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It's a great start to a lazy Sunday. I wanted to post this outfit before I got too comfy.
I bought this vintage top from Kori of Buxom Vintage for $8. You should def check her out, she specializes in plus size vintage. She was a vendor at the Curvy Revolution.
I'd love to turn this into some sort of crop top. But the embroidery around the neck, sleeves and trim is really unique. So, I'd hate to lose any of it. Should I just leave it the way it is?
The denim straight leg capri ($20) is courtesy of Just My Size. I couldn't find them online, but I know they are a piece from their spring looks. There's a little bit of stretch in the material, which makes them the perfect capri for my lazy day.
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Fry Like a Proby Food Network Magazine in Food Network Magazine, How-to, September 12th, 2012
Hot Tips From Food Network Kitchens' Katherine Alford:
Next time you're battering food for frying, make sure the flour or cornstarch thoroughly coats your ingredients before you dip them in batter or egg because batter tends to slide off bare spots. Dip food in the flour a second time, then tap or shake off any excess before battering so it doesn't clump in the fryer.
Try it: Fried Zucchini and Mozzarella (pictured above)
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vertical editing in TextMate by falko30 03 2010
Here's a very short screencast about vertical text editing feature in TextMate. I often have the case that I need to edit text in several lines at onces. I'm used to do that in the Unix editor VIM but TextMate has this feature as well. For as a keyboard/console junkie it wasn't easy to figure out how to achieve it in TextMate. That's why I made this little screencast to share my findings
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Simmons' first multihomer game powers Braves
Maholm turns in solid start as McCann goes 0-for-4 in debut vs. Reds
CINCINNATI -- The Atlanta Braves had lost six straight games in Cincinnati dating back to 2011.
Andrelton Simmons made sure the streak wouldn't reach seven.
The 23-year-old shortstop went 3-for-4 with two home runs and a career-high four RBIs on Monday, as Atlanta won, 7-4, at Great American Ball Park.
"I felt good at the plate," Simmons said. "I got a couple pitches over the plate. Thanks to my teammates, though. They gave me a good scouting report before I had to face anybody. They made it easier."
They also knew what they were talking about. The Braves rocked Reds starter Bronson Arroyo early and often to start their 10-game road trip off on the right foot.
Arroyo hasn't been great against Atlanta in his career -- he entered the game with a 5.34 ERA in 16 career games against the Braves -- but he had fared better lately, going 2-0 with a 3.26 ERA in his previous five meetings with the National League East leaders.
On Monday, he regressed to the mean.
The Braves scored one run off Arroyo in four of the first five innings, including two off the bat of Simmons, who had a solo home run in the second and an RBI single in the fourth. The homer, Simmons' third of the year, traveled an estimated 406 feet.
Arroyo threw 78 pitches over seven innings in his last start; on Monday, he was at 78 pitches with one out in the third. He finished with 97 pitches in five innings, allowing four runs on eight hits. He walked two and struck out seven.
"That was definitely a battle," Arroyo said. "Top to bottom, that's a really powerful lineup. A lot of threats are in there. You have to be a little more nitpicky. I wound up getting guys on base early in almost every inning. When you do that, it forces you to throw more pitches, especially against a lineup as deep as these guys. The only guy I really didn't know in the lineup and wasn't worried about hitting the ball out of the ballpark was [Simmons], and he ended up taking me deep."
Braves starter Paul Maholm, who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 2005-11, is no stranger to the Reds or Great American Ball Park -- and early on, it showed.
Maholm surrendered just one hit his first time through the Reds order -- a single to right by No. 8 hitter Derrick Robinson -- before Cincinnati broke free in the fourth. The first three hitters reached base, including Brandon Phillips, who doubled in the Reds' first run. Jay Bruce followed with an RBI groundout to make it 3-2.
Maholm, however, struck out Todd Frazier and induced a groundout from Devin Mesoraco to avoid further damage.
"It's a tough park to pitch in; it's a tough lineup," Maholm said. "They're going to grind out at-bats. You've got to limit the damage as much as you can."
The Braves took it from there, as Simmons, Justin Upton and Freddie Freeman went a combined 7-for-13 with five RBIs. Simmons hit his second homer of the game in the eighth -- a 383-foot, two-run shot off Reds reliever Logan Ondrusek -- to notch the first multihomer game of his career.
"He's swinging the bat good," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "But he makes his RBIs and his batting average on the field. He doesn't have to hit .300. He could hit .250 or .260 and really be a force to be reckoned with."
Simmons also made a nifty play in the field, reaching between his legs to tag out Shin-Soo Choo at second base on a stolen-base attempt.
Meanwhile, Maholm's mastery of Joey Votto and Bruce continued; the Reds' Nos. 3 and 5 hitters went 0-for-5 with an RBI against the Braves' lefty and are now a combined 5-for-42 in their careers against him. The key at-bat came in the fifth, when Votto -- representing the go-ahead run -- grounded out with two runners on to end the inning.
Maholm allowed two runs on four hits in 5 2/3 innings, walking two and striking out six. He threw 105 pitches, 64 for strikes. He exited in the sixth in favor of Cory Gearrin, who struck out Mesoraco to strand Frazier on third and end the inning.
"He did whatever he wanted to do tonight," Braves catcher Brian McCann said of Maholm. "He had both sides of the plate working, slowed it down with the curveball, pounded them in with the cutter. When he's got both sides of the plate working, he's going to win a lot of ballgames."
McCann went 0-for-4 in his season debut after spending the first five weeks of the season on the disabled list.
The one bright spot for the Reds was reliever Alfredo Simon, who struck out all six batters he faced.
The Reds actually sent the tying run to the plate in the ninth, but Braves closer Craig Kimbrel struck out Votto to end the game and record his 10th save of the season and the 99th of his career.
"The regular fan tomorrow is going to get up and read the paper and go, 'The Braves won by three, Kimbrel got the save and Simmons hit a few homers,'" Gonzalez said. "But we got into some serious trouble. When you're facing Votto in the ninth in this ballpark with two people on and a two-run lead, it's hard. But we did well. We kept adding on and adding on, and you've got to do that because they have a history in this ballpark of coming back."
Tony Meale is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Pangean Orchestra, based in Phoenix, opened just a year ago and has established an orchestra with people, instruments and sounds from all over the world. In fact,this is the first orchestra of its kind. The unique thing about this group of 29 performers is they don't play the typical instruments. Their music comes from… Read More →


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
The economic environment has made the urgency to drive sales leads a top priority and the obstacles to success more massive. Potential buyers for business-to-business solutions exist, but how do you find them at the right time without wasting dollars? The Web is the vehicle of choice when buyers start looking. Ideally, your brand shows up in the top five organic search results for your best keywords but that won't happen overnight. How can you create a framework to hone your lead generation, track where productive leads originate, refine your strategies for better yield, and optimize your spend?

