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Chapter Four
My eyes darted around the water, and I spun around wondering where she could've been. "This isn't funny, Ali." I tried to say strongly, but my voice was quivering. I stopped still when I saw a few bubbles appear on the surface of the water a few feet away. I instinctively dove under the dirty water and searched for her.
I opened my eyes under the water, but it was so hard to see anything. A flash of red went by me, and I kept swimming to see Ali sinking to the bottom. I grabbed her and pushed myself back up to the surface. I gasped for air, and struggled to keep Ali above the water. She was unconscious, or at least I hoped so. I draped her over my back and stayed to catch my breath for a moment.
A few houses lined what I can only imagine was a street in the distance. It took me about half an hour to get there; it would've taken about ten minutes if I didn't have Ali on my back. The houses looked like new developments. They were three floors, although the basements were all most likely flooded. I wasn't even sure if anyone was in the houses, but I had to try.
I lugged Ali up onto the porch and laid her down carefully as I approached the door. After knocking for a few minutes, I could tell no one was home, if anyone lived there in the first place? The door was still locked, so I tried to open a window. I finally gave up and grabbed a large rock from under the water. After smashing it through the window, I climbed through it and unlocked the front door.
Ali was breathing, which was a relief. I had no idea what I would do without her. I placed her on a large suede sofa in the living room, and went on a tour of the house. It seemed strange to know that just outside was a disgusting current of water up to our shoulders, while in here was a luxurious new home. I checked the basement door, and sure enough it was flooded almost all the way up the steps.
Next, I went to the taps and saw that the water was working, but not the hot water. The electricity was out too, but I expected that. It seemed people were moving into the house. When I went up into the bedrooms, there were boxes of clothes and the beds were messily made. There were three rooms, one girls one boys and one parent's room. I sighed and went back downstairs to check up on Ali.
She was awake and sitting upright on the sofa. "I passed out again, didn't I?" She moaned. "I'm afraid so." I replied, sitting in an armchair next to her. "How's the wound feeling?" I asked. "Not great." She said, lifting her shirt and craning her neck so she could see. The bandage was falling apart and blood was seeping out steadily. I tried to hide a cringe and cleared my throat instead.
"Maybe you should take a shower to clean it up a little. The water is cold, but at least it's clean." I suggested. "You can find some new clothes in the rooms upstairs." I finished, fidgeting with my t-shirt. It was the first time I noticed I was wearing my new t-shirt. It was now torn at the bottom and covered in dirt and blood and who knows what else from the water.
After mentioning a shower, it made me want to shower. I was suddenly aware of how bad I smelled, and how dirty I felt and must've looked.
A clean house can make you a little more self-conscious it seems. Ali nodded slowly to my suggestion, and I helped her upstairs. She went into the girls' room and rummaged through the closet. After eventually finding something that fit, she went into the bathroom. While she was in there, I found a huge white t-shirt in the Dad's dresser and started ripping it into strips for new bandages.
I waited by the stairs until Ali came out. She ran out of the bathroom, lifting an oversized shirt up high enough so that no blood would get on it. "Quick, bandage me up!" She said, turning around. I worked fast, tying knots tightly and making sure it was padded enough. When I was done, Ali sighed and pulled the shirt back down. "It seems the girl who lived here liked big shirts and short shorts." She laughed. It was nice to see her smile.
Ali pulled her wet hair into a ponytail and went downstairs. That cold shower really woke her up. I searched the boys' room, but everything was too small. It was all eight year old clothes. I knew for a fact I couldn't wear the Dad's clothes. I had almost given up when I saw a box at the top of his closet. It was labeled 'Hand-me-downs'. I pulled it down and smiled. The clothes looked a little big, but they would do. I grabbed a shirt and shorts and ran for the shower.
The water was freezing, and at first I thought being clean might not even be worth it, but after a while it just felt refreshing. I cleaned my hair and scrubbed the dirt off of me. After that, I joined Ali downstairs. She was looking through the fridge. "Do you think this has all gone bad?" She asked. I peered into the fridge. I had absolutely no idea how long it had been since the flood. I decided it was probably best to leave the fridge alone.
We took anything and everything out of the cupboards. We filled up and school snacks and cookies, chips and even beans. The pink evening turned into a pitch black night. Ali yawned and said, "I have dibs on the master bedroom." I laughed. "It's yours. I'm just happy to sleep on a bed." I admitted.
Drearily, we headed up the stairs and into the different bedrooms. "See you tomorrow, Sam." Ali said, rubbing her eyes. "Goodnight." I replied. I thought for sure I would sleep that night. After all of that, not even nightmares would stop me.
Unfortunately, my dreams decided to challenge me on that thought. I jumped out of sleep after having the exact dream I had the previous night. It's not even a nightmare. I told myself, Just go back to sleep. I got up and looked out the window. The stars were flickering and my stomach did flips. I still didn't know why that memory was bugging me so much. But as I stared at the night sky, I knew exactly why.
Grammy was the dying star. She shined the brightest because she had all the attention on her. Suddenly I knew what my Mother was saying. She was telling me, Sam, when you're dying you get all the attention. That's just how it is. I couldn't help but smile a little at how ironic that was. That wasn't the reason my stomach did flips when I had that dream, though.
It was because I couldn't stop thinking that Ali was a dying star too. I climbed back into bed and stared at the ceiling. Ali was bleeding out, and I had no way of stopping it unless I got her to a hospital. The thing was she wasn't strong enough to walk all day. I suddenly felt the need to check up on her. Don't be a creeper. She's fine. My brain said. But my heart said, Go see if she's all right. After a few more minutes of debating with myself, I got up and sneaked into the master bedroom. I crept in just far enough to see the sheets moving up and down as she breathed. With a sigh of relief, I turned around.
I winced as the floor creaked. It turns out Ali was a very light sleeper. Something I wish I had taken into account. She screamed and jolted upright. "No, it's okay it's just me." I said quietly. "Sam, what are you doing!? She asked, still in shock. "Nothing, I was just checking…" I had no idea how to explain myself. Even in the darkness I could see the confusion on her face.
"Sorry…" I concluded, and ran back to my room. I flopped down on the bed, feeling the most embarrassed I had ever been. That was until I heard the hysterical laughter coming from the master bedroom….
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Vege Garden Progress
We had a visit from Tina at Project Twin Streams. She kindly donated a whole load of seedlings to plant in our vege garden. Also, check out how well the seeds are going in the class.
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Sunday, November 23, 2014
7 Minute Workout
Here is the link to the 7 Minute Workout. We will be doing this every morning for the rest of the term. You can have a go at home too! Let's see if we can do the whole workout without getting puffed.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Painting the Taniwha...
This taniwha is going to be a big part of our end of year performance - The Story of Kaiwhare. We wrote the play together based on a Maori legend of a taniwha who lives in the blowhole at Piha. We have added our own songs and live instruments to the play.
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Monday, November 10, 2014
Planting seeds
Since the warmer weather seems to finally be here, we planted our seeds today. By the end of term these should be small seedlings ready for the kids to plant at home. Next step is to plant some more mature plants in our vege garden so we can have some full grown veges by the end of term to use on our handmade PIZZAS. My tummy is already grumbling....
