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Corn futures proved generally stable Friday morning. Expectations for a large US harvest continue weighing upon corn futures. However, CBOT prices were generally steady to higher in late morning action, which may have reflected trader reluctance to push the market very far in either direction before the weekend. December corn futures rose 0.5 cent to $4.4075 around midsession Friday, while May futures were steady at $4.61.
Soybeans remained weak in Friday morning action. After soybeans and oil posted firm showing in Asia last night, Chicago traders were likely expecting similar gains, especially after the USDA announced sizeable sales to Taiwan and China. And yet soybean futures dipped in this morning's trading. Traders may be paying more attention to the current accelerated harvest pace and strong yields than to ideas that next week's weather will slow the gather. November soybean futures slid 3.75 cents to $13.06/bushel late Friday morning, while December soyoil dipped 0.13 cents to 41.00 cents/pound, and December soymeal skidded $0.3 to $425.7/ton.
Wheat futures dipped before the weekend. The golden grain markets are suffering from a general dearth of news. Traders are probably evening up positions before trading shuts down for the weekend, which given recent strength implies a good deal of long liquidation. December CBOT wheat futures fell 4.5 cents to $6.92/bushel in late Friday morning action, while December KCBT wheat futures sank 2.75 cents to $7.615 and December MWE futures lost 1.75 cents to $7.5025.
Cattle futures sustained their recent uptrend. The cash and wholesale strength seen lately are almost surely encouraging bulls in the CME pit. Thus, while beef values rose only modestly Thursday afternoon, live cattle futures continued their late advance this morning. December cattle jumped 1.07 cents to 133.95 cents/pound just before the lunch hour Friday, while April moved up 0.35 to 135.27. November feeder cattle advanced 0.37 cents to 167.32 cents/pound and January feeders ran up 0.40 to 167.10.
Renewed talk of spreading PEDV infections seemingly boosted hog futures again today. Although the hog and pork complex could face major seasonal weakness through late 2013, the recent increase in the number of new porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) cases is reportedly powering the current futures advance. It could presage surprisingly small hog supplies this winter. December hog futures rallied 0.52 cents to 90.12 cents/pound late Friday morning, while April climbed 0.52 cents to 93.45 cents/pound.


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A drop down longboard is great and gets you lots of stability. Going low is perfect for skating and gets you a solid rad ride. but… sometimes you ask your self: How low can you go? or more precise … How low can my drop down longboard go? You don't want it to touch the ground/street … [Read more…]

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text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock markets jumped Tuesday as hedge fund manager David Tepper's bullish comments about stocks offset worries about the Federal Reserve's scaling back on monetary stimulus. The S&P 500 was up 1% to 1,650.34. Tepper, the head of Appaloosa Management, praised the U.S. bank sector and sent Bank of America ( BAC ) up 2.8% to $13.34 while Citigroup ( C ) gained 2.4% to $50.09. "They call it the Tepper-effect ... endorsing this market move higher, but also you had the National Federation of Independent Business survey come out and ... it was the highest level in six months,"said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial. "The Fed obviously has to think about an exit strategy ... but fears have been assuaged regarding the Fed's motives." The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.8% to 15,215.25 while the Nasdaq was up 0.7% to 3,462.61. The NFIB reported Tuesday that its small business confidence index in April jumped to 92.1 from the prior week's 89.5, which proved to be another positive economic indicator from last month. Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser, speaking at the Center for Business and Policy Studies in Stockholm, said that the U.S. central bank should scale back its bond-buying. "I believe that labor market conditions warrant scaling back the pace of purchases as soon as our next meeting," said Plosser in prepared remarks. "Moreover, unless we see a significant reversal in current trends that jeopardizes my forecast of near 7% unemployment rate by the end of this year, then I anticipate that we could end the program before year-end." Tepper took a different view of Fed bond-buying, saying that concerns the bank will wind-down its bond-buying were overstated. "If the Fed doesn't taper back, we're going to get into this hyper-drive market," Tepper said. "It's a backwards argument. To keep the markets going up at a steady pace the Fed has to taper back." "I'm definitely bullish," he added. "I'm still a bull in this country ... guys that are short, they better have a shovel to get themselves out of the grave."


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I am having troubles with require_once() in my application.
So, I have two folders: 'lib' and 'content'. Both are at the same level in the folder structure (i.e. 'Application' > 'lib' & 'Application' > 'content').
Under the 'lib' folder, I have a couple others:
Under my 'content' folder, I have the pages that are displayed in the browser (add.php, view.php).
On add.php, I have require_once('../lib/views/addClass.php');. When I run add.php in the browser, I get:
Warning: require_once(./variables/variables.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\application\lib\models\addClass.php on line 2
I can't figure out why it can't open the file. Any thoughts?
I am running XAMPP on Windows 7.
Relative paths are evil. I personally define the root path of my application as early as I can. That's probably what's going on here, check the path that PHP actually used to try to find the file and see if that's correct.
Thanks for the response.
The funny thing is that I have a variables.php which I define my domain so that I can do something like require_once(DOMAIN . '/application/lib/views/add.php'); so I can avoid that but I have to pull in the variables.php file before I can use the constant.
How can I check the path that PHP used? Are you talking about "(include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR')"?
You can carefully add the path
... to that ini directive, then restart the webservice (Apache?)
However, if you do not have access to your ini file on your LIVE server then you can alter this directive using Apache instructions (in .htaccess say), and even at the page level if you have one single boot file that every public pages is handled by.
Otherwise you will have to adopt another practice such as having a setting in a config file which contains the actual include path.
There are other ways.
Uhm, don't you mean set_include_path? I generally add a path like so:
__DIR__ . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path( )
That works well for me.
Nope, works as I expect ... what's the benefit of set_include_path then?
$a = ini_get('include_path');
ini_set('include_path', 'esra_ym');
echo 'some stuff
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$b = ini_get('include_path');
//string '.\\;\\var\\www\\includes;\\var\\www\\includes\\PEAR;' (length=77)
//some stuff

//string 'esra_ym' (length=7)
Hm, I guess there's more than one way to skin a cat in this instance. I didn't know your example actually would work. Another lesson learned


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DETROIT - Embattled former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's mother helped him pay $500 in restitution to the city, according to a Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman.
Kilpatrick has had trouble making recent payments to the more than $800,000 he owes in restitution for a text-messaging scandal.
Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said U.S. Rep Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick made the payment on Wednesday.
Kilpatrick was late on a payment in November.
For months at the federal corruption trial, the court heard from witnesses such as Emma Bell, who said she paid $200,000 in kickbacks to Kwame Kilpatrick, mostly in hundred dollar bills. Mahon Clift said Bobby Ferguson gave him stacks of hundred dollar bills -- $90,000 worth. Clift told the jury he delivered them to Kilpatrick.
However, Kilpatrick still doesn't have the money to pay the $500 in restitution each month. The first time he was late, the parole department put him on a tether and refused to let him go to his Texas home for his son's birthday.
Read more: Kilpatrick: 'I know it is open season on Kwame Kilpatrick'
The next month, Kilpatrick was spotted on camera at a Walmart cashing in a $2,000 gift from a Chicago pastor -- $500 went to restitution.
When he failed to let his parole agent know about the gift he spent the weekend in jail.
Read more: Kwame Kilpatrick is broke, according to parole reports
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After promptly changing her Post to Rides Programme Secretary, she completely re-designed the rides programme making it user friendly to all. This was just the start of the huge contribution Sue has made to the continuing success of Cycle Bristol CTC.
