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On Tuesday I did an easy ride to Sandgate, throwing in a few long sprints at the Nundah criterium circuit on the way home. It's a recommendation by Mr Cavendish (great video here). I must say, I always liked throwing a couple of those when returning home via Rode rd, there are a few little hills which are perfect for that but they never made me a good sprinter...
Usual way home: Rode rd
Wednesday: running around fixing bike.
To catch up, I went out Thursday afternoon on a mission to do a hard, long ride with lots of climbing. I even drew the route on bikely.com the day before (just made it public!) and almost followed it the whole way. At the end of the ride, I changed the route and took Youngs Crossing rd, intending to stay away from the afternoon traffic and ended up doing a few more hills.
The highlight was finally getting to ride Ocean View Road, which I only knew by looking at the 18% road sign on Mt Mee road. I have looked at that sign dozens of times in the last four years but never had the audacity to actually go up.
Of course, it is just a road sign and I didn't find anything close to the 18% I was hoping for (the Polar said so!). Nevertheless, it is a hard climb with a few 9 to 10% sections and great views, if one can be bother to stop and look. I just wanted to get to the top.
Distance: 134.5 km
Time: 4h 35min
Ascent: 2250 m
Friday, a day for another recovery ride and socialising. Sandra and I rode to town, had coffee with friends, rode home and went out again for a little loop. She had to do a few efforts so I thought it would be nice to hang around. I got home with 60+ km in the legs.
I had planned for a Saturday with lots of kilometers, including a criterium race in the morning and a time trial in the afternoon, thinking that it's what I will be doing on the first day of racing in Bright. Might as well get used to it...
Sandra was doing her
The race wasn't what I wanted. The bunch (B grade) was ridiculously big, my number being 65 and the legs weren't quite there. I should've saved my money or entered the B1 race a little later, just to avoid witnessing the chaos that it was. I ended up getting a puncture and getting out anyway, perhaps for the best.
Coffee in town with friends took almost the rest of the morning. From there, I paired up with a mate, and headed home for a refill and an intended ride to Lakeside where HPRW was having the end of the year trophy presentation.
We didn't make it to the presentation due to a grotesquely and absurd encounter with fate. Nevertheless, the two of us managed to get the kilometers, some very fast, my computer showing 93 km, in nine hours...
Sunday is a day for long rides. I would've done the Zupps if working in the afternoon but having the whole day to ride, another excursion to Mt Mee with Sandra and a friend sounded like the right thing to do.
I went up Ocean View road again, this time concentrating on technique on the sections that I have to focus on. For those who are like me and enjoy looking at graphs and values, the climb is like this:
Distance: 4.5 km Ascent: 297 m
Gradient: 5.5% (surprised?)
The sections:
- 1.5 km at 10%
- 0.2 km at 6.5%
- 0.2 km at 10%
- 0.4 km at 10%
- 0.3 km at 9%
Good for a work out, but for week three I am planning to do it twice on the same ride. Just to make it feel like the Mt Hotham ascent.
Week 2: 17h 35min; 467 km (5,000m)
A bit of recovery now, more hard ks from tomorrow.


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A heavyweight bout between Gabriel Gonzaga (14-6 MMA, 9-5 UFC) and Travis Browne (13-1-1 MMA, 4-1-1 UFC) will take place in April at The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale.
UFC President Dana White today announced that verbal agreements are in place for the bout.
As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) first reported, The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas hosts the April 13 event, which includes a main card on FX and prelims on FUEL TV and Facebook.
Gonzaga vs. Browne likely will be part of the main card.
Gonzaga recently picked up his third straight win and moved to 2-0 in his latest UFC stint with a second-round submission victory over Ben Rothwell at UFC on FX 7. The former title challenger received his pink slip in 2010 following a 1-3 skid (with losses to Shane Carwin, Junior dos Dantos and Brendan Schaub). However, a regional-show win and late-notice UFC opportunity got him back in the octagon, where he submitted Ednaldo Oliveira upon his UFC return in early 2012.
Browne, meanwhile, had won three consecutive UFC fights and was knocking on the door of a potential title fight before a TKO loss to Antonio "Bigfoot Silva in October. Browne, who tore a hamstring in the headlining fight, owns nine knockouts in 13 career wins, which included a superman-punch KO of fellow contender Stefan Struve in 2011.
For more on The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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A small but effervescent overnight guest tries the patience of a curmudgeonly bear who needs absolute quiet to fall asleep.
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Snuggleford, the sleepiest sloth in all of Snoozeville, attends the annual Snoozefest.
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|Goodnight Moon
Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room.
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|Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
This version of the well-known lullaby travels around the world as baby animals and their parents share the wonder of a twinkling star.
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An alphabet of animals prepare to go to sleep.
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A baby does not want to go to sleep, even as everything else around her wishes her a good night.
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|Good Night, Sleep Tight
In this book with rhyming text, Bonnie and Ben's favorite babysitter reads them nursery rhymes before putting them to bed.
|JE Fox
|Tuck Me In
Help tuck in baby animals at bedtime using shorter pages to serve as blankets.
|JE Hacohen
Drowsy animal babies snuggle in trees, caves, weeds, and on waves, but one sleepyhead isn't yet in his bed.
|JE Howatt
|Bedtime in the Forest
Mick, Mack, and Molly, three young squirrels, find themselves awake and wanting to play all night like the owl children and learn that they should be going to bed instead.
|JE Iwamura
|Goodnight Already
Bear has never been so tired, but his next-door neighbor, a wide-awake duck, keeps disturbing his sleep.
|JE John
|Once Upon a Cloud
Celeste is blown way up into the sky by the wind, where she meets stars, the moon, and the sun.
|JE Keane
|Come Back, Moon
A sleepless bear hides the moon, much to the displeasure of his forest animal friends who miss dancing under its light.
|JE Kherdian
|Fly Blanky Fly
Sam and his blanket have a big adventure until it is time to fall asleep.
|JE Lewis
|Sleep Like a Tiger
At bedtime a young girl asks, "Does everything in the world go to sleep?"
|JE Logue
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Luna, who loves to look at the moon, wonders where it goes during the day.
|JE Martin
|Thank You and Good Night
Maggie hosts a pajama party with a variety of fun games.
|JE McDonnell
|Nighty-Night, Cooper
It is bedtime, but Cooper is not ready to climb into his mother's pouch and go to sleep until they enjoy some lullabies.
|JE Numeroff
|Once Upon a Northern Night
The beauty and wonder of a northern winter night unfold.
|JE Pendziwol
|Good Night, Gorilla
An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.
|JE Rathmann
|Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
When their work is done for the day, the trucks at the construction site make their way to their resting places and go to sleep.
|JE Rinker
|Sleep Tight, Anna Banana!
Anna Banana wants to play with her stuffed toys, but they are tired and just want to sleep.
|JE Roques
|It Is Night
A little girl says good night to a seal, a bear, a lion, a train, and so on, giving readers a bit of information about each.
|JE Rowand
|Chengdu Could Not, Would Not, Fall Asleep
High in the trees, all of the pandas are sleeping except for Chengdu, who tries everything and still cannot fall asleep until he finds the perfect spot.
|JE Saltzberg
|Dinosaur vs. Bedtime
Dinosaur wins most battles, but what will happen when he goes up against bedtime?
|JE Shea
|The King Who Wouldn't Sleep
A clever farmer wins the hand of a princess when he uses a counting activity to make the watchful king fall asleep.
|JE Singleton
|The Goodnight Train
A child's bedtime ritual follows the imaginary journey of a goodnight train's trip to the dreamland station.
|JE Sobel
|Little Owl's Night
Little Owl enjoys a lovely night in the forest visiting his friend the raccoon, listening to the frogs croak and the crickets chirp, and watching the fog that hovers overhead.
|JE Srinivasan
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Brave Cowboy tries to sing his young calf pals to sleep on a dark night, with humorous results.
|JE Thomas
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A pigeon comes up with many reasons why he should not go to bed.
|JE Willems
|The Full Moon at the Napping House
A chirping cricket calms a worried mouse, a prowling cat, and other restless creatures, helping them to finally fall asleep.
|JE Wood
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As Big Bear prepares to hibernate, he keeps thinking he hears Old Man Winter giving him exhausting orders.
|JE Wright
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Mr. Night puts the world to bed and helps children fall asleep.
|JE Yaccarino
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In this lullaby book, countless cozy animals settle down in their beds.
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AAA President Virginia Dominguez is pleased to bring you the first of many Inside the President's Studio podcasts. This month she interviews Monica Heller, AAA Executive Program Chair for the 2010 annual meeting in New Orleans. Monica discusses growing up in Montreal, her path to linguistics, politics in Canada, the representation of Francophones in the Winter Olympics, her research on nationalism, the internationalization of anthropology, the annual meeting, and several other topics.
