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HOUSTON - All of the parents who left their children at a day care the day it caught fire, killing four children, said nearly the same thing about the day care owner, Jessica Tata.
"She said I can trust her. That's the last thing she said to me before I left her," mother Kyndell Stradford said.
"I trusted her to take care of my babies. They are my life, my children," mother Tiffany Dickerson said.
Tata, 22, is an international fugitive, accused of leaving seven children alone to go to a nearby Target for 13 minutes.
Tata was the day care provider at a home in the 2800 block of Crestpark at Waypark when a fire broke out Feb. 24 shortly before 1:30 p.m. The house served as a day care facility called Jackie's Child Care. While she was away, a pan of hot oil left burning on a stove sparked the fatal fire.
Four felony manslaughter charges were filed against Tata on Friday. The Harris County District Attorney's Office said she has been charged with 14 felonies, including seven counts of reckless injury to a child and three counts of child abandonment.
The new charges are likely to help extradition proceedings if Tata is found in Nigeria, where she is believed to have fled.
Three children, Elizabeth Kojah, of Cypress, and Kendyll Stradford, of Katy, both 20 months old; and Shomari Dickerson, 3, died the day of the fire. A fourth child, Elias Castillo, died two days later.
Each parent remembers how and where they met the woman who said she would take care of their babies.
"She came up to me at Walmart. I had two jobs," mother Keisha Brown said.
Brown was looking for a flexible and loving place for her 16-month-old son, Elias Castillo. She said Tata seemed to be the perfect fit because she offered a 24-hour day care service and was open on Saturdays.
"She said she would teach sign language and taught Spanish, praise and worship. I liked that," she said.
Tata also approached Tiffany Dickerson at a Walmart, and after visiting the day care, Dickerson said she was sure her children, 3-year-old Shomari and 2-year-old Mikala, were in good hands.
Elizabeth Kojah's parents met Tata at church. They said she volunteered with the child care ministry at Braeswood Assembly of God during services.
"One of those days, I went to pick up my daughter. She said, 'I have home care. I teach Christian values to kids,'" mother Betty Kojah said.
Kojah said she even noticed a positive change in her 20-month-old daughter after attending Tata's home day care for the first few days.
"She came back praying over her food. She said Jessica taught her that. I didn't," Kojah said.
Kendyll Stradford's mother found Tata through an ad, but she said she was sold when she met her.
"My mom found the phone number on the van. When we met her, she was very sweet and open to any questions," she said.
But what the parents thought was the perfect place for their little ones turned out to be their worst nightmare.
"I have a wish that it never happened," said Elizabeth Kojah's dad.
"He was all I was living for and kept me going. Everything I did was for him," Keisha Brown said.
"My poor son. I can't give him an open casket because he's so badly burned," Tiffany Dickerson said.
After hearing that Tata may have fled to Nigeria before she could be questioned or arrested, the trust the parents had for Tata turned into anger and an even deeper pain.
"Why is she lying? Why can't she just be remorseful?" Tiffany Dickerson asked.
"I just need to know what happened," Keisha Brown said.
After such a tragedy, the nonprofit organization Collaborative For Children wants to help other parents seeking child care.
CEO Carol Shattuck said it is essential for parents to spend an entire day visiting the day care before enrolling. She also said parents should not be afraid to ask about experience and proof of certifications and references.
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Flying Through Airport Lines
MORE than 10 years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks completely altered the airport experience, travelers have a variety of options that will shorten wait times at security and immigration. But speedier processing has some downsides. Some programs charge a fee, and all require surrendering such personal information as employment background, travel history and biological data like fingerprints.
Still, the days in which every passenger is treated as a potential terrorist are over. As John Pistole, administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, said recently, "Most passengers do not pose a threat to security," confirming what travelers have been saying for years.
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Raspberry Coolers
Coming soon to a market near you: sweet-tart raspberries. Use the fruit as the base for an aromatic syrup, and combine with seltzer for a refreshing sip. A few tablespoons of the mixture also enlivens white wine, vodka, and iced or hot tea. Make a double or triple batch to keep in the refrigerator. It will last for up to a week.
- Servings: 3
Source: Martha Stewart Living, April 2010
- 2 pints raspberries
- 1 lemon, sliced 1/4 inch thick (optional)
- 1 vanilla bean (split, seeds scraped, pod reserved) or 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 cups seltzer
- Lemon wedges, for serving
Combine raspberries, sliced lemon (if using), vanilla bean, and sugar in a double boiler or heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Cook, stirring, until raspberries have released most of their juices, about 12 minutes.
Strain through a fine sieve, pressing gently with the back of a spoon; discard solids. Let cool. Pour 1/4 cup syrup into each of 3 ice-filled glasses. Top each with 1 cup seltzer. Serve with lemon wedges.


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Owls' eyes:
Did you know that owls' eyes are specially created to allow them to live at night?
With their eyes, located perfectly at the front of their heads, owls can see some 10 times clearer than human beings.
Interestingly, owls cannot move their eyes. They can only look straight ahead. Yet by means of the highly flexible structure of their necks, they can rotate their heads up to 270 degrees, Aand this gives them a very wide field of vision.
In some species of owls, the eyes represent five percent of the birds' total body weight. This is a very high figure. Were this applied to human beings it would mean us having eyes the size of large grapefruit.
Another feature of owls' eyes is that they contain a high proportion of rod cells. These are sensitive to light and allows them to see superbly in the dark.
The perfect and precise distance between the eyes of owls, which hunt at night, is also specially created and reinforces depth perception .
Allah is He Who flawlessly creates all living things together with the properties they need.
I seek refuge in Alah from the accursed satan:
The Originator of the heavens and earth. When He decides on something, He just says to it, 'Be!' and it is. (Surat al-Baqara, 117)


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Two people were killed and seven others were injured in a head-on collision between a Dakar Rally support vehicle and a taxi near Peru's border with Chile, race organisers said on Thursday.
The incident happened at 9:30pm local time on Wednesday, 10km from the frontier, a statement on the race website dakar.com said.
One of two taxis hit the support vehicle head-on while a second cab overturned as its driver tried to avoid the collision.
Two people in the first taxi, including the driver, were killed and seven people, four of them Peruvian, were injured.
Three of the injured, who were travelling in a Land Rover support vehicle, were British members of the Race2Recovery team which is made up of British and US servicemen who have been severely injured and lost limbs in foreign conflicts.
They were named as Justin Birchall, a team driver and civilian volunteer whose Wildcat vehicle retired earlier in the race; former Gulf War and Falklands war veteran Lee Townsend, a team mechanic; and retired Army Major John Winskill, the team logistics expert.
All three were flown by an Antonov aircraft to hospital in Lima where they were said to be "stable and conscious" with "non-life-threatening" injuries.
"Our hearts go out to the families and relatives of those who have died in this tragic accident and we offer them our condolences and sympathy," said Race2Recovery team leader Captain Tony Harris.
"The team decided before we even started that we would continue our endeavour. This is obviously a huge shock but we know that we have the blessing of the injured. They want the team to finish."
The collision came after the fifth stage of the race from Arequipa in Peru to Arica in Chile. The 8,400km event is being staged in South America with 459 vehicles.
Some 59 people, including 20 spectators, have lost their lives in the race over the years but organisers have been keen to play down the dangers.
This year, around 150 security staff as well as 60 doctors and surgeons are on hand, backed up by five helicopters and 10 medical vehicles, in case of emergencies.


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Dog-friendly Bathealton, 5 People & Barbecue
Tucked away in rural Somerset on the edge of Exmoor, down a private track in 15 acres, this detached barn conversion, decorated and furnished to a very high standard, has an indoor heated swimming pool and games room. Enjoy walks from the door, or in the private grounds.
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another question:
also appears in my bt5r1 finished the function "db_autopwn"?
(thus also fast-track)
as a warning that came up the other day:
[-] Warning: The command is deprecated and db_autopwn will be removed in a future version.
[-] This code is not well maintained, systems crashes, and crashes itself.
any suggestions? thanks!


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Wittenberg Students Earn Research Awards At Regional Geography Conference
December 10, 2012
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Springfield, Ohio – Three Wittenberg students were recognized for excellence in an undergraduate poster and paper competition at a joint meeting of the East Lakes and West Lakes Divisions of the American Association of Geography at Northern Illinois University in October.
