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Colin Wilcox is one of the nine finalists in The Washington Post's Greatest D.C. Sports Fan Contest. For Round 1, we asked our contestants to tell us what one thing they would change about one of D.C.'s professional sports teams. Read Colin's response below, then tell us in the comments if you think he should be one of the six finalists to continue to the next round of competition.
I would change the atmosphere during games at Nats Park and here's how: I would turn Sections 138-143 (the lower level above the out-of-town scoreboard) into a student section/Euro soccer-type environment.
I would take out all the seats of those sections and make just one massive section of bleachers. The fans there would be loud, standing up the entire game, chanting, thunder stix would be a must and you'd have to be wearing red to get in. I call it: The Red Sea.
It would be a World Series Game 7 atmosphere for all 81 home games of the season. I want to make it so opposing center fielders and right fielders absolutely dread coming into Nats Park because they know they'll be hearing from the Red Sea all night. For the first few weeks.
I would recommend donating a good number of the tickets to local colleges to allow students to come for free; then you build the mystique and curiosity of being a part of the Red Sea and eventually there will be a high demand, not just from college students, who want to come and experience it. You could sell ad space all over the section (and on thunder stix, Red Sea t-shirts, cowbells, etc.) to help get some of the money lost from donating tickets. And let's be honest, those aren't the best seats in the house by any means; it's not like those sections have been selling out.
Also, to help create a buzz about being a part of the cheering section there would be a celebrity "leader of the Red Sea" every now and then. People like Darrell Green, John Wall, Ovechkin, Wale, Kevin Durant, etc. would be front and center of the group and lead the charge, so to speak, throughout the game. Eventually it will become an honor to "lead" the Red Sea and people will jump at the opportunity to do it. Between the winning product on the field and the potential of a second to none atmosphere, people will be lining up just for a chance to be part of the Red Sea.
Weigh In: Tell us what you think of Colin's argument in the comments. Our judges will choose six of the nine finalists to advance to Round 2 based on a combination or your comments and their opinions. Does Colin deserve to advance? Why or why not?
Read each contestant's Round 1 essay
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A civil engineer who has sixteen years of City of Miami experience under his belt, 58-year-old Joe Genuardi knows the ins and outs of this complex, rewarding career. First charged with overseeing records, plans processing, and permitting, for the past eight years Joe Genuardi has been responsible for administering and enforcing the city zoning ordinance, a Planning, Building, and Zoning Department position in which he is called upon to make thousands of complex interpretations, clarifications, and decisions relating to the city code. If a question arises that pertains to the zoning code, Genuardi, who was appointed by the Miami city manager, is the man who must come up with the answer.
Just as any worthwhile career involves both highs and lows, Joe Genuardi's $71,572.80-per-year job can sometimes seem like a thankless task. As a high-profile government official, Genuardi has encountered his share of critics. Those who might disagree with a Genuardi decision have fifteen days to file an appeal with the city Zoning Board, and pesky community activists occasionally avail themselves of this right. If the malcontents are unhappy with the board's ruling, they can appeal that decision to the City Commission, and ultimately to the circuit court. In the politically charged atmosphere of city hall, such complaints and appeals are a frequent and challenging part of a zoning administrator's job.
Some of his critics say Genuardi is a master of interpreting the code in a way that allows developers to bypass public hearings before the Zoning Board, a ten-member panel that votes on variances and special exceptions to the zoning code. They're not implying any semblance of corruption; it's merely an issue of greasing the wheels for high-powered developers and their consultants, several of whom are former city employees. "There is this real attitude at city hall that the developer is the client, not the one being regulated," says Tucker Gibbs, vice president of the Coconut Grove Civic Club, a neighborhood organization that's often at odds with Genuardi. "What follows is that their interests are often placed above the public's."
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There is no time limit for completing this self-test, but bear in mind that a zoning administrator must work as rapidly as possible without being careless. Although each problem has a "right" answer - Joe Genuardi's answer - in many cases other responses can add some points to your total score. Therefore, to maximize your tally, it's better to guess at the answer than to not respond at all.
1. The year is 1989. Manny Medina's got a great thing going with Monty's Market Place, snazzy retail space combined with the famous raw bar and restaurant he bought from Monty Trainer [see photo 1-1]. (Faced with financial difficulties, Medina in March sold the lease on the property.) But according to zoning regulations, he needs to supply 392 parking spaces. Fifty spaces are available at Monty's, 2560 South Bayshore Drive. But where does he find the remaining 342 spaces? Coincidentally, yawning skyward across the street is the 21-story glass-and-steel General Development Center tower constructed by Terremark Inc., Medina's development firm. The building's parking garage has oodles of extra spaces, built in return for bonus square footage granted when the tower was constructed. (As part of a plan to ease the growing parking problem in the Grove, in certain areas the city allows developers extra square footage if they agree to construct more parking spaces than their buildings require.) As zoning administrator, what do you do?
(A) Say, "Sorry, Manny. Those Terremark spaces were meant to ease parking problems elsewhere and we can't just give them up to save you the bother of building a parking garage somewhere else"
(B) Say, "No problem, Manny. Go ahead and use those extra spaces in the Terremark garage to make up for the ones you don't have"
(C) Say, "Let me get back to you on that, Manny," and conveniently forget about the matter
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
EXPLANATION: Terremark was allowed an extra 88,200 square feet of space in its commercial tower when it provided 441 extra spaces in its 1090-space parking garage. According to Genuardi, the extra spaces Monty's needed were "made available" in that lot. Grove Civic Club members contended that those spaces were meant to ease crowding elsewhere, and allowing Medina to use them was improper. Not so, argues Genuardi. The parking provision was devised to ease public parking problems for activities in the village center and at Dinner Key. And visiting Monty's is one of those activities. "The City Commission approved Monty's as a benefit to the public, and it is on public land. You can't just lease them the land and then tell them to find their own parking," says the zoning administrator. If you chose response (A), it's time to rethink your attitude. When answering subsequent questions, try to be a bit more developer-friendly - shutting out entrepreneurs translates into the loss of thousands of dollars in permit fees, and it can be devastating to a city's tax base, too! Although response (C) has potential, the correct answer is (B).
2. Since the 1970s, Miami Police Department employees have called it the "Dust Bowl" - an unpaved, city-owned parking lot at Northwest Third Street and Third Avenue [see photo 2-1]. On the north side of the 60,000-square-foot field is police headquarters, on the south side is the City of Miami Administration Building. Despite the fact that section 2017.1 of the zoning ordinance states that unpaved lots are illegal, police department employees regularly use the field for free parking, instead of paying to park their cars in nearby Municipal Garage #5, or any other city-approved spaces. On weekdays up to 125 cars fill the lot. How do you deal with the situation?
(A) Order that the lot be paved or shut down immediately
(B) Negotiate with the police department to correct the situation
(C) Ignore the situation entirely until someone makes you deal with it
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
EXPLANATION: Interestingly, the windows in Joe Genuardi's office in the city administration building overlook this controversial site, which was donated to the city with the stipulation that it be used only for training police K-9 units. Although Garage #5 was losing money while employees were illegally parking in the "Dust Bowl," the zoning division did nothing. Meanwhile the Code Enforcement Board was cracking down on Cure AIDS Now, a privately run social services agency, for maintaining an unpaved lot at its headquarters on South Dixie Highway in Coconut Grove. "What can I say?" Genuardi offers by way of explanation. "Sometimes when you're so busy with so many other things, you don't realize the things that are right in front of you. After a while they grow on you." When the matter was brought to his attention, says Genuardi, he took care of it - barricades now block the driveways to the barren lot. Late last week, however, two rows of police vehicles were parked in the lot. Response (B) is plausible, but the correct answer is (C).