Introducing "Inside the President's Studio"
Virginia Dominguez
I became an anthropologist because of the first anthropologists I met, the kind of people they seemed to be, and the lives I spotted them leading. The content of their university courses fascinated me, but the impact of those courses did not stop there. I found myself wanting to get to know the instructors as people. They tended to be down-to-earth and to live their lives often a bit "off-center." Their worldliness made me feel at home. Their combination of intensity, warmth, knowledge, insight and frequent social and political critique made them people I genuinely liked and wanted to emulate.
My account is no doubt a familiar one. In teaching, it is often the personal contact that has the most lasting effect. But I mention this here because I remain excited by many of the people in the profession, the way they live their lives and interact with others, and I want to foster a public, visible and active engagement with many of them over the two years of my AAA presidency. I am working to achieve these goals by making fuller and more dynamic use of our online resources.
Inspired by public television's Inside the Actor's Studio, I am initiating "Inside the President's Studio." I seek to interview anthropologists and those who work closely with anthropologists. I want to feature them and some of their passions, ideas, research and activities, especially where they have current and public (or public sphere) implications. The AAA website will have a direct link to these interviews and they will remain interactive on the AAA blog, where readers can offer comments. Some will just be a written set of questions and answers; others will be audio interviews.
I may interview one person, or several people at the same time. Each topic will then be open for discussion on the blog.
I believe this will be a real asset to get to know each other in a fuller way, the way we sometimes get to know our teachers, students, office mates and friends.
Please send me suggestions of people and topics I might pursue. Consider your own passions, and people of all ages and ranks, social backgrounds, areas of research, and national locations both inside and outside the United States. I was Sid Mintz's student back at Yale in the early 1970s. I have shared his focus on people for years—that it is people with ideas and experiences that do things; that it is people we should focus on even when our analysis concerns large-scale social, economic, political, environmental, semiotic and biocultural systems. I am interested in keeping the spotlight on the ideas by focusing on the people who care strongly about them.
I welcome you to this series, and hope you become an active participant in the conversation.
The following is an earlier written version of the interview:
(1)What are you passionate about?
Well, the first thing that comes to mind is chocolate (dark please, and no weirdo adulterations), but that's probably not the kind of thing that you meant. Intellectually, or intellectually-socially (I find it hard to separate the two), I would say that it's the issue of the role that language plays in the construction of social difference and social inequality – generally, but also quite specifically in Canadian society.
(2) How long has this been a passion?
Chocolate? From before I can remember. Might be genetic, might be in utero addiction, might be habitus. The language stuff? A bunch of things. I grew up in Montreal, and just as I was getting old enough to wander around the city on my own, public space became an ethnolinguistic conflict zone between French-speakers and English-speakers, and pretty much every utterance became politically-charged, so that is clearly part of it. But I also come from a family of immigrants and refugees for whom language (and languages) were deeply tied to complicated constraints on life chances, so I was quite explicitly socialized to pay attention to such things. Plus we occupy a social position in Canadian society which doesn't neatly fit the available categories of social organization; we kind of violate conventional and highly salient boundaries, especially in Quebec. So that of course brings out a lot of interactional boundary work which is a bit difficult to ignore.
(3) What makes you mad?
Being lied to. That really pushes my buttons. Stubbornness (except mine, which is always well-founded, of course). Refusal to see someone else's perspective. Any of the typical reasons given for why things should be done only in English (it's more efficient; everyone speaks it anyway; doing things in more than one language costs too much; if we do it in two languages, we'll have to do it in hundreds of languages, and it will never end; it takes up too much space; so sorry, we wish we could, but by accident it so happens that everyone here is monolingual; we don't have a budget for it; we've never done it; what?).
(4) What makes you smile?
Swimming in really excellent water. A new, preferably slightly crazy, idea. A good hug.
(5) What is someone like you doing being a francophone expert or advocate? Heller????
Oh dear, "expert"? "advocate"? But I see what you re trying to get at. So, yes, the name business is part of the not fitting dominant modes of ethnolinguistic categorization, which obviously have profound social reality still. People who, as they say, self-identify as "francophones" (although not so much in Europe, French republicanism and Belgian and Swiss linguistic boundary-crossing obligent) are always asking me for my life story and constructing their own as uninteresting. So the fit is uncomfortable, which is part of what I like about it, although I do regularly blow my stack at the sweetly innocent othering. It's uncomfortable everywhere of course, and in that sense I would say I am more of a student of categorization, boundary and stratification processes in which la francité is a key element than a francophone whatever. Why the focus on la francité canadienne? For the Canada part, I think it is a form of staking a claim to living in, being part of, the society in which, for complicated historical reasons, I was born (despite Canada's famous reluctance to let in German Jews), without giving up the critical distance from nationalism (and especially State nationalism) that comes with the territory of living with the ghosts of Nazism. The francophone part: because of its importance in understanding how ethnolinguistic categories are mobilized to construct class relations in Canada and because it has been the central terrain of production of discourses of nationalism in Canada. Also partly because it is actually easier for me to move in francophone than anglophone circles in many ways. But in many ways my focus really has been on where the boundary is and how to get a handle on it.
(6) Did you ever consider a different profession?
I actually never really expected to be an academic. I have always been interested in doing something concerning the sets of issues I've described here, without necessarily focusing on a particular form that activity might take. Besides being paid, so I don't starve to death. When I was in high school I had thoughts about interpretation and translation, but that was over quickly after I realized that you never get to actually say anything in your own voice, and that a lot of it is women facilitating communication among men, as though we don't do enough of that already. As odd as it might sound, I expected to work for the State in some capacity; might as well be in the belly of the beast, I figure. But also in Canada we – probably naively – still think the State is our friend. I'm attracted to that tension. I do spend a lot of time in my current capacity doing things involving interlocutors from State and paragovernmental agencies, as well as other stakeholders. For example, at the moment I am a member of something called the Commission de suivi de la situation linguistique, a body which advises the Office québécois de la langue française (a Quebec government agency responsible for implementing language legislation) on research. I think that kind of thing is fairly typical for people in my field, especially those of us who live in places where multilingualism is a political issue – I have colleagues in places like Catalunya, for example, whose lives look a lot like mine.
(7) If you were Secretary General of the UN what would you especially want to achieve (or at least work on)?
Staying sane. The challenge right now I think is that we are working with a global system which is based on the nation-State as the key functional unit at a time when most of what is happening is really beyond the reach of such strategies, both because of the growing importance of sites and spaces at the edge of the limits of State control or outside them altogether (from private enterprise to religious institutions to looser networks) and because so much of what happens requires thinking in relational terms beyond simple State-to-State interaction. The UN is based on assumptions that are getting out of date fast.
(8) Why is a Canadian like you so involved in the AAA?
It goes back to how I ended up in graduate school in the U.S. in the first place, which has to do largely with the fact that training in what I wanted to do (and how I wanted to do it) wasn't available anywhere else. (There is a lot to be said about why that was the case, but there is no room for that here.) So I first came to the AAA as a graduate student, presenting my first paper at a large (and terrifying) conference (I forgot to breathe and my hands went numb). Over the years I have come and gone; to be honest, there have been times when the US-centredness of the AAA got annoying, or just failed to speak to my concerns. And it is sometimes a bit weird to be part insider and part outsider. But the fact remains that I always learn something at the meetings, which is sort of a basic criterion. More than that, the so-called "service" dimension has taught me things I would never otherwise have learned, and (notably through the commission on engagement with security and intelligence agencies) made me question some of my most fundamental beliefs. As for the details, I was originally recruited to run for a section position by a section president I really liked and figured I'd enjoy working with (which I did) and one thing led to another. I've been challenged and stimulated by the work I've been offered, and frankly find the people I have been privileged to work with terribly congenial, even when we really disagree. I'm also involved in bodies in Canada and in Europe, so that gives me an opportunity to profit from boundary-crossing, which, as I have said, I really like to do.
(9) Should we just abandon nation-based anthropological societies and establish (or foster) a non-nation-based professional association of anthropologists?
I think it is worth thinking about. Our professional lives still tend to be circumscribed by national boundaries: most funding works that way, and the labour market is still quite constrained by nation-State concerns. I can't even give a talk in the U.S. for a $100 honorarium without filling out a zillion forms and getting the right kind of visa. Never mind spending three hours at the airport getting full-body patdowns. The conversation on the other side has to be pretty good for all that to be worth it – and I think twice even though I'm white, I can speak English, I'm employed and I carry a Canadian passport, so I'm surely in the category of people for whom border-crossing is the least fraught. But sometimes making things – in this case at least transnational, if not actively a-national professional spaces — happen creates its own reality, and anthropology seems like an obvious place to start.
(10) What is something that only your closest friends and loved ones know about you?
I'd make a really great personal shopper.
