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The traffic ticket controversy seems to be gaining momentum.
Quota or no quota -- that is the question.
It's a question that was recently examined in a W5 investigative report called To Serve & Collect.
According to the report, Winnipeg is the traffic ticket quota capital of Canada.
That's another negative moniker now being used to define a city already plagued with its fair share of dubious title distinctions such as the murder, robbery and violent crime capital of Canada.
When it comes to police management, the "Q" word is about as taboo as the "F" word. It's a word "they" will just never say.
Former Winnipeg Police Service Chief Keith McCaskill was clear on the issue: "As far as I'm concerned, we'll always look at traffic enforcement as a safety issue."
Objective analysis of McCaskill's statement might lead an intuitive person to a contrary conclusion.
It's no secret the city's 2012 operating budget indicated the WPS intended to collect an additional $1.4 million in ticket revenue from traditional enforcement (front line officers handing out tickets).
At the time, McCaskill explained the target wouldn't be met by police brass setting "quotas" for front line officers, but they would be raising "expectations."
In March 2012, McCaskill was quoted in the WFP: "A quota basically in my mind is that, 'You've got to do it, that's your minimum.' No. It's sort of an expectation, sort of a measurement, and that's it. It's not a 'You must.' It's a 'We'd like you to try to do that.' If they don't get it, nobody is going to be coming to them and saying they're in trouble. It's not going to happen."
I'm sorry, Keith. That was either a big fat lie or your message got skewed somewhere between your office in the PSB and the supervisor's meetings held throughout the police service.
I was at one of those meetings where one of your divisional commanders shared your "vision."
Call it whatever you want. Front line officers were to be told they were expected to issue a minimum of one traffic ticket every 10-hour shift. Supervisors were expected to keep statistics and monitor the number of offence notices each officer issued. Officers that failed to meet police service "expectations" were to be singled out for a discussion with their supervisor regarding their performance issues.
Supervisors were also expected to deliver the message that failure to meet police service "expectations" could have significant negative career-path implications. The threat from police management was not ambiguous: write traffic tickets or good luck in the next promotion competition.
Winnipeg Police Association president Mike Sutherland had his own take on the issue: "If the traffic enforcement situation becomes more focused on revenue, and inappropriately focused on revenue, as opposed to public safety, then I think it undermines the public confidence and relationships we're trying to build."
Sutherland gets it and so does Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu, president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, who indicated he disagreed with the idea of connecting traffic enforcement to revenue targets. According to Chu, the police should not use the "powers of the state" to make money because, as he put it; "That's not the purpose of why we're out there. We're out there to keep the streets safe and not to make money."
The truth is, enforcement of the Highway Traffic Act in the Province of Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg has evolved into a dark, immoral form of surreptitious taxation used to supplement the bottom line.
Public safety, education and awareness are all novel excuses fed to the press by police brass to justify the new aggressive traffic enforcement approach the police service has taken.
If it wasn't about the revenue, photo-radar, vehicles wouldn't be set up in speed reduced school zones on Sunday afternoons or in speed-reduced construction zones when there is no construction going on.
If it wasn't about revenue, the police service would not be calling out off-duty police officers and paying them time and a half for 10 hours to do traffic enforcement.
The police service is paying each of these officers approximately $700 for their day's work. If they write 50 tickets per day at an average of $200 they are generating $10,000 in gross revenue.
In comparison, supervisors in the crime division and district detective offices constantly struggle in their efforts to receive authorization for anti-crime projects that might incur overtime or the need to call out off-duty investigators.
Robberies, commercial and residential break and enters and gang crime have all apparently become secondary considerations in the evolution of policing in Winnipeg.
If it wasn't about revenue traffic fines would not be so incredibly outrageous: 10 km/h over the speed limit, $181.50; 15 km/h over, $246.25; 20 km/h, $312.25.
I truly sympathize with any hard-working teenaged kid working for minimum wage who gets nailed with a traffic ticket with a $300 price tag.
As a front line supervisor, I wholeheartedly rejected the notion that officers under my command had to hand out a daily, or even weekly number (quota) of traffic tickets. These officers swore an oath to serve and protect the citizens of our city. Their primary function should be to respond to priority calls and to detect and apprehend the criminals who prey on the public in our crime-ridden city.
If they managed to find the time to write a ticket, I applauded their efforts.
Generating revenue by persecuting commuters and the general public is a misguided approach that undermines the integrity of the entire police service.
In 2008, 25,000 traffic offence notices were issued by the WPS. In 2011, that number ballooned to 57,000.
When you assess these numbers, it becomes clear that holding career path over employees' heads is an effective way to achieve "buy in."
The lies, deception and continued abuse of Winnipeg motorists has become so overt, it's attracted the attention of investigative reporters from W5, the longest-running television newsmagazine program in North America.
The time has come to return to a more simple time in policing.
A time when a police officer stopped a car and cut the driver a break with a warning or stern lecture -- an interaction that was often educational, appreciated and respected.
A time when a seatbelt ticket cost you $40 and not a week's wages.
A time when front line cops were expected to patrol your back lanes looking for criminals.
A time when people in the "chain of command" were cops and not "bean-counting gumbys."
It would be my hope that Chief Devon Clunis pays heed to Chu's words of wisdom: Policing is not, and should never have become, a money-making proposition.
It's time to stop playing traffic ticket word games and start letting street cops do what they were always intended to do, be street cops.
James Jewell retired from the Winnipeg Police Service after a 25-year career. Follow his blog at jgjewell.wordpress.com


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Volume 2, Issue 2, Spring 1998
Links to the Articles
From the College Director | Undergraduate Recruitment | Clinical News | Rehab News | From the Board Chair | Faculty News | Faculty Profile | Alumni Notes | Publications |
Editorial Director: M. Ellen Mitchell, Ph.D.; Editor and Art Director: Omar Azam; Additional Copy Editing: Olivia Anderson
PsychLink is published by the Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Psychology twice a year and follows the academic calendar.
From the College Director
The time has been flying by and there are many exciting events to report. In January, the fund raising subcommittee of the Psychology Board of Overseers met at Kent Law School with an impressive group of volunteers to talk about the fund raising initiative for Psychology. David Vitale, IIT trustee and psychology board member delivered an excellent presentation on giving. Also in attendance were (board members) Dennis Armstrong, Bruce Bonecutter, Linda Jeleniewski, Gary Morris, Jaci Masztal, (volunteer friends of psychology) Joe Hahn, George Langlois, Dan Lezotte, Susan Lobonc, Sue Slater, Steve Steinhaus, (faculty) Roya Ayman, Chow Lam, Nam Raju and Michael Young. We initiated a "Lost Alumni Treasure Hunt" to help us find missing alumni. I am pleased to announce that George Langlois is the winner of that effort.
Our group of volunteers is well represented by I/O alumni. We would be more than delighted to have additional people join us. In particular, we are seeking clinical (counseling) and rehabilitation alumni to assist us. Please call me as soon as possible if you have an interest.
It is also my pleasure to announce the appointment of Olivia K. Anderson, CFRE to the position of Director of Development for the College of Psychology. She will be working for us half time coordinating our efforts. Olivia brings us ten years of fund raising experience, most recently serving as Senior Director of Development at the University Health Care Foundation in Augusta Georgia. During her seven years there, she directed a capital campaign, an annual giving program, and initiated major gift solicitations of corporations and foundations. Prior to that position, Olivia was Assistant Director of Development with Lyric Opera of Chicago. Her experience with the Chicago philanthropic community, coupled with the fact that she is a life long Chicago resident, make her an excellent resource for us.
We are delighted to have Olivia join our staff at such an important time in the future of Psychology to assist us in achieving the fullness of the transition from a department to an College. The Pritzker/Galvin Challenge has provided us with an auspicious opportunity to develop and expand psychology to a higher level of regional and national prominence. I hope you will all be able to meet her at some point. We would also like to invite you to the IIT Leadership Day on May 19, 1998. The psychology board meeting, chaired by Bryan Dunn of the Kinship Corporation, is open and scheduled from 10 AM -12:OO PM in the Life Sciences building. The IIT board of trustees meeting is also open and is scheduled for 2:30 until 4:00. There will then be a series of posters and displays with a cocktail hour, dinner, and entertainment to follow. If you are interested and available to attend part or all of these activities, please call me as soon as possible so that I can arrange for your reservations.
Best regards,
M. Ellen Mitchell, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Recruitment
For several years Dr. Hyuck and Dr. Wolach have served as academic advisors for undergraduate students. During the past year, Dr. Hyuck has been on sabbatical leave. Dr. Wolach has worked with Dr. Mitchell to advise undergraduate students. Meetings to discuss concerns of undergraduate students have been scheduled. In addition, undergraduates have been encouraged to work in laboratories of faculty members in our College of Psychology. An undergraduate student is advised of the faculty member in the College of Psychology who has research interests that most nearly match the research interests of the student.