3. In 1989 Coconut Grove developer Manny Medina buys the landmark Mutiny Hotel [see photo 3-1], which before sliding into foreclosure was the favorite haunt of Miami's cocaine cowboys and too-hip jet set. In July 1990 Terremark Inc., Medina's development firm, submits plans to turn the building at 2951 S. Bayshore Drive into a 222-room luxury hotel. As part of the renovation, the Mutiny's two-story parking garage on McFarlane Road will be razed and replaced with a three-level garage, complete with two tennis courts on the roof. The zoning code no longer allows parking garages in the Grove's village center, unless they are built behind first-floor shops. Because it is "grandfathered" in, the existing garage can remain, but a new structure would have to include first-floor shops. When asked to review the plans, what do you say?
(A) Require that the new garage be built with first-floor shops
(B) Send Medina to the Zoning Board to apply for special permission to build a new garage without the shops
(C) Give a blanket okay for a new garage
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
EXPLANATION: When Willy Bermello, Medina's architect, submitted plans for the renovation of the Mutiny, he described the work on the parking garage as a "reconstruction" of the existing structure, rather than demolition and construction of a new garage. Genuardi reviewed initial plans in April 1990 and decided the plan met the requirements of the zoning ordinance. His department approved the plans in July. Coconut Grove neighborhood activists protested the decision, labeling it "a play on words" and raising enough of a stink to force Genuardi to reconsider. "That case was classic Joe," recalls Tucker Gibbs, of the Grove Civic Club.
At first Genuardi feigned ignorance, saying he hadn't seen the plans. When pressed, he suddenly remembered having looked at them. "When I looked at the file, it came back to me," he says. "They did show me three options for what they intended to do, but I don't recall if there was any demolition being discussed. I believe what I originally approved was different than what they brought in on the final plans, and when that was brought to my attention, I simply made sure it was up to code." Medina subsequently agreed to add shops in front of a new parking garage. The correct answer is (C).
4. In 1986 the owners of a hotel and three apartment houses at the corner of NE Fifth Street and Second Avenue demolish the buildings and begin using the site as a dirt parking lot for downtown shoppers [see photo 4-1]. In October 1987 a zoning inspector cites the owners for violating section 2017.1 of the zoning ordinance, scheduling the case before the Code Enforcement Board on December 9. The matter is deferred when the inspector handling the case leaves the department, and the lot remains unpaved. In June 1988, another notice of violation is issued. Again the owners fail to do anything about the lot, and the case is again scheduled before the Code Enforcement Board. What recommendation do you make to the board?
(A) Fed up with all the delays, demand that the Code Enforcement Board order the lot owners to pave the site immediately or shut it down
(B) Try to stall the board in order to give the owners more time to figure out what to do
(C) Fire the inspector handling the case, allowing it to slip between the bureaucratic cracks once more
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
EXPLANATION: Civic activists say Genuardi probably would have liked to ignore the problem altogether - he actually did ignore it for some time - so (C) is an understandable choice. But in the end he could no longer fend off the Public Works Department, which had discovered the lot during a cleanup of the area around Bayside Marketplace. From the time it was deferred in 1987 until Public Works called it to Genuardi's attention again on June 8, 1988, the case vanished. On June 20 of that year, zoning inspector Vicente Sierra issued the lot owners a notice of violation. Eight days later the owners produced a certificate of use that had been granted in error in 1986, allowing the lot to open for business. The owners, Park A Partners and East Brickell Associates, said the paving had since worn away, leaving the lot bare. Again the case disappeared, until September 1988, when Public Works demanded to know what was going on.
Scheduled for the November 9 Code Enforcement Board meeting, the matter was delayed once more - at Genuardi's request - while the owners applied to the Zoning Board for permission to run the lot and for a building permit allowing them to pave the site. Public Works complained once more, saying the owners had been given plenty of time to apply for approval and permits. Genuardi persisted, going so far as to formally reprimand zoning inspector Jo King Reid when she rescheduled the case before the Code Enforcement Board on January 25, 1989. At that time, the assistant city attorney handling the case tried to have it dismissed again at the direction of Genuardi, but the board refused. The owners were found guilty and ordered to pave the lot, although they were given six months to do so. The lot was finally paved, and a final permit was issued on July 27, 1989. The fact that the property owners were represented by former city attorney Lucia Dougherty had nothing to do with his position, maintains Genuardi. "I don't even recall Lucia being involved in that case," he says, despite the fact that letters from Dougherty addressed to Genuardi are included in the city's files. "You can look at case after case in front of the Code Enforcement Board, and the policy is to defer the case and give the property owner time to do whatever is necessary to comply," says Genuardi. "We did nothing differently in this case. We're here to get people into compliance, not persecute anyone." The correct answer is (B).
5. In October 1990, the architecture firm of Sweeny and Associates applies for a special "Class C" permit from the city planning division in order to remodel and add to a building at 2974 Grand Avenue, across from Mayfair in Coconut Grove. They want to transform the structure into Kennedy Studios, an art gallery. In special districts such as the Grove's village center and the Latin Quarter in Little Havana, when property owners wish to substantially change an existing building or construct a new one, they are required to apply for a Class C permit, which imposes certain design criteria. After reviewing the plans, the zoning division signs the Class C permit application, which is sent to the planning division for final review. In this case, a proposed new canvas awning lacks the required five-foot setback from the edge of the property line. On November 1, 1990, Guillermo Olmedillo, deputy director of the Planning, Building, and Zoning Department, asks why the zoning division okayed the plans without the required setback. How do you respond?
(A) Acknowledge that zoning section personnel made a mistake, and send the property owner to the Zoning Board for a variance from the setback requirements
(B) Bristle with indignation and tell Olmedillo that it's none of his business
(C) Scour the code to find something that vindicates the decision
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
EXPLANATION: A bellicose attitude is inappropriate for a zoning administrator, which immediately rules out (B). Besides, Olmedillo might not technically be your boss, but as zoning administrator you still have to report to him, so it behooves you to maintain a decent working relationship.
A small portion of the existing structure lacked the necessary five-foot setback to begin with, but because the condition preceded the code, no change was required. In prior cases similar to this one, the zoning division had rejected any change that increased the nonconformity. But that was before Genuardi discovered section 2106.1 in the code: "No such building or structure, or portion thereof, which is non-conforming shall be enlarged, extended, or altered in any way which increases its nonconformity: but it may be enlarged, extended, or altered if the degree of its nonconformity remains the same or is decreased." In his interpretation, issued November 6, 1990, Genuardi states, "The plans were accepted without a front five-foot setback for the addition because the existing building is a non-conforming structure without a front setback...." The key, explains the shrewd Genuardi, "is the degree of nonconformity. The degree of nonconformity is not increased." Although the entire length of the proposed awning would violate the setback requirement, Genuardi argues, it wouldn't encroach any further toward the property line than did the small portion that had violated the requirement all along. "Other people disagree," says Genuardi, but the correct answer is (C).
