text:
The days of the assembly line as Henry Ford envisioned it are fading, as manual labor is replaced by mechanical. In fact, tomorrow's factory floors could be covered with gigantic 5-axis CNC machines like this one.
Built by EEW Maschinenbau in Germany, the HSM-Modal, as it is called, is a 5-axis high-speed processing center. Superficially, it works just like any other CNC platform—even this desktop model—it's essentially a mechanical arm moving in three dimensional space at the command of a CAD program. Its functional size, however, sets the HSM-Modal apart.
The Modal operates in a huge area, travelling up to 150 meters along its X-axis, 9 meters along its Y-axis, and over 4 meters vertically along the Z-axis. It can rotate 270 degrees and swivel its tip 190 degrees (an impressive feat as swiveling tips go). In addition, its carbon fiber and aluminum construction make the Modal exceedingly light, which means the machine, despite its size, only consumes 5 to 7 kW per hour.
The HSM-Modal is quite versatile, too, depending on which tool it is using. It's capable of milling, sawing, grinding, polishing, digitizing, and extruding, as well as water jet, plasma jet, laser, and ultrasonic cutting—all with sub-millimeter precision.
The impressive list of capabilities enables the HSM-Modal to make sand castings for part molds, a process still primarily done by hand. It can produce highly accurate castings in a quarter of the time that a human could. It can also carve unibody boat hull negative molds, then switch tools and extrude epoxy back onto the negatives, then switch tools again and grind the hull into shape. It's even finding use in the auto industry where it is employed in making 1:1 scale model mock-ups. [EEW Maschinenbau - Wikipedia - UEM Fab - Images: UEM Fab]


text:
Grand horns and subtle strings combine to give you a majestic Olympic fanfare sound for your sporting video or graphic content. Purchase of this track gives you separated string interlude as well as separated ending so you can edit easily into your projects.
1. Full Version- 1:22
2. String Interlude looped- 0:23
3. String Interlude unlooped- 0:24
4. Ending Only- 0:22

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Ben LaBolt will take over as press secretary on President Barack Obama's re-election campaign next month, after his duties as communications director for Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel's campaign are completed.
The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times first reported the news, which also included the addition of Katie Hogan to serve as Obama's deputy press secretary.
LaBolt has worked for Obama since 2007, serving as press secretary in his Senate office before moving over as a campaign spokesman. He handled rapid response and is known for his aggressive style and often served as the point man for rebutting stories critical of Obama. LaBolt was press secretary on the 2006 campaign of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).
He was a White House assistant press secretary until October, when Emanuel took him to Chicago, where Obama's campaign will be based again.
Hogan, a Chicago native, also worked on the 2008 campaign and in the White House. She has been responsible for working directly with the campaign press corps and with the traveling press, helping them with everything from finding wireless networks to shouting "Last question!" at impromptu press conferences.
More Obama Team
Beyond LaBolt and Hogan, the rest of the Obama team has been taking shape for the past few months. Jim Messina, chief of staff on the 2008 campaign and most recently White House deputy chief of staff, will serve as campaign manager.
Deputy campaign managers are Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, formerly the Democratic National Committee executive director, and Julianna Smoot, a top fundraiser, 2008 veteran and former White House social secretary.
Down the line are Finance Director Rufus Gifford, Deputy Finance Director Elizabeth Lowery, National Field Director Jeremy Bird, Deputy National Field Director Marlon Marshall, Battleground States Director Mitch Stewart and Research Director Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean. Stewart and Bird have been the key players at Organizing for America, the spinoff of the Obama campaign housed at the DNC since the president took office.
New Keyes to the NRCC
The National Republican Congressional Committee recently hired Christyn Keyes as director of radio and TV. Keyes replaces Jon Thompson, who left to become press secretary at the Republican Governors Association.
Keyes was deputy press secretary on the campaign of Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) last year to take back the Cincinnati-based seat that Chabot lost in 2008. She then served as a legislative correspondent.
The Hudson, Ohio, native and Miami University graduate previously interned on the campaign of Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), for Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) and at the Normandy Group.
Keyes joins a team led by Communications Director Paul Lindsay and Deputy Communications Director Joanna Burgos. The regional press secretaries are Andrea Bozek, Tyler Houlton and Tory Mazzola. Ted Kwong is deputy press secretary, and Emily Davis is director of leadership communications.
Lerner-ing a New DNC Job
News that Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is taking over as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee isn't the only change afoot there.
Jeffrey Lerner signed on in mid-March as the new DNC political director. Lerner was most recently the southern regional political director at the White House.
Previously he worked at the Dan Klores Communications firm in New York, served as communications director for then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and then was political director at Change to Win, the 2008 labor union coalition that backed President Barack Obama.
Speaking of DNC Change
Democratic National Committee Deputy Press Secretary Brandi Hoffine is following her boss to Virginia to serve as former Gov. Tim Kaine's Senate campaign spokeswoman. Mo Elleithee, a veteran of Kaine's 2005 gubernatorial campaign, is helping the communications team out during the announcement and transition period. The rest of the Kaine staff has yet to be announced.
Ex-Reid Aide Heads to Super PAC
Rodell Mollineau, a former top aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has been named president of American Bridge 21st Century, a new political action committee and research organization formed to help Democratic candidates compete with a host of similar conservative groups that emerged during the 2010 election cycle.
Mollineau spent the previous four years running the communications war room for the Senate Democratic Conference and played an integral role for Reid down the stretch of the Democrat's successful re-election campaign.
American Bridge 21st Century is a recently launched "Democratic Super PAC" and accompanying 501(c)(4) that will attempt to elect Democrats to the House and Senate in 2012.
According to a press release issued by the group, Mollineau "will lead the overall efforts of the Super Pac and its companion 501(c)(4) foundation to build a permanent progressive counterweight to the outside Republican groups that took hold of the electoral process in 2010."
Meanwhile, Bradley Beychok, campaign manager for ex-Rep. Charlie Melancon's (D) failed challenge of Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), will serve as the group's campaign director.
DCCC Regionals Cross Campus
Two Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee regional press secretaries from the 2010 cycle have moved to the Senate side of campus.
Shripal Shah, who was the northeastern press secretary, will serve as press secretary for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the 2012 cycle. Matt Canter previously moved over from the office of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) to serve as communications director.
Andy Stone, who handled races in the West in 2008, is now press secretary for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who won re-election to a fourth term last year.
The DCCC, which is under new leadership, has yet to announce its regional press secretaries for the 2012 cycle. The NRCC announced its communications team in January.
David M. Drucker contributed to this report.
Submit campaign staffing news and tips to Shop Talk here.


text:
Showing 1 to 1 out of 1 results
TextEEBO-TCP (Phase 1)The trying out of the truth begunn and prosequuted in certayn letters and passages between Iohn Aynsworth and Henry Aynsworth; the one pleading for, the other against the present religion of the Church of Rome. The chief things to be handled, are. 1. Of Gods word and Scriptures, whither they be a sufficient rule of our faith. 2. Of the Scriptures expounded by the Church; and of unwritten traditions. 3. Of the Church of Rome, whither it be the true Catholike Church, and her sentence to be received, as the certayn truth.Date of publication:
1615Description:Printer's name and address from STC. The last leaf is blank. Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.This item contains 4 files (9.54 MB).Publicly Available


text:
TOKYO, Japan: Panasonic said it will offer its Japanese workers a four-day work week, in a bid to improve productivity and attract better workers.
The move comes after the Japanese government made recommendations to private employers in 2021, which included a shorter working week.
Companies that have sought to put in place a shorter work week have found no loss of productivity, in general, said officials.
Despite having a reputation in the U.S. as a workaholic culture, Japanese workers actually work fewer hours than American workers, according to the most recent data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Among the OECD, the U.S. ranked 11th for most hours worked by the average worker, while Japan ranked 26th.
Americans have been promised a shorter work week for generations, and economic experts in the 1960s predicted that robots would perform the majority of work and Americans would be working only 16 hours per week.


text:
Web Site: http://www.siemens.com
What's that? These 2 components are not real PC cards but are more like modems that you use as external device.
Host1-serial - RadioModem1 - - - - - RadioModem2 - serial-Host2
How can I connect it?
If you see them in an abstract vision you can model them like this:
Host1-serial - - NULL MODEM CABLE - - serial-Host2
So you'd have a connection between 2 far serials with 2 possible configurations:
For 1 you can use this simple script in Linux:
"/usr/sbin/pppd -detach lock idle 300 crtscts connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v TIMEOUT 5 AT OK AT OK AT OK AT OK" IPLINUX:IPWINDOWS /dev/ttySx 115200 disconnect "/usr/sbin/chat -v AT OK" ms-dns IPDNS"
The above script is need for letting Windows believe there is a modem on the serial end!
In Windows you need to create a Dial Up connection with crtscts enabled, speed at 115200 and with a stupid number to call (need by Remote Access but absolutely not used).
With 2 Linux boxes you only have to run a very simple script like this at each Linux side:
"/usr/sbin/pppd passive local crtscts IPLINUX1:IPLINUX2 /dev/ttySx 115200 noauth persist"
where you'll invert IPLINUX1 with IPLINUX2 at the other edge.
Note that you can do authentication even Linux-Windows than in Linux-Linux if you want.
Закладки на сайте
Проследить за страницей
Created 1996-2023 by Maxim Chirkov
Добавить, Поддержать, Вебмастеру


text:
User Self-search is an practical features in the upper letf of mailbox.It provide status search about sent mails and loggins(if you buy File Transit Center value-added service,you can also search Transit Center situation).They can make user understand real-time status about mail delivery and system loggin these seven days.
Yes.For protecting the security of mailbox, you can click "Loggin Search" in the upper left of the Webmail page.You can check your IP address of loggin mailbox,date,and result of loggin within 7 days.
You can click "Sent Mails Search" in the upper left of Webmail page.If the recevivers are not the local users,you can only check whether the mail was delivered to receviver's mailbox;if the receviers are the local user,you can also check whether the mail was read.


