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A couple of weeks ago, Jody Barr at WIS-TV interviewed me on a story he was working on about new furniture for members of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Barr happened to notice furniture being hauled in and out of the Blatt building (the office building adjacent to the State House) and he followed up to find out why. It turns out the House spent $1.56 million to re-furnish members offices and committee rooms which they use three days a week, six months a year.
Its bad enough that the House has surplus funds totaling $16 million. Take a look at Barrs story for yourself. With the exception of a couple of chairs and a desk or two, most of it looked in pretty good shape to me!
But not according to the House staffer who prepared the Fact Sheet on why the furniture had to be replaced (furnished to Barr after he started asking questions). It isnt simply that the furniture purportedly is 30 years old and has had to be repaired many times (although staff said they dont keep records of the repair requests). No, the main reason the furniture had to be replaced was because it was well dangerous. Thats right. Our brave men and women in the House of Representatives were forced to serve the people under the harrowing threat of credenzas that Im quoting the fact sheet were falling on people.
I dont want to know how a credenza broke and fell on someone. If that happened, it would make sense to replace it. But did all of it need replacing?
According to the fact sheet, this furniture problem had reached a red-alert level. The furniture had become a Safety Hazard.
Furniture is continually breaking, cannot be properly fixed and in some cases can be dangerous.
Furthermore and this is shocking the House furniture is not up to code. Apparently that furniture violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, OSHA regulations, and even ASNI and BIFNA standards! If you havent heard of those last two, they stand for American National Standards Institute and Business Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association.
The fact sheet went on to point out that the furniture Does Not Serve Todays Public Office Needs.
After 34 years, much in the office world has changed. While the Blatt Building conference rooms have entered the 20th Century, now equip [sic] to live-stream hearings over the Internet, the current furniture was constructed around the use of typewriters as well as many other outdated technologies.
Ill assume the writer meant to say the Blatt conference rooms have entered the twenty-first century rather than just now hitting the twentieth. Anyhow, the fact sheet goes on to say that the House Operations Committee went through a thorough and thoughtful process to reach the unanimous decision to replace the furniture. With replacement/repair options no longer available and safety issues paramount, the Committee went to work negotiating a great deal for the taxpayers to get the furniture for $1.56 million instead of the $2 million budgeted!
But the cost isnt the worst part of this story. What happened to the furniture? Surely the dangerous apparently illegal furniture was destroyed, right? Nope. Barr was told the furniture was sent to the state surplus warehouse, where it will now be sold to other agencies and the public!
So furniture too dangerous for part-time House members is apparently good enough for other state employees who work full-time, and good enough for citizens who are shopping for discounted furniture for their own businesses or homes. I really hope those dangerous credenzas dont end up in a home office with children around.
Seriously, either all the furniture is potentially dangerous in which case it shouldnt be sold to other state employees or citizens or the House just wanted new furniture and had staffers come up with excuses for buying it. Either way, House leaders should come clean and tell what is likely the real story: the furniture was old and and they didnt like it. That might have irritated taxpayers, who are rightly tired of the let them eat cake attitude our elected officials have toward the public, but it wouldnt have been nearly as bad as saying the furniture is too dangerous for them but not for the rest of us.
Barrs story was on WIS-TV last week, with more of the reasons every House office was re-furnished. It showed pictures of the old furniture you can be the judge of whether it needed replacing.
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Coming two years after his bestselling Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff's Frozen in Time again tells the dramatic story of a World War II plane crash. In fact, this time there are three of them.
In 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slams into an ice cap in Greenland, then a B-17 crashes during its search and rescue mission, then a Grumman Duck amphibious plane disappears after rescuing one of the B-17 survivors. "Talk about bad luck," Amazon senior editor Jon Foro points out in his review, describing the story as "part Alive, part Shackleton."
Zuckoff told us that the similarities between Frozen In Time and Lost in Shangri-La (both Amazon Best of the Month picks) were consistent with his passion for stories about human endurance. "I'm drawn to people pulled to extremes, pulled beyond expected limit," he said.
Yet, he didn't want to straight-up replicate Shangri-La with another WWII rescue story. What appealed to him was the modern-day piece of Frozen In Time. In 2011, Zuckoff met with a photographer and explorer named Lou Sapienza, a "tireless dreamer" who had been searching for the Grumman Duck and the men who disappeared. Zuckoff loved the idea of telling alternating stories, present and past. "I was excited about the challenge of writing a modern day story and a historic story," he said.
The key was getting Sapienza to cooperate. When they first met, Zuckoff felt like he was being auditioned. In fact, at one point Sapienza asked, Why shouldn't I be working with Jon Krakauer? Zuckoff told him, "You should. But he's not here. I am." Sapienza seemed to like that, and the two men hit it off, which led to Zuckoff's participation in the risky 2012 expedition to find the Duck.
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At the risk of sounding like a pretentious git, I never listen to music when I write because I'm trying to hear the rhythm of the words. I once tried listening to jazz and found myself eyeing the window on the other side of the room.
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#29 – JEREMY SCOTT x ADIDAS ORIGINALS TEDDY BEAR/PANDA
Eccentric, outrageous, unconventional. We need a thesaurus opened to the page for 'outlandish' just to put a tenth of the novelty into our descriptions as Jeremy Scott has managed for his seasonal adidas Originals by Originals capsules. It seems as if with each new release, we are left wondering where he will go next and how his adidas sneaker designs could possibly get wilder, and yet, somehow he always seems to come through with something to top himself. Following up on last year's #19 entrant, the JS Wings 2.0, comes another take on the mid-1980s basketball standout, Metro Attitude, that's right up there with the craziest sneaker concepts ever released to retail. The Jeremy Scott x adidas Originals Teddy Bear and Panda Bear applied a full-on plush animal to the tongue of a hightop silhouette that's
more overstuffed than even the cushiest of Nike SB Dunks. J.Scott's designs have usurped the throne of wackiest sneaker designs from Swoosh skateboarding thanks to these kinds of ostentatious add-ons, and they've become wildly popular with the fashion-forward set in Asia, as well as a growing cult following in the States. With both the Snuggle Bear-leaning Teddy and the headband-rocking black and white Panda edition, this was a shoe that also helped establish Jeremy Scott for young sneakerheads in the same way fast food restaurants hope to imprint impressionable children. They suggest he'll continue to push the envelope in 2012 and provide the sneaker game with the kind of leftfield looks we never knew we always wanted, and that's why Jeremy Scott's cuddly bear offerings earn a cushy spot in this year's Top 30.