6. In November 1986, builder Hernando Carrillo applies for a special permit to allow valet parking at a proposed office building at 2701 Day Avenue in Coconut Grove. Availing himself of valet parking would allow Carrillo to set aside less space for parking than would normally be required, because with valet service, cars can be packed in more tightly. One day later, in response to complaints by neighbors that office workers might park along the street or on front lawns rather than elect to wait for someone to fetch their cars for them, the City Commission changes the ordinance. Adding spaces that blocked other spaces would be permitted only after the code's minimum parking requirements had been met. In November 1987, nearly a year after the application is submitted, Genuardi reviews the permit. What should he do?
(A) Reject the permit because the commission changed the rules before you reviewed the situation
(B) Issue the permit because the application was turned in before the change was instituted
(C) Send Carrillo to the Zoning Board to request an exception on the basis of his unique situation
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
EXPLANATION: The zoning code requires that a completed application be on file in order that a special permit can be issued. An application is considered complete after the zoning administrator has reviewed and signed it. Genuardi did not review the application until well after the City Commission had changed the rules regarding valet parking at office buildings. But Genuardi approved the permit, even after neighbors, the planning division, and the Public Works Department all pointed out that the plan would create traffic snarls. (Because of the way the lot was to be configured, and because the building was to be located on a one-way street, valets would have to loop nearly a half-mile around the neighborhood in order to make use of all the parking spaces.) Neighbors appealed to the Zoning Board, which upheld Genuardi's decision. They then appealed to the City Commission, which also stood behind Genuardi. Finally, the neighbors took the issue to circuit court, where a panel of three judges overruled Genuardi's decision on the grounds that the permit had not been completed before the ordinance was changed. "It was just a case of people at the city circling the wagons and protecting his decision," says Bob Fitzsimmons, past president of the Coconut Grove Civic Club and the lawyer who represented the neighbors in the case. "But the judges saw through all that." The correct answer is (B).
7. The Grove Hill project is Manny Medina's proposed luxury residential complex of 96 apartments at 2651 South Bayshore Drive in Coconut Grove. In 1989, when architect Willy Bermello applies for a Class C permit, his plans include an interesting design detail. Facing South Bayshore Drive will be a twenty-inch wall, behind which will be nine more walls, spaced several feet apart along a landscaped incline [see figure 7-1]. According to the zoning code, walls more than three feet high are forbidden within 30 feet of Bayshore Drive. Because of the incline, six of the walls will exceed the three-foot limit. Concealed by the landscaping will be a parking garage, part of which will jut into the 30-foot setback, another violation of the zoning code. If you are Joe Genuardi, what do you do when asked to review the plans?
(A) Send Bermello back to the drawing board
(B) Send Bermello to the Zoning Board for a variance
(C) Find something in the code to allow the walls and parking garage
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
EXPLANATION: Leonardo had his Mona Lisa, Michelangelo his David. Joe Genuardi has Grove Hill. The trick here was in determining the point from which the walls were to be measured. Turning to section 2016.1 of the zoning code, Genuardi decided that the three feet should be measured not from the level of South Bayshore Drive, but from the flood-plain level, which at that point is nine feet above the surface of the road. And voila! The walls are legal. The last wall, which was to tower twelve feet above street level, was exactly three feet above the flood-plain level! The parking garage, which seemed to encroach into the 30-foot setback, was to be built entirely below flood-plain level. Genuardi approved it, too, ruling that because it was below the flood plain, the prohibitions in the code didn't apply. Unfortunately, the viewing public will never get the chance to enjoy Genuardi's masterpiece. After various revisions of other parts of the project, Bermello resubmitted the plans this past year. This time the walls and garage had been moved outside the 30-foot setback. Meanwhile, Grove Civic Club members have seen to it that the new zoning code, which took effect in September, reads no walls, fences, and hedges over three feet "as measured vertically from the crown of the road and not from the flood plain." The correct answer is (C).
8. In 1988, Oscar Guardado, the owner of a site at 625 NW 24th Avenue, applies for a Class C permit to add a fifth unit to a building in an area zoned for duplexes. The four-unit structure, which predates the code, is not at issue, and the conversion itself is legal under the zoning code's Schedule of District Regulations. However, the existing units include several additions for which there are no plans or permits on file at the city. Many of the rooftops of these additions extend up to the property line, leaving no setback as required by the code. Do you:
(A) Force Guardado to come up with plans and permits for the additions, and if he can't produce, refer the case to the Code Enforcement Board
(B) Go into business with Guardado, buying half the property and approving the Class C permit, allowing the fifth unit
(C) See to it that plans for the additions are filed in the middle of the night, making it seem as though they were in the files all along
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
EXPLANATION: No one has ever accused Joe Genuardi of corruption, not even his archenemies. After zoning inspectors were unable to locate any plans for the previous haphazard additions, Genuardi determined that they were "existing legal non-conforming structures," meaning they didn't have to be corrected to comply with the existing code. City files contain telephone messages indicating that Guardado's development consultant, Laura Tindall-Howell, a former zoning inspector who worked for Genuardi, lobbied the zoning division for a favorable ruling in the case. And Genuardi didn't let down his ex-employee. When zoning inspector Jo King Reid, who was awaiting more information about the case, refused to file a final zoning inspection on March 30, 1989, Genuardi sent her a terse message. "I cannot wait indefinitely until you decide what if anything is not in accordance with the approved plans.... If I do not get an answer by the end of the day, I will sign it off." At 3:25 p.m. that day, Reid replied: "Without complete information, my report will not be written.... If you desire to handle this final [report] yourself, you have the authority to do so at any time." Genuardi proceeded to stamp the final inspection report, saying that nothing was improper at the site. "I didn't think it was fair to keep the property owner waiting," explains Genuardi. "It was reaching the point of harassment of him." So in the end, Tindall-Howell prevailed. The correct answer is (E).
9. Restaurateur Victor del Corral purchases the landmark Studio restaurant on SW 32nd Avenue, intending to turn it into Victor's Cafe, the Miami edition of his upscale Cuban restaurant in Manhattan [see photo 9-1]. But there's one potential hitch: If rebuilding costs exceed 50 percent of a structure's total replacement cost, the new building must meet current zoning requirements. In this case, there wouldn't be enough room for the number of parking spaces required by the code. If the existing structure is remodeled rather than demolished, however, parking does not have to be expanded. In 1988, del Corral draws up plans to remodel, with no provision for increased parking. What do you do when he presents the plans for review?
(A) Allow del Corral to build the restaurant without any additional parking spaces
(B) Come up with a ruling that ensures the restaurant will be built without the parking
(C) Take a special interest in the project, following it through to its conclusion, making sure the parking issue never presents a problem
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
EXPLANATION: Genuardi's subtle ingenuity in attacking the Victor's project illustrates why he's a zoning administrator and most other people aren't. Del Corral's original plans, approved by the zoning division, called for the exterior walls to be left intact while the interior and roof were to be demolished. During the demolition, sections of exterior walls were torn down, due to their poor condition. With everything proceeding smoothly, an old-timer in the Public Works Department suddenly recalled that part of the Studio was built on city-owned land. As if that weren't enough, Public Works was entitled to even more land on the site. In Miami, if more than 650 square feet of a project are renovated, or if construction costs top $25,000, Public Works can take possession of "zoned right-of-way" - land along public thoroughfares that the department has earmarked for future expansion of streets or sidewalks. Two exterior walls would have to come down and be rebuilt outside the limit of the right-of-way. Arguing that code requirements would be met, Genuardi continued to classify the project as a "reconstruction." (By this time, portions of two exterior walls were all that was to remain of the original structure.) One zoning division employee who requested anonymity recalls: "A lot of people thought that was a serious error in judgment. But everyone just laughed it off. The word going around was that it was communicated to this department by someone of importance - whether it was from the city manager's office or the City Commission, I don't know - that we should be of assistance to the owner of this property. It seems the zoning administrator responded in a way those people wanted." Genuardi counters that his decision was reviewed by Assistant City Manager Sergio Rodriguez (head of the Planning, Building, and Zoning Department) and by the city attorney's office. During one commission meeting, Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez commented that the project "sounds like the most creative grandfathering of a building in the history of Miami." Give yourself partial credit for (A), (B), or (C); but the correct answer is (D).
