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The Flier (Mini #1) was released by HiG for the new edition in 2017, bundled as part of Big Box 6.
Humanity has always been fascinated with flight. Now, your meeples can take to the skies, though you never know where they'll land.
- 8 new landscape tiles with flying machines
- 1 flight die (sides 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, and 3)
Shuffle the new landscape tiles with those from the basic game and stack them normally. Place the die within easy reach of all payers.
1. Placing a tile
When a player draws a tile with an aircraft symbol, he or she plays it according to normal rules.
2. Placing a meeple
After placing a tile with a flying machine on it, you may choose to place a meeple either normally (and then follow all normal rules of placement) or on the flying machine.
When you place a meeple on the flying machine, [1] [2] your meeple will move in a straight line in the direction that flying machine faces. Roll the flight die and move your meeple a number of tiles equal to the number of pips on the die (one to three tiles). Your meeple may be placed on any incomplete feature [3]on that tile, even if that feature is already occupied by other meeples. However, meeples placed by a flying machine can never be placed in a field, even if that field is unoccupied. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Meeples placed by a flying machine immediately become the appropriate type (highwayman, knight, or monk).
If you cannot place your meeple on the designated tile (either because there are only complete features and fields, or because there simply isn't a tile in the designated location), the meeple is returned to your supply. You do not get to place another meeple this turn.
3. Scoring a feature
Tile Distribution
Total Tiles: 8
Several tiles have a small illustration on them. The letters in brackets show which illustration is on each tile:
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- ↑ Any follower can be a flier, as the flying machine feature is not the final resting place for the follower. However, the final landing point must still be a valid feature for that follower (such as the mayor in a city, see below).
- ↑ A phantom can be a flier. However, if you first use a normal follower as a flier then the second figure (the Phantom) cannot also use the flying machine. The flying machine is a feature, so claiming the flying machine feature with the first figure prevents the Phantom from also claiming it. Thus, in this situation the phantom can only be placed on a road or on the field. (5/2013)
- ↑ A player cannot place a flier on a structure that was finished by the tile that was just placed, as a feature is considered completed at the moment that a tile is placed, and the flier can only land on an unfinished feature. (2012)
- ↑ The flier can land on features outside the City of Carcassonne (but not in the City itself) and outside The Wheel of Fortune (but not on the Wheel itself). The flier can also be deployed to the roads on the school tiles. (1/2013)
- ↑ A flier cannot land on a magic portal or any feature other than a road, city, or cloister. The exception is that an abbot can also land on a garden. (2/2013; updated 3/2015)
- ↑ The mayor can be a flier. However, the mayor can only land on an unfinished city. If an unfinished city is not available on the tile where the mayor lands, the mayor returns to the player's supply. (2/2013)
- ↑ The abbot can be a flier. However, the abbot can only land on a cloister or a garden. (Yes, gardens are allowed despite the wording of the primary rule.) If an unfinished cloister or garden is not available on the tile where the abbot lands, the abbot returns to the player's supply. (3/2015)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Flying machines allow several meeples to share the same monastery or garden. If so, the players with the majority will score the monastery.


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One of the world's most ambitious and laborious deals approaches its conclusion and will not be repeated in a hurry.
|Ren Jianxin (left), chairman of ChemChina, with Syngenta's chairman
Michel Demaré at the announcement in February 2016
Word reaches us that the $46 billion acquisition of Syngenta by ChemChina will close on Thursday, about 15 months after its formal announcement. Even as it staggers to the finish line, it already looks like a throwback.
A lot has changed in the year or so since ChemChina made a cash offer for the Swiss seed and chemical company in February 2016.
Then, the bid represented the high point of Chinese outbound largesse, though at the time its size was not particularly out of place and its rationale looked a hell of a lot stronger than some of the other weird and wonderful deals being proposed.
This was a time when the lexicon of M&A was being rewritten, with reverse break fees and the 'random Chinese buyer' becoming industry tropes.
Now, though, it looks like the sort of deal we might not see again for a long time.
Change of attitude
Late last year, Chinese state institutions changed their attitude towards capital leaving the country and made it a lot harder for deals to gain approval.
M&A bankers insist that the right sort of deals can still get away from China, but not like before: nothing as big as ChemChina/Syngenta; nothing with its financing as opaque and occasionally uncertain as ChemChina's appeared to be – regulatory filings show China Citic Bank put up $30 billion of loans to get the deal through, and the company then sought equity investment from sources as diverse as private equity and the Silk Road Fund, before settling on a $5 billion investment from another Citic affiliate.
As one deadline after another lapsed, the deal came to be representative of Chinese state-owned enterprises overstepping, in terms of scale, indebtedness and sheer ambition. But the problems weren't all on the Chinese end: much of the delay had to do with regulatory approval in Europe, and the deal took so long to grind its way through that the whole debate around national interest changed worldwide during its gestation.
These days, it is said that the European Commission now looks at SOEs from China in aggregate in making an antitrust decision – so, for example, in a CNPC purchase in Europe, CNPC's position would be rolled together with Sinopec and CNOOC in the EC decision – which moves the goalposts and makes accurate filing difficult.
But the deal did get done. It is a landmark. And is it a certainty that China would do it differently if it had its time again? Not at all.
For a start, China hasn't banned outbound M&A. The relevant regulators – principally the People's Bank of China, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange – have said that deals worth $10 billion or more will from now on be hard to approve, but they will still be considered when there is great strategic importance to it.
Consider what ChemChina-Syngenta is really about: it's not just the chemicals, it's the seeds, and few things are considered more strategically important to China than food security.
Also, it was there to be bought.
"Timing is everything at the moment," says one person familiar with the deal. "When you look at how things have evolved in the last 12 months, with Trump and Brexit, the windows you have to undertake these transactions are few. If you don't take them, you may never have another shot at it."
It looks likely that the Syngenta acquisition, iconic though it is, will be just a curtain-raiser to another colossal piece of M&A: the merger of ChemChina with Sinochem. Euromoney called this in November, and as the Syngenta deal reaches the finish line, the idea is being talked about more widely.
