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Computex 2005 Early Bird Coverage: NVIDIA's G70, Athlon 64 BTX and moreby Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2005 8:53 AM EST
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dmctaggart - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - linkBTW where is the $50 ram card?
Anandtech says:
Newegg.com $88.00
Amazon Marketplace $91.54
Monarch Computer Systems $87.00
dmctaggart - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - linkSince when do you need hardware to have a ramdrive?
Hookup a ups to a ram drive? Why not just hook it up to your computer if you don't want to lose the ramdrive?
Buy the slowest ram you can for your hardware swap drive?
Why not have a ramdrive using the fast ram you have installed on your computer and aim your swapdrive at it?
I think everyone has gone buggy.
Danno Reply
flloyd - Thursday, June 02, 2005 - linkAccroding to this article, the PCI slot powers it up while the computer is off and therefore the battery is only for when it is unplugged or during a power outage.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/01/HNxpwind... Reply
drag0n - Thursday, June 02, 2005 - linkhow about this:
1-set your PC to boot off SATA first as in:
no OS goto harddrive
OS goto SATA ramdisk
2-mirror your xp install to your 4G ramdisk
4-configured for ALL OS functions running off the SATA ramdisk (including swapfile, temps, etc.)
5-never leave your PC off for more than 16 hrs.
*grin* Reply
MrHaze - Thursday, June 02, 2005 - linkI'd really like to run the Gigabyte ramdisk for my pagefile.
The key factor would be finding slow (cheap) RAM.
My thoughts on more system memory vs. ramdisk:
Yeah, more system memory is obviously better. But with system memory you're trying to milk every bit of speed you can--and that's expensive. Most folks top out around 2gb or even 1gb. 4Gb is troublesome.
It seems that a cheap 2-4 gb ramdisk for the pagefile would be an excellent addition to 2Gb of system memory.
Why don't DIMM manufacturers make something like this? Seems like they could build a big PCB with 4+ gb of appropriate and cheap RAM chips (instead of whole DDR DIMMS designed for a completely different application). One big-ass memory module. Wouldn't this be a more elegant and cost-effective solution?
Mr. Hayes
myne1 - Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - linkActually, nevermind my last comment.
This is an absolutely awesome way of doing it.
Gigabyte; please pat your engineers on the back.
Any word on eta/avaliability?
I want one now! Now as in yesterday :D Reply
myne1 - Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - linkWOW!
2 months ago I posted my ideas about a PCI-E based RAM card on OCAU and a couple of other forums. I even emailed a couple of big-name companies, but not gigabyte. My mistake it seems :/
(link to my post : http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t...
The concept drawing is crude, but I still hope that someone makes it. Even in 1x mode it'll have nearly 4x the bi-directional bandwith of PCI.
Gigabyte, if you're reading this, pretty please :) Reply
EODetroit - Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - linkBecause you can buy cheap ram for the board, and it won't hurt performance. The limiting factor will be the sata connection, not the ram speed.
Whereas there's problems with 4GB of system memory, such as many OS' not liking that much, many motherboards not supporting that much, and if you want to run at DDR400 you're going to have to buy expensive ram.
Also some of that system memory would have to go towards the system and not the ram disk... in the end you'll probably max out at a 3GB ram disk or so. And finally with the add-in boards you could raid two of them together to create ram disks > 4GB in size, which would otherwise be impossible since no ram disk software seems to support sizes over 4GB, at least on Windows.
oupei - Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - linkIf you're willing to buy 4gb of ram to put on the ramdrive, why not just put it on the mobo and just have 4gb of ram?
unless you want it for startup, i don't see why anyone would want it. Reply
justly - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - linkAlso, thanks for the URL. I haven't read it yet (SFF is not a priority for me) but I will make sure to read it. thanks again.
justly - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - link61 Jarred thanks for letting me know why you have reservations about using SiS, but can you really say that the reasons you pointed out are deal breakers for 10% or even 1% of the 115,727 users registered to Anandtech forums?
Not providing drivers for a beta OS, complaints of long term stability of a cheaply manufactured motherboards, or a "feeling" that you have doesn't effect my choice of chipsets (no matter what brand) but if I hadn't asked about the reference to being "stuck" with a certain chipset, I might have had second thoughts (if I didn't take it upon myself to find out more).
Believe it or not, I don't do this to persuade people to buy SiS chipsets. I do this to prevent people (including myself) from unknowingly being persuaded to avoid a potentially good chipset for their needs (I would do this for any chipset brand if I thought they where being misrepresented). Reply
EODetroit - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - linkHey, you guys aren't getting what I'd use that RAMDRIVE for.
I play World of Warcraft (WoW). I like to PvP. When I run into one of the huge zerg fights, my computer stutters as it thrashes the hard drive while it loads the files into memory of all the extra players around me.
With one (or two, since the WoW game files take up about 4.5GB) RAMDRIVE, I'll then have a batch file that copies all the game files from my hard drive to the RAMDRIVE. I run the game off the ram drive, and now every file access takes place near-instantly. I can run into a huge melee and not notice any disk accesses and while everyone else is suffering, I'm killing away.
Actually I've already found the perfect solution, but I'm unwilling to drop $3550 on it. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&...
I've emailed that guy to sell it to me (a lot) cheaper but he just won't budge :/ .
knightwhosaysni - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - linkEveryone here seems to be talking performance. This seems to me much better as the basis of a silent PC with no moving parts, 2GB of OS and a Gb link to a file server. Reply
BigandSlimey - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - linkI'm no electronics engineer, but wouldn't it be easier to unplug that cable that runs from the battery pack into the pcb, modify the termination and connect that to an external power supply?
Anand, please tell Gigabyte to put such a feature in as standard!!
I wonder if this product can achieve the same benchmarks as the CENATEK rocket drive.
If it does, it would certainly put CENATEK out of business considering their product is around 30 times the price :S Reply
cartman - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - linkcorrection:
sales=sells Reply
cartman - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - linkwhere can we buy the ramdisk pci? i cannot find anything about it in gigabyte's site. It would be very interesting for somebody like gigabyte to create a ramdisk that fits on a 5 1/2 bay and has pre-installed the most dirt cheap ram chips one can find! i think a 300$ 8-16gb disk is entirely feasible for a company that buys mass quantities of ram chips. add some batteries and the ability to run from the 5volts the psu provides when the pc is shut down, and you have a product that sales like hot cake! Reply
Viditor - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - linkA question for Anand...
In the article, you state:
"Gigabyte has introduced a number of interesting add-ons for their motherboards"
Does this mean that the Ramdisk will be a Gigabyte-only item?
All knowledge gratefully accepted! :-) Reply
Calin - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - linkLevel load times for games won't be too much affected by ramdrives - they are mostly processor bound, not disk bound.
