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MultiGPU Update: Finding the True Halo with 4-wayby Derek Wilson on 2/28/2009 11:45 PM EST
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Hattiwatti - Thursday, June 11, 2009 - linkHow 'bout if you'd overclock the prosessor to something like 4,0 GHz so it wouldn't be such a bottleneck to the Quad-SLI and Quad-CrossfireX configurations? I have tested it myself (with i7 920 and 2 GTX295's), and it really pays off. The performance increases a lot when CPU's clock is raised from 2,66 GHz to 3,8 GHz. It definitely makes a difference (NOTE: 3,6 GHz is still a bottleneck, and maybe 3,8 GHz is too. Couldn't overclock more and test since memory couldn't go any further) Reply
marraco - Thursday, March 05, 2009 - linkThe price/performance charts favours the cheapest cards, but give little useful information.
What really shows the price/performance information, is an XY chart with price vs performance.
With it is easy to see what is the better performer at a given price, and the cheapest option at a given performance. Also shows closely related price/perfornmance options if you can't have access to the best performer, because is not available.
and with XY charts is easy to see the best bang for the buck, because is commonly found at the sharp bending of the lower price evolvent line. Reply
SiliconDoc - Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - linkLet's hope the reviewers here take your information to heart and put it to use.
I suspect though the FUD and bias will win out. Reply
Dazzz - Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - linkAlthough your article is really intresting, I would rather see some benchmarks including the people who it might also be interesting beside 30" display owners.
Right know I'm thinking about purchasing a TrippleHead2Go after they updated the firmware and support 3x1680x1050.
Unfortunately even widescreengaming forum can't provide FPS benchmarks for the 5040x1050 resolution.
I'm thinking about going multiGPU but there is no comparison nvida and ati at this resolution.
This article could have been the platform to support surroundgaming and show if 2/4way gpu's make sense in this context.
I'm looking for such an comparison for 2 weeks now and couldn't find anything. And I'm still stuck with my decision if a single gtx295 could deliver a playable performance (disregarding the quality settings for the time beeing) or if I have to look for other sollution like 4way or 2way GTX285.
Any suggestions ?
VooDooAddict - Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - linkI very much like the resolution switching for the tables.
This has confirmed what I'd been leaning towards for my next build (Shuttle X58 SFF). I'll be getting one of the following Dual GPU cards to run my 1920x1200 gaming.
(I was running two 4850s in a X38 Shuttle SFF for a while before the frequent overheating caused me to switch to a single 4870.) Reply
Antman56 - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkI think that these Quad 4850 framerates need to have a special label. Using 512MB Radeon 4850s in Quadfire is not a good idea for 2560x1600. 1GB 4850s would have shown the 4850s high resolution muscle way better (as it did with the 4870 1GB cards vs 4870 512MB cards). Scaling would not be so poor.
Otherwise, nice compilation of information. :p Reply
TonkaTuff - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkBest graph layout Ive seen on any site so far, so much easier to pick your desired resolution and have it in front of you instead of picking through a mess of resolutions,great article by the way still consider single card setups offer best bang for the buck and less headaches. So now multi GPU questions are out of the way, how about something regarding whats around the corner? 8,9 and gtx200 is all realistically the same architecture scaled up and shrunk down. Any whispers on new GPU architectures? Starting to feel that after the rush of technological progress the last few years especially ever since the release of 8000 series cards ( long time ago now!) things really seem to have stagnated the last few months. Cheers for a great read Jared. Reply
DerekWilson - Monday, March 02, 2009 - linkThank you ;-) Reply
Slappi - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkI wouldn't touch their cards with a ten foot pole.
They are about to collapse under their debt. Reply
SiliconDoc - Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - linkLOL - It's so much fun when a non-red rooster speculates like the raging red does all over the place.
Thank you.
Yes, ATI has bled BILLIONS the last couple of years, with barely over that in sales per year.
It appears they're spending twice as much as they're selling, and that is probably not a recoverable situation - unless the new lib god Obama and the dem congress has a billion or two or more, "in the package" for them. Reply
lk7200 - Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - link
Die painfully okay? Prefearbly by getting crushed to death in a
garbage compactor, by getting your face cut to ribbons with a
pocketknife, your head cracked open with a baseball bat, your stomach
sliced open and your entrails spilled out, and your eyeballs ripped
out of their sockets. Fucking bitch
I really hope that you get curb-stomped. It'd be hilarious to see you
begging for help, and then someone stomps on the back of your head,
leaving you to die in horrible, agonizing pain. *beep*
Shut the *beep* up f aggot, before you get your face bashed in and cut
to ribbons, and your throat slit.
I wish you a truly painful, bloody, gory, and agonizing death, *beep* Reply
vailr - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkAny testing of 8x GPU's?
4x Radeon 4870 x2 cards?
4x nVidia 295 (dual GPU) cards?
Combined with an Intel Skulltrail board using a pair of quad core CPU's. Reply
LinkedKube - Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - linkI'm running tri sli gtx 295's. My energy bill has gone up 110 usd a month since december. With that to think about, wth would someone test 4 gtx295's. Totally inefficient. This article imo was about price/performance through competitors giving us a new way to look at fps with the 100 usd fps chart. Reply
Jorgisven - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkThat technology does not yet exist. The skulltrail board supports Quad SLI, meaning, 4 total gpu's (the x2 boards count for 2 each). Nothing supports 8x graphics cards. That would create ridiculous overhead, as you can probably tell from the scaling from going from 2-4 gpus. Reply
Hrel - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkThis was a GREAT series of articles and I'm so glad you guys decided to make them. I'm pretty sure I've never heard anyone on a hardware review site actually admit it's a wash between AMD/ATI and Nvidia and it all comes down to brand preference; so props for coming out and saying the truth.
One thing I've said many times before in these comments, that I'm still not seeing. "I would really love to see 3D Mark scores for all these cards included with each GPU article." You show the subjective tests of the hardware, the games, please show the objective test for the hardware, 3D Mark.
So yeah, amazing articles, thank you for writing them. And my only, very minor, complaints are that you didn't include hardware down to the 9600GT level(at least)or lower and you didn't include 3D Mark scores.
Yes, I know it's supposed to be a multi-GPU review, but you included enough other single GPU's, I would have really liked to see how the other cards stacked up, kind of a "whole market" GPU comparison.
P.S. Sorry, third complaint, I remembered after mentioning the lower end hardware. Had you included those cards, it would have been nice to see tests at 1440x900 and maybe 1366x768 too; seeing as how that's becoming a standard. And yes, I understand the amount of work that goes into testing that many configurations; and the time required to test at so many resolutions. And... I really truly appreciate all the work put into articles like this; I swear, I recruit more people to come visit this site then a tv ad could.
On an article design note: I really like the comparison for value, based off performance per dollar, or per 100 dollars in this case; very good idea. I also REALLY like that I could switch between resolutions just by clicking a link; I like bar graphs WAY more than Line graphs, ever since First Grade. Later guys, great work! Reply
LinkedKube - Monday, March 02, 2009 - linkI agree with the fps per 100 dollar section, very cool. Something new to look at and think about. Reply
7Enigma - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkI have to agree with you on the 3dMark scores (and any of the other major ones Aquamark or something?) I think anyone crazy enough to purchase 4 cards or 2 dual's are probably doing it more for the competition of benchmarking than actual gaming. Or at the minimum of equal importance and so if the quad AMD/Nvidia decision is a wash based on game performance maybe the synthetic benchmarks would sway the decision.
SiliconDoc - Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - linkWell you shouldn't. Software, especially benchware, favors this or that method or type of hardware, and given the differences pointed out between the gpu styles of Nvidia and Ati, no test is going to eliminate bias in it's guaging - as should be absolutely obvious to you after seeing massive variance in game scores here for the same two opposing gpu's, and realizing, if you had a scientific mind, that 3dmark also uses a GAME it "created" that will favor one architecture or another, definitively.
