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Tropical Pool Home with Tiki Hut & 60' Dock in Marathon
- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 6
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed yes
- type House
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$ 1,299 - $ 1,599 / week
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Lush Tropical Pool Home with view of th e Gulf of Mexico and incredible sunsets. Recently revnovated octagonal shaped home with wide open water views from every window. Newly furnished comfortable interior with all the ammenities you'd expect. Brick pavers surround lush landscaping and palm trees - sit under the large tiki hut by a crystal blue pool and take in the sunset. Outdoor dining set on the deck and lots of lounging furniture for you to relax and enjoy! This home has a large open floor plan with vaulted ceilings and over 1425 square feet of living space. The master suite has a king sized bed and the guest bedroom has a queen with a pull out sofa in the living room. Full kitchen with stainless appliances and Corian countertops. Dockage can accommodate a 50 foot boat with over 60' of deepwater dockage.
Want to cool off, take a dip in the home's large private pool or take a dip in this crystal clear lagoon free of the noise and congestion you'd encounter on many of the canal homes. Or grap our double ocean kayaks, your fins and a mask and explore the crystal clear Gulf just a few paddles from this home.
We provide kayaks and beach cruiser bikes to guests at no additional charge. These toys will come in handy, as this is not your typical canal home that are rented throughout Marathon. This one has open water, privacy and an un-obstructed view. This property overlooks a large water cove, deepest point is 25 feet. So much marine life to enjoy right from the dock, including tarpon tailing, manatees, rays and porpoises and snapper. Beyond the cove is the Gulf of Mexico, to the east is Vaca Cut ocean access and to the west 7 mile bridge ocean access. Bring your boats and jet skis because there is also plenty of room for them along with your vehicles and trailers.
Just bring your boat, dive gear & tackle! If you don't have a boat, we'll guide you to boat rentals and they can deliver one right to your dock.
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house rental amenities
Outdoors: Large private pool, waterfront Tiki-Hut, 60' of deepwater dockage, 2-person ocean kayak, new beach cruiser bikes, fish cleaning table, fish/bait freezer, gas grill, patio table/chairs and lounge chairs
Indoors: Furnished with new everything in January 2012 - New appliances, furntiture, bedding/linens, and a full assortment of cookware right down to the blender. High-speed wireless internet, flat screen TVs complete with premium cable. Wireless phones with free long distance service
activities and attractions in Marathon The Florida Keys
Fishing: deep sea, bridge, kayak or dock, kayaking, snorkeling and diving (on premise or tours), lobstering, Sombrero beach 1 mile away, Bahia Honda, Key West or John Pennecamp day trips, dozens of bars and restaurants within a few miles, boat rental, aerial tour of The Keys
vacation rental rates
Weekly Miimum Rentals, Saturday to Saturday
Most Summer and Winter weeks $1599
Discounted Off-Season Weeks (Sept. 6 - Dec. 20) $1299
Thanksgiving Week: 1499
Christmas, New Year, Spring Break Weeks $1899
Lobster Mini/Open Weeks - $2099
Add to all rates: $170 cleaning fee plus 12.5% lodging tax
Optional Pool Heat: $165/week, $575/month
Optional Pet Fee: $75-$100
Joe Curley 4409155198
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Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center
Top things to do in Marathon
- Fishing, Diving, Snorkeling
- Sombrero Beach
- Great Seafood, Bars and Restaurants
- Boating and Sailing
- Relaxing an d Unwinding
Top things to do on a budget
- Kayaking
- Snorkeling
- Dock, Kayak or Bridge Fishing
- Swimming
- Relaxing by the Pool & Tiki Hut
Top things to do with a family
- Kayaking
- Fishing
- Key West or John Pennecamp Day Trip
- Sombrero Beach or Bahia Honda
- Snorkeling
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Note: The Rankin House is undergoing a restoration to return the home to its 1830s appearance. During the restoration, the John Rankin House Historic Site will offer unique restoration and history tours that will showcase the complex restoration work in process as well as tell the story of the Rankin Family and how they helped over 2,000 slaves escape on the Underground Railroad.
The Restoration and History Tours run now through October during regular hours. Tours are thirty minutes long and begin every half hour starting 30 minutes after opening and ending 30 minutes before closing:
Visitors are asked to wear close-toed shoes. Because restoration work changes daily, there may be times that a particular area or the entire house will be closed. Tours will still go on, continuing to focus on the Rankins and the exterior of the building. Additionally, furnishings have been removed to accommodate the work. Visitors can still tour the house (when available) and the grounds.
Admission: $4/adult; $2/child (6-18); OHS Members/FREE. The Rankin House is located at 6152 Rankin Hill Rd., Ripley, Ohio, 45167. For more information visit, www.ohiohistory.org/rankin or call 800.752.2705.
Rankin House Needs Your Help. OHS is currently in the process of restoring the interior of the 1829 Rankin House in Ripley, Ohio, and we have found evidence that at least two of the first floor rooms originally had decorative stenciling applied to the walls. Unfortunately, the evidence of what the full design was is sparse and creating a design for an entire room could quickly cross over into conjecture. Our hope is to locate extant examples of stenciling in the vicinity or a long the same migration route as the Rankin House (the Ohio River and Zane's Trace). Ideally, we would find a house stenciled by the same artist or"school" of artists, with stenciling layouts that use the same couple of patterns we have at the Rankin House. Any information or leads you might have would be greatly appreciated! For more information, including pictures of what was found at the Rankin House, or to share any information you have, please contact Chris Buchanan at email@example.com or419-496-7243.
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Because of restoration work the site will be completely closed in December and January. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Ripley Heritage, Inc. P.O. Box 176 Ripley, OH 45167
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From Blaine Basin, a glance at the north face of Mount Sneffels will reveal a couloir bisecting the right hand side of the face. Climb up the couloir for over 1000 feet. It averages 40 degrees, but steepens to 50 degrees where the couloir necks down a bit, about half way up. At the halfway point, the couloir splits at a small rock pillar. Take the dogleg to the left. At the top of the couloir, either traverse east to connect to the final few feet of the normal route (yucky) or go straight up a short band of rocks and come out directly onto the summer (better). A rope may be handy for this section, as a slip could have dire consequences, but the climbing is not too hard.
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Lakefront,Great Fishing! NEW Rec Room w/pool table, pinball in Beech Hill Pond
- bedrooms 5
- baths 3½
- sleeps 14
- pool no
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed no
- type House
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Happy Days Lodge
250 Feet of Water Frontage!!! Lodge is just 50ft from the shore...
- Absolutely Gorgeous, Panoramic Views from the lodge, deck or covered porch!!!
- Unique open floor plan with extra large windows and sliding glass doors allow for exceptional views of the lake, and easy access between inside and out!
- AWESOME RECREATION ROOM: Offers a large rec room with pool table, foosball, pinball, darts, living area with futon, easy chair and gas fireplace...PLUS 2 more bedrooms, 2 more bathrooms and washer and dryer.
- Lots of Room to enjoy family and friends...great for holidays, reunions, special celebrations...
