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A review of Mark Rudd, Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen, New York: William Morrow, 324 pp., $25.99.
Today, Mark Rudd is best known as a guy who ran with Bill Ayers forty years ago. But forty years ago, when Weatherman was real and not a historical curiosity, Ayers, and most of the Weathermen, were in Rudd's shadow. In an era of campus takeovers, Rudd was the public face of the most famous one. When the government charged Weathermen in the 1969 Days of Rage riots in Chicago, the case tellingly bore the name Rudd, et al. In 1977, Rudd again beat his terror accomplices to the spotlight by becoming the first major Weatherman to surrender. Though subsequent misgivings over Weatherman make him less enduring a personality than the cartoonishly defiant Ayers, and less flamboyant than the cocky and camera-chasing Mark Rudd of 1968, they give Rudd's memoirs a more honest and adult perspective than the bound remembrances of others from his graying gang.
The painful irony of Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen is that Mark Rudd lost his best friend to a bomb and his political mentor to life in prison by winning an argument with them.
In 1968, Columbia's chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was beset by division. On one side were the "action faction," led by Rudd, a sophomoric junior who had just returned from a trip to Castro's Cuba paid for by drug dealing, and John Jacobs, "an animated madman" who affected a working-class accent despite arriving at the Ivy League by way of a tony Vermont prep school. On the other side stood the "praxis axis," led by Ted Gold, a brainy Knicks fan, and David Gilbert, the even brainier patriarch of Columbia SDS. The praxis axis contended that action must wait for organizing, educating, and base-building. The action faction countered that organizing, educating, and base-building are the fruit of deeds rather than mere words.
The action v. organizing debate was settled by two battleground issues: the school's relationship with the Institute for Defense Analyses and Ivy League encroachment upon the Harlem ghetto by the planned construction of an athletic center. As proxy issues for Vietnam and civil rights, the defense research and gymnasium struck a chord with students. Not ones to put the question to a vote, the action faction took matters into their own hands. Rudd led a mob that seized numerous academic buildings, took several deans hostage, torched a resented professor's research files, and commandeered the office of the school's president, flippantly smoking his cigars and drinking his sherry as his Rembrandt looked on. The vandals were truly inside of the gates—in fact, many were there on scholarship.
Columbia disaffiliated with the Institute for Defense Analyses and abandoned the construction of the "racist" gymnasium. Newsweek placed Rudd on its cover as the symbol of student rebellion. Doonesbury caricatured him as "Megaphone Mark." SDS elected him its national chairman the following year. Rudd's victory was so complete that the praxis axis became enthusiastic converts to the action faction.
As Columbia SDS was changing, so was the parent organization. Starting the decade a small, bookish band of red-diaper babies interested in repackaging radicalism into a New Left, SDS, propelled by the Vietnam War, exploded into an action-obsessed umbrella group for the wider Left and moved from the participatory democracy of the "Port Huron Statement" to Weatherman vanguardism. SDS became Weatherman, and Columbia's go-slow "praxis axis" that had melded into the madman "action faction" then strangely found themselves the most far-out faction of Weatherman.
In 1970, a crushed Ted Gold perished with two fellow Weathermen after their amateur bomb factory exploded in a Greenwich Village townhouse. Dave Gilbert, by 1981 a revolutionary without a revolution, participated in an armed expropriation of a Brink's truck that resulted in the deaths of two policemen and a security guard. Gilbert, who refused to recognize the legitimacy of the court that tried him, has wasted in prison for 28 years and counting. For Rudd's schoolmates Gold and Gilbert, the sixties were indeed a long, strange trip.
Action-faction factotum John Jacobs's fate may have been more pathetic than Gold's or Gilbert's. Dubbed too mad a bomber by a gang of mad bombers, Jacobs was purged from Weatherman in the wake of the friendly fire inside the townhouse. Shunned by radicals and on the run from authorities, JJ stayed underground long after the FBI had stopped caring about his whereabouts and the charges against him had been dropped. After battling drugs and depression, JJ succumbed to cancer in Vancouver in 1997. Rudd writes, "The principal author of the original Weatherman paper, JJ was both the first Weatherman and the last."
Mark Rudd won an argument that he now wishes that he had lost. But it's something other than survivor's guilt that colors his memoirs. "In general, we played into the hands of the FBI—our sworn enemies. We might as well have been on their payroll," he writes of Weatherman.
In its ordered orgies, bizarre initiation rites, such as skinning and eating an alley cat, and demand that its members abandon their children, Weatherman ensured the exclusion of anyone with a semblance of good sense. Rudd writes, "I did not realize at the time that we had unwittingly reproduced conditions that all hermetically sealed cults use: isolation, sleep deprivation, demanding arbitrary acts of loyalty to the group, even sexual initiation as bonding." The Weatherman cult's admiration for the Manson cult, then, came as much from operational affinity as from the convoluted, apocalyptic racial theories the two held in common.
Rudd's life of activism reads more as a mission of catharsis than an effort to save the world. Columbia freshman Rudd's psychotherapist asked whether one of his patient's political rants masked some painful feelings: "'Right, like poverty and racism' I said, and that was the end of my psychoanalysis." But it was the beginning of his therapy. A self-described childhood "misfit," Rudd confesses that among the Columbia activists "I had finally found my gang." With Rudd describing a lunatic in JJ, and admitting his own family's intent to commit him to an insane asylum, Underground raises the question of whether the activist's activism is an attempt to save the world or himself. Rudd's post-underground political work is even described in such therapeutic terms. "Our pent-up energy for organizing and community had finally found a channel for release," he writes of his late-'70s work in the no-nukes movement. "To deal with my own form of posttraumatic stress disorder, I joined the Central America solidarity movement and devoted the next five years of my life to opposing the intervention," he notes of his Reagan-era activism.
Rudd still exhibits signs of suffering from the same comforting delusions as his comrades (e.g., the peace movement stopped the Vietnam War, the police targeted Black Panthers rather than the reverse, etc.). But the non-afflicted reader can easily see through the participant historian's occasional mirage to benefit from his critical perspective. His frank assessment of Weatherman's sexual brave new world is a case in point. The male fantasy (rationalized into an ideology) of girls for the taking shattered against reality when Rudd gazed into a lover's eyes and spotted a crab in her eyebrow. "Weather sex was also a disaster for medical reasons: gonorrhea, pelvic inflammatory disease, crab lice, and a non-specific genital infection we called 'Weather crud' were epidemic among us." An on-the-run Rudd and JJ repaid a Good Samaritan sheltering them by taking turns bedding his wife in his absence. Rudd impregnated a married woman, who promptly aborted his child. Utopia wasn't supposed to be so complicated.
Underground leaves unexplored the glaring peculiarity common to the major Weathermen. Mark Rudd's upwardly mobile father lived the American Dream by making a killing in real estate. As Bill Ayers counseled young people to "kill your parents" and "kill all the rich people" he sponged off an allowance from his father, the chairman of Commonwealth Edison. Convicted murderer Kathy Boudin, one of the few red-diaper-baby Weathermen, grew up in the townhouse later used by The Cosby Show to showcase the opulence of its fictional inhabitants. Before blowing her head off in the construction of a bomb aimed to blow the heads off of enlisted soldiers, Diana Oughton enjoyed life on a palatial estate featuring a deer park, a goose pond, and a 100-foot-high windmill. The amazing wealth provided the means to play revolutionary, a perverse noblesse oblige that caused them to act as Hessians fighting the class war for those too ignorant to wage it, the cultural conditioning to look down upon the cops and servicemen they targeted, and a sense of entitlement that fueled self-righteous demand after demand. Children whose brat fits ensured that they got what they wanted from their maids grew up to throw bombs along with their tantrums.
Rudd's Underground stands up well next to other ventures in the cottage industry of Weatherman memoirs. Whereas Bill Ayers reports that he regrets nothing and Cathy Wilkerson makes excuses for everything, Rudd lays bare his ugly sins with few attempts to call them anything but failings. Paradoxically, it's Ayers and Wilkerson who emerge from their self-serving memoirs ill-served, and Rudd who comes off as, if not likeable, then at least as the author of a likeable book.
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Sunday News Round-Up – 40 Years of Roe Edition
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. That means that Blog for Choice Day 2013 is coming up on Tuesday, this year with the theme of having writers share their own personal stories of why they're pro-choice.
I expect to put a post up in observance, and I also have something on Marsha Blackburn and Republican attempts to defund Planned Parenthood for tomorrow. Today's Sunday News Round-Up theme will also be abortion.
