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November 27, 2013
Cat Care Essentials
People assume their pet cats are independent, but they count on people to provide food, water, safe shelter, veterinary care, a clean litter box, love, and more. These are essential to having a healthy, happy cat.
November 26, 2013
Introducing Your New Dog to Your Other Dogs
From "the leader of the pack" to "the top dog," plenty of simplistic metaphors come from the canine world. But relationships between canines can be pretty complex, beginning with the very first meeting.
November 22, 2013
Wheat-Free Apple Crunchers
This easy recipe for homemade dog biscuits contains oats, applesauce, peanut butter, and other goodies to tempt your pooch.
November 20, 2013
Animal Research Facilities: Georgia
A list of animal research facilities located in Georgia and regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture with links to annual reports and inspection reports.
November 20, 2013
What to Do About Wild Turkeys
Once a rare sight, wild turkeys are now commonly found in urban and suburban areas, where they're not always welcome. But killing problem turkeys is not the answer. There are more effective, non-lethal ways to get rid of unwanted wild turkeys.
November 20, 2013
During the Season of Giving, Don't Forget Needy Pets
The holidays are an important time to expand your charity to include needy pets and their families. Take part in The HSUS's Fill the Bowl Project.
November 19, 2013
New Jersey Still Needs a Vote to Ban Cruel Gestation Crates
Even after Gov. Christie vetoed a popular bill to outlaw cruel gestation crates for mother pigs, the people of New Jersey can win the issue by asking for another vote.
November 15, 2013
Canadian Seafood Boycott Highlights
The Humane Society of the United States implemented a boycott of Canadian seafood in an effort to end the Canadian commercial seal hunt once and for all.
November 15, 2013
Old Dogs (and Cats), Still Great Tricks
Why adopt an older pet? Start with two reasons: Mature dogs will have probably gone through some basic obedience training, and adult cats are more likely to be litter-box trained. Read our other reasons.
November 15, 2013
Thank You for Pledging to Protect Seals!
Thank you page for chefs or restaurant professionals who sign the pledge to boycott Canadian seafood
November 15, 2013
Traveling with Your Pet: What to Pack and How to Prepare
Make trips with you pet safer and happier with preparation and a few basic supplies.
November 15, 2013
Sweet Potato Jerky for Dogs
Give your dog a treat by fixing this recipe for homemade sweet-potato jerky.
November 13, 2013
Traveling with Your Pet to Hawaii, Canada, or Mexico
Learn what to do to make your pet's trip to Hawaii, Canada, or Mexico safe.
November 13, 2013
Grocery Stores and Businesses Boycotting Canadian Seafood
Grocery stores and seafood companies that support the Canadian seafood boycott
November 13, 2013
Student Action: Choose Virtual Dissection!
Millions of frogs, turtles, cats, mice, rats, fish, and other animals are used in school dissection exercises every year. Yet a majority of students feel they should be given a choice or alternative when it comes to dissection. If you object to dissection, here's what you can do.
November 13, 2013
Canadian Seafood to Boycott
By boycotting common Canadian seafood such as snow crabs and lobster, you can help end the Canadian commercial seal hunt.
November 13, 2013
Dissection Campaign Packet
Our Dissection Campaign Packet will help you teach others about the dissection issue, as well as the need to replace the practice of killing and cutting up animals for education with effective, humane alternatives.
November 13, 2013
Questions and Answers About Dissection
The HSUS provides answers to frequently asked questions about the use of animals in dissection
November 13, 2013
Join the Boycott to End the Slaughter
The close ties between commercial fisheries and the seal hunt makes a boycott of Canadian seafood products the logical next step in ending the seal hunt.
November 12, 2013
Restaurants and Seafood Professionals Can Help The Seals
Restaurants and seafood distributors and retailers can be especially effective in convincing Canada's government to ban the seal hunt.
November 12, 2013
Karen's Vegetarian Reuben Sandwiches
Karen Osgood's tempting recipe for vegetarian Reuben sandwiches was a winner in the 2013 All Animals Meatless Monday recipe contest.
November 7, 2013
Your Cat's Favorite Hiding Places
Can't find your cat? She may not be lost, just hiding or even happily curled up in a small, dark space. Read The HSUS's tips for where to look for your missing cat.
November 5, 2013
Squash and Chestnut Soup with Caramelized Pears
This amazing soup from Candle 79 will become a staple on your fall menu.
November 4, 2013
Pennsylvania Pigeon Shoots
Pennsylvania's shame is that it is the lone state to host pigeon shoots.
October 30, 2013
What to Do About Deer
The white-tailed deer has not only adapted to, but thrives in, our human-altered landscapes. People often assume there are "too many deer" when they experience a conflict, yet the reality is that deer problems may be totally unrelated to their numbers.


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HOUSTON - A Houston area woman is seeking answers after a man exposed himself to her while she was traveling to work earlier this month.
Despite what she saw, the Harris County District Attorney's office said it is unable to file charges.
The woman, who doesn't want to be identified, said she was heading to work just before 8 a.m. on Nov. 5th when she stopped at the light on the feeder road of the Katy Freeway and Barker Cypress.
She said she was sipping coffee, listening to music, and minding her own business when she happened to glance inside the car next to her. She said she looked down from her SUV and saw a man exposed in his front seat.
"I don't want to get too graphic, but he was entertaining himself, I guess we'll say. And it was all out in the open," said the woman.
As surprised as she was, she said she grabbed her phone and took a picture of the man's' license plate and reported the incident to police.
A few days later, an investigator got back to her after they were able to trace the man's identity. She said she even picked out his face in a photo lineup.
After several more days of the investigation, the district attorney's office said it was unable to file charges because there wasn't enough evidence of any wrongdoing.
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UPDATE: Story by Joe Williams, Orlando Sentinel
ORLANDO, Fla. - A malfunctioning GPS led Hunter Haire and his buddies on a lifesaving journey.
Haire, Zach Sawin and four other friends, all former Lake Mary athletes home from college for winter break, were riding around Lake Mary on the night of Dec. 15. They were looking for another friend's house when the GPS led them astray.
They stopped in the parking lot of Reflection Lake, located about a mile west of Lake Mary High School on Green Way Boulevard in Lake Mary, when Sawin noticed a car bobbing in the lake about 50 yards offshore, its headlights reflecting off the water.
"There was no time to think," said Haire, a freshman kicker on Wake Forest's football team. "I was the first one in the water. When I got to the car, the driver was still sitting there with his hands on the steering wheel. I got him to roll down the passenger window a little, then I was able to reach in and crank it all the way down."
By that time, Sawin, a freshman offensive lineman at Colgate, had reached the car, a gray 2008 Mazda. Haire climbed through the window because the water pressure wouldn't allow them to open the door, and he unhooked the seat belt.
Sawin reached in, grabbed driver Miguel Hernandez, 23, of Lake Mary by his shoulders and pulled him out. Haire and Sawin got him to the shore.
"It was like he [the driver] was in shock," Sawin said.
The four other friends, Mike D'Agostino, Kyle Swink, Dave Moore and Mark Lang, who also dove into the lake, checked the car to make sure nobody else was inside. Within less than a minute, the car sunk to the bottom, 10 to 15 feet below the surface.
"I just hope these guys know how grateful I am, and my whole family is, that they were willing to get out of their car and put their lives on the line to help my brother out," said Manny Hernandez, 24. "My brother feels like God personally reached out and saved his life. It's given him a whole new perspective on things.
"I went to the lake that night hoping to thank them and shake their hands, but when I got there, they had already left. I haven't had a chance to tell them how grateful I am. I just want to thank them somehow.
"They are exemplary young men in our society," Hernandez said.
Swink said he barely had climbed out of the car before it sank.
"I wasn't any more than four or five yards away [when it went under]," said Swink, a lacrosse player at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, N.C., and whose family lives nearby and often fishes in the lake.
The Seminole County Sheriff's Department dispatched officer Jeremiah Brown to the scene at 11:07. By the time he arrived one minute later, Haire and Sawin had Hernandez on shore.
"Something like this really puts everything in perspective, especially around the holidays," Sawin said. "It was definitely a very enlightening experience. If the GPS had not broken, if we didn't stop at the lake, if it had been a few minutes later, things could have been much different."
