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I have tried to validate my page http://jimpix.co.uk/
But get this error 5 times:character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data
But I need the "<" in place in some javascript on the page:
function prev_my_photo() {
if (MyPhotoThingVar <= 0) {
MyPhotoThingVar = 0
return MyPhotoThingVar;
I need to have the javascript on the same page, and not as an include, because the ASP code includes the values it is checking against, so I can't include the javascript, otherwise it won't work.
Is this something I'll have to live with? I can't replace the "<" with an "<" because then the javascript breaks.
Wrap your javascript like this to make it compatible with xhtml:
<script type="text/javascript">
// rest of your javascript goes here
Thanks fredda! That worked a treat.
Not if you serve your XHTML markup as XHTML. If you're using pretend-XHTML you really should keep all JavaScript in external files, since the content type of the script element differs between HTML4 and XHTML1.
How would you get the following code to validate as xhtml 1.0 strict then?
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" title="User Defined Style" href="<?php echo (!$COOKIE["sitestyle"])?'default':$COOKIE["sitestyle"]?>.css" />
Remove the title attribute and it should validate fine.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="<?php echo (!$_COOKIE["sitestyle"])?'default':$_COOKIE["sitestyle"]?>.css" />
Hello Fredda
thank you for replying. Unfortunately, it does not solve the problem. It has something to do with '<' and '>'. as in the javascript problem above.
What error message to you get when you validate?
Also how does your XHTML code look when you do view source in your browser?
I get the same error message as the original enquirer had - although his related to JavaScript and not php:
character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data
The title attribute is perfectly fine.
You're not trying to validate the .php file itself, are you? That won't fly. You can only validate the generated HTML or XHTML document.


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A HEALTH watchdog leader has hit out at future funding cuts for the vulnerable which are expected to be announced next month.
No decisions have yet been taken on "Future Lives" but the proposal is to cut the supporting people budget from £15 million a year to £6.5 million as part of a drive by Worcestershire County Council to claw back £98 million by 2017. Many objections have hinged on the potential loss of a £630,000 grant to Worcester Community Housing from council which could lead to the loss of wardens in sheltered accommodation. However, the cuts would not only affect older people but also services linked to mental health problems, domestic abuse, offenders, learning disabilities and homelessness.
Peter Pinfield, chairman of Healthwatch Worcestershire, has written to Dr Richard Harling, director of adult services and health, listing public concerns about Future Lives.
In the letter he said: "Consumers are concerned that the focus of the Future Lives programme on reducing investment in preventative service areas appears to fly in the face of current thinking on tackling health and well-being."
He also said the consultation had been hampered by it taking place over Christmas and New Year. He added: "In particular the delay in making available the accessible version of the consultation document is considered to have disadvantaged consumers with learning disabilities." He also said multiple choice data lacked data for people to make an informed choice and that the shift to accessing services over the internet risked 'digital discrimination' against older and more vulnerable people.
In the letter, sent on January 27, he also raised concerns about the use of volunteers to provide services now run by the council and about people's need becoming critical or substantial once the supporting people budget is withdrawn.
Philip Talbot, chief executive of Age UK in Herefordshire and Worcestershire said the main issue was to see whether Worcestershire County Council had taken notice of the comments made in the consultation. He said: "We shall be monitoring the situation closely, monitoring the final proposal and considering the impact. We hope the cabinet will listen to the views expressed in the consultation responses."
The three cabinet members will be meeting to discuss the report at a closed meeting, which will be held on the February 12. This report will be made public five working days prior to the meeting on February 4. Members of the public can view this report by visiting worcestershire.gov.uk/cms/democratic-services and are able to make written representations to the council before the decision is made to enable the cabinet member to take them into account. Councillor Sheila Blagg will make the final decision, which will be published on council's website within three working days of the final decision. Cllr Blagg, cabinet member for adult social care, said: "We need to ensure Worcestershire County Council is able to deliver the best service within the best possible time frame and reduce any anxiety or uncertainty from the consultation by coming to a decision as quickly as possible."

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TWO shop staff had a lucky escape after a suspended ceiling collapsed at a shop yesterday afternoon.
At 1.11pm emergency services were called to Cook on Poole Road, Westbourne.
Inspector Ian Jarred said: "Two women were treated at the scene by paramedics for shock. Fortunately neither was injured."
The women, the owner of the shop and a shop employee, were collected by family members and taken home following their ordeal.
Police partially closed the road with traffic being stopped from Frizzell Roundabout for several hours while the outer wall of the shop was assessed by engineers.
Andrea Blackie, pictured above, landlady of The Porterhouse, which is located opposite the shop, saw the ceiling collapse from her window.
She said: "I was looking out of the window upstairs and saw the whole ceiling fall down. There was a bright flash from the electric cables. Fortunately there wasn't a fire."
The 49-year-old added: "The windows have cracked with the weight and you can see the electrical wires hanging down.
"There's no sign of fire or flooding to have seemingly caused this."
Fred Dickerson, who has lived in Westbourne for more than 50 years, said locals had been left shocked by the incident.
The 81-year-old said: "I got off the bus and saw the emergency services. Nobody knew what was going on."
Cook supplies prepared meals and provides a delivery service to local residents.
Mr Dickerson said: "It's normally very busy in the shop and a lot of elderly people go in there. I'm just pleased that no one was hurt."
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For Saturday I made another burger from Wicked Good Burgers: All-American Double Bison Cheeseburgers which had a couple interesting twists to it. The first was the meat: bison (buffalo). I've had this meat out in restaurants, but I've never cooked it myself. The second twist was the cooking method. The directions specifically called for you to use a cast iron griddle or a cast iron frying pan. The last twist was what you did with the meat when it was on the griddle: you smashed the patties flat with the spatula. This violates the conventional wisdom that you don't press on the meat because it will squeeze out the juices. The author's said they were skeptical before trying it, but many diners cook burgers this way & the authors said you get a great sear.
I was cooking double cheeseburgers for 8 people (16 patties). I didn't feel comfortable putting more than 6 on at a time where I needed to whack them with the spatula. I'd cooked up a test burger the day before for myself and the patties moved a bit when I whacked them flat. So I cooked them up in 3 batches of 6, 6 & 4 patties to leave room for movement. I ran the just cooked burgers inside and folks took turns eating them while they were hot. I mention this because you will notice some pictures have 4 patties and some 6. I also had fun with my guests-I didn't mention anything about the meat. Interestingly enough all but one person knew it wasn't beef, but had no idea what it was. They noticed the meat was "sweeter" than ground beef or had a finer texture. Some noticed both. I had bought onions & tomatoes to slice up and serve with these burgers. But my dry run burger the day before told me these were tasty enough and so I skipped using the onions & tomatoes. The burgers had a great flavor which I think was a combination of the meat & the great crust formed cooking them on the griddle and smashing them flat.
I was going to buy bison meat & grind my own meat. But the ground bison seemed to have more fat & marbling than the bison steaks. I needed to buy 8 pounds of meat and the ground bison was also $1.00 a pound cheaper which made it a no-brainer. Another nice thing about these rectangular shape packages is I could take the meat out and slice it into quarters with a knife. I get 1/4 pound servings of meat without having to use a Kitchen scale.
The meat has been formed into meatball sized rounds, the rolls have been brushed with melted butter & slices of American cheese have been counted out.
The meat was divided into 1/4 pound portions, rolled into balls & the tops were seasoned with Kosher salt.
The Egg has been set up with 2 half moon CI griddle grates. I was glad I'd done a test run the day before because it allowed me some time to get the temps straight. I'd used an infrared thermometer to shoot the temps of the grill grates as the Egg heated up. When I heat up the Egg I keep the chimney wide open and I was able to use this opening to shoot the grill grate without needing to raise the lid. I found that to get a griddle temperature of 550, the dome temperature was 350. On Saturday I was able to just preheat the Egg to 350 dome temp & I was good to go.
At 550 degrees you had to stay on top of the buns. It took under 15 seconds to toast them up. Essentially when you dropped the last bun onto the griddle, the first one was done. For food safety reasons I toasted all of the buns first, then did the batches of bison patties.
The round patties went on the griddle salted side down. At this point you pressed them down slightly.
After the roundish patties cooked for a minute, you smashed them down to 1/4" thickness with the spatula, salted them and cooked them for an additional two minutes.
After three minutes total cooking time on the first side the burgers were flipped, topped with cheese & cooked for two minutes on the second side.
