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THE Western Bulldogs expect veteran forward Daniel Giansiracusa to bounce back from injury and play a key role in guiding the club's young talent through next season.
Giansiracusa had the knee injury he sustained in Sunday's loss to Geelong examined yesterday and the club will learn in the next few days how serious the damage is and whether it will have an effect on how he starts next pre-season.
''It's one of those things that might have been a two-week injury or a six- to eight-week injury,'' football manager James Fantasia said.
It's understood Giansiracusa had being weighing up his future at stages this year. But the club expects the 30-year-old to continue on into 2013, the final year of his contract.
It is news that will comfort former teammate Nathan Brown, who believes the Dogs need Giansiracusa and the rest of their core group of experienced players - such as captain Matthew Boyd, Brian Lake, Robert Murphy and others - to keep playing and help the team remain competitive while the club's younger players learn on the job.
The Dogs have lost two veterans - Ryan Hargrave and Lindsay Gilbee - to retirements this year.
''They will need leadership out there through, what I think, is going to be another tough year again next year … and Gia offers that to all the young boys down there,'' said Brown, a former two-time leading goalkicker at the Dogs.
''You still need senior players to teach those kids through the rebuilding phase they are in.
''They are not necessarily going to play in the next premiership … but while they are young and are going to take a good beating, they will need those senior players around to help them through.''
Of his 12 seasons, 2012 has been one of the more frustrating for Giansiracusa, who will finish up missing five games through injury, the most he has sat out since 2006.
Yet he has still managed to deliver a solid contribution and is almost certain to claim the club's goalkicking award, even though he will miss Sunday's final-round match against the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba.
The belief that the Dogs' top-end talent, such as Boyd (30), Murphy (30), Lake (30), Daniel Cross (29), Dale Morris (29) and Giansiracusa, need to play on next year links up with the recruiting direction the club will take during summer.
Coach Brendan McCartney said yesterday the Dogs would not be an aggressive player in the trade period, an indication that the club is not trying to bring in recruits from outside to address the lack of players aged in their mid-20s on the list.
Instead, the Dogs will go to the draft to add to its stockpile of emerging talent and, that being the case, having hardened veterans around next year will be crucial.
''Our No.1 philosophy is to train our own people up,'' McCartney said.
''We firmly believe that we have enough talent here and we have the right type of people in the young group that are learning a lot off our experienced players.
''It's highly likely we will continue to bring young people to this club and give them the best education we can.''
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Lesson one never let your nephew of seventeen put the slide on your glock withouth your supervision. Even though he said he knew what he was doing :)
Hey guys,
Somehow he got the slide on but missed the front rail section so it is floating above yet locked in place in the back. I can pull the slide all the way to the open position but I cannot lift it off or drive it forward for removal.
Do you have any ideas here. Has anyone else experienced this?
I recall something similar and I think the guy was able to use the standard disassembly procedure to remove the slide ( pull the trigger to rear, etc. ).
Best I can recommend is finding a local gun dealer that has a Certified Glock Armorer on staff. Sounds like a quick easy fix, alas, I'm not a Glock Armorer (yet).
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MIAMI -- Eleven months ago, there was pain and uncertainty. The Boston Celtics had just lost Game 7 of the NBA Finals to the Los Angeles Lakers and no one seemed certain about what the future held for coach Doc Rivers and Boston's Big Three.
This time around there was pain, but softened ever so gently by the nearly universal decree that the Celtics plan to keep their core intact next season for what appears to be one final run at another NBA title.
Rivers gave strong assurance that he will return to the Boston bench next year, while Ray Allen suggested he has no desire to opt out of the final season of the two-year contract he signed last season.
With Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo and Kevin Garnett all under contract for next year, it seems Boston will keep the band together for yet another crack at Banner 18.
"I'm leaning heavily towards coming back," Rivers said Wednesday after the Celtics were eliminated from the playoffs by the Miami Heat. "I haven't made that decision. But I can tell you that I probably will. I've kind of come to that over the last couple of weeks. I'm a Celtic and I love our guys.
"I want to win again here. I do. And I'm competitive as hell. I have a competitive group, and so we'll see. But I can tell you that's where I'm at today. Tomorrow, I may change my mind, but that's where I'm at today."
Rivers added: "I don't believe this team is done."
Inside the Celtics locker room, Rivers' words provided some end-of-season consolation.
"I'm going to put this on the record," Rondo said. "Doc already committed that he was coming back with me so he can't go back against his word. ... We just signed a contract about 10 minutes ago."
Allen, who has a $10 million player option for the 2011-12 season, soon took Rivers' spot at the podium and echoed his sentiments about staying in Boston.
"This has been my team," said Allen. "I have been full steam ahead with this team. I don't have any plans to go anywhere else."
Inside the Celtics' locker room, captain Paul Pierce stressed his belief that the Celtics are capable of achieving their title goals by keeping this core intact.
"I really believe it," said Pierce. "For the most part, between me, Ray and Kevin, we stayed relatively healthy this year. Ray is probably the most healthy, in-shape guy in the league, so I have no doubts that he'll come back strong for another three or four years, and KG, he got through another year. I think this is a healthy year for him for the most part. And I've been, for the most part, healthy, so I definitely believe we can come back and make another run at this."
But Pierce also acknowledged that some changes need to be made.
"Well, I know it's going to look different," said Pierce. "I know that for a fact. Every year things are going to be done in the summer and when you have so many guys with [the 2011-12 season] being the last year of their contract, you know [change] happens every year. So I know there's going to be a few changes. I don't know what, but we'll have to wait and see."
Pierce expressed hope that Rivers would indeed return to the Celtics bench.
"If we're moving forward next year and try to win a championship, he's one of the main pieces," Pierce said.
With Rivers, the Big Three and Rondo likely in the fold, the only question marks surround the supporting cast.
Jermaine O'Neal, the team's starting center by season's end, has a year left on his midlevel exception deal at $6.2 million. He said he'd take some time to assess his situation, particularly a desire to spend more time with his family after having put a lot of NBA miles on his tires, but his solid postseason play might entice him to return, even after battling knee ailments for much of the season.
Shaquille O'Neal, who holds a player option at the veteran's minimum, might have played his last NBA game. Limited to three appearances (two in the postseason) and a mere 17 1/2 minutes of game action since Feb. 1, O'Neal's inability to rebound from a right calf/Achilles injury might end his storied 18-year career.