Although the air temperature was in the mid-40s and the water was cold, Sawin said they didn't hesitate.
"It wasn't until it was over and the adrenaline wore off that we started freezing," he said.
Lang and Moore are lacrosse players at Saint Leo University.
"It was pure coincidence that we were there when we were,'' Lang said. "Five minutes later, and the car would have sunk and the guy would have been dead."
Said Moore: "You always wonder what would have happened if we didn't pull into that parking lot when we did. It feels good knowing he is alive and safe."
Haire doesn't consider himself and his friends to be heroes.
"That's for everyone else to decide," Haire said. "As far as I'm concerned, we were just doing the right thing."
SAINT LEO, Fla. - On December 15, 2012, Saint Leo lacrosse players Dave Moore and Mark Lang witnessed an emergency and sprang into action. Goalkeeper Moore and midlfielder Lang, both freshmen from Lake Mary, wasted no time in helping to rescue a man who drove his car into a lake.
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Pleasing WordsThese brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group.
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pleasing, biplanes, replicas, captions, pralines, jackpots, displant
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Some other words in the group are: lifespan, plainest, and clasping.
AnswerThe odd one out is "replicas".
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The Dreamer
Greeting card magnate Mike Keiser's love of links golf has led him to create some of the world's greatest new courses
Mike Keiser went to the ends of the earth to satisfy his passion for links golf. He built the Bandon Dunes complex on the remote southwest coast of Oregon. He built Barnbougle Dunes and Lost Farm on the island of Tasmania. He built Cabot Links and is building Cabot Cliffs on the island of Nova Scotia.
Yet where he started it all, the nine-hole Dunes Club in New Buffalo, Michigan, is by comparison a pitching wedge away from civilization, an hour and a half from his hometown of Chicago.
But the Dunes Club is the most difficult to find, tucked off a residential street in this Lake Michigan beach community. There is no sign for it, or sign of it, from the lane that passes by the tiny entrance. There is a marker with the street number on it, but that's it. And if you figure out where to turn and how to maneuver a couple of hundred yards, you will find a tiny clubhouse without opulence or grandeur or much of a locker room, pro shop or restaurant.
This is just how Mike Keiser likes his golf. And it's how he has gone about changing, in his special way, the golf landscape in America, Australia and Canada. Keiser, the greeting card magnate turned maestro of remote golf, went back to the basics of the game, surrounding himself with his "genius architects" to build links golf courses where they weren't supposed to succeed, except they did, and rather grandly. He has proved that if you build it, and build it well, they will come—even to the ends of the earth.
"I won't call myself a missionary now that you and I and anyone paying attention knows that Americans like links golf," says Keiser. "I think it's also good for golf. Given all the modern courses built since World War II, without characterizing them as awful—which I could—they are hard and not fun. As long as I can find sites that lend themselves to links golf, I feel almost duty-bound to pursue it."
And pursue it he has. Bankrolled with the bounty of a company founded with a friend in the early '70s—Recycled Paper Greetings—Keiser has built five courses at his Bandon Dunes complex that hugs the Pacific at a place you can't get to—except thousands do. Tasmania? Why would anyone go there for golf? Now that there are two spectacular courses, golfers are coming from near and far. Nova Scotia? For lobsters and cod, maybe, but Keiser has hooked a boatload of golfers who are making the voyage. Yet it is on this piece of land near the oceanic expanse of Lake Michigan that Keiser built his first course. It was an afterthought.
It was the late '80s and Keiser was well into his second decade as co-owner of Recycled Paper Greetings, a company he formed with Amherst College friend Phil Friedmann in 1971. They had latched onto the "green concept" as it became more and more a part of the public consciousness. They would make greeting cards out of recycled paper, Christmas and birthday greetings from the detritus of newspapers, magazines and cardboard boxes.
It was then he found his first "genius," or rather, she found him. Sandra Boynton was a Yale graduate with a gift for whimsy. She submitted designs to the fledgling RPG in 1973. Keiser loved her work and she went on to design more than 5,000 cards for the company, which found itself a burgeoning enterprise that, while trailing Hallmark and American Greetings by a factor of many millions, was churning out a healthy profit.
"My formula, and I would give it to anyone who thinks they are entrepreneurial: find a genius," says Keiser, "In the greeting card business, we found—well she found us—but we found Sandra Boynton who is a genius. Finding her made us geniuses."
There was enough profit by the '80s for Mike and wife Lindy to build a Lake Michigan weekend home. And when Keiser found out that a 60-acre parcel nearby was being considered for a condo development, he pounced. "It was strictly a defensive move," said Keiser during the round of golf this August at the Dunes Club. "I just wanted to keep those condos from being built in my backyard. The land was incredibly cheap, I offered them cash [$350,000], and I had it."
Now you have to understand that Mike Keiser really liked golf, but wasn't consumed by it. Growing up near Buffalo, New York, his parents were members of a small club and he learned to play. When he started RPG in Chicago and he became successful, he played maybe 20 rounds of golf a year. He didn't join a golf club for a while. He liked the fine public courses developed by Joe Jemzek at Cog Hill and the municipal Jackson Park. He would eventually become a member at Shoreacres, Butler National and Chicago Golf Club. And eventually something stirred within him to build a golf course because it would be something, unlike companies and fortunes, that could last forever.
Thus, the Dunes Club came into being. Keiser, his family and friends played "wilderness" golf on the site—just whacking balls through crude holes that he had carved through the underbrush with friend Howard McKee using axes and pruning shears—until he brought in Chicago architect Dick Nugent to lay out nine holes, somewhat in the style of Pine Valley.
His visits to Pine Valley in New Jersey, to National Links of America on Long Island, to Royal County Down and Ballybunion in Ireland, to the Old Course and Royal Dornoch in Scotland had fired his imagination. Keiser was also fueled by the success of Sand Hills, a course in Nebraska that was as remote as you could get, but when it became an instant hit among the raters for golf magazines, Keiser, who had invested in the property, realized that no golf course is too remote if it makes the heart flutter.
He didn't want to just build a commercially successful golf course, and not just anywhere. He wanted to build links golf, "dream golf," as he called it. In the early 1990s, he tasked McKee, an architect and land planner, to find him a site for his dream golf course, a links by the sea. McKee came up with the site in southern coastal Oregon that became Bandon Dunes. It was the start of an odyssey that took him virtually around the globe in search of "dream golf."
And in the process, he surrounded himself with his geniuses, architects David McLay Kidd, Tom Doak and his associate Jim Urbina, and partners Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore. Kidd, a young Scotsman, was most notable for being the son of Jimmy Kidd of Gleneagles, Scotland, fame. Through the sort of serendipity—he uses that word often—that brought Keiser to fortune in the greeting card business and surprising success in the golf world, he was introduced to the Kidds and eventually asked David to take a crack at designing the first course at Bandon Dunes.
"Bandon Dunes was not Bandon Dunes back in 1994, 20 years ago when I first visited it," says Kidd. "It was a piece of scrub land on the Oregon coast covered in gorse and scrub pine trees. To the uninitiated, not overly inspiring. Other people that Mike brought to the site, some of them thought it was pretty mediocre.
"Mike Keiser was a Recycled Greeting card guy from Chicago with no history as a developer. I had never designed anything that Mike could go and see. So there was a whole list of unknowns. The analogy of the stars aligning truly applies in this case. An untested developer with an untested architect on a remote piece of land. All the ingredients should have said failure. If any of those pieces had fallen down, there wouldn't have been a Bandon Dunes, or certainly no more than one course," Kidd adds.
Mike Keiser became successful by taking chances, though not by jumping off cliffs and hoping a parachute would open. All who have dealt with him would describe him as thoughtful, analytical, probing. He doesn't waste words or time. His e-mails and text messages don't contain complete sentences. He wants to get to the heart of the matter, but he doesn't rush. His melodic baritone voice commands attention, but he is not looking to be saluted. His large ears are put to good use—he listens more than he talks. He revels in creative collaboration, the process of getting something done, and doing it in the best way. The five courses at Bandon Dunes are every bit testimony to the process that yielded the superb final products, of Keiser's search for the correct answer, no matter who has it.
