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XFX Radeon HD 7970 3GB Black Edition and CrossFire Results
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!!
Reference clock speeds on the HD 7970 were set at 925 MHz on the GPU and 1375 MHz on the memory. For comparison, the XFX Black Edition ramps that up to 1000 MHz on the GPU and 1425 MHz on the GDDR5 memory. While these aren't out of this world results that we might have been hoping for, the 8% boost or so in clock rate will surely be seen.
The back of the remains pretty much unchanged.
The top of the card has a pretty nice looking brushed metal finish that clearly indicates the card model and cooler implemented and adds a nice touch to the design. I actually prefer this over the reference card's glossy complexion. The XFX and "Ghost" logo are actually etched in, not just printed.
The card still requires an 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector to operate; this has become the norm for high-end cards.
CrossFireX with up to 4 cards is supported and we put these connectors to the test later in our review for a dual-GPU HD 7970 CrossFire action!
The cooler on the XFX Black Edition supposedly got an upgrade to something they are calling "Ghost Technology" though in my testing the different in temperatures and noise between the reference design and this retail card are pretty minimal.
The display connections on card are also identical to the reference design with a single dual-link DVI, full size HDMI connection and a pair of mini-DisplayPort connections. The XFX logo is branded into the fan exhaust which adds a nice little touch though not many people will be seeing it.
In the box you get a single CrossFire cable, an HDMI to single-link DVI converter and a pretty bad-ass XFX case badge.
Finally, the instructions in the box with the XFX card are actually more impressive than I would have hoped. The diagram that shows you how to connect multiple monitors and what kinds of adapters you'll need to convert to DP connections to what ever else you might need will be handy for first time Eyefinity users. And that door hanger? Don't tell me you don't want one for your room!
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You know what the crying shame here is you can get a xbox 360 bundle and a small tv for the price.
I can get up and gaming on that price before I even get a decent gaming pc built around that card.
Still, if I give it a year my beer budget might get a taste of that bottle of wine.
I get this feeling too, but when I think about it logically the price of PC gaming isnt as bad as it first looks.
1: A current console is undoubtably on its way out within the next year.
2: Although current editions of consoles are stable, my Xbox has long since rrod and I wouldn't like to sink more money into this aging console even at the price.
3: Steam. All my console playing friends are envious of the steam deals I get for older AAA titles.
4: My computer is used for much much more than gaming.
Just a couple of excuses to favour PC gaming.
consoles are way outdated, cant be upgraded, lack controls, graphics cant be pumped up. Heck graphics tech in PCs were HD since 2002.
Yeah consoles have there pro's, but i wane see any console beet my experience doing for example WoW, F1 or BF3, on 3 screens at 5760x1200 ^_^
I played BF3 on a PS3, man that just sucks in comparison on the PC with mouse and 3 screens!!!
Dose not mean i don't play with my PS3, Xbox or Wii anymore, its just, games like guitar hero is made for the console and Battlefield is for the PC.
I use raser deathstalker keyboard and black mumba 2012 edition mouse and for some games it works and others i like to use for PC, my xbox wireless controller. Sorted ;-)
I use raser deathstalker ultimate keyboard and black mumba 2012 edition mouse and for some games it works and others i like to use for PC, my xbox wireless controller. Sorted ;-)
A good gaming PC experience is not more expensive than a lesser console experience -- often cheaper.
Sony's PS3 at launch, which cost $499 to purchase... cost Sony just over $800 to make.
Think about how much you're getting gouged in license fees to pay all that back plus research, development, and marketing. Xbox is actually worse -- not buying Xbox Live for four years will pay for a videocard. In other words, upgrading your PC to a console-like gaming experience (decent internals + a ~$250 videocard every 4 years) can be paid for in Xbox Live fees alone.
And then you add in $10/game license fees, accessories that are deliberately made uncompatible, owning multiple platforms because you're *paying* Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo to NOT provide you every game on the market by nature of being proprietary and non-binary-compatible with each other... etc. (And believe me, there's plenty in the et cetra category)
You getting gouged, son.
not sure if anyone replied to you but when the PS3 launched it cost 700 dollars.
I'm at 60hrs using a 6850, 1080p maxed.....and a 3.5yr old e8400, so learn before you make a goose of yourself.
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Sure PC are much more. And why would you buy an XBOX when you can buy a board game for $20? Because an XBOX can do more right? XBOX can't watch and burn blu-rays, store 3TB of data, create HD videos, Photoshop, program mobile apps, work from home, multi-task on the web, share files around your entire house, boot from multiple OSs, double as a recording studio, (Not to mention I can hack and mod an XBOX with my PC).A high end gaming PC will be an awesome gaming device for 2-3 years and good HOME PC for 5 years. An XBOX will only be a mediocre gaming console for 2-3. There's no comparison. And that's why I build PCs.
