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Dear Engaged Bystander: A few months ago, I had the pleasure and privilege to interview Cassandra Thomas , Director of the Houston Area Women Center for her incredible story of hope. In her story, she certainly busted my own stereotype of a college fraternity when some friends at a fraternity literally pulled her from a car because she was drunk, with a guy she did not know and they also knew she was recovering from a recent rape. Cassandra's honesty about this event is both moving and profound. She also takes this story and the commitment of these young men into her work today where she is passionately committed to growing the circle of those who will speak out. In fact she believes that we don't have a right to not speak up when something is wrong.
I wrote about her story in my blog and now you can also listen to her story through an NSVRC podcast.
Take a minute to listen to her story. And if you are moved, take a minute to write in your own story. NO event is too small to share. In fact it is these smaller day to day events that truly add up to a new social norm and a new way of just being with each other in the world
Thanks again Cassandra for sharing this story with us.
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I'd been watching Steven when I could on PBS for the past six months, after getting back from Afghanistan this past summer. My lovely wife got me hooked on him, especially after mentioning "this show, from Arizona." I'd gone to college in Prescott, and learned how to "burn beef" up there; later I realized he'd shot the show a few times in Arizona. Nevertheless, I got hooked.
Fast forward to Christmas, where my lovely bride got me a small kettle grill, some charcoal, and the BBQ Bible book! I made a vow then and there to let her do all the 'inside cookin' if I handled the 'outside cookin'--even in the dead of winter.
I got adventurous, and have already tried some chicken thighs she'd brought home from the store. I'd found some lump charcoal at the hardware store, and mounded that in the center, while I slow cooked the chicken on the outside 'cool ring' (hey. . . it works.). With a mustard/vinaigrette marinade, I think it was the best darn chicken I'd ever made. So I have to thank Steven for teaching me that food does not have to go over the flame to cook well.
I look forward to cooking for my Shop. And, I look forward to trying some fish this week. My wife's out of town, so I know if I experiment, there'll be nobody to complain--just more food for me!

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Michael Stein in Camarillo, California
123 months ago
It is probably handling claims from KAISER PERMANENTE employees that hurt their backs throwing quadriplegics into cabs to be taken to skid row.
Derek in Long Beach, California
123 months ago
either that or their busy ignoring claims for scans and MRI's that are preventionary.
Michael Stein in Camarillo, California
123 months ago
If Kaiser let people get scans and MRI's they might find something and it would cut into the doctors bonus.
Michael Stein in Camarillo, California
122 months ago
As I read your comment Bruce I am listening to a commercial by Kaiser and they are telling their elderly insured to get out there and mow the lawn in 118 degree heat and dance all night.
It's called cost control...
Bruce in Torrance, California
122 months ago
Oh, my why doesnt that suprise me? Their commercials are so warm and fuzxy and moving, but they killed two of my relatives
Michael Stein in Camarillo, California
122 months ago
Kaiser will never find people to fit their companies culture if the parole board keeps denying the Manson family members.
Call me Carlie in Atlanta, Georgia
122 months ago
Bruce in Torrance, California said: LMAO-(GOMER is slang for a patient, menaing, "Get out of my Emergency Room; ...Cheers!
Here are some more acronyms:
Bruce in Torrance, California
122 months ago
ROFLMAFO! (rolling on the floor, laughing my f***n ass off). Oh my god, I forgot some of those, and haven't heard some others (I worked as an EMT1-A driving a BLS ambulance for almost 10 years), and we had some not to nice little things like this, that we said only between ourselves, of course. One of my long time partner's favorites was "OPM's" or, "OYs per minute," if your patient was an eldery jewish person or eastern european, the number of times they said, OY, as measured on your watch for 15 seconds like when you take a pulse, was their OPM. 1-5 OPM's was mild distress, over 5 was moderate, etc. This was taught to us, by the way, by parameics from LA County Fire, who are famous for getting out of as many runs as they can-I remember one night the medic instructed me to transport with sirens because they wanted to get back to the station, so they wouldn't miss the end of 'Moonlighting." A violation of protocols, but an EMT has to do what a mighty paramedic says. Sure brings back memories......
Deborah James in Fremont, California
122 months ago
There are some pretty scary stories coming out of Kaiser. I worked for a firm that did their defense work (medical and employment).
The thing I remember the most is a nurse who wondered into an ICU and was using a patient information computer to download videos of salsa dancing. When confronted by the head of the department, she decided he "assaulted" her by telling her to leave the computer alone.
I still remember her name. That way, if I'm ever in a coma and wake up in a hospital, I'll be on the lookout for her.
Robert in Pasadena, California
122 months ago
I was Rxd a med pulled off the market by the FDA. The drug company paid Kaiser to do ongoing Liver and Cardiac testing every three months. Kaiser took the money and provided the testing annually. I was not the only one that happened to with this med. Imagine how much they skimmed by their deceptive practices.
When I joined a class action suit against the drug company, (who later folded up shop, sold themselves to another major company, and moved their execs into the newly formed branch of the major company) I filled out the forms for my medical records. Kaiser never sent the medical records, but they did send me a letter telling me that it had come to their attention that I was in an accident and treated by them, so they wanted me to sign papers promising 40% of any "recovery" that the court awarded.
Deborah James in Alameda, California
122 months ago
Idiots. An attorney would charge 33 1/3 % of any recovery, and 40% only if the matter proceeded to trial. Kaiser can only put a lien on the amount charged to you for treatment.
Send a letter to their legal department and ask someone to explain the law to them, also if you have not gotten an attorney yet, have him/her subpoena your medical records.
Also, in medical malpractices, more so than the drug company's exposure is the doctor who prescribed the medication as the "learned professional." Look at also suing Kaiser for medical malpractice. Let them contribute towards at least 40% of your recovery.
Try this website:
Deborah James in Alameda, California
122 months ago
Sorry, I should have said if you HAVE gotten an attorney, have him/her subpoena the records.
If you are following the news, you know that Kaiser just slapped with another major fine by the State of California, and the state is threatened to close one of their facilities if they don't bring it up to code.
I've been in the legal field for 26 years. The stories one hears about Kaiser could be an episode from the Twilight Zone.
Michael Stein in Camarillo, California
122 months ago
My Mom had a stroke but instead of providing medical care they did nothing. They raised her monthly premiums from $468.28 to $1,637.42 then delayed as usual. I kept paying it and had to move in with my Mom. Then they would not do anything until after I would sign all kinds of paperwork. Then they did a fraction of what they promised they would do.
I fight the urge to kill the board members everyday since.
tamilampman in Lethbridge, Alberta
102 months ago
Any Registered Dietitians working for KP?
Please advise. THANKS!
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Is it safe to use 24/7 diaper for baby boy.I'm asking this because often rashes appear. Advise me
Is it safe to use 24/7 diaper for baby boy.I'm asking this because often rashes appear. Advise me
Hello ibrualfi,
Often times, if you are using cloth diapers, the urine will sit on baby's skin too long, and start to burn it. You'll want to be sure you are changing your baby's diaper very often, and as soon as you notice it is wet or dirty.
Also, you may want to put a diaper cream on his bottom each time you change his diaper. A nappy cream with calendula or zinc can be very helpful.
You'll also find some helpful information on the Nappy Rash thread.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
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Hi ibrualfi,
As Kate says it is best to change your baby's diaper frequently (whenever it is wet or dirty) and to use a barrier cream if they are suffering from nappy rash. The barrier cream helps to prevent moisture affecting the babies skin.
