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A healthcare review which has cost taxpayers millions of pounds and made no significant changes to healthcare over the last three years has finally been scrapped.
An announcement from the six Clinical Commissioning Groups in south west London, this morning, said they now want to develop a new five year strategy for local health services instead of continuing with their Better Services Better Value (BSBV) review.
Over the last three years St Helier Hospital has been hampered by BSBV which has twice threatened to axe its A&E, maternity and children's services.
The failed healthcare review has cost taxpayers a staggering £8.2m over three years even though none of its proposals were implemented.
A consequence of the review was revealed earlier this month when it emerged the £219m redevelopment of St Helier Hospital was unlikely to go ahead due to the uncertainty it had faced under BSBV.
A statement from BSBV said: "We do not propose to continue with our BSBV programme or to consult on the options that emerged from it, which have now been withdrawn.
"The next step will be for us to discuss our new approach with our boards and with local provider trusts and seek their support for it. We plan to announce our five-year strategy in June 2014."
A statement from the Epsom and St Helier trust revealed they will remove the giant banner which adorns the front of the hospital stating that the £219m redevelopment is 'coming soon'.
The chief executive of St Helier Hospital, Matthew Hopkins, said: "It has been a long road for us, which involved times of uncertainty for the future of our services, our patients and our staff. I'd like to thank our staff and volunteers who throughout this time have kept their focus on the day job and have continued to provide high quality care to our patients.
"We are absolutely committed to working with our clinical commissioning groups in further improving healthcare in the region.
"Patients should be assured that the broad range of outpatient, day case and inpatient services remain available at our two main sites.
"Just like all other NHS trusts across the country, we are developing a business plan for the future of our hospitals and services (including long-term financial modelling), which provides details of how we will continue to provide high quality care in an affordable, efficient way."
The hospital will be working with commissioners over the coming months to develop their five year strategy.
Hospital campaigners are still concerned for the future of St Helier Hospital. The region's health bosses, the CCGs, have pledged to continue supporting BSBV's case for change and are proposing to use BSBV's analysis in developing their plans over the next five years.
Paul Burstow the MP for Sutton and Cheam said: "My concern is on one hand they are reassuring the public they have dropped BSBV's plans and at the same time they say they are going to use BSBV's methods. Given they were heavily flawed - would they reach the same flawed conclusion?"
Ruth Dombey the leader of Sutton Council said: "The Council and the public had significant concerns about the BSBV proposals and we're pleased that the programme has been disbanded. We need to work together with our healthcare partners to develop robust plans so that we can secure the long-term future of St Helier Hospital"
Siobhain McDonagh, MP for Mitcham and Morden, said: "I think it's a step forward but we need to take it all in because clearly it's going to have consequences for hospitals. We have crossed one hurdle but I'm not under any illusion that there won't be more.
"It doesn't answer what is happening to the £219m that is in the country's books but the local health service is not using. I'd like to see the refurbishment of St Helier that could be there if they just use the money that has been allotted for it."
Tom Brake the MP for Carshalton and Wallington said: "Good riddance to BSBV. It was flawed, too narrowly focused and costly. But the nightmare isn't over yet. New plans will emerge eventually and these must secure St Helier's long term future. That is what I have been fighting for for over twenty years and will continue to fight for until our hospital is safe.'
Paul Scully, Conservative parliamentary candidate for Sutton and Cheam, said: "I am glad that the clinicians that led the ill-fated BSBV review have realised the depth of feeling of local people. Now we need stability."
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This week the Missouri Senate Agriculture, Food Production, and Outdoor Resources Committee unanimously passed HJR 7&11 and SJR 22, the Right to Farm constitutional referendum. The legislation now goes to the full Senate for consideration and will help protect the state's $11 billion per year agriculture industry from attacks made by out-of-state special interest groups, according to a release from Missouri Farmers Care,.
"Specifically, it creates a constitutional right for farmers and ranchers to engage in modern farming and ranching practices," Representative Jason Smith, one of the HJR 7&11 sponsors, said. "HFRs 11 and 7 are also relevant to Missourians who have no direct connection to farming. We should not overlook the fact that farmers provide the food we feed to our families and the many value-added products we use in our daily lives."
If passed out of the General Assembly, HJR 7&11 will go to a vote of the people in the November 2014 ballot.
Missouri Cattlemen's Association (MCA) President-Elect Jim McCann spoke on behalf of MCA during the committee hearing earlier this week.
"Who wins with Right to Farm? Above and beyond Missouri's farm and ranch families, the ultimate winner is the consumer," McCann said. "Right to Farm allows consumers to have choices in the grocery story; prevents food prices from being inflated unnecessarily; and continues to ensure that sound science dictates production decisions. As producers, we want to be able to supply food for a growing global population and be part of the solution to curbing hunger."
Earlier this year, as the Missouri State House of Representatives mulled the bill, MAC Executive Vice President Mike Deering said the right to farm issue is a top priority for the organization.
"The fact is that this amendment shouldn't be necessary, but thanks to animal rights extremists groups destined to stifle Missouri's agricultural sector, it is not only necessary, it's absolutely essential," said Deering.

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Open Source and the OpenStand Principles
Last week, March 9, I had the privilege of representing Adobe at the Open Futures reception and meet up at SXSW, hosted by IEEE, W3C, Cisco and Adobe. The event was fun, full of excitement and indicative of the importance standards play in our ever-changing interconnected world. The event was in support of OpenStand, a movement dedicated to promoting a set of principles that enable standards to keep pace with technology and provide access to all.
The OpenStand principles are five in number. They reflect common sense dedicated to the advancement of technology based on merit. In short, the principles are:
- Cooperation among standards organizations
- Adherence to due process, broad consensus, transparency, balance and openness in development
- Commitment to technical merit, interoperability, competition, innovation and benefit to humanity
- Availability of standards to all
- Voluntary adoption
These principles, the Modern Paradigm for Standards have empowered the rapid development of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
In 1993, when Adobe released the Portable Document Format, the decision was made that the specification would be free for all to use. In 2008, Adobe worked to ensure that the newly published ISO 32000-1 standard for PDF would remain free for all to use.
The principles of OpenStand are embedded into Adobe culture and into the mindset of our decisions concerning standards and specifications. Adobe has and will continue to contribute to the creation of innovative activities and standards, as evidenced in this blog from the Corporate Standards group.
So how does this apply to open source? Obviously open source software both exists and innovates on standards. Many standards, as they innovate, use open source implementations to power the definition of the emerging specification. Witness such work as WebKit, OSGi and work within CSS. Emerging efforts tying open source to standards development are showing up in an ever increasing number of standards development organizations such as ECMA. Particularly but not limited to web standards, Adobe is actively involved in innovation to standards as well as open source projects in support of emerging technology
It is in the best interest of open source developers, be they individuals or corporations, that the principles of OpenStand be accepted and promoted. Open source developers lose when access to standards is limited and/or costly. Open source implementations win when access to the specification is freely and readily available, to allow creation of the best possible implementation to adhere to standards adopted worldwide. Open source implementations in turn drive innovation and create new markets, emerging technologies, on a worldwide level.
Not only open source developers but also foundations based on open source should recognize and support these principles. It is important that Linux distributions be able to offer compliant communications standards. It is important that browsers such as WebKit, Chrome or Opera support the appropriate standards. It is in the best interest of foundations such as Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation and Eclipse Foundation support the transparency, voluntary adoption and availability of standards to all.
Likewise, it is in your best interest to go look over the Modern Paradigm for Standards and decide if you can support these five principles promoting market driven standards that are global and open, to drive innovation for the benefit of all.


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Today I made Baltimore Pit Beef on the Egg. While I've made this before, there were some big differences this time around. This recipe was by SR and was printed in the New York Times. I grilled the meat on the Egg at 600 degrees, about 150 degrees higher than I've done in the past. Steven also suggested using either kaiser rolls or rye bread. I had both types around but everyone wanted to try the rye.
We've been having work done on our house going on 3 weeks now. I've been getting in practice time on my new Egg by making lunch for the 2-3 guys working on the house. This has paid off in many ways including their offering to build my grill gazebo at a greatly reduced price. Work on the grill gazebo began yesterday and I will include a 3D view of what it is going to look like at the end of this post together with a progress photo.
The 2.75 pound eye of the round roast has been trimmed of fat. The next step is to rub and refrigerate the roast.
