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To one renowned astronomer, a longtime SUNY Plattsburgh treasure shines because of its darkness.
"It's one of the darkest spots in the United States," Dr. David Levy said of Twin Valleys Educational Center — SUNY Plattsburgh's multi-use outdoor education/ recreation center. The site, he said, is nearly as dark as it was 40 years ago, when he attended Twin Valleys science camps as a teenager.
The former science editor for Parade magazine, Levy has discovered as many as 22 comets in his career. He co-discovered Shoemaker-Levy 9, the comet that collided with Jupiter in 1994.
Twin Valleys' remote location in nearby Lewis, N.Y., has made it an increasingly valuable resource for astronomers because it's relatively free of light pollution.
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And soon, young astronomers who hope to follow in Levy's footsteps will be able to enjoy the benefits of Twin Valleys without leaving the SUNY Plattsburgh campus.
The Gerard L. Cutting Pavilion at the David H. Levy Observatory — recently dedicated at Twin Valleys — houses a 14-inch telescope that will be accessible on campus via a broadband connection. It will make a nice complement to another great resource, the Northcountry Planetarium.
"It's real-time astrophotography," said Dr. Tom Wolosz, the chair of SUNY Plattsburgh's physics department and a professor of earth and environmental science. "We'll be able to hold evening labs, for instance."
Dr. Sue Spissinger, retired associate vice president for academic affairs and research, said the facility's scope won't be limited to astronomy. It has potential for interdisciplinary research as well, particularly in the fields of biology and animal behavior. (Spissinger is also a former member of the College Auxiliary Services board, which played a role in the facility's development.)
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- Nature's fury kept at bay ... for now
- Great escape: facing up to the firestorm
- Cool change to bring relief but Saturday will be a scorcher
- Traffic conditions and road closures via Live Traffic NSW
Thirty-seven local government areas across New South Wales will be able to access natural disaster assistance as bushfires continued to tear through the state on Wednesday evening.
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Facing the fire at Deans Gap
The bush fire at Deans Gap, west of Wandandian in NSW's Shoalhaven region, was the biggest concern for firefighters on Tuesday after it went out of control and spread over 1000 hectares. Amanda Hoh reports.
Affected communities such as Queanbeyan, Cooma-Monaro, Palerang and Goulburn Mulwaree will receive assistance from joint Federal and State funding, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said.
Loans of up to $130,000 will be made available for eligible farmers and businesses in urgent need following the fires, which continue to spread through areas such as Jugiong near Yass.
Smoke over ACT not cause for alarm: emergency services
The large amounts of smoke currently hovering over Canberra has drifted from fires in Shoalhaven and is no cause for alarm, according to authorities.
The city has experienced significant smoke cover tonight, causing some concern among residents.
But the Emergency Services Agency has assured Canberrans there is no current danger.
The smoke has been carried from the Deans Gap fire, west of Wandandian in NSW's Shoalhaven region.
That fire is still burning out of control.
''There [are] currently no fires in the ACT generating this smoke,'' the agency said in a statement.
Yarrabin fire (affecting areas near Cooma, Kybeyan Valley, Numeralla)
A family remains in emergency accommodation after their Mount Forest Road home was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.
Though the time of the incident is yet to be confirmed, authorities said the blaze consumed the small home on Mount Forest Road belonging to the family of five sometime on Tuesday.
"Those people have since been put up in emergency accommodation," a spokeswoman said.
"The fire services were there at the time, extinguishing everything. They did everything they could… but unfortunately there were still some hot spots in the ground that ignited the building."
The incident remains the only known structural damage bar a small shed.
At 6pm Wednesday, the fire front was about 20km east of Cooma burning out of control through the Kybeyan Valley area, and there was limited access to Tuross River Road.
As the weather begins to warm up again and winds pick up, conditions in the area are expected to deteriorate over Friday and Saturday.
The fire has burnt through 6500 hectares and the cause is being investigated.
Cobbler Road fire (affecting areas near Jugiong, Yass, Bookham and Bowning)
A fire burning west of Yass has been the focus of a concentrated effort by NSW Rural Fire Service on Wednesday, as crews fight to contain the fire before a return of hot, windy conditions later in the week.
The Cobbler Road fire has burnt out 16,279 hectares so far, and was on Wednesday afternoon burning 11 kilometers west of Yass.
At 6pm Wednesday the RFS were undertaking property protection at at homes on Childowla, Bibinda. There was a possibility that properties on Black Range Road would come under threat later in the evening.
Earlier in the day, a spokesperson said the fire was ''top of the priority list'' for RFS crews today.
''The fire is currently approaching the Yass River area, and there will be a concentration of effort there today,'' the spokesperson said.
The fire has crossed Burrinjuck and Black Range Roads, and authorities are advising people in the Burrinjuck Dam area to shelter should the fire impact, as it is too late to leave.
Properties in the Ferndale, Sunnyside, Spring Vale, Wattle Valley, Yowerweema, Katandee and Euralia areas were advised that the fire may impact within the next two to six hours. There was also a property on Glenroy Road that may come in contact with the fire. This advice remained in place 6pm.
A relocation centre has been put in place in Bookham, and is currently being utilised by a number of people and animals.
The Hume Highway was open to traffic this morning, however the RFS is warning that fire and flames may be visible from the road. There are reports homes south of Bookham were without power.
The townships of Yass and Bowning are not currently being impacted, but residents are being warned to take precautions as wind blows smoke over.
Bushfire Impact Assessment teams were heading towards the area to assess the damage, and confirm any property losses, including expected significant loss of livestock.
Sand Hills fire (affecting areas east of Bungendore, Kings Highway)
The threat from the Sand Hills fire east of Bungendore decreased significantly overnight with the change in weather, however the Kings Highway remains closed as fire fighting efforts continue.
Crews from NSW and the ACT are now backburning and putting in containment lines, Rural Fire Service incident controller Tim Carroll said.
"It's been controlled, but we're not calling to contained just yet," he said.
Mr Carroll said the Kings Highway remained closed as crews deal with burnt trees, a number of which have fallen onto the road.
"We're working to get the highway open as quickly as possible," he said.
"We hope it could be as early as this afternoon."
As of 6am, the fire had burnt through 1123 hectares with a burnt perimeter of 17kms.
Deans Gap fire (affecting areas near Wandandian, Sussex Inlet)
Closer to the coast, a fire burning near Sussex Inlet conitnues to burn. The Deans Gap fire has a perimeter of 44km and has burnt out over 4000 hectares.
At 6pm Wednesday, fire was burning to the south of Sussex Inlet Road in the Jerrwongala area. The RFS were concentrating efforts on the north eastern and western side of the Princes Highway and aircraft were working to slow this section of the blaze.
Coastal villages at Sussex Inlet and further south, and the township of Wandandian, were also potentially under threat.
Fire crews are strategically positioned to protect properties.
The Princes Highway will be intermittently opened throughout the day to allow some traffic through under police escort. Motorists are still advised to avoid the area or delay travel if possible.
At 6pm Sussex inlet Road was open to local traffic only and Braidwood Road, Turpentine Road, Wandean Road and Twelve Mile Road were closed.
Evacuation Centres in Sussex Inlet are now closed.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is among additional firefighting crews deployed to the area.
