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Moss Tents Outland
Nice solo design for heavy weather. Typical bomb-proof…
Design: four-season free-standing
Sleeps: 1
Ease of Setup: poles are under tension, setup can be strenuous
Weight: 5 lbs, 12 oz.
Nice solo design for heavy weather. Typical bomb-proof Moss stitching and coatings. Thrives in strong winds, and is a good tent for a solo kayaker planning to camp on exposed offshore islands.
Suffers from some condensation in warmer weather, due to full coverage fly and heavy waterproof coatings. Vestibule is small, although a hooped vestibule was offered on later models. Tent is a bit heavy by modern standards, but worth the weight if you are camping at high elevation.
Moss is no longer a tent maker, but these are still found on E-Bay, and the Moss tent repair shop is still in business in Camden, ME.
Used the Outland for years. Bought it for a solo tent…
Ease of Setup: easy
Used the Outland for years. Bought it for a solo tent and plenty of room for one. A bit heavy for the size but typical Moss construction—flawless.
I am 6'3" and can stretch out sleeping. Used it in quite windy and rainy conditions. Stands up great and never have gotten wet.
I bought this tent for my solo trips through Canada…
Design: 1 person mountaineering tent
Sleeps: 1
Ease of Setup: 2 poles, relatively easy and fast
Weight: 2.3KG(?)
Price Paid: $350 Cdn (?)
I bought this tent for my solo trips through Canada and the U.S. I am 5'7" and would NOT recommend this tent to anyone taller than that. And, in fact, if you are a bit claustrophobic I would not recommend it either.
That aside, I found it relatively light yet bombproof. It has a very taut pitch which spills rain and snow very well, and doesn't move an inch in the wind. Because it is self standing you can set it up fast and crash without bothering with a single peg. The fly snaps onto the tent very easily with a buckle like connection. The floor is extremely durable so you can set it up on the worst ground. In fact Moss states that you do NOT need a ground sheet.
Because it is bombproof and smaller, it keeps the heat in a little more than most tents. Ventilation is limited to a small mesh window in the rear and a mesh front door. On a hot summer Colorado night this might make things a tad uncomfortable, but I've done it (I sleep cold anyway). I have even pushed this tent into our sub-zero Canadian winters. But below about -20°c it does NOT function.
Because the pitch is so tight it is impossible to get the poles into the tent when it cannot stretch. This makes me wonder if it would be valuable on extremely cold mountaineering routes.
This is a great tent for a solo traveler. If you want something lighter for summer I wouldn't suggest it. But if you want a bombproof 3+ season tent, this is the one. What's the next tent I'll buy after this? A bivy sack!
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Monday was the first day of the Battle of the Bulge at the Fair Acres Family YMCA.
Monday was the first day of the Battle of the Bulge at the Fair Acres Family YMCA.
For the second year, Tericia Mixon with the YMCA, is coordinating a unique and fun way for locals to lose weight, focus on health and enjoy friendly competition.
"Battle of the Bulge is a weight-loss program like no other," Mixon said. "Teams compete for the prize of three months free membership to the Fair Acres Family YMCA. The winning team will have completed the three-month competition with the greatest overall body fat loss."
Participants receive coaching assistance with weight loss and management, healthy eating tips, exercise tips, motivational strategies, de-stressing ideas, team support, monthly incentive prizes and the satisfaction of winning the battle over the bulge. Every week, the participants weigh in to track their progress and meet with coaches and team members.
For Jenny Hopp, 67, of Carthage, the competition last year was a thrilling experience.
"I like the encouragement you get from the program and the Y gives all the time," Hopp said. "The teams help motivate each other, and there are many tools you can use in the program. I saw people using programs on their phones, going to websites, but the most simple tool was the notebook you get in the Battle of Bulge to journal your progress. That was the most successful tool to me because you document where you're at in the program, what you're eating and how you're feeling. It helps you not only lose weight but take a look at your life. Yes, I would recommend the Battle of the Bulge, and the many other classes at the Y. I think we are very fortunate to have such a place here in Carthage."
The participants will meet the first Monday evening of the month at the YMCA until April. Registrations are still being accepted for this competition; to inquire call 358-1070 as soon as you can.

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"THAT'LL be $12,500, sir" - words you might hear when buying a used car or a kitchen, but definitely not a drink.
However, a New Zealand businessman, James Manning, on Thursday night wrote a cheque for that amount in a Melbourne bar.
At the same time he wrote his name into the history books as the buyer of what is believed to be the most expensive cocktail ever made.
The basis for the cocktail, which will be claimed as a Guinness world record, is a bottle of Croizet cognac dating to 1858. It is, itself, already a world-record holder, having previously been valued at $157,000.
The bottle was purchased from Croizet by Crown Melbourne's Club 23 bar, whose barman Joel Heffernan put two days' preparation into the cocktail.
It includes two nips of Croizet - at $6000 per shot - along with Grand Marnier Quintessence, chartreuse Vieillissement Exceptionnellement Prolonge, and a dash of Angostura bitters.
Heffernan's concoction was presented with chocolate nutmeg dust, essence of poppy seed and roses, and hints of coconut, passionflower and oranges.
It is called the "Winston" in tribute to British prime minister Winston Churchill, who is said to have shared a treasured bottle of 1858 Croizet with Allies commander General Dwight Eisenhower on the eve of D-Day in June 1944.
The previous world record for a single cocktail is held by Salvatore's Legacy, a concoction developed by barman Salvatore Calabrese using Clos de Griffier Vieux cognac that dates to 1778. It sold for £5500 ($8330) in October last year in a London bar.
Crown spokeswoman Ann Peacock said although the world record would belong solely to Mr Manning, anyone else with the inclination - and finance - to try the Winston would still be able to indulge.
"An additional 11 cocktails will be available for purchase from Club 23. But because it takes two days to make, you have to give a bit of notice," she said.
Drink with a sting in the tail
"THAT'LL be $12,500, sir" - words you might hear when buying a used car or a kitchen, but definitely not a drink.
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Tape automation specialist Spectra Logic has introduced a new long-term data management and migration technology that allows low-cost and scalable data archiving to tape and the cloud without concerns about format changes over time.
Spectra Logic's new BlackPearl Deep Storage Appliance supports a new DS3 interface. Designed by the Boulder, Colo.-based storage vendor, DS3 takes advantage of the RESTful interface to manage the data transfer process to new media formats.
Data storage has traditionally focused on looking at the past, but customers are now looking at how to correlate past data to look at the future, said Molly Rector, executive vice president of product management and worldwide marketing for Spectra Logic.
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That requires a new way to store object data in an open file format that will let customers access millions and billions of files as needed, which Spectra Logic is doing with new interfaces including representational state transfer (REST) and Web protocols, Rector said.
"For users in disruptive markets, we really need to change how they store data," she said.
Deep storage, in Spectra Logic's eyes, uses the REST interface to easily migrate bulk data while keeping track of where the data is independent of whichever backup software customers are using, Rector said. It is also about data "persistence," or the ability to store data in a single format that can be accessed, migrated and stored virtually forever, she said.
For that reason, Spectra Logic this month introduced the BlackPearl Deep Storage Appliance, which, when paired with a Spectra Logic tape library, allows data to be stored and managed as if it were on a NAS system for only 9 cents per GB in a 6.4-petabyte system.
Rector said the cost of managing long-term data with BlackPearl is also significantly decreased for smaller implementations. For instance, it could allow 1.9 petabytes of data to be stored and managed for 14 cents per GB.
She compared this to Spectra Logic's nTier Verde, which provides archive-grade NAS disk-based storage at 45 cent per GB for 1.4 petabytes of capacity.
BlackPearl brings the economics of tape to bear on big data and on object storage, said Aaron Cardenas, CEO and founder of P1 Technologies, a Hermosa Beach, Calif.-based storage solution provider and Spectra Logic partner.
"The next big thing in storage to look at is how to use tape as a NAS device," Cardenas said. "Spectra Logic is perfect for this."
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Putin's Russia: Punks, priests and provocation (part 2)
For a musician, winning an endorsement from international stars like Madonna and the Red Hot Chili Peppers is something of a dream come true. But instead of embracing global stardom, the all-girl Russian punk outfit Pussy Riot are facing jail. Laura Baines and her panel discuss the state of freedom of speech in Russia.
- Inga WATERLOT, Head of the Russia service, RFI;
- Nina ZAKHARINA-BEREZNER, Member of "Russie Libertés";
- George-Frederick JEWSBURY, Historian & Associate Researcher at CERCEC (Research Center for Russia, Center Europe and Caucas);
- Dmitry BABICH, Political Analyst and Journalist "Voice of Russia".
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removing rust from chrome trim rings
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If the rust is deep, you won't get it all without removing the Chrome in that area
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I believe they are stainless steel.
well, they are ones i am going to pull from some old subies in the j/y...
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After cleaning them up, give them a good coat of wax. It helps repel the snow and mud (and water) a little. I spray the backs with a light coat of WD-40, it helps slow the rust and corrosion some.
Just my 2 bucks
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Scotchbrite has several no-scratch fake steel wool pads that will do the trick and won't scratch the metal much, if at all. You can find them in grocery stores, Home Biggies, Walmart, etc. Doesn't have to be the Scotch brand: just look in the home stuff section for non-scratch pads.
Incidentally, we use them at the shop for taking the final little bit of sealer off aluminum mating surfaces like block halves.
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"AMEC's global track record of exemplary engineering feats in the transportation sector makes them a worthy partner in this project," said Michael Reininger, executive vice president of AAF. "The firm will deliver on our philosophy to bring intercity passenger rail service to Florida without sacrificing or adversely impacting the critical environments and natural habitats that define our state's landscape."
The firm's contributions to major transportation-oriented projects include supplying engineering, permitting and construction management services for capacity improvements on Class 1 railroads in the eastern U.S., including work on the Heartland Corridor, Crescent Corridor and the National Gateway projects.