And all along, what mattered most to Keiser was not what a professional player or highly placed amateur might think of his courses. Keiser, very much the anti-tycoon, wanted Joe Six Pack to enjoy his golf.
"Most golf course developers are fixated by what the very best player will think of their golf course, what will a professional think, what will the highest caliber amateurs think," says Kidd. "If they aren't fixated with that, they are fixated with what can sell the real estate, will I sell the greens fees.
"Mike was fixated with 'What will Joe Six Pack think?' I think his mantra through the whole thing was what will the average golfer feel, think, experience when he comes here. For Mike, it would be the experience he loved so much in the British Isles, and would he have brought that experience to the United States. That was his mantra, everything he looked at, everything he talked about. He always talked about Joe Six Pack."
"It couldn't have been successful without attracting the broad spectrum of golfers," says Keiser. "I just couldn't target the guys with private planes. I needed to make sure that it was accessible and attractive to the American golfer, to the people who can take just one trip a year or every two years. And it had to fulfill their dreams as much as mine. If they couldn't go to Scotland or Ireland, they could come here to play links golf."
So he tasked David Kidd with coming up with an architectural tour de force right out of the box, and without a contract. "Mike never actually hired me," says Kidd. "I was working for another company at that point. He never really said he was hiring me with a formal design agreement that was 50 pages long and walked us into responsibilities. I would go there for a week and he would pay me for a week of my time. A few weeks later or few months later we would agree to do it again. That went on for three years. The first holes I built were the first green and the 17th green. That was April of 1997 and Mike said they were tryout holes. It basically was a casting call."
Keiser knew why he asked Kidd to do the job, sort of. "If I had retained Arnold Palmer Enterprises to do my first course at Bandon Dunes, it probably wouldn't have been a true links course though it might have gained some attention," says Keiser. "But I don't think it would have been nearly as successful as if it was designed by one of my geniuses.
David, I still wondered why I hired him. The answer was his dad was breathtakingly engaging with experience from Gleneagles and Machrihanish. I think David's routing and design of holes was just brilliant. It had to be, or the place would have stayed at one golf course."
It helped immensely, and serendipitously, that some additional land became available that ultimately allowed for some of the more special holes at the original Bandon Dunes course, and even more land became available for additional courses, Pacific Dunes by Doak and Urbina, who also did the Old Macdonald course, the Bandon Trails course by Crenshaw and Coore, who also did the Bandon Preserve course, a 13-hole track.
For all these "geniuses," working with Keiser was something different.
"The relationship between designer and client is really important and it's very personality driven. The relationship is about the process of working with somebody," says Doak. "Mike is a very involved owner. I wouldn't describe him as a very hands-on owner. He understands that he needs to let the architect do his thing. He's pretty upfront about the things he likes and doesn't like.
"In Bandon, for both the golf courses we worked on, he gets out there fairly frequently and anytime he would come out we would walk around the golf course twice, once to see what progress was made, and a second time before he would leave. Not a very formal process. But he's the kind of guy who likes to ask questions, what about that bunker, why did you go this way instead of that way. That's opposed to the kind of person who says 'I don't like that bunker.' That's a huge difference in working with most clients. He wants to be part of the process so he understand why it is the way it is."
Bill Coore and his partner Ben Crenshaw, who unlike Kidd and to an extent Doak were firmly established architects by the time they were asked to do courses at Bandon Dunes, found working with Keiser eye-opening. Coore and Crenshaw designed Lost Farm in Tasmania with Doak designing the adjacent Barnbougle Dunes.
"It's an amazing American success story," says Coore of Bandon Dunes and all of Keiser's developments. "Mike has taken old-world values and applied them to our new world and proven they still work. It's not like Mike has reinvented the wheel. He's astute enough to know what works, where it will work. It's amazing to be around him, to see how he thinks, how he goes about his decision-making process.
"The alphabet does not contain enough letters or the dictionary enough words to say how grateful we are that we've been part of golf architecture the same time that Mike Keiser was a part of it. He allows people to make decisions and work. Then he sort of quietly guides that process. It's the best you can hope for."
Crenshaw, twice a Masters champion and astute historian of the game, speaks softly, deliberately and passionately about working with Keiser and what Keiser has done for the contemporary game.
"Bill and I both have been the happy recipients of Mike's generosity," says Crenshaw. "Mike is a very fierce advocate for golf. I can sort of call him an American individualist. He is an explorer, scouts the world for golf land that is inspired from the British Isles, sandy land by the seashore is a great part of his passion. He simply wants people to enjoy golf in varied settings, although remote. He has identified the explorer type of golfer, people who will travel. Yes, it's a trek. But he builds golf for everyone."
You can't get much more a trek than getting to Tasmania, the island off the south coast of Australia half a world away. Keiser says finding the land for Barnbougle Dunes and Lost Farm was "a smaller version of serendipity."
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Intel SSD DC P3700 Review: The PCIe SSD Transition Begins with NVMeby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2014 2:00 AM EST
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extide - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThey finally did it, a bad ass no-compromises SSD. Reply
extide - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkDissappointed you didnt run the 2013 Destroyer on there, with that amazing low-queue depth performance, it will probably blow everything else away on that chart. Reply
smartypnt4 - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI mean really... For $1.50/GB, this could be purchased by a desktop enthusiast, so it's completely valid to test this against other consumer drives to see how it'd do. I'd be very interested in the results. Reply
B3an - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI agree, needs consumer drive comparisons... Reply
edward1987 - Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - linkI found some better use for this pcie ssd drive. You can use it in qnap TVS-1282 or TDS-16489U for hot data. They do tiered storage functionality. Its £600 to get this ssd, but if you want VMs this is great. (https://www.span.com/product/Intel-SSD-DC-P3700-PC... Reply
TelstarTOS - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkabsolutely, but wait until they have a 3600 or 3500 in their hands. Reply
NCM - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkIt would also be useful to compare to the PCIe consumer SSD's that Apple has been shipping in the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and iMac lines for quite some time now. Given its sales volume and early adoption of PCIe drives, I'd have to imagine that Apple may have shipped more of them to users than anyone else. (These drives are supplied by both Samsung and SanDisk, and perhaps others.)
Yes this new Intel product is for a quite different market, but comparison is how one comes to understand what those differences are and mean. Reply
Marthisdil - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkNo one really cares much about Apple's offerings. Mainly because they are such a small percentage of the Marketplace.... Reply
easp - Monday, June 09, 2014 - linkYou miss the point. They are one of the largest players in the consumer market. Moreover, most of their sales are a premium price points and include SSDs. Put the two together, and they almost certainly ship more consumer SSDs than any one else by far. What's more, many of their lines are already on PCIe SSDs.
So, please explain why Apple's shipping PCIe SSD options aren't a significant point of comparison against an aftermarket SSD that just arrived in the market. Reply
SeanJ76 - Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - linkCasue Apple is shit! Reply
Ammaross - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThe M.2 SATA-protocol-on-PCIe drives? A comparison would mean Apple would need have to have support for NVMe first or the ability to even slot in such a card (rules out the 3 offerings you outlined). Reply
extide - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkWhat are you talking about? "The M.2 SATA-protocol-on-PCIe drives?" doesn't even make sense.
All you need to do to compare them is run the benchmarks on the apple hardware, possibly while running under a windows OS. OR, if the drives use the regular m.2 style connector you could just stick them in a desktop. The fact they run AHCI over PCIe does not make a comparison impossible, in fact all of the other PCIe cards in this review that were benchmarked against were also AHCI based cards. Seems like NVMe is confusing people at lot more than it should. Reply
Galatian - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkI think he tried to say that you can't stick one of those new NVMe drives into a Mac, since OS X does not yet support NVMe.
That being said, Apple discontinued the old Mac Pro where you could put a PCIe device inside, so the point is moot no matter what. Reply
gospadin - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI'd have liked to see the drive in 25W mode too Reply
extide - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkYeah, I would as well. I am assuming the 25W mode has specific cooling requirements? More info on this would be nice. Also what is the default TDP? Reply
eanazag - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThat's also the first thing I thought. I wanted to see the boost level. That bottom is pretty close to where I would consider splurging for my desktop with a 400GB. If you consider a RAID card and few drives then $600 is justifiable.