text:
MUO.LV is the largest free MMORPG MuOnline game server with thoroughly worked-out positive gaming atmosphere. MUO.LV is considered as one of the pioneering MuOnline projects in Latvia. The project is developing rapidly, and soon new versions, new unique quests are to come out - everything for the best gaming atmosphere.
For more than four years, MUO.LV has been in a stable way working (24/365), growing and developing - that is why many gamers are staying here and believe in us.
Join us and enjoy the game, find new friends among a thousand of gamers from various countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Moldova, USA), participate in quests. Our GMs are constantly keeping order. They will provide you with advice and help. Become a respected gamer. The most respectable gamers are invited to become GMs.


text:
For the last several years I have been offering a free block of the month quilt pattern to subscribers to our monthly newsletter.
A few months ago, we sent out a survey asking what type and style of project you would like to see for next year's Block of the Month and we have taken your suggestions to heart. The most popular design ideas were:
- Wall hanging
- Medallion style
- Piecing and appliqué
- Mystery quilt
For 2017, we have listened and took your suggestions. Instead of a full size quilt, the project is smaller, only 47" x 47". It is medallion style and it is a mystery quilt with both appliqué and piecing. Instead of a block each month there will be portions of the design to put together.
I have designed the quilt to be a learning experience and it incorporates various piecing techniques so that by the time you finish you will be able to tackle any patchwork project.
Many of you know that I sew all my quilts by hand. One of the reasons is that handwork is portable and you can take it anywhere you go. I have seen a real resurgence of interest in hand piecing the last couple of years and this quilt is a great project to do by hand even if you have never tried hand piecing before. Each clue is a learning step to the next one and, if you choose to sew by hand, by the end of the year you will be an expert. If you prefer sewing by machine, the pattern is written for both hand and machine sewers.
We will begin with simply sewing a straight line, then joining four points, curves, eight points, setting in seams, appliqué and so on. There will be video clips to go along with the clues with links to these in each newsletter. The quilt is not a huge project and you should easily be able to complete each clue during the month.
I have designed this quilt in the four colorways shown above. You can pre-order your kit and it will be shipped starting January 20th, so by the time the first clue comes out in February you will be ready to start!
In order to receive all the clues for the BOM, you must be a subscriber to our free monthly newsletters. The links to all patterns and videos will only be in our newsletter. If you have not yet signed up you can do so here.
Watch for more information on this program in Saturday's newsletter. I hope you are as excited about this as we are.


text:
Saab ECU Remapping
Saabs have always had a strong and loyal following and for good reason. We can remap the engine ECU to optimise the drive and performance of your Saab. We can remap the ECU on all 93 and 95 models including diesel and petrol models as well as Hot Aero models.
[table id=34 /]


text:
Nefil Leather Seat, Mesh Back Office Chair with Leg Rest and Headrest
The Nefil Leather Office Chair is a stunning addition to the Ergohuman range of ergonomic office chairs. With organic curves and elegant features, the Nefil office chair is the epitome of luxury. Customise to suit any environment, bright & contemporary mesh colours, classic real leather or a combination of both mesh and real leather for a comfortable and unique design. With an ingenious single lever control to operate the three main chair functions - seat height, seat depth and back tilt are all operated from a single point of contact. Available with mesh seat and back, and a contemporary aluminium frame and base, the Nefil chair is packed full of features.
Nefil office chair specification
- Single lever control to operate main chair functions
- Intensive 8-hour day comfort
- Polished aluminium 5 star base
- Semi-soft castors suitable for wood or carpet
- Mesh backrest with 3-D flexible lumbar support
- Synchro back tilt
- Smart motion back technology
- Lumbar support height adjustment
- Seat height funtion
- Seat tilt function
- Seat depth & bodyweight tension adjustment
- Pivoting armrest with height and slide adjustment
- Adjustable headrest
- Choice of 11 Real Leather colours (only Black available from stock)
- Choice of 11 Full Mesh colours (only Black available from stock)
Nefil Ergonomic Mesh Chair is available in black mesh and black leather from stock. Other colours available to order 2 - 3 week delivery - please contact us for details. Nefil ergonomic mesh office chair is also available without headrest.
97% recyclable and now with Greenguard Indoor Air Quality Certification.
UK Manufacturer's guarantee - 5 years on mechanism, frame and armrests, 3 years on fabric, castors and gaslift.
Delivery approx 2-3 working days for stock items. Saturday delivery available at additional cost.
Free delivery UK Mainland.
UK Certified to EN1335-2:2009 and EN1335-3:2009 : structurally suitable and sufficiently stable for use as an office chair for up to 8 hours a day, when used by persons up to 110kg in weight.
This product has veen certified according to the Greengaurd Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Certification Program for Low Emitting Products.
|Back Height
|700 - 750mm
|Back Width
|Overall Depth
|Overall Height
|1168 - 1295mm
|Seat Depth
|394 - 450mm
|Seat Width
|Chair Material
|Mesh, Fabric
|Black Mesh, Blue Mesh, Green Mesh, Red Mesh, Orange Mesh, Grey Mesh, Burgundy Mesh, White Mesh, Black Fabric, Blue Fabric, Green Fabric, Red Fabric, Orange Fabric, BeigeFabric, Coffee Fabric, Grey Fabric
✓ Ergonomic Adjustments
✓ Reclines Back
✓ Easy Single Lever Adjustment
✓ Gentle Lumbar Support
✓ Seat Forward Tilt Adjustment
✓ Polished Backrest
✓ More Polished Aluminium parts
✓ 5 Years Warranty on Frame
✓ OPTIONAL: Leather, Legrest, Notebook Arm
5 years Warranty Frame, Mechanism and Armrests*
5 years Warranty on Castors, Gas Lift, Mesh
*Armpads are under wear and tear
After the Warranty has expired, as and when necessary, spare parts can be purchased to extend the life of the chairs (armpads, castors, gas-lifts, mesh or leather inserts..etc.).
What is the difference between the Nefil and the Ergohuman?
The Nefil has a traditional backrest shape, the Ergohuman has a "split back" with a separate lumbar support.
Both chairs have the back of the backrest in polished aluminium. The Nefil has an additional ergonomic adjustment: the seat forward tilt adjustment good for a natural back posture.
What is the difference between the Nefil and the Ergohuman Plus?
The Nefil has a traditional backrest shape, the Ergohuman has a "split back" with a separate lumbar support.
For both chairs the back of the backrest is in polished aluminium. Both the Nefil and Ergohuman Plus have the seat forward tilt adjustment, good for a natural back posture.
Within 24 hours of ordering we will email you a delivery date.
If no one is available to receive the parcel(s) on the proposed date, just let us know and we will reschedule as required.
If you have ordered a chair or chairs that need to be manufactured, we will provide a delivery date estimate first.
Once the chair is close to ready we will confirm an exact delivery date. All couriers deliveries should be signed for.
In order to insure the best protection of the chairs during transit, the chairs are sent partly assembled.
The chairs are easy to assemble and it should take around 10 minutes to complete a chair.
(No tools required, each chair comes with a screw pack and a large allen key, a mini manual is attached to the back of the backrest) Easy assembly: Slot in the castors and gas-lift and fit the armrests and backrest with the screws provided.
For large quantity requirements, please contact us and we will confirm the lead time.
Contact us early for quantity orders in colours, in fabric or with a white frame.
Installation: If you require installation for a quantity of chairs, please contact us for a quote.


text:
The tradition began back in 2008, when holiday cards began arriving from Pardis Sabeti's friends; they were settling down, getting married, starting families, and sending the photographic evidence. She wasn't married then, but Sabeti felt like she, too, was starting a family. "I felt like the proud mom of a growing, amazing new lab," she wrote in an e-mail.
So the systems biology professor at Harvard University decided to send out a lab holiday card. That first year, she went to Kmart and bought holiday sweaters and other festive garb. She and her students and postdoctorals then took a photo to share with friends and colleagues.
In the years since, Sabeti's laboratory has tackled big problems in biology and medicine, devising new kinds of statistical tools to analyze large datasets, and studying Lassa fever. As the lab has grown, so have its holiday card ambitions, with 2010 bringing scientists in lab coats floating underwater, and 2011 triggering a re-creation of the Italian Renaissance painting "The School of Athens ." This year, the lab strayed from classical inspiration to something a bit more contemporary: the Sabeti lab, Gangnam style. More than two dozen scientists are caught in mid-galloping horse dance, reenacting scenes from the popular video made by South Korean pop star Psy.
Scientists tend to spend a lot of time at work, and individual labs often develop their own internal culture. Students, postdoctoral researchers, and their faculty leaders set a tone, keeping traditions and doing activities that help the group cohere outside of the usual lab meetings, experiments, and manuscript writing. This manifests in different ways: Maybe the scientists label the machines they use each day after their favorite cartoon pigs, have annual lab retreats far away from their incubators and microscopes, or play in an intense summer volleyball league.
Sabeti is sensitive to the fact that biomedical research is facing tight funding, and spending time on a holiday card might seem like a frivolity.
"The card is built on the energy and creativity of the students and not on big expenses," Sabeti wrote. "While there is a funding crisis, there is also as importantly a crisis in morale in labs across the country and in the way people perceive science. I love this card because it shows the amazing esprit of a life in science, and I wish more labs would share the joy of science with the world."
Cutting-edge research explains why slicing at times beats dicing
L. Mahadevan, an applied mathematician at Harvard University, delights in unraveling the principles that underlie seemingly simple phenomena, ranging from how cucumber tendrils coil around supports to help plants climb, to the optimal way to balance on a tightrope. His latest work is something he has been pondering for years, nearly every time he has cooked a meal: the physics of cutting soft stuff.
Mahadevan, a vegetarian, found it interesting that when cutting stiff vegetables, such as a pumpkin or a potato, people push down with the blade. They very rarely "slice," drawing the blade toward them while they push down. Soft fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, such as a tomato or a persimmon, require more slicing to make an effective cut. As he mulled the problem, his mind ranged all over, and he recalled that when he met his wife, he had a paper cut, bringing up the everyday mystery of how paper can slice flesh. What was the explanation for the two techniques, he wondered.
In a careful experiment published this month in the journal Physical Review Letters, Mahadevan and colleagues measured the forces involved in slicing, using a stripped-down experimental apparatus — a soft gel and a fishing line or wire as the blade. They mimicked both dicing and slicing with the apparatus, dicing defined as just pushing down with the blade and slicing as the action of drawing the blade at an angle as one pushes down.
What he found was that the force required to cut is much less when one slices a soft object, rather than dicing it. Slicing generates "microtears" in the soft object, and those coalesce and eventually allow the wire to break through. The force required, in comparison to dicing, is less by a factor of five, he found.
"The simple reason for that is when I dice, I have to squeeze down. I'm deforming the soft object over a large scale, which means I have to have a lot of force," Mahadevan said. "If I was slicing, I don't have to push down. We show mathematically, the forces required to reach the same nominal stress to break it will happen earlier."
Group gives its own take on science as 'a girl thing'
In what was seen by many as a misguided attempt to get girls interested in science, the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, this summer released a ridiculous video that used short skirts, high heels, and lipstick to sell the idea. The video, "Science: It's a Girl Thing!", triggered widespread criticism, and at least one parody video.
Now, a group of Dartmouth College scientists has produced its own take on science being a "girl thing," with a video that trades the preposterous club-like atmosphere of the original video for the scenic views and the gritty reality of field work in Greenland: boots, dirt, snowflakes, and all.
The topic of women in science is an important and complicated one. Things have certainly improved in many respects. But even as more women are getting science degrees, women are still outnumbered by men, when you count the number who become full faculty members. The numbers are improving but remain far from equal in most fields — a National Science Foundation study notes that in 2008, women made up a little more than a fifth of full professors with science and engineering degrees.
This year, a team of scientists from Yale University revealed that subtle, unintentional biases held by other scientists may help reinforce gender disparities. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that science faculty members from research universities evaluating a job application for a lab manager rated applicants with a male name as "significantly more competent and hireable" than the same application with a woman's name on it. Nature magazine just chose the woman who led that research, Jo Handelsman, as one of its "Ten people who mattered this year."
"I had heard so many times from scientists that this couldn't possibly be true of us, that we're trained to be rational," Handelsman told Nature. Once again, science suggests that human nature applies to scientists, too.
Carolyn Y. Johnson can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @carolynyjohnson.


