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40. Re: What PC to build?Bill Gehrke May 30, 2010 11:42 AM (in response to rowby)
Rowby, here is my first cut at my tuning list for Win 7 64 Pro
You may have to make your own decisions on each of these services based on your usage of your computer. My goals were to set this up as a second (actually third) almost only editing and really primarily benchmarking machine.
41. Re: What PC to build?acgold777 May 31, 2010 9:03 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Note that many people have reported problems with the LG GGW-H20L BD burner disappearing under Win7, never to return. I'm one of them. It worked perfectly under Vista 64 but none of the fixes proposed on the web have worked for me. Device Manager reports a problem with the driver but the Microsoft troubleshooters say they can't find a better one.
Fixes proposed on the web and in various forums include uninstalling and letting the system reinstall, hacking the registry, running the Microsoft Auto-Fix program and disabling AHCI on the mobo. The drive is not listed in the Win7 compatibility list and the LG website includes drivers and SW only for XP and Vista.
Others are recommending the Pioneer BDR-205. I've just ordered one.
42. Re: What PC to build?Bill Gehrke Jun 1, 2010 2:23 AM (in response to acgold777)
acgold777 wrote:
Note that many people have reported problems with the LG GGW-H20L BD burner disappearing under Win7, never to return. I'm one of them. It worked perfectly under Vista 64 but none of the fixes proposed on the web have worked for me. Device Manager reports a problem with the driver but the Microsoft troubleshooters say they can't find a better one.
Fixes proposed on the web and in various forums include uninstalling and letting the system reinstall, hacking the registry, running the Microsoft Auto-Fix program and disabling AHCI on the mobo. The drive is not listed in the Win7 compatibility list and the LG website includes drivers and SW only for XP and Vista.
Strange, That is what I have and never any sign of a problem and I imagine that I have burned well over a hundred successful DVD's and a few assorted BR's. Here is what Device Manager reports for me.
43. Re: What PC to build?acgold777 Jun 1, 2010 12:40 PM (in response to Bill Gehrke)
Thanks for posting that, Bill. It's the same driver mine shows. Hmmm....
Here's another thought. I think the drive is connected to an IDE controller, not SATA. Could this be the problem? All the Device Manager data talks about IDE and I'm pretty sure the burner is not connected to any of the internal SATA ports on the mobo. But if that's the issue, why did it work ok in Vista but not Win7? And do you know if there's a setting I can tweak if Explorer cannot see the drive? Or should I bite the bullet, kill a Hard drive and use that port for the burner?
Thoughts, anyone? This is puzzling.
44. Re: What PC to build?Bill Gehrke Jun 1, 2010 1:41 PM (in response to acgold777)
Adam, can you see your burner in your BIOS? You are confusing me with this statement
acgold777 wrote:
IDE is the old 40 pin Parallel ATA interface and that would be impossible to connect to this drive which is SATA. Are you sure it is even connected to anything? I am not sure what motherboard you currently have but if I remember right you also had an X7DWA-N is that correct? I believe that to use SATA ports 5 and 6 you have to have ACHI enabled. Now it is not going to be easy to enable ACHI. While I have heard of a few successful people enabling ACHI after you have Windows loaded it is not easily or normally do-able. A sure way is to start all over and reload the OS and yes I know that was the last thing you wanted to hear.
45. Re: What PC to build?acgold777 Jun 1, 2010 3:02 PM (in response to Bill Gehrke)
Yes, sorry, this is just me being stupid. I opened up the box and it is the old Asus drive that is connected with a wide IDE cable. The OS drive and the LG are connected via SATA to the SATA ports on the mobo (and yes, you remember correctly -- it is the X7DWA-N).
I already have AHCI enabled; I went through that whole soap opera, including the BSOD and registry tweaks, a year ago. So we had all six SATA ports working under Vista 64, but now under Win7 we're having the problem with the LG. (It is connected to channel 2). The Intel Matrix RAID storage manger does not at the moment see the drive at all, but I think it is because I've been messing around inside the case and did not properly re-seat the connector; Device Manager does not even see the drive either, but it used to. Up until the last reboot I did have a blue flashing light on the LG, but not now.
I'm on the Intel website now and I see they have an updated Matrix Storage Manager available; I'm going to try that. In the meantime, all other thoughts are welcome. Thanks for everything so far, Bill.
EDIT: Reseated the power cable (duh!) and drive powers up but same problem persists as before. Downloaded and installed latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager found here http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17882&ProdId=2101&lang=eng
and lo and behold. It works.
Here's an interesting thread which discusses the problem, and from which I got the link:
It theorizes that Win7's AHCI drivers are funny and should be replaced by Intel's. Maybe so. Ironically, it may have been the clean install of Win7, which everyone recommends over the "Upgrade" install, which did me in. Formatting the OS HDD wiped out the Intel Matrix Storage Manager app, which was needed in order to see all the drives. I'm not sure it was installing the newest version that helped, but just installing a version, period.
Hope this helps others if they are having the same problem.
46. Re: What PC to build?LaciG Jun 17, 2010 9:57 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
47. Re: What PC to build?Harm Millaard Jun 17, 2010 10:18 AM (in response to LaciG)
Skip the GTX-295, go for the GTX-470/480
Get a better PSU: eXtreme Power Supply Calculator Pro v2.5
No floppy needed. Have you seen a shop that still sells them?
Have a look at some of my articles, like
Adobe Forums: A PC buying guide for NLE (mainly Intel)
Adobe Forums: Storage rules for an editing rig. Some...
and various others.
48. Re: What PC to build?LaciG Jun 17, 2010 11:15 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Thanks! Started reading your publications...
49. Re: What PC to build?LaciG Jun 20, 2010 4:09 PM (in response to LaciG)
Read the two articles: they are very useful. In the meanwhile, I have two more questions: 1. What about a solid state 'drive' for system 'disk' (I was told that they are faster, but rather small - and probably expensive). 2. This is about the case: Antec P183 looks good, has 120 mm top fan, 120 mm rear fan and 120 mm lower chamber fan. Is this enough for the system described above, or do I need the P193 with 2 x 140 mm top fans, 120 mm rear fan, 120 mm lower chamber fan and a 200 mm side fan? How does one calculate the needed fan 'farm' based on the power dissipation of the system? Also, would a slight over-clocking change the picture (other than an extra CPU fan)? Thanks, Laci.
50. Re: What PC to build?Harm Millaard Jun 21, 2010 2:38 AM (in response to LaciG)
First the case: neither is very good, because both are too limited in width to allow a large CPU cooler to be installed. Maximum height of a CPU cooler is 140 mm and that precludes the use of modern coolers like the Noctua NH-D14. I would always opt for a big tower, because of the easier installation, the better expansion capabilities, better cable management and better cooling capabilities.
SSD's as a boot disk will probably shave of a couple of seconds from the boottime. For instance reducing it from 70 seconds to 65 seconds. It will also make the loading of applications like PR faster, reducing the load time from 6 seconds to 2 seconds as an example.
Look at the time required for POST, the staggered spin-up of the disks, the initializing of raid BIOS and network connections, before Windows starts to load and realize that a SSD will have no impact on all that time at all, and that is by far the largest wait. Realize further that a SSD has no impact at all on the editing performance of your machine, that you normally only boot your machine once per day and load PR once per day, and the question is justified whether a 80 GB SSD for € 192 (current local prices) is worth it in comparison to a 1 TB F3 for € 60. Per GB a SSD is € 2.40 and the F3 is € 0.06, about 40 times more expensive. And the performance gain will be negligent.
For notebooks it may well be worth considering, because there is usuallly only 1 disk, no raid controller to initialize, no staggered spin up and multiple times per day to boot again and battery use, but not for an editing workstation.
All those claimed high read and write speeds are great on paper, but does it make your editing faster and more efficient? Testing has not proven that to be the case.
It all ranks under pennywise, pound foolish IMO.
