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Two Marines, Brandon Morgan and Dalan Wells share a passionate kiss as Morgan comes home after four tours of duty.
Joe. My. God. seems to be the first to publicize this photo, which is going viral right about… now. The photo, first posted to the Gay Marines Facebook page on Saturday, has now appeared on Towleroad and the Huffington Post, among there outlets, no doubt.
Comments on the Gay Marines page number over 3100, with of course some not very nice, but the vast, vast majority are supportive, including over 14,000 "likes."
Brandon Morgan added this statement:
"To everyone who has responded in a positive way. My partner and I want to say thank you. Dalan, the giant in the photo, can't believe how many shares and likes we have gotten on this. We didn't do this to get famous,or something like that we did this cause after 3 deployments and four years knowing each other, we finally told each other how we felt. As for the haters, let em hate…to quote Kat Williams, everyone needs haters, so let them hate. We are the happiest we have ever been and as for the whole PDA and kissing slash hugging in uniform…it was a homecoming, if the Sergeants Major, Captains, Majors, and Colonels around us didn't care…then why do you care what these random people have to say? In summation thank you for your love and support. I received a lot of friend requests off this. I don't just accept requests so if your request was because of this post message me and let me know. Goodnight all, and Semper Fi."
I think what's perhaps best about this image, apart from how loving it is, is that no one else there seemed to care. We've come a long way.
Oh, and let's not forget this awesome Navy kiss, too!


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COMMUTERS late for work, patients missing appointments, restaurant diners and hotel guests cancelling, learner drivers stuck in jams - welcome to gridlock Taunton.
The county town has suffered traffic problems for years, but patience is running thin for long-suffering motorists and people travelling on public transport caught up in the congestion on our roads.
We're told it's caused by work on a new road, streets being dug up to replace rusting water mains and traffic lights changing too quickly – but we're promised it's only temporary and things will improve.
Work on the £22million Northern Inner Distributor Road linking Staplegrove Road at Chip Lane and Priory Avenue via Firepool should end early next year.
And Wessex Water's scheme renewing mains between Upper High Street and Mary Street – which has stopped traffic turning right into The Crescent – will take another six weeks.
Craig Moore, of Green4Go driving school, said staff are selective where they take learners.
"There are areas of Taunton we can't touch," said Mr Moore, who has seen drivers beating tailbacks with illegal manoeuvres.
"Traffic's backed up on the Third Way because the traffic light sequence doesn't work by Pizza Express; the work on the new roundabout at Wickes seems to flow fairly well; but a one-way system in Priory Avenue next week will cause problems.
"Students are paying £20 to be stuck in jams – one lesson on Tuesday, we didn't move for 25 minutes.
"I don't know how anybody could have planned everything at once. It's frustrating and someone should look at it coming into the summer."
Guy Patey, St James Medical Centre practice manager, said patients stuck in traffic should call the surgery to put back their appointments.
He added: "At periods of greatest demand, this may not be possible, resulting in the need to re-book.
"Doctors and staff also experience inconvenience resulting from traffic delays, most notably when undertaking home visits for patients.
"We'll be relieved when the current round of improvements is complete."
Some procedures at Musgrove Park Hospital were delayed last week due to patients arriving late.
Kit Chapman, of The Castle hotel and Brazz, said: "It took me 45 minutes on Tuesday afternoon to get out of Taunton.
"People arrive late. It affects business as people don't want to go anywhere near the town centre.
"We've had cancellations from diners and guests."
Berrys Coaches are struggling to keep buses on time - Caroline Ling said: "It's been hard, but it's something we have to live with at the moment. There's not much we can do about it."
Mark Tutton, of The Scrumper deli and canteen, said: "It's putting at least another 20 minutes on our lunchtime delivery round. Everything's pretty hectic."
Linda Howarth, of Pain et Vin sandwich bar, said: "The traffic at the moment is absolutely appalling.
"It took me 15 minutes in the car to deliver sandwiches just behind Castle School - it usually takes that time to get to Wellington."
Taunton Deane MP Jeremy Browne said some of the problems are down to Taunton's layout and the completion of the NIDR should help.
But he added: "The roadworks are taking too long and the phasing of some traffic lights is making the congestion worse.
"I've contacted the county council about Taunton's congestion - they need to have a proper plan to improve the traffic flow because it's causing real problems for residents and businesses in Taunton.
"I support the NIDR, but the roadworks around the Shell garage (Priory Bridge Road) have been going on for months. It must be possible to complete these projects without causing such severe disruption."
A Somerset County Council spokesman said NIDR work is "going well" and once complete will help relieve town centre traffic – "something we're sure will be welcomed by residents and drivers," he said.
"Most of the current congestion in the town centre is as a result of the major works being carried out by Wessex Water."
Phil Luxton, Wessex Water's project manager for the £16million Clean and Clear operation to upgrade ageing mains, said: "We understand work is taking place within a busy section of the town and ask that people are patient while we complete the work as quickly as possible."

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Excellent quality is driving strong demand for a big crop of California navels, shippers and officials say.
Despite increased competition from California clementines, navel prices are up compared to last year, said Neil Galone, vice president of sales and marketing for Booth Ranches, Orange Cove, Calif.
And that's with a bigger crop.
"All in all it's been a good start," Galone said. "Demand has been steady from the beginning."
With severe apple crop losses in Michigan and New York, Galone speculated that California navels could be benefitting from fewer apples than usual in some stores.
Excellent quality has been the main driver of the high demand, said Bob Blakely, director of industry relations for California Citrus Mutual, Exeter.
Movement as of the week of Nov. 26 was up 2%-4% over last year at the same time, Blakely said. The California navel industry is on track to produce about 93 million boxes of fruit in 2012-13, up from about 83 million boxes the year before and among the biggest crops on record.
"The fruit started off tasting very good, and it's been reflected in the demand," Blakely said. "We've had high packouts, good utilization. Everything's looking really good."
Galone reported good flavor and color and a fairly clean crop, with little scabbing reported as of the end of November.
Barney Evans, vice president of sales for Los Angeles-based Sun Pacific Shippers, said that despite increased competition from clementines, the 2012-13 season has gotten off to a good start.
"Overall, things are going pretty well," he said. "Movement has been pretty good year-to-date."
Galone expected markets to remain steady in the coming weeks.
"The truth is movement is good at these prices," he said. "I'd be surprised if it strengthened, but I'm also not anticipating it getting any weaker."
On Nov. 27, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported prices of $17-18.80 for 7/10 bushel cartons of California navels 72s, up from $14.73-16.75 last year at the same time.
Prices were stable on 72s and larger in late November, OK on 88s and unstable on 113s and larger, Evans said.
Industrywide, sizing has been a bit on the small side, with fruit peaking on 88s, Galone said. Booth Ranches, however, has had plenty of 72s and 56s, he said.
The small size profile could pose challenges for winter holiday promotions, Evans said.
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New York -- An SEC filing on Friday revealed that the total compensation for CVS Caremark Corp. CEO Larry Merlo jumped 44% last year to $20.3 million.
Merlo's base salary rose slightly but the major increases came from stock and option awards and nonequity incentive-plan compensation.
Among the other senior executives, CFO David Denton saw his total 2012 remuneration rise 33% to $6.1 million, and president of CVS pharmacy Mark Cosby's total pay dropped 39% to $5.9 million. (The prior-year period included a nearly $1.4 million bonus and higher stock and option awards.)