It is safe to use diapers 24/7 but you may find that giving your baby some diaper-free time each day (e.g. when he is playing on a towel) helps to prevent further nappy rash.
Best wishes,
If rashes appear then you should change your baby diaper time by time. Don't use for 24 hours and also buy chemical free baby diapers.
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It depends on what type of nappy you are using as to how often they need changing. Generally speaking, disposable nappies don't need to be changed as often as cloth nappies. This is because disposable nappies contain gels that expand with urine (they hold the urine inside little gel balls in the nappy). Cloth nappies soak up the urine. However, this does not mean disposables are 'better' than cloth nappies- some parents do not like the idea of urine being held close to a babies skin for so long (even if it does not leak). If you use cloth nappies, you can add a fleece liner which draws moisture (urine) away from a baby's bottom.
Whichever type of nappy you choose, it is good to let you baby get some air on their bottom each day. This is even more important if you see any redness or nappy rash appearing. Nappy rash can sometimes flare up when a baby is teething (due to the extra saliva they produce and swallow when teething) - so you it's a good idea to keep an extra check on your babies bottom if you think teeth are coming through.
Nappy rash occurs when urine and poo come into contact and irritate a baby's skin. You can help to reduce the chance of your baby suffering from this by making sure you wipe your baby's bottom really well at every nappy change. It is fine to use plain water; some babies are sensitive to fragranced wipes.
Nappy rash is really common and tends to clear up quickly with a good dose of air on the bottom!


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I got my work done early on Monday and made a quick dash to the store to get a steak to grill up. One of the reasons for this is getting the Egg up to 650 and grilling a steak woud generate lots of smoke and I could see how my new grill gazebo vents. The recipe I had picked was called Pepper-Crusted Rib-Eyes with White Sauce from the BGE Cookbook. The recipe called for a bone in rib-eye, but when I got to the butcher I found I could buy a Choice grade bone-in or a Prime grade boneless rib-eye. I picked Prime grade. Better eating and more fat meant more smoke. The other substitution I made was brandy for the cognac called for. This was actually mentioned in the recipe as an ok thing to do.
I really believe this recipe has a serious flaw. They have you make the sauce at 650 degrees which is the same temp you cook the steak. I didn't misread the recipe. It clearly says preheat the Egg to 650 degrees. Add the Dutch Oven or a 12" cast iron skillet and preheat for 10 minutes. This couldn't be more clear, but IMHO it couldn't be more wrong. I'll leave the pictures and captions below to show what happened.
Several of you were asking about the ventilation of the grill gazebo so I included some pictures and commentary below the steak pictures.
The brandy cream sauce used brandy, butter, cayenne pepper, mushrooms, finely chopped shallots & garlic, heavy cream, kosher salt & black pepper.
I pulled the rib-eye out of the fridge 30 minutes early and seasoned it with Kosher salt & black pepper about 15 minutes before it went on the grill.
Everything is out at the grill which has been preheated to 650 degrees and the cast iron skillet has been preheating for the last 10 minutes,
The mushrooms are being sauteed in melted butter. I immediately began to question using 650 degrees for the sauce because everything was cooking up faster than the recipe said they would. I had to move fast to avoid burning everything.
the mushrooms are done.
The onion and shallots were sauteed with the mushroom.
The brandy has just been added and has ignited. I wore a real long glove when pouring brandy onto this hot pan. The flames are too pale blue to pick up.
The brandy has burned off and the heavy cream has been added. It was stirred and then the pan was pulled off the grill and brought inside to cool. The finished sauce was not white after it cooled, but looked like the duxelles paste you put on Beef Wellington.
The rib-eye is on the 650 degree grill. My apologies for the white balance on a couple of these grill photos-I was seeing how well bouncing my flash off the roof of the grill gazebo worked. The answer was not well at all, I will need to get a softbox for the flash.
The steak cooked for a total of 6 1/2 minutes before going into the Kitchen for a 5 minute rest.
The steak has rested for 5 minutes and is served with some shoestring fries. My version of the brandy cream sauce looked nothing like a cream sauce which was bad, but it looked like duxelle from a Beef Wellington which can taste good.
I tried what I had for sauce and it actually tasted like duxelle so I still used it, and it was very good.
The steak was a medium rare bordering on rare. This is how I like my steak, but if I was cooking for others I would have kept it on the grill just a tad longer.
The steak was tender and juicy, it had a crispy outer crust which was highly pepper flavored.
This first picture shows the 3 ink berry bushes I bought and planted Friday to eventually act as a visual screen for the grills. This may be the last work I do on the grill gazebo until the Spring.
The ink berry bush is an evergreen bush that is fine with shade and tolerates snow well. The bushes will grow to 4 foot high x 3 foot wide and can be trimmed like a hedge.
I had zero smoke issues with the new gazebo. In calm situations (shown here) the smoke rose up and most of it went out the open gable end and the rest went up the roof and out the vent. There weren't any clouds of lingering smoke.
The BGE and smoker are on the side of the grill gazebo where the prevailing wind will blow the smoke right out the side. If there is any kind of wind it appears all of the smoke blows out the open side. I described how calm vented in the caption above. When the wind is blowing towards the BGE & smoker some of the smoke goes out the open gable end and the rest of it travels up the roof and out the ridge vent. I didn't see any of it collecting under the roof. I'll have to wait for a humid day where the smoke is easier to see to verify this is the case. But so far I am pleased and it is better than my EZ-Up which I used for the last 7 years. And this structure is year round vs. April thru November for the EZ-Up.


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Adversity breeds strength -- and perhaps human intelligence
It's a widely held hypothesis that ecological and climatological changes had a crucial driving role in evolution throughout history. Now
Penn State University
geoscience professor
Katherine Freeman
and her graduate student, Clayton Magill, have put forth an intriguing study, which suggests that chaos in the ecosystem of East Africa drove
mankind's ancestors
radically evolve
2 million years ago.
I. Life on the Chaotic Savanna
Mr. Magill comments, "The landscape early humans were inhabiting transitioned rapidly back and forth between a closed woodland and an open grassland about five to six times during a period of 200,000 years. These changes happened very abruptly, with each transition occurring over hundreds to just a few thousand years."
To examine the ecological transition that coincided with this crucial phase of
hominid evolution
the researchers traveled to the
Olduvai Gorge
in northern Tanzania, collecting lake sediments. Filtering the sediments of different ages, they performed biochemical analysis looking for fossilized chemical traces of grasses and trees.
Specifically, they sifted through sediments looking for leaf waxes, hardy biochemicals that tend to resist breakdown and survive, even over millions of years. By performing gas chromatography and mass spectrometry analyses on the various waxes, the researchers were able to pinpoint both the foliage and composition to within a couple centuries.
Biochemical analysis of local sediments in a Tanzania gorge have offered key clues as to the evolutionary path of mankind's hominid ancestors. [Image Source: Gail Ashley]
What they discovered was that the "Great Drying", which is widely proven to have occurred in Africa around 3 million years ago, was not as much of a one-way process as was previously thought. Rather, the sediments showed that the local ecosystem appears to have gone through a chaotic transition period in which the climate would fluctuate between wet and dry, before eventually gravitating fully to drier savanna.
To better understand the source of such strange and chaotic cycling, the researchers used statistical and mathematical models to formulate a hypothesis on the causes.
Explains Professor Freeman, "The orbit of the Earth around the sun slowly changes with time. These changes were tied to the local climate at Olduvai Gorge through changes in the monsoon system in Africa. Slight changes in the amount of sunshine changed the intensity of atmospheric circulation and the supply of water. The rain patterns that drive the plant patterns follow this monsoon circulation."