The rub used oregano, garlic powder, seasoning salt, sweet paprika & black pepper.
The finished rub.
The roast has been rubbed, wrapped in plastic wrap and it is off to the fridge for several hours.
The sauce, called Tiger Sauce, uses lemon juice, fresh horse radish, mayo, salt & pepper.
The finished Tiger Sauce.
Setting up for some slicing. The meat gets thinly sliced on the meat slicer after it comes off the grill and the white onion gets thinly sliced on the mandoline slicer.
The rubbed roast is out of the fridge and has been unwrapped and is ready to go back on the grill.
The meat gets direct grilled over 650 degree high heat.
After about 45 minutes the roast is at 120 degrees internal temperature and is ready to come off the grill and get a 5 minute rest before slicing.
The meat is ready to be thin sliced across the grain.
Time to eat! The meat is served with the thin sliced onions and the Tiger sauce.
The roast beef was moist and tasty, despite being grilled at a very high 650 degrees. The high grilling temp which was something I added and wanted to try, gave the meat a crusty crunch skin.
The sandwich consisted of rye bread, thin sliced roast beef, Tiger Sauce & thin sliced white onions.
Baltimore Pit Beef is my favorite roast beef sandwich. This recipe was excellent and the high temperature grilling gave the meat a nice crunchy crust and the Egg helped the meat retain much of its moisture. Lastly the rye bread was a great choice. I think I like it better than the kaiser rolls.
Here is what my new grill gazebo will look like later this week.
Here is the progress at the end of the day today. Tomorrow the framing should be done. BTW, about 4' gets trimmed off the corner posts.


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Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Nearly 1.6 million Americans live in nursing homes. They are usually:
These statistics can mask the similarity of the nursing home patient.
Improving the quality of care for individuals who will live in a nursing home for many years is a difficult task. For these individuals the nursing home serves as a health care facility and a home. The 1985 Institute of Medicine report and the resulting regulations that were part of the 1987 Omnibus Reconciliation Act (OBRA) tried to address this dual role of the nursing home and encouraged a de-emphasis on the medical model of long-term care. However, much remains to be accomplished to improve the quality of nursing home care.
One strategy to improve the care of nursing home residents is a systematic approach to screening, health maintenance, and preventive practices. This is a controversial concept. Although there is enthusiasm for targeting preventive measures in older, community living individuals, there is little agreement (and even less data) on what specific measures should be recommended. The approach to take with the frail elderly in the nursing home is even less clear.
The goals of prevention change in late life. In younger persons, goals target disease-specific morbidity and mortality, but in older individuals with many chronic conditions this focus loses its value. More relevant goals include:
For example, evaluating the risk of falling can be expanded into a comprehensive, institution-wide program to reduce accidental injury and encourage mobility. A recent study evaluated the benefits of a fall prevention assessment in high-risk nursing home patients. The assessment was completed by a nurse practitioner. Several correctable problems were identified, including muscle weakness, postural hypotension, gait and balance disorders, adverse drug effects, occult infection, dehydration, and metabolic disorders. Hospitalizations for patients in the group receiving this evaluation and intervention were reduced as compared to a similar group of high-risk patients.
Similarly, evaluating the nursing home patient's nutritional status can be expanded into an active program that identifies weight loss and adult failure-to-thrive syndrome. Clinically, failure-to-thrive is defined by unintentional weight loss, which may be reversible or irreversible. In the nursing home, in addition to weight loss, conditions associated with undernutrition include anemia, hip fractures, pressure ulcers, depression, and dementia. Careful evaluation of high-risk individuals and implementation of support involving family, nursing staff, the dietician, and other staff may improve nutritional status and prevent disability. Similar preventive programs could address other common clinical problems such as pressure ulcers and recurrent urinary tract infections.
The prevention of iatrogenic problems is an area of great potential in the nursing home. Careful evaluation of medication use and reducing the risks of hospitalization are two areas with particular promise. The average nursing home resident takes more than eight medications and in this population the use of high-risk medications, for example digoxin, diuretics, and psychoactive drugs, is particularly common. The risks for drug-to-drug interactions and drug-to-disease interactions are especially high. In one study, older patients using six to ten drugs during a year had a 13 percent rate of adverse reactions. The physician should be decisive about discontinuing unnecessary medications.
Nursing home patients are frequently transferred to the emergency room for evaluation or the hospital for treatment. The risk for iatrogenic problems (those resulting from the care provided) in these situations is high.
These are a few examples of strategies that could make a significant difference in the quality of life for long-stay nursing home residents. Maintaining function, avoiding iatrogenic illness, and targeting interventions to individuals are essential components of high-quality care in the nursing home.
Adapted from Geriatric Medicine - Gerontology Report, Winter/Spring; 1998, V.8 No.1
Last Reviewed: Apr 10, 2006
Gregg Warshaw, MD
Director, Office of Geriatric Medicine
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati


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Dude, this girl has a lot of sexappeal. A pic like that comes across (to me) as a bit much. I think if you tone it down a bit a leave more to the imagination, it would be better. A bit like the picture before but even more so. For example, she just looking away while her collarbones are exposed (but not much else)... Her face, with her hand keep her hair at bay - but nothing much else "suggestive". My 5 cents.
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This article was published 22/11/2013 (1369 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Lionel MESSI is the social network "king."
This, according to Barcelona-based Internet analysis company Covelo & Co., which earlier this week revealed Messi's name had come up in more than 47 million blogs, tweets and other digital media in recent months.
(The second-highest footballer on the list was the Argentine's Blaugrana teammate Neymar, with 17.7 million mentions.)
But could the king soon have a new kingdom?
It seems an unlikely scenario that Messi would ever suit up for any other club. After all, his achievements at Barcelona have seen him become the best player in the world, and with such a talented supporting cast at Camp Nou one has to wonder if any other team could offer a comparable situation.
But people are wondering, and no doubt a good number of those 47 million mentions have been centred on the speculation.
On Friday, Spanish journalist Francois Gallardo added grist to the rumour mill when he claimed Messi had already "decided to leave (Barcelona) at the end of the season."
Citing a breakdown in the relationship between the four-time Ballon d'Or winner and the Catalan giants, Gallardo's article in Punto Pelota also suggested a "verbal agreement" had been reached between Messi and "another team."
Now, Gallardo's claims have been largely disregarded, in no small part because people simply don't want to believe them.
"Messi and Barcelona are inseparable," the thinking goes. And another cliché: "Messi is too expensive to be transferred in the first place."
As Canadians well know, there is no such thing as an athlete too prominent or too costly to be sold. This knowledge has come from experience -- a painful realization that, in the sporting world, loyalty, fealty and general goodwill are fantasies all.
It was 25 years ago last summer that Wayne Gretzky was dealt to the Los Angeles Kings by the Edmonton Oilers. For so long the prospect of such a transaction had seemed so unreal when it happened it was like it occurred in the film grain of a bad dream.
The next morning, however, Canadians awoke to the truth that The Great One was no longer theirs; he was hockey's, and the business of hockey had brought about the most extraordinary move in the history of North American sport. If can happen with Gretzky it can happen with Messi, and at some point over the course of his career it probably will.
Incidentally, Gretzky was 27 when he swapped the Great White North for Hollywood, and Messi will be 27 next summer. Gretzky departed Edmonton with four Stanley Cups in the trophy case; Messi has won the Champions League on three occasions.
(And if you want an especially eerie comparison, Gretzky's NHL-record 92 goals in a season is almost identical to Messi's 91 in all competitions in 2012.)
Not that there's any particular relationship between the careers of the two players, nevermind the business practices of their respective sports.
Other than money, of course, and it goes without saying a good deal of it could be made by a lot of people if Messi was, indeed, sold on the transfer market.
Earlier this month it was rumoured Adidas had offered to put Ǩ125 million (C$213 million) towards Messi joining one of Chelsea, Bayern Munich or Real Madrid, and while the clothing company denied the report it served as a reminder of just how much profit could be made off merchandise if such a deal was agreed.
Shirts, agents' fees and television sponsorships -- these are the things that drive the business of football. Hockey fans lost their innocence to that a quarter-century ago. In the next few years football fans could lose theirs.
