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A bareboat charter through the British Virgin Islands yields a prize far more valuable than pirate booty.
By Capt. Ken Kreisler — October 2002
"Mean, vicious, and N-A-A-A-S-T-Y!" The choir of young voices from ten-year-old Steven, seven-year-old Rachel, nine-year-old Samantha Zee, and Sami, my own eight-year-old daughter, chimes in from their seats on the bridge of my 37-foot, bareboat-chartered power cat. Once the shouting and grimacing stops--the special vocal and facial emphasis was their idea after I pause, nod, and give them the high sign for their harmonic interlude--I continue to relate, gravelly voice and all, the story of that fearsome and most loathsome of buccaneers, Mean Murray.
Aye mateys, Mean Murray was all that and more," I growl, and set my course for Dead Man's Chest, a small and desolate rocky islet in Salt Island Passage between Peter and Salt Islands--the very spot where, after a failed mutiny in 1717, the much-feared Edward "Blackbeard" Teach stranded 15 of his crew, giving each man a bottle of rum with which to meet their fate. And thus the origin of the famed song that begins, "Yo, ho, ho..."
It is March, and the trades are south by southeast at 10 knots, if that. We are cruising the waters of the British Virgin Islands--of Jost Van Dyke, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda, as well as the host of islands both inhabited and barren that makes up this splendid cruising archipelago, once the favorite hangout of other 18th-century pirates, including Captain Henry Morgan, the "gentleman pirate" Bartholomew Roberts, and even Anne Bonny, one of the few women privateers. We're on our way to the Norman Island caves, the purported site of the real Treasure Island made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883.
There are many reasons why the USVI and BVI are so suitable for cruising, least of which is the proximity of all the islands; from Cruz Bay on St. John to Lower Soldier Bay on Virgin Gorda is only about 32 nautical miles, and everything you'd want to do is contained within these cruising grounds. But as my crew of hungry ruffians is getting mighty ornery just now, seeing they have the proper victuals will have to take priority over spinning yarns of the bounding main.
What had started out as a family bareboat charter two days ago from the St. Thomas base of Nautic Blue, the powerboat arm of the highly successful Moorings sailboat charter brokerage, had quickly developed into a multihousehold cruise. Our vessel, dubbed Capt. Squid by the kids, is one of three 37-foot power cats now in service at this location. The fleet will soon be upped to 12, including a four-cabin 46-footer.
Next page > Virgin Islands Charter, Part 2 > Page 1, 2, 3, 4
This article originally appeared in the April 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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For some reason "LeAnn Rimes in a Bikini" doesn't quite tell the whole story here. Although, I probably should've added cackled. "LeAnn Rimes Hung A Bikini Off Her Dying, Emaciated Frame, Then Cackled Like One Of Those Skeletons From The Movies. Army of Darkness, Maybe? You Know What I'm Talking About, She Cackled Like That."
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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
In a Times Square studio last Thursday, actor Ed Norton was interviewed as part of a Diet Coke promotion. The interview was beamed live to billboards in Times Square, as well as on the Diet Coke Web site and banner placements sprinkled on sites like E! Online, Cosmopolitan and Hello.

 Diet Coke is not the only brand going live to garner attention. Marketers including Burger King and Adidas are warming up to real-time Web content, mirroring a shift in digital media away from asynchronous communication and content delivery (e.g., the sending of e-mails and watching posted videos) towards instant feedback and interaction. Upping the ante for these marketers are real-time systems like Twitter and Facebook, which mix content delivery with communication, making something hours' old seem stale.

 "It's fascinating because it's really about the brand letting it all hang out and not being afraid of messing up," said Lars Bastholm, chief digital creative officer at Ogilvy North America. "If brands want to ... be seen as 'friends,' then they also need to have flaws like real people have."

 Crispin Porter + Bogusky is experimenting heavily with live video. In October it ran an integrated campaign for BK promoting a live Web program featuring Nascar driver and BK endorser Tony Stewart proving his love of the Whopper by taking a lie detector test.

 "The best way to deliver truth is real time," said Alex Bogusky, co-chairman of Crispin. "Part of Saturday Night Live's appeal is ... something can go wrong, someone can say 'shit.' We could have done a lie detector test and posted it, but it would have seemed less true."

 Crispin, in fact, has just launched its own weekly show on live Web site Justin.tv. "Fearless Q+A" features Bogusky and another Crispin exec answering questions submitted via Twitter. It's a venue and similar format the shop used for client Microsoft with the "PC Hookup Show" over the summer. Stuff White People Like creator Christian Lander interviewed Web celebs like blogger Ben Huh (I Can Has Cheezburger) and Diggnation host Alex Albrecht, and answered viewer questions. The twice-weekly show had 1.4 million views, both live and recorded.

 "I think people lower their guard that they're being marketed to because they get to participate," said Evan Solomon, vp of marketing at Justin.tv, which has run live campaigns for brands like Dr Pepper and Adidas.

 Competitor Ustream has worked with CompUSA, Virgin America and Mountain Dew. Last Thursday, Stella Artois used it to live stream the World Draught Master Finals, where bartenders competed to pour the best beer.

 The use of live content is not relegated to video sites. Nike two weeks ago drummed up interest in its Nike Football Facebook fan page with a promotion featuring Arsenal soccer star Cesc Fabregas (pictured), who took over the page for an hour. He answered questions, and posted photos from practice and games along with status updates. The Nike Football page drew hundreds of questions and comments from fans.

 Tom Bedecarre, CEO of AKQA, the Nike agency that orchestrated the effort, said, "You need to create reasons for people to come back."

 And, of course, live content has a silver lining that would appeal to any penny-pinching marketer: it's often cheap. Adidas last week ran a campaign on Justin.tv that featured Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose answering fan questions in real time. Other than the ad buy with the site, Adidas agency Freestyle Interactive only had to train a camera on Rose.

 "It's a lot less polished," said Aaron Lang, client services director at Freestyle. "You get a sense of who they are. ... Everybody's talking about consumers owning your brand. It's just one more way of giving people access."

 There is a downside, though, to live Web content: the numbers can appear quite small. Interacting in real time, particularly through video, is still a niche activity. Justin.tv is the largest live Web video provider (others include Ustream and Qik), but it drew just 3.1 million U.S. visitors in September, according to comScore. And many of its viewers are typical Web early adopters: young and overwhelmingly male. According to comScore, 67 percent are between 18 and 44 and 73 percent are male.

 "We don't expect this to be the same scale as when we run a 30-second spot on the Oscars," said William White, the global brand director at Diet Coke. "But it's a targeted, unique approach to get consumers who are spending a lot of time on the Web that we might not reach in other ways."

 That's why experimentation isn't likely to slow, according to Bogusky. "It's where things are going," he said. "It's hard to say there will be less live content out there. I wouldn't make that bet. And I wouldn't bet on companies that fear transparency surviving."

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(Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Interview dated January 20, 2011)
Establish the religion and do not make divisions in it (Surat ash-Shura, 13)
Do not split into sects and schools and groups and fight one another, do not criticize and strive against one another. Love another, be friends, go and dine with one another, break your fasts together, be brothers, go to one another's homes, be good neighbors and protect and watch over one another.
They only split up after knowledge came to them, tyrannizing one another.(Surat ash-Shura, 14)
In other words they came to "tyrannize" one another after all the knowledge of the Qur'an, the importance of Islamic Union and Turkish-Islamic Union had come. They fall into divisions because of obstinacy, pride and arrogance. Allah curses this in the Qur'an. They will have to account for these verses in the Hereafter.


