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BOTH the football and media industries have an equal responsibility to enlighten players and fans about the effects and treatment of depression in the sport, according to former Swindon Town striker Vincent Pericard.
The 31-year-old, whose time at the County Ground was spent in the deepest depths of a very personal struggle with the illness – to the point at which he considered taking his own life – is leading the calls for more to be done to educate everyone involved in the game about the disease.
Pericard's company, Elite Welfare Management (EWM), was conceived from the feeling of hopelessness he experienced as the former Juventus prospect meandered out of football through non-league at the age of 29.
Having learnt to cope with his own demons, the ex-Stoke City and Portsmouth forward has now made it his mission to ensure clubs, supporters, newspapers and broadcasters are fully briefed on how the disease manifests itself and its destructive potential to wreck careers.
"Media have got a very big part to play in creating that environment and I think they have done a lot better lately," says Pericard. "They don't give as much negative feedback on players. They have tried to be more positive which can help the mentality of a player, how they feel and conduct themselves.
"Maybe we should look at everyone who wants to be a sports journalist and maybe they should be educated on elite sport. I was giving a lecture to the London Communications College and telling them just because they are earning £10,000 a week and driving a fast car, footballers might not be happy.
"I told them to look behind it, to look at depression, the financial burden and they realised that it is more than the Saturday game. Turning that mindset can change their writing style. It would be good to educate more sports journalists.
"It's everyone's responsibility. We should be promoting a policy of openness. There shouldn't be a hidden agenda. You can understand that a club might want to be confidential about the state of their players because another club might use it against them as a tactic but I think there has to be a compromise between the players, the clubs and the media industry. I would welcome the media knowing more about the other side of football."
One in five people nationwide suffer from some form of depression every year yet the general understanding of the illness is very poor.
Pericard does not blame society in general for failing to educate itself about the issues but he does insist that every industry, and football in particular with its gross public exposure and weight of fame, needs to be given the chance to learn.
"Today it is understandable that people don't really understand because it's not really talked about because it's an invisible illness," he says. "It's easy to talk about physical illness because people can see it.
"When it's invisible it's hard to talk about it and that's why there's so much naivety around depression, mental health issues and it's sort of dark. Now it's something that has come to the forefront of public interest – we have to understand that a human being is made of physical and a spiritual presence.
"It's very important to pay attention to both the physical and the mind. I can't understand why people haven't spoken about it but I'm sure, in 10 years' time, the mind will be talked about equally.
"You just have to look at the stat that one in four people suffer from depression. Footballers are no different to anyone else in that, we are just normal people."
Clubs, according to Pericard, are starting to wake up to the problem. He has been invited into Manchester United, Manchester City, Stoke City and Reading to talk about his own experiences and give advice to young players, while dialogue has been opened with the PFA and Premier League domestically, as well as the NFL and NBA overseas.
"With EWM, one of our aims is on academic players. When they're 15 or 16 all they want to do is play football and they will give up their education towards achieving that dream. We know not even one per cent will eventually become a professional football player so it's very important to educate them and work with the clubs to provide the structure and strategy for those players to have a chance in a second career path if they do not make it," he says.
"If you give £5,000 a week to any 17-year-old boy it is going to change their life. It changes their relationship they have with their parents because they become the bread-earner and they're only 17.
"That's why I think it is so important to start the education as early as possible and change their mindset on money.
"I would have not made some of the mistakes I made on and off the pitch financially, relationship-wise, professionally – I think I would be playing right now and probably be in the Premiership. I believe and the evidence showed I should.
"At 17 I was playing with Juventus. Not just anyone can do that. The fact at 29 I retired playing non-league football means that something other than my talent stopped me fulfilling my potential.
"EWM is a business but it's not just for money. It's from my own experience, which is to fulfil a greater need to make life for other people better. Through education I can make the general public more compassionate with friends or those in their workplace then I will have done a great thing and this is what I look forward to do – not just footballers or the wider society.
For fans and young, impressionable players, Pericard stressed that football can appear to be a very different beast from what it really is.
"Being a footballer is not about the high salary and fast car," he says. "We have to look at the enormous pressure we have. I was 17 when I left France, I went to Juventus – one of the biggest clubs in the world, I had to play alongside Zinedine Zidane and in front of 80,000 people. One bad game and boom, a lot of bad criticism.
"If you couldn't make it after three years you were out of a job with no education, nothing to fall on. The pressure is immense. We might be given £10,000 a week but we don't know what to do with it so we get involved with the wrong people, being advised by the wrong financial schemes and all that adds up to pressure. We live in a bubble that is so intense that even one little mistake means game over."

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Over the last 24 hours, a flurry of activity has taken place surrounding Greece's €200bn debt restructuring, most of it expected but some of it potentially destabilising. Because the moves involve highly technical – but still significant – judgements by occasionally obscure groups, Brussels Blog thought it was time for another guide to what to watch for in the ensuing days.
The most eye-catching announcement was the one made last night by Standard & Poor's declaring Greece to be in "selective default". Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker, chair of the group of eurozone finance ministers, put out a statement saying the move was "duly anticipated" – and he's right. S&P signalled this way back in June when the first talk of a Greek restructuring began.
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A church. A snowflake. A goldfish. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers ticket office on Tuesday of this week.
Things that are deathly silent?
You'd think so, wouldn't you? But you'd think wrong.
Even as an entire city of sports fans rejoiced on Tuesday at the news the NHL is finally returning to Winnipeg, the Bombers were actually selling season tickets of their own.
