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This brings something else into the 60 vs 80 gallon equation that I have avoided because it is already confusing enough and besides the only way to make a meaningful comparison between two different tank sizes is if all else is equal, change the CFM input or pump type and there can be no real comparisons. A two stage 60 gallon tank compressor with 175 PSI is going to have a lot more air stored in it than a 60 gallon tank with only 125 PSI having the same effect as a bigger tank. This is all beside the point anyway but it is just another reason why looking at the size of the tank is useless unless it is a special use compressor with an extreme tank volume one way or the other. An example of that was our most popular rig when building service trucks, a 32 CFM compressor with a 30 gallon tank. The small tank was used to save valuable space and the operator depended on CFM to make the thing useful.
|Jim Rockford
|also the tank to do try and let the air cool so you can draw the moisture out of the air, You wouldn't want to run a paint gun or a D/A right off the pump the air is pretty hot, I know on the secondary side of my old pump its about 200 degrees, but even with continuous use the air is almost room temp coming out of the regulator. and I have a 60 gallon horizontal tank, that draws right out of the top of the tank. so It makes a difference in cooling, If I had a 12 gallon tank with my pump It wouldn't bee nearly as cool and would have a ton of moisture it but Yes, always buy on CFM totally ignore the HP rating in bit Numbers on the label... also always go with the @90PSI if it has two cause that is what 90 % of all air tools run at. 140PSI really has no use on you as a homeowner.
EXACTLY! If the CFM is not there then a bigger tank, bigger HP numbers nor ANYTHING else will make up for that lack of CFM. No matter how big the tank is the CFM going into the tank vs how much is being used is what determines how well a compressor will keep up and it is pure folly to dwell on the size of the tank.
Jim you are correct but the confusion starts when someone simply says "get the biggest tank you can" and does not even mention what really matters, it was even stated that "air storage is (the) key to large usage" when clearly the tank is the wrong thing to make the top priority when choosing a compressor, air storage certainly is not the key to high usage! More than once I have seen people buy a compressor with less CFM than a comparably priced model just to get a bigger tank! When the usual debate between a 60 gallon tank and an 80 gallon comes up then any disagreement is almost pointless since there will be no real difference between performance of the two anyway. What I like to point out is that if a compressor with a 60 gallon tank is already running low on air at an annoying rate with the demand placed on it then just how long would it take to run out of air if it had only a 20 gallon tank? Of course it would not take long at all but that is all that is gained over the 60 gallon and then even that is lost to the proportionally longer recharge time so what is gained? Exactly nothing! A compressor with an 80 gallon tank and more CFM than a similar 60 gallon model will certainly perform better but it is the extra pump capacity (higher CFM rating) that makes the difference and not the bigger tank as some mistakenly believe. All too often however the choice can boil down to a compressor with a bigger tank than one with more CFM but a slightly smaller tank or one of lesser quality so choosing the bigger tank over more CFM and quality is a serious mistake! The bottom line is choose the compressor on what really matters and that is CFM, the amount of air going INTO the tank vs what is being taken out that determines how well a compressor will keep up with a tool not how much air is stored at any given time.
For those who would consider adding an extra tank you might want to consider this,
Using round figures for simplicity an example would be a compressor and a demand condition that was allowing 2 minutes of run time before needing three minutes of recharge time to catch up meaning a 5 minute cycle, these are imaginary figures for the example but entirely realistic. If this compressor was used over a 30 minute work period then it would have to cycle 6 times during that time for a total of 12 minutes of work time vs 18 minutes of recharge time or 30 minutes total. Now the owner decides to add another tank to double his capacity (I have seen this done more than once!) so that now he is getting 4 minutes of run time before recharging, the time of which of course is also doubled so that now it takes 6 minutes to do. So the same 30 minute work period now only takes 3 recharge cycles of 4 minutes run time vs 6 minutes recharge time for a total of- 12 minutes of run time and 18 spent waiting on the recharge or EXACTLY the same amount spent with the smaller tank capacity! Of course in extreme examples like this things like duty cycles come into play, although that won't matter much with a 100% duty cycle pump, and can lead to actual losses with the bigger tanks due to loss of efficiency from overheated pumps. However the point is the difference between a 60 gallon tank and an 80 gallon is negligible, assuming the same CFM, and it would make no difference in keeping up with an air hungry tool, that simply is not the purpose of the tank.
At the risk of sounding like the classic "broken record", buy based on CFM and unit quality and just don't worry about whether the tank is 60 gallons or 80 because you simply won't be able to see any difference! NEVER, EVER pass up higher CFM just to get a big tank!
|You don't even 'need' a tank, except for cooling. If you have enough cfm, you have enough cfm. If you don't, you don't.
|Jim Rockford
You have to factor Duty cycle in with CFM's , storage is so you can run longer without the pump running, but you have to fill the tank back up. But if you have the correct size and type of compressor , if you have a good compressor you can have it run constantly while you work oilless compressors are not for any type of constant work. Oil filled aluminum pumps with a cast iron cyl is fair if you are willing to stop and let the pump catch up and cool off, again its not for constant use. Heavy cast iron slow rpm pumps are the best for constant use and if the CFM is correct you can basically run the tool completely off the pump, if you have excess cfms it will slowly fill the tank back up wile you work.