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Roger E A Farmer, Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Economics
The US recovery has stalled, the UK has fallen back into recession and most of Europe is mired in a debt quagmire to which there appears to be no quick exit. It is against this background that Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, has come out aggressively in favor of additional Fed actions.
But what can the Fed do to alleviate the unemployment problem? What should it do?
In a series a recent research paper1(here), I have shown that there is stable connection between the stock market and the unemployment rate and I have argued2(here) that this connection is causal. The stock market crash of 2008 caused the Great Recession. If this relation is truly causal, then central banks can do a great deal to alleviate persistent unemployment.


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Wandering solar system causes ice ages, according to an article in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2 August 2005. Astronomer Douglas Gies of Georgia State University's Centre for High Angular Resolution Astronomy and high school science student John Helsel have proposed a new theory about the origin of ice ages. They suggest the solar system has passed through "immense clouds of exploding stars" in the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy and "when our solar system passes through a spiral arm, the cosmic rays fall to Earth and knock electrons off atoms in the atmosphere, making them electrically charged, or ionized. Since opposite electrical charges attract each other, the positively charged ionized particles attract the negatively charged portion of water vapour, thus forming large droplets in the form of low-lying clouds. In turn, the clouds cool the climate and trigger an ice age." The article goes on to explain: "By making a variety of assumptions about the rate of solar motion and the distribution of spiral arms in the galaxy - which are difficult to map because galactic dust and foreground stars get in the way - Gies and Helsel conclude that 'the sun has traversed four spiral arms at times that appear to correspond well with long-duration cold periods on Earth.'" Gies and Helsel's theory is published in Astrophysical Journal.
Editorial Comment: Did you notice how much of this theory has come about by making assumptions and not by observing facts? In spite of this, such a theory can still be published in a mainstream scientific journal, because it fits the acceptable evolutionary view. The fact such way out speculations can be put forward as a serious explanation of ice ages also indicates that no one really knows why ices ages occur.
The Biblical book of Job first mentions the coming of the ice (Chapters 6 and 38), who lived several centuries after the Tower of Babel. Historical and physical evidence shows that the earth has been through one major ice age, which was part of the massive climate changes that occurred after Noah's flood (see Genesis 8 and 9). If we really want to understand the history of earth's climate, try consulting the written record given by the only One who observed the earth's climate from the beginning. (Ref. presuppositions, weather, beliefs)


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Entrust IdentityGuard is a two-factor authentication solution that is stronger and less expensive than competing solutions. Our two-factor authentication can be used with existing usernames and passwords for online identity theft protection or integrated with Microsoft Windows for secure desktop and network login. The patented, coordinate-based challenge is easier than reading a map and can be suited to any variety of authentication scenarios.
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A streptococcal screen is a test to detect group A streptococcus, the most common cause of strep throat.
Rapid strep test
The test requires a throat swab. It takes about 7 minutes. The swab is tested to identify group A streptococcus, the cause of strep throat.
There is no special preparation. Inform the health care provider if you are taking, or have recently taken, antibiotics.
Your throat will be swabbed in the area of the tonsils. This may make you gag.
Your health care provider may order this test if you have signs of strep throat, which include:
A negative strep screen most often means Group A streptococcus is not present. It is unlikely that you have strep throat.
If your health care provider still feels that you may have strep throat, a throat culture will be done.
A negative strep screen most often means Group A streptococcus is present, and confirms strep throat.
At times, the test may be positive even if you do not have strep. This is called a false-positive result and is more likely if you have a fever or the symptoms of strep throat.
There are no risks.
This test screens for the group A streptococcus bacteria only and will not detect other causes of sore throat.
Wessels MR. Clinical practice. Streptococcal pharyngitis. N Engl J Med . 2011;364(7):648-655.
Weber R. Pharyngitis. In: Bope ET, Kellerman RD, eds. Conn's Current Therapy 2012 . 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 1.
Nussenbaum B, Bradford CR. Pharyngitis in adults. In: Flint PW, Haughey BH, Lund LJ, et al, eds. Cummings Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery . 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Eslevier; 2010:chap 13.


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A BURGLARY victim, undergoing chemotherapy for an inoperable brain tumour, has been left unable to seek alternative treatment to combat the disease after insurers refused to pay out for his £31,000 claim.
About £27,000 worth of watches, heirlooms and electronic gadgets were stolen in November from the Cade's family home in Marlow, with another £4k of damage caused.
Airline pilot Robert Cade, 50, was enduring a battle with cancer when he got a letter saying his insurance policy did not cover the claim.
Their contents insurance was for a total of £50,000 but smallprint said the valuables in the home must be no more than a third of this - £16,667.
His wife Louisa said: "This is just an added stress to our already really stressful situation. It's made it even worse. The money in comparison to what we're facing is insignificant although it could have paid for us to seek alternative treatment.
"There's a place we wanted to go to which is a healing centre, which we're unable to do now. That money to the insurance company doesn't mean anything to them."
Mr Cade said: "When they told me they were ripping up our policy, I thought it was a joke. I could not believe they would simply cancel it, leave us without cover and refuse to pay any of our claim.
"The sense of a stranger going through your personal things is sickening. It feels as though the memories of much-missed family members have been trampled on."
The burglary happened in particularly distressing circumstances. The family left home for under two hours to take their daughter, Holly, to hospital, after she had breathing problems. The tally of items snatched included a German officer's sword - a souvenir from Mr Cade's late father's wartime service.
The father-of-three told the MFP: "I feel let down. It was a shock but because of what we're going through it sort of softened the blow, at the end of the day it's only money whereas the cancer is life changing."
The Cades bought the £280-a-year policy through comparison website MoneySupermarket in July. They chose a company called Home Quote Direct, an online broker. After filling in the paperwork they were eventually passed to a company called Paragon Insurance.
A letter from loss adjuster Knowles on behalf of the insurer said: "Certain facts have emerged which have caused underwriters to void your policy of insurance on the grounds of material non-disclosure and misrepresentations made by you. The result of this voidance is that the policy does not and has not existed, and therefore no claims are payable under it."
A cheque was sent to refund their premiums. Paragon Insurance said in a statement: "The Cades have made a complaint to the Financial Ombudsman; while this is happening we won't comment further."


