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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition CrossFire Testing
Two Vegas...ha ha ha
When the preorders for the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition went up last week, I made the decision to place orders in a few different locations to make sure we got it in as early as possible. Well, as it turned out, we actually had the cards show up very quickly…from two different locations.
So, what is a person to do if TWO of the newest, most coveted GPUs show up on their doorstep? After you do the first, full review of the single GPU iteration, you plug those both into your system and do some multi-GPU CrossFire testing!
There of course needs to be some discussion up front about this testing and our write up. If you read my first review of the Vega Frontier Edition you will clearly note my stance on the idea that "this is not a gaming card" and that "the drivers aren't ready. Essentially, I said these potential excuses for performance were distraction and unwarranted based on the current state of Vega development and the proximity of the consumer iteration, Radeon RX.
But for multi-GPU, it's a different story. Both competitors in the GPU space will tell you that developing drivers for CrossFire and SLI is incredibly difficult. Much more than simply splitting the work across different processors, multi-GPU requires extra attention to specific games, game engines, and effects rendering that are not required in single GPU environments. Add to that the fact that the market size for CrossFire and SLI has been shrinking, from an already small state, and you can see why multi-GPU is going to get less attention from AMD here.
Even more, when CrossFire and SLI support gets a focus from the driver teams, it is often late in the process, nearly last in the list of technologies to address before launch.
With that in mind, we all should understand the results we are going to show you might be indicative of the CrossFire scaling when Radeon RX Vega launches, but it very well could not. I would look at the data we are presenting today as a "current state" of CrossFire for Vega.
Continue reading our look at a pair of Vega Frontier Edition cards in CrossFire!
Setup: Just as easy as expected
Installing and enabling CrossFire with our Radeon Vega Frontier Edition hardware was a simple as would expect. The current driver from AMD's website was used, and in both the Game Mode and the Professional Mode, the CrossFire option exists under the Global Settings.
We only had one hiccup in our testing in terms of stability with Rise of the Tomb Raider – but the issue seemed related to our Frame Rating overlay application. While the application was running fine without this overlay in CrossFire mode, we require the overlay to measure performance accurately using our capture methodology. Because the capture methods of our performance analysis are even more important when evaluating multi-GPU performance (where anomalies are more common), I decided to leave out RoTR results than report potentially inaccurate scores.
Our test setup remains unchanged, in both hardware and software, from our initial Radeon Vega Frontier Edition review. If you need another refresh on how we test gaming performance, which is still quite different than the norm, you can find that page of our previous review right here.
Let's dive in to the results!
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Great review thanks!
Uhm something is wrong on that fallout 4 page. UHD runs does not support the conclusions or average fps table.
Ah, numbers were transposed. Thanks! Fixed now.
What about any DX12/Vulkan Explicit Multi-GPU adaptor testing? Are there any benchmarks that can test DX12's/Vulkan's Explicit Multi-GPU adaptor and GPU load balancing managed fully under the control of the DX12/Vulkan graphics APIs.
My hopes are that Both DX12's and Vulkan's API managed, via the games and graphics software's calls to the graphics APIs, will see better multi-GPU results with everybody developing future games/graphics/other applications that target Vulkan's and DX12 Explicit Multi-GPU adaptor features where the developers/entire industry have full GPU load balancing control.
Also please keep us updated when AMD issues any new driver updates for Radeon Vega FE by doing a new round on benchmarks.
Thanks for the reviews, and please try to work some more Blender rendering benchmarks that test total render times and not necessarly any FPS metrics.
Is there any way AMD could utilise Infinity Fabric for near 100% scaling with two Vega chips on one card?
yes. no. it should be better than regular crossfire at least. it depends on them designing the GPU with that idea in mind. Also apparently latency is a bigger issue for GPUs - according to random person on the internet. IF should have higher latency so that the 2 GPUs won't really be 1.
Seeing that IF is used in Ryzen for CCX connectivity it seems to work well, why shouldn't it work for GPUs? But what do I know, I've never designed a GPU
The Infinity Fabric(IF) will be used across all of AMD's products as it is on the Zeppelin Die(Used by AMD on its Ryzen/Threadripper/EPYC) SKUs for the 2 CCX units on the Zeppelin die to communicate via that IF coherent fabric. The Infinity Fabric also extends beyond the 2 CCX units on the Zeppelin die to the other CCX units on other Zeppelin dies on the same MCM, as well across the socket(On 2P Epyc systems) to the Zeppelin dies and their CCX units on the other Epyc CPU. ThreadRipper will support 2, or more, Zeppelin dies on an MCM the same as Epyc but ThreadRipper will probably only support 4 memory channels per MCM while EPYC will support 8 memory channels(2 per Zeppelin die) per chip/MCM.
This Infinity Fabric(In a similar method as Nvidia's NVLink) can be used to interface an EPYC chip up to a Vega GPU(That also uses the Infinity Fabric coherence protocol). So coherent communication can happen between Epyc CPUs and Vega GPUs via the IF, Ditto for any Vega GPU to other Vega GPU/s coherent communication via the IF.
Don't forget that AMD is also a founding member of OpenCAPI. So that IBM lead foundation's members(AMD/Others) will have their products able to interface up with IBM's power9s and any third party Power9 licensees' power9 CPUs(Google/Others that license Power9). So OpenCAPI is derived from IBM's CAPI(Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface) IP that is now open and called OpenCAPI and AMD will offer support for OpenCAPI on AMD's GPU accelorator/AI SKUs.
Yep, the interesting upshot of which, is that the coherency issues of crossfire, are exactly what fabric/zeppelin/ryzen/hbcc/raven ridge apu/... are all about.
I am certain amd have multi gpu apuS planned asap (i have seen official slides somewhere), and they have all the ingredients to make it both cheap and awesome.
Dont u think, a maker of cpuS AND gpuS, if designing a coherency system for their cpus (as in ryzen), would do all in their power to design it to work with gpuS also?
A partial answer, is we know a single zen ccx will be paired w/ a vega via fabric on raven ridge apu, so thats step 1.
I think, to all intents, the app will just see a single gpu, fabric does the rest.
I still dont think the true import of what amd is up to has sunk in for the industry.
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Coherency is more to do about Cached data/code being moved around by cache controllers across CCX units, processors(CPUs, CPUs, DSPs, etc.) sockets, or even PCIe cards. So the Infinity Fabric as well as OpenCAPI protocols over various processor fabrics via the respective processors' cache controllers that speak Infinity Fabric/OpenCAPI/other coherent protocols.
AMD's Infinity Fabric encompasses both a CPU/GPU/other processor control fabric/associated dedicated fabric and a separate data fabric where the various processors CPUs/GPUs/Other processor's cache and memory controllers that have the Infinity Fabric IP included in their hardware. The Infinity Fabric can via processors cache controllers manage cache/data coherency across any type of processor with the Infinity Fabric IP included.
So with say and Epyc CPU can have some form of cache coherency traffic Epyc CPU's cache directly to Vega GPU's cache that is managed over that Infinity Fabric IP that is on both Zen/Epyc CPUs and Vega GPUs or any other processor IP that AMD decides on, such as FPGAs, DSP, etc. So for all points and purposes AMD's infinity Fabric can create and APU type of arrangement between any Epyc CPU and any direct attached discrete Vega based GPU with the Zen cores on the Epyc SKUs able to communicate CPU controller to GPU/other processor cache controller and pass data/code in a more direct way without any secondary trips to and from slower memory.
