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Augie Barkow 2009 E I.L.Y.A. Invite Champion
15 July 2009
Reported by Irwin R. Fletcher - Pewaukee Yacht Club hosted the 2009 Inland Lake Yachting Association E Scow Invitational Regatta on a beautifully weekend as all five races were completed. For the most part all races, who were led by Russ Ackley's judging team, were sailed in very good E scow conditions. Pewaukee is traditionally shifty and there were some big shifts that if you did not catch you were in the back of the pack. 39 boats from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin competed for the 2009 crown.
Pewaukee again showed everybody the "Pewaukee Hospitality" that they are so well known for. The World Famous "Dex" and Tammy Sawyer were the co-chairs for this event as they made sure everybody felt very welcome and had a great time. Thursday night everybody was welcomed to the club and then off to the "Tri-Bar" area as sailors were out and about. Some were out until the bars kicked them out as this seems to always happen the night before the regatta. Friday saw cocktails and appetizers at the club at the conclusion of sailing back to back in the afternoon. Some older and weaker sailors were off to a quick dinner and then to bed as the diehards were off to dinner and back to the "Tri-Bar" area as this area can be like the Bermuda triangle! You just never know what can happen!!! I heard a rowdy group singing and singing and singing Happy Birthday to Sally Barkow who was celebrating a b-day. I hope they stop singing!!!
Saturday night was back to the club for the celebrated Buckaroo's Flying Pig Dinner hosted by none other than Buckaroo and Dex along with too many volunteers to mention but it was a great job by a very dedicated group of individuals!! How do they continue to impress us like they do???
As far as the sailing goes, Augie Barkow and his faithful crew of Jeff Niedziela, Heidi and A.J. Schweda were very consistent to win the 2009 Invite with finishes of 1,2,1,2 and 5. They were out in the front pack all weekend as they used their new North Sails for their first regatta. This boat looks ready for the ILYA and National Championship regattas that will be coming up later this summer.
The battle for second was on all weekend for as many as six boats were battling all weekend as they were within 6 points of each other going into the final race. Will Graves of Pewaukee brought his Sunday best and won the final race going away to secure second place overall? Vincent Port of Lake Geneva who fought back after being over early in race 3 to add to some very consistent finishes to take third overall. He noted in his trophy acceptance speech that he wanted to possibly sail more races at the invite but he didn't know he was going to get his butt kicked by Augie all weekend. Obviously they have been racing against each other for a while. Jule Hannaford of Minnetonka and his all star crew were solid all weekend especially in race four they raced down Augie and took the race win away from that team. It was very impressive to watch as they were on the move. Jule and crew were fourth overall as they graciously enjoyed being back in Pewaukee to race scows, see old friends and have a few cocktails along the way! Newly hired North Sails Representative Jim Gluek was happily back on the course racing the X-751 to a fifth place performance as he was in the hunt every race. If not for the wind dying on him at the finish of race four he might have been able to move up a spot of two.
The rest of the top ten was as follows:
6. V-9 Tom Sweitzer of Pewaukee (Winner of Race two)
7. V-11 Peter Friend of Pewaukee
8. M-12 Jeff Solum of Minnetonka
9. M-9 Tom Burton of Minnetonka
10. V-300 Bill Burns of Pewaukee
This was a great event as everybody seems to enjoy the sailing and off water hobnobbing that was going on. The Regatta chairs again were fantastic! If you ever have the chance to get to Pewaukee, please do as you will not regret it!!
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Lake Placid not a normal pleasure trip for these local men
PLYMOUTH — A group of local men took a road trip recently. Literally.
By the time Greg Miller of Bremen, Chad Barden, Art Jacobs and Brad Serf of Plymouth were done they could nearly have biked, swam or run back home. The four didn't take a normal weekend getaway with the boys — they participated in the Lake Placid Iron Man competition — a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride and finishing with a Marathon run of 26 miles.
Serf did best of all the entries posting a time of 11 hours and 38 minutes. Miller was able to run the triathlon in 12 hours and 16 minutes and Barden finished in 13 hours and 29 minutes.
"The one weakling couldn't finish the course," said Jacobs, speaking of himself.
Before you take him completely at his word it should be mentioned that there were a couple of extenuating circumstances. Jacobs was hospitalized only a few weeks ago with pancreatitis, had another close call with his daughter that required a lengthy stay at Riley Hospital to insure her health – in all missing six weeks of training for the event at a peak time.
Oh, did we mention that Jacobs' doctor has insisted that his gall bladder be removed, but has put it off to run his scheduled races for the summer.
"You had to pay everything up front for this so I had to go," said Jacobs with a chuckle. "They'll take it (gall bladder) out Tuesday. I have to run in the (Blueberry) Stomp."
No putting it off further?
"No. I wanted to wait until the 24th for another race later this month but the doctor put his foot down. The real good news is that it wasn't pancreatic cancer that we were afraid of in the beginning."
The Ironman race has a siren like quality for those involved with endurance sports.
"It's really kind of addictive after awhile," said Miller. "You start with the shorter distance, then you move to the next, and the next, and the next thing you know you're hooked."
It also has a lot to do with fellowship. "You meet so many great people," said Serf. "I enjoy the journey as much as anything. The lifestyle of training for endurance sports. It's really spiritual as much as anything."
"You really develop a close relationship with the guys you train with," said Miller. "There is just a great group of people in Marshall County that train together and it's a great time."
Of course there is also the competitive aspect.
"Of course the goal is to make the national finals in Kona (Hawaii)," said Miller. "I keep telling myself that I'll get there one day by 'outaging' everybody. By the time I'm 60 there will be few enough people left and my time will stay fast enough that I'll finally get there."
"I've already entered Lake Placid for next year," said Jacobs. "I have to redeem myself."


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Whether dark roast, light roast, with milk or black, no matter how you take your morning cup, you are part of a worldwide community of java drinkers that have made coffee one of the world's top-traded agricultural commodities.
For as many coffee drinkers as there are in the country, it seems there are just as many coffee shops, from international chains to the coffee house on the corner. To honor the best neighborhood shops in the country, coffee appliance maker Krups created its Best Brew Awards in 2011. Facebook users nominated and voted on cafes in major metropolitan areas to choose the winners.
"Krups is about coffee and beverages, and we want to support the industry and support the local coffee shops that are doing such a great job within the industry," Michele Lupton, Krups' director of marketing communication, told CNBC.com.
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Vodo's Big Brother Bundle Shows How Bundles Can Improve The 'Pay What You Want' Concept
from the a-step-up dept
One neat little innovation is that the Vodo bundles are curated by someone well-known -- in this case, former Wikileaks spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Also, unlike Humble Bundle, this bundle crosses over different types of content. In the Big Brother Bundle, there's a video game, a film, a book and music, all somehow built around the concept of "big brother" and surveillance. And for the first 10,000 buyers who beat the average price, they also get a free month of the iPredator VPN. There's some good stuff in there, so check it out.
I spoke with King a bit to see how the Bundle is going, and it sounds like it's off to a great start. He notes that, with the previous more general pay-what-you-want model for a single offering, the conversion rate was understandably low: around one out of every 2,500 to 3,000 visitors to the site paid. However, with the bundle, the conversion rate is massively better: one out of every seven visitors are paying something. As with Humble Bundle, if you pay more than the "average" price, you get extra content, and that continues to drive the price people choose to pay steadily upward as well. Vodo has added one more feature, with a "premium" price that's a bit higher, to get even more content, and King tells me about 10% of all buyers are paying above the premium level. One interesting tidbit: you can pay in Bitcoin, if you have some lying around.
