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Two Cops, a ThiefLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
Three people met at a corner of a street. They all are dressed like cops, so they don't know who's the thief (bad guy). The cops will tell the truth (because they are good), and the thief will tell the truth too to make himself appear like a good cop. They are A, B and C. And they say this:
A:"C's not the thief."
B:"One of you both is the thief!"
C:"I'm not the thief."
Using this information, find out who the thief is.
HintAll statements are TRUE. So read each other, and figure out who's the thief. Easy.
AnswerA's the thief. He says C's not the thief, and B says one of the other two is, which means he must not be. So the only one left is A.
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Read This: A Curable Romantic ExcerptSeptember 7, 2010 • 10 Comments • category: Excerpts, News and Publicity, Promotions
Happy Skibell Week! Comment on our Facebook page (or here if you don't have a Facebook account) to be entered in a drawing to win a copy of Joseph Skibell's new novel, A Curable Romantic, as well as the new paperback edition of his novel A Blessing on the Moon. Many will enter, two will win! We'll announce the winners on Friday, September 10.
"I fell in love with Emma Eckstein the moment I saw her from the fourth gallery of the Carl Theater, and this was also the night I met Sigmund Freud."
A Curable Romantic, the latest from Joseph Skibell–author of A Blessing on the Moon–publishes today, September 7th.
O: The Oprah Magazine is featuring A Curable Romantic as a September 2010 book club pick (you can check out the reading guide here) and Parade magazine has recently selected it as a ParadePick. A Curable Romantic has also received THREE starred pre-pub reviews. See below for the rave reviews and stay tuned for more!
"An irresistible romp about a lovelorn 19th-Century doctor who falls in with Sigmund Freud – and some dangerously attractive women."—O Magazine
"A young man falls in love, befriends Sigmund Freud, and learns that the object of his desire may be possessed by the ghost of his ex-wife–all in the opening chapters of Joseph Skibell's wonderfully surreal new novel. The story of passion, faith, and fate that follows is both funny and thoughtful."—Parade.
"Skibell's sweeping, imaginative epic chronicles the tumultuous life of an endearing protagonist, Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn, which includes a unique relationship with Sigmund Freud, the universal language movement, and WWII … [Skibell] crafts a vivid, artfully clever tale grounded in turn-of-the century Europe."—Booklist, starred review
"This is a fascinating, ambitious, and very successful novel about Jewish folklore, the quest for spiritual truth, and the darkest days of the 20th century. As he did in A Blessing on the Moon, Skibell blends gritty realism with elements of fantasy and magical realism….It is to Skibell's credit that this complex plot comes off as believable, engaging, and often inspiring." —Library Journal, starred review
"Fat, cheeky, and sweeping … A grand portrait of Eastern Europe … [with] a magnetic collection of personalities."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Excerpt from A Curable Romantic
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11:05 am
Pauline says...
OOOH! I want! 😀
11:55 am
Neil Blonstein says...
I'm enjoying the book, lookin g forward to the areas relating Esperanto, Freud and the Warsaw ghetto. Love is good too!
6:55 pm
Erica says...
Oh goodness, this looks *so* charming. Would love to read it.
8:46 pm
Cindy Winston says...
Happy Zappy Skibell Week! What a great idea! I'm in the middle of Curable Romantic, and am loving it. A must read! Joseph Skibell has a talent that needs to be shared! The writing is amazing. Will Joseph be in my city for a book tour–I would love to meet him! (Looking forward to Book #4)
4:23 pm
flying099 says...
I'd love to win!!
4:25 pm
Debra P says...
"A Curable Romantic" looks so surreal and fascinating to me. I would be very interested in reading this as well as Blessing on the Moon. I love Joseph Skibell's work. He is amazingly talented and I'd be thrilled with something so wonderful to read!
4:42 pm
Susan K says...
Please, please – pick me!
9:52 pm
John Poindexter says...
This sounds interesting and I would enjoy reading a copy. Please enter me in your contest.
Thanks for running the contest.
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Baby Got Books » Friday Links says...
[…] an excerpt of Joseph Skibell's A Curable Romantic. The book cover has a blurb from Dara Horn and Skibell is a professor at Emory. How can we pass […]
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Help!Help! I am in a retirement community for old ladies. I'd die without the Iliad,Sophicles, etc, but an update would be such fun.


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Wing Girl Tip – "Is She Into You?"
Women send out signals all the time, letting guys know if she's interested in you or not.
Unfortunately, these signals are often not so clear. (If only there were a blinking red or green light to guide the way ... Trust me guys women wish there was a red or green light indicating what you thoughts were.)
A rundown of some signs, signals and body language to look for when trying to meet women after the jump.


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Christy & Doug
September 17
Brewster, Massachusetts
Which three details from your wedding were your favorites?
- After our rehearsal dinner, we invited everyone to a casual bonfire on the beach. It was a great night because we were able to relax and catch up with people we haven't seen in years!
- Our ceremony was held on the front lawn under a large oak tree that was beautiful but the best detail was that I was able to get ready in a room overlooking the front lawn. We were able to see everyone arriving at the wedding and the guys walking in while we waited.
- We spent 6 months making and bottling homemade limoncello to give as favors and everyone loved them!
If you could offer one piece of advice for other couples planning their wedding, what would it be?
Christy: Don't rush the planning because everything will fall into place and don't stress the small things on your wedding day because no one will notice they were missing at the end of the night.
Doug: Enjoy the planning because the actual day goes by so fast and looking back I enjoyed it even more because I stayed involved in the planning.
Give us the one moment in your wedding day you can't stop thinking about.
We decided not to see each other before the ceremony which made seeing each other for the first time during our ceremony such a special moment. We will both remember that moment forever!


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LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (AP) -- Police stormed into a motel room in this seaside town Tuesday evening and captured a Washington state man suspected of killing his grandparents, ending a multistate search and a tense daylong standoff at the motel.
"Everyone's safe. No one's hurt," said Lincoln City Police Chief Keith Kilian.
Police had spent much of the day trying to persuade Michael Boysen to surrender. After breaching the motel room door, they stormed in and captured him.
Kilian said they found Boysen lying on the floor on his back, and that he had sustained a self-inflicted cut. He was taken away in an ambulance.
Boysen was breathing, but it was unclear whether he was conscious and if his injury was considered serious, Kilian said.
The bodies of Boysen's grandparents were found Saturday in their suburban Seattle home, a day after Boysen was released from prison and was greeted with a welcome home party.
During Tuesday's siege in this tourist town, police pointed rifles at the motel, fired blasts from a water cannon and used a bullhorn to try to persuade Boysen to give up.
Police used a robot equipped with a video camera and a microphone to communicate with the suspect. The robot was sent onto a balcony outside the motel room. Police breached the door and were able to communicate with Boysen via the robot.
When Boysen didn't come out on his own, police went in after him.
"We tried to negotiate," Kilian said. "We saw an opening that didn't compromise the safety of our officers."
Boysen checked into the motel Monday night under his own name, but the name wasn't recognized until Tuesday morning when a desk clerk saw a television story about the case and called the Lincoln City police, Kilian said.
Boysen, 26, made threats against members of his family and law enforcement while behind bars, Corrections Department spokesman Chad Lewis said Tuesday. But authorities didn't learn of the threats until after the bodies of the grandparents were found and authorities had started looking for Boysen.
"Sources went to our staff at the Monroe Correctional Center and told us he had been threatening to do all this," Lewis said.
The information was passed on to King County deputies, and that's why King County Sheriff John Urquhart called Boysen extremely dangerous at a Monday news conference.
Boysen just finished serving nine months in prison on a burglary conviction, Lewis said. He had no violent infractions in prison -- "nothing extraordinary," Lewis said.
He served a previous sentence between 2006 and February 2011 for four robbery convictions. Those convictions were related to an addiction to narcotic painkillers, Lewis said.
Boysen's grandparents picked him up from prison in Monroe on Friday, drove him to meet his probation officer and to get an identification card from the Department of Licensing. They held a welcome home party for him Friday night.
The bodies were discovered by Boysen's mother Saturday evening. She had been called by a family member who became concerned that the couple hadn't answered their door.
Authorities haven't said how they died. Investigators determined that Boysen had been searching the Internet for gun shows.
The motive for the killings remains unknown, King County sheriff's Sgt. Cindi West said.
"Between the family and detectives we have no idea," she said. "It's just bizarre. The family loved and supported him the whole time he was in prison."
On Tuesday, the King County medical examiner's office identified the couple as Robert R. Taylor, 82, and Norma J. Taylor, 80. The couple died Saturday. The cause and manner of their deaths remains under investigation, the medical examiner said.
Associated Press writers Jeff Barnard in Grants Pass, Ore., and Doug Esser in Seattle contributed to this report.


