text:
The Amazing Maize Maize
This event has already taken place. Click here for the latest events.07-10-2012 12:00:00 07-10-2012 12:00:00 America/New_York The Amazing Maize Maize | 11am-4:30pm Who knew getting lost could be fun? Families can enjoy the fun of getting lost and loving it at this three-acre interactive corn maze. The adventure begins with a "Stalk Talk" to prepare you for the challenge of finding clues, solving puzzles, and making your way out of the maze. http://www.nymetroparents.com/2015neweventinfo.cfm?id=118337 Queens County Farm Museum Queens County Farm Museum
If you go: Please tell them you saw this event on
Venue Description: The Queens County Farm Museum, the largest tract of undisturbed farmland in the city, can be traced back to as early as 1697, which was just 70 years after the Dutch founded New York City (or New Amsterdam). It is the only working historical farm in the city, and what's even more impressive is that it includes a 47-acre parcel of land that is the longest continuously farmed site in the state of New York.
Today, the Queens County Farm Museum fulfills its mission to preserve, restore, and interpret the farm. The site has historic farm buildings, a greenhouse complex, an orchard, and an herb garden, as well as livestock and farm vehicles. The museum works to educate the public on Queens's agricultural past, as well as agricultural and horticultural practices used today. The museum also offers fun activities such as hayrides and tours of the historical homes on the property. Visitors can buy animal feed that they can then redistribute to the farm animals. The facility can be rented out for children's birthdays or other private parties. Class trips are welcome, but must be arranged through the Education Department.
Upcoming Events at Queens County Farm Museum:

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Distance: 172,6 km
Heightmeters: 0 m
Mairena del Alcor - Cordoba rankings
Difficulty ranking: 0
Difficulty score: 0
Your rating (rate it)
Source: Vuelta España 2014
No kml or GPX files available.
write a description of this stage or write the story of the stage in the Mairena del Alcor - Cordoba on 8/26/2014
No story submitted yet. Did you watch this stage? Tell its story!
Link to this page from your website. Copy and paste the html-code beneath:
© climbbybike™ All rights reserved 2005 -


text:
How do I know if 2013 is the right year to sell my company?Comments Email Print
If you have lost enthusiasm for the business, it may be time. But consider this: 75% of business owners regret selling their business one year from the sale. This is usually not for financial reasons. Exiting is not the end; it's the beginning of your next life. Plan for what you are going to do after the exit and make sure you have discussed the plan with trusted advisers, family and friends.
Financially, will the net proceeds from the sale get you what you need to be financially secure? Focus is on need, not want. Other focus is on net proceeds versus gross proceeds. Make sure you have considered and planned for the taxable impact. How are you planning to invest the net proceeds?
There are many ways to exit a business. These include sales to strategic buyers, private equity, employees, management, partners and, most importantly, family. Have you examined the pros and cons of each option? Make sure your business is prepared to transition, meaning it will be viewed as attractive from a buyer's point of view, not yours, and that you have maximized its value so you don't regret leaving money on the table or end up transitioning a poorly prepared business to a family member.
If you are prepared, 2013 may be your year. If you are not, perhaps you should take the next year or two to get prepared and target 2014 or 2015.


text:
The Royalton Series
Lounge Chair
Item# NL-1224348
Dimensions: 35" Wide x 31" Deep x 28" High
Shown In: Mansueta™ Snow White Crazy Weave
Features: Powder Coated Aluminum Legs
Neoteric Luxury™ woven furniture is handmade using the highest quality materials. Rest assured that the furniture may be left outside in even the harshest weather conditions without cracking, peeling or fading. For cushions, Neoteric Luxury™ uses the finest quality flow-through outdoor foam and Sunbrella® outdoor fabrics. A wide variety of color choices are possible. Please refer to the "Materials" section for the entire selection of Mansueta™ fiber options and standard Sunbrella® fabric choices. Neoteric Luxury™ also offers customization on most items
Please contact us with any questions:
305.438.2842 or email@example.com


text:
AMD Announces New, Higher Clocked Radeon HD 7950 with Boostby Ryan Smith on 8/14/2012 11:00 AM EST
58 Comments
Back to Article
Ryun - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkI would rather AMD just lower the price of the 7950 as a consumer, but coming from their perspective it probably makes more sense to increase performance but keep the price the same. Reply
RussianSensation - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkPrevious MSRP was $449.99, then $349.99 and now it's falling to $329.99.
The thing is you don't have to get a reference 7950B with an overvolted BIOS. There are plenty of after market 7950 cards that can hit 1.1-1.15ghz with 1.15V for example. MSI TwinFrozr III and Gigabyte Windforce 3x 7950 cards come to mind and both can be purchased on Newegg, Amazon, Superbiiz for $320-330 or sometimes even $310. This way the consumer gets the best of all worlds:
1) Upgraded cooling to reduce noise and better handle overclocking above 925mhz;
2) Better binned Tahiti chips (esp. in the case of the TF3) that can overclock well on much lower voltage;
3) The power consumption increase is a lot less dramatic with cream of the crop 7950 cards that can hit 1.1ghz+ with voltages way under 1.2V. It would make sense that the reference 7950B cards would get the worst possible Tahiti chips since reference design isn't really made for much overclocking headroom.
It will be interesting to see how GTX660Ti compares since at 925mhz, HD7950 is roughly 5-6% behind the 7970 which is just 3-4% behind the 670. Reply
just4U - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkRyan sort of leads readers to believe 7950 is well behind the 670. I'd always thought it was within a 5-10% margin and with these new incarnations would lessen the gap even more. Not that it matters. It's still (imo) 680 670/7970 then the 7950... and current prices reflect that. Reply
RussianSensation - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkYa, that's because if you saw how the GPU Boost reacts, it doesn't stay pegged at 925mhz as would be the case with a manually overclocked 925mhz 7950. This is why the average increase in speed is only 5-6% on the 7950B as opposed to 10-12% you'd see on the regular 7950 manually overclocked to 925mhz. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Saturday, August 25, 2012 - linkThis card is a stupid amd brain fart, right ? I mean all you freaks claim all the amd fans OVERCLOCK or they wouldn't be buying these high end cards....
So were you lying or is amd stupid as dirt ? Reply
raghu78 - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkwell said. Factory overclocked cards like Sapphire HD 7950 950 Mhz edition have very good cooler design, enthusiast friendly features like Dual BIOS for aggressive overclocking and excellent binning. These cards overclock to 1150 Mhz or higher speeds with a bit of voltage tweaking. And here we are talking about completely moot points. clock for clock HD 7950 is 3 - 5% slower than HD 7970. As for performance GTX 670 and HD 7950 are competitive when overclocked. the Sapphire HD 7950 950 Mhz edition can be had for USD 350 at newegg. so generally HD 7950 has better price perf and similar overclocked performance. Reply
skgiven - Sunday, August 19, 2012 - linkGood points.
I don't see any place for this card in the existing market. It's basically competing with itself, or bespoke/non-reference manufacture versions of the card, and I don't think it compares well against those. Why annoy your partners by trying to elbow in an unwanted reference design?
The extra speed really does come at a price, not cash but a 1.125 base Voltage. This is very high (we are talking about the same territory as the first HOT Firmi's), and an extra 25W is a lot. We have come to expect improved efficiency with refreshes, not a 12.5% increased power requirement for a mere 6% performance improvement. Just a bad card that looks even worse against the 660Ti's load power requirements. I would consider a manufacturer's bespoke implementation of a HD7950 but not this B grade effort.
"It will be interesting to see how GTX660Ti compares since at 925mhz, HD7950 is roughly 5-6% behind the 7970 which is just 3-4% behind the 670".
But which GTX660Ti? Although there is a sort of basic spec/reference model there is a huge range of GTX660Ti cards from 925MHz to 1033MHz (so far). That's a performance range of over 11% (or 13% if you go by boost clocks). Some even have higher clocked GDDR5 and some have 3GB instead of 2GB. So there is plenty of diversity/competition. Some performances of the 'superclocked' cards even pass a reference GTX670 (Portal 2).
AMD need a proper refresh, to regain the lead, not a supped up reference card... Reply
Jamahl - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkI agree that the power difference makes this somewhat a double-edged sword.
I disagree with one part of your conclusion however - having compared both in your bench - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/598?vs=645 the 7950 is starting to look a bit closer to the gtx 670, don't you agree?
it's only 12% behind at 1920x1200, and really that outlying battlefield result (34% faster on the 670) seems to be making a lot of the difference. Remove that one and it's 9% - then what will happen if you switch out Dirt 3 for Dirt Showdown? Not much in it all of a sudden. Reply
RussianSensation - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkExactly. Also a lot of 7950s scale well past 1.1ghz and there are certain games not in the test bench that run well on AMD cards: Sniper Elite V2, Anno 2070, Bulletstorm, Serious Sam 3, SKYRIM with mods, Risen Dark Waters. Reply
bill4 - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - link"Until such a time where the competitive landscape changes, the 7950 will continue to be well behind its next-closest competitor, GTX 670"
Umm, yeah, and it's also well behind it in price too. Like, $80-$100. Comparing them is stupid, so why did you do it? Compare it to a 560 Ti or something if you just have to compare it to something from Nvidia. This thing will fight the 660 Ti, and guess what, it'll compete well!
