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4/30/2013 Week two of the other diet
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I admit I succumbed to the hype about one of the big diet centers weight loss programs. 40th Anniversary, these people lost a bunch of weight....ahh!! {insert fan fare here} That wasn't the only thing they lost. They lost a small fortune! $96 to find out how much everything else was and I discovered quickly I can't afford to lose weight through them. The welcome kit they sent me included a blister pack of horrible chewables that I was supposed to consume 2 of them 4 times a day. Another pill I was supposed to take 3 or 4 times a day, and then two more once a day. With my allergies and migraines, I was taking 20+ pills a day. NO THANK YOU!! I cannot fathom how that is going to increase my health. Then, the meal supplement bars and shakes were outrageously expensive, and not all that tasty. I did like the peanut butter and jelly one but the smores one was awful; I threw it away. I decided that I was going to do this the right way. I used sparkpeople.com three years ago and I lost 45 pounds. Unfortunately, I injured my knee midway through the journey and gave up. I now have that 45 to lose again plus more. However, I know I am not on this journey alone. I have millions of others that are needing to lose weight. I have the support of my husband, who needs to shed a couple, as well. I have Our God, The Father, to guide me spiritually, and I did not have that the last time. While I was a Christian, I had strayed from the church. I know that I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me because Philippians 4:13 says so.
The other plan wasn't a total wash. I did lose 6 pounds in two weeks. It's a wonderful start.
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My guess is all the bars and the pills caused you to drink a lot of water which is the main goal of any weight loss program. Just start walking - you'll notice it after a few weeks if you do it every day. I have days where I just walk to the beat of the music on my ipod and others where I just stroll and listen to the outdoors. Sometimes, I try and beat my time/distance, others I just enjoy the stroll and am in no hurry. I noticed a big change in my tummy and calves.
What was the other plan you lost 6 pounds on? Good job!
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Laryn is a Sr. Product Manager at Ancestry.com and joined the company in 1998 as the first product manager, then went on to launch Ancestry.co.uk as the first international website with the Ancestry brand. Currently he is the product manager for a small Research and Development team focused on natural language extraction from OCR and web crawled source material. Prior to working in R&D, Laryn managed the Document Preservation team. This team digitizes and indexes all of Ancestry's historical records globally. He has also worked as the head of content partnership development, based in London. Working in genealogy as a profession and a hobby, Laryn is actively involved in the genealogy community. The threads of his own genealogy include Birmingham bricklayers, Canadian homesteaders, American colonists, and Norwegian farmers.
When interpreting historical documents for the intent of researching your ancestors, you are often presented with less than perfect data. Many of the records that are the backbone of family history research are bureaucratic scraps of paper filled out decades ago in some government building. We should hardly be surprised when the data entered is… Read more
In my previous post, I outlined some of the problems and strategies we use at Ancestry.com to determine if two people who appear in the same household are related. As promised, I want to focus this time on how to resolve ambiguous results. In my early days of doing family history research, I made an… Read more
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Commissioners vote to axe 33 building employees, outsource department
A recent commission meeting turned ugly after Pembroke Pines officials voted to outsource the city's Building and Zoning Department and lay off 33 employees.
Dozens of general employees and their families hissed, jeered and muttered obscenities to commissioners as officials scrambled to balance a near-$2.9 million shortfall tied to fewer permitting fee revenues.
Amid shouting matches between union employees and commissioners, one fact remained clear: officials agreed to stall layoffs only if bargaining unions would agree to concessions among its employees.
"Now we have to make some tough, draconian decisions to balance a $26 million deficit," said Mayor Frank Ortis. "The union turned [the concessions] down. The idea was to make it hold and the union members didn't want to compromise by our process. So we're cutting."
The city is also slammed with a $30 million overall budget deficit, blamed on property tax, hiked pension spending and a shrunken half-cent sales tax.
Commissioners could finalize the firings as soon as July 1, after voting to contract with Calvin, Giordano & Associates, a private engineering firm with offices in Fort Lauderdale, Homestead and West Palm Beach. Officials heard pitches from three shortlisted private outsourcers June 3 before tentatively approving Calvin, Giordano's contract.
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One of the biggest advantages promoted by suppliers of outsourcing services is often that it will cut costs. Fixed costs are passed over to a supplier and replaced by a one off payment or increasingly more common by smaller recurring payment.
But outsourcing, as we know, is not guaranteed to save money. I am often guilty of making that presumption mysel
Here is a link to an article about how a Cumbria County Council is bringing previously outsourced road maintenance work in-house to save money.
"By bringing some of the services back in-house we will have more direct control and flexibility over the work our teams do. They will have a greater sense of pride and ownership in their work and will be able to work more locally than the current arrangements."
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Vicarious liability for political violence
Update: As the author of the comment shows, the IPC sections provide for direct liability of the sponsors of violence, not vicarious. Making the leaders vicariously liable (as Tarunabh has suggested) may not be an effective deterrent.
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I think its best not to use "vicarious liability" in such situations. Conceptually, as I am sure you are aware, vicarious liability means making one liable for anther's fault. As you suggest, the definition of "mischief" is wide enough to cover "intention" "nowledge" or "likelihood". That does not mean it brings in vicarious liability. Those with "knowledge" are still offendors themselves. Numerous cases hav held that there is no vicarious liability under the IPC except under certain circumstances (eg. conspiracy to some extent; common intention u/s 34).
Is this just a quibble over words? Perhaps, but bringing in vicarious liability terminology is likely to confuse more than clarify. Do we really want politicians to escape liability by using "this-was-outside-our-line-of-business" etc? I doubt... and why not reinforce the point that they are DIRECTLY responsible? Alo, best to leave vcarious liability terminologies away from crim.


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This artists' atelier and office building in São Paulo, Brazil features a facade covered in plants sustained by a network of tubes that provide mist at regular intervals. Designed by Triptyque and dubbed Harmonia 57, the unique office building is set amidst a creative neighborhood on the west side of São Paulo. Two volumes make up the building, which is clad in a porous concrete skin with pockets for plants. A complex water recycling network collects rainwater and grey water for use in irrigation and toilets, while a green roof helps minimize storm water runoff.
The office building and artist atelier was completed in 2008 and it recently won the 2010 'Built Environment' award from the Zumtobel Group [2]. The project is composed of two volumes joined by a metal footbridge above an internal plaza. The front volume is raised and rests on pillars, while the back volume is set on a solid foundation and includes a 'bird-like' feature on the roof. Large windows, operable shutters and terraces allow daylight [3] to penetrate the interior spaces and lend the building a feeling of lightness.
Porous concrete is used for the facade of the building, which is covered in plants set into niches and irrigated by a misting system. Rainwater is collected from the green roof and grey water is recycled [5] to provide water for toilet flushing and irrigation. The network of pipes is integrated into the architecture as an aesthetic feature as well as a functional one — for example, water pipes are used as handrails along staircases.
The living wall [6] and green roof act as a buffering skin for the building and serve to insulate the interiors and reduce noise. Plants were chosen based upon both their aesthetics and growing capabilities – some were chosen to provide shade, while others crawl over the surface of the building providing a layer of humidity for other plants.
