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The 5-foot-11 forward pulled down 30 rebounds, blocked one shot and stole three passes in three games this past week for the Lady Tigers. In a 58-56 win over Talladega Saturday, Hogue came off the bench to record a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds. Hogue averaged 19 rebounds a game in three games.
The Birmingham, Alabama native transferred to SSU from the University of Alabama this year, and leads the Lady Tigers with 44 rebounds (19 offensive, 25 defensive). Five games into the season, she is averaging 8.8 rebounds per game.
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TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa Bay's porous secondary took another hit Monday when cornerback Eric Wright was suspended by the NFL for four games for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances.
Wright is the second Tampa Bay starter disciplined for using Adderall. Cornerback Aqib Talib was suspended Oct. 13 for four games and subsequently traded to the New England Patriots while serving the ban.
"This a result of taking Adderall at the end of July for health issues I was experiencing," the sixth-year pro said in a statement issued through his agent. "I am extremely disappointed that the suspension was upheld at my appeal."
Wright signed a five-year, $37.5 million contract with the Bucs as a free agent in March after spending four seasons with the Cleveland Browns and one with the Detroit Lions.
The 27-year-old started the first 10 games of the season before sitting out Sunday's loss to Atlanta because of an Achilles tendon injury. He returned his only interception 60 yards for a touchdown to help Tampa Bay to a double-digit halftime lead on Eli Manning and the New York Giants in Week 2.
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WASHINGTON - Federal mediators are entering the stalled NHL labor talks, with the season's first 2 1/2 months already lost because of the lockout.
George Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, said Monday the parties had agreed to use the agency. He assigned three mediators to assist negotiations - deputy director Scot Beckenbaugh, director of mediation services John Sweeney and Commissioner Guy Serota.
"While we have no particular level of expectation going into this process, we welcome a new approach in trying to reach a resolution of the ongoing labor dispute at the earliest possible date," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said.
Cohen has worked with the players' associations for Major League Baseball, helping end the 1994-95 strike as an outside counsel, and the NBA. He was an adviser to the NHL players' union before joining FMCS three years ago.
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Cohen mediated during the 2010 negotiations.
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DETROIT - The NFL has decided not to suspend Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh (ehn-DAHM'-uh-kehn soo) for his actions against Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub.
League spokesman Greg Aiello announced the decision Monday on his Twitter account, adding the "incident' will be reviewed for a potential fine.
Suh's left cleat connected with Schaub's groin area after he threw a pass in the first quarter of last Thursday's game. The defensive tackle was on his chest after being taken down by an offensive lineman and extended his left foot to hit Schaub below the belt.
Suh was suspended for two games a year ago after he was ejected for stomping on the right arm of Green Bay offensive lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith during a game on Thanksgiving.


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I just got them today but wanted to put up some impressions. This will basically be following my impressions as I experienced them so the organization is more chronological than topical.
A brief scare when I opened the box...the model pictured was blue. I ordered black. I was quickly relieved when Is aw a little sticker at the bottom that said black. Packaging was decent, which I expected at the MSRP of $90. Easy to get into which was nice. A sleeve over an inner box and some formed plastic holding everything in place. I like the case. A little bigger than most and is has a neopreneish feel to it that I like. I will actually use this one as opposed to tossing it in a drawer like i do for most provided cases. I usually use mint tins instead. The cable is more flexible than I thought it would be. The body isnt as shiny as it is in the pics but the gear looking logo on the end is a bit more flashy. Feels solid enough though. Kind of big but I was half expecting them to be bigger. I dont love the remote in line. Its kind of big and feels a bit hollow. The volume doesnt work for my samsung captivate but the play/pause does. I like the plug. The L is fairly low profile and sturdy enough. I thought I had already broken the Y junction but it has a slider and it was all the way down. The tips arent bad...or at least the set that was on them in the box. a little thicker than the sony hybrids but pliable. I felt like I got a good seal so I havent checked out the others yet. There are a bunch. In addition to the medium sized blackones on the IEMs there are two full sets of 4 sizes, one in black and one in a light grey. Other than color they appear the same in the bag. More on that later in a few days. So...there is my first impression. So far so good.
oh...did you guys want a few words about the sound
I didnt change the EQ from my bass heavy curve for the E10, I just plugged them in. They have bass for days, and plenty of low rumble. It will take me a few days to give a good impression of the overall sound...probably a week really. The bass is very present and grin inducing so I may have to get my jollies on with them for a few before I tweak the EQ and see how they behave. I will say they have the sub-bass rumble of the philips she3580 and the build quality I was hoping for. Now lets see how they fair with the rest of the sound spectrum. I am fine with them for the approximately $45 I payed. Some time will tell if they are $90 IEMs or not. Eventually I may pick up a set of the JVC xplosive series to see how they compare at less than half the price.