ACT emergency services rest, regroup
Meanwhile, in Canberra, a report from a reconnaissance flight over Namadgi National Park this morning did not find any fires. Further observation flights will be conducted over the next few days.
A number of ACT RFS volunteer crews are assisting in NSW, while other volunteers are taking advantage of cooler conditions today to rest.
Acting ESA commissioner Tony Graham said authorities were using the two cooler days predicted to rest, regroup, reassess and resupply in preparation for a return of dangerous conditions later in the week.
"If we can get two days of no fire activity, it just freshens up the crews,'' he said. "Whilst we've got a number of crews out and about at the moment, we've still got a much larger number not being utilised.''
Overnight, ACT Fire and Rescue assisted NSW crews at a fire at Eagle Hawk Caravan Park, just north of the ACT border on the Federal Highway, shortly after 2am. The fire was brought under control overnight.
The ACT SES received a total of 161 calls for help from across the territory following the windy weather on Tuesday, mostly for fallen trees and branches, and some structural damage to pergolas, houses and fences.
A total fire ban remains in place in both the ACT and NSW today, with a forecast fire danger rating of very high in the ACT.
The forecast in the territory is for a relatively mild top of 28 degrees, 10 degrees cooler than Tuesday's top of 38, with light winds in the early afternoon.
But the ACT will enjoy only a brief respite from the dangerous fire conditions, with a top of 36 forecast for Friday and a windy 37 degrees predicted for Saturday.
Mr Graham said forecasts of hot temperatures and high winds on Saturday were concerning.
"If we have a 38 degree day, with 35km/h winds, particularly coming from the north-west where all that hot air has been moving through – if we get a fire, we're going to have jump on that very, very quickly,'' he said.

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I want to thank all of those who volunteered to blog during my vacation. Overwhelmed by the response. Obviously we can't fit all of them in, but we will have a few more weeks to fill before the season begins.
I've got Josh Thomson, 26, scheduled for Tuesday, July 27, and I'm waiting to hear from a few extra potential special guests. Not sure if any of them will want to do it. So at this point, let's just schedule the first week.
Mitch Beck, who covers the Wolf Pack in his Howlings blog, is going to get us up to date on the kids who might be competing for jobs at training camp. That will be Wednesday.
Again, I will still be around and will pop in if there's important news.
Just a reminder to the guest bloggers. Please let me know that you are OK with this schedule, and please remember to try to keep the posts relatively succinct (that means short). Eight-10-12 paragraphs ought to be plenty. If you want to go shorter or a little longer we can live with that, too.
I need your post the night before it is scheduled to run, OK? So e-mail it to me at email@example.com.
Here's the first week:
Monday, July 19: cwgatti.
Tuesday, July 20: miked.
Wednesday, July 21: Mitch Beck/Howlings blog.
Thursday, July 22: Ranger 909.
Friday, July 23: The White Plains Batman.
Saturday, July 24: Joekuh.
Sunday, July 25: Cynar.
I'll put up a schedule for the following week around Wednesday.
Meanwhile, did you guys see this great news?!
AFTERNOON UPDATE, 4:45 P.M.: Steve Zipay is reporting that Michael Sauer has accepted his qualifying offer.


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HOUSTON - The North Forest Independent School District will be annexed by the Houston Independent School District, said the Texas Education Agency.
In a statement, Edna Forté, the superintendent of North Forest ISD, said it would fight the decision. Forté said the district would request a review of its 2011-12 accountability and accreditation status that is based on its 2009-2010 financial rating and 2009-2010 high school completion rate.
"The Texas Education Agency is seeking to close the district for issues that occurred while under partial or complete censorship," she said.
In a statement, Houston ISD said it was ordered to annex district on July 1, 2012, and takeover North Forest's 7,500 students.
North Forest ISD has one high school, two middle schools, six elementary schools, a learning academy and prep school.
Houston ISD officials said it planned on working with North Forest leaders towards a smooth transition.
"While HISD did not seek this annexation, we stand ready to welcome the entire North Forest community into the HISD family," said HISD Board President Paula Harris.
HISD is the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest in the United States.
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After Part I last Friday, which foraged largely outside the parameters of brands and marketing, this post – the final and second part of our interview with John Willshire (@willsh), founder of Smithery – comes back closer to home to discuss the future of advertising, what's stopping brands universally adopting better marketing practices and 'Real Marketing' … along the way taking in cargo cults, starting fires and Doctor Who.
BBH Labs: In the past you've used a bonfires and fireworks analogy to describe the difference between advertising and social, and more recently we've debated what we at BBH call "Super Bowl, Super Social" on your blog. We can't help but think (great) advertising will have a role in people's lives for a good while yet, for the simple reason that good marketing acts as a persuasive shorthand for choice and news in a world increasingly flooded with terabytes of irrelevant information. And we've had the likes of Eric Schmidt speaking recently about advertising becoming super-relevant and connected in future. What's your view on the future of advertising? Is there one?
JW: I think your point about the persuasive shorthand matters, and redefining the story that advertising is going to tell. When I was thinking more about the media planning side of advertising, it was useful to simplify it to two things, activity & phasing; what we should do, when we should do it.
So Bonfires & Fireworks is the what – never really an either/or choice, as companies still need to do social bonfires and advertising fireworks together to make each work.
The when of doing both together, the phasing, is crucial.
What the social bonfire piece allows you to do is, as a company, do noteworthy things that are amazing for your customers, for your employees, with your products, whatever… let the real human stories and triumphs emerge.
Then, after that, you can then tell the story of that. And if you want to tell that story with scale and immediacy, there is no better way to tell that story than in advertising.
The crucial difference is that advertising is no longer the thing you do, it's the story of the things you've done. (more…)


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Thomas F. Madden, Professor
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Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1993;
M.A., University of Illinois, 1990;
B.A., University of New Mexico, 1986
My primary academic research interest is the history and culture of the Mediterranean world. The bulk of my scholarly publications have focused on the crusading movement, the medieval republic of Venice, and the interaction between the cultures of Latin Christendom, the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim Middle East. These are topics of enduring and timely interest.
Honors and Fellowships:
- American Council of Learned Societies, Fellow, 2015-2016
- Medieval Academy of America, Fellow, elected 2013
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellow, 2012-2013
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Research Grant, 2012
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant, 2009-2010
- Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visiting Scholar, 2009
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Research Grant, 2009
- Edward J. McGuire Teaching Award, Historical Society of Saint Louis County, 2008
- The Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of America, 2007
- Otto Grundler Award, The Medieval Institute, 2005
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Research Grant, 2004-2005
- Midwest Medieval History Conference, President, 2000-01
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Research Grant, 1998-1999
Recent Courses Taught:
- Studies in Medieval History
- Advanced Studies in Medieval History: The Crusades
- Seminar in Medieval History: The Crusades
- Advanced Studies in Medieval History: Medieval Italy.
- Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World (New York: Penguin/Viking, 2016).
- The Concise History of the Crusades (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013; second edition, 2005; first edition, 1999).
- Venice: A New History (New York: Penguin/Viking, 2012).
- Empires of Trust (New York: Penguin/Dutton, 2008).
- Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
- Winner of the Medieval Academy of America's 2007 Haskins Medal
- Winner of the Medieval Institute's 2005 Otto Grundler Prize
- The Fourth Crusade (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997). (Co-author)
Journal Articles
- "The Venetian Version of the Fourth Crusade: Memory and the Conquest of Constantinople in Medieval Venice," Speculum 87 (2012): 311-44.