However, ramdisk for swap would be great (maybe not that great as more RAM, but more RAM has its own problems, like price, the DIMMs must match, they are high speed so they are expensive). Reply
ceefka - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - linkPlease ditch BTX and go ahead on CTX. We need lots of slots for those SSDs :-D
Very good work with the Xilinx Spartan FPGA. These things are so useful. Nice one, Gigabyte.
I am not sure if the PCI-slot is the best location for an SSD in the future. It looks perfect for today. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - link55 (justly again) - Part of the problem, at least from my perspective, is the lack of a unified installation package. NVIDIA, Intel and VIA all have chipset driver installation packages that are mature and let you know that everything is installed. SiS driver installation always leaves me feeling like I may not be getting everything.
Performance is only part of the equation, and while SiS does keep up and surpass other chipsets in some situations, that's not the same as being better than the chipsets. How quickly did SiS get out 64-bit capable drivers? How about drivers for beta OSes like Longhorn? (I can tell you from experience that sound on many SiS boards doesn't work under Longhorn.) There's an overall package that you get with a motherboard, and the SiS boards almost always feel "less" than Intel/NVIDIA/VIA boards that I've used.
That can change, of course, but I have yet to use an SiS solution that was as stable in long-term use as an Intel board. Was it the chipset or the cheaply made motherboard? I can't say for sure - maybe both. Anyway, for another comparison, you can look at the Foxconn e-bot in the SFF roundup I did a few months ago.
ravedave - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - linkAnand,
Benchies, we need benchies and lots of them on the RAM drive. AFAIK there haven't been any good reviews on any RAM drives. I am sure it would pull in some sweet traffic....
Things to try
1) Games (level load times)
2) web browsing (cache on ramdrive)
3) OS (page file, entire install)
4) multi media (scratch file...)
Viditor - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - linkThat Ramdisk is VERY intriguing...
Total cost looks to be ~$270 for a 4GB drive ($50 + 4 1024MB PC2100 sticks) and ~$150 for a 2GB drive...
It might even be cheaper if you bought some used low-speed Ram on Ebay! Reply
Brian23 - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - link#57, I don't see why they couldn't make a PCIe solid state card that was bootable. bios will already recognize and boot to hard drives on a PCI controller card. A manufacturer could make a PCIe card that was both a IDE controller and a IDE to DDR controller. That way there would be no extra cables or reliance on a seprate IDE controller. Plus there would be all the bandwidth of a PCIe bus for data transfere. (If they do that, I would still want a conector for an external power supply though.) Reply
Googer - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link#21 Raid 0 with 2, 3, or 4 of these cards would be awesome! Add PCI express x4 so for extra bandwith and keep the sata just so it can be bootable. Once windows starts and loads drivers the SATA Conncetor can take it's break or work in tandem with PCI-E. Reply
Zebo - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkeverything there is retared cept for that DFI ATI board. Reply
justly - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkAnand, thanks for the reply, and I will be looking forward to the piece you mentioned.
I do understand that SiS (along with other brand chipsets) are not marketed twards the "enthusiast" (if by that you mean gamers). However, I still see little information as to why they are so inadequate, and that is the information I would like to find out instead of just hearing these comments that appear to be indirect slander of a chipset because they are not utilized in high end motherboards and marketed directly at gamers.
Even in the article you linked to (I briefly looked over it as I have read it before) I saw no mention of driver problems (as you hinted twards) and the performance indicates that it competes very well. You say "it is really tough to beat the high end chipset makers right now" but look at the review you referenced to on your own site and you can see that the SiS chipset did just that on more than one benchmark. In fact it only lost to all of the 4 nForce based motherboards twice, but it beat ALL the nForce based motherboards 3 times, the rest of the time it placed between. Given that this review shows SiS as realitively equal in performance when compared to Nvidia, I ask again what are the problems with SiS that make the term "stuck with SiS" more appropriate than something like "limited to SiS"?
Just as a reminder my complaint is that these comments get directed at the chipset not the motherboard. If all nForce chipsets where relegated to ultra low end solutions by motherboard manufacturers that wouldn't make nForce a bad chipset ... would it? Reply
Brian23 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkI didn't mean cut the wires to the battery. I meant to take a razor blade and cut the traces on the PCB to the PCI connector and then solder wires to the traces and run them to an external wall cube. It could work, but it would mean damaging the card.
I've got plenty of PCI sockets laying around on old AT motherboards. I'm going to take one off and solder a power adapter to the apropriate pins. That way I can power the ramdisk all the time without modifying it. Reply
jiulemoigt - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkan eight gb swap file that accesses at the speed of memory is fast. the limiting factor would be the sata connector, which means you may notice it swapping but nothing even close to a disk find on a mechinal drive. You could even get away with the worst latency ramm {random access memory modules} out there as they would already be waiting on the sata controller. What would be better would be a native interface on the PCI-e 1x channel. Oh an giga byte could not make an always power pci unless they change how the PSU is turned on and off as power goes through the cpu on the 12volt line they might be able to use one of their raiser cards there is a reason mobos don't leave the traces powered. The person who mentioned cutting the three lines to the batter and simply powered them has a good idea but you might want to find out what the draw is first so that when you hook it out you don't fry the whole mobo :) Reply
unhaiduc - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkthis might be the dumbest idea ever.. but here goes:
what if... you get a 2nd case with a motherboard that has 6 pci slots, stick in a 200w powersupply and hook up this 2nd case through a ups
now, get 6 of these pci cards, hook them all up with 4gb of ram.. 6cards x 4gb = 24GB total space
now, to make this all feasible, u'd have to have this second case right next to ur 'main' case so that the sata cables would reach into the main case's motherboard (an nforce4 board has 8 sata's)
of course without a cpu in ur 2nd case, it wouldn't even post.. but the motherboard is powered and so are the 6 pci slots, and a 200w powersupply should last at least an hour even on a cheap ups
you are ofcourse limited by the 150Mb sata, but isnt the raid on the nforce4 chip directly connected to the rest of the chip/system? therefore you could get 4x150= 600Mb/s out a 4disk raid (i dont think u can span across both raid chips of a dfi board)
for the 2nd motherboard, i think even an old 486 mobo should work.. no?
just an idea that popped into my head.. what do u guys think? Reply
Brian23 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkI bet it wouldn't be hard to cut the PCI traces on the ramdisk card and use an external wall cube to power it. Or better yet, take a PCI connector off an old mobo and wire it up to an external wall cube. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkjustly
For the most part, SiS chipsets are relegated to ultra low end solutions by motherboard manufacturers. There are times when SiS solutions are better suited for the enthusiast market, and whenever we do come across those chipsets we always present them to you all as best as possible (e.g. http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2301).
There are always diamonds in the rough, and when we find them we do our best to present them. But when it comes to performance and solid drivers, it is really tough to beat the high end chipset makers right now - mainly Intel and NVIDIA (and potentially ATI).