"Last year, CVS Caremark had an outstanding year, and continued to deliver strong financial results and enhanced returns to shareholders in a challenging economic environment, performing favorably against our peer group in several key areas," CVS spokeswoman Carolyn Castel said in a written statement.


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This article was published 6/11/2012 (1748 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
We have arrived again at that traditional time of year when I use my journalistic expertise to provide you with an in-depth analysis of whatever election is taking place, unless there is no election taking place, in which case I just lie on the couch in the den gobbling leftover Halloween candy until I lapse into a sugar-induced coma.
Today, however, we are going to analyze the results of last night's thrilling U.S. presidential election, which will be extremely challenging because, from a strictly journalistic standpoint, I do not have a clue what the results of last night's U.S. presidential election are.
For the record, this is not my fault. As always, I am writing this thoughtful, informative analysis in the middle of the afternoon while the polls are still open, and my plan is to go out for chicken wings, then race home in time to catch the latest episode of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
Fortunately, as a modern journalist, I am trained to analyze things before they happen. That's just the way we pundits roll in the online era of Twitter and Facebook, when what we say is not nearly as important as when we say it.
Imagine what the world would be like if we media pundits only dissected world events AFTER they had occurred. Sure, we'd make far fewer mistakes, but it would be pretty boring in the long run, especially if betting was involved.
I hate to brag, but I have a long and glorious tradition of analyzing things I suspect probably happened. For example, regular readers will recall that, in a hard-hitting column written on the morning of last year's provincial election, I accurately stated the winner, the person who would lead us in a time of economic crisis, would be the guy that most of us -- or at least a majority of us -- voted for. And I was right!
It's a similar situation with elections in the U.S., except the person who gets elected president is decided by something called the electoral college under a system that is more complicated than brain surgery and involves more handguns.
Had I been watching last night, I am sure I would have been struck by how tight the race was, even though the two candidates could not be more different. Yes, both of them wear expensive suits -- unless they are trying to appear sincere, in which case they take off their jackets, roll up their shirt sleeves and sweat profusely -- but Barack Obama openly supports "hope and change," whereas Republican challenger Mitt Romney is in favour of "change and hope."
Another key factor in making this race too close to call was the number of celebrities lining up to support the two candidates. Making strong pitches for Obama were rock legend Bruce Springsteen, sexy songstress Katy Perry and noted political expert Snoop Dogg, while Romney's campaign received a critical boost from veteran Hollywood actor/director Clint Eastwood and his favourite kitchen chair.
There certainly were a lot of dramatic televised moments last night, weren't there? Remember when that one analyst on that TV network made that controversial statement and one of the other experts on the panel totally disagreed with him?
Or how about that part where the famous political insider explained how exciting everything was via the technique of pointing at a computer-generated map wherein some states were shaded red while others were coloured blue?
It goes without saying that you, a Canadian and citizen of the world, were glued to your TV watching this drama, partly because you believe in keeping yourself informed on the political landscape in the most powerful nation on Earth, but mostly because you and your spouse couldn't agree on what else to watch due to the fact the NHL has locked out its players and the only way to enjoy hockey is by stealing your child's video-game system.
But none of that matters today. What matters is the election is now over and voters in the United States have selected that guy in the suit, the guy who gave all those stirring speeches, as their president. Unless, of course, they didn't.
It is entirely possible the folks in Florida, a state whose population consists largely of Canadian snowbirds, have brought everything to a grinding halt again, just like they did in the 2000 election when they confused their voting machines with video lottery terminals.
But you don't need me to tell you that, do you? Because you stayed up all night watching the miracle of democracy unfold before your very eyes in high definition. Which tells us something vitally important about Canada as a nation -- we don't get nearly enough channels on our TV sets.


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IDEC partners with Interiors & Sources among other organizations to host contest
The winners of the 2010 Interior Design Education Video Competition were announced last month during the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado.
IDEC partnered with the National Council of Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ), theCouncil for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA), the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers (AAHID), and Interiors & Sources magazine to host the competition. More than 25 videos were submitted for consideration by a panel of judges from IDEC, AAHID, CIDA and NCIDQ. Winning videos receive cash prizes along with recognition in an issue of Interiors & Sources magazine and on sponsoring organizations' websites.
The winning video, submitted by a team of students from Louisiana State University, is titled "Interior Design & Healthcare." Colette DeJean, Leigh Hardy, Ryan Weilenman, Sarah Tull and Alyse Lambert worked under the guidance of faculty advisor Danielle Johnson. Judges commented that the video was "very relevant, imaginative, informative," and an "on target explanation of how professional interior design impacts healthcare."
In second place was a video, produced by Ahmed Alawadhi from the University of Missouri – Columbia, is titled, "The Role of Accredited Healthcare Interior Designer." This entry's strong points were "it informs about interior design skills" and "reaches several audiences."
The judges selected as the third place video a team effort by Radford University students Michelle Cleverdon, Laura Payne, Ashleigh Wilson, Kendra Travis, and Katie Childress working under faculty advisor Holly Cline. Judges praised this video for emphasizing design, targeting healthcare professionals, and being informative regarding interior design skills and experience.
The winning videos and other contest entries are online at www.youtube.com/idecorg.
A recap of the IDEC Annual Conference is online at www.idec.org/events/2011.php.


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The head of the Manitoba Hells Angels wants to go home for the holidays.
Dale Sweeney, the president of the local chapter, appeared in court Tuesday for a two-day bail hearing. A court-ordered ban prevents specific details of the case from being published. Sweeney is being represented by high-powered Ontario defence lawyer Alan Gold, who has made a career out of defending members of the Hells Angels.
Sweeney, 41, has been in custody since March 2012 following his arrest as part of a major undercover police project. Investigators nabbed Sweeney and 10 other gang members and associates as they dealt the Hells Angels another blow in their quest for organized-crime dominance.
Police seized an estimated two kilograms of cocaine and an undisclosed amount of cash and laid various charges, including trafficking, proceeds of crime, money laundering and participating in a criminal organization. Police also seized various properties, including Sweeney's motorcycle, as alleged proceeds of crime.
Operation Flatlined was the fourth major bust of the Manitoba Hells Angels since 2006. The three previous projects -- Defence (2006), Drill (2007) and Divide (2009) — led to 62 biker arrests, including former presidents Ernie Dew and Dale Donovan. Unlike those previous projects, police did not use a paid informant in Flatlined. Sources told the Free Press the undercover probe relied on court-ordered wiretaps that allowed police to gain insight and evidence.
The Flatlined code name is a direct reference to the Redlined Support Crew, which is serving as a puppet club of the Hells Angels. The Hells Angels created the Redlined gang in 2010 to stand up to other criminal networks that might muscle in on their former drug turf after many of their members were arrested and jailed following the other police stings.
At the top of that list was the Rock Machine, which waged war with the Hells Angels in Quebec during the 1990s but has never had much of a presence in Manitoba until recently.


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An appointment doesn't have to be an appointment; it can be any block of time you need to remember. And a meeting can be any block of time that involves coordinating a group of people. Take this course to learn how to take Outlook calendars to the next level by thinking conceptually about them.
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Take calendars to the next level (3:36)
People use calendars for more than just meetings and appointments. So why not use Outlook calendars for those things, too? This video shows you how.
