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|May 12, 1998
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|Jean-Louis Ripoll, Marc Frouin, Frederic Janon
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|Nomai Sa
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|Patent Citations (7), Non-Patent Citations (5), Referenced by (42), Classifications (14), Legal Events (7)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates generally to computer memory and more specifically to removable hard disk cartridges and disk drives.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Redundant arrays of inexpensive disk drives (RAID) are one approach to offering large capacity, fast access memory for data processing. The duplication of data storage in each of the redundant drives adds a measure of security because a single drive failure is unlikely to cause a complete loss of any data element.
Hard disks are constantly being improved in both their performance and capacity. However, some data processing centers handle so much data it is not possible to keep it all on-line all the time. Magnetic tape systems have been traditionally used to archive computer data for later use. However, the storage and access of data on tape is clumsy and can be very slow.
Large nine-inch and twelve-inch optical storage disks have recently also become popular for large capacity storage systems. Optical disks offer random access and removability, but such systems are very expensive and the ability to write data on-line is limited because most optical disks can only be written once.
Magnetic tape and optical storage systems offer practically unlimited data storage capacity because the tapes themselves can be dismounted and placed on an archive library shelf. Removable hard disk drives have magnetic disk cartridges that can also be dismounted and placed in an archive.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an on-line, memory system with very high data reliability.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a system of redundant arrays of removable hard disk drives.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a very fast, very large storage capacity, parallel removable cartridges in a system that can replace a single hard disk drive.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a memory system comprised of inexpensive hard disk cartridge drives.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a removable hard disk cartridge memory system.
Briefly, a memory system embodiment of the present invention comprises an array of parallel removable hard disk cartridges and matching drives. Each cartridge is recorded with an array position signature so that an array can be programmatically reconstructed each time the cartridges are loaded in their drives without regard to the original physical associations of cartridges to drives.
An advantage of the present invention is that a memory system is provided that uses removable cartridges for data storage.
Another advantage of the present invention is that a redundant array of inexpensive removable hard disk drives is provided for highly reliable, on-line storage of relatively large amounts of data.
These and other objects and advantages of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after having read the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment which is illustrated in the drawing figures.
FIG. 1 is block diagram of a memory system embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the hardware comprising the memory stem of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the computer program software comprising the memory stem of FIG. 1.
FIG. 1 illustrates a memory system embodiment of the present invention, referred to herein by the general reference numeral 10. Memory system 10 comprises an array of autoloaders 11-15 connected to a control unit 16. A set of individual small computer system interface cables (SCSI) 17-21 connect respective ones of the autoloaders 11-15 to a set of SCSI drive controller interfaces 22-26. During operation, a SCSI host interface 28 allows the memory system 10 to appear to be a single, very large capacity hard disk drive through a SCSI connector 30. A power supply 32 provides DC operating power to the memory system 10.
A group of removable hard disk cartridges 33 are associated with the autoloader 11. A group of removable hard disk cartridges 34 are associated with the autoloader 12. A group of removable hard disk cartridges 35 are associated with the autoloader 13. A group of removable hard disk cartridges 36 are associated with the autoloader 14. A group of removable hard disk cartridges 37 are associated with the autoloader 15. Each cartridge within the groups 33-37 has a signature data written on it by the system 10 to identify its position in a redundant array. Therefore, given that there are five autoloaders 11-15, there will be five unique signatures that can be assigned to the cartridges within the groups 33-37. It is not necessary that any one particular signature type always be associated with any one particular autoloader 11-15. It is necessary that all five signatures be present and loaded on the autoloaders 11-15 for proper operation. Furthermore, the five signatures that are present must be on five separate cartridges that, between them, hold a complete data file. In other words, the five cartridges that were originally associated during a data storage operation by the memory system 10 must all be present in autoloaders 11-15 to effectively recover that data without there being any missing or incorrect parts. The exact distribution of the five cartridges amongst the autoloaders 11-15 need not be reestablished, because the signatures written on each cartridge will identify its array position in a reconstruction.