That being said, I am working on a piece that will shed light on how the motherboard manufacturers and motherboard market view all of the chipset makers - you may be in for a bit of a surprise. More and more, ULi is looking like they may be the best kept secret of Taiwan. But more on that later :)
I'll pass on the positive comments about Gigabyte's solution on to the Gigabyte team here in Taiwan, I'm sure they'd love to hear it.
Take care,
Anand Reply
cryptonomicon - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkramdrive looks sweet Reply
justly - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link42 - don't take this wrong, but if SiS, ULi (or any other chipset for that matter) is so "inferior in several areas of performance" then why do many articles (including Anandtechs) not make it clear that SiS (or any other chipset for that matter) have such limitations? I realize that SiS is not supirior in every aspect but when ever I see any article author confronted about chipsets (other than NVIDIA or Intel, and not just at Anandtech either) they all seem to throw off an aditude that "I know more than you" yet fail to give sound answers or links/proof of what they say. I for one can think for myself (I don't need to ask forum members to critique or pick out parts for my needs, I don't think most of them could since I am not a gamer) but I need the information to make a informed decission, and to put it bluntly your statement "inferior in several areas of performance" does not provide me with the information I need. If anything your answer just makes me more belligerent. Reply
Googer - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkCorretion:
Also Hopefuly gigabyte will release a motherboard just for this SSD drive. A motherboard that has one PCI slot that always recives power and remains powerd on at all times even when the PC is off, just for the support of this card only. Also it would be needed to have a bios option that would be able to turn this feature on or off, so that people who don't own one of these SSD's do not have a constantly powerd PCI slot when the pc is off. Reply
Googer - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkAlso Hopefuly gigabyte will release a motherboard just for this one that has one PCI slot that remains powerd on at all times even when the PC is off, just for the support of this card only. Also it would be needed to have a bios option that would be able to turn this feature on or off, so that people who don't own one of these does not have a constantly powerd PCI slot. Reply
Googer - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkThe one advantage that the Cenetek Rocket Drive has over the gigabyte solution is the ability to recive power through an AC adapter that can be plugged in to the back of a nice BIG UPS. Reply
erwos - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkI'm surprised Gigabyte didn't put a standard four-plug on the RAM board. That would allow for power during the time the computer was off (provided the PSU was receiving power).
My guess is that it's intended for web servers, which have huge amounts of random accesses, but a reasonably low storage requirement. It would also be good for huge databases.
There's also the possibility of tossing a few of them into a RAID 5, with initial sync off a hard drive. That would quite handily alleviate storage requirements. Reply
flatblastard - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkHmm...just remove the battery back-up from that ramdisk, and now you have yourself a drive that can store sensitive (illegal) data without much risk. You'd just need to be there to shut down the computer, or make it so the wrong keystrokes automatically shut it down when your not there. Back in my yonger days, I used ramdrive.sys for password cracking/encryption stuff all the time. Of course, that's back when 64MB of RAM was unheard of. Just an idea... Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link30 - When actual tests back up the feeling that SiS chipsets (and ULi) are inferior in several areas of performance, such statements are not biased. There are many instances where SiS chipsets work fine, but to pretend that they are the equal of Intel is bias in the other direction.
The real problem with that design is the cost of the upgrade boards. $50? There are cheap SiS-based boards for only slightly more than that. You deactivate the 775 socket and onboard memory in order to use the daughter card, so if you already had the board working, you now have at the very least an extra CPU sitting around. You also drop from four DIMM slots to two.
It's an interesting idea if you could make it work with the onboard RAM and sell the upgrade boards for much less than $50. At least, that's my opinion. Reply
flatblastard - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link#40 Christmas if yur lucky. Reply
Waylay00 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkWell if the G70 boards are supposed to be in manufacturer's hands by the 2nd week of June, then when does this mean that they will actually be available for people to buy? Reply
Brian23 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkSorry, I can't count. I ment to say #37. Reply
Brian23 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link#36, that's what the gigabit ethernet is for! Reply
bob661 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link#36
Too bad you couldn't store any movies on it. Reply
patrick0 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkHow about using a SSD for a HTPC?! Now that's silence. Reply
bob661 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkThe swap file idea is excellent. I think four 512MB sticks would be enough and would run about $160 on Newegg. Reply
sprockkets - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkOf course if you use Linux it has no problems using the RAM as a HDD as it is; look at Knoppix and DamnSmallLinux, both use the ram as a HDD and DSL can run completely out of the ram. You can also do that with Knoppix if you have at least 1GB of ram.
But then again, no permanent distro goes to ram soooo... Reply
Beenthere - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkThere simply is no justification for the BTX design. It isn't a good design and it doesn't cool Intel's overheating products sufficiently. It's just a marketing gimmick that the Mobo mfgs. were smart enough to NOT adopt despite arm twisting by Intel. Intel is on there way down and the Mobo mfgs. know it. Reply
semo - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linksolid state storage has been around for some time but not as cheap.
look for hyperdrive Reply
tungtung - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkThat RAMDISK card is quite interesting although there is a Japanese company that make similar product since 1998 (only for Mac though) ... the idea of being able to use older RAM sticks are also the main thrust for that old product ... but that old product (which I just can't seem to remember what or who makes them) has an external power connector + battery backup.
It is a nice use for scratch disk / temp drive though. Reply
justly - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkI never really understood the use of a riser card to make a motherboard compatibile with other processors. Well I guess it could be used by review sites to compare processors using the same platform, but other than that what reason would any sane person have for this feature?
Anand, I am also curious as how you can still claim that Anandtech has no bias, yet in every Anandtech (or any other sites) articles featuring a SiS chipset, the SiS chipset allways seems to have good showing (please realize I'm talking chipsets not motherboards) yet tou make this comment.
"There are some limitations to the technology; first and foremost, you are stuck with SiS chipsets"
"STUCK WITH SIS CHIPSETS" doesn't that look like bias to you? If you really where unbiased I think you would have worded this differently.
Larso - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkVery interesting that solid state. I wonder if you the standby 5V line from the powersupply would have enough juice to keep the memory alive?
Adding a rechargeable battery seems like a rather expensive way to fix the problem... And using a programmable FPGA for controller? What is this, still a prototype?? Reply
mlittl3 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkYes #20, #27 is right.
Read the article a little closer. The PCI slot ONLY provides power. All transfers go through the SATA connector in the upper right of the PCB to your motherboard SATA connector. That will be 150MB/s. The PC recognizes the drive as a SATA drive on startup.
I wonder if they will come out with a SATA II 300MB/s version. That would rock even more. MORE DROOL! Reply
MDme - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link#20
it is not limited by the PCI bus since the transfers actually occur over the SATA controller of the mobo.
i think though that it is just SATA 1 so that would limit it to 150mb/s (if it were SATA II then that would be 300mb/s.
Avalon - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkThat ECS board is very cool. I don't understand the hoopla over the solid state ram drives, though. Reply
Dubb - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkI wonder if you could setup one of those cards as a second OS installation, and have it sync'ed with one on a HD - point being that you could boot to the HD if the ramdrive wasn't available/wiped after 16 hours.