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Code Studio
Computer programming (or 'Coding') is fast becoming a new literacy and many experts are saying it will be key in getting a job for our kids. Check out this NZ Herald article about how coding is being used at Marina View School. We have gone over some basic coding concepts this year but now we are getting serious!
With Code Studio, kids can learn step-by-step to programme simple games like Flappy Bird. I have set each kid up with their own login. Kids, it is important that you don't skip levels because you might miss important steps. If a level gets too hard, watch the video link at the bottom left of the level you're on.
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Elwin D celebrates 90 yrs!
Elwin D McCurry, the eldest of four sons, was born on Feb. 23rd 1923 to Nora Guard and Floyd Jacob McCurry at their home in Wizbang, OK.
While spending the majority of his life in the Dallas Co. area, Elwin D has remained active in his local church, supporting missions abroad, being a businessman and most importantly a supportive husband, father and grandfather.
Throughout his celebrated 90 yrs Elwin D has always remained committed to leading his family by putting God first, family second and business third.
Our family welcomes you to help him celebrate 90 yrs with a card or note, including any stories or high tales you might have. 298 Hwy 32, Buffalo, MO 65622
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Cardiologist, author, and heart health expert Dr. Sarah Samaan offers advice on how to live a heart smart life.
Feb 03 2011
Heart Health and the Super Bowl Effect
It's easy to laugh about the enthusiasm and sometimes outright fanaticism of sports fans, but German researchers found that some armchair quarterbacks may put a little too much heart in the game. In a study published in the New England Journ...
Feb 01 2011
The State of the Heart
I consider heart disease to be the elephant in the living room: a colossal crisis that won't go away, shrink, or retreat, no matter how hard we try to ignore it. In fact, heart disease kills more Americans, men and women, than the next seven ca...
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FITT Programming
The FITT principle is an easy way to remember the components necessary in a complete fitness program. FITT is a programming model that is appropriate for all aspects of fitness: strength training, cardiovascular training, and flexibility training, and is appropriate for all ages and special populations. The FITT principle incorporates the four variables that must be managed when developing any individualized exercise program, as shown in Table 11.2. Tables 11.3 through 11.5 show ACSM guidelines on cardiovascular, strength, and flexibility training using the FITT Principle when programming for healthy adults. Table 11.6 shows ACSM, CDC, and U.S. Surgeon General recommendations for programming for highly de-conditioned adults.
Frequency -- How frequently the exercise or activity is performed in terms of times per day and/or days per week
Intensity -- The level of exercise in terms of heart rate, perceived exertion, pounds, strength levels, METS, etc.
Time -- The duration of the exercise or activity in minutes and/or sets.
Type -- The mode or description of the exercise or activity.
Table 11.2. The FITT Principle
3-5 times per week.
55%-90% of maximum heart rate, perceived exertion "somewhat hard to hard," 40%-85% of heart rate reserve or oxygen uptake reserve (VO2R)
20-60 minutes of continuous or intermittent (minimum 10-minute bouts) of aerobic activity accumulated during the day.
Large muscle groups, rhythmic and aerobic in nature.
Table 11.3. ACSM Guidelines for Cardiorespiratory Fitness for Healthy Adults
2-3 times per week.
At least moderate intensity. Intensity levels should continue to increase to levels above those normally experienced.
1 set, 8-12 repetitions for healthy participants under 50 years old
1 set, 10-15 repetitions for participants older than 50
12-20 repetitions for endurance
8-12 repetitions for hypertrophy or size increase
1-8 reps for strength/power
Dynamic types of exercises, using full range of motion
Table 11.4. ACSM Guidelines for Strength Training for Healthy Adults
A minimum of 2-3 times a week; 3-4 sets for each target muscle
To a position of mild discomfort
15-30 seconds for static; 6-second contraction followed by 10-30 seconds assisted stretch for PNF.
Various techniques including static, dynamic, and PNF for each major muscle and/or tendon group
Table 11.5. ACSM Guidelines for Flexibility for Healthy Adults
Most days of the week
Perceived exertion "moderate," at least 55%-64% maximum heart rate.
30 minutes of activity (minimum 10-minute bouts) accumulated throughout the day
Continuous movement or activity including gardening, housework, and other activities of daily living.
Table 11.6. ACSM, CDC, and Surgeon General Recommendations for Highly Deconditioned Adults.
When and how should the FITT program be changed?
-Change only one of the FITT components at a time.
-Initial adaptation to exercise occurs within 4 to 6 weeks.
-Significant improvement usually continues for 12 to 20 weeks.
-Maintenance begins when improvement tapers or plateaus, usually about 6 months after program starts. (Refer to Chapter 11 of the ACE Personal Trainer Manual, 3rd Edition, for more information on exercise progression.)
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Cigars may not
be native to Louisiana, but they have certainly taken firm root
in the city's celebrated culture of indulgence.
The traditional finale to a rich meal, the cigar is also used
to mark an important event such as the birth of a child or the
completion of a big business deal. It's no surprise then that
a city that loves its fine cuisine and is willing to launch into
boisterous celebration on the smallest pretext should prove a
welcoming home for the cigar.
On A Roll
A fine cigar, after all, is to a common smoke as a bowl of dark,
rich gumbo is to a can of soup: incomparably finer and more lavish.
It's also a handcrafted product made by artisans, rather than
a mass-produced commodity, as one visit to the New Orleans
Cigar Factory (415 Decatur St., 504-568-1003) will demonstrate
vividly. In a bustling atmosphere fueled by meringue music and
the ever-present aroma of just-lit cigars, a team of cigar makers
works rapidly and with focus at a line of rustic wooden booths,
rolling the establishment's proprietary blends as visitors look
on. Turning a pile of tobacco into a properly formed, appropriately
aged and carefully maintained cigar is a long process, and each
step is on display here, from the rolling table to the aging room
to the walk-in humidor. The Cigar Factory operates
a second location closer to the all-night action on Bourbon Street
(206 Bourbon St., 504-568-0168), which is open much later.
While these cigars are New Orleans originals,
many aficionados have brand loyalty and are only willing to stray
from their favorites for so long. The French Quarter has several
tobacconists offering large selections from well-known cigar makers,
as well as specialty cigarettes and pipe tobacco. For example,
the Crescent City Cigar Shop (730 Orleans Ave.,
504-522-4427) and JAI Bawani (729 St. Louis St.,
504-586-0994) both look and function much like the cigar shops
visitors are likely familiar with from home. Much more exotic,
however, is the retail experience at Rev. Zombie's House
of Voodoo (723 St. Peter St., 504-486-6366), where altars
of religious statuary, ritual totems, candles and other curios
share shop space with a wide selection of cigars and other tobacco
Where There's Smoke,
There's Dinner
At Broussard's Restaurant (819 Conti St., 504-581-3866),
one of the "grande dames" of Creole dining, cigars
are part of what the restaurant calls the "Three Fine C's." Fine
cigars, fine cognac and fine coffee form a veritable holy trinity
of after-dinner luxury at the 84-year-old Creole restaurant,
which stocks Davidoff cigars, a highly-regarded brand from Switzerland.
Cigars are paid similar respect at Dickie
Brennan's Steakhouse (716 Iberville St., 504-522-2267),
an upscale steakhouse where the aroma of a cigar rounds out
a distinctly gentlemanly atmosphere of polished wood interiors
and a no nonsense menu of USDA prime steaks and New Orleans
seafood favorites. The steakhouse offers a selection of cigars
from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Honduras and Jamaica.