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In the early 1980s, IBM introduced its first "personal computer"; around the same time, Apple rolled out its first Macintosh. By no means were either these machines considered the very first of their kind; rather, they are powerful ancestors to the products we cannot live without today. At one point, there were huge differences between the two types of machines, but over the years, those differences have lessened significantly. Nevertheless, Macs seem to fit the personality of the right-brainers, while PCs offer more business applications for the left-brain crowd. Today, Macs hold their own when it comes to left-brain functions, while PCs have been embracing users' artistic side.
Personally, I consider myself a Mac person. In fact, I am writing this on my iMac right now. But downstairs, in my home office, I have a PC. So, I guess that makes me a dual user. Maybe because of my mixed Mac/PC blood, I have yet to comprehend the fervor of many Mac people. Hard-core Mac folks wear their colors more boldly than PC people, and they embrace the brand more heartily and loyally. I recall being at a press conference at SIGGRAPH around 2000, and a boisterous mob at the back of the room shouted out demands for the vendor (which shall be nameless) to support the Mac platform. I think all that was missing were torches and pitchforks. At NAB, rabid Apple fans used to fill large conference rooms to capacity, cheering and clapping wildly each time a new feature or product was introduced-the atmosphere was more like a religious revival, not a user group meeting.
The other day, I came across a gadget study from Retrevo, about what gadgets say about the people who use them, and the findings were interesting but not surprising-at least in my opinion. Gadget owners exhibit different behavior and characteristics depending on which gadget camp they belong to. One finding is that Mac owners buy more Apple products than do others. In particular, households where the Mac OS is listed as the primary computer operating system purchase more than three times as many iPhones and almost six times as many iPads. Yet, Mac owners-while arguably loyal-exhibit a strong duality in their buying patterns, more so than their PC counterparts (apparently there are many others who, like me, are of mixed computing blood). While Mac households often have PCs present as well, the same does not hold true for PC houses: In households that boast PCs as the primary computer, Macs are typically not present. So, it seems that PC users are loyal, too, though not to a particular brand. But what are Mac users doing with a PC in the house? Are they more disloyal than originally thought? Not necessarily. The big push toward Macs and the Apple brand in particular has reached a high point during the past few years, so it is likely that these PCs are previous-generation machines that now function as a secondary device to a current-gen Mac. Moreover, the PCs might be used for gaming, since developers still do not embrace the Mac platform for their titles.
So, what about other Apple gear? The study also shows that Apple iPhone users also differ from owners of other smartphones-sort of akin to the Mac versus PC crowd. For instance, iPhone owners tend to be younger, particularly compared to BlackBerry owners. Again, this is not that surprising given that BlackBerry has been touted as a business device for years, despite its more recent face-lifts. Moreover, iPhone users are much quicker to adopt new digital trends and activities involving their device, such as watching TV online and purchasing items with their phone.
Android users, though, appear to be more technical than the other smartphone owners. "You would expect that a smartphone running Linux would attract a techier consumer, and the Gadget Census bears that out," the report states. Android users own more of the techier types of gadgets, like netbooks and e-readers, than owners of other smartphones. They also use fewer GPS devices in the car. The study speculates that this may be due to the fact that they are in the Google camp and have the firm's sophisticated map technology at their fingertips. An interesting find, though, is that these Android users are 25 percent more likely not to read books, and 20 percent do not care much about recycling.
"As techie as Android owners are, and different as iPhone owners are, BlackBerry owners come across more normal and, you could say, even old-fashioned," the study states. For example, BlackBerry users were more likely to still use a CRT as their primary television (21 percent more likely than Android owners) and get their music from the radio and less likely to buy items with their phones. On the other hand, they are 15 percent more likely to recycle their gadgets than Android users, but also 26 percent more likely than iPhone owners to live in areas where e-waste recycling isn't available.
The study's conclusion: Although most gadget enthusiasts all have one thing in common, and that is a passion for the latest gear and gadgets, but there are also big differences between owners of different types and brands of products. "Apple is not just a product but a way of life, and a commitment to a line of electronics," Retrevo summarizes in the report. "Android owners, with their choice of carriers, could make them more confident cell phone users, and BlackBerry owners might agree with the motto: 'Slow and Steady Wins the Race.'"
Here, at chez Moltenbrey, we follow the study's findings pretty well. I have a Mac; I also have a PC. I am a BlackBerry user, though would love an iPhone. What's stopping me? AT&T. As soon as Apple offers the device on the Verizon network (which offers me the best reception) I will be the first in line. I have been waiting for more than a year now, and it looks like I might be waiting even longer. So, I am likely to become an Android person in the near future. And indeed, I own a netbook. But I cannot live without my car's navigation system. Contrary to mold, I read a lot, and I fancy myself as a diligent recycler.


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Hargreaves Lansdown is reducing the minimum investment for clients opening an account on its Vantage platform in a bid to broaden its appeal to new investors and has dumped its controversial charge for share voting.
The minimum amount to open an online account will fall from £500 to £100 with the same reduced figure to be applied to new fund investments.
At the same time it has ditched its £10 plus VAT charge for clients who want to vote at annual general meetings (AGMs). Hargreaves was widely criticised for introducing the fee in June with campaign group ShareAction warning that shareholders were being 'squeezed to the margins'. Hargreaves similarly backtracked on plans to introduce a separate charge for holding investment trusts back in February after the proposals caused an outcry.
Catherine Howarth, chief executive of ShareAction, said: 'It is reassuring to note that Hargreaves Lansdown has listened to its customers and changed its policy on charging shareholders to vote at the AGM. Small investors used to be the lifeblood of the shareholder register of this company, and this U-turn just goes to show that their voice is still welcome, and heard, at the Hargreaves Lansdown table.'
As part of a raft of changes to its online offering, Hargreaves is also set to introduce stock screening tools, the ability to customise how clients view their portfolio online and integration between PC, smartphone and iPhone apps.
It has also recently offered broader options on fees, enabling clients to pay out of capital to preserve income and introduced corporate bond dealing. It has also upgraded its investment trust factsheets.
Chief executive Ian Gorham (pictured) said: 'All improvements make our clients better off -either financially, through access to better service or both. Many improvements have been made in response to client suggestions.
'The varied nature of the reuqests we receive means we cannot accommodate them all, however we do care greatly about all our clients, and listen carefully to their feedback, identify the most popular requests and invest heavily to incorporate them into the Vantage service where possible.'
The new changes come hot on the heels of UBS downgrading the company, warning it is overvalued and will struggle to attract the level of new customers needed to warrant its current valuation.


