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I'm a magazine junkie, but I am sorry to say I have only seen the Woman's Wear Daily offshoot W from time to time since it was launched as a broadsheet glossy in 1972.
Like Rolling Stone, the publication eventually shifted over to the more traditional (albeit oversized) magazine format that is still sold on newstands.
As the Abrams book, "W: The First 40 Years" demonstrates, the magazine has sought out and given free rein to some of the most creative photographers of our time.
While most of these spreads are — technically — fashion layouts, they have become magazine movies, with narratives spread out page after page.
Steven Klein has been one of the most innovative participants in this photo/graphic novel-style addition to the magazine, with two much talked-about collaborations with Brad Pitt — a gritty, urban homage to the actor's film "Fight Club" in 1999 (below) and then a beautiful but slightly chilly look back at the early 1960s "Mad Men" era in suburbia, tied in with the 2005 release of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (with Angelina Jolie as the Kennedy era wife).
Klein has a way of guiding celebrities through sexually explicit situations without ever descending into Terry Richardson-style skeeviness. Madonna has been a longtime collaborator and the book includes the sexy spread ashe did in Brazil (above) that added a new boy toy (Jesus Luz) to her stable.
The 2005 Pitt lay-out seems to anticipate the 2011 Terrence Malick film "The Tree of Life" in which the actor also explored the underbelly of American family life.
Pitt's relationship with the magazine resulted in a spread on his interest in architecture, several pages of which are included in "The First 40 Years."
The book includes a wonderful 2007 photo spread by Stephen Shore that shows us Ingmar Bergman's austere retreat on the Swedish island of Faro where he wrote most of his great films.
W has nurtured one of my favorite photographers, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, whose use of oddly lit urban spaces and slightly off-center compositions are reminiscent of the films of master of alienation Michelangelo Antonioni (especially the ones with Monica Vitti).
The Abrams book doesn't just reproduce the pictures, it shows them as they were laid out in W giving us a real sense of the narrative flow they had when they were originally published.
Book designer Joseph Logan uses the large format to pay tribute to the visual wonders of the glossy magazine — he wants us to see how the pictures were used as well as how they hold up as examples of photographic art.
Logan breaks up the giant, slick pages of "The First 40 Years" with smaller inserts — printed on different stock — that are designed to give us a taste of the magazine's gossip columns and the journalistic photo coverage of notable parties and movie premieres over the past four decades.
Columnist Suzy Menkes tells us the story behind Elizabeth Hurley's satisfied look in 2003: "There's her bouncing baby boy, of course, but then there's that other bouncing boy, her boyfriend, Arun Nayar…with a reputation as one of the best lovers on the Euro/Asian social circuit…notorious for keeping a copy of the 'Kama Sutra' next to his bed in Saint Moritz.'
We get glimpses of Alan Carr's 1975 fete/extravaganza for the Ken Russell film "Tommy" on the mezzanine level of the 57th St. subway station in Manhattan, the launch of Yves Saint Laurent's Opium perfume three years later, and, of course, many scenes from Studio 54 in its heyday.
"The First 40 Years" works both as art object and pop culture history.


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Coney Detroit
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: Wayne State University Press
Series: Painted Turtle
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Detroit is the heart of the Coney Nation, as you are about to see. Nowhere else in the world will you find as many coney island restaurants, as many ways to eat coneys, or as many people who love them...
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Michigan is the coney capital of the world. Whether prepared Detroit-style with a beanless chili sauce or a meat topping like they do in Flint and Jackson, coney dogs have ingrained themselves in the...
Lafayette and American Coney Islands
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Metro Detroiters can thank these two side-byside coney islands for sparking the region's love affair with coney dogs. Many of the operators of today's popular coney islands got their training...
Duly's Place
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Its customers still sit on small red stools at a long counter, with a dark brown and tin wall behind them and a tin block ceiling overhead. Duly's is still open twenty-four hours, seven days a week, at the...
Coney Hot Dogs
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pp. 14-19
Their beef and pork hot dogs are not filled with potato starches, mechanically separated turkey, and corn syrup. But what really sets them apart is their natural casing skin, which gives coney dogs that...
Detroit's Coney Chains
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pp. 20-23
In Detroit's suburbs, Leo's Coney Island, Kerby's Koney Island, and National Coney Island are everywhere—in stand-alone locations, tucked inside malls and strip centers, and at the airport and...
Leo's Coney Island
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Pete said, 'Leo's sounds better than Pete's Coney Island,'" Leo Stassinopoulos says. "Nobody knew the company was going to be like this." Pete doesn't seem to mind. The Greek brothers own...
National Coney Island
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pp. 26-27
In 1965, the Greek immigrant launched his first coney island at the Macomb Mall in Roseville, Michigan. Today National Coney Island operates more than twenty-three restaurants, including three at...
Kerby's Koney Island
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One branch of the family owns Kerby's Koney Island, one of metro Detroit's three major coney chains. Four Keros brothers—Tim, Bill, Van, and the late Gus—learned the business at their...
Coney Buns
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Not just any buns will do. They must be made the old-fashioned way, using the sponge dough method for a better taste and smell. And they must be served fresh and warm....
The Coney Mall Pioneer
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The late Anthony "Tony" Keros, the oldest son of the founder of Lafayette Coney Island, is largely responsible for why coney islands exist at many Detroit-area malls today....
Athens Coney Island
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This Royal Oak favorite has been attracting coney lovers since it opened its doors in September 1964. Back then, Athens could seat only a dozen customers. Its dining area consisted of five stools and...
Counter Culture
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It matters not whether the person next to you is a millionaire or a pauper; you might sit next to either at a coney counter. But as you eat, bank account and station do not matter. You are cut from...
Pontiac's Historic Coney Islands
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Back then, thousands of coney fans flocked to the corner of Saginaw and Jackson streets to indulge their passion at Pete's Coney Island, Walt's Original Coney Island, and Angel's Coney...
Flint-Style Coney Dogs
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Many Detroiters on their way up north are surprised when they stop for a coney dog in Flint. These coneys are served with a loose meat topping, not the beanless chili that's...
Jackson Coneys
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Today Jackson is one of the few places that can boast about having two historic coney islands on the same downtown block. Generations of Jackson residents grew up eating...
Lower-Fat Coneys
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We'll spare you the details, but it's not as horrible as you might think. "They're better than Big Macs," says Terry Keros of Kerby's Koney Island. Of course...
Bill's Drive-In
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And the hot dogs are made by Dearborn Sausage using a special recipe from the former Salay Meats in Flint. The taste draws hordes of Michiganders to Bill's...
George's Senate Coney Islands
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The restaurant is located at the Bushwood Golf Club and looks out on the nine-hole course. Every summer it hosts a few small weddings on its patio. George's refers to owner George Dimopoulos. Like...
The Coney Artist
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Joe Gohl has created more than seven paintings of scenes from Lafayette Coney Island, American Coney Island, National Coney Island, Zeff's Coney Island, and others...