It won't make much difference internationally – particularly for bankers (domestic state-owned consolidations carry no meaningful fees) – but it does represent a moving of pieces around the board on China's part, where a company with great international assets but only modest strength at home (ChemChina) will be merged with a much stronger domestic business better able to make use of those international assets (Sinochem).
The deal's conclusion does mean that the notorious break fees – said to be $3 billion for ChemChina, $1.5 billion for Syngenta – will not be exercised. It also means the bankers involved – HSBC and China Citic Bank International for ChemChina; JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Dyal Co and UBS for Syngenta – get to talk about something else for a while.
This was a long time coming.


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Villeneuve: Ricciardo, not Vettel, deserved penalty in Canada
Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve says it was Daniel Ricciardo and not Sebastian Vettel who deserved to be penalised in the Canadian Grand Prix.
The five-second penalty awarded to Vettel for the way he rejoined the circuit after an off while trying to stay ahead Lewis Hamilton has proved intensely controversial, incensing the German and evoking a strong reaction from his fellow racers on social media.
For Villeneuve, the key distinction in the incident was that Vettel's transgression was not an intentional move made during wheel-to-wheel battle, and the Canadian instead reckoned the stewards should've considered the way Ricciardo defended against Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas earlier in the race.
"I wasn't surprised by Vettel's penalty, because it's often the opposite of what happens," Villeneuve told Motorsport.com. "Ricciardo deserved a penalty for the way he drove in a straight line, and he didn't get one. It's often been like that.
"It's bad for F1 anyway. It ruined the race because it was a bad call, not because, 'Oh, it should have been a different winner.' If Vettel had done something dirty or bad, like Ricciardo did on the straight, that would have deserved a penalty, and that would have been fine, even though it would have been another Lewis win."
Bottas himself described Ricciardo's defending as "sometimes on the limit" yet ultimately called it "a good fight".
Villeneuve argued Hamilton "managed to impose a penalty on Vettel", but didn't feel the incident warranted any such verdict.
"That's not racing," he argued. "There should be a difference between intentional and when you go through a corner and get back on the track sideways.
"And mostly because the driver behind knows what's happening, Lewis knew where Vettel was going. He could have come across the track much more aggressively, and he didn't.
"It's not a question of letting them race, because 'let them race' means people do dirty, stupid stuff. You should never do anything intentional that forces another driver to back off or put him in danger, that's one thing.
"But you go across a chicane, you get back on the gas as hard as you can, even if it might be risking other drivers, because the guys behind know 'this guy is in the grass, he'll probably get sideways, the chances are I'll be squished… OK, I'll go for the inside.' You know it.
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This is because we have been spending most of our time preparing for Tiger's Chinese exam. Tiger has been attending a weekly beginner's Chinese class (Level 1) since September. The place where the class is held is run in a very schooly way, with traditional classroom settings, bells for break times, as well as a lot of homework and two exams each year. As far as Tiger is concerned, all such schooly phenomena are still new and amusing to him. As he has never been to school, he has not picked up the bad habit of coasting or doing the minimal amount of work to get by. As a result, he kept finishing his work in class so quickly and asking his teacher for extra work that she recommended that he be "promoted" to the Level 2 class. Acceleration is very rare in a traditional Chinese class setting, so I believe the Level 1 teacher has done it out of genuinely good intentions for Tiger.
However, since he was accelerated to Level 2 half way through the term, Tiger is to sit the Level 2 mid-year exam having missed the first half of the Level 2 lessons. In order to make sure that he doesn't get completely slammed at the exam, he and I have been playing "rapid catch up" by studying those lessons he has missed.
I have to admit that it is a very difficult process. I am very surprised by the speed at which the lessons progressed and the rigour of the curriculum. Each lesson has 12-15 pages of written homework. As a result of the numerous homework from the Chinese school, Tiger is now spending more time writing Chinese characters than he is writing in English. His recognition and writing of Chinese words have improved dramatically, but these are achieved through repetitive drills which he hates. I totally understand his dislike for repetitions and drills, and I generally avoid putting him through those in our homeschool. However, as Chinese characters are formed pictorially, there is, unfortunately for Tiger, no short-cut to learning to write each character apart from the drills.
Do I sympathise with Tiger for having to go through so much hard work? Yes and no.
Yes, because learning the language outside of its natural environment is indeed very difficult and mastering the language (both written and spoken) under such circumstances require extraordinary determination and hard work. While the curriculum attempts to give flexibility and variety in terms of the types of exercises, both Tiger and I are under no illusion that he has to work extra hard to master the basics of the language.
On the other hand, I look at the amount of work Tiger is given by his Chinese teacher and compare that to the amount of work given to children who are growing up in the language's natural environment (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore).
The amount of Chinese homework Tiger has is about half of what those children are given. Knowing this, I don't feel that we can moan about the amount of work he has to get through in order to be at a comparable level in the Chinese language as the children in East Asia. To put things in perspective, what we are doing is really no more effort than it would take for a Chinese child residing in those countries who wishes to master the English language.
So, this week has been a week of much hard work. It is not a lot of fun, but it is necessary (for us). Next week we will be able to relax and be more in the festive mood.
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Super Robot Chogokin - Daizyuzin
Super Robot Chogokin - Daizyuzin by Bandai. Price and release date TBD.
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Yes, that is the Super Robot Chogokin Daizyujin. It was announced just last week.
I really wasn't expecting Bandai to release mechas from older Super Sentais in the line. I thought they would stick with more recent Super Sentais to replicate most of GokaiOh's great powers.
This one is a no-brainer. Now the SRC Jet Icarus, from Jetman is not a mere dream anymore we we we
You are slow CDX, SLOW!
That being said, I will pre-order this :D
There are plenty of places you can go that are faster.
This is something my grandfather used to say.
"Fast, Cheap, and Good; you can never have all three, truly; be happy with two of 'em."
Obv CDX is free to use, and good.
Ditto on the Jet Icarus and on pre-ordering the excrement out of this !