I stayed away from the PCIe SSDs because of boot issues and quality concerns. A lot of those were OCZ. Reply
Galatian - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI might have just overlooked it, but I guess those drives are not bootable? Reply
457R4LDR34DKN07 - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - link" Booting to NVMe drives shouldn't be an issue either." Reply
Galatian - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkAh great...so this might be a nice alternative to the lackluster state M.2 is right now after all! Reply
dopp - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkNVMe won't necessarily be a replacement for M.2. M.2 is just the connector, and the M.2 standard supports both SATA and NVMe as protocols to control the SSD. That said, you need a motherboard that's wired to give PCIe-over-M.2 as well as a drive that supports NVMe, and NVMe M.2 drives will likely be much better than SATA ones. Reply
extide - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkYeah, this except more correctly it is SATA vs PCIe as the interface and AHCI vs NVMe as the protocol.
M.2 --> Supports AHCI over SATA, AHCI over PCIe, and NVMe over PCIe
SFF-8639 --> Supports AHCI over PCIe and NVMe over PCIe
PCIe card --> AHCI over PCIe, and NVMe over PCIe
Now the latter 2 (and even the first one if you really wanted to...) could have a PCIe based SATA controller on it which would go PCIe --> SATA/SATA RAID Controller -> SATA SSD Controller(s), (For example this is how the OCZ Revo Drive works) Reply
Galatian - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkThat's not what I meant with my comment. I'm upset that besides ASRock on the Extreme 6 and 9 and ASUS on their Impact no other manufacture included a higher bandwidth M.2 connector. I guess all upcoming PCIe M.2 drives will already be bottlenecked by the lackluster M.2 speeds most mainboard manufactures are building into their products, Reply
hpvd - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkhmmm are you sure? no new mainboard needed? No new Bios? Should it work in all boards which could boot existing PCIe SSDs? Reply
hpvd - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI would really appreciate a short test of this. How should this work when AHCI is the standard on todays Mainboards/Bios/UEFI? There is alreday some work done until the Windows-/Linux driver take over the helm
(which is of course already available: http://www.nvmexpress.org/blog/open-fabrics-allian... Reply
TelstarTOS - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - link404 Reply
j00d - Friday, June 06, 2014 - linkjust take off the trailing ) in the url Reply
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkSince a couple of you asked, I threw it in our X79 testbed.
Windows 8.1U1 sees the drive without issue, however it is not bootable as our motherboard cannot see the drive as a bootable devices. I preface that with the fact that our X79 testbed is a consumer platform (ASRock X79 Professional) and X79 is a rather old chipset. So I can't speak for how this would behave on a brand spanking new Z97 board, or a server board for that matter. Reply
hpvd - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkmany thanks for giving this a try! Should be further investigated... Reply
hpvd - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkPCIe booting may be a general prob with standard bios setting on these boards. I found a tiny bios setting guide how to fix this (on a similar Asrock X97 board). Would be awesome If you could try this:
You would be the very first in web booting from an NVMe device :-) Reply
hpvd - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkthe other way around the question is:
- your board
- with this bios version
- with this bios settings
- in this PCIe slot
see other bootable PCIe SSD devices?
if so this new Intel PCIe NVMe SSD behave somehow different
If others couldn't be seen either - there is still hope for "normal" boot support :-)
You just have the right board, bios settings... Reply
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkThe Revodrive 3 presents itself as a SAS device as I understand it. In any case the problem isn't that the board can't see the drive period - the ASRock system browser cheerfully identifies it as an Intel drive - it just doesn't consider it bootable. This is with the latest BIOS (3.10) BTW.
To answer your second question, none of the other PCIe drives we have are bootable. The Intel 910 is explicitly non-bootable, and the Micron P420m uses a proprietary protocol. Reply
hpvd - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkmany thanks for giving that much details!! Reply
hpvd - Friday, June 06, 2014 - linkjust found a gerat piece of information - maybe you only need the right driver (or windows version where this is included out of the box)
"NVM Express Boot Support added to Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2"
hopefully this works for these devices... Reply
Bloorf - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThanks for the article. I'm glad the new interface is showing good results so far. People are probably drooling for the new storage hardware options coming eventually. Reply
Rob94hawk - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI personally would like to see results in a dedicated gaming rig. Reply
Benjam - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI think that gaming performance is the least of your concerns with this speed monster. Reply
jimjamjamie - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkMinimal loading times and no I/O-related hitching still sounds wonderful though. Reply
TelstarTOS - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkExcellent QD1 performance is what matters for a workstation or enthusiast machine, so this is EXTREMELY promising. Reply
stevets - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI would like to see what this could do on an ESXi host running Pernix Data's FVP. If supported, these cards could make that solution much more affordable from a hardware perspective. Reply
Qasar - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkare these types of drives only going to be on PCIe.. or are sata-express drives planned as well ?? depending on ones usage... finding a PCIe slot to put a drive like this in.. may not be possible, specially in SLI/Crossfire... add the possibility of a sound card or raid card.. Reply
457R4LDR34DKN07 - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkNo, they are 4x pcie 2.5" SFF-8639 drives here is a good article describing the differences between satae and 2.5" SFF-8639 drives:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6294/breaking-the-sa... Reply
Qasar - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkok.. BUT.. that's not what i asked.... will this type of drive, ie the NVMe type.. be on some other type of connection besides PCIe 4x ?? as i said :
depending on ones usage... finding a PCIe slot to put a drive like this in.. may not be possible, specially in SLI/Crossfire... add the possibility of a sound card or raid card..
cause one can quickly run out of PCIe slots, or have slots covered/blocked by other PCIe cards ... right now, for example. i have an Asus P6T and due to my 7970.. the 2nd PCIe 16 slot.. is unusable and the 3rd slot.. has a raid card in it.. on a newer board.. it may be different.. but sill SLI/Crossfire.. can quickly cover up slots ... or block them ... hence.. will NVMe type drives also be on sata express ?? Reply
457R4LDR34DKN07 - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkright and what I told you is that 2.5" SFF-8639 is also offered. You can probably plug it into a sata express connector but you will only realize 2x pci-e 3.0 speeds IE 10gb/s. Reply
xdrol - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkIt takes 5x 200 GB drives to match the performance of a 1.6 TB drive? That does not sound THAT good... Make it 8x and it's even. Reply
Lonyo - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkNow make a motherboard with 8xPCIe slots to put those drives in. Reply
hpvd - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linksorry only 7 :-(
:-) Reply
hpvd - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linksome technical data for the lower capicity models could be fund here:
maybe this is interesting to be added to the article... Reply
huge pile of sticks - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkbut can it run crysis? Reply
Homeles - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkIt can run 1,000 instances of Crysis. A kilocrysis, if you will. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkHow is 200 uS considered low latency? What a joke. If intel had any ambitions besides playing second fiddle to apple and ARM, then they would put the SSD controller on the cpu and create a DIMM type interface for the NAND. Then they would have read latencies in the 1 to 10 uS range, and even less latency as they improve their caching techniques. It's true that you wouldnt be able to address more than a couple TB of NAND through such an interface, but it would be so blazing fast that it could be shadowed using SATA SSDs with very little perceived performance loss over the entire address space. Think big cache for NAND, call it L5 or whatnot. It would do for storage what L2 did for cpus. Reply
gospadin - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linktRead on MLC NAND is > 50us. 10us latency will never be achievable with an MLC NAND back-end without a redesign of the NAND array. Reply
mavere - Friday, June 06, 2014 - link"I am angry because my ridiculous fantasies aren't fulfilled." Reply
Antronman - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkFusion iO blows it all away. Reply
TelstarTOS - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkdid they make it bootable on windows after what 8 years? Reply
extide - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkAt what cost?
I'd definitely like to see some FusionIO benches on this site... Reply
TelstarTOS - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkAt last Intel showed its muscles again.
If in a 6 month timeframe something similar and cheaper doesnt come out, the 400GB P3600 will be my next SSD. Looking forward SF3700 really curiously now. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI love the raw speed that this delivers. It does not hold anything back in terms of performance. I'm genuinely excited as to what a full blown server implementation using 16x PCIe 3.0 could provide.