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America has become two separate countries or actually three. We have one side that wants to stay a free and open country, a second which wants to be a Soviet style communist State and the group in the middle who dont care. Throughout history we have had two types of people, those who want to take care of themselves and those who want to be taken care of. Those who will accept a certain amount of risk and those who wont and these are the two groups who are fighting it out. The bad part of being in a democracy is those who want to live under state control and a Soviet style of gummit can simply vote those who do not into being their subjects.
The liberal mindset not only has been brainwashed into believing they cannot succeed without the state programs they will not accept any risks in their jobs or retirements. The public worker has become a protected ruling class who no longer has to be concerned with economics or other peoples conditions. Their jobs are guaranteed as is their retirement and benefits by those subjects living in the outer circle. Since this is an easy sell as a politician they have built a solid voting Soviet class of people who are willing and eager to subjugate the rest of the people to their preferred lifestyle.
We have an entire class of people who are so worried about their own self interest and need to avoid risk they are willing and able to enslave the rest of the country. Once we reach the point we are at there is no escaping chronic unemployment and poverty. We will have decades of the current real unemployment rate which will continue to hover in the twenty percent realm. When you reward people for not working while punishing others for working with taxes, Obamacare and excessive regulations you are destined to encourage higher and higher unemployment. The final piece to the financial disaster is an education system and media which encourages the communistic lifestyle and vilifies the free market individualistic society. People who are self motivators are painted as evil greedy monsters who only make their money by stealing from the poor. They are never promoted or congratulated for a job well done but are vilified just like the Stalinists of old Russian who were always hating and purging the Bourgeois.
The risk adverse mindset is as foreign to the self achiever as the self achiever is to the public employee. In the old days the public workers would give up current pay for the understanding they would have a payoff when they retired. Those days are past as the public employee makes nearly double what the risk takers make and have a guaranteed pension which far exceeds anything in the private sector. They have managed to control every facet of the decision making process through unionization and taking over the media, academics and bureaucracies. They now own the halls of power by working their way inside all of the most critical positions of decision making. They have become a giant circle of propaganda and gummit rule which now only has to convince enough people they care about them or scare them into submission to maintain their power and control.
What we have now are the people who are happy to be cattle in feedlots forcing those who want to be productive to not be productive. They are forcing the ambitious people to live in feeder lots with them whether they want to run on the range free like buffalo or not. The feedlot class believe and in a way they know they will be taken care of the rest of their lives and are not willing to give up that security under any circumstances. They have been told they can never succeed on their own so even if they wanted to they would not risk the chances of losing their safe existence by going against the common thought around them. So they will support more regulations, more private sector destruction and deeper enslavement so their jobs in this overgrown cattle company will continue to flourish.
When George Bush Jr was President and the unemployment rate was running under 4% the Japanese economy had an unemployment rate of over 12% as did the rest of the Socialist world and just as we do now. The cost of Socialism is high unemployment to pay for the expanded gummit jobs. Either the money will flow to the programs or salaries reflected in running those programs or the private sector will have a chance to expand. Under George Bush the jobs expanded and we had a seven year recovery until we expanded DC and are still suffering through the malaise we will have until if and when things change.
Now America has a problem, the cattle are in charge and forcing us all to live in the feeder pens whether we want to or not. It is their job now to make sure we stay in those pens and have little or no chance of escaping them. They have the control and the votes to make that happen for the rest of our lives and the only way we can escape is to beat them at their own game. We need to convince the third group that living inside those pens is a subsistence existence with continually high unemployment with little or no fulfillment in life. Between them and us we have enough people to overthrow the cattle class but it is going to take a huge effort against some very powerful forces placed in some extremely strong positions. This is going to take some hard work, determination and new ideas outside of the medias control. There is a path to full employment and George Bush was on it briefly before the people in power on both sides pulled the rug out from under him and put us in the Godless communist canyon we find ourselves in now. We need to get back on the Bush path to freedom.
Pray for America
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Brays. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
Thanks for thread A.B. Peyton Manning sure had a bad day.
Most of these people make me sick.
If I could jump through the screen, I would kick mcchrystal in his head with both feet. Ditto powell.
I'm sick of them all!!
It's oily in de moanin'
And I ain't got nothin but de blues
Gun Grabber warning from Charlie Daniels:
A picture is worth a thousand words. Look at the picture below and guess: is this the aftermath of a bunch of makers or takers?
Answer: takers, after a riot at a Section 8 voucher distribution in Taylor, MI, Sat, Jan 12, 2013.
5000 takers lined up for 1000 taxpayer paid Section 8 housing vouchers. In the end, nobody got nothin' as the takers could not behave themselves and the distribution was canceled.
Wow, where is everyone?
I'm off to church....
Let's get this straight. The government gives away free money - in substantial quantities. The only criterion for getting the money is to be standing in the right place in the line. There is no line control. And people are surprised there's a riot?