I'm going to have to wait for reviews + stories of people using the card, but I very well could end up using 2-3 of these things depending on how well they work. the productivity increase would probably be worth whatever they cost.
DDR max? can you even buy that anymore? what about 2gb modules? hmmm. Reply
Brian23 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkI will be the first one to own one of these ram-drive cards. Reply
Googer - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkI love the concept here, but for the amount of money that I would end up spending here I would rather have a couple of 74gb SCSI drives.
The one advantage that this card has over installing extra ram on your system is that data stored on this card is bootable and does not have to be dependant on a HDD. Where as adding ram to your PC the data will be gone as soon as you shut down your PC. Also Windows does not treat ram the same way it treats a HDD, but I know there is software that can take care of that. Reply
semo - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkgoddamn #21 and all the rest. stop it. i'm running out of drool here Reply
davecason - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link#17 has a good point, you can use a solid-state drive for all kinds of things. In addition to a great swap file:
1. Website Hosting: You could store your websites on the fast solid-state disk to improve delivery performance.
2. Database: You could put your database files (logs or data) on the solid state disk to improve request times. You could probably even use a file-based database like Access or FoxPro with some efficiency.
3. Video editing: half the time you spend doing this work is waiting for data to be read from or written back to the hard drive.
4. Dumb Terminals: you could set up a simple BART PE boot image on the solid-state disk to allow a client workstation to boot quickly and access a mainframe, web application, or Terminal Server. They would be expensive but fast. Any data loss could be recovered by simply booting to a CD to reinitialize the drive from the CD's contents.
5. If you had a good backup process, you could put your system boot files on it. Imagine how fast you could hibernate your computer to and from one of these solid-state devices.
You could even make a RAID1 or RAID5 mirror out of these things for some redundancy if you had enough slots and cash. Reply
michaelpatrick33 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkOr, you could put a whole Linux distribution on that and have some fun!
Of course another drawback is that it is a 32bit PCI card, so you will only get a maximum of 133mBps sustained to the south/north bridge thus limiting it further. Still way faster than any hard-drive though. Reply
AndreasM - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkAh yes, use a ramdisk for the swap file so the computer doesn't slow down when swapping data to it from ram. Or not.
#17 has a point though, this would be useful for Intelists that have moved to DDR2 and still have their old DDR-sticks around. Though it would probably be a better idea to just sell those sticks and buy more DDR2 :P Reply
stevty2889 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link#12 I think using that gigabyte ram drive for the swap file would be an excelent use for it, good idea! Reply
Icehawk - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkI want that RAM-Disk. Here's why - I have a gig of older DDR ram that is essentially worthless. How about using the Ram-Disk for your virtual memory swap file? Ah... now you see the possible benefit?
:) Reply
Tanclearas - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkI thought the idea behind BTX was to improve cooling through better air flow. Why would they place the IDE cables directly in-line with the CPU, and the power and SATA cables all nearly in-line with the CPU?!
Matthew Daws - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkWhat I don't quite get with the solid-state drive is: Why not just increase the amount of ram you have, and let the O/S use it as it sees fit, either for a huge disk cache, or for applications if they need it. This should actually be faster, as the OS can intelligently decide what data to buffer in ram; and with 64-bit nearly mainstream, you don't have a 4GB limit.
The only issue might be that you'll have to spend a lot more on RAM you want to put on your motherboard than the dirt-cheap stuff you'd put on the Gigabyte board; but surely 2GB of extra system ram would be better than a 4GB Ram-Drive? Reply
mjz - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkyea, maybe if they have 8 slots and ram is 50 dollars a gig. Reply
mattsaccount - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkThe solid state drive would also be useful for photoshop/video editing scratch disks, or for the windows page file. Reply
MDme - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkhey, you can put winXP onto that ramdisk and just have that. I mean if you use that as your OS partition, it will rock. maybe use a minimal XP install without the bloat-ware...maybe even a 512mb swapfile there. (I wonder how fast will boot times be???)
just use the ramdisk as the swap file. that would still be a boost. (you won't have to worry about the volatile ram either) Reply
AnnihilatorX - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link2GB should be enough for just Window
but if you want "a" game on it... 4GB is just enough Reply
KayKay - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkG70 in second Week of June??! Take That ATI! ;) Reply
ryanv12 - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkYeah, it doesn't seem there's enough capacity to make it worth getting one of these. Even if you got 4x1GB, with the cheapest 1GB sticks on newegg costing ~ $80, You're looking at $320 for 4 Gigs. I'm sure there'll be will uses for this, but it's not enough space to put an OS or Games. With that said, I wonder who's going to be the first person to buy two of these, fill them up with 4GB each, and then run a Raid 0 :P Reply
mrwxyz - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link#2 and #5
you would need a lot of memory to install games and windows or whatver you wanted onto it, and even then its limited to 4 slots. How much memory would you be willing to buy for that? Awsome idea...but i can't see how someone could actually use it (unless u were willing to get 4x1gb modules)... Reply
Dukemaster - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkI think Ati is playing it smart here. I wouldn't be suprised if the G70 is a 24 pipes gpu and when their almost on the shelve then Ati announces it's R520 is a 32 pipe gpu. Reply
davecason - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkThat Gigabyte DDR RAMDISK looks a lot like an updated/improved version of the Cenatek Rocket Drive:
The advantages are a much lower price and no OS/driver dependency. Reply
mjz - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link#2.. just have a batch file run during the shutdown.. i soo want a solid state drive too! Reply
Visual - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkECS are nuts Reply
xsilver - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link$50 for the cpu upgrade card when a whole nforce 4 board can be had for under $100? surely they must be joking.... needs to be nearer $25 to have some real use Reply
Crassus - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkif you could put that Gigabyte card in tandem with a harddisk, so that data would be written to the HDD at power-down - or that battery could get a direct connection to a power socket - that would truely transform computing. Imagine having your OS on that one instead of a Raptor :c)
Is there any info on its intended availibility for retail? Reply
shabby - Monday, May 30, 2005 - linkYay g70 :) Reply


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A YEOVIL dental team have celebrated an epic 150 years of family dentistry in the local community this August.
The staff from Princes Street Dental Care marked the occasion by holding an open day in their practice for new and existing patients.
Dr Mark Hampson, a principal dentist at the practice, said: "We're delighted to be celebrating 150 years of dentistry in Yeovil. The team and I are so proud of the practice, and feel honoured to be part of a business that has been so vital in the local area for such a long time."
During their open day the practice team spoke to new patients about their services, as well as holding a raffle and a book sale to raise money for charity. They were joined by two former partners of the dental practice, Mr Gilshenan and Mr Matthews, who took the opportunity to speak to some of their past patients and catch up with the latest developments at Princes Street.
Mr Gilshenan commented: "Princes Street Dental Care has been looking after the teeth and gums of the people of Yeovil since 1864, when it was based in the Medical Hall on the corner of Middle Street and the Borough. The practice relocated to its current home on Princes Street in 1919, fortuitously avoiding the destruction of its former location by the Luftwaffe."
