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I have realized aways back I was asking to much of what he was cappable of.
You're ahead of many folks who sadly never seem to take that into consideration. It's all on the dog far too often. You'll be fine.
And I believe that wisdom can be acquired only with time and experience; it cannot be acquired from others.
Knowledge, on the other hand, CAN be acquired from others in many forms.
So does this mean that since we cannot impart WISDOM on others that we should not try to impart KNOWLEDGE? Seems like this would make most all training advice given here, or anywhere else, worthless. :?
This statement from Paul is something to consider as well.
Knowledge is good but worthless without wisdom.
/Paul JMO
"Forcing" is far from the exception to the rule in terms of negative re-enforcement strategies used in retriever training. We use both punishment and negative re-enforcement every single time we train. Every single time. Even if we're using steak!
Here's what I mean, starting with aversives. When a dog is standing and we command sit, followed by pinch collar pressure, we are punishing the previous behavior (standing) and re-enforcing the new behavior (sitting). If we command here, followed with the e-collar, we are punishing whatever else he was doing (sniffing dog poo) and re-enforcing here. On heel with a pinch collar or a stick we are punishing him being out of position and re-enforcing him being in position.
This is actually true in positive re-enforcement training. If a dog is standing and we command sit, we withhold the reward, creating frustration (a form of punishment), until he sits, relieving the frustration (negative re-enforcement) and earning the reward (positive re-enforcement).
I could go through all of the other examples as well but it isn't necessary. Hopefully people get the idea, supporting my assertion that we are ALWAYS discouraging a behavior and encouraging a behavior. Regardless of the re-enforcement strategy, for behavior to change we have to discourage the previous behavior and encourage the new (desired) one. Logic says so.
The only question then becomes, how strong the aversive treatment happens to be. Even standing there withholding a treat the dog desperately wants is very frustrating and stressful for the dog. It is, in fact punishment. We're teasing him and no one likes to be teased. I have asked a +r trainer, "Did you like it when your brother ran around with your favorite toy saying "nanny nanny poo poo" when you wanted to play with it?" No, you didn't and you probably chased him, then ran to Mommy to try and get the toy. That may or may not have worked but eventually, you found a way to get that toy back, didn't you? Maybe you ignored him and he got bored with your lack of reaction. In the future then, you immediately ignored him and got your toy back more quickly. He's trained you to ignore him when he picks up a toy of yours now, hasn't he? He give a signal (picking up the toy) and you respond appropriately (ignoring him). This example is no different than a dog running through various behaviors trying to get a reward. You're teasing them, they're frustrated and trying to figure our how to relieve that frustration. This is an aversive experience for the dog, whether these trainers want to admit it or not.
I have seen "positive only" trainers stand on a leash many times to keep a dog from moving away. They will tell you this isn't punishment, to which I have replied more than once, "OK then put the collar on and I'll tie you to a post". Same concept as the above, only a bit more aversive to the dog.
We go from there all the way to using a heeling stick! It's all a matter of semantics but there is ALWAYS an aversive of some form used in training, period, end of story. The only question is what level of aversive treatment you're willing to inflict on the dog to get what you want.
Bottom line, training is training. In order to "change" behavior one has to be discouraged and the other encouraged. You ALWAYS use an aversive to effect that change and some form of reward to re-enforce desirable behavior. It's just a matter of degrees.
Defining aversives in terms of what we believe to be socially acceptable causes a lot of misconceptions among the general public and I believe is a terrible idea.
If we want to talk about learning theory then let's talk about it in full.


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"We basically took a look at this situation and said, this is bullshit." -- Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng
Patent troll Soverain sued 50 different high-profile e-commerce websites over patent infringement (some big names like Amazon, Avon, and Victoria's Secret actually settled for millions with Soverain), alleging that it owned three patents pertaining to digital shopping carts. Early on, the case looked rocky for Newegg, an online technology products retailer, when the judge overseeing the case refused to allow Newegg to argue that the Soverain patent was invalid.
However, on appeal Newegg's legal team was able to trot out prior artwork to help get the patent case defeated. That prior artwork came from 1984 in the form of a magazine ad from CompuServe bragging about an electronic mall. The District Court judge had originally denied the invalidity argument because the judge said there wasn't "sufficient testimony" and that making the argument to the jury would be "very confusing" to them.
Soverain continued to argue that the system CompuServe used didn't include a "product identifier" as its patent defines. The patent troll also argued that CompuServe's system lacked a "shopping cart database." Those arguments didn't work for Soverain, as a three-judge panel decided that all of the shopping cart patent claims the company made were rendered obvious in the light of CompuServe Mall.
As a result, Soverain won't get the $2.5 million it hoped to snatch from Newegg's bank account. In addition, retailers in currently pending lawsuits will also likely be off the hook to feeding the troll.
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We basically took a look at this situation and said, this is bullshit. We saw that if we paid off this patent holder, we'd have to pay off every patent holder this same amount. This is the first case we took all the way to trial. And now, nobody has to pay Soverain jack squat for these patents.
Cheng also noted that Newegg decided to fight to the death over this lawsuit versus settling because the company is majority owned by its founder, Fred Chang. There are no shareholders to answer to, so Chang has the long-term prospects of his company in mind rather than short-term gains to temporarily help out the balance sheet.
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ON the water i discovered i had left my nail not tool at home....boo....
after a moment of thinking i simply used my index finger and thumb pressed together(similar to the shape your hand takes when you signal to a waiter that you are ready for your check) With my fingers held in this fashion I pinched the section of fly line i wanted to tie onto. I then wrapped the mono around my fingers 5 or 6 times then pinched the tag with my thumb and forefinger thus pulling the tag back under/through the wraps made around my thumb. After tightening carefully you get a nail knot. I also use this knot doubled on itself to tie flies to the leader(its a much better knot than an improved clinch)
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Check this tool out. I keep it on my lanyard. It makes tying nail knots a piece of cake.
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for T-14. You can make a nice loop for the end of T-14 with braided mono.
Flytyer, thanks for the info on tip and belly loops. Of particular interest was the use of three and not two nail knots for the tips, and covering them with flat-waxed or uni-thread. Coating the entire loop/braid with Aquaseal or Knot Sense is a terrific idea for smoothness. In the past I have only coated the nail knots.
Juro, the only way I know to connect LC-13/T-14 to a monocore running line is with Gudebrod #50 braid. I have some multifilament running lines, but they are floaters, and I want to use intermediate to get maximum depth with the heads.
Thanks again guys for the input.
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If I understand correctly your question is not about making loops but seamless connections.