The cookbook said NOT to place the finished burgers on a serving platter because you'd loose the crispy crust. So I had a series of half sheet pans fitted with wire cooling racks that were used to run the batches of burgers into the house. Meanwhile I'd start the next batch.
Time for my burger. I had set out a bunch of condiments: various mustards, relishes, ketchup etc. People picked what they wanted. Here is how I made my double bison burger: Step one was I put a patty on the bottom bun...
..I topped the lower patty with some sweet pickle relish...
...the second patty went on next...
...the second patty was topped with Dijon mustard....
...and lastly the top bun went on.
These burgers had great flavor and a nice crispy outer crust. They are actually quite easy to make and I plan to make them again soon.
Everyone loved these burgers. Several said they liked the buffalo better than ground beef. I had been a bit worried about bison, which is often leaner than ground beef, not having much flavor. As I said my trial burger showed me sliced onions and tomatoes were definitely not needed, these burgers already had great flavor which deserved to be front and center. When I mentioned this to my guests, they all agreed.


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Ian Laperriere Said What?
Link Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 3:22PM
If you are a fan of understatement then you could say today is not looking to be a good day for the Flyers' PR department. In case that you missed it Ian Laperriere said some dumb stuff that was published in an article about Flyers prospect Nick Cousins on Philly.com. The offending quote have since been removed, but fortunately a few people grabbed screenshots of what Laperriere said. (The quote and more after the break)


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Tendulkar tipped to dominateAndrew Wu
Published: February 18 2013 - 3:00AM
RAVI SHASTRI is backing ageing great Sachin Tendulkar to produce one last virtuoso series against Australia and spearhead India's quest to wrest the Border-Gavaskar Trophy from Michael Clarke's hands.
The former Indian opener has forecast a bleak six weeks for Australia's bowlers on the subcontinent and believes Tendulkar will be the man responsible in what could possibly be the final act in his glittering career.
Shastri spoke to the champion batsman after India's defeat to England late last year and detected a renewed sense of determination from Tendulkar, who turns 40 in April.
Tendulkar has since retired from the ODI arena to concentrate on Tests - and the early signs are not overly encouraging for Clarke's men.
Test cricket's leading run-scorer will enter the series starting Friday with two centuries from his past five first-class innings, including an unbeaten 140 against an attack containing Pragyan Ojha and Harbhajan Singh, who are both in contention to play in Chennai.
''He'll be hungry, he'll be really hungry. If Australia allow him to score in the first two Test matches this will be a very big series for Tendulkar," Shastri said.
''He will come out a little nervous, there will be nerves in the first couple of innings but if he gets a 50, 60 or 70 in one of the first two innings then this could be a big series for him.''
Tendulkar is in the midst of a long form slump not dissimilar to that of Ricky Ponting, who broke a long drought against the Indians last summer.
He is without a century in his past 31 Test innings, spanning 17 matches and over two years, during which he has averaged 37 - well down on his career mark of 54.
He averaged a paltry 18.66 against England in his last series but Shastri believes the veteran remains undoubtedly the key wicket in the Indian line-up.
''England bowled extremely well but I get the feeling the break he's had for a couple of months, he's gone back to the kind of preparation he's used to,'' Shastri said. ''I want him to be positive and not get into a defending kind of mode. He has to play his natural game, if he does that we're in for some entertainment.''
There is speculation on the subcontinent the upcoming series will be Tendulkar's last before he bows out of international cricket.
India's next Test assignment after Australia is not until November in South Africa.
It is almost certain he will not make it back to Australia for the return bout in the summer of 2014-15. He struggled against Australia's pace assault last year but Shastri did not expect Clarke's quicks to play as big a role this time.
And he said Australia's spinners lacked the experience to succeed in India. Their ordinary start to the tour game against India's second-string batsmen did not offer much encouragement either.
''I think you need two quality spinners to keep things tight and do the job,'' he said.
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/tendulkar-tipped-to-dominate-20130217-2elah.html


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By Kevin P. Gallagher
Emerging markets have fallen victim to unstable capital flows in the wake of the financial crisis. In an attempt to mitigate the accompanying asset bubbles and exchange rate pressures that come with such volatility, a number of emerging markets resorted to capital controls. Although these actions have largely been supported by the International Monetary Fund, some policy-makers and economists have decried capital controls as protectionist measures that can cause spillovers that unduly harm other nations.
Recently-published research shows that these claims are unfounded. According to the new welfare economics of capital controls, unstable capital flows to emerging markets can be viewed as negative externalities on recipient countries. Therefore regulations on cross-border capital flows are tools to correct for market failures that can make markets work better and enhance growth, not worsen it. Read more


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I know. This sounds like one of those Joe Weedy-man ads that is too good to
be true. All I am going to do is tell you how I did it. It was amazingly simple.
I decided that improving my One Hand Barbell Deadlift would improve all my other lifts. You see, if your grip is your weak point, it can throw off all the other body position angles in full body lifts. I could also aim for an American Record, by adding about 50 pounds. Thus I had a goal and an underlying reason for that goal.
First, I looked at my current grip training. I was doing a lot of thick grip work and explosive lifting with Olympic bar sized handles. My regular 2 hand deadlift, clean grip pulls and trap bar deadlifting were all at least a hundred pounds over that record with training weights, so I knew it had to be a hand, wrist or forearm issue. I then looked up similar lifts in the USAWA Rule Book. I had never done any finger lifting, but many of the old time strongmen did.
I simply added finger lifting to the end of my regular workouts, but I didn't go for max weight. The theory was that I had to build up the strength of a lot of very small muscles, ligaments and tendons. I would do only 1 set per finger or group of fingers, as I decided to lift with the ring finger and pinky finger as a single unit, because of the tendon and bone configuration in the hand. I used the exact body position and range of motion for the One Hand Barbell Deadlift. Equipment was simply the Finger Ring Weight Handle with the Olympic Loading Pin I sell.
Finger Lift Grip Positions
I soon found that there were essentially three different grip positions. I only did the finger lifting every other workout, but switched grips each time. The weight I used was as much as I could do during that workout for a minimum of ten reps. There was a lot of trial and error. If my limit for a particular grip and finger was only the ring, clevis and loading pin that day, so be it. Believe me, for the Open Pinky/Ring Finger position, there were days that the weight was so ridiculously light it seemed a complete waste of time, but I stuck to the program.
3 Finger Lift Grips: Open, Hook and Lateral Pinch
I also added the One Hand Barbell Deadlift into my routine every time I trained. I did only 2 Sets of Triples and periodized the lift with my other training, peaking a month before the contest and again on contest day. I gave myself five months to see how well I would do. It worked out so well, I still can't believe it.
All the best,
Roger LaPointe
"Today is a good day to lift."


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(WMC-TV) - As a blast of winter weather moves across Tennessee, airlines are delaying or canceling flights to and from Memphis because of difficulties with ice and snow around the country, according to The Associated Press.
At Memphis International Airport, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, and U.S. Airways canceled or delayed flights from San Antonio, Atlanta, and Chicago.
Flights on Delta Airlines, destined for Nashville International Airport and Indianapolis for Monday morning have been canceled.
If you need to track flights at Memphis International, click here: http://www.mscaa.com/flight/tracker
Copyright 2014 WMC-TV. All rights reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Death of Clayton C. Nelson
Thursday, June 22, 1961
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Clayton C. Nelson
Clayton C. Nelson, 69, of Red Hook died unexpectedly June 16 of a heart seizure suffered in the office of a physician in Hudson. Mr. Nelson had been receiving treatment for a heart ailment for some time.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Genevieve Wildey Nelson; a son, Donald Nelson, Red Hook; two sisters, Mrs. Robert Culbert, Lakeland, Fla., and Mrs. John A. Howe, this city; a grandson, Donald Clayton Nelson, Red Hook; a nephew, Francis Nelson, Columbus, N. J., and three grandnephews and cousins.
Funeral services were conducted at the Hand Funeral home, Red Hook, at 2 o'clock, Monday. The Rev. Russell E. Sargent officiated. Burial was in St. Paul's Lutheran cemetery Red Hook.


