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"Once you're finished, take a look at the chart and assess whether the way you spend your time causes you to gain or lose energy overall," she adds. "If it's the latter, ask yourself what you can change so that more of your energy is spent in positive and productive ways."
"Once you commit to developing these five skills, you'll be well on your way to living in your Smart State instead of your Critter State," Comaford promises. "And while some of them may seem simple, they're each hugely important. Your ability to focus, plan, motivate yourself, interact with others, and more can often mean the difference between success and failure. Ultimately, in business and in life, your Smart State is where you need to be to lead, to grow, to innovate, and to prosper."
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"It was our mantra going into recording, the idea of no going back, of really trying to do something that was new, cohesive, and original," Sivan Jacobovitz told BYT last February, explaining the title of Farewell Republic's 2012 debut, Burn the Boats. "Basically, jump off the cliff and hope we build a plane before we land."
Less than a year later, the Brooklyn band is set to unleash its sophomore effort, Young Effete Titans of Industry, and discussing the record with Jacobovitz, it sounds as if Farewell Republic has again sought to push itself forward, refusing to rest on its laurels and simply replicate Burn the Boats' churning, dense sprawl. Listening to the two tracks the band offered up thus far – "Lines" and "Bloomberg", both of which are available to download for free over at Stereogum – confirms this. "808s and Shoegaze," the band describes its music on Facebook, and while that certainly hints at the band's direction, it only tells half the story: Farewell Republic appear to have streamlined its sound, but it has done so without losing any of the anthemtic quality that distinguished it from the start.
BYT's conversation with Jacobovitz also revealed a more calculated approach to Young Effete Titans of Industry, however; that, perhaps, the band had decided to begin constructing that plane prior to going airborne this time around. Jacobovitz didn't reveal when we would be able to hear the record in full, but in meantime, it has made Burn the Boats available at the cost of "name your price" on Bandcamp.
Young Effete Titans of Industry follows relatively closely on the heels of Burn the Boats, an album that seemed to have an especially long gestation period. When we spoke to you about that record, you explained, "Sometimes it takes a long time to get things sounding the way you want them to." Was the process easier this time around?
The process was easier, but it was also different. With Burn the Boats, we had very different goals, and for the type of record that we wanted to make, given the limited budget, it took a really long time. That record would have been out in 2010, instead of 2012, if we had a [real] budget. For the new record, we made basically all the of the production and songwriting decisions before going into the studio by making complex demos and then set hard deadlines for finishing every step of the process along the way.
"Bloomberg" and "Lines" hint at a different direction. How would you say Young Effete Titans of Industry differs sonically from its predecessor?
I wanted this record to, basically, be more beat driven and have less live drums. It's mostly 808s and electronic drums. I'm pretty bored with live drum rock music and, honestly, we didn't have the budget to spend five days in the studio tracking live drums, like with the last record. Also, Burn the Boats had almost no artificial reverb on it. This one is just a different vibe completely.
Have you been listening to anything in particular that drove or partly desired that decision?
Two winters ago, while we were endlessly mixing our first record, I got obsessed with the last Kanye record, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Most of the music that I listen to for fun has electronic drums. It's just what I'm most interested in. I have zero desire to be in a rock band in the traditional sense.
You've said the band worked on "countless demos" for the record. Was it hard whittling it down to just eight songs? What was driving the decision for such brevity?
We recorded nine songs and mixed eight. For each of those, we recorded a bunch of demos, because I wanted to take a production approach that was very stream-of-conscious. Throughout the process of the record, we made an effort not to over think any production decisions. Basically, I would either link up with Brian – our keyboardist – or Jesse – our drummer- and record a demo in one day. So, for some of the songs, we had almost ten completely different demos that we then took the best elements of and created the final demos. I wanted the record to be short because people have short attention spans, and it felt appropriate with the songs I had to leave off a bunch of other songs I've written.
You recorded it at Habayit and Blind Spot Studios right here in DC. What made you want to leave Brooklyn to make this LP? Aside from being your hometown, what did DC have to offer?
We came to DC because we had places to record for free. We brought a sick engineer, Alexander Almgren, down from Brooklyn, partially because he's awesome, partially because he's a great guy, and primarily because of his British accent. We then mixed the record in five days in Brooklyn with another amazing engineer, Brian Thorn, who just worked on the new Bowie record.
As a young band, what opportunities has Brooklyn offered you? What sort of pitfalls – if any – do you experience in the scene?
Way more people write about us online now. I think being a "Brooklyn band" has a lot to do with that. Also, there is nothing more motivating than being in a half-empty Brooklyn while all your music friends are at SXSW.
Did you have an overarching thematic mindset in mind approaching the record? In other words, was there something you were seeking to address? The album's press release cites a "basic approach to songwriting that reflected what was going on in the world."
In terms of songwriting, I really wanted to get back to basics on this record. Since I started writing music, I basically have always been trying to write anti-songs with weird structures. I tried to figure out how I could improve. I looked at our last record and thought about what the difference was between those songs and Radiohead – not in a hubristic way, but, basically, my attitude was that if I was going to make another record so soon and probably end up self-releasing it again, then I just wanted to focus on how can I improve as as songwriter. Well, Radiohead's songs can all be played on solo piano or acoustic guitar and most of the songs on our last record could not. In the past, I basically wrote all the songs in my head, but on this record I wrote them all on acoustic guitar.
Thematically, much of this record was written as a reaction to the social movements like Occupy Wall Street going on in late 2011. I had just finished Burn the Boats in July and for a couple months felt like I had nothing to write about. I went to Tel Aviv in August, right at the height of the J14 protests, which was the protest most similar to how Occupy ended up getting organized. That and subsequently Occupy really inspired me. I wanted to write songs in a way that would bring the issues going on in the world down to Earth and humanize it. I tried to imagine how Terrence Malick would shoot a film about OWS or about a soldier in a tent in Afghanistan and write a song that would reflect that vibe, and then combine it with a more stripped down and post-modern approach to production than the last record.
What's up with the single word titles?
I always feel stupid writing song titles, so I figured I'd just keep them simple.
Why did the band decide to produce the record on its own again? Is working with an outside producer something that would be appealing down the road?
I wanted try to get Ben Allen – who produced Merriweather Post Pavilion – to produce Bloomberg, but I emailed him and he never wrote back. I'm bored of rock production these days anyway and I have this band so I can produce it along with the other guys. Our keyboardist Brian is an incredible producer and our drummer Jesse contributed a lot of arrangements and production ideas in the demo process. Also, we had no budget.
The band was slow to take its music to Spotify. The service has caught some flack recently, but it's been reasonably defended. What was your hesitation in putting your music on Spotify, or any other streaming service?
Frankly, Spotify is bullshit. It's a service that will destroy any chance artists have of making a livelihood off of recorded music. I'm not a saint here and I know everyone gets music illegally. I am fine with people torrenting my music and I'm fine to have it streaming online for free. I'm not fine with a service that is essentially a middleman profiting while making it impossible for artists to.
What people don't realize is that the whole downloading culture has effects and results creatively. Some positive and some negative. You wonder why there aren't many great rock records anymore and almost every big indie record is unambitious and boring in its production? Then you look at electronic music and R&B and rap and see so much more audacity and experimentation. That's because those genres cost nothing to produce and you can make those records in your bedroom. Rock music with live drums is expensive to make. It's cool to download records, but if you do, don't complain that rock music is dead. We will never have an era again where rock bands consistently make great records with live drums and throw their listeners curveballs. It's over. And that's cool with me, but don't complain if you're not supporting these artists, and don't call them sell-outs for licensing their songs.
