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November 28th, 2005 by eugene
2005 Notebook Drive Roundup
Over the past few years, a growing chorus of StorageReview readers requesting reviews of notebook drives has emerged. Given the exploding user base of notebook machines, it seemed only natural to extend StorageReview's drive-centric coverage to the smaller, 2.5 inch devices. A few obstacles remained, however. First, we were on the verge of migrating our testing from an older configuration to a newer machine; commencing notebook drive reviews on Testbed3 would have yielded results that would have rapidly become outdated. Second, power consumption remains a key factor in assessing notebook hard drives (and all portable components, for that matter). Testbed4's recent debut coupled with our associated all-new power dissipation measurements, however, has removed these barriers. The time is ripe for some SR notebook drive reviews!
For our purposes, a "notebook-class hard drive" is one featuring a 2.8x4.0x0.4 inch form factor that incorporates 2.5" platters. These drives have traditionally featured a parallel ATA interface arrayed with a 5 volt power line in a 22x2 pin grid. Like their desktop cousins, however, notebook disks are poised for a transition to the serial ATA interface. In addition to unifying electronics, the move to SATA also delivers a single physical connection- the compact data and power connectors found on today's desktop drives fit quite well on the relatively miniscule devices.
What is Important in a Notebook Drive?
Capacity- Due to their diminutive size, notebook drives suffer when compared to desktop models. Smaller platter sizes produce significantly less area on which data may be recorded... today's platters top out at 50-60 GB. In addition, the form factor's slimmer design typically permits just two platters per assembly versus a desktop drive's maximum of four or five.
Speed- Smaller buffers, lower spindle speeds, lighter actuator magnets, lesser transfer rates, and electronics/caching strategies tuned for power-efficient operation rather than raw speed result in notebook devices that yield a noticeably sluggish experience when contrasted with their desktop counterparts. In addition, the aforementioned lower capacities produce volumes that tend to span a 2.5" platter's distance, further slowing things down with physically longer seeks.
Power Consumption- By their very nature, portable machines spend considerable time operating away from A/C power. Power draw of various components becomes a key issue. Though TFT displays suck up the lion's share of electricity, mobile hard drives consume up to four watts of electricity, on par with today's power-saving notebook CPUs.
Heat Generation- Production of heat goes hand in hand with power dissipation. As a hard drive consumes more power, it radiates more heat into the relatively cramped confines of a notebook's chassis. This heat must then be expelled by the machine's fan, which in turn consumes more power and generates more noise.
Noise- Featuring energy-efficient screens, CPUs, hard drives, and other components, the typical notebook machine dissipates less heat as a whole and thus requires lighter airflow. Quieter fans yield a lower total noise floor through which the other major mechanical component, the hard drive, may be heard.
Ruggedness- Notebooks move around far more often than desktops. These systems experience bangs, bounces, and drops that directly channel kinetic force to the hard disk... in many cases while the drive is actively working. Mobile drive designs must provision for shocks to the spindle assembly and for head slaps far in excess of the levels expected in desktop environments.
Over the years, manufacturers have stepped up to the challenge. Toshiba and IBM/Hitachi have long been the dominant players in the mobile drive market. Recently, however, they have been joined by familiar names such as Fujitsu, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital. These aspiring newcomers covet the market share enjoyed by the veteran firms and have introduced competing 2.5" products.
The Contenders
This first look at notebook drives has been a long time in coming. Our review of most of these units was initially slated for publication nearly a year ago. With the Testbed4 revision (supposedly) looming, however, a decision was made to delay the printing of results that would soon be outdated by new hardware and methodology. Testbed4, of course, took quite a bit longer to finalize than we imagined. Hence, while the two 7200 RPM models tested in this review represent today's state-of-the-art, many 5400 RPM devices are giving way to their successors. Nonetheless, they are all readily available for purchase in the channel. Naturally, SR will bring you reviews of the latest drives as they become available. When we do, the products in this roundup will serve as a robust sample set against which new drives may be compared.
Without further ado, let us take a look at these contenders!
As parallel ATA drives, these units were evaluated running off of our Testbed's native Intel ICH5 controller rather than the Silicon Image 3124-2 adapter used to assess SATA drives. Read onwards to see how they stack up!
Access Time and Transfer Rate
For diagnostic purposes only, StorageReview measures the following low-level parameters:
Average Read Access Time- An average of 25,000 random read accesses of a single sector each conducted through IPEAK SPT's AnalyzeDisk suite. The high sample size permits a much more accurate reading than most typical benchmarks deliver and provides an excellent figure with which one may contrast the claimed access time (claimed seek time + the drive spindle speed's average rotational latency) provided by manufacturers.
Average Write Access Time- An average of 25,000 random write accesses of a single sector each conducted through IPEAK SPT's AnalyzeDisk suite. The high sample size permits a much more accurate reading than most typical benchmarks deliver. Due to differences in read and write head technology, seeks involving writes generally take more time than read accesses.
WB99 Disk/Read Transfer Rate - Begin- The sequential transfer rate attained by the outermost zones in the hard disk. The figure typically represents the highest sustained transfer rate a drive delivers.
WB99 Disk/Read Transfer Rate - End- The sequential transfer rate attained by the innermost zones in the hard disk. The figure typically represents the lowest sustained transfer rate a drive delivers.
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The average rotational latency of a 7200 RPM spindle is about 4.2 milliseconds. At 5400 RPM, latency hovers around 5.6 ms. As a result, 7200 RPM drives enjoy an innate 1.4 millisecond advantage when it comes to average access time, the sum of latency and seek time. It is no surprise then that the two 7200 RPM units, the Deskstar 7K100 and Momentus 7200.1, post the best overall access times. Interestingly, however, neither unit can boast the best measured seek time. That distinction goes to Hitachi's 5400 RPM Travelstar 5K100. The drive's calculated seek time of 9.8 milliseconds nearly offsets its lower spindle speed and places the unit's access time closer to that of the 7200 RPM duo than its 5400 RPM brethren.