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Call of Duty Elite Delayed on PCby Craig Getting on 11/4/2011 1:09 PM EST
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Chapbass - Friday, November 04, 2011 - linkSeriously, and what a shame it is. I remember sitting down around Christmas time, I was still in school at the time and we were on winter break. I had just gotten the original Call of Duty as a gift, and I remember being completely blown away by it. The level of intensity, the sound of the MG42's firing overhead and the explosions were something on a completely different level.
I played it all night until I beat it, and it was still one of the best experiences I've had gaming. Then they went and ruined it with the CONSTANT gunfire of the Modern Warfare series, and now its just a console moneymaker. Really sad :( Reply
euler007 - Friday, November 04, 2011 - linkI guess all the people running leaked copy of Skyrim on Xbox 360 didn't get the memo (no PC leaks, steamworks).
It is only as insecure as they let it be. They could only keep stats of people playing on their approved servers for their purpose. Reply
Exodite - Friday, November 04, 2011 - linkThis.
The PC isn't an insecure platform, only their software solution is.
It's like companies still making use of punkbuster to "secure" their software in this day and age. Reply
nevertell - Friday, November 04, 2011 - linkIf they'd want to, they could implement it without any real problems. Just have Rated servers which have to pass through authorization and have unrated servers which anyone can set up and run. You don't even have to have people do it, just create a server-side DRM. Reply
anactoraaron - Friday, November 04, 2011 - link"We can't give away prizes when people can easily cheat their stats."
So they admit it's really their problem with regard to the software. Then do a better job making it secure from cheats.
Typical industry move nowadays - make something for the consoles then try to port it to pc. That just doesn't work. So stop trying to do that! The process should be the opposite. I would imagine it would be easier to dumb something down for a console than try to enhance something for a pc with hardware that exceeds the typical console. Reply
Mumrik - Friday, November 04, 2011 - linkYeah... no hacked or manipulated scores on the consoles. Not at all... Reply
JKflipflop98 - Friday, November 04, 2011 - linkI work with a guy that plays x360 games on live from his laptop. Cheating isn't hard for people like him. Reply
MarioJP - Saturday, November 05, 2011 - linkWell there you have it. Same o battle that has always plagued the PC. That's ok thought Activision has poor track record anyways. We have Battlefield 3 to be content with. meh. Reply
fdfsxcvdcfdh - Monday, November 07, 2011 - linkONLINE STOR good shopping Reply
Quake - Monday, November 07, 2011 - linkMeh... We have BF3 in the PC that supports up tp 64 players. No need for that Call of Duty crap. Reply
ol1bit - Tuesday, November 08, 2011 - linkThese guys suck, that why I still play COD4 on the PC.
They fired all the good PC developers as well.
Oh well. Reply


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An introduction to the life and career of the writer and artist Ashley Bryan, a three-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award.
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an award-winning artist? Words to My Life's Song is an autobiography that gives a glimpse into the imaginings and memories of three-time Coretta Scott King Award winning illustrator, Ashley Bryan. Mr Bryan frames the book as an afternoon spent walking around his home on an island in Maine. As we wander, Mr. Bryan tells us about his life growing up in the Bronx, going to art school, being in the army, teaching art, and discovering his passion for illustrating books. Along the way, we see a lot of his colorful paintings, stained glass and cut paper creations. This book is a bright, joyful celebration of life and creativity.
Recommended by: Hannah Wheeler – Lawrence
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Flaky Creme-Filled Cookies Recipe
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The light, incredibly flaky base of these delightful sandwich cookies is an easy-to-make form of French puff pastry. Mix and match the flavorings, and you'll have cookies for every taste.—Susan Falk, Warren, Michigan
VERIFIED BY Taste of Home Test Kitchen
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup cold butter, cubed
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, cubed
- 2/3 cup marshmallow creme
- 2/3 cup butter, softened
- 1-1/3 cups confectioners' sugar
- Optional flavoring: 2 tablespoons baking cocoa, 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract or 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- Optional filling: seedless raspberry preserves, blueberry preserves or crushed peppermint candies
- Additional confectioners' sugar
- In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in cold butter and cream cheese until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Shape into a disk; wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 2 hours or until easy to handle.
- Preheat oven to 350°. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut out with a floured 1-1/2-in. cookie cutter. Place 2 in. apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake 7-10 minutes or until light golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, in a large bowl, beat marshmallow creme and softened butter until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar.
- TO MAKE CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY COOKIES: Beat cocoa into marshmallow creme mixture. Spread on the bottoms of half of the cookies. Spread raspberry preserves on the bottoms of remaining cookies; top with creme-topped cookies. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
- TO MAKE LEMON-BLUEBERRY COOKIES: Beat lemon extract into marshmallow creme mixture. Spread on the bottoms of half of the cookies. Spread blueberry preserves on the bottoms of remaining cookies; top with creme-topped cookies. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
- TO MAKE PEPPERMINT COOKIES: Beat peppermint extract into marshmallow creme mixture. (Tint with 1 drop red food coloring if desired.) Spread on the bottoms of half of the cookies; top with remaining cookies. Roll sides in peppermint candies if desired. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Yield: about 6-1/2 dozen.
Originally published as Flaky Creme-Filled Cookies in Taste of Home November 2011, p58
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"Wow, these are really delicious. They take some time, but they are worth it. I substituted a little margarine for the butter in the cookie, and for all of the butter in the creme filling. I did not add any flavor to the creme filling and used strawberry jam for the optional additional filling. They were outstanding!"


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Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 20:55 PM
Ladell Abrams Joins The Meinl Cymbal Family
Meinl Cymbals is pleased to welcome LaDell Abrams to its family of cymbal artists.
LaDell is widely known as one of the masters of 'gospel drumming,' and rightfully so. Born and bred in Michigan, LaDell has manned the drum chair for Usher and gospel legend John P. Kee.
Currently LaDell is dividing his time between two legendary gospel artists - CeCe Winans and Andrea Crouch.


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The nation was shocked when NFL star linebacker Junior Seau committed suicide in May. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced Seau had a degenerative brain disease when he took his own life. His chronic brain damage has raised questions for many parents about the risks associated with contact sports.
The threat of head injury has become a serious topic of discussion for parents whose children want to play football, soccer or even be a cheerleader.
"It does have me concerned about the dangers of some of these sports," said Angela Attinger, a mother.
Attinger has active 11, 9 and 5-year old children. Right now, she does not think she would allow her son to play football.
"Unless it was a complete passion of his, like 'I have to play football mom,' and then I would try to support him and all that he does. But if it's not a passion, we don't have to do it," said Attinger.
"We don't want people to become so scared that we avoid the wonderful benefits of sports and exercise. We want kids to participate," said Dr. Paul Stricker, pediatric sports medicine specialist.
Stricker says it boils down to an awareness of the cumulative effect of head injuries. Players need to do a better job communicating news of their injuries.
"It used to be kids would never tell anyone about it because they want to keep playing. Hopefully, now they realize they need to tell somebody," said Stricker.
However, Stricker hopes that will change.
"I think coaches are gonna be more apt to say, 'Hey this kid is not looking right. Lets pull him out.' Or a child is gonna be more apt to tell their coach or their parent they've had a problem," said Stricker.
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Create Now World Tour Recap
About This Episode
Jason Levine provides an overview on the recent 20 city Create Now World tour including people's reactions to the events and material presented. He also outlines the plan for the next series of Create Now events starting in San Francisco. Check out http://bit.ly/CreateNowCom for upcoming events.
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Mann 63 — By Tim Clark
March 2002
True Carolina
|Its frame-and-plank construction is steeped in tradition, but this Mann has not been left behind on the evolutionary ladder.
Its frame-and-plank construction is steeped in tradition, but this Mann has not been left behind on the evolutionary ladder.
"I'm an original Mann from Mann's Harbor," says the founder and namesake of Paul Mann Custom Boats, located in–you guessed it–Mann's Harbor, North Carolina. "I started sportfishing offshore when I was 13, as a mate. Beginning at 21, I ran a charter fishing boat for 15 years. Back then we'd fish during the summer and then in the winter work in the boat shops. That's how I learned the traditional way of building Carolina boats. There are not many true Carolina boatbuilders left."
Talking by telephone, I could have been forgiven for picturing Paul Mann's operation as one of those quaint, sleepy yards out of WoodenBoat Magazine had I not been aboard the 63-foot DeeLarryUs two days earlier. There wasn't anything quaint or sleepy about skimming over the St. Lucie River near Stuart, Florida, at more than 45 mph. While there's no doubt Mann is a traditionalist, in the Outer Banks even purists can't resist performance.