The autoloaders 11-15 each include removable hard disk cartridges and their matching disk drive units and have a mechanism for the automatic loading and unloading of removable cartridges from a magazine. The operation of the magazine is similar to that of a jukebox, where program control is used to select which cartridges in the magazine are to be loaded. The magazine therefore operates as a computer archive library that does not require human intervention for each mounting or dismounting of a cartridge in a drive within an autoloader.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the functional hardware elements of the memory system 10. A microcomputer 40 comprises a microprocessor 42, an electrically-erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) 44, a random access memory (RAM) 46, a dual universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (DUART) 48, a combination interrupt and timer unit 50 and a pair of bi-directional databus interfaces 52 and 54. The microcomputer 40 may be implemented with a commercially available personal computer (PC), such as manufactured by IBM Corporation or Apple Computer Corporation. For example, the CPU 42 may comprise an Intel 486-type microprocessor. A redundant array of inexpensive disk drives (RAID) buffer 56 provides temporary data storage with hardware parity and includes a random access memory (RAM) computer program script 58. The parity is a cyclic redundancy code (CRC), e.g., that is the exclusive-or of all the data bytes. A drive used for storing parity may be one dedicated for the purpose. However, throughput can be improved by writing parity to all the storage drives and thus balance the distribution amongst the drives. A set of SCSI controllers 60-64 provides access to a corresponding array of removable hard disks, as described for the autoloaders 11-15. A similar SCSI controller 66 provides a port to a host computer that appears to the host as having a single SCSI drive. The SCSI controllers 60-64 and 66 may each, for example, include a integrated circuit SCSI controller, such as the National Cash Register Corporation model NCR-720.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the functional software program elements of the memory system 10, which, for example, may all reside in machine code within the EEPROM 44.
A host interface 70 includes a host script 72, a host commands execution program 74, a host access library 76, a host manager 78, and a small computer system interface (SCSI) emulation program 80. The host interface 70 executes on the CPU 42 and concerns itself principally with responding to a host computer attached externally to the SCSI host controller 66.
A program 82 includes a flash PROM driver 86, an initialization routine 88 for boot-up, an interrupt handler 90 for the interrupt part of the interrupt and timer unit 50, a task scheduler 92 and a timer driver 94 for the timer part of interrupt and timer unit 50.
A redundant array program 96 includes a data transfer memory space 98 maintained in the RAM 46, a peripheral reservation program 100 to coordinate the SCSI controllers 60-64, a RAID status subroutine 102 and a RAID buffer allocation program 104 for the RAID buffer 56.
A peripheral interface program 106 includes a program 108 for formatting the removable disks handled by the autoloaders 11-15, a peripheral SCRIPT program 110, a rebuild and repair program 112 to fix soft errors and bad blocks detected on the disk media, a device supervision program 114, a device error handler 116, a peripheral manager program 118 and a peripheral access library 120. The peripheral interface program 106 works generally through the SCSI controllers 60-64 to control the autoloaders 11-15.
A debugger 122 allows programmer access to all parts of the programs included within programs 70, 82, 96 and 106 with a terminal connected to the DUART 48.
With interchangeable removable cartridges it is necessary to include in the data recorded on each one a "signature" to identify its particular redundant array position. Initially, each drive and its freshly formatted cartridge can have an array position identity arbitrarily assigned. But once data is written to a group of cartridges comprising an array, the order and sequence of the data distributed amongst the cartridges must be preserved. It is not strictly necessary that the drive hardware itself be reestablished in the same way it was originally configured during data storage. It is, however, necessary that program 96 be able to verify which cartridges are loaded in each drive. The sequence and order of data contained in each cartridge is then manipulated and shuffled by the program 96 for reconstruction of the original data as it had been presented on the SCSI host interface 28. Once each cartridge's signature has been recognized and accommodated, further data input/output operations may be supported at the SCSI host interface 28.
Data transfers over the SCSI interfaces 22-26 and 28 are block oriented. The memory space represented by the storage capacity of a disk drive is divided into a string of sequentially numbered blocks. The disk drive controller hardware converts the block-identified traffic to cylinder, surface, track and sector format. Sectors, tracks or surfaces with hard defects are typically mapped out of the sequence of blocks, with sequentially numbered blocks simply skipping over the defective recording areas.