To make the best seamless connections at least one of the two sides should have a braided core. You mentioned t-14 and clear int running. I am not certain if t-14 has a braided core but you can sure find many running lines with it. (I have a bunch and will check)
Another option is to use about a 6" joiner section that has a braided core to pull both the clear int and t14 into from either side.
Then just follow the standard pin vise splicing methods for seamless splicing.
I really like Gudebrod braided mono because it is stiffer than the other braided monos I've found on the market. I use it is either 35# or 50# for making loop on tips or line bellies. I either strip about 3"to4" of the line coating to expose the core, put a drop of super glue on the very tip of the core, slinking the core up inside the braided mono, double the mono-line core to form a loop of about 1/2" to 5/8", then nail knot the loop end to the line with 3 nail knots (the first one is place just in front of and tight against where the line coating ends) made with 10# mono (type of mono makes no difference). I then overwrap the loop from the first nail knot to the end of the line tag with flat waxed nylon or 3/0 Uni-thread. Cover the whole thing (including the loop) with Aquaseal or Loon SunCure to smooth it and stiffen the loop.
The other method I use at time is put a 4" to 5" piece of 20# or 25# maxima in the braided mono to stiffen it, loop this over the line end, then nail knot it to the line with 3 nail knots made with 10# mono. This also gets covered with flat waxed nylon or 3/0 Uni-thread to smooth it and tje whole thing including loop is likewise covered with Aquaseal or Loon SunCure.
If you are in a hurry, you can form the loop with the second method using the 20# mono in the braided mono and then use a piece of shrink tubing to cover the nail knots and smooth it out. The problem I've found with using shrink tubing is the line coating will crack and fail next to the shrink tubing after about 60 days of use. This is due to the heat needed to shrink the shrink tubing and the extra stiffness the shrink tubing imparts right where there is a lot of energy being transfered into the tip. The Aquaseal or SunCure coated loop will not have the line coating crack until the line is worn out.
Flytyer, thanks for the info on the uni/nail knot approach to a butt section on a doubled flyline. I'm so used to the albright with the lock, that tying a different knot, unless it is superior, will be my preferred approach.
New Question:Attaching LC13 or T14 to a running line, e.g. Rio Intermediate (.030 or .035) seamlessly, what approach do you recommend. What I have done is to use (per Bill Nash?) 50lb Guidebrod braid. He recommends about four inches per line, or a total of 8 inches with about an inch of overlap. Nail knot the overlap and the ends of the braid. It appears to be secure and somewhat smooth, but a more seamless method would be ideal. Any thoughts?
The nail knot or uni-knot on the doubled fly line does not have 2 or 3 turns in front of the doubled line like with the albright knot. Instead, what you do is tie the nail or uni-knot on the doubled fly line and as you are tying the knot, make sure that 2 or 3 turns of the knot go over both line legs, then 2 or 3 turns go over only one of the line legs (not both of them), followed by having another 2 turns of the knot over both line legs. With the nail knot, you then insert the tag end of the mono, thread it through the knot loops, and pull it tight. With the uni-knot, all you need do is pull the knot tight.
It is very secure because the 2 or 3 turns that go only over one and not both line legs locks the knot in place and prevents it from sliding off the end of the line or pulling the coating off the end of the line. This is how Aiflow recommended a leader butt be tied to the old single filament kevlar core lines they made back in the mid-late 80's.
Personally, I find the albright with the 3 turn uni-knot lock is easier and faster to tie. Back when I used the modified nail or uni-knots (as per the instructions above) they were very secure and would be comparable to the albright with uni-knot lock. Some folks don't like the look of the albright knot though and that is why I mentioned the slightly more compact modified nail or uni-knots.
|Thanks for the correction Jim, you're right that splice comment should have included "only for braided cores".
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I meant nail not blood knot when referring to connect butt to flyline.
I have used the epoxy splice on trout size connections, but admit a twinge of concern on larger species; alhtough, Dave Whitlok uses it with confidence on his connections. This splice can only be used on multifilament cores, I believe.
I assume you guys are talking nail knot, not blood knot in the above - or are you actually tying a blood knot between flyline and butt?
I've never had to do it for braided core lines of any kind but mono core lines are a different story - I like a doubled nail with the butt passing thru the folded over line best.
My favorite of all is the epoxy splice but it's not something you do in the field.
An albright with a lock (3-turn uni-knot) coated with Knot Sense is my standard flyline to butt section connection on my saltwater lines.
Thanks for the info on the blood or uni-knot on the doubled flyline with a two-turn lock on the tag end. Is this a more secure connection than the albright with a lock?
The albright with a uni-knot tied with the tag end of the backing or leader that gets pulled up tight against the doubled fly line loop of the albright makes for an extremely secure connection. It is how I attach the backing to all my fly lines.
Also, a nail knot or uni-knot tied over double fly line end makes for a very secure line-leader connection. Just remember to place 2 turns of the knot under the fly line tag either in the middle of the knot or at the very end near the fly line's loop to make sure it won't slip. This works with any fly line.
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Juro, great idea on the doubled flyline to complete the nail knot.
I'm curious about the uni-knot connection of the butt section to the flyline. I suppose it works the same as the albright or blood knot - wraps digging into the flyline coating.
I have found that the blood knot on Rio clear intermediate lines does not hold. That is, the crimped flyline coating separates from the monofilament core. Thus, I now use an albright on this particular intermediate line with a light coating of Knot Sense to taper and smooth the knot.
As suggested, a blood knot on doubled flyline should conceivable work the same as an albright.
Good thread.
Thanks for the reply. I use foam flyboxes most of the time (except for the swingleaf wheatleys) and the needles are poked into the foam and always available. I prefer the double-ended (eyes on both ends) because there is no point on them. I tie a loop of 30# backing thru the other eye and it stays on a zinger.
You just gave me a great idea... why not just drill a hole across a small nylon tube fly tube? That way it's cheap, not sharp and pulls the line thru the wraps for you too. A combination of the two ideas.
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By Parrish Alford/NEMS Daily Journal
Sam Kendricks hopes 19 feet is the new normal.
Because he's not sure that it is, neither he nor Ole Miss track coach Brian O'Neal are taking anything for granted in the SEC championships, scheduled for May 9-12 in Columbia, Mo.
Kendricks, a sophomore pole vaulter, cleared 19-0.75 at the Texas Relays on March 29, this season's leading world jump to date.
"I have a really high jump, but can I do it again? That's the question. Can I do it on the day?" he asked rhetorically.
Tennessee's Jake Blankenship and Arkansas' Andrew Irwin have both cleared at least 18-4.
The difference may be the ease with which Kendricks reaches the 18 mark these days. He has hit 18 or better nine times this season, more than anyone else in the NCAA.
Eighteen is his current normal.