(11) What is the silliest thing you like to do that you are willing to tell us about?
The Ministry of Silly Walks, but of course, I don't think that is silly at all.


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If you're willing to go one way, you can score big in shoulder season.
So-called repositioning cruises typically sail during the fall and spring, when cruise lines move their ships to better climates (from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean in the fall, for example). These cruises often last longer than standard ones, yet cost up to half as much per day per person. Cruisecompete.com can point you to travel agents who book the trips.
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When the seasons change, rental companies entice travelers to take their RVs to other parts of the U.S. to meet expected demand. This past June, for example, El Monte RV touted an 11-night one-way rental of a 23-foot-long vehicle from Atlanta to Boston for $539—a 70 percent savings (elmonterv.com). Along with El Monte RV, Cruise America is a big player (cruiseamerica.com).
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In the spring, rental agencies shift part of their fleets from Florida to other states, following the tourist migration. One-way rates often start at $10 per day for unlimited mileage on midsize cars—with no drop-off fees. But you won't find these deals by using the standard booking engines; you'll need to look on the car-rental companies' websites (either on the home page or on the "special offers" page). You may need a promo code to claim the discount.


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Next door to the popular Saverino's Italian Deli, the newest and one of the most delicious restaurants has opened up, and it's called Chez Sabine.
The small, charming French-themed restaurant specializes in some of the many delicacies from the great French culinary world with items such as savory and dessert crepes, salads, omelets and a few other great tasty treats.
The restaurant is open for breakfast and lunch only. Owner and chef Sabine Belhacene and her brother Karim Belhacene hail from St. Paul de Vence, a small village in France, and come from a family who owns and operates a hotel and restaurant in the mountains. The recipes are from the Belhacene family and are typical of what they ate while growing up.
Now French food is usually thought of as being rich and heavy, with refined recipes and beautiful plate presentations. In large part, this is true in fine-dining French restaurants but the food served at Chez Sabine is simple, fresh, healthy and oh so good.
Let's start with the La Varoise, a terrific two-egg omelet featuring fresh spinach, mushrooms and tomatoes with mozzarella cheese and served with delicious homemade diced potatoes de Provence and fresh seasonal vegetable and two slices of French bread. The omelet was perfect in every sense and well worth $5.95
Next came the classic Salade Nicoise, $6.95, a beautifully laid out salad consisting of a bed of greens topped with fresh green beans, hard-boiled eggs, white onions, olives, tuna flakes, tomatoes, garlic and fresh basil and served with a tangy vinaigrette dressing with French bread.
This salad was popularized by Julia Child and remains a very tasty salad, although I would have liked to see some anchovies in it, but I know better than to argue with a French chef.
One of their more interesting sandwiches is the Croque Madame, $6.95, a ham and cheese pressed sandwich topped with a poached egg and served with potatoes de Provence and a small salad. The sandwich was good but a little more cheese would have brightened up my day.
From the savory crepes section of the menu came La Crepe de Sabine, $6.95, with turkey, fresh spinach, bell peppers and mozzarella cheese with a fantastic bold and assertive basil and bleu cheese cream cheese sauce served with a small salad with tomatoes. The large freshly made crepe with the above ingredients wrapped in the center of the crepe really brought this dish together and besides, how bad can a dish be with a creamy bleu cheese cream sauce? I really like this crepe.
Another delicious crepe was La Sainte Pauloise, $6.95, a power-packed flavorful crepe with spinach, feta cheese, tomatoes, sauteed onions and olives in a very tasty herb cream sauce. Like the previous crepe, this one was also a winner. I also enjoyed La Ratatouille de Nice Crepe with tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, zucchini and eggplant loaded with French herbs.
The French Soup and Quiche Lorraine are also available and are also very good, however it's their sweet crepes that you really must order. Imagine a fresh mildly sweet crepe gently filled with sliced bananas and Nutella (hazelnut butter) and served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and some whipped cream and topped with powdered sugar and chocolate syrup, or the heavenly Monaco, a crepe filled with a rich and decadent chocolate mousse. Both of the crepes were only $5.95 and were delicious, especially with a nice cup of espresso or latte.
I really love the inviting and relaxing feel of Chez Sabine and the incredible dishes they serve.
Hopefully, soon they will be open for dinner and lucky for us, they are always adding new and exciting dished to the menu.
Who needs to travel to France to enjoy authentic French breakfast and lunch items when we have Sabine Belhacene delighting us right here in Redlands?
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Review - Dual GK104 Kepler Greatness
GTX 690 Specifications
On Thursday May the 3rd at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT, stop by the PC Perspective Live page for an NVIDIA and PC Perspective hosted event surrounding the GeForce GTX 690 graphics card. Ryan Shrout and Tom Petersen will be on hand to talk about the technology, the performance characteristics as well as answer questions from the community from the chat room, twitter, etc. Be sure to catch it all at http://pcper.com/live
Okay, so it's not a surprise to you at all, or if it is, you haven't been paying attention. Today is the first on-sale date and review release for the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 4GB dual-GPU Kepler graphics card that we first announced in late April. This is the dream card any PC gamer out there combining a pair of GTX 680 GK104 GPUs on a single PCB and running them in a single slot SLI configuration and is easily the fastest single card we have ever tested. It also the most expensive reference card we have ever seen with a hefty $999 price tag.
So how does it perform? How about efficiency and power consumption - does the GTX 690 suffer the same problems the GTX 590 did? Can AMD hope to compete with a dual-GPU HD 7990 card in the future? All that and more in our review!
Kepler Architecture Overview
For those of you that may have missed the boat on the GTX 680 launch, the first card to use NVIDIA's new Kepler GPU architecture, you should definitely head over and read my review and analysis of that before heading into the deep-dive on the GTX 690 here today.
Kepler is a 3.54 billion transistor GPU with 1536 CUDA cores / stream processors contained within and even in a single GPU configuration is able produce some impressive PC gaming performance results. The new SMX-based design has some modest differences from Fermi the most dramatic of which is the removal of the "hot clock" - the factor that ran the shaders and twice the clock speed of the rest of the GPU. Now, the entire chip runs at one speed, higher than 1 GHz on the GTX 680.
Each SMX on Kepler now includes 192 CUDA cores as opposed to the 32 cores found in each SM on Fermi - a change that has increased efficiency and performance per watt quite dramatically.
As I said above, there are lot more details on the changes in our GeForce GTX 680 review.
The GeForce GTX 690 Specifications
Many of the details surrounding the GTX 690 have already been revealed by NVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang during a GeForce LAN event in China last week. The card is going to be fast, expensive and is built out of components and materials we haven't seen any graphics card utilize before.
Depsite the high performance level of the card, the GTX 690 isn't much heavier and isn't much longer than the reference GTX 680 card. We'll go over the details surrounding the materials, cooler and output configuration on the next page, but let's take some time just to look and debate the performance specifications.
Continue reading our review of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 dual-Kepler graphics card!!
NVIDIA markets the GTX 690 as having 3072 CUDA cores and 16 SMX units. This is correct but we have to keep in mind that we are looking at two separate GPUs, each with 1536 cores and 8 SMX units to get to that total. Each GPU also sports 128 texture units and 32 ROPs. That is a LOT of processing power on a single graphics card but I have always stated that having multi-GPUs of performance is never as ideal as having the same performance on a single GPU for some pretty obvious reasons. Obviously you can't get a single GPU with this much horsepower so the debate is somewhat altered but don't expect to see 2x the performance of a single GTX 680 with this card - standard SLI rules apply.
The base clock speed is 915 MHz, a drop of 91 MHz (10%) compared to the base clock on the single GPU GTX 680. Back when the GTX 590 was launched with a clock speed of 607 MHz, that was a drop of 27% compared to the clock speed of 772 MHz on the GTX 580 so the result will be performance is likely much closer to "two 680s" than we reached towards "two 580s".
Better still, the Boost Clock of the GTX 690 is 1019 MHz, only 39 MHz (4%) lower than that of the GTX 680. So, in a typical game in a typical scenario, we expect the GTX 690 to run within 4% of the performance of a pair of standard GTX 680 cards running in SLI. NVIDIA was able to accomplish this by binning the GK104 GPUs to find those that offered the best performance efficiency and had the least leakage, able to clock higher while using less power.
Each of the GK104 GPUs will have access to its own 2GB frame buffer running at the amazing 1500 MHz / 6 Gbps data rate, so again we don't expect to see any performancce drop because of this new implementation.
The output configurations are noted here as well and include a set of three dual-link DVI connections and a single mini-DP port. If you are running a Surround configuration you can actually just use all three dual-link DVI connections but if you are only interested in multiple monitor mode, one of the DVI's is disabled - more on that later.
Let's take a closer look at the GTX 690 reference card!!