Preferably, the data transfer rate of SCSI host interface 28 is substantially increased by the parsing of a series of blocks amongst the SCSI interfaces 22-26. For example, if the host sent SCSI blocks numbered 3001-3005 to the memory system 10 for storage, the data would be accepted by the host interface program 106, parsed into five separate blocks according to the signature of cartridges previously loaded by the RAID program 96, and sent out to each drive through SCSI controllers 60-64 by the peripheral interface program 70. Data blocks can also be distributed in groups amongst the available drives, e.g., with forty blocks to write, ten blocks are written on each of four drives.
The rate, therefore, that data can be accepted by the SCSI host interface 28 is essentially equal to the sum of the individual transfer rates of the SCSI peripheral interfaces 22-26. In order for this speed improvement to operate correctly, the SCSI controllers 60-64 are commanded in near parallel, both for data read and data write operations. Due to the tremendous difference in CPU speeds and disk I/O speeds, the overhead in time required by the CPU 42 to setup parallel SCSI operations and to parse the buffer 98 between the individual peripheral drives is minimal. Although the FIGS. 1-3 show five peripheral SCSI drives, other numbers of drives are useful. For example, as few as two would demonstrate the advantages of the present invention and as many as ten would show a substantial improvement over nine. In any event, it is essential that the number of drives remain fixed so that signatures written on each cartridge, e.g., cartridges 33-37, properly define all the members in a complete redundant array of drives.
In applications were the data reliability of information stored on cartridges within the groups 33-37 is critical, it is preferable to parse data among the first four groups 33-36 and to use the fifth group 37 to record error detection and correction (ECC) codes, e.g. syndrome blocks according to well-known polynomial functions. In such a case, the rebuilding and repairing program 112 has the further function of error detection and correction. Error detection and correction programs and hardware are universally available, and any number of such conventional techniques may be used in the memory system 10. In one such implementation, four cartridge disk drives provided two gigabytes of on-line storage and a fifth cartridge disk drive provided two-bit error detection and one-bit error correction for each byte of data stored.
Alternatively, the methods and apparatus described here may be adapted to whole disk drive units that can be plugged and unplugged from an array of sockets much like removable cartridges are used with their matching disk drives. It is immaterial to the present invention whether the recording head and actuator remain permanently matched with any one particular magnetic disk.
An error notification from the RAID to the host may alternatively be passed on by the host to the user. A spare drive or cartridge in a stack would be beneficial in that such a spare could be automatically swapped in by the system on detection of a failure of another drive or cartridge.
Although the present invention has been described in terms of the presently preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the disclosure is not to be interpreted as limiting. Various alterations and modifications will no doubt become apparent to those skilled in the art after having read the above disclosure. Accordingly, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as covering all alterations and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
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Sen. Hob Bryan, a longtime colleague and friend of the legislator, told The Associated Press that Turner died yesterday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, where he had been hospitalized with an illness.
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As Chinese firms pour billions of dollars into mining, energy and infrastructure deals in Africa, Beijing is turning a blind eye to rogue regimes that stand to reap the benefits, observers say.
Guinea's military rulers are the latest on the continent to receive a pledge of a massive infusion of Chinese cash -- at least seven billion dollars over five years in the mining sector from China Investment Fund (CIF).
With Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao heading to Egypt for a summit with African leaders this weekend, observers say his government should be held more accountable for opaque investments made by firms with possible state links.
Kissy Agyeman-Togobo, at IHS Global Insight, said the deal "could provide Guinea's junta with financial independence from traditional Western donors in the wake of security force brutalities... in which over 150 people died".
It "once again throws up the question of China's oft-criticised approach of dealing with dubious regimes, particularly at this sensitive time when Guinea's relationship with the international community hangs in the balance".
In September, troops opened fire at a public rally in Conakry held in protest against junta leader captain Moussa Dadis Camara ahead of presidential elections planned for January. The regime says 56 people were killed.
From oil in Sudan, Angola and Nigeria to bauxite in Guinea, China has been pouring money into natural resources not only in Africa but also around the globe, with other investments in Peruvian iron and Mongolian copper.
Over the past five years, Chinese direct investment in Africa has soared, from 491 million dollars in 2003 to 7.8 billion dollars in 2008, according to official Chinese figures.
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Barry Sautman, an associate professor of social science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, said China did not deserve to be singled out for investments made with controversial regimes.