- Four Season Enjoyment...something for everyone!
SPRING and SUMMER:
Wake to the call of the loons and drink your coffee on the deck just steps from the shores of Beech Hill Pond. Although it's name says "Pond", Beech Hill is actually a beautiful, crystal clear 4 1/2 mile long, 1 mile wide spring-fed lake.
Enjoy two private docks and spend your days swimming, fishing, boating (canoe/kayak rentals can be delivered right to the cabin), or simply reading in the hammock. Gaze across the lake to the surrounding hills for breathtaking views.
The open deck and covered porch provide guests options for sunbathing, star-gazing or enjoying a shady spot to enjoy the view, or relaxing in the hot tub!
There is a large, flat, sand area at the water's edge, great for relaxing in the sun or playing beach games. Picnic tables and chairs provide plenty of lakeside seating.
The fire pit at the water's edge is perfect for end of the day enjoyment...and firewood is provided!
Maine's warm fall days and cool, crisp nights are perfect for fishing, hunting, biking, hiking, sightseeing, and reveling in spectacular fall foliage.
The Main Floor: The cabin was completely renovated in 2003 and now boasts a huge, custom-pine kitchen complete with a breakfast bar and all-new appliances, including dishwasher, garbage disposal and trash compactor.
The living area has two couches, an easy chair and TV. This large room also has a huge table, with seating for 12-14! There's ample room to eat, play board games, do puzzles, play cards...all with great views of the lake. (Many board games, puzzles, cards, videos are provided for your entertainment). Two sliding glass doors provide access to the covered porch with hot tub and connecting open deck, both with lots of seating and panoramic views!
The Bedrooms: The master bedroom has a queen-size bed and master bath with shower.
The two other bedrooms on the main floor each have full-size beds, and each have a separate, sliding-glass door onto a covered deck with spectacular
views of the lake.
Downstairs: A large rec room with pool table, foosball, pinball, darts, extra refrigerator, gas fireplace plus 2 more bedrooms, 2 more bathrooms and washer and dryer.
Lots of Room to enjoy family and friends...great for holidays, reunions, special celebrations...Come and enjoy!!
house rental amenities
- Deck and Covered Porch with hot tub, both overlooking the lake.
- Large open area at water's edge, with chairs, fire pit (wood provided) and 2 picnic tables.
- Gas Grill and 2 more picnic tables just outside the lodge.
- Plenty of parking.
- Private Dock.
- Less than 1 mile from public boat lauch.
- Wireless Internet Access, Phone, Satellite TV, VCR, DVD and CD player and Radio.
- Full Kitchen with Microwave, Dishwasher, Garbage Disposal, Trash
Compactor, Refrigerator, and Cooking Utensils provided.
- Extra towels and bed linens provided.
- Washer and dryer, large rec room with pool table, pinball machines, foosball, darts, extra fridge, 2 additional bedrooms and 2 additional bathrooms.
For Families Traveling with Small Children, 'Happy Days' is equipped with a high chair and Pack N Play, so you can travel a bit lighter!
No Pets and No Smoking
activities and attractions in Beech Hill Pond Maine
Plan your Maine lakeside vacation to be as quiet and relaxing or as
active and full of adventure as you like:
Enjoy all that the lake has to offer, from swimming, fishing and
boating...to enjoying nature while soaking up the sun and fresh
Maine air.
Plan to take a thirty-minute drive to Mount Desert Island, home of
world-famous Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor. Go hiking, biking,
sightseeing, whale-watching, shopping, and much more.
Discover all that this unique area has to offer. Located in the heart of down-
east Maine, the cabin is also conveniently located thirty minutes
from both Bangor International and Bar Harbor Airports.
vacation rental rates
Current 2014 Availability and Rates:
August 17-24, 2014.................$3,850
August 24-31, 2014.................$2,950
August 31-September 7, 2014
Labor Day Week..................$1,950
(Sunday to Sunday)
Fall: September & October ..............$1,450/week
(Flexible arrival/departure-$1,200 minimum)
Winter: Contact Owner
*We also offer the option of renting just 1-3 bedrooms during the Spring and Fall for a discounted rate, if you don't need all 5 bedrooms!
$100/week discount for renting more than one week
Additional Fees: Maine's8% Lodging Tax
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Ph.D., Finance, University of Mississippi, 2008 Emphasis: Econometrics & Micoeconomic Theory
MS, Economics, Utah State University, 2005 Emphasis: Economic Theory
BS, Finance, Utah State University, 2002 Minor: Economics
Dr. Benjamin Blau graduated with honors and received a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Mississippi in June 2008 after receiving both his Bachelors Degree (Finance, 2002) and Masters Degree (Economics, 2005) here at Utah State University. Ben is passionate about both teaching and research. Before joining the faculty at USU, he taught at the Marriott School at Brigham Young University and was recognized for "Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching" in 2009. In 2012, he was recognized as the Huntsman School Teacher of the Year. Ben's research interests revolve around the efficiency of financial markets, the effects of regulation, and the flow of information into asset prices. He has published approximately 25 articles in top financial economics journals such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Risk and Insurance, and the Journal of Empirical Finance. His article titled, "Signaling, Free Cash Flow, and Nonmonotonic Dividends" won the Outstanding Paper award in the Financial Review in 2010. Recently, another one of Ben's article titled, "Trade Size and Price Clustering: The Case of Short Sales and the Suspension of Price Tests" won the 2012 Outstanding Article award at the Journal of Financial Research. His research has also been highlighted by several media outlets, such as SmartMoney Magazine, Reuters, and the Chicago Tribune.
Research Finds Correlation Between Political Connections, Federal Reserve Loans (The Huntsman Post - February 2014)
My Favorite Professor: Professor Ben Blau Connects Finance to Real World News of the Day (Huntsman Alumni Magazine - Fall 2012)
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Feb. 14 isn't just Valentine's Day. It's also National Donor Day, and the gift of organ donation gave an Edina a second chance at life -- and led him to love.
In 2005, a then-17-year-old Connor Rabinowitz was an aspiring baseball player waiting for a heart transplant. He was being recruited by Division One schools when doctors told him he would die without a donor.
Doctors installed a 3-pound metal pump in Rabinowitz's chest to do what his heart could not while he waited.
Kellen Roberts was a Seattle native and a free spirit who drove his red truck all over the country and lived life spontaneously on his own terms. On March 7, 2005, Roberts was on a trip in Sioux Falls, S.D., when he hit his head in a freak accident and died far from home -- but not far from Minneapolis.
He was an organ donor, and also a match for Rabinowitz -- but when he received the donor heart, no one knew such a strong bond would bloom from that generosity.
Rabinowitz was so grateful he wrote a letter to Roberts' mother, saying he simply needed to know more about the man who saved his life.
"I saw Kellen's picture, and it was, you know, very mixed emotions," Rabinowitz said. "I was so grateful but so … I'd give it back in a second."
Doctors may describe the heart as a pump or an organ without mentioning love, but every heartbeat inside Rabinowitz resonates with a special significance.
