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"This used to be her playground. ..." Hot off the heels of her latest MDNA Tour -- which grossed $305,158,363 and ranks No. 10 all-time in tours on Billboard's Boxscore -- Madonna is looking to unload her Beverly Hills mansion for a mere $22.5 million.
The "Material Girl's" nine-bedroom, 15-bathroom home, listed by Sotheby's, features a two-story dining room, a junior dining room, a full-size screening room, a gym and two guest houses.
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TWO police officers were injured and tasers used when a police pursuit came to an end in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The drama unfolded when a driver left a trail of devastation after losing control of a car during the pursuit.
Parked cars were wrecked, a lamppost knocked over and a wall was knocked down during the incident.
Two occupants of a second vehicle were also hurt.
Residents in Edgehill Road in Winton were woken by a loud bang and flashing lights at 1am.
Royal Mail worker Michael Hargadon told the Daily Echo: "We were sound asleep when there was suddenly a very loud bang.
"I looked out of the window and saw police getting two men out of a car that had smashed into both mine and my wife's cars which were parked at the front of the house.
"When I went outside I could see that a lamppost had been completely uprooted and flown about 50 yards down the road."
Mr Hargadon said police told him the silver VW Passat with two occupants had also been involved in a collision with a taxi.
Mr Hargadon's Ford Mondeo and wife Lesley's Toyota Yaris both suffered extensive damage. A gate post went through the front window of a neighbouring property.
Mr Hargadon added: "We had our two grandchildren aged seven and eight staying with us and they managed to sleep through the whole thing."
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Ever wonder what would happen when you mixed two specific artists together to work on the same piece of work? Like for me with the medium of glass, having Dale Chihully and Dan Daily doing a piece together would be a very interesting proposition.
Brainstorm your wish list ideas for a mashup of ceramic artist in a collaborative piece of pottery, sculpture, etc. (i.e. Robin Hopper and Linda Arbuckle) and tell us all why you think this would be so interesting.
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Tovah (left) and Laurie Fairshot, on a hike. They were among 42 same-sex couples who married on Dec. 15 at the Center for Spiritual Living's "Big Gay Wedding" event. Photo courtesy of Tovah Fairshot
Following the November passage of Referendum 74, Queen Anne and Magnolia couples were swept into a wedding-planning frenzy, shopping for wedding cakes, ordering invitations, booking reception venues and preparing to apply for marriage licenses when it became legal on Dec. 6 at midnight.
The scramble to the King County Administrative Building came amid a month of celebration that peaked with 133 wedding ceremonies conducted at Seattle City Hall on Dec. 9, the first day on which the couples could legally wed. The historic approval of same-sex marriage by popular vote is expected to provide a windfall for area wedding vendors.
The Center for Spiritual Living (CSL) hosted "The Big Gay Wedding," a ceremony for 42 same-sex couples on Saturday, Dec. 15. The historic service included a formal marriage ceremony by CSL's ministerial team, interspersed with music provided by local vocalists and musicians. Paperwork for the couples was verified prior to the service.
For several decades, CSL has been at the forefront of progressive religious inclusion in the Puget Sound region. All costs for the event, including floral displays, were underwritten by CSL and private donations.
The Rev. Kathianne Lewis, CSL's senior minister, said, "Lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual individuals and couples have always been welcomed at the Center for Spiritual Living. They are an important and active part of the church's leadership, staff and volunteer community and personify the expression 'Love is love.'"
Lower Queen Anne resident Tovah Fairshot, and her partner, Laurie Fairshot, were among the couples at the CSL service. The pair has been together five years. While the couple considers last month's historic vote a major victory for the gay community, Tovah, a licensed massage therapist and special education major at Western Washington University, said there is still local progress to be made.
"We have been heckled in public a few times," Laurie said. "But we definitely feel safe in Seattle."
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The couple, who had a commitment ceremony three years ago, expected that the ceremony at CSL on Saturday would feel routine. Instead, the day was packed with happy emotion.
"We actually cried more today than we did three years ago," Tovah explained. "To finally be able to call Laurie my 'wife' and to be in the company of all of these couples is very special."
Laurie, who works at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as a clinical data coordinator, agreed with her wife.
"This was the most empowering day ever for us," Laurie said. "We're very happy."
The couple's former lack of legal marital recognition was particularly frustrating three years ago, when the couple decided to share the same last name.
"It was a struggle to get a name change without a marriage license, especially at the Social Security office," Laurie said. "Couples with marriage licenses get to just check a box on their license applications to get their names changed."
While the couple was fortunate enough to share a health-insurance plan for unmarried domestic partners offered through Laurie's employer, even that had a downside.
"When you're not legally married, the IRS counts your employer's health coverage for your domestic partner as income," Laurie said. "We had to pay an extra tax."
The struggles of the past were largely forgotten by the couples and their guests as they focused on Lewis' words.
"Marriage is love coming home," she said.
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AIR 1.5.2 contains a new, performance-related API that heavy users of XML may find handy, System.disposeXML(), that is an instructive example regarding use (and abuse) of the AIR garbage collector.
When an XML document is loaded, it's stored in memory as a graph of individual objects representing elements, text, attributes, and so on. Each pair of related objects–for example, a parent/child element parent–are linked, in the underlying representation, with pointers going in both directions.
This is a convenient representation for traversal, but can be problematic for the garbage collector. As I mentioned in my earlier post about referencing counting and ActionScript objects, the garbage collector will eventually find and discard the entire set of objects after the last external reference is removed. However, it takes more work for the GC than less-connected data structures.
In practice, the amount of time it takes the garbage collector to do its job is related both to the number of allocated objects and the number of pointers between them. So while it is nice that the GC is capable of finding even these highly-connected graphs of objects, using them is also asking it do a lot of work. You can reduce this workload by explicitly disconnecting the pointers between objects.
For graphs of ActionScript objects, you can ease the GC workload by simply nulling out reference between the objects. Note that you don't have to find every last reference for this to be helpful. The GC will still do it's job in the end, and every bit of clearing references helps. For ActionScript objects this can be particularly helpful because, if their reference count then goes to zero, they can be cleaned up even before the GC sweep completes.
XML objects are a trickier case because the API doesn't allow developers to traverse the actual object graph. That's where System.disposeXML() comes in: It traverses the internal object graph backing the XML object, setting all of the internal points to null. Afterwords, the XML object is empty and, presumably, useless. But then, since you were done with it anyway, that shouldn't be a problem.


