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One of the irritating problems which affected the normal functioning of the Hebrew educational system in Palestine was solved today by an arrangement concluded by the Zionist Executive with the Keren Hayesod, Palestine Foundation Fund.
By the arrangement all arrears in salaries of the Hebrew teachers and officials, due since 1927, will be fully paid up within the next fortnight. The situation created by the non-payment of the salaries often caused interruptions in the school work leading to threats of strikes.


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Will standing remain an obstacle to data breach lawsuits in the 7th Circuit?
Reading Clapper and Susan B. Anthony in combination, it is at least conceivable that the door remains open to argue that something less than a "certainly impending" future injury is required to confer Article III standing.
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Given the complexity of today's global business environment and the vast amounts of data running through every company, it's daunting for general counsel and legal teams to consider where to begin to mitigate risks.
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Thank you for sharing. I will have to watch it this weekend. I desperately need something to take me away from all the Obama bad news!
So glad you enjoyed the movie! And no I haven't implemented the 'techniques' yet, but we're working on getting some wood chips to our house. Pronto! Lord willing, both of our gardens will be amazing this Spring and Summer. 🙂
Have you heard of keyhole gardening? My brother recently told me about it and if you are interested I will send you a link. It sounds great for several reasons. It saves bending over,it provides an easy place to put compost materials and provides constant plant nourishment. In our case it makes it a place to plant where the deer can't eat it all.
Angela, I got this delivered to my mailbox yesterday. We only have four chic chicks but I think this would work. You are sitting on some gold. I love this idea! Here is the link:
Wow, this movie sounds like food for my soul-gardening and loving the Lord? What a wonderful combination!
This year all I wanted for Christmas was raised beds (much to say about my gardening passion, huh?), so we were able to add quite a bit to the garden this year. This week, I received my new seeds from Baker Creek and already started my seeds indoors–looking forward to my bathroom greenhouse again.
Thanks for recommending this movie. I'll be watching it soon.
I'll have to check out that film!!! Thanks for writing about it 🙂 I don't have a tv anymore, but I do watch DVDs and maybe I can find this on DVD 🙂 Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather 🙂
Oh we have rabbits and chickens:) Now to learn what to do with all the poop!!! I did not know you could use rabbit poop for your flower garden:)
Your link came just in time for me! This is like lasagna gardening simplified. I had always heard that wood chips would take the nitrogen from the plants, but this explained that away. Love the way he talks about looking at how nature and acknowledges God's work. Thank you for the garden info and inspiration once again.
Elma… I don't know if you will see this but I can't find how to reach you. Rabbit poop is the perfect poop – it has all the right amounts of whatever (nitrogen and stuff) and does not need to "cure" first. In fact, you can mix it up in a five gallon bucket with some water and pour it right on veggies and the like without burning them.
Thank you so much for sharing this video. I just finished watching it and I have 6 pages of notes. Some of the things he mentions were never taught in my Master Gardener class. I'm ready to get my hands in the dirt right now! Blessings!
I finally had time to watch the video and I loved his idea of looking to see how God manages his garden and taking ideas from Him.
We own this DVD and it was a huge blessing! We grow and eat most of our food 🙂 this film was inspiring none the less. Rabbit poop is amazing! Blessing on the new baby, we have five children too! They are the biggest blessings of our life.
Great film!
funny you should post this now. We are on the exact same page 🙂 I am glad you found this resource. Then end of November The Gentle Giant had 300+ yards of fresh wood chips (untreated) delivered to the farm. I was a little irritated at first by the number of piles out in front of the barn, but we have been spreading them on our fields all winter and my garden is next 🙂 If you want to come and get some free wood chips, have at it!
funny you should post this now. We are on the exact same page 🙂 I am glad you found this resource. Then end of November The Gentle Giant had 300+ yards of fresh wood chips (untreated) delivered to the farm. I was a little irritated at first by the number of piles out in front of the barn, but we have been spreading them on our fields all winter and my garden is next 🙂 If you want to come and get some free wood chips, have at it!
I live near Paul Gautschi and have been to his place, you would love it. We had been using his methods and I cannot recommend them highly enough! They are soo much easier than what we were doing and our garden is gorgeous now.
If you want more from Paul, there is a Youtube channel called l2survive with over 50 clips from the tours he gives.
His wife is a midwife, on the video titled "birthing and child rearing" I happen to discuss home birth and homeschooling with him. You will like him even more when you hear his comments.:)
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Ell V Gore Talks New EP 'Sex Static,' Explains the Influence of No Wave + Strip Clubs
The press release for Toronto foursome Ell V Gore's new EP, 'Sex Static,' alludes to bizarre sex parties and late-night debauchery, so naturally, we were intrigued. So much so that we emailed 24-year-old singer and mastermind Ell V to get the scoop on this bleakly sexy set of post-punk jams.
In his response (below), Gore discusses his love of No Wave music, the state of the Toronto music scene and the summer he spent DJing at a strip club. Also, drugs and alcohol. It all factors into the frenetic sounds splashed across Ell V Gore's dark (but not overly dark) sonic canvass. But it's best to let Ell explain.
How did "late-night bizarre sex parties" contribute to the music on 'Sex Static,' if at all?
Late night bizarre sex parties. [Laughs] That's funny. I throw parties that are definitely sex driven, but I wouldn't say a lot of f—ing actually goes down at them. That's another place I'd gladly share with you some other time. I will tell you though that working at a strip club as the DJ for a whole summer definitely influenced my EP. I began writing it while working there. Not seeing sunlight for a period of time can make you come up with some pretty interesting stuff. I wonder if now that I enjoy the sunlight on a daily basis that my new record will be completely different?
I'd guess industrial punk rock is best experienced live. How does playing live compare with recording and trying to capture certain emotions and sounds? Was the latter difficult?
It was very easy for me to lay it down once I figured out exactly what I wanted to do. I like live shows being completely different than the record. In the studio, I get into a headspace where I'm constantly never satisfied with what comes out at the end of the day. Always adding more synth, pedals, noise, etc. That's probably why it took me so long to put something out. Live I don't give a s—. It needs to be stripped down, raw and in your face. No fancy stuff — just guitars, bass and drums.
What was the concept behind the video for 'Lobotomy?' Was the shoot in a location where you've actually thrown some of your parties?
Yes, the video was shot in a space my friends and I had for a brief period until we got evicted. I believe we shot that video in the morning after a huge party we had. There is nothing too interesting behind the video. I knew what I wanted it to look like in my head. Vague storyboard. Seedy but tasteful, crazy lights, transsexuals — all stuff that's really fun and comfortable to me. We just gave the actors drugs and alcohol and filmed whatever they wanted to do, really. In the end I basically just wanted exposure for my beautiful friend Nancy Bocock, who is going to be a total slut star real soon. Look out.
For folks who aren't all that familiar with the Toronto music scene, what local artists do you recommend checking out? Who has influenced your music?
Kontravoid, Cellphone, Hussy, Soupcans, Young Mother, Mexican Slang, Odonis Odonis, S.H.I.T., Tarantula X are all great bands, in my opinion. Keeping the Toronto scene weird and alive. Get into it. As for today, I rarely listen to music. I have the same five bands that I have loved and who have influenced me for years, but other than that I only listen to music to sleep to. I can't sleep without it. Usually Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, sci-fi sound tracks, jazz FM or something minimal that will put me in a trance will do it.
Any specific direction you want the band to head musically or visually? How are you going to make that happen?
We are working on a new full-length album right now that's a little different from the EP. Trying to incorporate more beauty and textures into my songwriting, but I don't see too much change from us anytime soon. Although we have been a band for a couple years … only recently people started caring about us. So why change now?
What's your opinion on the state of music now — not just in Toronto, but everywhere — and what's coming down the pipeline?