So, you may "have to agree" - but you may also "change your mind" about that. Reply
Razorbladehaze - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkActually there is no "subjective" tests in this article. Subjective is non-empirical (non data based) testing. Or another aspect of subjective testing is when one would say that subjective is when the outcome reported is not supported by the data because of mitigating other factors (i.e. best card is not ----, because graphical glitches, despite having best FPS) . So FPS in benchmarking as all tests here demonstrate is in fact all objective testing.
Furthermore 3d mark scores are really redundant and not practical. I for one am really glad that Anand have left them out, they are a waste of testing time in most cases. I used to really like the 3d mark scores for benchmarking my own stuff, and used to look forward to them in articles. Over time though i have really noticed that although they do provide a comparison between cards, they do not translate to much in terms of real world performance. The comparison between cards is still easily made using a common benchmark from a game, and it allows more differentiation and demonstrates more "across the board" performance when testing multiple games and, as mentioned in the first line of this paragraph, provides practical results. Reply
Hrel - Thursday, March 05, 2009 - linkYeah... no. You're wrong. Tests based on games are subjective because the results you get from that testing is subjective to that game. Each game is programmed differently and utilizes the GPU hardware differently. You can three cards, have one card be the fastest by a large margin in one test and be the slowest in another test.
(Subjective: Characteristic of or belonging to reality as PERCEIVED rather than as independent of mind.) The results show up as PERCEIVED by the game, rather from independent results.
(Subjective: Peculiar to a particular individual.) That individual is the game. -These were taken from Merriam/Websters dictionary online.-
(Objective: Expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations.) Testing using only games causes distortion. That distortion is from "feelings", "prejudices" and "interpretations". Feeling of the programmers who wrote the game, some like to program for Nvidia hardware some prefer AMD. Also, some game studios are paid or given preferential treatment to favor one companies hardware over another's. What I just said has to do with prejudice too. Interpretations, Nvidia and AMD hardware is designed differently, a blatant example of this is that AMD uses 800 SP's where Nvidia uses 128 SP's and they both have similar performance; the code of the game, generally DirectX 9, interprets each set of hardware differently ergo we have a non-objective interpretation of the GPU's performance capability.
Games are meant to be played and perform the way each individual game studio wants them too; there are so many variables across companies, and employees and the games themselves you can't possibly use a small subset of video games to determine the performance differences between a set of GPU's. At least not reliably.
(Objective: Limited to choices of fixed alternatives and reducing subjective factors to a minimum.) Every scientific experiment strives to remove variables from the testing process; video games simply don't do that.
3D Mark and the newer 3DMark Vantage are as objective as software testing hardware can be. One test, programmed one way, programmed to only run one way no matter what GPU it is on. Also, 3D Mark is designed to stress the GPU hardware as much as possible, no matter what card it is, which means it will take full advantage of every card you test using it.
No, 3D mark doesn't equate to real world results in any way. But that doesn't matter, it's the most scientific, least variable test anyone can perform on multiple GPU's to determine the performance differences between them. And isn't that all anandtech is trying to do with this whole series of articles? Yes, yes it is. Of course it is always good to look at the games, to see that subjective measurement and to determine which card works best with the games YOU play. But it is imperative to look at 3D mark as well to get a complete idea of the DIFFERENCE IN PERFORMANCE between the cards. To see whole big picture.
To make it simple for you, if one card outperforms another card by 15% or more in 3D Mark, it's a good bet that card will outperform the other card in the majority of the games on the market; regardless or programming inconsistencies.
On another note, most people will never take a resolution beyond 1920x1080, so I'd really like to see more testing at resolutions lower than that; and the inclusion of lower end cards to see if they can play the latest games... even if I do have to lower the resolution a little. Reply
Razorbladehaze - Thursday, March 05, 2009 - linkNo, I am definitely not wrong. You have obviously never taken any courses in research statistic, or methods. No matter what this dictionary is that you pull this from experimental procedures remain the same and these, for FPS, are OBJECTIVE.
Your logic is OK regarding programing for specific configurations (not really accurate, but that is besides the overall point here), what is important here is your reasoning is completely wrong. You apply it to one set of programs but not to another and futher deny that such logic you posited even exists within one program set. WTH.
Yea come back after completing your courses in research methods and experimental procedures.
Furthermore you may want to buff up on your courses in logic and reasoning.
To quote the soup NAZI (from Seinfeld):
Razorbladehaze - Thursday, March 05, 2009 - linkOk after thinking briefly i decided to post again.
Basically what you need to understand for the whole testing aspect, is basically anything that can be operationally defined can be tested objectively.
Furthermore my ideas on your thoughts relating to 3d mark and game benchmarks.
3d mark has what many would say is good reliability in testing terms such as test-retest. but so would any good benchmark for games, especially built-in game benchmarks.
What is most important is validity, that the outcome actually measures, what it is supposed to measure.
3d mark scores are a conglomerate score and actually relate to nothing other than that final score. These measures are taken from data such as a CPU score, FPS score, and other data correct??
To quote you "Every scientific experiment strives to remove variables from the testing process..."
umm hello, how does 3d mark determine its outcome score again, yeah multiple variables, that's right MULTIPLE VARIABLES.
Ok so going back to what is important is Validity: that which is being measured is actually being measured.
A final outcome score in 3d mark is valid only for comparisons to other 3d marks scores. NO IF, AND's, OR BUTTS!!!!
FPS - in each game is a valid OBJECTIVE data outcome score, as it is the operational definition of GPU rendering used here. Running multiple benchmarking runs in each game provides reliability. Measuring FPS across multiple games with a similar game engine lends concurrent validity to the experiments. This type of testing also allows convergent and divergent validity to be addressed here when using multiple game titles with different engines or similar offshoots.
So in laymen's terms for the world of experimental procedures 3d mark can suck my balls
Hrel - Saturday, March 21, 2009 - linkyes 3D mark can only be compared to 3D mark, I already said that, thanks for repeating what a more intelligent person already said as that seems to be what you do; classes, so you DO let other people tell you how and what to think. Anyway, 3D mark rates the graphics card, and scores can be compared across a wide range of cards without worrying about variables like with games, where one game is better than another but only on some GPU's. 3D mark actually has a score for JUST the GPU, but I guess you've never used it.
I already said the only way to get an accurate representation of GPU performance is to test multiple games and 3D mark, it would best if you could just test every game out there, but no one has that kind of time.
so yeah, game testing, even when using the games "in game" benchmark still only measures performance in THAT game, so it means nothing to people who don't play that game. As it can't be used to determine performance in any other game; where as 3D Mark can. One game test could say that the HD4870 is faster and subsequently a more powerful card than the GTX285 even though we all know it's not just because that game runs better on AMD hardware. That's all I was saying and all I was trying to get across, I really wasn't looking for a pissing contest with an anonamyss internet user.
A test in one game, can't give you an accurate idea of how a GPU will perform in other games; 3D Mark, when compared to the scores of other cards, and used in conjunction with FPS scores, CAN!!!! Reply
Razorbladehaze - Thursday, March 05, 2009 - linkOh yeah and in reviewing what I wrote, I glossed over subjective data. and will further punish 3d mark.
most common subjective data sets are: Ranking data, Rating data, interview data, categorical data.
The first two; Ranking and rating is really what the outcome score of 3d mark.
It is a rating on their own scale and it allows them to rank systems by that score.
So with this final bit of info answer if 3d mark outcomes are really subjective or objective(what does it measure besides its own ranking and rating scales).
npp - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkIt's just common, healthy sense that tells me - something is terribly wrong here. I can't imagine anyone in his right mind spending at least $880 for a (non-professional) graphics solution which draws more than 700W under load, and delivers almost no additional performance, compared to far cheaper alternatives! (If you look closely at the charts you'll see that some games are perfectly playable on even single-GPU solutions). Ok, there are some gains, but they are so minimal that the performance/price and performance/power ratios are simply disturbingly low. I compared the situation once to a quad-core CPU that delivers at most, say, 2,2x speedup over single-cores - with dual cores delivering 1,9. Who would buy such a CPU?
