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Kemp's walk-off single in 10th keeps LA rolling
Greinke strikes out 13 Braves as Dodgers win fifth straight game
LOS ANGELES -- Matt Kemp hasn't been traded, which is why the Dodgers' win streak is a season-high five with Clayton Kershaw shooting for a series sweep against the Braves on Thursday night.
On Wednesday night, Kemp homered for the first Dodgers run, hustled home from second on an infield single for the second run and singled home the game-winner in the bottom of the 10th for a 3-2 walk-off win. The night before, Kemp led an 8-4 win with a pair of two-run homers.
"It's a great feeling to know that you helped your team to win a game, especially at the end," said Kemp.
During the game -- which included a 13-strikeout no-decision from Zack Greinke -- general manager Ned Colletti scoffed at rumors that he's been shopping Kemp, who has landed as the everyday right fielder after a first half in which he lost his starting job in center field and played uncomfortably in left field.
Pinch-hitting machine Justin Turner led off the 10th with a pinch-single off David Hale and was wild-pitched to second. Kemp, on a 3-2 pitch, singled into left field and Turner slid home while Kemp flung his helmet in celebration.
"When he's hot, it just makes this lineup even more potent," Turner said of Kemp. "We have the type of lineup that it could be a different guy every night contributing to a win. Right now, it's him. He's carrying us right now."
It was the team's third walk-off win of the year and the ninth walk-off at-bat of Kemp's career. Turner is 8-for-19 (.421) pinch-hitting.
Kemp's second-inning homer came off left-handed starter Alex Wood.
"I made that one mistake to Kemp, and boy is he locked in right now, not just on that home run, but yesterday and today," Wood said. "Any time you get a hitter who is capable of doing what he is doing, you've got to be careful. He made me pay early."
Manager Don Mattingly said Kemp has been working on hitting mechanics, but repeated his belief that Kemp has looked more comfortable all around since he was moved to right field last weekend in San Francisco.
Kemp finished the game 3-for-4 with a walk, two runs scored and two driven in. In five games since moving to right field, Kemp is 12-for-19 with three homers.
He's also showing glimpses of the baserunning speed that made him one of the game's most potent multiple threats, until last year's ankle stress fracture threatened his career and slowed him down.
"It's coming. It's coming. Keep grinding. It's coming," he said. "If I keep hitting home runs, I won't have to worry about it.
"It's always good to run. Right now, I'm not as fast as I want to be, but be aggressive, make some things happen, and it feels good to be in a position to score a run or take an extra base. That's important, especially with the guys that we've got in our lineup."
Kemp made a winner out of reliever J.P. Howell and took Kenley Jansen off the hook after he was saddled with his fourth blown save by allowing a 421-foot game-tying homer to Justin Upton leading off the ninth inning.
Greinke drew a tough-luck no-decision, having held Atlanta to one run in eight innings to lower his ERA to 2.65. It was Greinke's fifth start with double-digit strikeouts and the 13 K's were his most as a Dodger, accomplishing it despite a recurrence of the right calf stiffness that bothered him in Spring Training.
"My calf got a little sore, similar to Spring Training, but not to the same level," he said. "Sore the first couple of innings and got better as the game went on. We'll see tomorrow, but it should be fine."
Greinke seemed pleased he didn't need to face Kemp.
"He's been swinging the bat pretty well for a while now, but has obviously gotten a lot better the past week," Greinke said. "The biggest difference is probably the power that's come with it. For the past month he's been swinging pretty good, but it's been a lot of singles, where the past week the ball has been driven. I've never seem him play like that because I wasn't here when he was doing what he was doing. So it was pretty exciting to see."
The Dodgers thought they had scored the winning run for Greinke with two outs in the bottom of the eighth. Kemp started it with a walk. Carl Crawford, batting for Scott Van Slyke, singled up the middle with Kemp stopping at second. Juan Uribe's bouncer up the middle was stopped by a diving shortstop Andrelton Simmons, but Kemp hustled home to score standing up.
But Jansen hung a 2-2 slider to Upton and he sent it into the Dodgers bullpen to tie the game.
In the top of the 10th, Howell walked his first batter, Jordan Schafer, who was bunted to second by Ramiro Pena. But Howell picked Schafer off second base, only to then walk B.J. Upton, who struck out four times against Greinke. Upton stole second, but Howell struck out Tommy La Stella.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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  PAPI3:PAPI flops.3
From PAPIDocs
C Interface
#include <papi.h> int PAPI_flips( float * rtime, float * ptime, long_long * flpins, float * mflips ); int PAPI_flops( float * rtime, float * ptime, long_long * flpops, float * mflops );
Fortran Interface
#include "fpapi.h" PAPIF_flips( C_FLOAT real_time, C_FLOAT proc_time, C_LONG_LONG flpins, C_FLOAT mflips, C_INT check ) PAPIF_flops( C_FLOAT real_time, C_FLOAT proc_time, C_LONG_LONG flpops, C_FLOAT mflops, C_INT check )
The first call to PAPI_flips() or PAPI_flops() will initialize the PAPI High Level interface, set up the counters to monitor PAPI_FP_INS or PAPI_FP_OPS and PAPI_TOT_CYC events and start the counters. Subsequent calls will read the counters and return total real time, total process time, total floating point instructions or operations since the start of the measurement and the Mflip/s or Mflop/s rate since latest call to PAPI_flips() or PAPI_flops(). A call to PAPI_stop_counters() will stop the counters from running and then calls such as PAPI_start_counters() can safely be used.
*rtime -- total realtime since the first PAPI_flops() call
*ptime -- total process time since the first PAPI_flops() call
*flpins, flpops -- total floating point instructions or operations since the first call
*mflips, *mflops -- Mflip/s or Mflop/s achieved since the previous call
In addition to the possible errors returned by the various PAPI low level calls, the following errors could also be returned:
PAPI_EINVAL The counters were already started by something other than: PAPI_flips() or PAPI_flops().
PAPI_ENOEVNT The floating point operations, floating point instructions or total cycles event does not exist.
PAPI_ENOMEM Insufficient memory to complete the operation.
These functions have no known bugs.
Mflip/s, or millions of floating point instructions per second, is defined in this context as the number of instructions issued to the floating point unit per second. It is usually calculated directly from a counter measurement and may be different from platform to platform. Mflop/s, or millions of floating point operations per second, is intended to represent the number of floating point arithmetic operations per second. Attempts are made to massage the counter values to produce the theoreticallly expected value by, for instance, doubling FMA counts or subtracting floating point loads and stores if necessary. CAVEAT EMPTOR
PAPI_flops() contains calls to:
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PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania field hockey team got a bit of a wake-up call on Wednesday, losing for the first time on the new Ellen Vagelos Field to Lafayette. The Quakers hope to rebound in a big way this Sunday, hosting Dartmouth in a key Ivy League game at 11 a.m.
Directions to Ellen Vagelos Field!
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The Series with Dartmouth
The Quakers and the Big Green have met 37 times in field hockey, with Penn holding a 19-15-3 lead in the series. That said, Dartmouth has won the last five meetings, including a 2-0 decision last year in Hanover and a 4-2 victory the last time these two played in Philadelphia, two years ago. Penn's last win in the series came here in Philadelphia, 5-1, in 2007.
About Dartmouth
The Big Green (3-4, 1-1 Ivy) is getting two games from its trip to Philadelphia, opening the weekend at Drexel Friday night. Dartmouth enters the weekend on a two-game winning streak after beating Brown and Holy Cross last weekend. The Big Green's Ivy loss came to defending champion Princeton. Junior Ali Savage, a unanimous first-team All-Ivy pick a year ago, leads the Big Green in goals (7), assists (5) and points (19). Maggie Scanlon has four goals, while Janine Leger and Eliza Becker have two goals each. Olivia Quaglia (2g, 2a) joined Savage as a first-team All-Ivy pick last year. In goal, Ellen Meyer has played every minute and has a 3.86 goals-against average and a .597 save percentage.
About Penn
*At 6-2, Penn is off to its best start since the 1995 team was also 6-2 after eight games. That 1995 squad would improve to 8-2 after 10 games en route to a 10-7 overall record.
*Penn is also 2-0 in Ivy League play for the first time since 2001; with a win on Sunday, the Quakers would be 3-0 in conference play for the first time since the 1995 team started league play 4-0.
*Last year the Quakers tied a program record for goals in a season, with 42. They are well on their way toward giving that mark a run this year, with 26 goals in their first eight games.
*The story this week has been junior goalkeeper Carly Sokach, who was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Tuesday after her 12-save shutout at Harvard last Saturday.
*Sokach also had 11 saves in Wednesday's loss to Lafayette, giving her four double-digit save games this season. She also had 11 in a 2-1 loss at Bucknell, and 12 in a 4-3 win against Cornell.
*Sokach has a .785 save percentage and a 2.12 goals-against average for the season. In the last six games, however, the save percentage is up (.823) while the GAA is down (1.83).
*Freshman Jasmine Cole already has two hat tricks in her collegiate career; it took her four games to do it. The first one came at Saint Joseph's, and the second one came in her Ivy League debut against Cornell.
*Cole -- who leads Penn and the Ivy League with nine goals this season -- was named the co-Ivy League Player of the Week and the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Sept. 24, primarily on the strength of her performance against the Big Red.
*Junior Emily Corcoran has also been on fire, with two goals against Pacific and La Salle last week. (She put eight shots on goal against the Explorers last Wednesday.) Corcoran has seven goals and three assists for 17 points, one behind Cole.
*Another freshman, Elise Tilton, scored twice in a 23-second span last Sunday vs. Pacific; she is third on the team with five goals.