I'll pick Toronto again because that's basically all I know when it comes to new music. I see it happening around me all day. I rarely dig into anything new anymore. It's not that I don't want to. Maybe I'm busy? Maybe I'm bored? I don't know. But yeah the state the Toronto music scene is in right now is quite impressive. Hard to make a living out of it, but it's very strong at the moment. The past couple years there has been more and more attention on the different scenes here. Everyone is eager to start a new band and it's not all bullshit. We are defiantly raising our freak flag right now. It's very sexy.
A few facts about you that people might find surprising?
I am a huge sports fan, and I love romantic comedies.
What would you like people to take away from your music, either from a live show, or from listing to one of your tracks?
A feeling of discomfort from people always excites me, but ultimately people can take it however they want. I don't want people to take my music too seriously … even if it's "dark" or whatever. I don't find it dark at all and I'm not a scary person (although I get myself into questionable situations). I started listening to No Wave at a very young age, and I'm just trying to put my own spin on what I dig.
Anything else you want to get out there about you, your music or your personal beliefs?
Be as sexy and dangerous as you want, but please play safe with your drugs.


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Danny Buderus may be the last player to escape being booked for a shoulder charge that results in a head clash, with NRL officials understood to be considering changing the definition of the charge to include ''incidental contact''.
Raiders officials were seething after centre Blake Ferguson was ruled out for up to eight weeks with a fractured eye socket believed to have happened when he was shoulder-charged by Buderus in Sunday night's match at Hunter Stadium.
Referees Brett Suttor and Gerard Sutton were axed after failing to take any action on the field, and Buderus escaped sanction by the match review committee as it can book a player for a shoulder charge only if his upper arm or shoulder makes contact with the head of an opponent.
Buderus could have been hit with the lesser dangerous-contact charge but it is unlikely the review committee even knew the extent of Ferguson's injury from the 56th-minute incident.
A seemingly more serious incident last week, in which Gold Coast forward Ashley Harrison was knocked out in a head clash after a shoulder charge by Richie Fa'aoso, sparked controversy after the Manly forward was suspended for just one match on a dangerous-contact charge.
Officials are understood to have discussed changing the definition of a shoulder charge after last Wednesday night's judiciary hearing to include incidental contact as Fa'aoso would have received a two-match ban if found guilty of the same grading.
The loophole that enabled Buderus to escape a charge is understood to have prompted a review and NRL officials have already shown this week they aren't afraid to tweak rulings by making changes to the obstruction rule.
Buderus said on Tuesday night he had been bracing himself for a collision with Ferguson and had not intended to make a shoulder charge. ''It all happened so quick,'' he said.
''I was getting to him as quick as he was getting to me and I just braced for a collision. It was a split-second reaction.
''I didn't even have time to think about it being a shoulder charge or that I shouldn't be doing a tackle like that.''
A grade-one shoulder charge carries a penalty of 200 demerit points, with every 100 points equating to a one-match ban, whereas a grade-one dangerous contact charge is worth 100 points.
Raiders chief executive Don Furner hit out at the lack of action by the referees after Ferguson and winger Jack Wighton (wrist) were injured in the match.
''I don't care what anyone says, had it been Blake Ferguson shoulder-charging Danny Buderus, it would have been a penalty at Newcastle Stadium,'' Furner said.
Meanwhile, the NRL confirmed changes to the obstruction rule so match officials are no longer forced to deny tries where there was any contact initiated by a block runner with a defender.


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Prohibited weapons, allegedly stolen items seized from Chemainus residence
A 40-year-old man is facing several weapons charges and possession of property obtained by crime while charges are also being sought against a 34-year-old woman after police executed a search warrant on an Arbutus Street residence in Chemainus.
North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP seized upwards of 10 prohibited weapons Monday, according to Cpl. Jon Stuart. One Derringer-style prohibited firearm and approximately 30 knives were seized as well as drug paraphernalia, four portable DVD players, a laptop and a Conn brand saxophone.
The saxophone was believed stolen, but police are still trying to identify the owner.
Other items police recovered had been identified as stolen in a break-and-enter and theft from a barn in the Gibbins Road area of Duncan Nov. 10.
A breast collar for a saddle and a silver nameplate were identified as items missing after the Gibbins Road theft.
The breast collar was from a burgundy Dennis Banzet Western-style saddle. The saddle is still missing and police hope someone who knows of its whereabouts can assist in its return.
A second deep tan Vic Bennet Ranch Western saddle with breast collar taken during the break-in was returned to the owner after a local resident located it and turned it in to police on Nov. 16.
The saddles are valued at $5,000 apiece.
Anyone with information on the crimes is asked to contact North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP at 250-748-5522 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.


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RIM has taken the top spot with its BlackBerry as the most popular smartphone in the first quarter of 2009. Their market share jumped 15%, giving it 50% of the market, while Apple and Palm each lost 10%. A study by NPD claims that aggressive promotions such as the "buy-one-get-one" Curve deal contributed to the popularity. The Storm came in third while the Pearl came in fourth. The G1 took the 5th spot. We expect that this may be a temporary position, as Apple will undoubtedly fight back.
[Editor: Oh, and of course, Apple didn't do any sort of "buy one, get one" with the iPhone, which is certainly helping pad those BlackBerry numbers.]
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So you may be asking yourself, 'What's a Zeemote?' Firstly, you need to stop talking to yourself in public. It's creepy, and it doesn't work with your trenchcoat. Secondly, the Zeemote is a little whiz-bang doodad for doing analog gaming on your mobile device. Come with me into the land where some of us actually carry one around for a mobile gaming fix while our PSP/DSes are lodged firmly in a crocodile gullet.
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Google My Location and Voice Now on Blackberry
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Blackberry users can now search with Google Mobile by My Location and Voice. Tell it you want a hamburger and it will tell you where the closest restaurants are. It will store your location for faster and more relevant results. The application gives quick access to local and Internet news and images. You can test run it on your Blackberry by going to Google. The app will work with Blackberrys running on O/S 4.1+ and with Search by voice on O/S 4.2 and above, and they are working on a version for the Storm.
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iHeartRadio and Pandora Available on Blackberry
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Good news for Blackberry owners. In addition to Slacker, IHeartRadio, with over 150 regional stations, is now available for the handheld. Pandora is also streaming their music service with included custom and pre-made stations with its music genome technology. If you already have Pandora, you can log in on your existing station. The two applications will work with Blackberry Bolds, Pearls and Curves and is supported by Verizon, AT&T and Sprint. Unfortunately, T-Mobile phones are not compatible.
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It would appear that BlackBerry App World will soon be arriving. Although it is not open yet, you can register now to know when it will be available. Purchasing must be made through PayPal, so you had best sign up for that, too. The requirements are that your smartphone must have an operating system of 4.2 or higher and have a trackball or SurePress touchscreen. RIM is also calling for applications so if you come up with one, let them know.
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LeapFrog has been putting out sophisticated learning products for years. Their latest toy is the a Text & Learn, designed for tots whose parents have Blackberrys or iPhones and won't share. There is a pretend browser mode, learning games and a QWERTY keyboard to teach them to type. Recommended for kids ages 3 to 6, they can send and receive text messages with Scout the puppy. The Text & Learn made its debut at the recent UK Toy Fair and will be available sometime this summer for $21.99.
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Welcome to the next-generation. The Xbox One requires that you install games to your HDD, but apparently it's an arduous process for most launch buyers of the new console. Social media has been lighting up with reports of slow installs for a number of different games, leaving users with nothing to do on their new toy but watch TV.
These disc-based games seem to be the biggest problems for Xbox One users, with many claiming the installation process won't even move from 0%. Hopefully, if its a problem on Microsoft's end, they'll get it fixed soon so those who jumped in first will actually be able to play games on the new console.
The website doesn't provide any sources for it's claims, it just says social media has been flagging up these concerns.
It wouldn't however, surprise me as traditional Xbox 360 owners arent usually used to mandatory installation. I know I despise them.