"Now if I don't jump 18 feet, honestly, I'm unhappy, because I don't think I represented or jumped my best. I just have those means," Kendricks says.
Others in the conference have the means to knock off Kendricks if he's not on top of his game, he says.
O'Neal is counting on Kendricks for points but not Kendricks' alone. Sprinter Isiah Young, a London Olympian last summer, is back and was named the most outstanding collegiate performer at the Drake Relays last weekend when he set a school record with a 10.07 time in the 100 meters.
O'Neal, a Pontotoc native and the Rebels' first-year coach, says no event in the SECs is locked in advance.
"That is definitely something that we don't take lightly. Sam is going to go in there fully equipped, fully prepared to be at his best on that day," he said.
Kendricks at his best creates exciting possibilities.
As a freshman he won the pole vault five times in 10 outdoor meets. His vault of 18-0.5 was a second-place score at the SEC meet when he became the first Ole Miss vaulter to clear 18 feet.
Now he has an 18-foot comfort zone largely by being an aggressive goal-setter.
history of success
That's not a recent development. An Oxford native, Kendricks was a young member of the Oxford High program coached by his father, Scott Kendricks, when Sam set out to break the OHS pole vault record of 13-6 by his sophomore season. Scott Kendricks remains his son's coach in a volunteer position at Ole Miss.
Sam Kendricks accomplished his OHS record-breaking goal and finished high school with a best jump of 15-4.
Goals are bigger now. Kendricks' caused O'Neal to take a step back when they visited shortly after O'Neal's hiring last June.
"He came in immediately and said the goal is 19 feet. I immediately said, 'Well if the goal is 19 feet, that means you've got to get faster and stronger and mentally prepare yourself to push yourself to extremely high heights,'" O'Neal said.
Nineteen may be the next normal. So far this season Kendricks has been up to the mental challenge.
The technique work has focused on Kendricks' launch from the top of the pole, being able to jump above his hands when he runs out of pole.
"When the pole runs out at 17 feet, and you still want to jump 19 and change, you've got to jump above the top of that pole. And now we can do it with regularity," he said. "Being able to do that is what sets you a part as a world class jumper."
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Its been two short weeks since I set up my Twitter account and I am now convinced that social media can help us advance ocean conservation. I have just returned from the 10th International Seafood Summit in Hong Kong, where I led a panel on ocean acidification and live tweeted throughout the conference. Like Twitter itself, my social media journey has been fast-paced. In mid-August, I posted my first few bland tweets about ocean issues. "Great job" encouraged Sara, my Twitter mentor, "but don't be afraid to put a little more personality into your posts." As a scientist, that's not something I'm used to doing. I was trained to provide all the details and stick to the facts, and so too often dwell on the wonky policy implications of our work. But I am learning that cutting to the heart of the matter and emphazing the human dimension makes for a more engaging discussion. Continue reading »


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ABOUT the middle of the period of this illness, Sir E.L. Bulwer Lytton wrote to me an earnest suggestion that I should go to Paris to consult a sonmambule about the precise nature and treatment of my disease. He said I should probably think him insane for making such a proposition, but offered to supply me with his reasons, if I would listen to him. My reply was that I needed no convincing of the goodness of his advice, if only the measure was practicable. I had long been entirely convinced of the truth of the insight of somnambules, and should have been thankful to be able to make use of it: but there were two obstacles which appeared insurmountable. I could not move, in the first place. My medical adviser, my brother‐in‐law, had much wished to take me to London, for other opinions on my ease; but my travelling was altogether out of the question. Sir Charles Clarke had come into Northumberland afterwards, and he had visited me, and, after a careful inquiry into the case, had decided that the disease was incurable. After this, it was agreed on all hands that I could not travel. In the next place, I had to explain that the penalty on my consulting a somnambule, even if one could be brought to me, was, not only the loss of my medical comforts at Tynemouth, but of family peace,—so strong was the prejudice of a part of my family against mesmerism. There the matter rested till May, 1844, when, in the course of a fortnight, there were no less than three letters of advice to me to try mesmerism. My youngest sister wrote to me about a curious case which had accidentally come under the notice first, and then the management, of her husband,—a surgeon;—a case which showed that insensibility to pain under an operation could be produced, and that epilepsy of the severest kind had given way page: 473 under mesmerism, when all other treatment had long been useless. Mr. and Mrs. Basil Montagu wrote to entreat me to try mesmerism, and related the story of their own conversion to it by seeing the case of Ann Vials treated by their "dear young friend, Henry Atkinson,"—of whom I had never heard. The third was from a wholly different quarter, but contained the same counsel, on very similar grounds. Presently after, I was astonished at what my brother‐in‐law said in one of his visits. He told me that Mr. Spencer Hall, of whom I had never heard, was lecturing in Newcastle on mesmerism; that he (my brother) had gone to the lecture out of curiosity, and had been put into the chair, on the clear understanding that he accepted the post only to see fair play, and not at all as countenancing mesmerism, of which he fairly owned that he knew nothing whatever: that he had been deeply impressed by what he saw, and was entirely perplexed,—the only clear conviction that he had brought away being of the honesty and fairness of the lecturer, who was the first to announce such failures as occurred; and that he, (my brother) was anxious to see more of the lecturer, and disposed to advise my trying the experiment of being mesmerised, as possibly affording me some release from the opiates to which I was obliged to have constant recourse. I was as much pleased as surprised at all this, and I eagerly accepted the proposal that Mr. Spencer Hall should be brought to see me, if he would come. Some of my family were sadly annoyed by this proceeding; but, as the move was not mine, I felt no scruple about accepting its benefits. For between five and six years, every thing that medical skill and family care could do for me had been tried, without any avail; and it was now long since the best opinions had declared that the case was hopeless,—that, though I might live on, even for years, if my state of exhaustion should permit, the disease was incurable. I had tried all the methods, and taken all the medicines prescribed, "without" as my brother‐in‐law declared in writing, "any effect whatever having been produced on the disease;" and, now that a new experiment was proposed to me by my medical attendant himself, I had nothing to do but try it. This appears plain and rational enough to me now, as it did page: 474 then; and I am as much surprised now as I was then that any evil influence should have availed to persuade my mother and eldest sister that my trial of mesmerism was a slight to the medical adviser who proposed it, and my recovery by means of it a fit occasion for a family quarrel. For my part,—if any friend of mine had been lying in a suffering and hopeless state for nearly six years, and if she had fancied she might get well by standing on her head instead of her heels, or reciting charms or bestriding a broomstick, I should have helped her to try: and thus was I aided by some of my family, and by a further sympathy in others: but two or three of them were induced by an evil influence to regard my experiment and recovery as an unpardonable offence; and by them I never was pardoned. It is a common story. Many or most of those who have been restored by mesmerism have something of the same sort to tell; and the commonness of this experience releases me from the necessity of going into detail upon the subject.