Of course, I'm not trying to say people should buying such things; it's the vendors who need to do some hard work on that poor scaling. I would never consider buying 4 GPUs if they deliver anything under 3,5x speedup. It sounds crazy right now, but who knows, there may be interesting things to come. Reply
SiliconDoc - Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - link" (If you look closely at the charts you'll see that some games are perfectly playable on even single-GPU solutions). "
CORRECTION : All games are perfectly playable on plenty more than just a few single gpu solutions.
YES - that's the real truth. Reply
mastrdrver - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkIt would have been since to see some AA scaling. It was made apparent one the first page that scaling was going to be under performing when at 4 gpus from either 2 or 3. I think just about everyone saw that coming, especially with max of 4x AA.
With this much power, it would have been interesting to see what happened to scaling when AA gets turned up. Run the normal 4xAA for all the games. Then, start cranking up the AA and see if that might make the the move from 2 to 4 gpus look better.
I know there are those who, and I'll agree to an extent, say that there isn't a difference from 4x to something like 12x or 24x edge detect (and whatever nVidia uses). Even the move from 4x to 8x is rather small in image improvement. Still though, if your going to drop that kind of money into a set of cards, why not put it to use? While I'm not sure about the 12x to 24x move on edge detect, I do seem to notice things here and there by moving from 4x to 8x and even a few things in 12x AAED. I've seen a hand full of sites look at doing the higher AA levels, but they always do it with 1, or at most 2, gpus when the game is already stressing them at 4x. Why not take a look at these higher levels of AA when there is an abundance of gpu power that seems to be idle.
Overall, it would be an interesting look into something that I'm not sure I've seen any site look at in any kind of depth when getting to the power level of 4, or even 3, gpus.
So are the games not scaling with more gpu power because games/drivers are not optimized for 3 or 4 gpus, or are they not scaling because AA levels are left at "lower" levels? (Outside, of course, being CPU limited because of the abundance of gpu power.) Reply
xxtypersxx - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkI have noticed a recent trend where people post comments accusing Anandtech of favoring Intel/Nvidia. Now I absolutely can't stand bias and stopped reading sites like Tom's long ago because of it, but Anandtech has never seemed even remotely unfair. I think the issue is people have noticed a lot of praise for Intel and Nvidia over the past couple of years, but the reason is they have had consistently better performance. When the 4xxx series launched, Anandtech had nothing but praise for it and it's superior value and even criticized Nvidia's stagnant technology and high prices in many articles. So basically what I'm trying to point out is it isn't Anandtech that has been biased against AMD/ATI, its the real world performance that has been skewed and they are simply reporting on it. Reply
SiliconDoc - Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - linkOh good golly. Reviewers are expected to be unbiased, but they almost never are. Unbiased is a cold, boring read for most fans.
Anand used to have a very severe bias in favor of intel many years ago.
Now you mentioned Tom's was biased and you left Tom's and are now here, showing of course YOUR BIAS, because if you dare to notice bias here, then you've got to leave HERE, and go somewhere else.
Believe me, if you love ati, you'll stay for the card reviews - that have a huge bias for ati, in every worded paragraph.
I am curious though how you percieved Tom's bias. I bet he didn't favor the red cards ? Was that it ?
I'm very interested in that.
Would you be so kind as to say what bias you found there ? Reply
deputc26 - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkbetter change that to "CrossfireX" Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkFixed, thanks. Note that it's easier to fix issues if you can mention a page, just FYI. :) Reply
askeptic - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkThis is my observation based on their review over the last couple of years Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkIt's called being fair and not being biased. They did give the due credit and praise to AMD for RV770 and Phenom II. You probably haven't been reading the articles. Reply
SiliconDoc - Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - linkHe's a red fan freak-a-doo, with his tenth+ name, so anything he sees is biased against ati.
Believe me, that one is totally goners, see the same freak under krxxxx names.
He must have gotten spanked in a fps by an nvidia card user so badly he went insane. Reply
Captain828 - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkIn the last couple of years, nVidia and Intel have had better performing hardware than the competition.
So I don't see any bias and the charts don't show any either. Reply
lk7200 - Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - link
Shut the *beep* up f aggot, before you get your face bashed in and cut
to ribbons, and your throat slit. Reply
SiliconDoc - Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - linkAnother name so soon raging red fanboy freak ? Going to fantasize about murdering someone again, sooner rather than later ?
If ati didn't suck so badly, and be billion dollar losers, you wouldn't be seeing red, huh, loser. Reply
JonnyDough - Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - linkHmm...X1900 series ring a bell? Methinks you've been drinking... Reply
Razorbladehaze - Sunday, March 01, 2009 - linkWow, what i was really looking forward to here disappeared entirely. I was expecting to see more commentary on the subjective image quality of the benchmarks, and there was even less discussion relating to that then in the past two articles kinda a bummer.
On the side note what was shown was what I expected from piecemeal of a number of other reviews. Nice to see it combined though.
The only nougat of information I found disturbing is to hear the impression that CUDA is better than what ATI has promoted. This in light of my understanding that nVidia just hired a head tech officer from the University where Stream (what ati uses) computing took roots. Albeit that CUDA is just an offshoot of this, it would seem to me that, this hiring would lead me to beleive that nvidia will be migrating towards stream rather than the opposite. Especially if GPGPU computing is to become commonplace.
I think that it would be in nVidia's best interest to do this as I am afraid that Intel is right and that nvidia's future may be bleak if GPGPU computing does not take hold and this is one strategy to migrate towards their rival AMD's GPGPU to reduce resource usage to explore this tech.
Well yeah... i think i went way way off on a tangent on this one so...yeah im done. Reply
DerekWilson - Monday, March 02, 2009 - linkSorry about the lack of image quality discussion. It's our observation that image quality is not significantly impacted by multiGPU. There are some instances of stuttering here and there, but mostly this is in places where performance is already bad or borderline, otherwise we did note where there were issues.
As far as GPGPU / GPU computing, CUDA is a more robust and more widely adopted solution than is ATI Stream. CUDA has made more inroads in the consumer space, and especially in the HPC space than has Stream. There aren't that many differences in the programming model, but CUDA for C does have some advantages over Brook+. I prefer the fact that ATI opens up it's ISA down to the metal (along side a virtual ISA), while NVIDIA only offers a virtual ISA.
The key is honestly adoption though: the value of the technology only exists as far as the end user has a use for it. CUDA leads here. OpenCL, in our eyes, will close the gap between NVIDIA and ATI and should put them both on the same playing field. Reply
JonnyDough - Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - linkCould you please take the time to ask NV why the heck nTune crashes systems so easily? I can't even boot into Windows right now because I set up my profile to start my 8800GTS 640's fan on 100%. I can't hear it and I prefer my card to run cool, especially with NV's known heat issues. It might not be their fault though...FoxConn hasn't updated my bios in about 3 years, even though NewEgg sold me my motherboard about a year and a half ago. Reply
JonnyDough - Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - linkI should point out that was coming from the standpoint of you mentioning NV driver issues. I've had more trouble running older games and stuff. They sacrifice stability and game compatibility for high frame rates in newer games. It's pathetic. I don't want to buy a card to play all the latest games. I buy it to play my slightly older games at what is now good frame rates with all the goodies. Most people DO NOT STAY ON THE BLEEDING EDGE NVIDIA. GET A CLUE! Reply
SiliconDoc - Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - linkYour first mistake was thinking you know better than the top gpu maker and their manufacturing partners, and had your hissy fit to crank your fan out on lame years old games - because you're a worry wart and think nvidia would send out overheating cards - even on your far less than cutting edge slow and cool games.
Then we have the obious - the very high temp red cards, that COOK HUMAN SKIN when you touch the HS and run at 70C plus often - and you found it in your whine to claim NV has "known heat issues".
It is just amazing. Reply
Razorbladehaze - Monday, March 02, 2009 - linkHey thanks for the extra input on the image quality and addressing this post. Furthermore I hear you in regards to adoption of the tech being most important part GPGPU computing. I just hope that both ATI and nVidia can come together on this one for the consumer.
I enjoy reading your articles and think Anand puts out some quality stuff. I also appreciate you addressing some of the comments posted. Keep up the excellent work. Reply


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Bob Cropp, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offers the following comments on the current dairy situation and outlook.