- "Rivers of Blood: An Analysis of One Aspect of the Crusader Conquest of Jerusalem," Revista Chilena de Estudios Medievales 1 (2012): 25-37.
- "The Enduring Myths of the Fourth Crusade," World History Bulletin 20 (2004): 11-14.
- "The Chrysobull of Alexius I Comnenus to the Venetians: The Date and the Debate," Journal of Medieval History 28 (2002): 23-41.
- "Outside and Inside the Fourth Crusade," The International History Review 17 (1995): 726-43.
- "Venice and Constantinople in 1171 and 1172: Enrico Dandolo's Attitude towards Byzantium," Mediterranean Historical Review 8 (1993): 166-85.
- "Father of the Bride: Fathers, Daughters, and Dowries in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Venice," Renaissance Quarterly 46 (1993): 685-711. (Co-author).
- "Vows and Contracts in the Fourth Crusade: The Treaty of Zara and the Attack on Constantinople in 1204," The International History Review 15 (1993): 441-68.
- "The Fires of the Fourth Crusade in Constantinople, 1203-1204: A Damage Assessment," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 84/85 (1992): 72-93.
- "The Serpent Column of Delphi in Constantinople: Placement, Purposes, and Mutilations," Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 16 (1992): 111-45.
- "Some Further Arguments in Defense of the Venetians on the Fourth Crusade," Byzantion 62 (1992): 433-73. (Co-author)
Edited Books
- Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict (Brookfield, Ashgate Publishing, 2010) (co-editor).
- The Fourth Crusade: Event, Aftermath, and Perceptions (Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing, 2008).
- Crusades: The Illustrated History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004).
- The Crusades: The Essential Readings (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).
- Medieval and Renaissance Venice (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999). (Co-editor)
Essays in Edited Books
- "Reinventing the Crusades," in The Time We Share, Daniel Blanga-Gubbay and Lars Kwakkenbos, eds. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016): 132-38.
- "Triumph Re-imagined: The Golden Gate and Popular Memory in Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople," in Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean, Ruthy Gertwagen and Elizabeth Jeffreys, eds. (Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing, 2012), pp. 317-28.
- "Alexander III and Venice," in Pope Alexander III (1159-1181): The Art of Survival, Peter D. Clarke and Anne J. Duggan, eds. (Brookfield, Ashgate Publishing, 2012), pp. 315-40.
- "The Latin Empire of Constantinople's Fractured Foundation: The Rift Between Boniface of Montferrat and Baldwin of Flanders," in The Fourth Crusade: Event, Aftermath, and Perceptions (Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing, 2008), pp. 45-52.
- "Food and the Fourth Crusade: A New Approach to the 'Diversion Question,'" in Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, John H. Pryor, ed. (Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing, 2006), pp. 209-28.
- "Venice, the Papacy, and the Crusades before 1204," in The Medieval Crusade, Susan J. Ridyard, ed. (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004), pp. 85-95.
- "Venice's Hostage Crisis: Diplomatic Efforts to Secure Peace with Byzantium between 1171 and 1184," in Medieval and Renaissance Venice (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999), pp. 96-108.
Current Graduate Students
- Richard Allington
- Kevin Dumke
- Samantha Cloud
- Benjamin Halliburton
- Phillip Koski
- Phillip Mazero
- Matthew Parker
- Alaric Powell
- Koen Roelandts
- Daniel Webb
Former Graduate Students
- Michael Bardot (Continuation and Consolidation: Capetian Royal Policy During the Reign of Louis VII)
- Walker Reid Cosgrove (Clergy and Crusade: The Church in Southern France and the Albigensian Crusade)
- John J. Giebfried (The Imagined Empire os Baldwin II, Last Crusader Emperor of Constantinople (1217-1273))
- Brendan J. McGuire (Circumspectio and Oikonomia: Modes of Religious Accommodation in the Era of the Latin Empire of Constantinople)
- James Naus (Crusading and Capetian Dynastic Ideology, 1095-1147)
- C. Mark Nicovich (The Lion and the Cross: The Venetian Church in the Byzantine Empire, 1082-1261)
- Cletus Nwabuzo (Ambassadors of Reform: Legates and Legatine Authority in the Pontificate of Alexander III (1159-1181))
- C. Matthew Phillips, (O magnum crucis misterium: Devotion to the Cross, Crusading and the Imitation of the Crucified Christ in the High Middle Ages, c. 1050-1215)
- Vincent Ryan (Mary Wills It? The Cult of the Virgin Mary and the Crusading Movement during the High Middle Ages)
- Anne M. Romine (Saving Chivalry: Philippe de Mézières, Fourteenth-Century Crusaders, and Chivalric Reform)
- Jennifer Elizabeth Wyka Stiles (Piety in the Devil's City: Religious Life in Verona During the Reign of Ezzelino da Romano, 1215-1260)
- Susan Schulze, (To Err is Divine: A Structuralist Analysis of Medieval Irish Hagiography)


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I've been thinking of making sao mai on my own for quite sometimes, but always on hold :P, until I found this recipe from Yum Yum magazine prepared by Agnes Chang.
While looking at the photo and the recipe ,...that's looks sooo tasty...hmmmmm , well a dim sum with quail eggs, that's sounds really interesting,something new for me and I haven't taste this kind of dim sum before( well, the dim sum restaurant we used to go didn't have this kind of sao mai....lol)....
Agnes made it really beautiful, with the egg burried inside the sao mai,and left a little bit to be seen. Not like mine in this photo , the eggs will drop off......lol...I need to practice more on the wrapping technic.
Ok, let's see the recipe.
300 gm half lean and fat pork, minced
150 gm fish paste
5 waterchestnuts, peeled and chopped.( I omitted this, cos, I don't have this in hand)
1/4 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp chicken stock granules( I ommited this)
1 tsp chinese cooking wine
11/2 tbsp tapioca flour
About 30 pieces of wanton wrapper
About 30 quail eggs, boiled and shelled
Combine minced meat , fish paste and salt.
Mix until very sticky.
Add in waterchestnuts and seasoning and mix well.
Chill in the fridge for 1 -2 hours before using.
Use a piece of wanton wrapper to wrap up some filling and shape it like a flower.
Arrange a quail egg on the central and place onto a greases steaming tray.
Repeat the same until all filling finished.
Steam over high heat for 10 minutes or until cooked.
Remove from steamer and serve.
*The seasoning is just a guide, you can steam or fried a little piece of sao mai , to taste.
I'm submitting this post to Aspiring Bakers # 19 : Dim Sum Affair (May 2012) hosted by SSB of Small Small Baker.


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ATLANTA – The play happened nearly 20 years ago now, on a high school football field, across the street from a grocery store and a doughnut shop, in a game witnessed by family, friends and classmates.
What makes it notable still — and today more than ever — isn't that the kid who caught the pass went on to become a success in business, a financial advisor in Tampa, Fla.
No, what makes it notable is that the kid who threw the pass went on to become one of the greatest ever to play the game.
But there's more. That kid — after becoming an All-American at Cal, after catching more passes for more yards and more touchdowns than any tight end in NFL history, after turning himself into a no-argument Hall of Famer — that kid, now a man, is still talking about that play.
