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EJ22: Puttting used Phase 1 into 99 OBS with blown Phase 2?
Posted 08 February 2011 - 11:06 PM
The car in question is a 1999 Impreza OBS MT with a seized motor due to previous owner driving with oil filter fallen off after a quick lube job.
So I'm pondering, in the interest of getting this car back on the road with last $$ spent, can a donor Phase 1 motor (long block, intake, injectors, etc.) be a direct swap for a 99 OBS (originally phase 2)?
Is the wiring harness and ECU off the phase 1 motor required?
Posted 08 February 2011 - 11:10 PM
Edited by GeneralDisorder, 08 February 2011 - 11:12 PM.
Posted 08 February 2011 - 11:16 PM
Guess I'll have to keep sourcing for a cost effective used Phase 2 or think about rebuilding the seized motor zzz
Posted 08 February 2011 - 11:33 PM
Posted 08 February 2011 - 11:50 PM
You might looking into putting in the EJ253/251 instead - also a phase-II engine but more powerful and larger displacement.
Posted 09 February 2011 - 11:35 AM
Keeping with the KISS mindset, is the EJ251 a direct swap? It'll mate up to the EJ22 Ph2 MT and use the same sensors/wiring harness?
Posted 09 February 2011 - 11:54 AM
no it's not plug and play (always) but it is easy. bolt EJ25 intake onto the EJ22 (a thing you can't do with older engines but you can here). count the triggers on the sprockets and swap them if they're different. but that's really easy and being inteference you should be installing a new timing belt anyway IMO.
Keeping with the KISS mindset, is the EJ251 a direct swap? It'll mate up to the EJ22 Ph2 MT and use the same sensors/wiring harness?
you could also bolt your Phase II EJ22 heads onto a Phase I Ej22 block and install that. not sure how bad the drop in compression would be, but it would definitely run.
Posted 10 February 2011 - 12:29 AM
So let's say I was to reuse my EJ22 Ph2 heads and toss in a EJ25 short block, which EJ25 variant will bolts up to a 99 5MT (originally with the EJ22 Ph2)?
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BATLEY'S Frontier Club is in the front-line of a raft of special civic charity events.
The Bradford Road venue will host a night of entertainment as part of fundraising efforts for the Kirklees Mayor's charity appeal in aid of the Yorkshire Regiment Benevolent Trust.
Coun David Ridgway's chosen cause supports soldiers and families of the regiment finding themselves in difficulty or need. The calls on their funds are increasing and over the past three years more than £300,000 has been given out.
The Mayor said: "I have nothing but admiration for the Trust's work. I have walked the Kirklees Way; I have shaken buckets at supermarkets; I have watched Huddersfield Town play for service personnel; and hosted a homecoming parade for Corunna Company back from Afghanistan.
"I also hosted a concert showcasing the wonderful musical talent which we have here in Kirklees.
"I thank everyone who has given their time and energy to help me and, of course, those who have made a donation."
The Mayor's Charity events continue into the New Year. Coun Ridgway said: "We have some brilliant events coming up with, I believe, something for everyone."
The line-up includes:
l January 25 - Casino night at Huddersfield's Grosvenor Casino at Folly Hall Mills, St Thomas Road from 8pm. Tickets £12 including supper from Mr A M Dyson on 07825 13004 or through firstname.lastname@example.com
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l March 8 - Pig race run by the Huddersfield Oddfellows. Tickets £10, including supper, from Andrew Porter on 01484 640224 or at email@example.com.
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Volusia and Flagler Parade of Homes start Saturday; Volusia Day in Tallahassee.
Volusia Parade of Homes starts Saturday
The Volusia Building Industry Association's 2013 Parade of Homes will begin Saturday and run through March 24.
The event will feature 37 entries by area builders including 35 new homes, one community — Henin Homes's Riviera Bella neighborhood in DeBary — and one "virtual" project, the William Square infill community that is set to break ground in downtown Daytona Beach later this year. The developer of William Square is White Challis Redevelopment.
This year's showcase home is called The Bellevue, a four-bedroom, four-bath home with 4,491 square feet under one roof at 625 Woodbridge Drive in the Plantation Bay community in Ormond Beach. The builder of the showcase home is Daytona Beach-based ICI Homes, which also built the showcase home in last year's Volusia Building Industry Association Parade of Homes.
The public is invited to tour this year's parade entries Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m.
"We're anticipating 10,000 to 12,000 people," said Sandy Bishop, the association's executive director. "The builders are putting on the final touches, polishing everything and getting ready for the crowds."
The parade is an annual event put on by the association to encourage the public to consider buying a new home.
The official guidebook for this year's Volusia Building Industry Association Parade of Homes will be published in Sunday's edition of The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
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The Flagler Home Builders Association's annual Flagler County Parade of Homes is set to kick off Saturday and will run through March 24, featuring 22 entries. This year's parade showcase home is The St. George, built by Keystone Homes, at 330 Harbor Village Point in Palm Coast.
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Volusia Day at the Capital
DAYTONA BEACH — The Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual "Volusia Day at the Capital" on March 20. The event — from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the state Senate Office Building Portico in Tallahassee — will give locals an opportunity to meet with state lawmakers.
Buses bound for Tallahasee will depart Daytona International Speedway at 6 a.m. as well as from the Lowe's home improvement store in DeLand at 5:15 a.m. The buses will return by 8 p.m.
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New Music Releases – July 2012
Our July 2012 New Music Releases calendar is highlighted by yet another worthy concert reissue from the one and only Jimi Hendrix.
'Jimi Plays Berkeley' captures a May 1970 concert appearance by Hendrix, and has been bolstered from it's originally released form with 5.1 surround sound, 15 minutes of previously unseen footage and a picture restored from the original 16mm negative of the film.
The month will also bring a new concert DVD from Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, chronicling his fantastic 2011 'Band of Joy' tour, as well as Ozzy Osbourne's long out-of-print 1982 'Speak of the Devil' tour live film. This tour was his first following the tragic death of guitarist Randy Rhoads.
It's a month dominated by concert dvds, now that we look at it all in one place. You can also expect a new live set from Crosby, Stills and Nash and a re-issued version of 'Secret World' from Peter Gabriel.
You can get all the July 2012 new music release dates below, and in most cases, learn more about the projects by clicking on the links in their titles.
For a continually updated list of new music, films and books headed your way from classic rock artists throughout the year, see our 2012 New Music Releases feature.
New Music Releases – July 2012
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Asia, 'XXX'
July 10
Jimi Hendrix, 'Jimi Plays Berkley' (Blu-ray, vinyl, CD)
Jimi Hendrix, 'Voodoo Child' (documentary blu-ray)
Robert Plant & the Band of Joy, 'Live from the Artists' Den' (Live DVD)
The Rolling Stones / Muddy Waters, 'Live at the Checkerboard Lounge Chicago 1981′
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Crosby, Stills & Nash, 'CSN 2012′ (DVD)
Ozzy Osbourne, 'Speak of the Devil' (DVD)
Various Artists, 'Black on Blues' (Black Keys tribute with Ginger Baker, Leslie West + more)
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Nesting Trend Inspires Books on Sprucing Up Home
Judging by the success of home decorating programs on HGTV and TLC, it seems like we are all burrowing into our homes like hobbits into their holes, surrounding ourselves with various colorful baubles and warm fuzzy things. Maybe that's a good way to escape the constant barrage of bad news and conflict in the outside world.
Here are some recent library additions that will help you feather your nest.
Ranch House Style by Katherine Ann Samon (Meredith Books, 2003).
I grabbed this lavishly illustrated volume as soon as it came in. I live in a 1960's style ranch house in the Arcadian Acres neighborhood and am curious to see what others have done with their pink-tiled bathrooms.
Samon teaches us to embrace these original touches and work with them. In addition to a history of the style, she profiles fourteen homes that have been lovingly restored, as well as four new homes. A devotee herself, she proudly points out that two ranch house suburbs have been entered into the National Register of Historic Places.
On recent walks through my neighborhood, I find myself mentally cataloging the numerous ranch style design details and imagining Arcadian Acres as a historic district.
New Classic Style: Mixing Modern and Traditional for a Fresh New Look edited by Vick Ingham (Better Homes and Gardens Books, 2003).
People seem to have the same types of prejudices about modern versus traditional style that the fathers of my youth had about their cars – they were either Ford men or Chevrolet men but never both.
Well, times have changed. We don't have to decorate in one standard style. We can mix antiques (or reproduction antiques) with steel and glass. We can pair bright bold colors with Eames sofas and weather vanes. The sky's the limit!
A dictionary of classic furniture, a "who's who" of furniture designers, and a list of websites and shops complete this colorful how-to book on mixing styles.
Studios and Lofts: One Room Living by Marcos Nestares (Universe, 2003).
I lived briefly in a loft in New Haven, Connecticut during my impoverished college days. As I recall, we delineated areas by folding screens. If I had it to do over, I would be rich and have a Manhattan or Paris weekend loft designed similarly to the ones pictured here.
These thirty-three stunning spaces, ranging from only 300 to 800 square feet, actually exist in major cities around the globe. Each is designed with intricate (and expensive) wood, metal and stone features that make living in a small space palatable.
