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Western Digital [NASDAQ:WDC] already has a line of Black, Blue and Green drives for a wide array of purposes. Back in July they announced their new Red line of 3.5" hard drives. These drives are specifically designed to be used in NAS scenarios in configurations ranging from 2 to 5 per array. The reason that Western Digital has decided to create this line of products is primarily because Western Digital has seen far too many consumers going for the large capacity Green drives and using them for NAS and RAID. As a result, some of these Green drives have been failing or the RAID controllers are unable to cope. The Green line of hard drives are inexpensive and low power as well as cool in terms of temperature, but they are not designed for being put with each other in RAID.
The Western Digital Red line of hard drives are specifically designed for being used in a NAS box or put into a RAID array of any sort with their NASware. The Red line of drives comes in 1TB, 2TB and 3TB capacities and is specifically geared towards users that need lots of storage space but also the security and performance of RAID.
These drives are also a bit faster than their Green counterparts with the 1TB being rated at 150MB/s reads and the 3TB and 2TB being rated at 145MB/s reads which should also make them a bit faster than the Green drives as well since the Green drives did 138MB/s in our testing. All three sizes, however, will still be fitted with 64MB of cache and SATA 6Gb/s and have a mean time between failures of 1,000,000 hours. These drives are also supposed to consume less power than the 3TB green drive that we had tested back in 2010.
Furthermore, Western Digital has partnered up with NAS companies like Thecus, QNAP and Synology in order to qualify their drives with these NAS companies and to verify that their Red drives with NASware technology. Western Digital has also qualified their Red line of hard drives for their own NAS device, the Sentinel DX4000. In addition to partnering with NAS manufacturers to qualify these drives, Western Digital will be offering free premium 24×7 dedicated support and a three year warranty to these drives.
Western Digital was kind enough to provide us with four of the 3TB drives last week and we have been working on testing these drives individually against other large capacity drives as well as in RAID 0 and RAID 5 to see how they perform on our LSI 9265-8i MEGARAID RAID controller.
The Red drives are already be available with online retailers and retail for $109 for the 1TB, $139 for the 2TB and $189 for the 3TB. These drives should be perfect for most people trying to run a home or small office NAS that they want to be sure will have the best uptime and the best performance possible. Also, as you'll notice, WD has begun to put QR codes on their hard drives so you can more easily find out information about your drive and get support more quickly from your smartphone.
Performance Testing
In our performance testing, we decided that we would both benchmark the hard drive individually and we would also benchmark it in RAID0 and RAID5 with the latter being the most common configuration. Since Western Digital sent us four drives, we will be using all four drives in our RAID0 and RAID5 configurations.
For those curious, we also wanted to add the formatted capacities of the drives in RAID 0 and RAID 5, which are 10.9TB for RAID0 and 8.18TB for RAID5. This is keeping in mind that these drives combined without any formatting are technically rated at 12TB (3TB X 4 drives).
Single Drive Performance and Temps
AIDA64 – Read Test Suite
In our testing of AIDA64, we were able to evaluate the speed of the WD Red 3TB drive compared to other hard drives and some of WD's competitors and even their own 3TB green drive. Looking at our results, the WD Red 3TB managed a Linear read speed of 153.8 MB/s, which is higher than the 145 MB/s that Western Digital rates the drive at. This actually makes it faster than the Velociraptor 600GB, but slower than Seagate's 3TB XT drive. In all but one case, the WD Red 3TB performed as well as or better than most of its large capacity, higher power competitors. That one exception was the average read access test, where the WD Red 3TB was actually the slowest to respond with a response time of 19.92ms.
