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SandForce Identifies Firmware Bug Causing BSOD Issue, Fix Available Todayby Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/17/2011 8:20 PM EST
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Aphelion02 - Monday, October 17, 2011 - link" OCZ has been testing the fix in-house for the past three weeks and now believes it is fit for public release. "
OCZ believes a lot of things are fit for public release that I would never buy. I'll trust this when I read all about the technical details in another one of Anand's excellent reviews. Reply
ss284 - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkBSOD issues since release(over a year ago) and there still isn't a fix out. Not surprising given sandforce's track record. Reply
Siorus - Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - linkI'm not disputing the veracity of your comment at all, but it doesn't match my experience, for whatever that's worth.
i've got about 20 SF-1200 drives of various brands deployed at work and in my own personal machines, I've had exactly zero issues with them. I think I've got at least one or two of every brand that's available in the US, in fact, except for the OCZ and OWC drives.
I've also got a bunch of Intels (an X25-M G2, a couple 320s, a ton of 510s), a C300, some OCZ Summits (Samsung-based) and some Indilinx-based drives. Of the bunch, I've only had an issue with one-a 120GB Vertex. I wouldn't trust another OCZ drive, but I haven't personally had-or even really heard of-any large-scale issues with the SF-1200s. Reply
Taft12 - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkLesson learned - Intel SSDs only. Reply
pc_void - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkIntel SSDs haven't had major issues? That's news to me. Reply
ckryan - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkThe 8meg bug was pretty rare with the 320s. Some Marvell controlled drives (including the 510)had LPM problems, but that was/is easily fixed. There was a G2 firmware problem, but the bug was easily identified in all of those cases, and you knew that just getting the drive RMAd would fix the problem. With the SandForce problem, you could go though drive after drive... the problem was with all of them, but only manifested itself through certain hardware and usage patterns. I would say Intel controlled and Marvell controlled drives are still mostly the way to go, but Toggle NAND equipped SF drives are worth the problems (sometimes). Whether this new "magic" OCZ only-at-this-point FW fix works on drives as a whole is another matter entirely. There were a couple of ways to make a SF2281 unhappy, and it's unclear whether this addresses all of them. I can get two of them to occur, so when the 3.3.2 FW drops, I'll peep it out. Reply
icrf - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkI have an Intel 320 at work and an OCZ Vertex 3 at home. I BSOD'd at home but the beta update from May/June fixed that just fine, no issues since.
I haven't had any issues at work, but Intel recommends updating to their "fixed" firmware, anyway, as the bug can strike any time. I read a little more and people who had never seen the bug all the sudden got it right after apply the patch that should have prevented it.
I still haven't updated the patch on my Intel at work. While I don't have any statistical numbers to say for sure, the whole thing reads like a crap shoot, no matter whose drive you buy.
Play the odds, and hope you're not in the minority with issues, like everything else in life. Reply
ckryan - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkIf your non-SF drive dies or is problematic, you can just swap it out with the vendor or retailer. If your SF22xx drive BSOD/Disconnects/etc, you can't do too much about it. The problem is with all the 22xxs. Luckily for everyone, it doesn't get exposed THAT much -- just enough to be a major problem for the SF vendors. I think a lot of the FW updates have basically pushed the problem around the plate for some, so that some get a perceived fix but some get the problem for the first time whereas they would not have normally seen the issue in their workload. Reply
seapeople - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkBack up then apply the patch for the Intel. If you get the bug immediately after, then you get a new drive in the mail and lose no data.
It probably won't matter though... I had an unpatched 320 for several months with a dying graphics card that lead to 50+ "unsafe power cycles" as stated in the Intel SSD toolbox and I never had a problem with the drive. Regardless, I have since patched my 320 and never had any problems before or since. Reply
Movieman420 - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkWell brace yourself...Intel will start selling SF drives next month...aka Cherryville 520. ;) Reply
FunBunny2 - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkSomehow I have the feeling that Intel will be a tad more aggressive with SF. Reply
InterClaw - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkHere's hoping that this will solve it...! *fingers crossed* Reply
InterClaw - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkYeah okay... It took 5 minutes until my first BSOD. :(
On 2.13 I would get like 0-2 of the per day. Using an Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z. Reply
ckryan - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkI've had a repeatable SF2281 bug that I could get every 30 hours like clockwork, or earlier with MSAHCI drivers, but at random between one and eight hours.
Initially, I would get a BSoD after thirty hours. I swapped three different motherboards, and used the drive not as a system drive, but as a secondary. That way it doesn't crash the system, the drive just disconnects (but still needs a manual power cycle). Different RST oroms and drivers didn't matter, using MSAHCI with or without the internal-only port hack made no difference. I know many vendors were claiming they didn't have any way to get a repeatable error, to which I say BS. I was able to find a fix for my system after a few weeks, but it didn't have anything to do with the claimed "fixes". The new fix may or may not stop the "problem", but I find it hard to believe that they couldn't find one system like mine out there. OCZ also claimed that the fault lied with Intel, but I believe this is evidence to the contrary. Also, it is claimed that X79 would fix Intel's problem with SF drives -- something I find doubtful as well, at least in my experience, and even more so in light of this magical FW fix.
I like a lot of the people over at OCZ, but blaming the problem on everything BUT the drive was getting old... as was the old saw that it would be a combination of fixes together that would help with stability, such as Intel getting their stuff together, then SF could get a FW patch to work. So I do indeed hope that the fix is real, and that those afflicted can get their drives functioning like the rest of modern drives -- as they should have from the beginning. Reply
KaarlisK - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkHow did you manage to test different RST oroms? Reply
ckryan - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkThe three motherboards I tested my drive on all had different versions (and different BIOS/UEFI versions have different RST oroms), but you can take the 11.x orom and "inject" it into the BIOS or UEFI with a few tools. If you have a Gigabyte or Asrock board you can look around. It didn't do me any good as the problem is with the drive... all of them. Reply
temporalillusion - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkI have a Patriot Wildfire 240GB not an OCZ, but I was having this exact same problem. I was given a beta firmware update to try (they numbered it 3.3.0) and that resolved the issue completely for me, haven't had a single issue since upgrading.
But lesson learned about using bleeding edge tech in a machine I rely on for work. Reply
ajdigital - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkahh... another update!
I recently updated to 2.13 from 2.06 with the constant headache of random shutoff and restarts etc that was plagued with the Agility 3 and the rest of the SF 2200 club I guess. What stopped me from upgrading sooner was the not so user friendly updating process since my SSD was my OS drive. Anyway... I have had NO shutdowns or any issues for 5 days straight so far. (I was lucky to keep an up time of 1 day before with no justification that I could pin point it to) and I have also seen my hard drive regain some speed. I am really looking forward to updating to 2.15 asap! Reply
clarkn0va - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkIs this a Windows only problem? I have an Agility 3 that runs mostly Ubuntu, and a Vertex 3 that runs only Windows 7. I've had no issues on either system.
A coworker also runs Windows 7 with a Vertex 3 boot drive and gets "no disc" errors occasionally at boot. Reply
Troff - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkIs it just me or do OCZ/SF seem more confident about this one? I sure hope it's for real. Reply
dcaxax - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkOCZ has, especially since entering the SSD market exhibited a truly pathetic level of customer support.