I may also omit the narrative of my recovery, because it is given in "Letters on Mesmerism" which I was presently compelled to publish. There is among my papers my diary of the case,—a record carefully kept from day to day of the symptoms, the treatment, and the results. The medical men, and the few private friends who have seen that journal (which I showed to my medical adviser) have agreed in saying that it is as cool as if written by a professional observer, while it is so conclusive as to the fact of my restoration by the means tried in 1844, that "we must cease to say that any thing is the cause of any other thing, if the recovery was not wrought by mesmerism." These are the words which are before me in the hand‐writing of a wholly impartial reader of that journal.
I had every desire to bear patiently any troubles sure to arise in such a case from professional bigotry, and popular prejudice; but I must think that I had more than my share of persecution for the offence of recovery from a hopeless illness by a new method.—Occasion of offence was certainly given by some advocates of mesmerism, strangers to me, by their putting letters into the newspapers, praising me for my experiment, and ridi‐ page: 475 culing ridiculing the doctors for their repugnance to it; and one at least of these officious persons made several mistakes in his statement. I knew nothing of this for some time; and then only by the consequences. I must repeat here, what I have said elsewhere, that Mr. Spencer Hall had nothing to do with all this. Though he might naturally have been pleased with his own share in the business, and though many men would have considered themselves released from all obligation to silence by the publicity the matter soon obtained, he remained honourably silent, till he had my express permission to tell the story when and where he pleased. When he did tell it, it was with absolute accuracy. The first letters to the newspapers, meanwhile, drew out from the grossest and more ignorant of the medical profession, and also from some who ought to have been above exposing themselves to be so classified, speculations, comments, and narratives, not only foolish and utterly false in regard to facts, but so offensive that it was absolutely necessary to take some step, as no one intervened for my protection from a persecution most odious to a woman. After much consideration, it seemed to me best to send to (not a newspaper, but,) a scientific journal, a simple narrative of the facts,—making no allusion to any thing already published, but so offering the story as to lift it out of the professional mire into which it had been dragged, and to place it on its right ground as a matter of scientific observation. This was the act which was called "rushing into print."
The conduct of the editor who accepted and profited by my "Letters on Mesmerism" is so capital an illustration of the mode in which I and my coadjutors were treated on this occasion, and of that in which persons concerned in any new natural discovery are usually treated, that it may be profitable to give a brief statement of the facts as a compendium of the whole subject.—I wrote to one of the staff of the Athenæum, saying that I found it necessary to write my experience; and that I preferred a periodical like the Athenæum to a newspaper, because I wanted to lift up the subject out of the dirt into which it had been plunged, and to place it on a scientific ground, if possible. I said that I was aware that the editor of the Athenæum was an unbeliever page: 476 in mesmerism; but that this was no sufficient reason for my concluding that his periodical would be closed against a plain story on a controverted subject. I begged, at the outset, to say that I could take no money for my articles, under the circumstances; and that, if it was the rule of the Athenæum, as of some publications, to take no contributions that were not paid for, perhaps the editor might think fit to give the money to some charity. What I did require, I said, was, that my articles should appear unaltered, and that they and I should be treated with the respect due to the utterance and intentions of a conscientious and thoughtful observer. I hold the reply, in the hand‐writing of the editor, who eagerly accepted the proposed articles; and agreed without reserve to my conditions. The six "Letters" that I sent carried six numbers of the Athenæum through three editions. Appended to the last was a string of comments by the editor, consulting and slanderous to the last degree. For a course of weeks and months from that time, that periodical assailed the characters of my mesmeriser and of my fellow‐patient, the excellent girl whom I before described. It held out inducements to two medical men to terrify some of the witnesses, and traduce others, till the controversy expired in the sheer inability of the honest party to compete with rogues who stuck at no falsehoods: and finally, the Athenæum gave public notice that it would receive communications from our adversaries, and not from us. Meantime, Mr. Moxon wrote to ask me to allow him to reprint the "Letters" as a pamphlet; and I gave permission, declining to receive any profit from the sale. While the "Letters" were reprinting, the editor of the Athenæum actually wrote, and then sent his lawyer, to forbid Mr. Moxon to proceed, declaring that he claimed the property of the "Letters" by which he had already pocketed so large a profit. Of course the claim was absurd,—nothing having been paid for the articles,—which I had also told the editor it was my intention to allow to be reprinted. The editor finally stooped to say that I did not know that he had not given money on account of the "Letters" to some charity: but, when we asked whether he had, there was no reply forthcoming. Mr. Moxon of course proceeded in his re‐publication, and the editor page: 477 gained nothing by his move but the reputation, wherever the facts were known, of having achieved the most ill‐conditioned transaction, in regard to principle, temper and taste, known to any of those who read his letters, public and private, or heard the story.—As for me, what I did was this. When I found that a conscientious witness has no chance against unscrupulous informers, I ceased to bandy statements in regard to the characters of my coadjutors: (nobody attacked mine*) but I took measures which would avail to rectify the whole business, if it should ever become necessary to any of the injured parties to do so. I sent my solicitor to one of the unscrupulous doctors, to require from him a retractation of his original statement. This retractation, obtained in the presence, and under the sanction, of the doctor's witness, (his pastor) I now hold, in the slanderer's own hand‐writing: and it effectually served to keep him quiet henceforward. I hold also an additional legal declaration which establishes the main fact on which the somnambule's story of the
* The only doubtful point, as far as I know, about my own accuracy is one which is easily explained. I explained it in private letters at the time, but had no opportunity of doing more. My medical attendant charged me with first desiring that he should publish my case, and then being wroth with him for doing so. The facts are these. He spoke to me about sending an account of the case to a Medical Journal: I could not conceive why he consulted me about it; and I told him so; saying that I believed the custom was for doctors to do what they thought proper about such a proceeding; and that, as the patients are not likely ever to hear of such a use of their case, it does not, in fact, concern them at all. Some time after, he told me he was going to do it; and the very letter in which he said so enclosed one of the many very disagreeable applications at that time sent both to him and me from medical men,—requesting to know the facts of the case. My reply was that I was glad he was going to relieve me of such correspondence by putting his statement where medical men could learn what they wanted better than from me.—He then or afterwards changed his mind, forgetting to tell me so; and published the case,—not in a Medical Journal, where nobody but the profession would ever have seen it, and where I should never have heard of it,—but in a shilling pamphlet,—not even written in Latin,—but open to all the world! When, in addition to such an act as this, he declared that it was done under my sanction, I had much ado to keep any calmness at all. But the sympathy of all the world,—even of the medical profession,—was by this act secured to me: and the whole affair presently passed from my mind. The only consequence was that I could never again hold intercourse with one from whom I had so suffered.