51. Re: What PC to build?Harm Millaard Jun 21, 2010 3:45 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
In addition to my previous post, let's assume you plan a new system and are considering:
SSD 80 GB for OS & programs and 2 x 1 TB F3 disks. Total cost at current local prices € 192 + 2 x € 60 = € 312
The alternative is 5 x 1 TB F3 disks, one for OS & programs / page file and 4 x Raid5. Cost 5 x € 60 = € 300
You will gain a significant performance boost during editing, as well as more storage space from the alternative at less cost. QED.
52. Re: What PC to build?LaciG Jun 21, 2010 9:25 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Harm, Thanks for the advice. I haven't really considered the SSD (a salesperson suggested at Fry's which was already suspicious) but it is good to know for sure. The last 15 years of my professional life, before I retired last year, I worked for a design house and after that for Intel as a quality/reliability engineer using my physics background. I (used to ) know a lot about device physiscs/reliability but next to nothing about design and the computer inner workings - or about RAID for that matter. I got the more serious movie making and computer building 'bug' may be a year ago, and dived into it more seriously just a couple of months ago.
As for the computer case, I will look further (I liked the smooth design of the P183/193 mostly probably due to my age - I do not like all the flashing lights, etc. on a computer case). But what the most important for designing my new computer is after my 7 year old Dell Dimension (and a first I will build myself) is the PC 'architecture': Processor, mother board, graphic card, and the storage. The first three have been decided (after your last reply), the only remaining issue is the storage.
So, I read your tutorial and the discussion chain ("To RAID, or not to RAID...") and a good article in Wikipedia, yesterday. I like your advice on the 5 x F3 1 TB disk (one for OS/programs/page file, and the other 4 for all else in a RAID 5 configuration). Please, let me know if I am right: 1. The OS (and the user) will see the four disks in RAID as one drive. (From Wikipedia.) 2. The data can be restored after one disk failure. (Automatically?) 3. I do not need any extra hardware for RAID 5 - the OS will do it for me. 4. I can ('manually') back up the 'system drive' to an external drive periodically. (I do it right now with my old computer.) 5. However, this arrangement doesn't make it possible to use some of the other suggestions in the discussion after your article (use separate disks for projects and indexed/conformed files; for cache, previews; for media, etc. Is this a real disadvantage?
Please, consider that presently I am using PrE 7.0 on a 7 year old computer (with regular 'manual' backups with Acronis) and only for hobby (family/trips, etc.) With the new computer, I would like to edit AVCHD movies taken with Panasonic AG-HMC150 (my 'retirement present' for myself ) but still for hobby at least for the time being. With this new computer for editing I would like to use PrPRO CS 5 (and may be ENCORE CS5).
P.S. 1. What is F3? 2. I like that you have a 'space' between the numerical quantity and the unit unlike in most manuals and Internet comments nowadays (If I search for 1 TB on Google, it asks me: Did you mean 1TB?" Of course not! It might save a few bits but this is not even conforming with the American NIST style manual's suggestions (http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sec07.html).
53. Re: What PC to build?Dave514 Jun 21, 2010 9:50 AM (in response to LaciG)
LaciG & Harm:
As to your computer case I lean toward an Antec 1200. It's large lots of space and plenty of fans. What say you Harm?
54. Re: What PC to build?Harm Millaard Jun 21, 2010 10:18 AM (in response to LaciG)
F3 is the shorthand version of the Samsung Spinpoint F3 hard disk, one of the fastest and quietest disks on the market.
It is in a different price bracket, but you get what you pay for and there is nothing better than the Lian Li PC-A77. Fabulous space, build quality and without all those ostentatious lights. The Antec 1200 is a good alternative, but since it is a gamers case, it includes all the LED fans and the transparent side panel. In comparison to the Lian Li is has no ventilation opening for the PSU, it misses the drive cage for 3 x 3.5" disks at the rear top, and misses a 1394 firewire port on the front and has only two USB ports versus 4 with the Lian Li.
55. Re: What PC to build?LaciG Jun 21, 2010 10:48 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Harm and Dave, Thanks for the suggestions for the case. I am looking into it. - Laci. P.S. Just one more question (in addition to the 4 questions in my previous message): My board is sATA III ready, is there any advantage to wait for / find a sATA III drive? Thanks again, Laci.
56. Re: What PC to build?Harm Millaard Jun 21, 2010 1:52 PM (in response to LaciG)
Waiting for SATAIII does not make much sense, especially not with a raid5 on the ICHR10 chip, since SATAIII can only be used as single disks, unless you use software raid, which is a heavy burden for the system and there are only two SATAIII ports on the mobo, AFAIK.
1. Yes
2. Yes, but you have to give a Rebuild order
3. No, use the on-board ICHR10 chip for that
4. Yes
5. No. That remark was for people afraid of Raids or with fewer disks.
57. Re: What PC to build?LaciG Jun 21, 2010 4:42 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Harm, Thanks for the help. Right now I only have two questions: how one uses the ICHR10 chip for the raid, and also, what you meant by 'have to give a Rebuild order' (if one disk fails. I guess, it is a software command somewhere). I will research the Internet, and if I can't find any answer, then I will ask you again. Thanks, Laci. P.S. I like your suggestion for the computer case very much (not the price though) and most probably will go with it.
58. Re: What to do with Current Hardware + $3kMUMediaDept Jun 22, 2010 9:14 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
This is all great info. I'm pretty excited about an upcoming build, but would love some input.
With CS5 I'll be doing at most 3-4 AVCHD files at a time with minor effects. I cover events, so an hour or two of footage is not unusual. I'll be using AfterEffects quite a bit too. And Audition 4 to edit some pretty long lectures (4 hour +). Hopefully Audition will take advantage of multithreading somehow.).
I have $3000 to spend this year and already have the following:
4 old 74Gb Raptors (right now in raid 0 booting Vista 64, but will be moving to W7 64)
2 good monitors (plenty for me)
6 1TB drives in a raid 6. (This right now suffices for storage, but out of 4 TB I only have one free, so I need to expand this.)
a 3ware 9650SE-16 port raid card with battery backup
An older Quadro card
A decent sound card (which, I take it, is no longer important)
A big old Coolermaster Stacker case running two power supplies (a 680watt for MB and a 580w on all my drives)
Two 5-bay Sata backplanes (SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1B I think I need one more soon?)
I think I could scare up another $1500 next year to add on a little more, so buying something now that's upgradable would be fine. With that in mind, should I splurge on a single hexacore (x5650?) with that crazy EVGA SR2 board (I'm not afraid of moderate air-cooled overclocking)? Or go for a tried-and-true Tyan with a couple of Xeons? Or just overclock a single 930?
And how much will a 480 help me in AfterEffects? Should I instead throw the money at more CPU goodness?
I just want to use the $3k to get the most performance possible.
Thanks in advance
59. Re: What to do with Current Hardware + $3kJohn T Smith Jun 22, 2010 9:21 AM (in response to MUMediaDept)
>how much will a 480 help me in AfterEffects?
You might want to check the AfterEffects PDF to veryify this, but I don't think CUDA/MPE does anything in AE, only in Premiere Pro CS5
CS5 User Guide - Right click PDF link to save to your computer
60. Re: What to do with Current Hardware + $3kHarm Millaard Jun 22, 2010 10:19 AM (in response to John T Smith)
Correct John, MPE does not work in AE.
61. Re: What PC to build?Jonnydark Jun 22, 2010 10:48 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Wow this is an excellent resource for people like me (who until now didn't have a clue where to start!) Thanks harm!
I went through HP's pc building website and followed all the choices you've listed for Budget. Is there anything here that jumps out at you that you would change?
My computing needs: I'm a technical illustration student and i'll be doing stuff with CS5, painter 11 as well as FormZ and possibly Maya. Probably some tiny little videos in Affter Effects.
Note: I couldn't find the exact ATI HD card. Nor could i choose the motherboard.
This setup costs: $1,273.99
Thanks for your help!