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The Spectator was first published in June 1828 and then as now it reported on the world current affairs from a British point of view. Not everyone will have a member of their family mentioned in this publication, but those who do will find a rich vein of information. Also of interest to family historians will be the reports written about the events of the day, these were written at the time and will have an immediacy that perhaps history books might lack.
As an example I put in the surname Pottinger and came up with 137 results, 106 of which referred to material written in the 1840's concerning Sir Henry Pottinger who came from the Irish side of the family and his activities in Hong Kong and India. To test a search for background information I put TonyPandy Riots into the search box and it came up with 3 articles about these now largely forgotten riots of 1910 & 1911.
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Financial Security Index Charts » Borrow Money? No Thanks, Say ConsumersThe Federal Reserve's latest declaration to keep interest rates shockingly low until 2015 has not galvanized the populace into borrowing truckloads of money. In fact, most consumers say the Fed's announcement does little to make them more inclined to borrow money, according to Bankrate's October Financial Security Index.Just 23 percent of consumers say they are tempted to take on more debt, but 74 percent say "no thanks" to low-rate borrowing right now, Bankrate's survey reveals.
Financial Security Index Charts » Borrow Money? No Thanks, Say Consumers
The Federal Reserve's latest declaration to keep interest rates shockingly low until 2015 has not galvanized the populace into borrowing truckloads of money. In fact, most consumers say the Fed's announcement does little to make them more inclined to borrow money, according to Bankrate's October Financial Security Index.
Just 23 percent of consumers say they are tempted to take on more debt, but 74 percent say "no thanks" to low-rate borrowing right now, Bankrate's survey reveals.
At the Sept. 13 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy group, it was announced that the federal funds rate -- the very short-term interest rate controlled by the Fed -- will remain close to zero percent for a year longer than the group previously thought.
Though one of the stated aims of the central bank's policy is to stimulate economic activity through consumer spending and borrowing, economic theory posits that the announcement may have the opposite consequence in the short term, according to Bill Hampel, senior vice president of research and policy analysis and chief economist at the Credit Union National Association.
"If anything, the effect of the announcement itself would be to reduce borrowing today," he says. "Some people may want to borrow now because credit is so cheap, but you've just told them you don't need to rush out and borrow now because it is going to be cheap next quarter, next year, the year after that and the year after that."
Even in normal times, though, consumer loan demand is rarely moved by interest rates, says Hampel.
Though consumers do shop by price when they need a loan, a squishier metric is actually more influential when it comes to deciding whether to take on more debt: consumer confidence.
"If people were comfortable that they would be able to find jobs or keep their jobs, then, even if rates were a little bit higher, they would be willing to borrow more and spend. But that is not the situation," says Brian Rehling, managing director and chief fixed-income strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors.
Uncertainty about everything from the recession in Europe, the presidential election and the looming fiscal cliff is limiting consumer confidence -- as is the still-high unemployment rate, currently 7.8 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
All of that might be bearable if household incomes were moving up. But they aren't.
"Median income continued to fall even after the recession ended," says Robert Barone, economist, portfolio manager and partner at Universal Value Advisors in Reno, Nev.
Data from the Census Bureau released in mid-September show that real median household income in 2011 was $50,054, down 8.1 percent from 2007, the year before the recession began. Real income reflects the erosive effects of inflation.
"In today's environment, it's upside down: Incomes are falling. So, when incomes are falling, people worry, 'How am I going to pay it back if I borrow?' no matter what the interest rate is," Barone says.
While more consumer spending would boost economic activity, consumers are still recovering from previous spending binges.
The most recent numbers from the Federal Reserve showed that total household debt is at 103 percent of disposable income.
Hampel says that number represents total debt in the household sector -- both mortgage and nonmortgage debt combined. "It peaked at the beginning of the financial crisis at 123 percent. Normal, back 10 to 15 years ago, was somewhere south of 80 percent," he says.
In normal times, low interest rates might nudge consumers to borrow money, but the Federal Reserve intends to stimulate the economy by helping homeowners refinance their existing mortgages.
The most recent actions by the central bank -- the announcement of the third round of quantitative easing, or QE3 -- pushed mortgage rates to new lows. If many people can refinance their mortgages, that will free up some household income that can then be spent or invested.
"That is sort of how the Fed policy of keeping rates low will stimulate the economy: by increasing the disposable income of households through refinancing. And also by keeping interest rates low, it will make it easier for households to buy new houses, which will stimulate the construction sector slightly," says Hampel.
But refinancing isn't taking on new debt; it's just repackaging debt that's already on the books, so to speak. The real rush to borrow money may only come just before the sale ends, about three years from now.
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The NVIDIA 6800 GS Closer Look: EVGA, Leadtek, PNY, and Evertopby Josh Venning on 1/27/2006 8:53 AM EST
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swamprat - Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - linkIm interested as to the specific version of the EVGA card tested as the EVGA site has the 256-P2-N389-BX and the 256-P2-N389-AX versions with the same specs ie 450MHz/1.05GHz Reply
Alaa - Monday, February 06, 2006 - linkwho would buy FX57 with such a midrange product? please test the cards as normal users Reply
spec74 - Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - linkWell i'm in Korea right now and found out it's selling for 217,000 won. With the current exchange rate of 1 Dollar = 964 KRN it's close to $200 here also Reply
spec74 - Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - linkAs I was checking the pic of the card also. It looks nothing like the one reviewed. I found it strange
well here's the site if you guys want to see it
tjpark1111 - Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - linknice really! I'm korean and I've always thought stuff was more expensive there, it always seemed like it when I lived there... I guess not. You should go buy it hehe. Reply
wolf68k - Saturday, January 28, 2006 - linkI've got a problem with how they worded this.
All they said, or implied, was that they turned on SM3.0 with the nVidia cards. The GTO doesn't support SM3.0. But did they turn on every options under SM3.0 as well or not?
From the results I would have to say so, I just wish they did.
I've got an AMD XP 3200+, 1GB of PC2100/DDR266 RAM and a completely stock eVGA 6800GS AGP.
When I benched SCCT at 1240x1024 with SM3.0 and Hardware Shadow Mapping turned on, as well as everything else but not including everything in SM3.0 and no AA/AF. I get around 45-50FPS.