text:
Store Categories
All Store Items on Sale Now
More items from this Store
How to choose the suitable power adapter for your products, please choose:
1) voltage match
2) same connector diameter
Input: 100~240V AC 50/60Hz
Output: DC 12V 10A
Power jack dimensions:
Internal diameter: 2.5 mm
External diameter: 5.5 mm
Plug type: EU, US, UK, AU plug
Packing including
10 pcs x 12V 10A with AC cable
1. Orders will be shipped within 3 business days after payment verified. To protect both the buyers and the sellers, it may take up to 24 hours for DHgate to verify the payment.
2. We only ship to confirmed order address. Your order address MUST MATCH your shipping address. For Russian customer, please provide contact FULL name, if not, Russian customs will hold the parcel and send back to China.
1. The price you pay for the item excludes any customs taxes. Any import charges or fees are the buyer's responsibility.
2. We usually declare the goods as GIFT on the commericial.If this is not okay to you, please leave us a message.
1. Customer's satisfactory is our ultimated goal. If you are satisfied with our products and service, please leave us a 5 stars feedback.
2. If you have a problem or any questions regarding your transaction, please contact us. All emails will be answered within 1 business day. If you do not receive our reply, please kindly resend your message or email.
China Wholesale | Security & Privacy | About Us | China Manufacturers | Seller Home | Blog | Best Sellers | Customer Service | Terms of Use | Russian | Portuguese | Italian | Spanish | French | German | Turkey | 한국어 | العربية |Nederlands |Polski |Svenska |日本語 |Ireland | Local Warehouse
Copyright Notice © 2004 - 2023 DHgate.com All rights reserved. License京ICP备16060083号-9


text:
The Reinstate Hank Campaign calls for the remittal of Opry star, and country music legend, Hank Williams. More than fifty years have passed since the tragic and untimely death of country music's greatest performer, who made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry on June 11, 1949, with the crowd demanding an unheard of six encores.
A few years later, in 1952, Hiram Hank Williams was dismissed from the Opry with the understanding that he would sober up and then return to the stage that he loved so much. Sadly, he passed away in the back seat of his car a few months later and never made that momentous return.
Despite being one of the most powerfully iconic figures in American music, Hank Williams has yet to be reinstated to the Opry. Now, your help is needed to honor and preserve his legacy. Join the campaign and add your signature to the petition by clicking the link at the top of the page to Reinstate Hank Williams to the Grand Ole Opry.


text:
There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page.
Category:Individuals with Critchfield Surname
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Pages in category "Individuals with Critchfield Surname"
The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.


text:
Aaron Sorkin Rides in on a White Horse to Save Moneyball
Aaron Sorkin, noted scribe, addict and boner of Maureen Dowd and Kristen Chenoweth, has been hired to write a new draft of Moneyball, the film based on Michael Lewis' bestselling book. But are Steven Soderbergh and Brad Pitt still involved?
Reports the Hollywood Reporter:
The writer has been brought on to do a draft of the baseball drama, drawing on Steve Zaillian's earlier take. The studio wants to move forward quickly with the new iteration, with Sorkin set to turn in his version as soon as next month.
Brad Pitt remains on board to star, but Steven Soderbergh no longer will write or direct and is not involved in the film.
Soderbergh, you may recall, fought with the studio over the creative direction of film, leading to production being killed by the studio just days before shooting was set to begin last June
Now, we like Sorkin's work (especially Sports Night!) so we're confident that if anyone can make an adaptation of the book work, it's him, but we still can't figure out how it would be worth a crap on the big screen. However, if it does work out, and we seriously doubt that it will, we do look forward to a scene in which Billy Beane and Jason Giambi walk down a long corridor, pause in front of the door to the locker room and turn to face each other so Beane can yell "You can't handle a curveball!" at Giambi. It'll be grand!