Alec Biehl, class of 2014 from Medina, Ohio, Daniel Tuke, class of 2014 from Rochester, NY, and Kathryn Mauch, class of 2014 from Oakwood, Ohio, earned research awards for finishing in the top three in either a poster or paper competition during the conference. They were among 15 Wittenberg students and three faculty members in attendance, serving as panel chairs and discussing papers or posters about a research trip to the Republic of Georgia in June 2012 and applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to enrollment and alumni management at Wittenberg and fair housing in Springfield.
"This summer Wittenberg students had a wonderful opportunity to be on a research/service trip to the Republic of Georgia that sits on the Black Sea," said Olga Medvedkov, professor of geography. "Only in a small liberal school like Wittenberg can undergrads be exposed to such unique and comprehensive experiential learning, where they start from field research and service and culminate with presentations at a profession conference.
"And this is not an isolated event. Starting for 1999, Professor Gerry Hudson and I have taken students to Russia five times with the same theme of experiential learning, engagement and professional outcome."
Prizes were given for poster presentations and papers to undergraduate, master's and Ph.D. level students. There were 160 students participating in the conference.
Wittenberg students who participated in the conference are studying in a wide range of fields, including geography, Russian and Eurasian studies, economics, history, English and political science. In addition to Biehl, Tuke and Mauch, participants included Peter Jensen, class of 2012 from Indianapolis, Ind. (now a graduate student at Indiana University); Devon Lenz, class of 2013 from Springfield, Ohio; Robert Everett, class of 2014 from Cincinnati, Ohio; Michael Hofer, class of 2014 from Newark, Ohio; Katie Hunt, class of 2014 from Indianapolis, Ind.; Nathan Rathbun, class of 2014 from Naples, Fla.; Jack Ruble, class of 2014 Woodbridge, Ill., Audrey Zielenbach, class of 2014 from Columbus, Ohio; Olivia Igel, class of 2015 from Reynoldsburg, Ohio; Whitney Koelling, class of 2015 from Indianapolis, Ind.; William Lackey, class of 2015 from Glen Ridge, NJ; Andrew Miller, class of 2015 from Dulles, Va.; Erekle Shubitidze, class of 2015 from Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.
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Tim Brown to speak at annual HSU auction fundraiser
ARCATA – Former Oakland Raider Tim Brown will be the keynote speaker at the 29th Annual Sports Celebrity Dinner & Auction on Sat., March 29 at Humboldt State University. Don and Carolyn Johnson will be the honored guests.
The auction will be held in HSU's Kate Buchanan Room. Tickets are $100. Last year the event raised more than $184,000. Guest speakers in the past have included Rick Barry, Jim Harbaugh, Misty May, Joe Frazier and Steve Young. All funds raised at the event go toward scholarships for student-athletes.
"Tim Brown is one of the most dynamic offensive players in Raiders history, and I know our auction supporters will enjoy hearing what he has to say," said Associate Athletic Director Tom Trepiak. "He is not only the top receiver all-time for the Raiders, but he is also one of the best punt returners in team history."
Brown set Raiders franchise records for receptions, receiving yards, and punt return yards. He spent sixteen years with the Raiders, during which he established himself as one of the NFL's most prolific wide receivers. Brown retired with 14,934 receiving yards, the second-highest total in NFL history, 1,094 receptions (3rd), and 100 touchdown catches (3rd-Tied). He was voted to the Pro Bowl nine times, in 1988 and 1991 as a kick returner, and in 1993-97, 1999 and 2001 as a receiver.
He played college football for Notre Dame, where he won the Heisman Trophy, becoming the first wide receiver to win the award.
A group of community and business leaders serve as table sellers, filling the most of the 330 seats year after year. But that does not mean tickets are not available.
"It is true that most of the tickets are already spoken for," Trepiak said. "But we have about 50 seats available on a first-come, first-served basis." Anyone interested in attending should contact Trepiak at email@example.com or 826-5959. There will be 50 live auction items, and about 150 silent auction items. Guests will be able to bid on items such as 10 nights in a deluxe home in Maui, two tickets to this year's NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four, a 2000 BMW 3 series automobile, and sports memorabilia.
The format for the guest speaker's presentation will be the same as the previous three years where an interview will be conducted. JB Mathers will be filling the role this year as the interviewer extraordinaire. Mathers is an HSU alum who is the Voice of the Jacks and longtime news and sports director at Bicoastal Media in Eureka.


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nForce4 SLI Motherboards: Premium Performance at a Bargain Priceby Gary Key on 1/3/2006 12:05 AM EST
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DAPUNISHER - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkOff to peruse your Intel articles. Reply
DAPUNISHER - Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - linkI enjoyed your review, your 1st for AT? but for a moment, I though I was reading a retro review from AT. I liked it better when AT eschewed 3D synthetics, and chose to bench the latest, greatest titles. Even D3 and FarCry seem long in the tooth IMHO. Many do still play FarCry, but most use all the new tweaks.
Perhaps there is logic to the methodolgy that I'm missing? TIA for any illuminating reply, and I look forward to your future reviews here :-) Reply
Gary Key - Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - linkHi,
Actually, I have been covering the Intel reviews for the past few months. We are in the process of a transition over to the newer benchmarks. The last Intel article with those benchmarks can be found here-
The ability to go back and test all of the boards shown with the new benchmarks and driver sets was not possible. However, the next roundup should include newer benchmarks along with results from these three boards. Also, while FarCry and SC3 are "getting" long in the tooth they are both based on engines that can still stress a system by increasing the settings. They both offer a fairly good mix of cpu and gpu limited testing. The difference between D3 and Q4 is minimal except for SMP support now. We are also looking at providing repeatable and meaningful benchmarks for the RTS/SIM crowd without resorting to FRAPs. We plan on increasing the audio, power consumption, and disk RAID subject matter within the review process. You should see this process evolve over the next couple of months. Reply
da2ce7 - Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - linkI got the original ASUS A8N-SLI Premium with a AMD X2 3800+ and found the stability very less than satisfactory with any bios less than 1007. However over clocking has been mediocre, at the standard multiplier (10X) I can raise the FSB to 254, from 200, providing a reasonable over clock, anything higher than this I seem to be hitting the wall. The voltage options are a real disappointment only letting me raze them to 1.45v. However I get no difference when overlooking when my voltage is 1.4 to 1.45, (except for my core temp), with the old bios I could raze the v-core to 1.5 and run the FSB at 260 very happily (the system did sometimes crash every 32 hours or so), I did not test it any further then before upgrading to 1007.
When upgrading from the bios 1005 to 1007 I found that it would not post after the update, after much delay and many tests and try's I found that my very low timings T1-2-2-2-5-2 for the ram stopped it from booting. I gained control of it from putting in a stick of very old pc2100 ram and re-set the bios timings to automatic.
With your review I found it disappointing that you did not test the Silicone Ice raid controller, I have been wondering witch one I should run my hard drive on. Reply
Gary Key - Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - link
With your review I found it disappointing that you did not test the Silicone Ice raid controller, I have been wondering witch one I should run my hard drive on.
We will be including RAID results in future articles. There have been some issues with repeatable results utilizing a variety of benchmarks and of course drive configurations.
I would run the native nF4 RAID setup over the SI3114 in this case (assuming RAID0). However, if it were the SI3132 chipset on the board I would probably call it a toss up at this time. Reply
LX - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkWhy would you bother to include a bunch of performance charts where the difference between the leading and the trailing boards is less than 5%?
Don't you have enough important info to put in your articles instead of fillers?
Gary Key - Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - link
Why would you bother to include a bunch of performance charts where the difference between the leading and the trailing boards is less than 5%?
Thank you for the comments. I think the purpose of the article was to show that performance between a $100 board and that of boards costing up to $250 (A8N32) is basically the same at stock speeds. The differences in pricing will usually (not all of the time) buy additional features and greater performance via stable overclocking.
