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I don't know if Lance has enough on his feet to beat Metcalf, of course I said the same thing about him last year in reference to him All Americaning, and he went and finished 4th.
If Bubba has his cardio right, which he seems to, I could see him hitting a big move early, and then snagging points here and there to hold on at the end.
The two guys in the Big 10 that I could see winning the grind it out tough matches over Metcalf are Schlatter, and Churella. Both are great at getting their points, and have great defenses.
Dustin is obvious, but Churella wrestled 36 matches last year, in 29 of them his opponent scored 3 points or less. Dustin isn't the only guy in the Big 10 who's tough to score on.
I'm still interested in seeing this version of Metcalf, the last time I saw him wrestle folk was his "flying headbutt" match against Dickey two years ago.
Apparently Metcalf is wrestling with "controlled aggression" this year. Not out of position but wrestling with a mean streak. Wrestling like a cross between Brands and Schwab.
BTW I was being sarcastic about Palmer and Bubba.
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I would love to watch the Metcalf vs Caldwell match it should be interesting.
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I think Metcalf will trade matches with Dustin and Churella all year long. I will need to see the first "go round" and even then I think that the wrestlers will be adjusting all year long to each other's styles...
I don't think Metcalf has beat anyone of significance. When Metcalf has the run that Dustin Schlatter had two years ago when he went through the Top Five within a two week time frame, then I will talk about him in the same breath as Churella and DS who have gone and done it.
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak."
Metcalf. Also, for the rest of his career, the only loss he could possibly have is Schlatter.
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"I think it's going to become a little more real when I have it," said Kishimoto. "Right now I'm focusing on getting this done and that done. I'm relieved more than excited, mainly because of the time."
Speaking of time, it's ticking by fast. The album release is on the last day of August and just three days later, Saturday, Sept. 3, she'll be gone.
"I'll figure things out when I get there [Japan]," said Kishimoto.
Kishimoto's troubles began when she unexpectedly lost her full-time teaching job at a local private music school exactly one year ago this month.
"When I lost the job, I lost the visa, so after that I have to pursue a different type of visa to stay in the country," said Kishimoto in a previous article.
Her tourist visa is only good for so long and without a full-time job and an employer willing to do the paperwork for a work visa, the only option is leaving.
Her departure isn't what she wants to focus on, though. She is insistent that the album release party be a celebration of her music, and more importantly, those that helped her record happen.
"It was made possible because of those supporters so I feel like as much as I wanted to make the CD, I had people that wanted me to do this so I felt responsible that I had this done and did it well," said Kishimoto. "Reaching that goal is sort of a big relief."
The album is more than an independent project. Kishimoto was able to get it released on a semi-local record label, Planet Arts, which is an organization that promotes jazz in the area and New York City.
She's still ironing out the details of the release party but what's for certain in her time of uncertainty is that it will happen. The First Reformed Church of Schenectady is at 8 Church St. in Schenectady. Admission is $10 for the general public and $5 for Kickstarter.com contributors and children under 15.
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With Boeing, politicians show true colors
In 1894, railroad magnate George Pullman crushed a strike, declaring that "workers have nothing to do with the amount of wages they shall receive; that is solely the business of the company." Labor relations are much more genial today. Instead of calling in Pinkerton guards, Boeing simply enlisted pension-holding politicians to importune workers to give up pension rights.
A surreal Everett press conference featured six politicians with government pensions hectoring Machinists, including one, Snohomish County Executive John Lovick, already drawing over $60,000 annually from past State Patrol service. Cashing in his own $44,000 annual congressional pension, Gov. Jay Inslee demanded Machinists vote again.
Crises bring out the Chamberlain or Churchill in the political class. This one brought opportunity for empathy and leadership instead of hypocrisy and cringing servility. Where was the press conference of politicians demanding that Boeing CEO James McNerney, in the spirit of shared sacrifice, relinquish some of a retirement package that exceeds $44.7 million?
With income inequality at historic highs, such a press conference would have sounded the note of populist outrage this occasion demanded. But it would also take the long view, arguing for a less-unequal future. There has seldom been such political courage, making those exhibiting it all the more exceptional. None of the politicians in this episode will, as is true with Theodore Roosevelt (yet again) in Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Bully Pulpit," be subjects of bestselling histories a century hence for courage in standing up to corporate behemoths. Instead they may be vignettes when future historians ponder what killed the middle class dream.
Political expediency demanded kicking workers to the curb so "greedy" Machinists could be blamed in any "Who-Lost-Boeing?" free-for-all -- even if the principles of those workers could hardly be greater. I daresay the average Washingtonian would find it irresistible to sacrifice almost anything about the future in exchange for the short-term cash incentive Boeing dangled. Yet the 49 percent of Machinists defying the establishment, and voting "no," were prescient: Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is among those fearing a crisis where reliance on Social Security replaces disappearing private pensions. As Warren warned recently, "Social Security is rapidly becoming the only lifeline that millions of seniors have to keep their heads above water." Is this what we want?
The lurching reaction of the political class, and failure to take the long view about what kind of state we want to be, portends trouble on other fronts. For government to subvert a private sector union, even after giving Boeing $8.7 billion in tax breaks, is a bad harbinger for working people under more-direct state control.
