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A BUSY shopping street in the centre of Worcester is "letting the city down", a senior city politician has said.
Worcester City Council leader Cllr Simon Geraghty was speaking at a meeting of the council's cabinet on Tuesday, July 29, where members agreed to plough an extra £65,000 into a project revamping the Angel Place market.
The cash will come from the £2.6 million government windfall the council received at the end of last year as part of the New Homes Bonus.
The £550,000 project, which is being run alongside CrownGate owners The Crown Estate and Worcestershire County Council, will see the run-down market area given a facelift over a three-month period in the hope it would become more attractive to passers-by.
Cllr Geraghty said he was pleased the area was being spruced up.
"At the moment I think Angel Place lets the city down," he said.
"It's not the environment we would like and I am pleased this is coming forward.
"It's a good, ambitious scheme."
The Crown Estate has agreed to surrender its lease of the market to the council for the 10-week project to begin and the council is currently seeking a new company to take it over. Whichever company is awarded the contract, expected to commence in October, will also be handed the responsibility of running the Victorian Christmas Fair.
The revamp, set to get underway at the start of September, will see the current market units torn out and replaced with modern, moveable stands while the street area is repaved.
Cllr David Wilkinson presented the plans at Tuesday's meeting, where he described it as "excellent".
"I'm really pleased to see this coming forward and I support it," he said.
Currently around 16 regular stallholders operate from Angel Place and the council is working on a plan to move them elsewhere so they can continue to work while the project is underway.
It is hoped the project will increase the amount of visitors to Worcester as well as the amount they spend, boost footfall through the city centre as well as help the marketplace to thrive.
The scheme also aims to ensure the market caters for all ages and demographics as well as helping new enterprises to get started.
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- 四月 2012
Death Angel is currently touring the US, working on their next album and planning some awesome releases for 2012. Take a look at the chat that Spirit Of Metal had with the guitar player Rob Cavestany on April 10th, about these and many other news.
You guys have been touring a lot in North America lately: how does it feel to be here for all this time?
It feels good. We haven't had the chance to tour North America as much for many, many years. Normally we would be in Europe most of the time so, it just worked out [that way]: we got a lot of tours in North America for this album so, we are really glad.
We were just talking about this earlier, because we are going to Europe after this tour and it will be like, the first time we will be in Europe for almost a year. But, we've been touring the States and Canada a lot so we're really excited. I think it gives a good opportunity for people to see us… [at] home soil.
You were touring with Testament and Antrax. Now you will start this tour with Sepultura and Krisiun… two Brazilian bands. How different will that be?
Well… we'll see because we are just getting started tonight [April 10th 2012].
We've never met Krisiun before. We know Sepultura from playing with them a lot here and there so, it's going to be fun playing with these guys. We've never actually toured with Sepultura but we played a lot of shows with them. So, I'm expecting nothing but a good time… really killer shows, I think.
After this tour you guys will be playing in Europe until the end of June. Any other plans after that?
Yeah… actually yeah but, I have just heard that this morning. We are confirming that today so, I am instructed not to talk about it yet but… it's a pretty big tour and it will go through the States again, before the end of the year.
Besides the tours, do you guys have anything else planned for this year? Maybe working on a new album?
The thing is, we've been touring so long for this album [Relentless Retribution] and there is so much planned for the rest of this year that we just basically had to start working on our new album already, while we are still touring, which is something very different for me. Normally we finish a tour, take a break, start writing but it is going to take too long if we do that now. We want to really work hard and keep pushing.
In between the last tour and the starting of this tour we have almost 5 songs started by now. I have all my recording equipment here [he shows the area in the bus]. Right when we get done with this interview I'm going to set up the studio back here and start working.
So, you guys will not have one minute to relax during the tour…?
Humm… maybe some guys of the band… but not me (laughs). But, you know, I like to work and I like to spend my time doing something productive. Definitely a lot of partying and fun will happen but, it has been happening. We have been touring for two years on this album now so I'm getting kind of tired of running around and kind of wasting time after the show, so…
Is this going to be the first time that you are going to be writing / composing during a tour?
It will be the first time doing it in depth as this. I usually write some stuff, compose like a lot of riffs, ideas and parts. But, now it is going further into deeper writing and trying to get songs written.
About these songs you have started to write: do you have any ideas to where the new album will go towards to?
Humm… conceptionally it seems to be picking up where the last album left of, just very aggressive. The theme and where we were coming from, on our last album: we're pissed off (laughs). Not at everything [but], at the stuff that keeps you down or stuff that pisses people off. We were using a lot of that as fuel for our fire. And two years to the end of this tour, we find ourselves to be pretty much at the same place (laughs).
I mean, we've done a lot of touring and we've definitely climbed up (as far as our crowd), we are exposed to a lot of different fans and getting a lot more fans. But, we are still very hungry, ver
y much in the struggle of trying to make our life in this life style and do what we do. We are not getting any younger so we are just putting everything that we have into it. So, that kind of thing is coming out and it is kind of the continuation of our last album. The music is really heavy, very musical... it's cool, I like it a lot.
So, is the new album going to be heavier than the last one?
It will be definitely at least as heavy as the last one. It's not going to be lighter than the last one. I think it will be more adventurous musically though.
Any specific influences?
No. I mean, a lot of the things that are influences are not necessarily musical but more of "life" influence. This album is influenced a lot by being on tour, being on the road, and by a lot of bands that we played with.
So, to me it is going to be very lively and just heavy. Because the feeling on tour is a really heavy feeling, you know? You are not really relaxing; you are constantly in the world of it, getting a feedback and energy from the fans. So, when you are writing you are picturing how the song is going to work on stage and how people will react, more than when you are just at home when and you are not connected to a live situation as much.
Death Angel was formed a long time ago (1982). You guys have brought a lot to the metal scene. Can you sometimes see your influence on other band's music?
Yes, actually. It's really cool. It's kind of a flattered, honored feeling that you could have an impact on somebody else, the way that other people had [influence] on us. It spread out from others through us into somebody else.
Talking about your history: what was the biggest moment for you guys until now?
Do you mean our entire career? The whole thing? Oh god! It's been a long time so there's so many.
One of the main things that I have to say is: when our first album came out and the first time that I was at a record shop holding our vinyl, our album so… extremely big moment for us, very proud moment.
Back then I think it was even more special then it would be now because it was really hard to make a record in 1980's. Nowadays anybody can make a CD in their house. Holding your CD is not that a big of a deal but back then, if you had a record that meant that you got signed, that you have a record deal and that you went through all the steps to have a real record. So the feeling of holding the record on that record shop is hard to beat.
What was the biggest moment since your reunion?
Probably the moment of the reunion, in 2001 at the benefit show: the Thrash of the Titan. The first time we stepped on stage, the reaction from the crowd, how loud they got singing all the words of our songs.
That show [Thrash of the Titan] and the headline show we did at the Efenaar Club, in Holland. That was the first show we did reunited in Europe since 1990 that show was also really, really amazing. The crowd was so loud that we could hear ourselves, they were singing the words of our songs so loud and it was, yeah, a really big feeling.
That's the reason why we stayed together this whole time. I mean, we were only going to do a couple of shows, just for fun, and call it quits but the ways the fans reacted… 11 years later and we are still playing.
You just said something about the feeling of having a record deal on 1980's. How weird was to come from that era, stop for a few years, and then come back at this totally different "MP3" era?
Pretty weird… but then again, it has been happening gradually and of course we were aware of it. So, when it happened to our music it wasn't really that weird because it was just what was normally happening anyway. I mean, if it happened over night, it would be very, very strange.
Personally I prefer the way it was, in the old school. It was definitely much more magical making music and releasing music
. Also, a lot easier for you to actually try to sell your music instead of being pirated for free everywhere.
So, yeah, it's not so weird as much as it is a little bit sad that it is the way that it is now… to me, for an artist. For a fan, is probably cool because you get a lot of free music all the time.
My music collection, as anybody else's, is huge because of that [music industry today]. I mean, you know, I would not have bought all that music. I listen to a lot of music so it's great for me to owe all of that… and I don't have a lot of money. I still buy music but not as much.
