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Just one novice question.
Is this card already officially supported by Adobe in CS5.5 or do I have to wait for CS6?
I guess since you are running benchmarks already there is a way to use it with CS5.5 Premiere and/or AfterEffects.
Is there an simpel way to make CS5.5 products to recognize and use this new card. Or might that ne a problem because
of the new architecture (Kepler instead of Fermi)?
Thank you for your help.
"officially" ? - good question. I just checked myself, and no it is not, however I don't think they have updated this list for a long-time.
Funny though, I go by a deli every day on my way to work, and THEY have the time to update their list, i.e. "soup of the day " LOL.
You would think Adobe could also. Kind of amazing they don't have the manpower to do so, or don't think it's important enough.
This new card works with ver 5.5 though. Officially though - as of today, March 29, 2012, no it doesn't.
and yes, take my post with a smile, I'm joking a little bit here, but in reality, yes, Adobe should be on the ball a little quicker. A note should be there
at least letting people know that the new Nvidia cards "x, y and z" will soon be officially supported.
C.-D. Schulz wrote:
Just one novice question.
Is this card already officially supported by Adobe in CS5.5 or do I have to wait for CS6?
I guess since you are running benchmarks already there is a way to use it with CS5.5 Premiere and/or AfterEffects.
Is there an simpel way to make CS5.5 products to recognize and use this new card. Or might that ne a problem because
of the new architecture (Kepler instead of Fermi)?
Thank you for your help.
Hi Bill,
That's not the results I was expecting to hear, it will be good to see others pipe in on this when they get their cards. I have a feeling though, in different areas this card is going to greatly outshine
your 480. - uh.. let's hope that's the case :-)
Bill Gehrke wrote:
Well my GTX 680 arrived earlier than I guessed and with just one or two runs (and a couple of baseline runs with my GTX 480 the GTX 680 appears to be about 10 seconds faster on the PPBM5.5 MPEG2-DVD encoding test on my 5.0 GHz i7-2600K 32 GB RAM machine. I just did not have enough time this morning to pull the GTX 580. Was it worth $500 more, only time will tell but it sure was worth waiting for as my second machine has need an upgrade. More details later.
My system:
OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Adobe Creative suite 5.5 with latest update
Boot disk intel SSD 160 Gb sata II
I7 980X @ 4119MHz
Gygabyte GA-X58 UDR3
24 Gb Kingston 1600 (9 9 9 27 36)@ 1420 (8 8 8 27 36)
Raid 0 (2 Velociraptor 600x2)
Latest Drivers available
My PPBM5 result with MPE:
With GTX 680
I am happy, if I consider that there is only a first drivers release for GTX 680.
your Results are slower with the 680 and you say your happy. ???
I'm not sure a driver update is going to change those numbers any. PP isn't a video game.
quite similar result, and first driver release.
I am happy because, now, I can use my monitors configuration (dell 27'', samsung 23 '' (3d vision ready) and Acer 3d projector with less pain, using a similar powerfull vga. Maybe I didn't expect so much, and I am confident in superior results with new drivers release.
Jim, in my system I had not ever installed a single game.
I use PP with both cards in the same way and for me, at this point, it is a great result (IMHO)
You must have something wrong I am getting about 10 seconds faster MPEG2-DVD scores over my 480 and 580. What driver are you using? At nVidia they are now at 301.10 whereas the board shipped with 300.83 Incidently this driver is not backward compatible with previous GTX's Of course one thing I never load is the 3D and PhysX drivers.
The other major problem is that your motherboard and CPU cannot take advantage of the PCIe version 3.0 capability. Unfortunately I just found out that my Sandy Bridge motherboard (GA-Z68XP-UD4) will not do PCIe 3.0 either as it is a revision 1.0 board and you need a 1.3 revision and my i7-2600K also is not PCIe 3. capable.
Yes Bill, I saw your results on PPBM5 and I think I have some codec or bios settings problem. Driver is the same (301.10), but maybe, I have to clean better old GTX 580 driver installation.
Setting DDR to 1333 (7 7 7) I have a little better benchmark in MPEG2-DVD and MPE on goes to 4.But this result is equal for both cards (580/680)
I load 3D vision and physX drivers because I need for my job. I don't know if this is a problem for benchmark.
As soon as possible I ' ll try a clean OS install
Fabio, Jim, I believe was saying that Premiere Pro is not a video game, - meaning that videos games are the "apps" as Microsoft now calls them with Windows 8, that are taking full advantage of
these new cards.
I'm getting a really funny suspicion that you can max out the performance of Premiere, with a GTX 580 card. A 10% gain in performance is nothing to write home about, and it may even be
a fluke at this point.
From what I understand, ALL rendering out to a video file is cpu based. So video card would NOT aid in the render times. I have a GTX 470, and either the time line is : RED, Yellow or Green.
that's it. There is no inbetween.
When I load a new video file, it doesn't take x amount of seconds for a time line to turn any of those colors, it just is, - as soon as I load the file. So this tells me, that nothing changes with the 680
video card. Sure it will play video back perhaps a tiny bit smoother, but perhaps maybe not even.
Things are sure complicated at this point.