Noticing a lack of women on rides and in club activities in general, Sue built on the national CTC's "Women into Cycling" initiative to organise and publicise a series of rides during National Bike Week specifically for new women riders, but led by experienced local women members. These rides were so successful they became regular fixtures in future Rides Programmes and saw a steady increase in numbers attending rides.
However, this was just a precursor to what many local riders, existing members and 'stay-aways'
hailed as "the best thing that had ever happened to Bristol CTC" – The Get Gorge-ous Cycle Challenge, Bristol to Cheddar Gorge and back – 50 miles. Sue (and colleagues Jane Chapman and Sally Pearson) envisaged a series of rides (aimed mostly at women, but not excluding men) that would start very easy and then extend gradually, with five mile increments, over several months to the big event. For six months it was a non-stop labour of love, devising routes, leading rides, organising helpers, booking cafés and pubs for refreshment stops, mentoring nervous riders & setting up bikes, in fact whatever it took to encourage the riders on their journey! On 13th June 2009, over 80 riders completed the ride – around a third (plus their family members) promptly joined the CTC and many still continue to enjoy Club activities. Sue then undertook the task of sending weekly news email to all club members to keep them informed of the weekly rides and other cycling events happening.
In 2010 with generous financial backing from Bristol City Council (as Britain's First Cycling City), the Get Gorge-ous challenge was another huge success. This time however, Sue was the driving force behind it all by solely administering the 133 training rides, the Leaders and Helpers, keeping all the riders informed and recording all that they had achieved. Further success followed with 70 plus riders completing the challenge on the day.
All these extra commitments show Sue's dedication to cycling, and is reflected by a booming Bristol group with a growing membership (over 400 signed up to our weekly email newsletter). On and off the bike Sue is a great advert for the pastime and sport we all love.


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Best Video Cards: June 2014by Ryan Smith on 6/30/2014 11:00 AM EST
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EzioAs - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkI would hope that the next gen GPUs should have a bit more VRAM than their predecessors. Mid-range should have at least 3GB and high-end should have 4GB+ Reply
dsx724 - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkWith the mining craze, 290x's can be easily had for $400 new and 300 used. That blows everything Nvidia has to offer out of the water. Reply
cgalyon - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkCould you point me to where the 290x can be found for that price range? (Not being snarky, I'm genuinely interested. Thanks!) Reply
Flunk - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkhttp://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m5... Reply
cgalyon - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkThanks! Is it known if Bitcoin mining was particularly hard on these cards though? Like, is the life-expectancy on these cards especially short because of hard use? Reply
DanNeely - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkIt shouldn't be any worse than running any other GP-GPU app on the card. I've been running boinc science apps on my GPUs since the GTX 260 (generally 2-3 years/card) when I'm not using them for gaming. Out of 5 cards I've had one fan failure and one card that failed in an OS crashing way; both occurred after >2 years of use. A few months of hard use shouldn't be enough to cause problems unless you're keeping your cards for well beyond the point they become obsolete. Reply
Gasaraki88 - Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - linkBitcoin mining using video cards are no longer cost effective. Even if electricity was free, the time it would take to make back the money you bought the card for would take too long. Reply
DrApop - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkblows everything out of the water....doing what? Playing with your game controller?
not in rendering, video encoding, Blender modelling. Reply
Samus - Thursday, August 21, 2014 - linkI think what he meant is the latest generation of AAA games are all optimized for Radeon's, but many supporting Mantle. Reply
LoneWolf15 - Sunday, August 24, 2014 - linkI got my two factory hot-clocked 280x cards for $175 each, in mint, in-box condition. Hard to argue with that. Reply
lever_age - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkMinor mistake / correction: the top table lists a GTX 740 and GTX 730, but they're low enough in the stack that Nvidia doesn't give them GTX branding. They're GT. A "GTX 740" also shows up in one of the paragraphs. Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkThanks. I write "GTX" so often that I don't even register that as an error. Reply
Morawka - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linki think all the high end cards need to match the PS4 and XBone's 8GB mark. Especially with tons of people moving to 4k gaming this year.
Nvidia and AMD have quite literally had to shelf their designs due to TSMC being behind by a lot on 20nm. TSMC missed their forcast by almost a year now and the timer keeps counting.
I wonder if Nvidia is pulling the 880 off the shelf and saying "you know, we might need to tweak this design because of the way 4K gaming is really taking off. Reply
BrightCandle - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkIts 5GB and that is a total for the game RAM and the GPU VRAM combined. The rest goes to the operating system and isn't available to the game. Its more likely that 4GB is the peak usable VRAM by a console port, and so far all console ports have need 2GB for their console quality graphics and only required more for the special PC graphics. Thus its not a driving force for GPUs, PC games is the driving force for more VRAM and it will increase as it always does generation to generation. Reply
Makaveli - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkThanks for making that correction BrightCandle you are 100% correct.
"Especially with tons of people moving to 4k gaming this year."
Morawka what tons of people? you mean with all the 30hz 4k displays out? and all the single gpu's that can push this fps. I think you are getting alittle head of yourself. Reply
Morawka - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkthe $600 60hz asus monitor just came out, others will no doubt follow over the next few months Reply
euler007 - Monday, July 14, 2014 - linkNo serious gamer will go with that 60Hz panel, they will go the ROG Swift PG278Q. Reply
nashathedog - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkThere's plenty of 60hz 4k gaming monitors available, there's even v-sync versions coming in the Autumn, As for Brightcandles so far all console port statement, What console ports? There's only been one so far that was primarily a next gen build and that was Watchdogs and it used around 3.5 gb's at 1080p, The unified ram in the next gen consoles does leave us with the possibility that the next gen ports may be ram hogs unless there reigned in. But nothing is known for sure as we've only had one example so far. Reply
nashathedog - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkWhat console ports? There's only been one so far that was primarily a next gen build and that was Watchdogs and it used around 3.5 gb's at 1080p on the PC, The unified ram in the next gen consoles does leave us with the possibility that the next gen ports may be ram hogs unless there reigned in when ported, But developers are lazy and as we saw Watchdogs was an example of a port that's not optimized for PC properly. But nothing is known for sure as we've only had one example so far. Reply
eddman - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkWell, on the plus side, TSMC's delay is forcing them both to tweak and improve their current designs and reduce power consumption as much as possible.
I suppose not having the luxury of a new process node is a good thing, from time to time, Reply
StevoLincolnite - Friday, July 04, 2014 - linkNope.
The difference between a PC and Console is that a console has a shared memory pool, PC has dedicated memories for specific devices.
Essentially, with a console that 8Gb of memory will *never* be used completely for graphics duties, the GPU's are simply far to under powered for that.
Conversely, something like 3-3.5G of Ram is used exclusively for the OS and other tasks, that leaves 5-4.5Gb of Ram for rendering, A.I, Caching, Sound, Networking, you name it.
A modern high-endish PC will have a 3Gb+ video framebuffer with 8-16Gb of system Ram, usually the OS will gobble up roughly 2Gb of that system memory, with the games non-graphics assets chewing another 4Gb+ in a demanding scenario.
The only time 3Gb should be an issue is with poorly made console ports and running at 1440P and higher resolutions. Reply
Gasaraki88 - Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - linkWhat? First the consoles SHARE that memory between the system and gpu so 8GB is nothing. Second is that the consoles can't do 4K at all. They can barely do 1080p at 60FPS. Third, 4K gaming is not "taking off". The cards required to run 4K games at a decent quality are too expensive. Reply
zoxo - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkI won't 4k game in the foreseeable future, still, with texture sizes growing, more vram is probably nice for future proofing in that regard.