Mr Matthews added: "It's been a privilege to have been part of a great dental practice that has served the local community for such a long time. I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of all the past and present members of the team to thank all of our patients for their continued support and friendship."
The practice has just benefited from the completion of a new dental surgery, complete with state-of-the-art technology to improve the experience for their patients.
To find out more about Princes Street Dental Care, give the practice team a call on 01935 475962, or pop into the practice at 45 Princes Street.

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ASUS, EVGA, Zotac GeForce GTX 460 Cards Overclocked and Reviewedby Ryan Smith on 7/12/2010 8:00 AM EST
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VIDYA - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkyou can overclock them.......you can compute with them.......you can easily scale their performance by just adding another card........and dont have to worry about memory and stuffs. LET ME SAY THIS GPU's have over taken the CPU's in more than many ways.....i would advice intel to develop a better larabee. Reply
Lord 666 - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkWhat gives Ryan? You have made your point clear (ad nauseum actually) about the several dollars differentiation between 768 and 1gb along with overclocking, but without a full picture of performance numbers, the review is still lacking.
Is there still an NDA on the video performance and/or CUDA metrics as I noticed other sites do not have results either? Reply
Pessimism - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkThe future you envision is more dependent on NVIDIA deciding to change their business practices and eliminate:
-Faulty drivers that slip through QA with bad fan control, cooking their products to death
-Poorly made chips that separate from their packaging with heat under normal operating conditions
-Lying to their customer base about the existance of problems with their products
-Refusing to give specific information to customers about exactly which products are defective Reply
DominionSeraph - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkI see ATI marketing is present and accounted for.
Face it, Nvidia has a compelling product in the GTX 460. If it was priced $30 higher it would be nothing special. If it was 20% slower it would be nothing special. If it was a power hog like the GF100 it would be hard to recommend.
But it's none of those things. Nvidia managed to sneak a good product in. Their ONLY one.
Now maybe the 5850 will come back down to launch price ($259), or maybe even $249 which would bring its price/performance in line with the $229 GTX 460. Reply
mrmojo1 - Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - link"-Poorly made chips that separate from their packaging with heat under normal operating conditions"
I have one of these in my ASUS g1s laptop. I had to have the MB replaced once already due to the nvidia GPU. Looks like it's gonna keep working until my warranty goes out in a month or two... fun stuff =/ Reply
mrmojo1 - Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - linkoh btw, I like both NVidia and ATI; i'm not an nvidia hater.
Just a little pissed that a laptop I paid over $2000 for at the time was essentially defective from the start.
tick tock tick....
/rant Reply
irsmurf - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkAnyone thinking of going for a GTX 480 would be wise to consider SLI 1GB GTX 460's. 2D surround and better than GTX 480 performance for only $440 - $57.20 CB = $382.80 at TigerDirect.
It is much more quiet, much more cool, consumes much less power, costs much less, and provides superior performance... what more could you ask for? This is the most kick ass card since the 8800GT. 5970 is TWICE the price... and you don't get SLI's superior scaling. Reply
irsmurf - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkI don't mean to say SLI GTX 460's will outperform the 5970. Reply
SantaAna12 - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkIf the 5850 is the closest comp...then why no 5850CF benches? Reply
irsmurf - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link$400 vs $620? Doesn't sound like competition to me. Reply
ClownPuncher - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link$460 vs $580 you mean! Though, for a 2 card setup, I would say getting a pair of gtx460 is a no brainer at this point. Reply
tviceman - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkBoth AMD and Nvidia have released several updated drivers with performance improvements since the gtx400 series came out. It would be nice if you guys could do a benchmark review of Nvidia's 400 series cards vs. AMD's 5000 series all using the latest drivers so all your readers (including me) can get a clear picture of how each card stands with the most updated drivers. Reply
tviceman - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkIt would be a great, informative article - a very informative article focusing on performance and high end parts with as updated as possible drivers and a quick overview of current prices. Reply
Etern205 - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkOne possible reason why Zotac's attempt at HD5850's cooling at failed is the HD5850 isn't reference cooling doesn't really blow hot air out of the case. If you take a look at a reference card, there will be 2 slit vents located at the top of the card, which also lets hot air out and back into the case.
Here is a picture of it
http://yfrog.com/j8hd5850dj Reply
Etern205 - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkSorry, link is not working...
Correct link
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/516/hd5850d.jpg Reply
setzer - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkOne question, why still use the 10.3a drivers? Even if you say performance hasn't changed (part 1), it's only fit to compare latest drivers to latest drivers. Reply
d4a2n0k - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkBecause they just use the numbers from previous benchmarks and those were the drivers used at that time. Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkBasically this. I do spot checking on new drivers to find performance differences, but I don't run every last test on every last card on every driver (a full NV+AMD rebench is over a weeks' labor). For that reason 10.3a is listed since that's the driver version those numbers came from. Listing 10.6 would be dishonest even if the numbers are the same as we haven't tested every single configuration with 10.6. Reply
tviceman - Monday, July 12, 2010 - linkWhich is why it would be great to get a re-evaluation of both AMD's 5800 series and Nvidia's 40 series all with the latest drivers. Both camps have released come out with several driver revisions stating mild to moderate performance gains in many of today's games. It would give an excellent indication as to how far both camps have come along since they released their cards, and most important it would give a more clear indication as to how performance is right now, as opposed to recycling months old benchmarks. Reply
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - linkThe numbers from the 10.3a drivers are still accurate for the 10.6 drivers. Or in other words, the performance "right now" is the same. Reply
Taft12 - Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - linkThe performance gain those driver releases state in various games are vastly overstated. They use an obscure hardware combination to maximize a theoretical performance gain (such as a 5850 in an old P4 system), but what you or I see will be much more modest. Reply
adonn78 - Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - linkThese are the cards everyone wanted form nvidia. cool, quiet, and reasonably priced. I would wait a few weeks before buying anything becuase there are new cpu's coming out from Intel and AMD. Ina ddition with the new performance AMD and nvidia should have price drops. Just in time for back to school season in August. Reply
jfelano - Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - linkWith the very overclockable 5830 going for around $170 after rebate, it's hard to recommend this card. Reply
DominionSeraph - Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - linkNobody uses price after MIR because you'll never see that money.