"To this day, that's probably my greatest football play ever," Tony Gonzalez says. "I mean, it was like something out of a movie. We run a double-pass and I throw the ball to a guy hobbling down the field? Ridiculous."
Says Jason De Vries: "People don't always like to hear other people's Al Bundy stories, but this is a pretty good one."
Here's what else makes the play notable today: Gonzalez, likely one loss from retirement, has his best chance yet to forge a new greatest play ever when he and the Atlanta Falcons meet San Francisco here for the right to represent the NFC in Super Bowl XLVII.
"Twenty years later, I'm still pumped up about it and so is Tony," De Vries says. "That's the great thing about sports. There's that connection that will be there forever."
And that connection started with a connection.
It was Dec. 3, 1993. Friday night. The CIF playoffs. Huntington Beach High trailed Dominguez of Compton, 12-10, midway through the fourth quarter. The winner would advance to the Southern Section Division II final.
During the week, the Oilers, just in case, had practiced a trick play, a double-pass featuring Gonzalez, their premier athlete, as pivot man. It was designed for him to catch a backward lateral, then throw downfield to a wide receiver named Josh Holland.
Facing third-and-long, Huntington Beach's coaches sensed that the Dominguez defense was sufficiently ripe. They would become magicians.
Apparently lost in the anticipated puff of smoke, however, was the fact Holland had been injured on the previous play and was replaced by De Vries.
Now, Jason De Vries once was athletic enough, fast enough, a runner who also had been part of the Oilers track team. But two years earlier, he had broken his leg and suffered a knee injury, an injury so severe he had to be home-schooled for a time and relearn how to walk.
A backup receiver and quarterback, De Vries' greatest contributions of his senior season had come as Huntington Beach's long snapper.
Suddenly, in the biggest moment of their biggest game, he was the primary target? The kid who normally squatted low and passed the ball between his legs now was supposed to rise up and catch it, and with the season in need of saving? The gritty but gimpy sub who after the season would be recognized for one thing, for playing hurt, the coaches presenting him with a plaque called the Trainer's Award?
"I think the coaches in the press box were calling the plays," De Vries explains. "I don't think there's any way they would have called that play had they known I was going to be in the game. There's absolutely no chance that was on purpose. I was normally the receiver they didn't throw to."
When the play was called in the huddle, De Vries remembers there being awkward, disbelieving silence. Gonzalez now admits he still thought he was throwing to Holland until he noticed De Vries' wobbling past the Dominguez secondary.
The pass arced through the dull lights of Cap Sheue Field. De Vries leapt as high as 1½ half legs would take him. He reached up with both hands.
The next week and for weeks to come his teammates called him "Catch." The 42-yard gain set up a touchdown, allowing the Oilers to advance, 18-12.
"It was beautiful," Gonzalez says. "He made a great play."
Over the recent Christmas holiday, De Vries returned to Huntington Beach for a visit and met up with a few high school buddies. Someone brought up the double-pass trick play.
They also talked about their old teammate, the NFL star who maintains he's 95 percent certain this will be in final season. De Vries and a few of them made a pact. They would be there in Canton, Ohio, when Gonzalez enters the Hall of Fame.
"Anyone who thinks his good-guy image is manufactured is wrong," De Vries, 36 and the father of two, says. "Tony's a humble, hard-working guy. He's been the same way since I met him when we were 14."
Just one of the boys, who, like the rest of the Oilers, shaved his head for the Fountain Valley game and posed shirtless next to the classic Chevy hot rod as part of a fundraising event.
Gonzalez even played along when his teammates Punk'd him, putting his beloved yellow Volkswagen Beetle in the common area where he and his classmates ate lunch and removing the wheels so he couldn't drive it away.
"Tony didn't get mad about that, believe it or not," De Vries says. "He's a special football player, and he's a special human being."
And he once was part of a special play, one they're still talking about almost two decades later, one Gonzalez would love to finally top Sunday.
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It is possible they look good over the two years of their existence because the index is largely made up of global macro funds, which have done well in that time. Anthony Limbrick, chief executive of Pure Capital and guiding light of NZara, claims Kiwi hedge funds do well because you have to be good to survive so far from the centre of things. The challenge is worth meeting, however, because the lifestyle is so good, he says. For dedicated hedgies, the chance to run money while living in beautiful surroundings near home and family is very attractive.
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Hello and welcome, ladies and gentlemen of Nukapedia, to the Weekly Saturday Polls!
I'm Yes-Man, here today on behalf of everyone's favourite administrator MysteryStranger, to bring you this week's edition of the Mystery Polls. Unfortunately, Mystery was unable to post his polls this week, so I'm going to have to settle until he's ready to get back in the game. This could be a once-off occasion, or not... who's to say?
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Which trait from Fallout 2 do you hate most?
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- Coming in at third place was Fast Shot, with only sixteen votes. There must not be many Clint Eastwood fans on the wiki, eh...? Sorry, lame joke.
- In a close second was Sex Appeal with 27 votes. It's okay folks; beauty is only skin deep. Then again, Heidi Klum would beg to differ.
- And in a landslide win, first place was Jinxed with an impressive 86 votes. Someone must have jinxed it, am I right?
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Poll:Which Fallout game did you enjoy the most
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The Wall Street Journal today published its third annual list of the top venture-backed companies, with input from VentureWire, looking to identify the ones likely to become the Next Big Thing.
The top three ranked companies are all business-product makers: Genband, a supplier of voice-over-Internet-protocol technology to telecom companies; Xirrus, a provider of wireless networking equipment; and Tabula, which makes semiconductors for electronic products.
Several other companies on the list of 50 companies offer products or services designed to help businesses run more efficiently, such as data-storage company Nimble Storage (No. 26) and business-analytics software provider Marketo (No. 20).
Unlike in years past, none of the companies on this year's list are in the energy sector, underscoring the challenges faced by that industry. This year was also the first time that a health-care company didn't top the ranking.
Research firm VentureSource, which like The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp., compiled the list. To be eligible, companies must be based in the U.S., have received an equity round of financing in the past three years and be valued at less than $1 billion, as the aim is to identify lesser-known start-ups. That excludes a number of high-profile companies, including Twitter, Pinterest and Square. More than 5,900 candidates were considered.
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A nine-point outburst in three games last week has earned Portland Winterhawks forward Brendan Leipsic of Winnipeg the Denny's Western Hockey League player of the week award.
Leipsic, 18, scored three goals and had six assists along with a plus-5 rating to help Portland win all three games.
In last Wednesday's 3-0 shut out of the Vancouver Giants, he assisted on all three goals. Last Friday, Leipsic scored a goal and added an assist in a 4-2 win over the Kootenay Ice. In Portland's 8-2 victory last Saturday over the Seattle Thunderbirds, he had two goals and two assists and was named the game's first star.
Leipsic, a 2012 NHL draft pick of the Nashville Predators, is fifth in WHL scoring with 15 goals and 23 assists for 38 points in 22 games so far this season. It is his third full season with the Winterhawks.


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DALLAS, Texas — Deer in the driveway? Coyotes on the concrete? While many suburbanites love wildlife and a country setting, and wildlife experts tout the value of native habitat and open space, conflicts between people and wild animals are on the rise statewide. A conference here Feb. 20 will gather experts to explore solutions.