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LEIGH Athletic maintained their steady progess with a 5-5 draw at mid-table Hollinwood.
But they were left rueing a missed opportunity after leading 3-1 when their opponents had a man sent off.
Leigh, third bottom of Division One, have steadied the ship in recent weeks with four draws followed by a single-goal defeat to the top of the league last week.
They looked on course to getting that elusive victory when they took an early 2-0 lead and then when the home side went down to 10 men on the hour mark.
But the sending off seemed to give Hollinwood a kick start and they rattled in four goals without reply to take a 5-3 lead.
But Athletic are a resilient outfit at present and hit back with goals from Tom Scott and Jack Kenny to earn a point.
Manager Colin Pickering said: "Our results are improving, which is encouraging.
"But we should have won it from being 3-1 up and them having a man sent off.
"Having said that we showed character to come back from 5-3 down to get a draw. Now we need to go one better and get a win on the board."
Midfielders Scott and Karl Shepherd put Athletic 2-0 ahead early on, and after Hollinwood pulled a goal back before half-time, Kenny restored the two-goal lead.


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|From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 4 12:10:16 EDT 2009
Hi Eddie, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Eddie Sullivan<eddieSull at hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > I've lately been having all kinds of frustrations making things work with > the XML library. The biggest hurdle seems to be keeping track of all the > types. We have "document" and "element" and "content" and "prolog" and > "entity" and "pcdata" and so on and so forth. Every function seems to accept > a different type. The contracts in the XML library are very strict and specific to ensure that only correct XML (modulo the cdata escape valve) is generated. Each function accepts a different type because that is what they must accept. Perhaps what you'd like is some stratum of write/read-xml and xml->xexpr variants that deal with only the subtypes of document and element. These are implemented in the collect and could conceivably be exposed. Is that what you mean? > I think it would be helpful if there were some kind of abstract super-type > for at least some of these things. Something similar to what the "content/c" > contract checks for would be ideal, so that all those items could be treated > the same until we wanted to differentiate them. Except I would think that > "pcdata" and the like would be subtypes of "element." It sounds like you are saying that you'd like dispatching inside of the XML collect rather than selection outside of the XML collect. This is an imaginable supplement and I would consider including it in the collect, but I don't think the core library should change in that error-prone direction. With this approach, when you give the wrong type it is an error, in that regime you would get different behavior because a different dispatch would be invoked. > One other thing that bites me every time is that the "content" field of the > "element" structure is actually specified by the contract (listof > content/c). Either the name is wrong or the contract is. Unfortunately 'content' can be plural or singular in English. The element has content, that content is made up of a list of content item. A content item's contract is content/c and the element contains a number of these. Perhaps if it were easy to change from content to contents and not break too much code, I'd consider a change. > I don't know if self-referential contracts are possible, but it would be > nice if content/c was really something like (or/c > (current-definition-of-content/c) (listof content/c)). That's only one > possible solution, though. That would be incorrect in other cases, such as write-xml/content and xexpr->xml. > The reason I don't like getting this (listof content/c) is that there is not > much useful I can do with it. Since it doesn't satisfy content/c, I can't > pass it to xml->xexpr or write-xml/content. Since it's not a document, I > can't pass it to write-xml. I suppose I could do (apply string-append (map > write-xml thing)), but that seems more involved than it has to be. If I > could treat (listof content/c) the same as content/c that would go a long > way towards making things easier. You could write: (define (write-xml/contents cs) (for-each write-xml/content cs)) and use the same with-output-to-string that you would normally. This is the sort of thing that a patch might be reasonable. > A form like "xml-match" would be very helpful, too, to avoid having to delve > into the internals of the different xml structures. What would this do? Would it be an XQuery? > I think PLT Scheme's XML capabilities are very close to being the best thing > out there, so I hope you take these as constructive suggestions. > Thanks! > -Eddie Sullivan Thank _you_. Jay -- Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
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Topping off ceremony
Posted on September 1, 2010
Students, faculty, staff members, alumnae/i and friends signed their names to the final steel beam before it was hoisted up into the building's superstructure. The beam was painted white and the signatures were made with blue markers, mirroring the college's school colors.
Learn more about the Mars Center for Science and Technology.


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Mark W Hochstrasser, PhD
Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Interests
Enzymes; Molecular Biology; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Mass Spectrometry; Transcription Factors; Microscopy, Immunoelectron; Gene Deletion; Ubiquitin; Cell Growth Processes; Mutant Chimeric Proteins
Research Organizations
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry: Hochstrasser Lab
Yale Cancer Center: Signal Transduction
Research Summary
We wish to understand at a molecular level how specific eukaryotic proteins are selected for rapid degradation even while most proteins are spared. Such turnover occurs primarily through the ubiquitin-proteasome system and is central to a variety of cell regulatory mechanisms, many of medical relevance. The proteasome is a molecular machine that fragments proteins into short peptides. More generally, we study the reversible enzymatic coupling of proteins to other proteins within cells. The prototypical example of such a protein modifier is ubiquitin, but at least a dozen such systems exist. While ubiquitin generally is used to mark its targets for destruction, the consequences of protein ligation to the various "ubiquitin-like proteins" are less understood. One such protein that we study, SUMO, is attached to many proteins and is crucial for cell-cycle progression. Much of our work is conducted in baker's yeast, a model organism ideal for genetic and biochemical analysis.
Speciailzed Terms: Adenosinetriphosphatase; Cell Growth Regulation; Chemical Cleavage; Chemical Conjugate; Chimeric Protein; Enzyme Activity; Enzyme Complex; Enzyme Mechanism; Enzyme Structure; Fungal Genetics; Gene Deletion Mutation; Immunoelectron Microscopy; Isozyme; Mass Spectrometry; Mutant; Proteasome; Protein Degradation; Protein Purification; Proteinase; Protooncogene; Saccharomyces Cerevisiae; Transcription Factor; Ubiquitin
Extensive Research Description
Our lab has as its general focus one of the fundamental regulatory systems of eukaryotic cells – the ubiquitin system. Ubiquitin and an array of related molecules (ubiquitin-like proteins or Ubls) such as SUMO are small, highly conserved proteins that are covalently attached to other intracellular proteins, resulting in various functional alterations of these targets. The ubiquitin system has only recently come under close scrutiny, and an extraordinary array of cell regulatory functions is gradually being uncovered. Moreover, many links are now being found between defects in this pathway and human disease, including many cancers, developmental abnormalities, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and certain severe forms of mental retardation.
The research in our laboratory can be grouped into two broad and overlapping areas. First, we wish to understand, at a mechanistic and molecular level, how specific proteins are rapidly degraded within eukaryotic cells while most proteins are spared. Such turnover is central to a great variety of regulatory mechanisms, including many of medical relevance. Much of this regulated degradation occurs via the highly conserved ubiquitin-proteasome system. We are currently studying a transmembrane ubiquitin ligase that resides in the nuclear envelope and endoplasmic reticulum. This ligase attaches ubiquitin to both nuclear regulatory proteins and to misfolded membrane proteins degraded at the ER (ER-associated degradation or ERAD). The proteasome is a large, cylindrical machine that fragments proteins into short peptides. Our primary current interest with the proteasome is its mechanism of assembly.
In our second major area of research, we are analyzing the function and dynamics of protein modification by other Ubls. The prototypical example of a protein that is covalently attached to other proteins is ubiquitin, but in recent years, evidence for at least a dozen such systems has come to light. While ubiquitin generally is used to mark its targets for destruction, the consequences of protein ligation to the various Ubls are poorly understood. The Ubl called SUMO is attached to many proteins in vivo and is crucial for cell-cycle progression. We discovered the first enzymes that can remove SUMO from other proteins, causing this protein modification to be highly dynamic. We are trying to understand the functional consequences of SUMO-protein modification, particularly in cell cycle checkpoints, and to determine the basis of specificity for the SUMO-cleaving proteases. Much of our work is conducted in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an organism that permits both facile genetic manipulation and detailed biochemical analysis.
Selected Publications
A multimeric assembly factor controls formation of alternative 20S proteasomes.
Kusmierczyk, A., Kunjappu, M. J., Funakoshi, M. and Hochstrasser, M. A multimeric assembly factor controls formation of alternative 20S proteasomes. Nature Struct. Mol. Biol. 15, 237-244 (2008)
Autoregulation of an E2 enzyme by ubiquitin-chain assembly on its catalytic residue.
Ravid, T. and Hochstrasser, M. (2007). Autoregulation of an E2 enzyme by ubiquitin-chain assembly on its catalytic residue. Nat. Cell Biol. 9:422-427.
Spatially regulated ubiquitin ligation by an ER/nuclear membrane ligase.
Deng, M. and Hochstrasser, M. (2006). Spatially regulated ubiquitin ligation by an ER/nuclear membrane ligase. Nature 443:827-831.
A nuclear envelope protein linking nuclear pore basket assembly, SUMO protease regulation, and mRNA surveillance.
Lewis, A., Felberbaum, R. and Hochstrasser, M. A nuclear envelope protein linking nuclear pore basket assembly, SUMO protease regulation, and mRNA surveillance. J. Cell Biol. 178, 813-827 (2007)
b-Subunit appendages promote 20S proteasome assembly by overcoming an Ump1-dependent checkpoint.
Li, X., Kusmierczyk, A., Wong, P., Emili, A. and Hochstrasser, M. b-Subunit appendages promote 20S proteasome assembly by overcoming an Ump1-dependent checkpoint. EMBO J. 26, 2339-2349 (2007)