Rebates are a scam. Reply
just4U - Thursday, July 15, 2010 - linkI really do wish they'd get rid of the whole MIR. Reply
heflys - Thursday, July 15, 2010 - linkYeah, I agree. I'm just waiting for ATI to knock back their prices. It's inevitable. Reply
loganex - Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - linkDoes anyone know how well these 460s fold? How many points per day? Reply
ruzveh - Thursday, July 15, 2010 - linkI would still go in for Zotac card for the feature it displayed in its port. It has full HDMI and Display port which is exactly what i required Reply
just4U - Friday, July 16, 2010 - linkIt's also nice to see them moving to LLT warranties.. to me that was the most interesting part. Reply
Mopsen - Sunday, July 18, 2010 - linkI don't know if I'll get one of these gtx 460 cards, but I'm still very happy that Nvidia finally brought out a decent card to combat Amd/Atis 5000 series. Prices are bound to drop (hopefully) ^^ Reply
Mayu - Thursday, November 18, 2010 - linkI would like to know how would 2 of 460s compare with few high end GPU. Can we have some stats with such set up ? Reply


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HOUSTON - Incumbent District Attorney Pat Lykos conceded to former judge Mike Anderson in the race for the Republican nomination for her seat.
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With votes from all precincts counted Tuesday, Anderson defeated Lykos with 89,237 votes compared to her 52,458 votes.
Shortly before 11 p.m., Lykos admitted that she lost the race.
"Of course, I'm disappointed in the results," she said. "I'm district attorney until the end of the year."
Lykos, who was elected in 2008, has made headlines recently after a former Houston police officer was found not guilty of beating a teenage burglary suspect.
Community activists expressed their disappointment that the jury in the trial was all white. The former officer was also white and the burglary suspect was black.
Much of Anderson's campaign focused on what he called low morale in the District Attorney's Office. Anderson said he thinks that's what tipped the race in his favor.
"I think the fact that people around the courthouse were very unhappy with what was going on over there at the district attorney's office, they mobilized," Anderson said. "They told friends and neighbors and they had campaigns going. They called 25 people, claimed 25 people to vote and make sure they vote. Police officers were very upset. So, there was a large foundation that we discovered once we finally got into the race that, I think, turned the tide."
Lykos said her campaign did not rebut "misinformation" because she focused on doing her job.
"I do have some regrets, with respect to the campaign," Lykos said. "I wasn't a politician. I continued running the office. All my energy went into the office. I basically ignored the campaign and I let my supporters down."
There were several other high-profile local races on the ballot.
In the Democratic primary for state Representative District 131 race, incumbent Alma Allen got 59 percent of the vote to beat Houston city council member Wanda Adams. Adams has reached her term limit for city council.
And in District 146, incumbent Borris Miles once again faced, and defeated, former state Rep. Al Edwards. Miles got 57 percent of the vote to Edwards' 43 percent. It's the fourth time that both names have been on the same ballot. Miles won the seat in 2006. Edwards took it in 2008 and Miles won in 2010.
Voters in Harris County Precinct 4 picked candidates to replace former commissioner Jerry Eversole. He was forced to give up his seat as part of a plea deal when he pled guilty to lying to a federal investigator. He had been charged with conspiracy, accepting a bribe and making false statements on tax returns in 2003 and 2004. All of those charges were dismissed.
Jack Cagle was appointed to temporarily hold the Precinct 4 commissioner's seat. Cagle ran for the Republican nomination and won it, defeating, Robert M. Cadena and Buck Buchanan. Cagle will battle the winner of the Democratic primary, Sean Hammerle, in November.District Attorney
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On January 3rd, 2011, Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin. One of the first actions taken up by the Governor and the newly elected Legislature was to pass what later became known as Act 10. This controversial law, when finally passed, severely limited collective bargaining rights in the state, and essentially banned public sector unions in Wisconsin.
In the run up to the passage of the law, many groups gathered at the Wisconsin Capitol building to protest, both for and against the bill. Local news stations dubbed it "Capitol Chaos" and it lasted for several weeks. Not that long after the protests in Madison were taking hold, the Occupy Wall Street movement began spreading nationwide. Soon, protests were occurring in Downtown Milwaukee as well.
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THE son of a magistrate headbutted his partner then cleaned up the blood on her face using a scourer.
Blackburn magistrates heard that Matthew David Bennett, 36, later bit his partner leaving teeth marks on her arm.
The court heard that while he pleaded guilty, Bennett did not accept the prosecution case in its entirety.
But a district judge ruled he did not have to hear evidence about the incident because Bennett had accepted the bite.
Bennett, of New Barn Close, Haslingden, admitted assaulting Denise Allen causing her actual bodily harm. He was bailed for reports.
Stephanie Varle, prosecuting, said the incident happened on Saturday, January 21 at 7.45pm when Miss Allen was having a bath. Bennett came into the room and got hold of her round the throat. She got away and went into the bedroom but Bennett followed and started shouting at her.
"He head butted her and blood immediately started to pour from her nose," said Miss Varle. "He left the room and returned with a scouring pad which he used to try and rub the blood away from her face. During the struggle they fell to the floor where he bit her hard on the arm."
Miss Varle said it had been a prolonged incident and Bennett had deliberately caused more harm to Miss Allen when he bit her.
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Keith Rennison, defending, said Bennett claimed the contact with his head was accidental and that Bennett belie- ved he had grabbed a sponge from the bathroom to try to clean up the blood.
"The bite on the arm was a petulant act and he pleads guilty on that basis," said Mr Rennison, who revealed that Bennett's father, a "well respected" Burnley magistrate, was in court.
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CHELMSFORD will support a lights out event next month that will mark the hour Britain entered the First World War 100 years ago.
Lights Out is an invitation for every community member, every building and every business in the UK to turn off their lights from 10-11pm on Monday, August, leaving on a solitary light or candle for a shared moment of thought.
The project is being organised by 14-18 Now, the official cultural programme for the First World War Centenary Commemorations.
The inspiration for the event comes from a famous remark made on the eve of the outbreak of war by the then Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life-time".
Britain declared war on Germany at 11pm on August 4 1914 ushering in one of the darkest periods in our history.
Councillor Nicolette Chambers, said: "We encourage all our residents to join us in this poignant moment of World War I reflection and remembrance."
This project complements a candlelit vigil at London's Westminster Abbey, being held at the same time. Volunteers for the Royal British Legion are also organising gatherings locally.
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THE West Region PGA TeeUp4Tots Pro Am held last week at Enmore Park has raised a staggering total of £6,729 for two local causes.
Both the South West Branch of CLAPA and the Musgrove Park Somerset Neonatal Intensive Care Unit can now look forward to receiving a sizeable cheque from the fund when the year's fund-raising reaches its conclusion early in 2015.
More than 30 teams took to the course at Enmore Park last Monday for Regional Captain Andrew March's Charity Pro Am.
March, now director of Golf at Brean, has long been associated with Enmore Park having played his amateur golf representing the club – and he was delighted when the club agreed to host his big day and his fellow PGA Pros and their teams certainly enjoyed the superb layout presented in excellent condition by Gary Cook and his team.
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Two five under par 66s won the Professional individual event with Dudsbury's Lee Thompson matching South Cerney's Ross Langdon's early pace-setting score.
Former European Tour player John Bickerton, now working at Minehead, and another Dudsbury pro, Mark Wiggett, shared third on 68.