The connected SSD(on older GCN and Vega GPUs) on PCIe card with which you refer is more being handled by each respective processor memory controller and what ever virtual memory page table/VM memory swap IP is native to each GPU's and CPU's respective memory controllers. That SSD is the last level of VM swap space on, for example, Vega at the bottom tier with the main system memory being the next level up the memory/paging storage hierarchy. The next level above is, on Vega, the HBM2(HBC)/Cache(On Vega SKUs) that effectively is treated like a last level cache by the Vega GPU's HBCC and associated Cache subsystems above. The HBCC is a direct client of the L2 cache on Vega so there is efficiencies there with keeping things focused and in the L2 rather than swapped out to any of the lower and more latency inducing cache/memory levels.
The Infinity Fabric would be more to allow any Epyc CPU coherency traffic to bypass the lower levels of memory and transfer to Vega's HBC, or directly to Vega's L2, any cached data directly from any Epyc CPU cache directly to any Vega cache level where there is processing work(FP, INT, Other values) being dispatched from the Epyc CPU to the Vega GPU that both CPU and GPU are working on. It could even be that there is no data movement at all cache to cache but just some coherency signaling Zen/Epyc CPU to Vega GPU that invalidates a some data held in one processors cache because that data is now out of date and has been changed and needs to be flushed so the proper update data can be fetched or transferred over. This also applies to any Vega GPU to Vega GPU Cache/coherency trafic, or even Vega to DSP, If the DSP speaks the Infinity fabric protocol.
"AMD Infinity Fabric underpins everything they will make"
Can you show GPU utilization during the CFX runs ?
CFX can be very hard to set up properly. Especially if you don't do test runs with it every 1-2 weeks...
Every driver update behaves differently... also game updates can change certain graphic option behaviours...
I suspect not 99% / 99% utilization here in those titles as well due to engine but also due to configuration missing out.
- LeeDoo
While your comment makes some sense, there is literally ONE driver that works for Vega FE today, so what changes every 1-2 weeks is irrelevant.
that's silly. obviously 2 x vega fe would walk up to a 1080 ti and slap it in the face. then proceed to slap every single member of its family in the face.
the difference in power would be too enormous.
this is all weird upon weird and I don't see anyone doing any meaningful investigations or comparisons. that opportunity will be gone once AMD does launch rx vega. pc hardware media be disappointing me.
At the moment VEGA drivers are "not-ready". GPU is not utilized, FP16 not used (yet), tiling etc. You can try and check with new CodeXL profiling and/or DX12 PIX. They use like ~65% VEGA cores (FP32 data path). AMD should be ~1080TI when they will hit 95%+ and much faster if FP16 can be used for some tasks. Lets just hope that their tools/drivers teams are working hard, and that we devs can get their hands on VEGA FE, so that we will have nice product and games optimized for it (some are already on the way).
fp16 is not used in games mostly. won't affect much if its working unless they can get games to start including it
There are places where game devs can use it. Also AMD can do this optimizations in drivers or actually shader compiler. Both NV and AMD already do this for most high profile games/apps for their other cards - it's normal. For VEGA not yet, and as for devs, they will also do it, but it will take time and learning. And not all devs do it. Some just stop and deploy app when it can hit 90/60/30 fps on selected target cards/systems. That's the real world. It would be awesome if reviewers would be able to see perf counters and measure not only fps, frame time in ms but also utilization of various parts of gpus. There is so much left on the table... that kind of reviews maybe would push both - gpu vendors and devs to write better games/apps.
problem is our current games is more complex that how it was before (like ten year ago). some graphical effect simply needs to be done in FP32 according to developer. the last time AMD try using FP16 they can't really do it without affecting the image quality of the entire scene. and they only enable them in farCry benchmark mode to get better score and disable them when you actually play the game.
mixing FP32 and FP16 together will need more attention to the optimization or else there is no saving at all by going FP16. the only question is with triple A games release that always being rushed by publisher will developer have the time for it?
"...and you can see why multi-GPU is going to get less attention from AMD here."
This could NOT be further from the truth. AMD designed MANTLE to scale gpu's natively. It is called Explicit Multi Adaptor. In fact AMD supports up to 4x GPU cards in Mantle and Microsoft followed with their Mantle Clone DX12 and of course Vulkan does as well.
Crossfire is ONLY necessary using the obsolete API DX11.2 as multi-cards are natively supported in DX 12, Mantle and Vulkan with Explicit Multi Adaptor.
In Dx12 the scaling of Radeon AIB is virtually 1:1. Two cards will just about double the performance of one card with DX12 supported games. Two RX 480 running DX12 equals or beats GTX 1080 for far less $$$$.
By Christmas 2017 90% of ALL new titles will support DX12.
Why is the OBSOLETE DX11 even a consideration? Are enthusiasts going to spend $1800+- for a 2x multi gpu system just so they can run DX11 Legacy supported games?
Why not see how well it runs DX9 and DX10 games while you are at it.
Talk about irrelevant.
Unless of course you wanted to show VEGA in a poor light. nVidia does not bench well using DX12.
nVidia does not support Asynchronous Compute and Asynchronous Shader Pipelines except through software or driver emulation. Asynch Compute is AMD hardware IP.
So I challenge you to benchmark VEGA using DX12, and Mantle and VULKAN and DO NOT DISABLE ASYNCH COMPUTE. ALso you might want to use 3dMark DX 12 benchmarks as well as Star Swarm.
DX11 is broken. Get with the program.
I honestly can't tell if this guy is trolling or just had way too much coffee today.
The guy is legitimately upset that PCPER dared benching crossfire instead of just quoting AMD's own promo material like he has.
I mean who needs real-world numbers?
"I mean who needs real-world numbers?"
So you can show us some real world numbers regarding DX 12 Benchmarks?
So what is the big deal?
Why ignore DX12 benchmarks with the latest AMD GPU's?
Lazy? Don't care? You have $1800 or so of the latest Radeon kit and you ignore the latest API.
Star Swarm is FREE. No guts, no glory.
Another web media site PAID by INTEL and nVidia.
No one gives a fuck about retarded tech demos. They care about the games that they spent money on.
Are you braindead?
Who in their right mind spends $1800 on two Open CL workstations card to play games, they are for work, (yes some of us still do it) rendering 10bit video etc. I will used them as such in my Mac Pro. If I want to pay games I will use my Windows PC, as windows OS is best for Gamers and Secretaries atm (Until more Vulkan API games hit the market) .
Now AMD have looked to the future, they realised long ago that the thermal threshold of a CPU core was around 5GHz, and that DX11 was only using a single core was a huge limiting factor for gaming, holding performance back, so they gave us Multi core CPU's, developed Mantle low level API, that spawned DX12, and Vulkan. And built GPU's that could perform asynchronous compute tasks to take advantage of the CPU's and API's, The only thing holding back performance is developers poor application and optimisation of the aforementioned API's.
Some of you people seem to want to hold back innovation, and play on single core DX11 for the next 20 years. we need to reward the game developers that move us forward with Vulkan, it's a cross plaform API that should be the API for all future games.
DX12 = Windows 10 = meh
Here's a Dx12 game, Did you read the article?