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HOUSTON - Hot, wet weather is typical during the summer months in Texas, but it is also perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes.
According to a newly released study by state health officials, the number of West Nile cases in the Lone Star state are on the rise. In fact, the findings show West Nile cases in Texas have doubled, especially in the northern region.
"There are lows and there are highs, and this year we are high," Rudy Bueno, Director of the Harris County Mosquito Control Division said.
Bueno said the study does not come as a surprise.
"We had a very mild winter and because of that the mosquito population wasn't knocked out," Bueno said. "With rain that just amplifies the populations especially with standing water."
Statewide there have been 111 human West Nile virus cases so far this season. Of those cases, three people have died.
Health officials confirmed Friday the third victim died after contracting the virus in Dallas county.
"For us that's why our surveillance is so important, because it helps us keep track of what's going on," Bueno said.
While mosquito control crews work to treat effected areas, health officials suggest folks do what they can to also stay safe.
"I think people need to be concerned and take the proper precautions," Bueno said.
Most people become infected within three to 10 days of a bite from an infected mosquito.
Symptoms include fever, headache, body tremors and visual problems.
According to doctors, if you start to feel any of these things to seek medical help, right away.
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WILTSHIRE captain Mike Coles isn't paying too much attention to their Unicorns Knockout Trophy group position as he focuses on helping extend their winning run.
Wiltshire, who sit second in Group One, notched up their fourth victory of the summer last weekend as they beat Cornwall by 21 runs in a rain-reduced encounter at Corsham.
Coles, who hit a half-century, praised the groundstaff Station Road for getting their Trophy clash on and is hoping his side can march towards the knockout stages.
"The pitch was under water when I got there but Cornwall were keen to play because they'd already lost a game. Thanks to the grounds staff at Corsham because a lot of clubs would have just said 'it's off'," he said.
"I think that when there's less overs in a game, it can become a bit of a bunfight but with our batting line-up, we always knew we'd have a good chance. It didn't start well but Joe Breet and I got some good scores.
"We also took three or four really good catches. We've worked on our fielding and those catches were half-chances that we took.
"I haven't really looked where we are in the table yet and I'm just thinking about trying to beat Dorset down in Bournemouth this weekend.
"We beat them in a friendly a few weeks ago, where they played their best side and we had a few missing, so we've got to be confident."
Wiltshire were plunged into a perilous position at 3-3 but Breet (85 not out) helped them post 185-8 after 26 overs.
Paul Smith (40), Kelvin Snell (32) and Andrew Libby (30) led the visitors' run chase but Tahir Afridi (3-27) and Jake Roberts (2-19) ensured Cornwall were out for 164 in the penultimate over.
Victory on Sunday (11am) will see Wiltshire progress to the quarter finals.
Wiltshire team v Dorset: Michael Coles (Corsham, Captain), Tahir Afridi (Henley), Joe Breet (Lechlade), Neil Clark (Potterne), Tom Foley (Corsham), James Hayward (South Wilts), Ed Kilbee (Goatacre), Adam Miles (Cardiff), Ashur Morrison (Corsham), Tom Morton (South Wilts), Jake Roberts (Potterne).
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I've recently taken a development job in Uganda that will require a lot of data collection in the field. Having done mindless data-entry before and not wanting to repeat the experience (and to the excitement of my new bosses), I proposed using SMS technology to do the bulk of our data entry. I downloaded frontlineSMS and bought an unlocked Huawei E173 modem.
There are several problems when I try to launch FrontlineSMS with the modem plugged in. When FrontlineSMS automatically tries to detect a modem, it says it can't find any. Then, when I try to manually use a port, it throws a Port in Use exception.
I've looked through the forums (and even on the development site) and here are the solutions I've tried thus far:
Here are my system configurations:
I'd greatly appreciate any help or support anyone could provide. I've also attached my error logs.
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Edit: I have gotten this to work. After doing some digging for PortInUseException Exceptions for Mac OSX, I came across this Arduino forum
The post itself isn't very good, but it appears that there is a problem with permissions on the "/var/lock" directory. What I did was to change the permissions so that I can read and write to this directory. More specifically, I just used Finder to navigate to "/var/" in the root. Then, if you select the "/var/lock/" folder, right click, and select "Get Info". In the lower right, there will be a small padlock icon that's most likely in the locked position. Click it (and enter your password). Change the permissions (at the bottom), until it says that you can both read and write to the folder. I know it's probably not best practices to edit permissions from Finder, especially in the "/var/" directory, but after a month of struggling with this problem, I'm glad something works.
After changing these permissions, I opened FrontlineSMS, and it automatically detected my modem for the first time. I've sent a few test messages, and it seems to be working fine. I hope this helps anyone else having difficulty with connecting a modem to a Mac.
Hi Stuart,
Thanks so much for the update, and for sharing this work around with the community here - its great to hear that you are now up and running! It can be a little more tricky for users to get started using FrontlineSMS on a Mac OS, but there are a few ways to tackle this. If you have any further problems please let us know and the team here will do our best to help.
Hi Stuart / Flo,
I'd just like to thank you for this workaround and confirm it worked perfectly for my setup (Huawei E173 / OSX 10.6.8) as well!
Would it be worth adding this to the manual and/or this (fairly old, but featured) thread? http://frontlinesms.ning.com/forum/topics/still-having-problems-with
Thanks for this.I thinki should as well try out this with MAc Osx.
Thaks again.
Hi Axel,
Thanks for letting us know that this worked for you - that's great news. We are currently finalising a selection of Frequently Asked Questions from the forum to help FrontlineSMS users, and this is a helpful tip to include in the FAQ! I'll keep the community posted on where the FAQ can be found upon its release.
Thanks again!
Thanks Stuart, this was the answer I was looking for.
Hello, I have the same problem as Stuart and I am trying to go into the /var/ directory. I am not a computer expert and i cant find this directory... how do I get into the directory in the first place and make the changes as mentioned?
Your help is so much appreciated,
Hi Sandra,
the /var directory (as well as a whole bunch of others) is hidden in OSX by default.
You can get to it by opening Finder, selecting "Go to Folder" in the "Go" menu and typing "/var".
If you can't find the "lock" folder in there (it may be a hidden folder as well) you may have to tell Finder to show hidden files and folders - see http://lifehacker.com/188892/show-hidden-files-in-finder
Hope that helps!
hi Axel thanks for your prompt response. With your guide, I managed to open the /var and show all hidden files, but there is no /lock folder inside the /var. I provide some screenshot if you could help to take a look.
Thanks again!
Hi Sandra
You are probably using a different version to the one discussed above - have you tried all the tips in the Troubleshooting Guide?
If so, we can take a look and see what's going on but the advice above may not work for version 2 of FrontlineSMS, which was released in June 2012.
Let me know how you get on,
Hello Laura thanks for that. I have created a new thread because no matter what I did the problem persists
here's the link to the new post http://frontlinesms.ning.com/forum/topics/problems-connecting-to-gs...
Hi Sandra,
I wonder if you have found the solution to your issue. I am facing the similar problem and really need help as I will have a training with community next week.
BTW, I'm using using FLSMS 1, Mac OSX 10.7.5, and Huawei 21.7 Mbps modem.
I also could not find the lock folder in the var directory.
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OK, we admit that honeyed dormice, peacocks served in their plumage, roasted black swan and olives stuffed with maggots are never going to catch on, even with the most fanatical foodies. Ditto for raw horse heart and dog sausage.
And auroch is right out, since that massive European bovine has been extinct since the 1600s.
Still, Game of Thrones has managed to entice a lot of fans to the quasi-medieval feast. Characters on the bloody, bawdy HBO television series, which just started its third season on Sunday, often find respite from rounds of decapitation, disembowelling and dismemberment by relaxing with tankards of ale and pewter plates piled high with victuals. The crazy-popular TV series is based on A Song of Ice and Fire, a planned seven-book saga by American author George R.R. Martin. The novels -- five so far -- are even more food-obsessed, giving over pages and pages to sensuous and specific descriptions of food, whether it's a meagre meal of beer and brown bread or an epic 77-course wedding banquet.
Readers have picked up on the food motifs. In May 2011, two culinary-minded superfans, Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer, started re-creating recipes on the blog Inn at the Crossroads (innatthecrossroads.com). And like many hot bloggers, they parlayed their online success into a book deal, with A Feast of Ice & Fire (Random House Canada, $38) being released a year later. The authorized cookbook for Game of Thrones, Feast even has an intro from Martin, the great man himself.
Martin starts by admitting he can't cook. But he does love to eat, and he really loves to write about eating. Food is a crucial part of his complex mythology. In Martin's fictional land of Westoros, where most of the story takes place, the plain-speaking northerners prefer hearty stick-to-your-ribs fare, like beef and barley stew, mutton in onion-ale broth and pease pudding.
The aristocratic schemers in King's Landing favour more decadent dishes, like chestnut soup, quails drowned in butter and fig tarts.
And the poor guys who live on the cold and isolated Wall on the kingdom's northernmost edge subsist mostly on preserved food: "Potted hare, haunch of deer in honey, pickled cabbage, pickled beets, pickled onions, pickled eggs and pickled herring."
This is a mythical, sometimes magical world, sort of like Tolkien with more toplessness, or one of Shakespeare's gorier tragedies with added dragons. But for the food, Lehrer and Monroe-Cassel draw on historical sources, from late Roman cuisine through to the kitchens of Elizabethan England. On their blog, they give recipes in their original forms, which often include obscure ingredients -- spice mixes like "powder douce" and "powder forte," herbs like purslane and borage -- and tend to be vague about amounts and cooking times.
Monroe-Cassel and Lehrer then craft a simplified modern version, adapted to contemporary cooking techniques and accessible ingredients. Since few of us now employ kitchen wenches, most of the modern recipes are fairly fast and easy (no home butchering, no spit-roasting).
Game of Thrones has become one of the most watched, most discussed and most pirated shows on TV. Modern viewers, with their complex, over-extended, technologically cocooned lives, are fascinated by Martin's stark and brutal world, where existence is so often reduced to the elemental forces of sex, violence and food.
If you're planning on having a Game of Thrones party, you'll probably want to leave the full-frontal nudity and heads on pikes to the feuding noble families of the Seven Kingdoms. But you can, at least, go medieval with the food. Bring on the cakes and ale.
Winterfell cod cakes, modern version
450 g (1 lb) cod fillets
2 medium Russet potatoes
250 ml (1 cup) bread crumbs
60 ml (1/4 cup) chopped fresh parsley
30 ml (2 tbsp) freshly grated Parmesan cheese
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
5 ml (1 tsp) salt
2 ml (1/2 tsp) pepper
2 eggs, lightly beaten
Grapeseed oil, or another oil with a high smoke-point, such as canola, for frying
Boil the potatoes until tender, drain and set aside. Boil the codfish until it flakes easily. Drain and flake the fish with a fork. Be sure to remove all bones. In a medium bowl, mix together by hand the flaked fish, mashed potatoes, bread crumbs, parsley, Parmesan cheese, garlic, salt, pepper and eggs. If the mixture is too crumbly, add another egg. If too sticky, add some more bread crumbs. Form the mixture into small cakes (about 6.5 cm or 2.5 inches) and fry on medium-high heat in a skillet coated with oil until nicely browned on one side, then flip them over and continue to cook until well browned on the other side. Makes about 12 fish cakes.
-- Adapted from innatthecrossraods.com
Tester's notes: Potatoes are not an authentic Westorosi ingredient, but for this modern version of cod cakes, mashed potatoes make a great binder -- they give some body without tasting mealy. These tasty fish cakes would be good served with lemon mayonnaise or a spicy aioli.
Honeycakes, modern version
625 ml (2 1/2 cups) cake flour
2 ml (1/2 tsp) baking powder
5 ml (1 tsp) salt
5 ml (1 tsp) ground ginger
5 ml (1 tsp) cinnamon
125 ml (1/2 cup) butter, softened
125 ml (1/2 cup) brown sugar, packed
1 egg
250 ml (1 cup) honey
250 ml (1 cup) buttermilk
Preheat oven to 175 C (350 F). In small bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, ginger and cinnamon. In separate medium bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add egg and beat thoroughly, followed by the honey. Add the flour mixture and the buttermilk in alternating turns, starting and ending with the dry ingredients. Pour into paper-lined cupcake tins or a greased muffin pan, filling each cup two-thirds full. Bake for 30 minutes or until the cakes are a golden brown. Makes: never enough.
-- Adapted from innatthecrossroads.com
Tester's notes: I really liked the flavour of these cakes. They're delicately spiced and -- despite what seems like a whopping amount of honey -- not overly sweet. I found the texture a little stodgy, though. Next time I might try those lemon cakes that Sansa loves so much.
The blog recipe tops these cakes with Martha Stewart's lavender icing. You could also make a simple glaze by starting with 500 ml (2 cups) icing sugar and gradually adding milk or water (about 45 ml or 3 tbsp) to get a spreadable consistency.


