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If she starts to ease up on herself, maybe her game will really flow again.

anon 11:50 - That is the word, and also why Anna Wintour was there in Miami (maybe that's why Fed imploded - jealousy much?)RiCHhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253867020130053273.post-90638868992447920032009-04-08T08:50:00.000-07:002009-04-08T08:50:00.000-07:00wasn't there also a Miami photo shoot with Rafa at...wasn't there also a Miami photo shoot with Rafa at the same hotel...i think it was for Vogue? any idea when it's coming email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253867020130053273.post-44368300388923727402009-04-08T08:44:00.000-07:002009-04-08T08:44:00.000-07:00My sentiments exactly, Jayz!My sentiments exactly, Jayz!vanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253867020130053273.post-63525717863879725072009-04-08T07:40:00.000-07:002009-04-08T07:40:00.000-07:00Had she used this time to improve her faltering ga...Had she used this time to improve her faltering game... But I guess she earns more money this way than actually winning matches and tournaments.Jayzhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Not trying to start a flame war or get into a gun battle over the different control philosophies here.
I'm just curious to hear from Airbus pilots - what is it like to fly with the side stick? Is it easier or harder than a conventional yoke? Does the computer system take up some of the workload of keeping the wings level or maintaining a desired pitch angle that you would have to do for yourself with a Boeing's yoke and trim controls?
Is there a mode where you are directly controlling the ailerons/elevators with no computer intervention? Seems like that would be much harder to do with a stick. Would you have to manually trim in that case?
I have about 40 hours in Cessna 172s so I have a rudimentary understanding of flight controls. But the Airbus system is a bit of a mystery still.
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I just built my first wheel and discovered that I have it backwards. It is a disc wheel (front) and the disc-side spokes are angled incorrectly for the torsion force, they will push instead of pulling tighter.
Do I need to start over, or can I just un-do one side somehow?
It's not a big deal if I have to start over...
(other than that, I'm actually pretty happy with it. It's a lot truer and rounder than I thought I'd be able to do myself, but I do need to work on the dishing)


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Geovany Soto strains his oblique, scratched from lineup - ESPN Chicago
The injury bug bites again... why can't the Cubs just stay healthy?
I believe that this was the injury that was bothering him when the Cubs broke camp.
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Geovany Soto strains his oblique, scratched from lineup - ESPN Chicago
The injury bug bites again... why can't the Cubs just stay healthy?
They are the Cubs, that's what happens to them. Sucks.
Go Clones!!
Gig 'em Aggies!!
Saw 'em off!!
We have played a full TWO games with our opening day lineup. Absolutely ridiculous.
Just when Ramirez finally returns... maybe when Soto comes back he will get hot because he hasn't been hitting like he was last year
Obliques are not too serious typically...he should be back after the All Star Break. So far this season, Koyie Hill is about as good of a replacement.
Left oblique strain to force Soto to DL | MLB.com: News
Soto to DL, out for at least a month it looks like.
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posted at 1/6/2011 7:58 PM ESTMartha's Point on the Sudbury River, just above Fairhaven Bay ... I grew up very nearby, and although I have lived over a thousand miles away for over thirty years, that came to mind instantly.
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posted at 1/7/2011 10:30 AM ESTNever been! I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the suggestion.
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posted at 1/9/2011 3:56 PM ESTMy favorite place is the drive down Monument Street...from Concord Center past the North Bridge, down to the Fenn School on the right and then the long and winding road of beautiful horse farms, meadows and homes. The drive is especially scenic during autumn!
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posted at 1/26/2011 12:39 PM ESTI love the rotary. The nice thing about it is that you get to kick back, unwind from the hurry-hurry-hurry of the workday during the 25 minute crawl through it, while taking in such sights as MCI-Concord, the Paparazzi Chain Restaurant, and the State Police barracks. Takes your breath away.


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Eighty-fifth session
17 October – 3 November 2005
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5, paragraph 4,
of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant
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Communication No. 862/1999
Alleged victims: Hafeez Hussain, Hazerat Hussain, Vivakanand Singh and Tola Persaud
State party: Guyana (1)
Date of communications: 16 and 22 March 1999 (initial submissions)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 25 October 2005,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 862/1999, submitted to the Human Rights Committee on behalf of Sumintra Singh and Hazerat Hussain under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Having taken into account all written information made available to it by the author of the communication, and the State party,
Adopts the following:
1.2 In accordance with rule 92 of the Committee's Rules of Procedure, the Committee through its Special Rapporteur for New Communication, requested the State party on 22 April 1999 not to carry out the death sentence against Mr. Hussain and Mr. Singh, while their cases were under consideration by the Committee.
Factual background
2. On 1 September 1993, Arnold Ramsammy was robbed and shot dead in his house. All four alleged perpetrators were arrested between 3 and 4 September 1993 in relation to the crime. On 26 March 1996, Hafeez Hussain and Vivakanand Singh were convicted of murder. Pursuant to article 101 of the Laws of Guyana: Criminal Law (Offences), which provides that "Everyone who commits murder shall be guilty of felony and liable to suffer death as a felon", the Magistrate's Court of the Corentyne District automatically imposed the death sentence. On the same date, Hazrath Hussain and Tola Persaud were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years and three years of imprisonment, respectively. In March of 1996, the four accused appealed their convictions to the Court of Appeal. The grounds of appeal were, inter alia, that the trial judge omitted to direct the jury adequately on the law relating to identification, and that he did not adequately deal with the effects the evidentiary statements said to be inconsistent.