"We found a correlation between changes in the environment and planetary movement. We find complementary forcing mechanisms: one is the way Earth orbits, and the other is variation in ocean temperatures surrounding Africa."
II. Adversity Breeds Evolved Intelligence
The chaos would obviously cause great stress on hominids living in the region forcing them to
adapt to different food sources
, different landscape, and different predators. Mr. Magill and Professor Freeman suggest this was a key driver of the evolution of human intelligence.
Comments Mr. Magill, "Early humans went from having trees available to having only grasses available in just 10 to 100 generations, and their diets would have had to change in response. Changes in food availability, food type, or the way you get food can trigger evolutionary mechanisms to deal with those changes."
"The result can be increased brain size and cognition, changes in locomotion and even social changes -- how you interact with others in a group. Our data are consistent with these hypotheses. We show that the environment changed dramatically over a short time, and this variability coincides with an important period in our human evolution when the genus Homo was first established and when there was first evidence of tool use."
The papers suggest chaotic climate changes triggered the rise of human intelligence.
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The research was published as a
of papers
[abstracts] in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
). Among the other researchers working on the team was
Rutgers University
earth and planetary sciences professor
Gail Ashley
. The research was funded by a
National Science Foundation
(NSF) grant.
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Faneuil Hall was constructed in 1742 as an open market and a meeting space for the town government. The large meeting room on the second floor – the Great Hall – became Boston's official town hall. There, in public session, Bostonians debated issues, elected town officials, voted local taxes and spent town monies. It was in Faneuil Hall that the first rumblings of the American Revolution were felt. The Great Hall now will be host to the final two teams in the 2007 Mock Trial Competition.
If you are able to attend the finals, please confirm your attendance, no later than Friday, March 23. Feel free to contact us via e-mail or by phone at (617) 338-0570.
The 2007 Mock Trial Program is proudly sponsored once again this year by the law firm of Brown, Rudnick, Berlack & Israels LLP. Thanks to the generosity of this firm and hundreds of volunteer attorneys, judges and teachers throughout Massachusetts, high school students statewide have an opportunity to learn about the fundamentals of the American judicial system and how it can impact their lives in ways they might not otherwise imagine.


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THE Welsh Rugby Union denied "abdicating responsibility" for safety at grounds in its plans to relegate one of its most famous clubs.
Pontypool RFC is fighting at the High Court to overturn the WRU's decision to axe it from the top league in a major restructuring of the game.
Lawyers for the club accused the Union of "ignoring" safety issues in its choice of clubs to go forward and play in a newly constituted 12-team Premiership.
But the WRU yesterday denied the accusation, saying it is down to the clubs and local councils to make sure rugby grounds are safe for spectators.
"This is not the WRU's responsibility," said Adam Lewis QC. "This is the responsibility of the local authorities under the legislation. The role which the WRU is being said to have here just simply does not exist."
Earlier this week, the court heard that part of the selection process for the new division was based on whether clubs had A Licences for their grounds.
That meant having covered hard-standing for 1,000 spectators, but should be based on safety as well as capacity considerations, said the club's barrister, Ian Rogers.
However, the WRU's reference to the so-called Green Guide on safe capacity was "selective at best", he said.
Had the WRU properly applied the criteria in assessing clubs' grounds, three clubs could not have obtained the A Licences they needed to get into the Premiership, he argued.
Judgment in the case is expected to be reserved until a later date by the judge.


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I love the smell of football in the air. If you didn't already know I'm a huge sports fan. Nevermind the fact that my Denver Broncos didn't make it. I don't want to talk about it. Moving on…tomorrow is the "everything" of football-the Super Bowl. The Baltimore Ravens will take on the San Francisco 49ers, but here's the important question…what are you going to wear?
If my team was playing I'd rock a jersey of course, but they're not. So, I'm going to go with something comfy and casual. I know I'm going to eat lots of yummy stuff and drinking some cold beverages. I'm kind of like a guy when it comes to sports (and proud of it). More than likely I'll be wearing denim and a comfy top. I guess I'll go for the 49ers since it's the hubby's team and the Ravens took out my boys. Ugh…
Will you be watching the Super Bowl? Who are you cheering for? The Ravens or the 49ers? Sound off below!
Here are a few of my Super Bowl outfit ideas and picks!
For the edgier ladies, Forever 21 has this great Spikes and Studs Cardigan ($29.80) that you could pair with these Destroyed Skinny Jeans ($29.80). Wear your favorite tank or tee underneath.
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AS THE STORY GOES, Hollywood actor Cameron Diaz was visiting a prominent inner-city restaurant in 2006, where the sommelier was trying to indoctrinate her in the attributes of a Chateauneuf-du-Pape. It's one of France's wine hot spots with one of the more interesting backstories, but Diaz was having none of it, Fairfax Media reported: ''Just give me the juice, baby,'' she brazenly told the (no doubt enthralled) sommelier.
You have to respect her chutzpah. Just like that – pop! – the vapour surrounding the often awkward business of choosing and ordering wine banished. It's true that an individual unaccompanied by a cloud of Hollywood stardust might be a little more backward in coming forward about their wine ignorance. Like religion, anyone not brought up in the vinous fold might find its rituals arcane going on terrifying, turning what should be a simple process of ordering wine in a restaurant into a nail-biting public performance.
And that's why we've prepared this guide to being a better drinker for you. Sure, if you want them to just bring you the juice, baby, don't bother reading on. But if you want to be more confident, this one's for you.
1. How to taste wine better
Swirl, sniff, slurp: is it really necessary to put on the theatrics when tasting wine? You certainly don't have to treat it in the noisy sluicing mouthwash fashion of some professional tasters; however, the smell (''bouquet'', in wine-speak) is an integral part of the experience. The swirl, performed holding the glass by the stem (try not to hold by the bowl – body warmth will heat the wine), is designed to aerate the wine and release the vapours. If you're feeling really confident, once you've taken a sip you might try gently pursing your lips while slurping air, a tactic designed to heighten flavour in the mouth. Think of Anthony Hopkins in the famous ''fava beans and a nice chianti'' scene in The Silence of the Lambs – yes,like that. Be prepared for the derision of your companions.
For a great way to open your senses to the flavours and aromas defining the main wine types, try this at home: pour a glass of, say, riesling, knowing that the most often-found flavours and aromas in this wine are apples, lemon, lime and tropical fruit. Put cut-up apple, citrus and tropical fruits in little bowls. Smell and taste the fruit, smell and taste the wine. You'll get the picture.
■ Riesling = apple, lemon, lime, tropical fruit.
■ Sauvignon blanc = asparagus, grass, capsicum, tomato bush, tropical fruit.
■ Chardonnay = grapefruit, apple, citrus, pear, melon, fig.
■ Pinot noir = violets, raspberry, red and black cherry, strawberry, plum, rhubarb.
■ Shiraz = herbs, plum, pepper, blackberry, cinnamon, liquorice.
■ Cabernet sauvignon = herbs, capsicum, earth, black olive, blackcurrant.
(NB: These are common descriptors but by no means the only descriptors. Bottle ageing and oak maturation descriptors are not included.)
■ Body: The weight and fullness of a wine in the mouth: thin, light, lean, medium weight, bold, heavy, rich, robust.
■ Acidity: Preserves a wine's freshness. The backbone of manywhite wines: fresh, crisp, racy, sharp, sour.