"I define a true Carolina boatbuilder as a frame-and-plank builder," Mann tells me. "But we've taken the frame-and-plank technique to a whole other level." To build boats that better withstand the adversities of offshore fishing while making the most of ever-more-powerful engines, Mann has adapted modern materials and methods to time-honored Outer Banks techniques.
The frames in the 63 were made from white cedar grown and milled in North Carolina. Mann planked the hull with 3/4-inch white cedar under a 1/4-inch layer of okoume marine-grade plywood, a many-plied tropical-hardwood sheath free of voids at the core. Then the builder encapsulated the hull, inside and out, with hand-laid fiberglass infused with WEST SYSTEM® epoxy. Bulkheads made from one-inch okoume were also encapsulated in glass and glassed into the hull sides. For stringers, Mann used stout clear fir and, beneath the engines, added aluminum laminates before coating the stringers, too, in fiberglass. When securing the engines, the bolt holes were drilled and tapped for extra strength.
While the 63's hull is a fusion of the old and the new, construction of her deck is thoroughly contemporary. Its backbone of aluminum box-beam framing was covered above and below with layers of Decolite, lightweight balsa-cored glass. For the superstructure, Mann once again used marine-grade okoume sheathed in fiberglass.
This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Victoria Beckham Fall 2011
It's Victoria Beckham's "nightmare" dress: vibrant vermilion crepe with a deep V in front and back, tapering into an A-line which hits below the knee. Such simplicity, she meant, was a hell of a bother to fit properly. Well, all the best things are, but that dress (which, she pointed out in her narrated voice-over, "also looks great with a turtleneck") stands as an honorable marker of how successfully she's expanding her repertoire in her sixth season.
Is that new, chic looseness—and the definite plunge in length—also due to her own expanding person? Yes, Mrs. Beckham is pregnant with her fourth child, but she attributed her new direction to "being more confident and evolved as a designer and a person. My first seasons had lots of structure and corsetry, but now I want women to have the freedom to be more comfortable as well as beautiful."
It made for a collection that is distinctly more "woman of the world" than "soccer WAG on a red carpet," and the move extends the appeal of her work. This season, along with the easier shapes—applicable to both day and night dressing—she's added coats and developed her bag line to include practical-looking duffels and totes. She has a good eye for the impact of punchy color, too: rich magenta, saffron, and wine are cut in double crepe and contrasted with high, columnar Louboutin boots in mouthwatering berry leathers and suedes. As she chatted about the detail of knife-pleats and proportion—she's a self-confessed control freak about technique and fit—she was wearing an oatmeal cashmere square-cut jumper dress with frayed edges and an intrinsic scarf wound around her neck. That look was in the show too, as part of the easier "travel" theme she's worked into the collection, no doubt inspired by her own lifestyle, on and off planes between L.A., London, and New York. Especially with a baby on board.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks rose on Wall Street, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average to new highs, after the government said unemployment claims fell last week.
The Dow rose 45 points, or 0.3 percent, to 14,342 as of 11:47 a.m. Eastern. The Standard & Poor's 500 gained three points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,544. The Nasdaq composite advanced 10 points, 0.3 percent, to 3,232.
The market got a boost after the Labor Department reported that the number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell by 7,000 last week, driving the four-week average to its lowest in five years. The drop is a positive sign ahead of Friday's employment report.
The Dow barreled through a record high Tuesday and has since added to those gains, putting the index on track for its fifth straight gain. The S&P 500 is also closing in on its own record high of 1,565, which was also reached on Oct. 9, 2007, the same day of the Dow's previous peak. The S&P would need to rise 20 points, or 1.3 percent, to set a record.
Investors have been buying stocks on optimism that employers are slowly starting to hire again and that the housing market is recovering. Growing company earnings are also encouraging investors to get into the market. The Dow is 9.4 percent higher this year and the broader S&P 500 is up 8.2 percent.
"If you have a multi-year time horizon, equities are an attractive asset, but don't be surprised to see some volatility, especially after the big run we've had," said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at RDM Financial Group.
Boeing led the 30-member Dow index higher Wednesday, advancing $2.32 to $81.39 following reports that U.S. regulators were poised to approve a plan within days to allow the plane maker to begin test flights of its 787 Dreamliner. The 787 fleet has been grounded since Jan. 16 because of safety concerns about the plane's batteries.
Time Warner rose 75 cents to $56.20 after the media company said late Wednesday that it will spin off its magazine publishing business, which includes Time, Sports Illustrated and People, into a publicly traded company by the end of the year.
The stock market's rally this year has been helped in no small part by continuing economic stimulus from the Federal Reserve. The U.S. central bank began buying bonds in January 2009 and is still purchasing $85 billion each month in Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities. That has kept interest rates near historic lows, reducing borrowing costs and encouraging investors to move money out of conservative investments like bonds and into stocks.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, rose to 1.98 percent from 1.94 percent.
Among stocks making big moves:
-- PetSmart fell $4.67 to $61.88 after the company reported its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings. Profits for the pet store chain rose but its forecast for this year disappointed investors.
-- Pier 1 Imports fell 91 cents to $22.36 after the home decor company issued an earnings forecast that was below Wall Street analysts' estimates.
-- Supermarket chain Kroger rose $1.14 to $3.59 after the company's fourth quarter profit handily beat Wall Street expectations.
-- Gap rose $1.31 to $35.76 after the clothing retailer said a key revenue measure rose more than expected in February, helped by sales at its Gap and Old Navy stores. The company had been scheduled to release the sales figures after the market closed, but put them out after a transcript of its recorded sales call appeared on the website seekingalpha.com, halting the shares.


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AN INVESTIGATION has been launched into an incident in which a green laser pen was pointed at a plane flying over Malvern last month.
Police were called on Saturday, March 22 by air traffic controllers in Hampshire following reports an Air Hamburg flight at 17,000ft flying towards Birmingham International Airport was targeted by a laser pen three times at about 7.30pm that evening.
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Chapter 1: Getting Off on the Right Foot.
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Here's a story about friendship between two former winners, both a little down on their luck, who together stage a remarkable comeback.
One is Comet, an abused greyhound racing dog ditched by her owner.
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Just last month his 7th child was born.
"It's very hard dealing with a kid who has lost his father," said mother, LaToya Powell.
"I still hold my breath when there is a hard knock at my door," said Rita Gist, the victim's sister.
Rita Gist, the victim's oldest son Jalen and Powell stood together Tuesday afternoon as Crime Stoppers announced a $2,500 reward for information that leads to an arrest.
"Please, please come forward so that our family can find closer and peace," said Rita Gist.
Ja'Ron Gist was shot and killed on July 31 at Visible Change Barbershop on Detroit's west side. A longtime barber and customer also were shot.
Months later, his family is still waiting for answers on what happened that day.
"Somebody is out there that did this and will they do it again that is the biggest thing," said Rita Gist. "We don't want anyone to experience what we've gone through."
Anyone with information on the murder is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-SPEAK-UP.
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The Xbox 360 Slim (Valhalla): Dissection Galleries Upby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/17/2010 5:54 PM EST
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dusteater - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - linkUgh, this is so ugly. Why do consumer electronics makers insist on glossy finishes? You take it out of the box and it will look like crap for the rest of its life.
Please, make matte finish devices!!!! Reply
microking4u - Thursday, June 24, 2010 - linkI second that, looks cheesy! Matte is much better. That goes for glossy screens also, it may increase sharpness and look good, but a little bit of light and you cant see the screen and are blinded. Horrible!! Reply
Freezebyte - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - linkThat they have the fan positioned to "suck" on the heatsink rather then "blow' But that would make more sense to reduce the amount of dust intake into the system, especially lying horizontally.
And gloss finishes rules, why the hell does everyone else have to always touch everything and then gripe about fingerprints? Reply
Taft12 - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkMaybe you can use your Jedi mind power to move the unit from the box to your TV cabinet, but that's all touching that's needed to ruin oil it up for life. Reply
Freezebyte - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - linkAlso, your tab photo's are not matching up to the enlarged photo's when you click on the thumbnail images FYI Reply
stalker27 - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - link2nd page should start wit 21, not 1.... but if you add 20 to the url of the enlarged pic you'll get to the real image of the second page Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkThis bug has been fixed, thank you guys for being patient with us!