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I am I the only one out there that thinks this card is to expensive? This is what not making since to me the GTX580 599 when it came out. GTX590 699-799 when it came out. GTX680 499. GTX690 1000.
I am sorry but that cost is way to high for a single video card regardless if it's 2 chips. I hope nvidia falls flat on there face. But has they say there is a lot of stupid people who will buy this card at that price.
Blame AMD for it. They are late with HD 7990.
The reason the price is so high is because IT IS what they say it is: fastest card on the planet. Let me put it simply: 680= $500K Ferrari. 690= million dollar F1. 690 is for those enthusiasts with the wallet.
I think with the 580 and 590, the 590's performance didn't match that of two 580s in SLI while the 690 does match two 680s in SLI. I think from that perspective the price makes some sense. I'm not happy to see the return of the thousand dollar video card, but there are other options too.
Although the Mars 2 was considerably more card than two 580s yet it wasn't twice the price. Then there is the whole issue of it being impossible to buy a Mars card.
I don't see what's wrong with a dual GPU card being $1,000 if it's okay for the single GPU card to be $500. Does that mean you think two single GPU cards for $500 each is okay, but stuffing a single $1,000 card is just "too much"?
Yeah, it's over-priced, but exactly what kind of price point would you plan on hitting with the different offerings they have right now, without severely undercutting the competition, unnecessarily?
Besides, chances are they'll be lower in a few months.
No, your the only one out their that is publicly complaining about the price tag of this card and how broke you are! Lol...calling people idiots that can afford to burn their $$ on this card? Really? I have this card and it smashes all games I load on it with all the setting set to ultra and well my eyes can only pickup 30 fps but believe you me the game play is excellent. Crysis, all settings are set to maximum and I'm not getting any tears or stutter...very smooth game play and in my book well worth the buy. I'll be looking at buying a second card next month why? Because I run x3 monitors and I will be playing 3D surround but the other reason is because I can not because I'm an idiot.
Very awesome.
But every time messages like these pop up my first thought is: 'you wasted a bucketload of cash'.
Ofcourse its entirely up to you, but the funny thing is that in the price segment of 500 and up, you are wasting tons of money on percentiles of performance gain.
Don't kid yourself.
After see this review I'd rather wait for the GTX680 prices to come down to SLI them. I have one already and am not having issues running any of my games at their highest setting on my current monitor's(1600*1200)resolution.
You should honestly get a new monitor- you arent taking advantage of the 680.
But keeping this resolution will extend the life of my card because it will have to push less pixels.
If you wait any longer, you will likely never get a 690 GTX. I highly doubt they will make many of these cards. You can't get a 590 anymore, that's for sure.
I got my GTX 590 two weeks ago :p
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You all seem to be forgetting that the 690 also has twice the vram of a single 680. This will matter if you plan on playing with 3 screens. I have 3 gtx 570 2.5 gig and battlefield 3 is using just under 2 gig vram, and the game is not even maxed out. Fyi 2 680s with 2 gig vram does not add up to 4 gig vram in sli. The system can only utilize the vram on one card. So there you have it, the 690 in my opinion is actually worth more than 2 680, do to the 4 gigs of vram.
It's the same deal on the 690. In the case of normal sli the textures need to be loaded into the memory for both cards and thus the memory is not added together. The same is true for the 690. It has 2gb per core and those same textures need to be loaded into both. And so the memory per core is exactly the same. In the case of these dual gpu cards you always half the memory that it says on the box to give you the accurate reading for the amount of memory that is going to be used.
Would there be any difference between SLI 680's and a single 690? I would think that although the 680's will take more space, that the dedicated slot will improve bandwidth capability (or maybe not because of the sli adapter?).
I am also very curious between the actual pro's and cons performance wise when comparing to this card to 2 680s in SLI. I am no savvy on mulit card setups but on the surface I see the benefits on only using a 2 slot form factor and less power with the 690, but worry a single point of failure with a very complex and hot running component. Would love to know if there are any performance advantages gained by having it on once PCB vs 2 cards in SLI.
I thought someone might ask that - http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/Why-would-you-want-buy-GTX690
The GTX 690 does make better sense than a 680 SLI setup if you are buying right now. If I were in the market though, I'd simply buy a 680, wait a year for the prices to come down, and then buy another. Yeah, I know, you're not getting the insane frame rates right now, but seriously, if you need something faster than a 680 at this time...let's just say I'd love to see the monitor setup!
Unfortunately, I have seen benchmarking that suggestions quad SLI (dual 690s) is actually worse performance than triple SLI or possibly even dual SLI.
The benching was not entirely conclusive as to whether this was a driver limitation, application (game) limitation, or a combination of the two.
Tri and quad SLI are well-known to scale badly, so this is nothing new.
The best scaling is achieved with Dual SLI. Above that, consider upgrading your card a notch instead of adding a third or fourth.
Let alone the issues concerning heat dissipation and power supply. For these last two, the 690 offers a (partial) solution but for the primary argument, the 690 changes nothing about the scalability of quad SLI.
Bjorn3D did a comparison between two GTX 680s and the GTX 690.
Well...so did we...?
In your 3d vision performance investigations with the GTX 690, well, how did you receive those high averages when V-sync is enabled with 3d vision?
Always go with the single gpu option for anyone thinking of going SLI. I have sli 570's right now and it's beautiful when it works but a LOT of games don't properly support it and never will. Until the technology gets better, go for a better single gpu IMO. Maybe not one that costs 1k but still.
I have personally yet to discover the first game that would actually benefit from SLI, that doesn't support SLI setups.
Sure, your retro game collection isn't supported, but who needs an SLI setup for that?
Far Cry 3 was playable in SLI from day one, and I had zero issues with the 310.70/64 drivers. 80-110 fps steady with all possible candy on the screen. And this is with dual GTX 660 even.
In the case of my dual GTX 660 setup, I have a GTX 680 equivalent for 120 euro's less than the cost of a 680. Done deal.
Resolution is the key for what you purchase for graphics cards. If you do not play at 2650 or higher then you are wasting your money on this card. As I play at 5760 x 1080 I am very interested as my current 2 x 580 classifieds actually draw enough power to kick my breaker if my wife turns on the bathroom lights. I DO wish they had more vram on the cards, but for now it works just fine.
compared to sli 680 2way. the two way beats the 690 by about 2-4%. But the 690 runs quieter, cooler and takes about 30-50watts less power.
You will not notice that minor percentage loss in games. Get one from a reputable end card partner and just RMA your 690 if one or both gpu's fail on the card.
I am going from a 580 Classified to the 690 for my 30inch monitor = 2560 x 1600 resolution
You are a graphics monster sir!
I would also reckon that the 690 has less noticeable framedrops or micro stutter than dual 680, no?
Even though currently that is hardly an issue it still doesn't look nice in bench :)
Wow. I'm surprised no one mentioned this yet - Newegg is already sold out of GTX 690 and they marked it up $200! I've posted a few times in response to people complaining about $999.99 price tag on this GTX 690 and that I think it's a great price considering that GTX 680s are currently selling for $550-650 retail. Of course, now newegg goes at $1199.99 with the 690. Thus is supply & demand.
Yeah, the price hikes are a pain in the ass and kind of hit NVIDIA in the face, but there is really nothing they can do about it without getting into some other legal issues.
Why on earth is there a 6990 results, but not single 7970 results? Why is there 7970 CF results, but not a single 7970?
Very strange Ryan.
For our single card comparison graphs, there are only four spots. The GTX 680 is the faster of the two current generation single-GPU solutions, so it seemed more relevant to include IT rather than the HD 7970. If you are still curious about how the HD 7970 compares to the GTX 680, I recommend checking out this article: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-680-2GB-G...
Or even this: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Galaxy-GeForce-GTX-680-2GB-G...
Finally, thanks Ryan for posting 3D Vision performance.
The only problem is, how does it show the 3D FPS over 60 fps? 3D Vision has a FPS cap of 60.
Great review PCPer!
One thing id like to see though, with NVIDIA's Adaptive V-Sync, and/or other Kepler/driver tricks, does the GTX 690 exibit micro-stutter?
BTW I am SO happy that NVIDIA is really taking on the V-Sync problems, (Yay Kepler!), cause thats one of the most annoying artifacts, that and micro-stutter for SLI setups. ^.^
Whether I get two GTX 680s or a GTX 690 will solely depend on the price. If the price is the same I will most likely go for the 690 as it is beautiful and quiet.
Dont forget about your mobo. I've read you need to be running pic-e 3.0 x16 to get full benefit of the 690.
Thanks for the awesome benchmarks PCPer! Been looking for these everywhere. I just bought x3 Asus 27in 3d monitors. I have one 680 and another waiting on order......