With everything on, including the options under SM3.0 but still no AA/AF, then I get around 20-25FPS. Reply
DerekWilson - Sunday, January 29, 2006 - linkWe enabled all available options for the GTO, but as we pointed out in the article, it doesn't support SM3.0
It should be noted that NV doesn't support support some of the higher end features with AA enabled, so the AA numbers are a more apples to apples sort of comparison here. Reply
tjpark1111 - Sunday, January 29, 2006 - linkeh, who cares about SM3(ok, even i might care). Anyways, I would rather get a x800gto2 and make it faster than a x850 xt pe, and get much better performance than a 6800GS, all for $10 less lol. Reply
unclebud - Saturday, January 28, 2006 - link"Remember, I would have to pay $100 more to get a PCIe mobo with the GS which would cost more than just getting the AGP version."
also remember that the typical anandtecher does not have a girlfriend nor a spouse and no prospects of getting one, so they can rationalize that paying such copious amounts of money to match a graph of a demo machine is an incredible achievement... like saving the queen of england from bill collectors or something. that is why they cannot sympathize with us who would stick with agp for whatever reason (especially financial reasons).
thanks for posting! Reply
Spoelie - Saturday, January 28, 2006 - linkLooks like someone isn't getting any...
Either way, I'm keeping my gf satisfied while having a pci-e config. Gasp, it's unbelievable, I must be some kind of genious. You can read all about in my new book in stores this spring!
BTW, buying a pcie gs will survive the upgrade to a socket M2, while the agp will not. More money thrown away! Reply
DerekWilson - Sunday, January 29, 2006 - linkSometimes people are shocked by this, but there are people out there who are buying new computers these days. Not everyone is in the market for an upgrade. Of course, we care about the upgraders as well, but everything needs to be in its place.
I have a feeling there's something on the horizon that will make all the agp lovers happy. But that's all I'm gonna say about that. Reply
Omega215D - Saturday, January 28, 2006 - linkThe 6800 GS for AGP isn't much more than the PCIe versions and I'm curious to see if performance was similar just like the 6600GT. And to all those that just throw AGP to the curb: I still run an A64 3200+ on an MSI nForce 3 platform. Why am I going to replace it with a nForce 4 mobo when socket M2 is basically around the corner? Remember, I would have to pay $100 more to get a PCIe mobo with the GS which would cost more than just getting the AGP version. Reply
mino - Saturday, January 28, 2006 - linkwhen something generates a lot of heat it does NOT mean it is hot. An vice versa.
Actually the amount of heat is clearly visible on power consumption graphs.
The "heat" graph actually measures the efficiency of cooling solution, not the heat produced.
Otherwise APG version seriously lacking as many have allready pointed out. Reply
Larso - Sunday, January 29, 2006 - linkYeah. I particularly stumbled over this sentence on page 9:
"We also wanted to see how much heat these cards generated"
- right after the nice power consumption graph that showed exactly the same power usage, and thus they must produce exactly the same amount of heat. No way around thermodynamics.
The sentence should have read something like: We also wanted to see how hot these cards ran. (which is how well the cooling solution is able to remove the heat) Reply
Tarx - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkI have the eVGA 6800GS. What I didn't expect was just how LOUD it was.
In 2D, originally used RivaTuner to turn down the fan to a minimum (was barely tolerable), but had to keep the loud mode for 3D. In the end bought the ArticCooler NV 5 Rev 3 without even knowing if it fits (it was either that or return the card). The AC isn't silent by any means, but much quieter and as a bonus a cooler solution. It however takes up a second slot (exhausts hot air behind the case - another nice bonus)
Even with the card being cooler by the AC, the OC seems to be limited to the low 500s for the GPU.
The mem on my card seems to be an exception, with no artifacts even at 1300 (650 DDR).
Zak - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkI would like to see how this card does DVD amd HD acceleration, for HTPC use, non gaming. I want to replace the noisy 6600GT and this could be the right card.
Zak Reply
bldckstark - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkGreat article AT thanks for doing the job I want to, but can't, do. You guys are a great part of the tech business and are doing the public a service, free of charge to your users. I can't ever complain about that and thank you. BUT,
Early in the article you mention that the X1300 or the 6200 card would be plenty of power to run grannie's computer for $50 - $75. Why does the recommendation for this type of computer keep increasing? Not that long ago everyone was saying an MX200 was plenty for Mom, now we have to the latest GPU family to run Outlook? Most Intel MB reviews state that the IGP is fine for Aunt Virginia and it is free (basically). I just wonder where the cutoff is on 5th generation spreadsheet graphics rendering. Until there is some increase in graphics complexity in MS Office I can't see the need to buy anything other than an IGP board for the purposes mentioned.
Yes, I have heard that Vista is gonna smoke the cheap cards, so maybe now is the time to increase the minimum power standard, but will it keep increasing from there? If a card can run Aero at release does the GPU recommendation ever need to be changed until Aero does?
If I am wrong please let me know so I can track the necessary changes in the future. Uncle Delbert needs a new box so he can find out what all this Pr0n stuff is, he's been hearing about at the Sunday meetin'.
Just trying to embarrass myself on a highly public forum, you may officially start laughing at my views now.
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Josh Venning - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkThis is a good point, actually. The kind of card that would be "good enough" for granny is a very subjective thing, and depends greatly on the person's needs. People who just used the computer to write in offive or use spreadsheets probably don't need a graphics card at all. That said, as software advances, better hardware acceleration will probably be required, but it need not be confined to the $50 to $75 price range. Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkI basically feel the same way Josh does ... In fact, I was going to write a nice quick blurb like that, but it turned into a crazy rant that I posted in the forums.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid...">Rant here ... check it out
I can get a bit long winded sometimes. Mostly I'll just delete the intended comment and walk away, but I think I'll start making forum posts in the future.
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unclebud - Friday, January 27, 2006 - link"AGP is dead which is why it wasn't tested."
then why aren't they giving them away free then? fraud fraud fraud on nvidia i tell everybody
the title didn't say only "The NVIDIA 6800 GS [PCI-Express] Closer Look: EVGA, Leadtek, PNY, and Evertop"
thanks to the authors of the article though Reply
bob661 - Friday, January 27, 2006 - link
quote:....because AGP is dead. No need to mention it. LOL! Reply
the title didn't say only "The NVIDIA 6800 GS [PCI-Express] Closer Look: EVGA, Leadtek, PNY, and Evertop"
JamesDax - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkGotta wonder why Nvidia and ATI are still releasing AGP cards then. Boggles the mind. Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkGoing forward, our focus will be on PCIe.