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A network of 5 channels reaching the main language groups of the region
SAT-7 seeks to reach as many people as possible across the Middle East and North Africa. It isn't possible do to this effectively in just one language. So SAT-7 has developed into a network of 5 channels covering the main language groups of the region: Arabic, Farsi (Persian) and Turkish. SAT-7 ARABIC, SAT-7 KIDS and SAT-7 PLUS all broadcast to Arabic speaking people while SAT-7 PARS broadcasts in Farsi and SAT-7 TÜRK in Turkish.
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When taking vacations to Israel, transportation is a crucial thing you should consider.
If you do not have a tour guide in Israel traveling with you on Israel vacation tours 2016 -2015, you have the luxury of choosing how you want to get around the country on each of your vacations to Israel. To start out, when your airplane has landed and your Israel vacations are about to begin (after collecting all of your bags and luggage), you have five transportation options at the Ben Gurion Airport.Vacation Apartment Tel Aviv
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FORT JACKSON, SC -- The Fort Jackson Voting Assistance Office is launching a massive voter registration drive today to help Army civilians, service members and their voting-age dependents register to do just that.
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., voting assistance officers will be at the Solomon Center manning a voter registration booth decorated with banners displaying the Federal Voting Assistance Program's campaign slogan: "Honor the Past, Support the Future - Vote."
The VAOs will explain the procedures required to register in each state, how to obtain an absentee ballot from the citizen's voting residence, and how to use the Voting Assistance Guide for state-by-state instructions.
"Any questions they may have on the voting process, we will be able to help answer those questions," said Donald Johnson, installation senior voting assistance officer.
The VAOs will help patrons fill out federal post card applications, SF-76, which allow citizens temporarily living outside of their state of record to register to vote in their home state, vote by absentee ballot, and in some states, vote early by mail.
Once the applications are completed according to a state or territory's specific instructions and are submitted to the appropriate local election office, the newly registered voters will receive absentee ballots for primary, as well as general elections.
Many states, including South Carolina, have already had their primaries, but more than 20 states will be conducting primaries from July through October.
VAOs will also assist patrons who need help filling out the Voter's Declaration/Affirmation - Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot, SF-186, which can be used as a back-up if that the state absentee ballot does not arrive with enough time to vote and return it. The write-in absentee ballot requires the voter to write-in the candidates they choose for each office. And even if someone has missed the primary in his or her state, said Johnson, it's important to remember he or she can still vote in the general election, which takes place Nov. 2 in each state.
"It's important because it's your chance to make a difference; your voice needs to be heard," he said.
For those who cannot attend today's drive, individual units will be conducting their own voter registration drives next week in support of Armed Forces Voters Week, which begins Monday and runs until July 7. Each unit will have voting assistance officers on hand to assist in all aspects of the voting process, Johnson said.
For more information, contact the post Voting Assistance Office at 751-5763, a unit VAO, or visit the Federal Voting Assistance Program website at www.fvap.gov.


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AIRS Presents -West Side Story
We are proud to announce that our 25th anniversary event will feature Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story at the Baltimore Hippodrome Theater. This is a must see event and all donations will assist AIRS on our mission to end homelessness in Baltimore.
AIRS 25th Anniversary Event
We offer our guests and sponsors an inspiring evening, one filled with energy, enthusiasm and the air of possibility.
The evening will be a mixture food, performance, music and recognition of our past, present and future - which will collectively give one a sense of HOPE, STRENGTH and DETERMINATION and enable us to help our clients on their JOURNEY. (Learn More)
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Join us Saturday April 26th 2014 at the Hippodrome Theater. VIP Dinner / Reception begins at 5:00pm. (More Info)
AIRS The One And Only
Through our work over the past 25 years, AIRS and its partners has provided support and empowers people by giving them the tools, resources and encouragement to live successful, safe and productive lives.
Through the services of AIRS, people become equipped with some of life's most basic necessities: safe, clean housing; medical support; job skills; life skills; emotional support; and useful information, enabling them to live more independently and securely. (Learn More...)
AIRS Provides Housing & Hope
The nature of the path one takes with AIRS is evolutionary - a journey from Point A to Point B, from failure to success, from a point of despair to a feeling of possibility, from powerless to equipped.
AIRS, serves as a facilitator for getting residents from one place in their life to another. (Learn more...)
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Through the strong support of organizations such as yours, we have been able to expand our mission throughout Baltimore. This event is a unique chance to make a difference and for your organization to get recognition for your support. This event promises to be a night to remember for our honorees, attendees, and most importantly, to the hundreds of people we serve who now have a place to call home.(Learn More)


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Bangle Pendant
Add the perfect blend of form and function to your living space with the stylish and elegant Bangle Pendant. This distinctive lamp provides illumination, ambience and style, and its chic geometric design and clean, sophisticated lines make it an ideal choice for a contemporary or modern living space. The Bangle Pendant's shade is crafted from twice-woven linen in a light shade of cocoa, which provides a warm, robust glow, a welcome touch of texture and rich, yet soft color. Meanwhile, interlocking metallic ring accents add contemporary artistry and a distinctive look. The Bangle Pendant's base and decorative rings feature a matte gold finish for added color and shine. The Bangle Pendant is available in two sizes to fit any space. The large takes three 75-watt medium-base bulbs, and the small takes three 50-watt bulbs. UL listed for safety.
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API Application Setup
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Your API application details should follow these guidelines:
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Talent cocktail, cultural mix, blended skills, crucible of ideas: ABC arbitrage, since its foundation, has applied a simple recipe, with diversity as the main ingredient of a unique corporate culture.
ABC arbitrage has built up its organization by empowering its staff to express its professional expertise creatively, encouraging entrepreneurial initiative, interactivity and self-assertion.
1 . Sought-after profiles
We are determined to enrich our teams by recruiting people with diversified skills, but who demonstrate a certain number of shared characteristics: curiosity, efficiency, initiative, discipline, the desire to achieve results.
These characteristics are essential for working together with a long-term view, and are the essential conditions we apply in our recruitment policy.
We are mainly looking for people who have four to five years of post-secondary scientific training, having just graduated or with a significant initial professional experience.
We are looking for people who have degrees from engineering or business schools or universities, who have an open-minded and creative mindset and who are interested in financial markets. They must be agile in a logical and mathematical environment and willing to rethink some of their conventional ideas. We offer a flexible and non-conformist framework which enables people to explore unhampered career paths.
|Educational background of the team at December 31, 2014
|Engineering schools, scientific degrees (4 to 5 years of higher education)
|University training in finance and management (4 to 5 years of higher education)
|Business school (4 to 5 years of higher education)
|Other (up to 2 or 3 years of higher education)
2 . Professional opportunities
We offer a full range of financially-related professional activities within the various business units of the ABC arbitrage group, all dedicated to developing our unique know-how. When people join our young and multi-disciplinary teams, they are encouraged to express their talents, to assert their potential and to acquire new skills by practicing traditional functions in an innovative and alternative way.