What would you like to see in our articles that we are not providing? Reply
JustAnAverageGuy - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkIt may be worth noting that in the 1011.001 BIOS, the maximum vcore drops to 1.500V with dual core processors. :) Reply
Gary Key - Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - linkWe did not have an opportunity to finalize testing with the dual cores for the articles but this issue has been brought to Asus's attention. Thanks! Reply
yacoub - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkWtf is up with the BlueGears card?? Is that simply a driver issue or not? It's such an excellent audio solution it's beyond shocking to see it perform even WORSE than onboard sound solutions when it comes to cpu usage. wtf indeed! Generally simply being a peripheral PCI device sound solution means it should be well BELOW the usage of onboard sound. Now I'm worried about purchasing their new card coming out this month (X-Plosion - onboard DTS in addition to onboard DDL like the X-Mystique has).
Please update us when you receive the new drivers and figure out why the cpu usage of this card during gaming is so atrocious. Thanks. Reply
Gary Key - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkHi,
I have been informed by Blue Gears that the significant differences we are seeing is due to the current beta driver set. They recently released a 64-bit driver set that improved performance up 18% in some applications. The general C-Media driver that was provided last fall was in worse shape than the June beta for the 32-bit operating systems so they went back to the drawing board. If you go back and read some of our recent Intel reviews you will see that Realtek has improved their HD codec performance by up to 40% in some instances over the last three driver releases. The A380 release we utilized for the ALC850/655 was around 9% better in Serious Sam II and BF2 (not shown yet) over the A379.
I would not be concerned with their next card at this point. They are very customer focused and are doing everything possible to improve the performance of the C-Media driver sets. Reply
yacoub - Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - linkThanks for the replies, Gary. Looking forward to seeing better numbers. I totally understand what you mean about scenes breaking up. I experience that as I'm waiting for the new BlueGears card to come out later this month so I'm running the onboard ALC-8xx series audio on the A8N-SLI Premium I have. It's pretty crappy and sometimes heavy action scenes with lots of sound sources seem to chug the computer and now I see that's typical of the onboard solutions. Reply
yacoub - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - link
Obviously, if you are a serious gamer, then a dedicated sound card is still a requirement to ensure consistent frame rate averages across a wide variety of games.
Considering the surprisingly poor results of the BlueGears and CLabs X-Fi cards in the actual gaming tests, why do you state that like it's an "obvious" conclusion when the numbers state exactly the inverse - that the onboard audio solutions, as cpu-grubbing as they are, actually provide the better framerates in most of the games tested?
Unless your results are anomalic, I'll have to start my soundcard research all over again. I was sold on the upcoming X-Plosion but now that it doesn't really gain me much if anything in the way of cpu usage improvement during gaming (half the purpose of getting a peripheral soundcard to begin with), I only end up with better audio quality (the other half of the purpose) and for that, yes, the BlueGears card should be better than the X-Fi series, but I really want to get better cpu usage as well. Hmmmm... Reply
Gary Key - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - link
Considering the surprisingly poor results of the BlueGears and CLabs X-Fi cards in the actual gaming tests, why do you state that like it's an "obvious" conclusion when the numbers state exactly the inverse - that the onboard audio solutions, as cpu-grubbing as they are, actually provide the better framerates in most of the games tested?
The audio quality of those two sound cards are significantly better than the Realtek ALC850/655 codecs across the spectrum. Their performance at times is worse in absolute numbers but the difference in consistent frame rates while playing on-line and within the game was significant from a subjective viewpoint. We are finishing our benchmark suite for showing (consistently) the low/average/high frame rates with sound enabled. I did not publish the BF2/F.E.A.R./HL2 numbers yet as we needed time to verify the benchmarks were repeatable with the latest patch updates. However, the two add-in cards scored better and have more consistent frame rates than the on-board sound solutions. In a couple of scenes in the BF2 benchmark the on-solutions would stutter and the scence would break up, this never happened with the add in cards.
The lastest SSII patch and Creative drivers should improved the scores even further in that game. In Serious Sam II we were quite surprised by the results and they shadowed the same results from the last Intel article. Although I can make out the near/far audio effects being played with a set of high end headphones on the ALC850 codec, it in no way compares to the sounds being played back by the XFI and Mystique. The sound on the ALC850/655 is tinny and muffled while you can hear exacting details in the same scenes with the other two cards. It is even more obvious in F.E.A.R and BF2, almost to the point of wondering if you were listening to the same audio playback.
Also, the on-board ALC850/655 solutions only support up to 26 buffers in the drivers.
Thank you.
Gary Key - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - link
In a couple of scenes in the BF2 benchmark the on-board solutions would stutter and the scene would break up, this never happened with the add-in cards.
Really need an edit function, hit the button before I finished proof reading. Reply
Spacecomber - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkShouldn't the game benchmarks, at least, have focused on performance running two video cards in SLI? There was some mention in the Final Words section of using two video cards on these boards; so, I got the impression that this might have at least been tried. Still, it comes across as an after-thought, which seems to miss the point of a thorough testing of what is the main feature of these boards.
Just a bit puzzled.
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Gary Key - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkGood Day,
We will have SLI benchmarks up once we complete the SLI roundup that consists of several more boards between the $80~$140 range. I might modify the article to include our initial results between the three boards tested. The issue is previous boards were tested with the 78.x drivers while these boards were tested with the 81.85 driver set. There is a significant performance difference in several benchmarks between the two driver sets that would have been confusing. We have not gone back and tested all of the boards in SLI with the 81.85 up to 81.98 drivers yet. Reply
deathwalker - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkOdd that the Albatron and Foxxcon come out very satisfactory in the testing and the don't make the Motherboard roundup that came out only 2 days ago. Great review though and it nice to see that you can save a couple $ on off-brand mobos and still get a decent product. Reply
Gary Key - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - link
Odd that the Albatron and Foxxcon come out very satisfactory in the testing and the don't make the Motherboard roundup that came out only 2 days ago. Great review though and it nice to see that you can save a couple $ on off-brand mobos and still get a decent product.
We still have several more value to mid-range SLI products to review and as such any final recommendations will be done at the completion of the testing cycle. Reply
Calin - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkOn the second page, in the table, all the boards have slots for DDR2 memory. It should be DDR, I think Reply
Gary Key - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - link
On the second page, in the table, all the boards have slots for DDR2 memory. It should be DDR, I think
Corrected. I apologize for that error and the previous mention of DDR2 in the Asus memory section. My right side brain was thinking DDR but the Intel side of the brain was typing DDR2. ;-> Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkNah, these are M2! Seriously, though, thanks - busted Gary on the copy/paste, eh? Although he did get the memory speeds right, so you can't go too hard on him. :) Reply
Martrox - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkI've got a K8SLi that I picked up for $80. I'm currently running a 3000+ Venice at 2610(9x290) memory set to 166fsb(TCCD 2x512)2.5,3,3,7. Running 7800GT's SLi'ed with absolutely no problems.......Wish the voltage options were better, but it does work pretty well. Reply
lopri - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkThe title says, and the article begins with "Premium performance at bargain price" then it ended up praising (and recommending) ASUS board. The ASUS board doesn't belong to same ground as that of the other two boards, and the price of the board certainly proves it. In the first page how affordable NF4-SLI boards have become is mentioned ($70), then compare 2 value boards with a premium board($170)? What's the point of this review? Did ASUS ask to boost the "A8N-SLI Premium" board since they can't meet the demand of "A8N32-SLI"?
I'm sorry but as an avid AT reader/forumer, I should say this review is totally off. It's nothing but an ASUS PR presentation. Also, it's been pointed out many times lately, but according to AT reviews, every single board on the market is a "great overclocker," "dark-horse," "keeper," "enthusiast-targeted". Everytime AT reviews a motherboard they miraculously find something to compliment and that becomes the main point of the article.
It's almost up to the point that I no longer completely trust AT motherboard reviews. I'm sorry to say this, especially the author of this specific article, but my comment is more general towards the whole AT motherboard team. (Wesley, Jared, et. al)
Is this going to continue? (Sigh..)
JarredWalton - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkJust curious, Lopri, but you did notice that the Foxconn and Albatron received a recommendation based on price, right? There are people that want all the features of something like the ASUS Premium, and they're willing to pay for it. All three motherboards here are pretty decent, though, and while I didn't write the article I'm a little confused as to how this is seen as a PR piece.
To a certain extent, all reviews are a form of PR. Companies send us a product and we review it. We review other products sometimes, but generally speaking we review the products that we get sent. The only things that really separates these boards from each other are features and overclocking capability. In most of the benchmarks, scores are close enough that you needn't lose sleep over the difference. Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkWe've complained plenty about the ATI SB450 southbrudge (poor USB 2.0 performance) even though we like the ATI chipset in general. We've also complained loudly about nVidia's mediocre AC'97 audio on their top boards when ATI and ULi are delivering hooks for HD Azalia in their AMD chipsets.