Take care,
Anand Reply
thrust2night - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - linkAnand: Are you working on a review for the HTC Evo 4G? I've been waiting for it since Vivek posts his impressions about the device. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkI just got my EVO 4G yesterday, having some activation issues right now but as soon as I get them resolved I'll be on it!
Take care,
Anand Reply
DigitalFreak - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - linkI still don't understand why they can't do an internal power supply. The PS3 slim I have has one and the console is smaller than the 360. Reply
jeremyshaw - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - linkI agree with this. I rather hate my xbox360's massive power brick (the 150W is smaller than the 203W I still have, and apparently doesn't need a fan, either).
Also, I am, too, looking forward to pics of the IHS lifted off, to see if it's a monolithic CPU/GPU die, or is it a multi chip module? Reply
Belard - Sunday, June 20, 2010 - linkThe PS3 always had an internal PSU... If the 360 had an internal PSU, the failure rates would even worse by the heat generated. Reply
qb2k5 - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - link1. Do you know how big the fan is? Is it 80, 90, or 120mm?
1a. Is the fan sucking cool air through the side panel like a traditional cpu fan or is reversed? Meaning its blowing hot air from the side panel.
1b. Could you possibly put some temperature diodes inside the xbox case (closed) to monitor how warm the ambient temperature is also how hot the intergrated cpu/gpu gets when in idle and when running a game?
2. How much ram does the onboard flash have? Is it still 512MB just like the jasper consoles?
3. Were you able to lift the heatsheld off the GPU/CPU to see if the chips like the CPU, GPU, and Edram were all integrated into one die, or are they separate dies?.
4. Could you possibly test the bandwidth for the wireless n module. To do the test you would need to run DD-WRT or a router that monitors the current bandwidth. Connect the xbox to WMC, and stream a high bitrate video from the PC to the Xbox console. You should be able to read the avgs from the router.
4. Whats your email address. I cant find it anywhere?
Thanks Anand Reply
Freezebyte - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkLook at the freaking pictures, its obvious the way the fan is laid out that its sucking air through the side vents and pulling it through the heatsink, not blowing down on the heat sink and out of the vents. Reply
just4U - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - linkLooking at the pictures what do you all think, does it look better or about the same? Im a noobie on the 360 and have stayed away from it because of hardware problems so I am sort of curious. Reply
bill4 - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkI dont know, honestly I think the matte old Elite maybe looks better (I think the old Elite is pretty much the best looking console ever) which is another reason I'm resisting jumping on the bandwagon and selling my old Elite and getting one of these like so many people seem to be doing.
But it's hard to resist the lure of just something shiny and new...
Regardless, these seem to be selling like hotcakes, and the Ps3 slim did well too (though to be fair that was accompanied by a $100 price drop). It seems just redesigning the system alone can spur a lot of sales from repeat buyers and new excitement around the system.
I wouldn't worry about hardware problems, I've had a 360 since launch and only had one RROD in 4.5 years ("only" lol) and that was a easy and free two week process to get replaced. And that was like 3 years ago on my launch Arcade. And I dont have any concerns about my Elite I bought a couple years ago at all. As I understand it since the Jasper chipset RROD is basically a solved problem, and Jasper chipset failure rates are very low, in line with any other electronics or consoles now. And all 360's sold have been Jaspers for years. If anything I might be a little more worried about one of these new units since theyre untested, but I wouldn't be worried about either one. Reply
Freezebyte - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkLook at the freaking pictures, its obvious the way the fan is laid out that its sucking air through the side vents and pulling it through the heatsink, not blowing down on the heat sink and out of the vents. Reply
chizow - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkThanks for the pics just a small suggestion for you or your webmaster. The Gallery pics when using the "Previous" and "Next" functions refreshes the page and scroll/rejustifies the browser to the top of the page, so you have to scroll down again to expose the "Next" button again. After 4-5 refreshes this can become quite tedious.
A better solution would be to keep the same scroll pointer on a page refresh or to move the Previous and Next buttons above the pictures instead. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkThe gallery is definitely in need of improvement, thankfully we have this and more on the list to be fixed in the coming weeks :)
We want to ultimately get rid of page refreshes on the gallery just as we did with page refreshes for posting replies to comments. All in due time :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
bill4 - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkWith the Ps3 slim Sony went to all 45nm (I think?) while MS was still stuck on like 65/80. But Now MS has leapfrogged a step ahead, with presumably all 45nm AND a combined CPU/GPU on one package. Reply
bill4 - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkThat with all the hardware saving 360 slim surely brings, they didn't kick a 50 dollar price drop our way.
Kinect screws everything up though pricing wise. I'm convinced if Kinect had never entered MS plans, we would definitely see a price drop this fall, and very well might have seen one in 2009 too. As of now because they'll probably need to heavily bundle Kinect, and they're probably waiting to see if Kinect demand is so high they can overcharge for it, etc etc etc, the whole normal pricing curve they would be going down is on indefinite hold. For example, one option theyre probably looking at is bundling Kinect for "free". But it wont be "free" of course, it just means we wont get the price drop that would have happened this fall had Kinect never existed. Reply
adcurtin - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkIs the power supply still only 120V? I'm about to go abroad and was planning on taking a 360 and acquiring a PSU abroad. I'm curious if this will remedy that. Reply
webmastir - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkawesome job. thanks for the info anand Reply
Belard - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkThe earlier low-res pics... I thought the new 360-slim was kind of ugly.
Now, high-res with excellent lighting form this article, its even UGLIER... how hard is it to design something?
The new PS3-Slim looks... slim and better, for the most part over the original. The 360-slim is more like a 360-Midget. And with it standing up, it seems even more unstable when it comes to loading and unloading discs. This is where the slot-load makes life easier. Reply
Belard - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkOkay, just went over the photos..
Boy, upgrading the HD is a whole lot harder than on a PS3... a single screw.
Got a better name for the 360-slim... er not so-slim. The PS3 slim *IS* slim and sexy.
Lets call it the 360-Midget! Reply
paihuaizhe - Sunday, June 20, 2010 - link(nike-alliance).(com)=>is a leading worldwide wholesaler company (or u can say
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Examples of serious damage or complicated conditions that might
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If you choose mitral valve replacement, your surgeon will preserve as
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success after surgery. Keeping the valve's base intact reduces the amount of
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backless burda + issues with having a small bust...
Added Jul 8, 2013
by cathytxtwfr
Ouidah, Benin
A backless dress (#111) from the March 2013 issue of BurdaStyle. Backless is an entirely new territory for me since I don't ever wear backless things, even with RTW clothing. But something about this pattern called to me and I just had to make it. I had some new fitting challenges that I've not quite worked out yet since I am really flat chested without a bra. But at least I'm more aware of my fit issues and will be better prepared for the next backless things I make.
I wrote more in my sewing journal here: http://cathywu.com/journal/treadling/2013/07/08/backless-burdastyle-32013-111-stash-busting-with-atakino/
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Aug 5, 2013, 03.57 PMby Mary Athey
this is lovely on you cathy, reading what you said about your bust makes me want to make it for my daughter. she would suit this and could go braless .this is lovely on you x
Jul 8, 2013, 06.54 PMby Moimisie
Looks great on you… seeing this style on normal people gives me spirit to try it too!
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Jul 8, 2013, 09.24 PMby cathytxtwfr
yeah, i was inspired by all the other versions that popped up on burdastyle as well – love seeing how the back looks on everyone!
Jul 8, 2013, 11.08 AMby Oksana Starzhynska
Very girlish! Looks nice on you:)
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thank you :) Im saving it for a date one day!
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Intel Z87 Motherboard Review with Haswell: Gigabyte, MSI, ASRock and ASUSby Ian Cutress on 6/27/2013 8:00 AM EST
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ShieTar - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkIs there a special reason not to test the POST times and DPC latency of the Gigabyte Board? Its power consumption is quiet impressive, and whatever design measures have been used to achieve it do not seem to negatively affect the overall performance. So it would be interesting to complete the picture with the two measurements which are missing. Reply
IanCutress - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkDPC Latency on the Gigabyte during testing was jumping around a fair bit, hitting 800+, though that is more likely due to the early BIOS revision. I need to run the POST test (as the results are strangely missing from my database) as well as the DPC test on a newer BIOS. Since I started testing almost every manufacturer has released newer BIOSes (as is always the way coming up to a launch) and I really have to lay the hammer down as testing a whole new BIOS takes a good 30 hours or so start to finish, so when I'm locked in that's it. That in a way does give an unfair advantage to the board I test last, but there's not a lot else I can do. I am still getting emails of BIOS updates for these boards as of yesterday.
