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Although pre-launch drivers of the GeForce GTX 680 let the GPU run in PCI-Express Gen 3.0 mode on Intel's Sandy Bridge-E HEDT (X79) platforms, the release drivers limited the GPU to PCI-Express Gen 2.0 on the platform. The issue carried on with GeForce GTX 670, and other graphics cards with "Kepler" family of GPUs. NVIDIA cited reasons such as the platform not being PCI-Expres Gen 3.0 "certified" although it supports the 8 GT/s mode. The company assured users that it was working on getting its hardware to work on the Sandy Bridge-E HEDT platform in Gen 3.0 mode, and until it's absolutely certain about reliability, it is forcing PCI-Express Gen 2.0 mode. NVIDIA released a patch that enables PCI-Express Gen 3.0 mode on Intel Sandy Bridge-E HEDT (X79) platforms, which lets graphics cards based on GeForce Kepler GPUs, such as GeForce GTX 680, GTX 670, etc., take advantage of 8 GT/s per lane system interface bandwidth. The mode could come particularly handy for graphics cards that are installed on electrical PCI-Express 3.0 x8 slots, as they could end up with bandwidth comparable to that of PCI-Express 2.0 x16. The patch should be installed along with the latest stable drivers. To enable the patch, run the executable and reboot the system. To undo the patch later, run the same executable with "-revert" argument in Command Prompt. Use only if stability is not absolutely paramount, or if the hardware is not operating in a mission-critical environment. DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce Kepler PCIe 3.0 mode-enabling patch for Sandy Bridge-E systems Source: NVIDIA
I wonder is it kepler really built with Pciex 3.0 or what? Or just tweaking chip from fermi and indeed still use Pciex 2.0 technology?
Kepler is a PCI-Express 3.0 GPU, which runs in Gen 3.0 mode on PCIe 3.0 certified systems (Ivy Bridge).
I was under the impression that IVB and SB-E both weren't PCI-E 3.0 certified, but could run 3.0 speeds according to Intel.
the real truth is that NVIDIAs/ATIs GPUs don't correctly abide by PCI-E gen 3 specs an that intel's CPUs don't either, at least that is according to PLX they are the only ones who correctly abide by PCISIG.
Does it really matter when the differences between X16 of 2.0 and 3.0 are that irrelevant to all of the GPUs anyway?
IVB is PCIe 3.0. SB-e..not so much, but it's possible. Not all chips can run it, apparantly. I've seen some very interesting stuff with PCIe 3.0 and multi-GPU. Like 30-40 % gains. I do not know if the same still holds true though.
you ran 3 + cards? It's only there that it shows. I've been looking for someone else to run these tests, but have not found anyone. I've tried to get cards too ,as you know, but spending that much money on cards doesn't make sense to me, personally, as I want GTX690! The story goes that the loss of scaling when adding third/fourth cards is due to lack of bandwidth to the GPUs, and between them. But it was done on SB-E, which is not exactly "certified" for PCIe 3.0, so noone knows exactly what the story is here, and what is going on.
Here are Vega's results, big gains: http://www.overclock.net/t/1220962/...y-and-computer-edition-2012/370#post_16915399
Yes, that's it! Thanks, Fluffy. So, I wonder if this still holds true, or if that was part of the hack to get PCIe 3.0 as it was driver disabled... (I saw his post on XS). Need someone with 4 cards and 3 monitors to do some testing, or someone to loan me 4 cards of GTX680, and 4 of HD7970!
"To undo the patch later, run the same executable with "-revert" argument in Command Prompt. Use only if stability is not absolutely paramount, or if the hardware is not operating in a mission-critical environment." Why wouldnt stability be paramount in any machine?
Some prefer performance. See any extreme benchmarking user running LN2. See, the story is that not all Intel SB-e CPUs are actually capable of running the PCIe domain at PCIe 3.0 speeds. They are all capable of running the encoding method, just not the frequency. Because of this, it is impossible for nVidia to guarantee that a user's CPU is capable. There is a good chance that it will be, but without Intel confirming PCIe 3.0 for all CPUs(and Intel does not, specifically stating that all amy not run proper speed), there is no way nVidia could provide this "fix" without that little disclaimer. Now, if the above posted info aobut PCIe 3.0 and multi-GPU has any rel merit, it would really make some sense for nV to provide this patch ASAP, and this really seems to have been what they have done.
At least when it comes to nVidia cards, they do have the PCI-E 3.0 Logo on them, so they are certified by PCISIG. I'm not sure about AMD, but AFAIK it is only Intel's platform that isn't PCISIG certified which is why they can't say PCI-E 3.0.
I dont think there ever been a official PCI-E 2.0 or 3.0 logo. Just the PCI Express logo. Both Nvidia and AMD AIBs just slap the PCI-Express (Basic) logo somewhere on the box (Side or Back). Just look at Wizzard reviews for packaging screenshots. Motherboards are different. Each motherboard maker has their own take on the PCI-E logo. Usually its the official PCI Express (Grey Frame) logo with a gen # added to it on the side or bottom.
There is a PCI-E 3.0 logo, it is just the PCI-E Logo with a 3.0 after it, and the card has to be PCISIG certified to have that logo. For them to legally say the card is PCI-E 3.0 the card has to be PCISIG certified. That is why Intel can't advertise their platform as PCI-E 3.0, it isn't PCISIG certified.