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Summer is in full swing in Henderson County. As the days get longer and the weather gets warmer, we all start thinking about summer vacations.
We hope that this year, you will consider a "staycation." This fairly new word stands for a period of time in which an individual or family stays at home to relax or takes day trips from their home or local hotel or bed and breakfast to area attractions.
A staycation allows you to explore the beauty of Henderson County and "get away" at the same time, without spending a bundle. We have such amazing natural attractions, a beautiful and vibrant downtown, and countless fine dining establishments. Consider spending time in a local hotel or bed and breakfast being pampered and playing tourist in our beautiful hometown. It will be great for your budget, your family will have a great time, and you will be supporting your neighbors.
Our tourism industry is huge in Henderson County. It is estimated that annual revenues exceed over $218 million and 1,900 local jobs are supported by tourism. People travel all over the southeast to come visit, but you had the good sense to make Henderson County your home so enjoy it!
There are so many things to experience in Henderson County. Did you know there are over 25 dining establishments in downtown Hendersonville alone?
There is something happening just about every week at the WNC Agriculture Center in Fletcher. Why wait for out-of-town guests to show up before you make a visit to the Carl Sandburg Home or stop at a local farmer's market, where everything is made or grown by Henderson County residents? Did you know that the Flat Rock Playhouse is putting on 12 productions at two different venues? This is the state playhouse of North Carolina and we are so lucky to have it in our backyard.
Henderson County is a family friendly place to live and visit.
Consider these local spots:
• Hands On! A Child's Gallery is an affordable, educational and fun way to spend the day.
• Team ECCO brings the ocean to the mountains with their Main Street aquarium.
• The Mineral & Lapidary Museum.
• Enjoy restored vintage airplanes and memorabilia at the WNC Air Museum.
• See "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Hendersonville Little Theatre.
• Take in an exhibit at The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design at the Kellogg Center.
• Take the kids to the skate park at Patton Park.
• Attend a Rhythm & Brews or Music on Main Street concert in historic downtown Hendersonville.
• The Henderson County Heritage Museum.
• Visit the Henderson County Curb Market, where everything is locally made.
• Play tennis or ride the bike trail at Jackson Park.
• Take in a concert by the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra.
• For a great family night, take everyone bowling at Tarheel Lanes.
• Learn about the history of the railroad system in Henderson County at the Historic Hendersonville Train Depot.
• For an educational hiking experience, visit Holmes Educational State Forest.
• Take in a round of golf at Crooked Creek, Etowah Valley or any of the other beautiful golf courses in our county.
• Enjoy music at the Fletcher Feed & Seed or other nighttime destinations.
• Enjoy the beautiful waterfalls and hiking trails at Dupont State Recreational Forest.
• Stay at a bed and breakfast with friends, rent a van and hire a driver and visit the multiple wineries that are all within 30 minutes of Hendersonville. Return with your friends after a fun-filled day learning about our local wines, and enjoy dinner and a bottle of wine at a fabulous restaurant.
• Take your family to a local apple orchard and sample the fresh produce.
• Pamper yourself to a visit to a local spa or hairstylist for those extra touches you never find time to spoil yourself.
It is amazing how much our community has to offer. Let your imagination run wild and buy locally instead of paying tourist prices and gasoline bills to travel.
Since your time off should be relaxing (in your hammock purchased from Mast General Store), you may also choose to avoid all chores during your stay-at-home vacation. Treat yourself by hiring local vendors to clean your house and landscape your yard. There are many local businesses willing to tackle all those little jobs that you would normally feel obligated to do.
By doing this, you can truly get refreshed during your vacation and support our local service industry too! The best part is that when you are done, you will not need to return to a home with deferred chores and won't need the typical, "time off to recuperate after your vacation."
The Chamber strives to be a community resource, an information source and link for our area. For more information on what the Chamber can do for you and your business, stop by our office or give us a call at 828-692-1413.
Get away on vacation — at home
Summer is in full swing in Henderson County. As the days get longer and the weather gets warmer, we all start thinking about summer vacations.


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Rod Ellingworth has said there are 'no excuses' for the poor performance of the British team at the men's road race at the World Championships in Tuscany, Italy.
All eight of manager Ellingworth's team pulled out of the race, claiming bad weather was to blame - severe downpours had causes multiple crashes and pile-ups throughout the 272.5km course.
Sir Bradley Wiggins and former world champion Mark Cavendish were victims to a pile-up early on in the race, with Tour de France champion Chris Froome pulling out with more than 80km remaining.
His withdrawal left only Welshman Geraint Thomas, 28, remaining, but he too departed shortly afterwards.
Portugal's Rui Costa won the title with a time of seven hours, 25 minutes and 43 seconds, followed by Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez taking silver and Alejandro Valverde taking the bronze.
In an interview with BBC Sport after Costa's win, Ellingworth said the team were right to be disappointed.
He said: "To have nobody in the race with 100km to go is not normal for us.
"I don't think they showed what they're worth. You have to be prepared for anything and I don't think the lads were.
"The lads have got to look at themselves. They're all full-time bike riders and if we're talking about going forward, talking about Rio 2016, this was a very disappointing result.
"They all got a bit too carried away too early, then the weather got to them for no reason.
"There are no excuses at all."
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Not only is our favorite hetero wannabe on the cover of Freshmen magazine this month (www.freshmen.com) but his Match.com profile magically got leaked to ********** (www.**********.com or http://www.**********.com/archive/20...n_on_match.php) -a blog that heavily showcases CorbinFisher models and has free nude/sex previews.... hmmmmm
And wouldn't you know it, Dawson is looking to meet a woman on Match.com. Someone he can tell his "interesting life story" to.
Because he's straight in real life, you damn homos. And the only way you're going to get to watch hot straight boys like Dawson having gay sex is to pay your $30 month to CorbinFisher and watch the videos. Otherwise, it's 100% pussy for him, hands-off boys. So pay up.


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Michael R. Taylor, JD
Deputy Commissioner for Foods
Michael R. Taylor, JD, was named Deputy Commissioner for Foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, on January 3, 2010. He is the first individual to hold the position, which was created along with a new Office of Foods in August 2009 to elevate the leadership and management FDA?s Foods Program. Mr. Taylor is a nationally recognized food safety expert, having served in high-level positions at FDA and USDA, as a research professor in academia, and on several National Academy of Sciences expert committees. As Deputy Commissioner for Foods, Taylor will provide leadership and direction to all food programs in the Agency, including those managed by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), and the foods-related programs of FDA?s inspection and compliance arm, the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA). Mr. Taylor returned to FDA in July 2009 as Senior Advisor to the Commissioner. Before that, he served as Research Professor, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University. His research agenda focused on policy, resource and institutional issues that affect the success of public health agencies in carrying out their prevention-related missions. Mr. Taylor received his law degree from the University of Virginia.