CrystalDiskMark – Read and Write
In CrystalDiskMark, we did more of the same with this drive. Comparing it against more of the same competitors including Seagate's 4TB HDD. In CrystalDiskMark we saw the WD Red 3TB reporting a sequential read of 161.9 MB/s which is well beyond the 145 MB/s that WD claimed on their spec sheet. In this test, it actually slightly out performs Seagate's Barracuda XT 3TB high performance drive, while being slightly slower than the Velociraptor 600GB (165.66 MB/s). The writes were effectively the same result with the WD Red 3TB reporting 158.9 MB/s while the Barracuda XT 3TB got 155.1 MB/s. Interestingly, the WD Red 3TB fell far behind the competition in 512K read/writes with a 53.59 MB/s read and 95.23 MB/s write. Much lower than the WD Green 3TB and Barracuda XT 3TB.
SiSoftSandra 2012 – Storage Benchmark
In this test, we simply decided to compare the WD Red 3TB against Western Digital's two fastest drives. Looking at our results, we can see that the WD Red 3TB reports 117.437 MB/s in the benchmark, while the WD Velociraptor 600GB reports 122.34 MB/s. This indicates that even though the WD Red 3TB is five times the capacity of the Velociraptor 600GB (previous generation) it is still quite close in terms of speed. However, when you look at the access times, there is no comparison as the WD Red 3TB gets an access time of 14.08 ms compared to 3.56 ms with the 600GB Velociraptor. In addition to that, the current generation Velociraptor 1TB got a speed of 160.3 MB/s and a random access time of 4.12, leaving both drives in the dust in terms of performance.
Looking at these preliminary drive results, comp
aring them against other drives you can really see that the Western Digital 3TB Red is really tuned for the best NAS performance. The drives are clearly designed to be run for larger file sizes (media files) and to be left constantly running. When you consider the overall speed of these drives, you can understand that having slightly lower random access times won't affect performance in a NAS as much since there is already some lag time between the NAS and devices accessing it through the network. Having a good RAID controller should help a bit with access times as well.
Average Temperature
With average temperature, we are simply taking the average temperature of a single drive while running idle and under load. The graph below illustrates the temperatures that we experienced with the drives during the average temperature test, which was done by running the above benchmarks repeatedly..
As you can see from our graph, the WD Red 3TB falls somewhere in between all of our 3.5" drives. THis drive runs cooler than the Green 3TB and the Velociraptor 600GB (with IcePak), however hotter than the Barracuda green 2TB and Velociraptor 1TB (with IcePak).
Multi-Drive Performance in RAID 0 and RAID 5
Since this is a NAS drive we found ourselves obligated to run this drive in a NAS configuration. For those of you that like to live dangerously, we have decided to run a RAID 0 configuration, which will be much faster but also has a much higher risk of data loss. For those of you doing more traditional NAS configurations, we have also run these drives in RAID 5 on our LSI 9265-8i RAID controller to show you the absolute best case scenario for NAS performance with these drives. Some people, after all, prefer to build their own NAS boxes rather than go with prefabricated ones in order to get the best performance possible.
AIDA64 – Read Test Suite – Single Drive vs RAID 5 vs RAID 0
Looking at our results for AIDA64, we can see that a single drive gets about 153.8 MB/s while RAID 5 gets 377.7 MB/s and RAID 0 gets 587.6 MB/s. In terms of scaling, RAID5 obviously shows very poor scaling compared to RAID 0, however, the promise of data security at speeds of 377.7 MB/s is more than enough for most users to bite. Western Digital generally recommends configurations of upto 5 drives, as they recommend enterprise drives for anything above such a threshold, but we see no reason why you couldn't use 8 of these drives in a RAID 5 configuration for speed, capacity and data security. The Random read speeds for a single drive were 114.6 MB/s while RAID 5 was 263.1 and RAID 0 at 459.3 showing a similar ratio that we saw with the linear reads.