*Sophomore Elizabeth Hitti scored the goal in Penn's 1-0 win at Harvard -- a nice homecoming for the Massachusetts resident -- and now has eight points on the season (3g, 2a). Senior Julie Tahan is right behind her with seven points (2g, 3a).
*It was good to see junior Alex Iqbal get on the score sheet against Pacific; she assisted on a goal for her first point of 2013. Iqbal was an All-Ivy performer as a freshman, but missed all of last year due to an injury.
*Junior defender MaryRose Croddick also gained her first point of 2013, with an assist against Cornell, while senior Sunny Stirewalt had her second point of the season, an assist, against Pacific.
*Tahan and Croddick were second-team All-Ivy players a year ago; both are back this season. Hitti, meanwhile, received honorable mention despite being a freshman. The team also welcomes back Iqbal, who was an All-Ivy honoree in 2011 as a freshman but missed all of last year due to injury.
*Tahan and Iqbal are this year's captains. In addition to Tahan, the other seniors are Stirewalt, Amelia Cohen and Katie Harrington.
Up Next...
Penn is on the road for its next three games, starting Wednesday when the Quakers travel to Rider to face the Broncs at 5 p.m.


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A Simple, Sane, Dietitian-Approved Program for Eating Your Way Back to Health.
The overall tone of this book is calm, comforting, and reassuring. You can turn to any page in the book and find help.
The author, Marlisa Brown was a chef before she was a dietitian. Her mother has diagnosed celiac. Marlisa always tested negative, but she is definitely gluten intolerant. She lives the diet, and helps many others with her Total Wellness private practice and Gluten Free Easy website. Now she can help you with her new book.
The set up
Gluten-Free, Hassle Free is both a reference and a cook book. It is divided into 3 sections.
- Making the Change.
- Making Gluten-Free Living Simple.
- Making your Life Healthy, Happy, and Uncomplicated.
Gluten free, simple, healthy, happy, and uncomplicated. Isn't that what we all want? Gluten Free Hassle Free will cheerfully help.
Some specifics
This is a comprehensive book, for the beginner and the experienced gluten free-er.
Do you like lists? There are many. Including menus and snack ideas. Also gluten free resources, from associations to manufactures. Even how to cook gluten free grains and beans.
How to read labels
What if it does not say gluten free? It could be naturally gluten free and not say so on the label. Or the manufacturer may choose not to spend the extra dollars to certify it is gluten free. The book has 23 pages of lists of safe, not safe, and questionable items.
Marlisa teaches what to look for and what questions to ask. Read carefully to be safe, and save money.
Where to find missing nutrition?
Detailed lists show food sources for difficult to get nutrients. These include thiamin, niacin, folate, B12, calcium and iron.
Do you want to cook?
Choose from over 100 recipes, everything from appetizers to desserts.
Try Spicy Baked Sweet Potato Fries, good and healthy. They are seasoned with onion and garlic powder, paprika, and fragrant cinnamon. (It is OK to start smiling).
A recipe I want to try is Chicken and Spinach Stuffed Crepes, made with sorghum flour. What a lovely special occasion meal.
There are also a few pages on successfully creating your own gluten free recipes. Including tips for baked goods with just the right texture.
Flour blends used in the recipes combine whole grain gluten free flour and refined starches. I like to use even fewer refined starches, but acknowledge that it is a challenge. So this is a small compliant, considering the scope of this book.
Marlisa notes her next book will use only gluten whole grains.
Prefer to dine out? Without nasty after effects?
A whole chapter is devoted to dining out. How to choose a restaurant, talking to the staff, ordering, and double checking. All without creating a fuss or ill will.
And the book includes cards of gluten free information you can bring to the restaurant, or take on your travels. Copy from the book or print from the Gluten Free Easy web site. Dining out cards are available in 14 languages and are specific to each country's cuisine. It is interesting to see the national dishes in English, and the foreign language in print.
Do you want an authentic Greek, Thai, or Japanese meal? And need to speak the language? Take a dining card with you.
Gluten-Free, Hassle Free also tackles the emotional challenges of the diet and lifestyle. Offering simple steps to deal with anger, embarrassment, depression, feeling hurt or overwhelmed, even culinary boredom.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Freshman Sam Butterbaugh scored the first goal of her career and made it count in a big way, lifting the Saint Leo women's soccer team over Robert Morris University on Thursday evening at University Field. Butterbaugh's game-winning first goal helps the Lions enter Sunshine State Conference play with a perfect 5-0 record, while the Eagles drop their first game of the season and fall to a record of 5-1.
Saint Leo found themselves on the scoreboard early thanks to assists from Jasmine Johnson and Ari Foreman, and a goal from Dari Alcantara. Saint Leo held onto their one goal advantage until the 24th minute, when Tavia Anderson connected on a ball from Samira Suleman to knot the score at 1-1.
A stalemate ensued throughout the remainder of the half, and both teams entered into the break with one goal apiece. After the initial 45 minutes, Robert Morris led the shot count 11-8, and had nine corner kicks to the Lions' 1. Staunch play and four key saves from SLU goalie Laura Carstens helped the Lions stay on target, with her counterpart Jessica von Boehlen making three saves for Robert Morris in the first half.
The Green and Gold entered into the second stanza with a new game plan, and began to dominate the pace of play on the pitch. In the 51st minute, Stephanie Marran connected the ball to Butterbaugh, who was able to slip a shot past von Boehlen to give the Lions a one goal advantage.
Saint Leo was able to defend well and play the ball wisely despite finishing the final 15 minutes of the contest in a man-down situation. Three more clutch saves from Carstens helped keep Robert Morris off of the scoreboard despite heavy pressure from the Eagle's forward line. Carstens closed the game with seven crucial saves, while von Boehlen set aside five.
The Lions trailed on the overall shot count at the end of regulation, 18-5, as well as on the corner kick tally, 12-3. A physical game was played by both teams, with Saint Leo committing 12 fouls, and Robert Morris walking away from the evening with 16.
The Lions return to action on Saturday, September 17, when they travel to Lynn University in non-conference action. Kickoff against the Fighting Knights is set for 4 p.m. Fans who cannot make it to the game will be able to catch all of the action live at SaintLeoLions.com.


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Thanks, Mike
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Pretty sure I am running idle. I got into Python because of the Raspberry Pi and I'm using idle3 for that so I try to keep them the same. Much less confusion. And as you see I'm usually confused!
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Drag queens from across Germany participate in the first-ever Drag Walk Casting at Friedrichstadtpalast theatre on Friday in Berlin. The casting is to select stage performers for the grand gala in the evening following the Christopher Street day parade in June.
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The Grand Depart of the Tour De France has officially begun, with a spectacular multilingual evening of dance, music and sport with Yorkshire pride on show.
Ten thousand people filled the Leeds Arena for the teams presentation, the ceremony that traditionally begins the world-famous race, and which was broadcast live around the world.
Outside hundreds of fans lined the route taken by each of the 22 teams in turn as they rode from Leeds Civic Hall straight onto the stage of the arena where the riders were introduced to the audience.
Entire families, school parties and cycling fans of all ages were all in the excited audience, which started arriving a couple of hours before the start. Several Tourmakers were on duty for the first time to welcome the fans.
Chants of "Yorkshire, Yorkshire" rang out as the ceremony reached its climax.
As Christian Prudhomme of the Tour's organisers ASO, and Gary Verity of Welcome to Yorkshire stepped on the stage at 8.30 pm church bells rang out across the county in a deliberate echo of the bell-ringing that welcomed the London Olympics two years ago.
The Frenchman told the audience the Grand Depart would be "huge-enormous and thanked "God's own country".
The Yorkshireman couldn't initially start his speech as the audience kept on cheering and was almost overcome with emotion.
He said he had promised M Prudhomme the grandest ever Grand Depart. "In the next three days that promise will be fulfilled," he said.
Each team was warmly welcomed to the stage with some riders taking photos of the audience or waving at family and friends. A series of short films showcasing Yorkshire separated the teams, with York represented by York Minster.
The British riders got huge cheers, starting with Lancastrian Simon Yates, riding his first season as a professional.
The audience raised the roof for adopted Yorkshire son and cycling superstar Mark Cavendish and his Omega Pharma Quickstep team. His mother comes from Harrogate where he hopes to win Stage One tomorrow.
He got deafening cheers when he forecast that Yorkshire's Grand Depart would eclipse the London Grand Depart in 2007 which at the time was hailed as the best ever.
Veteran German rider and huge crowd favourite Jens Voigt of Trek Factory Racing praised the way every village on the route has prepared for the Tour, even ensuring the grass is cut.
Many fans were wearing the black and blue colours of British team, Team Sky, whose British leader Chris Froome is the defending champion and which had the place of honour as last to arrive.
They got a standing ovation as they rode on and both he and fellow British rider Geraint Thomas spoke how much they appreciated the support they had received in Yorkshire. Froome was cheered to the echo when he promised he and the team would do their utmost to retain the yellow jersey.
A replay of Bradley Wiggins winning the Tour in 2012 was also cheered.
The Voice of Tour Radio Sebastian Picquet and cycling journalist Jill Douglas hosted the show. The line-up featured the singers and orchestra of Leeds-based Opera North, who performed the opening number and towards the end an excerpt from French opera Carmen.
They were followed by the Hope and Social mass community music movement featuring rollerskating singers, a ukulele band and a primary school choir. The Phoenix Dance Company performed bike stunts in their routine in black skin costumes with strobe lights.
Songwriter Alistair Griffin and Kimberley Walsh of Girls Alive performed the official anthem for the Grand Depart and Embrace finished with a rousing number.