King also notes that it might not just be the setup and the model itself that gets people to buy, but the content. He told me that with this model, not only do users of the site appear to like it, but content creators are much more interested in working with Vodo as well under this model, meaning that they can source higher quality content, which in turn, makes for a better experience for users as well. In the first few days since the Bundle launched, it's already brought in over $15,000.
It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of what folks over at Humble Bundle have done, and I've been surprised that we haven't seen others do more similar things. Whereas there are tons of crowdfunding sites, we haven't seen the same explosion of these kinds of timed-bundle offerings -- but perhaps that's starting to change. I look forward to seeing where Vodo goes with this. Oh, and as a teaser, Vodo notes that its next bundle will be the "Surveillance Survival Bundle," which already sounds interesting...


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CaPRC Marksmanship Clinic "C" - July 14, 2013
Come on out and join us at Angeles for our positional clinic on Sunday July 14th.
We will start out with checking your 100yd zero.
We will teach the traditional seated, kneeling and prone positions including proper sling usage.
Then we will work on improvised shooting positions such as shooting from barricades, vehicles and other various props.
Experienced club members will be on hand to help new shooters.
Costs are $75 for non members or $60 for club members.
Cold drinks and BBQ will be provided as part of the entry/range fee for the day.
This clinic will be held at the Fort Angeles range which is just west of the main rifle line at the Angeles Ranges.
Please show up before 8:30am to get signed in.
Some things to bring:
Precision rifle, sling, eye/ear protection, sunscreen, chamber flag, 60 rounds of match quality ammo, shooting mat or blanket, bipod, some kind of rear bag or sand sock, small notepad to take notes, pencil or pen and a backpack or bag to shoot over.
Bring what you have, don't worry too much about what you don't have.
We always make do with what we have.
This is a Precision Rifle event so if the gun/scope/ammo is not capable of shooting tight groups, it will detract from your overall experience at the shoot.
Please have your rifle zeroed at 100yds and your knobs set to zero.
If you need help with this, we can do it at the shoot, but it takes time that is better spent putting rounds on targets.
We will limit this shoot to 20 people so we can finish up before 2pm if possible.
RSVPs will open in July, but we are giving people notice as early as possible so that people can clear their schedules beforehand. Please RSVP in this thread if you plan to attend.
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Leverage, Derivatives And Dog Food: How Wall St. Screwed Up
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Still, those profits weren't enough. Their customers were making great money buying Wall Street's derivatives. But why should banks and pension funds and hedge funds have all the fun? What a perfect use for all that capital on their huge balance sheets and cheap financing from low interest rates. Wall Street, en masse, started buying all these high yielding derivatives for their own account. They ate their own dog food, if you will.It's a good read. Kessler and I agree that a new sort of Wall Street will come out of this -- and that's for the best. Money will flow again, but there will be new opportunities for banks to get back to basics.
It was the easy trade. Borrow at 3 percent and make 6 percent or 8 percent or 10 percent. They liked it so much, they levered up. Meaning instead of just borrowing a dollar for every two dollars of assets they owned (which by the way, thanks to the 50-percent margin requirement, is the amount of leverage that you and I are allowed to buy stocks from these same firms), they borrowed 20 to 1, 30 to 1, and even 50 to 1, if they could get away with it. And man, it was a lucrative trade. So why not?
I'll tell you why not. Because all of a sudden, Wall Street is no longer a business of traders or stock brokers or investment bankers, it's a giant hedge fund. And they have no idea what they are doing. None. I ran a hedge fund for a lot of years and learned rather quickly that if a trade was too good, if everyone was doing the same trade, then I should absolutely turn around and run for the hills. But no one on Wall Street did. The spreadsheets flashed green. Risk was a four-letter word best not said in polite company. Wall Streeters became hedge fund cowboys and loved the spoils, until a tiny little downturn in housing sent everyone rushing to get out of the pool at the same time.


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TORONTO — Beth Tikvah Synagogue has left the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) – almost five years after voting to stay in the umbrella organization for Judaism's Conservative movement – because it felt it wasn't using the group's services.
In 2008, Beth Tikvah's reasons for reconsidering its affiliation with the USCJ were philosophical differences regarding ritual observance and lack of responsiveness to the congregation's needs.
USCJ CEO optimistic despite budget challenges
But philosophical differences "don't enter into it" any more, shul president Bob Weill told The CJN. The synagogue became Torah egalitarian last year. "At this point, we don't need [the USCJ]. It became more of, 'We weren't taking advantage of anything they offered.'"
However, Weill said, "We are a Conservative shul and will remain a Conservative shul."
Rabbi Howard Markose, interim senior rabbi of the 1,100-family shul, said in a phone interview that being a Conservative synagogue means "continuing to be committed to Halachah – Jewish law – with the flexibility in interpretation that is part of our Conservative theology and philosophy."
Rabbi Markose and his colleague Rabbi Jarrod Grover chose not to be involved in the decision regarding the USCJ. "We neither encouraged the departure nor discouraged it," Rabbi Markose said in a phone interview from Israel.
"We decided as a team of rabbis to give the synagogue membership the opportunity to go through the process and make the decision without rabbinic input. It's not really a halachic issue, which is what our major decision-making and guidance is about – trying to promote observance and halachic adherence. We determined this is more a political issue than a halachic or religious issue."
Rabbi Grover, in his column in Beth Tikvah's most recent shul bulletin, encouraged members to continue to support other Conservative institutions, including the Jewish Theological Seminary, Mercaz Canada (the movement's Zionist arm), and Camp Ramah.
In 2008, Beth Tikvah – which was then paying $41,000 annually in USCJ membership dues – voted to remain part of the organization, despite a recommendation at the time by its board of governors to terminate membership.
Around the same time, three other Toronto congregations – Adath Israel Congregation, Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue, and Beth Tzedec Congregation – left USCJ and formed a new organization, the Canadian Council of Conservative Synagogues (CCCS). Beth Sholom Synagogue, which had not been affiliated with the USCJ, was the fourth co-founder.
Beth Tzedec left the CCCS in 2010, citing budgetary reasons.
The group also lost a Montreal-based congregation, but president Eric Gossin said the CCCS is still "very active," with seven congregations, and now has "quite modest" dues that are "significantly less" than what they were. Its flagship program is its Hebrew high school, he added.
Weill said that USCJ membership is "very expensive, but it [would be] worth it if we were taking advantage of everything they have to offer."
He said Beth Tikvah has not joined the CCCS, but he'd like, personally, to promote the idea among the shul's membership. "I think there's a lot of synergy that can be created."
In 2008, Beth Tikvah's constitution made it difficult for the shul to leave the USCJ, as its constitution mandated membership in the organization. The relevant clause could be changed only if 75 percent of members voted in favour of the change at two consecutive meetings, The CJN reported at the time.
But the constitution was amended in 2011 so that "we would only need two-thirds of 100 members voting," Weill said.
The shul held information meetings in November before putting USCJ membership to a vote. It sent the organization a letter of resignation later that month.
One hundred forty four members voted, but Weill declined to be more specific about the percentage by which the vote passed.