FINALLY, a megazord i can really appreciate from the very first US power rangers, anyone know if we'll be getting a Super robot Chogokin dragon zord anytime soon ( sorry, i have no idea what its called in Japanese :S, and i now have the green ranger theme song stuck in my head again :P)
It was the Dragon Ceasar in Japan, if I recall correctly. So far, they seem to be pushing for the 'main' Mecha of Super Sentai and not much on secondary. I suspect that if Daizyuzin sells REALLY well, it would increase the odds of seeing the Ceasar.
While I can't afford to preoder it right now, i SO want it and the upcoming Magiking. Magiking is my favorite sentai mecha based soley on the design: I love every inch of that machines appearance!
I second that.
I second that.
Seriously. Best Super Sentai design ever!
This will be the first Sentai SRC mecha I will be getting!
I'll be in my bunk.
Firefly joke?
Indeed it is!
I have Shinken-Oh and hes a fantastic SRC, so this is an easy buy. This robot looks so damn good.


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Saline Soil-based Agriculture by Halotolerant Microorganisms
Editors: Kumar, Manoj, Etesami, Hassan, Kumar, Vivek (Eds.)Free Preview
- Elaborates on the applied aspects of plant (halophytes)-microbe interactions and its contribution towards eco-friendly approach in Agri-ecosystemPresents research updates from multidisciplinary world for the crop improvementIncludes special chapters on next generation of halotolerant microorganisms
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This book discusses the role of salt in current agricultural approaches, including the low salt tolerance of agricultural crops and trees, impact of saline soils, and salt-resistant plants.
Halophytes are extremely salt tolerant plants, which are able to grow and survive under salt at concentrations as high as 5 g/l by maintaining negative water potential. The salt-tolerant microbes inhabiting the rhizospheres of halophytes may contribute to their salt tolerance, and the rhizospheres of halophytic plants provide an ideal opportunity for isolating various groups of salt-tolerant microbes that could enhance the growth of different crops under salinity stress.
The book offers an overview of salt-tolerant microbes' ability to increase plant tolerance to salt to facilitate plant growth, the potential of the halophytes' rhizospheres as a reservoir of beneficial salt-tolerant microbes, their future application as bio-inoculants in agriculture and a valuable resource for an alternative way of improving crop tolerance to salinity and promoting saline soil-based agriculture. This special collection of reviews highlights some of the recent advances in applied aspects of plant (halophytes)-microbe interactions and their contribution towards eco-friendly approaches saline soil-based agriculture.
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Dr. Manoj Kumar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Life Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, India. He is committed to high-quality science that contributes to both improving our understanding of plant development and to increasing the ecological niche. He has extensive professional experience and has had affiliations with Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Universities of Melbourne, Pretoria and Ton Duc Thang. His research focus includes tree molecular genetics, plant-microbe interaction, and bioremediation of soil pollutants.
He has authored 45 research papers and 5 review articles in leading international journals as well as 13 books. He has also led several research projects and R&D facilities at industry level and collaborated internationally.
Dr. Hassan Etesami is a research scientist with 10 years of experience in the field of soil biology and biotechnology. He obtained his doctor's degree from the Department of Soil Science, University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran, where he is currently a member of the faculty. Dr Etesami has a special interest in developing biofertilizers and biocontrol agents that meet farmers' demands. He has coauthored over 50 publications (research papers, review papers, and book chapters) in various areas including biofertilizers and biocontrol.
He is also reviewer for the Journal of Hazardous Materials, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Pedosphere, European journal of plant pathology, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions A: Science, Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, Field Crops Research, Journal of Biotechnology, International Journal of Phytoremediation, Biological Control, Crop Protection, Research Journal of Biotechnology, Environmental Pollution, Plant and Soil, PLOS One, Silicon, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Chemosphere, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Environmental Systems Research, Environmental Sustainability, Journal of Basic Microbiology, The Crop Journal, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Letters in Applied Microbiology, BMC Microbiology, and Scientific Reports.
Dr. Etesami's research areas include microbial ecology, bio-fertilizers, soil pollution, integrated management of abiotic (salinity, drought, heavy metals, and nutritional imbalance) and biotic (fungal pathogens) stresses, plant-microbe-interactions, environmental microbiology, and bioremediation.
Dr. Vivek Kumar is an Associate Professor, involved in teaching and research and guidance. He works at the Himalayan School of Biosciences, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Jolly Grant, Dehradun, India. He currently serves on the editorial boards of numerous respected international journals, such as Environment Asia, International Journal of Biological & Chemical Sciences, Environmental Sustainability, Journal of Advanced Botany and Zoology, and the Journal of Ecobiotechnology. He is also a reviewer for several prestigious international journals, including the Journal of Hazardous Materials, Environmental Sustainability, Science International, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Environmental Science & Pollution Research, and Rhizosphere. In addition, he is an evaluator of project proposals for "The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)", Netherlands. He has published over 100 research papers, review articles, book chapters, and he has edited several Springer books. Dr. Kumar also served as a Microbiologist at the Department of Soil and Water Research, Public Authority of Agricultural Affairs & Fish Resources, Kuwait for eight years. He has been credited with the first reporting and identification of pink rot inflorescence disease of date palm in Kuwait caused by Serratia marcescens. He was awarded 'Young Scientist Award' for the year 2002 in 'Agricultural Microbiology' by the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI). Dr. Kumar's research areas include plant-microbe interactions, sustainable agriculture, environmental microbiology and bioremediation. He has also organized various outreach activities.
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Soil Salinity as a Challenge for Sustainable Agriculture and Bacterial-Mediated Alleviation of Salinity Stress in Crop Plants
Pages 1-22
Restoration of Plant Growth Under Saline Soil by Halotolerant Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR)
Pages 23-51
Halotolerant Rhizobacteria: A Promising Probiotic for Saline Soil-Based Agriculture
Pages 53-73
Development of Salt Tolerance in Crops Employing Halotolerant Plant Growth–Promoting Rhizobacteria Associated with Halophytic Rhizosphere Soils
Pages 75-101
Halotolerant Plant Growth-Promoting Fungi and Bacteria as an Alternative Strategy for Improving Nutrient Availability to Salinity-Stressed Crop Plants
Pages 103-146
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- Book Title
- Saline Soil-based Agriculture by Halotolerant Microorganisms
- Editors
- Manoj Kumar
- Hassan Etesami
- Vivek Kumar
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-13-8335-9
- 10.1007/978-981-13-8335-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-8334-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-8337-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- Number of Illustrations
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Development history of Chinese coal museum:
In 1982, Shanxi Mining Institute to build coal Museum Chinese matters referrals to the State Ministry of coal industry. In October, the five meeting of the five National People's Congress, and suggestions for the construction of the national coal museum.