Organize the schedule and assign tasks (4:22)
After you get the basic parts of the calendar schedule blocked out, you can add more detail as you go along and send updates to keep everyone in the loop.
Share a calendar (3:58)
Use calendar meeting requests to share events, or share the whole calendar via email, publish it on a website, or share it through your email provider.
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You can remove a calendar from Outlook, but before you do, make a backup copy of the schedule to keep for future reference.
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Welcome to the "Bench and Media Guide to Interaction". This guide is a joint production of the Community Relations Committee of the Judicial Conference of Indiana and the Hoosier State Press Association, and is intended as a quick reference for judges and journalists seeking information on issues involving courts and the media. The content of the guide will be added to and updated on a regular basis, making it a continuing work-in-progress.
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Medication errors are preventable. Your best defense is asking questions and being informed about the medications you take.
Medication errors may sound harmless, but mistakes in prescribing, dispensing and administering medications injure hundreds of thousands of people a year in the United States. Yet most medication errors can be prevented. How can you protect yourself and your family?
One of the best ways to reduce your risk of being harmed by medication errors is to take an active role in your own health care. Learn about the medications you take — including possible side effects. Never hesitate to ask questions or share concerns with your doctor, pharmacist and other health care providers.
Medication errors are preventable events that lead to medications being used inappropriately. Medication errors that cause harm are called adverse drug events.
An example of a medication error is taking over-the-counter products that contain acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) when you're already taking a prescription pain medicine that contains acetaminophen, possibly exceeding the recommended acetaminophen dose and putting yourself at risk of liver damage.
Another example of a possible error is taking the brand-name drugs Zyban and Wellbutrin at the same time. Both contain the drug bupropion, but each medication is intended to treat two separate conditions.
Zyban is used for smoking cessation, and Wellbutrin is used to treat depression. If you're taking Wellbutrin for depression, then decide to quit smoking, you may mistakenly be prescribed both drugs. Taking both brand names together may lead to an overdose of bupropion.
Medication errors can happen anywhere, including your own home and in doctors' offices, hospitals, pharmacies and senior living facilities. Knowing what you're up against can help you play it safe. The most common causes of medication errors are:
Knowledge is your best defense. If you don't understand something your doctor says, ask for an explanation. Whenever you start a new medication, make sure you know the answers to the following:
Asking questions is essential, but it isn't enough. By collaborating with your doctors through a process known as medication reconciliation, you can significantly decrease the risk of medication errors.
Medication reconciliation is the process of comparing your current medication orders to all of the medications you have been taking. This reconciliation is done to avoid medication errors such as omissions, duplications, dosing errors or drug interactions.
Medication reconciliation should be done at every transition of care in which new medications are ordered or existing orders are rewritten. Transitions in care include changes in setting, service, practitioner or level of care.
Sharing your most up-to-date information with your health care providers provides the clearest picture of your condition and helps avoid medication mistakes.
Here's what you need to tell your health care providers:
The following medication errors have happened to real people. Don't make these same mistakes:
Get into the habit of playing it safe with these medication tips:
"Don't ask, don't tell" is never a smart policy when it comes to medications and your health. Don't hesitate to ask questions or to tell your health care providers if anything seems amiss. Remember, you're the final line of defense against medication errors.
If despite your efforts you have problems with a medication, talk with your doctor or pharmacist about whether to report it to MedWatch — the Food and Drug Administration safety and adverse event reporting program. Reporting to MedWatch is easy, confidential and secure — and it can help save others from being harmed by medication errors.
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I was browsing my local Home Depot, the evil orange empire, and notices that they have new Weber gas grills. The packaging is different, but they weren't on display yet.
Looking at the boxes it looks like they have changed the design. I notices that the thermometer is not in the center and the plastic moulding for the side handles look different. Don't know what else changed. Hope that the standard stuff like grate and flavorizor bar dimensions stays the same.
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An Edgware company which helps makes roads and streets safer has scooped an award for helping train new apprentices.
Local Authority Publicity, based in Edgware Way, was named best business apprentice employer of the year at the annual First Rung Training Provider awards ceremony.
The firm, which distributes road safety leaflets and official police documents about how to say safe on the streets, has four apprentices.
Managing director Paul Morris said: "Apprentices are an integral part of our business into the future. With our training they become valuable members of staff who are important assets to our company."


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AMBITIOUS plans to remember the Accrington Pals could include a TV drama, a commemorative beer and a Book of Honour.
Hyndburn Council has revealed a host of plans to mark the heroes' upcoming centenary, including planting displays of poppies across the borough.
Years of research into the Accrington Pals is to be created into a Book of Honour containing all the casualties suffered from July 1 to 5, 1916, compiled by historian Walter Holmes based on his research with the late Bill Turner.
The period of celebrations to remember the heroes' centenary has also been extended from two years to four, from 2014 to 2018.
A number of other ideas are being considered according to the group, such as a Channel 4 drama production about the families left in Accrington when the men went to war. It is set to cover the week following the battle.
The council is also hoping to remember the Pals with a memorial overlooking the town on the Coppice, which would be paid for with lottery funding.
Currently councillors are assessing designs for a sculpture expected to be around 12 metres high and placed in front of the Coppice.
The Accrington Pals Commemorative Group, founded by the council, is also exploring painting a Pals' commemorative date on the Coppice, similar to the '1612' display on Pendle Hill to remember the Pendle witches.
Leader of the council Miles Parkinson said: "There are some particularly poignant dates to be remembered and we need to commemorate them in a way that will be remembered.
"We have set up this special group to make the arrangements and we are really grateful to the volunteers and interested parties helping us do this."
Other plans include events for those interested in genealogy, searching for relatives who had been in the battalion. A major Centenary Concert at Accrington Town Hall is also expected to take place.
Plans to create a Commemorative Beer has seen Hyndburn Council contact breweries to discuss the plans, with councillors visiting breweries this week.
The Book of Honour is to be a gift from historian Walter Holmes and Bill Turner's widow, Ruth, in memory of Bill, to be formally presented to French dignitaries as part of a visit to Serre.


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Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods' Parenting Plan
Elin and Tiger put the kids first.
-Libby Keatinge
Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods are doing it for the kids. Maybe Tiger was a sucky husband, but at least it looks like he is trying to be a good father to kids Sam, 3, and Charlie, 1.
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The divorce papers state that they have both completed 4 hours of parenting classes, which are required in Florida to complete a divorce. "The parenting plan is in the best interests of the children," the documents read.
Tiger also took to his website to show that his children are of the utmost importance to him. "While we are no longer married, we are the parents of two wonderful children and their happiness has been, and will always be, of paramount importance to both of us…The weeks and months ahead will not be easy for them as we adjust to a new family situation." (Us Magazine)
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I finally pushed through the last order of parts for my hardtail strat build. I've posted a little bit here and there about it, but I think I'm going to use this thread to document everything, for no good reason other than to appease my desire to have a build thread.
So basically it's gonna look a little somethin like this:
Warmoth Alder body - to be painted Olympic White
Fender MIM all maple neck - headstock to match body
hardtail bridge, string-thru-body
Warmoth Black Pearl pickguard - this is actually the single part that inspired the whole pirate theme.
H-S configuration
1 vol, 1 tone, LP style 3-way toggle, 2x series/parallel mini toggles
Pickups: Duncan Custom/Lil 59 - Planning on doing some mag swapping with the custom, so it might end up as a CC/C8/CUOA5... we'll see.
