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WTXF - The band Coldplay is coming to Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field this summer on their A Head Full Of Dreams Tour. The seven-city tour of football stadiums will arrive in Philly August 6, Live Nation announced.
Prior to the tour, Coldplay will play the Super Bowl Halftime Show next month.
Those who hold Citi credit cards will have the chance to order tickets beginning January 19 at 10 a.m., with general tickets going on sale Feb. 5.

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U2 Turn Back the Clock with Epic L.A. Club ShowFor the intimate concert at L.A.'s club Roxy, Bono and company reached back to the band's beginnings for the fan-focused setlist.
Red Hot Chili Peppers Finish Outside Lands With Triumphant SetThe Red Hot Chili Peppers once again proved to be among the world's most reliable festival bands with a triumphant set packed with hits to close out Outside Lands music festival.
Nine Inch Nails Dominate Outside Lands While Phoenix Shows Crowd-Surfing SkillsNine Inch Nails dazzled San Francisco with high-tech tension while Phoenix delighted with death-defying crowd-surfing skills.
Lollapalooza 2013, Sunday: The Cure Brings The Hits, Phoenix Brings The PartyFor Lollapalooza's final night, The Cure wasn't interested in chitchat. Robert Smith knows that you want him to just shut up and sing, and that's what he did. Phoenix on the other hand...
Lollapalooza 2013: Mumford & Sons Return Following Ted Dwane's SurgeryLollapalooza 2013 marks Mumford & Sons' return after Ted Dwane's surgery, and the Postal Service are apparently make-out music.
Lollapalooza 2013 Day 1: Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, Lana Del Rey, New Order & MoreFriday's Lollapalooza lineup was infested with four-to-the-floor beats from the majority of bands morning to night because a) that's what sells and that's what's on the radio.


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Problem changing user logon background color...
komsboy_more replied to MageLuingil's topic in LogonUI & Boot Screensthx man..... i found it
which file run this screen
komsboy_more replied to komsboy_more's topic in Customizing Windowsthx man for helping me.... i'll check it as soon as possible
thx for ttrieng helping ....but i know it .... i want to edit the step that when load files....not after it that included in smss
Problem with playing media on installation step! (Ver 6.5)
komsboy_more replied to komsboy_more's topic in Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI)hi kels .... i found a problem again in media playing again (i mean i think a problem!) the rewind button don't work ...it's off is it a problem or bug? thx
i think that i found it ......it's SETUPLDR.BIN ...but i don't know how edit it
which file handle this step
komsboy_more posted a topic in Customizing Windowshi guys .... i want to edit this screen and i don't know which file handle it ...plaese help me and say how thx alot
komsboy_more started following nLite, hate it or love it?, which file handle this step, which file run this screen and and 4 others
which file run this screen
komsboy_more posted a topic in Customizing Windowshi guys i have a problem .... i search all msfn and web and didn't find anything .... i want to edit this screen that attached below ..... i see it on "double up xp" and "windows XP ultimate edition by jonhy"...and i want to do it for my self this appear on first login after installing windows thx alot
i think this more useful than my guide : http://www.msfn.org/board/Giving-Your-Wind...gery-t9878.html
Problem changing user logon background color...
komsboy_more replied to MageLuingil's topic in LogonUI & Boot Screenshey man ...can you explain me that how you delete top and botton blue banner...and set your picture full screen? thx alot
hey man ....you have many ways to do this but i ssugggest this for you.... for applying a theme u can use an answer file to do this ....add this to your answer file : ---------------------- [shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile="%SystemRoot%\Resources\Themes\VistaXP.theme" ---------------------- then place your theme in this address in your root cd ---------------------- $OEM$\$$\Resources\Themes\VistaXP.theme ---------------------- then add this to your answer file to know that $OEM$ is available in your cd ---------------------- [Data] MsDosInitiated=No [unattended] OemPreinstall=Yes ---------------------- for apllying a wallpaper you can set in your system then save it as newnew theme file with your favorite theme then place your wallpaper in this address of your cd ---------------------- $OEM$\$$\Web\Wallpaper\ ---------------------- for apllying a custom screensaver i dont know a standard way but you can do this : windows xp defualt screen saver name is : "logon.scr" ....you can rename your favorite screensaver to logon.scr then place it in your drive c .......then go to run type cmd then type "cd.. " twice to navigate you to drive C ....then type "makecab logon.scr" now you have "logon.sc_"......... overwrite it in "i386" of your XP cd sorry for my english ....it's not good I hope that this help you Good Luck man
nLite don't work probably on doing many works!
komsboy_more posted a topic in nLitehi guys ...... yesterday i downloaded the last version of nlite(1.4.5) when i tried to do this work nlite don't work probably : -------------------------------- Integrate addons from " Hotfixes, Add-ons and Update Packs Setting Options Setting Tweaks -------------------------------- i don this : first i select some nlite addons that i downloaded fro htt://www.winaddons.com and add them into list then sett my options and tweaks .... when i try to install my windows ..... i found that the "Uxtheme" was not patched .... i tried many times and i got this problem ... so i resolve my problems like this : first i set my options and tweaks ..... then click finish .... and then run nlite again and integrate my addons. my purpose just was reporting some bugs or crashes Good Luck nuhi for your great work with your friends
%OEM% Folder Location in XP (i386 or root?)
komsboy_more replied to ScottCooperDotNet's topic in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003hey man ....but i think different ..... if you use an answer file ....you can place your $OEM$ folder in the root...and use it from 2 different way : 1st . - if you want to install a fresh version of your Windows XP ...place your $OEM$ folder in root then place answe file(WINNT.SIF) in i386 folder 2nd . - if you want to install via winnt32.exe (under another windows running) use this command after winnt32.exe ....it should be work for you for example if your CD-Drive is "d:" : d:\i386\winnt32.exe /unattend0:i386\winnt.sif explain of command : /unattended : say wiinnt32.exe that be run in unattended mode :\i386\winnt.sif : set the way of answer file . my recommended answer file is here for installing xp: ---------------------------------- ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall=Yes AutomaticUpdates=No [unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended FileSystem=* OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS Repartition=No UnattendSwitch=yes WaitForReboot=No DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore AutoActivate=Yes NoWaitAfterTextMode=1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1 Hibernation=1 [systemRestore] DisableSR=1 CreateFirstRunRp=0 [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 OemSkipWelcome=1 TimeZone=160 [userData] ProductID=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX FullName="Farzad.M." OrgName="F.M." ComputerName=* [TapiLocation] CountryCode=98 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=021 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1,7,11 Language=00000429 SystemLocale=00000429 UserLocale=00000429 InputLocale=0429:00000429 [Display] Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 BitsPerPel=32 [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes Home_Page=http://www.google.com Search_Page=http://www.google.com [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=0 [shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile="%SystemRoot%\Resources\Themes\VistaXP.theme" ---------------------------------- you can change tapi location and regional language and other setting by your self Good luck man
nLite, hate it or love it?
komsboy_more replied to Astalavista's topic in The Poll Centeri think that it's good program ...because it make the boring work easssssssyyyyyyyyy but yet have many bugs
Problem with playing media on installation step! (Ver 6.5)
komsboy_more replied to komsboy_more's topic in Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI)no problem man thx alot for your great work
nlite addons for WPI
komsboy_more replied to Dislocated Time's topic in Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI)hi guy ..... my answer is only for addons that make by original setup ....like addons on http://www.winaddons.com... you can extract CAB files with a extractor like : 7-zip, winrar and etc. then get out the setup file from SVCPACK folder ..... then open INI file and find out that what switch is typed after the setup file name ... for example : .... this is for 7-Zip ----------------------------------- [general] builddate=06/12/2007 description=7z language=English version=4.57 website=http://www.7-zip.org/ [EditFile] I386\SVCPACK.INF,SetupHotfixesToRun,AddProgram [AddProgram] 7z457.exe /S ------------------------------------ the switch is "/S" now you can use it in WPI ..... also you can find silent switch installer for other apps from typing "/?' after its file name and run if from CMD .... or use "Universal Silent Switch Finder" Good luck man


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MSI's Alex Chang Speaks Up
MSI was founded in 1986 and started producing motherboards and video cards for the quickly growing PC market. Throughout the life of the company they have further diversified their offerings to include barebones systems, notebooks, networking/communication devices, and industrial products. While MSI has a nice base of products, they are still primarily a motherboard and video card company. In the past 10 years MSI has become one of the top brands in North America for video cards, and they have taken a very aggressive approach to design with these products.