Thinking about upgrading to 670 tri-sli, but that would mean mobo upgrade:(
Well, the fact that it is overpriced is still a fact. But, if you can handle money and you can save properly you would be able to actually afford the card. Don't spend money on crap, and learn to save !
if you use one card and have a 3 monitor 3d display would it have a very low fps?
Look, nobody at all. NOBODY needs to buy the top of the line cards. You know why? i've got a 6790 AMD Radeon. and i will have that card for 4 years. After those 4 years. Yes, it might down in performance a little bit. But it's the exact reason Cross-fire was invented. then you just get ANOTHER 6790 which in 4 years will be half of what you purchased it for.
I know by personal studies that ALL cards top of the line over 900 frigging dollars is 150% pointless to buy. there are NO games out there TODAY in the 21st century that NEED that type of card. therefore YES, it (MIGHT) outperform cards IF there were games that required that card. BUT seeing as the only highly intense game at the moment that requires Rendering at a maximum for it's physics and a glowing picture for best performance and gameplay experience.... Is battlefield 3.
Now many can whine and moan. Offf, it's crysis 2. It's not. I played crysis on high setting with my 6 year old 5450Radeon. and i still have it to this day. Don't tell me its the most stressful game. It hasn't been proven. Since battlefield3 came out it has gone under countless awards and rewards. Many awards have been given due to their Intense realistic gameplay. Destruction 2.0 as many like to call it.. Or, it's "Physics 2.0" truthfully named. I'll tell you now, try playing on the office maps in Close quarters and shoot a .50cal down the cubicles and tell me those physics doesn't require rendering up the ass.
Spending 900 dollars on a graphics card that will be useless in 10 years and useful in 50 when battlefield 4000 comes out or whatever might. is Absolutely stupid. Until gamers get the knowledge in their head correctly. They'll never learn, and big companies will continue to make cheap products for big bucks that people can brag about and become smug.
Sorry to all the people buying 6990's and 690GTX cards. But my AMDRadeon6790 can outperform any of those cards
Remember... It matter what MODEL, it matter what YEAR, and it matter if you give a shit to clean it. Take care of something and you won't need to buy new crap for your computer every 3 years because "it got screwed up with dust residue" or the motor died out. Or the circuit board fried. Or i didn't wear an anti-static to fix my computer. or my computer keeps shutting down from overheating. No. your computer shuts down because you don't have enough power distribution cycling through your computer. Multiple rails is bad people.... Do the calculations of how many Watts your computer needs. as well as amps. you'll find it's not too hard. and you really don't need to buy super power house power supplies 1000watts.
i get black screen with this card on deus exhr and it forces me to reboot PC! same with saints 3.
I bought a GEFORCE GTX 650 and it was the worse video card I've ever owned. It crashed left and right with frame errors and NOT DETECTED boots. My last was a RADEON with 0 issues and I always had to resort back to it when my GTX wanted to take a break.
My next purchase will be another Radeon UPgrade. I'm done with Nvidia.
Fast but BUGGY.
another thing is games, not all the games out there will let you play with 2 graphics cards, the 690 is one graphic card with 2 gpu's thus faking out the games and allowing you to play them, which is the main reason i bought one with 3 monitors set to 1920 x 1080


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Statement of Chairman Wellinghoff's on reliability orders
"I want to thank the teams for their hard work on the various reliability items. The Commission now has four years of experience implementing our authority over electric reliability. Based on that experience, the Commission is proposing changes to improve the processes at NERC. When NERC was first certified as the Electric Reliability Organization, the Commission expressed concern about the NERC definition of the term "bulk electric system." Over the last four years, the Commission has gained experience with the practical implications of the NERC definition of bulk electric system and evaluated events that have either caused or contributed to significant bulk electric system disturbances. Based on that information, it is appropriate that we are now reevaluating the definition of "bulk electric system. We are also seeking industry comment before we come to a final decision.
In addition, our experience has raised concerns about NERC's ability, under its current Rules of Procedure, to comply with certain Commission directives. It is appropriate that we reassess NERC's Rules of Procedure when necessary to meet a defined need. However, in directing NERC to revise its Standards Development Process, it is also important that we give NERC discretion to propose modifications that address the concerns identified by the Commission. Further, we will allow industry to comment on NERC's proposal before we come to a final decision on NERC's specific proposed modifications. In this way, we ensure that we are meeting our statutory obligation to protect reliability, but also to allow stakeholder input on how to best meet the concern we identify.
The Commission is also proposing to remand two Reliability Standards for the first time today. We do not use our remand authority lightly, but will do so when necessary to protect system reliability. I believe it is important to note that the Commission is seeking comment on the two proposed remands. This will allow the Commission the opportunity to hear from various interested stakeholders before taking final action.
I believe that the Office of Electric Reliability, Office of General Counsel, and the Office of Enforcement have done a remarkable job on the eleven reliability orders on today's agenda and I thank them for their hard work."
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Rohlig Audio
An exception to the workflow spelled out in Most Content is the Rohlig audio. We digitize the master, create derivatives for Mary Alice Fields, who then listens to them and determines which sections should be omitted, and creates metadata.
When her contribution returns, we create an MP3 for each track specified. Since this cannot be automated, and must be done by hand, these MP3s need to be uploaded with the preliminary MODS and distributed in Acumen. Since little content has to be OCR'd, that will also be handled by Digital Services staff and uploaded with the MODS.
Here's the workflow for getting audio content live.
1) starting on the Share drive, make sure all tiffs are in a Transcripts folder
2) create MP3s and place in an MP3 folder
3) export spreadsheet of completed items if not already done; create MODS files. Place them in a MODS directory inside the Metadata directory
4) log into the libcontent1 server via ssh on commandline. Type in: `cd AUDIO/scripts`. This will change your working directory to the one where the scripts are.
5) run makeJpegs script: type `makeJpegs`. This will:
a) check the MODS, copy them to the server and put them in the AUDIO/MODS directory b) make JPEGS of any transcript tiffs and put them inthe AUDIO/transcripts directory on the server c) OCR tiffs in the transcripts directory, and put the OCR on the server in the OCR directory d) copy the MP3s to the server and put them in the MP3 directory
6) Spot check the output. There should be 2 jpegs for every tiff. One ends in _128, and one in _2048. These correspond to the number of maximum pixels to a side. The one ending in "_128.jpg" is a thumbnail. The one ending in "_2048.jpg" is a large image, the default used in display.
7) run relocate_audio script in AUDIO/scripts directory: type in: `relocate_audio` . This distributes the jpegs, MODS, ocr and mp3s in Acumen. It will delete the local copies, so you can reuse the same directories over and over. This script assumes that jpegs and ocr are transcripts. Watch for errors on the command line.
8) check the upload directories. Any files remaining are problems and were not distributed. Repair and rerun the script.
9) Check the website and make sure everything is hunky dory. :-)
10) Run the moveContent script. If this is a new collection, wait until the files have been indexed and content is viewable online, so there will not be a dead link in the collection list. This script will:
a) check the database for existing info about this collection, and provide you with whatever we already know, so you can correct it with your collection xml file, b) update our database and online collection xml file, if yours is new or changed -- adding the online link to the collection if new c) update or add the icon image if you are providing it for a collection thumbnail d) copy the archival content to the deposits/content directory on the server, for processing into the archive e) compare the copied content with what you have on the share drive; if it uploaded okay, it will delete it on the share drive f) output errors into a file in the output directory
11) Check back after a few hours and look at the output file to verify that there were no problems and that the script completed
12) Check the share drive directories for any files that still remain. If any archival files are still there, rerun moveContent. There may have been a failure in the network connection between the servers. If the files still remain, notify Jody.
13) exit out of secure shell. Good work!!


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Make the pudding according to the package instructions. Add the cinnamon, orange zest, and red pepper flakes before chilling in a large trifle dish. Before serving, sprinkle the top with chopped Candied Orange Peel.
Using a vegetable peeler, cut the orange part of the peel from the stem end of the orange down to the navel end, forming long 3/4 to 1-inch-wide strips. Bring a heavy small saucepan of water to a boil. Add the peels and cook for 1 minute. Drain and then rinse the peels under cold water. Repeat cooking the peels in the saucepan with fresh boiling water and rinsing under cold water 2 more times.
Stir the sugar and 1/2 cup of fresh water in a heavy small saucepan over medium-high heat until the sugar dissolves. Bring to a boil. Add the orange peels and simmer over medium-low heat until tender, about 15 minutes. Using tongs, transfer the peels to a sheet of parchment paper to dry slightly, about 1 hour.


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The other side of the Winter Meetings
There are a couple other sides to the winter meetings that you guys don't usually get to hear about, read about or see, so I figured I'd share them with you this morning. My day started early – 7 a.m. to be exact – as I met with a group of students from Indiana University, my alma mater.