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Intel & Micron Announce 25nm NAND Flash Production, SSDs to get Bigger/Cheaper in Q4by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/30/2010 12:00 AM EST
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kunedog - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - linkAs of yesterday, Newegg has the OEM G2 X-25M 80GB for $220 shipped and the 160GB for $430 shipped:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8... (comes with a free USB enclosure)
This is the FIRST time they have been in stock for more than a day at anywhere near the retail prices that Anand predicted over SIX MONTHS ago:
Butch306 - Monday, February 01, 2010 - linkI'd be happier with an announcement that a firmware upgrade is available to fully implement TRIM on a Raid setup. As much as I'm always ready to upgrade to the biggest, latest and greatest; no TRIM support in Raid is a potential huge show stopper to upgrade from current Intel 34nm G2 SSDs on my annual next build. Which ever manufacturer comes out with a proper/equivalent solution to keep SSDs in multiple Raid configurations operating at their peak efficiency is going to get my money. Reply
jhh - Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - linkTRIM is a horribly implemented command in SATA drives, as TRIM is a synchronous command. All the read-ahead and write-behind operations block waiting for TRIM to finish. One proposal from the Linux community was to allocate blocks from a "already written" pool instead of using TRIM. This would allow the never-written area of the drive unwritten as long as possible. Reply
kensiko - Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - linkYeah but this will prevent wear leveling system to do its work.
For RAID with TRIM, on OCZ forum, someone pointed out the RAID capability of Win7 that would probably allow TRIM and RAID together. But, of course, software RAID isn't as good as hardware RAID. Reply
AtwaterFS - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linksince SSD's are the cause for a fatter SATA pipe... Reply
Xyn - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkSo the 25nm process will be rolled out at all their plants? I was wondering what IM Flash Technologies was, since they built a new plant near my house.
So I guess ~5nm will be the limit before you reach atomic levels, aye? Might be good news or bad news, I'm not sure. Reply
jimhsu - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkImmersion lithography is only a stopgap solution because it relies on the greater index of refraction of water. Since we really don't have many fluids with an even larger index of refraction, I'm highly curious how low 2x and 1x nm will be attempted - double patterning? nanofabrication? Reply
jimhsu - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkPersonally, I think true nanomachines (as in bottom-up assembly?) will appear at 11 nm or below, based on my rudimentary understanding of chip fabrication and reading on wikipedia. You simply can't make silicon much smaller than that. Reply
GullLars - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkWith a 1,414x shrink between each full process node, you have 4 shrinks left after 25nm until you reach 5nm. With 15 months between each process node that gives 5 years... At that point you need to start 3D processes to scale further, or start using nano-technology.
ONFI 2.2 specifies 200MB/s interface bandwidth max for each flash channel, you may have multiple ICs (packages), each with multiple dies, pr flash channel. It will essentially enable higher bandwidth at fewer channels, wich means lower controller design costs and less complexity. You also run into a push to larger page sizes and block sizes in order to scale the bandwidth effectively from a single IC. 4KB random read bandwidth will not take a huge hit (rather stay about the same as today), as partial page reads are easily done, it will however not scale from todays 32nm chips (pr channel). Reply
Turas - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkI am wondering if the other memory vendors will have to do the same? Also what will the perf impact be as we are already dealing with filesystems designed for spinning disks? They have added trim/gc items but wondering if the whole filesystem is next thing to really need a overhaul. Reply
semo - Monday, February 01, 2010 - linkof course it needs an overhaul but it won't happen. we'll be talking about LBAs in 20 years time. Just like x86 Reply
chemist1 - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkI'd like to see someone manufacture one of these super-fast SSDs in a PCI ExpressCard/34 format, which would fit flush into the PCI slot on my MacBook Pro. [See http://www.macworld.com/article/145185/2009/12/mbp...">http://www.macworld.com/article/145185/2009/12/mbp...]
Since mine is an early-2008 model, it can't take full advantage of SATA-connected SSDs, being limited to 150 MB/sec on the SATA interface (and Apple shows no signs of upgrading the firmware). By contrast, PCI Express Cards are 2.5 Gb/sec, which is about 310 MB/sec. This would also effectively give me two drives, leaving the HD for mass storage.
FileMate does make some ExpressCard SSDs. However, while faster than a conventional HD, they are significantly slower than the current Intel SSDs. Reply
ksherman - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkjust swap out your DVD drive for another hard drive. I got an Intel 80GB in place of my DVD drive and a 500GB Seagate in the main drive bay. Though, I hardly ever used my DVD drive. Reply
chemist1 - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkThought of that, but it voids the remaining 2 years on my extended warranty (yes, it's an early 2008 model, but I purchased it in Feb. 2009 on clearance). And I do actually use the DVD drive with some frequency. Reply
milli - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkToshiba already has 3-bits-per-cell & 4-bits-per-cell MLC NAND. Reply
ioannis - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkthat is all nice and good, but is there any news on memristors? I know it's HP and not Micon/Intel working on those, but just wondering...
jwilliams4200 - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkAnand:
Do you know how many NAND die can be assembled in each package?
I remember seeing the circuit board of the 160GB G2, and it looked liked it only had 10 NAND packages (unless they were double-stacked?) So that would be 16GB per package, or 4 of the 32 Gbit die per package.
But the 80GB G2 also has 10 packages, I think (at least, the controller is 10 channel). So is it using only 2 die per package?
Can more than 4 die be assembled in each package? Having, say, 8 of the upcoming 64 Gbit die in a package blows my mind.
PandaBear - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkToshiba have done 16 dies, but the yield is very low, the economy of scale stop at 4 die per chip. Reply
AnandMeat - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkAnand,
I thought a floating gate device was technically a charge trapping device since it involves some kind of charge transfer and holding in the electrically isolated floating gate. Is the only difference between a "charge trapping" device and a floating gate device something like the floating gate being made of a nitride? Or is all this just bad nomenclature? Thanks!
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PandaBear - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkThey are the same thing. All charge trapping devices like EEPROM, NOR, and NAND uses floating gate and it is how you arrange them that makes the difference. Reply
ajhix36 - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkSince I can get an X-25M G2 80GB for $150, and 160GB for $300, should I just take the leap and get one of those, or should I wait for something better? I really wish
raid had trim support. Reply
ajhix36 - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkNo its 100% true! I know someone who works for Intel, its through their employee pricing program! I can also get an i7 920 for $142... Reply
hyvonen - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkIntel's Employee Purchase Program is for employees only, and not for resale. If your friend gets caught selling the SSDs bought through EPP, he can get fired.
Also, SSDs are out-of-stock at EPP right now, due to high channel demand. Reply
Hector1 - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkChange that "can get fired" to "will be fired". For each purchase, employees acknowledge its for their own personal use only. Companies are pretty strict about this. Not smart to risk your job over saving a few bucks for a "friend".
Friends don't let friends risk their jobs. Reply
mrd0 - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkWhere do you see those prices? Reply
kunedog - Monday, February 01, 2010 - link"Where do you see those prices?"
Good question. Even Anand's initial predictions were higher than that:
And even most of *those* prices were never seen again. Reply
notty22 - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkI think maybe he was being sarcastic?
The logic vexed in the article mentioned twice the capacity at the same production cost. This would be 'wonderful' if this formula funneled down to the consumer. Kingston announced the 40gv now for 85.00 back in October ,09. that never was really available. Now its 30g for 90.00, supposedly coming ? Could the consumer get a 30g drive for 45.00 when this new tech is in full operation ? And with 230/170 r/w speeds with the new controllers. I doubt it, when the WD velociraptor 150g is still a 160.00. Maybe industry wide competition could make it happen. Reply
RU482 - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkwell, they didn't "announce" the 40GB at $85....that's where it wound up with rebates + promo pricing. You always have to keep in mind that there is overhead for the controller IC, casing, marketing, manufacturing, ect. So prices will not scale 2:1..
All that said, I'd fricken love to find a 32GB SSD for $45...hell, even $75. 1.8" would be even better! Reply
RU482 - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkI call shens. I'm in the process of quoting 5k pcs of the 80gb drive, and have not yet broke the $200 barrier Reply
vol7ron - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkI agree.
I think he might see a 40GB for $150 and an 80GB for $300. Market prices are just under those. Reply
CurseTheSky - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkFor $300, I would grab the 160GB G2 in a heartbeat. I paid $450 for mine and it's worth every penny.