I'm guessing that the motherboard you are using with your new video card is only PCI 2. This is a bottleneck in the system, and it's 100% sure you are not getting the throughput that the card can
give you, however for actual render time, - again - in theory, if you had NO video card in your computer, render times ( outputting to a video file ) should remain exactly the same. This being I understand
the basics of how Premiere works. Premiere uses 100% CPU power to render a video file out to disk, and the video card does nothing to increase or decrease the times you ge with that rendering to
an output video file.
This stuff is rather confusing.
I am confident in superior results with new drivers release.
I would be surprised, as new driver updates aren't normally geared towards improving compute performance, they're generally tweaks to make specific games run faster or eliminate game errors. And even then the performance increase is usually pretty small, 1% to 5% typically, which is far short of the 300% render performance increase we all wanted to see from a card with 3x the CUDA cores.
David, Jim,
I have put my benchmark data to help people to understand that for "experienced" PP user this card is pretty identical in performance with GTX 580 and maybe lower cards.
For me, pci express bandwidth is not the problem for now
For these reason I am happy of my new card, probabIy I expected still less.
Fabio can you Please tell me the GPU Clockspeed of both GTX.
I will use a GTX 6XX Series OOONLYY If I have PCIX 3.0 slot. "X79"
Memory interface
|CUDA Cores
|Graphics Clock (MHz)
|Processor Clock (MHz)
|Texture Fill Rate (billion / s)
|Memory Clock (MHz)
|Config. standard memory
|Memory interface
|Bandwidth of memory (GB / s)
Specifications GPU
CUDA kernels
Normal clock frequency
Accelerated rate
Texture Fill Rate
Memory specifications
Memory Frequency ( Gbps )
Amount of memory
Memory interface
|256-bit GDDR5
Full bandwidth.
Let see what happen whit a GTX 680 ON an MOBO X79 O.C.
for both cards standard reference clocks.
No overclock for them.
In my opinion, pciex 3.0 will not be the different. for bandwith I think 2.0 is not saturated today.
as a note,
monitoring GPU load with gpu z, it seems GPU is not much used during Premiere pro job (max 66% of load), for both cards.
So you recognize that memory interface is superior in the GTX 580 even in the gtx570.. That means that a GTX570 O.C. 950MHZ will work better than the gtx680... under PCI Express slot.
PCIX3.0 IT IS the big thing. And this is for everyone who is looking what Im writing. PCIX 3.0 dobles bandwidth over PCIX 2.0.
But well as usualy I will show some result wich speak by itself.
Is the GTX 680 on Adobe's official list of supported cards yet ?
Also, I'm curious to know if that card is suitable for After Affects CS5.5. Can it help speed-up previews ?
I'm currently using OpenGL via a 1GB AMD Radeon HD-6770 to keep the previews moving.
It's a bit limiting, as it doesn't allow me to add basic effects such as 'Blur' to as many layers as i'd like.
I have been following the discussion here - to help me decide if I should buy the GTX 680 for rendering video with PP, on a new dedicated X79 (i7 six cores) machine with PCI 3.
This far, it seems like i should not.
Fabio (today) says: "I think that with this movement nvidia (and its partner) it wants to push seriously using of the new graphical cards of the Quadro family, maybe."
This suspicion seems to have support here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-680-review-benchmark,3 161-15.html
So, for now, Quadro seems to me to be a better choise for rendering purposes.
Transcoding: Tom's Hardware benchmark of MPEG2><H.264 seems to have some problems with some software bug and the Espresso application, so I am not sure what degree of truth the result is representing. The better benchmark results for H.264 >< H.264/youtube format transcoding is more convincing.
As for rendering speed, I suppose that this is more a CPU thing, rather dependant on the number of cores. I am not sure though how CPU cores are working against CUDA. So please correct me if I am wrong - it would really make me happy
But if Tom's Hardware review is right in the conclusion that the GTX 680 is in fact deliberately reduced in computing power to not compete with nVidias own Quadro cards, it seems to me that GTX 680 is a dedicated gaming card - not a video rendering card. Unfortunately.
I will continue to follow this thread - hoping that somebody proves me wrong
Happy Eastern!
Do you know what MOBO tomshardware use for this benchmark???
Is that benchmark was made on a MOBO <> X79 ONLY aplay to mobo with PCIex 2.0
You get my point?
Hi Crist OC/PC.
I get your point.
The mobo used was a Gigabyte X79-UD5.
As far as I know this mobo supports direct download of drivers for third generation PCI - as soon as you need it. Though the default to my knowledge is PCI 2.
Total benchmark setup here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-680-review-benchmark,3 161-6.html
Do you have any Idea of the Clockspeed of all this GPU´S?
Something look very wrong to me in that benchmark.
read post on this page, it has a direct link to official cards that are supported.
El_Plates wrote:
Is the GTX 680 on Adobe's official list of supported cards yet ?
rendering a video file to your hard drive has NOTHING to do with the video card.
Crist OC/PC wrote:
Fabio can you Please tell me the GPU Clockspeed of both GTX.
I will use a GTX 6XX Series OOONLYY If I have PCIX 3.0 slot. "X79"
Memory interface
CUDA Cores 512 Graphics Clock (MHz) 772 Processor Clock (MHz) 1544 Texture Fill Rate (billion / s) 49.4
Memory Clock (MHz) 2004 Config. standard memory 1536 MB GDDR5 Memory interface 384-bit Bandwidth of memory (GB / s) 192.4
Specifications GPU
CUDA kernels
Normal clock frequency
Accelerated rate
Texture Fill Rate
Memory specifications
Memory Frequency ( Gbps )
Amount of memory
Memory interface
256-bit GDDR5
Full bandwidth.