Pretty sure there is no numeric logo for PCI Express There is no mention of numeric PCI Express logo on the site nor on there guildline use of logos Guidelines and usage says basic logo is acceptable for compliance with 1.0 spec and higher. So according to them thats there only PCI Express logo. PCISIG Log and Guildelines If a company chooses to add a number seperate from the logo thats just not part of the certification. The consumer would have to look them up on the list for 3.0 certification not look for a logo on the box.
The part I'm talking about is covered on page 6 of their Guidelines, that states a product can't claim it is compliant with PCISIG standards unless the product in question has passed all compliance testing related to the specification. So, while there isn't a specific 3.0 logo, the product can't use the term PCI-E 3.0 anywhere, even in the documentation, unless it has passed PCISIG compliance testing. NVidia cards use PCI-E 3.0 in their packaging and documentation, which means they passed the compliance tests, and again I'm pretty sure AMD cards are the same. Intel's platform has not and hence you won't see PCI-E 3.0 anywhere in Intel's documentation or packaging. Basically the words "PCI-E 3.0" becomes the logo I was talking about.


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I am using Codec Engine 2.26 to run some algorithms on the remote DSP in DM3730. One of the algorithms however in the middle of its execution need to send some information to the host micro-controller (the information is regarding changing of certain analog gains). How can I achieve this?
Codec Engine "just runs XDAIS algorithms", so you can structure your codec in any XDAIS-compliant way. There's no inherent support for 'out of band messaging' in CE as the XDAIS/XDM specs don't define this behavior.
Best case, if your app can wait until the end of the process() call to get this extra info, is to send it from the codec via an extended outArgs from your process() call. That's a very common pattern many codecs use.
Or if the app needs to know immediately, maybe the codec could "return early" from process() with outArgs that contain the info you want to return to the app, and maybe a flag that the process() call didn't "really" complete and the app should call it again?
Further up the complexity chain, your codec could use some underlying Link-based service (MSGQ?) to send this info to a CE-independent thread in your app (also using MSGQ)? But at that point you're tying yourself to Link (implying you can't run that codec 'locally') and introducing some ugly dependencies you probably don't want.
Thanks Chris,
Our requirement (or rather the customer requirement) is that in we do this messaging in the middle of process. So there are two options we have thought of
1) In out current architecture there are 2 XDAIS algorithms AFE and APU, and both execute on DSP, and we do call APU from AFE. Neither AFE nor APU are called via AISA APIs, but we have out own extensions (DEVNODE for AFE and ECO for APU). On the same line we were thinking of having a 3rd XDAIS algorithm (GAIN) that runs locally (on host micro controller) but that can be called from AFE. Now this raises two questions
a) Using one codec engine is it possible to have some algorithms run locally and some remotely?
b) If the answer to a is yes, then is it possible to to extend CE APIs (as we have done for AFE and APU) the third time to be able to call the GAIN algorithm
2) The second suggestion is that the process simply interrupts the host and tells it what to do.
Your suggestions are truly appreciated :))
sachinpdesaia) Using one codec engine is it possible to have some algorithms run locally and some remotely?
Yep, that's supported. The same A8-side app can drive local and/or remote algs.
I'm not sure that's what you're suggesting, though. Reading your suggestion, it sounds like you want a DSP-side 'remote' alg to somehow also act as an _app_ and drive a 'remote-from-the-DSP-POV' alg running on the A8?! If that's what you mean, that's not supported, and I'd instead suggest you just send a DSP->A8 MSGQ message.
sachinpdesaib) If the answer to a is yes, then is it possible to to extend CE APIs (as we have done for AFE and APU) the third time to be able to call the GAIN algorithm
Yep, extend to your heart's content. Note that often we recommend using the existing IUNIVERSAL interface rather than create a brand new one like DEVNODE. While both extension methods are supported, IUNIVERSAL already provides the necessary stubs/skels so there's less work.
sachinpdesai2) The second suggestion is that the process simply interrupts the host and tells it what to do.
Yep, that might be the "just send a DSP->A8 MSGQ message" approach. Create a separate ARM-side thread that does MSGQ_get() and have the DSP-side do a MSGQ_put() as needed.
Thanks a lot Chris. Based on your i/p we feel the MSGQ approach suits us best. We want to ensure that the MSGQ implementation is feasible and meets our customers requirements in terms of latency and message size. Is there an example code we can look at? I assume that this implementation is feasible using and interrupts instead of polling on ARM.
This is a good starting starting point for a DSP Link-only standalone example:
It's good in your case as it also uses MSGQ.
There will be some work to use both DSP Link and CE in the same app - e.g. you'll have to #include headers from both CE and Link. You can probably leverage CE's Engine_open() to load the DSP (but be sure not to use MSGQ before opening the Engine - and similar for Engine_close()). And depending on how you're building your app, you may want to continue using CE's generated list of libraries (configuro-generated linker.cmd file or package.bld-generated .xdl file) to get the DSP Link libraries on your link line.
Do I need to do the all or some of the PROC calls shown in that example? I added all the MSGQ calls but I am getting an error when trying to pick up message on ARM (from DSP) DSP_ETIMEOUT.
I'll open with "I'm not a DSP Link expert" and "I haven't done this"... followed by "all the source code is provided, so you may have to dig in a bit yourself".
Assuming you're not calling any DSP Link APIs until after Engine_open(), you're running your MSGQ-using thread from the same process as CE, you're ok using messages from the same POOL as CE (and the msgs in that POOL are the right size and there are enough to spare), you should just have to call MSGQ_open()/get().