Cigar smoking is allowed in the bar, and upon request in private
dining rooms.
Holy Smokes Cafe (533 St.
Louis St., 504-588-1811) truly lives up to its billing as a smoker's
cafe. In addition to a walk-in humidor, the cafe has a gourmet
coffee bar as well as a selection of gelato, the luxuriously
rich and creamy Italian ice cream. Try a cup of the coffee gelato
for a mellow and flavorful icy treat. Big comfortable rocking
chairs and a selection of magazines invite lingering over a freshly-lit
And where there's alluring smoke, there's
not necessarily always a cigar. Hookahs, or Middle Eastern water
pipes, are attracting a wider following in the New Orleans area
and Holy Smokes Cafe is one of several local venues which now
offer them.
Most of the cigar shops also sell smoking
accessories, from utilitarian cigar cutters to beautiful humidors.
But a stop in to M.S. Rau Antiques (630 Royal St., 504-523-5660),
gives a unique historical perspective to just how seriously the
cigar culture was regarded in the gilded age and earlier. This
immense antique mecca boasts a collection of cigar smoking accessories,
including some crafted by renowned makers such as Tiffany, Faberge
and Cartier.
Often made from gold and sterling and sometimes
even encrusted with gemstones, these antiques can command kingly
sums. For much less treasure, however, visitors might well feel
like kings and queens themselves with a fine cigar in hand strolling
under the balconies and Creole moon of a French Quarter evening.
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Anne Hathaway has said she was "inconsolable" after having all her hair cut off for 'Les Miserables'.
The actress, who plays a destitute single mother in the Tom Hooper-directed musical adaptation, told The Mirror that she struggled to come to terms with her radical new look.
"It was done and I took a few beats and then looked into the mirror," she said.
"I called my husband [fellow actor Adam Shulman] and was on the phone with him. I looked in the mirror and I said 'I look like my gay brother. I'm just Man Hathaway'."
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She added: "I realised I couldn't take it back. It had the effect of changing my identity. I was reduced to a mental patient level of crying... I was inconsolable.
"I put it up there with the most difficult things I've ever had to do, which I wasn't expecting. I didn't think I was that vain.
"There was nothing I could do to prepare for it. You train the stunt, you sing the song, you train your voice. This was just letting it happen and accepting whatever the results were going to be."
Explaining her own decision to do the haircut for real, she recalled: "I offered Tom the option of cutting my hair. It was always something that I knew in the back of my mind I'd be willing to do for a character if it was ever right.
"So when I got cast and I read the script, and I knew they were keeping the hair cutting in, and then I read the book and it's such a devastating scene, I thought doing it for real might raise the stakes a bit.
"And I guess in the back of my mind, I thought it if was a painful experience watching her haircut, then watching her teeth get pulled would be really painful. And then, of course, when she becomes a prostitute, I just thought they're going to be with her feeling that alongside her.
"And as an actor, it was great to be able to authentically communicate a physical transformation."
The star is considered a frontrunner for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards for her role.


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Long-time Bracket Science insiders may recall a few tourneys back when I had this irrational obsession with advancing Pitt in my personal bracket. The obsession went on for at least three dances, from 2008 to 2010. No amount of statistical evidence would shake me off the Panthers. Never mind their offensive deficiencies…or late-season struggles. I had to have me some Pitt. Maybe it was the fact that I lived there in the late sixties.
What finally cured me of this odd malady—aside from three straight busted brackets—was some analysis I did on the history of what I call "snake-bitten" coaches. Before 2010, there was a lot of talk about the fact that Jamie Dixon hadn't taken a team to the Elite Eight in five tries, despite getting seeded third twice, and fourth and fifth once. So I wondered: do coaches behave like Newton's first law of motion? That is, does a coach who's underperforming remain an underperformer?
It turns out, the answer is yes—not a hard and fast yes, but enough of a yes that you may want to think twice before advancing a snake-bitten coach too far in your bracket.
Here's how I did the analysis: for the top six seed positions, I compared the performance numbers of coaches who had been to the dance at least five times without making an Elite Eight run to all other coaches. What I found was a marked difference both in their PASE values and the rate at which they advanced to the Elite Eight. In other words, veteran coaches who've never gotten to the quarterfinals are less likely to get there as time goes on.
The numbers tell the story. Of the 101 snake-bitten coaches (5+ trips, no Elite Eight runs) whose teams were seeded one through six, only 18 of them made it to the Elite Eight. That's a 17.8% success rate. What's more, the 101 teams posted an underachieving PASE of -.306. Meanwhile, there were 571 one-to-six seeds not led by snake-bitten coaches. Their success rate in reaching the Elite Eight was 31.2% and their PASE was +.054.
If you do this comparison at individual seed positions, the numbers are even more telling. Seven of the 10 snake-bitten coaches with top-seeded teams made the Elite Eight. That compares almost dead-on with the rest of the coaching pool (72 of 102). But here's the thing: the typical one seed wins 3.42 games, so getting to the Elite Eight doesn't even constitute overachievement. When you look at the PASE of the top-seeded snake-bitten coaches, it's a dreadful -.575. Only one of those ten teams beat expectations. That would be Rick Barnes in 2003, who promptly lost in the Final Four. It wouldn't be Jamie Dixon, who promptly destroyed my bracket in 2009.