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On Edward C. and CDVs
Harry Smeltzer over at Bull Runnings, in his kind mention of Wig-Wags yesterday, provides insight into the photo that tops my blog. He identifies it as being of "the Union signal station on Elk Ridge during the 1862 Maryland Campaign." He points out that the officer in the photo (middle and seated) has been identified as one Edward C. Pierce. His CDV and story can be read "on the Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF) website" along with the full picture which I've also uploaded here for your viewing. Officer Pierce's vitae is an interesting one and includes participation on Little Round Top at which time he held the rank of Captain. He remained, even though offered promotion in other areas, in the Signal Corps throughout the war.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-B815- 633]
Elk Mountain, Md. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield
O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882 photographer.
I will set my ego aside for a moment and admit that I had to look up the term CDV. This may be familiar to most of you but since I'm a humble graduate student, I had to do a little research. It turns out that a CDV, or "carte-de-visite" (French for visiting card), is a small albumen print that – if of standard size – would be mounted on a backing card of 2.5 inches by 4 inches. This made them a handy size to use as a "photographic calling card" and they were exchanged and collected in albums. Debra Clifford, the "Town Historian of Ancestorville," has provided an excellent history of the CDV on the Ancestorville.com site and indicates that "a young Civil War soldier would proudly send his "likeness" home to a waiting beau, mother and family."
Albumen (al-bu-men) means, by the way, "the white of eggs." I assume that egg whites were used to provide a glossy finish to the photo. The technique was developed and patented by Andre Disderi in 1854 and, according to Clifford, introduced in the United States in 1859 which positioned it perfectly for adoption by young men going off to war. "…CDV's were produced in the millions. The ease of size and paper format of this newfangled photograph allowed the CDV to be sent through the mail, a great benefit from the heavily glassed and protected and cased ambrotype and daguerreotype photos that were previously available."
This CDV is of Daniel Edgar Sickles is a part of a collection wonderfully preserved and presented for our virtual viewing on the American Memory section of the Library of Congress site along with some two hundred others. These make up the collection of John Hay who was a personal secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and so had occassion to receive CDVs from an assortment of people of the era including "army and navy officers, politicians, and cultural figures."
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-MSS-44297-33-116 (b&w negative)]
Photographer: Sarony, Napoleon (1821-1896)
Collection: James Wadsworth Family Papers
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Red Bull's Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel grabbed pole position at the Korean Grand Prix yesterday, while closest title rival Fernando Alonso qualified only fifth for Ferrari.
Vettel, who chalked up his third pole position in a row, will have Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes to keep him company on the front row for today's race, but the German's car was once again comfortably quicker.
Vettel's flying lap of 1 minute, 37.202 seconds was 0.218 seconds faster than 2008 world champion Hamilton, who had kept him off the top of the timesheets in both of the Friday practice sessions.
The German is 60 points clear of Alonso in the standings, with five races to go after Yeongam, and is chasing his fourth consecutive win with a fourth successive title fast approaching.
Alonso would have been further down the grid had Australian Mark Webber, Vettel's teammate, not collected a 10-place penalty for taking a post-race "taxi ride" on the Spaniard's car in Singapore two weeks ago.
Webber, who was on pole in South Korea last year, qualified third, but will start outside the top 10 and so faces even more of a mountain to climb than Alonso.
"I think it was fairly close. I had a very good lap in Q3 [the final phase], on my first attempt. I knew it would be tricky for me to beat that time, for myself," Vettel said after celebrating his 42nd career pole.
"As expected Mercedes was very strong. So it's a tight battle ... we have got the balance right this weekend and I improved the car from yesterday as I was not entirely happy after practice," he said.
Qualifying conditions were cooler than in practice, although Vettel was also quickest in the final session yesterday morning, and today could see some rain although the threat of a typhoon has receded.
"I don't mind, it's not a disaster if it starts to rain, we have rain tires in the garage," the 26-year-old said. "When I arrived on Wednesday, it was very windy, but it has died down since then and I think the typhoon has changed direction."
Vettel and Alonso are the only drivers to have won in South Korea since the race made its debut in 2010 and Red Bull's triple champion is chasing his hat-trick at Yeongam.
Alonso has made storming starts his trademark this season and was confident he would have plenty of overtaking opportunities even if he might have to bide his time.
"Here, for the first corner there is not enough space to really attack and so we pass one by one through turn one. So we will try to attack in turn three and turn four," he told reporters.
"[It] will be not too difficult to overtake with the two DRS [drag reduction system] points. So the start will not be as crucial as maybe Singapore," Alonso said.
The Spaniard will have both Mercedes drivers ahead of him, with Nico Rosberg lining up in fourth place and Lotus' Romain Grosjean in third, right behind Vettel.
"We got the most out of the car. It has been a good qualifying for us and hopefully tomorrow we will be able to fight with them [Red Bull]," Hamilton said. "There's threats all around, but I'm looking forward. A couple of years ago, I was on pole and Seb got past me at the start, so I'd like to repay him on that one."
Both the Saubers made it into the top 10, with Nico Hulkenberg to start seventh.
For only the second time this season, neither of the McLarens made it through to the final session, with Mexican Sergio Perez qualifying 11th and 2009 champion Jenson Button alongside in 12th.
Both Williams drivers, Pastor Maldonado of Venezuela and Finland's Valtteri Bottas, failed to make it through the first phase.
Marussia's French driver Jules Bianchi was reprimanded and given a three-place demotion — meaningless since he qualified on the back row anyway — for impeding Force India's Paul Di Resta, who qualified 15th.


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Peyton Manning surely hopes he won't play in the Pro Bowl because he'll be too busy preparing for the Super Bowl a week later. But more fans want to see Manning in the Pro Bowl than any other player.
The NFL announced today that Manning, with 654,309 votes, is the leader in fan voting for the Pro Bowl. Manning has been selected to 12 Pro Bowls, 11 in his 13 seasons playing for the Colts, and one last year with the Broncos.
This year's Pro Bowl will do away with the AFC-NFC format and instead assign Pro Bowl players to teams through a draft in which Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders will choose the teams. The Pro Bowlers are chosen in voting of fans, players and coaches, with each group's voting counting for one-third of the selection process.
Manning is followed in fan voting by Saints quarterback Drew Brees, Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles, Lions receiver Calvin Johnson, Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch, Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, Saints tight end Jimmy Graham, Bengals receiver A.J. Green, Eagles running back LeSean McCoy and Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant.


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The rally was one of dozens held at state capitols across the country as part of the first Gun Appreciation day, held just days after President Barack Obama announced a comprehensive package of gun-control proposals.
The crowd gathered on the stone steps and grassy hill on the west side of the Capitol as they cheered and listened to speakers. Many held up signs with messages such as "Party like it's 1776" and "Registration is the first step to confiscation."
Alice Gohlke carried a pink sign with florescent letters that read, "Gun-free zones are safe havens for criminals." Gohlke, a competitive shooter, drove up from Colorado Springs to attend the rally, she said.
"I'm worried that Obama is going to take my gun away. I'm not only worried as a competitive shooter, but as a woman who would like to defend myself," Gohlke said. "The more laws there are the more criminals there are going to be."
State Rep. Chris Holbert, R-Parker, spoke at the rally. He said in the past weeks he has received several phone calls and letters begging him to address gun control issues.
"The Second Amendment serves as a defense against tyranny and I will not compromise on that issue," Holbert said. "I am not going to compromise on the Second Amendment."
Supporters waved flags and signs along Broadway.
Justin Durnford was one of several people waving a tea party flag during the rally.
"We should be able to have whatever weapons we feel we need to protect ourselves," Durnford said. "Whatever weapons we feel comfortable with to protect our families with."


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Isn't this just the most adorbs way to show some state pride? Yeah, I think so too.
I've seen these types of necklaces before, but they never seem to have my state (PA)…just the usual suspects like NY, CA and TX. But ideeli has a nice selection of Stella & Ruby Gold-Plated State Necklaces for just $29.99 (originally $80). You're in luck if you're from California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Texas.
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The honorees span 34 states and Washington, D.C., and include Canlis in Seattle, Barbara Lynch's Menton in Boston and John Besh's Restaurant August in New Orleans. North Carolina tied the dining mecca of California with ten winning restaurants, while New York eateries claimed seven spots. South Carolina, Texas and Virginia each took six places. Colorado and Ohio restaurants earned four wins apiece, and Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts and Minnesota all won three nods. States also represented on the list of winners include Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Rhode Island, and Tennessee, among others.
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Narron: Dragons will be able to swing away By Hal McCoy
Dayton Daily News
For those Dayton Dragons fans wondering about the edict imposed last year that hitters must take a strike before they can swing, well, that rule went down swinging with the departure of Cincinnati Reds General Manager Dan O'Brien.
Reds manager Jerry Narron, speaking Thursday to the Dayton Agonis Club, brought it up without being asked and said, "On taking a first strike, I guarantee that it is out. Learning the strike zone and not taking strikes is important in the development of our hitters."
Dayton fans, and most Reds staffers, were strongly against the rule imposed by the recently fired O'Brien.
In addition, Narron said the Dragons won't be saddled with a 75-pitch limit for their starters. That rule forced the club to use two "starting pitchers" in piggy-back fashion last year.
"You do need some pitch limits on young arms, but you also have to build up arm strength and you do that by throwing," Narron said. "We will let 'em pitch."


