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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
There isn't a sales or marketing manager around who wouldn't love to have Andrew Pole on his team. Pole is no sales superman, nor is he a crafter of the sort of marketing message that would make Donald Draper weep.
He's a statistician and an economist. How would a marketing manager put this self-confessed math nerd's skills to good use?
In a New York Times Sunday Magazine cover feature published early this year, investigative reporter Charles Duhigg introduced readers to Pole, who had just started working for Target in 2002 when two colleagues from the marketing department asked him, "If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn't want us to know, can you do that?"
Duhigg explains there are brief periods in a person's life when routines fall apart and buying habits are suddenly in flux. One of these moments is right around the birth of a child, when parents are exhausted and their shopping patterns and brand loyalties are "up for grabs."
Target's marketers wanted to beat competitors to this lucrative prize. Of course, new parents are inundated with offers and incentives and advertisements from all sorts of companies after the birth of a child. The key is to reach them earlier, before any other retailers know a baby is on the way. In fact, Target wanted to send specially designed ads to women in their second trimester, which is when most expectant mothers begin buying all sorts of new things, like prenatal vitamins and maternity clothing.
"We knew that if we could identify them in their second trimester, there's a good chance we could capture them for years," Pole told the Times. (That is, Pole told the Times before Target top brass got wind of his story and shut off access to Pole.)
The Big Data Grab
Collecting customer data is at the core of most consumer marketing plans nowadays. Target keeps reams of it on every person who regularly walks into one of its stores. If you have shopped regularly at Target, it most likely knows whether you are married and have kids, how long it takes you to drive to the store, your estimated salary and what credit cards you carry. And it can buy even more data on you — your job history, the magazines you read, the year you bought your house, whether you prefer certain brands of common household goods and your political leanings.
"Almost every major retailer, from grocery chains to investment banks to the U.S. Postal Service, has a 'predictive analytics' department devoted to understanding not just consumers' shopping habits but also their personal habits, so as to more efficiently market to them," Duhigg writes.
The ability of today's modern marketer to collect data is, to many, downright frightening. But, as Duhigg points out, all of that information is meaningless without someone to analyze and make sense of it. That's where Pole and dozens of other members of Target's Guest Marketing Analytics department come into play. "It's like an arms race to hire statisticians," Andreas Weigend, the former chief scientist at Amazon.com, told Duhigg.
What about B2B?
Clearly, the advancement of data analysis has allowed consumer goods companies to segment consumers and effectively target them with marketing messages. But have there been similar advancements on the B2B side? Officials at SetLogik (setlogik.com), a provider of software solutions for precision target marketing for B2B marketers, point out in a company blog that there are distinct differences between consumer and business markets that present B2B marketers with the following unique challenges:
• B2B marketers always deal with two entities, the companies they sell to, plus the people who represent those companies in the purchase decision (also, keep in mind that people behave differently when purchasing a product or service for the company they work for). In comparison, in nearly all B2C buying situations, there is only one entity to consider.
• Unlike B2C, B2B does not have the luxury of richness of information. B2C marketers have, at their fingertips, access to buying behavior and trends derived from lifetime transactional history.
• Information of B2B prospects decays rapidly due to changes in a prospect's biographic (title, phone, etc.) and firmographic (company, etc.) information.
"These significant differences coupled with the challenges of selling an oftentimes highly complex solution have put B2B marketers at a distinct disadvantage," SetLogik argues in its blog. Still, the company says its B2B Enterprise Edition software harnesses B2B big data with predictive analytics techniques to allow B2B marketers to better understand customers, partners and prospects. The result, they claim is higher lead to won opportunities conversion rates and increased revenue with higher-ranked accounts.
Erik Long, a principal at ZS Associates, a sales and marketing consultant, says B2B marketers can learn a lot from their consumer marketing brethren's use of customer data to improve target marketing.
"What data are we capturing is a good question, but perhaps a better question is how do I know what data I need to pay attention to?" he says. "How do I understand what data is going to be most helpful? As we call it, relative, high-quality, decision impact data — the data that's going to drive how someone makes a decision. Companies that can [capture] that, they're the ones who are really starting to harness data well."
The 3 buckets
Long separates out B2B data into three buckets:
• Internal transaction data – the easiest to access, it's inside numbers such as sales, purchase orders, size of transactions, inventory control, etc.
• Primary market research – information collected from customers after a sale
• Secondary data – information such as trends in your customers' industries that you collect via social media monitoring, customer councils, and other high-level listening
"The ultimate goal is to turn your observations into revelations about the customer. That's the piece many companies fall down on," he says, adding quickly that spinning customer data into gold is a big part of the value that ZS Associates delivers to clients.
What does that metamorphosis look like? Different things to different people, Long says. A market research manager will be more specific: "I have this customer satisfaction tracking data that we've been collecting and we're not finding any nuggets in it. How do I get more leverage out of it?"
A chief marketing officer, meanwhile, is likely to phrase things as more of a business challenge: "I can't find the next generation of growth for our company and I worry how effective my sales and marketing efforts are in achieving that growth."
Sales managers embrace measurement. They need to do it here, Long says emphatically. "You can actually link the performance of things like customer advocacy to business performance. It's not enough to say, 'Hey, we've done this great thing and that improved our customer satisfaction by 3 percent.' You have to determine how much it actually linked to your financial outcome."


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One of the biggest stumbling blocks for me, getting into this whole "writing a book" thing, had been actually sitting down and doing it. It wasn't a matter of writer's block for me, or laziness, or ADHD. (Okay, maybe sometimes it was a combo of the last two.) Some days, I just couldn't seem to get into the groove. Reading "The Journey from the Center to the Page" (thanks, Samer!) has been helpful, but I recently discovered an activity that has upped my productivity significantly: tandem writing sessions!
My cousin Cheryl down in DC is writing a novel, and found it really hard to get big chunks of work done, too. She said that she used to do this with a friend of hers, and would I be interested? I'll give anything a whirl once. Here's how it works:
Wash, rinse, repeat!
The accountability is what's been the most helpful part of this. Sure, I can make a "meeting" with myself in my iCal to get work done, but knowing that I have to call someone, have a plan and execute itgives me that much more inspiration to get tough chunks of the book worked out. Also, working in tandem with someone who's not in the same room doesn't offer up the temptation to just sit there and chat for the whole hour.