The complaint
3. The authors claim that the trial in Corentyne District Court, following which they were automatically sentenced to death, was unfair. They argue inter alia that the police daily-record book which contained entries about the "real" authors of the crime was lost during the trial; that some testimonies of witnesses were not taken into account while a police officer's contradictory testimony, as well as other testimonies with significant discrepancies, were used against the accused; that the trial judge did not direct the jury how to approach these issues, in particular the reliability of evidentiary testimonies; that the officer-in-charge of the investigation, who was related to the deceased, had a conflict of interest so that, according to the authors, his findings were partial; and that the guilty verdict was reached even after the appellate judges allegedly commented that the case was "a fabrication".
Failure of State party to cooperate
4. On 22 April 1999, 18 December 2000 and 24 July 2001, the State party was requested to submit to the Committee information on the admissibility and merits of the communication. The Committee notes that this information has not been received. The Committee regrets the State party's failure to provide any information with regard to the admissibility or the substance of the authors' claims. It recalls that it is implicit in article 4, paragraph 2, of the Optional Protocol that States parties examine in good faith all the allegations brought against them, and that they make available to the Committee all information at their disposal. In the absence of a reply from the State party, due weight must be given to the authors' allegations, to the extent that they have been properly substantiated.
Issues and Proceedings before the Committee
Consideration of admissibility
5.1 Before considering any claim contained in a communication, the Human Rights Committee must, in accordance with article 93 of its rules of procedure, decide whether or not it is admissible under the Optional Protocol to the Covenant.
5.2 The Committee has ascertained that the same matter is not being examined under another procedure of international investigation or settlement (article 5, paragraph 2(a), of the Optional Protocol).
5.3 On the issue of exhaustion of domestic remedies, the Committee notes that the alleged victims appealed their convictions to the Court of Appeal, the court of final appeal in the State party, although the outcome of the appeal is not apparent from the material before the Committee. In the absence of arguments from the State party to the effect that domestic remedies had not in fact been exhausted, it follows that the Committee is not precluded from article 5, paragraph 2(b), of the Optional Protocol from consideration of the communication.
5.4 As to the issues of unfair trial raised by the authors, the Committee notes that this part of the authors' allegations relate to the evaluation of evidence and to the instructions given by the judge to the jury. The Committee recalls its jurisprudence and reiterates that it is generally for the courts of States parties to the Covenant to evaluate facts and evidence in a particular case. (2) Similarly, it is not for the Committee to review specific instructions to the jury by the trial judge, unless it can be ascertained that the instructions to the jury were clearly arbitrary or amounted to a denial of justice. (3) On the material before it, the Committee cannot establish that the trial judge's instructions or the conduct of the trial suffered from such deficiencies as to raise issues under the provisions of the Covenant. Accordingly, this part of the communication is insufficiently substantiated, for purposes of admissibility, and is inadmissible under article 2 of the Optional Protocol.
5.5 The Committee considers, however, that the issue of the mandatory imposition of the death sentence on Messrs. Hafeez Hussain and Vivakanand Singh raises sufficiently substantiated issues under article 6 of the Covenant and proceeds to examine this matter on the merits.
Consideration of the merits
6.1 The Human Rights Committee has considered the present communication in the light of all the information made available to it by the parties, as provided under article 5, paragraph 1, of the Optional Protocol.
6.2 The Committee notes that, with respect to Messrs. Hafeez Hussain and Vivakanand Singh, the death sentence was passed by the trial court automatically, once the jury rendered its verdict that those accused were guilty of murder. In doing so, the trial court applied the provisions of article 101 of the Laws of Guyana: Criminal Law (Offences), which provides that "Everyone who commits murder shall be guilty of felony and liable to suffer death as a felon." Article 101 of the Criminal Law therefore was applied automatically without regard being able to be paid to the defendant's personal circumstances or the circumstances of the particular offence or facts and evidence of each individual case. The Committee refers to its jurisprudence that the automatic and mandatory imposition of the death penalty constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of life, in violation of article 6, paragraph 1, of the Covenant, in circumstances where the death penalty is imposed without regard being able to be paid to the defendant's personal circumstances or the circumstances of the particular offence. (4) It follows that the automatic imposition of the death penalty in the authors' cases violated their rights under article 6, paragraph 1, of the Covenant.
6.3 The Human Rights Committee, acting under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, is of the view that the facts before it reveal violations by the State party of article 6, paragraph 1 of the Covenant.
7. In accordance with article 2, paragraph 3(a), of the Covenant, the State party is under an obligation to provide Messrs. Hafeez Hussain and Vivakanand Singh with an effective remedy, including commutation of their death sentence.
8 Bearing in mind that, by becoming a State party to the Optional Protocol, the State party has recognized the competence of the Committee to determine whether there has been a violation of the Covenant or not. Pursuant to article 2 of the Covenant, the State party has undertaken to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights recognized in the Covenant and to provide an effective and enforceable remedy in case a violation has been established, the Committee wishes to receive from the State party, within 90 days, information about any measures taken to give effect to the Committee's Views.