Frankly, until very recently Asus had not had a really great AMD board since the Socket A days - they hadn't won a single AMD roundup in quite a while. Asus rested on really great Intel boards. Recently Asus got very serious about the AMD market and the A8N32-SLI Deluxe is a great board. So is the A8R-MVP at the price point of around $100. However, as another recent review clearly showed, the Asus 6150 is pretty pedestrian and not a great choice for a multimedia PC with all the important multimedia stuff an extra cost option.
A lot of the real crap boards we see get pulled from the market before release and our review never sees the light of day. An example is the original Asus Premium reviewed here, which was a terrible overclocker due to the switches that replaced the paddle for SLI switching. When we complained to Asus they decided to hold off release of the board and rework the switching. The result is the board reviewed here which is a huge improvement. Oddly, it overclocks FSB very well but really does not do a great job in overclocking memory. The A8N32-SLI Deluxe is still the better board for the Enthusiast.
The motherboard team really cares about the products, and they aren't looking for a sensational story like some other sites. We could write Inquirer-like exposes on plenty of the early BIOS' we receive, but we prefer to work with the manufacturer to try to resolve the issues on production boards. If we can't get things to work we ask lots of questions before we assume we are Gods and the board is junk. But if it's junk or just all hype in the end, we'll tell you that.
We began testing features more in-depth because the memory controller on the AMD CPU greatly reduced the performance variations we used to see in motherboards. Also most manufacturers have gotten more serious about going after the Enthusiast who is our basic reader. That's the reason you're seeing so many really good overclockers these days. Just when we think it can't get any better another board sets some new record. However there are lots of boards out there below these standards, and we do tell you that when we review them.
mindless1 - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkI see nothing wrong with this concept, makes plenty of sense.
I would not however consider this to be "Premium Performance at a Bargain Price". Back in the socket A days an AMD platform at a bargin price was $50-70 for your basic nForce2, of course a little higher when first deputed. It's very hard to make an argument that any board over $100 is bargain in this age with so many of the features chipset-integral.
If anything, the typical trends of motherboard features and performance are still holding true but at a far worse bargain than ever before. SLI should not cost much more except for the smaller market segment.
On a side note- Cooling the Asus board by moving the heat from the southbridge to the hottest zone on the board just to save a fan is a really bad idea. Almost seems like an afterthought for marketing purposes. Given the space that thing takes up they should've just use a giant low-profile passive 'sink if they really needed to stay fanless.
mindless1 - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - link"... by moving the heat from the southbridge"
I too would like an edit function. ;-) Reply
Beenthere - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - link...Mobo for the vast majority of PC users as the article states. Most people have no need or use for SLI and have no interest in paying a premium price for SLI when they will never use it. SLI is a gimmick for gamers and nothing more. If you want it, buy it, but I highly doubt mainstream PC users will cough up $170 bucks or more for SLI when you can have Asus's A8R-MVP Crossfire Mobo for $101. from Mwave.
The $70. you save could go toward a nice Vid card and the A8R-MVP overclocks every bit as good as the SLI boards and performs better than all of the SLI Mobos per Wesley Finks recent review.
At $101. mainstream PC users can have the best performance, overclocking and not even worry about paying a premium for Crossfire or dual graphics cards. If in the future they really desire to blow more dough on a second video card, they could, but there would not be a price penalty for purchasing the superior A8R-MVP Mobo like there is with any of the SLI rigs. Reply
Some1ne - Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - linkI agree, I feel that the article makes some unfounded and moreover highly irresponsible statements, such as "in fact, the current price structure almost ensures that your nForce4 purchase should be an SLI-capable motherboard." SLI is not worth it in any way, shape, or form from any cost/performance standpoint, unless you happen to be the enthusiast user who wants the highest possible performance available today no matter the cost. For everyone else SLI is worthess...and yet how many new users are going to go out and waste their cash on an SLI board because of statements made in the article like the one above?
Irresponsible, and not backed up by any solid evidence. It's like the author started off with the assumption that SLI = good, so therefore any affordable SLI board is also good. It doesn't work like that though. Reply
Gary Key - Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - link
I agree, I feel that the article makes some unfounded and moreover highly irresponsible statements, such as "in fact, the current price structure almost ensures that your nForce4 purchase should be an SLI-capable motherboard." SLI is not worth it in any way, shape, or form from any cost/performance standpoint, unless you happen to be the enthusiast user who wants the highest possible performance available today no matter the cost. For everyone else SLI is worthess...and yet how many new users are going to go out and waste their cash on an SLI board because of statements made in the article like the one above?
As stated in the article the current pricing structure lends itself to the purchase of an SLI capable motherboard if the nForce4 is your chipset of choice. Even if you do not utilize SLI you at least have the option of doing so, if not for gaming, then for multiple monitor support and excellent performance utilizing two x8 lanes. If you look at the current support from the motherboard suppliers and product plans it is very obvious that SLI/CrossFire capable motherboards are becoming the standard across all price points. Our statements were based on these facts regarding the motherboard choices available. If you consider the potential cost/performance benefits then why pay the same amount of money for a board that is not capable of SLI or CrossFire and will probably not receive the same level of support over the lifespan of the product. Reply
bob661 - Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - link
SLI is not worth it in any way, shape, or form from any cost/performance standpoint, unless you happen to be the enthusiast user who wants the highest possible performance available today no matter the cost.
Isn't this a contradiction? Reply
Capt Caveman - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkWhat are you talking about? You can get a SLI board for $70. Reply
andlcool - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkfor the asus one, it should be ddr and not ddr2. Reply
ElFenix - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkstill, should be a good price for stock speed boards Reply
ElFenix - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linklooking at the first chart i mean. doesn't seem to fall off much eh?
<--- wants an edit function Reply
Gary Key - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - linkThe Foxconn board offered excellent stability throughout testing although it certainly is not targeted at the overclocking crowd. The performance was certainly acceptable and without the benchmarks you probably would not be able to tell the difference between it and the other boards. The layout is really nice unless you plan on utilizing two video cards with two slot cooling solutions as the space becomes very tight between the two x16 slots.
I would like an edit function also. ;-> Reply


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Like an expert surfer, Carver appears to be riding a wave. The C37 (the "C" stands for Coupe) is the third new model the company has launched in the past 12 months. Keeping with Carver's strength for years, it has given this boat a remarkably spacious interior for her length, in part thanks to space-saving stern drives.
Seems as though every boatbuilder worth the price of its tooling has listened to its public and responded with an uninterrupted single level from the transom to the helm. Aboard the C37, double glass doors (portside door is a bi-fold) swing open onto the saloon. Opposite an in-line galley to starboard is a settee with a table that seats four. Large windows all around and the sunroof wash the saloon with light, even on the cloudiest of days.
The C37 carries quite a lot of beam forward of amidships to permit a spacious master stateroom in the bow and a double on the starboard side. This much volume in a relatively short boat often demands unpleasant compromises in styling, but Carver's design team has done a fine job. Substantial freeboard forward gives lots of headroom belowdecks, but the designers have disguised this with a lovely sheerline, round portlights, and dark topsides. Her rakish superstructure, nicely enhanced by the dark accent around the widows, further reduces our perception of bulk.
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On Friday, Dairy Herd Network asked how you felt about the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments decision last week not to lower that national standard for somatic cell counts (SCC) to 400,000 cells per ml.
Apparently that decision didn't sit well with many of you. By a nearly three-to-one margin, respondents to this non-scientific poll said that they did not support the choice to leave national standards where they are.
Seventy-four percent said they did not support the NCIMS action, while 26 percent said they supported the decision. Two percent of respondents said they were not sure.
Reader comments were considerably more pointed.
For instance, a Michigan reader (with support from a reader in Vermont) suggested that "The U.S. dairy industry has just lost an opportunity to shore-up our critical dairy product export market. Lowering the SCC maximum to 400,000 would have sent a strong message to our dairy export partners that the U.S. takes this market seriously."
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DETROIT - Lt. James Hill-Harris is very personally driven to investigate fires.