That's why everyone you know was bumping Frank Ocean and The Weeknd this year. Kanye and Drake records are way more ambitious in their production choices than any band in Brooklyn, except Animal Collective, and that's because they have the time and money to do that. You can keep waiting for the Arcade Fire to make a curveball record as ambitious as My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy or Kid A, but it's not going to happen. The next great rock record will probably come from The XX if they follow Jamie xx and get weird. It's no coincidence that they can make their music at home.
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Duck weather is expected in Eugene, Ore., on Saturday, when 14th-ranked Stanford visits Autzen Stadium for a nationally televised Pac-12 football contest at 5 p.m. The forecast calls for rain and temperatures in the high 40s. Maybe that will slow the high-powered Ducks' offense, averaging a nation-best 54.8 points per game.
Oregon (10-0, 7-0 Pac-12) is ranked No. 1 in the U.S. in both the AP and USA Today Top 25 polls -- No. 2 in the BCS Standings behind Kansas State. Stanford (8-2, 6-1 Pac-12) can throw a monkey wrench into the Ducks' plans of playing for a national title with a victory at one of the toughest places to play in the land.
Stanford coach David Shaw said he thinks depth at inside linebacker will be vital in attempting to slow the Ducks' no-huddle offense. The Cardinal starts Shayne Skov and A.J. Tarpley with backups James Vaughters and Jarek Lancaster getting plenty of reps.
"Since the beginning of the year, we were gearing up to play Oregon and Arizona," Shaw said. "We built a comfort level knowing that Shayne (Skov) isn't going to play a series. Out there we have James Vaughters and Jarek Lancaster, who are going to play a lot of snaps. We can do this without having to run guys on and off because Oregon always gets you. You try to run guys on and off, they snap the ball and you get a 12-guy-on-the-field (penalty). We do the same things with our corners, our safeties. That's what depth has been able to do for us."
The Ducks are tough to stop because they again have one of the best running backs in the country in Kenjon Barner. Redshirt freshman quarterback Marcus Ardel Taulaunia Mariota, a product of football-rich St. Louis High in Honolulu, has been tearing it up. Stanford has a tough poison to pick -- stop the run first or stop the pass?
"We don't talk about stopping anything," Shaw said. "We're talking about slowing everybody down. There's no stopping these guys. You can hold them down for awhile, but they're eventually going to crack a couple on you. That's part of the game. We want to limit the big plays, make them go 4 or 5 yards at a time."
Mariota showed toughness when he was hurt in last week's game against Cal, apparently suffering what appeared to be a shoulder injury after being tackled on a long run. Mariota returned to the game shortly afterward.
"As a college football fan, I was sad to see when their quarterback got hurt against Cal," Shaw said. "I was hoping he would take 10 days to nurse that injury. He popped back in there and only threw four touchdown passes."
Montgomery should play
Stanford has been without wide receiver/kick returner Ty Montgomery, who played briefly against Oregon State after being out with a knee injury. Montgomery, if healthy, could be a factor against the Ducks.
"I got a little gun-shy last week with Ty Montgomery because I didn't think we needed him," Shaw said. "He came up limping, but it's really just a bruise, no issue with his knee. We're as healthy as we have been."
Local backers
The Ducks have two talented players on defense that escaped from the Bay Area across the border to Eugene. Linebackers Michael Clay (Bellarmine-San Jose) and Kiko Alonso (Los Gatos) are two key cogs in the Ducks' defense. Alonso was the defensive MVP in Oregon's 45-38 Rose Bowl win over Wisconsin in January.
"I wish Kiko (Alonso) would have stayed closer to home," Shaw said. "He's just a great football player. He's very fast, very aggressive, very physical. There is no distance he can't cover to make a tackle. I think I've seen Clay miss one tackle the past two years. He's as sure a tackler as you are going to find in college football."
Schwartzstein a vocal leader
Stanford center Sam Schwartzstein has been preparing his voice to be loud enough to be heard at noisy Autzen Stadium. The center often barks out blocking assignments to his fellow linemen.
"Sam's voice carries," Shaw said. "He only has to communicate to two guys on one side and two guys on the other side. Sam has done it before and we have confidence in him."
"I'm drinking a lot of tea with honey," Schwartzstein said. "Andrew Luck taught me that."
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Taking the earliest opportunity to visit the site of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's historic townterview in March, recently arrived Consul General Thomas Kelly paid a call on the Rector of Zumbi das Palmares University , Dr. Jose Vicente on August 16.
During the meeting with the Rector and tour of the classes, Mr. Kelly reinforced the commitment of the U.S. Mission to share with the students and faculty of Zumbi the dream of equality of opportunity embodied in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and exemplified by the election of President Barack Obama.
In addressing one of the Public Relations classes, both the Rector and the Consul General stressed how the Consulate has and will continue to be an integral part in Zumbi's efforts to foster progress, development, and access to education for Brazilian Afro-descendants.
"The United States Consulate was the first to open its doors and support our goals and through this transition, we've gained numerous friends along the way who believe in our Mission," stated Vincente.
Consulate São Paulo has supported Zumbi from its inception and continues to sponsor speaker and exchange programs, including grant support for the exchange of teachers and students with Xavier University in New Orleans.
Referring back to Secretary Clinton's program in March, Mr. Kelly said, "Education is of the utmost importance in giving people a level playing field in society. Zumbi is working in the most important sector so that all Brazilians have equal opportunities for advancement in Brazilian society, an objective we strongly support."
The Consul General was able to confirm that the 15 English language scholarships for Zumbi students, funded by Mais Unidos, which Secretary Clinton announced in March will be implemented in the 2011 term through one of the consulate's partner institutions, Associaco Alumni.
Zumbi das Palmares was founded in 2003 as an institution of higher education with a focus on the culture, history and values of the Afro-Brazilian population. Of Zumbi's 2,000 students, 90% are self-declared Afro-Brazilians. Most are older than traditional university students, having joined the workforce prior to enrolling in college. Students take evening courses in six majors: law, business, communications, education, energy, and advertising.


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AMD 2nd Generation A10 5800 & A8 5600 Desktop APU Review
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Price: A10 5800K $122- A8 5600K $101
If "will it play Crysis?" has been the number one (and most annoying) Internet meme and inquiry in tech forums of the last several years, second place has to go to "can I play (insert game title) with my integrated graphics?" The answer was a resounding "No!" until Advanced Micro Devices finally replaced all of those familiar and ubiquitous "The future is Fusion" logos with a chip called the APU or Accelerated Processing Unit. The Ultra Low Wattage incarnations of this was the Zacate and Ontario meant for the netbook market, while Llano was meant to provide the CPU and GPU power to break into the desktop market.
AMD has openly stated that it has approached Fusion as much an ideal as it does process and function in what AMD thinks customers want in a computing experience. Whereas Intel has relied on raw processing power to carry the day, AMD has given equal weight to CPU and GPU function on the same die as well as engineering to very quickly shift those resources back and forth depending on what the task at hand demands. While Llano won much acclaim for doing just that, it left some wishing that there was a bit more horsepower under the hood before it would catch the attention of the mid to upper stream users.
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Today we have a look at the flagship of the new FM2-based A-series in the A10-5800K, a two Piledriver module quad-core part, and the next unlocked part in the food chain, the A8-5600K, also a two module quad core part.
From first glance they look the same as the previous generation Llano, but much has changed. The new 'Trinity' A-series is not backwards compatible with the Llano's FM1 socket. For starters the Trinity is missing a pin from the FM1 setup, which had 905 pins. Trinity is based on the new and improved Piledriver cores as opposed to the Athlon-based Llano. The die size is a bit larger than the previous generation coming in at 246mm² as opposed to Llano's 228mm². The Trinity parts are manufactured with the 32nm process like their predecessors, and that is pretty much where the similarities end.