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yall niqqas hella wack imma have to go wit da pewter foamposites or the electric blue foams very nice shoes bitches haha
Come on, banned one was crazy honestly a AJ 1 retro with nike tag and premium leather! thats always a good shoe in my book
the Pine pros imo...
Jeremy scott adidas should not have ever made this list!
MJ don't need your p*ssy b!tch he on his own d!ck
pretty proud of my self this yr as a rookie sneakerhead... i allways had freash kicks but not this many.. my list goes 1.concords 2.bordeauxs 3.white cement,true blue,black cement,black history month (bhm),black flip retro 3s 4.space jam dunk lows 5.wolf grey,black metalic retro 5s 6.retro blue foamposite pro 7.air jordan 2011 black /black "the sleeper of the yr" many more cops but they didnt make the list tell me if i need to up my game or am i holdin us sneakerheads down...
The nike air "MAG's"
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I was the firsy person on youtube to review lebron 9 chinas miami night and the concords!
electric blue foams, cannon 9s, KD weatherman, pine greens, black cement
Bordeaux 7z should b number 1
sb's shit on all of these. thats gonna be the shoe of the decade
My number 1 sneaker would have to be the wolf grey 5's fuck all that concord hype
Please don't put Concords as number 1, Concords deserve to be in the list but I feel as though they shouldn't even make the top 5, and remember Jordan Brand isn't the only brand that makes sneakers.
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it was a great year, tooo bad it hurt money wise
i got Pewters, Pines, Black Cements, CONCORDS (OF COURSE)
Awesome pics and a great list. Nice job!!
Best list I've seen so far... Number 1 and 2 is a toss up tho. Let's do 1a, 1b.
Those Foamposites are Nice!
well i cant choose so im just going to choose the Nike Air MAGS , jordans retro 1 banned , lebron miami nights .
stealth 3s
Oh yah, and you paid like $400 for the fake concords that Deftronic called you out on.
congrats, go tell someone who cares
yes but Jordan and Nike are the most hyped/popular brands in the world, why would you do a top 30 on shoes that won't get the attention and ratings that these shoes do
what do u mean. Ur saying that alll of these are ur sneakernes? poor word choice
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We are pleased to welcome Michael P. Flynn of Melrose as marketing assistant/junior strategist.
In this new position, Mike will work with the account management team in areas including client support, project management, and managing and monitoring multiple branded social media accounts, with a special focus on creative strategy.
After earning a bachelor's degree in marketing from Providence College and achieving United States Professional Tennis Association certification as a teaching professional, Mike joined the staff of Winchester Indoor Lawn and Tennis Center as an instructor and marketing administration assistant. He later also joined the Winchester Swim and Tennis Club, where he advanced from assistant director of tennis to director of tennis, managing staff, conducting clinics, planning and promoting special events, teaching, and coaching, as well as managing marketing and communications responsibilities.
He also served for five seasons as a volunteer for the Saugus High School girls tennis team, assisting the coaches during tryouts and practices.
While enrolled in the Professional Development program at the Bertolon School of Business at Salem State University, Mike co-founded Foreevo LLC and designed and developed the ChargedUp™ Tennis portable glow-in-the-dark tennis kit, raising funds for the project through Indiegogo crowdfunding. The nighttime tennis kit, comprised of rechargeable phosphorescent strips and markers, is now sold online and will be available soon at local tennis clubs.
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Kicking off the fall conference, attendees were asked to review three bank commercials and present their best defense and prosecution for each. After each case, we three judges passed judgement not on the commercials, but on the arguments presented.
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The Secret Sayings of Ye Su
January 1, 2005
The Secret Sayings of Ye Su: A Silk Road Gospel
, by Jay Williams, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College, provides a translation of, introduction to and commentary upon an extraordinary, previously unknown manuscript. This Christian gospel, though written in koine Greek, was obviously influenced by both Buddhist and Daoist ideas and probably derives from Tang dynasty China (8th or 9th century).
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Preparing Educators for Online Writing Instruction: Principles and Processes
December 31, 2004
A guide for educators teaching in the ever-evolving online environment. "Drawing on current thinking in rhetoric and composition, adult education, and e-learning, and incorporating their own experiences with a variety of online instructional contexts, including the online learning provider Smarthinking, Inc., the authors demonstrate how five important pedagogical principles can inform effective online instructor training."
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The Clinton Comets: An EHL Dynasty
November 1, 2004
Described as "a comprehensive history of the glory years of the Clinton Comets," it is the story of Clinton, New York's own professional hockey team during the era (1954-73) when "old-time hockey" was at its best. Thanks to the team, a member of the Eastern Hockey League, Clinton became known as "the biggest little hockey town in the U.S.A." This volume is replete with a detailed statistical compendium but unfortunately no index. The co-author, a Utica native, biologist and rabid hockey fan, resides with his wife and two sons in Cooperstown, N.Y.
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An Educator Reminisces
November 1, 2004
Valedictorian of the Class of 1934 and a veteran teacher and counselor, the author recalls in a wide-ranging fashion his Lebanese roots, coming of age in the Utica area, education at Hamilton and beyond, and his subsequent career in Utica high schools. In addition to the autobiographical information it contains, the book is a small but valuable contribution to local history.
