text: Storm Seen Easing Drought for Moisture-Starved U.S. Wheat February 25, 2013 10:36 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The second major snowstorm in a week for the southern Great Plains is delivering moisture to U.S. wheat crops that went dormant in November in the worst condition since at least 1985 because of a drought. More than a foot (30 centimeters) of snow was expected to fall in parts of the region, four days after a storm brought as much as 20 inches, National Weather Service data show. The precipitation may boost crop prospects in areas where fields have deteriorated after the most-severe drought since the 1930s, said Kim Anderson, an agronomist at Oklahoma State University. "It won't break the drought, but this storm will be enough to get wheat that's established up and out of the ground and set it up for the rest of the year," Anderson said in a telephone interview from Stillwater, Oklahoma. Many areas of the Plains face exceptional-drought conditions, which signal crop losses and water emergencies, according to the government. Winter wheat, a variety that accounts for more than 70 percent of total U.S. production, has been dormant since about November and will resume growth in March and April. The crop is mostly harvested in June. Prices surged 19 percent last year. Since the end of December, wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade have dropped 9.4 percent. The price for May delivery fell 1.9 percent to settle at $7.0525 a bushel after touching $7.04, the lowest for a most-active contract since June 25. Crop Conditions Wheat conditions in Kansas improved in February because of snow, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today. The crop was rated 23 percent good or excellent as of yesterday, up from 20 percent at the end of January. Each foot of snow means about an inch of moisture for plants, according to Kansas State University agronomist Jim Shroyer. The storms will improve prospects for hard-red winter wheat, grown from Kansas through Texas and used to make bread, said Bryce Anderson, a senior agricultural meteorologist at Telvent DTN in Omaha, Nebraska. Soft-red winter varieties used in cakes and cookies are planted in the eastern Midwest. More rain will be needed in March and April to boost plants, Anderson said. Today's snow may be the last major storm for the region through April as forecasts call for conditions to be drier than normal, Anderson said in a telephone interview. "They're going to need more spring precipitation to truly improve things because the wheat in the southern Plains went into the winter on the dry side," Anderson said. "For the next month to two months, it still looks like they're going to be on a below-normal tract on the moisture scene." Cattle Risks The latest storm poses a risk for livestock because freezing weather and strong winds can kill young animals, said Jason Britt, the president of Central States Commodities Inc., a brokerage in Kansas City, Missouri. Cattle futures rose 0.2 percent today on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. "The cattle guys are pretty nervous because they've lost some calves," Britt said in a telephone interview. "Most of the time the cattle can handle it, but they don't do too well with a foot or two of snow." As much as 40 percent of crops in some southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma fields didn't emerge from the ground after planting because of the severity of the drought. High winds that accompanied the dry weather caused blowing dust and closed roads in scenes reminiscent of the 1930s Dust Bowl era. The prospect of water from the snowstorms has made farmers more optimistic for improved yields, Britt said. "It's not going to alleviate all concerns that the drought is over, but you have to wonder when you get these back-to-back storms if the weather patterns aren't changing," he said. It's not a cure-all because some of the wheat isn't coming back, but it's definitely beneficial." --Editors: Patrick McKiernan, Thomas Galatola To contact the reporter on this story: Tony C. Dreibus in Chicago at firstname.lastname@example.com. Back to news


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Anita Dunn, President Obama's Interim White House Comminications Director, publically stated that "two of my favorite political philosophers are Mao Tse Tung (a man directly responsible for the deaths of as many as seventy million Chinese people) and Mother Teresa." This should have provoked torches and pitchforks in front of the White House, but due to a lack of understanding of history created by the teachers union (a group whose campaign contributions were key to Mr. Obama's election), none was forthcoming.
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What does $399 buy these days?
I think it is pretty safe to say that MSI makes some pretty nice stuff when it comes to video cards. Their previous generation of the HD 6000 and GTX 500 series of cards were quite popular, and we reviewed more than a handful here. That generation of cards really seemed to stake MSI's reputation as one of the top video card vendors in the industry in terms of quality, features, and cooling innovation. Now we are moving onto a new generation of cards from both AMD and NVIDIA, and the challenges of keeping up MSI's reputation seem to have increased.
The competition has become much more aggressive as of late. Asus has some unique solutions, and companies such as XFX have stepped up their designs to challenge the best of the industry. MSI has found themselves to be in a much more crowded space with upgraded cooler designs, robust feature sets, and pricing that reflects the larger selection of products that fit such niches. The question here is if MSI's design methodology for non-reference cards is up to the challenge.
Previously I was able to review the R7970 Lightning from MSI, and it was an impressive card. I had some initial teething problems with that particular model, but a BIOS flash later and some elbow grease allowed it to work as advertised. Today I am looking at the R7950 TwinFrozr3GD5/OC. This card looks to feature a reference PCB combined with a Twin Frozr III cooling solution. I was not entirely sure what to expect with this card, since the Lightning was such a challenge at first.
Will it Strike Again?
It can now be claimed that we are arguably in our 4th generation of Lightning products from MSI. It can also be claimed that the 3rd generation of products really put that brand on the mainstream map. The R6970 and N580GTX (and XE version) set new standards for enthusiast grade graphics cards. Outstanding construction, unique pcb design, high quality (and quantity) of components, and a good eye for overall price have all been hallmarks of these cards. These were honestly some of my favorite video cards of all time. Call me biased, but I think when looking through other reviews those writers felt much the same. MSI certainly hit a couple of homeruns with their three Lightning offerings of 2011.
Time does not stand still. Resting on laurels is always the surest way to lose out to more aggressive competitors. It is now 2012 and AMD has already launched the latest generation of HD 7000 chips, with the top end being the HD 7970. This particular product was launched in late December, but cards were not available until January 9th of 2012. We are now at the end of March where we see a decent volume of products on the shelves, as well as some of the first of the non-reference designs hitting the streets. Currently Asus has its DirectCU II based 7970, but now we finally get to see the Lightning treatment.
MSI has not sat upon their laurels it seems. They are taking an aggressive approach to the new Lightning series of cards, and they implement quite a few unique features that have not been seen on any other product before. Now the question is did they pull it off? Throwing more features at something does not necessarily equal success. The increase in complexity of a design combined with other unknowns with the new features could make it a failure. Just look at the R5870 Lightning for proof. That particular card tread new ground, but did so in a way that did not adequately differentiate itself from reference HD 5870 designs. So what is new and how does it run? Let us dig in!
Continue reading our review of the MSI Radeon HD 7970 3GB Lightning Graphics Card!!