There will be six new parts released in the Trinity lineup. The two we have here are both 100W unlocked parts in the A10-5800K and A8-5600K. The A10-5800K runs at a stock frequency of 3.8GHz and turbos up to 4.2GHz, while the A8-5600K operates at 3.6GHz and turbos to 3.9GHz. The parts with locked multipliers and the lower end A6 and A4 parts run at 65W. Here is a look at the entire upcoming lineup for the new AMD A-series.
AMD has implemented changes at every corner of the die. Let's have a look under the hood and see what it has done to improve performance.
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The Trinity A-series is really a ground up effort from AMD starting at the core with well, new cores. The Trinity uses the new 'Piledriver' cores, which are improved versions of the Bulldozer cores released last year to at best luke warm fanfare. The target has been aimed at 10-15% overall improvement in performance over the Bulldozer with a heavy emphasis on IPC to improve single-threaded performance. The new cores have also gained the latest ISA instructions including FMA4/3, AVX, AES, and XOP; instruction sets that were not included in the Llano. Also improved are branch prediction and cache enhancements, both thought to be at the heart of the under-performing single-threaded performance of the original Bulldozer cores.
The maximum turbo boost is 4.2GHz thanks to AMD's Turbo Core 3.0 that adds frequency boost to both CPU and GPU cores and can be software controlled in AMD's AOD program. The L2 cache has also been doubled to 4MB total or 2MB per dual-core module and incorporate 1.3 billion transistors, which is roughly the same as the last generation. There is more than the CPU + GPU Fusion going on here. Notice the unified northbridge, the new DDR3 memory controller supporting 1866MHz memory, HDMI, DisplayPort 1.2 DVI controllers, 24 PCIe lanes (16 of which can be used for Crossfire on A85X chipsets), and the AMD HD media accelerator and video converter.The only thing missing that I was anticipating in this incarnation of AMD's APU is L3 cache, which will be found on the upcoming FX line of Piledrivers.
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While the CPU side of things on the Trinity my not be able to keep up with the compute power of the modern offerings of the competition, AMD has made some powerful changes to the GPU side of the die over the Llano series it replaces. While the previous flagship to Llano (3870K) had 400 shader cores compared to the 384 shader cores of the A10-5800K, the performance increase is sizable to say the least and here is why. The Llano GPU is based on the HD 5000 series graphics architecture. The Trinity gpu is based on the VLIW4 Northern Islands architecture, which is found in the Radeon HD 6900 series and is more efficient and handles tessellation much better. The graphics engine packed into the A10-5800K is called the HD 7660D. The A8-5600K has the 7560D with 256 shader cores. Keep in mind that the A-series lineup includes A6 and A4 economy models with much less graphic capabilities. Below is a look at the Trinity's A10 VLIW4 Graphics with six SIMD engines, 24 texture units, and eight ROPs.
Also in the GPU side and new to Trinity is the hardware video encoding and decoding UVD3 that is used in the GCN's video codecs engine to offload CPU. This includes AMD Picture Perfect support with HD post processing technologies. This is also the first and only processor to support Eyefinity 3+1 displays with Display Port 1.2 meaning Eyefinity can be run from the motherboard and the onboard graphics.
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Platform updates include AMD Crossfire support with A85X motherboards, AMD memory profile support that will auto detect memory timings in select DIMMs, and AMD Dual Graphics enhancements including easier installation steps and DirectX 9, 10, and 11 support for more titles. All in all an exciting platform shaping up with improved CPU and memory support, much improved GPU architecture, a full featured accelerated video converter, unified northbridge, Eyefinity/DP 1.2 support, and more discreet pairing options and improvements. Below is a look at how the platform all fits together. Turn the page for a look at the A85X motherboard before we heat this APU up.
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The motherboard we were sent to test the A10-5800K and A8-5700K was the top of the top of the line A85X chipset in the form of the Gigabyte GA-F2A85X-UP4. It is rare that a company stays on top and does not rest on its laurels at some point but Gigabyte keeps on bringing it and always surprises me with new innovations for the performance user.
The Gigabyte A85X arrives in a typical Gigabyte-looking, basic white background box sporting a few "best of" and awards from Computex and an Electronic Award of the Year 2011 credentials. Among the most prominent Gigabyte trademarks are the lower right corner with a lifted up image to reveal and illustrate the 2X copper PCB design for better conductivity and cooling by using two ounces of copper in the tracers. The 'Ultra Durable 5' design philosophy occupies the entire upper left quadrant of the box along with something that was a bit of a surprise to see on a motherboard built for an APU. These were "High Current Capability" and "designed for overclocking AMD A-series APUs and for use in water cooled systems." Interesting. There is also a new feature in the Power IR Stage 60A power delivery, which is 4+2 on this board, but with significant differences. I will have a more in depth look at the A85X chipset and this board in an upcoming review, but for now we will just have a quick look around.
Popping open the box and you get a look at the bundle, which is rather basic with the A85X. You get an I/O backplate, a manual, driver software install disc, three SATA cables, and that's about it. Underneath the accessories you get the first look of the A85X inside its anti-static bag.
Out of the box we have a look at at our first FM2 motherboard that looks a lot like the FM1 motherboards. The UP4 is done in that great looking Gigabyte black (real black) on black color scheme. The first things I notice are the cooler compatibility has not changed and it is a standard ATX form factor measuring in at 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm. The board has a clean layout and looks to have zero interference problems even if you decide to load it up with its full capability. Nothing to report on the back other than a steel support bracket.
Starting with the rear I/O panel we have the usual connectivity with the unique exception of the DisplayPort that makes Eyefinity possible from the motherboard with this platform. You get the following connections: one PS/2 keyboard/mouse port, one D-Sub port, one DVI-D port, one optical S/PDIF Out connector, one HDMI port, one DisplayPort, four USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, one eSATA 6Gb/s connector, one RJ-45 port, and six audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/Side SpeakerOut/Line In/Line Out/Microphone). In the next image we can see the expansion capabilities of the UP4 with three PCIe x1 slots and three full length PCIe x16 slots. You get full 16 lanes with a single discreet card and run at x8/x8 in Crossfire. The bottom PCIe slot runs at x4.
Along the bottom of the board we have the usual line of connectivity with the USB headers including the red USB header that is three times the power cabable for faster charging with devices that support it. You also have a TPM header, front audio, and a system fan header. We also spot a cluster of the Gigabyte high quality 50,000 hour Japanese capacitors. On the lower right of the A85X we see the front panel header alongside a vertically placed SATA 6Gb/s header. Atop the SATA header is the digital debug readout for diagnosing problems during boot-up
Drive connectivity on the UP4 is in the form of eight SATA 6Gb/s ports controlled by the A85X chipset, which offers support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and JBOD . Six are positioned in typical fashion along the right edge of the board while one is mounted vertically below the others and one eSATA is on the rear I/O panel. Note the dual BIOS modules to the left of the SATA ports. In the case of a bad flash or BIOS failure the second BIOS will activate and take over so you can re-flash the first successfully. Towards the top right of the board is the 24-pin power connector along side a 20-pin USB header. In the right corner we have a on board power button and a clear CMOS button
Memory support for the UP4 is up to 64GB of 1.5V dual channel DDR3, with speeds of 1866/1600/1333/1066. I installed 2133MHz memory and it recognized and applied the correct multiplier and timings with AMD memory profiles. Two phases of the board's 4+2+1 phase layout is dedicated to the memory power delivery and hyper transport. As we will see in the proceeding benchmarks, the FM2 platform is very memory performance sensitive and scales very well with the speed of the RAM used.
Around the socket area we can see the 60 amp Power IR Stage IR3550 ICs from International Rectifier and 60 amp rated ferrite chokes. Basically it is a single package MOSFET design that runs much cooler than traditional MOSFETs and lower RDs MOSFETs. The Ultra Durable 5 motherboards implement a digital PWM controller array that uses digital power controllers to send precise voltage to the different components around the board. This is particularly critical with the AMD APUs where the CPU and GPU work in tandem constantly throttling back and forth as the workload dictates. We will cover this interesting new digital power delivery in the UP4 dedicated review. You can also see the small finned aluminum heat sink that sits atop the MOSFETs that are made for serious overclocking and at no time was heat an issue. In the second image you can see the board uses a standard 8-pin CPU power connector placed just behind the rear I/O panel.