While the Travelstar 7K100 again claims the best average write access time score, the 5400 RPM 5K100 again delivers a great showing. This time around, it is enough to edge past the Momentus 7200.1 to stake out the 5K100's position as the #2 drive.
When it comes to sequential transfer rates, it is once again Hitachi's Travelstar 7K100 at the top. At 53 MB/sec, the Travelstar easily outdistances the second-place Momentus 7200.1. The Momentus, in turn, rides its 7200 RPM spindle speed advantage and outpaces the fastest 5400 RPM unit (Seagate's own) by nearly 10 MB/sec. The 5400 RPM crowd segments next, with the Momentus 5400.2 and Travelstar 5K100 at about 39 MB/sec, Fujitsu's MHT and WD's Scorpio hovering at 35 MB/sec, and Samsung's SpinPoint bringing up the rear at 31 MB/sec.
Inner zone scores for the 7K100 and 7200.1 come in relatively close to each other at just under 30 MB/sec, hinting at the Travelstar's slightly steeper rate decay as data moves towards inner tracks. Similarly, all the 5400 RPM contenders weigh in at about 20 MB/sec.
Some Perspective
It is important to remember that seek time and transfer rate measurements are mostly diagnostic in nature and not really measurements of "performance" per se. Assessing these two specs is quite similar to running a processor "benchmark" that confirms "yes, this processor really runs at 2.4 GHz and really does feature a 400 MHz FSB." Many additional factors combine to yield aggregate high-level hard disk performance above and beyond these two easily measured yet largely irrelevant metrics. In the end, drives, like all other PC components, should be evaluated via application-level performance. Over the next few pages, this is exactly what we will do. Read on!
Single-User Performance
StorageReview uses the following tests to assess non-server use:
StorageReview.com Office DriveMark 2006- A capture of VeriTest's Business Winstone 2004 suite. Applications include Microsoft's Office XP (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and Project), Internet Explorer 6.0, Symantec Antivirus 2002 and Winzip 9.0 executed in a lightly-multitasked manner.
StorageReview.com High-End DriveMark 2006- A capture of VeriTest's Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 suite. Applications include Adobe Photoshop v7.01, Adobe Premiere v6.5, Macromedia Director MX v9.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX v6.1, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0, Newtek Lightwave 3D 7.5b, and Steinberg Wavelab 4.0f run in a lightly-multitasked manner.
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At 448 I/Os per second, the Travelstar 7K100 turns in the best score of the roundup in the SR Office DriveMark 2006, a measure of typical productivity application performance. Seagate's 7200 RPM Momentus follows closely behind. At 413 IOps, Samsung's SpinPoint M40 posts the best 5400 RPM showing. Scores spiral downward rather gently from there with the Momentus 5400.2 bringing up the rear.
The 7K100 muscles its way to a considerable lead in the SR High-End DriveMark. achieving 413 IOps, Hitachi's speedster places itself 13% ahead of the second-place Momentus 7200.1. Turning things around, the 5400 RPM Momentus stakes its place at the top of the 5400 RPM heap. The Travelstar 5K100 posts a similar score while the remaining contenders ratchet it down one more notch with WD's Scorpio earning the dubious last-place distinction.
Gaming Performance
Three decidedly different entertainment titles cover gaming performance in StorageReview's test suite.
FarCry, a first-person shooter, remains infamous for its lengthy map loads when switching levels.
The Sims 2, though often referred to as a "people simulator," is in its heart a strategy game and spends considerable time accessing the disk when loading houses and lots.
Finally, World of Warcraft represents the testbed's role-playing entry; it issues disk accesses when switching continents/dungeons as well as when loading new textures into RAM on the fly.
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Seagate's Momentus 7200.1 claws its way past the Travelstar 7K100 to seize the top slot in our FarCry replay. At 485 I/Os per second, the Momentus achieves a tenacious 4% lead over the 7K100. Seagate's 5400 RPM contender also tops its competition at 441 I/Os per second. Here the Momentus's lead is a bit more solid with 9% separating it from the Travelstar. Things drop off from there, with all three drives below the Hitachi experiencing slight dropoffs in performance.
The 7K100 strikes back when it comes to our replay of The Sims 2. Hitachi's 495 I/Os per second stakes the Travelstar to a 9% lead over the Momentus 7200.1. Interestingly, the 5400 RPM Momentus performs identically to the 7200.1 here... and thus posts the highest 5400 RPM score. The Travelstar 5K100 and Samsung's SpinPoint M40 group up one tier down while drives from Fujitsu and WD bring up the rear.
Our final replay, World of Warcraft, sees Hitachi and Seagate slugging it out for both 7200 RPM and 5400 RPM honors. Hitachi's drives end up on top in both cases by the slightest of margins. WD's Scorpio more or less manages to keep up with the Momentus 5400.1 while offerings from Fujitsu and Samsung slow it down another notch. Of note here is the relatively firm divide between 7200 RPM and 5400 RPM devices.
Multi-User Performance
Unlike single-user machines (whether a desktop or workstation), servers undergo highly random, non-localized access. StorageReview simulates these multi-user loads using IOMeter. The IOMeter File Server pattern balances a majority of reads and minority of writes spanning requests of varying sizes.
IOMeter also facilitates user-configurable load levels by maintaining queue levels (outstanding I/Os) of a specified depth. Our tests start with the File Server pattern with a depth of 1 and double continuously until depth reaches 128 outstanding I/Os.