Reviewers really seem to have it out for AMD lately. I dont think Ryan does, I think it was just a clumsy review.
This seems a little pointless, but by the same token so is Nvidia's boost and reviewers love that. The bottom line is 6% more on some bar graphs makes the 7950 look better to some buyers, and thats why they did it. Nvidia's cards are auto overclocking, so they were gaining an unfair advantage in "stock" reviews. No more.
Nvidia started all this with their boost, I applaud AMD competing.
BTW, zero mainstream reviewers have yet addressed the obvious and fundamental issue that Nvidia is (surely) cherry picking their review samples, which with boost means it is actually performing better than the cards the public will buy (the Way AMD's boost works it isn't the case for them). This amazes me, as it was literally the first thing that came to my mind when reading first reviews of Nvidia's new cards. Nvidia has the media in it's pocket. Reply
bennyg - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkAgree that 7950 is better price/perf than 670. But;
Reviewers can only review what they have in their rigs. If Nvidia came out with an auto-OC feature and AMD didn't... tough for AMD but hardly "unfair advantage", remember most buyers don't OC, and everyone who bought a 670 has enjoyed their boosted clocks and frames.
And before you go alleging NV is defrauding reviewers... "surely" you need some kind of evidence that shows retail cards are measurably slower than review cards (which remember are tested in stupidly-beefy-everything-else so the GPU is as unlimited by the rest of the system as possible). Surely everyone reviewing an Intel CPU and getting higher numbers than AMD isn't in Intel's pockets too... maybe the Geforce just "wins" the last 5 months? After AMD sold heaps of well marked up cards for the first 3 months of this year, remember.
Things like this happening make me glad Apple didn't "invent" and patent the turboboost algorithm </lolapplebashing> Reply
prdola0 - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkOh come on. Isn't it AMD who is trying desperately to hinder Nvidia's launch with an update which gives only 5% on average, yet it increases consumption by 20W and noise considerably too, and voids warranty if applied to older cards?
Looking at Steam Survey, it is clear why AMD is so desperate. GTX680 has 0.90% share, while even the 7850 lineup has less, just 0.62%. If you look at the GTX670, it has 0.99%. The HD7970 has only 0.54%, about half of what GTX680 has, which is funny considering that the GTX680 is selling only half the time compared to HD7970. It means that GTX680 is selling 4 times faster.
You can see that even with the absence of Nvidia's mainstream until tomorrow, Nvidia is outselling AMD massively. And that's why AMD is trying dirty tricks, like promoting 7970Ghz and then not really selling it afterwards, the same with 7750 and now this little bump to 7950, which we might not see in reality as well. Who's to guarantee, that the cards are really comming with AMD's current track record in mind? Noone is. And the poor fella deciding to buy a 7950 would have to be informed well enough not to buy an old 7950 with the old spect and actually be able to tell them apart in a store. Most won't be able to and they won't be getting what they see in the reviews, even though this cheat is just 5%.
Peace. Reply
jabber - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkAMD/Nvidia are never too worried about total sales of their top of the range cards.
It's the models below that in the $250-$75 range that pays the wages.
These cards are the equivalent of the S Class Mercedes. Basically what you find in a S Class today filters down into what we drive in ten years time.
Tech testers basically. Stuff thats in these cards will be then added into my 8770/9770 in due course.
Six years ago who would have thought $30 GPUS would have 1GB of ram on them. Reply
prdola0 - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkWell then if Nvidia sells more S-class Mercedes than AMD sells mainstream cars, you could say that AMD is in trouble. No? Reply
jabber - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkSo you are saying that Nvidia is selling far more $350 cards than AMD is selling $50-$250 ones?
Well that would be amazing. Tech news of the century.
Fact is I've never seen one of these top of the range cards in a PC that I know of AMD or Nvidia while they are being sold.
I sometimes see them a few years after when they have filtered down via Ebay.
They sell in very small numbers compared to the rest of the ranges. Reply
RussianSensation - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkThat's non-sense. Only 4-5% of cards above $350 comprise the entire sales of a GPU maker. Already shown 100x. Using Steam Hardware survey to compare sales is not accurate. NV didn't even say that Kepler on the desktop gained market share in the latest earnings. They attributed most of their success to Tegra 3 and mobile Kepler contracts. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Saturday, August 25, 2012 - linkStill, the Steam Harware Survey shows your little stupid amd pet getting it's blankity kicked.
Why so sad ? Reply
RussianSensation - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkHD7970 was 1 month behind but plenty of versions are for sale on Newegg and actually even better than AMD promised:
- Prices well under $499
- You still get 3 free games included, which wasn't part of the GE cards
So essentially that's a faster card than all 680s except for GTX680 Lightning and it costs $30-50 less than the cheapest 680. What's not to like?
Just because people are buying 4x as many 680s doesn't mean anything. They could be stuck reading reviews from March and haven't seen 7970 GE recapture the performance crown overall and surpass 680 in Dirt 3, SKYRIM, Batman AC, especially with 8AA. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Saturday, August 25, 2012 - linkNo one is listening - Steam Survey has proven it - nleat all you want, heck you're still bleating... amd sales SUCK for the card you are promoting....
Here let me help you amd fanboy out of his mind on failing sales...
The 660Ti is kicking because it STOMPS the 7870/7850 and barely costs more than 7870 and it matches and beats 7950 plenty of the time and as thejian has shown you in 660Ti thread 24/7/365 for 1920x1200 and ever more 1920x1080, and the 660Ti costs LESS than the 7950...
nVidia hit the SWEET SPOT - jamming it right in and amd is going down in sales ever more - next Steam Survey.. you'll be WEEPING and cursing the fools for not taking your twisted advice...
Happy gaming ! :-) Reply
CeriseCogburn - Saturday, August 25, 2012 - linkLOL - " and thats why they did it. Nvidia's cards are auto overclocking, so they were gaining an unfair advantage in "stock" reviews. No more.
Nvidia started all this with their boost,... "
Why so sourpuss bill4, amd fanboy much ?
Look, amd blew it badly on this card - it's a hot core housefire mess.
My advice for the amd fan - go buy the average/regular 7950 and cross your fingers.
Of course my real advice is quit being such and idiot and buy the 660Ti at this point.
I mean that's a no brainer. Reply
Rick83 - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkAnd I thought that we were over that chapter with the last generation of cards.
Oh well, let;s turn up that voltage and crank up those clocks, we can always get triple 8-pin pcie power!
225 Watts in an upper mid range card is just a bit too much. Reply
bennyg - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - link</IMO>
If the card can do it, why not improve the primary functionality of this class of GPU, crunching graphics. If for some reason 200W is OK for you and 225W isn't... cue tada.wav now - don't upgrade it's BIOS.
I've heard too the new model Viper gets no more MPG than the Gen 4. Reply
JPForums - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - link
225 Watts in an upper mid range card is just a bit too much.
The 7950 isn't upper mid range. (At least in AMD's eyes.)
High end - 79xx
Upper Mid range - 78xx
Lower Mid range - 77xx
Low End - Higher end A-Series processors (76xx/75xx)
Entry Level - Lower end A-Series/E series Processors
I understand the confusion given the low end discrete market has been largely displaced by Integrated GPU's. I also have a hard time deciding whether the 7870 performs like a high end card, or the 7950 performs like an upper mid range card. I like to draw the line at the up coming GTX660(Ti). I wouldn't call my GTX670 mid range, but I wouldn't call any form of GTX660 high end. My guess is that the 7950B will slot in between the two in performance. If it doesn't then it will go down as a high end card that performs like an upper mid range card.
I'm glad they revamped the 7950 as it had plenty of power headroom for a high end card and its performance was too close to the 7870. I just wish they would have named the new 7950/7970 - 7955/7975 (or if you prefer 7960/7980). They could still let the 7950 fade out. There is still no need for a new reference design. There would be no confusion when buying in the interim. It would accurately reflect the marginal upgrade in performance. Honestly with all the new model numbers assigned to old parts that both nVidia and AMD use to make products appear new and better, I can't imagine why either of them would choose not to rename a legitimately different part. Reply
JPForums - Saturday, August 18, 2012 - linkIt seems the 7950 trades blows with the reference GTX660Ti. It wins some and looses some. However, it suffers some pretty massive loses in games like Battlefield 3 and Shogun 2. However, it seems the 7950 has better resilience at higher resolution. Overall, it comes up short though, so it is a good thing AMD released the update. The 7950B, overall, seems to maintain a small margin of victory over the overclocked variants of the GTX660Ti, thus saving face as a high end card (even if barely). It will be interesting to see how well the 3GB GTX660Ti does. It doesn't have the asymmetric memory penalty that the 2GB variants have. Reply
n0x1ous - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linku mad bro? Reply
hechacker1 - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkWith the voltage already set higher in the bios, I wonder how these cards overclock?
I know they are low quality parts, but considering not every single one of these requires 1.25V, I bet some of them overclock really well. Plus you wouldn't have to resort to driver/bios hacks to get it running at a higher voltage.