MSI Shows of Next Generation Twin Frozr IV Cards at Cebit
Subject: Graphics Cards | March 6, 2012 - 08:55 PM | Josh Walrath
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The Romanian site Lab 501 was able to snap some shots and get some information about the latest generation of custom built graphics products from MSI. We had actually talked to Alex Chang of MSI about what Twin Frozr IV would bring to the table, but today we actually get to see the (nearly) finished parts.
It looks as if MSI is changing around their color scheme, but the heatsink remains as big as the previous generation's. (image courtesy of Lab 501)
The products shown were of course only the AMD based parts, as the NVIDIA Kepler products are still under wraps (but apparently should see the light of day later this month). MSI is giving the full Twin Frozr IV treatment to every HD 7750 and above part. The HD 7970 is getting the Lightning edition with all the bells and whistles, while the HD 7870 is going under the Hawk brand.
We have few details about what all Twin Frozr IV includes, but it keeps the propeller blades and the anti-dust technology that we first saw in the N580GTX Lightning. From the shots we have, it does not appear that they will be using the temperature sensitive fan units that actually change color when going above 45C.
They were able to take a good shot of the board without the heatsink, and it is just as jam packed as the previous Lightning products. (image courtesy of Lab 501)
The Lightning will feature a total of 4 Display Ports and 2 DVI ports, so it can support up to 6 monitors at once. This appears similar to what Asus did with the EAH6950 and EAH6970 cards that were recently reviewed here. The Hawk will only feature 2 Display Ports, HDMI, and DVI-I. The rest of the lineup looks like reference based cards with custom Twin Frozr IV coolers.
It is good to see MSI continues with the more affordable Hawk brand. (image courtesy of Lab 501)
Of particular interest is the board design of the Lightning card. It is simply jam packed with power regulation components and the new "Twin Form-in-One" bracing system which supports both sides of the PCB with metal plates to minimize warping, improve cooling, and funnel airflow. Looking at the back of the card reveals the plate having a nice sized hole in it which would be perfect for another fan to cool all of the components on the back. More digging has informed us that it is actually a removable "GPU Reactor Core". More details should be available soon.


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During the 2011 World Bank Annual Meetings, we decided to give the highest visibility to the topic of gender equality in connection with the World Development Report 2012.
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Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport: a new path to growth
When Bob Garrison, of Toms River, N.J., vacationed in Fort Lauderdale in December, it was a natural to use Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, but he prefers it even when flying down to visit the Florida Keys.
"It's much more convenient and easier than Miami. That's the overall reason," Garrison said.
If all goes well with the $2.3-billion expansion underway at FLL, the airport will emerge with ample room to handle more passengers and jets while preserving its reputation as affordable and convenient. (It is touting a slogan of "Breeze In. Breeze Out.")
FLL, which during the past decade has solidified its position as South Florida's airport of choice for budget-minded travelers, is well along in the construction of a new $791 million, 8,000-foot south runway.
Confident of finishing it on time, airport officials have nailed down an opening date of Sept. 18. That will boost the airport's capacity and flexibility by providing a second runway able to handle large commercial jets. And because it's parallel with the north runway, the airport will be able to handle takeoffs and landings simultaneously.
The new path, dubbed 10R/28L, is an engineering feat, a sloping ribbon of elevated concrete that parallels Griffin Road, plunging in a 60-foot precipice at its eastern end, with U.S. 1 and the Florida East Coast Railway tunneling beneath.
To build it, the airport had to give up a short south runway used for small planes and its diagonal runway, leaving the busy facility to make do with only its 9,000-foot north runway, 9L/27R.
The airport, run by Broward County, also is modernizing three aging terminals and completely rebuilding the fourth, Terminal 4, a huge project that will run through 2017.
The facilities, most of which date to the 1980s, will get high ceilings, artwork, and more shops and restaurants. All told, the expansion will boost the number of gates to 66 from 58.
Yet for all the change ahead, a key aspiration is to preserve FLL's reputation for low-hassle, affordable travel.
"The airport is known for its low fares and its convenience to get in and out of," said Kent G. George, Broward's director of aviation, who was hired in 2007 to kick-start the long-stalled airport expansion. "That won't change."
Another key aspect of the project is making the facility better suited for current security needs. Security checkpoints have been streamlined to ease passenger flow. Terminals 3 and 4 will get "in-line'' baggage handling systems that monitor for explosives as bags move along the beltways, projects already done at Terminals 1 and 2.
The goal is to ensure one of the region's major economic engines stays competitive. For fiscal 2013, some 23.6 million passengers flew in or out of the airport. While that was about flat with the prior year, the number of travelers has burgeoned 12.7 percent since a recession low of 20.9 million in fiscal 2009. That bustling flow is vital for business and tourism, including the cruise lines sailing from nearby Port Everglades.
Lured by Fort Lauderdale's low operating costs, low-cost carriers from JetBlue Airways to Southwest Airlines to Spirit Airlines have flocked there. That contrasts with Miami International Airport, where it costs an airline more than four times as much to board a passenger and low-cost domestic airlines have retreated en masse (although a few international budget carriers fly there).
At FLL, New York-based JetBlue, a fast-growing, low-cost carrier, plans to grow to 100 daily flights by 2017 from its current 60 to 65 flights. JetBlue additions in 2013 included Medellín, Colombia; San Jose, Costa Rica; and Lima, Peru.
"There's a lot of benefit in that new runway," said Scott Link, JetBlue's director of airports for the southeast. "We'll see an improved flow of aircraft. With two runways, they'll be able to handle arrivals and departures simultaneously."
Southwest Airlines, the low-cost icon that flies nonstop to 25 cities from Fort Lauderdale, has zeroed in on the airport as a key site for launching its new international service. The carrier reached a deal with Broward County in December 2013, agreeing to oversee $295 million in upgrades to Terminal 1 to prepare for that initiative.
And Norwegian Air Shuttle, a prominent low-cost European carrier based in Fornebu, Norway, began service between FLL and Copenhagen and Stockholm in November 2013 with Boeing 787 Dreamliners. Norwegian plans to add nonstop flights between Fort Lauderdale and London starting July 4.
"It's not by mistake we have the low-cost carriers here," said Douglas Wolfe, chief financial officer for Broward aviation department. Even with the big capital spending, the airport will maintain its status as a low-cost center, he said. The trick to success: generating more revenue from improved airport concessions and parking and bringing in grants, so the share of costs the airlines have to shoulder remains small.
FLL boasts the lowest average domestic fare in the region: $274.86 for the second quarter of 2013. That was 25.5 percent below MIA's average of $369.05 and 12 percent below Palm Beach International Airport's $311.92, U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics show.
"With our low-cost fees to the airlines, we're going to continue to be attractive to airlines in the future," said George, an industry veteran who previously ran Pittsburgh International Airport.