"I think you'll have to ask him," Pierce said of Shaq. "He's battled through a lot of injuries, and at that age, so many miles, so many flagrant fouls on him, his body has taken a lot of pounding, more than the average NBA player."
Sixth man Glen Davis, who struggled mightily at season's end and through the playoffs, expressed a desire for an increased role and even a starter's job. An unrestricted free agent, Davis said he'd like to stay in Boston, but only if the situation allows for his development as a player in this league.
"I have given thought about [returning to Boston]," said Davis. "I love Boston. Boston's where I started, and I plan on wishing I could stay, but you never know. [Look at the Kendrick Perkins] situation. He [was] here for eight years and he wanted to stay, but it might just not work my way. That's just how it is.
"I want to be a player in this league. I feel like I've got a lot more to offer. I want to show the world my talents, if it's here in Boston, or wherever."
Two other players to watch this offseason are the ones brought to Boston in the trade that sent Perkins to Oklahoma City at the trade deadline. Nenad Krstic is an unrestricted free agent whom the Celtics might be enticed to sign -- but at what price, after earning $5.5 million this season? Jeff Green is a restricted free agent who struggled at times in a diminished role from what he had with the Thunder.
"[Boston is] a great place," said Green. "You look at the guys they've got on this roster, it's a dream to play with guys that I looked up to growing up, and just to [have] had this opportunity was fun, and hopefully I'll have it again."
Green said he hadn't had any conversations with Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge and said the uncertain labor forecast could make for an interesting summer.
"There's a lot going on outside of myself as far as the lockout, so we'll just wait until it's time," said Green.
The only other Celtics player under contract for next season is rookie guard Avery Bradley, who played sparingly in his first season. Delonte West, Von Wafer, Troy Murphy, Sasha Pavlovic and Carlos Arroyo all will be unrestricted free agents.
Chris Forsberg covers the Celtics for ESPNBoston.com. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


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ITV has signed a big deal with Apple and Google in order to allow employees to work remotely According to Broadcast, ITV is to replace up to 80 percent of its PC workstations with Macs in the next few months.
The staff will also begin to use Google's web-based communication and collaborative working tools, Google Docs and Gmail, the report states.
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"Wouldn't it be great if a company had an optimiser that could analyse the entire organisation's printing infrastructure and detect all opportunities to improve operation and reduce costs?" asks Marc Pillay, divisional manager: Optimised Print Services (OPS) at Konica Minolta South Africa, a Bidvest company. According to him, that's exactly what Konica Minolta's new OPS can do.
Recently introduced, OPS is Konica Minolta South Africa's unique solution and service methodology. It analyses real needs and designs solutions that make work efficient again. "Printing, scanning, distributing documents, copying in colour and black and white, managing information flows and changing users' demands often lead to the point where transparency is lost, costs increase and motivation falls. OPS combines consulting, hardware, software implementation and workflow management in order to lower document spend," says Pillay.
The OPS concept focuses on four different areas – fleet, process, finance and security – and offers a variety of services and products for each of them. These areas represent the four essential subjects to be considered when decisions about investments in printing infrastructure are made. He explains: - Fleet: This area looks at right-sizing the document output fleet to actual business needs, providing optimal support, balanced with minimal cost of ownership and environmental impact. - Process: Here all business-relevant document flows are analysed in order to benefit from saving potentials and design.
- Finance: OPS offers different purchasing and leasing options as well as various contract models, which can also be integrated with existing contracts to form a single financial plan. - Security: The OPS solution has the capacity to design IT and data security solutions, from user authentication to complex network security requirements.
"OPS leads to transparent structures and our in-house experts work with the client through three different stages – consultation, implementation and management – to make sure every improvement is based on precise facts and will operate immediately and in the long run," says Pillay.
During the consulting phase, Konica Minolta South Africa's experts use sophisticated tools to help companies detect the strengths and weaknesses of their printing environment and design improvements on the basis of these results.
"First of all, it is important to get to know what is already there. In this phase, we use powerful software tools to identify existing print assets and monitor the current utilisation patterns and printing volumes. User interviews help us to detect specific document flows, individual needs and service-level demands. Furthermore, all available commercial data is collected during this phase," says Pillay.
These transparent facts and figures are then analysed and, since OPS is there to enable clients to save money, a precise TCO calculation and estimation is benchmarked against the average costs in the market. Additionally, Konica Minolta South Africa evaluates and recommends the print services that meet all document-based business process requirements. "This allows us to optimise the business by designing the ideal print fleet with suitable processes and workflows and compare them to current capabilities," says Pillay. He says that during the implementation phase, OPS is more than just installing some new devices and applications. "Our implementation services offer enhanced change management to the extent required by the customer and it also includes dedicated project management in accordance with recognised standards, such as detailed project plans and regular project reports," he says
After the installation is finished, the management phase commences and Konica Minolta South Africa provides detailed documentation to users and administrators. Standard or tailormade promotion materials and events support the introduction. In addition, key users and the internal staff are trained individually and Web-based multimedia training is permanently accessible for every employee.
"OPS does not offer abstract strategies but concrete improvements that result in seamless workflows and comfortable operation. A company's employees will realise it every day. And, they will be astonished to what extent they were wasting resources before OPS changed the way they work," concludes Pillay.
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PAYNE SPRINGS–The Payne Spring Volunteer Fire Department held its annual appreciation dinner and banquet Feb. 23, at its new facility on State Highway 198.
Fire chief Randy Harley presented several awards including Firefighter of the Year to Brandon Cotton, Rookie of the Year to Rick Harmon and the Top 10 paramedics (EMT) and firefighters.
The Top 10 Firefighters, selected for the greatest number of fire calls answered in 2012, includes Don Mecklin, Randy Harley, Chuck Harley, Michael Brown, Jason Everett, Dick Stein, Alisha Dixon, Terry Brown, Nathan Gilbreath and Dillon Herbert.
The Top 10 Paramedics recognized with awards includes Ed Baggett, Alisha Dixon, Jason Dixon, Patrick Harris, Randy Harley, Brandon Cotton, Michael Brown, Cade Anthony, Dillon Herbert and Nathan Gilbreath.
"It is my way to say thank you for all of your sacrifice, dedication and hard work," Harley said.
In 2012, the PSVFD responded to 851 calls. Average response time was 5.12 minutes on fire calls and 6.24 minutes on medical calls.
Property damage on structure fires was less than $200,000, for the district in 2012, with a projected savings of $3.12 million.
After a brief welcome, chief Randy Harley introduced guest speaker Wylie fire chief George "Randy" Corbin (above).