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Tennis Bibliography 1874-2000
November 1, 2004
Compiled with Gordy Sabine, this is a monumental bibliographical achievement that must have taken many years and much labor to complete. A catalogue of English-language literature of tennis (formerly known as lawn tennis) through 125 years, it contains more than 3,200 citations accessed by author, subject, title and year. It will no doubt long remain an invaluable resource for any research library as well as all serious students of the game. Frank Phelps, whose erudition regarding the history of tennis is wide-ranging and profound, has given enduring expression to his own love of the game through this impressive work.
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Ted Williams: A Biography
August 6, 2004
Ted Williams was the last player to hit .400 in the Major Leagues and Ted Williams: A Biography is the story of a man "whose mission was to become the greatest hitter of all time." Markusen tells this story, from Williams' beginning with the Boston Red Sox to his end as a Major League manager. Talented yet unpleasant to his fans and the media, Williams "forged an indelible image in the minds of baseball fans."
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Across America: The Lewis & Clark Expedition
August 4, 2004
In 2003, Americans began celebrating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1803-1806), a journey of discovery that proved a seminal moment in the history of the exploration of the North American continent. With full coverage of the events leading to the Corps of Discovery's formation and its gripping adventures to the Pacific and back, Across America: The Lewis and Clark Expedition details the explorers' travels and trials. Tracing the various stages of their journey, it chronicles important factors and discusses everything from the founding of the exploration to the fates of the explorers.
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Exploration in the Age of Empire, 1750-1953
August 1, 2004
Concentrating on the 18th through the 20th centuries, this comprehensive reference provides full coverage of European exploration and imperial expansion in Africa and Asia. Three major themes—motive, the influence of changing ideas on the conduct and understanding of exploration, and the impact of exploration on the politics of the European empires—are integrated into seven chapters and an epilogue. Exploration in the Age of Empire examines the way in which all the great explorers who served the European empires of the modern era became popular celebrities, unlike their predecessors, and illustrates the roles of explorers as propagandists.
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Dima's Dog School: The Foolproof New Way to Train Your Dog
June 1, 2004
Dima's Dog School
takes an innovative approach to dog training. Whereas most dog trainers focus on how to force dogs into taking orders, Dima's approach is about convincing your dog to act in a pleasing manner by speaking dog. This book will help the reader understand why dogs behave the way they do and how dog owners can help their dogs overcome their bad habits by engaging them in dialogue and teaching them to be good because they want to be.
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Geology of the American Southwest: A Journey through Two Billion Years of Plate-Tectonic History
May 14, 2004
An introduction to the geology of the Southwestern United States, ideal for students of the subject as well as anyone with more than just a casual interest in the natural wonders of the region. The author is a research scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico. His book is dedicated with great appreciation to Professor Emeritus Donald B. Potter, who, "throughout his 34 years of teaching undergraduate students at Hamilton College…sought to instill in them a love for geology and an appreciation of the importance of science in a liberal arts education."
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I have completed a BVRI survey of 5 deg2 of the belt of Orion. I found that the pre-main sequence (PMS) population dominates a distinct locus of the V versus V-I color-magnitude diagram (CMD). I have statistically identified the low-mass PMS population by fitting the distribution of field and PMS stars on the V versus V-I CMD. This allowed me to count the number of PMS stars as a function of V magnitude and V-I color. While photometry alone can not select individual PMS stars with certainty, most of the stars which I identified as likely PMS stars have an 80% or greater likelihood of being PMS stars.
The PMS stars of the belt consist of 2 populations. The low-mass PMS stars around \epsilon and \sigma Orionis are consistent with membership in the Orion OB1b sub-association. The PMS population is best fit by a 3 Myr isochrone. The width of the PMS locus is inconsistent with an age spread greater than 2 Myrs. The low-mass stars near \delta Orionis are primarily from the 10 Myr old Orion OB1a sub-association.
The highest density of PMS stars is found in the \sigma Orionis cluster. In the region around \sigma Ori I identified ~350 PMS stars in the mass range 1.4>M>0.2M\odot. The spatial distribution of low-mass PMS stars around \sigma Orionis is consistent with a King model. The radius of the cluster is about 30' or ~4pc (d=450pc). I have used the initial mass function of Kroupa (2002) to estimate the total mass, number of stars, and the number of brown dwarfs in the cluster. The total mass is ~320M\odot. There are about 750 stars and 400 brown dwarfs (0.075>M>0.01M\odot) in the cluster. Given the total mass of the cluster, it is probably unbound.
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Editor's Note: This article is part of The Journal's annual Unsung Heroes feature. The stories in this series run from Memorial Day to Veterans Day, and feature profiles of veterans who served in wars and conflicts from World War II to the present day.
SHANNONDALE - Although he never saw battle while serving as a ship superintendent in the Navy, 86-year-old John E. Conant has seen the world through his travels.
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John E. Conant, a retired U.S. Naval commander, stands by medals he received during his service while holding a sword that was a gift from his father.
Conant, a retired U.S. Naval commander who lives in Shannondale, has taken seven world cruises and four safaris, along with his war experiences that took him from Virginia to Pearl Harbor.
Conant was born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio, attended a one-room school house and graduated from Butler High School in 1938. He then went to Ohio State and studied mechanical engineering.
As a junior in college in 1941, Conant said it was inevitable that the United States would go to war. That spring, Ohio State students were recruited for the Navy Probationary Officers program. The program gave engineering students the opportunity to receive probationary reserve commissions as ensigns in the Navy. By accepting the commissions, the students were legally bound to serve in the Navy following graduation.
"There were not enough engineering and medical officers to supply military needs," Conant said.
Seventy students from Conant's class sent in applications to receive their commission; Conant was one of only four who were issued appointments to the U.S. Navy.
"It seemed like the right thing to do," he said. "My father was upset when I got the commission because of his experiences in World War I."
Conant's father was not pleased when his son became interested in the Navy. Conant's father was a veteran of World War I and served as a radio operator, but he never spoke of his time in France.