It was the first time the team presentation had been part of such a big ceremony. Traditionally it is free and the cost of the tickets for the evening long event raised controversy.


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Quad SLI with 9800 GX2: Pushing a System to its Limitby Derek Wilson on 3/25/2008 9:00 AM EST
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DDH III - Thursday, October 23, 2008 - linkSo you're saying that when my 1st 9800gx2 gets here in the mail next week, that it actually help my landlord on his heating bill? That's good because he pays for the electric too, and I feel kinda bad already. Since while heating bills in Interior Alaska are nasty, the electric is just as .. but anyways.
Great review. Though I won't be able to run these in quad on my current mobo. But then, I never liked the FPS's much since quake, which brings me to my point:
These days I play insane amounts of Supreme Commander. It is CPU intensive. If you are looking for another Benchmark when you start cranking up the GHz, ...well just give it a look.
But to say a bit: 8 player is CPU pain. I only have dual cores, but my first dual cores were AMD (my games never needed the most rocking FPS) I had to buy into go C2D, just for game speed..forget the eye-candy.
In short I read this article and went..huh...me too.
Anyways, I am one of those Dell 3007 owner's, and I learned a lot. TY. And I don't live in North Pole AK, I only work there.
luther01 - Friday, May 09, 2008 - linkhi guys. i have a quad 9800 gx2 system as follows:
q6600 processor @2.8GHz
4 gig pc-6400 RAM
780i motherboard
2x 9800gx2
i must say that so far i haven't noticed any performance gains over one 9800gx2, and in some games like The Witcher i have actually had a performance drop of 10-15 fps. In crysis, the frame rate in v high settings is disappointingly low, sometimes dropping to 15fps in large environments. i think maybe there is another bottleneck in my system Reply
Das Capitolin - Sunday, April 27, 2008 - linkIt appears that NVIDIA is aware of the problem, yet there's no word on what or when it might be fixed.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_c...">http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?o...&tas... Reply
Mr Roboto - Sunday, March 30, 2008 - linkOver at tweaktown they're coming up with the same results as Anand did even with the 9800GTX.
Is it possible a lot of the problems are because of the G92\94 has a smaller 256-Bit memory interface? Could it cause that much of a difference especially combined with less VRAM. Just a thought.
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1363/1/page_1_in...">http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1363/1/page_1_in... Reply
ianken - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - link...logging CPU loading shows it evenly loaded across four cores at about 50%. But then I'm running a lowly 8800GTS(640mb) SLI setup.
The numbers in this review just seem kinda off. Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, March 28, 2008 - linkwhat settings were you testing on?
we see high quality and very high quality settings have an increasing impact on CPU ... the higher the visual quality, the higher the impact on CPU ... it's kind of counter intuitive, but it's a fact.
you actually might not be able to hit the CPU limit with very high settings because the GPU limit might be below the CPU limit... Which seems to be somewhere between 40 and 50 fps (depending on the situation) with a 3.2GHz intel processor. Reply
seamusmc - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - linkI like Hard OCP's review because while the Quad SLI solution does put up higher numbers then a 8800 Ultra SLI solution they pointed out some serious problems in all games besides Crysis.
It appears that memory is a bottleneck and many games have severe momentary drops in FPS at high resolutions and/or with AA, making the gaming experience worse then an 8800 Ultra SLI solution. I strongly recommend folks take a look at Hard OCP's review.
AnandTech's review only covers average FPS which does not address nor reveal the kinds of issues the Quad SLI solution is having. Reply
B3an - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - linkThanks for mention of the HardOCP review. A lot better than Anands.
Very disappointed with Anand on this article. I posted a comment asking why i was getting such bad frame rates at high res with AA, and Anand did not even address this. When they must have run in to it at 2560x1600, and just about all the games they tested at 2560x1600 will get killed with AA because of the memory bottleneck. I'm talking from trying this myself. If i knew about it i wouldn't have got a GX2 as it's pretty pointless with a 30" monitor.
So are they getting paid by NV or what?
Very disappointed. Reply
AssBall - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - link"Very disappointed with Anand on this article. I posted a comment asking why i was getting such bad frame rates at high res with AA, and Anand did not even address this."
They are trying to answer their own questions and solve their own problems right now. This comment section is for comments on the article, not your personal technical support line to Anand. Reply
B3an - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - linkWhen i said "I posted a comment asking why i was getting such bad frame rates at high res with AA, and Anand did not even address this."
I meant, why has this website not addressed this issue in any of there GX2 articles. As any decent website would, especially being as it's not hard to run in to. I mean a high-end card like this would be for people with 24" and 30" monitors like myself. As anything lower than 1920x1200 a GTX would be more than enough. Yet the card has massive memory bandwidth problems and/or not enough usable VRAM. So frame rates get completely crippled when a certain amount of AA is used on games.
Making the card pretty pointless. Reply
strikeback03 - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - linkyou posted your comment 20 hrs ago. I don't see any comments posted by any Anandtech staff in this review since that time, so no guarantee they have actually read your comment. Reply
gudodayn - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - link< Layzer253 ~ No, they shouldnt. It works just fine >
Given that 9800x2 is a power card, more powerful than 3870x2 that 9800x2 will run into CPU limitations..........
Then in theory, when using the same platform (same CPU, RAM, etc.), shouldn't 9800x2 score at least within the ball park range of the 3870x2??
It would just mean with a faster CPU, 9800x2 will have lots of room for improvement whereas the 3870x2 wouldn't!!
But that's not what's happening here though, is it??
For some reason, 3870x2 in Crossfire is scaling a lot better than 9800x2 in SLI ~ in a lot of the tests!!
Either SLI drivers are messed up or 9800x2 cant run quad GPUs effectively......... Reply
LemonJoose - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkI honestly don't know why the hardware vendors keep trying to push these high end solution that aren't stable and don't work the way they are supposed to. Exactly who is the market for $500 motherboards that require expensive RAM designed for servers, $1000 CPUs that will be outperfromed by mainstream CPUs in a year or less, and $600 video cards that have stability issues and driver problems even when not run in SLI mode.
I would really love it Anandtech and other hardware sites would come out and give these products the 1 out of 10 or 2 out of 10 review scores that they deserve, and tell the hardware companies to spend more time developing solutions for real entusiasts with mainstream pocketbooks, instead of wasting their engineering resources on these high end solutions that nobody wants. Reply
strikeback03 - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - linkDunno if anyone has actually bought Skulltrail, but obviously people do buy $1000 CPUs and $500 video cards, as some GX2 owners have already posted in this thread, and some people previously bought the Ultra even when it was well over $500. Not something I would do, but there are obviously those with the time and money to play with this kind of thing. Reply
B3an - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkTo the writer of this article, or anyone else... i have this strange problem with the GX2.
In the article you're getting 60+ FPS @ 2560x1200 res with 4xAA. Now if i do this i get nowhere near that frame rate. Without AA it's perfect, but with AA it completely kills it at that res.
At first i was thinking that the 512MB usable VRAM was not enough for 2560x1600 + AA so i get a slide slow with 4xAA at that res. But from these tests, you're not getting that.
What backed up my theory for this is that with games with higher res/bigger textures, even 2xAA would kill frame rates. I'd go from 60+ FPS to literally single digit FPS just by turning on 2xAA @ 2560x1200. But with older games with lower res textures i can turn the AA up a lot higher before this happens.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? Because i'd really like to run games at 2560x1600 with AA, but cannot at the moment.
I'm on Vista SP1, with 4GB RAM, and a Quad @ 3.5GHz.
I've also tried 3 different sets of drivers. Reply
nubie - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkOK, it is about time that Socketable GPU's are on the market, how about a mATX board with a edge connected PCIe x32 slot? Make the video board ATX compliant (IE video board + mATX board = ATX compliant).
Then we can finally cool these damn video cards, and maybe find a way of getting them power that doesn't get in the way.
You purchase the proper daughterboard for your class (main-stream, enthusiast, overclocker/benchmarker), and it will come with the ram slots(or onboard ram) and proper voltage circuitry. Then you can change just the GPU when you need to upgrade.
I know it would be hard to implement and confusing, but it would be less confusing than the current situation once we got used to it, and it would be a hell of a lot more sane.
You could use a PCI-e extender to connect it to existing PCI-e mATX or full ATX motherboards.
It is either this, or put the GPU socket on the damn motherboard already, it is 2008, it needs to happen. (If the videocard was connected over Hypertransport III you wouldn't have any problem with bandwidth). The next step really needs to be a general-purpose processor built into the video card, that way you aren't cpu/system bound like the current ridiculous setup (The 790i chipset seems to be helping with the ability to have the northbridge do batch commands across the GPU's, but minimum we need to see some Physics moving away from the CPU, general physics haven't changed since the universe started, why waste a general purpose CPU on them?) Reply
nubie - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkJust to re-iterate, why am I buying a new card every time when they just seem to be recycling the reference design? All GPU systems need the same as a motherboard, Clean voltage to the main processor and its memory, as well as a bus for the RAM and some I/O. The 7900 8800 and 9600 are practically the same boards with the same memory bus, can't we have it socketed? Reply
tkrushing - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkI am all for SLI/Crossfire or whatever you can afford to do but why are we starting to lose focus on single card solution users? I'm sure if I really wanted to sacrafice I could save up for a multiple GPU system but a single g92 for less than half the price for a relatively small performance hit in crysis. And yes I love it but I'm saying it, I just think Crysis is a poorly optimized game to some degree. Give use new and not reused single card solutions! (9 series) Reply
tviceman - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkI have been thinking the same thing lately, but last week after reading about Intel's plans to use one of it's cores in CPU's as a graphics unit, I started thinking about the ramifications of this. I am willing to bet that Nvidia is trying to develop a hybrid CPU/GPU to compete on the same platform that Intel and AMD will eventually have. If this is true, that it's probably a reasonable explanation as to why there has been a severe lack of all new GPU's since the launch of the 8xxx series a year ago. Reply
dlasher - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkpage 1, paragraph 2, line 1:
"...it's not for the feint of heart.."