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tribbles - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkAm I wrong in thinking that Gigabyte hasn't been doing well in the DPC Latency Test since Z77? If so, that's kind of surprising, since Gigabyte seems to be a "go-to" brand for digital audio workstation builders. Reply
IanCutress - Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - linkI retested the UD3H on the F5 (public) BIOS, and it scored 164. The two next boards I have in for review got 160 and 157, which points fingers to the DPC on Haswell being 150+ regardless of motherboard. This might be a fundamental issue. Reply
Timur Born - Saturday, July 27, 2013 - linkRun Prime95 (or turn off CPU power features) while measuring DPC latencies to see how much CPU power saving features affect DPCs. Reply
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Rick83 - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkMaybe a bad choice to use two different ways of graphing the Rightmark results.
Being consistent with regard to cutting off the irrelevant bit of the graph makes it a much easier read.
Now it appears at first glance as though the Gigabyte board is much better in THD+N, simply because the differences were so minuscule in the dynamic range bit.
On another note: Shouldn't it be more interesting to use a standardized input instead of the input of the board? In the current protocol a good output could be handicapped by a bad input, and conversely. For most users the output is much more important than the input, so it might be better to test it independently? I would recommend using a USB soundcard as an easy means of doing this test on the same machine, without changing the setup protocol too much.
And finally - I seem to remember Rightmark results for earlier reviews - it would be interesting to have those (or maybe a reference soundcard?) as comparison in the same graph. After all, for DPC you maintain a large cross-platform table as well.
Nice thorough initial review, those nitpicks withstanding. Reply
IanCutress - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkUnfortunately I can't adjust the engine to represent from 0 for negative values, I don't have access to the low level options. I forwarded it on as an issue.
I'd love to use a standardized input with RMAA. I guess it would be good to get a sound card with an input that supercedes the output of the motherboard and put it through that way, and hopefully there won't be a driver conflict along the line. I'll see what I can do to get in the hardware for that, although many soundcards are designed more for output and the input dynamic range/distortion might be the limiting factor as is the case on motherboards. Something like the Xonar Essence STX has a 118 dBA input with -113 dBA THD+N which might be a good starting point.
Our RMAA testing for Z87 has changed a little from Z77 to make it more of an efficiency test rather than an out-the-box test as audio is such a varied playing field. RMAA is very sensitive to certain windows settings and volumes for example such that with the right combination it was very easy to show A>B or B>A depending on how the OS felt it should be set up. The new testing regimen for RMAA should iron out those issues but the results are not exactly comparable to Z77 for that reason. There are so many wrong ways to set up RMAA it can be difficult (and a learning experience) to get it right.
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popej - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkNice to see you are planning steps in right direction. Using reference card for measurements is a proper solution. Be aware, that separate card add complications to the test, for example you will have to take care about ground loops and signal level matching. Professional card with balanced input could help a lot. Reply
Timur Born - Saturday, July 27, 2013 - linkBalanced inputs would only help when the outputs to be tested offered balanced outputs, but you won't find these on mainboard solutions. Still a professional solution might be preferable, because don't just concentrate on listing theoretical spec numbers of the converter chips, but also make sure to get the most out of it in practical implementation.
The English ASUS site lists little (and partly wrong) information about the Xonar Essence STX for example, there is much better information on the German site, though. Still they list frequency response at -3 (three!) dB points, while usually you would choose -0.5 dB or -1 dB points to give a real picture. Reply
repoman27 - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkWhile the Intel block diagram for the DZ87KLT-75K does appear to show 20 lanes of PCIe 3.0 coming from the CPU, the 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes from the PCH are used for the GbE controllers (2 x1), Thunderbolt controller (1 x4), the PCIe mini card / mSATA slot (1 x1), and a "PCIe Hub" (1 x1). We can presume this is really a conventional PCIe switch, and the Marvell 88SE9172, the 3 x1 slots, and the PCIe to PCI bridge are all connected to that.
What's the deal with FDI now that there are display connections coming directly from the CPU? The block diagrams still show FDI and the Thunderbolt controller being fed DisplayPort from the PCH. Are the CPU display outputs DP 1.2 and the PCH connections still DP 1.1a? Reply
repoman27 - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkSorry, I should have kept reading before commenting about the display interfaces. Reply
repoman27 - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkThe article does however say, "leaving the VGA behind", which should read, "leaving LVDS and SDVO (like anybody cares) behind." The PCH does still support VGA via the FDI x2 link as long as those lanes aren't being co-opted by Port D for eDP.
Also, I meant to point out in my original comment that the additional USB 3.0 ports on the Intel board appear to be provided by a pair of USB 3.0 hubs, not a discrete controller. Reply
Jaaap - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkGreat Review Ian.
I'd also be very interested in the minimal power consumption of Z87 motherboards without videocards and a PSU efficient at low powers (a PicoPSU or a light Seasonic). Reply
IanCutress - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkI think Anand hit 34W idle on his 4770K with IGP?
I have 500W Platinums for mini-ITX reviews, but I that might be too much for IGP idle at sub-10%. Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - link500W probably is too much for anything other than relative comparison scores. IIRC most of the 80+ standards only require specific efficiency levels between 20 and 80% loads.
ex The 400W Seasonic X-400 2 is 89.5% efficient at an 86W load; but only 82.6% at 37W.
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReview... Reply
igxqrrl - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkAm I the only one confused by the video out options?
I'm looking for integrated graphics that can drive 2x30" (2560x1600) or 2x27" (2560x1440) displays. Can any of these motherboards do that? Reply
repoman27 - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkThe Gigabyte, Asrock and Asus boards theoretically can, however in each case you'll need to drive one of the displays via the HDMI output. AFAIK there aren't a ton of displays that support 2560x1440 or 2560x1600 over HDMI. Reply
Earballs - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkThe max resolutions are listed with typical refresh rates, but not max refresh rates. Just thought I'd throw that out there while talking about confusing video out options. Reply
Rob94hawk - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkThe MSI Gaming board would not do 2560x1440 off the DVI-D port. Reply
Aikouka - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkOne thing to note is that ASRock does have a version of the Extreme6 that does NOT have 802.11ac built in. I think it's about $20 cheaper.
I thought about going with the Extreme6 when I built a Haswell machine, but I figured that some of those features would go unused. Unused chips that aren't disabled still need to be initialized during POST, so I get an increased POST time and spend more money. :P I went with the Extreme4, and honestly... I wish that I hadn't. The UEFI BIOS on my system is so flaky that it randomly hard locks a few seconds after the GUI appears. I don't know if it's a bad board, a bad batch, or an issue with that model, because I'm not the only one with that issue. I've seen other reports on the Anandtech forums and a quick Google search turns up results on other forums and in the Newegg reviews. I'm assuming that the Extreme6 did not have this problem? Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkCheck your BIOS; you should be able to disable unused controllers to boost post time. This shortened my i7-920/930 post times from ~30s to ~20s. Reply
Aikouka - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkOh, I know. I just figured that it wasn't worth spending more on a board just to disable the unused controllers. Although, then I ran into the Extreme4's BIOS problem, and I wish I would have spent a little more! =P Reply
James5mith - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkSince when is $200 a "reasonable price bracket"? In my mind $50-$100 = budget. $100-$160 = mainstream. $160+ is enthusiast pricing. It is not reasonable at all. Reply
WeaselITB - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - link$200 is a reasonable price bracket for the enthusiast chipset family that they're reviewing. If you're looking for lower price, check out the lower families, such as H87 for the mainstream segment. Reply
MrSpadge - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkA solid Zx7 board without any BS used to be around 100€ (-> 100$ without VAT for you). Now that parts of the voltage supply have transitioned into the CPU the boards should not become any more expensive.
I may be enthusiastic about tweaking my PC for efficiency and value, but I'm certainly not enthusiastic about paying big bucks for my toys. Reply
crimson117 - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkIan, this line/paragraph sounds a bit too much like it was lifted from marketing materials: "Whenever a user considers purchasing an ASUS motherboard they know that it is built to perform and has a great feature set" Reply
IanCutress - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkHaha I can assure you those are my words, although it does sound generic given that I was meant to be referring to the board in the review. Perhaps a bit subjective for a review, but I had a good experience with the board and that filtered through. Changed it a little...