A year after the transplant. Rabinowitz traveled to Seattle to visit the Roberts family. That's where a new use for his new heart came into light almost immediately.
"He hugged my mother first and we were kind of staring at each other over my mom's shoulder," said Roberts' sister, Erin.
Since that first meeting, she has helped Rabinowitz come to terms with the fact that he is alive although another is not by sewing heart-shaped pillows as a reminder of how fragile life can be. Although she usually gives the things she makes away, she keeps those tokens in a jar for the two of them because the heartbeat she loves dearly belonged once to her own flesh and blood.
"It's priceless to know that a part of something you loved so much can continue on -- but not just continue on existence, but be the life force of someone else, be the thing that is keeping him alive," she said. "To know someone I loved can do that, I don't know there's any words to describe that."
Rabinowitz would visit every year until it became too much to bear. Eventually, he told her how he felt and the two now live together.
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The Farm could bring something else to Zionsville besides a new grocer, retail and office space – more money.
The Farm, a proposed mixed-use development on the southwest corner of Michigan Road and Sycamore Street, could provide up to $349,000 to the town per year and up to $842,000 to Zionsville Community Schools. Chad and Steve Pittman, whose family owns the property, submitted a fiscal impact study to the town along with its project filing Tuesday, May 14. The project will go before the plan commission during its Monday, June 17, meeting. The commission will give a recommendation to the town council to approve or deny rezoning related to the project.
Chad Pittman said the project would be a needed boost to the town and schools' budgets.
"My feel is that over the last several years, the town and schools have been trying to survive in the new tax caps and diversify the tax base," he said. "This is a quality project that will provide quality revenues that will add to the whole of the community."
According to the Phoenix-based Applied Economics impact study, the development could include 400 multi-family units and six single family estate homes in addition to 122,000 square feet of retail space, 20,000 square feet of restaurant space and 40,000 square feet of general office space. The study looks at both options of having rented and owner-occupied multi-family residences. If rented, the residences would be capped at 2 percent property tax rate; the rate would be capped at 1 percent if owned.
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-Cruise the Indian Ocean
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-Malé, Maldives
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-Richards Bay, South Africa
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-Cape Town, South Africa
Zanzibar, part of the archipelago sometimes referred to as the "Spice Islands," has for centuries a been crossroads of culture, a melting pot of influences where Africa, India and Arabia meet. Visitors can savor this confluence in its food and delight in the variety of unique offerings for sale at its bazaars. The major attraction is Stone Town, with its whitewashed, coral-rag houses, quaint shops, bazaars, mosques, courtyards and squares; although the pristine white-sand beaches offer just the spot for a quiet moment.
The following Shore Excursions are available for this port on this cruise, and may be reserved beginning 240 days before the cruise begins for guests receiving Concierge amenities, and 180 days before the cruise begins for all other guests. Guests receiving Concierge amenities will receive a 5% discount off of the prices shown below for Regent Choice tours.
Explore Zanzibar's storied past during this scenic and informative walking tour of the Stone Town.
Depart the pier for the drive to the City Market, or Sultana Market. Upon arrival, you will experience the hustle and bustle of morning activities. You will also see and smell the tropical fruit and freshly ground spices for sale.
From here, you will proceed to the Anglican Church. Built in 1874 by Bishop Steer on the site of the Great Slave Market, the Anglican Church was once the hub of slave trade in East Africa. At its peak, up to 60,000 slaves passed through the market each year. During your guided tour, you will visit the underground chambers where slaves were once held before being sold on the market. You will then drive to the House of Wonders National Museum, a former ceremonial palace in which the relics of the Sultans and early explorers such as Dr. David Livingstone are displayed.
From the Old Fort, you will then be escorted on a walking tour through narrow streets of Stone Town. Along the way, you will pass the Roman Catholic church, see some extraordinary Zanzibar doors and catch a glimpse of typical Zanzibar life.
Please note: This tour involves approximately 3 hours of easy walking, and about 100 steps. Guests are encouraged to wear proper attire covering the shoulders prior to entering the churches.
Terms & Conditions:
Free Unlimited Shore Excursions are for full fare guests only, capacity controlled and subject to availability. Requested excursions may not be available at time of booking. Supplement will apply on Regent Choice excursions (indicated by the above) and excludes Private Arrangements and all Adventures Ashore programs. In order to ensure quality guides and sufficient transportation, we must provide the tour operator with passenger counts at least 36 hours in advance. Therefore no refunds will be given within 36 hours of tour departure for cancellations or no-shows. Please pay special attention to scheduling and tour lengths when booking your shore excursions. In many cases, it is not possible to participate in more than one tour per day in a given port. Tour Departure times are subject to change so please reference your actual tour ticket for the correct departure time. Tours operate rain or shine. Minor children under 18 years of age must be accompanied by a an adult parent or guardian on all shore excursions. Tours require minimum participation levels to operate so please sign up as early as possible. Tours may be cancelled if minimum participation levels are not met. Prices, Itineraries and General Information shore excursion prices are subject to change to meet unexpected cost increases or currency fluctuations. Please consult the Destination Services Desk onboard for information. During local or national holidays, access to certain facilities (such as museums or archaeological sites) may be limited or denied. In such instances, adjustments will be made to minimize inconvenience to guests. Some tours have limited availability. Tours are generally available for reserving 180 days prior to the beginning of a cruise. Please sign up early to avoid disappointment. Regent Seven Seas Cruises reserves the right to require guests to complete a liability waiver for select shore excursions. For more information, please visit the Destination Services Desk onboard.
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LeBron James shrugged off a poor start to get 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, Ray Allen hit a 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds to play to force overtime and the Miami Heat staved off elimination with a 103-100 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night.
James missed nine of his first 12 shots, but scored 16 points in the fourth to rally the Heat from a 10-point deficit. The Heat trailed 94-89 with 28 seconds to play, but James hit a 3 with 20 seconds to go and Allen drilled another to tie it.
James' layup with 1:43 to play in overtime gave the Heat a 101-100 lead, and Allen added two free throws to force Game 7, which is on Thursday night in Miami.
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A new report coincides with a Channel 4 documentary, shining a spotlight on the challenges faced by musicians.
More than €5m has been awarded to UK organisations to lead collaborative projects by the European Commission's revamped funding programme.
The contribution that the cultural sector can make to the planning, design and animation of the public realm and architecture should be reinforced, according to an independent review commissioned by the Culture Minister.
Commissions fail to provide a living for most composers, who earn on average less than £4k a year for this work.
Festival-going is on the increase, though cinema and reading for pleasure are still the most popular forms of cultural engagement.
Audiences draw limited distinctions between subsidised, commercial and amateur theatre and dance performances, according to new research investigating perceptions of cultural value.
A pioneering collaboration between the city, performers, the MU and local businesses has led to new policy and guidelines aimed at making the most of street entertainment.
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Editor's Note – Be sure to check out the retesting of this drive to show the numbers it should have gotten in this review: Re-Lighting Patriot's Inferno.