So, it's good and bad. If you use the music to listen to it a lot, I don't really care. I'm not really that concerned if some kid gets our music for free as long as they listen to it and they like our music. Maybe it leads them to come to our show, buy a shirt or something… so, that's cool.
About Death Angel: do you still see you guys as a Thrash Metal band?
Yes, pretty much so. There was a point in time that we went though a period of ourselves that we didn't want to be so classified, you know? But after a while, I can understand how and why you classify music, there is a reason for that: so people can figure out how you sound like. So, in that case, yeah, we are a thrash metal band and particularly, "Bay Area thrash" style of music.
It does sound that way but, we are definitely not limited to that. From all of the thrash bands we have been known to push the envelope of our music in lots of different directions outside of straight thrash. Some people like that, some people don't like that. But, we can't help it because we like a lot of kinds of music.
We have to even try to keep it more thrash because if so, the album would be all over the place (laughs), but we don't want to do that to people who want to listen to a heavy album from beginning to end. So we keep the experimentation to a minimum, so it fits.
During the time that Death Angel was not playing together you had side projects. Do you still work on these projects? If yes, are you going to release something out of them?
Eventually yes. The only thing that I have time left for is basically the acoustic music vibe I play. I write and record that stuff with Gus Pepa, who is the original other guitar player of Death Angel, before we broke up. I keep in touch with him. He is not into playing metal and going on tour anymore but he still loves to play guitar and hang out. We are good friends so, when I get off the road is a very nice break to get together with him and we just play almost straightly acoustic music… lots of styles of acoustic.
We already did release one CD of that [Lines on the Road] and by now we've written enough songs to do another CD. It is just a matter of time now. There's hardly any time because Death Angel keeps me so busy. And now, when Death Angel is not busy (sort of speak), I try to write the next album of Death Angel so I don't have any time left. If there was more time I would do it right away.
Any hopes to maybe do some concerts for this acoustic project?
Yes, definitely… some day!
Are there any messages you would like to give to the Spirit of Metal readers?
Anybody that is our fan or supports our music: thank you so much. We are coming out strong, we are working very hard and we have a lot of new stuff coming out soon.
This summer our DVD is coming out: "A Thrashumentary". We've been working on that for the last couple of years, throughout these whole tours, very interesting and funny.
And also, we are going to re-release "The Ultra-Violence", our debut album that hasn't been available for, at least, the last 10 years. You can't find it anywhere. So, we finally figured it out, did a deal and we will be re-releasing that in the summer, doing some shows where we play only that album from beginning to the end. So, that will be happening.
Keep looking for us and thank you very much!
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I've had my CG for several weeks now, and tonight I finally got around to doing something from How to Grill. There was one recipie that I've heard alot about it but I had to taste it for myself: Beer-Can-Chicken (aka Beer-Butt-Chicken).
Awesome...totally awesome! Using Steven's basic BBQ rub, a can of Tecate, and some mountain mahogany for the smoking, this bird tasted like none other I have ever had. The skin was crispy, and the meat was oh so juicy with a nice light smoke flavor. I have never seen my son eat so much chicken (he's 3 and you know how pickey they can be). Next time though I think I will try using hickory or apple for smoking as I think the mahogany might be better suited for beef or game.
As a newbie to charcoal grilling, I felt it was a waste to not use all that good heat leftover after the chicken had finished. I had seen something about grilling pineapples in HTG and thought I would give it a shot. Boy, am I glad I did! It was incredible. My wife does not like warm pineapple and I am not a huge fan of coconut but we both just loved it. After we gobbled up all the pineapple slices with dinner, we took the remaining juices from the pineapple and poured it over a scoop of ice cream that she & I shared...<sigh>
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An interview with Microsoft's Amir Majidimehr, corporate vice president for Consumer Media Technology, provides a glimpse into Microsoft's vision and strategy for digital media.
There's a bit of corporate apparatchik speak("the great strength, quality, and flexibility of Windows Media should not be limited to PCs only"), but Majidimehr speaks openly about the challenges that Microsoft has faced in moving Windows Media from PCs to home, mobile, and other devices.
One thing that's often lost on web-biased technologists is that each platform on which you want to support your media ecosystem adds exponentially greater complexity, in both technical and business challenges.
When technology companies talk about where media goes, you'll hear the phrase: "One Foot, Three Foot, Ten Foot." This represents the triad of channels/windows through which the majority of people buy, view, and share media: One Foot is your mobile device; Three Foot is your PC; Ten Foot is the big(ger) screen in in your living room.
Solving Web video problems – the Three Foot challenge – is the easiest. As Majidimehr notes, media clients (decoders) can quickly be updated via always-on web connections, so you can rev your codec frequently. Hardware is relatively standardized and usually of good quality and recent manufacture. More cynically, expectations are low – if it "just works", most end users will be content.
However, the other two arms of that triad are much more challenging.
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Mobile video means a drastically different business model, working with carriers who control access to media and care about ARPU and little else, and device manufacturers who care about manufacturing and codec licensing costs, runtime footprints, and squeezing every last drop of performance out of a mobile processor. Not to mention that the carriers and device manufacturers get along as well as two Bettas sharing the same tank
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Move to the living room and face a huge installed base of legacy hardware that can't decode or playback your video, MSOs/Telcos/Satellite who need full support for your protocols and codecs throughout their massive storage and delivery infrastructure before they'll even think of deploying, and a dozen different Consumer Electronics manufacturers who need your codecs stable (i.e. frozen for years), widespread, and cheap.
In other words: there's a lot more to bringing a codec to a new platform than just porting the player to a different OS, and I sympathize with the issues that Majidimehr talks about.
One other quote I found too provocative to let slide. In discussing the rise of Flash video, Majidimehr says:
"The biggest factor to that shift is installed market share—Flash is second only to Windows Media player in installed base for web video playback."
Interesting statement. Is that all installed versions of WMP? Does that count multiple installations on the same PC? Are we counting back to the NetShow Player? I would love to see the statistics behind that claim.
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Did you know?
The Buddhist Retreat Centre in Ixopo has published a book of vegetarian recipes called The Cake the Buddha Ate.
Spiritual tourism is growing worldwide, and KwaZulu-Natal certainly has a lot to offer soul searchers. Whatever your choice, you are in for an uplifting experience as you travel through spectacular scenery, from the balmy coastline to the mountainous interior.
In Chatsworth outside Durban, you'll find a local landmark in the Sri Sri Radhanath Temple of Understanding built in the shape of a lotus flower. The architecturally beautiful Hare Krishna temple and its gardens are conducive to meditation, contemplation and prayer. You can go on a guided tour and enjoy a meal at the vegetarian restaurant at the temple.
More inspiration from the East can be found at the Ixopo Buddhist Retreat Centre, 90km south of Pietermaritzburg. This venue runs an annual programme including Buddhist retreats combined with yoga, the arts and even cooking. Alternatively, you can simply book a personal retreat to imbibe the peace of the rolling hills and the meditation spots, and tuck into tasty vegetarian cuisine. What's more, Ixopo is a birder's paradise.
When it comes to natural beauty, there's little to beat the Drakensberg mountains with its soaring rock formations that have inspired all manner of spiritual and mystical experiences.
One group, the ancient San people, related their supernatural experiences in paintings and engravings throughout the mountain range. A visit to any of the resorts within the Ukhahlamba Drakensberg Park, a World Heritage Site, will offer the possibility of visiting rock art sites where you can learn more about the beliefs of the San that still resonate today.
Focusing on traditional belief merged with contemporary healing, the award-winning Fordoun Spa near Nottingham Road in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands cooperates with a local inyanga (medicinal healer) and sangoma (spiritual healer), Elliot Ndlovu. He offers traditional treatments that use extracts from indigenous healing plants, consults guests at the spa, and has been instrumental in developing a range of natural products.
Whether you are interested in one of the world's great religions, traditional healing or ancient hunter-gatherer philosophy, KwaZulu-Natal, with its multitude of cultures and influences, has plenty to offer anyone embarking on a spiritual journey.