Let see what happen whit a GTX 680 ON an MOBO X79 O.C.
read post on this page, it has a direct link to official cards that are supported.
El_Plates wrote:
Is the GTX 680 on Adobe's official list of supported cards yet ?
Not. sot what? like the GTX460, GTX 480, GTX560,80,90 . They work any how.
The Tomshardware benchmark using MediaEspresso 6.5 is using the new NVEnc transcoding engine and not CUDA. It's similar to what Intel introduced in Sandy bridge with Quick Sync. To quote Toms:
"a more purpose-built fixed-function pipeline capable of better performance at substantially lower power use."
It's clear from the reviews that nVidia wanted to build a smaller more power efficient GPU for gaming which is why they compromised on the Compute side of things.
That makes sense as for these consumer cards its gaming performance that is king so why compromise them with a higher manufacturing cost (larger die size) and higher power consumption just to cater for a niche area.
For most home users the other advantage of having a GPU is for video transcoding and the new NVEnc feature will cover that.
Tough luck for MPE users of course but there will surely be consumer versions of the BIG Kepler GPU due around Q3 so you won't be forced to use Quadros to get better CUDA performance.
So David Zeno take video card out and Make render.... .
Who is saying so??? What are you talking about???
Hi eclipse_crow.
Thaks for clarifying things!
Very much appreciated!
present quadros cant even outperform the 570/580.. they certainly will not do so against a 680.
whilst i definately believe the 680 is a crippled card (still dont have one to benchmark so i am talking out my butt for the most part)
until the newer quadros are released this is just speculatation at best/conspiracy theory.
i would not put it past nVidia to do so at all on the other hand if it were that easy they would have already done so.
Cuda is Cuda and a good chunk of that programing has to do with games an area where they have to show best. worstation graphics is at best a small % of the market
I don't understand your comment. The original poster didn't ask if he can hack a card to make-it-work.
He asked if the 680 is "officially supported" Perhaps you shold correctly read the question. No need to be rude.
I directly and accuracty answered the person's question. Your response is no accurate, or "official"
Crist OC/PC wrote:
read post on this page, it has a direct link to official cards that are supported.
El_Plates wrote:
Is the GTX 680 on Adobe's official list of supported cards yet ?
Not. sot what? like the GTX460, GTX 480, GTX560,80,90 . They work any how.
Do you own a copy of Premiere ?
If you did, you would know that Premiere render speeds to an output file are based on your CPU ( a cpu is a computer chip on your motherboard ).
The video card makes no difference. I just assumed you knew Premiere Pro. This forum assumes you know a little bit about Premiere and how it works,
perhaps, read up a bit, and come back later with some intelligent remarks.
Crist OC/PC wrote:
So David Zeno take video card out and Make render.... .
Who is saying so??? What are you talking about???
Actually David, you are wrong. According to Adobe when you export any of these attributes that are a part of your sequence , they are handled & sped up by a CUDA card. They include...
Hi Scott
Thanks for answering.
"Outperform" - do you mean as a graphics card in a PP situation in a dedicated video machine? (Dedicated = as few processes as possible running - just clean OS with no crap + PP + necessary processes = a specialized workstation).
And even if CUDA is "shared" between gaming and workstation graphics, one has little choise i guess - if you want to use PP you have to use the CUDA cores left over by gaming - in for instance the GTX 680. Is this correct?
David. I had never say that GPU is use in render. Im overclocker so Why whas that comment "rendering a video file to your hard drive has NOTHING to do with the video card." Then I did ask you: "Who is saying so??? What are you talking about???"
If I was an arrogant I will make you look like a stupid, but a do respect people and I just believe is a miss understanding.
What I was pointed have to do with Memory interface betwens GPU 580-680 and the relevance of PCIe. 2.0 AND 3.0.
Sorry if I hurt your feeilings.
David Zeno wrote:
Do you own a copy of Premiere ?
If you did, you would know that Premiere render speeds to an output file are based on your CPU ( a cpu is a computer chip on your motherboard ).
The video card makes no difference. I just assumed you knew Premiere Pro. This forum assumes you know a little bit about Premiere and how it works,
perhaps, read up a bit, and come back later with some intelligent remarks.
David, If you knew Premiere you would find your statement is wrong.
Here is a plot from my system showing the GPU (my old GTX 580) usage on a PPBM5 run.
The low level choppy at the front of the GPU plot is during the PPBM5 H.264 encoding and the middle zero level is during the Disk I/O encoding and the end of the plot (91%) is from the MPEG2-DVD encoding. Now Premiere users know that the MainConcept MPEG encoder does not use the GPU BUT the scaling, Pixel Aspect Ratio, Frame Blending, Time Remapping, Fast Color Correction and many other effects are handled by the GPU.
Quadros are not as fast as the 5xx GTX cards
Quadro 4000 is a 460 sorta Quadro 4000 256 cores 89 GB/s ram bandwith / 460 has 336 cores 115BG/s memory bandwidth. the major diff is the Quadros usually have more ram..
Quadro 5000 is a 465 etc
Quadro 6000 is a 470 etc
someone i think Bill make a chart of this..
the only time to buy a quadro card is for solid works definately NOT for adobe anything..