"A solid state drive (SSD) is the greatest single upgrade you can perform on a modern computer." At least that's what we've been told at one time or another. SSDs have come a very long way since their first release. They're more reliable, larger and most importantly, their cost-per-gigabyte has come down. Today, we'll see if that modern day adage is true as we examine Patriot's high performance Inferno SSD.
Introduction & First Look
Sporting a controller from now-popular SandForce (model # SF-1222), this unit is marketed as a 100GB model. Due to its controller, that means it is really a 128GB drive with ~28% of its NAND space allocated for spare area. This is borne out when you first format the drive and its total available capacity is approximately 93.1GB. This excellent article at Anandtech has a detailed explanation of what purpose this serves, as well as the step forward SandForce has made with some drives.
SandForce and Spare Area
When you write data to a SandForce drive the controller attempts to represent the data you're writing with fewer bits. What's stored isn't your exact data, but a smaller representation of it plus a hash or index so that you can recover the original data. This results in potentially lower write amplification, but greater reliance on the controller and firmware.
SandForce stores some amount of redundant information in order to deal with decreasing reliability of smaller geometry NAND. The redundant data and index/hash of the actual data being written are stored in the drive's spare area.
While most consumer SSDs dedicate around 7% of their total capacity to spare area, SandForce's drives have required ~28% until now. As I mentioned at the end of last year however, SandForce would be bringing a more consumer focused firmware to market after the SF-1200 with only 13% over provisioning. (Source.)
What you get in return, in theory, is higher performance and more reliability out of your drive. Patriot very recently announced the availability of 60GB, 120GB and 240GB models of their Inferno drives, so it would seem they will be rolling out the new SandForce firmware with the mentioned 13% over provisioning in the near future. Let's see what Patriot says this drive is capable of.
- Maximum sequential read speed 285MB/s
- Maximum sequential write speed 275MB/s
- SandForce SF-1222 SSD processor paired with qualified MLC NAND flash for best performance, value and reliability
- Includes 3.5″ bracket
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It sure sounds like a top performer. Patriot likes to talk about their warranty (indeed, they did so in a recent issue of Computer Power User), and it is definitely impressive at five years. By comparison, Corsair, Intel, Kingston and OCZ all offer three years.
The Inferno comes in a well put together package. There's the outer cardboard box and the hard plastic container to protect the drive in transit. It will need a bit of padding of course, but should survive a journey quite easily.
Pulling the drive out of its case, we are met with a standard 2.5″ SSD size, but this drive is far from typical. The red case and even the sticker on it present the drive very well. Should the performance be up to par (we'll get to that in a bit), this would be a superb display piece in a red-themed build.
Installation is straightforward; it is a hard drive after all, they can only be so difficult. If your case has an SSD mounting mechanism as a lot of newer cases do, you can go that route. If not, Patriot does include a handy mounting plate that will adapt it to a standard 3.5″ drive bay.
Take note if you have a tool-free device for mounting your hard drives – it may not work. I tried the 3.5″ adapter in both an NZXT Tempest EVO and a Cooler Master CM690 II Advanced. While NZXT's mounting brackets worked fine, the Cooler Master bracket did not mesh with the adapter. The pins in the tool-free mount were too large to fit in the screw holes on the adapter, which pushed them out and didn't allow them to slide back into place. The fix is easy though – just remove the tool-free mounts and replace them with screws. Or, if you have the CM690 II Advanced, use the correct bracket that's tailored to fit an SSD. It does require screws though.
Opening the drive, you can see the Sandforce SF-1222 chip surrounded by the array of MLC NAND flash it controls.
Looking a little closer, we have the SF-1222 itself.
Enough looking around though, let's get down to the brass tacks!
We used several benchmarks to measure drive performance. Legit Reviews uses a benchmark suite similar to what you'll see in this review. In the analysis of this drive's performance, I'm going to be basing a lot of my comments on how other drives performed in their excellent review of the Corsair Force Series 120G. It's a good read and shows a nice swath of the current crop of SSDs on the market.
The Test System
|AMD Phenom II 965 BE @ 3.4GHz
|ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
|AMD 890FX Northbridge /
AMD SB850 Southbridge (with SATA 6Gbps native)
|G.Skill Trident DDR3-2000 (running at DDR3-1600)
|Windows 7 x64
To start with, let's have a look at the HDTune benchmark, which tests read & write speeds across the entire drive, showing the minimum, maximum and average read/write speeds.
These tests were run four different times, under different conditions. The first was on the bare, just opened, blank drive. After that, the drive was filled with random data and the tests were run again. Then it was formatted to see how it would recover and finally the test was run one last time after installing Windows 7.
Read speeds were tested with four data sizes, 4KB, 64KB, 2MB and 8MB. The data labels shown correspond to the average figure.
Before getting to the numbers, there is an important point to make here. SandForce does not appear to have any sort of application currently to manually TRIM one of their drives like Indilinx and Intel do. Neither of those work on a SandForce drive (I tried). I asked Patriot and they have no application to supply that will do so. With this in mind, I would strongly suggest only using this or any SandForce based drive with an OS that supports TRIM, at least until they do come out with an application like that. These are limited to Windows 7 or any Linux distro that uses kernel 2.6.33 or later.
HDTune Read Benchmarks
As you can see, the drive is capable of some impressive numbers. Strongest average read speeds for all of the benches occurred on the completely blank drive (which stands to reason), and these were:
|Maximum Read
Of course, the reason all of those were run was to see how the drive compared under different conditions. Here are all of the average reads compared against one another.
So, while the drive did suffer a little bit of performance loss when full of random data (as expected), it gets that performance right back after a good formatting. The results were so close the blank and formatted lines are completely overlapping. Performance goes down a little bit when an OS and complement of programs are installed (approximately 35GB of space was used for the install and accompanying programs), but not by very much at all.
HD Tune Write Benchmarks
There are two deficiencies when benching writes with HD Tune. First, it won't test 4KB writes for some reason; it crashed the program each time. Second, since it tests writes across the whole drive, it's not an option to test with an OS installed. That said, it's still a solid metric for the rest of the sizes tested and for seeing how the drive copes with the random data. Here is how it performed under each of the three conditions.
Combining the average numbers, we come up with this:
So, as expected it lost a little bit after being filled with random data, but gained it back after a format. Even so, the speed lost was rather minimal, so score one for the Inferno!
Since part of our goal is to explore how much of a difference an SSD upgrade would make, for the next benchmarks I'm going to include a result from a several-years-old Western Digital Caviar 160GB HDD underneath the SSD bench.
HD Tach
HD Tach is as much of a test of the drive itself as you can get, separating it as much as possible from the surrounding hardware and software environment.
According to their homepage, "HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible."
Our version of HD Tach doesn't show write speeds, a fact which we hope to remedy by the next review.
With an average read of 241.2MB/s and a burst speed of 240.3MB/s, the drive definitely shows off some of its muscle here. The dip you see was consistent through multiple runs, as were the results, and seems to just be a quirk of the drive. In this test, the Inferno is a very strong performer and among the top of the pack.