Headstock design will look a bit like this (minus the rosewood board and chrome hardware):
It says "Jolly Roger Cutlasscaster" and the skull/swords are actually the same design that adorned Captain Jack Rackham's personal flag.
and lastly, no pirate themed anything would be complete without some booze, treasure and lusty wenches, so I decided to find a pinup-girl type graphic I could use for the back. It took me ages to find just the right saucy little minx for this project. I think she captures the vibe of the whole guitar quite well - classic, but sexy, dangerous and a bit unpredictable.
The only thing I have left to get a hold of is paint/primer, but that can wait until I get back to Canada and my gums have healed from this infernal wisdom teeth extraction.
Next major update will involve copious amounts of parts photos! Maybe I'll even post a video detailing how difficult it will be to find olympic white in Toronto. lol


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National Dialogue on the Curriculum of Readiness for the 21 st Century Librarian
ALA Annual Conference - Chicago, Illinois - Tuesday June 28, 2005
Plenary Session III: Don't Just Talk About It, Be About It: New and Veteran Librarians on Connecting LIS Pedagogy and Readiness to Social Justice and Societal Change
Clara Chu: Moving right along we are going to go into our next session which is plenary session 3, which was going to focus on "don't just talk about, be about it." And it's going to be moderated by Bharat Mehra, who is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Bharat Mehra: Good afternoon. I hope everybody is, after eating, we all are kind of not lethargic, because I can promise you we have got a very exciting panel out here, a lot of wonderful speakers. They are going to going to be talking about, "Don't just talk about it, be about it," and how one can connect LIS pedagogy with social justice and social change. How do we connect theory and practice towards community building and community engagement? How do we train our students to be collaborators and work in partnerships with people from underserved populations? And not in a mode of helping people, but helping people help themselves, and there is a slight difference there.
But without going further, I'll let the speakers talk about different case studies and best practices and applications in different contexts and that will be the theme that might come out.
I will start with Kawanna Bright who is my resident librarian at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Kawanna Bright: Thank you all. Can everyone hear me OK, right now? Great.
I'll be honest, I wrote down something to say this afternoon about 12,000 times and I'm throwing it all in the trash because nothing was coming out quite right. So, there are a few things I want to say and hopefully I'll be on the right track for what Bharat has been talking about.
When the question was first posed to me, I did sit and think what do I have to say about this? What have I done personally or what have I done in different contexts? And I guess when we do things like that sometimes we don't realize the type of work we're doing, or the types of things we are involved in. So, I actually had to go back to library school for myself in terms of when I first got started trying to do things, and trying to get the word out, trying to make sure people were aware of diversity and diversity issues.
I went to the University of Washington Information School and when I got out there the position I went for, the only reason I was able to go as an out of state student, was as a graduate assistant. And they offered me a position as the diversity committee's graduate assistant. It was a new committee that had just formed. Needless to say, no one in the school other than those on the committee knew about the diversity committee and the work they had done as a task force for the entire year before.
So, when I got out there, part of my job, or what I made part of my job, because it actually wasn't listed as part of my job, but I made it a point that everyone in the school was going to find out about the diversity committee, find out what they had done, been doing for the past year, what they were planning to do in the following year after that.
I did things like creating websites and posting fliers. I suggested starting new programs. We did one; we did a diversity spotlight where we chose one student who was doing diversity work, or a diverse student, we focused on their activities, and we basically plastered their face and their activities all over the school for everyone else to know about.
So we did this for our distant students. It didn't matter what level you were in. We did this for all our students because one thing I learned when I got out there was that in Seattle there is a different type of diversity from Tennessee where I am from, and I had to readjust myself. There were many times where I was alone in many places and I had to get used to the fact that it was sometimes left up to me to make sure that others knew about diversity and diversity issues.
Luckily as other people were saying right now, and were saying before, I did bring this upon myself. I was not made to do this. So, it was easier to do it that way, I thought it was something that I should do.
But I moved on from Seattle. I became one of the first minority residents at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. And once we got out there, we've been talking a little bit about curriculum and how we're leaving some of our students unprepared. And one thing I would like to point put is that in the residency programs and there are some fellowship programs and internship programs. These programs right now are serving as bridges for many people. They are giving us those skills that we would like to come out of library school with, but we are unable to. The teaching skills that many people don't get, the training that many people don't get, and the professional development.
Unfortunately though, there aren't enough programs for everyone. These programs are not adequate enough because you'll only get two or three librarians, sometimes only one and you are talking at the most maybe 30 programs. And not all are diversity based. They don't have to be. You can be a diverse librarian and attend any program. Everyone is qualified. I do want to make people aware of that.
But as a resident, working in different programs and I do have two other colleagues who are outstanding and I wish they could have been here today, their names are Mod Mundaba and Jaya Chaudhry. And they have helped me become a better librarian just working with them and collaborating with them.
But we came up with a project that we call the diversity librarian's network. That was not the original name. It had a very long 15 letter name that I try not to remember now because it was a little scary. But the whole point to begin with was to actually get word out about residency programs and training programs because when I applied for Tennessee, I knew nothing about anyone else. I didn't know there were other programs. I didn't know what a residence program was.
So we set out collecting information, collecting data and trying to collaborate and get this information out there. And it's grown into something else. We're trying to actually just create a network where people can actually share, collaborate, no matter where you're at, whether you're out in Seattle by yourself or maybe I'm back in Tennessee with other people where there's another library school.
But just getting the word out about different activities in diversity, you don't have to be a person of color to care about diversity. And that's a big point with us. And there are all levels of diversity that we're trying to get the word out about. So, I did actually leave brochures outside so as you're leaving today, if you'd like to pick up a brochure and find out more about us and also help us with this network because it's brand new. It's just starting out and it's just developing.
But just to finish up, in terms of talking about, not talking and actually doing, that's something that I actually do a lot. Realize that sometimes I forget to talk though. Because sometimes you do have to actually talk first and make sure that others know what you are trying to do, and make sure that you are not just jumping in and doing something and not sharing. Because that's something we've learned with this network is that there are other channels. There are people doing great things that we don't know about.
We are not trying to step on toes but it's happening and we don't want that to happen. We need to talk about it first. So, we spent a year a trying to talk about it more. We've talked about it a lot at this conference. Hopefully now we can actually set out going about doing it and getting other people to join us and helping us with this project.
So, I will conclude with that today. I will say that in terms of curriculum and being prepared based on the curriculum for being a librarian and coming not library school and actually being able to do things, I can honestly say, the curriculum didn't prepare me for that, but the diversity committee there did. And the great people there on that committee did prepare me for going out and not just talking but doing. So, thank you.
Bharat Mehra: I must add that the UTK's minority resident program, two out of the three positions that were or the positions that were filled up are now made on a permanent basis. And this year we are still interviewing for three new positions. So, that's quite exciting. Thank you, that was most enlightening.


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Footwear Secrets of 'Les Miserables': Anne Hathaway's Custom Vegan Shoes + More
What happens when your actors go vegan? They need vegan shoes, of course. Find out how the costume designer of 'Les Miserables' accommodated vegan Anne Hathaway!