For 2014, low-cost airlines will carry 61 percent of passengers enplaned at FLL, while legacy carriers like Delta Air Lines handle 39 percent, the airport said. A decade earlier, low-cost carriers made up 31.6 percent of FLL enplanements.
MIA, by contrast, has no low-cost domestic service left. AirTran Airways, which was acquired in 2011 by Southwest, was MIA's last domestic low-cost carrier when it wound down service and then pulled out completely in June 2012.
"Miami is so big. It has too many people, and it cost more," said Luis Canto Vivas, who was checking in last month at a JetBlue counter for a flight to Cancún, Mexico, with his wife and kids, who came on a shopping vacation to South Florida.
FLL's cost per enplaned passenger was an enviable $4.16 for fiscal 2013. That key metric, which is paid by airlines, is the gap between an airport's expenses and the revenue from concessions, parking and other business ventures.
With the added debt for the expansion, Fort Lauderdale's cost per enplaned passenger is expected to rise modestly, peaking at about $6.51 in 2017, before tapering lower. By contrast, MIA's cost per enplaned passenger is budgeted at $20.33 this fiscal year. Burdened by heavy debt, ballooned by cost overruns from its star-crossed expansion of its South and North Terminals, MIA's cost structure is among the highest in the nation.
"Miami has space [for more airlines], but there's an economic wall around it," said Ben Baldanza, CEO of Miramar-based Spirit Airlines, which carried 18.1 percent of FLL's passengers in the last fiscal year.
Anne Syrcle Lee, chief financial officer for Miami-Dade aviation department, said MIA's passenger growth has exceeded expectations and that the airport is doing a great job of holding down costs, which together have resulted in a much lower CPE than anticipated when it took on debt to finance important expansion projects.
The two airports are serving "different markets," she said.
During the first half of 2013, Fort Lauderdale carried 55.4 percent of the region's domestic "origin and destination" passengers — those whose trips began or ended in South Florida — compared with MIA's 27.1 percent market share and Palm Beach International's 17.5 percent share, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
For its part, MIA, a much busier facility overall, has been flourishing in other ways: Already the No. 2 international hub in the United States behind New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, MIA carried 40 million passengers in 2013, its fourth consecutive record, fueled by continued growth as an international gateway.
As low-cost airlines expand more internationally, FLL is poised to gain in that service as well, particularly on shorter trips to the Caribbean and Latin America. "Fort Lauderdale is a logical jumping off point for our international plans for the future," said Brad Hawkins, a Southwest spokesman.
Dallas-based Southwest's recently unveiled plans to begin flying internationally for the first time hold big implications for FLL.
Southwest's international ambitions are integral to upgrades planned for Terminal 1, including the construction of a new five-gate Concourse A. "The facility will be able to accommodate approximately 25 to 30 international daily flights and will serve as an international gateway facility for Southwest to operate flights to the Caribbean and cities in Central and northern South America," according to a Broward aviation department summary.
The makeover of Terminal 4 —which houses Spirit, JetBlue and foreign carriers — entails an even bigger undertaking, totaling $450 million through 2017. Plans call for knocking down its Concourse H, which juts to the south, and building instead a 14-gate Concourse G that will run east-west, netting four more gates there and a host of new concessions.
Airport officials see little risk in the big spending plans. For one thing, FLL has a diverse base of airlines. Unlike MIA, where American Airlines and American Eagle account for 68 percent of passengers, FLL's biggest carrier, JetBlue, had an 18.8 percent market share in fiscal 2013.
For all its economic promise, the airport expansion has drawn plenty of critics.
In a settlement with the City of Dania Beach, which sued to block construction of the new runway, Broward County agreed among other things to spend up to $116 million for noise insulation for some 1,700 homes, including hurricane windows and doors and roofing insulation. Of those, 857 homes hit hardest by jet noise will be eligible for sales assistance, with compensation of up to 25 percent of what market value would be if the runway hadn't been built.
"These airports in South Florida are basically the biggest businesses in South Florida,'' said Neal McAliley, a partner at the law firm of White & Case, which represents Dania. "They have a wide and diverse public benefit — but they also have adverse effects on a few." The settlement, he added, "is not everything Dania Beach wanted, but it's fair."
Some neighbors fared well. Under a mediated settlement, Broward County paid $62 million to buy the Airport Hilton from an affiliate of Blackstone Group, the private equity giant. The hotel, at 1870 Griffin Rd., east of I-95, which sold for $25.9 million in July 2004, is set to be demolished beginning April 1 because it's too close to new runway.
The hotel's price was tough to swallow but necessary for the expansion nonetheless, said aviation director George.
"The runway is going to reduce delays," he said. "It's going to be better for operators and the customer."


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Happiness Is...April 28, 2004
Recent acquisition:
Which brings our household data capacity to a quarter of a terabyte. I've long claimed that 5 petabytes is all I'll ever need, for life. Which provokes bemused expressions on the faces of those around me. No one ever seems to factor in the increasing demand for storage…
My own personal storage history, distributed across drives and systems:
- 1988 - 1994: dual 360k floppies, no hard drive.
5 petabytes. It's all I ask.
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Heh, altogether my apartment has just around 1535 Gb (1.5 terabytes) of storage space. (5 people - college: 260Gb, 620Gb, 290Gb, 165Gb, 200Gb)
And we're still running out of space. :D
Specifically our music, movie, and television collections are what is taking up tons of space. As media becomes more and more digital, we're going to progressively need more HD space to put it on.
Storage, for me, has never been much of an issue. Currently I am running the following:
1. 80GB (Windows Development Machine)
2. 13GB (Windows Development Machine)
3. 80GB (iMac G4)
4. 20GB (Wife's Toshiba Laptop)
And I have plenty of room. Except on the iMac, where I store all of my digital video, music and photos. If anyone knows how to keep a mounted SMB drive mapped - PLEASE email me.
BTW, the Beatles once said "Happiness is a warm gun." I am guessing, with this post you are simply stating that Happiness is a warm storage medium.
It's amazing to think that in the space of 10 years the average hard drive size has gone up 2,000 times.
So in 2014 we should have plenty of petabytes to share around.. ;)
All you need a rack full of these: LaCie !TB "Bigger Disk"
Hmmm, the link didn't work: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118
Ah, remember when we used to create compressed archives of important files, and then save them to floppies so we could delete word processing documents, application installers, and desktop publishing files to save space on our external 40 MB Sony hard disks, which we had to shake at power-on because the platter lubricant got sticky overnight?
Good times, man. Good times.
