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- A few of Jeff Beck's accolades: he played guitar with The Yardbirds, has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, and is ranked fifth on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"
- What their concert combines: Brian Wilson, Jeff Beck, Al Jardine, and David Marks opening the show together with both of their respective bands performing a string of Brian Wilson hits, including several classic car songs.
- This seems historic: it is, because these bona fide geniuses rarely share the stage, and the tour is only one month long
- How the two partnered up: Beck honored Wilson at the MusiCares Person of the Year tribute by playing "Surf's Up" in 2006 and sparks flew, leading to Beck appearing on Wilson's upcoming solo album.
- What Brian Wilson will be offering: "some new tunes we want to try out on a live crowd as well as...some great music from our catalogues."
- What Jeff Beck will be offering: "classic surfing safari music and this weird stuff that I do," adding that "it will sound like it's all of one accord."
- Who else will appear on stage: former Beach Boys bandmates Al Jardine and David Marks
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Pleasanton boasted the most million-dollar sales with 22, followed by Danville with 20, Fremont and Lafayette with 19 each, and Piedmont with 11.
A total of 159 homes sold for more than $1 million in Alameda and Contra Costa counties last month, up from 126 sales in May and the most since July 2010. Sales did trail last June, when 178 high-end properties changed hands.
The median sale price of a million-dollar home in the East Bay continued to improve in June, reaching $1,275,000, up 2% from May's median of $1.25 million and up 12.8% from June 2010, when the median stood at $1.13 million.
Other metrics continued to show steady improvement for the East Bay market: Multi-million-dollar home sales soared to 16 transactions in June compared with just four a year ago and nine in May. And sellers received an average of 99.3% of their asking price last month, up from 97.2% the previous month and 97.8% a year ago.
The figures were derived from Multiple Listing Service data of all homes sold in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties for more than $1 million last month.
"After a fairly quiet spring, the housing market really is heating up this summer and the East Bay's luxury market in particular is gaining momentum," said Rick Turley, president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. "The high-end segment normally leads the way for the rest of the market in a housing recovery, so this is encouraging news for the entire market."
Turley said Coldwell Banker is seeing similar improvement in other luxury markets around the Bay Area, including San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin County and Silicon Valley. All of those markets have bounced back from their recessionary lows and in some cases are nearing their pre-recession levels in sales.
Although the high-end markets have done best, Turley noted that many entry-level and mid-level markets around the Bay also showed solid gains last month. Bay Area home sales overall in June rose to their highest level for any month since June 2010, when expiring tax credits gave housing a final boost, according to DataQuick, the La Jolla research firm.
Other findings from the June Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage luxury report show that:
* The most expensive sale in the East Bay in June was a four-bedroom, four-bath 4,970-square foot home in Lafayette that sold for $5.8 million;
* Sellers received on average 99.3% of their asking price, up from 97.2% in May and 97.8% a year ago;
* Homes closing in June took an average of 49 days to sell, the same as the previous month and up from 44 days a year ago.


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Each chapter ends with questions designed to get you thinking strategically about how to apply what you've read in your workplace.
Editor Jane Slaughter has written for Labor Notes for 25 years, covering the auto industry and other topics. She co-authored Working Smart, and has written and spoken widely about participation programs and management-by-stress.
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"I still have much to learn from the experiences of others and the miraculous creativity that continues to flow from the hearts and souls of those who care enough to take risks for the sake of others.... This book chronicles the experiences and lessons of labor's Rosa Parks's and perhaps tomorrow's Martin Luther King, Jr's. and Malcolm X's.... Honest discussion, investigation, and the willingness to question conventional wisdom on how best to represent and organize workers and challenge entire industries -- this book walks you through countless tactics, strategies and stunningly creative approaches."
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This reminds me of the days when you are asking a girl out and she wants to take time to think about it. Here the Dolphins are that boy asking a girl out and Jeff Fisher is that girl. The one that can bring much happiness. You are secretly hoping it happens and she accepts your invitation to go out…so you wait that night while she is getting called by other guys.
There are so many crazy twists and turns to this whole "chase".
Jason LaCanfora of the NFL Network is of the belief that Fisher will end up in Saint Louis.
Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports reported yesterday that Fisher is leaning toward Miami because he does not "love" Bradford as much as people might hope.
Armando Salguero reported that the Dolphins Stephen Ross absolutely needs to win this sweepstakes.
On the St. Louis side, Tony Softli, a former NFL personnel man, mentioned through his sources that Fisher is basically not sure until he meets with Rams on whether or not he's leaning toward Miami.
What we know is that Fisher is in St. Louis now, interviewing, having some ribs, watching the snow fall, and envisioning what it would be like as the top guy in St. Louis with 40 million dollars in cap space.
What will happen? Who knows. We will surely find out if it is Miami or St. Louis or some mystery team…Dallas.


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VANCOUVER, March 18, 2014 /CNW/ - Following the sudden lay off of nine employees - all BCGEU members - at the Salvation Army National Recycling Operation in February, both the employer and the union have since met and have reached a decision. Both parties have negotiated an agreement.
BCGEU President Darryl Walker says the union has been dedicated to ensuring a fair deal for the Salvation Army employees. "We are pleased with the agreement, as it is a good resolution for our members," says President Walker. "The employer followed the process required and the union will continue to assist the nine employees and ensure our members are treated with the fairness and respect that they deserve."
The employees - some of whom had over 20 years of service with Salvation Army - were responsible for sorting items donated by the public in its Victoria recycling and distribution warehouse.
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BE COUNTED! It's Time for Answers on Lupus in NYC
Ask Your Doctor About the Just-Launched Manhattan Lupus Surveillance Program
Thanks to a collaborative between New York University and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the number of people with systemic lupus (prevalence) and number of new cases (incidence) of lupus in Manhattan will finally be properly measured.
How Many New Yorkers have lupus? How old are they?
What race/ethnicity? What complications are they hit with?
Are you one of them? If so, be sure to let your doctor know that you want to BE COUNTED! in the Manhattan Lupus Surveillance Program so that we can all raise lupus awareness—and get the data down right so that services and care go to the New Yorkers who need them.
"These questions must be answered so that we can see just how many individuals in Manhattan have lupus, and get an idea of how many people are diagnosed with lupus in a given year," said New York University's Jill Buyon, MD, one of the city's leading lupus doctors.
"Just like with the U.S. Census, concrete facts can help us all in more effectively raising awareness and educating the community, researchers, as well as health care providers and hospitals about this often very difficult chronic disease," she said.
Be Counted (Anonymously)!
"We hope people with lupus will ask their doctors (their rheumatologists, dermatologists, nephrologists) to include their case in the count because the more of them that know about it, the more accurate we can be in getting care to those who need it," said NYU's Peter Izmirly, MD.