Are you passing a timeout value into MSGQ_get()? Is the DSP side calling MSGQ_locate() and successfully finding the MSGQ that was MSGQ_open()'d on the GPP side?
how do I ensure "you're ok using messages from the same POOL as CE (and the msgs in that POOL are the right size and there are enough to spare" I am passing a timeout value (5 ms) in MSGQ_get, but I am sure that MSGQ_put is done before so timeout shouldn't matter (I will nevertheless increase timeout and see) I calling MSGQ_locate and it is successfull on DSPS_side.
Thanks Chris. This issue is resolved for now. I am able to get one message asynchronously from the algorithm running on the DSP to the application executing on the host. However I will like to keep this thread alive as I need to do the following improvements
1) Currently I am passing only a message ID, will like to extend this to pass some more data fields.
2) Also I am sending the message upstream only once. Would like to do this a multiple times and from different points in the algorithm to ensure no memory leak etc?
3) The application in currently polling for the message. I would like this to be made interrupt driven, where the interrupt is generated by the algorithm. Can you give me any pointers on how to go about implementing this>
I am having some issues with #2 above. I have two places in my algorithm where I put a message in the message queue. The applicationseems to be continously picking up the one I put second. Here is the code flow
put message A;
put message B;
pick up the message and print;
the o/p is continuous stream of B. So the issues are
1) Message A is never picked up
2) Message B which has neen put only once seems to be picked up again and again. How do I invalidate a message in the queue?
Your code should look something like this:
hARM = MSGQ_create("somename")
hDSP = MSGQ_locate("somename")
... some time later
With the green code (ARM-side "get/free" and DSP-side "alloc/put") looping for each msg you send. Is that what you're doing?
Thanks once again Chris. The issue is resolved. I was doing
MSGQ_put(hDSP) Put message A
MSGQ_put(hDSP) Put message B
... some more time later
With your suggested sequence it works just fine.


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Long before American soldiers arrived in Vietnam in the 1960s, the Vietnamese people had endured centuries of violent struggle for control of their country. The most recent of these struggles took place from 1946 to 1954, when Vietnamese Communists—known as Viet Minh—fought to free the country from more than one hundred years of French colonial rule.
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Excerpt from a letter to the editor of
the American magazine Minority of One
Published in the May 1964 issue
"The Vietnamese people thank the workers', youth, students', and women's organizations, as well as progressive intellectuals, congressmen, and clergymen in the United States who have courageously raised their voices, staged demonstrations, exposed the criminal policy of aggression pursued by the U.S. government."
Vietnam has a long history of being controlled by other countries. For example, it was ruled by neighboring China during ancient times, it was a colony of France during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and it was occupied by Japan during World War II. All through their nation's history, the Vietnamese people have struggled to gain their independence from foreign powers. Some historians consider the Vietnam War to be another example of the Vietnamese fighting to achieve independence and self-rule. In that war, the historians argue, the foreign country that was using its power to control Vietnam was the United States.
North Vietnamese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh often characterized the war as a revolution to overthrow the U.S.-sponsored government in South Vietnam and thus free the country from foreign control. "For the defense of the independence...
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The War at Home
- Martin Luther King, Jr
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Tim O'Brien
- Richard M. Nixon
- Bill Rubenstein
U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War increased dramatically during the 1960s and remained significant until 1973, when American forces were finally withdrawn from the conflict. In the early years of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, a large majority of Americans supported the government's policies. But as the bloody conflict continued without any end in sight, many Americans declared their opposition to the war in Vietnam. They said that the United States was interfering with the internal affairs of another country. They viewed the war as an immoral campaign that was wasting the lives of American soldiers and destroying the country of Vietnam. By the late 1960s, although many Americans continued to support U.S. involvement, the antiwar movement had become a major force in American politics and society. But as its influence swelled and some of its membership engaged in radical and violent protests, the antiwar movement itself became controversial. People who continued to support U.S. involvement viewed antiwar...
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Martin Luther King, Jr
Excerpt from his antiwar speech "Beyond Vietnam"
Delivered April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City
"[The world] demands that we admit that we have been wrong from the beginning of our adventure in Vietnam."
When the United States sent ground troops into Vietnam in 1964, one out of every seven (about 14 percent) of those soldiers was African American. In the time leading up to the Vietnam War, blacks tended to view military service as a very positive thing. Many African Americans joined the armed forces out of high school in order to receive training, career opportunities, and wages that were not readily available to them in civilian (non-military) society due to segregation.
At that time in American history, there were laws that segregated (separated) people by race. For example, white people and people of color were required to use separate restrooms, drinking fountains, schools, theaters, and restaurants. These laws discriminated against blacks and placed them in an inferior position in society. The military was one of the first American institutions to be desegregated. "Military service was for blacks a vehicle for social equality in which rank replaced race as a measure of respect and accomplishment," Clark C. Smith wrote in Brothers: Black Soldiers in the Nam.
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Robert F. Kennedy
Excerpt from a speech on the Vietnam War
Delivered on February 8, 1968
"Reality is grim and painful. But it is only a remote echo of the anguish toward which a policy [U.S. military policy in Vietnam] founded on illusion is surely taking us."