It seems they treat SSDs the same way they treat RAM. But while for some reason it was considered acceptable for RAM to crash your system and have users do their own troubleshooting, it definitely isn't for the disk market. Looking through their forums you can see a lot of users trying to guess the cause of their problemsand the efforts of the staff, while well meaning are amateurish from a customer support POV.
The biggest problem though is Sandforce and it's "secret sause" as Anand calls it. The issue is that this non-standard, top secret technology is managed ONLY by sandforce, while its partners sell drives as "black boxes" i.e. they have no idea what's going on inside. That means you're depending on a tiny company to manage an comparatively large user base. Resources for bugfixing, testing and QA are not anywhere near Intel, Crucial or Samsung - neither is their business savy in dealing with customers. When problems occur they typically respond with silence.
The 1st generation SF drives were OK, IF you knew what you were getting into - Anand's articles covered a lot but not all of it. Looking through OCZ forums told a lot about the complexities of using them. Many killed their drives, by not understanding issues about the SF controller's handling of incompressible data, while some, inadvertently benched them to death. All because of the SF shroud of secrecy.
Other users do bizarre hacks to optimize their systems to work with their SSD. I eventually gave up and decided I'd keep my SF1200 drive until it degrades or dies, whatever.
The 2nd generation SF drives, proved pretty conclusively why you should not do business with a tiny secretive company for a critical component. The BSOD problem was known for months over the web, but SF and OCZ called it a "rare unrepeatable issue". New firmwares supposedly addressed this "rare unrepeatable issue" but so far failed. I hope the last one does, for the poor people who bought their products, but IMHO, they're just not worth the effort.
Current generation SSD's are all so fast, it's impossible to tell the difference between a Super-fast SF drive or a plain-fast drive by any other brand. There is simply no point in taking the risk to buy an SF drive anymore (certainly not one made by OCZ). I'm getting a Crucial m4, for a lower price than an SF2x and will be happy to have slightly lower speeds, no crashes, no need to browse forums and peace of mind.
IMO the only people that can benefit from SF drives are Mac users who need a drive that does its own garbage collection, even when no TRIM is present (Apple supports TRIM only for its own, expensive SSDs). Reply
kensiko - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkYou're blaming it all to partners, while I'm not even sure if you would have done better.
Of course they do not have the resources for bugfixing testing and QA, what do you think?
Of what I gathered when they had their hands on a BSOD system, they would plug the SATA bus analyzer and the problem would disappear. Reply
xdrol - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link3.2.2 -> 2.15? Was the 3.2.2 firmware from a newer, maybe experimental/unstable branch, and they returned now to the previous, 'stable' branch? Reply
AbRASiON - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkThe attititude on OCZ's forums regarding this fiasco has been enough for me to sign out. I'm done. M4 or Intel for me. I'll live these 2 OCZ drives out for their lifetime but after this, I'm done. Reply
Beenthere - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkIt's outrageous that Microsucks, SSD suppliers, some mobo makers, many software suppliers and others charge consumers for the privilege of Beta testing their defective products and reporting the defects. I guess there have not been enough class action lawsuits to encourage these hardware and software suppliers to properly validate their goods before releasing them to the market. Reply
AnnihilatorX - Thursday, October 20, 2011 - linkSo people having BSODs with the old generation drives are left to fend off themselves? Reply
ottoman16 - Friday, October 21, 2011 - linkAnand's article "OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS & Patriot Wildfire SSDs Reviewed" states that SF drives are not good for incompressible data: "If you have a workload that uses a lot of incompressible data (e.g. JPGs, H.264 videos, highly random datasets etc...) then SandForce just isn't for you."
That being the case, would a non-SF SSD be better suited? Seeing how many issues the SF drives are having would just be another reason to choose another controller-based SSD. Reply
Quad5Ny - Friday, October 28, 2011 - linkIt's great that there is a fix for the second generation drives, but what about the first generation?
I have 2 SF-1200 drives that disconnect randomly after waking up from S3.
God, SandForce drives can be such a pain in the arse. Reply
9mm - Friday, October 28, 2011 - linkThis bug happens with nocti mPCIe(mSATA)? why no firmware for small brother... ? Reply
Comdrpopnfresh - Sunday, February 05, 2012 - linkthats my comment on that Reply


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We loved visiting the Jeff Koons exhibit at the Whitney Museum. It's full of all the fun and whimsy as you would expect – from balloon dogs to giant mounds of Play-Doh to floating basketballs. I let Camille man the camera phone and take some of her favorites. It's a fun family activity in New York City, for visitors and for locals.
Note, for anyone thinking of going, there is 1 room on the 3rd floor that you might want to preview for appropriateness. It is labeled (thank you Whitney Museum) so it won't come as a surprise. Keeping families in mind, the Whitney also gives out fun little workbooks for kids visiting the exhibit. It definitely inspired everyone to bust out the art supplies when we got home.
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Wuling Motors' Eco-E is the anti-Tesla. It isn't sleek. It isn't fast. And it isn't made in America.
An electric vehicle for the 99-cent Only store crowd, it's a Chinese car capable of just 25 mph that can be had for a mere $8,995 – or less, after applying government incentives. For drivers who keep their errand running off highway and feel little need for speed, the Eco-E is similar to a street-legal golf cart with one added benefit: Doors.
There are four cup holders, a cigarette lighter and an AM/FM radio that sounds like it's missing an antenna. That's pretty much where the amenities end.
The two-passenger Eco-E is outfitted exactly as one would expect for a zero-emission errand runner at this price, i.e. it isn't outfitted with much at all. Its only modern technology is the five-horsepower electric powertrain, which takes drivers 20 miles and fully recharges in two hours.
If the goal is getting around cheaply, the Eco-E does the job, but it doesn't do much else.
Its windows move up and down with a clip, not even a crank handle, and serve as the car's only climate controls. Even opening the door is old school: It requires the insertion of an actual key and the push of a button on its handle. The small trunk stays open only when held in place.
Sliding across its bench seat, during a weekend-long test of the car, landed me in front of an analog dashboard where I could keep tabs on its performance with gauges for amps, volts, speed and fuel. Starting the car was done with the push of a button and the twist of a knob that allows this direct-drive vehicle to move forward or backward.
Off the line, the Eco-E was comparable to an average, gas-powered passenger car. Like other street-legal golf carts I've tested, it accelerated quickly to 15 mph and inched up to its top speed from there. According to a sticker on its rear end, the Eco-E can travel 25 mph max.
In reality, it only reached that speed when going downhill. On flat surfaces, it topped out at 23 mph, and I really wanted those extra 2 mph whenever I looked in my rear view and saw traffic piling up behind me. Going up even moderate inclines reduced its speed even further – to a bicycleesque 12 mph.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Eco-E is a low-speed vehicle, or LSV. Even though they are restricted to 25 mph, LSVs are legal in California on streets designated for 35 mph traffic. They are best used, however, in communities with few cars and among other low-speed vehicles, such as retirement homes and university campuses.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has raised concerns about LSVs, which aren't subject to crash testing like larger passenger vehicles. The Eco-E doesn't have airbags. Its main safety features are its frame, its seat belts and its looks, which, being brightly colored and unusually small, attracted a lot of attention. Few vehicles prompted as many smiles from onlookers.