The other aspect is GPGPU, where more ram hardly ever go amiss. So I'd very much appreciate more vram as a default on all future cards both desktop and mobile... Reply
dannydeluxe - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkWhy did you write "especially if it's going to be paired up with a higher quality and more expensive IPS/IGZO monitor."? IPS is not what IGZO is. IGZO can be TN too. Reply
Clorex - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkTN IGZO? How does that work? I thought IGZO was distinct from IPS and TN. So what kind of panel tech does IGZO refer to anyway? Reply
Zizy - Thursday, July 03, 2014 - linkTN/IPS (and *VA) refer to liquid crystal arrangement. IGZO is for the transistors (TFT) used to drive these pixels. Not related. Reply
Jovec - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkVRAM requirements are going to continue to rise for reasons outside of improved visuals; namely that it's cheaper for devs to require more VRAM than it is to work on any targeted optimization. Just look at the last generation with 512MB of total RAM and the relative low quality of ports on PCs with 4GB+ RAM and 2GB+ of VRAM. Reply
SwissCM - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkThere was essentially a fire sale on ebay for R280/R290 cards about a month ago thanks to coin miners selling off. I managed to snag a 280X (with custom cooling and factory overclock) for $150. One hundred and fifty.
It was used apparently but looked brand new, though out of the box. Works perfectly. I wish stuff like this happened more often. Reply
theNiZer - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkThe price/performance approach of this article is a little narrow minded IMHO - of course AMD will 'win', but as a long term AMD owner I must say - driver quality actually matters! Hence I would suggest anandtech to take the 'price/performance and quality' route, or has the deal with AMD (you know, the 'AMD center' is paid right?) blinded the writers? Reply
theNiZer - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkJust to clarify - I buy Nvidia now, paying a little more for software quality actually makes sense to me now due to much frustration with immature AMD drivers in the past. Reply
anandreader106 - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkThe price/performance approach is not so much narrow minded as it is quantifiable. You can't quantify "quality" the way you're implying.
I do not have a problem with AMD drivers, so where you might give AMD an "F", I might grade them an "A". I would give Nvidia drivers an "A" as well, though they are not perfect either.
If you have the knowledge base to make a better informed buying decision for your needs and Nvidia fits your bill, then there's nothing wrong with that. For others that are looking for a simple measure of "bang for buck" that doesn't require in-depth knowledge, AMD wins......for now. Reply
Wreckage - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkExactly. There is a reason AMD cards are cheaper. If they had better cards they could sell them for more. Price per FPS is a terrible benchmark. You can strap a rocket to a golf cart and make it faster than a corvette, yet no one would ever recommend the golf cart over the vette. Reply
piroroadkill - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkDisagree. I don't know what the big problems are with AMD's drivers, but they work fine for me, and I'm sure they do for countless others.
NVIDIA's drivers have been absolutely terrible at times too, causing constant display driver resets. Reply
andrewaggb - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkI'd have to agree. I switched from nvidia because of driver problems and bsod's back in the ut 2004 days.
Using amd ever since (currently running 270x,265,7850,6870 in my gaming pc's) and my kids play lots of titles on steam and origin without problems. A few months ago a beta driver broke minecraft, but their next beta fixed it. That's the only problem in recent memory that affected us.
Obviously you're mileage may vary. Reply
andrewaggb - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkAbout the minecraft thing, It was also fixable by installing the previous driver. I just wanted to play around with mantle so I was trying the beta drivers out with battlefield 4. Reply
dstarr3 - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkI still think my Viper V770 owns all other cards. Reply
vargis14 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkDstar,
You got me for a couple minutes until I realized you were referencing a around 15 year old card:)
Brings back fond memories of my SLI Vodoo2 8mb cards with a p2 300 gateway computer That I had to add 2 80mm fans in the side panel to keep them from locking up from heat. I also remember how it was such a bit hit at a Warbirds convention we had to run to the local Circuit city in North Carolina and buy every 80mm fan and grills they had along with a stop to a hardware store for a drill and a jigsaw. I think I did 10 side panel jobs and around 20 other people ended up finding more fans and doing there cases also. Ahh the good old days. Reply
plonk420 - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkthe 7790, aka 260X is a decent living room gaming card ... before a spare 720p TV moved out of my current arrangement, i was getting ~220fps on SSFIV. a few minutes in DXHR and Ass Creed seemed perfectly smooth, tho neither game really grabbed me.
moved the computer to a larger, 1080p TV and had to bump SSFIV down to 2xAA from 4 or 8x but still am getting over 120FPS. and what i thought was ~40FPS in Saints Row 4 (all maxed except SSAO off and shadows on medium) was 25-30FPS, and shockingly felt "smoothish" Reply
fenix840 - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkI disagree with the guy that said 4k gaming is taking off and new cards should have 8GB. 4k is just beginning to hit mainstream and will probably remain prohibitively expensive for at least another couple of years. I think whether people like it or not, 1080p will remain the dominant resolution used by the masses at least until the end of the current console cycle(another 6-9 years).
As to Ryan's question, I can say that the whole Watchdogs 3GB for ultra thing has definitely made me wait for Nvidia's next offering. I had wanted to get a 780 but now I don't feel I'd be future-proofed for 2 years with the 3GB standard. I think for me 4GB is now the minimum and 6GB is the max. The consoles can't utilize more than 6GB so I think you'd be hard-pressed to ever be VRAM bottlenecked with 6GB.....at 1080p. Which again is what I think MOST gamers play at. Reply
siriq - Friday, July 04, 2014 - linkWell, this is just the beginning : http://www.slashgear.com/tcl-ue5700-ultra-hd-tvs-t... 4K already knocking at the door and it is relatively cheap now and just gets cheaper. Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkIn theory I wouldn't mind buying a new GPU for 24/7 Folding @ Home to replace my GT 430 in a low end system that can't deal with much power draw...but what's astonishing is the GT 430 looks like it's still basically the same card as at least one version of the GT 730! Now that's some serious rebadging LOL
Seems like there ought to be a Maxwell part that actually massively outperforms my Fermi based 96 core GT 430 in the same power envelope...I hope. Reply
vargis14 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkVram amount is why before this past christmas I had to upgrade my 3+ year old 2600k@4800mhz systems SLI'ed 1gb EVGA 560ti SC cards with a pair of 4GB EVGA GTX 770 Classifieds.
They perform outstanding and I am presently saving up for the 34" LGUM95 21:9 3440-1440 ultra widescreen IPS monitor. I am going with this resolution because it is only 2.4 times the pixels of 1080p and not 4 times the pixels of a 4kUHD panel also I love the 21:9 widescreen format for far more peripheral vision along with tons of desktop real estate. I read the review on the monitor here on anand and the backlight problems are being addressed and if you purchase one make sure the date is says at least june production on the monitor. The April models have the backlight problem. But you never know there might be a better/cheaper 34" 3440-1440 resolution monitor out by the time i can afford it, but as of now my heart is set on LG's UM95. Those looking for 34" of ultra widescreen bliss that cannot push as many pixels LG also has the UM65 a 34" 2560-1080 panel for around $300 less. $599 vs $899 Never know I could be happy with the lower resolution model but I would prefer the 1440p model vs 1080p one. Reply
Freakie - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkSo... What about the Titan Black? That is hands down the single-GPU king. I can understand leaving out the Titan Z, as the price of that thing is just utterly rediculous, but I should think that the Titan Black should be on the list especially if you absolutely do not want (or due to space requirements, don't have the room for) more than 1 card. Reply
SirKnobsworth - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThe Titan Black won't offer significantly better gaming performance compared to the 780Ti. The main difference is more double precision floating point compute power and more memory (6GB vs 3GB), neither of which usually matters much in gaming. Reply
DrApop - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkGame, game, game.