Undergraduate education at IIT now contains multidisciplinary project based courses. These project based courses often include students with major course concentration in diverse areas. Undergraduate students must be placed in projects that are appropriate to their interests and long term goals.
We have also formed a faculty committee charged with the task of recruitment of undergraduate psychology majors and marketing of the psychology program. The committee is headed by Dr. Anthony Paquin and includes Dr. Nancy Hansen, Dr. Tammy Sher, and Dr. Sylvia Roch. Dr. Bob Schleser has also helped with the 3+3 BS/JD program.
Clinical News
The Clinical Program had a successful re-accreditation site visit by APA on March 5 and 6. The three visitors were very impressed with the commitment and work of both faculty and students. They also identified areas in which resources could use improvement, which will help us in our fund raising and our work with the administration.
Our students had another typically successful year in obtaining internships for 1998-99. Placements are:
Jeff Canar (Hines VAMC)
Janice Chartrand (Little Rock VAMC)
Rob Daniels (Univ. Washington)
Rhonda Mayes (IL State Univ Counseling Center)
Rob Morrell (Univ. MI - Ann Arbor VAMC)
Greg Petersen (Salem Virginia VAMC)
Paula Pitterle (Univ. MN Medical Center)
Meg Racenstein (Univ. IL Chgo- Psychiatry)
Karla Renhoffer (Milwaukee MHC)
Penny Wolfe (Eastern Virginia Medical Center)
Several students have presented their research at spring scientific meetings. Christine Gagnon and Mia Bergman presented at the Midwest Psychological Associations as well as the Association for Behavior Analysis. They and Greg Petersen, Janice Chartrand, Eddie O'Connor and Chris Weber presented at the Illinois Psychological Association. Paula Pitterle and Jenny Schnepps presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies. Jonathan Cole and Amy Siston presented at the Society for Behavior Medicine. Rob Morrell, Greg Petersen and Chris Weber presented at the Midwest Pain Society. Also, Jeff Canar and Gail Demarco gave an invited grand rounds talk at Mercy Hospital in Chicago.
Rehabilitation News
In the recent U.S. News & World Report issue on Best Graduate Programs, IIT's Rehabilitation Counseling program was ranked #8 in the nation. This comes in addition to a favorable report by a recent article in Rehabilitation Education, which ranked universities' research productivity in rehabilitation counseling for the last fifteen years. According to the report, IIT's Rehabilitation Counseling program was ranked #9 in the country and Dr. Chow Lam was ranked #10 on authorship contributions among over 1800 authors.
Dr. Glen Geist reports receiving a 5 year grant totaling $500,000 for the Ph.D. program in Rehabilitation Counselor Education.
From the Board Chair
It is nearly one year since the inception of the College of Psychology Board of Overseers. In June, 1997, the 11-member board convened and established two main objectives. First, to develop a business plan for the Center for Research and Service, currently under the direct ion of Distinguished Professor, Dr. Nambury Raju. Second, to produce and implement a development plan to launch a $5 million campaign to raise funds for the College of Psychology as part of IIT's $250 million Challenge Campaign initiated by the Pritzker/Galvin challenge gifts.
I am pleased to report that the business plan for the Center has been completed and a search for a director for the Center is well underway. We look forward to working with Dr. Raju as the Center continues to establish a presence with industry across the country.
Our goal of $5 million over the next five years is an exciting challenge for the board. We have committed to raising $2.5 mi llion in support of undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, endowed professorships, expansion of the Center for Research and Service and for the creation of a faculty and student professional fund. All gifts designated for these projects will be matched dollar for dollar by the Pritzker/Galvin Challenge gift, for a total of $5 million to the College of Psychology. I cannot stress enough the value of this opportunity - your gift, designated to an area of Psychology of your choice, will be matched 100%! We hope that you will consider contributing during this exciting time for our Psychology students and programs. You may use the campaign response form on the final page of the newsletter to send in your gift.
I would be remiss if I did not take this opportunity to introduce to you and recognize the efforts of the College of Psychology Board of Overseers. These individuals have demonstrated their commitment to IIT through their time and resources and I consider myself fortunate to be part of such a distinguished group of volunteers. I am also delighted to announce that we have 100% board participation toward our Campaign which is remarkable for a new board and a real testament to the dedication of this group.
Board Members
DENNIS ARMSTRONG, PH.D., Director, Organizational Effectiveness, United Airlines
BRUCE BONECUTTER, PH.D., Clinical Director, Alternative Behavior Treatment Centers
LINDA JELENIEWSKI, PH.D., President, Organizational Resources
KEN KAYE, PH.D., Principal, Kaye & McCarthy
DIANE KRAUSE-STETSON, Vice President, Human Resources, Duchossois Industries, Inc.
SANDER MARCUS, PH.D., Consultant, Friedland & Marcus
JACI J. MASZTAL, PH.D., Vice President/Managing Director - Southeast Region, Burke Strategic Consulting Group
GARY MORRIS, PH.D., Director of Human Resource Research, Ameritech
JOHN SCOTT, PH.D., Vice President, Applied Psychological Techniques
DAVID VITALE, Vice Chairman, First Chicago Corporation
On Tuesday, May 19, the College of Psychology Board, along with many of IIT's volunteer groups, including the Board of Trustees, will participate in IIT Leadership Day on main campus. We extend an invitation to our volunteer community and those wishing to become involved with future projects for the College, to join with us for what promises to be an outstanding day for IIT. Please contact Olivia Anderson, Director of Development at (312)567-3518 for further information.
While we have made significant strides, we know that our future success will depend on you. Now more than ever, we look to our alumni, volunteers and friends of Psychology to assist us in accomplishing our goals and extend our sincere appreciation for your ongoing interest and commitment to IIT.
Warm regards,
Bryan R. Dunn,
President & CEO, Kinship Corp.
Chair, College of Psychology Board of Overseers
Faculty News
Dr. Nambury Raju
Mandated by Congress, the National Academy of Sciences has put together a Committee of professionals to evaluate the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Dr. Nambury Raju continues to serve as a member of this Committee, and the Committee's work is scheduled to be completed in late 1998. Dr. Raju is also an elected member of the APA Council of Representatives (1998-2000), representing Division 5.
Dr. Raju is also quite involved in editing and reviewing. He is on five editorial boards, among them the Journal of Applied Psychology and Educational and Psychological Measurement, and also was an ad hoc reviewer for twelve other journals.
Dr. Allen Wolach
The latest version of WolStat (a Statistics software package authored by Dr. Allen Wolach) has been completed. This version of WolStat has fifteen new nonparametric statistics. WolStat now performs more nonparametric statistics as compared to SPSS or SAS. WolStat continues to support a series of multiple comparison tests following one, two and three factor analyses of variance. These multiple comparison tests were introduced in the previous version.
Dr. Chow Lam
Dr. Chow Lam is President-Elect of the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association.
Dr. Nancy Hansen
Dr. Nancy Hansen was awarded an IIT grant of $10,000 from the Education and Research Initiative Fund to study sources of bias in subjective ratings of improvement in medical rehabilitation.
Dr. Hansen was also invited to serve on a national panel convened by the Spinal Medicine Consortium. The panel is to review research on the prevention and treatment of secondary medical conditions after spinal cord injury and to develop guidelines for clinicians. She was also elected another term as Chair of the Research Committee for the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers (AASCIPSW).
Dr. Charles Merbitz
Dr. Charles Merbitz chairs the AASCIPSW (see above) Outcomes Measurement Task Force, formed this year to address controversies in the allocation of medical rehabilitation resources.
Drs. Merbitz and Hansen were recently awarded a grant of $32,000 from the North Central Regional Education Laboratory to study instructional decision-making and the measurement of educational outcomes in selected schools.
Faculty Profile
Dr. Michael Young
Michael Young, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology in the Clinical Program. Although this is his second year at IIT, he has had a long and distinguished career before joining the faculty here.
Dr. Young received his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Chicago, where he initially had thought about majoring in physics. He went on to receive his doctorate from Adelphi University, where much of his research focused on cognition and development.