V style pumps tend to last longer because each cyl is cooled evenly, vs a inline where the front cly is blocked from the fans airflow by the rear cyl. I have a old (AKA 1964 ) IR t30 compressor that has been in constant use for a long time and even now will run a D/A for as long as I can stand to run it with no problem.
There is far more at play there than just the size of the tank! You just can't compare a little 5 gallon tire pumper to a full size compressor and say "see there the tank does make a difference", that's just plain ridiculous because the CFM is not there. CFM is what runs tools and if the compressor has enough CFM theoretically you would not even need a tank! The tank size does not determine a compressor's ability to keep up with tools and it makes no difference to the tool if the tank is a 60 gallon or an 80 gallon (the usual discussion) if all else is equal. This has been explained dozens of times but once more, ANY gains in run time between a small tank and a larger one is going to be offset by the proportionally longer recharge time, no way around it it's just simple laws of physics. The tank size is chosen to balance the run time or duty cycle for a given CFM rating and it's expected demand, adding tank capacity only gets fewer but longer off/on cycles and does NOT change the amount of air delivered to the tool in any given work period past the first start cycle! By your analogy the little pancake compressors could be used to paint a car if only they had a bigger tank?
You never even mentioned the most important thing to look for when selecting a compressor to do a given job, it's CFM rating! Maybe you don't understand but the fact is a compressor with 16 CFM with a 60 gallon tank will outperform a 14 CFM compressor with an 80 gallon tank by a wide margin but you are saying to buy the bigger tank? That is exactly the type of thing some manufacturers use to sell cheap compressors, stick a cheap small pump and motor on top of a big useless tank and give the illusion of a big compressor when in fact a smaller tank would be better.
The example of the 14 CFM 80 gallon is a real one made by Campbell Hausfeld and that thing would be better with a smaller tank because the prolonged recharge times overheat the pump and actually decrease performance due to loss of efficiency from the hot pump. The bottom line is a bigger tank DOES NOT MAKE A BIGGER COMPRESSOR but a bigger pump and the power to turn it does! CFM makes the compressor keep up with tools not the tank!
I am not saying to avoid large tanks or that a big tank is bad, although it can be with a small pump, but the tank size should not be used to determine compressor selection. Let the designer select the tank to match the pump/motor and select the compressor by the CFM rating and quality of the outfit. Too much tank for a small compressor means an overworked pump and too small a tank for a large pump could mean too fast a cycle rate but that is just not going to happen with a properly designed compressor. Once more consider the CFM rating and overall quality and forget the size of the stinkin tank!
can't tell you how many times a guy would bring in a pancake or 5 gal compressor that is melted down. They can't run continues to keep up with painting or air tools.
Secondly when do you see a high cfm pump on a small tank. To get higher cfms you will need to buy a larger tank.
You may have repaired compressors but you obviously have little understanding of what determines performance and we have spent a great deal of time here trying to clear up the bigger tank myth! A BIGGER TANK DOSE NOT HELP, that is not the purpose of the tank and to tell someone to buy a compressor based on the size of the tank is ridiculous. You never even mentioned what really matters and that is the CFM. Air storage absolutely is NOT the key to performance and anyone who is truly familiar with compressed air supplies and how they function would know that. This has been explained in detail time after time here but buying a compressor based on the size of the tank is about the biggest mistake a buyer can make.
Retired compressor repairman here. Oiless compressors are for pumping up tires. Period. They have a leather seal and aluminum cylinder that can't take extended use. Most oil type compressors will do the job. For painting and air tool use get a large tank. Air storage is key for large usage. Home depot etc have 60 galion compressors for a good price. These are still homeowner grade but will work if you need to paint a car or to.
Large storage and oil type.
|In case anyone is wondering, the 746 divisor is the number of watts in one HP. The 5 horsepower they refer to is "peak" horsepower which is electrical power measured at the instant of starting. They can fudge the "peak" horsepower even more by measuring the electrical power at the instant of starting under a load. Like Lizer pointed out, the only way to determine the true horsepower is through the formula he used. If they use the start up amperage and it's 38 amps for a split second, using his formula 120 volts times 38 amps times .82 efficiency divided by 746 watts, the "peak" horsepower calculates out to 5 horsepower.
I had that Craftsman when I started the hobby, used it for a year, then upgraded to a two-stage 60 gallon to finish the hobby. Since then the Craftsman sits in a corner as a backup. We also had a Craftsman oil less upright in the shop at my old job. With that being said, I haven't had any problems with them, but then again mine only got used good for a year before it retired (thought I bought it used). It is absolutely grating on all senses however, when it kicks on. I was just wondering the other day how a motor can work like that and sustain itself being oil free. I just wanted to give you a confirmatory +1 on ditching the Craftsman. Though it would make a nice compressor for the guy who just needs to use it every once in awhile.