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The Vatican has the right... It is not a democracy
Now that's interesting. Where do you think rights come from? I would argue that a non-democratic government has no legitimate right to do anything.
They'll probably have to through a whole lot more than Italy. Like if someone attacked Assisi or the Dalai Lama. You don't attack people or organizations that at least preach non-violence.
The "legality" of a government is usually tied to some kind of justification as to how it is entitled to act as a government. There are various forms of justifications. Some a bit more outdated than the others, but none are less or more valid from a purely objective point of view. If you do not accept a non-democratic government, that's your prerogative, but it's not yours to tell anyone whether he should or should not respect the rule of someone.
The Vatican chose to be an elective monarchy (the only one left, btw). And as long as the marjority of those concerned (read: the majority of roman catholics) accepts this legitimation, it's valid.
It's a bit like money. It only has some value as long as people believe in its value.
Personally, I would not accept that kind of government as mine either. But it's not on me to tell the Vatican that it cannot be an elective monarchy.
Sort of like a well-known Army private reporting certain actions of the US government to the entire world? Giving that video on a DVD to his congressman (within the structure as you say) would have been protected by law, but releasing it to WikiLeaks, go to jail.
The Vatican is a "sovereign" state, in that its sovereignty hinges on the Italian Government continuing to honor the treaties between the two that have set aside Vatican City as such.
What is worse imho is how the Roman Catholic Church can flaunt local governments with this so-called "sovereignty" with regards to the affairs of the Church and its actors in those countries. So, does a whistleblower from the Catholic Church need to somehow make their way to a foreign embassy, then, and seek asylum? That's pret
One man's traitor is another's patriot. One's whistleblower is another's spy. One's heretic is another's saint.
History is the consensus choice of alternate terms based on outcome (i.e., which side won the conflict).
In the immediate here-and-now, the choice is entirely based on the speaker's alignment with the parties in the conflict. The behavior of the organs of power is irrelevant to this. Only, perhaps, to the practical fate of the traitor/patriot/whistleblower/spy/heretic/saint. Hence, the availability
First point: the Vatican has its own law (canon law) which everyone is supposed to follow, despite the monarchical form of government everyone is supposed to follow. So it is possible for somebody to be a whistlblower, although that itself is a crime under canon law. That's why the clergy sex abuse scandal went on so long. Canon law precludes doing anything that would bring disrepute upon the church, which is why pedophiles weren't turned over to the police.
Second point: one of the people they are looking for is a person who suggested that the Vatican has more information about the 1983 disappearance of two fifteen year-old girls who held dual Italian-Vatican citizenship. That makes this an international incident. Their disappearance happened during a dispute between Italian organized crime and the Vatican bank. The mob had been laundering money through Banco Ambrosiano, an Italian bank in which the Vatican bank had controlling interest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi#The_Banco_Ambrosiano_scandal). The implication is that the girls were kidnapped to put pressure on the Vatican to make good the Mafia's losses.
That sounds a bit Dan Browne, but after he was killed in a mob hit, an Italian gangster named Enrico de Pedis was granted burial in a Vatican basilica, an honor normally reserved for cardinals. The speculation is that this was a pay off for brokering a settlement between the Vatican bank and the mob.
The point is that it's not like the Vatican can operate in a vacuum. There are Italian interests involved here: Italian citizens, companies, and mobsters. The Banco Ambrosiano affair also involves the forgery of US securities.
From the article:
'Since then, the Vatican has instead focused on finding out who leaked the letters, which it describes as "biased and trivial".'
Yup, instead of focusing on the problem at hand, or hell, even trying to determine if there really is one, they go looking to punish whoever failed to keep the information under the skirt. Or cassock. Or whatever they call that ugly black dress they wear.
But I guess that's religion for you. Think with your dogma, not your brain, and there is no problem a little
I thought that was what the confessional was for.
Don't forget Alexander Maxwell from Hellsing and Rosette Christopher from Chrno Crusade!
Don't forget Alexander Maxwell from Hellsing and Rosette Christopher from Chrno Crusade!
Time for Alucard to open a can...
Limited release approval is confirmed, releasing control on restriction system to level ONE!
I can give props to how Rev. Wolfwood [wikia.com] was portrayed, big-time. It showed a shitload of character depth and humanity in the guy.
OTOH, I can point you to at least one series with Catholicism as a subtext: Samurai Champloo [wikipedia.org] - from teh same fine gent who brought the world Cowbow Bebop. Context and Plot? No problem: The main characters were helping the girl looking for her father. This father of the female character (most likely Catholic given the historical context, because he...) was a rebel who participated in
Most of the Catholic-church-secret-agent ones are pretty fun to watch...
Well if you want the Church of England version
It also featured the "Minimiser", a gadget that shrinks Unwin's assistant Matthew Harding to a fraction of his normal size for the purposes of conducting secret recon
It has seemed like society has been going down hill as more and more people are dishonest.
Et tu, pope?
Actually, as slow as the organization moves, it has been cleaning up the messes, both of criminal conduct by some of its clergy [catholicherald.co.uk], and a lot of the crazy-assed 'theology' that has actually encouraged and hushed a lot of it [wdtprs.com], for quite awhile now.
I suspect that these (and many other) crackdowns have created a lot of disgruntled people among the clergy.
But you're right in a way - dishonesty is a symptom. It also stems from craven desires and from a lack of personal responsibility - both inside and outside of the
"Round up all the choir boys, we need to probe them to see if they've ever leaked."
Damn, I have mod points and I couldn't decide whether to mod this Funny or Flamebait. Guess I'll sit it out.
Damn, I have mod points and I couldn't decide whether to mod this Funny or Flamebait. Guess I'll sit it out.
Sometimes flamebait is funny.
Keep your legs crossed and your mouth shut, expect in the confessional where you can tell us all but no one else. Whats wrong with this picture?
That you used the wrong word?
God supposedly already knows your sins whether you tell them or not. In fact, he knows them before you even commit the sins, or before you even think of committing them first place. Telling a priest does nothing.
Thus the purpose of confession is so that the Church has the goods on everybody in the community.
Who cares what state-of-the-art equipment they have, when they still believe in ghosts and goblins? All the scientific work in the world does not for one second make up for what this circus of repressive idiots did to Galileo Galilee, or for the actions of the Inquisition, so it makes no difference if they're doing observations, their data cannot be relied upon because they think an imaginary creature created all the stuff they're looking at, with the supposedly state-of-the-art equipment you claim they're
Oh, come on!
Please read history before you post.
The only reason Galileo was not burned alive is because he was a close friend to the pope.
It was his colleges who wanted him death because his ideas were against the ideas they had based their entire carriers on.
The academic establishment is even more reluctant to change than the catholic church.
The only reason Galileo was not burned alive is because he was a close friend to the pope.
...and the only reason he got arrested in the first place was for misusing the pope's Imprimatur (look it up) in his book.
Isn't the Vatican supposed to be all about " The Truth Shall Set Thee Free "
No, that's the CIA.
Draw what amusing conclusions you will from the above juxtaposition.
Isn't the Vatican supposed to be all about "The Truth Shall Set Thee Free" because, erm, Christian belief mandates it?
You forgot the *first* commandment of any large organization:
- The organization does whatever is necessary to insure its own survival.
True at IBM, true at Merrill Lynch, true at Halliburton, true in the Oval Office and true at the Vatican.
... and nice red uniforms.
I like how banishment to the States has replaced the comfy-chair as the punishment of choice.
Too bad they didnâ(TM)t unleash this hound on the child-rapists theyâ(TM)ve hidden for so long...
Let me clearly state from the outset that I bear no ill will against any individual Catholics who wish to abide by the religion of their choosing. But to look at the long history of the corruption and arrogance of the Catholic hierarchy and not feel completely outraged is to facilitate their wrongdoing.
Just two recent examples: First, the child rape scandal. It was going on for decades, while superior members of the clergy would help cover up the abuse of children by pedophile priests by shuffling them around, colluding with local law enforcement to intimidate families, and paying hush money. To this day they fight the allegations, trying to minimize the impact of what they did and frame their actions as that of a small number of isolated "deviant homosexual" priests, while complaining about paying money to victims that they could be using "for the greater good." They don't talk about making reparations or holding accountable the officials who turned a blind eye or even assisted in the systemic corruption of covering up these atrocities.
Second example: this case. So the Vatican has been shown to be corrupt in its financial dealings, and what is their reaction? Hunt down the whistleblowers, rather than punish the ones doing the actual crime! It's the same kind of thinking--what threatens the Church, in their view, is not the failure to do the morally proper thing. It's whomever exposes their leadership for the arrogant crimes they commit under the guise of being holy.
I don't understand how Catholics can sanctify these dirty old men as the self-appointed leaders of their faith. If that's what your spirit tells you, then maybe you should consider the possibility that you're being held spiritually hostage by these people as a way to further their power, and the reality is that if you truly want to be closer to God, there are far better ways to do that than through these morally bankrupt charlatans.
AFAIC, anyone who still gives their money to the Church at this point *deserves* to get used. As long as they're not using my tax dollars, only the money of gullible suckers, the Pope could be throwing orgies for all I care.
I'm all for fools being parted from their money, but not for the bad guys getting to keep it.
Especially when said bad guys are brainwashing people into being more fools.
Why is it wrong for an entity to "reward" "friendly" suppliers? This isn't like the government collecting mandatory taxes, it's an entity that largely gets it's money from willing donors, they should be able to do whatever they want with the money. If donors don't like it, they can stop donating.
Or do all you slashdotters making fun of religious people's beliefs suddenly care that they're getting ripped off, as if you didn't feel they were getting ripped off all along anyway?
I would think with all the wea
Who Would Jesus Hunt Down? 'nuff said.
Who Would Jesus Hunt Down? 'nuff said.
Sounds like a great idea for a superhero crime fighter comic book.
... is Dan Brown furiously scribbling notes for his next book.
Could the summary of this article have been any more anti-religious? How is this even "News for Nerds" or, for that matter, News?
The inquistion
Let's begin
The inquistion
Look out sin
We have a mission
To convert the Jews
(Jew ja Jew ja Jew ja Jews)
We're gonna teach
Them wrong from right
We're gonna help
Them see the light
And make an offer
That they can't refuse
(That the Jews just can't refuse)
Confess (confess, confess)
Don't be boring
Say yes (say yes, say yes)
Don't be dull
further sources of leaks are now being hunted down by a crack team headed by an 82-year old Opus Dei cardinal.
Opus Dei? If they catch the whistleblowers, will they be strangled to death by albino monks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor [wikipedia.org]
Where is Father Guido Sarducci when we need him?
Thus spake the master programmer: "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"