Does AMD need to do firmware to make this card look better?
Dirt seem to do so well?
Is that a surprise or normal to others?
Yes, I do think they will fix this with drivers in the future. The question is HOW QUICKLY.
I believe that you may have posted the 2560x1600 Crossfire Bar Chart image instead of the 2560x1600 Non-Crossfire Bar Chart on the Metro 2033 page.
Fixed, thanks!!
Your temps are higher than it should be. I think you messed up somewhere.
Is that the Delta, what is the ambient temps?
Every other review shows temp much lower than what you have.
Amateur review. Guru3d, Hardwareheaven among others had no issues with Crossfire in any of the games you did. sad to see a reviewer who cannot set up his system blame it on drivers. 7970 is amazing and fastest card in the world, improve your review skills for the future
Bitchy comment. If PCPER is getting problems then it stands to reason other people will too. When doing a review all you can do is report what YOU find and not what someone elses finds. Otherwise you might as well copy and paste from AMD's web site
Anyway, all I can afford to do at the moment is look.
Ah well. We still have NVIDIA stuff to wait for.
We are all waiting till May aren't we?????
Other review sites may have had access to prerelease drivers, different system configurations along with many other variables. The card doesn't always just pop in and work 100% of the time.
It is a brand new CPU, brand new mobo, brand new GPU, and you expect it to be flawless? Heh, you must be new at this.
If you honestly have such a high opinion of Guru3D and Hardwareheaven then by all means go chill out over there and praise them. It isn't worth the brainwaves to come over here and put someone down.
You could have, however, said "hey ryan, these guys didn't have issues, maybe you would want to contact them?"
I guess I was an amateur when I found this problem when no other reviewer did?
And then NVIDIA reproduced and is fixing it?
Please, I realize we aren't perfect, but I have been doing this for 12 years and know a little something about troubleshooting. If I tried all the things I could to fix it here and I COULD NOT DO IT, then consumers are going to be fucked.
Ryan don't listen to the trolls. I respect and believe your reviews above just about anyone else. You, Anand, and the Twit crew are who I trust.
This guy is just being a troll and looking for some attention.
Score one for Ryan, zip for the dorkentroll. :D
Looks real nice. Thanks for the review.
Nice job Ryan. I'm glad you held off on "awarding" anything for this card. While the motif and metal work is nice, it is by no means a monster overclock and something I am sure all reference cards will be able to achieve with nothing more then the AMD driver and a good set of fans in the case.
I think the main issue with the cooler is just plain inefficiency. The air is pressed into a metal box and the heat isn't taken away from the core nearly fast enough. I think a large copper plate on the back as well as some heatpipes from say a FROZR III cooler will do the trick nicely. Don't know if the tiny vent on the top of the slot is enough to allow the air to vent, but I know with the GB and MSI non reference designs the intake has a slot on the HDD side to allow for the HDD fans to pass air over them as well. Would have liked to have seen that from XFX.
In terms of my quest to get a 7970 and pricing issues and what not, I think the important thing to consider here is AMD/ATI took a major whooping with the 58xx/69xx cards. The 460 and 560 as well as others had nearly flawless SLI performance scaling and the prices to match. Let's all not be fooled here, the prices are this high because they can be, people want new cards and they don't care the price. It is tax season, and Nvidia can only sit and watch until they more then likely spank the hell out of AMD/ATI.
I am a fan of ATI/AMDs stuff and I am saying that, keep in mind. I don't think we will see the full potential of this architecture until next time around, and I am more then willing to bet that by this time next year or the year after (whenever it happens) AMD will be in a much nicer spot then waiting for Nvidia to make a move to pass them up.
In any regards, The issue shown with the Skyrim low frame rates seems to be a non issue as many review sites are indeed getting well over the frame rates reported here.
For amd cards, to have vsync off u need to put iPresentInterval=0 in documents/mygames/skyrim skyrim.ini under display. Not in skyrimpref.ini like nvidia.
Blame Bethesda and their crap codes. Skyboost mod gives 10% +
boost cause they didn't optimize their codes.
I will try out that Skrim refresh tweak but my understand was that you still couldn't go above the 60 Hz limit.
I got an amd card and getting above 70 fps inside buildings.
Don't know why amd's line had to be in skyrim.ini but was happy when got it running.
wow, this review is depressing compared to all the others, i also think it was your setup than the drivers...
ps you review seems to be the odd one out (me against the world baby) or me one or two others lol
Good job Ryan, you find another one early weakness of HD 7970. Most of other review is more focused on racing performance rather than the real condition of HD 7970. It must be realized that the review is part of improvements that AMD needed to succeed. The reader should understand that good and bad experiences of the author will be experienced by all users of the HD 7970.