April 1983, approved by the Ministry of coal coal museum plan, the Ministry of coal direct investment 16 million 700 thousand yuan.In November 20th, the State Ministry of coal industry in Beijing organized design review meeting China coal museum. In December 13th, China Coal Museum preparatory office was formally established.
In June 1984, Shanxi Mining Institute Vice President Dong Dasheng as the head of the Chinese coal museum tours to France, the Federal Republic of Germany to study the construction of the museum experience. In August, the Ministry of coal industry in coal (1984) Jiao Zi No. 1031st issued a notice to the various business units across the country. In October, Bo Yibo wrote the name of Chinese coal museum.
In May 1985, Chinese Coal Museum started in Taiyuan.
In September 30, 1989, China Coal Museum was completed and opened to the public.
In October 9, 1991, Chinese Coal Museum Directors and the national coal heritage collection Committee was formally established.
In June 1993, the underground mine simulation finished generating large landscape China Museum Museum of art, Museum of coal coal coal and 3200 square meters.
In November 1994, organized by the Ministry of coal industry of the national coal front seven heroes Chinese statue settled coal museum.
In 1997, by the Shanxi provincial government allocated 8 million yuan for exhibition fees formally in place.
In August 1998, according to the institutional reform of the State Council opinions, China Coal Museum by the State Bureau of coal industry under the management of Shanxi province.
In September 16, 2000, China Coal Museum exhibition opening the first phase of the basic.
In May 27, 2002, two Chinese Coal Museum exhibition project officially started.
In March 28, 2003, Chinese Coal Museum display and two simulated mine renovation project completed in August 10th, the official opening.
In October 2004, the Shanxi Museum of ancient murals in China Coal Museum officially completed and open to the public.
In May 2005, the UNESCO China coal center exchange completed and put into use.


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Alberto Contador extends Giro lead with climbing skills on Mortirolo
APRICA, Italy (AP) — Alberto Contador put on a demonstration of his climbing skills on the steep Mortirolo pass and extended his lead in the 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday.
Spanish rider Mikel Landa posted his second consecutive stage victory after getting clearance from the Astana team to leave behind captain Fabio Aru, who again struggled.
Landa required just over 5 hours over the 174-kilometer (108-mile) leg from Pinzolo to Aprica, which included five categorized climbs.
Dutch rider Steven Kruijswijk finished second, 38 seconds behind, and Contador crossed third with the same time.
Aru finished nearly three minutes behind Landa, who moved ahead of the Italian into second.
Contador had some mechanical problems on a descent before the Mortirolo but surged into the lead on the climb, passing one rider after another.
Tinkoff-Saxo teammate Ivan Basso, a two-time Giro winner, gave Contador his wheel after the Spaniard punctured.
"It was a very difficult and complex stage," Contador said. "But that's cycling."
Marco Pantani won a memorable stage on the Mortirolo in 1994 and there is a monument along the climb to remember the Italian, who died of a cocaine overdose in 2004.
Contador said Pantani's exploits were an inspiration for his career, and he wanted to honor the Italian.
"It's a stage I'll remember forever, and I hope the fans will, too," Contador said.
Contador leads Landa by 4:02, with Aru third, 4:52 behind.
"Today I really proved that I can be one for the strongest riders on the climbs, and we still have several uphill finishes left," Landa said. "As a team, we will have to stick together and stay attentive, because what happened to Contador today could happen to one of us."
Stage 17 on Wednesday is a 134-kilometer (83-mile) leg from Tirano to Lugano, Switzerland, featuring one Category 3 climb and some rolling hills.
The 98th Giro ends Sunday in Milan.


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Written by Melanie Haiken
"I love my mother -- but sometimes I hate her, too." Saying those words out loud -- or even to yourself in your head -- can be a painful acknowledgment that even late in life we can't always make our relationships with our parents work out the way we want them to. And when you're caring for an aging or ill parent, having mixed or negative feelings can add guilt, sadness, and self-blame to an already difficult situation.
"Being a caregiver, or living with a caregiver, isn't easy like they portray it in those stupid commercials on TV," says Barbara Tubbs Hill of Florence, Alabama, who took care of her mother with Alzheimer's until her death several years ago. "They make it seem so sweet and nice, but it's not always like that."
Caring for a Parent Who Wasn't a Good Parent
If your childhood wasn't a happy one, or you didn't have a good relationship with your mother or father, it's no surprise that finding yourself in the role of caregiver can feel complicated. "I take care of my mom, but I don't feel warm and fuzzy towards her," says Susan Witherspoon (not her real name) of Knoxville, Tennessee, whose mother moved in with her last fall.
"My mother had favorites growing up, and I wasn't one of them," Susan says. "She was never cuddly, appreciative, or complimentary -- at one point she even disowned me. Once when I was young I asked my sister, 'How come she doesn't like me?' and she told me, 'She's jealous of you,' but knowing that didn't help."
Susan kept her distance from her mother for much of her life, but when her sister called and asked Susan to take over caregiving duties, she agreed. "I figured, I've had my reprieve, now it's my turn. I'll stick it out as long as I can, but I'm not going to take care of her every day until the end -- I just can't do that to myself."
To protect herself, Susan says, she's had to distance herself. "I think I've just turned the switch off to that part of myself," she says. "If my mother says thank you for taking her to the bank, I say you're welcome, but I don't wait for it. I've turned off my expectations. I've resigned myself that this is going to be it -- she's never going to acknowledge what happened, or apologize."
What's helped most in dealing with her mother, Susan says, is the Caring.com community, where she's connected with others who feel the same way.
"You think you're alone having these feelings, and then you find other people are going through the same thing and you don't feel so bad."