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Victims of burglaries in Wharfedale and Aireborough are being asked to contact police to see if any of their goods have been found.
The appeal comes after police officers in Bradford uncovered a massive haul of stolen property, worth about £50,000, at an address in Low Moor, Bradford.
One man was arrested and has since been released on bail, pending further enquiries, in connection with the find.
Some of the items, which include bicycles, power tools, ladders, golf equipment and generators, have already been returned to owners in the Bradford district.
But West Yorkshire Police thinks some of the items were taken from further afield, and would like to hear from anyone who thinks their property might be among them.
PC Lisa Common, of the Tong and Wyke Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: "We believe some of these items may have been taken in burglaries committed out of the area, possibly even outside of West Yorkshire.
"I would ask anyone who has been the victim of a burglary in the last 12 months in the Leeds or North Yorkshire area, to contact us with as much information they have about items they have had stolen, as well as any crime numbers they have been given.
"The more information you can provide, the better the chance we will be able to identify it."
Other goods among those recovered incuded an angle grinder, hedge trimmmer, seven strimmers, an air conditioning unit and a cement mixer.
Contact the NPT by calling 101 to find out more.


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Note: All smartphones must include their battery.
Please also include (if available) any original charger cables, a/c adapters, instruction manuals, packaging, etc.
Device is fully functional, looks brand new and has NO signs of wear (cracks, scratches, scuffs, marks, etc.).
Device is fully functional with slight wear such as faint scratches or scuffs (no cracks).
Device is fully functional with moderate wear such as deep scratches or scuffs (no cracks).
Device is fully functional with heavy wear including small cracks that do not interfere with functionality.
Device is complete but has functional or physical problems that prevent it from working properly
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All-American Cheeseburger by Neighbor Food
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- Neighbor Food's All-American bacon cheeseburger is the perfect recipe for Memorial Day.
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Children who died early deaths
Family records say that their first two infants were still born. One account says that one
died of pneumonia at age 9 and was buried at Itta Bena, Miss. This is why both Newton and Jessie Cole were buried there. However the marker for the infant was lost.
J.D. Cole is listed as the oldest child in 1930 Census. He was always called "JD". In his obituary, his name was revealed to be John David Cole. JD was mentally challenged and lived most of his life at Whitfield Instutition in Ellisville, Miss. He never married nor had children.
They had twins: Edward Gray and Edna May. Edward Gray died at 22 months of age. Edna May married Homer Proctor and lived in Ethel, Miss.
Note: The 1930 Census also lists a 9-year old child as "Jessie P." which is the name of their mother. Howvever this has to be an error in the Census as their youngest daughter was Marion Josephine who was born in 1920. See Marion Brown's link.


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
WhiteboardSelling and PAPERSHOW are partnering for a series of Webinars this fall, which will include such topics as "Learning How to Whiteboard Sell." PAPERSHOW is an interactive paper and Bluetooth pen system used for digital communication and presentation applications. When a PAPERSHOW presentation or whiteboard session is finished, it can be saved and e-mailed directly to all participants in a meeting. WhiteboardSelling assists customers in developing whiteboard storyboards, in addition to roleplay-based training and certification.


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It was only a few nights ago that many of us heard during the Tarawih prayers of this holy month, that statement of Allah (Most High) when He says, "O you who believe, don't cancel out your charitable acts with reminders and hurtful words." (2:264).
This verse has SO many different applications to Muslims today which we would all do well to reflect over, especially at the personal level when we do favours for our friends and then belittle them by continuously reminding them of our favours to them.
But the more immediate thought that came to mind when I heard these verses were reflecting on those Muslims responding to the horrible Batman cinema murders in Denver last Friday.
Subhanallah. We have seen families, a community and a nation in mourning. So what should we do?
Condemn this inhuman psychopath. Express our sincere condolences with those suffering.
What *did* we do?
Condemned this inhuman psychopath, gave our condolences and then added a cherry on top for bad measure: "...BUT look at your hypocrisy of not calling the killer a terrorist because IF this had been a Muslim guy then blah blah blah."
"...BUT can you now see the difference between how you treat white criminals and black criminals?!"
"...BUT that's why we tell you Cinemas are places of evil and sin blah blah blah."
"But" this and "If" that - the killer sting at the end of the sentence, the awaited "but" to show your personal agenda as opposed to sincere condolence, indeed the harming of the one you're addressing after you were charitable and kind to them.
Do you think the suffering want to hear about your politics right now? .
Do you think expressing grief must come with your terms and conditions, such as your identity crisis, your unfortunate skill of showing who Allah talks about in the above verse perfectly with your reminders of past injustices and hurtful words?
There is a time for this, and a time for that.
It's amazing that during this month of Ramadhan - truly the month of empathy - when we reflect deeply on our own spiritual state by removing physical barriers as well as reflecting on the states of those less fortunate than us, we would do well to consider even the feelings who might not be hungry or poor but just...human.
When you give charity to someone, don't follow it by reminding the guy every time you see him miskeen. And when you're grieving with someone, then just grieve.
Show at least some basic humanity. And shut up.
Abu Eesa Niamatullah writes on behalf of 1st Ethical Charitable Trust who empower Muslims to benefit society through faith based campaigns, thereby increasing social cohesion. For more information, please visit www.1stethical.com


