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[B]hello guys. here's the all story, i was loking for a method to get new and original content for my blog and i found a post that said.
"how to use xenu and the wayback machine to get new/old content from dead blogs".
So, my question is, ¿anyone knows how it's works that method?
Can you please give a link to a tutorial?
PD: excuse my English, im still learning.[/B]
You can't get "new and original" content by copying it from old blogs. All you will get is old and plagiarised content.
Surely the article you were reading explains the method they're suggesting you use?
Your English is fine - don't worry. (But that should be PS, not PD. I think maybe that was just a typo.)
The method is about use xenu to get into the directories to find out dead blogs. after that, use the wayback machine to get all the content of the dead blogs.
and next time i'll use PS....
Definitely "old and stale - possibly obsolete" content.
For content to be "new and original" it must never have been on the web before.
Er ... what do you think it stands for in English? Because P(ost) S(criptum) is Latin. :lol:[/ot]
Just because the blog is "dead" (whatever that means), it doesn't mean the content is available for you to copy into your own blog. It will still be someone's copyright, and you will be infringing that copyright if you use it without permission.
We see a lot of questions here in the forum about how to acquire content for a blog or website. Ultimately, if you can't create content yourself through you own skill and industry, and you don't want to pay other people to create it for you, I have to wonder why you would want to run a blog in the first place.
Generally the blog content will still be covered by copyright unless the author died at least 50 years ago (in many countries 70 years).
So you would need to be looking for blogs abandoned before 1944 and then check that the author actually died by 1944 to be certain that the content of that blog is allowed to be used.


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Topic: The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation - Your Donations at Work
A press release is to follow however; I couldn't wait to share some of the news with you:
2012 Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Grants and Project Funding
Grant $40,000 - UCSF Hepatobiliary Tissue Bank
Advancing Translational Science in Cancers of the Biliary Tract through Biorepository of Human Tumor and Blood Specimens
Supports: the UCSF Hepatobiliary Tissue Bank (CC#124512)
Medical Team: Drs. Alan Venook (Medical Oncology), Katie Kelley (Medical Oncology), Robert Kerlan (Interventional Radiology), and Linda Ferrell (Pathology) at UCSF
The overall goal of the HBTB is to advance our understanding of this rare and under-studied tumor type by developing a longitudinal biorepository of human tumor and blood specimens linked to clinical, pathologic, and demographic data from which current and future researchers, both within and outside of UCSF, can obtain high quality biospecimens and data. Specimens banked under this hepatobiliary tissue bank will be made available to UCSF and non-UCSF investigators in the future to perform laboratory studies including analyses of proteins, genetic mutations, gene expression, epigenetic features, or the growth of normal and malignant cells. This unique resource is expected to enable future biomarker discovery and validation studies (including paired metastatic and primary tumors when available), linked with clinical and pathologic data including survival.
An immediate goal of the HBTB is to collect high quality frozen cholangiocarcinoma specimens along with paired normal tissue (blood or normal liver) to support the opening of a cholangiocarcinoma cohort within the National Cancer Institute's The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). A long-term goal is to partner with researchers from other institutions by sharing biospecimens and data for high priority collaborative research efforts which are critical to advancing the field in this rare tumor type. To these ends, the HBTB infrastructure and informed consent process have been designed to allow for future sharing of specimens across institutions as well as collection of data in a centralized database.
Real-time collection and freezing of biliary tract tumors in the operating room, specimen processing, and banking of fresh frozen tissue and blood specimens for approximately 20 patients with biliary tract cancers undergoing a therapeutic procedure at UCSF in 2013
An adequate amount (at least 100 mg tumor tissue) of these banked specimens will be held in reserve and allocated preferentially to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) upon opening a cholangiocarcinoma cohort in the future
Specimen allocation will also be prioritized to collaborative projects across institutions, based upon our belief that the sharing of specimens and data will achieve the highest quality science in this rare tumor type
The development of informatics infrastructure development to link HBTB Tissue Core Database with the web-based OnCore Clinical Trials Database
Grant $44,202 - Hepatobiliary Neoplasia Registry and Biorepository
International Hepatobiliary Neoplasia Registry and Biorepository
Supports: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Medical Team: Dr. Lewis R. Roberts, MB ChB, PhD
The overall goal is to support the collection of clinical information and samples of blood and tissue from patients with hepatobiliary neoplasia in an IRB approved International Hepatobiliary Neoplasia Registry and Biorepository. Patients will complete a detailed scannable risk factor, family history and clinical history questionnaire and provide blood samples for processing into serum, plasma and DNA. If patients also have surgery or in some cases, biopsies, tissue specimens will be collected from tumor and adjacent benign/normal tissue. Tissue specimens not needed for clinical diagnostic purposes are quick frozen in liquid nitrogen, usually within 30 to 40 minutes after acquisition. Samples from the repository will be used for basic and translational studies encompassing the spectrum from research into basic pathogenetic mechanisms of hepatobiliary carcinogenesis, early detection and diagnosis of hepatobiliary cancers, prognostic prediction, and prediction of treatment outcome.
Research Plan: The collected samples will be used for three main types of studies:
1. DNA samples from patients with cholangiocarcinoma will be used for a genome-wide association study to determine the genetic variants that confer risk for cholangiocarcinoma.
2. Serum samples from patients with cholangiocarcinoma will be used to validate new biomarkers for early detection and diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma.
3. Tissue samples obtained at surgical resection will be implanted into immunodeficient mice to create patient derived xenografts and will also be snap frozen in liquid nitrogen for future comprehensive genome-wide molecular analyses such as is performed by the National Cancer Institutes Cancer Genome Atlas Project (TCGA).
Grant $40,000 - Cell Lines and Novel Antibodies
Establish new cholangiocarcinoma cell lines from cholagniocarcinomas surgically removed from patients and evaluate novel antibodies to treat cholangiocarcinoma.
Supports: Massachusetts General Hospital
Medical Team: Dr. Cristina Ferrone, M.D. , PI.; Matteo Ligorio, M.D. Postdoctoral Fellow; Dr. Nabell El-Bardeesey
The support will test a novel immunotherapeutic strategy which targets not only differentiated cholangiocarcinoma cells, but also cholangiocarcinoma stem cells (CSCs). Our research group has been able to establish two novel cell lines from a primary cholangiocarcinoma and a cholangiocarcinoma metastasis.
Aim 1
To develop novel cholangiocarcinoma cell lines, which we will test with a panel of tumor antigen specific monoclonal antibodies.
Cell Line development with Dr Nabeel El-Bardeesey
To address the paucity available cholangiocarcinoma cell lines, we have developed optimized conditions for the establishment of new lines from surgical specimens and biopsies.
Specific Aim 1: To develop novel cholangiocarcinoma cell lines
We have optimized the conditions and have been able to establish a cell line from an intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and from a cholangiocarcinoma metastasis to the bone. We plan to develop an additional 10 novel cell lines from surgically resected cholangiocarcinomas.
Aim 2
To determine if cholangiocarcinoma cell lines express clinically relevant tumor antigens identified by our panel of monoclonal antibodies.
Specific Aim 2: To test cholangiocarcinoma cell lines with a panel of tumor antigen specific monoclonal antibodies to determine if and which tumor antigens are expressed by cholangiocarcinoma cell lines.
Aim 3
To determine if cancer stem cells are present in cholangiocarcinoma cell lines and to test whether cancer stem cells can be eliminated by specific monoclonal antibodies.
Future directions.
Additional experiments, not part of this application, will test whether the strategy found to be effective in eliminating CICs in vitro is also effective in eliminating CICs when cholangiocarcinoma cell lines are grafted in immunodefficient mice. To prove the clinical relevance of the results obtained with the cell lines experiments will be repeated utilizing cholangiocarcinoma tumors removed from patients.
Grant $60,000 – ASCO YIA
Young Investigator Award
Supports: American Society of Clinical Oncology
Medical Team: TBD
The one-year $60,000 grant is intended to raise awareness and trigger progress against this cholangiocarcinoma, while providing critical early funding for physician-scientists at the beginning of their careers. Many successful programs have funded researchers early in their investigative careers. Providing early career grants help encourage investigators to focus their careers on bile duct cancer. The Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Grants Selection Committee will determine the recipient by evaluating the scientific merit of the Young Investigator Award applications using a two-part peer-review process. Recipients of the Young Investigator Award will be announced in April 2013.