Ryan - any plan for crossfire + eyefinity test w/ SLI'd 580's in surround for a comparison?
Yup, once CES is done and settled we have a lot more things to try out, including Eyefinity.
I think making such a big deal about the Crossfire issues is wrong and smells a bit like trying to desperately to find a issue to complain about.
AMD(ATI) has shown more than once that issues discovered are fixed and usually pretty quick plus they are right about how only a few will actually see this issue - even those that will go for crossfire will have to wait till the cards are delivered.
Also I find it funny to on the one hand see a complaint about that the crossfire issue will hit users and then on the other hand complain about prices and how it will mean few buyers. So which is it - huge amount of people going 7970 crossfire or only a few buying just a single card?
I think it would have been more interesting if the review had looked more into why the XFX card is not so silent. I suspect that it releasing the hot air inside the case let to more noise from case cooling. Also interesting would be to see more comparison of overclocking between the XFX and the reference design - it seems to me one does not really get much for the extra $50.
I think noting and pointing out these errors is important for people that might want to invest a LOT of money in the product and it also sends the message to the vendor that reviewers and media are actually PAYING ATTENTION and holding them to certain standards.
I think we showed you the advantages of the overclocked model pretty reasonably and you can decide if you think the $50 cost is really a value or not.
Ryan- having same problem as you, awful crossfire scaling on a LGA1155 idk if it's cpu bound or not as i have an i5 2500k. Hopefully a driver will fix this for me ^_^
Time favors us PC gamers, since this new Big Bad Rad 7970 just got out, AMD is waiting for nVidia's "Kepler" 600 series video cards and when they get it out, AMD will hit nVidia where it hurts the most, by lowering the 7900 series video card prices to the point where nVidia could not keep up with the sales PLUS, the upcoming 7990 dual GPU video and
the 7950 model.
Since nVidia's hypocrisy and bad publicity towards AMD, by lowering the 7900 series Rad price its AMD's way of saying to nVidia "What now?.. you cried two times already first in our our 5900 series release, then on our 6900 series release, now with our 7900 series are you gonna cry even more and complain ITS UNFAIR like you always do using your sponsored bloggers and tech sites to promote your video card products".
This is a great card. I was a little hesitant to fire sale my 2 MSI 6970 Lightnings (which are amazing) and buying a single 7970, but it was unwarranted. The performance, once easily overclocked (by ATI/AMD's stock overdrive), is on par with my previous setup on games that supported crossfire. The games that didn't support it, well this card just blows my previous setup out of the water in that scenario.
Another point that ALMOST made me sit on my hands for a while and wait was going from top of the line custom cards (msi lightnings)to launch day OEM cards. I've only purchased cards with after market coolers for the past 3 generations but I just couldn't wait to try out the 7970. I'm happy to say that while gaming, I don't notice a difference in fan noise. If anything, it runs cooler than my previous setup (obviously crossfire had a lot to do with it) and it may be actually quieter. While the Lightnings had an excellent HSF along with all sorts of other custom parts, the 7970's 28nm process just really nullifies the need for a monster HSF setup.
Plenty of great reviews out there on the interwebz, go read those. Just wanted to 5 star this because of the fool with the 3 star review spreading FUD.
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I see the 'mini display ports' on the back of the card. Does this mean that the HD 7970's will be able to or have out of the box support for a Mac Pro running Lion? If not, any word as to when (or if ) Macs will be supported ? And if supported, any idea as to what price will be?
The hd7970 is the fastest single gpu solution out there. It performs like a champ and is much more quiet runs much cooler than the hd6990 while offering close to beating the hd6990.Buy this card you will not be disappointed. Plus XFX offers this card at $100 less than most if not all its competitors. Don't let the 1 star and 2 star reviews here discourage you. Just read them and see the b.s they contain.
Truth be told you only need one of those 7970 cards up to one 30 inch monitor. its a waste to use 2 unless you got 3 24 or 30 inch monitors. i love the fact that the 7970 has got 3GB of RAm which will be great for huge texures in furute games and giant game worlds like GTA V


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I have spent almost all of my time here at Taos in the library. I start right after breakfast at 8:30 a.m. and leave for dinner and when the library closes at 5 p.m., and of course I leave for lunch at noon. I am taking Dr. Ubelaker's Field Botany and Systematic Botany course, and in this class I am working on a monograph on the Ranunculaceae (buttercup) family in the north-central region of New Mexico.
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Today I thought was going to be like any other day – that I would spend all day in the library as well. Really, though, I only spent maybe two hours working today. Around 10 a.m. Dr. Ubelaker took the botany and parasitology students to his house. After we finished and had lunch back on campus, the other botany student, Mindy, and I decided to join the parasitology students to help set the mouse traps in the forest by the art barn.