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My daughter was diagnosed with petit mal seizures or absence seizures over a year ago. She's been on both lamictal and topomax for the last 8 months. Recently we've noticed that she is starting to have several seizures a day ranging from very minor to strong. But one thing we've started to notice is that after several small ones she gets very mouthy, and doesn't listen, and well her personality changes from happy go lucky to mad and angry. Does anyone see this with their kids. I know she's a kid and will do those things but for her it seems to be amplified. We've done another EEG and will get the results next week. The neuro and I feel she is having more and I feel that the medication she is on is causing some of the behavorial problems.
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Hi there. Unfortunately, it's most likely a combination of both. Seizures themselves cause us to become nasty at times; not to mention the fact that some AED's cause aggression and anger. The two together can make for a mean, mouthy teenager.
Even as an adult, I find myself having terrible mood swings after and sometimes before a seizure. I don't do it on purpose, but I get this feeling of boiling nastiness inside. As much as I try to hold it in, it slips out from time to time. I think it's all part of the stress, anxiety and sometimes depression that comes with having seizures. Regardless of how many people she may have supporting and encouraging her, it's hard sometimes not to feel like you're all alone in a dark hole and no one understands.
I hate it that your little girl has to go through this. Being that she's newly diagnosed, I agree her medication may play a big part and possibly need to be adjusted. If her seizure activity has increased, expect even more behavioral changes. Try to be as patient as possible; she really can't help it until she becomes stabilized. I know it's easier said than done. I'll keep you in my prayers:)
God bless you and your family.
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My first year was horrible! I used to have a photographic memory but when my seizures started I began having severe short term memory loss. It got worse while my body was adjusting to the medication. I was much like your daughter. I couldn't get through one sentence without forgetting what I had read or not understanding what it meant. This also happened in speaking. I would forget certain words or call a lamp a trash can or something along those lines. I had a lot of trouble comprehending or focusing on the simplest of things. I became so frustrated I just wanted to give up and isolate myself. I would imagine your daughter may feel the same way. On a brighter note it has gotten better with time. I have good days and bad. My biggest complaint now is I sometimes have blurred vision and have trouble focusing at times. The beginning stages of diagnosis and treatment are the hardest, mostly because it's so new and a shock to the system. I had to teach myself new ways of learning new things and use memory triggers
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Sorry. I'm on my cell phone and it doesn't always cooperate. What I mean by memory triggers are things to help jog her memory-something attached with a specific emotion helped me the most. One of the best things you could do to help her right now is to start a seizure diary, not only documenting her seizures but what she was doing prior to and her reaction afterward. This will help you to pin point her triggers and give you an idea of what to stay away from. Another important thing I learned was to never take what the Dr's say at face value-learn for yourself. Although I give them credit where credit is due, their not always right. I was a guinea pig for way too long and had to learn the hard way. Things will start to get better once she begins to adjust, it's just hard for her right now. Sorry to be so nosey, but have you taken her to see a therapist or neuropsychologist? If not it may help her to express her emotions to a 3rd party then making it easier for her to open up to you as well. My phone may kick me off again so I better go but you can email me directly from my profile. Please keep me updated. Take care sweetie.
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My daughter experienced irritability while being on Lamictal. If you can coincide the change in behavior to when either medication was started or increased, then that might be your answer.
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Oh yes, both the knowledge that one can have a seizure at any time, usually without warning, AND the fact that he or she takes an anti-seizure drug can bring on a short temper, unnecessary anger, insecurity, etc. And this from an adult who has made it through middle age with epilepsy. I sometimes say that those crabby feelings that seem to pop up a day or so before my seizures are Mother Nature's way of saying, "Look out, my friend!". And for a day or two afterwards, don't come near me. Ask around and you'll hear people of all ages say that. My pills, while they may soften my seizures a bit, certainly do not eliminate them. And they do make me a far more dramatic man a couple times each month!
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I was diagnosed with epilepsy in June 2010 and that was enough to cause some changes in my personality, and I am considered to be a person who can (according to friends/family/employers) "handle anything". Since getting my seizures pretty much under control in August in 2010, I am feeling somewhat better about myself, but have noticed that I don't have the same self-confidence that I used to, care less about how I look, and have become a bit more short-tempered (good thing I have a long fuse naturally I guess).
Mood swings can be precipitated as an after-effect of the seizure itself; it's not uncommon for someone to feel moody/depressed or even agitated after a seizure. Your daughter might simply also be frustrated about knowing she is "different" from her peers because of her condition, and might feel limited by it. I am back to driving now and now go on my daily walks as part of my exercise but still have to call my husband frequently to reassure him I am okay (not seizing out on the side of the road). Don't get me wrong; I love him very much and appreciate his concern; it's just a reminder that I am still limited.
The medications she is on also can be causing some of her behavioral issues and personality changes; I would venture to guess this is probably the main cause and am glad your neurolgist is at least willing to consider this possibility. I'm on the extended release form of lamictal, Lamictal XR and since the last dose increase, it has caused me to be moody. I would imagine that it would do the same with your daughter, and since kids generally don't have the experience in regulating their behavior that adults do, the moodiness could show itself as mouthiness, not listening, and going from happy to grouchy in a matter of minutes--or seconds!
Topamax also can cause anxiety and mood swings, so it is possible that this medication can also be contributing to your daughter's recently changed behavior.
Good luck with the doctor's visit, and I hope that you and the doctor can find a better medication combination for your doctor.
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when im on my medication. (i am a tonic-clonic epileptic) but i have severe mood swings. kinda like im pmsing only 10 times worse. just be patient with her. and talk to her. if it continues to get worse take her to her doctor and see what they can do.
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All AEDs can cause different side effects/personality changes. However, when I took Topamax, it not only changed my personality, it also caused confusion, hallucinations, and eventually no response to anything. I even had 2 CT scans one day, because 2 people found me unresponsive and were concerned I'd had a stroke. I wasn't aware of either CT scans! I've met other people at my seizure support group meetings who have told me that they feel fantastic on Topamax. However, if you look up the AEDs that cause the worst side effects, Topamax is one of them. Every brain is different, so it takes experimenting with different AEDs and doses to find the ideal match.
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Everyone has listed causes that could be a reason. When I was on Keppra the first time I would get angry fast and I do not know why?
Topamax I hallucinated on it.
My seizures changed as I grew too. Sometimes w/ the medications I was having more seizures too.
The doctor and staff should have all this recorded you and your daughter are going through a challenge together.
I write it down on a calendar that I can write on and put in my purse. I also have my cell phone for notes to by the time at the office I have all the data I need to give to the doctor and staff. I wanted the best. It is challenge! Ask the Physician what they are looking for if they want specific information.


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PHILADELPHIA - Two student-athletes who have battled back from early-season injuries to return to the lineup in fine form were honored by Penn's Sports Performance department with Student-Athlete of the Month distinction for March.