CrystalDiskMark – Single Drive vs RAID 0 vs RAID 5
In CrystalDiskMark, we got some interesting results when comparing the single drive against RAID 0 and RAID 5. Looking at our results you can see that a single drive got a sequential read of 162.7 MB/s and write of 158.9 which is in line with some of our other benchmarks. Looking at our RAID 0 and RAID 5 performance, we can definitely see a speed boost from our RAID controller in sequential reads and writes with RAID 0 reporting a read of 1622 MB/s and a write of 592 MB/s with the reads clearly being boosted by the drive's 1GB of DDR3 cache. The story is similar with RAID 5 performance with the reads coming in at 1083 MB/s and writes at 456 MB/s. Once again, the reads are being boosted by the RAID controller while the writes remain untouched at native performance. One interesting spot is the 4K performance of these drives in RAID 0 where the drives do 7.6 MB/s read and 15.81 MB/s write while RAID 5 also enjoys a nice performance boost of 1.2 MB/s and 3.8 MB/s. Unfortunately, this performance still isn't as good as current generation SSDs, but most NAS devices are more interested in large size sequential reads and writes anyways.
SiSoft Sandra 2012- Disk Benchmark
SiSoft Sandra 2012's benchmark mostly tests drive read performance as a metric of both drive speed and access time. For a single drive, SiSoft Sandra 2012 reported a much slower read speed of 116 MB/s and an access time of 13.9 ms. For RAID 0, it reported a read speed of 417 MB/s and an access time of 6.33 MB/s. Finally, in RAID 5, the drives reported a read speed of 259 MB/s and an access time of 6.35 ms, barely noticeable compared to RAID 0 in terms of access time thanks to the RAID controller.
If you want to build a NAS with a ton of storage space and speed, the Western Digital Red 3TB drives are without a doubt one of the best options out there. As we stated earlier, each of these drives will run you about $189 MSRP and on average will run you about the same with Newegg being $209, BLT being $178 and Amazon being $185. The WD Green 3TB drives, however, will run you $139 on sites like Newegg. So, for a $40 premium you are getting better performance, reliability, temperatures, power consumption and support. Western Digital specifically recommends that you not use their green drives for RAID situations because of the way that the drives' controllers are designed. In many cases they result in failed RAID arrays and customer complaints. As such, to relieve yourself the headache and to get better performance and reliability, the WD Red series of drives really does seem like the right choice for small scale, large capacity RAID configurations.
Based on our performance findings and temperature measurements of this drive, we can definitely recommend this drive and give it our editor's choice award for prosumer.


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Hey RJ, that kitchen is peak Zen.
"She's shown she's into Butterface not Butterbody, too." - Snake
Bleak indeed. Are you in some kind of assisted living facility?
Originally Posted by Danno
i got nothing, you win again.
Originally Posted by resolve
I trust God more than I trust you. And that will never change. I've always viewed you as kind of a snake. No biblical connotations need apply, just the regular ones. You're wise. You're really intelligent. But you're also conniving and have this way of getting what you want when you want it. The sickness I was talking about was your propensity to kind of reach in and grasp on to something to define someone here. You harangue them about it and manipulate it in to conversations. You do that with every single poster here. You do this until they see things your way. The "correct way". It's vile.
this house is enough of a death trap that you would probably have heard about it if it was used as anything other then a personal home.
Originally Posted by Robot Jesus
Did you time travel back to the seventies?
Love the fallout stuff.
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you haven't seen the basement. but it was built in 58 and I'm reasonably sure I'm the second owner.
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You're a home owner! Congratulations:)
Bless you Lily, for always seeing the bright side
die dümmsten Bauern haben die dicksten Kartoffeln
Originally Posted by Robot Jesus
you haven't seen the basement. but it was built in 58 and I'm reasonably sure I'm the second owner.
Awesome. I thought my 70s house was old.
Have you had an energy audit done on your house?
Think irony
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The Super Bowl bye week is awful and depressing and it reminds me that there will be a continuous 30-week bye right after Denver and Seattle have played each other. BARF. Last night during the Pro Bowl draft I drafted a knife so I could cut myself. Anyway, since there's nothing going on, and because I am lazy, it's time for our annual collection of GREAT MOMENTS IN POOP HISTORY, submitted by readers over the past week. Let's get right into the sewage.