"Managing Urban Wildlife: Planning for Success" is the first Texas gathering of its kind, bringing together not only wildlife biologists, but also city animal control workers and local park and nature center operators. The event will take place 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20 at the Texas Cooperative Extension Research Center, 17360 Coit Road in Dallas.
"As Texas cities expand, housing subdivisions are replacing green open space," said John Davis, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department urban wildlife biologist for the Dallas-Fort Worth region. "Urban wildlife issues pose both problems and opportunities. Concerns like nuisance coyotes and overpopulated deer can become flashpoints for divided communities, but properly managed wildlife and green space are vital to our quality of life. This conference will show how deliberate, proactive planning can maximize the benefits of living with urban wildlife while minimizing conflicts."
The conference is geared particularly for elected officials, municipal staff, animal control personnel, regional planners, park and nature center staff, and local wildlife rehabilitators — but organizers say the topics offered will benefit anyone working with or interested in urban wildlife populations.
Throughout the day, experts will discuss successfully navigating news coverage of wildlife issues, managing urban coyotes, deer and feral hogs, peacefully living with raccoons, opossums, skunks, and bats, and avoiding potential wildlife diseases. The conference will close with a look to proactive, regional planning, the real key to urban wildlife success, and will end with a panel of experts addressing audience questions.
Participants include TPWD, Texas Cooperative Extension, Texas A&M University, North Texas Master Naturalists, Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, City of Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth Wildlife Coalition.
Rob Denkhaus of the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge will speak about controlling feral hogs in a Fort Worth park setting, an example of successfully managing a dangerous species while addressing stakeholder concerns and proactively involving the media.
Dorinda Pulliam, head of City of Austin animal control programs, will talk about Austin's effort to monitor, report and control nuisance coyotes, a model that experts would like to see shared with other cities.
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In an interview with The Asia Society on October 22, 1999, the Representative of the Council for National East Timorese Resistance (CNRT) to the United Nations and North America, Constancio Pinto, addressed a number of the problems currently facing East Timor, including the composition of the UN transitional government, the role of the Falintil, and the changes within the structure of the CNRT as it transforms itself from a liberation movement to a political party or national government.
The U.N. Secretary General is expected to name the Brazilian, Sergio Vieira de Mello, as chief administrator of East Timor, at least for an initial period of up to six months. What role, if any, is the CNRT playing in determining the makeup of the interim administration?
Well, Sergio de Mello is the person who we prefer to have. Before that, the U.N. Security Council was a bit ambiguous about who was going to be the head of the transitional government in East Timor. We prefer Sergio de Mello because of his experience in Kosovo and because of his long-time experience at the U.N. dealing with political affairs and so on. So we are very happy to hear that the U.N. Secretary General appointed him to be the head of the U.N. transitional government in East Timor, at least for six months.
We in fact suggested that the U.N. should include East Timorese in the transitional government. The CNRT will form a transitional council, I have been informed, of a number of people who will be working directly with the U.N. transitional government. But at the same time the CNRT also will have a structure. I would call it transitional government, but it will not be parallel to the U.N., but like an informal group, an informal structure which would maintain close ties with the U.N. through the transitional council.
Jose Ramos Horta said recently in an interview with The Guardian that the East Timorese would not accept an ASEAN state as leader of the U.N. transitional administration because they had been "accomplices of Indonesia." Presumably the choice of a Brazilian for this position had something to do with that - that is, with the fact that Brazil, in your estimation, in the estimation of the CNRT, is not and was not an "accomplice of Indonesia"?
Yes, this is true. At this stage, there is a lack of confidence among the East Timorese people with regard to Asian countries because of their attitudes in the past towards East Timor. They've been very supportive of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. So it would be astonishing if the U.N. chose one of the Asian countries to be head of the administrative U.N. transitional government in East Timor. So that's why we're trying to avoid having an Asian there.
But I think after the Sergio de Mello administration, which will be only for six months or so, we will accept an Asian to replace Sergio de Mello. It is important because East Timor is there, it is part of Asia. We haven't ruled out the idea of applying to ASEAN membership. So I think it is good for us to begin to build some relationship with ASEAN.


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Questions follow end of Gators' record-setting run
Published: Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 8:54 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 9:14 p.m.
ARLINGTON, Texas — It was a difficult way for it to end, given what top-ranked Florida accomplished throughout the 2013-14 season.
"There's never an easy exit to this tournament," Florida coach Billy Donovan said before UF's eventual 63-53 loss to Connecticut on Saturday night.
But it doesn't take away from some of what Florida achieved during its 36-3 season. The Gators broke a number of school records in reaching the Final Four for the fifth time in school history, including most wins in a season (36), longest winning streak (30), set another mark with 32 consecutive home wins and had the highest winning percentage (.923). They also became the first SEC team to go 18-0 in the regular season before rolling through the league tournament.
Individually, Florida sophomore guard Michael Frazier II set a school record with 118 3-pointers, while seniors Patric Young, Will Yeguete, Scottie Wilbekin and Casey Prather finished their careers with a school-best 120 wins.
"Looking back at the year, going into it, we didn't know what was going to happen with the injuries and the suspensions and all that stuff," Young said. "But we stuck together through it and had a lot of great memories."
Now that Florida has set a benchmark for success, reaching four Final Fours in 18 years under Donovan, the question turns to whether next year's Gators will be able to sustain it.
Florida loses four senior starters who were instrumental to a team that held opponents to 57.8 points per game. Young was the SEC defensive player of the year and Wilbekin was a two-time All-SEC defender. From a defensive standpoint, all four seniors will be difficult to replace.
Like the start of the 2013-14 season, Florida is entering the 2014-15 season with some uncertainty. Freshman McDonald's All-American forward Chris Walker has not committed on whether he will return for his sophomore year or enter the NBA draft. The 6-foot-10 Walker showed flashes of his athletic potential in a Sweet 16 win over UCLA, finishing with seven points, three rebounds and a blocked shot in just six minutes off the bench.
If Walker returns, he would benefit greatly from a full offseason of strength and conditioning and getting on the same page with his teammates. All were issues that kept Walker from making a bigger impact as a freshman, due to being unable to step foot on campus until December because of academic and NCAA issues.
Another wildcard is 6-10 center Damontre Harris, a South Carolina transfer who left UF in December due to disciplinary issues, but begged Donovan for one more shot. Harris returned to UF in January, but despite being eligible to play, Donovan stuck to his season-long suspension which essentially wiped out his junior year.
Harris finished second in the SEC in blocks in his last full season at South Carolina (2.1 per game in 2011-12). He would give UF its first true shot-blocking threat since Joakim Noah if he keeps his head on straight as a senior.
Frazier, UF's lone returning starter, shot an SEC-best 44.7 percent from 3-point range but will need to work on rounding out his offensive game heading into his junior season. In his first full season as a starter as a sophomore, Frazier scored 37 points on March 4 against South Carolina, the most for a Gator player since Noah in 2006. But Frazier was blanketed on the perimeter against UConn and held to only three points.
Freshman Kasey Hill will likely replace Wilbekin at point guard, while SEC sixth man of the year Dorian Finney-Smith should step into one of the starting forward positions. Finney-Smith had issues finishing around the rim and shot just 29.3 percent from 3-point range. But the 6-foot-8 forward also led UF in rebounding at 6.7 per game.