 TimeTrade Systems, founded in 2000, sells on-demand solutions for appointment scheduling to large enterprises, government agencies, and small to mid-size business. The challenge we face is that our prospects cut across many industries including retail, health care, financial services, and federal and state agencies—anyone who books thousands or even millions of appointments a year represents a sales opportunity. Rather than an e-commerce sale where the buyer goes directly to the Website to buy, TimeTrade—like many other businesses—must convert leads to deals through working with the customer—deals that can be in the millions of dollars. And there's no single place to reach this broad range of buyers with conventional advertising. For instance, traditional SIC codes are fairly useless, because people in any industry might need what we have.

 TimeTrade is doing well in this growing market opportunity, but we stay lean. We've always watched our costs and spent thoughtfully. We don't ride trends, we spend with a well-thought-out purpose. This approach stood us well in our formative years (the dot-com collapse), and it's standing us well today.

 The key is trackability, from lead to forecast to completed deal. We don't just monitor "lead gen," we watch "deal gen." And we track it by lead source, using Web-based analytics tools.

 For companies that want to optimize "deal gen" through a better understanding of what strategies and channels are most productive, here are some tips on what has worked well for TimeTrade as we track leads and focus our spend by knowing which leads became deals and how to cultivate new prospects:

 •Do the hard "sweat and pray" work of optimizing your Website (SEO). If you want traffic to show up on your site from searches (Google, Yahoo, etc.), you need to do the hard work of looking good to the search engine software. Think about your keywords and use them; develop links from other sites and blogs; keep your site's content fresh by writing a blog. This takes work. Get started.

 •Buy additional traffic with Pay-Per-Click (PPC). As long as your competitors push you off the first screen of search results for your keywords, either you won't get found or you can buy your way onto the first screen with PPC. Caution: If you don't know which keywords lead to deals, PPC will waste your money. And it's not a scaleable solution: The money you spend on every click is gone forever. Successful SEO work is the gift that keeps on giving. So use PPC to supplement SEO, and when you no longer need PPC, scale it back.

 •Know who's visiting and where they're coming from. Leadlander tells us what companies are on our site and where they came from; Google Analytics gives aggregate numbers for traffic sources and page views. However, both these tools are less valuable because they can't identify specific visitors. That's why we…

 •…Track every lead. The Web makes click-tracking easy. We use Salesforce for Google AdWords, a free mash-up for Salesforce users, to track where every Web lead came from. We have a graphical dashboard in Salesforce to track new accounts and leads by source, and we use HubSpot's inbound marketing system for non-PPC leads, and post-click tracking of all leads. It's even possible to track non-Web print ads. Some people just spend and pray on print—they just hope someone comes to their site, but they have no real idea. When TimeTrade buys space, the call to action is a URL to a specific page—which we can track easily.

 •Analyze channel cost to hone in on a focused strategy. We combine data from Salesforce and from accounting to determine cost per lead and cost per deal. This strategy can be an eye-opener—we found Webcasts bring in lots of leads but have poor cost per deal compared to PPC and well-chosen trade shows.

 This method works. As one example, last year we wanted to know if we should drop PPC to conserve the cash. We dug into our data and saw that PPC-sourced deals had boosted our new business year to date by 68 percent. Not only that, PPC deals made our pipeline 50% percent bigger than it would have been. This is scientific, fact-based marketing, and it's part of our culture.

 These Web-based tracking strategies are relatively easy to deploy, since there's no software to install. You still need to learn what they do and understand what they're saying; buying an encyclopedia doesn't make you educated. But combined with good thinking, these tools have helped us capture information that lets us focus our marketing efforts on "deal gen," not purely "lead gen." And we know what works, which in this economy is vital.

 Dave deBronkart is director of analytics for TimeTrade Systems.


