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Lift for Life, 4 p.m., Community HealthLink. For information call, 439-8187.
Guernsey County commissioners, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., commissioners office, Cambridge.
Cumberland Village Council, 7 p.m., Cumberland Village Hall.
Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., Salvation Army, 221 Dewey Ave., Cambridge. Call 432-3338.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., information center, Cambridge Developmental Center, 66737 Old 21, Cambridge.
TOPS Club 1533, 6 p.m., First United Methodist Church 641 Steubenville Ave., Cambridge.
Kundalini Yoga, 7 p.m., Christs Lutheran Church, Cambridge. For information 435-3335.Line dancing, 6-7 p.m., Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, Carlisle Avenue, Cambridge. Cost of class is $3 per person. For information call 439-6681.
Cambridge Young Life Campaigners, 7 p.m., S.A.L.T. Factory.
Cycle Reebok, 5:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Cambridge YMCA. Cost is $1 for members; $5 for non-members. Class size is limited to five. To register, call 432-6318.
Cardio Endurance, 5 to 6 p.m., Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center. Instructor is Carol Geib. For information call 439-8187.
Westland Township trustees, 7 p.m., Westland Township Community Building, Claysville.
Friends of the Community, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Guernsey Center, Guernsey.
Guernsey Lodge 632 F&AM, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Lodge, Wheeling Avenue, Cambridge. Above Dollar General.
Robert T. Secrest Memorial VFW 2901, 7:30 p.m., post home, Wheeling Avenue, Cambridge.
Guernsey County Landlords Association, 7 p.m., Theo's Restaurant, downstairs meeting room, Cambridge. For information call Lora Meredith, 489-9127.
Cambridge Lioness Club, 7:30 p.m., Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, Cambridge.
Meadowbrook High School band boosters, 7 p.m., MHS band room, Byesville.
East Guernsey Local School District board of education, 7 p.m., location varies.
Cambridge Pilot Club, 6 p.m., Southeastern Med, Cambridge.
Old Washington Village Council, 7 p.m., Old Washington Village Hall.
Free blood pressure screenings, 1-3 p.m., Guernsey Center, Guernsey.
B&B Investment Club, 7 p.m., Colonel Taylor Inn, 633 Upland Road, Cambridge. For information call Jim Irvin, 439-0552.
Noble County commissioners, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Noble County Courthouse, Caldwell.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., Noble County Sheriffs office, 420 Olive Street, Caldwell.
Cub Scout Pack 514, 6:30 p.m., Bates Hill Church of Christ, Sarahsville.
Wayne Township trustees, 7 p.m., Township Hall, Kennonsburg. For information contact Stacy Moore, (740) 695-2291.
Noble County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 6 p.m., board office conference room, Route 78, Caldwell.
Dexter City Village Council, 7 p.m., town hall, Dexter City.
Noble County Tourism Association (committee), 4 p.m., Tourism Information Building, entrance of Noble County Fairgrounds. For information, call Dave Cater or Joy Flood, (740) 732-5288.
Barnesville Village Council, 7 p.m., municipal building, Barnesville.
Port Washington Boy Scouts, 7 p.m., St. Paul's United Church of Christ.
Newcomerstown Rotary Club, 6 p.m., April's Country Kitchen.
TOPS chapter, 6:30 p.m., Church of the Nazarene, Newcomerstown.
Oriental Chapter Order of the Eastern Star, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Temple, Newcomerstown.
Newcomerstown council, 7 p.m., municipal building.
Newcomerstown Atheletic Boosters, 7 p.m., Newcomerstown High School.
American Legion, 7 p.m., legion hall, Newcomerstown.
Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department, 7:30 p.m., Tippecanoe fire department.
Freeport Township trustees, 7:30 p.m., township hall.
Moorefield Township Volunteer Fire Department, 7:30 p.m., Piedmont firehouse.
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4-H Council, 7:30 p.m., OSU Extension Office.
Byesville Rotary, 7:30 a.m., Black Family Center, Byesville.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., St. Johns Episcopal Church, 1025 Steubenville Ave., Cambridge.
Narcotics Anonymous, Therapeutic Value group, 12/12, 6:45 p.m., Addison Room at Southeastern Med.
Trail Young Life Campaigners, 4:30 p.m., at 135 Old National Road, Old Washington.
Seniors in Motion, 9-10 a.m. and 10-11 a.m., Cambridge HealthLink.
Cambridge Kiwanis Club, noon, Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, Cambridge.
Eagles, 7:30 p.m., Eagles Lodge, Cambridge.
Duplicate Bridge, 7 p.m., Elks Club, Cambridge. Call Buzz Ferguson, 439-3794, for information.
S.A.L.T. Factory, open recreation, 6 to 9 p.m.; boxing conditioning, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Seniors in Motion, 8:45-9:45 a.m., Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, Carlisle Avenue, Cambridge. Cost of class is $6 monthly with the fee due at beginning of each month. Instructor Lori Colby. Class includes a warm-up, aerobics, weight training, and cool-down. For information or to register, call the Southeastern Med VIP office, 439-8187.
Body Blitzin, 9 to 10 a.m., Cambridge YMCA. Low impact aerobics using weighted body bars. Free to members; $3 for non-members.
Step Aerobics, 5 to 6 p.m., Cambridge YMCA. Free to members; $3 for non-members.
Cycle Reebok, 5:30 and 8 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Cambridge YMCA. Cost is $1 for members; $5 for non-members. Class size is limited to five. To register, call 432-6318.
Begin to Spin, 5:30 to 6 p.m., Cambridge YMCA. Cost is $1 for members; $5 for non-members. Class size is limited to five. To register, call 432-6318.
Ballroom dancing (USABDA), 7-7:45 p.m., beginner; 8-9 p.m., intermediate; 9 to 11 p.m., open dancing and practice time, Elks Lodge, Cambridge, upstairs ballroom. Cost is $5 for members; $7 for non-members; and $3 for students. Dancers may attend all three sessions for the one price. Dress is casual. For information, call 685-1068 or 432-4130.
Y-Super Seniors, 10:15-11 a.m., Cambridge YMCA. Low impact aerobics with weight training designed for older adults. Free to members; $3 for non-members.
Square dance, 7-10 p.m., Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, Carlisle Avenue, Cambridge. For information call 439-6681.
Jackson Township trustees, 6 p.m., Jackson Township Hall, Byesville.
Guernsey County Republicans, 7 p.m., headquarters on Wheeling Avenue.
Rolling Hills Local School District board of education, 7 p.m., Administrative Center, 60851 Southgate Road, Byesville.
Guernsey County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Ethnic Council meeting, 6:25 p.m., followed by regular board meeting, Guernsey Industries, Cambridge.
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 84, 7 p.m., post home, Beatty Avenue, Cambridge.
Hopewell Homemakers, 11 a.m., Indian Camp Grange Hall. Bring a covered-dish.
Noble County Chapter of Right to Life, 7 p.m., First Baptist Church, 518 North St., Caldwell.
Soakum Festival committee, 7 p.m., Caldwell Public Library.
Brookfield Township trustees, 8 p.m., Brookfield Township Hall, Hiramsburg.
Fibromyalagia Movement class, noon to 1 p.m., Tout Partout Gallery, 1427 Maple Ave., Zanesville. For information call (740) 450-0306.
Bible Study based on lectionary texts, noon to about 1 p.m., porch of Muskingum College Presidents Manse, New Concord. Bring a bag lunch.
Norwich Village Council, 7:30 p.m., Neighborhood Center, Norwich. For information call Mary Lee, (740) 872-3904.
Internet orientations, 6, 6:30, 7 and 7:30 p.m., John McIntire Library, Zanesville. Call 453-0391 for information.
Barnesville Garden Club, 7:30 p.m., members homes.
Ohio Pumpkin Festival Committee, 7 p.m., Barnesville Senior Center.
Belmont Farm Bureau womens committee, 1 p.m., farm bureau office, Belmont.