We have the top unlocked models of the new Trinty A-series locked and loaded in the Gigabyte GA-F2A85X-UP4 and ready to go.
A welcome addition to Gigabyte AMD motherboards has arrived, as a comprehensive UEFI BIOS is now included. The 3D BIOS Dual UEFI BIOS has been a pleasure to work with and here are a few screenshots of 3D BIOS.
That's a brief look at the Gigabyte motherboard we will be using for the introduction of the Trinity A-Series. As i said we will take a much more in-depth look at this motherboard in a separate upcoming review.
Check out the detailed specifications for the A85X-UP4 on the next page and then we will strap the A10-5800K and A8-5600K in and see what they are made of.
AMD A-Series APU
32nm, FM2 socket
TDP Configs
65W and 100W configurations
Processor Core
"Piledriver" 32nm HKMG process core (up to 4 cores), up to 128 KB L1 Cache (64 KB Instruction, 64 KB Data) Up to 4 MB L2, 2 x 128-bit FPUs / compute module
Up to DDR3 1866 @ 1.5V
Graphics Core
Up to 384 Radeon™ Cores 2.0, DirectX® 11 capable, UVD3, VCE
Digital Display I/F DP0: Display Port, HDMI, DVI
Digital Display I/F DP1: Display Port, HDMI, DVI
Digital Display I/F DP2: Display Port, HDMI, DVI
Additional digital display supported using DP 1.2 daisy-chain connection -VGA on FCH
Power Management
• Multiple low-power states
• 32-nm process for decreased power consumption
• System Management Mode (SMM)
•ACPI-compliant, including support for processor performance states (P-states), processor power states (C-states), a and sleep states including S0, S3, S4, and S5
• Per compute module power gating (CC6)
• PCIe® core power gating
• PCIe® speed power policy
• GPU power gating of Radeon™ Cores and video decode (UVD3)
• AMD Turbo Core 3.0 technology
Integrated DAC supporting VGA.
65nm / FC BGA, 605-Ball, 23x23mm, .8mm pitch
TDP Configs
2.7W to 4.7W for typical configurations
x4 Gen 1 + DP
6 Ports, 6 Gbps
A85X: 4 USB 3.0 Ports, 10 USB 2.0 Ports, 2 USB 1.1 Internal Ports
GPPs 4x1 Gen2
Incorporates Fan Control, Voltage Level Sensing
Consumer IR
CIR Receiver
- New x86 architecture featuring "Piledriver" cores
- Supports up to 4 cores and support for the latest ISA instructions including FMA4/3, AVX, AES, XOP
- Branch Prediction and Cache enhancements over the previous "Bulldozer" cores
- 2MB L2 cache per dual-core module (up to a total of 4MB)
- Max Turbo Frequencies up to 4.2GHz
- Configurable via AMD OverDrive
- New GPU Cores Featuring VLIW 4 architecture
- Up to 384 shaders
- Up to 800MHz
- Up to 8xAA and 16AF support
- Controllable via AMD OverDrive
- DirectX®11
- Support AMD Turbo Core 3.0 Adds frequency to GPU and CPU cores (bidirectional)
- Controllable via AMD OverDrive
- UVD and VCE Video Encode and Decode Hardware to offload CPU
- AMD Picture Perfect support with HD Post Processing technologies
- Support for new display technologies
- AMD Eyefinity technology for 3+1 monitor support Display Port 1.2 support
- Platform Updates include AMD CrossFire support with AMD A85X motherboards
- AMD Memory Profile support (auto select memory timings in select DIMMs)
- AMD Dual Graphics enhancements (more titles, DirectX® 9, 10, and 11 support, easier installation features)
All information courtesy of AMD
Testing this latest A85X board from Gigabyte will involve running the GA-F2A85X-UP4 through OCC's test suite of benchmarks, which includes both synthetic benchmarks and real-world applications, to see how each of these products perform. The gaming tests will also consist of both synthetic benchmarks and actual game-play, in which we can see if similarly prepared setups offer any performance advantages. The system will receive a fully updated, fresh install of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit edition, in addition to the latest drivers for each board and the latest AMD Catalyst drivers. To ensure as few variables as possible, all hardware will be tested at their stock speeds, timings, voltages, and latencies – unless otherwise stated. Turbo Boost is disabled to make a fair comparison without skewing results.
Testing Setup: AMD Trinity
- Processor: AMD A10 5800K , A8 5600K
- Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H100
- Motherboard: Gigabyte Socket FM2 GA-F2A85X-UP4
- Memory: Mushkin 993997 2 x 4GB
- Video Card: XFX HD 7970 Black Edition
- Power Supply: Corsair HX 650W
- Hard Drive: Corsair Force GT 240GB
- Optical Drive: Lite-On Blu-Ray
- Case: Corsair Obsidian 650D
- OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Testing Setup: Intel
- Processor: Intel Core i5 2500K
- Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H100
- Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77 Deluxe
- Memory: Mushkin 993997 4 x 4GB 2133Mhz
- Video Card: XFX HD 7970 Black Edition
- Power Supply: Corsair AX1200
- Hard Drive: Corsair Force GT 240GB
- Optical Drive: Lite-On Blu-Ray
- Case: Corsair Obsidian 650D
- OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
- Processor: AMD A10 5800K: 4700Mhz 100 x 47, GPU 800MHz/1100MHz
- Processor: AMD A8 5600K: 4600MHz 100 x 46, GPU 760MHz/958MHz
AMD and Gigabyte have an array of tools through their utility lineup and features in 3D Dual BIOS that will remove all the sport of overclocking if you want them to. I used the good old fashioned method of using the unlocked multiplier with both of the APUs on our bench today. Using the BIOS I raised the multiplier until stress failure and incrementally raised the voltage to achieve the maximum frequency that would pass stress testing with Prime 95 testing. AMD states that the voltage applied to the CPU for overclocking also works for GPU frequency. In doing this I was able to achieve the overclocking results below for both the CPU and GPU frequencies. Two side notes on this: 1) I was not able to spend the time I would have liked on the overclocking of these new A-series APUs so given more time to experiment there may be a bit more to be achieved in the overclocking of these models, and 2) It is possible that CPUID may need an update to properly read some information regarding the new A-series as I noticed that the voltage readout was showing 1.50V when it was set lower. The results I achieved with the A10-5800K and A8-5600K for both the CPU and GPU are listed below.
AMD A10 5800K CPU and IGP OV
AMD A8 5600K CPU and IGP OC
Maximum Overclock
Each CPU and motherboard has been tested for stability at the clock speeds listed when in an over-clocked state. These clock speeds will be used to run the test suite and will show the performance increase over the stock settings in the overclocked scoring.
Scientific and Data:
- Apophysis
- WinRAR
- Geekbench 2.1
- Bibble 5
- MS Ofice 2007
- POV-Ray 3.7
- ProShow Gold
- HandBrake 9.5
- Sandra 2012
- ScienceMark 2.02
- Cinebench 10 & 11.5
- HD Tune 4.60
Video and Gaming:
- Aliens vs. Predator
- Sleeping Dogs
- Dirt 3
- 3DMark11
- Metro 2033
- 3DMark Vantage
The first part of our testing will involve system-specific benchmarks.
Let's get started with Apophysis. This program is used primarily to render and generate fractal flame images. We will run this benchmark with the following settings:
- Resolution: 2750 x 2048
- Quality: 500
- Limit Memory use: 512 MB
The measurement used is time to render, in minutes, to complete.