But we could still have one or two things up our sleeves for those still working with AGP, so don't loose heart.
;-) Reply
kmmatney - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkIsn't AGP performance about the same? Reply
grizzly7 - Monday, January 30, 2006 - linkThe AGP versions of 6800GS only have a core clock of 350MHz, so performance is worse. Reply
CuriousMike - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkHonestly, this article did nothing but say, "Zalman makes a superior cooler."
Better overclock, better cooling, and more quiet.
They're all ~ the same reference design (maybe different memory.)
Puddleglum - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkSearched Newegg and found 4 eVGA 6800GS cards, and each one has different core clock speeds and memory speeds. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductCompare.asp?C...">Newegg search results
In the results, none of the cards are clocked at 450MHz/1.05GHz, and the fact that one of them comes factory set at 490MHz/1.1GHz makes me wonder if it can exceed the 510MHz/1.15GHz of your test card. An honest defense for eVGA regarding its nominal performance in this review is that you simply didn't use the right card. Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkStock speeds are actually 425/1.0
Meaning the EVGA is overclocked. They may have a more uber model out there, but this is the one they sent us when we mentioned this roundup to them.
From our experience with these cards, it seems like it would be difficult getting a 6800GS clocked higher than ~525 ... The EverTop card stayed cooler than the rest of them, so heat didn't really become a factor in preventing higher clock speeds. I just think the chip has the juice to get much faster than that. Reply
Killrose - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkNice article, but the ATi X800GTO is well below the $200 price point. Forget Price Watch even, Newegg has some at the $130 mark and the 6800GS start at $189 Reply
kmmatney - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkWould have liked to have seen a X800GTO2 in there, as well as a 7800GT. The X800GTO2 can be had for $189, and unlocking the extra 4 pipes is easy and only has to be done once, ever. Out of the box, the 6800GS looks like a better deal, but the X800GTO2 gains more with overclocking/unlocking. Reply
Wellsoul2 - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkDitto..it would be more of a comparison to include
the 800XL, 800GTO2 , even the 850XT which is selling
for $215 some places.
No need to do the article over, maybe just include
the old graphs for comparison.
I'm kind of unhappy that you pay over $200 for a new
video board and can't even run it with AA/AF/HDR
at a decent framerate in new games.
bob661 - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkSome of you guys are just rocks. The article was a 6800GS comparison NOT a comparison of video cards in the $200 price range. As a matter of fact, the title of the article says ... The NVIDIA 6800 GS Closer Look: EVGA, Leadtek, PNY, and Evertop!!! Go figure!!! Reply
BenJeremy - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkThe latest RivaTuner allows you to unlock pipelines (I think it's 3 more, one vertex and 2 pixel) on the GS. I would love to see the benchmarks on that, particularly combined with the overclocking.
I did have a small problem with thew GPU overclock in Half Life 2, with "flashing" textures. Not sure what was going on, but defaulting the GPU cleared it up, and I haven't messed around with it to see what sort of overclocking I can get without seeing the problem. Otherwise, I'm happy with the GS, particularly with the ability to unlock pipelines. Reply
LoneWolf15 - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkthat no website seems to ever put the Radeon X800XL up against the 6800GS as a baseline competitor. I just checked Pricewatch, and Radeon X800XL cards can currently be had for $199-250, the exact same price point as the 6800GS (at least according to your price-links for the PNY model on the page I was looking at). If I was looking to purchase the 6800GS or an equivalent, why would I look at a Radeon X800GTO when the X800XL with four more pipelines is available at a similar price to the 6800GS? Makes no sense to me. Reply
WooDaddy - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkOk...
Reading the article was fine until I started to see the trend of Evertop. The second I saw the picture of the HSF, I knew something was up. Who in their right mind would deviate from the reference design that Nvidia hast dictated!?! Evertop, that's who.
It was like a nightmare reading this article. Evertop at stock clock at the bottom. Evertop at overclock at the top. Same on BF2. Same on Farcry. Splinter Cell... Lowest power draw at load. Lowest temp at load (UNDER 60 C). WHY WON'T IT JUST STOP!!?!! Who do they think they are?! What's up with this punk Korean company?!? And to make matters worse, I bet that they sell for less than $190!
Well, that's all fine and dandy. At least they're not in the US. If we can do anything about it, they won't be.
eVGA - First to release the 6800GS.
Seriously though. Thanks a lot Josh... You just made us Americans pissed off that we can't get the Evertop card. I just picked up a 6600 GT Leadtek (based on the AT review) and now I find out there's a card that's probably 50% better and only $50 more (possibly)... Geez. Let us know when a retailer starts selling that here. Or... I can take that card off your hands. Meet me in the FS forums ;)
Good job on the article :) Reply
WooDaddy - Friday, January 27, 2006 - link(eVGA speaking)
Oh damn.. 5dB lower on the noise too...
That's it. Time to either sabotage Evertop or raid the AT labs. There's gotta be an NDA they're breaking somewhere.
Maybe? No? Doggonit...
Evertop is the winnar, I guess... Reply
Josh Venning - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkYes we were very impressed with EverTop, especially since the HSF on their card threw us off a bit at first. (we thought it looked a bit silly) It's a great 6800 GS and hopefully if there is enough demand here in the states we might be seeing some for sale here eventually. We'll just have to wait and see. Reply
Zoomer - Friday, February 03, 2006 - linkWhy are you so surprised? One look and I can tell hat's the zalman VF700Cu. It's a aftermarket cooler selling for $30. Of course its good.
The evertop card is a bargain, considering that you'll need at least the VF700AlCu or similar to keep your sanity. Throwing away a perfectly good (but noisy and underperforming) nvidia stock heatsink that you paid for isn't efficient. Reply
nullpointerus - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkI don't think it's that the Zalman HSF is so good but rather that the stock HSFs are so incredibly bad. I put in my eVGA 6800 GS with the stock cooler for a few days - HUGE problem. The noise was absolutely terrible! It was simply too much to take, so I installed an Artic Cooling HSF and was immediately impressed by the quietness.
Anyway, kudos to EverTop for choosing a Zalman HSF! I hope more companies follow suit. Reply
gman003 - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkAlright now is it me or are all of the AnandTech posters here 12 years old and crying about what is specifically meant to be a 6800GS roundup?