Coney Island Lunch
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The restaurant is one of the state's oldest coney islands. According to owner Bill Adams, Greek immigrant Gus Marinos opened Coney Island Lunch in 1915. He sold it in 1933 to another...
Mama Vicki's Coney Islands
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This "over the top" chili may sound like coney heresy, but that's the way it's been done for decades at Coney Island Lunch, now called Mama Vicki's Coney Island. It's one of the oldest...
House of Doggs
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To add some excitement during these slow winter months, the hot dog haven keeps a scorecard of sales of the "Motowns," the Detroit coneys, and its Flint coneys, which it calls...
Beyond the Coney Dog
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Some coney islands have even created their own twists on the coney dog by making them with kielbasas or spicy hot dogs or sausages. And in Dearborn, many coney islands sell halal coney dogs...
Outside Michigan
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But don't dismiss these out-of-state coney dogs. Some of them are a treat, even if they aren't made with Michigan hot dogs. So the next time you're traveling, try to find a coney island. You might...
Detroit Motor City Coney Island
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In downtown Henderson, Nevada, a short drive southeast of the Las Vegas strip, Emanuel "Manny" Sanchez operates Detroit Motor City Coney Island. Don't let the palm trees outside this small...
Neon, Neon in the Night
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pp. 108-111
When other restaurants around them are cold and closed, coney islands are warm, steamy places where you can get a quick bite and people won't hassle you to hurry back out into the...
The Last Bite
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pp. 112-113
But nowhere in the world can match Detroit and Michigan when it comes to coney dogs. With each new decade, demand for these tasty concoctions has grown stronger, as evidenced by the...
You're Never Far from a Coney
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pp. 114-116
How many coney island restaurants are there in the Detroit area? Who knows? Some of the best don't even have "coney island" in their names. And many, many restaurants that serve coneys cannot properly...
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Print-ISBN-13: 9780814335185
Page Count: 136
Illustrations: 160
Publication Year: 2012
Edition: 1
Series Title: Painted Turtle
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Garden meeting this Friday August 7th at Hong Kong.Posted Tuesday, August 4, 2009, at 11:19 AM
This is the white version of bitter melon I bought from evergreenseeds.
We will get the report from Barbara how she liked those Chinese Bitter Melons (or gourds) she took home last meeting. They were white ones but they come in green and various shapes from Evergreen Seeds on the West Coast. http://www.evergreenseeds.com/bitgourbit...
It has turned in to a good season, so we have plant to share and talk about. I'm getting fall plantings i whether I want to or not. Some of my Chinese cabbages and kale have already started to reseed. We ate all of the ones we really like so I will need to use new seed on them, but we like volunteers as well. (except for grass and weeds of course)
The chocolate mint I got from Tami at one of our meetings has really done well. I need to move some up close to the kitchen door so I use it more in teas.
I planted it in a cinder-block opening that divides some garden beds and it is overflowing BIG TIME. Smell great when I brush up against it though, so if my wife gets curious why I am rolling in the garden, back me up! OK?
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Full Auto Ruger 10/22 Manual
Full Auto Ruger 10/22 Manual
The purpose of this manual is to provide the necessary instructions and manufacturing data required for conversion of the Ruger 10-22, semi-automatic carbine, into a selective fire automatic unit.
When modified to the specifications given, the weapon retains its semi-automatic mode of operation and also allows fully automatic functioning by moving the selector lever into the proper position.
The Ruger 10-22 made its debut in 1964, and has become one of the most popular firearms of its type in the world.
These weapons are logical choices for automatic conversion because they have proven themselves to be well made, \/ery rugged, maintain a relatively light weight, and are adaptable to many different sighting arrangements.
The Ruger 10-22 is an economical weapon to purchase, thereby increasing its availability to many persons hampered by the struggling economy. New prices for the standard carbine run in the $90.00 to $110.00 range. Good condition used carbines can be purchased for approximately $45.00 to $75.00.
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* Simplifies global regulations for anyone exporting cosmetics.
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This volume examines regulatory issues of ingredients, manufacturing, and finished products, as well as claim substantiation, packaging, and advertising. A chapter on Chinese regulations will be one of the first about this country to be published in book form.
• Includes a regulatory map of India and China
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• REACH and European Regulatory standards
• "Green chemistry" in relation to cosmetics and regulation
Policy makers, lawyers – anyone working in the formulation, marketing, packaging, and exporting of cosmetic products.


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Another cyberpunk 2020 character from my game.Like all my Cyberpunk 2020 characters, this was drawn on the character sheet itself, in a space about the size of a business card, so you will have to forgive the lack of detail. If you would like to see more of my Cyberpunk 2020 characters, visit my website DATAFORTRESS 2020. My character drawings are scattered over the site, but most of them can be found in the Autumn Blade article, in the section entitled sourcebooks. This character and the other cops can be found in the Article titled NCPD, also under sourcebooks.
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Risi E Bisi
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 25 mins
This makes a nice side to grilled chicken. Recipe courtesy Angela Brassinga and Sunset. If you would like to use leftover rice, add rice to cooked garlic in step 1. Omit broth and add peas and stir until hot.
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 cups long-grain white rice
- 2 1⁄4 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1 1⁄2 cups fresh peas or 1 1⁄2 cups thawed frozen peas
- 1⁄4 cup chopped flat leaf parsley
- fresh ground black pepper
- Put olive oil and butter in a 10-in. frying pan over medium-high heat. Cook until butter melts.
- Add garlic and salt and cook, stirring, until fragrant, 1 to minutes.
- Add rice and cook, stirring, until rice is opaque.
- Add broth, stir and turn heat to high. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer undisturbed while rice absorbs liquid, about 15 minutes (then remove cover to check).
- Remove cover, quickly add peas (leave peas on top, do not stir), and return cover. Take off heat and let sit 5 minutes. Remove cover, add parsley, and fluff with a fork. Serve hot, sprinkled with pepper to taste.
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This is a very good side dish. I used thawed frozen peas. Omitted the parsley cause I didn't have. It was easy to do. We really love this. Thanks Stephanie :) Made for 123 hit wonders.
I served this rice dish at a family get together and everyone enjoyed it immensely. I used frozen peas, vegetable broth and added some coriander to the flat leaf parsley. I'll be making this again very soon. Thanks for great recipe
Very tasty rice! Had this with some fish. Didn't have fresh parsley so used dried - but I am sure it would be even better with fresh!! Thanks cookiedog! :)


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If the Metamorphoses can be said to have a protagonist, Jupiter, the king of heaven, is that protagonist. He is the first god on the scene in Book I as he encounters the impious Lycaon, and he is present at the end of the poem in the Book XV at the deification of Julius Caesar. Jupiter's frequent presence in the poem does not, however, mean that he is a character worthy of respect. In most instances, Ovid portrays Jupiter as foolish, rash, and lustful. Jupiter destroys the world out of anger at one man, he rapes countless women (Io, Europa, Callisto, and Semele, to name a few), and he constantly deceives his wife, Juno, whom he fears. When Jupiter does attempt to do good deeds, he bungles them. When he tries to defend Dis, for example, he tells Ceres that at least her daughter, Proserpina, was raped by a god with good lineage. Ovid's portrayal of Jupiter is sometimes comic and nearly always dark.