His first job was at Rockland State Hospital, where new psychiatric drugs were being tested. He ultimately gained charge of the clinical assessment side of things. After two years there, Dr. Young found an opportunity closer to his hometown of Chicago, at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute. After conducting schizophrenia research there, he moved on to Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in 1980, where the prevailing research was on Affective Disorders. During these years, Dr Young's interests gradually shifted from diagnostic and symptom issues to symptom process issues. "I was interested in how symptoms change over time and the responsible underlying process," Dr. Young says. "My research into Seasonal Affective Disorder and Premenstrual Syndrome are examples of disorders where such issues are critical." Furthermore, Dr. Young's research has also started focusing more on the interaction of biology and psychology. Thus, the theme of how biological and psychological processes interact over time to influence psychology, runs through his current research.
Some of Dr. Young's specific findings regard the role of hopelessness in depression and suicide. It seems that trait levels are what are related to suicide attempts more than the level of an individual's level of hopelessness at any given moment. Dr. Young notes, "These findings came out of a study where we did statistical modeling of how hopelessness and depression covary over time."
Dr. Young notes on his time so far at IIT that, "all the students and faculty are very committed to the work they're doing. It is impressive how well everybody works together-- faculty with faculty, faculty with students, and students with students." He also notes some differences between his experience at IIT and at Rush. At Rush, I was a psychologist in a medical care environment. Coming here, I would be a psychologist in a research and academic setting. But after being here, I also realize that I am a psychologist in an engineering university."
-Omar Azam
Alumni Notes
Jim Sharp
Jim Sharp writes that he has been flying airplanes for Delta for 25 years. Presently, he is a 767 Captain based at Dallas-Fort Worth.
Mike Baer
Mike Baer, who was mentioned in last fall's PsychLink, has been elected as Chairman of the Board of the American Psychotherapy Association for 1999.
He is involved with the American College of Forensic Examiners and notes the growing impact of law on the profession of psychology: "This is one of the directions where psychology appears headed in a big way. Many practicing psychologists are entering forensic practice either through the neurosciences or the criminal/personality route."
He also gives regards to Professor Huyck, "as per her very impressive Washington appointment!"
Since the last PsychLink, we have not heard from many alumni, so we are missing all the activities that are going on in your lives! We would love to hear about how your career is going, observations from the world outside of academia, or any other information that would be informative.
Faculty, Student, & Alumni Publications & Presentations
Bergman,* M., & Gagnon,* C. Book Review: Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward, By J.O. Proch aska, J.C. Norcross, & C.C. DiClemente, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills 2 (1), 101-104.
Bergman,* M., Gagnon,* C., Merbitz,* C., & Rucker, W. (May 1998) The utilization of behavior analysis in an outreach program. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Orlando, FL.
Bergman,* M., Levin, C., Zhang, M., Clorfene,* J., & Merbitz,* C. (1997) Gifted 3-5th graders think write facts. Poster presented at the 13th International Precision Teaching Conference, West Hartford, CT.
Bergman,* M., Levin, C., Zhang, M., Clorfene,* J., & Merbitz,* C. (1997) Generating creative supporting reasons by gifted 3-5th graders. Poster presented at the 13th International Precision Teaching Conference, West Hartford, CT.
Clorfene,* J., Bergman, * M., Hansen,* N.K.S., & Merbitz,* C. (May 1998). A selectionistic clinical decision model. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Orlando, FL.
Clorfene,* J., Matsumoto, J., Bergman,* M., Zhang, M., & Merbitz,* C.T. (in press). Unexpected effects of using SAFMEDS Teaching Taxonomy. Journal of Precision Teaching.
Corrigan, P., Garman,* A., Lam,* C.S., & Learry, M. (in press). What mental health teams want in their leaders. Administration and Policy in Mental Health.
Corrigan, P.W., Hess, L., & Garman,* A.N. (1998). Results of a job analysis of psychologists working in state hospitals. Journal of Clinical Psychology 54, 11-18.
Corrigan, P.W., Rao,* D., & Lam,* C. (in press). Psychiatric rehabilitation. In F. Chan & M. Leahy (Eds.), Health care and rehabilitation case managers' desk reference. Lake Zurich, IL: Vocational Consultants Press.
Cotovsky, E., Lickey, S., & Bergman,* M. The creation and growth of a hospital-based consumer advisory council. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills 2 (1), 91-99.
Flanagan, W.J., Raju,* N.S., & Haygood, J.M. (Apr. 1998). Impression management, measurement equivalence, and personality factors: Can IRT be used to determine the impact of faking? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, TX.
Forchheimer, M., & Hansen,* N.K.S. (Sept. 1998). Self-described stressors of a sample of people with spinal cord injury living in the community. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers, Las Vegas, NV.
Gagnon,* C.M., Rokicki,* L.A., & Lofland, K.R. (1998). Factors related to the frequency of treatment-seeking behaviors in recurrent headache sufferers. Presented at the Midwest Pain Society, Chicago, IL.
Garman,* A.N. (May 1998). Leadership development in rehabilition teams. Poster to be presented at the 4th National Conference on Performance Improvement in Behavorial Healthcare, Chicago, IL.
Gaman,* A.N., Corrigan, P.W., Norris , R., Bachand, S., Lam,* C., & McCracken, S.G. (1997). How mental health and developmental disabilities staff prioritize training and development needs. Community Mental Health Journal 33, 143-148.
Groehler, L.R., & Morris,* S.B. (April 1998). Effect of performance appraisal system knowledge on rater agreement. Paper presentedat the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, TX.
Hansen,* N.K.S., Bergman,* M., Clorfene,* J. & Merbitz,* C.T. (May 1998). Clinical measures of behavior in rehabilitation. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Orlando, FL.
Hansen,* N.K.S., Forchheimer, M., Tate, D.G., & Laura, G. (1998). Relationships among community integration, coping strategies, and life satisfaction in a sample of persons with spinal cord injury. Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation 4 (1), 56-72.
Jason, L.A., Ferrari, J.R., Smith, B., MArsh, P., Dvorchak, P.A., Groessl, E.J., Pechota,* M.E., Curtin, M., Bishop, P.D., Kot, E., & Bowden, B.S. (1997). An exploratory study of male recovering substance abusers living in a self-help, self-governed setting. Journal of Mental Health Administration 24 (3), 332-339.
Karunas, R., Hansen,* N.K.S., & Ardner, M. (September 1997). Stability of the Functional Independence Measure by time and impairment: A factor analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Paraplegia Society, Las Vegas, N.V.
Lafitte, L.J., Raju,* N.S., Scott, J.C., & Fasolo, P.M. (April 1998). Examination of the measurement equivalence of a 360 feedback assessment with confirmatory factor analysis d item response theory. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, TX.
Lofland, K.R., Rokicki,* L.A., Semenchuk, E.M., Garner, L.J., & Blonsky, E.R. (1998). Quality of health care provided to headache sufferers: An evaluation of over 2,000 office visits. Presented at the Midwest Pain Society, Chicago, IL.
Maurer, T.J., Raju,* N.S., & Collins, W.C. (in press). Peer and subordinate performance appraisal measurement equivalence. Journal of Applied Psychology.
Merbitz,* C.T., Bosshart, H., & Hansen,* N.K.S. (September 1998) AASCIPSW Outcomes Measurement Task Force: Update and ongoing dialogue. Platform to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers, Las Vegas, NV.
Merbitz,* C., Lam,* C., Chan, F., & Thomas, K. (in press). Assistive technology for rehabilitation case managers. In F. Chan & M. Leahy (Eds.), Health care and rehabilitation case managers desk reference. Lake Zurich, IL: Vocational Consultants Press.
Morrell,* R.F. (1998). Project Follow-Through: Still ignored. American Psychologist 53, 318.
Morrell,* R.F., Loflad,** K.R., Weber,* C.J., & Blonsky, E.R. (April 1998). The impact of pain site on emotional distress and disability. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Pain Society, Chicago, IL.
Morris,* S.B., & DeShon, R.P. (April 1998). Effect size estimates for meta-analysis with repeated-measures designs. In R.P. DeShon (chair), Problems and pitfalls when conducting meta-analysis. Symposium conducted at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, TX.
Morris,* S.B., & Lobsenz, R. (April 1998). Significance tests and confidence intervals for the Adverse Impact Ratio. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, TX.
Neapolitan, R.E., Morris,* S.B., & Cork, D. (August 1997). An investigation into the cognitive processing of casual knowledge. Paper presented at the 13th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificail Intelligence, Providence, RI.
Pellegrino, J., Wise, L., & Raju,* N.S. (1998). Guest editors' note: Context for our work on achievement-level setting. Applied measurement in Education 11, 1-7.
Plant, M.A., Richards, J.S., & Hansen,* N.K.S. (1998). Potential for bias of data from functional status measures. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 79, 104-106.
Roch,* S.G. (October 1997). Careers and competencies of I/O Psychologists. Invited presentation at the monthly meeting of Chicago Industrial Organizational Psychologists, Chicago, IL.