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One of my co-workers and I take a class together and as a result, we occasionally go out to lunch together. This past week, she suggested Acropolis, and I agreed-because hey, I can never enjoy too much Greek food. The second reason for going is that I've been to their Ybor and Riverview locations, both of which have been great. The New Tampa location is in the same strip mall as Mr. Dunderbak's, also reviewed here, so it was about time that I switched from driving by to dining in.
When dining with my companion, there will always be an appetizer. Today's choice was the Tirosalata, a dip that is similar in texture to tsitsiki sauce, but made with feta, oregano, and olive oil. It was rich, garlicky, and creamy, served with warm pita quarters-and they brought more when we spread ample amounts on the pitas supplied, quickly running out.
I actually ordered Chef's favorite from Acropolis, Pastitsio, a cousin to baked ziti. It's pasta tossed in a tomato sauce, topped with seasoned ground beef, and topped with a thick layer of bechemel sauce. The beef has notes of cinnamon and nutmeg, slightly sweet with the savory. The noodles were perfect, just barely al dente, and the bechemel was very light. The portion was very large, IMO, which meant that I brought a decent sized portion home for Chef to enjoy later.
A note about Acropolis. We visited during lunch, so the music was not loud and overwhelming, but at the other two locations, I'd dined during dinner, and there was either a bouzouki player or recorded music, with servers dancing to traditional Greek music, tossing napkins everywhere. It sure beats tossing plates, but it can get very loud. If that's not your scene, then I suggest choosing the outdoor seating or to dine during lunch!
While I didn't have them this time, my usual order at Acropolis involves some saganaki and the Korfu chicken. I'm glad I tried something else, as it was equally enjoyable.
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I haven't posted in a while. Dad came out of the hospital after a 30+ day stay to go to rehab and get 'strong enough' for possible chemo. He left the hospital with two percutaneous bile drains. His diagnosis is bronchoalveolar carcinoma (rare type of lung cancer - and his is a rapidly progressing pneumonic form) and cholangiocarcinoma. This is made worse by his sudden chronic renal insufficiency. After 1.5 weeks in rehab, we went to the oncologist today and were told that there is nothing they can do for him. Nothing. No chance for chemo, radiation, experimental anything. He has decided to come home with hospice and make the most of whatever time he has left. We didn't ask how long he might have, and I'm glad they didn't offer any.
The worst part is that he really thought he was going to be told he was ready for chemo. He told me on Sat that he was expecting to hear that he is in remission. Such a disconnect. He was shocked, although he can barely even get out of bed and can only walk a few steps. He has lost at least 50 lbs in the last few months. And he was perfectly healthy as of July 4 of this year. His onc has done much research and found only about 100 other cases of people like him. No treatment was available in those cases either.
I don't know know what to say to him. It's so hard. At least he will be home after almost 2 months away.


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Asbury Park is a popular place to head to while you are in Red Bank - Tinton Falls as many of the city's most popular attractions are nearby. Two attractions that should be at the top of every visitor's itinerary is the fascinating Asbury Park Convention Hall and the much-loved Paramount Theater. Also, well worth the effort are the Memorial United Methodist Church and the Shark River Golf Course.
Stop by some of the nearby museums and galleries, which help make the area the special place it is. For a great night out, spend an evening at Broadway Center in Long Branch, one of the area's most popular performing arts venues.
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To make the most of Asbury Park, consider booking your accommodation at one of the area's many accommodation options. Check out the rooms, rates and amenities at the The Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, the Red Roof Inn Tinton Falls - Jersey Shore, or the La Quinta Inn & Suites West Long Branch.


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After the honorable failures of The Indian Runner and The Crossing Guard, Sean Penn makes a quantum leap forward with his third directorial effort, The Pledge, an intriguing murder mystery that's also effective as a psychological character study. Heading a splendid cast, Jack Nicholson, who also starred in Crossing Guard, gives a riveting performance that dominates every frame of this broodingly intense drama. However, deliberate pacing and a downbeat ...
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Jackson has spent three seasons as an NBA head coach, working with the Golden State Warriors from 2011–2014. He posted a 121–109 record before being replaced by Steve Kerr before the 2014–15 season.
Del Negro has made the playoffs in four of his five seasons as a head coach, twice with both the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Clippers.
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While on the hunt for Gif Ginryu, I found these instead. These were posted by Exposfc from a Japanese auction site. New pieces of Concept Artwork, not much but they show Mechtanium Surge Arc 2.
@Japanese names:
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- Reptak = Reptak
- Magmafury = Nachs/Knax? (Nakusu) 0_0;


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HOUSTON - Houston police are investigating a deadly crash in east Houston.
The crash happened in the 100 block of the East Freeway around 7 p.m. on April 7.
According to police, the 64-year-old victim was traveling on the East Freeway exit ramp to the North Freeway in a silver Nissan Versa when he lost control and hit the retaining wall.
His car then flipped over and hit a green Ford F150.
Officials say the victim was tossed from his vehicle and transported to Memorial Hermann Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The driver of the Ford F150 was not injured.
The identity of the victim was not immediately released.
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Test advances shine light on ancient dentistry
Flash forward to the mid-1990s, and his mummified body is undergoing CT scans, where scientists discover a small piece of linen is packed in a cavity between his teeth. Unfortunately, the resolution on the CT scan cannot quite make out the what and the why of this piece of linen.
And, then, recently, researchers working with Andrew Wade of the University of Western Ontario, performed a high-resolution CT scan on his teeth. Subsequently, they reported in the International Journal of Paleopathology that the linen material was actually a dental treatment with a protective (perhaps herb or oil based) barrier to relieve the young man's pain.
According to the researchers' report, the CT scans were done using the "Toshiba Aquilion ONE320-slice scanner at the Montreal Neurological Institute. The mummy was scanned in 0.5mm thick slices, the smallest slice thickness for this scanner. The raw CT data were helically acquired at 120kV, and preprocessed using Smooth Body (FC02 – includes beam hardening correction and high resolution bone convolution filters."
Yet another example of why I'm glad to be living in 2012. I'm off to the pharmacy now...
Wade, Andrew D. et al. "Dental Wear, Decay, and Intervention in the Redpath Museum's Theban Male."