The numbers for the rest of the top six seeds are more telling:
- Two seeds: six of 19 snake-bitten coaches reached the Elite Eight (31.6%) and they owned a -.262 PASE…while 46 of the remaining 93 coaches saw the fourth round (49.5%)
- Three seeds: four of 17 snake-bitten coaches reached the Elite Eight (23.5%) with a -.092 PASE…while 24 of the remaining 95 coaches got that far (25.2%)
- Four, five and six seeds: A grand total of one out of 55 snake-bitten coaches has gotten to the Elite Eight (1.8%) and the group earned a -.246 PASE…while 36 of the 281 remaining coaches have made the quarterfinals (12.8%)
Clearly, coaches who've gone to the tourney five or more times without making a solid run are not the sort of leaders you want to bet your bracket on. And that begs the question: who are the active snake-bitten coaches? Here's a list, ordered first by the number of tourney appearances, then by PASE (coaches whose teams are ranked among Ken Pomeroy's top 30 in Pythag are in bold):
- Fran Dunphy, Temple (14 Trips | 10.8 Seed | -.403 PASE)
- Mark Few, Gonzaga (13 Trips | 7.1 Seed | -.006 PASE)
- Mike Brey, Notre Dame (10 Trips | 7.3 Seed | -.409 PASE)
- Stew Morrill, Utah State (9 Trips | 12.9 Seed | -.261 PASE)
- Dana Altman, Oregon (8 Trips | 9.3 Seed | -.515 PASE)
- Kevin Stallings, Vanderbilt (8 Trips | 6.3 Seed | -.344 PASE)
- Gregg Marshall, Wichita State (8 Trips | 13.4 Seed | -.135 PASE)
- Tim Floyd, UTEP (8 Trips | 7.6 Seed | .000 PASE)
- Ben Braun, Rice (8 Trips | 8.8 Seed | +.164 PASE)
- Leonard Hamilton, Florida State (7 Trips | 6.6 Seed | -.338 PASE)
- Lorenzo Romar, Washington (7 Trips | 6.4 Seed | -.094 PASE)
- Matt Painter, Purdue (7 Trips | 6.6 Seed | +.078 PASE)
- Herb Sendek, Arizona State (7 Trips | 8.1 Seed | +.108 PASE)
- Oliver Purnell, Depaul (6 Trips | 8.2 | -.818 PASE)
- Dave Rose, BYU (6 Trips | 8.0 Seed | -.323 PASE)
- Steve Alford, New Mexico (6 Trips | 6.7 Seed | -.313 PASE)
- Blaine Taylor, Old Dominion (6 Trips | 12.3 Seed | -.217 PASE)
- Cliff Ellis, Coastal Carolina (6 Trips | 6.0 Seed | -.012 PASE)
- Roger Reid, Southern Utah (5 Trips | 9.4 Seed | -.270 PASE)
- Todd Bozeman, Morgan State (5 Trips | 10.6 Seed | -.191 PASE)
- Rick Byrd, Belmont (5 Trips | 14.4 Seed | -.116 PASE)
- Trent Johnson, LSU (5 Trips | 8.0 Seed | +.111 PASE)
- Fran McCafferty, Iowa (5 Trips | 13.4 Seed | +.184 PASE)
- Mark Turgeon, Maryland (5 Trips | 7.4 Seed | +.211 PASE)
You'll notice that Jamie Dixon didn't make this list. So why do I lead off the article tossing his name to the snakes? Because he ruined my 2009 bracket, that's why. No, not really. I think of Jamie Dixon as a "snake-bitten coach in disguise." His only Elite Eight run came as a top seed—then he promptly lost and failed to meet seed expectations. The only other active coach with at least five trips whose Elite Eight run came as an underperforming top seed was St. Joe's Phil Martelli. I might give these guys wide berth in my bracket as well.
I can forgive the snake-bitten coaches on the list that either own a positive PASE or are saddled with a low average seed. That includes Fran Dunphy, Stew Morrill, Gregg Marshall, Ben Braun, Matt Painter, Herb Sendek, Blaine Taylor, Todd Bozeman, Rick Byrd, Trent Johnson, Fran McCafferty and Mark Turgeon.
It's the other guys on the list who give me the yips when I'm considering pushing their teams too far in the brackets. Mark Few, Mike Brey, Kevin Stallings, Leonard Hamilton and Steve Alford in particular all have a penchant for short, heart-wrenching cameos in the dance.
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John Curry shut off his cellphone Wednesday.
As the anticipation built toward his first NHL start in four years, Curry couldn't take the constant reminders. Making it to Thursday night was hard enough. He spent the pregame hours in his apartment watching TV and checking the clock.
There was added pressure: As a journeyman goalie, he knows how hard it can be to get chances to play in the NHL.
"That's why I put so much pressure on myself," said Curry, of Shorewood.
Against one of the best teams in the league, Curry backstopped the Wild to a 4-2 win over the St. Louis Blues on a night when the Wild's structure wasn't great and their play was loose.
Curry, 30, stopped a career-high 43 shots in his first start since January 2010 and just the fifth NHL game of his career.
His style is far from glamorous. And his size -- 5 feet 11, 185 pounds -- doesn't make up for it.
"I don't know that technique is his strength," Wild coach Mike Yeo said.
But without size or A-plus technique, Curry helped the Wild beat the Blues, who own the third-best record in the NHL.
"He's a battler, and he showed that tonight," Yeo said.
Thursday's game didn't mean anything in the standings for the Wild. They are going to be the seventh seed regardless of what happened Thursday or in their season finale Sunday against Nashville.
But for the Wild, no game against the Blues is meaningless.
The win snapped the Wild's nine-game losing streak against St.
If it was indeed a first-round preview, the Wild certainly built confidence.
"We've gone into their building, and oftentimes we've done it without a ton of confidence, and they've come at us," Yeo said. "I think it's important that we show that we're ready to be physical against them if they're going to play that game. There wasn't even a fight tonight. It's just about playing hard, and we have to show that we can play in those types of games."
If the Wild consistently get outshot 45-15, as they did Thursday, they won't win many games. But for one night, they found a way to win an in-your-face type of game.
The Wild had scored four goals total against the Blues in four previous games this season. Thursday, they scored four on 15 shots, chasing starting goalie Ryan Miller in the third period.
Nino Niederreiter got the scoring started with a deflection of a Jon Blum shot, and Matt Moulson netted the game-winner on a nice feed from Dany Heatley while on a power play.
But Kyle Brodziak got most of the attention after he scored two goals, including his first since March 8.
"It felt good, I'm not going to lie," Brodziak said. "The whole game felt good. Everybody had good life on the bench. Everybody was involved and really focused on what we wanted to accomplish, and we got it done."
The Blues only got goals from Kevin Shattenkirk and Jaden Schwartz and could have had several more if not for Curry.
"Let's not kid ourselves, they outplayed us tonight," Yeo said. "We spent the majority of the night in our defensive zone."
But Curry played his best NHL game in the biggest game of his career.
He's a free agent at the end of this season, and the Wild already have a goalie logjam, so if he wants a chance to play in the NHL, he might need to sign elsewhere.
That's part of why his performance was paramount to his career's future. Earlier this season, he was playing in the East Coast Hockey League. It has been a long road for Curry.
But after a 43-save night in front of friends and family at the Xcel Energy Center, Curry was thankful even if he doesn't appear in another game with the Wild.
"It's a big stage for me," he said. "I was very thankful to get the opportunity, no matter how it went, but I knew that just based on my career, you don't get many of these. So it's good to have success and play well when you get the chance."
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So on one hand we have a nice letter in in Sunday's paper, "More gun control won't curtail violence," and yet on the front of Section B in the same paper, we can wince at the report of the gun control situation in the death of one 64-year-old businessman by another 64-year-old in an apparent "road rage" incident.
A nice Saturday morning shoot-em-up just north of downtown Melbourne, involving two guys, certainly far beyond being marked as brash youngsters. My deepest sympathies to the family of the deceased, and a hope that some justice will prevail.
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Consumers keep more in their bank accounts
The average checking account balance reached $4,436 at the end of 2013, nearly double the average balance of $2,100 during the past 25 years, according to a report released this week by Moebs Services, an economic research firm. Prior to 2003, checking account balances hovered around $2,000, according to the report.
The growing cash piles show that Americans may not feel any better about their situation six years after the financial crisis despite the fact that stocks are soaring and the unemployment rate is down, said Mike Moebs, an economist and chief executive of the research firm.
If people were feeling better about the economy and confident in their jobs, they would be spending that cash, he said. That�s what happened during the boom years leading up to the last recession, when the average checking account balance bottomed out at $778 in 2007.
�The consumer says times are good, the next paycheck is just around the corner� and they spend more money, Moebs said. �It�s just human nature.�
Instead, many jobless have stopped looking for work. Those who are working may be thinking that they won�t be in line for a big raise for some time. Meanwhile, they are cutting back on shopping, going out to eat and traveling so that they can afford their groceries, gas and utility bills, which are getting more expensive.