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NEW ORLEANS — Colin Kaepernick is not sure how he feels about being the NFL's new instant rock star. But the 25-year-old 49ers quarterback deftly and concisely handled Super Bowl media day here Tuesday morning.
Not so long ago, Kaepernick could have stood on a street corner and been ignored even by stray dogs. But for an hour at a podium inside the Superdome, he was slammed by questions from several hundred reporters of all sizes and languages.
"It's a little weird," he said. "Three months ago, I could go almost anywhere and no one would know me. Here, I've been able to sneak out a little bit. It's great to be here with the cameras and all, but we're here to win a football game."
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Cooper Aerobics Center, Dallas, will begin a $6.5 million renovation to its Cooper Fitness Center in Dallas, the company announced.
The facility will remain open throughout the renovation, which is expected to be completed in March 2013.
The new facility will expand to 54,000 square feet and include a new main entrance, cycle studio, two mind/body studios for yoga and Pilates, a retail boutique, and men's, women's and family locker rooms. The renovation also will include Cedars Woodfire Grill, a casual restaurant that serves freshly grilled food.
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No Good Can Come Of Any Cybersecurity Bill Without A Clear Definition Of The Problem
from the putting-the-cybercart-before-the-horse deptWith CISPA dead (mercifully) from a critical case of Senate disinterest, the conversation has inevitably turned to what the next cybersecurity bill should look like. Over at Wired, Julian Sanchez has laid out some guidelines for a cybersecurity bill that actually works, achieving the stated goals of CISPA without butchering civil liberties. His key point is that, according to CISPA's authors, the bill's sole purpose is to let companies and the government share technical data (or as Dutch Ruppersberger adorably called it last year, "formulas, Xs and Os, the virus code") to help shore up network security and anticipate major attacks — and there's no real reason that has to conflict with privacy at all.
Few object to what technology companies and the government say they want to do in practice: pool data about the activity patterns of hacker-controlled "botnets," or the digital signatures of new viruses and other malware. This information poses few risks to the privacy of ordinary users. Yet CISPA didn't authorize only this kind of narrowly limited information sharing. Instead, it gave companies blanket immunity for feeding the government vaguely-defined "threat indicators" — anything from users' online habits to the contents of private e-mails — creating a broad loophole in all federal and state privacy laws and even in private contracts and user agreements.
There's no need to share [personally identifiable] data for security purposes anyway: Kevin Mandia, head of the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, insisted at a February hearing on CISPA that in 20 years in the industry, he had "never seen a package of threat intelligence that's actionable" that included personally identifiable information.
Sanchez suggests some straightforward basic requirements for a cybersecurity bill that might actually get consensus from privacy watchdogs and the broader public: the removal of personal information before data reaches the government, a limited lifespan on the data (CISPA's authors have stated that real-time information sharing to deal with immediate threats is the key point of the bill anyway), and the ability for companies to respect their contracts with customers. As written, CISPA would have exonerated service providers from keeping any promise they made to not share user data. Even a service provider that wanted to offer you the contractual certainty that they would protect your data would have been unable to do so.
The reason for that is a key piece of language that's been drifting around CISPA since the beginning: "notwithstanding any other provision of law." There are lots of bits and pieces to the bill, but that line is the exemption granted to companies that wish to share cyber threat information with the government, and it's incredibly broad, allowing companies to ignore even the contracts they have with their customers.
So why is it there? That's the question nobody seems to want to answer, and that's the real issue with the whole push for cybersecurity legislation. Supposedly, according to the message that has accompanied CISPA and similar bills from the beginning, companies and the government are currently prevented from doing some harmless, common-sense information sharing to improve network security, because existing laws block such sharing. But... what laws? That has never been clear. Why does CISPA need to provide immunity "notwithstanding any other provision of law" rather than simply creating specific exceptions to the specific laws that are causing a problem? Why has nobody in Congress even been able to point out these problematic laws?
Perhaps it's not just one or two laws; perhaps it's a whole cluttered legal framework that can't easily be cleaned up and needs some broad, sweeping exceptions. But... nobody has made that case either. They just keep saying, non-specifically, "existing laws prevent it". And yet we know that's not true, at least to some degree: the FBI has had a system for sharing threat information back and forth with companies for 15 years. Why is that model not sufficient? Again, if there are reasons, nobody in Congress is offering them.
