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Barcelona's Tattoo Expo runs parallel to the BAUM Festival (Barcelona Art and Urban Movement) this year; BAUM is a celebration urban culture in extreme sports shows, dance battles, custom car and motorcycle displays, and urban photography. Tattooing and the Barcelona Tattoo Expo form another part of this celebration of urban culture.
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Factoring. Finding the prime factors of a composite integer is a classic among computationally hard problems. The inverse process—multiplication—has an efficient algorithm we expect children to master, but factoring seems to be intractable when numbers get big. Adding three decimal digits to the length of a number doubles the effort needed to factor it.
But if factoring is hard, it is also ideally suited to
parallel computation. Splitting the work among k
computers produces an answer very nearly k times
The first Internet factoring project was organized in 1988
by Arjen K. Lenstra (now of Citibank) and Mark S. Manasse of the DEC System Research Center in Palo Alto. They and their colleagues had written software to distribute factoring tasks among workstations within the DEC laboratory, and they extended this system so that computers elsewhere could contribute to the effort. The infrastructure was simple: Factoring tasks were parceled out by electronic mail, and results came back the same way.
As early as 1989 Lenstra and Manasse had already given an
astute analysis of the economics of collective computing.
They could get equivalent performance, they estimated, from
300 workstations or 1,200 PCs or a single high-speed machine designed especially for factoring. If they had to buy all the hardware, the last option was clearly the best choice. But if the owners of workstations or PCs could be induced to donate CPU cycles free of charge, that price would be hard to beat.
By 1990 Lenstra and Manasse and about a hundred e-mail
collaborators from around the world were routinely factoring numbers of 100 decimal digits. In 1993 a larger group was assembled to take on a number known as RSA-129. Some 600 volunteers labored for eight months to factor this 129-digit number, winning a prize of $100 for their efforts. Two years later RSA-130 (a digit longer) succumbed to another army of factorers. This time some of the work was coordinated not by e-mail but through a World Wide Web interface designed by James Cowie of Cooperating Systems Corporation.
Primes. A counterpoint to factoring is the search for primes—numbers that cannot be factored. Primes of 100 or 200 decimal digits no longer attract much notice; with the right software any modern computer can find examples of such numbers in a few seconds. The frontier of knowledge for primes is now out near a million digits. Even the
mathematically jaded may marvel at a prime of such
magnitude: Think of all the smaller numbers that
might divide it, but don't.
Most of the largest known primes are Mersenne primes, named
for the 17th-century friar Marin Mersenne. A Mersenne number has the form 2n - 1, but not all such numbers are prime. In the first place, for 2n - 1 to be prime, n itself must be prime, but even that is only a necessary condition, not a sufficient one. (Try n = 11.) To find Mersenne primes, you must first calculate
2n - 1 for each prime value of n, then test the result for primality. Algorithms based on the work of Edouard Lucas and D. H. Lehmer greatly speed up the primality tests.
The two largest known primes were found by participants in
the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS. The
founder of this project is George Woltman, a computer
scientist who wrote efficient software for Lucas-Lehmer
primality tests and made it available on a Web site. (You
need not understand the mathematics of the Lucas-Lehmer test to run the software.) Some 4,000 volunteers have contributed to the search so far. In November 1996 Joel Armengaud discovered that 21,398,269 - 1 is prime. Then in August 1997 Gordon Spence proved the primality of 22,976,221 - 1. This number, which has 895,932 decimal digits, is the 36th Mersenne prime to be discovered. (It may not be 36th in the numerical sequence of Mersenne primes, however, because there are exponents less than 2,976,221 that have not yet been checked.)
Code-breaking. The collective-computing projects that have attracted the most participants have been attempts to decipher encrypted messages—but the volunteers are not snooping into anyone's confidential e-mail. RSA Data Security, a company in the secrecy business, has posted a number of cryptographic puzzles, with cash prizes for those who solve them. The company's aim is to test the security of their own products and to demonstrate the vulnerability of encryption schemes they consider inadequate. The factoring of RSA-129 and RSA-130 was part of this program. Other RSA challenges don't involve factoring but call for a direct attack on an encrypted text.
In one challenge the message was encoded with DES, the Data
Encryption Standard, a cipher developed in the 1970s under
U.S. government sponsorship. The key that unlocks a DES
message is a binary number of 56 bits. In general the only
way to crack the code is to try all possible keys, of which
there are 256, or about 7 X 1016. This task was undertaken by an Internet collaboration called DESCHALL, organized by Rocke Verser, Matt Curtin and Justin Dolske. In June of 1997 they got lucky, discovering the correct key after checking just 18 percent of the possibilities, and won the $10,000 prize.
Another RSA challenge also employed a 56-bit key, but with
an encryption algorithm called RC5. Three groups, known as
Bovine, Infinite Monkeys and Cyberian, all began recruiting
volunteers for the RC5 attack. Bovine eventually attracted
the most helpers, and it was they who found the key and
deciphered the message in October 1997, after exhausting 47
percent of the key space, or 34 quadrillion keys. Bovine was organized by Adam L. Beberg, Jeff Lawson and David McNett.
Compared with earlier distributed-computing projects, the
RC5 efforts were not only technically sophisticated but also reached a new level of promotional and motivational
slickness. For example, the Bovine software kept statistics
on the contributions of individuals and teams, adding an
element of competition within the Bovine ranks as well as
between Bovine and the other groups. In the team standings,
Macintosh militants finally prevailed over partisans of the
Linux operating system. By the end of the contest some 4,000 active teams were processing 7 billion keys per second, a rate equivalent to the work of 26,000 Pentium computers.
On completing RC5-56, the Bovine collaboration turned to
RC5-64, a cipher with a 64-bit key. The effort needed to
break this code will be 256 times greater, which suggests it could be a labor of decades. It's worth pausing to ask
whether the brute-force testing of 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 cryptographic keys is really a
better use of resources than displaying pretty fish in an
aquarium. Beberg and his colleagues are considering other
possible projects. Meanwhile, RSA has announced a new
challenge. This time the message is encoded with the same
DES algorithm broken last spring, but the contest rules are