For example, although Washington teachers' salaries have slipped far below even neighboring Oregon's, should we believe restoration of salary increase-granting Initiative 732 -- suspended for six years -- will ever occur? While threats emanating from Chicago could prompt a "Boeing session" of a panicked haste so galloping that majority House Democrats did not even have their majority, the Washington Supreme Court's indictment of the state's failure to attend to its paramount duty to fund K-12 did not compel fair treatment of teachers in 2013, nor in the proposed 2014 supplemental budget.
Perhaps hard work, whether by Machinists or teachers, warrants only takeaways in this new, anti-middle class era. Where do we, as a state, go from here?
Brendan Williams is a former legislator and a long-term care advocate.
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The season bag limit is two antlered deer, but the first buck must be reported via the Automated Harvest Report System before a second buck can be pursued. Hunters who do not harvest a buck or only harvest one buck during the six-day season have the opportunity to take one antlered deer during the Permit Shotgun season if they purchase an antlered buck shotgun permit in addition to the regular zone permit. However, if a hunter harvests two antlered deer, he/she forfeits the opportunity to harvest an antlered deer during the Permit Shotgun season.
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Hunters who bring in a bear to be weighed when the season starts in December will even receive a cookbook with recipes like "bear satay on a stick" and "grilled bear loin with brown sugar paste."
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Lise Payette, OQ (born August 29, 1931 in Verdun, Quebec) is a Quebec politician, feminist, writer and columnist. She was a Parti Québécois minister under the leadership of Premier René Lévesque and National Assembly of Quebec member for the riding of Dorion.[1]
During the campaign for the 1980 Quebec referendum Payette denounced women supporters of the "No" side as Yvettes (the name of a docile young girl in an old school manual). She went so far as calling Claude Ryan's wife, Madeleine, an Yvette. This backfired spectacularly as "the Yvettes", led by Madeleine Ryan, held a number of political rallies in response to her remarks. As Donald Britain put it in his documentary series of René Lévesque and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, The Champions, "The old women were proud to be 'Yvettes'. The young women resented being 'Yvettes'. Payette had galvanized them into a fighting force".
The first of those rallies happened on March 30 when a group of 1,700 women held the brunch des Yvettes at the Château Frontenac in Quebec City. The major rally occurred at the Montreal Forum on April 7 when 14,000 women denounced the minister's declarations about women and manifested their support for the "No" side. This was the first major rally for the "No" side in the campaign. This would be followed by many more smaller rallies particularly by women groups.
Lise Payette would eventually apologize for her remarks.
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Non-solicitation agreements now may have more teeth in Massachusetts. This week, in Corporate Technologies, Inc. v. Harnett, the First Circuit Court of Appeals allowed to stand an earlier injunction prohibiting Brian Harnett, a former employee of Corporate Technologies, from conducting business with Corporate Technologies' customers. The First Circuit rejected the idea that Harnett could circumvent his non-solicitation obligations by piquing his former customers' curiosity and inciting them to make the first contact with him at his new job.
Many employers have heard this story before. Employers who call foul on a former employee's solicitations are met with the same response time and time again: "I didn't solicit anyone. I merely let them know that I moved. They called me." The story was no different here. Harnett left Corporate Technologies and promptly sent out a blast e-mail to a targeted list of prospects, nearly half of whom were current or former Corporate Technology customers, notifying them of his new job. In response to his blast e-mail, several of those customers reached out to Harnett. From there, Harnett continued face-to-face and e-mail communication with those customers.
The First Circuit squarely rejected Harnett's story explaining that no per se rule exists that a non-solicitation obligation is extinguished when a client—rather than a former employee—makes the initial contact. Rather, who makes the first contact is just one of a series of factors to consider in determining whether the employee violated his or her non-solicitation obligation.
For one, an "initial contact" could range from a simple call to say hello all the way to a call to place an order with the employee's new employer. Also, the importance of who makes the initial contact varies across industries. For instance, if an industry involves the sale of off-the-shelf goods, the initial contact could very well result in a sale and is, therefore, significant. But, where an industry involves more complex, customized products (as it did in Harnett's case), initial contact is likely many steps removed from closing a sale.
The Harnett decision does not bode well for the former employee who plays cute with his or her non-solicitation obligations. But before taking the Harnett position to the bank, Massachusetts employers should beware that Massachusetts state courts are not required to follow the Federal First Circuit's decision. Indeed, Massachusetts state courts thus far have failed to reach any consensus regarding the proper interpretation of non-solicitation agreements in these types of initial contact cases. We will monitor the Massachusetts state courts for any reactions to the Harnett decision and keep you posted. In the meantime, employers should define "non-solicitation" broadly in their restrictive covenant agreements to effectively prohibit former employees from connecting with the employer's customers, including by prohibiting the former employee from responding to an initial contact by the customer.
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Astronomers say they have observed strong carbon dioxide emissions coming off Comet ISON, giving scientists even more data to help them better understand these space objects.
The team captured the images on June 13 using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Array Camera. The images show carbon dioxide is slowly and steadily "fizzing" away from the so-called "soda-pop comet" in a tail about 186,400 miles long.
"These fabulous observations of ISON are unique and set the stage for more observations and discoveries to follow as part of a comprehensive NASA campaign to observe the comet," said James L. Green, NASA's director of planetary science in Washington. "ISON is very exciting. We believe that data collected from this comet can help explain how and when the solar system first formed."