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Some fans take their games personally, but in the last few months we've seen passion turn to violence far too often at California sporting events. Now one lawmaker says enough is enough.
It's three strikes you're out at the old ballgame, but if lawmaker Mike Gatto gets his way, all it will take is one violent act to get a fan banned from professional sporting events in California
"There are so many things out there worth fighting for – your family, your country – but the color of someone's jersey just isn't one of them," the Southern California assemblyman told CBS13 on Tuesday.
Gatto says his Los Angeles constituents are now afraid to take their kids to ballgames after high-profile incidents such as the vicious beating of Bryan Stow. The Giants fan was in a coma for six months after being attacked by Dodgers fans.
"Beating someone up because they're rooting for a different team, we need to come down hard on these people," Gatto said.
The "ban list" would target fans convicted of hurting someone at a game. Their name would be placed on an online database and circulated to sporting venues, police departments and ticketing offices around the state. It would also require all teams to contribute $10,000 to a reward fund.
The idea scores big with a number of fans we talked to.
"I'm for it," one said. "I think a lot of the fans take it too serious. It's just a game. It should be played as a game, enjoyed as entertainment."
"Violent people kinda ruin it for everybody," another said.
But some worry the law would be ineffective.
"I think it's a good idea, but I don't know how it would be enforced," one said.
Gatto believes the threat of a year in jail and a $10,000 fine if caught is a good enough deterrent.
"Italy and England passed laws like this because of problems with soccer hooliganism," he said. "The laws have been tremendously successful over there."
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The German Magazine GameStar had the chance to take a look at the HD-Remake of Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny. Even if you don't speak German you can get a first impression of the game. It's still an alpha version and all the graphics (and the performance) are not final (e.g. when resting they show a placeholder screen). Most of the old game mechanics are untouched though. For the music they use the HD version of the music which was already present on the CD version of the original game.
Looks really good. I wonder what kind of system they were running that on because the framerate was quite low at times. Although I understand performance hasn't been fully optimized yet.
Looking good!
If the gameplay and the story telling are preserved, it'll be instabuy for me !
Any info about who's making this remake ? Sorry, I found the correct page and it states that UIG Entertainment undertook this project (if my German serves me right ?).
I don't know who UIG is, but they re-released several "retro" games during the last 2 games - according to the shelves in my nearest Saturn electronic chain shops. Among them was the NLT, too.
If you're capable of the German language, then you should really pay "CRystal's DSA-Foren" a visit. They have a small English-language section as well, I think.
I assume that they know most about this remake there. They are all hardcore NLT players, some looked into the games even on bit level.
I think Arhu knows them, too. ;)
German-language article (2 pages) : http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/das-sc…8,3011198.html
Would anyone like to translaste the highlights of the article? Going by the video, the game looks really good.
Outside looks good, inside and fighting looks not good…. but I guess they'll fix that for the release.
- TB tactical combat as before, complex fights may take up to 20 minutes.
- A separte window can display the die rolls
- Travelling still via overland map and still requires careful management.
- However, local maps are now seamless.
- Imroved usability and UI:
- Tutorials now explain the game systems and controls.
- Drag and drop inventory
- Minimap
- Graphics: a mixed bag. Nice day and night cycle and weather effects, but frequently poor textures. No competition for recent AAA titles.
- In summary: faithful remake of the old game with updated graphics and user interface. 80 hours of gameplay for 20,-
Thanks Ghan!
When is it coming out?
I have brand new cd version of the original trilogy but I dont think Ill play it if this is released.
Wow … take my money please! :)
Fighting definetly looks too slow (if every single blow will be a cutscene). Other than that… I want that game!
Cool. There seems to be no shortage of stats / skills on each character!
Oh ! I tried another search for CRystal's DSA Foren (without the -) and that pointed to a forum (http://www.crystals-dsa-foren.de/) about the Northern trilogy (the nickname for Realms of Arkania trilogy) ! Thanks a lot Alrik (gonna struggle with my really basic German but that's worth it, I'm sure :o) ).
And that I wrote "CRystal's DSA-Foren" was a typo. Recently I often tend to write things this : "ALrik.
"Foren" is the German plural form of "Forum".
And DSA (Das Schwarze Auge) is the German version of "TDE" (THe Dark Eye).
German fans always call the "Realms Of Arcania Trilogy" in short simply "NLT" = " Nordlandtrilogie".
And your link is correct. That's what I had meant. Some of the older developers sometimes post there (like Guido Henkel, for example).
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Skin toxicity is a frequently observed side effect in the era of "molecularly targeted therapies". Skin toxicity following administration of protein kinase inhibitors such as sorafenib, regorafenib, lapatinib, sunitinib, and others can be debilitating to the patient, resulting in dose reduction and discontinuation of treatment. The mechanisms of skin toxicity induced by targeted chemotherapy, such as sorafenib or regorafenib, are poorly understood. Further research is warranted to better understand the pathophysiology of drug-related skin toxicity in this setting and develop correction strategies. This study tests the hypothesis that sorafenib and regorafenib interfere with p63 expression and keratinocyte differentiation and skin remodeling.
Eligible study participants will be evaluated clinically for evidence of skin toxicity during their visits to the outpatient Oncology clinics. Study participants will undergo skin biopsies before sorafenib or regorafenib treatment is initiated and once rash develops or 12 weeks into treatment with sorafenib or regorafenib. Skin biopsies will be performed in Oncology clinics by the study investigators and clinic support staff.
Study participants will undergo both skin biopsies regardless of whether they develop a rash. In patients who develop a rash the most representative lesion will be biopsied. A normal appearing area of skin will be biopsied in participants who do not develop a rash.
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|A Study of the Effect of Sorafenib or Regorafenib on p63 Expression and Keratinocyte Differentiation in Human Skin
- p63 expression levels [ Time Frame: Week 12 ]Tissue collection is done within 7 days prior to treatment and when rash develops. If no rash develops, normal skin will be biopsied at week twelve of treatment.
- Tumor response [ Time Frame: Week 12 ]Sorafenib and regorafenib potentially interfere with p63 expression and keratinocyte differentiation and skin remodeling. The extent of interference may indicate extent of tumor response.
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- Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of a solid tumor (RCC, HCC, or colorectal cancer).
- Participants are planning to initiate treatment with either sorafenib or regorafenib as a single chemotherapeutic agent
- Able to swallow and retain oral medication and does not have any clinically relevant, active gastrointestinal disease or other condition that may significantly alter absorption, distribution, metabolism, or excretion of drugs.
- Be able to provide written informed consent.