Team officials say that between 11 a.m. on Tuesday -- moments before True North Sports & Entertainment chairman Mark Chipman made the poorest-kept secret in hockey official -- and 2 p.m. on Wednesday, the Bombers sold 83 season-ticket packages.
What's more, the club reports they did not receive a single cancellation -- for tickets or corporate sponsorships -- during that period.
"We've had people lining up," Bombers president Jim Bell said Wednesday. "I asked my staff to inform me after the announcement (Tuesday) -- to give me the good, the bad and the ugly. I want to know everything. But it's been good."
Now, selling less than 100 season-ticket packages in a single 24-hour period is nothing like the pace Chipman is going to have to keep if he is going to meet his lofty goal to sell 13,000 NHL season tickets before June 21.
But given everything else that was occurring in this city on Tuesday, the Bombers' front office is drawing some reassurance from the fact they still did some business even in the eye of that NHL hurricane.
"I'm encouraged not just because people are continuing to buy this year," said Bell, "but it also tells me that with the great announcement of (Tuesday), this community is prepared to support all its professional sports teams."
The timing of the NHL announcement, short and long term, poses challenges for the Bombers. Short term, it came one day before the team opened its rookie training camp and in a coming month when the Bombers' ticket campaign could normally expect a sales bump as the team is front and centre in the local media in preparation for the start of the 2011 season.
Longer term, the NHL announcement comes just as the Bombers are preparing to take on unprecedented debt in the move to a new stadium next season.
But Bell says the club has no hesitation in continuing forward on both fronts. On the ticket front, the team went ahead as scheduled yesterday with an announcement that single-game tickets for the 2011 season are now on sale.
And in the bigger picture, Bell did not hesitate when asked if he would still vote to build a new stadium if that decision was being made today.
"Absolutely, without question. One hundred per cent," Bell said, saying the NHL scenario was contemplated when the team drew up its original business plan for the new stadium.
"We had to know it was a could-be proposition. We took it into consideration. We couldn't put numbers on it. But we knew it was upon us and we had to allow for that -- how the corporate sponsor is going to react and how the season-ticket holder will react and how will the walk-up customer react...
"I've been asked if we feel threatened and the answer is no. The economics have changed in this city and it's been well documented... I do believe there's room to accommodate NHL, CFL and independent baseball in the province of Manitoba."
Perhaps the best news for the Bombers is that they were ahead of the game before Chipman ever walked to the podium. With more than 18,000 season tickets now sold for the 2011 season, Bell said the club has exceeded where it was at this time in 2008, when the team had the advantage of heading into a new season off a Grey Cup appearance the previous November.
Bell said corporate sales are currently also ahead of last year's pace.
Here's a look at how season-ticket prices for Winnipeg's NHL team and the Blue Bombers compare for the upcoming seasons:
Club seats
Bombers: $759.95
Next best
Bombers: $597.50
Bottom end
Bombers: $165.30


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He he he he he...what happens on the "Pahnit" tour STAYS on the pashnit tour. Thankfully.Originally Posted by pashnit
What a great tour you all had.
He he he he he...what happens on the "Pahnit" tour STAYS on the pashnit tour. Thankfully.Originally Posted by pashnit
What a great tour you all had.
Looks like a blast as usual!!! I was in Bodie as a kid but have wanted to return after seeing your pix on this site, Tim. These found in this post have me planning a trip there, what GREAT shots!
Next year, I think i have to join you on a tour. I am trying to talk Renee into attending as well, so we can ride sweep together, but heck by next year we could move to the front of the pack....
Thanks Tim, for yet another "pashnit" journey!!
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Boy Tim, you really know how to whet the appetite for a great ride. It is so much fun to view a ride through others eyes and descriptions. You certainly have a wonderful way of shooting and describing these rides.
Ebbets, Sonora, Monitor, Little Dragon and the list is endless........DELICIOUS! Makes me hungry for a ride Tim.
As you stated earlier (Colors are changing) so I know where we will be heading soon.
Thanks for taking the time to make us hungry........Ken
Thanks for sharing Tim, looks like a fun trip. I'm trying to clear my schedule at some point in the future and take a tour with you. Great pictures as usual!
Great trip, Tim & Tim
Anyone: Note that south of Minden/Gardnerville there is a dirt road shooting off 395 called--
Leviathan Mine Road.
Anyone been on it? Does it go there? Does it connect with 89/4 without going over gated property?
Curious Mindlessnesses wanna know
"Not all those who wander are lost."
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Jim - there's a sign pointing north along the summit on Monitor Pass pointing to Leviathan Mine. Can't be missed. However, not sure about your one connecting down the east side of the Sierras to Hwy 395. Also always wanted to run up to the Fire Watch Tower at the top of the mountain that you can see as you ride up the road. I think there someone may have posted pics of it previously.
Only thing I recall with regards to the Leviathan Mine is John (Far_Fast) may have mentioned it before. What I find interesting is you can clearly see it on the satellite 3-D maps, but the resolution of that part of the Sierra Nevada is poor.
Beautiful photos as always Tim. One of these days (soon) I'll be signing up for a ride. Looks like too much fun to pass up.
Looks like an interesting town. I'm sure the locals (all 3 of 'em) have got some great stories too. Would be neat to sit down and share a meal and some conversation. May have to add this to the list of "must do's" for next year. After Alaska, of course :-D
Btw, Vince sent me this cool pic of Yours Truly along Hwy 108 - Sonora Pass. Always in search of that magazine cover shot.