Operating system Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64-bit edit Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-860 quad-core processor [2.8GHz, 1MB L2 + 8MB shared L3 cache] edit Memory 8GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM [4 DIMMs] from 6GB edit Hard drive 1TB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive from 640GB edit Graphics card 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5570 [DVI,HDMI, DP, VGA adapter] edit Primary optical drive Blu-ray player & Lightscribe SuperMulti DVD burner edit Networking Integrated Ethernet port, No wireless LAN edit Front Productivity Ports 15-in-1 memory card reader, 1 USB, 1394, audio edit TV & entertainment experience No TV Tuner edit Sound Card Integrated sound edit Speakers HP USB 2.0 stereo speakers edit Keyboard and Mouse HP USB keyboard and optical mouse edit Office software Microsoft Office Starter 2010 edit Security software Norton Internet Security(TM) 2010 - 15 month
62. Re: What PC to build?Harm Millaard Jun 22, 2010 10:58 AM (in response to Jonnydark)
Looks like a nice budget system, but I suggest you add another hard disk.
For video I would say add two disks, but for illustrations and Maya add at least one disk. You can buy this disk around the corner for probably half the price that HP charges and you can build it in yourself. Have a look at Samsung Spinpoint F3, very fast, quiet and affordable.
There are some other articles I wrote, all in the hardware forum where you may get some additional background and info that is worthwhile to read. Just have a look around.
63. Re: What to do with Current Hardware + $3kMUMediaDept Jun 22, 2010 11:05 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Since the Quadros are pretty expensive, perhaps I should just get a 480 to handle PR and poke along on CPU power for AE.
AE is less of a priority.
64. Re: What PC to build?Bill Gehrke Jun 22, 2010 11:47 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Newegg currently has the Spinpoint F3 1 TB on special fo $65 with this code (you may have to sign up for it to be usable) EMCYTNN25. Free shipping.
65. Re: What to do with Current Hardware + $3kBill Gehrke Jun 22, 2010 11:59 AM (in response to MUMediaDept)
MUMediaDept wrote:
.... should I splurge on a single hexacore (x5650?) with that crazy EVGA SR2 board (I'm not afraid of moderate air-cooled overclocking)? Or go for a tried-and-true Tyan with a couple of Xeons? Or just overclock a single 930?
There is no value for the x5650 Xeon's or for that matter any dual Xeon with Premiere. Take a look at the ADK benchmark information and also at my PPBM site and see that dual Xeons are not among the leading scores.
66. Re: What to do with Current Hardware + $3kLaciG Jun 23, 2010 9:57 AM (in response to Bill Gehrke)
Harm, Bill, I started building (actually ordering parts for) my new computer. I already ordered the 5 F3 hard drives from
Newegg (and they accepted the discount code). I would just need an advice on a moderately priced Blu-ray burner (LG? Samsung?) There are so many out there, and so many (non-expert) opinions, that it is difficult to choose. Thanks, Laci.
67. Re: What PC to build?shevm Jun 24, 2010 3:44 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Hi Harm,
I can't thank you enough for the suggestions.
Just another quick question though. I'm choosing Hard drives at the moment and everyone on here seems to love the SpinPoint drives.
However, would you choose a Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD103SJ 32MB 1TB over a Caviar Black WD1002FAEX, 1000GB, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache, SATA-3?
Thanks again!!!
68. Re: What PC to build?Harm Millaard Jun 24, 2010 6:55 AM (in response to shevm)
The Caviar Blacks have the advantage of 64 MB cache, which is a definite advantage. However, WD Caviar Blacks are not suitable for raid configurations, due to that infamous WD TLER utility, that can no longer be changed in the latest Caviars.
Do not be fooled by the marketing hype around SATA-3. Yes, the theoretical bandwidth is much higher, but no current disks comes even close to approaching the bandwidth of SATA-2, let alone SATA-3.
69. Re: What PC to build?JCschild Jun 24, 2010 7:10 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
not sure what you are talking about Harm? we use WD's all the time in raid. (the newer ones)
are you talking about the fact a drive can drop out of a raid 5/6 with numerous drives?
70. Re: What PC to build?Jeff Bellune Jun 24, 2010 7:20 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
For continuous online backup, I've used Caviar Greens in a RAID 5 for a while now. I was worried that Harm was right about the TLER stuff when my RAID degraded from 3 drives down to 2 a couple of weeks ago.
Turns out the drive itself was going bad - really, really slow reads and writes in certain sectors of the disk.
WD replaced the drive under warranty, and my RAID5 is humming along with 3 drives again. Each Green drive is 2.0 TB, with the whole array being 4.0 TB.
71. Re: What PC to build?Harm Millaard Jun 24, 2010 7:38 AM (in response to Jeff Bellune)
Out of curiosity, Jeff, what do you use for this continuous backup, a backup schedule or syncing. Or another approach?
72. Re: What PC to build?Jeff Bellune Jun 24, 2010 7:55 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
I do 8 daily incremental backups and twice-weekly full backups of all my media and data drives. The incrementals run every 2 hours automatically. They're very fast because only the changed disk sectors are backed up. The full backups are scheduled to run right after my twice-weekly defrag runs. It makes no sense to do an incremental backup after a defrag pass since so many sectors are changed anyway. I keep 2 full backup sets (full + incrementals) at all times.
I use ShadowProtect and PerfectDisk.
73. Re: What PC to build?mooreka777 Jul 12, 2010 1:22 PM (in response to Jeff Bellune)
Hello There,
Another PC build recommendation. I pieced this stuff together from Tom's and here. So, thanks for any guidance. I "have" a budget for my computer, but really just want something that will quickly edit in premiere, indesign, photoshop, and lightroom. Video is by far the biggest resource hog and don't know how to purchase for it. I plan to use one drive for the OS, one for local media, and one for cache.
Without further ado, here is the system:
1x 600GB VelociRaptor
2x WD Cabiar Black 1T
PSU - SeaSonic X750 Gold
12GB (3x4GB) GSkill RpiJaws PC3 12800
ASUS P6X58D Premium LGA 1366
i7-980X Extreme (I really don't want to spend the $$ on this, but with the 30% plus performance boost encoding is worth it)
LG Blue-Ray Lightscribe DVD
Total - ~$2500
I have 2x24inch monitors and I can't budget in a new GPU. I have an nVidia GTX 285 and really just want to replace those with my monitors next year. I also have a droboelite for backup and shared storage. So, I just need the local drive for workfiles. Everything will be backed up, so I don't want to RAID the local disks (if I don't have too).
Thanks for any help or guidance on this and if I am missing something please let me know.
74. Re: What PC to build?Harm Millaard Jul 12, 2010 1:44 PM (in response to mooreka777)
Your PSU may be a bit meager. 850 W would be better.
The i7-980X is faster than the i7-930, but the performance gain is small when overclocked and may not justify the price difference.
Look here: PPBM4 Benchmark and decide whether is may be worth to invest in a better disk setup with a lesser CPU but overclocked.
75. Re: What PC to build?mooreka777 Jul 12, 2010 1:58 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Thanks for the quick reply!
I read the article/spreadsheet, but don't really understand what to get (sorry).
So, if I downgrade to cpu to the i7-930 and keep the velociraptor as my OS, what disk config would you recommend for the $700 difference?
Edited-To-Add (What power supply would you recommend as well).
Thanks again,
76. Re: What PC to build?Harm Millaard Jul 12, 2010 2:21 PM (in response to mooreka777)
Get an extra WD Caviar Black and go for a Corsair or CoolerMaster 850 W PSU. Keeps some money in your pocket as well.
77. Re: What PC to build?magneter Jul 12, 2010 3:44 PM (in response to mooreka777)
I just looked at the Drobos. Pretty interesting.
Do you know what is different about their patented technology than a standard external Raid array?
78. Re: What PC to build?Harm Millaard Jul 12, 2010 3:48 PM (in response to magneter)
I just looked at the Drobos. Pretty interesting.
Yes, for backup purposes only. For editing they are way too slow.
79. Re: What PC to build?magneter Jul 12, 2010 3:55 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Yes I was thinking for backup. I just want to get my system built and I will consider internal Raid in the future.
I work mostly on large photoshop files. 200 to 600 megs so Ram is my main concern now. On my current XP system with 4 megs and have to go eat dinner or take naps just waiting for filter effects to complete.