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Unfortunately, the film instead sends Grandberry down to Puerto Rico to reconnect with his long-absent father. Once there, Noise doubles as Reggaeton For Beginners, as Grandberry's producer/half-brother Victor Rasuk patiently explains the subgenre's amalgamation of hip-hop, reggae, and Latin music. It's educational! Grandberry embraces the rich musical melting pot of Reggaeton, but when a big break sends him back to New York, he's forced to confront old beefs.
In Noise's strongest scenes, Grandberry and Rasuk struggle to find their voices as they painstakingly cobble tracks together, but even these scenes suffer by comparison to similar sequences in Hustle & Flow. Otherwise, the film gives a limp Reggaeton spin to antiquated musical-melodrama clichés. Sinister white men try to water down the duo's already innocuous music and steal Grandberry's hot dancer girlfriend. Grandberry works through various daddy and abandonment issues while his father (Giancarlo Esposito, who delivers a better performance than the movie deserves) remains haunted by a thriving musical career that might have been. The scowling Grandberry deeply resents his father, but since Esposito takes him in, no questions asked, and treats him with respect, his hostility comes off as petulant and bratty. For a film about music hailed for its kinetic, percussive energy, Noise is fatally inert. The pacing drags and Grandberry emerges as a singularly wooden presence, a black hole sucking energy and momentum out of the film. Reggaeton has officially come of age: The burgeoning subgenre now has a terrible, opportunistic exploitation movie to call its own.


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Ross Pearson most recently fought Melvin Guillard, in what was a fantastic battle up until the unfortunate illegal knee which caused the fight ending cut on Pearson's forehead. The fight was ruled a no contest, and the two were set to rematch at UFC Fight Night 37.
It was an anticipated rematch, but it was not to be, as Pearson has suffered a knee injury during his training leading up to the fight.
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A new organization of Russian Jews in Israel held its first convention at the Mann Auditorium here last night as Israel prepared for the imminent arrival of at least six Soviet Jewish families who unexpectedly received exit visas last week after having been denied them for months by Soviet authorities. As reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last week, the newcomers will include Iosif Kazakov, his wife and two daughters. They are the family of Yasha Kazakov, a youthful Jewish activist who was permitted to emigrate to Israel in 1969 and has been agitating ever since for the release of his parents. The Kazakovs are expected to go to Vienna this week enroute to Israel. Meanwhile, a report from Moscow said that Alexander Kazakov, brother of Yasha Kazakov, was beaten by hooligans in a Moscow street last week. Reports from Moscow over the weekend also confirmed an earlier report of the impending departure for Israel of Mr. and Mrs. David Drabkin and their daughter, Moscow Jews who have long been demanding the right to emigrate. Others said to have received permission to leave were Mr. and Mrs. Viktor Fedoseyev; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gurevich; Mr. and Mrs. Vadim Barshevsky and their child and Krayna Shur, the sister of Gilel Shur who was arrested in Leningrad last spring and is reportedly awaiting trial.
Jewish sources reportedly know of many more Jews seeking exit permits who have been denied them. These sources refuse to regard the recent granting of visas a new trend but claim that Soviet authorities simply want to "get rid" of Jewish activists who sign petitions and try to enlist world opinion in their cause. (In New York last week, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, claimed that anti-Soviet demonstrations by Jews in the U.S. and elsewhere were counter-productive and in fact jeopardized the departure of 100 Russian-Jewish families who had already been promised visas. Addressing 3000 of his followers in Yiddish, Rabbi Schneerson said he had privately warned the organizers of anti-Soviet demonstrations "against acts which do more harm than good." He said the organizers "knew that 100 families had been about to leave the Soviet Union. In fact all arrangements had been made for their visas and departures. I begged…(them) not to do anything at the time….I sometimes think that they would be prepared to sacrifice three million Jews in order to make their point over here. Now these families are being harassed in the Soviet Union because they, or some of them, are suspected of collusion with those who organize demonstrations in the West," Rabbi Schneerson said.)
The convention last night was an emotional occasion, bringing together recent emigres from Russia and Israelis who came during the Czarist era. Among the latter were former Premier David Ben Gurion and Itzhak Tabenkin, of the Second Aliyah. Among the newcomers were Maj. Grischa Feigin, a former officer in the Soviet Army, who arrived in Israel last week. Feigin, an activist from Riga, was given an exit visa shortly after he was released from a mental home where he was confined briefly because he returned his World War II combat medals in protest against the Kremlin's anti-Jewish policies. Another newcomer from Moscow was Boris Tsukerman, a scientist who arrived in Israel last month with his wife and two children. Premier Golda Meir embraced them both on the platform. She declared, "There is no force in the world, no government however cruel, that can deter Jews from coming to Israel if they wish to ." Absorption Minister Nathan Peled said there should be no difficulty in absorbing Russian Jews into Israel's economy because most of them are well educated and come to Israel with skills and technical knowledge.


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Maddenstown, County Kildare
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Maddenstown is a mysterious land found somewhere in the deepest darkest region of County Kildare. It is inhabited mainly by humans, crossbreed humanoids, sheep, ogres and goblins. It is widely known for its popular watering hole or tavern known locally as "Dannys" or "Larkins" or "The place to go when everyone's barred from everywhere else". This tavern is usually very busy and has housed many local events such as the crowing of the annual "Rose of Maddenstown" winner, the annual wrestling match between the King of Maddenstown and the Lord of the Sheep and also the weekly "shifter of the week" tournament where local youths gather in the corner of the tavern and shift the face off each other to try to receive the vote for "best shift" from the pervy aul lads at the bar.
edit HistoryHistorians believe that Maddenstown was originally a meeting site for the Knights of the Brownstown army and the infamous "Furze Bush Floozies" in around 1511AD who roamed the bordering lands of the Curragh Plains in search of work. Brownstown is a large city which is in Dan Donnellys arms reach of the area where these meetings used to occur. The Knights used to refer this area as "The Dirty Saddle" , as many of them would remove the saddle from their horse and place it on the ground when they had relations with the floozies so as not to encounter any nasty scrotal injuries from the thistles which grew in the area. Over time the wives of the knights grew suspicious of their husbands activities as they were arriving home in the early ours smelling of furze bushes and floozie juice. One evening one of the wives, Joswelda Doylicus, followed her husband Froggus Maximus Doylicus . Froggus had told her he was going hunting badgers and would be back soon, but his wife grew suspicious when all he carried with him was a whip and a jar of brylcream. Joswelda followed him to "the dirty saddle" and caught him in the act with one of the floozies. She began to scream and shout at him at the top of her voice. One of the other knights who was a deserter from the English army and was in ear shot of Josie made a comment about her screaming saying "shes like a mad en that one" (en = hen). This remark would be repeated by the knights as a form of humour about their wives and as a precautionary warning when they would be embarking on a late night encounter with the floozies, over time this phrase led to the area being known as "Mad ens town" or "Maddenstown".