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Google's Larry Page Talks Smack About Facebook, Apple
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In short, he said their products could be better
It's not uncommon for rivals to bash one another, so Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page took a couple of
jabs at Facebook and Apple
in a recent interview.
In an interview with
, Page discussed how he wants Google to come up with some "moon shots," or far-out ideas such as the company's self-driving vehicles that recently achieved 30,000 accident-free miles.
However, Page also took the opportunity to throw a few insults at rivals Facebook and Apple. Google's social network, Google+, has been working to gain the amount of users that Facebook has while Google's Android operating system
competes with Apple's iOS
While Page recognizes that Facebook is a heavyweight in the social arena, he said, "They're also doing a really bad job on their products … we're actually doing something different [from Facebook]. I think it's outrageous to say that there's only space for one company in these areas."
Page may be a little sore that Google, which launched in 2011, hasn't quite lived up to the hype of it potentially being a Facebook rival. There are currently 500 million registered users on Google+ and only about 125 million are active monthly (compared to Facebook's one billion monthly active users as of October 2012).
Rather than become a Facebook rival, though, it looks more like Google+ has become a product incorporated into Google's search.
In November of last year, Google's Vice President of Product Bradley Horowitz spoke with
Business Insider
about Google+, also
taking a jab at Facebook
. Specifically, he targeted the social network's use of advertisements, where they're forced into people's news feeds. He even went as far as comparing Facebook ads to a guy with a sandwich board popping in between a father and his daughter during an important conversation.
"We don't have to make next week's payroll by jamming ads at users," said Horowitz.
In the recent
interview, Page also had something to say about Apple's product practices. While Apple is another huge player in the mobile space, Page thinks its products are limited.
"You know, we always have these debates: we have all this money, we have all these people, why aren't we doing more stuff?" said Page. "You may say that Apple only does a very, very small number of things, and that's working pretty well for them. But I find that unsatisfying."
Earlier this week, it was reported that Google's Nexus 7 tablet market share was greater in Japan than Apple's iPad. Market research firm BCN conducted a survey in Japan last December, and out of 2,400 consumer electronics stores in Japan, the iPad had 40.1 percent of the market while
Google's Nexus 7
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Here's some proof I have been making music a long time. I'm the one in black of course next to Peter Lopez and Jay Serken. I don't know that exact year but it's somewhere in the late 80s. The photo was taken at Suny Purchase in one of the music building's practice rooms. Imagine sequencing on an IBM PC? You don't know how good you have it these days. The Roland Juno-106 in the photo was later stolen. This photo is also proof that extreme hair styles dont make you go bald (I still have a full head of hair). Before you ask… no I never smiled back then.
"Suny Purchase offers a unique education that combines programs in the liberal arts with conservatory programs in the arts in ways that emphasize inquiry, mastery of skills, and creativity. It is dedicated to creating opportunities for transformative learning and training in a community where disciplines connect, intersect, and enhance one another. Purchase College is included in the Princeton Review's Best 371 Colleges (2010)" – Wikipedia
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Have you tied plugging in both the TV and your monitor to see if it is being detected at all by the new card? If so can you force a suitable resolution? Rinse and repeat for each DVI port.
how are you guys ... after trying so many "not working" solutions for my trouble, i come to you as a last hope... i downloaded "The settlers 7 paths to kingdom" after so long waiting time...and once i try to install it gives me that damn error saying "runtime error abnormal program termination" and it refuse to start....please give me a solution
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HDMI->VGA adaptors rely on an analog signal being present of course - even if the plugs/cables are wired for analog (the 4 pings around the long single pin to the side of the plug) (and if it worked with another card they clearly are) the card may not be pushing analog for some reason.
Have you dug around in Catalyst to see if the card has an enable/disable Analog option?
The other possible issue is that your card attempts to 'detect' the monitor settings through the cable - if the adaptor/cable is somehow interfering with that, the card could be choosing stupid settings which don't work with the monitor. Have you tried booting into safe mode (which forces standard Windows drivers with VGA output) and seeing if that works?? In there you could then setup the monitor settings/driver properly perhaps - and then reboot and 'see stuff'??
It's weird for a relatively new monitor not to have DVI - the old clunker I'm staring at, replete with it's backlight stress lines, has DVI and it's 5-years-old next month!!
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OK - maybe a final update. I think I'm not too bothered about getting the DVI to work. I think it's too much hassle - provided the HDMI does work, then I don't believe there's any reason to worry too much. I've no intention of dual-screening etc. I did consider exploring it all more fully, but after a few cursory checks, I ordered a HDMI --> my monitor converter cheap in the sales - £15 instead of £50 - and bingo. It converts perfectly as far as I can detect, I don't believe there's latency of any noticeable form.. so in essence, it's a sufficient workaround for me. I'm just relieved that I was right about not being entirely incompetent. I knew I'd done everything right, but was doubting myself at one point because I just couldn't get to the bottom of it.
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Glad you got it working - it's between you and the guy on another forum who's PC shutdown and wouldn't restart when he plugged-in a USB stick that has had me scratching my head the most for quite some time ;)
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Get an overview of this hotel3-star guestrooms with patios and fireplaces
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Situated in the mountains, this bed & breakfast is within 1 mi (2 km) of Harwood Museum of Art, Blumenschein Home and Museum, and Navajo Gallery. Taos Plaza Theater and Arts Center and La Hacienda del los Martinez are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Property Features
This smoke-free bed & breakfast features coffee/tea in a common area, conference rooms, and concierge services. Free continental breakfast and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include multilingual staff and a picnic area.
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All 9 rooms boast fireplaces and offer patios and sofa beds. Other amenities available to guests include sitting areas, cable TV, and refrigerators.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. This Taos bed & breakfast also offers multilingual staff, ski storage, and a picnic area. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Taos Country Inn is a smoke-free property.
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 9
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free breakfast
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Picnic area
- Free self parking
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- Fireplace
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- Separate sitting area
- Access via exterior corridors
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
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- In-room massage available
- Hair dryer (on request)
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- Cable TV service
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Guests are offered complimentary continental and full breakfasts.
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- Downhill skiing nearby
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Check-in time starts at 4 PM
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This article was published 3/4/2013 (1603 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
For 34 years, Mississauga, Ont., has known no other mayor than Hazel McCallion. Her lawyers were in court Wednesday to defend against allegations she pushed for a real estate deal that may have saved her son's company $11 million.
Joe Fontana is both the mayor of London, Ont., and a former Liberal MP. On Oct. 28, he will appear in court to defend against a fraud charge stemming from a $1,700 cheque he signed toward the end of his 18 years in Ottawa.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was nearly kicked out of office last fall over a conflict-of-interest allegation. After a successful appeal, he was denied a $116,000 claim for court costs this week and may yet wind up before the Supreme Court of Canada.
In Quebec, the mayors of Montreal and Laval resigned last year in the face of corruption allegations. And here in Winnipeg, relatively far from the glare of the national media, thrice-elected Mayor Sam Katz, having served nine years in office, faces the loss of his seat over a decision to spend about $3,000 of taxpayers' money on a Christmas party at restaurant he owned.
If you're in a charitable mood, you might say Canadian mayors are simply having a lousy year. If you're more of a nihilist, you might wonder why the squeaky-clean mayors of Calgary and Ottawa are so boring.
But for the vast majority of us, who go about our day-to-day business without encountering ethical questions more significant than whether to waste a few minutes of company time on Twitter, the ability of so many mayors to wind up in trouble is baffling.
Notwithstanding the widespread mistrust of elected officials in the nearly four decades since Richard Nixon proclaimed he was not a crook, the vast majority of people who serve as municipal politicians are decent, honest people. The notion all politicians inevitably become moustache-twirling villains is nothing more than a simplistic cliché.
But the widespread prevalence of the mistrust in government means politicians have an obligation to go above and beyond our minimum expectations and actually exceed them. This does not mean politicians are not permitted to be grumpy, dishevelled or even occasionally drunk in public. It just means they have to observe all rules and also be seen to observe them.
When it comes to conflict of interest, that means taking every reasonable step to avoid not just the offence, but the perception of it. The consequence of being anything less than exceptional, as difficult as that sounds, involves diminishing the esteem of public office itself.
In Toronto, where Ford routinely dismisses criticism, regaining respect for the mayor's office is a lost cause until the next election. In the Montreal area, where a corruption probe continues, it may take a generation.
The courts will soon decide the fates of the mayors of Mississauga, London and Winnipeg. But as many have argued before, it would be bizarre for Sam Katz to lose his seat over a Christmas party.
Yes, it was stupid to allow a taxpayer-funded party to take place at a restaurant he owned. But this was hardly the only move he's made to diminish his office's esteem.
In 2005, Katz took part in a vote to approve an Esplanade Riel tenant who had separate business ties to him at the time. Given the fact Salisbury House was the best and only option, he had no reason not to recuse himself.
Later the same year, Katz took part in a vote to pay out Walker Theatre creditors who previously paid him out. That wasn't a conflict either, but it was equally unnecessary.
From 2005 to 2008, Katz served as both Winnipeg's mayor and president of Riverside Park Management while the two entities were engaged in a rent dispute. While that was no conflict in the legal sense, it certainly posed an ethical dilemma.
Finally, in 2012, the mayor bought an Arizona shell company from the city's chief administrative officer, then sold it back a few weeks later. Only the first sale was followed by an acknowledgement elected officials should do better.
No matter what a judge decides on Friday, this mayor is guilty of one thing: not making enough effort to be better than the rest of us, whether we are grocery-store clerks or cardiologists or even lowly journalists.