Drives with any sort of command queuing abilities will always be tested with such features enabled. Unlike single-user patterns, multi-user loads always benefit when requests are reordered for more efficient retrieval.
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Planning to deploy a server running a 2.5" notebook drive? While we can think of only a few things more masochistic, if you must incorporate a 2.5" device and it can not be a Seagate Savvio (a 10K RPM Ultra320 SCSI drive that also features a 2.5" form factor, ableit thicker than that of a notebook-oriented device), turn to the Momentus 7200.1. Regardless of the load involved, Seagate's drive easily bests the competition by margins of 10-20%.
Noise and Power Measurements
Idle Noise- The sound pressure emitted from a drive measured at a distance of 3 millimeters. The close-field measurement allows for increased resolution between drive sound pressures and eliminates interactions from outside environmental noise. Note that while the measurement is an A-weighted decibel score that weighs frequencies in proportion to human ear sensitivity, a low score does not necessarily predict whether or not a drive will exhibit a high-pitch whine that some may find intrusive. Conversely, a high score does not necessarily indicate that the drive exhibits an intrusive noise profile.
Operating Power Dissipation- The power consumed by a drive, measured both while idle and when performing fully random seeks. In the relatively closed environment of a computer case, power dissipation correlates highly with drive temperature. The greater a drive's power draw, the more significant its effect on the chassis' internal temperature.
Startup (Peak) Power Dissipation- The maximum power dissipated by a drive upon initial spin-up. This figure is relevant when a system features a large number of drives. Though most controllers feature logic that can stagger the spin-up of individual drives, peak power dissipation may nonetheless be of concern in very large arrays or in cases where a staggered start is not feasible. Generally speaking, drives hit peak power draw at different times on the 5V and 12V rails. The 12V peak usually occurs in the midst of initial spin-up. The 5V rail, however, usually hits maximum upon actuator initialization.
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Before we turn to the numbers, subjectively speaking, all drives represented in this roundup are whisper quiet. They feature a smaller platter count and much smaller parts than the typical desktop drive reviewed by SR. In this case, less mass translates almost directly into less acoustic energy. Objectively speaking, WD's Scorpio tops the charts with a measured sound pressure of just 37.7 dB/A at a distance of 18 mm. That said, however, it is the Seagate Momentus 5200.2 that simply sounds the quietest. All other drives feature rather similar noise profiles and sound only a hair louder than the Momentus. The Travelstar 7K100 emits just the slightest hint of a high-pitched whine. This sound requires some concentration to hear and gets buried by ambient noise when placed inside a system.
When it comes to subjective seek noises, notebook drives as a whole again weigh in well under that of today's typical desktop drives. Even the Momentus 7200.1 and both Travelstars, three drives which feature seek times that approach that of desktop drives, remain inaudible when operating in our testbed.
At idle, all tested drives consume less than 1 watt of power. The Momentus 7200.1 dissipates the most at 0.94 watts while the Travelstar 5K100 carves out a niche of its own through dissipating just 0.47 watts. Under a full-bore seek, however, the 5K100 ties Fujitsu's MHT, consuming a relatively hefty 3.2 watts. The 7200 RPM pair follow up, both dissipating 3.0 watts while seeking. The WD Scorpio and Samsung SpinPoint top the charts, consuming just 2.5 and 2.6 watts respectively.
These notebook drives turn in a relatively tight cluster of figures in our peak power measurements. The Momentus 7200.1 delivers the best score, 3.98 watts dissipated when spinning up. Hitachi's Travelstar 7K100 anchors the bottom with its mark of 4.59 watts. Resting just a smidgeon ahead of the 7K100 is WD's Scorpio. All remaining contenders weigh in at about 4.2 watts. Though it is highly unlikely (we hope) that these drives will be running in an array that would require some kind of staggered spin up, these figures are nonetheless relevant for notebook drives returning to a ready state from a power-saving sleep mode.
Inexpensive kits exist to bridge the physical (2.75 vs. 4 inches) and electrical (44-pin data/power vs. 40-pin data and 4-pin power) divide between PATA notebook and desktop units. Further, many notebook drives now also ship equipped with a SATA interface and require only rails to widen their form factor. So, an obvious question arises:
Can a notebook drive replace a standard 3.5" desktop-style disk? This inquiry remains central to builds constrained by space, noise, and/or power-consumption factors. While a 2.5" drive's form factor advantage is undeniable (just 1/6th the volume of a 3.5" device), the relentless pursuit of silent computing has attracted many to these ultra-quiet units. What kind of performance does one lose when using a notebook rather than a desktop drive? How much of a noise and power advantage does one gain?
The following graphs summarize how today's notebook performance leaders, Hitachi's Travelstar 7K100 and Seagate's Momentus 7200.1, stack up with the firms' flagship drives. The Deskstar 7K500 represents today's state-of-the-art when it comes to capacious single-user performance while the Barracuda 7200.9 offers a more sedate (and probably more typical) desktop experience.
Delivering nearly 900 I/Os per second in the SR Office DriveMark, the Deskstar 7K500 offers twice the performance of the Travelstar and Momentus when it comes to typical office-suite/productivity performance- a margin that will undeniably manifest itself even in the lightest tasks as sheer "snap" and "feel." Huge performance gaps between the Deskstar and Travelstar/Momentus carry through in all single-user tests.
Differences between the Barracuda 7200.9 and the notebook units are not quite as severe, but still quite significant. In all cases, the Barracuda bests the 2.5" units by margins of at least 30%.
Both the Barracuda and Deskstar offer solid performance advantages over the Travelstar and Momentus when it comes to multi-user performance. Further, one should note that Seagate's and Hitachi's desktop offerings hardly represent the best around when it comes to server-style use. Drives from WD and Maxtor would increase the disparity dramatically.