My only issue is one of capacity and cost per GB of storage. It is good to see 2 TB solutions but honestly I was hoping for a bit more. Moving away from the 2.5" SATA, M.2 and mSATA formats should enable far more NAND packages. I can see Intel limiting these consumer/prosumer cards to lower capacities to keep the higher capacity units in the enterprise space where ultra fast storage carries a higher premium. Speaking of costs, I was prepared to accept this as costing a bit more but not this much. Things like moving to an 18 channel design and the cost of the NVMe controller would be more expensive but not quiet this much. I was hoping to see something closer to $1/GB as the 2.5" SATA market is well below that and starting to approach $0.50/GB. Speed can carry a premium but those lower $/GB SATA drives are still pretty fast on their own.
Actually are there any subjective impressions? Does the P3700 feel noticeably faster in day-to-day usage than a generic 2.5" SATA SDD?
I'd also like to see some boot testing. Generally there are some quirks here and there that crop up with technology introductions. Reply
kaix2 - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkwith the p3700 drive rated at 10dw/d it's aimed at high end enterprise. expecting $1/GB for this high end of a drive isn't realistic. also it's not a fair comparison if you simply compare the price of this drive to an average consumer sata drive and not take nand endurance and quality into account. Reply
Sacco_svd - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkP3700 / 2048gb*3dollar = 6144 dollars
P3500 / 2048gb*1.469dollar = 3061.76 dollars
If those are going to be the prices they're still not competitively cheap, by a big margin. Reply
balindad - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkAs mentioned else where, could you drop this in on any open pcie and have it work and bootable with no other upgrades needed as long as you're running windows 8? Reply
andrewaggb - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkthat's really the question isn't it. I'm skeptical until somebody proves otherwise. Seems like you'd need a bios update at a minimum. Reply
BeethovensCat - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkYes, this would be key. Would be annoying to buy a card and not be able to boot Windows from it. Would it be only be possible with Z97 based chipsets or also Z87? Have a relatively new Z87 card. As much as I don't want to change to Apple, one must admit they are better at getting some of these things right. Come on Intel (Asus) - make it possible to boot from one of these on a Z87 motherboard and I will buy one right away!! Reply
Taurothar - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkHonestly, it's up to the motherboard's capabilities. A bios update should be possible but it depends on many things like how the PCIe lanes are distributed etc, I wouldn't count on getting the full performance out of a chipset designed before PCIe SSDs. PCIe RAID cards have the controller to boot from built in, but these stand alone SSDs mean the chipset or other onboard controller has to be able to recognize it, that might not be as simple as a bios update. Reply
morganf - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI was disappointed that the 4K QD1 read was no better than 40 MB/sec that can be achieved by SATA / AHCI SSDs like the Samsung 840 Pro.
FusionIO has been getting twice that (i.e., around 80 MB/sec) for years. I was expecting NVMe to achieve something similar.
But maybe the 40 MB/sec is an OS driver limitation? Perhaps FusionIO is able to get around that because they have their own driver. Reply
boogerlad - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkWhy does the p3500 have such low 4k random write IOPS? Is it merely the worst case/steady-state performance? Is it much lower quality NAND? Is it lack of over provisioning and not a problem if the drive is not filled to the brim? I've been waiting for a product like this for a very long time. To be honest, I was surprised Intel was the one to deliver. It looks like they checked out of making innovative products looking at their CPU lineup. Reply
boogerlad - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkThen again, I guess as long as 4k qd1 write speeds are the same as the p3700, it doesn't really matter. Many enthusiasts will buy the p3500 and put it under a consumer workload anyways that rarely has qd > 1. Reply
Dangledon - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkLow random write performance is probably an indirect reflection of TLC. The endurance numbers make this pretty clear. TLC has relatively long P/E dwell times. These times become apparent when garbage collection is triggered by sustained random write workloads. I don't know whether these devices support overprovisioning. Having it might help deal with spikey workloads as long as the "runway" is long enough. Though, frankly, the P3500 was not designed for a high random write workload. Reply
Dangledon - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkMy bad. They're using MLC, not TLC. The reserve/spare capacity is 7% on the P3500, which in-part accounts for the relatively low endurance. Intel is probably also doing NAND part binning, using the poorest quality parts in the P3500. Reply
rob_allshouse - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkOne comment (and I do work for Intel, to be open about it)... but the P3700 does this all in x4 while the p420m does it in x8, so half the PCIe lanes consumed. I didn't see this in the article, and feel like it's very relevant. It also explains the disparity in sequential read performance. Reply
mfenn - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkI find it interesting that this article is presented as an enterprise SSD review and even goes so far as to decry the performance of previous implementations, but does not mention Fusion-io or Virident. We've had 500K IOPS and latencies in the tens of microseconds for years now without Intel or NVMe, those are not the stories here.
NVMe is not some wonderful advance from a performance point of view, and should not be presented as such. What it is is a path towards the commoditization of relatively high performance PCIe SSDs. That's an incredibly important achievement and should have been the focus of the discussion.
As it stands, this article follows the the Intel marketing tune a little too closely and does not respect the deep market insights that I've come to expect from AnandTech. Reply
will792 - Tuesday, June 03, 2014 - linkHow do you hardware RAID these drives?
With SATA/SAS drives I can use LSI/Adaptec controllers and mirror/striping/parity configuration to tune performance, reliability and drive failure recoverability. Reply
iwod - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkWhile NVMe only uses a third of the CPU power, it is still quite lot to achieve those IOPS. Although consumer application would / should hardly see those number in use in real life.
We really need PCI-E to get faster and more lanes, the Ultra M.2 promoted by ASRock was great. Direct CPU connect, 4X PCI-E 3.0. Lots and Lots of headroom to work with. Compared to upcoming going to be standard which would easily get saturated buy the time they arrive. Reply
juhatus - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkYou should really really explore how you make this bootable win8.1 drive on Z97. Is it possible or not? With M.2 support on Z97 it really should'nt be a problem? Reply
Mick Turner - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkWas there any hint of a release date? Reply
7Enigma - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkWhy is the S3700 200GB drive being used as the comparison to this gigantic 1.6TB monster? Unless there is something I don't understand it has always been the case where the larger the drive (and more channels used) can significantly increase the performance compared to a smaller drive (with less channels). The S3700 had an 800GB drive. That one IMO would be more representative of the improvements of the P3700. Reply
shodanshok - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkHi Anand,
I have some question regarding the I/O efficiency graphs in the "CPU utilization" page.
What performance counter did you watch when comparing CPU storage load?
I'm ask you because if you use the classical "I/O wait time" (common on Unix and Windows platform), you are basically measuring the time the CPU is waiting for storage, *not* its load.
The point it that while the CPU is waiting for storage, it can schedule another readily-available thread. In other words, while it wait for storage, the CPU is free to do other works. If this is the case, it means that you are measuring I/O performance, *not* I/O efficiency (IOPS per CPU load).
On the other hand, If you are measuring system time and IRQ time, the CPU load graphs are correct.
Regards. Reply
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underseaglider - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkTechnological advancements improve the reliability and performance of the tools and processes we all use in our daily routines. Whether for professional or personal needs, technology allows us to perform our tasks more efficiently in most cases. Reply
aperson2437 - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkSounds like once these SSDs get cheap it is going to eliminate the aggravation of waiting for computers to do certain things like loading big programs and games forever. I can't wait to get my hands on one. I'm super impatient when it comes to computers. Hopefully, there will be some intense competition for these NVMe SSDs from Samsung and others and prices come down fast. Reply
Shiitaki - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - linkNo, it was not out of necessity. SSD's have used Sata because they lacked vision/ lazy, or whatever other excuse. PCI express has been around for years, as so has AHCI. There is no reason there isn't a single strap on a PCI express card to change between operating modes, like AHCI for older machines, and whatever this new thing is. All an SSD is largely a risk computer that overwhelmingly provides it's functionality using software. Msata should have never existed, if you have to have a controller anyway, why not a PCI-express? After all, SATA controllers connect to PCI-express?
SSD's could have been PCI express in 2008. Those early drives however were terrible, and didn't need the bandwidth or latency, so there was no reason. They were too busy trying to get NAND flash working to bother worrying about other concerns.