BUT the notion of either of these being truly 5 hp is laughable. In the following formula we determine calculate horsepower from a motor with known current, voltage, and efficiency.
HP = (V x I x Eff)/746
HP = horsepower
V = voltage
I = curent (amps)
Eff. = efficiency
The motor is 120V, and we'll give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it has a large power draw, say 12 amps (since you say it trips the breaker), and an efficiency of 82% (an assumed value since it is unknown). This gives us:
(120 x 12 x .82)/746= 1.5 hp
Even if the motor were 100% efficient, it would still only be capable of producing 1.9 hp! What a sham.
The judgement should have been handed out against these manufacturers a lot earlier than it was.
Thaks guys thats exactly the information I was looking for. It makes sense that the Devilbiss ProAir is a far more expensice compressor. I did notice that the craftsman, oilfree, single cylinder is a bit louded (Dryer sounding like metal to metal like)
I just hope any potential buyers of the craftsman do not read this post. Anyone interested in a Craftsman 5 hp 30 Galon compressor?!! $100
|I had two Craftsman air compressors, including one exactly like you have, both of them the "oil free" kind, and both of them literally blew up. I got an oil lubricated Sanborn and have never had a minute's problem with it. I'm sure the problem is the oil free feature, and is not specific to Craftsman.
|My vote goes for belt driven nearly every time. They're quieter and usually more heavy duty. I've run my Ingersol into the ground without a hiccup. I ran my Craftsman beltless a bit much one time and destroyed a piston. Rebuilding it was cheap, but NOT rebuilding the other was cheaper!
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From club executives to players and their agents, reaction throughout baseball was swift and varied on Thursday afternoon to the results of a 21-month investigation by a panel headed by former Sen. George Mitchell into steroid use in Major League Baseball. From one former general manager who called the 311-page Mitchell Report "a punch to the gut" to a club player representative who said the names of 89 former and current players singled out "were going to come out sooner or later," people in the sport tried to deal with the glare of an unwelcome spotlight. The harshest light shone on Roger Clemens, the 354-game winner implicated along with pal Andy Pettitte through former Yankees strength and conditioning coach Brian McNamee.
Rusty Hardin, Clemens' lawyer, called his client's inclusion in the Report "very unfair." "He is left with no meaningful way to combat what he strongly contends are totally false allegations," Hardin said. "He has not been charged with anything, he will not be charged with anything and yet he is being tried in the court of public opinion with no recourse. That is totally wrong. There has never been one shred of tangible evidence that he ever used these substances and yet he is being slandered today." On the advice of agent Randy Hendricks, Pettitte withheld immediate comment. Even before taking the opportunity to wholly read the Report, many agreed with the author's view of it as a "necessary step" to "letting go of the past and looking to the future." Atlanta club president John Schuerholz hailed the release of the long-awaited Report as daybreak for a new era of the sport, saying, "We can look forward to a new day in baseball when we can focus on and enjoy this great game and the talented players who play it." "For too long," he added, "all of us -- players, teams, media and especially our great fans -- have had to hear and read constantly about the issue of use and abuse of performance-enhancing substances. We believe the Mitchell Report will allow us to move forward and continue the progress we have seen since Major League Baseball's drug-testing program began in 2002." "When you look at the events of today, it's really something that was done for a positive impact -- not just in baseball but in society," said Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak. "And I think you watch that press conference and you can look at what they were trying to address with today's youth, that's the important message -- that they want these role models to be clean."
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The use of performance-enhancing substances goes to the core of the integrity of the game and cannot be tolerated. "We view the release of the Senator's findings as a positive step forward for the game," he added. "The Pirates do not and will not tolerate the use of any substances banned by baseball's comprehensive drug-testing program by our players at any level, and we will continue to go to great lengths to educate our players on the dangers of using such substances." Otherwise, for the most part, clubs had a tentative reaction. The Detroit Tigers, whose Gary Sheffield was one of nine players implicated by the BALCO portion of the Report, said, "Now that the Mitchell Report has been released, the Tigers will take time to review its contents completely. The eradication of performance-enhancing substances in baseball and protecting the integrity of the game are the ultimate goals of the industry." "For some time now, we've known that this day was coming," said Royals club president Dan Glass. "The lifeblood of our game is its integrity, and restoring any integrity that might have been lost during this period in baseball should be everyone's priority. "Today's report is the culmination of an extensive investigation into past improprieties within our game," he added. "Our goal today must be to move forward under the current policies in place and regain the trust of our fans, assuring them that this is part of our past and not our future." Outfielder Nook Logan, who was not tendered a 2008 contract by the Nationals on Wednesday, was "not talking about" being one of the 53 players implicated by former Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski. "You have to talk to my agent," said the 28-year-old Logan. "I just play baseball." Newly appointed Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker shrugged off the appearance of left-hander Mike Stanton's name in the Report. 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The most notable news to come out of the VMworld conference last week was the coronation of Pat Gelsinger as the new CEO of VMware. His tenure officially started over the weekend, on September 1, to be exact.