I think my favorite is the 688.64 square foot Monte Carlo unit owned by a single businessman who occupies it once a week and likes to eat lunch in a sparsely furnished white room open to and overlooking the sea.
Trading Spaces: Behind the Scenes (Meredith Books, 2003).
Let's get our feet back on the ground and see what can be done with $1000, two days, two rooms, two designers, two carpenters, and two sets of brave homeowners.
This a close-up look at the cast and crew of the top-rated TLC cable channel decorating program. We also get to see some of their work in full color, which can be pleasant or excruciating, depending on your taste.
I must admit that I've never made it through an entire episode of this series, but the younger people I know, more attuned in general to reality TV, find it quite amusing. I think I'm just too set in my ways to even imagine letting someone take over an entire room in my house.
The New Smart Approach to Kitchen Design by Susan Maney (Creative Homeowners, 2003).
Since kitchens and baths are such integral and important parts of the home, customers building new homes, as well as renovating existing homes, visit local libraries looking for ideas.
Here's a book that is loaded with luscious color photographs as well as chapters on designing the layout, choosing the best materials and appliances, and putting style into your kitchen. By the time you're done, you'll relish those hours (and hours) spent in the food preparation center of your home.
Pam Locker is a librarian with the Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library. The opinions expressed in this column are personal and do not reflect policies or official recommendations of EVPL.


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About Paul Chan
Paul Chan is an artist in New York. Working in a variety of mediums, from video to installation to drawing, Chan has achieved much acclaim for both his installations and his digital projections that blend a novel drawing and animating style with subtle philosophical reflections on politics, war, and life in the present tense. Chan's work has been exhibited worldwide for the past several years and was last seen in New York at The 2006 Whitney Biennial. Chan has worked with the aid group Voices in the Wilderness (with whom he spent an unsanctioned month in Iraq) and designed The People's Guide to the Republican National Convention (an agitprop map of New York City for use by protesters and delegates in 2004). Yet while such activities may not appear to directly inform his art practice, they tie into his general insistence on "hallucinating" different relationships in contemporary society: between the sacred and the secular, the high and the low, the poetic and the pornographic, drawing comparisons to such artists Chris Marker and William Kentridge.
About Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly is Co-Coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV). Kathy's work focuses upon ending the war in Iraq, in both its military and economic forms. Long active in peace team efforts, Kathy participated in the Gulf Peace Team (1991); Bosnia (1992-93); and Haiti (1994). In 1996, she co-founded Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign of civil disobedience to challenge U.S.-U.N. economic sanctions imposed against Iraq. Kathy traveled over 20 times to Iraq to build personal relationships and to challenge U.S. policies (over 70 VITW delegations traveled to Iraq from 1996 to 2003). In the summer of 2005, VITW was fined $20,000 for bringing medicine to Iraq without permission of the U.S. government (a fine which VITW refused to pay).


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As a general rule, if someone in the free world just says "Korea," they usually mean South Korea. It's one of those annoying namespace pollution games...
That may be, but prepending "North" or "South" is so simple that very few people are lazy enough to drop it. In fact, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've seen the term to refer to a country rather than the continent.
I believe you mean peninsula, not continent; the continent is Asia and the plate is Amuria [wikipedia.org]. The more you know...
As it so happens, though, Koreans invariably refer to their native country as the true and default Korea. That's probably how this story got messed up in the first place.
As a general rule, if someone in the free world just says "Korea," they usually mean South Korea.
But, the story would be much more interesting if they actually meant the DPRK.
Well that's okay. I'd rather Microsoft worked with Kim Jong-Un than Kim Dotcom. The latter is a real danger to democracy.
Microsoft is working together with the North Koreans to kill us all! Give all my moneys to DHS and TSA!
South Korea.
South - good.
North - US says they I bad, I really don't know for sure though.
You should watch some videos of people who have been to North Korea and video taped some of it. There's also a documentary about the more underground life.
It's absolutely terrible. I'd say it's like 1984, but at least in 1984 they had chocolate.
where it doesn't take 20 years just to get approval to move forward.
Annnnd where's there's very little regulation governing how you dispose of your environmental waste, or hazmat containment/exposure. Yep, he's a genius.
RTFA dude (yes, I know, this is
I assume US regulation is far too extreme to pursue such ventures. Gates can get more bang for his buck in a country where it doesn't take 20 years just to get approval to move forward.
Kind of. SFRs are about 50 years old, even in the USA. We have, err, had, about a half dozen of them. Those crazy soviets put them in subs which they promptly set on fire and sunk. Its old icky tech. No one wants them if they can use a PWR or BWR design instead. The latest spin is to try to market them as something new even though they aren't new. Just like IT, everything old is eventually new again, and sometimes it even works. SFRs are the "cloud computing" of nuclear engineering.
For non-nuke noobs, a SFR is just like any other reactor except:
1) The coolant is sodium instead of water, so its hyper flammable and this scares the hell out of everyone involved, so every plant has had excellent safety and production records, well, except for the ones that caught fire.
2) Ditto above water is neutron activated for "a couple seconds" so other than impurities / leakage into the coolant, the coolant is basically radioactively harmless, however sodium does neutron activate and takes a couple days for enough half lifes to pass before its harmless (radioactively). Note I'm talking about the coolant itself not impurities or leakage into the coolant which is unchanged, more or less. So thats a bit freaky. You can draw PWR/BWR primary loop coolant and by they time it flows thru the "just in case" filters its cool enough to dump directly into the sewers. Sodium takes a bit longer and dumping it into the sewers is not exactly encouraged behavior, although I'm sure its terribly entertaining.
3) Other than being flammable and radioactive, sodium is a near ideal coolant. You won't have corrosion issues like hot high pressure water. Endless stories about 20 year old pumps being pulled out of service and appearing to be brand new. Although there were some "hilarious" near disasters with eutectic alloy formation and that was all figured out 40 years ago.
4) Sodium solidifies into a solid lump at room temp. This is kind of an issue for operational concerns. OK time to boot up the reactor, pull the control rods. Oh wait, they're frozen in place. Well then. And once you fix that and get the reactor cooking, the pumps are jammed so you've got to heat them.
5) Vapor pressure at operating temp is basically nil, at least compared to water. So the reactor vessel is more or less unpressurized (well yeah you blow argon over it instead of room air, but
6) The "overheat leads to high temp chemical reaction with cladding leads to H2 buildup leads to kaboom" aka fukishima is literally chemically impossible. "unplug" a SFR like happened in Japan and basically nothing happens it just inherently calms itself down and eventually will freeze itself solid. Crazy but true. Isn't nuclear engineering cool that way? PWR and BWR to some extent or another will try to blow themselves up if abandoned so you engineer "fail safe" by making them really tough, but an abandoned SFR just kinda sits there all hot at a constant temperature and does nothing. Its kind of boring that way. Until the local fire department decides to hose it down with fire hoses. Sodium doesn't like water very much. Err actually red hot sodium likes water a lot, its just the nearby humans that dislike the fireball.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor [wikipedia.org]
Fukushima didn't just fail because it was unplugged, there was also earthquake damage to some of the cooling system and a critical valve. Details are still emerging as the plant is explored, but basically I hope they don't have big earthquakes in South Korea. Leaking radioactive sodium coolant doesn't sound like fun.
Fukushima didn't just fail because it was unplugged, there was also earthquake damage to some of the cooling system and a critical valve.
As long as the reactor vessel is intact, no leaks, then a SFR will just sit there and do nothing rather than blow up fukushima style. Shut 'er down and walk away safe, like I said..
That is not to say you couldn't design a SFR almost intentionally to be not "walk away safe". I'm sure a moron could implement a drain valve thats only closed when power is applied to it, or a fire sprinker that only shuts off water flow while power is applied, etc. But at a nuclear / thermodynamic / chemistry level SFRs can j
While liquid sodium is no one's idea of a fun material to work with, there are a couple of things you're not quite accurate on.
The big one is why you think the coolant might be in contact with the control rods.
You also don't mention that the shutdown/restart cycle is much simple due to the relative lack of iodine poisoning, the amount of energy extracted from the fuel is much higher, and the amount of long-lived waste produced is much smaller.
There's also the point that materials and manufacturing have adva
I assume US regulation is far too extreme to pursue such ventures. Gates can get more bang for his buck in a country where it doesn't take 20 years just to get approval to move forward.
Glad you made it clear that it is only an assumption you have.
The real reason is obvious - South Korea has no native or cheap sources of energy (like natural gas) and has a government sponsored development corporation (KOPEC) to develop and build nuclear power plants, which already supply 45% of the nation's electricity.
In the U.S. nuclear power plants have to compete with cheap natural gas plants, which on straight-up business investment grounds they routinely lose out. To overcome the financial handicap n
Nuclear is certainly one of the energy sources we need to expand. We shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that one or two sources will solve all our problems.
I mean, we can probably guess which Korea they're referring to here, but last time I checked, they hadn't been reunified yet. I really hope that Bill Gates isn't building a nuclear reactor for North Korea.
Maybe he achieved re-unification while we weren't looking, and now it's on to the next project over there.
So we can grow sweet potato like produce that will turn us into aggressive, violent, homophobic, psychopathic "protectors" one we grow past breeding age?
