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iPad Air: Hands On [video]by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 10/22/2013 3:02 PM EST
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Ylurien - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkAsk how much RAM the iPad Air has! Reply
AdrianSmoke - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkI really hope they increased the RAM to 2GB for the Air.
I use a lot of tabs in the web browser and switch back and forth. RAM is crucial for keeping multiple tabs loaded and ready. Reply
savaraevin - Thursday, October 24, 2013 - linkiPad Air is really amazing, i found a guide about it here, seems to be nice: http://goo.gl/OZ8HXj Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkIt's the same A7 as the 5S seemingly, not A7X or anything different. So 1GB. Reply
Arbee - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkA7 doesn't contain the RAM, so that doesn't mean anything. Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkActually it's on the package on a lot of SoCs. The ipad 3 was the odd man out there. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - linkHardly matters whether it's on-package or not. They could easily manufacture a version with more RAM for the tablets. Reply
KevinZuber - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - linkLove my job, since I've been bringing in $5600… I sit at home, music playing while I work in front of my new iMac that I got now that I'm making it online(Click on menu Home)
http://goo.gl/PX9hWn Reply
thesavvymage - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkram isnt a part of the soc, so it could possibly have more. Knowing how apple wants to keep things uniform however, I doubt it Reply
Aenean144 - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkIt's doubtful to me it is the same. The graphs Apple put up during the presentation and their marketing seems to indicate the iPad Air GPU is 2x the A6X GPU.
The iPhone 5S GPU is about the same as the A6X GPU.
So, some sleuthing to do yet. Reply
darkich - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkIt's the same chip but certainly clocked higher than in the iPhone, both the CPU and GPU Reply
Aenean144 - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkThey could:
1. double the clock rate
2. double the GPU units
3. increase GPU units by 1.5 and increase the clock by 1.3x.
Doubling the clock rate seems an expensive proposition in terms of power consumption, so, I think it is 2 or 3. Wait and see. Reply
BulkSlash - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkI'm curious to know if there will be a clock speed/GPU difference between the Air and mini. The mini is $100 less yet seems to have an identical spec to the Air.
I would think the mini would be more expensive given that the pixel density of the mini's screen is higher and that it will probably have a CPU speed binned for power efficiency for the mini's smaller battery. What does the Air have that the mini doesn't? Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkThis is also what I was wondering about, it can't be double the GPU performance of both the A6 and A6X like Apple said at varying times. I wonder if it's still double the iPhone A7 GPU performance then. Reply
Aenean144 - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkThe plots or charts Schiller had only plotted iPad performance. iPad Air was 2x the performance over the iPad 4 in both CPU and GPU. Reply
Krysto - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - linkWhy didn't they name it A7X like before, though? I think at best they raised the clock rate for both tablets, since they have the same resolution, but they may have also kept them the same, and are keeping A7X or A8 for another spring release or "something" (iPad Pro laptop?) Reply
jerrylzy - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - linkIf there is a change in gpu, Apple will definately rename it to A7X just like before. I think the chip is the same as the a7 on the 5S but is clocked much higher. AFAIK, the G6430 gpu on the 5S is clocked at a very low frequency and has already matched up the 554MP4 on the iPad 4. Apple just need to clock it higher, of course, at the expense of heat & power consumption. Reply
ScooterComputer - Thursday, October 24, 2013 - linkRAM, 'nuff said. The iPad 2 had 512MB of RAM. The original iPad had 256MB and that was CLEARLY too little (can't even run iOS 6). That gives us a baseline of 256MB of "free" RAM being the entry-level "sweet spot" for usage. When the iPad 3 came out with 1GB of RAM, it was discovered that the increased video buffer (4x bigger than that on the iPad 2) ate up the additional RAM, and the iPad 3/4 was left with LESS available RAM than the iPad 2 (for those keeping track, we're now less than 256MB free). 640bit computing uses an approximately 20% larger RAM footprint than 32bit. That means that the iPad Air and the iPad mini with Retina are looking to be working with less than 200MB of "free" RAM, almost 60MB less than the iPad 2. Yet iOS 7 and these new, great apps (GarageBand, iMovie) seem to be much BIGGER than their ancestors.
RAM...it –is– the question. If these new models ship with 1GB, users should understand they're just about in iPad 1 territory. Ask an iPad 1 user how that's working out. Reply
teryan2006 - Thursday, October 24, 2013 - linkWhere did you find the "64bit computing uses approximately 20% larger RAM footprint than 32bit" stats? Does it already account for the memory saving by the compiler using tagged pointers in 64bit binaries? Reply
krumme - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkMan you are so cute Reply
Sm0kes - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkDa fuq? Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkDoes the iPad Air have stereo speakers like the Mini? Reply
Fanfoot - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkYeah but which one should I buy? I moved to the Mini from the iPad 2 because it was too heavy, and avoided the later iPads because they were even heavier. Would love the Retina upgrade and suspect the 1.0lb Air is light enough that it would be the more usable of the two, and light enough. Huh. Want to hear your perspective on this--recommendations of which one for different people. Especially given the prices are closer than before. Reply
ASEdouardD - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkOf course it depends on what you value most, but I'd go with the Mini. It is lighter, and you seem to value this a lot (0.73 lbs VS 1.0 lbs), cheaper by $100 and has a higher pixel density than the full size iPad.
But maybe you could wait for reviews to see if there a significant differences in real user battery life or benchmarks (they'll probably go to higher clock frequencies than on the iPhone 5s, but nobody knows how much right know, to push those pixels, maybe the Mini and the Air will be clocked differently). Reply
ASEdouardD - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - link''real use'' battery life. Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkI'm confused. A7 just bought the iPhone to iPad 4 graphics levels with the A6X (a6X had double the GPU resources of the A6, thus the same-ish performance as the A7), but they're saying the same A7 doubled it from the iPad 4...? Yet it's not an A7X?
Both claims can't be true. Unless they doubled performance without calling it an X series, or if the new claim takes different metrics, Apple themselves also claimed the A7 was double the A6 during the 5S announcement, so now turning around and saying it's also double the performance of the A6X is a bit underhanded.
If it's the same old A7, that's less performance at hand per pixel than the iPhone 5S, seeing as they have a lot more pixels to push in retina iPads. Reply
Sm0kes - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkI think we need to wait and see benchmarks, but the power / clock adjustments could easily account for the gap in performance improvements. Reply
melgross - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkThe A7's graphics performance is greater than that of the A6x. As the air's performance is twice that of the ipad 4, then Apple did something in addition. Reply
Krysto - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - linkThey said that, but they didn't change the name and didn't give any details. So we don't really know for sure until we see the reviews.
Also, the iPhone 5S A7 was just ever so slightly more powerful than A6X, but they were really roughly the same. Reply
dwade123 - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkAdd in the new iWorks and I don't see why anyone would get a useless Android tablet. You can do work on the iPad now! Reply
ArthurG - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkyeah on a tiny 10" touch screen... sure... Reply
melgross - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkBusinesses and government bought millions of them each year so far. Do you suppose they bought them to play games? Reply
EnzoFX - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkIt's all about the quality apps. This is something that doesn't get enough recognition I think, that is Apple's push towards better and better apps. They continue to offer their owns at lower prices or make them free. It's about the devs and the platform. It is not so much about specs or something being just $100 cheaper. If you gain so much more from an ecosystem, then the $100 is easily worth it.
Some fanboys can only see specs, and forget that it's about what you can do with it. Reply
lilmoe - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkAny chance you guys can do a comparison on browser speed/fluidity of the iPad Air vs Surface 2? Same for maps. If you get a chance, of course. Reply
iwod - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkI think, please Correct me if I am wrong, the Memory in SoC could be (relatively) easily changed during the manufacturing. And If for heat concern reason it could also be decoupled from the SoC. So Apple could increase the Memory to 2GB. Since Apple has never mentioned about memory size in all its previous presentation we will have to wait to find out.
The A7 in iPad could still be theoretically faster then A7 in iPhone by increasing CPU and GPU Clock Speed. Since the iPad has nearly double the Power Budget then iPhone.
Conservatively there could be 50% clock speed difference. Although another more likely Scenario would be the SoC be 10 - 20% faster and Apple has the software that allows iPad to run at Top Speed for longer period of time. Reply
Sainlllday - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - linkOk, this might not be a huge upgrade over the current 4th Gen iPad, but iPads never seem like a big leap over the previous version. But the iPad 3 was enough of an upgrade over the original. I have the iPad 3 (and still feel a little burned that Apple came out with another one 6 months later)... is the iPad Air enough of an upgrade over the iPad 3 (especially figuring that I'll sell my iPad 3)? That's what I need to know.