Junior guard Eli Carter, a Rutgers transfer, and sophomore guard Dillon Graham both will be coming off medical redshirts. Carter sat out the season with a broken foot while Graham had season-ending hip surgery. Both will add depth to UF's backcourt.
Another transfer, former Duke forward Alex Murphy, will be eligible to play in mid-December unless he receives an NCAA waiver to start earlier. Murphy isn't as good a shooter as his brother, former Gator forward Erik Murphy, but he's a point-forward capable of driving to the basket and creating for his teammates.
Florida brings in an incoming 2014 freshman class that Rivals.com ranks sixth in the nation. The signing class included 6-4 shooting guard Brandone Francis (Arlington Country Day, Jacksonville), 5-10 point guard Chris Chiozza (White Station, Memphis, Tenn.) and 6-7 forward Devin Robinson (Christchurch School, Christchurch, Va.)
It adds up to a less experienced team that has a chance to be more athletic. But Florida will still need to commit to the details and hustle plays to duplicate the success of its recent seasons. Since 2011, Florida has appeared in four Elite Eights and one Final Four.
"This team was so special, something I'm never going to forget for all of my life," Young said. "We accomplished a lot just by loving each other and being really committed to playing with one another. So I'm just really going to cherish everything we had this year and it's going to be something I'll never forget."
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1933-39: As a young girl, my life revolved around activities with Betar, a Zionist youth movement founded in Riga in 1923. We had a group of about 25 boys and girls. We studied about Palestine and our Jewish heritage. In 1935 my mother gave birth to my youngest sister, named Liebele. When I finished secondary school, at age 16, I left home for Riga to enter the university, where I studied nursing.
1940-44: In 1940 the Soviet Union occupied Latvia and I returned home. A year later, the Germans reached Latvia and occupied Liepaja within a week. The Germans immediately began rounding up and shooting Jewish men. My father was one of them. On December 15, 1941, my family was informed that we were being deported. We were rounded up and put in prison. Suddenly I heard my name. A guard said I was being released. Defiantly, I replied, "I'm not leaving without my mother and sisters." After a moment he said, "Take them and get out."
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OCZ Vertex 460 (240GB) Reviewby Kristian Vättö on 1/22/2014 9:00 AM EST
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blanarahul - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkThe 250 GB 840 EVO achieves 260 MB/s write speeds. 120 GB EVO achieves 140 MB/s. 500 GB EVO should achieve 520 MB/s bit it only achieves 420 MB/s. Why?? Reply
blanarahul - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkI am talking about non-Turbowrite speeds btw. Reply
rufuselder - Thursday, October 09, 2014 - linkOCZ Vertex 460 is one of the worst options for storage out there in my opinion (each time I try it out, I get just as disappointed). /Rufus from http://www.consumertop.com/best-computer-storage-g... Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkHaving more NAND dies to multiiplex IO over only helps for some parts of the write process; and the more of them you have the less adding still more will help because other factors dominate more of the total time (Amdahl's law). As a result going to 500 from 250 gives less of a percentage boost than going to 250 from 120.
I suspect in the case of the 500, because all the mid/top end drives are clustering in a narrow performance band, that SATA III bottlenecking is coming into play in addition to limitations within the SSD itself. Reply
blanarahul - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkGee thanks. BTW, SATA III maxes out around 540 MB/s for writes. So it's a controller/firmware limitation. Reply
Gigaplex - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkIt's not that simple. You don't have to hit maximum utilisation to start feeling the limitations of SATA III. Reply
lmcd - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - linkI thought there weren't more packages but rather larger packages? If I'm wrong then yeah it's probably SATA limitations but if not it's because it's the same bandwidth allocated per packages as previously. Reply
lmcd - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - link*weren't more packages once 250 GB is met, in the case of this model. Reply
Novuake - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkSimple. Diminishing returns + limitations of SATA III. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkIt is amazing Toshiba would sully their own name by placing it next to "OCZ". Reply
jragonsoul - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkBut they really aren't, OCZ is still OCZ and they are still making their own drives. I see that as a smart move by them because if Toshiba would have swallowed the company and they made some SSD's I know at least me and my tech friends would have stayed well and far away until EXTENSIVE reviews appeared. Reply
AssBall - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkOCZ had a bad run of drives and couldn't get it fixed. Years before that, they made excellent memory, and good PSU's. Their early SSD's were pretty good too. Being hung up on their screw up sounds like you can't get over personal issues. They will come back and be profitable again. Toshiba will help right the ship. Reply
Samus - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkYep. Let's not forget those poor early adopters of MacBook Air's that were unlucky enough to end up with a Toshiba drive instead of a Samsung (Apple was using both vendors through production, so it was luck of the draw)
Needless to say Apple doesn't use Toshiba SSD's much anymore, even with their bitterness with Samsung. Reply
lmcd - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - link"Much."
So? Reply
DarkStryke - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkYou have some pretty nice revisionist history there. Take your own advice and learn about the history of OCZ, especially before the company incorporated under that title.
I hear the overclockerz store had great customer service too!
Once a fool.. Reply
GTVic - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - linkMy OCZ power supply died precisely after the warranty expired. Reply
random2 - Sunday, February 02, 2014 - linkYou cannot blame a person for feeling that the OCZ name is a deterrent. Doesn't even have to be personal to want to see people avoid product that has not been good for years, hasn't been good through numerous models of drives, and has casued a great many people a lot of heart ache and frustration. All becasue OCZ couldn't bring themselves to make sure their product was viable and market ready BEFORE it went out their door.
Go ahead....buy an OCZ drive. Reply
AMRAAM_Missiles - Thursday, March 20, 2014 - linkEventhough you make sense, that the company has a dark area which it lost the trust from a lot of people, it doesn't mean that it won't get better.
My first ever SSD was the Vertex 4 from OCZ, and guess what, it is still regarded as one of the best Performance SSD that money could buy today. 3 solid years of grinding the OS with constants write and read, it shows no drop in performance. I am not saying that failures are not real, but it doesn't go the extend that people make it out to be.
Now, i have just bought another Vector and Vector 150 for my rig, and i couldn't be more happier with a role of a normal consumer and an enthusiast of PC in general. Sometime, people just have to hate for the sake of hating without even trying to open their eyes to verify the current situation a little bit. Reply
JDG1980 - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkThat was my thought, as well. The purchase of OCZ made sense, because they have some decent controller IP and Toshiba wasn't too strong in that area, but the OCZ name is dirt because of their horrendous record of reliability, so I have no idea why they wanted to keep that. Reply
Samus - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkI remember an interview Anand posted years ago with the CEO of OCZ, and Anand was pretty adamant about them ditching their name (for obvious reasons) and the CEO said they were going to keep it. That didn't work out so great for them. I don't see it working for Toshiba, either. They need to ditch the name and come up with another one, or just call it Toshiba. Reply
melgross - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkThis site is obsessed with this company. There are so many manufacturers, and so many drives, but they keep coming back to OCZ. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkIs there a manufacturer or drive we've missed? We don't favour any OEM over another and if there's a new product we'll review it.
However, a lot depends on the company's PR. OCZ has always been good at this as they approach us and provide samples under NDA prior to the launch, so the review process is smooth for us. Some companies are fairly poor at this as we always have to approach the OEM after the launch to get a sample at all. Reply
GrizzledYoungMan - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkSince you asked, there are some SSD-related reviews I'd love to see from Anandtech:
1. The Sandisk X210. It promises Extreme II performance with many of the reliability features of an enterprise drive and excellent pricing.