Dr. Izmirly got his first major grant to study lupus from the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation and is now spearheading the survey in close collaboration with Dr. Buyon.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is funding the collaborative study, and results will likely be available in 2014.
Additional sites developing these registries are located in California, Michigan, and Georgia, and at various locations through the Indian Health Service.
"We've been taking care of New Yorkers with lupus for over 40 years," said S.L.E. Lupus Foundation Executive Director Margaret D. Dowd. "Our offices here near Penn Station as well as our website and facebook pages buzz with activity, from support groups to educational programs, awareness campaigns, and more."
"With the Manhattan Lupus Surveillance Program, we'll learn even more about our New Yorkers with lupus," Dowd said. "So we hope everyone with lupus will ask for it...to BE COUNTED!"


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- Intrathymic expression of genes involved in organ specific autoimmune diseaseV L Heath
The Cellular Immunology Unit, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, OX1 3RE, UK
J Autoimmun 11:309-18. 1998....
- Peptides derived from murine insulin are diabetogenic in both rats and mice, but the disease-inducing epitopes are different: evidence against a common environmental cross-reactivity in the pathogenicity of type 1 diabetesV L Heath
Medical Research Council Cellular Immunology Unit, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK
Diabetes 48:2157-65. 1999..The data implicate insulin as a target autoantigen in type 1 diabetes but do not support a role for molecular mimicry to insulin in the pathogenesis of this disease...
- Cutting edge: ectopic expression of the IL-12 receptor-beta 2 in developing and committed Th2 cells does not affect the production of IL-4 or induce the production of IFN-gammaV L Heath
Department of Immunobiology, DNAX Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
J Immunol 164:2861-5. 2000..Thus, although the IL-12R beta 2 and IL-12-dependent STAT4 activation are required for Th1 responses, activation of this pathway is not sufficient to restore a Th1 phenotype in developing or committed Th2 cells...
- 1alpha,25-Dihydroxyvitamin d3 has a direct effect on naive CD4(+) T cells to enhance the development of Th2 cellsA Boonstra
Department of Immunology, DNAX Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
J Immunol 167:4974-80. 2001....
- Checkpoints in the regulation of T helper 1 responsesV L Heath
Department of Immunobiology, DNAX Research Institute, 901 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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House in Gloucester damaged by lightning bolt
A house in Gloucester was badly damaged after it was struck by lightning.
A television aerial was hit by the bolt which scattered roof tiles and masonry, a Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said.
The brigade attended more than 20 weather-related incidents overnight but no-one was reported injured.
Much of the United Kingdom was affected by heavy rain and thunderstorms overnight.
Elsewhere in the city the Summer Sound music festival, which had been due to take place in Gloucester Park, will now be held indoors at the Guildhall.
Earlier on Saturday organisers cancelled the event but it was given an 11th hour reprieve by the city council, who stepped in to offer the venue.
"However, the capacity at the Guildhall is only 400 so at 1pm the first 400 people to the venue will be permitted entrance," a council spokesman said.
"Thereafter entry will be on a one in, one out basis."
'Flooded roads'
Gloucestershire Police said a number of roads in Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud were affected by flooding.
Supt Phil Haynes said a number of manhole covers had "popped-up" due to the excess water in various places around Gloucestershire and a tree had fallen in Hawbridge.
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This case study is part of an Asia-Europe Foundation commissioned research project entitled "Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues". The concept behind this research was based on the observation that carefully documented case studies can not only provide inspiration for networking and collaboration between Asia and Europe but also aid policy making and planning. The selected researchers investigated initiatives of the culture sector as well as civil society organisations working on environmental issues. The complete list of 20 case studies from a selection of countries in Asia will be available to download online from the beginning of 2012.
Bridging Gaps through Native Wisdom
In Tasik Chini, an NGO is building capacity to empower local communities to document their traditional knowledge and actively participate in the management and restoration planning process of their immediate environment
While traditional and non-formal systems of knowledge still struggle to find legitimacy within western, science based discourse on conservation and restoration in most parts of Asia, Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems is setting out to explore the potential and the role of alternative and indigenous knowledge systems in the task of habitat restoration and community ownership.
The Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems project was initiated by Sustainable Development Network Malaysia (SUSDEN) in October 2010. The project was initiated with the objective of documenting and publishing local knowledge about the importance of Tasik Chini's fast degrading ecosystem. It was also deemed important to empower the local community to actively participate in the management and the planning of Tasik Chini's restoration.
The project proposes to organize the local community into village research groups and provide them the technical tools that will allow them to systematically document their knowledge about specific ecosystem processes that they believe are important. It will also document the use of visual and performing arts as means of storytelling about local cultural practices and the traditional importance of the ecosystem. The project hopes to enable the community to engage in the restoration and planning of the Tasik Chini ecosystem by training them in concepts of Integrated Water Resource Management, updating them about the progress in the restoration process and supporting them in preparation for participation in relevant forums and working group meetings including the restoration planning process itself.
Since the late 1990's, the steady degradation of the Tasik Chini ecosystem has had a harmful effect on the lives of the local communities that depended on it for sustenance through traditional forest based activities including fishing, hunting, and herbs gathering. Tasik Chini was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 2009. While government bodies and researchers conducted studies with the intent of proposing recommendations and a way forward for the restoration of the area along with a development plan, the local community remained largely peripheral to the process. Located in this context, this project becomes essential for its attempts to work on community capacity building in a way that allows the indigenous community to gain visibility as stakeholders and gives them leverage to participate in the decision making and management of the restoration process. The final output of the project, in the form of a publication, is expected to address policy makers, and feed into public education.
While the project aims to enable a community based restoration approach it is important to be cognizant of the tokenism that recognizes traditional, indigenous, or local knowledge claims as an important resource in policy papers but fails to incorporate them into practice. However, the challenge that the Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems project faces also makes it an important project. What remains to be seen is whether the specificity of scientific restoration can engage with the uncertain and complex patterns of local ecological, cultural and social processes and whether the local community can find a voice in determining processes and plans that could drastically impact their daily lives.
This research was part of the Connect2Culture Art and Environment Programme and was commissioned in conjunction with the dossier: Arts. Environment. Sustainability. How can Culture Make a Difference? culture360.org will be publishing further extracts from the research online, so keep an eye out on the website.
Researchers: Ekta Mittal and Monica James
Monica James is a media practitioner and researcher. She is currently a member of Maraa Media Collective , a media & arts collective based in Bangalore. Her preoccupation with the intersections between the discourses of culture and development prompted her interest in this project.
Ekta Mittal is a co-founder of Maraa Media Collective. She is also one of the founding members of Masrah, an eight year old theatre group. Mittal is passionate about travel, and has also worked as Research Manager for The Blue Yonder, a responsible tourism company where she identified communities to work with in Karnataka and Rajasthan.