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - *********** Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in *********** Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Russia & C.I.S. View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 7:37 am Post subject: *********** ***********Last edited by Kent F. Kruhoeffer on Fri Jul 04, 2003 12:16 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top Buck TurgidsonJoined: 29 Jan 2003Posts: 96 Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 3:35 pm Post subject: I have never seen Gorbachev as the hero many others seem to (in the West). I think he was young and bright enough to realize that the Soviet Union was in serious trouble in the 1980s. The centrally planned economy was simply unable to finance communist regimes all over the globe and at the same time provide basic necessities to its own people. You are in Russia, just ask people what it was like during Perestroika. Meanwhile, he faced Reagan who was totally committed to out-spend the Soviets in the arms race. Gorbachev was shaped by events rather than the other way around. Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 7:11 am Post subject: reply to Buck Hello Buck, Yes, you are correct that the years of Perestroika were no picnic for ordinary Russians. Many people lost their jobs, the suicide rate skyrocketed, and many Russians felt deeply betrayed by Gorbachev for "selling out" the Fatherland. There's no denying that. Today, however, opinions about Gorbachev seem to have mellowed somewhat within the Russian population at large. Among my students here at Linguamir, for example, opinions are divided, but generally rather positive in terms of their appraisals of Gorbi and his legacy. Keep in mind that the vast majority of students who study here belong to the upper and upper-middle classes, and have benefitted tremendously from the new freedoms and market reforms begun by Mr. Gorbachev. Many of them own their own businesses, or manage a business. Most of them have travelled abroad as well, and they understand that this would have been impossible in the "old" days. Of course, if you were to poll a group of pensioners, or unemployed miners, you would most certainly hear lots of VERY negative comments about the man in question. For me, the bottom line is this: Freedom for Russia was an expensive proposition. Very expensive. Some Russians have taken advantage of that freedom ... and understand that what they have now is better than what they had then. It all depends on who you're asking. Whether Mr. Gorbachev actually "shaped events", or was, as you suggest, "shaped by them", one thing seems clear to me: Mr. Gorbachev was, at the very least, "the seed" which spawned the democratic "tree" that Russia is today. For that reason alone, he is a hero in my eyes. As always, 'thanks' Buck, for sharing your views Best wishes, kEnT Back to top AlbulbulJoined: 08 Feb 2003Posts: 364 Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 11:41 am Post subject: Gorby Personally I would be very careful about making sweeping generalisations about Reform and Change until thedust of history has settled. Certainly many people have suffered as a result of the changes. I am also concerned that the world is not as safe as it was ehen we had two superpoers. Now we have one and........ Look at the result !!!! Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 1:57 pm Post subject: Thanks, Albulbul Dear Albulbul, Nice to see you waaaaay down here on the Russia Forum. Thanks for dropping by and sharing your views. I agree with your comments about the 'dust of history' not having fully settled yet. It's a scary new world out there. Btw ... In my original post, only the first 3 paragraphs are presented as "facts". The comments and reply that follow are based purely on my own personal opinions. RegardsAsAlways, kEnT Back to top Buck TurgidsonJoined: 29 Jan 2003Posts: 96 Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 6:27 pm Post subject: Another candidate In my opinion history will show that Yeltsin was actually more significant than Gorby. Try to overlook his later buffoon image as president. During the last years of the Soviet Union it was Yeltsin who was the real renegade; demanding faster, more far reaching reform. By the end, he was the nemesis of Gorby. When Gorbachev was kidnapped during the 1991 coup, it was Yeltsin who stood up against the reactionaries. Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 5:12 am Post subject: Yep, Boris 'rocks' too ! Hi Buck Yep, you're right again. Boris rocks. I never really minded his 'silly' public image. For me, it represented a refreshing change from his stone-faced predecessors. I really loved watching him together with Clinton, laughing and dancing and flirting with the girls. To be honest, I wrote the Gorbachev tribute after reading a story about him on BBC online. It reminded me of how the world had fogotten about him, and it made me a little sad. When they do the same for Mr. Yeltsin, I'll write another tribute. Regards, KeNt Back to top Buck TurgidsonJoined: 29 Jan 2003Posts: 96 Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 2:47 pm Post subject: Well I don't want to be too critical of Gorby. He was certainly a better alternative to Brezhnev. In Putin, Russia has a more traditional "stone faced" leader. Russians I talked to had a neutral to positive opinion of him. 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As he looked for answers regarding why Virginia couldn't snap its now 10-game losing streak at Wake Forest's Joel Coliseum on Wednesday night, Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett didn't need to go far to find the culprit.
It's an issue he'll have to address with his team prior to another short turnaround into a lengthy road trip Saturday, but there isn't a quick fix. His team's troubles in its ugly 55-52 loss to Wake Forest on Wednesday night were more about attitude and focus — tough concepts to teach in a film room.
Either you have it or don't, and U.Va. (11-4 overall, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) didn't have it against Wake Forest.
"When you go on the road, you have to bring an approach that is you're willing to execute … we just got out of sync," said Bennett, whose team turned the ball over 17 times and shot just 36.4 percent from the floor while falling behind by 14 points in the second half prior to a late rally that came up short.
"I told our guys they battled hard to get back to that spot, but don't feel good about that."
U.Va., which couldn't get a shot off on its last possession after having 5.3 seconds with which to work the ball up the floor, is in the midst of an odd stretch of futility in Joel Coliseum. U.Va. hasn't won there since 2000.
Duke's Cameron Indoor Stadium, the site of 15 consecutive U.Va. losses, is the only ACC gym in which the Cavaliers have endured a longer skid. U.Va. also has lost nine straight games in Florida State's Tucker Center.
Now U.Va. is headed Saturday to Clemson (8-6, 0-2) for a noon game. U.Va. has lost three straight in Littlejohn Coliseum, and last left there with a win in 2007.
"We've really got to bounce back strong," said freshman forward Mike Tobey, who led U.Va. with 14 points off the bench on 6 of 9 shooting from the floor at Wake Forest. "Clemson's a real physical team, and we've got to be real physical with them and come out with the same passion we had against UNC [in last Sunday night's 61-52 win by U.Va.]. We need that win."
Coming into the Wake Forest game, U.Va. had shot an incredible 50 percent (25 of 50) as a team from 3-point range in its three previous games. It was second in the conference in 3-point shooting (39.4 percent) as a team for the season.
All that hot shooting was nowhere to be found against Wake Forest (8-6, 1-1), as U.Va. didn't make its first shot from 3-point range until freshman Evan Nolte connected with 56 seconds left to cut Wake Forest's lead to 50-46. U.Va. finished 3 of 11 on 3-point shots.
U.Va. point guard Jontel Evans, a Bethel High graduate who started his first game since re-injuring his surgically repaired right foot Dec. 5 against Tennessee, couldn't get the ball cleanly to Tobey on the right wing for a 3-point shot in the closing seconds.
"I definitely just take this loss upon myself," Evans said. "I blame it all on me."
After Wednesday's game, Evans said the foot he had surgery on in October to relieve pain from a stress fracture was only feeling a little sore. He said he'd be ready for the Clemson trip.
"This is what the ACC is about," said Evans, who had two points, three assists and four turnovers against Wake Forest. "We've just got to grind it out. Guys are a little beat up, but so what? This is why we signed that letter of intent, to play in this type of competition. This (Wake Forest) loss is behind us, and now we're looking forward to Clemson and trying to go in there and get a win in a tough environment."


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Eleven Senate Democrats are urging President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline by the end of May.
The senators say the five-year review of the Canada-to-Texas pipeline has been "exhaustive" and taken longer than reasonably justified. The letter sent Thursday says approval is needed to ensure the pipeline doesn't miss another construction season.
But politics is likely a larger factor. Six of the Democrats who signed the letter face challenges this year. They are Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, John Walsh of Montana, Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mark Warner of Virginia.
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Vodafone's big deal: Good or bad for UK?
Few corporate deals are so big that they take on an economic significance.
But the $130bn Vodafone is receiving for its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless is equivalent to the size of the entire annual output of Hungary.
All that money will have an impact on lives in a variety of ways.
When most of it is distributed to Vodafone's shareholders, they will spend and invest some of it - which should increase economic activity.
Many of them should pay some tax on the increased income they'll receive.
Vodafone itself should be made stronger, when it uses some of the proceeds to pay down its debts - and maybe that will make it a more fearsome competitor in mobile phones, to the benefit of consumers.