I slept in, and I see I didn't miss much.
You need to start getting us a better Sunday morning line up of guests! LoL
If McCain ever said anything 'new' that would make Sunday morning news program history.
Looks like the morning topic was evils guns. [You know they are even worse than those evil SUVs and evil incandescent light bulbs.]
Kelly Ayotte is one of our best spokes'persons' these days, and she does another great job on FNS, discussing Hagel's nomination. She stresses we should not have policies that make Iran's leaders smile!
Mark Steyn's column on the Hagel nomination is essential reading to really get the true background on this debacle.
**If you had buttonholed me in the Senate men's room circa 2003 and told me that a decade hence Joe Biden would be America's vice president, John Kerry Secretary of State, and Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, I'd have laughed and waited for the punch line:...**
Brilliant as usual bray.Had to be repeated. Until the new media can overtake the old msm/dbm and our side counters the made up agenda/issues of the hard left its gonna be a long slow trog to get rid of the commies.
All we can do is laugh now. FNS has Bob Woodward on as an expert on military activity in Afghanistan. Not only old media but old men. The panelists Woodward and Kristol look like the old men muppets in the balcony. Their commentary is just as meaningful.
LOL MM!! I go through more tv's by throwing stuff.....
Your stuff on Benghazi just keeps getting better and better all the time. Anyone not on your ping list for Benghazi should join its second to none.Here is the latest thread.
We had a time change down here in S.Fla. on NBC. We get MTP at 10:00 (Eastern) the rest at 10:30 and FNC at 2:00 pm.
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Situated on a rise overlooking the city and harbor, this hotel is 3 blocks from Government Street, 3 blocks from the Royal BC Museum, and 4 blocks from Beacon Hill Park.
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A rooftop restaurant caps the 18-story Chateau Victoria Hotel, which has a pool, fitness center, as well as complimentary wireless Internet access in public spaces.
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Chateau Victoria Hotel and Suites guestrooms have feather duvets, as well as complimentary high-speed Internet access.
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With its courtyard fountain and marble lobby, with grand piano and mirrored ceiling, this hotel offers stylish accommodation and superior service near both shopping and major area attractions.
In addition to complimentary wireless Internet access in public spaces, Chateau Victoria Hotel and Suites offers a fitness center, and atrium lap pool. An electric car charging station is available, as well as a free local area shuttle. The hotel's rooftop restaurant, Vista 18, provides eye-popping views of the city and harbor, along with breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, as well as Sunday brunch. The intimate Clive's Classic Lounge serves lunch and dinner on the lobby level, and superb bar drinks.
Staff provide business services, faxing, copying, and printing. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available in meeting rooms.
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- Number of bars/lounges - 2
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- Safe-deposit box at front desk
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- Total number of rooms - 177
- Number of floors - 18
- Multilingual staff
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- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
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- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
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Where to Eat
Vista 18 - This rooftop restaurant/lounge offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily along with panoramic views of the city and harbor. Multi-level seating ensures views from all seats. West Coast fusion menu features meat and seafood favorites as well as vegetarian dishes, including wild mushroom ravioli, and curried vegetable bowl with seasonal local vegetables and basmati rice pilaf.
Clive's Classic Lounge Award-winning restaurant that serves excellent drinks from the bar.
Nearby Things to Do
This hotel has an indoor lap pool, spa tub, and a fitness center with a selection of cardiovascular and strength-training equipment.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Minimum check-in age is 19
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- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of CAD 20.00 per pet, per night
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Each year, the architects of the Serpentine Pavilion are praised for their ambitious concepts with reams of media publications commending their design prowess. Often overlooked however are the experienced engineers that year after year make these dreams a reality so this year, World Architecture News spoke to Stuart Smith, Director at Arup, about the firm's continued involvement with the Serpentine Pavilion scheme.
For Smith, this grand design was 'the product of a much longer period of work' as the team at Arup collaborated with Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei on their concept for the Bird's Nest Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Smith explains that there are similarities between the interior spaces in the Bird's Nest and 2012 Serpentine Pavilion despite the vast differences in dimension, as the integrated engineering solutions and intrinsic pattern define the internal volume.
Alongside the holistic engineering of the Pavilion - including the placement of fire escapes, appropriate lighting and disabled access - Arup are also responsible for the structural engineering of the project. This isn't the first time that a Serpentine Pavilion has incorporated an excavated space. Oscar Niemeyer's 2003 Pavilion sported a basement insert which, on reflection, Smith considers to be rather shallow despite previous assumptions about its depth. Arup's solution to Niemeyer's concept was to use precast concrete pieces but for this year's deeper design, screw piles were employed with foundations bolted on. No concrete was used in the foundations whatsoever.