Thanks Scott for this very clear statement.
Now I am back to where I started: Buying the GTX 680 for video rendering. I just had to examine things first, to make sure I did the right thing.
It's a shame that getting a valuation of graphics cards in a video rendering pespective is so difficult - it's mostly about gaming (because of the marketshare, I understand that).
Thank you.
My impression is that some people are looking at the deemphasise in Compute performance in the mid range Kepler GPU in the GTX 680 and extrapolating that this means that nVidia want to force people to buy a Quadro for Compute performance.
Personally I'd wait until the top end Kepler GPU is released before jumping to such a conclusion. They are surely bound to release consumer gaming cards based on the same GPU core which will have plenty of performance but just lack the workstation features of the Quadros; drivers et al.
the other issue with workstation graphics benchmarks is most sites still use Specview perf which very heavily favors quadros and has not been updated with newer versions of the software.
EG: Autocad is now Direct X and tefore no longer needs a quadro..
the needing a quadro has to do with how in bed with nVidia the software manufaturer is (read how much help they need coding Cuda etc)
could also mean they are paid by nvidia one way or another (trying not to say too much)
the only difference is firmware (and usually more ram)
hardware wise they are the same cards GTX vs quadro.
well said enough.. time to shut my yap before i go too far
Actually I'm only 1/2 wrong, that makes you 1/2 wrong also. See, if you create previews, Premiere can use the previews to speed up final export to a video file on your hard drive,
and *that* is 100% cpu based, not GPU. If you had known this, you would have indicated this in your post but you didn't, but now you know. It's a good way to speed up the export,
but only works for certain file types. 1/2 right is better than being wrong though isn't it :-)
lasvideo wrote:
Actually David, you are wrong. According to Adobe when you export any of these attributes that are a part of your sequence , they are handled & sped up by a CUDA card. They include...
- Alpha Adjust
- Basic 3D
- Black & White
- Brightness & Contrast
- Color Balance (RGB)
- Color Pass
- Color Replace
- Crop
- Drop Shadow
- Extract
- Fast Color Corrector
- Feather Edges
- Gamma Correction
- Garbage Matte (4, 8, 16)
- Gaussian Blur
- Horizontal Flip
- Levels
- Luma Corrector
- Luma Curve
- Noise
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- RGB Curves
- RGB Color Corrector
- Sharpen
- Three-way Color Corrector
- Timecode
- Tint
- Track Matte
- Ultra Keyer
- Video Limiter
- Vertical Flip
- Cross Dissolve
- Dip to Black
- Dip to White
- scaling
- deinterlacing
- blending modes
- color space conversions
Like export, creating previews will also use GPU acceleration for effects and other rendering.
hey, sorry to think you were rude. All is good. I think email makes everyone read one thing and think another, email and posts on the Internet never really do give out
the correct "expressions" that somebody may be tying.
I am a happy person, but sometimes I may write stuff that ticks somebody off. I'm not right all the time, and I guess now I'll keep my mouth shut, no more comments from me,
and I'll only ask questions, seems this is a better thing to do :-)
I hope to see some more results from people using the new video cards, and the new GTX 685 specifically when it comes out in August. I just cannot see myself putting out $600
for a video card in a week or 2 weeks, knowing that a "new" Nvidia card is coming ou in August, not a nice game Nvidia is playing. I'd be very upset and disappoint if I just put out big $$ for a video
card, and then find out they have one that is so much faster for only $200 more. When you factor in keeping a graphics card for 2 or 3 or 4 years, $200 is not even worth talking about.
We go out and put $60 of petrol in our automobiles every few days, and don't even think about it.
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What does hurt is the fact that part of the original experience was in the joy of the undiscovered world and its crafting system; those playing the game had no idea what they could craft or create within the game. It seemed as if the possibilities were endless and new creations could be discovered the deeper you dug into the ground, literally. Unfortunately, that joy is gone in the XBLA game. All of the recipes and options are laid out to you from the start; there isn't any need to experiment, you just need to scroll through the list of objects that you can craft and find the required materials.
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Of course, what good is creating a world of your own if you can't share it with your friends. Minecraft allows you to do just that. The game supports up to 4 players, both online and off with split-screen multiplayer (online only for those with standard definition televisions). You can either bring friends directly into your game via invite or leave your world open for other random players to join you; whoever hosts the game is the one who maintains the rights to the created world. This is also something that is a bit of a drawback from the PC version, as there a world could be saved on a server and those partaking in its creation could come and go as they please. I am not sure how they would have accomplished that on the consoles.
Minecraft XBLA, just like the original, is a truly magical experience. It is a very hard experience to describe as it will vary for each individual. If you don't have a creative bone in your body, and don't care to sink time into creating your own world, you will grow bored very (VERY) quickly. If you do have the knack, or even just the urge to create your own world, there is no better way to do it than with this game. It's simple and easy and as I have stated time and time again, limited only by the bounds of your imagination. This game redefines the definition of both sandbox gameplay and the concept of replayability; assuming you put in the time, you won't find a better gameplay value for your dollar. As long as you know what to expect, don't hesitate on picking this one up.