Here's the most recent abortion surveillance data from the CDC, using 2009 data. True facts: 60% of women who have abortions are already mothers.
More on who has abortions in the United States, from Guttmacher:
Want to help low income women obtain abortions? Fund one through an abortion fund. Here's the National Network of Abortion Funds, where you can find out more.
Across the country: Here are some events marking the anniversary. The Trust Women campaign also has several events listed. Individual organizations may also have events listed where you are.
Future healthcare providers may want to check out Medical Students for Choice and Nursing Students for Choice.
Abortion 101: What to Know Before You Go – How much time you need to set aside for the initial appointment-making phone call, paying, and what to expect.
Corresponding with the anniversary, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health is launching the Yo Te Apoyo campaign, and also has video of one of their folks talking about Roe 2.0: Strategies for the Next Generation of Reproductive Rights Activism.
The Feminist Anthropologist talks about Planned Parenthood's plan to move away from using the "choice" terminology, and includes a critique of some unfortunate gendered language in their explanatory video. I will say that I have definitely encountered trans women online talking about Planned Parenthood failing to properly and respectfully treat them, and that is something I would like to see PP explicitly address on the national level, ensuring competency at all affiliate clinics.
The Radical Housewife talks about the move away from the "choice" language, and points out some of the barriers that make getting an abortion not as simple as making a choice.
In fact, a 2008 report funded by the Guttmacher Institute announced that 87 percent of counties in the United States do not have an abortion provider.That's a big enough number to put in all caps: EIGHTY-SEVEN PERCENT! That makes getting an abortion seem less like a "choice" and more like a forced road trip.
The Hyde Amendment, predictably, reinforces the idea that wealthy women have the "choice," but poor women don't. And lest we forget, the poorest women are the ones who lack access to contraceptive information and services anyway, dammit!
Tracy Weitz at RH Reality Check is also talking about the change, and NARAL talks about their continued use of the choice language.
One way antis try to make it harder to get abortions – TRAP laws that regulate the crap out of clinics in ways that aren't actually necessary for patient safety. Via the Women's Health Policy Report: Abortion Clinics Struggle To Adapt Under Wave of State Regulations.
The 1 in 3 campaign shares women's stories of abortion.
The former Wichita, KS clinic of George Tiller – a provider murdered by an anti-abortion activist – is set to reopen in the next few months.
Berkeley Law launched a Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice.
Several items in On the Issues: First Irish Abortion Clinic Opens Amid Controversy, Threats and Confusion; Forty Years After Roe v Wade, Getting an Abortion is Still a Major Challenge; It's Up to Us to Defend Abortion Rights.
Additionally, here are some of my favorite past posts of my own exploring aspects of abortion:
- Blog for Choice Day 2010 – What "Trust Women" Means to Me
- Blog for Choice Day 2008 – Why I Vote Pro-Choice
- Blogging for Choice 2007 – Why I'm Pro-Choice
- Akin is Not an Outlier – Republicans on Rape, Abortion, and Women's Rights
- Why a Fertilized Egg is Not a "Baby" – A Gardener's Analogy
- How Operation Rescue and National Right to Life Spin Abortion Research
- Those Billboards in Atlanta: On Black Women and Abortion
January 21, 2013 2:44 pm
Thanks for linking to my blog! Much appreciated.
January 29, 2013 5:15 am
I see this post,but fact is that being a mother is the most beautiful thing you can be. Every woman should be AGAINST abortion. A mother always sees the beauty of a human being more than the man.The truth is that there is nothing feminine about feminism. Feminism is masculinized womanhood. Abortion is against womanhood, There are also emotional effects of abortion

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text: Underground experiments Posted by Dr Ben Still on January 6, 2013 • Comments (0) Ever since I signed up for caving at Sheffield Uni during my PhD I have loved exploring underground - so I had great fun looking into possible underground locations for Lyndall's installation. The excitment of exploration, just like we flirted with at the Bargehouse, came right to the surface once again. We found so many exclusive, hidden spaces in London and we both wanted to explore them all - the same way Lyndall said she would love to explore the locations of all the experiments I had shown her. I explained how some were similar to underground experiments and why we go underground - to shield us from the showers of particles coming from cosmic rays all the time. Every second we have at least one heavy electron, called the muon, passing through us - more if we go up in a plane. To reduce all of these extra background particles we shield ourselves with 100's of metres of rock, so that we can be confident that the particles we see are not those from cosmic rays but instead the ones we want to see. Ben


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Hotel California
by Doug Noland
December 14, 2012
At least for today (perhaps because I'm a little under the weather), when it comes to the Fed I'm about all ranted out. So this isn't supposed to be a rant, but more an effort to tie together some loose analytical ends. Key facets of my Macro Credit Theory analysis seem to be converging: The myth of deleveraging, "liquidationist" historical revisionism, Rules vs. Discretion monetary management, and "Keynesian"/inflationist dogma.
The Bernanke Fed this week increased their quantitative easing program to monthly purchases of $85bn starting in January. "Operation Twist" – the Fed's clever strategy of purchasing $667bn of bonds while selling a like amount of T-bills - is due to expire at the end of the month. The Fed will now continue buying Treasury bonds ($45bn/month). It just won't be selling any bills, while continuing with $40bn MBS purchases each month. The end result will be an unprecedented non-crisis expansion of our central bank's balance sheet (monetization). It's Professor Bernanke's "government printing press" and "helicopter money" running at full tilt.
During his Wednesday press conference, chairman Bernanke downplayed the significance of the change from "twist" to outright balance sheet inflation. Wall Street analysts have generally downplayed this as well. Truth be told, no one has a clear view of the consequences of taking the Fed's balance sheet from about $3.0 TN to perhaps $4.0 TN over the coming year or so. It's worth noting that in previous periods of rapid balance sheet expansion, the Fed was essentially accommodating de-leveraging by players (hedge funds, banks, proprietary trading desks, REITs, etc.) caught on the wrong side of a market crisis.
Does the Fed's next Trillions worth of liquidity injections spur more speculation in bonds, stocks and global risk assets? Or, instead, will our central bank again provide liquidity for leveraged players looking to sell (many increased holdings with the intention of eventually offloading to the Fed)? It's impossible to know today the ramifications of the Fed's latest tack into uncharted policy territory. It will stoke some inflationary consequence no doubt, although the impact on myriad Credit Bubbles around the globe is anything but certain.
Clearer is that the Fed has again crossed an important line. There has been previous talk of Fed "exit strategies." I'll side with Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, who Friday warned of "Hotel California" risk ("...Going back to the Eagles song which is, you can check out any time you want but you can never leave…"). There has also been this notion that the U.S. economy is progressing through a ("beautiful") deleveraging process. Yet there should be little doubt that the Fed has now resorted to blatantly orchestrating a further leveraging of the U.S. economy. It will now become only that much more difficult (think impossible) for the Federal Reserve to extricate itself from this Inflationary Process.
I've read quite sound contemporaneous analysis written during the "Roaring Twenties." There was keen appreciation at the time for the risks associated with rampant Credit growth and speculative excesses throughout the markets and economy. The "old codgers" argued that a massive Credit inflation that commenced during the Great War (WWI) was being precariously accommodated by loose Federal Reserve policies.
Chairman Bernanke has throughout his career disparaged these "Bubble poppers." To this day the "liquidationists" are pilloried for their view that there was no viable alternative than to wring financial excess and economic maladjustment out of the system through wrenching adjustment periods. Through their empirical studies, quantitative models, and sophisticated theories, contemporary academics – led by Dr. Bernanke – have proven (without a doubt!) that the misguided "Bubble poppers" and "liquidationists" were flat out wrong. Our central bankers are now determined to prove them (along with their contemporary critics) wrong in the real world. Yet there remains one rather insurmountable dilemma: The contemporaneous Credit Bubble antagonists were right.
The Dallas Fed's Fisher stated Friday that the "FOMC is probably the most academically driven in history." Well, I'll say that a world of unconstrained market-based finance "regulated" by inventive and activist academics has proved one explosive monetary concoction. The Wall Street Journal's Jon Hilsenrath (with Brian Blackstone) had two insightful pieces this week, "MIT Forged Activist Views of Central Bank Role and Cinched Central Banker Ties," and "World Central Bankers United by Secret Basel Talks and MIT Connections."