Should be:
"...it's not for the faint of heart.."
iceveiled - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkI understand crysis is a good game to test the muscle power of video cards, but if anybody out there hasn't played the game yet and wants the best setup for it, please don't spend $1200 in video cards. I've played through half life 2 numerous times, call of duty 4 numerous times, and crysis only once. Once you get over the wow factor of the graphics, it's not that amazing of an experience.... Reply
mark3450 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkIn this and the last article on the 9800GX2 the following benchmarking data on Crysis @2560x1600 has shown up in a chart.
8800Ultra - 16.3FPS
Now I look at this and I say the FPS scaling you get by adding a second card is generally around 50% to 60% in the best case scenario. If we assume that, then 2x 8800Ultra would be getting around 25FPS, which is getting into playable range especially with the motion blur that Crysis uses. Obviously this is assuming decent scaling, but this data just screams give it a try.
On a slightly realated note, I also see that the same Crysis chart shows that two cards scale roughly linearly with resolution up to to 2560x1600 (8800GT and 8800Ultra) while the others show a sharp drop at 2560x1600 (9800GX2, all AMD cards). This makes me ask the question what's different about these two groups of cards. One common feature I note is that the cards that scale linearly are all using PCIe 2.0, while the ones that have a sharp drop off @2560x1600 are using PCIe 1.x (the 9800GX2 is externally PCIe 2.0, but internally the two cards are connected via PCIe 1.x). Mabey it has nothing to do with the type of PCIe connection, but it certainly correlates.
Basically all this makes me think that for gaming at 2560x1600 I'm likely to be better off with two 8800Ultra's (or even 8800 GTX's) than I am with one or even two 9800GX2's (and since I and a lot of people interested gaming on high end rigs at 2560x1600 likely have a 8800GTX/Ultra already it would be far cheaper as well). This is of course all speculation since there are no reported benchmarks for 8800GTX/Ultra in SLI mode in these comparisons, which is why I like to request them. :)
-Mark Reply
mark3450 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkTurns out hardocp has a review up at
(can't insert a proper link for some reason)
that compares 2x 9800GX2 with 2x 8800GTX's. The short summary is 2x 8800GTX's are better than 2x 9800GX2 at hi-res gaming. The 9800GX2's often have higher average frame rates than the 8800GTX's, but the 8800GTX's have much more consistent frame rates (the 9800GX2's often had there frame rates crash to unacceptable levels for short periods of time, whereas the 8800GTX were playable throughout).
Essentially it looks like I am better off getting a second 8800GTX rather than 1 or 2 9800GX2's for gaming at 2560x1600, and it's way cheaper to boot.
I will still wait till next week to see how the 9800GTX performs, but given the leaked info on it and recent history of anemic releases by NVIDIA I'm not holding out much hope for the 9800GTX.
zshift - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkin the second paragraph you noted the skulltrail as having 2x lga775 sockets, but i'm pretty sure it has lga771 sockets only. if i'm mistaken, i apologize, if i'm right, please correct the error so other less knowledgeable readers don't receive false information. Reply
Tilmitt - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkYou guys shouldn't be using Skulltrail to benchmark games. It's not a gaming platform. Most games run slower on it than a single socket quad core systems due to the FB DIMMs. It provides a sub-optimal environment for both SLI and crossfire which negates any value that it might have for levelling the playing field there. I think the author is letting his personal desire to use the Skulltrail system get in the way of doing a proper review. The fact of the matter is that Skulltrail is slow for games and doesn't reflect how the vast majority of people would run their SLI and crossfire setups.
As to the multi-GPUness, I think you'd have to be mad to buy them given the price and horrendous scaling. As always, the generation cards will mostly outperform a multi-GPU systems at less cost, less power consumption and more consistent performance across all games. Reply
tynopik - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkfaint of heart, not feint ;) Reply
cactusjack - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkThis is my point. The testers here had "some problems" and these guys are very experienced and tecnically savy. They also have access to alot of PSU's ram etc etc to try if things dont work right. If it were a car or a television it would be sent back as what it is, a failure, and a lemon. Why do we accept it with PC parts.? Reply
Inkjammer - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkCase in point, I have the 9800 GX2:
* I can not run multiple monitors with SLI enabled. So I have to swap between my 24" monitor and my Wacom Cintiq 21". When I change over, the drivers won't auto-detect the resolution, and uses resolutions and hertz the Wacom doesn't support, and I get an "out of signal" error. I have to disable SLI to use my $2,500 art tablet as a secondary monitor.
* I'm a graphic designer, and I can't take screenshots anymore without them coming out garbled like this:
I could find workarounds, get a screen cap program or just disable SLI, but this is all basic functionality gone bad.
There are a LOT of little problems that could impede testing without being visible. The fact that SLI breaks basic functions like multi-monitor setups and screen capture in Vista is puzzling. These drivers feel like betas lacking basic functionality. If I even try Crysis with 8X FSAA my entire system crashes. Reply
dare2savefreedom - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkDid you report this to nvidia:
Inkjammer - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkI adopted from an 8800 GTX to a 9800 GX2, and I'm really frustrated with the drivers - there are a lot of issues with them running it in "SLI". There card has a lot of raw performance, but seeing it doubled up with two cards...
Costs aside, it really seems like anything beyond 2 GPUs at this point and time is rather useless. The technology is there, but the drivers are still too immature and the rest of the tech it requires to be useful hasn't caught up to speed. Reply
Lorne - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkI dissagree, Its in every developers best intrest to flex there emuscles when they can, It keeps the compotition between them going and also keeps prices down and the next techno advances coming to us.
What I do like in alot of articals like this one and few others Ive read is the idea of the 3 hardware giants almost putting there heads together to solve a common problem area.
I wanted to put a quote here about a mention of Crysis being a single thred program but couldnt find it again, Did I read this wrong or is it true that 7 cores generaly sat idle, That would be bad programming not a harware limitation, A spec of how CPU utilisasion would also be good in the testing of these game demo's
The other comment I wanted to bring up was that FBDDR is slower then UBDDR, This could be the limiting factor and along with the formentioned why the swap to the N780 setup did better.
DerekWilson - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - link"I wanted to put a quote here about a mention of Crysis being a single thred program but couldnt find it again, Did I read this wrong or is it true that 7 cores generaly sat idle, That would be bad programming not a harware limitation, A spec of how CPU utilisasion would also be good in the testing of these game demo's "
it's not bad programming really... there are some things you just CAN'T split up to run in multiple threads without adding more sync overhead than performance from parallelism.
In any case, I did a quick test here ---
Crysis seems to have 3 main gameplay threads that do most of the heavy lifting. One bounces around at some pretty high utilization.
The other 5 threads are sitting at between 10 and 20% utilization.
Overall during gameplay on skulltrail we see total cpu utilization (average of all cores) at between 20% and 30%.
Moving beyond 4 cores should (and does) have zero impact on crysis with this information.
Two cores would likely even provide enough power to get by as two of the 3 cores that were more than 20% active sat betwenen 30% and 50% utilization each. Taking these two threads, if they were to run on one core, you'd never see more than 80% utilization. Reply
tviceman - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkHow many people own skull trail platforms and have dual 9800GX2's? Ten. There are ten people that have this setup. For everyone else, it's a pipe dream so far fetched I think I'd have better chances winning the local lottery than owning this kind of system.
Seriously though, there are significantly more cons than pros when using skull trail to benchmark video card performance. The raw power of 8 CPU's is great in theory but it's not translating in real world gaming applications (in some cases it's hurting).
Video card reviews would be served better with the fastest quad core CPU available, accompanied with the highest performance motherboard out, and an excellent CPU cooler to allow for maximum overclock. Reply
charlie brown - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linklol i agree no one will be able to afford this type of setup and if they did it is a waste of money.
I agree that anandtech should post realistic equipment aimed at the enthusiastic croud rather than the rich kid with skulltrail. Try a qx9650 and e8500 chips and see what happens with the benches.
Graphics drivers are not mature enough for the multi sli technology, and games are not mature enough for 4 cores - this review makes spending all that money look nothing but a waste of hard earned cash!!! Reply
SniperWulf - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkI wholeheartedly agree. Not only is it too expensive, but its not practical. What enthusiast you know will actually buy a setup like that? None I know, and prolly not any on the forums either.
Sure, you want to test apples to apples... But the true apples to apples test is the hardware that people can get off newegg or zzf. 780i's and x38s with cheap but good DDR2 and DDR3 (well skip the cheap on DDR3 lol) and a nice penryn core cpu Reply
legoman666 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkThe reason they use skulltrail on all of the recent graphics card benchmarks is because it's the only chipset that supports SLI and Crossfire. It's the only way you'll see an apples to apples comparison. So stop your complaining. Reply
Inkjammer - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkI agree on that. My E6600 w/9800 GX2 doesn't get near the performance Anandtech got in their review. In fact, the performance was still great, but really disappointing by comparison. Then I realized the benchmark was done with 6+ more cores than I have.
The huge CPU power slightly skews realistic performance expectations on an otherwise high end PC. Great for showing card potential, not great for performance you can realistically expect. Reply
DerekWilson - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkMy numbers do not change if I pull one processor.