Some of us do actual work using graphics cards. Not a single word on rendering capacity of these cards. If you own Adobe cs6 or below, amd is worthless. If you use Blender, cuda is your only option....and fermi trumps kepler.
How about a graphics card roundup from a perspective of people who use these graphics cards for work or rendering video for small business. Not all of us can afford a $3000 graphics card.
To be honest, I am sick and tired of all the talk about graphics cards and gaming. People have been doing video, modelling and other types of high quality rendering for a number of years now, yet have been completely ignored except for a benchmark or two. Reply
Anonymous Blowhard - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkI'd say a good 95% of video card buyers never do anything but game on theirs, maybe 4% do the odd video render, and the rest is you.
That's why you can't find content or reviews with a non-gaming focus.
Besides, the answer for professional 3D is virtually always "go buy the fastest Quadro you can afford." Reply
DrApop - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkHave you watched youtube lately? How many rendered videos by the average Joe are there? There has to be millions. Yes, I do agree that gaming is a huge market. But with AMD and Nvidia releasing what seems to be 5-10 cards every time they do some little update (even just a fake number update) one would think they would do some tweaking of one of their cards to strengthen video/modelling type rendering and market it as such.
A dude/dudette that even does small wedding/events type videos (of which I am not one) would benefit from such a video card......and likely can't afford a workstation like Quadro card. Reply
Iketh - Tuesday, July 08, 2014 - linkLOL you're killing me... you've dug yourself into a false reality
most people render with their CPUs... you get a better quality video this way
GPUs can help with the editing, but a hyper-threaded quad-core is more than plenty Reply
bnjohanson - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkYou're a fringe share of the market; there are publications dedicated to just this and this is where you should roam. Combining, comparing, and contrasting rendering with gaming in the same article is like Road & Track magazine illustrating the performance comparisons of a Porche 911 with a Ford F-250. It would be whiplash.... Reply
Samus - Monday, July 07, 2014 - linkWhere the frak are the new Maxwell cards already? This is ridiculous they're sitting on this flyass architecture and the fastest thing they have is a 69-watt 750Ti. Reply
leminlyme - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - link"Finally, the GTX 780 Ti in SLI is also going to be a viable alternative here. From a performance perspective it will trail the AMD setups by 5% or so at 4K, so while it can't match the AMD setups hit-for-hit it doesn't significantly fall behind, making it practical to get similar performance in the NVIDIA ecosystem."
What's all this then? Unless you pick games with that very ridiculous heavy AMD favor (Which are jokes) the 780ti SLI beats the 290x CF in power everytime. If you use non-reference, then it still wins. On reference, it still wins. The only thing that beats 780SLI by number of gpus is the 295x2, which actually costs around 125% as much as a 780 ti SLI configuration, and has a mess of other downfalls, for like a 1-6% performance advantage.
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All right, let's just get it out in the open. I'm going to come out and admit that my thighs do get chafed during the summer months. Whew! I feel a lot better now. And I know that most of you have issues with chafing (a.k.a. chub rub) as well. It's normal, there's no need to be embarrassed. Instead, why not find a solution, right?
We've all tried the products on the market. Raise your hand if you've used deodorant, powder, Vaseline, biker shorts, and even the stuff runners use to stop the chafing. It's kind of like this endless cycle isn't it. One thing doesn't work and we just move on to the next.
I have good news for you, your search may have just ended. I was recently sent Skindura's SecretShield to review. And instead of throwing on some shorts under my dress, I grabbed this instead.
Now, I will be honest and tell you that I was hesitant at first. It claims it's "100% veggie derived formula creates a breathable barrier on skin. Waterproof and sweatproof yet it allows your skin to perspire. Stands up to hot, dry, humid, and cold conditions. Won't evaporate, like products made from mineral oil, lanolin, water, or alcohol. Fragrance free, no artificial colors, and non staining. Silky formula glides on and stays put."
I was going to an outdoor event where I would be doing a lot of walking. I put this on the inner part of my thighs and headed out. It was correct when it say's it allows your skin to perspire, because I did. I was so worried I would sweat it off.
After 4 hours of wearing it there was no chafing. None at all. Yay!! It didn't leave behind any stains or residue either. And I'm so happy it didn't irritate my skin. It is fragrance free, which I really appreciate. The price is very reasonable. For only $10, you get a 1oz. balm, which seems like it would last a few months. Check out their Etsy page for more products and especially for their awesome SecretShield.
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Minehead 1, Bridgwater Mens 1
BRIDGWATER'S push for promotion suffered a setback on Saturday as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Minehead.
The visitors coughed up a number of good chances, as they failed to convert from strong positions.
Things did not get off to the best of starts for the away side, being caught in position early on and conceding a sloppy goal by their standards to give the home side the advantage after a few minutes.
This goal served as the wakeup call Bridgwater needed and the rest of the half was near domination.
The midfield trio of Joe Sibley, Carwyn Jenkins and Tim Bennett started to take control and dominate the possession and tempo of the game.
This allowed the wingers Liam Pigden and Kieran Wood to start stretching Minehead's defence and enable the midfield trio to bomb forward in to the free space.
Chances fell to Bennett and Rob Morrish but they were unable to find the clinical touch needed to put them away. Despite this, Bridgwater continued to use the ball wisely and their persistence paid off when Jonty Stephenson threaded the ball through to Rob Morrish down the left wing, who crashed the ball in to the D for Bennett to slot it home and put the sides back on equal terms.
Bridgwater started the second half very slowly, with the defence having to be on their toes from the off.
A number of last ditch tackles were put in by Duncan Morrish, Dyte, Upham and Jonty Stephenson and a string of successive saves from keeper Pete Saunders kept the game level.
Minehead had a player sent to the sin-bin and Bridgwater pushed forward trying to grab the next goal.
Harry Stephenson and Sibley pushed forward through the centre, but Bridgwater failed to create or convert enough chances to get them the goal they deserved.
Bridgwater Ladies II 0, Taunton Vale IV 1
TAUNTON Vale struck a late winner to take the spoils at Bridgwater on Saturday.
Both teams played some classic hockey with excellent movement by Paige Martin - Sue Chaplin and Julie Morrish held strong in the centre and cut out the Taunton Vale passes.
At half time it was still goalless, but Suze Daw's added drive in the midfield and Hayley Williams and Emma Hill kept on the attacking pressure, with keeper Sam Hutter making some timely saves to keep the tension high. The play went from end to end, and Bridgwater forced a few penalty corners but were unable to capitalise.
Vale threw all efforts forward and a free hit outside the D saw a forward cleverly dodge past the defence and power the ball into the goal with just a few minutes to go.
Bridgwater Mens IV 8, East Devon IV 2
BRIDGWATER'S fourth team are now only one win away from promotion following a comfortable win against East Devon on Saturday.
Mike Davidge, Jordan Rawles and Sam Beasley grabbed two goals apiece, while Ali Cook and Steve Pigden scored one each.