Micah Burak picked up Male Sports Performance Student-Athlete of the Month for March as voted on by the athletic trainers and strength & conditioning coaches after returning from an esrly-season injury to win his first career EIWA championship at 197 pounds on March 9. An NCAA All-American last season, Burak will compete in his fourth NCAA Championships later this month and has won 92 career matches, including a 16-2 record this season -- and a 13-3 mark since returning to the lineup with wins in 11 consecutive matches.
Dana Bonincontri missed two meets for gymnastics while rehabbing from injury, but returned in a dual meet against Ursinus to take second on bars and third on beam. Last weekend, she tied her career high on beam in a quad meet at Penn State with a score of 9.800. A two-time NCAA Regionals qualifier, Bonincontri is a four-time first-team All-ECAC gymnast who was ECAC Gynmast of the Year in 2011. She holds two school record, posting the high score in both vault (9.900) and the all-around (39.275). She has posted seven of the top-ten all-around performances in program history.


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By Steve Dyke
Epsom & Ewell striker Kyle Hough reached 100 goals for the club by bagging two goals in a 5-2 win over Ash United.
Following hot on the heels of team-mate Robbie Burns, who hit the milestone in October, Hough became the eighth players in the club's 94-year history to hit 100 goals.
Moreover, the result keeps the Salts in touch with the leading duo at the top of the Combined Counties League Premier Division.
Against Ash, there was little sign of what was to come at half-time as both teams struggled after missing so many games due to the weather.
However, Epsom possess goalscoring threats and not for the first time this season a quickfire series of goals took the game rapidly beyond Ash.
Hough started the scoring in the 51st minute with a neat finish and, five minutes later, scored his landmark 100th goal for the club with a cool finish from a tight angle.
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"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
No numbers were given. 5 stacks were mentioned but no numbers of how much an increase it will be.
Here is the current PTR Seal of Justice: Fills you with Holy Light, causing melee attacks (and Judgment) to apply Justice to your target. Justice: The attacking Paladin's next Templar's Verdict striking this target will also deal 25% weapon damage as Holy per application of Justice. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 15 sec. Undispellable. Using the TV consumes the stack. The Justice proc itself is not affected by mastery, nor is the mastery proc from TV counted for purposes of how hard Justice hits.
Doesn't actually make the TV bigger by my understanding, but instead is kind of like our mastery?
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"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
That one, this one, and the exp rep trinket are the 3.
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Clearly everything but the stacking Crit trinket is viable. Crit is clearly warrior made <since it relies on crits to proc even>
Holy shit this is alot of items.. 3-4 per slot. This could take awhile...
Dear god FOUR EQUALLY VIABLE ENDGAME 2hs? and one is off the 3rd boss and not last? Dear lord I thought I'd never see the day a the best 2h was from starting bosses.
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Oh polearm animations how i love thee.....
This also means a thunderforged heroic 2hander MAY NOT be out of reach of us friends. I mean. so many drops and charm opportunities....
EDIT: I'm going to make things simple and get every item listed out first and valor items listed aswell. This may take a half a week or so.
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They better be buffing Ret because 2 of the 4 trinkets (with that being 2 out of 3 of the potentially-heroic ilvl) are crit/strength trinkets. The third is a haste/strength trinket that apparently takes time to ramp up, so need more details on that one but looks pretty good except that your cooldowns could be done by the time it activates, who knows. The expertise trinket - Brutal Talisman - is probably the most worthwhile upgrade early on for every Ret because it obviously kicks the pants off any trinket in T14.
Talking about weapons, Zerat itemization is god-awful: crit/hit and a blue socket. Not a single PVE two-handed mace on the PTR yet, as per usual. Another crit/mastery axe. Greatsword of Frozen Hells isn't bad but all two-handed weapons just HAVE to have crit on them apparently. Seems to be Blizzard's two-handed theme of the expansion.
EDIT: Did not see there was a strength polearm.. not bad.
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I THINK RA-DEN IS DEFAULT H: TF gear notice Carapace of the Core
Lightning Emperor's Helmet
Doomed Crown of Lei-Shen
Crown of the Golden Golem
Amulet of the Primal Turtle
Necklace of the Terra-Cotta Vanquisher
Talisman of Angry Spirits
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Yellow Dawn Lightningcloak
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Fabled Feather of Ji-Kun
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Uroe, Harbinger of Terror
Greatsword of Frozen Hells
Zerat, Malakk's Soulburning Greatsword
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I think we have never needed a BiS list more then now... lol
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items posted here and in the OP. try to direct traffic of the hundreds of threads about to be made here Reith.
I'm out for now. exhausting work ahead of me.
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Let's make this interesting.
First please post if i missed Heroic armor pieace.
second make your own BiS list and post it here we need experimenting the next few days.
Do not consider TF OR ra-den loot in the list. race must be neutral
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Logic for relevant pieces as follows (if I don't mention it, it's a no-brainer):
Helmet: This off-piece is the lowest hit out of all tier combinations.
Neck: Red socket.
Cloak: Better than exp/crit if you can keep from going too much over hit cap.
Wrist: Only heroic wrist with guaranteed stats. Random enchant haste/mastery would probably be at least the same though.
Boots: Socket and no hit.
Trinkets: Primordius and Spark are probably the best combo because that stacking trinket that procs on crits to get more crit is ugh.
From what I'm looking at, in 535 gear, Crown of the Golden Golem pretty much has to be the off-piece of choice. Hit is kind-of tight if you're matching the two blue sockets (+120 str and +180 str bonuses) with Horn-Rimmed Doomcloak but reforging out of hit on everything except the hit/haste ring is 31 above hit cap.
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Spark of Zandelar looks awesome. Whats up with the Feathers trink? do you end up with 15k str on the proc after 20 secs or am I reading it wrong? :S
Reading this forum makes me glad that Watcher has his head screwed on correctly.
Very curious to see which wep will be best. Hit exp mess has to be solved first i guess, going to be a massive regorge mess with 3 item tiers to collect.
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I tried the new SoJ on the PTR for a 4-ish minute fight on a H dummy, compared to a equal length test on a H dummy again with SoT. On skada after the SoJ fight, I couldn't find the separate damage of the seal itself. So I'm wondering if on Skada for example, is it melded into the TV damage?
As for the damage, only self-buffed with kings and with a flask, SoT did 8k more. Odds are i messed up a ton, as I was half awake at the time.
Probably a stupid question but how "viable" is it to use the BiS list at normal instead of heroic? Will the difference in hit and exp throw it way off?
I feel like primordiu's rage has a huge chance to fall off with only chance on hit and 10 seconds. Ji-kun feeathers is 20 sec proc if the icd is only 45 seconds it will win. Imagine Poping ES with it stacked up to 15k strength + guardian with it. Yes.. immense.Trinkets: Primordius and Spark are probably the best combo because that stacking trinket that procs on crits to get more crit is ugh.
Also LOL PVP. this trinket will hands down break pvp and create one shot scenarios.
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May be better off using primordius and zandalar.