I just added a 40g to my previous 36g… pleeeenty of room, just as long as I don't start ripping all of my cds…
Why then still add a 40g HD you ask? It was a bargain… and now I can back up the whole primary HD :)
Hmm, what's that I'm smelling? Oh, it's my envy…
I shouldn't complain, though. I have 4 HD's at home, 2 currently plugged in (40+60 gb) and 2 waiting till I get around to fixing my raid controller. I've got notoriously little space left, however.
I'm looking forward to seeing a new line of harddrives come out with FAR more storage space than the current drives, but I'm afraid it will still be a little while. Maybe that's just me, though. Anyone else think it will be at least 3 more years before we'll see harddrives come out of 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB storage? At affordable prices, of course…
heh…i remember about 1 1/2 years ago when i got a 100GB drive to complement the existing 2x 30GB drives on my PC. i'll never fill that, i thought…well, as i'm currently working on 3 large video projects, i find myself running out all the time…
oh…just for the sake of it: http://www.splintered.co.uk/images/stuff/my_computer.gif
I am currently running 4 HDD's in my Windows box.
40GB ATA (X2 Raid1)
and an old SCSI Narrow 9.1 for laughs.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%
/dev/hda1 4.3G 3.9G 162M 97%
My Windows PC has 1x30GB, 1x40GB and 1x120GB = 210GB. My Powerbook has 80GB and my Xbox has 120GB.
My biggest problem is - ironically - the sharing of date between the different platforms.
Ehm. That's 410GB all in all…
Hah! I mock your claims of a lack of storage space! My main computer at home currently has 2 hard drives, a 10GB and a 1GB (that's 11GB total, for the math impaired). I tend to keep my files burned onto CD (years of working with computers has made me paranoid about HD crashes), so I don't usually run out of space. I suppose I should probably break down and buy the 120GB upgrade one of these days, but I think it's funny that many portable music players have more storage than my computer.
Every time I get a new hard drive, it's about four times the size of the previous, yet I seem to able to stuff it up in the same amount of time.
What, has nobody around here has mentioned Sinclair�s Spectrum computers? Wating 4-5 minutes for programs and games (all 48K of them, mind you) to load from an external tape deck (until they came out with the integrated tape later on or even later the floppy model)…
hehe, now those were the days ;-)
20Gb Lacie Pocket Drive USB 2.0
20Gb Laptop
20 + 40Gb development PC
10 Gb server
20Gb Girlfriend (I mean my girlfriend's Pc has a 20Gb HD, not her)
Total 130Gb
Actually, I keep all that almost empty or, at least redundant so add:
- approx 150 CDs at home
- approx 500 CDs at mom's house :-P
(150 + 500) * 500Mb Avg = 325GB
I'm cursed with a single 20 GB ATA-100 hard drive, running Fedora Core 2 Test 3 and Windows XP SP2 (note that WinXP comes after the fact; Fedora rocks!). I have no Zip drives, keychain USB drives, network storage, or anything else, and I still have 3.3 GB free (only after deleting 2.1 GB of Fedora install images, though).
So I guess I can't complain. But there's still that piece-of-crap Pentium III 533 Mhz processor to contend with.
Hehehe, do you realize that in 16 years you have increased your storage capacity by 768,000 times? Bye bye Moore's Law! 768,000 is a big number…. ;-)
I'm pretty much in the same boat. I've got a 20 GB HD, dual booting SuSE 9 and WinME. Of course, though, my P3 933 Mhz processor would destroy yours…
Never enough space. Especially with MythTv (http://www.mythtv.org) - I'm using 0.5T on my fileserver:
/dev/mediavg/medialv 482G 482G 845M 100% /media
The various other servers/desktops have around 200G more. But I should really add a few more drivers to the LVM, making it a full 1T.
The sad part is that from setting the /media folder until it filled up took only 3 months.
let's see:
imac: 10gb
pc hd1: 20gb
pc hd2: 80gb
dell laptop: 40gb
powerbook: 40gb
xbox: 8gb
ps2: 40gb (fileserver)
maxtor fw: 80gb (NEVER buy. free replacement for a 60gb that crashed and burned twice, this one has already done that once)
318gb at this point, though i've eyed lacie's big external for a while now ( http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10123 )… anyone know of any stability issues? i'll never get a maxtor again…
MP3s, movie files and those weird videos that your friends send from time to time are what takes the biggest chunk of space on a hard drive. Being badly burned by lots of HD crashes in the past, I've come to an habit of backuping (is that a word?) all stuff in CDs, although with increasing data recollection I'm switching to DVDs for the same task. Things like MP3s and videos get copied into DVD so I can use my HD space on more "important" things…
As the computing experience gets more of broadband and video on it so will do space requirements. However, there's one app I don't see it makes anything essentially better or different than its past version, yet keeps getting fatter every time: MS Office. An "easy install" is easily 90% filler you don't really need. There's probably some conspiracy among MS and hard drive manufacturers so they can have an excuse to make us buy more and more storage…
A few months ago, I did some work at a local firm, and increased the capacity of their AppleShare server tenfold. I pointed out to them the limitations of their current backup system (which they were not in a position to replace), and stressed the importance of archiving off projects and managing their data storage. I then made a smart-ass wisecrack about giving them "six months to fill the drives."
Last week, I got a call that the file server had crashed. When I brought the machine back up, I discovered that there was a scant 40 MB remaining. I'm not sure if it was the attempt to save a 1.2GB Photoshop file, or the background copying of a few 200-300MB TIFFS that brought AppleShare to its knees, but there you go.
Time elapsed: 5 months.
I tried to resist, but in the end was compelled to (good naturedly) say "I told you so."
I only have ten gigabyte on my newer computer. I'm constantly strapped for enough space to cache a compact disc I'm burning. My older computer has two 550-megabyte disks, but I rarely use that computer, as it has sixteen megabyte of RAM and a 66-megahertz processor.
Oh, and I have about 15 gigabyte of backups on CD-ROM. Go compact discs!
Unfirewalled XP machines are great for distributed storage.
Sure, it may be kind of illegal, but if the mouth breathers are gonna open the attachments all the time, do they really deserve their own free space.
/This has been a disgruntled IT worker
I have 15 GB on my laptop, and I'm only using about 1 gig.
geek status: unstable
Whatever amount of hard drive space I have, I will fill it. I could never set a cap on what I'll need because if there's empty room, I've got to put something on it. Digital photos, MP3's, movies, Photoshop files….. more more more!!!!
I don't really have that much storage.
80 GB SATA Drive
20 GB ATA Drive
60 GB ATA Drive
Total: 160GB.
not very much, but I have trouble filling it.
I remember my first external Hard Drive that I bought in 1991. This was a 100MB Frog Drive and cost �333. My latest 250GB internal cost �120.