Each year, Arup is faced with the challenge of enabling the latest pavilion to be disassembled and reassembled elsewhere after its three month stint in the public arena, although Smith confesses despite all of the pavilions now having private owners, not all of them have been reassembled. The screw pile system of this year's structure will allow easy reassembly after the necessary excavation work.
One of the most interesting features of the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion - and arguably the most taxing - is the floating roof pool. Smith explains that the idea for a drainable the roof came from Julia Peyton-Jones, Director of the Serpentine Gallery, who suggested that it would be a wonderful platform on which to host events. Arup responded by concealing a drainage tube inside one of the symbolic columns that support the roof (there are twelve pillars representing the twelve Serpentine Pavilions) which feeds through to a pump below the structure. This pump redistributes the water which can be used for irrigation as a sustainable alternative for the Royal Parks.
It goes without saying that the British weather is highly unpredictable and the flittering between extended periods of heavy rainfall and blasts of crackling heat were a cause for concern over the six-week construction period. With a hosepipe ban in place, Arup had to get creative with the sourcing of water for the rooftop pool and found an answer in the neighbouring Princess Diana Memorial Fountain. The Memorial Fountain was designed by Arup in collaboration with Kathryn Gustafson and opened in 2004 in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. The water for the fountain is pumped up through a 120m-deep borehole through layers of clay and earth, and provided the perfect solution to the hosepipe ban.
One of the most visible elements of Arup's involvement was the inclusion of cork in the interior spaces. Smith and his team met with Amorim, a Portuguese supplier, in January 2012, and began a detailed analysis of the various kinds of cork materials on offer. The cork we are so used to seeing is light in colour but the material that lines the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion is a rich, earthy brown which fits perfectly with the excavated nature of the design. Smith explains that this tone is the result of the cork being steamed and pressed, with the cork used as flooring treated with resin ensure it can withstand the heavy footfall predicted this summer.
For Stuart Smith, the realisation of this year's Serpentine Pavilion is the latest step in a seven-year relationship with Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, and one that Arup is exceptionally proud of.
The Serpentine Pavilion is open until the beginning of October in London's Kensington Gardens and will host a series of events over the coming months. Click here for more details. To read a full review of the Serpentine Pavilion, click here.
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Moss Hill Ruritans; D.C. trip; Jobs for Life; Trudy PIckett's Home Solutions column
Moss Hill Ruritans make donations
James Goff Jr. of the Sandy Bottom Volunteer Fire Department and Jerry Sutton of the Seven Springs Volunteer Fire Department accepted 15 Rudy Bears each on Aug. 1 from members of the Moss Hill Ruritan Club at the Moss Hill Ruritan Community Building.
The Club also donated school supplies to Moss Hill Elementary School.
Principal Susan Glover accepted the donations to the school.
Plan a D.C. trip
The Lenoir County Council on Aging will be coordinating a trip for seniors in Lenoir County, 50 years of age or older, to Charleston, S.C., in December.
The three-day, two-night trip will include travel, most meals and tours of the festival of lights, historic downtown and the Nathaniel Russell House. Cost of these accommodations starts at $299 per person.
For more information on this travel opportunity, contact Jean Best at 252-527-1545, ext. 221, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Learn about Jobs for Life
Kinston Women of Vision has issued an invitation to learn together, act together and give together to help women and children in poverty around the world and in this community.
Join women from many different church communities at 7 p.m. Sept. 24 in the Spilman Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 601 Madison Ave., to learn about Jobs for Life.
For more information, contact Carol Irvin at email@example.com or 252-559-8863.
Home Solutions: Make the most of your clutter
If you�ve been looking for an excuse to mobilize your family to clean out the clutter, a garage sale will get them in action! A garage sale is a great way to get rid of unwanted stuff, and with summer almost over, you probably have a very clear idea of the garden tools, summer toys, lawn chairs and the like that you will not be using again. Consider these suggestions.
Check the regulations in your area for having a garage sale. In some areas, there may be restrictions on where you can post signs and distribute flyers. Some areas require a permit.
Explore all the ways to promote your sale. Post flyers on bulletins boards in supermarkets and other public places; advertise in venues like the local newspaper (online and print editions) and on craigslist; and promote it at online sites like garagesalefinder.com.
Dust off, hose off or wash the items that you plan to sell. Ask yourself, �Would I buy this?� Clean items are much more appealing to prospective buyers.
Go through the pockets of clothing so you don�t unwittingly sell an unknown �bonus.�
People love multifamily garage sales, so see if you can rally friends and neighbors to join in.
A small �free� box for children will keep them busy while parents do some real shopping.
Price everything. Make price stickers easy to read. Put large price tags on large items. Have plenty of bills � ones, fives and coins � for making change.