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WoW + BC + WotLK is a good several months of playing for the uninitiated, except maybe those who have active friends at max level and their purpose of buying the game is to get to max level ASAP to join their friends in endgame. Most new people trying to game out for $5 are not like that though. This is a lot of content and will last a true newbie months and months.
Anyway, this is a good opportunity for somebody to try the game out will full features activated for a month on the super cheap. There's a reason this game, despite having a monthly fee, obliterates the closest MMO competitor in subscription numbers. It's a quality, albeit aging, product with a lot of value. If you've always been curious, $5 is a great price to pay to try it out. Then at least you can say you tried it when you go on forums to talk crap about it.
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Direct from Blizzard: " In addition, all World of Warcraft subscribers will now automatically have access to all of the content and features of both The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King, even if they never purchased either expansion, at no additional cost."
So actually you don't even need a battle chest. You could get just the small box of vanilla (original) WoW and you would still have both Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansions. You can find the old vanilla original WoW box for cheap all over. (This Battle Chest comes with a cool book, though, so that's cool.)
90% of people returning to WoW are not new customers. It's been out a very long time.
1-70 has been nerfed so much that 1-70 is now faster than hierlooms used to get you there. Having hierlooms now adays just makes it stupid-easy instead of very easy.
Edit: I just read the rest of your paragraph. WoW/BC/WotLK cannot take several months because of dungeon grinding. Nobody plays those expansions except for leveling, so there is no "stopping" you just keep leveling through it. Exp is so fast now that you dont even need to quest until 85.
I leveled 1-70 without doing more than the starter quests to get off Panda island. I literally grinded dungeons entirely in 2 days, that is how easy it is now adays and it is faster than questing. Leveling is so fast that at some levels you outlevel some dungeons before ever getting the chance to do them via random dungeon finder.
They want you to level fast as possible so you spend money more, and before you know it you gave Blizzard almost $100 buying up all the expansions and a few months gametime.
Now that I think about it, they literally reduced Cata exp in half. 9 mil for one level is now 4.5mil.
(I really need to quit WoW)
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People still play this?
Surfing a 90 FOOT WAVE, Canada's LOCH NESS MONSTER, me kicking butt and more!
$15 a month sounds like a lot, but it's totally worth it.
When I was addicted to Wow, I stopped buying other games, and pretty much stayed in on weekends. Sure, it was bad for my social life, but I saved so much more money.
Nowadays, I go out drinking every weekend and usually spend $50+ at the bars/clubs lol. Ugh.
Can be purchased directly from Blizzard for $5. Digital (play as soon as the download finished) or Boxed.http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=110000044
PS While this is a "PC only" version, but the CD key will work any Mac. Just download the client from Blizzard then enter this key.
I originally played WoW for 3 months around the time the first expansion came out, then I let my sub end. A few months ago Blizzard sent me one of those e-mail offers from playing Diablo 3 and offered me a free digital copy of Wrath of the Lich King and a month of play time.
Now I don't feel so special knowing that anyone can get all of the WoW games that I have for $5 :'(
I didn't ever get too into WoW, although I played it quite a bit. From what I hear it's not really the same at all anymore. I would probably check out Guild Wars 2 before I got back into WoW.
Either way, as was said above, if you start playing wow and don't go out drinking one night a month, you've probably paid for the subscription and then some. For $35 for all expansions (or even for $5 for just this battle chest), WOW is worth it in my book. I suppose YMMV.
side note: if you get this game and have a smart phone, you might be interested in the Mobile Armory with auction house capabilities on it. It is free and can keep you intouch with your guild or help you make some extra gold from auctions. And I strongly recommend an authenticator - free smart phone option if you have a smart phone or they sell for cost ($6.50 last I saw) from blizzard.
There are enough really good free to play MMOs out there, that this is not really a slickdeal. If you've never played WOW before, I'd highly suggest you try those as you'll be able to play more casually and save yourself $180 dollars a year.
WOW remains the top polished MMO, but the others are good enough to justify not spending the money and saving on the sub which is far slicker.
I know this is seen as a good deal however this is false. If you start the free trial of WoW to level 20 (recruit a friend or on your own), you get the first 3 expansions for free. You will just have to buy the last 2 (cataclysm and MoP). My sons girlfriend just recently did this and all she had to buy were the last 2.
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1. Alabama's defense is once again prepping for a two-quarterback system.
2. If Mississippi State can upset Bama on Saturday, it would be the Crimson Tide's first loss to an unranked foe since a 2007 loss to Louisiana-Monroe.
3. The bowl possibilities for Auburn (and everyone else in the SEC) are wide open at the moment.
4. The team that's finished with the most rushing yards has won the last eight Auburn-Georgia games.
5. Arkansas' defense is feeling confident after allowing just 207 yards of offense to South Carolina on Saturday.
6. Current Razorback — and former Tennessee — assistant coach Steve Caldwell isn't talking to the press as he prepares to face his old employer for the first time.
7. Les Miles says he hasn't given a lot of thought to which of his two quarterbacks will play first on Saturday.
8. Freshman punter Brad Wing has had a big impact for LSU.
9. Alabama native and Mississippi State linebacker Brandon Wilson says he was "never a 'Roll Tide, University of Alabama' kind of guy."