But I guess then you might run into the PSU limit of trying to power it. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - linkWhere's the big rant about amd's failing gpu production where their cores need extra voltage for a tiny OC ?
I thought we'd get ten pages of the "astute" amd fans who spent three years+ bashing nVidia's "process" since the - heck 4-5 years since the 200 series.
Where did they all go when the amd crapship needs a giant voltage bump to come out barely above where it wsa before and WAY BELOW WHERE ALL THE AMD FANBOYS HAVE BEEN CLAIMING FOR ALMOST A YEAR IT PASSES ON OLDER LOWER STOCK VOLTAGE...
Where's all the whining and moaners and laughing fools screaming housefire on amd's failing fire hot core production ?
I guess they... I was going to say finally went looking for a job so they wouldn't have to whine about price all the time but the economy clearly nixes that...
I guess I'll have to fill in for them...
amd = 1.7% good cores
amd= CEO's fled the housefires
amd= another stupid move
amd= no problem our fanboys will suck down and swallow the koolaid Reply
martyrant - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkIt's pretty obvious why this is happening the way it is (and when), and why there is no name change. They're getting ready to compete with the gtx 660 that releases this month (supposedly) and instead of the time and money it would take to create a new card, they devised this BIOS "hack"/"update" as a response.
Would like to see a GTX 660 review from here, as I think they're starting to pop up around the web (saw at least one already). While typically an ATi fanboy since the 9700 series (my first was a 7500, which predates that a bit) I've noticed that this round in the ring it seems to be in favor of nVIDIA (and while I've had a few great nvidia cards, I've most lately become accustomed to being able to use eyefinity).
Seeing as nVIDIA now has 3+1 displays, I might give it a shot this time around--still waiting to decide on what to upgrade to--but being able to use up to 6 is quite nice in my opinion. With the price drop of the 7970 now it makes a lot of sense compared to the 670/680, but with the 660 coming into play soon we may see a new price/performance king. I just read a ton of horror stories on AMD's driver support for their top tier cards these days...
Anyway, 660 review please! Reply
RussianSensation - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkHD7970 is now faster than 670 and 7970 GE is faster than the 680 overall:
Take a 7950 and overclock it to 1.1ghz and see what happens to an overclocked 660Ti with MSAA enabled. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - link" I just read a ton of horror stories on AMD's driver support for their top tier cards these days..."
LOL - reality bites Reply
gobaers - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkDismayed to see the power and noise go out the window with this card. Yes, it's not as tangible as framerate charts, but for me, a card has to be quiet for me to buy.
I just replaced my aging 8800GT SLI setup with a single GTX 560, and am amazed at how quietly the entire rig runs. It's breathing some new life into the old Sonata Plus. Reply
rarson - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkThe 560 is a ~$120 card. This is $300+. So clearly you weren't in the market for one of these anyway. Reply
JlHADJOE - Thursday, August 16, 2012 - linkHis 8800GT SLI setup was considered top-end and cost at least $500 when it was new. I think he could easily be in the market for HD7950 or GTX670 if and when he chooses to do a full upgrade or new build. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - linkHe said it has to be quiet so forget 7970 and 7950 and 6970 and 6950. Reply
haukionkannel - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkIt seema, that it would be better to reduce the boost voltage to 1.2 or even less. Then with good chip you would get the same performance as in here and would not hit the head to the top ceiling so hard...
Allso there can be guite huge differencess between 7950 vs 7950 where one can keep running at the 925MHz longer than another. Reply
ratbert1 - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - link" AMD is announcing that they will be releasing a new Radeon HD 7950 with higher clockspeeds. The new 7950, to be called the Radeon HD 7950"
Did I miss something? Reply
silverblue - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkThey probably should've called it the 7950 XT. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, August 16, 2012 - linkNo, you didn't. Ryan is just showing you how ridiculous it is not to give the new card a new name. HD7955 would have been perfect, given the usual meaning of their numbers. Reply
redeemer777 - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkYou guys realize that a 7950 which easily overclocks to 1.1Ghz matches a 680 7970? Reply
Sufo - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linker... more like "Com'on really" people are still doing the old "overclocked card X can match stock clocked card Y" routine.
Are you retarded? Do you think the high end cards do not overclock at all? People have been blowing past 1.3ghz with their reference 680s.
I can't fathom the point you were trying to make with this point. Reply
silverblue - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkThe point being - why spend $400 when you can save a hundred and overclock your card to the same speed. What if a specific card performs perfectly fine for your needs - why buy its faster brother?
And less of the "retarded", please... all credibility gets blown out of the water when that particular gem pops up. Thanks. Reply
Sufo - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkNot entirely convinced that's what OP was getting at. You make a valid enough point, however it kind of goes without saying that if a cheaper card performs to the level you require then that is the card you should buy - I'm not sure we've learnt much new here.
As for using language such as "retarded" - if it diminishes my credibility then so be it. You can either digest the points within the post and take them for what they are, or you can read them, feel that they were totally reasonable then throw them out the window as soon as you encounter some phrasing aggravating to your delicate sensibilities. You *could* do this, but ofc it would make you a retard. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - linkHe is. He brainfarted again. He said the same crap as the other tard, but for some reason, probably the retardation, he had to say it. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - link" The point being - why spend $400 when you can save a hundred and overclock your card to the same speed. "
Are you RETARDED TOO ? Reply
Frallan - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - link(sic!)
Well wonderful 1/16th of a boost on the normal cards but still no 7950M what is AMD doing? Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - linkClearing out crap cores and trying to STOP the endless crashing at stock their cards suffer from.
Think "stability voltage tweak" disguised as an "upgrade". Reply
smithrd3512 - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkIts a very impressive card. I am curious what to see what the 7990 Radeon can do when it comes out this fall. Reply
tcool93 - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkI get so sick and tired of all the Nvidia fanboys who post their crap anymore.
Funny how overclocking a card is now a big deal, yet its just fine when Nvidia sells overclocked cards, or uses proprietary game benchmarks to benefit their own cards.
Nvidia is a thug run company, just like their users are.
And if the AMD cards can overclock (and they do overclock by a lot), why not raise it. But no, the Nvidia fanboys can't have that, because it might make their cards not look so good. Reply
RussianSensation - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkRemember when EVGA GTX460 FTW 850mhz card was for sale on Newegg? imo that was fair to include in the HD6870 review since the 460 is a card a user can buy. But now that 7950 is for sale with 880-950mhz factory clocks (MSI TF3, Gigabyte Windforce 3x, Sapphire Dual-X), those cards are "cheating" and now 460's famous overclocking isn't applicable to the 7950? Interesting. Next thing we'll hear that MSAA is outdated and obsolete and that real gamers use TXAA..... Reply
raghu78 - Saturday, August 18, 2012 - linkExactly. These reviewers think we are all fools to believe a GTX 660 Ti competes with HD 7950 and overclock it further with voltage tweaking .
clock for clock HD 7950 is 3 - 5% slower than HD 7970. its easily proven by comparing OC benchmarks of anandtech itself.
So even if you overclock HD 7970 the relation holds true. HD 7970(1250) would be 3 - 5% faster than 7950 (1250). So people who bring the whole " the faster card can overclock too" are just silly. The problem is reviewers can't do anything which will piss off Nvidia. So they play by the 800 lb gorilla's rules. No reviewer has the guts to take a factory overclocked HD 7950, HD 7970, GTX 670, GTX 680 and push it to their maximum speeds with voltage tweaking. This will clearly prove that the HD 7950 is the best value for you money and it will make the people who purchase GTX 680 cards for USD 600 look silly. Unfortunately in the real world Nvidia holds too much power and influence. so no reviewer will do that. Reply
Ryan Smith - Saturday, August 18, 2012 - link"The problem is reviewers can't do anything which will piss off Nvidia. So they play by the 800 lb gorilla's rules. No reviewer has the guts to take a factory overclocked HD 7950, HD 7970, GTX 670, GTX 680 and push it to their maximum speeds with voltage tweaking."
Honestly, I resent that remark.
What you propose is fundamentally unsound science. OVERCLOCKING IS NOT GUARANTEED. This especially goes for video cards as there's a wide variation in quality among GPUs.
When reviewing a card we will gladly overclock it just to give you an idea of what we achieve. But outside of roundups where we're looking at several similar cards, we will never, ever directly compare an overclocked card to another overclocked card. To do so and then to draw conclusions from that would be irresponsible if not negligent. We would be one bad (or particularly good) card away from drawing the wrong conclusion.
This brings us to testing methodologies and what is sound scientific testing. Overclocking is a wonderful bonus, but it is never something you should count on because a significant overclock cannot be guaranteed. The only thing that we can be certain of and thus the thing we should be testing on a typical card is its stock performance.
This also extends to "virtual" SKUs where manufacturers are shipping factory overclocked cards; we must test and base our opinions around reference-clocked cards, since they represent the bare minimum of performance for an entire family. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - linkLooks to me like clock for clock the 7950 is 8% slower, not 3-5.
The xfx has oc ram
33fps to 36 fps is about 8%, not 3 percent. Reply
tcool93 - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkJust so the non AMD video card owners know. This article is being biased about the noise. Due to the fact that they are using an AMD card that uses the hamster style wheel fan which is noisey. Most, if not all the 7950 cards use the single or better dual fan design which is MUCH quieter. Just check newegg if you don't believe me. They also run much cooler.
