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Thursday, September 1, 2011
What's On Top
Following the great success of my previous interior post - here - I decided to do another one.
Personally, I think you must pay even more attention to what goes on top of those shelves, dressers, tables, etc. more than anything else!
These perfect little details (e.g. a Hermes tray, a bright photograph, colorful china and dinnerware, a small bouquet of pretty flowers, big books with bold and fashionable names) when on display in the perfect way simply complete and make the room more lively xx
PS, Happy September!! Where has this year gone?
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I LOVE that desk pic witht he pink feather! I adore feathers and that is so dainty and pretty!ReplyDelete
I LOVE Dior, Chanel and Hermes. They are sofisticated and so pretty! xoxo <3ReplyDelete
wow amazing!! xxx PeachesReplyDelete
Nice selection of images, love to go through them!ReplyDelete
Scrolling down I had so many things I wanted to comment on that I kind of lost track... love that mirror, the telephone, the patterned bowls. Great photos!ReplyDelete
great interior ideas...I love antique furniture..but is such a pain to renovate...My place is like a thrift store...!ReplyDelete
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So beautiful! Thank you for sharing with us! :DReplyDelete
The accessories are great, but I really love the art above that!ReplyDelete
xx Cristina
nice post!ReplyDelete
loving these interiors!ReplyDelete
great photos so cute and inspirational!ReplyDelete
I so agree!! all the details on the top are what make it, this inspiration is amazing <3ReplyDelete
I love these pictures -- fabulous inspiration!ReplyDelete
Fashion Translated
What's on tabletops is so important, but man is it ever difficult not to just pile random things there when you don't have enough storage! That's not so nice a look, haha.ReplyDelete
what lovely pictures xxo -nbReplyDelete
Seriously, where has the year gone! It's scary how fast time flew by! I love this post, interior decor shots are like my porn, it's a real problem. Especially love all the clean white pieces.ReplyDelete
Alexandra xo
lovely pictures!ReplyDelete
Bang & Buck
love this. did you get a chance to see my interior inspirations on Monday? www.artalaue.comReplyDelete
Love this collection! DYING to own me something Hermes...tray, scarf, throw, who cares! Just wanna see that HH plastered all over my house! Great post!ReplyDelete
...and Thanks for leaving me such sweet comments, hope to visit again soon!
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Amazing pictures! Love those cute little 'trees' :-)ReplyDelete
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lots of great detail here.ReplyDelete
great photos.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for a nice comment:)
nice post, love your blog:)ReplyDelete
I agree, love the pics.ReplyDelete
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these are amazingly decorated - love them all!ReplyDelete
Love your blog! I follow you!ReplyDelete
I love interior shots, especially ones of people's desks. These are great, thanks for sharing :)ReplyDelete
These are gorgeuous photography shots. I love bright colored rooms that can brighten a mood in seconds. Have a great day! I am your newest follower.ReplyDelete
XO hilary nicole
All of these images are gorgeous, but I'm dying for the dinnerware in the first and third photos. So pretty!ReplyDelete
this post is awesome! thanks for sharing ! ♥ReplyDelete
xxxo from Argentina
you can also follow me on Twitter! :) @angelieeee
I love the styling. great blog! xxReplyDelete
Gorgeous, love the dinner set in the first photo!ReplyDelete
i love vintage telephones, especially with art deco sentimentality. so beautiful.ReplyDelete
Love the vintage styled rooms amazing :)ReplyDelete
Zoo York!!! hahaReplyDelete
so nice, loving this post!!! I'm also quite interested in interior design too at the moment...and this is very inspiring! xxxReplyDelete
very nice blog!!!! please, come and see mine and tell me what do you think about!ReplyDelete
If you like it,could we follow each other?
Miriamstella (from Italy)
Each and every room is AMAZING! <3ReplyDelete
Such a fabulous and inspiring place! I would love to have YSL pic and Dior book!ReplyDelete
hugs and kisses by Mani.
Great photos, I'm moving house at the end of September so it's great to see some lovely interior inspiration!ReplyDelete
Its really clever that when you look into really well designed rooms the details you didn't notice to start with all seem to add up <3ReplyDelete
Beautiful <3
This is so inspirational! Looks so pretty, everything!ReplyDelete
fabulous inspiration!ReplyDelete
love all of this interior design! the plates with the patterns are so cute. and the hermés details xReplyDelete
amazing photos, and an inspiring post as usual. great blog!ReplyDelete
amaaaazing, omg i want everything in this post!ReplyDelete
i know, it's literally been so long, but i thought i'd re-visit some of my old favourite blogs and ended up here=)
hope you're well!
Bonjour :)ReplyDelete
Je suis désolé de faire de la "pub", mais je viens de monter mon site, ou je vends quelques pièces sympa, que ce soit des accessoires, des vêtements, des chaussures etc.
Voici mon site :http://trouvaillesenfripe.blogspot.com/
Ca me ferait plaisir que tu me dise ce que tu en penses et que tu y aille faire un petit tour. Qui sait, un article te sautera peut-être aux yeux? :D
En attendant, merci d'avance..
I adore these interiors!! I wish I lived in them, haha!ReplyDelete
I know, can't believe it's fall already. Crazy!
great photos!ReplyDelete
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Oh my gosh, this is just the perfect inspiration ! Since a month or two I've been in this CRAZY mood to redecorate my entire room... And this isn't really helpful to stop it :p thank you so much for sharing, I'm definitely going to save these pictures on my computer :) !ReplyDelete
I am always interested in interior design but I dont hv any skill to be improved so.. I just love looking around :DReplyDelete
Lovely pics:)ReplyDelete
It is so inspiring to look at interior design pics.
I love your blog by the way:)
best wishes from istanbul
oh these inspiration photos are amazing, really something else, thanks so much for sharingReplyDelete
oh this year has gone better and better since july.. when i decided to change job.. from working at a nursery to a pharmacy.. i feel so much better now.
Oh I love these photos-fabulous detail!ReplyDelete
Laura x
the little details on top do make all the difference. I like seeing peoples personal knicks and knacks, nothing does it quite like a well personalized space.ReplyDelete
nice inspiration!ReplyDelete


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There's also nary a mention about Microsoft's pro-security switch to a walled garden model
Online newspaper
has published a
pretty interesting account
ripping into Windows RT, which it calls "Doomed". The author, Geoffrey James, has a big warning to business -- "inherently unstable and insecure."
The author lauds Apple, Inc.'s (
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I used to work in an operating system development group. One thing I learned back then is that any OS that allows applications to modify the OS will be inherently unstable and insecure.
Since Windows is designed to allow that to happen, both computer viruses and the gradual "rot" of the software installed on a Windows system are both inevitable. There is no way to fix the problem because it's inherent in Windows's design.
I'm a case in point. While I'm still using a Windows machine for most of my writing, I'm serious thinking of "taking the leap" to only using my iPad simply to avoid the support headaches that are inevitable with Windows.
In short, the Surface is doomed because the entire concept behind it is flawed. Even plain Windows is getting so old and creaky that it's getting to be more a bother than its worth.
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You've been saying that music is forbidden, painting is forbidden, science is forbidden. And then you turn those wretched people into small fry and have many people oppressed. You've been saying "Beware!" about philosophy. Science? "There is no need for science anyway." Art: "Beware!" So what are we to do? Well; "With just enough to keep body and soul together, live in horrible places in sub-ground dwellings. This world is your living Hell. You will be comfortable in the Heaven." For a Muslim both this world and the Hereafter will be Heaven. Why should this world be a living Hell for a Muslim? And they are still urging the system that they have been defeated in. You've been defeated with that, you have been oppressed, you've been miserable. You are constantly being humiliated, you are constantly being degraded. You've come to a state that you are no longer able to stand on your feet. And you still are advocating the polytheistic system. They have to leave that. The only solution is to adopt an attitude based on the Qur'an, insha'Allah.