page: 478 shipwreck was attempted to be overthrown. The whole set of documents has been shown to a great variety of people,—lawyers and clergymen, among others; and all but medical men have declared, under one form of expression or another, that the evidence is as strong as evidence can be on any transaction whatever. One eminent lawyer told me that the twelve Judges would be unanimous in regard to the truth of the parties concerned, and the certainty of the facts, from the documents which were offered to the public, and the two or three which I have held in readiness to fill up any gaps of which we were not in the first instance aware.—Such a persecution could hardly be repeated now, in regard to the particular subject,—after the great amount of evidence of the facts of mesmerism which the intervening years have yielded; but it will be repeated in regard to every new discovery of a power or leading fact in nature. Human pride and prejudice cannot brook discoveries which innovate upon old associations, and expose human ignorance; and, as long as any thing in the laws of the universe remains to be revealed, there is a tolerable certainty that somebody will yet be persecuted, whatever is the age of the world. We may hope, however, that long before that, men will have become ashamed of allowing rapacity and bad faith to make use of such occasions, as the Athenæum did in the year 1844.—I may just mention that the editor was an entire stranger to me. I had never had any acquaintance with him then; and I need not say that I have desired none since.
I was as familiar as most people with the old story of the unkindly reception of new truth in natural or moral science. I had talked and moralized, like every body else, on the early Christians, on Galileo, on Harvey and his discovery, and so forth: but it all came upon me like novelty when I saw it so near, and in a certain degree, though slightly, felt it myself. It is a very great privilege to have such an experience; and especially to one who, like me, is too anxious for sympathy, and for the good opinion of personal friends. That season of recovery was one of most profitable discipline to me. At times my heart would swell that people could be so cruel to sufferers, like poor page: 479 Jane and myself, recovering from years of hopeless pain; and again my spirit rose against the rank injustice of attempting to destroy reputations in a matter of scientific inquiry. But, on the whole, my strength kept up very well. I kept to myself my quiverings at the sight of the postman, and of newspapers and letters. After the first stab of every new insult, my spirit rose, and shed forth the vis medicatrix of which we all carry an inexhaustible fountain within us. I knew, steadily, and from first to last, that we were right,—my coadjutors and I. I knew that we were secure as to our facts and innocent in our intentions: and it was my earnest desire and endeavour to be no less right in temper. How I succeeded, others can tell better than I. I only know that my recovery, and the sweet sensations of restored health disposed me to good‐humour, and continually reminded me how much I had gained in comparison with what I had to bear. I owed much to the fine example of poor Jane. That good girl, whose health was much less firmly established, at that time, than mine, was an orphan, and wholly dependent on her own industry,—that industry being dependent on her precarious health, and on the character which two or three physicians first, and two or three journalists after them, strove by the most profligate plotting,* to deprive her of. They tried to confound her with a woman of loose character; they bullied and threatened her; they tried to set her relations against her. But she said cheerfully that people ought not to grumble at having some penalty to pay for such blessings as rescue from blindness and restoration to health by a new method; and moreover, that they should be glad to tell the truth about it, under any abuse, and to spread the blessing if they could. So she bore her share very quietly, and with wonderful courage resisted the bullies who waited for my separation from her to frighten her into con‐
* I think I ought to relate the anecdote alluded to, to show what treatment medical men inflict on women of any rank who have recourse to mesmerism.—A girl called on my mesmeriser (the widow of a clergyman) to say that a physician of Shields, who had enjoined her not to tell his name, had desired her to ask my friend to mesmerise her for Epilepsy. We took time to consider, and found on inquiry that the patient belonged to a respectable family, her brother, with whom she lived, being a banker's clerk, and living in a good house in Tynemouth, with his name on a brass plate on the door. We allowed her to come, attended by her sister; and she was mesmerised with obvious benefit. On the second occasion, two gentlemen from Newcastle were at tea with us. She had been introduced by the name of Ann; and Ann we called her. One of the gentlemen said, in an odd rough way, "Jane: her name is Jane:" and she said her name was Jane Ann. The next morning, he called, and very properly told us that the girl had been seduced at the age of fifteen, and had been afterwards too well known among the officers of the garrison. On inquiry, we found that she had long been repentant and reformed, so that she was now an esteemed member of the Methodist body: so we did not dismiss her to disease and death, but, with the sanction of my landlady, let her come while we remained at Tynemouth,—taking care so to admit her as that our own Jane should not see her again.—Some weeks after I had left Tynemouth, I was written to by a clergyman at Derby, who thought I ought to know what was doing by the "first physician in Derby." He was driving about, telling his patients, as by authority, about our Tynemouth proceedings. Among other things, he related that he was informed by a physician at Shields, that those proceedings of ours were most disreputable, as "Jane of Tynemouth was a girl of loose character, too well known among the officers there." The plot was now clear: and surely the story needs so comment. What were my wrongs, in comparison with my good Jane's?
page: 480 cessions: and, from that day to this, her healing hand, her time and her efforts have ever been at the service of the sick, to not a few of whom she has been a benefactress in their time of need. She has long been valued as she deserved; and she has probably forgotten that season of trial of her temper: but I felt at the time that I should never forget it; and I never have.
I was much aided and comforted during the five months that my recovery was proceeding by the visits of friends who knew more about mesmerism than I did, and who entirely approved my recourse to it. Among others came a gentleman and his wife whose name and connexions were well known to me, but whom I had not chanced ever to meet. The gentleman was one of the very earliest inquirers into mesmerism in England in our time; and he was a practiced operator. He came out of pure benevolence, at the suggestion of a mutual friend who saw, and who told him, that this was a case of life and death, which might terminate according to the preponderance of discouragement from my own neighbouring family, or encouragement from those who understood the subject better. He came, bringing his wife; and their visit was not the less pleasant for the urgent page: 481 need of it being almost past. They found me going on well under the hands of the kind lady who was restoring me. But it is clear that even then we were so moderate in our hopes as not to expect any thing like complete restoration. When they bade us farewell, we talked of meeting again at Tynemouth,—having no idea of my ever leaving the place; and in truth a journey did then appear about the most impossible of all achievements. A few weeks later, however, we had agreed that I should confirm my recovery by change of scene, and that the scene should be Windermere, on the shores of which my new friends were then living. They kindly urged their invitation on the ground that I must not give up being mesmerised suddenly or too soon, and that in their house there would be every facility for its daily use. So, early in January, 1845, my mesmeriser and I left Tynemouth, little thinking that I should never return to it. I had no sooner left my late home, however, than the evil spirit broke out so strongly, in the medical profession and in the discontented part of the family, that the consideration was forced upon me—why I should go back. There was indeed no attraction whatever but the sea; and if there had been every thing that there was not,—society, books, fine scenery, &c.,—they could have been no compensation for nonintercourse with the relations who were disconcerted at my mode of recovery.