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Michelle Williams: I still don't know why Heath Ledger died
Michelle Williams has spoken for the first time about her grief over
Heath Ledger's death.
Williams, who has a five-year-old daughter by the dead star, told US TV: 'I've found meanings around the circumstance but the actual event itself – I still can't find a meaning for it.
'It didn't seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear from behind a bush,' said the 30-year-old.
Williams told Nightline how she had found comfort in Joan Didion's book, The Year Of Magical Thinking, following Ledger's death in 2008.
Speaking about the death of the Dark Knight actor, who died from an accidental drug overdose, she said: 'A lot of things died.
'There's a line from a book that gave me so much comfort and it said "When you've truly lost everything, then at least you can become rich in loss".'
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2010 University Of Michigan Jazz Festival "Charles Mingus Day"
The 2010 University Of Michigan Jazz Festival "Charles Mingus Day" will take place February 13th at 7:30p.m. at the Power Center for the Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The festival announced today that Congressman John Conyers Jr. would receive the first, "University of Michigan John Conyers Jr. Jazz Advocacy Award". This award is named in his honor and serves as recognition of extraordinary achievement in the world of Jazz by an advocate or patron.
In recognition of Black History Month and the Jazz Festival tribute to Charles Mingus, three virtuoso bassists, Christian McBride, Robert Hurst and Rodney Whitaker, will take the stage together in an historic improvised performance.
The festival feature concert will also include the University of Michigan Jazz Ensemble, The Christian McBride Band and the Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra under the direction of Dennis Wilson. The DJFO will feature a new composition by Christian McBride entitled "The Movement Revisited". This composition is an important expression of the Black experience through the language of Jazz and will also be performed on February 14th at 7:30pm at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit.
The University of Michigan Jazz Festival is a noncompetitive event providing collegiate, high school and middle school students an opportunity to interact with the music faculty of the University of Michigan as well as other distinguished educators. The Festival is open to students, educators, and music lovers of all ages and is presented by the School Of Music Theatre & Dance through the Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation with additional support from numerous academic units within the University Of Michigan.
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Aloha, Papercutz World! Scott Shaw! here. Since I've been at a few recent comics-related events with copies of the free ANNOYING ORANGE ASHCAN EDITION, Jesse asked me to post a travel report, and I'm always happy to both travel and report, so here I am!
First, from October 19-21, I was a special guest of the first annual San Diego Comic Fest in Mission Valley. Other guests included Mark Evanier (The Garfield Show, Sergio Aragonés Groo The Wanderer), Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo, 47 Ronin), Batton Lash (Supernatural Law, Radioactive Man) and the legendary Murphy Anderson (Hawkman, The Atomic Knights, John Carter Of Mars).
This was a small-ish convention intended to re-create what it was like at the early San Diego Comic-Con Internationals back in the 1970s. Almost a thousand happy fan-folks were there, many of whom made a point of dropping by my table and picking up a copy of ANNOYING ORANGE. Mike Kazaleh was there on Saturday, so both of us wound up signing quite a few of the freebie funnybook previews. In fact, between the Annoying Orange fever at my table and the eight different panels and presentations I had scheduled (including two different versions of my Oddball Comics Live! Show), I never got a chance to walk around the exhibit hall or buy any vintage funnybooks for my collection!
Then, on October 28, Mike and I were special guests of the Bakersfield Comic-Con in Bakersfield, a small farming community just east of Los Angeles. Other guests included Nate Watson (Star Wars: Detours, Toy Story comics), Tone Rodriguez (Mars Attacks!; Simpsons Comics) and Mike Hampton (Eagle Eye).
Like the San Diego Comic Fest, this convention attracted about a thousand attendees, but unlike the former event, most of these folks weren't hardcore comic fans, just people who were curious about the world of comics, gaming, cosplay, etc…and boy, were they crazy about our ANNOYING ORANGE ASHCAN EDITION! We gave out copies willy-nilly, even to (mostly) adults who admitted that they found Annoying Orange to be a bit too annoying for them! (Wotta bunch of wimps!)
Again, it was a very busy day, with another performance of my Oddball Comics Live! show around lunchtime. And speaking of food, after the convention, we were all treated to an outrageous feast at Famous Dave's barbeque restaurant! Mmm-mm!
And finally, I'd like to thank David Levy and his staff at Big Kid Collectable Toy Mall in Sherman Oaks for handing out free copies of the ANNOYING ORANGE ASHCAN EDITION to their copious kid customers! Here's a terrific drawing that Annoying Orange Fan #1, Aidan Jones (age 9), submitted for my (and your) approval! Cool, eh?
Anyway, that's my report! Hope you dig ANNOYING ORANGE #1: "Secret Agent Orange" as much as Mike and I dug writing and drawing it!
ANNOYING ORANGE #1: "Secret Agent Orange" is on sale December 11, 2012 at bookstores, comics stores, and fruit carts everywhere!


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Good morning and a very blessed Sunday to you! There's an awesome Featured Stamper 269 (redlynny) at Splitcoast Stampers today. This is a new gallery for me and it's packed full of some serious eye candy. I browsed through Vickie's gallery during 2 cups of coffee finally settling on her Best Wishes card to CASE. I really liked the sketch so I kept that and the Webster's Pages flower embellishments but changed everything else, like my colors, die-cut, and sentiment. I broke out some new Cosmo Cricket designer paper that was recently released making this a totally girlie card with all of the flowers.
I hope that you like this and that it provides you with some inspiration. As always, thank you so much for stopping by to visit me this morning and God bless you. Don't forget about entering my Cricut blog candy! Entries close on April 15.
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Crazy Magazine v1 #4, 1973 - This issue pokes fun at the 1970s black exploitation hero Shaft, among other characters. The viscous drawing style of Mike Ploog fits the humor genre perfectly without sacrificing aesthetic appeal. The artist's inks and washes make the panels more varied, and help offset the frequent and mechanically typeset word balloons. A high point is the amusing title panel, featuring Shaft among several of his television peers (McCloud, Cannon, Columbo, etc). Even the monstrous Man-Thing (which Ploog was drawing at the time) makes an unexpected cameo on page five, panel five. Other artists in this issue include Dick Wright, John Stevens, Michael Sheeler, Robert Graysmith, Bob Foster, Marie Severin, Herb Trimpe and Kelly Freas (cover) This is number 2 of 3 Crazy Magazine issues with Ploog art. See today's posts or more Ploog or Crazy Magazine issues. See also this blog's Ploog checklist or Top 10 Ploog comics.
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ROLLINSFORD — Rollinsford Grade School students rehearsed Disney's "Winnie The Pooh Kids" Wednesday afternoon as they prepared for the kickoff of their musical production tonight at 7 p.m.