As Moebs wrote in the report:
�If the economy is doing well as measured by low unemployment and moderate to low inflation and prices, then the average balance in the consumer�s checking account falls to about $1,400. If the economy really heats up, then, in 2007 for example, the balance can fall below $1,000 since household revenue is doing well and need for liquidity is just a paycheck or two away.�
Greg McBride, chief financial analyst for Bankrate.com, said the tactic of holding more cash may be a way for some consumers to ward off overdraft fees, a major source of revenue for many big banks. Others may be holding more cash to avoid fees and meet minimum balance requirements some banks are instituting for checking accounts, he said.
But many people are probably building an emergency fund so that they can cover their bills if they fall on hard times, Moebs said. �They�re saying, �Let�s be cautious, let�s not use all of that money.� �
Some financial advisers say it may not be smart to hold too much cash in a checking account, where the money won�t earn much interest. But, as Moebs points out, consumers who are counting on using the money soon may not want to risk sticking it in the stock market, and they probably aren�t impressed with today�s low bond yields.
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Midshipman 2nd Class Chad J. Rogers places an American flag along Stribiling Walk at the U. S. Naval Academy Yard. Midshipmen placed 2,977 American flags on the Academy grounds to commemorate the lives of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001 during the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The flags will remain on the grounds through 9/11 and then retired. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Wilkes (Released) 140910-N-TO518-052


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TRENTON — The first 360 pages that cleared Gov. Chris Christie of any wrongdoing in the two scandals dogging his second term agenda and presidential ambitions portray the governor as the victim of a pair of rogue top officials overcome with emotion and crazy ideas.
An additional 437 pages released Monday provides the source material for those characterizations of the officials, Bridget Anne Kelly and David Wildstein, gleaned from interviews with 75 individuals, including three with the governor himself.
But the release of the material further bolsters the argument that the report, commissioned by Christie, is a taxpayer-funded whitewash, according to the two top Democrats leading an investigation into the September lane closures at the George Washington Bridge and the attorney for Kelly.
One of the attorneys who interviewed Christie was Debra Wong Yang, a former U.S. Attorney and close friend who Christie once vacationed with at a wild game ranch in Texas. And the raft of memoranda released by Gibson Dunn, the firm hired by Christie to conduct an internal investigation into the lane closures and allegations of holding superstorm Sandy aid money hostage, relies heavily on those interviews, not documents, to reach its conclusion that Christie knew nothing of the lane closures beforehand, said Assemblyman John Wisniewski, who co-chairs the Select Committee on Investigation.
The report, he said, offers hypothesis without documentation.
The interviews thread the narrative that Kelly, Christies former deputy chief of staff, and Wildstein, the former director of interstate projects at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, operated outside of their duties and without Christies knowledge.
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In an interview with Matt Mowers, who worked in Christies office and on his re-election campaign, Kelly is portrayed as inexperienced and regularly seeking approval. She is particularly concerned about the opinion of Bill Stepien, one of Christies former top advisers who had knowledge of the lane closures and, according to the March 27 report, had a brief relationship with Kelly.
Kelly often tried to emulate Stepien, but even though she rose up through the IGA ranks quickly, she did not have the same background and understanding of government and how it operated as others in the office did, such as Stepien, according to the documents, using the acornym for the governors office of intergovernmental affairs. Mowers went on to say he believed Kelly had an authority complex.
Kellys attorney, Michael Critchley, pointed to Kellys career in politics since graduating college in 1994 and her ascendence in the governors office as proof of her political acumen.
Where is there any objective support for any of these allegations? Critchley said.
According to Christina Renna, the former director of intergovernmental affairs, Kelly directed Renna in December to delete an email with the mayor of Fort Lee about traffic at the bridge there. The lane closures are believed to be retaliation for the mayor not endorsing Christie for re-election.
Nicole Crifo, another Christie official interviewed, said that Kelly was habitually concerned about how she was perceived by the governor.
Wildstein was also sensitive of his image to the governor and eager to please others in top positions, but couldnt quite fit in, according to the documents.
According to interviews with Christies top spokesman, Michael Drewniak, Wildstein would often stop by Drewniaks office to say hello. Drewniak and Wildstein used to be friends and Wildstein would reach out to Drewniak fairly regularly, although Drewniak was usually too busy with work to talk for an extended period of time.
Wilsteins attorney, Alan Zegas, could not be reached for comment.
The governor has gone to great lengths to distance himself from Wildstein amid reports that the two were friends since they grew up in the same town and their political circles mixed. In interviews, Christie called Wildstein an odd duck, and to show his lack of connection Wildstein, told investigators that Wildstein is not a contact in his cell phone.
Christies office did not respond to a request for comment.
Wildstein is alleged in the report to be the mastermind of the lane closures. Even after he resigned from his post and the controversy swelled in the media, Wildstein continued to contact people within the governors office, sending Drewniak an email with a subject line Serbian, a term used in previously released documents to refer to Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, who is of Croatin descent.
Did you see that bastard [Sokolich] hamming it up on Wolf Blitzer? Wildstein wrote, according to the documents.
The newly released documents show Christie pained by the decisions of his staff. When he read news coverage on his iPad, he felt sick to his stomach. When he was told there was a hum that Kelly was involved in emails linked to the bridge shutdown, Christie appeared visibly upset upon hearing this.
On Dec. 13, the day deputy executive director Bill Baroni resigned, Christie held a meeting with senior staff. He walked into the room and slammed the door, telling the staff, this is a mess, and now I have to clean it up, according to the documents. He congratulated his team on helping him earn a large victory margin for re-election as well as the cover of Time magazine, but said it was time to get back to work. He also warned, presciently, that the spotlight can turn to a searchlight real quick.
It has. Christies approval ratings slid markedly after emails were revealed in January showing that high-ranking officials in his administration and the Port Authority had knowledge or direct involvement in the lane closures, and the media coverage of Christie has been exhaustive and often critical of the governor. Also, a joint legislative panel was formed to investigate the closures, and the U.S. Attorneys office in New Jersey, where Christie worked before he was governor, has opened an inquiry.
That inquiry reportedly also focuses on allegations by Dawn Zimmer, the mayor of Hoboken, that the Christie administration held superstorm Sandy recovery money hostage in return for support of a development project by the Rockefeller Group, which had been represented by the law firm of Christie ally and former Port Authority Chairman David Samson.
In the Gibson Dunn memoranda, Christie says he had no recollection of Zimmers position adverse to the Rockefeller Group project, nor did he have specific recollection of meetings with Rockefeller Group executive or lobbyists. Zimmer has alleged that Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno threatened to withhold Sandy aid if she did not support the project. Guadagno has denied the allegations.
But Christies memory is sharp in other areas.
Christie told investigators he does remember that at a 2013 retreat he sang a song with Guadagno and, while running into the kitchen for a snack of raspberries, bumping into Guadagno and saying hello.
Wisniewski said Christies memory is kind of odd, and that the new documents bolster the view that the investigation was one-sided.
You cannot equally satisfy your role as an investigator to what happened if at the same time youre a defender, said Wisniewski, D-Middlesex.
Wisniewskis co-chair, Bergen County Democrat Loretta Weinberg, said she has not fully combed through the documents, but at first glance it appears to be the background for the whitewash.