A huge portion of the people at the meetings are young students or people right out of college seeking jobs in baseball. There's a huge job fair in which hundreds of minor league teams (and some big league clubs) hire employees for the upcoming season. Chris Haydock, our assistant director of player development, and I, both went to school at IU and a group of kids who came down asked to meet with us so we gladly spent some time chatting with them about how to crack into the industry.
After that, I had breakfast with two former Dodger colleagues, Tom Seidler and Dan Simon. Tom, whose mother was a co-owner of the Dodgers with the O'Malleys, owns the Visalia Oaks, a minor league team in that town. Dan, who used to design all sorts of merchandise and other things at the Dodgers, now owns his own company called Studio Simon, which is responsible for designing a huge portion of minor league logos, brand identities and the like. Not surprisingly, he actually designed all the logos for the Winter Meetings, too.
Dan has a booth at the trade show here and Tom came to see many of his clients at the trade show, which is another huge portion of what goes on behind the scenes. Every imaginable promotional company, bat maker, bobblehead creator, etc. is here trying to get baseball teams to utilize their services for the coming season.
Anyway, those are two sides of the meetings that rarely get any attention, so I figured you might enjoy hearing about it. Stay tuned for more news later today.
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Ned, it sounds like you've heard us on the NO TO MANNY deal and we're hearing that there is ongoing negotiations for Schmidt. Your re-signing of Saito was also a very wise decision, so I'm going to move on to my next lobbying effort. SIGN GAGNE !!! I know that to do so you have to deal with the Devil himself, Boras, but Gagne is the true spirit of this team. His values, work ethic and leadership are unsurpassed. I know the risk is there that he'll break down, but I hear he's only looking for 1 year at $5 million. If he is able to come back this guy will have something to prove, not only to himself but to the world !!! A true competitor and team leader !! If I was ever going to gamble on one guy coming back, this would be the guy !!! Take the chance; we'll all support you in doing so !!
Go Ned !!
Go Dodgers !!
Hey Josh, I wasn't aware that the Winter Meeting also had an exhibit floor and job fair. I would love to see it !! Can you post some pictures ??
Go Ned !!
Go Dodgers !!
Didn't we give Nomar 1yr @ $6.5 million + incentives after two injury plagued seasons just to see if he could still do it? What's the problem with doing the same for Gagne? I'd be okay with offering him the exact same contract that was given to Nomar, with slightly different incentives, of course.
So, does anyone else like the idea of getting together at pub some time this season to watch a game?
frankjhalstead-Meeting with you to talk about the Dodgers would be great. There are 2 kids at a sports cloths shop that know a lot about the old Dodgers that I talked to a couple of times. Other than that only 1 diehard Redsox fan.
See "The Case For Gagne" on my blog (Words From The Park @ park.mlblogs.com). Basically, I think there are good reasons to believe he will be healthy in 2007 and with Dodger starters not able to pitch deep into games, a strong bullpen is a must. He has tremendous upside and I believe he is worth the risk. If the Dodgers sign Gagne for what he's asking for and you factor in Saito and Broxton's salaries, the Dodgers would be lights out after the 6th inning for less than $7M. Even if Gagne were to get hurt again, you'll still be getting your money's worth with Broxton and Saito. Anyway, some things to think about….
thank you ned coletti….schmidt and wolf should work out very nicely…please dont block loneys progress by signing gonzo though. Loney should have no problem projecting similar if not superior numbers.so what do you think guys enough to take down SD with maddux???? its gonna go right down to the wire this year too just watch.. I just hope they sign wells to come back to be the number 5 starter.
i just heard that we got schmidt, i guess thats good… hopefully more is in store for us..
although if we get a bat ( baldelli, andruw jones etc.) i think the division is ours. we need some more offense, that hole in our lineup is gaping.
My guess is now that we have Schmidt, Penny and Loney are going to Atlanta for Jones !!
Go Ned !!
Go Dodgers !!
I disagree, I don't think we have a hole in our lineup. I think it would be nice to have a solid powr hitter, but I don't think we need one. As I've said before, we didn't really have one in '88. Gibby hit 25 HR and Mike Marshall hit 20, no one else on the team had more than 12. Solid baserunning, good pitching, and contact hitting is what will win this for us. Obviously, we have a couple of trades to make. We have like 8 starters on our roster now. I'd like it if a trade involved a power hitter, but I think we'll be fine if it doesn't.
What would Atlanta want with another LH hitting 1B? They already have the elder LaRoche. I think Penny/Kemp/throw-in SP(i.e. Hendrickson/Tomko) go to ATL if there's a trade to be made there.
I like the three year deal if it really has happened. Don't like 5-6 year deals with high priced pitchers. At least it would get a lot of us to stop hollering about getting a pitcher.John, great point with Gagne. Hadn't thought of a 3 reliever price tag. Would be pretty impressive with Beimel and a couple of others thrown in. I like Kuo on board but think he is now seen as expendable especially in light of his previous arm surgeries. I think Ned can trade for a hitter with his excess pitchers and not sell the farm. Baldelli certainly seemed to be on the rebound in the last couple of months last season. Only 25, decent power and speed. Maybe a trade would give Repko a place to place if he went with a starter. Maybe a three way trade. I know you guys like to stay away from Tampa as our experiences have not been great.
3 years 47M for Schmidt.
Great move Ned.
Word has it the elder LaRoche will wind up with the Angels and perhaps also Marcus Giles.
Hate to give up Loney as 1B is then an issue in a couple of years. Anyway, Ray, hang on to our hat. Things starting to roll. At least away from the Manny talk. Jones will be only 30 in April so good years left yet and he is durable. Only once with less than 154 games played and that was 153 in his rookie season. Go Ned!! Go Dodgers!!
I would dish out Penny and Kemp for Jones, but I do not want to lose Loney. He could be putting up numbers close to Pujols in the next few years
John – if you make that case and Gagne is signed, he owe's Broxton & Saito a nice steak dinner for doing all the work last season 🙂
Josh – nice to hear about the "other" side. I'm a journalism student nearing the end of my education and you can bet that somewhere in MLB is where I'd like to land a job. I've already sent in internship applications with the other "Los Angeles" team. Would have sent some in for the Dodgers of course but I didn't see any opportunities on the job boards.
Where do you recommend somebody like I start when it's time?
Also, I read Sam Walker's Fantasyland last year which introduced me to the winter meetings and their job candidates. A funny look on it if you haven't read it. Great book.
Here comes Schmidt! Alright Ned! I didn't think he's sign before Zito. Rumor was he wanted to see what Barry signed for and then use that as a bargaining tool.
whoo hoo! for the Schmidt signing i also like Andruw Jones rumor if only he'd sign an extantion
From SI: The original thought was that Gagne might have to prove he can pitch by holding an exhibition, but several teams are interested on an incentive-laden contract that could pay him close to $9 million. Still a possibility but he wants to close. Zito apparently after $100 contract. Like Baldelli and he is inexpensive. Marlins looking for pitching.
lets not give up loney, it took james 4 years in the minors to develop into the hitter he is, and were gonna trade him?… i'd rather go with team we have now…your right harold, its starting to take form, i'm still upset at neds refusal to deal with borras
Penny and Kemp to ATL for Andruw Jones??? How does that sound?
I will be looking forward to seeing Schmidt strike out Bonds!!!!! NICE!
I would easily go for the Penny/Kemp for Jones trade. No doubt
Kemp needs 1 more year of patients.
He has a higher ceiling that any rookie we have had in a while, no reason not to give it 6 more months. See if he can shake the Mondesi disease.
I'm not a GM, but I'd sign a Suppan before I trade Penny.
Penny, who might still be a good pitcher just doesn't seem to fit in in LA. Kemp is a trade off. A good promising youngster for a good proven CF who is still young enough for a five year contract. Although I don't really want to trade Kemp, I would in this case or in the case of Baldelli but Tampa wants pitchers. I think we need Loney for 1B backup if Nomar gets hurt or as the guy in two years time. My Mark Grace type of guy.
I'm game for that trade. Sounds worth it to me, however Loney's at a point in his game where he deserves more playing time than he'll get spelling Ethier, Jones, and Nomar. I might just make the Loney trade. If Adam LaRoche is going to that other "Los Angeles" team (said with very sarcastic overtones), I think that that's the only way they'd make the deal. I don't know what the Angels would do with Giles, though. They've got Howie Kendrick, much better hitter, to play 2B.
I saw a report that Gonzo was close to signin with LA.. Under 7 Mill for 1 Year. I don't mind that if it means that LA keeps Penny.. Schmidt, Lowe, Penny, Wolf, and Bills.. that's a strong rotation and Gonzo is a great leaders. Plus, he's going to hit a lot of doubles and that means a lot of runs from Pierre and Furcal
Sounds like Ned wants a lot in place before heading home. Sounds like a big name hitter is not in the plans right now. Sounds like quite a few guys want to come to the Dodgers. Also means fewer prospects are in jeopardy. Go Ned!! Go Dodgers!!