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darkcrayon - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - linkWell, the Air is going to be 3-4 times faster in CPU and 3-4 times faster in GPU, so I'd say it's a big upgrade over the 3rd gen iPad. And then you take into account the huge weight savings over the 3rd gen, I'd say it's a no brainer if you have the few hundred bucks to spend for the difference in selling your 3. Reply
nedjinski - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - linknot to steal any thunder - but now I am really curious about the kindle fire hdx - this reviewer kept saying, "it really feels light", etc - this ipad weighs in at 17 ounces, which is indeed very light. however the hdx 8.9 weighs in at 13.5 ounces - that's a huge difference - I do wonder how well it will perform. Reply
nerd1 - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - linkThe experia Z tablet is waterproof and only 5% heavier than iPad air as well. Reply
jasonelmore - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - linki dunno why you said "everything seems smooth" when you can see this ipad getting pretty chunky on the maps 3d panning/zooming. Reply
iwould - Thursday, October 24, 2013 - linkipad air is clocked faster, mini is little faster than iphone 5s, ipad air have bigger screen use more bettary than mini. Reply
yanasister - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkIt sure is good to see a fairly open minded non-biased top 10. I get tired of the i-sheep reports that the iPhone 5 is the best thing out there. In truth, the iOS and iPhones are falling behind. Nothing of their own design or concept since the 3. Apple has been copying ideas off the jailbreak community for years and now Android. If you've been following it for as long as I have, Android is years ahead of iOS. I love the battle, it serves to get me a better product. I switched from the iPhone 5 to the Samsung S4 a while ago. Took a little getting used to, but now when I pick up an iPhone, I chuckle and put it back down to get me beloved S4 back. I could never go back. And the new iOS? Lol Wtf were they thinking? Ppl keep using apple for familiarity. Scared to change or learn something new. I used this latest version http://goo.gl/O5G8Zi I like the new things. Reply
mjh483 - Sunday, October 27, 2013 - linkIt can't be the "exactly" the same as the one in iPhone 5s. A6X was already ahead of A6 in the graphics department. And Apple claims that iPad Air delivers 2X faster graphics performance than the 4th gen iPad. So I guess it is a higher clocked version of A7. And so it could have extra RAM as well. After all, it has to push 3 million pixels! Reply


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SAAM 2014 resources now available
April is just a few months away, and I'm very excited to share that SAAM 2014 materials are here! For many of you this means you've received the SAAM resource CD by mail, and our resources are now live on the SAAM website too. To celebrate the occasion, this blogger took a chance and recorded our first video blog, or vlog, to offer a tour of the SAAM 2014 materials. Check it out and let us know what you think below.
It's time... to talk about it! Your voice. Our future. Prevent sexual violence.
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In addition to resources specific to healthy adolescent sexual development, there are campaign materials to support outreach, education and advocacy efforts. Share your plans for 2014 below!
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You. Are. Adorable! Love the vlog and the walk-through of the guide. Thanks, Laura!
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April 9th, 2012
PALO ALTO, Calif -- For the first time in the history of The Master's College track program, the Mustangs had the privilege of entering two athletes into the prestigious Stanford Invitational, held in Palo Alto, CA.
The Mustang duo of Anthony Pizzo and John Gilbertson qualified in the 5k and 10k, racing in the 5k on Friday, April 6th. Racing in the second fastest of four heats of the men's 5000m, program history was made for The Master's College as the duo worked in tandem with Pizzo setting a new school record of 14:03.57, followed by Gilbertson with 14:04.86.
Competing amongst a variety of professional athletes and some of the best NCAA division I athletes in the nation, Pizzo and Gilbertson were the only representatives of the NAIA in their respective heat. The pair raced well and crossed the finish line 13 and 14 seconds off the provisional qualifying mark for the US Olympic Trials in the 5k. The Mustang duo looks to break 14 minutes with their next opportunity on the track, and continue to lead The Master's College distance squad to new heights.
Both Men's and Women's track programs will be back in the lanes Saturday, April 14th 2012, in the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational held in Pomona, CA.


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|From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 11 13:40:17 EST 2011
There have been a lot of changes to the gui systems since then. I recommend you either use a released version or track the git head more closely. In the version I have, under windows, the program below seems to produce the right output: #lang racket (require redex) (define-language lc (e (e e) (λ (x) e) x) (x variable-not-otherwise-mentioned)) (render-language lc "lc.eps") Robby On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > Oops, sorry, it's 220.127.116.11. > > > > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Robby Findler > <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >> Which version of Racket are you using? >> >> Robby >> >> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >>> Has anyone ever had issues with generating .eps files with >>> render-language in Windows? Is there something I need to install to >>> make it work? When I run render-language, it seems to be generating >>> some file content, but when I view it, it's blank. >>> >>> For comparison, I generated the same thing on a linux machine and it >>> works. I've attached the two files for comparison if anyone wants to >>> take a look. When I diff the two files, it seems that where stuff is >>> supposed to show up, in the linux file, there's a "show" with the >>> appropriate content, but in the windows file, there is not. >>> >>> _________________________________________________ >>> For list-related administrative tasks: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev >>> >> >
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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
Working recently with a client in selecting and implementing a CRM system, it struck me that sales organizations haven't moved past traditional metrics, sales process, recruiting, training and coaching. There's a new sales landscape that really isn't so new. It left the station when the Internet arrived, and has moved full speed ahead with the increased availability of product/service information on websites and through the plethora of social media. Buyers no longer rely on salespeople as a primary resource, and they are for more empowered by their knowledge.
This environment has prompted commoditization in almost every industry, making profitable growth the much sought-after Holy Grail.The need to increase the velocity of sales transactions is not only for productivity and low cost-of-sales, but also a defense against intruders.
Stepping up technology
What can sales leadership do to achieve greater productivity? Merge sophisticated technology with past success. The healthcare industry has done this with medical protocols, the power of computers and database management. Researchers create personalized medical treatment plans based on variable data points. For instance, if you are a male or female in a certain age range, a certain nationality, with or without diabetes, there will be a specific protocol for treating a heart problem that is based on successful historical patterns. Sales leadership can incorporate this same concept to begin creating custom sales plans for differing sales situations.
Data-driven protocols
CRM systems linked to business intelligence (BI) software and a variety of data points can create custom sales processes/protocols to expedite sales and increase sales productivity.
The CRM/BI alliance will be a game-changer, giving users a true competitive advantage.
Sales protocols will be based on a variety of prospect variables or data points that may vary some from industry to industry. Fundamental data points captured from any CRM database gathered by the salesperson on the initial call may include but are not limited to:
A set of aggregated data points create a specific sales situation that can be validated against a historical database, resulting in a preferred path that includes not only process, but also proper sales tools, a predefined sales process and recommended sales protocols.
Evolution of sales leadership
The adoption of sales protocols will require an adjustment of traditional recruiting, training and development, measurementand other sales management practices. For instance, the sales candidate's profile will need to demonstrate greater adaptability, intelligenceand creativity for assessing prospect situations to ensure accurate data. In addition, the need for more sophisticated skills to execute sales protocols requires more sophisticated sales training. Therefore, in lieu of relying on traditional, process-oriented sales training firms,companies will need advanced, expertise in creating ongoing (rather than sporadic) development programs that adapt to evolving protocols, such as certification programs.
Sales metrics will also become more critical and more complex. Leaders will need to expand their focus from four to six traditional metrics about historical and forward-looking sales activity and pipeline values; they will need to add actions related to the types of sales protocols being followed and link them with specific success ratios with the help of BI reports.
While the "art" of creating trust and confidence during the sales process will always be essential, a more prescriptive, proven approach to winning the sale will advance the "science" behind successful results.
Ken Thoreson "operationalizes" sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone. His latest book in his "Your Sales Management Guru" series is"Leading High Performance Sales Teams." He blogs at YourSalesManagemenGuru.com.


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TRIBUTES have been paid to a devoted dad who was a firefighter by day and a rock singer at night.
Joe Keighley, from Brightlingsea, died suddenly earlier this month, aged 42.
The dad-of-three was a Clacton firefighter for the last eight years.
Twin brother Jeff said: "Joe had a clever sense of humour and he was a very funny person.
"He was good to his friends and he always put caring for his children first.
"He always loved playing and performing music."
Joe was the lead singer of Brightlingsea-based band The Vipers, who played gigs across the area.
He had travelled extensively but settled in Brightlingsea and had many close friends in the area.
Joe was a retained firefighter before serving in the RAF fire brigade and then becoming a regular firefighter based in Clacton eight years ago.
His funeral took place at All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, last week.
Joe's family are raising money in his memory for the charity Mind at memoryspace.mind.org.uk/Memory- Space/Joe-Keighley
A statement posted by the family on the website said: "Joe had been suffering from depression for many years although he hid it well from most people.