It wasn't until his father passed away in the 1980s that Conant found a document that explained his father's experiences while in the war.
Conant served in the Navy for 39 years. While he never saw battle, he did his part by making sure that ships were well prepared for combat and up to code.
He received his first set of active duty orders on July 2, 1942, which sent him to Portsmouth, Va., to the Norfolk Navy Yard. Conant was assigned to the Production Department of the Navy Yard as an assistant ship superintendent.
On Oct. 5, 1942, Conant reported to the U.S. Naval Academy Postgraduate school in Annapolis, Md., to take a 32-week course on naval architecture, which included the design, construction and calculating the displacement and stability of naval ships.
After returning to Portsmouth, Conant was assigned duty as a ship superintendent.
"When a ship came in, the superintendent was assigned to oversee the work on the ship to make sure everything was done properly," Conant said.
According to Conant, the Navy was short of ships at this time, so he was given old ships that were in need of repair.
One of the ships he worked on was an old refrigeration ship that had been in the banana trade from Central America to the United States. Conant was responsible for overhauling the engines and installing a new refrigeration system that would allow the ship to store frozen meat cargo.
"I settled into this waterfront work, not knowing how long I would be in the ship superintendent's office," Conant said. "There was nothing else to occupy my time except work in the yard."
In January 1945, Conant was transferred to Pearl Harbor, to the U.S. Pacific Fleet for duty in the Fleet Maintenance Officers Poll. Conant's duties were to serve as the assistant ship engineering and maintenance officer for hull and installations.
By that fall, many of the officers around him were getting out of the service and going home. Conant's wife, Ann, was pregnant with twins, but he didn't have enough points to get discharged.
Conant was not able to be released until a replacement had been found. The material office where he was reduced to the captain and four other officers. While the captain was in the hospital, Conant, now the senior officer in the material office, received a promotion to lieutenant commander.
Conant met his wife, Ann Cooke, the daughter of a prominent doctor in Portsmouth, in the spring of 1944 while at a country club one evening. They were married in December 1944.
While Conant was stationed in Pearl Harbor, their first children, twin girls Laura and Elizabeth, were born. The couple's son James followed in October 1949, and Thomas Sanford was born in September 1953. The couple now has eight grandchildren.
Conant stayed at Pearl Harbor until the Japanese surrendered. While he made attempts to go on inactive duty, he was required to stay active.
After the war, Conant and his father started a sheet metal factory in Columbus, Ohio, but in Feb. 9, 1951, he was sent orders to return to Portsmouth, Va.; Conant's father continued to run the shop until it was eventually sold.
Conant was sent new orders sending him to Port Hueneme, Calif., where he took a three-week course in disaster relief.
"During the years following the end of WWII, there was widespread fear and paranoia in the United States," Conant said. "People were fearful of atomic weapons, communism and communists."
The course gave him the latest information on the capabilities and defense of atomic weapons to prepare him for his position as disaster relief officer.
"It turned out to be an assignment in name only," Conant said, "since there was never a threat of an atomic weapons attack on the area."
Conant retired from the reserves in 1980. Following his retirement, he went back into the reserves, working out of Falls Church, Va., building flight simulators for the Navy.
He still works for the Naval Academy as an information officer for Jefferson, Musselman and Martinsburg high schools. He contacts candidates who have applied for admission in the U.S. Naval Academy and interviews them. If they are admitted, Conant presents their appointment.
Conant and his wife have spent more than 1,000 days sailing around the world. They took their first cruise in 1994 for their 50th wedding anniversary. Since then, they've taken seven cruises and are planning their eighth cruise in January.
Their travels have taken them to Egypt, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, China and South Africa, among other countries.
"The world has changed a lot since our first trip around the world," Conant said. "More tourists are going to foreign countries."
Conant and his wife previously lived in Arlington, Va., while he worked in Washington. They built their home in Shannondale in 1970 as a vacation home and moved to Jefferson County permanently when he retired.
Conant has put together a book for his children, documenting his father's upbringing and time in WWI and his own childhood memories of growing up on a farm in Ohio. The book also documents his time in the Navy and how he met his wife. He is thinking of publishing the book.
"I'm just loafing now," Conant said of how he's been spending his time recently.


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GRAND RAPIDS -- Police are looking for a suspect after one person was fatally shot and another critically injured Saturday afternoon in the city's Southeast side.
The fatality marks the first homicide of 2011 in the city.
Grand Rapids Police Lt. Mark Ostapowicz said the shooting was reported at about 2:40 p.m. in the 1000 block of Union Avenue SE. One victim was pronounced dead at the scene and another taken to a local hospital with critical injuries, he said.
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The United States Supreme Court took the world by surprise Thursday, June 28, in its bold 5-4 decision to validate President Barack Obama's signature achievement — the Affordable Care Act — during his first term in the White House.
Chief Justice John Roberts, in declaring Obama's health care law constitutional and providing the swing vote in a presidential campaign season, instantly helped to solidify President Obama's legacy. Opponents of the health care law reminded us during debates that defeating the health legislation would mark the beginning of the end for President Obama. In the words of Republican Senator Jim DeMint, "if we defeat Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo."
For a conservative chief justice appointed by former president George W. Bush to rise above the chasms and naked partisan politics that have shaped the court and defined it in the eyes of public opinion took a lot of nerve from Roberts.
Certainly Roberts' decision to validate the most important domestic decision of this historic presidency is a slap in the face of those — and the extreme right — who brought the suit to the court.
The conservative Washington Times screamed in its front page headline the morning after the ruling, "Roberts Court Stuns Nation," an affirmation of the extent to which the ruling has dealt a blow to the Republican Congressional leadership and its accompanying Tea Party.
But if the opposition and those who were skeptical were reading Roberts' writings and paying attention to his interviews in the past, they should have seen this coming.
Because not only was Roberts, in casting the deciding vote in the Affordable Care Act tried to shape his own legacy as the administrator of the court, despite his role in the disastrous Citizens United decision, he was sending a message of deference to electoral power to which Obama is the embodiment.