No, those plants won't grow properly in our biosphere. Thank goodness too because I really wasn't looking forward to having a beak. Although I wouldn't mind the awesome physique.
A lot of people would just sit on their fortunes (Warren Buffet) or piss it away on political bullshit (Koch brothers). I know a lot of the crowd here is anti-Microsoft, but it's nice to see Bill Gates doing something with his hoard and something halfway-geeky to boot!
Yeah The Oracle from Omaha should give away large chunks of his wealth to philanthropic causes. Oh wait . .
Warren Buffet pledged most of his fortune to the Gates Foundation.
I believe you are thinking of the late Steve Jobs.
Warren Buffett is giving 10% of his wealth to the Gates Foundation every year, and has done other philanthropic work. He's never had plans to give it to his children. And he's done a pretty decent job of managing his wealth without harming the average workers at his companies.
Indeed; I've had people point out 'Japan's running just fine having shut down ALL their nuclear plants!'. Just recently I read an article* that pointed out that the cost of the oil and natural gas to replace their nuclear plants pushed Japan into a trade deficit for the first time in decades. Now, it didn't have a mention of cost, and the global downturn probably plays a factor, but I found an estimate of $100M/day [thehindu.com], 4.5M barrels of oil. Since Oil is pretty price-inflexible, that 4.5M barrels of oil is coming out of the rest of the world - raising the price of our gasoline, diesel, and other petroleum products.
LNG imports [reuters.com]: increased 18% in volume, 52% in value, to $67B. Cost to the Japanese: $23B USD equivalent.
Not the most impartial site, but it quotes $55B [world-nuclear-news.org] in additional fossil fuel imports. It actually says the shutdowns were a bigger cause than all the damage from the Earthquake & Tsunami.
For those worried about global warming - Green energy isn't ramping up to replace the nuclear power lost anytime soon, and it's led to a substantial increase in Japan's CO2 emissions. Right now Japanese consumers oppose turning the plants back on; but last I heard they're also not seeing an increase in their electric bill yet.
Finally, to DMJC - How well do you think SST Plants will do during an Alaskan Winter? Beware the 'one true power' fallacy. My goal is 40% nuclear, 20% solar, 20% wind, 20% other(hydro, geothermal, tidal, biomass, etc...)
*Dead tree publication, Stars & Stripes, Aug 13,2012, 'Fukushima disaster studies call for regulatory reform'.
Last report I saw said that Japan's carbon emissions are up 17% over last year and that includes a period when many of their nuclear reactors were still running. TEPCO has announced a 9% increase in domestic electricity prices starting in September this year, to cover the cost of the coal and oil imports needed to generate electricity that was previously produced by the nuclear stations.
Two Japanese reactors at Ohi restarted recently, generating about 2.4GW baseload, that is day and night. Another reactor in Shikoku might restart before winter but the rest are still shut down and will be until the panic is over.
My "one true power" goal would be 150% nuclear with the extra power being used to produce liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2 for mobile and transport needs.
RE: extra power being used to produce liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2 for mobile and transport needs.
You can't do that!
The arctic would freeze and we'd miss out on wicked storms like Katrina.
Shipping lanes in the Arctic are about to open up and hopefully some wars will occur because right-of-way, etc. Wars and storm cleanup are highly profitable.
The point about Japan is that people were saying we would go back to the stone age without nuclear, but that didn't happen. In fact there has been a bit of a boost due to people buying new energy efficient appliances to help reduce power consumption. Remember that threat of rolling blackouts this summer? It was removed because people met the challenges, all without reverting to an agrarian society or even reducing their quality of life in any measurable way.
I remember that even months after most Japanese reactors were offline there was a story on
Now, given a decade or two to slowly reduce dependency and move to non-nuclear sources like other countries are I'd argue that not only will there be little or no pain, there will be huge gains as well. Japan in particular is blessed with more than enough renewable energy for the entire country, it just needs to be tapped and the nuclear industry is very powerful.
Show me a single Solar Salt Thermal plant running in production. Or even one that is almost in production, running anywhere near the power capacities of even these 'little' nuclear power plants. (let alone the Gigawatts of some of the big boys)
BTW, your "only 400 billion" is a bit crazy.. The US has around 100 Reactors producing about 1/3 of our nations power. At an average replacement cost of about $2billion (each) last I heard. So for that same money, you could move 2/3 of the US to nuclear.. and the land mass used to generate it would be significantly smaller.
There is no single solution, and I wish people would stop claiming there is.. Moving all of any country to any single power source is plain foolishness.. its going to take a mix of wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, wave power, etc to properly diversify and meet the power needs.
Yes it does use hydro. But try to site a new dam for a hydroelectric power plant.
I find it hypocritical for the environmental movement to cite hydro-electric as an example of successful renewable energy in support of non hydro renewables when they've historically fought any new dams tooth and nail.
intellectual ventures is involved. in a few years we'll be paying a licensing fee as part of our bill
"...and just so that we all know what we're talking about, I've brought some of this stuff with me. Two bars, ladies and gentlemen, of weapons-grade plutonium. A lethal dose at 20 yards! Get it while it's hot!" -- Jedburgh, Edge of Darkness.
Funny that, I always thought that Grogan (the villain) looked like Bill Gates.
doesn't the windows Eula say not for use in nuke plants?
Because North Korea is the best Korea
It's a really cool idea if you can get it to work. It breeds fuel right before it burns it. So you can load the thing once and have it run for 50 years without refueling. It's nice because you don't have to have move large amounts of enriched uranium or plutonium around.
Anyone know if Korea is looking to require Open Source in some part of the government? If not, everybody should make the threat when it comes time to upgrade windows...
Is this related to Bill Gates' plan to re-invent the toilet?
They can use robot guards [bbc.co.uk], presumably running Windows, to guard the site
So after all the US companies rejected the idea as unworkable science fiction, and then the Japanese did, and then the Chinese did, Korea is the next sucker up to bat.
Good luck with that.
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Hi Tony! Do you already have the Vespa?
Hello All,
My name is Tony and I reside in Los Angeles/ Eagle Rock area. I honored to be on this forum and I am very much interested in converting a vespa to electric.
Hi Tony! Do you already have the Vespa?
Hello Scoot440
Yes, it is a 74 Rally 200, I bought it last year when I was going thru my scooter phase (i have many phases, not good for piggy bank), I had picked up a classic 58VBB and a friend of mine was selling a project Rally. I sold the gas motor and now looking at the options in electric motors and hardware.
where is a good place to find vespa?
i have a 48volt kelly system i would like to find a project for...
The Greatest thing about a EV, is the Song of the Terrain...
Rally 200 is a great place to start - just be prepared to catch grief from Vespa purists. If you have not already, check out Soundspeed Scooters. They manufacture a swingarm and base a conversion on the components from an EVT168. Allen, there are thriving Vespa groups in Dallas and there are several scooterists in OKC. Check out the classifieds on scoot.net. Unless you specifically want a Vespa, I keep eying Mitsubishi Silver Pigeons and Cushman step-throughs as great conversion candidates.
...but maybe those Vespa guys are more hardcore.
The difference here is just the rarity of the model. If you had built yours out of a Kenny Roberts RZ350 you might have a little different reaction.
Hi Tony. If you need any help getting your hands on the rights parts, we're happy to help and not too far away from you. Good luck with the project. I hope you'll bring it by the shop when it's finished!
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Hello Harlan,
Will do, it's great that there is a supportive community going on here. I have been viewing some of the other builds on the forum and Wow!
Allen, look for a project on your local scooter group. There is a guy in los angles craigslist who has a lot of vespa stuff but try your local groups. Don't limit yourself on the vespa, I was going to first tackle a honda metropolitan or honda ruckus but found the vespa first. I would shoot even for a 80's honda elite.P9240168.jpg
Good luck.
i thought i would throw this image in - its a awesome looking vespa... for sale on ebay...
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Q: What did the police man say to the CoW?
A: You're blocking the view of the President. Mooooove along!
(Yes, it's so bad I had to post anonymously out of shame.)
Seriously, the Cell on Wheels installations were part of what made it possible to handle the extra traffic.
Aha! I didn't RTFA but no doubt the Dept. of Homeland Security was involved in finding all those Cells.
I hope they detained them for further questioning, although I still don't understand why the terrorists were using Heelys [heelys.com].
As for the content.... more does not mean better. Having millions sending vids and pics shot with crappy cellphone lenses was hardy of benefit. A few real camera crews with real cameras provided all the really useful (ie worth viewing) material.
Hardly a charitable act. Do you really think the providers were going to miss an opportunity like this? They'd have pretty much been guaranteed 100% utilization of equipment that often stands relatively idle.
An excellent point, and I never really thought of it as something the companies were doing out of the kindness of their own hearts, anyways. It really was more a game of one-upmanship for them, to see whose network could handle the most volume that day. I'm surprised the providers haven't put those numbers out yet to try to declare whose network was the best that day.
Granted I was over 300 miles away from Washington DC when the inauguration happened, but it just occurred to me I didn't even make a call
Hardly a charitable act
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages."
-Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I Chapter II
As for the content.... more does not mean better. Having millions sending vids and pics shot with crappy cellphone lenses was hardy of benefit. A few real camera crews with real cameras provided all the really useful (ie worth viewing) material.
No, but had there been an assassination if might be interesting.
I wonder what it would have been like if there'd been modern cellphones in November 1963. Assuming that the millions of photos and frames of video could be sifted through.
real cameras provided all the really useful (ie worth viewing) material
Case in point: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/the_inauguration_of_president.html [boston.com]
Just another example of the pros and cons of different companies in the cell phone market. I went to the Inauguration with my Verizon phone, and had no trouble making a few calls or texting people right from the mall.
On the other hand, I am still trying to find a way to get away from Verizon and onto AT&T or T-Mobile, because their phones are mediocre, customer service is below par, and they restrict their devices.
It's all about what you want to sacrifice when buying a phone - a wide network and more ca
Um, couldn't you just buy your own device and use whatever carrier you want?
Um, couldn't you just buy your own device and use whatever carrier you want?
Not from the U.S., I take it?
Um, couldn't you just buy your own device and use whatever carrier you want?
Not from the U.S., I take it?
In the US you absolutely CAN buy your own device and hook it up to whatever carrier covers the system (GSM, EDGE, etc.) It's the law. What you CANNOT do is buy a supercool smartphone for the (subsidized) price of $99.99 - you have to buy at list.
It's not that Americans are being shafted because they can't get out of contracts they agreed to, but that we're addicted to having the latest phone and paying
In the US, using Sprint, I buy my own phones and when I try to replace my existing phone I get told "Sir, activating that phone will require a 2 year agreement." What? What the hell? I paid for this thing. Why should I sign a contract? I have no choice so I say yes.
The problem in the US is that you have no rights with cell phone carriers. I havent gotten a subsidized phone in ages, but Im still locked into contracts. I guess there's always the option of some pay per month crap phone, but I need a smartphon
On the other hand, I am still trying to find a way to get away from Verizon and onto AT&T or T-Mobile, because their phones are mediocre, customer service is below par, and they restrict their devices.
And AT&T and T-Mobile don't restrict their devices?
Not too much. My Tilt (HTC TyTN II) out of the box supports pretty much any format Windows Media Player does out of the box (I can use a full-song MP3 as any sound on the phone, etc). It asks before installing unsigned software, but doesn't care. My net connection is proxied, but i can override it.
I am, however, banned from the "AT&T Mall". I can't buy ringtones from AT&T BECAUSE my phone is so open - I could share them!
Find me a Verizon phone that can share its internet connection as a Wi-Fi access
So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
If they had survived service would not have been interrupted based in normal use, not a reduction
I don't think 2M people in a few square miles all texting, pic/vid messaging, and calling is "normal use".
Mitigating [merriam-webster.com] any *major* issues brought about with extreme usage is survival, to me.
Well, it's "normal use" in Manhattan, or Boston, or most downtown areas of major cities (especially in the middle of the work day).
Density of Manhattan is 70,000 per sq mile, Density of Boston is 12,000 per sq mile.
There weren't even close to 2 million people. In fact it's unclear if the Obama inauguration even surpassed the record of 1.2 million previously set by Lyndon Johnson. This smells just like the "Million Man March", more media perpetuated bullshit.
Ah but was Johnson's one really 1.2 million? How did they get that figure?
There is a cool satellite image of it all going around, like here [washingtonpost.com], so you imagine someone could eventually come up with a good estimate of yesterdays one.
How do they estimate crowd sizes anyway, fair enough in a stadium (80,000 seats all full = 80,000 people) but for other things it seems to be bordering on random guessing.
The National Park Service produced official estimates until 1995, when they were ordered by congress to stop, after being sued by Louis Farrakhan for estimating only 400,000 attended the Million Man March. They're providing official estimates for the size of the inauguration crowd.
Right so after staring at the picture I linked to and allowing 2.5 sq foot per person in the crowded bits, I reckon 500,000 on the mall at the time of the picture, there was another 200,000 invited people in the capitol grounds, and then there are the people still crowding the streets. Picture was taken half an hour before and 18th street still looks crowded in that picture. So I don't know 900k in total?
I heard that the estimate is the mall holds around 1.0-1.2 million when full. I don't know how accurate that is, but I'm guessing someone who knows more about it than you or I came up with that.
It would depend what is defined as the mall also - Is it just the bit from 3rd street to the Washington monument or do you go all the way to the Lincoln memorial.
This morning Channel 6 in Philadelphia debunked the 2 million estimate. They demonstrated with a newspaper that in order to squeeze that many people, the citizens would have to be standing close enough to have sex with one another (i.e. 8 people per newspaper sheet).
A more-realistic estimate, based upon video of the scene, indicates 3-4 people per newspaper sheet, which yields 750,000-1 million total.
Also if you look at the satellite, you'll notice that not the whole mall was filled. People were clustered
Sure they could test it. The only problem is stupid people would not realize it's better to test it on some random Wednesday afternoon and risk failure then, than to test it during an emergency. If they run a test and it goes badly, they get major bad PR, when they really should get good PR for trying to make sure their systems work ahead of time.
So they end up doing exactly what you said - don't test it at all, and just hope there's no emergency.
To appear on ~1M mobile phone bills.
NPR was running a story on the cell phone aspect of the inauguration yesterday morning. They reported the carriers were encouraging people to text instead of call (which I'm sure was only to save bandwidth and had nothing to do with the massively inflated cost per text - which
the texts do not travel on a separate network
From the phone to the tower, that is correct. However, once your carrier receives the text, it is routed entirely differently.
From what I heard, the reason texts were delayed for so long has nothing to do with the control channel being full, but rather the total text volume being switched between carriers.
i.e., the text isn't stuck on your mobile phone, it's stuck in a message queue in a datacenter somewhere.
I was on the Mall in DC, and AT&T's data network was completely down through most, if not all, of the day. Since they have to dedicate channels to data, I'm sure they decided to abandon data completely. Another example of how current data carriers don't take their data networks seriously. They're *obviously* not as important as voice...
I was on the Mall in DC as well, and found the same thing with AT&T. Although I had very spotty voice services, I was receiving texts over 2 hours after they were sent and had no larger data transfer capabilities.
Another example of how current data carriers don't take their data networks seriously. They're *obviously* not as important as voice...
Man, do I second that. Occasionally I'll get text messages from nagios hours after it detected a problem. That's complete bullshit. If they're going to gouge everyone for SMS messaging, they better have some outstandingly low latency for it. Seems like to me this is something that could spur a class-action lawsuit..
First, I am not a cellular tech weenie, and I did not stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night. I have had to learn some of this stuff over the years in self-defense, and what I understand is that to increase the call capacity in an area there are three main things that can be done. One, use sectorized antennas; two, add towers and turn their power down to create a larger number of smaller cells; three, add to the number of links to the terrestrial network.
I don't have a car analogy, but think of it like th
Btw as for the people who keep saying the cell towers on wheels solved all the problems, I dunno what moron thought that was going to help but there's only so much bandwidth available in the air regardless of the number of towers and you can't have them stomping on each other.
Apparently those "morons" that actually work as cellular engineers. You roll in the cell sites on wheels (COWs), drop the output power of neighboring cells, and voila increased capacity!
But hey, I guess it's just easier to call someone a name whenever you don't understand how something works.
If this was an emergency like on 9/11/2001, then this would had been very bad.
Untrue -- Government officials and emergency personnel have a special code they can use to dial numbers on their cell phone, giving them priority access to the cell towers.
http://wps.ncs.gov/use.html [ncs.gov]
Dial *272 and then the number you want to call. If your phone is flagged as allowed to use WPS, then your call will be accepted and given priority over all other calls. I believe there are differing levels of access, so a local volunteer fireman might have a lower priority than say Secretary of State Clinton.
I bet a nice chunk of this was due to people watching the CNN live feed at work. CNN partnered with facebook so that the live video feed page had your friends' facebook status, and gave you the opportunity to update your own status while watching the inauguration.
College football games get big enough crowds to overload cell networks. Is it really surprising the inauguration did? Can we get some informative articles please.
No surprise that T-Mobile had so much trouble. I've heard they're OK elsewhere, but in the DC area their coverage is horrible. Pity too because they have the best phones... First the sidekick and now android.
I use Sprint and was about 250m from the Washington Monument. While I had full bars the entire morning, texts were hit or miss - sometimes they went through, othertimes they did not. Calling was impossible. I tried calling twice and neither ever actually got through.
A friend with AT&T was able to get texting to work, but was not able to call nor to send a picture message.
All in all? I would not say they "survived".
Only in the sense that I can use my Sprint phone today, I suppose.
I too was about 250m from the Washington Monument, and trying and failing on the Sprint network. I had full bars, but was only able to send 3 text messages between my 10am arrival and 2pm departure. Most got rejected with Network Busy.
Calls and data never worked during that period while on the Mall.
A friend who had Verizon did not have any trouble making calls or texting.
On NANOG, a Verizon employee described that they spent 6 months planning capacity and rolling out COW's (Cell On Wheels) and had gotten
Looks like Sprint claimed to have deployed extra capacity. Just not enough:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/16/inauguration.phones/index.html [cnn.com]
" To handle the increased traffic, Sprint is planning to deploy resources usually reserved for hurricanes: COWs and COLTs.