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We've all been on pub crawls (perhaps more often than we'd admit), but what about a legit food crawl? Enter Lee Anne Wong. When she has a craving for dumplings and noodles, she doesn't just face her craving—she goes running after it with reckless abandon. Tonight at 8pm ET on Cooking Channel, Lee Ane Wong takes her love of Asian food to the streets of New York with her one-hour special Food Crawl with Lee Anne Wong where she finds a treasure trove of savory Asian treats in every corner of the city.
Lee Anne has that distinct ability to make everything she puts in her mouth seem like miracles sent from heaven. Her enthusiasm for food is contagious, and generally speaking I'd be all too happy to "have what's she having." But one particular dumpling on her crawl really got my attention and my stomach grumbling. Meet the Pretzel Pork and Chive Dumpling with Tahini Mustard Dipping Sauce courtesy of Talde in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Where to begin, where to begin … Imagine that the salty, crispy buttery-ness of your favorite New York pretzel (sorry, non-New Yorkers, but please use your imagination) is just the beginning — the wrapping really — of a sweet and succulent pork dumpling that's loaded with juicy flavor. And when I say juicy I mean baby got back — fat back that is. Don't know what fat back is? Well, I can tell you it comes from a pig and that its name is pretty … accurate, if you catch my drift. Okay so technically, it might not sound very appealing, but practically speaking, it makes lots of pork products (like sausage for example) taste freaking amazing. Anyways, back to the dumpling. So you've got this crispy on the outside, tender juiciness on the inside thing happening but then, then you get to dip the whole shebang into a spicy, tangy mustard sauce that makes you wonder "where have you been all my life?" Dale Talde, you magnificent Asian-American genius, all I can say is thank you.
There's not enough time in the day for me to talk about how awesome the food is in Lee Anne's food crawl, but I highly recommend recreating it for yourself if you live in (or visit) the NYC area. Either way, make sure you tune in at 8pm ET for Food Crawl with Lee Anne Wong.


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Ok... I'm back to Mom and myself again. Seems she's been a bigger influence than I thought!
As I sit here, bouncing back and forth between two computers, digitizing her albums, I realize she's also responsible for most of my musical tastes. Notice, I say "most". She can't be blamed for the heavy metal stuff or hard rock. That blame goes entirely to my sons!
My mother was working in a record shop when she and my father met. So music was there all along. She loved music. So did Dad, but not the same stuff. Since he was "first generation" born here in his family, he liked the old world German stuff. Polkas and the good old "beer drinking" German music. And of course, just to keep things interesting, he also liked Hank Williams (Sr, of course), and other "hillbilly" music artists.
In listening to "Rhapsody In Blue" played by Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops Orchestra, I miss her more than ever. You see, she won this set of 10 albums (she always was so lucky, it made me sick!) and because their record player died, and they never got another because of the new technology of cd's, she never heard them. So, now I'm making them into cds for Dad. And I'm sure she's listening to them, here with me right now.
I know she was listening when I digitized one album my father got for her. It was titled "How to Belly Dance for Your Husband". No, it's not a typo. Really, that's the title. It came with a little booklet and all. But that's a story for another time...
Going back to the music thing... She liked swing, jazz, Bobby Darin, Robert Goulet and Jack Jones, not to mention Ragtime! I could mention songs, and a lot of folks my own age wouldn't know what they were! All because of my mother. And, then there were Dad's favorites... Not everyone out there can sing "Mack the Knife" in German, can they? I can!
So as my boys were growing up, the poor kids were subjected to not only the Beatles, Tomy James & the Shondells, The Knack, and countless others, they also had to tollerate my mother's influence with things like "Rhapsody in Blue", and the like. And they really ran, when I pulled out Caterina Valente's German songs!!
To add insult to injury, I was left an Edison record player. Not too many folks know what those are, either. It was probably made about 1911 or so. My grandmother's brother bought it. (Another story for another time...) But he had opera, and if I remember correctly, there even may be some Caruso platters in the mix. (Those puppies are almost a quarter inch thick and weigh a lot for a record!) But I used to play some of those, too. My poor boys...
What this all boils down to, is when you really, and I mean really start thinking about things like music, it's amazing how much influence your parents have on you.
I'm not complaining... As a matter of fact, I'm proud of my music collection. I have cds sitting next to each other that if the artists knew, they'd have fits!! Can you imagine polka recordings next to hard rock recordings?? Well, they are in my house!
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You've seen several of these elite chefs judge contestants on Food Network shows like Chopped, Worst Cooks in America and 24 Hour Restaurant Battle. Now, the tables will be turned. Ten new chefs will go knife-to-knife in the fourth season of The Next Iron Chef, set to premiering Sunday, October 30.
Putting their reputations on the line for a chance to compete in Kitchen Stadium are some of the nation's most well known and best chefs, including Food Network's and Cooking Channel's own talent:
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WASHINGTON, DC - U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reminds immigrants to obtain Advanced Parole before traveling abroad. Advanced Parole (Form I-131-- Application for Travel Document) is permission to re-enter the United States after traveling abroad, and allows for the continuation of processing for an adjustment of status to that of lawful permanent resident.
"I want America's immigrant population to know before they go. These requirements must be met before leaving and are imperative for return to the U.S.," said Director Eduardo Aguirre. "This reminder is consistent with our commitment to world-class customer service and enhancing the integrity of our immigration system."
Travel outside of the United States without advance parole may have severe consequences for certain immigrants who are in the process of adjusting their status. Such immigrants may be unable to return to the United States and their applications may be denied.
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 stipulates that immigrants who depart the United States after being unlawfully present in the United States for certain periods can be barred from admission to lawful permanent resident status, even if they have obtained Advance Parole. Those immigrants who have been unlawfully present in the United States for more than 180 days, but less than one year are inadmissible for three years; those who have been unlawfully present for a year or more are inadmissible for 10 years. Immigrants, who are unlawfully present, depart the U.S. and subsequently re-enter under a grant of parole, may nevertheless be ineligible to adjust their status.
USCIS urges all immigrants with pending applications for adjustment of status to consult its National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283, www.uscis.gov, an immigration attorney, or an immigration assistance organization accredited by the Board of Immigration Appeals before making any travel plans.
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nathanddrews - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkRAID-0 by default? Seems like if you're using software management anyway, JBOD presented as a drive pool with the option of either performance or redundancy at the folder level would be a lot safer for users. While not Lacie-exorbitant, charging $100 for the enclosure and software feels a bit high. Reply
SniPerfidy - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkAgreed. You're paying for the name and support, I'd guess. Reply
Flunk - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkFor their target market, people who don't understand computers, I can see why they'd have to do that. It stops them having to field 100,000 calls asking why their new removable disk shows up as two drives or only has half the advertised capacity.
Sadly they do have to play to the lowest common denominator. Anyone who knows what they're doing can fix this in a few minutes. Reply
bill.rookard - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkI don't know why they didn't just create a 'configuration start page' where you send your browser to a default IP address then pick your redundancy (RAID 1/JBOD) with details on how it affects your storage size vs safety - then allow further configuration for important folders (create redundancy) for those who don't choose a RAID 1 setup.
Should have been a pretty trivial, but very useful addition. Reply
Hrel - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linklol, people would never EVER read it. I guarantee it. Reply
Flunk - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkThat would create support calls rather than prevent them. You cannot underestimate the idiocy of some people. Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkThat's why I said "JBOD presented as a drive pool", so the software only shows the user 8TB, but has no idea how it is arranged, but perhaps I wasn't clear enough. My home server is many drives that I have arranged into a single 35TB pool that the OS sees as "Drive Z". Then the very simple software asks me if I want to make the whole pool redundant and/or specific folders and how many copies I want maintained.
I think the fallout that would be nothing compared to losing 8TB of RAID0. Seriously. Reply
Flunk - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkHardware doesn't support something so complicated. Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkDoesn't have to, it would all be software on the client computer. Reply
Hrel - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkYou guys and your mirrored RAIDS. What value does running a mirrored RAID provide when you have all the data on the NAS backed up? A NAS/DAS is not a backup solution. It's a convenience. Reply
p1esk - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkFor vast majority of people who buy it, this DAS will store the one and only copy of their data. And given the choice of "reliable 4TB" vs "unreliable 8TB" I'm guessing most would pick the first option. Reply


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Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360 - A Tour of the 360's Motherboardby Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/18/2005 12:19 AM EST
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Bally900 - Monday, June 02, 2008 - linkHi everyone.