But of course, that can't be reported because it might make AMD look good. Reply
raghu78 - Saturday, August 18, 2012 - linkyeah you said it right. When they are so many custom cooler designs who is going to buy a ref cooler design which is louder. Actually I blame AMD. They should have sent a factory overclocked custom HD 7950 like Sapphire HD 7950 950 Mhz edition to reviewers and just told them to review it like the EVGA GTX 460 FTW edition. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - linkI will, I am an amd penny pinching freak fanboy, so I will buy the supercheap extra discounted, egg only, powercolor crapster or the visiontek tinker... of course, because I'm getting my amd bang for the buck... even after the massive driving into the dirt 3 times nVidia did to amd, I'm not satisfied - I might wait for the real 680 nVidia delayed to get rich off amd's fail, to get a really cheap amd card, hopefully another billion in debt for amd that means cheapo cards for me and my fanboy bruhs. Reply
seasick - Thursday, August 16, 2012 - linkthat's a good move for amd
and yeah why are people compairing gtx660ti with hd7950
its the same situation as we've seen last year
my hd7950 is a beast I just flashed the new bios and difference is just 3-5fps bt I oc that beast to sweet 1270mhz(with Arctic tt2) it even beats a gtx670 and touches the gtx7970ge
and it costed me 319$
and I agree that new hd7950 deserves a new name as well like 7955 or BoostEdition,which will give a clue to customers, what they are really buying ...(CON) Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - linkPlus $55 for the twin turbo actic, and another two or three hours to install, and probably thermal glue for the passive ram chip attachment.
So $400 bucks at least, unless your time is worth nothing. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, August 16, 2012 - link1.25 V for 920 Mhz boost is totally ridiculous. My HD6950 is almost reaching this clock speed at 1.10 V - and that's on a 40 nm process. Granted you couldn't sell a card at such a tight clock speed tolerance, but AMD is not doing the majority of cards & users a favor here by aiming at the absolute worst chips. I hope manufacturers are using better binning & voltage settings. Absurd as it may seem, but a lower voltage would actually make the card faster (since it could turbo longer / more often).
MrS Reply


text:
O Blessed Father, bright flower of grace transplanted from the soil of Holy Russia, after a vision of the Theotokos thou didst run to the Holy Mountain of Athos, the most wonderful garden of the Mother of God. Thou didst live humbly among thy brethren at St. Panteleimon's holy monastery, watching the glory of men and kingdoms fade, remembering to seek the heavenly abode on high. The lowly Lord of all reached down in His love and touched thine open heart and spoke to thee face to face as with Moses of old. For thy sake and for us also Jesus spoke and said: "Keep thy mind in hell and despair not!" lest we strugglers fall to the right or the left. O wondrous Father and Starets Silouan, teach us to touch His heart with lowly thoughts of great yearning love.
Great Wonder-worker of Athos, blessed son of Russia, ardent practicer of silence through the Jesus Prayer; icon of simple faithfulness to us in these modern times, thou didst run far from any judgment even passing thy lips; thy smooth skull now adorns like a most precious pearl the church that thou didst pray in so faithfully, drawing men's hearts up by the heavenly smell of thy sanctity. O blessed and righteous Father and Starets Silouan, plead now on our behalf, that the Lord of Mercy will soon come to dwell in our hearts for all eternity.
O Blessed Starets Silouan, pray unto God for us!
Women's monasticism started in the 4th century at approximately the same time as men's monasticism. There were some of those early women monastics that went out into the desert to live strict ascetical lives for many years, often under harsh conditions. Although there have been women who have been hermits and skete dwellers at times, it is much more usual for them to live in communities with possessions in common. God guides both women and men in monasticism, yet women monastic's lives have often been more hidden than the men's (as was that of the Most Holy Theotokos and Virgin Mary). Yet typically for centuries in Orthodox lands, there have been nearly twice as many women in the Orthodox monastic life than men.
Founded in August 1991, this woman's monastic community presently has one nun. The foundation was blessed by Elder Sophrony, the direct disciple of Starets Silouan, and was given a relic of St. Silouan for its foundation by the Abbot of St. Panteleimon's Monastery on Mount Athos. The monastic form of the Convent is cenobitic or communal which was originally developed by St. Pachomios, another 4th century disciple of St. Anthony the Great. The spiritual foundation of the Convent's life is the continous repetition of the Jesus Prayer, humility, poverty, chastity, stability, and obedience.
St. Silouan was born in Russia in 1866. He entered the Monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mount Athos in 1892, and lived there as just a simple monk for 46 years. St. Silouan was known mostly for his extreme humility and obedience, and although he was most simple in formal education and in outward things, he became profoundly educated in the inner workings of the heart and soul through prayer and illumination from Christ, Who even appeared to him to comfort and humble him. For many years St. Silouan battled against the demons and led a life of deep prayer, interceding often and regularly for the whole world.
The focus of the work of the Convent now is in St. Isaac's Bookstore, the Mission Center, the educational work, and the library, as well as at daily monastic chores. Though busy doing many different things, the main goal is for each nun to pray continuously. So during the day when doing their obedience, keeping constant remembrace of God in prayer at the same time emulates their patron who both worked hard, with many responsibilities, and yet prayed continuously.
Temporarily located at the Mission Center, the Convent is waiting to relocate nearby when a suitable property can be found and funds are available. To support the nuns and help them to purchase land you can make a donation to the Convent by choosing the "Donations" button on the left menu bar.


text:
Steven wrote:
Great posts, all! The chicken enchiladas make me drool and the chicken thigh kebabs with Planet Barbecue Malaysian Spice Paste make me want to board a plane headed for Southeast Asia immediately. (Hey, love the skewers, too.) We've been getting some really nice chicken here on Martha's Vineyard lately: free range birds from local farms. We spit roast them on a kettle grill with a handful of wood chips on the coals. I LOVE these block parties! Keep photos and recipes coming.
Thanks, Steven! It's actually the Kelantan spice paste from Primal Grill, but I think that's the same thing anyway.
Those skewers are actually a "small", I think, as they are 3/8" wide - and they are great for shrimp too. I really have to get some medium (5/8") and extra-large (7/8") ones for some other dishes. I especially like the extra-large ones as they'd be fantastic for ground meat kebabs like kofte or adana kebabs.


text:
Garment-Dyed Linen Sheeting
$29 - $69 Final Sale
$23 - $55 Member
Handcrafted from premium linen, our heirloom-quality bedding is tailored in small batches in a California workshop and then washed to enhance its natural softness and drape. The pieces are garment-dyed with rich color, a process that softens the linen even further for pure, cozy comfort.
More Details & Dimensions +
Shown in dusty rose.
Garment-Dyed Linen Standard Pillowcase
$29 - $30 Final Sale
$23 - $24 Member


text:
AMD Enduro Beta, Take Three!by Jarred Walton on 11/27/2012 12:35 AM EST
35 Comments
Back to Article
blackmagnum - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkNow or never. Don't give up AMD; even if NVIDIA is the laptop king. Reply
Gunbuster - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkLet me get this straight. Enduro came out over a year ago. Now nearing 2013 AMD is on their third "beta" try. They have to hand it out to sites like Anandtech and ask did we get it right this time?
Pathetic. How anyone can go into a discussion thread and claim AMD has it together on the driver development side of things is beyond me. Reply
A5 - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkTheir desktop drivers are fine, but yeah the mobile stuff is pretty much complete garbage. Reply
PubFiction - Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - linkMy 7950 has issues with HDMI audio that requires restarts to fix, very annoying when switching between TV and PC and so on. If I had it all to do over I would have grabbed nVidia.
That is after the trouble I went through trying to get it working in the first place. Reply
SlyNine - Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - linkOdd. I have 6 computers with ATI cards that have no problems. Your problem is isolated. I hope you realize that you can have problems like that with Nvidia as well. Reply
NJoy - Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - linkhave you tried going into playback devices and disabling speakers, so that the audio stream falls onto hdmi? thats what i have to do every time I connect HDMI to my machine. nVidia, by the way Reply
Alexvrb - Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - linkBoth desktop and Non-switchable mobile drivers have been fine for me. Just as good overall as my experience with Nvidia drivers. Especially on laptops ever since they switched to an opt-out program (I think Sony and a couple of others did choose to opt-out so I will never buy those). It's just the Enduro stuff that needs work, and they're on the right track there too. Both have had quite a few hiccups though, over the years. Reply
mmrezaie - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkI did have ati card on notebook. I am Linux and thinkpad laptop user. Their driver is by far worst than Intel's and nVidia's. Their Open Source driver is just a joke. If you are OpenCL programmer you will find a lot of bugs specially when you are using OpenGL api.
They seriously need to make some move. Not supporting is as just bad as not having a good hardware. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkA5, there's not a single honest person in the world with any sort of experience that could possibly agree with that without being a complete frikkin amd fanboy. Reply
Dribble - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkThat was all before the 15% + another round of cutbacks kicks in. There's also a fair chance the company will go under or get bought out, or decide not to focus on high end laptop gpu's.