Allah is the One Who creates all, He creates everything in the minds of people. Allah creates America, Allah creates Russia. This is rich, that is rich; in fact all are wretched, they are all images created by Allah. They do not have any power. Allah had placed them there within their destiny. He placed some there, others here. All of them have a specific place. They all are coming on to the stage of life like this. They are getting on the stage of the test. For instance at the time of the Pharaoh people used to say "Pharaoh is a very important person". And now you see the guy. He is packed like a rotten melon, waiting like that for centuries.
(Regarding the recent developments in Greece about which even the most fervid nationalists say that "Turkey can save Greece" and that they want to leave EU and unite with Turkey.)
Masha'Allah. Look how nicely they are talking. So that means the Turkish Islamic Union is a complete salvation. Look when I have said this three years ago; when I said that we will unite with Greece, people used to say "You don't say! No way!" Now even the most extreme of those people want this. There is nothing complicated in this. When we come to the Greek border the cats will be playing there and there will be nothing else. We will directly pass by the border. That is the whole issue. They will come by directly passing by the border as well. Let them come here, let them come buy oranges, tangerines and go back to their own lands. Let them come and sell their goods wherever they like. Let our brothers go and establish facilities in their lands wherever they like. The whole issue is to remove the controls in those border check points. You know those officers waiting there at the border check points; you will just remove them and that is it. Just as we can go to Konya easily, we will be able to go there in the same comfort. Thessaloniki etc., those are all the lands of our forefathers. We will be able to go there easily just like we did at the time of the Ottomans. And they will be able to come here as they like. That is the whole matter. You will tell the officers there; "Friends, off you go, you can go to your homes and deal with your own business." There is nothing else that would complicate the matter. Greece would then become extremely wealthy, neither that or this problem would remain. And they will give up that "Euro" as well. They will do business with the Turkish currency, not in Euro. They will then be able to live as ever they like. They will be in the utmost comfort and wealth. They should not wait for this, there is nothing to wait. They should decide on it. Let our Prime Minister get together with theirs and sit at the table. Let them pass this decision through the parliament and thus have the matter closed. That is half an hours' work, that is it. There is nothing complicated. Greeks; most of them are Turks anyway. Look at the Greek people they are all the same. They are exactly the same as our Anatolian people. Their basic nature and disposition is very similar. Their outlook and such are the same. Look at the Greek villagers and look at Turkish villagers of Thrace; they are all the same.
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There will be no collision with Israel. Turkey is having a radar base built in Malatya to protect Israel. And this is a very comprehensive system that will protect Israel from a nuclear attack. It is intended specifically to protect Israel. And of course it is intended to protect other countries as well, but it aims specifically to protect Israel. Turks have always been protective, compassionate and had watched them over. However that is correct, they really have reacted very aggressively and acted with an unnecessary fierceness. They could have used a more proportionate force, they could have acted more reasonably, but let bygones be bygones. What we want is, insha'Allah, an apology and a payment of indemnity and closing the matter in this way.
Besides we, as a nation, love Jews. I mean the Turkish people love Jews and feel great compassion for them. And the people of Israel have a profound love and respect for the Turkish nation. That is a fact which could be determined if asked [to the related parties].
Israel might of course have created a rage in the hearts of people. That is because they have shed a lot of blood in Palestine, the blood of many Palestinians has been shed. And they have of course responded with suicide attacks. A mutual tension has formed. As a result of this, a rage could have been formed in some people. However, we are in the End Times and we are in a very beautiful period of time, we are in a beautiful time. In the Torah, there is the mentioning of King Messiah who will guide the Jews to salvation, who will be instrumental in enabling the Jewish people to live in peace. As you know this is one of the basic beliefs. The King Messiah is an individual that they have been waiting for for 3,000 years; he is a descendant of David. Messiah, the son of David. They define him as the King of the world. We call that individual the Mahdi (pbuh). This is the person known as the Mohammed Mahdi in the Islamic belief. The time of the Mahdi has come according to the Torah and according to the hadiths. I mean the time of the King Messiah, known as Shiloh, has come and we believe that the King Messiah -that is the Mahdi- is on the earth at this very moment. The Mahdi will put an end to this dissension, this disturbance, and Israel and Arabic countries will embrace each other, other countries will embrace each other as well. Moreover, according to the expression used in the Torah, children will play with the snakes and the snakes will not have an effect on them. The children will play with lions and the lions will not harm them. We have come to such an age. We will put aside the grudges and rage. If we look at things with a grudge and rage, no one can ever be friends with another. For instance, if you look at things with this mentality, an American animosity might develop because America had caused an enormous bloodbath in Afghanistan and in Iraq. I mean millions of people have been slaughtered, millions have been martyred. If we look at things with this mentality, we should not forgive America under any circumstances. But that would be very illogical because the American people have no fault in that. Those who are at fault are a handful of administrators. We believe that they are the ones at fault. We evaluate the American people separately. We evaluate the Israeli people separately. Peoples are, in general, innocent and inoffensive. None of them would support war. People hate wars. A handful of administrators under the influence of satan drag them into blood, sufferings and pain. There were a very few people who supported Hitler at his time. But through the use of mass psychology, a significant part of the German people supported Hitler. But now, they are feeling embarrassed because of this. We do not feel an ongoing hatred, rage towards Germans. We feel anger towards those who are at fault there, we feel rage towards those and we want them to be punished. But we believe that the German people are innocent and immaculate. The events should be evaluated with this mentality. If one does not evaluate things with this mentality, no country could ever be friends with any other country. Then we would have to feel hatred for Greece, we should hate the Russians as well. We should then hate the Serbians, the Greek, the Arabs; we should hate everyone. That is very very wrong. What happened in the past stays in the past. We are at the time of the King Messiah, we are at the time of the Mahdi(pbuh). By embracing each other with love and compassion and by apologizing to one another, this matter should be closed. Otherwise, this world would turn into a living Hell and we will not let that happen.
No Islamic country would have a war with Israel. Such an incident would not happen. And it will not happen anyway. That is because we are in the age of peace. There may be a pressure applied psychologically; I mean they might give an impression that says; "None of us loves you". And that would be a grave mistake as well, because the Israeli people do not have any fault in this. Some certain people among the executives are at fault. Those who are acting are some certain people. They are the ones at fault. Consequently, there will be an environment in which the Israeli people will be embraced, protected and watched over with love and compassion. This shows itself in the system of the Mahdi. At the moment, Israel is under the shadow of the system of the Mahdi. I mean she is under the shadow of the King Messiah, Shiloh. For that reason, that is why there are no negative moves in the region if you pay attention and there will never be. It might seem that there will be a crisis, but the system of the Mahdi will prevent that from happening. That means the spiritual power of the Mahdi, the wisdom of the Mahdi will deem these incidents impossible with Allah making the Mahdi instrumental in this. You will see that it is impossible. The people of Israel will go towards better and more beautiful conditions as time passes. But under one condition; they will show their love for the King Messiah, they will completely submit themselves to Allah, they will increase their fear of Allah, they will grow closer to Allah with love; if they love Allah very much, the protection of Allah will be upon them, they will see this. But now the time for the global dominion of Islam has come, what they call the Arab Spring is actually the spring of Islam, I mean it is the spring of the system of the Mahdi. They are misstating it by calling it the Arab Spring. Actually it would be truer if they had evaluated it as the spring of the system of the Mahdi, the spring of the King Messiah. That is because the Bediuzzaman Said Nursi has stated that such a period will come, this has also been foretold in the hadiths as well, and at the moment it is happening exactly as it was foretold in all its details.