-Lucia Peters
How much thought do you give to your shoes? Our guess is probably a decent amount—variety is the spice of life, after all—but we also bet that you don't pay nearly as much attention to them as costume designer Paco Delgado did for 19th century French period flick Les Miserables. Paco recently chatted with Footwear News about what went into creating the footwear for the movie—and some of the details might surprise you!
Case in point: Anne Hathaway went vegan after shooting The Dark Knight Rises (she told USA Today, "After I finished the rooftop fight, I ate four slices of pizza and split a bottle of red wine with my guy. I hadn't eaten like that in months. I felt so ill. By the time the movie finished, I decided to give veganism a try. You can't go hog-wild as a vegan"), so her shoes in particular required some extra attention. "[Anne's] vegan, so we couldn't use any animal materials on the shoes for her character Fantine," Paco revealed. "We had to find very specific shoemakers to create lace-up boots and ankle boots. We also did flats that were much more sophisticated."
Read Guess How Much Kristen Stewart's 'Breaking Dawn' Premiere Dress Is Selling For?
And what about for the men? In addition to his leather combat boots and rough espadrilles, Hugh Jackman, AKA Jean Valjean, "wanted to wear wooden clogs. It was very difficult to walk in them, but he figured out how to do it." For Russell Crowe as policeman Javert, "it was all boots."
Furthermore, due to the fact that the actors sang their parts live on set, a few more adjustments had to be made for their footwear: "[We were] very careful with the materials we used to be as noiseless as possible," said Paco. "We used soft materials and insoles to stop the noise." Because nothing ruins the moment like the clump of a huge boot hitting the ground.
Like the idea of vegan shoes yourself? Check out Dansko's Professional Vegan clogs ($134.95, shop.nordstrom.com). Shadowy black and grey chenille updates a vegan-friendly clog designed for all-day comfort, support, and style—and we promise they're easier to walk in than Hugh Jackman's wooden clogs!
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LeadTek 6800 and eVGA 6800 Ultra Extreme: New GeForce on the Blockby Derek Wilson on 7/9/2004 1:00 AM EST
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TrogdorJW - Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - linkRegarding the logarithmic scale, again, I don't think that it was a really bad idea. It tries to equalize scores that really have a lot of variables. What would be the best way of measuring bang-for-the-buck? Well, here's what I think would actually have to come into consideration.
Well, you would have to take into account the desired average frame rate. This of course varies from game to game, but a score of somewhere between 60 and 100 FPS would probably be ideal. Of course, this would vary between games, as a game like Unreal Tournament 2004 "needs" higher frame rates more than something like Flight Simulator 2004 (or whatever we're on now).
Why 100, when you can't really "see" things that fast? Well, ideally, you would want V-synch enabled for maximum image quality. 100 FPS without V-synch would probably get pretty close to your refresh rate, i.e. 85 Hz, with V-synch. Meanwhile, 60 FPS with an 85 Hz refresh rate might end up scoring more like 42.5 FPS with V-synch enabled. Even worse, 59 FPS with a 60 Hz refresh rate might score as low as 30 FPS.
Anyway, the scale would be weighted, so scores lower than this threshold would be punished increasingly more, while scores above this threshold give diminishing returns. In other words, if we're shooting for 60 FPS, a score of 55 is pretty close, so it gets maybe 89% on a relative scale (instead of the mathematical 91.7%), while a score of 50 might only get 75% (instead of 83.3%) and a score of 45 might get 55% (instead of 75%). Meanwhile, 70 FPS might score 110% (instead of 116.7%) and 80 might score 115% (instead of 133.3%). That's just a rough example to illustrate what I'm talking about - no actual formula was used there.
You might want to consider *minimum* frame rates (although the weight given to the average frame rate does accomplish *some* of this). So maybe we want a minimum frame rate of 40 FPS, and again its weighted so that dropping below this hurts more, while exceeding this value benefits less. And maybe there should be some factor taking into account the percentage of time that a card drops below this threshold?
Price is also a factor. Some people have limits, so you would have an inversely weighted price scale based off your target. Say you want to spend $200. Cards costing less than that would be more desirable, even with lower performance, while cards costing more would be less desirable.
You can go on with all sorts of ideas. In the end, though, it ends up being far too complex for anyone but a mathematics professor. So, the log scale rating that was used isn't terrible... it's just a little interesting, since a straight scale is more easily calculated, more people are familiar with it, and some would say it's more "accurate" (although that last is more opinion than anything). Reply
jiulemoigt - Monday, July 12, 2004 - linkhummm also Doom3 is confirmed for quakecon so the next game to kick your pc's (whatever) is due to come out next month should be interessting to see if any of the value cards can handle it. Reply
DerekWilson - Sunday, July 11, 2004 - linkour grphing engine doesn't display log scale. I went to all this trouble to get around that :-)
Also, we will get color coding in our graphing engine sometime soon, but we don't have it yet ...
Normalizing everything to avg fps and avg cost wouldn't be as useful if done on a per graph basis (which it would have to be done on)... Unless you picked an arbitrary normalization point like desireable fps across all games and desireable cost for that fps .... but that's too sticky and specific ... You have a good idea, but i don't think it would be straight forward to impliment --- we'll see what we can do with this though, thanks. Reply
Pumpkinierre - Sunday, July 11, 2004 - linkNormalise all the results to the average fps/cost of all the cards. Any card close to the normal average(1 or 100 if x100) will be a reasonable to good buy and the outer extremes will be accentuated while still being contained (unlike logarithmic representation that distort the comparison).
trexpesto - Saturday, July 10, 2004 - linkHmm, can your graph generator show a log scale? Then maybe you can use the raw fps/$ numbers but it would be at the display level that the scaling was done. Reply
trexpesto - Saturday, July 10, 2004 - linkNot sure I like the log scaling.
Looking at http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2113&...
in the first graph with no AA/AF the scores for 9800XT vs 6800NP are 12.2 and 14.9 respectively.
9800XT 66fps/$400 = .165 AT-score = 12.2
6800NP 93fps/$300 = .31 AT-score = 14.9
So the fps/$ is almost double but the AT-score is about one-fifth increase.
Not that anyone will ever pay 400 for an 9800XT again - vendors are you listening? Reply
AtaStrumf - Saturday, July 10, 2004 - linkYou might wonna improve the presentation of your results (at least in the Final Words page) by putting them in as few as possible tables (and add/or only use relative results (%) beside actual FPS (mandatory for the GPU which represents 100% or 1,00), to better relate the difference in perfomance -- now being represented by graph bars length which is not that accurate) instead of hundrets of graphs on tens of pages. It makes getting a good overview and doing quick comparisons very hard. You can also use some creative color coding (green = good, red = bad, etc.) to futher increase the readability of these tables. You have done a bit of this in some of your more recent reviews and I'd like see you do it even more and even step it up a notch or two. Reply
DerekWilson - Saturday, July 10, 2004 - linkas for the log scale ...
if we had said:
Value = fps / price
we would have had tiny values which look really bad on our graphs :-) So our first option was to scale the graphs up by multiplying by 100:
Value = 100 * fps / price
The problem with this is that the visual impact of the scaling seemed too dramatic. Now, we don't mean with the high priced ultrasuperextremegold cards. The problem was the difference between the X800 Pro and the 6800GT ... The GT certainly comes out on top, but we are talking about current market prices and a difference of $10. We didn't want to give this difference (the cost of a couple value meals at the local fast food place) more weight than people might ascribe it.