Primordius has 35% proc chance and if it hits off seals 5 stack should happen within 10 seconds. A passive crit and passive haste trinket WOULD open up far better gearing optionis then being locked into 1600 hit trinket. Even forged it's still almost half your hitcap. Limiting tons of choices including viable gemming, Better itemizated loot, Thunderforged.
Again tho this is also based on "does Ji-kun have low icd" You can only imagine our burst with wings hammer,TV,CS spam during that time. A Holy tv crit may be in the 600k range. Especially with the 30k top end thunderforged heroic weapons we are gonna have. With HoWs heavy 161% SP coif these trinkets will make HoW hit on par with our holy tvs.
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Ancestry has been putting a teaser online over the last few days saying that new occupational records are going to be available on the 24th. These records which are now available come from the Quarter Session records held at the Warwickshire County Record Office so say Ancestry, but I am not sure they all do.
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Sean Cleathero drank a yellow cocktail containing a massive dose of fat-burning drug DNP, which is normally used as an industrial pesticide.
He died eight hours later in October 2012 after suffering a heart attack and kidney failure.
Jamie Chivers, 44, who ran Apollo Gym in High Wycombe, where Mr Cleathero was a member, denies manslaughter.
Following a trial at the Old Bailey he today heard he will face a retrial on November 24.
Fellow owner Peter Purkins, 47, and bodybuilder Jason King, 41, were cleared of manslaughter but face a retrial on drugs charges in February 2015.
Purkins, of Heather Walk, Hazlemere and King, of Hazell Road, Prestwood, deny one count of conspiracy to supply class C drugs and one of production of class C drugs. King also denies perverting the course of justice.
However, Laura Hague, 23, of Orchard Grove, Chalfont St Peter was found guilty by the jury of perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to supply class C drugs.
The court heard the champion powerlifter, who holds the British record in two weight classes, helped clear out the Apollo Gym following the death of Mr Cleathero.
She was on bail during the trial but was remanded in custody by judge Nicholas Cooke QC following the verdicts. The sentence is expected to take place later this year.
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Despite the fact both parties have denied a relationship, the relatives of 23-year-old Deanna Hummel are coming forward to confirm she's been having an affair with Jon Gosselin of Jon and Kate Plus 8. Her brother Jason provided Us Weekly with all the details:
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Pennsylvania is the only state that does not allow expert witness testimony about victim behavior to be offered during sexual assault criminal trials, such as the upcoming proceedings against former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
A bill in the state Senate Judiciary Committee would change that, and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape wants to see the measure expedited into law.
House Bill 1264, sponsored by state Rep. Cherelle Parker, D-Philadelphia, and co-sponsored by Rep. Kate Harper, R-Montgomery County, would allow experts to address questions about victim behavior in sex assault cases, including why a person abused in childhood might wait for decades to report the assaults.
"If victims finally get the courage to come forward and report the abuse, they should not be further victimized by having the very normal behaviors and reactions of a sex assault victim looked upon as abnormal by a court or a jury who simply isn't educated in these things," Parker said on Friday.
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Former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with 40 counts of child sex last month, and authorities allege he abused eight boys from 1994 to 2009. Sandusky's attorney, Joseph Amendola, did not return calls for comment, but in recent weeks has said he doubts some details provided by the alleged victims regarding their abuse.
"This is the time to move this forward and help courts, juries and the public better understand why a person who was abused as a child might not disclose the abuse for decades," Moyer said. "These child predators often shower the child with gifts and trips and then at the same time threaten to hurt them or their family if they tell anyone what is really happening. ... Often adults who are abused as children only come forward when they learn their abuser is still in a position of trust and power with children, and they speak up to save another child from the abuse."
In addition to the coalition, the bill is supported by the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association and the state Office of the Victim Advocate.
Harper said Judiciary committees in the House and the Senate are busy, receiving up to 40 percent of all the legislation introduced in Harrisburg. She expects the bill will advance.
"It is not being ignored, and there is wide bipartisan support for it," Harper said.
Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, R-Montgomery County, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, did not return calls for comment yesterday.
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Workplace Specialist PDP Guidelines and Forms
Both old and new PDP's should be provided to the WS teacher's CTE director for r authorization. Both forms must have the appropriate authorization lines signed by both the teacher and the director (not other administrator). All supporting documentation (verifying activities completed) as indicated by the PDP point chart must be provided to the CTE director prior to review and authorization of completed PDP's. Only listing the activities without official verifying documents will not be sufficient. Do not send any PDP's to the former university representatives!
Point Chart and License Application Information
Point Conversions:
1 contact hour = 1 point
1 CRU = 2 contact hours = 1 point
1 CEU = 1 contact hour = 1 point
1 Semester credit hour = 15 contact hours = 15 points
1 Quarter credit hour = 10 contact hours = 10 points
Alternative conversion for the above established policies will require supporting documentation.
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Applicants can find the application through LVIS, click here to access the website.
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Comma Separated Values
From ErlangCentral Wiki
You want to work with comma separated value records, such as those exported from popular spreadsheet and database programs. Note that this recipe works for any similarly delimited format.
Naive Solution
The naive implementation might be something like this:
1> string:tokens(csv-string, ",").
The shortcomings show up pretty quickly. For starters, CSV format often encloses fields in quotes, so fields can contain commas. On top of that, quoted fields can contain quotes, escaped with a backslash (#\\). Let's imagine a CSV format for books, where the format is author,title,ISBN,publisher:
2> Csv = "David Halberstam, \"War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, 2> and the Generals\", B0000C37EA, Scribner". "David Halberstam, \"War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals\", B0000C37EA, Scribner". 3> string:tokens(Csv, ","). ["David Halberstam", " \"War in a Time of Peace: Bush", " Clinton", " and the Generals\"", " B0000C37EA", " Scribner"]
Clearly, the easy solution won't work for the general case. Essentially, we need to do state machine processing for this. As we traverse the string, we'll encounter the following states: in_field (when the current position is inside a field), in_quote (when we're inside a quoted string), delim (when we encounter a delimiter), and escape_char (when we encounter a backslash).
A set of Scheme utilities (written by NeilVanDyke) handles this problem quite nicely, but is obviously not applicable to Erlang directly. This is a good idea for an Erlang library, and could be ported to Erlang relatively easily.