What I look like when I'm in costume.
Thanks Vince.
Awesome ride report and pics as usual Tim. A big smile broke out as I viewed the Sierra pass photos. Looks like you had a fun bunch of riders and primo route. Hope to join you on a Pashnit tour next year.
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.8: 400GBs with NCQby Purav Sanghani on 4/20/2005 4:30 PM EST
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zforgetaboutit - Thursday, May 26, 2005 - linkThe review has a table showing the drives' spec sheets. Among the stats are "average seek times (AST)". But I don't see average seek times benchmarked, as such.
So, on the one hand, the Seagate's spec shows an AST of 8.x seconds, but other reviews have shown it to be 11+ seconds.
I propose that if the review goes as far as to publish the purported AST, then it has an obligation to test it as well, with a discrete benchmark, such as HDTach or some other explicit AST benchmark.
Otherwise companies will start to claim 2 ms AST, and Anandtech won't be able to refute it, if it's a blatantly bogus claim.
OrSin - Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - linkI see you explain how you take your sound measurements, but you really need to do it differently. The raptors are load as hell and seagate are queit and accourding to measure they are equal? Serious I undestand your reasoning for it, but it's just flawed. If a test seems right but produces obviously (and I mean obviously) wrong results then you need a new method.
I had to send a raptor back it was so loud. I had to look at my computer (SFF) evertime i booted up to make sure it was going to rock off the table. Now my computer was a not actually moving but it sounding like it vibrating enough to move. Reply
Zak - Monday, April 25, 2005 - linkYour articles are often difficult to read due to your use of some weird convoluted sentence structure. Why can't you guys use simpler, more accessible language??? Exampple:
"RPM, or revolutions per minute, is the measure of instances that the motor of the hard drive can rotate the platters by a full 360 degrees."
How about:
"RPM, or revolutions per minute, the speed of platter rotation: how many times the platters rotate every minute." or something like that.
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JPSJPS - Monday, April 25, 2005 - linkPurav Sanghani - Poster 32 and especially poster 33 pointed out an obvious mistake that only a complete newbie would make. This makes all of your data questionable!!! Have you considered having someone with a little technical knowledge review your stuff before you publish it? Reply
PuravSanghani - Friday, April 22, 2005 - linkTrogdorJW: The recordings as well as decibel readings were taken 1" away from the side of each drive. Obviously the sound emitted from the drives would not be as loud when inside a sealed case, but to get an accurate reading of the sound emissions from each drive and comparing them to each other requires that we take readings close to each unit.
smn198: You are right, the frequency of the sound produced by each drive does make a world of difference. In the past when looking at case fans, we observed that larger 120mm fans are quieter than smaller 80mm fans because they produce a lower frequency which is less noticeable to humans. This is definitely the case with anything that produces any sound, including hard drives. Reply
ohnnyj - Friday, April 22, 2005 - linkI want to know how you get Photoshop to open in under seven seconds on a Raptor. My RAID0 array opens in about 14-15. It opens faster if you open, close, then reopen again so I wonder if this is how the test was performed. Reply
Phantronius - Friday, April 22, 2005 - linkJust bought 2 160gig Barracuda's to replace my noisey as hell Western Digitals. I freaking love them, soooooo much quieter.
TrogdorJW - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - linkA few things to note on noise (from my perspective):
1) The hard drive noise levels were probably taken very close to the drives in order to capture them. Just FYI. 52 to 54 dBA is rather loud. Purav, what was the distance of your SPL meter from the drives?
2) Seek noise can be very noticeable. My own experience reflects what's in the charts, with the Samsung being the quietest. Seagate and Hitachi are moderately loud, and the Maxtor and Western Digital Raptor are the loudest. (Raptor seek noise sounds louder to me than what's in the recordings.) I don't know about the decibel ratings, but it seems like if you started the charts at 50 that it would reflect more what I hear. (i.e. Samsung would be 1.2 to 2.4 and Hitachi would be 1.6 to 4.4)
3) Bearing noise is generally either near-silent (Samsung, Seagate, and just about any other FDB implementation, including the Raptors) or else it's noticeable. The WDxxxxBB/JB models are notorious for having a lot of bearing noise, as are older Maxtor drives. I've got four WD's at my place, and I hate them all! :-p (They're a bit faster in a lot of tests, but they're too noisy.)
4) Ignoring the echo in the recordings (MP3 compression can cause some funky artifacts), listen to the Maxtor 10 - Ouch! That thing is killer loud. Reply
JonB - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - linkSince my motherboard SATA controllers don't support NCQ, I have three choices. Leave it disabled (which doesn't seem so bad in some respects), get a new motherboard, or add a Promise or Adaptec PCI controller card.
Anybody got experience with an add-in Promise RAID with NCQ support??? Reply
smn198 - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link#28 - "Maybe we're seeing no boost with NCQ because of poor implementation, who knows. Testing with just one platform will not reveal such issues."
I seem to remember Anand saying the opposite
"What's truly impressive, however, is the reduction in average response time - up to a 90ms decrease in response time, thanks to NVIDIA's superior NCQ implementation. "
However, Anand did mention that NVIDIA took the decision not to 'turn on' NCQ until the queue depth had exceeded a certain amount. (Cannot remember which article that was in.) It may be that in some of these tests, this queue depth was not exceeded.
#30 - "How is the 7200.7 120Gb drive louder then a Raptor? My 7200.7 120Gb drive is near SILENT, no where loud as a Raptor. I think your measuring device is off forthe Acoustics test."