Simply because she is Jupiter's wife, Juno is a key figure in the Metamorphoses. Unlike Jupiter, however, she does not make world-changing decisions or seek out extramarital relationships. Her less powerful role means that she does not drive the plot, as Jupiter does. Still, the brutal punishments she metes out are what give the poem much of its spice. She constantly catches her husband sleeping with other women. His exploits enrage her, and she vents her wrath on Jupiter's lovers, revenging herself on Io, Callisto, Europa, and Semele, among others. She also torments the offspring, such as Ino, that these women have by Jupiter. Even those who impede Juno's efforts to catch Jupiter, such as Echo, feel her wrath. Juno never takes revenge in a foolhardy or thoughtless way. She is always cunning and calculating. She may not be as powerful as her husband is, but Juno is an intelligent, fearsome goddess.
Although Orpheus appears in only two Books (X and XI), his presence resonates throughout the work. He is an artist, and the Metamorphoses is a poem preoccupied with the problems of art. Ovid portrays Orpheus as a being who transcends his limitations through art. Orpheus is a flawed man; in a matter of seventy lines, he loses his wife, Eurydice, twice. But when he starts singing, his shortcomings fade in importance. His songs comprise some of the most memorable and beautiful lines in the Metamorphoses. By the end of his song, we can no longer doubt his skill. Ovid creates a metamorphosis in our perception of Orpheus, transforming our pity into appreciation.
Ovid characterizes Apollo as a god of foolish and ineffectual passions. The son of Jupiter and the god of the sun, Apollo is a hothead. His strong emotions often get the best of him, making him look and act foolish. In Book I, his lust for Daphne leads him to caress and kiss her—even after she has been turned into a tree. In Book II, he allows his son, Phaeton, to ride his chariot, which almost destroys the whole world. In the same book, he kills his lover, Coronis, in a fit of fury. He ultimately regrets this murderous act. Apollo is not only tempestuous but also inept. Although he is the god of healing he is not able to help anyone. He fails in his attempt to heal Hyacinthus, his boy lover, and he does nothing to drive away the plague in Rome.
No single character dominates the Metamorphoses' 250 stories from Greek and Roman mythology, legend, and history. Only the narrator, a version of Ovid, unites and controls the narrative. He makes his presence known with attention-getting literary techniques. Often, there is no logical or structural reason why one story precedes or follows another. Rather, the narrator arranges them according to more subtle principles. The unobvious, often surprising structure draws attention to itself, and to its author. We are never allowed to forget that a literary mind has constructed the poem. The narrator also draws the focus to himself by breaking into the narrative and, in the first person, offering his perspective and insights.
In Ovid's version, Perseus does *not* use the head of Medusa to kill the sea monster. After flying up and stabbing it in the shoulder, he then swoops down to a rock and stabs it repeatedly: "His left hand on a ridge, and with his sword stabbed time and time again the monster's groin" (IV.732 -- 33). Immediately after, Andromeda is released and they marry. This conflicts with the analysis, also, that he's not brave or heroic enough to face the creature using his own arms rather than just the Gorgon's head.
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In David Raeburn's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pelias' daughters give him a bunch of gashes with their swords (ll. 338-41), and then Medea deals the final blow by slitting his throat (ll. 348-9).
Aeneas was not the founder of Rome. He founded the city of Lavinium, named after his second wife Lavinia. His prophecy told him that he would found a city where Rome would be later on in time. Rome was founded by Romulus, a descendent of Aeneas.


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by Sergey Romanov , Nikita Nikolaichev
Last December Seagate announced a new generation of hard disk drives aka Barracuda 7200.7, having become the second manufacturer to reach the data density over 50Gbit per square inch. And the first one here was Maxtor, as you all know, which announced this data density in September already. It is very interesting that two last HDD generations from Seagate are only a little over five months away from one another. For various reasons Seagate decided to force the events and prepared the next generation of high performance hard disk drives for desktops (successors to Barracuda ATA V) in a really short period of time. This way the entire product range from Seagate has been slightly rearranged.
After they discontinued the 7200rpm SCSI solutions, Barracuda brand has been fully occupied by ATA HDDs, which automatically eliminated the necessity to us this "ATA" work in the model naming. They have also terminated the U Series family, and 5,400rpm HDDs have been transferred to Barracuda, which resulted into numeric indexes added to the name, such as "7200" and "5400". And the generation name is now indicated with a digit after a point. As a result, the next generation after Barracuda ATA V is called Barracuda 7200.7.
In this case a question arises: and why is the fifth generation followed by the seventh? No, this is no marketing mistake, Seagate really has already had six HDD generations with 7,200rpm spindle rotation speed. The thing is that the very first model of this class (by the way, it was not only the first model from Seagate, but the first model for the entire industry) announced in October 1997, was manufactured under Medalist Pro brand name. Actually, it was the world's first hard drive with fluid dynamic bearings (FDB), which allowed to combine the server spindle rotation speed with an acceptable noise level for a home system.
Only a year and a half later when the competition came into this market segment (and all HDD manufacturers were very eager to start working on the new technologies), Seagate marketing department got a great idea to take advantage of the already well-known in the SCSI market Barracuda brand name and to use it in the ATA market as well. The second generation of 7,200rpm HDDs from Seagate, which appeared in June 1999 was already called Barracuda ATA.
Later Seagate tried to stick to aggressive 6-month cycle for the new product announcements. The third HDD generation came into this world in January 2000. Barracuda ATA II acquired larger buffer increased up to 2MB and Ultra ATA/66 support. In September 2000 they released Barracuda ATA III, which boasted third generation fluid dynamic bearings, almost twice as high data density and new Ultra ATA/100 interface.
Starting with this product family, Seagate gave up the production of three-platter models. Once again the data density and the hard disk drives storage capacity doubled in June 2001 when Seagate launched barracuda ATA IV. This HDD family didn't boast as much of a speed boost as the previous one, but instead brought a revolution in terms of noise parameters (even now that more than two years have passed already, it is still one of the quietest hard drives in the market). After that a period of calm set in. :)
Only a year later, in June 2002, Seagate prepared a replacement for this one of the most successful HDD families. Barracuda ATA V didn't boast any brilliant performance characteristics, didn't turn into a breakthrough in terms of the noise level, but enlarged the Seagate's product range quite noticeably. Barracuda ATA V Plus acquired a larger 8MB buffer, and became the world's first hard drive supporting new SerialATA interface. And now that only 5 months have passed a new HDD generation seems to be coming out. Does it mean that Seagate is coming back to a half-year cycle in terms of new product announcements?