Rokicki,* L.A., & Gagnon,* C.M. (1998). Profile analyses of possible menstral symptoms reported by women and estimated by men. Presented at the society of Behavioral Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
Rokicki,* L.A., Prosser, V.L., & Gagnon,* C.M. (1998). Examination of sexual experiences reported by women using cluster analysis. Presented at the Society of Behavorial Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
Roth, E., Merbitz,* C.T., Mroczek, K., Dugan, S., & Warren, W. (1997). Hemiplegic gait: relationships between walking speed and other temporal parameters. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 76 (2), 128-133.
Thomas, A.L., & Raju,* N.S. (April 1998). An examination and evaluation of James et al.'s (1992) VG estimation procedure when artifacts are corrected. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, TX.
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I have styled my horizontal menu but I am struggling a little I want the top li on the horizontal menu to have white text but the li in the drop down to be a different color
i am not having much luck, am i missing something obvious?
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i dont see a HZ menu AT ALL. :/your site is minimized so I cant inspect it directly either.
but generally you can solve the issue this way:
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yes i want the "top" level li to be one color (white) and the drop downs to be another color #222 in this case however I can't seem to differntiate between the top level li and the others.
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.sf-menu li a { color:#fff; }.sf-menu li:hover li a { color:#222; }
am assuming your 'horizontal' menu is the one that starts with "home"...
yes thats the right one the "home". thanks for looking at this. that suggestion which made perfect sense did not work
That's because the css that I put in in post #2 overrides it. It's called specificity.
A quick infographic (pulled from http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/css_specificity_wars.html)
You would need something like this to get to the submenu (though in all cases you could get rid of the ul portions and get the same results....): .sf-menu ul li ul li:hover, .sf-menu ul li ul li a:hover
In line 236 of bridalwhite.css you don't style the visited state of the link correctly.
.sf-menu li a,[B] a:visited [/B]{
color: #fff;
You just style a:visited again when you should be styling it like this:
.sf-menu li a,[B] .sf-menu li a:visited [/B]{
color: #fff;
Then because you messed that one up the following rules are more specific where you again use the wrong format.
.sf-menu li li a, .sf-menu a:visited {
color: #222;
.sf-menu li li li a, .sf-menu a:visited {
color: #111;
So the colour you get is #111 when the link is visited which is probably what you are seeing.
It looks like the above should have been:
.sf-menu li li a, .sf-menu li li a:visited {
color: #222;
.sf-menu li li li a, .sf-menu li li li a:visited {
color: #111;
great help. i can go to bed knowing i have one less problem to solve cheers


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EVANSTON, Ill. -- Trevor Siemian sees no reason Northwestern can't open up the passing game. Here's his evidence.
Siemian threw for 259 yards and a career-high three touchdowns, Kain Colter passed for a touchdown and ran for one, and No. 19 Northwestern pounded Syracuse 48-27 on Saturday.
Tony Jones added a personal-best 185 yards receiving and a 47-yard TD, and the Wildcats (2-0) racked up 581 yards in all.
"I really think we just have a whole lot of confidence in the guys on the outside," Siemian said. "Those guys can make plays and we're just giving them chances."
It wasn't just the offense making plays.
The defense made some big ones, too, and it added up to four interceptions thrown by Syracuse's Drew Allen and one easy victory for Northwestern.
How easy?
The Wildcats scored the game's first 20 points and led 34-7 at the half after collecting 387 yards, with their quarterbacks picking apart Syracuse (0-2).
They each completed 11 of 12 passes in the first half, and Colter was fine after suffering a concussion early in last week's victory at California.
He said he felt 100 percent Sunday afternoon and wound up going 15 of 18 for 116 yards while running for 87 yards in this one.
"He was really hungry to play today," said coach Pat Fitzgerald, who had an idea on Wednesday that Colter would be ready. "He kind of felt like he lost an opportunity a week ago.
"It wasn't any of his doing or our doing."
Siemian, who carried the load at quarterback last week, was 15 of 19, and Northwestern looked every bit like a team bent on showing it can beat the best of the Big Ten even though it was missing a key piece in running back Venric Mark (lower body injury).
The Wildcats have high expectations coming off a 10-win season and their first bowl victory in more than six decades. And with games against Western Michigan and Maine, they have a good chance to go to 4-0 before meeting Ohio State in the conference opener.
Syracuse, coming off a tight loss to Penn State, never had a chance in this one.
The Orange remained winless under new coach Scott Shafer and received another shaky outing from Allen. The Oklahoma transfer was 27 of 41 with 279 yards, and the Orange will now try to pick themselves up against Wagner and Tulane before beginning Atlantic Coast Conference play against Clemson.
"There were some big dudes out there on the D-line," Allen said. "They did a great job of reading me and knowing when it's going to be a quick pass and getting their hands up and batting the balls down."
Allen took "full responsibility" for this one, but the Orange's defense was every bit as brutal.
That didn't sit well with Shafer, who was promoted from defensive coordinator, and he became prickly when a student reporter asked if that group's performance was "a nightmare" for him.
"A nightmare? No. A nightmare? Hell no," he said. "It was a bad football game and a bad job of coaching by Coach Shafer. I can't wait to bounce back and try and get this thing better next week. But not a nightmare. Nightmares are for children. A childish question."
Siemian had 181 yards and threw for two touchdowns in the first half. Colter was about as good, passing for 96 and a TD while running for 67 and a score.
He led the Wildcats on a four-play, 75-yard scoring drive to start the game, finishing it with an 8-yard pass to Treyvon Green.
Jeff Budzien made it 10-0 with a 32-yard field goal with just over three minutes left in the quarter, and Northwestern struck again just over two minutes into the second, with Siemian hitting a wide open Dan Vitale on the right side for a 20-yard TD.
That made it 17-0, and the Wildcats continued to pile it on.
Traveon Henry intercepted Allen near midfield on Syracuse's next drive while falling into the Northwestern sideline, and Siemian followed with a 43-yard pass to Tony Jones over the middle to set up another field goal.
Syracuse finally scored when Jerome Smith plowed in from the 3 with 6:29 left to make it 20-7, but Northwestern answered with a 75-yard TD drive.
Colter scrambled 33 yards on a third down to keep it going and finished the possession with a 16-yard run, sticking the ball into the end zone as he got hit at the goal line by Brandon Reddish to bump the lead to 27-7 with 2:38 remaining.
Chi Chi Ariguzo then intercepted Allen with about a minute left, leading to a 5-yard strike from Siemian to Christian Jones in the right corner of the end zone with two seconds left for a 27-point halftime lead.
"We have balance right now," Fitzgerald said. "After two weeks, I'd like to think we're as balanced as anybody."


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Windows Vista Update: RC1/5728 Previewby Ryan Smith on 10/3/2006 4:30 AM EST
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mickrussom - Thursday, September 04, 2008 - linkHorrible. Waited to make final judgment on SP1. SP1 sucked and broke many legacy directx applications. Migrating back. Vista is horrible, unusable for games, and is fraught with BS issues. Its like Windows ME, but not as bad. Piss off microsoft.
Galvin - Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - linkI checked over in creative forums on their website. Their plan is to move away from direct sound and to openAL which will have hardware acceleated 3D sound.
Why MS nerfed their own directsound is beyond me. but openAL will be the way to go in the future. Leaving directsound useless for games.
This reminds me back when we had NT. You had to use openGL to get hardware accelerated 3D graphics. direct3D in NT was all software driven. So in Vista its the same difference all over again.
johnsonx - Monday, October 09, 2006 - linkWhich video driver did you use for your testing? The one that installs with Vista, or the one from ATI's website?
I ask because on my computer, running Vista-RC2, ATI's website driver won't let me run UT2004 above 640x480 without corrupting the lower part of the screen - at my preferred res of 1280x1024, the lower 2/3 of the screen is corrupt and shows part of the UT2004 menu instead of the game screen. Microsoft's driver (which was presumably written by ATI) shows no such problems; however running UT2004 in RC2 with that driver seems much slower than in XP with CAT 6.9.
Wag - Friday, October 06, 2006 - linkIf not already mentioned, this would have been the real test, not just testing Half-Life2 on XP32 vs the 64bit version on the 64bit OS. Of course it's going to perform better. Reply
joust - Thursday, October 05, 2006 - linkRyan,
Were the experiments you performed with UAC off or on? Is there any difference in game performance between UAC being on or off? (I would imagine there would be some performance hit if UAC were on). Reply
Emryse - Thursday, October 05, 2006 - linkAs stated, I can't get into the technical aspects of what a change to Vista will mean; I'm somewhat managing to grasp what the review is discussing. But before you stop reading, my comment is more of a generalized observation - I'm not the first, I'm sure. And by the way, thanks to AnandTech for the great resources on all of this information, and thanks to you as a community for your interesting posts and points therein.