By comparison, the poor HDD maxes out at about 65MB/s and goes down from there.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
An oldie, but a goodie, ATTO does a good job of showing how a drive will perform from a tiny data block (a mere .5KB) to a larger one (8MB). It tests both read and write speeds and lists the results in bytes/second.
This drive, like many SSDs shows greater performance once you pass the 64KB mark. Above that, results hovered right around 250MB/s write speeds and 243MB/s read speeds. These aren't king-of-the-hill numbers, but neither are they anywhere near the bottom of the SSD offerings out right now. Compared to other SandForce SF1200-based drives though, they seem to be lagging a little behind.
Our HDD, while maxing out a little earlier than the SSD at 32K, continues to lag way behind at about 58MB/s read and write speeds.
CrystalDiskMark shows how a drive performs under various conditions, with the default configuration testing how it copes with random data.
Not horrible numbers, but not awe-inspiring either. As a drive in your system, it will still fly, but synthetically benching the sequential read results with random data are just not pretty with this bench. I fear the competition will aim a little water at the Inferno when looking at this metric. On the bright side, sequential writes and strong 4K performance make it look a whole lot better.
After looking at that, you were expecting better sequential numbers, weren't you? Well, never fear, here they are:
When using CrystalDiskMark, you can select options for the bench to measure not random data, but all 0′s and all 1′s as well. When not faced with random data, the Inferno blazes on like it's nobody's business.
The HDD? The Inferno left it smoldering on the side of the road a long time ago.
AS SSD Benchmark
AS SSD is another great tool for measuring numbers with random data. The first screenshot shows the bench as measured in MB/s and the second as measured in iops (16MB was run, but the was box un-ticked accidentally after the run).
Yet again, the Inferno's sequential numbers aren't that great. It does well for itself and out-performs a lot of other drives, but you won't see it setting any sequential read / write records. Fortunately, just like CrystalDiskMark, this drive shows stronger 4KB performance than many of its contemporaries, putting it right back at the top of the pack. So AS SSD is a mixed bag – great 4K performance, excellent access times but not so great sequential reads and writes.
Thankfully for the end user, 4KB random reads and writes are one of the strongest indicators of real-world performance out there and that's a place where this drive shines.
Sigh; that poor, poor HDD. It's thinking of seizing up out of humiliation.
Boot Time
Whew, I almost forgot. We're supposed to see if a solid state drive really is "the greatest single upgrade you can perform on a modern computer." To quantify that in a real-world situation, I measured the boot time. This system had a 160GB plain-jane Western Digital caviar 7,200RPM hard drive. It booted in…
…yep, 53.945 seconds. Yawn!
Then I took literally the same OS installation and just cloned it over to the new drive. After completing that, I ran the boot timer again and it booted up in (drum roll please)…
…13.945 seconds. Wow, what a difference! Amazing really. That's 25.8% of the original boot time, meaning it takes four times as long to boot into windows with the HDD as opposed to the Inferno.
Since that time, I've used this SSD for a little while to see how it 'feels' in daily operation. Night and day would be the best description of coming from a standard platter HDD. I have seen the light and it is good. Very good. The not-so-old adage that an SSD is the best upgrade you can perform on a modern system (that only has a platter HDD) is absolutely correct.
Final Thoughts & Conclusion
This was the first SSD I've reviewed. It was a fun review to complete because, while I had an idea of what to expect, reading can only get you so far. To be blunt, I'm enamored with SSDs now and have been stricken, nay, branded by the Inferno's fire (proverbially, of course).
Not everything was peachy in Patriot-land though and like all products, it does have at least one drawback – synthetically benched sequential reads & writes of random data (say that ten times fast). If you plan on using an SSD as a storage drive, with other SSDs that you want to transfer lots of data to and from, perhaps this isn't the drive for you.
But the 4KB performance is right up there with the best SSDs on the market right now. That's where the rubber meets the road for most users. Unless you meet the above criteria, this drive has your name written all over it. I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention Patriot's superb warranty again – no less than five years.
Right now, this drive retails at Newegg for $329.00 shipped. Tack on the current $30.00 mail-in-rebate and you're looking at $299.00. No, it's not cheap. Not by a long shot. But all things are relative. It's closest 100G competitor (at least in specifications) listed at Newegg right now is the OCZ Vertex 2 and it lists at $345.00 after rebate. With the OCZ though, you have to pay for shipping and you get two years' less warranty. G.Skill's Pheonix is about $20.00 less than the Inferno, but you lose a little (specified) speed and you lose the same two years off the warranty.
There's a lot to love about the Inferno. If you're in the market for an SSD, you know how expensive they are. While its benched sequential numbers aren't the greatest, it will serve you very well as an OS/Programs drive and do it for at least five years, guaranteed. This drive is, without a doubt, Overclockers Approved.
Big thanks to Patriot for supplying this drive for review.
- Jeremy Vaughan (hokiealumnus)
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A couple of questions...(via PM)
Also, how did you get to the IOPS on CDM?
I also think EarthDog's PM was a very valid question, so I'm posting it here (with his permission):
In addition to that, Anandtech uses IOMeter, so even though they're older metrics, it seems they have value. Always willing to be wrong though. If anyone has any reason to consider these results completely useless, please share.
Lastly, thanks for the kind words EarthDog!
I believe they went even further with SandForce testing and compiled their own version of IOMeter that lets you write randomized data, which matters since the write performance of the SandForce drives depend on data compression.
If the set-up of the computer had been correct, you had probably gotten about 430 points...
The reason is that the BIOS is in IDE mode (you can spot it in AS SSD ...)
So the SSD is not performing at is best.
Set the BIOS in AHCI mode, and take a reinstall.
When I have a moment I may try switching to ACHI on my existing install and bench the difference. Thank you for pointing out that oversight!
These SSD's are getting better all the time. I like the mixture of "theory" and measured results in your write-up. It helps give a context for understanding the benchmark results. Very nicely done. -- Paul
Regarding the ACHI issue, I've re-benched CrystalDiskMark and AS SSD (with an OS installed, and on an ICH10R now). Unfortunately my registry-foo isn't up to snuff and I'm unable to switch to ACHI after changing the requisite keys. This will take some more research, which I unfortunately don't have time to do at the moment. After I get this GPU review out mid-week, I'll try again.
If you wan't to get the best possible result from the SSD , you should perform a HDDErase 3.3 before installing the OS (formatting , or doing thing in the registry on the existing install is not good enough).
Anyway, if you feel that adjusting the registry is enough , here is a guide
I always make use of HDDErase 3.3 before installing the OS.
Instead of installing OS the standard way, I use image.
Anyway; with a full compliment of OS & programs on, the score still improves dramatically with AHCI enabled. Rest assured I will NOT be making that mistake again. Ladies & gentlemen, I give to you the AHCI enabled Patriot Inferno 100G SSD.
After running a couple benches, it seems the results aren't all that much different after all. It does require some setup knowhow on the AMD side of things though.