Lower is Better
WinRAR is a tool to archive and compress large files to a manageable size. Here, we will test the time needed to compress files of 1000 MB and 500 MB. Time will be measured in seconds.
Lower is Better
Lower is Better
Geekbench 2.1 is a benchmark that tests CPU and memory performance in an easy-to-use tool. The measure used for comparison is the total suite average score.
Higher is Better
Bibble 5:
This test consists of converting one hundred 8.2 MP RAW images to jpeg format. The file size is 837 MB. The measure used for comparison is time needed to convert the file in seconds.
Lower is Better
We are starting out with what I suspect will be a trend throughout the CPU side of the testing as the i5 2500K dominates the testing.
Office 2007 Excel Big Number Crunch: This test takes a 6.2 MB Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and performs about 28,000 sets of calculations that represent many of the most commonly used calculations in Excel. The measure of this test is the amount of time it takes to refresh the sheet.
Lower Is Better
POV-Ray 3.7: This program features a built-in benchmark that renders an image using Ray Tracing. The latest versions offer support for SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing), enabling the workload to be spread across several cores for quicker completion.
Higher Is Better
ProShow Gold: This program is used to take a collection of images and stitch them together in a slide show, using a variety of transitions and effects, to make a compelling show you can share with friends and family. The workload consists of 29 high-resolution images that are stitched into a 3 minute video file.
Lower Is Better
HandBrake 9.5: is an open source application used to transcode multiple video formats to an h.264 output format. The test file size is 128 MB in size and 43 seconds in length.
Lower Is Better
The i5 continues its CPU dominance here as well.
SiSoft Sandra is a diagnostic utility and synthetic benchmarking program. Sandra allows you to view your hardware at a higher level to be more helpful. For this benchmark, I will be running a broad spectrum of tests to gauge the performance of key functions of the CPUs.
Processor Arithmetic
Memory Bandwidth
Multi-Core Efficiency
Cache and Memory
AIDA64 Extreme Edition is a software utility designed to be used for hardware diagnosis and benchmarking. I will be using the CPU Queen test that looks for the solution for the "Queens" problem on a 10x10 chessboard. This tests the branch-prediction capabilities of the processor. The FPU Mandel test measures double precision floating point performance through computation of several frames of the "Mandelbrot" fractal.
Higher is Better
Even more pronounced is the Intel solutions dominance in the Sandra synthetic tests where bandwidth has been a strong characteristic of Intel CPUs.
ScienceMark tests real-world performance instead of using synthetic benchmarks. For this test, we run the benchmark suite and will use the overall score for comparison.
Higher is Better!
Cinebench 10 is useful for testing your system, CPU, and OpenGL capabilities using the software program, CINEMA 4D. We will be using the default tests for this benchmark.
Higher is Better
Cinebench 11.5
Higher is Better
HD Tune measures disk performance to make comparisons between drives or disk controllers.
Higher is Better
Things are looking a bit better for the Trinity in the real world testing provided by ScienceMark.
Aliens vs. Predator, developed by Rebellion Developments, is a science fiction first-person shooter and a remake of its 1999 game. The game is based on the two popular sci-fi franchises. In this game, you have the option of playing through the single player campaigns as one of three species: the Alien, the Predator, or the Human Colonial Marine. The game uses Rebellion's Asura game engine, which supports Dynamic Lighting, Shader Model 3.0, Soft Particle systems, and Physics. For testing, I will be using the Aliens vs. Predator benchmark tool with the settings listed below. All DirectX 11 features are enabled.
- No AA
- 8x AF
- SSAO = On
- Texture Quality = Medium
- Hardware Tesselation = on
- Advanced Shadow Sampling = Off
Finally to the strength of the Trinity A-seies APUs. It's amazing to see 1080p gaming at these frame rates and settings in a tessellated game.
Part first-person shooter, part survival horror, Metro 2033 is based on the novel of the same name, written by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. You play as Artyom in a post-apocalyptic Moscow, where you'll spend most of your time traversing the metro system, with occasional trips to the surface. Despite the dark atmosphere and bleak future for mankind, the visuals are anything but bleak. Powered by the 4A Engine, with support for DirectX 11, NVIDIA PhysX, and NVIDIA 3D Vision, the tunnels are extremely varied – in your travels, you'll come across human outposts, bandit settlements, and even half-eaten corpses. Ensuring you feel all the tension, there is no map and no health meter. Get lost without enough gas mask filters and adrenaline shots and you may soon wind up as one of those half-eaten corpses, chewed up by some horrifying manner of irradiated beast that hides in the shadows just waiting for some hapless soul to wander by.
- DirectX 11
- 4x AF
- Global settings = Low
- PhysX = Off
- DOF=Off
Metro 2033 is a graphically brutal game, and even on low settings the built-in benchmark is a touch go to no-go for any other IGP.
DiRT 3 is the third iteration of this series. Published and developed by Codemasters, this game uses the EGO 2.0 game engine and was released in the US on PC in May of 2011.
- 4x AA
- Global Settings= high
- Post processing= Enabled
DiRT 3 is a smooth gaming experience with the two APUs we have here today. Running frame rates in the low 40s with settings all on high including post processing, impressive!
Sleeping Dogs is a new release from United Front games that takes place on the mean streets of Hong Kong. You assume the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take over the most powerful gang in the city. Sleeping Dogs is not for the faint of heart as conflicts are solved by way of one bloodbath after another.
- Universal setting to medium
Sleeping Dog's results were a surprise. It's a new game and appears to have character and primary object tessellation.
3DMark 11 is the next installment in Futuremark's 3DMark series, with Vantage as its predecessor. The name implies that this benchmark is for Microsoft DirectX 11 and with an unintended coincidence, the name matches the year proceeding its release (which was the naming scheme to some prior versions of 3DMark nonetheless). 3DMark 11 is designed solely for DirectX 11, so Windows Vista or 7 are required along with a DirectX 11 graphics card in order to run this test. The Basic Edition has unlimited free tests on performance mode, whereas Vantage is only allowed for a single test run. The advanced edition costs $19.95 and unlocks nearly all of the features of the benchmark, while the professional edition runs $995.00 and is mainly suited for corporate use. The new benchmark contains six tests, four of which are aimed only at graphical testing; one to test for physics handling and one to combine graphics and physics testing together. The open source Bullet Physics library is used for physics simulation and although not as mainstream as Havok or PhysX, it still seems to be a popular choice.
With the new benchmark, comes two new demos that can be watched, both based on the tests. Unlike the tests, however, these contain basic audio. The first demo is titled "Deep Sea" and involves a few vessels exploring what looks to be a sunken U-Boat. The second demo is titled "High Temple" and presents a location similar to South American tribal ruins with statues and the occasional vehicle around. The demos are simple in that they have no story – they are really just a demonstration of what the testing will be like. The vehicles have the logos of the sponsors MSI and Antec on their sides – the sponsorships helping to make the basic edition free. The four graphics tests are slight variants of the demos. I will use the three benchmark test preset levels to test the performance of each card. The presets are used as they are comparable to what can be run with the free version, so that results can be compared across more than just a custom set of test parameters.
- Default test settings
- Entry test: 1024 x 600
- Performance test: 1280 x 720
- Extreme test: 1920 x 1080
3DMark 11 is a brutal DX11 benchmark standard that will not run at all on most other IGP solutions. Overclocking the A10's 7660D returned a 591 score on Extreme setting!
Featuring all-new game tests, this benchmark is for use with Vista-based systems. "There are two all-new CPU tests that have been designed around a new 'Physics and Artificial Intelligence-related computation.' CPU test two offers support for physics related hardware." There are four preset levels that correspond to specific resolutions. 'Entry' is 1024x768 progressing to 'Extreme' at 1920x1200. Of course, each preset can be modified to arrange any number of user designed testing. For our testing, I will use the four presets at all default settings.