I was 16 years old and on a Jewish teen tour across Europe, we were about five days into the trip in Spain. Every morning we woke up early, ate breakfast and hopped on the bus to get to our next destination. This particular morning my room never got the wake up call and we had to sprint onto the bus without breakfast and most importantly I didn't have a chance to take my morning dump. We traveled for about an hour into the middle of nowhere Spain where we stopped to check out the famous windmills that Don Quixote "fought" in the famous novel. As soon as we got off the bus, my stomach began to rumble and I knew I was in trouble.
I immediately started searching for a bathroom as it was only a matter of time before I had to go. There were a couple windmills to choose from, I started sprinting up each one in my desperate hunt for any form of a toilet to do my business. Finally I find the one and only bathroom on site, and what do ya know..it's out of order! I said fuck it and tried to go in there anyways, one of the employees blocked the door and would not let me in. I start yelling at this dude in broken Spanglish "EMERGENCIA, EMERGENCIA!!" No luck and I was running out options as the turtle head started poking out.
I quickly ran back down the stairs, clenching my ass to avoid an accident. It was now or never. At the base of the windmill and on the side of a mountain, I dropped my pants and let it go. As I did this, I could hear hysterical laughter coming from above. My entire trip (boys and girls) were watching me soil the grounds that Don Quixote tried to conquer. Everyone applauded as I wiped my ass with the convenient pack of tissues I carried around with me. "Tissues" would be my nickname for the rest of the summer trip.
We're house shopping. It's winter and one of the houses we look at is uninhabited and thus "closed" for the winter. My girlfriend gets that "look" and as the real estate agent and I are wandering around this house, she makes a bee-line for the bathroom. She comes out several minutes later looking very sheepish. Turns out they had shut off and drained all the water in this entire house, so not only would the toilet obviously not flush, we didn't even have a way to make it flush.
We ended up scouring this half-abandoned house for anything to fill with water, settling on an old recycling bin and hiking down the street to a nearby lake to fill it and dump it into the toilet. All while the R.E. agent half helps and half pretends she doesn't realize what just happened. It's possible the look on my girlfriend's face is the most mortified look I will ever see on a human.
I was driving down a stretch of road with nothing for miles and felt a cantankerous rumbling in my GI region. So I pull off the side of the road and find a secluded spot. I'm pretty close to the ocean and I hear some voices off in the distance, I thought it may be fisherman so I didn't pay them much mind. Big. Fucking. Mistake. All of a sudden I hear a helicopter over my head.
I quickly wipe my ass with a towel I had brought for the occasion, pull up my pants, and sprint to my car. I was so nervous I still had the towel in my hand, I pop the trunk and throw that fucker in there. Not a second later I hear "put your hands in the air". Thank God I had just taken a dump or I would have shat my pants. I turn around and there are two Fish and Wildlife officers in my face, guns drawn.
Apparently my "secluded spot by the ocean" was a known drug rendezvous point and they had the area under surveillance. The law was obviously curious as to my reasons for being here at this particular time. I explained my emergency situation and surprisingly they did not believe me. Lucky for me I had a very convincing piece (or pieces) of corroborating evidence. So I open the trunk and produce the towel. The looks on their faces changed from consternation, to surprise, and finally sympathy. I was given a warning not to ever return to this area, advice to this day I still adhere to.
I have two boys ages (at the time) 6 and 4. They were playing in our backyard while my wife was in the house. The 6 year old suddenly bursts in the house screaming in abject terror at my wife, "Come quick! Lucas needs help!" Thinking she would arrive on the scene to find compound fractures or an open skull wound, my wife was surprised to find my 4 year old son crying while curled in a ball completely naked in the corner of the yard.