And if it uses some of the residual billions to continue to expand its interests in cable and fixed line networks, maybe it will squeeze some growth out of its huge operations in the mature sluggish economies of Europe - to the further benefit of its shareholders.
So possibly it would be wrong to carp and wring hands that Vodafone won't be paying a penny of tax to the British taxman on the tens of billions of pounds of profit it will make from the disposal.
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Avatar: A Contradictory Text
from "Race and Revenge Fantasies in Avatar, District 9, and Inglourious Basterds" by John Rieder, Science Fiction Film & Television vol. 4, issue 1, January 2011:
The stupendous commercial success of Avatar may have been achieved in spite of its ideologically retrograde character, as many of its early reviewers seemed to think, but it seems more likely that its revivification of old-fashioned, reassuring exoticism is one of the principal reason for its popularity. In a contemporary economy whose financial, political, and commercial core continues to rely heavily on resource extraction from peripheral sites, Avatar offers a painless adjustment of colonial-era fantasies of appropriation to contemporary ecological and political conditions. Its vision is essentially akin to the widespread contemporary ideology -- arguably the dominant coprorate and political vision of the present-day US -- of a "green capitalism" that keeps the flows of resources and systems of profits intact while purging them of corruption and waste. The aspects of the capitalist world system and the US's dominance within it that Avatar repudiates -- ecologically damaging resource extraction and arrogant militarism -- are effectively erased, rather than criticized, reconceptualized, or reformed by the protagonists' whole-body assimilation into the Na'vi, because this transformation is cast as a return to pre-industrial harmony with nature (the strong similarity of the Na'vi to American movie Indians is no coincidence). That this prior state of harmony is just as imaginary as Colonel Quaritch is brutal only confirms the underlying coherence of Avatar's liberalism with its fetishism.
Avatar testifies to the continuing, apparently indomitable vigour of American exceptionalism, catering to the US audience's seemingly bottomless thirst for imagining themselves the heroes of world history.
Some perhaps not very coherent notes on the two items above:
Remixes are wonderful for the ways they can break through the interpretations we've settled on, but because they do violence to the original text by tearing away its contexts, they are, at best, illuminating collages. They tell us as much about themselves as about the original, and so while the Avatar remix does indeed show us some tendencies within that film and others, so, too, do The Shining Recut and Wonka: Drug Baron.
The similarities between the films in the remix are amusing and disturbing; they certainly demonstrate some of the White Man as Savior narrative that has been popular in U.S. popular culture for a while, the guilty mirror image of the Non-White Man as Evil Savage story.
I've seen most of the films that are remixed in with Avatar in that video, and don't think much of very many of them, but I also think the video encourages readings of those other films that are, in at least one case, the exact opposite of what is actually in the movie itself. The most obvious example is The New World, which is about many things, but among those things, it is about how human beings from vastly different worlds experience contact with each other. Its characters experience the attractions and horrors of exoticism, the difficulties of communication and understanding, and there are consequences to all of it. It's an extraordinary movie with which to think and feel through the complexities of contact, vastly more nuanced than any of the other films included in the remix.
The remix video, then, while offering some real insights is also perpetuating an uncritical rejection of works in which the presence of certain elements common to problematic stories is what makes those stories problematic. But it's how the elements are used in the story that determines the ideological meaning of the work, not the mere presence -- if presence were all, Birth of a Nation, Rosewood, and O Brother Where Art Thou would be equal because they all include the Ku Klux Klan.
I find John Rieder's view of Avatar persuasive, but while some of those elements do seem to me to be part of the film's popularity, it's an utterly white-US-centric explanation of a movie that made more than twice as much money outside the US during its theatrical run. It is not, apparently, US audiences alone that have a "seemingly bottomless thirst" for tales of US exceptionalism and historical triumph.
In some ways, a more interesting view of Avatar would find a space within it for a non- or anti-imperialist audience -- Nnedi Okorafor seemed to be able to view it that way, and while certainly lots of people enjoyed Avatar because of its special effects, and looked past other less exciting elements (whether the dialogue or the plot holes or a particular political view), I'm really not willing to say that millions of people around the world embraced a racist movie just because of the cool effects.
Helpful to such a discussion would be Edward Said's essay on the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies, "Jungle Calling". Here's the final paragraph:
Yet before we throw Tarzan completely away as a useless degenerate without either social or aesthetic value, he ought to be given a chance as what in fact he is, an immigrant. Yes, he belongs to the same epoch that produced traveling imperialists like Lawrence of Arabia, Kurtz in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and of course Cecil Rhodes, but despite Hollywood and Burroughs himself, Tarzan is much less of a dominant figure than any of those white men. He is vulnerable, disadvantaged, and, because of his lonely silence in the movies, pathetic. Weissmuller's face tells a story of stoic deprivation. In a world full of danger this orphan without upward mobility or social advancement as alternatives is, I've always felt, a forlorn survivor. Quite clearly that is not what Hollywood intended to convey. But it is what still comes through: Tarzan the hero diverted from worldly success and with no hope of rehabilitation, in permanent exile. More unusual still is the fact that Weissmuller's performances as Tarzan are both better and more uncompromising than the novelistic original. Time for a Weissmuller revival.In Avatar, Jake Sully and Grace Alexander achieve what Lawrence of Arabia and Kevin of the Wolves could not: they transmigrate. Their brain patterns may be human, but they have given up the identity privileges attached to their white human bodies. They can't go back. This, then, is a somewhat different story from most -- probably all -- of the films the remix bundles together with Avatar, because this particular movie is science fiction, and so its world contains the technology to move it from just a "going native" story to a "staying native" story.
And while the allegorical impulses of Avatar are obvious, at the most basic level Pandora is not Earth and the Na'avi are not American Indians because within the diegesis there is still an Earth and, presumably, at least a couple Indians left. Avatar is a story of finding utopia and a story of reincarnation. Pandora is better than Earth because it's still got some trees left, and the Na'avi fit a hippie vision of Indians as ahistorical beings in a static environment that stays static because they don't exploit it -- thus, Pandora is a utopia in which the Na'avi are creatures the film presents as perfect because they better fit a sentimental concept of "primitive" people than do any Earthly candidates. It's not at all true to Earth history, but it's perfectly true to Pandoran history, because Pandora is what James Cameron wants it to be. It's no more or less realistic than Dante's Paradiso. The Na'avi are a tribe of angels, and Grace and Sully earn the right to enter their blue heaven. (Ugh, those names! Sully gets unSullied and Grace is ... what, disGraceful? Or no, maybe she's the Graceful Dead. Or -- okay, sorry, I'll stop...)
All of which is just to say that I think Avatar is utterly contradictory, and any one ideological reading of it is going to be wrong, whether that reading is validating or questioning the film's narrative moves. Avatar draws from some imperialist traditions, yes, but it also draws from utopian traditions and religious traditions and pop cultural traditions and science fictional traditions. Few if any of them are thought through or are the engines of thought in the film, which is part of the reason it is so contradictory -- but really, it would require something like a genius saint to be able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars using the most advanced technology of our time (some of it likely including minerals such as coltan) to make a coherent critique of consumerism, militarism, and resource exploitation. I can believe that James Cameron is some sort of genius, but certainly not a saint.