I'd like to say Sanchez's guidelines make an excellent starting point for cybersecurity legislation, but a starting point for legislation has to be a definition of the problem it's trying to solve, and we still don't have that. Nevertheless, they do serve as an excellent set of rules to hold Congress to if it is really so intent on barreling forward blindly. Cybersecurity grandstanders are likely to say that such restrictions would gut the legislation. Whether that's ignorance, cognitive dissonance or a tacit admission of dishonesty I'm not sure, but the restrictions suggested by Sanchez, the EFF, the ACLU and others would do nothing to hinder CISPA's stated and largely innocuous purpose — they would only interfere with the other much scarier potential uses that Congress insists aren't going to happen.
The longer Congress offers only the vaguest of vague definitions of the problem it's trying to solve, while at the same time seeming to betray even that vague definition with its response to suggested safeguards and restrictions, the harder it gets to afford them even one iota of trust on the subject of cybersecurity.
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Question: I had some volunteer soybeans in my corn this year that I think affected my yield outcome. Next spring I plan to take a wait-and-see approach to address them if the problem shows up again. Got any recommendations?
Answer: If volunteer soybean shows up in your corn next season, consider these postemergence control measures, outlined by Darrell Deneke, South Dakota State University (SDSU) Extension IPM coordinator. He says soybean size at the time of herbicide application will determine the degree of control you get. As is true for most all weeds, smaller volunteer soybeans are easier to control than larger ones. Try to get on top of any problem before volunteer soybeans exceed the V3 growth stage. Using 2,4-D to control volunteer soybeans is one option, he says, though SDSU research shows that soybeans are not as sensitive to 2,4-D as they are to other plant-growth regulator herbicides, such as dicamba or clopyralid. The plant-growth regulator herbicides, such as Hornet, contain clopyralid and should provide effective control to smaller soybeans. He adds that products that contain dicamba, such as Status, Distinct and numerous generics, will provide effective control over a wider range of volunteer soybean growth stages. As always, read all product labels for application directions and to insure the herbicide you plan to spray is labeled for use in your state.
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Q: Did you resist at that time?
A: A little bit, but not really because . . .
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That's Roman Polanski's 13-year-old victim testifying before a grand jury about how the famous director forced himself on her at Jack Nicholson's Mulholland Drive home in March of 1977.
I'm reading this in the district attorney's office at the Los Angeles County Criminal Courts Building, digging through the Polanski file to refresh my memory of the infamous case, and my blood pressure is rising.


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To add to what is an increasingly news-worthy day, Skype has just pushed out a nice little update for Windows Phone 8 users, bumping that version to 188.8.131.52.
The Skype app for Windows Phone 8 has had a mixed track record with updates and coming late to the new OS, but with the last few releases it seems to have stabilized and is increasingly getting better and better. What's more, this isn't a vague "bug fixes" update but rather has some documented changes.
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- Live Tile Count - Based on user feedback, we've changed the Live Tile notifications to show only the number of unread conversations, rather than the total number of unread messages.
- South Korea Availability – Skype for Windows Phone 8 is now available to download from the Windows Phone Store in South Korea.
We're liking those changes though there's a difference between on paper and in the real world, so we're excited about putting this version through the wringer with daily usage. Unfortunately, there is still no sign of the missing "video messaging" function that iOS and Android currently have, leaving Windows Phone behind still.
Version 2.8 of Skype for Windows Phone 8 is now available in the Store and can be found here or swiping to the right in our app.
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Officials seek answers after recent acts of youth violence in New London
New London - Some city officials are looking within as they try to determine why teenagers have committed a number of violent acts on city streets this fall.
"Something has caused the violence to escalate,'' said City Councilor Wade Hyslop, who is also the pastor at Trinity Missionary Baptist Church. "What it is, I don't know. We have to talk with those involved and find out why these young people are so angry."
Mayor Rob Pero immediately suggested that various groups get together to talk about the violence and young people who exhibit violent behavior.
"My concern is, are we treating the issues relative to the cause of the anger,'' Pero said Wednesday. "You expect some crime within a community. What you don't usually expect is the age levels we've seen and the degree of violence. Who would stab someone six times?"
Hyslop agreed with Pero's suggestion that the community come together to seek solutions but said that getting the right people involved matters.
"My question is, who are the players we want around the table?'' he said, suggesting that parents and youngsters who are most affected by the violence be included.
"I believe you have to have a genuine burden for the problems going on,'' Hyslop said. "We need to take a hard-core look at the problems and ask ourselves what do we need to do to bring these groups together."
City officials have had mixed reactions to the arrests Tuesday of six teenagers who allegedly attacked and stabbed to death 25-year-old Matthew Chew on Oct. 29 for no apparent reason.
Councilor Michael Buscetto III, chairman of the public safety committee, said the blame for the youth violence lies with Police Chief Margaret Ackley.
"We had a safe city a year ago. We had a safe city two years ago,'' said Buscetto, who supported another candidate for police chief when longtime Chief Bruce Rinehart retired in 2009.