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We've seen Rogue 4 Hop, 6 Hop 7 Hop and 8 Hop IPAs, but now we're filling in some gaps. This is Rogue Farms 5 Hop Black IPA and it is brewed with 5 hop varieties of hops grown on Rogue Farms (Liberty, Yaquina, Freedom, Alluvial & Rebel). This black IPA will now be packaged in 22oz bottles and the beer will hit 5.55%-AbV (of course) and 55 IBU.


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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman to Hold ATV Meeting In Anchorage, Alaska
WASHINGTON, June 24 -- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Hal Stratton will conduct a regional public field meeting on All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) safety in Anchorage, Alaska, on July 8, 2003.
"We want to hear from Alaskans -- how they use their ATVs -- and get their perspective on ATV safety issues," said Stratton.
The commission is aware of 83 ATV-related deaths in Alaska between 1982 and 2001. Nationally, the commission has reports of 4,541 people who died on ATVs during that period. The death rate in recent years has climbed, with commission staff estimating 547 deaths associated with the use of ATVs in 2000 alone.
ATV injuries requiring an emergency room visit have more than doubled in recent years -- from an estimated 54,700 in 1997 to 111,700 in 2001. In this same period, the estimated number of ATV drivers increased 36 percent, driving hours grew 50 percent and the number of ATVs increased 40 percent, according to a recent commission staff analysis. About a third of the victims injured in 2001 were under 16 years old.
"We are concerned about the disproportionate increase in the numbers of deaths and injuries associated with ATV use in recent years, and we hope this meeting will help us better understand why death and injury rates are up," Stratton said.
The full commission held a similar meeting in June at Morgantown, W.V., where more than 30 people representing riders, dealers, training organizations, the medical community, law enforcement officers, family members of victims of ATV-related incidents and others presented their viewpoints.
"We were extremely pleased with the response at the West Virginia meeting. As we had hoped, the presenters provided us a local perspective on this issue that would have been nearly impossible to achieve if we had limited our meetings to Washington D.C. Given the unique uses and the importance of ATVs to many Alaskans -- especially rural Alaskans -- we wanted to make sure that we get the Alaska perspective on ATV use. We'd like to hear from as many Alaskans as possible on this issue," Stratton said.
The Consumer Federation of America and other groups petitioned the commission in September 2002 to ban adult-size, four-wheel ATVs sold for the use of children under the age of 16. The commission sought written public comments on the petition from October 2002 through March 16, 2003. The Alaska meeting will provide an additional opportunity for the public to express its views about this petition, and about ATV use and safety.
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Talking about the upcoming film version of the Disney' hit series 'Hannah Montana', Miley Cyrus revealed that in the film, her character is going to go back to her home.
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To the music network site, Cyrus allegedly explained that though as a pop star, Hannah Montana has traveled across the country, there is still one place that she never been to, Nashville, Tennessee, and in the film, the teen pop sensation will go back to the country music town. "[She's] going to Nashville," said the 15-year-old actress/singer.
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There are few things I like better than talking about smartphones so when Dwight Silverman of The Houston Chronicle invited me to do so I jumped at the chance. Dwight and I will be chatting with the audience today about anything to do with smartphones. It's a text chat so you can easily join and your boss won't even know what you're doing. :)
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NEWS RELEASE NEW YORK, 24 June 2013 – One year after the Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference building "The future we want" – Rio's outcome – will be dependent on children being at the heart of the post-2015 agenda, says UNICEF. A new UNICEF position paper, Sustainable development starts and ends with safe, healthy and well-educated children, outlines three messages that are key for achieving a world fit for children – today and for future generations.First, that the progress of children can be a major driver of sustainable development; second, children are stakeholders in a sustainable world – the ones with the most to gain and the most to lose from success or failure; and finally children can and should be major participants in and contributors to a healthy, sustainable planet. "Children and young people are the makers of a future sustainable world, and, measures of their progress will also be the markers of that world," said Richard Morgan, UNICEF's Senior Adviser on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. "Their learning, their nutritional growth, their safety and confidence, their creativity and ideas – underpinned by freedom from fear as well as freedom from want – will be the markers of how decisively we are moving to a sustainable future for all." The paper makes a direct link between what needs to be done for children today – particularly those most disadvantaged – and how this will affect the future of their countries. For example, roughly 165 million children under five are suffering from stunting – which can have life-long effects on a child's early brain development, health and future productivity. Preventing childhood stunting can help break the cycle of poverty and increase a country's GDP by at least two to three per cent every year, and save billions of dollars in healthcare costs and lost productivity. Exposure to violence also has dramatic and life-long implications – from brain injury and physical trauma to depression and development delays. Children subjected to violence are more at risk of making the transition into drug abuse, criminal, violent and other dangerous behaviours later in adolescence and in adult life. The stresses of climate change also disproportionately affect children. They are acutely vulnerable to environmental pollution, as their bodies and brains are still developing. They are physiologically less able than adults to adapt to heat and other climate-related exposures, and are also more vulnerable to air pollutants. Scarce and contaminated water and food have a direct negative impact on their young bodies. The good news is that investing in children delivers big pay offs – for them, for their societies, and for the planet. For example, a good quality education has major inter-generational impacts. A well-educated girl is likely to have greater personal earnings potential, be more likely to delay marriage and pregnancy and be more likely to access health service support, leading to lower rates of maternal mortality. Educated women tend to have fewer, healthier and more educated children. According to UNICEF, children represent approximately one-third of the world's population, and their rights and participation as part of a sustainable future are already guided by an extensive range of international conventions, treaties, and other legal instruments -- including the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The paper concludes that children's voices, choices and participation are critical for the sustainable future we want. They are not only the inheritors of the planet; they also actively shape it in the present. Inclusive and people-centred development means investing in the well-being and empowerment of children and young people so they can become the effective guardians of a sustainable world. More information about children and sustainable development is available from UNICEF at the following link: http://www.unicef.org/post2015/index.html.............................................................................................. For further information, please contact:Indra Kumari Nadchatram, UNICEF Media, Malaysia(+6.03) 2095 9157+6012 292 6872 firstname.lastname@example.com Sasha Surandran, UNICEF Media, Malaysia(+6.03) 2095 9154 ext. 2236 +6012 658 5160 email@example.com
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Oasis of the Seas- November 6-13, 2010
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
November 6-13, 2010 (itin done in reverse order due to Hurricane Tomas)
Eastern Caribbean
•St. Thomas, St. Maarten and Nassau
•Cabin: 14288
I highly suggest you do not take ALCOHOL or an IRON on board with you they will confiscate your luggage. You will have to go down to claim your luggage. This happened to someone in our party. The ironing service is very reasonable- it was $1.25 per shirt.
Overall this was a WONDERFUL cruise. The ship is awesome - nothing like I have ever seen before.. Embarkation and disembarkation were the fastest and most efficient we have ever experienced.
I found the cabin seemed to be narrow but we were not in the cabin much as there are SO many things to do. My sister who sailed with us stayed in an Owner's suite which was absolutely stunning.
We found the food to be comparable to the other ships we have been on. More We were located on the first floor in the dining room which seemed to be loud and crowded.
We chose to eat at the specialty restaurants- Chops was good, Isumi and Giovanni's were great and 150 Park was absolutely fabulous I highly recommend it. Sinsani was our waiter in 150 Park and he is awesome.
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Central Park. It was nice and quiet and beautiful especially at night.
Shops on Royal Promenade
Loved the coach shop
Pool Area
The place to be- several pools, whirl pools, flo rider, rock wall climbing etc.
We saw Hairspray, Frozen in Time and Come Fly With Me and Oasis of Dreams. All were simply spectacular and I can say this is the best entertainment I have seen on any of our cruises.
Overall I would give this cruise 9.5 out of 10 stars. I would definitely take Oasis again. Less
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Synapse Cache Drive Overview
The Synapse drive looks like pretty much every other 2.5-inch solid state drive. On the front there is a sticker that has the OCZ logo on it and lets us know this is the Synapse Cache drive.