I have removed the gpu clamp from the bottom of the xbox motherboard, there seems to be some blown components, therefore I was hoping there was some good photo's of the motherboard with gpu xclamp removed?? Any help is v much appreciated.
Kensei - Sunday, November 20, 2005 - linkFYI... have a look at last Friday's WSJ article on the XBox 360. Lots of interesting information on how the XBox is made in China.
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Clauzii - Sunday, November 20, 2005 - linkI think there is too much ´splatter´ on that GPU-tingy.. Reply
agnot - Saturday, November 19, 2005 - linkWhy was Hypertransport classified as a serial bus? As implemented on K8, it's a 16-bit wide data bus in each direction, so 32 pins in total for data per HT link. Moreover it doesn't have any SERDES logic (serializer/deserializer that converts parallel data to serial data and vice versa). This gives Hypertransport a latency advantage over serial links that require these extra steps, and low latency, as I understand it, was one of the main concerns when developing Hypertransport. Reply
segfault7 - Sunday, November 20, 2005 - linkI wondered the same thing. Althought the author is confused on this point he does make a nice comparison between serial and parallel buses.
"Note the clear definition of the traces the clean routing, to the point where you can count the individual data, address and clock lines:"
This statement also is a little misleading since every serial bus that I have looked at (PCIe/SATA/IB) dervives the clock from the data stream. Additionally the address and data are typically sent on the same lines in the form of a packet.
Good article. I'm looking forward to the flurry of xbox 360 hacking that is about to ensue. Reply
TheInvincibleMustard - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkI like the inclusion of the little thumbnails with red circles on them. It's a simple yet effective method of communicating just where something is on the motherboard. Props to whoever proposed that idea!
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icube - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkI'm pretty sure that mystery chip is the custom hdtv encoder/scaler created by the old WebTV team for the xbox360. Maybe it has some other functions as well though.
See: http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2005/08/a_walk_th...">http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2005/08/a_walk_th...
Robbie Bach, the chief Xbox officer, even came down for a visit once to make sure all the WebTV folks stayed aboard and helped with the 360. He knew that they had a lot of options in the valley. One of the chips they designed was a TV encoder that would support the TV-side of the system.
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yacoub - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkThat comparison between serial and parallel on the last page was very informative. Sometimes a picture really does speak for a volume of words. Very cool. Reply
mlittl3 - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkThis is a great breakdown of a very custom, sophisticated motherboard. I was wondering if Anandtech could do the same thing with another custom, sophisticatd moetherboard...the one in the Powermac G5. That's got to have some pretty cool features also. Reply
stmok - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkI'm always curious...We can modify the current Xbox 1 to run Linux...How about the 360? :) Reply
Calin - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkI don't think you can modify it now to run Linux - at least not to run Linux well. The hardware inside doesn't have yet drivers in Linux (while the CPU could be supported right now by Linux, the video probably isn't. The others probably are, but might not identify themselves as the parts they (just like the chips are engraved with Microsoft XBox 360 no matter who produce them) Reply
Alphafox78 - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkIts way too early for that, the DRM has to be cracked first so uncoded apps can be used Reply
Phantronius - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkYou would think Anandtech had never seen a console before judging from the way they rip into them like a 5 year old. Reply
ksherman - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkYOU HAVE A YONAH PROCESSOR!?!?!?! is it any good? i guess it would likely be under an NDA...
Great article! too bad i cant afford one of these puppies for a while... happy with my BF2 fragging machine for now! Reply
fuzzynavel - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkNice pair of 360 articles....but have you actually played the damn thing yet!!!! Reply
finbarqs - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkYes, playing the game, are ANY games 60 FPS? 30 FPS is the previous gen, we're moving to a new era where all games needs to be 60fps... Namely Bizarre, who keeps saying that their PGr3 game will run at 60 fps... But been so quiet since they said it.. In fact, no one mentions it... Bizarre probably has a NDA on that because people will not buy the game because it didn't hit 60fps. Reply
Calin - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkYes, I was wondering about that too... Reply
mrgq912 - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkI always thought those lines on the motherboards were a design element. Who ever knew it actually carried data.
Learn something new on anand everyday. got a love it.
Zirconium - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkAll kidding aside, it is interesting to see the ways the board designers try to make all the traces the same length from the GPU to the memory. It also shows that the technology is so fast, that slight differences in the amount of time it takes the signal to travel can cause errors. Reply
Googer - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkThey are just like physical copper wires and those lines are not there for beauty either. Some lines carry data and others transmit the various levels of power (voltage) needed to run the components. These are the lines that keep every thing on and connected to each other. Reply
Calin - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkPower can be provided using two complete layers- one for ground, one for power. With the added benefit that, if they separate layers with data connections (those nice lines), they reduce interference between signals on different layers. Reply
Lifted - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkLoading a little faster this time around. Ohh look, pictures! Reply
Gigahertz19 - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkHaha 1st post..who carez about X-Box..I got my PC Reply
Donegrim - Friday, November 18, 2005 - linkA pc with a similar spec to the xbox would cost at least 3 times as much, probably more. And to play multiplayer games you would need another pc per person. Reply
DrZoidberg - Monday, November 21, 2005 - linku dont need another pc for multiplayer, u just need to play online multiplayer games. Reply
Griswold - Friday, November 18, 2005 - link3 times the price of an xbox360 isnt that much really. Especially when you think about the tenfold possibilites you have with a PC compared to a console. These arguments just dont cut it. If you can get the games you want to play on the PC you work with, no point in buying a console. If you prefer the console style games and dont really care too much about a PC besides browsing and e-mails, stick to the consoles.
If you want the best of both worlds, get both.
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Alienware Area-51 m9750: Power Gaming on the Goby Jarred Walton on 8/24/2007 8:00 AM EST
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Guspaz - Saturday, September 01, 2007 - linkAnybody considering buying a gaming notebook should refuse to purchase one until nVidia gets their act together and starts releasing notebook drivers with regularity.
I myself am a notebook gamer, with a modest Dell Inspiron 9400, Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz, and aGeForce Go 7900gs. I run Vista.
Well, nVidia currently DOES NOT OFFER Vista notebook drivers at all. Not a one, nada. Your only options are to either use Dell's driver, which is an ancient beta missing support for most features of the GPU, or a hacked desktop driver (which still is missing many features under Vista, and lacks PowerMizer support).
Under XP, the situation isn't much better. nVidia's latest notebook drivers for XP are 84.63, released over a year ago on July 5, 2006.
Your notebook manufacturer MIGHT provide newer drivers, if you're LUCKY. For Dell's part, their XP drivers are still ancient and stuck in the 90 series, and they only ever released ONE driver for Vista, probably thinking "Well, they have drivers now, that's good enough."
In order to play BioShock on a notebook, you have NO other option but to hack the desktop drivers.
This is NOT an acceptable situation. As notebook gamers, we should REQUIRE nVidia to SUPPORT THEIR PRODUCT and release regular updates for their cards. The fact that their desktop drivers work so well on notebooks with a simple INF tweak should show you how EASY it would be for them to release official notebook drivers. They give us this bullshit story about how driver updates need to come from the notebook manufacturers due to differences between notebooks. This is bullshit. I don't get my desktop graphics drivers from Abit because they happen to have made the motherboard.