In the team event, an impressive 18 under par total of 124 was the winning number posted by the Dorset team of Tim Norman, Steve Sanger and Chris Brown playing alongside professional Graham Howell from Ferndown Forest Golf Club.
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TWO men were arrested and a third was taken to hospital after a car crashed into a wall in Malvern.
The incident happened in the town's Worcester Road at 4.40am on Saturday and a third person had to be removed from the car by fire crews using hydraulic cutting equipment and taken to hospital.
Two fire crews attended the scene from Malvern who worked to remove the casualty. freeing him at 5.25am.
The men were later arrested on suspicion of failing to report an accident and collision investigators were called to the scene.
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What are strategies you guys use for finding sheds? Glassing, dogs, etc? I have never really went shed hunting before but think I might start this year. My spring usually involves looking for arrowheads.
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Hartalika Teej Vrat is an important Hindu fasting observed by Hindu women and is dedicated to Goddess Parvati in
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The fasting rules of Hartalika Teej Vrat are very tough and some women even don't drink water during the fasting period.
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EAT-- A colorful treasure of Eating Attractive Tasty everyday cuisine!
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A beautifully illustrated compilation of colorful foods that offer wonderful nutrition, in the tastiest and simple ways!
This book was such a pleasure to create. One day I started to photograph the quick, healthy dishes that I was preparing just to share with others. I enjoy showing people that it's easy to cook with foods that are good for your body.
Most of the dishes in the book are truly great for everyday living, for singles or for families. However, I do have a few "treats" inside to keep life exciting!
This journey got underway back in June 2010 when I started the 60 day Insanity workout challenge. I wanted to cook great nutritious foods to eat everyday while doing that intense workout program.
I pride myself on eating food that tastes good. I once heard a very famous chef say exactly what I have always thought all along, "if it's going to go in my mouth and in my body, it has to be good and taste good!"
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THE Friends of Victoria Park in Nelson are aiming to encourage more people of all ages to become active members in their group.
They need people with different skills. Coun Nadeem Ahmed said: "So whether you're a horticulture expert, you have organisational skills, you've a head for figures or you just like being active in the fresh air, they'd love to hear from you."
The Friends of Victoria Park will be running working days between 11am and 1pm on the first Saturday of every month beginning in February next year.
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If you don't have a BT ID or you've forgotten your details, have a look at the BT Sport help pages.
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Our team of digital producers is based in BT Sport's new studios on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London.
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Volvo Ocean Race Beach Clean Up another success in Abu Dhabi
Volvo Ocean Race hosts a beautifying beach clean with an artistic difference
Volvo Ocean Race organisers hosted a beach clean on Lulu Island on 7th January 2012 with the collected rubbish becoming the raw materials for a sculpture that was to be created during the week at the Volvo Ocean's Race Destination Village in Abu Dhabi. Held in each host port throughout the nine-month, 39,000-nautical mile race, and in conjunction with art group Skeleton Sea, the Volvo Ocean Race spearheaded a call to arms to reduce pollution and share a simple message through its Keep the Oceans Clean! initiative.
More than 80 members of the Abu Dhabi community and Volvo Ocean Race family of all ages and nationalities participated in the morning beach clean along with local PADI 5 Star IDC dive center, Al Mahara Dving Center. The more adventurous of the participants were able to kayak or paddle-board out to the island where they collected rubbish from the shoreline.
Jacqui Smith, project coordinator for Keep the Oceans Clean!, said:
"It was fantastic to see so many people participating in the Abu Dhabi Beach Clean, showing the commitment we have to maintaining the natural beauty of our oceans and beaches. With the rubbish haul collected yesterday, our Skeleton Sea artist is well on the way to turning flotsam and jetsam into a stunning sculpture to be created this week (8-14 January) at the Destination Village Abu Dhabi. Adults and children alike can get involved in the artistic action by attending the art workshops where they will have the chance to make their own individual contribution to the unique installation."
João Parrinha, Skeleton Sea artist, said:
"The beach clean was a great success, with lots of people turning up to help us collect the rubbish. We've been getting as much rubbish as we can so we can make a fish sculpture for display in the Destination Village. In the workshops we'll be making the fish's scales with the kids. It's amazing to work with them: what they do and what they create is very unexpected and wildly creative. It's a lot of fun to work with them."
Rubbish and debris collected by the group went towards Volvo Ocean Race's Keep the Oceans Clean! art workshop campaign, an initiative organised in collaboration with international artist-activists, Skeleton Sea. Beach rubbish, including old plastic bottles, wrappers and other beach trash plus weathered and dead materials, were brought back to life by the group to form skeleton-like art.
Three of Skeleton Sea's fantastic sculptures were on exhibition in the Destination Village in Abu Dhabi until the end of the stopover on January 14. Parrinha, one of the Skeleton Sea artists who headed up the beach clean at Lulu Island, held the Keep the Oceans Clean! workshops on the beach in the Destination Village every afternoon between January 8-14.
On January 9 at 8pm, the artist gave a talk on the story behind Skeleton Sea - their background, the artwork and their values. There was an opportunity to watch the short film created by Skeleton Sea called 'Albatross Exhibitionist' which told the compelling story of the thousands of albatrosses that are killed each year because they fatally mistake floating rubbish for food.
The beach clean was successfully coordinated with support from Al Mahara Diving Centre, Abu Dhabi International Marine Sports Club, Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi, CNIA (Critical National Infrastructure Authority), Emirates Diving Association and the Center for Waste Management.
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Tupelo honey
So, once upon a time ago there was this CSI:Miami episode that featured tupelo honey as an integral part of the plot. (yes, i watch csi:miami occasionally) I had never had tupelo honey before then, I hunted some down (okay, I ordered some online). It's good! It was good with cheese, but better on toast by itself (i could live on honey toast though).


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Gun scare leads to man's arrest, police say
Published: Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 9:28 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 11:39 a.m.
A Lawtey man spotted walking on Northwest 39th Avenue with what appeared to be an assault rifle but was actually a BB gun was arrested Wednesday afternoon by the Gainesville Police Department on multiple charges.
Randall R. Prevatt, 47, was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest without violence and domestic battery by strangulation, according to an arrest report.
The incident began about 2:25 p.m. when a witness reported seeing a man with an assault rifle near 400 NW 39th Ave. Officers spotted Prevatt near Stephen Foster Elementary School with a long rifle and two knives, the report states.
Officers pulled up beside Prevatt and ordered him to drop the gun and knives, which he did. But Prevatt continued to walk away after police told him to stop. Police tackled him, the report states.
Prevatt was taken to Shands at the University of Florida for treatment of injuries he got when scuffling with police. While at Shands, Prevatt's girlfriend told officers Prevatt had choked her Wednesday morning, according to the report.
Prevatt later was taken to the Alachua County jail, here he remained Thursday without bond.