I had the chance to send MSI quite a few questions concerning their video card business and how they develop their products.
What is your name, title, and how long have you worked at MSI?
My name is Bob, and I'm…. actually, I'm just Alex Chang. I'm the Associate Marketing Manager. I've been with the company for 2 years.
Typically how long does it take from the original reference design card release to when we can first expect to see a Twin Frozr III based card hit retail? How much longer does it take to create the "Lightning" based products?
Historically, we've seen the introduction of a non-reference thermal solution within 2-4 weeks of product launch. As an example, GTX580 was launched in November 2010, and by December there was already a reference PCB GTX580 w/ the Twin Frozr II cooler.
In the case of Lightning cards, the development timeframe is longer due to more R&D, validation, and procurement of components. With GTX580, the timeframe was around 6 months, but moving forward MSI is pulling in the launch timeframe of our flagship products.
Southern Islands Get Small
When AMD first started to talk to me about the upcoming Southern Islands GPUs they tried to warn me. Really they did. "Be prepared for just an onslaught of card releases for 2012," I was told. In much the same strategy the company took with the HD 6000 series of cards, the new Radeon HD 7000 cards have been trickling out, part by part, so as to make sure the name "AMD" and the brand "Radeon" are showing up as often as possible in your news feeds and on my keyboard. In late December we wrote our review of the Radeon HD 7970 3GB flagship card and then followed that up in January with a review of the Radeon HD 7950. In those briefings were told in a general way about Cape Verde, the Radeon HD 7700 series, and Pitcairn, the Radeon HD 7800 series, but without the details of performance, specifications or release dates. We have the answer for one more of these families now: Cape Verde.
Cape Verde is the smallest of the Southern Islands dies and falls into the sub-$175 graphics market depending on card vendors' pricing and overclocking settings. The real question we all wanted to know is what performance levels these new cards were going to offer and if they could be the TRUE successor to popular Radeon HD 5770. While the answer will take pages and pages of details to cement into place, I can say that while an impressive card, I wasn't as excited as I had wanted to be.
But I am getting ahead of myself... Check out our video review right here and then keep reading on for the full evaluation!!
AMD Cape Verde - the smallest of the Southern Islands
GPU companies like to brag when they are on top - you'll see that as a recurring theme in our story today. One such case is the success of the Radeon HD 5770 that mentioned above - it still today sits on the throne of the most adopted DX11 capable GPU on the Steam Hardware Survey, one of our best places for information on the general PC gamer.
While the inclusion of it, as well as the Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850, on this list are great for AMD a couple of years ago, the lack of a 6000-series card here shows us that users need another reason to upgrade; another card that is mass market enough (ala under $200) and offers performance advantages that really push gamers to spend that extra cheddar.
Bring in the Cape Verde GPU...
Continue reading our review of the Radeon HD 7770 1GB GHz Edition and HD 7750 Graphics cards!!
Four Displays for Under $70
Running multiple displays on your PC is becoming a trend that everyone is trying to jump on board with thanks in large part to the push of Eyefinity from AMD over the past few years. Gaming is a great application for multi-display configurations but in truth game compatibility and game benefits haven't reached the level I had hoped they would by 2012. But while gaming still has a way to go, the consumer applications for having more than a single monitor continue to expand and cement themselves in the minds of users.
Galaxy is the only NVIDIA partner that is really taking this market seriously with an onslaught of cards branded as MDT, Multiple Display Technology. Using non-NVIDIA hardware in conjunction with NVIDIA GPUs, Galaxy has created some very unique products for consumers like the recently reviewed GeForce GTX 570 MDT. Today we are going to be showing you the new Galaxy MDT GeForce GT 520 offering that brings support for a total of four simultaneous display outputs to a card with a reasonable cost of under $120.
The Galaxy MDT GeForce GT 520
Long time readers of PC Perspective already likely know what to expect based on the GPU we are using here but the Galaxy MDT model offers quite a few interesting changes.
The retail packaging clearly indicates the purpose of this card for users looking at running more than two displays. The GT 520 is not an incredibly powerful GPU when it comes to gaming but Galaxy isn't really pushing the card in that manner. Here are the general specs of the GPU for those that are interested:
- 48 CUDA cores
- 810 MHz core clock
- 1GB DD3 memory
- 900 MHz memory clock
- 64-bit memory bus width
- 4 ROPs
- DirectX 11 support
Continue reading our review of the Galaxy MDT GeForce 520 graphics card!!
3 NV for DCII
The world of video cards is a much changed place over the past few years. Where once we saw only "sticker versions" of cards mass produced by a handful of manufacturers, we are now seeing some really nice differentiation from the major manufacturers. While the first iterations of these new cards are typically mass produced by NVIDIA or AMD and then distributed to their partners for initial sales, these manufacturers are now more consistently getting their own unique versions out to retail in record time. MSI was one of the first to put out their own unique designs, but now we are seeing Asus becoming much more aggressive with products of their own.
The DirectCU II line is Asus' response to the growing number of original designs from other manufacturers. The easiest way to categorize these designs is that they straddle nicely the very high end and extreme products like the MSI Lightning series and those of the reference design boards with standard cooling. These are unique designs that integrate features and cooling solutions that are well above that of reference cards.
DirectCU II applies primarily to the cooling solutions on these boards. The copper heatipipes in the DirectCU II cooler are in direct contact with the GPU. These heatpipes then are distributed through two separate aluminum fin arrays, each with their own fan. So each card has either a dual slot or triple slot cooling solution with two 80 mm fans that dynamically adjust to the temperature of the chip. The second part of this is branded "Super Alloy Power" in which Asus has upgraded most of the electrical components on the board to match higher specifications. Hi-C caps, proadlizers, polymer caps, and higher quality chokes round out the upgraded components which should translate into more stable overclocked performance and a longer lifespan.
Tahiti Gets Clipped
It has been just over a month since we first got our hands on the AMD Southern Islands architecture in the form of the Radeon HD 7970 3GB graphics card. It was then a couple of long weeks as we waited for the consumer to get the chance to buy that same hardware though we had to admit that the $550+ price tags were scaring many away. Originally we were going to have both the Radeon HD 7970 and the Radeon HD 7950 in our hands before January 9th, but that didn't pan out and instead the little brother was held in waiting a bit longer.
Today we are reviewing that sibling, the Radeon HD 7950 3GB GPU that offers basically the same technology and feature set with a slightly diminished core and a matching, slightly diminished price. In truth I don't think that the estimated MSRP of $449 is going to really capture that many more hearts than the $549 price of the HD 7970 did, but AMD is hoping that they can ride their performance advantage to as many profits as they can while they wait for NVIDIA to properly react.
Check out our video review right here and then continue on to our complete benchmarking analysis!!
Southern Islands Gets Scaled Back a Bit
As I said above, the Radeon HD 7950 3GB is pretty similar to the HD 7970. It is based on the same 28nm, DirectX 11.1, PCI Express 3.0, 4.31 billion transistor GPU and includes the same massive 3GB frame buffer as its older brother. The Tahiti GPU is the first of its kind of all of those facets but it has a few of the computational portions disabled.
If you haven't read up on the Southern Islands architecture, or Tahiti GPU based around it, you are missing quite a bit of important information on the current lineup of parts from AMD. I would very much encourage you to head over to our Radeon HD 7970 3GB Tahiti review and look over the first three pages as it provides a detailed breakdown of the new features and the pretty dramatic shift in design that Southern Islands introduced to the AMD GPU team.
Continue reading our full review of the Radeon HD 7950 3GB graphics card!!
Guess what? Overclocked.
The NVIDIA GTX 580 GPU, based on the GF110 Fermi architecture, is old but it isn't forgotten. Released in November of 2010, NVIDIA had held the single GPU performance grown for more than a year before it was usurped by AMD and the Radeon HD 7970 just this month. Still, the GTX 580 is a solid high-end enthusiast graphics card that has wide spread availability and custom designed, overclocked models from numerous vendors making it a viable option.
Gigabyte sent us this overclocked and custom cooled model quite a while ago but we had simply fallen behind with other reviews until just after CES. In today's market the card has a bit of a different role to fill - it surely won't be able to pass up the new AMD Radeon HD 7970 but can it fight the good fight and keep NVIDIA's current lineup of GPUs more competitive until Kepler finally shows himself?