In essence, I've been following quite closely over the last 1.5 years the progress being made for high-end computer components. Unfortunately, what I see is a very bleak future for technology, if business can't separate itself from the creative process. I see these very small incremental increases in "horsepower" when card after card comes rolling out, with only a one or two letter/number designator to set it apart from it's predecessor. Business has become overly greedy, and in reality I think it's harming the industry as a whole, for the following reasons:
1. RACING = AUTOMOBILES as GAMING = COMPUTERS, in my humble opinion. When you have a lot of different teams, competing to develope better and faster, you see dramatic positive changes in the industry as a whole. But in reality, just take for instance, the merger between ATI and AMD. This does not at ALL appear to me a move to increase competition, and push for greater advances in the industry. On the contrary, this move will further restrict the ability for smaller companies to maintain competition, because in reality, the market has no choice.
2. Before I'm labeled as an MS hater (and I do love MS), it is still a fact that MS is realistically the ONLY choice for the gaming industry at this point. This further restricts the ability for competition and creativity - this article, and the fact that the whole world is watching for what Vista will become, proves my point true. If Vista isn't enhancing for the gaming industry, then we as gamers (and developers) are forced to either a.) wait for SP enhancements (out of our control), or b.) not transition to Vista (which won't remain an option for long, as history shows MS ceasing support for prior OS, thus forcing transition in the long run). And if anyone has read the other article on "WINDOWS-READY Games", it's very clear that Microsoft wants to take control of the direction the entire industry heads - and I have my reservations that technological progression and competition will be highlights of the MS agenda.
My conclusion (and I don't claim to be 'right'), but in my humble opinion: I see an industry that is becoming less and less competitive, and I also see products that are less and less productive, while becoming more and more expensive. What I see from MS lately, is more concern over copyright / piracy / security-related issues, and less of a concern for advances in performance, expanding the limits on creativity and control for the devoper / gamer to modify and expand, etc. If anyone can afford to sacrifice a little profit to see gains in the advance of an entire industry, it's MS. Hey - it's just business, but when you have an empire such as the world has allowed MS to become (myself included) because up to now they are the best, there really isn't all that much pressure on MS to provide the market with a truly astounding and creatively progressive product, and we as the community have no real available means to force MS to do better.
What are we going to do, abstain from MS? (And for you Linux / MAC / -insert alternate OS here- fans, don't respond; this was a rhetorical question for the 98% of the community for whom this issue will have the most impact, no offense). Reply
flexy - Thursday, October 05, 2006 - link>>>
What I see from MS lately, is more concern over copyright / piracy / security-related issues, and less of a concern for advances in performance,
you brought it down to the point.
However,there WILL be new features in Vista regarding better performance, just mentioning ONE thing which will be superfetch, which could be seen as a "intelligent" prefetcher which will know what applications you use mostly (and when) and will speed up loading of programs.
NEVER EVER was MS Windows a "gamer OS"..you dont need the whole Windows overhead AT ALL for playing a game - but we just dont have a choice :)
The moment MS came out with DirectX basically meant that games need Windows to interact with hardware...which basically is a monopoly...ever thought how much "sense" it makes that the ability of running a certain game automatically DEPENDS on a certain OS ?
There were times when an OS was not an requirement at all for running games...just to show you how "brainwashed" we actually are :)
One good thing however, hardware/memory is NOT that expensive anymore.
People should refrain from complaining about "memory requirements" for Vista etc....which firstly, are so not true AT ALL....and, secondly, it wouldnt just make sense to go Vista yo utilize its new features - and at the same time complaining that the new features use MORE memory than eg. what XP did.
Then please get another stick of memory, problem solved :)
Besides, hardware requirements in general....it looks like Vista will not even USE DX10, so the *requirement* for a DX10 card is NIL:....it WILL run fine on MOST recent hardware
ALso...from a certain point of view MS actually did GOOD putting a big focus on security...because those were the major issues in previous versions, and for sure of concern for the "every day user".
Built-in spyware-scanner etc...etc....much more security..nothing speaks against it Reply
Griswold - Saturday, October 07, 2006 - link
There were times when an OS was not an requirement at all for running games...just to show you how "brainwashed" we actually are :)
When was that? On IBM compatible PCs, there was always the need for an OS - it was called DOS. Reply
kleinwl - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkThis is the first I've heard of the elimination of Hardware accelleration for sound systems. I don't understand how software only can possibly have the same high quality as a well designed DACs. Can you please do some testing and see how much sound quality is impared? I love lisening to music through my computer and if Vista is going to degrade that experience.... well.. Reply
michal1980 - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linksound will be great, because now AC97 will be replaced by HD Sound.
I agree, for the majority of pc users sound is for some reason taking another step back.
with all its problems creatives sound was always better then onboard. Reply
Spinne - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkNo offense to the Anandtech team and Ryan, but that article was a little too light. Considering that Anandtech doesn't write about Vista builds very often, I expected more! For one thing, when you mention a feature or a change from the previous build, don't just mention it, ELABORATE! Not all of us have the time toi beta test the RC builds and sometimes we just weren't aware of the feature/change you've just glossed over. A case in point being MS's dropping hardware EAX. I'd never heard that they'd be doing this, and so either don't mention it in your article (save it for your next article), or do an Anandtech style job, not a glossy PC magazine type effort. Reply
michal1980 - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linki'm with you on the WAY TOO LIGHT.
after the great write ups about apple recently. This close to a major os release, we are hearing whispers Reply
LoneWolf15 - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkAccording to what I have read, the November release of Vista is supposed to be the Enterprise versions only. Versions for non-corporate users are not supposed to be available until 2007; Microsoft is hoping to use this time to fix issues pertinent to home users as well as to provide time for OEMs to come up with better drivers for their hardware for home users' graphics/sound/etc.
Keep this in mind, because that's why MS is waiting to address any gaming/enthusiast issues, which aren't necessary for the corporate editions of Vista, so they're not considered pressing at the moment.
That said, the disappearance of hardware Directsound3D acceleration and EAX really bothers me, and if Vista causes me to lose that, it is yet another reason not to use Vista on my primary machine. One of the primary reasons I even use a Creative Labs card is for this, and to offload from the CPU, as well as some of the neat effects EAX provides when done right. Reply
ChronoReverse - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkLikely the rationale behind this (which I don't like but understand because of the changes to the entire audio subsystem) is that since dual-core will soon be the norm, it'll be an easy way to use the additional cores.
Furthermore, I don't really see any reason why new audio card designs cannot provide acceleration again. It's really the current generation that isn't designed to account for it. But time will tell on this hopeful guess. Reply
mostlyprudent - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkSerious reduction in gaming audio performance ability + increased burden on the GPU = Poor gaming experiencee = Sell more Xbox 360s. GRRRRRR!
LOL...Sorry, but I think every article on an MS product needs a conspiracy theory in the comments! Reply
flexy - Thursday, October 05, 2006 - link>>>
increased burden on the GPU
i love how some people see things from a different point of view :)
ONE person defines it as
"Some tasks are offloaded to the GPU now to take the burden off the CPU"
while another person sees it as "increased burden for the GPU"
BUT THEN...what's the big deal ?
OF COURSE new GUI features (like the 3d windows flipper) will burden the GPU...you will get nothing for free..of course.
Nevertheless you could ALWAYS disable the new windows-management and go classic (if so desired)...IN FACT as mentioned multiple times) people could VERY WELL tweak down Vista A LOT, starting w/ disabling services, turning off spyware scanner. set to classic GUI ----> MINIMAL
You dont go out and buy a $250 OS w/ XYZ new features and then disable all features due to a lack of memory or scared it would use too much resources.
Either GO VISTA and be aware that new features/processes/programs WILL use more mem/CPU/GPU....or just stick w/ XP and save some coins til you can buy an addtional stick of memory. ?
The other "hardware requirements" are really only a myth....Dx10 gfxcard requirement is a myth, and every $499 off-the shelf computer from CompUSA/BestBUY/Dell already has a decent CPU...ALTHOUGH i am positive there will be again many "complete" systems sold w/ Vista installed with RIDICULOUS low amount of memory...eg. 512MB with the option to "upgrade" which (of course) would HIGHLY be recommended :)
ChronoReverse - Thursday, October 05, 2006 - linkAnd it's not like the GPU is doing anything under normal usage. When a game requests fullscreen mode, the GPU will then dedicate everything to the game. It's not a hard concept. Reply
withalacrity - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkFor many upgrading to VISTA will require hardware upgrades. After all is said and done, after the expense of the hardware, after the expense of the new OS, it comes down to performance. The performance indicators shown in this article rhetorically ask the question: what is the point of upgrading? Reply
stmok - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - link
For many upgrading to VISTA will require hardware upgrades. After all is said and done, after the expense of the hardware, after the expense of the new OS, it comes down to performance. The performance indicators shown in this article rhetorically ask the question: what is the point of upgrading?