-Ian Reply
snakyjake - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkI've had an ASUS mother board for years, and the EZ-Update never downloaded updates from the Internet. It never was able to connect with any of the update servers. I always had to go to the Asus website and download the updates, and then update the BIOS from disk.
I do wish the ASUS software was all integrated, and not separate programs on my system tray. Reply
clyman - Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - linkIn my personal experience and from ASUS tech support, the safest way to update bios is by first downloading it. This mobo has an excellent update program in bios that only looks at local drives, not online. I found it quite simple at each bios update. Reply
silenceisgolden - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkGreat job Ian, really looking forward to the super high end motherboard review as well! I'm curious though, did you use the VGA port at all in any of these reviews, and also when was the last time you used a VGA port? Reply
IanCutress - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkMy Korean 1440p panels are all via DVI-D. But the VGA comes in use when you have to use a DVI-I to VGA converter for DVI-I cables. Otherwise you need a DVI-D cable. Reply
JeBarr - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkGreat review Ian. I very much appreciate your taking the time to explain the PCIe slot assignment and repeating the less-than-x8-no-good-for-SLI truth that needs to spread far and wide.
What I took away from this review when analysing my own usage patterns and component choices is that each of the boards in this review would be better suited to the mATX form factor. There is no point in purchasing these mid-high end boards for multi-GPU, multi-display configs. There are only a handful of full size z87 boards that in my opinion earn their full-size status. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkIf it has fully integrated voltage regulators then why in blazes does it still need $20 worth of components buried beneath $3 heatsinks surrounding the cpu socket? Yeah, that's what I thought.... Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkWhat FIVR means to Intel isn't quite what you think it means. What's on package is the collection of VRs needed to provide power to all the separate sections of the CPU and to vary them as the chip clocks itself up and down. The motherboard itself still needs to do the heavy lifting to convert the 12V from the PSU to the voltage used by the DRAM and to a single input voltage the that CPU converts to the other levels it uses internally (IIRC this is the full load core voltage).
I believe the reason why those regulators can be squeezed into the package while the ones still on the mobo are much larger is that the uncore/cache have relatively low power levels and the lower core voltages are only used at low CPU loads and thus don't need to push nearly as high of a peak current level. Reply
WeaselITB - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkWonderful review, Ian. Any chance of a Z87 vs Z77 vs ... comparison chart? It seems like functionalities of the processor are highly publicized, and the individual motherboard reviews chart the differences between chipset models within that family, but I don't recall seeing a comparison between chipset families. I know the chipset seems to be taking a smaller and smaller role these days, but it would still be helpful to exactly see the differences between generations.
Thanks! Reply
Kougar - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - link
The only downside for me is that it unfortunately does not work with Korean 1440p monitors (!), but Gigabyte is looking into this.
It doesn't work with my 30" U3011 monitor either, yet another forum user with the same monitor didn't have any problem. Only difference was he used a Radeon and I use a GTX 480. Reply
Creig - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkI only had time so far to skim this article, so I apologize if this question was already answered in the body. Is there any way to find out when each board starts shipping with the C2 stepping of the Z87 chipset? As some people are already aware, the C1 stepping has been shown to have issues with certain USB 3.0 controllers disconnecting when the computer awakes from sleep mode. The C2 stepping is apparently already shipping to manufacturers, but it would be handy to know a way to ensure that a person who orders a board in the near future receives the updated chipset. Reply
blackie333 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkI'm not sure that C2 stepping shipping already started, according to public available plan from May only samples have been sent to manufacturers. Mass production of C2 should start on 1st of July and manufacturers should start receiving them from the 30th of July. Boards based on C2 stepping should be available for end users from middle August.
But you maybe have some more actual/insider information. Reply
Mr Perfect - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkI was wondering the same thing. If all shipping Haswell boards have the faulty USB3, then this is a non-starter. Reply
Avalon - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkIs it just me, or are these boards too expensive?
The Asrock Z77 Extreme6 is $155 on Newegg, $169 w/Thunderbolt. Asrock Z87 Extreme6 is $220-$20 MIR.
The Gigabyte Z77 UD3H is $140 on Newegg. Gigabyte Z87 UD3H is $180.
You get a couple extra USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb slots and Haswell support, but I don't understand how that makes mid range boards at best command low high-end prices. Reply
Mr Perfect - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkMy guess is it's just new vs old products at this point. The Z77 boards are old news and have had a year to fall in price. Meanwhile, the Z87s are shiny new toys that some people will pay a premium for. Reply
Rob94hawk - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - link"As it stands the MSI BIOS looks like a higgledy-piggledy jumble to a new overclocker."
Going from X38/775 to this I still haven't figured out what everything does. Reply
nsiboro - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkIan, kindly provide info/links to ASUS Z87-Pro 3xxx series BIOS.
The website product page (download) is only showing 1xxx series BIOS.
Thanks. Reply
blackie333 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkCould someone please check/confirm whether USB 3.0 S3 wakeup bug also affects devices connected via additional(ASMedia 1074) onboard USB 3.0 hub ports available on Asus Z87-PRO stepping C1 board?
Some people are suggesting that only USB 3.0 ports directly connected to Z87 chipset are affected by the bug. Reply
chizow - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkThe PCIe lane config was the biggest deciding factor for me. I will only ever run 2-way SLI, so I wanted to maintain x8/x8 config for my 2x primary GPUs but wanted the flexibility of that 3rd slot for a PCIe SSD or PCIe PhysX card.
Only the Asus and Gigabyte options offered that lane config, from what I saw both the MSI and Asrock designs go with x8/x4/x4 3.0 rather than x8/x8 3.0 + x4 2.0
The Gigabyte UD range was pretty vanilla, but I was OK with that, the Asus boards, although solid, offered a lot of features I would never need or use, like Wi-Fi.
I ended up with the Gigabyte Z87X-UD4 as it was cheaper than the comparable Asus offering Z87-Pro by quite a bit. Reply
pandemonium - Saturday, June 29, 2013 - linkI love the thoroughness of these articles. Excellent job, guys!
"ASUS' reasoning is such that some of the Haswell i7-4770K CPUs, the ones that only just get into this category, will throttle the CPU speed when using the default Intel CPU cooler when MCT is enabled."
Who - buying a 4770K - will be using a stock cooler? What kind of rationality is that garbage? >.> Reply
blackie333 - Saturday, June 29, 2013 - linkThere can be some, maybe those waiting for a better cooler. But the question is why Intel is including cooler which isn't capable to cool the CPU and we still have to pay for it? It should be able to do it's job at least on default frequency.
Anyway this problem is IMHO more an effect of Haswell heat transfer issue than poor quality of the stock cooler. If Intel could fix the CPU overheating issue the cooler should be good enough. Reply
ven - Sunday, June 30, 2013 - linkwhy is that PCIe hub is present, many will prefer having a single device that will utilize all the bandwidth than having multiple devices choking with shared bandwidth, six SATA 6Gpbs is enough for most, with flex i/o and that hub removed gives x7 lanes and given this a Desktop board,msata will not be missed that much, so we can get tri-way SLI, i am little surprised that no manufactures choose this configuration. Reply
HexiumVII - Sunday, June 30, 2013 - linkHey Ian! Maybe run the Asrock Z87 in water and let us know how waterproof it is! Reply
Hrel - Monday, July 08, 2013 - linkYou guys DO talk about how motherboard manufacturers have less and less to do now; with Intel moving more and more things onto the CPU die. Yet for some reason you still fail to ask WHY motherboards are getting MORE expensive. Not less. I got an AMAZING motherboard with SLI and massive overclocking ability that's rock solid back in 2007 for 125 dollars. Yet now that the northbridge isn't even ON the motherboard anymore I have to pay 175 for the SAME level of performance... WTF is that! Reply
adridu59 - Monday, July 08, 2013 - linkIt looks like you are playing the marketing game, because ALC1150 (nominally ALC900) is just a tweaked ALC898 (same as ALC889 and ALC892).
More info: http://www.overclock.net/t/1398739/is-realteks-alc... Reply
Rafalus - Sunday, July 28, 2013 - linkHi, Is it possible to stop TPU tuning eg when it reach 4.5GHz as I did not want to raise it higher? Reply
SilentRyder - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - linkHonestly i believe this integrated Voltage Regulator will cause many problems. If we check the previous Ivy Bridge main boards, They do have a huge power regulator designed on the top side of processor socket. Now the whole idea of power supplied from the mainboard is gone off. May be this technology will benefit laptops or any other mobile devices. but this is certainly a bad idea for desktop users.