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- Patients who are or will be receiving other chemotherapeutic or molecularly targeted agents in addition to sorafenib or regorafenib
- Concurrent moderate or severe chronic inflammatory skin condition (eczema, psoriasis)
- Concurrent blistering skin disorder of any severity (such as pemphigus, bullous pemphigoid)
- Connective tissue disorders with skin involvement (systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, dermatomyositis, etc.)
- Patients manifesting an allergic skin reaction (such as urticaria) or skin reaction as a complication of prior chemotherapy
- Patients with skin lesions of infectious or non-infectious cause, precluding skin biopsy
- Patients not willing to undergo skin biopsy
- Patients who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant during their participation in the study.
- Chemotherapy, targeted therapy, or biological therapy within two weeks of start of treatment.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01466504
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A centerpiece of Barack Obama's campaign was his promise to cut taxes for "95 percent of American workers." Middle-class voters, especially, responded strongly to that pledge - and now they expect our new president to deliver lower tax bills.
Tax cuts, done right, can strengthen the economy for both the short term and the long haul. Targeting families, workers and small businesses - as Obama also pledged - is a good starting point.
But the president-elect's promised tax cuts would deliver only minimal benefit to the groups of voters he wooed in the campaign. To really help them - and to promote general economic growth that benefits all - Obama must go further.
Here's how he can do it:
Reduce marginal tax rates and the total tax burden for taxpaying families. Candidate Obama promised to restore fairness to the tax code as well as cut taxes for 95 percent of workers. To the typical American, his words meant all taxpayers would get to keep more of their money to spend, save or invest as they see fit. Such words as "broad-based tax relief" don't mean breaks restricted to families whose activities Washington deems worthy. And they certainly don't mean government checks for millions of Americans who don't even pay any income tax. Lowering marginal rates, by contrast, would create greater incentives for work, innovation and entrepreneurship.
It's not like the investor class isn't already pulling its weight. Those earning more than $250,000 already pay 48 percent of all income taxes. Yet 43 million tax filers - nearly a third of the 135.7 million total - paid no income tax at all in 2006 after credits, deductions and exemptions.
Lower capital gains taxes across the board. Candidate Obama pledged to help small businesses and start-ups by "eliminating" capital gains taxes paid by investors in those enterprises. This not only would be difficult to apply in practice, it likely would be counterproductive. It would complicate, not simplify, the tax code. The new president should decrease the cost of capital to help all businesses, large and small, start or expand operations. This would do far more to create jobs.
Kill the "death tax" once and for all. The estate tax strikes while families struggle to cope with loss of a loved one. And it costs the nation 200,000 or more new jobs a year. That's why Congress voted to completely phase out the death tax by 2010.
So why did candidate Obama promise to bring it back? He called it a "Paris Hilton" tax, but the folks who end up actually paying it are mostly owners of small or medium-size businesses. It's especially brutal on family farmers and ranchers, who are "land rich." All too often their sons and daughters have to sell off the family holdings to settle the death tax. That's no way to get the country back on track.
Permanently patch, or repeal, the alternative minimum tax. Without regular "patches" by Congress, the insidious AMT would capture more income from a growing number of taxpayers - 20 million next year, many of them middle class. Success here, as the president-elect rightly observed, will require fixing contradictory policies of the Congressional Budget Office that create a bias in favor of higher taxes and higher spending.
Absent these fixes, Obama's promised tax cuts for the middle class will require hefty spending cuts or tax increases elsewhere. Preserving current law isn't a tax reduction, and allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010 would mean a massive tax hike for investors that neither taxpayers nor the economy can afford.
"Tax cuts" for those who pay no taxes and indiscriminate, across-the-board "rebates" will not generate the growth America needs. Once in the White House, President Obama's first priority must be to help stabilize our flagging economy. That means lowering or eliminating taxes for everyone who pays them.
Alison Acosta Fraser is director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. This article is based on her contribution to a Heritage project, "Change We Believe In: Memos to President-elect Obama."
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"What we see is that this story is larger than eleven individuals," said Issa on "CBS This Morning" on Monday. "It's part of what has been, told to us, as a pattern of behavior that's built up, so called 'wheels up' parties and the like and clearly you have an elite unite that we count on to have the greatest of security not just for the president but for the cabinet for other officials and we need to know that they're living up to on a broad basis."
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I am easygoing and I like travelling and meeting new people. The other things just come through. I have some hobbies like playing basketball, painting. I am interested in theater, I played a few roles in theater plays. Besides I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist and I love my job so far. When I was studying medicine I had time to travel on summers to do internships on abroad so that I enjoyed my internships more. Now I still try to travel when I find time.
I live the moment I am in and am trying to say yes for all the things that I won't regret later.
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
I've surfed for four times. In Newcastle, Paris, Bergen, Stavanger. All of them made me see the secret parts of the cities and secret lives of the people so I had amazing experiences and amazing couchsurfing friends.
playing basketball and tennis
- theater
- dining
- cooking
- traveling
- painting
- basketball
- rock climbing
- tennis
- medicine
Music, Movies, and Books
all kind of good movies
alternative rock music
didactic books
One Amazing Thing I've Done
some amazing things are happening but when someone asked for it, its hard to find one :)
Teach, Learn, Share
I'd like to teach cooking Turkish food and they are really interesting and delicious and I can teach sewing too whenever we find a sewing machine :) And I desire to learn different cuisines.
Countries I've Visited
Belgium, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom
Countries I've Lived In
Ireland, Italy, Turkey


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All quotes tagged Wine
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"Now in its fifth year, Taste Washington Spokane has grown to be one of the largest, most popular wine tasting events in Eastern Washington. Taste Washington provides the public with an opportunity to try new Washington wines, meet winemakers and chefs, and celebrate our state's booming wine industry."
"These guys, they're married; they've got a couple of kids. Wine is part of their lives, but it's not integrated in a way that they really force themselves to be knowledgeable."
"El caballo español es como el vino, se aprecia por su color y al moverlo se disfruta cada uno de sus matices, es comparable con las bellezas mas sublimes que existen en el mundo."


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Despite successes of Albanian olive oil processors and greenhouse owners, there are unique challenges in running their businesses. For olive oil industry, olive oil waste disposal is a long term concern with high costs on the environment. For greenhouse growers that produce seedlings, the cost of heating with fuel/heavy oil has risen substantially.
Considering the increasing prices of fuel used for heating the seedling production greenhouse, the Agro-Koni company, an Albanian consolidator/exporter of fresh produce and seedling supplier who is also a client of USAID's agriculture project, decided to change the steam generation system from fuel/heavy oil to olive pits. The supplier of the new steam generator instructed the company on how to use olive pits as the burning material.
USAID contacted olive oil processors and gathered all the necessary data on the availability of the olive cake among the olive oil producers. Site visits were facilitated for Ruzhdi Koni, the owner of Agro-Koni Company to inspect the quality and the available quantities of olive waste as a heating fuel alternative.
As a result of these coordinated efforts, Agro-Koni purchased 100 metric tons of olive cake from several Albanian olive oil processors and reduced his heating cost by at least 50%. Although the used amount of olive cake as an alternative energy source was small, it seems to be a business opportunity with a promising future for both of the partners. The roughly calculated annual olive cake material demand from Agro-Koni is about 2,000 metric tons. The olive oil processors, appreciated this effort as well, because it was not only a good source of income (1 metric tons being sold at 100$), but also a good and environmentally sound solution for the olive cake disposal.