The risk is too high for me. Performance/price is great but it comes behind stability - better slower but works, then fast but broken. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkIt's nice not to see the deranged amd fanboys screaming amd will lower prices and wipe nVidia out.
For years I had to put up with it, and no amount of facts, data, nor common sense would do.
Now, even the author of the piece mentions the buyout/failure rumors circulating...
nVidia (GPU's) gained marketshare in Q3 and Intel and AMD lost.
It is so sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet to see the amd fanboy liars brought low ( in their own mind ! ), where they have always been, and where they belong.
I have told them for years on end, if they are such insane fanboys, and they are, they should be paying top dollar for AMD cards, but instead they raped amd down to the last penny they could extract with timing, lies, complaining, and any other lowlife tactic like delaying purchase until nVidia drove amd prices into the gutter, all the while attacking nVidia while relying upon them to rape their great master AMD.
With friends like amd fanboys, enemies are not needed to be utterly destroyed.
xdrol - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkYou know, all Catalyst drivers but the WHQL ones are beta. It is at least the same quality as any other Catalyst from last year, and they stopped asking for WHQL signatures because it added 1 month to the release cycle (what is kinda problematic if you want monthly releases) Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkTrue, but the Enduro beta is quite a different beast from the regular desktop/laptop beta drivers. If you haven't experienced it for yourself, you wouldn't understand. :-) Reply
TrantaLocked - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkYou don't understand how big of a jump 12.11 beta was over the stock drivers for the mobile platform. Reply
heffeque - Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - linkTell us more... Reply
CeriseCogburn - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkGunbuster, just expect it. The amd fans can't help themselves, lying comes so naturally to them now that if they had to tell the truth it would take six months to do so as they'd immediately enter a coma from the massive reorganization their brains require to do so.
Did amd ever fix it's hackable drivers so the US Government could possibly use them without massive security risks ?
NO, of course they didn't. Reply
SetiroN - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkdoes the switching work as flawlessly as Optimus does? Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkOn the latest laptops, it's generally at the point where I'd say "yes". I still prefer the NVIDIA driver UI, but for less technical users I think it won't matter much. The bigger factor now will be the bottom line: if a laptop with NVIDIA is cheaper, that's what people will buy; if AMD's partners can hit lower prices (without compromising on other areas like LCD, keyboard, etc.), they'll move more units. Reply
darcotech - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkWhen I go to different sites to configure laptops with this GPUs price differ from 273USD to 376 Euros!!! So how you can compare them? If you go AMD way, for same money you can get much better CPU or much bigger SSD or anything 300USD difference can give you?
Price wise it should be compared to 675m which it beats. Reply
tviceman - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkAre you going to get a laptop with Nvidia's newer ultra high end notebook GPU? I realize it's specs will put it somewhere between a gtx670 and gtx660ti, but still interested in how it performs with notebook CPU's attached to it. Reply
extide - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkI dont think we will ever see that part in a laptop, only the Mac. It draws too much power/gives off too much heat. Reply
Arbie - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - link
Do you know if either the NVidia or AMD laptops will run (i.e. playable) any of the Crysis games, at any settings?
Thanks Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkIt can depend on what settings, resolution, etc. that you're willing to deal with, but any mid range or high end GPU should handle any of the Crysis games fine.
My old Geforce 9650m GT with only 32 cores seemed to handle Crysis 1 fine, although it's possible later in the game it wouldn't have. But it ran Crysis 1 at around 720p with effects on medium to high at fine frame rates, so probably any mid range GPU out today ought to handle it fine.
One 'trick' you may want to consider for games-disable anti-aliasing. I personally don't think anti-aliasing helps all that much-I mean we're at a point where kind of *MINIMUM* resolutions we play at are in the 720p range, and at that let alone 1080p, aliasing just isn't a big deal IMO. But AA uses a TON of power, like it can easily drop frame rates by half, depending.
I'd MUCH rather use higher resolutions and higher effects settings then turn on AA, and disabling it goes a long way towards letting your system run games better. Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkSurprised to see the comment about waiting for the next gen GPUs...are they actually coming any time soon? My assumption is that they won't amount to much...kind of like Nvidia's 8000 9000 100 series GPUs that were all basically the same thing, or the 200/300 chips. Tweaks, better clocks and the like, but nothing earth shattering.
This year both companies:
-Introduced great new architectures
-Migrated from 40nm (?) to 28nm
-Managed to release notebook parts that were shockingly close to their desktop parts...something they didn't really pull off very well in previous generations. (Of course that may be because the desktop parts could be even better than they are, but sensibly they're trying to salvage more profits out of them...but still.)
With all that, I'd be shocked if we got anything big in 2013...personally I'm still quite pleased with what we have now! :) Reply
Iketh - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkI might sound like a fanboy here, but I'm speaking from a mathematician's point of view. You can't have that "Average of 14 games" figure when you have 1 or more pointless results (diablo and portal)... the FPS in those games for the 680 are useless even on a 120Hz screen... need to normalize to 100 FPS, then average Reply
silverblue - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkPerhaps, however they highlight areas where the Kepler architecture significantly outperforms Tahiti at this time. It is worth asking why this is the case, and I don't believe we should limit the testing to 100fps in, say, Portal 2 - the 680 is 43% quicker here, so why is this? Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, December 03, 2012 - linkNot like it matters - amd enduro has been crap, is crap, and will be crap - and really really stretching it, on the newest laptops, one might be able to say, it's almost up to optimus snuff.
As for ALL the older enduro ou7tlays by loser incarnate amd, it's still over.
So, not like it matters.
amd sucks Reply
jtd871 - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - linkWell, I couldn't wait for AMD to get their Enduro stuff together. Based on Jarred's recent recommendation that the Optimus drivers and updates were more mature, I sprung for the CZ-17 w/ 675m. Maybe in another 5 years from now I'll go red instead of green. If that option exists. Reply
prdola0 - Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - linkJarred, why do you keep testing the Sniper Elite V2 and DiRT Showdown? Please check their metascores or reviews/user forums. Those games are viewed by the general public as rubbish. Sniper Elite is only at 65, which is extremely low if compared to other titles you test. Showdown is higher than SEv2, but still a lot lower than DiRT 3 was.
And if you're not going to remove these games, at least in the Showdown turn of the AMD-built global illumination, which has almost no visual benefit, yet cripples the framerate significantly. It probably uses double-precision in the compute shader pass just to take advantage against the GK104 chip. Just try the test without the illumination and check how much the GeForce drops with it enabled. It's way past reasonable. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - linkBecause I already ran those tests with a previous driver, and yes you're right about the scores, global lighting, etc. I do not intend to keep either game as a long-term benchmark. However, since I had "before and after" results, it was easy enough to run them again and report the improvements/changes in performance. Reply
prdola0 - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linkThanks for clarification. It might be also worth looking at some other "dirty stuff". For example, Alan Wake - the quality in the game with maximum settings in incomparable on GeForce vs Radeon GPUs. Check this example:
On the Radeon, the grass is almost completely missing and the vegetation is jaggy and incomplete (especially the forrest to the left, near the "Energizer" billboard). Radeons also ignore the TRAA. I know that running the tests it quite time consuming, but I honestly have to question if the majority of reviewers worlwide check the resulting quality. I mean, it's quite easy for AMD to improve performance with new driver iterations, while doing this kind of "optimizations". And everybody should carefully watch that. I am just worried whether or not such things manifest in your test suite. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Saturday, December 01, 2012 - linkLOL - Come on we have to give amd the underdog another gigantic break.
Let's act like our illegal government and when anything isn't up to snuff with amd let's just pretend they're the greatest thing since sliced bread with cheesey crust.
Beyond that, we can praise amd's gpu's as the best, even as they are losing.
If not we can just be crickets in any wayward case where lies won't make amd shine. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Thursday, November 29, 2012 - linkLOL, amd has to be given a hand-up cheat to look good.
It's amazing, but expected here.
Don't worry the amd fanboys will rage for a few moments, pretend to not see your post, but internally scream PhysX or reminisce about "excessive tesselation" in games during the 500 series vs 69xx games as they did with the utter spanking amd took from nVidia, then totally excuse amd's massive cheat, forget it exists, but be certain to implement it in every review, as the pressure from amd (and it's fanboys) will no doubt be undesirable.
Thanks for the heads up.
Cheat cheat cheat cheat for amd - should be on every videocard box they sell. Reply
jonjonjonj - Friday, November 30, 2012 - linki dont get it. amd really baffles me. they make good gpu that can compete toe to toe with nvidia but then they seem to completely ignore support for drivers. because of this if i would choose an nvidia gpu over amd if both are equal. would it really be that hard for amd to put more resources into supporting drivers. id like to think that the nvidia software devs arent that much smarter then their counterparts at amd. who knows how much more performance amd could get if they ever took drivers serious. and we all know performance = sales. Reply
Notmyusualid - Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - linkYup, I'm of the same opinion. I guess good coders are hard to come by, or are sunk with a million other tasks each day...(at least that is how it appears with regard to our own in-house coders).
I was one of those plumping for Crossfire 7970Ms too. Until drivers 12.11 Beta 7, (on Beta 8 now), I really couldn't say they had cracked it.