For those who don't know Pat's career, he gained fame at Intel as the personification of the x86 processor family. It's unfair to pick a single person as the father of the modern x86 architecture, but if you had to pick just one person, it's probably Pat. He then grew to become CTO, and eventually ran the Digital Enterprise Group. This group accounted for 55% of Intel's US$37.586B in revenue according to its 2008 annual report, the last full year of Pat's tenure. EMC poached him from Intel in 2009, naming him president of the Information Infrastructure Products group. EMC's performance since then has been very strong, with a 17.5% YoY revenue increase in its latest annual report. Pat's group contributed 53.7% of that revenue. While he's a geek at heart (his early work), he proved without a doubt that he also has the business execution chops (his later work). Both will serve him well at VMware, especially the latter.


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(Brimfield)- A Portage County police department has one of the most followed law enforcement Facebook pages in the nation.
Now Chief David Oliver has a book called "No Mopes Allowed". Chief Oliver shared his story of internet success Tuesday with "Wills and Snyder In The Morning".
According to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Center for Social Media, Brimfield Police ranks third for having the most followers. New York City and Boston were the only two that beat Brimfield.
The Facebook page has nearly 90,000 likes. Chief Oliver thought they'd peaked at 5,000 when they started the page in 2010.
Chief Oliver says, "It's nice to be in that top tier, we appreciate it, and we embrace it. We use it as a form of communication with our residents. It's a great way to get our message out and shed a positive light on law enforcement."
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A two-year-old named Matthew wanted his police car washed. The officers made it shine. Police also gave Matthew a badge and a "No Mopes" sticker for the car.
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Brimfield Police post information on arrests as well as weather reports, birthday wishes to celebrities and photos from community events.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by det2atl, Jun 19, 2010.
Joe still looks for that Piston DNA.
Candidate for BL's online PF glossary. Piston DNA = combo guard
I think it could also mean an undersized PF.
It could also mean "young player with potential that needs to gain weight".
Joe sure did his best to inspire those guys during summer league.
Heck yeah! ...dude was CRUSHING popcorn! He's the Round Mound of Redenbacher!!!
Terrico White Summer blog TW weighs in on his Vegas experience.. PISTONS: Summer School: Terrico
Thank goodness.
Rodney Stuckey was in Las Vegas with us and I had a chance to talk to him a little bit. I didn't really ask him questions about playing point guard in the NBA, because I'm used to playing point guard. I know it's totally different on this level, so I'm just trying to learn as much as I can in Summer League so I can be ready for the regular season. Maybe he was told by Joe that Stuckey is the PG, don't even think about playin or learning it....
Maybe for next year's summer league. We here at PF.com could send him a massive tub of popcorn from the Detroit Popcorn Company. This should get him through one game- Buttery Popcorn Historical Detroit Past and Present Tin - 3 1/2 gallon Buttery Popcorn
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How 31 Financial Luminaries Plan to Profit in the Coming Months and Years
Recorded live at the 2012 Casey Research
Recovery Reality Check Summit
"A master class for serious investors…"
Listen in as our faculty reveal their visions for the world economy – and specific strategies any investor can use to protect and grow wealth… no matter which way the economic winds blow.
Imagine an elite investor "master class" run by some of the world's top financial minds.
On the faculty are David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan… Harry Dent, a widely followed analyst and best-selling author of The Great Crash Ahead… Lacy Hunt, executive VP of Hoisington Investment Management… and 28 more financial luminaries.
Their charge: to provide insights into the economy, answer pressing investment questions, and reveal their personal strategies to profit from the markets.
What would it be worth to you to sit in on an event like this?
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This professionally produced collection features over 20 hours of presentations, debates, economic analyses, panel discussions, Q&A sessions, and more. It's a rare opportunity to discover where today's top financial experts see the economy going in the coming months and years… and how they will be allocating their investment dollars.
We also invited the management of 16 resource companies to provide updates on their latest projects and a glimpse into their future plans – allowing you to determine if their firms are a fit for your portfolio.
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We showcased a series of new speakers with unique viewpoints at the Recovery Reality Check Summit. You'll find their perspectives intriguing, enlightening… and sometimes controversial.
David Stockman, former director of the US Office of Management and Budget, was our keynote speaker – and his talk wasn't music to the ears of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Stockman blamed the Fed for causing the housing and consumer credit bubbles, and said the Fed is now using those bubbles as an excuse for embracing "a destructive zero interest rate policy which is self-evidently fueling even more destruction."
"I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries." – David Stockman
Harry Dent was also another first-time faculty member. Although he believes we're about to enter a prolonged economic slump – he's predicted that the Dow could drop as low as 3,300 within the next two years – he warned that investors should be preparing for deflation, not inflation.