Led by Amanda Russell and Lori Hess, 50 RGS students in grades one through six have been cast in the play. Many were dressed in character Wednesday as they practiced their lines.
Pooh, played by sixth-grader Jackie Kovalcin, sang her songs on cue as Russell directed. First- and second-graders wore brightly colored wings as they played the role of honeybees. Tigger, Eeyore, Owl, Piglet, Rabbit and Christopher Robin were all present in character, too.
Russell has been putting on musical performances at RGS for nine consecutive years and has been at the school for 18.
Auditions were held in December and children have been practicing twice a week after school since then.
"As long as there weren't any snow days, they rehearsed," Hess said.
Hess was on the scene watching the students perform, but usually her husband Robert, who passed away in January from cancer, would have been there front and center.
"This show is bittersweet for us. Robert had been helping with these performances since the beginning. He handled everything. We miss him so much, the kids especially," said a teary eyed Russell. "Lori, too, has been incredible," she added.
The ninth annual Rollinsford Grade School musical, sponsored by the nonprofit Rollinsford Education Foundation, is designed for elementary-school age performers and is based on the 2011 animated feature film.
This classic title features three songs from the hit film as well as Sherman Brother songs from "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh."
The production will be held tonight and Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Rollinsford Grade School on Locust Street.
An additional performance will be held at Idlehurst Elementary School in Somersworth on Thursday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m.
The musical is open to the public and tickets will be available at the door. Admission is $3 for students and $5 for adults.


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Winter Guard won first, second, and Grand Champions titles for their open flag and saber routines at last weekend's Team Dance Illinois State competition.
The team placed first for their open flag routine and second in the winter guard show. In addition to the title of TDI State Champions, Winter Guard was also won a $500 prize.
"We've worked really hard since November and we've all really pushed ourselves to achieve our titles," Rebecca Johlie, junior, said.
This is the third year in a row Winter Guard has received first in TDI's state competition.
"It's always so much fun to compete with my team. We really try and have a good time while competing," Johlie said.
Winter Guard is looking forward to competing in IDTA's state competition March 16.
"I really hope we win [IDTA's] state again this year!" Johlie said. "I think our whole team really just hopes to keep improving our skills for this season and into next."


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Marvel puts classic comics online – Entertainment News, Technology News, Media – Variety
As if we needed more ways to waste our time on the internet.
Marvel puts classic comics online – Entertainment News, Technology News, Media – Variety
As if we needed more ways to waste our time on the internet.
Telecom companies still seek immunity — chicagotribune.com
I don't think enough people are pointing out the fact that you generally don't start sweating whether or not you'll get immunity unless you're certain – certain – you've done something illegal. If they want it this bad then it needs to be denied to them if for no other reason than to see what they've been doing that might be..oh, I don't know…unconstitutional.
As one person on a panel discussion says, online efforts are now becoming the starting point, the centerpiece and the hub of marketing campaigns. That's the central idea of a new media shift that is less about reach and more about reaching the right people with the right message, something that marketing and promotional partners can help you achieve.
Add to that the increasing budget share online is getting. Some of that money is new and some is being shifted there from other media. But the seven to 10 percent that's common now is nothing compared to what is going to be coming down the pipe in the next couple years as the media consumption habits of people are recognized as a trend and not as an anomaly.
Despite that shift, a variety of factors contribute to most online campaigns not getting launched or completed on schedule. That's not surprising to me since I see a lot of movie sites that still have "Coming Soon" sections the week the movie's released. Plus, if you're changing your website content once a week you need an RSS feed. Now.
As you strive to reach a local audience – something that perpetually seems to be the holy grail – don't forget about radio. But radio has to adapt to the times and go digital to reach that local audience. Otherwise everyone is spinning their wheels.
Sarah Michelle Gellar has a couple of movies coming out in the near future, Southland Tales and The Air I Breathe. That, at least in part, is her explanation for posing for a photo spread for Maxim. Anyone here have a problem with that? Didn't think so. [via Pop Candy]
There have been many movies that try and capture a child-like sense of wonder about toys or other symbols of innocence and the secret lives of the toys themselves or their creators. From Willy Wonka to Toy Story, the idea that there is magic or surprise lurking on the candy or toy shelves is a constant theme in family-friendly movies.
The latest movie that looks to peek behind the curtain, so to speak, is Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Dustin Hoffman plays Mr. Magorium, the proprietor of the titular toy store, a magical place where the toys are indeed alive. Working with him as his apprentice is Natalie Portman, a woman who knows the reality of the shop and who shares his enthusiasm. The plot is driven by Jason Batemen (TV's "Arrested Development") who plays an accountant who comes in and brings rain to the magical parade.
The Poster
There was only one poster created by distributor 20th Century Fox and Walden Media, the producing studio. It's a good poster that shows Hoffman's character in his natural setting, surrounded by the toys he loves, with Portman's helper by his side. Toys flutter and fly around him in a widely colorful image that does a good job of conveying the setting, if not the story, of the movie.
The main component of the poster is the "Thanksgiving" note that tells the audience when the movie is coming out. This immediately plays into the Christmas shopping season and positions it among all the warm, fuzzy feelings that are associated with it. "This is the movie," the poster says, "that will help you feel all those idealized holiday feelings." And it works at doing that. The poster sells the movie as a warm, family-friendly wonderful adventure.
The Trailers
Like the poster there was onlyone trailer made for the movie. And like the poster it's filled with imagery that conveys just how magical the store and the movie are meant to be. Heck, it even uses Whimsical Trailer Voice-Over Guy, so you know it bears the mark of whimsy.
It starts off just setting up the store as we see kids – and Magorium and his assistant themselves – caught up in how magical the store is. Portman's character underlines this when she says upon entering, "Good morning, store." Things bounce around and act, well, alive, to the delight of everyone.
Until, that is, Bateman's accountant comes in, with his serious attitude and air of not being fun at all. We eventually see him softening a bit, which isn't really a spoiler since anyone who doesn't see this coming hasn't been watching movies since forever.
But overall the people who are child-like learn to mature a little while those who are too stuffy learn to be kids again and the trailer shows the bullet pointed outline of the plot and that's fine. With a movie that's trying to set itself up as a destination film for people beaten down by how un-magical some toy stores are it's a good idea to let the audience know more or less just what it is they can expect. It's a fun trailer and I'm not going to fault it for showing people the story.
The movie's official website is a bit skimpy but has some good stuff.
"Story" is a nice two-paragraph long write up about the movie and its story that, for a change, does not spend 2/3 of its length talking about the studio and the pedigree of the producers. Too often we hear all about how fantastically wonderful the people who make the movie are andtoo little about the actual movie. Nice to see that change.