Pre-school storytime, 11:30 a.m. to noon, West Lafayette Library.
Bingo, 7 p.m., David Barber Civic Center, Newcomerstown.
Port Washington council, 7 p.m., town hall.
Lone Star Lodge 175 F&AM, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Temple, Newcomerstown.
Pre-school story hour, 1 p.m., Newcomerstown Public Library.
Business Women's Club, Newcomerstown.


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Global Studies
Eric Morgan
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Selected publications:
- "Black and White at Center Court: Arthur Ashe and the Confrontation of Apartheid in South Africa," Diplomatic History (forthcoming).
- "Dias, Bartolomeu," "Tolkien, J.R.R.," and "Van Riebeeck, Jan" in Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel Akyeampong, eds., Dictionary of African Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- "Researching in the Beloved Country: Archives and Adventure in South Africa," Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 38, no. 3 (December 2007): 44-47.
- "The World is Watching: Polaroid and South Africa," Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History 7, no. 3 (September 2006): 520-549.
- "Our Own Interests: Nixon, South Africa, and Dissent at Home and Abroad," Diplomacy & Statecraft 17, no. 3 (September 2006): 475-495.
Education: B.A., Ohio University; M.A., Miami University; Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
- Foundations for Social Research
- Foreign and Defense Policies
- Comparative Politics
- Global Politics and Society

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GLOUCESTERSHIRE are anticipating record gate receipts for a second successive year at the 2014 Brewin Dolphin Cheltenham Cricket Festival, which started on Monday.
Advance ticket sales were up on the same stage before last summer's Festival and it seems the annual gathering at the picturesque College Ground is more popular than ever.
The star attraction on Friday is Kevin Pietersen, who was controversially axed by England in the aftermath of last winter's 5-0 Ashes defeat in Australia, with a capacity crowd expected for the visit of a Surrey side that is also set to include Sri Lanka all-rounder Tillakaratne Dilshan in the NatWest T20 Blast (2.30pm).
A defeat for Gloucestershire in that game would end their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals.
Gloucestershire chief executive Will Brown said: "It never ceases to amaze me how far people are prepared to travel to get to Cheltenham.
"We are delighted with the response to this year's Festival and all the signs are that it will be even more successful than last year."
Supporters will be able to meet a true Gloucestershire legend during the NatWest T20 Blast game against Surrey. Mike Procter will be making an appearance at a stall set up by Sporting Memories Network as part of their work to support people with dementia.
Essex are the visitors in the same competition on Sunday (2.30pm) and Gloucestershire face northern neighbours Worcestershire in a County Championship match starting the following day, while they will also play their opening game in the new Royal London 50-over Cup when Northamptonshire provide the opposition on Sunday, July 27.
Craig Miles (back), James Fuller (foot) and Matt Taylor (shin splints) will not be making an appearance at the Festival as they need longer to recover from their injuries but wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick is nearing a first team return after breaking his finger.


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Good morning!!! I get to be on Studio Five today to share this cute gumdrop treat, so if you are in Utah, be sure to tune into channel five at eleven o'clock!! If you are not in Utah, I will post the segment for you as soon as I can. 🙂
If you are like me, good girlfriends are the GLUE that holds your life together. Sometimes a little GNO is all I need to feel rejuvenated in life. So, my inspiration for my gumdrop project comes from all those amazing people in my life that I need to thank sometimes. A little treat is a great way to tell them that you are thinking about them. "Dropping" off a treat {a spin off of the gum DROP} is the perfect way to tell them that you are grateful that they are in your life.
These fun little shoe treats full of gumdrops telling your favorite girlfriends they are your "sole" mates is a fun way to express your appreciation! {Thank you to Jami Winget for sharing her cute pattern with me!} I actually drew up the pattern onto my Silhouette so that I wouldn't have to cut all the shoes out by hand. {I'm lazy that way…why not let the machine do the cutting!} If you are the lucky owner of a Silhouette, you can download my file for FREE by going HERE.
If you don't have a Silhouette, here is the pattern for you to cut it out by hand!
To download the paper shoe template go HERE. To download that heel and flower template go HERE.
Cut along the solid lines. After you have your shoe cut out, make sure you fold along the dotted lines and start assembling your shoes with glue. Use a lot of glue.
After you have your shoes glued, make sure you let it dry completely, and add the cute heel accessories to the back and flowers to the front.
Next, get a small pile of yummy gumdrops and wrap them in tulle. Tie a ribbon around the top to keep the little pouch of treats together and stick them snuggly into the shoe.Aren't these cute little shoes just adorable!?!?Next, all you need to do is add the cute tags to the side….. …and tie them on using twine. You can make them in a jiffy! AND, you an make all sorts of varieties and colors! Next time you need a fun idea for a girlfriend gift, you should make her a fun little gumdrop treat!! What a fun party idea to make for your next party too!


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Kathleen Richardson still wears a white smock with the initials USSC sewn onto the front as she conducts a tour of an internationally recognized facility that prepares many of Winnipeg's hospital and care-home meals.
The smock is like a badge of honour to Richardson, who survived the tumultuous early days of the great provincial government experiment to centralize hospital food services in the city.
In the late 1990s the now-defunct USSC (or Urban Shared Services Corp.) became a political football. The Conservatives under Gary Filmon had championed a central food service to save money. Centralization occurred quickly and there were huge growing pains, with some patients terming the food inedible.
The NDP, concerned about union job losses in hospital kitchens, seized upon the early problems. "Frozen food has been a disaster," then-opposition leader Gary Doer pronounced a month before his party swept to power in September 1999.
The NDP vowed to halt the expansion of centralized food service in personal care homes. The city's two largest hospitals, St. Boniface and Health Sciences Centre, had been slated to receive food from the central kitchen by 2000. They never did.
Today, those hospitals are paying significantly more for their meals than the community hospitals that are on board. According to figures obtained by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Health Sciences Centre spends 18 per cent more on food ($3.56 per patient per day more for meals and snacks) while St. B spends nearly 30 per cent more ($5.84 per patient per day more).
Given the number of patients each of the two major hospitals feeds, it is costing Health Sciences Centre an extra $2,136 per day and St. Boniface an additional $2,482 per day to nourish their patients compared to what it would cost if they were supplied by the central kitchen. Over a full year, the combined additional costs for both hospitals is a whopping $1.7 million.
The kitchens at both large hospitals are old. St. Boniface's kitchen was built in 1955 while HSC's dates back to the mid-1960s. Yet, officials say there are no plans in the works to replace them or contract meals out to the central kitchen.
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The facility that assembles and distributes more than 8,000 meals each day for Winnipeg hospitals and nursing homes is nestled in a nondescript building in the St. Boniface Industrial Park. It's believed to be the largest facility of its kind in the country.
Once operated by a private company under contract with USSC, the plant houses the nutrition and food services arm of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. It is now simply called the Regional Distribution Facility or RDF.
Unlike in the late 1990s, when the province closed several hospital kitchens in favour of a central facility, hospital food is no longer commanding huge headlines in Winnipeg newspapers. And, as the saying goes, no news is good news.
Richardson, the WRHA's chief nutrition and food services officer, recently took a Free Press reporter, photographer and videographer on an extensive tour of the facility. It began with the room that spews out "tray tickets," which dictate the contents of each patient's hospital meal tray.
As new patients or residents are admitted to client hospitals and care homes, their dietary needs and preferences are recorded and entered into a computerized system.
There are a multitude of factors that are considered. Is the patient or resident on solid food or must the food be minced or even pureed? Is the client lactose intolerant or on a low-sodium or gluten-free diet? Do they prefer tea over coffee with their meals? Would they like carrots instead of broccoli?
All these dietary imperatives and preferences are recorded by an aide at the hospital. The information arrives just prior to the printing of tray tickets outlining precisely what each patient will have for their next meal.