"All this government stimulus isn't going to work because you can't get older people to spend their money." – Harry Dent
Lacy Hunt made his inaugural Casey Summit presentation. He's convinced that interest rates will continue trending lower for many years… and his firm has reaped huge returns betting on this trend for its clients (the Wasatch-Hoisington Treasury Bond fund, which his firm sub-advises, gained over 41% last year).
"…we've gradually, over the last several years, increased the percentage of our portfolio in zero coupons. They've performed very handsomely…" – Lacy Hunt
In your Recovery Reality Check Summit Audio Collection, you'll also hear…
Fresh viewpoints from familiar faces
Many renowned financial experts from past Casey Summits returned… but this time they came back with new perspectives.
You'll hear from the always-entertaining and ever-controversial Porter Stansberry, founder of Stansberry & Associates Investment Research and creator of a shocking video that took the US by storm last year, The End of America.
His program was entitled End of America Update and it detailed his latest undertaking, The Project to Restore America.
"We've reached the point where we will have to fix what lies at the heart of America's decline... or be satisfied with a vastly lower standard of living in the future." – Porter Stansberry
You'll also hear these eye-opening presentations:
- End-Game Scenarios by John Mauldin, renowned financial expert and editor of Thoughts from the Frontline and Outside the Box
"I buy a little physical gold every month. I don't even look at the price… my gold is there just in case my crazy gold bug friends are right and we can't actually trust the government to find a reasonable solution to our dilemma…" – John Mauldin
- Currency Wars by James Rickards, senior managing director of Tangent Capital Partners and author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
"Senior military and intelligence officials have now come to the realization that America's unique military predominance can be maintained only with an equally unique and predominant role for the dollar. If the dollar falls, America's national security falls with it." – James Rickards, from his book Currency Wars
- China & Global Commodities Markets by Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes Over the World
"On paper, China looks powerful and dynamic… (but) peer beneath the surface, and there is a weak China, one that is in long-term decline and even on the verge of collapse. The symptoms of decay are to be seen everywhere." – Gordon Chang
- The New Real Estate Realities by Andy Miller, real-estate entrepreneur and co-founder of the Miller-Frishman Group
"I believe strongly – I preach this constantly and I'm laughed out of the room at almost every venue – but I believe we'll see an enormous spike in interest rates. It may not happen in 2012, it may not happen in 2013, but it's coming. I can assure you if the 10-year Treasury yield moves from where it is today, which is 1.84%, up to around 4% or 4.5% – which is not high in historical terms – it would totally decimate real estate."– Andy Miller
- Macro Markets: Metal Mania? by Greg Weldon, CEO and president of Weldon Financial and publisher of Weldon's Money Monitor
"If you were to take all the global sovereign debt and global money supply of just the industrialized countries it's almost 100 trillion dollars… If you wanted to cover that with gold, if you wanted to go back to some sort of gold standard, the gold price would have to be around $20,000 an ounce…"– Greg Weldon
This was just the tip of the iceberg of what was on tap at the Summit. You'll also hear:
Answers to burning investment questions
How will you survive – even thrive – if the world economy collapses? Do you really need to get your assets… and maybe even yourself… out of Dodge? When will gold stocks go up… and how high might gold go?
Our faculty fielded questions like these from attendees throughout the Summit, and you'll get to hear all of their insights and answers.
Hear 31 of the world's top economic minds
explore critical investment issues
By listening to over 20 hours of recordings from our field of handpicked financial experts, you'll get to be a "fly on the wall" for these illuminating sessions…
- Is the Inevitable Now Imminent? by Doug Casey, renowned speaker and chairman of Casey Research
- Today's Resource Market Realities by Rick Rule, high-end resource broker and founder of Global Resource Investments
- Inflation/Deflation Face-off, with Harry Dent making the case that deflation is the biggest threat to the economy and James Rickards arguing for inflation
- The Importance of Europe by Michael Lewitt, investment advisor and editor of The Credit Strategist
Also at the Summit – and to be included with your audio collection – were talks from:
John Hathaway,
portfolio manager of the billion-dollar Tocqueville Gold Fund
Adrian Day,
chairman and CEO, Adrian Day Asset Management; editor of Adrian Day Global Analyst
Lars Stouge,
president and CEO, Jyske Global Asset Management
Dennis Miller,
author of the upcoming book, Retirement Reboot
Steve Belmont,
senior partner and commodities market strategist, Rutsen Meier Belmont Group
Chuck Butler,
president, EverBank World Markets
Frank Suess,
CEO and chairman, BFI Capital Group
Caesar Bryan,
portfolio manager, Gabelli Gold Fund, GAMCO International Growth Fund
Amir Adnani,
president, CEO and director, Uranium Energy Corp.
