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Apple grower-shippers report a continuation of the strong markets and brisk movement established in the fall.
But despite severe crop losses in Michigan and New York, shippers aren't worried about running out of product before the end of the season, thanks in large part to big Washington and Pennsylvania crops.
Even with the normal holiday lull, Rainier Fruit Co., Selah, Wash., saw record movement in late December and early January, said Suzanne Wolter, director of marketing.
Retailers have reported brisk movement and good returns throughout the season, Wolter said.
"There are still plenty of supplies to promote," she said.
On Jan. 8, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported prices of $22-24 for cartons of fujis 64-88s from Washington, comparable to last year at the same time.
Wolter expected markets to remain fairly stable in the first weeks of the New Year, and Rainier is not overly worried about running out of fruit because of severe crop shortages in New York and Michigan.
For example, supplies of industry darling Honeycrisps should last into April or May, a typical end to the deal, Wolter said.
Bob Mast, vice president of marketing for Wenatchee, Wash.-based Columbia Marketing International, also isn't worried about running out. On the contrary, the week of Jan. 7 he was anxiously waiting for demand to bounce back after a holiday slowdown.
"We need it — we've got a big crop," he said. "The next three or four weeks will be very telling for how the next several months go."
Eastern supplies were "pretty much cleaned up" by the first of the year, Mast said, paving the way for increased demand for Washington product east of the Mississippi.
Retailers looking to promote apples way want to pay particular attention to Washington-grown fujis for the duration of the season, Mast said.
"We have a lot of fujis — it's one of the biggest increases over a year ago."
East of the Mississippi, meanwhile, not all packing sheds were shuttered for the season heading into the New Year.
Rice Fruit Co., Gardners, Pa., is enjoying its biggest crop ever, said Brenda Briggs, vice president of marketing.
"We were fortunate," Briggs said. "We ended up with a nice crop, quality and volume. And we've had very strong movement and prices have been strong from the get-go."
Rice Fruit Co. expects to ship into early summer, a typical end to the deal.
Briggs reported a good mix of sizes for both tray pack and bagged promotions. For the remainder of the season, Rice Fruit expects fujis, red delicious and golden delicious to be its top three sellers.


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"Well, if the answer to that was 'yes,' there was only one place it could be. Natanz."
"There are reports that it's gotten loose, though," I said, reports of Stuxnet worms showing up all over the cyberworld. To which Clarke has a fascinating answer:
"It got loose because there was a mistake," he says. "It's clear to me that lawyers went over it and gave it what's called, in the IT business, a TTL."
"What's that?"
"If you saw Blade Runner [in which artificial intelligence androids were given a limited life span—a "time to die"], it's a 'Time to Live.'" Do the job, commit suicide and disappear. No more damage, collateral or otherwise.
"So there was a TTL built into Stuxnet," he says [to avoid violating international law against collateral damage, say to the Iranian electrical grid]. And somehow it didn't work."
"Why wouldn't it have worked?"
"TTL operates off of a date on your computer. Well, if you are in China or Iran or someplace where you're running bootleg software that you haven't paid for, your date on your computer might be 1998 or something because otherwise the bootleg 30-day trial TTL software would expire.
"So that's one theory," Clarke continues. "But in any event, you're right, it got out. And it ran around the world and infected lots of things but didn't do any damage, because every time it woke up in a computer it asked itself those four questions. Unless you were running uranium nuclear centrifuges, it wasn't going to hurt you."
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Negotiating a Volatile Economy
Anyone caught up in the housing meltdown or the gyrating stock market might want to know why corporate financial statements didn't give fair warning of what was to come.
One way to understand how this economic tsunami struck without more warning is to look at the financial system through the eyes of accounting and finance specialists. Perspectives asked three accounting experts at the College of Business—Professors Ira Solomon, A. Rashad Abdel-khalik, and Mark Peecher—to explain what financial data can tell investors, and what it can't.
Ira Solomon: Working With A System Designed For An Earlier Age
"What we really have here is another facet of a pervasive problem in our financial reporting system," says Ira Solomon, professor of accountancy, and head of the department. "It's a system devised for an earlier era. Trying to fit this system into our current world leaves certain gaps. The system is really designed for an industrial era where companies created value by using physical assets — like property, plants, and equipment — to create products like cars.
"Now we've got companies increasingly creating value by methods other than harnessing tangible assets. Some companies today are creating value via knowledge-based services and products. And we even have companies that make money by creating exotic financial instruments."
Those instruments include things like mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, hedge funds, and derivatives—things that didn't exist in an earlier era. And some of these financial instruments have gone sour seemingly overnight. For instance, two major hedge funds that were exposed heavily to the imploding sub-prime mortgage markets were recently declared essentially worthless.
One factor is that the way home loans are made today is radically different from the conservative system that once ruled the mortgage industry. In the old days, the financial institution that made the home loan retained the mortgage. "These institutions would do a very thorough credit check because they would be stuck with the consequences if the borrower defaulted," says Solomon.
Things are very different these days. Mortgage companies don't use their own funds to make housing loans—they use investors' money. In the current system, once the loan is made, it often is bundled with other loans into mortgage-backed securities. Some of these securities are made up of sub-prime loans—loans to borrowers who have credit problems and are more likely to default.
Wall Street packages these mortgage-backed securities and sells them to a variety of buyers. Some go to individual investors, some go to pension funds, some wind up in hedge funds, for example. But the bottom line is this: the local savings bank no longer holds the debt. The people who hold the debt, both individuals and institutions, are far removed from the homeowners that borrowed the money. And some of these individuals and institutions have been badly burned. "It turns out," says Solomon, "that there is not enough transparency in the system for the people who wind up owning the debt to understand what they've acquired."
So the system needs to be changed to make sure the new risks are more apparent to investors. "I think greater transparency is always better," says Solomon. "If people understood the risk, people might not invest in exotic financial instruments, or these instruments might be priced to offer a high return (in return for the risk)."
Changing the system is difficult, however, so the changes tend to be made after things go awry. "That's usually what happens," says Solomon. "We operate in catch up. By that time, some catastrophe has occurred. Then there is a backwards inspection of the system to try to determine what went wrong and why. This has been the case for, say, 75 years.
"We go through economic cycles of one form or another and these financial problems occur. Then people try to fix them. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is a recent example. Of course, by then, there's another problem. Most of the time, the money is gone."