- Settings (each preset): Default
- Performance: 1280x1024
This GPU test is the first that the 2500K equipped with Intels HD 3000 graphics is capable of running with the settings used. AMD's integrated solution is far superior to the HD 3000 graphics core in this test both stock and overclocked.
I have been trying to think of how to sum up what AMD dropped off here this week and I think a defining moment came while I was playing DiRT 3 at 43 FPS with settings on high at 1080p. I looked over at the large windowed case that I assembled this new platform in and saw only a motherboard and some memory looking back at me. What AMD has engineered here is a rather amazing platform. If you need a multitasking center and a fully featured multimedia center, and workstation, and a gaming machine, well here you go. I was just afforded a look at the retail pricing for the flagship of the A-series and it will be available for $122. By my calculations that means for around $400 you can put together all of the above.
The A85X chipset is equally impressive with its range of features and possibilities with eight SATA 6Gb/s ports, the ability to drive three monitors from the motherboard using the integrated graphics, the ability to double your graphics power with a $50-$80 discrete card to work in tandem with the on-die graphics and the list goes on. The CPU half of the die has been improved but is not going to set the world on fire and against Intel it is on par with the i3s. It leaves me wondering why the L3 is missing in Trinity, and what the 8MB of L3 will mean to Vishera.
The GPU power and the change to modern architecture is exciting to see as well as reaping benefits to this great platform. On a single die you have a reasonably powerful quad-core CPU and 384 powerful GPU cores with the clever engineering to throttle and move around these resources lightning fast to accommodate the task at hand. This is in addition to a fully featured video encoder/decoder and a unified northbridge. Add to this an additional half a gigahertz of free performance on the CPU side and enough overclocking headroom on the GPU side to almost kick it up to the power of the next rung on the graphic ladder, and you have something that does not come close to existing anywhere on the market in price-performance or in functionality.
AMD has stated that with Trinity it set out to deliver a product that is greater than the sum of its parts, and I believe it has. And AMD has some pretty good parts in its own right.
- GPU is greatly improved
- Graphics options
- Improved CPU cores (IPC)
- Overclocking of both CPU and GPU
- Eyefinity capabilities From motherboard
- Eight SATA 6Gb/s with A85X Chipset
- Moderate gaming capabilities
- Thermal performance
- On-die UVD3
- Socket FM2 longevity
- CPU performance not as improved as expected


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Oscar documentary nominees aren't afraid of Banksy
Sunday, February 27, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lucy Walker is more worried about gussying up for the 83rd annual Academy Awards than worrying about whether Banksy will make his mark on Sunday's ceremony. The director of the transformative garbage dump chronicle "Waste Land" is among the nominees facing the infamously elusive street artist for the documentary feature Oscar.
"I'm a female documentary filmmaker," Walker said Saturday at a posh HBO reception honoring this year's documentary nominees at the Four Seasons hotel. "Nothing can scare me as much as standing on a red carpet next to movie stars."
Other nominees up against Walker's "Waste Land" and Banksy's is-it-real-or-not "Exit Through the Gift Shop" include the Afghanistan war account "Restrepo" by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger and the financial meltdown tale "Inside Job" by Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs. Partygoers were buzzing that Oprah Winfrey would be presenting their awards.
"What's happening this year with documentary films is as exciting as what's happening with narrative films," said nominee Josh Fox, the director of environmental expose "Gasland," which a natural gas industry group sought to disqualify from awards consideration. "If there's controversy, whether that's the gas industry, Banksy or Oprah, it's all good."
Banksy, the mysterious graffiti star who intentionally keeps his identity a secret, apparently hasn't shown up to any of the week's events, including a Wednesday panel of the documentary filmmaker nominees at the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters and the Independent Spirit Awards, where "Exit Through the Gift Shop" won the documentary award Saturday.
Thierry Guetta, the eccentric Frenchman and street-art fan who appears in Banksy's film, accepted the trophy on his behalf. He said backstage that he didn't know where the elusive director was or whether he would be attending Sunday's ceremony. Jaimie D'Cruz, the film's producer, offered the same teasing statement when he appeared at Wednesday's panel.
Several new pieces apparently erected by Banksy began appearing around Los Angeles last week, though no new handiwork has been posted to his web site since earlier this week when two murals by Banksy were spotted in East Los Angeles and a tank tagged with the phrase "It looks a bit like an elephant" was glimpsed off the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica.
Other attendees at Saturday's documentary soiree included several short documentary contenders. Among them were "Poster Girl" star Robynn Murray with filmmakers Sara Nesson and Mitchell W. Block; and "Killing in the Name" director Jed Rothstein with Ashraf Daas, the film's subject who lost over a dozen family members in a 2005 terrorist attack in Jordan.
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I have XPS 8300 that came with Windows 7 Home Premium, I tried adding a second hard drive that I took out of my old dimension 530 that has Windows 7 Profesional but I can get it to work. I tried most everything with no luck. Am I doing anything wrong or is there a way to do this.
Thank you
Do you have the SATA data cable connected? Is the drive recognized in the BIOS (setup)not recognized? or are you trying to boot with it? As there is different hardware it won't boot or boot correctly.
More info is needed for someont to try and help you.
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SATA cable is connected. I tried dual boot, didnt work, tried drive alone, tried disc repair, didnt work. Cant get in far enough to check on the BIOS
Define getting it to work. Are you wanting to use the disk as a second drive for storage, or are you wanting to "Boot" from the disk and use the more advanced feature in Windows Professional? I assume you have the cables connected to the disk! Windows has a problem with two disk containing a System being installed at the same time. If a hard drive is removed from one computer and inserted in another computer, windows will turn the second disk off. The first thing to check is has windows turned the disk off.
Click on Start
Right Click on Computer
Click Manage
Look down near the bottom of the tree that appears on the left, look for Storage. Below this you should see Disk Management.
Click on Disk Management
Wait,,, you should see a message saying, Connecting to virtual disk service at the bottom of the small window that was to the right of the disk management you just clicked on.
When information appears in the window, expand it. Look and see if the drive you just installed is listed. Your original drive should be listed as drive "O" and the new drive should be listed as "1"
Is the drive listed as drive "1" showings as being active or is it being show as "OFF"
Exit from here back to you Desktop.
Now we go to an elevated Command prompt.
Click on Accessories
Right click on Command Prompt
Click on Yes
A DOS Command window should now be open on the screen.
Do not get creative or decide to try "What IF" here.
Enter the following, depress enter after each entry and wait for a blinking cursor before entering the next entry.
(You may or may not get another window after entering this)
List Disk
(You should now see which disk can be physically be seen, they will also be listed as offline and online.)
Select Disk X
(X - will be the disk number that is being show as off line - should be disk 1 - Disk "O" is the primary drive)
Online Disk
(Wait) (You should see a message saying the disk is now on line)
Now click on "Start"
Right click on "Computer"
Do you see the disk listed now? You should see your primary drive as "C" and the new drive as "D" or some other listing.
Assuming the disk is listed as "D" place the cursor on the drive and right click. Now select formatfrom the drop down memu. This will remove everything from the drive and you will be able to use it for storage.
If you are no longer using the Windows Professional on the other machine, and have the product code number you may consider doing a "Anytime" upgrade and have Professional on this machine. You can access the anytime upgrade through the "Control Panel. Click on the Anytime Upgrade and then enter the product code number for Professional. If you encounter an activation problem when you select activate now, activate by phone. The call is quick, pain and charge free.
I will try to do as you say later. have to go doctors appointment. Ill let you know what happened then
Ok am back. Both hard drives show as online. When I restart the computer it shows 2 options, Windows 7 (drive 0) and ramdisk options (I imagine thats drive 1, but it stillcant get windows to open on that drive. I already did a repair on it and still the same. Windows only opens form drive 0. The reason I dont format or do an anytime upgrade is because I have some files on windows pro hard drive there is some files there that I need. But if i was able to do the dual boot I then I wouldnt have to worry about lossing them ( I know, I should have backed it up before, just didnt think I was going tohave this problem.