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So I am wrapping up v2.0 of my website, and being the perfectionist that I am, I would like to tweak MySQL, but am unsure of the consequences of this?! :-/
(BTW, the purpose of these questions is to identify any obvious issues that I might create. Since you guys can't see my entire code base, I realize my questions below are somewhat vague...)
Proposed Change 1:I have some Junction Tables which have Composite PK's, and I would like to add an "id" field that is an AutoIncrement and a UK.
This shouldn't affect any table relationship.
And it shouldn't impact any SELECT statements.
Could it impact any INSERT statements that I have in my PHP code? (Or will MySQL take care of the AutoIncrement itself?)
Proposed Change 2:I have the following table...
id (PK)
article_id (U1)(FK)
member_id (U2)(FK)
subscribed_on (U3)
I would like to flip the PK and UK's.
Will MySQL or any SELECT, UPDATE or INSERT statements, or my PHP care?
As far as I can see, this should only impact my Foreign Key Constraints....
Provided that you either used named inserts (INSERT INTO blah SET a=1, b=2) or VALUES INSERTS naming all values (INSERT INTO blah (a, b) VALUES (1,2)) then you shouldn't have any problem. If you've used INSERT INTO blah VALUES(1), omitting a value for b MySQL will complain that you didn't supply all necessary fields.
INSERT INTO blah SET a=1, b=2
INSERT INTO blah (a, b) VALUES (1,2)
INSERT INTO blah VALUES(1)
Bigger question is, why would you want to do this? Why add a field that adds no information, doesn't help in your code, and is basically just wasting space?
What is the subscribed_on field? Where will it map in terms of FK? At first sight I'd say you can change it without any problems, but it depends on your answer on the question above.
If I am understanding you, then a query like this should not be negatively impacted, right?
// Build query.
$q3 = "INSERT INTO comment(article_id, member_id, comment_no, body, created_on)
Some of my tables have 3 and 4 Composite Keys, and it is a real PITA to have to reference a particular record when this is all you have...
article_id question_id member_id
1 1 19
1 1 20
1 1 51
In the case of a Junction Table like that, this would be much more practical...
id article_id question_id member_id
25 1 1 19
26 1 1 20
27 1 1 51
The second example allows me to...
1.) Visually spot a record with ease2.) Helps to clearly define the exact order in which records were entered3.) If I ever needed to use this table as a parent table, then it would be much easier to do a join using the "id" field versus the other three fields4.) It gives me another way to sort records to find what I need
So there are 4 reasons right there off the top of my head...
And having one extra "integer" field in a table adds virtually no extra space.
It is a Date-Time field of when the person subscribed.
I'm thinking a question belongs to an article? If so, you don't need to store both in a junction table. The way you have it set up now is that multiple different members can ask the same question to multiple different articles. If that's the case then go for it. Otherwise, I'd change the structure.
Why is it in this table? Why not join on your member table instead, I suppose that's where you copying the value from?
As far as swapping FK and UK, it shouldn't have any impact, but making subscribed_on an FK doesn't make sense, since it's not the PK of any other table. Suppose you make it an ON DELETE CASCADE foreign key, and you have two members who signed up at exactly the same time, and you delete one of them, you delete the article_thread entries from the other one as well.
No. I have an ARTICLE table and a SURVEY_QUESTION table which are joined by a SURVEY_MAP table which defines which Questions are asked for which Articles.
Then I have a SURVEY_RESULTS table which combines the entities ARTICLE, SURVEY_QUESTION, and MEMBER. So things are modeled correctly.
And as mentioned above, it is always easier to look for Record ID = 5823 than to have to scroll down a table looking for a combination of 3 to 4 keys as shown above.
Because an ARTICLE_THREAD is the combination of an ARTICLE, a MEMBER, and a DATETIME.
article_id (PK1)(FK)
member_id (PK2)(FK)
subscribed_on (PK3)
(BTW, if it isn't clear, I have "subscribed_on" as part of the PK because you can "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" as much as you like.
See above.
Okay, yes, then your setup is correct.
Okay, then yes you can make the change, but make sure to make one FK only for (member_id, subscribed_on), not two separate FKs, i.e.:
id (PK)
article_id (FK1) (U1)
member_id (FK2) (U1)
subscribed_on (FK2)
You are mixing up different concepts...
Concept 1:In the ARTICLE_THREAD table, I need 3 fields to make a Composite PK: article_id, member_id, subscribe_on
Concept 2:To ensure Referential Integrity, I have this...
ARTICLE.id -||-----|<- ARTICLE_THREAD.article_id
MEMBER.id -||-----|<- ARTICLE_THREAD.member_id
I am linking two Parent Tables to the Junction Table, so there are only TWO Foreign Keys... ("subscribed_on" provides no linking.)


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I am not impressed with our so called dog warden. My neighbor's dog has went after my kids on several occasions. This last time the dog bite my son. It was not a serious bite. But the dog still bite my son. And the dog warden has yet to do anything about this. I have called the dog warden on this dog before. It took them three weeks to call me back. And then they only called me back after I filed a complaint against them for not returning my call. My niece was chased by a dog just a street over, it took the dog warden awhile to get there then, and yet nothing was done then. But yet when someone makes false complaints on me, it doesn't take the dog warden 3 weeks or even 2 to 3 days to contact me. He is right there knocking on my door. What is it going to take before something is done? I am not one to be mean to animals but the next time the dog comes after one of my kid. I will take matters into my own hands. If the dog warden does not want to do his job, which requires them to be called out after hours, then they should give the position to someone that will do the job and do it right.
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For years I've listened to people drone on about Santa Fe's great restaurants and wonderful dining. It's become the kind of somnambulistic static that happens when people use their mouths for the wrong thing, like talking instead of eating.
Santa Fe has some wonderful restaurants and several talented chefs, as well as a fine Southwestern tradition to celebrate, tweak, challenge or ignore as it sees fit. Nonetheless, Santa Fe's inclusion within a select club of culinary capitals seems a stretch.
A holiday visit to Pagosa Springs, Colo., however, proved eating in Santa Fe is genuinely exceptional.
This came as a shock. I usually travel to places like San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York, New Orleans, Mexico and Italy. I was therefore wholly unprepared to confront the sheer terror of what typically passes for "fine dining" in America.
The menus at Pagosa's finest are full of words like "demi-glace" and "au jus" and "lightly poached," but the plates are full of evidence such as canned pears and store-bought stock and salad chilled beyond all hope of flavor.