"It has come as a great shock to all that knew him and he will be missed by many.
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More than two dozen cities claim they were the birthplace of Memorial Day, which when initiated in the 1860s was known as Decoration Day. Today, thousands of large cities and small towns across the United States celebrate the holiday on the last Monday of May with parades and cemetery services.
Many are probably familiar with the "buddy poppy" program, where the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion sell small artificial red poppies outside of retail locations so buyers can wear them on shirt pockets and lapels.
But are you familiar with how that tradition started?
Inspired by the poem "In Flanders Field" in 1915, Moina Michael composed a poem which mentions a poppy being the color of blood spilled on the battlefield. She conceived the idea of wearing artificial red poppies on Memorial Day in honor of the war dead. She sold them to friends and co-workers, with the money going to servicemen in need.
Later, a French woman learned of the custom begun by Ms. Michael, and made artificial red poppies to raise money for war-orphaned children and widowed women. In 1921, the Franco-American Children's League sold poppies to benefit war orphans in France and Belgium.
When the league disbanded, the French woman approached the VFW for help, and before Memorial Day 1922, the VFW became the first veterans' organization to nationally sell poppies. Two years later, the VFW's "buddy poppy" program was selling artificial poppies made by disabled veterans.
As we prepare to again remember those Americans fallen in battle, buy a buddy poppy if you have the opportunity and remember these words penned by Ms. Michael in her poem:
"We cherish too, the poppy red
That grows on fields were valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies."


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ASRock Z87M OC Formula Review: mATX OC at $190by Ian Cutress on 8/14/2013 10:00 AM EST
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Pessimism - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkWho overclocks anymore? Better off to just save your money and buy the next CPU up IMO. Reply
Horza - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkSo if I buy a 4770k and overclock it to 4.5hgz (kind of the point with the K series) what's your advice?
Overclocking is an easy way to get some free performance and can be a bit of fun at the same time. Reply
Pessimism - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkSince you're already at the top end for desktop parts, my advice would depend on what task you perform that saturated the 4770K at stock speeds. Reply
RealiBrad - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkSo if I'm a gamer, its better for me to buy an I7 over an I5, even though I can get an I5 and OC it past the base performance of any I7.
Why? Reply
Pessimism - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkYou will spend more on the rest of the computer to do it than if you had bought the i7 in the first place. You will also spend more on electricity to power your PC. Yes you will gain a little CPU capacity over a stock i7, I can't deny that. However you haven't provided any example of an everyday gaming or computing scenario that saturates an i7 and justifies all the extra expense, energy consumption and hassle. Don't get me wrong, I was clocking the snot out of a 2500 Barton back in the day like everyone else, I just think the cost/benefit ratio isn't there anymore when you look at how far hardware is past software right now. Reply
karasaj - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkStarcraft II. I can bring my 4.6ghz 4670k to its knees in real world scenarios if I want too. That wasn't hard :P Reply
karasaj - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkReal world scenarios being team games and intense 1v1's. Reply
owan - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - link"All the extra expense"... how much do you think it costs? With an unlocked multiplier on the CPU's, its quite easy to overclock and doesn't incur much added expense. Any halfway decent motherboard that has the features you want on it is going to be fully capable of overclocking quite a bit anyway. The electricity difference is going to still be there, but is probably fairly small.. Maybe 20-30W ? With TDP's on the Intel chips these days, it really doesn't take a big cooler to cool them, even if overclocked. A CM Hyper 212+ can be bought for something like $20 and does the job really well. Lots of people would be buying an HSF capable of handling the additional heat anyway. You could easily build a rig capable of overclocking for less than it would cost to jump to a high-end i7 and get equal or better performance. Reply
RealiBrad - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkSo if I'm building a new system, and the game I'm likely to play will have a cpu bottleneck with an i5-4670, its cheaper for me to spend more on upgrading to a locked i7-4770 for $90 more and get a few frames increase at best? Why would it not be better to take that same $90 and get a i5-4670k and a mobo that can adjust the multiplier? If an i5 is bottlenecked then getting any locked i7 will do nothing. Its far better to get an unlocked i5 and OC it to reduce the bottle neck. yes, the mobo will cost a little more, but the jump from an i5 to an i7 is still more expensive than getting a i5 k and mobo. Reply
IanCutress - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkIt depends what you do. If you overclock and get another 25% performance, that enables you to complete 5 tasks in the same time as 4. If the reward for doing that task is more than the cost of the electricity, then it's a no brainer. This is particularly relevant in the financial industries, where every millisecond counts, or for careers that are throughput limited.
That's just for workloads - gamers are often not worried about the cost of electricity when it comes to pure performance, and overclocking to increase single core performance, particularly in games like Civilization V that respond well to overclocking (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6985/choosing-a-gami... result in a rise of FPS.
There is also the aspect of competitive overclockers, who see it as a challenge to out-overclock their competitors. As mentioned in the review, this is one of the target groups for OC-oriented motherboards, and the motherboard needs to have features to appeal to this crowd.
Just because you do not overclock anymore does not mean that the activity is dead/no longer useful. It is alive and kicking - the amount of pre-overclocked systems on sale today is just one prong of this.
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popej - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkIf we talk about Haswell, then we could get about 4.0GHz on 4770 and 4.3-4.6GHz on 4770k. So it is rather 10% than 25%. I wonder what would be the comparison, if your task is able to effectively use TSX, which is missing in 4770k version?
Will we see GPU drivers using TSX? Or games? Are you prepared to make a comparison? Reply
fluxtatic - Monday, August 19, 2013 - linkThank you, Intel, for artificially segmenting the lines. Reply
fluxtatic - Monday, August 19, 2013 - linkThat first sentence is such a load. If you're any sort of enthusiast at all, you're not going to be buying a board with a business-oriented chipset. If you're not an idiot, you're going to buy decent RAM regardless - what extra expense are you talking about? Reply
psyside1 - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkfacepalm.jpg Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkA consumer use for the internal USB port might be bit-locker whole drive encryption. Truecrypt still doesn't officially support win8; and bit-locker requires one of a TPM (rare on consumer hardware), a USB drive as a keystore, or for the user to enter a 48 digit code (instead of a normal password) at each boot.
I've never liked the idea of an external thumbstick even on a desktop; since you're one idiot borrowing it to copy data from being locked out of your box. An on-board port is a more elegant option than connecting an expansion slot brackets cable to an on board header but leaving the bracket in the case. Reply
lcarros - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkwhat does HDMI-In do? Reply
Rvenger - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkI noticed you stated that the USB port is for a dongle for some software licenses. I interpret that the USB port is for cases that have a USB pass through cable instead of an actual 3.0 header. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkIt's a USB2 port (checked the manual); and USB2 pass throughs there have been mostly dead for a decade or so. Reply
Rvenger - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkMy bad, I should have noticed it wasn't blue. Reply
juhatus - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkHow does it compare agains the Asus Maximus VI gene or any other mATX Z87-board out there?
I would really appreciate even a page about the competition..
Bitfenix prodigyM looks purrrfect for this :) Reply
psyside1 - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkDon't bother with other boards, if you can get ROG, period. Reply
Synomenon - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkDid the specific board Anandtech tested have a C1 or C2 Z87 chipset? Reply
QChronoD - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkI'm disappointed about the copy/paste of the HDMI In from the last review, especially with the lame excuse of being unable to test it due to not owning a console. Seeing as how he is most likely writing the review about this motherboard on a different computer, is it really that difficult to use it as a source and do some basic testing? Do you have to use the CPU graphics to be able to switch to it? Does the HDMI In work well with multiple displays? If you have dual monitors, is it possible to control which one gets switched to the external input? Reply
nitemareglitch - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkAnyone think this looks like the old DFI motherboards? Reply
PC Perv - Saturday, August 17, 2013 - linkThe lack of enthusiasm on this review is.. palpable. ^^ Can't really blame the reviewer, to be frank. It is a shame that mobo makers are throwing everything but the kitchen sink, which are largely unfinished and useless, in order to justify overpriced Intel boards.
In light of ASrock's emphasis of overclocking capability ("OC Formula"), I find the AT's overclocking verification process to be awfully inadequate. No serious overclocker will consider a POV Ray run and an unidentified OCCT run as proof of successful overclock.
One more nitpick is that Video/Audio-IN via HDMI was not tested. It seems like the most interesting feature among the bazillion junks ASrock dumped in this board. The reviewer is candid about it, which I appreciate, but it still doesn't make the review complete since the rest of stuff is not very interesting (and it is unclear whether they even work without hitches, since they were not tested) and, as aforementioned, the board's OC-ability wasn't really "tested."
So after reading this review, the board seems like a today's average board, which comes with lots of useless and half-baked features that simply fill in the questionable checkboxes. Reply


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Is it a bad design to have a directory in the Web Root for each "Section" of your website, and then inside of each directory, have an "index.php" file??