text:
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
South Carolina's highest paid head coaches are taking 10% salary cuts amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Football coach Will Muschamp, men's basketball coach Frank Martin and women's basketball coach Dawn Staley are taking the cuts. The university also said Tuesday that school president Robert Caslen and athletic director Ray Tanner are among the top-level administrators taking the 10% cut.
The school said in a statement it could lose up to $40 million because of the virus this fiscal year ending June 30. Additional and potentially bigger shortfalls could be seen going forward.
These cost-cutting measures are expected to save $1.2 million on South Carolina's bottom line.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says the city is talking with the organizers of the Boston Marathon about what to do if the coronavirus pandemic hasn't let up by the race's proposed new date of Sept. 14.
The mayor said on Tuesday that the decision to reschedule the marathon from April to September was made with the hope that the disease "would no longer be a significant public health risk." While Massachusetts is planning to lift its ban on some businesses and activities next week, large public gatherings have been banned through Labor Day — a week before the race's new date.
Walsh had told the Boston Globe last week that he was open to the return of professional sports this summer — with no fans in the stands. The marathon field was scheduled to include more than 30,000, and even a stripped-down race of just a few hundred elite runners would mean hundreds or thousands of volunteers and officials and thousands more fans lining the 26.2-mile course.
A Boston Athletic Association spokeswoman said the organization is considering all options but will be guided by public health officials recommendations.
Eastern Michigan's football and basketball coaches are set to take a 7% salary cut as the athletic department tries to deal with the budget impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Athletic director Scott Wetherbee announced the salary reductions, which will also apply to him and school President James Smith. Football coach Chris Creighton, men's basketball coach Rob Murphy, and women's basketball coach Fred Castro will be affected by the 7% cuts.
EMU also says approximately 70 coaches and staff will participate in the Work Share program offered through the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency. They'll have their work hours reduced by 40%.
The school says the Work Share program allows EMU to reduce work hours while allowing employees to obtain unemployment benefits.
The Italian government has given the go-ahead for Serie A teams to resume full team training after approving a new health protocol.
Sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora made the announcement on RAI state TV on Tuesday.
Spadafora added that he has called a meeting with soccer officials for May 28 to decide when the Serie A season can resume. Serie A officials are hoping to restart the season on June 13 if they can get clearance from the government to play one day before the ban on sports events expires.
Serie A players have been training on an individual basis since May 4. Team training likely won't start for several days, though, because the protocol requires players to be tested for the virus three days beforehand, then every four days.
NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly tells The Associated Press he's hopeful the decision to close the U.S. and Canadian border to non-essential travel for another month won't "have a material impact" on the league's discussions to restart its season.
Daly provided the response shortly after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the border restrictions will stay in effect through June 21. This marks the second time the border restrictions have been extended since first being put into place on March 18 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The extension of the restrictions comes at a time when the NHL and NHL Players' Association are discussing plans on when the league can resume playing after the regular season was paused on March 12.
The NHL has seven teams based in Canada.
In a separate development, the NHLPA's executive board has voted to defer the final payment of players' regular season salaries through the end of May.
-- AP Hockey Writer John Wawrow
Central Michigan is discontinuing its men's track and field program, citing university-wide budget cuts.
The decision affects both indoor and outdoor track. Athletic director Michael Alford says the school is facing "a new financial reality" because of enrollment challenges and the coronavirus crisis.
Scholarships for current men's track athletes, including for new students this fall, will be honored for as long as they're enrolled at CMU. Athletes can also transfer immediately if they choose.
Elsewhere in the Mid-American Conference, Akron is cutting women's tennis and men's cross country and golf, and Bowling Green has dropped baseball.
The Belmont Stakes will be run June 20 in front of no fans as the first leg of horse racing's Triple Crown.
The New York Racing Association unveiled the new Belmont date Tuesday morning. This is the first year the Belmont will take place before the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. The Derby was moved to Sept. 5 and the Preakness to Oct. 3.
The rescheduled Belmont will be 1 1/8 miles instead of the race's trademark 1 1/2-mile distance that has been in place since 1926. It was last contested at a 1 1/8 mile in 1894.
The last candlepin bowling alley in the Massachusetts city where the sport was invented is closing, and management says the coronavirus pandemic is to blame.
Colonial Bowling Center in Worcester is shuttering for good, manager Paul Wambach told The Telegram & Gazette on Monday evening.
Wambach said the fall-to-spring season provides most of the alley's revenue. But the business has been closed since March and summer leagues usually start in April, so the business's 91-year-old owner decided the time was right to close for good.
Candlepin bowling was invented in Worcester in 1880, according to the International Candlepin Bowling Association, and the city once had more than 25 alleys.
Russian soccer club Dynamo Moscow says a player and a coach have tested positive for the coronavirus and samples from four others gave atypical results.
Dynamo says defender Roman Evgeniev was found to be positive in recent testing ahead of the league's planned return next month. The club also says a goalkeeping coach had been diagnosed earlier. The club says he hasn't had contact with other employees since early April.
Two other unnamed people from the club gave "borderline" results in tests and another two had antibodies which indicated they had COVID-19 in the past.
The Russian league plans to return on June 21.
Rubin Kazan said Monday that defender Konstantin Pliev had tested positive for the virus but was "feeling fine." Lokomotiv Moscow said last week that Peru forward Jefferson Farfan gave a positive sample and had symptoms including a cough, fatigue and fever.
The Premier League says six people from three clubs have tested positive for the coronavirus following the first round of checks.
Tests were conducted on 748 players and club staff on Sunday and Monday.
The league has not disclosed the names of the individuals who tested positive. They must self-isolate for seven days.
Spanish soccer club Málaga says it plans to fire some employees to improve its financial situation amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The second-division club's finances have been overseen by a public administrator since a judge replaced Qatari club owner Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani in February.
Málaga says the measure is one of many being taken to "ease the difficult economic situation it is experiencing." It says the "restructuring" is needed to ensure its sustainability.
The club did not say which employees will be fired. The team is in 15th place in the second-division standings.
The German basketball league plans to finish its season next month in a closed three-week tournament.
Ten teams will live in Munich and play at the Audi Dome without fans or contact with the outside world. The league's seven other teams will not take part and their season will be declared finished.
Each team will be allowed to bring 22 people to live in hotels closed to the public. Games will be played at the venue which hosted the basketball tournament at the 1972 Olympics.
The plan was approved by the government of the state of Bavaria.
League president Alexander Reil says the tournament offers "a certain return to normality" with strong health safeguards amid the coronavirus pandemic. The league has not played since March 8.
French soccer's awards ceremony has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The country's players' union says it will not be presenting trophies for the best players and coaches in the top two divisions of men's soccer and the women's first division.
The union says the time is not right for "individual awards during this crisis period" and that the winners's list will be left blank for 2020 in tribute to the medical staff "at the service of our society."
The awards were initially scheduled to be held last weekend.
Manchester United says it will refund fans with season tickets for the games they won't be able to attend during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Premier League season was suspended in March with United fifth in the standings. United has four home games left.
The club wrote to season ticket holders to say "we share your disappointment that you will not be able to watch United in person from within the stadium, but we would encourage you to give your continued loyal support from the comfort and safety of your home."
Clubs are pushing to be allowed to play at their usual stadiums rather than in neutral venues as the police wanted.
United is asking fans for their "co-operation not to travel to any stadiums at which we are playing on matchdays."
Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan will play a series of friendlies next year to raise money for medical facilities in Italy and Spain.
The three round-robin games have been dubbed the "European Solidarity Cup" and thousands of medical staff and carers will get tickets for their work fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
Dates for the games will be set when the calendar for 2021 is clear and fans are allowed back into stadiums.
Cristiano Ronaldo has reported back to Juventus' training center after a 10-week absence.
The five-time Ballon d'Or winner showed up for medical tests with the Serie A leaders.
Ronaldo observed a two-week isolation period at his home in Turin after spending the lockdown period in his native Portugal.
Ronaldo has not been alongside his teammates since helping Juventus to a 2-0 win over Inter Milan on March 8. He flew to his home island of Madeira, Portugal, after that.
Serie A was suspended a day later when the Italian government ordered a nationwide lockdown. The league is hoping to resume playing on June 13.
More AP sports: https://apnews.com/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports


text:
Welcome to The Card Concept! Each week we offer up a challenge for you to try, and we hope that you will create a card in one of the styles we have offered here. The team is divided into the different styles and each designer explains how they were inspired by the challenge! So come and join us and try your hand at a brand new "style" of card making or work in your comfort zone, it is totally up to you!
Before we get to this week's challenge, we have three new designers we are excited for you to meet! Welcome ladies!
{CAS Designer}
"Hi there! I'm Sandie and I am passionate about making cards. I started crafting a few years ago and once I started I couldn't stop! My style is Clean and Simple. I am happiest when I have created a card with just stamps and inks and lots of white space! When I am not crafting, I like to walk, grow my own vegetable, and watch movies. I live in London and I love to explore all that it has to offer!
{CAG Designer}
Hi There! I'm Shannon K Jaramillo (pronounced Har-a-me-yo) and I live in Southern California. I have always been a crafty person who discovered scrapbooking while my boys were young. I discovered card making and stamping in particular in 2010 and have been making cards ever since! I am an empty nester and spend my spare moments in my crafting room. The creative process brings me great joy, as does organizing all of my beloved tools, stamps and papers. Oh! and ribbon and embellishments, we mustn't forget about those! My style has been defining itself over the years until now I find myself tending toward clean and simple/layered/graphic but I do LOVE pretty papers and sparkles!
(Classy & Elegant Designer)
Hi! My name is Vicki Burdick and I live in Southwest Missouri with my husband of 38 years.
We have one daughter and sadly no grandbabies yet! I have been a crafter most of my life but a paper crafter since early 2004 when I attended a Stampin' Up party with a friend and the rest is as they say history. I love to color and make pretty things. I am thrilled to be joining the Card Concept design team!
This week we are serving up cupcakes
but you can be inspired by:
The colours, the textures, the food, the layout of the cupcakes and so on!
Feel free to use any of the styles of our team or better yet, share you own style by combining one or more of the styles. We want you to have fun and make a card in a style that you feel good about!
The styles are explained HERE.
May Clean & Simple Guest Designer
The designers have entered their cards below and they have explained the style they used and the way they were inspired...
Clean & Simple
Kristie Goulet
The colors and cupcakes inspired my CAS card.
The colors and cupcakes inspired my CAS card.
Sandie Munro
I was inspired by the long thin straws, colours and cake!
Clean & Graphic
Geri Greening
I was inspired by the striped straws & the vibrant green on the cupcake liners.
Shannon Jaramillo
I was inspired by the bright color and graphic patterns!
I was inspired by the bright color and graphic patterns!
Clean & Layered
Kerin Sylvester
I was inspired by the colors and cupcake theme.
I was inspired by the colors and cupcake theme.
Laurie Schmidt
I was inspired by the colors!
I was inspired by the colors!
Shabby Chic
Narelle Farrugia
I carried the green, white & gray over from the inspiration pic.
I carried the green, white & gray over from the inspiration pic.
Debbie Marcinkiewicz
I was inspired by the colors, cupcakes with white frosting and straws!
Freestyle Collage
I was inspired by the color green and pretty white frosting.
Classy & Elegant
Vicki Burdick
I was inspired by the green and white colors and the texture of the cupcake liners.
Mixed Media
Yoonsun Hur
I was inspired by the colours and diagonal striped paper straws!
Julie Gearinger
I was inspired by the colours and diagonal striped paper straws!
Julie Gearinger
|I was inspired by the colors and the gorgeous frosting swirls.
Our Rules
- Use the Challenge to create a card.
- Choose one of the design team "styles" to create your card. Click HERE for the different styles summary.
- Explain in your post which style you used.
- Link up your blog post here, not your whole blog.
- Comment on the card ahead of you and behind you in the linky. Everyone loves comments!
This challenge will end on Monday, June 8th at Noon (PST).


text:
(HealthDay News) – For women with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the vulva, sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy may be safely used in place of inguinal femoral lymphadenectomy.
To determine the safety of SLN as a replacement for inguinal femoral lymphadenectomy, Charles F Levenback, MD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and colleagues conducted a Gynecologic Oncology Group study involving 452 women with SCC where the primary tumor was limited to the vulva and the tumor size was between 2–6 cm with at least 1mm invasion. Participants underwent intraoperative lymphatic mapping, biopsy of SLNs, and inguinal femoral lymphadenectomy.
The researchers identified at least one SLN in 418 of the women. A total of 132 women were node positive, with 8.3% of these being false-negatives. Immunohistochemical analysis of the SLNs identified 23% of true positives with a sensitivity of 91.7% and a false-negative predictive value of 3.7%. The false-negative predictive value was even lower, at 2.0%, in women with tumors <4cm.
"Sentinel lymph node biopsy is a reasonable alternative to inguinal femoral lymphadenectomy in selected women with squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva," the authors write.


text:
Stay in Touch
Get sneak previews of special offers & upcoming events delivered to your inbox.
QVC carries a gourmet selection of scrumptious seafood available for convenient home delivery. Indulge your appetite for delicious favorites like salmon, tilapia, salmon burgers, seafood-stuffed shells, Maine lobster tails, stuffed lobster tails, crabs, crab cakes, mahi mahi, and more. We have all your favorites including crab imperial, crab Wellington, crab en croute, seafood samplers, shrimp, bacon-wrapped lobster, lobster tails, and sea scallops.
Explore QVC for bountiful offerings of salmon, shrimp, lobster, crab cakes, salmon burgers, and other delicious seafood from top brands like Lobster Gram, Chesapeake Bay Gourmet, The Perfect Gourmet, Graham & Rollins, Stone Harbor, and more. With QVC's home delivery, it's easy to have all the seafood you crave delivered right to your door.