Inflationary cycles always create powerful constituencies. After all, Credit booms and the government printing press provide incredible wealth-accumulating opportunities for certain segments of the economy. Moreover, it is the nature of things that late in the cycle the pace of wealth redistribution accelerates as the monetary inflation turns more unwieldy. Throw in the reality that asset inflation (financial and real) has been a prevailing inflationary manifestation throughout this extraordinary Credit boom, and you've guaranteed extraordinarily powerful constituencies.
By now, "activist" central banking doctrine – with pegged rates, aggressive market intervention/manipulation and blatant monetization - should already have been discredited. Instead, policy mistakes lead to only bigger policy mistakes, just as was anticipated generations ago in the central banking "Rules vs. Discretion" debate. Today, a small group of global central bank chiefs can meet in private and wield unprecedented power over global markets, economies and wealth distribution more generally. They are said to somehow be held accountable by politicians that have proven even less respectful of sound money and Credit. In the U.S., Europe, the UK, Japan and elsewhere, central bankers have become intricately linked to fiscal management. As such, disciplined and independent central banking, a cornerstone to any hope for sound money and Credit, has been relegated to the dustbin of history.
Considering the global monetary policy backdrop, it's not difficult to side with the view of an unfolding inflation issue. At the same time, the "liquidationist" perspective - that to attempt sustaining highly inflated market price and economic structures risks financial and economic catastrophe - has always resonated. The markets' response to Wednesday's dramatic Fed announcement was notably underwhelming. This could be because it was already discounted.
Perhaps "fiscal cliff" worries are restraining animal spirits. Then again, perhaps the more sophisticated market operators have been waiting for this opportunity to reduce their exposures. After all, the Fed moving to $85bn monthly QE five years into an aggressive fiscal and monetary reflationary cycle is pretty much an admission of defeat.
I've argued that, primarily due to unrelenting fiscal and monetary stimulus, the U.S. economy has been avoiding a necessary deleveraging process. Some highly intelligent and sophisticated market operators have argued the opposite. They point to growth in incomes and GDP, while total (non-financial and financial) system Credit has contracted marginally. I can point specifically to Total Non-Financial Debt that closed out 2008 at $34.441 TN and ended September 30, 2012 at a record $39.284 TN. But the deleveraging debate will not be resolved with data.
The old "liquidationists" (and "Austrians") would have strong views about contemporary "deleveraging". They would shout "inflated price levels," "non-productive debt," "unsupportable debt loads," "excess consumption," "distorted spending patterns and associated malinvestment," "deep economic structural imbalances" and "intractable Current Account Deficits!" They would argue that to truly "deleverage" one's economy would require a tough weaning from system Credit profligacy.
Only by consuming less and producing more can our economy reduce its debt dependency and get back on a course toward financial and economic stability. The "Bubble poppers" would profess that in order to commence a sustainable cycle of sound Credit and productive investment first requires a cleansing ("liquidation") of unproductive ventures and unserviceable debts.
It's painful and, regrettably, shortcuts only short-circuit the process. I'm convinced that they would hold today's so-called "deleveraging" – replete with massive deficits, central bank monetization and ongoing huge U.S. trade deficits - in complete and utter disdain.
In a CNBC interview Wednesday evening, the Wall Street Journal's Jon Hilsenrath called Dr. Bernanke a "gunslinger." Our Fed chairman is highly intelligent, thoughtful, polite, soft-spoken, seemingly earnest and a huge, huge gambler. And he's not about to fold a bad hand. Almost four years ago, I wrote that Fed reflationary measures were essentially "betting the ranch." This week they again doubled down.
With his perspective and theories, Dr. Bernanke has pushed the envelope his entire academic career. He is now surrounded by a group of likeminded "Keynesian" academics, and they together perpetuate groupthink in epic proportions. These issues will be debated for decades to come – and who knows how that will all play out. But as a contemporary analyst and keen observer, there's no doubt these unchecked "academics" are operating with dangerously flawed theories and doctrine. It's not the way central banking was supposed to work. Ditto Capitalism and democracies. Whatever happened to sound money and Credit?


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Danish design consultancy Index: recently announced the winners of the 2009 Index:Award, an international design competition that highlights the scale of the problems we face globally, while rewarding design work that points the way towards intelligent solutions. The prize is 100,000 euros per winner in five categories: "Body", "Home", "Work", "Play" and "Community". This year's prizes have been chosen from more than 700 entries, all of which had to meet the theme: Design to Improve Life.
Coinciding with Copenhagen Design Week, the Index: Awards aspire to be a kind of Oscars for design, and the actual awards ceremony, which took place on August 28th in the new DM Concert Hall by Jean Nouvel, didn't disappoint. (For more on the night's atmosphere, head to www.azuremagazine.com.)
The first winner, in the "Body" category, is Freeplay Energy for its fetal heart rate monitor. The award was accepted by the health-care industrial design firm's chief technology officer John Hutchison. The product, which is powered by a hand-crank, can monitor a baby's heartrate during childbirth; if the heart-rate slows, medics will know right away.
In the "Home" category, the winner is the Chulha, a stove designed by a team at the Eindhoven Academy in the Netherlands for Philips Design. The Chulha stove directs a draft past the fire in order to push the fumes up a chimney. This ensures the stove's smoke is channelled outside the home. The goal: to help reduce the large numbers of people who die each year from smoke fumes. Stefano Marzano and Simona Rocchi of Philips accepted the award on behalf of other members of the design team: Unmesh Kulkarni, Praveen Mareguddi and Bas Griffioen.
A website, Kiva.org, won in the "Work" category. The brainchild of San Francisco social entrepreneur Premal Shah, the website posts profiles of micro-business entrepreneurs online; potential lenders can fund them via small-scale credit card donations. According to Shah, a total of $75 million has been lent in the past three and a half years — and he says the loan repayment rate is a whopping 98%.
Christien Meindertsma, a talented Dutch designer, won the "Play" prize for Pig 05049, a book documenting how all the various component parts of a single pig were used in industrial products.
And the final prize, in the "Community" category, goes to Shai Agassi for his Better Place project — an attempt to build out the infrastructure required to charge and load batteries into electric cars.
Dutch designer Hella Jongerius was a key member of the jury. She explained that Index: is now looking to craft a list of real problems that can then become more specific design briefs addressing the world's most critical problems. The jury member most involved in this process was Ged Davis, an energy analyst who doubles as a scenario planner. Davis explained that the idea is to define "what the new global agenda needs to be" as the world "redesigns itself" in the coming half century. More will be announced in February of next year, when the organization publishes their vision 2050 project.
For more information on this year's winners, the awards themselves and the exhibition accompanying the program, plus short video-taped explanations of each winning project, head to indexaward.dk.


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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Cameron Coffman threw for 315 yards on 21 of 33 passing and three touchdowns to lead Indiana on Saturday to a 24-21 win over Big Ten foe Iowa.
Cody Latimer, who had 113 yards on seven receptions for Indiana (4-5, 2-3 Big Ten), caught all three of Coffman's touchdown passes. James Vandenberg was 21 of 34 for 249 yards passing and a touchdown for Iowa (4-5, 2-3).
Damon Bullock ran for 83 yards on 25 carries for the Hawkeyes, who played without running back Mark Weisman.
The Hawkeyes regained the lead early in the fourth quarter on a Bullock 4-yard touchdown run to give Iowa a 21-17 advantage. But Coffman threw a 31-yard go-ahead touchdown pass to Latimer with 10:58 left to give the Hoosiers a 24-21 lead.


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The History of Earth - Full Documentary HD
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n the very beginning of earth\'s history, this planet was a giant, red hot, roiling, boiling sea of molten rock - a magma ocean. The heat had been generated by the repeated high speed collisions of much smaller bodies of space rocks that continually clumped together as they collided to form this planet. As the collisions tapered off the earth began to cool, forming a thin crust on its surface. As the cooling continued, water vapor began to escape and condense in the earth\'s early atmosphere. Clouds formed and storms raged, raining more and more water down on the primitive earth, cooling the surface further until it was flooded with water, forming the seas. It is theorized that the true age of the earth is about 4.6 billion years old, formed at about the same time as the rest of our solar system. The oldest rocks geologists have been able to find are 3.9 billion years old. Using radiometric dating methods to determine the age of rocks means scientists have to rely on when the rock was initially formed (as in - when its internal minerals first cooled). In the infancy of our home planet the entire earth was molten rock - a magma ocean. Since we can only measure as far back in time as we had solid rock on this planet, we are limited in how we can measure the real age of the earth. Due to the forces of plate tectonics, our planet is also a very dynamic one; new mountains forming, old ones wearing down, volcanoes melting and reshaping new crust. The continual changing and reshaping of the earth\'s surface that involves the melting down and reconstructing of old rock has pretty mu...