As a member of the Detroit Fire Department, he pursued a career as an arson investigator after his father, who was also a firefighter, was killed trying to put out a blaze that was intentionally set.
Hill-Harris' father was Walter Harris, a Detroit firefighter killed in 2008.
"My father perished as a result of an arson fire and that motivated me a lot," said Hill-Harris. "The firefighter protects the civilians, the investigators, we try to protect the firefighters."
The Detroit arson unit should have 15 investigators, but because of recent cut backs there are only nine. The investigators said they are backed up and have to prioritize which fires they investigate first. So those where someone is injured or killed get first priority.
"The financial situation doesn't allow us to have as many investigators we need. We need 100 investigators, we don't have that, we only have a fraction of it," said Hill-Harris.
Hill Harris said in some cases they have to pay for training to keep their skills up-to-date.
It was on a recent training conference that Hill-Harris and other Detroit investigators attended that he said they became the butt of the instructors jokes.
"It's no secret that Detroit is under funded and some of our training we have to do in house so we can't afford some of the sophisticated equipment and training courses that other investigators are privy too and we become the butt of jokes because of it," said Hill Harris.
Stuart Sklar, a shareholder at Fabian, Sklar and King in Farmington Hills has litigated hundreds of fire and explosion cases and is a certified fire and explosion investigator. He too was at the training conference.
"He just kept razzing them and cutting down the department," said Sklar about the instructor.
Sklar didn't like what he was hearing.
"They have a thankless job. They have probably the worst arson problem in the country, they investigate more fires per investigator than any other department in the country," said Sklar.
"These guys want to be the best and because of the budget situation in the city, they don't necessarily have the opportunity to do it," said Sklar. "I just felt very strongly about bringing this program to them so they could have the opportunity to get some of the best training in the country.
Sklar struck up a conversation with the Detroit investigators and discovered they didn't have the money to buy updated National Fire Prevention Association 921 manuals, books he describes as 'the bible' of fire investigation. So Sklar's firm donated books to the arson unit.
Hill-Harris said they were blown away by the donation.
"But he wasn't finished. That wasn't enough. He said listen, after handing us these $100 books he said 'Can I put on a seminar just for you guys? if I can bring some people from the National Association of Fire Investigators to Detroit for you guys, I know if you're hurting like this for the funds to even buy a book you can't afford the $1,000 seminar down in Florida and the cost of travel,'" said Hill-Harris.
Sklar's firm paid to fly in experts from the National Association of Fire Investigators for a two and a half day training conference. The entire unit became nationally certified in fire investigation.
Sklar said the cost to the firm was worth the outcome.
"I can't express in strong enough terms how inspiring these guys were and are, how motivated they are to be the best that they can be at what they do," said Sklar.
Lt. Hill-Harris is one of the arson investigators recently laid off from the arson unit, but he is still with the fire department. He is hoping the financial situation changes so he can resume investigating fires.
He is grateful for the donation Sklar and his firm made to the department.
"Stuart is working on his admission to sainthood at this point in my book," said Hill-Harris.
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Do you have questions about Missouri's new high school equivalency exam? If so, you're in the right place. Read on to find answers to the most frequently asked questions about the HiSET exam.
What is the HiSET?
The HiSET (the High School Equivalency Test) is the new high school equivalency exam for the state of Missouri. The HiSET was created by the Education Testing Service (ETS) and the Iowa Testing Programs. As of January 1, 2014 it will replace the GED.
What happened to the GED?
Recent shifts in how the GED is administered, along with an increase in its cost, led to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's decision to pursue a new high school equivalency exam. HiSET was the final choice.
Is the HiSET more difficult than the GED?
The HiSET should be close to the same level of difficulty as the GED.
How much does the HiSET cost?
The total cost for the HiSET is $95. This includes a $60 administrative fee plus $7 for each of the five subtests. The registration is good for 12 months. Students will be able to retake a subtest up to three times during that 12-month period at a charge of $7 per subtest.
How do I prepare for the HiSET?
There are several resources available for those wishing to study for the HiSET.
How do I register for the HiSET?
Create a My HiSET account through the HiSET website. After setting up an account you will be able to find a test center in your area and register for the exam.
Where do I take the HiSET?
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Whilst I understand css and can usually hack most things I am unsure when it comes to responsive design.
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I am just trying to learn CSS based layout, so I can't tell you what the issue is, but I have uploaded an image to illustrate your issue.
A summary of the problem would be whatever container the text is in is being allowed to expand too far when the right column of navigation is removed. Hopefully an expert will be along to solve the issue.
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Yes, I know what is causing it in that the content div does not shrink correctly in being responsive, but I have just not kept up with responsive design due to illnesses. Now I need to work it out PDQ for a client.
There is a web developer extension for Firefox which will show you all the div info, which might help you a bit.
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Pain in the Neck: Tornoe's take on health care annoyances
The health-care system can be pretty annoying. Long waits, endless tests, big bills — these can rattle your nerves and raise your blood pressure while you're trying to take care of your health.
WHYY's health and science team is discussing the issue in an occasional series called "Pain in the Neck."
On this week's newsmagazine special "First Extra: Health + Technology," NewsWorks cartoonist Rob Tornoe gives his take.
We're always looking for new annoyances — and solutions — to feature in the next segment.
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WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., holding back tears, entered a guilty plea Wednesday in federal court to criminal charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. He faces 46 to 57 months in prison under a plea deal with prosecutors.
Before entering the plea, Jackson told U.S. District Judge Robert L. Wilkins, "I've never been more clear in my life" in his decision to plead guilty.
Later, when Wilkins asked if Jackson committed the acts outlined in court papers, the former congressman replied, "I did these things."
Jackson's father, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, watched the proceedings in the front row, hands folded, with no expression and virtually no movements.
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The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is reminding travelers that Mercer Street is now fully operational for westbound and eastbound traffic between Fifth Avenue North and Elliott Avenue West.
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Over Memorial Day weekend, expect the following conditions throughout the corridor:
•Mercer Street is open to two-way traffic between Elliott Avenue West and Fifth Avenue North.
•Roy Street is reduced to one westbound lane between Queen Anne Avenue North and Fifth Avenue North.
•Mercer Street remains eastbound-only between Fifth and Ninth avenues North, with two lanes open to traffic. Two-way traffic on Mercer and Roy streets and Queen Anne Avenue North is scheduled to open in early June.
The final phase of work associated with opening Mercer Street between Fifth and Ninth avenue North, Roy Street between Fifth and Queen Anne avenues North and Queen Anne Avenue between Mercer and Roy streets to two-way traffic and closing Broad Street is anticipated to occur the weekend of May 31 through June 2. Details about construction activities and associated closure information for that weekend will be announced in the near future.
With the opening of two-way traffic on Mercer Street, Broad Street will permanently close to traffic in both directions between Fifth and Ninth avenues North in early June to allow for additional space to widen Mercer Street to the south at Dexter Avenue North and work associated with the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Project.


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If the Mets are to get White Sox lefty Mark Buehrle they must step up quickly because: a) Chicago is itching to deal after a lost weekend to the Cubs, and b) the competition will intensify and with it the asking price increase closer to the trade deadline.
Sox GM Ken Williams sure sounds like a man wanting to talk trade: "Change needs to happen and change is going to happen. When that happens, I don't know."
The Red Sox appear to be front-runners, and with Curt Schilling hurting, they could force the issue. Given that, the Mets can't afford to sit back and read the market as they did over the winter. They must set the market.
The White Sox aren't negotiating with free agent-to-be Buehrle. If the Mets want him they not only have to be prepared to give up players, but ready to sign Buehrle to an extension. If Chicago won't offer a negotiating window, the Mets must pass because they don't have the depth to make this a rental.
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Last week Skyrim took a world tour — with the game being shown to press in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and across Europe. Read press impressions at the following sites:
Destructoid – "'Epic' is a word that has been thrown around to the point of irrelevance, but it's absolutely the right word for Skyrim. Skyrim is huge, majestic, and genuinely awe-insipring. I have no doubt that hardcore Elder Scrolls fans will play this game for the next half a decade."
DualShockers – "Playing three hours of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was the best tease I've ever had"
The Sixth Axis – " Skyrim isn't just 2011's biggest RPG, it could just be the best ever. You should be very, very excited."
Shacknews – "Very few games get such a charge of excitement out of me, but Skyrim is probably my most anticipated game of the year."