To get you to spend money, of course!
...And hence, make the hardware manufacturers happy!
Windows users should be well in-tuned with the general pattern by now!
=> With every new release of a new Windows, you must upgrade your system or buy a new one. Reply
Nailer - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkRyan,
Could you please update the article with the Windows Vista RC2/5743 build, which will be released on Friday? This will be the final interim build released to the public before RTM therefore I would expect a high level of anticipation with respect to the performance of this build.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4409">Windows Vista RC2 Coming This Friday Reply
kristof007 - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - link
We'll leave the question of why anyone would release a Vista-only game for you to debate.
Oh my God I have such a good laugh at that. I saw some Halo 2 vids for PC in some montage video and it looked pretty smooth. I'd say above 40fps but with this article I am sure your going to need like Quad-SLI setup or comparable to run it smooth and high res (1900x1200) or greater. Reply
Locutus465 - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkMy experience with vista RC-1 hasn't been that pleasent over all... Firstly, still no support for the Promise Ultra100TX controller card at all, which saddens me greatly. Secondly, whether I did something to mess it up or not I am not sure. But for sone reason I have no optical drive support in my RC-1. I was messing around with nVidia's pre-release vista platform drivers, so perhaps that is a part of the issue. Also, support for doom was absolutly horrendous for my system (running Gefore 7800GT). It appeared to me that there was absolutly no HW openGL rendering. Again, perhaps I messed something up with drives, though I did install the latest available Vista64 build on nVidia's website.
Perhaps the 32bit version of vista is just much father ahead of the 64b version in terms of driver support and maturity. If this is the case, then I am rather conserned. MS is trying to move the world to 64b wtih vista, and I would love to join them. But not if it means destroying my already working Windows XP system. Reply
ChronoReverse - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkUnfortunately, Nvidia has dropped the ball with the OGL icd for Vista. ATi, however, has released a working one.
OpenGL works fine in Vista just like XP. MS just doesn't ship a driver since that's the job of the video card vendors. When Nvidia and ATi both get their drivers complete, MS will include a WHQL qualified driver with Vista, but you'll still want to update it. Reply
Locutus465 - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkYeah, but what is weird is that when I tried Beta 2 the drivers worked much better. Doom 3 wasn't fast by any means, but playable, and it looked like doom 3. It seems to me almost as if MS took a step backwards with the driver situation with RC-1. I'm waiting with bated breath for RC-2 on friday. I want to see how RC-2 compares. Reply
ChronoReverse - Thursday, October 05, 2006 - linkWell, considering that MS aren't the ones writing drivers, I hardly see why they're to blame. Thay've practically been screaming at the manufacturer to make them Vista drivers =/ Reply
mmp121 - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - link
The article states:
At this point we've been using RC1 for nearly a month, and the newer build 5728 for over two weeks, and while we're ready to switch back to XP until Vista is completed due to some video issues, Vista is ready to be taken seriously.
Yet never expands on what the video issues are, or even HINTS at what they might be related to. Are the video issues driver related, video playback related, gaming related, what?
Clarification would be GREATLY appreciated. Reply
theprodigalrebel - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkIt's the game benchmarks. As much as 40% performance hit (in FEAR @ 1600x1200 with 4X AA). I too would like a clarification on who is to blame for this: 1) Windows Vista 2) ATi's Driver Team.
I'm assuming it is a driver-related issue which ATi will most definitely resolve by the time Vista's released. If there was something fundamentally wrong with Vista itself, then 3DMark results wouldn't be near identical to the XP results. Reply
kristof007 - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkI am REALLY hoping it's as simple as a newer (better) patch from ATI. I think it would be doable. We can see patches coming out pretty regularly adding value and features to our existing hardware. So hopefully as said above, the ATI driver should fix things. Did they test with nVidia and look for discrepancies? Reply
nullpointerus - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkWhen I ran F.E.A.R. on Vista RC1, the game had massive stuttering every second or so at 800x600 0xAA 4xAF high quality on an EVGA 7900 GT KO. An old 2D/3D RPG that I had lying around got massive framerate improvements - IOW, it became playable! - simply by moving it to an XP SP2 install with a lowly 6200 TC-256 card. There are definitely major problems for the Vista driver teams to fix. And I still can't get any sound out of my Audigy... Reply
gaesaekkiya - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkI think Windows2000 is the most powerful, reasonable Operating System of MS products'.
Comparing OSs performances, please, include windows2000, too.
Thank kou. Reply
yxalitis - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkintersting, the first thign I did wiht Vista X64, is to compare Half Life 2 Lost Coast timedemos between the X64 versions of Windows XP and Vista. I found a MASSive improvement, quite repeatable, at the highest quality settings at 1600 X 1200 on an ASUS p5W deluxe running an X1800 XT. I mean 68 fps compared to 48 in XP.
I wonde if Anand and tema would consider doing an X64 comparison. I have lived in teh X64 world for some time now, and therefore have all the XP X64 drivers I need to install all my hardware! This is a far cry from Windows 2000, wheere ti was like it or lump it! (New HP scanner anyone? Creative sound cards? Forget it!) Reply
flexy - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkwait 4,5,6 months, say, spring next year.
We will have Vista and hopefully new and better drivers, and new DX10 cards from ATI and Nvidia.
Until then performance-enthusiasts can stay with XP..it's not that someone gets FORCED to go Vista, especillay since some drivers and 3rd party apps still need some maturity. Just be patient.
As for right now...i got Vista 5728 64bit and i am VERY please despites MINOR quirks (say: CREATIVE Audigy :)...i dont have reason to think negative, instead positive....things need a while to mature.
And then in a few months load up Crysis under Vista w/ a DX10 card and noone will complain anyore :) Reply
mgambrell - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkThe compatibility score would drop through the floor if they tested the 64bit version of vista. It's got nothing to do with the 64bitness--I am comparing to XP-64. The 64 bit version forbids unsigned drivers from loading, which while this may be eventually resolved by all the indie developers, for now means no daemon tools and no ultramon.
Be very careful with 64bit vista, it has disadvantages when compared to xp-64 Reply
yxalitis - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkI disagree, are you using RC1, or Vista beta? I loaded all my hardware using various unsigned drivers, including my Epson RX510. I am fairly certain Microsoft dropped that requirement from RC1, because I have read it in lots of forum posts, but never encounterd any problems. Reply
ProviaFan - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkI'm using Vista RC1 (build 5600) x64, and it still seems to have the signed driver requirement. You can select to disable signed drivers temporarily for one boot from the F8 boot options menu, but under normal operation Vista will prevent my Gretag Macbeth Eye-one drivers from loading (said drivers work perfectly in XP x64, naturally). Reply
mgambrell - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkHamachi too. i was just reminded of that by a hamachi update which said they added driver signing. so hopefully this stuff will begin soon. Reply
yacoub - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkWith this many years to develop it, it is not at all unreasonable to expect IMPROVED performance, not equal and especially not lesser performance. Totally unacceptable. Reply
ChronoReverse - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkWhen was the last time a new OS was released that ran significantly faster on the same hardware?
I can only think of WinXP boot time and even then only the usual case compared with Win98. Reply
mgambrell - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkWell personally I expect more robustness, capabilities, and security. That stuff all comes at the cost of speed. I absolutely do not expect several years of development in an OS to improve process startup time. I expect the process to become more involved and powerful and thus the speed to on the whole remain the same. Reply
Pirks - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkThis "gaming" review may be interesting for people who buy ATI cards which are a mix of nice hardware and stinking decomposing corpse of software... until I see your review with various GeForce video cards I won't pass any judgement on Vista. I expect ATI to continue producing a joke they call "Vista drivers" and will accept only the gaming benchmark results made on nVidia cards. Thank you. Reply
Griswold - Friday, October 06, 2006 - linkWhat a pathetic comment. Reply
flexy - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linklol at your reply :)
I am NOT going into the age-long debate "Ati has so bad drivers" discussion anymore...we could've had that YEARS ago in Radon 8500 times...now your biased blahblah just hasn't any base and just shows you're a n00b :)
VooDooAddict - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkI wish taht the article expanded more on the issue of lack of Hardware sound processing for older games. Reply
imaheadcase - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkBasicly put (someone correct me if im wrong here) MS moved away from all hardware based rendering of sound and put it into the OS. Im guessing its a directx 10 thing is why they did it..but Im sure Creative is pissed. Reply
Missing Ghost - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkIf creative is pissed than it must be a good thing. Reply
michal1980 - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkcreative sucking or not. M$ taking away ALL and ANY hardware accelration for games SUCKS.