The acronyms stand for Cell On Wheels and Cell On Light Truck. The vehicles use satellite and microwave technology and act as mobile cell towers. They are typically deployed to disaster sites when towers get knocked out.
For the inauguration, Sprint
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Ousting governor may not be Snyder recall group's ultimate goal
Ousting Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder might not be the ultimate goal of the group seeking to recall him, MLive reports.
But political analysts say its real goal might be to collect names and addresses of potential voters - and donors - to boost Democrats in state House races and even President Obama's re-election bid.
The group's previous effort to get a recall on the ballot failed. Inside Michigan Politics editor Bill Ballenger expects this one will, too. He said no state group has ever collected enough signatures to place a gubernatorial recall question on a ballot.
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 3:53 p.m.
Governor Snyder has done such a better job than his predecessor..... It would be a shame to waste all the energy and resources to try to have a special election that won't succeed anyway.... Why not do something constructive like try to get Governor Romney elected President before President Obama almost single-handedly ruins what's left of our country?
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 5:22 p.m.
I agree G-Man....we can not afford the current administration anymore....here is an example of the wasteful spending of tax payer dollars....... http://www.edmontonjournal.com/travel/Obama+daughter+spends+spring+break+Mexico/6323773/story.html
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 12:39 p.m.
I see the current administration has muffled the news arm of this paper....too bad.
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 11:09 a.m.
As it should, the truth seeps out... just another under handed scheme to control what they lost, using the media to stir up the soup, just like the beltway crowd uses taxpayer $$$$ to beat their own drums....hopefully this effort will go down in flames faster than the Hindenburg ..
Monica R-W
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 2:47 a.m.
It would be NICE if the reporter for MLive Dave Murray or his editor M. Holland gave credit to ROJSNews for this lead because that's exactly were it came from. Also, it would be double proper for A2.com to publish, instead of hold our Op/Ed article given over two weeks ago on this subject. Since Ann Arbor.com and MLive work together now...wonder what happened here... Either way, ROJS News has done 5 months of work on this story. Let's just say Murray has less than half of this story. Regardless, 'borrowing' a part of this story without at least a byline to the bloggers who dug up the information, says a lot about the state of our news today!
Monica R-W
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 5:05 p.m.
Pick... I would too, if they originated the story be happy for them. At least they just referenced the article, the other reporter at MLive got a lead on, and wrote as if he knew the information. Guess it could be worse :(...
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 11:59 a.m.
Looking forward to more voice mails !!!!
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 11:57 a.m.
I give all the credit to the A2.com.....they are very good at what they do.
Monica R-W
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 2:52 a.m.
Oh well....
Chase Ingersoll
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 12:03 a.m.
When a societys political system is more susceptible to manipulation by partisans than by the wisdom of those whose participation in society actually pays it's bills, then both the system and society are doomed. But be of good cheer, for it is those produces who actually pay the bills who will like Phoenix, rise from the ashes of the partisans who burned their own house. Chase Ingersoll
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 : 11:36 p.m.
Be it the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian or any political party: they're like competing fire departments - all of them making claims about their ideal solutions to fire - and all of those claims are disproven on a regular basis. Of course Richard ("Rick") Dale Snyder is not likely to be interested in making more than a temporary and cosmetic improvement in Michigan's overall condition. The reason is that his party (and all parties) are far more interested in recruiting supporters, in gathering votes and campaign money. So manipulation of public opinion is his party's real business. We keep voting manipulating frauds into office: then wonder what went wrong (or concentrating on blaming everything on the office holders from the competing parties). Force honesty upon all the political parties and you'll force honest competition in making things better through good governance. Of course Snyder should be recalled: but so should all the governors and legislators and elected federal officials. NONE of them brings the results they promise.
Angry Moderate
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 : 10:06 p.m.
They're already making excuses-- so that they can say it's what they wanted all along when they lose again? Pathetic.
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 : 9:21 p.m.
This group has got a lot of press for not doing much? Now they have to try "bate and switch" I wonder why the President doesn't run on his record?
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 11:52 a.m.
How could anyone run on that record?
David Briegel
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 3:02 a.m.
Not only did they "bait" you, they hooked ya!!
Basic Bob
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 : 8:52 p.m.
If Julius Muller (Michigan Rising CEO) wants to effect change in government, he should vote his conscience. But he isn't a Michigan resident, or even an American citizen! Please send your donations to Michigan Rising so they can pay his salary, sell your information, and donate the rest to political action committees in other states.
Mike S
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 : 9:32 p.m.
Ooohh, conspiracies. Search for "snyder china technology".
Top Cat
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 : 8:19 p.m.
As well, they may be looking for people who are willing to vote more than once.
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 1:18 p.m.
to Mr Briegel - Google Fort Meyers and voter fraud. A very industrious REAL reporter went and correlated the forms of persons who excused themselves from Jury Duty by stating that they were not US citizens against the voter registration logs. He found approximately 100 people registered to vote that were not US citizens. Another video recently released shows a guy walking into a primary polling station in DC, and pretenting to be Eric Holder. They were going to let him vote, no questions asked, and when he asked if they needed him to prove who he was, they said - no, if that is who you say you are. There is widespread voter fraud going on right under our noses. And our federal justice dept is intent on keeping the states from enacting ID laws to attempt to prevent it. Amazing, you need an ID for almost every little thing in life, but to Vote - no that would be discriminatory? Want to board a plane - need an ID. Want to buy alcohol or cigarettes - need an ID. Want to open a bank account - need an ID.
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 11:51 a.m.
Obama will be defeated this November even with the deceased and illegals voting.
David Briegel
Thu, Apr 12, 2012 : 3 a.m.
What a silly comment! Voter Fraud is the most ridiculous charge. As if all those TeaPublicon Atty Gens across America approve of voter fraud. Yet when asked where it actually occurrs there is NO evidence. No charges. No convictions. Just TeaPublicon mythology! It sounds so quaint!!!
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 : 8:34 p.m.
That's a scurrilous accusation.
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 : 8:17 p.m.
In Michigan, sure. But there is a re-call election for the Wisconsin governor in June. It's far fetched, but possible.
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 : 7:56 p.m.
"...no state group has ever collected enough signatures to place a gubernatorial recall question on a ballot." Yet we continue to read about this as if it is the will of the people and so on ... I am happy they ran this story but its basically just a free ad for their efforts Item B in the annarbor.com recall media agenda 2.0


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The Detroit Lions signed cornerback Pat Lee on Monday and released Alphonso Smith, MLive.com reported.
Lee played three disappointing seasons with the Green Bay Packers after being selected in the second round out of Auburn in the 2008 draft. He was signed by the Oakland Raiders during this past offseason and started the past seven games before being released Saturday. Lee never was consistent in coverage while with the Packers.
The Lions always are looking for help in the secondary and recently worked out Stanford Routt. They say goodbye to Smith, who was maddeningly wild during three seasons in Detroit. Smith picked off a combined eight passes from 2010 to 2011, but he took too many risks and was beaten regularly.
Lee hasn't lived up to his draft status, but the Lions are desperate for healthy bodies in the defensive backfield. And Smith was no star.
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Two arrested for armed robbery
Catawba County Sheriff's Office responded to an armed robbery around 1:15 a.m. on May 24 at 3407 Dreamy Ln. in Claremont.
According to officials, the two female residents at the home said that a black male and female wearing masks and carrying shotguns came into their home and robbed them. The victims reported the two suspects took $550, business keys and a cell phone.
To read more of this story, pick up the Thursday edition of Catawba County's community newspaper, The Observer News Enterprise, at newsstands throughout the county.


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I have a project due tomorrow, i have basically finished it and am awaiting a reply from my lecturer on how the information is actually meant to be presented... ok below is a simple example of what is required
- Create an XML template
Create a DTD
Use CSS to style
<!ELEMENT person (name_first,name_last,personal_details+)> <!ELEMENT name_first (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT name_last (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT personal_datails (age,weight)> <!ELEMENT age (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT weight (#PCDATA)>
Then an xml file person.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="person.css"?> <!DOCTYPE person SYSTEM "person.dtd"> <people> <person> <name_first>bbq</name_first> <name_last>D.I.C</name_last> <personal_details> <age>20</age> <weight>80</weight> </personal_details> </person> <person> <name_first>John</name_first> <name_last>Smith</name_last> <personal_details> <age>50</age> <weight>80</weight> </personal_details> </person> </people>
Then in my .css file called person.css I have the following
person { font-size: 16pt; font-family : Arial Black; background-color: #dddddd; width: 70%; text-align: center; border : solid 2px; }
The problem lies in that i have many other DTD all under person, not only do i have name i have things like
personal_details which in that has age, height, weight etc..
When i open the XML document it is rather horrible to look at, with information all being in. How can i use CSS to format my xml, as in like have each thing on a new line... The above is an example and it hasn't been through a validator, however yeah, i cannot find anywhere how to format my xml document using css. As far as i know i cannot use XSL either, which makes it a pain. So the main thing is, it all comes out in a single grey box, all on one line
I would like to have it in the format
Page Title
bbq D.I.C
Age : 20
Weight : 80
John Smith
Age : 50
Weight : 80
and so on...