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- In South Africa we still have the luxury of petrol attendants at gas stations to fill up our vehicle tanks, check oil, water and tyre pressure, and clean the windscreens. How much to tip for this special South African service? From R2 up.
- The going rate for porters at airports is between R5 and R10 per piece of luggage.
- South Africa, you'll soon see, has a tradition of roadside newspaper vendors. It's custom to give the seller a few cents - rounding off the cost of your newspaper should be sufficient.
- Hotel porters usually expect a tip of R10 to R20 per porter service.
- Tour guides and drivers, Some of the other service providers you may want to tip are taxi drivers, tour guides and assistants in hairdressers and beauty salons. Should you need assistance in taking your purchases from supermarket to your vehicle, you may want to show your gratitude to your helper with a small monetary reward.
You'll soon find your way around tipping etiquette in South Africa - it's easy as its usually well-received.


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Fish is healthier and packed with nutritional value, but unless you're an inquisitive customer, you may not be getting the nutrition you've been promised.
Fresh off the boat and all the way to your dinner plate, somewhere along the way, seafood is getting mislabeled.
"That's horrible," said Annette Brown, a fish market customer. "You want to get what you pay for."
Oceana, an international conservation group, tested fish from more than 670 retail outlets across the nation and found mislabeling everywhere they looked.
In the Houston area, 49 percent of the samples were mislabeled.
"Some of the concerns with the mislabeling have been some of the health impacts," said Beth Lowell, Campaign Director of Oceana. "We found high mercury fish swapped out for lower mercury fish."
The study found sushi venues most often mislabeled their fish, followed by other restaurants then grocery stores.
Mark White runs a fresh seafood market called Captain White Seafood. He said he goes great lengths to insure his fish is properly labeled.
"You can always buy the whole fish that way, you know exactly what you are getting," said White.
At restaurants, it's more difficult. The fish often ends up cooked or covered in a sauce.
"You should always ask them where they got it," said Ann Cashion, chef of Johnny's Half Shell Restaurant. "It's important."
Cashion said reputable places will know the answer, but ultimately, it comes down to trust.
Currently, less than 1 percent of seafood is inspected for fraud. Oceana wants lawmakers to change this.
The most mislabeled fish is the snapper. It's often replaced with rockfish. Experts say to pay attention to the front and the back of the filet for differences in texture and skin.
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>Running 101>Gun time vs. Chip time
In my running club I am competing with about 300 others racing and getting points based on official AG placing. This is critical crucial stuff! This means the difference between getting or NOT getting a construction paper award at the annual Banquet!! So you can see why I get worked up if the mats don't function or the results get messed up. This is life or death important, people!
Running is stupid
100K or Bust
I've won various items and gift certificates including one for dinner at a nice restaurant, and once won actual cash for winning my AG.
2017 Goals: for races not to be exercises in futility
No more marathons
Pay attention here people - ileneforward speaks truth.
Seriously - we all race for different reasons. To determine our current level of fitness, to work towards a new PR, to support a local cause, some just to finish their first race. Overall winning is out of the question for most of us, so pick your motivation. I know it's unlikely that I will set too many PR's, (even PhOM ones), so my current goal is to run as well as I can on that particular day, finish in the top 10%, and if I get an AG - all the better.
Boston 2014 - a 33 year journey
Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
He's a leaker!
Yeah, Tanya, you old hag. Take that.
Yeah, Tanya, you old hag. Take that.
Bite me.
50,000 Miles Later
But I really really really really WANT an AG award!!!
Dream Maker
Since I'm slow(er) and don't race often, I'm going to ask a dumb question....
What do you win if you win your AG?
Other than the pride of placing, does anybody really care about the 4 inch trophy or the chotzky (sp?) that you get when they call your name?
Since I'm slow(er) and don't race often, I'm going to ask a dumb question....
What do you win if you win your AG?
Other than the pride of placing, does anybody really care about the 4 inch trophy or the chotzky (sp?) that you get when they call your name?
Hey, that box sitting in my closet isn't going to fill itself....
For age group (not overall), I've gotten coffee mugs, medals, ribbons, trophies, plaques... I've given a lot of coffee mugs away since I don't drink coffee but have some, and the rest pretty much go into the box I keep in my closet. (Well, I've lost a good number over the years but I kept a good number, too. If I were reasonable I would have just trashed them) A lot accumulates over 15 years of running, most of it in the very easy young female age groups.
the box does come down when my little 4 year old has friends over sometimes. They think the box of trophies is awesome!
So, I'm going to go with --- small children care.
If a race has waves/corrals, I think age groups should be chip timing. Most small races, it doesn't matter. Line yourself up. It doesn't take that long to cross.
Overall should never, ever, ever be chip timed. Cross the finish line. It's tactical.
Follower of Forrest
I finished a race 3rd across the line. When I checked the results, I found I finished with the 4th best time. Another runner had started 10 minutes after the start time and finished with a faster time. It pissed me off to see my name listed 4th (no awards given regardless)...I'm not usually up front but when I found myself there, I was racing. Me vs. Everyone else...if I finish ahead of you I beat you fair and square. I vote gun time for everything except PRs and personal measuring. As for lining up...you will get slowed down if you start too far forward or too far back. If you start on the line and get passed by 50 people, the Xsecond headstart you took on the guy who lines up properly probably won't make too much of a difference.
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I finished a race 3rd across the line. When I checked the results, I found I finished with the 4th best time. Another runner had started 10 minutes after the start time and finished with a faster time.
10 minutes is pretty suspicious, was the other runner Kip Litton?
how long of a race was this? Anything less than a 1/2 and I'd be suspicious.
Right on Hereford...
It's not at all uncommon for people to cross the start line minutes after the crowd, even in a race as short as a 5k. As a racer, I never saw this, but as a race timer, I see it regularly. They get there late and know it's chip timed, so they don't feel any rush. Of course, if the start and finish are in different locations, we usually take the starting mat down about 5 minutes after the last person in the pack crosses the line. So, you won't get a chip time if you're too late in that situation.
Realistically, how many times does someone win/place/show AG and actually race a fellow AG'er to the finish line? If it's some podunk race and I'm fast enough to finish high, I'm racing for all I'm worth. Regardless of who's around me. If the field is strong or deep enough that I'm out of the top 5 (the norm!), then I'm racing for all I'm worth. I can't remember ever seeing someone ahead of me -- but close enough that I had any chance of reeling him in -- and knowing he was in my AG. YMMV.
"I want you to pray as if everything depends on it, but I want you to prepare yourself as if everything depends on you."
-- Dick LeBeau
Some of the races around here are thousands of participants! To make racing at all feasible they have to spread out the starts. Having chip timing is the only fair way to settle placing in the results.
For me that's most of my races. I run almost exclusively small, local races and know many of the runners at least by sight, especially those in my AG, so I'm well aware of where my AG competition is. Once in the race, though, I don't care what AG a person is in, I'm still in competition with them.
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In local races I generally know who my AG competition are.
But for large races, anyone who thinks gun timing is a fair measure is probably unfamiliar with the older age groups.
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
It was a half...like I said though, pretty informal.
how long of a race was this? Anything less than a 1/2 and I'd be suspicious.


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5 Healthiest Restaurant Kids' Mealsby Toby Amidor in Dining Out, April 3, 2012
Trying to feed your kids healthy options when dining out can be stressful. Most restaurants offer the usual chicken fingers, mac and cheese, hamburger with fries or grilled cheese, but the calories, fat and sodium on these items is through the roof. Here are the healthiest options we found at popular restaurants.