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Special sunrise, sunset and moonlit tours may be booked in advance.
A Segway tour of Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium combines the fun and freedom of a ride on one of these uber-cool mobility transporters with a comprehensive overview of one of South Africa's top sporting attractions.
Within minutes of stepping onto a Segway, you will get an intuitive feel how to operate it. With proper training and a little practice you'll soon be riding like a pro (a short training session of about seven or eight minutes is included in the tour). Although mastery of a Segway is fairly simple, for safety reasons children under 10 are not permitted to ride.
Experienced and knowledgeable tour guides lead the way as riders effortlessly glide to every corner of the stadium. Guides share interesting and historic facts about the city of Durban, the stadium, and the Skycar above the stadium, which is also well worth taking a ride on.
A choice of tours ranges from short 45-minute glides around the stadium or along the beachfront to two-hour rides along the promenade to uShaka Marine World – plus a couple of combination options that offer the best of both worlds. Booking is essential and tours are weather-dependent.
You don't have to be fit to ride a Segway. Ideally riders should weigh between 45kg and 117kg. Since you will be standing during the two-hour demo and tour, you must be comfortable doing so. Riding also entails constantly shifting from front to back and side-to-side, with knees slightly bent. It's advisable to wear sunblock, sunglasses and trainers. Helmets are provided.
The Segway was invented by Dean Kamen and Segway® and was first made in New Hampshire in the United States, becoming widely available in 2003. It has been further refined since its initial release and is a now a great experience. You can also do Segway tours at other South African destinations, including Sun City in the North West province and Spier Wine Estate near Cape Town in the Western Cape.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Tel: +27 (0)31 303 4534
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
How to get here
Take the N2 north towards the north coast. As you move out of the city centre, you cannot miss the Moses Mabhida Stadium on your left. Physical address: Shop 16A, 44 Isaiah Ntshangase Avenue, Durban.
Best time to visit
Durban is warm all year round, with rain during the summer months: December to February.
Around the area
While at the stadium, try an adrenalin-fuelled bungee swing from the stadium arch, or take a trip to the top of the stadium arch in the Skycar.
Tours to do
Stadium tour, beachfront tour, beach and stadium tour, Bay of Plenty tour, full stadium tour, uShaka Marine tour.
Get around
You can either drive yourself to the stadium or hail a metered taxi, which is easy to do in Durban.
What will it cost
A Segway tour at Moses Mabhida Stadium will cost between R175 and R425 per person, depending on the tour chosen.
Length of stay
Short tours take 45 minutes and longer tours one to two hours.
What to pack
Sun hat, comfortable shoes (trainers are ideal) and sunblock.
Where to stay
There is a wide range of accommodation options in Durban and surrounds, from guest houses to five-star hotels.
What to eat
The Moses Mabhida Stadium has a coffee shop and a pub where you will be able to enjoy a meal.


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Sponsor Deadlines
Timing the proposal development and submission process is a crucial factor in successfully seeking external funding. Proposals that do not meet established agency deadlines may be returned by the sponsor to the Principal Investigator (PI) unreviewed, or may be held for the next competition, seriously delaying the opportunity to carry out the proposed work. Keep in mind also that in instances where proposals have been developed in response to a particular agency solicitation, it is unlikely that there will be a second "round" of competition.
University Review and Approval
Another aspect of the PI's proposal development and submission responsibility is meeting internal University requirements. PIs must first verify with departmental chairs or division directors that the proposed project is in line with the unit's programmatic objectives. This is generally accomplished by discussion with the chair or director well in advance of the actual submission. In addition, completed proposals must receive internal institutional approval (sign-off) prior to submission. View the University's Meeting Deadlines Policy.
At all Washington Square units, proposals are routed for review and approval via NYU's electronic proposal routing and approval system, Cayuse SP. The PI is responsible for obtaining all internal clearances before OSP can approve a proposal for submission on behalf of the University.
Proposals, including all required elements and necessary compliance and conflict of interest documentation, are assembled in Cayuse SP and then routed for approval electronically.
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It's a colorful parade of boats held on the St. Augustine Bay.
The Holiday Regatta of Lights will be held Saturday, just north of the Bridge of Lions.
There will be sailboats, trawlers, shrimp boats and many other vessels.
Entry is encouraged for all powered craft both private and commercial. This event begins at 6 p.m.
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New for LiveCycle Workbench 9.5 is the ability to provide you with the latest help dynamically in a manner similar to Adobe Flash Builder Help, which many of you already know and love! How? The Adobe Community Help Client (CHC), that's how! The CHC is an AIR-based application that replaces the Eclipse Help engine for Workbench and is the platform for the next generation of Adobe Help delivery. CHC features include the following features:
- Search-centricity : Uses Community Help search, adobe.com search, or local search. Community Help search aggregates resources, including those from 3rd party sites. The adobe.com search includes refinements to narrow your scope.
- In-context navigation: Provides a dynamically generated set of related links for key pages.
- In-context commenting: Provides immediate feedback on any page and displays any recent updates.
- Always online: If you have a network connection, the CHC accesses content from the web to ensure that you have the most up-to-date content. However, you can also work in local mode if you have no Internet connection.
Now you are probably wondering, how do you work in local mode? Well, provided you have internet access, you can download a copy of the Help so that you can access the Help if your internet connection fails or if you are temporarily working behind a restricted firewall. To download a local copy of the Help, follow these steps:
- Start Workbench ES2.
- Select Help > Adobe LiveCycle Workbench Help. The Adobe Community Help Client starts and you do not get a prompt that asks to you download the help, continue to step 4. If you do, the help is downloaded after you click update and you should have a local copy when do not have internet access.
- In the Adobe Community Help Client, select Edit > Preferences.
- In the left pane, select Download Preferences.
- Select LiveCycle ES2.5. The LiveCycle Workbench 9.5 Help should be selected automatically as shown in the following illustration:
- In the left pane, select Local Content, select LiveCycle Workbench 9.5 Help, and click Update. After the update, your window should look like the following illustration:
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You now have a local copy of the Help! The next time you connect to the internet, the Help will be updated when a user selects starts the Workbench Help. If you do not have an internet connection, Workbench connects to the local copy.
Note: The PDF version is not available unless you are connected to the internet. If you want, you can save a local copy of the PDF version on your computer, when you have internet access.


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
There are hundreds of possible inbound marketing metrics to choose from, and almost all of them measure something of some kind of value. These include SEO rankings, inbound links, articles published, content downloads, reach (e.g. Twitter followers, Facebook fans, LinkedIn followers, blog subscribers), comments, retweets, Likes, shares, clicks, traffic, leads…and so many more.
But be careful about measuring activity, not results, warns Jon Miller, co-founder of Marketo (marketo.com), a provider of marketing automation and sales effectiveness apps.
"When it's hard to measure business outcomes, marketers use metrics that stand in for those numbers: activity not results, quantity not quality, efficiency not effectiveness. Vanity metrics such as the total number of followers may sound good and impress people, but they don't measure business outcomes or indicate how to improve marketing performance and profitability," Miller blogged recently. This means resources and energy get allocated to potentially unproductive activities that don't impact revenue.
It's essential to push your team to use credibility-building financial metrics that show how marketing helps the company to generate more profits and faster growth than your competitors. Here are Miller's top five metrics for measuring and demonstrating inbound marketing success:
• Social engagement, not just reach. Reach is the total size of the audience you can reach, including your Twitter followers, Facebook fans, LinkedIn followers, blog subscribers and e-mail list. But the world is noisy, and just because someone follows you doesn't mean they are engaging with your brand. Social engagement becomes even more important as prospective buyers use and learn on social sites more than e-mail. Fortunately, Facebook reports on engaged users and a metric they call "People Talking About This" to show the total number of posts to your page wall, likes, comments, or shares on your posts. This is important, since the more people talk about your page, the more your updates will show up on the main news feed for your fans.
• Lead generation by content, channel, and initiative. What sources are driving the most traffic? What kinds of content drive the most leads? The most revenue? It can also be insightful to track how these vary by product line or business unit. Measuring this requires the ability to create landing pages and tracking codes for each asset, a capability provided by most marketing automation solutions.
• Percent of leads with an inbound original source. With inbound marketing and content marketing, you'll find that people first discover and engage with your brand via inbound channels, but they may not convert on that first visit, or even the second or third or more. When they do actually convert, they are likely get to your site using a different method such as direct URL entry. That's why it's so important to know the "original source" of your leads — not the source of the visit that caused them to convert, but the source that caused them to first become aware of you. This is similar to display advertising, where it's critical to measure not just "click through" conversion rates, but also "view through" conversion rates.
For more on the right metrics that help the CMO earn a seat at the revenue table (and how you can get started with marketing forecasting), download Miller's book "The Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and ROI" at Marketo.com. A link is available in the Additional Web Resources box at SalesandMarketing.com.