■ Tannin: Sourced from the grape and the barrel; preserves wine and provides structure. The backbone of many red wines: fine, light, soft, smooth, dusty, puckering, stalky.
■ Structure: The wine's frame on which everything sits: round, angular, austere, big, solid, heavy, elegant, finessed.
■ Complexity: The ability to hold your interest: plain, simple, uncomplicated, undeveloped, intricate, refined, sophisticated.
2. Branch out
It's time to step away from the Oyster Bay sauv blanc. Right now. Yes, we know local sales of New Zealand sauv blanc have gone through the roof, accounting for 17 of the varietal's top-20-selling labels, according to Wine Australia. However, the tide appears to be turning. The rate of growth of sauv blanc sales in Australia is slowing from a high of 42 per cent in 2008 to 10 per cent in 2012.
Be prepared to follow the lead of chardonnay lovers who kept the faith when the wine became the butt of jokes thanks to the over-oaked abominations fashionable in the 1990s. That is, don't be led by fashion – be led by what you truly like.
A greater diversity of wines than ever is available in Australia. So what to choose? Pinot gris and pinot grigio are taking off in popularity; vermentino and gruner veltliner are cool in more ways than one; and tempranillo is a big new name in reds. Start with the major grapes, learn what you like and branch out from there.
You enjoy a riesling, so try a gruner veltliner; pinot noir floats your boat, so try a nice middleweight grenache.
■ If you like riesling ... try classic Hunter Valley semillon (it's all about acid).
■ If you like chardonnay ... try McLaren Vale chenin blanc, pinot gris, viognier, gruner veltliner (it's all about generosity).
■ If you like sauvignon blanc ... try pinot grigio, Italian verdicchio or Soave (it's all about being crisp and brisk).
■ If you like pinot noir ... try gamay, merlot (it's all about softness).
■ If you like shiraz ... try durif, sangiovese, grenache (it's all about fullness of the flavour).
■ If you like cabernet sauvignon ... try nebbiolo, tempranillo (it's all about structure).
3. How to read a label
Some fundamentals you need to know before venturing to your local bottle shop. A varietal is a wine made entirely from one grape variety. Here in Australia and the rest of wine's new world (the US, Latin America, South Africa), the grape will be displayed prominently on the label. Wine labels from the old world (Europe), however, traditionally display the region in which they are made rather than the grape – hence, Burgundy is synonymous with pinot noir.
A blend is a wine made from more than one varietal, such as a semillon-sauvignon blanc or shiraz-viognier.
The vintage is the year in which the grapes were harvested, an important piece of information as wines can vary greatly from year to year based on weather and other growing conditions. Champagne or sparkling, conversely, is typically non-vintage.
Alcohol content is always noted as well – reds will usually have a higher alcohol content than whites. Why? It relates to the sugar content of the grape – reds are typically picked at a riper stage than whites.
And, before we move on, it might also be useful to know that what we refer to as shiraz is elsewhere commonly called syrah.
■ Alsace: Riesling, pinot gris, gewurztraminer, pinot blanc grapes.
■ Bordeaux: Cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot, malbec, semillion, sauvignon blanc grapes.
■ Burgundy: Chardonnay (including chablis), pinot noir grapes.
■ Champagne: Chardonnay, pinot noir, pinot meunier grapes.
■ Northern Rhone: Shiraz, marsanne, roussanne, viognier grapes.
■ Southern Rhone: Grenache, carignan, cinsaut, shiraz, mourvedre grapes.
4. How to order wine
The sommelier will be that person with the grape badge stuck to their lapel, or at the newer, looser style of restaurant, the waiter wearing an apron that says ''the Wine Guy'' (it certainly takes the guesswork out of the process). A good sommelier has ''humanity, humility and humour'', says the wine director for Guillaume Brahimi's group of restaurants, Chris Morrison: ''The great sommeliers don't release a torrent of information to bamboozle the customer, just a cup.''
If you are not sure which wine to choose to go with your meal, be bold – ask for the sommelier. He or she should follow up a conversation about the food you have ordered by asking about your budget. Put them to the test: ask for recommendations from a few different regions. Remember what you've enjoyed before and ask for something similar.
Common to popular belief, the tasting ritual – whoever ordered the wine will be given a small pour to approve – isn't done to check if you like the wine. The diner is simply checking for taint. If there's nothing wrong with it, you're obliged to pay for it. Don't worry about performance pressure: it doesn't matter if you don't detect it until part-way into the bottle, although a simple sniff can often reveal problems such as oxidisation (think of it as stale wine; it will smell something like sherry), sulfur (really offensively stinky) or cork taint (it smells musty and dank: ''wet newspaper'' is a common descriptor). A cork is a rare thing these days now that 85 per cent of wine sold in Australia is under screw cap. It reminds us of the sommeliers' joke: ''It's not corked, but it's definitely screwed.''
■ Cork taint: Mouldy smell.
■ Hydrogen sulphide: Rotten egg smell.
■ Oxidation: Dull, advanced colour, dull palate, sherry-like.
■ Mercaptan: Rubber, onion smell.
■ Sulphur dioxide: Burnt match, prickle/sting on nose.
■ Volatile acidity: Nail-polish remover, vinegar.
5. How to match with food
Otherwise known as ''the gospel''. White wine and seafood; red meat and a hearty shiraz. Sure, sure, but what about the old red wine and cheese rule, now debunked in favour of the acidity of white wine. Bugger the dogma. It's far more acceptable these days to try previously heretical matches. Don't worry so much about the colour of the wine: the key principle of pairing is to match the body – the sense of weight or viscosity the wine leaves in your mouth – with the ''weight'' of the dish. Pairings become classic because they work so well: duck and pinot, or shellfish and riesling. But if you want to bust out a move such as seared tuna with sangiovese, go for it. If you think it tastes good, it's a good match.
Champagne (or sparkling wine) can be a great go-to move for a tricky one such as sushi. It's OK to break a few rules. If your sommelier dares to sneer, find a new sommelier.
■ Asparagus and cheese risotto — chardonnay or Frascati (traditional); dolcetto, cabernet franc (non-traditional).
■ Mussels — chardonnay or rose (trad); marsanne or riesling (non-trad).
■ Tempura — sake (trad); fino sherry (non-trad).
■ Creamy chicken pie — chardonnay (trad); viognier (non-trad).
■ Braised quail — cabernet franc or pinot noir (trad); aged riesling or sparkling pinot (non-trad).
■ Roast venison with wild mushrooms — Barolo nebbiolo (trad); vintage port (non-trad).
■ Barbecue duck breast — pinot noir (trad); gewurztraminer (non-trad).
■ Barbecue leg of lamb — shiraz (trad); sparkling red (non-trad).
■ Chocolate mousse — German spatlese riesling (trad); Rutherglen muscat (non-trad).
■ Souffle — botrytis riesling or Sauternes (trad); sparkling wine or champagne (non-trad).
6. How to read a wine list
Bigger isn't necessarily better. A wine list can be a haiku, a short story, novella or novel, and one doesn't necessarily have the jump on the other (yes, it's what's inside that counts). The wine list is the profit engine of a restaurant and is commonly divided into three nominal sections: cheap (a relative term – these often carry the biggest profit margin), middle tier and out there. A normal rule of thumb is to expect a 150 per cent to 200 per cent mark-up in a restaurant – less at the higher end of the list, often making the middle to more expensive wines better in terms of value. A wine list is built like a menu, with lightest and freshest through to heaviest and richest, so at the simplest level look at where you are on the menu and go to the corresponding part of the wine list.