[Adopted in English, French and Spanish, the English text being the original version. Subsequently to be issued also in Arabic, Chinese and Russian as part of the Committee's annual report to the General Assembly.]
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present communication: Mr. Nisuke Ando, Mr. Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati, Mr. Alfredo Castillero Hoyos, Mr. Maurice Glèlè Ahanhanzo, Mr. Edwin Johnson, Mr. Walter Kälin, Mr. Ahmed Tawfik Khalil, Mr. Michael O'Flaherty, Ms. Elisabeth Palm, Mr. Rafael Rivas Posada, Sir Nigel Rodley, Mr. Ivan Shearer, Mr. Hipólito Solari-Yrigoyen and Mr. Roman Wieruszewski.
1. Guyana denounced the Optional Protocol on 5 January 1999 and re-acceded to it on the same date with a reservation related to the competence of the Committee to examine death penalty cases. The reservation became effective on 5 April 1999.
2. See Errol Simms v. Jamaica Case No. 541/1993, Decision adopted on 3 April 1995; Lyndon Marriott v. Jamaica Case No. 519/1992,Views adopted on 27 October 1995, at para 6.3; and Catalina Marín Contreras v. Spain Case No. 1099/2002 Decision adopted on 17 March 2005.
3. See Lloyd Reece v. Jamaica Case No. 796/1998,Views adopted on 14 July 2003, at para. 7.3.
4. See Thompson v. St. Vincent & The Grenadines (Case No. 806/1998), Views adopted on 18 October 2000; and Kennedy v. Trinidad & Tobago (Case No. 845/1998), Views adopted on 26 March 2002; Carpo et al. v. Philippines Case No. 1077/2002, Views adopted on 28 March 2003; Ramil Rayos v. Philippines Case No. 1167/2003, Views adopted on 27 July 2004.


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Dear Carleton,
As a racer, you must be very particular about your tires selection. What are some of your favourite tires (both clinchers and tubulars) and what are some of your least favourites (both track and road)?
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"University calls the amount of white people on campus a 'failure,' asks for ideas on how to have fewer"
Looking for ways to limit whites on campus isn't racism, you see. It's a push for "diversity" — because, let's face it, all white people have the same ideas, same social experiences, same nurtured backgrounds, and are essentially carbon copies of one another, a kind of pale horde, indistinguishable from one another and therefore, because of sheer numbers, overdetermined on university campuses.
To argue otherwise just proves how racist you are. QED!
A school-wide questionnaire at Western Washington University (WWU) asked the community "How do we make sure that in future years 'we are not as white as we are today?'"
The question, released through the communications and marketing department's daily newsletter Western Today, comes on the heels of admonishments given in multiple convocation addresses by WWU President Bruce Shepard for the university's "failure" to be less white.
"Every year, from this stage and at this time, you have heard me say that, if in decades ahead, we are as white as we are today, we will have failed as university," Shepard said in the 2012 speech.
And in a recent blog post on WWU's website, Shepard echoes these sentiments, saying those who do not agree "have not thought through the implications of what is ahead for us or, more perniciously, assume we can continue unchanged."
Listening to this pablum, or the incoherent race baiting of people like Nancy Pelosi, who sequester themselves in the most gentrified of areas, freezing out the minority element they claim to champion but truly despise, save for how they can use them as props in election year demagoguery, leads me to believe that, yes, Chris Matthews is absolutely correct: Racism is all around us, and we're swimming in it.
Of course, what he doesn't tell you that it is he and the progressive race-baiters and race hustlers and identity politics front groups that make up that particular mire we're increasingly being forced to paddle through.


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I'm sitting by a lake in the Rocky Mountains as I write this, being bitten to death by mosquitoes the size of cats and I don't think there's any part of my body that doesn't hurt. Given that I swim about a mile a day I thought I was quite fit. Turns out I'm not. That said, we're having a brilliant holiday with just enough of an element of danger to make us feel intrepid.
On our first day we went white water rafting and given that the river is at a forty year high due to exceptional snowfall followed by exceptional rainfall it was quite turbulent. Still our guide did say it is rare for people to fall out. Not for our family. At the first challenging bit, 4 out of the 6 of us fell out of the raft. The water was 6 degrees and though we had wetsuits on it felt incredibly cold. As we fell Michael cracked me so hard on the head with his oar everything went black for a second and I still have a tender spot days later (and that was through my helmet). We all managed to grab the raft, poor George looked really scared being flung about and frozen. Michael managed to shove him back into the raft but by then we were heading for some rocks so fast Michael had to let go and got swept around the corner out of view. At that point, I did feel alarmed, not least because our guide who was really experienced, seemed to be too. We got the raft to the bank and he leapt out and went running over the rocks shouting back at us to hang onto the raft. They both reappeared quite soon which was obviously fortunate but we fell in twice more on the trip and by the end I was so frozen I felt as if I'd never get warm again.
The day after we went horse riding and only today am I able to sit without having to lower myself gingerly into even a soft chair. In the afternoon we started to climb a small mountain but a huge thunderstorm blew up. Michael was all for soldiering on but then fog started rolling in and I really didn't want us to be the 'Stupid Family Falls off Mountain' headline in the paper so we aborted and climbed down. We got very, very wet.