The only problem I face now, is in F1 2012, where the between-race menus have the car randomly changing colours, you know not in a nice way, but a sort of buggy- random way. Fortunately, the in game performance is wonderful.
No other games now give me any headaches. Reply


text:
A Look at Solaris 10 and Sun's Dual Core Fire V40zby Kristopher Kubicki on 6/29/2005 4:00 PM EST
- Posted in
- Systems
47 Comments
Back to Article
nottlv - Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - link#46; the 8 way record claim was for a 64-bit JVM. The PowerPC result you reference was for a 32-bit JVM. specjbb stresses the memory architecture heavily (there's no I/O); the submitted result from IBM include a machine with 64GB of RAM, while the Sun Opteron box had 16GB, and they are running different JVM versions. If you look at the lower numbered runs you'll notice they're pretty close (the Opteron being slightly ahead), but that it hits it's wall much earlier due to significantly less RAM. Reply
jjames5 - Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - link8 way jbb2000 world record - right!
This result is a year old and still bests the sun with over 50%:
http://www.spec.org/jbb2000/results/res2004q3/jbb2... Reply
nserra - Friday, July 01, 2005 - link#34 That is plain stupid, it isnt from been taken out that it will protect him (if thats the true), or the microsoft guys cant read forums where the article have been already posted.
Microsoft only have to look for who usually talk with anand.
Opteron - Friday, July 01, 2005 - linkForget my last comment...
ps. i missed 4 way Xeon and Itanium systems :D Reply
Opteron - Friday, July 01, 2005 - linkThere is miscalculations about percentages, those are calculated wrong.
In http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/sun%20fire%20v4...
comment is:
" We see a 43% performance increase over the quad Opteron 250 V40z; certainly impressive but we would like to see more."
But actually it's almost 64% since there is no point in comparing 5 threads vs 5 in a 8core system..
Googer - Friday, July 01, 2005 - linkWhere did the article go? Reply
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkDen: Very true but recall that our previous test was done on Opteron 850s instead of Opteron 852s. The 852 performs a bit better than th 850.
opus13i: We have been stuckin MI redtape land for some time. It wouldn't make sense to change the benchmark at this point either because our previous tests used the 32-bit single core solution. Since they don't seem to have much desire to provide us with the correct license we will probably drop that benchmark in favor of something a little more versatile.
Kristopher Reply
jkostans - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkI dont care who made the hardware, its a hell of a machine. I wish Intel had to rely on inovation and good products to survive like AMD does. Intel really doesn't have many products capable of out performing AMDs equivalent anymore. Reply
opus13i - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkugh.
Did you even bother to check with mental images? With a simple phone call you could have had the proper licensing in place for 8 cores, as well as every possible variation of 64bit possible.
"We include Mental Ray and Shake as a point of reference, although both applications are strictly 32-bit at this time. Mental Ray is further hindered by the fact that the version we have is not SMP-aware."
way to go detective, i dont suppose you actually looked at teh specifications did you?
no 64 bit indeed.
Xunilla - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - link
You folks are giving Sun a bit too much credit on the hardware portion of this review. In reality, the system OEM is a company called Newisys, a subsidiary of Sanmina-SCI. Reply
Den - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkInteresting article, I am confused why you are dissapointed in the GCC complile time though. The dual core machine took 369 seconds (with 9 jobs) and the single took 603.18 seconds (with 5 jobs). 603.18/369=1.635 or 63.5% faster which is well in the 50-80% range. Your article says 43% faster, so maybe the GCC compile conclusion is based on a typo? Reply
Kilim - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkI saw the title to the PS3/XBOX article. It was a different one than the original article from last week. I clicked on it to read it and nothing showed up. It was an article critical of the CPU's on the two systems I believe. Matbe Anand find some insider stuff that was only limited to a few people inside MS. If so, I think the potential rewards of protecting the source is much better long term than getting them in trouble and burning a bridge. Along with the long term effects of insiders trusting Anand. Reply
jwbaker - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkYou can no longer get v20z via ebay. I managed to buy a half-dozen of them for $1200-$1500 each, although I admit I had to collude with another buyer to do so. Probably Sun has enough traction with the v\d+z series that they no longer need the eBay channel.
The only beef I have with the v-series is Sun can ben recalcitrant about supplying the voltage regulator modules. In the v20z there are four removable VRMs and if you bought a single-CPU machine, you only get 2. Additional VRMs sell in pairs for $175 but the lead time is indeterminant and sometimes very long. Reply
Houdani - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - link32: The article was pulled in order to protect one of the anonymous sources (see comment #10). Reply
hondaman - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkActually, no its not. RHEL is by far and away more widely distributed, and more likely to show results to the people who can most relate to this review. Reply
finbarqs - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linki did read the comments, but i still don't know why it was taken down... it just said that it wasn't up to kris to take the article down. Reply
Houdani - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - link30: What's with the hate?
And it was quite obvious to me there were multiple sources. Reply
Questar - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkSo that article was based upon one source?!?!
translation: It was crap, our source was an idiot. Reply
yacoub - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkIs there no performance increase seen with PC3200 RAM over PC2700? Reply
PrinceXizor - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkIf whomever is really worried about protecting his "insider" source, you might want to contact Google to have them clear the article from their cache (I don't even know if that's possible).
P-X Reply
kbsartain - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkThe Database benchmarks are likely bottlenecked on storage. Attach a high-speed array with multiple disks, and the scaling would be much more linear vs. 2-way. Reply
ceefka - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkIt would be nice if other Opteron-builders would add to the test so we can get an idea of how well the Opteron is implemented.
I'd say webspace is best served with dualcore Opterons. 90% gain! Holy moly!
#23 I have worked as a temporary at Sun in The Netherlands in 1987 when they were about to release their 4/ series. Their 3/ machines were already considered top notch then. They offered workstations with an optical mouse that moved over a special gridpad and full color screens. That was really something special then. No AMD CPUs at that time.
To be perfectly honest as well, I also didn't know them before I worked there ;-) Reply
sprockkets - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkSuSE Linux Enterprise not enterprise enough for u? Reply
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkhondaman: This is why we used SLES this time around instead of RH9. Unfortunately the previous single-core V40z tests were all done a few months ago when we had that machine.
Kristopher Reply
Xenoterranos - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkWow, I wish my company had a use for a system like that. I'd take a paycut just to be able to play with it for a while... damned fine enginering on both Sun and AMD's part. And to be prefectly honest, I never really payed Sun that much attention until they started using AMD procs. Everyone else needs to get with the program and give AMD the market share they deserve...oh wait...I'll stop there. Reply
slashbinslashbash - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - link#21: Read the comments and you'll find your answer.
Kristopher: Page 7, "Apache Benchmarks" text:
"It's also interesting to note the difference between Solaris 10 and SLES 9 here. As the threads increased, there was a wider gap between performance of the Solaris configuration and the SLES configuration in favor of Solaris."
The graph on that page shows the opposite, with SLES outperforming Solaris. Reply
finbarqs - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkwait why the xbox360/ps3 article taken down? Reply
hondaman - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkcan you swap suse with a real enterprise os like rhel? Reply
themelon - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkI guess I should have kept reading.
I have one of the v40's in my lab with 4 of the 875's. Very nice machine. Reply
Doormat - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkDoes anyone know if the v20zs were dual core-capable? I heard that if you negotiate with sun (go to sun's ebay sale for the v20z), you can get really good deals. I'd love to just get two 270s if/when the prices come down. Reply
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkEcmaster76: It wasn't my decision to remove the article, and I agree with your thoughts as well.
Kristopher Reply
mastashake57 - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkLet me tell you, we have the first generation v40z, and it's a total crusher in comparison to our Dell PowerEdge 6650s. Way to go SUN!
Intel XEONs can't hold a candle to it... Reply
Ecmaster76 - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkthat should read:
But if there are liability and/or other issues that might come from leaving it up, than I will just have to wait.
Ecmaster76 - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkKristopherKubicki
I think everyone has read the PS3/360 article but me, its been linked on Ars and it was out long enough that someone at MS could have downloaded the whole thing.
But if there a re liability and/or other issues that might come from leaving it up, than I will just have to wait. Reply
Ahkorishaan - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - link#11 Solaris 10 is on the graphs, he jsut forgot to add it to the chart.
Hey guys in Anandtech, think we could grab a review of the new Sun Ultra 20 workstation? It looks pretty sweet. Reply
prd00 - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkWithout much pressure from Intel, Sun has been pretty free to do what they want with AMD's processors. Sun is even going a bit on the offensive with Intel trade-in programs. Even though both AMD and Sun have been through some hard times recently, Sun is a great ally for AMD for two reasons; first, Sun knows servers - this is a critical market for AMD. Second, Sun isn't afraid of Intel and doesn't have nearly the problems AMD does with their customers.
HEhuehueh... that's the reason why Sun server is still the best AMD server out there. HP and IBM should learn from them on how to build a good Opteron server.Anyway, Cray implementation of Opteron is still unmatched. Reply
themelon - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkOne question, why the lack of apples to apples os comparison between the two systems? You talk about S10 for two pages yet you dont list it as being tested on the Dual Core machine. That and you do not use the same linux versions on the two machines.