Pete Kofod,
founder and president of technology services firm Datasages
Greg McNally,
specialist in international tax strategies for Canadians
Kevin Brekke,
editor, World Money Analyst
The Casey Research team was also out in full force, with insights into the market and specific ideas and actionable investment recommendations…
Doug Casey,
Marin Katusa,
Chief Energy Investment Strategist
Alex Daley,
Senior Technology Editor
Olivier Garret,
Terry Coxon,
Senior Editor, Economist
Louis James,
Chief Metals Investment Strategist
Bud Conrad,
Chief Economist
Jeff Clark,
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One portion of the Summit you'll definitely want to hear is the panel discussion sessions. You might want to grab a pen and notebook as well, because panel members revealed the latest updates on specific companies from senior management.
Casey's Gold & Resource Stock Roundup
We handpicked top executives of some of our favorite resource companies to talk about their current projects and future plans. They also endured intense questioning from Marin Katusa and Louis James, which gives you an insider's look into the health of these companies.
"When I think about where I have the opportunity to allocate my wealth, I believe gold, silver, the resource sector and select mining shares are the place to be. So, I'm happy to see decent assets go on sale that I think will preserve my purchasing power over time." – Rick Rule
Alternative Opportunities Review
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- Energy
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"Do you want bloody oil from the Middle East, or do you want Canadian oil sands? Make the choice." – Marin Katusa
The Big Gold (& Silver) Panel
Two renowned gold fund portfolio managers – John Hathaway of the Tocqueville Gold Fund and Caesar Bryan of the Gabelli Gold Fund – revealed mid- and large-cap gold and silver companies that deserve serious consideration in your portfolio.
"The gold price will continue to rise until the fiscal and monetary policies of Western democracies undergo severe alteration in the direction of sanity." – John Hathaway
Your Stocks, Your Questions
Hear attendees' urgent questions about their stocks and portfolios – and our popular panel's responses. This section alone is worth the price of the recordings, as it revealed surprising investment opportunities (and stocks best left alone).
This audio collection is the next best
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Nothing could replace the opportunity to stand face-to-face with our faculty and the company executives who were on hand at the Recovery Reality Check Summit. However, the recorded sessions reveal the same invaluable information that attendees heard.
In addition to every recorded presentation, panel discussion, and Q & A session, you'll get access to all the presentation slides that were shown during the Summit, allowing you to see the graphics while you're listening.
And rest assured, there are dozens of recommendations, from solid stocks with a strong likelihood of appreciation to highly speculative investments that offer the possibility of life-changing gains.
Keep in mind that just one successful investment that you'll hear about can pay for the cost of these audios many times over.
And while your gains will be valuable in the short term, the long-term value of these recordings will come from the critical information our faculty revealed, which will enable you to protect your portfolio from all the economic uncertainty threatening the world today.
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This comprehensive audio set, in CD and MP3 downloadable format, is only $395 – a great deal considering that just one winning play on any of the stock picks our blue-ribbon panel of experts recommended could more than cover your investment.
Production of the recordings began immediately after the Summit concluded, and we expect them to be available within the next two weeks.
Remember, this collection contains over 20 hours of audio presentations that will show you how to build a crisis-proof portfolio that can weather anything the economy throws your way… how to internationalize your assets… specific companies the experts are buying… under-the-radar profit opportunities… and much, much more.
Take advantage of this opportunity to protect and grow your wealth today.


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Comprehensive specialist led best of historical Sicily round island trip
On this trip we visit many of the country's highlights including the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, the Greek Theatre of Taormina and the capital Palermo. You'll be joined by our guest lecturer Mr Antonio Marretta who will ensure that your knowledge and experiences of Sicily are brought to life through the information and enthusiasm he brings to the trip. With a degree in History and Political Science, a specialisation in Art and Archaeology and 25 years guiding experience, there aren't many questions he can't answer.
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- Syracusa - Discover the ancient Greek and Roman sites of a city which once rivalled Athens in the Greek world
- Agrigento - Visit the Valley of the Temples
- Palermo - Sicily's capital, visit the majestic Norman cathedral at Monreale
- Taormina - Visit the famous Greek theatre with excellent views of Mount Etna
- Guest Lecturer - Enjoy informative and entertaining talks from our guest lecturer Mr Antonio Marretta
- Food and Wine - Sample some of Sicily's delicious food and wine
Itineraries on some departure dates may differ, please select.
1Join trip in Syracusa
2See Syracusa's historic Neapolis and Ortygia Island
3Drive via the Baroque city of Noto to Piazza Armerina
4Visit Villa Romana del Casale and the excavations at Morgantina
5Drive via Enna to Agrigento and visit the Valley of the Temples
6Visit historic Heraclea Minoa and drive via Selinute to Marsala
7Ferry to Mozia Island; free afternoon
8Explore beautiful Erice and Segesta en route to Palermo
9Excursion to the ruins at Solunto; afternoon free in Palermo
10Walking tour of Palermo and visit to Monreale Cathedral
11Free day in Palermo with the chance to visit Zisa Palace
12Drive via the pretty fishing town of Cefalu to Giardini Naxos
13Option to go up Mount Etna; explore Taormina and its Greek theatre
14Free day in Giardini Naxos to relax on the coast
15Trip ends in Giardini Naxos
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Monday 31st January 2011
In every season you get games like Sunday's. When they come along you just have to somehow get a win, move on and forget about them. With a Fifth-Round spot in the bag I think that is pretty much exactly how the day panned out.