altered to reward speed of decryption. The initial prize of
$10,000 drops to zero after 67.5 days. Bovine has taken up
the challenge.
Golomb rulers. Imagine a six-inch ruler with marks
inscribed not at the usual equal intervals but at 0, 1, 4
and 6 inches. Taking all possible pairs of marks, you can
measure six distinct distances: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 inches.
A ruler on which no two pairs of marks measure the same
distance is called a Golomb ruler, after Solomon W. Golomb
of the University of Southern California, who described the
concept 25 years ago. The 0-1-4-6 example is a
perfect Golomb ruler, in that all integer intervals from 1 to the length of the ruler are represented. On rulers with more than four marks, perfection is not possible; the best you can do is an optimal Golomb ruler, which for a given number of marks is the shortest ruler on which no intervals are duplicated.
The world is not panting in desperate need of better Golomb
rulers, and yet these combinatorial curiosities do have
practical uses. For example, in setting up an interferometer for radio astronomy, placing the antennas on the marks of a Golomb ruler maximizes the recovery of information about the phases of the signals received.
Many good Golomb rulers have been found by trial-and-error,
but proving them optimal (or finding a better ruler if one
exists) is computationally expensive. In 1995 a dozen
workstations took four CPU-years to prove there is no 19-mark ruler shorter than 246 units. The computation was done
by Apostolos Dollas, William T. Rankin and David McCracken
of Duke University.
In 1996 David Vanderschel and Mark Garry, who had both
worked on Golomb rulers independently, merged their ideas in a program called GVANT, which turned out to be significantly more efficient than earlier programs. They quickly confirmed the known results for rulers of up to 19 marks, but even with their highly optimized algorithm a search for the best 20-mark ruler was a formidable undertaking. They therefore sought Internet collaborators. With seven helpers it took about half a year to prove that a 20-mark ruler of length 283 is optimal.
In the spring of 1997 Vanderschel and Garry turned to the
21-mark ruler, for which the shortest known arrangement is
333 units long. For this ruler a naive algorithm would have
to check more than 1030 arrangements of the marks; GVANT prunes the number of cases to about 1015. Roughly 100 volunteers have pitched in to help, but after a year's searching there is still plenty of work left for latecomers. Out of 1,200 trillion arrangements to be checked, fewer than 200 trillion have been examined so far.
Aliens. If the prospect of finding a bigger Mersenne prime or a smaller Golomb ruler won't induce you to pledge your CPU, perhaps you would like to discover an
extragalactic civilization. A proposal called SETI@home
would put thousands of computers to work sifting for signs
of life in signals recorded with the radio telescope of the
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
A search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been going on at Arecibo for almost two decades. The telescope slowly
scans the sky, detecting emissions over a broad range of
radio wavelengths. A special-purpose signal-processing
computer applies a Fourier transform to the data to pick out narrow-bandwidth signals, which could be the alien
equivalent of "I Love Lucy." The astronomers would like to
put the data through a more thorough analysis, but computing capacity is a bottleneck. That's where SETI@home comes in.
With enough computers on the job, the Arecibo data could be
sliced into finer divisions of bandwidth and frequency.
Moreover, the analysis software could check for other kinds
of regularities, such as signals that pulsate or that
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suited to Internet computing in that only small blocks of
data need to be passed back and forth over the network, but
a great deal of computing is needed on each block.
SETI@home is the project of Dan Werthimer of the University
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Hi, im very new at this and I was wondering if someone with more experiance could look at this pic and tell me if it looks normal. Thanks
Hi, im very new at this and I was wondering if someone with more experiance could look at this pic and tell me if it looks normal. Thanks
Look's o.k. to me, the frame is standing up on the end,right? honey's on the left of picture which when the frame is in the right position it will be on the top,look's like a normal brood patern,>>>>Mark
Looks fine to me, I have seen fuller brood patterns but I don't see anything to worry about. I have to assume you are concerned about the skipped cells.
[This message has been edited by Rod350 (edited June 29, 2003).]
Its looks sorta normal but Id say your brood is way too spotty Im not sure whats causing that but it might be a poorly breed queen or a inbred queen just MHO I don't think Id keep that queen.
This pic is looking at the frame as it would sit in the hive (left side), It does have capped honey across the top. I set this hive up on the 2nd of June with a Wilbanks Italian Queen and 3 pound pk of bee's it has about 5 frames that look this way. Is it normal? will the queen settle down and lay more consistant? What is the wet looking stuff in the brood area? is that honey they are storing there? Thanks
Still look's o.k. to me,The queen is young,the wet looking stuff you are seeing is honey,& pollen,they will store it close to the brood,You in stalled 27 day's ago,& they have 5 frames like that one?Do your self a favor & mail me the queen,(L.O.L).
My observations are that the frame is getting honey bound. Notice where the
nectar and pollen is being stored.
Are there supers on?
It looks like to me the queen layed alot of infertile eggs and when they didn't hatch the bees cleaned out the cells and started to store honey and some pollen in them.This causes the hive to use alot more bees to cover the brood for cooling and heating.If you had say one complete frame of brood as compared to 5 spotty ones youd probably have almost the same amout of brood but it would only take about 1/2 the number of bees to care for them.
The pattern probably is due to the fact that they were drawing(?) from new foundation. She will go back and forth as they draw comb and may not be in a "Pattern" herself. Looks good. I have ordered alot from Wilbanks and although you can always get a bad one, I would say they have good quality.
looks great. Now add some supers, looks like they need room for honey.
I think it looks fine. A little more solid brood pattern would be better, but there's nothing wrong with it.
Thanks for the input
OK, I too hived a 3# package on June 2 and I have maybe 3 prety solid frames a bit less spotty than this, but really minimal honey and the 2-3 outermost frames haven't even been drawn yet... Should I worry?
Thanks all - This was a really helpful topic! I gotta find me a local keeper to consult!
Sounds like they are ok for only having a month. I'd start feeding to get them built up more for winter.
yep, been feeding them continually since I installed them...
Have you been adding Honey B Healthy or Lemongrass oil to the syrup????? It helps them to take up the syrup.