"USDA's preliminary end of the year estimates for 2010 shows milk production at 192.7 billion pounds, up 1.8 percent from 2009. While the nations average herd size was nearly 1 percent lower, this was more than offset by 2.8 percent more milk per cow. The Class III price averaged $14.41, $3.05 higher than the $11.36 for 2009; and the U.S. All Milk price averaged $16.30, $3.47 higher than the $13.08 for 2009. Improved milk prices made returns over feed costs much more favorable and producers responded by feeding for higher production per cow.
"Milk prices took a sharp down turn towards year end with the December Class III price dropping to $13.83, down $3.11 from the year's peak in October at $16.94. Milk production was up just 0.9 percent for the first half of 2010, but grew 2.8 percent for the last half. Although domestic sales showed some improvement led by higher cheese sales, and exports were up substantially for all products this was not enough to hold milk prices. Cheese production was relatively high with November cheddar production 6.1 percent higher than a year ago and total cheese production 6.0 percent higher. Nov. 30 stocks of American cheese were 7.3 percent higher than a year ago and total cheese stocks 4.6 percent higher. Despite November butter production 9.8 percent higher than a year ago, with good domestic sales and strong exports Nov. 30 stocks were still less than half that of a year ago.
"As of now it looks like milk prices may not show substantial improvement until the second half of the year. However, dairy product prices have shown considerable strength since the beginning of the year. CME butter which was $1.69 per pound the start of the year improved to $2.10 on Jan. 7 and held at this level as of Jan. 19. CME cheddar barrels were $1.34 start of the year and improved to $1.4475 by Jan. 13, but dropped ½ cents to $1.47 on Jan. 19. CME cheddar blocks went from $1.3425 at the beginning of the year to $1.5025 by Jan. 13, but dropped 2 and ½ cents on Jan. 19 to $1.50. Both nonfat dry milk and dry whey prices are strong with prices in the West at $1.20 to $1.24 per pound for non fat dry milk and $0.38 to more than $0.42 per pound for dry whey. Some question that with the level of milk production and cheese stocks these prices will hold. The drop in cheese prices on Nov. 19 may be an indication that prices will weaken some. At what level these prices will hold over the next few weeks will depend upon the level of milk production and what buyers and sellers see for domestic sales and exports, not only currently, but for the months ahead.
"USDA's release of December milk production shows production still running at a high level. Milk production was 2.5 percent higher than a year ago from 0.6 percent more cows and 1.8 percent more milk per cow. Cow numbers increased 16,000 head from November putting them above year ago levels. The increase in milk per cow was down from earlier months due to some adverse weather in some key states like California. For example, heavy rain and mud stressed cows in California and as a result the increase in milk per cow was 3.5 percent for December compared to 5.4 percent for November. California's milk production for December was 2.7 percent higher than a year ago compared to an increase of 4.5 percent for November. Other Western states continue with rather strong increases in milk production with increased of 8.1 percent for Arizona, 4.9 percent for Idaho, 3.4 percent for New Mexico, 5.0 percent for Texas and 4.0 percent for Washington. In the Northeast, New York's production was up 4.6 percent and Pennsylvania up 1.8 percent. In the Midwest Wisconsin's production was up 0.7 percent, Minnesota had no change and Iowa's production was down 2.4 percent from 3.7 percent fewer cows. Of the 23 reporting states just two others had less milk, Illinois with a decrease of 0.6 percent and Missouri a decrease of 7.9 percent.
"A key for the level of milk production in 2011 will be feed prices. Much higher grain and hay prices will lower returns over feed costs. This is likely to increase cow slaughter and dampen the increase in milk per cow. The growth in milk production ought to slow as we move through the year. But, with the good supply of dairy replacements the average size of the nation's dairy herd may not fall below that of 2010. But with a smaller increase in milk per cow milk production for the year might be up less than 1.5 percent. Some improvement in domestic sales is anticipated and while exports may be lower relatively tight world supplies due to anticipated strong world demand and reduced level of increased milk production in Oceania will keep exports at a historically high level.
"Under this situation we could see the Class III price averaging in the low $14's for the first half of the year and then showing good improvement for the second half with a peak in the low $16's for October or November. With the recent run up in cheese prices Class III dairy futures showed strong increases for all month in 2010. But, with start of lower cheese prices on Nov. 19 and a rather strong December milk production all 2010 months for Class III futures showed weakness at the end of trading on Jan. 19."


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Braves relive NLDS letdown in return to LA
Puig ignites Dodgers rally reminiscent of Game 4 heartbreaker
LOS ANGELES -- While getting this year's first look at the Dodgers during Tuesday night's 8-4 loss, the Braves learned this is not the best time to attempt to gain some revenge against the club that ended their postseason hopes last year.
"That's about as close to an American League lineup as we've faced in a long time, and they're clicking pretty good right now," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said after seeing his team get outhit 15-12 and bid adieu to a chance to take sole possession of first place in the National League East.
Back at Dodger Stadium for the first time since ending last year with a Game 4 loss in the NL Division Series, the Braves sent Josh Beckett's pitch count above 80 pitches before the end of the third inning and gained a two-run advantage by the fifth. All was looking promising for the visitors until the seventh inning, which started with Yasiel Puig's fourth hit of the night and ended after Matt Kemp notched his first multi-homer game since this season's first week .
All of the seventh-inning damage came at the expense of Anthony Varvaro, who had surrendered just two earned runs in his most recent 17 2/3 innings. Varvaro was attempting to preserve the tie left by Aaron Harang, who was charged with four earned runs in six innings.
The Dodgers have now won four straight and six of their past eight to gain a three-game lead in the NL West. The Braves, who went 2-for-13 with runners in scoring position and stranded 14 runners, sit a half-game behind the Nationals.
"I think we're all in a groove right now," said Kemp, who has batted .397 in his past 17 games. "We're playing good baseball. We went into San Francisco and swept a good Giants team, and then we came back tonight and beat another good Atlanta team. I think our confidence is high."
Just a few years removed from being considered one of the game's elite players, Kemp has been forced to deal with rumors that the Dodgers are looking to unload him and a portion of his salary. The veteran outfielder had shown some recent life with his bat. But before going down to golf a two-run, opposite-field fence scraper off Harang in the second inning, he had gone 104 plate appearances without hitting a homer.
Kemp had to wait just two more plate appearances before hitting his seventh-inning shot off Varvaro, who has surrendered just six homers in the 114 2/3 innings he's totaled since the start of the 2013 season.
"That's the Matt Kemp I remember from 2012 in the first half, when it was unbelievable how he was hitting the ball," said the former Dodger Harang, who allowed more than three runs for just the fourth time in 22 starts.
Harang struggled against Puig, who found himself a home run short of the cycle by the end of the fifth inning. But Puig didn't cross the plate until he tripled and scored on Adrian Gonzalez's double in the fifth. Two batters later, Gonzalez trotted home on Carl Crawford's game-tying single to right-center field.
Crawford, who homered twice in last year's Game 4, also drew a four-pitch walk ahead of the opposite-field, fence-scraping home run Kemp hit in the second inning. Crawford had reached base in just eight of the previous 41 plate appearances he had tallied dating back to July 11.
"I don't think I've seen [Puig] make an out," Gonzalez said. "Maybe, when he comes up I'll come hide here in the locker room so that maybe he'll make an out. He's energized right now and he's swinging the bat well."
While Puig has hit .526 in nine games (playoffs included) against the Braves, Southern California native Freddie Freeman has batted .364 (20-for-54) with three homers in the 14 games he has played at Dodger Stadium. Freeman's latest successful night at Chavez Ravine was highlighted by the two-run third inning home run he hit off Beckett.
Beckett wavered through a 27-pitch first inning, but was only damaged by the run manufactured by B.J. Upton, who singled, later stole third base and scored on Justin Upton's sacrifice fly. The Dodgers veteran right-hander exited after Andrelton Simmons gave the Braves a two-run lead with a fifth-inning double.
Simmons also grounded into a double play after a Chris Johnson double helped put two on with just one out in the seventh.