I assume that the reason for this rush with the new generation launch was the recent activity on Maxtor's side. However, you already know that Maxtor's announcement appeared a kind of "paper" one (read our article called Real Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 HDD with 80GB Platters Reviewed! for details), because only one model aka 6E040L0 acquired a high-density platter. This is the eldest hard disk drive from the budget DiamondMax Plus 8 family (see our Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 HDD Family Review. Part I), therefore its arrival didn't affect the market that much. It turned out that the hard drives with 80GB platters from two largest manufacturers started selling at about the same time, in February this year. After a while Seagate started a massive attack along all front-lines offering the customers a rich choice of models featuring four different storage capacities, two different buffer sizes and two types of supported interfaces.
The new family of Seagate's hard disk drives is unusually numerous. It includes 9 models, which are already in mass production. In the table below you can see what the difference between them is:
OEM customers have a much richer choice, actually. In particular they can also order ST80013A model (80GB, 8MB buffer and Ultra ATA interface), and 7 modifications of SerialATA hard disk drives.
Starting with Barracuda ATA V the models with 8MB buffer and ATA interface get a "Plus" word in the name.
In order to get a better idea about how good or bad the new family is, we collected all nine officially manufactured Barracuda 7200.7 models and for a better comparison added the performance results for Barracuda Serial ATA V. To ensure that the results are all easy to read and analyze we will use the following naming legend:
As you see, the hard drives in our today's test session feature different firmware versions, which will allow us to compare different firmware versions with one another. And due to the fact that we have so many testing participants, we will be able to evaluate highly objectively the performance of all Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 HDDs. The matter is that sometimes the review sample you get may not be quite OK, therefore with a big variety of test pieces today we are safe from these "incidents". Moreover, when we will work on further reviews we will already know if the results obtained for this or that Barracuda 7200.7 model suit for comparison with competitors' products, or if we have to retest it anew.
And now let me describe what changes have been introduced in the new Barracuda 7200.7 family.
The case construction which has already stood the test of time in two generations of Barracuda drives, has been inherited by the new 7200.7 family:
It is worth pointing out that Seagate is little by little replacing the polished top cover of the HDD case with the matt one, which seems to be more suitable for better heat take off.
The ever growing data density now allows storing up to 80GB of data on a single platter, that is why the storage capacity of a dual-platter drive can no longer be addressed in a standard LBA mode. Therefore, Seagate followed in Maxtor's, WD's and IBM's footsteps and introduced LBA48 mode support. You can read more about the differences of these two addressing modes in our article called Neptune: Missing Piece of the Maxtor HDDs Evolution.
For some unknown reasons the new Barracuda drives do not support the already traditional acoustics management, although the user's guide for SerialATA models indicates this option. This way, you will not be able to make your drive work faster or quieter, than it was set to during the production stage. But which is even more surprising, Serial ATA Barracuda 7200.7 supports UDMA6 data transfer mode, i.e. it is capable of transferring over 100MB of data per second! Although our express testing showed that the today's only SerialATA controller, which allows achieving such a high speed is the one integrated into Intel's ICH5 South bridge.
I was very much excited about this great feature of the new product and decided to undertake a detailed investigation of the HDD's electronic components, especially since the PCB is no longer hidden behind the metal plate.
The electronic components on the PCB of ATA and SerialATA Barracuda 7200.7 are completely different. The first one uses 10252820 processor from Agere or STMicroelectronics (it turned out that these two manufacturers produce similar processors for Seagate!), while the second one uses 10258581. Having taken a really close look I discovered that the electronics is very similar to what we saw on Barracuda ATA V.
Although the previous generation HDDs used 10226836 and 10238949 processors for ATA and Serial ATA models respectively. Both of them use 16bit SDRAM chips with 6ns cycle time, which indicates a potentially possible data transfer rate of up to 333MB/sec. I wonder how big will the difference be between Barracuda ATA V and the new Barracuda 7200.7?
Our testbed configuration looked as follows:
We used the following benchmarking software:
All drives that support "quiet seek / normal seek" operation modes were switched to the fast mode by means of Hitachi Feature Tool. For WinBench tests, the drives were formatted in FAT32 and NTFS as a single partition with a default cluster size. We used Paragon Partition Manager for FAT32 formatting. The benchmarks were run seven times each; the maximum result was taken for further analysis. The HDDs didn't cool down between the tests. The tests in Intel IOMeter were run in SequentialRead, SequentialWrite, DataBase, WorkStation, FileServer and WebServer patterns. If you are looking for the detailed description of these patterns, please, see our previous articles.
Let's start with the easiest things: the ability to read data sequences. The funny thing is that even this unsophisticated test
Prepared a few surprises for us. Have a look here:
The first thing that catches your eye is the significant lag of Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA when it works with small data blocks. Interestingly enough, but Barracuda Serial ATA V didn't have any problems like that and copes with thie type of read tasks not any worse than its ATA fellows.
The second surprise is the slower performance of 160GB ATA models compared with that of HDDs with lower storage capacity. They run almost evenly fast up to 4KB data blocks and then the elder models with ATA interface slow down (this graph is marked in red on the diagram above) while all the bothers retain the same pace. The only explanation I can think of here is the slower performance in case of 48bit addressing. Actually, Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA doesn't have any problems like that, and the models with different storage capacity perform almost equally fast here.
During sequential writing the HDDs with different firmware show different results. And again we witness barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA being strictly individual: its graph is absolutely unlike the other ones. It boasts better performance with the data blocks over 8KB and with smaller data blocks the leadership belongs to Barracuda Serial ATA V. The red color now indicates the results for firmware version 3.04: they are considerably lower than they are supposed to be. The firmware version 3.06 and 3.54 is already free from this bug.
The maximum performance of Barracuda 7200.7 is more than 30% higher than Barracuda ATA V, which totally corresponds to the data density increase. However, if we look into the specs list, we will see a very strange thing there. The claimed bit density has become only 9% higher according to the specs, and the remaining increase in the storage capacity has been achieved only due to higher per track density! The data in the specs is definitely wrong. By the way, all this reminded me of the times of Barracuda ATA III, it was also much faster than the previous generation models in "raw" read/write speeds.
Now let's compare the average access times. The reading and writing are performed in 8KB blocks with random addresses (these are the particular cases for the DataBase pattern).
What do we see here? And we see a TENDENCY. The average access time demonstrated by the hard disk drives is directly dependent on their "coolness". The cheapest models show the worst access time, the 8MB buffer helps improve the situation a little bit, but Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA drives simply work wonders here! Their access time appeared better than that of the previous generation model with "cut-down" platters (you can read more about the influence of this "cut-down" design in our article called Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 HDD Family Review. Part I). The difference between ATA and SerialATA Barracuda 7200.7 makes about 2ms, which is more than 15%!