There's a sparse four – yes, just four – pictures in "Gallery." Come on. That's it? Severe letdown. "Trailer" is, naturally, just the trailer.
"Downloads" contains five Wallpapers, eight Icons and – and this is kind of cool – three paper airplane instructions you can download and make.
Next up there's a link to the Toy Drive and below that a "Build Your Own Toy" feature. Choose from a variety of toys to make – robot, doll, car, etc – and then drag and drop various items to make it your own. Your final product can be saved, printed or sent to someone via email. It's very cool and works for the movie's younger visitors. I can see letting my kids play with this.
Advertising and Cross-Promotions
TV spots have been all over Chicago area television, as have print ads promoting early screenings of the movie. I haven't seen much in the way of online advertising but that might just be me.
Going back to print ads, The Los Angeles Times announced a couple months ago they would be using Mr. Magorium to test a new ad format – scratch and sniff. In the race to salvage whatever ad revenue they could, the LAT agreed to place ads that smelled like cake frosting when you scratched them. The full-page ad, which was enclosed so as not to offend anyone, cost almost twice what a regular full-page ad in the paper would have.
Instead of a line of Mr. Magorium action figures or anything, the studio opted to re-package and re-brand classic toys like Lincoln Logs and such with the movie's title. This is completely in keeping with the movie's theme of imagination, since toys like that encourage not just scene recreation but imagination stimulation as well. The only toy that's being specifically made for the movie is Sock Monkey, a central (toy) figure in the movie, but even it is a classic idea.
The toys are, in perhaps the most interesting promotional deal for the movie, being sold exclusively through Target stores. Target contributed its own promotional marketing for the partnership with a series of TV spots that were co-branded with the movie. And as you can see from this picture the movie toys also got featured in Target's Sunday newspaper inserts.
The store even co-branded the movie's premiere, as you see from this picture of Jason Bateman walking the red carpet.
Wendy's is including Mr. Magorium toys in its Kids Meals, thereby satisfying the fast-food tie-in requirement.
In the week preceding the release the studio decorated a bunch of the trolleys that zig-zag through Chicago with Magorium branding. They were decked out festively with "Mr. Magorium's Magic Trolley" along the side and a huge, fake turnkey poking out of the top. It caught me by surprise when I first saw it but I think it was a lot of fun and had the potential to catch the eye of Christmas shoppers wandering around The Loop. Similar buses were also running in New York City.
That was just one of a series of stunts the studio engaged in, including a huge LEGO construct outside a New York toy store and more. They also partnered with kids cable network Nick for a sweepstakes tied into the Toy Creator feature on the website, sending someone on a trip to New York.
It's not all about buying toys, though. Walden Media also create The World Record Toy Drive, a partnership with Toys for Tots. They setup locations across the country for people to drop off toys for the charity, with a goal of collecting 12,000 pounds of toys that would then be distributed to disadvantaged children. I think this is a great idea, something that doesn't happen often enough, and shows that Walden is willing to do more than just pay lip service to the idea of empowering children. Excellent move. At the end of the period they blew through their goal and had collected over 28,000 pounds of toys. Nice job.
This was a good campaign that, while light on content (one trailer and poster, a bit skimpy on the website) was heavy on brand consistency. Everything they did was designed to maintain the movie's brand identity, with themes, imagery and other components carrying over across media. That, combined with the philanthropic effort of the toy drive, makes this a very good campaign as the studio shoots to lure holiday shoppers into the theaters.
So I got an invitation from Greg Verdino, part of the team at crayon, to try out Firebrand, a client of theirs. Firebrand is one of the recent entrants into the "commercials as destination content" market. Basically it creates a high-quality environment for advertisers to put up their spots, spots that can then be spread across the webs.
The Firebrand interface is very cool and user-friendly. The brands that are on the site are presented at the bottom and you can scroll through them or search to find what you're looking for. Each spot has a link you can use to send readers back to the Firebrand page for that commercial or embed code for you to put it on your site. There are also a variety of buttons for you to use to add the spot to your favorites (once you've registered), blog it (which gives you the link and the embed code) or email it to someone.
I like the player a lot and encountered no issues with streaming the videos on the site.
While I take a good-natured jab at them in the headline I think sites like this make a lot of sense. Many of us in the media space are looking for places to find good quality clips for our sites or just for sharing and if Firebrand can become that hub they'll be a useful part of people's media consumption. I for one would use them if they had a good stock of movie trailers since they're a higher-quality alternative to YouTube or Google Video.
I couldn't get the embedded player to work here but you can check out the Saw IV trailer here.
Even if I didn't know that it was the company that lured Jeremy Pepper away from the agency world I would still really like the idea behind The Point. You know all those social issues that are completely deserving of addressing but which can't get off the ground commitment wise? The Point seeks to address that problem.
It works like this: Create or join a campaign then sit back. Only when enough people commit to action on that issue – once the number of members crosses the Tipping Point – are those who committed called upon to act. Those who start the campaigns decide what that looks like, whether it's a financial pledges or number of members or some other goal line.
The reason I like this idea is that many well meaning people are constantly being asked for their time or money. But they don't want either of those scant resources to be spent on something that doesn't have the support of others and therefore has little chance of success. The Point tells people they'll only be asked to contribute to causes that have the backing of enough people to actually effect change.
Crowds, as we've seen just about everywhere in the social media era, are a powerful force. The Point wants to make sure they have a big enough crowd to make a difference. It's a good effort and I wish Pepper and the rest of the team luck.
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Cedar Rapids, IA, United States, 2006/11/19 - Short stories read aloud are in the tenth edition podcast of the Bound Off podcast.
Bound Off, a monthly literary audio magazine, has recently released a tenth podcast of original fictional short stories, read aloud, at boundoff.com
The stories are:
# "Blink" written by Marian Allen and read by Kelly Shriver.
# "Love, Mortar" written by Amelia Gray and read by Dave Robinson.
# "Goodbye Blue" written by Tracie McBride and read by Ann Rushton.
The entire podcast is 24 minutes. The MP3 of the podcast is about 16mb in size and can be downloaded at boundoff.com.
Marian Allen is a member of Southern Indiana Writers Group. Her website is MarianAllen.com.
Amelia Gray, an Arizona native, currently resides in San Marcos, Texas. Her stories have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Spork, Swivel, and Barbaric Yawp.
Tracie McBride is a mother of three from New Zealand. Her work has appeared in various e-zines, including Alien Skin, Flash Me and Spoiled Ink.
Music provided during the interludes is the track "Preemergence" by Mark Rushton. A copy of the complete song can be listened to and downloaded at the Bound Off Myspace site, myspace.com/boundoff
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AMorning, afternoon or evening.