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Not sure why this comparison is being made, Nicks didn't even play the same amount of games.
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
Cruz' down side is he drops too many catch-able throws, and he'll stop going for the ball to avoid contact.
Then again, when you go for some of Eli's throws you end up like Kevin Boss.
Well are you going by % or total drops? Total drops, Nicks is tied for 5th. By %, Cruz is not one on the worst 10...


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Pioneer Valley High School Coach and Teacher Accused of Sex with 16-Year-Old
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - A girls' varsity basketball coach and social studies teacher at Pioneer Valley High School was arrested on charges of having sex with a 16-year-old girl. Santa Maria police went to the Orcutt home of Brian Thomas Hook, 53, and arrested him on three charges including unlawful intercourse with a minor. Hook is married with five children.
Hook coached local boys' teams since 1983, including Nipomo High School and Santa Maria High School. For the first time in March, 2012 he was named coach of a Varsity Girls' basketball team at Pioneer Valley.
In a statement announcing his posting on the PVHS website, the school said:
"Brian brings a wealth of experience to the courts at PVHS, and has a proven ability to lead teams into the ranks of CIF competition. Coach Hook has most recently had stints with Nipomo and Santa Maria High School. He brings with him a reputation of being a dedicated and disciplined coach that players are committed to playing for. As a Social Studies teacher at Pioneer Valley High School, we are excited about the leadership that he will bring to the returning players of our Girls' Basketball Program. We are truly excited about the future of Pioneer Valley Girls Basketball."
District Administrators today said they went directly to police once allegations were made and were fully cooperating with the police investigation.
In a news release, Santa Maria police said the crime lab was used to gather evidence at several locations during the course of the investigation that began Wednesday. Investigators allege the incidents have been ongoing the past four months.
Students at Pioneer Valley said they were upset to learn of the alleged actions of someone considered a mentor.


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"The Other Boatlift": Camarioca, Cuba, 1965: a historic photo gallery of the first Cuban boatlift that took place in 1965 when Fidel Castro opened the Cuban port of Camarioca.
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Fair is fair.
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Fair is fair.
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Nah, they'll just say he had an off night. Though he also did throw 2 pick 6s a few days ago vs SF as well. 7 picks in 2 games & his TD streak ended as well. Hope we can keep it going when we play them after the Skins.
Eveybody has bad games and it won't happen since his name is Drew Brees
I actually felt embarrassed for him...he is still one of the best in my eyes.
NFL Championships : 1927 1934 1938 1956 Super Bowl Champions: XXI XXV XLII XLVI
The problem is that Drew Brees doesn't form part of the word "elite"...
Though to be fair, this is the front page image at nfl.com:
It looks like he's getting, uhh, you know...
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite team in the NFL.
The grass is always greener...
A lot of Saints fans feel like it's horse crap that Rodgers is consistently placed ahead of Brees, and it took way longer for Brees to earn the title of 'Elite' than it should have taken.
That said, Eli had a fantastic year last year but so far he is not following up with a strong year. He's not having a much better year than Romo and Romo has been awful. Combine that with his rather average performances in years past and it's easy to understand why Eli is questioned as elite.
I like Drew Brees and I feel he is one of the best in the NFL.
When you want to look at INTs though, you also have to look at TDs and Yards, which he leads the league in both categories as well. In fact, he is the Triple Crown leader right now in TDs INTs and Yards.
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A bet that does not involve money, wherein the winner gets to pose the loser in any way, shape, or form for a single photo of the two of them. All rules regarding the level of humiliation, the circulation, and the duplication of the photo itself are entirely up to the mercies of the winner.
Stacy lost her photo bet with Joe, so Joe made her bend over and stick out her tongue...their photo is Stacy licking Joe's ass!
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its great if your selling .
I agree it sends a clear message that people want there guns an there not planning on buying a $1800 AR an then turning it in a month later.
It also might give the antis a bigger sense of urgency to pass laws to stop the buying or make an emergency executive order.


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Professor Awarded Emerita Status
Law School Professor Frederica K. Lombard, who officially retires at the end of this month, will be made Law Professor Emerita, according to Law School Dean Frank H. Wu.
Professor Lombard, who joined the Law School in 1966, was the School's first female faculty member. She taught Civil Procedure and Family Law for many years and is the editor of Readings in Family Law. Lombard also served as the Law School's associate dean from 1992 to 2005 and she was interim dean in 2003-2004.
A fellows program for students at the Law School was begun in 2005 and it was named the Lombard Fellows Program in Professor Lombard's honor.
Professor Lombard is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and received an LL.M. from Yale University Law School.


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Birth Date: 1996-06-04
Country: Spain
Best ATP/WTA Ranking: #23 in Europe and #1 in Spain U16
Racket Played: T-FIGHT 295 VO2Max
Best shot :
Two hands backhand.
Favorite player to watch :
Rafa Nadal.
Favorite tournament :
Best double partner :
Pedro Dominguez.
Best win / best memory :
Azores win in 2010 and sparring for the Spanish team in Fed Cup.
Worst loss / ashamed of … :
Losing against Peter Ashley in Maia 2010 final.
Except your racket, what's always in your bag ?
A towel, a lucky charm coin and my cup.
Your power song in your ipod before entering the court ?
"Tonight" - Enrique Iglesias.
Any special ritual before entering the court ?
Preparing my rackets.
Starting year with TF :
Favorite youtube video :
"Hold my hand" - Mickael Jackson.
Favorite food :
Ravioli with tomatoes.
Favorite citation / quotation :
"The one who said the most relevant is participating never win !!".
Main objective in life :
Enter ATP Top 50 and graduate a big school.
Best synonymous for tennis :
Sport, fun, sharing.
Nothing is better than :
Playing tennis and chill with friends and family !
I could not play tennis without :
Reversed cap.
If you could turn pro in another sport which would it be and why ?
Soccer for the game and for money ... lol !
If someone walked into your room right now, what would they notice first ?
Out !!
You're on a date and trying to impress, where do we go ?
A romantic dinner at home.
You've got 2 weeks and a private jet, where do we go ?
Top 3 reasons to wake-up every morning ?
Breakfast, college, practice.
How long does it take to get ready in the morning ?
5 minutes.
How do you relax ?
Geeking on my pc and listen some music.
In a movie about your life, which actor/actress could play you ?
Javier Bardem.
Best shopping place ?
"El Delfin" mall in Miami !
Any advice for other players ?
Enjoy tennis !