Modernity is on your side: more and more lists are ditching the old varietal headings and opting for divisions based on palate weight, such as ''light, floral and fragrant'', ''medium-bodied and textural''. Wine storage technology means wines can be kept longer after being opened; wines by the glass give a snapshot of a restaurant's wine philosophy and are dead handy for the novice to take an overview. Undecided? Ask to have a small taste of any wine offered by the glass.
The ascendancy of more obscure European varietals – the lesser-known Italians are pretty big right now – can help cloak ambitious mark-ups. The profit margin police might want to jump on websites such as winerobot.com.au, which compares retail prices.
■ Content: A good list offers plenty of wines by the glass, mixes older and younger vintages, and offers wines from regions suited to the styles as well as some innovative suggestions.
■ Balance: A good list offers expensive and inexpensive wines, different grape varieties and styles, local and imported, old and new wine names.
■ Suitability: A good list suits the cuisine being served. Light- and medium-bodied wines should dominate for Asian-style and seafood restaurants, heavier reds for meat eateries, Italian trattorias should offer Italian grapes or wines, French bistros should offer French grapes or wines, etc.
■ Presentation: Are vintages included? Are regions noted? Is the list clear in design and layout? Is it too big? All of these things help a drinker navigate a wine list. The biggest list isn't always the best. Keep an eye out for wines by the glass that have been opened for more than one day. They will taste flat and dull, and should be rejected.
■ Pricing: Value for money is always appreciated. Restaurants in the city and popular spots such as those with a waterfront view tend to have higher mark-ups, so beware. Note the size of the wine served by the glass. The average size is 150 millitres, which gives about five glasses to the bottle. Is the price by the glass more expensive than its bottle price? Wines by the glass can sometimes be more expensive than they should be.
And finally ... Wine is a weird fusion of art and science, with highfalutin rhetoric thrown in for good measure. When quality is judged by taste, experience counts for everything. Make friends with a specialised retailer offering informed, personalised service. Sticking to the sub-$20 bracket at the bottleshop is a good idea while you work out what you like.
And remember: drinking better isn't about impressing anyone or becoming the next uber-critic such as Robert Parker and insuring your nose for a million dollars. It's simply about your enjoyment. Bottoms up.


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14 May 2014 08:20 PM
I am doing some bee surveys for Sustrans as part of their Greener Greenways project.
I took some photos of bees on my transect and would be very grateful if you could help with the id of the various bees.
This one I think is a white tailed bee.
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15 May 2014 11:41 AM #7
Hi Struan
good luck with your surveys.
I will try to help with the ID but bear in mind that it is difficult sometimes based on photos alone.
It is far easier when they are in the hand!
1 White-tailed bb (correct)
2 Red-tailed bb (correct)
3 This is not an Early bb. But difficult to ID. Looks like one of the cuckoo bumblebees. You might have to mark as unknown spp.
4 Unsure- this is definitely a cuckoo bumblebee probably a Forest or a Gypsy cuckoo- but I would need to see more angles to be sure. Might have to mark as unknown cuckoo spp.
5 This is an Early bumblebee worker and not a buff-tailed bb.
6 Buff-tailed queen (correct)
7 Common carder (correct) probably a queen, judging by the size.
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16 May 2014 03:10 PM #10
Hi Struan
I think the extra photo of the tail is very helpful.
Forest cuckoo females tend to have a white tail apart from the last segment bearing the sting. They tend to curl this segment under their body which tends to be indicative of this species. If you feel that was notable in this bee then go ahead and mark it as female Forest cuckoo Bombus sylvestris.
best, elaine
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Watford have currently only sold 4,000 tickets for Tuesday's FA Cup third round replay with Bristol City.
Tickets for the tie are £15 for adults, £10 for concessions and £5 for Under-16s throughout Vicarage Road Stadium.
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Diocese of Paterson
Funeral and Repast for Father Hinds Today
The funeral for Father Edward "Ed" Hinds will be celebrated today, Saturday, October 31, A.D. 2009 at 10:00am. The Mass will be the Rite of Christian Burial and simulcast live int he Saint Patrick Parish Center Gym, East/West Rooms, and Cafeteria. Additional audio will be provided outside.
This will be followed by a private burial.
The Repast will be at 11:30am at the Corpus Christi Parish Center, 234 Southern Boulevard, Chatham, New Jersey.
Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of the Diocese of Paterson where Saint Patrick's at Chatham is located had these moving words to say concerning the death of Fr. Hinds titled, A Life Cut Short: The Mystery of Evil:
Father Hinds Planned To Lay Off Suspect
Father Edward "Ed" Hinds was found dead in the rectory kitchen of 32 stab wounds late last week in the Diocese of
Paterson located in the area of Chatham, New Jersey. A suspect has been found who is the church janitor, Jose Feliciano. He is currently in a hospital because of an undisclosed ailment and has bail set on him of $1 million.
Details are emerging concerning the case. Mr. Feliciano has had financial and health-related worries. He was recently laid off his second job earlier in the year. Additionally The Star-Ledger (New Jersey) reports:
In addition, Hinds intended to lay off Feliciano because of money problems at St. Patrick Church, said Ken Mullaney, the attorney for the Diocese of Paterson.
Many parishioners are calling this a double tragedy since Mr. Feliciano was also part of the close Chatham community as well as with the parish of Saint Patrick.
For the previous article by the American Catholic click here.
For the most current article by The Star-Ledger as of this posting click here.
For a compilation of the latest news concerning the murder of Fr. Ed Hines click here. (The link may become inactive as time passes.)
Update I: I misspelled Father Edward Hinds name. It is Fr. Hinds, not Fr. Hines.
Update II: Information about Fr. Hinds funeral and more click here.
Father Edward Hinds Found Slain In Rectory
Father Edward "Ed" Hinds, the pastor of Saint Patrick Church in Chatham, New Jersey, was found slain early Friday morning by parishioners in the rectory when he failed to celebrate the 8:00am Mass.
This morning there was a congregation of roughly 300 parishioners that attended the 8:00 am Mass the day after the slaying. It was a somber and quiet mood as the parish remembered their dear priest who was the only pastor at the church and he also worked at the parish school.


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The AMD FirePro W9000 & W8000 Review: Part 1by Ryan Smith on 8/14/2012 4:00 AM EST
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damianrobertjones - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkOver the years I've always popped over to this page to read the latest news and especially articles yet over the last year, or maybe a bit more, the articles haven't exactly been flowing. is the site slowing down?
:( Reply
bobsmith1492 - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkThis engineer doesn't like the so-called "professional" cards. I think they are a rip-off. My high-end workstation computer came with a top-of-the-line Quadro and it could barely handle a second monitor. I finally got a mid-level gaming card and was much happier with its performance. Reply
A5 - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkThen the card you got was broken. Even integrated graphics can handle 2D on 2 displays no problem. Reply
bobsmith1492 - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkThat's what I would have thought, but no. Even scrolling down an Excel document was slow, pausing every second to redraw the whole screen. Same thing when dragging a window around over a background that was "stretch to fit." Garbage! Tried modifying graphics settings, hardware acceleration on/off, Googling like mad, posts in the AT forums but no-go. Reply
wiyosaya - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - link100 percent agree with your assessment that the pro cards are a rip off. The chips are the same chips as in gaming cards. The only difference is a few switches in firmware that cut off options when run in gaming cards.