The Gigabyte GTX 580 1.5GB Super Overclock Card
With the age of the GTX 580 designs, Gigabyte had plenty of time to perfect their PCB and cooler design. This model, the Super Overclock (GV-N580SO-15I), comes in well ahead of the standard reference speeds of the GTX 580 but sticks to the same 1.5 GB frame buffer.
The clock speed is set at 855 MHz core and 1025 MHz memory, compared to the 772 MHz core speed and 1002 MHz clock rate of the reference design. That is a very healthy 10% clock rate difference that should equate to nearly that big of a gap in gaming performance where the GPU is the real bottleneck.
Continue reading our review of the Gigabyte GTX 580 1.5GB Super Overclock graphics card!!
Retail-ready HD 7970
We first showed off the power of the new AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB graphics card in our reference review posted on December 22nd. If you haven't read all about the new Southern Islands architecture and the Tahiti chip that powers the HD 7970 then you should already be clicking the link above to my review to get up to speed. Once you have done so, please return here to continue.
Welcome back, oh wise one. Now we are ready to proceed. By now you already know that the Radeon HD 7970 is the fastest GPU on the planet, besting the NVIDIA GTX 580 by a solid 20-30% in most cases. For our first retail card review we are going to be looking at the XFX Black Edition Double Dissipation that overclocks the GPU and memory clocks slightly and offers a new cooler that promises to be more efficient and quieter.
Let's put XFX to the test!
The XFX Radeon HD 7970 3GB Black Edition Double Dissipation
Because of the use of a completely custom cooler, the XFX HD 7970 Black Edition Double Dissipation looks completely different than the reference model we tested last month though the feature set remains identical. The silver and black motif works well here.
Continue reading our review of the XFX Radeon HD 7970 3GB Black Edition Double Dissipation!!
The First 28nm GPU Architecture
It is going to be an exciting 2012. Both AMD and NVIDIA are going to be bringing gamers entirely new GPU architectures, Intel has Ivy Bridge up its sleeve and the CPU side of AMD is looking forward to the introduction of the Piledriver lineup. Today though we end 2011 with the official introduction of the AMD Southern Islands GPU design, a completely new architecture from the ground up that engineers have been working on for more than three years.
This GPU will be the first on several fronts: the first 28nm part, the first cards with support for PCI Express 3.0 and the first to officially support DirectX 11.1 coming with Windows 8. Southern Islands is broken up into three different families starting with Tahiti at the high-end, Pitcairn for sweet spot gaming and Cape Verde for budget discrete options. The Radeon HD 7970 card that is launching today with availability in early January is going to be the top-end single GPU option, based on Tahiti.
Let's see what 4.31 billion transistors buys you in today's market. I have embedded a very short video review here as well for your perusal but of course, you should continue down a bit further for the entire, in-depth review of the Radeon HD 7970 GPU.
Southern Islands - Starting with Tahiti
Before we get into benchmark results we need to get a better understanding of this completely new GPU design that was first divulged in June at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit. At that time, our own
lovely and talented Josh Walrath wrote up a great preview of the architecture that remains accurate and pertinent for today's release. We will include some of Josh's analysis here and interject with anything new that we have learned from AMD about the Southern Islands architecture.
When NVIDIA introduced the G80, they took a pretty radical approach to GPU design. Instead of going with previous VLIW architectures which would support operations such as Vec4+Scalar, they went with a completely scalar architecture. This allowed a combination of flexibility of operation types, ease of scheduling, and a high utilization of compute units. AMD has taken a somewhat similar, but still unique approach to their new architecture.
Continue reading our review of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB graphics card and Southern Islands architecture!!
Galaxy Continues the MDT Push
One of the key selling points for the AMD Radeon series of graphics cards the last few generations has been Eyefinity - the ability to run more than two displays off of a single card while also allowing for 3+ display gaming configurations. NVIDIA-based solutions required a pair of GPUs running in SLI for this functionality, either standard SLI or the "SLI-on-a-card" solutions like the GTX 590.
However, another solution has appeared from Galaxy, an NVIDIA partner that has created a series of boards with the MDT moniker - Multi-Display Technology. Using a separate on-board chip the company has created GTX 560 Ti, GTX 570 and GTX 580 cards that can output to 4 or 5 monitors using only a single NVIDIA GPU, cutting down on costs while offering a feature that no other single-GPU solution could.
Today we are going to be reviewing the Galaxy GeForce GTX 570 MDT X4 card that promises 4 display outputs and a triple-panel seamless gaming surface option for users that want to explore gaming on more than a single monitor inside the NVIDIA ecosystem.
Continue reading our review of the Galaxy GeForce GTX 570 MDT X4 1.25GB Graphics Card!!
A Temporary Card with a Permanent Place in Our Heart
Today NVIDIA and its partners are announcing availability of a new graphics card that bridges the gap between the $230 GTX 560 Ti and the $330 GTX 570 currently on the market. The new card promises to offer performance right between those two units with a price to match but with a catch: it is a limited edition part with expected availability only through the next couple of months.
When we first heard rumors about this product back in October I posited that the company would be crazy to simply call this the GeForce GTX 560 Ti Special Edition. Well...I guess this makes me the jackass. This new ~$290 GPU will be officially called the "GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 Cores".
The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Core Edition
The GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores is actually not a GTX 560 Ti at all and in fact is not even built on a GF114 GPU - instead we are looking at a GF110 GPU (the same used on the GeForce GTX 580 and GTX 570 graphics cards) with another SM disabled.
GeForce GTX 580 Diagram
The above diagram shows a full GF110 GPU sporting 512 CUDA cores and the full 16 SMs (simultaneous multiprocessors) along with all the bells and whistles that go along with that $450 card. This includes a 384-bit memory bus and a 1.5 GB frame buffer that all adds up to still being the top performing single graphics card on the market today.
Continue reading our review of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Core Graphics Card!!
Introduction, Campaign Testing
As you might have noticed, we're a bit excited about Battlefield 3 here at PC Perspective. It promised to pay attention to what PC gamers want, and shockingly, it has come through. Dedicated servers and huge multi-player matches are supported, and the browser based interface is excellent.
If we're honest, a lot of our hearts have been stirred simply by the way the game looks. There aren't many titles that really let a modern mid-range graphics card stretch its legs, even at 1080p resolution. Battlefield 3, however, can be demanding - and it looks beautiful. Even with the presets at medium, it's one of the most attractive games ever.
But what does this mean for laptops? Has the resident laptop reviewer at PC Perspective, I know that gaming remains a challenge. The advancements over the last few years have been spectacular, but even so, most of the laptops we test can't run Just Cause 2 at a playable framerate even with all detail set to low and a resolution of just 1366x768.
To find out if mobile gamers were given consideration by the developers of Battlefield 3, I installed the game on three different laptops. The results only go to show how far mobile gaming has come, and has far it has to go.
Continue reading our article on mobile Battlefield 3 performance!!
EVGA Changes the Game Again
Dual-GPU graphics cards are becoming an interesting story. While both NVIDIA and AMD have introduced their own reference dual-GPU designs for quite some time, it is the custom build models from board vendors like ASUS and EVGA that really peak our interest because of their unique nature. Earlier this year EVGA released the GTX 460 2Win card that brought the worlds first (and only) graphics card with a pair of the GTX 460 GPUs on-board.
ASUS has released dual-GPU options as well including the ARES dual Radeon HD 5870 last year and the MARS II dual GTX 580 just this past August but they were both prohibitively rare and expensive. The EVGA "2Win" series, which we can call it now that there are two of them, is still expensive but much more in line with the performance per dollar of the rest of the graphics card market. When the company approached us last week about the new GTX 560 Ti 2Win, we jumped at the chance to review it.
The EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win 2GB
The new GTX 560 Ti 2Win from EVGA follows directly in the footsteps of the GTX 460 model - we are essentially looking at a pair of GTX 560 Ti GPUs on a single PCB running in SLI multi-GPU mode. Clock speeds, memory capacity, performance - it should all be pretty much the same as if you were running a pair of GTX 560 Ti cards independently.
Just as with the GTX 460 2Win, EVGA is the very first company to offer such a product. NVIDIA didn't design a reference platform and pass it along to everyone like they did with the GTX 590 - this is all EVGA.
Continue reading our review of the EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win!!!
The Alienware M17x Giveth
Mobile graphics cards are really a different beast than the desktop variants. Despite have similar names and model numbers, the specifications vary greatly as the GTX 580M isn't equivalent to the GTX 580 and the HD 6990M isn't even a dual-GPU product. Also, getting the capability to do a direct head-to-head is almost always a tougher task thanks to the notebook market's penchant for single-vendor SKUs.