No one is asking pcper to reinvent the wheel, but why on earth would anyone review a crossfire setup with games known to not use it well. Test AC:unity etc etc. So many games actually benefit from it. I appreciate the effort and sorry for my tone, but this was useless. Why not sell one of the Vega FE and use the cash on updating your library with some actual relevant games.
The games he used are relevant. So you want him the cherry pick games that may make 2 Vegas look good. Now that is something. Good job Mr. Shrout.
Nice Test. But you didn't test the Rasterizer. Main feature Tiled Based Rasterizer is not on!
Like Trianglebin shown ;)
We did that during our Vega Frontier Edition live benchmarking stream.
Thank you Ryan, i knew that you did trianglebin test. I hoped you dived a little bit deeper at the Rasterizer behavior.
I have seen in another post that you have asked some expert which mean that the improvement of Tiled Based Rasterizer is 10%.
I'm a little bit surprised. Nvidia hat an ipc improvement of 35% between Kepler and Maxwell with the tiles based Rasterizer.
If you think about it. You save double Performance with TRB. You don't argue the shader with unimportant workload. Because of this you get also capacity back from the shader. The shader wich done unimportant work before are now free to do important work.
Also did you remember your article about Deus x and the 220Million Triangles where are only 2 billion are viewed.
That's the advantage of Tiled Based Rasterizer.
But thank you for your investigation and that you listen to your community. I honor this!
"I'm a little bit surprised. Nvidia hat an ipc improvement of 35% between Kepler and Maxwell with the tiles based Rasterizer."
majority of the performance improvement coming from the rearrangement of the SM. nvidia already explain this when they first coming out with 750ti. for TBR in maxwell we don't even know about them until David Kanter made his test last year.
TBR probably can improve performance but not in the way that some people imagine. if TBR is superior then why ATi and nvidia did not use them before? Imagination Technologies for example have been using some form of TBR (when others not) even when they still competing in desktop market more than a decade ago so why they did not the best GPU maker on desktop right now?
nvidia only discover the importance of TBR when they try competing in the mobile market with tegra. TBR is more common on mobile GPU because of power and bandwidth constraint. but it did not dramatically increase GPU performance (in term of FPS) like some people believe.
Nice, I have not seen any OpenGL games reviewed on Vega FE yet given the good R15 scores it would be an interesting test to highlight if possibly the DX/Volcan drivers are just not up to scratch yet. Doom has an OpenGL mode does it not? Normally the Volcan mode significantly outperforms the OpenGL mode (on both Nvidia and AMD cards) so would be an interesting test to see if more work has gone into the OpenGL driver stack for the (proish) card.
Go to the Phoronix website as that's where the Majority of the OpenGL Linux games testing is done. And Michael Larabel very often tests OpenGL's performance on Linux against OpenGL's performance on Windows for games and other graphics software.
Michel has been remote testing via Linux on a Phoronix reader's Vega FE using the Phoronix Test Suite. There is some OpenCL testing and maybe Michael will get more remote access for OpenGL/Vulkan testing.
"A Few OpenCL Benchmarks With Radeon Vega Frontier Edition On Linux"
From my experience with Time Spy and Ashes of the Singularity, DX12 requires Crossfire to be disabled in driver, as it uses Explicit Multi GPU instead
Exactly, Crossfire is not needed with DX12. EMA uses all available GPU resources.
The whole point of EMA is within a few years, GPU dies will display lower yields as they become ever so larger on transistor and core counts. Do you really expect to see 10,000 shader core GPU's?
The only solution is multi-chip GPU cards and an API that can take advantage of scalable design.
Both Vulkan and DX12 and the graphics APIs managed Explicit Multi-Adaptor for GPU and the games developers/Gaming Engine developers can create their own optimized Libraries that are optimized for mult-GPUs via the games/gaming engine.
CF/SLI are not so good at multi-GPU load balancing inside of AMD's or Nvidia's respective drivers. So get the multi GPU load balancing out of the drivers and into the APIs and let the entire gaming/graphics software industry optimize for multi GPU usage. Keep the drivers as simple, light weight, and close to the GPU's matal as possible and let the games developers do multi-GPU via the games/gaming engine's SDKs that can call on Vulka's or DX12's EMA. That way the entire gaming, and graphics software industry, can pool their resources and get the mulit-GPU scalability issues solved.
So 560w dual 16GB Vega is slower, significantly slow (by 20+%) then a single 180w 8GB 1080 at 4K...
Did you guy confirmed those driver are VEGA crossfire optimized ?
If not... what was the point of this ?
Seems like a lot of effort for something pointless.
Maybe try to investigate voltage scaling ?
Ram frequency effect on the Vega architecture ?
How does vega behave VS Fiji ?
Does any of the new feature impact performance ? (geometry, compute)
etc.. etc...
Most enthusiast do not run GPU at stock. So is there any ways, any ways at all Vega FE can deliver better gaming performance ?
higher fan profile ? power limit + 10% ?
lower voltage ? lower feqeuncy? (Do you guys recall of the reference RX 480 was actually faster under clocked.)
etc.. etc..
This was a really cool review. Kudos to PCPer for doing this. I appreciate it. I would have liked to see 4-way 480 or 4-way 580 when they came out because they were cheap and it was possible and that would have been cool too. This kind of testing isn't to suggest that people should actually go out and buy it, but just cool too see for testing if you're into computer hardware. This is why I follow PCPer.
I feel like you may not have updated Hitman to the latest version. On my copy, the settings menu has an extra option (enable multi gpu - dx12) and the mgpu only works if you have that option enabled. The only reasons you wouldn't see that option are 1. Not updated Hitman fully or 2. Mgpu disabled in the driver somehow.
Pointless test on a non gaming card. When the gaming card is released then do a gaming test. I guess anything to get views.
In case you haven't heard this response to the other eleventy bazillion times someone has said that - this IS the same silicon as RX, running a gaming driver, and the according to Nvidia 'prosumer not gaming' Xp this prosumer-not-gaming card is positioned against is nevertheless bloody good at gaming. FE's clocks look like being lower than RX, and the drivers are clearly unoptimised, as this review shows: Vega crossfire right now is completely AWOL
@Ryan Shrout, Did you turn on the Shader Cache when testing all the games? Thanks.
Damn..... this is truly to bad to be honest. I was hoping for something a bit more "special" than all of this. Mainly in the performance of these cards, but especially when you read an "excuse" before the actual review. Some nonsense about how MGPU scaling is an abysmal thing and fading to the wayside nonsense.... Seriously couldn't be more from the truth.
Damn API's are/have been created with MGPU in mind as of late and are supposed to get better....New motherboards still offering up to six x8-x16 PCI-E capable slots.
I believe it to be the laziness of late and or the coercing of the developers.
There's nothing truly better than being a PC gamer and being able to put more money into something to get a beneficial gain. Every FPS can be an advantage....
With Vega currently performing in-line with an up-clocked Fury, I'd expect Crossfire scaling for Rx Vega (once for-real-this-time drivers are available) to be in line with Fury's scaling.
I'd love to see frame times where the GPU is not thermally or power limited (for either side). I found hitting a limit destroys frame times on my 1080 SLI. I'm curious how many spikes are caused by hitting limits vs. actually inherent to SLI or crossfire.