We also offer paid internships to students who are in the final year of their studies. As an intern, you will have the opportunity to gain a good understanding of our businesses and to participate actively in innovative projects. Our internship program aims not simply to allow you to discover our company, but rather to pave the way for your recruitment once you have graduated. Internships give future graduates an opportunity to put their knowledge and skills to work.
|Staff breakdown at December 31, 2014
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3 . Recruitment process
Applications can be sent throughout the year, either in response to open job offers or spontaneously even if no specific opening has been announced. We will examine all applications made by people with interesting profiles and we are as interested in open encounters as we are to responses for specific job offers. We try to be as responsive as possible and we are committed to replying to applications as quickly as possible. All requests will be answered, whatever the outcome of the application.
Our Recruitment division pre-selects applicants who are then contacted directly for further appraisal by the business units and departments concerned.
Depending on the position, candidates are often first contacted by our operating teams for an initial conversation regarding the requirements of the position, the required professional skills, the candidate's expectations and common goals.
Once an application has been qualified and approved, we then organize a face-to-face meeting with someone from the department directly concerned: managers, experts or directors. We generally organize three individual meetings at this stage, which last about one hour each and where we examine both professional and personal skills.
After these meetings, the ABC arbitrage people involved carry out a joint evaluation for each applicant. It's important to reach consensus within ABC arbitrage in our choice of future recruits.
Once a decision has been made, we then focus on setting the groundwork to define the various conditions for the job and we then proceed to a formal job offer which is sent to the potential employee. This overall recruitment process generally takes less than one month.
4 . Integration and in-house training
The constant acquisition of knowledge is also of critical importance in allowing each individual to adapt to changes in the working environment and to drive progress across the entire organization.
We consistently strive to help our staff improve their skills and gain recognition of their professional development through appropriate training plans.
As soon as someone arrives in the group, he or she is given training in the techniques, the tools and the business of ABC arbitrage. This qualitative transmission of knowledge generally lasts about four months. Managers and experts in each department are directly involved in this process. Each employee also has access to a wealth of information on how the company functions via the Intranet. Our goal is to familiarize our new employees with the culture and the working principles of ABC arbitrage and to enable them to take up their functions and integrate themselves into their team in the best possible way.
In addition, the company's founders and executives contribute actively to the development of the group, either in operations or as administrators. Through constant exchange and encounters, teams benefit from the high-level expertise of market specialists and managers, with an average of twenty years of experience among the company's leaders. This sharing of experience and know-how is an essential element in enriching people's skills on a daily basis.
5 . Career management
We seek to enable each person in the company to express their talents and to assert their potential in a pleasant and conducive working environment. We consider our employees as committed partners, participating in a long-term project. ABC arbitrage managers are all open and available and are committed to empowering and motivating everyone in the organization. Our main goal is to allow people to optimize their competencies and develop their professional and personal skills.
Twice a year, employees meet with their team manager and explore possible developments in line with individual expectations and aspirations. These interviews are designed to evaluate performance achievements in terms of clearly-defined objectives, to set future objectives, to determine what training may be required and to consider or confirm professional changes and/or promotions.
People move from one level of competencies and responsibility to another as they accomplish certain goals or reach certain milestones and which enable them to qualify for positions on the basis of well-defined criteria. Learning, producing, capitalizing and creating are the four main stages in the internal promotion process.
We are committed to creating and applying a highly-motivating corporate culture, which provides opportunities and prospects for future development. Our promotions policy is to encourage people to leverage their performance and to evolve within the organization in many different ways. Depending on their ambitions, each employee can strengthen their expertise, discover transverse positions or assume management responsibilities.
6 . Competency levels within the group
The company is divided into departments with various operating teams.
Each department is directed by a Manager (or person in charge), who is often supported by a Deputy Manager in charge of an operating team. An operating team brings together, within the department, several people with different skills and levels of competency who work on a specific and clearly defined area of business. Each operating team has staff classified according to levels of competency, seniority and professional experience: Junior, Qualified Junior, Senior, Senior Expert, Specialist.
For their part Business Managers or Business Leaders have the responsibility of managing profit centers or business units (the grouping of several staff members from different departments with different levels of competency whose task is to build all or part of the financial results of the company). One or several arbitrage strategies, for example, can be the focus of a business unit.
|Required experience
|Integration period
|All staff at the beginner's stage
|Qualified Junior
|Specialization period
|After 12 months as a Junior
|Autonomous period
|After 30 months of experience
|Senior Expert
|Optimization period
|After 18 months as a Senior
|Maturity phase
|After having been a Senior Expert, Deputy Manager or Business Leader for at least 18 months
|Business Leader
|Management of multi-department projects
|After having been a Senior Expert, Deputy Manager or Specialist for at least 18 months
|Business Manager
|Management of a Business Unit (profit center)
|After having been a Business Leader Team or Manager for at least 30 months
|Deputy Manager
|Management - Department
|After having been a Senior Expert, Specialist or Business Leader for at least 18 months
|Management - Department
|After having been a Business Manager or Deputy Manager for at least 18 months
|Management - Department
|After having been a Manager or Business Manager for at least 48 months
7 . Compensation and benefits
We operate in a demanding business which entails a great deal of responsibility. Each staff member plays a critical role in the process leading up to the execution of arbitrage transactions and the creation of profits. We place considerable emphasis on promoting the awareness that each person's work has impacts on that of his or her co-workers. Our human resources policy focuses on rewarding staff for their expertise and personal performance, based on the achievement of individual and collective targets.
The group's compensation and benefits policy, which is incentive-driven and fair, fosters greater involvement and loyalty to contribute to the creation value, through equity-driven instruments: profit-sharing, discretionary incentive schemes, performance-related bonuses, stock options, share grants, etc.
Each person, at their specific level, is totally involved in the success of ABC arbitrage.
The Board of Directors firmly believes that this policy aligns the interests of the group's shareholders and its employees.


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|Local students honored with business scholarships
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|Written by Kamy Beattie
|Thursday, 29 April 2010 07:21
ROCK ISLAND, IL (04/27/2010)(readMedia)-- In conjunction with Augustana's 34th annual Business Day, the Augustana Business Department is proud to recognize more than 40 business administration and economics majors as recipients of endowed departmental scholarships this year.
Students from the local area who were awarded scholarships include:
Peter Wessels, a sophomore from Bettendorf who is majoring in business administration-advising and accounting. Wessels received the Thomas C. Montgomery Memorial Scholarship.
Alyssa Harmon, a junior from Moline who is majoring in business administration-advising. Harmon received the Harold and Louise Lage Swanson Scholarship.
Adelle DeVolder, a junior from Moline who is majoring in business administration-finance. DeVolder received the Harold and Louise Lage Swanson Scholarship.
Deanna Zwicker, a junior from Orion who is majoring in economics and business administration-finance. Zwicker received the Bruce R. Milligan Scholarship.
Adam DeSimone, a sophomore from Bettendorf who is majoring in economics. DeSimone received the Bruce R. Milligan Scholarship.
The students were honored at the opening breakfast for Business Day, an annual job-shadowing opportunity at Augustana that connects students with business leaders throughout the Quad Cities. In addition to their recognition at Business Day, the scholarship recipients will also be celebrated at an annual Honors ceremony in May.