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11- There is a group of you who propagated the lie...
Muslims must scrupulously avoid lies and gossip among themselves.
…Do not suppose it to be bad for you; rather it is good for you. Every one of them will incur the evil he has earned and the one who took it on himself to amplify it will receive a terrible punishment.
Anyone who organizes false accusations is sinning. But Allah says that false accusation work for the victim, rather than against. The merit of the person making false accusations will also be put down to the victim. Because he earns merit. It is therefore a very positive situation. That is what Allah is saying.
12- Why, when you heard it, did you not, as men and women of the believers, instinctively think good thoughts and say, 'This is obviously a lie'?
For example, someone puts a false accusation against Muslims in a newspaper. You see types with robes and turbans and people believe it. But that needs to be investigated. A true Muslims will check if something is true or not, insha'Allah. Allah says;
13- Why did they not produce four witnesses to it?
Four honest witnesses.
Since they did not bring four witnesses, in Allah's Sight, they are liars.
This means one must scrupulously avoid making false accusations against Muslims. If it cannot be proved, that is an especially terrible situation. Allah says, "they themselves are liars." Allah declares they are liars.
14- Were it not for Allah's favor to you and His mercy, both in this world and the hereafter, a terrible punishment would have afflicted you for your plunging headlong into it.
There are some people with nothing better to do that gossip about Muslims. They spend their whole days gossiping. That is widespread. Muslims know. Allah forbids that. They spend their whole time gossiping. Allah forbids that as ugly behavior.
16- Why, when you heard it, did you not say, 'We have no business speaking about this. Glory be to You! This is a terrible slander!'?
In such situations, a Muslim must say, "this is a terrible slander" and refuse to believe it. They must either produce four honest witnesses or else say nothing.


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Last Saturday I met up with board members Andy and Trollby at Papa Bear's BBQ in Madison for dinner. None of us had ever been there so we were looking forward to it.
Papa Bear's has an end unit in a small strip mall on the southwest corner of Cottage Grove Road and Acewood Boulevard.
There aren't a lot of tables but I'd say about 20 or so people can eat inside. Orders are placed at the counter and the food is delivered to the tables. I was in the front corner next to the window when I took this shot.
And that's exactly how things worked for us, so let's get to it!
I ordered the ribs tips and hot links combo, and it was pretty good. The house sauce isn't too sweet and it has a little bit of a kick, which is OK by me. I would've preferred a little more smoke in the meat but that's usually pretty typical and isn't really a negative, and the hot links had a nice peppery bite. Hopefully Andy and Trollby will weigh in with their opinions on their meals; I know Andy liked the ribs but Trollby felt that his corned beef needed more smoke.
Overall I'd say Papa Bear's is a decent place with a good location, and if I was in the area I wouldn't hesitate to stop in. It's a good neighborhood spot and while we were there a number of people came in to pick up carryout orders, and since it's been there a number of years business must be pretty solid. We did notice that we couldn't smell any smoke outside but there was plenty inside, so I'm not sure what the owner's smoking method is.
Andy brought along his wife, daughter, and her friend, and Trollby brought along his son (and as usual I'm not too good with names). We pushed together a few tables to seat our group and it was a nice meal.


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About the Book
Foreword by Harriet FeBland. The book brings together six essays about the work of Imelda Cajipe Endaya and the culture that nurtured her art. Co-authors are Patrick D. Flores, Flaudette May V. Datuin, Scott Koterbay, Ruben Defeo and Elizabeth Lolarga. Folio of mixed media works 1998-2208. 80 pages. Published by Lenore RS Lim Foundation for the Arts.
The artist's life work in the Philippines has been consistently clustered along the themes of cultural identity, gender, race, nation, migration, displacement, and globalization from the point of an enlightened Filipina visual artist. She was awarded the Centennial Honors for the Arts by the Republic of the Philippines in 1999. She has gained recognition in the Asia-Pacific contemporary art world for the distinctly Filipino and female statements in her art, as well as her cultural leadership in the advocacy of women. Moving to New York in 2005, she continues to create exceptional womanly expressions that keep evolving within the context of her roots and the dynamism of her time and place. While the essays elucidate and critique the artist's vigorous development of more formidable themes and styles of her earlier period, the folio of selected works done from 1998 to 2008 feature the lighter, and more portable pieces of Endaya's work. These evidence her delight and fascination with tactile materials and hybrid techniques, even as she raises issues like environment vis-à-vis appropriate technology, and the debate between 'male masterpiece' and 'women's craft'.
Features & Details
- Category Fine Art
Standard Portrait, 8×10 in, 20×25 cm
80 Pages
- Publish Date Jun 15, 2009
- Tags Philippine culture, cultural identity, Philippine art, Asia Pacific contemporary art, mixed media, contemporary art, gender, race, nation, migration, displacement, globalization, women, feminism, collage, art
About the Creator
Imelda Cajipe Endaya is painter, printmaker, mixed media, installation artist, curator, writer and book designer. She edited and designed the books Manuel Rodriguez, Sr. Into the Threshold (New York 2009), the Society of Philippine American Artists Book 2 (New York 2009), and Daniel Ftizpatrick SJ's Glad Tidings (New York 2008). As an independent curator, she has curated and written major exhibitions for the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the Creative Collective Center Inc. and Ford Foundation, covering printmaking, modern and contemporary art, women's art, and art of Paete, Laguna. She co- curated the Luwas/Louas: The National Artists, organized in 2003 by the NCCA. She was founding editor of Pananaw Philippine Journal of Visual Arts (Manila 1997), visual arts associate editor of the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (Manila 1994), and co-author of Filipino Engraving (Manila1980).
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Novel Drug Candidate May Block Lupus' Attack on the Brain
New Discovery Results from Lupus Research Institute-funded Research Studies
Some ten years ago, scientist Dr. Betty Diamond came to the Lupus Research Institute with a critical clinical question that could only be answered with molecular research – why do four out of five people with lupus suffer with some type of neuropsychiatric difficulty? With funding granted on the merit of her hypothesis, Dr. Diamond found her answer. Based on that research, she is now developing a novel drug-like molecule that could lead to a treatment for lupus.
Dr. Diamond's original LRI-supported research discovery found that a particular type of lupus antibody found in the brains of lupus patients can attach to and kill nerve cells in the brain, causing neurological and cognitive difficulties. Damage can range from trouble thinking clearly, to lapses in memory to not being able to distinguish reality from delusion. Currently, there are no targeted therapies for neuropsychiatric lupus.
Dr. Diamond, together with Dr. Yousef Al-Abed and other colleagues at the Feinstein Institute of Medical Research in New York, recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describing how their new molecule neutralizes (counteracts) the specific type of nerve-damaging lupus autoantibody she had identified years before. In this recent study, the new molecule protected brain cells in mice from damage by lupus autoantibodies.
"The LRI was the first organization to fund studies of this model of neuropsychiatric lupus," said Dr. Diamond. "With the Institute's grant as well as subsequent funding from the NIH, we provided the first molecular explanation of how the central nervous system is attacked in lupus. We are even more excited to have now developed a molecule that can block that attack."
Potential for Patients
Like any breakthrough, this discovery did not happen in a vacuum. Other research teams have been able to neutralize the autoantibodies Dr. Diamond originally identified by using a peptide (a short chain of amino acids) that mimics the receptor the autoantibodies bind to. But its potential as a treatment is limited because the peptide cannot be taken orally and can inadvertently activate the immune system. Dr. Diamond's group designed their new molecule with a similar shape as the earlier peptide, but to overcome its limitations, used distinct chemical building blocks so that the molecule can be absorbed orally and avoid triggering the immune system.
The Feinstein researchers stress that the molecule is still at an early stage of drug development. They will share a $571,610 NIH grant with Biomedical Research Models Inc. to test the molecule to see if it is safe for clinical trials with patients.
"There is a very real need to address neuropsychiatric lupus," commented Margaret Dowd, President, Lupus Research Institute. "We are very proud to have recognized the importance of Dr. Diamond's research and to have given her the initial support for the work that led to this groundbreaking discovery."