Handling the cases where fields can be quoted requires something like this:
-module(csv). -export([read/1]). read(String) -> read(String, []). %%% read([], Acc) -> lists:reverse(Acc); read(String, []) -> {Line, Rest} = read_line(String), read(Rest, [Line]); read([10|String], Acc) -> {Line, Rest} = read_line(String), read(Rest, [Line|Acc]); read([13,10|String], Acc) -> {Line, Rest} = read_line(String), read(Rest, [Line|Acc]). add_spaces(0, String) -> String; add_spaces(Count, String) -> add_spaces(Count-1, [$ |String]). read_item([34|T]) -> read_item_quoted(T, []); read_item(Other) -> read_item(Other, 0, []). read_item([32|T], 0, []) -> read_item(T, 0, []); read_item([9|T], 0, []) -> read_item(T, 0, []); read_item([10|T], _SpaceCount, Acc) -> {lists:reverse(Acc), [10|T]}; read_item([13,10|T], _SpaceCount, Acc) -> {lists:reverse(Acc), [13,10|T]}; read_item([$,|T], _SpaceCount, Acc) -> {lists:reverse(Acc), [$,|T]}; read_item([], _SpaceCount, Acc) -> {lists:reverse(Acc), []}; read_item([9|T], SpaceCount, Acc) -> read_item(T, SpaceCount+1, Acc); read_item([32|T], SpaceCount, Acc) -> read_item(T, SpaceCount+1, Acc); read_item([C|T], SpaceCount, Acc) -> read_item(T, 0, [C|add_spaces(SpaceCount, Acc)]). read_item_quoted([34,34|T], Acc) -> read_item_quoted(T, [34|Acc]); read_item_quoted([34|T], Acc) -> {lists:reverse(Acc), T}; read_item_quoted([C|T], Acc) -> read_item_quoted(T, [C|Acc]). read_line(String) -> read_line(String,[]). read_line([10|T], Acc) -> {lists:reverse(Acc), [10|T]}; read_line([13,10|T], Acc) -> {lists:reverse(Acc), [13|T]}; read_line([], Acc) -> {lists:reverse(Acc), []}; read_line(String, []) -> {Item, Rest} = read_item(String), read_line(Rest, [Item]); read_line([$,|String], Acc) -> {Item, Rest} = read_item(String), read_line(Rest, [Item|Acc]).


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$20 Homemade Fisheye Lens
Why pay $300 for a fisheye when you can go to Home Depot and build one for $20? My friend Ryan and I bought a peephole and a couple pieces of pvc, stuck them together with a hot glue gun, and it was done. Literally 20 minutes. I felt like Steven Seagal when he made that silencer with a 2L pop bottle in Under Siege.
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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
By PAUL RAFFERTY
A pattern is emerging in B2B marketing -- CEOs are frustrated that they can't find a VP of marketing who can do it all, and marketing executives are leaving their positions or being let go because either they don't have the capabilities or aren't being given the resources to do their job in today's Sales 2.0 world.
Due to the maturation of the Internet, the world of B2B selling has changed forever. Prospects now control the discovery process and learn on their own about a company's products and services. They are avoiding the "live" sales interaction for as long as possible.
Consider the following:
This shift has caused a much greater reliance on the marketing department to get their sales representatives "in the door." This process now begins with a digital marketing interaction which, hopefully, will evolve into a personal selling interaction.
Today's Marketers Need Additional Skills
Finding, connecting with and engaging prospects requires technology, skills sets and resources that did not even exist five years ago. To be successful, marketing strategies and tactics must be realigned with this new prospect behavior.
Most marketing leaders who entered the workforce 10 or more years ago are well-schooled in a certain set of skills:
. Marketing Communications
. Advertising
. Tradeshows
. Direct Mail Campaigns
. Public Relations
Today's Web 2.0 and Sales 2.0 requires a leader fluent with an additional set of skills:
. Digital Media Creation: Because a company's first impression with a prospect is often created digitally, it is important to produce compelling content (Flash/Video) that can be distributed via e-mail to both build awareness and to entice recipients to want to learn more about the company and its products or services.
Producing compelling digital content for e-mail distribution is an art that cannot be overlooked, especially if you consider the fact that a company's first impression with prospects is often made digitally. Content must be informative and packaged in an engaging format (e.g. flash or video) in order to both build awareness and entice recipients to want to learn more about the company and its products or services. Techniques for accomplishing this:
It Takes a Village
CEOs, especially in small companies, often are frustrated when they can't find all of these capabilities in one marketing leader and, more importantly, that these leaders don't have the bandwidth to handle it all. To succeed, companies must go deep into each of these areas. A poorly executed, glossed-over approach will not work.
Do CEOs know this? Or are their expectations unrealistic about their marketing leaders' (or anyone's) ability to do this by themselves? We wrote in a recent blog post that it "takes a village of fractional people" to pull this off.
Sales and marketing executives are struggling to find and fund the dedicated expertise to string this critical business process all together. Technology (and the Web, specifically) has raised the bar for the depth and breadth required to succeed in marketing. Many companies are finding themselves falling further behind their well-funded competitors. Until these critical functions are either funded internally or outsourced to a competent partner, marketing will struggle, CEOs will pull their hair out, and the churn will continue.
Paul Rafferty is a founding partner and the Chief Executive Officer of Sales Engine International, a B2B sales acceleration company. SEI implements and relentlessly executes a sales acceleration engine on behalf of its clients. Prior to founding SEI, he spent 20 years with Ceridian Corporation, where he rose from field sales rep to regional vice president of sales, and eventually to national vice president of sales operations with responsibility for a sales organization of more than 600.


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Assis Claims Second Fifth Place Finish, 200 Free Relay Team Earns Eighth
GENEVA, Ohio – The Saint Leo swim team saw more success on day two of the 2014 NCAA Division II Swimming Championships, held at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
The day started off for the Green and Gold with the men's relay team of Matheus Assis, Gabe Keown, Patrick Ceddia, and Milton Albert-Requejo earning a preliminary time of 120.82 in the men's 200 Yard Freestyle Relay to qualify for the championship finals.
In the championship heat, Saint Leo finished eighth overall, earning a time of 1:21.52. Division II swimming powerhouse Drury took home the top time in the men's 200 Free Relay, hitting the wall with a time of 1:19.00, while Sunshine State Conference rival University of Tampa earned third overall with a time of 1:19.85.
In the men's 100 Yard Butterfly, Assis earned a qualifying time of 48.03 in the preliminary heat to advance to the championship finals. Keown earned a preliminary time of 50.28 to finish 28th overall in the preliminary round. Assis went on to claim his second fifth place finish of the 2014 Championship meet, touching with a time of 47.97 in the 100 Fly finals.
The Lions return to action on Friday, March 14, when they swim in the preliminary rounds on Day 3 of the NCAA DII championships. Stephanie Martinez will swim in the women's 500 Yard Free, while Assis, Keown, Ceddia and Alberto-Requejo will swim in the men's 800 Free Relay. Prelim heats begin at 10:30 a.m.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo men's and women's swim teams, fans can visit SaintLeoLions.com. Fans can also stay up-to-date on the latest Lions news by following Saint Leo Athletics on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube.


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FURTHER cuts for local councils – announced in the Chancellor's autumn statement – will affect frontline services in York and North Yorkshire, authorities have warned.
James Alexander, leader of City of York Council, said: "With a further two per cent cut in City of York Council funding in 2014/15, on top of already planned reductions, the Chancellor will have taken away 30 per cent of the council's grant funding in just four years. Before today's announcement, City of York Council has received a funding cut over two years equivalent to £70 off each person since the general election.
"Given the acute pressures on adult social care services, housing and the impact of flooding, there is no justification for a further cut in grant estimated at the equivalent to one per cent of our council tax income."
North Yorkshire County Council warned that it faces a further £2.5 million in cuts. In a joint statement, council leader Coun John Weighell and chief executive Richard Flinton, said: "A four-year programme of savings totalling £69 million was approved by North Yorkshire County Council in 2010, as a result of the Government's reduction in funding.