Carey Lisse, leader of NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign and a senior research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, said they believe ISON is emitting about 2.2 million pounds of carbon dioxide gas and about 120 million pounds of dust every day.
"Previous observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission and Deep Impact spacecraft gave us only upper limits for any gas emission from ISON," Lisse said. "Thanks to Spitzer, we now know for sure the comet's distant activity has been powered by gas."
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As the comet nears the sun, it warms up gradually, causing gases to heat up to the point of evaporation, which can be detected by instruments from space and on the ground.
"This observation gives us a good picture of part of the composition of ISON, and, by extension, of the proto-planetary disk from which the planets were formed," said Lisse. "Much of the carbon in the comet appears to be locked up in carbon dioxide ice. We will know even more in late July and August, when the comet begins to warm up near the water-ice line outside of the orbit of Mars, and we can detect the most abundant frozen gas, which is water, as it boils away from the comet."
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LONDON (ICIS)--German fertilizer major K+S said on Tuesday that it can no longer maintain its previous 2013 outlook of a slight year-on-year increase in operating earnings.
K+S cited as the reason for this the announcement last week by Russia's Uralkali regarding leaving the sales organisation it operates with Belarusian fertilizer firm Belaruskali, and instead expanding its own potash production while accepting price reductions.
K+S said that Uralkali's move wiped off billions of euros in stock market valuations in the fertilizer industry within a few days and "created considerable uncertainty about future volume and price trends on the market for potash fertilizers".
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K+S CEO Norbert Steiner added that, in contrast to competitors who are focused exclusively on potash, K+S has a second important operation, in its international salt business.
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I had a 1TB drive fail and I lost a bunch of data. My wife, being tired of seeing me heartache over all I lost, told me to fix it to the tune of a large, redundant, storage solution.
Me, in my infinite wisdom, decided that a RAID 5 array with 5 x 2TB disks was the way to go. So I went on Newegg and purchased a RAID 0,1,3,5,10 controller card with 5 SATA ports and one eSATA port. It is supposedly hardware RAID. I got 5 x 2TB Samsung disks for an 8TB array.
Originally, I set the disks up as RAID 5. It formatted out in Win 7 as a 7.27TB disk. I started copying the data I need to back up over to the array. It started out fine.....then went south quick. Initial throughput was 120+ MB/s, but then it dropped pretty quickly down to around 5-7 MB/s. Also, my computer seemed to crawl and would be unresponsive for periods of several minutes. Of note, I was copying MP3's to the array - about 700GB or so. I then tried a single 8GB iso that also dropped quickly to 5 MB/s.
Seeing that the RAID 5 was sucking (unresponsive computers scare me), I decided to try the RAID 3 setup. I reconfigured my card for RAID 3 and booted back into windows. The drive formatted back to 7.27TB. I started copying the same MP3's to the RAID 3 array and it started around 60 MB/s and dropped to maybe 55 MB/s. It stayed at 55 MB/s and all the data finished copying. The computer did not become unresponsive, though it did seem sluggish when looking through my other drives (not on same card, MoBo connected drives). Other copies to the drive have yielded 80-90 MB/s sustained.
Is this typical behavior for RAID 5 arrays? I thought the RAID 5 would be a lot faster than that.
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Sounds like a controller issue. Even more so with the crappy controller card you are using. A nice raid card will cost you at least $400.
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Re: RAID 3 VS RAID 5 - need help
First off, I'm going to say I'm NOT a RAID expert. However, I have dealt with RAID at work quite a bit on some machines I'm responsible for (some server class machines...). I do have some thoughts based on what was said.
RAID 5 write performance can be pretty bad. In particular, write performance can take a nose dive when writing several [relatively] small files to the setup. This is due to how RAID 5 works; there is a parity information and striping done across all the drives while data is written to the drives. In fact, RAID 5 has a lot in common with RAID 0 when it comes to striping. From a peformance stand point, one big difference in beween the two is RAID 5 writes parity info to the drives while RAID 0 doesn't.
One particular problem with RAID 5 is if the file being written is smaller than the stripe currently being written then that is trouble from a performance standpoint. It should be noted read performance of RAID 5 is pretty good. In fact, it's close to the performance of RAID 0 if I recall correctly which shouldn't be suprising since they are closely related.
I noticed you were copying 700 GB's of MP3s (WOW!!). I would suspect the many files when combined with the volume plays against RAID 5's weaknesses when copying them to a RAID 5 setup. I also noticed you are using 5400 RPM harddrives. That's really slow. Don't settle for less than 7200k RPM drives in a RAID 5. I'm not suprised you are seeing sluggish performance. The performance of the ISO copy concerns me a bit but it's hard to say if that's good or bad from a forum post.
Don't compare the performance of your RAID 5 result against your RAID 3 result. For that matter, don't compare your results to any other different type of RAID levels (such as RAID 6 mentioned by another poster...). Different RAID configs have different READ/WRITE performance characteristics. You can't compare performance of a RAID controller/setup across different RAID levels and arrive at a [correct] evaluation as to whether a RAID card is bad or good; it's simply impossible.
It should be noted I'm not suprised you are seeing sluggish performance from your computer as well while this is being done. With that work load and the fact the OS appears to be installed on the same RAID, that's just asking to much. Recall the OS is reading/writing a swap file to the same RAID.