Throughout the years of American involvement in Vietnam, U.S. government officials and military leaders became entangled in a great debate about the government of South Vietnam. Some people argued that if the United States continued to provide military and economic support, the South Vietnamese government could eventually build a democratic state that would be popular with the nation's people. But critics disagreed. They charged that the government was hopelessly corrupt and ineffective, and they noted that the South Vietnamese people felt no allegiance to their leaders. Some observers even claimed that the government's flaws were so great that it did not make sense for the United States to support it. This viewpoint became more common as the war dragged on and American opposition to involvement in Vietnam increased.
Doubts about the effectiveness of the South Vietnamese government first arose shortly after the 1954 Geneva Accords. This treaty, which ended the First Indochina War between Vietnam and France, divided the nation of Vietnam into a...
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Tim O'Brien
Excerpt from his story "On the Rainy River"
Published in The Things They Carried, 1990
"I feared the war, yes, but I also feared exile. I was afraid of walking away from my own life, my friends and my family, my whole history, everything that mattered to me."
As American involvement in Vietnam deepened, the United States used a military draft system known as the Selective Service to meet its troop needs. But the draft soon became one of the most controversial aspects of the entire war. The antiwar movement condemned it as a terrible system that forced America's sons to fight an immoral war. Some supporters of the war disliked its rules as well. In fact, they joined antiwar activists in charging that draft rules favored young men from middle-class and wealthy families and forced America's poor and workingclass families to shoulder most of the burden of the war. As criticism of the draft intensified and opposition to the war increased, millions of young draftees resorted to a variety of strategies to avoid military service in Vietnam. Millions of others decided to obey their draft notices. Either way, reaching a decision on this all-important issue was not easy for most men. Many draftees agonized over whether to accept induction (membership in the armed forces), torn by their conflicted feelings...
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Excerpt from the "Silent Majority" speech
Delivered on national television, November 24, 1969
"And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support."
By the time Richard M. Nixon was elected president of the United States in November 1968, the majority of the American people had grown tired and frustrated with the war in Vietnam. Polls showed that 60 percent of Americans thought that becoming involved in the war had been a mistake, while 20 percent favored an immediate withdrawal of U.S. combat troops. Many people began to question whether Vietnam was important enough to U.S. interests to justify the loss of more American lives. In addition, some people began to worry about the effects the war was having on American society. "Controversy over the war in Vietnam brought vast changes to the United States in the 1960s," Robert D. Schulzinger wrote in A Time for War. "The war affected every institution in American life: universities, Congress, the presidency, the Democratic Party, the armed forces, labor unions, religious organizations, and the mass media."
Historians have noted that the Vietnam War divided the American people more than any other event since the Civil War (1861–65) a century earlier. Some people believed that the war was immoral...
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Bill Rubenstein
Excerpt from his essay "Tragedy at Kent"
Published in Middle of the Country, edited by Bill Warren, 1970
"This is a "national tragedy," one that will, when history is written, be one of the hallmarks of a leadership distinterested in and unconcerned with the pulse of its people."
In November 1968 Republican nominee Richard M. Nixon was elected president of the United States, defeating Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey. One important factor in Nixon's successful campaign to win the presidency was his repeated promise to end the war in Vietnam if elected. Upon assuming office in early 1969, Nixon did take some steps to decrease U.S. involvement in the war. For example, he devised a military strategy that allowed him to begin withdrawing American troops from the conflict. This withdrawal was interpreted by most Americans as a sign that the war might finally be drawing to a close. Even American antiwar activists expressed hope that an end to U.S. military involvement in Vietnam was in sight, although they grumbled about the slow pace of the troop withdrawal.
In late April of 1970, however, Nixon approved a massive military operation into Cambodia, a country on the western border of Vietnam. Nixon explained that the invasion was intended to wipe out Communist military bases that...
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The War in Vietnam
- Walter Cronkite
- Le Ly Hayslip
- Philip Caputo
- Julie Forsythe
- James Stockdale
The Vietnam War was a brutal and bloody conflict that took the lives of more than fifty-eight thousand American soldiers and an estimated two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians. In addition, air bombings, mortar attacks, and gun battles destroyed countless forests, farmlands, villages, and city neighborhoods in both North and South Vietnam. As the war progressed, it also took a great emotional toll on its American and Vietnamese participants as they struggled to keep themselves, their comrades, and—in the case of Vietnamese civilians—their families alive.
Most of the battles that were waged in Vietnam were fierce gunfights between small bands of opposing soldiers. But both sides occasionally launched larger military campaigns. The greatest and most important of these major campaigns was called the Tet Offensive. This massive surprise attack by the North Vietnamese Army and its Viet Cong (South Vietnamese Communists) allies hit targets all across South Vietnam. American and South Vietnamese troops...
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Walter Cronkite
Excerpt from an editorial about the Vietnam War
Broadcast on CBS Television, February 27, 1968
It is generally agreed that American media coverage of the Vietnam War had a major impact on public attitudes toward the conflict. But historians, military leaders, lawmakers, community leaders, and ordinary Americans have different opinions about the nature and quality of coverage provided by U.S. television and print journalists in Vietnam. Defenders of the American press in Vietnam claim that the journalists informed the American people about the true nature of the war at a time when their political and military leaders repeatedly deceived them. But critics in the government, the military, and elsewhere claim that the media was dominated by antiwar journalists who poisoned the American public against the war by delivering superficial and negative coverage of the conflict. Three decades later, the fairness and accuracy of American journalism in Vietnam remains a subject of fierce debate.
When the United States first became involved in Vietnam in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the relationship between America's press and its military and governmental leaders was fairly positive. This cordial relationship is generally attributed both to America's triumph in World War II and the economic prosperity the nation enjoyed in the...