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GIGABYTE Launches X79 Series Motherboards
Subject: Motherboards | November 15, 2011 - 12:04 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: X79-UD7, X79-UD5, x79, gigabyte, G1.Assassin 2, bluetooth 4.0
City of Industry, CA, November, 14th 2011 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced the launch of their latest X79 series enthusiast motherboard range. Supporting the latest 2nd Generation Intel Core i7 processor family for high-end desktops (aka Sandy Bridge-E), these new X79 Express Chipset motherboards unite unrivalled desktop PC performance with a new level of hardware flexibility and control. GIGABYTE 3D Power and its all new 3-way Digital Power Engine offers ultimate control of your PC's power delivery, while GIGABYTE 3D BIOS provides a wholly more intuitive and graphical UEFI BIOS environment.
"This new GIGABYTE X79 series range of boards are all about giving enthusiasts and professionals unprecedented control over their PC's hardware," commented Tim Handley, Deputy Director of Motherboard Marketing at GIGABYTE. "GIGABYTE 3D Power and 3D BIOS give hardcore gamers, extreme overclockers and cutting-edge content creators absolute mastery over every aspect of their PC."
GIGABYTE 3D Power (patent pending)
GIGABYTE X79 series motherboards take advantage of the new and exclusive GIGABYTE 3D Power, based on a 3-way Digital Power Engine for both the PWM and memory that delivers unprecedented power delivery control. Utilizing a brand new Digital PWM controller, GIGABYTE's 3D Power features three digital memory controllers for not only the memory, but VTT and VSA, for real-time adjustment and control. The GIGABYTE 3D Power application provides a range of controls via a graphical user interface, allowing adjustment of load line calibration, over voltage protection control and real-time adjustment of CPU, VTT, IMC and four-channel memory frequencies.
GIGABYTE 3D BIOS (patent pending)
Based on our new UEFI DualBIOS technology, GIGABYTE 3D BIOS re-imagines the traditional BIOS environment to make it more accessible for novice users than ever before. GIGABYTE 3D BIOS provides a full featured advanced mode for veteran BIOS users, alongside a graphical 3D Mode which offers a far more intuitive BIOS experience that makes it easier to understand how BIOS settings affect their PC's hardware performance.
Intel X79 Platform Highlights
All GIGABYTE X79 series motherboards are designed to get the absolute best performance from the latest 2nd generation Intel Core i7 processors, bringing a number of new enthusiast-class features to Intel's latest extreme platform. Featuring the new LGA 2011 socket and based on the latest updated micro-architecture, these new processors feature up to six cores with up to 15MB L3 cache and four-channel DDR3 memory. With an unprecedented 40 PCI Express lanes, enthusiast gamers can also enjoy the absolute maximum GPU performance in Multi-GPU SLI and CrossFireX configurations.
Designed as the base for the ultimate in gaming PC builds, the GIGABYTE G1.Assassin 2 motherboard combines the unrivalled performance of this new X79 platform with our award-winning G1.Killer design philosophy: onboard discrete-class audio is offered courtesy of the Creative Digital Audio processor (20K2) which offers X-Fi Xtreme Fideility and EAX Advanced HD Audio 5.0 technologies, while the Killer E2100 Game Networking Platform offers advanced network optimization and management for the very best online gaming experience. 3-way SLI and CrossFireX capability means users can really push the boundaries of 3D gaming to new heights.
The GIGABYTE X79-UD7 motherboard is designed to provide CPU performance worthy of champions, with specific built-in technologies for extreme overclocking configurations. The X79-UD7 features an all digital PWM, four full length PCIe slots for 4-way GPU configurations plus a range of features that mean overclockers will never tire of tweaking the latest 2nd generation Intel Core i7 processors. With GIGABYTE's exclusive OC-VRM, you'll find POScaps that ensure easy insulation, while OC-Touch lets users tweak in real-time using onboard buttons to change multiplier frequencies. OC-DualBIOS is complimented with a BIOS Switcher button that offers fast back-panel access to two distinct BIOS configurations. A Clear CMOS button is also included along with an OC button for instant OC profile loading. OC-PEG offers additional discrete graphics array power via the SATA rail with two SATA ports, guaranteeing all the power needed for extreme 4-way SLI and CrossfireX configurations.
The GIGABYTE X79-UD5 motherboard provides the ultimate media processing workstation. Design and Engineering professionals that employ the latest CAD and multimedia creation software will be impressed with eight DDR3 memory slots combined with GIGABYTE's unique 3D Power design to offer the ultimate platform for memory and CPU intensive workloads. We've also included back panel access overclocking via a simple OC button so that you can get an instant boost in performance when needed.
Bluetooth-Expansion-CardGIGABYTE X79 series motherboards will also include an exclusive PCIe expansion card that offers support for the latest Bluetooth 4.0 and IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity. The new Bluetooth 4.0 standard includes Smart Ready technology that is debuting on mobile devices including the new Apple iPhone 4s. This means that transferring important content from your smart phone or tablet is easier and faster than ever.
5 Year Warranty in USA and Canada
GIGABYTE is now offering an extended 5 year warranty for its entire X79 Motherboards in USA and Canada, customers can enjoy an additional 2 years warranty with the extended 5 year warranty service by registering their new X79 motherboards. For more details, please check GIGABYTE's website at GIGABYTE 5 Year Warranty.
A new processor needs a new home; meet the X79 chipset
Subject: Motherboards | November 14, 2011 - 04:02 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: X79A-GD65 (8D), X79-UD5, x79, P8X79 PRO, msi, lga2011, Intel, gigabyte, DX79SI, asus
If you want to run a Sandy Bridge E chip, you are going to need a new motherboard as they use a brand new socket. The upgrade isn't just about the socket though, as there is a noticeable increase in PCIe 3.0 lanes possible on the X79 chipset as well quad channel memory. At The Tech Report is a look at motherboards from four major vendors, the Asus P8X79 PRO, Gigabyte X79-UD5, Intel DX79SI, and the MSI X79A-GD65 (8D). Unfortunately Intel is plagued by issues with storage, while not the same as we saw in their previous chipset the port count is still lower than we expected and the RAID software is still labelled as a beta product. Indeed by the end of the review it seems that each board did at least one thing to disappoint The Tech Report, though they hold hope for future revisions.
"If you want to get in on Intel's new Sandy Bridge-E CPU, you'll need an LGA2011 motherboard. We've gathered four examples from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, and MSI to see which one makes the best foundation for an Extreme Sandy build."
Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
- Sandy Bridge-E and X79 – The ASUS P9X79 PRO @ AnandTech
- ASUS Sabertooth X79 Motherboard Review @Hi Tech Legion
- Intel DX79SI Extreme Series Socket LGA 2011 Motherboard Review @Hi Tech Legion
- ASUS P9X79 Deluxe Motherboard Review @Hi Tech Legion
- Gigabye GA-X79-UD5 @ OC3D
- ASUS Sabertooth X79 TUF Motherboard @ Benchmark Reviews
- ASUS P9X79 Deluxe Motherboard @ Benchmark Reviews
- ASUS Rampage IV Extreme @ Tweaktown
- Intel DX79SI LGA2011 Desktop Motherboard @ Benchmark Reviews
- ASUS Rampage 4 Extreme @ OC3D
- ASUS P9X79 Pro Intel X79 Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews
- Gigabyte X79 UD7 OC Motherboard Preview @ Ninjalane
- ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers
- BIOS Option Of The Week - CPU On-Die Termination @ TechARP
- ASUS M5A97 Evo (AMD 970) @ Tweaktown
- MSI 990FXA GD-80 Review @ OCC
- Five Years with Bulldozer: Asus Sabertooth 990FX @ X-bit Labs
Intel's $1000 flagship CPU exists again, in the form of the 3960X Extreme Edition
Subject: Processors | November 14, 2011 - 03:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Intel, sandy bridge-e, x79, 3960x extreme edition
It has been a while since Intel has released a CPU at $1000, which has felt a little strange as historically they've had a flagship processor in that price range. Sangy Bridge E spells the return to this price point with the Core-i7 3960X Extreme Edition CPU. The basic stats will make you drool, 6 cores and 12 threads of 32nm, 130W TDP CPU with a base clock of 3.3GHz, Turbo speed of 3.9GHz and 15MB of shared cache. The benchmarks however leave something to be desired; certainly it is faster than the original Sandy Bridge but it does not leave the competition eating its dirt. Single GPU gamers probably won't even notice a change from previous chips, however with the extra power of the 3960X paired with the amazing amount of PCIe lanes available on the X79 series of motherboards, multi-GPU users may benefit much more from this chip. That still doesn't change [H]ard|OCP's final comment about this chip, "Sandy Bridge E, maximizing BitTorrent ratios, one desktop at a time."