He looked like a mini-convict waiting for delousing. The 4 year old, who tends toward shyness, could not stop crying long enough to give a coherent retelling of the traumatic events that had led to him curled in a ball naked in our yard.
Eventually, the 6 year old related that in the middle of playing, Lucas came to the sudden realization that his imminent need to poop would preclude him from making it inside the house to the restroom. In a panic, he stripped off all his clothes and proceeded to poop in the yard, crying out of embarrassment the whole time. Our 12 year old lab immediately came over, ate his poop, threw it up, and then ate it again as my horrified children looked on. Apparently this was all so traumatic that the only logical thing to do was to curl in a naked ball and cry until help arrived.
Two years ago I attended a wedding in the Bahamas prior to my planning to run in the Boston Marathon. Being so close to the marathon, I was constantly hungry, resulting in my making a decision that seemed to make sense at the time, but that ultimately turned out to be so horribly wrong.
Flying down to the Bahamas required a stopover in Miami, with a morning connection at approximately 10 AM. Walking through the concourse and having a small breakfast to start the day, I was captivated by the smell of Kung Pao chicken emanating from a nearby storefront and decided that rice and chicken would be a nice filler for the next flight down to paradise. The rest of the day went off without a hitch - drinking, snorkeling, relaxing on the beach, etc...until that night.
Apparently, Chinese food at 9:30 AM in the Miami airport isn't the best idea as I came down with a wicked bout of food poisoning that sidelined me for the next 2 days resulting in my having to run to the bathroom every time I sat up in bed, stood up, etc. On the third day, feeling slightly better and thinking that a bathroom would be close at hand should anything go wrong, I decided to give it a go and rejoin the rest of the group on a tour of the surrounding islands. Little did I know that this boat tour was to last about three hours, with no bathroom on the boat.
Clenching as best I could and pacing up and down the boat in an attempt to relieve the pressure that was building up from the last of the parasite ravaging my colon, relief came in the form of our stopping at an island inhabited by monstrous lizards who emerge from the woods upon seeing the boat as the good people putting on the tour prepare fresh conch salads for everyone to enjoy as the group drinks beer and relaxes on the island. Before catastrophe could hit, I grabbed a towel and ran off behind a sand dune to absolutely destroy the land on which these lizards were living as a torrent of liquid shot out at otherworldly speed. (The towel ultimately stayed behind).
We found out later that the island we landed on was owned by Nicolas Cage. I would like to think that I unknowingly fulfilled the dreams of millions around the world who have been subjected to much of his work. You're welcome, world.
I interned on Capitol Hill during a semester in college and lived with family on the end of the Orange Line - my commute normally encompassed a half-mile walk, 10-15 minute bus ride, and 50 minute Metro ride. I normally was able to wait till shortly after arriving at the office to lay a stinker. Today was not one of those days.
When I got off the bus, I knew that my next bowel movement would be a doozy but thought I'd be able to hold it an hour or so. I was on the Metro for one stop before realizing I had to find a toilet. Because I was young and embarrassed, I searched and searched for a restroom, to no avail. It was in my haste that I decided to find a bush, while wearing a suit, and hope to God no one saw me.
Luckily there was a tall bush that had a little space between it and the parking garage that I could lay my waste. It was a horrid shit and I don't think anyone saw me. I pulled my pants up and casually pretended like I was taking the long way to the station.
It was shortly after I reboarded the train that I realized I didn't purge my intestines. I got off at the next stop, and decided to ask the attendant if there was a bathroom. There was, but the employee had to walk me there and unlock it. When I finally had the time to finish the deed, I noticed the mess that remained in my boxers and had to spend some time cleaning myself and discarding the boxers.
I spent the rest of the day giving tours of the Capitol hoping that I didn't smell like sewage.
My buddy's bachelor party was in New Orleans. Our group arrived that afternoon and, as good American patriots, instantly set about getting annihilated on hurricanes, hand grenades, and anything else you can imagine.