I thought the 100MB would be all I'd ever need. :)
Is it wrong that when I built my home PC I went straight for the Terra? Hey, it's only about $1200 when you raid 4 250's
History for Me:
Home Computer (August 2003): 1T
Old Home Computer (June 96): 36G
Really Old Home Computer (90): 500meg
Wanna see more about that computer, or don't believe the terra thing, see my site.
I think road planners in the UK could learn a lot from this; no matter how much capacity you have, people will always find a way to fill it up ;)
Let me see…
PC 1 (1996): 10GB + 20GB (added in 1998)
PC 2 (2000): 2x40GB + 120GB external (added in 2002)
PC 3 (2004): 160GB + 160GB internal
I have good experiences with my Maxtor external disk, and a LaCie Porsche disk, but have recently returned 2 LaCie BigDisks of 500GB (awkward, carrying 1TB in your hands) because under heavy usage, they give up and lose their data.
Could someone make a small web app where anyone could add his data and it would show statistical graphs over time :-) ?
36 comments so far and most of those detailing the impressive storage the respective posters call their own.
But nobody mentionned those 5 petabytes.
I wonder if there really is nobody who might know what that is the reference to? I for one really liked reading that - and I couldn't agree more ;-)
I started out with a 1.2 gig drive that cost $NZ7500 in 1990. I am just about to buy a SATA RAID - 2 terabytes for just over twice that amount.
Not to mention the 10 TB box and the 1 PB tape robot on the horizon…
Currently I have 3 pc: 40 + 10 + 1GB (the last is my tryout server =/ )
Watch out! I had a beautiful brushed-metal-with-blue-blinky-light LaCie 120 gig drive for about 6 months, then it started making this scary clicking noise during seeks and sometimes randomly powered off. This drove me to buy a replacement last month and get all the data off it before it died for good. Though this is just my experience, maybe I was too hard on the thing, and I'm pretty sure it was a fluke.
Well, my first hard drive was a Jasmine 20Mb external that I bought in 1988 for the bargain price of $699. I just spent $600 to buy two 250Gb Firewire drives. My current home setup is as follows:
40Gb internal HD (transplanted from my previous CPU)
80Gb internal HD (came with computer)
120 Gb Firewire External (full of scanned photos)
120 Gb Firewire External (ditto)
250 Gb Firewire External (new but filling fast)
250 Gb Firewire External (current backups)
TOTAL: 860 Gb
Of course, I'm a photographer shooting medium format and scanning at 4000dpi, so each raw scan is 170Mb. If I add layers in Photoshop, the files double in size. I'm lucky if I can get two on a CD.
Thank God storage is cheap!
Don't you love Firewire though? I have an 80GB box I bought in Japan a couple years back before I left, and it has proved to be extremely useful. I remember getting it and thinking "Man, it'll take years to fill this thing up…"
Fast forward 6 months, I was deleting everything I could find… :)


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America spends more on its military than any other country. U.S. military spending in 2012 was $682 billion, which is $516 billion more than incurred by China, the next biggest spender. This means the U.S. has the most technologically advanced and best-equipped armed forces in the world.
Attempts to cut the military budget are usually met with protest. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently warned Congress not to cut spending by $52 billion for the 2014 budget, citing "severe and unacceptable effects on the U.S. military" if the cuts were imposed.
Q: With America being a mainly Christian country, is there a disconnect here between following the teachings of Jesus and at the same time spending huge amounts on armaments?
As a rabbi, I can share the Jewish view on this important topic. The Torah, in several passages and using various phrases, commands us to "love our neighbor as ourselves," pursue peace and avoid belligerence. The ancient prophets as well as our sages throughout time emphasize the importance of peace and stress that it is a central tenet of a divine way of life. We are even taught that God himself is called peace.
Yet, this very same Bible also teaches us that: "If someone is coming to kill you, arise and kill him first." It is understood that although we are required to go to great lengths to uphold peace, ultimately, it cannot come at any cost. If the cost of peace would mean my demise and the triumph of evil, then I am required to don my battle gear and wage war, no matter how repellent that may be.
The United States is the only country in the world today that has the overpowering might to stand as a bulwark against all-out bloodshed and war in many parts of the world. The sad reality is that there is a dark and sinister shadow created by a host of ruthless dictators and repressive governments around the globe. If we disarmed, madmen such as Kim Jong Un of North Korea or Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, would pounce on us or our allies at the first opportunity. If we let our guard down for even a moment, strongmen like Vladimir Putin of Russia would inevitably find a way to launch aggression somewhere in the former Soviet Union's sphere of influence.
I'm certain that no person of good conscience is happy with the vast amount of money that we are forced to spend on armaments. But so long as our world is populated by unscrupulous people who would do us harm, this is a moral necessity which we need to maintain.
Rabbi Simcha Backman
Chabad Jewish Center
I think not, but there is probably lots of wasteful spending, and very little commercial competition to lessen military expenses. It could possibly be done cheaper, but I wouldn't want a weaker military having done so.
Jesus said, if you don't have a sword…buy one" (Luke 22:36 NIV). Some believe eliminating military expenses will eliminate poverty, but buying self-defense is necessary lest there be no one to aid the poor. Imagine if we hadn't defeated the Nazis. We'd be goose-stepping today, speaking German, and our first Fuhrer would have only recently passed away. There wouldn't be any indigents because they'd be exterminated as freeloaders.
Freedom is expensive, and if we act all weepy and chop our military in favor of feeding our enemy's underclass, we'll only enrich them and make ourselves vulnerable. Countries should see to their own, and we should see more to ours. We also have astronomical debt that must be eliminated before we start surrendering our superiority and giving each other peace signs. Debt itself leaves us at a disadvantage to those who hate the U.S. but love to plunder our treasure.
Jesus said that "government is God's servant for your good… it does not carry the sword for no reason" (Rom 13:4 HCS). Today, it's not Excalibur that our national defense carries, but weapons such as the FGM-148 Javelin, the Mk 47 Striker, the UUM-125 Sea Lance, and the Boeing AGM-84 Harpoon. Our enemies have similar, though lesser weapons, and they threaten to use them all the time.
I'd like there to be earthly utopia, but then we wouldn't seek Heaven would we? While there "may" be a Christian majority in America, there are virtually no Christians in many of the countries with which we have difficulties, and it's only a button that could launch our next worldwide conflagration. Christians or no, have we really come to the place where we would stand by and permit tyranny to ascend? Not in my country on God's earth, I hope.
The Rev. Bryan Griem
Montrose Community Church
It's a little dicey, quoting Jesus or the Bible on matters of war and peace. The prophets gave conflicting views: one said, "beat your swords into plowshares" while another said, "beat your plowshares into swords" (Isaiah 2:4; Joel 3:10). And while Jesus said cool stuff about loving your enemies, he also said, "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword" (Matthew 10:34). So there's room for both sides of the armament argument.