This may be due to the fact that the noise the Raptor emits is at a different, more audible frequency.
AtaStrumf - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link#29 - I found a similar test that includes a WD Caviar drive and from what I can tell it is not exactly lagging.
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200504/20050... Reply
Calin - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - linkIn "WinBench99" page, you said "The Disk Transfer Rate test reads from the media in a linear fashion from the beginning (inner tracks) to the end (outer tracks)". It's false, the hard drives have the beginning tracks on the outside (well, exterior) of the platters, and the inner drives in the interior part. The reason is that while stationary, the read heads stay outside of the media, and they will reach the outer tracks sooner. Also, on the outer tracks the data density is increased, so the data read and write speed is increased also. Reply
emboss - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - linkI'd say you need to ditch Winbench 99 for transfer tests. It's physically impossible for drives to have the same transfer rate on the inside and outside of the platters. Not to mention that the ONLY drives that showed this behaviour were NCQ drives. I suspect what is happening is that the NCQ reordering is stuffing things up by reading the data out-of-order, and that the reordering process delivers the data in one (or several) burst blocks that do not correspond to the real transfer rate off the platters. Maybe HDTach might return more sensible numbers. Reply
Lonyo - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - linkAre you going to do some more HDD/NCQ testing when we get more dual core CPU's to test in multi-taking situations?
The recent article on the Pentium D shows the benefits of NCQ combined with a dual core CPU (the single core CPU's didn't really show any improvement), so are you going to go more in depth hopefully soon (after you can publish results of AMD X2 CPU's)?
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?... Reply
jm20 - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - linkHow is the 7200.7 120Gb drive louder then a Raptor? My 7200.7 120Gb drive is near SILENT, no where loud as a Raptor. I think your measuring device is off forthe Acoustics test. Reply
segagenesis - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link#20 - Thats easy. Ignoring the Raptor they are lagging behind on the consumer front compared to others. Last I checked they still charge a fair amount extra for a drive with a FDB motor. The performance just hasnt been up to par either. The days when the "Special Edition" drives were great are gone.
Palek - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkPurav, you did not explain why you chose to test with an nForce chipset over a chipset from intel.
For one thing, nVidia's ATA controllers/drivers have a fairly poor track record. I still remember the multitude of problems that cropped up when people installed nVidia ATA drivers on their nForce2 motherboards. I run my nForce2-based computer with MS ATA drivers because I am too afraid that the nVidia drivers will wreck my system (that, and ExactAudioCopy does not recognize any optical drives with the nVidia drivers installed). Admittedly, these issues were driver-related, but then nVidia's checkered past does not boost my confidence in their ability to provide an nForce4 driver that actually works according to spec. Maybe we're seeing no boost with NCQ because of poor implementation, who knows. Testing with just one platform will not reveal such issues.
Also, among other things intel is known for their rock-solid and impressively fast ATA controllers, so an intel chipset would be the obvious platform of choice for testing such new technologies as NCQ. Reply
erwos - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link"It's mentioned in the article that all of the 7200.8 drives use a 3x133gb platter configuration."
This actually isn't true, from what I've read elsewhere. Read the following at StorageReview:
It makes a lot more sense than the "leftover space" theorem.
-Erwos Reply
quorm - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkxsilver, the drive is not "guaranteed reliable." The only warranty is that if it breaks within five years, they will repair/replace it. There is a possibility that data can be lost from any portion of the drive. You have no way of knowing whether this additional space, if accessible, would be any less reliable than the rest of the drive. Yes, modifying the drive would probably void the warranty, but I'm wondering if Seagate is selling software-limited, yet physically identical drives at different prices, much like with ATI's 9500/9700. Reply
Zar0n - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkWith NCQ on u get worst results than with it off.
This may be good at servers, but no good at desktop.
I'll say its bad implemented but, all drivers seem to suffer.
So no NCQ for me...
PuravSanghani - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkmjz5: With our nForce4 platform there is an option under the drive controllers options tab called "Enable command queuing". By checking this option and restarting the system, command queuing will be enabled. Some boards, however, enable NCQ/TCQ by default through the BIOS. You may want to check with your motherboard manual on that.
Take care,
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mjz5 - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkNighteye2 has a good question. How does NCQ work with RAID arrays? Is it better, worse???
How would I know if TCQ is enabled on my 74 raptor? Reply
xsilver - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - link#21 LOL --- you wouldnt want that space anyways even if it was there.... its cant be guaranteed reliable so would you trust 100gb's of your drive that could die at any moment??? Reply
quorm - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkI have one of the 300gb 7200.8 drives. It's mentioned in the article that all of the 7200.8 drives use a 3x133gb platter configuration. I was wondering if there is any hack to allow access to the remaining 100gb of disk space. Anyone? Reply
AtaStrumf - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkHey, where did all the WD drives (apart from Raptor obviously) go??? I can get a 200 GB PATA model pretty cheap, so I'm seriously considering it. Any advice anyone? Reply
n7 - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkThanx for the review guys :)
flatblastard: I'd agree.
The Raptors may not win all the benches, but i find they feel so much snappier than my other 7200RPM drives.