John Rieder's essay is worth seeking out (I had to use inter-library loan to get a copy, because Science Fiction Film & Television is included only in the more expensive Project Muse databases, our university library doesn't subscribe to those, and the journal itself charges $35 for online access to one article -- let me pause here to say that I think places such as Liverpool University Press, Duke University Press, and others that charge high amounts for access to single items are completely and utterly insane. Who thought up these policies? Did somebody say, "Hey, I think it would be great it we charged more than the price of the average hardcover novel for access to a 10-page essay. People will understand! It provides us with the funding to make knowledge accessible to the world!" The people who set pricing for these academic journals probably go home and, to wind down from the hard work of turning potential readers away, pick up a pistol and shoot themselves in the foot.), though I think he undervalues Avatar, overvalues District 9 (I have come to admire it less over time), and analyzes some elements of Inglourious Basterds well while also simplifying its effect too much and so missing its most powerful aspects. (Of the three, Inglourious Basterds strikes me as the most interesting, complex, and challenging -- a true masterpiece -- and I say that as someone who previously never really understood people's infatuation with the films of Quentin Tarrantino.) (For a more comprehensive take on Basterds, see the extraordinary explication of it at The Seventh Art.)
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Kansas City Royals today announced that the club has returned catcher Salvador Perez from his minor league rehab assignment and reinstated him from the 60-day Disabled List. Perez will be in Kansas City and available for tonight's game vs. St. Louis. In order to officially add Perez to the active roster, the Royals will make a corresponding 25-man and 40-man roster move later today. In addition, the Royals announced that right-handed pitcher Felipe Paulino has been diagnosed by team doctors with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.
Perez, 22, has missed the entire 2012 season thus far after undergoing surgery on a torn meniscus in his left knee in March. While on his rehab assignment with Omaha (AAA), he batted .340 (17-for-50) in 12 games with 11 runs scored, two doubles and seven RBI.
The 28-year-old Paulino will travel shortly to receive a second opinion from Dr. Lewis Yocum. Paulino made a rehab start with Class AA Northwest Arkansas on Wednesday, pitching three innings. The right-hander was 3-1 with Kansas City this season in seven starts with a 1.67 ERA.


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The U.S. Postal Service adds more than 600,000 new delivery points each year, mostly in the form of new residential homes. While most new residences include cluster boxes rather than to-the-door delivery to reduce costs, delivery remains the Postal Service's largest cost center. Canada Post, which has suffered losses recently after years of profits, has introduced a $200 per address charge that it is assessing housing developers for installing community mailboxes. Canada Post claims the charge "is in keeping with how other infrastructure costs are shared by utilities and other services." Canada Post, which adds almost 200,000 new addresses a year, could earn tens of millions of dollars from the fee and it would offset the added costs of new delivery points. Housing developers in Canada have been fighting the charge, arguing that it is unfair to assess new homes only, which they say receive substandard delivery service compared to older homes and apartment buildings that get delivery to the door. In the United States, the Postal Service does not charge a fee to set-up and deliver to a new address. New delivery points are generally more profitable than old ones because they generate on average more volume and revenue and they cost less due to the increased use of lower cost options such as curbside and cluster boxes. Still, other utilities, such as gas, electric, and cable companies, charge customers a new service fee when they move or start service. Cities and counties also often charge an administrative fee for services, such as water, when a customer changes or adds a new address, sometimes in the $50 range. The City of Mountain View, CA, charges a hefty administrative fee of $195 to change or add a new address. Should the Postal Service recover the costs associated with new delivery points by charging customers a one-time "set-up" fee for their new home or business location? Or does that effectively penalize a new homeowner for receiving what is usually a more cost-effective form of delivery (cluster boxes)? If the Postal Service were to charge, should it only charge for the administrative costs it incurs to set up new addresses, such as completing and reviewing Postal Service forms and updating to the Address Management System and Delivery Sequence File? Should it charge the developer as Canada Post is doing? Or should it retain the status quo and keep it so that costs are shared by all ratepayers? Are there other solutions?
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Monica VazquezWe just moved to a town home with cluster mailboxes, there are 15 units and we can all see the mailbox from our kitchen window. We had to pay $25 for a key, after just shy of a month we still didn't have the key but with a couple of visits to the PO and a call to the right person we did get that resolved. What I don't understand is why we need the lock on the mailbox? Just across the road are homes that walk just as far to their mailboxes at the end of their driveway for the mail and they are not locked. Our cluster mailbox is so small if you were to get anything more than a few letters you would run out of room.
Mary wheatleyNeed a new address. Building a manufactured home on relatives land and need an address. Thanks
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I think revenue earning and trying to balance out this loss is a lost cause. But I do think the extra charge for newer routes might not be a bad idea. It shouldn't be done to correct or balance the books that have been severely skewed for so long. It won't be the end-all to the post office financial woes!

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Does Google Charge? Yahoo? Fed X or UPS does not charge?
 Why do you feel you are entitled to charging to deliver 3rd class or Non-Profit, much less standard mail to an address? This effort something that should be contracted out. If someone executes a hold mail notice, immediately, a bonded outside mail contractor should handle all disposition. Including storage of mail. The post office does not have the time to manage such silly requirements, and from my experience after dealing with my parents estate, they do an extremely poor job of it. Any subject accountable mail would therefore absolve the post office of discretion, while disposition would end when transported to subject postal district office or distribution location.

Warren
Perhaps we need to start charging for change of address like CanadaPost does….
 Residential:
 Within the same province $79.95 for 12 months
 $47.95 for 6 months
 Outside of province $99.95 for 12 months
 $59.95 for 6 months
 U.S.A./International $225.95 for 12 months
 $135.95 for 6 months
 Also for holding mail:
 Residential:
 $20 for the first 10 weekdays.
 $8.50 per additional week (5 weekdays).

Steve LThis idea is outside the box and I applaud this type of thought provoking topic, but like other ideas it only focuses on "taxing" someone to create small revenue to try to mask the real problem, spending; the real issues that need to be addressed are their healthcare plan, retirement prefunding and 6 day delivery costs, all Billion dollar cost savings areas. Unfortunately, but factual, 80% of their costs are not being touched for one reason or another and we focus on cutting the 20% left over. If we want new revenue ideas, it must be big ideas such as digital opportunities, or utilizing their nationwide footprint to offer government related services such as background checks and identity management, secure email "certified mail" type of transmissions, etc. If you did the quick math, a new customer fee of 25 dollars (like a utility may charge) would only raise 15 million dollars (using the 600,000 new delivery points per annum) in an agency losing billions of dollars. This would not even be a rounding error on their books. Also, DSF2 is licensed out to those wanting to know these new delivery point benefits at 100,000 dollars per site/platform, per annum per licensee. Some firms already pay Address Management hundreds of thousands of dollars for access to this data. Lastly, on the question at hand, if you want to tax a consumer who in reality we really want to feel the value of owning a mailbox and receiving paper based communication (as a mailbox would for the most part not affect e-commerce deliveries) just for adding a new delivery address, I fear the backlash would be people would say fine, don't put one there. The beauty of marketing mail today, is it costs consumers nothing to get mail sent to them as it is paid for by the sender who wants to obtain business from that household. Digital communications cost money in terms of internet access, mailboxes (at a home) usually are free.
Joe Scarson
15 million dollars is a lot of money, I think a bigger problem than paying good money to laborers is the concept that we shouldn't try to save some from across the board and instead should make gargantuan cuts to a few essential programs. Additionally if the USPS charged a fair more inline with our Canadian friends to the north it would actually be over 100 million dollars.

LTSI am not sure that charging a new address service fee is the right approach since cluster boxes cost the Postal Service less to deliver to than to-the-door mailboxes or mail slots. It might make more sense to charge an annual "utility fee" to those homes that want to retain their mail slot delivery. Further, it might be time for the Postal Service to stop thinking about new delivery points as cost centers only and start thinking of them as new customers. How many other businesses have built-in growth in customers (600,000+ a year!) without lifting a finger? While each new delivery point might not get as much mail per stop as 10 or 15 years ago, the mail that does come to new delivery points is often high-contribution mail pieces. The utilities and cable companies etc. are sending invoices and service announcements to the new residents and then advertising mail soon follows. Although more people are paying bills online, they tend to still prefer receiving hard-copy invoices in the mail rather than move to online bill presentment. I think the better question might be how the Postal Service could maximize the potential of these new "customers" rather than think about them merely as an added delivery cost.