EDIT - Here; the diagram can show it better than I can explain it. Hope Intel doesn't mind hot-linking.
So it's not really a "chipset" at all except in the traditional form of the word. It's just a chip.
For clarity, when I said "I wish I had an ICH10R board", it had more to do with the fact that having an ICH10R board would mean I had an X58 board.
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3.86/5 rDev +10.9%
A - Poured golden, with a white two figure head.
S - Dried fruit, yeast and spice, citrus.
T - Fruit and sweet upfront with a warming chili flavor. Noticing wood flavors as well.
M - Medium body and carbonation with a smooth finish.
O - Interesting idea and I expected more heat; It was good, I just expected more.
01-15-2014 03:22:56 | More by patpbr
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North Carolina
3.53/5 rDev +1.4%
Pours into a stemmed glass a clear medium to full golden with a tightly formed near one finger white head that settles pretty slowly leaving two broken rings of lace behind.Aromas are yeasty with some light tropical fruitiness,not much chile presence to be found.Again yeasty and fruity on the palate with some caramel dough thrown in,the chile is light in the finish...very light.Hmm not bad but pretty unassuming,the alcohol is well hidden but so are the chiles.
11-25-2013 21:36:26 | More by oberon
3/5 rDev -13.8%
03-19-2014 16:21:52 | More by tectactoe
New York
3.5/5 rDev +0.6%
08-17-2014 00:26:29 | More by MadScientist
4/5 rDev +14.9%
11-30-2013 23:13:38 | More by tbryan5
3/5 rDev -13.8%
07-10-2014 16:54:26 | More by joemetric
3.5/5 rDev +0.6%
11-18-2013 17:55:17 | More by Todd
2.25/5 rDev -35.3%
22 oz bottle. Pours clear golden orange with a big meringue like white head that retains well and leaves some lacing.
The aroma is very subdued - some sweet malt and mild green pepper. Some perfumey notes come out as it warms.
The flavor is some sweet woody notes and some mild chile spice with a bitter spice finish. The mouthfeel is light bodied and very watery.
Overall, an OK mild chile beer. A bit watery.
11-27-2013 06:29:52 | More by Beaver13
3.14/5 rDev -9.8%
Bottle shared at Proof. Pale gold with a touch of orange. Slight white head with a thick collar. Head comes back to life with each touch of the glass. Aroma is lack luster. Only get a bit of pale malt and a little grassiness. Taste is also grassy, some sweetness from pale malt and a very slight hop spice coupled with the chile. Medium/light body with same low-med carbonation. The chiles have really faded out already, and I have a bottle at home I might let sit for a few years.
12-22-2013 01:31:45 | More by mverity
3.75/5 rDev +7.8%
12-06-2013 03:03:28 | More by Dbrulet
3.25/5 rDev -6.6%
01-05-2014 03:28:57 | More by mctizzz
South Dakota
2.75/5 rDev -21%
11-28-2013 04:13:23 | More by tednkelly
3.5/5 rDev +0.6%
05-12-2014 20:45:58 | More by fenlop54
3.33/5 rDev -4.3%
Serving glass: Poured from bottle into Tulip.
Appearance: Cloudy but bright orange with white head.
Smell: Mostly just smells like overripe, slightly musty, fruit. Not much else.
Taste: Tastes exactly like what it is - a mix of Belgian yeast (banana and spice), citrusy hops, hot peppers, and wood aging. But it is all a little bland and muddled. Lingering aftertaste of peppers (good) and rotting fruit (bad).
Feel: Moderate carbonation with a thin body. I don't know why, but the mouthfeel is almost nonexistent other than the light pepper kick.
Overall: Pleasant and drinkable but a disappointment, especially considering the collaboration involved.
05-25-2014 22:50:30 | More by bsp77
New York
3.25/5 rDev -6.6%
06-14-2014 22:05:36 | More by ChaseBacon
3.5/5 rDev +0.6%
12-15-2013 21:36:00 | More by Moo5152
New York
3.5/5 rDev +0.6%
04-24-2014 16:28:28 | More by dogfishandi
4.11/5 rDev +18.1%
Poured from a 22 oz. bottle into a New Belgium Globe glass. Bottle says best by November 2014.
Appearance: Pours a bright golden orange with a moderate amount of bubbles. Solid two fingers of white head with decent retention. Leaves a lot of creamy lacing around the glass.
Smell: A sweet, tart, and juicy aroma with good hints of spice, fruit, and yeast. Belgian yeast with some hints of funk. Spicy hints of chili peppers. Also some woody hints. Big scent of fruits with citrus hop hints of orange, mango, tangerine, peach, apricot, lemon, and grapefruit. Some earthy and grassy hop hints as well. Pale malt with hints of grains and cracker. A nicely sweet but balanced aroma.
Taste: Like the aroma hints at, a sweet, juicy, and tart Belgian tinged taste with notes of fruit, spices, and yeast. Belgian yeast with some notes of funk and slight clove. Mix of chili and pepper spicing. Notes of wood linger. Big taste of citrus fruits with notes of mango, orange, tangerine, grapefruit, peach, apricot, and lemon zest. Also some earthy hop notes of grass. Pale malt with some notes of grains and cracker. A pretty decent taste.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with a moderate amount of carbonation. Creamy, juicy, spicy, and slightly sticky. Some heat is felt from the peppers but the alcohol is covered well.
Overall: A pretty decent and interesting brew. Solid juicy citrus flavor and the pepper adds a nice kick without becoming overwhelming.
01-03-2014 08:05:35 | More by MattyG85
3/5 rDev -13.8%
04-02-2014 00:04:32 | More by CRon_T
South Carolina
3.75/5 rDev +7.8%
01-16-2014 00:49:46 | More by chinchill
3.5/5 rDev +0.6%
08-24-2014 01:29:59 | More by timontheroad
2.68/5 rDev -23%
A: Traffic light amber.
S: That familiar New Belgium yeast spiciness with a dose of syrup sweetness.
T: A confusion of hops, residual sugars, and heatless chilies.
M: The hops pull the moisture out of the mouth, the sugars coat the tongue, and the small amount of capsaicin finds its way to the back of the throat.
O: What a disappointment. The Lips of Faith series is worth following despite there perhaps being more hits than misses. The familiar base is there but there's nothing interesting to wrap it in.
01-15-2014 05:24:39 | More by 01001111
3.5/5 rDev +0.6%
11-22-2013 18:18:24 | More by stereosforgeeks
3.75/5 rDev +7.8%
A lot of flavors going on in this one.
08-24-2014 19:42:36 | More by Ortonius
3.25/5 rDev -6.6%
12-29-2013 21:03:22 | More by Adkins1203
Lips Of Faith - Cigar City Collaboration (Ale Brewed With Chilies) from New Belgium Brewing
79 out of 100 based on 494 ratings.