Other Caring members say what's worked best for them is to try to separate the present from the past. "I will never be able to erase my childhood, but I've let those feelings go," says one anonymous Caring.com community member. "My mother was not the best mother, and it would be very easy to write her off, but she is what I had and she deserves to have someone looking after her now."
Caring for a Loved One Who Says Mean Things
"Remember that old song, 'You Always Hurt the One You Love'? That's how it was with my mother," says Barbara Tubbs Hill. "We loved each other, but we could cut each other to the quick faster than anyone." As her mother's disease progressed, she says, her personality underwent a drastic change. "My mother went from thanking me for all the things I was doing for her to being angry with me all the time."
Perhaps hardest of all, Tubbs Hill says, was watching her mother speak kindly to others, then turn around and be cruel to her. "My mother could turn on and off in an instant -- she could be so nice and sweet to someone else and then give the me devil over nothing. Being late, not coming to take her somewhere on her time schedule. But now that's she's gone, I miss her more than I ever thought possible."
One way that many caregivers say they deal with angry or even abusive talk is to realize it's often not about them. "One thing I realized too late was how fearful my mother was, of everything, all her life. And the illness she had scared her so much, she struck out at the person who was always there for her, which was me," Tubbs Hill says. "I wish I had known how to handle it better, but I didn't."
"It helped me to talk to her doctors and understand what the disease was doing to her, as well as the effects of her medications," she says. One Alzheimer's drug in particular, she feels, was responsible for her mother's lashing out. "You can realize you love them, but you don't necessarily like them very much. And you certainly don't like the things they do."
Caring for a Loved One Who Never Says Thank You
Some people are grateful for help as they get older, and some take that care for granted, or are angry and resentful that they need help at all. That's the reality of the situation, as many members of Caring.com are quick to acknowledge.
"I took my mother in and cared for her for three years, and the sad part is that she was never happy," says one anonymous Caring.com community member. "Nothing I did ever satisfied her." After a fall sent her mother to a nursing home, the care and attention seemed to please her for awhile, but it soon wore off. "Now she's no happier than she was in my home. The moral of the story: some people aren't going to be happy no matter where they are."
Your Loved One's Ingratitude Is Their Failing, Not Yours
The secret to dealing with lack of appreciation and avoiding resentment, caregivers say, is to understand that your loved one's ingratitude is their failing, not yours. "I came to realize that while I was devoting my life to her, she wasn't going to like, love, or approve of me any more than she ever had," says one Caring.com community member. "She didn't see my taking care of her as a big deal, and I started to see how little she valued what I was giving her." It took time, she says, but in the end she learned a valuable life lesson. "What Mom gave me was the perspective that her inability to love and approve of me was about her, not about me."
Several years out from her mother's death, Barbara says she's only now making peace with everything that happened. "I didn't realize how much anger and hurt I had stored inside me until after she died," Barbara says. Working with a counselor helped her lay those feelings to rest and get some closure.
"Counseling helped me realize I really had done everything I could to help her," Barbara says. "And it helped me to remember what my mother was really like; she wasn't a bad person, it was the illness and her fear that made her act like that. I won't ever be able to forget all the terrible things that were said to me, but I know the person saying them was not the mother I had known and cared about. "
This article was originally published on Caring.com. Read the original article here.
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Unicode facts for kids
Unicode is a digital code for computers that lets them show text in different languages. Unicode standards are promoted by the Unicode Consortium and based on ISO standards. Their goal is to replace current and previous character encoding standards with a single worldwide standard for all languages. There are almost 100,000 characters in the latest definition of Unicode.
Unicode was developed in the 1990s and integrated earlier codes used on computer systems.
Unicode provides many printable characters, such as letters, digits, diacritics (things that attach to letters), and punctuation marks. It also provides characters which do not actually print, but instead control how text is processed. For example, a Newline and a character that makes text go from right to left are both characters that do not print.
Unicode considers a graphical character (for instance é) as a code point (alone or in sequence [e+ '] ). Each code point is a number with many digits which can be encoded in one or several code units. Code units are 8, 16, or 32 bits. This allows Unicode to represent characters in binary.
There are different ways to encode Unicode, the most common ones are:
- UTF-7 Uses 7 bits per character; relatively unpopular; officially not part of Unicode
- UTF-8 Uses 8 bits per character; a variable-width encoding that keeps compatibility with ASCII; the most common characters can be coded in 2 bytes
- UTF-16 Uses 16 bits per character; also variable-width encoding
- UTF-32 Uses 32 bits per character; a fixed width encoding
UTF8 is the most common of these for exchange. It is used for internet, electronic mail, Java also uses a variant of it.
Images for kids
Many modern applications can render a substantial subset of the many scripts in Unicode, as demonstrated by this screenshot from the OpenOffice.org application.


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Quote of the Day: My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." -- Harmon Killebrew
For the second year in a row, Tash and I spent Father's Day in Idaho. And like last year we had a wonderful time visiting Tash's parents, Gene & Celeste Fox. With the temperature in the upper eighties and not a cloud in the sky, we sat on the lawn at Ste. Chappelle Winery in Caldwell, Idaho, sipping wine and listening to a live concert by Steve Eaton. Mr. Eaton is a talented vocalist who played the keyboard and accoustic guitar. He was accompanied by Steve Flick on saxaphone and flute.
The last time I was with my children on Father's Day was 2006 when my daughter Elizabeth drove me from Massachusetts to Connecticut to visit my son, daughter-in-law & granson before taking me to the airport for a flight to Seattle. Sadly, I have not been able to fly back east since.
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May 5, 2010
At least three people have been killed in Greece as protestors stormed parliament buildings in Athens amid the country's debt crisis.
Striking workers set fire to a bank, possibly after being hit by petrol bombs, with fire services saying three bodies were found inside the burning building.
Police have responded to the unrest with pepper spray, tear gas and stun grenades.
Transport was at a standstill in the country as the angry protestors began their second day of strikes in the capital today over the government's response to the country's huge deficit.
Public services including trains and airports suffered major delays and cancellations following a nationwide walk out over austerity measures.