In his preview interviews Roberts warned that the court should not usurp the power of elected officials and must give deference to the decisions made by
those voted into office by the people. He noted that members of the Supreme Court are not elected, thus limiting their power to sometimes override the decisions of those elected. In essence, the court cannot be an activist court as Antonio Scalia personifies in his personal, intense dislike of President Obama and his decisions.
However, what is amazing is that the discussions around opposing the law are not centering on the millions of people who will have access to affordable care.
It is disappointing to see how talking heads beating the drum of repeal are framing the ruling and not focusing on how this health law will save lives, especially those with preexisting conditions.
"The decision was good news for consumers and the health care system. The Affordable Care Act establishes comprehensive insurance market reforms that will guarantee access to health care and protect Americans from catastrophic medical costs," said Tom Buchmueller, the Waldo O. Hildebrand professor of risk management and Insurance at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Marianne Udow-Phillips, lecturer at the U-M School of Public Health and director of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, a non-profit partnership between the U-M Health System and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan also applauded the Supreme Court rule.
"The Affordable Care Act is not a perfect law. But it is so much better than what we have without it. The court's decision and careful deliberation affirms that our form of government works, balancing competing views in a fair and thoughtful manner. It is, indeed, a remarkable day in health care," Udow-Philips said.
The impact of this new law could not be more impactful anywhere than in communities of Color, such as the African American community, where there is a health tsunami.
Clover Campbell, head of the National Newspaper Publishers of America, known as the Black Press of America, underscored the ruling.
"The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Thursday upholding the constitutionality of the historic Affordable Care Act is not only a victory for President Obama, but a major win for all Americans, especially African-Americans and other people of color. The uninsured rate for Blacks is 28.8 percent and 30.7 percent for Latinos, compared to only 11.7 percent for Whites. Although it's not perfect, the Affordable Care Act will reduce the racial, ethnic and economic health disparities in the U.S. and help our country shed the shame of being the only industrialized country in the world without a national health insurance program," Campbell said.
"The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) realizes that even with the Supreme Court ruling, this fight is not over. Our 200 publishers are prepared to remain in the fight to make sure that health care is affordable and available to everyone who needs it."
Nancy Schlichting CEO of Henry Ford Health System, one of the largest health care systems in the country, is among health care leaders in Detroit praising the high court ruling and calling it "a win-win" for patients and the country's health care system.
"This ruling allows health systems like ours to continue making positive reforms to the country's health care system that was on an unsustainable track prior to the passage of the Act," Schlichting said. "We're thrilled for the nearly 500,000 uninsured people in Michigan who will now have access to affordable health care, many for the first time, which in turn will bring much needed economic relief to Henry Ford and other health care providers that have been coping for years with the growing cost of uncompensated care."
Schlichting said Henry Ford's uncompensated care has doubled in the past eight years, from $111 million in 2003 to $210 million in 2011.
Whether they accept it or not, the highest court in the land has sealed the deal, and opponents of President Obama and those rooting for him to fail need to separate their personal dislike of the man from his health policy that will help millions.
Will they also call Chief Justice Roberts a socialist for giving the ultimate blessing to the historic health care legislation that now mirrors what other European nations have done in assuring health care for their people?
Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president who championed a similar health program as governor of Massachusetts, has been forced to tip-toe around this same issue and contradict himself.
A disappointed Romney said he will repeal the law once elected.
It will be interesting to see how this law impacts the election.
Bankole Thompson is editor of the Michigan Chronicle and the author of a six-part book series on the Obama presidency. His book, "Obama and Black Loyalty," published in 2010, follows his recent book, "Obama and Christian Loyalty" with a foreward by Bob Weiner, former White House spokesman. His forthcoming books in 2012 are "Obama and Jewish Loyalty" and "Obama and Business Loyalty." Thompson is a political news analyst at WDET-101.9FM (NPR affiliate) and a member of the weekly "Obama Watch" Sunday evening roundtable on WLIB-1190AM New York and simulcast in New Jersey and Connecticut.


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Leon The Hamster died last Thursday. I've been feeling really quite miserable about the whole thing, as he was only 2 1/2 and usually my hamsters live for, at the very least, three years. We think he died from a kidney infection.
Leon's death came as quite a shock, and he really did try to hang on. In the end, I suppose it was just his time to go. It sort of felt as though my rats Mouse and Dumbo knew when he was gone though, because they were a lot calmer than usual. He's normally in the small cage next to theirs, so they would have always been able to smell him, and now he's gone.
This is all sort of strange given the blog entry I made last week about rats and the myths about them being able to sense things. My rats have generally been very quiet and haven't been fighting nearly as much as they usually do. I wish I had paid more attention to the way they were acting when Leon was dying, but obviously my focus was on him.
A lot has been making me sad lately. I saw a beautiful Russian blue female dumbo rat in a pet store a couple of weeks ago that was fully grown, but I've been forbidden from getting any more rats while I have Mouse and Dumbo. I plan to get two baby rats once one of them has gone. My mum will just have to be overwhelmed by their cuteness and let me off for completely ignoring her.
I really wanted to give that dumbo rat a home, but I couldn't. I just hope that someone else who is as big a sucker as I am gives her a happy family, because it depresses me to think of any animal growing up and dying in a pet shop, never getting the attention and love it deserves.
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In The Whisperer in Darkness, folklore professor Albert Wilmarth investigates legends of strange creatures in the most remote hills of Vermont. His inquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks behind the legends. Filmed in the style of the classic 1930s films such as Frankenstein, Dracula and King Kong, The Whisperer in Darkness returns us to the golden age of movies for a thrilling adventure of supernatural horror. Filmed on location in New England in Mythoscope by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, The Whisperer in Darkness treats audiences to a cinematic thrill not felt since the Hoover administration.