Sadly, however, the most egregious thing to land on my plate was allegedly trucked in from New Mexico. At a perfectly charming bakery filled with perfectly fresh bread, pastries and pies, I ordered what I expected to be a perfectly serviceable breakfast burrito. The burrito was not only pre-made and nuked but also served with a plastic 2-ounce packet of "diced flame roasted green chile."
I've seen salsas and marinades offered by the offending company—Albuquerque-based 505 Southwestern—on grocery store shelves, but I've never been offered "traditional" New Mexico green chile in a single-serve packet. What tradition are we talking about? The tradition of Velveeta? The tradition of ranch dressing and burger-joint condiments?
The sheer existence of such a thing is a striking discovery. It's like realizing that Soylent Green is people or that Dick Cheney is an alien lizard wearing a shoddily constructed humanoid mask: There's a tangle of complications to unravel in the wake of such a truth, not to mention the gut-wrenching awareness that nothing will ever be the same.
First: I don't blame the bakery. It is a well-known phenomenon that proper chile cannot be made in Colorado. One can have a decent chile in Chama (although just barely) and then step across the border and be served an inexplicably watery substance made from the same ingredients. Colorado is to chile as the Bermuda Triangle is to ships and planes: certain, mysterious doom. The bakery is only doing what it can in the face of the supernatural. Still, I've never understood why Colorado restaurants won't just stop pretending and simply remove chile from the menu.
Second: On the face of it, 505 Southwestern is a largely respectable company. Its website boasts its reliance on local New Mexico farms. A portion of every sale is donated to breast cancer research. The chile product has nothing but chile, lime, garlic and salt (it is presumably preserved through witchcraft, a bizarre deal with Los Alamos or vacuum sealing). It can be purchased as certified organic.
But then Batter Blaster, the spray-on pancake, is also certified organic. And a close look at 505 Southwestern reveals that its parent company is the Idaho-based Treasure Valley Business Group. In addition to "New Mexico" chile, the company owns and markets Oh Boy! brand frozen meals, Chris' & Pitt's Bar-B-Q Sauce and a variety of industrial chicken and potato products.
This is good news.
One, it makes me feel better about my desire to put a single-serve foot up the ass of anyone using the slogan "taste the tradition" on their pillaged, 505-branded, faux farm-friendly product.
Two, it reminds me that we do have something special in Santa Fe and in New Mexico.
And, if we shop and eat smart, we can keep it that way.
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Washington, DC – Robert L. Bixby, Executive Director of The Concord Coalition, testified before the Senate Budget Committee this morning regarding S. 2063, The Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action Act of 2007. Bixby emphasized the need for prompt, bipartisan action to address the nation's unsustainable long-term fiscal outlook.
The hearing, entitled "S. 2063, The Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action Act of 2007," was held by Senators Kent Conrad and Judd Gregg, chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Budget Committee.
Bixby's testimony discussed the importance of cutting through partisan rhetoric, engaging the public, and fostering a legislative atmosphere where realistic solutions can be enacted.
While highlighting the failure of traditional methods to deal with daunting fiscal challenges, Bixby stressed that the task force would need five elements to succeed
First, it must be truly bipartisan. Any perception that the purpose is to facilitate swift enactment of a partisan agenda would doom it to failure. It should have bipartisan co-chairs and equal representation. Doing otherwise in the current partisan environment would be a waste of time and money.
Second, it must have a broad mandate. While it is critical to control the growth of entitlements, particularly Medicare and Social Security, the task force or commission should examine all aspects of fiscal policy.
Third, there must be no preconditions. If either side sets preconditions, the other side will not participate.
Fourth, it must engage the public. In Concord's experience, when people are armed with the facts and given the opportunity for honest dialogue, they are willing to set priorities and make hard choices. Moreover, it seems highly unlikely that the public would react well to a reform package for which it was unprepared.
Fifth, its recommendations should be voted in Congress. Absent this element, the report would likely join many others on a shelf.
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School pupils play a staring role in an internet promotional video for this year's Holocaust Memorial Day.
Children from Leytonstone Business and Enterprise Specialist School in Colworth Road were chosen for the 'Lessons Learnt?' video to represent people of a variety of ethnicities respecting each other's differences.
The clip, produced by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, has been viewed nearly 100 times since it was posted on website YouTube.
It ties in with the official theme of this year's event, which is 'Communities Together: Build a Bridge'.
Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, explained: "This year, on Holocaust Memorial Day [on Sunday January 27], we are asking everyone to build a bridge within their community.
"Whole communities were destroyed during the Holocaust and subsequent genocides so this year we are urging people to reach out to those around them to help put an end to injustice, hatred and genocide.
"As we approach Holocaust Memorial Day 2013, we hope the film will capture people's attention and encourage them to visit our website to make an online action and build their bridge."


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Oculus VR held its second Oculus Connect event today, and quite a bit came out of it: compatibility with Minecraft on Windows 10, Oculus Ready PCs, games from SEGA, Midway, and Namco and Epic Games introduced its own VR experience, Bullet Train. Full report below.
PlayStation games now available on non-Sony devices
Sony continues to push PlayStation Now to places beyond its own collection of devices.
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The Timberwolves faced the 40-11 OKC without the help of Kevin Love, Nikola Pekovic and Corey Brewer. Despite playing without some of their top scorers, the Wolves gave a valiant effort. Minnesota actually held the lead a few times during the first half, and the teams battled back and forth. It was the Thunder that held the upper hand, though, and came away with the 106-97 win. Ricky Rubio led the team with 19 points, while Dante Cunningham filled in as a starting forward and added 18.
"I'm really proud of our guys," said head coach Rick Adelman. "They busted their tails the whole game."
OKC's Kevin Durant scored 26 points on the evening, but he surprisingly didn't become the deciding factor in the fourth. The star forward scored only two points for the Thunder in the final period, but his teammates still managed to pull away from Minnesota for the win. Reggie Jackson added 20 points (seven in the fourth quarter) and dished out nine assists. Wednesday marked the Thunder's 12th win in 13 games, and they are the first team in the league to hit 40 wins this season.