Have a plan after the sale for the items that have not sold. Do you really want to take these unwanted items back inside your home? Wouldn�t donating them to a secondhand shop or charity be a better choice? Make the choice so that immediately after you have closed your sale, the next step is disbursing the unsold items away from your home.
You�ll be glad you did.
Source: American Cleaning Institute
Trudy W. Pickett is extension family and consumer agent at the Lenoir County Cooperative Extension Office, 1791 N.C. 11/55. Reach her at 252-527-2191 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Roofs with Roots: Stylish Sod Roofs
Not too long ago, the idea of sod roofs conjured images of traditional, pretty homes in Scandinavia and Iceland. Now, their popularity means they also conjure up images of city lofts and modern homes.
There are plenty of options for green roofs, from elaborate trees to native flowers. Sod, however, can be an especially affordable option, and its clean-lined look complements many different housing styles. Like all green roofs, sod helps extend the life of the roof, cuts energy bills, and helps with storm runoff. It also, of course, adds green space to the neighborhood and provides a sanctuary for birds and insects.
- The 2 Bar House in Menlo Park, California was built to be both environmentally friendly and budget friendly. From Dwell.
- A rooftop in Soho is now a gorgeous oasis thanks to Dub Studios.
- Mark Merer's grass-topped studio in England is based on his work developing eco-friendly, sustainable architecture with the Swinomish Tribal people of Fidalgo Island in Washington State.
- A black-hued summer home in Norway looks chic topped with a sod roof. From Bo Bedre.
- A cozy, traditional cottage in the Faroe Islands from The Travel Blog.
(Images: 1. Dwell, 2. Dub Studios, 3. Louis Porter for Mark Merer via Arch Daily, 4. Andreas Mikkel Hansen for Bo Bedre 5. Arwen Joyce for The Travel Blog)


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Corsair Memory has recently done some internal benchmarking of Corsair and OCZ heat spreaders. Corsair passed along this information to the editors of all the review sites you read and I thought that it would only be fair to pass this information to the community for consumption. Here is the original document that Corsair made when they tested the heat spreaders with some paragraphs from the newly published .pdf that was sent to press and might make it to their Tech Notes site.
From Corsair Memory:
In the interest of full disclosure, I think it?s only fair starting this out by acknowledging that I work for Corsair, so those of you who want to poke holes in this lab report, there?s your first piece of ammunition. There?s been lots of discussion recently about what type of heat spreader is best for overclocking. Or, if no heat spreader is best of all. We decided to run some tests ourselves, and see what kind of results we got.
First, let?s look at some basic theory on heat removal from integrated circuits. According to Micron Semiconductor application note TN-00-08, heat is most efficiently removed from memories via conduction (through a medium like metal, or water), rather than convection (through the air). And, heat is removed most efficiently (over 75%, according to Micron?s tests) through the metal pins into the ground plane of the PCB. The secondary means of heat removal is through the back of the die into the package, and from the package into air via convection. Once you are trying to dissipate heat into air, what matters is the surface area exposed to air. A heat spreader does just what is says, it spreads the heat over a larger s urface area for more efficient dissipation. And, a heat sink takes this one step further, by adding fins and increasing the surface area that much more. That is why we see large heat sinks with fins (and sometimes fans) on high power semiconductors such as CPUs and power transistors.
All our tests used the RST Pro card?s ?Stress Test? to heavily exercise the memory. The tests were run in one of our qual ovens at exactly 68 degrees F ambient temperature. Our standard stability test includes 3 iterations of the RST Pro2 ?Burn in? option, with Stuck, Weave, Jump, Primes, Parity, Pseudo Random, ATS, and Crosstalk turned on. This may seem confusing, and may be more information than needed, but this is how we test our internal memory before it goes through the 24-hour qualification torture test, so I figured it was only fair to disclose this as well. A ?pass? was considered to be three consecutive iterations of the stress test with zero errors. Each test was run not once, but twice, to confirm results. In all cases the second test yielded exactly the same results as the first.
A while back OCZ announced their ?Xtreme Thermal Convection? heatspreader.
Here?s a quote about how the XTC heatspreader works, according to OCZ:
?The unique design used in the XTC heatspreaders optimizes the thermal management of memory modules by promoting greater airflow by means of micro-convection throughout what is usually the dead air space inside conventional heatspreader designs. In this manner, build-up of heat is avoided and thermal dissipation of the memory components is offloaded more efficiently through the honeycomb design.?
This is an interesting proposition, one that we at Corsair were dying to test out. We?re always looking for new ideas, and internally we?d been pretty convinced that air was a poor means of thermal transfer. This was our assumption based on those pesky laws of thermodynamics. Using previously obtained knowledge that metal conducts heat better than air, we?d designed our heatspreaders to make as much contact with the IC as possible, but maybe this ?air pocket? theory has something to it?