Report: NY listening to offers for AROD.
Just read this on today's "buzz" on ESPN.com:
The Dodgers appear to be in on both Mark Mulder and Jeff Suppan.
Coletti wasn't kidding, if this is true…he's looking at overloading our pitching staff and trading for power. If he lands Schmidt and either of those guys, and Atlanta decides to hang on to LaRoche, he could trade 2 pitchers and a lesser prospect for Andruw, and hold on to Loney. Atlanta needs pitching as much as anyone.
That, my friends, would be a good deal.
I read last night that Jones wants to play in Atlanta in '07 and has veto rights to any trade. It's probably not going to happen…
Ned must plan on trading Penney. He wouldn't take on Schmidt, Mulder or Suppan and then trade them. Expect Tomko or Henrickson could be traded for relief. Also expect Kuo might be on the line. Don't think Billingsley will be. Go Ned!! Go Dodgers!!
Anyone else see the physical similarities between Schmidt and Penny… although with Schmidt minus the gut? Brad Penny could be one of the best ever if he worked off that gut of his. He'd have more stamina and would probably not have to work as hard to hit the same speeds he does now. Too bad he's going to be traded… he might come to this realization soon enough.
I like Schmidt, Penny, Lowe, Wolf and Bills for a starting 5. I don't want to trade Penny.
Toronto's not exactly stacked for starting pitchers either. And their offers keep getting turned down! Penny/Hendrickson/prospect to Toronto for Vernon Wells!! That trade totally gets my vote! Some of these starters have to go in a hurry, we've got too many and they're costing us too much money. I think that going after Supp or Mulder is a bad idea. If we can trade away some of what we've got, then okay. But I think that spending more money on starting pitching to "stockpile" will hurt us in the end.
We just got Schmidt. Great job Ned. Now lets grab Mulder ot Suppan too!
Does anyone know what the payroll is after signing Schmidt?
guess after reading all that you guys have posted i'm the one that's lost. don't know why we sign an 11 game winner for 15+ mil per year but let a 15 game winner go with no real competitive offer and most see it as a good thing. we don't make a competitve offer to gagne and to see if he's a loyal dodger. i feel that the dodgers are missing chances at some pretty good free agents just because ned and boras are in a p—— contest. thank god the babe is dead and not a boras client of we'd miss him too.
sabre3: while Schmidt only had 11 wins last year, you have to remember something. He played for the Giants. His ERA was nearly 2/3rds of a point lower than Maddux's. A pitcher can only keep his team in the ball game. The offense has to take it home. Sometimes a win/loss ratio can heavily depend on "luck".
I'll miss Mad Dog even though he was only here a couple months. I saw him every time he pitched at Dodger stadium and it was truly an honor to be there, but oh well… what can we do? We're probably better off without him.
Also, re: Penny. He had an incredible (Cy Young award worthy) first half, but a terrible second half. If I remember correctly, he was throwing 92-95 before the all star break, and 95-98 after. Maybe he just needs to slow it down a bit?
Penny needs to lose 20 pounds!!! LET'S ALL CALL FOR THAT ON THIS BLOG..
I believe that Ned's plan seems to be coming together. I agree that he seems to be stocking up on pitching to make for a trade. This neither dissappoint nor surprise me. However, I have to be honest, I wouldn't mind this pitching staff taking the field with this lineup. Not one bit.
Go Ned!!
Go Blue!!
Here, here!!! Penny to lose 20 pounds! Actually, I was gonna say 25, but if you feel like 20 is enough that's cool. Losing the weight isn't the only thing that needs to be done, however. He needs to build up his stamina and learn to attack the strike zone more. booty – I think his velocity was more like 94-96 before and 95-98 after, but you're on point with that. He needs to stop pushing pitches and start locating pitches. How many times did he get ahead 0-2 only to give up 3 straight balls and force a fastball down the middle? If he could get his avg pitch count/inning down to around 13-15, we could see a lot more value out of him. I'd love it if he could just pitch 1 CG this year and maybe throw 210 innings. He has very similar stuff to Schmidt's, he just doesn't use it as well. Perhaps, if he stays in LA, Penny will pick up some very valuable tips from Jason.
booty – you're right on point again with the run support statement re: Schmidt. Of his 3 CG last year he actually lost 2. How often does that happen? The win column is a very deceptive statistic. For instance, Woody Williams had more wins than Jason Schmidt and Jake Peavy, but anyone that would argue he's a better pitcher is out of their mind. If a pitcher's team doesn't put him ahead, he can't get the win. I'm kind of with lohmeyet on this, I wouldn't mind this pitching staff taking the field with this lineup. Not at all. Of course, we'll have to do something with our "spare" starters, but our starting 5 now look great to me.
lohmeyet –
i'm with you. no need to trade ANY of our significant pieces at this point, especially if we have hendrickson, hall, tomko, and possibly kuo to package up. we can definitely offer an enticing trade package to a team at this point without trading loney or bills.
anyone else think this might turn out to be another exciting season to be a dodger fan?
I hope they offer the coca cola twelve pack again
you guys here that the Schmidt signing is NOT a done deal yet? any truth to that?
the Cards are giving Schmidt more years & money
Shaping up well puppyhead. Looking good. Still a bit to come I think – relief and perhaps another hitter. If he can't get a fulltime shot with the Dodgers I hope Jason Repko gets a chance to play regularly somewhere. It would seem no significant prospect pieces would have to be traded although a prospect would sweeten the pot. Ned seems to be protecting the farm. Way to go Ned. Go Dodgers!!
This was on espn.com INSIDER.
Free-agent pitcher Jason Schmidt and the Los Angeles Dodgers agreed to a three-year contract worth $47 million.
I'm sure that this is pending a favorable physical.
"you guys here that the Schmidt signing is NOT a done deal yet? any truth to that?"
Yes. He still needs to pass his physical, but since Colletti and the new trainer know all about this guy, it's pretty much a done deal…
Also bluebleeder88, I think only wanted to play on the West Coast. I'm not sure the Cards ever really had a chance with him.
*HE only….that is.
Reports indicate Schmidt has signed with Dodgers.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – A dismal off-season for the Mariners on the pitching front took a turn for the worse here today as Kelso native Jason Schmidt agreed to a three-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The contract is reported to be for $47 million and raises questions about exactly how many years the Mariners were willing to go in bidding for the 33-year-old former San Francisco Giants hurler. It had been felt that Seattle would offer Schmidt a four-year deal despite the fact he turns 34 before next season begins.
Ok, lets look at this from the perspective of the GM, trying to field his 25 man opening day roster (in my opinion) –
1b- Nomar
2b- Kent
SS- Furcal
3b-Betemit (Only 26)
C- Martin
Bench Inf- Martinez (can play all inf)
Bench Inf- Saenz (clutch Righty PH)
Bench Out-Anderson (clutch Lefty PH)
Bench Out-Repko (pinch runner, +defense)
Backup C- Lieberthal
Sp- Schmidt
Sp- Lowe
Sp- Wolf
Sp-Kuo (avg. of 5 regular season starts – 6inn, 2.2runs, 1.4BB, 7SO)
Long Relief/Emergency Starter- Hendrickson (can do emergency starts)
Short Relief- Beimel, Broxton, Saito
Needs- Outfielder, 3 Relief pitchers
Possible if healthy-Werth, Brazoban
Tradeable Pitching- Penny, Hamulack, Houtlon, Osoria, Tomko
Tradeable Fielders- Toby Hall, Loney, Robles,Young, Kemp
If Brazoban is healthy, and we keep Osoria (live arm, young) or Tomko, we only need one more reliever and an outfielder. In my opinion best trade option is Penny, Kemp, and assorted pieces for an outfield bat.
Possible young outfielders we could use-
Jeff Francoeur ATL- .260/29/103
Brad Hawpe COL – .293/22/84
Matt Holliday COL – .326/34/114
Jason Bay PIT – .286/35/109
Carl Crawford TB – .305/18/77
Vernon Wells TOR – .303/32/106
I say we pick up one of these bats, sit on Loney (only 22 i think) for another year (chances of Nomar/Kent getting injured – good) and we'll be pretty much set.
Boy am I going to hear about it tomorrow from my Cardinal fan cronies. I can't wait.
Thank you Ned.
Go Blue!!