Catch Ryan's full review here.
"Intel debuts its $1000+ Extreme Edition 3960X processor parroting how great it is for the gamer and enthusiast. With 6 cores and 12 threads, a new motherboard and chipset platform, and quad channel DDR3, Intel as done the impossible, given us everything we don't want, and nothing we do want."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- Intel's Core i7-3960X processor: Sandy Bridge goes Extreme @ The Tech Report
- Intel Core i7 3960X (Sandy Bridge E) Review: Keeping the High End Alive @ AnandTech
- Intel Sandy Bridge E 3690X CPU Reviewed @ Madshrimps
- Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition CPU Review @ Hardware Secrets
- Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition Review @ HCW
- Intel's X79 Chipset, Core i7 3960X & DX79SI Motherboard @ Bjorn3D
- Intel Sandy Bridge Extreme and X79 Chipset Launch - Core i7-3960X Processor Review @ HardwareHeaven
- Intel Core i7-3690X Extreme Edition CPU @ Benchmark Reviews
- Intel Sandy Bridge Extreme Core i7 3960X Review @ OCC
- Intel Core i7-3960X Processor Extreme Edition Review @Hi Tech Legion
- Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition @ Tweaktown
- Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition and Core i7-3930K processors for LGA 2011 Platform @ X-bit Labs
- Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge-E Review @ Neoseeker
- Intel Sandy Bridge-E Debuts: Core i7-3960X @ Techspot
- Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition @ Legion Hardware
- Intel i7 Sandy Bridge Extreme @ Overclockers.com
- Intel Core i7-3960X @ OC3D
- Intel Sandy Bridge-E i7-3960X CPU Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Intel i7 3960X EE / Gigabyte GA X79 UD3 / 16GB GSkill Ripjaws Z (2133mhz) @ Kitguru
- Intel i7 3960X EE / Asus Rampage IV Extreme / Corsair GTX8 (2400mhz) / Quad GTX590 @ Kitguru
- Intel i7 3960X EE / Asus P9X79 Deluxe / 32GB Corsair Vengeance (1600mhz) @ Kitguru
- Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge-E Processor Review @ Legit Reviews
- Core i7 3960X processor & MSI X79A-GD65 & ASUS Rampage IV Extreme @ Guru3D
ASUS Launches the Most Complete and Innovative X79 Motherboard Lineup
Subject: Motherboards | November 14, 2011 - 12:59 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: asus, x79, p9x79 deluxe, P9X79 PRO, P9X79, P9X79 WS, TUF SABERTOOTH X79, ROG Rampage IV Extreme
Fremont, CA (November 14, 2011) - ASUS, maker of the world's best-selling and most innovative motherboards, is excited to release a wide range of new X79 motherboards. All feature the new Intel® X79 Express Chipset, with support for 2nd generation Core™ i7 processors in the new LGA 2011 Socket. The complete lineup includes P9X79 Series motherboards with total performance tuning and control, the enthusiast-centric ROG Rampage IV Extreme, the ultra-reliable TUF SABERTOOTH X79, and the professional P9X79 WorkStation Series supporting NVIDIA® 4-way SLI™ and AMD CrossFireX™.
All motherboards feature ASUS Dual Intelligent Processor 3 technology with the latest ASUS DIGI+ Power Control design providing three digital voltage controllers onboard, one for the CPU and two for DRAM. ASUS' class-leading Digital Power designs result in better performance, greater stability, and enhanced overclocking for all users. All of the new motherboards ship with multi-GPU support, PCI Express 3.0 capabilities*, exclusive ASUS UEFI and up to 64GB of quad-channel DDR3 support via 8-DIMM slots.
P9X79 Series: The ideal choice for unmatched features and user-friendly innovation
ASUS has developed the best power, system, and BIOS tuning options available for users to ensure an optimized computing experience on the new P9X79 Deluxe, P9X79 Pro, and P9X79 motherboards. Each feature ASUS' new DIGI+ Power Control and DIGI+ Memory voltage options that allow users to reach higher processor and DRAM overclocks with the upmost stability and reliability.
An 8-DIMM quad-channel design supports up to 64GB of DDR3 memory that takes full advantage of 64-bit applications. Additional memory capacity assists with intensive data, image, and video processing applications while users can also set up large RAM disks to greatly accelerate system performance. ASUS SSD Caching is extremely user-friendly with one-click speedup functionality that combines solid state drive speeds with mechanical hard drive capacities, providing up to three times faster storage performance.
The ASUS UEFI BIOS has won media and user acclaim for its intuitive and easy GUI interaction. The latest version has been upgraded with the industry first F12 BIOS snapshot hotkey, the F3 system info shortcut, and DRAM SPD (Serial Presence Detect), which offers advanced support for memory troubleshooting. USB BIOS Flashback enables true plug and play UEFI flashing with any USB storage device. It works even without powering up the PC, using only standby power without a CPU, Video card or memory installed. Optional BT GO 3.0! consists of an onboard Bluetooth v3.0 +HS module that offers wireless 802.11n support, adding instant access point detection and setup for Wi-Fi everywhere.
The exclusive ASUS BT suite includes several special functions, allowing users to easily sync and transfer files between PC and mobile devices, and even use smartphones to overclock or monitor their PC. ASUS USB 3.0 Boost adds new UASP support to accelerate USB 3.0 performance by almost three times over standard protocols with supported devices.
ROG Rampage IV Extreme: The best choice for gamers and enthusiasts
The Rampage IV Extreme supports 4-way NVIDIA® SLI™ and AMD CrossFireX™ and is designed to empower overclockers to reach new records while also offering the absolute best gaming performance and stability. It comes loaded with overclocking features well-suited to competitive benchmarking. Exclusive ROG X-Socket™ means LGA 1366 based CPU coolers and LN2 containers can be used as-is with the new board. OC Key™ is an ROG-designed device that connects to the DVI port of any graphics card to display performance and overclocking info on the screen independent of system resources. Users can make changes with no additional software, and without slowing their PC down.
For enhanced and modified cooling, ROG has developed Subzero Sense™, which detects cooling system temperatures as low as -193゚C. ROG Extreme Engine Digi+ II and specially sourced high-grade capacitors ensure long lasting and high-endurance power delivery demanded by gamers and competitive overclockers. The Rampage IV Extreme comes bundled with the hit game Battlefield 3™ from EA and DICE, which uses the Frostbite 2 engine to showcase the latest in DirectX® 11 technology and graphics effects.
TUF SABERTOOTH X79: The reliability choice for rugged engineering and long-life
The new TUF SABERTOOTH X79 ships with an intelligent thermal design, military grade-tested TUF components, and exclusive cooling features for enhanced system stability under the harshest conditions. TUF Thermal Armor with dual fans expands cooling and precise airflow for more effective heat dissipation, improving system reliability and performance. TUF Thermal Radar monitors real-time temps via 12 sensors in strategic locations on the board, automatically adjusting fan speeds to maintain extended stability and prevent overheating. Military-grade TUF components include capacitors, chokes, and MOSFETs. Their heat and stress tolerance allows ASUS to offer an exclusive 5-year warranty on the SABERTOOTH X79. Additionally, the new model includes the new DIGI+ Power Control design and UEFI, giving it the same precision, performance, and user friendly options offered by the P9X79 Series.
The ideal professional choice for multi-GPU expandability Enhanced features and absolute stability is required from professional users and the P9X79 WS delivers, beginning with NVIDIA® 4-way SLI™ and AMD CrossFireX™ and dual hardware-accelerated Intel® LAN ports, which reduces CPU utilization for netcode processing by up to 71%. The P9X79 Work Station supports both Intel® Core™ i7 processors and the upcoming workstation-specific Xeon® family, and maintains compatibility with multiple memory, operating system, and RAID card selections. ASUS SSD Caching and USB BIOS Flashback are included along with ASUS' DIGI+ Power Control design and award winning UEFI.