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Have you ever wanted to capture better images of our fascinating zoo creatures? But do the fences and glass keep getting in the way? Well, fret no longer– there's hope in that viewfinder. As the former photographer for the Oakland Zoo, I discovered a few tricks over the years. Try using the following techniques and you might find yourself capturing terrific tigers and awesome alligators yourself.
A. CAGE BARS (Bobcat, tiger, chimps, bats, aviaries, etc.) One thing I've learned to do is to "un-cage the animals." No, it doesn't mean letting them run loose in the meadow, but rather using simple techniques to make the cage bars or fencing disappear from view. Try to employ as many of these tips as you can to maximize the effect. IMPORTANT: Auto-Focus needs to be shut off. Use manual focus or focus-lock to avoid focusing on the caging.
1. Position the camera as close to the exhibit as safety and zoo rules permit.
2. Wait until the animal is away from the caging.
3. Use a telephoto lens (or the telephoto setting on the camera.)
4. Wait for a time when the bars are in shadow, and the animal is in the light.
5. If your camera allows it, select the widest possible lens opening to limit the depth of field (or depth of focus.)
B. GLASS (Alligators, anaconda, reptiles, bugs, etc.) With more zoo exhibits utilizing glass instead of bars these days, another important skill to learn is how to photograph through it without getting reflections in your pictures. It's just a matter of paying more attention.
1. Make yourself aware of the reflections. It's easy to miss them when you're busy concentrating on your subject. Once you've done this:
2. Reposition yourself relative to the light BEHIND you, until you're no longer shooting through a reflection.
3. If possible, place the lens directly against the glass. Use your hand to shield the side of the lens if you need to shoot at an angle to the glass.
4. Turn OFF the flash, unless you can shoot at an angle to the glass.
5. If none of these suggestions are possible, wait until later in the day, when the light has changed.
C. MOVING ANIMALS Although many animals (such as lions) like to lie around and take it easy, it's always frustrating when you're trying to get a picture of an animal that just won't sit still (like our gibbons frequently do.) Try these suggestions.
1. Use a tripod to steady the camera.
2. Use a wider lens (or zoom out) to make it easier to follow your subject.
3. If your camera allows it, use a fast shutter speed to avoid blurring the image.
4. Animals moving left or right are more easily photographed than those moving toward or away from the camera, where drastic changes of focus are necessary.
5. Gibbons and Vervet Monkeys can be especially difficult to follow. Try to notice if the animal has a pattern in its movement, such as a favorite rock or tree branch that it likes to pause at occasionally. By aiming your camera there in advance and waiting for it, you can often get better results than from trying to follow the animal from place to place.
The most important thing to keep in mind is: HAVE PATIENCE. Some days, the photo opportunities make it easy, such as during an event like our popular Feast For The Beasts, coming up on July 17. But other days, things might be more challenging. Animals are often elusive and unpredictable. But any photo worth taking is worth waiting for. So good luck and see you at Gibbon Island!
Tags: animals, hobbies, improving your zoo visit, Oakland Zoo, photography


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I'd been thinking about trying to make some shrimp burgers so last Sunday I gave some a try. I looked through my cookbooks and poked around the 'net but almost all the recipes I found included breadcrumbs, which I didn't want to use because I didn't want shrimp cakes.
I was up early so I hit a couple of grocery stores in an attempt to find STP-free shrimp, and eventually brought home three pounds that I thawed and peeled.
Back to the recipes...I found one that suggested that some of the shrimp can be pureed and used as a binder. Does it work? Yes indeed - shrimp puree can be used to make burgers, put up wallpaper, build a brick wall, and hold those ceramic tiles on the space shuttle. And it also sticks to cookware, as She Who Washed The Dishes informed me. After lightly chopping about a pound I added some lime zest, garlic, and soy sauce...and completely forgot the fresh basil I had in mind.
After mixing up the glue I chopped the remaining two pounds more coarsely, mixed everything together, and formed the patties.
I was worried that they'd stick to the grill grate but there's an app for that: the grill basket that I'd been given a couple of years ago and never used.
The basket doesn't have a removable handle so I put the 22" grate on the 18" Weber bowl so that everything would sit level, and cooked the patties until I thought they were done. I probably overcooked them a little bit but figured that would be better than undercooked because of the puree holding them together. As an aside, I'm going to keep this in mind for future reference when I want a hot fire and maybe just a little more distance between it and the food.
Mrs. Chicken's sandwiches always look better because she uses gross yet photogenic things like lettuce and tomato.
Overall they weren't too bad. They were just a little bit tough because I overcooked them and I'm still kicking myself for forgetting the basil, but the shrimp flavor was pretty good and the lime and garlic weren't overpowering. I'll make them again sometime...just as soon as I save up enough for three more pounds of shrimp.