I might be stupid here, but why does GTA V show only 6 GB of video memory if you've got 2 x 16 GB cards?
Wow, optimized for Xfire and gaming or not, TWO of these things still get destroyed by 1080 Ti! Vega is off to a fugly start. Glad I didn't wait (and wait...and wait...)
While the design is similar, you have to look at intended use case. Vega FE and RX Vega are going to be 2 different graphics cards. Vega FE is a pro level card you can play games on. RX Vega is going to be a top performing gaming card. I'm not saying I have any info anyone outside of AMD doesn't, but I'm looking forward to see what RX Vega is actually capable of.
I am hoping to buy the Vega FE for my 2009 Mac Pro for editing with FCPX, we all know a Mac running FCPX destroys any Windows PC's on render times, Im currently running a Maxwell Titan X as they have good open CL performance, and I have upgraded my Cameras to record 10 BIT 4.2.2 This plays perfectly smooth in my 8 1/2 year old Mac Pro at 4K even before its optimised to Pro Res. so have been hoping to see some real open CL tests of this workstation card.
Everyone seems to be testing it for gaming, wtf, Its like buying a Van and testing it against hot hatch's, and worse still testing it with DX11 API, the worst API ever, anyone coding for DX11 in 2017 needs shooting, DX11 uses single core, how many people have dual core CPUS now.
I currently run 4 networked Computers, a 12 core (24 HT) heavily modded 2009 Mac Pro, 8 Core (16HT) Full open loop water cooled 5960X OC 4.4 GHz X99, 4 Core (8HT) 4790KOC 4.6GHz 4 core (8HT) 2600K OC 4.4GHz, They are all networked and Connected to multiple 50' and 65' Panasonic 4K THX certified smart TV's, that have 99.3 % of the sRGB colour gamut at default Also have an ASUS MG279Q 2KIPS 144Hz gaming monitor, for times when I'm not working.
But the AMD VEGA Frontier Edition used with Final Cut Pro will be a monster, for us professional film makers and broadcasters. we know Apple plan to use Vega graphics in the IMAC PRO, scheduled for release in December, running the latest High Sierra OS, so looks like the drivers will be there to run it on my 2009 Mac Pro, with High Sierra OS as well.
Enjoy your gaming, I don't really game that much, but please test the Vega on DX12 and Vulkan games, it's meant to work with, not the poorly optimised DX11 API, and that new Tomb raider title is a disaster, whoever pretended they coded that for DX12 should give the money back and never work again. there is a distinct difference between something working with DX12 and being Optimised for it.


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NEW DELHI: People with autism, mental illnesses, intellectual disability and victims of acid attacks will now get quota in central government jobs, an official order said.
In case of direct recruitment, four per cent of the total number of vacancies, up from the existing three per cent, in groups A, B and C shall be reserved for people with benchmark disabilities, it said.
Benchmark disability means a person with not less than forty per cent of a specified disability.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) recently wrote to all central government departments to ensure that one per cent of each posts be reserved for people with blindness and low vision; deaf and hard of hearing; locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular dystrophy.
One per cent posts each shall be also reserved for people suffering from autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness, it said.
Intellectual disability is a condition characterised by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning such as reasoning, learning and problem solving, and in adaptive behaviour that covers a range of everyday skills.
The move to enhance reservation quota for those with learning disability and acid attack victims comes after passage of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, and the notification of relevant rules in this regard. As per an earlier order of the DoPT, issued in 2005, three per cent of the total posts were to be reserved for people with disabilities.
Of these one per cent each was for those with blindness or low vision; hearing impairment and locomotor disability or cerebral palsy.
Under the new rules, all government organisations have been asked to appoint 'grievance redressal officers' to look into complaints.
These officers will maintain a register of complaint carrying details such as date of complaint; name of complainant; the name of the establishment or person against whom the complaint has been lodged; the gist of the complaint and the date of disposal by the grievance redressal officer, the order said. "Any person aggrieved with any matter relating to discrimination in employment against any person with disability may file a complaint with the grievance redressal officer of the respective government establishment," the DoPT order said.


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In a new report, 'Physical Activity in Early Childhood', the APPG argues that the Government's strategy, which was published in August 2016, ignores the 'vital role' of
physical activity in tackling what it calls the 'entrenched national obesity crisis'.
The report by the group of MPs and peers, which is co-chaired by Baroness Floella Benjamin, says that schemes and finance streams focused solely on improving the nation's nutrition are not in themselves enough, and that they must go hand-in-hand with the encouragement of physical activity in the pre-pregnancy, antenatal and early childhood periods in order to establish positive behaviour.
The report states, 'No Child Obesity Strategy succeeds without strong physical activity content, and research finds that physical activity from the earliest days has positive outcomes for emotional, social, academic and cognitive growth as well as bodily health.'
It says another benefit, according to research, is that children with higher physical activity levels in the early years maintain these patterns in later childhood, and cascade them to the next generation.
The APPG goes on to call for the Government to review the role of physical activity in the 'much heralded' Child Obesity Strategy, which it says was cut from 60 pages to 13, with many key recommendations axed.
Baroness Benjamin said, 'Our report is timely reading in the wake of a Government Childhood Obesity Strategy that has been widely criticised for a disappointing lack of resolve
and ambition.
'The ethos of our group is that childhood lasts a lifetime and patterns set up in a baby's very first days can have lasting consequences during the course of a lifespan. It's not rocket science to say that the UK is in the throes of an obesity epidemic – but at the moment, our Government is not rising to the occasion with all the weapons at its disposal.'
In the report, the group also makes a number of recommendations and draws upon examples of best practice, including existing programmes and initiatives to encourage physical activity, such as those run by Outdoor Play and Learning, as well as training courses for professionals on physical development and activity, such as those delivered by Active Matters.


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101-year-old honoured by Russian Government
Joe Rawlings, from Carlisle, is one of several men who have just been honoured by the Russian Government for the vital part he played serving in the infamous Arctic Convoys during World War Two.
Paul Crone went to meet the great man himself.
The camaraderie 'kept us going'
A 101-year-old WW2 veteran from Carlisle has said that the camaraderie on board ships kept them going.
Joe Rawlings served as an Air Directions Office on board HMS Activity. Joe was responsible for guiding allied planes as they hunted for German warplanes and U boats, as the Arctic Convoys made their way to the Soviet Union carrying vital supplies and ammunition.
'In one day we downed 3 enemy planes and 6 U-boats'
A 101-year-old WW2 veteran from Carlisle is 'honoured' to have received a medal from the Russian Government.
The Ushakov Medal is awarded by the Russian Government for courage and bravery.
Many British merchant seamen and Royal Navy personnel have been awarded the medal for the crucial role they played during the Second World War as convoys braved treacherous conditions in the Arctic Ocean.
Below, Joe explains that he understood the importance of the aims at the time:
Russian Government honours Carlisle WW2 veteran
A 101-year-old war veteran, from Carlisle, is one of a number of former soldiers to receive a medal from the Russian Government.
Joe Rawlings served on board HMS Activity as an Air Directions Officer. Joe was responsible for guiding allied planes as they hunted for German warplanes and U boats, as the Arctic Convoys made their way to the Soviet Union carrying vital supplies and ammunition.