My first anxiety was to ascertain whether, in the opinion of the family, my mother should be left undisturbed in her present arrangements at Liverpool, or whether I had further services to render to her. To allow time for the fullest understanding on this head, I resolved to spend six months or more in visiting those of my family who had approved my proceedings, and in lodgings near Windermere; after which, I would determine on my course of life.
One wintry morning, while walking to Waterhead with my host, we said "what wonderful things do come to pass!" We looked back to that day twelve months, when I was lying, sick and suffering for life, as every body supposed, on my couch at Tynemouth; and we wondered what I should have said if any page: 482 prophet had told me that that day twelve months I should be walking in a snow storm, with a host whom I had then never seen, looking for lodgings in which to undergo my transformation into a Laker!


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A crowd of approximately 150 gathered at the base of the iconic Seattle Space Needle to openly smoke marijuana at 12:00 this morning. The revelers had come to celebrate the moment marijuana possession became legal in Washington State, thanks to last month's passage of Initiative 502.
Not one police officer (in uniform) was to be seen, but news media were well represented. Cameras from KOMO & KING local news as well as national reporters from CNN, FOX, CBS and Canada's CBC were all in attendance, interviewing people and filming them lighting up joints and pipes in the chilly Seattle Center. I was there live-streaming for The Russ Belville Show and had the opportunity to talk to many of them. I also got to speak to many people in the crowd.
"I'm here from Oklahoma on business," said one middle-aged man, "and something like this would fill our county jail for a while." A set of three young women from California noted the irony that Washington has legal weed and nowhere to buy it and California has just the opposite. An older gentleman from Seattle talked about finally wearing his favorite marijuana hat in public without feeling like he was promoting crime. A group of locals who'd been waiting since 10:30pm said they braved the cold just to celebrate freedom with others. A young man with neck tattoos acting very paranoid was the only unpleasant part of the crowd, and even he was a decent freestyle rapper.
Soon a van had shown up with some speakers to pump out some music. We counted down from five minutes, from one minute, 10, 9, 8... and suddenly marijuana possession was legal. A cheer arose from the crowd, followed by a hush, followed by a very large cloud of marijuana smoke and cold breath. The first tune to play as people enjoyed their first legal toke was "Smoke 2 Joints" by Sublime. Most notably, not a bit of the sky fell, the earth continued to rotate on its axis, and Seattle went on with its business completely unconcerned with a bunch of people openly smoking pot.
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This just blows my mind.
Well, you can get high (legally) at the Space Needle now....
Can't do it publicly.
A group of locals who'd been waiting since 10:30pm said they braved the cold just to celebrate freedom with others.
Can't do it publicly.
I guess the police were just looking the other way in this instance.
Later that night, i saw a guy rolling a blunt on a park bench. There was a cop about 10 ft away standing at the entrance of a music venue. I don't know if he saw him but he didn't appear to be disturbed. And the guy had a grinder out along with a plate balanced on his knee. I don't know how he could be missed.
they will continually look the other way if I had my bet....especially in seattle. Unless you piss them off somehow.
Most notably, not a bit of the sky fell, the earth continued to rotate on its axis, and Seattle went on with its business completely unconcerned with a bunch of people openly smoking pot.
quote: This just blows my mind. Like Colin Williams??
...three guys were smoking a joint on the smoking patio.
Are businesses allowed to prohibit smoking dope?
...but will they still bust you for testing positive for thc in a drug test?
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Ugh... There are much better developers out there than EA, but at least BioWare will get to continue developing their star wars games. I would have loved, however, someone like 2K Games get a shot at bringing the "BioShock" experience to a Star Wars game.
Noticeably missing is the mention of Star Wars 1313.
Speaking of which, did anyone happen to see the hour-long Battlefront 3 preview? Looked really promising.


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By Ben Levisohn
The 1980′s hair-metal band White Lion once sang "Wait, wait…I only wanna say I love you one more time." And while that song felt interminable, it's got nothing compared to waiting for the Fed to say something–anything–that will give investors a clue whether they should say "good bye" to quantitative easing.
Once, again, stocks are trading little changed this morning. The S&P 500 has fallen 0.1% to 1,650.67, the Dow Jones Industrials has dipped 0.1% to 14,983 and the Nasdaq Composite has ticked up 0.1% to 3,616.05.
The Fed minutes later today should give everyone something to talk about, but no matter what happens, Strategas economist Don Rissmiller believes the earlier the Fed moves, the better. He writes:
The earlier the Fed starts their tapering action, the more slowly they can move. As we've mentioned previously, the FOMC has given us an end point for additional QE – that is, they would like it to be over by the time unemployment gets down to 7%. In contrast, the Fed has given a loose starting point for consideration on the fed funds rate – when unemployment falls through the 6.5% threshold, they will start talking about when interest rates should (eventually) rise. Given this difference in communication, and the fear of creating a "QE cliff" by changing policy quickly, a slow taper makes sense. To taper slowly, and still hit your end-point, it then makes sense to start sooner. Bottom line, a small September taper is probably the good outcome, rather than something to be feared, in the U.S.
That's especially true as the market not only waits for tapering but for more information about who will replace Ben Bernanke as chairman of Federal Reserve–a decision that will have far reaching implications for monetary policy. The Washington Post discusses what's happening behind the scenes as Larry Summers and Janet Yellen battle for the nomination:
Rarely has the appointment of a new Fed chairman been accompanied by so much commotion, penetrating even the political dead zone of mid-August. "I wouldn't want Larry Summers to mow my yard," Sen. Pat Roberts (Kan.)told an audience in his state this week, becoming the first Republican to announce that he would oppose a nomination of the former Treasury secretary.
The fight pits allies of Summers, who also was Obama's top economic adviser during the darkest days of the recession, against those of rival candidate Janet Yellen, the Fed vice chairman who has been an architect of the bank's effort to reduce unemployment rates.
Nasdaq OMX Group (NDAQ) has gained 1.8% to $31.78 after being upgraded to Strong Buy from Outperform at Raymond James.
Target (TGT) has dropped 1.6% to $66.87 after reporting earnings of 97 cents per share, above forecasts for 96 cents, but lowered its full-year earnings guidance.
PetSmart(PETM) has fallen 5% to $71.25 after missing earnings estimates.