"We have 97 different diets and you can have any combination thereof," says Richardson. Included among the choices are various ethnic and religious food preferences, including bannock, caribou, arctic char and selections of kosher, East Indian and vegetarian dishes.
"We have to have for any possible combination enough foods and enough variety, in the right textures, for that complicated diet that fits Canada's Food Guide," she says.
Much of the food that is eventually served to patients arrives frozen at the central kitchen, some of it having been specially prepared for the Winnipeg facility. This includes some of the entrees that are served, vegetables and prepackaged foods for special diets, such as pureed whole wheat bread.
A succession of storage rooms at varying temperatures allows the food gradually -- and safely -- to thaw just in time for use. Richardson grabs an 8.5 by 11-inch pouch of frozen chicken noodle soup from a large stack to show visitors. "It's a really nice product. It's all gluten free, little baby noodles in there," she says.
Salads, salad plates and sandwiches are prepared on site. Up to 2,000 sandwiches -- 18 different kinds -- are made daily. A Selkirk Avenue bakery, Donut House, supplies the fresh bread, scones, bagels and muffins.
Local suppliers are used when possible, Richardson said. Naleway Foods, for instance, makes the perogies and cabbage rolls that are served. Smith's Quality Meats makes all the roast beef (sliced at the RDF for sandwiches and entrees), pork and corned beef used. A little over half of the food the central kitchen serves originates in Manitoba. All is sourced from local distributors.
Because folks in hospitals and personal care homes are usually weak and have little appetite, small, nutritionally dense portions are favoured. For example, the RDF serves a high-protein oatmeal that is made with milk, and it fortifies fruit juice with a powder that adds seven grams of protein and 100 calories to a half-cup serving. There are also no fillers in the meat it serves, Richardson says.
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One of the busiest areas in the RDF is the room where the meals are assembled on trays. Here, staff at eight work stations on each of two circular assembly lines stock trays in a 10C room at a rate of about eight per minute.
Each worker is surrounded by stacks of food, with responsibility for adding an entree, a beverage or a dessert. Accuracy is essential, especially for patients with special diets or food allergies. A checker examines all the trays before they're loaded onto trucks. In the case of special dietary concerns, trays are double-checked and signed off by a supervisor.
"We deliver lunch and supper and then we plate breakfast the night before and deliver breakfast on the day that it is being served starting at about 4:30 in the morning," Richardson said, noting that a number of the 215 workers in the facility were once employed in city hospital kitchens that were closed in the 1990s. In case of a blizzard, breakfast is occasionally trucked to the institutions the night before to reduce the risk of delivery problems. Each delivery site stocks two days worth of meals as a contingency measure. That food is continually rotated.
At each client hospital and long-term care home, trays are placed in rethermalization units that keep the food refrigerated until shortly before use. Dividers separate tray items that are served cold from those served warm. The food is heated just before the trays are served to patients.
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The central kitchen faced a blizzard of bad reviews when it was in its infancy. The Free Press reported 700-plus complaints in November of 1998 and 71 in March 1999. But since then food satisfaction rates have improved greatly.
Part of the problem in the early days, Richardson says, was that centralization occurred too quickly, before the bugs in the system were worked out. "It was several years (till about 2000-2001) until we weren't in crisis type mode," she says now.
The central kitchen also learned some lessons through trial and error. For instance, some foods, such as toast, don't lend themselves to being prepared in advance. The facility serves muffins, scones and bagels instead and leaves it to the individual institutions to prepare toast for those who request it.
Because the Winnipeg plant was one of the first large central hospital kitchens of its kind anywhere, it has received visits from curious hospital and government officials from across Canada and the United States and as far away as Europe and India. The Niagara health region is in the process of converting to a centralized service, and officials from Calgary, New Brunswick and Newfoundland have recently consulted with Richardson and her group. Other jurisdictions, such as Saskatoon, have centralized meal provision in a hospital instead of constructing a separate facility.
Today, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's central kitchen claims a client satisfaction rate of 86.3 per cent based on its last annual satisfaction study. Richardson said that's high for the food service industry. It's also a higher rating than for the two big hospitals the NDP government blocked from receiving meals from the RDF. According to the WRHA, the satisfaction rate for Health Sciences Centre food is 78 per cent; for St. Boniface, it's 73 per cent. (As part of her mandate, Richardson manages the kitchen at HSC, but the RDF does not provide it with meals.)
As part of its quality assurance program, the central kitchen provides comment forms for patients, residents and institution staff to fill out if they have issues with its food. "They're not all negative," Richardson says of the responses. "But every single one of those comes across my desk so I still have a pulse of what's going on."
In late 1998, a senior in one of the hospitals served by the central kitchen complained: "You could play football with the scrambled eggs. They're just big hard lumps."
Asked, if her kitchen's scrambled eggs get such reviews today, Richardson says: "No, I don't get any comments on scrambled eggs, which usually means they're OK."
Then she added: "In fairness, a lot of the products have come a long way."
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For years, Richardson brought up the idea with successive NDP health ministers of expanding the RDF's reach to include Health Sciences Centre and St. Boniface General Hospital -- without success. "We've just never been given the go-ahead," she says. She has not raised the issue with the current health minister, Theresa Oswald, who has held the portfolio since 2006.
Providing meals to the province's two biggest hospitals would require the RDF to boost its output by 38 per cent. The central kitchen could not accommodate the two giants overnight. It would require considerable planning and investment.
Richardson said she would consider building a second, smaller production facility to accommodate St. B and HSC if she ever got the green light. An advantage of a second facility would be the flexibility that would come in the case of an unforeseen disaster at either plant.
However, Oswald and hospital officials appear content with the status quo despite the significantly higher kitchen costs at Health Sciences Centre and St. Boniface hospital.
Senior administrators with the two hospitals declined, through an intermediary, to be interviewed about the state of their aging kitchens and their patient-food plans.
WRHA spokeswoman Heidi Graham acknowledged in an e-mail that the hospitals' kitchens "will be in need of upgrading sometime in the future." She said only "very preliminary work" has been done to identify "potential options to upgrade the kitchens," but no recent comprehensive study has been undertaken.
In an interview, Oswald acknowledged that food costs were higher at the two hospitals. However, she noted that there would be significant upfront costs in expanding the RDF to accommodate the big institutions.
"We're not going to dismiss it as an idea out of hand," the minister said. "(But) it's not... something that we're contemplating in the immediate future."
Oswald admitted that she has not considered expanding the role of the Regional Distribution Facility as part of her department's efforts to trim costs. In fact, she pointed out that all new personal care homes these days are being constructed with their own kitchens.
"We're glad that the centralized food system is publicly owned and managed, and that's not apt to change anytime soon," the minister said. "But I will be forthright in telling you that I still need to see some work being done to convince me that the RDF is the only way to go."
The WRHA's central kitchen
-- Operates 18 hours per day seven days a week.
-- Prepares and delivers more than 8,000 meals each day.
-- Provides meals to Seven Oaks, Concordia, Victoria and Grace hospitals, Deer Lodge Centre, Misericordia Health Centre, Riverview Health Centre, Calvary Place, Concordia Place, Meals on Wheels and Winnipeg Regional Health Authority crisis centres.
-- Employs 215 full-time, part-time and casual staff at a 50,000-square-foot facility in the St. Boniface Industrial Park.
Daily meal-cost comparisons*
Central kitchen: $19.54 per day (includes delivery costs)
Health Sciences Centre: $23.10 per day
St. Boniface General Hospital: $25.58 per day
*Includes three meals, snacks, supplies and salaries.
Source: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
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Adnan Oktar: Turkey's duty is to be the leader of the Turkish-Islamic world. This great duty is incumbent upon the Turkish nation.The leadership of the Turkish-Islamic world is one of the greatest tasks in the world history. THIS IS ONE OF THE TURKISH NATION'S VITAL DUTIES. The Turkish nation has a duty to save, not just Turkey, but the whole Turkish-Islamic world. The Turkish nation really is unlike other nations; this is not racism. It is very loyal. Turks are very good-natured. And humane and very compassionate. They are terribly altruistic. Just go to a village. The best room in the house is given over to guests. The owner of the house serves the best food to the guest; he allocates the finest beds and serve beverages in their best glasses. What does this mean? It means our nation is not selfish; it is full of love, an altruistic and joyful nation. It is ready to die for Allah, a most fervent nation.