A. Rashad Abdel-khalik: What Financial Reports Show, What They Don't
When ordinary investors read audited financial statements, they may assume that they are looking at numbers that represent cut-and-dried "observable truth." That's not the case, says A. Rashad Abdel-khalik, professor of accountancy. Furthermore, they rarely recognize that the financial statements are prepared by the management and are, in fact, management representation.
Most of the numbers reported on the balance sheet and income statement involve making numerous assumptions and estimations. Take pension costs, for example. To estimate the cost of a defined benefit pension plan for the year requires making many assumptions that may not pan out.
"You have to make actuarial assumptions," says Abdel-khalik. "You make assumptions about expected future raises in compensation of the employees. You estimate projected investment income from the pension fund. And, using an estimate of cost of capital, you estimate the future obligations in terms of current dollars. When you report the numbers, people think it's the truth. But the truth is contingent on the realization of the related assumptions. If, for example, pension fund investments fail to perform at the assumed level, then the cost being charged would be understated."
Accounts receivable and loans are another case in point. "Accounts receivable come from selling on credit to other people. The number on the balance sheet for accounts receivable is what's owed, minus bad debts and estimates of debts that the company thinks might go bad. So the reported number is not a hard number. It's an estimate or a forecast of what you will collect. There is no such thing as 100 percent certainty in the numbers. The numbers are all estimates involving judgment."
Financial statements also may not be a good barometer of trouble to come. For example, companies must report or write off an impairment when they expect the value of an asset to be impaired. This would serve as advanced warning to investors of future difficulties. But the warning may not come as soon as investors might like. "Five years ago, there was no expectation of trouble from sub-prime loans," says Abdel-khalik. "So there was no reason to expect these assets to be impaired. And so there was no reason, given the available information at that time, to ask for writeoffs or give investors a warning."
Still, there are things investors need to do to protect themselves from the myriad risks of the market. "As an investor, you must practice due diligence," he says. "Due diligence demands, for example, a very careful reading of a section of the annual report called 'Management Discussion and Analysis.' A good investor should not skip over this section. It tells you about the investments that a company has made or plans to make. It tells you about the company's business. It gives information about a company's product lines. And it includes information that you may not see in the numbers. For example, a company may say that it is going to invest in ethanol plants. The company can't put that on the balance sheet because it hasn't happened."
Investors must combine the bits of information from financial statements with information they may glean elsewhere, he says. In other words, they shouldn't depend solely on information from accountants. "Accountants are not prophets," says Abdel-khalik. "They can't look into a crystal ball and tell you what's going to happen. So it's up to the investor to get more information on the management, the nature of the company's business, the company's business strategy, and its position in the marketplace, for example. Financial statements give you only a piece of what you need in order to answer these questions. So you need to do a lot of work."
Mark Peecher: Taking A Very Big View Of The Financial World
Over the years, a new way of thinking about the world has evolved. It's called systems thinking. As the name suggests, systems thinking takes the bigpicture view of things. The business and financial system is particularly complex because it is global. Far-flung events can send shock waves around the world. So systems thinkers try to head off trouble by thinking big.
Systems thinking is not a crystal ball, but it increases your ability to deal with dynamic risks. "Financial markets are hard to predict because many geo-political, technological, and social events impact them," says Mark Peecher, professor of accountancy. "These events can have global ripple effects because organizations' operational and financial risks are interwoven." Thus, a recent headline in the New York Times read: "Why A U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis Is Felt Around the World."
Standard operating procedure for systems thinkers is to keep an eye open for potential trouble, while recognizing that it's not always possible to see it coming.
"The systems thinker tries to anticipate unintended consequences," says Peecher. An example would be a new drug that treats some malady but also produces unexpected side effects that subject the pharmaceutical company to liability lawsuits.
Those who practice systems thinking ask many questions: Is this industry going to be impacted by global warming? Is a trade war likely? What happens if there is a revolution in a country where a critical parts supplier is located? And at the same time, systems thinkers have to understand fundamental pieces of the puzzle. "You still need domain expertise to fruitfully apply systems thinking," says Peecher.
Even then, there is no silver bullet. "The bad news is that people who think in terms of systems realize that there is a lot more unpredictability than most of us would like," he says. "Sometimes, you get hit anyway. But the idea is that you take actions to get hit significantly less than others. For example, a systems thinker might limit or entirely avoid investments that others pursue," Peecher says.
Systems thinkers also gain an edge when disaster strikes. Because they are vigilant about what can go wrong, they often have given thought to what could be done should the worst case scenario occur.
While this may sound pessimistic, Peecher observes that: "Systems thinkers aren't negative. But they do acknowledge weak links. They recognize that actions can have multiple side effects and some can be very damaging."
Related Information:
Perspectives Magazine - Fall 2007 Issue (PDF file)
Professor Ira Solomon - Faculty Profile
Professor A. Rashad Abdel-khalik - Faculty Profile
Professor Mark Peecher - Faculty Profile


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andykins - Friday, July 19, 2013 - link2 podcasts in 1 go? You guys have just made my weekend... Reply
Zink - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkI like the smaller file size and breaking the podcast up by topic is a good idea. Reply
klagermkii - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - linkI like the breaking up by topic, but I think it helps to have more than just two contributors. Even if the other guy is sitting out for a lot of the time, here I think it would have helped to have had some of Ian's thoughts. Having more people also give the individuals involved more time to gather their thoughts while the others are talking, and that might relieve some of the pressure and ease any nervousness. Reply
ThomasS31 - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkMy concern is not just only overclocking issue with the heat spreader/paste check... but also that the general temperature of the core under constant stress is increased and you are not able to remove that heat vs SandyBridge.
Its a special case I know, but when you run heavy FP/AVX load its an issue.
Also I think the general price competetiveness is worsened, over time.
What is the reason for this is not clear, intel wants more margin or the shrinking PC market, or just lack of competition??? Reply
Callitrax - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkCouple things on Haswell:
Its not only Intel's mobile and desktop core (where mobile is winning out in design choices), it is also the workstation, server and HPC core, so the mobile improvements at the expense of top-end performance hurt there too. So Intel's design choices in favor of mobile strongly limit high end computing the more than just the home enthusiast. (Yes the Xeons are different cores, but that mostly number of cores and cache size, it will still just be Haswell at the core - but some workloads respond better to thread performance than more threads.)