The grilled chicken is the way to go at Chili's. You can order the Grilled Chicken Platter, which has 160 calories, 3.5 grams of fat and 170 milligrams of sodium or the Grilled Chicken Sandwich with 230 calories, 5 grams of fat and 230 milligrams of sodium. Add a side of celery sticks with ranch dressing for an additional 80 calories, steamed broccoli for 30 calories or mandarin oranges or pineapple for 35 calories.


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Hemant Shah has the classic personality of a trader and salesman.
His gregarious nature and aggressive good cheer (some might even say he's "pushy") would probably have made him a success wherever he was in the world.
But Shah, 58, came to Winnipeg in the late '70s determined to establish trade linkages between Manitoba and India -- at the time, not an obviously winning proposition.
Born into a prominent agri-business family in Bombay (now called Mumbai) -- his extended family still owns one of the largest gum producers in India -- he came to Winnipeg because that's where his older brothers were. (One brother, Vijay Shah, is in the retail business, the other, Dr. Chandu Shah, was the long-time head of obstetrics and gynaecology at Victoria General Hospital).
He may have had a privileged background, but Indian laws of the day prevented him from taking money out of the country and, like many other immigrants, he paid his dues working as a parking lot attendant and in an Indian restaurant in Winnipeg.
But he was determined to make a successful business career in his new country.
Since the family business background was in agricultural processing, it was a happy coincidence that there were agricultural industries in his adopted home to whom he could offer his international trade services.
Between Shah's irrepressible energy, impressive political and commercial contacts in India and various opportunities in Manitoba, a unique immigrant success story was created.
"I've done business in agriculture to aviation," Shah said. "There's nowhere else in Canada where you could do that."
Like many new Canadians, Shah has become intensely loyal to his new home.
"I always tell people in India: In Manitoba we may have cold hands but our hearts are warm," he said.
Over the years, there may not have been any other single individual who has done more flag-waving for Manitoba in India than Shah has.
That loyalty and Manitoba pride was partly instilled by the welcoming business relationships he found when he was an inexperienced new Canadian looking for a break.
For the past decade or so Shah, has been the full-time Asian sales manager for Cubex, the family-owned Winnipeg underground drill and municipal equipment manufacturer.
But before that, Shah blazed a trail for many Manitoba companies interested in doing business in India.
Over the years Shah cajoled, badgered and sometimes came to the rescue of local companies testing the waters in the massive emerging market of India.
When the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce was approached to establish relations with a chamber in India in the early '90s, Shah was contacted to forge the connections.
He became chairman of the chamber's India trade commission before India was associated with the fast growing BRIC (Brazil Russia India China) countries.
"In some ways, Hemant was ahead of his time," said Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce president Dave Angus. "Back then, India may not have really been ready to do a lot of international trade. Certainly it is now."
Shah is the first to acknowledge the challenges that Angus is suggesting.
"It's true," Shah said. "For many products there was 150-per-cent import duties."
That was the case with Shah's first Winnipeg customer, Kipp Kelly, the manufacturer of gravity grain separators.
Shah was given the chance to represent the company in a tender bid for 32 gravity separators with the Indian government's National Seed Corp. in the mid-'80s and he won it. (Unbeknownst to Shah at the time, his father owned two Kipp Kelly machines at his Bombay plant.)
When he got back to Winnipeg and met Bob Kipp, instead of the negotiated five-per-cent commission, Shah got a cheque for 15 per cent.
"I had told Bob Kipp that if we won the tender, I wanted a dinner at Dubrovnik's and he had lined up a special vegetarian dinner for me," Shah remembered. "That's what Manitoba is. That's how immigrants are taken in in Manitoba."
For Bob Lafond, vice-president sales at Legumex Walker (formerly Roy Legumex), Shah supplied the kind of international sales assistance that only someone with deep contacts could provide.
Twenty years ago, Lafond was left high and dry in a deal involving about 20 containers of Manitoba yellow peas.
"We typically did things with letters of credit," Lafond said. "But there were some political issues in this one deal and our Indian customer talked us into shipping with open terms."
But that was a mistake. The customer would not pay the $200,000 that was owed. After about a year of trying, Lafond called Shah.
He got on a plane, met the chairman of the bank involved -- another old family friend -- and within 48 hours, Lafond finally got paid.
"He certainly knows his way around," Lafond said.
In that case, Shah said it was not so much his connections as his reputation as someone who regularly does business in India.
All through the years in his business as a trade consultant, Shah has preached the importance of maintaining ongoing relations.
"I am known as someone who has been back to India for 35 years," he said. "That is sometimes the problem here. Businesses do not want to take the time to develop the relations."
In May, Shah is co-chairing the India-Canada Business Opportunities Conference-2012 Complementing Economies; Availing Opportunities in Winnipeg.
He said it will be the culmination of his career in international trade.
But he'll continue selling drill rigs for Cubex and doing his duty as a grandfather to his Manitoba family.


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When perfected, pizza crust is light and airy, substantial enough to hold its toppings, but never so heavy that it weighs you down. Each bite is at once chewy and crunchy, and each mouthful is a delicious balance between texture and taste.
But last week when I pulled a pie from out of my own oven, it was none of those. I kneaded it and let it rise, shaped it, dressed and tossed it into an oven set at the highest possible temperature. To my disappointment, the crust was dense and heavy. Where did I go wrong?
Looking for an answer, I caught up with Frank Pinello from Best Pizza in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to learn the ins and outs of perfecting pizza crust.
It's not hard to notice the big wood-burning brick oven when you walk in — it's bright and red and burning hot. While Frank admits that exceptionally high cooking temperatures certainly help in achieving a fantastic crust (their oven burns at over 1000 degrees F), he assures me that no matter what oven you use, a few tips and techniques can go a long way.
Hailing me around the counter, he says the best way to learn is to watch him at work. And after a few hours, Frank made good on his promise by filling me up with loads of great tips and lots of delicious pizza. Here's the round up.
1. Never Start With Cold Dough
Once the dough has risen, Frank begins, it sits at room temperature for a couple hours before being used. Pizza dough should always warm for about two hours so that it stretches easily. At colder temperatures, it tends be a bit stubborn and takes longer to shape.
2. Clean up the Excess Oil
Emptying a round blob of dough onto the floured working surface, Frank explains that the details are already in play. "Always drop the dough upside down onto your working surface, so the oiled side faces up and doesn't gobble up all the flour." Using a clean towel, Frank pats dry the exposed part of the dough, removing excess oil. If the dough catches too much flour, he explains, the pie will go into the oven with patches of flour that will burn and produce flour scabs (the small white spots you sometimes find on pizza bottoms).
3. Sift Your Flour
Frank suggests using sifted flour for both the working surface and the top of the dough. He always runs his flour through a sifter to make sure no lumps, stray dust or dirt is added.
4. Don't Overwork the Dough
You never, Frank cautions with a raised finger for emphasis, ever want to overwork the dough. Overworking pizza dough is what produces crusts that are dense and spongy.
5. Use A Light Touch
The biggest mistake people make, Frank continues, is using their entire palm to work the dough. Frank uses only the top half of his fingers, and presses the dough gently as though he were leaving faint fingerprints. Air bubbles, he explains, are what make a pizza light and airy, and if you press too hard on the dough, you're just pushing them all out.
6. Start with the Edges
When shaping the pie into a circle, begin with the outer rim. "The edges should always be the first step — that way you ensure your pizza will have a nice and airy crust at the edges," he says. Only when he finishes with the edges does he move on to shape the center.
7. Keep it Round
The best way to ensure a pizza comes out of the oven round is to keep it round while working it, Frank explains. "If you keep it round the entire time, you won't have to struggle at the end." Pressing lightly, with only the upper half of his fingers, Frank dabs at the dough and reminds me how important it is to preserve all the air bubbles inside.