We've done some moderate hikes and one quite long one, which nearly killed me. It was up to a mountain pass and the description was that the kilometre climb at the beginning 'will prepare you for the more challenging switchbacks that follow'. What it didn't say was the switchbacks will seem like a doddle when you get to the last hour of the climb, up seemingly vertical banks of crumbly shale interspersed with patches of slippery slow at an altitude where the air is significantly thinner and thus everything more tiring. After that hike I felt like someone had beaten the backs of my legs with clubs.
What has made all our hikes that much more exciting are the warnings everywhere you go of the need for caution because of high bear activity. One path we tried to take was closed because there was a 'sub-adult male grizzly, displaying unpredictable behaviour' in the area. All the warnings are like that – couched in euphemism. The newspaper had advice on how to avoid 'conflict' with bears. I tend to think of conflict as more along the lines of when I give one of my children a curfew they don't agree with or someone takes the parking place I was waiting for and less like when I meet a creature in the woods that wants to eat me.
It's forbidden to hike in groups of less than 4 which is fine as there are 6 of us (almost unheard of for bears to charge groups of more than 4 – hurrah) and carrying bear spray is recommended. So not only is Michael carrying his pouch of bear spray on his belt, he's also carrying a big knife, which for him is a dream come true. So far we've seen three black bears, quite close up, fortunately we were in the car on each occasion, but there are clearly plenty of them about. No grizzlies yet but we still have lots of time.


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More and more films premiere on Video on Demand -- if they don't simply bypass a theatrical release altogether. Because VOD reviews are often scarce and hard to find, Criticwire created VODetails, a recurring column to help you figure out whether a new VOD release is worth your hard-earned dollar. This time we're looking at "V/H/S/2," the sequel to last year's found footage horror anthology -- not Sony's failed bid to win the Betamax/VHS format wars by creating a superior cassette tape with twice as much capacity."
Directors: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sanchez, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingard
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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – The Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Twitter account of @J_tsar is real, claims NBC News. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on his real Twitter account of @J_tsar shared Jay-Z and Eminem lyrics after the Boston Marathon bombing. He last shared tweets by Muslim scholar Mufti Ismail Menk.
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After Monday's Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took to Twitter to share a lyric from the Jay-Z song "Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)", claims NBC. He wrote "Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people". He later wrote "There are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don't hear them cuz they're the minority."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's last message was a retweet by Menk on April 17. It read "Attitude can take away your beauty no matter how good looking you are or it could enhance your beauty, making you adorable." He also wrote this week "There are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don't hear them cuz they're the minority".
On his Amazon.com wishlist from 2006, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shared his desire for books about committed fraud, changing one's identification, and forging documents. This week he wrote "I've been looking for those, there is a shortage on the black market if you wanna make a quick buck, nuff said."
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Several tweets by him were to protected accounts. Those protected tweets came in since Monday. He also wrote to the account "ImRealTed" the peculiar statement "fake story". He gave no further explanation for his message.
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Mufti Ismail Menk has yet to comment about he matter. He is believed to be in Zimbabwe and is a Saudi educated, Muslim scholar. Earlier today, police scanners allegedly said that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has a laptop with him and has been communicating on social media since last night.


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Your own insurance may cover this although you have a problem with the excess as well.Sometimes, where this is not your fault, they do not impose the excess, but I assume you dont know who did this anyway.
However the legal position is that you are liable for damage while the loan car is in your possession. So technically they are correct although I assume they will now lose you as a customer. I would question whether this is the cost to them to repair this as well, or whether they have charged the retail figure
we have not witnessed the incident
It would have been better if they told you that you were liable for damage, but you would unfortunately still be liable.
right, we can't claim on our insurance as our excess is over that amount. Yes we have since moved and will therefore not be an ongoing customer after 5 years as their client. Such a pity. I shall query the amount as to their retail price as you suggested. But by golly - I am not pleased at all. Thank you for your help.
I cant blame you being upset and it seems a bit mean spirited when this was not your fault, and it was just a loan car. But perhaps they dont care about repeat customers, and certainly they have lost you and I expect your friends as well.
Lesson learned (never too old) As we were under the impression that we would not have to pay, we did not take proper notice of the model car. Now I can't even google the cost of replacement mirror. I shall get in touch with headoffice and see what we can achieve. Just needed to know my facts first.
Perhaps from the customer relations angle they should treat you better, and I agree their head office may be more concerned about that
so be it. I am pleased with the way this has been conducted. Thank you and goodbye. Ineke
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Just over a month ago, a devastating fire wreaked havoc on Soul Food Farm, a 55-acre chicken and egg farm situated in Vacaville. Flames engulfed the trees, the old 1880's barn burned to the ground, and more than 1,000 baby chicks died as a result. Firefighters were able to put a stop to the burning before more animals were killed, but the damage was already done.
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This morning we received a very sad email from Sam Mogannam at Bi-Rite Market, alerting us to the news that last night a massive fire swept through Alexis and Eric Koefoed's Soul Food Farm in Vacaville (we profiled Alexis in the magazine last year). San Franciscans know Soul Food as the most excellent purveyor of chickens and eggs—just last week they announced that they were planning to start a poultry CSA.