For example, I am thinking of having the following "Sections" in my website...
[INDENT]- Finance
- Legal
- Management
- Marketing
- Interviews
- Outsourcing
- How-To's
- Resources
- Laws & Regulations
- Glossary
- Case-Studies
- Other
Originally, I just had a directory called "articles" with an "index.php" file that served as a generic template to serve up articles based on the selected Section.
So if your pretty URL was...
...then you would be taken to the ugly URL...
The problem with this is that all my Sections can offer is just a listing of Articles?!
But I am realizing that it would be nicer to have a "Landing Page" for each "Section" which would serve the same purpose as my main "Home Page". That is, it would be a way to highlight certain things, provide links to different resources (e.g. Graphs, Interviews, Reference, Q&A, Multimedia), as well as the Articles that I currently offer.
Does that make sense??
hi,if its problem of ugly url .you can make pretty url with URL rewrite and htaccess.
Instead of physical directories with index.php in them, use htaccess rewriting (vs redirecting, which is what your example is). It's essentially the same process, but the URL doesn't change to the user.
Before I dive into the rabbit hole, maybe you (and others) can help me figure out if what I am trying to do makes sense?!
Currently my website has a Navigation Bar with various Sections in it: Finance, Legal, Management, etc.
When a user clicks on a "Tab", my mod_rewrite grabs the "Section" in the URL, and redirects to something like this...
So what you would have is a "Listing of Legal Articles" in this case.
Now, that works okay, but it has occurred to me (in the 11th hour) that my website is supposed to be about more than JUST articles, so what I want to do for most Sections, is to create a "Landing Page" which includes disparate Links, Graphs, etc in addition to a link to yet another page which is like my current "Listing of <section> Articles"
The Wall Street Journal sorta has what I am looking for...
(You can see that the WSJ not only has articles related to a given Section, but they also have Graphs, Links, and even Ads specific to just that Section. I think that looks better than what I currently have, which is rather one-dimensional...)
So to test things out, I want to make it so if a person clicks on the "Finance" tab, they are taken here...
(Displayed URL) http://local.debbie/finance/
(Actual Path) http://local.debbie/finance/index.php
And for all other Sections, things would remain as they currently are, that is...
(Displayed URL) http://local.debbie/legal/
(Actual Path) http://local.debbie/articles/index.php?section=legal
If so, then how does all of this relate to your advice above?? :-/
You're talking about two different animals. The original question (at least as I read it) was about creating a completely separate file/directory structure for each section. My point was that would be overkill and no real benefit to having several files which do exactly the same thing. That just adds overhead and work for maintenance. From my perspective, with the advent of URL rewriting, the only reason to have separate physical folders is for a) security and/or b) to group complementary structure elements (images in one place, css in another, binaries in another, etc).
This second question is a logical one - does it make sense to have a landing page for a section? Yes, it does. That's what I would assume a section would be for - to show anything related to that section, whether it's articles, links, infographics, whatever.
Okay, so you support my "revelation" that it would make more sense to drop people off at a "Legal Home Page" when they click on the "Legal" section tab. (And then from there they could click on another link which would take them to a "Listing of Legal Articles" like in my first screenshot above, right??)
What I was trying to say in my OP, and then again in my last post was, "So how do I go about getting the end result - that we agree on - of having a "Section Landing Page"?
Let's say I have the following Navigation Tabs (i.e. Sections)...
And for whatever reason, let's say that when you click on the "Legal" or "Management" sections I just want a "Listing of Articles" to appear like I currently have.
Why? Maybe because I don't have the time to make a legitimate "Landing Page" for those Sections when I go live?!
However, if you click on "Home", then I want you to be taken to the "index.php" file which has all of my Website Home Page code.
And if you click on "Finance", then I want you to be taken to a different "index.php" file which would build my "Finance Landing Page" code.
And if you click on "Small Business", then I want you to be taken to yet another (different) "index.php" file which would build my "Small-Business Landing Page" code.
And so on...
Since - as I see it - I need a different PHP script for my "Website Home Page" vs. my "Finance Landing Page" vs. my "Small-Business Landing Page", then I need some way to distinguish the "index.php" files, and I thought maybe how you do that is creating separate Directories in your Web Root. (Old-school, I'm sure?!)
(In my mind - at this late stage of the game - it would be TOO DIFFICULT - to create one "master" index.php file and try to load in the appropriate code depending on the type of "Landing Page" that was needed. Also, since once my Sections are set, they likely won't grow or change much, if ever, it isn't like I need tons of flexibility here, if you follow me?)
So, we seem to agree with my need for "Landing Pages" for each Section, and then from there I can take people to a "Listing of <Section> Articles" page.
However, I have a few problems that I need help with...
1.) I need a distinct "index.php" (or whatever) for each Section's "Landing Page" because each will be very different.
2.) I need a way to have some Sections go to my new "Landing Page", and other Sections go to the "Listing of Articles" page that I have now, which is done like this...
3.) Because I don't want to overly complicate things, I think how I present "Listing of <Section> Articles" can use the same code/file/approach across Sections.
So #1 above needs to be able to take me from, say, "Finance Landing Page" at...
(Displayed URL) http://local.debbie/Finance/
to something like this...
That is another way of describing what I need help with...
Does that make more sense? (I hope so, because I am out of ways to describe the problem I am trying to fix.)
Thanks in advance...
I guess I'm confused - I'm assuming you have the data for these sections in a database?
If so, all you need to do is have one page that will display whatever data is defined for that section. If the page has articles, links and images, that's what it shows. If it has articles and links, that's what it shows. If it just has articles, that's what it shows.
This allows you to have one page, and to get the new content, all you need to do is publish it. If you want to work on your site, you could add a 'published' status to show only the content that is published. You could then allow a mode which shows unpublished content (basically a preview mode).
Before I respond to your comments below, some background...
I started building v2.0 of my website back in the Summer of 2011. (Hey, I'm not a whiz like all of you SitePointers!!)
A few weeks ago, I had just finished testing v2.0. It looks and runs great, and I was planning on taking just a few days to put in live data, and then go live, when I came to this realization...
Over the last year or two, I have come up with TONS of new business ideas and Content. And, technically, while my website would handle most of this new Content, my original v2.0 design really needs to be "super-sized" to handle everything.
And so here I am... Frantically trying to tweak things so I don't have to "down-size" all of the new Sections and Content I came up with, while also not having to completely re-code my website?! :eek:
Two big issues I have come across include:
Issue #1: Going from 5 Sections to maybe 40 Sections. While my code scales, there isn't enough real-estate to accommodate things.
Good news is I have re-done my "Information Architecture", and think that I have combined and whittled down those Sections to maybe 12 which seem to fit from a UI standpoint.
Issue #2: It had always been my plan to just release v2.0 with however many Sections, and each Section consisting of a "Listing of Articles" for said Section. (See screenshot above.)
With so much new Content (i.e. not just Articles), it occurred to me that I really should have a "Landing Page" for each Section.
So, if a user clicks on a Section, and after tha=ey end up on the "Landing Page", if they still wanted to just read Articles, then they could be redirected to my "Listing of <Section> Articles" page and everything would work fine as far as Articles are concerned.
However, if they wanted to listen to a podcast, watch a video, view some statistics, and so on, then they could do that from the comfort of the "Section Landing Page".
Seems simple enough, BUT, it may change things like: Directories, Apache mod_rewrites, and PHP substantially depending on what you advise me to do?!
Yes/No. (This may be Issue #3...)
I have a database designed to handle "Articles" for my website. And my current site is database-driven. However...
a.) I only have five "test" Articles, and so sometimes I lose perspective of how my site might look and work if I had say 100 or 1,000!
b.) I never got around to figuring out how to handle all of the OTHER CONTENT in my website... (Oops!!)
I guess I never planned out that far, but I just assumed my website content would consist of 85% Articles, and 15% static Reference (e.g. Laws by State, Sales Tax by State, Need-to-Know Gov't Contact #'s, Statistics, etc.)
Since I have a decent templating system for my Articles, I was thinking of just changing how my URL and mod_rewrites work somewhat, and somehow utilizing my current code and tables used for Articles for things like mentioned above.
For example, I could type up a listing of "Important IRS Contact Tele #'s", dump them into a new table similar to my Articles table, and use a modified template to display this info.
OR, at the same time, I could just create a static HTML page for now, since most of the 15% of the Content wouldn't change.
Does that answer that question??
Okay, but...
How do I structure that on the back end??
Approach #1: Create a directory for each Section, and place this "Section template" you are describing in said new directory. (It could be called "index.php" or whatever.)
Approach #2: Create one MONSTER template for all Sections, with complex logic that looks at the Query String to determine which code fires and how the "Section Landing Page" is built.