That firmware is also developed by the same developers; I say this after having worked in a similar field where the company I worked for marketed RIP software designed to print to copiers. All the features were in the software, but customers had to pay sometimes substantially extra to enable some of those features. In my opinion, anyone who thinks that there is a separate team developing "pro" drivers is mistaken.
With a PC that has enough processing power, IMHO, most professionals will not need the "extra capabilities" that the pro cards offer over gaming cards. Perhaps the only reason a pro would need a pro card, if you believe the marketing coming out of the pro card realm, is because you are working with a model that has thousands of parts.
However, there is a recent trend to kill double precision compute power in gaming cards. IMHO, this is going to hurt graphics card makers more than it will help. It was for this reason that I avoided buying a GTX 680 and opted for a 580 instead for a recent build of mine. Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkApparently it doesn't hurt them at all since they're making a lot of money with pro cards. All you have to do is show this to a CAD designer and you'l make sale:
http://vimeo.com/user647522 Reply
aguilpa1 - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkAll these videos illustrate is that certain hardware accelerated features are turned off at the bios and software level. It is an illustration of intentional vender modifications of a piece of hardware to differentiate the two in order to improve the profit of the other.
This was clearly illustrated in early versions of Quadros whereby a simple bios update would re-enable the turned off features of the consumer model. These methods may have been disabled by now by the vendor as they get wise to the ways of gamers. Reply
rarson - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkWrong. With a professional card, you pay for both the validation and the software, neither of which are professional quality in the consumer variants.
"That firmware is also developed by the same developers"
Firmware and drivers are two different things, by the way. Reply
wiyosaya - Thursday, August 16, 2012 - link"Wrong. With a professional card, you pay for both the validation and the software, neither of which are professional quality in the consumer variants."
The marketing departments have done their jobs very well or you are "pro vendor shill," IMHO as that is what the vendor wants everyone to think. As I previously stated, having been in more than one position where the companies that I worked for sell "professional" software, it is not the case.
I expect that most pro software packages will run on most gamer cards with very little difference except, perhaps, when pushing the pro software package to its absolute limit. If anyone wants to pay $4K for a $400 card, they are certainly welcome to do that. IMHO, it is a complete waste of money. Reply
PrinceGaz - Sunday, August 19, 2012 - linkIf you really are a professional graphics (or compute) user and would rather take the chance by opting for a non-validated $400 card instead of a fully-validated and backed by the hardware and software-vendor $4,000 card, then you have got your priorities wrong. That or you're being seriously underpaid for the sort of work you are doing.
Your software vendor isn't going to be very impressed when you report a problem and they find the system you are running it on has a GeForce or Radeon card instead of one of the validated professional cards and driver versions supported by it! Reply
cjb110 - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkNo interest in the product unfortunatly, but the article was a well written and interesting read. Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkI certainly miss the days of softmodding consumer cards to pro cards. I think the last card I did it on was either the 8800GT or the 4850. Some of the improvements in rendering quality and drawing speed were astounding - but it certainly nerfed gaming capability. It's a shame (from a consumer perspective) to no longer be able to softmod. Reply
augiem - Thursday, August 16, 2012 - linkI miss those days too, but I have to say I never saw any improvement in Maya sadly over the course of 3 different generations of softmodded cards. And I spent so much time and effort researching the right card models, etc. I think the benefits for Autocad and such must have been more pronounced than Maya. Reply
mura - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkI understand, how important it is to validate and bug-fix these cards, it is not the same, if a card malfunctions under Battlefield3 or some kind of an engineering software - but is such a premium price necessary?
I know, this is the market - everybody tries to acheive maximum profit, but seeing these prices, and comparing the specs with consumer cards, which cost a fraction - I don't see the bleeding-edge, I don't see the added value. Reply
bhima - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkWho has chatted with some of the guys at Autodesk: They use high-end gaming cards. Not sure if they ALL do, but a good portion of them do simply because of the cost of these "professional" cards. Reply
wiyosaya - Thursday, August 16, 2012 - linkExactly my point. If the developers at a high-end company like Autodesk use gaming cards, that speaks volumes.
People expect that they will get better service, too, if a bug crops up. Well, even in the consumer market, I have an LG monitor that was seen by nVidia drivers as an HD TV, and kept me from using the 1980x1200 resolution of the monitor. I reported this to nVidia and within days, there was a beta version of the drivers that had fixed the problem.
As I see it, the reality is that if you have a problem, there is no guarantee that the vendor will fix it no matter how much you paid for the card. Just look at t heir license agreement. Somewhere in the agreement, it is likely that you will find some clause that says that they do not guarantee a fix to any of the problems that you may report. Reply
bwoochowski - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkNo one seems to be asking the hard questions of AMD:
1) What happened to the 1/2 rate double precision FP performance that we were supposed to see on professional GCN cards?
2) Now that we're barely starting to see some support for the cl_khr_fp4 header, when can we expect the compiler to support the full suite of options? When will OpenCL 1.2 be fully supported?
3) Why mention the FirePro S8000 in press reports and never release it? I have to wonder about how much time and effort was wasted on adding support for the S8000 to the HMPP and other compilers.
I suppose it's pointless to even ask about any kind of accelerated infiniband features at this point.
With the impending shift to hybrid clusters in the HPC segment, I find it baffling that AMD would choose to kill off their dedicated compute card now. Since the release of the 4870 they had been attracting developers that were eager to capitalize on the cheap double precision fp performance. Now that these applications are ready to make the jump from a single PC to large clusters, the upgrade path doesn't exist. By this time next year there won't be anyone left developing on AMD APP, they'll all have moved back to CUDA. Brilliant move, AMD. Reply
N4g4rok - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkProviding they don't develop new hardware to meet that need. Keeping older variations of dedicated compute cards wouldn't make any sense for moving into large cluster computing. They could keep that same line, but it would need an overall anyway. why not end it and start something new? Reply
boeush - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - link"I find it baffling that AMD would choose to kill off their dedicated compute card now."
It's not that they won't have a compute card (their graphics card is simply pulling double duty under this new plan.) The real issue is, to quote from the article:
"they may be underpricing NVIDIA's best Quadro, but right now they're going to be charging well more than NVIDIA's best Tesla card. So there's a real risk right now that FirePro for compute may be a complete non-starter once Tesla K20 arrives at the end of the year."
I find this approach by AMD baffling indeed. It's as if they just decided to abdicate whatever share they had of the HPC market. A very odd stance to take, particularly if they are as invested in OpenCL as they would like everyone to believe. The more time passes, and the more established code is created around CUDA, the harder it will become for AMD to push OpenCL in the HPC space. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - linkLOL - thank you, as the amd epic fail is written all over that.
Mentally ill self sabotage, what else can it be when you're amd.
The have their little fanboys yapping opencl now for years on end, and they lack full support for ver 1.2 - LOL
It's sad - so sad, it's funny.
Actually that really is sad, I feel sorry for them they are such freaking failures. Reply
johnthacker - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkThe W7000 has some uses in specific situations, but that's because it's a single slot card. Single slot Radeon HD 7850s (much less 7870s), which also use Pitcairn, are difficult to find; there was one OEM that showed off a design IIRC. Other than that it's hard to see exactly when someone would want these cards.
The same generally holds for NVIDIA (the Fermi Quadro cards are cut down GF100 based, so they can be better at compute than their gaming numbers suggest, and the old Quadro 4000 is a single slot card.) Interesting that NVIDIA so far is trying to reserve GK110 for Quadro and Kepler only. We'll see if that works. Reply
Dribble - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linkAMD doesn't need to provide compatible, they need to provide better.