By nightfall, intoxication levels were at impressive heights. We inevitably found ourselves at the Hustler Barely Legal club, for classy and erudite entertainment. Life is good. Until sometime elapses, and we realize that the bachelor is gone.
He had presumably headed to the restroom some time ago, and never returned. Phone calls and text messages went unreturned. A search party was soon convened. Eventually, I manage to get him on the phone, but all I hear is a snippet of drunken slurring. But I distinctly make out the word "Marriott."
Problem one: We're not staying at a Marriott. Problem two: some quick googling reveals that there are several different Marriotts in and around the French Quarter. Long story short, we eventually find him when he remembers how/sobers up enough to answer his phone.
Over the course of the night and morning, we piece together what happened. The bachelor realized, while at the Hustler, that he really had to shit violently, and this was not the desired venue for the destruction to follow. So he decided to go to our hotel, but was too obliterated to find it, and instead wandered into a Marriott, where he proceeded to actually, somehow, put down his credit card for a room for the sole purpose of shitting in it.
Only he never made it to the room. You know how every floor has an alcove with the vending machine, ice machine, and a trash bucket?
He shat in that bucket, then left the hotel.
The next day we returned to the Marriott to explain his mistake (not the bucket shitting, but the accidental and drunken reservation of a room that he did not stay in). Our pleas were denied; the bachelor was stuck with the $300 rack rate on his credit card, a financial badge of shame from the evening and perhaps the most expensive dump I've ever heard of.
My father, now retired, had a long career as a Forensic Scientist. As a kid my house was filled with Medical Examiner books, with thousands of pictures of mutilated bodies that I would gleefully show my horrified babysitters. Yet I made it out normal! Sort of.
Anyway, the best thing with my Dad's career was the stories he would share about bizarre ways people died. His best source for these tales were the annual conventions those in his line of work would have. Here, medical examiners and forensic pathologists would get drunk and tell each other the weirdest tales from their jobs. This is one of those tales...
On a sunny day, in the mid 1970's out in the farmlands of Illinois, a family had just returned from an extended vacation. The son, probably after a long drive, immediately ran to the outhouse to relieve himself. A few minutes later he comes running to his father screaming "there's a man in the outhouse!". The father hurriedly heads to the outhouse to investigate. Peering into the hole beneath the toilet seat, sure enough he sees a dead body floating in the filth. The authorities are immediately called and an investigation is underway. At first, being the 1970's and not far from Chicago, the assumption is that the deceased was the victim of a mafia hit. Only through due diligence did the truth come out.
Let's call the deceased Andy. As it turns out, Andy wasn't the victim of a crime. After interviewing close friends it was discovered that Andy had a peculiar fetish. Old Andy liked shit. On the day in question, it is speculated that Andy went for a drive looking for outhouses where no one was home. Finding his Xanadu, he stripped naked, tied a rope to the lid of the outhouse seat, and slowly lowered himself into his own personal ecstasy. Yet shortly after that, something went terribly wrong, while old Andy loved himself some stinky dookies, he wasn't very skilled at tying knots. The rope snapped...along with his means of escape. I'd like to tell you that Andy couldn't swim and after a few minutes of flailing around his misery was over, but old Andy knew how to swim alright, knew it all to well, according to friends. It is suspected that he treaded water for hours, probably calling for help, until from exhaustion, or an ironic acceptance of his fate, Andy slowly sunk beneath the seas of half digested corn.
But hey! At least he died happy!
I was duck hunting in west Tennessee last weekend and heard this story in the duck blind. For the record, duck blinds are great places to hear poop stories.
There is no bathroom in a duck blind. Pouring off used coffee is a fairly simple task but ridding yourself of last night's all-you-can-eat fried catfish buffet is a bit more involved. One of the guys hunting with us recalled a day when his buddy had to dump in the blind, so they sent him around back where the boat was tied up. He hung his ass off the side of the boat and took care of business.