The keynote address at the awards breakfast was given by Augustana alumna Piper Mead '04, a marketing account executive for the Chicago Cubs. Mead shared advice she learned on her way from Augustana to Wrigley Field and encouraged students to take advantage of all the hands-on learning opportunities Augustana has to offer them.
"I give Augustana all the credit for turning me into the person I am today. I think even the word 'business' scared me when I started college. However, my experiences at Augustana really gave me self-confidence. Now my outgoing personality is my biggest asset in my job."
After the conclusion of the ceremony, the scholarship recipients had the opportunity to further their education by spending a day "on the job" with business professionals throughout the Quad Cities. The students were able to select from a list of more than 40 local companies they could shadow and explore a field that matched their career interests.
The Business Department is one of the largest departments at Augustana, which includes 11 full-time faculty members and offers five separate major concentrations. 90 percent of students in the program complete internships as a part of their study, compared to only 75 percent nationwide. In addition to connecting students with local internships, the department also offers several national and international opportunities, including an accredited eight-week business internship program in Sydney, Australia. For more information on the Augustana Business Department, please visit www.augustana.edu/business.
About the Scholarships:
The Harold and Louise Lage Swanson Scholarship is an endowed scholarship for students who have demonstrated academic excellence and career potential in business administration.
The Thomas C. Montgomery Memorial Scholarship is an endowed scholarship for students who have demonstrated academic excellence and disciplined effort in pursuing careers in business administration or economics.
The Bruce R. Milligan Scholarship is an endowed scholarship for students who have demonstrated academic excellence and career potential in economics.
The Outstanding Senior Business Administration Major Award is a scholarship awarded to a select number of senior students based on their exceptional academic achievements and career potential in business administration.
The Tallgrass Capital Award is a scholarship awarded to one senior economics major each year based on his or her outstanding academic performance and career potential in economics.
About Augustana: Founded in 1860 and situated on a 115-acre campus near the Mississippi River, Augustana College is a private, liberal arts institution affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The college enrolls nearly 2,500 students from diverse geographic, social, ethnic and religious backgrounds and offers more than 70 majors and related areas of study. Augustana employs 287 faculty and has a student-faculty ratio of 11:1. Augustana continues to do what it has always done: challenge and prepare students for lives of leadership and service in our complex, ever-changing world.
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|Want to make your own mod? These links will help you get started!
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|Feb 12 2005 Anchor
Um, I can't do anything about it. Not to mention, I would include Half-Life in the title instead, since most of the links are for that engine rather than Half-Life 2's. For that, you'll have to buy the game, seeing as how you get the Steam Source SDK with it, and you can't get it any other way.
I submitted it as a tutorial some time ago. Just search under the Moddb Tutorials with Half-Life or Half-Life 2, and it should be at the top.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster."
|Mar 22 2005 Anchor
I dont get it I wanna make a Morrowind mod but cant work out how to make a completely new ilsand in the sea. HELP :(
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|Mar 23 2005 Anchor
Any know how to make a completely new Island for Morrowind ?
|Mar 23 2005 Anchor
This is specifically for Half-Life 1 mods, so you're kind of out of luck on this thread.
However, here's a site that you might find interesting. It's sort of the home for Morrowind modders on the Internet: Morrowind-mod.com . Here's the Resources page they have on their site: Morrowind-mod.com
And here's a bunch of Morrowind plugins: Koti.mbnet.fi
Just use Google. It's your friend.
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster."
|May 13 2005 Anchor
unfortunantly morrowind is one of the hardest games to mod and map...
|Nov 22 2006 Anchor
I did a huge update on this a little while ago, fixing all of the links and making it a lot more general to the average modder (instead of only Half-Life 1 or 2). Check out the first post for the fixes.
I am happy to report that my tutorial also recently broke 10,000 views, and is already up to 10,258, making it #6 overall. Thanks for checking it out, guys! And once again, if there's any content you want me to add that think will make the tutorial better, feel free to PM me or post them below.
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster."
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|Nov 22 2006 Anchor
This is amazing stuff Ippo. I think a sticky is in order. But that's just my opinion.
Wraiyth That Guy Who Does Those Things With The Stuff
|Nov 22 2006 Anchor
Theres a few other links I have lying around, I'll drop you a PM later
|Nov 22 2006 Anchor
This was actually stickied back in December of 2004, if you look a few posts below the main one when azz0r did it, but thanks for the vote of confidence.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster."
methy Is he black, is he not?
|Nov 22 2006 Anchor
I'd recommend adding The GIMP under 2D stuff, as well as some more free IDEs. I can do it myself if you want.
|Nov 23 2006 Anchor
I suggest Blender: Blender.org & Zbrush: Pixologic.com
|Nov 23 2006 Anchor
Ohh sorry for the bouble post but I do radio mod interviews. so this is a form of PR. I do mod release parties Its fun to do on the radio as you can as a mod leader get your team more involved and everyone has a good time. I did the Iron Grips mod release party they had 200 in the channel and we had 800 listeners.
|Nov 23 2006 Anchor
@ Blue - Those threads look pretty old. I wouldn't mind including them, but would you mind perhaps sending them to me through PM with their updated links? My thread on here is newer, and it had plenty of duds, so just to make sure before I add them. Thanks for that, though! I'll probably add them to this thread and close the other ones to make it sort of a central locale, and I'll be sure to give credit as well. Once I have more time (especially since this is Thanksgiving), I'll add the links, as well as add your Mod Radio show underneath Advertisement/PR.
@ meth - Go ahead, and throw yourself at the bottom for credit. Thanks.
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster."
|Jan 7 2007 Anchor
A few articles on our site which relate to mod creation & maintenance, link below, good luck
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Original Link: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8398/sandisk-x300s-512gb-review
SanDisk X300s (512GB) Reviewby Kristian Vättö on August 21, 2014 2:15 PM EST
Back in May SanDisk announced the X300s, which is the company's first SED (Self-Encrypting Drive). The X300s is based on the same Marvell platform as SanDisk's client drives but with the differentiation that the X300s is the only drive that supports encryption via TCG Opal and IEEE-1667 (eDrive) standards. Due to the encryption support the X300s is positioned as a business product since the main markets for encrypted drives are corporations and governments, which handle sensitive and confidential data on a daily basis.
In our Intel SSD 2500 Pro review I talked about the cost of a lost corporate laptop in more detail, but in short a lost unencrypted corporate laptop costs an average of $50,000 to the company through the loss of IP and data breaches. (Obviously not every lost laptop will cost that much -- some might not cost anything more than the hardware, but others could be far more valuable.) Encryption is the easiest way to minimize the loss because without access to the data in the laptop, the only loss is the physical laptop and the possible work hours as a result, but frankly that cost is only in the order of a couple of thousand dollars, whereas the loss of IP could result in millions of dollars in damage.