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Elementary school students from around Humboldt County attend Redwood Environmental Fair
EUREKA- More than 2,000 elementary school students from around Humboldt County were at the College of the Redwoods Thursday and Friday for the 28th annual Redwood Environmental Fair.
"These students really enjoy getting out of the classroom, having some hands-on activities, walking across the College of the Redwoods' beautiful campus in the sunshine and participating in activities that they have hands on learning about science. So it's exciting at the end of the year," said Melody McGuire, the Coordinator of the Redwood Environmental Fair.
The fair is sponsored by the Humboldt County Office of Education and the College of the Redwoods. Students had the opportunity to participate in 30 activities related to recycling, wildlife rehabilitation, redwood forests and alternative energy sources. The two-day event also provided children with the chance to see wild animals up close. Organizers say the fair is designed to have students develop an understanding and appreciation for the environment early in life.
"These children will be the ones that are our future, the ones that we're hoping are going to solve some of the issues that we're having with pollution, and trash island, and air pollution, and vehicles that don't have to use gas. So I think it's really important for them to start at a young age to be aware of that, to be aware of recycling, so they may possibly choose careers that help us in the future," McGuire said.


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Rangers' prospects Chris Kreider and Ryan Bourque lead USA to the bronze medal
New York, January 6, 2011 – Rangers' prospects Chris Kreider and Ryan Bourque helped lead Team USA to the bronze medal at the 2011 IIHF U20 World Junior Championship in Buffalo, NY.
Kreider notched two goals, including one on the power play, in a 4-2 win over Sweden yesterday in the bronze medal game. Bourque, who served as an Alternate Captain for Team USA, recorded an assist on the game-winning goal with 8:20 remaining in regulation. Rangers' prospect Jesper Fasth also tallied a goal for fourth place Sweden in the contest.
Kreider, the Rangers' first round choice (19th overall) in 2009, registered four goals and two assists for six points in six tournament contests. He led Team USA and tied for fifth among all tournament skaters in goals, and tied for first on the team and 15th overall in points. He also tied for the tournament lead with three power play goals, and second on USA with 20 shots. The Boxford, Massachusetts native led Team USA and ranked third in last year's tournament with six goals, including a hat trick (three goals) against Latvia in the first round on December 29, 2009, en route to capturing the Gold Medal at the 2010 IIHF U20 World Junior Championship.
Bourque, the Rangers' third round choice (80th overall) in 2009, tallied three assists and 20 shots on goal in six games. He tied for fourth on the team in assists and second with 20 shots. The Boxford, Massachusetts native registered three assists and a plus-three rating en route to capturing the Gold Medal with Team USA at the 2010 IIHF U20 World Junior Championship.
Fasth, the Rangers' sixth round choice (157th overall) in 2010, recorded four goals and two assists for six points, along with a plus-four rating in six games while making his debut in the elite tournament. He tied for the team lead and fifth in the tournament in goals, and tied for first on Sweden and 15th overall in points. He also tied for second on Sweden with a plus-four rating. The Nassjo, Sweden native recorded two goals, including the game-winner and a power play tally, to help lead Sweden to a 6-3 victory over the Czech Republic in a preliminary round match-up on December 30.
Rangers' prospect Roman Horak also participated in the tournament as a member of the seventh place Czech Republic. The Rangers' fifth round choice (127th overall) in 2009, tallied one assist and 15 shots on goal in five contests. His 15 shots ranked third on the team. The Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic native registered one goal and one assist in six games with Czech Republic at the 2010 IIHF U20 World Junior Championship.


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Today's Mets headlines
The Mets, coming off an unlucky series loss to the Reds, will start a three-game series with the red-hot San Francisco Giants tonight at Citi Field. The Giants are heading to Queens after sweeping the Florida Marlins in Miami. They have nine out of their last 12 games. The Mets,… Read More →