Cool idea, but too complicated, too late in the game.
Approach #3: Create a "section" directory, and in it keep a uniquely named "Section template" for each Section.
Then use my mod_rewrites to determine which template fires.
For example...
RewriteRule ^finance/$ section/index_finance.php [L]
RewriteRule ^legal/$ section/index_legal.php [L]
RewriteRule ^management/$ section/index_management.php [L]
RewriteRule ^small-business/$ section/index_small-business.php [L]
This way I could have completely different "Section Templates" for each Section - which will likely be the case - but have all of the templates reside in one new directory, and not muck up my Web Root with 15-20 new directories...
Approach #4: Maybe something else??
How does that sound?
Make sense?
This will be a repeat of my reply in the URL Rewriting forum, but since you already have a catch-all that is handled by a generic routing method, just use that.
Let your catch-all capture it, then in your routing code, add additional checks/constraints to handle sections the way you want. Thus no changes to your htaccess, you can then define new paths/includes to handle section landing pages for the sections you deem appropriate, etc.
Well, I think what you are calling my "catchall" is giving it too much credit...
Right now, I have a directory called "articles" and in it I have a template called "index.php"
All this file does is look at $_GET['section'] from the URL, and then call a simple SELECT query to populate the appropriate Article Summaries for the given Section. (This script has nothing to do with "Section Landing Pages" or all of the logic that would need to go in them!!)
I think that is a dangerous thing to get into all of that programmatically at this late stage...
What about Approach #3 above from my last post? (That seems like the easiest, and most scalable solution for this go-round...)
This is what you have right?
#Match any kind of Section. PHP will decide if it's valid or not.
RewriteRule (.+)/$ articles/index.php?section=$1 [L]
If so, that is a fairly good catch all when it comes to sections, is it not?
So right now it directs all requests to articles/index.php?section=$1, you could change that to redirect to section.php?section=$1, then allow that page to read $_GET['section'] and determine where to send the request to articles/index.php?section=$1 (using include('articles/index.php')) or someplace else (you'd want to do this using include() instead of header('Location: whatever') as you don't want to show the ugly url).
You lost me here, and I'm not sure you're following me.
Let me show you in pictures...
Here is my Home Page...
And if you clicked on the "Legal" navigation tab, this is what you would currently see...
(The logic works the same for any "Section" you choose in the Top Nav.)
This approach worked great when I had 5 Sections, and now that I am expanding to maybe 12-14 Section, it will still work, EXCEPT for a few catches..
1.) I will have a new "Other" tab that is a catchall, and will likely just have hyperlinks to other areas of my website.
So in that case, my articles/index.php is useless.
2.) In theory, most of these Sections should have more than just Articles. For instance, in the Small-Business area, I want to have an area where I can have either Podcasts or Videos of successful Small-Business Owners talking about how they got started. And in my "Finance" area, I may have Stock Quotes, or "USA Today"-esque summary charts on Small Business.
The point?
While for some Sections, just having a "Listing of Articles" may be okay, for most of these new Section, I will want a different layout which may still include a "Listing of Articles" (or may not), but will also include different content and hyperlinks.
Unfortunately, the only thing that articles/index.php knows how to do is serve up a listing of Articles.
Follow me?
3.) This isn't as simple as just modifying articles/index.php, or renaming it as you imply.
As I see it - not really knowing the future - I will have slightly DIFFERENT "templates" for each Section.
Just think about your favorite newspaper, and in particular, how the print USA Today used to be in the early days... The layout for the "Money" section is vastly different than the "Sports" section, right?
Well, when all I had was just a "Listing of Articles", I could use the same file/template for as many Sections as I wanted.
But moving forward, I will need a different template for each Section.
And as I said above, while it is possible to code one template, I think that is way too complex considering I could have 10 Section "Landing Pages" that each has a radically different layout?! :eek:
So I was originally leaning towards creating a separate directory for each Section, and having a separate template file called "index.php" in each new Section directory.
That way I could have one template be a 2-column layout, and another template be a 4-column layout, and another be whatever...
Of course the downside to that approach is mucking up my Web Root.
And the approach I came up with this afternoon, was creating a new directory called "section", and then in that new directory, create a unique template file for each Section in my website. So, for example, it might have 15 templates.
Then I could use my mod_rewrite determine the Section the user chose - by looking in the URL - and then redirect to the appropriate template in this new "section" directory.
RewriteRule ^finance/$ section/index_finance.php [L]
RewriteRule ^legal/$ section/index_legal.php [L]
RewriteRule ^management/$ section/index_management.php [L]
RewriteRule ^small-business/$ section/index_small-business.php [L]
In a way, I would be doing what I am currently doing with my articles/index.php with the DIFFERENCE being that instead of always using the same template file and just passing something in the Query String to make the template look dofferent, my mod_rewrite would be determining WHICH TEMPLATE to use, which of course would then dictate not only the Content, but also the Layout of any given Section's "Landing Page".
Follow me??? (:
I am sure there many other approaches, and maybe some that are more sophisticated, but I personally like the approach I just mentioned, as it seems simple yet scalable.
12 should be doable from a usability perspective. Forty would definitely have been brain burnable....
We'l deal with issue two and 3B with the approaches below...
As for 3A, it sounds like you need to work out some sort of paging system. Say five articles per page. Maybe more, maybe less. You'd have to try it out based on your site layout and what you feel comfortable with....
Now onto the approaches and the remaining issues.....
Personally, I think you're over thinking it a bit as you're "in the weeds" a bit. You need to look at it a little more abstractly. All you're now talking about are different types of content. The approach should essentially be the same.
I'll give you a quick pseudo-code example of what I mean....for any particular section:
How you show them could be based on the number of different types. You could do
12 or 134 2 3
You could, but you'll be kicking yourself later.....
This is how I do it, and it's NOT too complicated. You've already got it started with your article list page - use that as a baseline and expand on that.
Unless you've got a separate template for each section's articles, you've already got most of the work done. If you've got a separate template for each section, you've got work ahead for you (which you didn't need to do...)
re: #3 - Again, it's a lot of work, especially if you're still adding content (you'd have to handle each template as you add content - ugh). The more physical files you have, the harder it'll be to maintain the site later.
Yep, another thing I never planned for...
How you show them could be based on the number of different types. You could do12 or 134 2 3
I understand what you are saying, but it's not quite that simple, because you are implying that what is shown is homogeneous.
If my page template never changed, but users could filter what content was show (e.g. Show All Articles, Show All Podcasts, Show All Videos), then, yes, the solution would be easy.
But I am anticipating having VASTLY DIFFERENT looking pages.
Here are some screen-shots from an online newspaper to make my point...
Home Page layout
Market Data layout
Radio layout
To just have ONE template that handle all of those different Page Layouts, and all of that different Content would be very complicated to program, although possible.
So in the example above, why not just have 3 separate page templates?
And back to my OP, I'm just wondering how to structure things on the backend.
Are you so sure about that based on the examples above??
Agreed, but a more robust website also requires more work...
Go look at http://www.bloomberg.com
I like the layout of that website, and I could see myself trying to emulate it.
Bloomberg has an entire IT Dept to make that website run?! So if I want anything close to that, I would expect it to take me more effort than a more "plain vanilla" approach, right?
[ot]I think a lot of my problem is that "I need 'A' to decide on 'B', and 'B' to decide on 'A'..." That is, if I had already written 200 Articles, and I have 25 Podcasts, and maybe at least 10 Videos, and had created all of the other Content I want, THEN it would be easier to organize it!!
At the same time, if I don't take time upfront to PLAN how I want things to be organized and laid out, THEN I may "paint myself into a corner" down the road with an inflexible architecture?!
Nice conundrum, eh?! (:
I think Bloomberg's website looks really sharp and that is the kind of website I am striving towards. But obviously I have a long ways to go to get there.
Part of me is wondering if I shouldn't just go live with v2.0 "as-is", focus on writing a large body of Articles, start fleshing out each Section, and then after I have "real-world" Content to work with, I may have to go back and re-design part of my website.[/ot]
So, I am still saying that I will need maybe 4-6 different Page Layout Templates for my 15 Sections... And back to my OP, I am just not sure what is the best way to go about that.
It seems like we agree that creating a directory for each Section isn't very flexible, right?
However, you seem to say I can do all of this with One Template, whereas I am leaning towards "A Handful of Templates" (stored where and how I know not).
Looking forward to your reply...
Are you really going to have sections where you'll have totally different content that will be on no other pages? If so, then by all means create separate templates.
The screenshots you attached are for two different purposes. The first one would most likely be more of what one of your sections would be. Go back to Bloomberg and look at Personal Finance, Technology News and Political News. Those are all identical - in fact, they are identical to the main landing page, just filtered by category/section.