New York Post – "From the limited time I had with Skyrim, I can say with confidence that this will be one of the biggest and most engrossing titles ever. The massive world, numerous side quests and the seemingly endless paths will certainly make Skyrim a game worthy of the Elder Scrolls name."
CVG – "But what we can't do is present our readership with a full picture. We can't put them in the mind-set of being swallowed by the incredible world that Skyrim contains, or becoming immersed in its truly epic storyline."
Joystiq – "Ever since Skyrim was announced, I've had one thing on my mind: dragons. You see, I need to kill them. I need to kill an infinite number of dragons. I don't know what it is that is fueling this need within me, but there it is: I'm a genocidal maniac and every last dragon must die."
Videogamer – "The franchise has always prided itself on its open world tendencies, but this is easily working up to have the most vivid depiction of a fantasy setting in an RPG."
G4TV – "The weather mechanics implemented into Skyrim are the best I've ever seen. The blizzard I walked through looked like snow, milky white diamonds plummeting to the ground."
Kotaku – "Skyrim is so immersive and deep an experience that a person could play for a third of a work day and never even brush by the main storyline."
Wired – "Though the three-hour demo didn't answer those heavy questions, it did get me pumped to spend hundreds more hours immersed in Skyrim's ridiculously detailed world next month. And the first thing I'm going to do when I pick up the game again is collect better loot, max out my skills and slay that freaking dragon. I can't wait."
IncGamers – "And what a world. After exiting a small, claustrophobic, dimly-lit cave we emerge into a landscape composed of a lush green grass and trees, vividly-coloured wild flowers, galloping deer, stalking foxes and singing birds. In the distance we see blue-grey ice capped mountains sheltered by imposing dark clouds. Separating the distinct hues of blue and green is a river, at some points flowing gently, at others rushing over rocks to form small whirlpools and dramatic waterfalls."
IGN – "Skyrim feels like a real place, from the way the wind kicks up snow from the edges of rocky cliffs to the way the surface of ponds ripples under a light rain. It's packed with structured content, but also filled with plenty more reasons to explore."
VG247 – "Bleak Falls Barrow is a dungeon immediately more memorable than any from Oblivion: vegetation fighting to gain a hold amongst the cold rock, low tunnels giving way to exposed chambers through which the bleak sky can be glimpsed and a narrow bridge hewn from the rock spanning an abyss into which an underground waterfall cascades."
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Married with Videogames – "Bethesda took a lot of elements from Fallout 3 and Oblivion to create what is going to be a fantastic game that will keep you quite busy throughout this holiday season and for quite sometime after that."
Tech Digest TV – "A game that may well not just meet the hype, but best it"
Inside Gaming (Machinima) – "While your character will no doubt be at the center of your Skyrim experience, it's the game worlds of The Elder Scrolls series that are always the stars of the show. It's tough to say just how big Skyrim's world is compared to the other games, but even in our short play session it's obvious this is quite an expansive slab of land."
Coin-Op.TV – "Skyrim looks great and we already know that Bethesda is going to bring us a fantastic story and exploration of the world. I played about two hours of the game mostly in third person perspective and can say that Bethesda has really opened up the world and nailed this point of view – makes me wonder how I made it through those earlier games in first person view!"
Gaming Truth – Rookie Playthrough, Veteran Playthrough
Eurogamer – "Skyrim's landmass is comparable to its predecessor Oblivion's, but it has the benefit of ruddy great mountains adding a whole lot of vertical space to the world."


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MySchizoBuddy - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - linkCan you please do an article with CUDA only benchmarks comparing various NVIDIA only GPUs. Reply
jaydee - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - linkNo displayport on any of these? Really? Reply
Conficio - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - linkIn the table both Gigabyte cards are listed with the same clockspeeds,, while the detailed text says one id higher clocked. Reply
Conficio - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - linkDon't listen to me. They are both overclocked the same way?? Reply
jaydee - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - linkI think the differentiator is the amount of RAM, not the clock speeds. THe more expensive card has 2GB of GDDR5, the cheaper one has 1GB. Reply
Teknobug - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkLooks like they're going into the HTPC or microITX design low profile now? I always hated long cards, I've had problems with some long cards in the past and had to buy a different case because the long card would hit the HDD bracket. The old Gravis UltraSound back in the 90's was one of the longest cards I've ever had and was a headache to fit into my 486 at the time.
Question is, with such a low profile like that, will it be up to the task for heavy gaming and have adequate cooling with just 1 fan? Reply
otakotak - Thursday, December 20, 2012 - linkI bought Gigabyte Windforce 2 months ago but now it failed. what reason occurence of damage . really lost to me $175 us dollar( RM460 in my country) to use for 2 months . can anyone help. sorry my broken language Reply
balazer - Tuesday, October 01, 2013 - linkNone of these cards appear to have two DVI-I ports. The table is incorrect. Reply
P40EWarhawk - Tuesday, April 08, 2014 - linkI have a MSI 650 Ti based on the reference clocks, I got it because it was much cheaper than the factory overclocked models. (why pay extra for something you can do for free right?) Anyway I like to use Nvidia Inspector to overclock mine with, I like how you can set what clocks you want with Nvidia inspector and then make a shortcut to it, And it automatically overclocks the card without anything running in the background, My basic MSI model Overclocks really well, I have not tried any real serious overclocks, The 650 Ti is a strong enough card for almost anything at stock clock anyway. But I have matched all the clocks of all factory overclock settings with success, The memory on my card overclocks beautifully too, Just like the AMP edition I can set my memory speed from 1350 mhz to 1500 mhz boosting the cards memory bandwidth from 86.4 GB/s to 96.0 GB/s, giving a very nice increase in FPS for higher resolution, The GPU clock at stock is 928mhz, and the highest I clocked the core so far is 1033, This raises pixel/texture from 14.8 Pixel and 59.4 Texture while at stock 928 mhz to 16.5 Pixel and 66.1 Texture at 1033 mhz, That is a very nice boost for just a 105 mhz increase. This card really overclocks well, Delivers very nice performance, My 650 Ti cost $119 dollars and also had a $20 rebate, So at that price this card is unbeatable. For that I recommend the GTX 650 Ti to anyone needing a GPU for modern gaming. I still also recommend it over the 750 Ti, The 650 Ti's performance is a little less than the 750 Ti's , But not enough of a difference in performance to pay $149.99 for the 750 Ti, Because you can get close to the same performance with the 650 Ti for $119.99 , However it is up to you. But in my opinion Nvidia really needs to lower the price of the 750 Ti if they expect it to be succesfull, There are too many GPU's with a lower price tag that can perform just as good, And GPU's at the price of $150 that can perform better. Reply


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BOSTON ( TheStreet) -- Since its forced eviction from the Zucotti Park in New York City at the end of 2011, Occupy Wall Street may have slipped from much of the general public's radar. Not only is the group still alive and kicking, but it has made recent headlines with the success of its ambitious program designed to help abolish some people's personal debt.
Rolling Jubilee, an initiative set up by Occupy's Strike Debt group last year, announced last month that has bought and purged nearly $15 million in other people's personal debt, mostly from medical bills.
"No one should have to go into debt or bankruptcy because they get sick," Laura Hanna, an organizer with the group, told The Guardian, noting that 62% of all personal bankruptcies list medical debts.
Some critics warned that lenders might be reluctant to sell to Strike Debt. Yet so far, that hasn't been the case.
"It hasn't been an issue at all," Mike Andrews, a writer and editor who has been involved with Strike Debt's efforts, told Business Insider. "[The lenders] are happy to get paid any amount for it, and they don't care what happens with it after it's bought."
Occupy says it has achieved its goals so far for mere pennies on the dollar, spending less than a half-million dollars for their return. The outcome so far has exceeded the group's original expectations, which was to raise $50,000 to buy $1 million in debt.
Occupy started Strike Debt as part of an effort to raise public awareness about how the debt market works.
When a bank or lender cannot successfully collect on an individual's debt -- whether from credit cards, loans or medical insurance -- it usually winds up selling it to the "secondary debt market." The companies in this market buy up the debt for basement prices, typically for somewhere around five cents on the dollar.