Yes, newer technology is going to come out that will make these feel slow, small, and generally outdated. For the most part, I don't play the waiting game unless something is right around the corner (for example, I wouldn't advise anyone to make a major graphics card purchase right now until we see what happens in March). Reply
Griswold - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkI dont think you'll see SSDs anytime soon (read: years) that make current (intel) SSDs feel slow unless you like to play benchmarks all day long or are exclusiveley interested in sequential read/write performance. Reply
wumpus - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkYou will almost certainly find an SSD that will make current SSDs feel *small*. New SSDs could easily feel faster than non-TRIM current SSDs. You might need a later motherboard with some yet-to-be-speced SATA3 system to make a state-of-the-art (1/31/2010) seem slow, and then only being used for virtual memory swap.
mcnabney - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - linkWhy wait?
You should buy products when you need them. Current guesses on Fermi is that it should be a bit faster than a 5870, but it is going to cost a ton. There will also not be anything until mid-summer to fill the needs of consumers that like to game, but don't have a trust fund. And soon after Fermi the new generation of AMD/ATI will be rolling out (5XXX was a die shrink and DX11 only, not a new design). Just buy when you need it and stop trying to time the market. Reply
dagamer34 - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkAs exciting as this is, we need more manufacturers to develop similar technology so that prices can get cheaper! Reply
vol7ron - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkAnand,
Could you discuss a little more about the ONFi? Also, you said the interface speeds can reach 200MB/s, how does this compare to the previous speeds?
Thank you,
vol7ron Reply
murphyslabrat - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - linkYessir, I know you think this every time a new flash technique is developed, but I can't wait for Christmas. Reply
jcollett - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 - linkAnand was right about the smaller drives in that article back in 2009. The supposed price drops for the OCZ Colossus line did not materialize with current low street prices being about 50% higher than MSRP shown in the article. Too bad .... Reply
iwod - Thursday, February 17, 2011 - linkMost of the benchmarks are not even reaching the practical / theoretical limits of SATA 3Gbps speed. So why would a fatter pipe , SATA 6Gbps allow much higher speed with the same controller?
And have you figured out why Kingston V+ is so fast on benchmarks yet? I was asking last time and no one provide an solid answer. Like you have mentioned, the 4 corners of SSD performance, Seq R/W, Random R/W. Kingston perform very well in Seq R/W and only the low end for Random R/W. However it was the fastest in multiple Anand / Synthetic benchmarks.
P.S - VR-Zone just posted Next Gen Intel SATA 6Gps SSD will be out on 1st of March. Will we get a preview before that? Reply


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"They don't need to be laying them off. They need to ride though here every 10 minutes," a resident named Mary, who didn't want to give her last name, said.
Sheriff John Rutherford said Tuesday that 52 current Jacksonville Sheriff's Office jobs are on the line, including both officers and civilian employees, because of a $4.4 million hole in the city budget.
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Cuba said the Sheriff's Office could save several million dollars by doing away with community service officers, most recognizable as the officers who wear bright yellow-green vests and are often seen directing traffic and working traffic accidents.
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On October 23, it was reported that a McCain volunteer was robbed and assaulted by a black man. She claimed that after robbing her, her assailant noticed a McCain/Palin bumper sticker on her car, chased her down, and carved a backwards B into her face. At one point, she even alleged a sexual assault.
The police spent many hours investigating this case attempting to prove the veracity of her claims, only to have her admit today that she made the entire story up.
McCain, for his part, his been quick to point out that she is an unpaid volunteer, and as such has no deep involvement with the campaign. Yet had McCain not unleashed such clearly racist rhetoric throughout this election cycle, would a woman like Todd have believed that her behaviour was appropriate?
Though I firmly believe McCain's dirty campaign tactics did indeed play a factor here, what should also be recognized is the history that white women have of blaming innocent black men of assaults. From Susan Smith, to Carroll Donham, white women have been either complicit in false accusations against black men, or else have been used as props in justifying murdering black men.


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Evolution Hoax
Hurriyet Bilim, a supplement of the Turkish daily Hurriyet, used a long since discredited piece of Darwinist canard as the cover story for its June 12 edition. This canard in the article concerned, titled "18 Vestigial Organs in Our Bodies Set to Disappear." The "vestigial organs" thesis, proposed by Darwin in the 19th century and further developed by later proponents of his theory, has actually long since been discredited. The organs described as "vestigial" by Hurriyet Bilim have been discovered to have functions, and the idea of "vestigial organs" has even been abandoned by a number of evolutionist authorities.
In this article we shall first be looking at the way in which this fantasy developed and was later discredited, and then revealing the functions performed by these organs described by Hurriyet Bilim as "vestigial."
The myth of vestigial organs began with Darwin. In his Origin, he described as "primitive" organs that had lost their functions, or whose functions had diminished. He compared them to the letters one finds in some written words but which are silent and not pronounced. (1)
Like Darwinism"s other claims, however, this was a myth reinforced by the primitive level of science at the time. As research and discoveries advanced, gradually it emerged that the organs described as "functionless" were actually ones whose functions had not yet been established. The more of these functions were discovered, the shorter became the list of "vestigial" organs. The list set out in 1895 by the German anatomist R. Wiedersheim contained around 100 "vestigial human organs," including the appendix and the coccyx. As science progressed, it was established that all the organs on Widersheim"s list, and which Darwin and his followers regarded as "vestigial," actually had important functions.
Today, in fact, a great many evolutionists have accepted that the myth of vestigial organs was actually based on ignorance. In an article titled "Do "Vestigial Organs" Provide Evidence for Evolution?" in the journal Evolutionary Theory, the evolutionist biologist S.R. Scadding sets out this fact:
Since it is not possible to unambiguously identify useless structures, and since the structure of the argument used is not scientifically valid, I conclude that "vestigial organs" provide no special evidence for the theory of evolution. (2)
In the same way that the claim for vestigial organs rests on no scientific facts at all, neither can it be supported by logic. For example, the moles on our skin that appear with the excessive functioning of melanocytes cannot be explained along the lines of "all human beings were once dark skinned." Neither can we describe our fingernails and toenails as a "primitive feature" left over from when we lived in the wild, as predators. Such an approach stems from evolutionists" preconceived view of human beings. According to evolutionists, many features of our bodies are unnecessary: Our hair, earlobes, eyebrows and little fingers should not exist. In the same way, it might be claimed that canine teeth are left over from our meat-eating ancestors, just as it is suggested that the hairs on our bodies are left over from our ancestors, the great apes. You can expand such a list indefinitely. But however long, that list will have no scientific basis, and will be shaped by the prejudices and viewpoints of the person making it.
Moreover, it must be recalled that these organs and tissues provide no evidence for evolution. That is because in every respect, the theory of evolution has collapsed, in the face of the evidence for God"s incomparable creation. Out of the infinite number of signs leading to faith, just a few examples are enough to demonstrate God"s flawless creation:
By itself, each of these examples is enough to demonstrate the superior design in life. By learning just one of these signs, even someone with no information at all can be led to faith and see the existence of an Almighty Creator.
In addition, the existence of any living thing can only prove the existence of God, Who created it. The ways that inanimate, unconscious atoms and molecules combine to form a human being with all five senses is proof of God"s impeccable creation, because it is impossible for atoms?unable to see or hear or have any sense perceptions?to combine for that purpose. The theory of evolution fails to account for how a collection of matter can look at itself in the mirror, or taste and touche and hear. These senses can only be explained by the existence of God and His flawless, super-material creation.
If, despite all these facts, the theory of evolution is still brought up, it can only be through lack of information. Therefore, the duty of informing people of the invalidity of evolution assumes great importance. Let us now examine the actual functions of the organs and tissues referred to as "vestigial"?a myth that Hurriyet Bilim has sought to resurrect.
Hurriyet Bilim describes the appendix, which lies at the beginning of the large intestine, as functionless. It has long been the best known of all the allegedly "vestigial" organs, though that this assumption has been proven to result from ignorance. True, that the appendix does sometimes becomes infected and poses a danger to health. But it still has important functions in all healthy individuals, as is set out in one scientific paper that cities various anatomical sources as references:
An examination of the appendix microscopically, shows that it contains a significant amount of lymphoid tissue. Similar aggregates of lymphoid tissue (known as gut-associated lymphoid tissues, GALT) occur in other areas of the gastrointestinal system. The GALT are involved in the body"s ability to recognize foreign antigens in ingested material. My own research, in particular, is focused on examining the immunological functions of the intestine.