That figure was amended earlier this year, as a result of further announcements and indications, to provide a further £22 million saving in 2014-15. It now appears from the Chancellor's autumn statement that the savings in 2014-15 will have to increase by a further £2.5 million.
"We will continue to do everything within our power to implement these savings with the least adverse impact on the people of North Yorkshire, but it is inevitable that the quality of service we offer will suffer."
On a more positive note, the Chancellor did announce that York would be one of 12 cities to share a £50 million investment in superfast broadband, although the city will not be among those to receive a share of £120 million to help with flood defences.
Coun Alexander said: "The floods minister was here last week offering support and other ministers have personally pledged support to York so it is disappointing to say the least that the Chancellor has forgotten about York when it comes to flood defences. Any further funds would most likely first be spent in the Clementhorpe area."
Susie Cawood, head of York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the broadband announcement. She said: "In the knowledge economy of the 21st century, moving data quickly is just as vital as moving freight quickly. Similarly, upgrades to key parts of the A1 across our region bringing it up to motorway standard will be welcome by motorists and hauliers alike."
Businesses and rural communities also welcomed the decision to scrap the planned 3p increase in fuel duty. Leah Swain, chief officer of charity Rural Action Yorkshire, said: "The impact of fuel costs in rural areas is disproportionate to urban ones and anything that can be done to alleviate this will be of benefit across Yorkshire."
But Nigel Clemit, managing partner of York and Selby accountants JWP Creers, said businesses needed growth in the economy to bring back profits, which would then enable them to take advantages of positive moves such as reducing corporation tax from 22 per cent to 21 per cent.
Main points at a glance
• FUEL: The 3p-a-litre increase in fuel duty, planned for next January, is cancelled
• BROADBAND: Ultra-fast broadband expansion in York and 11 other cities
• BUSINESS: Corporation tax cut by one per cent
• ROADS: Extra £1bn for roads, including upgrading A1, A30, and M25
• GROWTH: Predicted to be -0.1% in 2012, down from 0.8% predicted in the Budget
• BENEFITS: Basic state pension to rise by 2.5% next year to £110.15 a week. Child benefit to rise by 1% for two years from April 2014. Most working-age benefits to rise by 1% for each of next three years.
• OVERSEAS AID: Promise to spend 0.7% on development to be honoured next year, but not exceeded.
No end in sight to austerity measures until 2018
Austerity measures are to be extended for a further year to 2018, as Britain's faltering economy goes into reverse.
In a bleak autumn statement to the House of Commons, George Osborne announced a £3.7 billion squeeze on welfare and a £1 billion raid on the pensions of the wealthy, as he admitted that the nation's deficit will not be eliminated until well into the next Parliament.
He sought to sweeten the pill by scrapping a planned 3p-a-litre rise in fuel duty which had been due to come in January, cutting corporation tax by one per cent and introducing changes to tax thresholds which will see earnings below £9,440 taken out of income tax altogether.
But he was forced to admit that the independent Office for Budget Responsibility now believes he will miss his target for debt to start falling as a proportion of GDP from 2015/16 – the year of the next general election.
Labour said that benefit and tax changes announced today mean that a working family with children on £20,000 a year will lose £279 a year from April. A planned rise in the threshold for the lower rate of income tax is to be increased by £235 to £1,335, meaning that the first £9,440 of earnings will be tax-free from April next year and bringing the Government "within touching distance" of meeting its promise to raise personal allowances to £10,000 by the end of the Parliament.
But 400,000 more middle-income earners will be dragged into the 40 per cent tax band by the process of "fiscal drag", as Mr Osborne raised £1 billion by uprating that threshold by just one per cent.


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Cirrus Entertainment Center
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Cirrus Entertainment Center by BDI
designed by Matthew Weatherly
At A Glance:
Cirrus is a low profile TV stand and media center with sliding wood-framed doors that conceal two compartments for media players and video game consoles. The adjustable center shelf is the ideal space for a speaker or additional consoles. Hidden wheels allow the system to be moved away from the wall, even when fully loaded, and removable back panels provide easy access to cables and connections.
The Cirrus Entertainment Center's top shelf holds up to 200 lb, and the interior shelves provide more than enough strength for your consoles, unless you plan on stacking gold bricks inside. If you do, please take a picture so we can all enjoy the sight of massive amounts of gold in a media console.
Recommended for up to 73" flatscreen televisions.
What's To Like:
BDI packs so many great features into the Cirrus Entertainment Center that it's hard to know where to start. The cabinet is supremely well-ventilated, has a great cable-management system to clean up the mess, and infrared glass door panels let you keep your expensive consoles hidden away yet still usable. Oh, and you know how hard it is to move heavy entertainment centers? Cirrus is a snap to move away from the wall with built-in, hidden wheels that don't detract from the look.
What's Not to Like:
It may not be possible to dislike any of the functionality of this media console. That leaves its price, which isn't cheap. But, while the price is high, it's certainly no higher than it should be for a well-designed entertainment center with so many features.
The Bottom Line:
Cirrus is the perfect example of what engineers and home theater aficionados talk about around the water cooler. It's a premier enclosed cabinet system - the culmination of years of studying the most demanding home theater systems. This media console has a multitude of features built in. It's the cream of the crop.
|TV Mount Option
The Cirrus Entertainment Center accommodates the optional Arena TV Mount. With simple hardware, the Arena TV Mount securely fastens your flatscreen TV to your entertainment center. Arena is the perfect alternative to wall mounting your television and features a swiveling mounting bracket.
Recommended for 40"-65" flatscreen televisions.
The BDI Cirrus Entertainment Center is also known by the following manufacturer Item Number: 8157.
Materials & Measurements
Natural wood veneer with satin stainless steel base. Cabinet fronts contain IR friendly tempered glass.
Overall:19" h x 65" w x 20" d
Shelf A dimensions: 13.75" h x 25.75" w x 15.5" d
Shelf B dimensions: 13.75" h x 18" w x 18.25" d
Weight capacity:
Top shelf: 200 pounds
Shelf A (adjustable): 50 pounds
Shelf A (bottom): 75 pounds
Shelf B (adjustable): 50 pounds
Shelf B (bottom): 75 pounds
In order to perform at peak levels, your components not only need to look cool, they have to stay cool. This cabinet facilitates airflow through generous ventilation slots integrated into the bottom panel, wood shelves and removable back panels. Cooler air is drawn in from the bottom of the cabinet, while hot air is naturally expelled out the back.
This TV stand features the finest quality materials and finishes. Sturdy construction and steel or interlocking-panel supports provide a strong foundation for your home theater. Additionally, BDI specifies only the finest European-style hardware. Door handles and other metal details are beautifully finished. The unique soft-close hinges on most door assemblies are fully adjustable to ensure that doors hang evenly, swing smoothly and close gently.
This home theater cabinet is innovatively engineered in a unique way so that the back can be removed effortlessly for easy access to components and connections. Need to accommodate a very deep component? The back panel can be left off the cabinet without sacrificing any structural rigidity, allowing the component to extend from the back as needed.