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Apple's next iPhone is arguably the most anticipated gadget unveiling of 2011 and it's taking place on Wednesday at 4am (AEDT) - Tuesday in the US.
And with any big Apple product announcement, the rumours have been flying for months - even former US Vice President and Apple board member Al Gore has fed some of the speculation.
Fairfax Media will report on the big event tomorrow morning, covering new Apple CEO Tim Cook's unveiling of the next iPhone, iOS 5 and maybe even Facebook-related announcements.
But, as of today, we don't know for sure what Apple will announce - an iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S, an all-new lower-priced entry-level iPhone, one iPhone, two or even three new models.
Giga Netzwerk has created an iPhone 5 mock-up based on leaked hints so far. The prototype has a larger 4-inch screen.
Let's take a look at what's been reported so far, so we can see what pans out or what doesn't...
The standard right now for high-end smartphones (such as the Droid Bionic and Samsung Galaxy S II) is a dual-core processor, about 1 gigabyte of RAM, at least 16 gigabytes of storage memory and an 8-megapixel rear camera capable of shooting 1080p high-definition video and a better-than-VGA front facing camera.
The iPhone 4 currently runs on the Apple-designed and Samsung-built A4 single-core processor. The iPad 2 saw the debut of the dual-core Apple A5 chip, and the next iPhone is widely expected to gain the A5 chip, bringing it in line with its Android rivals. A boost in RAM would be needed to really capitalise on a faster dual-core processor, so these go hand in hand.
The iPhone 4's 5-megapixel rear camera is considered by many to be one of the most capable cameras available in a smartphone today, even at more than a year old. Nonetheless, a rumoured upgrade to an 8-megapixel rear camera is expected and anything less would be disappointing considering how widespread of a feature this has become in competing smartphones.
Up front, the iPhone 4 has a VGA-quality camera (as seen on Apple's iPad 2 and iPod Touch), and that is rumoured to be getting an upgrade too. An upgrade here would make sense, in part because Apple has already upgraded many of its laptops with high-definition cameras above their monitors.
The next iPhone is also rumoured to be offered in storage sizes of not only 16 gigabytes and 32 gigabytes as is offered now, but also with a 64-gigabyte option.
The size of the next iPhone's touch screen has been a topic of debate and contradicting speculation for months. Rumours have ranged from the next iPhone retaining the 3.5-inch display of the previous four generations and an increase to 4 inches (10.16 centimetres) or even 4.5 inches (11.43 centimetres).
The iPhone 4's 3.5-inch (8.89-centimetre) screen introduced the "retina display" with a resolution of 960-by-640-pixel and a crisp 326 dpi (dots, or pixels, per inch). The screen is so beloved by Apple iPhone owners that rumours have persisted since before the launch of the iPad 2 that the iPad would eventually see such a dense display.
Given how much iPhone users enjoy the iPhone 4's screen, this rumour may end up not seeing the light of day.
However, the fact that the next iPhone has taken more than a year to hit stores since the iPhone 4's launch has given rise to rumours that problems with producing a larger display are what have delayed the release of the next iPhone.
iPhone 4S or iPhone 5:
Simply put, if the next iPhone has a bigger screen, it needs a new body, a new form factor. If the screen stays the same, it could make use of the same form as the iPhone 4.
When Apple moved from its second-generation to its third-generation iPhone, the name changed from the iPhone 3G to the iPhone 3GS. The form factor remained the same, but the internals were upgraded, and the S was added to the name to indicate the bump in speed and improved software of iOS 4.
We know for sure the iPhone 5 will run iOS 5 and receive upgraded hardware of some sort. If that upgraded hardware fits into the existing iPhone 4 form factor, then the likely name will be iPhone 4S.
If Apple debuts a new design, the likely name will be the iPhone 5, if the Cupertino, California, tech giant follows its past naming pattern.
Among the rumoured design choices if Apple unveils a new look for the next iPhone is a "teardrop" shape that tapers from a thicker top to a narrower bottom, similar to the look of the MacBook Air in profile.
Supposed iPhone cases have been leaking from China for weeks and even reportedly showing up at US telco AT&T stores, leading some to believe that the teardrop look is coming. However, Apple pundit John Gruber weighed in with a smart argument that a teardrop design wouldn't make sense for an iPhone because it would lead to an unbalanced feel in the hand, especially when playing games horizontally. That runs contrary to Apple's industrial design themes and emphasis on ease of use.
One iPhone or two?:
With differing views on whether the next iPhone will receive a new body, some have taken to the rumour that Apple could release two phones, both an iPhone 5 (possibly with a larger screen) and an iPhone 4S.
One move that is likely (whether we see two new iPhones or one) would be for Apple to take the existing iPhone 4, drop its storage memory down to about 8-gigabytes and sell it at a low price. Apple made this move with the iPhone 3GS when the iPhone 4 was released, selling an 8-gigabyte version of that handset in the US for $US99 from AT&T.
This too has been rumoured, with varying and conflicting reports projecting just how it will all play out.
Siri and the Assistant:
Possibly the least reported of the rumours mentioned in this post is that the next iPhone could gain a groundbreaking new feature called "assistant" that would allow for deeper integrated speech controls.
But Assistant, as rumoured, wouldn't be just any speech input feature, it would actually allow iPhone users to speak a conversational style request into their device and Assistant would perform the requested action by identifying the necessary app and then using that app to get the appropriate data.
For example, a user in Sydney could say something like "I want to go to a soccer game on Saturday", and then the Assistant program would find out that both Sydney FC and Newcastle Jets play Saturday, then report back to the user where they play, against what teams and how much tickets would cost, with links to all the information needed to buy tickets and attend a game.
The technology behind Assistant would come largely from a start-up Apple purchased more than a year ago called Siri.
The news outlet that reported on what Siri could look like in the next iPhone the most has been the blog 9to5Mac, which has quoted Siri co-founder Norman Winarsky as saying that he doesn't know the particulars of what Apple is doing with Siri's technology, but "Make no mistake: Apple's 'mainstreaming' Artificial Intelligence in the form of a Virtual Personal Assistant is a groundbreaking event. I'd go so far as to say it is a World-Changing event."
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Hi All,
I have some web project ideas and i can not develop by my self. I have several doubts and cocerns if i want to hire a professional to develop them.
I hope you can give some guidelines.
Sorry about my english,Vince.
Vince -
Ideas are great, but until they're put into practice they're essentially worthless. I'm not saying that you're idea (whatever it is) is a bad one, just that I wouldn't put too much emphasis on it. The execution of your idea is generally what will determine if it's going to work or not. Yes, someone could steal your idea even if you have them sign a confidentiality agreement. An agreement is just a piece of paper and good luck enforcing it if you're going over international lines for development. That being said, if you're so sure of your idea that you believe it's execution is foolproof and worth a fortune, then I would recommend finding yourself some venture capital and retaining your own in-house designer. If you're not that committed to your idea, then I wouldn't worry about someone else stealing it.