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A big Saturday of Ivy League football produced big numbers as Harvard won the 2011 Ivy title outright, Cornell and Columbia combined to score over 100 points and Princeton's Chuck Dibilio became the first true freshman to rush for over 1,000 yards in a season. Here is a quick wrap-up of the Week 9 games:
Harvard 37, Penn 20 [VERSUS]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard clinched its 14th Ivy League championship—its sixth under Tim Murphy—with a 37-20 win against Penn Saturday afternoon at Harvard Stadium.
Yale 33, Princeton 24 [YES]
PRINCETON, N.J. -- At times Saturday's matchup between Yale and Princeton at Class of 1952 Stadium seemed to be a battle between the arm of Yale senior quarterback Patrick Witt and the legs of Princeton freshman tailback Chuck Dibilio. Dibilio had a big day, rushing for 178 yards and three touchdowns. But Witt had a bigger day, throwing for 379 yards and three scores. His work, supplemented by a 62-yard touchdown run from senior tailback Alex Thomas and a pair of field goals from Philippe Panico, propelled Yale to a 33-24 win over the rival Tigers.
Dartmouth 21, Brown 16
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Senior Nick Schwieger ran for 137 yards on a career-high 37 carries, and Dartmouth converted three fourth-down plays to lift the Big Green to a 21-16 upset victory at Brown on Saturday afternoon.
Cornell 62, Columbia 41
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Sophomore quarterback Jeff Mathews set program records for completions, passing yards and touchdowns in a game, senior wide receiver Shane Savage had a school-record tying three touchdown catches and the Big Red set a modern-day record for points in a game in a 62-41 victory over Columbia in front of 6,128 fans.


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ByDante Chinni
Dante Chinni writes Politics Counts as a regular Capital Journal feature. Mr. Chinni is the director of the American Communities Project at American University, which examines different types of communities across the U.S.
The protests in Ferguson, Mo., have brought national attention to the racial tensions there and shined a light on low turnout among African American voters in the city's local elections. Voter registration efforts accompanied protests this week.
But with congressional elections coming this fall, one question out of Ferguson is whether events there might motivate and energize black voters outside of the city and state for midterms.
If African Americans turnout in greater numbers in 2014, the data suggest it's probably unlikely to make much difference in House races, but it could matter in some Senate races that everyone is watching, including Louisiana, North Carolina and Georgia.
Poll data from the Pew Research Center indicates African Americans are much more likely than whites to see the incident in Ferguson in broader terms. Blacks are more likely than whites to say the shooting of teenager Michael Brown "raises important issues about race" (80% vs. 37% respectively) and are more likely to say the police response "has gone too far" (65% vs. 33% respectively).
Those attitudes could help push blacks to the polls in November and where their numbers are likely to be light in comparison to 2012.
African American voter turnout tends to decline in midterms elections, usually at the expense of Democratic candidates who routinely garner more than 80% of their vote. In the last few presidential elections the percentage of blacks that vote has been very close to that of whites, according to the Census Current Population Survey. It even surpassed the white vote in 2012, according to that data.
In midterms, the percentage of people who declines across all races, but the drops are deeper among African Americans.
So if the events in Ferguson energize African Americans in 2014 and move the green line up in the chart above closer to the blue line what's the likely impact?
The House
There are a few big factors working against change in the House.
One, as we have noted in this space, district lines have been drawn to create safe seats, meaning there are simply fewer seats in play. Currently only 16 House seats are rated as tossups by the Cook Political Report for 2014 – that's less than 3% of the 435 seats.
Two, a corollary of the first point, the nation's racial divide plays into that lack of tossups. That is, districts with the largest African American populations, 40% or more, are safe and already held by Democrats – that includes Missouri's first district, where Ferguson resides.
Even in the next group of districts in the chart above, where the African American population is between 20% and 39%, there is only one district rated a tossup by Cook, Florida's second district.
In short, even a big boost in African American turnout seems unlikely to alter the House landscape much.
The Senate
The terrain in the upper chamber of congress is a bit different. State electorates are often much broader than those created by district lines and combination of close races and large African American populations could play a role in Louisiana, North Carolina and Georgia if the black vote is energized this fall.
Republicans need to pick up six seats in November to capture control of the Senate and all three of those states are rated as tossups by Cook and have populations that are more than 20% African American – high above the national average of 13%.
Currently, the polling in North Carolina and Louisiana in particular suggest very close races are unfolding, as both are within a percentage point using the Real Clear Politics averages. If the races stay that close, a small uptick in turnout that favors one party or the other could be crucial.
Of course, November is still months away and the outrage in Ferguson may feel like ancient history by Election Day. It's not clear what kind of impact the events in the town will have outside of Missouri.
But if there is a broader impact, keep on eye on those states this fall.


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UF run game goes nowhere
Published: Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 8:02 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 8:35 p.m.
MIAMI GARDENS — Aside from two interceptions thrown in the red zone that, more than anything, cost Florida the game in Saturday's 21-16 loss to Miami, the offense had a productive day through the air.
Quarterback Jeff Driskel threw for a career-high 291 yards, and receivers Trey Burton, Quinton Dunbar and Solomon Patton all made big plays.
It was UF's inability to run to the ball consistently that crippled the offense for most of the game, in addition to the pair of picks and five total turnovers.
The Gators outrushed the 'Canes 122 to 50, but they weren't able to dominate the line of scrimmage and impose their will on the ground, which is their top priority.
"That's our No. 1 goal, establishing the run," center Jonotthan Harrison said. "We could have had a lot more success. We can't be complacent with just (outgaining Miami).
"Momentum is a huge thing in college football. The fact that we didn't develop that momentum coming out in the first half, it made our job a little more difficult. It hindered our success."
Both Matt Jones (18 carries for 53 yards) and Mack Brown (10 carries for 29 yards) averaged less than 3 yards per rush. Valdez Showers averaged 6.8, but he only touched the ball four times.
Four offensive line starters were sidelined at some point with injuries over the course of the game — Harrison, D.J. Humphries, Tyler Moore and Max Garcia. On countless plays, Florida continued rushing up the middle to no avail.
"They had some guys stacked in there," UF coach Will Muschamp said of Miami's rush defense. "We felt like we could get on the perimeter as much as anything. They're big inside, and we had to reshuffle our offensive line."
Harrison didn't offer UM the same credit Muschamp did.
"I can't give it to Miami, it's on us," he said. "It comes down to everybody executing their assignments every single day. If one person, no matter what position, doesn't execute their assignment, the play is more than likely to collapse.
"That's what was going on with us. But we're going to do everything in our power to make sure we fix our issues."
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Resulting from an historically close relationship the Departments of Botany and Zoology consolidated into the Department of Biology in the fall semester of 2013. The Department offers a wide range of courses as well as the B.A. and B.S. in Biology, Botany and Zoology. Additionally, the Department offers the M.S. and Ph.D. in Biology and in Botany and is one of the participating Departments in the interdepartmental graduate program in Cellular, Molecular, and Structural Biology (CMSB) and the graduate program in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (EEEB).
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