2. 'Hybrid' RAID 5 or RAID 6 configurations, with caching software such as LSI's Cachecade 2.0 or Adaptec's I-can't-remember-right-now. I've been specc'ing out such a system and found it startling how little in-depth, useful information there is out there about what sort of SSDs are appropriate (and why) and what configurations yield good price/performance outcomes.
3. Along those lines, I'd really like to see how enterprise SSDs you've tested like the Intel DC S3500 perform in your client testing environment. It feels like your enterprise SSD testing is woefully truncated on the false assumption that no one would use enterprise SSDs in a client/workstation setting. Testing those drives more thoroughly would seem to be a much better use of your time than testing the Nth variation of whatever OCZ drive came out this week.
I hope you find this comment helpful, it's intended as constructive criticism. Still love the site! Reply
Kristian Vättö - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkThis is definitely helpful. In the end we do this for you, our readers, not four ourselves or manufacturers :)
1 and 3 should definitely be possible and 2 very likely too (as long as LSI/Adaptec can deliver us the samples). I'll do my best! Reply
GrizzledYoungMan - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkAwesome! Looking forward to reading those reviews.
A recommendation regarding which LSI controller to choose: go for the 9271-8i. At this point, it's the natural choice for most new system builders because it offers better performance (and Fastpath enabled by default) as the 9266 or 9261 for roughly the same price.
Also, if LSI gives you any trouble about providing samples, just tell 'em that some random guy from the internet who calls himself grizzledyoungman wants to see that review. Should do the trick. Reply
romrunning - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - link1) I also would like to see more tests of SSDs in RAID arrays (RAID-5/6/10 - not just 0/1).
2) I would love to see some enterprise controllers tested like the Adaptec ASR-72405 and ASR-8885.
3) In addition to that, let's test more enterprise SSDs (like HGST's SSD800MM and the DC3700).
4) For SMBs who want to build a fast server with awesome I/O, it would be good to see how these SSDs perform in a database server or as a virtual host server. Reply
lever_age - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkYeah, when products don't get reviewed, it's usually time to start bugging the company PR teams. The bigger and reputable sites have enough work already reviewing the stuff that gets sent to them by the brands that do have their acts together (and want things reviewed). Reply
JDG1980 - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkI don't think it's good practice to rely upon free review samples. How do you know the company isn't cherry-picking? I believe it would be best to do what Consumer Reports does with all the items it tests: buy anonymously off-the-shelf. Reply
blanarahul - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkCherry picking MLC SSDs affects performance? That's new. Or maybe, you are wrong. Reply
chrnochime - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkHow is cherry picking NOT useful for better test results? That's what the definition of cherry picking is. Sounds like you either are ignorant of that fact or are defending OCZ for whatever reason. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkAll OEMs do cherry-picking, so blaming OCZ is useless. However, in SSDs it doesn't matter that much because NAND is binned for endurance, not performance. While there can always be minor differences in performance between units, it's nowhere near as big as in e.g. CPUs.
As for buying review samples, that would not be financially efficient. Consumer Reports and the like are different because they're funded by the government or other huge organisation, whereas we are private. Furthermore, we wouldn't be able to deliver reviews on time for release because we'd have to wait for retail availability like everyone else. Reply
FunBunny2 - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkI can 'buy' the second reason, but Anand can't afford a $300 SSD? Come on. Reply
bhaberle - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkSo you are telling me you would be okay with spending at minimum, tens of thousands of dollars on parts? Sure that is just ONE $300 SSD. What about about the other 15+ that they would need to get. Be realistic. If it is not a big deal, why don't you go buy that many. Sure they make money with this site, but it would take some time just to break even on the costs of the parts even for a large site like Anandtech. If you don't appreciate the effort they put in their reviews then stick to consumer reports. Reply
blanarahul - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkThat's what I said.
BTW, can you guys test Samsung XP941?? And if possible, a comparison with 2 840 Pros in SLI.
Uhh. RAID.. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Friday, January 24, 2014 - linkI asked Samsung for a sample a while back but they wouldn't send us one since it's an OEM-only product. However, Anand got a pair of XP941s in the new Thunderbolt 2 equipped LaCie drive... ;-) Reply
henrybravo - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkGreat comment. Blame company PR, not Anandtech. Reply
PEJUman - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkI own various branded SSDs, Intel, OCZ, Corsair to name a few.
Some fails some don't (yes, even my intel X25-M G2 failed me at one point).
In the end, Anandtech readers are typically smart enough to run backups so any failures like that is not a big deal.
I form my own price/performance/risk assesment:
I use newegg, amazon, slickdeals, camelx3 for price.
Anandtech, Toms and forums for performance.
and lastly verified buyer comments at newegg & amazon for risk.
I could care less about a brand or what color is the box of my CPU/GPU. Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkAnd some people are obsessed with hating OCZ. Sure they made several mistakes, some not directly related to their technology. But that happened years ago. Sit back and see how the new drives developed in coorporation with Toshiba work out. Judge those drives by what they are, not what their grand-grandfathers were. Reply
Bob Todd - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkYou make it sound like all of their problems with quality control and high failure rates happened in the ancient past. This site's Vector review sample died during testing less than 3 months ago. I'm on my 3rd Agility 4 after RMAs and this one needs to go back too. That drive only came out ~18 months ago. I'd be happy to embrace a new wave of OCZ SSDs that were reliable, but we won't know how well (or if) they've managed to turn things around until we get several models in consumers hands and have adequate time to judge reliability. Reply
Roland00Address - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - linkOCZ has made plenty of shitty ssds in the last 3 years. I will be happy to buy a OCZ/Toshiba SSD but not until they have a track record of 3 good years for their ssds.
Why deal with the head ache of your computer going out or your data corrupted just to save $10 or $20 dollars? Reply
dgingeri - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkThis thing has the same problem as my Vertex 4 drives. I'm not impressed. It essentially means that half the capacity is unusable due to the way the controller works. Reply
Guspaz - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkHrrm. Getting merged into Toshiba's SSD group is about the only thing that might have tempered my "never again" position on OCZ. By keeping them independent, they're doing nothing to convince me that they're going to change their ways. It's their own questionable decisions that got them into this mess (their reputation for poor reliability), sacrificing reliability at the alter of performance and shipping first. Reply
dgingeri - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkYou think the Toshiba name is good reliability? I have 224 enterprise hard drives that would say differently. Four years ago, I got 204 Fujitsu/Toshiba (just after Toshiba took over) 146GB 15k SAS drives. Over the course of the first three years, I replaced 165 of them, plus 19 of the replacements that came in as Toshiba branded drives with the same model number. After the warranty ended, I have had to replace the remaining ones by purchasing new ones. None of them are left now. All have been replaced with Seagate Saavios of the same size. They are worse than any desktop level hard drives I have dealt with in my career. I've only had one incident like it, and that was replacing Dell Optiplex motherboards with embedded TNT2-m64 chips back in 2000. Reply
Guspaz - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkSeagate has rather questionable reliability themselves (see BackBlaze's recent study on this), but Toshiba's hard disk division is unrelated to their SSD division, so the reliability of one doesn't necessarily give any indication about the reliability of the other. Reply
dgingeri - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkIn the 2.5" enterprise hard drive market, Seagate has been top of the heap for a long time. They really do well in that arena. There aren't a whole lot of players in that arena, though. Only Seagate, Toshiba (formerly Fujitsu,) and Hitachi. Seagate's Saavio line happens to be the first line ever in 2.5" 10k or 15k drives.