Creatives solution/monoloply is not the best, but given the fact that in general (90%) of the people buying an extra sound card do so for gaming, and creative for better or worse has 100% of the gaming market, locking creative out is a BAD thing.
So we had problems with creative and there drivers and bloat.
Answer me this? what do we have now? A M$ controled SOFTWARE SOUND SOLUTION!!!. EAX is not perfect, but alot of games use it, and when the do, it is GOOD!.
Now were are left with ONBOARD Sound!!!. YAAA thats a step in the right direction? phhhf sorry hardware sound, even creative owns most onboard sound solutions. (Yes there was sound storm, but that was generations ago now).
I'm not a creative fan-boy, I wish there was more then one 'real' sound card for gamers.
Be a fanboi, Hate Creative. But this is not good for sound. (and yes there are ways around it, be geez, M$ just KILLED creative).
And yes creative knew about it for a long time. However I don't know if they really saw what happened until way too late.
So you Creative Haters, You won, lets all enjoy crappy on-board sound now!. YAAA, on board is soo cool. Reply
squeezee - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkBasically they've changed the whole audio subsystem completely. As part of this change they have also moved DirectSound3D to a pure software implementation with no way for the hardware to directly interact with it. This is particularly effects games which use Directsound and EAX since the EAX effects are performed in hardware.
However other APIs can still take advantage of hardware acceleration, such as OpenAL. Reply
flexy - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkwell..giggle..the creative programmers get PAID for writing drivers, right ? :)
New APIs/implementations need new drivers, maybe even new HW if the old one is not capable. This is NOT necessarely a BAD thing !
Hulk - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkBecause right now that seems like the only reason to consider upgrading. And even then we're going to have to wait for the "64 bitness" to show us some goods.
Then again I've resisted every MS OS update and when I've finally updated I always wished I'd done it sooner!
Spoelie - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkVista comes in both 32 bit and 64 bit flavors, you can choose which one you install.
I also resisted switching before, but never really regretted it ;). I'm guessing Vista won't get on here before the first service pack - the gaming performance and mem usage is too horrid at the moment. Or maybe that'll get fixed with better drivers / tweak guides. Reply
flexy - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkmem-usage is a URBAN MYTH :)
You can check for yourself, and i did too. DWM, the new windows management uses SOME memory, comparable to Explorer...but then it does new 3d fancy stuff and similiar. Of course, more features need more memory.
You COULD always disable and tweak-down stuff in Vista, as well as you can in XP....HOWEVER i'd say 2GB for Vista would be perfect and 1GB (as i have on XP Pro right now) is a little tight. *IF* you go vista then you of course also want to take advantage of its fetaures, right ? Otherwise you could as well stay with XP..or even get 98 "to save memory" :)
But its NOT the case that the memory usage of Vista is SOOO over the roof as some people suggest..it's just not true.
Drexial - Sunday, October 08, 2006 - linkits not really a myth... those features that are unessesary mostly install by default... and unless you know what your doing (which i might add the new windows is even LESS user friendly) then the memory will remain taken up and what should have run without any hang ups on 1 gig now has you concidering 2 gigs would be better. as little a cost that is, the average user isnt going to need half the crap that vista adds and just makes those that dont need to get a C+ certifacation on computers will be even more lost. Windows isnt suposed to be a prosumer operating system. its supose to be an easy to use way for your software to work for you. Vista is like the Mini with 6 airbags... while it sounds better its just a gimmick. i do understand that there may have been some nessesary upgrades to the system. they just packed it with what ever crap they could think of. Reply
jonp - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkWow, what folks are willing to consider normal today. If someone would have told you even just 5 years ago that the OS would require 2 billion+ (2,147,483,648) bytes of main memory, what would folks have said? And now it is considered just dandy? Even "bloat" doesn't adequately describe where OS's and applications are headed. Big programming teams with less pride in craft left these days I guess. Reply
noxipoo - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkthe price of progress. i'd rather move forward than backwards, price of memory has gone down and features have gone up. having so much memory will only limit progress. Reply
ChronoReverse - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkA lot of people are probably including the cache inadvertantly.
MS should report only memory being actively used and rename the cache to TURBOMEMORY (TM) Reply
ChronoReverse - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkThere's a x86 version and that will be the version you'll want to install at this point.
All the manufacturers STILL haven't gotten on the ball with 64bit drivers so if anyone tells you Vista runs fine (it does), they're using the x86 version. Reply
yxalitis - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkWRONG
Time to check the facts, X64 drivers for XP work in Vista RC1, so if you already use XP x64, as I do, it's a no-brainer. I have all my hardware fully supported by X64 drivers! Reply
RMSe17 - Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - linkI doubt that the majority of hardware that works in WindowsXP with a 32bit driver has a working 64 bit counterpart. There are products from Windows 2000 era that work in XP, made by companies that are no longer around, or no longer support those products. Until there is a 64bit wrapper for 32bit drivers, those devices will be unusable. Reply
ChronoReverse - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkAnd the driver situation for x64 XP... still sucks compared to x86. So my point stands. Reply
ss284 - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - linkNo matter how much the final version improves in the next month or so, its still nice to know that the xp->vista launch will be much smoother than the 98/me->xp launch, as far as software and hardware compatibility goes.
On the other hand, the 98 -> xp upgrade was probably a much bigger improvement in terms of features and general os design when compared to xp -> vista. Reply


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This week's highly anticipated Prospective Plantings report from USDA offers the first indication of what we can expect from the 2013 corn crop. As expected with corn prices as high as they are, farmers intend to seed a lot of acres to corn – 97.3 million acres by USDA's survey-based estimates. That estimate is up slightly from last year's corn acreage and would represent the highest U.S. planted acreage since 1936.
Last year, of course, farmers also planted historically large acreage to corn, but severe drought reduced average yields to around 123 bushels per acre, resulting in a harvest of 10.8 billion bushels that fell well below expectations.
If average yields this year return to a more normal trend line around 152 bushels per acre, we'll see a big jump in production. Last year, farmers harvested about 7.6 percent of the corn crop as silage, according to USDA. If that trend continues this year, about 89.9 million acres of corn could be harvested for grain. At 152 bushels per acre, total production would be around 13.7 billion bushels.
Over the past 20 years, actual planted corn acres exceeded the estimate in the Prospective Plantings report 12 times and fell short of the forecast in eight years.
The report also projects sorghum acres at 7.62 million, up 22 percent from last year.
Producers intend to harvest 56.4 million acres of all hay in 2013, up slightly from 2012.
For soybeans, farmers intend to plant 77.1 million acres in 2013, down slightly from last year but up 3 percent from 2011.
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Mrs. Nina Richardson Knapp, funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday for Mrs. Nina Richardson Knapp in the First Baptist Church of Garden Grove with the Rev. Oran H Smith officiating. Mrs. Knapp lived in Garden Grove for the past 44 years. She is survived by her husband, J. Allen Knapp of their home address, 11132 Garden Grove Blvd., a daughter Mrs. Dorothy Mae Ynancy of Westchester, California; a brother George R. Richardson of Santa Ana, and two grandsons. Interment will be in Loma Vista Cemetery, Fullerton, and Honold Bros. Mortuary of Garden Grove is in charge of arrangement.
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Pittsburgh councilman wants to revamp parking in CMU area
Hourly parking rates around Carnegie Mellon University tripled in recent years and could go up even more if Pittsburgh officials approve pricing based on supply and demand.
City Councilman Bill Peduto on Monday introduced a resolution that would allow the city's Parking Authority, Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business and Phipps Conservatory to try the system for a year. It would involve charging more for prime spaces during peak hours but could lower rates overall, with off-peak pricing running less than the current $2 per hour.
"It will give us more information to make a good decision," Peduto said. "This hopefully will allow us to look at how parking meters can be best utilized."
The system would cover approximately 300 parking spaces on Carnegie Mellon's campus and the surrounding area starting in January, Peduto said. Professors Mark Fichman and Stephen Spear plan to study how to implement it elsewhere in Pittsburgh.
Seattle implemented a similar pricing system in 2010 to help it reach a goal of having one or two parking spaces available per block during peak hours, said Mike Estey, the Seattle Department of Transportation's parking manager.