It was Mike Davidge who opened the scoring for Bridgwater after 20 minutes following a short corner, adding a second soon after.
Bridgwater added a third on the stroke of halftime with Rawles scoring from a tight angle, but East Devon managed pulled one back within seconds as Bridgwater's midfield and defence lost concentration and Pigden's goal line clearance only succeed in putting the ball into the opposite corner of the goal.
Lifted by the goal, East Devon dominated the early minutes of the second half, but once Pigden had broken up another East Devon attack, his pass found Kody Fludgate, who drove into the East Devon area to set up Sam Beasley for Bridgwater's fourth.
While East Devon never game up, Bridgwater were now in the ascendancy.
Cook ran through the East Devon defence to score Bridgwater's fifth, Beasley added a sixth before Wilson and Rawles combined for a seventh.
Excellent interpretation of the advantage rule by umpire Phil Morrish allowed Pigden to score Bridgwater's eighth and the game finished with East Devon's persistence being rewarded with their second goal.
With just three games to go, Bridgwater need just three points for promotion but will need to be at their best when they play second placed ECV Hornets next week.
West Dorset II 12, Bridgwater Mens V 0
A YOUNG Bridgwater V team suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of promotion chasing West Dorset.
After a rush to ensure 11 players got to West Dorset on time, the game started on time in some unseasonable conditions.
At times it felt like the Alamo would have been a safer place than in the Bridgwater defence, as some sweetly struck shots took out Bridgwater defenders.
Simon Brewer took a ball to the knee meant him being off the pitch for five minutes, only to return and defend like a legend.
West Dorset were three up within the space of five minutes and the theme continued throughout as the half-time score read 7-0.
The second half went much the same way as West Dorset racked up 12.


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This article was published 7/11/2012 (1745 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeg Blue Bombers wide receiver Chris Matthews is the toast of the town today as the 23-year-old has been named the CFL East Division's Most Outstanding Rookie.
Matthews, who led the Bombers in receiving, is up against B.C. Lions' defensive lineman Jabar Westerman for the league's most outstanding rookie award which will be presented during Grey Cup week in Toronto.
"It means a lot. There's a lot of good players in the CFL and for me to be up for rookie-of-the-year is a real honour," said Matthews, in a telephone interview from his home in California. "I was surprised when I heard this morning. I was optimistic but I wasn't expecting anything."
He said he'll be in Toronto on Nov. 22 for the 2012 Gibson's Finest CFL Player Awards.
"This means a lot to me personally, but anything that brings a positive light to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers is a good thing," the 6-foot-5, 229-pound Matthews said. "It was a tough season for us but I think we finished it off strong. We really jelled together and we ended up in the top five offences."
Matthews started all 18 games for the Bombers at wide receiver. He led the team with 81 catches for 1,192 yards and seven touchdowns.
He was sixth overall in the CFL in receiving yards and his 14.7 yards per catch was the fourth best among receivers who caught over 60 passes.
Westerman, a Brampton, Ont., native taken second overall by B.C. in the 2012 CFL Canadian College draft, played in all 18 B.C. games. The 6-foot-2, 285-pound Westerman recorded 14 defensive tackles and four sacks.
Matthews is the first Blue Bomber to represent the East Division for this award since defensive back Jonathan Hefney in 2009. The last Bomber to take home the top prize was defensive end Gavin Walls in 2005.
The East and West Player Award winners were selected by 70 voters, including members of the Football Reporters of Canada (FRC) and CFL head coaches.
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HOUSTON - Two people were shot in the garage of a home in Channelview on Wednesday.
Harris County sheriff's deputies said a car drove up to a house in the 1600 block of Upshire near Becker about 10:45 a.m. Someone inside that car began shooting, investigators said.
One man died at the scene. Relatives identified him as 23-year-old Javier Sandoval.
A second person, a neighbor, was wounded and ran across the street for help, investigators said. He was taken to a hospital for treatment. His condition has not been released.
Detectives said Sandoval's girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter was at the home at the time of the shooting but was not hurt.
"This young lady is not providing us a lot of information," Sgt. Felipe Rivera said. "She doesn't know a lot about what happened. What she's telling us is she was in the house, heard gunshots and that's it."
The motive for the shooting is under investigation.
"What was the reason? I know he didn't have nothing for them to just come and shoot him," said Sandoval's mother, Connie.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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Tomorrow, I promise to post something entirely unrelated to embroidery hoops or publishing dates, but for now, I have a couple more book-ish links to share.
You can find out a bit more about some of the hoop projects in this Stitch, Craft, Create blog post, some general hoop info here, and an interview here. But - my favourite part - share a picture of one of your own embroidery hoop projects on the Stitch, Craft, Create Facebook page, and you can win . . .
+ a plain, ready-to-decorate-in-any-way-you-like embroidery hoop
+ some washi tape (maybe to help out with the decorating-in-any-way-you-like)
+ a bundle of embroidery threads
+ and the actual hoop I stitched for the cover.
Which seems like a pretty sweet deal to me. Your hoop can be something you've made recently or an older project, and it doesn't have to be super-complicated - even if you've used a hoop to frame a favourite scrap of fabric or simple piece of stitching, you can upload and enter. The competition is open until Friday, so you also have a couple of days to whip up something new, if you don't have any hoops in your back catalogue.
Despite what I said earlier about tomorrow's post being altogether non-hoopish, you could definitely adapt the idea into a quick and easy competition entry. Paper + pegs + fabric + hoop, might just = winner.


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What is school choice?
School choice means options. That is, the options parents have when it comes to educating their children, like choosing between a neighborhood public or charter school, or using a voucher to send their child to a private school.
Why study school choice?
Public concern about education in America is growing, and with it questions of what works and what doesn't, who has access to choice and who doesn't, and what policymakers, educators, and parents themselves are doing about it. Research sheds light on these areas, helping lead us to better policy and practice.
What schooling options are there?
Options basically fall into two categories. First are schools of choice, all schools that aren't regular public schools—magnet, private, charter, homeschools. In the U.S., there are about 133,000 schools; of those, about 40,000, or one third, are schools of choice. Second are choice programs, like open enrollment, school transfer options, vouchers, and tax credits. Currently, 47 states have some kind of open enrollment policy; all 50 have the school transfer option under No Child Left Behind, 9 states offer public or privately-funded vouchers, and 7 states offer tax credits.
What are magnet schools?
Public schools that specialize in a particular area, like science or the arts, to encourage desegregation by drawing students from multiple neighborhoods and districts to the same school.
What are charter schools?
Public schools that are funded by the government but run under a charter by parents, educators, community groups, or private organizations to encourage school autonomy and innovation.
What is open enrollment?
The freedom to send a child to any public school in or outside of his or her district.
What are vouchers?
School vouchers are payments to parents—from private or public tax funds, or a combination thereof—for a child's education expenses, usually at a private school.
What are tax credits?
A relatively new form of school choice, these are redirected tax monies or deductions that permit parents to offset private school expenses.
Is the National Center on School Choice for choice?
Objectivity is a fundamental goal of any rigorous research, so the center neither promotes nor opposes school choice.
What are the arguments for and against school choice?
For many Americans, the freedom to choose a school is a given. But for numerous others, it is not. For those without resources—money, transportation, district permission to enroll their kids somewhere else—the local public school is their only option. Some advocates of school choice say this is unacceptable. It's a matter of choice. Other advocates believe that it's a matter of change. That is, public schools need to improve. They need more autonomy so they can be more innovative. They need more accountability and competition so they are challenged to succeed. School choice, these advocates say, can provide such essentials.