Abu Dhabi TV, 19 February 2009
Adnan Oktar: Syria wants to unite with Turkey, and so does Iraq. And if Syria and Iraq want it, so will everyone else.Azerbaijan wants it, and Armenia wants to unite with Turkey. Georgia wants it, so what else needs to be done? It is a union that will also include Lithuania. It will be a union that includes Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and East Turkestan and all of them. It will reach as far as Libya. A Turkish-Islamic Union will emerge that stretches as far as the coast and interior of Africa. Turkey has prior experience, experience from the Ottoman Empire. And this time round, the errors of the Ottomans will not be repeated. The perfect aspects of the Ottomans will be adopted, but not their errors or deficient aspects, and a perfect union will result.
Hurriyet, 22 August 2011
Turkey's Leadership is stressed
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visited Somalia. The crisis in Somalia led the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and many other international institutions to stress the concept of Turkey's leadership. African countries have supported Turkey, who requested a temporary chair in the UN Security Council. Turkish investments in Africa, a continent of rich resources, are increasing. Ethiopia is an example for that. In this respect, Turkey fulfills her moral duty and strengthens her image of leadership in Africa.
NewYork Times, 20 September 2011
The Arab Spring tour made this month by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey demonstrated the Country's increasingly confident leadership.
The Muslim world needs democratic role models. On his visits to Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, the Turkish leader, who leads the Islam-rooted Justice and Development Party, made a strong and very welcome case that Islam and democracy are compatible. "Turkey is 99 percent Muslim, yet it is a democratic secular state where all religions are equal," he said in Tunisia where voters next month will elect their first constituent assembly.


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Auburn, Ala. - Hickory Dickory Park will reopen to the public on Wednesday, Feb. 6. The park has been closed due to blasting associated with the construction of a new sewer line off Shug Jordan Parkway. Auburn Parks and Recreation appreciates the patience of its patrons during construction and invites its youngest patrons to come enjoy Hickory Dickory Park again daily from sunrise to sunset.
Hickory Dickory Park is Auburn's largest playground. Built as a community project, the playground has been one of Auburn's favorite play destinations for over 15 years. A number of Auburn parks feature playgrounds in addition to Hickory Dickory Park, including Felton Little Park, Town Creek Park, Sam Harris Park, Martin Luther King Park, and Duck Samford Park.
For more information, visit www.auburnalabama.org/parks or contact Auburn Parks and Recreation at 501-2930.


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This article was published 16/9/2013 (1437 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
One of the cardinal rules of professional athletics is to be complimentary and respectful of your opponent.
You never want to provide "bulletin board" material, and you never want to give your opponent additional motivation to beat you. In fact, the smart and experienced players are often so gracious and effusive with praise, they lull their opponent to sleep by injecting them with over confidence.
A problem is identified, however, when your players are the only ones taking their hats off to the opposition after a game, and no one is complimenting you about what you brought to the table.
To be sure, opponents of the 2-9 football Bombers have paid homage and respect to the defense, and more specifically the defensive line before most every game this year. But only one time in eleven contests have I read of an opposing player or coach remarking about a brilliant strategy enacted, or how they were caught off guard by an exploitative game plan put forward by the Blue and Gold.
Instead, week after week, loss after loss, it's been the players on your home team paying tribute to their opponent's game plan, and remarking, on a regular basis, "about how they had the perfect call for what we were doing."
This week's admission came from none other than Henoc Muamba who, when interviewed by Winnipeg reporters after the game, gave credit where credit was due, to the offensive co-ordinator of a formerly one-win football team: "That's how you beat an aggressive front four and front seven. Credit to their offensive co-ordinator. They came out with a good game plan, and they caught us in things they were expecting us to be in and they took advantage of it."
Only one time this year have I heard a Winnipeg Blue Bomber opponent concede a strategic victory to the Blue and Gold after the game had expired. It also happened to come after one of the only two games they have won this year.
At the conclusion of the Banjo Bowl, there were no shortage of Rider players available to comment about how the Bombers had surprised them with their game plan, and how the team had done things they weren't expecting.
There were large numbers of us in the public who were bewildered and impressed by how the offense had reformatted for the second half. After putting together two quarters of record-breaking ineptitude, not only did the team stick with the same QB, but they adjusted to his strengths and implemented a degree of change that was just as critical in the outcome of the game as a defense that, uncharacteristically, decided to blitz until the combines came home.
Yet this was the only game out of all eleven so far this year, that I've heard anybody tip their cap to the ingenuity of this football team.
While the talent on the roster certainly leaves something to be desired, and a large percentage of the offensive personnel need to be upgraded, I would dare suggest that sometimes it seems as though the leaders of these men would have a hard time identifying the vulnerability of an opposing quarterback with a broken throwing arm.
At least after this latest loss to the Edmonton Eskimos, head coach Tim Burke admitted culpability for the chalk board mismatch and conceded as much when he told the Free Press that, " we were expecting... they had tendencies in certain areas so we had calls to be very aggressive against those tendencies and it turned out they changed those tendencies."
Look back to Henoc's comment now, about how, "...they caught us in things they were expecting us to be in and they took advantage of it." Could this game planning gumbo really be as simple as the Eskimos studying their own film and changing their tendencies, while the Blue and Gold continue to serve up entrees of yesterday's blue plate special? It almost seems too simple to be true.
A short time ago Tim Burke remarked that he is doing the best job he can with what he has to work with. The talent on this football team may not be up to par with the best in the CFL right now, especially offensively, but a number of its coaching staff can look in the same mirror when it comes time to search for answers.
Doug Brown, once a hard-hitting defensive lineman and frequently a hard-hitting columnist, appears Tuesdays and the days following game days in the Free Press.
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As I continue to catch up on some of my more exciting cooks from while I've been gone I offer the million dollar cheese steak. these were made at a charity fundraiser that I cook at every year. It was a brainchild of mine and all cooked on site off The Big Heavy the day of the event.
I started with a whole beef tenderloin, I liberally rubbed it with Cajun seasonings, then smoke roasted it to medium. I sliced the meat thin using a meat slicer. I pan sautéed onions, garlic, and baby Bella mushrooms. The Italian hogtie rolls were very lightly grilled after we drizzled them with a white truffle oil. The blue cheese sauce was made via a melted mixture of blue cheese, heavy cream, and white wine. Not your average wiz!
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We're Bringing the Turkey to The Communal Table: Thanksgiving Editionby Sarah De Heer in Holidays, Recipes, November 16th, 2011
Thanksgiving: It's a holiday that requires a ton of preparation and can cause some stress, but in the end, we all love it and the memories make each moment worth it. Whether you have your recipes in order for the big day next week or you're looking for some inspiration, we thought we would share some of the best offerings out there.
In honor of Thanksgiving, we're kicking off the first annual Communal Table on Food Network, an event that we opened up to the entire food community. The response was outstanding — it blew us away. Experts from the industry were excited to "pull up a chair" to our table and offer readers their favorite recipes for appetizers, sides, salads, breads, mains, desserts and cocktails.
We've chosen to bring Alton's Good Eats Roast Turkey to the table — a foolproof recipe that both novices and pros alike love. Alton uses simple aromatics like apples, onions, cinnamon, rosemary and sage to make his turkey the star. How does he keep it so juicy? He brines it with a solution of salt, brown sugar, vegetable stock, allspice berries, peppercorns and candied ginger.