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With her international prostitute ring in full swing, it was only a matter of time until Lindsay Lohan started showing the normal wear and tear experienced by most streetwalkers: Chipped, yellow teeth; strange scars and bruises and the compulsive need to secretly itch one's freckle-lajora while thinking no one will notice. How she didn't drag her ass across the carpet until someone put a cone around her neck is a testament of the human spirit – or the presence of an open bar. Probably that last one.
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Heat oil in a large saucepan, sauté the garlic and onions for 2 to 3 minutes. Add celery, carrots, sage, basil, beans, water and sea salt. Cover, bring to a boil and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. Add black pepper and spinach. Simmer 2 minutes.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – In a Saturday afternoon Sunshine State Conference contest against the No. 13 Rollins College Tars, the Saint Leo women's basketball team fell by an 86-76 score. Senior Teresa Manigrasso earned her 1,000th career point in the effort.
Despite heading into the halftime period trailing Rollins 45-43, the first half was an exciting battle. At one point, Rollins led by as much as 14 in the period, but Lions retaliated on defense to walk into halftime trailing 45-43.
With the clock ticking in the second half, the Tars broke away from the Lions for the second time, but the Lions were able to again stop the momentum and capitalize on defense. In spite of the solid offensive and defensive effort, however, the No. 13 Tars walked out of the Bowman Center with an 86-76 SSC victory.
Offensively, senior Teresa Manigrasso led the Lions in scoring for the afternoon, tallying 23 points. She was notched her 1,000th career point in the first half.
Sophomore Chachi Guzman and seniors Chelsea Connelly and Chelsea Williams also contributed heavily on offense. In addition to Guzman's 14 point effort, Connelly and Williams recorded 11 and 10 points, consecutively.
On the defensive end of the game, Connelly led her Lions' team with nine rebounds. Melissa Jackson, Keishara Green, and Chelsea Williams also tallied seven each in the loss.
The Lions will return to action on Wednesday, February 5 when they head to Melbourne, Fla. to do battle with the Florida Tech Panthers. Tipoff for the Sunshine State Conference contest is set for 5:00 p.m.
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DENISE Inge, wife of the Bishop of Worcester, has lost her battle against cancer, the diocese has said.
The following statement was posted on the Diocese of Worcester website yesterday:
"It's with immense sadness that we need to report that Denise, Bishop John's wife, died during the afternoon of Sunday, April 20, after her condition deteriorated rapidly in the night. Bishop John was with Denise as she died, as were their daughters and Denise's mother and sister who had recently flown in from America.
"Bishop John said: 'My most beloved Denise died at 3pm today. The end was mercifully quick: she was up and about laughing and joking, welcoming friends and making bolognaise sauce yesterday.
"It's appropriate that the Lord should have taken her to himself on Easter Day, the day of resurrection.
"She believed in that resurrection fervently - though she did not want to die because she wanted to be here to care for her precious girls.
"The dean brought her communion and anointed her this morning - and she was keen for us all to sing hymns of Christ's victory over death. She was full of faith right to the end.
"May the risen Lord Jesus, whom she served so faithfully, welcome her into his loving arms and lead her to our gracious God and Father. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.'
"Please pray for Bishop John, Eleanor and Olivia at this very difficult time. Details of the funeral will be made available as soon as they're finalised."
Tweeted tributes to Denise Inge
Prayers for Bishop a John & his family as we remember with love & give thanks for the life of Denise Inge pic.twitter.com/yIs6f2tJjI— HuntingdonTCA (@TCAnglicans) April 21, 2014
Very sad news about Denise Inge. RIP. http://t.co/3WqAdTT19u— Edward Davies (@hearfrommiii) April 21, 2014
Deeply saddened by news of death of Denise Inge.Many in Worcester will mourn her passing.Thoughts & prayers with @BishopWorcester & family— Joy Squires (@JoySquires) April 21, 2014
Prayers for @BishopWorcester and family after Denise Inge died yesterday. Immensely moving tribute here: http://t.co/YSxz0EGWvO— Ed Thornton (@Edthornton) April 21, 2014
Very sad to learn of the death of Denise Inge. Scholar, wife, mother and extraordinarily brave in the face of cancer.— Parish of Evesham (@ParishofEvesham) April 21, 2014
Very sad to learn of death of Denise Inge, wife of @BishopWorcester . Thoughts & prayers with Bishop John & their girls. RIP.— Kevin Ward (@ArgusKevinWard) April 21, 2014
Denise Inge inspired many Quiet Gardeners So grateful for her involvement Deep sympathy to all who knew & loved her. http://t.co/AqHp8vIJ9Y.— Quiet Garden Trust (@QuietGardens) April 21, 2014
So very sad to learn of the death of Denise Inge, a wonderful theologian and inspiration to many of us.— Paula Gooder (@paulargooder) April 20, 2014
Prayers here RT @CofEWorcester: Very sadly, Denise Inge, wife of @BishopWorcester died this afternoon. An amazing & inspirational woman.— Sarah Brush (@DocBrush) April 20, 2014
Denise Inge, scholar of Traherne & wife of @BishopWorcester, died today, surrounded by Christ's love. #Prayers. http://t.co/sG8rDTBN2c— Graham Kings (@BishopSherborne) April 20, 2014
Denise Inge RIP. Entered into life Easter Day. Prayers & deep condolences from @durhamcathedral. @BishopWorcester http://t.co/WlCFozolcv— Michael Sadgrove (@Sadgrovem) April 20, 2014
Sad to hear of death of Denise Inge. Fine scholar, astute critic & impressive human being. Prayers with John & family. #RIP #fb— Rachel Mann (@RevRachelMann) April 20, 2014
Sad news that Denise Inge died yesterday afternoon. Love and prayers for Bp John and their girls.— Lyn Rowson (@revdormouse) April 21, 2014
So sad to learn of Denise Inge's death today. Prayers for John & their two girls in this huge loss. http://t.co/lphjchaTH9 @BishopWorcester— margaret masson (@margaretmasson) April 20, 2014
Very sad to learn of the death of Denise Inge. Scholar, wife, mother and extraordinarily brave in the face of cancer.— Andrew Spurr (@Andrew_Spurr) April 20, 2014
Very sad to hear that Denise Inge died today. She was much loved in Ely, and a greatly talented person. A huge loss to the Church.— Elaine Storkey (@ElaineStorkey) April 20, 2014
"@CofEWorcester: Very sadly, Denise Inge, wife of @BishopWorcester died this pm. http://t.co/fIKsaoaU1R." << May she be with risen Lord— Doug Chaplin (@dougchaplin) April 20, 2014
Prayers here RT @CofEWorcester: Very sadly, Denise Inge, wife of @BishopWorcester died this afternoon. An amazing & inspirational woman.— Worcester DYO (@wd_you) April 20, 2014
"@CraigBatemanWYC: Saddened to hear that Denise Inge, the much-loved wife of the Bishop of Worcester has today passed away Such sad news!— Fran Oborski (@cllrfranoborski) April 20, 2014
@BishopWorcester heartbreaking news that Denise Inge has died. May the consolation and peace of Christ be with John, Olivia and Eleanor— Kalantha Brewis (@barefootsquaw) April 20, 2014
"RIP Denise Inge, wife of @BishopWorcester who died this morning. Wonderful lady. Light perpetual shine upon her." And pray 4 +John & family— sue penfold (@PenfoldSue) April 20, 2014
So sad to hear the news of the death of Denise Inge. May she RIP & rise in glory. Prayers to +John and his daughters. http://t.co/ZtmwTYNRv4— Jan Payne (@elymusic1) April 20, 2014
Saddened to hear Denise Inge much-loved wife of @BishopWorcester has passed away. Appropriate that it be Eastertide. Deepest condolences— Craig Bateman (@CraigBatemanWYC) April 20, 2014
RT@His_Grace: Saddened to learn that Denise Inge, much-loved wife of @BishopWorcester, passed into Glory this Easter Day Sincere condolences— Pete Broadbent (@petespurs) April 20, 2014
I am sure that our Counties' prayers & thoughts are with our Bishop at this sad time.— Adrian Hardman (@CllrAHardman) April 21, 2014
Prayers for @BishopWorcester, his family and @CofEWorcester on the passing of Denise Inge http://t.co/yOLlTQk0km #inspired #resurrectionhope— Philip Cochrane (@PhilipCochrane) April 21, 2014
So sorry to hear that @BishopWorcester John Inge's wife, Denise, died on Easter Day. Requiescat in pace. http://t.co/uWsxUWXZI9— Gerry Lynch (@gerrylynch) April 21, 2014
@BishopWorcester @CofEWorcester Heart Felt sympathies from the community May god bless Denise RIP Our prayers are with you.— Jabba Riaz (@JabbaRiaz) April 21, 2014
Jim and I were deeply saddened to hear that Denise Inge passed away this Easter Sunday. Our thoughts and prayers with Bishop John and family— Harriett Baldwin (@HBaldwinMP) April 21, 2014


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Rove Misses Security Experts' Assessments Of Climate Change
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On Fox News, Karl Rove criticized President Obama for elevating climate change as a national security concern. However, national security experts have long warned that climate change will exacerbate existing tensions within and between nations, and the U.S. military became concerned about the issue before the Obama administration.
