining crime, declining drug abuse, and better governance. To support that effort, we aim to do more within our own borders to reduce drug demand and to stem the flow of illegal weapons and laundered money.
Mexico and the U.S. share a commitment to an evidence-based drug demand reduction program, one that prevents the initial on-set of drug use and reduces existing drug use. We share the goal of mitigating the detrimental effects drug use has on our societies, our families, our economies, and our security.
Under the Merida Initiative, the United States will help fund the efforts of Mexico's Secretariat of Health to expand its demand reduction activities nationwide. This joint demand reduction effort is an integral part of the Merida Initiative. And it will serve as a key element in our strategy to strengthen cooperation in security and free our societies from organized crime.
Experts around the world have noted our continued progress in reducing drug demand in the United States. The U.N.'s 2007 World Drug Report highlighted the sharp reduction in Americans' abuse of illicit drugs. Countries around the globe have reached out for ideas on "what works."
We have made progress in stopping the initiation of drug use, intervening with drug users, and improving treatment delivery. We have achieved a significant and sustained reduction in the number of drug dependent individuals and we are more than willing to share the techniques and programs we have developed. At the same time, we look forward to learning from Mexico's experience, since we have much to learn from you.
We know that every country has unique patterns of drug abuse as well as different historical and cultural experiences. Thus, our goal is to exchange information on best practices and to provide training and technical assistance to our partners.
You have a busy schedule this week and I look forward to the results of this important bi-national meeting. Long term reduction in demand for illicit drugs is imperative if we are to end the epidemic of drug abuse. It is indeed an honor to be a part of this important discussion.
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Most UNC Asheville students apply to the university once for an undergraduate degree in any one of 30 majors in the liberal arts and sciences, but Katie Descieux, a history major who graduated in 2006, applied to UNC Asheville twice: once for her undergraduate studies and once for her Master of Liberal Arts (MLA). She simultaneously earned a Certificate in Climate Change and Society in 2012, a field of study she uses daily in her role as research coordinator for the Local Food Research Center at ASAP (Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project).
I apply what I learned in the program every day. Working where I do, I feel like my job is an endless MLA class on local food systems. I always said that I'd be happy if my career could be going to school full time, but where I got paid instead of having to pay. Wish granted!"- Katie Descieux '06, '12
"I wanted to go back to school for a degree that would allow me to develop my research, writing, and critical thinking skills without being siloed into a specific/traditional scholarly discipline," said Descieux. "When I learned about the MLA program, I immediately set up a meeting with Jordan Dolfi (who was the program manager and a student in the program at the time) to learn more about it. As Jordan talked I had a life-altering moment and knew that this was what I was meant to do; judging by what Jordan was telling me, the MLA program might as well have been called the "Master of Katie Descieux" program! I began the application process the next day."
Upon acceptance into the program in 2009, Descieux started earning the required 30 credit hours, while working 32 hours a week as an optometric technician. She secured an internship at ASAP in 2011, and combined the experience with a part-time job to fit her schedule of evening classes. That internship led to a full-time position at ASAP, in what Descieux calls her dream job.
"I apply what I learned in the program every day. Working where I do, I feel like my job is an endless MLA class on local food systems. I always said that I'd be happy if my career could be going to school full time, but where I got paid instead of having to pay. Wish granted!"
As a researcher and research coordinator, Descieux examines the social, economic, and environmental impacts of localizing food systems. She customized her MLA coursework to complement this focus and completed the program in three years.
"The MLA program isn't the type of graduate degree you 'just want to get done with.' It's a life learning opportunity" explained Descieux. "I enjoyed my class on Rene Descartes, learning about the birth of modern philosophy. I also greatly enjoyed the class I took on the psychology of communicating science. It has helped me understand what motivates people to participate (or not participate) in sustainable/healthy behaviors. I also loved all of Dr. Voos' classes. It was his classes that opened my eyes to the world around me and ignited my passion to positively contribute to my community."
To learn more about UNC Asheville's graduate-level certificate and master's program, which is now called the Master of Liberal Arts and Sciences, visit mlas.unca.edu.
Sam Moser '14 first traveled to South Korea the summer before his sophomore year at UNC Asheville for a four-week study abroad trip. This summer, he'll return on a year-long Fulbright Fellowship.