In 2011, Seattle raised rates to $4 per hour in four high-demand neighborhoods and lowered rates in 11 others, he said. This year, it kept rates the same but increased the maximum time to park, in order to bolster traffic in some areas where use decreased even with lower rates.
"Where we raised rates ... a lot of people still parked there but you could find a parking space," Estey said.
Pittsburgh Parking Authority officials could not be reached for comment. City Council is scheduled to vote on the resolution Nov. 13.
Parking used to cost 50 cents an hour at coin-operated meters around Carnegie Mellon's campus, but motorists rarely found open spaces.
"It was like finding gold if you found a spot around here then," said Eyona Bivins, 28, an administrative coordinator at the university.
Many people stopped parking on Frew Street and other metered spots on campus when rates increased last year to $1.75 an hour, she said. They came back when the authority recently installed multi-space kiosks that take cash and credit cards, even though prices increased to $2 an hour, Bivins said.
She typically parks for free in Schenley Park. "It's a 10-minute walk, but I save 16 bucks."
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Marvelous Cannoli Cake Recipe
- 1 package French vanilla cake mix (regular size)
- 1 carton (15 ounces) ricotta cheese
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon rum extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 2 cartons (8 ounces each) mascarpone cheese
- 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar, sifted
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup sliced almonds
- 2 tablespoons miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- Prepare and bake cake mix according to package directions, using two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- In a large bowl, combine the ricotta cheese, confectioners' sugar, cinnamon and extracts; stir in chocolate. In another bowl, beat the mascarpone cheese, confectioners' sugar, milk and extracts on medium speed until creamy (do not overmix).
- Place one cake layer on a serving plate; spread with 1 cup filling. Top with second cake layer. Spread remaining filling over top of cake to within 1 in. of edges. Frost sides and top edge of cake with 2 cups frosting.
- Press almonds into sides of cake. Sprinkle chocolate chips over top. Refrigerate until serving. Yield: 12 servings.
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"This dessert will be perfect for my dad's birthday coming up. Can't wait to try this recipe out!"
"I made this cake for my fiance's bday as written. He really liked it, but I felt like their was just too many extracts used. The flavor of the rum and almond was too strong for my liking. If I had to make it again I'd either use way less or forgo the rum all together. My kids didn't really care for it either. I didn't have any problems with the frosting being runny. The marscapone cheese was delicious in the frosting. My favorite part of the cake! Needless to say after the first night of eating it, it sat in my fridge untouched until I threw it away days later. Probably won't make again, but IF I do I'll cut out a lot of the extracts."
"A bit of a challenge to put together but well worth the effort. It is as delicious as it looks."
"Geez people, why criticize when others give an alternative to some ingredients that you might not have or can't have?"
"I made the recipe as written and had no issues. I wonder if the bakers that had issues with runny filling or frosting used low fat ingredients. I normally use skim or part skim ricotta when cooking, and used whole milk ricotta for this recipe. It was very good and easy to assemble."
"Delicious and a nice presentation. I used chocolate cake in place of the vanilla and used only 1/2 teaspoon of almond extract in the filling. Not being a big fan of rum, I used just 1/4 teaspoon of the extract and cut the cinnamon in half as well. I was also unable to find mascarpone cheese so I made a whipped cream frosting instead. It turned out great -rich and flavorful and not too sweet."
"Has potential but the frosting needed cornstarch to thicken. It would not set on its own after hours to cool. The filling had far too much rum extract and cinnamon so it came out almost savory, both ingredients could be cut in half with slightly more sugar added. Otherwise, the recipe was sound."
"Just made this cake. I am thinking it is going to taste great. Way too much frosting and too runny. I had to add more powder sugar and then had so much left over. I don't think there is any need for 1/4 cup milk. Maybe add some if needed. Can hardly wait to cut into it."
"It seems as though a lot of people have had problems with the frosting being too runny., so I'll omit the milk when I make it. Not keen on nuts in cakes, so will use drained and sliced apricots, strawberries ,raspberries, blueberries and pineapple. I'm going to use Cointreau instead of essence. Just found this site, and thought all the baking would be from scratch, given the title. So I was very surprised to find that a boxed cake mix was used. I've tried a Betty Crocker chocolate cake mix before, but it was too soda tasting. So I think iI'll just make a plain sponge and add some orange zest to the mix and maybe cocoa. The picture looks very nice, but as people followed the recipe and still had problems i've only given 3 stars. Perhaps they should have mentioned to drain the cheeses in the recipe, then the frosting wouldn't be runny. You could always use the liquid to make some scones."


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Hi all
I wonder if you guys can help us to figure out what happen with our connection recently - re: FLSMS? (I'm a graduate student doing a pilot in an agency that works with sexual health care. Our pilot involves using FLSMS as a text-service).
One of the staff sent a text to a client and the message was pending for more than 10 mts. I was with her when it happens, so I decided to rebut FLSMS and after several times trying to connect the cell (sony ericsson W200i/W200c ), the system finally recognized the phone (which has been connected - working before). When it connected, FLSMS automatically sent a text to this number: +447716355738 (we don't have idea about this number), with this content: Σ ,184.108.40.206,AAABMGvjXq8,Windows Vista 6.0,02/12/2011,54,80,18,189,112,6,8,2,MoV235:SoW200i/W200c.
Any info/ advice that you guys could share with us?
I am also wondering how to fix these bugs. The agency keeps FLSMS running 24/7 (since is an outreach service for clients). Could be this the issue? What would be the best options to keep FLSMS connected (we truly don't want to lose/miss client texts!).
BTW we are in Edmonton, Canada. Thanks so much in advance for any advice
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Hi Angela,
Thanks so much for getting in touch about this, and sorry to hear you've been experiencing this issue. I just wanted to let you know that I've passed this onto our developer team, and we will get back to you with some further advice / information as soon as possible.
All the Best
Thanks Florence, :-)
Hi Angela,
Thanks for your reply :) It turns out the message that was sent through your system automatically was your usage statistics getting sent back to the team here at FrontlineSMS. You will have opted-in to send us this information, but you should be able to turn this off if you would no longer like to send your usage data through to us.
You mention a concern about bugs in the system based on the long period of time you have it on for. Are there other bugs that you've recently experienced?
Hi Angela,
Just to add to the above, I've discussed this with the team here further and they suggested it might be a good idea for you to have a regular / scheduled reboot of your system (ensuring you are careful not to let pending incoming messages get pulled into the modem's software). This should help to keep the system running well, and prevent overheating of your PC and your modem.
Hope this helps; let us know if you need further assistance.
Hi Florence. Thanks so much for replying so quickly to my message. Knowing that the message was sent it to FLSMS statistics team is a big relief since we (at the pilot) work with confidential data and even when we did create and follow a protocol to protect the identity of clients, I think is important for us (especially for the ORG) to know where this message was sent to and why.
Another 'bug' or difficulty just happen a couple months ago. At that time, we were not sure if messages where sent, so we decide to test and sent a message, instead of rebooting FLSMS. We create the message and we sent it to an user as a test, but the software just froze and after minutes, it took the message and sent it to all the contacts saved in FLSMS (which included clients). We were able to stop it just by abruptly closing FLSMS, but I am pretty sure this was not the best way to do it. We are not aware of loosing any data or messages, but I wonder even if we are receiving clients's messages sometimes, because FLSMS is connected 24/7.
Certainly, we will start to reboot the software every two days at least from now on. Thanks for this advice.
We do have some needs for our pilot, but these are not bugs, just areas that may need further development. I wonder Florence if this is the place where we could share those specific needs with FLSMS team?
Thanks so much!!!
Hi Angela,
Great to hear back from you. FrontlineSMS should ask you each time it plans to send your usage stats to us (perhaps this was missed due to the reboot on the occasion you've mentioned above..). Usually a pop up box will appear which looks the same as that which can be accessed via Help>Send Statistics within FrontlineSMS software. As you should see in this box there is a question asking 'Can we collect this information?' If you would not like to send any stats just select 'No' when this box appears.
With regards to the other bug you've mentioned, I'm not sure why you would have experienced this, I'm afraid, but will pass it onto our developer team. We would likely need to see your logs from the time you experienced the bug to get to the bottom of this fully (which due to the time lag may not be possible), but we will certainly record this bug, and let you know if we can provide any further information on why it happened. I don't think you will be losing any messages, but think regularly rebooting your system will certainly help to keep it running smoothly (also, as I've said ensure you are careful not to let pending incoming messages get pulled into the modem's software when rebooting).
It would be great if you could report any bugs and make any feature requests here on the forum (you could start a new discussion titled 'Feature Request' / 'Bug Report' in the forum) and then I can pass these onto our developer team.
Thanks very much, and I look forward to staying in touch as your project progresses!
All the Best
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