"We were just trying to get pitches to hit and [Beckett] wasn't throwing pitches over the plate as much as he would like," Justin Upton said. "So, we were able to wait him out and get his pitch count up. But it didn't work out for us."
Mark Bowman 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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Alexis de Tocqueville noted the rise of voluntary associations in the United States during the Jacksonian period, and the wealth of materials about such groups in the Society's collections reflects the "institutionalization" of America. Approximately 23,200 items, most of which are pamphlets published by various kinds of organizations during the years 1821-76, constitute a collection of institutional reports, proceedings, constitutions, bylaws, historical sketches, membership lists, prospectuses, and promotional literature. The institutions range in nature from businesses to voluntary associations. Banks, churches, insurance houses, social clubs, hospitals for the physically and mentally ill, missionary groups, racetracks, temperance associations, museums, and masonic groups are a sampling of the establishments represented. (Publications of auction houses, canal corporations, libraries, railroads, educational institutions, learned societies, and book, art, and manuscript dealers are housed in separate collections.)
The collection is arranged as follows: institutions that operated or operate on a nationwide basis are shelved alphabetically by title of organization; statewide (or "general") organizations are arranged alphabetically by title within separate series for each state; and organizations that claimed or claim only particular cities, towns, or counties as their province are filed under town or county, then title, in "local" boxes that follow each state's "general" institutions. As machine-readable records are created, items are assigned unique call numbers and shelved in a separate section of the collection, arranged in a similar fashion to uncataloged materials. All materials for the years 1821-40 are cataloged online, as are a modest number of later titles. For uncataloged materials, checklists provide access to all the national institutions and to the general and local institutions of seven states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The staff is able to search through the remainder of the collection by name of institution on demand. It should be noted that the presence in this uncataloged collection of any given institution's publications does not preclude the presence of other publications by the same institution in various of the Society's cataloged collections.
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Software developers are often important augurs of IT technologies' direction and rate of adoption. Managers who responded to trends among developers would have been the first to detect the growth of Linux and the open source movement, the emergence of Java as a significant platform for server-based computing, and the arrival of integration technologies such as XML and Web services.
In this spirit, our annual Programming Research Report surveys application development professionals from among InfoWorld's core readership, in hopes of finding likely portents of the evolution of business computing technologies.
This year's results, gathered from a sampling of nearly 300 respondents, indicate that many software development tools and technologies are in transition. Web services, SOA, and open source tools are definitely enjoying wider adoption and are steadily pushing into the business mainstream. Technologies likely to earn continued favor include Microsoft's .Net development platform, dynamic scripting tools, and, of course, Java. Traditional development languages, such as C/C++ and other pure compiled languages will come under steady pressure.
Finally, features such as modeling that improve software quality are definitely seeing wider adoption than in previous years, although most of the basic tools that assure software quality are still far from universally deployed. But let's start with fundamentals.
Platforms and languages
In last year's survey, we concluded that developers remained conservative in their choice of deployment platforms. Having compared the number of this year's respondents who indicated increased commitment to each platform, less the number who indicated decreased commitment, we see that this trend continues intact. Notable exceptions are Microsoft's .Net environment and Mac OS X, which are gaining momentum. The loser this time around, however, seems to be Win32, which is finally showing its age as the only deployment platform with a shrinking user base.
Operating systems exhibit a slightly different profile. Linux and Windows continue to dominate. The Mac OS and a few handheld operating systems show some growth, while vendor-specific and legacy operating systems continue to drop.
Unix suffers particularly badly, with only Solaris able to tread water. It is clear that Linux is Click for larger view. swallowing up Unix implementations as well as mainframe deployments (the latter still being actively supported by IBM). As Linux fills out its enterprise credentials, it will likely supplant all versions of Unix and all mainframe operating systems. This transition is still a few years away, but the trend is in place. Linux has only to show it can deliver the goods for very large implementations to claim the crown it's been driving toward.
The choice of programming language is still a passionate topic for many developers. However, managers and IT departments have clearly weighed in with their own preferences. Only six languages can expect a net increase in investment. The top two, HTML and scripting languages for Web sites, are a breed apart, because of their use in narrow contexts. They're included in our data only because they are used so frequently in enterprise development projects.
In true application programming, notable declines occurred in C and C++. (See "C and C++ give way to managed code.") Today, fortune smiles only on Java, C#, dynamic languages (such as Python, Ruby, and the like), and Visual Basic. What do all these languages have in common? They're object-oriented, and they all execute within managed-code environments. In addition, they contain features purposely designed to reduce the complexity of application coding, such as automatic garbage collection.
To be sure, C and C++ are not on the verge of extinction. Older programming languages, such as Ada, Fortran, assembly language, and proprietary 4GLs (fourth-generation languages) declined even more, though these products' market share has been in steady decline for years. More importantly, most respondents indicate that they will continue to invest in C/C++ at a similar level to this year's. Still, the long-term trend is clear.
Readers who enjoy seeing a more frequently updated report card on the respective positions of programming languages can consult Tiobe Software's Web site, which displays a monthly language index based on worldwide availability of skilled engineers, courses, and third-party, language-specific tools. As of November 2005, this index, too, showed C++ in a slow decline, with corresponding increases in Java and C#.
Getting applications right
Modeling has definitely emerged from the confines of academia and government projects into mainstream business development -- due in part, no doubt, to the complexity of today's enterprise applications. Data modeling and process modeling are popular, with process modeling expecting a 14 percent jump at sites this year. Adoption of modeling tools increases steadily with the size of the company, measured by the number of employees at a site. The larger the company, the more likely it is to use modeling.
This trend derives directly from modeling's principal benefit: It captures large systems, thereby diminishing the gap between user requirements and developer specifications. This gap was one of the two principal challenges developers complained about in our survey, with 40 percent of respondents reporting that it was a major problem at their site. The other top challenge was time pressure, which was cited by 46 percent of respondents.
Testing tools show a similar pattern of adoption. Almost 40 percent of all sites expect to increase investment in testing software this year and next, with larger sites disproportionately overrepresented. It's clear, however, that the adoption of testing as a development practice has a lot farther to go. Forty-five percent of sites still do no automated unit testing at all (with small sites tipping in at 57 percent), while those that do rarely test more than 30 percent of their programs.
Code analysis, load testing, and performance tuning all showed similar numbers, which suggests that sites doing one form of testing tend to do several, and those doing none are wide open to all sorts of avoidable problems.
Vulnerability testing, unfortunately, showed even lower adoption rates. Nearly half the respondents' sites do no vulnerability testing at all. Large businesses (those with more than $10 billion in revenue) had the best numbers, with more than 75 percent reporting some vulnerability testing.
But the grim news is actually worse than it appears. When asked what activities were performed by tools at their work site, only 68 percent reported that they used source control, whereas configuration and deployment management clocked in at only 50 percent, issue tracking at 47 percent, and logging and monitoring at 44 percent. Given that many of the necessary tools are available at no cost through open source, this situation results from lack of discipline rather than lack of wherewithal.
It's clear that raising the quality of software without recourse to elaborate techniques or complex methodologies is still a needed and practical solution. Simple automation of the development, code management, and testing portions, it appears, would deliver tremendous benefits. Click for larger view.
Trends in vogue
The importance of open source development tools to the enterprise is no longer in doubt. On our list of vendors of actively used tools, Eclipse comes in third behind Microsoft and IBM/Rational. Other open source tools collectively garnered a 13 percent share.
Eclipse's numbers are particularly impressive, as they derive from a single product: the Eclipse IDE. In view of the fact that 71 percent of sites use Java (up from 64 percent last year), however, Eclipse's success does not support the common perception that Eclipse is steamrolling all the other Java IDEs. Rather, it appears to be the leader but not overwhelmingly so. Open source will likely continue to come up through the ranks, though, pushing past the lower-tier vendors.
Microsoft, however, is not at risk, given its commanding 64 percent presence at developer sites. These numbers represent the use of Visual Studio .Net with the slate of .Net languages, as well as for native C and C++ code. Many sites use Visual Studio .Net for development and testing, due to the quality of the IDE, then port the code to other platforms. This approach represents a significant turnaround from the days when Unix workstations were the preferred platforms for large-scale development.