Little echoed comments from general manager Ned Colletti that left-handed reliever Joe Beimel would be welcomed back to the club."Joe meant a lot to the club," said Little. "It was unfortunate circumstances he got into. It's something he's learned from. I'm looking forward to having him back on our club."
thanks for the info. peeps i guess that's why they call in the hot stove
On espn.com –
6:05 p.m., from Jerry Crasnick
• Now that the Dodgers have added starters Randy Wolf and Jason Schmidt, they have enough depth in the rotation to trade a starter for a bat. Two baseball people said the Dodgers are shopping right-hander Brad Penny.
atomikkid – Good plan. I really like a young OF and would add Baldelli to that list. Ned still after another pitcher so Penny is more expendable. I just keep thinking if,if,if,if, Penny could only get on track we would have a rather imposing rotation. However, he seems to be an uncomfortable Dodger.
I do wish Robles, Delwyn Young, Repko could find places to play the MLB level. I expect Gonzo will be the other OF for next year.
Beimel got a tattoo to remind him never to drink again. Good enough apology for me 🙂
I'm thinking Joe's incident might not only have saved his career but also given him his life back. I truly hope so. Everyone should have a second chance. Many others have had second chances and some more than that.
There's been serious talk that Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon is set to move to the starting rotation in 2007. This opens up the huge possibility that Eric Gagne will be relieving for the Red Sox next year. I don't like it…
I am enjoying myself reading all the posts this winter. what we want and what we shall receive are two different things. I have learned over the years from one season to the next to be thankfull for what transpires during the winter and root like **** the next year for DODGER BLUE.
Hi 51 – good point. What we want, of course, is different for everyone but what we do is the same – continue to be the best fans in the world when the season starts. I think we are looking better for this season as the kids mature and we have added pitching strength. Going to have good speed too. That's all we need is to get better each year because once you're there anything can happen. Although I love to win, for me the journey is as much fun as the destination. Go Ned!1 Go Dodgers!! Oh yes, I really like that Ned surprises us – Pierre, Wolf, Schmidt.
excellent. always cringed when schmidt pitched against us. had a feeling ned would deliver another ex-giant. now let's go out and get mulder for more pitching depth…. and then get vernon wells. add more speed plus power and an excellent defensive OF. i'm surprised that we have not heard of the possibility of adding miggy tejada to man 3b…
Atomkid, about your list, the only guy on there that would be feasible and/or advisable would be Crawford because he's a corner guy. If you take a CF and put him on the corner it will upset him, and no need for that. Crawford has some good upside, especially since he's so young, and then we get even more speed.
Don't forget the following:
Adam Dunn
Pat Burrell
Marcus Thames (though I think his price may be lower)
Nick Swisher (if we're willing to pay lots of salary, since they are losing Zito)
I would want to know more info on:
Raul Ibanez (fluke this year, or did he become more agressive, or what?)
Bill Hall (would he play in the outfield? If not, could we shop Furcal, maybe to Toronto?)
euhlman, I love your wisdom. I agree that the NY incident will likely save Beimel's career.
Pierre is no Wills, but does this lineup remind anyone else here of the 63 or 65 Dodgers. No power, speed, and clutch hitting. Not that the pitching staffs compare at all, but the in both cases the scales tip towards the hurlers.
Go Ned!!
Go Blue!!
Hey, atomikkid, I was in the middle of writing up almost the very same 25 man and 40 man roster breakdown. Your thoughts are very close to mine. I have to agree with Harold though, Gonzo looks to be the other OF. I like the idea, He's motivated and he'll have something to prove to AZ.
Go Ned !!
Go Dodgers !!
Pats – Crawford is going to be awesome and reports are he is untouchable. Very young yet and his power numbers increase each year. 30-30 someday. Would love to have him. Seems to me Furcal became an excellent player last year once he was totally healthy and will be a Dodger fixture for the duration of his contract. Go Ned!! Go Dodgers!!
lohmeyet –
I think you're right. The team compares pretty well to the mid-60s teams. But you know – there are very few pitching staffs, EVER, which have compared to those. As long as our pitching remains dependable and deep, I definitely see this team being a fine one with speed and defense.
On another note, please, no more talk about trading Furcal…he was the sparkplug last year, and if we trade him, then why did we give up on Izturis? He stays.
Furcal for the duration of his contract, two years I think. I wonder why Pierre is 5, don't think there is anyone in the organization for lead-off is there? Thought I read somewhere that the Pierre compared very favorably with either Wills or Lopes in career stats, think it was Wills. Got to have speed at the top.
i just hope Grady puts Furcal in leadoff…there are reports taht they would bat Pierre first, Martin second and Furcal 3rd…i think that would be a huge mistake.
schmidt pickup okay, but not great. would rather have offered maddux a two year contract. he
will give you close to 200 in.,
with an era in the 3.00's, is great with the bat and the glove
and a guru in the club house.
i mean, isn't he at least better
than wolf, bills and kuo? and worse, yet, he joins the padres.
and why not offer gagne a $5mil, nomar-like contract with a ton of incentives? esp since he has been a dodger his whole career. just hope he goes to the AL.
don't love the gonzalez deal either. why is ned insisting on getting "old" again. what will the OF look like now – gonzo, pierre and nomar?
or maybe ethier in right?
I just got back in town. Did I miss anything? (Just kidding. I've spent the last four hours reading a week's worth of posts and replies). I've got to say, I REALLY like what I am seeing.
This just posted five minutes ago:
More on Gagne: Colletti conceded that free-agent closer Eric Gagne probably will sign elsewhere, but the club attempted to keep the former Cy Young winner with an incentive-laden one-year offer, guaranteeing not $1 million as previously reported, but about $4 million with performance bonuses that could bring his salary up to the $10 million he made last year.
Gagne, who is coming off two operations and a two-inning season, rejected that offer. Scott Boras, Gagne's agent, said on Tuesday that the reliever was very likely to be signed by the end of the Winter Meetings, which is Thursday.
"I would have loved to have Eric Gagne," said Colletti. "He's the first player I heard from when I got the job. I was looking forward to having him pitch and compete [in 2006]. I had seen enough of him from the other side to know how great a closer he is. He was looking forward to a new season. He told me his ideas on personnel. He showed me how much he loved to compete and have the club be successful. Unfortunately, [his season lasted] two innings."
Don't know about you guys… but that sounded fair enough. Why Eric? Why are you leaving? So much for your idea of an "incentive laden contract". As I remember, it was Eric who first thought that would be the best scenario for him… especially since he wanted to remain a Dodger so badly.
Luis Gonzalez will have a chance to prove Arizona wrong in a Dodger uniform. 1 year 7 million dollars, he'll play left field, which moves Ethier/Anderson to right field. This can pretty much end the Manny rumors as if they weren't dead already. Latimes.com has the story.
Good news: Jason Schmidt.
Bad news: Luis Gonzalez.
Gonzo in Blue – I REALLY like that one! He's not a 35+ homerun guy anymore, but we should get at least 20 from him (and a sack full of doubles!).
That sounds like a very fair offer to Gagne. I am very disappointed in him. Probably ought to blame Borat.
Gonzo can bat third. Then Kent and Nomar behind him.
I'm very sad about the Gagne situation, but thanks to some of you I'm growing to understand the decision. The offer seemed more than fair.
I too like the Gonzo signing. As I've written before, I'm not only in favor of keeping the kids, I'm more so a fan of easing them in slowly.
Go Blue!!!
Nice article on espn.com INSIDER. I thought most of you would enjoy reading.
It's tough to call any deal that calls for a player to earn a salary of over $15 million a year a bargain, but the Dodgers' three-year, $47 million deal with Jason Schmidt is one of the better deals of this offseason.
Schmidt was the best of all of the true free-agent starters on the market this winter (since Daisuke Matsuzaka wasn't technically a free agent), and yet was one of the only decent starters willing to accept a deal under four years. He stays in the National League, in the pitcher-friendly NL West, and will play in front of what projects to be very good defensive outfield — important to Schmidt, who's been a flyball pitcher since he first went to San Francisco in 2001. The Dodgers' rotation now reads Schmidt-Derek Lowe-Brad Penny-Randy Wolf-Hong-Chih Kuo, with Chad Billingsley in Triple-A or in a long relief role or as possible trade bait. If the Dodgers do decide to deal for a "now" bat in left field, they can trade Billingsley and one of Andre Ethier or Matt Kemp without hurting their 2007 club.
Dodgers GM Ned Colletti deserves credit for largely limiting his long-term commitments to three years or fewer. (The Juan Pierre contract looks even more odd when viewed in this light.) Not only does it limit the Dodgers' exposure to declines in performance, but it may make these players easier to trade if the club's financial picture should change, since dealing a player with one year left on his contract is easier than dealing a player with three years left.
By signing Schmidt and deleting him from the Giants' rotation, the Dodgers have left one of their divisional rivals with a rotation that contains just two sure things in rising star Matt Cain and mediocre innings-eater Matt Morris, with question marks down the line after that. With all the money the Giants have already spent this offseason, it would be surprising if they didn't go all in and sign one of the major veteran starters left on the market (Barry Zito, Ted Lilly, Jeff Suppan, Gil Meche, etc.).
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