I'm strongly considering 24GB of DDR3 2000 for $980


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The relationship among architecture, information and information architecture can be thought of from the perspective of architectural prehistory. The first instance of architecture may not have been a structure but the more conceptual designation and naming of territory, an information activity. Early representations of digital space drew heavily on images of buildings and cities as a visual medium. As information space has evolved, the link to any physical reality has vanished, though we retain the metaphor of navigation to make real the experience of interacting with the abstract on multiple levels. Users relate with information in semantic space, screen space and interaction space, each of which must be addressed by the information architect. The rise of ubiquitous computing may disrupt much of that conceptualization, leaving only an abstracted link between information and user action, with that interaction itself shaping the architectural space.
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Bulletin, October/November 2012
The Architecture of Information
by Martyn Dade-Robertson
What was the first architectural gesture? It's an ambiguous and abstract question but one that I ask my architecture students every year. The response is consistent. Architecture, whose primary responsibility is to design buildings and, thus, provide shelter, must have started with the first basic dwelling. While this response is plausible, it is flawed, in my view.
The technology required to construct a self-supporting structure capable of providing accommodation and shelter indicates a highly advanced culture and society. Is it not more likely that our first architectural gesture was to make more primitive modifications of our environment, perhaps designating a meeting place or setting out a significant ritual territory? Perhaps, as the architectural historian Spiro Kostof suggests, the first architectural gesture was the naming of territory [1].
This question is important to me. Understanding the pre-history of architecture is to understand that the discipline we associate with the design of the built environment is fundamentally an informational pattern-making activity. This knowledge is also critical to a second question I have been asking myself for the past decade, namely, where is the architecture in information architecture? Information architecture (hereafter IA), a term coined by Richard Saul Wurman [2], himself a trained architect, has collected many analogies to traditional architectural practice. Rosenfeld and Morville for example, in their now seminal textbook Information Architecture for the World Wide Web invoked the famous Winston Churchill quote ¬ We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us [3, p. 3].
The 1990s were littered with proposals for graphical interfaces that made use of architectural spaces as visual backgrounds to digital information. For example, Microsofts short-lived Microsoft Bob, along with a talking dog (a precursor to the much maligned Mr. Clippy), supported an extended desktop environment that consisted of an entire office. Complete with roaring fire and MITs City of News, it was an imaged, web-based environment where content was displayed as skyscrapers in an imaginary gridded city [4]. While the desktop of the PCs graphical user interface (GUI) has evolved, we dont, for the most part, interact with digital information through images of virtual buildings or cities. The hysteria of total simulation as Johnson put it [5, p. 60], which gave rise to many GUI proposals, has been greeted by some with incredulity and skepticism (see for example [6]).
It seems increasingly unlikely that the next generation of information spaces will be realized through such direct metaphors of architectural spaces. Rather, if we understand architecture as pattern-making activity and strip away the material reality of the built environment, which is a result of the many functional horizons on which architecture operates [7], we are left with a practice in which we create topological relationships that are addressed through our bodily exploration and navigation. In my thesis Information Architecture in Screen Based Semantic Spaces [8] and later my book The Architecture of Information [9], I suggest that the notion, for example, of navigating a website is derived from a need to frame our experience of interaction with an otherwise abstract and disembodied experience by utilizing an embodied metaphor or what Johnson describes as an image schema [10]. When we consider the role of IA, we cant simply consider the information space itself but we must also consider these distinct spaces: semantic space, screen space and interaction space.
Semantic space: This term is derived from the work of Kaplan and Moulthorp [11] and defined as the structure of information held within a computer. It is potentially multidimensional and, in practice, consists of information objects and their relationships to one another described through, for example, hypertext links or database fields. Semantic space can be created by individuals or through automated processes. Semantic space can therefore emerge from computational systems used to analyze information and find meaningful patterns.
Screen space: The concept of screen space emerges as a result of separating out the visual component of information space and defining the space of the screen as separate from the space of interaction. Screen space is constrained by the number of available pixels and the visual language used to display information. It can include web pages, a desktop GUI, a complex graph-based visualization or a 3D world, and each type of representation is constrained by metaphors and their visual rhetoric.
Interaction space: This describes the input actions of a user that change the computers output. For example, clicking on a link causes a web page to change its content; typing in a search query will cause a list of web pages to appear in Google; pressing an arrow key may cause a virtual camera to move through a 3D space; grabbing a document icon with the mouse curser will cause it to move as if it is being directly manipulated. Different types of interaction are mapped onto different types of screen space so that, in the best case, the two reinforce one another.
While these ideas are still relevant for IA, which is still predominantly a screen-based practice, the last decade has seen the rise of a new paradigm: ubiquitous computing where any object or surface has the potential to be computational and networked.
If the technological predictions turn out to be true, and the course of computing creates a world in which computation is invisible and mediated by computational agents, then ubiquitous computing has the potential to radically change our relationship to real spaces, merging digital and physical until they are indistinguishable from one another. Information only becomes relevant once it is linked to action. By shaping our experience of space and influencing our behaviors, computational information acts as an intermediary between place and action, and software becomes architectural. We are entering an era in which computation shapes architectural space rather than being shaped by it. The shaping occurs not simply on a material level through the creation of computer-generated forms, but also through the process by which we use and experience space as a functional and semantic system. We may not in the future need to distinguish between architecture and information architecture at all.
Resources Mentioned in the Article
[1] Kostof, S. (1995). A history of architecture: Settings and rituals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[2] Wurman, R. S. (1996). Information architects. London: Watson-Guptill.
[3] Rosenfeld, L., & Morville, P. (2002). Information architecture for the World Wide Web. Sebastopol, CA: OReilly.
[4] Sparacino, F., Davenport, G., & Pentland, A. (2000). Wearable cinema/wearable city: Bridging physical and virtual spaces through wearable computing. Imagina 2000. Retrieved September 10, 2012, from http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~flavia/Papers/flavia_imagina00.pdf.
[5] Johnson, S. (1999). Interface culture: How new technology transforms the way we create and communicate. London: Basic Books.
[6] Shneiderman, B. (2003.) Why not make user interfaces better than 3D virtual reality? Computer Graphics and Applications, 23(6), 12-15.
[7] Mukařovský, J. (1977). Structure, sign and function: Selected essays by Jan Mukařovský. New York: Yale University Press.
[8] Dade-Robertson, M. (2011). The architecture of information. London: Routledge.
[9] Dade-Robertson, M. (2007). Information architecture in screen based semantic spaces. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Cambridge University.
[10] Johnson, M. (1990). The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination and reason. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
[11] Kaplan, N., & Moulthorp, S. (1994). Where no mind has gone before: Ontological design for virtual spaces. European Conference on Hypermedia Technology, 20616.
Martyn Dade-Robertson is lecturer in architecture and communication in the School of Architecture Planning and Landscape. He is the author of The Architecture of Information, published by Routledge, and continues to research the design of interactive systems that merge an understanding of information architecture, architectural design and interaction design. His research groups work can be seen at www.archaid.org. He can be reached by email at martyn.dade-robertson<at>ncl.ac.uk.
Articles in this Issue
Information Architecture Overview
Information Architecture in the Age of Complexity
The Architecture of Information
Optimizing Websites in the Post Panda World
A Metaphor for Content Strategy
A Conversation with Eric Reiss, Author of Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better
Sustainability: Scholarly Repository as an Enterprise
Spelunking in the Archives: Or How I Learned to Love the Art of the Unexpected
IA; Attending to the Existing Landscape
RDAP: NSF DMP Content Analysis: What Are Researchers Saying?


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Brian Tucker's "Broken City" screenplay is packed with plot twists, complex sentences and the kind of innuendo that make it seem as if the movie will be a smarter-than-most thriller from the first exchanges. All the talking is no doubt why "Broken City" landed on the coveted Black List of the best unproduced scripts a few years ago.
Now it's been filmed with a beefy cast led by Mark Wahlberg as Billy Taggart, a broken cop turned P.I. Russell Crowe is cagey Mayor Nicolas Hostetler, the man who brought him down. Jeffrey Wright as Police Commissioner Fairbanks watches it all with a jaundiced eye.
The hook in "Broken City," set in a modern-day New York where political corruption and police intrigue pile up like garbage during a strike, is that nothing is what it seems. The movie proves to be a bait-and-switch of a different sort.