Sandy Bridge-E is just what you expect
It has been more than three years since Intel released the first Core i7 processor built around the Nehalem CPU architecture along with the X58 chipset. It quickly became the platform of choice for the enthusiast market (gamers and overclockers), and remained in that role even as the world of processors evolved around it with the release of Westmere and Sandy Bridge. Yes, we have been big supporters of the Sandy Bridge Core i7 parts for some time as the "new" platform of choice for gamers, but part of us always fondly remembered the days of Nehalem and X58.
Well, Intel shared the sentimentl and this holiday they are officially unveiling the Sandy Bridge-E platform and the X79 chipset. The "E" stands for enthusiast in this case and you'll find that many of the same decisions and patterns apply from the Nehalem release to this one. Nehalem and X58 was really meant as a workstation design but the performance and features were so good that Intel wanted to offer it to the high-end consumer as well. Sandy Bridge-E is the same thing - this design is clearly built for the high-profit areas of computing including workstation and servers but those that want the best available technology will find it pretty damn attractive as well.
But what actually makes a Sandy Bridge-E processor (now going with the Core i7-3xxx model naming scheme) different from the Sandy Bridge CPUs we have come to love since it was released in January of this year?
The Sandy Bridge-E Architecture
The answer might surprise you, but truthfully not a whole lot has changed. In fact, from a purely architectural stand point (when looking at the x86 processor cores), Sandy Bridge-E looks essentially identical to the cores found in currently available Sandy Bridge CPUs. You will see the same benefits of the additional AVX instruction set in applications that take advantage of it, a shared L3 cache that exists between all of the cores for data coherency and the ring bus introduced with Sandy Bridge is still there to move data between the cores, cache and uncore sections of the die.
Click here to continue reading our review of the new Sandy Bridge-E processor, the Core i7-3960X!!
X79 Motherboard Roundup Video Preview
Subject: Motherboards | November 14, 2011 - 02:51 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: x79, video, msi, Intel, gigabyte, asus
I am sure by now you have been reading our review of the new Sandy Bridge-E processors, in particular the Core i7-3960X, but we only had a brief mention of the various X79 motherboards we had in-house in that article. (Which if you haven't read yet, you definitely should!)
Over the course of the last 14 days or so, we have seen and played with:
- ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
- ASUS Sabertooth X79
- ASUS P9X79 Pro
- Gigabyte X79-UD3
- Intel DX79SI
We will have reviews of all of these boards in the coming days, but I wanted to at least make sure you saw each of these motherboards in our video roundup and preview.
Stay tuned to PC Perspective for more on the X79 platform and Sandy Bridge-E!!
Meet MSI's new X79 series
Subject: Motherboards | November 7, 2011 - 02:35 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: X79MA-GD4, X79A-GD65 8D, X79A-GD65, X79A-GD45, x79, msi
MSI sent us a little tease showing off their upcoming X79 motherboards, with 3 ATX models and an mATX as well. You can see the MSI X79A-GD65 8D, the MSI X79A-GD65, MSI X79A-GD45 and the X79MA-GD4 pictured below. The most obvious difference between the first two models is the number of DIMM slots, with the 8D sporting a total of 8 slots compared to 4 in the second model, though both do support Quad Channel DDR3. The second two have less PCIe slots than the higher end boards, with the X79MA board being the mATX member.
All three full sized boards support OC Genie, and all support THX audio, bear both SLI and CrossFire logos and MSI's Military Class components. The two GD65 models both have V-Points for checking voltages across the board, though only the 8D model has LCD readouts for post codes. Click on the pictures below for much larger versions.
and a late addition from MSI
Gigabyte Infusing X79 Motherboards With 3D UEFI BIOS
Subject: Motherboards | November 6, 2011 - 04:11 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: gigabyte, x79, pattsburg, Intel, SB-E, sandy bridge-e, uefi
Many motherboard manufacturers have phased out the old school BIOS in favor of a shiny graphical user interface (GUI) UEFI BIOS that adds support for booting from larger capacity hard drives and presenting configuration screens that are able to be navigated with mouse or touch controls. Gigabyte has been somewhat quiet on the UEFI BIOS front, until now that is. Starting with Intel's new X79 chipset based motherboards, the company will begin using a new "3D BIOS."
Fortunately, red and cyan glasses won't be required for Gigabyte's new UEFI BIOS. Instead, the BIOS is only "3D" in the same sense that a computer game is 3D -- meaning a 3D perspective viewed through a 2D window of sorts (the monitor) and this is a good thing.
The way Gigabyte's 3D BIOS works involves displaying a photo of the user's motherboard with various hot-spots that display content sensitive information and configuration options when hovered over and clicked on respectively. For example, when hovering over and clicking on the SATA ports in the rotate-able photo of the board, users are presented with options to set the SATA controller mode to IDE, AHCI, or RAID mode. Also, when clicking on the CPU area, the user is able to adjust frequency, voltage, and timing settings for the CPU and RAM. Further, context sensitive help is available for all the various options in each dialog.
For those that prefer a more traditional text based approach, Gigabyte is also including an advanced mode for enthusiasts who like to dig into every setting possible. The advanced mode looks like one would expect a BIOS to - a text based UI with minimal distractions. The ability to use the mouse for navigation is still present, however.
The 3D motherboard will reflect the actual physical motherboard and can be easily rotated to admire the shiny interface. It is certainly an interesting angle and should help new users navigate and find the settings they need. Whether it will be enough to help differentiate the product or not remains to be seen. A video showing off the new 3D BIOS is available below, and more photos can be found here.
Podcast #177 - Lenovo Portable Monitor, GTX580M vs HD6990M, Hard Drive prices spiking and more!
Subject: Editorial | November 3, 2011 - 05:44 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: x79, podcast, nvidia, Intel, hd6990m, gtx580m, earnings, amd, 6990m, 580m
PC Perspective Podcast #177 - 11/03/2011
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- 0:24:30 AMD Reports Q3 2011 Results
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Gigabyte brings Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi to their X79 boards
Subject: Motherboards | November 2, 2011 - 03:42 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: x79, gigabyte, bluetooth 4.0, G1-Assassin 2, X79-UD7, X79-UD5, bluetooth
Gigabyte is going crazy with the wireless options available to you in their X79 series of motherboards.
With Bluetooth 4.0 available your iPhone 4S will be able to connect seamlessly to your Gigabyte motherboard. The biggest improvement in the new standard is the power savings which it enables, something that iPhone 4S users are desperate for. In fact if the attempt to standardize 3D glasses over Bluetooth 4.0 succeeds then one of these motherboards will be perfect for building a system connected to a 120Hz 3D monitor.
As well, Gigabyte has extended their WiFi support to a dedicated card which sports dual antennas, one for WiFi and one for Bluetooth. They also support the new Bluetooth Smart which is designed to work with a large variety of single use devices. Your blood sugar monitor, house thermostat, security systems and smart watch could all connect to these motherboards as easily as your phone, headset or other Bluetooth devices.


text: Joe, On 2/19/2010 9:52 PM, Joe Landman wrote: > This aside, both AoE and iSCSI provide block device services. Both > systems can present a block device with a RAID backing store. Patrick > and others will talk about the beauty of the standards, but this is > unfortunately irrelevant in the market. The market isn't a meritocracy. Indeed, this is unfortunate. To be clear, I did not comment on the implementations, only the protocols. And on that point, iSCSI is definitively one of the worst spec I have ever read. The fact that iSCSI has any traction is a good example that marketers are in command, not engineers. I would not say that the quality of the protocol is irrelevant, it has a direct impact on the robustness and performance of the implementations. For example, any kind of offload requires the iSCSI header to be at the beginning of a packet, so you need framing. However, iSCSI is build on top of TCP, a streaming protocol. So, if you go through a router and change MTU, you are toast. The worse part is that the iSCSI standard acknowledges that but the solution they propose is ridiculous (PDU markers). FCoE shares some of the simplicity of AoE (right on top of Ethernet), but then the marketers came and messed it up with all kind of extensions to justify selling you new (and expensive) gear. > Actually, with the advent of USB3 and related devices, I'd expect AoE > and lower end raid to be effectively completely subsumed by this. USB3 > has ample bandwidth to connect a low end RAID unit, more than GbE. The You can't switch USB the same way you switch Ethernet. Patrick


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Shadow of N-Gage looms as Nokia prepares onslaught on gaming
If at first you don't succeed ...
Nokia is taking on Microsoft in many of its key markets, and is apparently also adopting the Microsoft approach that, if a product is sub-standard the first time, it will succeed on the third reworking.