First of all, if you guys want a varied video card comparison, go look at one. This isn't one of them. It's a "6800GS CLOSER LOOK"!
Secondly, the ATI card was merely used as a reference so you could see the differences in games with Anti-Aliasing turned on and off between the two companies. It isn't necessarily meant to be compared to the "Red Team", just merely used as a reference point.
The point of the article is to show you bo-zos out there that the 6800GS is a great price/performance card and which card will perform the best when overclocked. Everyone that buys one of these cards buys it because of the price/performance ratio, not how it compares to a 7800GT(which is getting closer to a good price/performace ratio but that is besides the point) or a X800 GTO.
The writer picked out great cards and gives a great overview of how these cards will overclock and what you will expect of them.
So please, no more cry-baby posts on here. If you keep posting, I will have to come OWN you on Quake 4 on my eVGA 6800GS card. Thanks. Reply
superkdogg - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkThis article was good and informative if a consumer is only looking @ 6800GS cards. Now, if they were smart they would consider the 7800GT for more money, and the 6600GT to save money. If they were not opposed to supporting the red team, they could look at the x800gto2 and it's unlockable quad and overclocking that part too. They could also look at the x1600's and the entire x850/800 pro series would not be far from this price range.
It's nice to have information available. It's even better when reviewers pull it together for consumers rather than consumers having to do the legwork. Reply
bob661 - Friday, January 27, 2006 - link
quote:Sounds like instant gratification syndrome to me. What wrong with doing the legwork yourself? Especially when it's already been done. Why should AT have to do redo test because of lazy readers, like yourself? Reply
It's even better when reviewers pull it together for consumers rather than consumers having to do the legwork.
andrep74 - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkOne obvious area of testing that was overlooked, and would have been somewhat simple, was to do some CPU scaling: while using the fastest CPU available does remove the CPU from the equation, the fact that these cards are midrange means that people who buy the card will most likely have midrange CPUs, also. Perhaps two or three speeds at "midrange" CPU speeds like 3200, 3500, 3700 would have shed light on the effects of CPU on performance. Interpolation requires at least two to three points of analysis. Reply
superkdogg - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkYou're calling me lazy? Hmm. My wife, kids and two jobs don't think so. Well, maybe my wife sometimes.
Seriously though. Read my comment. What's the first sentence? Yep, you're right I do say that the article is useful for people who are only interested in the 6800GS. My point is that most consumers would want to compare the 6800GS with other cards in a similar price range and since AT serves consumers, it is probably in the best interest of everybody to focus on a wider segment of the population.
This sort of article was very useful in the days of the MX400's and the GeForce GTS's. Back then, there was only one viable card per price point (ATI's first real card was the 8500's to be honest) and manufacturers didn't just regurgitate the reference design. However, since now there are innumerable cards that could possibly meet an end user's needs, the fact that all decisions are in some way based on relative value, and the fact that most if not all manufacturers use the reference design exclusively, this article's relevance is somewhat limited.
My point is not that the article was poorly written, that it was slanted against ATI, that it was dishonest, or that it does not provide what it says it will. None of those things are true. What I was writing about was whether or not this article needed to be written at all and if it would have been more useful to review more than one graphics card. If you eliminate chance and the fact that one manufacturer uses a Zalman heatsink, and figure in that the GTO is just thrown in for comparison, this is essentially a one-card review, but takes the same amount of time to compile data and write as a 4-5 card review would.
Would it not be more useful to have one widely available 6800GS, a X800 Pro, a 6600GT, a 7800GT, a x800XL, and a x800 GTO (especially the GTO2 and show unlocking), rather than the article as written? I think that it would, and I don't think that you can build an argument that it wouldn't. BTW, don't bother flaming me because I'm through with this since you can't read and understand my first sentence and resort to name calling in titling your response. Reply
superkdogg - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkBut, what I wrote was "Why not write a full-blown midrange comparison?" That is what my title was and that is what I meant and said.
My meaning is that there is no point in singling out a 600GS roundup anymore than there is a NForce4 roundup or any other part based on 4 different colors of the reference design. I was stating that it is much more useful to compare different cards than tell us again that overclocks are about the same and that this will vary based on your setup and your particular card.
As far as instant gratification. "Hello, I am the internet. I am here to fulfill your thirst for knowledge. But I won't because it might happen too fast." Umm, don't think so. The whole point of the internet is to have the knowledge at our fingertips. Otherwise why would we read this stuff. Why not better compile the knowledge into a more readily usable form? That was and is my question. Read my comment. I don't rip them for writing a 6800GS roundup. I wonder why the assumption is that knowing the difference between brands is more important than knowing what cards are available in the price range. Reply
Spoelie - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkIf I had one comment I'd say the x1600xt would have been a better choice as a competitor for the 6800gs.
However, it pains me to see how the comments always start out with people 'angry' because the review didn't contain the information for their own particular situation. A review can NOT cover every particular base, it is a decision made at the start what to cover. If you think you can do better, write your own article, if not then yes, you will have to do your own legwork. Do not always expect people to figure things out for you.
If the article was named "Vidcard midrange comparison" you'd have reason to complain, now the article does what it set out to do.
This comment is directed to everyone having replied up till now, not anyone in particular. Reply
Bull Dog - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkOh right and the X1600XT costs some $40 LESS than the 6800GS. And appropriately, doesn't perform quite as good. Reply
deathwalker - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkThis review has missed the mark by failing to include the "AGP" versions of the 6800GS. Test results for the AGP version are important not only because there is still a very large contigent of gamers still using APG graphics supported motherboards but also because the clocking is very different on the AGP versions vs. the PCIe version. Dissapointing that AT had there tunnel vision visors on for this exersize. Reply
bob661 - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkAGP is dead which is why it wasn't tested. This IS an enthusiast site not a J6P site. Reply
Patrese - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkI'd like to see the AGP 6800GS tested anyway. As Anandtech is a worldwide website (as it was said in the article), they should be aware that in less developed countries AGP is still a big deal, even for new computers. Here in Brazil, buying a Semprom 3100+ with Palermo core and putting it to work at 2.5GHz on air is becoming a national sport [sort of :)], and most of them are AGP based systems. It's not cutting edge technology, but still is enthusiast stuff!