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" Brand: Penhaligon's / & Body Cream / Type: Hand & Body Cream / Suitable for: Hand & Body / Contents: 150ml / Subtype: Handwash & Lotion / Skin type: All skin types / What it does: moisturizes, "
* Prices may differ from that shown
I can't imagine ever having enough money to buy this just as a hand cream despite its name. For me, hand creams are essential and practical and used by the fistful. They sit in a tub in my kitchen and the most I ask of them is that they moisturise well for a reasonable cost.
Quercus Hand and Body Cream is about as far from that as you can possibly get.
For a start, it was formulated by experts at the long-standing perfume house of Penhaligon's so it's as much a fragrance as a toiletry item.
Secondly, because of the quality of the product, it is anything but a reasonable cost (by my standards at least).
And the scent. How to describe something that is so invigorating yet so delicate at the same time? There is a hint of citrus - lime and lemon - but also a warmer woody overtone. It always reminds me of those slightly spicy floral scents such as jasmine and lily of the valley. The manufacturer's description also mentions basil and cardamom but that makes it sound like a new wave curry, which might or might not appeal to you.
Personally, I use it as a luxury body cream so that I can enjoy its subtle scent throughout the day. No need for perfume if you've used it first thing in the morning, particularly if you've also used Quercus Bath and Shower gel (which I've reviewed separately) and any of the other products in the Quercus range. You can get shampoo, soap, deodorant and cologne but you might feel that's too much of a good thing (and certainly painful on the purse).
So, in addition to the smell, why might you buy this product? It certainly feels like a quality moisturising cream. It contains shea butter, cocoa seed butter, sweet almond oil and aloe vera. The texture is lovely and it rubs in quickly and completely with no greasiness. It very effectively keeps difficult areas, such as the skin at the top of my arms, very soft and hydrated.
It comes in a very ordinary looking tube - this is an understated product in spite of (or perhaps because of) its price.
If you're wondering why a moisturising cream should be so expensive, then you might not know that Penhaligon's have been making perfumes since 1870. The business was originally set up by a Cornish barber when he moved to London. They now hold two Royal Warrants and claim that some of the ingredients used in their products are twice the price of gold.
So, how much is it going to cost you? The 150ml tube is £27 and there's no disguising that's a whole lot of money. However, I treat it like a perfume that has the added benefit of moisturising, rather than thinking of it simply as a body cream. I love the scent because I find it empowering and I like the quality that means the scent stays on my skin all day.
The other drawback is availability. Penhaligon's have several outlets in London and a couple of others in places such as Cambridge but your only other option is to buy from their website. Postage is £5.50 for standard delivery.
Would I recommend it? Absolutely. I love this fragrance and I love the quality. I can't afford it all the time but it's always on my wish list at Christmas and birthday just in case someone is feeling generous.
Penhaligon's Quercus Hand & Body Cream 150ml / Containing aloe vera / shea butter / cocoa seed butter and sweet almond oil / our hand & body creams deeply moisturise the skin and envelop you in a cloud of your favourite fragrance /


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Hydration Bladder - Black
A high quality hydration bladder with a capacity of 3 litres. Made with the use of modern technologies from a triple-layer polyethylene.
The bladder has a wide opening that allows to easy filling. It was adequately secured in order to prevent the leaking of the bladder. The bladders straw was entwined with durable fibre that blocks UV and isolates the content thermally, which causes the water to remain pure, clean and free from any bacteria till the very last drop. The mouthpiece guarantees comfort of usage and tightness.
Measurements of an empty bladder are 430 x 210, the length of the straw with the mouthpiece is ~1080 mm.
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The material which is made of seems to be more platic than a soft material. I'm there will appear cracks on the bladder in cold weather. The straw and mouthpiece seems to be higher quality ones.


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Priceline buys Kayak for $1.8 billion
Kayak Software Corp., the travel search company with offices in Concord and Norwalk, Conn., is being acquired by travel site Priceline.com Inc. for $1.8 billion in cash and stock, less than four months after becoming a publicly-traded company, the companies announced Thursday.
Priceline will pay $40 a share for the company, a 29 percent premium to its closing price of $31.04 Thursday and 54 percent more than its initial public offering price in July of $26 a share.
In a conference call with financial analysts on Thursday afternoon, Priceline chief executive officer Jeffery Boyd said the Kayak deal brings the company engineering talent and deep expertise in the increasingly important mobile market. "They have a great shop up in the Boston area,'' said Boyd, "and we are very excited to be working with their engineers.''
He said Priceline will focus on helping Kayak grow its business overseas, and further expanding into the hotel market. Kayak, which does most of its business in the United States, may also help Priceline derive more revenue from the domestic travel market.
Kayak reported$224 million in revenues last year, and processed 302 million users queries for travel information in the quarter ending in September, a 31 percent jump over the same period last year.
"Domestically their [Priceline's] business is growing in single digits, because much of the growth is outside the US,'' said Lorraine Sileo, a travel industry analyst at research firm PhoCusWright Inc., in Sherman, Conn. "This certainly gives them a bigger chunk of the business back in the US.''
Since it went public earlier this year, Kayak has reported strong user growth. The eight-year-old company, which had $224 million in revenues last year, processed 302 million users queries for travel information in the quarter that ended in September, a 31 percent jump over the same period last year.
While Americans know Priceline mainly through its humorous TV ads featuring William Shatner, the company developed a major presence overseas when it acquired the Dutch hotel booking company Booking.com in 2004. As a result, Priceline generates about 80 percent of its gross booking revenues from customers outside of the United States.
Adding Kayak to its portfolio will also help Priceline attract a wider segment of the market, analysts said. Priceline has 3,400 employees and raked in $4.3 billion in revenues last year,
"This is about expanding the size of the Priceline ranch, if you will, on the travel ecommerce prairie,'' said Henry Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst at Atmosphere Research Group. "Priceline is great if you know where you want to go, or get savings. Kayak puts Priceline as a company further up the travel planning food chain in what's called the inspiration phase: where can I go, I only want to spend a certain amount of money.''


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western digital will announce next week the availability of the first 10,000 rpm ide hard drive using serial-ata and destined for desktop usage. heretofore, the fastest ide hard drives have topped out at 7,200 rpm. scsi drives long ago surpassed the 7,200 rpm mark and are offered in speeds up to 15,000 rpm, a primary reason why high-peformance servers continue to rely on scsi drives.
this announcement puts yet another notch in western digital's belt as a maker of milestones in hard drives. the company previously introduced the first ide drive with an 8m b buffer, and also had the first 7,200 rpm ide hard drive for mass market consumption.
thanks go to xbit labs for the link.
eric's opinion
ide hard drives have had, in my opinion, an undeserved reputation for years as the perfomance underdogs when compared with scsi drives. however, most people fail to realize that much of the internals between a scsi drive and an ide drive are, in fact, identical. the electronics make up most of the difference, and that's mainly due to the differences between scsi and ide.
i've had conversations with eugene over at storagereview about the speed differences between ide and scsi, and he's made some amazing findings. for single-drive implementations, several 7,200 rpm ide drives outran their 7,200 rpm scsi counterparts. the lack of 10,000 rpm ide drives has prevented an apples-to-apples comparison between ide and scsi up to this point, but no longer.