Under the auspices of the Finnish giant's increasingly successful and focused multimedia devices unit - making 'multimedia computers', not 'cellphones' - the unlamented N-Gage mobile gaming brand is set to be reincarnated again.
On this occasion, though, it will be part of a broad strategy called Next Generation gaming, a platform for release early next year, which will run across various Nokia devices and could conceivably be licensed to third parties as part of the company's increasing focus on influencing the whole sector through de facto software standards.
Perhaps the main reason to take the platform seriously is that it seems that Sony will publish games on it, despite competing with Nokia in various fields. The original N-Gage was launched in 2003 and was discontinued in 2004 when the redesigned N-Gage QD model replaced it. The QD was itself discontinued this year, and there are no first generation N-Gage games in development any more, as Nokia prepares for Next Gen.
While this will create a common delivery platform and set of interfaces for various devices, mirroring Nokia's strategy in content downloads and other areas, it will also include specific gaming-oriented devices based on an evolved version of the N-Gage architecture, and probably carrying the same brand, despite its poor associations for many games developers.
The N-Gage and QD were not actually games consoles but standard Nokia Symbian Series 60 smartphones with horizontal casings, but with no specialist gaming hardware. The Next Gen platform, according to insiders, will consist of Series 60 3rd Edition smartphones, and will include the new games-specific software as well as optimized hardware.
Their processors will run three or four times faster than those in the N-Gage, and many will have 3D graphics chips. Old games will not be compatible, because new smartphones use smaller miniSD and microSD memory cards rather than MMC gamecards, plus the new products will have the latest Symbian operating system, which is not backwards compatible. Although Nokia will continue to support the N-Gage Arena - the world's first mobile online gaming community and a rival to Microsoft Xbox Live.
The Next Gen software platform will come pre-installed on various Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphones, with varying degrees of specific focus on gaming. The software will allow people to buy Next Gen games as downloads to their smartphone through 3G or Wi-Fi, or as downloads to the PC which can then be transferred to the phone.
This mirrors Nokia's ambitions to create mobile/PC download services in other areas of content. In August it acquired music store partner Loudeye, which offers services in 60 countries, and complements Nokia's position as the largest maker of mobile music devices. It has also put increasing momentum behind its Content Discoverer client, embedded in many of its higher end devices, which makes downloads such as films and games available. Content Discoverer is embedded as an on-device portal in more than 20 Nokia handset models, and has content partnerships with companies like Time Warner and Electronic Arts.
Moving away from the downloads, the Next Gen application also has extensive community facilities, allowing users to send messages to friends, view message boards, leave and read reviews of games, challenge people to online game matches, and see which games other people have, so they know who to challenge. While Nokia is most famous for its gaming failures, because of NGage, it has some powerful building blocks to strengthen Next Gen.
One of these is Arena, which is based on the online gaming network SNAP, which Nokia purchased from Sega in 2003. Although Nokia has dropped no hints about which devices will support Next Gen -and whether that and N-Gage will be used as primary or just secondary brands, but the most likely early candidates are the N93 and N95.
The N93 already comes pre-loaded with a demonstration of one of the Next Gen games, a sci-fi racer called System Rush, and has a 3D chip. The N93 and N95 also contain TV Out sockets which can be used to play games (or surf the web) on television sets, with the phone acting as the joypad and games system rolled into one.
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text: Intercrop Soybeans Can Offer Yield Boost Over Double-Crop Beans September 3, 2013 05:07 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By University News Release Email Courtesy of The Ohio State University Extension Planting soybeans into standing wheat can not only result in higher soybean yields, but offer a significant financial boost to growers compared to planting a traditional double crop of soybeans, according to research from Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. The technique, called modified relay intercropping of soybeans, allows growers to capture 66 percent of the traditional Ohio growing season to produce a second crop through the inter-planting of soybeans into wheat in late May or early June, said Steve Prochaska, an Ohio State University Extension field specialist and member of the university's Agronomic Crops Team. Based on extensive research at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), modified relay intercropped wheat can yield at least 90 percent of conventional wheat, Prochaska said. "In 14 years of research trials in north central Ohio on the modified relay intercropping system, yields have averaged 76 bushels per acre for wheat and 28 bushels per acre for soybeans," he said. "Wheat yields in favorable growing seasons have exceeded 90 bushels per acre, while soybeans have yielded well over 45 bushels per acre." The economic benefits of growing intercropped soybeans stems from the fact that soybeans experience a longer growing season in the intercrop soybeans system because they are planted in early June versus a double crop when soybeans are typically planted in mid-July, Hartschuh said. "Intercropped soybeans have more growing degree days, with more time to establish and set seeds," he said. "Intercropped soybeans this year are at R4 to R5 growth stage now compared to double crop soybeans, which are at R2 stage now." Tips to consider when intercropping soybeans into wheat, Prochaska said, include: • Wheat row spacing modification to allow soybean planting equipment to pass without running down plants should be made in the fall. Optimal wheat row spacing for modified relay intercropping ranges from 10 to 20 inches. As wheat row spacing widens, wheat yields may decline, research has shown. • Various row configurations can be used to allow soybean planting equipment. Some wheat producers have slide row units to a 6-inch row spacing with a 14-inch planting strip for soybeans. • Producers can use corn or soybean planters to sow wheat using a 15-inch row configuration. • Row spacing data suggests that wheat is an adaptable plant that will yield well over various row spacing's up to 15 inches. • Use a tram line to accommodate soybean planting and allow for better wheat management via fertilizer, herbicide and/or fungicide applications. Generally, the tram line will be set up for the modified relay intercropping tractor tires. • Planter equipment tires can be moved if necessary to follow tractor tires. • Wheat culture for modified relay intercropping, outside of row spacing modification, should remain the same as for monoculture wheat. Back to news


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By Gemma Chriss
Those looking for an after-work hangout may want something a little more than the traditional sports bar. Unfortunately, the options around the North Canton, Ohio and Green, Ohio areas are somewhat limited in terms of affordable, laidback dining. Thankfully, Thorpe's Market Avenue Grill & Pub provides local residents with exactly what they're looking for—a casual restaurant where one can enjoy delicious pub food and good conversation in a relaxed setting. During football season, many individuals from throughout the greater Canton, Ohio area can be found at this establishment, and it's not difficult to see the appeal. Continue reading


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Walt Disney Co. has won an appeals court ruling that protects the Burbank entertainment giant's trademarks to the valuable Winnie the Pooh characters.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington upheld a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that blocked Stephen Slesinger Inc.'s challenges to Disney's control of the trademark for the Hundred Acre Wood clan.
The ruling appears to end a 21-year legal odyssey against Disney by Stephen Slesinger's family. Slesinger was a New York literary agent and pioneer in the marketing of cartoon characters. He was the first to see great value in promoting the befuddled bear, depressed donkey and other characters created in the 1920s by British author A.A. Milne.
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Milne transferred the Pooh merchandising rights to Slesinger in 1930, and Slesinger's widow assigned them to Disney in 1961.
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Tamborine Rainforest Skywalk is a one and a half kilometre rainforest walking experience which inlcudes the Skywalk Bridge (steel-structured), the 40 metre Skywalk Cantilever (steel-structured) and the Cedar Creek Viewing Platform, joined by a winding pathway along the canopy floor.
Accessible directly from the Eco centre, the walk showcases the pristine beauty of the lush rainforest in a safe and exciting way. The whole experience takes approxiamately 45 minutes at a leisurely pace and begins and ends at the main centre. The main centre includes, the Eco Centre, bus parking, gift shop, cafe and toilets.
Located in the beautiful Gold Coast Hinterland, the Skywalk is 45 minutes from Surfers Paradise and 60 minutes from Brisbane International Airport.
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Last Name: Bosworth
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Flatbread Melts Mean Good News For Desk-Bound Office Lunches
More than a third of workers skip lunch because of an increased workload or to trim expenses. Nearly half (45 percent) say they're taking shorter and/or fewer lunch breaks than they did a year ago.
Kraft Foods Inc., Northfield, Ill., wants to help workers take back their lunch hour with four varieties of DiGiorno Flatbread Melts, a line of premium, single-serve handheld meals. With toasty flatbread folded over Italian-inspired ingredients -- such as white meat chicken, fire-roasted vegetables and delectable cheeses -- new DiGiorno Flatbread Melts help consumers make the most of their busy lunch break with a hot, restaurant-quality meal in less than 4 minutes in the microwave.