I certainly wouldn't mind adding a 400 Gb Seagate to my collection though :)
bob661 - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkCan you guys post a UT2004 for load time graph please. Reply
flatblastard - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkI'm using the raptor for my OS, and the 250GB seagate 7200.8 for everything else. I really can't tell which one is faster at loading games...but the raptor is MUCH quicker loading anything else. Reply
Icehawk - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkWhere were the heavier real-world multi-tasking tests like in the Intel DC previews? In those articles it appeared that NCQ offered some performance boost in heavy I/O situations - here it seems to offer zero benefit. Reply
Houdani - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkI dunno. Neither the Seagate nor the Maxtor NCQ drive really impressed me. They didn't stand out from the peleton. For most performance needs, I'd have to give the yellow jersey to the Raptor, although the idle heat is a noteworthy ding.
For extra capacity one of the larger models would be prudent, but for a primary drive the Raptor is fairly impressive. Reply
StormGod - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkHey Anandtech, please make sure your pages are 100% Firefox compatible! While were on the subject, you should really strive to make your pages HTML 4.01 compliant or XHTML 1.0 compliant. Reply
cosmotic - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkI was going to comment on the headings too... Reply
SLIM - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkThe shading and color fill behind the headings and drive names is also missing in firefox. You can highlight the column headings to read what they are supposed to say in firefox. Glad I downloaded that ieview extension now. Reply
bigboxes - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkYup. The column headers for these tables do not show up in Firefox. Reply
shoRunner - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkthe column labels don't show up in firefox. Reply
shoRunner - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkReply
PuravSanghani - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linksegagenesis: It seems to be an issue with our sound meter or noise reduction process. We will look into it for our next review. Besides the echo, the recordings should be clear enough to differentiate how each drive sounds.
Nighteye2: Your requests will be fulfilled soon. :) Reply
Nighteye2 - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkYou know, with all this talk about NCQ, 1 question has not yet been answered: how does it work with RAID? Can you use NCQ on a RAID system?
Also, I'd like to see these tests run on a RAID system, see the performance advantage it gives. Maybe compare 2 cheap, somewhat slower drives in a RAID array against a single HD that you can get for the same price?
segagenesis - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkThe benchmarks are hardly cut and dry yes, but I do enjoy the fact Seagate has a 5 year warranty on drives. This after seeing the industry at one point was putting out 1-year warranty stock on drives and if you paid extra, 3 years.
Raptors are the fastest drives ive ever seen but the lack of space keeps them from being all inclusive. I was kind of suprised that the 7200.8 beat out the Raptor as far as game loading went!
Whats with the weird echo-ish sound recordings of the hard drive noise? What on earth did you use to do this? Reply
FreshPrince - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkman, I need to learn how to use this...anyways...I bought 40 of these drives for my company.
16 goes into one raid and another 16 goes into another raid. So far so good, I hear no complaints from my tech guys.
Also, I took 2 and used it as a DFS file server, it's handling 75 users no problems. :-) Reply
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skunklet - Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - linkpage 5: "...up to 3Gbps/sec"
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Five golfers from Grant County competed in the Northern Kentucky Junior Golf 7-UP tour, which concluded with a two-round championship tournament, July 25-26 at Lassing Pointe and Boone County Links Golf Course.
Zach Wright, who graduated in June and is attending NKU this fall on a golf scholarship, placed third in his age group, shooting a two-day total of 158, five strokes short of winner Chris Desmarias.
Logan Barnett wasn't sure he was going to make the Grant County Braves soccer team when he was 12, but flash forward six years and Barnett has signed an athletic scholarship to play collegiate soccer at Asbury University.
"It feels great. I am excited," he said.
Lady Brave golfer Sarah Kellam chips a shot on hole one during the Grant County Invitational Aug. 2 at Eagle Creek Country Club. The Lady Braves came in fourth place. Kellam placed second overall, shooting a 72. "The course played well," she said. "I was glad to see the girls come together and have a good outing here at home." Next up for the Lady Braves is a meet at Owen County in the Lady Rebel Classic. Tee time is set for 1 p.m
For 42 years, Dave Schmitt has been involved in soccer and after four years as the junior varsity coach, he will be the varsity coach for the 2011 soccer season, taking over for Clay Mattingly who stepped down to spend more time with his family.
"Soccer has been a part of me ever since I could walk," he said. "My parents are from Germany and I have known it since I was a baby. I am looking forward to coaching my son, Forrest. My dad was my first coach and now it is me coaching mine and it is a cool feeling."
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A new chapter in Lady Braves soccer has begun as first-year head coach Sarah Boone takes over a program that appeared in the regional tournament last season.
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For Boone, the opportunity to coach soccer was a big key for her after graduating from Northern Kentucky University in May, with a bachelor's degree in exercise science.
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Grant County High School will have a new press box for the upcoming football season as construction is finished.
The new press box, which dwarfs the original box, will give the sense of convenience for not only the football coordinators and media, but also for the patrons that will come watch not only football, but track as well.
Construction on the press box began in October 2010 and the final touches, like bathroom signs are being placed. The whole project cost $632,000.
Members of the Grant County High School cross country team gathered at the middle school on the morning of July 22 to participate in a game designed by coach Marlon Kinsey.
The object of the game was to run to nine different landmarks in and about the middle school, taking pictures on their cellphones to put into a photo contest near the end of practice.
Categories included: Best overall, dullest, prettiest/ugliest, most original.
Judges included Kinsey, Grant County News sports writer Matt Birkholtz, asisstant coaches and parents.
After 29 years in coaching, T.J. West is taking a new adventure, as he was named the Williamstown High School athletic director for the upcoming 2011-2012 academic year.
Being an athletic director has been on his mind in the past for West, but the timing wasn't the easiest for him.
"I hadn't retired yet and didn't have the time for it, but now I am and I've been wanting something more to do and have the time for it now," West said.