This all depends on how much money you'd like to spend and the caliber of work you're looking for. Keeping in mind that generally the bigger your budget, the better development you're going to get. Sure, you may run across a genius who is just starting out and is willing to work for next to nothing, but I wouldn't bet on it. If you're looking for low budget development you could head over to www.elance.com or www.guru.com and hire a freelancer. Just keep in mind that with rock bottom prices comes rock bottom service and generally non-portable code. If you have the budget, call up a half a dozen web development shops in your local area/country (Google it) and interview them. Go with the folks that look like they will be able to still keep their doors open in 12 months when you need updates.
Absolutely you are the owner. Hopefully the relationship is never finished. If you have a blossoming idea, you're going to need constant updates and improvements to grow the project. I can't think of a single successful project where development went stagnant once it was launched. My point here is that you should budget for the long-term and plan for a long-term relationship with your development team.
Agree with Jeff. If idea is really good people will steal it AFTER you finished your project, not BEFORE. Instagram wasnt the first app to post process photos and facebook wasnt the first social network and twitter wasnt the first project where you can share what are you doing.
So basically its all about final product, not about the idea.
I ve done quite a few successful start ups (working in a company with over 250 employers which is basically developing ideas into working products) and the way to create something meaningful is this: you invest around 10k pounds and create working prototype within 3-6 months, then you try to find investor for your project who is willing to spend 100k+ more and create something meaningful. Generally speaking a lot of people are willing to invest into apps now so shouldnt be a problem if idea is really good.
Wow that is a great point. It is the constant updates, the constant bug fixing the constant new features that you are going to always be working on.
It is incredible how much rubbish there is to go through. I would hire someone who you can easily communicate with as it is likely you are going to be talking to this guy every single day. I have one guy who works for me and we are finally meeting this December.
I actually remember reading this article about hiring a programmer. let me find it.
I'm based in the UK and there was certainly a lot of issues around this in the past actually; a lot of web design companies would register domains in their name and claim copyright on the code and SEO, so you would be the owner of the concept for the site, but the nuts and bolts that put it together would belong to the web designer, you have to make sure the issue is covered in the contract agreed between you and your supplier.
Tell me your joking?!?! That is crazy?!
I'm based in the UK and there was certainly a lot of issues around this in the past actually; a lot of web design companies would register domains in their name and claim copyright on the code and SEO, so you would be the owner of the concept for the site, but the nuts and bolts that put it together would belong to the web designer, you have to make sure the issue is covered in the contract agreed between you and your supplier.
Holy Mother Of God :o That's insane!
It was really common with web design companies (not really with solo freelancers I should add), the company I work for now used to use it and still occasionally does as a sales technique; "you own everything!". Typically it's because a lot of companies sell the design quite cheap and make their money off of long term hosting and maintenance contracts, if someone wanted to leave for a cheaper package the company could then say "well, OK, but we have to take all our work back unfortunately" or charge them a severance fee to buy out the copyright on the code/seo/design/etc.
Totally immoral but entirely legal, whoever creates owns the copyright as a basic legal principle, unless a contract exists specifying otherwise, like I own the copyright to everything I've written here, but there's probably some clause in the terms and conditions of the forum licensing the forum to reproduce it, store it, etc.
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Thanks to Mad About Genealogy reader Jane who sent me a note to say that she had found an excellent podcast from The National Archives about Workhouses. The Podcast is titled "Our ancestors & their fear of the workhouse" and is a talk by Dr. Paul Carter.
The National Archives podcast series are an excellent resource for family historians of all levels of expertise and well worth taking the time to browse through.
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By V. Ramaswamy
Metropolitan Calcutta is characterized by acute geographic, social and ethnic disparities. Such disparities severely threaten health, the urban environment and social harmony. A third of the metropolis' population lives in deprivation from basic civic amenities in highly congested and degraded slums. These occupy large tracts of land in the metropolitan core. Simultaneously, uncontrolled urban sprawl to meet large-scale housing requirements endangers the ecologically sensitive wetlands fringing the city.
Metropolitan Calcutta, home to some 14 million people, sprawls over 1,350 sq km, spread in a linear north-south alignment along the east and west banks of the Hooghly river. (New York, for comparison has a population of 8 million in 800 square kilometers or 309 square miles), on the two sides of which lie the core cities of Calcutta (pop. about 5 million) and Howrah (pop. about 1.5 million).
Muslims constitute a bit under 20% of the population of Calcutta city. Over three fourths of the city's Muslim population may be living in slum neighbourhoods. There are likely to be deep-rooted and institutionalized attitudinal constraints to development in ethnic minority settlements. Socio-economic deprivation and disparity also breeds a criminalised polity and enhances sectarian strife.
Howrah, a million-plus, historically neglected city, is among the most blighted areas. Over half the population here lives in slums, a significant proportion belonging to the minority Muslim community. Available health and infant mortality statistics indicate high morbidity and mortality on account of waterborne diseases. Infant mortality rates in slums may be more than double those in non-slum areas. This stems from the continuing reliance of millions of vulnerable people living in the slum-like bastis (see below for a complete description) on contaminated water sources, in the absence of access to adequate supplies of potable water, and inadequate sanitation.
This forms the city context within which I have been working since 1984, when I joined the Chhinnamul Sramajibi Adhikar Samiti (Organisation for the Rights of Uprooted Laboring People), an umbrella-front of squatter communities in Calcutta struggling against demolitions and forced evictions. In 2001, I convened the establishment of the Metropolitan Assembly for Social Development, a civic platform to take up a concerted city-wide programme of slum community empowerment. This article seeks to elaborate on the problem situation, and the journey through civil society action interventions in pursuit of greater social and environmental justice in my city.