edit Dannys Tavern
As Maddenstown began to grow as a community and as a popular meeting place for working men and "working women" (whores) the emergence of a tavern was natural. A local business man called Danlius Wheelbarrow decided he would open a tavern in Maddenstown in 1655AD so people would have a place to meet in comfort and enjoy a beverage and a roof over their head as they discussed local events and such. The tavern quickly became a very popular venue for local Knights of the Brownstown army and also local working men such as blacksmiths , carpenters , rapists , shepherds and stonemasons. The tavern gained notoriety as a place where all types of man , woman and beast were welcomed. It was commonplace in Dannys to see humans intermingling with goblins , ogres, people from Nurney, mutated humanoids, jockeys and sheep. This was not very common in any other parts of Ireland at the time as all of these species kept to themselves and were commonly segregated from the human population.
Throughout the 1700's and 1800's this intermingling of species led to interbreeding and is the reason there are so many crossbreed species and unique creatures inhabiting modern Maddenstown in the 20th and 21st century. Many of these unique and indeed bizarre creatures can be seen roaming the streets and boroughs of Maddenstown and of course frequenting the still thriving Dannys tavern most days and nights.
edit Crime
The crime rate in Maddenstown was somewhat non existent from the 1500's through to the 1800's as the Brownstown Knights used to patrol the local area and would use a zero tolerance policy on any perpetrators of crime or mischief. It is said that one summers day in 1698AD a local youth infamous for his mischievous nature and fearlessness in the face of the threat of the Knights rode naked into the city of Brownstown on the back of a giant sheep and stole undergarments from the clothesline of the fair maiden Mazziela O'Brin. This youth known locally as Nedington Marsington, was chased on horseback by the Knights. His giant sheep was no match for the knights horses and soon tired and collapsed. As an example for all other potential trouble makers the knights chopped young Neddingtons testicles off and made him wear them as earrings and they made his scrotum into a beautiful hat which was given to the fair maiden Mazziela which she wore to local fairs and special events.
The modern evaluation of crime in Maddenstown has a much bleaker outlook. Throughout the 1960's Maddenstown became known as a hotbed of drug, prostitution and bestiality activity. Though many Maddenstownians claim that the activities being pursued are not illegal and are indicative of Maddenstown culture and history and should not be viewed as illegal or wrong. These activities include the picking, cooking and eating of magic mushrooms which grow in areas on the Curragh Plains, the selling of sex by local females which according to Maddenstownians is a part of their heritage and culture dating back to the time of the "Furze Bush Floozies", and lastly the relationships between Maddenstown men and the local sheep. In the early 1980's as the relationship between the Maddenstown natives and the authority's became increasingly strained a mandate was drawn up by the then mayor of Maddenstown, Lofty "Impressive Beard" Lofthouse. This mandate outlined the historical justification behind the legalisation of magic mushroom harvesting and consumption , selling of poonani by local wenches, and (consensual) relations of an intimate nature between men and sheep. After careful consideration and deliberation the government of Ireland granted Maddenstown immunity from criminal prosecution on all matters outlined in the mandate and Maddenstown became the first town , village or city in Ireland , Europe or the world to gain such immunity from the general laws of the state in which it resides. This liberation led to a thriving decade of trippin off their face on mushrooms , getting their hole off the trollops , and enjoying carefree and very disturbing wooly sex with the local sheep population. This carefree and somewhat primitive existence continued through the 90's and 00's and right up until modern times.
edit War
Maddenstown was a relatively peaceful location throughout the majority of its history, there are no major conflicts in any history books until very recent times. In the 1990's a gang began to gain notoriety for its anti-social behaviour and constant disruption of the then peaceful area. The gang itself did not hail from Maddenstown nor did any of its members but it certainly left its mark on the village.
The gang known as "The Crocháin Crew" or "TCC" was formed by a group of local youths who used to congregate on a hill on the outskirts of Brownstown known locally as The Crocháin. One of the founding members was a young man from a suburb of Brownstown called The Bush, he was called Pikey "The Searg" Daly. He was infamous for his amazing ability to be able to perform sexual relations on a woman before she even knew he was there. Local elders claimed that this was the work of magic or witchcraft and that Daly was indeed a warlock as this ability seemed sub-human. The other members of the gang included Philippe "The Scavenger" Gormaine, a french survival expert know to be able to survive for months on the remains of food he found thrown out locally. "Dangerous" Dane Radams, a local strongman who was so powerful that he was banned from all forms of mess fighting in the greater Kildare area. Dermod "Beans On Toast" Bean, a mysterious freak that lived on the outskirts of Brownstown and was fond of his ale. The gang also recruited two members from the City of Newbridge , Calvin "The Human Capsule" O'Donorvain , a man known for his ability to instigate mass brawls and leave unscathed. And Russ "Shoulder Pop" Rayden, who had the ability to pop his shoulder out of place in order to disorientate his victim before attack. TCC launched an unprovoked attack on a group of 4 Maddenstown dwarfs who were out picking magic mushrooms in the mushroom fields in East Maddenstown. The gang beat the 4 dwarfs severely and Daly violated one of the dwarfs in a sexual nature before hanging him from the branch of a tree by his dwarf jocks. This attack sent shockwaves through the community of Maddenstown and also through to city of Brownstown. It was the first outbreak of violence in the area in recent times and people feared further knock on violence. It wasnt long before peoples fears were realised when a gang from Maddenstown who gave themselves the name "Special Powerful Army Soldiers" or "SPAS", comprising of dwarfs , ogres, jockeys and crossbreed humanoids ambushed Radams and Gormaine as they were drinking cans of dutch gold in Toolers abandoned house in Southeast Brownstown. Radams was badly injured in the attack and Gormaine had both his nipples chopped off. This attack angered TCC greatly , as not only had this gang of creatures badly injured 2 of its members but it had the audacity to enter Brownstown to launch the attack. One week after the attack Calvin "The Human Capsule" O'Donorvain attempted to fly into the front wall of Dannys Tavern on a hand glider with a large ammount of explosives attached to him in a suicide attack, O'Donorvain missed the tavern and instead flew into a gathering of old women on their way home from bingo killing all 5 women and himself in the incident.