How can i use some kind of formatting to give a title to each xml page and then format each "Person(s)" details to appear a little nicer on the eyes with some headings of what each is ?
Also, IE displays each person and there details vertically, whilse opera, netscape and firefox display them horizontally ? Any ideas how to overcome this.
others :
bbq | JohnSmith
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XIV gets Infiniband and boosted CPUs
September release date for third-generation box
IBM has boosted the processors in its third generation XIV array and added InfiniBand for internal communications to make it go faster.
There can be from 6 to 15 data modules (enclosures) in an XIV array, each containing 12 of the 7,200rpm, 1 or 2TB SAS drives. Each module has its own multi-core processing resource, differentiating the XIV from traditional dual controller arrays such as EMC's VNX or NetApp's FAS products. The linked modules provide what IBM calls a massively parallel, grid storage architecture.
CPUs and comms
The gen 2 XIV catered for a maximum of 84 CPU cores, which came with 8 or 16GB of RAM per data module and up to 240 Gbit/s of cache-to-disk bandwidth. There was one quad-core CPU per module plus three more in the entry-level 6 module configuration and six more in the 7 to 15 module configurations, which were used in the inter-module communications area. The gen 3 XIV drops these extra CPUs.
The gen 3 XIV can have up to 60 hyper-threaded, quad-core CPUs, with a single CPU and 24GB of memory per module, 360GB in total. The cache-to-disk bandwidth number has doubled to 480Gbit/s.
The third generation XIV model 114 array supports up to 180 2TB SAS drives in a single frame, as before – which, due to mirroring, means a maximum of 161TB of usable storage. The gen 2 XIV 1TB disk option as been dropped.
Gen 2 XIV supported 24 x 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel (FC) ports and 6 x iSCSI 1GbitE ports. Now there can be up to 22 x 1GbitE iSCSI ports or 24 x 8Gbit/s Fibre Channel ports for host connectivity. Dual 20Gbit/s InfiniBand links are used for inter-module communications instead of Ethernet as before.
XIV software
XIV system software v11.0 includes synchronous and asynchronous remote mirroring; thin provisioning; data migration; quality of service controls; LDAP authentication support; VMware VAAI support; and differential, writeable snapshots.
One aspect of the XIV idea is to use fat and medium speed drives, 2TB SAS jobs, and get needed I/O speed from multiple spindles and striped data. An XIV datasheet (12-page PDF/747KB) states: "The system stores data by breaking it down into 1 megabyte chunks called partitions, each mirrored for redundancy to another module. The system distributes all the partitions automatically and uniformly across all the disks by means of a sophisticated pseudo-random distribution algorithm."
This means there is no need for tiering software to move data between different tiers of storage as its activity level changes; XIV provides a flat storage space.
In these days of flash caches, that is not enough, and IBM will add support for up to 7.5TB of flash memory in the first half of 2012. The company says this will reduce random read I/O latency by up to 90 per cent. The flash will not be configured as a higher-performance tier of storage but as a cache.
Potential roadmap
The strength of the XIV is its single disk type and parallel, mirrored, grid architecture. The limitation of the XIV is exactly that. Adding a separate solid state drive (SSD) storage tier would require deep-rooted code changes. Adding heterogeneous disk types in the same array or modules would require equally substantial changes. XIV has been built from identical storage Lego blocks and the simplest way to make it even more powerful and capable than this gen 3 model, would be to uprate InfiniBand to QDR, 40Gbit/s, uprate the module processors again – to Sandy Bridge, say – bring in 3TB drives, and increase the module count.
A 30-module XIV with 3TB drives would provide about 480TB of usable storage. If IBM wanted to persist in minimising competitive overlap with the DS8000 range then it could move to 2.5-inch drives and have more of them in the data modules than the 12 x 3.5-inch drives. A module could hold 24 x 2.5-inch 1TB drives: a capacity level likely to emerge by the middle of next year. This would double the number of spindles per module and so increase performance.
IBM offers one or three-year warranties as before, and the gen 3 model 114 is planned to be available from 8 September. ®
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did you notice Khussain states that oracle_sid is the name of the database? We just determined in my previous post it would be the name of the instance.
One database can have multiple instances, right? So one db name would be linked to multiple instances names.
Also, in tnsnames.ora file ora_sid is it a db name or instance name?


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Lowe Tackles India's View of Widowed and Divorced Women
To those of us in America, this ad seems sweet and innocuous. To those in India, it raises eyebrows. The ad, created by Lowe Lintas for Tanishq jeweler, takes on the historical belief in India widowed or divorced women are somehow less than acceptable to mainstream society.
Of the work, Lowe Lintas Creative Director Arun Iyer said,"It had to look like a marriage of equals, not something that was done out of pity." And Lowe accomplished that beautifully. The ad does take on the issue but not in a way that throws it in people's faces.
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Job Shadow
Contact our office to schedule a Job Shadow Appointment
J ourney from college to career for a day
O bserve professionals in action
B uild career interest
S pend time with an expert and experience the profession first hand
H ave an opportunity to ask the questions you want answers to
A cquire knowledge about the positions you can't read about online
D evelop a better understanding of typical functions and responsibilities
O btain information necessary to make a career decision
W itness a typical day-in-the-life and see if you can picture yourself in it
Job shadowing provides you with an opportunity to get a feel for a particular work environment and to conduct an informational interview. A job shadow is typically a one day experience that:
- Gives you an opportunity to "test the waters" within your chosen field
- Helps you expand your own professional network
Below are questions to consider as you meet with employers in your field of interest. Finding out answers to these questions will help you gain valuable insight into your chosen career field.
- How long have you been in your current position?
- How did you get into the field?
- What is your education/career background?
- What are your current responsibilities? Types of projects?
- Where do you see this field going in the next 3-5 years?
- What skill sets are employers looking for in this field?
- What are some of the pros/cons of working this field/with this employer?
- What tips do you have for someone starting out in their career?
- What do you enjoy most about your job? The least?
- What skills and abilities are critical for success for someone in your position?
- What subject areas would you recommend that I focus on in college?
- What publications/websites do you read to stay current in your field?
- If you were about to graduate from college, how would you go about getting into this field today?


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Seven West shares head south on $109m lossBy online business reporter Michael Janda
Seven West Media has posted a $109 million loss for the half year to the end of December.
The loss was due to $260 million worth of write-downs to the value of the company's magazine business, Yahoo!7 stake (including group buying site Spreets), and redundancy and restructuring costs.
Excluding those one-off costs, the media giant made $142 million in profit.
Seven West's chief executive, Don Voelte, says it will persist in trying to turn-around its Yahoo!7 site, because it is important to the company's future.
"Yahoo7 had a bit of a bump in the road during the half, but we're very confident that they're back on track. They've gone through a transition of management," he said.
"It's extremely important, that they're a long-term part of our vision of where we need to go."
That was not good enough for investors, with Seven West shares falling 7 per cent on the result to $2.34 by 12:18pm (AEDT).


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Hello all....First post here....I have been driving an older lady to and from work for several years...she approached me and although I really did NOT want to take it on I felt put on the spot and agreed to it. Since then she has been the ideal rider - always giving me gas money and always on time...however it is still out of my way and at times inconvenient. For a while it looked like she would not be returning after she completed her current contract due to funding issues so I was content to continue as is thinking we were coming to the end of it...but our employer has miraculously managed to wrangle funding for her position and she will now continue employment and is expecting to continue riding with me.I informed her that I would drive her as long as she had some backup transportation because I had other commitments that would sometimes necessitate a change in schedule and /or whether I was going to be going directly home after work. I of course would give her as much notice as possible and refund any gas money for that trip. Since then I had another coworker inform me that I had agreed to drive her and I should be making myself available. Seriously? I did not think I was a chauffeur. I had never thought of myself as rude for asking this but now I am not so sure. Just want some opinions...thanks!
Just chiming in to agree with the others that of course you are not rude to put some limits on the rides this woman gets from you.But I'm going to throw in some un-asked for advice as well - take it with a grain of salt. You noted at the beginning that you did not want to drive this woman, and yet you have been doing so for several years? And it sounds like you were really looking forward to the fact that you would no longer be driving her before you knew her contract was extended. Whether or not this woman has been the perfect passenger, if you don't want to drive her for any reason - stop driving her. I apologize if I'm overstepping, but I can't imagine fulfilling an obligation that I didn't want in the first place for years. This board is excellent at offering little scripts or helping people make up phrases if you're just not sure how to tell her no. And of course I may be totally off base in thinking you'd rather not have to drive her at all! But if that is the case, I would suggest you take this incident as an opportunity to say that you have more commitments now than you did before (no one needs to know the commitment is your couch and dinner) and you're unable to drive her home any more.
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Snake River Library gains 3D scanner
THOMAS — About two weeks ago, the Snake River School/Community Library received a 3D printer. The printer uses plastic tubing to form a 3D project.
Students in the drafting class at Snake River High School have been busy designing projects to explore its capabilities.
The first project that SR drafting students designed was glass that measured about three-eighths inch tall. The hollow glass has a bottom and could actually hold a small amount of liquid.