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Now that Thor is a woman, that woman could make her way to Disney Infinity 2.0.
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A new trailer shows off The Avengers Play Set, the first batch of Marvel Super Heroes for Disney Infinity 2.0.
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Marvel Heroes is holding its final open beta weekend May 10 -13, and you can still register to play through here. In celebration, Gazillion has released featuring Thor, the man with the mighty hammer. Marvel Heroes releases on June 4.
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MMOSociety has unveiled Marvel Universe Online's take on Thor, the Avenger suddenly popularised by the recent film. Previously revealed characters include Deadpool, Wolverine, and Captain America. No release date has been set for Gazillion's PC-exclusive MMORPG. Click through to view full size.
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The fast of Yom Kippur is often broken with smoked fish as in this trout salad. This easy dinner, which can be made ahead, is great for any night, holiday or not. Serve it on a bed of greens to dress it up and add a whole-grain bagel to make it a substantial meal.
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The Briscoes Lady has been around forever but she's got nothing on Colin Meads when it comes to TV sales longevity.
Forty years after hanging up his mud-crusted, high-cut boots, the mighty Pinetree is the advertising frontman supreme and counting, with a small truck and circulation booster his latest product endorsements.
While other All Blacks fade away from public view, the everyman legend has remained a sporadic constant on screen, selling everything from the bread you eat to the sort you get from a finance company - with too many others for him to recall in between.
For a man whose career earnings were mired not far from zero under the amateur rugby rules, this is an irony... although one that escapes him.
"Things sort of happen and I've never really thought about [it] that way," he says in a voice which isn't quite as deep as one imagines.
Apart from the adverts, there is also a public-speaking career which has always been booming. Early on, the proceeds went to an IHC farm project in his home town of Te Kuiti, the beginning of a major contribution he made to that organisation. Nowadays, at the tender age of 76, our much-loved national icon is still on the road as a public speaker, a sideline career which has become a way of life organised in a homespun way by his diary-wielding wife Verna.
Times have changed?
Even when I wrote my first book, I wasn't allowed to take any money. I had to make a trust to remain part of rugby and none of my family were [allowed] to be trustees. It was a long time ago and hard to remember... you could get mates to be the trustees which was the way around it.
Can you remember all your products?
Goodness, fill me in. The main one early on was tanalised fence posts - the wife is just telling me I did one with hay twine. We threw bales of hay around a shed. But you've got me beat - there were a lot of good times, a lot of fun. There was the Nissan Patrol in the early days - I'd take it too far and they'd have to pull me out with a tractor. There was an electric razor that didn't last long.
Do you have an agent?
I did once but the wife has been the boss. She carries the calendar. As the wife says: "Once he gave up rugby I thought that would be it, but now he's busier than ever." Verna's my agent but she doesn't go on the road much anymore, she's had health issues
How many speaking engagements do you do in a year?
You can't do them all. Some are on the celebrity speaker circuit and some companies ask me to speak on a personal basis. I'll do 30 or 40 in a year. I've got 12 or 15 in the diary already this year. Fellas ring you up, fellas you've had a connection with through life. Come September they'll ring and say they want you for next year. I'll say, "Hang on, I haven't got my diary for next year yet. Ring me at the end of the year." Remember Dick Tayler the athlete? He's with a pokie machine company and we do a lot together all over the South Island.
Exotic assignments?
I went to Wales with [Phil] Kingsley-Jones last year and did 14 speaking commitments in 18 days. About 12 years ago people in South Africa were trying to raise money for security for farmers. A lot of farmers were getting knocked off. They would come home from church or somewhere and get blasted to bits. Some wiseguy over there said let's get Frik du Preez, Willie John McBride and Colin Meads - our wives went and we had a fabulous time. Frik told jokes in Afrikaans then apologised to us later, saying they weren't very funny in English. Frik said they didn't raise much money because it was poorly organised.
You must have a well worked routine by now...
I never use notes. I just say whatever comes. I'll talk for 30 or 40 minutes, whatever they want, and sometimes it goes all bloody night.
Any more ads in the pipeline?
Not at the moment. There's a film-making couple who have just won an award who called around the other day... wanted me to narrate a voiceover.
Have you ever turned an ad down?
I did one for a finance company [Provincial Finance] and they were good people, and it's sad what happened. They went bust and you get a lot of criticism. I had money in it, too, that's what I had to tell people. All the money I was earning from the ads was staying in there and I never saw any of it.
What about your latest ad?
The circulation booster people rang up and said they wanted a popular New Zealander, as they told me. I wouldn't advertise it unless I'd tried it because my feet do swell up a bit at night you know - us old buggers get that. I tested it for a month and agreed to do the ad. People ask me what they cost and I say I'm really not too sure.
And the SsangYong truck?
I drive one of their utes and they put a PineT number plate on it. Everyone in New Zealand seems to know who is in it and they toot and wave.
The ads have helped keep you in the public eye...
The offers just kept coming in. It's strange really. It's kept my image out there I suppose, reminded people that I'm still around.
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SCOTTS VALLEY -- Jim Griffin, 52, admitted he needed to lose a few pounds. So when Dan Bowman, a buddy from GateWay Bible Church, asked him to join a team for a local "Biggest Loser" competition, he said yes.
In eight weeks, Griffin lost 23 pounds.
That's not all. Of the 12 teams that took part, the team Griffin was on took top honors by shedding the most weight, based the percentage of body weight they lost.
Altogether, GateWay members lost 350 pounds, according to Terri Buller, assistant to senior pastor Fred Hennes.
Church staff launched the contest in September as Hennes began a series of sermons called "God's Anatomy."
Buller said the focus was on "trying to get healthy before the holidays."
For motivation, teams met once a week to walk the track at Baymonte Christian School next to the church. And members of the team that lost the most had a chance to each win an iPod Nano.
Bowman, 42, an associate pastor at GateWay and father of three kids, got encouragement from his wife, Jeni. She participated in the contest and did a twice-a-week boot camp workout. She also bought him a $100 Nike Fuel Band on their anniversary to track his activity and progress toward his goal.
Bowman downsized his portions by half and ate more salads. The family changed what they ate too, eliminating some breads and cutting fast food and soda down to once every other week.
Bowman said he had no time for exercise initially because the church staff filled in when Hennes was hospitalized unexpectedly. As Hennes recovered, Bowman made up for lost time, running every night for 45 to 90 minutes around Skypark, down Lockwood Lane, Grahmm Hill Road or the steep grade of Whispering Pines Drive.
End result: Bowman lost 15 pounds and went down two inches on pant sizes.
Surprisingly his teammates, who all attend GateWay Bible Church, never met as a team.
"I don't think all four of us have ever been together at the same time to be honest," Bowman said. "I'd love it if we did."
One is a firefighter captain in Burlingame and another is a construction worker in San Francisco.
Griffin, from Tulsa, Okla., has been working on a drilling rig from Los Angeles and San Jose and lives part time in Oklahoma and part time locally. His current project involves putting in piers for the Santa Cruz Police Department solar installation.