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A power company is investigating after overhead lines were brought to the ground in an incident which affected more than 900 homes in Guiseley.
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The incident happened just weeks after Northern Powergrid warned that lives were being put at risk by thieves targeting overhead power lines across West Yorkshire – including cases in Ilkley and Arthington.
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Q:Eczema (also atopic eczema or atopic dermatitis) is a general term for types of skin inflammation. True or False?
A:True. The word eczema comes from the Greek word for bubbling. It is a weeping, oozing itchy eruption that has many causes, the most common being atopic eczema. Other causes include allergic contact dermatitis, irritant contact dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, stasis dermatitis, pompholyx (dyshidrotic eczema), and xerosis. In addition, there are a number of other diseases that can present with an eczematous appearance, including scabies and fungal infections.
Q:Atopic eczema has no known cause. True or False?
A:False. Atopic eczema is now thought to be related to defective production of skin protein called filaggrin in many cases.
Q:Is atopic eczema contagious?
A:No. Although a predisposition to atopic eczema can be inherited, it is not transmissible from person to person.
Q:What are some triggers for atopic eczema?
A:Sweat, soap and clothing. Environmental factors play an important role in triggering atopic eczema. It is not unusual for patients with atopic eczema to note that sweating during exercise, using harsh detergents, or wearing wool clothing can produce itching and trigger flares of atopic eczema.
Q:What are the first symptoms of atopic eczema?
A:Swelling, oozing, and crusting are all signs of atopic eczema. In a practical sense, swelling, oozing, crusting, and itching probably all occur simultaneously.
Q:Pruritus is the medical term for what?
A:Itching. Pruritus (proo-RYE-tuss) is the medical term for itching. Itching sensations are carried by peripheral sensory nerves called C fibers. They are the same fibers that mediate the pain sensations. Anyone who has itched knows that is almost impossible to ignore the sensation. Scratching the itch probably changes the sensation to something akin to pain, which seems easier to tolerate.
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A:Since the environment plays a very important role in skin hydration, the best answer to this question would be dry sand.
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The union that represents Manitoba corrections officers contends the province would save money by hiring more jail staff.
The Manitoba Government and General Employees Union said Wednesday a failure to beef up staffing levels at the provincial jails amounts to a false economy.
In a pre-budget submission to Finance Minister Stan Struthers, the MGEU urged the province to hire 50 new officers -- as a start. It said, given the current jail population, it would take an additional 250 officers to raise staffing back to 2004-05 levels.
Although it didn't have figures, the union said overtime costs are skyrocketing because of the staffing crunch. Sixteen-hour shifts are not uncommon at facilities such as Headingley Correctional Centre, union officials said.
Crowded jails, understaffing and increased overtime shifts are causing staff to burn out, driving up the numbers of workers taking sick leave or stress leave. But when someone is away sick, a colleague winds up working overtime.
"It's just a big vicious circle," said MGEU president Michelle Gawronsky after a one-hour meeting with Struthers on Wednesday.
Scott Cloney, a Headingley corrections officer and an MGEU vice-president, said any open shift at the jail during the current two-week pay period is an overtime shift.
The facility has some 80 to 90 part-time staff who cover those shifts, which occur, for example, when workers are on vacation or have to escort inmates on medical appointments. But right now, all of the part-timers are working full-time hours, so any new shift that comes open is an overtime one.
"There's been more and more of this happening," Cloney said.
With stress and sick leaves on the rise, the government is often paying three times for one worker, Cloney added. It's paying a full-time shift for the person who is away and paying double time (the overtime rate) for his or her replacement.
Justice officials could not immediately quantify the overtime bill.
Struthers said Wednesday he wouldn't rule out that dozens of new corrections staff may need to be hired.
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The government, struggling with its bottom line, has promised to reduce the size of the province's public service by 600 positions, through attrition, over the next three years. Business leaders have already complained this goal is not ambitious enough.
In its brief Wednesday, the MGEU implored the government to protect public services even if it means a delay in balancing the province's books. It also recommended tax increases for corporations and top income earners (households with before-tax annual incomes of $200,000 or more). It said the government can hold the line on costs by delaying the introduction of new programs.
The latest projection is for the provincial deficit to reach $567 million in the current fiscal year.
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The MGEU released the results of a provincial poll it commissioned on Manitobans' budget priorities. The survey found:
47% of Manitobans ranked protecting public services as their top budget priority, as opposed to stimulating the economy (20% said this was their top priority), balancing the budget (18.6%) or cutting taxes (11%).
49% of Manitobans would prefer a small tax increase to protect public services, while 29% would prefer service cuts in place of a tax hike.
80% would welcome higher taxes on corporations and households with pre-tax annual incomes of $200,000 to support key services.
77% said it was more important to protect services than balancing the budget by a specific date.
Given the choice of paying a bit more in taxes or seeing a service's funding cut, the survey found:
78.7% of Manitobans would pay more for home care for the elderly (12.2% would cut funding).
77.4 % would pay more to help protect children at risk (13.4%).
62.2% would pay more for highway snow-clearing and maintenance (22.6%).
60.6% would pay more for inspecting food in restaurants and processing plants (28.1%).
56.9% would pay more for environmental monitoring of Manitoba lakes and rivers (33.8%).
-- the MGEU commissioned Viewpoints Research to conduct the poll. Viewpoints interviewed 805 Manitobans between Jan. 22 and Jan. 31. Results are considered accurate within 3.2 percentage points 19 times out of 20.