So what do I plan to do? I have no choice. I'll keep using hacked desktop drivers for lack of ANY other option. Reply
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strafejumper - Friday, August 24, 2007 - linki never understood the concept of all these laptops such as this alienware
the idea of a laptop to me is it is portable
however if the battery only last 60 mins it is not really that portable
for $5000 i would want to be able to for example watch a dvd
however this cannot even do that seemingly simple task!
battery life to me is so much more useful than the extra cpu and gpu cycles
when watching a dvd, browsing the internet, playing cards, backgammon, chess or other simple games, listening to music, typing documents, emailing, messengering etc. etc. the extra horsepower of the cpu and gpu are not even being used.
battery life > some extra frames in the latest game (which is better on a desktop probably anyway with bigger screen, full keyboard + mouse, desk, speakers, etc.) Reply
Inkjammer - Saturday, August 25, 2007 - linkI am one of the people who have bought, buy and will buy workstations like these. People like me don't buy them as a "laptop" but as a "portable desktop replacement" (DTR).
Some of the justifications:
Lugging an entire system to LAN parties can be frustrating, especially since I have a 24" monitor, large keyboard. I'm also using a Coolermaster 830 CM Stacker case, which weighs a ton, and breaking it down, setting it up can take far, far too long.
I also tend to take my DTR notebooks systems with me to work, where I can game during nightshifts. I'm also stationed overseas, so being able to easily transport a FULL system, even if contains in a laptop, is invaluable. I also do high end art and 3D animation, and need the additional power for job and hobby.
The tradeoff for portability and battery life on a notebook is fairly steep, but there's not much in the way of compromise.
And yes, I have a second laptop for my "on the go" needs. Reply
yyrkoon - Friday, August 24, 2007 - linkSome people do not have room for a desktop(or a desk), and use nothing but laptops. Others may travel, staying in hotels nightly, having a plug available, but do not want to tote around a desktop with them. Other people like truckers may be able to use an AC inverter for power, but have limited room in their sleepers for a computer.
Having said that, I have been a trucker, and kept a full sized desktop in my sleeper, and I have also worked over the road, staying in a hotel nightly, and used a desktop during this time as well. Not everyone is like me however, and some of these people may preffer something smaller, and easier to carry around, or maybe just smaller to maximize their given 'alotted space' where ever they may be. I wouldnt buy one though . . .
wolfman3k5 - Saturday, August 25, 2007 - linkWell, how about there east bound, you got your ears on? I totally know what you mean, how ever I never had time for gaming. Battery life was always more important to me. I'm also an ex trucker, God, it's a lonely job. Anyway, just wanted to say hi:) Reply
yyrkoon - Monday, August 27, 2007 - linkMyself, for 2 years(and around 200k miles) I would typically drive 8HRs/day, 2-3 months at a time. Plenty of down time, and plenty of time to game, even in the early to mid 90's ;) Of course back then, there was nothing like this availible, and I was probably one of the first drivers to have a full blown desktop in their cab(IMB compatable 386SX-25 with 4 MB of ram YEEE HAAW!) lol . . . Reply
yyrkoon - Monday, August 27, 2007 - linkIBM compatable . . . Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, August 27, 2007 - linkIBM compatible you mean? :) Reply
MissPriss - Monday, August 27, 2007 - linkWho are *you* to correct misspellings?! Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, August 27, 2007 - linkI'm Jarred Walton, and I think Yyrkoon knows I'm only kidding around. (I hope?) Who are you? :) Reply
PeteRoy - Friday, August 24, 2007 - linkI hate these graphs that you have to look at the legend and remember the colors to be able to compare the systems.
Bring back the old bars that are easy to understand with the system name on the left of the bar without it going up and down in the chart.
Please. Reply
Frumious1 - Friday, August 24, 2007 - linkI think the charts are fine! If anyone finds the graphs in this review to be too difficult to understand, I'm not sure what they're doing reading Anandtech in teh first place. The technical jargon is a lot more confusing than a graph that shows the Alienware laptop consistently at the top, but most of us manage to deal with that. Reply
customcoms - Friday, August 24, 2007 - link99% of your graphs, including all of the ones in this article, are very easy to read and make the most sense for the data conveyed. And if anyone has tried making graphs on a computer before, you can understand the often annoying, time-consuming process it takes, and appreciate the work Jarred and the other anandtech editors go through so we can spend 10 seconds looking over a graph that probably took 10 minutes to make.
The only graphs I have a problem with are the cooling graphs in the heatsink reviews, and the problem with those is there is too much data for the graph! Reply
sc3252 - Saturday, August 25, 2007 - linkGraphs are some of the easiest things to make in articles, writing should be the long part. At most they take 3 minutes or less in any decent office program. As far as their readability, I didn't have any problems, but I did just skim the article. Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, August 26, 2007 - linkMwahahahahaaa! 3 minutes for the graphs!? Wow, you need to try doing one of these things. That, or I seriously need to get a clue on how to do Excel graphs faster. Let me give you a rundown of how it goes.
1) Take spreadsheet from last article and insert a new row (or two) for every benchmark with the name of the new tested system. Then input the new results. This usually takes 15 minutes and is the easiest part.
2) All the stuff done with the AnandTech graphing engine is relatively straightforward: export the Excel to CSV, then import that into the graphing engine. Go through and size all the graphs as necessary and change line coloring. 15-30 minutes depending on the article, usually.
3) The graphs in Excel. Wow, where to begin? First, since I'm now using Excel 2007, there are some MAJOR graph bugs. If you just right-click a chart and try to change the source data, the charts go nuts. I have no idea what MS did, other than adding some nice line antialiasing, but the Excel 2007 chart UI is garbage as far as I'm concerned. So, I start (on a second PC) in Excel 2003. *IF* all of the benches are the exact same as a previous article, it's pretty simple: you change the source data for each chart to include the new laptop. Modify the line for that laptop so that it's thicker, and make sure all the line colors and thickness settings are correct (i.e. so that the same laptop is always the same color). This usually takes at least 30 minutes.
In this article, there were several sources for the benchmarks. The gaming stuff was mostly from the Dell M1710 article, while some of the other benchmarks came from elsewhere (i.e. the PC Club article). (Sometimes, adding another system can make the legend too big, so then you're stuck with resizing and such.)
4) Once the charts are done in Excel 2003, I save and open in 2007 (to get the nicer looking lines). Then I take screen captures, paste into Photoshop, and crop off the excess white space and other junk. (This involves a lot of select/copy/past stuff, plus a couple macros to help with the cropping.) I spent at least a couple hours getting all of the gaming charts updated and making sure they look right. I wish Excel communicated better with Photoshop, but I find that when I just copy the chart and paste into PS, things usually get resized a bit in random ways. Since I want all the charts to be the same size, that just doesn't work for me.
As an aside, the LCD results alone typically take a couple hours to get ready, adding the data, resizing, tweaking, etc. (Not to mention running the benchmarks for all of this stuff multiple times, but I'm sure everyone realizes how much time that can take).
Bottom line, I find that getting *all* the graphs ready (plus often rerunning a few tests at the last minute because the results don't look right initially) is an all-day affair. Then there's the images... that's easily another day or two, taking, retaking, and then Photoshopping the pictures. (Let's just say that the laptop pictures aren't taken against a pure white background with no texture, so there's a lot of cleanup involved.) This article was intended to be done by Wednesday, but over the course of the week it ended up getting finished Friday morning.
Running the tests is still the longest part of any review, however, especially if there's any back-and-forth between the manufacturer, or some issues come up that need to be addressed. (For example, I tried to review an Alienware notebook last year and eventually had to give up because of some testing issues I kept encountering on that model.) If someone could give me all the data I needed - and I trusted the source - and all I had to do was write the text, I think I could get the text done in two days at most. Basically, I count on three weeks of testing and benchmarking (I don't even want to think how often I install Windows in any given week....) followed by a solid week's worth of writing. If I cut out certain tests, I could probably reduce the testing significantly, but then I wouldn't be as sure of the results.
If any of you really think this stuff seems easy and would like to give it a shot - realizing that proper benchmarking and the ability to get repeatable results is very high on the list of priorities - drop me a line. Gary has talked with a lot of people about doing motherboard reviews, but by the time they realize everything involved, many decide it's not worth the effort. No guarantees or anything, but if you know hardware and can write coherently, there's a good chance we can use you. Convincing us that you're worth hiring: that's the hard part. :) Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 24, 2007 - linkI tried to make sure all the colors were consistent in the scaling graphs. I just can't imagine that stretching the gaming results into nine pages with 36 graphs would really help that much, especially in this type of article. The scaling graphs are so clear that I'm not sure what the difficulty is. Alienware is the bar at the top, XPS M1710 is next, ABS Z5 is below that, and the ASUS A8Js and G2P occupy the bottom area. These charts actually require quite a bit more effort to create than a simple bar chart, but the data density is higher, conveying information in a much more concise fashion. For example, it allows everyone to quickly see whether we're CPU limited or not.