Now for my curiosity part: why on earth did you settle on a RAID 5 setup for this?! If you insisted on using RAID for this, RAID 1 would've been fine. However, if you were willing to spend money on multiple harddrives, why not install 2 or more HD's in your system and then setup a backup job to back data up to another drive on a daily basis. If one drive went away, you would still have your data on the other drive. For that matter, purchase an external drive. Just a thought...
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RAID 5 and RAID 3 have the same number of minimum disks needed: 3. That much I do know. RAID 3 isn't a common RAID so I had to look up the rest of the information on it. Where RAID 5 writes parity info across all the disks, RAID 3 uses one disk out of its array for dedicated parity storage; parity information is not written to the other n-1 disks. RAID 3 requires all disks to spin up and read/write at the same time. It appears RAID 3's read/write performance mirrors that of a single drive. I suspect this performance is based on the drive with the worst read/write performance although what I'm reading doesn't say that. RAID 3's write performance appears to be better which is why the original poster saw a performance improvement when jumping on RAID 3.
I wonder what happens if the parity disk bites the dust? Since that's the only disk with parity info on it, can it be rebuilt from the array? If so, I suspect the system can't be in use while this happens. In a RAID 5 setup, if any disk goes down, the array can be rebuilt while the system is in use if only one HD goes to the great digital dustbin in the sky.
Having said that, I'm shocked RAID 3 was chosen to replace the RAID 5 setup. If the controller will allow this, the poster would've been better off (with 5 drives) to setup two RAID 1 disks (2 drives per each RAID) where one RAID would be drive C: and the other RAID would be drive D: and setup the 5th HD to be a hot global spare. This way, the requirement for redundancy would be there, performance would still be pretty good, a spare HD would exist in case one HD went out, and the user could even setup a manual backup job which would copy one data from one drive to another. That would be a fairly awesome, rock solid setup.
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RAID 3 is a bad option.
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Re: RAID 3 VS RAID 5 - need help
Raid3 was an earlier implementation that eventually lead to RAID5.
The difference, as stated, is where the parity resides.
RAID3 is basically a RAID0 array (data is stripped across several disks for performance) with ONE added disk that will store the parity for each stripe. So, on your 5 disks setup, you would have:
Disk1 disk2 disk3 disk4 disk5(parity)
dataA dataB dataC dataD <parity of data A-D>
dataE dataF dataG dataH <parity of data E-H>
In that case, your bottle neck becomes the parity drive, as you will ALWAYS have to write to it, whatever amount of data you write Ex: if you write only dataA, you still need to update the parity.
RAID5 does a similar thing, but will alternate where the parity is stored for better performance:
Disk1 disk2 disk3 disk4 disk5
dataA dataB dataC dataD <parity of data A-D>
dataE dataF dataG <parity of data E-H> dataH
this way, as the parity data is split across drives, so will the writes in case of smaller access.
Now, the kicker: parity is rather hard to calculate, so most GOOD raid5 cards will have a dedicated processor to do it and good cache memory on board. Your card seems to have neither (so CPU is used to calculate and no cache to speak of). This will lead to poor performance.
If you are set on 5+ Sata2 drives, you'll need to spend quite a bit more for reliable perfs:
Either of those will make a huge difference (at a huge premium too :-S )
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I like Frenchy2k1's explanation. I'm liking it a lot in fact.
Still, I have to go back to my earlier question/observation...
Why is RAID being used at all for this?! Buy 2 HD's, install them both as seperate HD's, and use the second HD purely for backup purposes. Or buy an external HD. Either way, it's cheaper, easier to setup, and less trouble prone than any RAID setup is going to be. It's a piece of cake to setup a backjob in Win7 for Pete's sake compared to going to the trouble and expense of implementing a RAID.
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Re: RAID 3 VS RAID 5 - need help
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Some factors which haven't been mentioned here:
Watch your stripe sizes for the RAID, partition alignment, and your NTFS Allocation Unit sizes. I'm having some bad performance issues right now with a 12 disk RAID 6 DS3300 iSCSI that gets a clean 125 MBs (line speed) with raw Linux access but a measly 35 MBs when in Windows with a big 6 TB NTFS partition. These things can F you hard in the A.
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Lots of good info here. The main thing you need to do is first swap the controller out. The hard part is finding a reasonable priced one... If you could drop down 1 drive to 4 you can find controllers in the $400 or less range. If you want 8 internal ports it's going to cost a few hundred more.
Here is a good thread to look over to see what a good RAID controller will give you:
4 port:
LSI $310 plus you'll need a $40 sas cable
Adaptec $420 with cable
Areca 1212 $350 and needs a $40 sas cable
8 Port:
Adaptec 6805 $600 with cables
Areca 1880i $600 with cables
LSI 9261 $500 plus 2 $40 sas cables required
There are some Highpoint cards that might be worth mentioning like the 4 port 4310 or the 8 port 4320 but the reviews aren't all that favorable. It will still need the $40 sas to sata cable as well. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ab=true&Page=2
They also have the older sata 2 3510 and 3510 highpoint cards. http://www.highpoint-tech.com/usa_new/series_rr3500.htm
The main thing to notice is the onboard cache. This will play a huge role in performance since the controller can use this to hide the latency of the drives. Also, anything that doesn't list which controller it's using probably isn't a hardware card. All of these are 800mhz + hardware controllers.