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April 22, 2013
Solon Public Library
Regular Library Board Meeting
Regular Library Board Meeting
April 22, 2013 7 p.m.
Solon Public Library Meeting Room
Tentative Agenda
Call to order
Approval of Agenda
Approval of Minutes
Citizen's Speak
Committee Reports
Librarian's Report - Approval of Bills
Old Business
Discussion and possible action regarding community surveys.
New BusinessDiscussion and possible action regarding the update on the library
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Discussion and possible action on additions/changes to the LED Sign Use Policy.


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D-backs upended by late homer, walk-off hit
SAN FRANCISCO -- The D-backs have admired the grit and determination that the Giants have shown the last few years, even going so far as to try to replicate the formula.
Monday night at AT&T Park, the D-backs showed they still have some things to learn as the Giants delighted a sellout crowd by rallying for a 5-4 win.
It seemed like it would be a storybook game for the D-backs -- at least through the first seven innings.
Wade Miley was dealing on the mound and showing pop in the batter's box, and the D-backs turned a late-inning lead over to the bullpen.
But it wasn't enough.
The Giants' rally started with a two-run homer by Buster Posey off David Hernandez in the eighth that tied the game at 4.
Hernandez's curve has been a real weapon for him this season, but it was not there for him Monday. After jumping ahead of Posey with a fastball, Hernandez missed with two straight breaking balls to fall behind 2-1.
"I got ahead 0-1 and I feel like if I even threw a curveball for a strike, it's just a different at-bat if I'm able to throw my off-speed for a strike," Hernandez said.
But he couldn't and Posey knew he couldn't, which meant he was sitting on the fastball that Hernandez threw next, and he blasted it over the wall in center.
Then in the ninth, Andres Torres led off with a single against Tony Sipp, and after Brandon Crawford sacrificed him to second, the Giants sent up Brandon Belt to pinch-hit.
Belt had just five hits in his 24 previous at-bats, but he got hold of a slider from Sipp and lined it into left-center for the game winner.
"Torres is a fastball hitter," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "And Belt, he's been struggling, and we threw a ball out over the plate and he just [hit] it out there. Obviously not the way we wanted it."
It was the seventh straight win for the Giants at home.
"There's no quit in this team, I can tell you that," Giants starter Ryan Vogelsong said. "We fight to the last out. It's fun to watch."
It's a good thing for Vogelsong that the Giants do fight until the end, because otherwise he would have been tagged with the loss.
The D-backs jumped on Vogelsong in the first when former Giant Cody Ross drove home both a pair of runs with a bases-loaded single to right.
The runs snapped the Giants' scoreless-innings streak at 21.
The lead didn't last long, though, as the Giants tied things up in the bottom half of the inning.
Both starting pitchers settled in after that, with Miley retiring 11 straight at one point.
"Wade threw the ball well," Gibson said. "Everything was on target, but we couldn't finish it."
Miley even helped out offensively when he led off the fifth with a home run off Vogelsong to give Arizona a 3-2 lead. The homer was the first hit by a D-backs pitcher this season, snapping an 0-for-36 drought.
"I put a swing on it," Miley said. "I don't really remember it. It happened fast."
It was the first home run by a left-handed starting pitcher in AT&T Park history, and while Miley downplayed it after the game, fellow hurler Josh Collmenter said Miley told his teammates before the game that he was going to hit a homer.
But Miley, who said the last time he homered outside of batting practice was in an intrasquad game his freshman year of college, insisted that he was only kidding with his teammates and had no idea he would hit one.
"It was 2-0 and I was like, 'He's probably going to throw a fastball here,'" Miley said. "I'm a pitcher and I just cheated and I got lucky. I hit it on the sweet spot. It was like a blur. I swung and was like, 'Oh my God.' It feels good for anybody to hit a home run. I didn't really know what to do. I wanted to make sure I jogged around the bases fast enough. I wanted to get around there and get back into the dugout."
Eric Chavez added a solo shot in the sixth to increase the D-backs' lead to 4-2.
"We've got to find a way to close the door when we have the lead," Chavez said. "We put together really good at-bats late in innings like they did tonight. I think tonight you just tip your hat and try to come back and win one tomorrow."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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On Sunday we went to my parents' house for midday Easter dinner so I had the foresight to take a sirloin out of the freezer on Saturday and give it a good salting in preparation for supper that night. Of course, things wouldn't work out quite as planned.
Sunday morning I smeared it with some grated fresh garlic and Monday night I added some sesame oil, and by Tuesday afternoon I was finally ready to grill.
Because of the sesame oil I kept the fire a little cooler than usual, but still got some good grate marks.
Even though I used a lot of garlic the flavor was surprisingly mellow and the sesame oil added a subtle, nutty taste to the overall beefiness. And since typing this is making me hungry I'm heading to the fridge at the next commercial break for some leftovers.