These arguments make school choice seem like a no-brainer. But there are those who disagree. They believe the movement is not helping American schools or students because choice programs are diverting funds from the public schools. And public schools educate the vast majority of America's children. Let's pour our resources into the schools most of our children attend, say these public school advocates. Lining up more options only decreases the overall quality of education in our country, and fails to promote diversity and community.


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>Racing>Suggestions: Boston 2013 alternative?
Interval Junkie --Nobby
I train with a bunch of guys who qualified for Boston 2013. My BQ came too late for 2013. However, I'd really enjoy training with these guys -- having a race on the same weekend would help sync up the training schedule. Any suggestions? What follows are my general criteria
-Prefer East Coast, though mid-west isn't out of the question
-expected to be 25-45F on race day
-prefer faster course (that is, mostly flat, un-windy)
- Big/Small doesn't much matter -- "known" marathon would be nice. That is, one where if I tell someone I ran XYZ they'd probably know what I'm talking about. But it's a small concern compared to the above
I guess a week before/after wouldn't be out of the question.
Jeff, I'm just looking at my options -- still might decided to dedicate the Spring to a BadDawg series of 5Ks.
2016 Goals: Lose the 10lbs I gained for not having goals
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I was going to say Gansett too. It's kind of the doppelgänger of Boston, with equal qualifying times but no exceptions for celebrities or charities.
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
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"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
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Western States 100 June 2016
Check out the former Exeter, now Gansett Marathon. It is the Saturday of Boston weekend, and pretty close by (in Rhode Island). It used to be that the only way you could get in is by running five minutes faster than your BQ. I don't know if that changed when the BQ standards changed. I did it the first year. It was small and well organized. In other words, perfect. I believe it may be windy, but a flat course.
Sounds about right . . . except my B-day is one month later, so my 3:08 time misses qualifying me by 3minus(+43seconds). Damn.
Sounds about right . . . except my B-day is one month later, so my 3:08 time misses qualifying me by 3minus(+43seconds). Damn.
I didn't know there is a higher qualifying standard than BQ.
5k - 20:56 (09/12), 7k - 28:40 (11/12), 10k trial - 43:08 (03/13), 42:05 (05/13), FM - 3:09:28 (05/13), HM - 1:28:20 (05/14), Failed 10K trial - 6:10/mi for 4mi (08/14), FM - 3:03 (09/14)
I didn't know there is a higher qualifying standard than BQ.
Lots my friend. Look at the guaranteed entry for NY.
Toledo Glass City is not a big name race but is flat and fast. Once the half marathoners split off the course is wide open, unimpeded running. Not great if you need a pace group but good course for a PR.
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"Iron Mike," controversial heavyweight boxing champ of the 1980s
Mike Tyson is one of the most notorious boxers in prizefighting history thanks to his actions both inside the ring and out. His speed, power and angry aggression earned him the World Boxing Council heavyweight title in 1986, making him the youngest champion ever. The next year he won the World Boxing Association title and "Iron Mike" became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. In 1988, in one of his most famous fights, Tyson knocked out previously undefeated Michael Spinks in 91 seconds and earned $20 million. For a brief time he seemed invincible, until he was knocked out by the lightly-regarded James "Buster" Douglas in 1990. Then Tyson began making headlines for different reasons: his brief marriage to actress Robin Givens was followed by a bitter divorce battle; he was convicted of rape in 1992 and spent three years in prison; a comeback was stymied in 1997 when he bit off a chunk of Evander Holyfield's ear in the middle of a match; he was jailed briefly again in 1999 for assault; and at a 2002 press conference to announce an upcoming bout, he attacked opponent Lennox Lewis and bit his leg. (The fight took place anyway on 8 June 2002, and Lennox knocked out Tyson in the eighth round). Tyson's fans considered him a troubled youth who battled long odds to become one the sport's greatest names; his detractors said his behavior gave the sport a black eye. Tyson's fight career never quite recovered after his stint in jail, and he said he "most likely" wouldn't fight again after being defeated in a 7th-round technical knockout by journeyman heavyweight Kevin McBride on 11 June 2005.
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Tyson is famous for his many tattoos, which include images of Arthur Ashe (left bicep), Mao Zedong (right bicep), Che Guevara (abdomen), and a tribal-type tattoo around his right eye and cheekbone… Tyson reportedly earned over $400 million in his career, yet was $34 million in debt before his 2005 fight with Kevin McBride, for which he was paid $5 million vs. McBride's $150,000… On 29 December 2006 Tyson was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona and charged with driving while intoxicated.
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Hey Kujata
I have been kicking around idea of starting this crazy game again and thought I would see if any of my old LS mates were still around...
I leveled BST in this LS and was hoping on leveling BST again, real casual like. My characters name was Dommetomme (little taru), however he is long lost, I would still like to see who is around from back when I played.
EDIT: Also, I was also in PurpleReign (endgame LS) for a short period of time before I quit. If any of those people are still around, and remember me, I would love to hear from them as well.
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Cindy Griffo Sorensen (born 11 September 1961; age 55) is an actress who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. She portrayed Anya in a furry animal form in the 1989 second season episode "The Dauphin". Together with Susan Rossitto she was also in the amphibian transwarp Human costumes in the Voyager episode "Threshold". In addition to her work on-screen she was a recurring stand-in for child actors including Michelle Horn in the Deep Space Nine episode "Tears of the Prophets". Images of Sorensen from the sixth season finale can be seen in the reference work Star Trek: Action!.
Sorensen appeared in films such as Captain EO (1986), The Dark Backward (1991, with Tom Hodges), Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Chapter 5, Journey to the Magic Cavern (1995, with Derek Webster and Matt Winston), I Got the Hook Up (1998, with Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.), Little Nicky (2000, with Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Michael McKean, Clint Howard, Christopher Carroll, Jeff Imada, and stunts by Anita Hart, Brennan Dyson, and Johnny Martin), and Music Within (2007, with Clint Howard).
She also appeared in television series such as Evening Shade (1994) and The Norm Show (1999, with Nikki Cox).


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Your guide will collect you from the lodge after breakfast and you can enjoy the beautiful scenic drive out to Arrowtown for an introduction to the areas' gold mining history as you four-wheel-drive through the local river. From Arrowtown head to Skippers Canyon and its narrow hand-built mining road and let your guides do the driving or opt to mountain bike part of the way down into this historic gorge. Do a little gold panning or head up to the remote settlement that housed the canyons miners and have a wander through the wonderfully preserved buildings before enjoying a picnic lunch and heading home.
A guide will collect you from the lodge and usher you inland to Central Otago and its local artist's community. Find yourself spending a morning with some of the region's best local artists as they welcome you into their beautiful homes, gardens and studios. Indulge your artistic side and enjoy this unique opportunity then stop at a few top local wineries before enjoying lunch and heading back to the lodge.
Take a drive to nearby Central Otago and visit the southernmost pinot noir region in the world. Whether you are a connoisseur or a just an avid fan, Central Otago has some fantastic wines for you to enjoy and extravagent scenery to match. Spend a day in the company of some of Central Otago's most recognized wines as your guide offers you a personal, behind the scenes look.