Minnesota scored 54 points in the first half but only 43 in the second, shooting an overall 47 percent from the field. Rubio and Cunningham really stepped up offensively in the absence of Love and Brewer, and JJ Barea delivered another strong performance with 11 points and four assists off the bench. Where Minnesota felt a loss the most was in rebounding. With both Love and Pek sidelined, the Wolves only grabbed 39 boards to OKC's 49.
"I knew they'd play scrappy with three starters out," said Thunder coach Scott Brooks. "A wounded team generally steps up. But I thought we played good defense for only about four minutes in the first quarter and then in the fourth quarter. Other than that we didn't play the kind of defense we usually do."
The Timberwolves held their own through three quarters of basketball. At the end of the third quarter, Derek Fisher hit a buzzer-beating three and led a 16-4 Thunder run, growing the deficit to 12. From that point on, Minny found itself unable to catch up. Robbie Hummel came off the bench to hit a three at the 3:45 mark, and that brought the score to 95-89, but that was the closest the Wolves got to regaining their footing.
Rubio said the following after the game: "We came into the game aggressive and we fought all the way through, but in the last five minutes, I think we missed too many free throws and easy shots while they made shots at the end."
The tough loss dipped Minnesota's record below .500 once again. The Wolves currently sit at No. 11 in the Western Conference, falling to five games out of the No. 8 playoff spot. They will continue on to New Orleans to face the Pelicans Friday night. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
Sideline and Injury Notes
Brewer missed the game with Family Leave after the birth of his son on Tuesday. Coach Adelman says he expects Brewer to rejoin the team for Friday's game.
Pekovic remained sidelined with a nagging ankle injury, and Love was listed as a "sore neck" after taking a nasty fall against the Lakers Tuesday night.


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Lake Washington girls swim team wins district title | Prep swimming
The Lake Washington girls swim team won the district swim meet by 47 points on Friday and Saturday at Thunderbird Aquatic Club in Anacortes.
The Kangs scored 300.5 points, while Sehome placed second (253.5) and Squalicum took third (221) out of 11 teams.
Lake Washington dominated the meet, winning all three relays and four individual events. Lake Washington's Clare Kucinski-Murphy won two individual races, taking first in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.65 and first in the 100-yard backstroke (1:03.16).
Kang Jayna VanStone won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:59.08, while teammate Jessica McKinney took first in the 100-yard freestyle (55.96).
Lake Washington's 200-yard medley relay team, of Gabrielle Rector, VanStone, McKinney and Kucinski-Murphy, won the event with a time of 1:55.32, while the Kangs' team of Brooke Bonnell, Laura Chopp, Hannah Walker and Maya Iba took first in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of1:46.75.
The team proved it can excel in the team distance relay as Chopp, Kucinski-Murphy, McKinney and VanStone teamed up to take first in the 400-yard relay event with a time of 3:46.52.
Lake Washington coach Dave Hale was named Coach of the Year.Lake Washington will now compete at the state meet at the King County Aquatic Center on Friday and Saturday.


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Intel Launches Devil's Canyon and Overclockable Pentium: i7-4790K, i5-4690K and G3258by Ian Cutress on 6/3/2014 2:30 AM EST
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AJdaBoss - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkYeah! 1ST COMMENT!!!!! 4790k ! First intel cpu at 4.0ghz out da box, and only 4 more watts to sacrifice!! Ok waz hoping for more... but atleast the expected finally came way afte r expected time, true devil canyon 6core 12 thread 2015? :P broadwell 2020? Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkNo Sale , No Profit here, they didn't even bother to add a slightly better AVX2 SIMD, or release at least one desktop core with eDRAM GT3e before their new updated version arrives whenever...
nothing to see here, move along, those new octacore ARM cortex look nice for my next device spend... Reply
Galatian - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkWut? If you were considering a 4790K with all it's power, I'm not sure how you can be satisfied with a ARM CPU. That being said, it sound like you are just trolling. Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkyou are of the "one core to fit them all" then !, i however have different uses for different cores/SOC.
i already have a i7-4770 but that's irrelevant, im looking for something new that "i want to actually buy" and is worth the costs , it is not here with these re-badges and a process tweak + some good thermal solder they should have used from day one Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - link"If you were considering a 4790K with all it's power"
you also seem to equate 4790K with lots of power over a i7-4770 , i can say for sure you have never taken a standard 1080P blue-ray and put it through http://www.makemkv.com/download/ to make a generic 1080p.mkv with all the subs etc, then ffmpeged it , if you had, you would realize that on visual quality settings -crf 18, high profile, slowest -vf hqdn3d,unsharp=5:5:0.5,gradfun etc its not got "with all it's power" you seem to think it does. Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkWhy compress it further? Storage is cheeeeeeeeeap! Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkyou pick the options on a sliding scale for your need and longer term storage use, in my case i try and hit the sreaming over the LAN to anything i might wish to view on, be it the large hdtv, the android 10" tablets or the pc/linux/other OS im using at the time...
for instance i have an average of 600KB 720P files for the android tv stuff, and straight -crf 16 1080P for the hdtv/monitors Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - link600MB .... Reply
piroroadkill - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkI prefer an nice single MKV container and a reasonably sized file.
No, storage isn't cheap if you store thousands of bluray images. Reply
Galatian - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkSeriously...I'm completly lost by your statements:
1.) You claim no improvements
Ok there are only slight improvements if you are coming from a i7-4771, but what about everybody on older chips?
2.) You then go on to claim that an Octacore ARM is a somewhat better proposition.
I already called you out on that one: An Octacore ARM is in a completely different league then a unlocked 88W TDP Core i7.
3.) Upon my previous point you are trying to make a point about "something new that you actually want to buy"
I'm little lost here: you spend money for the hack of it? I mean if you already have a Core i7-4770 then yeah this is not something for you...not sure why you are complaining though?
4.) You are then making the point of ripping/encoding videos.
If you are serious about this, you wouldn't get this processor but rather a HEDT porcecessor, but better yet even a Xeon with even more cores. For everything else Quicksync is fine and included in this processor. Your ARM Octacore will be even slower...so again I'm not sure what your point is? Reply
Alexey291 - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkwhy do you bother replying to him seriously? He is comparing an arm octa-core which is these days either a big.LITTLE (aka 4 REALLY slow cores and 4 slow cores) or the one mediatek is making which is simply 8 really slow cores (a7's are terrible yes yes).
Unless he is actually stupid (i tend to assume this is not the case usually) he can't be seriously comparing arm cores (especially A7's) to i7 cores... Reply
BMNify - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - link"Galatian: You then go on to claim that an Octacore ARM is a somewhat better proposition."