"We have a new chief, a deputy chief, a mayor who's supportive and a city manager saying everything is OK. Well, it's not OK," Buscetto said. "I've questioned the appointment of the chief from the beginning."
He said it is not a popular position to question the chief of police, but to him, Ackley's management style is not working.
"They're saying the streets are safer, but they're not. They're getting more dangerous, and it's the responsibility of the chief, the city manager and the mayor."
Ackley responded to Bus-cetto's criticism by saying she supports the mayor's proposal to bring various groups together.
"We are working with the schools and other community leaders and will continue to address concerns as they develop,'' she said Wednesday night.
City Manager Martin H. Berliner, who hired Ackley over Police Capt. William Dittman, who was also a candidate for the top police position, defended Ackely and said Chew's murder does not mean the city is unsafe.
"We have a good police department and a good chief who does a good job,'' he said. "We identified the people involved relatively quickly, and it's entered the court system."
He called the murder an isolated incident.
"It was a random act of violence. That's what it was. We can't get around that. It was unfortunate for everyone involved.
"But, and this is from my heart, this is still a very safe, walkable city. You don't stop going to New York or Washington, D.C., because of an occasional random act of violence."
Councilor Martin T. Olsen, who is poised to become the city's ceremonial mayor next week, said that besides the murder and the incident on Sunday, he has not seen an increase in violence in the city.
"I'm not saying things aren't happening,'' he said, adding that violence occurs all over the country, from small towns to big cities. "If anything, I'd say we had nothing but good stuff going on in New London.''
Olsen said he has not heard that residents are afraid or that there is an increase in violent crime.
"I think there is an appearance that there is more going on than there really is,'' he said. "This case has gotten a lot of coverage, and rightly so.''
What's disconcerting, he added, is that today's youth seem to resort to more violent behavior when they are bored.
While there are opportunities for young people in the city, getting them interested and participating is another matter and needs to be addressed, he said.
"You can offer these things and encourage them, but you can't make them participate,'' he said.
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As an Elon alumnus and former student athlete, I�ve been called many things through the years. But �an ungrateful backstabber� isn�t one of them.
This is what Times-News sports editor Bob Sutton called Elon University upon learning of the school�s decision to move its athletics teams out of the Southern Conference and into the Colonial Athletic Association.
I played football at Elon during another era of conference and classification changes, and those decisions are not taken lightly. Many lives are affected, and an institution�s well-being and reputation are at stake.
Though I don�t speak for Elon in a public capacity, I do speak as an alumnus and supporter of the athletics program. I am proud to have played as a part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the South Atlantic Conference and was excited to be a part of the transition to the National Collegiate Athletic Association�s Division II level.
That excitement remained even after graduation, watching the school transition to NCAA Division I competition in the Big South and Southern conferences. The latter league seemed like the ideal spot with its member schools based in the south yet generating a national presence.
But the recent departure of four key schools from the Southern Conference left it in shambles, leaving many to wonder which direction the league would go. Elon chose to be proactive rather than sit and wait, exploring and later accepting an invitation to join the CAA.
I don�t see the school as backstabbing anyone. I�m grateful to have witnessed the Southern Conference era and am sad to see it end. The remaining conference schools will soldier on and do what�s in their best interests.
Yet I�m also excited about the future of joining a new league and establishing new rivalries. There could be bruises and bumps along the way, but that�s life. So rise up, Mr. Sutton, because a new era is on the horizon. You may choose to see things in a negative light, but I�m going to look at the positives.


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Matt Ryd is a singer/songwriter/producer/geek/all-around-nice-guy who has been working his way up the music scene. Since he started pursuing music just four years ago, he's released 4 albums, had songs placed on various TV shows (including "Scrubs", MTV's "Made", and Oxygen's "Braxton Family Values"), toured across the entire country, and made a ton of friends while doing so. He keeps his "frands" (portmanteau of "friend" and "fan" because he still feels weird saying he has fans) entertained with geeky blog/Twitter posts about Star Trek, and the occasional 8-Bit or Casiocore remix of a song. A year ago, he launched a production company, RydMedia, Inc., and alternates his time between releasing his own music, and producing records for both local and national artists. You can check out his music at http://mattryd.com/ and look up RydMedia at http://rydmedia.com/. His favorite "Star Wars" is "Empire Strikes Back", favorite Star Trek series is "The Next Generation" (although he thinks "Deep Space 9" had a better storyline and character development), and favorite Doctor is David Tennant. "Alons-y!"
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Lots of filmmakers want to jump from YouTube clips to regular movies and TV, but how many are doing so on the power of fart jokes?
"Dick Figures," an animated YouTube series featuring crude drawing and equally crude humor, has been made into a 73-minute movie set for digital release on Sept. 17.