What's inescapable, though, is the biblical mandate, in both testaments, to feed and care for the poor, the widow, the stranger, the oppressed. And what confounds me is why such care isn't considered to be just as vital to America's national security as weaponry and intelligence gathering.
I'm no expert on international diplomacy, but it doesn't take one to see that a great deal of terrorism and other threats to our country stem from poverty, hunger, and other desperate needs, including adequate medical care and education. If we spent just a few of those billions to fund such assistance around the world, we wouldn't need such a massive arsenal, nor need to live in fear of our many enemies.
And the world would, you know, be better.
The Rev. Amy Pringle
St. George's Episcopal Church
La Cañada Flintridge
We have probably all heard the saying, "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." While I don't know where that saying comes from, it sort of describes America's view of the world: be religious and also be ready to blow any adversary into smithereens.
I do not wish to appear to be naive, because I know that there is evil in the world and I know that there are those who would love to see America be no more. But still...we claim to follow the Prince of Peace, and yet we have the most powerful military in the world. Isn't there something inconsistent with having faith in Jesus and at the same time having faith in guns, missiles, bombs, tanks, aircraft, and anything else that can "neutralize" (that's war-speak for "kill") an adversary?
I don't have a satisfactory answer. While I generally think that violence is not the way to solve problems, I can envision a situation in which it might be inexcusable not to use violence. The old story of the crazed madman with a knife who is about to do bad things to your grandmother comes to mind; how can one sit back and not intervene — and probably in a violent way?
The American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who died in 1971, was certainly not a pacifist. In fact, he said that we were not good enough to be able to defeat an evil such as Hitler without using evil means (i.e., violence, warfare) ourselves. Niebuhr's argument is persuasive, but we are still left with the words of Jesus when he was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane shortly before he was crucified, "...all who take the sword will perish by the sword" (Matthew 26: 52). And then the world's greatest power proceeded to torture and kill him.
These days the United States is the world's greatest power. How interesting that so many of us who claim to follow Jesus are also proud to swear allegiance to the world's greatest power. That's not wrong; it's merely interesting. And I am reminded of another saying of Jesus: "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's "(Matthew 22: 21). Of course, Jesus left it up to us to determine what belongs to Caesar and what belongs to God. As I mentioned, I have no satisfactory answer, and so I continue to wrestle with the issue. I am also not antimilitary — but I do like the bumper sticker that says, "How nice it would be if schools had enough money and the Air Force had to have a bake sale to buy its next plane."
The Rev. Skip Lindeman
La Cañada Congregational Church
La Cañada Flintridge
According to the 2013 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Yearbook, the United States spends more on its military budget than any other country, more than four times the amount of its closest rival, China. But the statistics that concern me most are those showing the percentage of our annual Gross Domestic Product spent on the military and our per capita expenditure for that purpose.
The percentage of our GDP used for the military in 2013 is listed as 4.4%, equal to Russia and more than any other country in the world other than Saudi Arabia. And the per capita spending by the U.S. military in 2011 was $2,141, more than any other country except the United Arab Emirates.
Now I am not a statistician, but these comparisons make me believe our values are way out of balance in our military spending. The reasons the percentage of our GDP and per capita statistics concern me are that they are most closely related to the real lives of our people. With such a large percentage of our income and per capita expenditures being used for the military, there is less money available to provide for basic needs such as food, clothing, healthcare, housing and education. If we shifted the percentages we spend on the military to other vital services, we could make a huge difference in the future of our people and our country.
I am not myopic enough to suggest that we need to abandon the needs of our military, but as a person of faith I believe we need to reevaluate our priorities and support those things that we say we value. If we do not put our religious beliefs into action, they will have no impact. We must speak truth to power for the sake of all. How can we do less?
The Rev. Dr. Betty Stapleford
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Verdugo Hills
La Crescenta
There is no fundamental disconnect between strong faith in Jesus Christ and a strong system of national military defense. Jesus' teaching primarily addressed our person-to-person relationships as citizens of God's kingdom. In interpersonal relationships we should "not resist him who is evil" and "turn the other cheek." This is where some have confusion, applying this personal principle to the nation as a whole. But consider the way God ordered Israel, his nation on earth. At times Israel had a very strong military, and directed by God they waged wars that took human lives. Yet God was not unjust in it, and his nature has never changed. While in personal relationships believers are to be gentle, humble, forgiving and not seeking of personal retaliation, God's clearly expressed will for human government includes the punishment of evil (even with the sword! See Romans 13:4) and protection from foreign invasion.
In the New Testament God shows us how his invisible, borderless kingdom on the earth should function. But the Old Testament example of Israel's defense and military stands as the just way political earthly nations function properly. Was God unjust, unloving and unholy when he commanded Israel to form an army and wage war? He was not. Neither is the modern nation who spends even large sums to protect its citizens from persecution, injustice and foreign domination in a world fraught with "wars and rumors of wars [which] must take place" (Matthew 24:6).
Pastor Jon Barta
Valley Baptist Church
America spends more on arms and armed forces than the combined spending of the next 12 countries on the list. We come close to equaling the entire world's military spending.
Most of this largesse isn't going to the men and women who serve. The U.S. military budget is heavily skewed toward hardware, with accountability so weak that we have more than enough weapons to blow us all up many times over, for which we have overpaid.
Meanwhile, many current and former troops don't get even their basic needs met — witness the shame of military suicides and that one-third of our homeless are veterans. Plus, relatively few civilian jobs are created in weapons manufacturing, compared with the same money going to schools, healthcare or housing.
We have around 1,000 military bases in over 150 countries. This is imperialism, not defense. Do we really need more U.S. troops in Germany, for example, than there are German troops there?
Consider the reality of the current threat, against which a huge military is useless. Backpack bombs. Box cutters. Castor bean extract. True believers willing to die for it. Handguns kill more Americans in a few months than the total U.S. dead from foreign attackers on American soil
Disconnect? Gee, let's see. Our skimpy food assistance to the poorest poor was just cut 100% in the House, and the Department of Defense frets over a possible 7% cut to a defense budget which many military supporters admit is bloated.
It makes me ask, with no disrespect intended, "Jesus Christ, what are we thinking?" Do I see his teachings reflected in our permanent war economy? No.
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Dell Buyout Could Rank in Top 5 Buyouts in History
Wondering where would this hypothetical Dell buyout would fall in terms of the legends of PE buyouts? Possibly in the Top 5.
Dell shares leapt 13% to $12.29 Monday on a Bloomberg report that the computer company has held discussions about a possible private equity deal. Dell started the day with a market capitalization of $18.9 billion and ended at $21.4 billion.