given the huge cost differential between ide and scsi, ide is making more and more sense in situations where you don't need more than three or four drives. ide capacities are generally much larger than scsi capacities, so you can build the same size array with fewer drives and lower costs by using ide instead of scsi. reliability is not really a factor–use the cost savings of ide to purchase more redundant ide drives. the costs still end up being lower.
user comments 35 comment(s)
|1st (3:33pm est thu feb 06 2003)
unf – by w00t
|ide question (3:34pm est thu feb 06 2003)
can you have more than 4 primary partition in the new ide drives? for *nix operating systems using scsi, i can have many partitions. for *nix, i have to create secondary partition within one of the 4 primary paritions on ide. what a pain!!!
another question? do we need a fan for the faster 10000 rpm ide drives? the 7200 rpm runs a little warm compared with 5200 rpm. – by ide question
|scsi upside though (4:09pm est thu feb 06 2003)
i like to have an armada of cd and dvd drives in my box, so having scsi drives frees up my ide channels. it will be tough for serial-ata to beat my future pair of 15k ultra320 scsi drives–except in capacity…well…there is the cost too. the disadvantage of big drives is (1) the long time it takes to defrag them, (2) a greater chance of files bugging out on you due to the ever increasing density of the particulate media, and (3) the more speed �n capacity equals more heat. one thing i'm doing is going to buy a big capacity ide to serve as the backup drive for the other two scsi drives. beats the tape drive any day. – by robocasper
|that's what i was wondering (4:34pm est thu feb 06 2003)
how much hotter and louder are these gonna be in comparison to 7200 rpm drives? – by sshhhhh
|that is why apple uses ide drives in the xserve… (4:35pm est thu feb 06 2003)
…which means that the facts you say about ide vs. scsi are right! – by kliment
|good news! (4:43pm est thu feb 06 2003)
western digital was smart to sell off there scsi division years ago. so they dont care about putting out 8meg/10k rpm drives. it does put a dent into the world of scsi hd makers though. 1000.00 for 100+ gig scsi harddrive is crazy.
i cant wait to see some benchmarks on theses drives. the 7200rpm sata were not all that great. if they kick azz then i will be getting one.
as far as heat goes robocasper. you can buy a harddrive cooler with fans for 25.00. so heat is not an issue at all. – by bobafett
|what i like to do…. (4:47pm est thu feb 06 2003)
i have a small in houser multimedia server…
every dvd i own, every mp3 and all my software are saved to my server (yeah and about 90% of it is legal too)). i stream this out to my place (4 computers plus the server, as well as the home stereo through an audio out and the television through the video out). the laptop can play music outside for me…in teh kitchen…on the bowl (wireless). i can watch movies anywhere through the beauty of divx…its nice…and all of it is done with one 160 gb maxtor, one 80 gb maxtor and two 40 gb maxtors. though my os is installed on two fujistu 10,000 rpm ultra160 running a raid 0. i love it…when i need the performance it is there, otherwise it is just smooth without hitches…it is nice – by distempered
|good news! (4:47pm est thu feb 06 2003)
western digital was smart to sell off there scsi division years ago. so they dont care about putting out 8meg/10k rpm drives. it does put a dent into the world of scsi hd makers though. 1000.00 for 100+ gig scsi harddrive is crazy.
i cant wait to see some benchmarks on theses drives. the 7200rpm sata were not all that great. if they kick azz then i will be getting one.
as far as heat goes robocasper. you can buy a harddrive cooler with fans for 25.00. so heat is not an issue at all. defraging should always be done when your in bed so who cares about the time.
|scsi will never go away (5:10pm est thu feb 06 2003)
scsi drives and technologies were specifically designed for applications where high intensity drive acess is performed (i.e. database servers or file servers). additionally, when you've got a server such as a domain controller, you want the access and reliability that come with scsi drives.
should shed some light on the differences in the mechanics of ide versus scsi drives and their specific applications. the mtbf figures, for example, assume that a scsi drive will be powered up for 24 hours and constantly accessed, whereas an ide drive will be powered for 11 hours and accessed only 36% of the time. ide and scsi both have their applications, it's not a speed contest. – by blindgeek007
|scsi advantage – don't be mislead (5:17pm est thu feb 06 2003)
under a fully utilized multitasking system, scsi's huge advantage over ide is its ability to take high level read/write operations from cpus and process them independently. what this means is that your cpu load will be lower (50-75+% cpu utilization reduction), and that simultaneous accesses between devices are possible.
as for complaint about longer defrag time for large drive: partition your drive! fragmentation is limited to individual partition. keep frequenly writen/deleted files on a seperated partition.
on a server, this translate into a huge performance leap under load. and on personal systems, faster cd burning and better application response during heavy drive access. – by grandpa
|i screwed up the link (5:19pm est thu feb 06 2003)
– by blindgeek007
|grandpa (5:56pm est thu feb 06 2003)
ever heard of dma? i used to get 70% cpu usage when accessing my ide drive till i figured out winxp had a case of retard and had disabled dma…re-enabled it and now im back down to ~2%.
i for one never used scsi, but if serial ata works right, i'll probably try that instead anyway. – by nyeark
|ohhh yes!!! (5:57pm est thu feb 06 2003)
2 400 gb 10k rpm, 8 mb cache raid 0 array equals over 80 mb/sec sustained read performance.
can't wait to see how many points it will score on sisoft sandra pro 2003. – by affez pow
|heat and noise (6:02pm est thu feb 06 2003)
seagate, if i remember correctly, has 7200rpm drives using fluid bearings instead of ball bearings, which has brought the ammount of heat and decibles produced equivalent to a 5200rpm drive. if western digital uses something similar then there should be no problems with the 10000rpm drives. bring it on! – by js
|sequential access of multiple drives (6:40pm est thu feb 06 2003)
another factor that kept ide out of scsi territory was the fact that an a given ide channel, only one drive can be accessed at a time. unlike ide, scsi can access multiple drives at the same time on the same cable..
however, with the advent of serial ata, the master slave relationship is a thing of the past. sata ide drives each have their own dedicated channel, meaning multiple drive accesses are now far more practicle in the ide arena.
while i don't think scsi will die off completely, it's popularity is definately on the decline, and will continue to be for the forseeable future.
-sp – by sphantom
|15k are overrated. (6:57pm est thu feb 06 2003)
15k drives are way overrated. they use too much power, and will fail more often. 10k is about right, but really not even needed.
most applications are really not super i/o intensize anymore. take what would seem like a highly i/o service like a database. a good database server will have huge memory buffers, this largly reduces i/o. after the initial i/o then you are stuck with the speed of you memory.
the thing that gives scsi its lead is the ability to literally raid 100's of drives. if you have a raid 10 you get reliability and speed. you can do this with ide, but you only get 4 drives.
scsi should die. if ide could overcome the 4 drive limit i don't think scsi would even be around. the fact that an improperly terminated scsi connection can damage hardware amuses me, no where else would this be tolerated.
a good raid controller. with 64 or more megs of cahce can make all the difference in the world. good drivers
in a few years 4 gigs of sdram memory will be pretty cheap. a ide raid controller with 4 gigs of fairly high speed memory could essentially cache everything you need. even if you have 40 gigs of mp3's you wouldn't be listening to them all at one time.