8. "Slap" the Dough
To stretch the pie into its full size, Frank uses a technique he calls "slapping," where he tosses the pie from hand to hand like a hot potato. This helps you stretch it quickly. Afterward, he makes sure it's still round, and lays in onto a peel.
9. Keep it Moving
Once on the peel, Frank works quickly to ladle a heap of sauce over the center, urging that this part needs to happen fast — if the pizza sits for too long on the peel, its oils will sink to the bottom and the crust will stick.
10. Go Easy on the Cheese
Though it may be hard to hold back, the key to a balanced crust is a modest amount of toppings. When Frank sprinkles on the cheese, he does so in concentric circles, starting from the outside and working his way in. As the cheese melts, he explains, it tends to shift inwards and weigh down the center of the pie. If you put too much cheese in the middle, you'll end up with a crust that's soggy in center. Too much of anything, he adds, will just weigh the whole thing down.
As Frank pulls the margherita pie out of the oven, the cheese bubbles and pops — and my belly almost jumps out of excitement. When I finally get my hands on a slice, it's well worth the wait. Frank's pizza crust lives up to his promise: nicely charred but never burnt, the texture a perfect intersection between chewy and crunchy.
Frank Pinello, founder and head pizzamaker at Best Pizza, is one of NYC's rising pizza stars. Before opening Best Pizza in the fall of 2010, Frank worked at Pulino's Bar & Pizzeria in NYC and Giacomo's Pizza in the Poughkeepsie area, and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America.
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"Regulatory fitness": Making the best of EU law in difficult times
Brussels, 12 December. In a move to make it easier and cheaper for enterprises to do business and for citizens to enjoy the benefits of the Single Market, the European Commission announced a major package of measures to strengthen and improve the European regulatory framework and ensure the EU's "regulatory fitness". It includes a new programme to cut any unnecessary regulatory costs at EU and national level. It follows up on the administrative burden programme. And it sharpens the tools - impact assessments, evaluations, public consultations - that allow EU legislation to keep fit. This package is set to help the EU to grow and compete in difficult times. Its importance was recognised by the European Council on 18-19 October 2012.
The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, said:
"If Europe is to grow, create jobs and compete internationally, EU legislation must be fit for purpose. This is why we have put smart regulation at the heart of our policy-making. Today, we are stepping up our efforts by launching a new and comprehensive Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme. We will look at the existing stock of legislation and systematically target all that is not absolutely necessary to achieve sustainable growth, jobs and competitiveness efficiently."
Smart regulation is a joint task of the Commission, the European Parliament and Council, and the Member States and the Commission is working actively to turn this shared responsibility into a shared mission. The Communication on EU Regulatory Fitness takes stock of considerable progress achieved so far in implementing the Commission's Smart Regulation agenda. It also outlines how EU legislation can achieve its objectives even more effectively and efficiently: demonstrating clear added value, delivering full benefits at minimum cost and respecting the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality. The final goal is a simple, clear, stable and predictable regulatory framework.
The Communication outlines the following measures:
1. A new Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT) to systematically identify and transparently carry out initiatives that will result in significant regulatory cost reduction and simplification.
2. A follow-up to the Action Programme for Reducing Administrative Burden (ABRplus) to ensure that our success in the Administrative Burden Action Programme to cut red tape by 25% are bringing benefits to businesses and SMEs in the Member States.
3. Sharpened tools for regulatory management: continuous improvement of impact assessments; more comprehensive and critical evaluations, firmly anchored in the policy process, improved stakeholders consultations, and more support to implementation.
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By Christopher Schwarz
From the Spring 2004 issue of Woodworking Magazine, pages 8-11
When I was taught to cut rabbets in my first woodworking class, we made them with two cuts on the table saw. You've probably seen this technique in books and magazines before. For the first cut, the work is flat on the table. For the second cut, you stand the work on edge and press it against the fence as you move the work over the blade. The waste falls away and your joint is complete.
I've always struggled with this technique. It never seemed to produce a perfect rabbet every time. The technique does have its strengths: Most woodworkers have a table saw and a rip blade to make the cut; when it works, it does produce a nice smooth joint. But after years of doing it this way, I concluded that this technique has several serious weaknesses:
- Standing the work on edge requires a tall rip fence, perfect balance on your part and a zero-clearance insert in your saw's throat plate.
- The joint is time-consuming because it almost always requires two saw setups and several test pieces to get it just right.
- You have to move the saw's guard out of the way for the second cut, no matter which brand of guard you have on your saw.
So we decided to look for a better way to make rabbets. We found two good methods. The first uses two scraps and a dado stack. The second is an improved two-step process that's virtually foolproof. But before we get to that, a quick explanation on why other methods aren't as great.
Rabbets by Hand Take Great Skill
Rabbets are one of the first joints woodworkers learn. Try building any sort of cabinet or shelf without it and you'll know immediately how essential this simple open trench is.
The perfect rabbet should have square shoulders and a flat bottom. And the cut should be smooth. You shouldn't see marks from the tooling on the joint except on close inspection. If any of these elements of the joint are off, you can be in trouble at assembly time.
If the joint's shoulders aren't square, you likely are going to have an ugly gap between the rabbeted piece and its mate. Or worse, you will close the joint but the case will not be square. If the cut is rough, has burn marks or is inconsistent, it will be difficult to completely close the joint with clamps. Plus, a rough rabbet isn't going to be as good a glue joint as a smooth one.
Before power tools, woodworkers made rabbets with hand tools, such as a rabbeting plane. I've done it this way, and it works great – once you master a couple of skills. Before you can cut this joint with a rabbeting plane, you need to learn to tune the tool and sharpen the iron. This is no small feat for a beginning woodworker. Then, once you have a tool that works, there are two settings that are paramount: the depth stop, which limits how deep the rabbet is, and the fence on the side, which controls the joint's width. With these two set, you then make passes until the tool stops cutting – then your joint is complete.
I consider this a technique that's best for the hand-tool enthusiast; it does take some skill. Most woodworkers are going to opt for an electron-eating solution with an easier learning curve, such as with the router or table saw.
Routers Aren't for Everything
The router table was my first choice for a couple of reasons: Router cuts are exceptionally clean and maintaining the squareness of the joint's shoulders is no problem.
But after cutting a lot of rabbets on my router table, I concluded that routers are not the best choice for all-around casework rabbeting. It sounds like blasphemy, but here's what I concluded: Most routers actually are quite underpowered for the job, so you end up cutting your projects' joints in small, time-consuming nibbles.
A 11⁄2-horsepower router does not deliver the same sustainable torque that a 11⁄2-hp contractor saw does (no matter what the tool's label or packaging says). Part of the problem is marketing hype among the router manufacturers, and part of the problem is in the way a universal router motor is built compared to a traditional induction motor on a contractor saw. The bottom line is this: Ask a typical router to hog out a 3⁄4″-wide x 3⁄8″-deep rabbet in one pass and it will bog down or even stall in the cut.
A router also is noisier than a table saw, and large cabinet pieces become unwieldy when you try to maneuver them on the router table. You could cut smaller rabbets on small pieces on the router table (drawers are about the right scale for most router tables). But here's how I feel about that: Learn the rabbeting process on one machine and then do it over and over the same way so you become an expert at that process. Jumping around from technique to technique will only slow your progress as you learn the subtleties of each.
Some people use their jointer and its rabbeting ledge to cut this joint. The jointer is a powerful machine, and this technique actually works pretty well for narrow stock such as face frames and door parts. But try to rabbet the end of a 30″ x 20″ cabinet side and you'll see why this isn't the way most people prefer to cut rabbets.
So I went back to the table saw, which has guts galore and a big table, to see if I could find a different way to skin this wily animal.