"It's the perfect blend between my educational experience and my appreciation for language and international exchange. South Korea is the place that I've spent the least amount of time, so I look forward to going back and re-immersing myself."- Sam Moser
Since coming to UNC Asheville from Advance County, Moser has spent a summer in China on a scholarship and a fall semester in India. He applied for the Fulbright while in India, but the idea first started in a classroom on campus, where one of his favorite professors, Linda Cornett, chair and associate professor of political science, started the semester with a reminder that students should consider a Fulbright Fellowship within their reach. He also credits Jinhua Li, lecturer in Chinese studies, for preparing him for his many overseas adventures.
"I wouldn't have considered it if I hadn't had these experiences. The interdisciplinary nature of my education, especially the international studies major, has prepared me for the diversity of international travel," he said.
Moser will teach English during his fellowship, though he's also well-versed in Chinese and Korean, and he majored in Spanish with a minor in Asian Studies. His teaching experience includes serving as a UNC Asheville AVID tutor for Asheville City Schools, and he hopes to implement a community garden during his assignment, similar to the models he's seen on campus. He'll also start planting the seeds for his graduate school applications when he returns.
The sprawling Google campus on the shores of the San Francisco bay in Mountain View, California is a continent away from UNC Asheville, but the preparation Corinne Longman, '09, received as an undergraduate helped her fit right in.
I draw on my UNC Asheville experience here all the time. My education taught me to look at research from different perspectives and not make assumptions. Accuracy is very important. I regularly go back to the videos of the user-interaction sessions and review them several times. Then I can give smart, solid feedback to the teams that need it. -Corinne Longman
Longman, who double-majored in art history and Spanish at UNC Asheville, now works as a junior user experience researcher for Google AdWords, which means she serves as a bridge between the users of Google AdWords and its product team and designers. How did someone with a decidedly un-techy background end up in the heart of Silicon Valley?
It all started with an art history class during freshman year. Longman fell in love with the combination of art, history, culture and research. She credits her thesis advisor, Leisa Rundquist, with encouraging her to pursue the aspects of a project she found intrinsically interesting and then making her case through relentless research and strong writing. The process taught her how to find hidden connections and to analyze results from multiple angles. It's a skill she uses at Google every day.
It takes off like a helicopter, but flies like an airplane. It's an aircraft of the future, and was imagined, designed and built in part by UNC Asheville alumnus Micah Prendergast '13.
I think it's nice to have a little bit of liberal arts and little of the hard science. One without the other, then you're limited in what you can do and what you can understand. Balance is key."
Prendergast didn't quite expect to be helping the engineers at NASA Langley Research Center develop futuristic flying vehicles—it wasn't his primary area of expertise. He studied ground-based robotics in his mechatronics engineering major at UNC Asheville, and before that he earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from UNC-Chapel Hill.
"I think it's nice to have a little bit of liberal arts and little of the hard science. One without the other, then you're limited in what you can do and what you can understand," Prendergast said. "Balance is key."
Prendergast's broad range of interests and studies made him uniquely suited to create unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for NASA, from designing the concept to actually building the prototype. The idea was to create the kind of vehicle the skies of the future might see, so that NASA can simulate and prepare for the air traffic those vehicles would cause. Prendergast's work earned him an invitation to return to Langley for a second internship, funded by the NC Space Grant Consortium. He even got to see his creation fly.
With a UNC Asheville diploma and two NASA internships on his resume (not to mention an internship at Pisgah Astronomical Research and Science Education Center), Prendergast is heading to University of Colorado Boulder, where he'll turn his focus from robots of the ground and sky to the exciting and gut-wrenching science of bioengineering.
"I'll be developing endoscopic robots for crawling inside of your gastrointestinal tract."
As a graduating senior at UNC Asheville, Ben McDonald has to make some big decisions very soon. He has been offered scholarships to the graduate chemistry programs at UNC Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt University and Northwestern University. These schools don't exactly fling their doors open to anyone, but they took notice of McDonald's undergraduate research work with the cancer drug combretastatin.
UNC Asheville was the only school I applied to. It's the only one I wanted to go to."
Working with fellow students and UNC Asheville faculty, McDonald spent two summers experimenting with ways to optimize the drug's ability starve a tumor's blood supply while trying to minimize its side effects. As he describes it, McDonald was the architect, engineer, and builder on his part of the project—designing what he thought could be an optimal molecule and experimenting in the lab to create it.
Thanks to UNC Asheville's undergraduate research program, McDonald accumulated master's degree-worthy experience before even achieving his bachelor's diploma. With real-world experience like this, it's no wonder that more than 95 percent of UNC Asheville's Chemistry students who apply to graduate, veterinary, dental and medical programs are accepted.