Director Allen Hughes, who usually does gritty city quite well, has given "Broken City" the look of a noir and the mayor a Prince Valiant 'do, which along with the quandaries — a real estate scam, a reelection campaign and a cheating wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) — keep the pot boiling. But it also makes the film feel dated, as if everything might play better if this were the 1950s or better still the 1920s. Real-life corruption and betrayals have gotten so much more byzantine, in a new-age, techno-centric kind of way.


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Thursday, October 20, 2011
So . . . Blogging?
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Welcome to the geneablogging world! I'm sure you will have plenty to offer your readers.
I knew that you would succumb to blogging eventually...it will be good for you!
Interesting story about Tom Jones observation, and I agree with you about Kerry. There are several other "unique voice" bloggers that I admire and enjoy...I won't name them for fear of missing someone!
Great start Christy! I had those exact same fears. Some days I still sit down to write thinking I have absolutely nothing to say. But if I just start writing SOMETHING its amazing how the ideas surface and before I know it I have a pretty good post. Keep up the great writing!ReplyDelete
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Aha! We got you! Welcome to the wonderful world of geneablogging Christy! Being the Head Honchess of SLIG, you have more to blog about than you might think. I look forward to reading each and every post you make!ReplyDelete
Thank you, Sheri! Who wouldn't want to follow your example?ReplyDelete
A belated welcome. I have full confidence that you have plenty to say! PS You're right about Kerry Scott!! She cracks me up too. Sheri Fenley's right up there with her...ReplyDelete
Wait, that's me! How did I not see this until now? I'm further behind than I thought...but thank you for the mention!ReplyDelete


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Are you blessed with Mother's intuition (or women's intuition)? Do you get those gut feelings that wake you up in the middle of the night, that send you on a hunt through out your home looking for something that may be wrong, or that prompt you to randomly call your husband and children in the middle of the day just to check and see if everyone is okay? I often wish I was better at paying attention to those little butterflies. We have five children, three of which have life threatening challenges. We have one with Type 1 Diabetes, one with a very severe peanut allergy, and one with asthma. Having five children in itself is a huge distraction. I often wonder if my warning bells are drowned out by the noise and chaos that five children create. Or is it just a bunch of hooey?
Since the beginning of last week we have been battling the chaos that is low blood sugars. Our oldest is sixteen years old and has Type 1 Diabetes. I wish I was blessed with the ability to know when my daughter had a low blood sugar. Well if I was granted a wish by the universe, I would wish there was a simple cure for Type 1 Diabetes, which would make my wish for the ability to know when my daughter was low useless.
Last week our daughter's friend Heather saved her life. I am incredibly thankful, but so frustrated that my Mother's intuition didn't catch what was happening. How did Heather save Macy's life? She came over to visit Macy. Yep, that's pretty much it. She came over and I directed her to Macy's room. Macy had been home from school all of an hour. Heather found her asleep. She tried to wake her up and Macy nodded when she said do you want me to let you sleep.
Heather could have just left. She could have just taken the situation for what it looked like, a tired friend taking a nap. But instead she came to me and said, "Hey, Macy is asleep and when I asked her if she wanted me to let her sleep she just nodded and rolled over". Heather knows Macy well enough to know that wasn't a normal reaction to her coming over. So we went back to Macy's room. I took with me some Jello and a banana just in case (we were out of juice). That way I wouldn't have to waste time going back upstairs if there was a problem.
This was one of those times where it would have been a lot easier to freak out and panic. But I say, handle the problem and if you need to panic, panic on your own time, later when no one is watching and the emergency is gone. On top of that, Heather was there and she certainly didn't need to see me lose it. It wasn't until later she understood the seriousness of the situation.
So Macy was laying in her bed. She could respond some but was obviously experiencing a low blood sugar. So I fed her the Jello and the banana. Then I realized her test kit wasn't down there. So I sent Heather to look for it. It was upstairs in Macy's purse where she had left her backpack and stuff when she came home (she was probably beginning with her low blood sugar then which explains why she just left her stuff in the middle of the hall). By the time Heather had come back with her purse Macy had finished the Jello and banana. I tested her blood sugar. It was 28.
If you don't have a Diabetic in your life than that number may mean nothing to you. So for reference, the average person's blood sugar ranges from about 70-180. If a Diabetic is below 70, food is needed. If they are below 50, it becomes an emergency that must be taken care of immediately. Macy is usually not responsive or able to communicate at about 40 or below.
We needed more sugar and we needed it now. I grabbed her emergency glucose gel she carries in her purse. Why didn't we use this to begin with you may be asking yourself. Well, frankly because its gross. It tastes nasty and has a gooey consistency. Macy must be really low for me to get it into her. Honestly, I don't blame her. We waited about 7 minutes after she swallowed the glucose gel and tested her again. This time she was 24! She went lower?! So as I ran out of her room I asked Heather to keep talking to her, trying not to panic.
Its amazing how fast a someone can be going up stairs, maneuvering around baby gates, and getting to the fridge or pantry and then back again. I grabbed 2 things of Jello pudding I had made the night before (which were half vanilla and half chocolate). Running back down the stairs to Macy all the time trying my best not to panic.
Macy sat up as I asked her to do, which was a good sign and pretty amazing. I began to feed her vanilla and chocolate pudding. I was cracking jokes and making fun of my abilities to feed someone because I kept missing her mouth and getting pudding on her face. Heather laughed and Macy attempted to smile, which just made me miss again. I was reminded she doesn't like vanilla pudding, at all. But she ate it and made big 'oh no' eyes when I offered more glucose gel instead (even though it was upstairs too. I knew she would say no.)We tested again, and she was finally up to 64. She snacked on some bunny marshmallows (something she had in her purse for school lows) to continue the rise into the 100's. It was the longest 20 minutes of my life.
I am so very grateful for Macy's friend, Heather. She paid attention to Macy and came and got me. This isn't a normal low blood sugar time for Macy and if Heather hadn't come over we would never have known she was asleep and low. Normally after school she spends time on her computer and does her homework quietly in her room. Since then we have had many lows that have blind sided us. To help fight this battle I bought 4 cases of juice boxes (120 juice boxes) to stash strategically around the house and for her to stash in her locker and purse at school. She always carries something in case she goes low, but she hasn't had a low issue like this in years.
I haven't slept well since this occurred. I randomly go down and test her in the middle of the night. Which are more of those mother's intuition times. Most times I found her low in her sleep. Maybe I am paying better attention to my butterflies or maybe I am just getting lucky. I don't know which it is. My husband has also helped by waking her up much earlier than normal, when he gets up between 4:30 and 5:00 in the morning rather than 6:00. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband who will get the kids up in the morning for me since more times than not I haven't slept well or have been up at odd times in the middle of the night. As a stay at home mother I consider this my job since I am not leaving the house and working. But its really hard to keep up with when your not sleeping well, not to mention throwing into the mix a 3 year old toddler boy to keep me busy.
We normally battle high blood sugars. She is a teen girl who gets distracted easy and who tries to keep her Diabetes as hidden from the outside world as possible. Which all result in higher numbers instead of lower. High blood sugar isn't good for her either, but it is much easier to manage and is much less of a life threatening emergency. Her fear of going low of course has made her weary of letting her blood sugar drop below 175. If she could keep it at 80-100 than that would be the healthiest and best place for it. But it's also a lot easier to drop low from there compared to 175. I don't blame her for being scared. Snacks are a very important part of a Type 1 Diabetics life, balanced with protein, fiber, and complex carbohydrates. They can be the difference between life and death. Which sounds dramatic, I know, but a simple snack at the right time can help avoid having a low blood sugar all together. It's just a matter of when to eat those snacks. It's not as though a snack at 3:00 am is easy.