Of course, there are infinite other ways to look at this. Is frame rate *REALLY* important to you? Then its perfectly valid to look at this graph:
Value = fps^2 / price
or is cost the absolute driving factor to you?
Value = fps / price^2
Its all relative really, and very hard to determine. We just wanted to show which cards will give you more frames per dollar, but we didn't want to ascribe a dollar value to every frame ... So the log scale seemed to be our best bet.
But we are definitely open to feedback on how we approach value from a quantitative standpoint. Please let us know what you think, or if there is a better way to approach the issue.
Thanks! Reply
DerekWilson - Saturday, July 10, 2004 - linkWarcraft III is an interesting game. It is a DX8 game, but OpenGL rendering can be enabled with a commmandline switch. In doing some testing, we noticed that OGL mode gets MUCH higher frame rates on both cards (if you talk to some hard core wc3 freaks out there, they might already enable OGL mode to keep framerate up).
We spoke with Blizzard about the differences between the DX8 and OGL rendering paths. Specifically, we wanted to know if there was a quality difference that would make the OGL path run faster than the DX8 path. Blizzard informed us that the two paths had converged on the same quality level. They would not say that the DX8 and OGL paths rendered the exact /same/ image, but they maintained that the only reason they didn't was that DX8 and OGL can't rendere the exact same pixels in certain situations.
We may taclke some OGL benches in WC3 in the future if people are interested. But since we're trying to show realworld performance in these benches, and DX8 is what most people will use, we haven't felt like including these numbers would be useful for now.
Blizzard didn't say anything about capping framerates in DX8, but, then, we didn't ask that question specifically. Reply
Marsumane - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkActually WCIII is DX8 based. Also, wc3 is quite odd with graphic cards. Even with a high end cpu, on toms hardware, the cards dont exactly scale evenly as they do in other benchmarks. Its like theres a cap placed on them in the engine or ATI's drivers dont have some sort of cap on them. I believe it is in the engine due to all cards seeming to have similar frames dispite the card used (unless AA or AF is turned on). The ati cards have a slightly lower cap it seems. I mean the difference is like 3fps between the 9700p and the 6800U. It makese no sense why they all stop here. Reply
TrogdorJW - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkMy final comment (for now):
On the Warcraft III page, you had this to say: "Even at 16x12, this benchmark is very CPU limited, and yes, vsync was disabled. Oddly, when AA/AF is enabled, the FX 5950U actually outperforms the X800 XT PE. This is an atypical situation, and we will try to look into the matter further."
My thought on this is that the likely reason has to do with optimizations. In most benchmarks, the 6800 series of cards outperforms their X800 equivalents when running at standard settings. Enabling 4xAA and 8xAF often diminishes the gap or shifts the benchmark into ATI's favor. However, you don't really do a full suite of benchmarks, so it's difficult to say why the shift takes place. Having looked at other sites, the shift seems to be related almost entirely to the anisotropic filtering. Turning on/off AA seems to have very little impact on the placing of the cards when you're not CPU limited, while turning on/off AF can put a much larger burden on the Nvidia cards, especially cards of the FX era.
So what does this have to do with Warcraft III? Well, I won't bother arguing which of the two AF methods is actually better out of Nvidia and ATI. They seem to be roughly equivalent. However, ATI seems to get more AF performance out of their hardware. Basically, the ATI algorithm simply appears to be superior in performance.
So again, what does this have to do with Warcraft III and the Geforce FX? One word: perspective. WCIII uses an overhead perspective, so much of the screen is filled with polygons (the ground) that are perpendicular to the camera angle. If I recall correctly from my graphics programming classes, there is less that can be done to optimize the AF algorithms in this scenario. I believe that perpendicular polygons are already almost "perfectly optimized". (Or maybe it's just that Nvidia has better optimizations on the FX architecture in this instance?) The end result is that the GPU doesn't have to do a whole lot of extra work, so in this particular instance, the FX architecture does not suffer nearly as much when enabling AF. Not that any of us would actually go out and buy an FX5950 these days....
Honestly, though, the benchmarking methodology for WCIII (playback of a demo at 8X speed) seems pretty much worthless - i.e. on the level of 3DMark usefulness. It's a DX7 game that will run well even on old Pentium 3 systems with GeForce 2 cards, and anything more recent than a GeForce 4 Ti with a 2 GHz CPU will have no difficulty whatsoever with the game. Running a demo playback at 8X might not work well, but that's not actually playing the game. I'm sure there are plenty of WCIII fans that think this is a meaningful performance measurement, but there are probably people out there that still play the original Quake and think that it gives meaningful results. :) Reply
TrogdorJW - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkA few other comments from the article:
"The 9700 Pro may be a good value for many games, but it just won't deliver the frame rates in current and future titles, at the resolutions to which people are going to want to push their systems."
I really have to disagree with that opinion. These tests were done exclusively at 1280x1024 and 1600x1200, as well as with 4xAA and 8xAF. Only the extreme fringe of gamers actually have a desire to push their systems that far. Well, I suppose we would all *want* to, but most of us simply cannot afford to. First, you would need a much better monitor than the typical PC is equipped with - 19" CRT or 17" LCD would be the minimum. You would also need to run at 4xAA and 8xAF at the maximum resolution your display supports in several of the games. Finally, you would need to max out all the graphics in each game. While some people certainly feel this is "necessary", I'm pretty sure they're in the minority.
My opinion? The difference between 800x600 and 800x600+2xAA is rather noticeable; the difference between 800x600+2xAA and 800x600+4xAA is much less so. I also think that 800x600+4xAA is roughly equivalent to 1024x768+2xAA or 1280x1024 without any AA. Personally, I would prefer higher resolutions up to a point (beyond 1280x1024, it's not nearly as important). For graphical quality, there's a pretty major improvement from bilinear to trilinear filtering, but you don't notice the bump to anisotropic filtering nearly as much. There is also a very drastic change in quality when going from low detail to medium detail, and generally a noticeable change when going from medium to high detail. Beyond that (going to very high or ultra high - assuming the game permits), there is usually very little qualitative difference, while the performance generally suffers a lot.
But hey - it's just one man's opinion against anothers. I point this out not as a rebuke of your opinion. It is as disagreement with your pushing your opinion as being something more. Often, writers don't like wishy-washy conclusions, but a more moderate stance is probably warranted with many of the hardware sites. The fastest hardware comes with a major price increase that most people are simply unwilling to pay. The use of a logarithmic scale is also part of this problem, as most people would be more than happy to pay half as much for 75% of the performance. Reply
TrogdorJW - Friday, July 09, 2004 - link#24 - I'm amazed that you're the only other person that even wondered about that. Basically, using the Log of the performance/price makes everything a lot closer. There is a reason for this, of course: if you take the straight performance/price (multiplied by 10 or 100 if you want to get the numbers into a more reasonable range), it makes all the expensive cards look really, really bad.
However, the reality is that while an X800 Pro or 6800 GT might cost over twice as much as the 9700 Pro, there is a real incentive to purchase the faster cards. Minimum frame rates on a 9700 Pro would often be completely unacceptable at these resolutions. The use of a logarithmic chart makes large differences in price and/or performance less of a deal killer.