The second and third screenshots are more content lists - they show podcasts and market data. But they are UNIQUE, where the rest is common.
So what you should be doing is looking to see if there is common ground between your sections, and use the same page if there is. Only create new pages if you have to. In fact, I would argue that you probably could use the home landing page as your default page, and just apply a section filter if appropriate. I'm betting that if you take a "thousand foot" view of your content, you probably will be able to look at most of your site through that home page view. Articles are articles, regardless of content. Same goes for links, images, etc. How they're categorized doesn't matter - it's still all the same content types.
They are not "identical", but I will agree that they are very similar.
I more or less agree.
So what you should be doing is looking to see if there is common ground between your sections, and use the same page if there is. Only create new pages if you have to.
I agree, and never implied I wouldn't do that.
In fact, I would argue that you probably could use the home landing page as your default page, and just apply a section filter if appropriate.
In essence I already have that with my one Article Listing template...
But the whole idea of creating a "Landing Page" for each Section, is that I want a way to highlight DIFFERENT things in each Section. (That is, get away from making my website look like it is one page with a listing of Articles that can be filtered differently. Again, in most newspapers, the Local, Business, and Sports sections a wildly different in their page layouts, even if they all more or less contain "Articles" as the key content on the page.)
I'm betting that if you take a "thousand foot" view of your content, you probably will be able to look at most of your site through that home page view. Articles are articles, regardless of content. Same goes for links, images, etc. How they're categorized doesn't matter - it's still all the same content types.
I don't disagree.
Okay, but back to my larger question...
Let's say that I agree with most of what you are saying above, but we also agree that I need 3-4 unique templates. 80% of my Sections would all fall under the "plain-vanilla Section template", but then the other 3 templates are all vastly different.
That being said, how do I manage those as far as Directories, mod_rewrites, and PHP?
(You've never nibbled on my idea of having a new "section" directory which holds however many templates - in this case let's say "4" - and then user my mod_rewrite to choose the appropriate template...)
Again, I WILL have more than one template, so how best to handle that?


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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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I'm looking at a forecast that shows race start temp of 43ish... and then a high of 70ish late in the afternoon, after the monkey shitface relay has concluded.
I realize that this will only be my 3rd monkey... but last year was chilly and 2008 was about -10. Or seemed like it.
I can't wait to hear everyone ooohing and aaahing about how hot it is.
I may still be in two shirts. And gloves. But at least no ski pants this year.
Skooter 2.5
...at least no tutu this ye...aw goddamnit.
A Saucy Wench
heh...they are calling for snow here this weekend.
Well at least the swamp singlet wont need a layer underneath.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
12 Monkeys
Who the hell needs shampoo? Jeebus.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Who the hell needs shampoo? Jeebus.
I hear that Jesus was a Prell man.
I hear that Jesus was a Prell man.
Hard to take a bath when you walk on water.
He could still make rain and shower.
Besides, with Prell he was able to turn water into wine while having bouncin and behavin hair.
ANYWAY. This is the weather thread. The shampoo thread is elsewhere. Talk to Waffle Boy for scrambling things.
i find the sunshine beckons me to open up the gate and dream and dream ~~robbie williams
Talk to Waffle Boy
Talk to Waffle Boy
By the bye, 72 now predicted for the high. Yay!!
50,000 Miles Later
It would be a lot better 45 and Cloudy - Damn southerners
7/20/17 #247 Comeback #19 ... 10/8 - Glacial Trail 50M
By the bye, 72 now predicted for the high. Yay!!
That's the stuff. Heck yes. Perfect for resting after monkey shitface. Anyway, that'll be at 3p-ish. I'm still going to be shivering at the start
The King of Beasts
2008 Monkey still stands as one of my best run races. it was not warm that day.
"As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, And I've learned much from both of their styles." ~ Jimmy Buffett
"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.""
2008 Monkey still stands as one of my best run races. it was not warm that day.
Arctic Snow Monkey year. (ok, ok no snow. Heh. But I was seriously way cold)


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FOUR Bournemouth students are gearing up for a 15-mile bike ride to raise funds for a charity trip to Ecuador.
Harewood College students Adam Primmer, Aidan Cuttler-Crawford, Rhys Moore-Haines and Ben Nott will ride from Boscombe to Corfe Castle on Sunday June 8 to kick start their campaign to raise £2,000 each.
Run by the Me To We organisation, the trip will see the students learn about the ecology of the Amazon while undertaking voluntary work to help the local communities who live there.
Aidan, 15, said: "We are so excited about going to Ecuador and learning about the impact deforestation is having on the local communities there and on the environment for all of us. When we are there we will be working on reforestation projects with local groups, connecting with the people and learning first-hand about the indigenous rights movement.
"We have a year to raise the money we need to get to Ecuador and we hope people can start supporting us through the bike ride."
As well as seeking sponsorship for the bike ride, the Year 10 students will have collection buckets with them to raise money on the day.
Executive head teacher of Harewood College, Debbie Godfrey-Phaure, said: "We hope as many people as possible support the boys for their sponsored bike ride. They are determined to raise the money they need for the trip and their drive and passion for this project is infectious.
"Me To We is a wonderful organisation that enriches the experience and education of young people while helping some very worthwhile projects across the globe."
After their cycle ride the boys' next fundraising drive will be selling Fairtrade lemonade from a stall at the school summer fayre on July 11.
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Hide and Seek!
iPhoneography BW
de Natali Prosvetova
Acerca del libro
This book represents my very own point of view on the beauty of the city and its inhabitants — this is a fascinating journey through the Moscow's street life.
While walking down the streets of my amazing city, I notice something what other people just miss in the daily rush.
All images for this book were taken and processed using the iPhone 4.
This book is the proof that photography has reached to a new level.
It's not a competition, it's just a right to life, it's just a game of Hide and Seek.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Arte y fotografía
Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
108 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación ago. 09, 2012
- Idioma English
- Etiquetas BW street photography, street life, Natali Prosvetova, black and white, Russia, Moscow, iphonography, naprosvet, iphoneography, photography, cityscape, street, BW, art, iPhone, candid
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Natali Prosvetova, aka NaProsvet. Born, bred and lives in Moscow. Being creatively inclined, Natali choose the profession of actress. Not surprisingly, later on photography became one of her biggest passions. Armed with her iPhone, Natali began to explore photography in February 2011. She continued to be fascinated by a new hobby, developing her skills from just capturing images, to moving into the art of iPhoneography. From small time killing habit iPhoneography became her biggest addiction which almost changed her life. From June 2011 her works has been constantly published in the online galery Pixels: The Art of the iPhone and she was introduced to the Pixels community as first iPhoneartist from Russia. A selection of Natali's works have been exhibited at the Renaissance Fine Art Gallery in Carmel, as well as at the "MINA" in New Zealand, at the first WiAM exhibition in Naples. In August 2012 Natali participated in the first iPhonography exhibition which took place in Moscow(Rus)
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The California Dairy Newsletter's "ABC's of Forage Analysis" series continues with a look at nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC) and nonfibrous carbohydrates (NFC).
"Both NSC and NFC measure carbohydrates that are not 'structural', in other words, carbohydrates other than cellulose and hemicellulose (constituents of the plant cell wall)," explain Ed DePeters and Jennifer Heguy with the University of California Cooperative Extension. "There are key differences between NFC and NSC, and depending on your (forage) lab of choice, there might also be differences in how NSC and NFC are determined."
Read The ABC's of Forage Analysis: What are NSC and NFC? in the April 2013 California Dairy Newsletter.
Other articles in the "ABC's of Forage Analysis" series include:
Back to Basics: The ABC's of Forage Analysis in the November 2012 California Dairy Newsletter.
The ABC's of Forage Analysis: Fiber & Digestibility in the March 2013 California Dairy Newsletter.


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PRESSURE is driving Dougie Freedman to make a success of life at Wanderers.
Three months into the job of transforming the Whites from under-achievers into promotion candidates, and the Scot admits it is still a work in progress.
But the demand for a quick return to Premier League football is not one Freedman can ignore – and after seeing his opposite number at Blackburn Rovers Henning Berg axed after just 10 games at Ewood Park and Wolves' boss Stale Solbakken getting similar treatment at Molineux, there is no escaping the stress placed on managers in the Championship.
"In the modern-day, that is the way it is," he told The Bolton News.
"Ten games (for Henning Berg) is shocking really but who am I to judge another club?
"It is unfortunate for him because none of us want to see people losing their jobs.
"But if you work in the football business, you understand it is a challenge.
"All I can do is control how hard I work and how honest I am with my employers and my players.
"If that isn't good enough, I need to accept the life we are in."