Still, the Eclipse Foundation is actively expanding its IDE to cover C programming. If it does as good a job with C as it did with the Java IDE, its numbers are likely to improve to the detriment of Microsoft in coming years.
In addition to open source, this year's survey looked at a few other trendy technologies and discovered that adoption rates among developers surveyed were far below what evangelists would have us believe. Only Web services show true adhesion, and it's clear that adoption of this technology will grow significantly during the coming years. SOA is on a somewhat slower track, due no doubt to its more ambitious objective and to the fact that sites currently using Web services (41 percent) are the primary candidates for adopting it.
The same relationship that exists between Web services and SOA is mirrored in clusters and grids. Clusters are far more popular and likely to continue advancing, while grids are less favored and will grow more slowly. Like SOA, interest in grids is much higher in companies with more than 10,000 employees than at smaller sites.
The long view
Throughout the data points presented in this article, certain trends are unmistakable. Platform consolidation is occurring rapidly. The preferred deployment frameworks are managed environments, including Java, the .Net CLR (Common Language Runtime), or those associated with dynamic languages. These frameworks run on either Linux or Windows; all other platforms are either footnotes or else are in active decline.
Although development methodologies such as extreme programming and agile methods have inclined developers to reconsider how they design, program, and test software, it's clear that a fundamental commitment to software quality remains elusive at many sites. These sites choose not to use the established building blocks, such as source code management and bug tracking, that enable a predictable development process and a Click for larger view. higher level of delivered quality. Nonetheless, among the sites that do use these technologies, modeling is rapidly becoming an important practice.
Many emerging technologies compete for managers' attention, but this year's survey indicates that Web services and allied technologies (portals, SOA) are gaining significant momentum and are likely to be a standard part of distributed software in the years to come. The tools that will make this all possible will come foremost from IBM, Microsoft, and the open source community. By this time next year, we'll be in a good position to see how much SOA has changed the architecture of distributed computing and how the leading vendors integrate it into their product offerings.


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Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach Paul LaPolice says talk his job could be on the line when the Bombers face the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Canad Inns Stadium Thursday evening is premature.
LaPolice seemed to have a detailed list of reasons why he shouldn't be fired already prepared when he was asked during his coach's pre-game news conference Wednesday morning if he felt the future of his job could depend on tonight's outcome.
"I'm preparing to win a football game," LaPolice replied. "We're one-third through our season. We've had some challenges for the first third of our season. There's still 12 football games to play. No one in the CFL has established themselves in the league.
"We are certainly not happy in how we are playing. We need to get better and I think we will. I'm concerned about winning a football game. I think sometimes people gloom and doom very much. Things out of my control are out of my control. We've got a lot of football left to be played."
LaPolice is in his third season as the head coach of the Bombers and signed a contract extension in the off-season after leading his team to a Grey Cup appearance in 2011.
But his club has stumbled to a 1-5 start this season and LaPolice's win-loss record as Winnipeg's head coach is now 15-27.
With a fresh contract extension in his pocket, the Bombers board might be reluctant to part so soon with their head coach, although it bears noting the Saskatchewan Roughriders fired head coach Greg Marshall last August in what was Marshall's first year of a three-year contract. Marshall's Riders were 1-7 at the time.
There are also off-field considerations in play right now, as dissatisfaction with the club's losing skid is beginning to show up at the ticket window. With just 26,000 tickets sold as of Wednesday for tonight's contest, it will take a huge walk-up today -- capacity is 29,533 -- to avoid having the club's record run of nine straight regular-season sellouts snapped.
Should it come to firing, the leading contender to replace LaPolice -- at least on an interim basis -- would clearly be Bombers defensive co-ordinator Tim Burke, who narrowly lost out in the competiton for the Hamilton head coaching job last winter to current Ticats boss George Cortez.
LaPolice was asked if he was frustrated to be getting asked questions about his job security so soon after leading his team to a Grey Cup.
"Yeah, I think sometimes that's what people... think is the news and the most important thing. I think there's a lot of football left. I think we had to overcome some challenges early in the season and we'll do our best to fix (those) at the end of the year.
"So yeah, I think sometimes it can be a negative, frustrating thing."
Veteran offensive lineman Steve Morley said he's trying not to think about his coach's job security -- or anyone else's -- this week. But Morley says he also has no doubt whatsoever about how high the stakes are tonight.
"You never want to think about guys getting fired or losing their jobs," said Morley, "but we definitely have to win. In my opinion, yes, it's a must-win."
Care to consider what the consequences will be if you don't win over Hamilton? "Not really," said Morley. "Not really."
Running back Chad Simpson -- who, as an ex-NFLer with a Super Bowl appearance, knows something about high-stakes football games -- says he thinks a lot of jobs are on the line whether Winnipeg wins or loses Thursday.
"There's going to be changes regardless," said Simpson, "when you're losing this deep into the season."


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Man I have really drunk the Kool-Aid when it comes to touch interfaces. I'm loving all these Apps and here's another one that looks like one fun toy. djay for iPad is not available yet. We have to wait for iOS 4.2 before this will grace our glass. It's not Traktor S4 but fast forward in time a bit and we will have a contender. No?
"But with the imminent release of iOS 4.2, at least one developer is going to finally deliver a full featured iPad DJ app. We've learned that Algoriddim, the makers of the popular djay application for Mac, has ported djay over to the iPad, taking full advantage of the new iOS 4.2 audio features." – macrumors.com
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Not wanting to be the only person not conducting a poll in Iowa, Seth Meyers decided to grab a phone book and start calling numbers in the Hawkeye State. Meyers was rejected by many, but some allowed him to ask such out-of-the-box questions as "Why do you think Jeb looks so sad all the time?" and "Would you do CrossFit with Martin O'Malley?" and "On a 1 to 10, how sexy do you think Bernie Sanders is?" (That random Iowan's response? "Oh my God, yuck.") Watch the video — complete with a cameo from Meyers' mom — below. Catherine Garcia
Morning Joe's Joe Scarborough couldn't help but wonder Monday what's next for fired chief strategist Stephen Bannon, now that his tenure at the White House has ended. "If I'm Steve Bannon and I look at the landscape and I look at Fox News trying to figure out exactly what it's going to be after Roger Ailes, I team up and start a conservative populist network," Scarborough said. "I mean, the money there would be outrageous."
Mark Halperin pointed out that Breitbart News was "influential" prior to and during Bannon's tenure at the White House. Now that Bannon is back at Breitbart with White House experience under his belt, Halperin noted that Bannon has "the capacity ... to increase their influence." "And their influence in offices of House Republican members is bigger on many days than Fox News is," Halperin said of Breitbart.
Meanwhile, Scarborough was still thinking about that television network. "I would just be surprised if he and [Breitbart financial backers] the Mercers weren't trying to figure out a way to start a TV network that competes with Fox," Scarborough said.
Watch Scarborough imagine the possibilities below. Becca Stanek
The combination of President Trump's frequent travel, numerous properties, and large family is gobbling up the Secret Service's funds at an unprecedented rate. USA Today revealed Monday that roughly a third of America's Secret Service agents have "already hit the federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances that were meant to last the entire year," forcing Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex" Alles to turn to Congress for additional funding.
Alles is pushing to raise the salary and overtime cap for agents to ameliorate the situation. But even if that were to happen, 130 agents would still not be "fully compensated for hundreds of hours already amassed," USA Today reported.
With the rate of attrition already high and the demanding workload expected to continue, Democrats and Republicans are concerned. "We cannot expect the Secret Service to be able to recruit and keep the best of the best if they are not being paid for these increases [in overtime hours]," a spokeswoman for Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said.