text:
Knowing from experience how difficult some of the tests in my "Art of Film" class can be for some students, this term I prepared in advance three ways that they could earn extra credit.
1) Take the practice exams in the online textbook "kit" provided by the publisher prior to class chapter quizzes (for up to two points extra credit per quiz).
2) Write one extra "media journal" paper (for up to ten points on the final grade).
3) Create a three minute art film that illustrates one of the film language concepts learned this semester, upload and share on a website, and present the film in class (for up to 20 points).
I was surprised by how few students took me up on #1 (but not >too< surprised because it required paying to sign up to the online "kit" that went along with our book). #3 — making a short art film — sounds like the most fun, but actually takes a lot of work. I was impressed by what the students did, so I thought I'd share the results below.
Since there were only three of them, I actually typed out shot analysis essays, with frames from their movies pasted in, in color, as a form of critique. I felt they deserved extra special feedback for doing something extra special for the class. And I should add that everyone loved watching these movies and analyzing them with the same skills that we brought to the screen for all the other movies we studied this semester. It was a good closure activity for the semester!
But first, I give you one of the surprising submissions: Emily Maeder's essay for option #2.
A stream-of-consciousness prose poem in response to the surrealist classic Un Chien Andalou.
Written on a banana.
Embedded videos apparently no longer work on my server for some reason. For now, here are links to the videos:
David Berkowitz: Sonnet
Olivia Goudy: Cow-Tipping
Bruce Powell: Michael Parente #7


text:
Galaxy S4 GoLoker HD Galaxy S4 Go Locker is theme for go locker, which give you the feel of galaxy s4 lock screen. To unlock the screen slide form left to right like real galaxy s4. Amazing lockscreen Theme for your smartphone. notice: 1.Make sure GO locker V1.05 has been installed. 2.Use with Touch theme, which is for GO Launcher EX, is perfect! Tips: ====> 1. Make sure GO Launcher EX V2.58 or above and GO Locker v1.05 has been installed; 2. Click "MENU -> Preferences -> Theme Settings -> GO Locker ----> My locker" to choose the theme Features: 1. Cool Locker Screen that makes your phone outstanding; 2. Support customise wallpaper; 3. Security locker; 4. Alarm ******************************************* We have found a new way to generate some money from this free app. using this new search tool, we can keep creating apps and give them to you completely free forever! This search is from our search partner and give you access to great web search via a search ic
Downloads: 546+ (for Android)Report app for spam or abuse!


text:
FRIDAY, April 4, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- People seeking help online for cutting and other forms of self-harm often receive incorrect or misleading information, a new study suggests.
Just one in 10 Internet sites related to non-suicidal self-injury is endorsed by health or academic institutions, the researchers found.
It's estimated that 14 percent to 21 percent of teens and young adults engage in self-injurious behaviors such as cutting, burning and bruising. Young people may use this behavior to cope with strong emotions.
"It's a stigmatizing issue for many people and it's quite misunderstood, so going online is often more appealing to them in terms of getting information," said study author Stephen Lewis, a psychology professor at the University of Guelph in Canada.
"Unfortunately, much of the information we found on the Internet is of poor quality, and some of it propagates myths about people who self-injure, which may lead to further stigmatization and isolation," Lewis said in a university news release.
To analyze the quality of information on self-injury available on the Internet, the researchers used a Google keywords program. They identified 92 terms related to the behavior that get at least 1,000 hits each month. For each term, they examined the content on the websites displayed on the first page of each search.
"We focused on the first page because often people don't get beyond that when doing online searches," Lewis noted.
About 22 percent of the links that showed up in the searches were for health information websites, according to the study published online recently in JAMA Pediatrics. But only 10 percent of these websites was endorsed by a health or academic institution.
The investigators also found that each website contained at least one myth about self-injury. Among the misconceptions found was that self-injury is linked to gender and that self-injury is an attention-seeking behavior.
About half of the websites examined said that people who self-injure have mental illness, and 40 percent said those who self-injure have a history of abuse. Meanwhile, 37 percent said most people who engage in self-injury are women. All of these statements are either false or exaggerated, the researchers noted.
The implications are significant, Lewis said.
"Parents, peers and others looking to help someone with [nonsuicidal self-injury] may also be seeking information online, and what they are finding may be impacting their effectiveness as sources of support," Lewis said.
Over the past year, there were more than 42 million global searches using terms related to self-injury, the authors pointed out. More credible information on self-injury needs to be at the top of search pages, and Internet users should be educated on how to make sense of the health information they find online, they added.
"We were a bit surprised by the number of searches related to the topic but more surprised at how much of the information we came across was of low quality," Lewis said. "The Internet potentially is a powerful vehicle to reach out to those who self-injure and offer help and recovery resources, but we have to do it effectively and correctly."
More information
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has more about self-harm.
This article: Copyright © 2014 HealthDay. All rights reserved.


text:
|Last year I began flameworking thin pieces of borosilicate glass to sculpt raindrops. I assembled lots of pieces to construct these "Glass Rain" installations.
|I installed a Glass Rain chandelier at the offices of the Rhode Island State House over the summer. It was on display in the Atrium Gallery for August and September.
|This piece was about ten feet high, five feet deep, and four feet wide. The glass drops look so realistically watery when they're full of light!


text:
Skip to Main Content »
For customer service call us at 602-585-8056
Email to a Friend
Be the first to review this product
Availability: In stock
Double click on above image to view full picture
Use spaces to separate tags. Use single quotes (') for phrases.
Check items to add to the cart or select all
Party Deals (Nuclear Bomb 10G Red Mix and WTF 10G Blue Mix)
You have no items to compare.
You have no items in your shopping cart.
© 2012 www.potpourrideals.com All Rights Reserved. Magento Themes by Templates Master


text:
See how easy it is to find out how much your dj or photographer will be for your eventQUOTE
*Note: Quote expires 48 hrs after submission
* The DJ, his/her experience, library of music, pro equipment and backup equipment
* They will do the neccesary announcements (Mic included) and MC a reception
* Ceremony - music only - no mics/ mic supplied for reception announcements
* DJ will play pre-requested music 20-30 songs and take requests from guests
* The company is licensed / DJs are independant contractors and will not be providing liability insurance for your event.
* DJ will have a phone meeting with you once finalized event details are received (4 weeks before event)
* We are a web-based discount company so there are no in-person office meetings
* An experienced photographer with professional equipment and backup equipment
* Photographer shoots anything you want unlimited, for the time contractually hired.
* No additional photographer charge to travel to multiple locations - our fee is based on time hired.
* We take multiple weeks to edit photos, then send all files to you on a disc or digital file.
* We don't do prints - you have full printing rights
* We don't produce wedding albums in-house, but have an affiliate studio we can refer you to that is an expert at wedding albums after you receive your photos.
* The company is licensed / photographers are independant contractors and will not be providing liability insurance for your event.
* We are a web-based discount company so there are no in-person office meetings
Give Us a Call!
Phone: (727) 600-8641
We are an internet based company, in business over 15 years, with our office in Clearwater FL. We operate in multiple states.
Our mission is to provide affordabe djs and photographers to you at a discounted rate. We accomplish this by hiring local djs and photographers as independent contractors. This affiliation results in lower prices for you.
We are a licensed business in the state of Florida. Our lic# is #G17000042549.
Give us a call @
Phone: (727) 600-8641
Delighted you have stopped by. Everyone asks " Where can I find a reasonably priced DJ or wedding photographer in Alexandria that knows what they are doing ?
1) Book early! We reserve many wedding dates 6-12 months in advance or more. Parties are often booked 4-8 weeks in advance. If you wait - think of it like booking a last minute flight - you will lose some of the amazing discounts we offer.
2) Book a discounted package of DJ and photography. Brides usually tell us - the fee that many photographers charge that know what they are doing, you can get a pro DJ AND photographer for about the same price here. Even less if booked 6 mths or more in advance.
All our wedding DJs are experienced with pro equipment. They will make all necessary announcements for your wedding and be you MC for the evening. They will have a phone consultation with you one month prior to your event, once you email them all details.
Our talented roster of award-winning photographers all have wedding experience, pro equipment. They will shoot unlimited pictures for the time you hire them and travel to multiple locations. Our fee is based on time hired. Once the event is completed, the photographer will edit your photos and send them to you in a downloadable link once completed. You will then have full printing rights.
Just looking for someone to play the music for a fun party without the price gouge? Our experienced affordable party DJs can be the perfect soundtrack for any celebration from a sweet 16 - birthday - corporate or private event - quinceanera - all occasions. They will bring pro equipment, show up early, play your requests, take requests from your guests, make announcements and MC your party.
Whatever type of event you are throwing - a wedding birthday retirement party - engagement shoot - we know it's a big deal and an important time in your life, so we take seriously your trust in booking a DJ and photographer with us.
Whatever type of event you are throwing - a wedding birthday retirement party - engagement shoot - we know it's a big deal and an important time in your life, so we take seriously your trust in booking a DJ and photographer with us.
There are no fancy offices here - in fact no offices at all - this is to save you money. We don't wear tuxes or talk in that cheezy DJ voice. Just a roster of talent that will capture your big day or be just the right soundtrack for a fun night.
We are not going to make any grandiose claims or give you hype. Only that we won't be pricey. Your DJ and photographer will arrive an hour early with equipment that works, and carry backup, in case it fails - that's what makes us professional.