I was trying real hard to find a reasonable explanation to this fact. As you probably remember, we have already investigated a similar phenomenon by Western Digital drives and arrived at a very interesting conclusion (read our article called Western Digital WD2500JB HDD: More than Drivezilla?!). However, the surface graphs of the today's testing participants are very similar and the differences lie within the allowed measuring error. Tat is why the assumptions about varying amount of servomarks (to be more exact, sector indicators aka Sid) or different spindle rotation speed do not count. There appear to be not too many variants left:
We checked the first hypothesis by ear. You can hear the noise produced by SerialATA Barracuda 7200.7 during seek operations much better than the noise of its ATA fellow. Moreover, the latter generates some "unstable" and "clear" sound while the SerialATA drive sounds are very "rich" and "persistent", which is very similar to the noise of Quantum drives, so dear to me :) This fact may be a proof of the second point. As for the supposition about the influence of the firmware version, it didn't get any proof this time.
Which of the three points do you like most? I assume that both above described ways contributed to the positioning speed of Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA, because the average access time they demonstrated is beyond all praise and yields a little bit only to some IBM/Hitachi products.
During random writes the gap between ATA and Serial ATA Barracuda 7200.7 drives gets really huge, and Barracuda Serial ATA V proves even faster than all the others. Once again the comparative analysis shows that barracuda 7200.7 have a lot of room for further improvement.
Since all contemporary hard drives cache write requests and perform "background" writing, the average write access time gives us to understand how efficient the lazy write algorithms are. If we divide the average access time during reads by the average access time during writes we will obtain the efficiency coefficient:
Again we observe a very clear system: the HDDs split into several groups. The previous generation of Barracuda drives is notably ahead, having demonstrated relatively efficient lazy writing (compared with the competitors' products). And Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 can hardly boast anything here: if the SerialATA versions still manage to show some acceptable results, the classical modifications suffered a total fiasco, and even a large buffer doesn't save them from failure.
In our Samsung SpinPoint PL40 HDD Review we have already mentioned a strange peculiarity of Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 when some test results contradict each other. Despite pretty low results obtained in this IOMeter benchmark they still perform quite fast in SoundForge test from WinBench 99 test package, which also requires efficient lazy writing. Where does this contradiction come from?
Of course, we don't have any definite answer, but dare suppose that it has to do with the type of oncoming requests. Our experience shows that the latest Seagate Barracuda generations are not optimized for multiple concurrent reads and do not cache the data already read once. In other words, having read a certain data block and transferred it to the PC, Seagate drives immediately forget about it. As a result, any non-sequential data requests interfere with the read ahead algorithms referring to the previous address. No multiple segmentation (although the specs claim it is there), the HDD copes well with only one data stream. If we suppose that the situation is absolutely the same during writing (we didn't have the chnace yet to check this out), then everything becomes absolutely clear.
In SoundForge test the HDD is addressed more or less linearly, and in IOMeter the requests are random. As a result, lazy writing works fine in the first case, and in the second case the buffer is constantly re-associated. Do you know what the consequences of this situation are? The more fragmented gets the data, the lower gets the HDD performance…
The analysis of the HDD performance with different firmware versions by ATA Barracuda 7200.7 drives indicates that the differences between them are minimal.
A special Database pattern allows to study the peculiarities of HDDs firmware in greater detail. The requests size is 8KB. To evaluate the ability of different firmware versions to combine the reads and writes the reads/writes ratio has been changed from 0 to 100%. The measurements are all taken in operations per second.
All Barracuda drives show very smooth graphs, without any splashes or drops, although they still behave very differently. If Serial ATA drives are pretty loyal to the writes, the ATA modifications are completely indifferent to them. Barracuda SerialATA V manages to combine reads and writes very efficiently, while the new generation of Barracuda 7200.7 drives still needs to catch up with it on that.
Now take a look at the results of DataBase pattern from a bit different viewpoint:
Seagate doesn't have any problems with scalability according to the workload, all the drives perform identically close.
As I have already said, the new HDD models are not very skillful in handling the mixed modes, unlike their predecessor. SerialATA Barracuda is over 20% faster than its Parallel ATA counterparts.
With 100% writes the picture turned completely different: Barracuda Serial ATA V is steadily ahead of its younger fellows.
Well, the first benchmarks results appeared pretty unexpected. Although the electronics of Barracuda 7200.7 is very similar to that of Barracuda ATA V, the latter outperforms the newcomer almost in all parameters. Having boosted up the linear speed (it is the first case lately when the read/write speed grew up as much as the data density) and improved the average access time, Seagate had to sacrifice other HDD features. It's a great pity, by the way…
Now that we have already taken a close look at the HDDs performance in DataBase pattern, all other patterns shouldn't offer us any new surprises.
In the WorkStation pattern the leadership belongs to SerialATA models, which dash far ahead of the others. The 8MB buffer of Barracuda 7200.7 Plus hardly tells on the results here.
SATA models are again more preferable for FileServer type of workload, and the large cache-buffer doesn't affect the performance at all.
Since there are almost no write requests in a classical WebServer pattern, everything depends on the data seek speed. The slight fluctuations in the lower part of the diagram are most likely to be caused by some chance factors.
With the help of ZD WinBench99 we can evaluate the performance of our testing participants in a few typical applications. Even though some of these applications have already become outdated and the data volumes involved into the testing process are too small for today, the results obtained in WinBench tests are still pretty illustrative and useful.
At first let's compare the results obtained in FAT32 file system.
In Business Winmark the HDDs ran very close to one another and their results fully correspond to their positioning in the market. Larger buffer allows improving the performance quite tangibly. Barracuda 7200.7 Plus most probably managed to defeat Barracuda 7200.,7 SerialATA because of the differences in controller drivers for Promise Ultra133/TX2 and SATA150/TX2.
High-End WinMark showed a slightly different picture. The previous generation represented by Barracuda SATA V rolls back to almost the very last position, and the performance boost granted by a larger cache-buffer makes 9%, which is not as high as we expected, actually. Let's analyze some discrete results to find answers to all these questions.
Hm, this is nice. In AVS the results of all HDDs look like a bunch of neat stairs, though you still can distinguish between the groups. It looks a sif a lot of factors are involved in the game here. ATA HDDs with 8MB buffer are ahead of all, outperforming the models with 2MB buffer by up to 18% in some cases. SerialATA Barracuda drives of both generations perform very closely, which once again proves how little the "raw" speed (the data transfer rate to and from the platters) matters for the actual performance of the drives.
In FrontPage the buffer size doesn't matter at all. In fact, I do not see any tendencies here: it seems to be more of a controller test rather than a HDD test.
Microstation indicated that ATA models with 8MB buffer do much better here. They outpaced their 2MB counterparts by more than 22%. SerialATA models turned out to be in between.
And for Photoshop the physical features of the drives are much more important. Therefore, the laurels were won by the models with the shortest average access time, and Barracuda ATA V lost because of its relatively low data transfer rate to and from the platters.
Another Adobe product is also very dependent on the read and write speeds, although the buffer size is also important here.
Well, it seems to me that the SoundForge results are primarily dependent on the stars. At least I have no reasonable explanation of the 20% performance difference between almost identical Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA drives. Nevertheless, I have every right to state that Serial ATA drives are the winners here. I would also like to stress the almost 20% advantage of the Barracuda 7200.7 Plus solution over the models with 2MB buffer.