Heather is starting her job for work study this week at a nursing home near the high school. She has plans of becoming a nurse. And although my mother would say, " no, be a doctor" (since she just recently retired after 35 years as an ICU nurse.) I believe she is on track with a great career ahead of her. She pays attention and notices the things that help people. She will make a great nurse and she would make a great doctor too. Thank you Heather for being you. Thank you for saving my Macy.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Feeling LOW ~ Do You Pay Attention To Your Intuition? ~
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Wow... as i have mentioned before, my dad as well as 2 bro and 1/2 sis are all type 1 diabetic. This gave me chills because i know just how critical that could have been. Hope you can figure out the cause and quit having so many scares.ReplyDelete
This is my favorite memory of our friendship, we've been friends for s year, and boy it doesn't feel like it.. but thank you, for being SN amazing person, not even that, just for being who you are makes me smile. (:ReplyDelete
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In this action adventure platform game, players will assume the role of Scooby-Doo as he and the teenage sleuths of Mystery Inc. visit Fred's cousin Jed, a monster movie set designer. They'll find Jed has disappeared and his animatronics are out of control, sending mechanical monsters haywire and making Jed the prime suspect. Players must stop the creepy costumed characters, unmask the truth and prove Jed's innocence. Scooby will be able to don Kung Fu, bat and archer costumes so that he can karate chop, glide and aim plungers at monsters. The game consists of three sprawling worlds that each feature multiple levels and mini games with numerous cut scenes and climactic boss battles. TV's Adam West joins the Scooby-Doo cast as the villainous Winslow Stanton.
Release Region: United States
Release Date: September 12, 2005
Publisher: THQ
Also available on: PlayStation 2, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance
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Supra Skytop II "Remix" by Steve Aoki & Chad Muska
Chad Muska's second Supra signature is a classic 'middle child' scenario, where the oldest has seen so much more and the youngest is still so cute and fresh that we don't see all that many new Supra Skytop IIs these days. But just like Black Friday a couple years back when they released a dope black/gold edition that would have been a very strong 2012 release, the Skytop II is ready for the after-Thanksgiving shopping madness with a new colorway curated by Muska himself along with one of the Crown brand's noted associates. The Skytop II 'Remix' was designed by Muska and Steve Aoki with Vans-esque checkerboarding on the overlay of an otherwise tonal blue design that reaches upscale with a dope croc texture base that gives this model a whole new appeal. The Muska and Mr. Dim Mak killed this Cyber Monday release and we have a feeling they'll move fast at Factory413 and their e-store on Cyber Monday.


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theanswer2: All of Thursday & Friday's NCAA Tournament games. No NIT or anything.
Couple spots open and I'll probably need a couple alternates. Let me know if you want in!
I'm working on the bracket now and I'll post the matchups a little later when I'm done. Lets fill these last spots up!
G7: definitely the best time of year.
Okay guys, I think we're about filled up. I'll release the matchups as soon as I'm finished making the bracket. I'll post it in a separate thread so look for it in a little while. Make sure you get all of the Thursday & Friday NCAA tournament games picked. NO NIT, CBI or CIT games. Thank you to everyone for your co-operation and for hangin' in there while I get this done, I really appreciate it. This should be fun and I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully, all of you guys enjoy it. And let the best capper win.


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ShannonGBW needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 345 designs submitted by 60 freelance designers.
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Our client is an independent female artist who provides customers with high quality, personalized, unique functional creations in interior and exterior architectural installations of mosaic murals, handmade art tiles, and
and custom concrete surfaces. She is A Skilled Artist, Trustworthy, Creative, Organized, Resourceful, and Professional. But most of all, her work is DISTINCTIVE. Her logo should reflect these traits.
1) Local homeowners in the upper-middle and upper income brackets
2) Local businesses
- The logo design should reflect the type of materials our client works with - which are "hard" materials such as concrete and tile. While these materials are sort-of masculine, the logo should also reflect the fact that the artist is FEMALE.
- The design should have a refined, DISTINCTIVE feel to it.
- One idea we had is to incorporate a hard hat image - but other ideas are encouraged as well
- Our client will also use this logo to stamp into concrete - so it should not have any small details that would not transfer. It should be CLEAN AND BOLD AND SIMPLE.
- We do not have any preference to color, so we are looking forward to your thoughts!
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Redu station
Redu station provides ESTRACK tracking capabilities in S- and Ka-band, and supports in-orbit testing (IOT) of telecommunication satellites. Redu supports ESA's Artemis and Integral missions as well as Proba. The site hosts multiple tracking antennas operating in a variety of frequency bands, and is located in the Ardennes region of Belgium.
The coordinates of the REDU-1 antenna are +50° 00' 01.64", +5° 08' 43.24". This reference point is 386.6 metres above sea level with respect to the WGS-84 reference ellipsoid, a mathematically-defined reference surface that approximates the Earth's geoid surface.
Redu station is sited about 1 km from the village of Redu, in the Belgian province of Luxembourg.
Facilities & technologyRedu hosts the following antennas:
- REDU-1: 15m-diameter dish antenna with reception and transmission in S-band, used primarily to support Integral
- REDU-2: 13.5m-diameter dish antenna with reception and transmission in Ka-band, used primarily to support Artemis
- REDU-3: 2.4m-diameter dish antenna with reception and transmission in S-band, used to support Proba
Redu station is equipped with its own emergency electrical power generator system and is connected to the Belgian communication network via fully redundant fibre-optic cables. The station is manned 24 hours a day.
A Remote Ranging Terminal (RRT) is installed at Redu as part of the Artemis TTC (Telemetry, Tracking and Command) facilities. The RRT is remotely operated from the Artemis Operations Control Centre located at Fucino, Italy. This terminal operates in Ka-band.
Additionally, a 9m S-band antenna and six 3.8m Ku-band antennas were installed in 2001-02 on behalf of Eutelsat Communications. These terminals are used for TTC purposes for the Eutelsat fleet of satellites. They are linked to the Eutelsat Spacecraft Control Centre in Paris via satellite.
A 9.3m C-Band antenna was installed in 2003 to support G2-SAT.
Control and monitoring
A control centre was installed at Redu in the early 1980s. This centre was initially dedicated to the ECS-series of satellites, which were to be controlled on behalf of Eutelsat.
The ECS mission comprised five communication satellites, which would be used by Eutelsat to provide intra-European communications for television, telephony and specialised services; all were to be controlled from Redu. ECS-1 was launched in 1983 and ECS-2 in 1984. Unfortunately, ECS-3 was lost due to a launcher failure, but ECS-4 in 1987 and ECS-5 in 1988 were both successful. ECS-2 was retired in late 1993 after more than 9 years of service, ECS-1 in late 1996 after more than 13 years and ECS-5 in mid-2000. After almost 20 years of operations, the ECS mission was terminated in December 2002.
ESA's Artemis mission was launched in July 2001, but unfortunately into an erroneous geostationary transfer. A recovery operation raised Artemis to its geostationary orbit using ion propulsion and Artemis reached operational orbit at the end of January 2003. The Artemis Mission Control Facility (AMCF) performs mission control of Artemis from Redu. Engineers use this facility to schedule the usage of the Artemis data relay payloads using optical, S-band and Ka-band.
The Pastel Mission Control System (PMCS) installed at Redu monitors and controls Pastel, an optical (laser) communications terminal mounted on France's SPOT-4 EO satellite and which communicates optically with a similar terminal, Opale, fitted on ESA's Artemis satellite. Control is achieved via the SPOT 4 control centre, in Toulouse, France.
Integral was launched on 17 October 2002. Routine communications for Integral are provided by the station at Redu.
Engineers also control and monitor ESA's Proba satellite from Redu using the SCOS-II mission control system.
Planetary missions
The Flight Operations Control Centre for XMM-Newton is at ESOC, but back-up control facilities are installed at Redu. The mission is based on different versions of the SCOS system. Under a contract with Newskies Satellites, Redu hosts hot back-up control centres for their satellites and on-board communication payloads; these are the Alternate Satellite Operations Centre (ASOC) and Alternate Payload Operations Centre(APOC).
In-orbit testing for communication satellite payloads
The in-orbit test facilities, initially installed to check out and monitor the ECS communication payloads, were expanded with the addition of three new terminals for the Olympus satellite, which was launched in 1989.
Engineers have used these facilities to carry out tests not only on ESA satellites, but also for satellites from other organisations – in particular Eutelsat satellites of the Eutelsat II-, Hot B- and W-series.