He was used to working outdoors and being active but he had a habit of eating while he was working.
His first week in the competition, he lost eight pounds.
He stopped drinking sodas even though he was used to consuming one or two a day.
"It was like an addiction," he said.
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posted at 8:41 am on June 8, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Today, a number of bloggers will observe a day of silence to protest the strange and unconstitutional ruling by a Maryland court that had Aaron Walker arrested for, essentially, writing about someone — in a non-threatening manner. The court imposed a restraining order based on how others reacted to Walker's posts, a clear violation of the First Amendment and existing precedent, and then threw him in jail for refusing to comply with that order. Eugene Volokh wrote a dispassionate review of those events a little over a week ago, and agreed to consult on Walker's appeal pro bono this week.
Ace proposed the protest:
The only post on Friday will be a bold-faced Open Letter to Congress, urging them to act and not attempt to pass the buck to others.
They are our representatives; we would like some representation.
They vowed to defend and protect the Constitution; they can honor that vow now.
I will post links of Congressmen's and Senator's email addresses and offices and phone numbers, and urge every concerned American citizen to let them know, in no uncertain terms, that a crime in progress against the First Amendment (and people's safety) is occurring, and we humbly request they take this seriously.
They are literally going to get someone killed. That is their endgame here.
In honor of the National Day of Blogger Silence called byAce of Spades, this blog is going dark. But far from shutting up, I'll be spending the day calling, e-mailing, and tweeting members of Congress, GOP leaders, journalists, and influencers to ask them what they are doing to defend the First Amendment rights of bloggers. This is a day of action, not inaction. Below my column, I'll list some contact info for elected officials who need to hear from you. …
On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) bravely stepped forward to press this vital issue. In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Sen. Chambliss decried the "harassing and frightening actions" of Internet menaces who have recently gone after several conservative new media citizen journalists and activists. (VIDEO here.)
GOP Rep. Ken Marchant of Texas also added his voice, telling Holder in a statement that he is "very afraid of the potential chilling effects that these reported actions may have in silencing individuals who would otherwise be inclined to exercise their Constitutional right to free speech." And the American Center for Law and Justice, a leading conservative free speech public interest law firm, announced it was providing legal representation to the National Bloggers Club – a new media association that has provided support and raised funds for targets of this coordinated harassment. (Full disclosure: I volunteer on the National Bloggers' Club board of directors.)
The ACLJ described the importance of the case very simply: "Free speech is under attack."
Sen. Chambliss and Rep. Marchant called specific attention to one terrifying tactic against these bloggers: SWAT-ting. These hoaxes occur "when a perpetrator contacts local police to report a violent incident at a target's home." Callers disguise their true identities and locations in order to provoke a potentially deadly SWAT/police response descending upon the targets' homes.
As online conservatives and now ABC News have reported, recent SWAT-ting victims include New Jersey-based Mike Stack, a blogger and Twitter user targeted last summer after helping to expose disgraced former N.Y. Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner's shady social media activities; California blogger Patrick Frey, a deputy district attorney at Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office who recently posted a bone-chilling account and audio of his summer 2011 SWATting at his blog, Patterico.com; and CNN Contributor and RedState.com managing editor Erick Erickson, whose Georgia home was targeted by a faker claiming an "accidental shooting" there late last month.
At some point, there will probably be links to other blogs joining the protest; I'll add them as I see them. Instapundit and Hot Air will be conducting business as usual, but we hope to drive some traffic to the protests, too. Those include:
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Nov 13, 2013
I love the dessert recipes.
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The receipes look wonderful. I'm always looking for new and unique ideas for pumkin and you have receipes I'll have to try for the holidays.
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Lots of neat ideas for Thanksgiving decorations.
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All the craft ideas and receipes look great.Thank-you.
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Thank you for all the greatideas!
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Nov 17, 2012
All Of these projects are top notch. To make these will be an project of LOVE.
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Nov 17, 2012
I like this. I am into wanting to learn how to do other types, and styles of crafts. Therefore,, I will be looking forward to this.
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I wish I could craft like that its so beautiful
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Again, thanks so much!! I really appreciate all the lovely and inventive ideas you are sharing with us.
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Nov 10, 2012
some really awesome ideas!
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love it , great ideas
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It's neat
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I'd like to see some diabetic and low carb recipes. :) I need some new ideas.
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Nov 09, 2012
I would love to see some stuffing ideas and turkey prep. However the pumpkin muffins looks promising as well as the scones. I will also be making a few of those aprons for myself and kids
Oct 30, 2012
as someone who loves to do crafts i think this will give me many more ideas thank you
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By Doris Maricle / American Press
JENNINGS — A former Jennings police chief pleaded guilty Thursday in district court to two counts of malfeasance stemming from the theft of drugs and money from the Police Department's evidence room.
Sentencing for Johnny Lassiter, 53, will be set after a presentencing investigation. He faces up to five years and a $5,000 fine on each count.
Judge Ronald Cox, who was appointed to the case by the Supreme Court after Judge Steve Gunnell recused himself, will impose the sentence at a later date.
As part of a plea agreement, charges of theft over $1,500 and obstruction of justice were dismissed.
Cox also ordered Lassiter to continue treatment.
Lassiter was arrested in January after a state police audit found that drugs and money were missing from the Police Department's evidence room.
District Attorney Michael Cassidy said $4,000 in cash, more than 1,800 pills, marijuana and codeine were missing from the evidence room.
"Only two people had keys to the evidence room — Mr. Lassiter and Chief Todd D'Albor. And there was no evidence that Chief D'Albor had entered the room," Cassidy said.
Lassiter admitted taking the pills and tampering with evidence, Cassidy said.
His actions may have affected nearly 72 criminal cases, he said.
Lassiter initially pleaded guilty to theft over $1,500, malfeasance in office and obstruction of justice charges in March. A charge of injuring public records was dismissed earlier.
Lassiter, who resigned from the department shortly before his arrest, served as police chief for four years and was the department's evidence custodian at the time of his arrest.
He had worked for the Jennings Police Department since 1996 and previously worked for the Lafayette Sheriff's Office and served in the Louisiana National Guard.
He received the department's Medal of Honor and Purple Heart after being injured in a 2000 shooting that claimed the lives of Patrolman Burt LeBlanc and former police Capt. Kenny Guidry and his wife, Christine. Two other officers were also injured in the shooting.
Lassiter is represented by court-appointed attorney Robert "Bob" Sheffield Jr. of Lake Charles.