The Gibson Dunn report was estimated to have cost upwards of $1 million, funded by taxpayers. On Monday, The Record reported that New Jerseys attorney general has hired five law firms to represent public employees in legal matters related to the George Washington Bridge lane closures, and that the state would reimburse the lawyers at a rate of $340 an hour.
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CES 2015: Storage Visions Sightings Part 2: OWC, Intel, Micron, Samsung
Subject: Storage, Shows and Expos | January 8, 2015 - 12:40 AM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: storage visions, ssd, Samsung, owc, micron, Intel, ces 2015, CES
We covered some other Storage Visions sightings in a prior post, so now that a bit of the CES dust is settling down, here's the rest of what was cool to see at Storage Visions:
We'll start off with the Sonnet Tempo SSD Pro Plus, seen here with a pair of OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSDs installed. This is a PCIe to 4-channel SATA HBA. The controller does not appear to employ RAID, leaving that functionality up to the host system OS. Two 2.5" SATA devices can be mounted directly to the PCB, and an additional two SATA channels are available through the rear panel eSATA ports. This card is marketed primarily as a storage expander for Mac products, and can be connected to a Mac Pro via a Thunderbolt-to-PCIe card expander.
Here is an ASUS Copper, which bridges M.2 (enclosed within a 2.5" housing) to a SATA Express link. This may be handy for current generation PCIe 2.0 x2 M2 devices, but with PCIe 2.0 x4 and 3.0 x4 SSDs on the horizon, a SATA Express device of this type will rather quickly become a throughput bottleneck.
Various recent enterprise SSDs. Bottom left is our first sighting of a P3500, sitting next to a Micron P420M, which is just below a Micron M500DC. The right side is all Samsung, and includes an XS1715, which is not SATA, but PCIe/NVMe via an SFF-8639 connector. There are a few M.2 units in the center, and what appears to be another 1715 HHHL unit (PCIe/NVMe) at the bottom right.
That wraps up the Storage Visions goodies. Stand by for more storage related posts as we comb through all of the press releases and photos from the meetings we attended earlier this week.
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Another look at Micron's M600 series; the SSD that swings both ways
Subject: Storage | October 6, 2014 - 02:51 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: ssd, slc, mlc, micron, M600, Dynamic Write Acceleration
The Tech Report took a different look at Micron's M600 SSD than Al did in his review. Their benchmarks were focused more on a performance comparison versus the rest of the market, with over two dozen SSDs listed in their charts. As you would expect the 1TB model outperformed the 256GB model but it was interesting to note that the 256GB MX100 outperformed the newer M600 in many tests. In the final tally the new caching technology helped the 256GB model perform quite well but it was the 1TB model, which supposedly lacks that technology proved to be one of the fastest they have tested.
"Micron's new M600 SSD has a dynamic write cache that can treat any block on the drive as high-speed SLC NAND. This unique feature is designed to help lower-capacity SSDs keep up with larger drives that have more NAND-level parallelism, and we've tested the 256GB and 1TB versions to see how well it works."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- MyDigitalSSD BP4e mSATA SSD @ The SSD Review
- Top 10 SSDs: Price, performance and capacity @ The Register
- Micron M600 M.2 SATA SSD @ The SSD Review
- Some thoughts on the performance of SSD RAID 0 arrays @ Hardware Secrets
- Transcend SSD370 128GB SSD Review @ Legit Reviews
- Micron M600 SSD @ The SSD Review
- QNAP TS-653 Pro @ Legion Hardware
- QNAP SilentNAS HS-251 NAS Server Review @ NikKTech
- Mach Xtreme MX-ES Ultra SLC USB 3.0 Flash Drive @ The SSD Review
- Silicon Power Marvel M70 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review @ NikKTech
Podcast #320 - Micron M600 SSD, NVIDIA and Adaptive Sync, Windows 10 and more!
Subject: General Tech | October 2, 2014 - 02:05 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: X99 Classified, X99, video, tlc, tegra k1, ssd, Samsung, podcast, nvidia, micron, M600, iphone 6, g-sync, freesync, evga, broadwell-u, Broadwell, arm, apple, amd, adaptive sync, a8, 840 evo, 840
PC Perspective Podcast #320 - 10/02/2014
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Introduction and Specifications
Today Micron lifted the review embargo on their new M600 SSD lineup. We covered their press launch a couple of weeks ago, but as a recap, the headline new feature is the new Dynamic Write Acceleration feature. As this is a new (and untested) feature that completely changes the way an SSD must be tested, we will be diving deep on this one later in this article. For the moment, let's dispose with the formalities.
Here are the samples we received for testing:
It's worth noting that since all M600 models use 16nm 128Gbit dies, packaging is expected to have a negligible impact on performance. This means the 256GB MSATA sample should perform equally to its 2.5" SATA counterpart. The same goes for comparisons against M.2 form factor units. More detail is present in the specs below:
Highlights from the above specs are the increased write speeds (no doubt thanks to Dynamic Write Acceleration) and improved endurance figures. For reference, the prior gen Micron models were rated at 72TB (mostly regardless of capacity), so seeing figures upwards of 400TB indicates Micron's confidence in their 16nm process.
Sorry to disappoint here, but the M600 is an OEM targeted drive, meaning its 'packaging' will likely be the computer it comes installed in. If you manage to find it through a reseller, it will likely come in OEM-style brown/white box packaging.
We have been evaluating these samples for just under a week and have logged *many* hours on them, so let's get to it!
Micron's M600 SSD, SLC in the front MLC in the back
Subject: Storage | September 18, 2014 - 07:10 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: micron, M600, SLC. MLC, DWA
Micron's M600 SSD has a new trick up its sleeve, called dynamic write acceleration which is somewhat similar to the HDDs with an NAND cache to accelerate the speed frequently accessed data can be read but with a brand new trick. In this case SLC NAND acts as the cache for MLC NAND but it does so dynamically, the NAND can switch from SLC to MLC and back depending on the amount of usage. There is a cost, the SLC storage capacity is 50% lower than MLC so the larger the cache the lower the total amount of storage is available. As well the endurance rating is also higher than previous drives, not because of better NAND but because of new trim techniques being used. This is not yet a retail product so The Tech Report does not have benchmarks but this goes to show you there are plenty more tricks we can teach SSDs.
"Micron's new M600 SSD can flip its NAND cells between SLC and MLC modes on the fly, enabling a dynamic write cache that scales with the drive's unused capacity. We've outlined how this dynamic write acceleration is supposed to impact performance, power consumption, and endurance."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Adata's Premier SP610 @ The Tech Report
- A SCORCHIO fatboy SSD: Samsung SSD850 PRO 3D V-NAND @ The Register
- Silicon Power Blaze B06 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review @ NikKTech
- SanDisk Ultra II SSD Review (240GB) - TLC Memory becomes Mainstream @ The SSD Review
- Thecus N2310 2-bay NAS @ Kitguru
- QNAP TS-451 @ techPowerUp
- Kingston HyperX FURY 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review @ OCC
Micron launches M600 SATA SSD with innovative SLC/MLC Dynamic Write Acceleration
Subject: Storage, Shows and Expos | September 16, 2014 - 02:29 PM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: ssd, slc, sata, mlc, micron, M600, crucial
You may already be familiar with the Micron Crucial M550 line of SSDs (if not, familiarize yourself with our full capacity roundup here). Today Micron is pushing their tech further by releasing a new M600 line. The M600's are the first full lineup from Micron to use their 16nm flash (previously only in their MX100 line). Aside from the die shrink, Micron has addressed the glaring issue we noted in our M550 review - that issue being the sharp falloff in write speeds in lower capacities of that line. Their solution is rather innovative, to say the least.