In addition, engineers use the Redu facilities as reference terminals to check user terminals. The facilities have been upgraded and further expanded for use in the Artemis mission. Redu is able to offer a complete range of in-orbit testing in both Ku-band and Ka-band.
Data relay services
The 13.5m TMS-1 antenna has been modified to become a high-speed data-relay terminal for Artemis. Scientists can also use the antenna in the future for data relay services with ATV, the Columbus laboratory and with future Japanese missions (for example, OICETS, ALOS, JEM and so on).
As Japan has no visibility of Artemis, high-speed data from Japanese satellites will be routed to Artemis and then received at Redu. This data will then be transferred by conventional means to Japan.
A GPS-TDAF (GPS Tracking and Data Analysis Facility) dual-frequency receiver system with geodetic accuracy is installed on the site, which delivers continuous measurements to the ESOC Navigation Facility.
Access & contact
The station is about 4 kms from the autoroute E411 between Brussels and Luxembourg. Leave the autoroute at Transinne (exit 24). Continue straight over the crossroads, following the signs to Redu. After about 1.5 kms, the station is signposted to the left. In the centre of Redu village take the Daverdisse road, then turn left following the ESA signs. The distance from ESOC is approximately 360 kms. The nearest railway station is at Libramont, about 25 kms away, and the nearest airports are at Luxembourg (110 kms), and Brussels (115 kms). Rental cars are available at all the airports, but reservation arrival is recommended.
The ESOC point of contact is:
Head of Ground Facilities Operations Div. (OPS-ON)
ESOC, Darmstadt
Tel: +49-6151-90-0
The local station contact is:
Daniel Galardini, ESA Redu Station Director
daniel.galardini [@] esa.int
Tel: +32-61-229512
Fax: +32-61-229515
The postal address of the station is:
Agence Spatiale Europeenne
Station de Redu
B-6890 Redu


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Only a documentary about the Federal Reserve could have the real luminaries of the system as the stars of the film.
Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Paul Volcker and a host of Treasury officials appear as themselves in "Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve." They appear not as actors, but as central figures in archival footage revealing their role in creating the financial crisis that remains with us to this day.
Writer-director Jim Bruce has fashioned a sharp, witty and caustic look at one of the most powerful institutions in the world. American money once took the form of gold and silver. Bruce explains with candor and humor how 100 years of Federal Reserve policies transformed our money into pieces of paper printed at will by the Fed.
Bruce walks the viewer through the Great Depression, the hyper-inflation of the 1970s and the stock and real estate bubbles of the past decade. He logically shows how all these events were bound to result in the great debt crisis that now threatens our monetary system. It's a startling and sobering story we all need to understand.
—John Depko
'Prisoners' an everyday shocker
"Prisoners" is a parent's worst nightmare: Basically, two little girls go out to play on a quiet Thanksgiving afternoon and disappear.
It's the unthinkable in their quiet neighborhood. The loving parents (Hugh Jackman and Maria Bello, Viola Davis and Terrence Howard) each cope with the unbearable in their own way.
Keller (Jackman) handles it by getting angry, lashing out at Det. Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) when the lone suspect (Paul Dano) is released for lack of evidence. Convinced that the creep must be guilty, Keller kidnaps and tortures him to get a confession, but his methods go nowhere.
This is not just a movie about revenge. It's a haunting whodunit that keeps us riveted with searing performances and unnerving plot twists. What if Keller is right? Will finding the girls alive justify the means?
But worse, what if Keller is wrong in his righteous anger? Isn't this man now as much of a monster as the kids' abductor? How will his own family regard him when they find out what he did?
Jackman is outstanding as the tormented, desperate father. But it is Gyllenhaal's dark, quiet presence that grounds the film. Many sins of the past are uncovered here, and we get the sense that Loki may be a prisoner of sorrows as well.
"Prisoners" is heartbreaking and shocking. The final act is every bit a nail-biter as "The Silence of the Lambs," and it's most frightening that this type of evil against children happens every day in real life.
—Susanne Perez
JOHN DEPKO is a retired senior investigator for the Orange County public defender's office. He lives in Costa Mesa and works as a licensed private investigator. SUSANNE PEREZ lives in Costa Mesa and is an executive assistant for a company in Irvine.


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Chas Allen on West Coast Auto Art
Not so on the West Coast. I asked Charlie Allen about the nature of the auto illustration business in San Fransisco when he, Fred Ludekens, Stan Galli and Bruce Bomberger were regularly setting their signatures to artwork for Chevy and other car manufacturing clients. His informative narrative, full of interesting and amusing anecdotes, begins below:
"On auto art.....my first was a Chevy ad, a B&W. [Fred] Ludekens was too busy, and I got it. Sweated blood, sweat, etc. on it.....and it turned out OK. Don't even have a copy today, and wish I had. A lot of my early work was like being thrown into the lake and told to swim for it....when you had just learned to dog paddle. Probably for the best."
My first Chevy full color job came much as the first B&W...a complete surprise. A double page spread, it was a profile side view of a '55 two-toned (pink and charcoal grey) Chevy with the then new 'wrap around windshield. White sidewalls of course. No scene, but against the white background, top hats, white gloves, confetti, serpentine, etc...a celebration or coming out party. Simple, but turned out well."
"Later on I did some Mercury and Simca ads, but Campbell-Ewald and Chevy were our main car source."
"You mentioned the AF/VK team. Those guys were phenomenal. No way here....altho' I did paint a Buick station wagon for Stan Galli, that he finished a scene around. He griped about it for years! But, hey, most artists just don't think alike. Also had to 'repair' a Ludekens Chevy job once. He couldn't draw girls for sour apples, and I grudgingly 'improved' his figures. We, that is I, took my own shots of Chevrolets, usually at our local dealership. They were cooperative, but didn't have a clue!"
"I found out early to not draw a car the way it photographed. You had to tuck the wheels, stretch width and length.....but very carefully. Too much was as bad as too little. Detroit liked their cars low, wide and long in those days. When I see one on the road these days, they are true dinosuars."
* All of today's images can be found in my Charlie Allen Flickr set.
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- Chet Morton11:50 AM
That color 1955 Chevrolet ad Mr. Allen speaks of is just wonderful, it's one of my favorites. Makes me want to scan and post it in case no one else has.ReplyDelete
Two questions -- first, where did that black-and-white 1961 Chevrolet ad appear, do you know? I'd like to find a copy.
And that "Squeeze Left" Corvair illustration -- it's one of two illustrated Corvair ads I have for the year, the other is a blue convertible parked in twilight at a submarine base. I think they had limited runs and that I pulled them from one of those magazines aimed at the womens' market, Redbook or McCall's or somesuch. Another ad I might scan and post if no one has. Does Mr. Allen remember doing more than just those two?
Hello Chet,ReplyDelete
I'd love to get a copy of the 55 Chevy ad. As to the B/W ad, it ran in the newspapers. Charlie had a great B/W technique and his ilustration reproduced great in the papers and low line screens.
Check out the Covair ad, Charlie liked to put his initals in the license plate.
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I forwarded your questions to Charlie and he sent this reply:
LEIF....This seems the easiest way to answer. All the B&W Chevy ads, and there were a bunch of those, appeared in every major newspaper in the country. That's why it was a profitable client...all their ads were national....color ads in magazines the same way. Don't think I illustrated the Corvair model more than the one time....the yellow 'Squeeze Left' ad. Did other ads of '55,'56, & '57....and maybe later....Chevys, usually their 4 door sedans. Hope this helps..... C.
- chet morton12:35 PM
Thanks Leif and thanks Mr. Allen.ReplyDelete
I'll scan and post that other Corvair ad and let you know when I do. In style, it looks very much like the "Squeeze Left" ad.
Thanks Bruce, too. Will definitely scan the 1955 Chevrolet ad, and will look for the initials "CA" on that other illustrated Corvair ad before posting.