"Alexey291:why do you bother replying to him seriously? He is comparing an arm octa-core which is these days either a big.LITTLE (aka 4 REALLY slow cores and 4 slow cores) or the one mediatek is making which is simply 8 really slow cores"
LOL, you two seem very good at reading things into posts that simply don't exist, i don't compare anything to anything here.
i commented that in this update i will look to spend my cash elsewhere (in this case a good quad cortex, next time it will be something else oc) as there's nothing here for ME, the key point being "worth the costs"
"that "i want to actually buy" and is worth the costs , it is not here"
i give a working example of how and why the current i7 is not up to the task for highest quality real time encoding in this case, nothing more.
"I'm little lost here: you spend money for the hack of it?" LOL that's funny, seriously, what use is money other than what it actually gets you, you cant eat it, it doesn't compute data, it might keep you warm for a few seconds on a deserted island if you can use it as kindling , everyone spends money for the heck of it, you work to live or you live to work, ether way you use it to get what you want/need nothing more.
but 4 was best of all, a HEDT processor as of today is a crap "Ivy Bridge-E." that does NOT have AVX2 and its 945.77 US Dollars for a single Intel Xeon 2.3 GHz Processor again NO AVX2 and still using the crappy Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) using A clock rate of 2.4 GHz yields a data rate of 19.2 GB/s...
so your advice to use a so called serious core amounts to a Galatian: fool and his money being wasted by a large margin, research man, then and only then make your choice Reply
Thorburn - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkIts a Haswell speed bump, not a new micro-architecture.
i7-4790K looks quite a replacement for the i7-4770K - means the K-SKU is once again the fastest chip at stock as well.
Not sure I see a big argument for a GT3e SKU in the desktop either, the pricing means you're better off just buying a discrete card. Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkyour assumption is that gfx are the primary reason for wanting a eDRAM GT3e so a discrete card would fit there, however its the eDRAM that makes things like x264 UHD encoding faster here, the GT3 is just a free bonus for http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=162442 Intel QuickSync Decoder - HW accelerated FFDShow decoder with video processing when you dont want the best visual quality Reply
Galatian - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkBut if you are already using quick sync as a fast but cheap solution for encoding h264, why would you spend the extra money on the eDRAM equipped chips just for a few seconds less encoding time. Anandtechs Benchmarks on the Crystal Well chips don't show such a huge improvement. Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkits not a few seconds and its always about retaining as much visual quality as is possible from the original content, right now for instance im "avisynthesizer" ffmep AVS batching a QTGMC x2framerate encode to keep best quality while doubling framerates at an average of 20FPS and 90'ish% Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkOne thing not tested is how well the eDRAM scales with clock speeds. Traditionally larger caches showed better improvements at higher clock speeds due to the much slower growth of memory speeds. With a 4.0 Ghz CPU, the L4 eDRAM cache could show more of a tangible benefit than say at 2.4 Ghz. Reply
ZeDestructor - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI don't care for the GT3e very much, but I would like the 128MiB of L4 a lot... Reply
dennilfloss - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThat 4790K looks mighty tasty! Reply
Acquire - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI must have one of those 4790K Reply
NA1NSXR - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkIt all really hangs on how overclockable these things are with the new thermal solution. Reply
SnAgCu - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThere were rumors that Devil's Canyon K series would support VT-d. The CPU-Z screenshots don't list that feature, are you able to confirm either way? Reply
Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkOn ark.intel.com, it say no vPro, no VT-d, but yes TSX-NI. It's a shame about the VT-d, but at least they give you the new instructions (which I thought was a really dumb restriction on the previous K-series processors). Reply
Galatian - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkTSX-NI is actually big, as the former K chips didn't support it. Wonder why Intel changed their mindset? Reply
Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI wasn't in the market for a new desktop when the original Haswell chips were launched, but I would have found the choice between a few hundred extra megahertz and instructions that promised significant multi-threaded performance increases to be pretty unpalatable, personally. Reply
Heffa - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkhttp://ark.intel.com/products/80807/Intel-Core-i7-...
Says VT-d is yes Reply
coolhund - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkStill waiting for Broadwell.
Plus I want to see how much cooler these run now. Though if they are not soldered, I dont have high hopes. Maybe 10 degrees cooler at most, while delided ones with liquid metal get up to 20 degrees cooler. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI wouldn't expect a huge drop in temperatures as power density isn't going to go down. I would predict that raw power consumption will be going down a bit though.
The other factor is that Intel doesn't seem motivated to use better thermal material across the board due to the added cost. Any new or better materials will likely be isolated to K series chips. Reply
YazX_ - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkso its same CPUs factory OCed, nothing you couldnt do with 4770k or 4670k, here you have it folks, nothing new this year, repackaged last year CPUs Reply
Iketh - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkhow do you come to that conclusion when they're 4ghz higher at nearly the same TDP is beyond me Reply
jimjamjamie - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - link4790K is the only interesting offering there, nice clocks. If it can reasonably hit 5GHz with the added overclocking improvements, I think it will find success among enthusiasts. Reply
Dovahkin - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkWill this G3258 be better than an Athlon 750k...both stock and over clocked?
I kinda like that this CPU will give me a better upgrade path...but people are telling me games will become optimized for quad core CPUs,.. Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linki wouldnt if i were you as the Athlon 750k has AVX SIMD
this G3258 doesnt have avx or avx2 , if moneys tight you would be better going for at least an i3 even if that is only 2 cores two threads but it does have avx2 and you could swat out a better core later, but it all depends on what you want to do , game, video encode, simple video streaming to the lounge hdtv with LAN NAS etc.... Reply
Soubriquet - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkMystical nomenclature aside upgrading from a QX9650 the 4790K has a big blue arrow over its head saying pick me.
The only question is the TIM under the lid. If that has not been fixed it will be disappointing.