I'm not a cry-baby though, as I found the review really good (Zalman kicks the stock cooler's a**!). They may test the AGP version on other occasion. It's just a reply for those who think AGP is already dead and gone, specially in this price range. Reply
bob661 - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkI don't see why anyone would still be buying an AGP card when the prices differences between AGP and PCIe are negligible. And why buy a card like the 6800GS for an older board when the video is going to be bottlenecked by the old CPU? Reply
superkdogg - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkBob, umm, I don't know how to tell you this, but any Athlon64 socket 939 has AGP motherboards available for it. Bottlenecked by "old" CPU's..... And the price differences are more than negligible. PCI-e is significantly cheaper, actually.
The problem is that for Intel users, most will need new memory and everybody will need a new motherboard. Reply
Spacecomber - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkI'm running a 6800GT with an Athlon XP clocked at 2.3GHz, and they are a good match for each other. Why should I upgrade a whole system when a better video card is enough to let me keep up with my gaming needs (mostly BF2 these days). The 6800GS is priced about right and the performance is about right for use in systems with the rough equivalent of a Pentium 3.0 GHz processor. And, the range of AGP cards still available is getting narrower; so, the interest in those that are still being made is sharper. Reply
Spacecomber - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkI didn't really find benchmarks that just compared 6800GS cards to other 6800GS cards that helpful. As a buyer I'm going to probably pick the 6800GS card that is selling for the best price or has the best warranty or some other such feature, if I decide that a 6800GS is the right card for me. In order to do that, I need to see how this card compares to the competition, both from other nvidia cards and from ATI's cards.
Ideally, these comparisons should also include SLI tests. Does the lack of pipelines come into play when running in SLI mode or not, compared to a 6800GT, for example?
When you write these reviews, you guys need to be asking yourselves the questions that a Anandtech readers, as consumers, will be asking. Reply
nullpointerus - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkDidn't the previous 6800 GS article do just what you wanted? I think I even picked the 6800 GS based on that article. Reply
Hacp - Friday, January 27, 2006 - linkHow about showing the results of an overclocked gto? These things overclock pretty well, and should get to x850 pro speeds. Reply


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|Forums: Index → Narutopedia Discussion → Naruto fully able to controll nine tails?
after Naruto seals the nine tails with the new seal similar to the sage of six paths' seal and separates the chakra from the body of the kyubi does that mean that Naruto now can fully control all of the nine-tails power without the drawback of not being able to control it and have to worry about the kyubi breaking its seal and breaking free of Naruto? and if so doea that mean he can go sage mode full nine-tails and become a ninja so powerfull that even madara uchiha would be shaking in his boots? --220.127.116.11 (talk) 10:54, June 18, 2010 (UTC)
- That kinda was the whole point of this training. So, I say yes. Shock Dragoon 7:25am Jun-18-10
doesn't he not have all it's power i'm fairly certain minato split the chakra in two then made half of it accessible to naruto through the four elements seal and then sealed the rest away with the dead demon consuming seal.
Minato did split the kyubis chakra into 2.I am not sure about him controlling it seems that he would need some of Killer Bees help on controlling it.
It is true that Naruto, Sora, and Minato all control peices of the Nine-Tails power. Duiring the "Invasion of Pain" Arc, Minato took that power with him to his grave and it hints that Minato also took one eighth of the Nine-Tails energy from Naruto. Sora has one eighth of the Nine-Tails power too. So by the end of the "Invasion of Pain" Arc, Naruto officially has a mere two eighths of the Nine-Tails total power. Even so, he still had enough Nine-Tails chakra in him to create the "Nine-Tails Chakra Form" which is powerful, yet inferior to Killer Bee's "Full Eight-Tails". Just to give you an idea of how powerful the Nine-Tails REALLY is...well the 4-Tailed "Uncontrolled" form was slighty less powerful than Killer Bee's "Fully Controlled Eight-Tails", yet only slighty. The 6-Tailed "Uncontrolled" is far superior to Killer-Bee's "Fully Controlled Eight-Tails" in all ways but one. Killer Bee could defend from eight sides, while Six-Tails "Uncontrolled" can only defend 6 sides. —This unsigned comment was made by Allemater (talk • contribs) .
Minato took part of the Nine-Tails' chakra with him when he sealed the Yin part of it with the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, during the Nine-Tails' attack to Konoha, twelve years before the start of the series. For all canon purposes, Sora is nothing, being an anime-only character. All the "eighths" talk you just put in here is bs, because other than the known canon Yin half being unaccessible, no one knows how much of the Nine-Tails' chakra Naruto uses for each transformation, so your comparison with Bee's transformations is also bs, as is the defend from sides talk. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 04:02, January 12, 2011 (UTC)
Cuurently Naruto has tamed the fox and has fully transformed into it.Undominanthybrid (talk) 21:26, May 2, 2012 (UTC)


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. There's a good answer to that, but its not a simple one.
In 2004 I already saw the writing on the wall. PC technology started commoditizing, and at a brisk clip as well.
When I got my first K6 processor, it was not just the overclockers that cranked up that 66 MHz front-side bus. Anyone who bought a computer had to know some of the essential differences between MMX and 3D-Now!. A lack of knowledge, in those days, would set the up and coming computer user back hundreds of dollars if he wasn't careful.
Whether you agree with Karl Marx or Karl Rove (or anyone in between), a telltale sign of commodification occurs when the manufacturer stops focusing on tangible aspects of the product and starts pushing less tangible selling points. This often occurs when competing products are too similar, or at least indistinguishable from the purchasers point of view.
Where have we seen this before? Well, my HTC Hermes did everything the iPhone did a year beforehand, but
I'm pretty sure Apple sold a whole lot more iPhones
. Look at today's motherboards: any manufacturer would tell you its all-solid capacitors are better than the next guy. And don't even get me started on the memory industry ...
I remember the exact instant when computer hardware became a commodity. Steve Jobs got up in front of one hundred journalists and in less than 60 seconds, a million Apple zealots went from ardent Intel naysayers to hardened Intel devotees. In that moment I realized it didn't really much matter to anyone which CPU was better than another, it only mattered what Steve Jobs told everyone to think anyway.
Other signs of the death of the PC enthusiast are littered across the Internet like the tattered remains of a kite breaking up on rentry. The birth and
demise of AMD's Quadfather
, the ubiquitous lack of support (or interest) for quad-GPU graphics, failed physics processors and inconsequential sales of "killer" network cards.