And I think Dustin's complaints basically comes down to the fact that performance increase isn't big enough, Anand keeps talking about IPC, but IPC is only half of the equation. Performance isn't a function of IPC, its IPC * clock speed (instructions per second). The problem on the desktop is that Haswell's peak performance isn't a big deal over Sandy, not just overclocked, but at stock speeds (which haven't changed at all). Looking at the Haswell test results, Intel's performance is up 15-20% in 2.5 years (Sandy release to Haswell.)
The question that Anand asked "what would you recommend for a new system?" Yes the answer is Haswell. But would you upgrade from Sandy? It's probably not worth it. That's probably the biggest reason why desktops sales are down, no need to upgrade.
The Mac Pro has another area where it has market share besides creative and that's in scientific usage (lack of POSIX in Windows hurts.) I'm sitting in a room with 4 Mac Pros. Apple's design choices for the Pro are problematic for this market because large amounts of those programs are either CUDA based which the FirePro can't run or CPU based where the single CPU design is a problem. (And the people running the programs aren't programmers and aren't paid to deal with the programming hurdles to convert them) The new Mac Pro would probably be a regression for some of our workloads due to the reduction in CPU cores even with faster speeds.
As a side, for a funny read, I came across page 2 of Anand's coppermine review recently, the mobile processor strategy for Intel makes for a fun read from today's point of view. http://www.anandtech.com/show/399/2 Reply
watersb - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkFrom 2000 to 2010, I watched Macs take over the annual ADASS conference: Astronomical Data-Analysis Software Summit. (science software? astro-data-something-something...) Initially, we all used Xeon-based workstations, running Linux, for "real" work... Budget constraints push for only one computer per person, which could work against Apple (too expensive) or for Apple (best-of-class notebooks for POSIX work. Hmm.
A while back I stumbled upon a claim that any supported GPU in a Mac Pro is basically a "pro" product -- as the key differentiator is the driver stack. Ok, but aren't there real differences between FirePro, Quadro cards, particularly double-precision floating point?
I only got around to playing with a first-gen Tesla C1060 in my Mac Pro before I sold it.The C1060 lacks full hardware support for double-precision. So I have no clue. Reply
Slowman61 - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkI think Apple could have some good success with the Mac Pro if they added a version with an Ivy-E and used Titans. A lower price point with a much broader and more forgiving audience, that would love to have something with more umph than their IMacs. Shoot, if they made one with an I7 and GTX770s I might even buy it. Reply
Kevin G - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkI'm with Dustin with a lot of criticism towards Haswell. Designing for high IPC and high clock on modern processes is possible - IBM is doing it with their server line. Intel has been focusing on mobile with their core designs and that has nerfed the desktop line.
Not mentioned in the podcast is that the desktop users have been burned by constantly having to purchase a new motherboard alongside a new CPU. Socket 1156, 1155 and now 1150. I'm currently on a Sandybridge i7 2600k and would like a drop in replacement to something faster. Ivy Bridge i7 3770k isn't worth the money for the very marginal improvements. Haswell has some IPC improvements but the cost benefit there is even worse since I'd have to get a new motherboard to support it.
I'm also frustrated that there is no GT3e chip in socket 1150. The L4 cache does improve performance, and radically, in some cases. Tech Report did some scientific tests where the i7 4960HQ was challenging an i7 3970X. That mobile chip was competitive against a chip with two more cores and 50% higher clock speeds. I'm also irked that TSX and VT-D have been disabled on the K series parts. I'm flat out livid that Intel has no plans for a socketed Broadwell.
The Mac Pro has suffered because Apple has ignored the market that this serves. Prior to the announcement this summer, the last time Apple really updated the line was back in 2010 when they just added Westmere support to the 2009 models. Three years! I want expandablity: my Macs traditionally have had an additional IO card and goes through one video card upgrade. Yeah, I'm an owner of the oddball PCI-E based quad G5 and that machine had more than one video card. So what does the new Mac Pro bring for its lack of expansion? It still goes to 12 cores, just in a single socket instead of two in the 2010 model. CPU clock speeds are going to be similar so the raw performance gains will come from IPC improvements from Westmere to Ivy Bridge-E (roughly 8%) and IO improvements. AVX is there but that requires getting/recompiling software. Memory is still DDR3 and the capacity increase on the new Mac Pro is due to Apple using registered ECC memory instead of vanilla ECC DIMMs. Of course, the Xeons in the 2010 Mac Pro supports registered ECC DIMMs but Apple artificially disabled that feature. Oh, and if you want to upgrade the memory in the new Mac Pro you are going to have to throw out the old memory and replace it - there are no free DIMM slots. The FirePro cards are nice but by the time the Mac Pro reaches the market the Radeon 8000 series should have arrived. Thunderbolt 2 is a bit of a joke - the bandwidth per channel increases but they also halved the channels. If channel bonding worked correctly, Thunderbolt could drive an 8K display at 30 Hz. And despite all the bandwidth, Thunderbolt doesn't provide the bandwidth for a modern GPU, at least without a performance hit. Apple has nerfed my plans for GPU expansion over the life of this system. The one part that really shines as an improvement is the PCI-E based SSD. It'd be nicer if there was more than one SSD slot for expansion down the road but this should suffice for awhile.
I've literally been saving up for a personal Mac Pro since late 2011. Now I'm facing the choice of getting the machine I could have gotten in 2011 and curse myself for two years of waiting or get the new compromised system. I'm going to hate myself either way.
The problem with socket 2011 lasting two generations is that the X79 chipset is buggy. Remember the roadmaps where it was supposed to have SAS ports? And at 6 Gbit? Yeah, that was neutered for the consumer versions and select server versions only got SAS 3 Gbit. Intel could just fix the existing chipset for less cost than designing one from scratch (perhaps just a respin?), rebrand it, and make the high end crowd happy. Reply
Death666Angel - Saturday, July 20, 2013 - link"Westmere to Ivy Bridge-E (roughly 8%)" Where do you get that number from? Should be quite a bit higher. Also, IVB-E has support for some more extensions like AVX. Reply
Kevin G - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - linkI'm not expecting the 12 core Ivy Bridge-E's to carry an aggressive clock speed compared to Westmere. I'd be surprised if the 12 core Ivy Bridge-E reaches the same clock speed as the top of the line 8 core Sandy Bridge-E (2.8 Ghz). I'd fathom a 2.0 Ghz default clock on the new Mac Pro with a 2.7 Ghz top of the line option. For reference the 12 core 2010 Mac Pro is 2.4 Ghz stock with a 3.06 Ghz high end option. Thankfully IPC gains and IO improvements will counter the reductions in clock speeds. I'm not counting on Ivy Bridge's turbo to be of much use in the Mac Pro's new chassis as I have a feeling that it'll run a bit hot by default there. (This will especially true under CPU + GPU loads due to the new Mac Pro's shared heat sink.) Due to the differences in clock speeds, some software will likely run faster on the older 2010 Mac Pro if the software can't use Ivy Bridge-e's improvements to IPC. I'm optimistic that this case will be rare.