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The HPLHS was founded in 1985 by Philip Bell, Sean Branney and Andrew Leman. Originally its activities were built around the group's Live Action Role Playing (LARP) games which were often set in the worlds of Lovecraft's stories. Over time, the group evolved to produce audio CDs and short films and in 2005 it produced the film The Call of Cthulhu. Shot in the style of a 1920s silent film, The Call of Cthulhu played festivals worldwide and was acclaimed by many to be the best realization of a Lovecraft story on film to date. The HPLHS decided to produce a feature length film of a Lovecraft story, and The Whisperer in Darkness was completed in 2011. The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society remains one of the world's most popular creators of products and entertainments inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.


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RIYADH: Three Saudi security officers were wounded, one critically, by gunfire outside a police station in a village in the mostly Shia area of Qatif, the government said yesterday.
The incident took place on Monday night in Al Awamiyah.
"While a number of security men were in front of the Awamiyah police headquarters discharging their duties, they were exposed to heavy fire by unknown people from a neighbouring farm which wounded three of them, one critically," the official Saudi Press Agency reported, citing an Interior Ministry spokesman.
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TravelPod Member ReviewsHoliday Inn Niagara Falls - By The Falls
poor experience. room was on main floor near main elevator. had no balcony as advertised, just a sliding door that lead on to a parking lot. wifi didn't work in room. overall not impressed. would not stay here again.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Holiday Inn Niagara Falls - By The Falls
This Holiday Inn is a Fake Holiday Inn!
We stayed at this hotel in august 2004, I had resverations for 3 days at one rate. When we arrived to our room the room is not clean the patio door will not shut or lock and keeps opening on its own the ceiling are all cracked and pealing . The next day after returning to the hotel at the end of the day we first could not find a parking spot we drove around for 10 minutes hoping some one would leave then some from the holiday inn was in the parkinglot and said we can park in the skytron lot. When we went to the room we could not get in it because some one else was in it. I when down to the desk and told them some one is in the room and they told me that I checked out . I told them that I did not and that I had resveration for 3 days.
Then thay said they can maybe get me another room but it would be at a higher rate! This was a joke, we left the hotel and found a room at the best westen across the street which was much better.
When I got home I called the holiday inn world office to complain about this hotel and they told me the this is not a Holiday Inn it has nothing to do with them. I said what are you talking about the sign out front says holiday inn the ad says holiday inn everyone there is assuming they are staying at a holiday inn but you are not it is a fake! This even made the whole place even more of a rip off. I have called 8 different times to the hotel to speak to the manager and they are never there and I am still waiting for a response.
What a mistake!
I never before had visited TripAdvisor's website until I was searching for hotels for our family vacation. I took what I read with a grain of salt. We bought into the "Breakation" package and were expected to stay for 3 nights and left after two. The service at the hotel was some of the worst I have ever experienced. The check-in staff were helpful enough but the waitstaff at Rocco's were slower than slow. Our food was cold and the breakfast buffet that we paid an addt'l 3.95 for looked as though the food was day old. The steak and chicken dinners were so bad that we didn't finish our meals. As for the Skylon part of the package that was what we enjoyed most. I will tell you though, the size of the soup and the meat portions were not the same as the people who ordered some of the same items as we did at the next table. It was noticeable. The hotels room had a dirty rug, cheap linens and a broken slider door. The indoor pool was small and too warm. The only thing this hotel has going for it is its close proximity to the Falls.
Lesson learned, visit TripAdvisor before you book a hotel!
Do Not Stay Here.
Stayed June 26-29; we arrived after a long drive, check-in was simple enough. We stayed in a deluxe room with a heart-shaped jacuzzi, first night like normal but the last two nights with the 'breakation' package. The problems should have been evident from the start. The moment we get up to our room, the door was open. At first we thought it was a hospitality feature or something. Nope. There were 3 maids in our room lounging around, one was going to the bathroom and the other two were outside smoking on the balcony!!! My goodness, was all I could think. Apart from that, though, the first night was great, got up and saw the Falls, went to Hard Rock Cafe, etc, etc; second night we went down and scheduled our dinners for the next two nights, went smoothly. Now the other troubles begin. Location was fine, real close to the casino, the falls, and all the entertainment. When we came back the second night after a wonderful day at Niagara-On-The-Lake and all around, we ate at "Coco's," the bar and pizza grill in the hotel itself. Service was TERRIBLE! We waited an hour for our 2 pizzas to get done, were so disgusted we left after only briefly eating. We thought maybe it was a fluke... nope. The next morning we got up for breakfast 'buffet' (yeah right, maybe 5 things to choose from, what a joke...) and again the service was so terrible we finally decided after much waiting to get up and get our breakfast before the wait staff even got to us, we waited for 45 minutes+ before just getting up and eating. At this point, we wondered if they were up to providing anything more than just a roof and some cleaning. Third night we ate at the Skylon Tower, and had a great time, went up to observation deck, we did plenty more that third day, and ended up getting to bed early, exhausted from the day and all the fun we'd been having despite the hotel. Note here: the hotel's TV package is mostly news channels... i.e.: horrible... again. Got up the last morning, ate again, again with horrible service, and left early. We are left with a bad taste in our mouth from this hotel and will likely stay in the casino, the Sheraton, or basically anywhere else next time. We were suckered into the place by its great website that misrepresents the hotel and by its location. Do not stay here unless you want to be subjected to horrible service, no respect, and only a roof over your head in an admittedly good location. Pros: location, easy check-in, reasonable price; Cons: EVERYTHING ELSE
A great way to spend a weekend get-away!
During the Christmas 2003 holidays, my boyfriend and I spent the weekend at this hotel on their 2-nights weekend get-away package and we had a GREAT time!
Our room was newly renovated and very comfortable. It's obvious that the hotel had undergone major renovations and it looks quite inviting. I'm a corporate trainer and I travel 12-14 days per month - so I stay in MANY hotels and I can tell you that this one is outstanding for the price that you pay. Truly a steal!