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A base was stolen last night in Game 1 of the World Series (yes, it seems that they do still bother to televise baseball after the Red Sox are eliminated,) meaning that everyone in America is eligible to receive a free taco. You have the Tampa Bay Rays and shortstop Jason Bartlett to thank this year. Be sure to send him a note.
Taco Bell: Dude Steals Base In World Series, So Enjoy Your Free Taco
By October 23, 2008


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Spotlight on Broadway coming up Thursday March 7!
1 tenor + 1 soprano + 1 pianist = a broadway-inspired concert to remember!
Come out to see your favorite tunes from WEST SIDE STORY, LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, LITTLE WOMEN, SPAMALOT, THE LAST FIVE YEARS, MISS SAIGON, WICKED and MEMPHIS brought to life by this dynamic trio!
Georgetown College's own soprano Heather Winter Hunnicutt teams up […]
Cornet Ensemble This Thursday!
Cornet Ensemble Noteworthy concert this Thursday at 8:00pm in the John Hill Chapel!
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Like the Georgetown College Music Department on Facebook, and stay up-to-date with departmental events!
Faculty Showcase Recital
Don't miss the Georgetown College Music Faculty Showcase Recital this Sunday, January 27 at 3pm in the John Hill Chapel!
A Gershwin Extravaganza
The Georgetown College Department of Music announces "A Gershwin Extravaganza!" Join us for a concert of American music by George Gershwin that features the band, both choirs, orchestra, lyric theatre, piano ensemble, and faculty performing in additional to all our students! The downbeat is is at 3:00pm in the John L. Hill Chapel on […]
Debussy Festival at GC!
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Congratulations Scholarship Competition Winners!
Congratulations 4TH ANNUAL VOICE & PIANO SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION winners!
Voice Scholarship Competition winners:
1st: Despina Williams
2nd: Abigail Kohake
3rd: Elizabeth Bartelt
Piano Scholarship Competition winners:
1st: Rachel Misheff (1st place split!)
1st: Katy Simpson (1st place split!)


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On Tap
Saturday, Feb 15, 2014 06:00 am
Skyhawks hoops
The St. Albert Skyhawks men's basketball tournament wraps up today with eight games rattling the rim at the SkyDome.
The semifinals are 11:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m., the consolation final is 4:45 p.m., the third-place game is 6:30 p.m. and the final is 8:15 p.m.
The eight-team draw features the Strathcona Christian Academy Eagles, ranked fifth in 2A, Edmonton Christian Lions, ranked fourth in 3A, Archbishop Jordan Scots, Spruce Grove Panthers, West Central of Rocky Mountain House and three honourable mentions in the 3A rankings: Fort McMurray Miners, St. Peter The Apostle Spartans and the host Skyhawks.
The tournament is also a fundraiser initiative for Hawks Have Heart. The goal is to raise $5,000 for the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the tournament is one of several February events at St. Albert Catholic High School in support of the campaign honouring the memory of Amanda Bruneau. The sister-in-law of Skyhawks� head coach and teacher, Evan Holstein, died Jan. 18 at age 19, a few months after being diagnosed with adrenocortical carcinoma. The rare and aggressive cancer originates in the cortex of the adrenal gland.
Visit www.albertacancer.ca/hawkshaveheart for more information.
Raiders at home
The St. Albert Raiders play their last game before the playoffs Monday in the Alberta Midget AAA Hockey League.
Puck drop is 1 p.m. against the Grande Prairie Storm (11-15-6) at Akinsdale Arena.
The Raiders (16-11-5) skate into the weekend with road games against the UFA Bisons (20-10-3) tonight in Strathmore and the Calgary Buffaloes (21-9-4) Sunday.
The Raiders are the No. 6 playoff seed in the north division and trail the fifth-place Southside Athletic Club (18-12-3) by two points with a game in hand.
The Raiders start their best-of-three opening round series next week against the third or fourth team in the north.
Basketball at PK
The Paul Kane Blues host the Archbishop MacDonald Marauders in Tuesday�s doubleheader in metro Edmonton high school division one basketball.
Tip-off times are 5 p.m. for the men and 6:30 p.m. for the women.
In league play the Paul Kane men are 4-5 and the lady Blues are 6-2.
The lady Marauders are winless and the men�s team is 3-6.
In the third 4A provincial rankings released last week the lady Blues jumped up to No. 8 after receiving honourable mention status twice and the Paul Kane men made their debut as an honourable mention.
The metro playoffs start March 3.


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Richard Baptie of the general contractor Hathaway Dinwiddie, Writer, Director and Producer Tim Disney, and Urban Strategist Enrique Peñalosa, a Former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, Join SCI-Arc's Board of Trustees
SCI-Arc elected three new trustees to its ranks today: Richard Baptie, a Senior Vice President of Hathaway Dinwiddie and head of their Southern California office; Director and producer Tim Disney, a principal of Blu Homes; and urban strategist Enrique Peñalosa, formerly the mayor of Colombia's capital, Bogotá.
"SCI-Arc has extended the political reach and intellectual capacity of its board of trustees by adding Tim Disney, Richard Baptie, and Enrique Peñalosa to its board," said SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss. "Disney brings a supportive interest in art and design along with expertise in housing pre-fabrication; Baptie is an alumnus and long-time advocate for architecture education, and a builder with a unique reputation for constructing large and complex urban projects; and Peñalosa brings an international political pedigree and an expertise in Latin American urbanism to the SCI-Arc community. Welcome all."
SCI-Arc's Board is chaired by land-use attorney Jerry Neuman. It now includes 25 members, among them noted individuals such as Rick Carter, William Fain, Frank Gehry, Tom Gilmore, Thom Mayne, Kevin Ratner, and Ted Tanner.
"As one of the highest ranked architectural institutions in the country and among the foremost thought leaders in the world in the areas of planning, design and the built environment, we believe it is important to have a Board that reflects that same stature," stated Neuman. "Dick, Tim and Enrique more than fit that bill, they personify it and I am proud to have them join the school as Trustees."
The SCI-Arc trustees unanimously elected Baptie, Disney and Peñalosa to the board at their quarterly meeting held September 18th on the school's campus in downtown Los Angeles.
Richard Baptie is a Senior Vice President and head of the Southern California office of Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company. He is currently the Principal-in-Charge of the Emerson College construction project in Hollywood and a large office complex for an entertainment company in Glendale, among other duties. He has been involved as a leader in many notable projects in Southern California including The Getty Center, The Reagan Library Air Force One Pavilion and the 2000 Avenue of the Stars project. Baptie joined Hathaway Dinwiddie in 1985, having studied Architecture at SCI-Arc. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Economics from California State University, Los Angeles. Involved in the community, Baptie is on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Business Council, The Kidspace Museum, past President of the USC Architectural Guild and has served on the capital campaigns for the Music Center and the Downtown YMCA.
Tim Disney has written, directed or produced 15 feature films, documentaries, and television programs. From 1992 – 2000, he served as Chairman and CEO of Virtual World Entertainment, a leading developer and operator of 3D gaming and simulation technology. Disney was a founding investor and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Blu Homes Inc., the leading manufacturer of green pre-fab housing. He also serves as President of The Rowena Group, a private investment firm, and as a Director of Shamrock Capital Advisors, a leading private equity investor in the fields of media, entertainment, and communications. A graduate of Harvard University with a degree in Fine Arts, Disney serves as a Trustee of California Institute of the Arts. He co-founded the international aid organization World Connect, and serves on the Board of several other charitable organizations.
Enrique Peñalosa is an urban strategist whose vision and proposals have significantly influenced policies in numerous cities throughout the world. He currently is President of the Board of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy of New York. As Mayor of Colombia's capital city of Bogotá from 1998 to 2001, Peñalosa profoundly transformed the city, turning it into an international example for improvements in quality of life, public spaces, mobility and equity. He implemented a model giving priority to children and public spaces and restricting private car use, building schools and libraries in the poorest neighborhoods, as well as adding hundreds of miles of protected bicycle paths, sidewalks, pedestrian streets, bicycle highways, greenways, and parks. Peñalosa has lectured all over the world in governmental, academic and citizens' forums, and his ideas have been featured in many of the world's most important media.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. I love when brands decide to give back to the community, especially when it's dedicated to empowering women and girls with education, resources, job skills and work experience. A big thank you to Bobbi Brown for her Pretty Powerful campaign that does just that. It's all aimed at helping them "be who they are." I love that!
"Makeup alone cannot even the playing field for women and girls across the world, but I believe that together, those who create, apply, buy and wear makeup can." -Bobbi Brown
The movement launched on March 8th by raising funds through the sale of a limited-edition Pretty Powerful Pot Rouge ($25) and via GlobalGiving.org. Every single cent of the proceeds from sales of the Pretty Powerful Pot Rouge on the Bobbi Brown site will go to Dress for Success. While donations through Global Giving will go to a select 6 foundations.
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A LAWYER addicted to gambling stole £14,000 from two clients to try to plug massive betting debts.
Stewart Costello spent over £½million on 1,650 on-line bets in just six months – although he also won £½million during that period, his losses totalled over £20,000.
Costello, 32, who was jailed for 14 months after admitting two counts of fraud at Taunton Crown Court, tried to fuel his addiction by siphoning off compensation from two 'no win no fee' clients.
Bosses at Harris Fowler, in Taunton, where he worked in the personal injuries section, confronted him last summer after he started sleeping overnight in the office and looking dishevelled and then accused him of breaching litigation protocols, said Emma Martin, prosecuting.
They discovered his thefts after a client contacted the office to say he had not received a £1,500 cheque due to him.
Investigations subsequently uncovered an e-mail from Costello asking the company paying the compensation to send it directly to his own account.
The incident sparked an inquiry by Harris Fowler into all of client dealings, which revealed he also stole £12,500 owed to another client.
The firm, which has since reimbursed the victims, alerted the police and Costello, of Torland Road, Plymouth, was arrested.
Costello, who sobbed as he represented himself in court, said his losses were higher than the £20,000 mentioned.
He said: "The first thing you did when you woke up was grab your laptop, switch it on, gamble and the last thing you do before you go to bed is either turn off your laptop or fall asleep while your bet's in play."
Costello, who apologised for his actions, said gambling consumed him "24/7" and he could not break the habit despite joining Gamblers Anonymous.
"My gambling addiction has ripped my life to pieces," he added.
"Every penny I've ever earned I've gambled.
"I like to think I'm an intelligent guy. I've tried to stop gambling, but my addiction continues to beat me.
"It's cost me friends. It's cost me relationships. It's cost me my career."
Costello, who gambled on Bet365 on events like women's beach volleyball and who would leave The X Factor, said he did not commit his crimes for "a better lifestyle or going on a jolly".
"A big victim in this matter is me," he added.
Jailing him, Mr Recorder Malcolm Galloway, who ordered him to pay a £100 victim surcharge, said it would be counterproductive to force him to pay compensation.
The judge added: "It's difficult to think of a higher trust than between a solicitor and their client. You have ruined your own professional life and let your family down."
*If you have a problem with gambling click on the Gamblers Anonymous link on this story.