This led to many retaliation attacks by SPAS and then in turn TCC. This bloody feud continued through the late 1990's and into the early 2000's, resulting in many injurys and some deaths on either side. During the early 2000's TCC merged with another Brownstown gang known as "The Curragh View Cowboys" or "TCVC". After the mergence the new gang became known as "Brownstown Allies Live Long and Strong", or "BALLS". This gang was comprised of many up and coming young thugs from the city of Brownstown, including, Rabert "Hair Lingus" Boyle - a young half mexican/ half yeti with a deadly hook shaped willy that could have someones eye out in an instant, Virgil "Longshanks" Bean - a giant who could punch a giraffe in the face without even bein on his tippy toes, Seamus "Cyborg" Dillion - an icelandic DJ who many believed was actually a robot, Marcus "Red Warrior" Coolhaine - a fiery red headed gypsey who was well known for carrying a spork in his sock for conducting quick and sneaky attacks as well as being ready for tasty meals while on the move, Mole "Chizel" Frennelly - a determined fighter who was known for urinating on downed opponents, Bolin "Monkeyman" Maloon - a bizarre and unpredictable individual , known as the monkey man for his climbing skills and also his tendency to eat his own feces, Stephen "Scrambled Egg" Broon - a young man with a head so round that he could get out of anyones headlock, Eoin "Field Mouse" Rederington - known as field mouse because he once had sex with a mouse , in a field (Rederington was later kicked out of the gang for having a homosexual realtionship with a local gay prostitute James "Sicknote" Timmo). And last but not least Gerry "Romanian Baby" Gomoford - half man/ half romanian baby/ half scottish highlander.
BALLS fought SPAS all the way through the early 2000's. During the bloody feud SPAS had 14 members killed , 5 dwarfs , 3 jockeys , 3 ogres, 2 sheep and 1 half man/half freckle. BALLS also had casualtys, Gomoford was eaten by a witch, Radams was fired from a cannon across the Atlantic Ocean, Maloon was kidnapped by a circus never to be seen again, Gormaine died when eating the remains of a sandwich he found on the road which had been poisoned by SPAS and left as a trap. But the event which ended the bloody feud will live on in infamy. It was a sunny June evening in 2005. Dermod Bean and Pikey Daly were returning from a dance which had been held in Newbridge , they had been accompanied by Russ Rayden but he had left them on the outskirts of Newbridge to go home. All 3 of them had got a shift , Daly had even got the tit, over the bra. As they approached the outskirts of Brownstown, Daly noticed a group of girls sitting on the Crocháin, so Bean and Daly went over to investigate and hopefully get another shift. As they approached and began to attempt to talk with the girls the reality of the situation became apparent all too late , the "girls" or what seemed like girls were really SPAS in disguise. They set upon Daly and Bean and beat them brutally , Bean was killed in the attack but Daly surived, but at a cost. SPAS leader , a 4foot jockey, simply known as "Leather Bollox", chopped Dalys priced possession off, his willy. They then went back to Maddenstown and left Daly a broken and willyless man on the side of the crocháin. Soon after this Daly threw himself off the top of the tallest building in Brownstown, the Rising Sun, as he had nothing left to live for. A week later the remaining members of BALLS released a statement declaring a ceasefire with SPAS, which SPAS accepted and a truce was made. To this day Dalys willy can be seen in a glass case over the fireplace in Dannys Tavern as a reminder of what happened to the last gang of rogues who tried to upset the balance and harmony in the strange and wonderful land that is Maddenstown.


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BANGALORE, India -- Churches in Pakistan have deplored the killing of six World Vision staff members as the international Christian humanitarian organization suspended its operations in the country.
"All of World Vision's operations in the country have been suspended for the time being," agency spokesman Dean Owen said after the attack, adding that the aid group had received "no threatening letters" before the killing.
Owen told Mission Network News that "somewhere between 15 and 20" militants stormed the compound and "shot up the staff and robbed the staff of jewelry, money, computers, and phones.
"World Vision typically loses one staff member a year to violence; never, ever in our 60-year history have we lost six in one day."
News reports said unidentified gunmen lined up the staff in the small town of Ogi on Wednesday (March 10) and shot them indiscriminately before detonating bombs that damaged the building. The facility was intended to assist those affected by the earthquake that ravaged the area in 2005.
In addition to the six deaths, eight staff members were injured.
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"This kind of barbarous act is against the suffering humanity," the National Council of Churches in Pakistan (NCCP) said in a statement.
World Vision had been operating relief centers in the troubled North West Frontier Province after the 2005 earthquake killed an estimated 100,000 people and destroyed local infrastructure.
"All the people who were killed belong to (the) Islamic faith," said the national church council, an umbrella group of four Protestant churches in the Muslim majority nation.
Victor Azariah, the NCCP's general secretary, told Ecumenical News International that the attack seemed to be linked to the "Taliban movement, which is against the American presence in any shape."
World Vision president Rich Stearns, in a statement, said in a statement he mourns "the terrible loss to the World Vision family" in the "brutal and senseless attack."
[This report comes from Religion News Service and Ecumenical News International.]
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You know, President Obama is such a constructive guy. Why, he's a veritable Mr. Sunshine like Chicago Cubs baseball Hall of Famer Ernie Banks. He hardly ever goes after presidential opponent Mitt Romney with harsh criticism. When he does, it's a "rare swipe."
That's what Jim Kuhnhenn at the Associated Press told his readers yesterday in his coverage ("New day, old bickering on taxes between Obama, GOP") of the President's weekly radio address and related matters. Kuhnhenn, who between shifts as a reporter must live in a hermetically sealed cave, wrote the following:
The dictionary Kuhnhenn uses must have a definitions of "rare" which differs considerably from the one I typically consult (rare -- "coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon"; swipe -- "an unexpected criticism of someone or something while discussing another subject").
A Google web search on [whitehouse.gov "my opponent"] (typed exactly as indicated between brackets) returns 15 results, all carrying July dates. 14 of the 15 contain criticisms of "my opponent" (the exception was on the day of the Aurora, Colorado massacre). What follows are the first five relevant items listed.
July 19 ("Remarks by the President at Campaign Event" in Jacksonville, FL) -- "Now, my opponent doesn't just want to keep these tax cuts, he wants to cut those taxes by another $5 trillion, including a 25 percent tax cut for every millionaire in the country. ... Now, hold on, it gets better. (Laughter.) To pay for this, he plans to gut things like job training and financial aid for college, and potentially raise taxes on the middle class -- on you."