In addition to the 2-nights stay, we enjoyed a romantic dinner at the revolving restaurant next to the hotel, a pleasant dinner at the hotel restaurant the following night and breakfast for two mornings. It was an incredible deal for only $199 Cdn. (less in US$). The hotel is a 5 minute walk from the falls and parking is free.
I would definitely return to the Holiday Inn by the Falls - it was a VERY enjoyable Niagara get-away.
Great 2-Day Package Deal
I was very impressed with the value of our
two-day package deal.
No, it wasn't the Hilton, or even the Sheraton.
But, for the price, we weren't expecting it to be.
I have stayed in nicer hotels, but our room was
clean and neat, the staff was more than helpful,
and now there is a casino right across the street.
The pizza in the hotel restaurant was very good.
The prime rib was terrible.
My husband and I will go back.
It might have been good.....
The hotel never responded to my email reservation requests, so we are now going to book somewhere else for our trip.
What a shame - the hotel looked good from it's website, but if they are not interested in my business then there are plenty that will be. A hotel with this poor an attitude to customer relations would not be in operation for long in the UK.
An excelent deal and wonderfull stay
Very Excelent service at a unbelivable price For all the things you get. We stayed there twice in the past year and would not hesitate to return again. The bar was wonderfull and was great to relax in after a day of taking in the falls. The bartender was espeicaly cutious and kind, even performing several magic trick for us. For the price and the amenties this hotel is an excelent stay in a wonderfull city.
Spectacular hotel
Great hotel. Inquire about there two night packages.
Awful, terrible, disgusting
My wife and I arrived on Sept. 26, 2003, at 10pm, having reserved a room two weeks before, and were given a room with multiple dirty stains on the carpet and a small hole in the wall. We immediately complained to the front desk and were reluctantly given a second room with equally filthy carpet, worn upholstery on the furniture, and "bruised" walls.
I'm certain a professional carpet cleaner could have removed the carpet stains. Again we complained to the front desk and were told they had no other rooms available. I asked to speak to the manager and was told the manager would be unavailable until late afternoon the next day. We stayed the night. The manager called our room the next day saying he could not offer us another room, but would discount our room by 10%. I reluctantly accepted the offer, but we were miserable in that depressing dirty room. We checked some other motels that day and found a nice room at the Oakes. I had to do some hard bargaining at the front desk to check out at a fair price, but it was worth it. The weekend was salvaged by moving to the Oakes. I'll be writing Holiday Inn corporate and AAA about our experience and will include photos of the carpet.
Just OK...............
Well, up to about 7 months ago,we stayed fairly regularly at the Holiday Inn by the Falls (about 2-3 times per year). Their 2 night packages were very reasonably priced. The staff were friendly and helpfull. Rooms were clean and ok in size. Overall, it's certainly not the Hilton or Sheraton, but then, you should not expect it to be ! Parking was free...hurray !!! Food was fair and Mr. Coco's Dinning room was in great need of updating re: decor and ambiance..... it"s terrible. Yea it felt and smelled like a diner. Takes you back to the 60's.The bar is directlly next door (no doors separating them)and it was very loud with all the music and cigarette smoke filtering in.Oh well, I think they are trying, and there has been some minor renovations over the past 2 years, but i think they struggle to keep up with all that is now around them..........
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... First stop was table rock we walked parallel to the falls and gorge. more awesome sights were Terry actually pulled in the burger bar she wanted him to stay there with her (she did wear glasses though).
then on to the Skylone Tower where a outside glass fronted lift took us over 512 feet to magnificent views of the falls and Toronto in the distance, again the views were incredible, but the Canadian weather ...
Day 8 (NUEC Day 4)
... zonked. Not to mention still half-wet from Cave of the Winds and frankly cold. Can't wait to get into my trackies! The hotel is again very nice, much the same as the last two. We're staying at the Ramada Inn at Getzville, NY. I have no idea where that is and I'm too tired to care. I'll look it up later!
Tomorrow we're driving to Albany, another long driving day. The plan is to make an early start, leaving at 7:45. Time for sleep!
I walked to Canada.
... starting just as we got towards the falls but we still had a 10min walk to the view point. By the time we got there we only managed to see about 5mins of fireworks. We were taking pictures of the waterfalls and quite a few people had cleared out I turned around and Claire had gone. I searched the area and went up to the top viewpoint a number of times to see if I had missed her. I sat for 15mins at the waterfall waiting for her to appear and it was clear that it ...


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Does it fly and have two spikes and a drill bit ?
You can see yourself reflected in the bright shiny, mirror-smooth surface of La Cie's Sphère - a storage ball - and you'll pay a lot of cash for the privilege. LaCie Sphère LaCie's mirrored storage ball - see the keyboard reflected in it. In this case mirroring doesn't mean data protection but the device's surface …
Does it fly and have two spikes and a drill bit ?
Looks more like the Orgasmatron from Woody Allen's The Sleeper, to me: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4sZPaKqYvos/TgRE2OM1K-I/AAAAAAAADB0/jG53z6aLf6s/s640/Sleeper_560x330_MSDSLEE_EC030_H-thumb-560xauto-28566.jpg
The above image is Safe For Work, though not all the pictures I saw whilst searching for it were.
LaCie has had design nous for YEARS... it's not like Apple suddenly made design sexy... LaCie and Iomega were there before...
That's the first time I've heard of Iomega being held up as a posterchild for design... and we used a lot of ZIP disks in our c2000 design campus.
LaCie's history has been tied to that of Apple's... but Apple's emphasis on design pre-dates that. It was Apple that led Hartmut Esslinger's design agency (clients including Wega and Sony Trinitron) to become Frog Design in 1982. Since then they've designed products for NeXT and SPARCstation. Even the grooves on the original Playstation were an acknowledged and deliberate homage by Sony's internal design studio to Esslinger's Mac design.
Lacie started out as two companies, one started in 1987 and the other in 1989. They tend to bring in 'star' product designers, such as Neil Poulson, Philipe Starck or Porsche Design to make an oblong box less boxy.