text:
In newscasts after intense wind and ice storms, damaged trees stand out: snapped limbs, uprooted trunks, entire forests blown nearly flat.
In a storm's wake, landowners, municipalities and state agencies are faced with important financial and environmental decisions.
A study by Harvard University researchers, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and published in the journal Ecology, yields a surprising result: when it comes to the health of forests, native plants and wildlife, the best management decision may be to do nothing.
Salvage logging is a common response to modern storm events in large woodlands. Acres of downed, leaning and broken trees are cut and hauled away.
Landowners and towns financially recoup with a sale of the damaged timber. But in a salvaged woodland landscape, the forest's original growth and biodiversity, on which many animals and ecological processes depend, is stripped away.
A thickly growing, early-successional forest made up of a few light-loving tree species develops in its place.
But what happens when wind-blown forests are left to their own devices?
The Ecology paper reports results of a 20-year study at NSF's Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in Massachusetts. Harvard Forest is one of 26 such NSF LTER sites around the world in ecosystems from coral reefs to deserts, grasslands to the polar regions.
"To manage sustainable ecosystems, we must understand how they recover from extreme, natural events, such as hurricanes, fires and floods," says Matt Kane, a program director at NSF for LTER. "This process can take decades. The NSF LTER program is uniquely able to support important experiments at the time scales needed."
At Harvard Forest in 1990, a team of scientists recreated a major hurricane in a two-acre patch of mature oak forest.
Eighty percent of the trees were flattened with a large winch and cable. Half the trees died within three years, and the scientists left the dead and damaged wood on the ground.
In the 20 years since, the researchers have monitored everything from soil chemistry to the density of leaves on the trees.
What they found is a remarkable story of recovery.
Initially, the site was a nearly impassable jumble of downed trees. But surviving, sprouting trees, along with many new seedlings of black birch and red maple--species original to the forest--thrived amid the dead wood.
Although weedy invasive plants initially tried to colonize the area, few persisted for long.
"Leaving a damaged forest intact means the original conditions recover more readily," says David Foster, co-author of the paper and director of the NSF Harvard Forest LTER site.
"Forests have been recovering from natural processes like windstorms, fire and ice for millions of years. What appears to us as devastation is actually, to a forest, a natural and important state of affairs."
After severe tornadoes in Massachusetts in June 2011, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Division of Fisheries and Wildlife pursued a watch-and-wait policy at a site in Southbridge, Mass.
There, salvage work is limited to providing access routes for public safety.
The area is quickly regaining lush, native vegetation. It supports everything from invertebrates to salamanders, and black bears that winter in thick brush piles and forage for insects in rotting logs.
While a range of economic, public safety and aesthetic reasons seems to compel landowners to salvage storm-damaged trees, paper co-author Audrey Barker-Plotkin of the Harvard Forest site suggests that improving forest health should not be one of them.
"Although a blown-down forest appears chaotic," she says, "it is functioning as a forest and doesn't need us to clean it up."
Story Source:
Materials provided by National Science Foundation. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
Journal Reference:
Cite This Page:


text:
NARA chief: Agencies want updated records management processes
Federal officials tasked with updating records management systems want better guidance on which records must be preserved and a schedule for when they should be turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration, Archivist of the United States David Ferriero said Wednesday.
The officials also think NARA's Electronic Records Archive , which Ferreiro called "clunky," should be updated.
"We need to make the ERA much more user-friendly; that came through loud and clear," Ferriero said.
NARA hasn't publicly released agencies' records management reviews, which were due in late March, but Ferriero described common themes in responses during a question-and-answer session at the FOSE 2012 government technology conference.
President Obama ordered agencies to produce the reviews in a November 2011 memo , which argued federal records management hadn't kept pace with the volume and velocity common to the Digital Age. NARA and the White House plan to turn the reviews into a "governmentwide records management framework."
Records now are managed primarily on an agency-by-agency basis with little cooperation. About 95 percent of agencies fail to meet statutory requirements for maintaining their records, according to a NARA estimate based on agency self-assessments.
Most of NARA's General Records Schedules , which govern how agency records should be maintained, were written before the age of electronic records. Agencies generally aren't required to turn over records to NARA for 30 years, or more, after they are created, making it unlikely older documents will be stored in a file format that contemporary computers will be adept at or even capable of reading.
Ferriero has suggested reducing that lag time to a single presidential administration whether it lasts one or two terms. That's the lag time for most White House records.
NARA has been collecting input on possible records management reforms on an IdeaScale crowdsourcing page.
During Wednesday's discussion, Ferriero also described a NARA project to help the Veterans Benefits Administration scan its paper records in a clear, legible form. In the future, he said, NARA might offer scanning as a service to other agencies. That would fit with federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel's focus on increasing shared services across government, he said.


text:
ACLU seeks info on how police use cellphone data
The use of cellphone tracking technology has become routine in many investigations
By Cristian Salazar
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The use of cellphone location data by law enforcement agencies is "shrouded in secrecy" even though it has become widespread throughout the country, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday in demanding the agencies disclose how they collect and use the data.
The civil rights organization said 34 of its affiliates around the country have filed open-records requests with hundreds of law enforcement agencies seeking disclosure on cellphone location data, which can be used to pinpoint where people go with their phones.
"We have a lot of questions about how people are tracked in this country," said Catherine Crump, staff attorney for the ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. "Technology is an increasingly powerful way to engage in surveillance."
She said law enforcement officials should be required to demonstrate probable cause and get warrants before tracking cellphone locations.
"We need to make a decision: Either law enforcement agents are going to be able to track us wherever we go or we are going to set up some ground rules," she said.
ACLU affiliates want to know procedures for accessing cellphone location data, including whether law enforcement agencies have to demonstrate probable cause to obtain warrants for access. They also are requesting statistics on how often law enforcement agencies get the data and how much money is being spent on tracking cellphones.
Location information can be collected in various ways, such as by tracing a cellphone's signal to nearby towers or by using satellite data from GPS chips embedded in an increasing number of phones. The Federal Communications Commission requires carriers to provide location information to public safety agencies when 911 calls are placed.
The first vice president of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police, Raymond Hayducka, said the use of cellphone tracking technology had become routine in many investigations.
"Every week we get some kind of crime where we have to do some kind of tracking," said Hayducka, the chief of the South Brunswick Police Department.
He said his department would comply with the open-records request from the ACLU.
He said examples of non-criminal cases in which police have used cellphone tracking include locating people lost in the woods and finding people who made 911 calls but hung up.
In New Jersey, he said, the use of cellphone location data in higher-level criminal cases is limited and investigators first have to obtain communication data warrants from a judge.
"It's done for a legitimate law enforcement purpose," he said. "There's no other reason to do it."
Congress is considering a bill to force police to obtain warrants before collecting cellphone location information.
Copyright 2011 Associated Press
- Tags
- Investigations


text:
Notable Works of Non-Fiction includes a few that may be of interest to academics. Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World by Robin Wright, a former Post reporter, analyzes the Arab Spring. See the N.Y. Times review of Wright's book here. Michael Spence's take on global dynamics, The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World, an analysis of the relationship between developed and developing economies, also made the Post's list. Listen to an interview about the book with the Nobel prize-winning economist here.
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera. The book describes "shocking" details about the Wall Street collapse. Janny Scott's A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother, makes the list for offering a "nuanced portrait" of Ann Dunham. Listen to a broadcast about the biography on NPR here.
This week's N.Y.Times Book Review also features reviews of works by or about three leading American political figures. Carl Bogus's William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism is one of several recent works that analyze the roots of the conservative movement. It is reviewed here. Listen to an interview with Bogus here. A liberal rebuttal of sorts to all of the talk about conservatism is offered in a review of Bill Clinton's Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy. The Review covers the second memoir of Condoleezza Rice, entitled No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington, as well.
Henry Louis Gates's supposedly favorable assessment of Rice's wartime leadership in Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008, is just one reason that David Margolick gives the new book a lukewarm review in this week's N.Y.Times Book Review. The book, a compendium of photographs and entries about the signal events and people in African-American history from 1513 to the election of President Barack Obama, strikes the reviewer as ambitious but seriously deficient. Margolick criticizes Gates's editorial choices, finds numerous factual errors in the 487-page book, and accuses Gates of careless analysis. Life Upon These Shores is "superficial," and "boosterish," the reviewer concludes. That's much less than we should expect from one of America's "most eminent black scholars," says Margolick.
The work of the late Manning Marable, an eminent historian of the black American experience, makes the mark in this week's Times Book Review. Marable's Malcom X: A Life of Reinvention, is included on the Times's Top 10 Best Books of 2011; it also was a 2011 National Book Award finalist. A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman makes the Times's Top 10 list as well. Read interviews with Foreman here.


text:
Flex System Enterprise Chassis
Highly Reliable. Customizable. Efficient.
Flex System Enterprise Chassis
Highly Reliable. Customizable. Efficient.
Tech Specs
Attribute Specification DescriptionBase model Height440 mm (10 EIA rack standard units) Width447 mm (EIA 19-inch rack standard width, minus 3 mm clearance) Depth800 mm (measured from front bezel to rear of chassis) 847 mm (measured from ITE latch handle to the power supply handle) Rack mount weight505 lbs Minimum loadout weight218 lbs Maximum loadout weight493 lbs Heat load minimum1,365 BTUs/hr (est) Heat load maximum44,017 BTUs/hr (est) Air flow minimum†270 CFM Air flow maximum†1020 CFM Voltage minimum180 VAC Voltage nominal200-240 VAC + 10% Voltage maximum265 VAC Frequency minimum47Hz Frequency nominal50/60 Hz Frequency maximum63Hz Power minimum400 W (estimate) Power maximum12,900 W (12.9 kW) Maximum Input Current13.85 A per supply Node bays14 node bays (7 full wide) Power supplies2/6 2500 W 200 - 240 VAC, 380V HVDC, and -48V DC Switch modulesOptional 80 mm fans4/8 40 mm fans2/2 Chassis Management Module (CMM)1/2 Machine type8721
Specifications may vary depending upon region.
3D Tour
Features and Benefits
- Outstanding flexibility and efficiency with choice of compute and networking
- No compromise design that can easily scale capabilities with business needs
- Designed for multiple generations of technology
- Integrated and easy to use management with advanced functions
- Scalable pay-as-you-grow flexible I/O offerings
- Highly resilient: no single point of failure to maintain high availability
- Designed to deliver a highly secure environment, protecting vital information and maximizing uptime
- World-class service with three-year on-site support
Flexibility, Efficiency
To meet today's complex and ever-changing business demands, the Lenovo Flex System Enterprise Chassis provides a high-performance, integrated infrastructure platform that supports a mix of compute and networking capabilities. The Flex System Enterprise Chassis has been designed and built specifically to provide the efficiency you need now, along with the growth path necessary to protect your investment into the future.
The Flex System Enterprise Chassis is the foundation of the Flex System offering, which features 14 standard (half-width) Flex System form factor compute node bays in a 10U chassis that delivers high-performance connectivity for your integrated compute, networking and management resources.