I tested that -- number of cores do not matter. Only speed of the cores. Reply
tviceman - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkWhich was along the lines of the primary the point I was making. Why not just use the highest performance motherboard available and a single quad core processor overclocked like crazy? At least, in that regard, you're still using the best processor and best mobo out, which both can be had in a custom system for what the (almost) general masses can afford.
I think there is a time and place for extreme high end reviews. But when extremely high end hardware is used in EVERY review, applicable performance expectations to the masses don't exist. I like your reviews; you're thorough you write well, it's just that reading these types of reviews consistently is more like listening to an extremely wealthy individual brag about all his toys. And by no means am I calling you a snob - hardware reviews are a part of your job as well as a priviledge. I will, never in the next few years, meet anyone with a system set up to be as expensive as what hardware reviewers regularly test with. Reply
tviceman - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkSorry I used the word review in every single sentence. I was typing in a hurry and I didn't proof read.
And to once again make it clear, you do a great job reviewing hardware and I enjoy all the article put out by everyone on anandtech. I just question the use of extreme high end hardware in EVERY review (like the 9600GT vs. 3870, is the skull trail necessary there?) Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - linkwe've looked at using the hp blackbird ...
the major reason i want to use skulltrail is to compare crossfire to sli.
there are plenty of reasons i'd rather use another platform, but i'd love it if either AMD or NVIDIA would take a step outside of the box and enable either their platform to support other multiGPU configurations or enable their drivers and cards to run in multiGPU configurations on other platforms. Reply
7Enigma - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkIt's a slippery slope. We want to be able to say Nvidia is better than ATI (or vice versa), or that future scaling due to architecture will make A better than B. The truth as you pointed out is that it doesn't happen this way in all cases. You can have a A64 3200+ (like I currently do) and throw a GX2 at it and it probably won't perform better than a 9600GT. But that doesn't mean its an equal card, just that in a particular situation it performed the same. It's up to the buyer to do their homework and figure out whether its worth it to drop $650 when their system in current $$$ might not be worth the price of the card....
Hocp tried this tactic with the launch of the C2D's and got a lot of heat (I agreed with the anger). They were trying to show that most games are GPU limited and so the new CPU's showed no benefit. Of course it was only a small selection of games, and they didn't take into consideration the 2 largest cpu-straining genre's (RTS and flight sim), and they were running at very high resolutions (which obviously would make things GPU bound).
One of gamespot.com's good features is in their game coverage (pretty much all I use them for). They put out hardware guides that do exactly what you want. They take a specific game and throw a battery of systems at it to see what makes a difference. Those guides will show you just how much improvement you can expect when going from a certain graphics card to a better one on a specific cpu platform. You'll be able to see whether your cpu/mobo combination is at the end of its usable lifespan (ie upgrading other components such as GPU/ram no longer yield a large improvement due to cpu/other bottleneck).
I would say while like you I read these reviews knowing I'll likely never own one of these cards/cpu's, it does give a good picture of who is at the top, and therefore, who has the potential to outlast the other in a system before an upgrade is needed.
With all that said, there is clearly a major problem going on and so all the data generated in this and possibly the previous single GX2 review also benchmarked on the skulltrail platform needs to be taken with a grain of salt, realizing that the numbers could very likely be invalid. Reply
DerekWilson - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkI doubt there is a major problem that would invalidate the data ... and I'm not just saying that because I spent weeks testing and troubleshooting :-)
certainly something is going on, but in spite of the fact that 780i performs a bit higher, performance characteristics are exactly the same -- if there is an issue with my setup it is not platform specific.
I'm still tracking issues though ... Reply
chizow - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkNice job on the review Derek, looks like you ran into some problems but I'd guess testing these new pieces of hardware make it worthwhile.
It really looks like Quad SLI scaling is really poor right now, do you think its a case of drivers needing to mature, CPU bottleneck, or frame buffer limitations? I know Vista should be maxed at 4 frame buffers, but there seems to be very little scaling beyond a single GX2 in everything except Crysis (and COD4). In some games, performance actually decreases with the 2nd GX2.
Also, seeing the massive performance difference between Skulltrail and 780i, is it even worthwhile to continue using Skulltrail as a test platform? I understand it makes it more convenient for you guys to test between different GPU vendors, but a 25% difference in Crysis between an NV SLI solution and Intel's SLI solution is rather drastic, and that's *after* you factor in the 2nd CPU for Skulltrail. Does ATI suffer a similar performance hit when compared against its best performing chipset platform?
I would've liked to have seen Tri-SLI compared in there. Personally I think Tri-SLI with 8800 GTX/Ultra and soon, 9800 GTX will outperform Quad-SLI as it seems the drivers are a bit more mature for Tri-SLI and scaling was better as well. SLI performance with those parts is slightly better already than the GX2 and adding that third card should give Tri-SLI the lead over Quad-SLI.
Lastly, how was your actual gameplay experience with these high-end parts? Micro-stutter is a buzz word that has been gaining steam lately with multi-GPU solutions. Did you notice any in your testing? It looks like frame buffer size really kills all of these 512MB parts at 2560, would you consider games at that resolution unplayable? It seems many who considered 2-GX2 or 2-X2 would have done so to play at 2560. If that resolution is unplayable, you're looking at an even smaller window of consumers that would actually buy and benefit from such an expensive set-up. Reply
seamusmc - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - linkchizow check out Hard OCP's review in regards to 'micro' stutter. They do a great job of presenting the issue and how it affects gameplay.
They feel the problem is due to the smaller amount of memory/memory bandwidth on the GX2 as opposed to an 8800 GTX/Ultra.
DerekWilson - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - linkin my gameplay experience, i had no difficulty with micro stutter and the 9800gx2 in quad sli.
i will say that i have run into the problem on crossfirex in oblivion with 4 way at very high res. it wasn't that pronounced or detrimental to the overall experience to me, but i'll make sure to mention it when i run into this problem in the future. Reply
cactusjack - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkNvidia should go back to making good stable video cards with good IQ instead of flexing their e muscles with crap like this that no one will ever want or need. Nvidia had problems with power issues and vista driver issues on 8 series cards (G92)that they should be working on. Reply
raymondse - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkCrysis this, Crysis that. SLI this, CrossFire that...
After reading almost a dozen reviews of SLI, Tri-SLI, Quad-SLI, and CrossFire running Crysis and handful of other games, it seems that there is something terribly wrong with the all the benchmarks. Test results show that raw multi-GPU horsepower, even when coupled with multi-CPUs, just isn't delivering the kinds of numbers that most of us were expecting. The potential computing power that this kind of hardware can deliver just doesn't show in the numbers. Something is really, really wrong with one of these components thats disrupting the whole point of going for more than one CPU/GPU.
What I'd like to see is some definitive study showing where the problem(s) is and who to blame. Is it the CPU? GPU? Memory? System Bus? PCI-E? Drivers? DirectX? Windows? or the game/application itself?
After all these tests and benchmarks run by really, really smart people, someone out there ought to be able to deduce who messed up in all this business. Reply
Das Capitolin - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linkWhat I dislike about many reviews, is that they test Crysis on "HIGH" settings. There's a major difference between "HIGH" which doesn't use AA, and HIGH with 16x Q AA.
Here's an example of the difference it makes.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_c...">http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?o...;Itemid=... Reply
Das Capitolin - Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - linkWhat I dislike about many reviews, is that they test Crysis on "HIGH" settings. There's a major difference between "HIGH" which doesn't use AA, and HIGH with 16x Q AA.
Here's an example of the difference it makes. Reply
piroroadkill - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkI agree with this, there's a doubling of raw power with two cards (and a doubling of the price), and until I see double the performance in scaling, SLI and CF can go to hell Reply
Layzer253 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linkNo, they shouldnt. It works just fine Reply
Thatguy97 - Sunday, June 28, 2015 - linkstill a fast setup today... Reply


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More John Tortorella:
"I wasn't crazy about the room (earlier in the season). And still I think the room has work to do, and that isn't an indictment on Chris Drury or Ryan Callahan or our leadership group. It's the room itself. I think some people need to be weeded out of there. Certainly not our core people. It's the other people around them. I've said it before, for you to win, that room needs to sustain itself. I think it took a big step with the addition of (Shelley and Prust) to help out, but I don't think the room's a strong room. And I still don't. I think it improved but I still think we have some work to do there."
"You talk about character (said he talked to former teammates of Shelley who knew he was a good character guy). We don't have enough (of those). That has certainly shown what our lockerroom has begun to become with the addition of him and Pruster and even Eriksson … he's been brought up with some good guys like Stevie Yzerman and Lidstrom.
"Now, I'm not saying it's anybody's fault. It just is what it is right now."
He said the key is to keep the young core guys, and add guys with character.
"When you bring other people in, I think some other people will get knocked out of the bus. And I think we need to get some people out of the bus."
Said he thinks Drury "has grown this year." And reiterated that when you have leadership and character, "some guys get bumped out, and we need some guys to be bumped out."
Said he loves Dubinsky's "arrogance as a player" and Del Zotto's, the way they carry themselves, and that good players need some of that. But wants Dubinsky to not get too high and drop off after a good game or group of games (and he sees him as a left winger more than a center). And wants Del Zotto to understand that he's not going to be great simply by being offensive.
"But he has to be careful as he comes in, that he has a long way to go as far as being a pro, about being a National Hockey Leaguer. It's been really good development for him. I hope we didn't hurt him in the second half. It's something that concerns me. … We did cut down his minutes. I just want his head on straight. I don't want him to go down the wrong road, and I've seen a lot of players come in at such a young age, have a little success, and veer off and go down the wrong way, and it's tough to recoup. I think he's a smart kid, a great kid. He's got jam. We just want to make sure he stays on the right path."