As far as desktop drives go, Seagate's desktop drives have had reliability problems for years, sure, but they aren't near as bad as Toshiba's desktop drives. Reply
Dahak - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkWonder if ocz will use/can use toshiba's ssd team for addition support(firmware/validation)even though they are separate entities
Also found it funny that while reading this review I had ads for Crucial's SSD :) Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkOtherwise the aquisition wouldn't make much sense, would it? Keep them somewhat separate but use any synergetic benefits. Reply
Dahak - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkI would think so too but the way it is worded in the article seems like they wont Reply
piroroadkill - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkWhy don't you just review a rock or a potato? Because I doubt many people want to purchase OCZ products. Reply
toyotabedzrock - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkIt might be a good idea to not copy and paste the same explanation of the tests in every article.
Just link to the information. It is just headache inducing that I have hunt for relevant information interleaved with the copy and pasted parts. Reply
Hrel - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkSeems to me Mushkin is the SSD to get right now. Only one rated at 2Million MTBF that I've seen as well as having very high sequential and random IOPS. Reply
dcollins - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkSorry, I don't take chances with storage. Samsung SSDs can't be beaten right now, and have proven rock solid over the last year. My family has 5 in total and most of my teammates at work have 500GB drives. Zero problems, great performance. Going with OCZ just seems needlessly risky. Reply
blanarahul - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkAnd that sums up the review. Samsung is like the Goku of SSDs. Try hard as you might. You can't beat them in long term. Reply
LB-ID - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkThey have new corporate overlords, but it's still the same OCZ. That's really all I needed to know. I simply cannot trust the people at OCZ for any of the things I care about in a product: reliability, accountability, and service. Reply
ezridah - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkThe Newegg prices are different for the 2 lower capacity drives today. They are now $120 for the 120GB and $140 for the 240GB. Not a bad price for the 240GB drive. An extra $20 for double the storage is a no-brainer. Reply
Bob Todd - Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - linkThey've also got the 240GB Crucial M500 for $130 right now... Reply
BlakKW - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - link"By doing additional validation, OCZ is able to pick the highest endurance parts and use them..."
I don't understand this and it makes me curious: how can NAND be tested for endurance, and then used in an SSD? It seems to me that any extensive testing would use up a significant portion of the NAND's finite lifespan?
And if testing the identical parts, how does a test differentiate good vs bad when it comes to endurance?
TY Reply
lmcd - Friday, January 24, 2014 - linkI'm sure the endurance testing doesn't come from simply wearing it out and testing. There may be some extrapolation methods or some different tools altogether. Reply
LordConrad - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - linkI have never had any issues with OCZ SSDs. I think this Vertex 460 looks like a decent drive, although I would go for the Vector due to the longer warranty. Reply
chris81 - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - linkTypo: 4KB Random Read is written twice in the first table. The second one should be Random Write Reply
Kristian Vättö - Friday, January 24, 2014 - linkThanks, fixed! Reply
Per Hansson - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - linkIt's mind boggling why Toshiba would like to keep the name OCZ.
I actually thought OCZ had improved since the debacles of the old Vertex drives, but then I found this:
40 > 50% failure rate on the Petrol & Octane series SSD's
10% on Agility 4
And then even more troubling from the following article:
OCZ Vector with 9 to 11% failure rate
No thank you Reply
dbwells - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - linkWas the SanDisk Extreme II 480GB really only $300 two days ago? Showing $450 at the moment :( Reply
FalcomPSX - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - linkyou couldn't pay me to use an OCZ product again. i've lost 4 vertex 2 ssd's due to random failures, and although they covered it under warranty each time(yes i bought one drive, died 4 times) its not worth the hassle or risk of data loss, especially when that risk of data loss isn't a question of IF it will fail, but only a question of WHEN it will fail. Reply
mattgmann - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - linkI'd love to see some SSD comparison/ranking charts. There's such a wide variety of makes/controllers out there these days that it's getting too hard to keep track of the best performance/dollar, reliability/dollar or best drive/specific use.
Plus, we all like rankings...right? Reply
arehaas - Sunday, January 26, 2014 - linkWhy does the clear Storage Bench champion according to this page, 840 EVO mSATA, have 322.9 MB/s data rate on this page but only 261.5MB/s on its own review page on Jan 9, 2014?? Reply
Kristian Vättö - Sunday, January 26, 2014 - linkWhen I first generated the graphs, our Bench had the old value (322.9MB/s) in it. I manually updated the graph with the newer and more reasonable 261.5MB/s result but for some reason the actual graph wasn't updated. It's fixed now! Reply
arehaas - Sunday, January 26, 2014 - linkThank you for the quick reply. It will help me to select components for upgrading my laptop. Reply
jeff420 - Thursday, January 28, 2016 - linkThese is a beast. I have this for awhile now and can't complain.
Jeff @ http://www.audiospeakerworld.com Reply


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Hot or Not? Miley Cyrus' Hair Appears to Have Turned Blue
Did Miley really step out with blue hair over the weekend? And is it hot or not? Weigh in here!
-Lucia Peters
We've gotten pretty used to Miley Cyrus' hair doing all sorts of… shall we say, interesting things recently, so maybe we shouldn't be at all surprised by this turn of events; but at any rate, Miley stepped out this weekend in a midriff-baring top, black pants, a leather jacket, and a bold red lip… and what appears to be blue hair. What do you think, Bettys? Hot or not?
To be fair, her hair might not actually have gone blue; Miley took to Twitter on Sunday night to clarify, "My hurrr ain't blue. That s***'s PLATINUM" (fabulous grammar and spelling there, Miley). She went on to explain that she "just went heavy on the shimmer lights," so the blue tinted effect is likely just a literal trick of the light.
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Somewhat interestingly, though, is the fact that she seems to have foregone the half-shaved, half-bouffant look she's been so fond of recently in favor of a more even pixie cut. We can imagine that the upkeep on the punkier look must be rather involved—would you want to shave the sides of your head every day or two?—so we can't really blame her for letting it grow a bit.
In any event, yeah. Blue hair not so blue. If Miley really wants to try on blue hair, maybe she should pick up a bottle of Manic Panic's Dye-Hard temporary hair color styling gel in Sky ($8.40, beauty.com) or a jar of their semi-permanent hair color cream in Atomic Turquoise ($12, beauty.com). Just sayin'.
Tell us: Have you ever dyed your hair a wacky color? What was it and how did you like it?
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I am new to python, more familiar with perl. I want to write a basic code that will loop through a function indefinitely every one hour.I tried to write the below code but it doesnt seem to work. Can someone help me?
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while var True :
def main():
return 0
localtime = time.localtime(time.time())
sleeptime = (60 * ((19 - localtime) % 60));
print localtime
time.sleep 60
def connect(ip) :
#my function to connect
Basically I want the function connect() to be called every one hour. its kinda strange with python, am used to braces to begin and end a loop, but here its just a :