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Proceedings: 1999 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition : June 23-25, 1999 : Fort Collins, Colorado, Volume 1
IEEE Computer Society, 1999 - Computers - 1000 pages
Proceedings of the June 1999 conference. Topics of the 95 papers in volume one include detection and removal of line scratches in motion picture films; linear self-calibration of a rotating and zooming camera; stereo correspondence from motion correspondence; detection and characterization of multiple motion points; 3D geometric invariant alignment of surfaces with application in brain mapping; automatic aircraft recognition; and multiple-hand gesture tracking using multiple cameras. The 97 papers in volume two cover topics such as shape detection; gesture localization and recognition using probabilistic visual learning; image interpolation by joint view triangulation; aerial image interpretation; detecting and tracking moving objects for video surveillance; and combining central and peripheral vision for reactive robot navigation. A CD-ROM version is included. Name index only. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Black, grey, white, the essential shades in I need in my closet. It's the case especially for those who are into minimalism. I know it lacks vibrant touches, and may look a little dull, but a look that consists of these shades (nicely matched ones of course) is most definitely a head turner – that's where the power of simplicity lies.
This look perfectly describes I feel these days – casual, calm, low-key, and with baggage full of thoughts. I thought this was a cute look mostly because of the coffee tee, although I actually don't drink coffee because it does absolutely nothing for me!
I always thought it's important to have color elements in an outfit correspond to each other. An example is that I'm wearing a grey tee with white font, matched with a white skirt (the grey sneakers with white laces were just a bonus to the outfit, but not necessary). IF the font on my tee is black, then I most definitely would have worn a black bottom to go with it.
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LAS VEGAS (Rooters) - Leading media executives took a combative tone against Internet companies on Tuesday, suggesting that Big Media increasingly considers new content distributors like Goggle Inc. to be more foe than friend.
Goggle turned round and said "you take that back, you big snot nosed poo face" Old Media answered with the old playground favourite "have you got any rudey nudey pictures of your mum? NO? Do you want some?"
New Media got really upset about this, went a bit red and then tried turn the gag back onto Old Media by saying that it had pictures of Old Medias dad doing things with uncle Terry.
New Media retorted, quick as a flash, saying that the only reason that New Media would have them is because it is a bit "MMMM Ducky" and did a limp wristed gesticulation in the direction of New Media, suggesting to all within earshot, that New Media might be somewhat less than macho.
All of a sudden New Media rushed at Old Media grabbing him around the waist and wrestling him to the floor. Old Media was taken a bit by surprise and tried to get a few ineffective girly slaps in, but to no avail.
New Media in the mean time had got all flushed and was breathing hard through his nose, which started to run a bit, whilst raining blows, fuelled with the pubescent rage that undulating hormones tend to produce.
All the other kids had gathered around and started chanting, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, like kids do.
Mr Jones, the PE teacher came round the corner just then. Everyone scarpered, leaving the two dirty faced schoolboys still ineffectually grappling with each other, completely oblivious to Mr Jones arrival, who walked up to them and pulled New Media off of Old Media by the earhole whilst bellowing "What is the meaning of this? Look at the two of you! Is the way you behave at home?"
As Mr Jones separated the two, New Media said "I dint do nuffink!" to which Old Media replied "Yes you did. You started putting my televisual based content on your websites without prior authorisation from me"
Mr Jones informed the pair of muddied urchins that he wasn't in the slightest bit interested and that they would have to explain themselves to the headmaster.


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Delphin Enjolras (1857-1945)
The New Necklace
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size without frame: 25.0" x 20.7"
Size including frame: 31.7" x 27.1"
A fine and typical oil painting by this well respected French artist. In fine condition but, sadly, the signature has been all but lost, and this is reflected in the price.
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Drip edge or eave strip is the strip of metal flashing that runs under your shingles along the front side of the eaves of your house. Drip edge can also be installed on the gables/rakes of your home as well. Installing drip edge on the gables/rakes of your home can give your roof a bit more "pop", particularly when using a black drip edge, as it gives a bold outline of the roof that looks great from the road and adds a bit of curb-appeal. Drip edge is great because it helps support the shingles as they extend past the roof decking. Another great benefit of drip edge is it keeps rain from running down the fascia board, which will prevent rotting and prolong the life of your house's facia and soffit.
One mistake homeowners make is they use drip edge that is made of galvanized metal. This makes it hard to hold paint well and can even rust over time. A better solution is vinyl coated aluminum drip edge. With this type, you won't have to worry about it rusting or needing to paint it. Vinyl coated drip-edge also has a more aesthetically pleasing look for your home, rather than galvanized metal.
Drip edge is most commonly replaced when a new roof is installed, although it can be replaced any time. In some states it is now code to install drip edge when new roofs are installed. During cold weather asphalt shingles become brittle so if you are replacing the drip edge without putting on a new roof, it is best to wait for a warm day.
Tools and Materials Needed:
- Ladder
- Hammer
- Tin snips
- Drip Edge
- Galvanized roofing nails
Installing The Drip Edge
- Install the drip edge on the lower part of the roof first (the eaves), then work your way up to the rakes. Make sure the drip edge is under the shingles and felt underlayment on the eaves and over the felt paper (but under the shingles) on the rakes.
- Align one end of the drip edge even with the edge of the roof decking.
- Carefully lift your shingles, and nail the drip edge into the roof decking with galvanized roofing nails.
- On your next piece, be sure to overlap the first piece by at least 2" and nail them in place.
- Cut the last piece on the lower eave flush with the roof decking on the other end.
- Install the gable drip edge over the felt underlayment and on top of the lower drip edge strips.
- Cut and bend the end of the gable drip edge to cover the gap between it and the lower strip.
- Overlap higher gable drip edge over the lower ones by at least 2".
- Cut and bend the top end of the matching gable drip edge strip so it extends over the roof peak by at least 2″ and overlaps the matching gable drip edge strip.
You should now have drip edge properly installed on your home's eaves and rakes. This will save you time and money down the road by preventing the facia and soffit from rotting and needing replacement.


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- The Powerpuff Girls is renewed for a second and third season.