Experiments in rabbits demonstrate that neonatal appendectomy impairs the development of mucosal immunity. Morphological and functional studies of the rabbit appendix indicate that it is probably the equivalent of the avian bursa in mammals. The bursa plays a critical role in the development of humoral immunity in birds. The histological and immunohistochemical similarity of the rabbit and human appendix suggest that the human appendix has a similar function to that of the rabbit appendix. The human appendix may be particularly important early in life because it achieves its greatest development shortly after birth and then regresses with age, eventually resembling such other regions of GALT as the Peyer"s patches in the small intestine. These recent studies demonstrate that the human appendix is not a vestigial organ, as originally claimed. (3)
Why was the appendix regarded as vestigial? The reason lies in the dogmatism based on the primitive level of science at the time of Darwin and his supporters. The appendix"s lymphoid tissue could not be viewed under their primitive microscopes. Unable to understand its structure, they regarded the tissue as "functionless" in the light of their own theories and added it to their list of "vestigial" organs.
The same applies to the other so-called vestigial organs.
In assuming the third molars, commonly known as wisdom teeth, are in fact vestigial, Hurriyet Bilim repeats a classic evolutionist error.
This is a widespread misconception. Many dentists adopt a moderate approach to day-to-day problems posed by other teeth and seek to preserve them, while extracting wisdom teeth has become routine. But the fact is, some recent research has shown that these teeth are no different from any other in terms of function. (4) Studies have also shown that the belief that these molars disrupt the position of other teeth is unfounded. (5) Scientific criticisms have also been published of problems encountered in extracting these teeth, when medicines could be used. (6)
In conclusion, contemporary medicine agrees that the belief that wisdom teeth do have a masticatory function just like the other teeth.
That being so, why do wisdom teeth cause a many people such great discomfort? Scientists researching this question established that wisdom teeth presented very infrequent problems to pre-industrial societies. Over the past few centuries, the preference for soft foods over hard ones has impacted on jaw development. Therefore, it"s been determined that most wisdom teeth problems have emerged in connection with problems resulting from dietary habits.
Similar changes in dietary preferences are known to have a negative impact on other teeth. For example, the preference for sugary and acidic foods over the past century has led to an increase in the rate of tooth decay. This, of course, does not mean that our teeth are functionless or vestigial. The same applies to wisdom teeth. Problems with these teeth stem not from any evolutionary "vestigialization," but from modern dietary habits.
The tissue referred to as the "third eyelid" by Hurriyet Bilim consists of a thin fold at the inner corner of the eye. Darwin portrayed this tissue as a "vestigial organ," and it is commonly referred to as the semilunar fold.
However, this tissue, with the scientific name plica semilunaris, is not a functionless structure inherited from reptiles, as Darwin (and Hurriyet Bilim) believed. Researchers have shown that the plica semilunaris secretes a fatty liquid that moisturises the eye, playing an important role in protecting it from foreign bodies. (7)
Therefore, referring to this tissue as a vestigial organ only highlights the ignorance and bigotry of Darwin, and those who blindly follow in his footsteps.
Hurriyet Bilim regards the small fold in the upper part of the ear and the muscles that let the ear move as "vestigial," but this, likewise, is totally speculative.
Hurriyet Bilim also suggested that the small bone at the very end of the spinal column has no function-an error that has long since been abandoned. It is now known that the coccyx supports the bones around the pelvic bone, and did it not exist, we would be unable to sit comfortably. Moreover, this bone is also stated to be the fixing point for various organs and muscles in the pelvic region.
Evolutionists frequently?and superficially?seek to depict the male nipple as a "vestigial organ." Yet this claim is actually inconsistent. In order to claim that an organ is vestigial, it must be shown to have once had a function in some previous living organism. But the fact is, none of the males of species portrayed as the alleged ancestors of man have ever secreted milk, and therefore the male nipple has no biological function.
One particularly fine example of the speculative, frivolous nature of Hurriyet Bilim"s claims is what they say on the subject of the little toe. It claims that apes make use of all their toes to grasp and catch branches, but when human beings stand upright, they only need their big toes to keep their balance. It then goes on to infer that the little toe is "surplus to what"s required." The fact is, however, that not all apes live in trees; and not just apes, but most land-dwelling vertebrates have a five-toed (pentadactyl) foot structure. The five-toed structure therefore has nothing to do with clinging onto branches, but is rather a design common to most land-dwelling vertebrates.
The erector muscles that cause one"s hair to stand on end in times of danger have been discovered to play an important role in maintaining the health of the hair. John P. Cole, an expert on baldness, carried out studies showing that in human beings suffering from baldness the erector pili muscles were weakened. (8) In other words, this muscle is essential for healthy hair.
In humans, this muscle at the front of the knee is attached to our Achilles tendon. In apes, on the other hand, it controls the toes?which is why apes" toes are prehensile. The only conclusion we can draw from this is that the human foot was not designed to pick up objects. The same applies to the palm muscle, also regarded as being one of the vestigial organs by Hurriyet Bilim.
Hurriyet Bilim is using these examples to portray an anatomical difference between human beings and apes and then interpreting that as evidence of evolution. For Hurriyet Bilim to support its case, however, not an interpretation but a scientific explanation based on empirical evidence is necessary. Clearly, evident differences alone constitute no evidential ground for evolution. If the theory of evolution is to be valid, it needs to demonstrate by which natural processes these differences came about?and this it cannot do.
To give just one example, apes" bodies are covered in fur, while there are very few hairs on the human body. An evolutionist might try to account for this by saying "We lost our fur as we evolved." but that is only an interpretation, not evidence. The same difference can also be explained by saying, "Apes were created in one form, human beings in another." Which of these two explanations is correct? This we can determine by looking at other criteria: the picture in the fossil record, genetic differences between living things, the effect of the mechanisms of natural selection and mutation, etc.?all of which demonstrate that evolution is false, and creation true.
Hurriyet Bilim"s comments regarding these bones and muscles are totally speculative. Some humans possess these structures, others do not; and such small bone and muscle differences exist among the races. But significantly, none of these constitute evidence that human beings evolved from another living creature.
Hurriyet Bilim suggests that in the female reproductive system, the blind tubules around the ovaries are the remnants of sperm ducts. Similarly, they claim that the male prostate gland contains an undeveloped female organ, and that these bodies belonged to organs that had become functionless during the evolutionary process. But when we examine the bodies in question, we see that they are the remains of embryonic structures that served a purpose during the development of the embryo in the mother"s womb, which purpose has now been fulfilled.
An adult human"s permanent organs are preceded by a set of structures which begin to form while in the embryo stage. With the exception of the ducts, all of these structures disappear almost entirely before the end of fetal life. Of these embryonic structures, the Wolffian duct and the Müllerian duct connect the reproductive organs to the outside world. With reproductive organs, a single tissue develops in either the male of female direction. With ducts, there are two tissues, one develops in the male direction and the other in the female direction.
On the middle of the Wolffian duct, a series of tubules called the Wolffian tubules, is developed. These tubules collectively constitute the Wolffian body. The reproductive glands develop from the Wolffian body during the fifth and sixth weeks of pregnancy. This body disappears with the development of the permanent kidneys. Degeneration of the Wolffian bodies begins in the sixth to seventh weeks, and by the beginning of the fifth month, all that remains is the ducts and a few of the tubules.
In the male, the Wolffian ducts persist and give rise to different portions in the sperm canal (epididymis, ductus deferens and ejaculatory duct). In females, the Wolffian bodies and ducts degenerate and disappear, while the Wolffian tubules leave behind two small collections of blind tubules between the ovary and the uterine tube. (9) This stage of development of the baby in the mother"s womb shows clearly that these tubules are not leftovers from a male reproductive system that has lost all function from lack of use, but the remains of an embryonic structure.
In the female, the Müllerian ducts-the second pair of ducts which develop shortly after the formation of the Wolffian ducts?, develop into oviduct, uterus, and the upper vagina. In the male, they degenerate and virtually disappear, and their remnants can be found as small sacs (hydatids of Morgagni) on the testes, and as a sac on the lower part of the prostate in the urinary tract, urethra. (10) It is therefore wrong to describe the remnant of the embryonic Müllerian body as a womb that has lost its function. To claim that these sacs are the remnant of a womb that later lost its function is to admit one"s ignorance of embryology.
This muscle, Hurriyet Bilim says, is absent in 20% of modern human beings, and is thought to be a remnant from marsupial, or pouched mammals. This idea, based entirely on Darwinist preconceptions, has no scientific foundation whatsoever.