July 17 ("Remarks by the President at Campaign Event in San Antonio, TX") -- "My opponent and his allies in Congress, they believe that prosperity comes from the top down. They believe that if we keep in place the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and then we add on top of that another $5 trillion of tax cuts -- most of which would go to people who don't need tax cuts and, frankly, aren't even asking for them -- if we do all that, even if it means gutting education investments, even if it means slashing transportation, even if it means ..."
July 24 ("Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event" in Oakland, California) -- "My opponent's entire plan, his whole plan for economic renewal, is more tax cuts for the wealthy. ... eliminating regulations for banks and corporations that we put in place after the crisis. ... Cutting more investments in things like education and research."
July 14 ("Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event" in Glen Allen, Virginia) -- "See, my opponent and his allies in Congress, they believe in a top-down economics. They believe that if we spend trillions of dollars on tax cuts -- mostly for the wealthy -- even if we have to pay for it by gutting education, or gutting job training programs, or gutting investments in basic research, or turning Medicare into a voucher system, or increasing middle-class taxes -- that if we do that, somehow all of you are going to benefit."
July 14 ("Remarks by the President at Campaign Event" in Clifton, Virginia) -- "My opponent and his congressional allies, they believe in what I call top-down economics. ... Their basic view is that if we cut taxes trillions of dollars, mostly for those at the very top -- even if it means cutting education funding, even if it means cutting basic research, even if it means underfunding our infrastructure, and even if it means making Medicare a voucher system -- that somehow that's going to be good for everybody."
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When U.S. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn saw a preview of director Clay Stafford's new film "One of the Miracles: The Inge Meyring Smith Story," she felt compelled to mention it on the Congressional floor this past week calling it a "great work," a story "especially worthy of remembering." Filmmaker Clay Stafford was shocked.
Complete with a beautiful symphonic score also produced by Stafford, "One of the Miracles" is the deeply moving personal story of Inge Meyring Smith, a historic Holocaust survivor and American Civil Rights early-education pioneer who became the light of learning for thousands of children in the American South. She survived yellow benches, the Nazis who killed her family, American prejudice, the Ku Klux Klan, and the march for racial equality.
"We've been humbled at the response to the film," Stafford said. "The reception to this movie keeps building." WAKM said it was "a thrilling and inspirational story". Williamson Herald called it "harrowing". The Tennessean declared it "miraculous, a life that would influence thousands of children for years to come." The Albany (NY) Times Union wrote it was a "mesmerizing true life story". It was an official selection at the Utopian Film Festival in Washington, D.C. "To us, it was clearly a life-changing story that needed to be told and recorded, but we never could have anticipated the response," Stafford said. "Never in my life would I think that our names and this film would have been mentioned in the Congressional Record of the 113th U.S. Congress."
During the German Holocaust, Inge's Jewish family barely escaped with their lives. Having only $15 in the family's pocket when they arrived in the U.S., Inge's family swore to survive. She moved to Tennessee. She had barely lived through yellow benches in Germany and what she saw in the South was segregated water fountains. "It was ignorance more than prejudice," she said, but she had seen from the extermination of her own family where prejudice and ignorance unchecked could lead. Hand-picked by the Kennedy/Johnson administration to help develop a new national preschool education program called Head Start, Smith – a woman and a Jew – went South to Mississippi at peril again to her own life. Through her international efforts via independent school associations, out of her passion to reach children in unreachable parts of the U.S. as well as at her own backdoor, untold thousands of children have been inspired to learn through her efforts and those she has influenced over the past 70 years. She's been called an American inspiration. Congresswoman Blackburn called her "a gift to us from the Almighty". Smith points to her children and great-grandchildren living safely and prospering and says, "That's the American dream."
The full 96-minute film is available online for private advance review. For more info or to set up an interview with Inge Smith or filmmaker Clay Stafford, contact Mike Bunch at 615-599-4032 or media(at)americanblackguard(dot)com.


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HDD vs Hybrid Drive vs SSD
It's been the same argument for over two years now: SSDs offer the best performance, but HDDs still offer the best capacity and price. Now that Solid State Hybrid drives are available, that argument changes. While the optimal blend of bandwidth speed, operational performance, storage capacity, and value has yet to be delivered, Seagate's Momentus-XT is an ultra-affordable start in the right direction. Admittedly, our benchmarks are a poor substitution for real-world user experience, and the Momentus-XT isn't designed to move large files at SSD speeds. Installed as a primary drive for notebook and value-conscious enthusiasts, the Seagate Momentus-XT Solid State Hybrid Drive delivers up to 500GB storage capacity while starting Windows and opening programs like an SSD.
The last days of old technology are always better than the first days of new technology. Never has this saying been more true than with the topic of storage technology, specifically in regard to the introduction of Solid State Drive technology a few years ago. The only things standing in the way of widespread Solid State Drive (SSD) adoption are high storage capacity and affordable price of Hard Disk Drive (HDD) devices. Because NAND flash-based SSD technology costs more per gigabyte of capacity than traditional magnetic hard drives, the benefits of immediate response time, transfer speeds, and operational input/output performance often get overlooked. Like most consumer products, it wasn't a question of how much improvement was evident in the new technology, it was price. I'll discuss product costs more in just a moment, but for now consider how each new series of SSD product employs greater performance than the one before it, convincing would-be consumers into waiting for the right time to buy.
There's also a gray area surrounding SSD performance benchmarks that has me concerned. You might not know this, but SSDs can be very temperamental towards the condition of their flash NAND. My experience testing dozens of Solid State Drives is that a freshly cleaned device (using an alignment tool) will always outperform the same device once it's been formatted and used. A perfect example are Indilinx Barefoot-based SSDs, which suffers severely degraded performance when writing to 'dirty' flash NAND. The reason that all of this will matter is simple: the performance results reported to consumers in product reviews (such as this one) often report the very best performance scores, and the process used to obtain these results is not applicable to real-world usage. This is where garbage collection techniques such as TRIM become important, so that end-users will experience the same performance levels as we do in our tests.