i'm often suprised that we have not really improved our hd subsystem in a while. scsi is to blame for it. a good raid scsci controller can be up to $2000. and then you want to get the 128 meg upgrade and they charge $400 bucks. when you get it you realize it was simple a 128 meg sdram chip you could have gotten for $30 bucks.
scsi is keeping the margins up in the server market and keep higher speed data access away from the consumer. more power to ide.
too bad we aren't modularizing our pc's. imagine the equilvalent of a gpu for file operations. if a seperate card handled all caching, partion managment, maybe even security imagine how many cpu cycles coud be used for other things. even copying files between harddrives would be a si – by et
|i've never used scsi (7:23pm est thu feb 06 2003)
but my biggest problem with ide is that you can only have 2 drives per channel, and most motherboards only have 2 channels, which leaves you with only 4 devices total.
so what do you do if you want to have a dvd player, cd-burner, zip drive, and 3-4 hard drives? all you can really do is throw in another controller card.
if someone could get over this limitation it would be a huge breakthrow for ide. – by damien
|et, i disagree with you on 2 points: (8:38pm est thu feb 06 2003)
"most applications are really not super i/o intensize anymore"
i disagree…that's the biggest bottleneck for client computers. with very few exceptions, when you wait, it's because your disk is too slow. the only exceptions i've seen was processing divx video, video games, and rendering 3d images. every other delay was because a file wasn't opened fast enough. with video games and 3d graphics, i/o was a factor.
"too bad we aren't modularizing our pc's. imagine the equilvalent of a gpu for file operations. if a seperate card handled all caching, partion managment, maybe even security imagine how many cpu cycles coud be used for other things."
my cpu meter rarely climbs above 10% on the most i/o intensive tasks. i don't think the cpu is the bottleneck. i have 2 athlon 2000 computers (one a 2xathlonmp and one a athlonxp) and i can rarely max their cpus. i also have an ide raid controller with 256mb ram in a 4-disk raid5, the promise sx4000. you'd think it was a speed demon, but you rarely seems to perform significantly better than a single ide drive. of course, that could be bad design on promise's part or driver disagreements somewhere. i've only used the raid array in 1 system.
a lot of our speed inadequacies could be bus related, but i welcome wd's announcement and can't wait for one to come into my price range. i think there is a lot of room for improvement in the ide arena.
i'd like to see scsi die also. however, i'm not sure your other suggestions would make a dramatic improvement in performance. – by steven
|tv and heat (9:00pm est thu feb 06 2003)
i work for a major tv network and a scsi disk brings all the stuff you see on tv to you (one way or another). i don't mean the main programs, but all the little crap that pops up throughout. they have backups for the backups to ensure that the show goes on. if ide can beat the cost and reliability and raid ability of scsi, then such places as tv networks will help put scsi out of business. about the heat: that big drive better be in a cream'o spot in your box and have a noisy fan keeping it cool…it will crash and burn otherwise folks. – by robocasper
|solid state storage (9:35pm est thu feb 06 2003)
no advancements in current drives would ever impress me. i think companies should move to streamline solid state storage instead of making faster rotating drives. – by nashi
|think dude (9:55pm est thu feb 06 2003)
the reality is that you can have just as many ide drives as scsi and ide controllers are so much cheaper you complaine about ide only having 4 controllers on a mobo and having to buy a new card well think if you want scsi then you have to buy a controller even if you onlyu have 1 drive duh and you can have multiple ide controllers in the same raid chain too
2 7200 ide drives in raid 0 are way better for the money than 1 scsi drive
fyi you can do software raid in windows xp, 2000 with the same performance as a software raid card – by pinki
|scsi will forever kick ide (11:27pm est thu feb 06 2003)
not only for the relax of cpu stress, but for the independance of the drives so that while one opperates it does'nt lock up the pc like ide devices do… i dont care if theres 30k rpm ide drives, the inferior technology does'nt make it worth it in any scenario for me. – by scsi forever
|happy days are here again (8:29am est fri feb 07 2003)
alright, bring on the sata drives. now if the optical drive makers would only follow suit. i can dream. – by big c
|this argument has come before… (8:34am est fri feb 07 2003)
and to reiterate scsi drives perform better and for longer. they are made with better parts than ide drives. a good scsi controlled significantly uses less cpu load than ide. scsi will never go away and anyone who thinks it will, or that ide is superior to scsi cannot be older than 16. – by sdb
|solid state drives (6:59pm est sat feb 08 2003)
let me see- 124mb for $80 msrp in the form of a solid state usb2 thumb drive, or 200gb for $199 after rebate?
hmmmmmmm… spinning drive 1 cent mb verse 70 cents on the solid state. tough choice. – by dumbfounded
|solid state is the future (10:41am est mon feb 10 2003)
true solid state is still very expensive, but if you look at how the prices have come down (partly thanks to consumer devices that require memory cards like digital cameras) i think you can see the trend. in a few years time you will be able to get at least several gigs of solid state storage for under $100, and then it becomes realistic to have at least one of those in your pc as the o/s drive. personally the idea of having at least my windows (or whatever) and core apps in solid state seems to offer a much more failure-proof setup than the current fiendishly complex and delicate hdd setup. – by luke
|i hope solid state is the future (4:12am est fri feb 14 2003)
my company's work require me to transfer massive files. we currently use scsi and they are still not fast enough. although i would agree with those who prefer scsi over 10k rpm ides, i would go for solid state any time. however, i don't see it on the horizon. but as one commented above, they could make them so that you would run the os from a solid state. – by dreamer
|think about the history (10:10am est fri mar 14 2003)
take a look at the past of all these technologies. look at the very first apple macintoshes. they all had a built-in scsi controller, which is probably the only reason they ran at all. if they had used ide, that little 8mhz motorola would have died. the reason apple switched to ide was because it was cheaper. scsi is simply older then ide. it has more trial and error behind it. and if the macs hadn't got going then, with scsi, where would be the majority of our:
3d graphics
be? those are some of the best examples of what macs are used for. apple is the founder of scsi, practically. i don't exactly remember when ide made it's debue, but, i think it's safe to say that it was a little scorned, until ibm, or some company took a chance with the 8086 intel processor, and said "hey, why not toss in ide, it sounds cool?" – by the historian
|serial ata (12:33pm est sun may 18 2003)
i have a question. i have a 120 gig hard drive. 7200 rpm w/ 2 mg cache. i was thinking about buying a serial ata adaptor that goes on my hard drive. because my new intel mb supports it. will i see any diff in speed? thanks – by john smulik
|ide hdd vs sata hdd (3:42am est mon nov 24 2003)
is thre any advantage of having a sata hdd than an ide hdd and are there special cables for sata hdd? – by jaipor
|you want performance ?!?! (8:20pm est thu feb 05 2004)
try 4x wd-raptor sata 10.000rpm in raid 0 … – by god_hunter
|milk (8:18pm est sun feb 29 2004)
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– by milk man
|upgrade optiplexgx150 (9:09am est fri oct 29 2004)
i would like to get some honest answer's if i can,about upgrading my gx150 tower,if the mobo can be upgraded to a newer one, and which it can be upgraded to..any good help is apreciated and thank you for your kindness – by preforming
|thanks (1:14pm est sun jan 08 2006)
this is an excellent site thanks for the information! – by andy
|sata on a p3 (10:43pm est sun apr 09 2006)
i have a p3 500mhz computer and have been tring to install 120 gig sata hard drive to no avail what do i do – by edem