In absolute terms, the Barracuda and Deskstar, equipped with modern FDB motors, feature very low noise floors that render the units inaudible to all but the most sensitive ears. Those ears, however, will benefit from the quieter operation of today's notebook drives.
The diminutive moving parts featured in notebook drives draw vastly less power than those of 3.5" drives. Peaking at just 3.0 watts, the Momentus and Travelstar dissipate less than one-fourth the power of a desktop unit. This in turn results in far less radiated heat, netting the system significant gains in power savings and noise reduction.
Overall, the noise and power/heat advantages of 2.5" drives are quite real. Readers should be aware, however, that even the fastest of today's notebook drives sacrifice a vast chunk of performance in effecting these gains. Price is another conundrum. At the time of this writing, the massive 500 GB monsters shown above run about $350 while the Travelstar and Momentus run $230 - $300 for just 100 gigabytes. 250 GB versions of the Barracuda and Deskstar hover at just above $100. While its likely that these smaller units will not deliver quite the same performance as the 500 GB flagships, they offer 2.5x the same and significantly higher performance for less than half the cost. Bottom line- both literally and in terms of performance, one pays dearly for a notebook drive's small form factor.
Those in the market for an upgraded notebook hard drive seek more capacity and/or speed. At a rather steep price ($230 at the time of this writing), Hitachi's Travelstar 7K100 offers gobs of both. Though it overall remains a far cry from that of the typical desktop unit, the 7K100 nonetheless delivers the best performance around when it comes both to office/productivity applications and games. Newcomer Seagate's Momentus 7200.1 also deserves an honorable mention. The Momentus for the most part keeps up the pace while offering a slightly lower noise floor. Interestingly, one sacrifices neither quiet nor cool operation when choosing a 7200 RPM device over a 5400 RPM one.
Price, of course, remains a factor for most. 100 gigabytes of 7200 RPM storage runs more than twice as much as an 80-gigabyte, 5400 RPM drive. Our pick for the budget-conscious is Hitachi's Travelstar 5K100, combining decent overall performance at a wallet-friendly $120. Samsung's SpinPoint M40 offers even better productivity performance for around the same price, though its performance falters when it comes to content creation activity. The 100-gigabyte Momentus 5400.2 performs well in our gaming suite, though its $140ish price makes it slightly more pricey.
Of course, some notable omissions permeate this review. The largest remains an entry from market-giant Toshiba. Further, some of the firms featured in this roundup have begun shipment of 120 GB products that offer more space and (probably) more speed. Finally, like the desktop world, the notebook sector is transitioning from the older PATA to newer SATA interface. In the coming months, we'll bring readers the latest on all three fronts!


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Reviewed by Kevin O. (age 8)
I like the way this story is told through the creative use of letter writing between Alex and his mom. This book reminds me of the time when I was begging my mom to buy me an Iphone and she said "no!"
I think children aged seven to ten would like reading this book because it is entertaining. It has silly pictures and it's a funny story. I think my brother would like this book because he likes to read books that are entertaining. The part that would interest a reader is when Alex says that he could teach the iguana tricks. Find out why Alex thinks an iguana would be more fun to play with than his little brother.

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For Immediate Release, April 11, 2012
Petition Seeks to Stop Flow of Toxic PCBs From Sunken Ships Bombed for Navy Target Practice
New Coalition Formed to Protect Human Health and Marine Environment
SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity has joined the Basel Action Network and Sierra Club in their effort to eliminate dangerous chemicals from our oceans. The coalition formally petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency today to regulate toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) released into the ocean as a result of the Navy's Sinking Exercise (SINKEX) Program.
Through the SINKEX program, the Navy fires on and bombs inactive warships for practice and ultimately sinks the vessels at sea. The old ships contain toxic materials, including carcinogenic PCBs that leach into the ocean, bioaccumulate in fish and other animals, and create hazards at all levels of the food web. The petition urges the EPA to end its exemption of the SINKEX Program from ocean dumping laws that would protect marine life from dangerous chemicals.
"The Center is thrilled to join the campaign to protect our oceans from toxic threats. Our laws require PCBs to be disposed of in a responsible manner — the Navy shouldn't get a free pass," said Emily Jeffers, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.
"Vessels bombed and sunk during Navy target practice are putting fish, whales, and dolphins at risk of absorbing cancer-causing chemicals," said Dave Raney of the Sierra Club's Hawaii Chapter. "It's time for the EPA and the Navy to clean up this dangerous practice."
In the past decade alone, the Navy disposed of 109 vessels at sea by using them as targets in torpedo and gunnery practice. While studies that the EPA relied upon to exempt SINKEX from the Toxic Substances Control Act estimated between 30 and 100 pounds of PCBs would remain on board targeted vessels, a recent study demonstrated these vessels could in fact contain over 700 pounds of solid PCBs. In addition, concentrations of PCBs in fish samples taken near a sunken vessel increased 1,446 percent on average from pre-sinking to post-sinking; 33 percent of the fish sampled post-sinking had PCB concentrations above that recommended by the EPA as safe for human consumption.
"The Navy's ocean dumping program essentially throws tax dollars overboard, while at the same time polluting our seas," said Colby Self of the Basel Action Network. "Recycling is the solution here, it's not only the environmentally responsible thing to do, but it also makes economic sense by creating recycling jobs here in the U.S. and by recirculating tons of steel, aluminum and copper into the domestic manufacturing marketplace."
PCBs are well-known cancer-causing chemicals whose manufacture, use and distribution have been banned in the United States since 1979. Once released into the environment, they persist for many years and accumulate in the marine food chain. Many scientists believe there is no safe level of exposure to PCBs. "The health of our oceans and our children requires these PCBs to be contained. The Navy's supposed to protect us, not hurt us," said Jeffers.