I understand Charlie Allen's comment about being thrown in the lake when you've only learned to dog paddle. When I was just learning to dog paddle, I was assigned a job which I was to illustrate a young couple standing next to their car, while looking at a road map, for a AAA Insurance magazine ad. It was not a car ad however, it was an insurance ad. The car couldn't look too long or too short or too dominant or too obscure, etc. They gave me photos of a particular make and model to work from. I struggled and struggled with it. Every time I thought I had it right, they would find one more thing to correct. The figures were the easy part, but I was a nervous wreck trying to get the car just right. Fortunately it was in black, white and one color and not full color. In the end they were happy and satisfied, and I was exhausted! But it gave me confidence later when doing more illustrations of car subjects.ReplyDelete
A car ad is a true test of an illustrator's rendering skills and Charlie Allen's skills were in the class of an Olympic swimmer, in my opinion.
Tom Watson
I love all of this West coast auto art. Very cool to see all of the historic/vintage sketches from the old Pacific 101. Keep this great content coming our way!ReplyDelete
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I wonder if The Dalai Lama thinks Buddhism is a religion. Some Buddhists apparently don't.
Buddhism was my special interest just prior to declaring myself an atheist. I did not regard it as a religion at all. Of the two schools, Theravada is the least theistic, the Mahayanas having their theory that certain saints can be liberated from the Wheel of Life because of their perfection yet choose to come back to help others -- how silly. But as a system of ethics, Buddhism is superior to anything in the monotheisms and Christianity in particular. Instead of "sin" it posits "error," thereby avoiding all that ridiculous business about foregiveness and salvation through a personal deity. I still keep much of what I learned from Buddhism part of my personal code.
But this is why he can say, "the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate." As for grounding ethics in Buddhism... Don't see the irony?
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A great part of being a wrestling fan is getting together with others and sharing "Remember when..." stories about your favourite matches and moments. TNA Wrestling's newest DVD release, TNA Wrestling: The 50 Greatest Moments, is the company's way of joining in on the fun.
As the title implies, the DVD allows fans to relive 50 of the highlights from the promotion's four-and-a-half year run, from its first PPV in May 2002 up through approximately the summer of 2006 (ie: Sting's title win in October is not included, nor is Kurt Angle's debut). Included are all of the company's major milestones, special appearances, significant debuts, and craziest spots, including some things that were only aired one time and have never before been available on DVD.
The DVD follows a pretty straight-forward formula. Each moment is introduced by voiceover, which provides some context around the circumstances, the event name and year, and the participants involved. Then, highlight clips of the moment in question are shown, interspersed with personal reflections from the concerned parties about what transpired.
Those comments are generally made out of character (Jim Mitchell is the only one who seems to maintain his on-screen persona during these segments; Raven, too, but to a lesser extent), and to have the talent talk about the significance of these moments in their eyes makes this a lot more than just a simple highlight reel.
As for the 50 moments themselves, they really are a decent cross-section of what the company is all about. I won't spoil the DVD for you and list them all, but I will point out some of my favourites that were included:
I also enjoyed watching the highlights from the early days, when the show was a weekly pay-per-view event. Relatively new fans of TNA will appreciate seeing clips from those events, including the special appearances by mainstream stars like Toby Keith and Chris Rock. And seeing some of the giant names who have appeared in TNA over the years, like Harley Race, the Road Warriors, Randy Savage, Jushin �Thunder' Liger, Jimmy Snuka, Ken Shamrock, and Ricky Steamboat.
Of course, there will always be those who will want to debate the ranking of certain items -- no criteria is provided as to how they were ordered. And fans will no doubt have their own favourite moments that weren't included. Where was the company's first house show from Detroit for example? Or the time Lollipop had her infamous wardrobe malfunction (Greatest. Night. Ever.)?
But, to me, those types of debates are all part of the fun of watching a collection like TNA Wrestling: The 50 Greatest Moments. And fans of TNA, new and old, will certainly have their chance to do that with this DVD.
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New, juicy details on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills fight between Adrienne Maloof and Brandi Glanville. Tamra Barney of the Real Housewives of Orange County is taking sides, and isn't afraid to say so. The bleach blonde reality star told In Touch that she's got her girl Brandi's back because she has "behind the scenes" knowledge about Adrienne's supposed lies. Tamra went on to say that Adrienne has "mild Tourettes" and probably didn't mean to blurt out the lie, but it happened.
I've always been a fan of Tamra's more or less, and I feel like her assertion just confirms all of our suspicions that Adrienne lied, on camera, about birthing her kids when, in fact, she used a surrogate.
By the way, every time we bring up the rumor that Adrienne had a, gasp, surrogate, I think of Chris Manzo from the Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion. Remember when he so brilliantly pointed out that we're talking about strippers as if they're serial killers? That's how I feel about Adrienne's alleged surrogate. Like, come on, what's the big deal if she used one?! It's not illegal or wrong or even dramatic.
I guess it's the fact that she thinks it's something worth keeping secret that makes it intriguing.
Anyway, I hope more Housewives come out and throw their support behind Brandi. I thought it was gross how Adrienne and Paul blew up at her at Mauricio's party and I just feel like, in general, they're not great people.
It's too bad, too, because Adrienne was definitely one of my favorites before she went from Adrienne Maloof Wealthy Business Woman to Adrienne Maloof Reality STAR!
Anyway, I'm glad to hear Brandi's got some RHOC support in her corner. Now, if we could only get Bethenny to weigh in on this feud, that'd really be something. Alas, I hear she's kinda busy.
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The Vancouver Canucks travel to Big D tonight as they take on the Dallas Stars in the second half of back-to-back games. Vancouver is coming off a solid total-team effort in beating the Wild 5-2 last night. They look to continue that momentum as they head to Dallas to play the Stars tonight.
The Canucks move on from beating the current Minnesota franchise last night to playing the former twin cities franchise tonight in Dallas.
Last night, the Canucks got scoring from 3 of their 4 lines along with point production from the back line. Couple that with a tight defensive effort and you have an impressive win against Minnesota. That said, the Canucks have dominated the Wild in the past two seasons, and last night's game was a perfect example of that.
In contrast to recent games, the only line that appeared to struggle (at least, statistically) was the Kesler line. The line combined for only one point and a minus-5. Look for Kesler and his linemates to respond in spades tonight as they will want to shake off whatever dust settled on them.
Teams have been terrible in the back end of back-to-back games this year in the NHL, so that doesn't bode well for the Canucks. What does favour the Canucks is the Stars' play at home this year. Dallas is 2-2-3 at home and only 4-3-3 in its last 10 games, so the Canucks have an opportunity to take advantage of their poor start at home.
The Canucks however have to travel 1000 miles to get to Dallas today, so they will be tired and sluggish. I'm not expecting much energy out of the team tonight, so they will have to manufacture some. This is a game where guys like Rypien, Hordichuk, Pettinger and Glass have to amp up their game and get the rest of their team fueled to play.
Vancouver doesn't play again until Tuesday when they take on St. Louis, so the Canucks will hopefully put all their energy into this game tonight, and they can spend the next three nights recovering and re-energizing.
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Steam Box Rumored to be Linux-Based, Arrive in 2013
New reports indicate Valve is still planning to release its own console during the next year, and that it will use Linux for its operating system.
Rumors about Valve's possible console have been making the rounds for a long time, but the company has continued to deny any report pointing to the possible development of such a device. That all might change in 2013 though, as German site Golem.de claimed Valve's Ben Krasnow discussed the Steam Box in detail.
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One of the most impressive players Saturday at the DMVElite80 was DeMatha power forward Joe Hampton (DC Assault). Hampton not only had a chance to play alongside Dion Wiley and Melo Trimble, but the sophomore ended up carrying the offense frequently, showing off a great shooting touch from all over the court.
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Trimble isn't the only one in his ear about Maryland either. Mark Turgeon checked out a recent DeMatha practice to let Hampton know where he stands as a priority in the class of 2016. Turgeon told him he wants him on campus soon. Hampton said he plans to attend Maryland Madness and hopefully get up to a football game soon.
"I talked to Turgeon. He's a cool guy," Hampton said. "I like the way he coaches, I like the program he has so far. I think it's a great school. He just told me that he's real interested and the move to the Big Ten is a big step for them and he thinks I'd look good in it."
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