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From the Rangers:
November 19, 2010 – New York Rangers 1, Colorado Avalanche 5 (Game No. 20, Away No. 9)
* The Rangers were defeated by the Colorado Avalanche, 5-1, tonight at the Pepsi Center, and are now 10-9-1 overall with a 6-3-0 mark on the road.
* Derek Stepan tallied the Blueshirts' only goal at 6:03 of the third period, and has now recorded four points (one goal, three assists) in the last four games. Entering tonight's contest, the Rangers' rookie was tied for seventh among league rookies in scoring with eight points and ninth with three goals.
* Marian Gaborik recorded the only assist on Stepan's third period goal, and has now registered six points (four goals, two assists) in the last four games.
* The Blueshirts' penalty kill held the Avalanche scoreless in one power play opportunity (2:00) to improve to 96.0% (24-25) in their last eight games, yielding just one goal against and tallying two shorthanded goals during the stretch.
* Ruslan Fedotenko led all skaters with five hits, and now ranks third on the team with 47 hits on the season.
* Defensemen Marc Staal and Matt Gilroy tied for the team-high with four shots on goal. Staal also led all skaters with 25:48 of ice time, and Gilroy logged a season-high, 17:18 of ice time.
* Henrik Lundqvist (13 saves) and Martin Biron (eight saves) combined to stop 21 shots in net for New York.
* The Rangers will return to action tomorrow, Nov. 20, when they face-off against the Minnesota Wild at the Xcel Energy Center (8:00 p.m.), to conclude their back-to-back road set against Northwest Division opponents.


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He no longer needs to depend on us as his sole support. The Putnam
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He goes to the Brookhill facility 5 days a week at a dayhab program. We
are still very involved in his life, but with less intensity. There are
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"The earliest case of systematic naming occurred about 6,000 years ago when God brought all his newly fashioned creatures to Adam to see what he would call them (Genesis 2:19)."
J. L. Heilbron, "Coming to Terms", Nature, vol 415, p585, 7 Feb 2002.
Heilbron is from Worcester College, Oxford UK.
Editorial Comment: The intriguing thing about this article on scientific naming, or classification, is that it was not prefaced or followed by any snide remarks or references to myths, and they got the Biblical reference to Adam correct. Good to see a prestigious scientific journal like Nature finally catching up with us!