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Review: Brazos still on top of its game
Small wonder, then, that long time ATI/AMD partner Sapphire was one of the first to embrace the new chips and offer them in micro-ITX flavour. Interestingly, the company offered Brazos boards, the Sapphire PURE White Fusion Mini we are testing today, and the PURE Fusion Mini, which offers a few additional features and relies on SO-DIMM memory rather than plain DDR3 modules. So, the White version is a simpler and cheaper design, which is by no means a bad thing. We are talking about frugal computing here, no need for bells and whistles, a decent price tag and feature set will do.
As far as the design goes, there is nothing out of the ordinary to report, it's more or less your standard Brazos ITX board. However, a few of our staffers found it amusing that a board dubbed Pure White Fusion features a sleek black PCB, which made us think that someone at Sapphire has a healthy British sense of humour.
Although this is the cheaper of Sapphire's two Brazos boards, and for that matter one of the cheapest ones on the market, the designers still managed to squeeze in solid-state capacitors without breaking the bank. However, the board lacks some features found on high-end Brazos products, including USB 3.0 and eSATA. Other than that, the specs are pretty much in line with the rest of the Brazos crowd: 1.6GHz E-350 APU with HD 6310 graphics, 2 DDR3 DIMM slots, 1 PCIe x16 slot (x4 in the real world), 4 external USB 2.0 ports and headers for four more, Ethernet, three audio jacks and video output is catered to by VGA, DVI and HDMI ports.
The APU is actively cooled by a tiny, but relatively quite fan, while the A50M chipset is cooled by a neat black heatsink. The layout is pretty straightforward, but it's really not too important. Since we are talking about an integrated ITX board, consumers probably won't be plugging too much stuff into it anyway. Speaking of which, BIOS options are rather limited, but then again few people would tinker with an ITX board and overclocking/underclocking support is uncommon on integrated ITX boards.
So, what's missing on this entry level board? As it turns out, not much. Of course, it would be nice to see USB 3.0 and eSATA, but at this price point you just can't find an ITX board that has them. The same applies to onboard WiFi, which would have been a nice touch but it is still reserved for pricier models.
We guess a lot of people have old wireless USB adapters they can recycle anyway, but this means they will be down to three USB ports. A separate wireless keyboard and mouse combo will take up an additional two, which means there is just one left for external storage, or perhaps a TV tuner. Of course, you can use the extra USB headers for an additional four devices and it is always a good idea to check the layout of any ITX chassis you choose. Most feature two USB ports on the front, but some models sacrifice practicality for design, so the USB ports might be poorly placed or located under a flimsy plastic flap, which is hardly a good solution.
The layout is pretty straightforward and you shouldn't have much trouble with the build. USB headers, LED and fan connectors should give you no trouble. The same applies to the four orange SATA 6Gbps ports, but you will find access to them a bit cramped in some chassis designs. Of course, this is a minor issue and few people will use more than two SATA ports anyway.
The placement of DIMM slots is unproblematic and the board supports up to 8GB of DDR3 1333 memory, which is more than enough for any HTPC.
The board also features a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (x4 electrically, of course). We guess most users won't use it, but it could come in handy for some future upgrades. This is where AMD has a clear advantage over Intel. Brazos supports faster DDR3 memory, and more of it. Many cheap Atom boards still cling to DDR2, which is slower and twice as expensive as DDR3. In addition, Brazos boards ship with PCIe 2.0 and SATA 6Gbps support, offering greater flexibility and upgradeability. A couple of years down the road users can squeeze some extra performance from their Brazos rigs, with cheap-low profile discrete graphics or speedy SATA 6Gbps solid state storage, which really isn't the case with Atom boards.
In terms of performance, the E-350 is hardly a new product and there is not much point in running a bunch of comprehensive tests. It's faster than current generation Atoms, but bear in mind that Cedar Trail should be out any day now. Even AMD launched the updated E-450 a couple of months back, but there is a catch – you can't actually buy any.
Cedar Trail, Intel's much touted next generation 32nm Atom was supposed to launch in Q3 and retailers have been listing Intel's first Cedar Trail boards for weeks, yet they are nowhere to be found. To some extent the same applies to E-450 products. They are available in a handful of netbooks, but not in micro-ITX format and the vast majority of Brazos products are still based on the good old E-350. Besides, the E-450 offers only a minor performance boost, so you really won't be missing out on anything if you go for the E-350 instead.
There is no clear or simple explanation for this, although Intel faced some driver issues with Cedar Trail graphics, but we reckon it also has something to do with the sharp decline in netbook shipments and there is a chance both AMD and Intel are affraid of being stuck with inventories of old chips, so we wouldn't hold our breath waiting for their successors.
Let's kick off with the customary CPU-Z, GPU-Z and 3dmark06 screens.
Sadly, we couldn't get our hands on any E-450 or Cedar Trail gear, so it is really hard to say how the E-350 stacks up against these upcoming platforms. We can only compare to it to Intel's Atom D525 with ION2 graphics and another E-350 system from Zotac.
In most PCmark7 benches, the E-350 easily outpaces the Atom, apart from the creativity score, which favors the multithreded Atom.
To some extent this also applies to CineBench tests, the Atom does rather well, but only on account of HT support.
In Aida64, the Atom comes out on top on account of its superior FPU, HT and somewhat higher clock (1.86GHz vs. 1.6GHz)
The results might seem like a draw, but in real life applications Brazos will outperform any Atom system, regardless of clock, or the aid of Nvidia graphics. The E-350 simply delivers superior performance where it really counts when it comes to HTPCs. In graphics, browsing and even power consumption, it is somewhat superior to even the fastest Atom chips. Intel on the other hand has a clear advantage in heavily threaded applications and transcoding, which is really not your average HTPC workload, unless you plan to use iTunes on a daily basis.
We have no trouble recommending the PURE White Fusion to anyone looking for a Brazos board on a budget.
At €80 it is one of the cheapest E-350 boards on the market and only ASRock and Gigabyte offer comparable boards in terms of features, performance and pricing. For some reason US consumers will have a bit more trouble and a lot less choice if they opt for an entry-level Brazos board, as some of these boards are rather hard to come by across the pond.
So, it offers good value compared to its Brazos siblings, but what about cheap and abundant Atom boards? Well, it does not look good for Intel. The cheapest Atom D525 boards cost about €59, which sounds like a fair deal. However, they use either DDR2 or DDR3 SO-DIMM memory which negates much of the price advantage after you factor in, say 4GB of RAM. Furthermore, cheap Atom boards feature Intel GMA 3150 graphics, which should probably be banned by the UN Security Council as an affront to humanity. Basically you can forget about HDMI or DVI.
Only one scenario in which Atom D525 boards sans ION2 graphics should even be considered comes to mind – if you are looking for a silent, passively cooled office nettop that will never do anything remotely entertaining and you already have a VGA-only monitor on your desk. If this is not the case, and it probably isn't, join the club and get a Brazos board.