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Le Ly Hayslip
Excerpt from her memoir When Heaven
and Earth Changed Places
Published in 1989
"I had a terrible dream of ghosts floating through the village and into our house and into my mouth and nose and I couldn't breathe. I woke up to find my father's hand over my face and his voice whispering to me to lie still."
In many ways the Vietnam War was a fight to control the countryside of South Vietnam and the loyalty of its people. Before the war most of the people in South Vietnam lived in small, rural villages and supported their families by farming. They tended to be quite poor, and few of them could read or write. They lived simple lives that emphasized the importance of family ties and cultural traditions. They did not know or care much about politics. But when the war began, the South Vietnamese peasants were caught in the middle.
The Geneva Accords of 1954, which ended the war between France and Communist-led Viet Minh forces, divided Vietnam into two sections. The northern section, which was led by a Communist government under Ho Chi Minh, was officially known as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam but was usually called North Vietnam. The southern section, which was led by a U.S.-supported government under Ngo Dinh Diem, was known as the Republic of South Vietnam.
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Philip Caputo
Excerpt from a memoir of his experiences
in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine, 1965
Published in his book A Rumor of War, 1977
"Everything rotted and corroded there [in Vietnam]: bodies, boot leather, canvas, metal, morals. Scorched by the sun, wracked by the wind and rain of the monsoon, fighting in alien swamps and jungles, our humanity rubbed off of us as the protective bluing rubbed off the barrels of our rifles."
War has always been a terrible experience for American soldiers to endure. This is true even when soldiers go to war to fight for a cause in which they believe, such as defending U.S. liberty or saving another nation or people in danger. Indeed, accounts of major American wars like the Civil War and World War II are filled with stories of the death, pain, sorrow, and cruelty that American soldiers experienced while serving their country.
But many historians and soldiers who participated in the Vietnam War believe that the conflict took an even greater emotional toll on the American soldiers than had earlier wars. They argue that when U.S. troops went to Vietnam, they became trapped in a uniquely nightmarish war that placed a tremendous strain on their emotional well-being.
Combat duty in Vietnam was frustrating for U.S. troops for many...
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Julie Forsythe
Excerpt from an interview about her
experiences in Vietnam, 1972–75
Published in Kathryn Marshall's In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, 1987
"I'm sure things are desperately poor [in Vietnam] and probably still incredibly beautiful. But whatever's happened, it's their [the Vietnamese's] country now, and I'm glad of that."
Thousands of American women served in Vietnam during the war years. In fact, some estimates place the total num ber between 33,000 and 55,000. The U.S. Department of Defense estimates that nearly 7,500 of these women served in the American military, while the Veterans Administration places the number of American military women in Vietnam at over 11,000. The numbers are uncertain because the government did not keep separate military records by gender at that time. In addition, there were no official records of civilian (non-military) women serving in Vietnam.
During the Vietnam War women who pursued a mili tary career were segregated into special branches of the service and not allowed to participate in combat. The main opportunities for women in the American military were in the nursing and administrative fields. Most of the women in the American armed forces in Vietnam served as nurses. But about 20 percent served...
(The entire section is 4349 words.)
James Stockdale
Excerpt from an account of his experiences as a prisoner of war
Published in In Love and War by James and Sybil Stockdale, 1984
"I wrote the papers, and I signed them. But I made them beat it out of me. I felt like two cents when it was done."
During the Vietnam War, thousands of soldiers on both sides of the conflict were captured and imprisoned by enemy forces. These prisoners of war (POWs) included infantry soldiers, fighter pilots, and other military personnel, as well as people who participated in the conflict by spying, recruiting, or providing other direct assistance to the enemy army.
As the Vietnam War progressed, neither the Communist leadership of North Vietnam nor the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam paid much attention to international guidelines on proper treatment of POWs. These guidelines were detailed in the Geneva Conventions, a series of international agreements that had been developed through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
According to the terms of the Geneva Conventions, POWs were supposed to receive "humane treatment," including adequate food, shelter, and medical care. But both North and South Vietnam subjected many of their war prisoners to horrible treatment. For example, both sides tortured some of their...
(The entire section is 5735 words.)
Legacies of the War
- Phuong Hoang
- Linda Phillips Palo
In January of 1973 the Paris Accords were signed and the United States withdrew its military forces from Vietnam. Two years later, North Vietnamese troops captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon to end the war. Once the war ended, the Communist leaders of North Vietnam reunited the two halves of the country to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The government then seized control of all farmland and business activities and placed new limitations on the rights of the Vietnamese people. These changes made life very hard in Vietnam, and millions of Vietnamese fled the country to look for a better way of life.
Some of the people who fled the country after North Vietnam's victory in 1975 had supported the South Vietnamese government or its American allies. They worried that the country's new leaders would consider them enemies and take revenge on them. Others left Vietnam because they held religious or political views that would make it difficult for them to live under Communist rule. These people worried that they would be persecuted (harassed or attacked because of their beliefs) by the new government. Finally, some people fled
(The entire section is 529 words.)
Phuong Hoang
Excerpt from a statement about his
experiences as a refugee, 1975–76
Published in Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American
Lives, edited by James Freeman, 1989
"When we set out on our journey, we had no idea what would happen to us or what country would allow us to land. All we knew was that we had to get out, even at the risk of losing our lives."