Bottom line is companies won't change gpu manufacturer. Nvidia works well, has traditionally worked better then AMD and they still have much better driver support (team is much bigger).
There are no AMD fanboys routing for the underdog, you have to provide a clear business reason to change, and "we're almost as good as nvidia in sometimes" isn't it. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - linkCompute baby ! amd compute ! compute ! GPGPU ! amd wins! amd wins!
(that's all I've heard since 7000 series)
Hey, winzip man. Reply
Pixelpusher6 - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkI really have to question AMD's move here to kill off Firestream and have the FirePro line serve both markets. At the present time this is where they have an advantage on Nvidia. 1TB double precision performance is pretty good even though its only 1/4 of single precision, even clocked low enough to be passively cooled it should still beat Nvidia's best compute card. K10 is not really a compute card at all and to me it seems like they just wanted to get something, anything out until K20. And K20 is by no means a certainty for Q4 2012, my guess is it will be delayed. I just don't have confidence in Nvidia's mastering of the 28nm process yet, especially given the enormous die size of this chip which I've heard presents some unique challenges. And when K20 does come out it will probably be more expensive than their current compute cards.
If I were AMD I would re-brand the compute card, drop the Firestream name because of it's association with VLIW, and come out with a new brand to highlight what really makes up GCN...Compute. Does anyone know if HPC clusters use actively cooled cards or only passively cooled? I was under the impression that compute cards generally were clocked a little lower but passively cooled. If that is the case then that rules out using the FirePro W9000 and W8000 in these server clusters. It seems like AMD just conceded this market completely when they finally have a competitive compute GPU to gain a foothold. As someone else noted this market will only be expanding. If AMD wants to only focus on professional graphics I sure hope their drivers will be better than the consumer counterparts. Reply
dtolios - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - linkWhen will AMD start improving compatibility with VRay RT and other similar OpenCL apps? All this computational potential remains unused outside benchmarks - at least for the CG world.
Radeons are vastly better in OpenGL than GeForce cards, so the switch to FirePro's is way less "mandatory" for such apps. But even if those driver issues were solved, AMD would secure a huge increase of share in the professional CG market which now uses nVidia (yes, mostly gaming cards) almost exclusively. Reply
AG@FirePro - Monday, August 27, 2012 - linkYou might imagine that it's in AMD's best interest to work very closely with all the important ISVs in this space - and you would be right! :) Helping our technology partners and the broader software development community implement open-standards-based GPU acceleration in their applications is an area of heavy onging investment for us.
Of course, not all apps are written the same. Some applications -especially those written in years past- are architected in a way that makes it challenging to enable the best performance across all the modern GPU options on the market. Proprietary or "hybrid" codebases often make full cross-compatibility quite difficult. can assure you that neither ISVs nor end-users want their toolsets be tied to a particular hardware vendor or proprietary technology base. Unfortunately, it's not always as easy as flipping a switch and sometimes this takes a while. This said, I think it's fair to say that our aim is that very soon, everybody will have the option to run the hardware of their choice in conjunction with their favorite realtime raytracer, physics solver or any other hardware-accelerated toolset.
AMD FirePro cards fully support OpenCL in both hardware and software. Our devices offer certified and acknowledged compatibility and killer performance for a broad range of OpenCL-based applications. The same is true for tons of applications accelerated under OpenGL, DirectX and DirectCompute APIs. Compatibility and reliability are crucial. Nobody understands this more than us.
To this end, we continue to be closely aligned with all the key ISVs in the M&E, DCC and CAD space to help them provide maximum flexibility, choice and value for their end-users.We also continue to refine and expand our range of developer tools (profilers, compliers, debuggers, etc) while at the same time contributing heavily to the open-source community in the form of optimized libraries and other free developer resources.
The OpenCL story gets better every day. Every day, there are new and better OpenCL libraries being written and shared. There are new compiler optimizations being made all the time which allow for faster andmore flexible implementations. More and more software devs are liberating their code and their customers from proprietary APIs. While CUDA-bound apps still provide lots of value for many end-users, the writing is clearly on the wall. The age of proprietary GPU acceleration has begun to yield to a new reality of flexibility and choice for consumers.
This is a good thing, no?
*PS* You may have noticed an announcement about certain new server-side GCN-based FirePro GPU offerings today. Stay tuned. Things are about to get seriously fun up in here.
Adam G.
AMD FirePro Team Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - linkIt's not a good thing because it has not happened, and it doesn't appear it will even in the next decade.
It's still proprietary, and is not cross card company compatible, so it's all crap talk.
As we saw amd do after their years of PR bashing, WinZip PROPRIETARY.
It's gonna be all seriously vendor specific up in there for a long, long time. Reply
warpuck - Sunday, August 19, 2012 - linkDoes this mean I wont need 2 PCs? one for games and another for graphics. I did notice what appears to be a crossfire connector. I know most companies would not go for PC configuration like that, unless it was in the boss's office. I am one of those independants. I like taking a break when I feel like it. Not having 2 PCs would simplify things for me. Reply
peevee - Friday, August 24, 2012 - linkOK, "later this week"? In the review written 8/14. "This" week ended, then "next" week ends today... Reply
Death666Angel - Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - linkHey!
No problem about the inconsistent data, but maybe you can present it in a more accurate way? Currently the interval of the X axis is not to scale and the line through the data points makes it seem as though you know the way it progressed in between the data points. I'd rather make a simple bar chart with the intervals showing correctly. It would be a more honest and easy to read diagram. :)
Great article though! :D Reply
ManuelLP - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkWhen is publish the second part? Tomorrow is the end of the month. Reply
Gadgety - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - linkThis very interesting part I was done back in August. It's now December. I've searched for W9000 on Anandtech but no part II shows up. What gives? Reply
nitro912gr - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkWhere is PART 2? Reply
theprofessionalschoice - Thursday, December 05, 2013 - linkAs an entrepreneur in Bitcoin mining, I have made roughly $1.7m. from a start-up fund of only $40,000. I can personally vouch for the W9000 cards because I've mined with them exclusively and now happily manage a small empire because of their vast throughput. Kudos to the author for going so in-depth with this review... VERY accurate and I highly recommend this card to miners of any level... I can't wait for the 20nm dual-chips to launch (exclusively in the new Mac Pro) sometime this month!!! Great professional cards - NOT for consumers! ;) Reply


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The 16GB Nexus 7: Storage Performanceby Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/1/2012 10:55 AM EST
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amdwilliam1985 - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkThanks for the review, made me feel better about my 8GB Nexus 7, love the $199 price point.
I'll probably buy another Nexus tablet 2 to 3 years down the road to substitute Nexus 7, and by then SSD speed and price should be much better. Reply
howneat - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkThe review made me feel better about buying the 16GB. More storage and faster performance overall. Write speeds have felt quicker compared to my Verizon Galaxy Nexus when transferring x264 tv shows. Long time lurker, first comment. Love the site and keep it up. Reply
ImSpartacus - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkAs usual, Anandtech goes above expectations. I'd tell you guys to keep it up, but I know you'll blow past those expectations yet again... Reply
jjj - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkWould be nice to see some general perf tests too to see how much the storage impacts it evenif the diff is small here. Reply
MadMan007 - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkYup, these are just synthetic tests, need some kind of real-world testing even if it's not as complete as the storage benchmarks Anand uses in SSD reviews. If a 30% synthetic improvement only means a <5% real-world improvement it's only of academic interest. Reply
dalingrin - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkThanks for bringing these issues to the forefront. I really hope Anandtech will continue to benchmark I/O performance on mobile devices.