Even according to the theory of evolution, it is impossible to propose a marsupial ancestor for human beings. Marsupials comprise one of the three main mammal groups. According to evolutionary theory, they developed some 50 to 60 million years ago by splitting away from the placental group (to which human beings belong). In other words, even according to the theory of evolution itself, there is no "marsupial ancestor" from which human beings could have inherited this muscle. Not only is Hurriyet Bilim claim invalid, but internally inconsistent.
Some findings reveal that the sense of smell is actually divided into two. The first sense perceives the aromas we are all familiar with, but the second, little known and generally overlooked, detects pheromones. The structure responsible is a small piece of tissue inside the nose known as the vomeronasal organ.
Evolutionist claims are based on the fact that some animals" vomeronasal organs are much more sensitive than ours. Snakes and various reptiles use their tongues for vomeronasal scent detection, and various mammals have powerful abilities to detect scents. Evolutionists maintain that our low level of vomeronasal perception stems from "vestigialization."
In fact, however, if we possessed greater vomeronasal sensitivity, then we could be said to have evolved very well. Creating various scenarios by making such comparisons between living things is far from scientific. Eagles have far sharper eyes than we do, but that does not mean that we evolved from eagles, or that our vision became "vestigialized" during this evolutionary process.
The fact is, every living thing has been equipped with the ideal senses it needs in its own particular environment. Sensory organs that function with exceedingly complex designs are proof of creation, not of evolution.
We have looked briefly at 18 of the organs Hurriyet Bilim has labeled as "vestigial." Today, all of them, and other alleged vestigial ones as well, have been found to fulfill specific functions, either in their full-developed state, or else during embryological development.
It"s interesting that Hurriyet Bilim should bring up these hoary old "vestigial" chestnuts, with no anatomical or physiological foundation. The theory of evolution, devoid of supporting evidence, has eventually collapsed in the face of advances in medicine and all other related branches of science. The conclusion that modern science advances is that man is not a creature that evolved by chance. Humans and all other living things were created by God.
1 Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 3rd. ed., Chapter 13: Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs.
2 S. R. Scadding, "Do "Vestigial Organs" Provide Evidence for Evolution?", Evolutionary Theory, vol. 5, May 1981, p. 173.
3 www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/6562/evolution/designgonebad.html .
4 M.S. Leonard, 1992, "Removing third molars: a review for the general practitioner," Journal of the American Dental Association,123(2):77-82.
5 M. Leff, 1993, "Hold on to your wisdom teeth," Consumer reports on Health, 5(8):4-85.
6 Daily T. 1996. Third molar prophylactic extraction: A review and analysis of the literature. General Dentistry, 44(4):310-320.
7 "Evidence of Comparative Structure and Function", http://www.ibri.org/Books/Pun_Evolution/Chapter2/2.5.htm#6 .
8 http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=32851 .
9 Gray"s Anatomy of the Human Body, 20th edition, 2000.
10 Ibid.


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Barnet boss Edgar Davids admits he is "looking forward" to facing Fleetwood Town at Underhill tomorrow.
The Bees will be looking to continue their improved form in League Two and have won four of their last six matches.
The Cod Army sit just outside the play-offs due to goal difference and have lost just three away games this season – although they have lost their last two matches.
Davids feels the match will be a good chance to see how much the Bees have developed.
He said: "They are a team I am looking forward to playing against because I saw them play a couple of games at the beginning of the season and they are one of the best sides playing wise.
"So I want to see how far my team has come and how we can do against them."
The Bees may have to use Clovis Kamdjo as an emergency centre-back after Andy Iro sustained a neck injury against Rotherham United last Saturday.
However, the 28-year-old was able to travel back on the team coach after being checked over at a hospital.
Davids explained: "They excluded it being something very bad, so that is good news. But if you have an incident like that it can keep you out for one or two weeks. So we will have to be careful with Andy."


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Uh oh. Looks like Diane Kruger might need the 101 on the subtleties of infidelity.
In an interview before his death, Jerry revealed an affair with one of Hollywood's most famous women.
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Talib wrote:As I understand it both have a number of dialects which probably diverge more than the three main varieties of English.dtp883 wrote:Are Finnish or Azeri as varied as English where a phonetic orthographic re-haul would underhand dialects?
That may be true. But Azerbaijani & Finnish are primarily spoken in one country each, Azerbaijan & Finland respectively. English is spoken in several countries with many countries having their own prestige dialect.


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By Esther Bintliff in London, with contributions from FT writers and editors in Davos.
All times GMT.
18.30: That's all from us for now folks! But you can stay up to date with all the FT's coverage of the World Economic Forum 2012 at www.ft.com/davos. For now, we'll leave you with a quick recap of some of today's top news and views:
- Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, put it bluntly when she got out her handbag and told a WEF panel: "I'm here with my little bag to collect a bit of money" (see the 11.23 post)
- At a global economy session, Chris Giles reported that the debate was "more sober than the general mood in Davos of increasing optimism", with Donald Tsang, chief executive of Hong Kong, saying: "I have never been as scared as now" (see 11.45)
- Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first female PM, was studiously vague when asked by Gideon Rachman whether and when her brother Thaksin would be allowed to return to Thailand (see 12.30)
- In his round-up on Davos 2012, Martin Wolf noted that Mario Draghi has emerged as the hero of the hour (see 13.15), a point confirmed by Lionel Barber, the FT's editor, in his video interview (15.20)
- John Gapper reports on what happened when Occupy World Economic Forum demonstrators took over a debate last night (see 16.40)
- "Doha is dead. Long live the multilateral trading system" – Chris Giles on the message the World Trade Organisation wanted to send from Davos on Saturday (see 17.30)


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A Cabin in the Woods that is Really an RV
Judging from the photo above you would probably never guess that this lovely cabin is actually an RV, and that it can be towed to pretty much anywhere on a whim. The timber-clad Escape cottage measures 400 square feet, and is the right weight and size to be considered an RV. It was designed as a portable house on wheels, but can also easily become a permanent home for the owners.


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Did you know?
Ikabawo means 'my brother' or 'my cousin', a name chosen because it alludes to the brotherhood of all Africans and is understood in various Nguni languages.
The Durban-based Ikabawo Dance Group comprises eight young Zulu men who're entrancing local audiences with their unique brand of energetic and creative dance.
Although every member of the dance troupe is Zulu, their dancing is informed by various African cultures, and displays distinct Malawian and Angolan influences.
The 'Ikabawo boys' as they are fondly known, are regular entertainers at Moyo restaurant on Durban's beachfront where their singing, dancing and drumming add to the ethnic dining experience.
Moyo forms part of the uShaka Marine World theme park which includes the largest aquarium in the southern hemisphere with penguins, dolphins, seals, 'dangerous creatures' such as snakes and a rides-and-slides water park.
The laid-back, African-themed eatery overlooks uShaka Beach and includes a mini-me pub version of the popular Moyo restaurant chain on a pier extending out into the ocean. Music is an important part of the Moyo offering and Ikabawo never fails to deliver.
The young dancers are also in demand at weddings and formal dinners, but it's their performances for international cruise ship visitors that showcase what African dance is all about.
'Talent is one thing but you need to work extremely hard at rehearsals if you're going to be really, really good,' says Sabelo Ngema, who created the dance group with his friend, Sergeant Malishe. Both come from performing arts backgrounds where each has garnered entertainment awards. The duo owns Ikabawa Entertainment, an eventing, recording and music production company.
Malishe grew up in Umlazi township outside Durban while Ngema was born on the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal in Zululand. Ngema is related to Mbongeni Ngema, a legendary South African musician, producer and playwright.
Ngema is upbeat about Durban and its entertainment prospects. With great weather all year round and friendly people, he describes the seaside city as the 'Promised Land'.
'Everyone should come to Durban – and, of course, to see Ikabawo.'
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How to get here
uShaka Marine World is at the southern end of the beachfront towards the harbour in King Shaka Avenue, off Mahatma Gandhi Road.
Around the area
Scuba diving courses are offered next door to Moyo and bicycles may be hired around the corner, or simply take a long stroll along Durban's beachfront promenade.
Tours to do
Moyo forms part of the uShaka Marine World complex where dolphin performances, seals, penguins and aquarium tours are offered. There is also a water theme park called Wet 'n Wild.
What will it cost
The entertainment is included in the cost of an African-inspired lunch or dinner.