Practically all of the glass used by BDI is tempered glass. Tempered glass is virtually shatterproof and four to five times stronger than standard glass. When used for shelves, tempered glass is strong enough to support the heaviest components and provides a high degree of durability.
All of BDI's furniture is designed with ease of use in mind. Grey tinted glass doors and windows keep components out of sight yet are compatible with the Infrared (IR) signals used by many remote controls.
Concealed wheels are built into this unit's leg assemblies. This means the TV stand can be moved (even if fully loaded) away from the wall by one person for easy access to cables and connections. Levelers allow the unit to be raised off of its wheels to secure it in place.
BDI home theater furniture is engineered to keep the usual tangle of cables and connections neatly under control. This cabinet features removable back panels for easy access to the rear of components. Integrated routing channels provide space for speaker and TV cables to be neatly concealed.
Floors can be quite uneven and your home theater needs to be level for optimum performance. This BDI TV stand includes easily adjustable levelers to compensate for minor leveling issues in flooring or to correct minor panel-alignment issues.
Because components come in many shapes and sizes, This TV stand features shelves that can be adjusted to accommodate a wide range of systems. Shelves rest on unique steel shelf pins, which are rubber-padded to minimize vibration of components, and high-quality threaded inserts allow you to readjust shelf positioning as needed.
Assembly Instructions
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About The Manufacturer
Thoughtful design; sleek lines; material quality that is without peer. Becker Designed Inc. was founded in 1984 by Bill Becker with the goal of making top-notch modern furniture design accessible to the public. They've succeeded. With the most functional, well-engineered, and attractively designed TV stands on the market, BDI has raised the bar to an impressive height. Features like flow-through ventilation, IR-friendly glass, integrated wheels, and removable back panels are just a few of the innovative ways BDI has discovered to make the TV stand that much better. Today, BDI is best know for its home entertainment systems, but it has also applied its vision and craftsmanship in its lines of tables, shelving, and mirrors. BDI is located in Chantilly, Virginia.
Switching out equipment and adjusting the wires on your components is easy with the BDI Cirrus Media Console 8157. The back panel is completely removable and makes updating your home theater a simple and painless process. Once the panel is reinstalled, concerns over equipment damage by overheating will be forgotten due to the flow-through ventilation slots incorporated into the back panel.
When deciding where to place the multiple control boxes for all of your components in your BDI Cirrus Media Console, the decision is made simpler with the adjustable shelves. Pull them out and place them back in according to the specific needs of your home theater. They are easily customized to your fit your unique system.
The center section of the cabinet was specifically designed to hold your center channel speaker. Similar to the outside cabinets, the center section comes with an adjustable shelf. This gives you the freedom to personalize the cabinet for the exact components you've chosen for your home theater.
When you put together a home theater, you want to have the very best in quality. Designed to be a lasting piece of furniture in your home, the media console is as strong as it is stylish and will hold a television up to 73". No need to feel locked into searching for a smaller screen television when you have a console that is capable of supporting the weight of one of the larger models.
When the decision is made to introduce a home theater to your home, it's more than just buying a big television. You want to create an experience that you can share with your family and friends for years to come. Invite everyone over for an evening of fun that features a great entertainment set up hosted by the BDI Cirrus Media Console. Available in natural stained cherry and espresso stained oak, the stylish and sophisticated design is one that will never look out of date.
REVIEW SNAPSHOT®by PowerReviews
- Easy to assemble (4)
- Attractive (3)
- Easy to move (3)
Best Uses
- Convenience (3)
- Space saver (3)
- Reviewer Profile:
- High-end shopper (4), Practical (3), Stylish (3)
- Primary use:
- Personal (3)
Reviewed by 4 customers
- Attractive Design
- Easy To Assemble
- Heavy
Best Uses
- Convenience
- Decoration
- Space Saver
Comments about BDI Cirrus Entertainment Center:
I wanted an entertainment center with clean, modern design to hold my TV and audio/video components. The Cirrus from BDI does the job well. Though relatively compacted the adjustable shelves and depth of the unit allow it to accommodate my A/V components. The clever design allows for the organization and concealment of all cables and the IR glass doors work as advertised. My main concern when considering this product was the quality of the moving components. I am very satisfied with the sliding doors, adjusting levers and wheels.
Service and delivery comments:
The body of the unit comes pre-assembled which makes it rather bulky and difficult move. I had it delivered inside my home and I was glad I did.
- Primary use:
- Personal
- Easy To Assemble
- Easy To Move
- Depthlength
Best Uses
- Convenience
- Space Saver
Comments about BDI Cirrus Entertainment Center:
Very nice but I wish there was two extra drawers. All in all very happy but it could have been deeper
- Attractive Design
- Easy To Assemble
- Easy To Move
- Easy to Wire
- Holds All Components
- Smooth Edges
- Supports Weight
Best Uses
- Media Console
Comments about BDI Cirrus Entertainment Center:
Finally!!! After pounding the net for years for an innovative media solution a company (BDI) that CLEARLY gets it. Design intelligence evident throughout – from installation to hook up to usage. Clearly engineered as a highly functional media center yet elegantly realized such that it blends seamlessly with any décor. High quality materials, veneers, and finishes. Hook up of comprehensive 60" LCD + 7.1 system in record time with no stress. Completely impressed with BDI. Expectations officially exceeded.[...]. Great end-to-end experience.
- Primary use:
- Personal
- Attractive Design
- Easy To Assemble
- Easy To Move
- Easy to Wire
- Holds All Components
- Smooth Edges
- Supports Weight
Best Uses
- Convenience
- Decoration
- Space Saver
Comments about BDI Cirrus Entertainment Center:
It has all the features that I'm looking for.
- Primary use:
- Personal
Shipping & Delivery
Free In Home Delivery: Free
Shipping Rate:
Shipping is free!
Ships in 2 business days from the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.
Standard Ship Method: Free In Home Delivery - $0.00!
In home delivery is a great way to have large and fragile items delivered to your room of choice - and we offer it as a complementary service on select items like this! When your order reaches the local station in your area, you will be contacted to schedule a day and time specific appointment (so no surprises!). A two person team will carefully deliver your item inside your home (or office) and place it in the room you desire. Please note that this service does not include debris removal or assembly. Should you desire either one of these options, please give us a call at 888-467-6278 so that we can provide you with a customized quote.
Package Information:
Dimensions: 68" x 23" x 18"
Weight: 144 lb
Assembly Instructions:
Product Q&A
What sized TVs can I use with the BDI Cirrus?
This BDI model fits up to a 60" flat panel or rear projection TV
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Q:What sized TVs can I use with the BDI Cirrus?Asked on 1/26/2011 by Anonymous
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A:This BDI model fits up to a 60" flat panel or rear projection TVAnswered on 1/27/2011 by Mark from Smartfurniture.com
Q:How much does this unit weigh?Asked on 1/8/2011 by Anonymous
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A:123 pounds.Answered on 1/10/2011 by Melanie from Smart Furniture
BDI home theater furniture is warranted for 3 years from the date of purchase.