To me that makes this comparison a whole lot less usefull. Granted, the perf should not vary to much between SuSE 9 and 9.1 but to not include S10 in the Dual Core comparo seems kinda silly. Reply
KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkEcmaster76: Eh, something was messed up with the content management system. PS3 article is pulled for now because Anand is worried about MS tracing his anonymous insider.
Kristopher Reply
Ecmaster76 - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkAh, rendering problems. Thats why this article isn't on the main page (2461, the console article is a dead link, and it occured to me that number was about three articles to high, easy guess).
Shame on you for pulling stuff when you could just leave a little 'were working on it'.
:p Reply
Beenthere - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkFWIW,
AMD doesn't have "problems with it's customers" at all. AMD has problems with Intel's illegal Biz practices which have prevented many AMD customers from selling AMD products. With any luck HP, Sony and a Helleva lot of other PC companies will finally put Intel execs in prison where they belong. And you can bet all the companies that have been blackmailed by Intel will be a LOT more interested in selling AMD products now that the shit has hit the fan and they can come out of hiding. Reply
KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkIt brings up the Article Search box because I had to disable the article until we figure out the IE problem.
Kristopher Reply
yelo333 - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkIs it just me, or is it normal to have problems reading anything but the first page? When I click to go to the next page, it just brings up the "article search" box. The print version also doesn't work.
Using Firefox on linux. All extensions were disabled for the purpose of troubleshooting, with the same response.
As it is right now, even clicking the article results in the "Article Search" box, rather then the article. I was able to read the first page about 5 min ago, though. Reply
mircea - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkPage 3, 2nd last pharagraph, 4th line "we were ample to use the analyzer"
I guess you want to say "able". Reply
jm20 - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkwierd rendering in IE, does not produce a background and the formatting looks off. Also page 2 is not visible and sends me to the article search page. Reply
Marlin1975 - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkyea weird rendering to say the least, that and nothing after page 2? Reply
BurntKooshie - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkhttp://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=24...
Shouldn't the first graph list SLES9 as one of the test parameters isntead of two Solaris 10's? Reply
KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkIf anyone is getting weird rendering in IE, please email me firstname.lastname@example.com
Kristopher Reply


text:
Embrace the Yes
I recently returned from a holiday gathering with my family. It was wonderful to spend time together. I was also surrounded by my darling nieces and nephews for 5 days. Now, I love those kids. But one thing you need to know about me is that I am a SINK (Single Income No Kids) through and through, and while I love those children as if they were my own, this girl needs her quiet and alone time. So, I found myself saying the word, "No" a lot on this trip. And this will get you off the Favorite Auntie List pretty darn quickly. Mixed in with "No" were phrases like, "Stop touching that," "Don't do that," "Stop hitting," "No more candy," and "Stop pounding on the bathroom door, for crying out loud!"
It brought to mind a conference workshop I attended years ago. The discussion was about sexual abuse prevention and all the things we tell youth not to do. Someone in the group mentioned that the youth he worked with knew what NOT to do. That was easy. What they wanted to know was, what did we want them TO DO. In other words, we often find it easy to explain what we are against – we are against sexual violence and we want to see a world free of it. But what is it that we want instead? This is often discussed as a promotion paradigm. The Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance talked about this several years ago in an issue of their Moving Upstream newsletter (Not Perpetrating Is Not Enough: Adding a Promotion Paradigm). This excellent article describes the current landscape of risk reduction and prevention work as mostly void of the promotion element. In other words, we do a good job of addressing the need to change individual attitudes, behaviors, and social norms. We focus on building skills, changing environments, and developing or strengthening policies. But are we focusing any of our efforts on creating THRIVING individuals and communities? A lot of our work around healthy sexuality is moving us in that direction (shameless plug for our 2013 SAAM campaign here). And those engaged in healthy relationship work have likely explored this a bit. But one of the important points that the author of this article makes is there is a whole world out there that those of us working to prevent sexual violence can link to – a place where we can find shared goals with other movements and build partnerships with organizations who share our vision for "strong and thriving" people and communities. Approaches such as positive youth development and the Developmental Assets framework are two such movements discussed in the article. I encourage you to explore this article in full. And if you have already taken the plunge into the promotion pool, let us know about your work by commenting below. We may even feature you in a future blog post!


text:
Local Food. Local Jobs.
90 members
Dana Jewel Harris has not received any gifts yet
Give a Gift
Join Well Fed Neighbor
Welcome toWell Fed Neighbor
Sign Upor Sign In
© 2017 Created by ThePopp.
Powered by
Badges |
Report an Issue |
Terms of Service
Please check your browser settings or contact your system administrator.


text: OverviewBack to top Burt's Bees - Lip Shine 030 Wink - 0.5 oz. Item# :124155UPC# :792850020443 Brand:Burt's Bees Size/Form:0.50 oz. Ship Weight:0.05 Burt's Bees 100% Natural Lip Shine #030 Wink - .5 oz. Burt's Bees 100% Natural Lip Shine provides natural, sheer color. Burt's Bees 100% Natural Lip Shine is enriched with moisturizing Apricot Wax. Burt's Bees 100% Natural Lip Shine glides on lips for a sweet and super shiny finish. Your lips will shine as much as your personality with Burt's Bees 100% Natural Lip Shine. Burt's Bees 100% Natural Lip Shine works great as a super shiny topcoat on nude lips or over your favorite color. For a stunning layered effect, consider applying Burt's Bees 100% Natural Lip Shine over top of Burt's Bees Lip Shimmers. Burt's Bees 100% Natural Lip Shine #030 Wink: Provides sheer color with a glassy shine Nourishes with Apricot Wax Delivers softening with Sunflower Seed Oil Available in 6 sweet shades Featured Ingredient: Apricot Wax — Apricot Wax is a nourishing moisturizer with a fresh scent and delightful flavor for lips. Bees. More Than Just a Nuisance? It turns out bees do a lot more than most people realize—for such small, short-lived creatures, they do a lot of heavy lifting to keep life on Earth in balance. They make 1/3 of the nutritious fruits and vegetables possible, and they function as a buzzing alarm system for the planet's ecosystem. Basically, bees are magical fuzzy little flower-hopping life-bringers. And guess what? Bees are in trouble. But how do you get people to pay attention to the plight of a disappearing bug? You have to get a little wild. (Well, OK, maybe a lot wild.) So join Burt's Bees for an extraordinary look at life inside the hive. Burt's Bees Mission & Vision Burt's Bees makes people's lives better every day — naturally. Burt's Bees is an "Earth Friendly, Natural Personal Care Company." Burt's Bees creates natural, Earth-friendly personal care products formulated to help you maximize your well-being and that of the world around you. To make certain that all their products meet the highest standards, as well as their dedication to ensuring The Greater Good, Burt's Bees products are carefully crafted using ingredients that are the best nature has to offer: beeswax, botanical and essential oils, herbs, flowers and minerals. These safe, effective ingredients have withstood the test of time. What They Are - What you see is what you get. At Burt's Bees, they don't waste their time — or yours — pretending to be something they're not. Burt's Bees prefers putting their energy into making the best natural personal care products out there to help you maximize your well-being. Burt's Bees is proud that over half of their 150+ products are 100% natural! Still, they won't be satisfied until all of their products are 100% natural and they are currently aggressively pursuing this goal through reformulations and testing. Burt's Bees labels every product with a "natural bar." It's their way of helping you clearly identify the high level of natural ingredients used in their products. Additionally, Burt's Bees uses only natural colors in their products. Some of these include beta-carotene, chlorophyll, titanium dioxide and mica. These natural colors have been proven safe, unlike many artificial colors that have been banned by the FDA over the years. As far as fragrance components go, Burt's Bees uses them only when absolutely necessary, and all of their fragrances are phthalate-free. Since their products are made from as many natural ingredients as possible, Burt's Bees thinks it makes sense that most of their packaging is created from recycled materials, or is developed with recyclability and re-use in mind, like their easy-to-recycle aluminum containers. Burt's Bees doesn't want to create any additional garbage on the planet, and work hard to reduce, reuse and recycle. For example, before they would launch their world famous lip balm in a plastic tube, it took them years to convince a plastic company to make recycled plastic for us. Now, that very same company is one of the leading manufacturers of recycled plastic. And by the way, their packages are designed to hold just enough product for you to use up before it expires, so you don't end up throwing out half used tubes and jars. Burt's Bees is full of good ideas, naturally. What They're Not - Naturally, they're nothing but the good stuff. There are ingredients that you will never find in any Burt's Bees product. Things like petroleum, which is not a renewable resource and can be toxic. Sodium lauryl sulfate, which is a harsh, aggressive ingredient used in most cleansing products like shampoo. And when was the last time you saw a farmer growing propylene glycol? Rather than loading their products up with harsh chemicals or unnecessary fillers, Burt's Bees offers you only the good stuff. And of course, Burt's Bees will never conduct product or ingredient tests of any kind on animals. A few of their products contain ingredients derived from animals such as beeswax, royal jelly and milk. And for that, Burt's Bees thanks them. Burt's Bees' Commitment to Natural Products Burt's Bees promises to stick to The Natural Standard, maintaining the highest ideals and never taking the easy way out. They will never compromise what is best for your experience and well-being, and will always be true to what they define as natural. They are working with others in the industry — organizations and other companies — to join us and adopt The Natural Standard in the interest of The Greater Good. Burt's Bees believes natural products should be 100% natural. Burt's Bees