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VoIP Awareness and the Low Usage Numbers in the UK
According to the recently published report from Ofcom, "The Consumer Experience of 2012," VoIP awareness in the UK has risen by almost 3 percent from the previous year. However, the report also reveals low usage statistics, with only 29 percent of the 2,000 people questioned using such service. Interestingly, this is almost three times the level of uptake in 2008, revealing the growth in the service in a relatively short time period. These statistics clearly demonstrate the general public is aware of VoIP and providers in this space are becoming more established. However, the majority have not made the transition to such service.
Service providers such as Skype (News - Alert), FaceTime and Viber clearly have become the most well-known due to their established presence in this market, reacting to the ability to make voice calls over a data connection using the latest technology, such as smartphones and tablets. BT (News - Alert) is reacting to this trend in 2013 by launching an app, "SmartTalk", which allows customers to make VoIP calls using their iPhone and Android handsets. It is clear that as more service providers deliver wider access to this service in the form of apps and communicate the benefits of using VoIP, usage statistics of this platform will continue to rise. BT is aware of the rival services and it is thought that the launch of "SmartTalk" is more of an attempt for BT to re-establish some relevance with customers by engaging more with the consumer segment.
Another factor affecting usage statistics is the availability and reduced price of devices that will assist in a shift towards this service, as tablet devices become more widely available providing portable technology whether in the home or out on the move. As users become more familiar with the capabilities of this new technology, VoIP and the associated benefits will become more understood by the wider audience. Forecasts from the Ofcom report show that, unsurprisingly, the younger generation and families have adopted VoIP most quickly in the UK.
Also, as the 4G network is rolled out across the UK in 2013, mobile data connection speed for these devices will significantly improve, with network providers moving rapidly to deploy the infrastructure for this mobile communication network. As quicker mobile data speeds are delivered throughout the UK, users will be able to harness the benefits of improved speeds and do more while on the move. The growth of the 4G network will allow IP telephony and other more data intensive applications, such as high-definition mobile TV, to be delivered consistently to mobile devices.
Business use is a slightly different matter however, with seven out of 10 businesses in the UK integrating some form of VoIP service in 2013, according to a recent study from Telappliant. As the scalability of VoIP services are not constrained to a single office or location and with business mobiles and 3G/4G connectivity making it possible to enjoy digital calls while staff is on the move, UK businesses are now starting to realise the benefits of VoIP.
As awareness and technology improves, the usage of VoIP will continue to rise and become more widely utilised by all of us.
Frzana Ashraf is the Sales & Marketing manager at Network Defence specializing in Managed Services and VoIP telephony solutions.
Edited by Rich Steeves


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Apprentice star Katie Hopkins defends comments over children's names
Former Apprentice star Katie Hopkins has defended her comments over linking children's names to class, after appearing in an explosive interview on ITV's This Morning.
The Daily Mail writer told presenters Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby that "I think you can tell a great deal from a name". Ms Hopkins went on to criticise names such as Chantelle, Charmaine, Chardonnay and Tyler. She added:
For me, a name is a shortcut of finding out what class a child comes from and makes me ask: "Do I want my children to play with them?
When I hear screeched across the playground: "Tyler! Come back 'ere." It's the Tylers, the Charmains the Chantelles, the Chardonnays.'
Ms Willoughby responded "Listen to what you are saying. You judge children on names. That's extraordinary."
Ms Hopkins has since defended her comments on Twitter, after the YouTube video received more than 3.5 million views.
'Rhiannan, if you aren't here by the time I count to 5, you're in big trouble'. Rhiannan struggles above 3. Is oblivious to impending doom.
Storm busy signing in on the 'late arrival sheet' at the school office. Good practise for signing on later in life I guess.
Piers. Not one for me, no. Latin for parasite. My girlfriend's son is a Piers. As with the Jehovah's Witnesses, I hide when I see him coming
Child's name Sky? Lactose intolerant. Wheat free. Guardian reading parents. Chunky knit baby grow. Real nappies. Tell me I am wrong?


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Mirror needs quick phonebooth trip to change Superman gaffe
June 14th, 2011Posted by Joel Gunter in Editors' pick, Funny, Online Journalism
A quite spectacular picture mix up is still going strong on the Mirror website this morning, despite having been outed late last night.
Here's a screengrab, because the page is surely going to change back into its proper civilian clothes any minute now.
Elsewhere on the site there appears to be a story about the superhero with no image, which just might give us a clue as to what's happened here.
(hat tip: the Media Blog, via Gareth Winchester and Dick Mandrake).
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The heat is on for the eastern Pacific Ocean, especially off the coast of Mexico and California, and if the pattern continues, it could spell a record-breaking hurricane season for the region.
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A medical breakthrough has one Upstate man getting his life back after a life-changing surgery.
Gene Smith slipped on a sheet of ice in January of 2011. For two years he struggled with chronic back pain. In fact, the pain was so unbearable, he was unable to travel to see his new grandchild. He still had not seen her before his surgery.
"My whole lifestyle changed," Gene Smith said.
The road was long leading up to his surgery Monday. His wife, Cindy, stood by him through it all.
"We spent almost one year with a pain management doctor that just gave out prescriptions," Cindy Smith said.
However, physicians and surgeons at Interventional Pain Management and Associates stepped in to save Gene Smith from his ongoing agony.
Monday, Gene Smith put on a surgery gown and prepared for the two-hour procedure at Village at Pelham Hospital in Greer. He lay on his stomach as Dr. Kevin Walker prepared the area on his lower back, where two small tubes called leads would be inserted up the spinal cord.
These leads are part of a huge breakthrough in medical technology targeting chronic pain.
"[The leads are] implanted just behind the spinal cord, and these small units will stimulate different portions of the spinal cord, changing the painful impulses that the patients have coming from either their back or their limbs to a much more pleasurable type of vibratory sensation," said Dr. Blake Lesche, who also performed the procedure.
In other words, the new technology can help convert pain into pleasure. A few weeks after the surgery, Gene Smith should be able to feel a massaging sensation whenever the pain kicks in.
"Thank you, thanks so much," he said to the doctors after the surgery. Within minutes, he was up and walking out of the hospital to his new life.
The procedure will also help cut Gene Smith's hours at the doctor's office.
"They don't have to go every month or two to have their medications changed or have an injection, so it doesn't change their quality of life," Lesche said.
The Medtronic device that was also implanted with the leads in the lower back features learned technology - essentially talking to the leads and understanding over time when Gene Smith is sitting or standing, making him as comfortable as possible no matter what position he takes.
Walker says there is no age limit on the surgery. To be eligible for it, patients must have some sort of chronic pain in their back, legs or arms.
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This is one of my favorite dishes; it's straightforward and delicious. The grown up version is a classic hit, but the kids' version is just as delish. The best part is that it's fun to make and even more fun to eat.
Kids love to eat with their hands, and the concept behind the Miner Steak is a collapsed mine. Behind the steak boulders is fresh corn, the "gold". The kids eat the boulders to get at the gold. The greens on top of the mine represent the forest, and is a great way to get your kids to eat veggies.
Get the kids involved with this dish! They love making the mashed potato mine, and filling it with gold, covering it up with the steak boulders and creating a forest.