Last weeks cake was an R2D2 cake. I made the cake so it stood about half a metre high (50cm) but the biggest problem i found was because i just iced the sides with the wrapping method the fondant start to slip and sink and started 'bagging' at the bottom.
My first question is, how do i stop this from happening? And secondly simply, what is the best way to ice a tall cake?
Kind regards Gemma x
If a thread like this already exists please point me in the right direction as i couldnt find it x
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If I had a tall cake to cover I would always try to do it in sections rather than one large piece. Also I don't know if you are putting sugarpaste (fondant) straight onto butter cream. I always put a layer of marzipan onto my cakes before the final covering. I stick the sugapaste to ti with clear alcohol brushed on. I am quite frugal with the alcohol so the sugarpaste stick wiithout slipping.
I cannot think of another way other than in sections but with something like R2D2 this might work quite well.
Good luck!
AHe was iced front first and then back second as his legs hid the joins either side of the cake. I didn't marzipan before icing so just crusted buttercream. Wouldn't you encounter the same problem with the marzipan? I have a feeling because i just iced fondant on the sides there was no support for the icing at the top of the cake, so maybe over lapping it a bit? But i have seen cakes decorated successfully the way i did it. Just don't know how lol. Thank you for taking the time to reply though xx


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The infamous Delhi gang-rape along with several stories voicing the anguish and agony of victims of sexual violence were portrayed in a moving dance performance by students of Delhi University.
New Delhi: The infamous Delhi gang-rape along with several stories voicing the anguish and agony of victims of sexual violence were portrayed in a moving dance performance by students of Delhi University.
"Ab Bas" (Enough Now), a choreographic act mirroring the pain and pathos of a woman, recalling tale of the harrowing December night last year when a 23-year-old was gang-raped here, as well as many other days and nights of suffering that go unnoticed was enacted late last evening.
A troupe of about 20 students from Kamla Nehru College under the Delhi University gave the rendition as part of a two-day inter-college media festival `Vox Pop 2013` hosted by the India Institute of Mass Communication at their campus.
Dressed in a matching ensemble of flaming orange reminiscent of moving fire, the group in a carefully co-ordinated moves and gravity-defying acrobatics embedded with social narrative set the stage literally ablaze.
The ten-minute theatrical dance act enacted the horrors that women go through in their daily lives, both in public and in private. The artists also paid homage to the paramedic student who was gang-raped in a moving bus in December last and who eventually died of her injuries while undergoing treatment in Singapore on December 29.
"When we perform it we feel both the joy that we as performers give to the audience but also the immense pain that we emote to them. But it`s an excruciatingly painful experience for us as we empathise with these victims as women ourselves," Anmol Bansal, a member of the troupe said, her eyebrows covered with sweat and her eyes laden with moisture after the performance.
The dance choreography has been performed at IIT-Bombay fest `Mood Indigo` and other college festivals. "For us the travails of a woman was more important, which we wanted to draw the attention to," says Surbhi Kapoor, who leads the dance troupe.
Noted journalists, social activists, ad gurus as well as student politics leaders also participated in the student festival.


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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is inadequate blood flow, most commonly due to plaque build-up in your arteries. When obstructed, arteries cannot carry enough blood, starving muscles and other tissues in the lower body.
A thin tube (catheter) is inserted through a blood vessel in the groin. When the tube reaches the narrowed part of the artery, a balloon is inflated to press the plaque against the wall of the artery. An expandable wire-mesh tube (stent) is often used to hold it open.
This can be accomplished by replacing the blocked portion of the artery with a vein or man-made graft. Vein grafts can keep the blood vessel open longer.
All surgeries pose a certain amount of risk. The risks of surgery for PAD are about the same as those of other types of surgery.
Lifestyle changes and medicine can stop or reverse plaque build-up.
Leg pain often decreases after a few months of treatment.
If these measures do not reduce your symptoms, angioplasty or bypass surgery may be needed to treat more severe peripheral arterial disease.
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Harvest Picnic. Aside from the tangle of fishing line, it was a fine, fine, day. But how could it not be as we had the sun, the shade, farmers markets, Feist and each other. We tapped our toes and spun around and let watermelon drip from our chins. The picnic signalled summer's end and now Autumn is only days away. Already I feel it's presence in the cold of the morning and the way I linger in a hot shower long enough to rid the chill. I've pulled out my boots and this weekend I will dig into the storage box of woolens for a hat. I hope to find myself picking apples, eating cider donuts and sitting in front of a fire. Oh summer you were fun, so much fun, but fall I love you too.
Harvest Picnic
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gorgeous photos...makes me want to go grab my kids and just snap away!ReplyDelete
- susanne from oakvilleSeptember 30, 2012 at 8:12 AM
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Love this shot, makes me miss my lads so much; but I remember these times with my boys, unfortunately I son't have these memories of my own growing up. I can see your love for your children in your eyes...Wonderful!
I agree with you Tara ~ the summer was spectacular but I am so ready for autumn. I thought it had really arrived on Saturday then Sunday we were back to 26 with the humidity ~ mother nature ~ she is a fickle one isn't she??!!ReplyDelete
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Newfoundland will books volume 2 pages 207-208 probate year 1856
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In re WILLIAM WARREN. DECEASED.This is the last will and testament of me William Warren of Saint John in the Island of Newfoundland, Gentleman, I direct that out of my personal estate my just debts and funeral expenses shall first be paid and subject thereto I give devise and bequeath all and singular the property which I shall be possessed of or entitled to at the time of my decease or over which I have a disposing power whether the same consists wholly or in part of estates of freehold or for years, money, stock, book and other debts o r whatsoever sort or kind the same or any part thereof may be, to my daughter Ann Warren her heirs executors administrators and assigns for ever. I appoint my said daughter executrix and my nephew Henry Warren Seymour of Saint John's aforesaid Grocer executor of this my will hereby revoking all former wills by me ever made.
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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470: 6 Months Late, Was It Worth the Wait?by Ryan Smith on March 26, 2010 7:00 PM EST
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Image Quality & AA
When it comes to image quality, the big news from NVIDIA for Fermi is what NVIDIA has done in terms of anti-aliasing of fake geometry such as billboards. For dealing with such fake geometry, Fermi has several new tricks.
The first is the ability to use coverage samples from CSAA to do additional sampling of billboards that allow Alpha To Coverage sampling to fake anti-alias the fake geometry. With the additional samples afforded by CSAA in this mode, the Fermi can generate additional transparency levels that allow the billboards to better blend in as properly anti-aliased geometry would.
The second change is a new CSAA mode: 32x. 32x is designed to go hand-in-hand with the CSAA Alpha To Coverage changes by generating an additional 8 coverage samples over 16xQ mode for a total of 32 samples and giving a total of 63 possible levels of transparency on fake geometry using Alpha To Coverage.