Read more on the burgeoning crisis at USA Today. Becca Stanek
With Stephen Bannon now out at the White House, a war is reportedly brewing between President Trump's former chief strategist and Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner. Vanity Fair's The Hive reported Sunday that after Bannon was fired Friday, he told a friend, "We're going to war." Kushner is reportedly his biggest enemy:
The chaotic, war-torn West Wing of the past six months will be prologue, but the coming struggles will be as personal as they are ideological, waged not with leaks but with slashing Breitbart banners. On Sunday, Breitbart took renewed aim at McMaster, with a headline claiming he advocated "Quran Kissing." But most of all, there's a deep animosity between Bannon and Kushner, amplified by a lack of respect. Bannon finds Kushner's political instincts highly questionable. "He said Jared is a dope," one Bannon ally recalled. The two clashed fiercely on personnel decisions and policy debates, both domestic and international, many of which Bannon lost. [The Hive]
While Bannon was "tarred as a prime West Wing leaker" in recent weeks, his allies apparently suspect that Kushner has "cultivated a relationship with Matt Drudge, who frequently pushed anti-Bannon headlines" and also pushed Fox News chairman Rupert Murdoch to convince Trump to fire Bannon.
Back at Breitbart, Bannon has big plans for using the site to exact his revenge.
Read the full story at The Hive. Becca Stanek
On Monday, from 10:16 a.m. in Oregon to 2:48 p.m. in South Carolina, a total solar eclipse will move in a 67-mile-wide swath across parts of 14 states, with the rest of the continental United States witnessing only a partial eclipse. The "totality" — when the moon completely covers the sun — will last only about 2-3 minutes in each location, and it is very important that people don't look directly at the sun during any part of the eclipse without special solar-filter glasses, as staring at an eclipse can lead to permanent eye damage. (Also, make sure the glasses aren't fake.) You can read more about eclipse-watching here, and in case you don't have Bonnie Tyler tickets or plans to watch the eclipse from one of the prime viewing spots, USA Today has a handy interactive map for how much your area will see and when. Peter Weber
Jared Kushner's real estate firm has sought the arrest of more than 100 ex-tenants over unpaid debts
Since the real estate company owned by President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, started doing business in Maryland in 2013, it has been the state's most aggressive practitioner of a controversial debt-collection method called body attachment, where a landlord gets a judge to order the arrest of former tenants who fail to appear in court for allegations of unpaid rent, fines, and fees, The Baltimore Sun reports, citing court records. In all, 20 former tenants have been detained, and a dozen have filed for personal bankruptcy protection to avoid arrest.
Kushner Cos. owns 17 apartment complexes with nearly 9,000 units in Maryland, mostly in the Baltimore area, and pays other firms to manage them. The company earns at least $30 million in profit a year off $90 million in revenue from the properties, The Baltimore Sun reports, and the Kushner-controlled entities have managed to collect $1 million out of the $5.4 million in judge-approved judgments against 1,250 tenants since 2013, averaging $4,400 per judgment including original debt, court costs, lawyer fees, and interest.
Kushner Cos. "follows guidelines consistent with industry standards" and state law, and its management partner, Westminster Management, "only takes legal action against a tenant when absolutely necessary," company CFO Jennifer McLean said in a statement. And real estate interests say that body attachments — for former tenants who miss two court appointments — can be the only way to make delinquent tenants pay up. At least some tenants say they were never notified of the court dates, or dispute the money owed.
Not all collection agencies use body attachments, in part because "they don't want to risk the public relations issue," Amy Hennen at the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service tells the Sun. Garnishing wages, which can be ruinous for poor people barely scraping by, is "harsh" enough, she said. "But certainly the body attachment is probably the worst, because we're talking about what is effectively a debtors' prison, which is something out of Charles Dickens." You can read more at The Baltimore Sun. Peter Weber
John Oliver began Sunday's Last Week Tonight with a sometimes NSFW farewell to Stephen Bannon, the White House chief strategist shown the door on Friday. Oliver's audience cheered when he showed a photo of President Trump's core team, whittled down from six people to just two. Trump "is surrounded by four white nothings and Mike Pence — so, let's make that five white nothings," he said. "But the truly depressing thing about Bannon's departure is just how utterly unsatisfying it actually is. Because yes, one panderer to white nationalists has left the White House. The problem is, the one he was working for is still very much there."
Oliver ended up at the same conclusion when he took a look at Trump's very bad week, especially his perceived legitimizing of white supremacists at a news conference on Tuesday. Lots of people condemned Trump from unusual corners, he said, though Trump still had his tearful defenders on Fox News, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) shot down rumors that he was very disappointed with Trump, and House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned white supremacists without mentioning Trump by name.
"You can mention him," Oliver said. "He is not Voldemort, he's just a terrifying entity who viciously attacks his enemies and judges people based on their birthright — you know what? I do hear it now. I hear it now." The fact is, fewer than 20 percent of the 292 Republicans in Congress "could be bothered to unequivocally condemn Trump by name," he said, and that's a problem because Trump is "a key part of the problem."
"So look, although this week has repeatedly been called a turning point, much as though I would love to believe that, I really don't see it," Oliver concluded. "We're not so much turning anymore as spinning. We are basically on a carousel that will not stop, we've vomited so much there's nothing left to throw up, and there's just no way to get off because an unstable, race-baiting carney is operating the controls." Nothing will change until one last person leaves the West Wing, he added, and Trump isn't going anywhere. There is some NSFW language. Watch below. Peter Weber
John Oliver has some good reasons you should be frightened, frustrated at America's nuclear waste problem
Nuclear waste "is a serious health hazard, and America has a lot of it," John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. "And you may live closer to nuclear waste than you think." For decades, America has known it needs a safe place to store this nuclear waste — one expert in 1990 compared America's nuclear situation to a house built without a toilet — and that was Oliver's focus on Sunday: "Why do we not have a nuclear toilet?"
On one level, this is easy to understand, he said, because in World War II the U.S. rushed to create atomic weapons to defeat the Nazis, "who — fun fact — pretty much all Americans agreed were bad at the time." He ran through some of the bad-to-horrifying solutions America came up with in early days of nuclear waste, and noted how some of the improperly stored waste has sickened people and created radioactive alligators, among other problems. Luckily, the U.S. government and scientific community came up with a solution 60 years ago. Unfortunately, the envisioned facility for the worst waste still hasn't been built.
For more on why America hasn't buried its nuclear waste yet, how much we're spending on the Hanford site in Washington State, and how little things have changed in 40 years, plus a running gag about a terrifying American Girl doll, watch below. (Yes, there is NSFW language throughout.) Peter Weber


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No Joke: Microsoft Seeks To Patent Verbs
Specifically, the software maker has developed a verb conjugating system aimed at aiding students studying a foreign language, and has applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a patent.
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So as you can see, the headline is not exactly accurate, but when has that ever stopped anyone when it comes to bashing Microsoft?


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AN all singing, all dancing (and high kicking) woman from Hollywood has reached the grand final of a prestigious music competition with her band.
21-year-old Laura Fleming, also known as Candy Kisses, performs with vintage cabaret act The Pin Ups.
Inspired by the femme fatale pin ups of the war era the group specialises in singing, dancing, aerial tricks and general entertainment (sometimes in suspenders and stockings and sometimes not).
Ms Fleming, along with her band mates, entered the Open Mic UK last year and is through to the final, at the O2 in London, on January 19.
She said: "We're absolutely thrilled. Singer/songwriter Birdy won it a couple of years ago and has had a number one single since so we're obviously keen on getting as much support as possible."
A text vote is now open where people can text OPEN88 to 86222 which will help toward the group's final score on the night.
For more information about the band or the competition, visit thepinups.co.uk or facebook.com/pinups.co.uk or @ThePinUps1 on Twitter.


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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Residents of New York and New Jersey worry that the raising of a major bridge to accommodate bigger ships could harm their environment.
The Port Authority plans to raise the Bayonne (BAY'-ohn) Bridge by more than 60 feet to accommodate ships coming from Asia through a widened Panama Canal.
The Coast Guard did a preliminary environmental assessment. It says the project will have no significant environmental or health effects.
But people in Newark and on Staten Island say the agency needs to do a full environmental review. They worry that more trucks offloading huge ships could lead to increased diesel pollution.
The Environmental Protection Agency is also calling for a full review. Residents have until March 5 to comment on the preliminary assessment.


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DETROIT - Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's ex-fundraiser told the court Thursday about paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to Kilpatrick.