One thing I forgot to mention is that the new Mac Pro actually has less memory bandwidth than the current 12 core Mac Pro. The second socket with three more memory channels helps out a lot here.
I also mentioned AVX but to take advantage of it existing software needs to be recompiled. This is where Apple's claims are coming from when they mention double the performance of the previous Mac Pro. Users expecting this universally are going to be very, very disappointed.
Overall the new Mac Pro's do not seem attractive from a CPU stand point. Going from two to one socket kills much of the Mac Pro's luster. Most of the improvements (6 core Westermere -> 12 core Ivy Bridge-e, six channel DDR3 1333 -> quad channel DDR3 1866) are just negating the loss of that additional socket. Luckily Apple never released a Sandy Bridge-e system in the 2010 chassis as the new Mac Pro would clearly be a step backwards from that hypothetical system. Reply
Computer Bottleneck - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkRegarding the B-clock....
Yes, It would definitely be great to have that feature on Non-K parts. (particularly with the budget LGA and BGA chips where the base clocks are still plenty low enough to provide lots of overclocking headroom.)
In fact, just thinking about this more I'd imagine the cost would be quite good on building the entire system. (re: No need on a responsibly OC'd 22nm dual core for a large aftermarket CPU cooler or lots of VRM phases on the motherboard, etc etc etc.) Reply
gxtoast - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkSo, given that the silicon is generating more heat per square millimeter (result of increased die density), why did Intel choose to use a lesser heat-transfer medium between the CPU die and the package? Reply
Soulwager - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkThere are two parts to the heat dissipation issue, the most obvious half of it is the interface between the die and the cooling solution, which is partially due to the paste being used instead of solder, and partially due to inconsistency in the size of the gap between the die and the IHS. The second half of it is the thermal conduction between the circuitry within the die, and the surface of the die that's contacting the cooling solution. Yes, the surface area here is finite, but if that was actually a problem, it could be solved with additional backgrinding, and a better heat spreader(pyrolitic graphite for example).
The problem isn't technical, it's simply a lack of competition. I still don't understand Intel's motivation for disabling TSX on the i7 4770k. What is preventing Intel from tacking on an extra 50-100 bucks for a fully functional die? Reply
dragosmp - Saturday, July 20, 2013 - linkI'm with Dustin on the dispointment in Haswell and Ivy because of the performance plateau (at the OC sweetspot). If one would build a completely new system and were in need of a high end chip I too would advice Haswell, but to upgrade from Sandy or Ivy, there's just so little benefit.
If X would say "I'm constrained by the mITX case @50W", then even an upgrade from Ivy to Haswell may bring performance benefits, but for the most part that's a fringe case. In any other upgrade case I find the cost of passing from SB or IB to Haswell excedes the minute benefits of the architecture, moreover since the best features are either botched (QS), disabled (TSX), unused for months to come (AVX2) or not even on the desktop (Crystalwell) Reply
ZeDestructor - Saturday, July 20, 2013 - linkNice podcast, but I feel that you guys have completely missed one possibility that intel might go for, which has been in speculation for some time now: quitting the "mainstream" socketed desktop market entirely.
Personally, I feel that this could work out quite well: let's face it, most people are buying laptops these days, and all-in-one machines work better with mobile chips anyways. Intel could unify the mainstream desktop and laptop SKUs quite easily, and even keep sockets (most non-ultrabooks machines still retain the good old socket due to the variety of specs they have on offer), although I suspect that even if they did such a thing, they'd go for BGA parts simply to reduce SKU count... afterall.. how many CPU options do you need when building machines on identical boards?
Meanwhile, at the high-end unlocked are Intel can offload some lesser-quality Xeons (disabled cores and QPI, so who cares, really...) fairly easily and keep us enthusuiasts quite happy - in hindsight, I'd have gone for the i7-3820 instead of the i5-3570K for my build late last year.
In addition, intel could also stop releasing large-die server parts on every cycle, instead do so on every tock: how much power-efficiency do you need on a server? Let the mobile parts do the heavy validation testing of the process, then launch your big IPC tweaks across the entire lineup... Reply
Death666Angel - Saturday, July 20, 2013 - link"in hindsight, I'd have gone for the i7-3820 instead of the i5-3570K for my build late last year."
Why? If you need 8 threads, get the i7-3770K. Unless you need the memory performance/size or the additional PCIe lanes, there is no benefit. The money you save with the CPU you have to spend extra on the mainboard. And there are far fewer options available for that as well. OC wise, I see no better results for the 3820 than the 3770K. Reply
ZeDestructor - Saturday, July 20, 2013 - linkI'm planning to drop in a second GTX 670 to power the triple-screen setup and already planned on 32GiB of RAM (very nice for compiling stuff). Factor in all of that, and moving from Z77 to X79 wasn't too big a jump.. I just forgot the 3820 was unlocked and existed at the time and thought I'd need to move to the 3930K which is a much harder pill to swallow.. Oh well.. It's not like there's much to stress a 4.4GHz quad-core IVB now, is there... Reply
Death666Angel - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - linkThe 3820 is not unlocked. But it does feature base clock oc'ing. But 2 mid-high end gfx cards shouldn't be too hindered by the z77 platform. :) Reply
ZeDestructor - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkActually it is. I found that out after I finished building... :/
For Ivy-E, Intel is putting the K where it belongs... Reply
Hung - Saturday, July 20, 2013 - linkSo who owns that cat? Or is that someone making cat noises (happened to me in Skype during LoL once). Reply
Kevin G - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - linkDuskin. My guess is that its name is Zoe. Reply
robE - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - linkDustin has to relax or something :D saying "Aaaaa, aaaaa" every couple of sec can be annoying :( that aside, nice talk...hope there will be more desktop talks :D Reply
JlHADJOE - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - link+1 that. Dustin sounded rather nervous, and aside from the aaahs and uhms was really eating some of his words. Should be better by the next podcast. Reply
Coup27 - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - linkI actually thought the audio was quite bad on this one. Dustin's audio was substantially louder and more punchier than Anand's and as a result you had to set a volume where either Dustin was a little too loud or Anand a little too quiet. Compare that to episode 23 and Anand and Brian virtually sounded like they were sitting next to each other which was great. I do appreciate that you have different recording locations and probably different microphones, but I'm sure the audio could have been harmonised a bit better than this episode.