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It's been a rough few days for many of us, trying to cope with power outages, hot weather and storm damage. We talked with some of hardest hit residents about how they're getting by.
Lesa Altendorf is living her own version of survivor here in Rockford.
"I don't have phone, cable, water, electricity, I don't have nothing," says Lesa.
Altendorf has emptied her fridge, she's showering at a friend's place, neighbors are helping neighbors but there are just certain things you can't get around.
"Flushing your toilet. I've walked in there so many times and said no don't do it because it won't fill back up. We've got wells out here," Lesa adds.
Westside residents say they wouldn't survive without the West Suburban Fire Department, where residents can fill up on as much water as they want. The department has given out thousands of gallons of water over the past few days, but water alone won't help Altendorf's fish. They rely on an electric pump to survive and pet stores are sold out of battery operated ones.
"I mean they're fighting for air, bad," says Lesa.
While life without electricity, water and phones has been tough for Westsiders, some are trying to make the best of it.
"It's something I'm kind of use to. I grew up that way. Hard and rough, you know. We've been cooking on the grill and stuff. I think it's kind of fun," says Kenneth Bard, a resident.
Who knows we could see Bard and his wife Sheryl on the next survivor.
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Banner Elk, NC- With a pair of victories over the Lees-McRae Bobcats on Wednesday afternoon, Coker College Head Softball Coach David Hanna earned his 600th career victory. All 600 of Coach Hanna's victories have come at Coker. He now holds an all-time record of 600-161-1 since 1992 with the Cobras.
Coker won game one 8-7 behind the pitching of Somer Bigham (20-8), as she struck out 10, allowed seven runs on nine hits and had one walk.
Jessica Blackwell and Kimberly Atkinson were each 2-for-4 at the plate for the Cobras, with Blackwell hitting a triple with two RBIs and Atkinson blasting a home run and two RBIs. Also going 2-for-4 was Jenna Beatty with a double.
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wow......the bangers are paying USD600K for a 3 week tourney......woah....that is a lot of money for cricket and that too in a country not in the first world and not such a big economy as India
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wow......the bangers are paying USD600K for a 3 week tourney......woah....that is a lot of money for cricket and that too in a country not in the first world and not such a big economy as India
nice innings so far from " ", on 34 from 19
You guys are acting like 50K USD for 3 weeks of worth of work is something awful, Especially for some of the local players. Thats a ton of Money in Bangladesh. 50K USD is alot of money in 1st world countries
Afridi and Gayle are the highest earners but there getting paid on a pro rated basis. Since there not playing every game. Every West Indian is making over 250K. The Pakistani players are getting paid handsomely as well.
These leagues is what Symonds and Flintoff probably thought of how they were going to make money when they ended their international careers. It's ironic that it's Gayle who's living the mercenary lifestyle but he's being blackballed from playing international cricket.
I hope it gives the Bangladesh players exposure to a more professional environment, even if it's more through the training and coaches rather than the games themselves.
Seems to be a rather anomalous innings from Mahmudullah going by his career strike rate...
My point was also that not everyone is getting paid 600k, or even close to it.
Too put it in prospective, I read that a local Bangladeshi player makes about 150USD per First Class Match.
Now that same local player is sharing a dressing room with the likes of Murali and making some change as well ... Even if he's not playing.
Also its nice to see a Pitch in Bangladesh that isn't slow, low and sluggish. Just a nice flat belter.
Ashrafool is the highest paid getting 750K that should be reason enough to ban the league.
ed: whaddayaknow http://www.espncricinfo.com/banglade...er/298438.html
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Shakib's team Khulna 175/5 - looks like Russel really spanked them around. Sooo underrated IMO.


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the speed is about 500MB/s on my machine. i think it's fast enough to output not too many bytes. while a C program may output 1GB per sencond on my machine. if the size is not the power of 512,you may change the bs and count in dd. Show Sample Output
Step#2 Create a copy of the bootload and partition table!
Quick grab of the data to the new disk!
An alternative which does not require to be root
Adjust "sleep X" to your needs. *NOTE: First sleep is required because bash doesn't have a "post-test" syntax (do XXX while). Show Sample Output
In general, this is actually not better than the "scrot -d4" command I'm listing it as an alternative to, so please don't vote it down for that. I'm adding this command because xwd (X window dumper) comes with X11, so it is already installed on your machine, whereas scrot probably is not. I've found xwd handy on boxen that I don't want to (or am not allowed to) install packages on. NOTE: The dd junk for renaming the file is completely optional. I just did that for fun and because it's interesting that xwd embeds the window title in its metadata. I probably should have just parsed the output from file(1) instead of cutting it out with dd(1), but this was more fun and less error prone. NOTE2: Many programs don't know what to do with an xwd format image file. You can convert it to something normal using NetPBM's xwdtopnm(1) or ImageMagick's convert(1). For example, this would work: "xwd | convert fd:0 foo.jpg". Of course, if you have ImageMagick already installed, you'd probably use import(1) instead of xwd. NOTE3: Xwd files can be viewed using the X Window UnDumper: "xwud <foo.xwd". ImageMagick and The GIMP can also read .xwd files. Strangely, eog(1) cannot. NOTE4: The sleep is not strictly necessary, I put it in there so that one has time to raise the window above any others before clicking on it. Show Sample Output
The above command will send 4GB of data from one host to the next over the network, without consuming any unnecessary disk on either the client nor the host. This is a quick and dirty way to benchmark network speed without wasting any time or disk space. Of course, change the byte size and count as necessary. This command also doesn't rely on any extra 3rd party utilities, as dd, ssh, cat, /dev/zero and /dev/null are installed on all major Unix-like operating systems. Show Sample Output
dcfldd is a forensic version of dd that shows a process indicator by default.
need pv (pipe view) : http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml Show Sample Output
The 'dd' command doesn't provide a progress when writing data. So, sending the "USR1" signal to the process will spit out its progress as it writes data. This command is superior to others on the site, as it doesn't require you to previously know the PID of the dd command. Show Sample Output
"killall -USR1 dd" does not work in OS X for me. However, sending INFO instead of USR1 works. Show Sample Output
every 1sec sends DD the USR1 signal which causes DD to print its progress. Show Sample Output
This line removes the 300k header from a Nero image file converting it to ISO format
bs = buffer size (basically defined the size of a "unit" used by count and skip) count = the number of buffers to copy (16m * 32 = 1/2 gig) skip = (32 * 2) we are grabbing piece 3...which means 2 have already been written so skip (2 * count) i will edit this later if i can to make this all more understandable
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This is a more accurate way to watch the progress of a dd process. The $DDPID=$! is needed so that you don't get the PID of the sleep. The sleep 1 is needed because in my testing at least, if you run kill -USR1 against dd too quickly, it will kill it off instead of display the status. So you need to wait a second, probably so that it can configure itself to trap the USR1 signal. Show Sample Output
If you have some drive imaging to do, you can boot into any liveCD and use a commodity machine. The drives will be written in parallel.
To improve efficiency, specify a larger block size in dd:
dd if=/dev/sda bs=64k | tee >(dd of=/dev/sdb bs=64k) | dd of=/dev/sdc bs=64k
To image more drives , insert them as additional arguments to tee:
dd if=/dev/sda | tee >(dd of=/dev/sdb) >(dd of=/dev/sdc) >(dd of=/dev/sdd) | dd of=/dev/sde
This is similar to how you would generate a file with all zeros
dd if=/dev/zero of=allzeros bs=1024 count=2k
Put into some file. No special purpouse, just for fun...
For disk space constraint testing. Leaves a little space available for creating temp files, etc. Easily free up the used disk space again by deleting the dummy00 file. Can tailor the testing by building smaller 'blocks' to suit the needs of the testing. WARNING: do not do this to the '/' (root) filesystem unless you know what you are doing... on some systems it could crash the OS.
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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia - It's 7:30 this morning. Lake Placid News/Enterprise Senior Sports Writer Lou Reuter and I are ready for breakfast, so we walk down the hall from our fifth-floor room in the Gorki Panorama hotel to the elevators at the opposite end of the building.
We step in, and I press the button marked 1, hoping to get to the lobby. Thirty seconds later, the elevator stops, but the doors don't open. We stand there puzzled for a few seconds until the elevator starts moving again.
"I think we're going back up," I say to Lou.
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Adirondack Daily Enterprise/Lake Placid News reporters Lou Reuter, left, and Chris Knight stand in front of the Olympic rings shortly after they arrived in Sochi, Russia Tuesday evening to cover the Olympics. The photo was taken by a volunteer outside the airport in Adler.
Sure enough, when the elevator stops, the doors open and we're back up on the fifth floor. We press 1 again, and the elevator starts going down. It stops at the bottom, but again the doors don't open, we starting going up, and sure enough, we're back on the fifth floor once more.
"Let's take the stairs this time," I suggest.
We open the door to the stairwell and start making our way down. The concrete walls are unpainted, the trim around the windows is unfinished, and the stairs and landings are dusty.
We get to the third floor, and the door to the hallway is propped open. I peek around the corner and look up. Square sections of the ceiling have been cut out, and in some places wires are hanging down. The carpets are covered in drywall dust and debris. Three or four men talking in Russian are working on various projects down the length of the hallway.
Continuing down the stairs, we reach the bottom, except it's not the first floor. It's the second-floor landing for the elevators, and the paper covering these elevator doors is ripped in half. We decide to try the elevator on the right this time.
When it opens, some equally confused-looking German journalists greet us. They tell us they've been trying to get to the lobby, too, with no success. Lou and I file in, the elevator finally reaches the first floor, and when the doors open to the lobby, a small cheer lets up from the group.
It's just another day in the life at the Gorki Panorama.
After more than 24 hours of travel via car, plane, bus and gondola, Lou and I finally arrived Tuesday night at the Panorama, a five-story, upscale-looking hotel that's among a cluster of huge hotels located at 960 meters, or roughly 3,200 feet in elevation. This is where we'll stay for the next two weeks while we cover the Sochi Winter Olympics.
While we're thrilled to finally be here, our initial excitement was somewhat tempered by the frustrating situation at the hotel. It started the minute we tried to check in.
"Unfortunately, we've had some technical difficulties and your room won't be ready for another 20 minutes," a friendly clerk named Anna told us in a thick Russian accent.
She directed us to the bar and lounge off the hotel's lobby, promising us each a complimentary drink while we waited. After a long day on the road, that didn't sound too bad, so we sat down and ordered a couple of beers from a young Russian barkeep.
The bar was filled with about two dozen other members of the media from all over the world who were also waiting to get in their rooms. At times, the young hotel staff looked stressed, like they were still trying to figure things out, and I witnessed a few terse exchanges between them while we waited.
After about 45 minutes, Anna from the front desk walked through the bar, telling patrons their rooms were ready. When Lou and I went back to the front desk, we learned that we weren't getting a room with two twin beds, like we had reserved months ago. Instead we would have a single bed, Anna told us apologetically.
At that point we didn't care, so we got our key cards and headed for the elevators. That's when Sandy Caligiore, press officer for USA Luge and the first familiar face we'd seen since arriving in Sochi, walked through the door. He said he was supposed to be staying at the Gorki Grand hotel, but it wasn't ready yet, so he had been moved to the Panorama.
"They had seven years to do this, and they're still not ready? I'm sorry," Caligiore said. "If this was the United States and we had seven years to do it? Different story."
As we parted ways with Caligiore, he told us to not expect a quiet night.
"You'll be lulled to sleep by the sounds of construction work," Caligiore said.
We said goodnight and took the elevator to the fifth floor. When the doors opened, our way was blocked by dozens of small metal garbage cans wrapped in plastic. A worker was opening them up and putting them outside the doors of each room.
We finally reached our room, located at the opposite end of the building. It's small, roughly 15 by 30 feet, with a queen-size bed, a couple desks, one chair and two bedside tables for furniture, and a small bathroom with a shower.
The first thing we noticed was we couldn't connect to the hotel's wireless Internet service, as we had been promised. We then started plugging in battery chargers for our cameras and other equipment. As I turned on a power strip, however, the lights in the room went out. The breaker had been tripped. We found a shoddy looking breaker box in the closet but decided to get some help before playing around with it.
The Russian hotel worker who had been distributing the garbage cans came to our room, flipped a breaker and the power came back on. Then he turned to Lou and me, put both his hands on his chest and said, "Not electrician." We understood, and he went back to work.
As I looked around the room, I realized there were plenty of other issues. There was a phone, but it didn't work. The same for the television. We have a very large closet, but only two hangars. The bed had only one blanket, with no top sheet. The hardware for one of the bedside tables hadn't been installed. There's an air conditioning system, but no switch to control the small heater in the room.
Outside our room there is a large patio, accessible by the hallway. Lou tried to open the door to it and pulled the handle right out. We just laughed. There was nothing else to do at that point.
"I've never seen anything like it in my life," Lou said. "This is completely bizarre."
It was after midnight before we finally went to sleep. As Sandy promised, I woke up several times in the night to the sound of faint banging somewhere in the hotel.
When morning finally arrived, our attitude had changed. As the dawn broke, we were greeted with our first views of the snow-capped, craggy mountains that surround Krasnaya Polyana. At once, we both realized why this is such a great site for the games.
"It's gorgeous," Lou said as he snapped picture after picture from the patio. "It's amazingly beautiful."
Apart from the setting, the other real positive we've experienced here in our first 24 hours is the attitude of the Russian people who are volunteering or working at the games. They're very friendly and eager to help, despite the at-times-challenging language barrier.
Case in point, Tuesday night: After traveling by bus from the Sochi airport to Krasnaya Polyana, we were let off the bus too soon. We had no idea how to find the gondola to get us up to Gorki village.
Desperate, I went into the mall (yes, there's a mall here), and encountered several security officers. They had a hard time understanding what I was asking for, but a Russian couple happened by, saw our plight and offered to help. The man made a phone call to guest services at the Gorki Panorama, and two younger Russian women who are working the games offered to take us to the gondola. Without their help, what would prove later to be a stressful night would have been even more so.
After a good breakfast in the hotel lobby this morning, we headed out to explore Krasnaya Polyana.
"Things are getting better by the minute," Lou said.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A U.S. Army spokesman says one member of the U.S. Navy was killed and several others injured during a training exercise at the Fort Knox, Ky., Army post.
Fort Knox spokesman Ryan Brus said Friday the accident happened at 9:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday and involved members of a Naval branch at the post in central Kentucky.
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There's something kinda cool about a daybed in the kids room. Versatile - yes, aesthetically pleasing - definitely, but there's also an element of sophistication and independence for the kid in question. When I was about 10 years old I read a novel about a girl who rearranged her bedroom to make it seem more grownup; this included turning her bed into a seat to make it more like a lounge room. Of course after I read this I had to try it too. I spread a huge pink sheet over my single bed then lined the pillows up along the wall to make the bed more sofa-like. The effect was not at all like these gorgeous examples above, but rather more like an odd, lumpy, giant pink-wrapped package.
The lesson here? Help your kids realise their decorating dreams and they won't sully your house with strange creations. (This is a joke - I don't usually joke here and