I'm curious, how many other readers out there really dislike these types of charts? If no one thinks they're useful, I could save myself quite a bit of effort. Or is this just a case of a vocal minority, and most of you agree with me that the scaling charts are better? Let me know. Reply
strikeback03 - Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - linkI like these charts better. Lots of bar charts would take forever to compare across charts and pages.
Not shown in this review, but occasionally your results have a bar chart for one resolution and then the line graphs for all resolutions. The Bar chart seems redundant when the numbers are listed in the line chart and you have the line. Reply
kmmatney - Friday, August 24, 2007 - linkThe charts look fine here. However similar charts used in the CPU heatsink articles have gotten out of hand... Reply
Frumious1 - Friday, August 24, 2007 - linkOop - was apparently posting at the same time as you. Count me for keeping the graphs as is! Reply
Marlin1975 - Friday, August 24, 2007 - linkIt still uses the 945 chipset and not the newwer 965?
I would think being on the cutting edge it would benifit fromt he new Mem. controller and other upgrades the 965 had? Reply
toon26 - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkI have buy this portable with 4 giga of mémory but the bios reconize just 2559Mb of méméory.
Commercial service of alienware For the small history my son comes to acquire this portable with option 4 giga of memory (it makes studies to become data-processing engineer) and appear that the BIOS of this portable recognizes only 2555Mo of memory.
The engineering department of Alienware is informed of a problem on this BIOS. The sales department of Alienware wants to offer a mouse well to my son for the damage undergoes (the option to pass from 2 to 4 giga has to cost 280 to him€, for a portable with 3400€)
Most comic of the history it is that the site of Alienware always proposes this option of the 4 gigas who is completely unusable so much than a new BIOS will not come to correct this problem.
All the tests which I could read on this portable in the newspaper industry or on Internet were made only with 2 giga of memory, and thus nobody could locate this BUG, not even the Alienware company which is praised to make pass more than 200 tests to your portable before sending it to you
JarredWalton - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkWhich is why I have the following in the review:
Memory options consist of the standard 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB of memory. All three options populate both SO-DIMM slots, and we would strongly encourage all buyers to upgrade to a minimum 2GB of memory. At the same time, upgrading to 4GB of RAM is currently incredibly expensive ($1000) and would also require the use of a 64-bit operating system (see below), so we wouldn't recommend that upgrade. In other words, take Alienware's - and our - recommendation and go with the 2GB memory configuration. Whichever RAM size you select, you will get DDR2-667 memory.
The OS options further cement the deal: no 64-bit, don't bother with the hugely expensive memory upgrade! And of course, for 64-bit you'd need new GPU drivers, which are MIA. Reply
yacoub - Monday, September 03, 2007 - linkNope, most major laptop manufacturers (Dell/Alienware being prime examples) seem to have a fetish for extremely over-priced laptops with outdated chipsets. Here, pay $5,000 and we'll give you 945 and DX9. WOW WHAT A DEAL! ;P Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 24, 2007 - linkIt's a case of time to market. SLI notebooks were initially demoed at CES 2006. The first ones didn't show up until quite a bit later, and they were Go 7900 GTX cards. NVIDIA released the faster Go 7950 GTX, but I don't believe laptops supporting the faster cards became available until early 2007. Alienware probably doesn't have to resources to update their laptop line every time a new chipset comes out. Besides, they'd still have to deal with NVIDIA's driver updates (or lack thereof), and Santa Rosa wouldn't make that big of a difference in most titles - especially not in the GPU limited games. Reply


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This article was published 20/8/2014 (1098 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
As the old saying goes, time flies when you're having fun.
But as it turns out, time doesn't necessarily fly when you're flying through time. And in the context of historical-fantasy storytelling, maybe that's not such a bad thing.
The much-anticipated Canadian première of Outlander (Aug. 24 on Showcase; check listings for time), the sci-fi/fantasy/romance series based on the immensely popular book series by Diana Gabaldon, brings to the tube a saga that's rich in detail, filled with intriguing characters and complex interpersonal entanglements, beautifully filmed and edited, but in absolutely no hurry to get its story told.
Outlander, which debuted earlier this month on U.S. cable's Starz network, is very much committed to lingering in its softly lit moments, making the experience of viewing it much more akin to relaxing in a comfy chair, immersed in one of Gabaldon's novels, than white-knuckling your way through any of the other various costume dramas on TV these days.
The series, adapted for TV by Ronald D. Moore (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica), focuses on the time-warped adventures of Claire Randall (played by Irish model-turned-actress Caitriona Balfe), a fiercely independent mid-20th-century English woman who has just returned from serving as a nurse during Britain's Second World War effort.
It's six months after the war when the series opens, and Claire and her husband, Frank (Tobias Menzies), are making tentative steps toward rebuilding their relationship after five years spent apart (she was serving in the field, while he was in London working in the British Army's intelligence unit).
In search of some quality reconnection time, they venture north to the Scottish Highlands, where Frank -- now headed into a career in academia as a history professor at Oxford -- plans to spend some time researching his family's roots. Claire, following on her medical work, has taken an interest in healing plants and intends to track down a few heathery herbs to add to her holistic arsenal.
The trip seems to be going well -- Claire and Frank certainly have no trouble rekindling the physical passion in their relationship -- until one morning when Claire sets out alone to visit a circle of ceremonial stones at which they'd secretly witnessed a pagan Druid ritual the previous day.
She finds the medicinal plant she'd been seeking, but then Claire is startled by a strange sound, and when she touches the largest of the upward-reaching stones, she's sent spinning.
When her eyes open, she's in the same place, but it soon becomes clear that there's something very different about the time. Red-coated English soldiers and plaid-clad Scottish warriors are locked in a furious battle all around her, and there's a very good chance that Claire could become one of the casualties. The year, she will find out much later, is 1743.
Fleeing from the skirmish, she ends up at a creek bed where she encounters an English officer who looks eerily like husband Frank. In fact, it's the ruthless redcoat known as Jonathan (Black Jack) Randall, the very ancestor whose exploits Frank had been researching the past few days -- or a couple of hundred years into the future, whatever the current case may be.
Black Jack turns out to be a nasty character, and he immediately turns his lustful attention to Claire. But before he can assault her, she's rescued by a dashing young Highlander named Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), who carries her off after punching the redcoat's lights out.
He takes her back to his camp, where the rest of the rebel band is waiting. Claire is viewed with suspicion by leader Dougal MacKenzie (Graham McTavish), who fears she is a Sassenach (English/outlander) spy. But after Claire demonstrates her ability to attend to wounded soldiers' wounds, Dougal decides that she might turn out to be an asset, after all.
And so begins Claire's back-in-time adventure -- a sometimes dreamy, sometimes gritty, romance-infused historical romp created by Gabaldon after she spent many months trying to decide what kind of an author she wanted to become.
"I wanted to write a novel, and I had never written a novel, and I said, 'The only way I can learn how is to write one, so, fine -- I'll write a novel for practice,'" Gabaldon, 62, said earlier this year when Outlander was introduced during the Starz's portion of the U.S. networks' semi-annual press tour in Los Angeles. "So the next question was, what sort of novel should this be?... I said, 'Maybe I should write a mystery. I read lots of mysteries,' and then I said, 'No, mysteries have plots; I'm not sure I can do that.'
"And so I said, 'What's the easiest kind of book there might be to write?' For me, maybe, a historical novel -- I was a research professor (and) I knew my way around a library, so it seemed easier to look things up than to make things up," says the Arizona-born former scientific-computing expert, whose books have sold more than 27 million copies.