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Particularly with power consumption going down the way it has, all the companies are rather overselling VRMs for overclocking. For a moderate 24/7 overclock on air, enough to satisfy say a gamer wanting to grind something out of the SC2 engine or somebody wanting to speed up some calculations, where's the cutoff point of quality in how low you can reasonably go? (Yeah, more phases and higher switching frequency can mean lower ripple, and lower temps and power losses are better, but how much of a big difference does that really make?) Of course, it's still hard to tell about longevity. Reply
klmccaughey - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkBeen using Gigabyte boards for ten years now almost exclusively. They're always good with decent overclock options. Never had a bad one yet. Reply
Wall Street - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkI feel like Ian is stretching when he critiques this board for not having onboard power/reset buttons and error code displays. I guess he assembles and disassembles systems all day long, but having these features on my current motherboard, I never use them (I only have them because I needed to replace my 1156 board and only high-end parts are still readily available when I ordered).
I guess he has finally seen the light when it comes to overclocking though. The motherboard makers stretch as much as they can to justify the extra $50=$100 to up-sell enthusiasts. However, Intel has done an incredible job designing their chipsets and most users don't need 8+ SATA, 12+ power phases, or debug codes, and few use SLI/Crossfire. Reply
Wall Street - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkAnd I forgot to mention "this board is probably aimed at the internet café market in China" is pretty shameful and below the belt Ian. As you have shown yourself, it is just as good at gaming as the $200+ boards unless extreme overclocking or multi-GPU. Go look at a Steam survey to see what actual gamers have installed - this board is quite capable of power a system in the top 1% of Steam users. Reply
A5 - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkSeriously. There are so few use cases that justify the $200+ boards.
I know the $300 boards are more fun to review, but I think AT users are better served with reviews of these sub-$150 Z-series boards. Reply
ForstAmt - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkWhat those guy said.
I honestly don't know what the point of this review is. So having a HE GPU running in a PCIe x4 slot is not a good idea. Really? Well I don't think that in 2013 anyone needed a review to know that. Seems like that is the main focus of the review though.
For most people running PCs on hardware aimed at chinese internet cafes it would probably be much more interesting how well thought trough the layout is.
Are the fan connectors positioned in a way that makes sense? How about the slot layout: Can you use a graphics card (2 or 3slot) along with 2 or 3 other pci and/or pcie cards without problems? (and no, i am not talking about another gpu -.-).
But atleast the reviewer was honest at the beginning when he stated that he doesn't have a clue. And it shows. I really like anandtech but this review aggravated me enough to register and comment.
p.s.: I hope my chinese internet cafe hardware manages to send this comment in a way that makes it readable on you guys using the regular sniperelite and rog gaming elite stuff. Reply
ForstAmt - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkPlease excuse the typos. Reply
kmmatney - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkWell - the review was useful for me. These are the types of boards I buy, and I might have missed the fact that it uses a 4x slot for the second card. I effectively spent $59 for my My GA-Z77X-UD3H, but didn't think to look at what happens when you run 2 GPUs. Thankfully my board runs them at 8x/8x, which gives better performance, but I hadn't thought to even check that when I bought it. Not that I've ever used 2 GPUs... Reply
jonjonjonj - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - linkwhy the techpowerup article only shows a 5% difference between 3.0 x16 and 2.0 x4 with a 7970. terrible crossfire drivers?
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Ivy_Bridg... Reply
Jambe - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkI agree but I'd also like to see reviews of boards with other chipsets, namely Z75 and H77. Reply
lmcd - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkI'm just going to tell you now that your assessment is completely off -- a good amount of people can tell the difference in regards to the audio. Plenty of people like the option to XF/SLI later in custom builds. And some of those performance differences were shocking. That was an audio demonstration, but could mouse polling face that, too?
Anyway, don't get me started on the audio, but there is reason for better solutions than this board. Reply
HardwareDufus - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkthe "this board is probably aimed at the internet café market in China" is pretty shameful and below the belt Ian..
I agree as well... Don't be so elitest! It's refreshing to see a decent $120 motherboard that sacrifices nothing that 95% of buyers require. Ian you are getting spoiled reviewing too many high end motherboards jammed with features that only 2% of the buyers require. Come down out of the stratosphere and join the rest of us. Reply
kmmatney - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkI also think this comment was way off ""this board is probably aimed at the internet café market in China"
If anything, the board is for this market:
And its what I build for myself, friends, family, and all the computers I build for my company, and anyone else who wants a great gaming experience without breaking the bank. Reply
Razorbak86 - Monday, May 20, 2013 - link"Shameful" and "below the belt"? o.O
Do you always get your panties in a twist over such innocuous opinions?
/seewhatididthere Reply
kmmatney - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkI have to admit I never use the on-board buttons on my motherboard, and find beep codes to be just as useful as an error code display. At the end of the day, you still need to swap out parts to troubleshoot an error, regardless of an error code display. Reply
Flunk - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkI agree with you I can't see a need for onboard power and reset switches on any motherboard. If the computer is set up they're worthless and if you're working on it you have your screwdriver right there to short out the front panel header. There really is no need at all for onboard power buttons. Reply
jabber - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkI have to agree. I don't need dragons or ninjas on the box.
I don't need heatsinks fashioned in some faux novelty bullet or landmine design.
I don't need LED lit BIOS reset buttons (I've used mine twice in 5 years, so no, not needed).
I don't need LED error notifications. I've had them and never needed them.
I don't need umpteen video out options, I have a GPU card.
I don't need built in audio, I have a sound card.
I don't need built in ethernet, I have a Intel CT nic.
I don't need a PS2 socket.
I don't need more then 4 SATA ports (three if I'm honest is all I ever need)
I don't need extra USB/Serial/Firewire expansion on the board.
I don't need glow in the dark sockets or custom motherboard colours.
I don't need 8 fan controller sockets.
What do I need? A good quality stripped down board that without all that unnecessary crud would probably cost $50. Unfortunately no one seems to think anyone wants such a board.
If most here were honest it's all they really need/want also. Reply
Razorbak86 - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkGood God, man, give it a rest. I hate it when someone starts ranting and then presumes to speak for the rest of us. Reply
jabber - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkSorry, I'll leave you to your motherboards and GPUs with dragons, neons and bullets on them.
Was just stating that a lot of the features that motherboard manufacturers have loaded on 'as standard' are not really needed and only there to increase their slim profit margins.
After 20+ years of PC building I'm kind of fed up paying for crud I don't need in order to purchase a 'quality' board.
Why can't we have a good quality overclocking board without all the stuff we never use? Without all that stuff on there we could have much better signal paths, less noise and better power regs. Reply
kmmatney - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkThat's a bit extreme. Most of us need/use the built in Network and Sound, and at least a DVI output is useful, even if you have a separate card. And practically everyone can use a lot of USB ports and headers. Reply
Cerb - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - linkI also don't need heatsinks, or LEDs, or buttons, or anything glow in the dark (now, tritium, on the other hand...).
But, a video card? I've spent more on motherboards so as not to buy a video card ever since good IGPs started coming out around 2004-2005, and chose AMD platforms when Intel's were faster, for the superior IGP. Most of the time, I'm buying a video card today, due to either Intel's drivers not being up to the task, or due the motherboard lacking output options. The more of those the board has, the better, doubly so if they can all be used simultaneously (which, oddly, seems to be common on notebooks, but not desktops). I have a video card, but most people don't, and that's including more overclockers, too, every time IGP improves. Multimonitor is getting more common all the time, and most users do not need more performance than the IGP offers.
Most people do not have or want a sound card. That's a lot of money to be saved.
I haven't used a card NIC, outside of PC firewalls, to replace a blown Ethernet port, or to use if Linux does not support the integrated chip, since they got integrated into the board, ages ago.
I'm typing on a PS/2 keyboard right this second. A have USB converter as a plan B, but I would prefer to keep it native.