To provide the ease of encryption to everyone, SanDisk is including a license for Wave's EMBASSY Security Center with every X300s. While Windows 8 provides native support for hardware encryption through eDrive, most corporations are still using Windows 7 and that only provides software based BitLocker encryption. Moreover, eDrive has a rather strict set of hardware and software requirements, which can be a dealbreaker if dealing with older hardware with no UEFI and/or TPM support. In addition to Wave, the X300s has been certified by McAfee, WinMagic, Check Point, Softex, and Absolute for Opal encryption in case you or your company already has security software.
|SanDisk X300s Specifications
|Form Factor
|2.5" 7mm & M.2 2280
|Marvell 88SS9188
|Marvell 88SS9187
|SanDisk 2nd Gen 64Gbit 19nm MLC
|Sequential Read
|Sequential Write
|4KB Random Read
|4KB Random Write
|Idle Power (Slumber/DEVSLP)
|90mW / 5.0mW
|90mW / 5.0mW
|90mW / 5.0mW
|90mW / 6.0mW
|95mW / 6.0mW
|Max Power (Read/Write)
|40TB (21GB/day for 5 years)
|80TB (43GB/day for 5 years)
|TCG Opal 2.0 & IEEE-1667
The X300s is available in both 2.5" and M.2 2280 form factors. The 2.5" version comes in up to 1TB capacity and uses two different controllers depending on the capacity. 256GB and lower use the 4-channel Marvell 9188 (codename Monet Lite), whereas the 512GB and 1TB models use the full 8-channel Marvell 9187 controller (whose codename is surprisingly just Monet). The M.2 2280 is limited to 512GB due to form factor limitations and uses the Monet Lite controller for all capacities.
The PCB in the X300s is single-sided and features a total of eight NAND packages. It is quite impossible to see the markings on the chips from this angle due to the residue from the thermals pads, so here is a closer shot of the NAND with light coming from a better angle.
Unfortunately SanDisk's part numbers do not tell much and there is no public part number decoder available, but SanDisk told me that the X300s uses 64Gbit 1Ynm (i.e. second generation 19nm) parts, meaning that our 512GB sample features eight octal-die NAND packages.
Test Systems
For AnandTech Storage Benches, performance consistency, random and sequential performance, performance vs transfer size and load power consumption we use the following system:
|Intel Core i5-2500K running at 3.3GHz (Turbo & EIST enabled)
|AsRock Z68 Pro3
|Intel Z68
|Chipset Drivers
|Intel 22.214.171.1245 + Intel RST 10.2
|G.Skill RipjawsX DDR3-1600 4 x 8GB (9-9-9-24)
|Video Card
|Palit GeForce GTX 770 JetStream 2GB GDDR5 (1150MHz core clock; 3505MHz GDDR5 effective)
|Video Drivers
|NVIDIA GeForce 332.21 WHQL
|Desktop Resolution
|1920 x 1080
|Windows 7 x64
Thanks to G.Skill for the RipjawsX 32GB DDR3 DRAM kit
For Wave EMBASSY Security Center and slumber power testing we used a different system:
|Intel Core i7-4770K running at 3.3GHz (Turbo & EIST enabled, C-states disabled)
|ASUS Z87 Deluxe (BIOS 1707)
|Intel Z87
|Chipset Drivers
|Intel 18.104.22.1686 + Intel RST 12.9
|Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1866 2x8GB (9-10-9-27 2T)
|Intel HD Graphics 4600
|Graphics Drivers
|Desktop Resolution
|1920 x 1080
|Windows 7 x64
- Thanks to Intel for the Core i7-4770K CPU
- Thanks to ASUS for the Z87 Deluxe motherboard
- Thanks to Corsair for the Vengeance 16GB DDR3-1866 DRAM kit, RM750 power supply, Hydro H60 CPU cooler and Carbide 330R case
How Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) Work
SED means that instead of relying on the host processor and software for full-disk encryption (FDE), the encryption is done purely by the drive itself using Trusted Computing Group's (TCG) Opal standard. The Opal standard offers two major benefits over software based disk encryption: performance and security.
Instead of using the host resources (CPU and RAM) to encrypt the drive, the controller inside the SSD does the encryption, which provides higher performance due to the lack of CPU overhead and is also far more power efficient. In fact, the controller already encrypts all data on the fly regardless of whether encryption has been enabled by the user -- by default the encryption key in the drive is just not encrypted and thus the drive can be accessed by anyone. When enabling Opal encryption the password created by the user is used to encrypt the encryption key, making the drive inaccessible unless the correct password is provided. The encryption key is generated during the manufacturing process of the drive (although it can be regenerated later on) and resides in a small secured block of memory that is protected and isolated from other memory.
As for security, software encryption solutions do not generally encrypt the master boot record (MBR), which leaves the drive vulnerable to attacks using alternative boot medias (CD/USB). Hardware encryption does not have the same problem because every single bit that the drive receives will be encrypted, including the MBR. Basically, hardware encryption is transparent to the OS because the drive does not know or care what data it receives as all data is encrypted regardless.
Because even the MBR is encrypted, SEDs have a pre-boot OS that is essentially a very restricted version of MS-DOS or Linux. When the BIOS requests the MBR from the drive during boot, the drive instead returns the pre-boot OS that asks for authentication before allowing access to the MBR. Once the correct credentials have been provided, the drive allows the BIOS to access the MBR and the system will boot normally.
Testing Wave's EMBASSY Security Center
Every X300s includes a license for Wave's EMBASSY Security Center (ECS), which normally retails for $40. ECS can be acquired from SanDisk's SSD Dashboard under the Tools tab. ECS provides local SED management, and for IT administrators Wave offers EMBASSY Remote Administrator Server (ERAS) that allows central management of all SEDs in the organization.
Clicking the icon will lead you to the download site where you enter the promo code that comes with the SSD Dashboard as well as your personal details (name, address, email etc. -- no credit card is needed). Once you have entered all the information, you will be able to download the ECS and the serial key is sent to the email address you provide.
After installation and reboot, you will be ready to enable encryption. Drive management is found under the 'Trusted Drive' tab and at first everything is in the off state and the only option is to start the initialization process. For testing I used a very basic Z87 based system running Windows 7 in legacy mode with no TPM module.
The first step is to create the administrator for the drive, which will have the right to manage the drive. After the initialization process additional users can be added but I will look at that once we are there.
After creating the administrator, you will be given an opportunity to either print or save the administrator username and password to a USB drive. This step can be skipped but it is recommended since if the credententials are forgotten, you will be unable to access the drive and the only way to recover the drive is to perform a PSID reset (more on this later but it erases all the data in the drive).
After that you are done -- the drive is now fully encrypted. It only takes a few seconds to encrypt the drive because as I mentioned earlier, all the data in the drive is already in encrypted format and thus only the encryption key needs to be encrypted. You can check that the drive is really encrypted from the SSD Dashboard, which should now say that security is activated.
This is what the drive management looks like. The administrator has the right to un-initialize the drive, which will decrypt the key and make it accessible by anyone. There is also an option to disable drive locking, which is different in the sense that the drive will allow anyone to access the data but only the administrator can change the encryption settings (e.g. un-initialize or crypto-erase the drive). Additionally Wave can sync the drive's and Windows' passwords so there will be only one password, or you can enable single sign on that will eliminate the need to log into Windows separately.