Enjoy the thrill of the machine and a sense of discovery as you venture through some of New Zealand's most stunning scenery. Experience the freedom and fresh air as you trail blaze round some of the country's best off-road trails, on top quality bikes. All riding equipment is supplied along with passionate and local guides to accompany each small personable group catering for all riding abilities from beginner to the most experienced riders.
Enjoy a stately cruise across Lake Wakatipu on the 100 year old steamer 'TSS Earnslaw' to the Walter Peak Station. This iconic steamer ship will take you to the far shore of Wakatipu to a working sheep and cattle farm. Music and viewing of original coal engine fire stoking en route will fill any spare moment you are not captivated by the scenery.
Travel through Middle Earth and discover why New Zealand was the perfect location to shoot Tolkien's epic trilogy. You will visit many of the film locations and with informed anecdotes of your guide you will feel like you are getting the benefit of the director's cut. Scenery you will see is truly stunning and is within easy reach of Matakauri Lodge.
Spend a beautiful afternoon walking on the shores of Lake Wakatipu and the Paradise estuary with a professional photographer as your guide. After collecting you from the lodge your guides will take you through a tutorial on their Cannon SLR Digital cameras or your own equipment and learn the tricks of the trade to enhance your travel photographs. You will be provided with an SD card that you can fill with stunning images of the local landscape and take home with you at the end of the trip. Relax on a beautiful 5 hour tour of the lake and take home pictures to boast about.


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Get an overview of this hotelRomantic inn with free breakfast and restaurant
Popular property highlights
Situated in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, this romantic inn is 0.8 mi (1.3 km) from Unser Racing Museum and 2.5 mi (4 km) from Rio Grande Nature Center State Park. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and Old Town Plaza are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Property Features
A restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a 24-hour fitness center are available at this inn. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a bar/lounge, meeting rooms, and free use of bicycles.
Room Amenities
All 50 rooms boast fireplaces and offer free WiFi and flat-screen TVs. Other amenities available to guests include free wired Internet, premium bedding, and coffee makers.
Guest Highlights
- Breakfast
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Comfy beds
Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm
Property Amenities
Property Amenities
In addition to an outdoor pool, Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm provides a 24-hour fitness center and complimentary bicycles. The inn offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This romantic inn also offers tour/ticket assistance, a garden, and a picnic area. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 50
- Number of floors - 1
- Bar/lounge
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms 2
- Garden
- Picnic area
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free self parking
- Year Built 1934
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Outdoor pool
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Free toiletries
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
A complimentary continental breakfast is served each morning between 8 AM and 10 AM.
The Restaurant - This restaurant serves breakfast and dinner. Reservations are required. Open select days.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the inn include an outdoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and complimentary bicycles.
- Free bicycles on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Roll-in shower
Property Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-in time ends at 1 AM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 6 children 12 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Property Name
- Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm
- Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm Albuquerque
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Up to 6 children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
Awards & Affiliations
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The full robe is a splendid and most becoming garment. There is a picture of me in a robe and turban. It is wonderfully becoming. It is becoming in the right manner, though. It attracts attention. One can wear it at home, but not outside.
Weakness of faith is the worst scourge in the world. Since when? Since the time of the Prophet Adam (pbuh). People have always been tested by weakness of faith. There is no such thing with the angels. Angels have to have faith. Their faith is certain and absolute because they see and hear. Angels are immortal. They never die. But they are not tested. That is why Allah favors human beings. And how! Which is more acceptable to Him, the angels or our Prophet (saas)? Our Prophet (saas) is more acceptable to Him because he was tested. And we have a duty to Allah to protect ourselves from mental assaults. The brain may try and attack us because of doubts. Avoid that! Always be on the side of Allah, love and truth; be among those who always favor Allah. Satan put on airs, as you know. He insisted he was in the right. "You created me from fire, but men from clay," he said. But it is Allah Who creates both fire and clay. He was proud. He was told to prostrate himself, but he refused. So Almighty Allah cast him out. And he accepted that, because of his pride. "Cast me out," he said, may Allah forbid. "Give me time, and I will prove that I am in the right," he said. "You created me from fire. But You did not choose me, You regard him (man) as superior," he said. He said that Allah was in the wrong and that he would prove it. But Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will bring satan down.
For example, how are satan's supports putting the pressure on? Through hypocrites and idolators. Blasphemy and hypocrisy. All the oppressors and the dajjals have gone crazy with the rebellion and arrogance of the End Times. "Allah did not create," they say. So how did it all happen? They say, "By chance. There is no Allah." May He forbid!
Fanaticism has ruined Afghanistan. America went and attacked fanaticism and broke it. That fanaticism first ruined Afghanistan. But the bigots were prepared for that. "Come and ruin the place," they said. They permitted no economic development or military development. They turned their backs on science, technology, art and everything. Bloodthirsty psychopaths turned Afghanistan into a wasteland. My apologies to the religious sites and religious matters. Then it was all ready for America to step in. It occupied the place with ease, and no problems arose because these people in Afghanistan are opposed to science, technology and art. Could America have occupied Afghanistan if it had a powerful army and well-educated young people and was a high-class country?
And the same with Iraq. They handed it over to some mafia types, Saddam. That foul, stinking guy ruined Iraq. Lacking any sense of art and beauty, he had those tasteless, vulgar palaces built for himself. Just like Gaddafi did. Tyrannical buffoons took over most Islamic countries with just a few exceptions. And America is easily toppling them one by one. Look at Syria; they brought that man in, who was ignorant of everything.
Surat an-Nisa', 35
"If you fear a breach between a couple [husband an wife], send an arbiter from his people and an arbiter from her people. If the couple desire to put things right, Allah will bring about a reconciliation between them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware."
Husbands and wives sometimes want to split up, for no reason. But Allah says that they can resolve it if an arbiter from the woman's family and an arbiter from the man's family negotiate together. Allah says He will reconcile them, if they wish.2012-04-21 22:04:56


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- Tom Riddle's wand, Tom Riddle's original wand that he used for nearly sixty years, until he stole the Elder Wand from the White Tomb.
- Morfin Gaunt's wand, originally belonging to Tom Riddle's uncle, he used this wand to murder his father and grandparents and then used it to plant a false memory into Morfin's mind.
- Lucius Malfoy's wand, which Voldemort took from Lucius to prevent Priori Incantatem from happening between his wand and Harry Potter's.
- Selwyn's wand, briefly taken by Lord Voldemort during the Battle of the Seven Potters because Lucius's wand was destroyed by Harry Potter's.
- Elder Wand, stolen by Voldemort in 1998 after he had been searching for it for months to finally conquer Harry Potter and render himself invulnerable.


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Like any good grandson, Jason Marquis made sure to visit his two grandmothers in Princeton nursing homes over the holiday season. He took his Bureau Valley Storm basketball team to help spread some Christmas joy with some good old-fashioned Christmas caroling.
The singing Storm were a big hit at all three facilities they visited.
"It's easy to make their day being young people," Marquis said. "We've got a bunch of able-bodied young men who need to give back to the community and that seemed like an easy, fun way to offer something back. The kids were excited about it, constantly singing 'Silent Night' every night to close practice as we were approaching our caroling expedition. We've got a good bunch of kids with good families so I think they realized it was a nice gesture and that it is fun to serve other people in simple ways like caroling."
The residents got into the spirit, several following the team and singing along with them, others clapping along and making requests for songs.
BV seniors Frank Gebeck and Jordan Monier said it was a worthwhile experience for the team, who got as much out of their visits as the residents did.