text: So how did voting for a candidate they had no chancel of winning work out for you? are you actually trying to tell me that Obama is a better alternative than Rommy? Obama has been anti gun since day 1 as stated as much. he is advocated an assault weapons ban the entire time. if gun rights is a concern to you and you didn't vote for Romney you wasted your vote. but hey at least voted and in my mind that least give your right to have a say. you did vote right?


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One of the main purposes of this website is to encourage people in general, and black folks in particular, to do more international traveling. Well, one enterprising young lady has taken that mission a step further with the Nomadness Travel Tribe.
Starting off as a simple Facebook group uniting a few ethnically-diverse, internationally-focused travelers, founder Evita Robinson has stoked interest and aroused passions, turning the Tribe into a multifaceted movement with over 3,500 members, and facilitating group trips to Europe and Latin America, States-side events in various cities, and educational outreach to plant the travel bug among the kiddies.
What's it all about? Evita explains:
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A catholic monastery devoted to the teachings of St. Benedict
A monastery typically chooses one or more works that will serve
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The founding monks of the Swiss Abbey of
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The Seminary prepares men for the priesthood and permanent
diaconate and laity to serve the Church. Students are enrolled from
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The Seminary also provides continuing education for priests
through its Institute for Priests and Presbyterates. And each
summer, our "One Bread, One Cup" program offers conferences focused
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youth ministers.
Our monks serve in the Seminary as professors, administrators,
spiritual directors and in other capacities.
Another of our works also has its roots in our
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to the local German-speaking people.
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Currently I only have one hive, but instead of just having a boring plain white paint job, I decided to make it Doctor Who themed. Hence, the Tardis Beehive was born.
I'm wanting to do other theme hives once this one is strong enough to split next year. I've decided that I want it to be themed for my favorite holiday, Halloween, but I can't decide exactly what to do with it. Would be two deeps and two supers tall when in full swing, like the Tardis up there, and the first inclination is that at least one of the deeps needs to be a jack-o-lantern. Would look weird to have stacked jacks though, so maybe the first deep could be green with vines painted on it, second deep could be the jack-o-lantern, and then have starry skies or clouds on the supers. Maybe a tree limb with turned foliage for the top super?
Only thing that is limiting me is that I obviously can't paint any significant part of the hive black, seeing as I do live down here in the south and I know what its like getting into a black car parked in the sun, no way I'm doing that to the bees.


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If you know someone who may be interested in beekeeping, Jen Reed will be giving a talk entitled "So you want to be a beekeeper?" Tomorrow Night at the Groton Local:
Groton Local has an event for you on Thursday, November 15, 2012, 7:00-8:30pm, hosted by the Nashua River Watershed Association, 592 Main Street (Rt. 119), Groton, MA.
Come learn some basics of what is involved in the adventure of backyard beekeeping and decide if this hobby is for you. Or do you simply want to be a good friend to bees? There will be tips on this as well.
Jennifer Reed, of the Middlesex Beekeepers Association and beekeeper extraordinaire, will provide guidance on such topics as hive placement, cost, time commitment, and equipment; as well as an overview of the seasonal activities involved with beekeeping.
There will be ample time for questions, a display of hive equipment and information about bee workshops and on-line courses available this winter to fully prepare you for getting started next spring.
Free and open to all.


text: Sorry friend, got to disagree with you about what triggered Orlando to start winning. Actually, Orlando just kept losing after Darko and Arroyo joined the rotation. It was after Trevor Ariza joined the rotation for Orlando that Orlando took off for that run. Sure, Arroyo and Darko did help. Arroyo ran the point well. Darko defended well and added a bit of scoring punch. But it was the emergence of a very gifted wing player, Ariza, that made everything work for Orlando.


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A man in his early thirties to early forties who thinks he can still pick up 21 year old chicks. A Chrome Dick has slicked back hair, a gold chain around his neck and/or wrist, chest hair sticking out of the top of his hawaiian button up shirt, with a cell phone (or pager) clipped onto the side of his pants. This type of man can be seen smoking cigars while driving his sports car on his way to the country club.
"That guy's a Chrome Dick!"
by Kuney July 06, 2007


text: Learn strategies to properly request maintenance; perform a walk through inspection; request reasonable accommodations; understand your lease agreement; and avoid or resolve landlord/tenant disputes at this free workshop hosted by the City of Garland at 6 p.m. February 27, at 232 Carver Drive in Garland.Did you know that Garland is one of only five cities in Texas that has a Fair Housing Assistance Program? A Fair Housing Assistance Program is a state or local agency that enforces a fair housing law that is substantially equivalent to the Fair Housing Act. Garland Fair Housing Services is the enforcement mechanism that helps protect Garland residents who believe they have been victims of discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability or familial status in the sale, rental, or financing of housing. Garland Fair Housing services are free and include discrimination complaint intake, complaint processing, resolution of landlord/tenant issues and education and outreach including housing related referrals. For more information, call 972-205-3300.