Over the past week or two, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a pair of Alienware M17x notebooks, one sporting the new AMD Radeon HD 6990M discrete graphics solution and the other with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M.
AMD Radeon HD 6990M on the left; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M on the right
Also unlike the desktop market - the time from announcement of a new mobile GPU product to when you can actually BUY a system including it tends to be pretty long. Take the two GPUs we are looking at today for example: the HD 6990M launched in July and we are only just now finally seeing machines ship in volume; the GTX 580M in June.
Well, problems be damned, we had the pair in our hands for a few short days and I decided to put them through the ringer in our GPU testing suite and added Battlefield 3 in for good measure as well. The goal was to determine which GPU was actually the "world's fastest" as both companies claimed to be.
Continue reading our comparison of the GeForce GTX 580M and Radeon HD 6990M mobility GPUs!!
You don't have 3D Vision 2? Loser.
In conjunction with GeForce LAN 6 current taking place on the USS Hornet in Alameda, NVIDIA is announcing an upgrade to the lineup of 3D Vision technologies. Originally released back in January of 2009, 3D Vision was one of the company's grander attempts to change the way PC gamers, well, game. Unfortunately for NVIDIA and the gaming community, running a 3D Vision setup required a new, much more expensive display as well as some glasses that originally ran $199.
While many people, including myself, were enamored with 3D technology when we first got our hands on it, the novelty kind of wore off and I found myself quickly back on the standard panels for gaming. The reasons were difficult to discern at first but it definitely came down to some key points:
- Cost
- Panel resolution
- Panel size
- Image quality
The cost was obvious - having to pay nearly double for a 3D Vision capable display just didn't jive for most PC gamers and then the need to have to purchase $200 glasses made it even less likely that you would plop down the credit card. Initial 3D Vision ready displays, while also being hard to find, were limited to a resolution of 1680x1050 and were only available in 22-in form factors. Obviously if you were interested in 3D technology you were likely a discerning gamer and running at lower resolutions would be less than ideal.
The new glasses - less nerdy?
Yes, 24-in and 1080p panels did come in 2010 but by then much of the hype surrounding 3D Vision had worn off. To top it all off, even if you did adopt a 3D Vision kit of your own you realized that the brightness of the display was basically halved when operating in 3D mode - with one shutter of your glasses covered at any given time, you only receive half the total output from the screen leaving the image quality kind of drab and washed out.
Continue reading our preview of NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 technology!!
RAGE Peforms...well
RAGE is not as dependant on your graphics hardware as it is on your CPU and storage system (which may be an industry first); the reason for which we will discover when talking about the texture pop-up issue on the next page.
The first id Software designed game since the release of Doom 3 in August of 2004, RAGE has a lot riding on it. Not only is this the introduction of the idTech 5 game engine but also culminates more than 4 years of development and the first new IP from the developer since the creation of Quake. And since the first discussions and demonstrations of Carmack's new MegaTexture technology, gamers have been expecting a lot as well.
Would this game be impressive enough on the visuals to warrant all the delays we have seen? Would it push today's GPUs in a way that few games are capable of? It looks like we have answers to both of those questions and you might be a bit disappointed.
Performance Characteristics
First, let's get to the heart of the performance question: will your hardware play RAGE? Chances are, very much so. I ran through some tests of RAGE on a variety of hardware including the GeForce GTX 580, 560 Ti, 460 1GB and the Radeon HD 6970, HD 6950, HD 6870 and HD 5850. The test bed included an Intel Core i7-965 Nehalem CPU, 6GB of DDR3-1333 memory running off of a 600GB VelociRaptor hard drive. Here are the results from our performance tests running at 1920x1080 resolution with 4x AA enabled in the game options:
Continue reading our initial look at RAGE performance and image quality!!
The Basics
If you have been visiting PC Perspective at all over the last week there is no doubt you have seen a lot of discussion about the currently running Battlefield 3 beta. We posted an article looking at performance of several different GPUs in the game and then followed it up with a look at older cards like the GeForce 9800 GT. We did a live stream of some PC Perspective staff playing BF3 with readers and fans, showed off and tested the locked Caspian Border map and even looked at multi-GPU scaling performance. It was a lot of testing and a lot of time, but now that we have completed it, we are ready to summarize our findings in a piece that many have been clamoring for - a Battlefield 3 system build guide.
The purpose of this article is simple: gather our many hours or testing and research and present the results in a way that simply says "here is the hardware we recommend." It is a the exact same philosophy that makes our PC Perspective Hardware Leaderboard so successful as it gives the reader all the information they need, all in one place.
Continue reading our guide for building a system for Battlefield 3!!
The Battlefield 3 Beta
Update 2 (9/30/11): We have some quick results from our time on the Caspian Border map as well if you are interested - check them out!
It was an exciting day at PC Perspective yesterday with much our time dedicated to finding, installing and playing the new Battlefield 3 public beta. Released on the morning of the 26th to those of you who had pre-ordered BF3 on Origin or those of you who had purchased Medal of Honor prior to July 26th, getting the beta a couple of days early should give those of you with more FPS talent than me a leg up once the open beta starts on Thursday the 29th.
My purpose in playing Battlefield 3 yesterday was purely scientific, of course. We wanted to test a handful of cards from both AMD and NVIDIA to see how the beta performed. With all of the talk about needing to upgrade your system and the relatively high recommended system requirements, there is a lot of worry that just about anyone without a current generation GPU is going to need to shell out some cash.
Is that a justified claim? While we didn't have time yet to test EVERY card we have at the office we did put some of the more recent high end, mid-range and lower cost GPUs to the test.
Continue reading our initial performance results with the Battlefield 3 beta!!
Kal-El Tegra SoC to use 5 cores
Recent news from NVIDIA has unveiled some interesting new technical details about the upcoming Kal-El ARM-based Tegra SoC. While we have known for some time that this chip would include a quad-core processor and would likely be the first ARM-based quad-core part on the market, NVIDIA's Matt Wuebbling spilled the beans on a new technology called "Variable SMP" (vSMP) and a fifth core on the die.
An updated diagram shows the fifth "companion" core - Courtesy NVIDIA
This patented technology allows the upcoming Tegra processor to address a couple of key issues that affect smartphones and tablets: standby power consumption and manufacturing process deviations. Even though all five of the cores on Kal-El are going to be based on the ARM Cortex A9 design they will have very different power characteristics due to variations in the TSMC 40nm process technology that builds them. Typical of most foundries and process technologies, TSMC has both a "high performance" and a "low power" derivative of the 40nm technology usually aimed at different projects. The higher performing variation will run at faster clock speeds but will also have more transistor leakages thus increasing overall power consumption. The low power option does just the opposite: lowers the frequency ceiling while using less power at idle and usage states.
CPU power and performance curves - Courtesy NVIDIA
NVIDIA's answer to this dilemma is to have both - a single A9 core built on the low power transistors and quad A9s built on the higher performing transistors. The result is the diagram you saw at the top of this story with a quad-core SoC with a single ARM-based "companion." NVIDIA is calling this strategy Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing and using some integrated hardware tricks it is able to switch between operating on the lower power core OR one to four of the higher power cores. The low power process will support operating frequencies up to only 500 MHz while the high speed process transistors will be able to hit well above 1-1.2 GHz.
Keep reading for more on the 5-core quad-core Kal-El SoC from NVIDIA!!
Is a GTX 590 just not enough for you?
A Legacy of Unique Engineering
ASUS has often been one of only a handful of companies that really pushes the limits of technology on their custom designed products including graphics cards, sound cards, notebooks, motherboards and more. Just a little over a year ago I wrote a review of the ASUS ARES Dual Radeon HD 5870 graphics card - the first of its kind and it was labeled the "Ultimate Graphics Card" at the time. Life on the top of mountain doesn't last that long in the world of the GPU though and time (and the GTX 590 and HD 6990) left the Greek god of war in the rearview mirror.
This time around we have a successor to the MARS - the NVIDIA version that combines two top-level GPUs on a single PCB. The new ASUS MARS II we are reviewing today is a pair of binned GTX 580 GPUs paired together for full-time SLI and built with a limited edition run of 999 units. In many ways the MARS II and the ARES share a lot of traits: custom designed cooling and PCB, a unique aesthetic design, limited edition status and significant physical weight as well. Of course, the price tag is also pretty high and if you aren't comfortable reading about a $1300 graphics card you might as well turn around now... For those that dare though, you can be sure that the MARS II will have you dreaming about PC gaming power for years to come!