Flipping the drive over to the back there is another sticker that has all of the part numbers on it and the license key for the Dataplex software that you will need to get the drive to work as a cache drive. Just like all SATA drives on the back you have your data and power connectors.
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China and US ink large soybean deal
China and the US have signed 15 soybean purchase agreements whose total value reached $4.3 billion U.S. dollars. Mark Jackson, the president-elect of the Iowa Soybean Association, says it shows that the "seeds that were planted" during Vice President Xi Jinping's first visit to Iowa nearly 30 years ago are starting to bear fruit, "It's just an outstanding opportunity for us," says Jackson.
Xi, the man who is expected to become China's next president, predicts expansion of Chinese trade with Iowa – and the entire U.S. – in the years ahead. He spoke through an interpreter last night as he addressed an invited crowd gathered inside the Iowa State Capitol.
"I want to engage with a broad cross-section of American society to help deepen the friendship between Chinese and American people," says Xi.
The first ever U.S/Chinese Ag Symposium got underway in Des Moines this morning – with U.S. Ag Secretary Vilsack, China's Vice President Xi and others.
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A FORMER West Australian police commissioner has blasted Victoria for not introducing a telephone warning system that has been alerting people in the west to emergencies for more than five years.
In the aftermath of the Black Saturday bushfires that killed at least 210 Victorians, Bob Falconer said Victoria had repeatedly knocked back the system, which could send information to residents under threat via their landline or mobile phone once they signed up.
Mr Falconer, also a former deputy commissioner of operations in Victoria Police, said Victoria's insistence on having a national rather than state system meant it was still waiting without a means of quickly contacting people in danger.
"I suspect that when they say a 'national' system, that behind that word is the fond belief that the Federal Government should pay for it all, and I don't think that's going to happen," he said. "When we had cyclone Tracy, nobody needed a call about that in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, did they?"
Victorian Emergency Services Commissioner Bruce Esplin rejected Mr Falconer's criticism, saying Victoria had been fighting for a national system because it wanted a fail-proof model that reached everyone affected, across state boundaries, and not only those who opted to receive warnings.
"That's a very cynical way of looking at it, and it's disappointing that a person from police and emergency services would take that view," Mr Esplin said. "We're trying to put in place a public safety system that's reliable and appropriate for all Australians, and to suggest it's just a cost issue is understating the complexity (Worse than) having no system is to have a system that didn't work when it was needed."
Laws allowing access to every phone listed in the previously restricted Integrated Public Number Database of phone numbers were fast-tracked through Federal Parliament following Black Saturday.
A fortnight ago, Premier John Brumby expressed his frustration that four years of wrangling between the states and territories about costs had failed to produce an agreement on a national approach. The issue will be high on the agenda for the next Council of Australian Governments meeting, in which Victoria and Canberra are expected to renew their push for Telstra to develop a national system.
Telstra has estimated such a system would cost at least $20 million to develop. WA's State-Alert would cost about $10 million on a national scale and could be implemented straightaway.
Mr Esplin said cost was something to consider, but not nearly as important as saving lives. "We believe, whoever runs the system, it needs to have a fairly high degree of operational control of the telecommunication system to make sure that this crucial warning to the public can be delivered accurately and reliably."
He said the WA system could only identify people through their billing address, not target those in a danger area, done by tracking people through signals to mobile phone towers.
Mr Falconer, who was involved in developing the WA system during the late '90s, said the text warning of extreme weather sent to millions in Victoria on Monday night was a publicity stunt designed to make it appear the Government was on the front foot.
"It was a broad brush that went to every single part of the state and half of Tasmania," he said.
Mr Esplin said: "We used it because we were desperately worried about an emergency event happening in the middle of the night, and that's the only reason."


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BFG PhysX and Performance Updatesby Derek Wilson on 5/17/2006 5:00 AM EST
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yanyorga - Monday, May 22, 2006 - linkFirstly, I think it's very likely that there is a slowdown due to the increased number of objects that need to be rendered, giving credence to the apples/oranges arguement.
However, I think it is possible to test where there are bottlenecks. As someone already suggested, testing in SLI would show whether there is an increased GPU load (to some extent). Also, if you test using a board with a 2nd GPU slot which is only 8x and put only 1 GPU in that slot, you will be left with at least 8x left on the pci bus. You could also experiment with various overclocking options, focusing on the multipliers and bus.
Is there any info anywhere in how to use the PPU for physics or development software that makes use of it? Reply
Chadder007 - Friday, May 26, 2006 - linkThat makes wonder why City of Villans was tested with PPU at 1500 Debris objects comparing it to software at 422 Debris objects. Anandtech needs to go back and test WITH a PPU at 422 Debris objects to compare it to the software only mode to see if there is any difference. Reply
rADo2 - Saturday, May 20, 2006 - linkWell, people have now pretty hard time justifying spending $300 on a decelerator.
I am afraid, however, that Ageia will be more than willing to "slow down a bit" their future software drivers, to show some real-world "benefits" of their decelerator. By adding more features to their SW (by CPU) emulation, they may very well slow it down, so that new reviews will finally bring their HW to the first place.
But these review will still mean nothing, as they compare Ageia SW drivers, made intentionally bad performing, with their HW.
Ageia PhysX is a totally wrong concept, Havok FX can do the same via SSE/SSE2/SSE3, and/or SM 3.0 shaders, it can also use dualcore CPUs. This is the future and the right approach, not additional slow card making big noise.
Ageia approach is just a piece of nonsense and stupid marketing.. Reply
Nighteye2 - Saturday, May 20, 2006 - linkDo not take your fears to be facts. I think Ageia's approach is the right one, but it'll need to mature - and to really get used. The concept is good, but execution so far is still a bit lacking.
rADo2 - Sunday, May 21, 2006 - linkWell, I think Ageia approach is the worst possible one. If game developers are able to distribute threads between singlecore CPU and PhysX decelerator, they should be able to use dualcore CPUs for just the same, and/or SM3.0 shaders. This is the right approach. With quadcore CPUs, they will be able to use 4 core, within 5-6 yers about 8 cores, etc. PhysX decelerator is a wrong direction, it is useful only for very limited portfolio of calculations, while CPU can do them as well (probably even faster).
I definitely do NOT want to see Ageix succeed.. Reply
Nighteye2 - Sunday, May 21, 2006 - linkThat's wrong. I tested it myself running Cellfactor without PPU on my dual-core PC. Even without the liquid and cloth physics, large explosions with a lot of debree still caused large slowdowns, after which it stayed slow until most of the flying debree stopped moving.
On videos I saw of people playing with a PPU, slowdowns also occurred but lasted only a fraction of a second.
Also, the CPU is also needed for AI, and does not have enough memory bandwidth to do proper physics. If you want to get it really detailed, hardware physics on a dedicated PPU is the best way to go.
DigitalFreak - Thursday, May 18, 2006 - linkDon't know how accurate this is, but it might give the AT guys some ideas...
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1056037">HardForum Reply
Nighteye2 - Saturday, May 20, 2006 - linkI tried it without the PPU - and there's very notable slowdowns when things explode and lots of crates are moving around. And that's from running 25 FPS without moving objects. I imagine performance hits at higher framerates will be even bigger. At least without PPU.
Clauzii - Thursday, May 18, 2006 - linkThe German site Hartware.de showed this in their test:
Processor Type: AGEIA PhysX
Bus Techonology: 32-bit PCI 3.0 Interface
Memory Interface: 128-bit GDDR3 memory architecture
Memory Capacity: 128 MByte
Memory Bandwidth: 12 GBytes/sec.