Across the board this is a recipe that young ones and adults will love time and time again.
2 (8-oz.) steaks. Rib eye, sirloin, flank whatever you have on hand or whatever your favorite steak is. You can also use hamburgers.
4 Russet potatoes peeled and quartered
¼ cup unsalted butter
½ cup milk or half and half
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper (white pepper if you have it)
1 can of corn or 2 cups fresh corn cut off the cobb
8 broccoli spears
8 asparagus tips
Put your quartered potatoes in a pot with salted water on high heat to boil.
Pat your steaks dry and put salt and pepper on both sides. Leave out on counter covered to bring the steaks to room temperature
Put your canned corn in a small pot on low heat to warm up, or if your using fresh corn put it in a small pot and just cover the corn with water and put on low heat
From a head of broccoli cut off 8 broccoli spears, we're going to use these as little trees
From a bunch of asparagus cut the tips off in 3-inch lengths, we're also going to use these as trees
When potatoes are done, drain and return to the pot and put back on the burner it came from with the heat off. By doing this we're keeping heat in the potatoes and drying them out so they soak up the hot milk and butter.
In a small pot add your milk and butter, and put on medium to high heat. Take of the heat as soon as the milk and butter come to a boil.
Put the cooked potatoes through a food mill or ricer. If you don't have this equipment you can use a hand blender or potato masher. Get the potatoes to a consistent smooth texture. Try not to over mix them; they will become sticky and pasty. Potatoes don't like being handles too much.
Fold in hot milk, butter and salt and pepper.
Put potatoes in a Bain Marie. Basically a Bain Marie is a double boiler in which you put the mashed potatoes in to keep them warm using moist heat. Direct heat can scorch or dry out the potatoes. A Bain Marie can also be used for sauces and gravies. Cover the top with foil.
Place your steaks in a hot fry pan with a bit of olive oil, or place them on a hot grill. Sear both sides of the steak in the fry pan. About 3 minutes a side. Put in a 350F oven to finish off for 8 minutes. We're going for medium here for the steaks. When you see juice's rise to the top of your steak, it's cooked medium. The same goes for the steaks on the grill, you'll just add two more flips to the steak.
When steak is done, take off of heat source and let rest on a cutting board or plate to rest. Letting a steak or any cut of meat rest after cooking allows the juices to settle back into the meat. If you cut into it or carve it too soon, the meat will release all the juices it has, and you end up with dry meat, and a puddle of flavorful juices on your plate or cutting board.
While the meat is resting, lets start plating. Mound some mashed potatoes just off center of the plate. With a teaspoon hollow out the middle of the mashed potatoes, like a little igloo.
Fill the center of our igloo with the cooked corn.
Cut your steak up into small bite size pieces and pile them up in front of the corn until you cant see the corn.
On top of the mashed potato igloo/mine shaft entrance, place the broccoli and asparagus to make trees.
Now tell the kids to search for gold (the corn) in the mineshaft entrance. They can either use a spoon or their hands to do so. They have to eat the fallen boulders (steak) to get to the gold. You will definitely strike gold with the kids with this meal.
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Dean McDermott is a chef, father, do-it-yourselfer, producer, and veteran film and television actor who has had starring roles in such series as "1-800-Missing" and "Due South," as well as the Kevin Costner directed motion picture "Open Range." McDermott and wife Tori Spelling opened their own bed and breakfast in the hit Oxygen reality series, "Tori & Dean: Inn Love." They have filmed six seasons of "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood." Spelling and McDermott created the show and serve as executive producers alongside Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato of World of Wonder Productions. Dean is the proud father of five (Jack, Liam, Stella, Hattie and Finn), and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Patty T, Dean is explaining the 'proper' way to prepare a steak when you want the best results. There aren't any special extra steps to his prep. Seer in the pan, oven to bring it to the right temp, let it rest and eat!
Dean, I love the creative idea for capturing the interest in kids. I was blessed with having a child (now in college) who enjoyed the flavors of food. I believe it was because, like you, I found it important to introduce her to it all and allow her to decide what she did and didn't like. Now she's a crazy scientist in the kitchen like her mom!
I hadn't heard of watching for the juices to rise. I have grown accustomed to the touch method to tell me how alive the meat.
By Lisa Nolen on August 22, 2013
Wow! After reading a comment here on Dean's Miner Steak I must say that I think someone forgot that Dean is also a chef and that is why he has all these steps to his dinner. It's a passion for him. Plus if you have ever watched his show with his wife Tori Spelling he's kinda obsessive (no offense) so he goes WAY above and BEYOND! I have had something like this when I was a kid. Mom used cubed steaks instead of steak or hamburger. She did this because well one it was a cheap cut of meat and two because us kids hated it! But you couldn't get to the good stuff till the boulders were gone and this is how I still love my potatoes today as a matter of fact. Put some corn and peas too in my mashed potatoes and I am set! Thanks Dean for sharing your dish and bringing back a nice memory of my Mom. Christie Selhorst
By Christie Selhorst on July 31, 2013
WOW!! Must fix this for my grandsons !
By Susan Odell on July 15, 2013
just wanted to tell Paula,, we love you & pray this whole mess will be cleared up soon!!!!! dont give up beautiful lady!!!!
By tplontke on July 01, 2013
Love watching your shows. I am 64yrs old disabled retired. don't cook much anymore since my husband died in 2010. I would love to meet you before i die. I got to see Dolly Partain 3yrs ago one of my wishes. now i wish somehow i could meet you. you are so down to earth and lovable. could you figure out a dessert for me. yogurt in a soft hard stage. like the welch's strawberry covered with yogurt. and of course i love your ooey gooey cake. who wouldn't. so hopefully one day i will be able to travel to savannah and meet you in one of your famous restaurant. wouldnt be bad to meet jamey and bobby. love ya and many more years of shows
By Judy Pope on June 10, 2013
Have no idea where to leave my comments- saw show yesterday with barbecue chicken , macarooni and cheese- cucumber salad and cornbread- i made a little addition to barbecue sauce - some honey and let me tell you- there is no barbecue sauce you can buy that can compare- i made it with ketchup, apple cider vinger, hot sauce, dijon mustard, salt, pepper, lime (LARGE) zest (THIS IS THE BOMB) and the whole lime juice & PARSLEY - but I added to chicken prioR TO PUTTING ON BARBECUE- SALT, PEPPER, LATIN COMPLETE SEASONING, PARSLEY , GARLIC POWDER. ONCE I GRILLED CHICKEN ON CHARCOIL FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES, STARTING ADDING WITH BRUSH THE LOVE SAUCE (BARBECUE SAUCE) - WOW PAULA- WHAT AN AMAZING BARBECUE SAUCE- SO SIMPLE- THANKS FOR RECIPE- JUST A WOW!
By john p nunez on June 08, 2013
love your show;appreciate the recipes on facebook too loke it if kept putting recipes on facebook God bless you and youre's
By judyparks on June 06, 2013
I love this idea. It is so creative. My 3 year old will eat this up...literally!
By Darcy on June 06, 2013
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