Today's petition asks the EPA to amend Navy's permit to require removal of all materials containing PCBs to the maximum extent practicable and to require that no disposed materials contain PCBs in concentrations greater than 50 parts per million. The Navy currently removes solid PCBs only if they are "readily detachable." Additionally, BAN, Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity are asking the EPA to require additional studies on the effects of PCB-contaminated materials.
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Remember Oneal Ron Morris, who was arrested for injecting a woman's butt with Fix-A-Flat? Well talk show host Cristina Saralegui had Morris's assistant Corey Eubanks on her show, and Eubanks ended up getting stabbed with a syringe. Yes, you can watch.
According to the Sun-Sentinel, while Morris actually performed the dangerous butt injections, Eubanks set them up and took some of the money. And when he went on Saralegui's show, one of the victim's moms rushed up from the audience, grabbed a syringe that was supposed to be for demonstration, and stabbed him in the head with it. Afterwards, he said, "My face has a mark on it and my head is killing me."
You can't exactly see the stabbing in the clip above, but you can hear the angry mom yelling, "you're a boy." As far as I can tell from news coverage, Eubanks identifies as a man, so this might not be the most effective insult, but it's probably transphobic in nature (Morris is trans). Which is too bad because the gender identity of the accused parties is totally irrelevant to the fact that you shouldn't put Fix-A-Flat in someone's butt. Eubanks and Morris have both plead not guilty — no charges have yet been filed against the syringe stabber.
Butt-injection suspect in confrontation at "Cristina" TV taping [Sun-Sentinel]


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As one of the last posted about my trip to South Korea, I thought it would be fun to make a master post (compilation) post of all the foods I ate in Seoul. Looking back I wish I tried out more authentic Korean cuisine. Because of the person that went along, I couldn't eat most of the food I initially wanted to try. But, I still ate a lot of delicious food.
Korean café food
To start the day I would eat at a café. There are plenty to choose from, they even have Western brands like Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks. Most of the menus have English written under each food item, making it easier to order. There was only one instance where everything was only written in Korean. The price range may vary, depending which café you'll visit. The foods they sell at Korean cafés are bread types, sweet desserts or even a combination of both. There's often a great variety of drinks to choose from. Next time, I think I'll be sticking to warm meals throughout the day. The problem is that Korean desserts and even the bread are way too sweet for my liking. I'm not really a fan of sugary food but it didn't hurt stepping out of my comfort zone.
Chiabatta bread stuffed with mushroom & cranberry tea
Sweet corn bun, mini salad sandwiches & Chai tea latte
Blueberry bagel
Waffles with syrup, whipped cream & jelly
Hello Kitty waffle covered in chocolate sauce, with ice cream, fruit and whipped cream.
Focaccia bread
Waffle with frozen yogurt and berries
Korean Honey Bread Brick Toast, with whipped cream, peanut butter and bananas, is a well-known Korean dessert. I didn't have a chance try it because I'ḿ allergic to some of the containing ingredients.
Ichigo Daifuku 大福餅 (strawberry rice cake) originates from Japan and I was a bit surprised to see that they also eat this in Korea. I had this dessert many times before. It contains mochi (rice cake), anko (sweet red bean paste) and one strawberry. This was good but I had better before. The mochi was a little bit too hard and the anko a bit too sweet. But overall, it was still delicious.
Injeolmi Toast is another well-known Korean dessert. It's quite similar to the honey toast but much smaller in size. It's a very sweet and sugary white grilled sandwich filled with a soft chewy rice cake, sprinkled with soybean powder, honey and almonds.
Line Cafe Brown & Friends Macarons are sweet treats you can buy at the Line Friends Café in Garuso-gil, Gangnam. You can buy them in a pack or single. They're chocolate, lemon, vanilla flavoured and come in the shapes of the three Line Friends Brown, Cony and Sally.
Korean Snacks
If you want to buy snacks in Korea, you don't have to look far. At every corner, you can find a convenience store. These stores are filled with all kind of necessities from day to day life but you can mostly find drinks and food items, cold and warm. Most of the shopkeepers don't understand English, so, if you want to ask something it can be difficult. The prices are relatively cheap.
Korean rice ball (onigiri) filled with meat
Convenience store ready to eat Tteokbokki
Bubble Tree soft icecream
Korean convenience store soft chocolate icecream
Samanco Bungeoppang icecream, I have been seeing this icecream on a few sites, so, I had to try it. It's a waffle in a shape of a fish, filled with regular vanilla icecream and sweet red bean paste.
Binggrea banana, melon & strawberry flavoured milk are also very famous throughout Korea. These are just flavoured milk, nothing less and nothing more. Strawberry is my favourite out of the three.
Korean Street Food
What's really cool about Seoul is that you don't really have to go to a restaurant for a satisfying meal. When it's heading towards supper time, street food vendors emerge from wherever they came from. You have a lot of variety to choose from. You have different meats on a stick, chicken in cups, waffles covered in whipped cream, cups of fruit, vegetables and fresh healthy beverages. The prices are cheap and even some of the vendor owners can speak English very well. I really wanted to try out more street food but unfortunately, I didn't really have the chance. Hopefully, I can come again to Seoul and try out more food.
Korean Sausage on a stick. These are pork sausages, they remind me of mini hotdogs. Some sausages are stuffed with rice cake inside them. Very spicy and delicious.
Tteokbokki is made out of soft rice cakes, fish cakes and gochujang (a fermeneted Korean condiment). This is a very popular and affordable snack throughout Korea. It has a very savory and spicy taste to it. You have different versions of this dish, such as curry, cheese and chicken Tteobokki.
Cup chicken also known as Korean popcorn chicken. I couldn't get my bloody camera to focus on the chicken. But it's just chicken in a cup with spicy sauce over it.