Effective Memory Data Rate: 733 MHz
Peak Instruction Bandwidth: 20 Billion Instructions/sec
Sphere-Sphere collision/sec: 530 Million max
Convex-Convex(Complex) collisions/sec.: 533,000 max
If graphics are moved to the card, a 12GB/s memory will be limiting, I think :)
Would be nice to see the PhysiX RAM @ the specced 500MHz, just to see if it has anything to do with that issue.. Reply
Clauzii - Thursday, May 18, 2006 - linkNot test - preview, sorry. Reply
hatsurfer - Thursday, May 18, 2006 - linkI just got my card today from Newegg. I only had about an hour to play before I left for work. I wanted to see the effects when I destroyed a building. I played through the first mission on 1600x1200 and my frames stayed a solid 30 with v-sync enabled due to playing on a large LCD. It was pretty nice to see the MANY building parts flying in every direction with the smoke effect. All in all it looked pretty cool and realistic. I am currently gaming on a EVGA 7800 GTX awaiting my 7900 GTX from EVGAs step-up program. I would like to take full advantage of my optimal resolution 1920x1200 but my frames dropped to the 20's. I can only imagine my 7900 GTX will get me my full HD resolution, which I can't sustain on a single 7800 GTX anyway.
I think anyone with a high-end system isn't going to have any hangups when it comes to frame rates. Is this for low end budget gaming systems? Probably not just yet, but neither is the price tag of $300+. So, right now it's a nice little extra piece of eye candy for me to enjoy and in the end that's what is important anyway.
I hope this technology takes off and drives the number of supported titles up and if it gets incorporated into other components so be it (I really hope so too!). We'll just do another upgrade that we're all used to doing every few months anyway. Such it has always been at the cutting edge of PC'ing and such it will always be. Reply
Mabus - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkWell I wonder how long before ATI or Nvidia Buys this company and integrates the logic into it's GPU. Not only will this allow better performance but it will allow optimisations with drivers and communications and instruction exclusivity. This will be very nice smaller card, one less space used on mobo and cooler running etc etc..
remember the seperate match co-pro well this tech will definatly go the same way, it is only a matter of time. And face it the current benchies show that time is what we need
to get that performance where us gamers want it.
Mabus signing off..... Reply
Trisped - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkWhy didn't you compare to stats of Asus card with those of the BFG card. Sound, power, if they are the same then say so, otherwise what is the point of reviewing two different cards for the same thing?
COV is an unfair test- Max Physics Debris Count should be the same so you can see if there is a performance boost at the same level. I know that if I give my GPU 1000 more objects it is going to go much slower, with or without the PhysX card. What I want to see is running with 1500 and 422 "Debris" both with and without the card.
I would like to see the tests run with not only 2 different processors, but what about an Intel dual core and what about with different video card configurations? If you have a lower end video card should you expect to have less of an FPS impact or more?
How long before there is a PCIe card? Would there be a performance boost using PCIe? I would think that if the physics and GPU were on the same bus then there would be less latency as well as faster communication. I think the fact that the PhysX card wouldn't have to wait for the processor to stop sending it info before it started transmitting would also be important to speed.
"If spawning lots of effects on the PhysX card makes the system stutter, then it is defeating its won purpose." Should be one, not won.
VooDooAddict - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkI'm waiting to pass judgment on this tech till after I see reviews with high end Dual core CPUs and a PhysX board connected via PCI-Express.
I just can't see how connection something like this via PCI was ever going to work. This isn't mainly a one way communication like an audio board during gaming. Send the information needing to be output, the sound board outputs it. My understanding is that the PhysX board also needs to communicate the calculated information back to the CPU and GPU.
Now would be a great time for Nvidia to step up with some new demos for their physics hardware acceleration via SLI. For an extra couple bills ... SLI right now is much more justifiable then this physics hardware. AND SLI is really one of those things that isn't a nessesity. With SLI based physics you could run at low physics and max frames for Multiplayer twitch games... just enable hardware physics for Single player and MMOs. I'm hoping that will give you the best of both worlds. I'll be waiting for reviews like that. Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkYou are correct in that PhysX requires two way communication during gameplay in many cases. This hits on why I think the demos run smoother than the games out right now. In GRAW and CoV, data needs to be sent to the PhysX card, the PPU needs to do some work, and data needs to be sent back to the CPU.
In the demos that use the PhysX hardware for everything, as the scene is being setup, data is loaded into the PhysX on-board memory. Interacting with the world requires much less data to be sent to the PPU per frame, as all the objects have already been created, setup and stored locally. This should significantly cut down on traffic and provide less of a performance impact while also enabling more complicated effects and physics. Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkjust going to say again that the above is just a theory Reply
poohbear - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkyea yea yea, so how do we overclock these things? :) Reply
Tephlon - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkI know this doesn't have EXACT bearing on the article, but I thought some readers would be interested.
I now own one of these cards (BFG Physx PPU), and it doesn't seem as bad to me as the benchmarks really make it out to be. I installed the card and played the game with the exact settings I had previously, and didn't FEEL a difference. I havn't straight benchmarked it, though, so the numbers might very well end up similar to anandtech's findings.
Although it has no real bearing on gameplay, I have noticed more with the addition of the PPU than anyone ever credits. Surrounding cars to rock more accuratly when nearby explosions errupt, and their suspension and doors move more accurately due to bullets and explosions. Even lightpoles bend and react better than without the card. I even had one explosion that caused the 'cross bars' (not sure what to call them) on top of the lightpole to break loose and swing back and forth for a good 20 seconds until they broke free and hit the ground. It was really neat. I know its not important stuff, but I can SEE a positive difference with the card, but don't really FEEL the lost performance it's claimed to have. Often I do see the fraps meter on my G15 lcd drop dramatically for a VERY quick instant, but I don't feel this in actual gameplay. I also believe this also happened on my rig before I had the PPU. Maybe its just that I'm not a 'BEST PERFORMANCE EVER' kinda guy. I've heard guys on forums complain about their FPS dropping from 56fps to 51fps. So what. This isn't a run&gun game. My roommate plays co-op with me and fraps tells him he's running 20fps average. It doesn't look it to me, and he also doesn't feel it either. An issue with fraps? Maybe. But again my point is as this point the loss of fps (for me) doesn't equal loss of performance, so I'm pleased with the card. I'm also curious for others that own a card to throw up their comments as well.
Again, my findings aren't that SCIENTIFIC, but they're real life. I enjoy it, and REALLY hope they see enough support to get better implimentation in future games. I think improved support and tweaked drivers will convince the masses. I hope it happens soon, or it might be a lost cause.
For those interested. My rig.
Asus A8N32-SLI
Corsair XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) TWINX2048-3500LLPRO
BFG Geforce 7900GTOC x2
BFG Ageia Physx PPU
BFG 650watt PSU
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
NEC Black 16X DVD+R
WD 36gb Raptor
WD 320gb SATA
Tephlon - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkooops. I guess I probebly have a cpu to go with that rig. tehe.
AMD Athlon X2 4400+ Toledo
Toodles. Reply
poohbear - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkare u sure those physics effects are'nt already there without the physix's card? havoc states GRAW already uses the havoc engine to begin w/, physix only adds extra particles for grenades and stuff. Reply
Tephlon - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkyeah, no. I know that havoc is doing genaric physics. And light poles DO normally bend without the card. Cars do shake and explode. Cans can be kicked. All that stuff is normally threre.
I'm just saying the card seems to accentuate all of it. Not just more particles, but better explosions. Better ragdoll. Pots break a bit different, etc.
It was definately there before, but I think it all looks better with the physx. My roommate said he noticed the difference as well. I let him borrow it for a while while I was at work.
Again, I know I have no proof, atleast not to show you atm... but to me it all seems better than before.
If I get a chance I'll fraps a run through a level once with and once without, and throw the links up here. I personally have seen several sites' comparison vids, but I don't feel they show everything very well.
Again, I'd heard it only adds particles to explosions, like you did, but I swear I can see the difference with everything.
Anyone ever heard Ageia say EXACTLY what difference there is for GRAW with their card? Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkPerception of experiences can greatly be affected by expectations. None of us are ever able to be 100% objective in all cases.