We purchased some modules for this purpose. These modules are built with RAMs that tolerate very high voltage – and with high voltage comes high power dissipation (and temperature), as power goes up when voltage is increased (P = V^2 / R, for those of you who like equations…) Our goal was to put this memory through a nightmare scenario where heat was limiting our overclock. As such, we purchased these modules on the web. No, they are not supplied by Corsair!
These modules are rated at 217 Mhz at 2-2-2-5, and appear to be based on Winbond ICs.
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How Can You Tell if Your Cat is Sick?
Cats are good at masking their pain. All too often, cats suffer in silence from potentially deadly UTI's (Urinary Tract Infections) or FLUTD (Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disorders) -- the #1 reason for trips to the veterinarian.
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T-Mobile Kisses Up to BlackBerry Customers
Apr 4, 2014 4:06 PM PT
After racking up a number of successes, T-Mobile clearly made a misstep earlier this year, when it promoted Apple's iPhone 5 to its BlackBerry customers.
BlackBerry this week announced it would not renew T-Mobile's license to sell its products, which expires at the end of April. Now T-Mobile is now scrambling to keep its BlackBerry customers with an offer of a US$100 credit.
It is an ironic turn of events for T-Mobile and its CEO, John Legere, who has achieved remarkable gains responding to cellphone users' frustration over service offerings.
The company's rollout of its unlimited "Simple Choice" no-contract service plan, for example, fulfilled a long-held desire by many customers to escape being locked into a contract just to acquire a subsidized phone.
It offered a way for customers to make more frequent phone upgrades without being financially penalized by their contract, and it began offering unlimited data and texting around the world.
A Surprising Move
Therefore it is surprising that Legere could so badly misread how BlackBerry would react to a promotional email to its users highlighting the benefits of the iPhone as an alternative device. BlackBerry CEO John Chen called the iPhone 5s marketing promotion a "clearly inappropriate and ill-conceived" campaign.
Legere has expressed disappointment with BlackBerry's decision, and T-Mobile now is trying to forestall an exodus of its BlackBerry customers; on Thursday it announced a $100 credit for any new device, including the BlackBerry Q10 or the Z10, through the end of 2014. The company also promised BlackBerry customers continued service and operating system upgrades.
BlackBerry, for its part, says it will work with T-Mobile to make sure its customers on the network will not be left hanging, by providing them with the "best possible customer service."
Reading the Crackberry Bunch
T-Mobile is in a quandary, noted Ritch Blasi, SVP for mobile and wireless at Comunicano.
"Considering BlackBerry is primarily a business device, and T-Mobile is not necessarily known as a big player in enterprise, the 'crackberry' bunch can simply change to another carrier and probably get similar plans and prices," he told CRM Buyer.
T-Mobile could lose some high-value customers, but a good trade-in offer might be able to get them to stay, he said. Also, it is important to note that BlackBerry no longer has a lock on the business market anymore, "so T-Mobile should be able to retain some BlackBerry users who might be better served with another device."
Indeed, a case could be made that BlackBerry's withdrawal from T-Mobile's network may be the best thing that could have happened for BlackBerry customers.
"BlackBerry customers now have a choice of devices from T-Mobile, and it may be in their interests to carefully study the offer. It is unlikely BlackBerry will ever achieve the technological edge again in mobile communication," said Rich Hanley, associate professor and director of the graduate journalism program at Quinnipiac University.
"BlackBerry has always been the adult in the room of mobile communications -- but that is now a bug rather than a feature," he told CRM Buyer.
Either way, this particular group of customers should come out OK.
"Neither T-Mobile nor BlackBerry are going to totally turn their backs on customers. That's a poor business decision that would ultimately be detrimental to both companies," Blasi said. "Each will do what's best to protect their own image."


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Machinist, The (US - BD)
Gabe takes the time to count Christian Bale's ribs in high definition video...
Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale) hasn't slept in a year. Wracked with guilt from an unknown source he has let himself waste away into a pale walking skeleton, and is a slave to his obsessive compulsive routines. During the day he works in a gothic inspired machine shop, and at night he finds minor solace in the withered arms of an affectionate prostitute named Stevie (Jennifer Jason Leigh), or while speaking to an airport café waitress named Maria (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón). Reznik's life is put into additional turmoil when he's a part of an industrial accident which causes a co-worker to lose an arm. Gripped with paranoia, he attempts to solve a mystery wrapped up in his lost memories.
The Machinist is a good movie that nevertheless stands out as a disappointment based on lead-up expectations. Director Brad Anderson was coming off the well received Session 9, which had built a bit of a cult following in the horror community, and Christian Bale was coming off two cult favourites of his own, American Psycho and Equilibrium (aside: why do people like Equilibrium?). The script was relatively hot, and the early word had made it to the fan community concerning Bale's insane weight loss. Early word had the film placed the film in the same realms as Christopher Nolan's twisty-tuvey Memento, and the trailer and poster were tantalizing. Basically the whole thing was destined to not live up to its hype, even if the hype was only recognized by a vocal minority. The Machinist is an achievement on many levels, but in the end many of us found it an ultimately forgettable endeavour.