I need all the USBs I can get, and I want them all to be USB 3.0 ASAP, so that I can reduce the cards I need to add to get them. Why should I have to get another card just so that I can have a card reader and front case USBs plugged in at the same time? Worse, last generation, because some of the USB add-on chips gave more ports, there were cheaper motherboards with more USB 3.0 ports, and several with 2 sets of headers, than you see today.
Firewire, I've never used, though.
More SATAs are basically free, and they offer flexibility. I can have a couple plain SATAs free, a couple eSATAs, and still have plenty for internal drives. They are usually wasted, but there's no way they can cost much, with $50 boards having had 6 or more for years, now, so let's just keep plenty of them the norm.
I don't know about 8 fan connectors, but I simply do not buy boards without at least 2 non-CPU 4-pin fan headers, today. If they want to not expose those to save a penny or two, screw 'em. 3 of them, on top of CPU, tends to handle most any good case. It's the crazy cases with 6-8 fans that they want more for, but there is no real reason for it, except aesthetics. Reply
jabber - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - linkI've got no problem with having as many USB ports as you need. They are good to have.
I'd prefer the removal of the legacy/redundant stuff and say 8-10 USB ports on the back instead.
I know my taste in motherboards my not be to everyones liking but it would be nice for some of us to have the choice of buying a serious high quality stripped down board so we can tailor it to our exact needs and use our existing better quality gear in it. Reply
jonjonjonj - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - linkor you could get the extreme4 which has all those for either $134 right with a free 8GB of memory on newegg. or wait until one of the weekly/monthly sales when it goes down to the $115 range. Reply
DanNeely - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkWith Haswell just around the corner requesting specific models for a budget board roundup now seems counterproductive. "I need a board with U, V, Y; W would be nice but only if doesn't drive up the cost" seems like it would be more useful for selecting which boards to request samples of. Reply
A5 - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkAgreed. I'd like a review of whatever the cheapest board with an Intel NIC is :P
Beyond that, any sub-$150 mATX is a good place to start. Reply
Ananke - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkThis is pretty much the perfect board - around $100, 6 SATA ports, internal USB 3 header, HDMI out in cases of no discrete GPU used, 3 fan headers, 4 RAM slots, Z-chipset for dual video usage and Intel Q-sync, stable voltage and heat spreaders on the voltage regulators...and 4 SATA cables.
The Perfect board! Reply
Zeroed - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkI have a similar low end gigabyte board. I found the dpc latency problem to be caused by the overclocking / system monitor software that came with the board. Soon as I stopped it loading, the problem went away. Reply
Razorbak86 - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkIan actually addresses that in the article, but the 500+ is a max reading, even with EasyTune 6 uninstalled! Reply
scottish_usa - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - linkI actually think some of the ASRock boards are a better deal in this price range. I have the Z77 Extreme 4 which features the following at around the same price point:
4 x Sata 3 and 2 in raid
PCI-E x 16 + x4 + x4
PCI-E x8 + x8 + x4
1 x HDMI
1 x DVI
1 x VGA
1 x SPDIF
1 x eSata 3 Reply
spooky2th - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkGigabyte boards rock! I luv builds with Gigabyte boards! This board is kind of low end but it can be made into a fairly decent gaming rig. Reply
Grok42 - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkI am extremely proud of the Anandtech readers that commented here. I typed out what would have been the first post on this review and at the last minute canceled it. I thought it too harsh and possibly wasn't fair to post it on a specific review when in fact it was about the editorial leaning of Anandtech as a whole.
Go read the About page and you'll see this site is dedicated to reviewing computers, phones and components from consumer to enterprise. However, as of late it seems that all the reviews on the consumer side are completely bent toward some stereo-typical gamer building water cooled overclocked triple GPU gaming rigs. While nothing wrong with these types of builds and they are fun to read and think about, there has to be some respect for those that want other builds. I just spent $1500 building a mITX gaming and workstation rig with a core i7 3770. It has a $300 GPU, $300 CPU, $350 SSD, $120 case and a $80 MB running a stock Intel cooler. I couldn't be happier and NEVER intend to overclock it. As strange as my choices are, I bet I'm closer to 90% of the readership than a $600-$900 dual or triple GPU and $200 MB rig that seems to be implied as required equipment around here.
The worst of it is that there is a huge movement to smaller, cooler and quieter rigs that doesn't seem to have a voice on the inside at Anandtech. A full ATX tower running 3 GPUs and 5 HDDs is no longer the sought after box for a growing base of enthusiasts. The small cool looking mITX that can also play games is what's hot. Reply
jabber - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkYes indeed, also quite a few of us here are over the age of 30 so a lot of the toys and whistles and flashing lights don't really appeal so much.
We prefer durability, stability and value for money more.
I think a lot of the high-end manufacturers have forgotten that a lot of their consumer base has got a lot older. Buying boxes with dragons and wonderwomen on them doesn't have quite the appeal it might have 15 years ago. Reply
Razorbak86 - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkLOL. Age doesn't have a thing to do with it. Money often does though. Remember, this site is oriented towards enthusiasts first. So don't hate because others like more expensive components than you can afford. Reply
kmmatney - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkIt not about being able to afford the high end stuff - but why pay %100 more for maybe a 10% gain in performance. I like to see all the reviews - high and and low end, so this review was great. At the end of the day, the parts I buy will be whatever gives the best bang-for-buck, at the performance level (and noise level) I can accept. I don't hate the reviews of high end parts, but I want reviews like this to balance things out. Reply
Wall Street - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkIt isn't even for a 10% gain in performance. I, and a many users like me, are not going to use more than one SSD, aren't going to use more than one GPU, aren't going to use more than a couple of USB 3.0 ports (I don't own a single USB 3.0 device), won't overvolt/aggressively overclock and I even use the digital audio out on top of that (although the analog audio on this board is very disappointing).
In that case, $120 boards like this are nearly identical in performance to one of the top end offerings. I think that, in thinking this is a low end offering, Ian misses where the sweat spot of the market is entirely. $120 motherboards are solidly midrange. You can get a low-end motherboard for less than $70 on Newegg. Compared to what Dell uses in its desktops, this board is feature packed! Reply
jabber - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkIt does actually. When you get a bit older you find out.
Enjoy your youth while you have it! Reply
jabber - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkOh and the PC enthusiast market is slowly diminishing. Sites like this need to diversify to appeal to types that don't think the peak of a good day is spent running Prime95 on a new PC for 24 hours. Reply
Rob94hawk - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkAnyone want to explain to me why they're still putting USB 2.0 and SATA 3Gb/s when everything's backwards compatible? Reply
lever_age - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkEvery SATA 6 Gb/s and USB 3.0 port is handled by the Z77 chipset on that board. Actually, all the SATA 3 Gb/s and USB 2.0 are as well.
If you want more of the faster SATA and USB, you need to pay for extra 3rd-party controller chips, which increases board costs. It's a legitimate form of product differentiation to leave those out on the cheaper products. But supposedly 8-series chipsets with Haswell (or at least most of them?) will support six SATA 6 Gb/s and six USB 3.0 natively. Reply
jabber - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkI find USB3 still isn't quite a solid in terms of "it just works" like USB2 does. I think the USB3 chipsets still haven't got bedded down in the OS as solidly as USB2.
Give it another year or two and it should be...I hope. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkSata 6GB and USB3 both take significantly more die space on the chipset to implement; since most users only have at most a few devices that need the extra bandwidth most of ports offered on the chipset are still the older models. Haswell will probably be all Sata6GB on the chipset, although i wouldn't be surprised if some budget mobos add sata3gb ports via external controllers.