Add in a customary, gratuity-like 20% premium and the deal could approach $23 billion, which would put it on track to be among the five biggest buyouts of all time, according to Dealogic.
According to Dealogic there hasn't been a $20 billion buyout, excluding debt, since the Blackstone-led deal to acquire Hilton Hotels for $20.2 billion, a deal that closed in October 2007, near the height of the buyout boom.
In total there have been seven buyouts in history that eclipsed $20 billion excluding the target's debt, according to Dealogic, six of which came across between 2006 and 2007. (The first $20 billion-plus buyout was the famed KKR buyout of RJR Nabisco in 1988, the central story of best-selling book "Barbarians at the Gate.")


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I managed to get my hands on a 7 year old tin of this, so this review may not apply to a younger sample. The tobacco inside was a fairly consistent mix of blacks, browns, and burnt orange colors in loose ribbons that were dry to the touch. The campfire smell of the Latakia was present as was a slight sweet undertone that I attributed to the Virginias in the blend. An unlit sip gave me a taste of that sweetness, which was very enjoyable.This was not a heavy Latakia blend to me, with the sweetness dominating throughout the bowl. Every so often some of the smokiness of the Latakia would come through giving me a pleasant surprise. These flavors held true down to the gray ash at the bottom of the bowl. The finish was short, but sweet and the room note was really too faint for me to detect.After a week smoking this, I still thoroughly enjoy this blend. I am definitely planning on buying more to cellar, and I want to try it while it is still freshly tinned. If you like a Virginia based blend with just a hint of smoky Latakia goodness, then I highly recommend Rose of Latakia.
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John Hanke, the president of Google Earth, explained all the news. The most important for us was that Google Maps API provides geocoding for US, Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. This means that now is possible to know the coordinates of any address. Until now if you wanted to find locations by address you had to pay a third party service, so most of mash-ups didn't include geocoding.
In our case, geocoding will help Panoramio very much. Until now you needed to recognice a place from the air to locate a photo, it was difficult. Very soon in Panoramio you could say "7 Bacon Street, London" and the photo will automatically be located there, fast and easy.
There were other important news. The quality of the satellite photos for most of the planet has been improved. Now there are versions of Google Earth for Mac an Linux. Surprisingly Larry Page, Serge Brin and Eric Schmidt appeared few minutes. Joaquín and me were eating the whole day, good food was everywhere.
The next two days, 13th and 14th, we went to Where 2.0 Conference in San José. We all met again, but also a lot of CEOs and people from other business. Specially interesting for us were the speakers from other mash-ups (Flagr, Platial, Plazes, etc.)
We met Frank Taylor from Google Earth Blog, Mike Pegg from Googlemapsmania, people from Flagr and some other. It was interesting to speak personally with other people working on the same area about statistics, business models, etc. It's not very usual you have all these people around.
Joaquín Cuenca, my partner at Panoramio, was so excited about the new geocoding possibilities, that while I was drinking some beers with people from Tagzania he was creating a mash-up of Loquo.com (Spain's Craigslist) and Google Maps. It's still a bit rough around the edges, and there's still a lot to do to improve it, but you can already get the idea. By the way, the name is Revoluz.


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Eagle River man injured in bear attack
Anchorage police say a 57-year-old Eagle River man was resting at a local hospital Sunday night after a run-in with a brown bear Saturday evening.
According to APD Lt. Dave Parker, Howard Meyer was hiking near his home in the Eagle River Valley when the attack occurred around 6 p.m.
Parker said Meyer came across the adult bear suddenly. When the animal began acting aggressively, Parker said Meyer first tried to hold his ground before turning to run.
"The thing was on him like that," Parker said.
Parker said Meyer lives on Mariah Drive, which is off of Prudhoe Bay Ave The mountainside neighborhood overlooking the Eagle River Valley is located about 3.5 miles from the end of Eagle River Road. Meyer suffered wounds to his back and head in the attack. He was able to call police on his cell phone and direct medics to his location. The bear disappeared after the brief encounter.
"It was pretty much a hit-and-run thing, according to him," Parker said.
Parker said Meyer's injuries aren't believed to be life-threatening.
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Parker said Meyer's cell phone allowed medics to reach him quickly.
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A security clearance is often essential to landing a technology job with a government contractor or federal agency handling sensitive information.
If you want to work at an organization serving the national interest, you may find your path slowed considerably, if not blocked entirely, by the lack of a security clearance. To obtain a clearance, you need an employer's backing and patience. Delays are common, given the government's backlog of clearance applications.
Here's our guide to security clearances.
What is a security clearance?
A security clearance is a government authorization for you to view classified information as your job requires. The information can be as varied as reports about border security or details on how spy satellites work. A clearance is not a blanket authorization to view all classified information; it simply allows you to view the information you need to know to do your job.
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Dave Underwood, president of TAC Secured, a TAC Worldwide subsidiary that places IT professionals with active security clearances, stresses the importance of a clearance to work at defense contractors, homeland security firms and in other government-related positions. He likens the clearance to "a secret handshake" — once you get it, it's transferable, meaning it will help you find other jobs that require a clearance.
Are there different types of clearances?
Yes. The most common are labeled "confidential," "secret" and "top secret," corresponding to the sensitivity of the information you are allowed to handle on the job. Top-secret clearances may also give you authorization to view "sensitive compartmented information" — specific information that's deemed particularly sensitive. Your employer will work with government officials to determine the appropriate clearance.
Can I apply for a clearance on my own?
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No. Sponsorship from a company or government agency is necessary to apply for a clearance. "The challenge for most candidates is that you can't obtain a security clearance on your own without having a government contractor or agency sponsor you for the background investigation," says Michael Fitzgerald, principal consultant at staffing firm Winter, Wyman and Company. "Such investigations also take time and money, which means obtaining your clearance requires patience and planning, as they can often take many months to finish." Employers pay the cost of the clearance process.
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The process varies depending on the type of clearance being sought, the information involved and the urgency of the project. A lower-level clearance may entail a background check into your education, job history, criminal record, credit history and residences. If you're applying for a job involving more sensitive information, expect government or private investigators to interview you personally and delve into various areas of your personal and professional life. Investigators will also interview neighbors and friends and possibly have you take a polygraph test. Falsehoods and omissions in an application can disqualify you from receiving a clearance.
Does a clearance last a lifetime?
No. If you need to continue to view sensitive information on the job, you will have to undergo a reinvestigation every five years for a top-secret clearance, every 10 years for a secret clearance and every 15 years for a confidential clearance. A clearance becomes inactive when your job no longer requires you to view sensitive information.