Continue reading our review of the ASUS MARS II Dual GTX 50 3GB!!!
Republic of Gamers Means Business
I have got to be honest with you - most of the time getting me excited for graphics cards any more is a chore. Unless we are talking about a new architecture from NVIDIA or AMD, card vendors are hard pressed to the same attention from me they used to a couple of years ago when every card release was something to pay attention to. Over the next week or so though it turns out that ASUS and Gigabyte have a few noteworthy items definitely worth some grade-A analysis and reviewing starting with today's: the ASUS ROG Matrix GTX 580 beast.
The Republic of Gamers brand is reserved for the highest-end parts from the company that are obviously targeted at three main segments. First, the serious gamers and enthusiasts that demand the top level performance either because they can't stand to lose at gaming or just want nothing but the best for their own experiences. Secondly are the professional overclockers that live on features and capabilities that most of us could only dream of pushing and that need LN2 to get the job done. Finally, the case modding groups that demand not only great performance, but sexy designs that add to the aesthetics of the design as whole and aren't boring. The ROG brand does a very commendable job of hitting all three of these groups in general and specifically with the new Matrix-series GTX 580.
In the following pages we will document what makes this card different, how it performs, how it overclocks and why it might be the best GTX 580 card on the market today.
Continue reading our review of the ASUS ROG Matrix GTX 580 Platinum!!
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sun microsystems (palo alto, california) is about to unleash its next line of servers. the four-way systems–code-named cherrystone–will be introduced as the sunfire 440r, while the 8-way systems–code-named daktari–will be branded sunfire 880r. these newest sun creations will feature such impressive traits as pci hot-swapping, dynamic reconfiguration, and ultrasparc iii processors, starting at 750mhz. sometime later sun will follow with their 24-way sunfire 6800 and 72-way sunfire 15000. follow this link to read about ultrasparc iii processors.
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|such a bittersweet position… (10:08am est mon jun 25 2001)
only 600/750 mhz?! i know its not about mhz, but actual processing throughput, but it just seems like they're in the same league as via's samuel/c3: sadly lacking in mhz.
commercial systems with 4, 8, 24, 72 processors on a single address-resolution bus! nothing from intel comes close. sun now has at least 5 generations of cpu's that have been deeply smp. lot of catch-up for the 800 lb gorilla to do!
sparc is so expensive! a sunfire 15000, 72 cpu, 4 gb memory, no disk, quad 100/1000 ethernet, rack, etc. is estimated to be in the $400,000 range. around $6k/cpu. seems rich to me. maybe its needed to pay for 5 layers of sales staff.
72 ea x 600 mhz x 50% efficency = 21 ghz not shabby! however, a 16-way 2 ghz p4 ought to challenge it right at the core.
sun innovates. no doubt about it. putting more bandwidth on the address bus than on actual data transfer is a brilliant way to keep 72 cpu's from entangling their caches to the point where each is swimming in molasses.
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|pci hotswapping? (2:48pm est mon jun 25 2001)
pci hotswapping is old news. i wouldn't really consider is impressive. for sure compaq has been doing it for 3 or 4 years now.
looks like a sweet box though. a little expensive, yes. but still sweet. – by etcetera
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THR: Monsters' Director Gareth Edwards will direct 'Godzilla' [GODZL] on Jan 04, 17:07
what a score for him! {nm} on Jan 04, 17:29
A British film maker directing an American movie based on a Japanese creature. Should be interesting on Jan 04, 18:38
You're thinking of Garth Jennings (who I was listening to on the Adam & Joe podcast this morning). {nm} on Jan 05, 09:53
Wow, that's huge... no pun intended :) {nm} on Jan 04, 21:05
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I imagine that interviewing Clint Eastwood is no easy task, for although the respected actor and director may appear open and charming, relaxed and good-natured, with a disarming modesty and a facility to talk, Eastwood rarely, if ever, reveals anything about himself.
Norman Mailer discovered this when he interviewed Eastwood on the set of Sudden Impact. The paucity of quotable material saw Mailer cleverly pad out his article with an imaginary conversation between himself and a dinner guest discussing the actor's merits.
I watched this documentary The Man With No Name when it first aired on the BBC back in 1977. I enjoyed it. I was an Eastwood fan, and had seen most of his movies and read all the film-tie-in books for Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, the Spaghetti Westerns, and so on. But a part of me was slightly disappointed that I had learned no more about Clint Eastwood than what I had already gleaned from the characters he played on the screen—those solitary men united by a belief that one individual can make a difference, even against the most preposterous of odds. It's an American ideal, and certainly appealed to this young Scot, who had been raised on a culture of collective responsibility and shared endeavor.
Yet, there was something about Eastwood's tales of filming and homespun wisdom I found unsatisfying.
"Just keep grinding, until the talent, the hard work, the effort to learn, and the good luck all come together at one time. And when they do, well, then you're alright."
Even then I'd seen enough people who had worked hard, had been more than willing, had put in the effort, and had never had the luck. Their fortune was poverty, violence and despair. Of course that had nothing to do with Eastwood. But still, I naively wanted him to be more open and give a little thought to some of the myths he was selling.
That said, The Man With No Name is an excellent documentary, with presenter, the writer and broadcaster Iain Johnstone getting great value from directors Sergio Leone and Don Seigel, actor Richard Burton and the critic Dilys Powell.
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A San Diego police car mysteriously caught on fire in City Heights early Saturday after the officer driving it had stepped out to investigate an incident.
The officer was looking into a domestic violence incident, when another officer noticed smoke rising from the car.
The car, which was parked on Chamoune Avenue near Dwight Street, then began to burn.
San Diego police said that the fire department's Metro Arson Strike Team was investigating the cause of the fire, which happened at about 6 a.m. Saturday. Foul play was not believed to be a factor.


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I've had this gun for a couple of years, haven't fired it yet. It's a hand cannon, what's the best load of powder for it, 40 grains?
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There are cheaper ways of licensing "Office for iPad" than forking over $100, but beware; some may run afoul of that software user license agreement that no one reads. For most, the key takeaway from the "Office for iPad" license agreement (so titled despite no like-named product) is that current Office 365 subscribers "with mobile device rights" may "use and install copies of the application on iPad devices you own or control." Fair enough, since the cost of an Office 365 subscription starts at $5 per month, per user.


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American Legion Celebrates 95 Years of Service
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LACONIA — American Legion Post 1 located at 849 North Main St. in Laconia, will celebrate 95 years of service to the community and its veterans and its youth with a dinner and awards night on Saturday March 8.
Originally names for Frank W. Wilkins, the first Laconia boy killed in World War I, the post was chartered by Congress in March of 1919. Although Wilkins was over the age to be drafted he left New England Telephone Company and joined the U.S.Army as a master signal electrician in Co. D 401st Telegraph Bn. He died in France of injuries received when he crashed his motorcycle while trying to avoid hitting a little girl.
The name was changed in 1946 to include that of Lt. Cmdr. James Stuart Smith, U.S.Navy, who was the first service man from Laconia to be killed during WWII. From 1930 until 1953, the post home was located at 329 Union Ave. The property was sold to the First National Corp, and later to Mr. Grocer. The property is currently shared between the high school vocational center and Auto Zone.
The current Post home was built in 1953 and has since undergone several changes.
In celebration of this milestone, the post will host a complete prime rib dinner to members and their guests. Also certificated of continuous membership will be awarded to those with 50-55-60 years of membership. Ticket information is available by calling the canteen after 12 p.m. at 524-9728 with a deadline of March 4.


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they lost my sons suitcase, and it is a month later and they still havent found it all they have to do is ask the driver what he has done with it, not a difficult problem to solve is it,to megabus it seems it is they cant act on it untill the bus driver has reported it to lost propertyClick here for great deals on Expedia
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Did you ever get your suitcase back?
I left a case in the luggage compartment on a bus last week. I phoned megabus instantly and they informed me that the driver would deport any remaining luggage back to Glasgow once the bus terminated. I am still yet to hear. I don't understand how it has not have been located! Where is the breakdown in the system?! They knew the case was on the bus so surely they have a responsibility to make sure it gets deported back to Glasgow when a report has been made!
I just wondered if you ever got your case back or if you took any steps after this point? I desperately want to find mine!!
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no they still havent found the suitcase since mid december when it was reported
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Potato, potahto. Tomato, tomahto. Fee Only Vs. Fee Based. The same difference, right?