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The Richard B. Salomon Distinguished Lectures* & LIVE from the NYPL present:
A dialogue between Pulitzer prize-winning fiction writer Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake) and filmmaker Mira Nair, whose motion picture adaptation of The Namesake opens in the U.S. the preceding day.
About Mira Nair
Film Director Mira Nair was born in Rourkela, India. From India Cabaret to The Laughing Club of India, Nair?s documentaries paved the way for her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! which was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA for Best Foreign Language film in 1988. Subsequent films include Mississippi Masala, The Perez Family, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, My Own Country, Hysterical Blindness, 9/11/ 01 September 11 (segment 'India'), Monsoon Wedding, and Vanity Fair. In 2003, Mira Nair founded an annual filmmakers laboratory, Maisha, dedicated to the support of visionary screenwriters and directors in East Africa and South Asia. She also served as the mentor in film for the prestigious Rolex Protégé Arts Initiative, helping to guide young artists in critical stages of their development. Nair's company, Mirabai Films, is currently producing a series of four films to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in India. Her forthcoming films include The Namesake, an adaptation Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri's debut novel, and Shantaram starring Johnny Depp.
About Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London, England to Bengali parents, and raised in Rhode Island. She has taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Lahiri has traveled extensively to India and has experienced the effects of colonialism there as well as experienced the issues of the diaspora as it exists. She feels strong ties to her parents' homeland as well as the United States and England. Growing up with ties to all three countries created in Lahiri a sense of homelessness and an inability to feel accepted. Her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison Metcalf Award, and a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was translated into twenty-nine languages. Lahiri was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. The Namesake is Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel.
*These annual lectures made possible by an endowed fund established by the friends and associates of the late Richard B. Salomon.


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2010 Women's soccer
Bluffton 2, Defiance 2 (2 OT)
Bluffton sees shutout streak end in 2-2 tie with Defiance
October 27, 2010
By: Josh Bruner, sports information assistant
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University women's soccer team was matched goal for goal by Defiance College as they finished in a 2-2 tie after double overtime. This tie, coupled with a 1-0 Hanover win over Franklin, ended the Beavers hopes of making a first ever Heartland Conference Tournament appearance since the field was narrowed to four teams. The Yellow Jackets' tally early in the second period also stopped Bluffton's consecutive streak of shutout minutes at a school-record 558:49. The tie puts Bluffton at 7-8-2 overall with a 4-3-1 HCAC record, while Defiance stands at 4-8-4 overall with a 2-4-2 HCAC mark.


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Fugitive Cop-killer From Mexico Arrested in California
(COALINGA, CALIF.) Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies today announced the arrest of Maximiliano Maldonado Rebolledo, a convicted murderer who escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico and fled to the United States.
Rebolledo, 24, of Morelia in the Mexican State of Michoacan, was arrested in Coalinga, Calif., on Sunday by Special Agents from the Violence Supression Unit of the California Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The Coalinga Police Department and Fresno County Sheriff's Department provided additional assistance. When arrested in Coalinga, Rebolledo had possession of a firearm.
Rebolledo escaped from prison last March after overpowering two guards and a shootout with other Mexican guards. Rebolledo was serving a 65-year prison sentence in Mexico for the December, 1998 murder of three police officers in a gun battle. The officers had been attempting to arrest Rebolledo on charges of rape.
"This convict has no respect for the law or law enforcement," Attorney General Bill Lockyer said. "My department's Foreign Prosecution Unit will be working to return the inmate to prison in Mexico."
The Attorney General's Foreign Prosecutions Unit acts as a liaison between government agencies in the United States and Mexico to facilitate the return of wanted criminals. The unit also may assist in the prosecution of criminals who committed crimes in the United States, but must be prosecuted in Mexico.
Rebolledo faces a hearing Wednesday with an Immigration Judge to determine his legal status. If it is determined that he is to be deported, the INS would turn him over to Mexican authorities.