Second World War Veteran receives Ushakov Medal
101-year-old Joe Rawlings from Carlisle has been honoured by the Russian Government by being awarded the Ushakov Medal for courage and bravery.
Joe served in the Royal Navy on an escort carrier, protecting merchant ships on the infamous Arctic Convoys during the Second World War.
WW2 style party at Kirkcudbright School
Kirkcudbright School pupils have thrown a WW2 style party for the older residents of Kirkcudbright.
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Kirkcudbright School hosts VE-Day style party
WW2-style party held by Kirkcudbright School
Pupils from Kirkcudbright School have held a WW2 style party for local residents.
The children have spent weeks researching and planning the period to lay on a show for locals.
Ruth Gordon is the Primary Seven school teacher and explains the purpose of the event.
Kirkcudbright pupils hold WW2 style party
Pupils at Kirkcudbright School have thrown a WW2 theme party for older residents.
The children, who are all in Primary Seven, have been learning about World War Two and invited 150 older people from the local community to join in with the fun.
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Announcement regarding an acquisition by Sea Harvest Group Limited and withdrawal of cautionary announcement Brimstone Investment Corporation Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) Registration number 1995/010442/06 Share Code: BRT ISIN: ZAE000015277 Share Code: BRN ISIN: ZAE000015285 ("Brimstone" or the "Company") ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING THE ACQUSITION BY SEA HARVEST GROUP LIMITED OF THE FISHING BUSINESS OF VIKING FISHING HOLDINGS PROPRIETARY LIMITED AND 51% OF THE SHARES OF VIKING AQUACULTURE PROPRIETARY LIMITED WITHDRAWAL OF CAUTIONARY ANNOUNCEMENT 1. Introduction and details Brimstone shareholders are referred to the announcement released on SENS today by Sea Harvest Group Limited ("Sea Harvest"), a 54.9% held subsidiary of Brimstone, and are advised that: - a consortium of broad-based black economic empowerment ("B-BBEE") investors led by Sea Harvest, together with its wholly-owned subsidiary Sea Harvest Corporation Proprietary Limited ("Sea Harvest Corporation"), have entered into sale agreements with Viking Fishing Holdings Proprietary Limited (which is controlled by Odin Investments Proprietary Limited, the Viking Staff Share Trust, the Viking Social and Upliftment Trust, Redburg Investments Proprietary Limited ("Redburg Investments") and RWFT Investments Proprietary Limited) and certain of its subsidiaries and joint ventures (which include Longline Fishing Proprietary Limited, Gerombe Fishing Enterprises Proprietary Limited and Ziyabuya Fishing Company Proprietary Limited) (collectively "Viking Fishing") to acquire the fishing business of, and selected shareholdings in, Viking Fishing (the "Fishing Acquisition"); and - Sea Harvest Aquaculture Proprietary Limited ("Sea Harvest Aquaculture"), a wholly–owned subsidiary of Sea Harvest, has entered into a share purchase agreement with Viking Group Administration Proprietary Limited ("Viking Group Admin"), Redburg Investments and the trustees for the time being of the Rory Williams Family Trust ("RW Family Trust") to acquire 51% of the issued share capital of Viking Aquaculture Proprietary Limited ("Viking Aquaculture") (the "Aquaculture Acquisition"), the Fishing Acquisition and the Aquaculture Acquisition, collectively referred to as the "Proposed Transaction". In addition to Sea Harvest, Sea Harvest Corporation and Sea Harvest Aquaculture, the remaining parties to the B-BBEE consortium comprise: - Nalitha Investments Proprietary Limited ("Nalitha"); - SeaVuna Fishing Company Proprietary Limited ("SeaVuna"); and - South African Fishing Empowerment Consortium Proprietary Limited ("SAFEC"), collectively the "B-BBEE Consortium". The Proposed Transaction is subject to the suspensive conditions set out in paragraph 5 below. 2. Overview of the Viking Group Viking Fishing and Viking Aquaculture (together the "Viking Group") was founded by Nico Bacon in 1978 and has developed into a significant vertically integrated fishing and aquaculture business over the last 40 years. The group employs more than 1 600 people. Viking Fishing operates a fleet of 30 vessels from Cape Town, Hout Bay, Mossel Bay, Durban and Maputo. The company catches, processes and markets a diverse range of species including hake, horse mackerel, small pelagics (pilchards and anchovy), west coast rock lobster, prawns and tuna pole. Viking Fishing operates six processing facilities and markets its products in South Africa, Europe and Asia across the wholesale and foodservice channels. Viking Aquaculture is one of the largest diversified aquaculture producers in South Africa, farming abalone, mussels, oysters and trout across a number of locations in South Africa and Namibia. 3. Rationale for the Proposed Transaction for Sea Harvest Following its listing on the JSE Limited ("JSE") on 23 March 2017, Sea Harvest has actively sought to grow via acquisitions in the fishing and aquaculture sectors in line with Sea Harvest's strategy and vision of becoming one of the largest black owned diversified global seafood and food companies. The acquisition of the Viking Group fits the group's investment criteria and Sea Harvest is confident of the value that a combination of Sea Harvest and the Viking Group would generate through: - the complementary nature of the fishing businesses; and - the diversification into other wild caught species and aquaculture. The Proposed Transaction will have a positive impact on the fishing industry in South Africa as it will: - significantly increase black ownership in the fishing industry due to the strong transformation credentials of Sea Harvest and the B-BBEE Consortium; - ensure the preservation of 1 600 jobs, 90% of which consists of historically disadvantaged individuals, particularly in the ports of Mossel Bay, Saldanha Bay and Cape Town and the rural communities of Kleinzee and Gansbaai; - introduce two new Small, Medium and Micro-sized Enterprise ("SMME") players into the fishing industry; - contribute to the establishment and furtherance of sizeable operational black industrialists and new black entrants in the fishing industry; and - contribute to inclusive economic growth and participation through access, diversity, empowerment and transformation in the mainstream South African economy. 4. Salient features of the Proposed Transaction 4.1 The Fishing Acquisition The B-BBEE Consortium have entered into various agreements to acquire the fishing business of Viking Fishing by way of the purchase of selected assets, businesses and shareholdings in, and the assumption of certain third party debt, trade creditors and liabilities in and from, Viking Fishing. 4.2 The Aquaculture Acquisition Sea Harvest Aquaculture has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire 51% of the issued share capital of Viking Aquaculture from Viking Group Admin, Redburg Investments and the RW Family Trust. 4.3 Purchase consideration The total maximum purchase consideration payable by the B-BBEE Consortium for the Proposed Transaction is R884 673 446 (the "Purchase Consideration"). The Purchase Consideration is to be settled by the B-BBEE Consortium through a combination of cash on hand, bank facilities, an issue of Sea Harvest ordinary shares of no par value ("Sea Harvest Shares") and vendor funding as follows: by way of an upfront payment (the "Initial Consideration"): 4.3.1 R565 000 761 for the Fishing Acquisition to be settled on the Closing Date (as defined in paragraph 5 below) by way of: 22.214.171.124 R315 000 761 in cash; and 188.8.131.52 the issue of 19 230 769 Sea Harvest Shares (to be issued at an agreed price of R13.00 per share equating to R250 000 000); 4.3.2 R64 604 890 for the Aquaculture Acquisition to be settled in cash on the Closing Date; and 4.3.3 vendor funding in an amount of R56 267 795, subject to adjustment as follows (the "Contingent Consideration"): 4.3.4 a maximum of R198 800 000 will be payable as an upwards adjustment to the Initial Consideration depending on the profit after tax generated by the Viking Group for each of the two financial years ending 31 December 2018 and 31 December 2019 respectively, and certain profit warranties being achieved, which (if payable) will be settled in three tranches: 18.104.22.168 a maximum of R44 400 000 in cash, post the 31 December 2018 financial year-end audit; 18.104.22.168 a maximum of R44 400 000 in cash, post the 31 December 2019 financial year-end audit; and 18.104.22.168 a maximum of R110 000 000 in cash on 1 January 2022. The portion of the Purchase Consideration attributable to Sea Harvest for the Proposed Transaction will be a maximum of R763 405 650, consisting of a portion of the Initial Consideration amounting to R564 605 650 and the maximum Contingent Consideration of R198 800 000. In order to expedite and promote existing black participants and SMME's as well as the introduction of new black entrants, black industrialists and enterprise development in the fishing industry, the vendors and Sea Harvest Corporation have undertaken to assist SeaVuna, Nalitha and SAFEC by extending to them vendor funding and loans to fund their share of the Purchase Consideration for an amount of R124 267 795 (which amount is inclusive of an amount of R3 000 000 in excess of the Purchase Consideration related to VAT payable). 