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Baker's Chocolate And Coconut Favorites [1962]
The red title is in a white oval with red-dotted scalloped edges. The cover photograph wraps around the front and back. In the photograph is a pot of hot chocolate, yellow daisies, chocolate cake, cream pie, brownies, cookies, and other baked goods. Color photographs of Baker's products are on the back end page. 64 pages.View this piece: jpg pdf
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Baker's Chocolate
Publisher: General Foods Kitchens, General Foods Corp. (White Plains, N.Y.)
64 p.
21.0 x 14.0 cm
Language: English
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Copyright: Permission is granted from the copyright owner/holder.
Citation: Baker's Chocolate And Coconut Favorites [1962]. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=66


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How often do you, as a manager, evaluate what's happening in the parlor?
"Many successful producers would argue that spending at least a few minutes every day in the parlor communicating with employees is among the most profitable and productive time spent managing the dairy farm," says Roberta Osborne with Michigan State University Extension.
This is one of several key factors that you can use to assess your farm's milk-prep process. Here are eight more questions to consider:
1. Are all milkers trained in the prep procedure established for your farm?
2. Are cows stimulated for at least 20 seconds?
3. Is teat dip left on the teat for at least 20-30 seconds before wiping the teat end dry?
4. Is an effort made to clean and dry the teat end specifically?
5. Is machine attachment occurring within 60-90 seconds after teat stimulation begins?
6. How often are employees retrained?
7. Is there a written standard operating procedure for milking preparation posted in the parlor?
8. Do you focus on fore-milk stripping, which is the practice of removing two to three squirts of milk from each quarter during the milk-prep process?


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I cut this square into two different shapes. What can you say about the relationship between them?
These pictures were made by starting with a square, finding the half-way point on each side and joining those points up. You could investigate your own starting shape.
If I use 12 green tiles to represent my lawn, how many different ways could I arrange them? How many border tiles would I need each time?
Can you make these equilateral triangles fit together to cover the paper without any gaps between them? Can you tessellate isosceles triangles?
Investigate the area of 'slices' cut off this cube of cheese. What would happen if you had different-sized block of cheese to start with?
Here are many ideas for you to investigate - all linked with the number 2000.
How many tiles do we need to tile these patios?
A thoughtful shepherd used bales of straw to protect the area around his lambs. Explore how you can arrange the bales.
Bernard Bagnall describes how to get more out of some favourite NRICH investigations.
Can you find out how the 6-triangle shape is transformed in these tessellations? Will the tessellations go on for ever? Why or why not?
Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?
Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?
Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?
In my local town there are three supermarkets which each has a special deal on some products. If you bought all your shopping in one shop, where would be the cheapest?
Can you continue this pattern of triangles and begin to predict how many sticks are used for each new "layer"?
Cut differently-sized square corners from a square piece of paper to make boxes without lids. Do they all have the same volume?
Investigate the different ways these aliens count in this challenge. You could start by thinking about how each of them would write our number 7.
Investigate the numbers that come up on a die as you roll it in the direction of north, south, east and west, without going over the path it's already made.
If we had 16 light bars which digital numbers could we make? How will you know you've found them all?
Investigate all the different squares you can make on this 5 by 5 grid by making your starting side go from the bottom left hand point. Can you find out the areas of all these squares?
Investigate the different shaped bracelets you could make from 18 different spherical beads. How do they compare if you use 24 beads?
Which times on a digital clock have a line of symmetry? Which look the same upside-down? You might like to try this investigation and find out!
What is the largest cuboid you can wrap in an A3 sheet of paper?
In this investigation we are going to count the number of 1s, 2s, 3s etc in numbers. Can you predict what will happen?
Bernard Bagnall looks at what 'problem solving' might really mean in the context of primary classrooms.
"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?
Polygonal numbers are those that are arranged in shapes as they enlarge. Explore the polygonal numbers drawn here.
Take a look at these data collected by children in 1986 as part of the Domesday Project. What do they tell you? What do you think about the way they are presented?
This challenge asks you to investigate the total number of cards that would be sent if four children send one to all three others. How many would be sent if there were five children? Six?
This problem is intended to get children to look really hard at something they will see many times in the next few months.
Why does the tower look a different size in each of these pictures?
When Charlie asked his grandmother how old she is, he didn't get a straightforward reply! Can you work out how old she is?
Follow the directions for circling numbers in the matrix. Add all the circled numbers together. Note your answer. Try again with a different starting number. What do you notice?
This activity asks you to collect information about the birds you see in the garden. Are there patterns in the data or do the birds seem to visit randomly?
What is the smallest number of tiles needed to tile this patio? Can you investigate patios of different sizes?
How many triangles can you make on the 3 by 3 pegboard?
An investigation that gives you the opportunity to make and justify predictions.
Here is your chance to investigate the number 28 using shapes, cubes ... in fact anything at all.
This article for teachers suggests ideas for activities built around 10 and 2010.
Using different numbers of sticks, how many different triangles are you able to make? Can you make any rules about the numbers of sticks that make the most triangles?
The red ring is inside the blue ring in this picture. Can you rearrange the rings in different ways? Perhaps you can overlap them or put one outside another?
Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.
The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?
Investigate and explain the patterns that you see from recording just the units digits of numbers in the times tables.
If you have three circular objects, you could arrange them so that they are separate, touching, overlapping or inside each other. Can you investigate all the different possibilities?
Investigate the number of faces you can see when you arrange three cubes in different ways.
Compare the numbers of particular tiles in one or all of these three designs, inspired by the floor tiles of a church in Cambridge.
Investigate these hexagons drawn from different sized equilateral triangles.
Start with four numbers at the corners of a square and put the total of two corners in the middle of that side. Keep going... Can you estimate what the size of the last four numbers will be?
When newspaper pages get separated at home we have to try to sort them out and get things in the correct order. How many ways can we arrange these pages so that the numbering may be different?