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Topic: Introduction of new members
As I reviewed the posts in this forum I have seen extremely long threads of personal experiences being shared ,which is great your able to vent and share, Howerver I might suggest using the experience forum or the " new on-line chat" Rick work so hard to set up for us. Also a reminder we can email each other directly through the Cholangiocarcinoma .org forwarding . I just feel bad that new members trying to introduce themselves and asking for help are getting what the CBer's say walked on. I hope I haven't offended anyone. If I did , I offended myself cause I'm guilty as well in kepting them threads rolling. God Bless! and please put down the frying pan as I 've had enough pain for a life time. Cherrio !
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Happy Memorial Day! :D
While a hot wind is whipping and temps are soaring well above 90, at least. it's not. raining. Yesss! I was beginning to think we'd never see the sun again!
I got my day started with a bowl of cereal and milk so I wasn't starving by the time we arrived at my parent's house for an afternoon, Memorial Day grill out.
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Total gives you 100% DV of a number of different vitamins & minerals,
and unsweetened vanilla almond breeze is just the cherry on top.
It never ceases to amaze me how ridiculously yummy it is over cereal. It's cray-cray!
Ben and I made the entire 2 minute drive over to my folks' place around 11, and were greeted with Hot Pepper Jelly Dip with chips to chomp on for appetizers.
This recipe is from my Father-in-Law and we all just LOVE it. All you do is mix half a jar of hot pepper jelly (we like Dickinson's) with 4oz each of cream cheese and sour cream.
The result is a creamy, sweet and, actually not spicy at all, dip. It's very addicting but is luckily one of those dips that's just as good with veggies as it is with chips, unlike salsa or something. (Don't you hate it when magazines tell you to dip veggies in salsa to save calories? It tastes like nothing!)
Anyways, we fired up the grill soon after and put Ben, the grill master, to work. Steaks were on tap which as you know are his specialty.
Look at that form and level of concentration! ;)
It was hot, but not too hot to sit outside and enjoy our lunch under the shade of an umbrella – although I think we would've sat outside even if it were 100 degrees. The rain has kept us cooped up for too long!
I piled my plate with Grandpa's Pasta Salad, corn on the cob,
grilled sirloin steak, which my Mom had marinated for 6 hours in oil, vinegar, a diced onion, salt, pepper and garlic powder (holy cow it was tender and GOOD,)
and fresh watermelon slices. Ahhhh slices – my favorite way to enjoy watermelon!
omg which reminds me – when we were in DC last week we pulled up next to a car with a woman in the passenger seat whose entire FACE was buried in a giant wheel of watermelon! It was kiiiind of hysterical!
The meal was light and summery – a perfect kickoff to the season. Finn thought so too!
Ok back to eating. ;)
I was stuffed, but had saved a tiny pocket in my stomach for a hunk of warm brownie served with a spoonful of vanilla ice cream, and drizzled with luscious caramel sauce. Talk about obsessions!! :D
Happy Memorial Day from us to you! :D
We're still feeling the spirit of spending the day outside, so Ben and I are venturing out for a loooong walk. Both of us need the exercise and all this free time comes to a screeching halt when it's back to the grind tomorrow! Have a wonderful rest of your weekend!
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SILENCE fell across Worcestershire as people paid their respects to the country's fallen servicemen and women.
Remembrance Sunday services took place in every corner of the county including Worcester, Malvern, Pershore, Evesham and Droitwich.
In Worcester a huge crowd, all wearing their poppies with pride, gathered outside the cathedral ahead of the wreath-laying ceremony at 10.50am, with the start and end of the two minute silence marked by the playing of the Last Post.
Wreaths were laid on the city's war memorial by dignitaries including Mayor of Worcester Councillor Roger Berry and Worcester MP Robin Walker, as well as members of the armed forces and other organisations.
College Street was closed in both directions as hundreds of people surrounded the war memorial to listen to readings from the Dean of Worcester, the Very Rev Peter Atkinson, and Bishop of Worcester the Rt Rev Dr John Inge.
The Worcester Male Voice Choir led the hymn singing, which was accompanied by the Salvation Army band.
The wreath-laying service followed a public service in the cathedral at 10am, which was attended by veterans, members of the Royal British Legion and member of the public, as well as deputy lord lieutenant Angela Brinton, Coun Berry, Mr Walker and other city dignitaries.
Members of the Boys' Brigade band joined the parade to the cathedral.
Speaking after the service, Mr Walker said: "There was a fantastic turnout this morning, best I have ever seen. I think the beautiful weather probably helped with that.
"Every year there seems to be a bigger crowd for the service. It's always a real privilege to take part in that and today's was very special.
"There was even more people outside the cathedral and the High Street was very densely packed.
"It just goes to show how passionate people are and how much they care about the armed services."
Mr Walker added that the Dean's sermon during the service inside the cathedral dral was "very impressive".
Other groups involved in yesterday's service included serving officers, the Territorial Army, Navy, Army and Air Force Cadets, St John Ambulance, and Scouts and Guides.
After the two-minute silence, the deputy lord lieutenant and the mayor took the salute outside the Guildhall as veterans and uniformed organisations marched past.
Elsewhere in Worcester, a service took place in St John in Bedwardine from 10am, followed by a wreath-laying.
In Claines, a parade of RBL members and the 8th Worcester Scouts and Guides took place from the Church Hall in Cornmeadow Lane to St John the Baptist Church,.
At 11am, a minute's silence took place at the cenotaph, followed by a wreath laying ceremony and then a service inside the church.