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A curious new driver from AMD
In case you missed the news, AMD is going to be making a big push with their Radeon brand from now until the end of the year starting with an incredibly strong game bundle that includes as many as three full games and 20% off the new Medal of Honor. The second part of this campaign is a new driver specifically the 12.11 beta that will be posted to the public later this week.
AMD is claiming to have made some substantial improvements on quite a few games including the very popular Battlefield 3 and the upcoming Medal of Honor (both of which use the same base engine). But keep in mind that 15% is a LOT and this is the best case scenario in specific maps and you may not see benefits on others.
There are going to be some debates about the validity of these performance boosts from AMD until we can get some more specific details on WHAT has changed. Essentially the company line is that they have finally "caught up" to the GCN GPU architecture introduced with the Radeon HD 7970 in January of 2012. We traditionally see this happen with new GPU architectures from both vendors but for it to have taken this long is troublesome and will surely cause some raised eyebrows from gamers and the competition.
We decided to run through the Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition with this new 12.11 beta driver to compare it to the 12.9 beta driver we had just completed testing on a few weeks ago. AMD claims performance advantages for all the GCN cards including the 7700/7800/7900 cards though we only had time to test a single card for our initial article. The results are on the following pages...
Continue reading our look at the new AMD 12.11 Beta Catalyst Driver!!
AMD Offers Impressive Never Settle Bundle with Radeon GPUs
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 22, 2012 - 04:00 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: never settle, HD 7970, hd 7950, hd 7870, hd 7850, hd 7770, bundle, amd
AMD has a couple of surprises for gamers today, both using the "Never Settle" branding. Later this morning you will see an article that looks at a new driver revision - 12.11 beta - that will be published this week (it maybe online already). Promising performance increases is 20% and more, it should be an interesting discussion.
Another big push for AMD going into the holiday season will be the Never Settle game bundle; a collection of games included with a graphics card purchase unlike you have ever seen before. And we aren't talking about scrub games here, with the HD 7900 series of cards you'll see Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution, Sleeping Dogs and Medal of Honor Warfighter.
Starting today, if you buy an AMD Radeon HD 7900 series of graphics cards, including the HD 7990, HD 7970 and HD 7950, you will get three full games absolutely free! Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping Dogs to be exact. Also, you will get a 20% discount on a copy of the new Medal of Honor: Warfighter. And because I already asked, AMD assures us that this is the ONLY discount on Medal of Honor that will be available this year.
Buyers on tighter budgets aren't going to be left out and if you pick up an HD 7800 series or an HD 7770 GHz Edition (not a 7750), you'll get a free copy of Far Cry 3 as well as the 20% off offer on Medal of Honor.
And just to mix things up, if you buy a PAIR of Radeon HD 7800s or a pair of HD 7770 GHz Editions AMD will add in a free copy of Hitman.
I realize that not every gamer is interested in every game that is released, but the value of the Never Settle bundle is really unmatched in anything I have seen before. Valued at $170, the package that you can get by purchasing a Radeon HD 7950 3GB for $299 in theory brings the total out of pocket price of the GPU to $129!!
As I have mentioned previously, bundles are not a cure-all for performance issues, but they can definitely swing a buyer's decision when the other factors are close. I think AMD will have a HUGE advantage going into the holiday buying season even though NVIDIA has the Assassin's Creed 3 bundle (with the GTX 650 Ti) and the Borderlands 2 bundle (with the GTX 660 Ti and above).
See what happens when you have healthy competition in the market? Gamer's always come out ahead!
Hitman: Absolution PC Features Video - AMD ExtravaLANza
Subject: Editorial, Graphics Cards | October 20, 2012 - 04:33 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: hitman, amd, extravalanza, hitman: absolution, video
We are at the first AMD ExtravaLANza today getting some hands on time with some cool new hardware as well as new games like Far Cry 3, Tomb Raider and Hitman: Absolution. We attended a session with the Hitman developer IO Interactive where some interesting information about the DX11 features. I recorded a video of the presentation for those interested in seeing it in its entirety.
The brand new Glacier2 engine has some impressive new features including:
- DX11 hardware tessellation on character models
- A global illumination engine using light propagation volumes
- AA options including FXAA and MSAA 2x-8x
- Eyefinity and HD3D
There is more, but you can hear it all in the video above. IO Interactive wanted to assure PC gamers that they are developing the game to be a first class PC title with higher quality imaging, controls and texture detail; this doesn't look to be a standard console port.
AMD's revenue down 10%, workforce down 15%
Subject: General Tech | October 19, 2012 - 06:04 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: quarterly earnings, downer, billions, amd
The hard numbers have arrived and AMDs quarter was every bit as bad as investors had feared, with a non-GAAP net loss of US$150 million and a $0.20 loss per share. The actual income for this quarter was $1.27 billion, the low end of the predictions that were made by analysts and with the sluggish movement in the PC market the choice has been made to lower operating costs as opposed to trying to increase revenue. To do so they will be reducing their global workforce by 15% over the coming quarter and restructuring the company with the goal of reducing operating costs by 25% so that a $1.3 billion dollar quarter would be a break even point, not a loss. The Register details other changes Rory Read is planning on implementing, more of a focus on chips for servers and embedded cores and SoCs for communication and industrial applications. As well AMD's win on the console side, with the Sony PS4 using AMD for both CPU and GPU as well as the WiiU which will use an AMD GPU and the as yet unnamed new XBox, all of which will garner licensing incomes for AMD for years to come. The talk about ultra-low-power chips for tablets and ultrabook like products is hopeful, though it is unlikely to be a major revenue source it would be a good move to attempt to grab more market share in that segment. DigiTimes also weighs in here.