Asked about Gilroy, he hesitated, then said some nice things about his rookie year. "He has to learn that some of the things you get away with in college you're not going to get away with in the National Hockey League. It's been a bit of a bumpy ride for him to understand that and accept that. I think he's gotten into the accepting mode of it. Now he has to do it. And certainly as he progresses he can become part of the core. He can skate. That's his biggest strength, and once he starts feeling more comfortable within his game, I think he'll start seeing the ice better and add more offense."
Said he and some in the organization have already looked at possibilities for backup goalies, which kind of means free agent Alex Auld might not be coming back. Also said he wants Lundqvist to play 60-65 games, a plan that blew up this season. (Lundqvist noted, too, that the goalies who play in June are usually not guys who play 70 games during the season … but that he'd like to play every game, as unreasonable as that might be).
"Out of all the teams I've coached, (this) is the one team that you just never knew how they were going to react in certain situations."
He pointed to the good win over Philly, followed by the losses to St. Louis and Montreal late in the year "where we just stunk."
"And that's my responsibility. I am not shunning from the responsibility of consistency again. But it can't fall off that far. That's what frustrated me, where it fell off so quickly and so hard in certain situations. And I have to look at myself in that area. But I think the players also have to take some responsibility in that area. I think it comes down to the questions that we talked about in our lockerroom: What type of people? I think we have some really good ones and I have some question marks on some others. And once you get more and more of what you feel are character people, I think you'll get a more consistent read on what the team is about and maybe develop an identity, which we haven't done. Again, that's my responsibility, and we haven't gotten there yet."
Defended the Gaborik/shootout decision. Said the coaching staff planned the Christensen-Parenteau-Jokinen lineup for the shootout based on past performances, and that Gaborik was 2 of 18, and still slotted to go fourth.
"I'm a big believer that your top guy has to be part of everything with the team. Would I have loved to have Gabby lead off? Yeah. I've tried that. … I also have to make a conscious decision what's best for the hockey club, too. And there's no way I'd change that. I'd do it again if I had to do it tomorrow. I wouldn't change it."


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WCUCOM Student Named Paul Ambrose Scholar
Hattiesburg, Miss., May 7, 2013 - Joshua Stake of Jacksonville, Fla., a second-year medical student at William Carey University's College of Osteopathic Medicine's (WCUCOM), has been accepted as a 2013 Paul Ambrose Scholar. He was selected for this highly competitive and impressive award from among a national pool of medical students' applicants with interests in public health and prevention (both MD and DO). As part of the program, Stake will attend a leadership symposium in Washington, D.C., June 20-23, and conduct a community-based health education project. Dr. Italo Subbarao, associate professor of medicine and associate dean of planning, assessment, and competency development at WCUCOM, will accompany him to D.C. as his mentor. Stake's project is focused on implementing best practices to help prevent childhood obesity in the Hattiesburg community.
The Paul Ambrose Scholars Program exposes health professions students to influential public health professionals and prepares them to be leaders in addressing population health challenges at the national and community level. Since 2002, more than 460 students from over 160 academic institutions have become Paul Ambrose Scholars, equipped with leadership and organizational skills in public health education that can only be found outside of the classroom.


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Tarte LipSurgence Natural Lip Stain Reviews
My Mouth Waters for This Stain!When I first read Tarte's claim that their "LipSurgence Lip Tint" increases lip moisture by 6000% I laughed aloud! Did they think I was born the day before or that I had just fallen from the turnip truck? What lip tint could be so moisturizing? I don't have a homemade lip-o-meter to measure the difference, but it truly is akin to applying balm rather than color, yet you actually do both. Yes,...read more lips are actually softened and remain so. The mint gives a gentle, most pleasant tingling sensation. The shades are delectable; I have several and grab up the occasional kits they offer at Sephora with a variety for a mere $28.00. "Charmed" is the ultimate in flattering light pinks. "Enchanted" is a fantasy rose. There is a zesty red hue, while "Moody" is a becoming berry--not too dark, even for the most fair-skinned. "Swank" is a sophisticated berry-red. It is essential to exfoliate lips first for the most even application. If you don't have a lip exfoliator, simply brush your mouth gently with a very soft-bristled toothbrush and a paste of brown sugar; be certain to hydrate well overnight. "LipSurgence" flows on sheerly and can be used as a wash of color on cheeks if blended well. The staying power is not as strong as with some brands (a hint of color remains for a long time), and so reapply as needed for a fresh glow and additional comfort. Applause, applause to Tarte for a product which exceeds its claims and is highly addictive! — 4 years, 6 months agoGigiSD | 1102 reviews
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2 in oneNot only is this a lip stain, but you can use it as a blush, too, if you blend it quickly. Product really lasts, and good color selection. — 5 years, 8 months agoCaroleVonAllten | 1401 reviews
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Very Good.This is the lip product I've been I've spent years looking for! The color is great, and so is the texture and finish. Not only is the mauve shade a great match for my natural lip color--the feel and appearance of the stain are also very natural. I can wear it without that "there's something on my lips" feeling. The texture certainly isn't sticky or waxy. And unlike matte lipsticks I've tried, the ...read morematte finish doesn't suck the moisture out of my lips. And the shape of the product makes it a sinch to apply. Yes, it's ridiculously overpriced. But it had the exact qualities I'd been search for, so I bought it anyway. In short, this is the first lip color that I may wear everyday, and not just at special occasions. Just be warned, this will definitely not work well with flaky lips. Ever since I got it I have been wearing it everyday with everything. I apply it straight to my dry lips first by lining and then by filling in. It goes on slick and has a minty smell and feel, but then it seems to freeze and dry, a similar effect that the Revlon ColorStay lipsticks have, but you can still move it around a little bit so it is less drying. And then it wears for a few hours, which I think it impressive. An hour later and it is still there. Two hours later and just a bit has worn off. Three hours later and there is still pigment - I could touch up if I felt like but don't have to. You get the picture. I'm going to look into other colors and see if I have a few more color options. I bought this because I read the Kat Dennings wears this shade in 2 Broke Girls, and since I have the same coloring as she does I thought it would look nice. And I was right. The color is this really pretty mauve-y plum color. It goes on really smooth and has a subtle mint feel/taste to it. I have very pale skin (NC15-NC20) and this really darkens them up without making me look dead. I will definitely repurchase and look at some other choices as well. I really like this lip stain. I purchased mine from a popular cosmetic store in a 3 pack kit. It was a good deal because the kit had a special price and then I used an additional 20% off coupon so it was worth it. The color is a neutral on me but a little better. I like it for my minimal makeup look as I normally prefer super duper glossy glosses. This Envy stick is easy to apply and makes for a great "keep in your pocket" lip touch up. I love anything Tarte makes, so I was excited to try this product. I loooooove lip stains, and am always on the search for the perfect one. This one is really different. Most stains are either a liquid, or a marker type, but this one is a chubby crayon. It goes on very smooth, and boy does it stay put! A few things wrong, though: The color Envy looked gorgeous in the store. When I put it on this morning, it looked like a very, very light nude. I'm a color gal, so this won't work for me! I gave it to my partner, and it turned a gorgeous coppery brown on her. Brat! I did buy it in another color, Fiery, and I got my color fix. It's a very bright red. I wish it came in deeper colors. The other drawback is the packaging. The top is super difficult to remove. Although it's a bit pricey, I do like the velvety matte finish, and would purchase the red again. I got this in a boxed set from Sephora last summer and I really love it! I definitely want more colors because, as the reviewer before me stated, this one is a bit more natural. I would repurchase it though. It's perfect for those days when I really feel like I need something on my lips, but I don't want them to look overdone. It's also great for days that I don't have time to reapply, like at school or work. I really love how this stays on for hours and leaves a nice color even when the glossiness fades. It's very moisturizing and feels incredible on the lips. The smell is also amazing! It's somewhere between sweet mint and vanilla. I just can't say enough good things about these. Even if this shade isn't for you, you should really try at least one shade from this line! Looks pretty on, but it's a lot lighter than I thought it would be when I swatched it on my hand in the store. I know the skin on my hand is lighter than the color of my lips, but based on what I sampled, I was expecting a more pigmented nude/beige/browny color, and it turns out a very sheer, light, beige-y peach. Not a bad color once it's layered up, though I must say it takes a LOT of painting on. I do love the way it feels --rich, creamy, glossy. And the smell and flavor are pleasing as always. I won't repurchase this because the color is so light, but I will try a couple of the matte shades, even though I know they can be drying. I am still searching for the perfect color in this Tarte line. Love the concept and the benefits of these products. Bottom line: if you like sheer/light/barely there color, try this one. If you want real color, keep shopping. — 5 years, 6 months agomihshelle | 182 reviews
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Good stuff!It's not super staining like those lip stain markers... it's more like a gloss crayon that provides a bit of a stain too. I like the color options and the packaging--I own three already! The staying power is okay, but it wears off evenly, unlike some stains. There is a nice natural minty scent and tingle when you apply it. They are kind of spendy though. — 6 years, 3 months agoLipglossandSpandex | 521 reviews
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Tastes Great!I like these lip stains. They have a peppermint taste and add a dose of moisture to my lips. I do wish the color lasted longer. — 5 years, 5 months agopowerwoman033 | 509 reviews
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LipSurgence Natural Matte Lip StainI've tried this in two colors, Envy and Lucky. I really like mixing the two colors together and they do moisturize my lips. I also like they are not like other lipsticks. They look like a crayon and they glide on easily. I think they help define the lips and they last even while you are eating. I would buy more of these and recommend them to friends. The only thing I would like to see is mor...read moree colors to choose from because I think right now they have about 6 color choices. If they add more colors it would be even better. It's a thumbs up product also because they use more natural ingredients, no parabens or phthlates. — 6 years, 5 months agoHealthyLivingNaturalBeauty | 23 reviews
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Pleasantly Surprised but ExpensiveWhen the sales woman said Tarte lipstains were moisturizing, I secretly didn't believe her. I was stunned to find that they were not as hard or dry as I suspected. EXPOSED and MOODY looked quite nice on. I just didn't like the price tag and the fact that the stick doesn't last. — 6 years, 8 months agoleo1999 | 678 reviews
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OBSESSED!!!I love these! I love love love them. they have such a great color selection that works for everyone. They stain and moisturize i like these much better than chubby sticks. Check them out! — 4 years, 8 months agorayshaviolet | 245 reviews
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Orginals not my favoriteI LOVE the lipsurgence but the originals turn bright crazy colors on my lips. I much prefer the wonderful lusters. — 5 years, 2 months agoTaylerbootz | 126 reviews
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Impressed and love itWhen I read about Tarte LipSurgence Natural Lip Stain I was interested right away. I love lipstick and lipgloss but sometimes a stain is all you need. I bought this product in Envy, a deep dusky rose. This is a good color for most skin tones. A great lip product for on the go or for days when you wear little to no makeup. It applies smoothly, feels moist and stays hydrated without the eventual dry...read moreness you get from most stains. I love the chubby swivel pencil form which makes it so easy to apply. It's small and portable and fits into any purse for quick touch ups. The color is fairly lasting but does require re-touching after eating, etc. I don't recommend this product be used on chapped lips as the pigment will catch in any dry parts of the mouth. It can however be blended with some lip balm for a little added color. — 6 years, 6 months agoToscanaFirenze | 284 reviews
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OnTheGo allows you to use a MEPIS Live CD and USB device to use your desktop on any computer, wherever you are. It allows you to store your data on your USB Key/Thumb Drive and take your data and desktop with you. Not only does it store your data, it stores it securely encrypted.