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With all the graduations, showers, Mother's Day, Father's Day and weddings coming up, I thought you might enjoy some appetizer ideas you can use for any of these parties.
Sweet Sour Meat Balls
1/2 cup instant rice
2 pounds 90% lean ground beef
1 egg
1 cup soft butter flavored cracker crumbs
1 tablespoon oil
1 1/2 cups barbecue sauce
1 cups (12 ounce) jar pineapple topping
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
Prepare rice according to package directions. Meanwhile combine ground beef, egg and cracker crumbs, mix well. Add cooked rice, mix thoroughly. Shape into 1-inch meatballs. Cook in oil over medium heat until browned, turning occasionally. If necessary, drain grease from skillet. Combine all sauce ingredients; mix until brown sugar is dissolved. Pour over meatballs. Cover and simmer over low heat for 30 to 45 minutes or until meatballs are no longer pink in center. Serve with toothpicks.
Spinach Dip
1 10-ounce package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
1 16-ounce container sour cream
1 cup Hellmann's mayonnaise
1 package Knorr recipe classics vegetable soup, dip and recipe mix
1 8-ounce can water chestnuts, drained and chopped
3 green onions, chopped
In medium bowl, combine all ingredients, chill at least 2 hours to blend flavors. Stir before serving. Serve with your favorite dippers.
Nutty Bacon Cheese Ball
1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup milk
2 cups (8 ounces) shredded sharp cheddar cheese
2 cups (8 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
1/4 cup finely minced green onions (white parts only)
1 2-ounce jar diced pimiento, drained
10 slices bacon, cooked, drained, finely crumbled and divided
3/4 cup finely chopped pecans, divided
Salt and pepper to taste
1/4 cup minced parsley
1 tablespoon poppy seeds
Beat cream cheese and milk on low speed in large bowl with electric mixer until blended. Add cheeses. Blend on medium speed until well combined. Add green onions, pimiento, half of bacon and half of pecans. Blend on medium speed until well mixed. Add salt and pepper to taste. Transfer half of mixture to large piece of plastic wrap. Form into ball, wrap tightly. Repeat with remaining mixture. Refrigerate until chilled, at least two hours. Combine remaining bacon and pecans with parsley and poppy seeds in pie plate or large dinner plate. Remove plastic wrap from each ball roll each in bacon mixture until well coated. Wrap each ball tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to use, up to 24 hours.
Festive Franks
1 8-ounce can crescent roll dough
5 1/2 teaspoons barbecue sauce
1/2 cup finely shredded sharp cheddar cheese
8 fat free hot dogs
1/4 teaspoon poppy seeds
Preheat oven to 350°. Spray large baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside. Unroll dough and separate into 8 separate triangles. Cut each triangle in half lengthwise to make 2 triangles. Roll up jelly roll style from wide end. Place point side down on prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle with poppy seeds. Repeat with remaining hot dog pieces and dough. Bake 13 minutes or until dough is golden brown. Cook 1 to 2 minutes on baking sheet. Serve with additional barbecue sauce for dipping.
Pizza Snack Cups
1 12-ounce can refrigerated biscuits (10 biscuits)
1/2 pound ground beef
1 14-ounce jar Ragu Pizza Quick Sauce
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (about 2 ounces)
Preheat oven to 375°. In muffin pan, evenly press each biscuit in bottom and up side of cups, chill until ready to fill. In 10-inch skillet, brown ground beef over medium high heat, drain. Stir in Ragu Pizza Quick Sauce and heat through. Evenly spoon beef mixture into prepared muffin cups. Bake 15 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese and bake an additional 5 minutes or until cheese is melted and biscuits are golden. Let stand 5 minutes. Gently remove pizza cups from muffin pan and serve.
Quick Pimiento Cheese Snacks
2 ounces reduced fat cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup (2 ounces) shredded reduced fat cheddar cheese
1 2-ounce jar diced Pimiento, drained
2 tablespoons finely chopped pecans
1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
24 French bread sliced, about ľ inch thick or party bread slices
Preheat broiler. Combine cream cheese and cheddar cheese in small bowl, mix well. Stir in pimiento, pecans and hot pepper sauce. Place bread slices on broiler pan or non-stick baking sheet. Broil, 4 inches from heat, for 1 to 2 minutes or until lightly toasted on both sides. Spread cheese mixture evenly onto bread slices. Broil 1 to 2 minutes or until cheese mixture in hot and bubbly. Transfer to serving plate. Garnish.
Golden Chicken Nuggets
1 pound boneless skinless chicken, cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
1/4 cup French's Sweet and Tangy Honey Mustard
2 cups French's French Fried Onions, finely crushed
Preheat oven to 400°. Toss chicken with mustard in medium bowl. Place French Fried Onions into resealable plastic food storage bag. Toss chicken in onions, a few pieces at a time, pressing gently to adhere. Place nuggets in shallow baking pan. Bake 15 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink in center. Serve with additional honey mustard for dipping.
Pizza Fondue
1/2 pound bulk Italian sausage
1 cup chopped onion
2 26-ounce jars meatless pasta sauce
4 ounces thinly sliced ham, finely chopped
1 3-ounce package sliced pepperoni, finely chopped
1/4 red pepper flakes
1 pound mozzarella cheese, cut into 1/4-inch cubes
1 loaf Italian or French bread, cut into 1-inch cubes
Cook sausage and onion in large skillet until sausage is browned. Drain off fat. Transfer sausage mixture to slow cooker. Stir in pasta sauce, ham, pepperoni and pepper flakes. Cover, cook on low 3 to 4 hours. Serve sauce with cheese cubes. Bread cubes and fondue forks.
Party Pizza Spread
2 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened
1 1-ounce package Hidden Valley original ranch salad dressing and seasoning mix
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
1 cup chili sauce
1/2 cup chopped green onions
1 cup chopped shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1/2 cup mushroom slices, olives, ham green peppers, or any favorite pizza toppings
In large bowl, blend cream cheese, salad dressing, seasoning mix, garlic and rosemary until smooth. Spread into 10-inch circle on serving platter smoothing mixture with spatula. Pour chili sauce over cream cheese mixture into 9-inch circle, creating, cheese crust border. Sprinkle with green onions, cheese and toppings. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes before serving. Serve with cheese and topping. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes before serving. Serve with crackers for dipping.
Maple Glazed Meatballs
1 1/2 cups ketchup
1 cup maple syrup or maple flavored syrup
1/3 cup reduced sodium soy sauce
1 tablespoon quick cooking tapioca
1 1/2 teaspoons ground allspice
1 teaspoon dry mustard
2 packages (about 16 ounces each) frozen fully cooked meatballs
1 20-ounce can pineapple chunks, drained
Stir together ketchup, syrup, soy sauce, tapioca, allspice and mustard in slow cooker. Separate meatballs. Carefully stir meatballs and pineapple chunks into ketchup mixture. Cover and cook on low for 5 to 6 hours. Stir before serving. Serve with cocktail picks.
Party Stuffed Pinwheels
1 envelope Lipton Recipe Secrets Savory Herb with Garlic Soup Mix
1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (about 4 ounces)
2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese
2 10-ounce packages refrigerated pizza crust
Preheat oven to 425°. In medium bowl, combine all ingredients except pizza crusts, set aside. Unroll pizza crusts and then top evenly with filling. Roll, starting at longest side, jelly roll style. Cut into 12 rounds. On baking sheet sprayed with nonstick cooking spray, arrange round-cut side down. Bake, uncovered, for 11-13 minutes or until golden brown.
This will give you a few ideas to start out your special event with; I hope you enjoy trying these. If you should need to reach me, you can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or drop a line to my attention to the BCR, P.O. Box 340, Princeton, IL 61356.
* On the April 4 issue I made a mistake on the Maple French Toast Bake as to the size of the baking dish. The correct size should be a 2-quart dish.