Bale's massive weight loss is actually a problem. He's revolting and disturbing to the degree that it overcasts the entire film. He's fantastic so long as his physicality isn't the major focus (like any time he's wearing a big enough shirt), but it becomes more of a stunt than I'm sure the actor intended. On the whole the actors somewhat overshoot the film's overall slower approach to the thriller format. Somehow everyone involved finds a way of drawing attention to how understated they are all acting. The moments between Bale and his two 'love interests' Jennifer Jason Leigh and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón are genuine, but everything else seems to be grinding in a gear higher than expected (this could be attributed to the main character's altered mental state, I suppose). Like much of the criticism I'm attempting to lob at the film, I'm stumped when it comes to a real constructive approach.
Despite these somewhat brassy performances, the whole of the film is a little too serious for its own good. The bleak nature of the script loses a lot of its power to numbing levels of straight faced treatment. The warm character moments act to refocus the tragedy of the story, but they're a little too few and far between. Anderson gets so close to the perfect balance of haunting imagery and deliberate pacing it stings that much harder when he loses it. The look is largely original, which is more or less impossible after over one hundred years of cinema, and more hundreds of years of photography and art. Anderson's closest relative, to my eyes, is Japanese underground director Shinya Tsukamoto, who has also been compared to David Lynch. Tsukamoto has a richer sense of humour than Anderson, but both directors have a fantastic eye for the disturbing.
For all its beauty, and pitch-perfect acting, The Machinist is still just an above average experience. By the time all the cryptic plotting and repeated imagery is unfolded the audience is left with a rather simple, and sadly common explanation (and one that kind of makes the audience feel as if they've been watching a very well made episode of The Twilight Zone. One assumes that perhaps there wasn't any way of ending the film entirely satisfactorily, but I also have to admit that every time I've seen the film I've largely lost interest in the whole thing by the final act. Too much of a good thing, I'm sure. Either that or everything is a little too on-the-nose. Maybe I just don't like Kafka or Dostoevsky?
It's been a little while since I saw The Machinist on DVD, but I remember enough to say with much certainty that this Blu-ray is a pretty massive step up. I was expecting something much grainier based on those failing SD memories, but this print is quite clean for the Eraser Head inspired compositions I recall. The grain isn't entirely missing, but it's not very thick. I was also expecting a more severe contrast from the print, again, based on the DVD release (and a subsequent television viewing), but despite the deep dark noirish blacks the dark to light blends are actually pretty even, and the detail levels are pretty soft (apparently on purpose). This isn't to say that details aren't effective; they just aren't cut like diamonds. The film's colours are muted to a nearly black and white effect, with a few distinctive, digitally enhanced additions, mostly pertaining to reds, which are almost all of the exact same hue. The overall composition is usually cool besides the reds, but the muted tinting isn't exactly blue, it's more of a lilac (though other scenes are a bit of a warmer brown). Skin tones are slightly purpled, but mostly white with harsh black shadows. The only unintended artefact on the print is the presence of white edge-enhancement on some of the wider shot details.
As Anderson points out, the best scene to judge the sound design is the scene where Michael Ironside loses his arm to a particularly menacing piece of machinery towards the end of the first act. It's a microcosm of all the Dolby TrueHD's best moments, including the machinery, the music, and the dialogue. Outside of this scene, the machine room floor (if that's what one calls it) is always a good place to absorb the track's best, as all channels are aflutter with buzzing, grinding, and screaming gears and motors. On the whole sound design is sparingly used, and there isn't a lot of surround sound use on the disc outside of the creepy music. Roque Baños' score is hit or miss, but at least has the guts to take some big chances (such as seemingly inappropriate clarinets), even if it's a little too Hitchcock era Herrmann for its own good. The music is used in a Hitchcockian manner for the most part too, usually underpinning the other sounds, but occasionally pressing hard on the track. I'm very happy, might I add that the production
Anderson's filmography comes off as made by an intellectual auteur, but he's a super down to earth kind of guy in commentary form. His tone is that of a nonplussed everyman. A lot of the focus is on the visuals, which is not a surprise given that it's basically a visually effective but narratively empty feature, though that isn't to say there isn't a lot of positive talk concerning the script throughout the commentary as well. Anderson name drops a lot of German expressionism while talking about his visual references ( Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosfuratu), and is sure to point out that actor Michael Ironside loses limbs in three of his films.