In practice these first two changes haven't had the effect we were hoping for. Coming from CES we thought this would greatly improve NVIDIA's ability to anti-alias fake geometry using cheap multisampling techniques, but apparently Age of Conan is really the only game that greatly benefits from this. The ultimate solution is for more developers of DX10+ applications to enable Alpha To Coverage so that anyone's MSAA hardware can anti-alias their fake geometry, but we're not there yet.
So it's the third and final change that's the most interesting. NVIDIA has added a new Transparency Supersampling (TrSS) mode for Fermi (ed: and GT240) that picks up where the old one left off. Their previous TrSS mode only worked on DX9 titles, which meant that users had few choices for anti-aliasing fake geometry under DX10 games. This new TrSS mode works under DX10, it's as simple as that.
So why is this a big deal? Because a lot of DX10 games have bad aliasing of fake geometry, including some very popular ones. Under Crysis in DX10 mode for example you can't currently anti-alias the foliage, and even brand-new games such as Battlefield: Bad Company 2 suffer from aliasing. NVIDIA's new TrSS mode fixes all of this.
Bad Company 2 DX11 Without Transparency Supersampling
Bad Company 2 DX11 With Transparency Supersampling
The bad news is that it's not quite complete. Oh as you'll see in our screenshots it works, but the performance hit is severe. It's currently super-sampling too much, resulting in massive performance drops. NVIDIA is telling us that this should be fixed next month, at which time the performance hit should be similar to that of the old TrSS mode under DX9. We've gone ahead and taken screenshots and benchmarks of the current implementation, but keep in mind that performance should be greatly improving next month.
So with that said, let's look at the screenshots.
|NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
|NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
|ATI Radeon HD 5870
|ATI Radeon HD 4890
|DX9: 4x
|DX9: 4x
|DX9: 4x
|DX9: 4x + AAA
|DX9: 4x + AAA
|4x + TrSS 4x
|DX9: 4x + TrSS
|DX9: 4x + SSAA
|DX9: 4x
|DX9: 4x + TrSS
With the exception of NVIDIA's new TrSS mode, very little has changed. Under DX10 all of the cards produce a very similar image. Furthermore once you reach 4x MSAA, each card producing a near-perfect image. NVIDIA's new TrSS mode is the only standout for DX10.
We've also include a few DX9 shots, although we are in the process of moving away from DX9. This allows us to showcase NVIDIA's old TrSS mode, along with AMD's Adapative AA and Super-Sample AA modes. Note how both TrSS and AAA do a solid job of anti-aliasing the foliage, which makes it all the more a shame that they haven't been available under DX10.
When it comes to performance, keep in mind that both AMD and NVIDIA have been trying to improve their 8x MSAA performance. When we reviewed the Radeon 5870 back in September we found that AMD's 8x MSAA performance was virtually unchanged, and 6 months later that still holds true. The performance hit moving from 4x MSAA to 8x MSAA on both Radeon cards is roughly 13%. NVIDIA on the other hand took a stiffer penalty under DX10 for the GTX 285, where there it fell by 25%. But now with NVIDIA's 8x MSAA performance improvements for Fermi, that gap has been closed. The performance penalty for moving to 8x MSAA over 4x MSAA is only 12%, putting it right up there with the Radeon cards in this respect. With the GTX 480, NVIDIA can now do 8x MSAA for as cheap as AMD has been able to
Meanwhile we can see the significant performance hit on the GTX 480 for enabling the new TrSS mode under DX10. If NVIDIA really can improve the performance of this mode to near-DX9 levels, then they are going to have a very interesting AA option on their hands.
Last but not least, there's anisotropic filtering quality. With the Radeon 5870 we saw AMD implement true angle-independent AF and we've been wondering whether we would see this from NVIDIA. The answer is no: NVIDIA's AF quality remains unchanged from the GTX200 series. In this case that's not necessarily a bad thing; NVIDIA already had great AF even if it was angle-dependant. More to the point, we have yet to find a game where the difference between AMD and NVIDIA's AF modes have been noticeable; so technically AMD's AF modes are better, but it's not enough that it makes a practical difference
GeForce GTX 480
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ol1bit - Thursday, April 01, 2010 - linkI thought it was a fare review. They talked about the heat issues, etc.
You can't compare a 2 GPU card to a single GPU card. If they ever make a 2 core GF100, I'm sure Anandtech will do a review.
IceDread - Tuesday, April 06, 2010 - linkYou are wrong. You can and you should compare single gpu cards with multi gpu cards. It does not matter if a card has one or 30 gpu's on the card. It's the performance / price that matters.
These nvidia cards are very expensive in performance / price compared to the ATI cards, simple as that. It's obvious that nvidia dropped the ball with their new flagship. You even need 2 cards to be able to use 3 screens.
This is bad for us customers, we are not getting any price pressure at all. These nvidia cards does not improve the market since they can not compete with the ATI card, only nvidia fans will purchase these cards or possibly some working with graphics.
I hope nvidia will do better with their next series or cards and I hope that won't take to long because ATI will most likely release a new series in half a year or so. Reply
xxtypersxx - Sunday, March 28, 2010 - linkI will be interested in seeing the performance gains that will likely come from revised Nvidia drivers in a month or two. In some of the tests the gtx470 is trading blows with the gtx285 despite having nearly double the compute power...I think there is a lot of room for optimization.
I am no fanboy and even owned a 4850 for a while, but Nvidia's drivers have always been a big decision factor for me. I don't get any of the random issues that were common on catalyst and aside from the occasional hiccup (196.67 G92 fan bug) I don't worry about upgrades breaking things. I admit I don't know if all the 5xxx series driver issues have been fixed yet but I do look forward to driver parity, until then I think raw performance is only part of the equation. Reply
GourdFreeMan - Sunday, March 28, 2010 - linkRyan, have you checked performance and/or clocks to see if any of the cards you are testing are throttling under FurMark? I recall you mentioning in your 58xx review that ATi cards can throttle under FurMark to prevent damage, and while most of the power numbers look normal, I notice a few of the cards are consuming less power under FurMark than Crysis, unlike the majority of the cards which consume considerably more power running FurMark than Crysis... Reply
MojaMonkey - Sunday, March 28, 2010 - linkI can turn off one light in my house and remove the power consumption difference between the GTX480 and the 5870.
I thought this was an enthusiast site?
I lol irl when people talk about saving 100 watts and buying a 5870. So saving 100 watts but building a 700 watt system? Are you saving the planet or something?
I think nVidia is smart, if you fold or use cuda or need real time 3d performance from a quadro you will buy this card. That probably is a large enough market for a niche high end product like this.