"One week ago, AMD warned investors that its financial results for its third quarter of 2012 were going to be worse than it had previously estimated, with revenues down about 10 per cent from the previous quarter rather than the 1 per cent, plus or minus 3 per cent, that they had forecasted earlier.
They were spot on – not that being correct about such a disappointing result will win them many friends on the Street.
After the markets closed this Thursday, AMD announced that its Q3 2012 revenues were $1.27bn, which hit that prediction of a 10 per cent quarter-to-quarter slippage."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- One year on, SSL servers STILL cower before the BEAST @ The Register
- Multiply Your Encrypted Linux Backups with Horcrux @ Linux.com
- Mozilla launches Firefox marketplace for Android @ The Inquirer
- Arctic Charging Station @ Kitguru
- Motherboard Advertising & DRAM Compatibility @ Benchmark Reviews
- SysAdmin Corner: 7 Network Security F-Ups Small Offices Make @ Techgage
- Good Old Games Adds Mac OS X Support @ Slashdot
Win an AMD Llano A8-3870K APU from PC Perspective!!
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | October 19, 2012 - 12:09 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: contest, video, giveaway, amd, llano, APU
In a self-serving attempt to increase awareness about the PC Perspective YouTube channel, we are running another contest where you can win one of four AMD Llano A8-3870K APUs simply by leaving a comment and being a subscriber.
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We'll pick our winners on October 24th! Good luck!
Podcast #223 - AVADirect Mini ITX Gaming Machine, Patriot Gauntlet 320GB Wireless Drive, Windows 8 Pricing and more!
Subject: General Tech | October 18, 2012 - 06:38 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: video, windows 8, podcast, patriot, nvidia, mini ITX, Intel, gpu, gauntlet, gauntle node, cpu, AVADirect, amd
PC Perspective Podcast #223 - 10/18/2012
Join us this week as we talk about the AVADirect Mini ITX Gaming Machine, Patriot Gauntlet 320GB Wireless Drive, Windows 8 Pricing and more!
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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom, and Scott Michaud
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Program length: 56:12
Podcast topics of discussion:
Week in Reviews:
- 0:01:45 Why stereoscopic 3D is Awesome
- 0:09:15 Patriot Gauntlet 320 Wireless HDD
- 0:14:56 AVADirect Mini Gaming PC
- 0:24:30 This podcast is brought to you by MSI
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- 0:42:00 Intel may have 10-core Ivy Bridge-E ready
- 0:43:45 Corsair raising money for charity with gaming marathon!
- 0:45:50 Win a FREE AMD APU on our YouTube channel!
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- Ryan: Gauntlet Node - just the enclosure
- Jeremy: Ridiculous and added infections too
- Josh: NOPE
- Allyn: NOPE
- Scott: 12 GB of RAM :D
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AMD to cut CPU pricing; too good to be true?
Subject: General Tech | October 16, 2012 - 07:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: rumour, price cuts, amd
The news out of DigiTimes today speaks of deep cuts to AMD's previous generation processors, specifically the A4 family. According to their sources the the A4-3300 will be cut in price by 35% and the 3400 model by 25%, both cuts being much larger than is usual in the industry. As well there could be a cut in price of the new FM2 based A4-5300 by almost 50%, again a much steeper cut than is usual. However given the difficulties that AMD is currently experiencing, as well as the price cuts we've seen on the GPU side the report was enough to make us curious. As we at PC Perspective have our own anonymous sources who will sometimes comment on things not yet set in stone and in this case we did get a reply. That reply stated that AMD will be making no price moves on the A series. Aren't conflicting stories great?
"After announcing its latest FM2-based A series APUs (Trinity) on October 1, AMD is set to reduce prices of its previous-generation APUs with the FM1-based A4-3300 to be reduced from US$46 to US$30, according to sources from motherboard players. AMD Taiwan declined to comment about its price strategy."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Microsoft reveals Surface tablet pricing @ The Inquirer
- The 3D die stack tack: Toshiba builds towering column of flash @ The Register
- Asustek to participate in initial launch of Windows RT tablet @ DigiTimes
- NETGEAR R6300 Wireless Router 802.11ac Review @ HardwareHeaven
- Magellan RoadMate 5265T-LMB Review @ TechReviewSource
- Olympus SP-620UZ Review @ TechReviewSource
- Massive Manic Giveaway with Cooler Master @ TechwareLabs
AMD likely slashing 10 to 30% of its workforce
Subject: General Tech | October 15, 2012 - 06:54 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, jobs, sad
If Friday's announcement of AMD's lowered financial expectations was not enough to depress you, The Inquirer has heard from three separate sources that AMD is looking to cut between 1000 to 3000 employees, representing 10% to 30% of its workforce. Rory Read's excising of the marketing department has not magically reversed the $500M in reported losses so far this year and so he will be attempting to treat the symptoms with a larger dose of the same cure. Being a publicly owned company who have seen their stock prices plummet by 14% last week so something had to be done, even if on the surface it looks to be bad for the company in the long term. The chances are good that the graphics department will be left mostly intact but the CPU team could be facing a lot of cuts which could slow or derail the development of the next generation of processors.