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Both firms, in addition to China's PetroChina and Sinopec, have been accused by US non-profit organisation Investors Against Genocide of "helping to fund the genocide in Darfur" in western Sudan.
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Dr. Zimmerman's TUESDAY TIP:
"Those who go over the top have a dream, and their dream has them."
Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker
Dr. Alan Zimmerman's Personal Commentary:
In a recent Gallup Poll, 1 million college graduates were asked if they were working in a field for which they had studied. A mere 20% answered "yes." Eighty percent of the people were working in jobs that did not line up with their dreams. So it's no wonder that 50% of the respondents said they hated their jobs. In fact, they would have preferred to take their job and shove it.
That's sad. But it's also a colossal waste of time, talent, and energy.
When you fail to follow your dream, you will lack passion. Life and work will seem more like an existence than an excitement. And like a helium balloon, you will start to fizzle and drift downward, wondering "Why should I bother?" and "What's the point?"
Others of you don't even have a dream, let alone follow it. Please, please, please, do yourself a favor. Don't live another day without clarifying your dream and then living your dream.
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I simply asked him if he had ever consulted a 17-year old for career advice. "No, of course not," he said. "That would be silly. What do they know about the world of business?"
"Well," I replied, "that's what you've been doing for years, letting the thoughts and decision of a 17-year old control your life." It was silly, and it was hurting him personally and professionally.
You need to let the unexciting dreams of yesterday die. Stop pursuing something that does not have the ability to excite you anymore. Don't feel obligated to keep on trying to achieve a dream that no longer means anything to you.
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Dreams keep you young. Author and pastor Tony Compollo remarks, "You're old when your memories are more precious than your dreams."
And dreams make you noble. Robert Fritz, the composer, filmmaker, and author, was so right when he said, "In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails."
Once you've given yourself permission to dream and reminded yourself how important dreams are,
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The charming and witty Laura Bush, our former first lady, gave an example of that when I was in a meeting with her. With a twinkle in her eye, she said if your dream was to improve your relationship with your spouse, if your dream was to have him or her change for the better, you could order flowers and have them sent to you every week for 12 weeks in a row with no card. She said, "Your dream will come true. Your spouse will change."
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Of course, a real commitment to a great dream may shake up your relationships. That's why I tell some of my other coaching clients that they should avoid intimate relationships with those who do not truly respect their dreams. They may have to sever ties. Life is too short to allow the discouragers to get too close to them.
Finally, to make your dream for 2015 and beyond a reality,
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The Bible scholar Henrietta Mears used to say, "It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving."
Peter Marshall, the chaplain to the United States Senate, chided the senators when he preached, "Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."
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This is my all time favorite protein powder thus far! I've tried many others, switched to goat rather than cow's milk, thus tried this powder. The taste is excellent, I add a little vanilla.
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I used to order this protein powder regularly and used it for smoothies. The taste is good, and it dilutes very well. But I don't understand the price increase of more than 28%. It went from $52.85 to $67.95 for no reason. I won't reorder it again.
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I ordered this product every month....the price used to 52 and now its 67!!! That is a $15 price increase in less then a months time!? I will be switching to a different product.....very disappointed.
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This is my all time favorite protein powder thus far! I've tried many others, switched to goat rather than cow's milk, thus tried this powder. The taste is excellent, I add a little vanilla.
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
On October 19, the Department of Education released "The Nation's Report Card" -- results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). This periodic exercise always gets a lot of attention as we look at how the nation's 4th and 8th graders are doing on reading and math.
There are two long term trends:
1. Since 1992, reading proficiency has been absolutely flat.
2. Since 1992, mathematics proficiency has risen, by 25 points on a 500 point scale for 4th graders, and by 16 points on a 500 point scale for 8th graders.
While the latter sounds impressive, looking at some of the sample questions that only 50-60% of students get right at the NAEP website (http://nationsreportcard.gov/reading_math_2005/)
is kind of depressing. The questions are dull, frankly, and so is the reading material. Which is what brings me to the matter of gifted kids and standardized tests.
Yes, I understand that NAEP results are useful and necessary to crafting educational policies. Results are less robust if they doesn't include all students -- including those working several years above grade level. And in theory, participation in NAEP is voluntary for students. You can call in sick. Or sit in a corner.