For example, let's look at Warcraft III 1600x1200 without AA/AF. The cards range from 58.2 to 61.1 FPS, but the price range is from $300 to $600. In this particular instance, the $300 6800 would be almost twice as "desirable" as the 6800UE or X800XTPE. Apply their log-based calculation to it, though, and the 6800 is now only 30% more desirable than the $600 cards.
What it amounts to, though, is their statement at the beginning: every person has a different set of criteria for rating overall "value". In Anandtech's case, they like performance and are willing to pay a lot of extra money for it. (Which of course flies in the face of their comments about the $10 difference in price between the 6800GT and X800 Pro, but that's a different story. As someone already pointed out, if the GT leads in performance, costs a little less, and also has more features, what numbskull wouldn't choose it over the X800 Pro?!? Of course, there are instances where the X800 Pro still wins, so if you value those specific situations more, then you might want the X800 instead of the GT.) Reply
Leuf - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkHow can you leave out the 9800 pro when talking value, especially when the video card guide right under this article says the 9800 pro is the best price/perfomance now?
One thing you don't take into account is that someone buying a lower end card probably doesn't have the same cpu as someone buying a top end card. While it wouldn't make sense to test each card with a different cpu for this article it's worth mentioning. I'd actually like to see a perfomance plot of a couple value cards tested across the gamut of cpus. Looking at video card value and cpu value completely separate from each other isn't necessarily going to lead to the best choices. Reply
Neekotin - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkaraczynski, i used an asetek waterchill v2. dedicated only for the GPU and a custom coolant, my recipe... i havent tried it with a CPU, my 3400 is barely overclockable. Reply
Marsumane - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkYes that is a good deal. But it doesnt represent the actual price of the card w/o promotions. The GT was $300 from bestbuy. Thats not the overall price tho, just a pricing mistake. You cant count them. Reply
snikrep - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkDid you guys notice the Far Cry specs? That's some pretty huge numbers... the X800XT is beating the 6800 Ultra by about 15FPS from what I could tell.
That's huge!!
And those "actual" pricing numbers seem way off... I picked up a retail X800 Pro from Best Buy 2 weeks ago for $399, so I don't see why we'd include price gouging vendors.
And the X800XT Platinum Edition is below $499 at most places, I personally have it on order from Gateway for $390 which makes it the best deal by FAR (of course I'll get it sometime in August with my luck, but who cares, it's cheap). Reply
nserra - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkSo many rich people here, discussing de price of 600$ card's, and worried about their little price differences (10$), funny.
After watching this review, I would go for a 9700pro or 9800pro, or even better a softmod 9500/9800se.
I play always (if the games permit) at 1024x768 2xAA and 4xAF. It's more than enough.
The review doesn't take into account that most of monitors (CRT) do 60 Hz at 1280x1024 and 1600x1200. Reply
araczynski - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkNeekotin: What hardware are you using for your liquid cooling setup? I've been thinking about incorporating it into my next build possibly. Reply
Drayvn - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkSorry to post again, but the cheapest 6800 Ultra, we dont even have the Extreme yet is....
So the difference is about $100 still, which in my opinion i would by the XT-PE still, but prices could go down when the UE comes out, dunno... Reply
Drayvn - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkActually i just found it for $530 over here in the UK Reply
Drayvn - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkIn England the price of the XT-PE is about $565 and u could probably find it lower, at around $550 to $540... Reply
Noli - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkGuys if you don't like the value information 'overkill', er... just don't hover your mouse over the graphs?
Actually my beef is slightly different which is why do anandtech log the fps/$ ?? There may be a good reason but am not sure what it is... Reply
Marsumane - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkSomething that I dont think is quite right is that they are doing these benchmarks to determine the value of a card. If you use SM2.0 for the 6800 series and the X800 series you will not be seeing the entire value of purchasing a 6800 based graphics card. SM3.0 IS A FACTOR IN VALUE! Reply
DarkKnight - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkI completely agree with #18, just too much value information for me. In the end of an article just give a graph of the overall value, something like they do at THG. Reply
DarkKnight - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkReply
ZobarStyl - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkI love my LeadTek 4200, and the 6800nu is right up my alley...not like I need 256 for anything I do anyway. Great article, now I'm sure that once the gouging stops if I can find one for 250 it's mine. And ATi fanboys please stop posting their prices like they are wrong, everyone is overcharging right now...and the XTPE does not equal the XT #17...if the PE costs the same as the XT, who the hell will buy the XT when the PE is clocked higher stock and performs better?
Hell at my local Best Buy the Pro (yes, the Pro) is proudly sold for 499.99; so much for the MSRP... Reply
rjm55 - Friday, July 09, 2004 - link#18 - I infer that you meant "I am not implying . . ." in your comment.
Derek - The "value" thing is a good idea, but using it in every graph is really more information than any of us need - which makes it more confusing than it needs to be. Not many are interested in comparing bucks per frame in Eve at 1600x1200 to bucks per frame in Halo, for example. What's in the article about value is geeky overkill, when what I want to know is true overall value, or bang for the buck.
Maybe you can settle on a bench ot two to best illustrate value instead of making it so complicated you have to run a computer analysis to figure it out. Reply
binger - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linknice article, but too bad you didn't touch the issues of heat and noise. for me, those factors are far more decisive than, say, a 10$ price premium or a performance difference of a couple of fps.
deathwalker - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkAn after thought to my original post on this review...there seems to be a great deal of emphasis put on 1600 X 1200 performance in these reviews..I know there are still a great number of gamers out there still using CRT moniotors..but..with the growing popularity of LCD monitors this 1600 X 1200 performance range is unobtainable for most LCD owners as most 17" and 19" LCD monitors operate with 1280 X 1024 as the optimal native setting. I am not infering though that 1600 X 1200 is not revelant in this testing process...it's just an observation. Reply
gordon151 - Friday, July 09, 2004 - link[q]ATI Radeon X800 XT: $540
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition: $?[/q]
The X800 XT == X800 XT PE with respect to your prices. Reply
deathwalker - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkThe use of ATI catalyst 4.X drivers has proven to be a real thorn in the side of ATI card owners(in my opinion). I have a 9700Pro and the use of any catalyst driver above 3.9 results in a 3-5% performance hit regardless of the benchmark I use for measurement. I wonder if the resulting compatibility issues resolved in the 4.X series is worth the tradeoff in performance. ATI needs to remain focused on performance issues also in there driver releases. I have been a long time ATI fan (since the release of the 8500)..but..this article clearly indicates that Nvidia is in the process of or already has put a trump card on the table with the 6800 series of VGA cards that ATI needs to respond to. Reply
RyanVM - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkHow did the X800 XT come out ahead of the XT-PE by 10fps in the Homeworld 2 16x12 4xAA/8xAF test? Reply
Warder45 - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkDerek, do you really think a fall refresh line is comeing this year? The spring line has barely shown up, let alone the low end ATI cards haven't really been introduced. Seems like that would be a big waste of money for ATI and Nvidia to release refreshes before the current line has market penetration. Reply
Slikkster - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkAll I can say is that it's about time, Nvidia, that you've closed the gap on ATI. I'm looking forward to 2 6800 UE's SLI'd on a pci express board. heheh Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linksorry, to answer the resolution and connection questions:
Viewsonic P95f+ using analog. When necessary (with the 6800 U and 6800 UE) we used a DVI to analog adapter. Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkThings would have looked different if we had gone with MSRP ... things will also look different in a couple months when the fall refresh line comes out.