Patrick Grove
I think you bring up a good point about viewing new addresses that USPS creates as potential customers. That said, the reality is that while USPS bears the cost of creating these new addresses, UPS and FedEx also get to service these customers as well. So USPS is forced to pay for these costs but its competitors get to receive the benefits. The two best and fairest options are for either the developer/homeowner to pay for the service of creating a new address or have the other delivery companies also share in the burden of paying for the creation of new addresses/the creation of new customers.

Brian BYes this is a good idea. More revenue for a service that takes up a lot of time and effort on the Postal Service side.


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The secret is out: after his wonderfully self-deprecating appearance on Saturday Night Live in December, the world knows that New Jersey governor Chris Christie has some serious comedic chops. But on The Late Show this week, Christie had a few more jokes up his sleeve — along with a jelly donut. He shamelessly pulled it out less than a minute through his chat with Dave Letterman as if he were craving the calories, griping "I didn't know it would be this long." Let's hear it for a politician who can take a joke — and give right back.
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S o we've all received questionnaires in our lives and those of us that like our lateral thinking don't usually appreciate their bent. They're pushy, presumptuous, know-it-alls, so sometimes I don't even check off boxes. I have refused, squirmed out-of, and refused again to answer any question that limited my options.
So when I put the multiple choice question, "Is your postural yoga practice, - in your personal experience - a) spiritual, b) religious, or c) secular?" to Mark Singleton, the author of the pivotal and influential book on modern yoga, Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice at Yoga Festival Toronto, I expected no easy answer. I mean it's the kind of question anyone dreads unless they never quite got enough of multiple choice exams, or are by nature incredibly dull. So I was glad when Mark hesitated. I mean hesitation has the potential to be truly exciting. As blogger for Think Body Electric Carol Horton noted in her wonderful commemorative post on Yoga Festival Toronto, it was a great moment, and it tapped into a collective fear of the three dreaded words (religion, spirituality and secularism) as the giggles subsided and a nervous hush spread through the room...
Mark's explanation was subtle and nuanced with a careful knowledge of yoga's historical relationship with those words. And as such, his did in fact answer the question with a number of salient points which I'll get to talking about when I write up the transcript of that interview next month.
But Carol Horton did raise an interesting issue with regard to a sense that practitioners do not relate to these words in general. What does it say about us that we are aware of our inability to communicate the nature of our yoga experience in these common categories? I'm not suggesting this difficulty is news. Dance scholarship, for instance, is rife with discussions about the challenges in communicating the experience of embodied practice with reference to these ubiquitous terms. But that is what makes any environment interesting.
And it's also why we've created new words/theories for gaps in all kinds of disciplines: somaesthetic, "the peak experience", "flow theory"...In Bharatanatyam dance terms, the ineffable experience associated with bhakti yoga (the way of devotion) has sometimes been called "svarga", a kind of blink-of-an-eye "heaven", formless and without qualities, from which we must unfortunately return.
|(Mikko Kuorinki, Wall Piece of 200 letters installation)
|(Simeon the monk on a pillar in Syria for 37 years)
But is the inability to answer this question an indication of an ineffable experience, or a contemporary struggle with the complex, baroque weight of those words "religious", "spiritual" and "secular"? Are some of us saying that yoga practice is equivalent to the wordless experience mystics have described? Or is it this a contemporary category that has yet to find a name? And even if hatha yoga practice did not evolve via these succinct categories should we still not ask how these words are impacting practice now? What's going on with our practice today that we read about sectarian struggles in yoga classes and yet a good number of us don't feel these categories even fit?
Okay... so if you're a real mystic and you've been standing on a pillar desert-fathers-style for 40 years, then maybe you can opt out of this discussion. Because you clearly don't care about the outside world and the perception of the meaning of your practice in the world of the entangled. Fair enough, maybe your very contribution is the statement of your standing there for goddamn-ever...
|(anti-Christian anti-muslim riots, India 2008)
And we should consider ourselves lucky that this, and most yoga discussions, are not multiple choice exams. Unlike a mutiple choice question, you can take as much time and space as you'd like in order to answer the question. You could even answer with a koan or a performance piece. And so in this case, the oversimplified question is a deliberate strategy, a reduction of possibilities by way of question, designed to create a storm in your citta "consciousness/perception" (but as ancient Indians might map it, in the physical location of your heart).
So you tell me spiritual, religious, secular....what is this yoga thing for you?
There are no categories in life that are simple. And certainly I don't think everything that exists needs a name. But when the existing categories appear so insufficient as to evade answers altogether, then it's worth asking what needs to change. And as yogis, making change, alchemical or otherwise, is our greatest trade secret.
I will be posting a full transcript of that interview at Shivers Up the Spine hopefully in a month's time. I just started my PhD this week, so needless to say, my time's been eaten with the usual back-to-school routines of buying loose leaf and making sure my new school bag is up to the task.


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Intel Sandy Bridge-E Review - Core i7-3960X and X79 Chipset Tested
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!!
Turbo Boost technology makes a return here as well with the updated 2.0 version in full effect - there are more steppings in scalability on this part than on the Nehalem or Westmere CPUs.
With that said, there are some important changes to take note of, starting with the absence of any and all Sandy Bridge aspects related to graphics and multimedia processing. The Sandy Bridge-E Core i7-39xx and i7-38xx parts will not have processor graphics of any kind on them, and while this isn't a big deal for the targeted users of high-end hardware like this, there is one drawback. Along with the GPU portion, the QuickSync technology is also absent from the design as it was dependent on the Intel HD Graphics technology for some of its processing. If you were a fan, as we were, of the QuickSync media transcoding applications that worked impressively fast, then you should be prepared to live without it again if you buy a SNB-E processor. Still, with 6-cores and 12-threads of processing, the Core i7-3960X should be able to handle media transcoding fairly well as we demonstrate in our benchmark testing.
The Sandy Bridge-E Die
A significant portion of the processor die is relegated to communication with the 40 lanes of PCI Express supported by Sandy Bridge-E. This is a VAST improvement over the current Sandy Bridge parts that only support 16 lanes. While PCI Express 3.0 support is not yet official on the SNB-E CPUs, all of the motherboard vendors we have talked to are comfortable with saying the combination of the new CPUs and X79 motherboards will run that communication protocol properly when supported cards are released in 2012. For whatever reason, Intel has decided to not validate the PCIe 3.0 capability of the processor directly and instead claims that it "believes that some PCIe devices may be able to achieve the 8GT/s PCIe transfer rate on X79". So...uh, there.
As all of the motherboard designs have shown you over the last several months, Sandy Bridge-E also moves from a dual-channel memory controller to a much higher bandwidth quad-channel memory controller. Theoretical memory bandwidth moves up to 51.2 GB/s and while some very specific applications will see (and take advantage of) this change, most consumer applications and games won't come close to seeing a 2x increase in performance. Still, those that complained about moving from a three-channel memory controller on Nehalem to the dual-channel on Sandy Bridge will be pleased to see a move forward in this area.
This, of course, means a new collection of memory module kits from Corsair and the like are in order. To take full advantage of your processor's performance, you are going to need to populate all four of those memory channels. We have already seen a few sets from Corsair that target the SNB-E buyer. Another good side effect of four memory channels is that you will (by default) have more memory in your system overall. Even if you go down to 2GB modules for each channel we are talking about an 8GB configuration and more likely a 16GB total system memory option for users that go with still very cost efficient 4GB DIMMs.