Please take my criticism as constructive. Reply
Graham. - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - linkAgreed. Listened in the car and when the volume was adjusted to Anand's voice, whenever Dustin talked it was piercingly loud. Adjusted to Dustin's voice I had to struggle to hear Anand. Was never a problem in previous podcasts, just this one. Nothing some minor mixing wouldn't fix. Reply
klagermkii - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - linkI think the whole death-of-the-enthusiast market is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. I know over the past decade I've generally waited for things to get 2x-4x faster on the CPU front before I upgraded, and that meant pretty much every two to three years. When I go onto Bench now and compare my four year old Lynnfield with a current top of the line processor I'm looking at a 50% improvement. There's just no motivation to upgrade, and this is going to further reinforce the signs Intel are seeing that they don't need to worry about the desktop market. If you bought a PC two years ago there's absolutely no reason to upgrade, and when last did we see that?
People can talk about how the chipsets have improved, and yes there are more SATA 6Gbps and USB 3 ports, but that's what we can sort out with PCI Express cards, not with rebuilding PCs.
Anand mentioned how the desktop shows the future of the laptop, and the laptop shows the future of mobile devices. Well right now the desktop future appears to have stalled and we're really just waiting for the laptops to ram into the back of it. My rMBP is probably the closest I've been to a desktop CPU, with the same number of cores and not significantly lower clock speed, and it just makes it harder to justify putting money into the desktop when I can just throw it at the laptop.
I fully support the direction that Intel has taken with focusing on power consumption. I just wish they could keep the laptop - desktop separation relevant by using that power budget. Take four of their $200 chips, create some kind of single-socket MCM and sell it for $1000 where they put four of their current CPUs onto one megapackage with 16 effective cores. I'd at least have a reason to upgrade with that. Reply
jebo - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - linkExcellent podcast. Great discussion. Reply
amrkal - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkLove the podcast. Just one complaint: the audio quality leaves something to be desired. It's not bad per se, but it's also not as good as the audio quality found in shows in Dan Benjamin's 5by5 network. Check out Amplified, for example. Its audio is really crisp and would love to have the same on your podcast. Thank you. Reply
Sabresiberian - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI'm not as disappointed with Haswell as some; for some reason I wasn't expecting more of an increase in performance where it matters to me (games), and I generally think of -E as being the overclocking enthusiast platform. There are of course issues with -E, but I think the main issues are being addressed in the Ivy Bridge-E version, and certainly will be in Haswell-E.
That being said, I absolutely think it is important for Intel to hear that most enthusiasts are not happy with what they are doing. It isn't like AMD is totally dead and we can't go back to using their CPUs, and AMD could well catch up with them anyway, performance-wise. Intel needs to understand that while the lower end of desktop computing, the kind of person that really doesn't need much of any kind of computer anyway, is moving to mobile because it is cool and cheaper, the desktop is alive and well at the other end, and enthusiasts do drive desktop purchases in a larger way than what they spend their own money on.
I'm not interested in smaller form factors, will buy something that uses less power but not if it won't do the same job, and really want more performance for driving the games I play at 120Hz across 3 2560x1440 (or better) displays. CPU performance of course isn't all that effects those things, but it does effect me, and more is better, still. Considering how much of the programming universe is still single-threaded, it also effects the user experience for pretty much everyone in one way or another. Reply
Krysto - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - link"At some point" Microsoft might be worried about cannibalization? It was the whole reason why they didn't port WP8 to tablets, and instead went with a more crippled version of Windows 8 (Windows RT), so they can charge $90 to OEM's for it, instead of $10.
But this has backfired anyway, because $90 licenses, and the more expensive hardware needed to pair with Windows RT, which makes such tablets very uncompetitive with Android tablets, and even iPads (which tend to have better specs at the same price, too - no "retina" in Surface RT? Really, Microsoft?). Reply
Kougar - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI feel desktop users got shafted with Haswell primarily because of the disabling of so many features on "K" parts, in addition to the use of basic thermalpaste. Charging more for an "overclocking" model chip that was intentionally designed to not be "OC friendly" felt like a blatant ripoff.
K chips lose VT-d, which impacts a great many enthusiasts as VMs are pretty commonplace these days. It also loses transactional memory support, although only time will tell how much that affects end users in general. But with 32GB and 64GB desktop systems moving into the upper mainstream it is disappointing.
End-user Turbo-mode overclocking was disabled on Haswell, which is ironic because locking all four cores to 3.9Ghz is about all the chip is good for anyway, and would've been the route I'd gone instead of buying a price-premium K-part. I am fairly sure I would have seen better performance with a non-K part with VT-d, than I am presently getting from a 4.2Ghz 4770K with VT-d disabled under VMware loads.
The SB-E market would have actually been my chip of choice, but I can't tolerate the thought of buying a $600 hexcore that's several years out-of-date on uArch and process node... Reply
nicsta - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkFor me, the highlight was Dustin's maniacal laugh in reply to Anand's question "So what do you think of the new Mac Pro?" Reply


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Hi all,
great to see some fuzzy buzzy bees out on the garden at last, snapped a few pics, wondered if people could help in the ID. i'll put links to prevent large pics filling the thread.
stripy :
this one was having a bit buzz at a flower then flew away and decided to land on the grass, dunno if it was tired? from ym BCT guide i'm guessing a male buff, as he wasn't that big?
i'm guessing a queen carder?
thought this was gorgeous. spotted it on the ground by a log cos it waved at me when i was walking past, they usually do that if you find one in a house and they're tired and bothered, so i snapped the one pic and ran to get some sugar water for it. was gone when i came back :-(
from the guide, i'm guessing a male field cuckoo bee. the only other in the book is a queen ruderal and this wasn't big enough, i think, and i'm in Newcastle upon Tyne which is outside their area.
many thanks!
Hi Sabre Wolf
thank you for the photos.
The stripey bee could be either a Buff-tailed or a White-tailed bumblebee. You do need a good view of the tail to discriminate these two. The yellow in Buff-tailed is also more golden and darker whereas the yellow in White-tailed bees is much brighter, more lemon.