I would probably swap those drives out too if you were looking for performance and reliability as they really aren't meant for either. There are a lot of good enterprise drive options if you want something that should last.
All of these carry 5 year warranties and should be 1 million+ MTBF drives.
Hitachi drives: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822145310
Seagate :http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148610
WD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136579
Obviously the price tag is really going to hinder the ability to get any of these drives. 2 of these will cost the same as the 5 samsungs did, but these drives will perform better and last longer. There might be some other good alternatives that are a bit cheaper like WD blacks, which still carry a 5 year warranty.
Actually even with MP3s I'm sure you can make 128k stripes if not a bit bigger than that. The smaller the blocks the more fragmented the data can get, and the more I/O required to read them. The larger the block the less fragmented they will get at a cost of disk space.
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After talking with a friend of mine today (and all of the welcomed input here at NVNews), I have decided to drop the RAID 3 for a RAID "10". I'll only be using 4 of my drives, but theoretically, I should be able to drop 2 drives and still maintain all of my data. I'll then take my 5th drive and copy all of my critical data to it and take it off site. I don't anticipate needing more than 2TB for the next year or so, and I have a 6th 2TB drive that I could use in a pinch.
I know that the card I bought is relatively cheap, and I did not expect $450 performance from a $75 card. But, for $75, it does provide a lot of options that I had not seen before in a card this cheap. It does have on board hardware RAID acceleration, and it does have a built-in RAID 3/5 write back cache, and supports a hot spare. It's also the only card I found that has support for 5 internal drives.
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If you're going that route you might just be better off using the onboard controller. Since there is no parity data to calculate the onboard should be up to the task.
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I do see where the syba does say full hardware RAID in the manual, but it's also on a PCI-e 1x slot so max bandwidth can only be ~300MBps. I honestly wonder if your onboard controller couldn't best the Sybas performance even if it is using cpu cycles to do it. Assuming it's the board in the sig you have an ICH10R chipset so the functionality is built right into the south bridge.
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I have developed my application in Netbeans IDE and deployed in Glassfish 3.1. I would really appreciate if someone can show me the best method to port my source code to RAD/WAS 8.0 combination.
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Re: What is the best way to migrate from GLASSFISH 3.1 to WAS 8.0?2011-08-03T14:29:57Z in response to RajivKonkimallaI contacted members of the WAS development team and the method they suggested for migrating an application developed in NetBeans for Glassfish into WebSphere Application Server is as follows:
The user in this case has to do at least 3 steps:
1. Migrate the code from NetBeans to RAD manually using the correct New Project Wizards, like Dynamic Web Applications for Web Modules, EJB Applications for EJB Modules
2. Fix the code and the classpath issues, if any.
3. update the IBM ext files when necessary. If the user created the project as stated in #1 above, there will be visual panels that they can navigate, but if they just ported the application as only a Java Project, this step will be a lot harder.
And then export and deploy to WAS.
Another developer added...
As part of Step #1 above, the user could use the EAR file produced from NetBeans and import the EAR into RAD. This might be the easiest way to get projects created. The user would still need to manually move the source. Eclipse has the option of exporting source with an EAR. NetBeans might have the same option, that might help.
Lastly, although it won't help for the NetBeans and Glassfish scenario, others who want to migrate applications from WebLogic, JBoss or Oracle Application Servers can use the IBM WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit.
The Application Migration Toolkit is available for download from the developerWorks website:
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Re: What is the best way to migrate from GLASSFISH 3.1 to WAS 8.0?2011-08-23T18:10:42Z in response to Scott JohnstonThanks for all your input. I have successfully deployed my application in WAS 8.0 and everything works fine. I have done the following steps:
1) I sticked onto Netbeans and did not port my application to RAD. I have removed unnecessary xml files and at the end kept web.xml, persistenc.xml and sun-web.xml.
2) I have used Jersey implementation for JAX-RS 1.1 and so included those jars in the lib folder.
3) I have used eclipselink vendor for JPA 2.0. For this I needed to change persistence.xml to include the following items:
<property name="eclipselink.target-server" value="WebSphere"/>
<property name="eclipselink.logging.level" value="FINEST"/>
4) I have placed eclipselink jars under lib folder of websphere (Appserver)
5) Default transport protocol for glassfish is 8080 and so instead of changing the code I have configured WAS 8.0 to 8080 (from 9080).
I did not want to go for RAD as Netbeans is doing my work and more over RAD has a different implementation for JAX-RS 1.1 and calling entities in the application for JPA. As, I don't want to change my code I am sticking onto netbeans. Also, the app can easily be deployed in weblogic.
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Re: What is the best way to migrate from GLASSFISH 3.1 to WAS 8.0?2011-08-23T21:12:35Z in response to RajivKonkimallaIt is great to hear of your success. Thank you for returning to the forum to share your experiences with us. Keep coming back and letting us know how things go.
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Re: What is the best way to migrate from GLASSFISH 3.1 to WAS 8.0?2011-10-18T18:39:12Z in response to Scott JohnstonI came across a medium problem in my application when restful web service, implemented using Jersey API, is throwing an user-defined error message.