Complacency is a word used a lot in our sport and us fans are as guilty as anyone on that front. I haven't spoken to one Gooner either before or after yesterday's affair that didn't feel we pretty much needed to just turn up to win. Consequently, I feel, the atmosphere was pretty flat until late in the game. With that in mind, there is always a chance things could get very difficult.
To be honest, without playing particularly brilliantly I felt we were pretty much in control for the majority of the first half. A couple of dangerous crosses aside our visitors didn't really threaten and once Nicky's opener hit the back of the net I was confident we would go on to win the game relatively comfortably.
Come half-time however, we had a whole different ball game on our hands. With Sami limping off holding that area of his leg where we all know the injury and Seb seeing red late in the half, it was only that crucial one-goal lead that could be classed as a positive.
We have to put our hands up and admit our visitors very much deserved their equaiser when it arrived. Manuel had made a couple of crucial saves and more than one effort had whistled just past the post. Just when it looked like we might have weathered the storm it was one each.
With ten men and a bouyant opponent threatening to cause a major FA Cup upset, we really needed to dig deep. Whatever way you analyse the match, we have to take some credit for doing just that. If we had been watching another team live on the TV that is how we would have described it so trying to avoid how ultra-critical we tend to be of our own team, I feel we can be pleased with our reaction on the day.
Although from my vantage point in the ground our penalty looked like a stonewaller, it was described as 'controversial' by the radio station I listened to on the way home. Having seen it on the TV now for me Nicky was definitely pulled down by his marker but it was an incident that can sometimes not go your way.
Cesc buried the penalty of course and whether we were a tad fortunate or not we were in the hat after a difficult day for many reasons.
The remainder of the day's entertainment made it an altogether thoroughly successful Sunday. A cracking draw away to Leyton Orient was first on the agenda before watching the events unfold at Craven Cottage.
I heard our friends from up the road copied our annual idea of taking a boat along the Thames to West London. I trust they enjoyed that more than the match!
No time to rest as we face a tough league game at home to Everton tomorrow night. We need to keep our current momentum going and do everything in our power to take the three points!
Come on you mighty reds!
FrankCopyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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|Simon Pagenaud (closest pictured) is losing Hewlett-Packard backing in 2013. James Hinchcliffe
(next closest) follows Pags down the pits. He too is losing his primary sponsor, as GoDaddy is
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Ratings are down across the board for both Indycar and NASCAR. NASCAR still has very healthy ratings despite the minor setbacks. Indycar saw a reduction in ratings in 2013 compared to 2012, which is depressing. The ratings weren't good to begin with. A driver/owner pitching to a company to sponsor them becomes that much more difficult when ratings are bad, therefore decreasing exposure sponsors.
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 390, July 11, 2008
Pingo Code Optimization
[ By: Lee Higbie ]
Life is full of rules of thumb that may not be mathematical or physical laws, but seem close to the mark. One that I learned decades ago is: For the largest performance improvement look at the algorithm. For intermediate speedup gains, buy more or faster hardware and for incremental performance improvements, optimize your code. With today's HPC machines and software, the order of the last two should be reversed.
The first part of the rule of thumb is well illustrated by the Fourier transform. On N data, Fourier transforming times are typically: DFT algorithm time: constant * n * n FFT algorithm time: 4 * constant * n * lg2 (N) where lg2 is the base 2 logarithm, DFT is the discrete Fourier transform, and FFT is the fast Fourier transform.
For n = 16, the two times are equal. For n = 1K, the FFT time is about 4% of the DFT time. For n = 1M, the FFT takes less than 0.01% of the DFT time. You may be able to apply 10K processors to a million-point Fourier transformation to achieve comparable speedup, but using the right algorithm is certainly the proper optimization/parallelization approach. (See Sidebar 1 for other examples)
So, after you've done all the good algorithmic stuff, what next? Most HPC users have little control over the hardware beyond throwing more cores at a job and presumably they have selected good algorithms, so this article focuses on optimization. For machines like all those we are buying today, the performance can differ by up to about a factor of 100 if operations are performed directly from memory instead of from cache. (Even 100:1 is small compared to the ratio for large DFT:FFT, but it's a bunch, and much larger than most speedups from changing platforms.)
Let me set the stage by briefly describing the majority of scientific codes. They solve (usually partial, sometimes ordinary) differential equations. The domain of interest is divided into a grid of "cells." The grid may be 1D (violin string), 2D (drum membrane), 2 1/2 D (most weather codes), or 3D (cloud modeling). [2 1/2 D described in Sidebar 2 below]
No matter what algorithm you use, locality of data access is a performance key. Specifically, you should do what you can to keep your program accessing data that will fit in about half of the L1 cache, then half the L2 cache, etc. Notice that this introduces a machine dependency, but one that is often parameterizable.