Now you'll never have to leave the office without your desktop and critical data. Just take your USB Key/thumb drive with you wherever you go and boot with your MEPIS CD!
First, note that OnTheGo does not take-over your entire USB drive--it's only one file. That means you can format your key as fat32 for Windows & Mac compatibility to maintain publicly accessible files on your USB drive and still have a secure area for your MEPIS files!
OnTheGo expects things to happen in a specific sequence. Some steps require you to wait a few seconds. Changing users or logging off may take up to 30 seconds.
CREATING YOUR OnTheGo DRIVE
1. Backup any data on your usb key (just in case)!
2. If usb key drive is plugged-in; right-click --> Safely Remove, wait a few seconds then unplug key.
3. Log out using right-click on desktop --> Log out "UserName"... --> End Current Session, then log in as root. If you are not root (such as on your employer's machine), log in as root booting from the LiveCD.
4. Insert key drive, cancel any action that starts, then unmount it if necessary--do NOT use Safely Remove. When the drive is mounted, its desktop icon will have a bright green arrow pointing down. You can unmount it using Kwikdisk or the command line.
- KwikDisk: left-click the KwikDisk icon (3 stacked cubes) --> Start KDiskFree, highlight your device, right-click --> Unmount Device
- Command line: KMenu --> System --> Terminal Program (Konsole). At the command line become root, then type
umount /dev/yourdevicename
5. Start MEPIS System Assistant --> MEPIS USB Key tab, check Create the OnTheGo file, select encrypted or not, and click Apply. Wait for Status box to read: "Finalize OnTheGo...ok", then exit. Copy over data at this point or later if you like. Unplug drive, then logout.
USING YOUR OnTheGo DRIVE
1. Unplug key, if plugged in.
2. Boot with your MEPIS LiveCD to the graphical login screen, but DON'T login yet.
3. Plug in usb drive
4. Wait 10 seconds for drive to be detected & mounted.
5. Login using...
user: onthego password: onthego
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A Reverse StrikeRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
This riddle describes a verb, but be careful because the answer isn't what you first think it is:
Acting on both hay and sack
They say it's a wonder if I do only one
Both brick wall and skids I will attack
The answer is when I fail to get done
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Hit the hay, hit the sack
One hit wonder
Hit a brick wall, hit the skids
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Bob and Carolyn Schultz have been married for 44 calendar years, hitched in 1968. The way Bob, the longtime member of the St. Bede Academy football chain gang, looks at it, it's really more like 43.
"I know I've seen at least 365 St. Bede varsity football games in that span. I've been married 44 years, but I've been away for a year, so I've only been home for 43," Schultz said.
"I was dating her when I started this, so that's all she knows — that nine Fridays in the fall, I'm pretty much gone."
He was recruited by a friend, Sandy Ptak, to join the chain gang in the fall of 1967 after coming home from college, the same year St. Bede varsity coach John Bellino was a senior member of the Bruins football team.
"He was a great ballplayer. He was a tough kid," Schultz said.
He'd never given it much thought about lasting so long.
"St. Bede football is a lifelong passion with me. When I was younger I was a radical fan, but I guess I never thought that far ahead," he said.
A 1960 graduate of the Academy, or "a golden Bruin plus 2," he jokes, Schultz is not sure how many more years he has in him. As the senior member of the chain gang, he moves the box with the down marker down the sidelines.
"I'll be 70 in November, and it's a little less work if you hold the chains," he said. "I think my next move is the sidelines, I think. I doubt if I make 50 years, but I'd like to make a couple more years."
St. Bede rewarded their longtime booster this fall with an admission into the Academy's Athletic Hall of Fame. He was surprised by the phone call because he said he was hardly athletic.
"I only played football for two years at St. Bede, and I was third string at that," he said. "My actual athletic accomplishment is zero. Of course my involvement has been long. Forty six years has no meaning to me. If it was my 50th or if I was retiring, but it definitely surprised me. It came out of the blue."
He has missed just a handful of Bruins home games over the years and goes to 90 percent of the road games. The first one came on his honeymoon during his second year on the job. Then he went 22 years without missing a home game.
Schultz has never been taken out by a player on the sidelines, but he's had some close calls.
"You've got to be looking upfield as well as downfield," he said.
They don't move the yard-marker without him.
• I have a confession, I was rooting for a Cub Tuesday. Stop the presses, yes I was rooting for a Cub, a former Cub, that is.
Adam Greenberg got to complete his only at-bat in the Major Leagues that was taken away from him in 2005. Then with the Cubs he was beaned in the head by the very first, and only pitch, he'd ever seen in the Big Leagues. The former Cubs prospect has been physically unable to make it back before, but appears to be in tip-top playing shape as he tries to make a comeback.
Thanks to the "One At-Bat Campaign," he got his shot with the Marlins Tuesday. Unfortunately, he struck out on three pitches, but it certainly was no easy task facing Mets' knuckleballer R.A. Dickey. Hitting that pitch is like catching a butterfly.
Yes, I was rooting for the former Cub. He deserved all of our support. It was the most deserving at-bat since Moonlight Graham in the Field of Dreams.
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FINAL – Game 1: Lynn 5, Saint Leo 4 (10 Innings) – (Saint Leo, Fla. – Thomas B. Southard Stadium)
SAINT LEO STARTERS: Newcomb (CF), Vitale (3B), Twitty (RF), Moses (DH), Revell (1B), Rawdow (2B), Torres (C), Gill (LF), Perez (SS), Teasley (P)
LYNN STARTERS: Freedman (SS), Perez (CF), Lashley (2B), Matusik (1B), Giardina (3B), Elasik (DH), Piperno (C), Stortini (LF), Gonzalez (RF), Vandernaald (P)
AT A GLANCE: Saint Leo and Lynn went back and forth in game one of the doubleheader, with the Lions rallying to tie the game in the ninth only to see the Fighting Knights push a run across the board in the 10th inning to earn the win.
- Saint Leo took an early 1-0 lead when Dillon Vitale doubled in the first and eventually scored on a throwing error by the Lynn first baseman.
- Taed Moses ignited the third inning by belting a two-out triple off the left centerfield wall. Michael Revell then grounded to first where a botched flip from the first baseman to the pitcher allowed Moses to score and Revell to reach base safely.
- Lynn rallied for three runs in the sixth, scoring on RBIs from Jason Matusik and Sal Giardina.
- Trailing 3-2 going into the bottom half of the seventh, Frank Rawdow homered for the second time this series to tie the game, 3-3.
- Lynn then took the lead back in the eighth when Paul Stortini singled to shortstop to bring home Giardina.
- Down a run going into their final at-bat, Revell led off the ninth with a hit by pitch and was sacrificed to second by Rawdow. Daniel Torres then singled up the middle to bring home Revell, the tying run.
- In the 10th inning Ryan Carmona led off with a pinch-hit single, and scored on an RBI double from Cory Elasik to give Lynn a 5-4 lead.
- Tallying three hits and going 3-for-4 in game one was Torres—with an RBI coming in the ninth to tie the game.
- Vitale went 2-for-3 with a walk and a run scored.
- Going 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run was Rawdow, who homered to tie the game in the seventh.
- Starting pitcher Rick Teasley tossed 5.1 innings while allowing just three runs.