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Terry Outing: April 21, 1932 - Sept. 21, 2005
21 September 2005 — Lakewood, CO
Terry Outing, of Lakewood, died of a heart attack on Sept. 21, in Lakewood. He was 73.
He was born April 21, 1932, in Halstead, Essex, England, to Percy and Lily Outing. He was their only child. He married Doreen Smith on July 7, 1956, and they had one child, Steve; they divorced in 1974. He married Jane McDonald on Feb. 14, 1975.
Mr. Outing immigrated to the U.S. from England in 1964, settling in Arvada, and became a naturalized American citizen in 1976. He lived in Lakewood for the last 31 years.
Survivors include a son, Steve Outing of Boulder; five step-daughters: Carren Williams of Lafayette, Connie Jones of Lakewood, Cleta Murley of Lakewood, Nancy Arnold of Aurora, and Mary Marlow of Aurora; 19 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.
He was a master welder at Gardner Denver for many years, then became the facilities manager for the Denver Labor Center. He pursued a streak of entreprenuership with his Lafayette antiques booth that he worked over the years.
He enjoyed spending time with and helping his family, playing golf, gardening, bridge and bicycling. He rode five times in the Denver Post's Ride the Rockies bicycle tours, including the very first one in 1986. Political affairs was a strong interest, and he was a frequent writer of letters to the editor of Denver's newspapers. He had served as a delegate to the Democratic Convention at the state and county levels.
Private memorial services were held for his family and friends at his Lakewood home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Terry Outing Scholarship Fund of Hillside Learning Center, a school serving students with learning differences such as dyslexia and/or attention deficits. Hillside Learning Center - Scholarship Fund, 6717 S. Boulder Road, Boulder, CO 80303.