That being said, in your first post you mention not "feeling" the performance impact. If you'll take a look at our first article on PhysX (and the comments) you will notice that I reported the same thing. There aren't really huge slow downs in GRAW, but only one or two frames that suffer. If the errant frame(s) took a quarter of a second to render, we would definitely notice it. But while an AVERAGE of 15 frames per second can look choppy having a frame or two take 0.066 seconds to render is not going to significantly impact the experience.
Minimum framerates are important in analysing performance, but they are much more difficult to properly understand than averages. We want to see high minimum framerates becuase we see that as meaning less slow-down or stutter. But generally (in gpu limited situations) minimum framerates aren't outliers to the data set -- they mark a low point where framerate dips down for a good handful of frames. In the case of GRAW with PhysX, the minimum is really non contiguous with the performance of the rest of the frames.
CoV is another story. The framerate drops several times and we see stuttering. It's definitely something easily "felt" during gameplay. But CoV Issue 7 is still beta, so we might see some performance imporvements when the code goes live. Reply
Tephlon - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkDerek, I totally agree. I wasn't arguing about anything technicial the article, or the relativity minimum fps has on the 'feel' or 'playablilty'. It just doesn't seem like most readers (here and elsewhere) understand it. I also won't hide the fact that I DO WANT this tech to succeed, partly because I heard them speak at quakecon and I liked what I heard/saw, and partly because I've dropped $300 in good faith that my early adoption will help the cause and push us forward in the area of true physics in gaming. And even though my perception is undoubtably affected because of my expectations, its not entirely misled either. Even with my bias I can be realistic and objective. If this thing did nothing for visuals/gameplay and killed my experiance with crappy performance, I'd of course have a different opinion on the matter.
I was simply saying that readers seem to lose sight of the big picture. Yeah, its in the rough stages. Yeah, it only works with a few games. I'm not here to pitch slogans and rants to make you buy it, I just wanted people to understand that device 'as it is now' isn't without its charm. It seems the only defense that's brought in for the card is that the future could be bright. It DOES have some value now, if your objective about it and not out to flame it immediately. I like what it does for my game, even if its not revolutionary. I just hope that there are enough people objective enough to give this company/card a chance to get off the ground. I DO think its better for industry if the idea of a seperate physics card can get off the ground.
I dunno, maybe I see too much of 3DFX in them, and it gets me nostalgic.
Again, Derek, I wasn't knocking on the report at all, and I hope it wasn't taken that way. I think it said just what it was supposed to or even could say. I was more trying to get the readers a balenced look at the card on the use side, since straight numbers send people into frenzies.
Did all that get to what I was trying to convey? I dunno, I confuse myself sometimes. I wasn't meant to be an author of ANYTHING. In any case, good luck to you.
Good luck to all. Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linklol, I certainly didn't take it as a nagative commentary on anything I said. I was trying to say that I appreciate what you were saying. :-)
At a basic level, I very much agree with your perspective. The situation does resemble the 3dfx era with 3d graphics. Hardware physics is a good idea, and it would be cool if it ends up working out.
But is this part the right part to get behind to push the industry in that direction?
AnandTech's first and foremost responsibility is to the consumer, not the industry. If the AGEIA PhysX card is really capable of adding significant value to games, then its success is beneficial to the consumer. But if the AGEIA PhysX card falls short, we don't want to see anyone jump on a bandwagon that is headed over a cliff.
AGEIA has the engine and developer support to have a good chance at success. If we can verify their capabilities, then we can have confidence in recommending purchasing the PhysX card to people who want to push the agenda of physics hardware. There is a large group of people out there who feel the same way you do about hardware and will buy parts in order to benefit a company or industry segment. If you've got the ability and inclination, that's cool.
Honesly, most people that go out and spend $300 on a card right now will need to find value in something beyond what has been added in GRAW, CoV, and the near term games. If we downplayed the impact of the added effects in GRAW and CoV, its because the added effects are no where near worth $300 they cost. It is certainly a valid perspective to look towards the future. You have the ability to enjoy the current benefits of the hardware, and you'll already have the part when future games that make more compelling use of the technology come out.
We just want to make sure that there is a future with PhysX before start jumping up and down screaming its praises.
So ... I'm not trying to say that anything is wrong with what you are saying :-)
I'm just saying that AnandTech has a heavy responsibility to its readers to be more cautious when approaching new markets like this. Even if we would like to see it work out. Reply
Tephlon - Thursday, May 18, 2006 - linktrue. I do get your point.
And again, you're right. With a more balenced perspective on the matter, I sure can't see you suggesting a 300 dollar peice of hardware on a hunch either. I do respect how your articles are based on whats best for the little guy. I think I'd honestly have to say, if you were to suggest this product now AS IF it was as good as sliced bread... I would be unhappy with my purchase based on your excitment for it.
teheh. Yeah, you made the right call with your article.
Touche', Derek. TOUCHE'
thehe. I guess not everyone can gamble the $300, and thats understandable. :-(
Like I said... here's hopin'. :-D Reply
RogueSpear - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkI'm not an expert on CPUs, but all of this has me wondering - isn't physics type code the kind of mathematical code that MMX and/or SSE and their follow-ons were supposed to accelerate? I'm sure physics was never mentioned way back then, but I do remember things like encryption/decryption and media encoding/decoding as being targets for those technologies. Are game developers currently taking advantage of those technologies? I know that to a certain point there is parity between AMD and Intel CPUs as far as compatibility with those instruction sets. Reply
apesoccer - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkSeems like this was a pretty limited review...Were you guys working with a time table? Like 4hrs to use this card or something?
I think i would have tried more then just single core cpu's...since we're heading mostly towards multicore cpus. I also would have run tests at the same lvl (if possible; it feels like we're intentionally being kept in the dark here) to compare software and hardware with the same number of effects, at different levels and at resolutions...At low res, you're maxing the cpu out right? Well, then if the ppu uses 15% of the cpu but outputs 30% more effects, you're being limited by the cpu even more...You should see greater returns the higher the resolution you go...Since you're maxing your gpu's out more (rather then the cpus) the higher the res. All of this is moot if the overhead cpu usage by the ppu can be run on a second cpu core...since that's where the industry is headed anyway. And making software/hardware runs on a dual core should give us a better idea of whether or not this card is worth it. Reply
peternelson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkTo the people who say it's a decelerator. It is a little slower but it is NOT doing the same amount of work. The visual feast is better in the hardware accelerated game than without the card. But we need a way to quantify that extra as just "fps" ignores it.
Second, Anandtech PLEASE get yourselves a PCI bus analyser, it need not be expensive. I want to know the % utilisation on the PCI bus. At 32 bit 33MHz it is potential max 133 MByte/sec.
How much of that is being used to talk to and from the PHYSX card, and is it a bottleneck that would be solved by moving to PCI Express? Also in your demo setups, considering what peripherals you are using, are you hogging some of the PCI bandwidth for (say) a PCI based soundcard etc which would be unfair on the physx card.
ALSO one of the main purposes of THIS review I would say is to COMPARE the ASUS card with the BFG card. You don't seem to do that. So assuming I want a physx card, I still don't know which of the two to buy. Please compare/contrast Asus vs BFG. Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkhonestly, the asus and bfg cards perform identically, pull about the same ammount of power and produce similar levels of noise.
If you are trying to decide, buy the cheaper one. There aren't enough differences to make one better than the other (unless blue leds behind fans really does it for you).
We didn't do a more direct comparison because we have an engineering sample ASUS part, while our BFG is full retail. We generally don't like to make direct comparisons with preproduction hardware in anything other than stock performance. Heat, noise, power, pcb layout, and custom drivers can all change dramatically before a part hits retail.
We will look into the pci bus utilization. Reply
peternelson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - link
Thanks, so, I will have to choose on features like the nice triangle box on the BFG ;-)
In gaming on older machines where both the sound and network and possibly other things are all on the same PCI bus, then either the physx or the other stuff could suffer from bus contention.