Even now, most flash drives being sold are not capable of saturating Sata3 even on sequential reads. I'm going to jab Kingston again here about their dishonest V300, but Micron's M500 isn't pushing any limits either. Intel SSD's should be fast, this isn't news, they have been horribly overpriced. What is news is that the price is now justified.
Why isn't the new spec internal thunderbolt? Oh yeah, has gots to make money on licensing! Why make money producing products when it is so much easier to cash royalty checks? The last thing the pc industry needs is another standard to do something that can already be done 2 other ways, but then we need a jobs program making adapters. Those two ways are PCI-Express, and thunderbolt.
At some point the hard drive should be replaced by a PCI-express full length card that accepts NAND cards, and the user simply buys and keeps adding cards as space is required. This can already be done with current technology, no reinventing the wheel required. Reply
jamescox - Monday, June 09, 2014 - link"Why isn't the new spec internal thunderbolt?"
Thunderbolt is PCI-e x4 multiplexed with display port. Intel's new SSD is PCI-e x4. I don't think we have a reason to route display port to an SSD, so thunderbolt makes no sense. Was this sarcasm that I missed?
"At some point the hard drive should be replaced by a PCI-express full length card that accepts NAND cards, and the user simply buys and keeps adding cards as space is required. This can already be done with current technology, no reinventing the wheel required."
What protocol are the NAND cards going to use to talk to the controller? There are many engineering limitations and complexities here. Are you going to have 18 channel controller like this new Intel card? If you populate channels one at a time, then it isn't going to perform well until you populate many of the channels. This is just like system memory; quad channel systems require 4 modules from the start to get full bandwidth. It gets very complicated unless each "NAND card" is a full pci-e card by itself. Each one being a separate pci-e card is no different from just adding more pci-e cards to your motherboard. Due to this move to pci-e, motherboard makers will probably be putting more x4 and/or x8 pci-e slots with different spacing from what is required by video cards. This will allow users to just add a few more cards to get more storage. It may be useful for small form factor systems to make a pci-e card with several m.2 slots since several different types of things (or sizes of SSDs) can be plugged into it. This isn't going to perform as well as having the whole card dedicated to being a single SSD though. I don't think you can fit 18 channels on an m.2 card at the moment.
Anyway, most consumer applications will not really benefit from this. I don't think you would see too much difference in "everyday usability" using a pci-e card vs. a fast sata 6 drive. Most consumer applications are not going to even stress this card. I suspect that sata 6 SSDs wil be around for a while. The SATA Express connector seems like a kludge though. If you actually need more performance than sata 6 (for what?), just get the pci-e card version. Reply
jeffbui - Thursday, June 05, 2014 - link"I long for the day when we don't just see these SSD releases limited to the enterprise and corporate client segments, but spread across all markets"
Too bad Intel is all about profit margin. Having to compete on price (at low profit margins) gives them no incentive to go into the consumer space. Reply
sethk - Saturday, June 07, 2014 - linkHi Anand,
Long time fan and love your storage and enterprise articles, including this one. One questions - what the driver situation on NVMe as far as dropping one of these into existing platforms (consumer and enterprise) and being able to boot?
Another question is regarding cabling for the non-direct PCIe interfaces like SataExpress and SFF-8639? It would be great if you could have some coverage of these topics and timing for consumer availability when you do your inevitable articles on the P3600 and P3500 which seem like great deals given the performance. Reply
T2k - Monday, June 16, 2014 - linkHow come you did not include ANY Fusion-IO card? In enterprise space they are practically cheaper than the P3700 and have far bigger sizes, for less money, consistently low latency, not to mention advanced software to match it... was it a request from Intel to leave them out? Reply
SeanJ76 - Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - linkIntel has always been the best in SSD performance, and longevity. I own 3 of the 520 series(240GB) and have never had a complaint. Reply


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>General Running>Adding more asphalt miles
some call me Tim
With the change in the weather, the trails I run on my property have become almost unrunnable. In the snow it's not so bad because the more you run, the better surface you generally get and I can actually do some semblance of interval/fartlek if I go by intensity. But now I am trying to run through 5 inches of mud(lots of clay here) in a lot of places and even easy runs are infeasible.
My weekly mileage is ~30-35 recently, with my only regular road running being a 12-15 mile long run on the hilly roads around my house. Maybe too long, but when running in mud and snow there *is* no easy pace and I've found it difficult to add mileage on the other runs in the time that I have available. Anyway, after months of running on unstable surfaces I know I can roll an ankle with no harm done, but I'm a little concerned about just switching over to pounding asphalt all of the time. I've had good luck with a conservative approach to training and staying injury free, but could very well be over-analyzing here and just need to get out of my own head. Thoughts, anyone?
As long as you don't add too many miles too fast I would think you could increase the asphalt runs. Many of us do 90-95% of our runs on asphalt.
I'm assuming you're running through that lovely season called "breakup" - we're getting close but still have mostly snow and slush cover.
As I'm sure you're aware, if you run on your trails now, you'll end up with some dried up stockyard texture for your trails - esp. if a lot of clays. For dirt trails, you probably need to stay off your trails during that period (sometimes up to 4-6 wks here, depending). This is when we encourage public trail users to use the gravel or paved trails.(sounds like you're on your own private trails? can you gravel or firm them up by next year?)
Not sure what you have available to you, but around here, we have a range of aspects and elevations. Right now, south-facing low spots are starting to become snow free, but not quite muddy yet. North-facing slopes will not hit that point for a few weeks yet. Similarly, the mountains will still have snow cover on trails for another month. And the gravel road over the summit of the pass doesn't open until late June. But they do require more driving. Also running in the morning while things are still frozen can help. Around here also, the trails dry out faster if people stay off them. If they continue to use them during breakup, the water just migrates to the surface.
My suggestion is to work the terrain options that you have, maybe run one or two runs a week on the road. Maybe cut mileage until your trails firm up a bit. Not sure if you're looking at a couple weeks of wet trails or 6 wks. And hope you don't get another snow setting things back again.
FWIW, March is frequently my big month of the year - still running on mostly firm snow, then April / breakup comes and sometimes continues into May. Some of our trails are legally closed during that time. Then some of the south-facing mountains are available and races (taper/recover) start in May and generally less mileage (but more vertical). I am hoping I've used my snowshoes for the last time this winter (cross my fingers).
Not sure if that helps or just provides another groan at breakup time.
i'd keep it gradual. that's probably a decent change for impact on your knee's and you don't want to push it too hard at first. i always think it's better to be safe than worry about hitting metrics. after all, an injury will set you back much farther than not progressing for a few weeks.
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You've likely considered this, but are there any public tracks near you?
Boring as heck, but softer than asphalt.
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I don't think you should be worried about this at all.
The Logic of Long Distance
Definitely don't go on the trails when they are muddy. I rolled an ankle 3 weeks ago on frozen trails that were churned up by people using them in muddy conditions and lost a week from it. It takes a long time for the trails to recover from this, last weekend they were finally dry but very bumpy still.
Just use the roads for a bit until things dry up.
If you're already doing 12-15 mile long runs on the road, I wouldn't be so worried about it, either.
You can always run just off the shoulder, too.
Don't overthink it. Just run. If you start to get sore, run less. If you're not sore, run more. Find the edge between the two and try to ride it.
"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek
Prince of Fatness
The camber of the roadway tends to bother me more than the hardness of the surface, so if it were me I would look for streets / roads that were pretty level side to side. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.
Or try to run some on the other side of the road where applicable to even things out.
The pain that hurts the worse is the imagined pain. One of the most difficult arts of racing is learning to ignore the imagined pain and just live with the present pain (which is always bearable.) - Jeff
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You are far more trusting of the driving public than I.
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You are far more trusting of the driving public than I.
Just run.
Thanks, all! I didn't used to be terribly cautious but I know an awful lot of injured runners who ask for advice and then don't take it. It's also good to be reminded of what those trails are gonna look like during the dry months if I keep running them now. I'd love to add some gravel, but I'd miss the effect of padding silently through the forest and scaring the crap out of the deer. For now, being out on the wide shoulder to greet the dawn and the incredulous commuters sounds pretty good to me... and to run east first.