We didn't feel it was fair to use MSRP because people can't find these cards for MSRP right now. In a month or two, that may or may not be different. And in a month or two, we may take another look at performance and value.
But, as we indicated in the article, the value graphs should really be more of a guide than a definition. If that makes any sense :-) Reply
at80eighty - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkgotta agree with Shinei, this bunch DEFINITELY makes me wanna shift from my trusty Ti4200 *sniff* : p ... and umm no, im no fanboy; was seriously considering the X800XT, but the tests make me think the 6800GT is worth my money...
btw Derek...what monitor + connection were you using for these tests?
/also - the value graphs: - great idea!...something i've come to expect from you guys now : P Keep up the good work!
trexpesto - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkwhoops thought I was just logging in - um - nice article.
I've seen newegg testing the waters with 9800 Pro 256MB for $223.00. Once I could believe it was a mistake, twice tho seems like real sampling to see when they should be lowering the price. There's just so many models out there, given a 10$ spacing, it's like prices are shored up from the bottom. Anyways, picked one up, but I let them sweat for a half hour first. ;)
Pumpkinierre - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkIn homeworld2 test the X800XT 1t 1600x1200 goes up in speed when you switch on 4xAA and 8xAF and beats the PE!
Shinei - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkDefinitely interesting to see the 6800NU's performance numbers... I almost want to say that the 6800 will be the DX9-generation's Ti4200. Not that that'll stop me from getting a 6800GT or a 6800U to replace my 4200, mind you. :p
Anyway, I like the inclusion of the "value" graphs as part of the benchmark results, it makes it easier to see what card gives you the best bang (in the case of these latest cards, a boom?) for your buck. And as always, AT puts out the quality benchmarks that I recommend so highly to everyone. Reply
Mithan - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkI think the best "value" card out right now is the 6800 GT. Reply
sparkz - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkWhat kind of monitors were used and also what type of connection was used for testing at 16x12? (DVI or VGA) Reply
ViRGE - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkSilentRunning, they aren't using the MSRP, they're using the actual market price. Reply
Neekotin - Friday, July 09, 2004 - linkwell i got myself an x800 xt already (pulled a lot of strings...), nice article anyway.. wished you included overclocked numbers, hardcore types do it anyway. i had mine liquid cooled to 620/600... blazing! hehehe Reply
SilentRunning - Friday, July 09, 2004 - link[q]ATI Radeon 9700 Pro: $180
ATI Radeon 9800 XT: $400
ATI Radeon X800 Pro: $420
ATI Radeon X800 XT: $540
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition: $600[/q]
Obviously you need to re-evaluate how you obtain prices. Since ATI's SRP (suggested retail prices) are lower. Those prices are from dealers who are price gouging due to demand.
ATI Radeon X800 Pro: $399 SRP
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition: $499 SRP
http://www.ati.com/buy/pricespcusa.html Reply


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Julian Assange, convicted computer criminal and founder of the controversial website Wikileaks, was briefly charged with rape by Swedish authorities. The charges have since been dropped, but he's still under investigation on allegations of molestation.
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In Sweden molestation is a sex crime that can apply to nonconsensual sexual contact among adults, as well as with minors (unlike in the U.S., where it typically refers to inappropriate contact with minors). Also, unlike the U.S., the offense is not punishable by prison time.
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Blog Wars Olympics: Top 5 Stables Part 2
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Here is Dr. Death's list, judges please vote on this list please.
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Everybody has their favorite stable, and some will disagree just because they can, but none can deny the impact these stables had on the pro wrestling industry. Criteria: Impact of Stable, Quality of Promos, Titles, and Ability to generate pops or heat, what the members went on to do, stables before 2002 are not allowed to be in the list.
5. Straight Edge Society (S.E.S.) - (WWE)-(11/27/2009 to 12/3/2010)
The S.E.S. was a group of people lead by CM Punkin a "Straight Edge" Lifestyle. The members of this heel stable were:CM Punk; Luke Gallows; Joey Mercury; and Serena. The group acted as a militantorganization, denouncing all people who don't live the straight edge lifestyle.New members were required to shave their heads, which signified a "newbeginning." Preaching the "straight life" and denounce wrestlersand fans alike, Punk and his S.E.S. were hated beyond measure by most. Thegroup feuded with the likes of Rey Mysterio; Big Show; Triple H and more.Eventually S.E.S. split up and Punk went on to lead the Nexus and from there hemade his famous promo and won the WWE Championship. He's been champ ever since.
4. Fortune – (TNA)-(6/17/2010 to 12/22/2011)
Consisting of Ric Flair, AJ Styles, James Storm, Kazarian and Robert Roode, the group was modeled and named after Flair's former alliance, the 4 Horsemen. As a unit they captured the TNA TV Title; the TNA Tag Titles; the X-Division Title; & the TNA-WHC. Although Fortune didn't have a lengthy run as a stable, the year and a half they were together was very memorable. Never at a loss for words, Ric Flair always delivered and Fortune took on Immortal which was the beginning of the end for both stables.
3. The Nexus – (WWE)-(6/7/2010 to 8/22/2011)
Prior to their formation, each original member of Nexus was a contestant on the first season of the NXT program. This heel stable was formed by Wade Barrett in order to obtain WWE contracts for all members. Members of this stable were: Wade Barrett; CM Punk; John Cena; David Otunga; Daniel Bryan; Justin Gabriel; Heath Slater; Skip Sheffield; Husky Harris; Michael McGillicutty; Darren Young; Mason Ryan; and Michael Tarver. Nexus terrorized the WWE's shows RAW and SmackDown, demolishing anything and anyone in their path. Their saying was:"You're either Nexus, or you're against us!" and they meant it. Whether you hated them or liked them, one thing's for sure – their group/gang like mentality entertained us and gave us some future stars on which to lead the WWE forward.
2. The Main Event Mafia (MEM) – (TNA)-(10/23/08 to Feb. 2010)
MEM was a heel stable that consisted of former Champions and Legends in the Pro Wrestling industry. The members of this stable were: Kurt Angle; Sting; Kevin Nash; Scott Steiner; Booker T; Samoa Joe; Traci Brooks; and Taz. At one time, the MEM held every Championship in TNA, whether as a group or as single competitors, the MEM dominated TNA for almost 2 years, generating cheers and jeers wherever they went. With the experience of the combined group of members, this stable could have dominated the wrestling world had they not imploded from within.
1. Evolution – (WWE)-(2/3/2003 to 10/3/2005)
At the height of Evolution's power, the group controlled the entire RAW brand Championships. Each of the members represented the best in "the past" (Ric Flair), "the present" (Triple H), and "the future" (Randy Orton and Batista) of Professional Wrestling. During their tenure, Evolution dominated all of the WWE by any means. People loved to hate them and were very vocal about their dislike of such a dominating stable. Superstars the likes of Goldberg; HBK; Kevin Nash; Chris Benoit; Mick Foley; Scott Steiner; Rob Van Dam; The Dudley Boys; The Rock; Edge; Chris Jericho; etc... all fell at the hands of Evolution. Evolution had the Titles, they had the power; and they called the shots for just over 2 years in the WWE.
Well that's my list, and I hope that you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Good Luck to TT, Destruction, wrestlingfan66513, and all other participants in this series of Blog Wars Olympics!
That's it for the last quarter final list, stay tuned for the semi finals real soon.