Rove Criticizes Obama For Recognizing Climate Change As A National Security Threat
Rove: Obama "Elevat[ed] Climate To The Same Importance As Weapons Of Mass Destruction And Terrorism." Echoing a Foreign Policy column by former Bush adviser Peter Feaver, Karl Rove said on Fox & Friends that President Obama is "elevating climate to the same importance as weapons of mass destruction and terrorism" and "it hasn't gone well":
KARL ROVE: Where President Obama has embraced the Bush worldview, things have gone well. Where President Obama has not embraced the Bush worldview, it has not gone as well. In fact, as Peter makes the point, where he's embraced Tom Friedman's views on how to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or about elevating climate to the same importance as weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, then it hasn't gone well. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 11/1/11]
National Security Experts Have Long Identified Challenges Posed By Climate Change
Security Experts Under Reagan Admin. Researched Climate And Security Connection. From The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media:
"The US security community has been looking at environment and security links for much longer than the current attention around climate/security linkages would suggest," Geoffrey Dabelko, director of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, told The Yale Forum in an e-mail interview. He noted that the research goes back as far as the Reagan administration. [The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, 7/17/08]
Bush Included Climate Change In His 2002 National Security Strategy. From President George W. Bush's 2002 National Security Strategy:
Economic growth should be accompanied by global efforts to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations associated with this growth, containing them at a level that prevents dangerous human interference with the global climate. Our overall objective is to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions relative to the size of our economy, cutting such emissions per unit of economic activity by 18 percent over the next 10 years, by the year 2012. Our strategies for attaining this goal will be to:
remain committed to the basic U.N. Framework Convention for international cooperation;
obtain agreements with key industries to cut emissions of some of the most potent greenhouse gases and give transferable credits to companies that can show real cuts;
develop improved standards for measuring and registering emission reductions;
promote renewable energy production and clean coal technology, as well as nuclear power -- which produces no greenhouse gas emissions, while also improving fuel economy for U.S. cars and trucks;
increase spending on research and new conservation technologies, to a total of $4.5 billion -- the largest sum being spent on climate change by any country in the world and a $700 million increase over last year's budget; and
assist developing countries, especially the major greenhouse gas emitters such as China and India, so that they will have the tools and resources to join this effort and be able to grow along a cleaner and better path. [National Security Strategy, 9/20/02, via The New York Times]
In his 2006 National Security Strategy, Bush did not mention climate change, global warming or greenhouse gases.
Chairman Of Bush's National Intelligence Council: Climate Change Has "Wide-Ranging Implications For US National Security Interests." In June 25, 2008, testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, Dr. Thomas Fingar, chairman of Bush's National Intelligence Council, presented the Council's study titled "National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030." Fingar presented the following "summary of key observations":
We judge global climate change will have wide-ranging implications for US national security interests over the next 20 years. Although the United States will be less affected and is better equipped than most nations to deal with climate change, and may even see a benefit owing to increases in agriculture productivity, infrastructure repair and replacement will be costly. We judge that the most significant impact for the United States will be indirect and result from climate-driven effects on many other countries and their potential to seriously affect US national security interests. We assess that climate change alone is unlikely to trigger state failure in any state out to 2030, but the impacts will worsen existing problems--such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership, and weak political institutions. Climate change could threaten domestic stability in some states, potentially contributing to intra- or, less likely, interstate conflict, particularly over access to increasingly scarce water resources. We judge that economic migrants will perceive additional reasons to migrate because of harsh climates, both within nations and from disadvantaged to richer countries. [Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 6/25/08]
Center for Naval Analysis Concluded That Climate Change Has "Grave Implications For Our National Security." A 2007 Center for Naval Analysis study was authored by 11 retired generals and admirals. It stated that "[t]he nature and pace of climate changes being observed today and the consequences projected by the consensus scientific opinion are grave and pose equally grave implications for our national security." The report issued four conclusions: 1) "Projected climate change poses a serious threat to America's national security." 2) "Climate change acts as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world." 3) "Projected climate change will add to tensions even in stable regions of the world." 4) "Climate change, national security, and energy dependence are a related set of global challenges." [Center for Naval Analysis, 2007]
Military Reportedly Began "Studying Possible Future Impacts Of Global Warming With New Intensity" Under The Bush Admin. From an April 15, 2007, Washington Post article:
"The Army's former chief of staff, Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, who is one of the authors, noted he had been "a little bit of a skeptic" when the study group began meeting in September. But, after being briefed by top climate scientists and observing changes in his native New England, Sullivan said he was now convinced that global warming presents a grave challenge to the country's military preparedness.
"The trends are not good, and if I just sat around in my former life as a soldier, if I just waited around for someone to walk in and say, 'This is with a hundred percent certainty,' I'd be waiting forever," he said."
Part of the sense of urgency, the generals said in interviews last week, stems from the fact that changing climatic conditions will make it harder for weak nation-states to address their citizens' basic needs. The report notes, for example, that 40 percent of the world's population gets at least half its drinking water from the summer melt of mountain glaciers that are rapidly disappearing.
"Many developing nations do not have the government and social infrastructures in place to cope with the type of stressors that could be brought about by global climate change," the report states. "When a government can no longer deliver services to its people, ensure domestic order, and protect the nation's borders from invasion, conditions are ripe for turmoil, extremism and terrorism to fill the vacuum." [Washington Post, 4/15/07]
Dept. Of Defense: Climate Change "May Act As An Accelerant Of Instability Or Conflict." From the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review Report, issued in February 2010:
Climate change will affect DoD in two broad ways. First, climate change will shape the operating environment, roles, and missions that we undertake. The U.S. Global Change Research Program, composed of 13 federal agencies, reported in 2009 that climate-related changes are already being observed in every region of the world, including the United States and its coastal waters. Among these physical changes are increases in heavy downpours, rising temperature and sea level, rapidly retreating glaciers, thawing permafrost, lengthening growing seasons, lengthening ice-free seasons in the oceans and on lakes and rivers, earlier snowmelt, and alterations in river flows.
Assessments conducted by the intelligence community indicate that climate change could have significant geopolitical impacts around the world, contributing to poverty, environmental degradation, and the further weakening of fragile governments. Climate change will contribute to food and water scarcity, will increase the spread of disease, and may spur or exacerbate mass migration.
While climate change alone does not cause conflict, it may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden to respond on civilian institutions and militaries around the world. In addition, extreme weather events may lead to increased demands for defense support to civil authorities for humanitarian assistance or disaster response both within the United States and overseas. In some nations, the military is the only institution with the capacity to respond to a large-scale natural disaster. Proactive engagement with these countries can help build their capability to respond to such events. Working closely with relevant U.S. departments and agencies, DoD has undertaken environmental security cooperative initiatives with foreign militaries that represent a nonthreatening way of building trust, sharing best practices on installations management and operations, and developing response capacity. [Department of Defense, February 2010]
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String Compare
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You need to compare two strings.
Use the comparison functions from the string library for equality:
1> string:equal("ABC", "abc"). false 2> string:equal("abc", "abc"). true
You can use the normal equality operators for sorting and other types of comparisons:
3> G = "ABC". "ABC" 4> L = "abc". "abc" 5> G > L. false 6> G < L. true 7> G >= L. false 8> G =< L. true
Note that lower case characters are considered greater than uppercase in these orderings.
Note that case insensitive versions of these functions are not available, though you can always use the httpd_util library to_lower or to_upper functions to put the two strings on an equal footing:
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