Dual Booting is what I thought you had in mind or wanted to do. That is somewhat involved if it works. I know some people who have had success with "Dual Booting" from the same Hard Drive, different parititons with both operating systems installed on the same computer and others that have had disasters. Your call, here is Microsofts instructions on how to do: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-the-default-operating-system-for-startup-multiboot. The problem with trying to "Multi-boot" with a configuration such as your are proposing is like taking a Windows 7 Ultimate Hard Drive out of another computer, insert the Hard Drive in your computer running Windows XP and expect to see Windows 7 Ultimate Boot Up. This is not going to happen. I don't know of anyone who has had great success with this.
Good luck in your endeavor.
I forgot to add, have you tried access the disk with Windows Explorer. If you can Access the disk with Windows Explorer you can copy the information or files off and onto the hard drive in your computer or point the program you want to use to the file location, ie d:\documents\(file name)
Thats what I wanted to do, dual boot with two different hard drives, with Windows 7 home premium and Windows 7 Profesional. But I was able to copy my files, I right click My computer then right click on the drive I couldnt access then click open and i was able to copy the files that way. Still wish I could have done the dual boot with both hard drives.
Thank very much for your help.
i went thu this and added hard drive, it shows that it is online, but when i exit and right click computer, it is not showing up.


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August 1914; By Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Translated by Michael Glenny. 622 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $10. Russian Language Version, 576 pp. New York: Association Press. Paper, $7.
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A D&D 4e Combat Manager
I just tried this tool. WOW!!!!!!!! I've tried every 4e combat manager
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|4eTurnTracker 2.0.07 Beta adds separate programming of Hit, Miss and Effect
|Written by Paul McCullagh
|Tuesday, 11 September 2012 18:32
The testing I have done so far indicates that using this version of 4eTurnTracker you can program just about any power. The Programmable Power Dialog now has three tabs: Hit, Miss and Effect. You can select the "targets" of the attack which are divided into Hit and Miss groups and a third group of "effected creatures" for the Effect tab.
The result is 3 groups, each of which receives the effects as specified by one of the 3 tabs. The program ensures that a target cannot be in the Hit and the Miss groups at the same time. But the effected creatures group may include creatures that are also targets.
Now you can easily program powers such as the Cleric's "Healing Strike". This power target an enemy, and in addition an ally can spend a healing surge. When programming this power you can specify the "Damage effect" in the Hit tab, and the "Heal effect" in the Effect tab. Then, when you use the power, all you need to do is select the target creature, the effected creature, and specify the amount of damage and the healing (unless it is just a healing surge). And, 4eTurnTracker will take you through all this quickly when you use the CTRL-G (Command-G on Mac) hotkey.
The starting focal point is the target pick box on the Hit tab. By default, the creatures that were selected before the dialog appeared will be the targets of the attack. If the power has a miss effect, then CTRL-G will take you to the creature pick box on the Miss tab. Here you can specify which of the targets was missed. If the power has an effect, then CTRL-G takes you to the creature pick box on the Effect tab where you can select the effected creatures. After this, CTRL-G will take you to the damage and healing input boxes to specify the amount of Hit Points for these effects. At any stage, hitting ENTER will immediately apply the power and its effects.
So the process of using a power can be reduced to just a few key strokes. What helps in particular is to specify the type and number of the targets and effected creatures. For example, you can specify that a power targets 1 to 3 enemies, and effects one ally. If a power targets or effects "self" (i.e. the user of the power), then 4eTurnTracker will automatically place the power user in the appropriate group.
If a power has more that just Hit, Miss and Effect items, then I currently recommend handling this by duplicating the power, and programming the duplicate power with the additional effects. For example the Cleric power "Curse of Misfortune", has an "aftereffect" which occurs after saving the initial Hit effect. To program this power, specify the initial Hit and Miss affects as usual for the power and then, duplicate the power and call the new power: "Curse of Misfortune - Aftereffect". Remove all programming from the "new" power and just add aftereffect of the original power. Now, after the creatures saves against the first Hit effect, invoke the "Curse of Misfortune - Aftereffect" power.
The same needs to be done for powers with Secondary and Tertiary hit effects. There is currently no mechanism provided by the 4eTurnTracker to automatically apply or remind you of such effects. This deficit will be addressed in a future version. Indeed, 4e is so complex that I am not about to be out of work any time soon!
However, don't wait for that version! The 2.0.07 makes it easy to program most powers. And, a few powers require a bit of creativity but are do-able (I believe). If you have any questions about how to program a power, then let me know, and I will help you out, and post the answers on FAQ. If I can't help, at least I will know about the cases that 4eTurnTracker cannot handle!
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Does anyone believe in it? (I don't). But in particular, does anyone think that their star sign influences us, as accountants and tax advisers, in the nature of the advice that we give to clients? Does one star sign make us a little more cautious, another more aggressive in tax-planning etc?
No to both questians........apart from Libra males (I think, or was it Gemini, no Libra....I think)
Courtesy of Weird Al
"Your Horoscope For Today"
There's travel in your future when your tongue freezes to the back of a speeding bus
Fill that void in your pathetic life by playing Whack-A-Mole seventeen hours a day
Try to avoid any Virgos or Leos with the Ebola virus
You are the true Lord of the Dance, no matter what those idiots at work say
The look on your face will be priceless when you find that forty pound watermelon in your colon
Trade toothbrushes with an albino dwarf, then give a hickey to Meryl Streep
You will never find true happiness - what you gonna do, cry about it?
The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep
That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today)
That's your horoscope for today
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That's your horoscope for today
Your birthday party will be ruined once again by your explosive flatulence
Your love life will run into trouble when your fiance hurls a javelin through your chest
The position of Jupiter says you should spend the rest of the week face down in the mud
Try not to shove a roll of duct tape up your nose while taking your driver's test
Now is not a good time to photocopy your butt and staple it to your boss's face, oh no
Eat a bucket of tuna-flavored pudding, then wash it down with a gallon of strawberry Quik
All Virgos are extremely friendly and intelligent - except for you
Expect a big surprise today when you wind up with your head impaled upon a stick
That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today)
That's your horoscope for today
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Now you may find it inconceivable or at the very least a bit unlikely
that the relative position of the planets and the stars could have
a special deep significance or meaning that exclusively applies to only you,
but let me give you my assurance that these forecasts and predictions
are all based on solid, scientific, documented evidence, so you would have
to be some kind of moron not to realize that every single one of them is absolutely true.
Where was I?
A big promotion is just around the corner for someone much more talented that you
Laughter is the very best medicine, remember that when your appendix bursts next week
Get ready for an unexpected trip when you fall screaming from an open window
Work a little harder on improving your low self-esteem, you stupid freak
All your friends are laughing behind your back (kill them)
Take down all those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine you've got hanging in your den
The stars say that you're an exciting and wonderful person, but you know they're lying
If I were you, I'd lock my doors and windows and never never never never never leave my house again
That's your horoscope for today (that's your horoscope for today)
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That's your horoscope for today (yay yay yay yay yay)
That's your horoscope for today
load of tosh.
Not much more to say really
I don't believe in the prediction tosh ...
... but I do think there is some credibility in the personality traits, but I feel that may have more to do with the time of year you are born rather than what the various suns and planets are doing.
Unfortunately I seem to be surrounded by a disproportionate amount of Arieans, which as a Taurus is not good! The main problem being that an Ariean always thinks he/she is right, and of course a Taurean knows he/she is!
Being a Pisces explains a lot about me, given I am two fish swimming in opposite directions no wonder I am ditzy.