For Pingo, there will be another consideration. In addition to adequate locality, you should avoid data with addresses that differ by a multiple 16. This means avoiding arrays with initial dimensions that are multiples of 100 (= 400 bytes = 25 * 16 bytes). Changing dimensions or allocations so that each value is odd will sometimes dramatically increase performance.
real, dimension(104, ...) :: or, sometimes better for multi-dimensional arrays, real, dimension(105, ...) :: means that successive final subscripts are more likely to be in separate cache sets, which means that data with consecutive final subscripts are more likely to be in cache when needed.
Summarizing, on Pingo, if your code is like most:
real, dimension(iTopMax, jTopMax, ...) :: x ... do i = 1, iTop do j = 1, jTop x(i, j, .... ... enddo enddo
try to make iTopMax an odd number. If there are many subscripts, try to make all dimensions except the last, odd numbers. If you use OpenMP, try to chunk your data coarsely on the OpenMP threading subscript.
Sidebar 1: Sorting is another common operation where the timing for the obvious algorithm is proportional to n * n but the good algorithms are proportional to n * log(n). Many less common problems have solution time proportional to exp(n) or n!, but very good approximations can be found in time proportional to n * n or n * n * n. Many scheduling problems fall in this category.
Sidebar 2: For 2 1/2 D weather grids, the domain of interest is divided into cells that are usually several kilometers on a side. Typical grids have hundreds to thousands of grid cells in longitude and latitude and only a few dozen vertical layers.
For 2 1/2 D codes, some physics and chemistry is modeled within a column above each terrain grid cell. This modeling is mostly independent of its surroundings (smog chemistry, e.g.). (If a program only has this type of physics and chemistry, it is called embarrassingly parallel, because it is easy to apply large number of processors to the model.)
Sidebar 3: Another recently discovered hazard of array syntax in Fortran: email often turns arrays into smileys (colon-paren becomes a smiley :).
SSH Allowed Version Changes
The following two releases of the kerberized ssh packages will be disallowed after July 28, 2008: OpenSSH_4.7p1b and OpenSSH_5.0p1a These versions will no longer be allowed to connect to ARSC systems after this date.
You can run "ssh -V" to determine the version of ssh on your system. E.g.: iceberg % ssh -V OpenSSH_5.0p1b, OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008 Version OpenSSH_5.0p1b of the ssh kit is available here:
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A:[[ Is there a way to tell which flags the MPI compiler is passing to [[ the system compiler? Specificially I would like to see which [[ include files and libraries are being passed to the system compiler. # # Ashwin Ramasubramaniam and Jed Brown both suggested the following: # mpixx -show # # From the editor... # On the IBM, use one of the following: mpcc -v mpxlf90 -v A: BONUS ANSWERS to last week's question: # # Ken Irving # I realize the question was from the previous newsletter, but I was somewhat dismayed to see poor old AWK not represented in any of the several answers to a recent "Quick-Tip Q & A" question. Most answers used various forms of head and/or grep, but AWK was developed for just this sort of thing. I guess it's the Rodney Dangerfield of scripting languages and tools, but, despite being extended, enhanced, and replaced by great tools like Perl, it's still there and still useful. Whew, that little diatribe out of the way, here's a solution using AWK: ken@hayes:~/ 0$ ps -ef awk '/ken/;NR==1' UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD ken 13043 2969 0 Jun03 tty1 00:00:00 -bash ken 21079 13043 0 Jun05 tty1 00:00:00 ssh werc ... ken 23793 23076 0 13:47 pts/2 00:00:00 ps -ef ken 23794 23076 0 13:47 pts/2 00:00:00 awk /^ken/;NR==1 AWK checks each line against each pattern, so the header line (NR==1) doesn't even need to be specified first, but can follow the more particular regular expression pattern or other matching operators. A great advantage here is that the offending command does not need to be duplicated, a feature of the other solutions that is doomed to eventually cause someone confusion. # # Scott Kajihara # Suprised that no one suggested going back to the origins of grep: g/RE/p in ed Not as pretty as grep(1), but the solution might be <command> sed -n -e '1p' -e '/RE/p' which would print out the header line (assumed line 1) and the associated matches. Granted, sed(1) has a more primitive RE selection than grep(1), but the examples given are not that sophisticated even: % ps -ax head -1 ; ps -ax grep `whoami` becomes % ps -ax sed -n -e '1p' -e '/'`whoami`'/p' # # Ed Anderson # You don't want to use grep in this case, you want to use awk or gawk and tell it to print the first line of the output plus any lines where the first field matches the string "mortimer". Here is an example using gawk: ps -ef gawk 'FNR==1 $1=="mortimer" {print}' Q: When I do an "ls -lt" to see what directories are available, I *frequently* want to "cd" into the directory which sorts to the top of the listing. Is there a shortcut, so I can do this without typing the name of the directory, or even worse, using a GUI interface?
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