Where to stay
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Anparasan, 17, lives with his mother and brother in the Kottapattu Refugee Camp for Sri Lankans in South East India. His once-wealthy parents were driven from Sri Lanka in 2006 by the conflict there.
Anparasan is a studious boy and was a top performer at his school, before being forced to quit his education due to poverty. First, Anparasan's father was jailed for illegally re-entering Sri Lanka, and then his brother was wed, meaning his income as a painter was lost to the family.
He took up decorating to support his family, but help from the Lebara Foundation has allowed a delighted Anparasan – and his brother – to rejoin their old school.


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JACKSONVILLE - The grandmother of the Jacksonville teenager gunned down after a dice game is trying to understand why her beloved grandson was killed.
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Sgt. Shawn Corsey said the teenager was shot in the courtyard at the Landon Imperial Apartments at 1913 Art Museum Drive just before 9:45 a.m. The boy was taken to an area hospital, where he died.
Jerline Sheffield said it was uncharacteristic of her grandson, Renard McKann, to experience conflict with others.
"It hurts so bad because he didn't bother people. He was a quiet boy. He stayed to himself," she said.
Sheffield said she found out about the shooting this morning when her daughter called her with the bad news. She rushed to the hospital.
"[The] doctor called us and they said they couldn't save him. They tried to work on him as much as they could but he didn't come back," she said.
Authorities said their investigation is ongoing.
"Once the dice game was over, the victim was in the courtyard when two black males approached them one of them had a gun and demanded money," Corsey said.
That's when one of the suspects shot McKann. Detectives don't know if they got any money before they shot him.
Sheffield said she thought her grandson was at the store.
"He wasn't a trouble maker. He'd be home sitting on the porch or stuff like that but not just roaming the street. He was a good boy," she said.
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CROSS Lane in Radcliffe remains closed after a pub's roof collapsed yesterday, trapping a 36-year-old man inside.
The road has been closed in both directions between Park Street and Butterworth Street since around 4.30pm yesterday after the man, who was carrying out building work at The George pub, had to be rescued by police.
Paramedics were called but the man is not believed to be seriously injured.
The pub is now cordoned off and experts are at the scene assessing whether to demolish it.
A police spokesman said: "The police attended and cordoned off the area for the safety of the public.
"The man had scans for his injuries but at this time they are not of major concern."
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Pronunciation: tur-bil-yên • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A vortex, as a whirlwind or whirlpool. 2. A skyrocket with a spiral or spinning flight path.
Notes: No, this word has nothing to do with tours or billions, although it may have reached its current spelling through folk etymology influenced by these two words. The earlier French spelling, tourbillon, supports this interpretation.
In Play: The rapid spinning motion implied by today's Good Word may move on an upward trajectory: "Derry Yare rose to fame on a tourbillion of hype, talent, and skimpy outfits that was faster and more brilliant than anyone expected." It may also move downwards: "Canby Allgood was sucked into a tourbillion of ever-increasing corruption from which he could not escape."
Word History: Today's Good Word came into English from Old French torbeillon, which goes back ultimately to Latin turbo, a borrowing from Greek turbe "noise, confusion, turmoil". Once turbo arrived in Latin, it quickly went into the making of the verb turbare "to confuse, create turmoil". It also produced turbidus "muddy, full of confusion", which English borrowed, via French, as turbid "muddy". Turbulent is another related word based on the borrowed Greek word that came to us from Latin via French. In Latin it meant "boisterous, stormy, tempestuous" and was based on turbula "a disorderly crowd".


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IT appears as though chairman Nick Higgs is sticking with Mark McGhee, despite increasing pressure from fans to make a change after another disappointing defeat.
None of us wants to continue the cycle of hiring and firing managers, but the club is in a precarious position in the relegation zone, second from bottom of League Two, and action is needed.
It was only thanks to Barnet not winning on Saturday that we are not propping up the entire league.
We are at a pivotal moment in our history, with the prospect of moving to a brand new, purpose-built all-seater stadium closer than ever before. There are fears that dropping to the Conference could jeopardise those plans, given the likely drop in revenue and support that would result in the ultimate fall from grace.
Higgs is resisting the temptation to pull the trigger but the team's lame performance against Dagenham and Redbridge on Saturday offered little hope that things would improve.
It also reinforced fans' views that McGhee is failing to motivate the team.
When the Daggers took the lead we never looked like having the creative spark or impetus to get back in the game and the solitary goal was all they needed to secure three points.
You would expect a reaction from the players after the debacle at Wycombe the previous week – attributes such as bite in the tackle, controlled aggression and a fierce desire to win. Instead they appeared to be going through the motions and putting in the minimum effort required.
McGhee seems to watch a different game to everyone else as he continually lauds the players' efforts and insists they played well. It was refreshing to see Broghammer on the left but playing Parkes in midfield was another bizarre selection from a manager who has a peculiar penchant for putting square pegs in round holes.
The manager has tinkered with the squad too often as he failed to recruit the players needed in the summer and we are now paying the price.
We can only hope that Higgs' desire to give McGhee more time proves to be right and a win at York on Saturday would help to restore fans' faith.
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The Rangers just announced that P.A. Parenteau (Mr. Shootout) and defenseman Anders Eriksson have been recalled from Hartford.
Hmmm. I know Callahan's hurt and Brian Boyle's dinged up, but I am wondering if Mr. Jokinen and/or Mr. Lisin, and/or one of the defensemen (Redden) might be taking a seat tomorrow in Toronto. And if Aaron Voros might be de-prucha'd.
See the quotes on Jokinen and Lisin in last night's post.
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American Presidents 17These brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group.
Which president in Group B can be added to Group A? Why?
Group A: John Tyler, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson
Group B: James Monroe, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford Hayes, Chester Arthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford
AnswerThe presidents in Group A each remarried after the death of his first wife (Tyler married Letitia Christian and Julia Gardiner, Harrison married Caroline Lavinia Scott and Mary Scott Lord Dimmick, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee and Edith Kermit Carow, Wilson married Ellen Louise Axson and Edith Bolling Galt). Therefore, Millard Fillmore, who married Abigail Powers and Caroline Carmichael McIntosh, can be added to Group A.
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February 10, 2014
Fantasy Experts Mock Draft
Recap and Analysis
On Thursday evening, we hosted our first mock draft with a 15-person group of industry folks going 23 rounds deep to fill out a standard roster of C, C, 1B, 2B, 3B, CI, MI, 5 OF, DH, and 9 P of any kind. Couch Managers hosted the event. I randomized the draft order just before game time and here's how it came out:
Brent Hershey [Baseball HQ]
Paul Sporer [Baseball Prospectus]
Jason Longfellow [Razzball]
Nick Raducanu [FantasyTrade411]
Ryan Carey [Mastersball]
Cory Schwartz [MLB]
David Gonos [Sports Illustrated]
D.J. Short [Rotoworld]
Alex Kantecki [Baseball Prospectus]
Jake Ciely [RotoExperts]
Tim Heaney [KFFL]
Derek Carty [DFSEdge]
Zach Steinhorn [MLB]
Nick Shlain [Rotowire]
I'm worried I'm using all of my good draft order luck in mock season!!! This is my second draft with a top-two pick and third straight with a top-four pick. I just know that once they count, I'll be saddled with a bunch of sixth and eighth slots. The ideal spots for me this year are top three or bottom two—I just want to stay out of the middle. I was able to get Paul Goldschmidt with the fourth spot in that one draft, which is exactly who I wanted, but he's moved up as the consensus no. 3.
The First Round
The top four was chalk and I'd be surprised if there was much change (outside of maybe the order of Trout/Cabrera or Goldy/Cutch as pairs). It gets really interesting at five and Carey wasted no time making a statement with Kershaw. The timing couldn't have been better as I had just spent the day on an email discussion with the Flags Fly Forever crew regarding Kershaw as a viable pick in the 5-7 range. My main point regarding the situation is that the opportunity cost to your offense is nowhere near as great as it was 5-10 years ago, so you can get a significant leg up on your pitching without severely damaging your offense.
The glob of offensive talent from the middle of the first round to, say, the fourth (maybe even fifth) round just isn't that disparate. Meanwhile, Kershaw—even accounting for the fact that he's unlikely to throw down another 1.83 ERA—is still a reasonable amount better than his peers and perhaps more importantly, he's also markedly more stable. Betting on pitching is scary, I understand that, but we're talking about a guy with five straight seasons of sub-3.00 ERAs. First round picks are suspect as a whole with their success rate. Baseball HQ showed in the fantasy forecaster that just 36 percent of first round picks have delivered top-15 value that season since 2004. Starting pitchers are 3-for-3 in the last three seasons with Roy Halladay, Justin Verlander, and Kershaw.