FINAL- Game 2: Saint Leo 10, Lynn 6 – (Saint Leo, Fla. – Thomas B. Southard Stadium)
SAINT LEO STARTERS: Newcomb (CF), Vitale (3B), Twitty (RF), Moses (DH), Revell (1B), Rawdow (2B), Torres (C), Gill (LF), Perez (SS), Neely (P)
LYNN STARTERS: Perez (CF), Freedman (SS), Lashley (2B), Matusik (1B), Giardina (3B), Elasik (DH), Gonzalez (RF), Stortini (LF), Piperno (C), Pierce (P)
AT A GLANCE: In a thrilling game three rubber match, Saint Leo exploded for four runs in the sixth to break the 6-6 and win game three, 10-6, to take the series.
- Lynn struck first in game three, scoring a single run in the first to take a 1-0 lead when Sal Giardina singled home a run.
- The Fighting Knights tacked on two more runs in the fourth, scoring on RBIs from Chris Piperno and Alex Freedman.
- The Lions offense was ignited in the bottom half of the fourth, scoring four runs to take a 4-3 lead. Bobby Twitty and Taed Moses led off the inning with base hits and the bases were loaded up when Michael Revell reached base on a walk. The next batter, Rawdow, also walked to bring home Twitty for the first run of the inning. Following a pitching change, Rawdow then scored on a wild pitch from Troy Mannebach. Then, in an odd sequence of events, Revell was caught in a rundown between third and home after a failed suicide squeeze attempt when a Lynn player was called for interference, bringing him in from third to get the Lions within one. Nick Gill and Taylor Perez then sent back to back base hits into the outfield to bring home the Lions third and fourth runs to take the lead.
- Lynn then took the lead right back in the top half of the fifth, scoring three runs on balls put in play by Chris Piperno and Enrique Perez.
- The run-scoring affair continued in the bottom half of the inning when Moses doubled home Twitty, who led off the inning with a walk. With two away, Daniel Torres singled up the middle to score Moses and make it a 6-6 ballgame.
- Tied going into the sixth, the Lions' bats unloaded for four runs to take a 10-6 lead going into the seventh. Perez led off the inning with a base hit up the middle and was sacrificed to second by Chris Newcomb. Vitale then sent an absolute mammoth homerun over the right field wall that sent Thomas B. Southard Stadium wild. Moses continued the inning by drawing a walk and then it was Revell's turn to go deep as he crushed an 0-2 pitch right down the line to extend the Lions' lead to 10-6.
- Matt Hewitt then took care of business in the bottom half of the inning to earn his fifth win of the season.
- Three players—Vitale, Moses, and Perez all collected two hits in the series finale.
- Moses went 2-for-3 with three runs scored and an RBI.
- Vitale went 2-for-4 with a clutch two-run homer in the sixth.
- Going 2-for-3 in game three was Revell, who also scored and drove in two runs.
- Tossing 2.1 innings in relief was Hewitt, who allowed just four hits and no runs.
The Lions now have a brief break from conference play when they host Eckerd College at home on Tuesday night. The regional is set for a 6:00 p.m. first pitch.


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RUNNERS filled the country lanes just outside the city on a sunny Sunday morning for the annual Worcester Marathon and Half Marathon.
The event was based at Worcester Warriors' Sixways stadium, and around 1,200 runners competed, tracing routes that took them through quiet villages such as Smite, Himbleton and Tibberton.
Rob Minton of Tempo Events, which organises the race, said: "We've got a good turnout, better than last year, the weather is good, sunny but not too warm, and I think everyone is enjoying it.
"About 200 of the runners are running for St Richard's Hospice, and we've already collected about £13,500, although we expect that to double when all the sponsorship money is in."
Well-wishers encouraged the runners as they passed through the villages and hamlets, and back at Sixways, a large crowd of friend and relatives had gathered around the finishing line, to cheer on their personal athletic heroes as they completed the final yards of the race.
Among those taking part were Gemma Jones, aged 29 of Cheltenham, the second female competitor to finish the half-marathon.
She said: "I'm in training for an iron man event in July, and this half-marathon is a really good part of my training. It's really well supported, which is good for the morale."
Just behind her was Lucy Walmsley, 42 of Bourton-on-the-Water, who said: "It was quite tough but it was good. The weather was warm but not too hot."
Alan Southwick, 37, a member of Worcester's Black Pear Joggers, who finished in 1:31:14, was one of those raising money for the hospice. He said: "My father-in-law Steven Mullen passed away and he was taken excellent care of by the hospice, which is why I am supporting it."
Fellow Black Pear Jogger Nick Andrews, 43, who described his time as "1:30-ish", said: "It's a good course and the camaraderie is good. Everybody helps each other along."
And Clive Andrews, 47 and another Black Pear Jogger, said: "I've done it every year since it started. It;s good race and people come out in the villages to cheer you along."
One competitor from from further away was Darren West of Harrogate, who has set himself the goal of running 52 half-marathons to celebrate his 52nd birthday this year, and to raise money for the Yorkshire-based Martin House Children's Hospice.
"I'm doing another one in Milton Keynes tomorrow," he said, moments after finishing the Worcester event.
"This one was a bit hilly, but a lovely course and the people are great," he said.
1 Stuart Leaney 2:40:00, 2 Chris Bacon 2:40:41, 3 Michael Kingsbury 2:45:18.
1 Alison Boyle 3:21:43, 2 Caroline Hall 3:24:27, 3 Helena Eastham 3: 27:29.
1 James Bellward 1:15:56, 2 James Pearce 1:16:50, 3 Tom Kenderdine 1:18:41.
1 Fiona Blackmore 1:28;14, 2 Gemma Jones 1:28:46, 3 Lucy Walmsley 1:29:57.


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MARTYN MOXON expects Yorkshire to have had the ideal preparation for the new county season when they begin competitive action in the LV= County Championship against Somerset at Taunton on April 13.
The White Rose squad returned to Headingley yesterday after spending the last fortnight in Sri Lanka on their pre-season tour, playing Twenty20 matches and a two-day fixture against local opposition.
Prior to their trip to Somerset a fortnight tomorrow, they also play two three-day friendlies against Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities at Headingley and Northamptonshire at Northampton.
The first of those fixtures is against the students on Tuesday. The second starts on April 8.
"With us having gone abroad, we will hopefully have had the best of both worlds in terms of good preparation," said Moxon, Yorkshire's director of cricket.
"You are obviously hoping the weather's going to be all right.
"When you start the season so early, it's difficult not to have a pre-season tour because you can't guarantee weather. Your ability to be outside is risky.
"Pre-season tours are good for getting rustiness out, getting back on grass.
"But we are fortunate we've got two quality games on home soil as well to prepare for Taunton.
"The two matches will be used with a view to the first game at Taunton. The sides will be selected with that in mind.
"Leeds/Bradford are a very good team. It will be great and valuable practice for us."
Yorkshire host their annual meeting in the Headingley Long Room today, starting at 10.30am. Dickie Bird's nomination as the club's new president will be officially ratified, while Sachin Tendulkar will be appointed as an honorary life member. He was Yorkshire's first overseas player in 1992.


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Corn futures were rather mixed Wednesday morning, but turned moderately higher later in the day. Strength spilling over from the soybean pit apparently boosted the market despite a general lack of news pertinent to corn values. The winter storm working its way across the country at this point, as well as those expected next week would seem to be improving prospects for the 2013 U.S. corn crop, but that seemingly did little to deter bullish buying. March corn rose 4.25 cents to $6.995/bushel at the daily close, while December rose 2.5 cents to $5.6025.
Although they suffered a midsession setback, soybean futures finished their Wednesday session quite strongly. Trader disappointment with second-quarter Argentine production prospects in the wake of the late shift toward persistent dryness probably supported the CBOT market. Others are reportedly reacting to renewed buying from Chinese interests, and particularly to the fact that they have been purchasing old-crop U.S. beans. March soybeans settled 10.25 cents higher, at $14.805 late Wednesday morning, while March soyoil fell 0.43 cents to 52.10 cents/pound, whereas March meal surged $6.5 to $431.8/ton on the day.
After slumping early in the day, wheat futures rallied Wednesday afternoon. The weather-driven decline was rather obviously caused by the storms expected to blanket large portions of the U.S. Winter Wheat Belt over the next week or so. However, later headlines were dominated by talk of improved export buying, particularly from Egypt. Those considerations, as well as the bullish leadership provided by the soybean market apparently carried the market higher. March CBOT wheat futures climbed 6.25 cents to $7.385/bushel at their Wednesday close, while March KCBT wheat jumped 8.0 cent to $7.77, and March MGE futures climbed 5.25 cents to $8.21.
Cattle futures suffered a substantial decline Wednesday. Traders had apparently come to expect another decline in country cattle prices this week, which undercut Chicago prices trading at substantial premiums. However, country cattle reportedly began trading around unchanged levels (at 123.00 cents/pound) around midsession, which probably sparked the modest CME bounce later in the day. Bulls may also have been counting upon early-week wholesale gains to continue during the days ahead. The drop was not encouraging, but the late bounce may give bears pause. April cattle plunged 1.32 cents to 128.22 cents/pound at the Wednesday close, while August dropped 1.07 cents to 125.52. Meanwhile, March feeder cattle plummeted 2.45 cents to 140.72 cents/pound, and August fell 2.62 cents to 153.80.
Hog futures proved quite weak early Wednesday, but ended the day slightly higher. The concurrent breakdown in cattle and feeder futures almost surely weighed upon the hog/pork complex. However, the main driver of the drop probably stemmed from the threat to export demand represented by the Chinese demand for independent testing of U.S. pork. Conversely, signs of firming wholesale prices, particularly Tuesday afternoon pork loin gains, probably brought the market back later in the day. April hogs slipped 0.10 cents to 82.95 cents/pound as the CME pit session wound down, while June rose 0.37 cents to 92.5.