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Earthlock: Festival of Magic
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Ashen is an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home. There is no sun and the natural light that exists comes from eruptions that cover the land in ash. This is a world where nothing lasts, no matter how tightly you cling to it.
At its core, Ashen is about forging relationships.
Players can choose to guide those they trust to their camp, encouraging them to rest at the fire and perhaps remain. People you meet out in the world will have unique skills and crafting abilities to bolster your chances of survival.
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Blossom & Decay
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Hyper Light Drifter
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"Take on the role of a Pokémon Trainer and uncover new tales, and unravel the mystery behind the two forms reminiscent of the Legendary Pokémon. With new story additions and features this earns Pokémon™ Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon the name "Ultra!" Another adventure is about to begin!
New Pokémon forms have been discovered in the Aloha region in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon! These forms are reminiscent of the Legendary Pokémon Solgaleo, Lunala, and Necrozma, first revealed in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon. Head out on an epic journey as you solve the mystery behind these fascinating Pokémon! In this expanded adventure, get ready to explore more of the Alola region, catch more amazing Pokémon, and battle more formidable foes in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon!"
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Darksiders III
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6Gbps SATA Performance: AMD 890GX vs. Intel X58/P55by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/25/2010 12:00 AM EST
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Ralos - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - linkHi Anand,
Using Firefox 3.6.2 with the security options activated, your site appears blocked for security reason. Untrustworthy. www.anandtech.com/storage specifically.
Thought you'd like to be informed of this misunderstanding. Reply
StormyParis - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - linkwhat is the CPU usage ? Reply
psychobriggsy - Friday, March 26, 2010 - linkIt would have been nice to see the Marvell speeds when attached by PCIe on the AMD board. Seems like an obvious thing to include to be honest.
Impressive write speeds for the AMD controller, which gives a lot of hope that they can improve the read speeds, as they indicate they can with their in-house test bed.
AMD should bulk up their test bed with retail motherboards as well, so that they don't just test in ideal circumstances. Reply
assassin37 - Friday, March 26, 2010 - linkAnand,
Im torn,
I have the Gigabyte X58-ud3r system with I7, I also have the Gigabyte AMD 890GPA-UD3H with Phenom 965. Lastly I have a 256 crucial C300 and 2 vertex 120's,I have to return 1(mobo-cpu) setup to new egg soon, what would you do, sorry I know this is not a comment Reply
TrackSmart - Friday, March 26, 2010 - linkI'm not Anand, so I can't say what he would do. But honestly, it's a matter of your personal preference and priorities.
I like to support competition, so I put together an AMD Phenom II X4 system instead of an Intel Core i5 750 system. I chose AMD because they offered me similar performance per dollar (they were slightly cheaper but had slightly lower performance), plus I felt good about supporting much-needed competition in the CPU market.
What are YOUR priorities? Maximum performance? Supporting competition in the CPU/GPU market? Best performance per dollar? Most energy efficient?
That should be what makes your decision. The hardware you listed will all be blazingly fast, whatever you decide. The Intel platform offers potentially higher performance, but probably at slightly higher cost. Your choice. Same for the SSDs.
[sorry if that wasn't a "you should do this" kind of answer.] Reply
wiak - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkwhat about Highpoint Marvell 6Gbps PCIe 2.0 card on AMD 7-Series chipset?
for me that has no USB3 or SATA 6Gbps on my AMD 790FX motherboard
it will make this article fully complete, its the only thing thats missing! :) Reply
georgekn3mp - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkAbout the two different Marvell controllers 88SE9123 and the 88SE9128...the older 9123 does NOT support RAID and the newer 9128 DOES natively support RAID 0, 1 and 5.
Unfortunately on my Asus P6X58D, the controller is the older 9123 so the only way I could RAID a SATA-III SSD (or even mechanical) drive is using "Windows" Raid, not firmware on the controller. Whether it hurts performance though is harder to say since I can't test it yet ;).
I have been planning on the 256GB RealSSD for a couple of months now and am happy they started shipping...as one of the main reasons I had picked the Asus board was the native USB3 and SATA-III support. Unfortunately it does not support the RAID function but at almost 750 a drive I was not going to RAID for a while anyway....I AM happy I went with X58 for sure!
It seems the newer Gigabyte boards UD4 or higher do have the newer controller and are better for RAID SSD expecially now that it is hardware supported...the open question no one has been able to answer is if the Marvell 88SE9128 will pass TRIM commands to a RAID SSD set. So far Gigabyte boards are the only ones with that controller it appears...
Intel just updated their ICH10R chipset firmware to pass TRIM to SSDs in RAID...hopefully Marvell does too.
Since the disk speed is the bottleneck on my new computer, $750 is worth it just to prompt me to Crossfire my 5850 because the bottleneck shifted to graphics....especially with i7-920 OC to 4Ghz ;)
deviationer - Friday, March 26, 2010 - linkSo the p6x58d does have the PLX chip? Reply
Mark McGann - Monday, May 10, 2010 - linkThe p6x58D premium apparently does not according to this link
Don't know about the newer p6x58D-E Reply
KaarlisK - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkSoftware RAID is definitely no slouch:
But this comparison used a very old ICH. Reply
sparkuss - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkAnand,
I was going to maybe get two C300's for my current build. Do we consumers need to wait for your update before we invest in these?
We know it died, but I haven't been able to find any other reliability statistics collated anywhere to make a buying decision on. Reply
sparkuss - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkSorry, I missed the Update link in the upper corner. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkGreat review. Not much to be said. There was a little bit of puffery at the end, in AMDs favor.
I'm sure most companies have faster controllers/BIOSs to be released. Rather than saying AMD is something to look out for, for some reason I'd think Intel would have something greater.
As you mentioned, the on-die controller should have lower latencies - could you ask them about this? Perhaps some of the PCI bandwidth is being chewed up by something else, or perhaps the latencies are too low, causing a check/repeat bottleneck? (or maybe this a marketing ploy to release something faster in the future) Reply
Dzban - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkBecause AMD has native 6Gbps and they are improving drivers. With intel chipsets you can't phisicly increase speed further. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkI don't like how Intel switches between [Mb/s & Gb/s] and [MB/s & GB/s]. It'd be nicer to not have to translate 480Mbps into 60MB.
I guess the issue was at first past I almost equated the 480Mb/s to the 500MB/s right under it. Reply
jejeahdh - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkYou should not type dates in that format, and if you had an editor, he or she should absolutely stop you from doing such things. People have expectations. You might think it's no worse than the ever-present traditional ambiguous formats of the US and Europe (m/d/yy(yy), d/m/yy(yy)) which are bad enough, but at least it's an old and well recognized problem that people are used to living with, so long as it uses slashes. People with knowledge of standards, though, use dashes for ISO date format, yyyy-mm-dd which is also perfectly sortable. By mixing and matching styles haphazardly, you're only propagating the notion that anything goes, causing people to stop and wonder for 12 days out of every month. If you're deliberately adopting the style commonly used in the Netherlands (I had to look it up) and advocating its use for an international audience, I cannot imagine why.
I know it seems crazy to harp on this and I kind of agree . . . but I am just so surprised to see it here, written by a detail oriented technically minded accomplished writer. Reply
strikeback03 - Friday, March 26, 2010 - linkIf this is in response to the IOMeter build, that might be the way it was named by its creator, not Anand. Also, I would imagine 6-22-2008 is m-dd-yyyy Reply
assassin37 - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkHey Anand, Why isn't the X-58 gigabyte native 6gbs board on the write benchmarks? Reply
assassin37 - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linknever mind I read why, legacy mode Reply
vailr - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkIntel releases SSD friendly AHCI/RAID driver:
http://www.pcper.com/#NewsID-8538">http://www.pcper.com/#NewsID-8538 Reply
assassin37 - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkwhy isnt the x-58 gigabyte native 6gbs board on the write benchmarks? Reply
blacksun1234 - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkI would like to see HD Tune & HD Tach Average Read speed with Crucial HDD for each chipset. With this benchmark, AMD SB850 can beat Marvell's solution a lot! Reply
Nickel020 - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkThere's a small error on page 4, that's an X58A-UD3R you've got there, not an X58-UD3R.
Also, there seem to be two different Marvell 6G controllers, the 88SE9123 and the 88SE9128, what's difference between these two? Reply
Nickel020 - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkFinished reading, very interesteing results :)
I find it really strange that P55 performs so poorly, I wonder whether it also performs poorly when used with SATA 3G SSDs, seeing as I'm just about two migrate my Vertex 60GB RAID 0 from P45&ICH10R to P55.
Would be great if you could look into that as well, better storage performance would be a major reason to buy S1366 instead of S1156. Reply
Etern205 - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkIf it's possible, mind adding the Asus U3S6 to your test (in a updated article) since that card uses a PCIe x4 interface.
Thank You! :)
The card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a...&cm_... Reply
nerdtalker - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkThat's an interesting card, since it appears from the photo to incorporate the 4x PCIe 1.0 PLX controller, or essentially the same on-motherboard solution ASUS was using.
That seems like a much more interesting card to test. Reply
7Enigma - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkHi Anand,
I have to admit that this particular article was a bit confusing for me. Probably because the test rigs are so similar in name I was going back and forth. My question is how does this article's results correlate to earlier boards (P45 for me in particular)? Am I understanding things correctly to assume that sticking a 6Gbps SATA card would actually be detrimental to performance in my rig if I was to get a new SSD in the coming months?
Thanks for the informative article. Reply
semo - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkHi Anand,