text:
The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSDby Anand Lal Shimpi on August 30, 2009 12:00 AM EST
- Posted in
- Storage
Intel's X25-M 34nm vs 50nm: Not as Straight Forward As You'd Think
It took me a while to understand exactly what Intel did with its latest drive, mostly because there are no docs publicly available on either the flash used in the drives or on the controller itself. Intel is always purposefully vague about important details, leaving everything up to clever phrasing of questions and guesswork with tests and numbers before you truly uncover what's going on. But after weeks with the drive, I think I've got it.
|X25-M Gen 1
|X25-M Gen 2
|Flash Manufacturing Process
|Flash Read Latency
|85 µs
|65 µs
|Flash Write Latency
|115 µs
|85 µs
|Random 4KB Reads
|Up to 35K IOPS
|Up to 35K IOPS
|Random 4KB Writes
|Up to 3.3K IOPS
|Up to 6.6K IOPS (80GB)
Up to 8.6K IOPS (160GB)
|Sequential Read
|Up to 250MB/s
|Up to 250MB/s
|Sequential Write
|Up to 70MB/s
|Up to 70MB/s
|Introductory Price
The old X25-M G1
The new X25-M G2
Moving to 34nm flash let Intel drive the price of the X25-M to ultra competitive levels. It also gave Intel the opportunity to tune controller performance a bit. The architecture of the controller hasn't changed, but it is technically a different piece of silicon (that happens to be Halogen-free). What has changed is the firmware itself.
The old controller
The new controller
The new X25-M G2 has twice as much DRAM on-board as the previous drive. The old 160GB drive used a 16MB Samsung 166MHz SDRAM (CAS3):
Goodbye Samsung
The new 160GB G2 drive uses a 32MB Micron 133MHz SDRAM (CAS3):
Hello Micron
More memory means that the drive can track more data and do a better job of keeping itself defragmented and well organized. We see this reflected in the "used" 4KB random write performance, which is around 50% higher than the previous drive.
Intel is now using 16GB flash packages instead of 8GB packages from the original drive. Once 34nm production really ramps up, Intel could outfit the back of the PCB with 10 more chips and deliver a 320GB drive. I wouldn't expect that anytime soon though.
The old X25-M G1
The new X25-M G2
Low level performance of the new drive ranges from no improvement to significant depending on the test:
Note that these results are a bit different than my initial preview. I'm using the latest build of Iometer this time around, instead of the latest version from iometer.org. It does a better job filling the drives and produces more reliable test data in general.
The trend however is clear: the new G2 drive isn't that much faster. In fact, the G2 is slower than the G1 in my 4KB random write test when the drive is brand new. The benefit however is that the G2 doesn't drop in performance when used...at all. Yep, you read that right. In the most strenuous case for any SSD, the new G2 doesn't even break a sweat. That's...just...awesome.
The rest of the numbers are pretty much even, with the exception of 4KB random reads where the G2 is roughly 11% faster.
I continue to turn to PCMark Vantage as the closest indication to real world performance I can get for these SSDs, and it echoes my earlier sentiments:
When brand new, the G1 and the G2 are very close in performance. There are some tests where the G2 is faster, others where the G1 is faster. The HDD suite shows the true potential of the G2 and even there we're only looking at a 5.6% performance gain.
It's in the used state that we see the G2 pull ahead a bit more, but still not drastic. The advantage in the HDD suite is around 7.5%, but the rest of the tests are very close. Obviously the major draw to the 34nm drives is their price, but that can't be all there is to it...can it?
The new drives come with TRIM support, albeit not out of the box. Sometime in Q4 of this year, Intel will offer a downloadable firmware that enables TRIM on only the 34nm drives. TRIM on these drives will perform much like TRIM does on the OCZ drives using Indilinx' manual TRIM tool - in other words, restoring performance to almost new.
Because it can more or less rely on being able to TRIM invalid data, the G2 firmware is noticeably different from what's used in the G1. In fact, if we slightly modify the way I tested in the Anthology I can actually get the G1 to outperform the G2 even in PCMark Vantage. In the Anthology, to test the used state of a drive I would first fill the drive then restore my test image onto it. The restore process helped to fragment the drive and make sure the spare-area got some use as well. If we take the same approach but instead of imaging the drive we perform a clean Windows install on it, we end up with a much more fragmented state; it's not a situation you should ever encounter since a fresh install of Windows should be performed on a clean, secure erased drive, but it does give me an excellent way to show exactly what I'm talking about with the G2:
|PCMark Vantage (New)
|PCMark Vantage HDD (New)
|PCMark Vantage (Fragmented + Used)
|PCMark Vantage HDD (Fragmented + Used)
|Intel X25-M G1
|Intel X25-M G2
|G2 Advantage
Something definitely changed with the way the G2 handles fragmentation, it doesn't deal with it as elegantly as the G1 did. I don't believe this is a step backwards though, Intel is clearly counting on TRIM to keep the drive from ever getting to the point that the G1 could get to. The tradeoff is most definitely performance and probably responsible for the G2's ability to maintain very high random write speeds even while used. I should mention that even without TRIM it's unlikely that the G2 will get to this performance state where it's actually slower than the G1; the test just helps to highlight that there are significant differences between the drives.
Overall the G2 is the better drive but it's support for TRIM that will ultimately ensure that. The G1 will degrade in performance over time, the G2 will only lose performance as you fill it with real data. I wonder what else Intel has decided to add to the new firmware...
I hate to say it but this is another example of Intel only delivering what it needs to in order to succeed. There's nothing that keeps the G1 from also having TRIM other than Intel being unwilling to invest the development time to make it happen. I'd be willing to assume that Intel already has TRIM working on the G1 internally and it simply chose not to validate the firmware for public release (an admittedly long process). But from Intel's perspective, why bother?
Even the G1, in its used state, is faster than the fastest Indilinx drive. In 4KB random writes the G1 is even faster than an SLC Indilinx drive. Intel doesn't need to touch the G1, the only thing faster than it is the G2. Still, I do wish that Intel would be generous to its loyal customers that shelled out $600 for the first X25-M. It just seems like the right thing to do. Sigh.
295 Comments
View All Comments
drsethl - Monday, March 15, 2010 - linkHi,
just to add to the chorus of praise: this is a superbly informative article, thank you for all the effort, and I hope that it has paid off for you, as I'm sure it must have.
My first question is this. Is it possible to analyse a program while you're using it, to see whether it is primarily doing sequential or random writes? Since there seems to be a quite clear difference between the Intel X25m 80gb and the OCZ vertex 120gb, which are the natural entry-level drives here, where the Intel works better for random access, the vertex for sequential, it would be very useful to know which I would make best use of.
Second question: does anyone know whether lightroom in particular is based around random or sequential writes? I know that a LR catalog is always radically fragmented, which suggests presumably that it is based around random writes, but that's just an uninformed guess. It does have a cache function, which produces files in the region of 3-5mb in size--are they likely to be sequential?
Third question: with photoshop, is it specifically as a scratch disk that the intel x25m underperforms? Or does photoshop do other sequential writes, besides those to the scratch disk? I ask because if it only doesn't work as a scratch disk, then that's not a big problem--anyone using this in a PC is likely to have a decent regular HDD for data anyway, so the scratch disk can just be sent there. In fact, I've been using a vertex 120gb, with a samsung spinpoint f3 500gb on my PC, and I found that with the scratch disk on the samsung I got better retouch artists results (only by about half a second, but that's out of 14 seconds, so still fairly significant).
Thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to answer, and thanks again Anand for such an informative read.
drsethl - Friday, July 9, 2010 - linkHi again,
just to report back, since writing the previous comment I have bought both drives, vertex and intel (the original vertex 128gb, and the intel g2 x25m). While the Intel does perform better in benchmarks, the difference in general usage is barely noticeable. Except when using lightroom 3, when the intel is considerably slower than the vertex. I'm using a canon 550d, which produces 18mpx pictures. When viewing a catalogue for the first time (without any pre-created previews), the intel takes on average about 20s to produce a full scale 1:1 preview. This is infuriating. The vertex takes about 8s. Bear in mind that i've got 4gb of 1333mhz ram, intel i7 q720 processor, ati 5470 mobility radeon graphics. So it's not the most powerful laptop in the world, but it's no slouch either. I can only conclude that when LR3 makes previews it does large sequential writes, and that the considerable performance advantage of the vertex on this metric alone suddenly becomes very important. With which in mind, I'm now going to sell the Intel and buy a vertex 2e, which will give the best of both worlds. But I'm sure there are lots of photographers out there wondering about this like I was, so hopefully this will help.
jgstew - Friday, October 8, 2010 - linkI believe you are correct about the LR Catalog being mostly random writes, but I don't think this is a performance concern since the Catalog is likely stored in RAM for reads, and written back to the drive when changes are made that affect the Catalog, which is not happening all the time.
As for the generating previews and Photoshop scratch disk, this is going to be primarily sequential since it is generating the data one at a time and writing it to disk completely. If LR was generating multiple previews for multiple photos simultaneously and writing them simultaneously, then you would have heavy fragmentation of the cache, and more random writes.
Any SSD is going to give significant performance benefit over spindle HD when it comes to random read/write/access. Sequential performance is the man concern with Photos/Video/Audio and similar data in most cases.
One thing you might consider trying is having more than one SSD, or doing this if you upgrade down the road. Have the smaller SSD with fast sequential read/write act as the cache disk for LR/Photoshop/Others and have the other SSD be the boot drive with all the OS/Apps/etc. This way other things going on in the system will not effect the cache disk performance, as well as speed up writes from boot ssd to cache disk, and back.
ogreinside - Monday, December 14, 2009 - linkAfter spending all weekend reading this article, 2 previous in the trilogy, and all the comments, I wanted to post my thanks for all of your hard work. I've been ignoring SSDs for a while as I wanted to see them mature first. I am in the market for a new Alienware desktop, but as the wife is letting me purchase only on our Dell charge account, I have a limited selection and budget.
I was settled on everything except the disks. They are offering the Samsung 256SSD, which I believe is the Samsung PM800 drive. The cost is exactly double that of the WD VelociRaptor 300 GB. So naturally I have done a ton of research for this final choice. After exploring your results here, and reading comments, I am definitely not getting their Samsung SSD. I would love to grab an Intel G2 or OCZ Indilinx, but that means real cash now, and we simply can't do that yet. The charge account gives us room to pay it off at 12-month no-interest.
So at this point I can get a 2x WD VR in raid 0 to hold me over for a year or so when I can replace (or add) a good SSD. My problem is that I have seen my share issues with raid 0 on an ICH controller on two different Dell machines (boot issues, unsure of performance gain). In fact, using the same drives/machine, I saw better random read performance (512K) on a single drive than the ICH raid, and 4k wasn't far behind. I'm thinking I may stick to a single WD VR for now, but I really want to believe raid0 would be better.
So, back on topic, it would be nice to see the ICH raid controller explored a bit, and maybe add a raid0 WD VR configuration to your next round of tests.
(CryastalDiskMark 2.2)
Single-drive 7200 rpm g:
Sequential Read : 123.326 MB/s
Sequential Write : 114.957 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 55.793 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 94.408 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 0.861 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 1.724 MB/s
Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/12/09 2:03:4
ICH raid0:
Sequential Read : 218.909 MB/s
Sequential Write : 175.]347 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 51.884 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 135.466 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 1.001 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 2.868 MB/s
Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/12/08 21:45:20
marraco - Friday, August 13, 2010 - linkThumbs up for the ICH10 petition. It's the most common RAID controller on i7.
Also, I would like to see different models of SSD in RAID (For example one intel raided with one Indilinx).
I suspect that performance with SSD scales much better that with older technologies. So I want to know if makes sense to buy a single SSD, and wait for prices to get cheaper at the time of upgrade. The problem is that as prices get cheaper, old SSD models are no more available.
aaphid - Friday, November 27, 2009 - linkOK, I'm still slightly confused. It seems that running the wipe/trim utility will keep the ssd in top condition but it won't run on a Mac. So are these going to be a poor decision for use in a Mac?
ekerazha - Monday, October 26, 2009 - linkAnand,
it's strange to see your
"Is Intel still my overall recommendation? Of course. The random write performance is simply too good to give up and it's only in very specific cases that the 80MB/s sequential write speed hurts you."
of the last review, is now a
"The write speed improvement that the Intel firmware brings to 160GB drives is nice but ultimately highlights a bigger issue: Intel's write speed is unacceptable in today's market."
ekerazha - Monday, October 26, 2009 - linkOps wrong article
mohsh86 - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkam 23 years old computer engineer..
this is the most awesome informative article ever read !
Pehu - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkFirst of all, thanks for the article. It was superb and led to my first SSD purchase last week. Installed the intel G2 yesterday and windows 7 (64 bit) with 8 G of RAM. A smooth ride I have to say :)
Now, there is one question I have been trying to find an answer:
Should I put the windows page file (swap) to the SSD disk or to another normal HD?
Generally the swap should be behind other controller than your OS disk, to speed things up. However, SSD disks are so fast that there is a temptation to put the swap on OS disk. Also, one consideration is the disk age, does it preserve it longer if swap is moved away from SSD.
Also what I am lacking is some general info about how to maximise the disk age without too much loss of speed, in one guru3d article instructions were given as:
* Drive indexing disabled. (useless for SSD anyway, because access times are so low).
* Prefetch disabled.
* Superfetch disabled
* Defrag disabled.
Any comments and/or suggestions for windows 7 on that?