And in conclusion we will look at Visual C++ test, which clearly indicated: Barracuda 7200.7 SerialATA is a little faster than Barracuda 7200.7 Plus. At the same time, these two hard drives outperformed their counterparts with smaller cache-buffer by about 12%. The previous generation hard disk drives are again in the very end of this race.
Now let's pass over to the tests in a more advanced file system: NTFS.
In NTFS the results of High-End WinMark appeared even more systematic, and SerialATA HDDs managed to surpass their ATA fellows. I would like ton especially praise the previous Barracuda model, which managed not only to improve its performance in all applications, but also to win in two of them: Business WinMark and FrontPage.
Here the indisputable victory belongs to SerialATA. Judging by the closeness of all SerialATA HDDs results, I dare assume that they owe this victory to the controller. Anyway, only the models with 2MB buffer appeared slower here.
Another victory of SerialATA drives.
ATA hard disk drives manage to retain leadership here with very much effort. If it hadn't been for the really heroic performance of the ST120026A model, Barracuda Serial ATA V would have got one more point :)
The situation has hardly changed in Photoshop compared to what we have already seen in FAT32 tests. Serial ATA is still ahead. Though on the whole, the results look better organized this time.
The same situation can be observed in Premiere. Serial ATA drives are only a few percents slower than their ATA analogues with 8MB buffer. Just like in FAT32 Barracuda ATA V loses to Barracuda 7200.7 in both Adobe applications. It is probably because of the low read/write speed…
In NTFS the SoundForge results are no longer so complicated. It is interesting that all the drives retained the ranks they won in FAT32 except for Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA 80GB. Well, it seems that SoundForge results do have a certain system behind them, but I am still unable to perceive the idea. :)
Well, the situation here remained the same as in FAT32. Only barracuda 7200.7 Plus 80GB failed to show good results. SerialATA HDDs demonstrate very clear advantage here.
Let's sum up a few things:
The HDD makers pay more and more attention to streaming operations lately. Copying files is one of them. With the help of our specially designed FC-Test utility we test the HDDs performance during file copying for different file sets. The results of FC-Test program are always very illustrative. So, let's have a look at our today's testing participants and their performance in FC-Test:
First of all we create files on the HDDs. These results allow us to evaluate the write speed of the testing participants. Since the results appeared the same for both file systems, we will offer you only one diagram:
Well, this is very interesting, I should say! It is not at all surprising that a model with 8MB buffer outperformed a model with 2MB buffer, however Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA turned out much faster than even Barracuda 7200.7 Plus! And it hardly yields at all to the last Barracuda Serial ATA V even though its data transfer rate to and from the platter is not that high! FC-Test clearly illustrates the advantage of Serial ATA HDDs, which we saw in Intel IOMeter lazy write benchmarks.
During regular reading the firmware peculiarities and buffer size usually do not affect the result. The determinative role in this case play the physical read speed for large files and fast electronics for small files.
This is exactly what happened this time: all the HDDs are based on the same platters that is why we see the difference only in mixed patterns, where the average file size is not too big or too small. In these patterns (namely, Install and MP3), Serial ATA HDDs are defeated by the classical ATA ones. However, there is nothing to be surprised at, if you remember the results of Intel IOMeter test, namely for SequentialRead on small data blocks.
However, in NTFS file system Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA managed to regain their credibility. Again we see that the controller or/and the HDD are optimized for professional file system.
Now let's pass over to the tastiest bit: to actual copying. We will start with copying the files within one partition.
As we have expected, Serial ATA HDDs managed to use their trump: more efficient lazy write algorithms. However, Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA is not that immensely ahead here, while the larger cache-buffer of Barracuda 7200.7 Plus ensured an almost 30% copy speed boost. Despite the lower physical speed, Barracuda Serial ATA V easily outperformed Barracuda 7200.7 with a 2MB buffer.
During file copying into another partition, the data seek speed becomes more important that is why the advantage of Barracuda Serial ATA grows bigger. However, this success is nothing compared with the results obtained by HDDs with larger buffer. This time the copy speed of HDDs with 8MB buffer grew 50% higher!
If you remember, the results of Intel IOMeter tests showed that the results of Barracuda 7200.7 are not always better than those of Barracuda ATA V. In some cases the Barracuda Serial ATA drive got slightly ahead of Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA despite the faster read/write speeds and heads positioning speed of the latter. Therefore, I dare conclude that Barracuda 7200.7 didn't acquire any of the firmware enhancements made to the Barracuda ATA V during the product "fine tuning" stage.
This is probably the reason why the newcomer didn't manage to significantly outperform the predecessor in some real tasks, such as copying, for instance. I sincerely hope that the situation can be improved on the software level by reflashing the firmware version. By the way, ATA Barracuda 7200.7 models achieved the best results with firmware version 3.06. firmware version 3.54 also proved very efficient.
Now that you took a closer look at the features and performance peculiarities of the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 HDD family, I would like to share my subjective opinion about the product and draw some conclusions.
I would like to point out that this Seagate family doesn't boast that revolutionary quietness, which was a big advantage of Barracuda ATA IV hard drives. The rotation noises as well as the heads positioning noises have become much more audible and I can't find a suitable explanation for that. Nevertheless, Barracuda 7200.7 don't yield to any of the competitors in the noise level. Only its Serial ATA modifications are somewhat louder. But this is not at all surprising: fast seek cannot be noiseless. I was a little bit upset about no acoustics management options, though.
As for the heat dissipation of contemporary high-speed HDDs, there is not much to say here. If the single-platter Barracuda 7200.7 HDDs remain a little warm during work, then the larger models should better get some extra cooling. Of course, they are not as hot as irons, but even a little extra case ventilation will significantly reduce the risks of losing an expensive HDD and priceless data.
At first, when I just got acquainted with the first Barracuda 7200.7 models, I didn't like them that much. Their performance left much to be desired, their reliability was very doubtful, and noise level - far from perfect. As I was working on this review, I couldn't help wondering at what I saw. I was mostly impressed by the average access time of barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA. Moreover, their more advanced firmware (featuring pretty efficient lazy writing) makes me suppose that there are two different Seagate developer teams working on ATA and Serial ATA drives, because these drives appeared so different. The higher price of Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA is absolutely justified, and should be considered a good option for a serious system.
As for classical Barracuda 7200.7 models, these are just good products. Since the launch Seagate has been working hard on the firmware, so that it could be competitive. They managed to do it more or less well, but the drive still has no tidbit about it.
P.S.: When we were working on this article, we managed to get hold of Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA with a new firmware version. The results we obtained were really surprising. Stay tuned! :)


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So How Big Was The DC Tea Party?
The Daily Mail (UK) carries the story about the Tea Party in Washington DC:
Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
Now perhaps the count is a bit high – Michelle Malkin quotes Parks and Recreation estimate 1.2 million and DC Police 1.5 million.