5. Suspensive conditions The Proposed Transaction, the substance and form of which will be embodied in the transaction documents, is subject to the fulfilment or waiver (if applicable) of, among other things, the following suspensive conditions: - approval of the Competition authorities, noting that the Competition Commission has recommended to the Competition Tribunal that the Proposed Transaction be approved subject to a condition restricting the exchange of competitively sensitive information between Sea Harvest and Oceana Group Limited via their common shareholder; - Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ("DAFF") providing approval for the transfer of the fish processing establishments (DAFF has already approved the transfer of the fishing rights); - approval of counterparties to material contracts of the target companies and assets; and - no material adverse change in regard to the Viking Group occurring between the effective date and the date upon which all of the other suspensive conditions are fulfilled or waived. The closing date of the Proposed Transaction will be the start of business on the first business day of the month following the month in which all of the suspensive conditions are fulfilled or waived (or such other closing date as may be agreed on in writing by the parties), which is expected to be on or about 2 July 2018 (the "Closing Date"). 6. Net assets and attributable profits The assets to be acquired by the B-BBEE Consortium are being sold by various legal entities within the Viking Group and are separately identifiable, with financial information available to separately present the carrying value of the assets to be acquired by the various members of the B-BBEE Consortium. However, the operations of the group are managed as a single business with no allocation of revenues, costs or profits to specific assets. As a result, historical financial information is not available in order to separately present the earnings attributable to the specific assets and liabilities acquired by each member of the B-BBEE Consortium. The profit after tax attributable to the selected business assets and liabilities acquired by the B-BBEE Consortium from the Viking Group for its financial year ended 31 December 2017, was R192 137 721. The proportionate share of the Purchase Consideration attributable to Sea Harvest is broadly indicative of its share of the attributable profit after tax set out above. The B-BBEE Consortium is to acquire from Viking Group attributable business assets and liabilities with a historical reported value reflecting liabilities that exceed assets by R149 840 958 at 31 December 2017, being the date of its last annual financial statements, of which Sea Harvest is to acquire business assets and net liabilities with a historical reported value reflecting liabilities that exceed assets by R159 693 899. The attributable net liabilities acquired comprise of fishing vessels, property, plant and equipment, biological assets, fishing rights, inventory, trade receivables, trade payables and third party debt. The audited annual financial information of the Viking Group, from which the attributable profits and net liabilities were extracted and calculated, were prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards. For two smaller entities forming part of the Proposed Transaction, historical financial information was extracted from the unaudited management accounts. Sea Harvest is satisfied with the quality of the audited financial information of the Viking Group and the management accounts of the two smaller entities referred to above, however, shareholders should note that the fair value of assets acquired are different to the historical accounting carrying values, particularly for fishing rights, vessels and property, plant and equipment. 7. Shareholding in Sea Harvest Following completion of the Proposed Transaction and the issue of Sea Harvest Shares in terms of paragraph 220.127.116.11 above, Brimstone's shareholding in Sea Harvest will reduce to 51.0%. 8. Categorisation of the Proposed Transaction The Proposed Transaction is categorised as a Category 2 transaction for Brimstone in terms of the JSE Listings Requirements. 9. Withdrawal of cautionary announcement Brimstone shareholders are advised that the cautionary announcement, with the latest renewal of cautionary announcement having been published on SENS on 24 April 2018, has now been withdrawn and that shareholders are no longer required to exercise caution when dealing in the Company's securities. 13 June 2018 Cape Town Investment bank, corporate advisor and sponsor Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking Date: 13/06/2018 09:00:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. 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And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each two or three measures.
that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.
I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."
our fathers the manna did eat in the wilderness, according as it is having been written, Bread out of the heaven He gave them to eat.'
'According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'
'Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,
Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am he; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;
You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,
according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,
and Jesus having found a young ass did sit upon it, according as it is written,
and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.'
'For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;
Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say it now.
'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;
'Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;
but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.
According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;
if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;
'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;
according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that -- all that Thou hast given to him -- he may give to them life age-during;
Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:
"We have a law," the Jews replied to him, "and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God."
Then they took Jesus' body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the aromatic spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.
Jesus, therefore, said to them again, 'Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;'
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Harrison County Health Department
Bethany, Missouri
October Inspections
Dinner Bell (Eagleville)- Routine inspection conducted on 10/4/17.
Critical- Can opener dirty, clean. Corrected
2 unlabeled spray bottles in kitchen. All toxics must be labeled. Corrected.
Gravy, potatoes, green beans not date marked in walk in cooler. Date when made and discard after 7 days. Corrected.
Raw proteins (milk) stored above ready to eat foods. Always store raw proteins below RTE foods.
Non-critical- Shelf of vent hood on east side of kitchen dirty. Clean on routine basis.
No paper towels at hand washing sink. Corrected.
Floor of walk-in freezer is dirty. Clean.
Gilman City General Store- Routine inspection conducted on 10/4/17.
Critical- Raw proteins (eggs) stored above ready to eat foods. Store raw proteins below RTE foods. Corrected.
Non-critical- No self closing door on restroom. All doors must be self closing on restrooms.
Improper storage of mops. Mops must be stored in a way they can completely dry in between uses.
The Gilman Café (Gilman City)-Pre-opening inspection conducted on 10/18/17.
No critical or non-critical violations noted. This establishment is approved to open.
Dinner Bell (Eagleville) - Follow up inspection conducted on 10/25/17.
All critical and non-critical violations have been corrected.
Stackhouse Café (Eagleville)-Routine inspection conducted on 10/25/17.
Critical- Potentially hazardous foods not stored at 41°F or below, all PHF's must be held at 41°F or below. Corrected.
Non-critical- No non-critical violations noted at time of inspection.
El Nopal (Bethany)-Routine inspection conducted on 10/25/17.
Critical- Raw proteins stored above ready to eat food in walk in cooler, store raw proteins below ready to eat foods. Corrected.