text:
Rent vs. Buy: Why Buying a House Generally Wins
Rent vs. buy. In finance circles, it's a bigger debate than "paper vs. plastic" or "tastes great vs. less filling."
It remains a debate fought by smart people on both sides, because the variables make calculus look like third-grade math.
Advocates of buying will use arguments that feature phrases such as "throwing away money on rent," "mortgage interest rate deduction," "locking in a monthly payment," and "forced savings." They may even appeal to your sense of community by pointing out the social benefits of an ownership mentality.
Advocates of renting will say the benefits of homeownership are overrated while the costs are underrated.
From the title of this column, you know where I stand. But let's give the rent advocates their due.
Rent vs. buy: The case against buying a house
A popular argument against owning housing is that home prices barely keep up with inflation. Using Yale Professor Robert Shiller's data that goes back to the late 1800s, we're talking about just 0.2% annually. Yes, that's a decimal point before the two. Compare that inflation-adjusted return with the 6%-7% historical real return of the stock market and you can see where their argument is headed.
Buyers also pay closing costs, real estate agent fees, homeowners insurance premiums, property taxes, and sometimes refinancing costs.
Then there are the "investments," which are often better classified as "cool stuff I want," or maintenance costs -- neither of which meaningfully increase the value of the house.
I've owned a house for 10 years, so let's use me for illustrative purposes. Here's a list of things I've bought that cost at least $1,000 (often much more). Renters normally don't directly pay for any of this stuff.
Hardwood flooring
Deductible on homeowners insurance after my washer flooded the basement
Landscaping (twice)
Laminate wood flooring
New roof
Painting and fixture upgrades (pre-wife)
New heating/cooling system
New sliding glass doors
Cutting down of diseased trees or trimming of healthy trees (three times)
Stainless-steel refrigerator
Painting, bathroom refurbishing, and fixture upgrades (post-wife)
I fancy myself strategically frugal, but stuff breaks, neighbors complain about overgrown vegetation, and new wives refuse to live in a bachelor pad. So I've averaged more than one $1,000-plus item a year -- and I fully expect that trend to continue. Also remember that I'm excluding anything costing two or three digits -- like replacing the dishwasher (twice), the washer (twice), the dryer, the refrigerator (twice before the stainless-steel upgrade), the sump pump (whatever that is), the water heater, and a toilet. We haven't even talked about the countless Home Depot and Ikea nickel-and-dimes. And I've so far avoided the big kahunas of homeowner money pits -- additions and full-blown renovations. Others haven't.
Given all this, I'd agree it's fair to factor in a good deal of hidden ownership costs that go beyond sizing up your mortgage against a comparable rental.
Plus, there are the harder-to-quantify costs. The lack of liquidity (hence the term "house poor"). The massive debt you're taking on. The inherent risk and lack of diversification once you sink so much into one asset. Reduced mobility, making it harder to move to a new city or perhaps change jobs within the same city. The nights and weekends you spend on house projects. The ever-present responsibility and stress.
You get the idea. There are careers' worth of arguments, theories, and speculations on why homeownership is overrated. But when you step away from the rhetoric, there's one fact that trumps everything: Nothing has built wealth for the typical family in the United States like homeownership.
Rent vs. buy: The buyer's trump card
When the Federal Reserve tallied it up in 2010, the median household had $77,300 socked away in net worth. In other words, when you look at a family that's doing better than 50% of us and worse than 50% of us and you add up all their assets (stocks, bonds, house, cars, IRAs, 401(k)s, gold, equity in private businesses, checking accounts, savings accounts, certificates of deposit, cash under the mattress, etc.) and subtract out all their liabilities (mortgages, student loans, credit card debt, etc.), you end up $77,300 to the good.
How much of that is due to owning a house? Here's a picture:
Source: The Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances for 2010.
It's pretty stunning that for all the hidden costs and arguments about better investments, housing makes up more than 60% ($47,500/$77,300) of the median family's cushion against bankruptcy.
Now you still may not be convinced. You may be clinging to the thought that those without homes should be able to put the money they don't spend on curtains and sump pumps to better investment use. It's a compelling theory refuted by reality. Here's the picture:
Source: The Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances for 2010.
That's over a 30-to-1 net-worth advantage in favor of homeowners. Anticipating the sharp readers who will argue that this could be demographics (e.g., older people, more educated people, families, or high-income people are more likely to own houses), I looked further. Households headed by folks under age 35 have a median net worth that's about double the $5,100 median net worth of non-homeowners. Households headed by folks with no high school diploma have saved more than triple what the non-homeowner has. So have single folks with no children. And, yes, even families in the bottom 20% of income have more net worth than the non-homeowner.
Pretty darn stunning.
We can speculate on why this is. I subscribe to the simple, classic argument in favor of homeownership. Each month, homeowners are automatically squirreling away the principal portion of their mortgage payment -- as opposed to the renter, whose whole rent is an expense. People sometimes forget that the alternative to a mortgage is paying rent (not investing in the stock market) when they argue that home prices barely keep up with inflation.
As for the hidden costs of homeownership, I think a greater percentage of us than we'd like to admit end up blowing the money anyway -- on fancier vacations, or extra glasses of wine on nights out, or living in a more upscale house or neighborhood, or shoes, or playoff tickets, or whatever it is that keeps our median net worth at just $77,300.
Don't misunderstand me. This isn't a call to arms for everyone to jump willy-nilly into one of the biggest, most complicated financial decisions of their lives. The harrowing stories from the housing bubble showed us what happens when we buy when we don't have enough income or savings, overpay, or don't do our due diligence. There are also non-financial reasons that buying a house just doesn't make sense for some people.
And nothing I've written should be interpreted as a justification to buy that expensive rug instead of putting a little extra into your 401(k).
This is just a reminder that there are many theories on the other side, but the real-world numbers greatly favor buying versus renting when all else is anywhere close to equal.
The article Rent vs. Buy: Why Buying a House Generally Wins originally appeared on Fool.com.
Anand Chokkavelu, CFA, loves homeownership but hates yard work. You can follow him on Twitter. We Fools don't all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
Copyright © 1995 - 2013 The Motley Fool, LLC. All rights reserved. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.