One interesting thing to note from looking at the die shot above is that there are two cores disabled on SNB-E. Those cores will surely be enabled on upcoming Xeon processors but I am still confused as to why Intel chose to keep them disabled completely. I understand that with 8 cores they weren't likely to be able to run at higher clock speeds than current Sandy Bridge processors, but offering a SKU that was 8-cores/16-threads deep at lower clock speeds could have been for consumers that really use heavily-threaded applications. As it stands now, Intel only has plans for 6-core and 4-core SNB-E processors.
Shared L3 cache size has also been increased up to a staggering 15MB on the Core i7-3960X flagship and 12MB on the Core i7-3930K. To put that in perspective, the current Core i7-2600K Sandy Bride processor and Core i7 Nehalem parts sport 8MB of L3 cache. From the die image we can gather that the Core i7-3960X is actually using all of the available cache size and any upcoming Xeons with 8-cores will have the same amount.
The new Sandy Bridge-E processors are larger than previous Nehalem or Sandy Bridge CPUs as inferred from the requirement of the new LGA2011 socket. The CPU die itself is built on the same 32nm process technology as the current generation Sandy Bridge and consists of 2.27 billion transistors in the form of a nearly square 434.72 mm2 die.
Main and only reason for disabling cores in design is that in production process of chips(for example Xeon processors) they may encounter defects that with this mechanism tolerates these situations.
Defects might be the wrong word here. But they usually do it to allow the other cores to clock higher, important on a consumer product. Less important on a server environment.
The main reason i understood what that they wanted to stay within the 130W TDP envelop, plus less cores means less heat, means more OC, means more FPS.
Unless you fall in the small group of users that do programs like video encoding.
They could use this transistors for other matters,for example for cache modules, but they don't use these space for anything.With one difference This architecture is similar to Celeron processors in previous Intel designs. In this arrangement cores are deactivated instead of caches modules.Cores is disabled instead of CPU When any of them defected in production process in the factory.
When will we get some costs and build specs? Also what are the supply lines like will we have to wait awhile before wholesalers have stocks? Great Review well done.
Fell a little flat with the render tests. Could you please include something a little more contemporary eg. Cinebench 11.5 please? After all, this is going to be one of the target demographics for the processor.
Edit: Especially need an overclocked CB score. That's what people will be doing with them.
CB 11.5 scales VERY well, much like POV-Ray, and we provided an overclocked POV-Ray result, so you should be able to use that one.
Awesome review Ryan! The performance per $ still makes the i7 2600K seem like the best choice if on a budget.
Can't wait to see what the leader board looks like in Q1 2012.
Yeah, I definitely wouldn't consider this a budget part at all, even the Core i7-3930K...
I just feel that if you were to have the workloads that sb-e provides benifits for wouldn't you just get a Xeon based system.
Not if you are a small biz or pro-sumer looking to save money.
I realize that this 3960X is top dog when it comes to desktop CPUs, but I can't help it to feel a bit sad when I know there's two extra cores with an extra 5MB of cache disabled, just sitting there, doing nothing.
And it's not like it's just a certain feature that's disabled, it's two fully hyperthreaded cores! That's like a really good extra dual core CPU that's gone dark, something like an unlocked Sandy Bridge 2100K (non existant, but you get the point). It takes "dark silicon" to the next level.
Is this to preserve a certain clockspeed - power envelope ratio or is this just because there's virtually no competition in this segment anymore? Is it that much cheaper to have just one die for desktop/worstation/server?
Do I get to blame AMD for ruining my life all over again? (hint: it's a joke)
"Is this to preserve a certain clockspeed - power envelope ratio.."
You are correct right here - those two cores aren't doing "nothing"; what they are doing is allowing the Core i7-3960X to clock as high as it is.
I still agree with you though - I wish Intel had released an 8-core version with a lower top speed so we had two options at this insane price point.
Yer right Ryan about the cost when u think about it.
Ryan do you think SB-E will minimize multi-GPU microstutter? because its basically sb+2 I dont think it will but I dont know how the increased system bandwidth will minimize "jitter"
How are the single core on Blender better?? The new sb-e is the fastest single thread on the chart with 76.13 sec. Were you looking at it backwards. You may also look into using the new cycles render instead of the old Blender, as it will be the new standard in Blender 2.62 comming December.
You are correct, I was reading those results backwards. Thanks, fixed!
this CPU is a BIG FAIL!!!
$1000 and its single core performance is slower than 2600K !
Why are Review websites not slamming this CPU?
The same reason we didn't "slam" $1000 CPUs for the decade they have continued to be released. They aren't meant for single core workloads and excel really only in the outlier cases of heavy threaded workloads and the like.
No, this CPU isn't for most, it isn't even likely for MANY people, but the fact that it is there is good for the market to be pushed forward.
I don't remember anyone complaining when the Core i7-980X launched...?
$1000 Intel CPU FAIL
Why in the world would anyone praise this cpu. It's a mediocre step forward from the 2600k, and with Ivy on the way in the first half of next year, a complete waste of money.
I am afraid you are going to be more disappointed in the CPU performance of Ivy Bridge than Sandy Bridge-E...
why? ivy bridge will be more cost effective for intel and us.
possibly less power and more cores. god forbid faster cores.
Because the CPU portions of Ivy Bridge compared Sandy Bridge are likely only going to be about 5-10% better.
ya i'd wait for ivy-bridge and ddr4 2012
wrong amd cpu to put against the i7 e3960x,you should be revisiting just the e3960x vs the opteron 6282se,that is the same priced cpu to go against the 3960,price for price the
3820 will be a better counter part to the 8150 or the
If I want a top end gaming pc should I go for the SBE 3960 with the ASUS extreme IV m/b with twin 580 in SLI or am I just wasting my money:(
The twin 580's sound awesome. I'd stick with a Sandy Bridge 2500K and an ASUS P867WS Revolution MoBo. You are sure not going to bottleneck with that (if you are going with just one card then go with the P8P67 PRO. Two 580's are going to draw a lot of power. 850W plus (preferably plus).
I think Ryan did a good job explaining the subtle differences between the SB and SB-E. Moreover, with AMD's lackluster Bulldozer turnout and SB-Original not offering more than 4 cores, this CPU is now the premier CPU on the consumer planet. Look, if you want TOP-end power for a while- you're not going to find it anywhere else ...
... and they're going to charge it- because they can.
Another crappy comparison.
You compare CPU's reaching 1000 euros in price (intel) vs a mere 200 euros of the bulldozer (amd).
Compare two same priced cpu's and its more of a test than this complete waste of time
They did that already (and other sites too), 2500K and 2600K vs. Bulldozer, it lost there too.
The idea of the article here is to compare the best offerings from the main (only?) two competitors on the market. When we're in this segment, we're interested about performance more and less about the price. We don't really care about performance/monetary unit, we just want the best there is, period.
Ryan you seem to be attracting a lot of trolls on this review.
I have always gone under the assumption that:
More Trolls = More Correct in my Views
Why does the i5 2500K perform better then the i7 2600k on so many of these tests am I missing something. Is there other reasons that I would spend $100 more one a CPU not to mention would the 2700K be worth the $30 more than the 2600K. I was waiting for the SB-e processor but I just cant justify the price/performance BIGTIME FAIL on Intel, just wasted my time waiting for a product that barely outperforms I7 990X.
Is LGA2011 backwards compatible with the I7-2600?
LGA2011 is completely different than LGA1155 (AKA I7-2600 you inquired about).
Seems a lot of people are mad about this...Ryan has said it like 10 times - this is not for most of "us." This is for a small market of power users, not the people that want the best frame rates on Battlefield 3.