"Designing a glass that was hollow was difficult," said Sherrilynn Bair, Snake River School/Community Library Director.
To demonstrate the capabilities of the 3D printer, the drafting students designed and printed a bottle with threaded neck and cap. The bottle and cap fit perfectly.
"Anyone living in Bingham County can come out and see the printer and learn how to use it," said Bair. "We're not ready for everyone to use it, yet."
The Snake River School/Community Library is one of five libraries in the state to receive a state-of-the-art 3D printer.
Asked why the library received this printer, Bair said, "We applied for the grant.
"We are also one of three school/community libraries in the state," she said. "[The ICfL] gets more bang for their buck because we reach students and the community."
The five printers were delivered to the Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICfL) by Reuseum(™) Educational Inc., the nonprofit arm of The Reuseum(™) scientific, industrial and government surplus equipment outlet in in Garden City.
ICfL deployed 3D-printing technology as part of its "Make It Idaho" initiative to create makerspaces throughout the Gem State, an effort made possible via grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Micron Foundation.
As part of its contract with the ICfL, Reuseum Educational conducted an intensive two-day operations, maintenance and troubleshooting training session for staff from the five libraries to which the 3D printers are being deployed. Reuseum Educational also will provide the libraries with service and support of the next year.
The five libraries ICfL chose for the pilot program are Ada Community Libraries, which operates four branches in Boise and Star; the Community Library Network, a consortium of eight North Idaho libraries in Kootenai and Shoshone counties; the Gooding Public Library; the Meridian Library District, which maintains two branches; and the Snake River School/Community Library.
3D printers work somewhat like ordinary printers but instead of squirting ink onto paper, they extrude thin layers of molten plastic that are built up to make solid, useful three-dimensional objects of virtually any shape.
A growing number of manufacturers in the fashion, industrial design, architecture, engineering, construction, automotive, aerospace, defense, foodservice, dental and medical industries are embracing 3D printing.
Reuseum Educational is funded in part through donations of unused capital equipment and surplus assets on behalf of businesses in Idaho and beyond. Visit www.reuseum.com or educate.reuseum.org for more information.


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Brighton boss Gus Poyet was glad his side were given a reality check - but wished it had come against anyone else but Crystal Palace.
Poyet's Seagulls were within 10 minutes of going back to the top of the npower Championship, as well as securing a first win over their arch-rivals on home soil since 1988.
Instead, their unbeaten league record at their new Amex Stadium came crashing down around their ears as the Eagles headed back up the A23 with a 3-1 win.
And to add insult to injury it was Glenn Murray, last season's top scorer for Brighton, who sealed their fate in stoppage time.
"I'm sad because it was Palace, if it was any other team I would welcome this because it brings people back down to earth, because we are not as good as we looked in the table," said Poyet.
"As a team if you don't want to lose one game it's against Palace, but we did and we have to take it.
"But it's good for me, I learned more in this game than from games we win."
It all looked so different when Brighton went ahead after six minutes.
Craig Mackail-Smith, the man Poyet brought in to replace Murray, prodded in his sixth of the season from Gary Dicker's cross
But that was as much as the hosts could muster as Palace took control, and their pressure finally told in the 80th minute when Wilfried Zaha thumped a low shot past Casper Ankergren.
With Brighton on the ropes, substitute Darren Ambrose dragged the Eagles level a minute from time.
And Murray rammed the taunts of the home faithful back down their throats with the third, although he pointedly refused to celebrate his 20-yard strike.
"I'm not happy for Palace but I'm happy for Glenn, he's a good lad," added Poyet.
"The problem is we cannot seem to play for 90 minutes. I started playing in 1992, and from then until now the game has always lasted 90 minutes."
Palace boss Dougie Freedman, who scored twice the last time these best of enemies met six years ago, was able to celebrate the end of a three-match losing streak in the league.
"We left it late to score but I felt 3-1 was a fair reflection of the game," he said.
"It's fantastic for our fans, a great result. They have been through a lot.
"Glenn played very well as he has done since he has been here. He's a wonderful player and a wonderful addition to our squad.
"But it's about Crystal Palace, not the Glenn Murray show. It's a good night for Crystal Palace."
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It's that time of year again. June is national Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month, as litters of spring babies were recently born and are now in need of a forever home. Before you go running out to your local shelter to pick your new furry best friend, a shelter veterinarian gives some tips on what people should keep in mind before adopting an animal.
Dr. Bob Weedon is a shelter veterinarian at the Champaign County Humane Society as well as the faculty member who oversees the shelter medicine program at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in Urbana. He says before adopting an animal, you should thoroughly think through the ramifications of adoption.
"Adopting a pet is not an impulse decision. Irresponsible acquisition of a pet contributes to the number of animals being relinquished to shelters," Weedon said. "Proper planning will significantly improve the chances that an adopted pet will become a lifelong member of its new household."
He advises setting up an appointment with a veterinarian before the adoption, so that you can have your new pet examined within the first week of getting it.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) estimates in the first year, the costs of adopting a cat average $1,000 while adopting a dog costs between $1,300 and $1,800 or more, depending on its size. These estimates factor in the cost of high quality food, medical attention, toys, treats, pet health insurance, spay/neuter surgery, and all of the start-up costs associated with owning a pet, such as training classes, a litter box, or a dog bed. (Details can be found online at aspca.org/adoption/pet-care-costs.aspx.) That price may vary depending on what services the shelter offers. In some cases, pets are already spayed/neutered prior to the adoption.
Since dogs have an average lifespan of 10 to 15 years and cats 15 to 20 years, the cost of ownership is something to heavily consider before adopting any pet.
Another consideration is how the pets you already have at home will react to a new kitten or cat. Weedon says most shelters allow a potential adopter to bring current pets to meet a potential new member of the family.
Are you ready to make the commitment to adopt a cat or a kitten, but unsure which animal may make the best fit for your family best?
"Similar to the planning that goes into ensuring that an adoption goes smoothly, adopting the right animal requires some forethought," Weedon said. "Things like lifestyle, including amount of time to spend with the animal, and the amount of space an adopter has to provide for the new pet or pets are important considerations."
If the adopter is older or less active, adopting an older "lap" animal — an older cat that loves to cuddle and be petted — would be the more appropriate choice. Weedon says if someone is considering adopting a kitten, then perhaps adopting two kittens, so the new addition has a playmate, would make sense. An older, less active dog could benefit from a younger, more active, playmate. Just be sure to introduce the two in advance to ensure they get along.
"All of these considerations are important to ensure that a new pet fits in and remains a member of the family for life," Weedon said.
For more information about adoption, contact your veterinarian or local animal shelter.
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LANSDALE — Lansdale police are searching for a suspected cocaine dealer who's on the lam after a search warrant allegedly turned up an array of drugs in his apartment.
Cops said that 36-year-old Frank Raphiek Cristea, of the 500 block of West Eighth Street in Lansdale, abandoned his apartment and vanished after an arrest warrant was issued for him a week ago.
According to police, detectives served a search warrant on an unrelated assault case at Cristea's apartment on April 19. Once inside, they smelled marijuana and saw a marijuana pipe, leading them to apply for another search warrant specifically for narcotics.
Police said that after they executed the second search warrant, which was issued by District Judge Andrea Hudak Duffy of Montgomery Township, they found a can with a false bottom that contained seven grams of suspected cocaine. Additionally, according to police, they found three vials of suspected PCP, four suspected Xanax pills, an unspecified amount of marijuana, $1,460 in cash, and scales, packaging bags and marijuana pipes.
Cristea is facing a total of 10 charges: two counts of felony possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, four counts of misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance and four counts of misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.
According to documents from the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, Cristea has also gone by the name Frank Ingouman.
Lansdale police are asking anyone with information about the whereabouts of Cristea to call them at 215-368-1801.


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OLYMPIA, Wash. — Chloe Welch, Jacquie Galvez and Megan McArthur all got on the board and the Southern Oregon University women's soccer team stayed in the hunt for the Cascade Conference's No. 2 seed with a 3-1 win at Evergreen on Thursday afternoon.
A corner by Galvez set up Welch's goal, her second of the year, to put the Raiders (9-4-2 overall, 5-2-1 conference) ahead for good in the fourth minute. With the victory, SOU clinched its fourth straight postseason appearance.
Galvez snuck in a 30-yarder in the 21st minute, her second score of the season, and Kendra Madaras Kelly hooked up McArthur's third goal in the 76th minute.
The Geoducks fell to 3-11-0 and 2-6-0. They got their lone score from Delaney Smith, who connected with Rayna Murphy in the 82nd minute.
SOU had a sizable advantage in shots, 22-12, and shots on goal, 10-4.
Galvez and Madaras-Kelly now have two assists apiece this season.
The win set up a meaningful regular-season finale Saturday at Northwest. If the Raiders win and top-ranked Concordia defeats Corban, SOU will get the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament — meaning a first-round bye and a semifinal home date.
SOU Women Tip-off
It shouldn't take long for Lynn Kennedy, Southern Oregon University's ninth-year head women's basketball coach, to find out which loaded word fits his Raiders better: rebuilt or transformed.