Other outlets, such as the Washington Post, NY Times, ABC, MSNBC and AP describe the crowd in the thousands or tens of thousands. Fox and CBS used the AP report. CNN merely said the crowd stretched "for blocks" although one of the pictures accompanying the story claimed "thousands" had attended the rally. And ABC has since sent an email out saying it never reported 1.5 million as was misattributed to them, but think the crowd size was only "60,000 to 70,000" based on a report by "the Washington, D.C., fire department."
It was that email that got me interested in the number because it seemed ABC was really upset about being attributed with saying the rally as big as 1.5 million. And frankly, and I may be wrong, but I've never heard the DC fire department quoted previously in crowd estimates. Parks and Recreation? Yes. DC Metro Police? Yes. Fire Department? Uh, no.
Of course you can see where I'm headed with this – look at the line up of those reporting "in the thousands". Look at those reporting in the "millions".
I'm just interested to see how this all shakes out, because while I'm not at all good at crowd estimates, the few pics I've seen show a pretty large gathering considering some of the protests I've seen documented in DC. Perhaps it's just too early in the news cycle for there to be enough information to make a guess beyond "thousands" or "tens of thousands", but when an overseas newspaper is talking about "2 million", it makes you wonder why they're comfortable with that number and our domestic outlets aren't.
39 Responses to So How Big Was The DC Tea Party?
You take what you can get. I'm surprised that MiniTru reported that this event happened at all.
On a related note, I've been thinking about this for some time: what to do about MiniTru? Here we have a large, powerful organization directly responsible for informing the public and therefore shaping public opinion. It is clearly and obviously biased. It is also effectively unaccountable to the very public it allegedly serves.
How can this problem be solved without trampling all over the First Amendment, which I in no way would ever suggest?
We do what we've been doing all along: Route information around these clowns as best we can. What did Fox report?
Retardo – We do what we've been doing all along: Route information around these clowns as best we can.
While I agree that this is the obvious solution, where does it lead us? Either Fox and the handful of "conservative" media outlets will eventually become the only game in town (which is undesirable), or else the country will become increasingly balkanized between groups who don't even share the same reality, much less the same philosophy. Consider the WoT: how can you have a rational discussion about how to keep our country safe from terrorists with people believe that 9-11 was an inside job? It's the same as having a discussion about how to reach the New World with people who think that the earth is flat, or how to get to the Moon with people who believe that heavier-than-air flight is utterly impossible.
Don – Well, we can watch their ratings drop, and watch them go out of buisness.
We can hope… sort of. Quite aside from the fact that I think that the left will NEVER let their propaganda outlets "go out of business" (we've already seen rumblings of newspaper "bailouts", and Air America wouldn't have last six months without big-time donors picking up the tab), what would replace them? No matter how much outlets like the AP, the big networks, the major papers, etc, twist, suppress, and at times fabricate the facts, we rely on them to know at least SOMETHING of what goes on in the world. Blogs like this one routinely cite MiniTru reports NOT because they are unimpeachable sources, but rather because they are about the only game in town.
You do nothing. And you let them beclown themselves constantly. There's nothing you can do unless you want to destroy the 1st ammendment or go violent. And I know you don't want either of those.
Truth will out, even with the scum we call the legacy media trying to obstruct.
Well, we can watch their ratings drop, and watch them go out of buisness.
Gathering of Eagles organizers put it at 4.2 billion.
>>>>>Gathering of Eagles organizers put it at 4.2 billion.
that is the total number of brain cells for the entire liberal population. High I know. Definitely a miscount
If they really think they can get away with using an estimate that's off by two orders of magnitude, they're not just phoning it in, they're phoning it in from frickin' Antarctica. How disconnected from reality do you have to be to insist on something that everyone's eyes can tell is false?
Whatever the number, this is one of the five largest protests in DC EVER. Possibly the largest ever.
I watched more CNN yesterday than I have in a long time (except when trapped in an airport) and it was as if the march on DC wasn't even happening. Of course they showed Obama's entire speech. I can't believe I even flipped through the stuff like MSNBC and HLD. Nothing. I hope that the ordinary Americans have finally woke up.
Expect continued denial in the face of evidence to the contrary. These are the same people claiming that the town hall protests were nothing more than engineered and paid dissent which did not reflect the popular opinion, even when the dissenter's position mirrored what was being shown in several national polls.
Don't attribute Fox's report to laziness.
From the bits I've watched Fox, they enjoy the negative fallout on Obama, but otherwise support national health care while trying not to look like they support it. I suspect Rupert is in the category of not wanting to pay as much for hc for his US employees. Also suspect they're a liking for illegal aliens labor too.
Just my opinion after watching a sampling of reports.
Does it really matter what the MSM reports? It doesn't change the reality of how many people did show up. And those who did are not happy with the way things are going, and it's a pretty fair thing to say that the vast majority of them are going to vote.
I knew plenty of 'anti-war' types who would take an entire day off to go party… I mean "protest", but couldn't be bothered to come in late on election day.
Just because you close your eyes and plug your ears while sitting on the tracks doesn't mean that train isn't going to hit you. The MSM is going to learn that lesson eventually.
The best model I'd suggest is to compare the rally with the space occupied by the Million Man March, since the media gave us a firm headcount and its verification of that event. Given that the territory covered yesterday exceeded about four times that of the Million Man March, we can firmly state that the numbers exceeded four million.
And by applying the Treasury department's economic multipliers (used to "create or save" the millions of jobs they reference as the unemployment numbers continue to climb), we get a 2x factor for all the men that would have been there but had to watch NCAA football, (increasing the count to 8 million), another 1.2 million from those who had Saturday jobs, 3 million from those that would have attended but the ACORN and SEIU-paid busses never showed up to pick them up. That's a cool 12.2 million protesting, and since I'm a risk professional with a quantitative degree in statistics and finance, it's an estimate provided by an expert, using methods acceptable to our highest Treasury officials an the mainstream media.
12.2 million protesters. Dang… that's huge.
Billions and Billions and Billions…
Where's Carl Sagan when you need him?
Good points, McQ. Having overhead photos and video on the net makes a big difference: it was a lot of people. Especially if you compare to photos of other protests at the same location. People will spin numbers both ways, but numbers won't matter when a Blue Dog sees the photos. He can decide with his own eyeballs. The same for fence-sitter voters.
My question is why were so many people there? I was told in this very blog's comments that the town hall protesters were a tiny minority, that everyone was busy living their lives and not paying attention, and that we could feel the momentum shift after Obama's speech to Congress. Maybe Republicans and Fox paid them to be there? That's a lot of money.
My dad (a conservative) was there with a group. He had a great time and reported that everyone he saw was pleasant and civilized, although obviously angry with the situation. It wasn't just about healthcare.
My favorite "MiniTru" headline (as docjim likes to call them) is this one:
Thousands rally with or against Obama
As president leads a health care rally in Minneapolis, protesters in Washington denounce his policies.
If you dig deep in the article, they'll eventually mention that the DC rally was larger, though they're unwilling to say how much. After one paragraph at the top that mentions both rallies, they then spend four paragraphs on Obama's rally before getting to the meat of the story on DC.