"I was casting around for a time and place (for the story), and happened to see a really old Doctor Who rerun -- it was with the second Doctor, made maybe 50 years ago, in which the Doctor had picked up a young Scotsman from 1745, and it was a young man named Jamie McCrimmon who appeared in his kilt.
"I thought that was kind of fetching, and I was still thinking about it the next day in church. So I said to myself, 'I would like to write a book. It doesn't really matter where you set it. The important thing is pick a point and start.' And I said, 'Fine. Scotland, 18th century.' So that's where I started."
Thanks to that simple but slightly twisted bit of literary logic, the the kind of novelist Gabaldon turned out to be is a very successful one. Viewers of Outlander will no doubt be thrilled she happened upon that rerun of Doctor Who and his 18th-century kilted companion.
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PRINCETON, N.J. -Ivy League champions. All it took was a total team effort on the road against the four-time defending champions and the University of Pennsylvania women's basketball team raised the Ivy trophy at Jadwin Gym on Tuesday night. The Quakers led wire-to-wire and defeated Princeton, 80-64, to earn the program's first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 2003-04.
This is Penn's third Ivy League title, and its first in 10 years. The Quakers (22-6, 12-2 Ivy) tied a school record for wins in a season and their 12 league wins are second-most in program history. Princeton, which lost at home to an Ivy opponent for just the second time in the last five seasons, fell to 20-8 overall and finished second in the Ancient Eight standings at 11-3.
Penn jumped out to an early lead and led by 12 at the half. The Quakers were up by as many as 17 early in the second half and never allowed the Tigers closer than nine the rest of the way.
Senior captain and the program's second all-time leading scorer, Alyssa Baron, started the scoring at the 19:12 mark and Penn never trailed. With a 6-5 lead, the Quakers held Princeton scoreless for seven minutes -- forcing seven turnovers in that span.
In the meantime, the Quakers poured in 10 points behind four buckets from four different players and led 16-5 at the 9:45 mark after back-to-back threes from junior Kathleen Roche and senior captain Meghan McCullough.
Princeton closed to within 20-13 with 6:29 left in the opening half, but Penn scored eight of the next 10. Onback-to-back possessions,Baron converted a three-point play and then sank a three to give Penn a 28-15 advantage with 4:12 until the break.
The Quakers held that 13-point edge until intermission and led, 32-19. It was the lowest-scoring first half of the season for the Tigers.
In the second half, Princeton's Ivy League leading offense came alive. But each time the Quakers had an answer. Penn's 48 points were the most in a half under head coach Mike McLaughlin.
After the Tigers had the first four points to get within nine, Penn went on a 10-2 run. When McCullough found junior Kara Bonenberger, who finished one rebound shy of a double-double, for a fastbreak layup, the Quakers had their largest lead, 42-25 with 16:50 to play.
Princeton countered with seven straight over the next three minutes. But once again, the Quakers responded. Senior captain Courtney Wilson, who played 15 minutes off the bench,had back-to-back buckets and Penn was up, 46-34, with 11:51 to go.
The teams traded buckets until Princeton closed within 53-44 with 8:55 to go. But Bonenberger converted a three-point play and Baron hit a jumper to push Penn's lead back to 58-44 with 7:39 to play.
Princeton was never within double digits again. The Tigers closed to within 65-54 with 3:23 to go, but the Quakers connected on 15-of-18 (.833) free throws in the final three minutes to snap an 11-game losing streak to Princeton and post the program's first win at Jadwin Gym in nine years.
Inside the Numbers
Baron led four Penn players in double figures with 23 points, and she also added seven rebounds, four assists and two steals. She led Penn in scoring for the 73rd time in her career and moved into ninth-place on the Ivy League's all-time scoring list and now has 1,781 points. The Miami, Fla., native also moved into fourth-place at Penn with 161 career made threes.
Both freshmanSydney Stipanovich(19 points, 9 rebounds) and Bonenberger(11 points, 9 rebounds) nearly had double-doubles, while Rocheknocked down three three-pointers en route to 17 points.
McCullough added six points, four rebounds, four assists and a season-high four steals. She, along with Baron and Stipanovich, played every minute prior to being pulled to a standing ovation from the Quaker faithful in the waning seconds.
Penn improved to 16-0 this year and 34-1 over the last three seasons when shooting better than 40 percent from the field. The Quakers were an impressive 27-of-56 (48.2%) overall and 6-of-17 (35.3%) from three.
Meanwhile, Penn, which ranks third in the nation in field goal percentage defense, held Princeton's offense, which ranks seventh-best in the country in field goal percentage (47.6%), to just 24-of-64 (37.5%) from the field. The Tigers were 8-of-20 (40.0%) from beyond the arc. Penn also held the edge in rebounding, 40-37, over a Princeton team that averaged a plus-10 in rebounding margin entering the game.
Outside the Box Score
-Penn's fifth straight win and 14th in the last 15 games gives the Quakers 22 victories for 2013-14 and ties the program record set during the 2000-01 campaign. It also marks the first win over Princeton since an 85-78 victory exactly six years ago to the day.
- Penn's 40 wins over the last two seasons matches the best two-year span in school history (1999-00 and 2000-01).
- Penn has won 22 of its last 26 games and seven of the last eight games.
- The Red and Blue are 20-0 this season when scoring more than 60 points and 47-8 under Coach McLaughlin (.855).
- Penn is 18-1 all-time under Coach McLaughlin when scoring at least 70 points.
- Penn scored 80 points for the third time this season and the fifth time under Coach McLaughlin.
- Penn is 14-1 this season when shooting better than 70 percent from the free throw line and 9-0 when Roche hits multiple threes.
- Penn has won 27 of the last 28 games when outrebounding its opponents.
- This marked Princeton's second home Ivy loss in the last 38 games dating back to the 2008-09 season.
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Penn heads to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003-04. The NCAA selection show is Monday night and will be televised on ESPN.
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Mothers with a Vision in Kapeitum, Kenya
Editor's Note: This post comes to us from Betty Cheyech, Nutrition Officer for Action Against Hunger in West Pokot, Kenya. Our thanks to Betty, and to 1,000 Days, a consortium of NGOs dedicated to maximizing a child's critical nutrition window from conception to the 2nd birthday and one of which we're proud to be a part. 1,000 Days will feature this post as part of its special March for Nutrition campaign, taking place this month.
For mothers in Kosulol, located in the southern part of West Pokot County in Kenya, life had been all about childbearing and taking care of their husbands.
A new phase in their lives started in November 2012, following a visit to Chepareria Sub-district Hospital by Action Against Hunger staff. After attending sensitisation sessions, the women joined a Mother-to-Mother Support Group (MTMSG), initiated and supported by our staff and the Ministry of Health.
With a total of 25 mothers (five pregnant and 20 nursing), the Kapeitum MTMSG was formed the very same month. A little more than a year later, it is one of the most active groups among 155 mothers' groups in West Pokot County.
The mothers used to meet once a month at a health center for trainings facilitated by health workers, before relocating to the village where they now hold meetings once a week in a member's house.
March 2013 was a turning point for Kapeitum mothers, as they initiated income-generating activities such as poultry keeping and vegetable farming. They planted cabbages in half-acre land plots and have 300 chickens. With the 60,000 Kenya shillings the Kapeitum MTMSG has in its bank account, the mothers are working with the Ministry of Agriculture to build a greenhouse which would help them diversify production of tomatoes, capsicum and other horticultural crops.
In addition, the group has composed songs advocating for good maternal, infant, and young child nutrition. During World Breastfeeding Week last year, they presented a song at Chepkopech trading center, where the event was held.
An official from the Pokot South District Health Management Team, Thomas Chikichik, recently praised the group:
"I encourage more mothers to join the mother support groups and follow the footsteps of Kapeitum group. They will learn more on infant and young child nutrition and become role models in the community."
—Thomas Chikichik
A husband to a member of the group members, Amos Loyatum, says: "When my wife first joined the group, I thought it was a waste of time since she used to attend trainings twice every week. I disputed it bitterly and often quarrelled her whenever she returned home from the meetings. Months later, I noticed a lot of changes in our son, who is now seven months old. We rarely take him to the hospital for treatment, except for immunizations. This is when I learned the benefits of the mothers' group. I admire their income-generating activities. We should also be supported to form fathers' groups that will work hand in hand with mothers, and benefit."