With Crystal Palace still flying high where he left them in October, Freedman's own task of reaching the Premier League is made all the more intriguing.
But the Whites boss is convinced he made the right choice in leaving Selhurst Park for the Reebok and is looking forward to what 2013 has in store.
"Whether you are up the top like at my previous club or where we are, there are different challenges," he said. "The injury aspect is challenging and players may be out of form.
"You have ex-players on radio programmes or on TV tell you what you should be doing.
"But I wouldn't change it for the world.
"I enjoy the challenge, that is why I came to Bolton to challenge myself and see if I could do it.
"Professional people will always be put under pressure and that comes in many different forms.
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Chanel Spring 2012
Beneath the soaring glass domes of the Grand Palais, the Chanel set transported us to the undersea world of Karl Lagerfeld; an aquatic wonderland of gleaming white stingrays and sea horses adrift amongst coral branches and shells on a sandy sea bed. Lagerfeld had promised "the ground of the sea, but in a very poetic way," and his models, meandering through this dramatic set to a techno soundtrack abstracted from Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries," looked like magical deep-sea sirens, from the pearls scattered in their hair to the sea- urchin shells that propped up the heels of their sandals.
Lagerfeld deconstructed some of the house symbols. Coco's iconic pearls were used as buttons or as belts to girdle his round-shouldered dresses, and Lagerfeld banished her signature braid trims altogether in place of fine black ribbon set in geometric blocks across pale suiting, a detail inspired by the "fabric paintings" of German abstract artist Blinky Palermo that he had admired in a recent exhibition at Dia.
Lagerfeld worked with innovative techno fabrics to create the effect of light through water. Airy waffle-textured organzas and iridescent synthetics, open-weave tweeds and knits, and a palette of sea foam, shell pink, and mother-of-pearl (anchored with the inevitable black) created an otherworldly effect.
And the details brought a whisper of the haute couture to the ready-to-wear season; changeante organza ribbons were appliquéd to trail across little shift dresses like seaweed swaying in a riptide; silvery embroideries or a frosting of nacreous sequins spilled down black dresses like the phosphorescence on a moonlit sea.
Swimsuits were anchored by pearl clasps or veiled in clear plastic "virtual jackets" printed with a tracery of fine black swirling lines like seaweed washed up on a seashore.
The technical mastery of this house was also revealed in the elaborate pleating and draping techniques that transformed diaphanous organza and (specially commissioned) seaweed motif lace into shapes and formations that recalled corals, seashells, and waving underwater algae, and provided the most complex takes on the pleated skirts that have become such a strong trend of the season.
As the final short evening dresses appeared (frothed with ruffles at the hips like lightweight eighteenth-century panniers—or reduced to a single flounce), a giant oyster shell opened to reveal Florence Welch (in a silvery dress trailing strands of seaweed ribbon), whose plangent tones brought the show to a spectacular end.
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I am part of the "lump of labour" that critics say would be created if the eligibility for the old age pension is raised from 65 years old to 67.
I know this is true because I saw it on the CBC this week, where one of the "Bottom-Liners" on The National spelled it out in some detail. It seems that every old-timer who clings to her job rather than going home to vegetate or, preferably, from a budgetary point of view, decently die and save the rest of us the health-care costs of her dotage is keeping some young person out of the workplace, thus further upping the costs of senile security.
It is an odd argument to make, particularly if it comes from a woman. The "lump of labour" was originally advanced as an argument against encouraging women to enter the workforce. Every job that went to a woman, it was reasoned -- unreasoned, actually -- was a job that was not available to a man.
But women entered the workforce anyway and men did not lose their jobs. The workforce expanded, productivity increased, the country benefitted and a new industry -- daycare -- was born, for better or worse. Times changed.
The same thing is likely to happen as more seniors choose to stay at work. Almost 90 per cent of Canadians at or approaching the age of 65 now express a certain attachment to their work. Where once the age 65 was the golden glow at the end of life, today, when people are living far longer than they used to and staying healthier far longer than they were, the age 65 is looking to many like early retirement. That doesn't mean that they don't want their Old Age Security, but it probably means that most of them don't need it just yet, and, if they continue working, the government will claw back most of it anyway.
"Seniors," as we are so patronizingly called -- seniors get a 10 per cent discount in many restaurants for 20 per cent less food because we are so old and cute -- are not what they used to be. For that matter, they may never have been what they used to be except in the eyes of bureaucrats, who are compelled to pigeonhole everybody.
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper wondered aloud if Canada could afford to sustain the Old Age Security as it currently exists when the aging baby boomers are swelling the ranks of the old and unproductive and the ranks of the workers who have to support that unproductivity through their taxes are diminishing, he set off a firestorm of fury among the ranks of entitlement on the liberal left.
Rank upon rank -- there's a sort of Dickensian sense of social injustice here, with Oliver Twist (that's me) asking for more and being confronted by Beadle Bumble (that's Stephen Harper) offering less -- but actually, something here just stinks.
There is, as yet at least, no government plan to snatch bread from the frail, thin hands of the ailing elderly. In fact, there is no plan at all that anyone knows of. What does seem certain is that the eligibility needs to be raised gradually, just as it was lowered gradually. When the old age pension was introduced in 1952, one had to be 70 to collect it; life expectancy then was 67 for a man, 72 for a woman. Hardly anyone was likely to get it for long and with a rapidly growing workforce, that was no economic burden.
Between 1965 and 1969, the age of eligibility was reduced from 70 to 65, where it remains today, even though life expectancy now is 79 for a man and 84 for a woman. That's 12 more years of collecting by the largest generation of retirees in history, paid for by an enfeebled workforce.
This economic reality has been recognized in the United States, where eligibility for social security has been slowly redefined for the last 20 years, heading towards age 67, and in Europe, where it is being urgently addressed by European Union nations on the edge of disaster -- Britain, for example, is looking at 68 as the entry point.
No one has suggested, despite allegations from the idolators of entitlement, that impoverished old folks should have their pensions whipped away from them, and people will always be free to stop working when they want to.
The simple truth is, now or in the future when adjustments are made to Old Age Security, your retirement will be what you made it during your working life. My life is my responsibility, even if it is in questionable hands.
Increasingly, people want to keep working. Freedom 55 may be a dream for some, maybe even a dream that comes true, but for others, leaving the workforce, Old Age Security or not, is Freedom Fadeaway. I am too old and cute for that.


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She's charming, beautiful, funny, and Hollywood's new "it" girl— EMMA STONE is here! She's starring in the thrilling film "Gangster Squad" and she's telling Ellen what it was like working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood as well as reuniting with her handsome costar, Ryan Gosling! The two had previously steamed up the screen in "Crazy. Stupid. Love," one of Ellen's favorite films of all time.
Then, hip hop star, actor and all-around great guy COMMON is here to talk about his touching film "LUV" that was chosen as an official selection at Sundance! There's no wonder why audiences and women the world over can't get enough of him.
Plus, Ellen is playing Pictionary with COMMON and True Blood's JOE MANGANIELLO! Someone will win, someone will lose, and we guarantee you'll be laughing until it hurts!
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What's Shooting Now?by FN Dish Editor in View All Posts, February 3rd, 2009
While sitting in my cubicle today, my mind began to wander upstairs…soon my feet followed my mind, and I found myself in Studio A of Food Network, the largest studio in the building. This is where Rachael Ray tapes 30 Minute Meals, where Iron Chef America battles, where Guy Fieri takes big bites, where Sunny Anderson cooks for real, and unlike my cubicle, it's where ALL the magic happens.
But the magic doesn't happen all at once! After each show tapes, usually a couple weeks depending on the series, the crew breaks down the set and rebuilds for the next show. So there will always be just one show taping in the studio at one time. The question is…..who's in there today?
Can anyone use their Sherlock Holmes detective work or their Spidey-Sense to figure out what set our crew is finishing for tomorrow's shoot?
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US stocks rose on Friday, helped by news that Republicans might give way to a short-term rise of the debt ceiling to avoid a new crisis, but poor earnings from Intel pulled the Nasdaq lower.
At the closing bell the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 53.68 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 13,649.70. The broad-based S&P 500 added 5.03 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 1485.97.
But the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite ended down 1.29 points, or 0.04 per cent, at 3129.34, dragged lower by chipmaker Intel, which sank 6.3 per cent after a poor fourth quarter, with a 31 per cent drop in profit and a lowered forecast for this year.
SPI futures rose 17 points to 4757, pointing to gains at the start of local sharemarket trade on Monday. The Australian dollar, meanwhile, slipped a bit more than a quarter of a cent to $US1.0510 in offshore trade.
The Dow and S&P 500 ended at their highest levels since December 2007. For the week, the Dow ended up 1.2 pe rcent, the S&P 500 ended up 0.9 per cent and the Nasdaq ended up 0.3 per cent.