We didn't stop there. We've also asked our wine expert, Mark Oldman, to help pick the wines for the table. According to Mark, these three options would pair perfectly with Alton's famous turkey:
- American Sparkling Wine: An appropriately American bubbly, zesty enough to stoke the appetite while the bird cooks, but rich and fruity enough to enjoy well into the meal
- Pinot Gris from Oregon: Floral and peachy to harmonize with the bird's ginger and apple accents, but clean and refreshing on the finish
- Chinon from France: A slingshot of cherry-cranberry and earth, lithe and bright enough to invigorate the table, even during those last, belly-busting bites of bird
See what our friends are bringing to the table and tell us what you would bring to the table on Twitter by using the hashtag: #pullupachair.
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SanDisk Extreme II Review (480GB, 240GB, 120GB)by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013 7:19 PM EST
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Quizzical - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkGood stuff, as usual. But at what point do SSD performance numbers cease to matter because they're all so fast that the difference doesn't matter?
Back when there were awful JMicron SSDs that struggled along at 2 IOPS in some cases, the difference was extremely important. More recently, your performance consistency numbers offered a finer grained way to say that some SSDs were flawed.
But are we heading toward a future in which most SSDs do well in any test that you can come up with shows all of the SSDs performing well? Does the difference between 10000 IOPS and 20000 really matter for any consumer use? How about the difference between 300 MB/s and 400 MB/s in sequential transfers? If so, do we declare victory and cease caring about SSD reviews?
If so, then you could claim some part in creating that future, at least if you believe that vendors react to flaws that reviews point out, even if only because they want to avoid negative reviews of their own products.
Or maybe it will be like power supply reviews, where mostly only good ones get sent in for reviews, while bad ones just show up on New Egg and hope that some sucker will buy it, or occasionally get a review when some tech site buys one rather than getting a review sample sent from the manufacturer? Reply
Tukano - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkI feel the same way. Almost need an order of magnitude improvement to notice anything different.
My question now is, where are the bottlenecks?
What causes my PC to boot in 30 seconds as opposed to 10?
I don't think I ever use the same amount of throughput as what these SSD's offer
My 2500K @ 4.5GHz doesn't seem to ever get stressed (I didn't notice a huge difference between stock vs OC)
Is it now limited to the connections between devices? i.e. transferring from SSD to RAM to CPU and vice versa? Reply
talldude2 - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkStorage is still the bottleneck for performance in most cases. Bandwidth between CPU and DDR3 1600 is 12.8GB/s. The fastest consumer SSDs are still ~25 times slower than that in a best case scenario. Also, you have to take into account all the different latencies associated with any given process (i.e. fetch this from the disk, fetch that from the RAM, do an operation on them, etc.). The reduced latency is really what makes the SSD so much faster than an HDD.
As for the tests - I think that the new 2013 test looks good in that it will show you real world heavy usage data. At this point it looks like the differentiator really is worst case performance - i.e. the drive not getting bogged down under a heavy load. Reply
whyso - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkIts twice that If you have two RAM sticks. Reply
Chapbass - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkI came in to post that same thing, talldude2. Remember why RAM is around in the first place: Storage is too slow. Even with SSDs, the latency is too high, and the performance isn't fast enough.
Hell, I'm not a programmer, but perhaps more and more things could be coded differently if they knew for certain that 90-95% of customers have a high performance SSD. That changes a lot of the ways that things can be accessed, and perhaps frees up RAM for more important things. I don't know this for a fact, but if the possibility is there you never know.
Either way, back to my original point, until RAM becomes redundant, were not fast enough, IMO. Reply
FunBunny2 - Monday, June 03, 2013 - link-- Hell, I'm not a programmer, but perhaps more and more things could be coded differently if they knew for certain that 90-95% of customers have a high performance SSD.
It's called an organic normal form relational schema. Lot's less bytes, lots more performance. But the coder types hate it because it requires so much less coding and so much more thinking (to build it, not use it). Reply
crimson117 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - link> It's called an organic normal form relational schema
I'm pretty sure you just made that up... or you read "Dr. Codd Was Right" :P Reply
FunBunny2 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkWhen I was an undergraduate, freshman actually, whenever a professor (english, -ology, and such) would assign us to write a paper, we'd all cry out, "how long does it have to be????" One such professor replied, "organic length, as long as it has to be." Not very satisfying, but absolutely correct.
When I was in grad school, a professor mentioned that he'd known one guy who's Ph.D. dissertation (economics, mathy variety) was one page long. An equation and its derivation. Not sure I believe that one, but it makes the point. Reply
santiagoanders - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkI'm guessing you didn't get a graduate degree in English. "Whose" is possessive while "who's" is a contraction that means "who is." Reply
FunBunny2 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkEconometrics. But, whose counting? Reply
klmccaughey - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkHey, as one of these here "Coders" I can tell you my bread and butter is a ratio of 10:1 on thinking to coding ;) I suspect most programmers are similar. Reply
tipoo - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkBut in a sense Tukano is right, the SATA 3 standard can already be saturated by the fastest SSDs, so the connections between components are indeed the bottleneck. Most SSDs are still getting there, but the standard was saturated by the best almost as soon as it became widespread. They need a much bigger hop next time to leave some headroom. Reply
A5 - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkThe first round of SATA Express will give 16 Gbps for standard drives and up to 32 Gbps for mPCIe-style cards (used to be known as NGFF). I think we'll see a cool round of enthusiast drives once NGFF is finalized. Reply
althaz - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkStorage is almost always the bottleneck. Faster storage = faster data moving around your PC's various subsystems. It's always better. You are certainly not likely to actually notice the incremental improvements from drive to the next, but it's important that these improvements are made, because you sure as hell WILL notice upgrading from something 5-6 generations different.
What causes your PC to boot in 30 seconds is a combination of a lot of things, but seeing as mine boots in much closer to 5 seconds, I suspect you must be running a Windows 7 without a really fast SSD (I'm running 8 with an Intel 240Gb 520 series drive). Reply
sna1970 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linknot really.
Storage is never a bottle neck . if you have enough memory , they will load once to the memory and thats it.
you need to eliminate the need to read the same data again thats all.
try to max your memory to 32G or 64 G , and make a 24G Ramdisk and install the application you want there. you will have instant running programs. there is no real bottlenecks. Reply
kevith - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - link"Closer to 5 seconds".... From what point do you start counting...? Reply
seapeople - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkProbably after he logs in. Reply
compvter - Friday, July 19, 2013 - link5 seconds would be very fast, i get to windows desktop in w8 in 11 seconds. Calculated from pressing the power button on my laptop and stopped when i get to real desktop (not metro). I have older samsung 830 and first generation i7 cpu and 16gb memory. Reply
ickibar1234 - Friday, December 20, 2013 - linkAfter getting an SSD with a SATA 3 computer, it's mostly likely driver initialization, timers and stuff like that that is the bottleneck during bootup. Reply
Occas - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkRegarding PC Boot time, easily for me it was my motherboard post time.
My old Asus took minimum 20 seconds to post! When I bought my new system I researched post times and ended up with an ASRock which posts in about 5 seconds. Boom, now I can barely sit down before I'm ready to log in. :) Reply
jhh - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkI wish there were more latency measurements. The only latency measurements were during the Destroyer benchmark. Latency under a lower load would be a useful metric. We are using NFS on top of ZFS, and latency is the biggest driver of performance. Reply
jmke - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkthere is still a lot of headroom left; storage is still the bottleneck of any computer; even with 24 SSDs in RAID 0 you still don't get lightening speed.
Try a RAM drive which allows for 7700Mb/s write speed and 1000+mb/s at 4k random write
put some data on there, and you can now start stressing your CPU again :) Reply
iwod - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkThe biggest bottleneck is Software. And even with my SSD running in SATA 2, my Core2Duo running Windows 8 can boot just 10 seconds. And Windows 7 within 15 seconds. With my Ivy Bridge +SATA 3 SSD running 1 - 2 seconds faster on boot time.