Dave, the Zip and Jaz drives were beautifully designed. They could've looked like every other crap external drive (i.e. oblong beige box), but they didn't. They might not have been Starcked or Poulsoned, but they did look sexier than the norm. And their external housings still look pretty dishy…
Fair dooes, I vaguely remember the external ZIP drives, though mine was an internal unit, all stamped mild steel with a beige plastic face!
T'was a strange time: CDRW drives were still rare, and flash memory was still very expensive even if you wanted to shunt data over slow USB 1.1 (which I couldn't cos NT 4.0 wouldn't play ball). Home internet was still dial-up, so files couldn't be shunted around very easily by that method. And some fruity company released a desktop PC without a floppy drive... Strange thing is, I had a portable MD recorder at the time, a format that could have been a suitable alternative to ZIP disks had Sony not been asleep at the wheel.
Funny; I've got 3 LaCie Porsche HDs here and they're pretty much standard black USB boxes to me. Oh, brushed aluminum, whee. Still, $69.99 for 2tb drives; couldn't pass on that.
The lack of storage space and the portability was my first reason to buy a PP version of the external Zip drive. Then Iomega brought out the 2GB Jaz drive, and I was smitten. It worked over PCMCIA and SCSI, which at the time worked for me on my laptop and desktop.
Yes, the internal versions didn't have the cute green and purple fascias (in keeping with the external housings)… but nonetheless they were good. :-)
The MD would've been fabulous, and yes, if Sony hadn't been so boneheaded, it could've gone the other way. :-)
I'd put it next to my magic 8-ball, but the magic 8-ball says don't buy it.
I'd put it next to my magic 8-ball, but the magic 8-ball says don't buy it.
I'll tell you why: it fears competition!
Lacie has never heard of networked storage?
Yes but network storage for this market usually means gigabit ethernet (at best) and around 110 meg a second maximum.
I want a USB backup device embedded in an life-size Elvis statue.
The shaking of the hips is a way of increasing airflow over the disk array without using fans!
> I want a USB backup device embedded in an life-size Elvis statue.
It would have to have built-in off-site backup software that announces "Your backup has left the building" when it's done!
>[...] without using fans
Oh... there'll be fans.
1tb WD HDD going for £56.99 if you get a current model not last years left over stock
WD My Passport Ultra 1TB
LaCie always was expensive.
...and you can spend all day polishing your balls.
...and stand them together in front of your Mac Pro.
when I said I was willing to pay extra for an external drive with hardware mirroring...
Christ. Awful.
There is no reflection of a camera in that image. The techniques for removing the camera's reflection from spherical images are fairly mature though, cos it's a quick and dirty way of generating environment maps without using specialist lenses.
They had to, the photographer is a reflectopornophile as you'll see if you zoom in on the reflection in the glass vase on the window.
You tease!
My take: In the centre of the image is a distant wall that has a strange colouring. That would have been a good place to have set up a tripod with a long lens camera to take the picture. Whoever 'shopped the tripod out didn't do a very good job of it in that case.
Looking at the left edge of the ball, I'm sure that's someone holding their arms up high with a flash unit in their hands. If so, that would have been easy to obfuscate, so why didn't they do it? I dunno ......
Please store all my data on a single disk so that it is lost on disk failure. Yours sincerely A Consumer.
Most people have a disk of some sort in their computer, so that would make this external HDD a *second* disk. True, it would be better if it contained more disks, and itself was duplicated to other devices in different buildings and postcodes...
as any quality "storage" should.
p.s. they'd better make it display "fuck me honey", ticker tape style, THIS would turn heads and spark conversation. After all, it's only office Monday...
won't fit into your...
it might electrocute you...
I can choose lots of better shapes for this money...
no sale.
... but does it work with a Chromebook?
I'd be concerned about a knock rolling it off a desk and on to the floor. It doesn't seem to be using SSD.
It's sitting on an Apple ButtPlug doesnt it?
Or perhaps it's the BauHaus version of a baby's arm holding an Apple?
Looks like Marketing, Sales, and Exec types everywhere will want one and probably buy it with their own dosh. IT will then get banged about for not supporting it. Mid-Level Execs upon seeing them with this status symbol will then bang IT for not providing them one also. The geeks down in the basement will get their own, remove the ball and hang it from the ceiling. The guts will then decorate their desk and soon become the envy of the semi-geek group.
Or should we try dropping the red-hot nickel ball on it and see what happens?
Upvote because I recently just found that guy. The velveeta made me feel sick
I love the way it doesn't burn through a stack of paper!
I like devices to be flat or at least rectangular. I want to pile them up, put stuff on them, slip them into my laptop bag etc. I don't want to spend time polishing or even admiring it! If you need decoration buy flowers and other plants ffs
you're a full desk kind of person. This is intended for the empty desk kind of person.
The author's just having us on, right? Anyone who can see or feel a computer knows the difference between industrial design and just design for art's sake. La Cie's design buys me nothing in terms of storage performance or ease of use (except perhaps for throwing if the thing goes south because sit has a typical La Cie power supply embedded in it), whereas Apple's, like them or hate them, are at least nominally aimed at improving user performance (as well as cash-flow-inducing sexiness). Aluminum (as we spell it here) makes for a more rigid and less frangible laptop than plastic, even the first-yen iPad was thin enough to hold (vs. the first gen version of almost all other tablets) while using, and since the c. 1996 Power Macs, Apple's larger desktop boxes were always easier to work on than basic PC XT kit, particularly as measured by hand lacerations. Cost, of course, is an entirely different issue.
buy five and build a newton's cradle.
All that's left is to find the mod to make it glow with a fiery eyeball inside and I'll totally buy one....
You guys missed the boat on this one. Bragging rights go to LaCie's 20TB 5big Thunderbolt drive or 15TB 5big USB 3.0 NAS using RAID-5.


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