I dont fancy delidding but if its that big a difference for cooling it can't be avoided and we will have to hope they haven't changed the glue either. Only question is whether the new packaging material can survive the process. Will be watching AnandTech's promised delidding review with interest. Reply
Spirall - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThere're rumors of these CPUs having unlocked (sort of) base frequency like SBE/IBE, if true would like to see it's impact in memory access speed (say 1.25 or even 1.50 multiplier versus 1.00). Reply
The Von Matrices - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThe unlocked Haswell processors have always had adjustable BCLK ratios. This is nothing new. Reply
geok1ng - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkmeh. where is the unlocked Haswell-E 8 cores? Reply
tviceman - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI would like a review to show any potential power draw and overclocking differences between z87 and z97 boards with the 4790k. Thanks! Reply
bludragon - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkMy guess is that it is more down to the implementation of the power regulation on the board itself. What I'd like to see is the spec list that shows how much current the different boards can deliver, some testing of the quality of the onboard power supplies (like psu testing is done today), and then some oc comparisons across a barebones board for ~$100, a mid range one for ~$150, and then a higher end board $200+. As it is, I am considering paying an extra $50 just to get more power delivery phases and a few nice marketing bullets. I've no idea if that is worth it! The other nice to have would be audio quality testing of the boards. That $50 also gets me claimed better onboard audio. Reply
formulav8 - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkWow, talk about an overhyped Press Release/CPU release. Reply
Pheesh - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - link...how is it overhyped? Seems it's exactly what they said it would be. Reply
xrror - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkLike others I was hoping for an unlocked crystalwell part.
Even if it turned out not to help much, it still would be fun to see what overclockers could tweak/abuse out of the eDRAM as a L4 cache. Reply
bludragon - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkNice to see confirmation of the high clock speeds on the i7. Even without overclocking that makes a nice upgrade in speed over the existing chips. Unfortunately this means I am now more tempted by the i7, rather than being able to save money and get almost the same performance with the i5.
As for the underwhelming factor, yes, this is a minor upgrade to the existing Haswell chips, so if you already have Haswell, or even Sandy Bridge, upgrading will not make much difference. However, I am sitting on a core2duo and so my major dissappointment is that "mid year" has now passed and I am still waiting for reviews or even an availability date. Reply
bludragon - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkJust noticed that the Asus H81M-E supports the i7-4790k and it only has a 3 phase supply. I know... it can't OC, but it you can get it for <$60. So, rather than i5-4690k + $150 z97 mobo + fancy cooler, you could get the i7 and an H81M-E, a basic cooler and probably still have some money left over. Now the challenge is how to hack the H81 mobo to support multiplier OC? Reply
AnonymousGuy - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI direct-die watercool my 4770k, and I can tell you from my experience with 5 3770k's and 3 4770k's that Haswell is a dog when it comes to overclocking. I can throw 1.6V at it and not be able to get 4.8 Ghz stable, where my 100% load temps won't go above 50C.
So the TIM upgrade doesn't matter to me. What does matter is whether the 4790K is really any different than a 4770k...2 ways this can happen. First, they can tweak the fab process a bit to get faster silicone / lower leakage. Second they can "bin" the die that somewhat-randomly have lower leakage and faster silicone as 4790k's and they'll overclock like monsters. Reply
AnonymousGuy - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkForgot my main point: hopefully the 4790K is truly better silicon (either through fab process changes and/or improved binning/cherry picking) than a 4770k and it's not just a rebadged 4770K with better TIM and a higher stock clock speed which would still suck at overclocking for hardcore enthusiasts like me where temperature and voltage aren't the limiting factors. Reply
haukionkannel - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkIt is the same stepping as 4770K so it is only a rebadge. Hopefully it will last a little bit longer because it has better materials... It will not be faster, but maybe the deviation between chips is smaller, so not so big change to get a chip that overclock really poorly. Upper limit will remain the same though, because there are not improvements in that sector. Reply
AnonymousGuy - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - link5.498 Ghz from Team MSI presumably on air/water with all 4 cores enabled: http://hwbot.org/competition/intel_occ_computex14/
Hopefully Intel didn't cherry pick die specifically for that event. Even if they did I haven't heard of anyone with a 4770k being able to get past 5.1 or 5.2 Ghz without phase change, dICE, or LN2. Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkIf people are disappointed by this their expectations were really unrealistic. It's the same die, as nothing else would make economic sense. BUT it's got a massive clock speed advantage over any other current offering from Intel. This won't mean much for OC (unless it means stricter binning), but it can mean a lot for people running stock CPUs!
This CPU is getting >10% more performance than any other desktop CPU. For lightly threaded workloads it's actually by far the fastest desktop CPU you can buy. I fail to see any reason to complain about this, even though I'd obviously rather have Broadwell + Crystal Well. But those will mean far higher cost for Intel, in contrast to this offering. Reply
Choppedliver - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkI decided a few years ago my next upgrade would come when I could get >8 threads, ie hyperthreaded with more than 4 cores, and also not generate so much heat I could use it as a space heater... Getting closer . Anyone have any idea when we will see >4 cores in a lower tdp than the current 6 core i7's? those things are getting long in the tooth... 2011 , 39xx series Reply
poohbear - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkCan you please compare the performance of the 4690k and the 2500k? Alot of us are still using Sandy Bridges and would like to know if this is worth the upgrade overclocking and performance wise. Thank you! Reply
bigbrave - Friday, July 11, 2014 - linkWith the Haswell CPUs, the voltage regulator is built into the die, but Intel will move the regulator back onto the motherboard for the Broadwell CPUs. So my question is if I have a Z97 motherboard, does it already have a built in voltage regulator in case I decide to upgrade to Broadwell in the future? How will that work?
In regards to the first 8 core CPU from Intel, the 5960X, how much will Windows 7 bottleneck it? Would it be better to go with that god-awful Windows 8 crap? I'm sure Windows 8 will handle the 8 cores, 16 threads better, but just how much better is my question. Please comment Reply


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McQuade said Hathaway was involved in a fraud scheme that started in January 2010 and ended 2 years later with the short sale of her Florida home. McQuade described a short sale as selling property for a price that is lower than the amount owed on a mortgage.
Hathaway is accused of defrauding her lender, ING Direct Bank by making it appear her financial situation was less favorable than it was. "What she did that was wrong, was deceive her lender," said McQuade. "We tried to treat her no better and no worse than anyone else."
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McQuade said Hathaway owed $1.4 million on her Grosse Pointe Park home and was given permission for a short sale on the property in the amount of $800,000, a difference of $600,000.
--Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway
McQuade says if the bank had known Hathaway's true financial picture, it would have required her to bring between $50,000 and $100,000 to closing. Instead, Hathaway brought only $10,000. If you subtract that amount, the loss to ING is between $40,000 to $90,000. McQuade said that amount is what will drive sentencing guide lines and restitution.