"It was a lot of fun, I loved going in there and making a difference. The smile on their faces, you can't beat it," Gebeck said.
"It was a good bonding experience for the team and it felt good doing a little community work and spending time with the residents and make their day a little brighter. They don't get to see high school kids every day," Monier.
The Storm play a pretty mean game of basketball. Outside of the Storm's Hunter Klemme and his Justin Bieber hair, and manager Paul Donovan, there's not going to be any auditions for "The Voice" or "America's Got Talent" anytime soon.
"I'd hope we are more talented at playing basketball than singing, cause we weren't very good. I'm pretty sure we had some of the citizens turning down their hearing aids as we belted into "Hark the Herald," he said.
"They still seemed to enjoy it ... bunch of smiling young faces must make up for some off-tune, off-rhythm caroling."
That's what the Christmas spirit is all about. The Storm one day may find themselves on the other side of the aged fence and remembering when they took the time caroling and smiling.
Well done, young men.
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I really like Porto Bello for everything: beautiful interiors, sunny terrace with a nice view on one side and the windows showing sea view on the other. Huge breakfast arrived to the room every morning! There was a small kitchen hidden in a wardrobe, which came as a nice positive surprise- we could cook dinner if we didn't feel like going out.
Charming atmosphere of the place, overlooking Ostende /harbour and city/. A nice, big terrace which can be a terrific place to stay if it is sunny /we had heavy rain during our stay, unfortunately/. The breakfast served in the room by the hostess was really rich and spoiling. Too small a toilet and bathroom...they were obviously adapted to become such facilities, but give some discomfort in using them /especially the toilet/. The place, though nice, was a bit overrated, given it's just a bed-and-breakfast in a residential block.
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OTTAWA — While local schoolchildren were somewhere in the middle of
their sixth period or late lunch, the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce
luncheon April program was provided by Kathy Fruchey, Kevin Brinkman and
Jayson Selgo from Ottawa-Glandorf School District.
Superintendent Brinkman, who is retiring after 32 years in public
education with 23 of those years served at Ottawa-Glandorf, led the
school system update with an announcement of potential funding for all
Putnam County schools. He told the Chamber gathering that he had just
come from a meeting at the Putnam County Educational Service Center,
where he was working with other school districts in the county on an
application for an Ohio Department of Education Straight A grant.
County would be eligible for a $15 million dollar grant," he announced.
"We presume the entire grant is available. What Putnam County is going
to go for is technology."
Brinkman explained that he has seen
education change rapidly within the last few years. He anticipates that
it will change even more in the future. "Technology is taking
over—online courses, you hear that all the time. The grant that we are
going for will provide our students with online courses."
to Brinkman, the county is honing in on specific areas for online
offerings. Credit recovery will allow junior and senior high school
students who have not received enough credits to graduate may earn
credits at the high school and through online classes. Course
enhancement will allow students to study a subject online, i.e. a
foreign language or science, that is not offered at the high school.
all over the state of Ohio are going to this. In the past, O-G really
hasn't been on the cutting edge. But we really don't want to be on the
bleeding edge, either," he said.
Brinkman also shared 2013
achievement test results for the O-G school system. As reported by the
ODE on O-G's "Local Grade Card", O-G students met 24 indicators out of a
possible 24, achieved a 100 percent four-year graduation rate and
received a 102.8 performance index score. The maximum score that can be
received is 120. Areas that still need improvement are gifted student
performance and getting students in the lowest 20 percent of
achievement, those who are economically disadvantaged and special needs
students on individual education plans, to the next level.
"Academically, we're doing fantastic," said Brinkman.
the O-G school district is down 233 students since the 2001-2002 school
year, but the numbers are starting to come back up. Brinkman feels this
growth will be a trend as enrollment in the elementary schools are up.
Open enrollment is also allowing students who live in other school
districts to attend O-G schools.
Demographically, 22.5 percent of
O-G students live in poverty. Statewide, that percentage climbs to 44, a
statistic that gave Brinkman and the lunch crowd pause.
district treasurer Kathy Fruchey shared where the school system is
currently compared to historic financial figures as well as what may
happen in the future. She noted that there are three revenue sources for
O-G. Property values, or real estate taxes, is at the legal minimum of
20 mils. Estimated income tax collection for 2014 is $1, 121,000, a
change of 6.6 percent. The largest contributor, according to Fruchey, is
state funding.
"Every governor we've had has come up with his own
formula for funding, the one that's really going to work for
everybody," said Fruchey. "In 2005, we had $5.3 million in revenue
coming from the state. Today we have $5.24. You might say that's less,
but on a per student basis, we've generated an increase of three
quarters of a percent per student per year. There's a lot of fluctuation
built into the public formula. I think at this point, it's just really
uncertain with state funding. I think we have to always be aware of
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TAUNTON thirds maintained their good run in the face of tough opposition with a 29-23 defeat of Somerton in Tribute Somerset 2 (S) yesterday.
The sun was shining and the pitch was in excellent condition for some fast, open rugby.
The game started well for Wanderers. Chris Wand at scrum half enjoyed lots of quick ruck ball and Moses Tuisawau controlled the flow at 10.
The scrummage was an even test but Aiden Cotton in the line out was superb in disrupting the opposition ball.
A quick shift up the blind side and fast hands saw tight head prop James Dean go over for an early try out wide.
The pressure kept coming but mistakes proved costly and Somerton took advantage by slotting over penalties.
Both sides were holding a solid line. The back row of Lee Stanley, Cotton and Neil Symons worked well to halt attacks with some great steals and counter rucking, And from these turn-overs Cotton bagged himself back-to- back tries.
In the second half full back Dave Whittuck ran back some wonderful deep kicks and the forwards set more phases to be spun out to wingers Adam Harvey and Alex Pride.
The scrum started to dominate and hooker Andy Farley pinched a couple while second rows Ben Goddard and Paul Cogan were superb.
Somerton kicked more penalties and grabbed a easy try from a mistake but the flyer Toby Holt got a quick pass from Mark Winter and he put the burners on to score out wide.
Wanderers needed some great cover tackles to hold Somerton but were still chasing the game themselves.
The forwards got into the corner and after several phases space opened up in midfield for Josh Perin to weave in under the posts.
A frantic last couple of minutes saw Somerton throw everything Taunton but the defence hold solid.
Taunton: 1 Wayne Wiltshire, 2 Andy Farley, 3 James Dean, 4 Ben Goddard, 5 Paddy Cogan, 6 Lee Stanley, 7 Aiden Cotton, 8 Neil Symons, 9 Mark Winter, 10 Moses Tuisawau, 11 Adam Harvey, 12 Paddy Dean, 13 Josh Perin, 14 Alex Pride, 15 Rob Miller. Replacements: Vince Carrington, Mark Winter, Gwilym Jones, Toby Holt, Dave Whittuck.


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Pamela Anderson on Sarah Palin
We've been hearing a lot about Sarah Palin from celebrities these days. But just once I'd like to hear someone tackle the real issues instead of Matt Damon citing Internet rumors or a marginally humorous parody video that ends with Gina Gershon stripping down to a bikini making me want to marry it. And, so, like a knight in shining breasts, comes Pamela Anderson to challenge Governor Sarah Palin. Is it over her lack of foreign policy experience? Contradictory views on a woman's right to choose? The Bush Doctrine? Oh, no, my friends, it's about Sarah Palin posing next to a bearskin draped over a couch in Newsweek. I present to you the political musings of Pamela Anderson:
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