After the Vietnam War ended in a North Vietnamese victory in 1975, huge numbers of South Vietnamese people began leaving the country. Some of these people had supported the South Vietnamese government or its American allies. They worried that the country's new leaders would consider them enemies and take revenge on them. Other people wanted to leave Vietnam because they held religious or political views that would make it difficult for them to live under Communist rule. These people worried that they would be persecuted (harassed or attacked because of their beliefs) by the new government. Finally, some people fled because they believed that Vietnam would suffer widespread poverty as it struggled to recover from the destruction of the war.
Many people immigrate to foreign countries in search of opportunities to provide a better life for their families. But the people who decided to leave Vietnam after the...
(The entire section is 6324 words.)
Linda Phillips Palo
Letter left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, July 20, 1985
Published in Shrapnel in the Heart, edited by Laura Palmer, 1987
"I learned that the pain and loss never goes away. It just changes."
When American Vietnam veterans returned home to the United States, many of them felt ignored and rejected by their country. The Vietnam War had caused so much pain and unhappiness that most Americans seemed to want to forget that the conflict had ever taken place. As a result, neither the nation's surviving veterans nor those soldiers who were killed in Vietnam received any meaningful recognition outside of their small circle of family and friends. In 1982, however, their sacrifices and service were finally recognized by their nation with the formal dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The idea for the memorial originated with Jan Scruggs, a Vietnam combat veteran. In 1979 he founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund to raise money for the construction of a monument honoring the men and women who gave their lives in the war. As Scruggs began his fund-raising efforts, he emphasized that he had no wish to make any political statements about American involvement in the war. He simply wanted a memorial that would pay tribute to the 58,000 Americans who were...
(The entire section is 3679 words.)
Source: Vietnam War: Primary Sources, ©2001 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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With an all-over rabbit print this Holly Willoughby dress nods to classic vintage style. This dress is light, soft and pretty – the perfect pick for a dinner date or a special occasion.
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With a pretty print to the fabric this Holly Willoughby dress is a playful piece that's packed with detail.
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This bodycon dress by Holly Willoughby will flaunt your gorgeous figure this season in ultimate style.
Velvet applique detail to the front of this dress adds detail, statement style and luxe texture. Sheer mesh sleeves add a sultry reveal to your look, while their full length creates an unrivalled elegance.
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Posted 30 October 2007 - 02:58 AM
There is no replacement for hard work, which usually equates to taking time. There are no shortcuts if you want to do it right.
The sooner you grasp this simple concept the faster you can get on with building a successful business.
Posted 30 October 2007 - 04:11 AM
There is no replacement for hard work, which usually equates to taking time. There are no shortcuts if you want to do it right.
The sooner you grasp this simple concept the faster you can get on with building a successful business.
What I find interesting is that the one who was looking so hard for a quick & easy solution was the one with the secret to immortality and (presumably) had all the time in the world. But they framed him, ###!! Planted a crack pipe he'd never seen before in his glove box and a little text box on his home page, they did.
Posted 30 October 2007 - 08:45 AM
If you do what you're supposed to be doing for your Website, its PR will increase regardless of you trying.
Posted 31 October 2007 - 07:18 AM
But our main aim is to improve our business by improving traffic.
But when a visitor comes to our site the first impression he gets about our site form its Page rank of the home page.
For this reason improving PR of a site is very essential.
Posted 31 October 2007 - 07:40 AM
I believe you're confused Reflections.
When Google personnel refer to PageRank they're talking about the Real PageRank, the one only they can see and the one their algorithm uses internally as one of the factors for ranking. This Real PageRank has little, if any, resemblance to the Google Toolbar PageRank to which we mere mortals have access. As has been well documented many, many times.
rank of the home page.
Wrong again, except for in the rare case that your site is targeting the SEO market.
The average user out there has never heard of either the Google Toolbar or PageRank. So to the average user it's a non-issue.
You should treat Toolbar PageRank exactly the same.
Posted 31 October 2007 - 10:26 AM
Sure, getting more traffic will potentially help your business some. But improving the quality of your traffic -- and improving how well you convert the traffic you do get to sales -- will do a lot more toward helping your business.
AFAIK, Google has never said that PR means the site is "better." PR is nothing more than a way of measuring the cumulative strength of the links pointing to your page. Period. It says nothing about whether the content on that page is actually useful, or whether that page has been optimized to attract interested ready-to-buy people, or whether the site navigation and page layout are doing all they can to "funnel" visitors toward a purchase. It doesn't measure bounce rates or clickthroughs or conversions.
Toolbar PR actually has almost nothing to do with the quality of the site. All it measures is how good the site owner is at enticing other people to link in, less any penalties Google decides to impose. As it happens, there are plenty of low toolbar PR pages that outrank pages with higher toolbar PR, so increasing your toolbar PR won't even necessarily get you any higher rankings or more traffic.
That's why, IMO, focusing on improving PR to "improve your business" is focusing on the wrong thing.
Instead, focus on improving your site to make it more credible and link-worthy. "Beef up" your copy. Optimize for better conversions. (Resources like GrokDotCom.com, Psychotactics.com and MarketingExperiments.com can help with this.) Promote your site in places that are visited by real humans who are interested in what you have to offer. Higher toolbar PR may follow -- but even if the little green bar on the toolbar doesn't budge, you'll be too busy filling and shipping orders to care.
Posted 31 October 2007 - 11:25 AM
Posted 31 October 2007 - 06:40 PM
I can confirm that PR has nothing with ranking, as one of my websites lost on PR but ranking is still there and for some phrases ranking has even improved. Although, I am of opinion that in order to rank high for very competitive phrases, your website needs to be an authority website. Once you have authority website you will have a high PR (+5)...does it make sense?