10. Dan Mullen says the Tide "deserve all the hype they've gotten this year."
11. Ole Miss offensive coordinator David Lee is impressed by Louisiana Tech's defense.
12. Houston Nutt's biggest problem was getting his signees to campus and then keeping them there.
13. This writer says Rebel fans don't appear to want any part of this year's Egg Bowl with MSU.
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You don't need any equipment, and, as long as you have a floor you can kneel on, you don't even need a yoga mat. Since it's just five minutes, you can even do this in your regular clothes.
Child's pose: Starting in a kneeling position.
Keep your knees together but separate the feet and allow your bottom to rest on the floor. Roll your calves away from your thighs (use your hands) to help you get comfortable.
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Sit back on your heels, shins together, tops of the feet pressing onto the mat. (Place a rolled-up towel between your heels and hips to ease this stretch.)
From here, start to lower to the floor. Your belly will rest on or between your thighs, and your forehead will reach towards the mat. (Place a towel or a yoga block under your forehead if it won't reach the floor.
Stretch the arms alongside the body, with the fingertips facing the toes, to stretch between the shoulder blades.
TIP: Roll your forehead back and forth across the mat with your arms along your sides to help alleviate sinus congestion.
Child's Pose (Long Arms) From child's pose, stretch the arms out in front of you, palms down, to feel a stretch up the length of the back. Keep the forehead on the mat, and keep the back of the neck relaxed.
Child's Pose (Arms to Side) Keep the arms outstretched, palms down on the mat. Take the hands out to the far left side of the mat, feeling the stretch up the right side of the body. (It's OK if the hips lift.)
Breathe here for 30 seconds, then walk your hand to the far right to get a stretch up the left side of the body. Stay for 30 seconds.
Keep the forehead on the mat, and keep the back of the neck relaxed.
Thread the Needle Pose Return to Child's Pose (Long Arms). Come onto your hands and knees. Bring your wrists directly under your shoulders and knees under the hips.
From here, slide the right arm under the left arm, palm up. Let your right ear and cheek rest on the mat, and gaze toward your left. Feel the right shoulder draw closer to the floor. Keep your hips up and your elbow lifting. Let the lower back relax and feel the twist in your spine, in addition to a release in your shoulders, arms, and neck.
Stay here for 30 seconds, then slide the right arm back to center and switch sides. Stay for 30 seconds on the other side.
Puppy Pose (variation) Return to Child's Pose (Long Arms). Lift the hips and come onto the fingertips. Allow the middle of the back to round, and keep very little weight in the fingertips. Let the head hang heavy (you can shake it back and forth a few times), and keep the weight in your shins. Stay here, breathing deeply, for one minute.
TIP: Avoid squeezing the shoulder blades together in this pose. Tuck the chin to the chest to avoid doing so. This pose will help loosen the spine and hydrate the discs.
Optional: Return to either Child's Pose or Child's Pose (Long Arms) for one minute.
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A gym owner who says he's the first openly homosexual candidate to run for Charlottesville City Council says he's been receiving anti-gay messages.
James Halfaday told the Daily Progress one of his fliers was returned Aug. 7 with a disparaging message and his face crossed out. He said he sought legal advice but was told the defaced flier didn't constitute a threat, so there was little he could do.
Halfaday said the flier is the latest in a string of attacks, including a July 31 e-mail accusing him of "promoting perversion" and an insulting Facebook message in May. The Facebook message was configured to make it look like it was sent by Kathy Galvin, one of Halfaday's six opponents in Saturday's Democratic primary, but both campaigns and party officials say Galvin had nothing to do with it.
A letter to Halfaday and Galvin from Charlottesville Democratic Committee co-chairs Tom Vandever and Jim Nix says the message was likely generated "by an unknown third party" with the goal of damaging the campaigns of both candidates. Nix and Vandever urged both campaigns to keep the incident quiet to lessen its impact.
Halfaday said he originally wanted to keep the hate mails quiet because he assumed they would die down and he didn't want to start an "uproar" in the gay and lesbian community. He said he chose to come forward now because he's run a successful campaign despite the negatives, adding that he's not going to be intimidated.
Jonathan Stevens, a Galvin campaign adviser, said he thought the Facebook issue was a "dead letter" a long time ago.
"It was put aside as one of those nasty little things that can happen on the Internet," Stevens said.
Nix said that, to his knowledge, Halfaday is indeed the first openly gay person to run for City Council.
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Are Political Elections Shaping the Future of Israel?
Monday, November 26, 2012
CNN and TAU host joint panel on national elections and US-Israel relations
Jonathan Mann, Prof. Yossi Shain,Dana Weiss, Dr. Yossi Bellinand Dov Weissglass.Photo: Michal Roche-Ben Ami
Just days before Barack Obama won a second term in office, Tel Aviv University and CNN explored the implications with an expert panel on the university campus. Noted journalists, politicians and academics came together to discuss how the outcomes of the US election and the Israeli election slated for January could affect relations between the two countries. They factored in the problem of Iran's nuclear program as well.
The expert panel was moderated by veteran CNN journalist Jonathan Mann and included Prof. Yossi Shain, head of TAU's Abba Eban Program of Diplomacy, Dov Weissglass, Bureau Chief to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, former Minister Yossi Beilin, and journalist Dana Weiss of Israel's Channel 2 News.