The USB2/3 mix will probably last for a few more years on the desktop; this is both because of the much larger total number of ports involved, and because the internal headers aren't directly compatible (afaik you can buy adapters) and there're lots of cases which only have USB2 on the front panel; and lots of people with USB2 based cardreaders in a drive bay. I suspect one or two mobo headers for those will be with us for a long time; and wouldn't be surprised if a few linger as onboard/embedded device connects too like the pair of USB1 ports AMD chipsets still have (notionally for laptop keyboard/touchpad connects; but in both the desktop and mobile chipsets). I doubt the next generation of laptops will have any external USB2 ports; but might continue to use them internally. Reply
maximumGPU - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkhaha those spam comments actually made me laugh. Reply
cjs150 - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkThis is a weird board.
Full ATX but with 2x PCI slots. What do people use 1 for now, nevermind 2.
SATA sockets upright and in just the place that will ensure you lose the use of one of the SATA 6G sockets as soon as you put in a graphics card.
Spend a bit more a get a decent M-atx board with better layout Reply
Wall Street - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkSince the second x16 slot is powered from the x4 from the southbridge, I think they did this because they ran out of PCIe lanes. Also, some people use PCI for legacy devices. For example, I have a PCI TV tuner that I still use because a 4 year old tuner is just as good at HD as a new one. Reply
kasakka - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkFireWire cards are actually still a good choice for using PCI slots, because most PCI-E FW cards cost 2x more and are essentially a PCI-to-PCI-E bridge chip + the PCI card's components. The few natively PCI-E FW cards are 3x more expensive than their PCI counterparts.
Yes, FW still matters since most of the better audio interfaces use it so a big thing for studios or home recording, now that most motherboards don't come with a built-in FW chip.
It's the x4 full size PCI-E slots that make no sense to me. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkraid cards, or a second gpu for extra (non gaming) monitor outputs all need more than a single 1x lane; but 4 is plenty for anything they'd be asked to do. Some 4 port USB3 adapter cards on newegg are more than just 1x (though not explicitly marked I think they're 2x); presumably if you tried loading all 4 ports at once on the 1x cards you'd be bottlenecking on the PCIe bus. Reply
Wall Street - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkYou can install a PCIe x16 card in an x16 physical slot that is electrically PCIe x4. You also can install an PCIe x4 card in a x16 physical slot that is electrically x4. You cannot install a PCIe x16 card in a physical x4 slot. This is why they put an x16 physical slot for an x4 interface. An x16 physical slot is always at least as good. Reply
jabber - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkX4 slots are hard to come by (I havent had a board with one fitted in years) so it may be they don't really make them anymore and just use a standard 16x slot instead. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkI think the second PCI slot is as much about the limited number of PCIe lanes available as anything else. IIRC 7 series chipsets don't have native PCI support instead requiring a bridge chip, and only 8 PCIe lanes on the SB. That's 4 for the x4 slot, 2 for the 2x slots, 1 for the bridge, and 1 for the realtek nic (if I'm reading the specsheet right, the audio connects to the chipsets audio out and not over PCIe). That uses up all 8 available lanes; leaving the choice of only having 5 expansion slots filled, or spending more for a PCIe mux to add more available lanes. The latter is what I think many higher end boards do, but is cost-prohibitive in the value segment where every dollar counts. Reply
Cerb - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - linkAwhile ago, I came across some audio books on cassette tape, and wanted to transfer them. My best input choice, by far, was an existing PCI sound card, with an external ADC. There you have it. For someone else, it may be an old but high quality plotter or scanner using SCSI, or a special serial card, or firewire card, or some other little thing.
Like serial and parallel ports, PCI will be with us for awhile yet, though there is no good reason to need more than 1 of them, except that they would have had an unfilled slot, otherwise.
That 2nd slot is there, almost certainly, to fill space, due to using up the PCIe lanes available. Even MicroATX boards do this, giving 2 PCI slots, but an extra PCIe with more lanes, instead of several 1x PCIe slots. Reply
kasakka - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkWTF, does this actually have a manual VCore setting when the similarly priced DS3H didn't? Damn Gigabyte and their gazillion different models. Reply
kmmatney - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkYeah - that's a bit frusterating. I bought the DS3H knowing it didn't have Vcore setting, as my plan was to overclock as high as I could at stock voltage. However, while I was hoping to get to 4.5 Ghz (as a few other were able to do), mine crapped out at 4.3 Ghz, and I run it at 4.2 to be safe. More than enough performance really, and not a bad overclock from 3.4 Ghz, but I'm curious to see what it could do a VCore adjustment. Reply
kasakka - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - linkI did the same and also ran into similar problems, though mine would boot at 4.5 but crash on benchmarks. I exchanged the board for a UD3H and now running 4.5 stable at lower voltage than what the DS3H would set, the CPU boots at 4.7 but didn't bother working to make it stable at that speed.
What annoys me is that Gigabyte doesn't disclose the lack of VCore adjustment anywhere and there are other strange things like how the DS3H uses all-Intel USB ports whereas the UD3H is a combination of VIA and Intel controllers (with the VIA not working unless a driver is installed). I really sometimes wonder what is going thru mobo developers' heads. Reply
Flunk - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkIt's nice that you're reviewing more commodity hardware, but this board is already being liquidated by the computer shops in my area. Intel has a new line of chips just around the corner. This review would have been a lot more helpful this time last year. Reply
lever_age - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkHopefully it's just an indication of more things to come. But yeah, coverage of the AsRock Pro3/Pro4, MSI G4x, Asus LX/LK, Gigabyte HD/D(S)3, etc. of the world would be nice. And the stuff under that as well. You know, the stuff you put in or recommend to friends, family, etc.
Though to nitpick, this /particular/ board wasn't available until relatively late in Z77's reign. Reply
rangerdavid - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkYeah, $5,600 / year is just about right for someone if they "sit at home, music playing while they 'work' in front of my iMac." Reply
Alan G - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkI'm probably one of the older folks who reads these reviews. I haven't played a computer game (not counting Free Cell) since the Tex Murphy series ended way back when. Clearly one can spend a lot or a little on a build. I just finished a new build for photography and found reviews on this site particularly valuable (I ended up getting a Fractal Designs Arc Midi case in part because of the good overview). I needed a build that would run quiet (computer sits about 18 inches away from me) and would perform. Interestingly, my main software Adobe Lightroom really doesn't require a GPU and would run satisfactorily just using the Ivy Bridge on board graphics; Photoshop is a different matter and some operations do take advantage of a good GPU. Many reviewers of GPUs may not be aware of this and tend to focus only on the gaming community.
Motherboards such as this one do have a place in builds for specialty purposes when price might be a key point. I can build a killer photo editing PC for under $700 and not sacrifice any performance. Adding some bells and whistles is nice but not necessary. Reply
jabber - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - linkIndeed, I have a lot of customers that really don't care about day glow slots and surround sound but they want a serious spec machine for heavy tasks. Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - linkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gSQg1i_q2g Reply
crashtech - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - linkThe internet cafe comment seems out of place in an article with global readership. Reply
Razorbak86 - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - linkWhy is it out of place? Because it references China?
Do you realize how large the Chinese Internet cafe market is? Manufacturers often design products to meet specific market needs, and then end up selling those same products to other market segments.
I really don't understand the level of consternation over that one innocuous comment in a 7-page review. I honestly think that some commenters' negative reactions to that statement are more telling about their own insecurities or prejudices than they are a statement of the author's perspective. JMHO. Reply
popej - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - linkYour audio test are of very limited value. 16bit test is not enough to show performance of better chips and loop-back test shows limitation of audio input, when usually audio output quality is what is interesting.
You have presented 6 test for USB transfer. Imagine that you have posted only USB 2.0 copy test. This would be an equivalent of what have you done to audio testing. Reply
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