Potash Corp (POT) has dropped 0.7% to $29.80 and Mosaic (MOS) has fallen 1.6% to $41.30 after HSBC downgraded the companies to Underweight.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 8, 2013 - Nestlé Prepared Foods Company today announced the voluntary recall of two production codes of LEAN CUISINE® Culinary Collection Mushroom Mezzaluna Ravioli, UPC 13800-58358. The production codes are 2311587812 and 2312587812; the "best before date" appears as DEC 2013.
The voluntary recall is limited to these two days of production, which were distributed nationwide. No other production dates, sizes or varieties of LEAN CUISINE products are affected by this recall. The reason for the recall is that the meal may contain fragments of glass. Nestlé is taking this action after three consumers reported they had found small fragments of glass in the ravioli portion of the entrée. No injuries were reported by any of the consumers.
The entrée being recalled was produced during early November, 2012. Due to its popularity, Nestlé believes very little remains in retail distribution. For this reason, Nestlé is reaching out to consumers to ask that they examine their freezer inventory for specific packages of LEAN CUISINE®, Culinary Collection Mushroom Mezzaluna Ravioli, UPC 13800-58358 with production codes 2311587812 and 2312587812 and a "best before date" which appears as DEC 2013. To locate the production code, consumers should look for the gray "proof of purchase" panel, located on the right end flap of the package, below the ingredient statement.
Consumers who may have purchased the recalled LEAN CUISINE item should not consume the product, but instead should contact Nestlé Consumer Services at (866) 586-9424 or firstname.lastname@example.com for further instructions. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., ET and this Saturday, February 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nestlé will provide a replacement coupon to reporting consumers and also may make arrangements to retrieve the product for further examination.
Nestlé is dedicated to food quality, and the health and safety of its consumers. For these reasons, the company initiated this recall. We apologize to our retail customers and consumers and sincerely regret any inconvenience created by this voluntary product recall.
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The powerhouses of Massachusetts's Democratic Party have rallied behind Niki Tsongas's bid to succeed Fifth District US Congressman Marty Meehan, and their support has helped bring an impressive million dollars in contributions to her campaign's coffers. Those party elites assumed that their support and cash, combined with her name recognition, should by now have made her a shoo-in for the nomination: competitors should be dropping out, unions should be clamoring to join her winning team, and polls should show her widening her lead.
But that doesn't seem to be happening. According to a number of people following the race, the Democratic nomination appears to be as wide open as ever.
In fact, a recent poll conducted by competitor Eileen Donoghue, the former mayor of Lowell, showed that, since the start of the race, Tsongas's support has dropped from 35 to 26 percent among likely voters in the September 4 Democratic primary. In response, her campaign replaced its field director (in what seemed to be an admission that the campaign was stumbling), hiring Augustus Bickford this past week to improve the ground organization that will make or break the get-out-the-vote effort come Election Day. (Please see Editor's Note, below.)
In a way, Tsongas's failure to dominate the race is unsurprising — if anything, it's surprising that the party powers flocked to Tsongas despite her obvious flaws as a candidate. Aside from having been married to the late former senator Paul Tsongas, she has little relevant experience for the job, having never held public office nor played a significant role in any government agency. (Currently she serves as dean of external affairs at Middlesex Community College.) Tsongas also has been living outside the district, and her generally progressive ideology is almost indistinguishable from that of the other major candidates, including Donoghue and State Representatives Barry Finegold and Jamie Eldridge.
That's not to say that Tsongas would be a poor choice to represent the Fifth District. If their conversations with the Phoenix are any indication, even other campaigns' staffers seem to like her. But some observers are wondering: why did all the party powerhouses take her side in a race that features several strong Democratic candidates?
Some of the other candidates' staffs and supporters are miffed that so many top Dems lined up behind Tsongas so quickly. After all, Tsongas's contributors comprise a virtual Who's Who of the state's Democratic fundraisers (Ronald Ansin, Steve Grossman, Alan Solomont, Barry White), former officeholders (Cheryl Cronin, Scott Harshbarger), lobbyists (Thomas O'Neill, Robert White), developers (Robert Beal, Jay Cashman), and cultural leaders (Charles Ansbacher, Susan Paine, Josiah Spaulding).
Plus, many of the most influential women in the state have jumped on her bandwagon. JudyAnn Bigby, Mary Breslauer, Nonnie Burnes, Elyse Cherry, Jane Garvey, Barbara Grossman, Swanee Hunt, Gloria Larson, Barbara Lee, Jesse Mermell, and Elaine Schuster have all contributed to the Tsongas campaign.
It's the kind of coordinated women's support you might expect to converge around a promising female politician, but not when two viable women are running against each other. And it's particularly odd to see politically influential women rejecting Donoghue, the more experienced woman in the race, in favor of the candidate known mostly by her husband's work. Even EMILY's List, which routinely promotes women running for office, has taken the unusual step of endorsing and raising money for Tsongas — as if Donoghue didn't exist.
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Freedom of expression, a simple idea with complicated implications, is at the center of two major international battles right now. The first, prompted by the publication in Europe of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, fell into the well-worn rift between the Muslim world—which views the drawings as blasphemous—and the liberal democracies, which protect free speech even when it is insulting.
The second fight is over the willingness of U.S. software firms to help China create "censored" versions of their Internet search engines. The issue—outlined in this CFR Background Q&A by cfr.org's Robert McMahon—was subject to February 15 hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives. The basic question: whether the desire of firms like Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and Yahoo to tap into the lucrative China market outweighs America's oft-stated national interest in fostering democracy in the world's most populous nation (CNN).
Lawmakers from both parties made it clear they feel it does not. One senior Democrat, Tom Lantos of California, termed the U.S. firms' practices a disgrace (AP).
Neither China nor the software giants would frame the issue that way. For China, abiding by tough laws that restrict free speech—explained in this CFR Background Q&A—is the price of doing business there. China says its censorship is mostly about things like pornography (China Daily), though much evidence suggests otherwise. China's censorship policies, and the motives behind them, are further explored in this recent report from the Congressional Research Service.
The U.S. companies offer a more complicated rationale. Echoing the arguments of American firms that did business in South Africa in the 1980s, they say their software does far more good than harm by delivering information otherwise unavailable. Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin, says this argument won him over in spite of his own experiences as a boy in the Soviet Union. In an interview with Fortune magazine, Brin reasoned even restricted access to Google "will be better for the Chinese Web users, because ultimately they would get more information, though not quite all of it."
Yahoo and Microsoft offer similar arguments. Yahoo has gone a step further, though, deciding to sell a majority share of its servers in China to local control (CSMonitor), theoretically putting its practices out of U.S. jurisdiction.
On Tuesday, the State Department, responding to a request from the software makers, announced creation of a task force to examine problems posed by repressive regimes (TechWeb News) to Internet commerce and speech.