Posted 31 October 2007 - 10:20 PM
Authority -> Yes.
Real PR -> Probably a factor in becoming an Authority, maybe even an important factor.
Toolbar PR -> Not worth even looking at 99 times out of 100, let alone worrying about.
Posted 01 November 2007 - 02:06 PM
- Create a 100 foot long banner with your web address on it.
- Hang it from the Empire State Building.
- Alert the media.
Good luck.
Posted 02 November 2007 - 02:30 AM
Recently the PR of my site has improved 3 to 4. After that I found my backlinks also improved 8 to 14.
Can any one explain me the possible causes behind this?
Posted 02 November 2007 - 03:36 AM
Google updated the toolbar.
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A new WBUR poll finds a turn in the U.S. Senate race. Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Scott Brown now leads Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, 47 to 43 percent. |
Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren has opened up a 48-44 percent lead over incumbent Republican Scott Brown in a Suffolk University/7NEWS poll of likely general election voters in Massachusetts.
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that he was asked by the Romney campaign to speak at the Republican National Convention, but turned it down to focus on his tight race with Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
In the latest from Elizabeth Warren's Senate campaign, the candidate talks about her plan to support construction jobs now by improving infrastructure. (Editor's note: We post items from both campaigns when we receive them.)
Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday called on the federal government to issue a disaster declaration for New England's fishermen. Warren's request comes after the New England Fishery Management Council reported earlier this month that fishing quotas for New England groundfish stocks are likely to be reduced next year.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was in Quincy on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, to visit the Town Brook relocation project as part of her "Rebuild Now" infrastructure investment tour. She spoke with Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch about the project. The Town Brook relocation project is part of Quincy's StreetWorks redevelopment effort, a public-private partnership to encourage economic development in the city.
Scott Brown and his wife, Gail Huff, greet members of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce, where Brown was the keynote speaker during a luncheon Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. Brown thanked rick-takers and businesses, both small and large, for their contributions in making America great.
U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's take on the selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as the Republican nominee for vice president.
This article was written in response to the recently published "Clashing over third-party spending." The article did an excellent job of explaining oppposing positions of Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren in regards to the DISCLOSE act, but I wanted to expand upon it and provide some background information about the act, the Citizens United v. FEC case upon which it is based, and the ways these pieces of legislation fit into political strategy.
The race for Senate is now more expensive than any other election in state history, the Associated Press reported today. What else could you buy with $46.7 million?
The latest from the Warren camp: Republican Scott Brown has stood with Wall Street, Republican partisans, billionaires and big oil against creating jobs for people in Massachusetts.
In Massachusetts' contentious U.S. Senate race, few issues divide the two candidates more sharply than the health care law signed by President Barack Obama and upheld by the Supreme Court.
The culture of greed on Wall Street has put our economy in a precarious situation, and the recent trading loss of $4.4 billion by J.P. Morgan exemplifies this growing problem. As a volunteer for the Elizabeth Warren Senate campaign, I want to commend those who work in the banking industry, as well as the banks, who have resisted these changes and practice responsible lending.
Sen. Scott Brown and challenger Elizabeth Warren today offered opposite positions on the DISCLOSE Act, which would require third party interest groups to report their donors and stand by their ads.


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Update:: Call to Action by Lakota Sioux: Help Save the Sacred Site
The Sioux people need our help as quickly as possible to save their most Sacred Sites. Please review the information below and share this information with your contacts.
With gratitude,
May Creator continue to guide us all on the path in working to bring
balance to the planet once again.
The message here today is of a very serious nature regarding one of the
most Sacred Sites in North America.
Pe'Sla is the Sacred Sites in the Black Hills in South Dakota. The home
of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people. It is part of their Creation
story and holds the Universe in harmony. It is under threat of being
sold to the highest bidder for development.
Here are some links to information and updates on Pe' Sla of the Great Sioux Nation:
Fate of the Pe'Sla Purchase
Not Out of the Woods Yet
Tribes Reach Deal To Purchase
Rosebud Sioux Tribe Announces Progress
American Indian Tribes Make Offer
Black Hills Sacred Site
James Anaya Urges Consultations
Chase Iron Eyes Asks For Help
Support Is Needed to Save Black Hills
Black Hills Auction: Saving Pe'Sla
Black Hills Auction: The Auction of the Sacred
This is a 3 minute video made by the Sioux asking for support to stop
the sale and development of this Sacred site:
Last Real Indians Facebook Page
Contact Info:
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4265 45th Street S Ste 111-39
Fargo, North Dakota 58104
Phone: (605) 268-0434
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Email: email@example.com
Please, forward this message in all directions to ask for support of the Sioux people. If you have any contacts at all that could give support to this cause both large or small, please, pass this email and information on to them.
This is URGENT as they only have until November 30 deadline to generate the remaining $8.1 million to buy this Sacred site. THIS IS ONLY A MONTH AWAY.
May Creator support the people with all that is needed to protect the
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Whatever the season, maintaining a healthy immune system is your first defense for warding off any colds or flu.
Besides getting plenty of rest, exercise and dressing for the weather, try these tips for keeping yourself out of the doctor's office.
Fruits and Vegetables
Left to right: Green beans, Purple Hull beans, carrots, blueberries and blackberries .