Since you have already been training on uneven and bumpy ground and trails, I think your body will be able to handle the cross-over. I am in the opposite position of wanting to run trails but have only run on road and tracks.
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HOUSTON - After all the Thanksgiving travel, comes the hectic holiday shopping season. And while you shop, crooks go to work.
That's why Houston police officers were out Wednesday helping drivers get a head start on the thieves by catching mistakes with their vehicles.
"We survey cars just to remind everybody not to leave things of value exposed," said HPD officer James Sobota. "The crooks are out shopping, too."
Car by car, Sgt. R. Wilson patroled a Walmart parking lot in the Heights. Wilson is not looking out with the eyes of a cop, but with the eyes of a crook.
"I'm looking for something someone is going to try and steal," Wilson said.
It didn't take long to find it. Wilson found GPS screens, power cords and packages that were all in plain sight in cars, trucks and SUVs. Wilson and other officers then serve shoppers with safety report cards on their car windshields that let them know how their vehicles might have fared if criminals were in the parking lot instead of police.
"We usually average about a 60-percent failure rate," said Wilson.
It's all part of the "Safe Shopping Starts with You" campaign. It's a joint effort by HPD and Houston retailers like Walmart, H-E-B, Kroger, Fiesta, Randalls, Target, Walgreens, CVS and the Greater Houston Loss Prevention Alliance.
"We want to put the focus on your vehicles and personal safety as you enter retail stores and while you're in retail stores," said Chief Charles McClelland. "We want to make sure we redouble our efforts to keep the public safe."17515992
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Written by Rob. You can join us on Escape the City here.
How did this all start?
Escape the City started in late 2009 as an anonymous blog from the frustrating safety of our corporate jobs – at that stage it was just a project.
When our weekly newsletter began spreading like wildfire we quit our jobs and began building a community to help people escape the corporate world.
Decision time – let's raise investment
Over two years on, at the beginning of 2012, we decided that we should seek investment to accelerate our growth and fulfill the potential behind this idea.
At first we went the traditional route – speaking to early stage VCs and Angel Investors in London. Then someone told us about equity crowdfunding…
The power of the tribe
The Escape the City bible is Seth Godin's 'Tribes'. We have always built this as a genuine community and movement first, and a business second.
A month ago we found ourselves in the position of having to decide between a VC investment deal and the prospect of being part owned by our own users.
Passing up on Venture Capital
It wasn't an easy decision to make. We would be saying no to a £500,000 investment deal without knowing whether crowdfunding could even work.
VC comes with some fantastic benefits – a ready network and board members who really know what they are doing – it was hard to say no to.
Our motto? "Do Something Different!"
Ultimately we decided that the prospect of being invested in by our own members was perfectly aligned to our brand and too exciting to miss.
We are passionate about our mission and want to build a sustainable and profitable business around the idea – we want to do this with our members.
So how did it work?
On Thursday, May 24, we set up a private Crowdcube page here.
This involved uploading an Investment Proposal, Financial Summary and FAQs. We also made a pitch video:
We set our target to £500,000 (500,000 shares costing £1) in return for a 20 percent stake of the company.
We then sent the link to the Escape the City community – our existing +65,000 subscribers.
Investors who put in at least £200 would get a personal thank you letter from the founders and a poster of our manifesto.
Anyone investing more than £1000 would also receive the limited edition Escape the City hoodie or t-shirt in a size or colour of their choice.
UK taxpayers would also benefit from income tax breaks under the Enterprise Investment Scheme.
Hopefully that wasn't the only reason people were investing!
The response was astonishing… and extremely humbling…
- Within the first three days we raised almost £200,000.
- Within a week we raised 90% of our £500k target.
- We hit £500,000 after 8 days. Over 386 invested.
Due to high demand, we extended the target to £600,000 – with extra funds to be used as additional marketing and contingency against revenue forecasts.
The end result?
We have ended up raising £600,000 in 16 days from 394 individual investors.
Our new shareholders have exactly the same rights as the founding team apart from a vote at AGMs.
We are planning on creating some really innovative ways of including our new investors in the process of continuing to build the business.
The future…
It is a tragedy that so many people spend so much of their time working in corporate jobs that don't fulfill them.
We feel that this is an idea that really matters. Fortunately it seems that many of our website users agree and feel strongly enough about it to invest in the plan.
We are using this investment to build a forward-looking discovery network where people can set their aspirations in order to be matched with relevant opportunities, people and information.
Click here for more information about what we're building.
Thank you…
A massive thank you to everyone who has supported us in getting this far.
We'll keep you updated on progress via the blog and newsletter.
Keep an eye on www.escapethecity.org for an exciting new site!
All the best,
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Spotlight Recipes: Vegetarian Pasta Dishesby Toby Amidor in Healthy Recipes, December 8, 2010
Good old pasta recipes can easily be turned into a vegetarian dishes. Problem is, pile in tons of cheese and large portions of pasta and watch the calories and heart-clogging saturated fat go through the roof (yes, even vegetarian recipes can be unhealthy!). There are ways to lighten up your lasagna and macaroni and cheese but here are a variety of vegetarian pasta dishes that are delicious and figure-friendly.
Recipes to try:
- Vegetable Lasagna Casserole
- Penne with Roasted Tomatoes, Garlic and White Beans
- Whole-Wheat Spaghetti with Swiss Chard and Pecorino Cheese
- Macaroni and 4 Cheeses
Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, is a registered dietitian and consultant who specializes in food safety and culinary nutrition. See Toby's full bio »
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This article was published 25/1/2013 (1671 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Good morning, everyone. Happy belated Robbie Burns Day!
Or, as some of my ancestors would have said: "Gud morn, a fowk, canty belated Robbie Burns Day!"
Based on the bleary look on your little face, I am going to assume you were up late last night toasting the greatest poet in the history of the world with a dram or two and, just possibly, a few bites of haggis.
Before we go on, let me just say that, considering the hate mail I got last year when I dared mock the taste of Scotland's national dish, I now realize haggis is the greatest single food product ever invented.
OK, now that we are all friends again, I have decided, out of the goodness of my partly Scottish heart, to give everyone a break today.
I am referring here to a break from the bone-rattling, soul-destroying cold snap that has been crushing our will to live since a massive clump of Arctic air plopped down on top of us a little while back.
Get ready to feel warm and fuzzy, because Environment Canada says today we can look forward to a little bit of sun and a soothing high of -12 C, which is spot-on normal for this time of year and a lot better than the -30 C temperatures we have been smacked with in recent days.
On Sunday, we are going to enjoy a sizzling high of -4 C, which is pretty much like living in Hawaii. Better yet, the daily low will only sink to -13 C. Is that awesome, or what?
Monday and Tuesday will feel balmy too (with highs of -9 C and -7 C, respectively) and the lows should only be around -12 C, a temperature we can handle standing on our tuque-covered heads, not that we want to.
Keep in mind, I am not promising you a long break in the sense the bitter cold should start making its way back on Wednesday, with a high of just -23 C.
So let's get out there this weekend, Winnipeg and take advantage of this tropical interlude. As your weekend social convener, I am pleased to report there is a ton of swell stuff to do to celebrate this warmish blip.
Want to have big fun? Then check out the Big Fun Festival, the annual indie festival showcasing multiple genres of music and art in venues throughout the city today and Sunday. If you're feeling a little literary, head down to the Millennium Library today from noon to 5 p.m. for Human Library 2013: The Sequel, an event wherein about 30 Manitobans will be acting as "living books." Readers can "borrow" the living books for half-hour conversations. And, no, you can't take them home or let your dog chew on them.
Keeping with the theme, drag the kids to Grant Park Shopping Centre Sunday starting at 2 p.m. for National Family Literacy Day. Uncle Doug will be there telling stories, along with MLA Jennifer Howard and legendary kids entertainer Al Simmons.
The point is, Winnipeg, I think you should get out and enjoy this little break in the weather. Or as my bagpipe-loving ancestors would have put it: "Noo gie it thaur, laddie, an start enjoyin' yoorselves!"


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The Gift of a Cow Tail SwitchSituation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
A great warrior did not return from the hunt. His family gave him up for dead, all except his youngest son who each day would ask, "Where is my father? Where is my father?"