According to the "experts" ..............
..... those who are not either Taurus or Capricorn should immediately give away their clients, rip up their diplomas, and get a new job. Of course, you could just decide it's a load of round bouncy things instead............................................................................................................................... Aries (March 21-April 19)
You are enthusiastic, alert, outspoken, ambitious, strong-willed and creative. A career in television or radio, advertising or architecture would be ideal for your ambitious and creative nature. Because you are a strong, natural leader, the army or police force would suit you well.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
A Taurean is practical, methodical, determined, patient, honest, dependable and a good team player. Look to the fields of banking, accounting and scientific research for your perfect job.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
You are very optimistic, inquisitive, intelligent and full of energy. You need a vocation that holds your interest piqued and keeps you going, such as a travel guide, cabin crew or a sales position where travel is required.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Cancerians are imaginative, dramatic, philosophical, nurturing and protective. You're best at dispensing advice, so consider law, psychology, teaching, nursing or social work for your life calling.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
You are spontaneous, gregarious, independent and born to lead, with a true lust for power. These magnetic qualities make Leos good CEOs, managers, editors and perfect for government positions.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Precise, witty, cheerful, perfectionist, attentive to detail, hard-working and tidy, with a knack for languages - all describe you. Technician, statistician, medical researcher, investigator or translator are perfect career options for Virgos.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Librans are very diplomatic, charming, sociable, easy-going and cooperative. Your sense of cooperation and ability to engineer a compromise mean you would do well in the diplomatic service or as a lawyer, mediator, negotiator or administrator.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
You are penetratingly intuitive, intelligent, analytical, hard working, motivated and resourceful. Because you like to solve mysteries, consider police investigation, law, physics, research and writing.
Sagittarius (Nov. 11-Dec. 21)
Sagittarians have a positive attitude, boundless energy, love of travel and a strong spiritual side. A sales position would be ideal, as would public relations or social administration.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
You are rock-solid, dependable, responsible, highly organised, goal-oriented, logical and clever. You thrive in positions of power or any job where maths or money are involved. Consider an IT position because you love software and computers. You are also well-suited for being a doctor, accountant or lawyer.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Intelligent, original, progressive, humanitarian and visionary are all qualities that describe Aquarians. Choose a job in aviation, design or music.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Pisceans are generous, friendly, sensitive, popular, artistic, versatile, compassionate and spiritual. You will do well in any of the arts: drama, literature, painting, music, but your compassion also makes you well-suited as a charity fundraiser or social worker or in health care.
A Leo, Shirley?
Perhaps that's why we share a common "interest" ;)
My star sign is Libra - well balanced person -chip on both sholders!
It's my birthday tomorrow and I am taking a day off - It's what I term as an "O" dear birthday as it has an zero on the end!
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Common assault
Date Produced: 16 May 2011
Title: Offences against the person
Offence: Common Assault
Legislation: Criminal Justice Act 1988 section 39
Commencement Date:
Mode of Trial: Summary only, but can be added to indictment pursuant to section 40
Statutory Limitations & Maximum Penalty: 6 months imprisonment
Relevant Sentencing Guidelines
The Sentencing Council's 'Assault Definitive Guideline' applies to all offenders aged 18 and over sentenced on or after 13 June 2011, regardless of date of offence. Common assault offences are covered at pages 24 - 26 therein.
STEP 1 - Determine the offence category
- Category 1: Greater harm (injury or fear of injury must normally be present) and higher culpability
- Category 2: Greater harm (injury or fear of injury must normally be present) and lower culpability; or lesser harm and higher culpability
- Category 3: Lesser harm and lower culpability
The court should determine culpability and harm caused, or intended, by reference only to the factors listed in full below at STEP 1 HARM AND CULPABILITY FACTORS (as demonstrated by the presence of one or more). These factors comprise the principal factual elements of the offence and should determine the category.
STEP 2 - Use starting point to reach a sentence within the category range. It applies irrespective of plea or previous convictions. A case of particular gravity could merit upward adjustment from the starting point before further adjustment for aggravating or mitigating features, listed in full below at STEP 2 SERIOUSNESS FACTORS.
Category 1
Starting Point (Applicable to all offenders): High level community order
Category Range (Applicable to all offenders): Low level community order - 26 weeks' custody
Category 2
Starting Point (Applicable to all offenders): Medium level community order
Category Range (Applicable to all offenders): Band A fine - High level community order
Category 3
Starting Point (Applicable to all offenders): Band A fine
Category Range (Applicable to all offenders): Discharge - Band C fine
STEP 3 - Any other factors which indicate a reduction, such as assistance to the prosecution
STEP 4 - Reduction for guilty pleas
STEP 5 - Totality principle
STEP 6 - (Dangerousness provisions do not apply to simple common assault)
STEP 7 - Compensation and ancillary orders
STEP 8 - Reasons
STEP 9 - Consider remand time
Relevant Sentencing Case Law
Decisions reported in CSP at B2-5.3
Factors indicating greater harm
- Injury (which includes disease transmission and/or psychological harm) which is serious in the context of the offence (must normally be present)
- Victim is particularly vulnerable because of personal circumstances
- Sustained or repeated assault on the same victim
Factors indicating lesser harm
- Injury which is less serious in the context of the offence
Factors indicating higher culpability
Statutory aggravating factors:
- Offence motivated by, or demonstrating, hostility to the victim based on his or her sexual orientation (or presumed sexual orientation)
- Offence motivated by, or demonstrating, hostility to the victim based on the victim's disability (or presumed disability)
Other aggravating factors:
- A significant degree of premeditation
- Threatened or actual use of weapon or weapon equivalent (for example, shod foot, headbutting, use of acid, use of animal)
- Intention to commit more serious harm than actually resulted from the offence
- Deliberately causes more harm than is necessary for commission of offence
- Deliberate targeting of vulnerable victim
- Leading role in group or gang
- Offence motivated by, or demonstrating, hostility based on the victim's age, sex, gender identity (or presumed gender identity)
Factors indicating lower culpability
- Subordinate role in group or gang
- A greater degree of provocation than normally expected
- Lack of premeditation
- Mental disorder or learning disability, where linked to commission of the offence
- Excessive self defence
The following lists are non-exhaustive
Factors increasing seriousness
Statutory aggravating factors:
- Previous convictions, having regard to a) the nature of the offence to which the conviction relates and its relevance to the current offence; and b) the time that has elapsed since the conviction
- Offence committed whilst on bail
Other aggravating factors include:
- Location of the offence
- Timing of the offence
- Ongoing effect upon the victim
- Offence committed against those working in the public sector or providing a service to the public
- Presence of others including relatives, especially children or partner of the victim
- Gratuitous degradation of victim
- In domestic violence cases, victim forced to leave their home
- Failure to comply with current court orders
- Offence committed whilst on licence
- An attempt to conceal or dispose of evidence
- Failure to respond to warnings or concerns expressed by others about the offender's behaviour
- Commission of offence whilst under the influence of alcohol or drugs
- Abuse of power and/or position of trust
- Exploiting contact arrangements with a child to commit an offence
- Established evidence of community impact
- Any steps taken to prevent the victim reporting an incident, or obtaining assistance and/or from assisting or supporting the prosecution
- Offences taken into consideration (TICs)
Factors reducing seriousness or reflecting personal mitigation
- No previous convictions or no relevant/recent convictions
- Single blow
- Remorse
- Good character and/or exemplary conduct
- Determination, and/or demonstration of steps taken to address addiction or offending behaviour
- Serious medical conditions requiring urgent, intensive or long-term treatment
- Isolated incident
- Age and/or lack of maturity where it affects the responsibility of the offender
- Lapse of time since the offence where this is not the fault of the offender
- Mental disorder or learning disability, where not linked to the commission of the offence
- Sole or primary carer for dependent relatives


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