We would certainly have HEAT problems, which i am truly afraid of. I do not think haswell will support enough for overclocking. i never over clock my self but i am sure INTEL will change this concept on its new generations.
Even laptops running in high temperature can be a issue.
How many of us are satisfied with the intel built in Graphics processor? Reply
clyman - Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - linkSo far, it meets my needs just fine. I am sure it would meet the needs of all my customers. I did put a fluid filled cooler on the processor, but that was only needed while running OCCT. I will add a video card should i ever need one. Reply
clyman - Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - linkI have the ASUS Z87-PRO mobo and was hoping someone had a few answers here for me, haven't seen anything related though. My problem is that no matter what I do, the multiplier will not go above 39 and I cannot find out why. Is that due to having 1600 MHZ memory?
Another issue is that when I update AI Suite 3 from the original on the supplied CD, it will not recognize my WIFI Engine adapter, however it finds it with the original. ASUS techs have been useless on both of these points as they say have no information regarding overclocking and no one has a clue about the WIFI Engine. I have been given all kinds of advice, all fruitless. I can't get them to understand it simply will not recognize the device on the updated version. I think it is a bad update, they want to RMA it.
Any help on these issues would be appreciated. Reply
LoCk3d - Friday, December 20, 2013 - linkA problem encountered someone USB Charger + function? I do not detect the device, I enabled ERP in bios but still does not work. Help me please ! Reply


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With over 20 years of experience in construction, maintenance and facilities management, Gregory K. Luken joins Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) as director of facilities.
As director of facilities at SMWC, Luken will be responsible for organizing, budgeting, coordinating and directing activities related to facilities operations, grounds and custodial services. He will oversee construction and renovation projects, the performance of all mechanical systems, cleaning functions, general maintenance and repairs on campus buildings. Additionally, Luken will manage the Environmental Management System (EMS).
"We feel very fortunate to have Greg join The Woods in this capacity," states SMWC Vice President for Finance and Administration Gordon Afdahl. "His years of experience will greatly benefit us, and we look forward to his expertise in managing our facilities."
Luken's most recent position was the facilities manager at Hamilton Center. Before that, Luken served as the physical plant superintendent with the Terre Haute Housing Authority for over ten years and was the interim director of maintenance for a twelve-month period. Earlier in his career, he was a residential general contractor. Luken earned his bachelor's degree in Industrial Supervision from Indiana State University.
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Few days ago I said good-bye to an old friend as I watch my Treager grill being hauled off. Yes, I sold it because I have not used in three years and it was time to give it up.
Today I welcomed a new friend and long awaited reunion
If anyone remembers my old post about Souvla and Greek (Cyprus to be exact) style of BBQ: http://www.barbecuebible.com/board/view ... ght=souvla
It's been over 2 years of searching and I finally found me a U.S. supplier
The grill is well built and assembly was so easy. It's very versatile and portable, so I can take it camping with me any time.
This grill is not only good for Kabobs and Souvla, but I can also do churrasco style grilling, Taco al Pastor, Gyros, Souvlaki or any other Rotisserie cooking.
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This article was published 9/5/2013 (1564 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The biggest challenge facing Manitoba over the next 15 years is finding a way to get more of its aboriginal youth into the workforce, a Winnipeg business conference was told today.
About 180 business and government officials were told aboriginals are the fastest growing group within the provincial population, yet there remains a huge gap between the labour force participation rates for aboriginal versus non-aboriginal Manitobans.
"Our unique challenge is how do we take advantage of the opportunity the young aboriginal population presents for us," said Richardson Financial Group president and CEO Sandy Riley.
Riley said one of the first steps that needs to happen is for the province's aboriginal leadership to formulate a clear vision of what it thinks needs to be done to address the problem.
And former Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin maintained the most pressing need is to convince the federal government to substantially boost its funding for on-reserve schools.
Martin said the current level of education funding is grossly inadequate, "and I think we're going to have to get the business community behind it (the lobbying effort)," he added.
Martin and Riley were among more than two dozen business and government officials slated to participate in a series of panel discussions on a wide range of topics pertaining to Manitoba's future, including aboriginal issues, education, taxes and the bottom line, business and economic development, and energy and the environment.
The one-day Manitoba: Past, Present & Future conference is organized by the Business Council of Manitoba.


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The Internal Revenue Service was wrong in its processing of tax-exempt organization applications to single out conservative groups for special attention.
But everyone needs to take a deep breath.
In case you were more focused on Mom this past Mother's Day weekend than on political and tax matters, here's a quick refresher.
The brouhaha began May 10 when Lois Lerner, director of exempt organizations in the agency's Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division, was speaking at a conference sponsored by the American Bar Association. As part of her remarks, Lerner apologized on behalf of the IRS for employees in her section who targeted groups based on political affiliation.
Specifically, these workers gave extra attention to groups seeking the special 501(c)(4) tax-exempt designation if they had the words "Tea Party" or "patriot" in their names.
Lerner said the questionable actions were by a handful of "low-level" IRS workers in the agency's Cincinnati office where applications were processed. The ill-advised actions reportedly were discovered in the summer of 2011. By the following January, changes such as removing explicit references to the Tea Party were made to the official criteria for flagging incoming tax-exempt applications.
Lerner said about 300 groups were inappropriately targeted for additional review, with around 75 picked because of terms used in their applications. However, said Lerner, the effort wasn't political. Rather, it was a way to short-cut through the crush of applications the IRS had received after the Citizens United court ruling approved the creation of "super PACs," or tax-exempt political action committees that can accept unlimited contributions.
Apology was just the beginning
If Lerner had hoped her apology would be the end of the matter, she hasn't been paying attention to the supercharged political atmosphere in Washington, D.C.
Her agency mea culpa appeared to be a calculated preemptive strike to soften the findings of a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report on the issue expected to be released this week. Leaked portions of the report helped shift Republican calls for an investigation into the IRS actions and possible connections to the White House into high gear.
GOP lawmakers and conservative pundits made the rounds of the Sunday morning political programs, where they tossed about references to Richard Nixon, Watergate and impeachment like partisan footballs. And they have plenty of players to catch those Hail Marys and keep the issue moving down the political playing field.
The chair of the Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee shot off a letter to the IRS demanding details. House and Senate Republican leaders are calling for hearings.
The White House also has expressed concern about the IRS actions. So have some Democrats and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Investigation, not political posturing, needed
They're all right in their varying degrees of outrage. The IRS must fully and publicly explain its employees' actions.
The agency is the federal office with which the most Americans have direct contact. And because it collects our most private financial data, every taxpayer needs to be assured and confident that the IRS conducts itself ethically and safeguards our information.
But we also all need to let this process play out, thoroughly and fairly.
Yes, it's easy to pick your side and dig in your heels, pointing to any action by the opposition as evidence of its penchant for breaking, or at least bending, the rules. Worse, many see anything that's the least bit askew as an example of a grand conspiracy reaching to the highest level of our government.
As I said earlier, take a deep, cleansing breath.
The contention by some Tea Party darlings that the IRS effort to stall their tax-exempt groups was a key reason for President Barack Obama's reelection is a stretch.
Conspiracies take a lot of cooperation between like-minded individuals. There are only two politically appointed IRS officials, the commissioner and the chief legal counsel. And Doug Shulman, the commissioner at the time of the IRS' bungling of ostensible political tax-exempt applications, got his job thanks to the previous Republican occupant of the White House.
Also, they require that a lot of people keep quiet. The ability to maintain secrets isn't something that Americans seem to be very good at doing, especially not in this Internet age and especially not in Washington, D.C.
So let's wait for the full report from the IRS watchdog office. And let's see what the hearings reveal about which groups, possibly some progressive and liberal ones, too, were targeted.
Until we get all the information, I'm going to go with the assessment of one of history's most famous world leaders and a renowned military mind.
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence," said Napoleon Bonaparte.
Or in this case, don't go searching for a political scandal when the more likely reason is nonpartisan ineptitude.
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Veteran contributing editor Kay Bell is the author of the book "The Truth About Paying Fewer Taxes" and a co-author of the e-book "Future Millionaires' Guidebook."