Dakkochi chicken skewers
Authentic Korean restaurant dishes
Ordering food in a Korean restaurant is not that difficult. Like cafés, most restaurants have menus in English and pictures. You can also examine the signs in front of the food places. Mostly if there's English written on a restaurant sign, it's a safe place for non-Korean speakers. Although, this isn't always the case. I walked into a place where I have been turned down but no hard feelings. These are obstacles you have to face when you're in a foreign country. Prices may very. Smaller hidden restaurants are a tad cheaper but overall the prices are fairly affordable.
Korean fried chicken is my kind of chicken. There have all kind of different flavors and ways to prepare it. You have plenty to choose from. I even saw fried chicken with whipped cream! I took a more simple approach and ordered the natural crispy with onions and garlic. I also ordered spicy fried chicken with potatoes (양념치킨). It was so so good! When I stayed in Seoul I ate about five times Korean fried chicken because it was just too delicious.
Bibimbap is another famous Korean dish. You have many variations but here's the vegetarian option. It's basically served with a bowl of warm rice, meat, vegetables, egg and Gochujang. You only have to mix those ingredients together and your dish is ready to eat.
All you can eat Korean BBQ Gogigui. You can eat relatively cheap in Hongdae and there are a lot of restaurants/cafés to choose from. Thinking about all the Bulgogi, Galbi and Samgyeopsal make me drool. What I love about Korean culinary are the many side dishes that goes along with the food (banchan). The Korean side dishes that are served the most are kimchi, guk, gochujang and jjiggae. There's also a Korean way to eat grilled meat. Korean BBQ always comes with sangchu. You're meant to wrap the grilled meat like a decorative present. The savory juicy taste of the Galbi goes well with the green leaves.
Korean BBQ Gogigui. This is different from the all you can eat places, where you have a set price and can eat as much as you can. At the regular Gogigui place, you have to pay for each separate serving. So you can choose pork, beef and chicken. The side dishes are included in the price.
Korean Take Out
If you don't like eating out every day, then take-out is an option to be used. Almost every eating place in Korea has an option to order food and take it home. After a long day of sightseeing, this is really perfect.
I noticed that all American-like food are more expensive compared to Korean food. "Korean" pizza was no exception and relatively expensive compared to all the other food that I ate. If I remember correctly I ordered a bulgogi pizza, with cheese, green and red peppers. The pizza was of course very delicious. Korean pizza is very different compared to the regular pizza I'm used to. With flavors like caramel, whipped cream and chocolate, can you blame me?
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What is Endopeel ?
Example-abstract : Treatment for aged muscle structure of the lower third of the face
During the natural aging process of the human body, several organs and tissues undergo a large anabolic phase (during the first 3 decades of life) and they soon develop into a catabolic phase, which is slower and irreversible (from the 4th to the final decades of life).
In the anabolic phase the skin is shiny, silky, has elasticity and a large turgor. There is a large volume of toned muscular mass.
The catabolic phase starts in the fourth decade of life and acceleratesin many cases during the seventh decade . In this phase there is an absence of skin sheen and the appearance of wrinkles and senile spots (the dernal layer also starts to show signs of weakness, and this occurs because of the decrease of the proteins that make up the skins elastic system, such as collagen and glycosaminoglycan / GAG).
Muscular mass loses its volume and tone progressively, causing the body to show visible signs of aging. Probably a high protein diet may be responsible for the final quality of our organs and tissues during the anabolic phase causing the body to be more resistant and durable. This high protein diet, when applied during the catabolic phase, can maintain a better skin quality and improved muscular mass.
During the past 10 years, we have endeavored to understand the consequences of the different intrinsic and extrinsic processes that alter the harmony of the movements of the muscles of the lower third of the face.
Anatomo-Physiology of the muscles of the lower third of the face
The outline of the mouth is made from a complex muscular system, where the
orbicularis oris
muscle of the mouth actively links with the
levator labii of the mouth
the buccinator ( cheek muscle),
muscles that tighten the angle of the mouth sideways,
and another group of muscles that tend to depress the angle of the mouth.
The risorius muscle
acts in a secondary fashion in this muscular complex. One can easily see, by way of a systematic evaluation of these muscles, (movements such as :whistling, smiling, making a sad face, and pulling a face as if having a bitter taste in the mouth) .
Each patient can present important asymmetrical and accented depressions, caused by the exaggerated contraction of some of these muscles.
Till today,these facial defects have been treated with facial implants (fillers) and some serious cases have been even treated using classical surgical procedures : Fillers as surgery didn t revolve the problems !
Our proposal is to demonstrate that, by way of a selective intramuscular injection, of an oily patented solution containing a mixture of Carbolic Acid with Peanut Oil Acid using endopeel technology created by inventors Dr.Alain Tenenbaum ( facial plastic surgeon) and Mauro Tiziani ( molecular biologist) , it is possible to decrease the force of one or more muscles, that are working harder and in disharmony with the other muscles in the complex muscular system around the mouth.
We believe that the mechanism that is developed, after the injection of the ,,Endopeel,, oily solution, is a selective pointed chemical reversible myolysis, limited within the injected area of the muscular mass. With preliminary tissue studies, we can see that this myolysis is totally reversible after 7 months.
We have acquired experience from more than 1000 clinical cases over the past 8 years. The majority of these patients were re-treated in the same muscles that were treated earlier. The average re-treatment period was 4-6 months, and usually, smaller doses of the patented oily solution were injected, due to the hyperfunction of the muscles movements being attenuated. The average dose per injection is about 0.05 ml and the distance between each point is approximatively 1.0 centimeter.
We found that this treatment is very efficacious as long as there is a clear and precise evaluation of the above mentioned muscle system.