Why all the fuss? Beyond matters of pure principle, not always a pivotal factor in competitive corporate decision making, there is a human cost. Reporters Without Borders, an international media watchdog, says over eighty Chinese dissidents are in jail, due in part to information Yahoo's Chinese subsidiary turned over the authorities there.
For all this, China's efforts—and U.S. corporate complicity—may ultimately fail to control the exchange of ideas. Bloggers, dissidents, and journalists often find what they want on the Internet in spite of all the censors (Guardian).


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Excerpts from a documentary entitled "The Character of George Washington" will be screened at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in McCosh 50.
Michael Pack, the film's executive producer and director, and Rick Brookhiser, its on-screen host and writer, will attend and answer questions about the production. A reception will follow the screening at 6 p.m. in the lobby of the Art Museum.
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World in Conflict Benchmark Results
The latest version of Massive's proprietary Masstech engine utilizes DX10 technology and features advanced lighting and physics effects, and allows for a full 360 degree range of camera control. Massive's MassTech engine scales down to accommodate a wide range of PC specifications, if you've played a modern PC game within the last two years, you'll be able to play World in Conflict.
World in Conflict's FPS-like control scheme and 360-degree camera make its action-strategy game play accessible to strategy fans and fans of other genres... if you love strategy, you'll love World in Conflict. If you've never played strategy, World in Conflict is the strategy game to try.
Based on the test results charted below it's clear that WiC doesn't place a limit on the maximum frame rate (to prevent a waste of power) which is good for full-spectrum benchmarks like ours, but bad for electricity bills. The average frame rate is shown for each resolution in the chart below. World in Conflict just begins to place demands on the graphics processor at the 1680x1050 resolution, so we'll skip the low-res testing.
The GT200 series GPUs from NVIDIA seem to have a distinct advantage with the World In Conflict benchmark. The GTX260-216 pulls out a 6 FPS lead over the HD5770 at 1680x1050 and holds onto it at the higher 1920x1200 resolution. The GTX275 and GTX285 pile on another 4-6 FPS above that. Also, the HD4850 comes close to the performance of the HD5770, even in the higher resolution testing, despite having only 512MB of memory to play with. Something is clearly not optimized in this benchmark for the latest ATI version of pixel processing hardware.
Our last benchmark of the series brings DirectX 11 into the mix, a situation that only one of the cards under test is capable of handling.
i cant seem to know the problem with my set up why im getting a low scores on benchmark test with re5 using ati 5770 GPU.
scores with the same set-up: 1920 x 1200 with all settings were max out 8xAA was only 24.1fps with the single card and 42.1 fps with crossfire setup.
GPU: Sapphire ATI 5770 Vapor X crossfire config with 1 crossfire cable connected
Proci: thuban 1090t h50 water cooled
mobo: msi 790gx-65g
hdd: samsung 500gb 7200rpm 3.5
mem: ocz obsidian dd3 1600mhz 4GB ( 2by2Gb)
PSU: thermaltake litepower 600w
Monitor: Sony 32in bravia lcd TV
software: dx 11 cat 10.11 win 7
can somebody please help..could it be some components maybe bottleneck?


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text: Thank you for choosing Squidward as Bulldog of the Month. I got Squid from Rod and Kim Mason as I did his brothers Plankton and Viper. Squid was 9 months when I got him, hard to believe he's already 6 years old. Squid is a very serious, smart Bulldog and understands everything. Squid LOVES to go for rides in the car and walks, problem is he can out walk anyone. He is extremely stubborn and refuses to go home until he feels his walk is complete. Squid gets a daily sponge bath as one of his favorite things to do is roll his entire body and face in the dirt. Squiddy is very attached to me and loves to snuggle. If I get up for anything he will sit up and wait to lay back down until I am there with him, even if it means sitting up with his eyes closed. He has to be touching me all the time, another reason why he gets the daily sponge bath. :) Squid has his Grandma trained to give him LOTS of treats when she is Bully-Sitting for him and his brothers. Squid is very tolerant of his little brother Viper and all of his antics. Plankton is Squid's Best Buddy and they love to lay next to each other in the sun and watch Viper cause trouble. Squid is a very needy Bulldog, he requires numerous hugs and kisses daily. Squid is My Lovey. This photo of Squid is one of my favorite pictures of him and was taken by Rod Mason. Love, Michelle, Plankton, Squidward and Viper.


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Andrew Lyke is the Director of the Office for Black Catholics. He and his wife are co-founders of ArusiNetwork. From 1999 to 2009 he was the Coordinator of Marriage Ministry for the Archdiocese.
I grew up in Bronzeville, the neighborhood where the Cardinal Meyer Center is located. The grammar school I went to is just around the corner, and the building of the Ida B. Wells housing projects where I lived from 1954 to 1967 was only a couple of blocks away. While this neighborhood was where I was raised and nurtured into my mid-teens, it was also an area from which my family hastened to leave at the dawn of open housing in the mid-1960s. Yet, in my adulthood I often reminisce on my childhood among people who cared about each other and where community bonds were strong.
Each time I come to work I feel as though I'm walking on hallowed ground, not just because of reveries of a time gone by, but also because Bronzeville is still a neighborhood with families struggling for quality of life. The Office for Black Catholics has been involved with a grassroots effort to bring an arts and recreation center to this community.
Fact: From the Dan Ryan to Western Avenue and from I-55 to 55th Street there are 108,000 people and eight large Park District field houses. A similar size area, which includes Bronzeville, borders the Dan Ryan on the west, the Lake on the east, and south of the Loop to 55th Street, has 102,000 people and not even one such Park District facility.
Another fact: The peak hours of juvenile crime are from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., with the biggest, most dangerous burst coming in the very first hour after school. Having an arts and recreation center in the community would be a proactive approach to addressing juvenile crime.
A great deal of planning has already taken place to design the facility, and a tentative site (35th & Cottage Grove) has been chosen. Funding is estimated at $20 million and is yet to be committed. An open letter to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Park District General Superintendent and CEO, Michael Kelly, and Housing Authority CEO, Charles Woodyard is being drafted to encourage them to make the Bronzeville Arts & Recreation Center a reality.
For us who work at Meyer, this is an initiative that will uplift the community in which we work. It will serve families who are our neighbors. I encourage us to take an interest in this initiative and support it by signing the open letter when it's completed. Visit and like the Facebook page: www.facebook.com/BronzevilleArtsAndRecCenterNow to stay abreast of this initiative.
Monday, November 19, 2012 8:34 PM
What a worthy initiative! I recall how much my family utilized park district facilities when we were in the city. I hope this endeavor is successful.
— Mary-Louise H.
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