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Where's The Physics: The State of Hardware Accelerated Physicsby Ryan Smith on 7/25/2007 4:00 PM EST
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Axion22 - Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - linkSorry PhysX, you're toast.
Multi-core CPUs will have you beat, and by manufacturers who have much more influence in the industry. Even if it did catch on, AMD and Nvidia would just add support and bury you in that market segment.
Aegia would do better trying to get in on the console action. At least there they will have a customer-base. Reply
Zak - Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - linkYeah, I never liked the idea from the beginning. Count me as one of those who'd rather spend extra $200 on faster CPU than dedicated physics card. What are the chances that many games will use PhysX in a meaningful way, how long PhysX will be around? And, if PhysX is able to run in software mode on one core of a multicore CPU, I'd rather go that way.
Z. Reply
0roo0roo - Sunday, July 29, 2007 - linkthe simple fact is gamers would rather buy a nicer cpu with more cores with that money. if those cores still can only deliver slightly less physics than the addon, people are willing to live with it. we aren't in a desperate rush to get physics. with the rate at which cpus keep progressing it won't matter, we'll get it regardless. so why worry. its not like sony or nintendo are quaking in their boots at the insane games that physx can create:P the compelling need is not apparent. digital worlds aren't detailed enough for it to matter, people still don't expect things to work in games the same way as reality. physics is limited to blowing stuff up and stacking boxes.
and as i said, for online play it won't ever be set for physx cards. if it affects game play than you can't play together with other non physx, so to guarantee compatibility it will be limited to fx and it becomes nothing more than eye candy again. Reply
Bensam123 - Saturday, July 28, 2007 - linkThere are quite a few more game available that feature PhysX then just GRAW and GRAW2.
Not in the list is Rise of Legends. I don't know if it's official, but when installed it installs PhsyX and has quite robust physics in game (ragdolls in a RTS, land deformation, unit movement, etc.).
What I really don't understand and what this article didn't answer, is WHY game developers would pay for a license for a SDK when you can get a better, more user friendly, better supported, more robust, and finely free SDK. It just doesn't make sense to me.
Developers have nothing to lose from using PhysX, but have a lot to gain.
FYI for people that can't read the article, PhysX has a software mode it operates in. The software mode is natively made to run on more then one core. When it all comes down to it, even if you are a advocate for doing physics on a spair core PhysX already does that. Reply
commandar - Friday, July 27, 2007 - linkWow, this article definitely isn't up to the quality level I generally expect from Anandtech. Typos everywhere and then gems like this:
"Being embarrassingly parallel in nature, physics simulations aren't just a good match for GPUs/PPUs with their sub-processors, but a logical fit for multi-core CPUs."
What you say? For one, all processors are not created equal. CPUs are awesome for general purpose work, but a GPU will eat its lunch when it comes to vector math. GPUs are massively parallel vector processors. Physics math generall *is* vector math. While there are problems with doing physics processing which others have already pointed out, suggesting that CPUs are better suited to the job because of parallelism is baffling. Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, July 27, 2007 - linkReposted from earlier in the comments:
I think you're misinterpreting what I'm saying. GPUs are well suited to embarrassingly parallel applications, however with the core-war now you can put these tasks on a CPU which while not as fast at FP as a GPU/PPU, is quickly catching up thanks to having multiple CPU cores and how easy it is to put embarrassingly parallel tasks on such a CPU. GPUs are still better suited, but CPUs are becoming well enough suited that the GPU advantage is being chipped away. Reply
taterworks - Saturday, July 28, 2007 - linkIt's still not parallel enough. A modern CPU has only four cores (the Cell/BE doesn't count since it's not a CPU for PCs), but effective physics processing requires much more parallelism. The Ageia card is better suited to physics processing than any CPU that we'll be able to buy in the next five years. In addition, Ageia identifies a few shortcomings of GPUs when applied to physics calculations. GPUs can't perform read-modify-write operations in their shader units -- they can only perform read operations. In addition, GPUs aren't optimized for applications where each shader unit must execute different code -- they're designed to execute the same code, but on different parts of the image. As a result, some shader units finish their calculations before other shader units and simply sit idle instead of processing the next batch of data. The problem here is that the parallelism advantages become hamstrung by inefficiency. In the end, physics computations are too subtantially different from graphics computations for one optimized processing unit to be applied to a half-hearted form of the other.
What's to blame for Ageia's failure? I think there's a fundamental problem with the way gamers think about an immersive gaming experience. Gamers are too preoccupied with resolution, texture and model detail, lighting, and frame rates to notice that objects in games don't behave like real objects. The focus is on visual realism, not physical realism, but both are required for a true virtual reality experience. In addition, the PhysX hardware was too expensive from the start -- it had to be cheaper than GPUs in order for anyone to take a chance on it. A $99 PhysX card was desperately needed last year. Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, July 29, 2007 - linkOf course, all of what you're saying assumes that we actually need that much physics processing power. I remember reading about a flight simulator a while back where they described all of the complex calculations being done to make the flight model as realistic as possible. After the lengthy description of the surface dynamics calculations and whatever else was involved in making the planes behave realistically, the developer than made the comment that all of that used less than 5% of the CPU power. Most of the remaining CPU time was used for graphics.
Granted, that was Flight Unlimited and it was a while ago, but the situation is still pretty similar to what we have today. As complex as physics might be if you model it exactingly, it's really not necessary and the graphics still demand the majority of the CPU power. AI and physics are the other things the CPU handles. People can come up with situations (i.e. Cell Factor) where hardware physics is necessary to maintain acceptable performance. The real question is whether those situations are really necessary in order to deliver a compelling game.
Right now, games continue to be predominantly single core - even the most physics oriented games (Half-Life 2?) don't use multiple cores. And physics calculations aren't really consuming a majority of even one core! Now, give physics two cores that only need to do physics (on a quad core system), and do you see any reason that any current game is going to need a PPU? Especially when the cost of the PPU card is about as much as the cost of a quad core CPU?
I don't, and I don't expect to before AGEIA is pretty much gone. Maybe Intel or AMD will by their intellectual property and incorporate the tech into a future CPU. Short term, I just don't think they're relevant. Reply
0roo0roo - Friday, July 27, 2007 - linkwouldn't they have to create physx only servers if the physics affect gameplay? they certainly aren't going to require physx to play online...i'm guessing it will only be limited to effects for the most part because of this. Reply
Bladen - Sunday, July 29, 2007 - linkI'd imagine that hardware physics would not be much more taxing then non-hardware physics, except for RAM, on servers.
I'd say that the server would make everyones computer do the number crunching. The server would just say 'player 1 fires a rocket from this position at this angle (and thus hits this wall like so)". Every players individual PhysX card would do its own processing, and calculate to the same answer.
This is purely speculation though, I have no real knowledge of video game programing (or any kind of programming for that matter). Reply
FluffyChicken - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkWhile it's not mass market like Gaming, there is Microsoft Robotics Studio that implements AGEIA PhysX hardware (& software ?)
So they are trying ;-)
Microsoft Robotics Studio targets a wide audience in an attempt to accelerate robotics development and adoption. An important part of this effort is the simulation runtime. It was immediately obvious that PC and Console gaming has paved the way when it comes to affordable, widely usable, robotics simulation. Games rely on photo-realistic visualizations with advanced physics simulation running within real time constraints. This was a perfect starting point for our effort.
We designed the simulation runtime to be used in a variety of advanced scenarios with high demands for fidelity, visualization, and scaling. At the same time, a novice user with little to no coding experience can use simulation; developing interesting applications in a game-like environment. Our integration of the AGEIA PhysX Technologies enables us to leverage a very strong physics simulation product that is mature and constantly evolving towards features that will be invaluable to robotics. The rendering engine is based on Microsoft XNA Framework.
So expect there to be a large surge a Dell for the 15yr olds to hook up the lego. Reply
DeathBooger - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkThere is no need. Not to mention Epic hasn't said anything about it in over two years. If anything it would just be eye candy since Unreal Tournament 3 relies on it's online multiplayer. You can't have added interactive features only a percentage will be able utilize in a multiplayer game.
Some Unreal Engine 3 titles are replacing the built in Ageia SDK in favor of Havok's SDK. Stranglehold and Blacksite are examples of this. Reply
Bladen - Friday, July 27, 2007 - linkPhysics cards go here >
Non physics cards go there < Reply
Schrag4 - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkMy friends and I have had this 'chicken and egg' discussion on many occassions, specifically about why physics hardware is not taking off. As long as a game only uses the physics for eye-candy, the feature won't affect gameplay at all and therefore will be able to be turned off by those who don't have the resources to play with it turned on (no PhysX card, no multiple cores, no SLI graphics, whatever). So who's gonna buy a 200-400 dollar card that's not needed?
In order for hardware like PhysX to take off, there MUST be a game where the physics is up front, interactive, what makes the game fun to play, and it MUST be required. Not only that, but it better be one hell of a game, one that people just can't do without. I mean, after all, since this is the 'egg' in the chicken-egg scenario, you're basically spending 400 bucks for the game that you want to play, since there are no other games that are even worth mentioning (again, if it's just eye candy, who cares).
If you don't believe me about the eye-candy comments (about how eye-candy has its place but is over-valued), then please explain to me why the Wii is outselling its direct competition? It's because the games are FUN (mostly because of the innovative interface), not because they look great (they don't). I mean, come on, who cares what a game looks like if it's tedious and frustrating, shoot, even just boring to play.
What we're longing for is a game where there are no more canned animations for everything. For instance, you don't press a fire button to swing a sword. You somehow define a sword stroke that's different every time you swing. Also, whether or not you hit your target should not be defined by your distance from your target. It should be defined by the strength of the joints that make up your character, along with the mass of the sword, along with the mass of whatever gets in the way of your swing, etc etc. We're actually working on such a game. It's early in the development, and we don't plan on having anything beyond what can be played at LAN parties, but it's a dream we all share and maybe, just maybe, we can eek out something interesting. FYI, we are using the PhysX SDK... Reply
Myrandex - Friday, July 27, 2007 - linkUT3 should use physX for environments and not just features. Reading the article shows that PhysX can be done in s/w. That way, everyone can pay the same game, and join the same servers, etc., but if they are running on an older system, PhysX will just eat their CPU's resources completely. If they upgrade to 64 core 256bit CPUs, then it will run nice, or if they pop in a little PCI card, it will run nice.
Either way it is definite that the game has be be revolutionary, good, and always have PhysX running for at least the enrivonmental aspects (maybe leave it as an option for Particle physics so they can get performance back some how for playing on their Compy 486). Reply
AttitudeAdjuster - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkThe issue of getting access to the results of any calculation performed on a GPU is a mjor one. On that subject you might be interested to look at the preprint of a scientific paper regarding using multiple GPUs to perform real physical (not game-related physics) calculations using nVidia CUDA SDK. The preprint is by http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2991">Schive et alSchive et al (astro-ph/0707.2991), at the arXiv.org physics preprint server. Reply
Warder45 - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkI wonder what that new Lucasarts game Fracture(I think) is using for the deformable terrain. Reply
jackylman - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkTypo in the last paragraph of Page 3:
"...if the PhysX hardware is going to take of or not..." Reply
Sulphademus - Friday, July 27, 2007 - link" We except Ageia will be hanging on for dear life until then."
Also page 3. I except you mean expect. Reply
Regs - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkI would think AMD would be pushing more physics by using a co-processor. Why not Aegia team up with AMD to make one for games and sell a AMD CPU bundled with the co-processor for gamers? I think that will be a lesser risk then making a completely independent card for it. Reply
Bladen - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkWhen I say first order physics, I mean the most obvious type: fully destructible environments.
In UT3, you could have a fully destructible environment as an on/off option without making the game unbalanced in single player. The game is mindless killing, who care is you blow a hole through a wall to kill your enemy?
I guess you could have fully destructible environments processed via hardware and software, but I'd assume that the software performance hit would be huge, maybe only playable on a quad core. Reply
Bladen - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkWhether or not the game has fully destructible environments, I don't know. Reply
Verdant - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkdedicated hardware for this is pointless, with GPU speeds and numbers of cores on a die increasing on CPUs, I see no point in focusing on another pipe.
Plus the article has a ton of typographical errors :(. Reply
bigpow - Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - linkMaybe it's just me, but I hate multiple-page reviews Reply
Shark Tek - Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - linkJust click on the "Print this article" link and you will have the whole article in one page. Reply
Visual - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkindeed thats what i do. almost.
i hate that printarticle shows up in a popup, can't open it in a tab easily with a middle-click too... same as the comments page btw. really hate it.
so i manually change the url - category/showdoc -> printarticle, it all stays in the same tab and is great. i'm planning on writing a ".user.js" (for opera/greasemonkey/trixie) for fixing the links some time Reply
Egglick - Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - linkOther than what was mentioned in the article, I think another big problem is that the PCI bus doesn't have enough bandwidth (bi-directional or otherwise) for a card doing heavy real-time processing. For whatever reason, manufacturers still seem apprehensive about using PCIe x1, so it will be rough for standalone cards to perform at any decent level.
I've always felt the best application for physics processors would be to piggyback them on high-end videocards with lots of ram. Not only would this solve the PCI bandwidth problem, but the physics processor would be able to share the GPU's fast memory, which is probably what constitutes the majority of the cost for standalone physics cards.
This setup would benefit both NVidia/ATI and Ageia. On one hand, Ageia gets massive market penetration by their chips being sold with the latest videocards, while NVidia/ATI get to tout having a huge new feature. They could also use their heavy influence to get game developers to start using the Ageia chip. Reply
cfineman - Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - linkI thought one of the advantages of DX10 was that it would allow one to partition off some of the GPU subprocessors for physics work.
I was *very* surprised that the author implied that the GPUs were not well suited to embarrassingly parallel applications.... um.... what's more embarrassingly parallel than rendering? Reply
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - linkI think you're misinterpreting what I'm saying. GPUs are well suited to embarrassingly parallel applications, however with the core-war now you can put these tasks on a CPU which while not as fast at FP as a GPU/PPU, is quickly catching up thanks to having multiple CPU cores and how easy it is to put embarrassingly parallel tasks on such a CPU. GPUs are still better suited, but CPUs are becoming well enough suited that the GPU advantage is being chipped away.
As for DX10, there's nothing specifically in it for physics. Using SM4.0/geometry shaders you can do some second-order work, but first-order work looks like it will need to be done with CUDA/CTM which isn't a part of DX10. You may also be thinking of the long-rumored DirectPhysics API, which is just that: a rumor. Reply
yyrkoon - Thursday, July 26, 2007 - linkActualy, because of the limited bandwidth capabilities of any GPU interface, the CPU is far better suited. Sure a 16x PCIe interface is limited to a huge 40Gbit/s bandwidth (asyncronous), and as I said, this may *seem* huge, but I personally know many game devers who have maxed this limit easily when experimenting with game technologies. When, and if the PCIe bus expands to 32x, and *if* graphics OEMs / motherboard OEMs implement it, then we'll see something that resembles the CPU-> memory of current bandwidth capabilities(10GB/s). By then however, who is to say how much the CPU -> memory bandwidth will be capable of. Granted, having said all that, this is why *we* load compressed textures into video memory, and do the math on the GPU . . .
Anyhow, the whole time reading this article, I could not help but think that with current CPUs being at 4 cores, and Andahls law, that the two *other* cores could be used for this purpose, and it makes total sense. I think it would behoove Aegia, and Havok both to forget about Physics hardware, and start working on a liscencable software solution. Reply
Sunrise089 - Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - linkPlus since most titles are GPU limited (and with more cores and very overclockable Intel chips will only become more so) it might be better to send the Physics stuff to the idle CPU cores rather than the saturated GPU, regardless of what offers ideal performance. Reply
KeithP - Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - linkWe need a standard API so that a variety of solutions would be possible. All a manufacturer would then need to do is write drivers to interface with their hardware.
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Tunisian Muslims have been able to worship freely since the revolution. After the overthrow of ex-President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali on the 14th of January, Tunisians have started to worship freely after 55 years. During the reign of Ben Ali, the mosques were closed except at prayer times. Now there are big groups of people freely performing prayers at the mosques that are always open. It is also remarkable that the youth, who were born during the reign of his dictatorship, are deeply interested in Islam. Although the state TV channel never broadcast a program involving religion, people have been interested in satellite TV channels that broadcast programs containing religious material for the last 10 years.
Al-Fateh Grand Mosque, at the center of Tunisia, now enjoys huge crowds that overflow to the street for Friday sermons. Tarik Marzuki states, "… Today's breeze of freedom leads people from all social classes to rush to the mosques".
Now, in the evenings, people find a great opportunity to participate in the religious conversations, interpretations and hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace)) lessons that are being held in the mosques.
An increase in women wearing hijabs on the streets is another striking change. Under Ben Ali, women who covered their hair in the Islamic tradition, the hijab, were denied access to education and jobs. Also during the reign of Habib Bourguiba, the founding president of Tunisia, women wearing a hijab endured great difficulties in their working and social lives, even while walking down the street. 23 year old university student Omer Fahri expressed his feelings as, "Now the pressure is over and women who used to fear wearing a hijab are freely wearing their hijab. To our surprise, every day we see another girl wearing her hijab at the university."