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A recent Rasmussen Report reveals that Mike Huckabee now has a slight lead (28%-25%) over Mitt Romney in Iowa. With only a little more than a month remaining before the Iowa caucuses, a Huckabee victory in the Hawkeye state is not out of the question. His performance recalls another folksy evangelical southern governor, Jimmy Carter, who rode his victory in the Iowa caucuses all the way to the White House in 1976.
Most of Huckabee's support in Iowa comes from evangelical Christians. According to the Rasmussen poll, nearly half of the state's evangelicals will caucus for the former Arkansas governor. What is most interesting about Huckabee's surge is that it has occurred in spite of the fact that he has yet to receive a major endorsement from an evangelical leader of national prominence. Pat Robertson has backed Giuliani. Bob Jones University endorsed Mitt Romney. James Dobson would rather stay home than throw his support behind Huckabee. Even the National Right to Life has taken a pass on Huckabee in favor of Fred Thompson. At the moment, Huckabee's most high-profile backers are former action hero Chuck Norris and fifty-nine year old professional wrestler "Nature Boy" Ric Flair.
Most evangelicals united behind George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, but today there is no such political unity among the Christian Right. While the movement's leaders are divided over the candidate they think can beat Hillary next November, they seem to be united in the belief that Mike Huckabee, a former evangelical Baptist minister with the best pro-life credentials of all the candidates, is not him.
Yet ordinary evangelicals continue to climb aboard the Huckabee bandwagon. Twenty-eight percent and counting….
Could it be that Dobson and others do not support Huckabee—the most obvious Christian candidate in the race-- because he is not conservative enough? If this is indeed the case, I wonder whether today's Christian conservatives are more "conservative" than they are "Christian." Let me explain.
Most evangelical Christians that I know—and that includes members of my largely working-class family, the people with whom I go to church, and the students I teach at Messiah College—describe themselves as "conservative" based upon their convictions on moral issues such as abortion, gay marriage, or stem-cell research.
Fair enough. But what most of these evangelicals do not realize is that these moral concerns have only become part of the conservative movement in the last thirty years or so.
Historically, conservatism has been less about abortion and "family values" and more about freedom from government's intrusion on one's individual rights. The conservative agenda has always played out practically in the support of big business, free-market solutions to social problems such as poverty or health care, reduced government spending, and cutting taxes, especially for the wealthy. Most conservatives today would agree with Thomas Paine when he said at the beginning of Common Sense that "government even in its best state is but a necessary evil."
It is indisputable that Mike Huckabee holds traditional views on social issues, but he fails to meet conservative standards when he talks about the purpose of government. Recently Robert Novak, the Washington Post columnist who no one would mistake for a liberal, denounced Huckabee as a "false conservative," calling attention to his "tax and spend" approach to government while he was governor of Arkansas. Jonah Goldberg of the National Review hammered Huckabee for the same reason in a recent Los Angeles Times column and in a video conversation with Peter Beinert on the New Republic website. Many of these conservatives consider Huckabee dangerous. Their attacks are similar to the ones that the Right level regularly on Bush for his lack of control over government spending.
According to Novak, Goldberg, and others, Huckabee is little more than a liberal with a culturally conservative moral agenda. And they are probably right. He represents the second coming of Bush's compassionate conservatism—a brand of conservatism (if you can call it that) that his former speechwriter Michael Gerson continues to hawk.
Huckabee wants to use the power of the state to end abortion (as opposed to many of his Republican/Federalist rivals who want to turn the matter over to the states), help the children of illegal immigrants, end gay marriage, ban smoking, and aid the poor. Though I would not push the analogy too far, Huckabee can occasionally sound a lot like Lyndon Johnson, whose Great Society reforms were also driven by the virtue of "compassion."
Perhaps the lack of support for Huckabee among leaders of the Christian Right can be explained by their refusal to support a candidate, despite his convictions on abortion or same-sex marriage, who does not toe the Goldwater-Reagan conservative line. Which brings us to the pressing question: Is it more important for the leaders of the Christian Right that a candidate be pro-life or a true conservative?
If it is true that prominent Christian leaders will not support Huckabee because he is not loyal to the conservative movement, then it is also true that the people of Iowa are not buying it. Huckabee is their man because of his views on social issues. Most of them want to end abortion and could really care less about whether it is accomplished by the states or the federal government. If big government is the way to accomplish their moral goals for the nation, then so be it. And if a host of commentators, including the New York Times's David Kirpatrick, are correct, then these ordinary evangelicals are also concerned about fighting poverty and caring for the environment--not historically conservative causes.
Huckabee's ability to draw supporters without a major endorsement from an evangelical power-broker (and in some cases the outright rejection of his candidacy by Christian Republicans) tells us that the evangelical rank and file have a mind of their own. They will support candidates that their religious and moral convictions and common sense tells them are right, regardless of what Dobson or Robertson or Bob Jones or the people at National Right to Life have to say on the matter. Huckabee may not be the most conservative Republican candidate, but he is certainly the most Christian Republican candidate, and that is the kind of person that many ordinary evangelical Republicans, in Iowa and elsewhere, want in the White House.