PS: 5870 is the best gaming card for the money! Reply
Paladin1211 - Sunday, March 28, 2010 - linkNo, the 5850 is.
p/s: I misclicked the Report instead of Reply button, so pls ignore it T_T Reply
kallogan - Sunday, March 28, 2010 - linkSeriously i wonder who'd want gpus that power angry, noisy and hot...Nvidia is out both on mobile and desktop market...The only pro for Nvidia i can see is the 3D support. Reply
beginner99 - Sunday, March 28, 2010 - linkThis is kind of bad for consumers. 0 pressure on ATI to do anything from lower price to anything else. they can just lay back and work on the next gen.
Well, that at least made my decision easy. build now or wait for sandybridge. I will wait. hoepfully gpu marekt will be nicer then too (hard to be worse actually). Reply
C5Rftw - Sunday, March 28, 2010 - linkI was waiting for the fermi cards to come out before my next high end build( looking for price drops), but I actually did not expect this card to be this fast. The GTX480 is ~15% faster than the 5870, but for $100 more, and it is just gonna be a Nvidia loyal card, and the 5870 will probably drop just a little if at all.. The 5850 and and 5830 should drop $25-50, hopefully more(2x5850 at ~250$ each would be FTW). Now, would I like to have a fermi?, well yeah for sure, but I would much rather have a 5870 and down the road add another. A GTX 480 uses the same, if not more power than (2) 5870's. Now this reminds me of the last gen of the P4's. or as we know em, the Preshots. Basically, Nvidia's idea of a huge chip approach, with yes impressive performance, was just the wrong approach. I mean, their next-gen, if based on this same "doubling" SPs, cuda cores, would draw 300w+ easily and almost require water cooling because the next TSMC process is going to be 32nm and that will not allow them to "cut the chip in half." ATI's theory started with the 4000 series has proven to be a much better/efficient design. I think they could make a 6870 using 40nm TSMC right now, but ofcourse it would be a hot chip. Now when they get the 32 TSMC FABs running, Nvidia has got to re-design their chips.. And with how hot the GTX 480 is, I dont see how they could make a GTX 495. Also, the 5890 is right around the corner and that should give the final punch to KO Nvidia in this GPU generation. On a side note, Thank " " that there is some healthy competion or AMD might pull what Nvidia did and rebrand the 8800 5 or 6 times. Reply
Belard - Sunday, March 28, 2010 - linkKeep in mind, the GeForce 480 (GTX means nothing, see any GTX210 or GT 285?) is already the most power hungry card on the market, just under 300watts under full load.... if the GF480 had all 512 Cuda Cores running and clocked higher... the card will easily surpass 300watts!
This in turn means MORE heat, more power, more noise. There are videos on the 480/470s & ATI cards... the 480's fan is running very fast and loud to keep it under 100c, about 2~3 times hotter than a typical CPU.
We will see the ATI 6000 series on 40nm, but it may not be with TSMC.
If the upcoming 5890 is 15% faster and can sell for $400~450, that would put some hurt on the GF480.
Not sure how/why ATI would do re-branding. The 4670 is almost like a 3870, but is easily a more advanced and cheaper GPU. The bottom end GPUs have all changed. 2400 / 3450, 4350, 5450 - all different.
Nvidia has been doing re-branding for quite a long time. The GF2mx was re-branded as the GF2MX 400 (These were bottom end $150~190 cards in 2001) and then for some bone-head reason, during the GF6 era - they brought back the GF2MX but added DX8. Huh? Add a function to an OLD bottom end GPU?
The GF2-TI came out when GF3-TI series was launched... they wanted "TI" branding. The GF2-TI was a rebranded GF2-Pro with a slight clock upgrade.
Then came the first big-branding/feature fiasco with Nvidia. The GF8 was the first DX8 cards. Then the GF 4 series came out. The GF4ti were the high end models. But the MX series were nothing more than GF2 (DX7) with optional DVI... to take care of the low end and shove the letter names to the front.
GF4 mx420 = GF2mx, but a bit slower.
GF4 mx440 = GF2 Pro/TI
GF4 mx460 = ... faster DX7 card, but it was about $20~35 cheaper than the GF4-TI4200, a DX8 card. The Ti4200 was a #1 seller at about $200. Some of the 440se & 8x models may have 64 or 128bit RAM... ugh.
Then they had fun with the TI series when AGP 8x came out... NEW models! Either thou the cards couldn't max out the AGP 4x bus. Even the future ATI 9800Pro only ran 1~3% faster with AGP 8x.
GF4 Ti 4200 > GF4 Ti 4200 8x
GF4 Ti 4400 > GF4 Ti 4800 SE
GF4 Ti 4600 > GF4 Ti 4800
Yep, same GPUs... new names. Some people would upgrade to nothing or worse. Some even went from the 4600 to the 4800SE which was a downgrade!
Since the GF5... er "FX" series, Nvidia kept the DX# and feature set within the series. All GF5 cards are DX9.
But the 5200s were a joke. By the time they hit the market at $120, the Ti4200s were also $120 and the 4mx were reduced to $30~60. But the 5200 was HALF the performance of a 4200. People actually thought they were upgrading... returns happened.
Funny thing once. A person bought a "5200" at walmart and was confused by the POST display of "4200". Luckily he had posted to us on the interent. We laughed our butts off...! What happened? Batch & switch... someone bought a 5200, took it home - switched cards, took it back to Walmart for a refund. hey, its usually a brick or a dead card, etc. he got used card, but a much better product.
Like the ATI 5450 is too slow for gaming today for DX11, the GF5200 was horrible back in 2003 for DX9! The 5200 is still sold today, the only thing left.
Pretty much the entire GF5 series was utter garbage. 4 versions of the GF5600 ($150~200) were slower than the previous $100 Ti 4200. It was sick. This allowed ATI to gain respect and marketshare with their ATI 9600 & 9700 cards. The GF 5700 series (2 out of 5 types) were good Ti4200 replacements. The 5900 went up against the ATI 9800. I've owned both.
Since then, ATI pretty much had the upper hand in performance throughout the GF6 & GF7 era. AMD buys out ATI, then the GF8 and core2 wipes out ATI/AMD with faster products.
While ATI had the faster cards during DX9.0c (really MS? Couldn't make 6.1, 6.2?) era over the GF6/7... Nvidia *HAD* the lower end market. The GF6600 and 7600GT were $150~200 products... ATI products in that price range were either too slow or cost too much.
With GF 8800 & 8600s, ATI had lost high & mid-range markets. The HD 2000 series = too expensive, too hot and not fast enough... (sound familiar). The ATI 3000 series brought ATI back to competitive position where it counted. Meanwhile, Nvidia milked the G92~96 for the past 2+ years. They are code-name & model number crazy happy.
As long as ATI continues doing engineering and management this way, nVidia will continue to be in trouble for a long time unless they get their act together or count on the server market to stay in business.
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