In a recent conversation with
Jon Stokes
, both of us agreed that while PC tech has seen some great growth over the last few years, this growth is not keeping pace with the Internet as a whole. PC technology, as a journalistic discipline, is unfortunately niched to the degree you'd find with muscle cars.
This leads me to answer the question I started out with: the PC industry, as a whole, just isn't as fast-moving or interesting anymore. Attempting to debate the merits of largely intangible technology topics is a discussion more akin to politics than science.
You bet I'm excited about CPU-GPU integration and new OLED technology, but another unfathomably high frequency bump in the sea of JEDEC memory timings completely fails to pique my interest. Analysis of Google Keywords would indicate those more mundane markers of progress in the PC industry fail to grasp even the smallest of demographics on the Internet as well.
That does not discount the importance of the tech enthusiast. Those of us who grew up debating the merits of CPU architecture in the 1990's are the pioneers in virtual discussion. We are what the majority of consumers will become over the next decade when new, broader forums come to be.
Don't worry, I'm still the first person in Taiwan with Intel's next-generation roadmap. However, as this industry withers and new ones blossom, I encourage you all as pioneers and enthusiasts to look beyond the chips and bits once in a while.
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Iwakuma whiffs 10, extends mastery of Twins
Zunino, Saunders go deep as righty moves to 5-0 vs. Minnesota
SEATTLE -- Mariners right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma didn't have any great words of wisdom to offer as to why he has dominated the Twins in unprecedented fashion, but that's OK. The Twins didn't have any answers for Iwakuma either as they fell, 2-0, on Monday at Safeco Field.
Iwakuma threw seven scoreless innings and has yet to allow an earned run to the Twins over five starts in his three seasons in the Majors. The 2013 All-Star gave up just four hits with no walks and 10 strikeouts in his latest Twins killing, the third time in his career he's had double-digit strikeouts in a game.
Iwakuma is the second Major League pitcher since 1914 to hold an opponent to zero earned runs in his first five career starts against them. Larry Jaster of the Cardinals did the same to the Dodgers in 1966.
Iwakuma's career line against the Twins: 5-0, 0.00 ERA, 20 hits, 8 walks and 34 strikeouts in 33 2/3 innings.
Why does he match up so well against the Twins?
"I'm able to pitch my own game and we go through a very good gameplan with my catcher, [Mike] Zunino," Iwakuma offered, through translator Antony Suzuki. "We're on the same page and that helps a lot."
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire had a more succinct theory.
"It doesn't matter how many times you face great pitchers because there's a reason why they have good records and good ERAs," Gardenhire said. "It's because they have good stuff."
Iwakuma's stuff was as good as it's been all year as the 33-year-old Japanese standout improved to 7-4 with a 3.07 ERA in 13 starts after missing the first month of the season with a finger injury.
After a brief two-game slump at the end of June, Iwakuma has allowed just one run over 13 innings in his last two outings. Zunino said Monday's start was the best he has seen from his teammate.
"Unbelievable," Zunino said. "He didn't have much of a Spring Training, so you have the ups and downs. But this was him sort of hitting that stride right now. His split was sharp, his fastball was sharp, he had a little extra velo today. So I think this was him sort of getting back into that comfortable phase of where he fits in."
Iwakuma allowed a runner past first just once and it came at a critical juncture in the seventh when the Twins put runners on second and third with a single by Kendrys Morales and a one-out double by Oswaldo Arcia. But Iwakuma stranded those two with a groundout by Chris Colabello and a strikeout of Sam Fuld with a nasty splitter that induced a rare show of emotion from the stoic right-hander as he pumped his fist into his glove.
"I didn't see it," said manager Lloyd McClendon. "I was on the floor with my own show of emotion."
But McClendon stuck with his starter in that tight situation even with a bullpen warm and ready as Iwakuma's pitch count reached 105.
"My feeling was it was his ballgame to win or lose right there," McClendon said. "He's a veteran, he's been pitching well. His pitch count was relatively manageable. I just felt he should have that opportunity to decide his fate at that point."
Danny Farquhar pitched a perfect eighth before Fernando Rodney came on for his American League-leading 26th save. The Mariners pitching staff has allowed just three earned runs over its last 31 innings to lower its ERA to 3.16 on the season, the second-best mark in the league.
The Mariners provided just enough offense with the long ball to get Iwakuma the win as Zunino homered in the second and Michael Saunders went deep in the seventh, both shots off right-hander Kevin Correia.
Zunino's bolt came on a full-count fastball for his 13th homer of the season, the most by any catcher in the American League and tied with Kyle Seager for the team lead.
Saunders then hit his sixth of the season with a shot that narrowly cleared the glove of Fuld at the top of the center-field fence to give Iwakuma an insurance run before McClendon went to his bullpen.
Fuld crashed into the wall and was momentarily shaken up, leaving everyone in the stadium wondering if he'd come down with the ball as Saunders circled the bases and waited for a signal from the umpires.
"That's a tough play that Sam makes more often than you'd think," said Saunders. "I knew I hit it well and I saw him go up to make a play on it. When he came down, I wasn't sure what was going on, so I sort of quickened my pace around the bases. That will probably be the least-celebrated home run I'll ever hit. When I was in the dugout, I was still waiting for him to show the ball. I'm glad he's OK. And I'm glad he didn't catch the ball."
The Mariners have now taken 13 of their last 19 games against the Twins at Safeco Field. Seattle is 22-12 since June 1 to put its season record at 49-40, while the Twins fell to 39-49.
After struggling early in the season at home, Seattle has won eight of its last 10 games at Safeco Field to even the home record at 22-22.
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These are just adorable! I ordered one for my nephew and it is so awesome! I did all his birth info and I really think my sister LOVED it! I am hoping he will carry it around with him when he gets a bit bigger. I love the idea that you can personalize all four lines and say something special.


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THis is the sort of thing that makes my heart beat race. If I had a million bajillion dollars I would buy it in one of those heart beats. It is sooooo gorgeous. It would make you feel like you were sleeping in a forest. Now where oh where is my prince charming? Eh, I don't really need him...he just hogs the covers anyway. ;)


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WASHINGTON Two things are often said in this town: "A day is a year in politics." And, "It's all about 2014."
Combined, the two statements mean that much can happen between now and the midterm elections next year when Republicans hope to hold the House and gain the Senate and Democrats intend to hold the Senate and recover the House.