I have several custom user defined exceptions and interested in sending the mobile client the error code along with the custom defined error message. With the help of the forum, I could successfully do this when I deployed the application in Glassfish 3.1. Following forum thread gives the full information:
The problem came when app is deployed in the latest WAS 8.0. Now the client can only get the status code (what ever server sends) but not the error message, which always shows "Undefined". However, web client (browser) gives the correct information like
"Error 520: The EmailId or Password you entered is incorrect."
Following is the sample code that runs successfully in Glassfish 3.1 but fails in WAS 8.0
------EXCEPTION response------------
public class UserNotFoundResponse implements Response.StatusType{
public int getStatusCode() { return 520; }
public Response.Status.Family getFamily() { return Response.Status.Family.SERVER_ERROR; }
public String getReasonPhrase() { return "The EmailId or Password you entered is incorrect."; }
-----calling the exception from restful web service---------------
public Advertisements getAdvertisements(.....) {
try { //business logic }catch(UserNotFoundException ex) { throw new WebApplicationException(ex, Response.status(new UserNotFoundResponse()).build()); }catch(Exception ex) { ... }
I feel that some configuration change in WAS 8.0 would solve this problem as the same code works fine in Glassfish 3.1. I would really appreciate if some WAS team member looks into my problem.
Re: What is the best way to migrate from GLASSFISH 3.1 to WAS 8.0?2011-10-25T15:16:14Z in response to Scott JohnstonI came across one more thing during the migration. I converted a Stateless EJB to WebService (soap) by adding @WebService at the class level. Glassfish created a WebService and gave the way to test the service with in the admin console. I am not sure how to test this service in WAS 8.0. I am not sure as how to get wsdl so that I can write a separate application to test the web service.
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Re: What is the best way to migrate from GLASSFISH 3.1 to WAS 8.0?2012-12-13T14:34:58Z in response to RajivKonkimallaThanks for sharing all this information. AFAIK, the META-INF folder containing persistence.xml should be in WebContent of the web module. Is this correct?


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Child's Play 3
|Child's Play 3
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|Directed by
|Jack Bender
|Produced by
|David Kirschner (Executive producer)
Robert Latham Brown
|Written by
|Don Mancini
|Based on
|Characters by
Don Mancini
David Kirschner (Chucky Doll)
|Justin Whalin
Perrey Reeves
Jeremy Sylvers
Brad Dourif
|Music by
|Cory Lerios
John D'Andrea
|John R. Leonetti
|Edited by
|Scott Wallace
Edward A. Warschilka Jr.
|Distributed by
|Universal Pictures
Release dates
|August 30, 1991
Running time
|90 minutes
|United States
|$13 million
|Box office
|$20.5 million
Child's Play 3 is a 1991 horror film. It is the third installment in the Child's Play series, with Brad Dourif returning as the voice of Chucky. Although released only one year later, the story takes place eight years following the events of 1990's Child's Play 2.
The film became notorious in the United Kingdom when it was suggested it might have inspired the real-life murder of British child James Bulger, a suggestion rejected by officers investigating the case,[1][2] as well as the murder of Suzanne Capper.
Eight years after Andy Barclay and Kyle had destroyed Chucky inside the Play Pals factory, Play Pals' "Good Guys doll" has recovered from bad publicity arising from Chucky's murder spree. The company releases a new line of Good Guy dolls and recycles Chucky's remains. However, the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray still inhabits the remains, and Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) is soon revived in a new doll body. At a company meeting, one of the members of the board questions whether releasing the Good Guy dolls in stores might cause problems for children; however, Mr. Sullivan tells them that Andy was merely a disturbed child. Chucky is unwittingly given to Play Pals' CEO Mr. Sullivan, who later realizes Andy's story about Chucky was true when Chucky suddenly comes to life & tortures him with various toys and eventually kills him in his own house. Chucky then uses Sullivan's computer records to locate the now-teenaged Andy Barclay (Justin Whalin).
Still troubled by his past encounters with Chucky, 16-year-old Andy has been sent to Kent Military School. Colonel Cochran (Dakin Matthews), the school's commandant, begrudgingly enrolls Andy, but advises him to forget his "fantasies" about the doll. Inside the school, Andy befriends cadets Harold Aubrey Whitehurst (Dean Jacobson), Ronald Tyler (Jeremy Sylvers), and Kristin DeSilva (Perrey Reeves), for whom he develops romantic feelings. He also meets the barber of the military school, Sargent Botnik (Andrew Robinson), whom gives him and Tyler new haircuts, and Brett C. Shelton (Travis Fine), the leader of the cadet corps who routinely bullies subordinates.
When Tyler is tasked with delivering a package to Andy, he accidentally drops the package and tears the wrapping, revealing its contents as a Good Guy doll. Excited, the young cadet takes the new toy to the cellar and unwraps it. Once freed, Chucky scolds Tyler for opening the package he was supposed to give to Andy, but realizing he has a new body, he decides that Tyler will be his vessel of possession instead. Just as Chucky is about to possess him, they are interrupted by Cochran, who confiscates the doll from Tyler. Cochran throws Chucky into a garbage truck, but Chucky escapes by yelling for help, luring the driver into the truck's compactor and crushing him. The garbage man's murder upsets Andy, who senses it may be the work of Charles Lee Ray. That night, Chucky attacks Andy in his room and reveals his plot to possess Tyler. Andy tries to retaliate, but Shelton comes in and takes the doll from him. Andy tries to get the doll back by sneaking into Shelton's room, but Shelton catches him in the act. Upon realizing the doll has vanished, Shelton suspects it stolen and forces all the cadets to do exercises in the courtyard as punishment.