In terms of consumer usage, 99% of us will properly need much faster Seq Read Write Speed. We are near the end of Random Write improvement. Where Random Read we could do with a lot more increase.
Once we move to SATA Express with 16Gbps, we could be moving the bottleneck back to CPU. And Since we are not going to get much more IPC and Ghz improvements, we are going to need software written with Multi Core in mind to see further improvement gains. So quite possible the next generation of Chipset and CPU will be the last of this generation before we have software move to Multi Core paradigm. Which, looking at it now is going to take a long time.
glugglug - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkOutside of enterprise server workloads, I don't think you will notice a difference between current SSDs.
However, higher random write IOPS is an indicator of lower write amplification, so it could be a useful signal to guess at how long before the drive wears out. Reply
vinuneuro - Tuesday, December 03, 2013 - linkFor most users, a long time ago it stopped mattering. In a machine used for Word/Excel/Powerpoint, Internet, Email, Movies, I stopped being able to perceive a difference day to day after the Intel X25-M/320. I tried Samsung 470's and 830's and got rid of both for cheaper Intel 320's. Reply
whyso - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkHonestly for the average person and most enthusiasts SSDs are plenty fast and a difference isn't noticeable unless you are benchmarking (unless the drive is flat out horrible; bute the difference between a m400 and a 840 pro are unnoticible unless you are looking for it). The most important parts of an SSD then become performance consistency (though really few people actually apply a workload where that is a problem), power use (mainly for mobile), and RELIABILITY. Reply
TrackSmart - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkI agree 100%. I can't tell the difference between the fast SSDs from the last generation and those of the current generation in day-to-day usage. The fact that Anand had to work so hard to create a testing environment that would show significant differences between modern SSDs is very telling. Given that reality, I choose drives that are likely to be highly reliable (Crucial, Intel, Samsung) over those that have better benchmark scores. Reply
jabber - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkIndeed, considering the mech HDDs the average user out there is using is lucky to push more than 50MBps with typical double figure access times.
When they experience just 150MBps with single digit access times they nearly wet their pants.
MBps isn't the key for average use (as in folks that are not pushing gigabytes of data around all day) it's the access times.
SSD reviews for many are getting like graphics card reviews that go "Well this new card pushed the framerate from 205FPS to an amazing 235FPS!"
Erm great..I guess. Reply
old-style - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkGreat review.
I think Anand's penchant for on-drive encryption ignores an important aspect of firmware: it's software like everything else. Correctness trumps speed in encryption, and I would rather trust kernel hackers to encrypt my data than an OEM software team responsible for an SSD's closed-source firmware.
I'm not trying to malign OEM programmers, but encryption is notoriously difficult to get right, and I think it would be foolish to assume that an SSD's onboard encryption is as safe as the mature and widely used dm-crypt and Bitlocker implementations in Linux and Windows.
In my mind the lack of firmware encryption is a plus: the team at SanDisk either had the wisdom to avoid home-brewing an encryption routine from scratch, or they had more time to concentrate on the actual operation of the drive. Reply
thestryker - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkhttp://www.anandtech.com/show/6891/hardware-accele...
I'm not sure you are aware of what he is referring to. Reply
HardwareDufus - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkAmazing. I am using an OCZ Vertex4 256GB drive. Bought it last Nov for about $224. Very happy with it.
This SanDisk drive is the same price ($229), same capacity (240GB), same format. However, it is performing a full 5% to almost 100% better, depending on block size, random/sequential, read/write activity. Amazing what 7 to 12 months has brought to the SSD market! Reply
Vincent - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkYou wrote: "In our Intel SSD DC S3700 review I introduced a new method of characterizing performance: looking at the latency of individual operations over time"
In fact this is not what your test does. Your test records IOPS in one-second periods, but does not measure the latency of individual IOs. It would in fact be interesting to see the latency distribution for these drives. Reply
Tjalve - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkIve done som IO Latency tests based on my own trace-based benchmark if your interested.
The text is in swedish, but you should be able to understand the graphs. I could make aplot diagram of individual IOs Latency if anyone is interested, Reply
kallogan - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkI still have an indilinx 64GB. Reply
dishayu - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkIs it just me or have the SSD prices stagnated since the past year or so? I bought a 120GB Plextor M5S for $85 in July 2012 and the 128 GB SSDs still seem to hover in the 100-120$ range. Reply
sna1970 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkHey Anand , can you please test 6 SSD Raid 0 with the new Haswell Z87 motherboards ?
we need to make sure we can hit 3G/s , what is the maximum bandwidth of the new chipset ? Reply
cbk - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkThis looks awesome, it's almost neck-to-neck to the 840 Pro, at a lower price. Reply
jeffrey - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkHi Anand,
Do you plan on covering the OCZ Vertex 450? Reply
jeffrey - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkPress Release:
http://ocz.com/consumer/company/newsroom/press/ocz... Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkAll tests have been run but I guess Haswell and other Computex stuff got on the way. Reply
dsumanik - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkThe benches on this drive are good.....not great, and I don think the opening bias is necessary. Who runs any disk at capacity 24/7? Perhaps some people temporarily... But 24/7 drive full???
Only a fool.
Kudos to sandisk for making a competitive offering, but please anandtech keep the bias out of the reviews....specially when it's not warranted.
Storage bench is great, but it's not the only metric.
Haswell is good, not great. But if your rocking a 2600k from 2 years ago? Meh.
Where are the legendary power savings? Why don't we have 4 ghz + skus? 8 cores? 64gb ram support? Quick sync degraded lol!! Good job on iris pro. Why can't I buy it and slap it into an enthusiast board?
Yet you read this review and the haswell review and come away feeling positive.
Real life:
A mild upgrade in IPC, higher In use TDP, 2 year old CPU's are still competitive
Mixed bag of results, on unproven firmware.
. Reply
Death666Angel - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkWhy do you keep ignoring the Samsung 840 Pro with spare area increased when it comes to consistency. It seems to me to be the best drive around. And if you value and know about consistency it seems pretty straight forward to increase the spare area and you should have the abilities to do so as well. Reply
seapeople - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkAgreed, it looks like a Samsung 840 Pro that's not completely full would be the performance king in every aspect - most consistent (check the 25% spare area graphs!), fastest in every test, good reliability history, and the best all around power consumption numbers, especially in the idle state which is presumably the most important.
Yet this drive is virtually ignored in the review, other than the ancillary mention in all the performance benchmarks it still wins, "The SanDisk did great here! Only a little behind all the Samsung drives... and as long as the Samsung drives are completely full, then the SanDisk gets better consistency, too! The SanDisk is my FAVORITE!"
The prevailing theme of this review should probably be "The SanDisk gives you performance nearly as good as a Samsung at a lower price." Not, "OMG I HAVE A NEW FAV0RIT3 DRIVE! Look at the contrived benchmark I came up with to punish all the other drives being used in ways that nobody would actually use them in..."
Seriously, anybody doing all that junk with their SSD would know to partition 25% of spare area into it, which then makes the Samsung Pro the clear winner, albeit at a higher cost per usable GB. Reply
FunBunny2 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkTo the extent that "cloud" (re-)creates server-dense/client-thin computing, how well an SSD behaves in today's "client" doesn't matter much. Server workloads, with lots o random operations, will be where storage happens. Anand is correct to test SSDs under loads more server-like. As many have figured out, HDD in the enterprise are little different from consumer parts. "Cloud" vendors, in order to make money, will segue to "consumer" SSD. Thus, we do need to know how well they behave doing "server" loads; they will in any case. Clients will come with some amount flash (not necessarily even on current file system protocols). Reply
joel4565 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkAny word on whether this drive will be offered in a 960 GB capacity for a reasonable price in the near future?
This looks like the best performing drive yet reviewed, but I doubt I will see that big of difference from my 120 GB Crucial M4 in day to day usage. I really don't think most of us will see a large difference until we go to a faster interface.