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Miami and Pittsburgh are my secondary teams I cheer for.
Entire Team Let Eli down today - NYG4l
I root the Steelers and Colts...
Happy Turkey Day to you all, even the resident Red Sux fan
NFL Championships : 1927 1934 1938 1956 Super Bowl Champions: XXI XXV XLII XLVI
3.5 more hours in this dump, and then I'M OFF...............till tmrw =\
Oderint Dum Metuant
It's too bad, I'm too good....
Last day of golf today for the season. 10:00 tee time.
My only goal is to break 80. Haven't swung a club in 2 weeks so I'd say its 50/50 at best.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..


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Marc Edmundson is a professor who has written a new book entitled Why Teach? Having just read it, I concur with those who have celebrated it -- and believe that those who teach are not the only folks who might wish to read it. Those who administer institutions might want to read it -- and those who subject themselves to education (aka students) might as well. There are bits to object to; frankly, I get tired of negative portrayals of students -- despite my own sense that we all, includign students, do embody a culture that is peculiarly against education and learning and sometimes, even, peculiarly incomprehensible. There are moments when one or another essay might have been edited -- or even (gasp) omitted. And yet, I recommend the book. And, I would go so far as to say that Edmundson, though he know it not, has a spark of the Shimerian in him.
Here are a few reasons why, which I share in the spirit of nudging readers toward the book. (And yes, I believe even a president can benefit from reflecting on the question "why teach?".)
1. The tone of the first essay is a wonderful and insightful way to understand faculty relationships to course evaluations. Yes, he is unduly negative about students and, I fear, gets somewhat of the wrong message from the evaluations (which seem to me to push him toward entertainment rather than pushing him toward a bait and switch from entertainment to rigor). But, I may be missing his ironic tone in my hasty reading.
2. His argument against laptops in the classroom is worth a good solid read.
3. He seems fair minded when he discusses sports in part because he reflects on his own experience in sports -- and I suspect his experience is more like many of his readers' experiences than those we see on television.
4. His essays entitled "Against Readings" and "Narcissus Regards HIs Book/The Common Reader Now" push this reader to think about reading in new ways.
5. Who can not love his essay entitled "The Uncoolness of Good Teachers." Really.
His passion for his vocation -- and for liberal education -- are indeed inspiring. But, what I really want to talk about is a comvocation address he gave at the University of Virginia in 2005 entitled "Glorious Failure." The essay (as presented in the book) is why I have carried the book around with me for the month I have owned it. Failure. Glorious failure.
The phrase seems oxymoronic, right? It feels a bit like linking education to . . . . bewilderment? Or slowness? It feels somehow wrong. And yet, the essay is inspiring -- that one aims for glorious success and in doing so the failures -- the opportunities for learning -- themselves are glorious. He rages from Thomas Jefferson to Joni Mitchell, on the same page even, noting the ways both tried new things rather than repeating earlier successes. Edmundson has "heroes in the art of failure." Walt Whitman is one -- who did all sorts of things not so well (including it turns out he was -- according to WEdmundson -- bad at everything by the time he was 32). And, Edmundson also writes about the ghost or shadow curriculum vitae (cv or resume); he notes that when we look at such genre productions we see only the successes -- the articles we completed, the degrees we received, the books we published. We do not see the failures or the struggles -- only when one looks at one own cv does one see the rejected articles or the years that lead to that one publication. The shadow of the success is. . . the failures, the work, and the rest of life that disappears behind the carefully planned font and style of our cv.
And of course, for Edmundson, the writer can, slowly, patiently, over the course of a lfietime -- create the reader whose patience and thoughtfulness we all need: the common reader. (See page 179). Perhaps equally importantly, Edmundson reminds us that Wittgenstein was an elementary school teacher. So: teaching matters.
Why should presidents read Why Teach? Because much administrative work is itself teaching -- as is much leadership. And, because we too have a vocation.


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Has anyone used these I know they are more expensive but do they work well or are they worthless?
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Has anyone used these I know they are more expensive but do they work well or are they worthless?
Other than being a little lighter, I think they have some definite
disadvantages. They would be colder in the winter, plastic conducts cold better than wood. When you get your cold winters in Nebraska the plastic would be prone to cracking and they seem expensive.
They will also trap more moisture in the hive.
I tried them for a year. One immediate problem was that they are slippery at the mating surfaces and the top box would slide partway off of the bottom box from wind. I drilled and pinned them to stop that. Also I noticed less comb-building near the sides, which I attributed to less insulation. As noted, there is no ability to absorb moisture. I stopped using them for bees and now use them for frame storage and may try them for swarm catchers.
I had a swarm that absolutely would not stay in a plastic box. Haven't used them since.
You just gave me an idea about uses for plastic hive boxes. Because of the lightweight nature of them they would make great bait boxes for catching swarms. Lugging them into a tree and better yet lugging them out of the tree full of honeybees would be easier.
I have a few older plastic hive bodies and supers that are still in use. They have warped over time and this makes it impossible to use them with a divider board for multi-way nucs. When I got these from a yard sale they came with plastic inner covers and plastic bottom boards. The first thing to go were inner covers - warped to point of being unusable. Bottom boards warped just about as bad but were really replaced due to my switch over to all SBBs. Due to my experience I would never buy any more plastic.


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I noticed what appear to be sweat bees (see pic below) in my wifes foxglove. I didn't realize that they harvest anything other than sweat, but they were definitely interested in the foxglove and my broccoli. Is this a definitely a sweat bee?
There was also a large completely solid black bee (no pic)in the foxglove and I have no idea what it was. Any idea on what that one could be?