If our journalism schools had a shred of professionalism and objectivity, this article and others like it would be eviscerated in classes all next week as examples of failed and biased journalism. The problem, of course, is that those j-school professors won't see anything wrong with it.
This many racists haven't descended on DC since the Klan marched!
I mean, all anti-Obama protestors are racists….
What is important to note, ThinkProgress tells us, is not the size of the corwds, but all those racist and radical signs present. Of the four they highlight supposedly representitive of the hundreds of thousands of protestors, not one is racist (according to any non-leftist agitator), and another, while perhaps risable, is par for the Bush=Fascist; Bush=Hitler; bush=Monster fare that the left has served up these past 8 years.
But that is their narrative, and to say otherwise would be to admit to the depth and breadth and sincerity of the tea party movement – a movement antithetical to the leftist activist's real aim so well stated by Tom Friedman.
bains – there's something rather interesting in the left's "seeing messages of hate" in the signs. It's very much akin to a rorschach test, to which the left implicates its inner thought by claiming to see fascist and racist messages.
Most contemporary post-modern thought, especially of the deconstructionist school, would suggest that the left is tipping its hand of their true thought process in such declarations. We know that the progressive ideology is intertwined with twentieth century European fascist movements, and furthermore know that the co-opting of the liberal movement by the fascist progressives, led by Soros and other central-control seeking globalists, is likely to be illuminated by their semiotic disclosures.
Each time we hear their accusations of hateful symbols in their language, or more fundamentally, encounter the sadist semiotic representation in comments like "teabagging," we're being provided with validation of what that progressive/liberal individual truly thinks, desires and fantasizes over. Our language and semiotics exposes who we truly are. If anything, this should give us great alarm at just what they have in mind through the take-over of all of our economy.
I caught this …
Park Police estimate the crowd at tens of thousands
I thought the Park Police stopped giving estimates after the (less than) Million Man March.
Give them a break, they are still looking for clues in the death of Vince Foster.
wikipedia of course is being repeatedly edited to only show the lower numbers. Right now it keeps being forced back to a number of 75,000. Anyone who has seen the photos knows that is an insanely LOW number but — the Lefties object to any reference that is not to a MSM source — so you cannot post links to photos on blogs as references.
I tried editing the Wikipedia page by merely including Matt Welch's piece in Reason and the 1.5 million Youtube video as sources of alternative figures, and my edit was changed without anyone owning up as to even why.
Definitely the liberal smog trying to throttle the truth.
Which won't work for them in the long run.
And probably not even for this week.
The MSM has no reason to report truthful numbers on the 9/12 march.
Even if they have a bad taste in their mouth from TAO's performance so far, they would never give a positive report about a demonstration against ANY Democratic President.
What they are not aware of is that the protesters aren't a single ideological mass. I'd be willing to bet there were Democrats, Independents, Republicans, Libertarians, and the unaffiliated.
And these were average people, for many this was probably the first protest they've ever been to.
Quick and dirty estimate:
PA avenue was covered from Freedom Plaza to the Capital; that is about 1 mile (WH to Capitol 1.2 miles) of people on a street 6 lanes wide or 80 ft from Googe data. A mile is 5280 ft x 80 ft at 2.5 sq feet per person (Obama's inauguration number for the mall) gives us over 168,960 people just there at any one time. This human traffic lasted for 3 hours from the media. With the average human walking speed of 3 miles per hour, that is 168,960 people passing every a point every 33 minutes or over 3 hours being 9 x 168,960 = 1,520,640. Although, like me not all people started at Freedom Plaza. Many went directly to the Capitol for good "seats" and not all came down PA Ave. The police also asked the protesters to leave the plaza two hours early. Nor does it count the time after 12;30 when people were still arriving or the people on the sidewalks along PA Ave. So the number of 1.5 million may be low.
September 13, 2009
9/12 demonstration a record DC turnout: National Park Service
Thomas Lifson
The truth will out. Despite mainstream media attempts to characterize turnout as in the thousands, a spokesman for the National Park Service, Dan Bana, is quoted as saying "It is a record…. We believe it is the largest event held in Washington, D.C., ever."
I was there. I could not fathom 60,000 vs. 1.5 mil till another attendee suggested that I envision our local pro football stadium maximum capacity. Definitely several stadiums' worth of folks there. It was just so great to be around so many people who felt the same way that I do-that our country needs to consider the constitution more. And not just with Dem presidents, but with previous admins too! We just need our reps to stop spending more money till they figure out how to pay for the debt we are already in (before bankrupting our country completely-oops, maybe we're already there). Hey, we are not teabaggers. Could we all agree on the PC term "Tea Party Patriots?"
I'm beginning to think that the protests are picking the wrong target. DON'T go to DC: organize protests around places like CNN headquarters, the NYT building, outside CBS, etc.
They wouldn't get any more coverage by doing that…
I was looking at multiple sites to see what people are using for estimates of crowd size and have to correct someone since I have done it professionally in the past as a retired USAF Imagery Analyst.
In a typical medium to dense crowd a person is going to take up about 6 SqFt if you are using that as a metric and it will be a touch more (like 10-12 SqFt) if they are walking about. I personally take up 2.5 SqFt just standing still and not moving my arms about. Standing around at the 4th of July I would guess I took up about 5-6 Sq Ft (as in a 2 Ft x 3Ft zone)
Also, based on the amount of traffic I had to go through at about 9:45AM on I-395 into DC and the fact I didn't even know there was a protest going on would indicate the crowd was less then 200,000 at absolute most. The most reliable images I have seen I would estimate at between 75,000 and maybe 125,000 people range between the street and the mall.
Disclaimer: all shots I have seen are relatively low angle which makes estimates harder and tend to greatly inflate the numbers. The only vertical shot I have seen was a fake taken from 1996 apparently.
I really don't care how many showed up, but get the numbers at least close to correct. Giving obviously false numbers always calls into question other "facts".
David Barna not Dan Bana. His quote was about the inauguration.
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As one who was there personally, let me assure you there were far more than 75000 there. It was my first time in DC. I walked from Freedom Square to the Capitol. I started about 3 blocks from the front. And as I neared the square pool in front, I stopped to rest. For 30 minutes the crowd surged by about 40 people across. After 30 minutes, I realized it was coming to an end no time soon. At that point, I realized that the attendance had exceeded our wildest expectations. I then tried to make my way farther up the hill, where the speakers would be speaking from. It was so packed, it took me an hour to go about 2 blocks due to the constrictions security had set up. Each time I looked back where the march was coming from, it was still streaming in. Locals said that any event in excess of 50000 was considered a huge success.
But after all of that, do all of us not realize that if the government, be it Democrat or Republican really wanted to know the size of Rallies, they have the technology to do so? Democrats and Republicans both want the room to spin the facts on everything so they can manipulate public opinion. It is not just Obama, it is both Political parties that want room to spin and deny?
The sooner all of us realize this, the sooner we can make better decisions on how to proceed.
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