First, as to why the 2500K might outperform the 2600K in some select instances: because a four-threaded app has 4 dedicated cores on the 2500K and though there ARE 4 dedicated cores on the 2600K, it is possible that the OS doesn't put each thread on its own core and instead you see a bit of HyperThreading i the mix, which isn't nearly as efficient as single core computing. That being said, usually the OS figures this out pretty quickly, so differences are actually minimal.
As for the 2700K - I would actually recommend it over the 2600K if that was your choice before, yes.
Thanks for your response Ryan, if I hear you right the I5 doesn't have HT. so turning off HT one the 2600K or 2700K may improve some of the non-multi-threaded reliant applications. As for your suggesting the 2600K over the 2700K for the $22 difference would I be getting a sightly higher binned chip with better TDP, clock speed, etc.. I guess I am know wounding id the 2500K is the right choice @ more than $100 less( I believe I heard you guys say as much on the Podcast) do I loose any else then HT with the 2500K.
Thanks Again
So question?? If you want the fastest gaming pc or just the fastest system go with 3960x and dont wate for ive?? Asus rampage iiii 32gb or 16gb and keep your graphics top of the line. Money is not a problem but ive bridge whats the deal? not going to be all arround better than 3690x dont want to upgrade again i am currently running 990x asus rampage iii formula three gtx 580's Would like to here a really good breakdown on sandy-e vs ivy??? Thanks watch the show allways!!!! Tim in alasks!! :-)
Great review Ryan! Have you ever done a benchmark using virtual PCs? It would be interesting to put 32gb of ram in one of these systems and see how many virtual PC's you could effectively run. Throw different loads on each of the machines and see what brings it to knees.


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People who love to cook and entertain tend to have well-equipped kitchens and pantries stocked full.
But we're always open to new flavours, new ideas, perhaps a lovely addition to the holiday tables we set with such care. And when we have friends to dinner, we're thrilled to receive a hostess gift we know we'll use and treasure. With that in mind, here are 10 gift suggestions for the foodies in your lives, who are, as often as not, people who love to feed you. These ideas work for the holidays - and any other time.
1. Single people cook, too. One-litre enamelled cast-iron casserole is perfect for simmering a pasta sauce or stew for one or two ($18). Add a pair of floral-patterned oven mitts ($18) and a cast-iron trivet ($10) for a Sunday afternoon of slow cooking.
From Zone, 5014 Sherbrooke St. W., Westmount. 514-489-8901. Go to www.zonemaison.com.
2. Foodies are still lamenting the demise of Gourmet magazine. It was an institution, but there are racks and racks of beautiful food magazines out there, some practical, others exotically aspirational. There's Saveur, for instance, Food & Wine and Bon Appetit; there's the sumptuous Cook's Illustrated from the United States, Jamie magazine from British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, exquisitely styled Delicious magazine from Australia, and Canada's own Canadian Living and Ricardo magazine, which is published in French.
Many of these magazines offer subscribers major discounts over newsstand buyers. Why not order a subscription online, then buy the latest issue on the newsstand and wrap it up along with a spatula, a wooden spoon and a note about the magazines to come? Better still, buy a selection of food magazines and offer them in a reusable wool felt tote, $16 at Loblaws.
3. Olive-oil devotees are a lot like oenophiles. They use terms like terroir and tasting notes and estate-bottled and they love trying new things. Olive & Olives is a chain of Montreal boutiques devoted to extra virgin olive oil, mostly Spanish, but also from Tunisia and Morocco. Put together a tasting tray that includes: a rectangular serving tray made of recycled green glass ($25.95), an olivewood covered salt box ($22.95) or salt pinch box ($9.95), along with white porcelain tasting spoons ($2.95 each) and a few bottles of the good stuff. Olive & Olives owner Claudia Pharand recommends the limited edition of Olive & Olives's new harvest blend of arbreblanque and arbequina olives ($25 for 500 mL), the organic Cortijo de Suerte Alta, from a family-owned grove in Cordoba ($32.95 for 500 ml) and Medolea from Tunisia ($21.95 for 500 ml)
Olive & Olives is at 1389 Laurier Ave. E., 514-526-8989; 428b Victoria Ave. in St. Lambert; Jean Talon Market; Marché Gourmand in Laval's Centropolis; Christmas kiosks in Fairview Pointe Clarie, Promenades St. Bruno and Place Rosemère. Visit www.oliveolives.com.
4. How about a gift that is elegant, handmade - and fair-trade? Dix Milles Villages sells sets of sushi platters and Asian soup bowls in richly textured white crackle glaze. They are made by hand by a traditional handicrafts group in the ceramic-making village of Bat Tang in Vietnam. White crackle rice bowls are $10 each; square plates are $8; spoons are $3. Chopsticks in bamboo holder are $8.
Dix Milles Villages boutiques are at 4128 St. Denis St.; 5674 Monkland Ave. and 290 Lakeshore Blvd. in Pointe Claire. Visit www.tenthousandvillages.ca.
5. The cocktail hour gets a rustic feel. Arthur Quentin's wooden tray ($40) is made from recycled tropical wood and glassware has real heft. A Henry Dean pitcher is $75; Ryan glasses are $17.50 each; Jules coupes are $28.50 each. For cocktail hour nuts or olives, a cranberry-colour ceramic bowl is $25.50.
Arthur Quentin is at 3960 St. Denis St. Tel. 514-843-7513. Go to www.arthurquentin.com.
6. Call them tapas, mezzes, pintxos or amuses-bouches; small bites are fun to eat and easy to serve. Anybody who entertains will appreciate a set of tapas-size azuelas. Glazed terracotta casseroles come in a range of sizes, and can go straight from the oven to the serving table. Prices range from $3 to $30, depending on size.
From Quincaillerie Azores, 4299 St. Laurent Blvd., corner Rachel St., 514-845-3543.
7. Dressing a salad or adding a couple of tablespoons of oil to a frying pan is more fun than ever with an oil dispenser, or huilier, like the one by Montreal glassblower Julien Mongeau. Comes in translucent red, green and brown, as well as in more opaque shades, all with contrasting collars and stainless steel tips. $56.
No two dispensers are entirely alike - and each, sweetly, is just a teeny tiny bit lopsided.
A selection at Boutique Option D, 50 St. Paul St. W. 514-842-7117; we also saw more of them at Atelier Boutique Gaia, 1590 Laurier Ave. E., near Papineau St. 514-598-5444.
8. White on white is so understated and muted and, well, elegant. Strictly speaking, the über-talented Quebec ceramic designer Louise Bousquet intended this shallow dish to sit under a bottle of wine. But it's the perfect size for nuts or olives with pre-dinner drinks or for chocolate-covered espresso beans afterward. Available in glazed as well as unglazed finishes. $20.
À table tout le monde, 361 St. Paul St. W., 514-750-0311.
9. One can argue that nearly 21 bucks ($20.95) for a 500 mL bottle of liquid soup is a lot of money. But Savon de Marseille is totally worth the splurge. For one, it's incredibly gentle, made in France with a minimum of 72 per cent pure vegetable oil, no detergent and no animal fats - just as it was more than 300 years ago. For another, it comes in subtle, yet delicious flavours including grapefruit, lavender and rose. And you buy the glass bottle, which comes with a pump dispenser, just once. Refills, which come in plastic bottles, are $22.95 for a whole litre.
Find savon de Marseille at Olive + Gourmando, 351 St. Paul St. W., in Old Montreal. 514-350-1083.
10. Offering to bring dessert is a nice way to make sure you'll get invited back: Artisanal panettone from Italy, a yeasty and versatile cake made with such luscious ingredients as fig and dark chocolate, cubes of candied pear and chocolate chips, orange cream or limoncello. A slice is nice after dinner, yummy with afternoon tea or coffee - or toasted for breakfast.
Les douceurs du marché, 138 Atwater St. in the Atwater market. 514-939-3902.