'Manifesting The Machinist' (23:00, HD) is a general look at the making of the film. The speedy featurette looks at the development of the script, the difficult process of finding funding for such a dark product, casting, production, Bale's weight loss, and the film's all important look. Interview subjects include the director, writer, producer, John Sharian and Michael Ironside. Missing most obviously are Bale and Jason Leigh. The tone's a little EPKish, but there are a whole bunch of spoilers, so I assume it was made for DVD, not for TV.
'The Machinist: Hiding in Plain Sight' (14:00 HD) concerns the film puzzle piece imagery, showing the audience where to look for them, and discussing how they came to be in production. These pieces include dialogue, the 'hangman post-it notes', compulsive repetitive acts, the repetition of 01:30, the use of the airport, and various driving metaphors.
'The Machinist: Breaking the Rules' (25:00, SD) was the making-of featurette that accompanied the original DVD release, and is more of a mini-movie than the new retrospective featurette. This featurette features a whole bunch of raw, on-set footage, but largely covers the same material as the other featuerette, just with a slightly more dramatic slant, and with some on-set interviews with Bale. It's followed by eight deleted/alternate scenes (12:00, SD, non-anamorphic), which were also available on the DVD release. Two of the scenes feature director commentary. Things end with a trailer.
The Machinist is a better film than I remember it being looking back, so those that weren't too fond of it the first time around might want to give it a second or third spin on Blu-ray. The film's intense look is so important to its success that any kind of visual improvement is a tremendous plus. The new extras aren't spectacular, but add a lick of additional support for fans planning on a double dip.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Special thanks to Troy Anderson for providing them.
Review by Gabriel Powers
hogaburger Contributor Join Date: April 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,153
I pretty much agree with everything you've said. There is a lot to like...Bale is great, and the movie is just oozing with atmosphere. It just doesn't add up to anything particularly interesting or memorable. If I see it for $15 or less and not much else is out, I may pick it up and give it another watch on blu-ray. Thanks for the review.
Oh and Equilibrium is a dumb guilty pleasure, but anybody that seriously thinks it is a good quality film should play in traffic.
Oh and Equilibrium is a dumb guilty pleasure, but anybody that seriously thinks it is a good quality film should play in traffic.
leigh1975 Contributor Join Date: October 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 318
Umm, I really like Equilibrium, but I suspect I'd think it was a big pile of s**t if it didn't have the cast that it does. Oh, and fair play to Gun-Kata.
pitdeadite Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 662
I love this movie. Truly one of the best films ever made.
beckmen Member Join Date: November 2005 Location: United States Posts: 355
Equilibrium, I thought was over-rated. I liked it enough, but it's light on action, and the plot, visuals, etc are all mined from other sources. The Wachowskis, Orwell, The Third Reich, etc.
I did, however...thoroughly enjoy The Machinist. Maybe because when I saw it, I had heard solid reviews...but not dozens of people saying that it was the best movie of all time. It stands out in my head as probably one of the top ten movies of 2004, and the only Brad Anderson movie where I didn't say 'meh'. I guess my reaction to Session 9 was more akin to your reaction of this. I watched it after having seen this, and hearing a bunch of rave reviews...and didn't think it was really anything all too special.
I did, however...thoroughly enjoy The Machinist. Maybe because when I saw it, I had heard solid reviews...but not dozens of people saying that it was the best movie of all time. It stands out in my head as probably one of the top ten movies of 2004, and the only Brad Anderson movie where I didn't say 'meh'. I guess my reaction to Session 9 was more akin to your reaction of this. I watched it after having seen this, and hearing a bunch of rave reviews...and didn't think it was really anything all too special.
Kyle Mertes Member Join Date: August 2005 Location: United States Posts: 700
It amazes me to no end that Bale actually lost all that weight to play this character then gained it all back plus muscle to play Batman in 'Begins' in less than 6 weeks. Truly and utterly amazing, yet freaky.
I will get this movie on Blu eventually...glad I held off on the DVD.
I will get this movie on Blu eventually...glad I held off on the DVD.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,831
thta hsirtless Bale picture is creepy. I love the movie, but other Bale movies are better (Equilbrium, American Psycho, and the Batman films- Batman Begins and The Dark Knight).
Gabe, mentioning Tsukamoto makes me want to see a film by the director now (a rewatch of Vital, Snake Of June, or Nightmare Detective).
Gabe, mentioning Tsukamoto makes me want to see a film by the director now (a rewatch of Vital, Snake Of June, or Nightmare Detective).
Worst Nightmare Senior Member Join Date: July 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 6,716
Bale is about to do the weight loss thing again for a new movie he is doing....
Scary stuff....he does go to the extreme...
Scary stuff....he does go to the extreme...
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Disc Details
Release Date: 19th May 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Portuguese and Spanish
Extras: Director Commentary, Manifesting the Machinist, Hiding in Plain Sight, Breaking the Rules, Deleted Scenes, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Brad Anderson
Cast: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian, Michael Ironside
Genre: Thriller
Length: 101 minutes
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