"Last week AMD revised its revenue forecasts down considerably due to weak demand and now multiple sources have said that the firm is preparing to lay off a significant percentage of its workforce. According to three sources that spoke to Allthingsd, AMD is preparing to cut anywhere between 10 percent and 30 percent of its 11,000 employees."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Controlling a robot with your mind @ Hack a Day
- Nvidia releases CUDA 5 to support Kepler GPGPU features @ The Inquirer
- UDIRC Microquad UFO @ Metku.net
- Amazon reportedly is eyeing up Texas Instruments' SoC business @ The Inquirer
- Nikon D700 FX 12.1MP Digital SLR Camera Review @ ModSynergy
- The Tech Report Podcast 121: APUs, GPUs, and SSDs
No pleasant financial surprise from AMD this quarter
Subject: General Tech | October 12, 2012 - 11:34 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, financial results, quarterly earnings
While we do not have the finalized results of AMD's Q3 earnings, The Register did report that they will not be meeting the targets that were set previously. The are lowering both expected revenues as well as their gross margins projections. While this news is not unexpected it does illustrate the difficulties which AMD is currently experiencing. With new products already for sale and more scheduled for release before the new year, there is still hope for AMD to make a bit of a recovery. As we have pointed out many times before, whether you purchase AMD products or not, the continued existence of AMD is crucial to keep the marketplace competitive.
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"AMD has announced lowered expectations for its third-quarter financial results, with revenues declining 10 per cent from the previous quarter, down from the 1 per cent – give or take 3 per cent – that it had previously projected."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- TLC NAND could penetrate biz with flash-to-flash backup @ The Register
- AMD Hondo-based products to be launched in mid-November at the earliest @ DigiTimes
- My smartphone conundrum @ The Tech Report
- Office 2013 hits RTM, will ship starting in November @ The Register
- What is going on with Nvidia's GK114? @ SemiAccurate
- Fractal Design End Mod
AMD Launches Radeon RAMDisk, Free 6GB Disks With AMD Memory
Subject: Storage | October 11, 2012 - 01:30 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: ram disk, radeon ramdisk, radeon memory, amd memory, amd
AMD launched a new Radeon branded memory product today called the Radeon RAMDisk. Despite the rather unoriginal name, it is a piece of software that will allow you to use a portion of your system RAM as a hard drive-like storage device where you can install programs. AMD has partnered with Dataram to develop the software.
The AMD Radeon RAMDisk will create drives up to 64GB in size, and is designed to be used with AMD's own Radeon-branded DDR3 modules (though other manufacturer's RAM will work as well). The RAM disk offers up almost-instantaeous access times and impressive read and write speeds for your applications and virtual machines.
According to AMD, the Radeon RAMDisk can reach read speeds as high as 25,600 MB/s with DDR3 1600 RAM and up to 1700% faster game loading times than a traditional mechanical hard drive. It further supports the Windows operating system (Vista and above), and has a minimum system requirement of 4GB of system RAM.
The software costs $18.99 at time of writing for the full version.
The best part about this announcement though is the release of a freeware version of the Radeon RAMDisk that can create disks up to 6GB with AMD-branded RAM or 4GB with RAM from any other manufacturer! While that is fairly limiting in that you are not really going to be able to put much ont there (and installing games is almost out of the question entirely) you can still do a lot with a 4GB RAM disk by installing Office, photo editors, virtual machines (like Peppermint Linux), and other heavily used programs to speed up the important stuff.
You can acess the full press release on the Radeon RAMDisk website.
Download links:
- Free version - Limited to 4GB or 6GB RAMDisks depending on memory brand.
- Paid version - Create disks up to 64GB
If you have been with the site for at least the year that I've been writing here, you will know that I'm a huge fan of RAM disks. So, naturally, when I was passed the press release I just had to try it out.
While the extent of the performance increase is going to vary from program to program, the drive itself is extremely fast. When copying a .iso file to the Radeon RAMDisk, it was limited by my SSD's read speed, for example.
The RAM Disk was set up om my main desktop which has basic specifications as follows:
- Intel Core i7 -860 CPU
- 8GB (4 x 2GB) G.Skill DDR3 at 1333 MHz and 9-9-9-24 CAS timings
- Gigabyte P55-UD3R Motherboard
- 4096 MB Radeon RAMDisk
- 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD
- 2TB Samsung Spinpoint hard drive
- Windows 8 RTM
In addition to the file copy tests, I also used the HDTune benchmark to measure transfer speeds. Needless to say, RAM blows solid state NAND out of the water in speed (though it does cost more and is volatile storage).
In fact, it pulled such impressive numbers from HDTune that it skewed the chart a lot. Those little blips underneath it are from my Intel X25-M G2 80GB SSD and my 2TB Samsung Spinpoint mechanical hard drive.