Garbage Collection (GC) is the current solution for keeping flash NAND in 'clean' condition, while maintaining optimal performance. Windows 7 offers native TRIM support, and most retail SSDs also include this special GC function or at least offer a firmware update that brings the drive up-to-date. For anyone using an Operating System or SSD that does not offer Garbage Collection functionality, you'll be using 'dirty' flash NAND modules and suffering sub-optimal performance for each write-to request. A few SSD manufacturers offers free tools to help restore peak-level performance by scheduling GC to 'clean' used NAND sectors, but these tools add excessive wear to the NAND the same way disk defragmenting tools would. SLC flash modules may resist wear much better than MLC counterparts, but come at the expense of increased production cost. The best solution is a more durable NAND module that offers long-lasting SLC benefits at the cost of MLC construction. Adoption is further stalled because keen consumers aware of this dilemma further continue their delay into the SSD market.
Getting back to price, the changes in cost per gigabyte have come as often as changes to the technology itself. At their inception, high-performance models such the 32GB MemoRight GT cost $33 per gigabyte while the entry-level 32GB Mtron MOBI 3000 sold for $14 per gigabyte. While an enjoyable decline in NAND component costs forced consumer SSD prices down low in 2009, the price of SSD products has been on the rise during 2010. Nevertheless, Solid State Drives continue to fill store shelves despite price or capacity, and there are a few SSD products now costing only $2.03 per gigabyte. Although the performance may justify the price, which is getting dangerously close to the $0.79 per gigabyte for the WD VelociRaptor hard drive, costs may still close some buyers out of the market. Price notwithstanding, the future is in SSD technology - or possibly a SSD hybrid - and the day when HDDs are obsolete is nearing.
However, I'll look to see a true 'desktop' release hybrid configuration to confirm or unseat my skepticism. 6Gb/s interface, 64MB cache, 10k speed, Nand that offers both read and write benefits and perhaps even dual porting -now that the 6Gb/s interface offers the signal strength to meet such a feature without too many issues.
Time will tell. Again great review.
1.) Can you defrag them? Do you need a special tool? Can you damage the SSD portion by defragmenting the drive?
2.) What about Raiding these drives? Is is possible and what should be concerned with? Can you defrag them Raided?
3.)Special drivers? Does the OS matter with regard to performance?
I wonder how these would perform in a server environment raided?
As for RAID, we only received the single unit. I don't wish to speculate on how the Momentus XT would perform in RAID without more experience witht he product.
I read a different review and RAID is definitely possible and brings the performance even closer to SSD levels. Because they are just normal Hard Drives to the operating system, you can do anything with them that you can with a ordinary Hard Drive.
Defragging won't damage the SSD portion, but in case something does damage the SSD portion seagate said your drive should still operate as an ordinary hard drive.
If 'learning' is so important for these drives, that fact must have a significant impact on dynamic, real-world performance.
Extrapolating from the article, and perhaps in error, it seems to me that a hybrid drive best might support a user who engages in repetitive work, and that someone with a more varied approach to his computer and work life would not see much benefit from a hybrid. Even having to consider factors like this when considering a storage device is NEW, and I feel deserves some discussion.
It's a souped-up HDD, but still ONLY a HDD!
Ever wonder why Seagate offers such long warranties (5 yrs on new drives) and still so cheap???
It's ALL marketing due to their LONG history of making CRAP. And then they went out and bought up other companies (like Maxtor) that actually had quality products and messed up their stuff.
Over the years (almost 20 now), I have had more Seagate failures than ALL OTHERS COMBINED (even the newer drives, that I couldn't talk people out of).
In short, I wouldn't buy (and recommend against) Seagate's REAL SSDs as they will LIKELY be the 1st SSDs to FAIL (IMHO)
If you plan to not use it as a primary HDD for any OS the SSD has tons of uses, mainly being a cheap expanded SD card for storage of your grandmas photos.
Nothing beats solid hilarity :)
I do not know too much about harddisks, but I seem to be coming up with better results than prof. tests show - all the time.
you can do a search, SSD can be as reliable as HDD


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One longtime member of Pima Community College's Governing Board was ousted Tuesday and another was locked in a race too close to call until thousands of provisional ballots are counted.
Sherryn "Vikki" Marshall, who has occupied PCC's District 3 board seat for 12 years, was defeated by political newcomer Sylvia Lee, a retired PCC administrator who promised to push for changes at the college that's been dogged by controversy.
The winner of the District 5 seat, held since 1995 by incumbent Marty Cortez, is up in the air, with Cortez holding a slim lead over challenger Richard Fridena, who trailed by about 700 votes just after 11 p.m. with 50 of 64 precincts reporting.
Percentage-wise, Cortez had a little less than 42 percent of votes, and Fridena a little more than 39 percent.
A third District 5 candidate, PCC adjunct faculty member Francis Saitta, was never in serious contention, trailing the other candidates by several thousand votes according to unofficial and incomplete results.
Lee, 53, a retired PCC campus president, said in a phone interview Tuesday she's honored to be the college's newest board member and pledged to follow through on campaign promises to make PCC more transparent and accountable to Pima County taxpayers.
"Tomorrow starts a new day for Pima Community College," said Lee
She said she already has a long list of information she'll be seeking from the college's administration.
"The voters in District 3 understood that change was needed and I intend to bring a new voice and a new perspective to the board," she said
Marshall, 67, a re-employment counselor who works for Pima County, had no comment on the election results late Tuesday.
Cortez, 76, had little to say about the tight race in District 5.
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Meanwhile, it was reported that Blige is shooting for the actual third single from "Growing Pains". The track chosen as the follow up to "Just Fine" and "Work That" is the Dre & Vidal-produced "Hurt Again".
"Meet the Browns" is a romantic drama about the power of love and family, starred by Perry, Angela Bassett and Jenifer Lewis. It will be released in theaters on March 21.
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J. Lo, Notorious B.I.G. Led Diddy to Seek Therapy
In a world where social stigmas can surround therapy-seeking hip-hop dignitaries, it's refreshing to learn that one urban entrepreneur has achieved inner peace as a result of spilling his guts to a stranger.
Due to personal trials and tribulations, Sean "Diddy" Combs has regularly sought the advice of psychotherapists. In an interview with Playboy magazine, the Bad Boy Records founder admitted to sharing the impacts of failed relationships with a licensed professional.
"I've had therapy about my relationship with Kim [Porter], about my relationship with Jennifer [Lopez]," Diddy confesses. "Therapy helped me through a lot of those situations."
Though matters of the heart were a heavy topic of discussion, the Diddy also overcame the loss of a longtime friend and colleague during his counseling sessions.
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For critics who think rambling on to a doctor with a notepad is only for the emotionally disturbed, the rap mogul disagrees: "I think therapy is good. I've been called bipolar — I'm not; I just have very drastic mood swings."


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