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My open letter to the editor for SAAM 2014
This blog post was originally developed for my dear friend at the Resource Sharing Project, who was collecting editorials to submit to Iowa newspapers. When I asked if I could also share it here, she said "Send it to every paper and blog across the land!" With that in mind, if you do decide to share it, please connect back to the source and give credit to Ali Mailen Perrotto and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
To the editor,
We call my daughter "Smooch" because we're sure that by the time she's a year old she'll have gotten 10 trillion kisses. In fact, "Ten Trillion Kisses!" was our loving the new baby mantra when we brought her home to meet the whole family. By the end of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April, she'll be 11 months old. I'm pretty sure that we're near our mark.
This year, April means something extra special to me. I'm almost a year into being a mom and each day I remember something else that I have to make sure I do to help end sexual violence in the world where my baby girl lives. Any parents who read this know that this is on top of all of the other things you're trying to remember in the cloud of sleep deprivation. I too am guilty of forgetting the diaper bag and leaving the (blessed) coffee pot on when tearing out of the house on a typical Tuesday. Still, I need to remember to do a few more things. It's the least I can do.
My sexual violence prevention work starts at home. In my family, with my partner, raising my child, I make the decision to have conversations with the people who know and love Smooch as much as I do. I talk about my decision to use the proper names for all of her body parts. I don't think she'll learn to say vagina by the end of April, but I do think she'll always feel comfortable naming and discussing her body as she grows up.
Her dad and I have had breakfast table discussions about how common it is for even very young children to rub their genitals in a soothing way. We've talked about the difference between healthy childhood sexual development and when behaviors start to become concerning. We have these discussions now because we always want to show Smooch that we're comfortable with whatever questions she has and ready to help her figure out life and relationships. We want to be able to identify early warning signs of sexual abuse if that should ever occur.
When friends talk about Smooch growing up and marrying their little boys, I make it a point to say that she might want to grow up and marry their daughters instead. I never want my Smooch to feel shame for who she is or who she loves.
As per the recommendation of her pediatrician, we don't turn on the TV during her waking hours. Balance that with the fact that I'm already thinking about the media she will consume one day. How will I explain the Disney princesses' need to get married and live happily ever after? What about the princess that decides to go to college and start a rewarding career instead? Why are there so many more boys on TV than girls? Why are most characters thin, white, young, and attractive?
As she continues to grow, I will keep having discussions with her that help to build a healthy, resilient child. I want Smooch to grow up in a world where she is valued for so much more than her sexuality. At the same time, I want to have all of the tools she needs to grow into a sexually healthy adult.
I'm thankful for the information and resources provided for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. They have helped me to learn about the conversations to have, and how to even get them started. Learn more at nsvrc.org/saam. I know you love your children enough to help build a world free of sexual violence. These are conversations we need to get there. This April, "It's time…to talk about it. Your voice. Our Future. Prevent Sexual Violence."
This is my second blog post in a series on the intersections of feminism, National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and Sexual Assault Awareness Month.


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By Dr. Jan Meyer
Monday, January 07, 2013 4:25 AM
Airman Steven McElmury, a 2012 graduate of Lanesboro High School, recently shared some of his experiences in the Air Force while home for the holidays.
When most people think of basic military training, the first thing that likely comes to mind is physical exertion. After all, don't they do those 100-mile runs with a 70-pound backpack? But that is not what stands out when Airman Steven McElmury is asked about his experiences so far in the U.S. Air Force.
McElmury, a 2012 graduate of Lanesboro High School, was sworn in to active duty on Sept. 18 and reported to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He spent the next eight and a half weeks becoming acclimated to a new way of life - and a new way of looking at life.
Basic training not same as boot camp
He agreed that the stereotype that most people hold about basic military training is "boot camp": a lot of physical activity and combat training from early morning until night. But the Air Force uses a different model. They do have physical training every day in the summer starting at 4:45 a.m.; in the winter that is changed to afternoons. But that is only a small part of the day's schedule.
Most of the new recruits' time is spent in a classroom learning skills, covering a wide variety of subjects. As McElmury described it, "They walk us through everything."
He cited as an example "personal finance," which is something he will use not just during his tenure in the Air Force, but for the rest of his life. He said that basic training was literally "setting us up for the future."
Another life skill that he feels he will take with him after his Air Force career is what he has learned about teamwork. Everything that gets done is done in a team, and anyone who has not been "a team player" before learns pretty quickly how important it is and how it makes their jobs - whatever they are - go more smoothly and quickly.
When asked if he experienced any surprises in this first round of his military career, he said no. He had learned to follow the rules, and to present himself in a professional manner. He said there are always some in a group that are not used to a demanding routine, but he said they learn quickly.
He also explained that the biggest challenge so far for him was being cut off from the outside world: they could get regular mail, but only one phone call per week. There were no cell phones or computers. He thought that was the hardest thing to which he had to adjust, but the rest of his enlistment won't be like that.
His next job will require lots of teamwork
Being a good team member is very relevant to what his next duties in the Air Force will be. After his current leave is up, which was on Jan. 2, he will report to Shepherd Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Kan., for the next phase of his training where he will attend technical school.
When in boot camp, the recruits make a choice of an area in which they would like to serve; McElmury chose Mechanical Aptitude and was given a list of specific jobs currently open in that area. They are then to list their top eight choices, in priority order of one to eight. He chose Crew Chief for the C5 cargo planes as his number one choice and was fortunate enough to have gotten that choice. The very large four-engine jet hauls just about anything, from food, equipment and people to other smaller aircraft and drones.
He will complete 28 classroom days of training for that position while at Shepherd. After that he will be based at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for the next four years of his six-year enlistment. His first assignment at Dover will be a sort of apprentice position during which he will prove that he knows the job and can do it. And then he will be in charge, responsible for "making sure the airplane is ready to fly." That includes the inspections of the airplane's general maintenance, right down to checking panels, screws and tires, basically what passengers see a commercial captain doing before entering the cockpit.
If he finds something wrong, as crew chief he will call a specific shop to come and do the repair. He will then "marshal" the plane on and off the runway. For people watching that part of the operation, he'd be the person with the wands, waving signals from the ground to the flight deck crew both as the plane departs a gate and as it returns and is parked.
As he pointed out, the emphasis on teamwork during basic will be reinforced when he is on the job. He said they learn to rely on others. And of course there are still occasions when stress and tension will happen, and he described using humor, joking around, as a form of tension release.
He was quick to point out they "don't joke around when in working mode," another basic training lesson he will take with him.
Many rewarding aspects of being part of the Air Force
McElmury obviously made a well-thought-out choice prior to enlisting, and has had many of his reasons confirmed for selecting the Air Force over the other service branches. He believes it to be "self-rewarding," both long-term and short-term.
He said the Air Force is "more job-oriented," meaning that he will be better able to switch to a similar civilian job when he leaves the service. And if he were to be deployed overseas, it would be to work with the aircraft, on a secure base that has been there awhile, rather than into direct combat. He likes the future benefits, such as having the GI Bill when he is finished, so he can more easily go to school at that time if he chooses.
In the meantime, he really enjoys what he describes as the atmosphere in the Air Force. He said it is very positive and also supportive, and "that makes life easier."
He has made many friends, from all over, "every part of the country." He knows that he will run into many of them again, due to their future jobs being "so intertwined: anyone who works on any specific part of the airplane, or loading and unloading, will interact with the Crew Chief." So he expects to stay in touch with many of the people he has met so far.
When asked if he had advice for other young people trying to decide about their futures, McElmury indicated that he is very happy with the choice that he made. He feels it is important to think through what priorities are important, and to find a "good fit" with those priorities. For him, the long-range benefits were a big factor, and the Air Force is doing a good job in preparing him for that long-range.
In the meantime, Airman Steven McElmury is obviously a self-confident, very positive, dedicated, disciplined and determined young man, making good use of the opportunities that have and are coming his way. It might be said he gives the best advice by example!
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