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MONDAY, July 9, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Babies who live with dogs and cats during their first year of life may be less susceptible to respiratory infections, such as the common cold, according to new research.
The study of nearly 400 children found that dogs were especially protective, and the babies who lived with dogs during their first year were about one-third more likely to be healthy during their first year, compared to babies who didn't have a pet in the home. Babies with dogs in the home were 44 percent less likely to develop an ear infection, and 29 percent less likely to need antibiotics than their petless peers.
"Children who had dog contacts at home were healthier and had less frequent ear infections and needed fewer courses of antibiotics than children who had no dog contacts," said the study's lead author, Dr. Eija Bergroth, a pediatrician who worked at Kuopio University Hospital, in Finland, at the time of the study.
Bergroth also noted that "cat contacts did not seem to have as strong of an impact on infection frequency in multivariate analysis as the dog contacts."
Results of the study, released online July 9, will be published in the August print issue of Pediatrics.
Previous research on pets in the home has suggested that animals, and dogs in particular, may provide some protection against the development of asthma and allergies. But, other studies have found that household pets may increase the number of respiratory infections in children, according to background information in the study.
To get a better idea of the impact of pets on a child's health, Bergroth and her colleagues reviewed data from a study of 208 children whose mothers were recruited during their last trimester of pregnancy. The mothers were from rural areas in Austria, Finland, France, Germany and Switzerland.
The study also included data from 216 mothers living in rural or suburban areas in Finland, who gave birth at Kuopio University Hospital in Finland. After excluding children with incomplete information, researchers looked at data from 397 children overall.
During the first year of life, 72 percent of the children experienced a fever, 40 percent had an ear infection, 97 percent had a runny nose, 84 percent had a cough and 32 percent wheezed at some point. Almost half of the children were given antibiotics at least once during their first year of life, according to the study.
Sixty-two percent of the children had a dog, and 34 percent had a cat at some time during the study. But, at the end of the 11-month study, almost two-thirds of parents said they had no dog in the home, and three-quarters said they had no cat.
Overall, children who had some exposure to dogs or cats in the home were healthier than those who didn't. They had fewer weeks with cough, ear infections and runny noses, according to the study. They also needed fewer courses of antibiotics.
Exposure to cats also showed a protective effect, but it wasn't as strong as the effect from dog exposure.
Bergroth said it's not clear how dogs might offer protection against respiratory illnesses.
"One possible explanation might be that the dogs bring something inside the house -- dirt, soil -- that affects the immune maturation of the child, leading to more composed immunologic reactions to infectious agents later when the child comes in contact with viruses and bacteria," she said.
A U.S. expert said the explanation might not be so simple.
"Having pets may have some positive aspects. Pets may offer some protection against developing a propensity for infections or atopic diseases, but I think the development of the immune system is very complicated," said Dr. Jennifer Appleyard, chief of allergy and immunology at St. John Hospital and Medical Center, in Detroit.
"Parents shouldn't feel guilty about having or not having a pet when their child is young. If you want a pet, get a pet," she advised.
Bergroth said she wouldn't tell parents whether or not to get a pet, but that her study's findings suggest that there is "no reason to avoid animal contacts because of fear of infections, at least not respiratory infections." She added that if there's a family history of allergies, it's more difficult to make recommendations regarding pets, and that the decision must be made on a case-by-case basis.
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Zen and the Art of Cycling: A Wally Crankset Tale
Mary and I were dissecting the Sunday newspaper when the squeal of ancient Mafac brakes announced his arrival. Wally walked in the front door, wrapped in a bedsheet.
I knew I'd regret asking, but couldn't stop myself. "What now? Aren't you kinda old to be pledging a fraternity?"
"Nope," he replied far too brightly. "I have a great new idea for a career!"
'Career' was Wally-code for a scheme. Mary rolled her eyes and stomped off to the kitchen.
I waited, though it was all I could do to keep from saying are-you-outta-your-mind for the umpteenth time.
"Some British guy said that we should think of bicycling more as a religion than as transportation or recreation. I've just taken that to it's logical conclusion, and this is the result." He waved his hand to indicate his bedsheet. "It's not a scam. It's not about the money, though the money is pretty good. It's about raising cycling consciousness!"
When Wally says 'it's not about the money', believe me, it's about the money. I was not about to get suckered into one of his flim-flams again.
"Wally, this isn't the sixties!"
"Yeah, I know that, but most of these kids don't, and the ones old enough to have lived through the sixties....well....they don't remember it either but for different reasons."
The radio played softly in the kitchen. Mary was listening to an oldies station as Archie Bell and the Drells crooned "The Tighten Up." Wally listened intently, seemingly transfixed by the music.
A few days later, I was getting my usual morning coffee at Larry's Cafe. Wally, still clad in the same bedsheet, was holding forth in a corner booth as a couple of rapt co-eds leaned forward to catch his every word.
"The journey begins and ends at the same place. The destination is unimportant, but the journey is, so it doesn't matter where we're going. What matters is what we learn along the way."
I couldn't believe they'd listen to his crap, but there's no accounting for taste. The next day the scene was repeated, but the gathering was larger.
"Cycle – it means that your feet move in a circle. Your wheels move in a circle. Your journey is a circle. It tells us that all life is a circle without beginning and without end."
My kids and I had watched the same Disney movie.
"We travel on air. We inhale and exhale air. Air can be our friend when it pushes us from behind or our enemy when it opposes us. Though it's invisible and insubstantial, it can be a powerful force."
I didn't wait around to hear about earth, fire, and water too.
Wally developed an entourage composed almost entirely of young and not-so-young women similarly attired in sheets. Somehow they made it look good, unlike Wally who resembled an upright, rumpled bed. Still, there's no denying they found him attractive. How does he do that? It's another of life's mysteries.