Andy attempts to warn Tyler about Chucky, but is initially unheeded. At one point, Chucky lures Tyler into playing hide-and-seek in Cochran's office, where he attempts to possess the boy again. However, they are interrupted by DeSilva, who snuck into Cochran's office to find Andy's dossier, and, moments later, Cochran himself. Cochran is startled by a knife-wielding Chucky, who attempts to scare him off. The resulting shock causes Cochran to suffer a fatal heart attack.
The following morning, Andy tries to warn Tyler about Chucky, but doesn't believe him causing Andy to give him back his pocket knife. After breakfast, Chucky kills the barber of the military school with a razor blade and scares Whitehurst in the process.
Despite Cochran's death, Shelton declares that the school's annual war games will proceed as planned. However, Chucky secretly replaces the paint bullets of the red team with live ammunition. When the simulation begins, Chucky accosts Tyler, who then threatens the boy when he refuses to take part in the possession ritual. Realizing that Andy was right, Tyler stabs Chucky with his pocket knife and flees, trying to find Andy. Chucky then attacks DeSilva and holds her hostage, attempting to lure the teams into fighting each other to save her. Chucky forces Andy to exchange DeSilva for Tyler.
Suddenly, the red team descends upon the area and obliviously opens fire with their live rounds. Shelton is killed in the crossfire. Amidst the chaos, Tyler makes a quick getaway, but before giving chase, Chucky tosses a live grenade at the quarreling cadets. Recognizing the danger, Whitehurst bravely smothers the grenade with his body and sacrifices himself to save the others. With no time to mourn his friend, Andy heads off in pursuit of Chucky, with DeSilva close behind.
At a nearby carnival, Tyler runs to a security guard for help but shows him Chucky whom then kills the guard (albeit off-screen). Chucky then takes Tyler into a haunted house with Andy and DeSilva not too far behind. Chucky gets the left side of his face chopped off by a Grim Reaper prop's scythe. In the ensuing melee, Chucky shoots DeSilva in the leg, leaving Andy to face Chucky alone, but not before he applies a tourniquet to DeSilva. When Tyler is inadvertently knocked out, Chucky seizes the opportunity to possess him, but Andy intervenes, shooting him several times. Enraged, Chucky attempts to strangle Andy, but Andy uses Tyler's knife to cut off Chucky's hand, dropping him into a giant fan which slices him to pieces.
Afterward, Andy is taken away by the police for questioning, but assures DeSilva that he will be okay, as he's "dealt with them before." As the police car drives away, DeSilva is taken to the nearby hospital and Tyler's fate is left unexplained.
A janitor walks around the park cleaning up the place while all the rides are shutting down. He then walks toward the haunted house where Chucky was killed possibly hinting that his remains will be delivered to a police evidence locker, setting up the events for the next film to follow shortly after.
- Brad Dourif as Chucky (Voice)
- Justin Whalin as Andy Barclay
- Perrey Reeves as Kristin De Silva
- Jeremy Sylvers as Ronald Tyler
- Andrew Robinson as Sgt. Botnick
- Travis Fine as Cadet Lt. Col. Brett C. Shelton
- Dakin Matthews as Col. Cochrane
- Donna Eskra as J. Ivers
- Burke Byrnes as Sgt. Clark
- Matthew Walker as Maj. Ellis
- Dean Jacobson as Harold Aubrey Whitehurst
- Peter Haskell as Mr. Sullivan
- Alex Vincent as Younger Andy Barclay (archive footage; uncredited during the first part of the movie)
A tie-in novel was later written by Matthew J. Costello. Just like Child's Play 2, this novel had some of the author's own parts. In the beginning, (unlike the film's) in the Play Pals factory, a rat scours for food and chews on Chucky`s remains. Blood then leaks out of the remains and somehow leaks into another doll. Chucky`s death in this book is also different.
Child's Play 3 received negative reviews and the film was a box-office disappointment, grossing $20.5 million worldwide.[3] Some critics felt the film's tone itself was darker, despite some scenes of Chucky's humour. Critics and fans criticized the story for taking place at a military academy. Mainstream critics gave the film negative reviews, and horror fans often regard it as the worst of the series alongside Seed of Chucky (which was released over 13 years later).[4][5][6] Series creator Don Mancini said that this was his least favorite entry in the series, adding that he ran out of ideas after the second film. Although Brad Dourif was again praised for his voice-acting of Chucky and Justin Whalin's portrayal of Andy Barclay achieved praise from some fans of the series, the film holds a "rotten" rating of 23% on Rotten Tomatoes. Due to the negative feedback, Don Mancini would not make another entry in the Child's Play series until seven years later, with Bride of Chucky.
|Saturn Award[7]
|Best Horror Film
|Child's Play 3
|Best Performance by a Younger Actor
|Justin Whalin
|Fangoria Chainsaw Award
|Best Supporting Actor
|Andrew Robinson
Home video releases[edit]
Child's Play 3 was originally released on home video in North America on March 12, 1992 and on DVD on October 4, 2003.