So unless this drastically change in the next few months, I think my next drive will be the Crucial M500 960GB. Yes it will not be as consistent or quite as fast as the SanDisk Extreme II, but I won't have to worry about splitting my files, or moving steam games from my 7200 rpm drive to the SSD if they have long load times. Reply
clepsydrae - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkQuestion for those more knowledgeable: I'm building a new DAW (4770k, win 8) which will also be used for development (Eclipse in linux). Based on earlier anandtech reviews I ordered a 128GB 840P Pro for use as the OS drive and eclipse workspace directory and the like. Reading this article, i'm not sure if I should return the 840P for the SanDisk... the 840P leads it in almost all the metrics except the one that is the most "real-world" and which seems to mimic what I'll be using it for (i.e. Eclipse.)
Opinions? Reply
bmgoodman - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkI gave up on SanDisk after they totally botched TRIM on their previous generation drive. They did such a poor job admitting it and finally fixing it that it left a bad taste in my mouth. They'd have to *give* me a drive for me to try their products again. Reply
samster712 - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkSo would anyone recommend this drive over the 840pro 256? Im very indecisive about buying a new drive. Reply
Rumboogy - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linkQuick question. You mentioned a method to create an unused block of storage that could be used by the controller by creating a new partition (I assume fully formatting it) and then deleting it. This assumes TRIM marks the whole set of LBAs that covered the partition as being available. What is the comparable procedure on a Mac? Particularly if you don't get TRIM by default. And if you do turn it would it work in this case? Is there a way to guarantee you are allocating a block of LBAs to non-use on the Mac? Reply
pcmax - Monday, August 12, 2013 - linkWould have been really nice to compare it to their previous gen the Extreme I? Reply
qqqww314 - Monday, December 16, 2013 - linkgreat review. You made me read all of it!! and learn everything about SSDs. Really great work!!
do you know if SanDisk Extreme II is compatible with macbook white 2009? (last version of white)
I read about DRAM 512 MB 1600MHZ
and my macbook has MEMORY: 8GB RAM DDR3 1067 MHZ. It is not campatible with more MHZ. It crashes and doesn't work properly.
so... i don't know if this is a problem. I Play live keyboards with Logic Pro and don't want any crashes that would not matter in other occasions. But also need the speed of an SSD running through my projects.
I know friends that have serious monitor crashes of 10 to 20 seconds with older macbooks(2006,2007) and older SSDs.
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AR players shift focus to platform products
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ruffle edge mirror
The intricate carving on the frame of this mirror makes me smile. And though I have a tendency to pair it with a old style mirror (vm anyone?) I think that mixed with the right other items it could pull off a more modern look (like it has in this picture).


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Average grade: 6.8 %
Length: 16.3 km
Altitude start: 505 m
Altitude top: 1613 m
Ascent: 1108 m
Maximum: 12 %
Col de la Colombière rankings
Difficulty ranking world: 1164 (all)
Ranking France: 226 (all)
Ranking Alps: 428(all)
Difficulty score: 111.34 what?
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The north side of the beautiful pass Col de la Colombière starts from Cluses (Scionzier). The first part, till the bend in Blanzy, is very moderate. Between Blanzy and Porte d"Age, you get the first test, with passages close to 10%. After having taken the huge bend to the right near Port d"Age, you get an almost flat 3 km until Le Reposoir. You might want to visit the monastery there to pray to get support for the rest of the climb. Cause from there, the climb really starts getting real nasty, never going below 8% with a finishing km of 10%+. Enjoy the landscape!
The Col de la Colombière is situated in Rhone-Alpes. This climb belongs to the Alps.
Starting from Scionzier,
the Col de la Colombière ascent is 16.3 km long. Over this distance, you climb 1108 heightmeters.
The average percentage thus is 6.8 %.
The maximum slope is 12 %.
Look for other sides to climb the Col de la Colombière.
Since 2005, the Col de la Colombière will be/was climbed in the following big tour stages:
Tour de France 2010 : Morzine > Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne on 13/07/2010
Tour de France 2009 : Bourg-Saint-Maurice > Le Grand-Bornand on 22/07/2009
Tour de France 2007 : Bourg-en-Bresse > Le-Grand-Bornand on 14/07/2007
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Arbitrator sides with Keystone Oaks teachers union on bonuses
The Keystone Oaks School District might have to pay its teachers thousands of dollars as a result of an arbitrator siding with the teachers union in a dispute over bonuses for large classes.
The ruling concerns payments that teachers receive when their classes exceed 23 students. The district paid elementary school teachers a $1,000 per semester bonus when their class exceeded the number. The bonus was the same no matter how many subjects teachers taught to the same group of students.
The Keystone Oaks Education Association said each subject should be counted as a separate class under a contract extension approved in 2011.
An arbitrator sided with the union in a ruling issued on Nov. 20.
"If you're a high school teacher and you go over the maximum number of students, you get a bonus per class period. But if you're an elementary school teacher, you can be teaching multiple subjects to the same group of students and only get that bonus once," said John McCarthy, president of the Keystone Oaks Education Association.
The school board will have 90 days from the ruling to decide whether it will appeal.
The union filed a grievance in January to have elementary teachers treated the same as high school teachers, since they prepare lessons for multiple classes and grade the extra students' work in each subject, McCarthy said. About five teachers were affected at the time the grievance was filed.
The contract states that "an employee having more than one class in excess of the class size limits shall receive a commensurate number of bonuses."
McCarthy said the language was designed to encourage the district to keep class sizes down.
"The problem is that we didn't define the word 'class,' and the union successfully argued that it meant 'subject,'" said school board member Dave Hommrich, who said he thinks the board should have made the language clearer before passing the contract extension. "In contracts, any words that govern the flow of money have to be very clear."
Superintendent Dr. William Stropkaj said that because of the Thanksgiving break, staff were still analyzing how much the arbitration decision would cost.
"We have not had the chance to get together yet and crank out the numbers on the actual implications," Stropkaj said.
Matthew Santoni is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-380-5625 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This is the legendary meticulous act of peeing in your girlfriend's butt. It also can be done with a drunken girl who does not expect a thing. This act should be done only by professionals. However, it is usually just talked a lot about over some beer
Legend holds that Stees actually peed in his college girl friends butt once. However as myths and wise tails usefully go. The Golden Corn hole was created with lots of KB and good Colorado microbrews. "Hey Amy can I pee in your butt", Andy said after his 14th beer. This later has been called the golden corn hole which every guy must admit has thought of going to a girl in his lifetime.
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NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – As OEM Pay wallet providers try to get more transit operators to put their closed-loop ticketing applets onto the NFC embedded secure chips in their devices, there is growing interest in alternatives to enable mobile transit ticketing.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Alipay is expanding acceptance in another overseas market, Russia, seeking to capture business from Chinese tourists who travel to the country.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Apple Tuesday disclosed plans to launch its mobile payments service in four more small markets, including three countries in the Nordics, with the tech giant seeing higher usage of Apple Pay outside of the U.S., where NFC-enabled POS terminals are still not widely available.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Research firm eMarketer predicts that mobile peer-to-peer payments in the U.S. will grow by 55% to more than $120 billion in 2017, an amount that is expected to double by 2021.
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NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Although Bank of America announced that its customers would "soon" be able to use the PayPal Wallet to pay for purchases in stores using NFC, a bank spokeswoman has told NFC Times that the NFC-enabled wallet might not even be available next year.
NFC TIMES Exclusive – With the widespread use of Uber and launch of the Amazon Go experiment, some payments industry observers are predicting it might not be too long before invisible payments comes to brick-and-mortar stores.
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Attorney Marshall E. Johnson, a Plymouth practitioner, received
the MBA Community Service Award at the Plymouth County Bar
Association's annual meeting on Dec. 9.
The MBA Community Service Award is given to attorneys who have
made important public service contributions to their communities
and to publicize the fact that members of the legal profession are
caring, involved individuals, eager to use their legal skills for
the betterment of society.