In pre-election polls, Israelis showed an overwhelming preference for Mitt Romney, reflecting the belief that he would be a better friend to Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not been shy about his own preference, noted Prof. Shain: "The reason behind the acrimony between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu [...] is because the two did not agree," he said. "Netanyahu's claim, at least in the hearts of Israelis and Republicans and many American Jews, is that there was no commitment with passion" in regards to Obama's attempt to prevent Iran from crossing the atomic threshold.
Now, with Obama set to begin his second term in office, Weissglass wondered whether the decision to support Romney was wise. "[Israel's] dependence on the US is now almost total," he said, adding his belief that if full American pressure is exerted on Iran through sanctions, the Islamic Republic's economy would likely collapse.
Former Minister Beilin had a more positive outlook on the future relationship between the two countries, noting that both parties mentioned Israel numerous times throughout the campaign process, a testament to the importance of the Jewish community in Israel. He also expressed the belief that Israel is aware that Obama will try to push the peace process along, while Romney would have done the opposite, and that Obama's re-election will have greater implications for Israel than the Knesset elections in January.
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In late 2012, the Mono County Sheriff's Office added its newest member to the Mono Narcotics Enforcement Team.
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Keep your locks looking luscious at any age with these must-try tips Read more: Healthy Hair Tips - How to Keep …By Woman's Day Staff
The trick to maintaining healthy hair as you age could be as simple as switching your shampoo. Keep reading for smart solutions and expert tips to keep your tresses gorgeous-and take years off your face. Photo by Thinkstock
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It's normal to shed up to 150 strands of hair a day. But over time you produce less hair and the diameter of the shaft thins as growth slows, explains Dr. Jeni Thomas, principal scientist for P&G Beauty. Instead of thickening products that just bind fibers together, look for something that contains caffeine or panthenol to actually increase the diameter of hair.
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Changing Texture
Straight hair can suddenly turn wavy or vice versa once you're well into adulthood. "Texture changes are the result of genetics, hormone fluctuations or the environment and can be different for everyone," explains Clear Scalp & Hair Therapy dermatologist Francesca Fusco, MD. The easiest way to deal with your new texture? Switch to a shampoo and conditioner designed for your current hair type, or go with one formulated for aging hair.
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Blame it on a decrease of melanin, the pigment responsible for your hair color, explains Thomas. Since pigment also serves as a protective layer, when its production slows down, hair becomes more susceptible to damage. One solution: Color your hair with a product that is ammonia-free. This means it doesn't contain harsh chemicals, says celebrity hairstylist Andre Walker.
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Philadelphia Union came from behind to beat New England Revolution 2-1 with a late clinching goal scored by Jack McInerney in Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference.
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Two calligraphy artists are expecting you on the cultural stage everyday of the festival for demonstrations!
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MOUNT VERNON The next farmers breakfast will be Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 8 a.m. at South Side Diner in Mount Vernon.
Join the group to discuss timely farm topics, question and answer session, and general discussion. This months speaker will be Mark Lybarger. He will discuss changes in RMA, mycotoxins, RMA Unit numbers vs. FSA Farm numbers, basic marketing, and prevent planting to mention a few.
Breakfast will be at the individuals expense and ordered off the menu. Monthly meetings will be held on the third Tuesday of the month at 8 a.m. Representatives from Knox FSA, NRCS, Soil and Water, and OSU Extension will be present.
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Before AMERICAN IDOL, Lee DeWyze worked as a paint store clerk in Mt. Prospect, IL. Kris Allen was a college student from Conway, AR. David Cook tended bar in Blue Springs, MO. Chris Daughtry was a service advisor at a car dealership in Greensboro, NC. Carrie Underwood lived on a farm in Checotah, OK. Jennifer Hudson was a cruise ship performer from Chicago, IL. Kelly Clarkson was a waitress from Dallas, TX. One audition changed the rest of their lives.
Once again, aspiring singers will have the incredible opportunity to audition in cities across the country to become the next AMERICAN IDOL as the No. 1 show on television begins auditions for its milestone 10th season on Saturday, July 17 in Nashville, TN. The search for the next singing superstar will continue in
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In celebration of the momentous 10th anniversary and in an effort to continue to find the best undiscovered talent in the nation, AMERICAN IDOL is expanding the eligibility age range for the first time ever to include hopefuls from 15 to 28 years old. (The previous minimum age requirement was 16.)
"A lot of young, talented people are now seeking careers and representation before they turn 16," said Cecile Frot-Coutaz, executive producer of AMERICAN IDOL. "Lowering the age limit allows us to tap into this talent pool."