DiGiorno Flatbread Melts are available in four varieties: DiGiorno Chicken Parmesan Flatbread Melts, white meat chicken, Parmesan, Romano, Asiago and Mozzarella cheeses and green peppers in a sweet marinara sauce; DiGiorno Italian-Style Meatball & Four Cheese Flatbread Melts, Italian-style meatballs, Parmesan, Romano, Asiago and Mozzarella cheeses in a sweet marinara sauce; DiGiorno Chicken & Bacon Ranch Flatbread Melts, white meat chicken, applewood smoked bacon, Mozzarella cheese and red onion in a ranch sauce; and DiGiorno Steak & Fire Roasted Vegetables Flatbread Melts, steak, a blend of Parmesan, Romano, Asiago and Mozzarella cheeses, fire-roasted red and yellow peppers, zucchini and red onions in a sweet marinara sauce.
"Whether you're buried under a full desk of work or running late to a meeting because of noontime traffic jams, we understand that finding time to enjoy lunch can be a challenge," says Tom Moe, director-marketing of DiGiorno. "With new DiGiorno Flatbread Melts, we're serving up a delicious, premium meal in just minutes to help busy consumers make the most of their lunch."
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Archuleta pleaded not guilty after the hearing.
Three Sterling Police Department officers released gruesome details surrounding the incident early Dec. 6, 2012, in which 47-year-old Mikel Haynes was found dead in Archuleta's apartment in the Sterling Housing Authority. Why and with what Haynes was killed with remained unexplained, though a pathology report ruled the death a homicide by blunt trauma force to the head.
If convicted, Archuleta could face a life sentence for second degree murder, first degree assault and three habitual charges.
Much of the information had been sealed due to a gag order issued on the case.
According to the testimony, Archuleta and Haynes were friends before the incident, and Haynes was staying at Archuleta's apartment at the time.
The two had even been contacted by SPD outside a Sterling Walgreens the morning before the incident for trespassing; a worker at the Walgreens claimed they were heckling customers and may have been asking for money.
Less than 24 hours later, around 5 a.m. Dec. 6, officers discovered Haynes' body on the floor of Archuleta's apartment, with a mix of wet and dry blood covering the scene.
Between those times accounts differed as to when Haynes came back to the apartment, if he ever left and what happened in between.
The apartment's video surveillance viewed during the hearing showed that Haynes entered his apartment at about noon Dec. 5 and never came out.
But according to Lead Detective James Coleman, about one minute of video track was unexplainably missing near midnight. Coleman also said Archuleta saw Haynes come home "around 11" in poor condition, and Haynes told him he had gotten into a fight at La Posada Inn.
Interviews with Archuleta's neighbors also led to mixed messages.
Some said they hadn't heard any commotion at all that night, while others told officers they heard "banging noises," like moving furniture, between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.
One witness said she discounted the noises, assuming that Archuleta, who -along with Haynes - was considered an alcoholic, had fallen over.
What was clear was that at about 4 a.m., Dec. 6, surveillance footage showed Archuleta dragging a body matching Haynes' description into the SHA's hallway, then dragging it back into his apartment two minutes later. However, SPD Major Richard Kelsch agreed that the video footage wasn't high quality.
SPD officer Kent Keller said he received a call around 5 a.m. about a body in the apartment complex and later found Haynes' body covered by a blanket in Archuleta's apartment, with Archuleta inside.
He said he found the side of his face was bruised and bloodied, and Coleman identified blood on both Haynes and Archuleta's clothing, the floors and the bedroom's walls and part of the ceiling.
District Attorney Brittny Lewton and Adams County Public Defender Emily Fleischmann debated whether the blood on the walls was necessarily from the night of the incident and if Haynes could have sustained the injuries elsewhere.
The surveillance showed Haynes had no major injuries when he arrived at the apartment, according to Kelsch, who cited a pathology report. Haynes would have been "bleeding profusely" in the hallway. Still, none of them felt comfortable explaining what the blood spatter in the apartment meant.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation will have DNA evidence ready around the first week of April and blood spatter information by the end of April, Lewton said.
Preliminary blood tests did show, however, that both Archuleta and Haynes were very intoxicated during the evening.
Archuleta, who Coleman and Keller described as "smelling strongly of alcohol," and slurring his words early Dec. 6, had a .311 BAC, while Haynes registered a .480 - about four and six times the legal driving limit, respectively.
Drunkenness doesn't disqualify someone from a second degree murder charge, but officers also said they couldn't find any conventional weapons in the apartment or outside the apartment window.
Coleman and Keller said one of the officers noticed swelling on Archuleta's hands, though neither of them noticed swelling when they spoke with him. He had a black eye, but officers confirmed he'd received it in a fight three days prior to the incident.
The case will now go to a motions hearing and a seven-day trial, while Lewton and Fleischmann await the results of the last CBI tests. The motions hearing will start at 9 a.m. May 23 and the trial will run between Aug. 19 and Aug. 27.
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Diarra: I've wasted my time at West Ham
West Ham United outcast Alou Diarra has told L'Equipe he has "wasted" his time with the Hammers and must leave the Premier League club for the good of his career.
Diarra, 31, moved to West Ham from Marseille for €2.5 million last summer an established France international, but has slipped out of the plans of national team boss Didier Deschamps after a disappointing six months in London.
After making five appearances in all competitions for his new club, the former Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Lyon and Bordeaux midfielder is already looking for a way out.
"I want to leave. I've tried to stay positive right up to now. I want a real challenge, and I won't get it at West Ham," Diarra said. "With the current coach in charge, it's impossible. No-one's told me directly, but I'm not stupid. I'm not part of his plans. I have to leave.
"Some clubs have already contacted West Ham. I'm not afraid to change countries. It'll still be better than here.
"The objective is to get back playing. Last year, I played some 60 games. At West Ham, I've wasted my time."
Diarra, who did not make a first-team appearance in his three-year spell at Anfield, pointed the finger at an agent commissioned by West Ham as being the main reason for a second failed attempt at establishing himself in England.
"He arrived in a private jet at Marseille, and promised me the world. What he said was attractive. It was England, London, West Ham, a popular club with a real identity. It was the chance to establish myself in the Premier League. I didn't think too much about it, I just trusted him," he said. "After a few weeks, I realised that there had been a lot of lies. I've been had."
An icy relationship with manager Sam Allardyce has not helped either. Diarra, who admitted he had not spoken to Allardyce before joining West Ham, feels the former Bolton Wanderers and Newcastle United boss could have done more to help him settle at Upton Park.
"Certain people have said that I haven't been able to establish myself, but they don't know the reality of my situation. To establish myself, I have to have the chance to do so.
"In every club I've been at, I've always had a chat with the coach to find out what he expected of me, how the team plays, my position etc. Since I arrived, I've never spoken to the manager. It's just 'hello' and 'goodbye'. There's no dialogue, no explanation."


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FRA Adjustment of Risk Threshold for Establishing Quiet Zones May Aid Communities. The Federal Railroad Administration's annual adjustment of the Nationwide Significant Risk Threshold (NSRT) may provide some relief for communities struggling to establish or maintain quiet zones while continuing to address critical safety issues. FRA developed this index to allow all Quiet Zone applicants to fully assess the risks of silencing train horns and pursue the additional safety engineering improvements needed to mitigate them. The addition of engineering improvements has played a significant part in the 34 percent decline of highway-rail grade crossing incidents over the past 10 years. The NSRT calculates permissible risk, based on an average of the risk indexes for gated public crossings nationwide, where train horns are routinely sounded. The Notice of Adjustment will be published in the Federal Register on November 26, 2013, and will also be posted on FRA's website. Contact: Kevin Thompson (202) 493-6024.
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Announces Rule to Help Passengers and Crewmembers in the Event of Emergency. The Federal Railroad Administration today announced a new Final Rule intended to further help with the evacuation of passengers and crewmembers in the event of a rail emergency. Among the provisions, the rule requires that vestibule and interior passageway doors on passenger cars be fitted with removable panels and windows to allow passage if the doors do not open, and to provide for manual override in opening doors. It also requires floor or low-level lighting marking exit paths to assist passengers in reaching and operating emergency exists, particularly under conditions of limited visibility. Further, the FRA is adding standards to ensure that emergency lighting systems are provided in all passenger cars, and strengthening requirements for the survivability of emergency lighting systems in new passenger cars. Contact: Kevin Thompson (202) 493-6024.