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OSCP, CREST or TIGERSCHEME
I am new to this forum and new to security in general. I am currently working as a sys admin (predominately in windows) and want to move into the security field. As with Sys admin Certifications are important as they show your level of expertise. I am aware that there are a few Security certifications, some of which are more recognised than others. As a newbie would it be wise to start of doing OSCP, CEH followed by maybe CREST or TIGERSCHEME?
Any advice is appreciated


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In a recent post I described my new blistering fast Windows 8 Server, which includes a parts list. This server features a 120GB SDD SATA III 6.0Gb/s drive for the operating system and uses a single 2TB Western Digital Green SATA III 6.0Gb/s drive (WD20EARX-00PASB0) for VM and data storage.
It has been suggested by some of my readers that the WDC Green drive will not provide suitable performance compared to a WDC Black SATA III drive. They also wondered what the true power savings is between the Green and the Black drive. The Green drive uses less power by spinning at slower RPMs (variable ~5400 RPM vs 7200 RPM for the Black).
I decided to purchase a Western Digital Caviar Black SATA III 6.0Gb/s drive (WD2002FAEX-007BA) to run benchmarks against and compare the two drives side-by-side using HD Tune Pro 5.00 and Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2010 (64 bit).
I ran each set of tests for the Green drive, then replaced it with the Black drive and ran the same set of tests on my new server. I also ran the the tests while the server was plugged into a P3 Kill A Watt Electricity Load Meter and Monitor to accurately measure power consumption by the kilowatt-hour for comparison.
HD Tune Pro Benchmarks
The following are the benchmark test results for both drives. The Green drive is on the left and the Black is on the right.
|Benchmark Results
The Black drive delivers 17.9% better average transfer speed. The access time was 17.6ms for the Green vs. 12.0ms for the Black. I was surprised to see that CPU usage was much higher on the Green (6.0%) vs the Black (2.4%).
|File Benchmark Results
The File Benchmark test measures read/write transfer speed using a 500MB file in 4KB blocks. The Black drive achieved 11.5% better performance using 4KB sequential access and 28.2% better using 4KB random access.
|Random Access Results
The Random Access test measures the performance of random read or write operations with varying data sizes (512 bytes – 1MB). Again, the Black drive performed better across the board with an average 31.2% improved performance. It also offers much better access times.
It's notable that the Green drive performed this test nearly silently, while the Black drive sounded like a Geiger Counter at Fukushima. Neither of these drives feature AAM (Automatic Acoustic Management) so this does not impact the results (and cannot be adjusted).
|Other Test Results
This benchmark runs a variety of tests which determine the most important performance parameters of the hard drive. The Black drive offers 35.3% better random seek and 18.3% better sequential read performance. It also has better transfer speeds from its cache. Both drives feature a 64MB cache.
Exchange JetStress
I ran Exchange 2010 JetStress on each drive to get an accurate IOPS profile for Exchange 2010 SP2 use. JetStress was configured for a two-hour test using a single 1TB database and one thread.
- The Green drive achieved 47.396 IOPS with 10.751ms latency.
- The Black drive achieved 64.57 IOPS with 15.180 latency.
I'm not sure why the Black drive's latency was higher than the Green, given the benchmark tests above, but I ran that test twice and got the same results each time. Even so, the Black drive delivered 26.6% more IOPS.
Green Drive1.10 KW at 27.5 hours
Energy use per hour = (1.1 KWH)/(27.5 hours) = 0.04 KWH per hour of use
Energy use per day = (0.04 KWH/hour)(24 hours/day) = 0.96 KWH over a full day
Cost per day = (0.96 KWH)(18.5 cents/KWH) = 17.8 cents per day
Energy use per year = (0.96 KWH/day)(365 days/year) = 350 KWH/year
Cost per year = (350 KWH/year)(18.5 cents/KWH) = $64.82 per year.
350 KWH = ~700 lbs of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere per year.
Black Drive0.72 at 14.75 hours
Energy use per hour = (0.72 KWH)/(14.75 hours) = 0.049 KWH per hour of use
Energy use per day = (0.049 KWH/hour)(24 hours/day) = 1.18 KWH over a full day
Cost per day = (1.18 KWH)(18.5 cents/KWH) = 21.83 cents per day
Energy use per year = (1.18 KWH/day)(365 days/year) = 431 KWH/year
Cost per year = (431 KWH/year)(18.5 cents/KWH) = $79.74 per year.
431 KWH = ~860 lbs of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere per year.
Result: The WDC Green drive uses 18.8% less energy than the Black drive.
It's obvious from the test results above that the Western Digital Caviar Black drive performs better than the Green drive. At the time of this writing the Green drive costs $139 and the Black is $249. That's a 44% premium for a drive that performs on average 24% better.
In real-life observations I don't really see that much difference in performance between the two at this time. However, this Hyper-V server has twice as much RAM as my last server so it will potentially be hosting many more VMs (and will have a higher IO load). For this reason I decided to keep the Black drive, even though it costs more, it's a bit noisier when it's working hard and uses more energy. I like muscle cars, too. 🙂
If you plan to do RAID, I would most definitely recommend the Black drive because it spins at a consistent 7200 RPM. Reports say that the variable RPMs on the Green drive can cause read/write errors.
I hope you find this information useful.


text: Hey guys ive been reading threads on this forum for a while now, since my old tahoe in 2007, now ive got a 86' K20 silverado and figured i should jump in. I just moved from boston massachusetts down to wake forest and I'm ready to get started on bringing my truck to full strength. It justed weathered the 800 mile journey down south (somehow!) but its got some big and little things that i need advice on...ill be posting those shortly. I look forward to getting to know u guys, just have to finish up my profile stuff. Thanks! P.S. Some info on the mechanics of the truck, just got a 79' Camaro 350 engine rebuilt then swaped in, dual front shocks, brand new 31's with all four original wheels (with hubccaps) full plow set-up (new england truck) not much yet but we'll get there. The bad, bed is rotting off (you could probably tell).