products average 99% natural, with half being 100% natural. They will continue to strive for 100% natural on all their products, investigating all ingredients and the latest technologies to create the best products for your greatest well-being and never using any ingredient that has any potential suspected human health risks. Burt's Bees believes companies should be transparent. Burt's Bees thinks natural personal care products manufacturers have the responsibility to fully disclose their ingredients and any associated risks so that consumers can make the most informed decisions about the products they use. They list the percent natural on every product label and avoid ingredients with potential risks. What's more, they strive to educate consumers — and the industry — about those potential risks. Burt's Bees believes all packaging should hold to the highest standard possible of environmental sensitivity. Burt's Bees uses packaging with the highest levels of Post Consumer Recycled (PCR) materials. Their packaging is designed to be recyclable and have the lowest impact on the environment possible. Burt's Bees believes in preserving the rights of both humans and animals. Burt's Bees commits to the highest standards of free trade and working conditions in the sourcing of their products. They also pledge to never test their ingredients or products on animals. Burt's Bees believes in giving back. Through The Greater Good Foundation, Burt's Bees commits to pledge at least 10% of all Web Site sale revenues to their selected "well being" partners Burt's Bees believes in taking care of the people who make their business what it is. Burt's Bees provides an extremely rich and diverse workplace that focuses on the personal growth, development and wellness of the individual through comprehensive benefits. They set the highest standard in employee health education and benefits, safety, development and mutual code of conduct. Helping Ensure The Greater Good for All In short, The Greater Good is the highest ethical choice any of us can make to maximize our overall well-being. That means doing what's best for you, your family and the environment. At Burt's Bees, ensuring The Greater Good for their consumers, their employees and the world around them is a hard job, but they do it by adhering to a strong set of beliefs that they apply to every choice they make, every day. What Is Natural? "65% of people believe a personal care product labeled "natural" should contain 95% — 100% natural ingredients." Most contain far less. At Burt's Bees, they hold themselves to the highest standards of natural. They believe truly natural personal care and natural skin care products are the most effective products out there for you, the environment and The Greater Good. Discover the beauty of well-being. Natural Ingredients Natural ingredients are profoundly effective, inspiring to your senses, better for the environment and beneficial to your overall well-being. Natural ingredients nurture our skin and hair with wholesome nutrients that our body chemistry is familiar with, working in harmony with our bodies. You will never find any Sulfates, Parabens, Phthalates or Petrochemicals in any Burt's Bees products. Burt's Bees firmly believes that natural ingredients must come from a renewable/plentiful resource found in nature, with absolutely no petroleum compounds. This includes ingredients found in fauna (animal), flora (plant), and minerals. Rest assured, though, the animal part is substances like beeswax and honey. Plus, natural ingredients work. In fact, many synthetic ingredients are modeled after natural ones. For example, willow bark extract contains natural salicylic acid, and is the main ingredient found in Burt's Bees Natural Acne Solutions products. While other brands may choose to use the synthetic alternative because it may be cheaper or easier to produce, Burt's Bees goes straight to the natural source for their ingredients. Natural Processes Ingredients are only one part of what makes a product natural. Equally important is how those ingredients are processed. Burt's Bees prefers to use minimal processing including processes like distillation/condensation, extraction/steamed distillation/pressure cooking and hydrolysis. Their goal is to maximize purity without potentially negative effects on the ingredients. Simply put, their goal is to keep natural ingredients, natural. The Natural Standard "78% of people think that natural personal care products are regulated — 97% of people think they should be." The fact is, it's not. Without a clear definition of what "natural" is and isn't, there's been no way to know whether products are what they say they are. But, Burt's Bees is pleased to say that those days are over. Starting now, "natural" can – and will – have the same meaning across the personal care products industry. What is the Natural Standard? In order to help you identify truly natural products and maximize your well-being, Burt's Bees, along with the Natural Products Association and other leading Natural Personal Care companies, developed The Natural Standard for Personal Care Products. The standard is a set of guidelines that dictates which ingredients can and cannot be considered natural and ultimately, whether a product can be deemed truly "natural." Under the standard, any product labeled "natural" must meet the following four criteria: Natural: A product labeled "natural" should be made up of natural ingredients and be manufactured with appropriate processes to maintain ingredient purity. Safety: A product labeled "natural" should avoid any ingredient that research shows may have a suspected human health risk. Responsibility: A product labeled "natural" should use no animal testing in its development Sustainability: A product labeled "natural" should use (bio)degradable ingredients and the most environmentally sensitive packaging. Ultimately, The Natural Standard for Personal Care Products aims to clearly define what a "natural" personal care product is and what it is not. The standard encompasses all cosmetic personal care products as defined and regulated by the FDA. What does it mean? Simply put, as of May 1, 2008, The Natural Standard for Personal Care Products states that all personal care products labeled or branded "natural" must be made with at least 95% all-natural ingredients and contain only those synthetic ingredients that are specifically allowed under this standard and do not have any suspected human health risks. The standard also requires that companies be transparent, fully disclosing their ingredients accurately and truthfully. They should strive to maximize their use of recyclable and post-consumer recycled content in packaging. And finally, they should avoid animal testing of ingredients or products. How can you spot truly natural products? Helping you to clearly understand and identify truly natural products is a key element of The Natural Standard for Personal Care Products. To easily identify those products that meet the standard, the Natural Seal has been developed. You can rest assured that products carrying the Natural Seal truly are natural. Be sure to look for the Natural Seal on Burt's Bees products starting later this year! Burt's Bees Commitment to the Environment Taking care of the environment is part of the DNA of Burt's Bees — it's inherently part of how they do business. Since the company began in 1989, Burt's Bees built their business on the foundation of Earth friendly natural personal care. They believe that in order to take from nature, they must protect and provide for nature — it's a cycle that they respect and preserve. Burt's Bees' ultimate goal is to be the "greenest personal care company on earth." To this end, they have set wide-ranging goals to achieve by 2020. By that time, they want to be carbon free and operating on 100 percent renewable energy. They want none of their waste to be deposited in landfills. Their office and manufacturing facilities will have LEED certification. And, their employees will have ready access to the education, inspiration and motivation they need to make sustainable choices, in their workplace and in their homes. Green Products Burt's Bees must ensure that how their products are made and packaged lives up to the highest standards both for their consumers and the environment. By 2020, all Burt's Bees product formulas will be 100% natural and their product packaging will be 100% PCR/Biodegradable. Conservation When it comes to the planet, Burt's Bees is committed to giving back on a bigger scale. They're involved in initiatives that conserve materials, energy and water nationwide, and even worldwide. Green Office Burt's Bees is committed to engaging in business and manufacturing processes that support their commitment to The Greater Good. That's why they are focused on streamlining their operations to ensure they meet the greenest standards by 2020. Social Responsibility - Passion for Protecting People Burt's Bees believes that all people deserve to have the highest quality and standard of living possible. That's why they take their commitment to social responsibility very seriously. Burt's Bees hands-on efforts and financial contributions are making a difference both in their community and around the world. As with everything else they do, Burt's Bees' goals with regard to social responsibility revolve around well-being. They believe that they must respect and care for all living creatures and be a positive force within their community. They treat their employees with respect. They check and challenge their suppliers to embrace their principles with regard to theirs. And, they remain committed to never testing on animals. They have established The Greater Good Foundation and will continue to support like-minded organizations that are also focused on being a powerful force for nurturing the well-being of others.


text:
Chevrolet is putting a different kind of power behind its small Cruze sedan.
On Thursday, the company showed off the new Cruze Diesel Turbo at the 2013 Chicago Auto Show.
Inside and out, the new version of the Cruze is just like any other Cruze that's already on sale.
However, the difference is under the hood. That's where you'll find Chevrolet's 2-liter clean diesel turbo engine.
This is the first time in many years that Chevrolet is selling a diesel version of a small passenger in the United States, though General Motors has sold about half a million diesels in other markets.
One of the main reasons for buying a diesel-powered car is that they tend to get better gas mileage than their gasoline counterparts. Chevrolet expects the Cruze diesel to get 42 miles per gallon, which is the same as its main competitor, the Volkswagen Jetta TDI.
However, Chevrolet points out the Cruze will have more horsepower and torque than the Jetta, and it will have a lower starting price than the Jetta.
If you've been waiting for a small domestic diesel car, the Cruze diesel goes on sale this summer.
Distributed by Internet Broadcasting. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography
Great Britain and Ireland, 1800–1900 A.D.
Learn more about the 17 curatorial departments whose staff study, exhibit, and care for the objects in The Met collection.
Scientists and conservators collaborate with curators across the Museum to study, preserve, and conserve the works in The Met's unparalleled collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide provides a comprehensive view of art history spanning five millennia and the entire globe.
Read articles about the Museum's exhibitions, collection, and events written by hundreds of authors—including curators, conservators, librarians, digital professionals, and senior staff.