On the 1st page, were you comparing Vertex LE performance on 890GX vs X58 or H55? And also do you have any comments on why it's random read is slower than the random write. AFAIK this is the only SSD with such characteristics.
Thanks Reply
Casper42 - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkI noticed the same. Text says compared to X58 but both charts on page 1 say H55. Reply
Exodite - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkWith the Thuban hexa-cores and 890X/FX boards in the pipeline AMD looks better and better for my next rig. After building a 790FX/PII 965BE rig for a friend, however, I were worried by the obviously poor disk performance even in comparison to my old P35/E6600 setup with an older HDD.
I appreciate being kept up to date with this development as I see disk performance as the only major drawback of the platform at this point. Reply
iwodo - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkHDD performance has never really been the centre of discussion. Since they are always slow anyway. But with SSD, it has finally show SATA controller makes a lot of different.
So what can we expect in future SATA controller? Are there any more performance we can squeeze out. Reply
KaarlisK - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkDo the P55 boards allow plugging in a graphics card in one x16 slot, and an IO card in the other x16 slot?
According to Intel chipset specs, only the server versions of the chipset should allow that. Reply
CharonPDX - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkYou talk about combining four PCIe 1.0 lanes to get "PCIe 2.0-like performance".
PCIe doesn't care what generation it is. It only cares about how much bandwidth.
Four PCIe 1.0 lanes will provide DOUBLE the bandwidth of one PCIe 2.0 lane. (4x250=1000 each way, 1x500=500 each way.)
The fact that ICH10 and the P/H55 PCHs have 6-8 PCIe 1.0 lanes is more than enough to dwarf the measly 2 PCIe 2.0 lanes the AMD chipset has. (6x250=1500 or 8x250=2000 are both greater than 2*500=1000.) Irregardless, all three chipsets only have 2 GB/s between those PCIe ports and the memory controller.
Why Highpoint cheaped out and put a two-port SATA 6Gb/s controller on a one-lane PCIe card is beyond me. Even at PCIe 2.0, that's still woefully inadequate. That REALLY should be on a four-lane card. Nobody but an enthusiast is going to buy it right now, and more and more "mainstream" boards are coming with 4-lane PCIe slots.
By the way, the 4-lane slot on the DX58SO is PCIe 2.0, per http://downloadmirror.intel.com/18128/eng/DX58SO_P...">http://downloadmirror.intel.com/18128/eng/DX58SO_P...
The fact that you have dismal results on a "1.0 slot" has nothing to do with it being 1.0, and everything to do with available bandwidth. If you put the exact same chip on a PCIe 1.0 4-lane card, you would see identical performance (possibly better, if it's more than enough to saturate 500 MB/s) than your one-lane card in a PCIe 2.0 slot. (I would have liked to see performance numbers running that card on the AMD's PCIe 2.0 one-lane slot.) Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkThe problem is that all of the on-board controllers and the cheaper add-in cards are all PCIe 2.0 x1 cards.
Intel's latest DX58SO BIOS lists what mode the PCIe slots are operating in and when I install the HighPoint card in the x4 it lists its operating mode as 2.5GT/s and not 5.0GT/s. The x16 slots are correctly listed as 5.0GT/s.
Take care,
Anand Reply
qwertymac93 - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkwhile the sb850 has 2 pci-e 2.0 lanes, the 890gx northbridge has 16 for graphics cards, and another 6 lanes for anything else(thats 24 in total, btw). the southbridge is connected to the northbridge with something similar to 4 pci-e 2.0 lanes, thus 2GB/s (16 gigaBITS/s). i have no idea why you think the "measly" two lanes coming off the southbridge mean anything about its sata performance, nor do i understand why you think the 6 lanes coming off of intels h55(being fed by a slow dmi link) are somehow better.
P.S. i don't think "irregardless" is a word, its sorta like a self contained double-negative. "ir"= not or without, "regard" care or worth, "less" not or without. "irregardless"= not without care or worth. Reply
CharonPDX - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkBoth the SB850 and the Intel chipsets have 2 GB/s links between the NB and SB (or CPU and SB, in the P/H55.)
And you are correct, I was not referring at all to the SB850's onboard SATA controller; solely to its PCIe slots. Six lanes of PCIe 1.0 has more available bandwidth than two lanes of PCIe 2.0. This comes in to play when using an add-in card.
(Yes, I know "irregardless" isn't a real word, it's just fun to use.) Reply
CharonPDX - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkP.S. Go get a Highpoint RocketRAID 640. It has the exact same SATA 6Gb chip as the card you used, but on a x4 connector (and with four SATA ports instead of two, and with RAID. But if you're only running one drive, it should be identical.) Run it in the PCIe 1.0 x4 slot on the P55 board. Compare that to the x4 slot on the 890GX board. I bet you'll see *ZERO* difference when running just one drive.
In fact, I bet on the 890GX board, you'll see the exact same performance on the RR640 in the x4 slot as on the Rocket 600 in the x1 slot. Reply
oggy - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkI would be fun to see some dual C300 action :) Reply
wiak - Friday, March 26, 2010 - linkyes, on both AMD 6Gbps SB850, Marvell 6Bps on AMD and Intel ;) Reply
Ramon Zarat - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkUnfortunately, testing with 1 drive give us only 1/3 on the picture.
To REALLY saturate the SATA3/PCIe bus, 2 drives in stripped RAID 0 should have been used.
To REALLY saturate everything (SATA3/USB3/PCIe)AT THE SAME TIME, an external SATA3 to USB3 SSD cradle transferring to/from 2 SSD SATA3 drives in stripped RAID 0 should have been used.
The only thing needed to get a complete and definitive picture to settle this question once and for all would have been 2 more SATA3 SSDs and a cradle...
Excellent review, but incomplete in my view. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkIt would be extremely nice to see any RAID tests, as I've been asking Anand for months.
I think he said a full review is coming, of course he could have just been toying with my emotions. Reply
nubie - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkIs there any logical reason you couldn't run a video card with x15 or x14 links and send the other 1 or 2 off to the 6Gbps and USB 3.0 controllers?
As far as I am concerned it should work (and I have a geforce 6200 modified to x1 with a dremel that has been in use for the last couple years).
Maybe the drivers or video bios wouldn't like that kind of lane splitting on some cards.
You can test this yourself quickly by applying some scotch tape over a few of the signal pairs on the end of the video card, you should be able to see if modern cards have any trouble linking at x9-x15 link widths. Reply
nubie - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkNot to mention, where are the x4 6Gbps cards? Reply
wiak - Friday, March 26, 2010 - linkthe marvell chip is a pcie 2.0 x1 chip anyway so its limited to that speed regardless of interface to motherboard
atleast this says so
same goes for USB 3.0 from NEC, its also a PCIe 2.0 x1 chip Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkLike many computer interfaces, PCIe is designed to work in powers of two. You could run x1, x2, x4, x8, or x16, but x3 or x5 aren't allowable configurations. Reply
nubie - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkOK, x12 is accounted for according to this:
[quote]PCI Express supports 1x [2.5Gbps], 2x, 4x, 8x, 12x, 16x, and 32x bus widths[/quote]
I wonder about x14, as it should offer much greater bandwidth than x8.
I suppose I could do some informal testing here and see what really works, or maybe do some internet research first because I don't exactly have a test bench. Reply
mathew7 - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkWhile 12x is good for 1 card, I wonder how feasible would 6x do for 2 gfx cards. Reply
nubie - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkEven AMD agrees to the x12 link width:
Seems like it could be an acceptable compromise on some platforms. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkx12 is the exception to the powers of 2, you're correct. I'm not sure it would really matter much; Anand's results show that even with plenty of extra bandwidth (i.e. in a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot), the SATA 6G connection doesn't always perform the same. It looks like BIOS tuning is at present more important than other aspects, provided of course that you're not an x1 PCIe 1.0. Reply
iwodo - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkWell we are speaking in terms of Gfx, with So GFX card work instead of 16x, work in 12x. Or even 10x. Thereby saving IO space,just wondering what are the status of PCI-E 3.0.... Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - linkIt sounds like AMD made a conscious decision to focus on maximum random write performance, even if it required sacrificing all other key performance metrics. I hope that is the case, because it is pretty sad that their 6 gbps controller is generally outperformed by a 3 gbps controller! Reply
astewart999 - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - linkWhen talking performance, why are they not mentioning RAID 0. I suspect SATA3 is not capable? Reply
astewart999 - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - linkIgnore my ignorance, I read the article then posted. Should have read the posts and ignored the article! Reply
nexox - Monday, April 05, 2010 - linkJust get a SASII (6Gbit) PCI-E HBA (LSI makes one, probably others) - plenty of speed, they generally run on a PCI-E 8x slot, and you can run SATA drives in them just fine. Plus they tend not to cost too much more than the consumer-level SATA adaptors, which are apparently questionable performance-wise. They'd at least make a good baseline for comparison. Reply
supremelaw - Saturday, April 17, 2010 - linkRS2BL040 and RS2BL080 are now at Newegg:
Before buying, confirm whether or not TRIM will work with SSDs in RAID modes.
The unconfirmed bit has been confirmed as unconfirmed from Intel:
"Intel® RST 9.6 supports TRIM in AHCI and pass through modes for RAID. A bug has been submitted to change the string that indicates TRIM is supported on RAID volumes (0,1,5,10). Intel is continuing to investigate the ability of providing TRIM support for all RAID volumes in a future release"
Looks like we'll have to wait a little longer for TRIM through RAID, but there *are* other SSD-specific improvements in this new driver.
MRFS Reply
chrcoluk - Saturday, June 19, 2010 - linkOk my thoughts.
1 - you written of pcie v1 however failed to notice or mention that the plx chip uses pci-e 1x lanes from the p55 chipset so clearly pci-e 1.0 can supply the bandwidth if utilised properly, the plx chip transfers 4 1.0 lanes into 2 virtual 2.0 lanes for the sata6g and usb3.
2 - some p55 boards, mine noticebly have a pci 2.0 slot fed of the p55 chipset @ x4 speed. Seems reviewers have got something wrong or are they claiming asus have it wrong? Even if we assume its actually pci 1.0 x4 that is still enough bandwidth to feed a sata 6g controller. Indeed the onboard plx which you praised sacrifices this x4 pci-e slot and uses those 4 lanes to feed itself. My thoery is the U3S6 card asus sell will perform the same as the onboard plx in a x4 slot but no reviewer has tested this properly.
3 - whats the reason you did not test both gigabytes onboard and the lower asus onboard which borrow bandwidth from the primary pci-e x16 lanes, I am looking for tests of those in both turbo/levelup and normal mode. Reply
gimespace - Tuesday, August 08, 2017 - linkTry enabling DirectGMA with maximum GPU Aperture in Amd catalyst control center. It does not only make the graphics card faster but allowed me to get up to the maximum 560mb/s read speed for my ssd! Reply