Either way, he's sure they're going to be hard to recognize. Kennedy brought in 11 new players to fill out his 2013-14 roster, and seeing all freshmen and sophomores on the floor was something he had started getting used to after the team's first two scrimmages.
There is a core of returning starters — sophomore point guard Ashley Claussen and preseason all-conference selections Allison Gida, a senior wing, and Carly Meister, a sophomore post — and then there is a supporting cast that will make the Raiders a different kind of dangerous than they were while going 22-10 last season.
"We're fast, we're athletic and I think we're better shooters," Kennedy said. "It should be fun to see where our scoring output goes from last year to this year because our posts are maturing, too. But we need to knock down a lot more shots."
The Raiders will unveil their new look this weekend in the SOU Women's Basketball Classic at Bob Riehm Arena. They play California Maritime at 3 p.m. today, and on Saturday host Pacific Union in a nightcap scheduled to get underway at 10:30 p.m.
Picked to finish fourth in the Cascade Conference, the Raiders know they can depend on the scoring of Gida, who is one of two seniors on the roster along with forward Kiara Moore. Gida, a versatile 5-foot-11 lefty, was third on the team with 12.7 points per game last season while shooting at a 45.1-percent clip. She also averaged 4.7 rebounds. The degree to which Claussen has progressed could have an even more direct relationship with SOU's ceiling. Kennedy believes the Scotts Valley, Calif., native can emerge as one of the top point guards in the conference after starting 30 of 31 games as a freshman. She averaged six points, 3.5 rebounds, three assists and shot 50 percent from 3-point range.
"We're looking for more speed and tempo from her on offense and more aggression with her pressure on defense," Kennedy said. "She's becoming more of a leader and I think she's going to take that next step."
Kristen Schoenherr and Bree Park will step in at the guard positions after standout stints in junior college. Schoenherr was the MVP of the NWAACC's West Region, averaging 16.5 points and 8.8 rebounds on 59 percent shooting, and Park averaged 18.6 points and led the NWAACC in 3-point makes with 42 percent accuracy.
Brenna Anderson, a 6-2 junior, will provide some experience and depth along with Kristin Smeaton.
A number of freshmen are also expected to step in and contribute in the backcourt. Demi Sahlinger put up 20 points per game in high school and can play either guard position, and Autumn Durand did about the same off the ball. Tiani Bradford and Majerle Reeves have impressed in practice, too.
The increase in knock-down shooters, Kennedy hopes, will open up the post for Meister, who last year was the CCC's co-freshman of the year. Coming off an ACL surgery, she started only six games but blossomed late on her way to averages of 7.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and 60-percent shooting.
"She keeps getting better and stronger," Kennedy said. "She was kind of tentative in the first part of the year coming off the injury, but we're really excited about what we saw when she got more comfortable."
Cambie Edwards proved to be an adept scorer at Whatcom C.C. (Wash.), where she put up 12.8 points and 7.6 rebounds, and the 6-footer will be joined in the frontcourt by 6-2 Kiara Moore and 6-3 Karlie Wilhelmi.
"The bench is deeper than it's been but it's also younger," Kennedy said. "If we can just continue to get better every day, I think we'll be OK by the time conference starts up."
The Raiders were at their best toward the end of last season when they won seven of eight, including the program's first conference tournament triumph in three years.
The Raiders have more than a month before Concordia comes to Ashland to open CCC play on Dec. 6. They'll stand up to a considerable measuring stick Monday when they play an exhibition at Boise State.
SOU soccer team takes care of Evergreen
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Chloe Welch, Jacquie Galvez and Megan McArthur all got on the board and the Southern Oregon University women's soccer team stayed in the hunt for the Cascade Conference's No. 2 seed with a 3-1 win at Evergreen on Thursday afternoon.


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HP Releases Business, Education Chromebooks
HP and Google extended their partnership this week with the launch of two new low-priced Chromebook laptops targeted at the business and education market. The HP Chromebook 14, which will be available in commercial channels, has an entry-level price of $299 and is targeted at business users looking for "simple, secure, mobile productivity," according to HP.
"What's exciting about the HP Chromebook is they are still building a device that is unique to them," said Paul Shiff, vice president of Hub Technical Services. "They are putting their own stamp on it."
The second Chromebook is ARM processor-based priced starting at $279.99, with an 11.6-inch diagonal screen and battery life of up to six hours.


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With an off-day on Monday and John Smoltz making his Sox debut on Thursday, skipping over Dice's spot in the rotation will be easy.
Matsuzaka admitted after last night's four-inning outing:
If I keep going like this, I have no right to be part of this rotation. ... [N]ever before have I faced such a tough time period, but I also believe that it has to end some time, and I have to do what it takes.Dice met with Terry Francona, John Farrell and other members of the coaching staff Saturday afternoon for what Francona called a "very honest" conversation.
We need to get him looked at physically. He's gonna get looked at by (Red Sox physician) Tom Gill. He's going to get tests done. There's a potential for MRIs. ...Michael Silverman, Herald:
Some of it started with the WBC and not having a consistent base. It looks to me like he's struggling to get the velocity he wants (because of that). But it meant a lot to him, and I understand that.
After looking at video, Matsuzaka (1-5) said midgame adjustments he thought he was making were "completely different from what I actually thought I was doing, so I was quite disappointed."***
The Yankees took a look at Pedro Martinez yesterday in the Dominican Republic and informed the right-handed pitcher they will pass on signing him.
Scout Gordon Blakeley was in Santo Domingo to watch Martinez's fastball clock between 86 and 90 mph on an older gun. The Yankees were joined by representatives from the Rangers, Rays, Angels and Brewers. ...


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W-1: New Ground to Feature Rogers, Yager, Romero, Pierson and Hollett October 23 in Halifax
(You smell that? That's tire grease, son!!)
In an interesting development, Strikeforce is lending out onetime heavyweight contender Brett Rogers to compete on Warrior One MMA's upcoming October 23 "New Ground" card in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
W-1 announced the card on its website yesterday.
The news is good for the fast-rising Canadian promotion, but is somewhat baffling, considering that Strikeforce's heavyweight division is in a bit of disarray at the moment and the extra body might be needed before year's end.Read More DIGG THIS


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33 games in 31 days: Game #6: Eight inning meltdown by the Phils' bullpen leads to the end of the Phils' winning streak as they drop one to the Marlins, 8-4.
A bullpen meltdown in the eighth inning leads to the end of the Phils' five-game winning streak as they lose to the Marlins, 8-4.
The Phils took the lead in the second as, with runners on the corners, and with two men out, Wilson Valdez hits a two-run triple, knocking in Ryan Howard, who had earlier doubled, then went to third on Carlos Ruiz's single, and Ruiz, who had just singled, giving the Phils a 2-0 lead. The Phils then increased their lead as Cole Hamels hits an RBI infield single, as he beat out first baseman Gaby Sanchez to the bag, allowing Valdez to score, giving the Phils a 3-0 lead. The Marlins cut the Phils' lead down to 3-2 in their half of the second as, with one man on, and with nobody out, Mike Cameron hits a two-run home run, his eighth home run of the year, knocking in Sanchez, who had earlier walked. The Marlins then tied the game up at three-all in the third as, with two men out, Mike Stanton hits a solo home run, his thirty-second home run of the season. The Phils retook the lead in the fourth as, with one man on, and with two men out, Hamels helped his cause with an RBI single, scoring Ruiz, who had earlier singled, then went up to second on Valdez's ground out, 4-3, giving the Phils a 4-3 lead. The Marlins then took the lead in the eighth as, with two men on, via walks to both Omar Infante and Logan Morrison, and a sacrifice bunt by Jose Lopez, which sent Infante to third, and Morrison up to second base, and with one man out, Sanchez hits a three-run home run, his eighteenth home run of the season, scoring both Infante and Morrison, giving the Marlins a 6-4 lead. The Marlins then made it a 7-4 lead as Cameron followed with a solo home run, his ninth home run of the season, and his second home run of the ballgame. Two batters later, now with two men out, pinch hitter Greg Dobbs hits a solo home run, his seventh home run of the year, giving the Marlins an 8-4 lead. That would be the final score as Leo Nunez would pitch a scoreless ninth.
Cole Hamels would receive a no-decision as he went seven innings, giving up three runs on four hits and three walks, while striking out seven. Antonio Bastardo (6-1, 1.69) took the lost as he pitched to two batters, walking both, giving up two runs. David Herndon blew his first save attempt, as he pitched an inning, giving up three runs on three hits. Ricky Nolasco also received a no-decision as he went six innings, giving up four runs on seven hits and a walk, while striking out three. Ryan Webb pitched a 1-2-3 inning. Edward Mujica (9-5, 2.91) gets the win as he pitched a 1-2-3 inning. Leon Nunez pitched a scoreless ninth, giving up a hit.
The Phils had eight hits in the game, with Carlos Ruiz (Singles) and Cole Hamels (Singles, 2 RBIs) leading the team with two hits each. Chase Utley (Triple), Ryan Howard (Double), Raul Ibanez (Single) and Wilson Valdez (Triple, 2 RBIs) had the other four Phils' hits.
The Phils (88-47, 1st) are presently concluding their series with the Marlins (61-77, 5th), with a game already in progress.