BUT... I remember taking many a bland standardized test as a student. If you don't have to stretch your brain to take a grade-level test (and few gifted kids do), it's an exercise in profound boredom. It's even worse if, as many a test requires, you can't read quietly at your seat if you finish before the allotted time. The allotted time being eons longer than a gifted kid needs to answer "Which number could go at this point on this line?" in a line with an arrow pointed at the third of three slot marks between 5.4 and 6.2, you get a lot of time to think. I started making doodles, cryptic comments, even writing poems in the margins of the scratch paper you're allowed. I later learned this is what prison inmates do during lockdown when their things are seized from them.
Anyway, reading the results, I can't help but feel for gifted kids drafted into producing this NAEP data. Thanks to their sacrifice of hours of time, we now know that reading scores have been ... absolutely flat for 13 years.
Has anyone tried to get their kids out of standardized testing?
7 comments:
- Victoria said...
Personaly yeah the test are boring and really easy. But I've never encountered a standerized test where you couldn't read after or something
- Victoria said...
Also, cool new look for the site.
- Laura Vanderkam said...
Thanks, Victoria. Glad you like the lay-out. Maybe it's schools that have been burned by cheating that set rules about not reading.
- Stormia said...
When I was in middle school, I would read under after tests. I actually liked tests when I could do that. My classes were boring too, but too many of my sixth grade teachers were good at catching me reading! So at least during the tests I got to spend most of my time doing something interesting.
In elementary school though, we had this absolutely awful test called the MSPAP... my mom wasn't much of a fan of it... and conviniently scheduled our family vacation that week! The principal wouldn't even know my name if he saw me in the hallway, but he knew I was one of the better students in my grade, and he was so mad at my mom for taking me away that week. He tried to tell her that she couldn't... but my mom wouldn't listen to him. It was wonderful--I got to be on vacation while everyone took that test, and when I came back, I had absolutely no work to make up.
- Stormia said...
Grrr! I changed my first sentence in that comment and now it makes absolutely no sense. Sorry.
"When I was in middle school, I would read under the desk after tests."
I hate standardized tests, except for the reading sections. I usually pretend to be checking my work while rereading all of the stories. Last year, though, I had the SAT and I was scared.
Still, I got a pretty good score. . .but I'd rather do that hard test again than do any of the "normal" ones.
Laura, be careful what you write, because I and probably leagues of other gifted kids like to read about giftedness, too!
As a kid, I always hated standardized tests. Didn't mind taking them so much, but I always wanted to see what I got wrong. I figured, unless I could see them, I couldn't learn from my mistakes.
But all the tests now are far too high stake, and the kids are overprepped, stressed -- I've heard of 2nd graders not getting recess until after the test, so they had more time to prep! Sheesh! They learn better if they have the exercise of recess.


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Ryder Cup Singles
October 3, 2010 by staff
Ryder Cup Singles, Jim Herre, editor, SI Golf Group: Not a good day for the blue red and white. The United States will come in singles Monday, down by 9 1/2-6 1 / 2. Americans can still win this thing? Personally, I am a big believer in fate. I have a good feeling about this.
David Dusek, deputy editor, Golf.com: In response to your quote, the United States may have to channel the spirit of Brookline where she will return on Sunday and win. Total absence Mickelson and Dustin Johnson of the production is bad for the team almost as much as Jeff Overton and Bubba Watson helped performance. If the U.S. does win full point Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker and Furyk – four of the top five players ranked in the world – I do not think they can win. You just know that Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, Graeme McDowell and Luke Donald will stand for the Europeans.
Mark oafish, editor, Sports Illustrated: Doing the math: Put Westwood, Martin Kaymer, Poulter and McDowell for victories. Who won the Euro 13 1 / 2. This means that the U.S. can afford to lose only half a point on the remaining eight matches. Time to get adapted to Medina and 2012.
Alan Shipnuck, senior writer Sports Illustrated: They could save so many people be amounts have not been taken. Phil, DJ, Furyk, and Tiger … they are all of their game if they remember who they are and big game so simple it is feasible. But I think that Europe will turn it into a rash.