Each respective goal is equally possible depending on the same single significant determinant: Whether Ted Cruz stops talking.


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Thick and creamy, sour and tangy, sometimes slightly effervescent. Kefir is a fermented functional milk product. That means it offers health benefits beyond the basic nutrition of calories, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals.
What is the difference between kefir and yogurt?
Kefir is fluid enough to be drinkable, and the brand available in the U.S. contains 10 bacterial and yeast cultures. These include several kinds of tiny organisms with scary sounding names. Yogurt is thick and spoon able, and usually has only 1 or 2 kinds of bacteria.
Both kefir and yogurt come in many forms, full fat, low fat, no fat, organic or not, with added fiber or not, sweetened, flavored, or plain. Some kinds of yogurt come with granola or cookie toppings that are not gluten free.
plain-kefir-with-garden-raspberries-added photo by lsimon
What about those bacteria?
Both kefir and yogurt often claim to contain probiotics. The World Health Organization defines probiotics as "Live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host". Those live microorganisms are bacteria and yeast, the host is us.
So we are eating bacteria and yeast. My sister, a nurse, will not eat foods with probiotics because of those bacteria, no matter how friendly they may be.
How do probiotics help us?
They help to normalize bowel function, whether the problem is constipation or diarrhea. Some doctors and dietitians recommend taking kefir with antibiotics to prevent diarrhea.
Many other health claims are made too. But often the research is on mice. Do you think mice like dairy as much as cats do? Or the research tests pills of specific strains of microorganisms, not the food product we would eat.
Are you lactose intolerant?
You may be able to enjoy kefir or yogurt. Those friendly bacteria breakdown the lactose and digest it for you.
Are you cultured?
You do not really know how active your cultures are when you eat yogurt or drink kefir. A research article from the Journal of Nutrition in 2000 states:
The National Yogurt Association allows yogurt manufacturers use of its "Live Active Culture Seal" on products that contain 10×8 viable cultures per gram at time of manufacture. However, no distinction is made between yogurt starter cultures used primarily for acid production (S. thermophilus and L. delbreuckii subsp. burglarious) and probiotics species (L. acidophilus, L. casei, L. reuteri, Bifidobacterium species, among others). Therefore, this seal is of little value in assuring consumers of effective probiotic levels.
I do not want to imply your yogurt or kefir does not have active cultures when you eat it. But the fact is, we simply do not know how lively those bacteria are after they have been stored for a while.
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Still, I enjoy a glass of kefir many mornings. I buy plain organic kefir and add flavoring to it. By itself, it is too sour for me. But I can control the amount of sweetener I add. So I add berries and honey, or blend it with peanut butter and brown sugar. I sometimes top fruit crisp with sweetened kefir instead of ice cream too.
Kefir is a very important part of my regimen to prevent constipation. I have found it works much better than yogurt and I have happily been able to stop my prescription medication, GlycoLax. 🙂
Kefir also provides significant calcium and vitamin D. Reasons enough for me to keep enjoying it and recommend it to you.
Have you tried kefir? How did you like it?


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Published: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 11:00 p.m.
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FORT MYERS — The Gators finished a key road trip with a big hitting performance against Florida Gulf Coast on Tuesday.
No. 18 Florida's offense erupted for 15 hits and catcher Taylor Gushue drove in a pair of runs on three hits to give the Gators a 7-1 victory at Hammond Stadium in Ft. Myers.
The Gators (24-13) took the season series 2-1 and finished a critical eight-game road trip that included four games against top-five teams and six games against SEC East opponents with a 5-3 record.
"This was a really good game for us," Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan said. "I told our guys after the game that I'm proud of the way they played on this road trip. There was no let up tonight.
Florida's pitching staff of Ryan Harris, Kirby Snead, Justin Shafer and Shaun Anderson limited the Eagles to one run on four hits. Harris (2-0) earned the victory in his first career start. Snead retired 11 in a row after entering to begin the third and finished his day with four innings pitched and only one hit allowed.
"It was good to get Ryan (Harris) out there for his first career start," O'Sullivan said. "We just wanted to get him 30 pitches or so. ... We had a lot of confidence in Ryan. Kirby Snead was outstanding. Four innings and I don't think he even threw 40 pitches. He's going to be ready to go this weekend."
FGCU's Brad Anderson (2-2) picked up the loss after allowing four runs (three earned) on nine hits in four innings.
Gushue drove in his team leading 31st and 32nd runs of the year with RBI singles in the first and second innings. The base hit in the first extended his hitting streak to a career-best 11 games.
The Gators broke the game open in the seventh with three runs.
Shafer entered the game to start the seventh and allowed FGCU's lone run on an RBI double. Shafer fired a perfect eighth and Anderson followed suit in the ninth to cap the UF victory.
UF's offense tallied 15 or more hits for the third time this season and the first time since Kentucky (17) on April 5. Florida is a perfect 4-0 when tallying 13 or more hits and 14-2 when outhitting its opponent.
Florida will host Georgia this weekend. First pitch of Friday's game is slated for 7:30 p.m. and all three games of the series will be televised.
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HOUSTON - Lakewood Church Pastor Joel Osteen plans to make a reality TV show aimed at making a difference in the world.
Osteen is developing a series with Mark Burnett, the producer "The Apprentice," "The Voice" and "Survivor."
"It's another way to take our message of hope and inspiring people to another venue," Osteen said.
Details of the show are still being developed. The show has not been picked up by a network yet.
Participants will be given an opportunity to go on a mission with Osteen and spend several weeks "fixing things."
"The thought is people would give up their time and come, not necessarily know where they're going that day, but they'd show up and we'd load up some planes and head out and make a difference in the world," Osteen said.
Osteen said he decided to take Burnett's offer because he's become a family friend.
"We spent a lot of time together, not necessarily with the idea of starting a show, but becoming friends," Osteen said. "I like 'The Apprentice.' My kids like 'The Voice.' I like his work."
Burnett's wife, actress Roma Downey, would also be involved in the show.
Osteen said they're considering six to eight episodes -- whatever he and his wife, Victoria, could fit into their schedules.
"I wouldn't necessarily be a pastor in this," Osteen said. "I'm not going to be teaching or sharing scriptures. We're going to be ambassadors of hope and goodwill and faith."
Osteen is a familiar face to viewers across the globe as his sermons are broadcast in several languages and in several countries.
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