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QNAP TS-451 Bay Trail NAS Performance Reviewby Ganesh T S on 7/28/2014 9:00 AM EST
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DanNeely - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkI currently retire my old computers by making an image of their HD and parking it on my NAS so I can recover files and (theoretically) bring the whole system up as a VM or on spare hardware if I needed access to some software on it. As a result, I'd be interested in seeing how well it can run an image of a well used working computer in addition to the standard stripped down OS with a single application setup that a conventional VM hosts. I know Baytrail is much slower than the i7 of my main system; but knowing that all the cruft that accumulates after using a system for a half dozen years won't strangle the NAS would be reassuring. Reply
eliluong - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkWhat software do you use to image your old drives? And what VM software do you boot it up in? Is the image usable, given that in the VM all the hardware will be different? Reply
Samus - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkI just sysprep and capture the image with WDS which can redeploy using WinPE via PXE (network) or USB. I still use a Windows 2008 server for this, but 2012 with Hyper-V gives the flexibility of snapshots before/after sysprepping which helps prevent running into that sealing limitation (3 syspreps before it craps out) of images. I typically refresh my corporate image quarterly with Windows Updates, Office Updates, Adobe Updates, Driver Updates, and profile tweaks.
Hyper-V definitely has the edge on VMware for imaging because of how easy it is to convert a VXD to a universal image. You can go straight from Hyper-V to WDS, and vice versa (I can turn any PC on the network into a VXD through WDS capture, and virtualize, say, a legacy PC running legacy software that's currently on a KVM and annoying someone as they have to switch between it and their main PC. This is still preferable over XP Mode in Windows 7 because of XP Modes lack of snapshots, poor remote management and inability to backup while the machine is running. Reply
eliluong - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkThanks for the informative reply. I'm not in the IT field so this new to me. I've dabbled with virtual machines, but not in this manner. For a home-use case, where I have a 500GB system running XP that I want to have accessible in a virtualized environment, is this something what you described is capable of, or is it intended to just run one or two applications? Reply
Samus - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkYou could use VMware, XP Mode or Hyper-V (Windows 2012 Server) to completely emulate a PC. VMWare and Hyper-V both offer tools to take an image of a physical machine and turn it into a virtual machine. They do this by stripping the HAL (hardware layer) and generalizing the image, so the next time it boots up, whether it be on different physical hardware are emulated virtual hardware, it rebuilds the HAL. In Windows 7, you'll see "detecting hardware" on the first boot, in Windows XP, it actually just goes through the second-phase of the XP setup again.
Vista and Windows 7 brought Windows PE (preexecution environment) into the picture which makes low-level Windows deployment easier. For example, if your XP machine is running IDE mode (not AHCI) it's pretty tricky to get it to run in a Hyper-V machine, but there is a lengthy process for doing so. Windows Vista and newer can dynamically boot between SATA controllers, command configurations, etc. Windows 8 is even better, having the most feature-rich WinPE environment, with native bare-metal recovery (easily restore any system image to any hardware configuration without generalizing) but Windows 8 is hated on in corporate sectors, so us IT engineers are stuck dealing with Winodws 7's inferior manageability. Reply
rufuselder - Thursday, October 09, 2014 - linkI like it, although I think there are some better storage options out there... /Rufus from http://www.consumertop.com/best-computer-storage-g... Reply
blaktron - Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - linkHey, if you do this often enough, what you should do is just run your system off a vhdx right from the get go. Its actually pretty good for a couple of reasons if you don't mind losing a % or 2 of random performance and total space.
Here is a link that explains what I am talking about, but Windows 7 and 8 support this, and it works pretty well:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh82569... Reply
Oyster - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkSince you asked for feedback, Ganesh:
1) It goes without saying that all your reviews focus too heavily on the hardware. You need to dedicate more time to the software/OS and the app ecosystem for these offerings. I personally have a QNAP TS 470, and can't see myself switching to a competitor unless their offerings consist of basic functionality like "ipkg", myQNAPcloud, Qsync, etc. There's no way for me to reach a decision unless you cover these areas :).
2) For VM performance, I realize that most of the NAS vendors are going to want you to benchmark under ideal conditions (e.g. iSCSI only). But it would be awesome if you can cover non-iSCSI performance.
3) Please, please add an additional test to cover the effectiveness of these devices to recover from failures. This would allow us to figure out how effective the RAID software implementation is.
Thanks. Reply
Kevin G - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkI'll second the request for some more attention to software and failure recovery. Reply
ganeshts - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkI already do testing for RAID rebuild after simulating a drive failure by just yanking out one of the disks at random. Rebuild times as well as power consumption numbers for that operation are reported in the review. In case of any issues, I do make a note of what was encountered (for example, in this review, I noted that reinserting a disk with pre-existing partitions might sometime cause the 'hot-swap' rebuild to not take effect.
What other 'failure recovery' testing do you want to see? Reply
lorribot - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkHow badly is performance affected when running VMs or CIFS with a fialed drive? How badly is drive rebuild impacted when running a VM? I guess a test load for a 24 hour period replayed against the NAS box whislt a rebuild was under taken to see how far it had got would be a good test also testing response times during a rebuild and with a failed disk running of of parity. Reply
zodiacsoulmate - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkwhy not build a SFF computer? it seems to me a NAS is very overpriced? can anyone explain a little? Reply
Gigaplex - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkI wouldn't be surprised if the bulk of their engineering expenses come down to the firmware R&D. They're out to make a profit, not give away their software for free, so comparing a home brew SFF system probably needs to include a commercial OS for a fair comparison in costs. If you're happier with OSS and supporting it yourself, by all means do DIY. Reply
zodiacsoulmate - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkThank you! Reply
Beany2013 - Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - linkYou're also paying for the convenience. It'd take the better part of a day to build a SFF system with the software capabilities of this (multi-raid, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, FTP, SSH, browser based video playback, metadata tagging, remote file browser, airplay/chromecast support etc) and whether that's worth it is entirely down to yourself. Or whether you need all those features, natch.
If you just want a simple SMB server then an HP Microserver with an OS of choice and simple file sharing might be a better answer.
As someone who deals with servers, networks, break/fix, etc all day, I'd rather just take something out of the box, fire it up, and be transferring my data to it within minutes of it first spinning the fans, these days.
Steven R Reply
DanNeely - Monday, July 28, 2014 - link1) Size (mITX cases approaching a 2/4 base NAS in compactness are few and far between) - a smaller box is a plus when you're living with non-geeks who don't think every surface covered in computers/computer parts is an attractive aesthetic.
2) Turnkey It Just Works integration - A major plus for people who aren't alpha-geeks, who are but have things that are more fun to do than fiddling with hardware for a box that should be stick in the closet and ignore once setup, or for people who just want to be able to tell their mom/brother in law/etc "call vendor support, not me" when something breaks.
3) Related to the last point if you want more than just a network fileshare, non-bottom of the barrel boxed NASes have a large amount of extra useful software preconfigured so you can use the easy button to install and configure it automatically.
4) For people who can be served by a basic NAS: 2-4 bays and an ARM based SoC - the cost of buying a boxed NAS isn't much higher than a DIY setup using new hardware. $150-250 for a case, PSU, mobo, cpu, ram. vs $300/400 for entry level 2/4 bay NASes from Synology.
The corollary to 4 is that if you need higher end specs: 6+ drives, a full power CPU, more advanced file systems (ZFS or Btrfs), etc; the price of entry ratchets up significantly and building your own looks a lot more attractive if you're capable of doing so. Reply
jabber - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkHowever as I have found most small businesses and even some larger ones often don't have much more than 8-10 GB of data.
Word docs, PDFs and excel spreadsheets dont actually take up a lot of space. Unless you are creating visual or audio media then massive complicated storage systems are just not worth it.
Most just need simple filesharing and a place to back up the laptops/desktops to without needing a IT guy on hand 24 hours a day to look after it. A NAS does that perfectly Reply
DanNeely - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkAgreed; and small businesses without a full time IT person are a perfect example of cases where spending a bit extra up front for vendor support is highly attractive investment. Reply
zodiacsoulmate - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkThanks guys! Reply
BMNify - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkthat's what the commercial FreeNAS for business is for, they call it trueNAS based on axactly the same FLOSS code with extra options and OC SMB vendor support etc
http://www.freenas.org/for-business/ Reply
DanNeely - Monday, July 28, 2014 - link@Ganesh This question is asked in some form on almost every NAS review. Would you consider addressing it by adding a build vs buy page to the base review template? Reply
ganeshts - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkYes, that is a good idea. Let me add it to the template in the concluding remarks section. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkThanks. Will it be showing up as an update to this review; or in the next one? Reply
ganeshts - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkI think you already have a great set of points above, maybe I will just reserve it for the next article :) Reply
DanNeely - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkThose were off the cuff and need some cleanup (if nothing else I switched wording halfway through) and the DIY section probably needs expanded; but feel free to use them as a starting point. Reply
zodiacsoulmate - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkOk I donno that cause in previous NAS review I didn't see anyone mentioning that, and this NAS is a little pricier than other ones... Reply
BMNify - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkif you are going to do that then you better cover the less linked type of base kit
for instance
http://www.xcase.co.uk/rackmount-server-systems/mi... 4 hot swap custom itx case for £118.80 Incl. VAT
just add a http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.as...
ASUS P9A-I/C2550/SAS/4L Mini ITX Green and Space-Saving Server Board DDR3 1333/1600 ECC/Non-ECC UDIMM 4 x MiniSAS connector(Marvell 88SE9485 x 2)
(up to 16 SAS/SATA 6G HDD connections)
want to go larger then put that in something like the
X-CASE RM 208 2U WITH 8 HOTSWAP BAYS AND RAILS £107.94 Incl. VAT
if you need more later then go for something like the X-CASE RM 212 PRO, 12 BAY HOTSWAP SERVER CASE £238.80 Incl. VAT
or even the more generic NORCO RPC-4224 4U Rackmount Server Case with 24 Hot-Swappable SATA/SAS Drive Bays £253
see ,it easy to build to a given price if you forget the toy dual core antiquated Marvell ARMADA™ 370 soc and you even get far more for less than this crazy £591.60 for an ugly looking steel box and generic single board computer without any hard drives installed... Reply
BMNify - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkoc thats a mind bending 1004.77 US Dollar at current rates
Qnap Desktop NAS TS-451 4-Bay, JBOD/RAID 0/1/5/6 , empty case for £591.60