Non-critical- No paper towels at hand washing sink. Hand washing sink must be adequately supplied. Corrected.
Grease covered apron on floor by fryer. Remove & Clean. Corrected.
Frozen burger patty lying on top of cardboard box in walk in freezer. Discard. Corrected.
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for Wally's Golf Links!
(Just in time
for you to pass this to your significant other)
Usually, I
create a holiday list. This year is no exception.
However, since I believe I won't see an increase in my taxes for the
next four years, I'm inspired to go to the high end. Thus, in this post-election euphoria, I'll include a few
items that were recommended in Forbes' FYI magazine.
The Rare Wine
Company (www.rarewineco.com) features
rare wine (and we're not talking Boone's Farm).
However, this year, they are also offering antique crystal decanters
beginning at $500 and going up. If
you've got the coin (and Wino John does), you can spring for one of these.
(Editor's note: Unfortunately, The Wife has access to my coin,
rendering me somewhat light in the coin department.)
(www.erobertparker.com) is a great
subscription gift for your wino buddy. All of Parker's reviews, great links (like to winostuff.com),
and his tasting notes are available to the web subscriber.
Additionally, you can download his Parker in Your Palm ratings
software so that those of you with Palm Pilots can use Parker's ratings to
impress that very important client (WB, take heed, it's only $30 if you
subscribe to eRobertParker.com).
The Bounty
Hunter (www.bountyhunterwine.com)
is a great site to visit for some decent wine buys and other items (just be
prepared for the followup emails that show up every now and then).
Forbes recommends the Twelve Bottle Wine Kaddy that they sell.
It's a little pricey ($350), but it's lightweight at 15 pounds, comes
with built-in wheels and a removable handle so it's easy to transport that
magic 12 bottle assortment that you carry around to impress the boss (hmmm,
maybe I should write a career advisory book).
Riedel (www.riedel.com)
makes excellent wine glasses. They
pioneered the shaping of the glass for the varietal that you're tasting (I
love those big ass Burgundy glasses). Anyway,
this year, they're introducing the "O" series of glasses where they've
taken the radical step of eliminating the stem from the glass.
This way, you can sip your wine while your boss is sipping his Manhattan
or Dewars on the rocks (notice that career advisory piece slipping in here
again). Anyway, at $10 to $12.50
apiece, the "O" series is substantially cheaper than the stuff with stems.
You might even be able to fit these in your dishwasher.
although it's not a wine-oriented gift, I thought that it might be a nice
gesture if my brother in law, Wino John, considered a techno gift for the Wino
Wally household this year. I strongly recommend the InFocus ScreenPlay 777.
This baby can project 15 feet wide and accommodates HDTV, DVD, Xbox, etc.
With a resolution of 1280 x 720 and 2,000 lumens, it's the rage (and
it's only $30,000). (Editor's note: See previous
comment regarding my current coin situation...)
When you're
working in a world where your place of business is "business casual" and
folks you sometimes work with are "business suits", you have to have two
wardrobes. With two wardrobes, you
have to have casual shoes and dress shoes.
At the WW estate, the Lady of the Manor has the BIG closet in the MB.
So, I used to have my multiple shoes all over the place until, I bought
the Cedar Shoe Stacker from Frontgate (www.frontgate.com).
For $34 each, or a set of 3 for $89, you can stack four pairs of men's
shoes to a level (supposedly, you can get five pairs of women's shoes to a
level, but since someone we know has the bigger closet, she doesn't need
As long as
we're looking into closets, for the Wino or Winette who has everything, go to www.hangers.com.
Yes, that's Hangers.com. I
thought a buddy of mine was joking when he said there was a website with that
name. I even thought it might be a
strip joint site and I'd get censored by the blockers at work.
Nope. Not the case. It is what it says. Hangers.com
sells wooden hangers in multiple finishes, colors, etc., and offers monogrammed
hangers (this would fit in nicely at the WJ estate where he recently moved his
wine collection out of his MB closet).
If you're a
golfer as well as Wino or Winette, you probably know that Club Glove (www.clubglove.com)
makes the best travel bags for your clubs.
Now, they also make the Rolling Duffle II ($219) which is constructed
from the same material as the club travel bag and is just as durable.
It will hold enough duds for a weeklong trip.
If you're a
sports nut and occasionally like to take pictures at those events, check out
Bushnell's Instant Replay (www.bushnell.com
). The maker of high end binoculars
claims that this tech tool is the first binocular, digital camera, and
video-capturing device; all-in-one. It
comes with a 16MB compact flash card (you can buy upgrades at my favorite memory
place, www.pny.com) and retails for $599 (Frontgate
sells it for $429).
I could have
used this other item on my recent golf trip to Ireland.
Marketed by Frontgate's Gentlemen's Domain (www.gentlemensdomain.com),
it's a Stormproof Lighter that produces a flame in rain and winds up to 200
mph (which means it might just work for that stogey on Lahinch in 50 mph wind
with driving rain moving horizontal). $55
is the asking price and it even includes an LED flashlight on the bottom.
you're into espresso, you have to have the Magnifica by De'Longhi.
This is probably the finest non-professional model on the market.
It grinds your beans for the ultimate in freshness while allowing single
button controls to simplify the process. For
the location of your nearest dealer, go to www.delonghi-espresso.com.
If you don't have a wife whose hobby is buying
baskets and handing them out like water to friends and family (Wino John's
wife is DQ'd since she's a professional at this basket game and solicited my
wife into the habit, something slightly worse than heroin), then you should
check out Wine Country Gift Baskets at www.winecountrygiftbaskets.com.
If you live in a state that allows the shipment of wine, great.
If you don't, no need to worry, they have baskets with gourmet items
such as Godiva chocolates, Ghiradelli chocolates, Mauna Loa macadamia nuts, Tazo
teas, etc. If you're looking to
impress someone, send them the V.I.P. At
$150, it's impressive and does NOT include wine.
Wino Wally
Baltimore, MD
November 4, 2004
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LexCath's Lockhart blanks Dunbar 1-0 in district opener
Lexington Catholic sophomore right-hander Trip Lockhart confessed to being a little nervous when he took the mound against Paul Laurence Dunbar in the 43rd District baseball tournament opener Monday night.
He didn't show any jitters, though, as he threw a complete-game four-hitter in leading the No. 4 Knights to a 1-0 victory and a semifinal showdown with No. 2 Lafayette Tuesday night.
"Trip's got a moxie about him," Knights Coach Taylor Brooks said. "He doesn't let pressure get to him. He's very confident out there. Anytime you throw a complete-game shutout in the district, it's quite an accomplishment."
Lockhart surrendered four singles, one walk and struck out four. "I felt strong from the get-go," he said. "My off-speed was working and I was able to mix it in there."
Dunbar's Zac Conner had a strong pitching performance, too. He gave up only three hits — all singles — in six innings. He walked two and struck out three.
He gave up the only run in the third. With two outs, Andy Thompson hit a hard shot that glanced off Conner's leg, and the speedy Thompson beat it out.
Chris Thompson, Andy's twin brother, followed with a single that moved Andy to third. He scored when Dunbar made an error on Daniel Little's grounder.
"Trip was pitching an excellent game, and we figured if we got one run for him we could ride it out," Thompson said. "He threw a gem, and everybody played great defense behind him."