Not quite.
If you've ever interviewed or hired a financial advisor, chances are you you have no idea how you are paying them. Advisors can get paid way in many different ways.
Mainstream media loves the "fee only" advisor. No conflict of interest, no commissions, certainty of what you are paying.
But then you have the "fee-based" advisor. The fee-based advisor earns a fee, but then can also earn a commission. Say what? Yes, it's all together confusing and that's why I attempt to explain it here:
Definition of Fee-Only Vs. Fee-based Advisors
If you're looking for a true fee-only advisor, then check out this article about NAPFA which is an association of true fee-only financial advisors.
More from GFC, Below
Another good resource is an article on Moolanomy.com where they interview me on the difference between a fee-only vs. fee based advisor. Miranda did a good job explaining the differences (much better than I can. 🙂 )
And finally, you can read about PT's experience of meeting with a fee-only financial planner. PT (Phil Taylor) does an awesome job giving you a play by play of meeting with a fee-only planner. You almost feel like you are in the meeting with him.
What Type of Advisor am I?
I thought that you would never ask….:)
Well, here's how it can get even more confusing. When I first started the blog, I still held my Series 7 license so I was definitely "fee-based".
Last year, I dropped my Series 7 and I could have been considered a "fee-only" advisor, but have chose to continue to refer to myself as fee-based.
Why? Even though I can longer earn a commission off the sale of a security (stock, bond, mutual fund, variable annuity, etc), I have kept my Illinois life insurance license open. That means I can still earn a commission off of an insurance product (term insurance, whole life, fixed annuity, etc). Even though I haven't sold any since the transition, I'm a big believer in insurance so my assumption is that one day I will use it.
So keep that in mind when interviewing advisors. Even though they don't have a Series 7, they can still potentially earn a commission off selling you an insurance product.
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Review for Asia America Initiative, Washington, DC, USA
I worked with AAI in the summer of 2011. The president, Mr. Santoli, is energetic, passionate, and wonderful to work with. The organization does not operate on a very large budget, but it manages to accomplish a great deal across a host of issues. One can only imagine how effective they could be with just a little more money.
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Seeing the results of AAI's cancer programs. I was involved with shipping medicine to children and women with cancer, and the volunteers operating in the Philippines would always send back tons of pictures.
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Continue to raise the funds necessary for AAI to achieve their wonderful mission of peace building though addressing the basic human needs of communities in areas of dire poverty and armed conflict.


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During our study of plants, we went outside to the garden to draw flowers. We took clipboards and thin black ink pens for drawing lines. The first day we worked on this project, we focused only on drawing the flowers by observing them. We didn't worry about color. When children hit a stumbling block, I told them to look at the flower for a moment, and we talked about how the flower looked; it's lines, it's curves, it's shapes. The child decided on one part to draw first.
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:52:09 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Devil's Night
I hail from Wisdom #57 P.H.A. out of the Motor City of Detroit
Michigan. Our Grand Master, is W.G.M. Carl Sanders. Wisdom can be found
in cyberspace in the High Tech Connection Mall.
For Access type: http://www.htc-mall.com/wisdom.html
We thank all our good brethren who have browsed our site in the pass
month and we greatly appreciate all of your positive, constructive, and
enlightening E-mails as small band of masons have labored industriously
to build our site and community block by block on a off ramp on the
Internet here in Detroit.
But there is a more pressing purpose for Wisdom shining it's light in
the midst of the htc-mall.com
For the past 10 years on Oct.30 our city has had a horrendous
history. Each year on that day demons creep into our city and burn down
structures and edifices in our community. The Media has labeled this
day "Devil's Night".
Last year, '1995' Wisdom came home from the 'Million Man March' with
a new sense of purpose. On that long bus ride home from Washington DC
brothers obligated themselves to put end to the Media's Mark on our city
"Detroit Night', to build and do business in our community, those of us
who owned businesses pledged to give best service to our customers, and
to somehow highlight the positive messages this town's Media never seems
to want to mention. Thus the creation of the htc-mall.
This year '1996' our Grand Master Carl Sanders has again given the
Hon. Dennis Archer 33, Mayor of our great city, his pledge, to again
send a Masonic Message to the community but this year plan are to place
1000 able-body Masons on the streets of the 7th precinct so as again to
keep the fires to a minimum . And again Our Grand Master has
commissioned Wisdom #57 to coordinate this effort.
I told several Nobles of his request while attending the
P.H.A. Shrine convention in Houston. Their reply to me was to pass this
message onto Masons over the Internet and see who might respond.
Wisdom plans for Oct.30, are to give hourly updates of patrolling
platoons of masons as they observe through out the night directly over
the Internet. The Grand Master has proclaimed that the Masonic dress
for the night be Masonic sweets and caps, highlighting our various
Lodges and Patrol units. We suggest that any Masons who decide to
travel to fellowship with Wisdom that Night please E-mail us at
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investigate placing LINKS to our site. Please continue to browse
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A rainy weekend and a rainy forecast have prompted the weather service to issue flood warnings for the Sugar River at Brodhead and the Rock River at Afton.
Janesville received 1.60 inches of the rain that fell across the southern half of the state.
That rain, combined with the usual spring snow melt, means river levels are rising
The Rock River at Afton was at 9.2 feet at 4:15 a.m. today. Flood stage is 9 feet.
"The Rock River typically has a fairly slow rise and fall," explained Chris Kuhlman, meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Sullivan. "We expect the river to crest at about 10 feet late in the week."
The river basin�the small streams and rivers that drain into the river�is extremely large and it takes a while for all that water to make its way downstream.
At 10 feet, floodwaters will fill in lowlands and farm fields in the area.
At 10.4 feet, floodwaters start to cover low spots on South River Road on the South side of Janesville.
At 4:15 a.m. today, the Sugar River gauge in Brodhead read 6.3 feet. Flood stage is 5 feet, and minor flooding already has occurred. The river is expected to continue rising and reach 6.5 feet by Tuesday morning.
At 6.5 feet, widespread flooding of lowland and farmland occurs and Sugar River Park floods.
More rain is in the forecast for tonight with between one-quarter inch and one-half inch of additional rain possible. Rain will continue off and on throughout Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, with one-tenth inch possible. However, brief thundershowers could mean higher amounts in areas, so keep your umbrellas with you at all times.
For south central Wisconsin residents who weathered last year's floods, the specter of rising waters might make them nervous.
Kuhlman said conditions are not the same as last spring.
"Last year, we had more snow, and it stuck around," Kuhlman said. �This year, we won�t have that snow melt."
When the rain started falling in earnest last spring, a significant amount of snow still was on the ground. This year, most of the snow is gone.
Now for the high wind watch:
Starting Tuesday evening, a cold front will move through the area, bringing west winds of 30 mph to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph.
Winds at these speeds can cause power outages and minor damage to property. High profile vehicles such as trucks, campers and even some SUVs can be affected.
And let's not forget that "hazardous weather outlook."
Fog was expected throughout southern Wisconsin today, but will be worst north of Madison. Visibility will drop to below a half mile in places.
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#006 – Good News Edition 1 w/Camp Quest
The first of the occasional all good news editions of The Manifesto. We highlight some awesome things happening in both the atheist and LGBT communities, and round things out with an interview with Shawn Jeffers, the national board chair for Camp Quest.
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Quincy and I have been enjoying a new DVD, "The Classic Nursery Rhymes Collection", it's a re-release from a 1982 VHS, full of delightful nursery songs and images and animations that will take you back to your childhood.
As a parent, I really appreciated that they didn't try to "update" it with fancy special effects. Instead, it was like the shows I remembered watching on PBS as a child, and I loved that Quincy could enjoy the music and "pop-up book" animations.
The Classic Nursery Rhymes Collection is 72 traditional nursery rhymes performed in 12 five-minute vignettes (60 minutes running time). It's a pop-up children's book that opens and comes alive. The book's pages become the background for live actors, children, puppets, stop-frame and simple animation story telling. Traditional illustrations and costumes give the program a classic "Olde World" style.