Recall the Samsung 840 EVO's 'TurboWrite' cache, which gave that drive a burst of write speed during short sustained write periods. The 840 EVO accomplished this by each TLC die having a small SLC section of flash memory. All data written passed through this cache, and once full (a few GB, varying with drive capacity), write speed slowed to TLC levels until the host system stopped writing for long enough for the SSD to flush the cached data from SLC to TLC.
The Micron M600 SSD in 2.5" SATA, MSATA, and M.2 form factors.
Micron flips the 'typical' concept of caching methods on its head. It does employ two different types of flash writing (SLC and MLC), but the first big difference is that the SLC is not really cache at all - not in the traditional sense, at least. The M600 controller, coupled with some changes made to Micron's 16nm flash, is able to dynamically change the mode of each flash memory die *on the fly*. For example, the M600 can place most of the individual 16GB (MLC) dies into SLC mode when the SSD is empty. This halves the capacity of each die, but with the added benefit of much faster and more power efficient writes. This means the M600 would really perform more like an SLC-only SSD so long as it was kept less than half full.
As you fill the SSD towards (and beyond) half capacity, the controller incrementally clears the SLC-written data, moving that data onto dies configured to MLC mode. Once empty, the SLC die is switched over to MLC mode, effectively clearing more flash area for the increasing amount of user data to be stored on the SSD. This process repeats over time as the drive is filled, meaning you will see less SLC area available for accelerated writing (see chart above). Writing to the SLC area is also advantageous in mobile devices, as those writes not only occur more quickly, they consume less power in the process:
For those worst case / power user scenarios, here is a graph of what a sustained sequential write to the entire drive area would look like:
Realize this is not typical usage, but if it happened, you would see SLC speeds for the first ~45% of the drive, followed by MLC speeds for another 10%. After the 65% point, the drive is forced to initiate the process of clearing SLC and flipping dies over to MLC, doing so while the host write is still in progress, and therefore resulting in the relatively slow write speed (~50 MB/sec) seen above. Realize that in normal use (i.e. not filling the entire drive at full speed in one go), garbage collection would be able to rearrange data in the background during idle time, meaning write speeds should be near full SLC speed for the majority of the time. Even with the SSD nearly full, there should be at least a few GB of SLC-mode flash available for short bursts of SLC speed writes.
This caching has enabled some increased specs over the prior generation models:
Note the differences in write speeds, particularly in the lower capacity models. The 128GB M550 was limited to 190MB/sec, while the M600 can write at 400MB/sec in SLC mode (which is where it should sit most of the time).
We'll be testing the M600 shortly and will come back with a full evaluation of the SSD as a whole and more specifically how it handles this new tech under real usage scenarios.
Full press blast after the break.
Crucial Launching MX100 Mainstream SSD Series in June
Subject: Storage | May 22, 2014 - 12:23 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: micron, crucial, mx100, ssd
You probably saw some news floating around yesterday that leaked out about an upcoming Crucial MX100 SSD using 16nm flash with an eye towards the mainstream price segment. While we are waiting for our samples of these units to arrive, we did get this comment from Crucial on the matter.
The word is out that Crucial will be launching a new SSD in the early June 2014 timeframe called the Crucial MX100 SSD. The new MX100 will be a competitively-priced, 2.5" SSD based on Micron's new 16nm chips, and will be the successor to the Crucial M500 drive. The high-performance Crucial M550 drive will also remain part of the Crucial SSD product line-up.
We're excited to share that PC Perspective has been fully briefed on the new Crucial MX100 by the Crucial SSD product marketing team and have a review sample in hand that we're now rigorously testing. Once the MX100 drive is officially announced, we'll have a complete product overview and benchmarks to share with you directly. Stay tuned for the full scoop here!
Image source: Hardware.info
As a replacement for the Crucial M500 line, we expect the MX100 to be a big seller. Just look at the M500 price on Amazon.com today: 960GB for $459 or 480 GB for $219! That's really all we know for now, check back for Allyn's testing very soon!
The fix was in, hope you saved those 14 year old receipts
Subject: General Tech | March 10, 2014 - 04:50 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Samsung, micron, Hynix, infineon, nec, toshiba, ram, dirty pool
If you bought RAM between 1998 and 2002 from Samsung, Micron, Hynix, Infineon, NEC, and Toshiba in the USA, you are entitled to a small payout, assuming you have proof of purchase. The DRAM makers never admitted guilt and chose to settle out of court and you have until August 1st to follow the link in The Inquirer's story to put in a claim. If you wish to opt out and sue them yourself you have until May 5th to do so but you might be better off taking the $10.
"Remember getting hosed on those 128MB DIMM RAM sticks back in Y2K? Well, it's time to exact your revenge: with a $10 payout."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- The TR Podcast 151: Key switch explosion, the new System Guide, and overclocked SSDs
- CeBit 2014: MSI Press Conference @ Madshrimps
- Sapphire R9 290X VaporX 8GB @ Cebit
- Microsoft fixes Skype for Windows 8.1 @ The Inquirer
- Enermax unleash 1,700W PSU (peak 1,800W+) PSU @ Cebit
- OS 7.1 arrives on iPhones and iPads with Carplay, Touch ID improvements @ The Inquirer
- Intel Haswell Refresh CPU Details Leaked @ TechARP
- Galaxy S5 vs Galaxy S4 specs comparison @ The Inquirer
- Kinect + Wiper Motor + LEGO = 3D Scanner @ Hack a Day
CES 2014: Micron makes further advances in DDR4 memory
Subject: Storage, Shows and Expos | January 8, 2014 - 12:57 AM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: ram, micron, memory, ddr4, CES 2014, CES
While the Crucial did not have much in the way of new flash memory product launches this year, Micron as a whole has been busily churning out further revisions of DDR4 memory. While our visit last year only revealed a single prototype for us to look at, now we have all of the typical form factors covered:
From top down we have enterprise, enthusiast, OEM, and SO-DIMM form factors, all populated with DDR4 parts. All that needs to happen now is for motherboard and portable manufacturers to get on board with the new technology. As with all chicken-and-egg launches, someone needs to take the first plunge, and here we can see Micron has certainly been on the leading edge of things. That enterprise part above is a full 16GB (not bits!) of DDR4 capacity.
PC Perspective's CES 2014 coverage is sponsored by AMD.
Follow all of our coverage of the show at http://pcper.com/ces!
That RAM is stacked
Subject: General Tech | November 28, 2013 - 01:48 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: DRAM, HMC, hybrid memory cubes, micron, TSV
Hybrid Memory Cubes are DRAM stacked in layers with logic on the bottom layer to decide which memory layer to address commands to whic is being developed by a team that includes Altera, ARM, IBM, SK Hynix, Micron, Open-Silicon, Samsung and Xilinix. This is intended to give DRAM enhanced parallelization which will help it keep up with today's multi-cored processors. Micron's example which the Register takes a look at here claims up to 10 GB/sec (80 Gb/sec) of bandwidth from each of the 16 vaults present on the chip, a vault being an area of memory on a layer. That compares favourably to the maximum theoretical JEDEC speed of DDR3-1333 which is just a hair over 10GB/s. Read more here.