HDTune also reports access times and burst speeds. The RAM disk had a 0.0 ms access time, the SSD has a 0.1 ms access time, and the mechanical hard drive brought up the rear with a 13.9 ms access time. Interestingly, the Samsung hard drive actually beat the SSD in burst speed. The RAM disk crush both of the other drives by a significant margin, however with a burst speed of 5,155 MB/s.
Over the years, I have used a RAMDisk for hosting photo editors as as using the drive for media I was currently working on. It worked well at the time, but the free software was not exactly what I would call stable. However, the AMD software is a mere 6.2 MB download that installs quickly and is easy to configure. The UI is spartan (and resembles Windows Classic), but it gets the job done and has yet to crash on me after trying to break it today (heh). It does not feel "janky" at all, and I have to give AMD and Dataram props for that.
Below are screenshots of the Radeon RAMDisk interface. You can create new disks as well as loading saved ones.
Yes, RAM being faster than hard drive storage is not new information, but I did find it surprising just how much faster it was, even compared to my SSD. Heck, even compared to a DDR2 based RAM disk, it was fast. It really puts into perspective why the hard drive is the slowest aspect of modern computers, and why things can slow to a crawl when the CPU has to reach out past the internal cache and system RAM to the hard drive to fetch data. If you are running a system with a lot of 'extra' RAM, I encourage you to take AMD's new Radeon RAMDisk software for a test drive. It's time to give those DDR3 DIMMs a workout!
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Highly successful, premium and distinctive British fashion brand now look to their next chapter in their global expansion. Major plans to enhance their multichannel offering and customer experience are being implemented now. If you enjoy working in a highly responsive, fluid environment and can inspire a team then this could be the role…
About the Online Trading Manager Role...
You will be joining the business at an exciting time having just re-launched their global site within the last few months. Everything is run out from their London office including in-house development giving you the control you need. Coming from a fashion background you will:-
- Work with the global director to define and execute the trading strategy for all sites
- Analyse performance for all categories ensuring the correct reporting is in place
- Recommend direct promotions attracting a new customer base
- Working in a cross functional capacity closely with the buying and merchandising teams
- Manage the platforms for all sites working closely with country managers
- Grow the core KPIs via multichannel programmes working closely with the in-house marketing, operations, fulfilment, creative and dev. teams
- Web analytics, crunching customer data and other company data to come up with actionable insights powering best in-class customer and brand experience
- Monitor and drive multichannel experience optimising UX across multiple devices
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- Ideally 4-6 years' experience from an ecommerce merchandising/trading background for a fashion boutique/multichannel retailer
- Ability to plan, organise and review activities in order to meet business goals
- Strong leadership skills to improve performance and inspire a growing team
- Working in a cross functional capacity closely with the buying and merchandising teams, marketing, creative, development and operations.
- Entrepreneurial approach to business challenges, inspiring with creativity and logic
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Fourth of July
Give Old Glory her due with a Fourth of July menu that includes favorite dishes from one of our Founding Fathers, our grilling options for pork, chicken or beef plus a Firecracker Cheesecake that will steal the show.
Prosciutto-Wrapped Asparagus Bundles
This easy asparagus side gets gussied up on the grill with help from crispy and delicious prosciutto.
Almost Lasagna Zucchini Casserole
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EXCLUSIVE: Feds holding up San Luis Rey River agreement, local officials say
Packard is a consultant for the tribes and the two water agencies.
Officials said they have discussed the matter with representatives of lawmakers, including Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Local lawmakers say they want the federal government to approve the agreement.
"It is in the interest of all parties, including the federal government, to enact a comprehensive settlement with respect to Indian Water Rights on the San Luis Rey River," Issa said in a statement. "The final issues identified by federal officials were substantially addressed in a legal memo recently presented by the tribal and local government representatives. The Departments of Justice and Interior should move forward immediately to achieve a final settlement agreement."
Issa and two other North County congressmen, Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Solana Beach, and Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, signed letters to the departments of the Interior and Justice last week saying they support the water agreement.
Feinstein said in a written statement that she would "work with all parties involved to find a solution so this long-standing dispute can be brought to a close."
"It is important that all parties have secure and guaranteed access to water without the need for more litigation," Feinstein said.
Packard said he believes the federal government wants to rid itself of its responsibility to provide water to the reservations, including helping to defend Indian water rights.
The tribes are willing to relieve the federal government of its responsibility to defend their water rights in court, but they are not willing to release the federal government of its trust responsibility completely, officials told the North County Times.
"When you put the Indians in reservation lands, you have to make sure there's sufficient water for their livelihood and farming; that was in the 1903 (U.S. Supreme Court) case," said Rincon Chairman Bo Mazzetti. "That became the Winters Doctrine, which became the principle of the trust responsibility of the federal government to make sure there was enough water provided to the tribes. That is what they are trying to get rid of."
Packard said the federal government is also complicating the agreement by wrongly interpreting the Settlement Act to mean that the 16,000 acre-feet of water must go to the tribes. He said the law was written to be more flexible, so that the tribes can sell, trade or exchange their water with other agencies.
"We made it clear in the bill that they could exchange the water in the river or the supplemental water, whatever was necessary to come to an agreement. They've done that," Packard said. "The federal agencies have taken the position that the Indians have to have their 16,000 acre-feet of water out of the supplemental (Colorado River) water and the (San Luis Rey) river water remains with the cities. Well, that's not the intent of the legislation."


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