In Malvern, a remembrance service took place at the Great Malvern library war memorial at 10.45am and was later followed by a parade and service at Malvern Priory at 3pm.
At 7pm, the Malvern Male Voice Choir performed a concert at the Church of Ascension in Somers Park Avenue.
In Evesham, the parade marched from Market Square along Bridge Street to Abbey Park war memorial, where respects were paid to the fallen during the wreath-laying ceremony before a service at All Saints' Church.
In Pershore, the wreath-laying and remembrance service took place inside the abbey. Before a parade from the leisure centre at 10.15am, pupils from Pershore High School laid wreaths at Abbey Park memorial garden.
In Droitwich, there was a parade from Victoria Square at 10.30am then a wreath-laying and a service at St Andrew's Church.


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Not the first music thread, but I just want to hear peoples favorite songs and artists and live performances.
Go wild! Nobody will judge you for it (even if it's a song by Britney Spears or Coldplay or Creed or whatever)
I'll start with this amazing performance of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails
This song could also fit in the songs about drugs thread
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Did you know?
The southern Free State town of Bethulie has been renamed no fewer than six times.
Our journey along what we'll call the 'upper Gariep route' begins in the southern Free State town of Smithfield, a place of farmers, artists and publicans.
If you're someone who likes to paint or draw a country landscape, set up your easel and capture the pure space of the veld (wild fields) around Smithfield. Here's a mountain outline, there's a windmill silhouette and there's a secretary bird on an early-morning hunt for breakfast.
We return to our B&B and a generous meal to start the day. Then we walk through Smithfield, meet some of its friendly townsfolk, and peek into the various general dealers, art galleries and craft shops along the way, before getting in our vehicle and heading off.
Shortly before lunch, we arrive at the concentration camp memorial outside Bethulie. The graveyard contains the remains of more than 1 700 people who died here during the South African (Anglo-Boer) War at the turn of the 20th century.
These concentration camp sites are a sad part of this country's back-story, but very interesting from a military history point of view.
We forage for some lunch in a Bethulie pub and then wander down the road to the village of Gariep, perched on a hill overlooking the great dam of the same name.
Tonight we stay in a chic establishment called the De Stijl Gariep Hotel, dine on gourmet food and take our nightcaps on the porch overlooking the legendary Gariep Dam.
In the morning, we sip coffee and watch the sun rise over the dam, one of the most romantic settings in the vast Karoo.
We spend the day being 'dude Karoo farmers' on Prior Grange Guest Farm at nearby Springfontein. If you have an interest in ancient rock etchings or the South African War, then stay close to the owner, Blackie de Swardt. He is passionate about those subjects – also about farming and cricket. (By the way, Prior Grange has its own cricket pitch, and if it's your lucky day, you can get to watch some good country cricket.)
After a lovely evening spent in the Prior Grange guest cottages and the pub in the old barn, we have breakfast and head west to Philippolis on a scenic dirt road.
This old town is worth a full day's wander. Because it never underwent an architectural 'remake' like so many other country towns of the 1950s, Philippolis still retains its Victorian-era charm. Many first-time visitors to Philippolis end up buying little weekend cottages here – and many of them come here to live at some stage of their life.
There's a good book shop, an art gallery, a number of guest houses and, on surrounding farms, some great birding to be done.
One of the special features of the Philippolis area is Tiger Canyons, where visitors can arrange to see a tiger-breeding programme. The sight of one of these magnificent beasts striding the flat lands of the Karoo is pure magic...
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Who to contact
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Cell: +27 (0)83 251 3555
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How to get here
Smithfield lies about 120km south of Bloemfontein on the N6.
Best time to visit
Visit the southern Free State in early summer (September to November) or autumn (April to May).
Tours to do
Go on an accompanied tour of Bethulie and the South African War sites in the area.
Get around
Hire a sedan from Bloemfontein and hit the road.
What will it cost
Apart from the more upmarket De Stijl Gariep Hotel, most of the accommodation along this route is typically inexpensive.
Length of stay
Set aside 3 days for this trip.
What to pack
In addition to your informal outdoor clothing, try to bring binoculars and a camera.
Where to stay
Smithfield and Philippolis have a number of good B&Bs, while Gariep has the De Stijl Hotel and the Forever Resorts complex by the waterside.
What to eat
While most of the country establishments along this route have wholesome Karoo dishes, De Stijl Gariep Hotel offers a gourmet experience.
What's happening
Festivals are popular along this route, from the Bibber Chill Festival in Smithfield to the Quenna Festival at Gariep Dam.


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FUCKING IDORU WON'T LET ME CONNECT TO IRC! Assistance, please? --Lord Fluffy who rains fire from the heavens 13:20, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- My answer is twfold.
- Get a proper IRC client damnit! If you're too lazy to do that, go to [1] and try to connect using that.
- Failing that, try and sign on using a completely different name.
- CGI is prone to total existence failure, so this isn't too uncommon. But good luck.-Sir Ljlego, GUN VFH FIYC WotM SG WHotM PWotM AotM EGAEDM ANotM + (Talk) 13:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
It's not that I'm too lazy, it's that I actually am not supposed to be on IRC (paranoid mother), and installing such software would be completely obvious. But thanks. I'll try that link. --Lord Fluffy who rains fire from the heavens 13:29, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- She knows what you're doing. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 13:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- I knew it! You're trying to go to those damned chatrooms! You are so grounded! Lord Fluffy's mom 22:58, 16 September 2007 (UTC)