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Woman in Profile
about 1475
Mino da Fiesole, Italian (Florence), 1429-1484
Marble, 33.7 x 27.9 cm
Genre: European Art, Sculpture
Location: Long Gallery
Accession Number: S27w77
Mino da Fiesole was a brilliant marble carver, creating tombs and portraits for leading citizens of Florence and Rome. His portrait bust of Piero de' Medici of 1453–54 initiated the revival of an ancient Roman type of portraiture, the marble bust. He also carved marble portrait reliefs and reliefs representing Roman emperors. The sculpture in the Gardner Museum displays aspects of both forms – the sharp profile combined with the strongly projecting left shoulder, which breaks the boundary of the relief plane and evokes a three-dimensional bust. The relief presents a woman dressed in a simple robe that is tied in the front and back into bows. Her hair is tightly braided at the back, but loose, unruly curls fall from a knot at the top of her head. The profile is sharply undercut and traces the slight curve of her nose, her soft double-chin, and her long, columnar neck. She is splendid (as Berenson says) and powerful, her chin slightly raised and her gaze direct and steady. Yet these very qualities – her power and splendor – argue against this being a portrait of a particular Florentine woman. She wears no jewels and her dress is not rich brocade, but simple and plain. She has more in common with Mino da Fiesole's reliefs of Roman emperors than with the elegantly bedecked and bejeweled female sitters typical of Florentine portraits of the fifteenth century. She may instead represent an ancient Roman heroine or empress, a model of virtue for the contemporary Florentine woman rather than a portrait of an individual.
When Bernard Berenson wrote to Isabella Stewart Gardner to recommend this relief, he believed it represented a member of the Antinori family, since the relief came from the Palazzo Antinori-Aldobrandini in Florence.
Source: Marietta Cambareri, "Woman in Profile," in Eye of the Beholder, edited by Alan Chong et al. (Boston: ISGM and Beacon Press, 2003): 60.
Purchased in 1899 from the Florentine dealer Elia Volpi, through Berenson.