You are spot on with the orange bee. These are Common carder bees. These are generally ginger all over but do have varying amounts of ginger and black on the abdomen. Definitely female and probably queens given the late season.
Your black bee is intriguing. It does look like a bumblebee. Did you see the tail at all? Our Red-tailed bumblebees have this lovely velvety coat with a bright red tail. There is a scarcer bee that is often all black called the Ruderal bumblebee but this bumblebee has a much more southerly distribution.
Keep photographing and your ID will improve quickly.
Think about using our BeeWatch site for uploading photos and getting feedback on the identification.
regards, elaine
thanks for the info. i didn't get to see the bee's tail, he was backed up to a piece of log in the garden. i snapped one pic but wanted to try and help him out w/ some sugar water before taking more pics, but i guess he had other ideas! was gorgeous whatever make and model he was, can't recall having seen a totally black bee before.
signed up to beewatch too, thanks for the tip.
Hello Sabre Wolf,
Your black bee has the lovely velvety black fur that is seen on the Red-tailed bumblebee, (Bombus lapidarius) so my money would be on this species. If it was one of these, the tail would be a strong 'orangey-red' colour.
She also has several little brown 'blobs' attached to her fur just behind her head.
These tell me that she is an over-wintered bumblebee queen, who often have these on-board when they are not long out of hibernation.
The blobs are "phoretic mites" an over-wintering stage of a type of mite that lives in bumblebee nests and eats the detritus (grunge / rubbish) that accumulates there - without causing any harm to the bee colony.
These mites jumped aboard while she was in her parental nest last summer, stayed with her while she was hibernating over winter and will stay as passengers with her until she founds her own nest.
Elaine has mentioned two possible I/Ds. If you lived further south there could be a third one, which is a Cuckoo bee (B. rupestris) which in the few specimens that I've seen has extremely dark wings and rather sparse fur - but this species has a range well to the south of you.
Keep watching and photographing !
And if you ever get cross that photos lack sharpness, try using a Monopod to support the camera.
I find that using one of these makes for a big improvement in image clarity - but then I'm getting a bit old and doddery !
Yours Clive
cool, thanks for the info Clive! i never even noticed those blobs as being mites, you must have good eyes! good to know they're harmless ones.
i have a cheapy tripod, but flowers are scarce in the garden and i was just wandering about hoping to catch something by chance. if we get some good blooms later in the year and some good buzzer traffic to them, i'll try setting up the cam and seeing if i can get any decent shots.
Hi again Sabre Wolf,
Thanks for your feedback.
The mites are very common on bumblebee queens that have come out of hibernation, so I've got plenty of photos of my own showing them.
If ever you were to get an opportunity to see inside a real living bumblebee colony, you'd probably be amazed at the numbers of little brown mites crawling about over everything ! (Alternatively, take a look on Youtube and have a browse round, perhaps searching for bumblebee nest or somesuch.)
Yes, a tripod would be worth trying, but I found that tripods are a bit awkward to use if you are trying to chase a foraging bee, because it is difficult to keep up with them.
Here I find a monopod much quicker to use and great for still photos, but if you are trying for a movie (video clip) then the rigidity and lack of swaying about of a tripod really comes into it's own, whereas a monopod still allows you to sway backwards and forwards, or side to side and this results in an unsteady image which quickly shows !
As to flowers, I found last year that putting a potted Fuschia on a low table in the garden often attracted bumbles to it. But you need to choose a variety with single flowers, not double flowers.
Lavender plants are also good, and could be in a pot too - but again, go for the simple flower types.
It sounds a bit like we are getting you interested and perhaps hooked on a new interest, so I hope you enjoy bumble-watching over the coming months.
Yours Clive


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The sharemarket rally is showing no signs of slowing as bullish investors rush to pour money back into equities.
Cheered by Commonwealth Bank's strong half-year results, investors pushed the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index past the psychological barrier of 5000 points today - its highest since April 2010.
The ASX climbed 44.7 points, or 0.9 per cent, to close at 5003.7, after rising as high as 5013.6 points in morning trade. The stock exchange last closed above 5000 points almost three years ago.
The broader All Ordinaries Index also ended strongly higher, reaching 5024.5 points - an increase of 0.9 per cent, in morning trade.
EL & C Baillieu Stockbroking director Richard Morrow said the bullish ASX was a consequence of money flowing back into the equity market, where one could "get the best bang for your buck".
"It's a classic re-weighting of the relationship between the investment returns available through fixed interest, and the investment returns available through the equity market," he said.
The market has rallied since 10-year-bonds fell to a low of about 2.6 per cent in mid-2012, Mr Morrow said.
"Equities, especially high-dividend paying blue-chip equities like banks - the dividend yields are just becoming very desirable because of the relative rate of return, especially on an after-tax basis."
Leyland Private Asset Management senior portfolio manager Rohan Schmidt said he expected the ASX to continue in bullish territory for the rest of the week, with the other big banks likely to follow in Commonwealth Bank's footsteps.
"I am certainly of the opinion that if Commonwealth Bank can pull out a result such as this, the other banks will follow and it's going to be a good feeling for the market," Mr Schmidt said.
The market's displeasure with some of the other earnings reports posted today - such as those from Ansell and Domino's Pizza - were of less consequence as they did not have as much of an impact on the Australian share market as Commonwealth Bank, he added.
Another sector of the market that was faring well was mining services, Mr Schmidt said.
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But JBWere executive director Mike Kendall said investors were not getting carried away by the ASX200's gain, and instead exercising caution as they dipped their toes back into the equities market.
''It's a question of balance. People are getting a bit more confident so they are putting a bit more money back in the market. But I think most investors have their feet firmly planted on the ground and are playing their cards very carefully at the moment,'' Mr Kendall said.
''[Investors] are putting a little bit in and then standing back and watching. I don't think there's anyone running around being a wild cowboy in this market. I think there has been to many lessons in the past three or four years.''
Mr Kendall said the increasing level of confidence about reduced risks in the global economy has led investors to move some of their money away from low-yielding returns such as cash and bonds over the past few months.
At the same time, the start of the earnings season had so far shown that Australian companies were ''delivering fairly solid levels of profitability in the main'', he said.
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General Assembly/2C: Remarks by Minister Plenipotentiary Silberberg on poverty eradication
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Madam President, Excellencies, distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary General for his report on the "Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017)".
Our shared determination to fight poverty cuts across economic and social policies and constitutes a crucial link between human rights and development. Since the Millennium Declaration this has been the basic principle. And since the adoption of the Millennium Declaration in 2000, significant and substantial progress has been made in reducing poverty. The world reached the USD poverty reduction target five years ahead of schedule.