The child's older brothers, who were magicians, finally went forth to find him. They came upon his broken spear and a pile of bones. The first son assembled the bones into a skeleton; the second son put flesh upon the bones; the third son breathed life into the flesh.
The warrior arose and walked into the village where there was great celebration. He said, "I will give a fine gift of a cow tail switch to the one who has brought me back to life." [The Cow Tail Switch would be considered a most prestigious gift, a symbol of high honor and acclaim.]
Each one of his sons cried out, "Give it to me, for I have done the most."
The first son said, "It was I who gathered and assembled your bones."
"And Father it was I, your second son, who labored to put flesh upon the bones."
"Yes, but I was the one that breathed life into the flesh", said the third son, "So the cow tail switch should go to me."
"Humm, all true, I could not have finer sons than you."
Which son was given the Cow Tail Switch?
HintWho did what?
Answer"I will give the gift to my youngest son," said the warrior. "For it is this child who saved my life. For a man is never truly dead until he is forgotten!"
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Could a low-carb diet give you an edge in losing weight? Help you keep weight off permanently? Here's what you need to know about the low-carb diet.
A low-carb diet limits carbohydrates — such as those found in grains, starchy vegetables and fruit — and emphasizes foods high in protein and fat. Many types of low-carb diets exist. Each diet has varying restrictions on the types and amounts of carbohydrates you can eat.
A low-carb diet is generally used for losing weight. Some low-carb diets may have health benefits beyond weight loss, such as reducing risk factors associated with diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
You might choose to follow a low-carb diet because you:
Check with your doctor or health care provider before starting any weight-loss diet, especially if you have any health conditions, such as diabetes or heart disease.
As the name says, a low-carb diet restricts the type and amount of carbohydrates you eat. Carbohydrates are a type of calorie-providing macronutrient found in many foods and beverages.
Many carbohydrates occur naturally in plant-based foods, such as grains. In natural form, carbohydrates can be thought of as complex and fibrous such as the carbohydrates found in whole grains and legumes, or they can be less complex such as those found in milk and fruit. Common sources of naturally occurring carbohydrates include:
Food manufacturers also add refined carbohydrates to processed foods in the form of flour or sugar. These are generally known as simple carbohydrates. Examples of foods that contain simple carbohydrates are white breads and pasta, cookies, cake, candy, and sugar-sweetened sodas and drinks.
Your body uses carbohydrates as its main fuel source. Sugars and starches are broken down into simple sugars during digestion. They're then absorbed into your bloodstream, where they're known as blood sugar (glucose). Fiber-containing carbohydrates resist digestion, and although they have less effect on blood sugar, complex carbohydrates provide bulk and serve other body functions beyond fuel.
Rising levels of blood sugar trigger the body to release insulin. Insulin helps glucose enter your body's cells. Some glucose is used by your body for energy, fueling all of your activities, whether it's going for a jog or simply breathing. Extra glucose is usually stored in your liver, muscles and other cells for later use or is converted to fat.
The idea behind the low-carb diet is that decreasing carbs lower insulin levels, which causes the body to burn stored fat for energy and ultimately leads to weight loss.
In general, a low-carb diet focuses on proteins, including meat, poultry, fish and eggs, and some nonstarchy vegetables. A low-carb diet generally excludes or limits most grains, legumes, fruits, breads, sweets, pastas and starchy vegetables, and sometimes nuts and seeds. Some low-carb diet plans allow small amounts of certain fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
A daily limit of 60 to 130 grams of carbohydrates is typical with a low-carb diet. These amounts of carbohydrates provide 240 to 520 calories.
Some low-carb diets greatly restrict carbs during the initial phase of the diet and then gradually increase the number of allowed carbs. Very low-carb diets restrict carbohydrates to 60 grams or less a day.
In contrast, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that carbohydrates make up 45 to 65 percent of your total daily calorie intake. So if you consume 2,000 calories a day, you would need to eat between 900 and 1,300 calories a day from carbohydrates or between 225 and 325 grams of carbohydrates a day.
Most people can lose weight on diet plans that restrict calories and what you can eat — at least in the short term. And low-carb diets, especially very low-carb diets, may lead to greater short-term weight loss than low-fat diets.
But most studies have found that at 12 or 24 months, the benefits of a low-carb diet are not very large. A 2014 review found that higher protein, low-carbohydrate diets may offer a slight advantage in terms of weight loss and loss of fat mass compared to a normal protein diet. At a year, the difference was only about a pound (about 0.4 kilograms), though, and those who had the greatest benefits stuck to the diet long term.
Cutting calories and carbs may not be the only reason for the weight loss. Some studies show that you may shed some weight because you eat less on low-carb diets because the extra protein and fat keep you feeling full longer.
Low-carb diets may help prevent or improve serious health conditions, such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. In fact, almost any diet that helps you shed excess weight can reduce or even reverse risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Most weight-loss diets — not just low-carb diets — may improve blood cholesterol or blood sugar levels, at least temporarily.
Low-carb diets may improve HDL cholesterol and triglyceride values slightly more than do moderate-carb diets. That may not only be due to how many carbs you eat but also the quality of your other food choices. Lean protein (fish, poultry, legumes), healthy fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated) and unprocessed carbs — such as whole grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits and low-fat dairy products — are generally healthier choices.
A report from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and he Obesity Society concluded that there isn't enough evidence to say whether most low-carbohydrate diets provide heart-healthy benefits.
If you suddenly and drastically cut carbs, you may experience a variety of temporary health effects, including:
In addition, some diets restrict carbohydrate intake so much that in the long term they can result in vitamin or mineral deficiencies, bone loss, and gastrointestinal disturbances and may increase risks for various chronic diseases.
Severely restricting carbohydrates to less than 20 grams a day can result in a process called ketosis. Ketosis occurs when you don't have enough sugar (glucose) for energy, so your body breaks down stored fat, causing ketones to build up in your body. Side effects from ketosis can include nausea, headache, mental and physical fatigue, and bad breath.
It's not clear what kind of possible long-term health risks a low-carb diet may pose because most research studies have lasted less than a year. Some health experts believe that if you eat large amounts of fat and protein from animal sources your risk of heart disease or certain cancers may actually increase.
Original article: http://www.mayoclinic.org/low-carb-diet/ART-20045831
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SKILLMAN, N.J. - The Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced its 2013 ITA All-Academic Teams and Scholar-Athletes on Tuesday. Saint Leo boosted the Sunshine State Conference tally as the Lions saw 11 student-athletes on teams that included seven women's and five men's squads conference-wide. In total, 75 SSC student-athletes were recognized as ITA Scholar-Athletes.
From the women's side, joining Saint Leo were Barry, Florida Tech, Florida Southern, Lynn, Nova Southeastern and Rollins earning the ITA All-Academic Team award. The Lions, Barry, Florida Southern, Lynn, and Rollins were also recognized among the men's teams.
The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any ITA program that has a cumulative team grade-point average of 3.20 or above on a 4.00 scale.
In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status a student-athlete must meet three criteria, including: be a varsity letter winner; have a GPA of at least 3.5 on a 4.00 scale during the current academic year; have been enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters.
Following is the Saint Leo portion of the list of 75 SSC student-athletes named ITA Scholar-Athletes. For the entire list click here.
Saint Leo Men
Jake Fleischer
Jacob Gonzalez-Tarrio
Ismail Lemtouni
Matt Nicholson-Lewis
Fons Verberne
Saint Leo Women
Emily Singleton
Caroline Ebner


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Saddam Hussein's trial resumes
Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein returned to the dock with the resumption of his trial on charges of genocide against the Kurds during the so-called Anfal campaign of the late 1980s. Saddam and six co-defendants stand accused of slaughtering 182,000 Kurds by gassing them and bombing their villages in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq in 1987 and 1988.
The trial resumed after a three-week recess as Saddam's chief lawyer, Iraqi Khalil al-Dulaimi, was not present, but lawyers for the other defendants were.
Saddam is charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity over the Anfal campaign.
The genocide trial started on August 21, and the first three days saw Kurdish villagers testify that their villages had been gassed, their fields destroyed and their families exterminated in brutal death camps run by Saddam's forces.


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