Is it worth applying for a job requiring a clearance even if I don't have one?
Lack of a clearance shouldn't stop you from seeking a job that requires one. If you don't have a clearance, the company may hire you, start the clearance process and have you work on other projects until your clearance is approved.


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Embarcadero Technologies has released Rapid SQL XE, an IDE for SQL-based development. Rapid SQL XE includes direct native support for heterogeneous database environments from a single user interface, and supports Embarcadero InterBase and the open-source Firebird database, in addition to full Unicode support. Moreover, Rapid SQL XE includes support for all database platforms with a single product, interface and license, and also includes Embarcadero ToolCloud centralized licensing and on-demand deployment features.
"As the application and database landscape becomes increasingly heterogeneous, developers must adapt by working proficiently on multiple platforms," says Embarcadero's Michael Swindell. "Rapid SQL XE enables IT and development managers to maximize their database development productivity by standardizing on a single tool that allows them to work on all database platforms -- even ones they are not familiar with -- using a single interface and minimal training."
Rapid SQL XE includes several features, including support for:
- Unicode which lets users work with data in different languages and display the text correctly on screen.
- InterBase and Firebird in terms of connectivity, object management, SQL editing and execution facilities, and project support.
- Object Filtering via three new filtering capabilities: name-based filtering, user-defined object name filtering and node filtering. These new filtering enhancements enable developers to better control the user interface and work more efficiently.
- Enhanced ISQL Editor. The ISQL editor now supports on-the-fly syntax checking of both code and object names. To further reduce the possibility of keying errors, Rapid SQL XE introduces two other functions: full object look-up and code complete.
- Data Editor which simplified record creation and default value handling to quickly add multiple records.
- User Interface with object editors and wizards to improve workflow and the user interface experience.
Rapid SQL XE also includes new data source management features, object management enhancements for Oracle, DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW and SQL Server, and enhanced currency and support for DB2 z/OS and LUW and Windows 7. Rapid SQL XE supports all major databases including IBM DB2 for LUW, DB2 for z/OS, Firebird, InterBase, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase.


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Considering he's spent the last couple of days fending off accusations he's a slumlord, this probably won't be the most cheerful day for hotel/restaurant owner Eric Goode: He celebrates his 51st birthday today. Others born on the 19th of December: Jake Gyllenhaal is 28 today. Alyssa Milano is 36. Tyson Beckford turns 38. Lady Sovereign is turning 23. Criss Angel turns 41. And real estate developer Doug Durst is turning 64. Weekend birthdays after the jump.
On Saturday: Law & Order creator Dick Wolf will turn 62. Mets third baseman David Wright will be 26. Actor Jonah Hill will turn 25. Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson will be 42. Model Lara Stone is turning 25. And interior designer James Huniford will be 51.
On Sunday: Jeffrey Katzenberg will be turning 58. Socialite Holly Peterson will celebrate her 44th. Jane Fonda will turn 71. Samuel L. Jackson will be 60. Retired tennis star Chris Evert will turn 54. And Andy Dick will be turning 43.


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Editor's note: This story was updated on Thursday at 11:55 a.m. with a photo and State's Attorney David Fenster's input on the case. This story was updated on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 2:55 p.m. to correct Fenster's comment.
BRISTOL — Police are considering whether a medical condition was a cause behind the incident Saturday in which a driver of an SUV crashed into a group of people — sending five to the hospital — at a children's soccer tournament in Bristol.
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12 Gooey Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipes
12 Gooey Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipes
We're well into one of our favorite months of the year: National Grilled Cheese Month. While we are huge supporters of simply putting cheese in between two slices of bread and grilling it, we also enjoy experimenting a bit with flavors and textures. Here are 12 of our very favorite grilled cheese combinations.


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Martian Colors Provide Clues about Martian Water
Hubble telescope images of Mars detail a rich geologic history and provide further evidence for water-bearing minerals on the planet's surface.
These pictures showcase the planet in both visible and infrared light. In the image on the left, taken in visible light, Mars appears in natural color or as we would see it close-up. The multicolor picture on the right was taken in infrared light, which is invisible to the eye. Therefore, astronomers have assigned false colors to highlight important features that cannot be seen in visible light. Hubble's unique infrared view illustrates variations in the abundance and distribution of unknown water-bearing minerals on the planet. While it has been known for decades that small amounts of water-bearing minerals exist on the planet's surface, the reddish regions in this image indicate areas of enhanced concentrations of these as-yet-unidentified deposits.
Martian Colors Provide Clues about Martian Water
Researchers: Jim Bell (Cornell University), Justin Maki (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory or JPL), and Mike Wolff (Space Sciences Institute), with acknowledgements to Robert Comstock (Central Washington University), Phil James (University of Toledo), and Dave Crisp (JPL) for image processing and acquisition assistance.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
A United Nations report has confirmed that Israel is doing its utmost to avoid collateral damage in the Gaza Strip while fighting an enemy that uses its civilian population as a human shield.
The situation report published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) notes that while Israel has carried out over 900 strikes against Gaza, the majority of civilian casualties resulted from the specific targeting of a few dozens homes either belonging to senior Hamas terrorists, or which were used by the group to hide missiles and other weapons.
The report goes on to point out that in regards to the targeting of these homes, "in most cases, prior to the attacks, residents have been warned to leave, either via phone calls by the Israel military or by the firing of warning missiles."
This corroborates the Israeli army's assertion that it is going out of its way in a manner no other military force in the world would in order to avoid harming the civilians behind which its enemies are hiding.
The following video of an Israeli pilot calling off an air strike because he spots what appear to be children in the vicinity demonstrates this policy:
Israel's efforts in this area have also been confirmed and praised by the mainstream international media.
"By the standards of war, Israel's efforts to spare civilians have been exemplary," wrote Slate's William Saletan.
Sadly, despite Israel's best efforts, civilian casualties in Gaza are expected to climb after Hamas suggested that anyone heeding the Israeli warnings could be accused of "cooperating" with the Zionists.
Also of note is that the UN report acknowledged that the current flare-up started with Hamas and its allies escalating their rocket fire against Israel, and that the Jewish state only responded militarily after two days of sustained Palestinian assaults.
Arab officials and media have been trying hard to sidestep that fact.
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I recently came across the results of a survey which found that 69% of the people asked believe that Islam encourages the oppression of women.
The reality is that if women had been told to work so that the government could tax another 50% of the population instead of being told that they were being liberated, far fewer women would have jumped on the feminist bandwagon.They would have used their logic to deduce that men and women are ALREADY equal and it is totally ridiculous to gain equality with somebody simply by 'acting' like them. If I acted like my pet hamster would it make me equal to it..?