"My brief remarks this evening can't possibly provide the
appropriate context for how much Marshall devotes his time and
expertise for the greater good," said MBA President Denise
Squillante, who praised Johnson's dedication to the legal
A member of the MBA since 1980, Johnson has served as a judge for
the MBA's Statewide Mock Trial Program. In addition to his work
with the MBA, Johnson is credited with increasing Plymouth District
Bar Association attendance at meetings, resurrecting the bar's
scholarship program, establishing the Frank Powers Memorial Public
Service Award and publishing an annual membership directory.
Dedicated to the Plymouth County legal community, Johnson
generously donates at least 12 days a year, six each to Plymouth
and Brockton, as a participant in the Plymouth County Probate &
Family Court Lawyer of the Day Project, a program he has been
involved in for the past 12 years. In addition, Johnson is a member
of the Pilgrim Bar Advocates Program -- aptly handling 10 to 15
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Daily activities for kids and the family are abound in Long Island! Whether you want to spend the day with your children at a zoo, a museum, or just outdoors, we've got it all here. Making plans for next weekend for your family? Take a glance at the NY Metro Parents' calendar!


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Are you retired? Or are you still working? Or are you somewhere in between?
It seems to me that for some people, retirement is a lot like adolescence -- a time of great change and considerable confusion, especially when it comes to employment.
For our parents' generation, retirement was shorter and it seemed more clear-cut. You turned 65 and the boss gave you a watch and your pension and you went home. Today, it works that way less often. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2012, 31.5 percent of people age 65 to 69 were working and 17.3 percent of those 70 to 74 were still on the job. In 1990, 21.8 percent of people age 65 to 69 and 11.9 percent of people 70 to 74 were still employed.
retirement planning was lousy -- no pension and their Social Security isn't enough. Others stay on the job by choice. They just can't let go.
I have an acquaintance who started his own company many years ago and grew it into a major enterprise. His wife wants desperately to cruise around the world before they are too old to make such a trip, but he refuses to retire. People ask him frequently, "We know you don't need the money, so why don't you quit?" His standard answer: "I can't retire. I don't know how."
I have another friend who retired from an executive job about a year ago, played golf for a few months and is now deep into building his own publishing business. He doesn't expect it to make him a lot of money: "$25,000 or $30,000 a year -- that would make me very happy," he says.
He's 69 and his wife is 63, an attorney and still practicing. They both made lists of places they want to visit after she retires, and they've narrowed it to a few overlapping spots. But in the meantime, she's not ready to quit, and he's not ready for her to quit, either. "I would go nuts if she retired and was here all day," he says.
For now, he's working on his new business and feeling better about himself. "I'm inching toward being semi-relevant again," he says. "Pretty soon, I'm even going to make some money."
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It's a Jungle Out ThereLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
There is a plot of land that is 16 square acres, arranged in a 4 X 4 grid. There are 16 mammals, two each of the following: beaver, cat, dog, goat, horse, lion, tiger, and walrus. There is one mammal in each acre. The acres are labeled A through P, as shown below.
Given the following clues, determine where each mammal is located. The terms "next to" and "connected together" mean vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
1) A and D do not contain the same mammal, but one of them has a dog.
2) E and O do not contain the same mammal, but one of them has a horse.
3) B and L contain the same mammal, but not a tiger.
4) C and M contain the same mammal, but not a beaver.
5) F, K, N, and P are four different mammals.
6) The tigers are in different columns.
7) The goats are located in two of the following locations: B, C, K, and O.
8) The lions are located in two of the following locations: A, E, F, and M.
9) Cats don't get along with dogs, so neither cat is next to a dog.
10) Tigers have goats on their menu, so each tiger must be next to at least one goat and each goat must be next to at least one tiger.
11) The beavers and walruses live on the same body of water, so all four must be connected together in some fashion.
AnswerA = lion, B = cat, C = walrus, D = dog
E = horse, F = lion, G = beaver, H = tiger
I = dog, J = beaver, K = goat, L = cat
M = walrus, N = tiger, O = goat, P = horse
Per #3, B & L are the same; per #4, C & M are the same; therefore, per #7, K & O are goats; therefore, per #2, E is a horse; therefore, per #8, A & F are lions; therefore, per #1, D is a dog.
Per #4, C & M are not beavers; per #9, C is not a cat; per #10, M is not a tiger; therefore, C & M are walruses; therefore, per #11, G & J are beavers.
Per #3, B & L are not tigers; therefore, B & L are cats. Per #6, N is a tiger; per #9, H & P are not a dog; therefore, I is a dog.
Per #5, P is a horse; therefore, H is a tiger.
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Gina Gershon is Sarah Palin as you've never seen her before! (Not counting the Internet)
Gina Gershon stars in a spoof campaign video released today for McCain running mate Governor Sarah Palin. If you haven't seen it, I don't want to give away the ending but Gina Gershon strips down to a bikini and fires a shotgun. Somebody get this woman an Oscar. All of them. In the meantime, I wrote a blurb for the DVD cover:
"I laughed till I cried. Then I laughed some more – followed by more crying then laughing. Then I did what I call a 'cry-augh.' At which point I felt confident my co-workers couldn't figure out I was masturbating." – The Superficial Writer
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A suburban spat over dirty nappies has triggered an eruption of violence, with a man assaulted and held around the neck while he was struck with a baseball bat and subjected to racial taunts.
The serious assault on Hussein Ibrahim followed ongoing "issues" between him and a woman after many complaints to a housing office over the use of rubbish bins.
A Melbourne court heard that on April 2 this year Ljubica Radovijec found "soiled nappies" dumped in the gutter next to her recycling bin in Frankford Court, Northcote.
Prosecutor Francesca Holmes said Ms Radovijec was upset and told her daughter Sonja Radovijec about what she had found.
Ms Holmes yesterday told Melbourne Magistrates Court Sonja Radovijec and her partner David Sheard left their home at about 2.15pm and began yelling racial insults and swearing at Mr Hussein, who yelled back.
Ms Holmes said Sheard punched Mr Hussein several times in the face and he began to back away to protect himself.
Radovijec then punched him to the back and chest in a "hammer-like" fashion while continually shouting racial abuse.
Ms Holmes said that as Mr Hussein tried to block the punches and fight back in retaliation, Ms Radovijec attempted to stop the fighting.
It was then that her daughter ran into her home and returned with a baseball bat to hit Mr Hussein in the face, ribs, back and legs while Sheard grabbed him around the neck so he could not move, she said.
The incident ended when a local housing officer intervened.
Mr Hussein sustained a crushed nasal bone, tenderness to the back of his neck, mild tenderness to his cheek bones and bruising to his left knee.
Radovijec, 40, and Sheard, 47, initially appeared in court to contest numerous charges at a committal hearing, but indicated a willingness to plead guilty to a charge of recklessly causing serious injury.
Lawyer Christopher Piesse, for Sheard, applied to magistrate Peter Reardon to have the charge heard summarily rather than before a judge.
Mr Piesse said his client had no relevant prior convictions and submitted the charge could be appropriately dealt with in a magistrates' court.
Brendan Hartwick, for Radovijec, argued there was no organisation involved in the offence, it was a "quite spontaneous" situation that got out of hand and that Mr Reardon's sentencing powers were adequate to deal with the offence.
Ms Holmes did not consent to or oppose the defence application, but described the circumstances as a "serious example of racial intolerance" that resulted in serious injuries that should not be "tolerated by the community".
She said "there is an argument these two accused should be made an example of" and be dealt with in a higher court, but reiterated her neutral position.
Mr Reardon noted that in considering such an application under the Criminal Procedure Act, a magistrate must take into account the seriousness of the offence that included the nature of it, the manner of its commission and the degree of organisation.
In granting the application, he described the case as serious but not particularly complicated and the prior criminal history of the defendants not extensive.
"It seems to me this court has the jurisdiction to deal with these matters," Mr Reardon said.
The couples' bail was extended for them to appear again in February.