Production company Six Point Harness and distributor Mondo Media have partnered with the Google Inc.-owned video service, along with digital distribution company Cinedigm and video-on-demand tech company Yekra, to release the film.
The companies have not said exactly how they will distribute "Dick Figures: The Movie" to the masses. They did say the distribution model will combine ad-supported and paid options.
The series, which lives on Mondo Media's YouTube channel, is quite popular. It has amassed 350 million views in its three-year existence. The filmmakers completed a $300,000 campaign on crowdfunding site Kickstarter last year.
The cartoons are clearly aimed at teenage boys. To give you an idea of the type of humor involved, web episodes have titles like "Chug-A-Chug-A-Brew-Brew" and "The Fart Knight Rises."
The movie's trailer helpfully promises "stick figures," "raccoons," "ninjas" and "explosions."
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
10 comments:
- Anna said...
Oh I can't wait to see what is fun you are having...how I wish I could be there! I am working on the redwork quilts hanging on the clothes line...so much fun!
- Thursday, March 24, 2011
- Mama Pea said...
Oh, wow. That looks fun. And how does one get invited to this retreat!? ;-)
- Friday, March 25, 2011
- Meg Hawkey said...
You don't have to be invited to attend a retreat! Just email or call and sign up! There's info in the Downloadable Goodies on the website...hmmm....I may have to update it for 2012...they're filling up FAST!xox Meg
- Friday, March 25, 2011
- Carrie P. said...
Have fun! such sweet decorations.
- Friday, March 25, 2011
- Sharon Larson said...
I hope everyone has the most wonderful time!!! The rest of us will be with you in spirit!
- Friday, March 25, 2011
- Sandie said...
OoOhHHHH!! Everything looks soo pretty!! and soo spring like! I soo wish I were going to be in one of those chairs! Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and be sure to post some pics for those of us who are wishin we were stitchin!
- Friday, March 25, 2011
- waltbuddy said...
So jealous that you're so far away! What a beautiful workspace you've created! Visiting one of your retreats is on my "bucket list". Have fun!
- Saturday, March 26, 2011
- Laine said...
Oh how I wish I could attend. I can only dream how much fun that would be. Be sure and post pictures.
- Saturday, March 26, 2011
- Anonymous said...
Meg, What a lovely retreat. Everything looks soooo beautiful. Every detail is gorgeous!!! Sorry I'm on East coast or I would sign up. We don't have anything as nice as this in the Philly area. Hoping everyone had a great time. Love doing your embroidery.
- Monday, March 28, 2011
- edyB said...
Beautiful .... It would be a very special treat to be one of the happy attendees! Thanks for the "smilebox" showing us all the pretties!
- Thursday, March 31, 2011


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Creamy Red Lentil Soup with Garam Masala
Bruce was out of town for the past few days. I hate to say this out loud but… When he is away from home, I get to make what I want to have for dinner without any negotiating or meeting in the middle. Today, I was in the mood for a Creamy Red Lentil Soup with Garam Masala. Garam Masala is an exotic spice blend that is of North Indian origin. It has ingredients such as cumin, cinnamon, black pepper, cloves, cardamom and coriander. It's one amazingly fragrant and versatile spice blend.
My Red Lentil Soup with Garam Masala is vegan, easy, and most of all, delicious! And as for Bruce, I love him so much that I made sure that I saved him a big healthy bowl of Creamy Red Lentil Soup to eat when he gets back :). Enjoy! Tessa
- 1/2 cup split red lentils (picked over and rinsed well)
- 2 cups vegetable stock (more if needed)
- 1/2 cup carrots (diced)
- 1/2 cup onion (diced)
- 1/2 cup celery (diced)
- 1/2 cup red bell pepper (diced)
- 3 ounces tomato paste (half of a small can)
- 1 tsp garlic paste
- 2 tsp garam masala spice (or to taste)
- seasoning salt to taste
- garnish with thinly shredded carrots and chopped parsley
Begin by picking over and rinsing red lentils. Toss lentils and remaining ingredients except for the seasoning salt or garnishes into a pot with a tight fitting lid. Cook on low, stirring occasionally for about 30-40 minutes or until the lentils are tender. Taste the soup and add your seasoning salt to taste. Using an immersion blender, blend soup until creamy. Ladle into bowls and garnish with thinly shredded carrots and chopped parsley. Makes 2 to 3 servings.
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SCHLADMING, Austria (AP) — Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the men's downhill title at the Alpine skiing world championships Saturday after a powerful run down the Planai course that no one came close to matching.
Watched by 33,000 spectators, Svindal kept a near-perfect line down the icy and bumpy 3.33-kilometer course despite foggy conditions that caused problems for several other skiers.