I hope you can either ask or do some analysing to watch the amount of traffic there is. Reply
apesoccer - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkThat's a good question as well...especially for those of us using other additional pci cards... Reply
mbhame - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkYou guys are giving Ageia WAY too much slack. :(
Call a spade a spade and save face. Reply
apesoccer - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkThere's no use in throwing in the towel before we get in the ring... Reply
mbhame - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkThrowing in the towel...? How do you infer that from what I said?
I said "Call a spade a spade". Whether Anandtech.com chooses an easy-out path of "Currently the PPU sucks..." (not in so many words) or not, there is tremendous grace extended to Ageia around here, and frankly, it stinks.
Obviously there is a fine line between journalism with respect (which 99% of other websites are ignorant of) and brown-nosing, or needing to get a pair. All I'm saying is it's not very clear where this site's stand is amongst these possibilities. Reply
Trisped - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkI think everyone is being cautiously optimistic that the tech will improve. I wasn't on the 3d accelerator screen when that first happened, but from what I hear those cards were expensive and actually were worse then not having them. But now they are required for every game and windows vista.
We want to wait to see if they can work out the bugs, give us better comparisons, and to compare it to the GPU only systems that are suppose to be coming. Once we have all the facts we can pass a final verdict, until then everything is guess work.
apesoccer - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkThere's alot of grace given to it everywhere...I have yet to see an article bash them. There has been a lot of interest in this product, and frankly, the general concensis is that we want to see it succeed. That aside, i don't think they can make a precise statement saying...This product is going to suck balls...or this is going to be the next Sliced Bread...
My problem with it, is the lack of depth to the findings (and your statement "Call a spade a spade"...), I wish they had tried more kinds of CPU's with different kinds of GPU's, at several resolutions at both the same settings hardware/software and different ones. Without those tests, you can't really say you've tested the product.
Basically...because they haven't done enough work with it yet [imo](due to time restraints or whatever...), we can't make any real statements about this product. Other then, at the one hardware setting they ran it at, compared to the different software setting ( >< ), the software setting scored better in fps. Which tells us what? The ppu uses overhead cpu cycles when doing at least 3x the amount of work the cpu would be doing at the lower sofware settings. So lets see some different settings (and some of the hardware/software running at the same), so we can get a better idea of the big picture. Reply
mbhame - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkI don't agree with your assessment on the general consensus. My circles vehemently want it to fail as it's an additional cost to our PCs, an additional heat source, an additional power requirement... and for what?
I think you're kidding yourself if you think some other CPU:GPU combination would yield appreciably-different results. Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkwe're working very hard to find ways to more extensively test the hardware. you've hit the nail on the head with why people haven't been tearing this part up. we are certainly suspicious of its capabilities at this point, but we just don't have the facts to draw a hard line on its real value (exept in the context of "right now"). Reply
mbhame - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkWell then make stronger statements in the present-tense. Just because someone makes a product designed to do "X", it doesn't mean that they'll succeed in doing so. You guys come across as if it's a given the PPU *will be* a success and in doing so generate a level of expectation of success. As it stands now this is a total flop - treat it as such. Then IF and when they DO make it worthwhile for some appreciable reason then we can marvel at their about-face collectively.
It's not cynicism, it's reality. Reply
AnnonymousCoward - Friday, May 19, 2006 - linkWhy do you need stronger criticism? You've been able to determine what's going on, and that's because the performance charts speak for themselves. I'd rather read what's currently on the conclusion page, instead of the obvious "This product's performance sucks with current games." Reply
AndreasM - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkIn http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php...">some cases the PPU does increase performance. The next version of Ageia's SDK (ETA July) is supposed to support all physics effects in software, ATM liquid and cloth effects are hardware only; which is why some games like Cellfactor can't really run in software mode properly (yet). Hopefully Immersion releases a new version of their demo with official software support after Ageia releases their 2.4 SDK. Reply
UberL33tJarad - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkHow come there's never a direct comparison between CPU and PPU using the same physics? Making the PPU do 3x the work and not losing 3x performance doesn't seem so bad. It puts the card in a bad light because 90% of the people who will read this article will skip the text and go straight for the graphs. I know it can't be done in GRAW without different sets of physics (Havok for everything then Ageia for explosions) why not use the same Max Physics Debris Count? Reply
Genx87 - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkI am still in contention it is a GPU limitation of having to render the higher amount of objects.
One way to test this is to setup identical systems but one with SLI and the other with a single GPU.
1. Test the difference between the two systems without physics applied so we get an idea of how much the game scales.
2. Then test using identical setups using hardware physics and note if we see any difference. My theory is the amount of objects that need to be rendered is killing the GPU's.
There is definately a bottleneck and it would be agreat if an article really tried to get to the bottom of it. Is it CPU, PPU or GPU? It doesnt appear that CPU is "that" big an issue as the difference between the FX57 and Opty 144 isnt that big.
UberL33tJarad - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkWell that's why I would be very intersted if some benchmarks could come out of http://pp.kpnet.fi/andreasm/physx/">this demo. The low res and lack of effects and textures makes it a great example to test CPUvsPPU strain. One guy said he went from http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p..."><5fps to 20fps, which is phenomenal.
You can run the test in software or hardware mode and has 3k objects interacting with each other.
Also, if you want to REALLY strain a system, try http://www.novodex.com/rocket/NovodexRocket_V1_1.e...">this demo. Some guy on XS tried a 3ghz Conroe and got <3fps. Reply
DigitalFreak - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkGood idea. Reply
maevinj - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - link"then it is defeating its won purpose"
should be one
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkActually, I think it was supposed to be "own", but I reworded it anyway. Thanks. Reply
Nighteye2 - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - link2 things:
I'd like to see a comparison done with equal level of physics, even if it's the low level of physics. Such a comparison could be informative about the bottlenecks. In CoV you can set the number of particles - do tests at 200 and 400 without the physx card, and tests at 400, 800 and 1500 with the physx card. Show how the physics scale with and without the physx card.
Secondly, do those slowdowns also occur in Cellfactor and UT2007 when objects are created? It seems to me like the slowdown is caused by suddenly having to route part of the data over the PPU, instead of using the PPU for object locations all the time.
DerekWilson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkThe real issue here is that the type of debris is different. Lowering number on the physx cards still gives me things like packing peanuts, while software never does.
It is still an apples to oranges comparison. But I will play around with this. Reply
darkdemyze - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkSeems there is a lot of "theory" and "ideal advantages" surrounding this card.
Just as the chicken-egg comparison states, it's going to be a tough battle for AGEIA to get this new product going with lack of support from developers. I seriuosly doubt many people, even the ones who have the money, will want a product they don't get anything out of besides a few extra boxes flying through the air or a couple of extra grenade shards coming out of the explosion when there is such a decrament in performance.
At any rate, seems like just one more hardware component to buy for gamers. Meh. Reply
phusg - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - link> Performance issues must not exist, as stuttering framerates have nothing to do with why people spend thousands of dollars on a gaming rig.
What does this sentence mean? No, really. It seems to try to say more than just, "stuttering framerates on a multi-thousand dollar rig is ridiculous", or is that it? Reply
nullpointerus - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkI believe he means that the card can't survive in the market if it dramatically lowers framerates on even high end rigs. Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkcheck plus ... sorry if my wording was a little cumbersome. Reply
QChronoD - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkIt seems to me like you guys forgot to set a baseline for the system with the PPU card installed. From the picture that you posted in the CoV test, the nuber of physics objects looks like it can be adjusted when the AGIEA support is enabled. You should have ran a benchmark with the card installed but keeping the level of physics the same. That would eliminate the loading on the GPU as a variable. Doing so would cause the GPU load to remain nearly the same with the only difference being to do the CPU and PPU taking time sending info back and forth. Reply
Brunnis - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkI bet a game like GRAW actually would run faster if the same physics effects were run directly on the CPU instead of this "decelerator". You could add a lot of physics before the game would start running nearly as bad as with the PhysX card. What a great product... Reply
DigitalFreak - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkI'm wondering the same thing.