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Trowbridge Philharmonic Choral Society – now in its 108th year – is preparing for its spring concert.
The choir's predecessor was formed in 1877 when Henry Millington conducted an amalgamated choir of the then Trowbridge Philharmonic Society and the Trowbridge Musical Union. A keen musician, Millington was organist at the Parish Church of St James for 43 years and bandmaster of the Rifle Volunteers. A love of music obviously ran in his family as, in 1904, Henry's son Harry Cogswell Millington formed a male voice choir, the Avon Vale Glee Society.
For its spring concert the choir will sing in The United Church, Trowbridge on Saturday, May 10, under musical director Rob Danter, and perform items from Five Centuries of Choral Music starting with Thomas Tallis and ending with modern composers such as John Rutter and Philip Stopford: an opportunity to experience the evolution of music over this period of time. Tickets £10, children free, available from Trowbridge Information Centre on 01225 765072, 01225 761364, at the door or from trowbridgechoral.org.uk


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A major flood on the Red River at the Canada-U.S. border is all but certain this spring, based on the latest number-crunching by U.S. flood forecasters.
The U.S. National Weather Service's advanced hydrologic prediction service said Thursday there is a 95 per cent chance of major flooding at Pembina, N.D., at some point during the next two months. The prediction is based on conditions observed Monday.
"We're looking at a 2011-type flood," said Mike Lukes, a National Weather Service hydrologist based in Grand Forks. Although overshadowed by the Assiniboine River flood of 2011, the Red River flood during the same spring resulted in ring-dike closures at 15 Manitoba communities in the Red River Valley, the closure of Highway 75 south of Morris and the second-highest flood crest in Winnipeg since the Flood of the Century in 1997.
A flood of similar magnitude is probable this year despite dry weather in 2012. Heavy rains last fall saturated the top level of the soil, which froze solid early in the winter, Lukes said. The heavy snowpack on top of this crust and the delayed thaw have combined to increase the flood threat. The snowmelt, usually underway by now, has yet to commence.
"There's a topsoil layer of wet, frozen ground. In order for the meltwater to penetrate that, it has to be melted or thawed," Lukes said. "The delayed thaw puts us into the territory where rapid melts could happen, with the possibility of rain on top of that."
Manitoba flood forecasters issued similar opinions earlier this week. They are now incorporating the U.S. data into Manitoba's next flood outlook, due next week, a provincial spokesman said.
The National Weather Service also predicted a 50 per cent chance of major flooding at Grand Forks and a 98 per cent chance of major flooding at Fargo, where 750,000 sandbags have already been filled in preparation for a record Red River crest.
But what happens at Pembina is far more relevant for the Manitoba flood outlook. That's partly because the Red has a much smaller capacity at Fargo, but it's mainly because Pembina sits right at the 49th parallel, downstream from two of the Red's largest tributaries -- the Red Lake River, which enters the Red at Grand Forks, and the Pembina River, which drains a portion of south-central Manitoba before flowing into the Red in North Dakota.
In Manitoba, ring-dike closures and a Highway 75 closure are possible again this year, provincial officials said. A 2011-scale Red River flood would also trigger precautionary sandbagging of low-lying Winnipeg properties, although the city, like the province, is only data-crunching at this point.
What is clear is Manitoba's stretch of the Red River Valley is heading into its third major flood in five springs. Although climate-change models predict more extreme weather for mid-continental areas such as the Canadian Prairies, hydrologists say it's too soon to attribute the recent string of very large floods to human-induced changes to long-term precipitation and temperature patterns.
"Floods do come in bunches. This still could be a random grouping," said University of Winnipeg geography Prof. Bill Rannie. "Whether this is a cluster in an otherwise trendless situation or (the result of climate change), I don't know. If I knew and had some way of proving it, I would be writing about it."
Southern Manitoba has a highly variable climate in terms of temperature and precipitation. A prolonged period of cool, sunny weather could vastly reduce the severity of the Red River flood this spring. A massive blizzard in April could put the Red River Valley in a position similar to that of 1997, but that prospect is remote.
It's not clear yet what will happen this spring along the Assiniboine River, although some flooding is expected. The province has raised the possibility of protecting First Street and 18th Street in Brandon with a row of super-sandbags, a provincial spokesman said.
Recent floods
Red River crests in Winnipeg during the past two decades, expressed in feet above normal winter ice level at the James Avenue monitoring station (with crest dates in parentheses):
1995 (March 28): 17.9 feet
1996 (April 28): 19.4 feet
1997 (May 3): 24.5 feet
1998 (March 28) 17.2 feet
1999 (April 10): 17.4 feet
2000* (July 8-9): 15.6 feet
2001 (April 7): 18.5 feet
2002* (June 15): 17.3 feet
2003: No flooding
2004 (April 4): 19.0 feet
2005* (July 3-4): 20.2 feet
2006 (April 7): 20.4 feet
2007 (April 11): 17.9 feet
2008: No flooding
2009 (April 16): 22.6 feet
2010: No flooding
2011 (April 9): 20.7 feet
2012: No flooding
Normal summer level: 6.5 feet
Assiniboine Riverwalk: 8.5 feet
* Flood due to summer rain, not spring snowmelt
-- source: City of Winnipeg


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Have You Had Your Ice Cream Today?by Silvana Nardone in Gluten-Free, August 16, 2012
If you want your ice cream and gluten-free waffle cone too, this is the recipe you've been waiting for.
Some days you just need ice cream — on a waffle cone. Get a diagnosis of gluten intolerance and dairy intolerance, and you may think that you've taken your last lick. Think again.
By the time Isaiah was diagnosed at age 10, we had our summertime after-school pickup ritual down cold. When it was hot outside, we wanted ice cream, and that's exactly what we had every night before we sat down to dinner. Nothing was going to change that.
My response was to develop a gluten-free waffle cone recipe, which I ultimately shared — along with dairy-free ice cream — in my first book, Cooking for Isaiah. Letters poured in about the waffle cone from parents whose kids hadn't enjoyed ice cream on a cone for years.
Now that our routine continues, I've decided to make our lives a little healthier with a recipe that fit Isaiah's flavor palette and my nutritional needs. Let's start with the cone: I use two of my pantry staples — chia seeds and coconut oil. Generally, I prefer using unflavored coconut oil, but for this recipe, the virgin coconut oil flavor fits right in with the coconut ice cream. Beyond its superfood status, the chia seeds add a nice crunch and help bind the waffle batter.