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AMD's Radeon HD 5570: Low Profile, Higher Performanceby Ryan Smith on 2/9/2010 12:00 AM EST
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YogiBeer - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - linkHey i'm a bit of an end user so dont troll on me for asking this but ive got an Hp s5216f system the graphics card i got with it is shovel ware and i need one that can play games like modern warfare 2 and the like...will this do the trick and if not what will.......... thanx for the help............ Cheers mates Reply
mAJORD - Friday, April 02, 2010 - linkI got one of these to play Battlefield Bad company 2 on a little ITX system.
I OCd it to 720 core 1080 mem leaving the fan at AUTO.
at 1920x1080 Med detail settings, DX10, no AA 2xAF it's quite "playable" 25-mid 30 FPS and looks OK to be honest for such such a low power card. which is exactly what I was hoping.
Saying that I really wish they were equiped with downclocked DDR5! and the same 42w TDP. that would have been incredible bang / watt and size! disapointing AMD :( Reply
avi1956 - Sunday, February 28, 2010 - linkI purchased HIS 5570 HD 1GB video card from Newegg on Feb 15. When playing games after 5 to 15 mins of play I get crackling sound and frame rate degradation. The problem gets worse till the frame rate drop becomes progressively worse and noise continues. Also the OS slows down (mouse slow down). The only way to recover is to reboot. I have gateway SX2802-01 quad core Q8300 with 4 meg ram and windows 7 64 bit and latest catalyst driver dated 2/17/10 from ati.com. I have sent a belarc trouble report to ati and HIS and awaiting their feedback. Not sure if this is a hardware or software problem. Reply
PhantomKnight - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkThank you for a very informative article. It clears a lot up. I'm interested because I'm sick of using old hot noisy hardware.
I don't normally like typo posts, but when it confuses, it's a problem.
"As with Sapphire's 5450, their 5770 comes in a surprisingly large box. Inside is the card, a low-profile bracket, drivers, an installation guide, and Arcsoft's SimHD video conferencing plugin."
While I'd love to see a 5770 utalise a low profile, I doubt it will happen. Reply
office boy - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - linkWith the NV GT cards supporting 8 channel LPCM is ATI's support of Bitstreaming that important? Decoding in the PC vs in the receiver.
Isn't the outcome is the same? Uncompressed 7.1? Reply
wlee15 - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - linkThe GT and older ATI cards don't support the Protected audio path which means that any soundtracks higher than 16-bit 48 khz are downsampled to 16-bit 48 khz.
Also the HD 5570 should support support Vector Adaptive with newer drivers.
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1392217&a...">http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1392217&a... Reply
falacy - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - linkMy upgrade process over the last several years has led me to the following system, which I am very happy with in terms performance for the things I actually do (World of Warcraft, media encoding, productivity applications, music production). However, I have a couple "issues" that I'd like to resolve.
eVGA 8600GT 256MB video
1600x900 resolution
Asus P5K-VM motherboard
Q8200 2.33GHz CPU
6GB 667MHz RAM
Seagate 7200RPM 16MB Cache HD
The thermal performance of my case, a modified AT server tower cira 1991, is great and the 8600GT runs at 50c idle 73c avg load, which compairs nicely to the 5570. Ultimately, I'd like a fanless card that can do what I do now.
In WoW I can run at full (4x AA and 8x AF in driver) settings as long as I turn Shadow Detail all the way down to Min. However, any time there is a lot fog or spell detail, I end up with a nice 5FPS picture show. Turning spell detail to half resolves that.
Do you think the 5570, when someone creates a fanless version, would solve those two issues and perform a little better than the 8600GT with its whopping 256MB of slow RAM? Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkI've been reading this sentence in GPU reviews since some time now:
[quote]The GT 240 is the biggest winner here, beating even the 5570. However this is likely due to differences in how AMD and NVIDIA throttle their cards under FurMark.[/quote]
Doesn't it bother you to basically say "Well, half of all these measurements are probably wrong, but we'll show them as a comparison anyway"? Either rename the FurMark.exe or use a different test. 3DCenter.org have shown that Bioshock is very demanding and reaches the highest real world power usage ever recorded in a game (still lower than FurMark, of course). Reply
Moizy - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkNow that the 5450 and 5570 are out, and nVidia won't have replacements for the 210 and 220 for a while, can we have a HTPC card showdown article? I noticed that the GT 220 review didn't analyze the video quality quite like the 5450 and 5570 reviews have, so I'm wondering how they all compare.
Could we have a showdown that analyzes these newer HTPC cards for audio and video capabilities, and maybe throw in the new Intel HD graphics? Would be very educational for those of us that want a good HTPC card but don't care about gaming. Reply
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkIf you check the 5450 article, I actually do have a shot of the GT 220 in there. It actually does rather well at the VA test, but going NVIDIA means you have to give up some degree of post-processing control, along with bitstreaming audio. Reply
vlado08 - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkPlease give us comparison with intel HD graphics and also Ion in video post processing. Can we change gamma in intel drivers? Can we select different interlacing? Can we select the output RGB or YUV, 0-255 or 16-235? In some articles here on Anandtech you point intel HD as an perfect HTPC graphics? But is it really? Reply
Moizy - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkI forgot that you included those screen shots of the 210 and the 220 doing the "cheese slices" test in the 5450 article. Thanks for pointing that out. I downloaded those screen-shots as well. Very useful for comparison.
It's kind of irritating that they (AMD and nVidia) can't get the HTPC thing fully right unless you spend $100 and get a card that has a bunch of 3D capabilities that aren't needed if you just want to enjoy HD. I wonder, though, if half of the 5570's video-quality issues are driver-related and not hardware-related. As far as I know, the 4670 can handle all of the video-quality stuff, and 5570 seems very comparable hardware-wise. Reply
mariush - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - linkWe wouldnt need these 100$ cards just to run a movie well if the crap that INTERLACING is would have been removed from the HD standard.
Almost all the performace problems are caused by the need to deinterlace content. With progressive content, these cards don't have issues. Reply
Slaimus - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkThe card really should be clocked at ~500Mhz with lower voltage, and maybe even 80 disabled SPs. All of that power wasting rendering ability is mostly idling while waiting for memory. Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkAgreed. Although that could become a HD5550. Reply
wolrah - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkWhy do we still have VGA ports on these things? Those still using old-ass monitors can use an adapter off the DVI-I port that pretty much every video card includes for free. Give me DVI-I Dual Link, HDMI, and DisplayPort. VGA is dead and can be adapted with no downsides from other ports, there is no reason to keep putting that useless port there. Reply
Taft12 - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkSpoken like someone who doesn't understand how every penny needs to be scrimped with the miniscule margins on these parts, especially given DVI royalties. Reply
MadMan007 - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkYou couldn't take a metal tool to the Sapphire heatsink to find out what material it is? I doubt it's actual 'paint' it's probably anodizing on aluminum which should be easy to scrape through. Reply
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkI actually tried scraping through it, but I don't exactly have the right tool for the task. At any rate, Sapphire tells me it's Aluminum. Reply
shiggz - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkAny idea if this card can handle MPCHC "sharpen complex 2" without stuttering on 720p files? Reply
andy o - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkI think you mean "when ESVP is enabled" here:
"it looks like AMD is hardcoding their drivers to disable certain post-processing features when ESVP is disabled" Reply
andy o - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkRyan, I don't think this is such a big deal:
"In our testing we didn't notice any obvious playback issues with the 5450 or 5570 when we had ESVP disabled, but we've seen enough forum posts of this feature magically fixing poor video playback performance that we're not confident enough to recommend disabling this feature. It's something we think should be left enabled, at least for the time being."
I don't think there's any "magically fixing" for those people was probably done because of ESVP disabling post-processing features and nothing esoteric, so I think it's safe to assume that this aggressive disabling of feature by ESVP on these drivers is a bug, and you can safely disable it, and just enable some post-processing options you want, as long as you don't get choppy video or have issues with A/V sync.
I don't see how ESVP could affect smooth video playback more than what was explained by AMD (seems the forum user I mentioned on the 5450 thread was right about what it does). Once you have all the video frames showing in sync (no dropped frames), there's nothing more to make the video smoother besides using more post-processing to interpolate video and show it at higher refresh rates (which is clearly not happening here, and it would require a 120 Hz monitor at least. Reply
juhatus - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkRemember that AA absolutly kills this card? So whats the point showing it on the big table-results.
How would it compare to other sub-100 cards without AA? Reply
knowom - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkMost cards bottleneck more with AA turned on and people tend to prefer having AA turned on as opposed to off when possible. Reply
juhatus - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - link3870 uses its shaders to do the AA, hence the bad AA results.
16ROPS 256bit memory and ~400shaders shouln't compare too badly to this card without AA. Reply
OCedHrt - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkPer your numbers, the 5670 is 15W, not 25W, more under load. Reply
jigglywiggly - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkThis card is fail. Reply
Pino - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkIt´s perfect for me.
I just play Day of Defeat Source and TF2, and I have a Dell Vostro 200 a low profile chassis, with a limited 200W PSU. Reply
knowom - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkPretty much the GT 240 basically wipes the floor with it in terms of performance, power, and noise. I don't see any real selling points on this card even DX11 and Eyefinity don't seem too viable on such a castrated card performance wise.
Get the GT240 instead or spend the extra $10-$20's on a better performance card or save yourself a $10-$15's on the quieter and more energy efficient one is what it boils down to. Reply
mczak - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkI think that's a bit harsh, though really the review was harsh I think in fact it was a bit unfair.
- the lower power draw of the gt240 has no connection to reality. All other reviews (some of them measuring power draw directly, some at the wall) show the hd5570 has a quite a bit lower power draw than the gt240 ddr3 under load (at idle it's a wash), not to mention the gt240 gddr5 (or HD4670) which are even a bit higher. I strongly suspect either something was wrong with the sample card or measurement error (or rather, not keeping the setup consistent).
- the RE5 numbers are very puzzling, and I'd say they are just bogus. Toms also tested this game, and the HD5570 just behaved like in any other title (that is, close to HD4670) there. Seems a lot more believable.
- the comparison to gt240 gddr5 seems a tad unfair. Now AMD thinks this should be compared to gt220 which isn't really useful, but it seems to me that price-wise it will be really the same as the gt240 ddr3, not gddr5 version. Granted, that's probably only a 10 dollar difference but when talking about 80$ cards this does make a difference. Reply
bombacan - Monday, April 05, 2010 - linkwhen compared to 4670, there is no improvement on neither performance nor power consumption.besides its more expensive and doesn't have a fanless version atm. Reply
avhenrik - Saturday, May 15, 2010 - linkI am not a specialist, but check out how rage3d gets smooth deinterlacing with a simpler card (HD 5550) here: http://www.rage3d.com/reviews/video/sapphire_hd555...
They combine adaptive vector deinterlacing with other post processing, giving nice results. Have you tried that on the 5570? Reply
hybrid2d4x4 - Thursday, August 26, 2010 - linkIt's probably too late to ask this as this article/thread probably never gets checked anymore, but what PSU was used in the review?
I'm assuming that it's the standard 750W or higher rated unit that's used for most VGA reviews... but wanted to know how much savings there is to be had by using a low-rated, high-efficiency PSU more suited to a low-power HTPC build. Reply
nfarnham2001 - Monday, December 27, 2010 - linkOkay, I have an HP a6203w desktop with a Bestec 250w PSU. I am looking for an average cheap replacement to the very crappy nvidia 6150se nforce 430 graphics. I am basing my choice off of the fact that video cards without power connectors use the 75 watts of the PCI slot, and since my full system is stock besides 2 more gigs of ram, I figured it could hold it. Professional opinion? Reply
dendy - Thursday, July 28, 2011 - linkI was working on the study of the Radeon HD 5570 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M for my blog .... and look for performance comparisons between the two. Is there someone can help? Reply
dendy - Thursday, July 28, 2011 - linkhttp://www.bestdealscomputers.net ... that is my blog. Reply


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