"We still need hard and fast ways to properly compare the same physics algorithm running on a CPU, a GPU, and a PPU -- or at the very least, on a (dual/multi-core) CPU and PPU."
Maybe it's a requirement that the developers have to intentionally limit (via the sliders, etc.) how many "objects" can be generated without the PPU in order to keep people from finding out that a dual core CPU could provide the same effects more efficiently than their PPU. Reply
nullpointerus - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkWhy would ASUS or BFG want to get mixed up in a performance scam? Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkOr EPIC with UnrealEngine 3?
Makes you wonder what we aren't seeing here doesn't it? Reply
Visual - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkso what you're showing in all the graphs is lower performance with the hardware than without it. WTF?
yes i understand that testing without the hardware is only faster because it's running lower detail, but that's not clearly visible from a few glances over the article... and you do know how important the first impression really is.
now i just gotta ask, why can't you test both software and hardware with the same level of detail? that's what a real benchmark should show atleast. Can't you request some complete software emulation from AGEIA that can fool the game that the card is present, and turn on all the extra effects? If not from AGEIA, maybe from ATI or nVidia, who seem to have worked on such emulations that even use their GFX cards. In the worst case, if you can't get the software mode to have all the same effects, why not then atleast turn off those effects when testing the hardware implementation? In the city of villians for example, why is the software test ran with lower "Max Physics Debris Count"? (though I assume there are other effects that get automatically enabled with the hardware present and aren't configurable)
I just don't get the point of this article... if you're not able to compare apples to apples yet, then don't even bother with an article. Reply
Griswold - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkI think they clearly stated in the first article, that GRAW for example, doesnt allow higher debris settings in software mode.
But even if it did, a $300 part that is supposed to be lightning fast and what not, should be at least as fast as ordinary software calculations - at higher debris count.
I really dont care much about apples and oranges here. The message seems to be clear, right now it isnt performing up to snuff for whatever reason. Reply
segagenesis - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkI feel so tempted to bring up the old cliche "The message is clear..." when you word it like that :)
Really why is there not more "WTF" here? A better analogy to what you describe is the old "Hardware Decelerators" that say the S3 Virge was. And for $300? Damn, next thing we know they will be sub-licensing Patty-On-Patty technology from Burger King with a dual core physics processor for only $600! *groan*
They have the right idea here but this is some of the poorest execution possible in convincing people you need this product. Reply
Magnadoodle - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkCalling this a physics decelerator seems just perfect. I wish anandtech would use some biting humour now and then. But that would mean degraded relations with Asus and BFG.
Oh well, let's just get nostalgic about the days of unconstrained journalism and reread those old 6% Pcgamer reviews. Reply
abhaxus - Friday, May 19, 2006 - linkWhen I got my original voodoo 1 card, the first thing I did was plug it in and run a few timedemos in GLquake... surprise surprise, it was actually a few FPS slower than I was running in software mode. Of course, I was running software mode at 320x240 and GL at 640x480 and the game looked incredible.
I haven't seen a PhysX card in person but the trailers for cellfactor look very impressive. With PhysX being taken advantage of throughout the design and coding process I can't wait to see what the final results are for new games... of course, new drivers and a PCIe version will help too.
That said... I really think that this card will eventually turn out to be only for people that don't have a dual core CPU. Seems like most everything could be done by properly multithreading the physics calculations. Reply
Nighteye2 - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkIt's perfectly possible to remain be critical while remaining polite. Biting humour is unnecessarily degrading and does not add any value. Even 6% ratings can be given in perfectly polite wording.
DerekWilson - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkWe certainly aren't pulling punches, and we wouldn't do anything to preserve a relationship with any company. If we make someone angry, we've still got plenty of ways to get a hold of their product.
I hope we were able to make it clear that CoV giving similar results to GRAW gave us pause about the value of PhysX when applied to games that just stick in some effects here and there. We also (I hope clearly) stressed that there isn't enough value in the product for consumers to justify a purchase at this time.
But we weren't overly hard on AGEIA as we could be for a couple reasons. First, CellFactor and HangarofDoom are pretty interesting demos. The performance of them and the possibilities presented by games like them indicate that PhysX could be more useful in the future (especially with its integration into UE3 and other game engines). Second, without more tools or games we just can't determine the actual potential of this hardware. Sure, right now developers aren't making practical use of the technology and it isn't worth its price tag. But it is very premature for us to stamp a "decelerator" label on it and close the case.
Maybe we will end up calling this thing a lemon, but we just need more hard data before we will do so. Reply
Magnadoodle - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkYes, I understand your point of view, and I don't think you're pulling any punches or being biaised. In fact, a biting review would be more biaised than anything. I was just remarking that this would have made a perfect occasion to have a bit of fun with AGEIA and drag them through the dredges. I nostalgically recalled the quite biting and humorous style PC Gamer put into their 6% reviews. PC Gamer never was a pantheon of game reviewing, but they didn't have to be nice to nobody (actually to "nobodies", because they had to be nice to big corporations). My point was more about the lack of wits and style in web publications these days than about anandtech being biaised. Not that anandtech has bad writers, just that it's more scientific than sarcastic.
Anyway, good review Mr. Wilson and keep up the good work. Reply
Seer - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - linkIm also wondering about this claim that the driver update increased framerates. In all but two of the tests, the avg fps was either the same or a decrease. The largest increase was 1 fps, totally within the margin of error. (I'm talking about the GRAW tests). So, um, yeah, no increase there. Reply


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Danica Patrick has been in the news for years as a competent driver full of potential who is capable of winning big races. It seems 2013 may be her time as the racer won the Daytona 500 pole Sunday, becoming the first female to ever accomplish such a feat.
Here is the story from the Associated Press:
Patrick won the Daytona 500 pole Sunday, becoming the first woman to secure the top spot for any race in NASCAR's premier circuit. It's by far the biggest achievement of her stock-car career.
"I was brought up to be the fastest driver, not the fastest girl," she said. "That was instilled in me from very young, from the beginning. Then I feel like thriving in those moments, where the pressure's on, has also been a help for me. I also feel like I've been lucky in my career to be with good teams and have good people around me. I don't think any of it would have been possible without that.
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Her latest stamp in the history books came with a lap at 196.434 mph around Daytona International Speedway. Patrick went out eighth in the qualifying session, then had to wait about two hours as 37 fellow drivers tried to take her spot.
Only four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon even came close to knocking her off. Gordon was the only other driver who topped 196 mph in qualifying. He locked up the other guaranteed spot in next week's season-opening Daytona 500.
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The rest of the field will be set in duel qualifying races Thursday.
However the lineup unfolds, all drivers will line up behind Patrick's No. 10 Chevrolet SS.
And she knows her latest achievement will mean more public relations work.
The routine is nothing new for Patrick, who was the first woman to lead laps in the Indianapolis 500. She finished third in 2009, the highest finish in that illustrious race for a woman. And she became the only woman to win an IndyCar race when she did it in Japan in 2008.
Hardly anyone witnessed that victory.
Leading the field to the green flag in NASCAR's showcase event should be must-watch television.
She raced part-time in 2010 and 2011 while still driving a full IndyCar slate. She switched solely to stock cars last season and finished 10th in the Nationwide standings.
She made the jump to Sprint Cup this season and will battle Stenhouse for Rookie of the Year honors.
She also won the pole at Daytona for last year's Nationwide race.
The previous highest female qualifier in a Cup race was Janet Guthrie. She started ninth at Bristol and Talladega in 1977.
"I think when pressure's on and when the spotlight's on, I feel like it ultimately ends up becoming some of my better moments and my better races and better results," Patrick said. "I just understand that if you put the hard work in before you go out there that you can have a little peace and a little peace of mind knowing that you've done everything you can and just let it happen."
Josh Helmuth is the editor for CraveOnline Sports. You can follow him on Twitter @JHelmuth or subscribe at Facebook.com/CraveOnlineSports.
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