One other mystery was solved when I saw him leaving Larry's on his battered Motobecane. I wondered how he managed to ride the bike without the floppy sheet catching in the spokes. He wore cycling shorts underneath and tucked the sheet in around his waist. The ladies did the same, though it was a hot day, and honestly, they didn't wear much. The rolling pack of exhibitionists probably gave our local constabulary – Fred and Ethel – matching coronaries.
Wally's acolytes congregated on street corners near the university and accepted donations from passerby. They just stood there playing old sixties music, never dancing or hopping up and down like Hare Krishnas. Nope. They were solid, middle class, Midwestern cult members who moved with all the grace of fishsticks in togas. But whatever they did, the money rolled in.
I was having my coffee at Larry's one morning when Wally and company arrived. Larry looked at him and said, "Some guy from the IRS was here looking for you. Said he'd be back later today." Wally blanched and mumbled something about checking his bike. He turned quickly and went back outside, his entourage forgotten.
Larry's eyes twinkle when he lies and they were twinkling especially brightly that morning. "Was that true?" I asked. "Did an IRS agent show up here?"
"Naw!" he chuckled. "I just like messin' with him."
I went outside to explain to Wally but he and his bike were gone. His improvised toga lay discarded on the sidewalk. It probably added too much drag. I can only hope he hasn't gone south into Mexico again.
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The campaign to bash faith in America until it vanishes from the public square has been unveiled in a new book called "Bad Samaritans: The ACLU's Relentless Campaign to Erase Faith from the Public Square" by WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi.
It will get additional attention when Book TV airs a discussion by the author on Monday at 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
Corsi's discussion about "Bad Samaritans" took place at the 20th annual Eagle Forum Collegians Summit, hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
"If we do not fight this battle now, the United States of America will most certainly descend into a form of paganism not seen since the darkest days of antiquity," he said.
He believes that liberty in America has always depended upon one thing: a citizenry that believes in God.
The nation's Founding Fathers understood that without faith in God, rights and morality could not last, he writes.
Without religion, true freedom cannot long endure. So, for those who seek to take those rights away, transferring the individual rights given by God to the control of a secularist state, belief in God is the first tie to be severed, he said.
That brings into the picture the "leftists of the ACLU," which for decades have battled against the concept of "one nation, under God."
"Bad Samaritans" looks at the history of the ACLU and its radical agenda to separate America from its religious roots and remake the nation in its own atheistic image.
In a straightforward, no-nonsense style, Corsi lays out the history of this struggle, its communist roots and the court cases that are serving to slowly erode the foundations of freedom.
The results are evident, the book says: A culture flooded with pornography, placing little worth on the value of a human life and seemingly providing protection and special treatment for everyone except people with a Judeo-Christian worldview.
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I live on the south side of Crystal Lake, and drive Randall Road near Algonquin Road at least a half-dozen times a week. Roughly 20 percent of the time, I'm turning left on Algonquin. Yes, it can be a frustrating experience, whether you're continuing south on Randall or turning left at Algonquin. It's the same for northbound commuters.
But my and other motorists' frustrations don't necessarily justify spending so much taxpayer money on an experimental road design that many local government officials and businesses oppose.
As part of a $135 million project to widen Randall Road to six lanes from Ackman Road to the Kane County border – a span of about 3.5 miles – the McHenry County Division of Transportation proposes turning the Randall and Algonquin intersection into a continuous flow one.
Two traffic lights would have to be added, one on either side of Algonquin Road, and a few businesses displaced. But transportation officials say that commute times near the intersection would decrease by as much as 55 seconds. I'm not buying that, but I can see how travel times would be shortened somewhat.
If a continuous flow intersection were built, southbound vehicles turning left on Algonquin, for example, start turning several hundred feet before the main intersection at a crossover intersection. This would happen at the same time that both eastbound and westbound traffic on Algonquin Road is moving. The dual-moving traffic is why proponents say driving time would be decreased.
But opponents, including the village of Lake in the Hills and many businesses along the corridor, say a continuous flow intersection would be too confusing to motorists and would hinder access to those businesses.
I think motorists would be able to figure it out, but I share the concerns of businesses.
Hundreds of people are employed along that corridor, and the villages of Lake in the Hills and Algonquin count on sales taxes to keep other village fees and taxes down.
A couple of retailers have looked at the vacant Dominick's building on the northeast corner of the intersection but were turned off by the possibility of a CFI.
In the end, I don't think saving a few seconds of driving time is worth the risk to businesses or the added expense.
Of course, I could always change my mind. Again.
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Congratulations and thank you to Vince and Pat Foglia, who were honored Friday night at Pioneer Center for Human Services' annual Moonlight & Music fundraiser held at Crystal Lake Country Club. Vince Foglia is chairman and CEO of Sage Products in Cary.
During the event, former Congressman Don Manzulo presented the Foglias with the inaugural Make Change Award, given to a member of the community whose commitment to Pioneer Center surpasses all expectations.
"In a search for client work opportunities, Pioneer Center approached Sage Products and met with Vince Foglia," Manzullo said. "Vince, with a heartfelt passion for helping others and an understanding of what working means to people, immediately agreed to partner with Pioneer Center by providing work for the clients."
Manzullo noted that the Foglias also funded Pioneer Center's client commuter lab, including specialized equipment for individuals with disabilities, among many other contributions.
On behalf of Pioneer Center's Board of Directors, of which I am a member, we thank the Foglias for their commitment to Pioneer Center and for all of the other great things they do for the community.
• Dan McCaleb of Crystal Lake is executive editor of Shaw Media, which publishes the Northwest Herald. He can be reached at 815-526-4603 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Dan_McCaleb.


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