OC you could always go the conservative view and still end up with a better data throughput
usng something like the GA-J1900N-D3V Built-in Intel® Celeron™ J1900 (2.0 GHz) quad-core processor and dual gigabit Ethernet ports and pci slot to ...£61.17 Reply
DanNeely - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkHonestly, the hardware you're suggesting looks like DIY enterprise architecture more than a typical DIY NAS build. AT does do an occasional article on big enterprise boxes; but 8+ bay boxes are only a very small portion of the NAS coverage here. If we do get a DIY NAS article I'd expect it to be done with inexpensive hardware and at most a 6 drive configuration in addition to a 4 drive one. The 4 drive config would IMO be mandatory for comparison purposes since most of the existing reviews are for systems with that config. Reply
BMNify - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkif its good enough for www.servethehome.com and http://forums.nas4free.org/
then its more than good enough for .anandtech to cover these options on a regular basis, after all readers want to know and be informed about the current options available to them, the options i mentioned above were based on the fact you can get HOTSWAP able hardware cases for far less then these ripoff consumer empty steel box's and SBC that cast them pennies on mass, and yet if you look you the enc consumer can actually find new and better kit such as the mentioned GA-J1900N-D3V Built-in Intel® Celeron™ J1900 (2.0 GHz) quad-core for far less to build than the lesser dual core Celeron™ J1800 that the qnap-ts451 uses....
if you dont need/want 4-in-1 Trayless Hot-swap Backplane then just use the available generic £25 pc box's etc.... OC the ASUS P9A-I/C2550/SAS/4L Mini ITX gets a special mention as its an all in single board computer you the end consumer can get behind if you feel you will need/want tp add sas to sata cables and drives as you see fit over a longer time frame.....
a one off cost that's more expandable as you add data to your LAN devices etc.... Reply
BMNify - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkjust to add "the hardware you're suggesting looks like DIY enterprise architecture" its also possible to actually buy NICE looking and cheap Free Standing Rack Cabinets for the home too now such as the Orion Free Standing Rack Cabinets with glass front for one
a 9U glass fronted cabinet for £240.00 (inc VAT) to sit next to your desk in the SOHO room or a cupboard if your not into showing off your home made rack... :) Reply
Trickie - Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - linkCame across this when researching the x51 series last week. A x53 model is in the pipeline with a j1900 chip. Guessing they will be targeting small business with this model and be charging an even bigger premium as a result even though the chip cost $10 more.
The extra grunt will suit my use case much better (vm's). What I need to make the jump to a NAS from a desktop is hardware transcoding support within plex. See http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=953... Reply
azazel1024 - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkThat is interesting that the J1800 doesn't support AES-NI instructions. I was going to post a self righteous comment about "well of course it does!", and then I checked Intel ARK and saw they list it as not supporting it. My humble little z3740 in my tablet DOES support AES-NI though.
I always find it odd what Intel choose to enable and disable on their various SKUs *shakes head slowly* Reply
takeshi7 - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkYou should review the Seagate NAS Pro 4-bay next. I'm curious how the Intel based Seagate compares to this QNAP. Reply
halfflat - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkStill no ECC RAM? Can't really take it seriously. Reply
ganeshts - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkLook at the target market : Home media enthusiasts / power users - who want to stream their huge media collections / backup their smartphone photos / need a backup for small amounts of data that they generate on their laptops (say, tax returns or documents or similar things). Why go in for ECC RAM overkill (and associated increased platform cost?)
ECC RAM is necessary only for mission-critical applications. If you feel ECC RAM is necessary for a non-ZFS mdadm-based software RAID system like the TS-451, I would love to hear the arguments in its favor. Reply
npz - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkThat really depends on what you mean by "mission-critical". If you're using the TS-451 as backup, which I think is common scenario, and your main system's drives have died, and now you want to restore from the TS-451, then you'd have to ask yourself, could you afford to loose even one file on there?
The chances are very low, but still, just 1 bit can cause irreversible corruption. After running a Xeon workstation with ECC 24/7 for a few years, I did encounter an uncorrectable (2 bits or more) memory error, upon which the machine reset telling me so, rather than continue on silently corrupting data. Reply
npz - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkAlso, it's not just ZFS where ECC is critical. If you use TS-451's encrypted volumes, one bad bit would take out more than just one file ;-) Reply
darkfalz - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkWould prefer a 6 bay. At 25% space penalty, RAID-5 with 4 drives is a bit painful. With 6 bays you're down to at more acceptable 17% space penalty. Give me 6x6TB in RAID-5 NAS and I'll be happy (currenting running 5x4TB in a HTPC but feeling cramped already!) Reply
wintermute000 - Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - linkthere is a 6 bay model, its just not the one reviewed lol Reply
basroil - Monday, July 28, 2014 - linkThose are some really nice numbers for iSCSI (which you need for Lightroom to work), far better than other qnap devices...
Really got to say Anandtech rocks, the really do listen to feedback and test for cases that readers are interested in! (hell, I like the service so much I disabled all adblock like scripts for the site, something I never do) Reply
roman.md - Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - link759$ - overpriced Reply
jabber - Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - linkI'm just amazed how many here have forgotten the mantra that often simple is better.
I'd be amazed if some of you ever get jobs finished or deliver anything with the overly complex solutions you come up with.
Data storage, redundancy and back up for small business/home use is really not complicated at all. Most of you are worrying about scenarios that rarely if ever occur and if they do...no one will die.
If you work on someone else'e dime well maybe you can dick around with the Heath Robinson solutions but when you work for yourself and reputation is everything you keep it simple, low maintenance and you deliver it quick. Customers and staff appreciate it too. Reply
KSyed0 - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkI completely agree. My days of tweaking HW and fiddling with my computers is long gone. I don't care about saving $100 and losing 1 or 2 days putting it all together and setting it up.
My synology was up and running within 15 minutes of getting home. I've upgraded drives twice already.
I think this is a key point that differentiates Synology from QNAP or other NAS vendors. You can use the Synology SHR (Syn Hybrid RAID) with mixed drives, with no wasted space!
MKS Reply
tmoz13 - Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - linkSo how does it compare to the Synology DS415play? Which one would you choose if you had to pick one? Reply
carage - Thursday, August 07, 2014 - linkI would probably steer clear from Synology for now, at least until this whole Synolock problem is gone. Reply
KSyed0 - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkI have to jump in - the Synolocker problem is only on the "old" OS, and it was patched almost 9 months ago. People who don't update their base OS or at least to the latest patches many months later, are always at risk. I know that you could make an argument that these NAS boxes should autoupdate, but at least it will warn you that an update is available.
For the purchase of a new unit (which is already running the new OS), this is not an issue.
MKS Reply
ZilchTech - Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - linkGanesh, I am looking forward to what you have to say about the ts 451 and virtualization. I am ready to buy a NAS and was set to buy a Synology DS415play. From what I could ascertain, the Synology OS and robust community make it a safe choice for someone like me who is buying their first NAS. The QNAP however seems to have moved ahead of Synology with the celeron and VM capabilities.
Thanks for your thorough work. Reply
ganeshts - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - linkI have been using the VS app without any issues for the last 3 - 4 weeks. While there has been nothing fatal, I do miss some features (having come from a Hyper-V background). For example, I am currently yet to find a way to associate multiple storage controllers to a single VM. I also can't use a USB Wi-Fi stick as the network adapter for a VM (wanted to keep port-trunking in place for the baseline NAS operation). Data transfer between the host and the guest machines always need to go through the physical network ports for now.
So, yes, there are plenty of areas where the app can improve, but the baseline functionality with respect to VM hosting is as stable as QEMU is stable on Linux. Reply
ZilchTech - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - linkIs the QNAP QTS OS 64 bit? I have been under the impression that consumer NAS appliances have operated under 32 bit OSs. The j1800 can address 8 gigs. The TS-251 and TS-451 have 2 ram slots that will accommodate 8 gigs. The TS-251 comes with 2 gigs and needs 4 gigs to use the VS Station. The TS-451 comes with 4 gigs. The VS station requires a minimum of 4 gigs so I'll assume the extra 4 gigs could be allotted to the VM. Reply
ganeshts - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - linkYes, QTS is 64-bit (you can see that in the SSH screenshot also). You can have up to 8G of RAM in the x51 series.
VS models require at least 4G, but the VMs can be configured with 1G or 2G of RAM. The remaining is allocated to QTS for its baseline operation.
I am currently running a Windows 8 VM with 2G of RAM on the TS-451. The other 2G is allocated for normal NAS usage. Reply
aryonoco - Thursday, July 31, 2014 - linkGanesh,
I wish you would start addressing the issue of bitrot in your reviews.
With ever increasing number of disks and ever increasing size of disks, this is becoming a real problem. Some attention to this, and how various NAS platforms attempt to correct that (or not) would be great.
This is an area that greatly requires AnandTech's attention to move the industry forward. Reply
climbmonkee - Monday, August 04, 2014 - linkMy comment may be better directed to the forums, but I'll post here first. As a home user with a growing media library (plus small kids and lot's of home video footage), who's looking to buy a NAS for the first time: is the QNAP a good recommendation or is there something else that is better suited for me?
My primary uses would be media streaming and daily back-ups, with the unit on 24/7. I'm interested in a 4 bay model and would prefer a good GUI. I had just decided on purchasing the Synology DS414 but am a little confused on if I should change that decision based on the new(er) architecture of the QNAP and possibly other NAS units in the second half of 2014. It seems that this review is positive and with the faster rebuild times makes it very intersting. However, my uses are fairly simple and currently I'm not interested in the virtualization aspects that seems to be the basis of most comments here. Maybe I'm missing something, don't know.
Either way, stick with the Synology, or look at the QNAP (or even something else?) Thanks for the help! Reply
JimmyWoodser - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkI am in the same situation and the same needs. I would appreciate advice on the QNAP TS-451 or the Synology DS-415play please. Regards Jim Reply
KSyed0 - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkI voted Synology (DS412+ newly purchased - they don't seem to have a newer replacement yet).
Feature-wise, very comparable to the QNAP at the equivalent price, but the winner for me was the SHR, which is a type of RAID, allowing you to mix and match drives. With the QNAP or other NAS boxes, I'd have to buy matching sized HDs. With the Synology, I started with 0.5+1+1+2, and was able to replace the drives one by one and let it rebuild and resize. I now have 1+2+3+3, with no wasted space.
For home use, that's great.
MKS Reply
Pheran - Wednesday, August 06, 2014 - linkThanks for the review! I'd love to see a review of the TS-851 compared against the Synology DS1813+ et al. Reply
Spoogie - Friday, February 13, 2015 - linkVery concerned about its 1080p transcoding. Some users say it's fine, while others say it stumbles. Please look closely at how it performs in this area in your future tests! Reply


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