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What is white, red or yellow, can be eaten fresh, fried or even raw and is one of the most important staples of the human diet? If you guessed potato, you are right. Grow your own in the garden, planting bag or containers. You can plant small potatoes or pieces of larger potatoes to start new plants. These contain "eyes" that grow into potato plants. You may have seen this happen on potatoes stored in the pantry. Buy certified seed potatoes at garden centers or from garden catalogues. Cut whole or large seed potatoes into smaller pieces containing at least one good "eye". Plant them in a 2-3 inch deep furrow, 10 to 12 inches apart, leaving 24 to 36 inches between the plants. As the plants begin to grow, mound the nearby soil over the tubers until the rows are 4 to 6 inches high. Keep the planting weeded and wait for the harvest. A bit more information: Save space and have some fun by growing your potatoes in a planting bag. Fill the bottom few inches of the bag with potting mix. Set the potato pieces on the mix. Cover with several inches of soil. As the potatoes grow, continue adding a couple of inches of soil at a time until the bag is full. Harvest by dumping the bag and lifting out your potatoes. For more gardening tips, how-to videos, podcasts and more, visit www.melindamyers.com
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A walk through your garden this spring may reveal browning on both needled and broadleaf evergreen trees and shrubs. Winter winds and sun, exposure to deicing salt and record low temperatures are likely the cause. Evergreens continue to lose moisture through their leaves and needles throughout the winter. The winter sun and wind increase moisture loss. Those gardening in areas with frozen soil are likely to see the most damage. But even those in warmer regions may see winter scorch on newly planted or exposed evergreen plants. We can't turn the needles and leaves green, but we can provide proper care to speed recovery. If the branches are pliable and buds plump you should see new growth this spring. Broadleaf evergreens will replace the brown leaves with fresh new growth. Brown needles will eventually drop and the new growth this spring may mask the damage. Wait for warmer weather to see what if any new growth appears. A bit more information: Once plants have started to show signs of new growth, you have a decision to make. Is the plant healthy and attractive enough to nurture and keep? Or, would you be better off starting with a new plant and one better suited to the growing conditions. A difficult decision, but one that can save you time, money and frustration in the long run. For more gardening tips, how-to videos, podcasts and more, visit www.melindamyers.com
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MARLBORO, VERMONT The Men's Chorus of Marlboro College will perform a free concert titled "A Thunderous Wall of Sound" on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Whittemore Theater of Marlboro College. The concert will be about 40 minutes long and will include an eclectic mix of classical pop and traditional folk music. It is being conducted by Marlboro College Senior Eric Hanser.


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Using excerpts from various authors, Sherry Butler encouraged the group to connect with people, to be generous, and to leave a worthwhile mark on others. To sum up, she quoted Noah Webster, who said, "If we work upon marble, it will perish; if on brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, and imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love for our fellow man, we will engrave on those tablets something that will brighten all eternity."
During the Music and Related Arts segment, Debbie Braun shared a recording of the song "What Have I Done?" from the classic hit movie Les Miserables. This song, sung by Daniel Day-Lewis in his award-winning performance as the main character Jean Valjean, tells the story of French ex-con Valjean, who feels extreme hatred until he experiences forgiveness and redemption from the bishop of the small town. According to Mrs. Braun, the sacrificial lessons learned by Valjean can greatly benefit educators as they discover how to trust, to give unconditional love, and to never give up on students of diverse intellectual, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. She ended with Valjean's realization at the end of the film when he says, "To love another person is to see the face of God."
Next, Mrs. Judy Douthitt shared interesting history about the Beta State (Alabama) Biennium of 1948-1950. Speaking of Zora Ellis, an English teacher from Talladega who later served as both a national and international president of Delta Kappa Gamma International, Ms. Douthitt told how Beta State leaders reviewed recommendations made previously at the Milwaukee Convention in creating committees for their own Biennium. As a result, the Pioneer Committee sponsored an Old Textbook Exhibit and requested chapters to send in biographies of teachers who had taught for 35 years or more, which they later had bound together in a volume for historical purposes. In addition, the Program Committee collected chapter yearbooks, which revealed that the most popular items used at chapter programs dealt with teachers' personal lives, service to the public, professional growth, and UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Societal, and Cultural Organization). Finally, the Music Committee encouraged chapters to include music in their programs, which led to Beta State's presenting the first state chorus at a state convention.
For the special program emphasis, Ms. Suzanne Cunningham introduced Dr. Derek Staples, Lead Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, who took his captive audience on a virtual trip to Israel. Dr. Staples, a minister for over 32 years and in his seventh year as pastor of First Baptist Jacksonville, recently led a group of members from his church on a tour of key places throughout Israel. Sigma members viewed slides of the tour group as they visited historical Joppa, then Bathshan, where King Saul was killed, and the notorious Roman Coliseum where Christians of the New Testament were killed for their faith. Other photos revealed scenes of the Sea of Galilee, the city of Capernaum, the Mount of the Beatitudes, and the Jordan River where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist (and where several tour group members decided to be baptized during this historical trip). Dr. Staples' presentation also took DKG members to Elijah's Mount Carmel, Nazareth, Bethlehem with its Church of the Nativity, the Mount of Olives and Garden of Gethsemane, the Dead Sea, Jericho, and Golgotha, or Calvary. After this spectacular "slideshow visit to Israe,l" members took advantage of the brochures left by Dr. Staples in order to find out how they might learn more about a future tour of the Holy Land.
During the regular business session, Secretary Juanita Badgett shared a note of thanks from a local Teacher of the Year who had been awarded a cash award by Sigma Chapter. President Gloria Horton reported on the Beta State Convention, informing members that the Order of the Rose had been awarded to Sigma Chapter; that Marie Hendrix was part of a group recognized for being a member of Delta Kappa Gamma International for 50 years or more; and that Juanita Badgett wowed convention attendees with her solo "When God Unfolds the Rose."
As members gave donations for the Schools for Africa project, Karen Burnham shared briefly about her recent trip to Kenya and Malawi with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Marie Hendrix thanked members for the small toys they previously donated for a medical missionary team in Ecuador that gave comfort to children having surgery for physical deformities.
This "international affair" ended with the singing of the "Delta Kappa Gamma Song.