I've seen many folks complain about Tegra 3 performance not meeting expectations given that it is a quad core cpu. However, from my own experiments it is fairly obvious that I/O is the bottleneck in most real world cases. The Android browser is much, much faster if you move it along with the it's cache and database to memory or even move it to a fast microSD card. Reply
Souka - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkCan you toss in an iOS product or two? Reply
name99 - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkJust to add some information:
I'm unaware of any iOS storage benchmark app, but one can get a rough feeling for the sequential write performance by seeing how fast large files (eg movies) copy to a device which is connected via USB. By that metric, iPad1, iPhone4 and iPad3 can all write at around 18..20 MB/s. I haven't tested an iPhone 4S, but given the pattern above I imagine it is the same.
I suspect the random write performance, while perhaps not as bad as we see here, is not much better (perhaps 2x better if we assume very simple scaling?) In my substantial use of iOS devices I'd say this random write performance is still too low. There are few occasions on which my iPhone4 stutters, and they all seem to be related to having to write out a bunch of misc data.
[It is possible that this may be substantially improved in iOS6. A big problem with Lion was that the VM system did not maintain enough clean pages in reserve for large memory requests, so most of the long pauses for VM on Lion were actually pauses to write out dirty pages, not pauses to read in new data. This has been very impressively fixed in Mountain Lion. Obviously iOS uses VM somewhat differently from Lion, and it's not clear to me the exact conditions under which it pages out, but it's certainly possible that it might have suffered from this same problem, and has the same fix as Mountain Lion, which might mean substantially fewer waits for a large bolus of writes to pass through the system on iOS6.]
In terms of real world use cases, I see random write performance as by far the most important immediate issue. Faster sequential write would be nice on those rare occasions when you plug your device into a computer and have to wait while it syncs a large number of movies and songs, but those occasions were rare and, with wireless syncing, are becoming rarer.
I'm not sure that anything that actually matters will be improved by better read performance, either sequential or random.
[This is my experience with iOS. I have no experience with Android, and if someone is willing to give a good explanation of why it could benefit from, eg, better random read performance, I think we'd all appreciate that.] Reply
mmaestro - Monday, August 06, 2012 - linkAnand, great info here. One thing I noticed with my N7 is that it would occasionally lock up or lag horribly on touch inputs rendering it almost unusable. I eventually tracked the issue down to push notifications, and figured maybe something was going on with I/O when data was being written from those. I'd filled my tablet up with movies for a long trip, and when I deleted them the issue all but disappeared. I'd be really interested to see benchmarks for both when the storage is almost completely in use (in my case I had ~1GB free) vs empty, which I assume is what you tested here? Just to find out if my hunch that using that storage does affect the device badly is correct. Reply
crusi - Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - linki had the same issue with the transformer prime and now with the infinity.
Such a comparison would be great. Reply
krazyfrog - Monday, August 06, 2012 - linkI am curious to know whether you can transfer files over 4GB on the Nexus 7. Reply
webmastir - Monday, August 13, 2012 - linkHrm, I was wondering that too. Reply
waxsta - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkI have just tested transferring a 4+GB movie file to my N7 and found that it works without a problem. Please check this screenshot out for details:
http://tinypic.com/r/2s1rcdd/6 Reply
LEDominator - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkOthers should be advised that there is an issue if you fill up the 16GB model to the point where it only has 3GB left; the speed plummets and the thing is incredibly laggy. I loved mine up to the point where this happened. It seems the people at Google are looking into it but otherwise buyer beware.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=... Reply
waxsta - Thursday, September 20, 2012 - linkI have been testing my 3rd Nexus 7 quite vigorously. My previous 2 tablets performed horrendously when almost full as the links by the previous poster suggest. I had a few build quality issues with them so I returned them for a new one.
Here are my latest results after installing lots of apps and adding lots of movies:
Android 4.1 <- I am refusing the update prompt that persistently nags me since I believe this may be causing the slow issue.
Model: C80K
Storage free 326MB
Still running smooth. SW 5.81MB/s Reply
lookit77 - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - linkI hope you will update your results on the 32gb Nexus 7. I am also looking forward to a review on the 3G version of the Nexus. Reply


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Did you know?
Vegan-friendly South African wine Stellar Organics is the top-selling brand of organic wine in the United Kingdom.
Vegan wine is made using no animal-derived ingredients, as opposed to vegetarian wine, which permits the use of animal-derived additives, like egg white, as they do not involve harming or killing an animal to harvest the ingredient.
It makes sense that if a wine is vegan, it's also suitable for vegetarians. The majority of local wines, however, come unstuck during the fining or filtering part of the wine-making process.
This is when animal-derived agents such as egg white; casein, a milk protein; gelatin, from animal bones and sinews; or isinglass, from the bladder of sturgeon fish, are added, during a 'settling' process, and then later removed.
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In South Africa, bentonite (also called 'china clay'), a mineral-based protein-fining agent is the most common vegan-approved substitute used to fine white wines. It is rarely applied to red wines, as they do not benefit from fining.
It bears remembering that wine is a natural product. Production methods may vary from vintage to vintage, especially in blended wine, which makes eliminating all traces of animal additives a challenge.
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Stellar Organics is South Africa's most prolific producer of labelled vegan-friendly wines and produces a range of red, white, and rosé vegan wines. MAN Vintners choose to label their vegan wines with a '100% Critter-Free' label, and virtually all of Condé-Starke and Bon Cap's wines meet vegan specifications.
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Currently around 70 local winemakers' include some vegan and/or vegetarian wines. The Vegan Society of South Africa makes an effort to maintain an up-to-date list of vegan wine producers that will prove helpful to vegan wine drinkers.
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Best buys
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Promotable volumes of high-quality Washington cherries are expected into August, with the industry still on track for a record year.
Bings and rainiers were both reaching peak volumes the week of July 2 at Selah, Wash.-based Rainier Fruit Co., said Suzanne Wolter, marketing director.
Sizes were beginning to peak on larger 10½-row and some 10-row, Wolter said.
Bing sizes have been running one-half to one size smaller than usual this season, with fruit peaking on 10½- and 11-row instead of 10-row, said Eric Patrick, Yakima, Wash.-based marketing manager for Oakland, Calif.-based Grant J. Hunt Co.
"We're hoping the later varieties get back to bigger sizes," he said.
After some weather-related issues at the beginning of summer, Rainier looked forward to drier, warmer conditions in July.
"We had some rain on and off, but right now it looks pretty good," Wolter said July 3.
Despite the late June rains, Rainier still had plenty of high-quality fruit for Fourth of July promotions, Wolter said.
Looking past the holiday, Wolter said retailers have bought into the concept of promoting cherries throughout July this season.
"We have a significant number of promotions in place," she said. "Retailers have really embraced it."
On July 3, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported prices of $32-34 for 18-pound cartons of Washington bings 10-row, down from $36-38 last year at the same time.
Most retail customers of Grant J. Hunt were committed to keeping cherries on ad into August, Patrick said. Shippers will need it, he said. Retail per-pound prices will likely dip below $3 to keep fruit moving, he said.
"We need consumers to fall in love with cherries into August, because we have a lot of them," he said. "It looks like the huge numbers they were estimating are out there, and the biggest days are still ahead of us."
As of July 3, the Washington industry was poised to follow through on projections for a record-size crop, Patrick said.
Markets will likely weaken in early- to mid-July as volumes reach their highest levels of the season, then strengthen later in the month as supplies diminish, Wolter said. Rainier expects to ship cherries into late August.