Little, Lexington Catholic sophomore shortstop who's signed with Louisville, vacuumed every ball that came his way.
"You can't hit it at a D-I shortstop and expect to get on base very often," Dunbar Coach Seth Knight said.
The Knights ended the game with a clutch defensive play.
Dunbar's Evan Nicoulin singled with two outs in the seventh, and gave way to pinch runner Jake Cunningham. After Cunningham moved to second on a balk, Ben Keplinger hit a hard single to right. Cunningham rounded third looking to score. He didn't have a chance. Right fielder Steven Bender's strong throw to catcher Ben Wilcoxson forced Cunningham to put on the brakes halfway down the baseline, and he was tagged out in a rundown.
"We have a saying in the outfield — 'Don't run on Bender' — because he's got an arm," Thompson said.
Knight couldn't have asked much more from his Bulldogs.
"Zac gave us an effort good enough to win," he said. "We put the bat on the ball but missed on some execution, but that happens. It's just the breaks of the game.
"Catholic executed just a little bit better and beat us 1-0. That's life in the 43rd District."
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The all-time favourite "10 wines under $10" sale is back until Sunday!
We have added Cockle Bay Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris to the mix with two of our most popular Marlborough wines.
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Todo Loco Tempranillo Superior also only $99 a dozen or $9.99 for single bottles (no minimum buy) – This one defies logic! How could a wine this good be sold this cheap?!
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No FDI hike in insurance this yr, but foreign firms came in3 min read . Updated: 28 Dec 2007, 01:53 PM IST
No FDI hike in insurance this yr, but foreign firms came in
No FDI hike in insurance this yr, but foreign firms came in
New Delhi: The UPA Government's promise to liberalise the insurance sector for foreign players remained just that in the year 2007, but it did not stop more overseas companies to foray in the country in tie-ups with local firms.
The year also saw regulator IRDA giving more freedom to non-life insurers to price their products, the country's biggest life insurance firm LIC getting approval for a health policy and banning of actuarial-funded unit linked products.
Left parties' vehement opposition to financial sector reforms prevented the government from increasing foreign direct investment cap from 26% at present to 49%. The UPA regime had proposed raising the FDI cap in its first budget in 2004-05. The Cabinet had in 2006-end referred it to a Group of Ministers headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee. The Group held only a couple of meetings in which the government presented its case to the Left allies.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram recently expressed optimism that financial sector reforms would make some headway in the remaining 16 months of the UPA Government, but he did not specify whether it would include the insurance sector.
The Finance Ministry put up a brave front, saying 26% FDI cap is not an entry barrier. Entry of foreign partners enabled the sector attract $543 million FDI, Minister of State for Finance P K Bansal said recently.
Moreover, a number of new players ventured into different segments. For instance, Kishore Bayani-promoted Future Group entered life and non-life business with Assicurazioni Generali of Italy.
Similarly, Canara Bank tied up with the Netherlands-based Robeco, Bank of Baroda joined hands with UK-based Legal and General, and Bank of India with Japanese firm Dai-Chi Insurance. Apollo Hospitals Group also formed a joint venture with Germany's DKV AG to start health insurance business.
While the government's reforms process remained stuck for lack of political consensus, Insurance Regulatory Authority of India went ahead with its measures to give general insurers more freedom to fix premium in various product categories.
Toward the close of this year, IRDA announced removal of all pricing controls from general insurance products beginning 2008. This second round of detariffication is expected to boost competition and bring down premium charged by insurers.
However, detariffing in early 2007 triggered a rise in motor insurance premiums for cars, two wheelers and commercial vehicles by 33-257%, while pulling down premium in case of fire and engineering policies. But insurers did not get full freedom on tariffing as IRDA increased the rates that they can charge for motor policies related to third-party liability, denying them a free hand to fix prices.
Following the decision, the premium for third party insurance in heavy vehicles increased by 126-150% to Rs8,000-9,000 from the existing Rs2,940-3,980. This was opposed by transport associations. After hectic parleys among government officials, insurers and regulator, hike in tariff was cut down from 150% to 70%.
If things go well, insurers would even get flexibility to quote their own terms and conditions beginning next fiscal. General Insurance Council has already floated draft guidelines to invite comments from the public and other stakeholders.
To give a boost to health insurance, the government increased the tax exemption limit to Rs15,000. Meanwhile, a section of health insurers demanded that the initial paid-up capital requirement be reduced from Rs100 crore to 50 crore.
As far as life insurance was concerned, the year marked banning of actuarial-funded unit-linked insurance products. In these products, various charges incurred by the company are spread throughout the scheme, and IRDA felt such products were too complicated for the common consumer to understand. The move affected Bajaj Allianz and Aviva's 8-10 such products.
The year also saw setting in motion a proposal to have health insurance portability that would allow a policy holder to switch over to a new company without losing bonus and other benefits. General Insurance Council is framing proposals in this regard, which are expected to be put in place from the beginning of the next fiscal after regulator IRDA's nod.
Although India is far behind the world averages and ranks 78th in terms of insurance density and 54th in terms of penetration, the future holds immense potential.
According to global consultancy firm McKinsey, life insurance industry could more than double to $100 billion in the next five years. The market could grow even more if FDI limit is hiked to 49%, but only time will tell whether the Left-backed coalition government is able to take such a decision next year.


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After my last blog entry calling the painting finished, I delivered the painting to my photographer - and promptly pulled it back again to make just one more adjustment. Of course one tweak led to several as I slightly changed the angle and shading of the birds back above the tail, made the head slightly longer and tamed down the blue shading behind its right leg. This time I am happy with it.
Here is the re-finished finished painting -
"Taking Flight" (Canada Goose taking off from water)
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Nicaragua launches plan to promote destination in the UK
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Members meet to talk about manga and watch a member selected anime movie/show. Open to ages 12 - 18 only.
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Explore the basics of robotics using LEGO Mindstorms with an ongoing group of Middle and High School students. This is a hands on, active building program. The program is made possible in part by funding from the Wicomico Partnership for Families and Children.
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Zero Robotics
Zero Robotics is a virtual robotics and programming competition using S.P.H.E.R.E.S. (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites) on the ISS. Middle school students learn C++, physics & astronomy via hands-on activities, and teamwork skills as they compete in a national robotics challenge. The finals are run by astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station!
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Calling ice-out on Lake Wentworth is always a tricky business. In the past, the late Allen Stevens would traverse the shores of Lake Wentworth looking for evidence that every shore was free enough of ice that property owners could, if they wished, launch a boat out to the open lake.
This year, the call fell to an intrepid crew of volunteers scattered around the lake, each reporting in and posting photos on the Wentworth Watershed Association's Facebook page. Expectations were high early. Rain fell, temperatures rose, the wind kicked in — and still the ice held. So great was the impatience around the lake that early bird boaters began to test the margins, and then the heart, of the gigantic floe that hovered at the center of the lake. It seemed as though it would never go away.
And then it did.
Ice out was formally called at 7 p.m. on Easter Sunday, April 16. A small sheet may persist in an isolated corner here and there on the western shores, where the wind piles it up, but, by now, just about anyone who wants to can get out and enjoy water just slightly above freezing.
And this year's winner of the annual ice-out contest: lakelady, with a guess of April 17 at noon. The full list of guesses is available here.