Emma Bell was in tears and clearly upset to tell her story. However, she insisted she was telling the truth.
Bell told jurors she stashed thousands of dollars in her bra and purse and took the money to the mayor's office and the Manoogian Mansion. She said it was $8,000 to $10,000 at a time and it amounted to more than $200,000 during the time Kilpatrick spent in office.
"If they believe her, as it relates to what she gave to Kwame and how she gave the money to Kwame, that's a really bad day for the defense," said Local 4 Legal Expert and veteran defense attorney Todd Flood.
Witness says she hid, gave money to Kilpatrick
She said Kilpatrick would put the envelopes of money in his pants pocket, say thank you, and "I'll see you later." Bell appeared pained to tell the story that could sink the former Detroit mayor. She told jurors she has strong feelings for Kwame Kilpatrick, Bernard Kilpatrick, Carolin Cheeks Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson, who, she says, would occasionally give her cash when she was low on funds.
Bell said she has raised money for many political campaigns and Kilpatrick is the only politician to demand kickbacks on her commissions.
The defense was poised to point out Bell cannot be believed.
"We're going to see a series of witnesses that are going to be coming in, that are going to be testifying, and it's a process," said Kilpatrick's attorney Jim Thomas. "Let's hear what they have to say and let the jury decide."
While Bell was solid on the stand, the defense made some very important and detailed points as to why her story does not add up.
Defense tells jury Bell was gambling money away
Bell owed the IRS money and Kilpatrick's campaign paid her $900,000. However, the defense told the jury Bell didn't use the money to pay off her debt but instead went to the casino where she lost $150,000 over four years.
Bell said there were only two people in the room on Thursday who knew the truth, other than God.
-- Emma Bell outside court
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Annual Arizona Volvo Day
|A reminder that our Annual Arizona Volvo Day will be next Saturday, November 2nd from 9:00 AM until 2:00 PM at Volvo of Tempe, 8060 S. Autoplex Loop, Tempe. Your membership currency in the Cactus Chapter has absolutely NO EFFECT ON YOUR PARTICIPATION!! We have even invited Volvo Owners who have no club affiliation whatsoever. We are interested in VOLVOS, period. All models, years, in show condition or not. Even if you don't want to "Show" your car (it's free) come by and look at those who do. We'd love to see and talk to you.
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NOW AVAILABLE! The former Tool & Manufacturing Engineer's Handbook (TMEH) has been digitized and is now available in a new peer-reviewed and validated WIKI environment.
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Young farmers and ranchers shared their view of the industry last weekend, identifying trends they're most excited about as well as areas of concern.
Participants of the Nebraska Farm Bureau's Young Farmers and Ranchers Conference on Jan. 24 and 25 are embracing the growing use of technology to manage farm operations more efficiently and increase production.
The Nebraska Farm Bureau reports more than half of the participants in the survey said the growth in technology, in seeds, machinery and the general scope of precision farming where inputs and management decisions are made on more detailed level, are the most exciting thing about being involved in agriculture.
"The use of technology to improve production practices on the farm and to allow us to better protect the environment – our land and water – and grow more with less is important," Todd Reed, chair of Nebraska Farm Bureau's Young Farmers and Ranchers committee, said Jan. 30. "Having instant access to information and incorporating communication tools into agriculture is the 'new normal' and that's not going to change."
Technology continue to play a vital role in the agricultural industry as land and water resources are affected by consecutive years of drought.
Ranchers at the conference are excited about the rebound in the cattle industry and attendees are optimistic about the number of ag-related jobs, both on and off the farm. Ranchers are anticipating more moisture this year and better grazing pastures as drought conditions ease.
Terry Klopfenstein, animal sciences professor at the University of Nebraska, says cattle producers are ready to expand their operations, converting corn fields back to pasture as corn values decline.
The conference helps a new generation of farmers and ranchers address issues they may have not experienced on their own.
The young audience raised in the era of social media is aware of their responsibility to share agricultural production from the farmer's point of view. Participants view the public's disconnect with agriculture as a primary concern, fueled by persuasive communication tactics by major companies like Chipotle and Panera.
If we aren't telling our story somebody else will. And if we don't tell our story, we're not going to have a story to tell at some point," Reed said.
The survey found the group is also facing challenges with the growth in activist groups who oppose modern farming practices and increasing government regulations for farm operations.


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Adnan Oktar: But let me say that this crisis may be very risky. What we need in the face of it IS FOR AGRICULTURE TO BE GIVEN VERY SERIOUS PRIORITY. Livestock raising and agriculture. In other words, state support for that sector should be 10 times what it is for other institutions. Livestock raising and agriculture. This needs considerable state support. In other words, our livestock and agriculture production need to be 3 or 5 times greater than they are now. This is enormously important. And it is an extremely serious precaution. Attaching priority to livestock raising and agriculture is the way to preventing really terrible developments.
Al Jazeera, December 13-2008
Adnan Oktar: THE MOST RATIONAL SOLUTION IS TO ATTACH PRIORITY TO AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK RAISING. The solution lies in providing ample support for the agricultural sector, and provision of state support for the livestock raising sector, for individuals or organizations trading in, raising or otherwise involved with large and small livestock and poultry. In addition, if necessary the state must set up its own enterprises and businesses in order to create plenty and abundance.
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Human Rights Council: Germany and the Universal Periodic Review
The Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) regularly monitors the human rights situation in all UN member states. In April 2013, Germany will undergo the so-called UPR process (Universal Periodic Review). For this purpose, the Federal Government presents a report that she has publicly discussed beforehand with non-governmental organizations and citizens. The hearing was held on December 5, led by Markus Loening, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Federal Government.
What is it about?
As part of the universal human rights audit of the UN Human Rights Council - the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) - the human rights situation is reviewed in all Member States of the United Nations every four years. This procedure has been around since 2007. The human rights situation in Germany has been reviewed for the first time in February 2009.
The public hearing
For this, the federal government is currently preparing a draft report, which summarizes the developments of the past four years. The public hearing gives NGOs and citizens the opportunity to ask questions and make suggestions. This approach is a "novelty" in Germany, the Human Rights Commissioner Markus Loening at the hearing in the Humboldt University in Berlin: "We are keen to ensure that the public participates and is involved."
Apart from the various departments of the Federal Government also representatives of many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) participated in the creation of the report. Markus Loening emphasized the fundamental importance of the UPR process and the work of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations. For civil society around the world both were "of utmost importance". Because all states are equal in the process: All countries will be checked, no matter their size, European countries as well as African or Latin American nations.
The other UPR process
The German Federal Government has until 21 January 2013 to submit their national report. Subsequently, in April 2013, the human rights situation in Germany will be reviewed at the 16th Session of the UPR Working Group. In September, Germany will have the opportunity to respond to the findings and recommendations of the Human Rights Council. In October 2013, the report (including the comments from Germany) will be officially adopted in the 17th Adopted Session of the Human Rights Council.


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For the crust:
8 tbsp cold unsalted butter
1/4 cup solid shortening (I omitted this for my crust)
2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
1/3 cup sour cream
2-4 tbsp ice water
For the filling:
- a handful of blueberries
- a handful of green grapes
- 2 plums
- 1 orange
- 1 1/4 cup sugar (or according to individual preference for sweetness)
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 5 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 1/2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
In a saucepan over small fire, mix the sugar, cinnamon, butter & fruits. Add the cornstarch to thicken the filling once the juices from the fruits has started to ooze out.
Pour the filling over the crust that has been pressed in the pie dish. Use the remaining dough to roll out into a round as large as the top of the pie dish. Cut into strips and lay on top of the pie filling to make a lattice design. If there is some bits of dough left, it can be rolled & cut out into desired shapes to decorate the border. Brush the pastry crust with egg wash & bake.
Dust with icing sugar once the pie has been baked & cooled. Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.
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Install on Ubuntu
From Geoqo
Ubuntu is a variation of Debian, so you should be able to follow the general instructions for Installing on Debian. If this all looks too complex, you may wish to use the Install from a binary release instructions instead.
Suggested starting commands (many untested)
- sudo apt-get install libdbd-sqlite2-perl