At some point, practically everyone has tried -- and failed -- to move something with their minds. But Avi Goldberg, a Computer Science major at UNC Asheville, does it every day.
This could be used for handicapped accessibility, gaming or anything where you want to control a computer with your mind."
Wearing a single-sensor Electroencephalography (EEG) device, a headset that reads electrical activity in the brain, Goldberg can move a volume control on his computer by just thinking. Concentration makes the digital slider go up, and meditation makes it go down.
The idea came from a friend, a DJ who wanted a way to control his MIDI player with his mind. So Goldberg, an undergraduate research student at UNC Asheville who also dabbles in creating electronic music, mapped out a possible solution. He started modifying open-source software in order to connect the cheapest EEG device on the market (only $100) to his computer's controls. He wants to prove that using mental power as a computer input doesn't have to cost thousands of dollars and require massive research teams.
If expanded, his software could eventually be adapted to more than just volume controls. In a few years, he expects this technology could become affordable everyday hardware for everyone from handicapped persons to video gamers. Pretty soon, we all might be moving objects with mind power.
"One of the most powerful novels I have ever read." – Fred Chappell, author
"The writing is bold, daring, graceful, and engrossing." – Bobbie Ann Mason, author
Novelist Wiley Cash is already hearing high praise as his debut novel, "A Land More Kind Than Home," rolls off the presses.
Since he graduated from UNC Asheville with a Literature degree in 2000, Wiley Cash has earned a doctorate and taught at a university in West Virginia, but his memories of living in the mountains of Western North Carolina have stuck with him.
"My writing professors at UNC Asheville took their students' development very seriously and professionally, which is to say they didn't coddle you."
His novel is set in Madison County, just 45 minutes from Asheville. "A Land More Kind Than Home" explores how a close-knit mountain town and church congregation reacts after a woman dies during a snake-handling ritual. Cash's writing is equally informed by his time studying Southern writers at UNC Asheville and his Appalachian history classes with Professor Dan Pierce. There, he learned to reach beyond the stereotypical depictions of mountain folk – finding people of depth, complexity and contradictions.
The combination of Cash's earthy storytelling and an understanding of his subjects are so overwhelming that Harper Collins has already asked him to commit to another novel. During the summer of 2012, he's leaving academia completely and becoming a full-time author – a strong start to a promising career.
It was in the Bay of Campeche on the world's second largest offshore oil platform installation barge that UNC Asheville graduate Jenny Hibbert realized she'd found her passion.
I'd had the idea of majoring in physics, but the prospect of so much math was scary. Dr. Doug Miller pulled me aside one day and told me, 'Don't let being afraid of the math be the reason you don't major in meteorology. You can do this." - Jenny Hibbert
"This was the best experience of my life," Hibbert says of her stint as resident weather expert on the crane barge Saipem 7000, a monstrous vessel with two towering cranes, each capable of lifting 7,000 tons. The barge installs large oil platforms, and it was Hibbert's job to monitor and forecast tropical weather during the work. Many lives depended on her.
Meteorology was not in Hibbert's plans when she entered UNC Asheville in 2004 after graduating from Chapel Hill High School. She had lots of interests, but no one major seemed perfect for her. As she explained, "Turns out my mom knows me better than I know myself. She said, 'You really should try meteorology.'"
"I'd had the idea of majoring in physics, but the prospect of so much math was scary. Dr. Doug Miller pulled me aside one day and told me, 'Don't let being afraid of the math be the reason you don't major in meteorology. You can do this.'"
And indeed she did.
After Saipem 7000 in the tropics, Hibbert volunteered for her next assignment a half a world away, where massive ice floes and strong tidal currents challenged her forecasting skills. And then...Singapore called. Hibbert currently works in Southeast Asia as an offshore marine meteorologist for Fugro, a worldwide company that collects and interprets data relating to the earth's surface and sub-surface, working mainly with the oil, gas and mining industry.
So what's next for this adventurous UNC Asheville grad?
"I have a million long-term dreams, some that are absolutely far-fetched like 'go to the moon,' and some that are as simple as 'enjoy what you do,'" Hibbert said. "I think making goals and dreaming big is one of the most satisfying thought games I play with myself. There are still a million directions my life could go. I would like to see Antarctica. I'd like to expand my career outside of weather forecasting, perhaps buoy maintenance or oceanography or seismic data processing or offshore surveying...or maybe business school to get an MBA and move into management and mergers and acquisitions...or join the circus!"


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