Make sure you aren't slacking on your daily servings of fruits and vegetables. Chock yourself full of vitamins, minerals and fiber. Making sure you get enough of these delicious gems in your diet can really boost your energy and immunity.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says research shows that fruits and vegetables are critical to promoting good health. To get the amount that's recommended, most people need to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables they eat every day.
Their website has a great tool to help you calculate the minimum amount of veggies and fruits you should consume daily.
CDC: How many fruits and vegetables do you need daily?
Top: Flax seeds and black beans. Bottom: Red lentils and oat bran.
A diet high in soluble fiber helps prepare your body to fight off infections. Citrus fruits, apples, carrots beans and oats are all rich in soluble fiber that can also aid in reducing inflammation. Make sure to keep eating insoluble fibers as well – whole grains, nuts, leafy greens – for boosting your overall health.
CDC: How much do you need a day?
Approximately 80 percent of your immunity lives in your tummy, where vitamins and minerals as well as toxins are absorbed every day. Probiotics help maintain a balance of good bacteria and give you protection against harmful bacteria, helping your body absorb the nutrition it needs.
What foods contain probiotics?
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This is probably a given, but seriously, fit some chill time into a hectic schedule to make sure you don't run yourself down. Being overly stressed can ultimately decrease your body's defense system. Try fitting in some yoga, long weekend vacation or just schedule some "you-time."
If you overdo it – late nights working or overplanning – you might end up with too much stress on your immune system to fight off a tedious infection.
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At a media-studded book release function, a leading editor was recounting a recent incident. He was travelling with a top Uttar Pradesh politician (who we will not name but call Mr A) in his brand new plane. The politician told him that the plane was a gift from a leading industrialist (who we will not name but call Mr AA). The editor was then told that the return gift by the politician was not meagre: it was 1,000 hectares (ha) of prime agricultural land for a new special economic zone (sez). Hearing this tale, we in the audience smiled wisely.
Urban India is beginning to explode. The question is if our cities will be able to manage this growth or will they just burst at the seams? The reason I ask this is because we still don't have a clue about what urban growth will mean for us. We cannot see beyond the glitz of the malls, the swank of the private housing apartments or guarded green areas.
Just imagine: floods in dry Rajasthan; drought in wet Assam. In both cases, devastation has been deadly, with people struggling to cope. But are these natural disasters or human-made disasters signs of change of the world's climate systems? Or are these simply the result of mismanagement so that people already living on the edge of survival, cannot cope with any variations — small or big — in weather events?
What a line of attack! PepsiCo, in its advertisements to deny that it had pesticides in its drinks, said that there were more pesticides in tea, eggs, rice and apples. Coca-Cola, in its defence, has similarly argued that as everything in India is contaminated, its drinks are safe. They say this is being done to target them, because they are big brands and us multinationals. On the other hand, the pesticide industry, in its public response, wants the focus not to be on pesticides but on heavy metals and other contaminants.
When we released our study on pesticides in soft drinks, our objective was clear: we needed action on regulations, which had been stymied because of corporate pressure. What we hadn't anticipated was the response of the cola majors. Three years have lapsed since we published our first report on pesticides in colas. The response then had been immediate and vituperative. "There are no pesticides in our drinks and the Centre for Science and Environment cannot test our products" was the line taken by the cola majors.
In 20 years, the world has come full circle: in the mid-1980s the process of globalisation intensified with the rich countries taking the lead in interconnecting countries because it was in their interest. Now in 2006, the same rich countries find the process of globalisation — economic and ecological — too hot to handle. They have become a roadblock in the way of global integration. The question is where will we go from here? Can we go back in time and close the processes of globalisation?
When Parliament convenes for the monsoon session, the government plans to introduce the Food Safety and Standards Bill, 2005. I am sure the government will hope there is enough mayhem to distract the attention of legislators from the bill, which has been crafted carefully to weaken consumer protection in the face of the power of the growing business of food.
Food we know is a sunshine industry. And industry tells government that the regulatory regime is cumbersome and corrupt. This, it adds, strangles the industry. These arguments are correct.
It seems that the people who matter in this country have a simple enough formula for life and liberty. We should open up the market, create opportunity for the organised industry, mix and stir, and then the work will be done. They will tell you that this will mean taking risks. It is another matter that they will not define who and what is at risk. If you object, you will be told that you are archaic, or worse still a communist, who wants to perpetuate poverty in the country.
Railway minister Laloo Prasad Yadav and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu are the clowns of Indian politics. But think of the actions of the two in the past fortnight and you will begin seeing the difference. Sidhu led the protest for the Bharatiya Janata Party against the fuel price hike by riding an elephant. Effective but clearly stupid. Do excuse my intemperate language but the gall of the politicians to believe we are myopic and their complete lack of leadership in this time of crisis makes me mad.
The agriculture minister told parliament last week that 100,000 farmers had committed suicide from 1998 to 2003, a period for which his government had data. This means 45 farmers killed themselves each day across the country. There is now information that suicides may be on the increase. In the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, unconfirmed reports talk about three suicides a day among cotton farmers, up from one a day a few years ago. But the matter goes beyond statistics.


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I recently returned from the Fancy Food Show in San Diego and the International Gift Fair in New York. What's new and what's hot? Going green and organics are red hot right now. Tea is going to run right over coffee in popularity. High contrast colors of orange, teal and brown are prominent on silhouettes as well as the combo of green, plum and silver. Designer chocolates are big, Big, BIG. Minimalist elegance, easy living comfort and nature inspired designs prevail.
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