"Whether you are a big shot, or a little shot or somewhere in between, it (the law) applies to everyone," said Schuette during the press conference.
The government is also dropping efforts to seize her Florida home. McQuade says if and when Hathaway makes full restitution, the government will release its interest in the property.
Prosecutors filed a lawsuit in November to seize the home, claiming it was the fruit of the fraud. When the sale was completed, the debt-free home in Windermere, Fla., went back to Hathaway.
McQuade says there's no need to seize and sell the house if Hathaway comes up with the restitution amount.
Hathaway also liquidated some retirement accounts, and provided false statements about their value, according to McQuade. "She liquidated accounts, and held onto the check for some time before the sale of her home," said McQuade.
Hathaway holds both a law and real-estate licenses. "We're talking about bank fraud for crying out loud. This bank fraud, committing a felony, this is not a late fee from the video store. This is a serious crime," said Schuette who said he sent a letter the Attorney Grievance Commission to review Hathaway's law license. Hathaway resigned from her position as justice last week.
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South Allegheny starts slow, routs Keystone Oaks
South Allegheny may not have qualified for the WPIAL Class AA playoffs since 1986, but on the cusp of ending a 26-year postseason drought, the Gladiators were nearly victims of their own overconfidence against winless Keystone Oaks.
"We were a little bit cocky in the beginning because we are a little bit better this year," South Allegheny senior quarterback Dustin Anderson said. "We got shown up for a little bit, but we came back and did our jobs."
Did they ever.
South Allegheny (6-1, 5-1) scored 34 unanswered points in the second half to erase an early deficit and rolled to a 34-10 victory over Keystone Oaks (0-7, 0-6) in a Century Conference matchup at Dormont Memorial Stadium. The team's sixth consecutive victory, coupled with Steel Valley's dramatic 26-21 win over South Park, officially ended the Gladiators' playoff drought as they clinched a spot in the WPIAL Class AA playoffs.
"This is great because we haven't made the playoffs since '86 and we haven't seen nothing," South Allegheny receiver Josh Rountree said. "We've just got to keep proving ourselves week to week and keep it going next week."
Rountree made the play that turned things around.
With South Allegheny trailing, 10-0, with less than two minutes remaining in the first half, Keystone Oaks had a second-and-18 at the Gladiators 34 and appeared ready to extend its lead. Golden Eagles quarterback Kobe Phillippi, who had already thrown one touchdown pass to receiver Cory Sevacko, targeted him in the end zone, but Rountree made a leaping interception to turn them away before the intermission.
"He stabilized us," South Allegheny coach Pat Monroe said. "He's such a force back there with his range and his ability to cover the entire field and we just had to get a sense of where they were trying to go and he was able to do that by making his own adjustments and that stemmed the tide."
Rountree added another interception in the second half and also caught a fourth-quarter touchdown pass from Anderson, who finished 8 of 12 for 98 yards and also ran for two scores. But the interceptions proved invaluable as the defense rose to the occasion in the second half and limited Keystone Oaks to nine yards of offense and 11 plays.
"That first interception kind of turned us around," Rountree said. "We went into the locker room and got yelled at a little bit, but we came out and played ball."
South Allegheny outgained Keystone Oaks, 225-9, after the intermission after the Golden Eagles made several big plays and picked up 174 yards in the first two quarters. Before the first interception Phillippi was 5 of 10 for 110 yards and Sevacko had caught four for 104 and the lone touchdown, but afterward Phillippi was 0 for 2 with two picks.
Keystone Oaks, in fact, made an impact on its very first play when Phillippi hooked up with Sevacko for 44 yards to give the team a first down at the South Allegheny 13. Though the Gladiators defense held, Diego Fernandez-Peteiro Belmonte chipped in a 26-yard field goal to give the Golden Eagles a quick 3-0 lead just 2:15 into the game.
Unfazed, South Allegheny pushed the ball all the way to the Keystone Oaks 19 on its first possession, but the recurring penalty theme began as the Gladiators were hit with a holding penalty and turned it over on downs at the Golden Eagles 28.
Even when South Allegheny appeared to stop Keystone Oaks, the team came up with a trick or two to keep up the assault. On a fourth-and-8 from its own 48, the Golden Eagles ran a fake punt that concluded with a pitch to Sevacko for a 16-yard gain and a first down. Then, on a fourth-and-15 from the Gladiators 27, Sevacko made a diving catch at the pylon to give Keystone Oaks a 10-0 lead with 25 seconds left in the opening quarter.
"At halftime coach told us he thought we were a playoff team and that all we had to do was keep our heads up and we got the game," Anderson said. "It's as simple as that."
Keith Barnes is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at email@example.com or 412-664-9161 Ext. 1977.


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Recipe Find: Chocolate cookie bars magically reappear
Published 1:00 am, Wednesday, October 5, 2011
I still remember the Chocolate Magic Cookie Bars that entertainment editor Jim Kiest brought to a potluck eight years ago.
Sharon Falls remembered them too, but she could no longer find the recipe.
She said, "I am looking for the recipe for Hello Dolly Bars, not the regular bars but the recipe made with chocolate cookies in the bottom. You had this recipe in your column a few years ago and when I made them, I thought they were better than the Hello Dolly bars made with the regular recipe.
"I have checked the Internet for a recipe for the Hello Dolly bars made with chocolate cookies and found nothing.
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"You are my last hope. Can you find the recipe for Chocolate Hello Dolly Bars?"
I originally published this recipe in December 2003 in my end-of-year round up of favorite new recipes I added to my collection in the past year. At the time, I noted that when Jim brought these Chocolate Magic Cookie Bars to a fall potluck luncheon, the rest of the features department went crazy for them.
At the time, Kiest said his recipe for a chocolate seven-layer bar is "really just a variation on the magic cookie bar recipe based on stuff I found in the baking section of H-E-B."
Instead of graham cracker crumbs, he used chocolate graham cracker crumbs mixed with butter, then topped the crust with pecan pieces, milk chocolate chips, toffee chips and sweetened condensed milk.
Here's a tip when you make this recipe, or the regular seven-layer bars. I like to melt the butter for the bars in the pan in which I will bake them. While you are melting the butter in the pan in the oven, remove the label from the can of sweetened condensed milk, open the can and put the can into the oven at the same time the butter is melting. Remove from the oven carefully and drizzle the warmed milk over the bars before baking; heating the milk starts the caramelization process earlier, resulting in better caramelized, and better tasting, bars.