Child's Play 3 was also released in the Chucky Collection (which also featured Child's Play 2, and Bride of Chucky) on October 4, 2003.
On September 19, 2006 it was released as part of Chucky - The Killer DVD Collection (alongside Child's Play 2, Bride of Chucky, and Seed of Chucky).
On October 8, 2013 Child's Play 3 was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray as part of Chucky: The Complete Collection (alongside the original Child's Play, Child's Play 2, Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky, and Curse of Chucky).
James Bulger controversy[edit]
The film also had some controversy because it has been indirectly linked to the brutal murder of James Bulger. The killers, who were 10 years old at the time, were said to have imitated a scene in which one of Chucky's victims is splashed with blue paint. Although these allegations against the film have never been proven, the case has led to some new legislation for video films.[8] Psychologist Guy Cumberbatch has stated, "The link with a video was that the father of one of the boys – Jon Venables – had rented Child's Play 3: Look Who's Stalking some months earlier."[9] However, the police officer who directed the investigation, Albert Kirby, found that the son, Jon, was not living with his father at the time and was unlikely to have seen the film. Moreover, the boy disliked horror films—a point later confirmed by psychiatric reports. Thus the police investigation, which had specifically looked for a video link, concluded there was none.[10]
Don originally intended for this film to be the final installment in the series however following the success of Scream five years later, interest in the slasher subgenre was revived and a sequel was then planned and released seven years after the third film in 1998 with the title "Bride of Chucky". Unlike its predecessors, Bride of Chucky was a horror-comedy and made Chucky the main character and gave him a girlfriend and changed the plot from trying to take a child's soul to him and his girlfriend going after his amulet which was burred with his corpse. Unlike in the previous three films, the protagonist Andy Barclay made no appearance but was briefly mentioned at the beginning of the film in a newspaper article about Chucky. Bride of Chucky was then followed by two sequels; Seed of Chucky in 2004 and Curse of Chucky in 2013, the latter of which returned to the straightforward horror elements found in the first three films and also brought back Andy Barclay, the protagonist from the first three films for a quick post-credits cameo role. A seventh installment is also planned and scheduled for release either sometime in late 2015 or 2016.
Halloween Horror Nights[edit]
In 2009, the climax of Child's Play 3 received its own maze at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights, entitled Chucky's Fun House.
This is not the first time Chucky has been featured in Halloween Horror Nights. Curse of Chucky has been slated to receive its own scarezone in the 2013 lineup.[11] Since 1992, Chucky has starred in his own shows, Chucky's In-Your-Face Insults and Chucky's Insult Emporium.
- ^ "No conclusive link between videos and violence". BBC. 1998-01-07. Retrieved 2011-04-21.
- ^ Kirby, Terry; Foster, Jonathan (1993-11-26). "Video link to Bulger murder disputed". The Independent (London). Retrieved 2011-04-21.
- ^ Fox, David J. (1991-09-04). "Weekend Box Office : 'Dead' Enlivens Labor Day Business". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-04-21.
- ^ "Child's Play 3". Deseret News. Retrieved 2011-04-21.
- ^ James, Caryn (1991-08-30). "Child's Play 3". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-04-21.
- ^ "Child's Play 3". Variety. 1990-12-31. Retrieved 2011-04-21.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103956/awards
- ^ Morrison, Blake (2003-02-06). "Life after James". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2011-04-21.
- ^ Faux, Ronald; Frost, Bill (1993-11-25). "Boys guilty of Bulger murder". Times (London). Retrieved 2011-04-21.
- ^ Bracchi, Paul (2010-03-13). "The police were sure James Bulger's ten-year-old killers were simply wicked. But should their parents have been in the dock?". Daily Mail (London). Retrieved 2011-04-21.
- ^ http://www.fearnet.com/news/news-article/universal-studios-halloween-horror-nights-introduces-chucky-and-purge-scarezones
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I don't find anything fun anymore. Everything just... happens. There's no emotion involved, like I'm empty. I fake almost everything, especially laughter, because if you don't laugh at EVERY SINGLE JOKE, something must be wrong with you, right? The only time when there's emotion is when I'm embarrassed or sad about something, anger too. Never true, full blown happiness. I can't remember the last time I was truly happy. Music, food, friends, all the things that you're supposed to (and what I once enjoyed) in life make no difference. It's all the same stuff. I don't think I'll ever be truly happy.
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you must always run Fel with PTL and Stealth
if you dont need to barrel roll or boost, first action is FOCUS, then PTL to EVADE, this puts a STRESS token on Fel which gives him another FOCUS token.
so now Fel is sitting there with 2 FOCUS and 1 EVADE with 4 defense dice, 5 at range 3, you have to roll horribly to get hit, like i said in my first post, the key to Interceptors is concentrate on not getting hit first, and fire when you can. once you have your enemy outnumbered due to casualties, thats when you pounce with all of your ships.
i ran this list in tournament and took second place to someone who could fly Fel better than me. once he got behind me i couldnt shake him, Fel with PTL can go anywhere and do anything, i would put him against wedge any day of the week, wedge is only good if he has a shot, if you keep Fel turning and rolling and evading and focusing, wedge is a dead duck.