Users can be added within the same interface to allow non-admin users to get through the pre-boot OS. Otherwise every user would need to use the administrator credentials, which would defeat the purpose of an administrator account as it is the only account with rights to manage the drive. In other words, normal users can use the system normally but administrator rights are needed to un-initialize the drive or change any settings related to security.
ECS also offers several options for Windows login. Aside from the typical password authentication, the user can login using biometric authentication (e.g. fingerprint), and smart cards are supported as well. Again, these settings can only be modified by the administrator, even though they are visible to the normal user.
|SanDisk X300s 512GB - PCMark 8 Storage Test
|Storage Score
|Storage Bandwidth
|No Encryption
|Wave ECS (Opal 2.0)
|Windows 7 BitLocker (Software)
To compare the performance of hardware and software based encryption solutions, I decided to run PCMark 8's storage test on the drive with the two enabled (separately, of course) and with no encryption at all. Strangely enough, the performance difference is almost non-existent. When Anand tested eDrive with the Crucial M500 and PCMark 7, he found that software based BitLocker encryption resulted in a 14% decrease in performance, whereas my test data shows a mere 0.3% loss in Storage Score. It is true that the PCMark 8's storage bench is different and in my experience it tends to show very small difference between SSDs but nonetheless it is still interesting that BitLocker has such a minor impact in performance.
Of course, my testbed is not exactly an ideal representation of an average corporate laptop since it is a Haswell based desktop with i7-4770K and 16GB of RAM, so the difference in lower performance systems might be larger as BitLocker will use the host CPU and RAM for encryption. Anyway, it looks like I will have to run some more tests to figure out a way to better characterize the performance benefits of hardware accelerated encryption because I believe the scores above do not give an accurate picture of the difference.
Crypto-Erasing an SED
Since SEDs are hardware encrypted, there is no way to fiddle with the drive without the administrator's credentials. However, what that also means is that in case you happen to forget the credentials, you will have a brick in your hands since SEDs cannot be secure erased using the standard ATA command like normal SSDs can. Fortunately, there is a way to revert the drive back to its factory setting by performing crypto-erase, or PSID revert as it is sometimes called.
The PSID can be found on the back label of every SED and it is a 32-character code.
To issue a crypto erase, a special utility is needed and SanDisk provides their Crypto Erase Tool for the X300s. It is very simple to use as the only thing you need to do is to enter the PSID and click erase now, which will deactivate encryption and secure erase all the data in the drive. I am not sure if SanDisk's tool supports other SSDs but in theory it should as there is nothing vendor-specific about crypto erase. However, there is also a third party freeware PSID revert tool available and I have confirmed that it works (tested with Samsung 850 Pro).
Final Words About Wave's ECS
Wave's ECS certainly provides a much smoother user experience compared to Microsoft's eDrive. It makes enabling Opal 2.0 encryption as easy as clicking a few buttons and it lacks the annoying hardware and software requirements that eDrive has. There is no need to play around with group policies if you lack a TPM module and what is best is that ECS is not limited to a UEFI-enabled Windows 8 Pro/Enterprise install like eDrive is. Basically, ECS should work with any system as long as you have an Opal-enabled SSD.
eDrive is a good (and free) alternative if you happen to have a system that meets the requirements, but otherwise it is a pain to get working, so I certainly see why corporations will gladly pay for ECS and other optimized encryption tools.
Performance Consistency
Performance consistency tells us a lot about the architecture of these SSDs and how they handle internal defragmentation. The reason we do not have consistent IO latency with SSDs is because inevitably all controllers have to do some amount of defragmentation or garbage collection in order to continue operating at high speeds. When and how an SSD decides to run its defrag or cleanup routines directly impacts the user experience as inconsistent performance results in application slowdowns.
To test IO consistency, we fill a secure erased SSD with sequential data to ensure that all user accessible LBAs have data associated with them. Next we kick off a 4KB random write workload across all LBAs at a queue depth of 32 using incompressible data. The test is run for just over half an hour and we record instantaneous IOPS every second.
We are also testing drives with added over-provisioning by limiting the LBA range. This gives us a look into the drive's behavior with varying levels of empty space, which is frankly a more realistic approach for client workloads.
Each of the three graphs has its own purpose. The first one is of the whole duration of the test in log scale. The second and third one zoom into the beginning of steady-state operation (t=1400s) but on different scales: the second one uses log scale for easy comparison whereas the third one uses linear scale for better visualization of differences between drives. Click the dropdown selections below each graph to switch the source data.
For more detailed description of the test and why performance consistency matters, read our original Intel SSD DC S3700 article.
|25% Over-Provisioning
The IO consistency is good but obviously not as good as the Extreme Pro due to lower over-provisioning (7% vs 12%). The architecture is still the same, though, as first the performance drops to around 10K IOPS, which is followed by a higher throughput burst. At steady-state the X300s averages about 5K IOPS, which is actually similar to the Crucial MX100 but with added over-provisioning the X300s gets close to the Extreme Pro level.
|25% Over-Provisioning
|25% Over-Provisioning
AnandTech Storage Bench 2013
Our Storage Bench 2013 focuses on worst-case multitasking and IO consistency. Similar to our earlier Storage Benches, the test is still application trace based – we record all IO requests made to a test system and play them back on the drive we are testing and run statistical analysis on the drive's responses. There are 49.8 million IO operations in total with 1583.0GB of reads and 875.6GB of writes. I'm not including the full description of the test for better readability, so make sure to read our Storage Bench 2013 introduction for the full details.
|AnandTech Storage Bench 2013 - The Destroyer
|Applications Used
|Photo Sync/Editing
|Import images, edit, export
|Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe Lightroom 4, Dropbox
|Download/install games, play games
|Steam, Deus Ex, Skyrim, Starcraft 2, BioShock Infinite
|Run/manage VM, use general apps inside VM
|General Productivity
|Browse the web, manage local email, copy files, encrypt/decrypt files, backup system, download content, virus/malware scan
|Chrome, IE10, Outlook, Windows 8, AxCrypt, uTorrent, AdAware
|Video Playback
|Copy and watch movies
|Windows 8
|Application Development
|Compile projects, check out code, download code samples
|Visual Studio 2012
We are reporting two primary metrics with the Destroyer: average data rate in MB/s and average service time in microseconds. The former gives you an idea of the throughput of the drive during the time that it was running the test workload. This can be a very good indication of overall performance. What average data rate doesn't do a good job of is taking into account response time of very bursty (read: high queue depth) IO. By reporting average service time we heavily weigh latency for queued IOs. You'll note that this is a metric we have been reporting in our enterprise benchmarks for a while now. With the client tests maturing, the time was right for a little convergence.
Due to the lower over-provisioning, the X300s ends up being slightly slower than the Extreme Pro and Extreme II. Still, the X300s is a solid performer and faster than e.g. Intel's SSD Pro 2500, which is Intel's offering to the business market. Ultimately the 850 Pro is the fastest SED on the market but the X300s provides a more complete set of features with the inclusion of Wave's EMBASSY Security Control.