Recipe Find appears Sundays in Taste. If you are looking for a lost recipe or have a favorite recipe to share, let us hear from you. Email kharam@
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I was grabbing a beer at a bar in Vail after a day of skiing. In walks this mid-to-late 40's guy wearing a New Era Burton hat turned 45 degrees, sideburns, a boarder jacket and skate shoes. He was acting like he was a 19 year-old "bro" and saying lots of things like, "S'up brah, check this, this chick roll up to me slopeside...." He was hitting on anything that pees sitting down and was simply too old for the young, hipster crowd. He kept asking "Hey, what band is this?" every time a new song started.
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Building products maker James Hardie's first-half profit has fallen 35 per cent but the company says there are good signs in its key market, the US.
James Hardie made a net profit of $US83.5 million ($A80.86 million) in the six months to September 30, down from $US128.4 million in the same period in the previous year.
The result included an unfavourable adjustment to the company's asbestos liabilities due to a stronger Australian dollar.
Net operating profit excluding items such as asbestos and legal liabilities in the six months to September was $US78.6 million, down two per cent from $US80.6 million in the previous corresponding period.
The market has been unimpressed with the result, with James Hardie among the worst performing stocks on the ASX200 this morning, down 43½ cents - 4.8 per cent - at $8.535.
Chief executive Louis Gries said there were signs of a sustainable housing recovery in the United States, where the company generates a majority of its earnings.
But, the Australian market remains subdued despite recent interest rate cuts, reflecting low levels of confidence among domestic consumers.
The New Zealand market was improving, but remained at near cyclical lows, he said.
James Hardie said it noted analysts' forecasts of a full-year net operating profit, excluding asbestos liabilities, in a range of $US147 million and $US178 million.
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Best Dressed at the 83rd Academy Awards
Sandra Bullock, Hilary Swank, Penelope Cruz and — of course — Helen Mirren looked oh-so sexy on the red carpet.
-PJ Gach
Last night, LA, no, the world shut down to watch the Oscars. Who would win the Oscar race? The Social Network, The King's Speech, The Fighter or another movie that had "The" in it?
We weren't sure; we just wanted to watch the red carpet! That's where the real action was! Like the Golden Globes last year, we saw a ton of red gowns walking a red carpet, which led us to wonder, where did the carpet end and the dress start? Anne Hathaway, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lawrence and Penelope Cruz glowed in this shade. Color — tangerine, plum, silver and pink — happily overpowered the ubiquitious black gown last night.
Read on for our best dressed picks of the night.
Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) has made an impression on every red carpet she's been on this season. Sunday, she was first on the red carpet and, as Guiliana Rancic said on E!'s red carpet show, "she raised the bar high." Sometimes less is more and in this case, less was stunning. Jennifer wore a custom made red gown by Calvin Klein, with Judith Leiber clutch and jewelry by Chopard. Sleek and elegant!
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Natalie Portman
Talk about sleek and elegant! Oscar winner for Best Actress (Black Swan) Natalie Portman wore a beautiful gown by Rodarte, the team who created the dance costumes for her movie. She also wore a stunning ring by Tiffany, matching Jimmy Choo shoes and a wonderful smile. When she won, she thanked her parents for letting her act and her fiance, Benjamin Millepied for giving her the biggest role of her lifetime.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Winnipeg Jets fans showed up in numbers and volume at the Xcel Energy Center Thursday night, and even had, through the cleverness of the anthem singer, a chance to belt out their favourite "True North" before the game. Too bad their team's game went south.
The Jets struggled with most elements of the match against the Minnesota Wild and eventually succumbed 2-1 before 17,366 customers.
A second straight loss staggered the Jets back to 2-2 while the Wild were collecting a first win of the season, now standing 1-1-2.
"We don't start (with the puck) so we're always checking, chasing it down," Jets coach Claude Noel said. "Regardless of which end, we're always checking.
"And you can see our puck-possession game isn't great. The early games, we had decent puck possession from our own zone to break out through the neutral zone and then down the ice, but now we're getting stuck.
"And I think a lot of those are battles on the walls."
Faceoffs, a season-worst 16 for 61, and shots on goal, just 15, were major issues on Thursday.
Again. Those have been losing propositions for Winnipeg in each of four games so far.
"Did we generate much in the offensive zone? Not anything continual," Noel said. "And through the neutral zone, very little's getting done. They clog you up pretty well."
Jets captain Andrew Ladd was lamenting the faceoff tally.
"It definitely makes the game a lot easier when you're starting out with the puck," Ladd said. "Especially on power plays, stuff like that.
"It would be nice to have a little more jump in our game, win some more battles. That'll be the key for us tomorrow, to get back to battling the right way."
Holding on
The game could well have been gone in the first period, as the Wild were not what you'd call opportunistic.
Defenceman Jonas Brodin did get credit for a goal when he crashed the net and his moving arm wasn't deemed enough of a directing force that put the puck back in the net.
But there were other chances, several glorious, for the home team to forge ahead by a goal or four. Jason Pominville missed the easiest one, a three-foot shot that's a gimme on most nights, while Minnesota was working a power play.
Ondrej Pavelec can get some credit for making those saves -- again -- as his Jets team was being outshot all night long.
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For those looking for the silver linings, there was the Jets' power play on Thursday night.
After going a whole season -- albeit shortened by a labour dispute -- without a five-on-three goal, Winnipeg put one home in Thursday's first period when Wild skaters Jonas Brodin and Kyle Brodiak took penalties four seconds apart.
Toby Enstrom took the point shot that nicked the shin pad of centre Bryan Little before finding its way through Wild goalie Josh Harding.
The Jets had 10 chances last season to score in five-on-threes and cashed in on exactly none.
One shot away
For all their trouble, the Jets had the puck behind Harding in the last 20 seconds, but neither Bryan Little nor Ladd could find it quickly enough to score the tying goal.
"The game was still at hand, even the way we managed the last 20 minutes of the game. It was a tough way to manage the game," Noel said, pointing out two Jets penalties in the third. "We were trying to build momentum and spent time in the box.
"On the bright side of things, we have a game tomorrow and we have an opportunity to go back and get this think on the right track and get going. Because I think we can play a lot better."


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