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Five million years ago, the arid West Coast of South Africa looked exotically different to the way it looks today. Back then, strange creatures roamed a land that was green and well-watered.
There were four-tusked elephants called gomphotheres and three-toed horses. There were stocky short-necked giraffe called sivatheres. There were sabre-toothed cats and there were great big African bears.
Alongside this startlingly different wildlife, there were an assemblage of smaller beasts very like the frogs, chameleons, lizards, moles, molerats and fish we know today.
The Berg River once flowed here, a mighty watercourse that swept all before it. All the creatures mentioned above become fossilised bones washed up in a jumble along its former banks.
These fossils might not have been discovered were it not for a phosphate mine started here in 1943, but the importance of the bones was not appreciated until much later. The mine was closed in 1993, and this museum opened in 1998.
The West Coast Fossil Park is one of the world's richest fossil deposits from 5 million years ago, the late Miocene and early Pliocene era.
It has attracted scientists from all over the world to study the extinct creatures whose bones lie here.
In total, the remains of 200 animal species have been uncovered. The majority of the fossilised bones come from giraffe-like sivatheres. There must have been vast herds of them roaming around here. Did they suddenly become extinct? Or was it a slow extinction because their necks were too short for them to browse nutritious leaves? Did the climate change?
The West Coast Fossil Park is about 150 km from Cape Town (a two-hour drive or so), not far from the West Coast National Park and the beautiful Langebaan lagoon. It is particularly interesting because the exhibits are not just bones under glass. This is a working museum; you are able to 'take part' in the dig too, and go to the actual place where excavations are taking place. You feel part of the process of discovery.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
West Coast Fossil Park
Tel: +27 (0)22 766 1606
Fax: +27 (0)22 766 1765
Email: email@example.com
How to get here
Head out of Cape Town on the N1 north, and after about 5km, take the R27 and proceed for about 110km. You'll see a large fuel garage and a few kilometres after that, take the road signposted Langebaan Airforce Base. It is about 15km from here. Detailed directions can be found on the West Coast Fossil Park's website. Your drive from Cape Town will take you about two hours.
Best time to visit
The West Coast Fossil Park is open right through the year, closing only for Good Friday, Christmas and New Year's Day. If you'd like your visit to coincide with the glorious spring flowers, best showcased at the nearby West Coast National Park, come here in August, September or October.
Around the area
Other places nearby that are well-worth visiting include the Langebaan lagoon, Elands Bay, Velddrif and Laaiplek along the Berg River mouth.
Tours to do
At the West Coast Fossil Park you can join a tour every hour on the hour most days. Check with them on their schedules and hours, which can change according to season.
Get around
Most people just walk once there, but you could also hire a bicycle for R60 (bring your own and pay only R20) to take one of four mountain biking trails. In addition there is a lovely self-guided walk you can take along the Restoration Trail.
What will it cost
Entry to the West Coast Fossil Park costs approx R10 per person, with an additional payment of R50 for adults if you'd like to go on a guided walk (highly recommended).
Length of stay
You could happily spend a very entertaining half day at the West Coast Fossil Park.
What to pack
Wear comfortable shoes and bring a camera.
Where to stay
There are many guest houses and other accommodation options at the nearby town of Langebaan and even houseboats at the West Coast National Park, less than half an hour away.
What to eat
There is a restaurant at the Fossil Park, called The Sivatherium. It serves light meals and baked goods as well as other refreshments.
What's happening
The West Coast is one of South Africa's most beautiful regions, combining wildflowers with long beaches, surfing waves, fish restaurants, history, lighthouses and turquoise lagoons.


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Jessica Biel is breasty
These are shots of Jessica Biel looking chesty at the 3rd Annual Rome International Film Festival, and it's been so long since she's been on this site, it's practically a crime. In fact, the last time I posted about Jessica, a pterodactyl ate my brother. I honored him by clubbing his wife over the head then eating a rock.
R.I.P., Krog.
(P.S. In the afterlife, you might find out our mom was a woolly mammoth. I probably should've said something.)
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