For this recipe, I used sugar-free, dairy-free coconut ice cream, but you can use whatever you have in your freezer. I've been enjoying the almond milk and rice milk ice creams, too. Then, we come to the mix-ins. Here, I've used gluten-free granola and mango, but really, the choice is yours. Whatever you have in your pantry is likely to be the tastiest one of all.
What are your favorite ice cream flavor combinations?
Chia Waffle Cones with Mango-Coconut Granola Ice Cream
I like to make extra waffle cones and store them in a resealable plastic bag for later. If you want to make chocolate chia waffle cones, just substitute ¼ cup cocoa powder for ¼ cup flour in the recipe. If you need to re-crisp the cones, bake in a 400º oven for about 3 minutes and let cool on a wire rack.
Makes: about 6 waffle cones
1 pint sugar-free, dairy-free coconut ice cream, slightly softened
1 small ripe mango, chopped
¼ cup plain granola, such as Udi's
1¾ cups Silvana's Kitchen Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour or your favorite gluten-free flour blend
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon chia seeds
3 large eggs, at room temperature, lightly beaten
¾ cup sugar
½ cup coconut oil, liquefied
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
In a medium bowl, stir together the ice cream, mango and granola; return to the ice cream container and freeze until firm, about 2 hours.
In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and chia seeds. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until pale yellow and frothy. Stir in the oil, vanilla and ¼ cup water. Fold in the flour mixture until just combined.
Preheat a waffle cone machine to 4 darkness level. Spoon 2 tablespoons batter into the center and close; bake until golden, about 1 minute. Working quickly, roll the waffle around a cone form, sealing the tip and holding it in place for a few seconds to set; let cool on a wire rack. To serve, place scoops of ice cream on the cooled waffle cones.
Silvana Nardone is a food lifestyle expert, magazine editor and motivational speaker. She is the editor-in-chief of the all-digital, gluten-free magazine, Easy Eats, which now offers a free subscription option. Silvana is also the author of Cooking for Isaiah: Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Recipes for Easy, Delicious Meals and publisher of Silvana's Kitchen, a blog that takes the guesswork out of how to feed a family with food allergies. Previously, she was the founding editor-in-chief of Every Day with Rachael Ray.


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Watercolour and gouache paintings by Gosha Levochkin, based in New York City. More images below.
Loving these paintings from "Out In It" by Luke Ramsey, which is just coming down at Madrona Gallery, part of his artist residency in Victoria, BC. This is what summer feels like here. Have a look at more from the series as well as a couple murals below!
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The University of Illinois announced Wednesday that Monsanto Company pledged a $250,000 grant to be put towards an initiative between the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) and the College of Media to help establish an Agricultural Communications Program endowed chair that will strengthen communications for agricultural and rural development.
"With the population expecting to reach nine billion by 2030, farmers from Illinois and beyond will be asked to produce more crops while using fewer resources. At Monsanto, we are committed to bringing farmers advanced ag technologies to help them meet this challenge," said Tami Craig Schilling, vice president of technology communications for Monsanto. "Effectively communicating farmers' efforts to feed, clothe, and fuel a rapidly growing population is a major part of the solution."
The James F. Evans Endowed Chair in Agricultural Communications will provide leadership for the joint program between the College of ACES and the College of Media by serving current and future agricultural communicators through courses, service initiatives, research, and relationship building.
"We appreciate Monsanto's support in this effort," said College of ACES Dean Robert Hauser. "It would not be possible without the generosity of Monsanto and others who recognize the importance of informing students, the private sector, policy makers, and the public in general -- here and worldwide -- about the role of agriculture in addressing many of society's most pressing issues."
"The rising importance of new media channels combined with the rapidly changing agriculture landscape indicates it is more important than ever that we talk about ag in ways consumers want to hear about it," said Craig Schilling. "The University of Illinois is taking a positive step toward strengthening an already strong media and agriculture communications program and helping all those in agriculture become more effective at sharing their story."
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November 14, 1934 — Vienna, Austria
Liane's Polish-born Jewish parents were married in Vienna, where they lived in a 14-room apartment in a middle-class neighborhood near the Danube River. Liane's father, a dentist, had his office in their home.
1933-39: After Germany annexed Austria in 1938, my father was found dead, a probable suicide. In May 1939, four months before war broke out, my mother booked passage on the St. Louis, a ship bound for Cuba. But Cuban authorities turned the ship back. Along with some other refugees from the ship, my mother and brother and I disembarked in the French city of Boulogne, and were then sent south to Loudun.
1940-44: The Germans invaded France. We soon boarded a train for Limoges, which had not been taken by the Germans. At first we were housed in a stadium used for circus performances, where we slept on the rows of stone bleachers. We had hardly any food; during the course of a day my meals consisted of a little milk, boiled brown lentils, and day-old bread. Occasionally there were potatoes, or an egg. On my sixth birthday my mother brought me the nicest present I'd ever had--a peach and some dried fruit.
In 1941 the Reifs settled in New York, after relatives helped them arrange passage to the United States via Portugal. Liane later earned a doctorate in chemistry.
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Just how should the EU react when a leader in a country like Romania threatens to undermine the democratic principles the entire European project stands for? Apparently it depends on what political party the accused underminer hails from.
Last year, when the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban – whose Fidesz party is a member of the EU's centre-right political grouping, the European People's Party – rammed through his parliament a controversial media law critics believed granted him overweening powers to mute press critics, the Socialists & Democrats – the EU's centre-left group – were outraged.
"We cannot allow Hungary or any other government to drive a coach and horses through the fundamental values of the European Union," insisted German MEP Martin Schultz, then the head of the S&D group in the European parliament.
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So, is this it? Or do the teams (and all those poor saps covering the finals) haul their rear ends across the continent one more time for Game 7 in Newark Wednesday?
I'm not predicting anything because I've been pretty incredibly incorrect since around Game 4 of Rangers-Devils. Plus I have no feel for it, other than I don't think LA has badly slipped, I don't believe the Devils have taken any kind of control, and I certainly and quite obviously don't believe there is any momentum carry-over from one game to another in a series.
A lot of times the more desperate teams musters a win somehow, which is what the Devils have done.
So we'll see.
Me? I'm tired from the discussion about whether the Rangers were tired.
Let's Go Tony! Let's Go Miami!