"Dratted multi-core CPUs. DRAM is running into a bandwidth problem. More powerful CPUs has meant that more cores are trying to access a server's memory and the bandwidth is running out.
One solution is to stack DRAM in layers above a logic base layer and increase access speed to the resulting hybrid memory cubes (HMC), and Micron has done just that."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Prolonged Ivy Bridge life-cycle affects Intel 2014 CPU roadmap @ DigiTimes
- Repairing Dead USB Flash Drives @ Hack a Day
- Globalfoundries gearing up for high-volume MEMS manufacturing @ DigiTimes
- Gigabyte expected to post 28-year shipments high of 21 million motherboards in 2013 @ DigiTimes
- THOUSANDS of Ruby on Rails sites leave logins lying around @ The Register
- How to Remote Control Your Camera with Darktable on Linux @ Linux.com
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Posted by Chip Patterson
Our very own Bryan Fischer has ruthlessly picked through the weekly ballots of Associated Press poll voters all season in the new college football edition of Poll Attacks. But the 59 coaches with votes in the USA Today Top 25 are able to escape the criticism of Mr. Fischer and college football fans everywhere as their ballots are not released to the public. The one exception is the annual release after the final regular season balloting.
USA Today published an infographic that breaks down their final Top 25 poll of the regular season - used as 1/3 of the BCS formula - showing where each coach ranked the 35 teams who received at least one vote on Sunday.
I encourage you to spend some time checking out where each coach ranked the top teams in the nation, but here are a few observations that jumped out - especially considering the way things played out in the BCS.
1. No shocker at the top: LSU is the top team in the nation. The Tigers not only wrapped up their perfect season with an impressive victory over Georgia in the title game, they were a unanimous decision from the coaches for the No. 1 spot. LSU was also a unanimous pick in the Associated Press and Harris Interactive polls in their final balloting.
2. T. Boone Pickens' new enemies: After dismantling Oklahoma for their first Big 12 title in program history, Oklahoma State had the best argument of any non-SEC team for a spot in the National Championship Game. But the coach who hurt the Cowboys the most in the USA Today poll was Air Force head coach Troy Calhoun, ranking Oklahoma State behind Stanford (3) and Arkansas (4). Duke head coach David Cutcliffe and Syracuse's Doug Marrone both ranked Oklahoma State fourth, along with Nick Saban and Stanford head coach David Shaw - though those last two can easily be chalked up to self-interest.
3. About that Sugar Bowl...: When the BCS bowl pairings were released, arguably the biggest surprise came the Sugar Bowl selecting Virginia Tech and Michigan with their two at-large bids. The Hokies and Wolverines finished at No. 11 and No. 12, respectively, and were selected out of an available at-large pool that included Boise State, Kansas State, Baylor, and Oklahoma.
The Hokies were blasted 38-10 by Clemson in the ACC Championship Game. It was their second loss to the Tigers this season by 20 points or more, yet most coaches still ranked the Hokies ahead of the Tigers. Even head coach Frank Beamer put Clemson at No. 10 and his Hokies at No. 13. But enough coaches kept the Hokies high enough to allow them to finish in the top 14 and be eligible for that Sugar Bowl berth.
Michigan did not make the inaugural Big Ten title game after losing the division to Michigan State. Sparty played Wisconsin to a thrilling 42-39 loss in the Championship Game, but many of the voting coaches did feel they belonged near the magic Top 14 status needed to be eligible for a BCS at-large spot. Nineteen of the 59 voters placed Michigan State below No. 14, including three coaches (Baylor's Art Briles, Marshall's Doc Holliday, and Houston's Kevin Sumlin) who ranked the Spartans at No. 21.
4. Agree to Disagree: The one team that votes placing them all over the ballot was no-longer-undefeated Houston. The Cougars fell from their position in the Top 10 after a 49-28 blowout loss to Southern Miss in the Conference USA Championship Game. Louisiana Tech head coach Sonny Dykes and Califonia's Jeff Tedford both kept Houston in their Top 10, while James Franklin and Mark Hudspeth were among those who dropped the Cougars to the very fringe of the rankings at No. 23.
You can check out the interactive graphic breaking down the coaches' ballots at USAToday.com
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By Sharon Johnson
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Congress hasn't approved a final version of a minimum wage hike, yet some activists are pressing for living wage packages in the states that go even further. Local groups are lobbying for paid sick leave, improved health care and other benefits.
(WOMENSENEWS)--Gina Walter has been through a lot in her 44 years: a brush with death when a heart valve failed, two decades of struggling to clothe and educate her three children and a brief stint in a homeless shelter when her 13-year marriage to a cook collapsed.
But the sustaining force in Walter's hard-scrabble life is work.
Beginning at age 14, she held a series of backbreaking jobs in fast food restaurants in Ohio's steel belt. In 2005, Walter, a high school graduate, switched to retailing. Promoted three times from sorter to cashier, she takes home $388 every two weeks for full-time, minimum wage work at a thrift store with 20 employees in Columbus, Ohio.
"Affording the necessities of life is a struggle when you earn the federal minimum wage, $5.15 an hour," she said. "I spend $365 a month for rent plus $60 or more for heat, water and electricity for my modest one-bedroom apartment."
To economize, Walter walks one mile to work and never takes a sick day because she does not get paid.
Her safety net consists of a "positive attitude" rather than savings or retirement funds. Although her employer offers health insurance, Walter can't afford the $200-a-month premiums; her top priority is paying off the $950 in medical bills she charged on a credit card in 2000.
Thanks to the voters of Ohio who raised the state's minimum wage to $6.85 per hour Nov. 7, Walter has an extra $75 each month to pay her debt.
Ohio was one of six states that passed ballot initiatives related to minimum wage in 2006.
Twenty-three states now have a higher minimum wage than the federal standard: 17 of these rose in the last 18 months.
In April 2006, Albuquerque, N.M., became the fourth city--after Santa Fe, N.M, San Francisco and Washington--to enact a minimum wage that is higher than the federal or state laws. Unlike the ordinances of other cities that apply only to public employees and businesses with government contracts, the ordinances in these four cities apply to privately owned businesses as well.
After a decade of inaction, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a minimum wage bill Jan. 10 that boosted the federal minimum wage by $2.10 to $7.25 an hour. Republican senators rejected the House version of the bill and added $8.3 billion in tax breaks for business to their version, which was approved Feb. 1.
The House, in turn, decreased the tax breaks by $7 billion in its Feb. 16 measure. A final bill must be negotiated before it is sent to the president to be signed into law.
Proponents aren't waiting for Congress to act. Encouraged by their victories in the states, women's groups, community organizations and unions are campaigning for livable wage packages on the local level that extend a higher minimum wage to a broader range of workers and include benefits that workers like Gina Walter lack.
"Unlike Congress where minimum wage bills have become a political football, legislatures and voters in the states have eagerly approved raises," said Linda Meric, director of 9to5 National Association of Working Women, a major proponent based in Milwaukee, Wis. "Minimum wage hikes were approved in every state where they were on the ballot Nov. 7."
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