What's especially nice about this DVD is it's great to use for some background music when your little ones are playing. The video isn't overly distracting so it's the perfect choice. It's full of old favorites:
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Girls And Boys Come out To Play
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
Hey Diddle Diddle
Hickory Dickory Dock
Humpty Dumpty
Hush-A-Bye Baby
I Had A Little Nut Tree
Jack And Jill
Little Bo Peep
Little Miss Muffet
London Bridge
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Old MacDonald
Old Mother Hubbard
Oranges And Lemons
Polly Put The Kettle On
Pop Goes The Weasel
Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat
Ride A Cock Horse
Ring A Ring O' Roses
Sing A Song of Sixpence
The Grand Old Duke of York
This Little Piggy
Three Blind Mice
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
I'm glad we added the Classic Nursery Rhymes Collection to our DVD rotation. This timeless classic will be enjoyed for many years to come.
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CARSON CITY, Nev. — State Republican Party Chairman Mark Amodei on Monday officially joined the race for Nevada's 2nd Congressional District, adding to a growing field of candidates hoping to replace now former Rep. Dean Heller in a special election this fall.
"It's no secret I've been interested in this race quite a while now," Amodei told reporters at a news conference in Carson City.
With a special election set for Sept. 13, "for these folks who are in it, it's time to be in it," he said.
Amodei is a former state assemblyman and served three terms in the state Senate. He is also former president of the Nevada Mining Association and became state GOP chairman in May 2010.
He said he will suspend active party duties and will resign his chairmanship.
Heller, a three-term Republican from Carson City, was sworn in Monday as Nevada's newest U.S. senator, having been appointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to replace John Ensign. Ensign resigned amid an investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee into his affair with the wife of a former top aide, Doug Hampton, and allegations he helped Hampton find lobbying work.
Hampton has since been indicted by a federal grand for illegally lobbying the senator's staff. Federal law prohibits a former senior Senate aide from lobbying the Senate for one year after terminating employment.
Amodei said his experience in the Legislature, as state party chairman, and as an attorney in private practice make him the best qualified candidate.
Other Republicans who've said they will run include Sharron Angle, a tea party favorite who won the Republican nomination but lost a U.S. Senate bid last fall to Democrat Harry Reid; retired Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold, who was skipper of the USS Cole when it was attacked by terrorists in 2000; and state Sen. Greg Brower, former U.S. attorney for Nevada.
State Treasurer Kate Marshall and fellow Democrats Jill Derby and Nancy Price, both former university regents, also have announced plans to run in the special election.
Nevada has never had a special election to fill a vacancy in the House of Representatives. Under rules set by Secretary of State Ross Miller, anyone interested in running can file May 23-25.
A crowded Republican field could benefit Angle, a perennial candidate who has a solid grass roots core of supporters, and in turn help Democrats take the sprawling rural district for the first time.Comment on this story
The state GOP has filed a lawsuit challenging the rules outlined by Miller, a Democrat. The suit argues that without a primary, it should be up to party central committees to select their candidate to appear on the ballot.
A judge Monday said he will hear arguments in the case May 19.
Amodei said he doesn't believe his position within the party gives him an advantage however the candidates end up being chosen.
"You have to run a campaign," he said, adding, "I need more votes than anybody else in the race."


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A vacant lot near Park Road in northwest D.C. has become a public green space, due to the efforts of neighborhood residents and the nonprofit group Washington Parks & People.
Steve Coleman, who heads the nonprofit, said the idea for North Columbia Heights Green "came from community residents, tired of dumping and crime at the site, who wanted the space turned into something useful." They asked his group to help "mobilize volunteers to help clean up and transform the site."
The property "has been a horrible nuisance for 45 years," said Larry Ray, a former advisory neighborhood commissioner and community activist. Ray says the seven people with property interests in the site were persuaded to donate the land.
The project brought together disparate parts of the area, including schoolchildren who planted a garden, hundreds of volunteers, and "former gang members who helped with initial reclamation," Coleman said.
Still, there was some initial resistance to the project.
Some residents feared cars that were illegally parked outside the vacant lot would relocate to street parking, which is already limited in the area, though as Coleman explained, most of the cars there were abandoned or unregistered. Others feared the green space "would be a magnet for dumping and nighttime problems, but the fence and improvements on the site now help ensure that the Green is used only for positive community programs."
Greater resistance came from city agencies, who "did not know how to treat such a community green site and initially tried to fine the community for outsiders dumping on the site, and to tax the community for the Green despite its value as a public amenity," Coleman said.
Councilmember Jim Graham, an early advocate for the project, helped the advocates of the Green to get past this reluctance.
The Green was officially opened on Saturday, and will be used for community gardens, a learning and demonstration garden, and discovery gardens for youth groups and schools. Coleman said the Green will also be home to a butterfly garden, a berry patch, and even a small orchard.
"We hope the site can be an inspiring model for dozens of similar long-blighted vacant lots across the city," Coleman said. "There is tremendous potential to use these kinds of places to give our communities new life, health, jobs, hope, and vitality."


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Hey! I was thinking of riding either at Bootleg Canyon or Mt Charleston tomorrow. Not too early... I could climb up at either spot, but it'd be nice to get some extra runs in and get a shuttle going... I can carry three additional bikes with my truck...Lemme know
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it's two of us in a car driving down the road.a cop said he saw a transaction between the passenger and a person outside of the motel.when we exit the parking lot and go about1/4 mile 2 cops turn the red lights for us to pull over.we both were searched and nothing found on us then a cop looks under his police car to find drugs and the passenger is charged with possishion is this legal?
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I have volunteered for the American Indian Education Foundation for nearly ten years as part of the Scholarship Selection Committee. AIEF is one branch of National Relief Charities whose focus is to promote educational opportunities for Native American students. The Scholarship Selection Committee meets annually to award college scholarships to Native American students that show a strong desire to pursue additional education and give back to their communities. These students have often overcome significant hurdles to pursue their goals. The committee spends many hours carefully reviewing the scholarship applications in advance and then we meet as a group to discuss the applications. We describe what spoke to us about the students' essays and educational history, and arrive at a consensus of awarded applicants. This is a unique process that has worked well in selecting students that successfully complete their course of study. It has been an honor to work with the talented AIEF staff and fellow committee members who are educators and student facilitators from tribes across the nation. We've recently started awarding a small number of graduate level scholarships in addition to the majority of undergraduate ones. It is especially nice to support new and returning AIEF recipients who have excelled in undergraduate programs, and want to continue on to get their post-graduate degrees in fields ranging from medicine to sociology. I've found that the AIEF scholarship program is like many of the other programs that the National Relief Charities runs. It is well thought out and targeted to those most in need. The AIEF staff follows up with students throughout the year to see how they're doing, particularly important for those students that may be hundreds of miles from family and familiar surroundings. Part of what impresses me about AIEF and the NRC organization in general is their longevity--they're in it for the long haul and they continually strive to improve their service to Native American communities.
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It's been about 10 years since I last surfed with Beef but this guy can rip!
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I mean: they are like a boogie boards without a float.
I mean: the small boards remind me of boogie boards without the sponge's float when I sit on them..
someone was talking to me at work...
Oct 6, 2011, 06:40 PM #24
I can make you a custom for your size that rides like a short board no problem, if you friend me on facebook you'll see the board I made for the guy who is almost 300 lbs, just scroll down on my wall page and you'll see the front, back and rocker shot. Mahady Surfboards is the Facebook name.
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Tom...i dont have facebook...but i def. will get up with you...send me a pm and we will talk.
How short would you reccomend me going? For something where I could comfortably ride on a thigh high day as well as chest-head etc..
Mike Hague shaped me a 9-4 that i was able to ride like that, and it is a good board....
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5'11" 218lbs
Daily Driver 6'5" x 21" x 2.5 vol 1.3 cu feet
small wave board 5'11" x 22 x 2.75" vol 1.52 cu feet
Both of these are Coils, and both are customs. I came real close to going with the Neilson Floaty Fish mentioned earlier in this thread instead of the first board above.
I'm not huge, but at my size and proportions I can't find much in the shortboard catagory off the rack that fits me well.
I was also having problems with the durability of standard off the rack polys. Mainly delamination under my rear foot.
I'm 6'3 225 and ride a 6'x3''x23'' quad mini simmons and it floats me amazingly. I haven't tested it out with the winter wet suit, but so far so good with the 3/2. It's a bit weird to sit on because it's so floaty yet so small and it also takes some time to find your sweet spot for paddling.
Oct 7, 2011, 01:26 PM #29
All true! I'm 6'3 205ish and 51. it does depend on your fitness at the time, your style of riding and what kind of boards you're used to. Thinkness is the key. I mostly ride my 7'7 WRV fish hybrid. 3in think. It surfs in almost any condition, duck dives great and perfect for my size and style. Also use a 21 yr old 7'10 Perfection thats been reglassed by Steve Muhick so its really heavy but still steam roles down the line. My LB is a 9 ft WRV. wide, 3 inch in the middle. sometimes use my shortboard if I'm lighter at the time.