''It's a bonbon market,'' said John Manley, chief equity strategist for Wells Fargo Advantage Funds in New York. ''We've had little pleasant packets of surprises as these corporations keep coming through. I don't think the box's finished. Yet you need to remember that the market is near a five-year high and the economy is recovering at a subpar rate.''
Equities rebounded from their lowest levels of the day as Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia said in a statement that members of Congress won't be paid if the House or Senate doesn't pass a budget by the end of the proposed three-month debt-limit increase.
The Treasury Department has said the US will exceed its $US16.4 trillion borrowing authority sometime from mid- February to early March. Stocks fell earlier as consumer confidence in the US unexpectedly dropped in January.
The CBOE Volatility index, Wall Street's so-called fear gauge, fell 8.2 per cent. The VIX usually moves inversely to the S&P 500 as it is used as a hedge against further market decline.
Morgan Stanley was the latest Wall Street bank to report strong results. Its better-than-expected earnings followed similar report cards from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase earlier in the week.
Shares of Morgan Stanley shot up 7.9 per cent to $USS22.38. It reported a fourth-quarter profit after a year-earlier loss, helped by higher revenue at the bank's institutional securities business.
But Friday's rise was held back by shares of Intel, which slumped 6.3 per cent to $US21.25 a day after it forecast quarterly revenue below analysts' estimates and announced plans for increased capital spending amid slow demand for personal computers.
Another factor that has been weighing on the market before a three-day weekend is uncertainty about the federal debt limit and spending cuts that could hamper US growth. US markets will be closed on Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
also reporting stronger-than-expected earnings on Friday was General Electric, whose shares rose 3.5 per cent to $US22.04.
Overall, S&P 500 fourth-quarter earnings are forecast to have risen 2.5 per cent. That estimate is above the 1.9 per cent forecast from a week ago but well below the 9.9 per cent fourth-quarter earnings forecast from Oct. 1, the data showed.
Economic data from China also provided some support to the market, though the focus remained on US corporate earnings. China's economy grew at a modestly faster-than-expected 7.9 per cent in the fourth quarter, the latest sign the world's second-biggest economy was pulling out of a post-global financial crisis slowdown which saw it grow in 2012 at its weakest pace since 1999.
Despite the gains by Morgan Stanley, financial stocks sagged as Capital One Financial reported disappointing profit. Capital One slumped 7.5 per cent to $US56.99, while the KBW bank index slipped 0.3 per cent.
Volume was roughly 6.6 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYSE MKT, compared with the 2012 average daily closing volume of about 6.45 billion.


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Hi All,
I need some help with JS which is a part of a sigma grid ajax function. Here's an array with variable names as MySql table column names :
var dsOption= {
fields :[
{name : 'username' },
{name : 'full_name' },
{name : 'userlevel' },
{name : 'email' },
{name : 'phone' }
recordType : 'object'
The field 'userlevel' can be 1, 5 or 9 and I don't want to display numbers but strings like 'guest', 'member' and 'admin' respectively. My knowledge in JS is VERY modest but I simply have to modify this script... What I've done so far is :
switch (dsOption['userlevel']) {
case 9:
dsOption['userlevel'] = 'admin';
which doesn't seem to work... Do I need another approach maybe, could you guys please give some directions? Thank you!
Is the userlevel stored as a number or a string? If it's as a string, you would need to use '9' instead of 9
I've tried both 9 and '9'... By the way, 9 is a tiny integer, retrieved from a DB table. And THANKS for your reply
From what I'm seeing of your dsOption object, it only has two properties, fields and recordType. userlevel is a deeper value within the fields object.
That's correct! So how can I retrieve the value of 'userlevel'?
I'm sorry but I don't know anything about sigma grid Ajax. There is other help out there though for it, such as this tutorial on loading data from a database.http://sigmawidgets.com/forum/ajax-data-grid-view/sigma-grid-2-1-tutorial-2-load-data-from-database/
Since fields is an array of name, did you try:
switch (dsOption.fields[2].name) { case 9: case '9': dsOption.fields[2].name = 'admin'; break; }
That sounds logical! I've tried it but instead of '9' (or 9), the var dsOption.fields[2].name had the value userlevel...
I think we need more information. It sounds like a user signs on, and the server returns a 1, 5, or 9 - I would guess in JSON format. Can you show the code where that number is returned and into what variable it is placed?
Well, yes : a script (UsersController.php called from a SigmaGrid JS file) returns values for the user from a DB table :
if($json->{'action'} == 'load'){
$sql = "SELECT * FROM users";
$handle = mysql_query($sql);
$retArray = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($handle)) {
$retArray[] = $row;
$data = json_encode($retArray);
$ret = "{data:" . $data .",\
$ret .= "recordType : 'object'}";
echo $ret;
and here's the java code which calls the script above :
var grid_demo_id = "myGrid1";
var dsOption= {
fields :[
{name : 'username' },
{name : 'full_name' },
{name : 'userlevel' },
{name : 'email' },
{name : 'phone' }
recordType : 'object'
var colsOption = [
{id: 'username' , header: "Username" , width :80 },
{id: 'full_name' , header: "Full Name" , width :150 , editor:{type:'text'}},
{id: 'userlevel' , header: "Userlevel" , width :70, width :80 , editor : { type :"text" }},
{id: 'email' , header: "Email" , width :150, width :160 , editor : { type :"text" }},
{id: 'phone' , header: "Phone" , width :70, width :80 , editor : { type :"text" }}
var gridOption={
id : grid_demo_id,
loadURL : '/grid/UsersController.php',
saveURL : '/grid/UsersController.php',
width: "700", //"100%", // 700,
height: "200", //"100%", // 330,
container : 'gridbox',
replaceContainer : true,
encoding : 'UTF-8', // Sigma.$encoding(),
dataset : dsOption ,
columns : colsOption ,
clickStartEdit : true ,
defaultRecord : {'full_name':"",'userlevel':"",'email':"",'phone':""},
toolbarContent : 'reload | del | save | print'
var mygrid=new Sigma.Grid( gridOption );
The values for the column userlevel are 1, 5 or 9 but I don't want to display NUMBERS, but guest, member and admin respectively... That's where I need your help guys
Thank you in advance!
If it were me, I would use a separate database table called userLevel [with fields called id and name] which correlates those numbers with an appropriate description, and make use of that table when getting the users.
id name
-- ----
1 guest
5 member
9 admin
SELECT users.*, userLevel.name
FROM users
LEFT OUTER JOIN userLevel
ON users.userlevel = userLevel.id
That way your database continues to do the job that it's good at, and the scripting to retrieve and show the data continues to do what it's good at as well.
That's the sort of thing that I would do.
Thank you Paul for your solution. I was thinking about to put a new table to solve this, but that will be the LAST option... I didn't give up to change the value from number to a string inside the JS yet... Thanks anyway!
But why? It's outside of the job description for that code. That code is supposed to get the data from the database, and show it on the screen. If you want different information to be displayed then don't muck [sanitised] around with the code that gets the data from the database.
If you want different information to be shown, then it's that information from the database that you need to be focusing on.
Good question and reasonable notice from your side. I hope I'll manage to explain why I really need to retrieve the values of that object. In the meantime I actually used the method you've provided above (with another table and the join query), but it came out I'll need to retrieve the object values eventually. Namely, one field in the grid needs to be edited (with a select-option). This is done with the code
var colsOption = [
{id: 'username' , header: "Username" , width :80 },
{id: 'full_name' , header: "Full Name" , width :150 , editor : {type:'text'}},
{id: 'name' , header: "Userlevel" , width :70, width :80 , editor : {type:'select', options : {'option_name_1' : 'value_1', 'option_name_2' : 'value_2', 'option_name_3' : 'value_3'}}},
{id: 'email' , header: "Email" , width :150, width :160 , editor : { type :"text" }},
{id: 'phone' , header: "Phone" , width :70, width :80 , editor : { type :"text" }}
You can see the static option => value pairs option_name_1 => value_1, etc, etcIs there ANY chance I can use the VALUES of the variable 'name' from above??? I've tried dsOption.fields[2].name, dsOption.fields[2].value and several more, nothing helped... Really hope someone could figure this out - or give an alternate solution. Thank you in advance!!!!
I have seen similar libraries and normally there is a way that a value can be transformed/modified before being rendered on screen using a callback. One would think that there is an option/property for each column defined in colsOption to accept the raw data value and modify it with a callback like other grid libs.
What you want is this:
Column Property: Renderer
You would simply use that property to pass a function which you than run your case statement and send back the converted value for display.
You were right oddz!!!! And the solution can be found at http://sigmawidgets.com/forum/ajax-data-grid-view/fill-in-a-dropdown-list/
Thank you guys both for your help!