AnandTech Storage Bench 2011
Back in 2011 (which seems like so long ago now!), we introduced our AnandTech Storage Bench, a suite of benchmarks that took traces of real OS/application usage and played them back in a repeatable manner. The MOASB, officially called AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 – Heavy Workload, mainly focuses on peak IO performance and basic garbage collection routines. There is a lot of downloading and application installing that happens during the course of this test. Our thinking was that it's during application installs, file copies, downloading and multitasking with all of this that you can really notice performance differences between drives. The full description of the Heavy test can be found here, while the Light workload details are here.
The X300s does not perform that well in our 2011 Storage Benches. I would say that the 2011 Benches, especially the Light suite, are closer to a typical corporate workload with lots of email and office use, so I would give more value to that instead of the 2013 Bench. The X300s is still okay in both 2011 Benches and better than the Intel SSD Pro 2500, but I was expecting a bit more given the performance of the Extreme Pro and Extreme II.
Random Read/Write Speed
The four corners of SSD performance are as follows: random read, random write, sequential read and sequential write speed. Random accesses are generally small in size, while sequential accesses tend to be larger and thus we have the four Iometer tests we use in all of our reviews.
Our first test writes 4KB in a completely random pattern over an 8GB space of the drive to simulate the sort of random access that you'd see on an OS drive (even this is more stressful than a normal desktop user would see). We perform three concurrent IOs and run the test for 3 minutes. The results reported are in average MB/s over the entire time.
Random performance is similar to the Extreme Pro except for high queue depth write. Most client/corporate workloads do not go above queue depth of 5 anyway, so that should not be a problem.
Sequential Read/Write Speed
To measure sequential performance we run a 1 minute long 128KB sequential test over the entire span of the drive at a queue depth of 1. The results reported are in average MB/s over the entire test length.
Sequential read performance is excellent and sequential write is okay too, making the X300s equivalent to the Extreme Pro.
AS-SSD Incompressible Sequential Read/Write Performance
The AS-SSD sequential benchmark uses incompressible data for all of its transfers. The result is a pretty big reduction in sequential write speed on SandForce based controllers, but most other controllers are unaffected.
Performance vs. Transfer Size
ATTO is a useful tool for quickly benchmarking performance across various transfer sizes. You can get the complete data set in Bench. Read performance is equivalent to the competitors at all IO sizes, but the maximum write speed is slightly lower compared to the rest of the pack.
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Power Consumption
Slumber power is lower than the Extreme Pro and overall very good. Only the 850 Pro is more power efficient, although Samsung has always had an advantage in idle/slumber power consumption. Load power consumption is also great and below average. Overall, the X300s would be a good option for a laptop and it should help battery life relative to some alternatives.
Final Words
The X300s is essentially a slower version of the Extreme Pro with encryption support. For typical office and corporate workloads the performance is fine and the X300s is also power efficient, which means longer battery life in a laptop. That will obviously be important if the laptop is used while on the go.
|NewEgg Price Comparison (7/29/2014)
|SanDisk X300s
|Intel SSD Pro 2500
|Samsung SSD 850 PRO
|Samsung SSD 840 EVO
|Crucial MX100
|Crucial M550
In the end, it all boils down to pricing, though, and that is not in favor of the X300s. At 128GB the price is still decent since it includes Wave's software that is worth $40, but at 256GB and 512GB the pricing is quite high. Even if the value of the software is subtracted from the retail price, the X300s is still expensive. To make the comparison fair, I only included drives that support TCG Opal 2.0 / eDrive in the table, which are the X300s' competitiors in the market.
|Comparison of ISV Support
|SanDisk X300s
|Intel SSD Pro 2500
|Samsung SSD 850 PRO
|Samsung SSD 840 EVO
|Crucial MX100
|Crucial M550
|Wave EMBASSY Security Center
|McAfee Drive Encryption
|WinMagic SecureDoc
|Absolute Software Secure Drive
|Dell Data Protection
|Checkpoint Full Disk Encryption
However, I decided to take the comparison one step further and included a comparison of ISV (Independent Software Vendor) support. Basically, the table above tells whether the drive has been validated to work with a certain encryption software and it gives a pretty good picture as to why SanDisk and Intel have separate business SSD lineups. While all the SSDs in the table support TCG Opal 2.0 and eDrive, only the X300s and Pro 2500 have actually been validated by several ISVs. In other words, SanDisk and Intel have taken the extra time and money to work with the ISVs before launching the products, whereas Samsung and Crucial seem to focus on ISV validation post-launch. The 850 Pro and MX100 are currently not supported by any ISVs (at least based on their public compatibility lists) but I am sure that at least Wave and WinMagic will validate the drives sooner than later.
For an SSD that is targeted at business users, it is logical to ensure broad ISV support before the launch, but it still does not justify the price of the X300s. It does offer the broadest ISV support but that argument only holds weight if you plan on using Absolute Software's Secure Drive or Checkpoint's Full Disk Encryption. Otherwise the SSD Pro 2500 offers the same ISV support at a much lower price, or if you plan to use Wave, WinMagic or eDrive the 840 EVO and M550 provide an even better value.
All in all, I like SanDisk's approach of including encryption software with the X300s to make sure that every user has an easy way to enable Opal encryption, but that is ruined by the high pricing. With prices closer to the SSD Pro 2500, we could recommend the X300s over the SSD Pro 2500 as it provides higher performance and already includes Wave's encryption suite. Of course, the retail prices may not tell the whole truth since corporations are likely to buy the drives in bulk with a discount, but as it stands the retail prices at least are too high to make the X300s a good value relative to competing offerings.


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AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (Army News Service, March 23, 2010) -- U.S. paratroopers here recently installed newly-donated off-road lights on their convoy escort vehicles.
Paratroopers from Company A, 307th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division (Advise and Assist), installed the lights, donated by Off-Road Adventures Magazine, on 15 of their mine resistant ambush protected vehicles.
Mechanics from a sister company helped to install the lights on mine roller-equipped MRAPs and convoy commander vehicles. Company A received 60 of the new lights through a sponsored program called "Operation Light Sabre."
Operation Light Sabre began when the staff at Off-Road Adventures Magazine decided they would help the military in Iraq and Afghanistan however they could.
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Because U.S. convoys must share the road with Iraqis, the platoon often conducts the majority of its missions during late night hours when there is less traffic.
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The term "right brain"(as in Right Brain World) no longer really applies. Until I come up with a name that describes big concept thinking, humor, self-organizing systems, user-generated learning, innovation in education, the mind and creative combinations... that's the name I'll be using. For more information, you can contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com or connect with me here.
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Bill Gates? Are you serious. Based on this error, these others are only guesses.
Gates is a far left brain thinker who knew how to take the efforts of right brain thinkers and make something of them. This is often what happens.
Steve Jobs is also a left brain thinker but also has right brain thinking skills so he probably pegs out in the middle. He took the Woz designs and figured out how to make them practical and profitable. But he could also look at a design and figure out why it would work or not.
Gates and his initiatives for the most part were failures. For example, his approach to the tablet and the Milan scream "no sense of finesse.
Leonard was probably a right brain genius but he also knew how to plan. His designs were definitely outside the box of the times. He also could manage his affairs really well so he, like Jobs had very well developed skills from both sides.
- Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 6:33:00 PM PDT
I agree with this summary. I lost respect for the list when I saw Gates in there.
- Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 12:25:00 PM PDT
Good post Mihikl,
Bill Gates should not be on the list. Regarding daily life: Many extreme right-brained individuals, have someone that is helping them with basic stuff of everyday life. I am extreme right-brained. Without my wife helping me in the background, I'll just ignore things like bills, cleaning, etc. That person is critical in our life (and rarely get the credit they deserve for the support of that individual), since without that person everything may simply 'fall apart'. Most extreme right-brainers do not have any comprehension of money, it seems that we don't care about money, more a lack of understanding. Seems I'm always working for free. Usually, very non materialistic. We got our books, guitar, piano, whatever. Those are your prized tools, you'll take them where-ever you go. Many die poor like those extreme right-brainiers before us. A balance between art and work is very important to keep your sanity. You don't want this! One problem is your powerful intuition and hyper perception, you can see 'right-through' to the ugliness all around. The world is so ugly you'll be battling depression, addiction, many on that list were also bipolar. Extreme right-brained - where absurdity, insanity,and genius all meet.
- Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 10:07:00 AM PDT
To me Edison and Patton really stand out as not being right brained.
- Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 3:42:00 AM PDT
To me Edison and Patton really stand out as not being right brained.
- Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 3:45:00 AM PDT
I say Bill Gates is a 50/50 if anything. ....he had the equal parts of creativity and ingenious thinking ... the best of both worlds
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The ghetto is an ideal place for a relaxing stroll through its peaceful and hidden alleys, starting from via de' Giudei, which was the entrance for people coming from piazza di Porta Ravegnana.
The layout of Bologna's 16th century ghetto can still be precisely traced amid the narrow streets in the medieval heart of the city. Here, a maze of alleys, covered bridges and small windows tell the story of a whole community forced to live in a specific area of the town by order of the Papal State beginning from 1556. In Bologna, Jews lived in the ghetto until 1569, when they were expelled for the first time. In 1586, they were allowed to come back to town and live here again until 1593, the year of their final expulsion: 900 people left Bologna and no Jewish community was allowed into town for more than two centuries.
Entrances to the Jewish quarter were opened in the morning, sealed at dusk and constantly watched: one entrance was at the beginning of via de' Giudei, a second one at the intersection between via del Carro and via Zamboni, a third one in via Oberdan, where an arch looks onto vicolo Mandria.
The ghetto is undoubtedly one of the most charming areas in town enlivened with artisan workshops and encircled by palaces, which belonged to rich Jewish merchants and bankers. The area is dotted with the historical workshops identified in the census taken by the Province of Bologna.
The ghetto is an ideal place for a relaxing stroll through its peaceful and hidden alleys, starting from via de' Giudei, which was the entrance for people coming from piazza di Porta Ravegnana.
Via dell'Inferno was the main artery where many twisted streets ended: via de' Giudei, vicolo di S. Giobbe, vicolo Mandria, via del Carro and via Valdonica.
The most important religious building in the ghetto is Buratti House, the ancient seat of the synagogue (via dell'Inferno, 16): it was built in the mid-1800s and it was heavily restored in 1955 after being seriously damaged by the war.
In order to have the most striking view of the tower, we suggest taking via San Simone from via Oberdan and turning into vicolo Mandria on your right.
Piazzetta Marco Biagi is located in the Jewish ghetto, between via dell'Inferno and piazza San Martino.
The square of the ghetto can be divided into three different areas: two of them overlook onto via Valdonica and via Marsala respectively, and the third one is the yard of San Martino church.
Opened on May 9th, 1999, the Jewish Museum of Bologna (MEB, Museo Ebraico di Bologna) was established with the aim of preserving, studying and promoting the rich cultural Jewish heritage deeply rooted in Bologna as well as other places in Emilia Romagna.
The only original entrance to the former ghetto which still exixts today is the vault connecting San Donato church (18th century) to the ancient Manzoli-Malvasia palace built over the remains of a 13th century house, of which only a few door arches remain.
Towards the end of the 18th century the Jewish community slowly began to come back to Bologna, from where it had been expelled in 1593.
This building owned by Achille Bocchi (1488 – 1562) of Bologna, a humanist writer, was opened in 1546 after a project by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola and soon became the seat of his Hermatena Academy.
The first Jewish cemetery in Bologna, located between the Baraccano church and the church of San Pietro Martire, was closed in 1569 after the expulsion of the Jews from the town.
This building was home, private oratory and bank of the Jewish Sforno family coming from Barcelona that moved to Bologna in the 15th century.
Located in the former Jewish ghetto, Chiara Melandri's comprehensive interior design shop designs and produces objects, imports furnishings designed by internationally famous artists and budding designers, and creates, redesigns and gives new life to personalised spaces.
The Corticelli family has a long professional tradition in the production of shoes made to measure. The grandfather, Adolfo, was already working as a shoemaker in 1929 and he passed the art of shoemaking to his son Otello. From a very young age Cosetta developed a passion for this highly creative artisan trade while assisting her father.
"Arteggiando", owned by Francesca Taino and Monica Chiarini, is located in this area of the city that is a centre of artisan trades and design.
The engraving and printing workshop "La Tarlatana" overlooks via De' Giudei at the entrance to the former Jewish ghetto.
For fifty years Gabriele Piccioni has been designing and tailoring made-to-measure suits with perfect style and fine details.
A craftsmen's workshop for the production of leather and fabric bags, unique articles or limited editions, in addition to accessories and jewellery: earrings, bracelets and necklaces graced with pearls and other materials such as wood and leather.
A small cosy restaurant in the heart of Bologna, just a short walk from the two towers, since the 1950s 'Il Tinello' has served typical dishes of Bologna which are much appreciated by the regular clientele of the city.
Established in the nineteen eighties by Marco Bottai in the university area, the "Galleria Spazia" has concentrated on Abstractism with special interest in that of the fifties.
The experience gained in the workshop of Maria Cristina Vignale concluded in 2006 with Elisa Mattei and Elena Dalle Donne taking over the business located in the former Jewish ghetto of the city.
Behind the window of the typical alcove style of old shops, "Vecchio Metodico" is a workshop in which two projects have co-existed and continue to evolve.
In tribute to her long experience gained in Guido Selva's shop in via del Luzzo, Adriana Biondi opened her workshop with the name "Nuova Bottega Del Luzzo" in 2002 in the former Jewish ghetto of the city.
Working with leather and skin to produce handmade shoes made to measure believing that 'every foot is unique' is the philosophy behind "La Calzoleria di Max e Gio".
From the heart of the 'Quadrilatero', where in 1937 Tigrino took over the historic jeweller's (founded in 1903 by Marcello Bertolotti), the shop relocated to via dell'Inferno in the former Jewish ghetto.
"Il Bagatto", which opened in the city in 1970, makes evening wear and formal dress articles for men and women in addition to restoration of antique crochet, lace, curtains and antique clothing, embroidery by hand on canvas and silk, repairs and reconditioning of fur and leather articles.