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Barling to see 70-store shopping center
A new shopping center could soon be setting up shop at the intersection of Arkansas Highways 22 and 59 once the closing of a land deal takes place on Wednesday, according to Executive Director Ivy Owen of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority.
Owen said veterinarian Marion Smith and her sister Debbie were the purchasers of more than 90 acres of property, which he said would be developed into about 70 stores.
"What you can expect is a pretty quick groundbreaking. The developer, the purchaser of the property has not disclosed to us yet who the mall developer is, but we believe it's a developer out of Dallas. We do know that they've been in talks with this developer for quite a while," Owen said.
Groundbreaking for the site, he said, should take place anywhere from 90-120 days from now.
And while the property has been termed a mall in documents from the FCRA, Owen said the property will likely resemble a shopping center similar to The Pavilion in Fort Smith, which is home to Best Buy, Dick's Sporting Goods and Target.
Up to 700 people may be employed at the shopping center, according to Owen.
Kathy Deck, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, cautioned that while the new shopping center sounds exciting, it may not provide as much of a boost to the area's economy as anticipated.
"I think it's important to understand that retail has a lifestyle," she said. "These jobs probably will be viable under some configuration, but will they all be net positive jobs? Probably not. We see retail shift around to the best, brightest (shopping centers) all the time."
That was something Owen said was a real possibility with the new, as of yet unnamed shopping center.
"This is 700 jobs, some new, some transferred," he said.
Owen also said the number of jobs was provided by the developers, who said they expect about 10 jobs to be created at each of the shopping center's nearly 70 retailers, though he said some retailers could have less than 10 employees while others could "have significantly more."
Deck said Northwest Arkansas experienced some of the transfer of jobs when the Pinnacle Hills Promenade opened in Rogers in 2007, with clothing retailer Old Navy among the stores to move from Scottsdale Center, with other companies like Malco Theatres opening a second location at Pinnacle Hills.
"Now you haven't had the same rapid population growth that Northwest Arkansas has experienced. There's no reason to say no, it can't be supported. But it will be a shifting of where retail sales happen," Deck explained.
Sales tax collections in the region point to a declining trend in consumer spending – a trend that supports Deck's view of a shift in spending rather than a boost from the new shopping center.
For the first five months of 2013, the countywide tax has generated $6.425 million for Fort Smith, down 1.6% compared to 2012 and down 4% compared to budget forecasts.
Jeff Collins, the economist who conducts data collection and analysis for The Compass Report, said sales tax collection data suggest local retail activity is struggling to return to more stable patterns seen before the sharp national economic downturn experienced during 2009.
Sebastian County tax collections for the first four reporting months of 2013 total $9.323 million, down 0.18% compared to the same period in 2012. Following are the past five years of Sebastian County tax revenue.
2012: $28.525 million
2011: $28.619 million
2010: $27.605 million
2009: $27.528 million
2008: $31.026 million
The new shopping center, which will sit on the 90 acres the Smith sisters of Hot Springs bought for $2.2 million, will not only house stores, but Owen said it would house restaurants, as well.
"Ninety acres is a lot of acres, there will probably be several out parcels but there will likely be several in the strip of stores themselves, but I don't know that."
Initially the city of Barling had voted to go wet in order to spur development along what will become Interstate 49. The first Arkansas portion of the interstate to be constructed runs right through the middle of Fort Chaffee and will end just east of the new shopping center.
The vote passed, but was tied up in litigation and eventually ruled unconstitutional because not all of the southern portion of Sebastian County (the portion of the county not including Fort Smith) voted in the election.
Following the legal challenges to the ballot initiative, Fort Smith Vice Mayor Kevin Settle floated the idea of the city of Fort Smith annexing the land around the future I-49 in order to continue to encourage development, including restaurants that serve alcohol, an idea that Barling's mayor and others rejected outright.
Owen said the project developers are certain it could still be a success, even though Barling is dry, due to the availability of private club licenses, which have allowed large national chains and smaller restaurants to be successful in Benton County for years prior to its November 2012 vote to go wet.
As for what the FCRA will do with the $2.2 million from the sale of the property, Owen said it would go back into infrastructure improvements after paying general operating costs for the authority.
"That money goes into our bank account, which goes into our general operations budget and the Board's policy is everything above the operations amount of money goes back into the property in infrastructure improvements to get the property ready (for further development)," he said. "Money is not hoarded or invested somewhere. It's spent on the property in a spelled out plan, a seven phase plan that us and our engineers have put together. We are at phase three right now."
Not using the money to produce water and sewer improvements, needed for residential, industrial and commercial development, would mean the FCRA would be "dead in the water" and further developments would not take place, according to Owen.
The Smith sisters' Hot Springs-based real estate agent and developer Larry Webb said he was unable to speak for this story due to confidentiality agreements.


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Supermodel, "Project Runway" host and mother of four Heidi Klum passes on her eco-consciousness to her kids. "I think we live in a world where you buy more than you need. I try not to buy too many things so that I don't have to throw out that many things. I try to teach my children that they have to eat what's on their plate and why. You have to start in your family."
Starting Feb. 1, Klum will host a new weekly show for Lifetime called "Seriously Funny Kids," which is kind of a hybrid of Bill Cosby's "Kids Say the Darndest Things" (or Art Linkletter's earlier "House Party") and "Candid Camera," with Klum staging hidden camera bits and eliciting innocent out-of-the-mouths-of-babes hilarity from kid interviewees.
"They're so unpredictable. You never know what you get, which is fun and challenging for me. You just have to go wit the flow, so I can't really prepare for it," says Klum, who often finds it hard to keep from cracking up in bits like the one in which she pretended to be a talking goldfish. "But I have to keep a straight face, because I don't want to let them in on it."
Her own brood (with husband Seal) won't be part of the show, but she assures, "they are hilarious." Klum will return with another installment of "Project Runway" this summer.
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Windows 98 Upgrade ??
Hi Guys,
I have heard that there is a site where unofficial upgrades are available for Win98.
I think it is run by people in Sweden or Finland.
Anyone any ideas ??
I'd recommend one of the many free flavors of linux instead. Note that the latest version of Ubuntu requires 384MB of ram minimum instead of the earlier versions which require just 256MB. (Version 6.06 works fine on older machines with 256MB of ram) There's also Debian, Knoppix, a compact port of Debian, and Damn Small Linux amongst others.
Ubuntu has installed on every piece of hardware I have ever tried it on without any issues. More recent versions of the others generally have been fine too.
I doubt the latest versions of Suze Linux or RedHat will run on such old hardware..
Others will weigh in with additional suggestions I'm sure.
I'm not a linux expert, just dabbling from time to time.
Linux gives you a modern desktop interface that is not prone to the frequent crashes I remember with Win98 on six different machines I owned, is not likely to be compromised by most malware, virii, trojans, worms, and other exploits, and has more modern applications available.
What is the intended purpose of this pc?
Almost no one in the apps world supports win98 any longer so you would be limited to software that is at least 4 - 5 yrs out of date now.
I second the suggestion of Ubuntu. I like Kubuntu for the KDE desktop better than the Gnome desktop in Ubuntu, but you won't go wrong with either.
If you must run windoze, get a copy of win 2k. It was by far the most reliable POS (piece of software?) that M$ ever made. Don't enable auto updates- it will update itself to nonworking condition in about 2 days.
"The day M$ makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners."
Afair it´s only available for Windows 98SE, take a look at this site:
As uninstallation of this service pack isn´t really possible i´d strongly recommend an harddisk image dump before installation for easy restoration of your old system if anything went wrong.
Another possibility could be a Windows98 automatic updater like this one:
How about this?
it's the same as in post 4 with a few other freebies as well.
Why pay?
What is your machine spec? XP might be the way to go if you have more than 128 meg RAM and don't play games. 98 is pretty unstable.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Michael Shannon is an unconventional choice to play General Zod in Zack Snyder's Superman reboot, Man of Steel. The man certainly has the talent - there's no denying that - but he's also spent most of his career working in independent movies, staying away from major blockbusters, and isn't exactly a household name like Gene Hackman, Terrance Stamp or Kevin Spacey. Apparently name recognition isn't a concern for the project, though, as they are apparently close to signing on yet another person you've never heard of.
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