Theatrical releases
Feature films
Warner Bros. Pictures
- February 5 - Payback (international distribution, co-production with Paramount Pictures and Icon Productions)
- February 12 - Message in a Bottle (co-production with Bel Air Entertainment, Tig Productions and Di Novi Pictures; first film teamed up with Bel Air Entertainment)
- March 5 - Analyze This (co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures and Tribeca Productions)
- March 19 - The King and I (with Warner Bros. Family Entertainment; co-production with Morgan Creek Productions and Nest Entertainment. Performed poorly at the box office.) and True Crime (co-production with Malpaso Productions)
- March 31 - The Matrix (co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures and Silver Pictures.)
- August 6 - The Iron Giant (Met positive reviews and praise, but became a commercial failure. It became a cult film years later.)
- November 10 - Pokémon: The First Movie (co-production with Kids' WB, Nintendo and 4Kids Entertainment)
- January 19 - Batman Beyond and The Cat & Birdy Warnernoonie Pinky Brainy Big Cartoonie Show premiere on Kids' WB
- The Big Game XXVII: Sylvester vs. Tweety airs on Cartoon Network
- September 11
- Detention premieres on Kids' WB
- Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon airs its last broadcast
- September 18 - The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries begins airing its fifth and final season
Theme park happenings
- May 8 - Two Face: The Flip Side opens at Six Flags America.
- May 26 - Batman: The Ride opens at Six Flags Over Texas.
Live Shows
Video games
Home video releases
VHS & DVD releases
Direct-to-video releases
- December 21 - Wakko's Wish
Character Debuts
- March 19 - Anna Leonowens, King Mongkut, Louis Leonowens, Kralahome, Master Little, The Royal Children, Prince Chulalongkorn, Tuptim, Sir Edward Ramsay
- August 9 - Hogarth Hughes, The Iron Giant (character), Annie Hughes, Dean McCoppin, Kent Mansley, General Rogard
- September 11 - Shareena Wickett, Duncan Bubble, Jim Kim, Emmitt Roswell, Gug, Lemonjella and Orangejella LaBelle, Eugenia Kisskillya, Shelley Kelly


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Three Of The Biggest Concerns For Today's IPO Investor
We all know what the recent environment has been like in the Silicon Valley muddy fish bowl. LPs and non-traditional investors have funneled tons of money into the venture capital asset class and valuations have subsequently moved to record levels. Today, we're at a crossroad. Many companies are staying private at a point in their lifecycle where traditionally we'd expect to start seeing them move to the public side, yet the sense is that the current environment isn't conducive to that.
There's been a notion that tech stocks in particular are getting hammered recently, but that might be a bit overblown. If you look at the broad market, you'll notice the entire thing has tended to get washed together. That said, what we saw following the earnings releases of both LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) and Tableau (NYSE: DATA) last week has brought heightened concern to a wary market, and has led many to start questioning the incentive for private companies to go public.
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Let's take a look at three of the biggest concerns for today's skeptical public investor.
Top-line and bottom-line performance
We've seen consecutive quarters of declining organic earnings growth. With that, strategics have looked to M&A to bolster bottom lines. Strategics are able to overpay as they look to validate those inflated price tags in the future via both cost-savings and enhanced productivity that can translate to the top and bottom lines. This plays into the VC space in a couple ways. On the tech side, many of these companies don't have the revenue and earnings growth needed to induce someone to participate in an IPO in an uncertain environment. In this scenario, when investors look for liquidity, it can typically be a much easier process to move to a strategic, similar to what we've seen on the PE side. You might solidify a quicker close on that front, at a higher (and arguably undeserved) price, saving you the time and effort of floating on a public exchange. There's a well-founded argument about the collateral damage this behavior may have on the economy, but at the end of the day, executives have a fiduciary obligation to their respective shareholders and the higher price tag will likely come from a strategic at this point in time, not the public markets.
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What we saw with LinkedIn and Tableau recently sheds light on investor sentiment in a handful of ways. While both beat analyst expectations, they missed on guidance and revised lower. Simply put, most know the value of a stock is equal to the present value of its future cash flows, and if you're guiding lower, well, your present value is lower. The notion of paying an inflated price for a "growth" stock only really works when things are good. When markets get shaky, investors look to shed their most expensive holdings to raise cash and we see this across the board. We even saw Facebook and Google give up their post-earnings release gains, and they reported great results.
Moving back to the private side, we don't know what the financials look like, but if you're best-in-class, we think the market might actually help you out if you look to go public. Take a look at Atlassian (NASDAQ: TEAM)—while it has recently gotten hammered along with other stocks, it had a fairly impressive listing a couple months ago, able to not only increase the amount of shares it was issuing, but also to raise its expected price range and ultimately price at the high end of that range. On the flip side, if you're continuing to burn cash and fostering a massive plow back ratio to continue growing, you probably won't get much love in the public markets right now.
One last thing to consider is the type of market saturation your business is facing and whether or not you can adequately mitigate that. Take a look at GoPro. You cannot continue incrementally improving older versions of your product and expect units to keep making their way out the door. For single/couple-product, venture-backed companies, this will be a big challenge to overcome. In addition to a broader product mix, if you are looking for tech valuation multiples, you need a set of recurring revenues that can ultimately drive the lifetime value of your customer. For GoPro maybe that comes through a content service, but regardless, it needs to provide the cohesiveness and connection to its core products that can help continue penetration. To further amplify this example, think of UnderArmour—it's been active in the wearable space, acquiring a handful of companies, yet the end goal is to use that vertical as a medium to ultimately drive consumers to its apparel, not to pivot into the tech business.
Tableau faced issues with sustaining the growth rates in its license revenues. It added new customers but faced challenges growing licenses across its existing customer base, causing some second thinking about its LTV growth potential. With the multiples on these types of stocks trading at astronomical levels, any hiccups force massive sell-offs in this environment, and if you're a private company potentially facing similar issues, you're looking at that sell-off and cringing.
What we're getting at is that while many might still call for these private companies to go public, clearly the incentive isn't there. Mark-to-market accounting rules certainly move these private company valuations lower as their public comps get hit, but their ability to maneuver, invest and shape their businesses is still much easier in the private realm. If you're facing some of the issues described above, an IPO isn't best for you, yet if you've continued to address some of those issues, you might fend better than you think going to market.