Moving on, the rest of the first round contains some names you'll see in every first round (Cano, Ramirez, and Davis), but also ones that are part of that amalgam of talent I was talking about so they are just as likely to be mid-second rounders (Fielder and Kipnis) depending on the preferences of your leaguemates. If there is one thing I would have changed, it's that I would've taken Edwin Encarnacion ahead of both Davis and Fielder at first base. Expanding it out to all positions, I would've taken him ahead of Jones, Kipnis, and Ellsbury, too.
Draft Trends
The last one to join the party was Schwartz when he took Jordan Zimmermann at 7.96 (first number is the round, second number is the overall pick). Zimmermann was actually as his second pitcher, as he took Trevor Rosenthal the round before. Compare his staff to Carey, who selected the first pitcher with the fifth-overall pick.
Whose do you like better?
Next I noticed that my cohorts were catcher crazy! Or maybe I was just catcher lazy. I believe the position is deep, so I didn't mind waiting a bit, but all of a sudden nine were gone after seven rounds. Five more—including two of my favorites, Wilson Ramos and Yan Gomes—would go before I finally got in on the action and took Josmil Pinto, a guy who could start the season in Triple-A, something I was unaware of when I took him. At least I don't do this for a living.
Schwartz and his longtime podcast partner Mike Siano have long advocated the power-closer route, a strategy that encourages getting in early on the position and even breaking the seal if necessary. With Schwartz and MLB colleague Steinhorn in the draft, it was all but guaranteed that one of them would get Craig Kimbrel. Steinhorn made the move at 6.78 and the floodgates opened up. I was prepared to jump in that same round with Rosenthal or Greg Holland, but the latter went right after Schwartz took Rosenthal. With my two favorites off the board, I decided to wait.
Eleven closers would fly off the board in a 50-pick span in the sixth through ninth rounds, plus another eight in just the 10th and 11th rounds alone. After seeing Glen Perkins sail by in the eighth, I knew I could wait a while until I finally landed Addison Reed at 11.152. True to form, Schwartz had two of those first 10, landing David Robertson at 9.126.
Outfield is not deep. At all. I feel like it's mischaracterized as such yearly because those doing the ranking underestimate the effect that every team needing five will have on the pool. I can definitely see it evolving into a steady position and possibly even a deep one, but as it stands right now, it's thin on bankable talent. After the top 30-35, there are a lot of question marks. Here are a few among the next 20 OF selected:
These are just the second- and third-outfielder types.
Best/Worst Picks by Team
This draft doesn't even count, it's a mock so I should probably wrap this up, but I'll close with a look at my team by itself:
Now, that is a squad.
Paul Sporer is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @sporer
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Yep - totally missed the Rodney signing, so Farqhuar was a blown pick. It was a direct result of getting cute and pushing Khris Davis up a round and trying to sneak Feliz around. Should have went Feliz when I had opportunity.
Feb 10, 2014 05:56 AM
Totally agree with you on Alex Cobb. Dude should be way higher. Him and Gerrit Cole.
Feb 10, 2014 06:52 AM
Cory Schwartz
Paul, thanks again for organizing, and for recapping. I don't mind critiques but I think you are off base on Zimmermann vs. Latos. They are about as close comps as you can find; here are their last three year averages:
Feb 10, 2014 07:00 AM
Rosy and D-Rob are two of my favorite closers. I find them entirely proven, even with their small samples of doing it. I have zero worries about either.
Feb 10, 2014 07:06 AM
so, if you don't see tommy hunter closing in Baltimore, who do you see closing there? Darren o'day? matusz? jemile weeks?
Feb 10, 2014 10:10 AM
Nick Shlain
Re: Gattis, 30 homers at catcher not enough upside for a 7th round pick?
Feb 10, 2014 12:06 PM
In the Schwartz vs Carey pitchers table, someone has rounded the 'decimals' of overall draft position
Feb 10, 2014 14:30 PM
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Jason Kipnis in the first round? Hahahahahahah. What? These are those so called fantasy experts that wait until the 4th round to take their first pitcher unless it's Kershaw. HanRam in the first round? My advice is to do your own drafting research. You'll be fine.
Feb 10, 2014 14:38 PM
Really helpful comment.
Feb 10, 2014 16:13 PM
Ryan- I appreciate the response. I like Zimmerman's next 2 picks of Darvish and Scherzer. J. Upton would have been better in the first round. Then get Kinsler in the 4th instead of Mauer. Thats another major issue. Mauer in the 4th.
Feb 10, 2014 18:40 PM
No prob - and thanks for responding back - and taking my first comment in stride. Now see - now we can discuss , and have some fun with it. You say Justin Upton in the first, which believe me, to many is more funny than Kipnis. And that is the point, your picks may be my pans and vice versa. For me, Upton is a third rounder at best, albeit with 1st round upside.
Feb 10, 2014 18:58 PM
Ryan- No problem. I like debating fantasy baseball. Remember J. Upton's age. He's 27 and that's the magic age. He also has the pedigree of a real life first rounder. 35 to 40 home runs. 100 runs. 20 SBs. 310 average. Thats his line for 2014 according to me. 1st round return. Also, when was the last time he has been hurt? 2nd year with the new team. He should never get past the second round in even a 12 team mixed. I'm not a Braves fan or necessarily an Upton fan but this is the year for him.
Feb 11, 2014 08:50 AM
Mauer playing 1B full time - one of best pure hottees we have seen come up in last 10 years ...gets his chance to Hit. Kipnis would have to earn his top round pick status by running alot ...again. personally I think we have seen his peak SB's.
Feb 10, 2014 19:37 PM
From Jeff, the guy who took Kip -
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The William Humphreys Art Gallery was the first local gallery to treat cinema as an extension of the visual arts.
Kimberley is world famous for its diamonds, but they're not its only treasures. This Northern Cape city is also home to one of South Africa's most important art museums: the William Humphreys Art Gallery.
Over the years, the gallery's collection has evolved from a small, mostly international body of work to one that includes some of South Africa's best-known and historically significant art.
The gallery was established when William Humphreys, a prominent Kimberley resident, donated a portion of his collection of art, furniture and objects d'art to the people of Kimberley. Known as the Humphreys Bequest, this initial collection was made up of a selection of European and British paintings, furniture and copies of classical sculptures.
The Humphreys Collection, acquired by De Beers from William Humphreys' family after his death, and on indefinite loan to the gallery, augmented this original bequest.
With Humphreys Collection at its core, this Kimberley art gallery's focus then began to shift towards South African art. Its next important addition came from Dr Max Greenberg. His bequest included a selection of South African art from his personal collection.
Other highlights at the William Humphreys Art Gallery include the Timlin Collection, also on loan from De Beers, as well as a few smaller loan collections of South African art.
Of particular interest are works by Stern, Van Wouws, Pierneef and Boonzaier. These works document important movements in South African art and tell a unique story about our country's journey over the last 100 years.
The William Humphreys Art Gallery is also home to 247 original drawings and engravings by French, Dutch, Flemish, English and Italian masters, as well as the Meyer Collection of European and Oriental porcelain.
The gallery's current collections policy prioritises South African art and includes traditional artefacts from ethnographic collections. It hosts a dynamic exhibtion programme that profiles the work of contemporary South African artists.
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Who to contact
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How to get here
The William Humphreys Art Gallery is situated in the heart of Kimberley, in the Civic Centre on Cullinan Crescent. There are regular flights to the city from Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
Best time to visit
Monday to Friday from 8am to 4.45pm; Saturday from 10am to 4.45pm; Sundays and public holidays from 9am to noon. The gallery is closed on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Around the area
Explore the gallery's scenic garden, visit the Kimberley Mine Museum, adjacent to the famous Big Hole, or spend time exploring Kimberley's historic city centre.
Tours to do
The gallery offers guided tours.
What will it cost
R5 for adults, R2 for children
What to eat
The adjoining Palette Tea Room is open daily and provides breakfasts, lunches and afternoon tea.
What's happening
Look out for the new film archive and study centre at the gallery, dedicated to African cinema and boasting a collection of over 300 African films.
Best buys
The gallery sells some local contemporary art; visit their website for an online gallery of what's on offer.