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Kluber's return to the Tribe highlights this week's Week That Was.
Before I get started, I want to alert those of you who have not already heard that Colton and the Wolfman on SiriusXM fantasy sports radio with Rick Wolf and me is now be on every Tuesday night from 10pm to midnight eastern time. Feel free to call in to comment on anything you like (or, heaven forbid, dislike) about the analysis and tips below or just to hear the Wolfman howl. Oh, and of course, we will recap NFL week 1, forecast week 2 and help those of you in your fantasy baseball title hunt take one step closer to fantasy nirvana.
Ok, now back to the business at hand . . . .
Corey Kluber: Corey Kluber is coming off the DL to start against the Mets today. Kluber, who has been out since the beginning of August, is a must start down the stretch. Before getting hurt, Kluber posted an impressive 3.54 ERA, 1.20 WHIP and 116/26 K/BB ratio in 122 innings. If there are still trades in your league, go get Corey. He can help you both in your pennant race and in keeper leagues. The real question is whether this success was foreseeable. Answer: Yes. Kluber struck out more than a batter per inning in the hitter friendly PCL in 2012 and had one of the best swinging strike rates in the AL last season. If major league hitters are swinging and missing, there is a there there. Buy!
Jacoby Ellsbury: According to reports, Ellsbury is in a walking boot, will be shut down for a while and is headed for more tests on his injured foot. If you own Ellsbury, you better make other plans for at least the next two weeks. With the Sox playing well and basically assured of winning the AL East, there is no reason to rush Jacoby back. There are some good sources of speed likely available on your waiver wire. You need to get one. See Dyson, Jarrod; Hamilton, Billy; Villar, Jonathan.
Elvis Andrus: Speaking of speed sources, Elvis Andrus returned to the Rangers lineup with a rare bang Friday, going yard against the Angels. His fantasy owners will take it but Andrus's real value lies in his legs. After a down year on the speed side in 2012, Andrus is 35-41 on the base paths this year. Lesson: It is very unwise to give up on young players who have had success in the majors at a very young age. Andrus is not yet even in his prime and it should not have escaped anyone drafting this past March that Andrus presented a strong value at a weak position.
Joe Kelly: Joe Kelly won for the 8th straight time Friday, holding the Pirates to one run over six innings. Fantasy lesson: The Cardinals know pitching. When they brought Kelly up and inserted him into the rotation, you should have followed suit. Oh, and just because it is my column, I will reprint what I wrote about Kelly on June 29 of this year: "Kelly represents a serious buying opportunity, especially for those in NL leagues. While he has not started a game yet, Kelly will get the ball on July 6 and be a member of the Cardinal rotation. Kelly had a 3.53 ERA in 107 innings for the Cards last year at 24 years old. Last night's start-type outing just shows that he has the potential to repeat that performance and get you some wins along the way in 2013. Oh, and did I mention he is averaging over 95 MPH on his fastball in the bigs this year?" Fantasy lesson: Good team, good velo, some early major league success equals good chance for roto bargain.
James Shields: James Shields had a night to forget Friday and may well have cost many a fantasy baseball owner a pennant. Big Game James gave up a whopping 10 runs on 14 hits over just 3 2/3 innings. That is the bad news. The good news is that this outing is clearly an outlier. On the year, Shields, has a 3.43 ERA and 167K. Given that Shields had given up just 6 ER in his 5 previous starts, it is not time to panic. If the Shields owner in your league is reaching for the airsick bag while riding the Shields express, do the only thing you can do – take Shields off his or her hands and hope you can live with yourself because you would have likely committed a fantasy heist. Buy!
Billy Hamilton: Billy Hamilton stole his 3rd base of the year Friday in a win against the Dodgers. If you need speed and can afford an otherwise dead lineup spot, Hamilton is a difference maker. It would not surprise me to see him steal 15 bases this month alone. If so, that could give many a fantasy team key SB points they need to vault to the top of the standings.
Mike Leake: Sticking with the Reds, Mike Leake looked strong Friday, giving up just 2 runs in 7 2/3 innings in beating the Dodgers. Leake also struck out five without walking a batter. On the year, Leake is 12-6 with a 3.46 ERA. I know I sound like a broken record sometimes (ok, often), but please remember that when a player makes the majors at a very young age, he will struggle, get written off by many a fantasy player and commentator and then hit his stride when he reaches age 25 or 26. Leake made the bigs at the age of 22, struggled in 2012 with a 4.58 ERA and 1.35 WHIP and now has paid dividends to the savvy fantasy owners who grabbed him in his age 25 season by dropping his ERA by over a full point, and his WHIP from 1.35 to a solid 1.23. You get the point.
And last and but not least, Schultz says: "Kipnis bless you if you are reading a fantasy baseball column on the football-iest weekend of the year. For most baseball leagues, the die has pretty much been cast at this point and the next three weeks hold little suspense. However, for those that have teams still in contention, paying attention to the injury wire might provide the small push necessary for roto-glory (the aristocratic way of saying "in the money").
With Toronto announcing that Jose Bautista will pay homage to America's grandparents and rest his hip until the spring, the Blue Jays have an opening in the outfield which will likely be filled with Anthony Gose. Bereft of power and an apparent hitting eye, Gose has blinding speed and should he find a way to get on base, could be a factor in the steals category. Once a hot prospect - he was integral to the trade that brought Roy Oswalt to the Phillies - Gose would be the epitome of the player on which one takes a flier.
In light of the Red Sox post-season prospects, Jacoby Ellsbury's wonky foot shouldn't needlessly shelve him for the season (although stories of him being placed in a walking boot can't be a cause for celebration) but it may lead to Jackie Bradley Jr. getting some mid-September playing time. Does anyone still remember JBJ? It was only six months ago when he was the shining light of Beantown after lighting up the pre-season. Allen Craig, another valuable roto-asset with a wonky foot, is also likely to miss significant September time, opening up at-bats for Matt Adams. If Adams gets hot, he can easily help boost a team's power numbers and batting average.
It's also worth keeping an eye on Nick Castellanos, Detroit's rookie outfielder. Jim Leyland had no issues with playing an untested Avisail Garcia in last year's post-season and he may be kicking the tires on Castellanos to see if he can fill that role in 2013. The Tigers are rolling right now and Castellanos may thrive in September. Even if he doesn't, he's a nice stash for 2014."
Response: Schultz delivers again. Nice work buddy and good luck in the Colton & the Wolfman fantasy football listener league!
Some fantasy football thoughts for the first week of the season and beyond: As loyal readers know, I am a big fan of drafting RBs early and often. I hope you followed that advice and rostered the RBs. Assuming you now own those RBs, play them IF they are starters. I get a ton of tweets asking who to flex. To quote Bob Harris of Football Diehards (one of the truly great fantasy football guys out there), the first rule of "flexology" is to flex the guy who gets the most touches. Invariably that is the starting RB.


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If the time isn't right for the Indianapolis Colts to seriously address a position occupied by a future Hall of Famer, that time is drawing near.
Team vice chairman Bill Polian conceded earlier this week he "couldn't dismiss" the possibility of looking for a quarterback during the April 28-30 draft.
That's been the domain of Peyton Manning since the Colts selected him with the first pick of the 1998 draft. He is the NFL's only four-time MVP, an 11-time Pro Bowl selection, was MVP of the team's Super Bowl XLI win over the Chicago Bears and has started all 227 games, including the playoffs, since '98.
But there's no denying Manning, 35, is closer to the end than the beginning of his record-breaking career. He is entering his 14th season.
The Colts reportedly put Nevada quarterback Colin Kaepernick through a private workout Friday in Reno. Earlier this week, coach Jim Caldwell and general manager Chris Polian oversaw a private workout with TCU quarterback Andy Dalton.
The team has six picks in the draft, including No. 22 overall. Most draft analysts rate Kaepernick and Dalton as second- to fourth-round prospects.
The only other quarterback on the Colts roster is Curtis Painter, who has served as Manning's backup since being chosen in the sixth round of the 2009 draft.
"Quarterback's an issue, probably not a front-burner issue, but an issue nonetheless because while Peyton's not at the end of his career, it's approaching faster than it has in the past," Polian said. "I wouldn't rule that out in the right situation."
The prevailing question is: How soon should the process of acquiring Manning's eventual successor and grooming him begin? "You don't know," Polian said, "but you know it's sometime soon. You begin to think about it."
So, might the Colts be in the market for a Manning successor or backup in the draft?
"I don't know that you're going to find his eventual replacement drafting 22nd," Polian said. "And whether or not you would use that choice on a quarterback in an unsettled labor situation, where you don't know what kind of contract that's going to be signed, is another issue.
"That said, I don't think you can dismiss it."
The Green Bay Packers faced a similar dilemma in 2005. Brett Favre was 35 and heading into his 15th season. The Packers, unsure how much longer Favre might play, selected Aaron Rodgers with the 24th pick in the draft.
The grooming process lasted longer than expected. Rodgers appeared in just seven games and attempted only 59 passes in his first three seasons.
It's assumed Manning will finish his career with the Colts, but his future remains unsettled. His contract expired at the end of the 2010 season and the team used the "exclusive franchise" tag to keep him from hitting the open market. That guarantees Manning a one-year, $23.1 million contract, but the former NFL Players Association contends the ability of teams to use the franchise and transition tags ended when the collective bargaining agreement expired last month.
Owner Jim Irsay said last month he fully anticipates the franchise tag to remain valid.
"I have never seen a situation where the tag is in jeopardy," he said while reiterating his commitment to make Manning the highest-paid player in NFL history, surpassing the $18 million-a-year extension the New England Patriots gave quarterback Tom Brady in September.
At the owners meetings last month, Irsay seemed frustrated a new deal wasn't reached before the lockout. Negotiations between the Colts and agent Tom Condon are not permitted during the ongoing work stoppage.