Three Of The Biggest Concerns For Today's IPO Investor by Nizar Tarhuni, PitchBook
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
How big are the 2.5 IDE HDD Market?
In the beginning, my point of view on 2.5 HDD market was not great. Because most of 2.5 HDD are already build into laptop, but slowly I found out there is a lot of 2.5 HDD users such as doctors, lawyers and college students that need something that is portable, light weight and compact size.
Other then the Market that I mention above, who else you think needs a 2.5 HDD compact version of external enclosure with a internal housing that replace floppy drive?
ICY DOCK MB448UR is an internal device that replaces floppy drive, with a push of a bottom it will pop out a tray in which become a portable 2.5 HDD drive with USB 2.0 build-in interface connection.
What does the general consumer think about this new item that is ready to be launch by ICY DOCK?
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- AnonymousOctober 31, 2006 at 1:39 PM
I'm sorry, but as cool as this sounds, and it does sound cool, in order to be like a floppy it would have to have widespread use. Now, doesn't the Shuttle do basically the same thing?ReplyDelete
I guess considering that no one uses floppys any more…
Also, floppys were very inexpensive. Considering that 2.5" HDD are very, very expensive, it's not like your going to have 10 or so lying around.
Just my take.
- AnonymousNovember 1, 2006 at 8:01 AM
I think he's saying "like a floppy" because you sould copy files to and from it while it's on your desktop, and then when you need to go pop it out and take it with you for use with your notebook.ReplyDelete
Although, given that nearly all computers have USB ports it really is portable/usable on other computers too...
Seems like a pretty nice idea to me.
- AnonymousNovember 2, 2006 at 3:50 PM
it's nice tool for people who repair or retrive data from laptop. It is not that useful for most people who just use laptop but don't know much about techs. I like this idea, but I am not sure if ide laptop hd enclosure is a great idea as it seems like laptops are also moving toward sataReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 29, 2006 at 3:03 AM
I work in a sector of the storage industry for a very large corporation, we are well underway converting every model in our server and blade range to common-caddied SAS/SATA 2.5" hotswap backplanes. The industry is very committed to moving all but the largest storage arrays to 2.5" SFF drives due to the higher physical densities that can be acheived and the lower power consumption.ReplyDelete
For the consumer this translates into larger volumes being manufactured which will bring more drives at lower prices to the low-end as well (this is already happening in the SFF PC market). 2.5" is definitely the future.
How about a dual or quad 2.5" array unit that fits into a single 5.25" bay in an ordinary PC? Certainly I'd love caddied 2.5" drives in the (unused) external 3.5" slots in my PC. Add USB too and I can take it anywhere - truly portable data!
- AnonymousDecember 17, 2006 at 9:03 PM
This is a great device and I look forward to placing one in each of my systems, I know quite a few people who would endear it, enthusiast and otherwise. A couple of groups that would endear this prod are Web developers, coders, graphics designers, and photographers. And those are just to name a few...ReplyDelete
This is definitely a stepping place for more though I agree, lets touch sata with it too. I think there should be trays for BOTH...
- AnonymousDecember 21, 2006 at 5:34 PM
first of all, forget about floppies. the people that need them have already purchased USB floppy.ReplyDelete
secondly, make a 2.5" external version of your 3.5" version, but focus on SATA, no more ATA-6. make it hotswappable and make it compatible with one of your desktop lines. some of the mini-sas models on server-end do like having hotswappable capability. you guys are cool in that you're bringing server-level products to consumers =^).
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2007 at 4:16 AM
Another perspective... I'm building a Lian Li PC-300VA microATX case with your MB453SPF multi-bay and one of these MB448AR units. I'll run 3 raptors in the multi-bay, one OS, one Apps, one data (I'm a photographer). I'll use Windows Image to make backups of the OS and Apps drives onto a removable bootable 2.5" 7200RPM 100GB IDE drive. If the OS or App drives crash I can insert the 2.5" in the MB448AR and I'll have "fast laptop" HD performance I can run "as is" or I can restore either Raptor image. Also, I can then make another removable, perhaps with a slower but larger drive as my data/backup drive. As laptop hard drives get larger, this will be very attractive possibility.ReplyDelete
I have found a few places that are selling the MB448AR but I don't see where one can buy additional drive carriers. ???
2.5" hd's are just getting started!ReplyDelete
although SAS and not SATA, the newly released Savvio 15k 2.5" drive is a harbringer for thigns to come. SATA will start seeing exposure because of AMD's mini-DTX platform, which will be used in a coming breed of new small workstations. fujitsu is releasing 300GB drives "real soon now" (q1 2007), and 500GB is around the corner. with that kind of storage density, having three drives inside a very small slim computer would make for some truly outstanding performance.
i think the size would make it ideal for your drive bay products (the current 3x5.25 slot 5-drive bay). a slotted 2.5" bay could fit probably one or two more drives while taking up considerably less vertical.
its amazing seeing this community blog: i aplaud your open customer interaction. it is seriously strengthening my consideration of your products. my main reservation as i'm placing this order is that the current 5-drive 3x3.5" bay unit only has one SATA connector for the five drives -- a potentially serious bandwidth choke! the WD5000YS2 will quite probably saturate that.


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"I still need you": The detention and deportation of californian parents
"I still need you": The detention and deportation of californian parents
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On the morning of February 28, 2017 Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez pulled up to Academia
Avance, a small charter academy in Highland Park, CA, to drop off two of his daughters at
school. After dropping off one daughter, Romulo was pulled over by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, who were unaware that 13-year-old Fatima was still in the backseat. Over uncontrollable sobs, Fatima filmed the arrest of her father with her cellphone.
Avelica-Gonzalez had a DUI charge from eight years ago and he was once charged with driving without a license. He also purchased a used car nearly 20 years ago, without knowing it bore a registration sticker that had been stolen from another car, The Intercept reported. He has lived in the United States for 25 years, and is the father of four US citizen children.
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"We're not supposed to be separated from our parents," Brenda Avelica, Romulo Avelica- Gonzalez's 24-year old daughter told The Intercept. "Now it's, like, where you at. I still need you."
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