Michael Bamberger Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated: The 50 pence piece is a strange looking seven-sided. Would it be so shocking if you initiate a 12-fold and Queen Elizabeth came up to eight of them? When you match 12 of the best golfers in the world, every game is a coin toss. Americans can certainly win. Nothing to do with the team rooms, destiny, passion, big mo or any of that – just the strangeness of probability with a small sample as 12.
Jim Gorant, editor, Sports Illustrated: I think they're going to shut it down, but there's just too much ground to make up.
Charlie Hanger, editor, Sports Illustrated: The U.S. certainly can win. The Euros have been killed today, but the Americans are perfectly capable of catching fire in the same way tomorrow.
Gary Van Sickle Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated: The Americans have not all those who play almost as well as Donald and Westwood. Plus, Tiger and Phil and Dustin Johnson are struggling. There is nobody to look like the leader of this great American support. Cink, Kuchar and Overton led the team to the extent they can.
Cameron Morfit, senior editor, Golf Magazine: Absolutely no way the U.S. wins this thing. Dustin Johnson looked lost on the greens soggy, Phil can not catch a break or a golf hole, and even the team most telling American Jeff Overton and Bubba Watson were 1-2-0. It has not happened to any of them in this third session.
Dusek: Kuchar and Overton were impressive. There's always next time: the couple with Anthony Kim and a more polished Rickie Fowler, and you have the makings of a group of young pretenders to the Ryder Cup.
Morfit: Okay. I liked the reaction to the eagle Overton, 8. This is what I remember of that Cup. And rain.
Reiterman Ryan, senior producer, GOLF.com: cannot guarantee anyone a point, but if the list of Europeans were not five points, it would be a shocker to most of Brookline.
Damon Hack Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated: I do not think fate has a passport. Too much ground to make up. Euro wins.
Jeff Ritter, senior producer, GOLF.com: History says the U.S. is strong on Sunday (first Monday) in singles. It's a big deficit, but I would not be surprised if the Americans left.
Morfit: You and Ben Crenshaw may be the only ones.
Van Sickle: Cue the old "Dragnet" theme: They are done. If Team USA has been a wounded crewmember on "Star Trek" Bones say Kirk: "He's dead, Jim."
Farrell Evans, writer-reporter, Sports Illustrated: I do not think the U.S. can overcome the psychological blows they have today. Europe wins easily.
Morfit: Pavin would have liked to sit Phil, Dustin or two, but he just could not. The new format highlighted the depth of Europe, and with two sessions of six games, the cost of having a really horrible session became too expensive to recover.
Simpleton: I'm not so sure, Cam. The Americans won the first section of six match 3 1/2-2 1 / 2. Apart from Dustin Johnson, recruits from the United States held their own. It was not as deep as it was the performance of U.S. heavyweights such as Woods, Furyk and Mahan.
Morfit: I thought putting poor Dustin Johnson and Phil c / o Rickie failure about 15 birdies sealed their fate.
Ninny: After the horrible yesterday, the Americans were able to get this thing to 8-8 (or almost) on the back nine today. Sloppy play on a drivable par-4 and preliminary development led to their loss. At the same time, give credit Euros. They hit the shots and holed the putts when the momentum was starting to swing.
Dusek Mark Law. Now, imagine if the organizers of the event was not mistaken and has sold tickets for Monday. Or just let people in for free. Currently, only the Sunday ticket holders will be admitted at Celtic Manor for singles. Since not everyone can go on a Monday, Europe is losing a great opportunity for an even greater advantage over home. Remember the crowd Monday at Torrey Pines …
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Through a language of seemingly cool and indifferent symbols, Stephen Ives presents us with a colour-coded manual to the human psyche.
However, upon reading these symbols, you quickly realize that there is nothing cool or indifferent about the contents spelt therein. Through the poetry of his language, Stephen bares the naked confessions of an honest mind, brutally uncompromising and universally relatable.
Working mostly in illustration and a form of sculpture that Stephen refer to as 'bricolage', his metaphors are blended with artistry and flawless technique into a dreamscape reminiscent of the Franco-Belgian Bande dessinée and the early surrealists. You are reminded of your first love, your secret identities and the things of which you dare not speak.
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Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
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