The Norwegian finished in 2 minutes, 1.32 seconds to win by nearly half a second and secure his second world downhill title, after also winning the marquee event in 2007. It was his fifth world title overall, to go with an Olympic gold in super-G.
Dominik Paris of Italy, who leads this season's World Cup downhill standings, trailed Svindal by 0.46 in second. David Poisson of France finished third, 0.97 behind.
"I knew I could not have skied better here," said Svindal, who raised both arms in the air and shouted out in celebration immediately after his run. "I took a lot of risks. It was a tough race. Visibility wasn't good and the course was difficult. At the finish, I was exhausted, in my head as well."
The rest of the field, led by Klaus Kroell of Austria in fourth, finished more than a second off Svindal's winning time.
The Norwegian had to settle for bronze in Wednesday's super-G, a discipline he has dominated on the World Cup this season, and said that gave him extra motivation for the downhill.
"Winning bronze was nice but I was also a bit frustrated," Svindal said. "I really pushed hard today and avoided major mistakes."
He was about the only one to do so, as most of his rivals struggled to maintain their racing line on the turning and icy bottom section.
The low final right turn seemed to cause the most problems, as many skiers had to slow down to make the final gate before the finish.
Andreas Romar of Finland, who started seventh, became the first to master that section flawlessly and was in the lead until Poisson came down.
When it was Svindal's turn, the Norwegian stretched his lead at every split time and was also near-perfect in the finish section.
Paris, who won the downhill races in Bormio and Kitzbuehel this season, lost time to the Norwegian toward the end but said he had "a great race."
"I tried to go for a medal but I didn't think I could do it," Paris said. "I saved energy in the upper part because I knew I needed it for that difficult finish section."
Poisson had never been on the podium on the World Cup or at a major championship before earning France a second medal this week, following Gauthier De Tessieres' silver in the super-G.
"This is really perfect. Gauthier started the week well for us," Poisson said. "I am proud of my run, I was fast and I went to my limits."
Kroell's fourth place left the home nation without a gold medal in a speed event of any major championship since the 2003 worlds, when Michael Walchhofer won the downhill and Stephan Eberharter the super-G.
Walchhofer's silver medal at the 2006 Turin Olympics downhill was the last speed medal for Austria.
"I am very disappointed," said Kroell, last season's World Cup downhill champion. "I had a big mistake early on and I didn't find my flow because of all the bumps. I just couldn't keep the line."
The women's downhill is Sunday.
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Who knew that political conventions could make an empty chair and the hashtag #sexyface go viral? "Harold and Kumar" star (and former White House staffer) Kal Penn took the podium Tuesday during the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina, and wasted no time before referencing Clint Eastwood's RNC address last Thursday.
Hear what Nancy Pelosi had to say about Clint Eastwood!
Penn -- who asked tweeters to use #sexyface when referencing his speech on Twitter -- first acknowledged that he has "worked on a lot of fun movies," but noted that his favorite job was working for "a boss who gave the order to take out Bin Laden and who's cool with all of us getting gay married."
And then the Eastwood remark came, "So thank you, invisible man in the chair, for that."
Afterwards, Penn listed specific examples on how Barack Obama's policies have helped fellow Americans, and urged everyone to vote.
Have you seen all of the Clint Eastwood RNC empty-chair memes?
"We can't turn back now," he said. "I ask all of you young people to join me. You don't even have to put pants on. Go to commit.barackobama.com and register right there."
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Bounded by Dean Street and Bergen Street between 6th Avenue and Carlton Avenue, this playground takes its name from Dean Street. Dean Street, in turn, is named for Silas Deane (1737-1789), a Revolutionary War statesman. Born in Groton, Connecticut in 1737, Deane was educated at Yale College (now Yale University). He settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he worked as a merchant and a lawyer. Elected in 1772 to the Connecticut colonial assembly, Deane soon became involved in the American revolutionary cause. In 1774, he became a delegate to the Continental Congress. Two years later, Congress sent him, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), and Arthur Lee (1740-1792) to France to secure the support of the French.


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Ori1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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SHAASHUA Real Estate & Investments
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Established 1963, The company has carried out most of the real estate transactions in the area and is renowned for its credibility, loyalty and discretion. It has a register of loyal customers, a pool of exclusive properties, exclusive representation of customers and connections with real estate companies in Israel and worldwide. It is well known for its professional knowledge, vast experience, personal service and expertise in properties, being local residents since 1951.
Shaashua Real Estate & Investments Ltd. is a member of the Real Estate Association and its realtors hold a real estate license issued by the Ministry of Justice. The office staff gives consulting services without commitment and consults the best experts in the field of real estate – appraisers, architects, engineers and legal advisors.
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