It had been quite cold the night before so the lake was frozen in the morning and they had to break ice with the boat on their way to the blind. Our protagonist unknowingly (or perhaps not), shit on a piece of ice, thus leaving his steaming pile above water. Sometime later the wind carried the turd-berg from behind the blind to the front of the blind and left it floating in front of another hunter with a weak stomach. This resulted in dry heaving, complaining, and threats of bodily harm. The turd-berg remained stubbornly in place in front of his seat, wafting it's powerful aroma directly up into his face.
After some time, he'd had enough, leveled his shotgun at the turd and pulled the trigger. This resulted in the turd blowing up and back into his face, hair, and across everyone else sitting in the blind. Realizing what had happened, the dry heaves turned into full on vomiting, adding insult to injury.
Never, ever, shoot a floating turd.
In the summer between my junior and senior year of college I interned with a well-respected publishing company in NJ. One morning, I'm in the stall and hear what sounds like a man snoring a few stalls over. So I lean down to do the 'under the stall peek at the shoes' (not sure what I expected to see) and realize the man is indeed sleeping. Pretty weird, I thought. Anyways, I proceed to finish up my business, wash my hands and exit the bathroom.
I go the cafeteria, get some coffee and return to my desk. After a few minutes I start to notice a really strong, ripe odor of poo. I check my hands to see if I missed a spot washing them, but they're clean. A few more minutes go by and the smell is really getting bad. So I head back to the bathroom to check my drawers, thinking I must've failed at wiping...but nope, clean as a whistle. Then, when I return to my desk and start to sit down I notice something on the chair — upon closer look its a quarter size smudge of poop, smack dab in the middle of my chair. I'm horrified and bewildered. Pretty quickly, I realize that somehow there's poop on the OUTSIDE of the back of my khakis AND I'VE BEEN WALKING AROUND THE OFFICE with it there. Apparently, when I was on the can and leaned over to see the snorers shoes, I dropped a dingle-berry and it plopped directly onto the back of my pants, which I then smushed into the chair when I sat down. I dash back into the bathroom, do my best to wipe off the back of my pants, go back to my cubical and as discreetly as possible, switch my chair with one from a nearby conference room. I can only imagine what the poor soul thought when they made the unfortunate mistake of choosing that chair for the next conference room meeting.
When I was 16, I went to India for my sister's (5000 guest) wedding. Lots of good food and such, and of course I came down with a normal case of the poops soon after. Been there, done that, didn't think anything of it. The next day, both our families took a train to a temple in some hills a few hours away. Sharing a cabin with about 10 people (half of whom were newly family to me by marriage), I nodded off for a nap. Suddenly I shot up, feeling an unfamiliar squishiness in the pantaloons. I ran for the bathroom, peeled down my pants, and realized I had shat myself.
I have no earthly idea how no one noticed the smell, but I had more important things going on. India train bathrooms are a new level of filthy, no such thing as a trash can or toilet paper - running water if you're lucky. But there was a hole going down to the tracks (where the toilet empties), so I just shoved my boxers down there and hoped for the best. Cleaned up my legs/junk as best I could using whatever cholera water was available, and returned to my seat.
Over the next several days, and in close quarters with family/new in-laws, I kept shitting myself (usually) when I was asleep. I'm talking at least 7 or 8 times. For some unknown reason, I didn't find this concerning enough to bring up to any of the 6 doctors I was surrounded by. If I were 5 years old at least I'd have stupidity as an excuse, but I've got nothing. I wasn't even embarrassed, just sort of matter-of-fact. "Oops, there goes another pair of boxers. Good thing I've taken to carrying around a spare". I'm sure my pants had at least some shit-stains on them, but no one seemed to notice, or at least comment. I just assumed this was a particularly bad case of food poisoning, and happily returned to the United States.
My first night back, I woke up seeing bright light, but unable to really see. Thinking I had gone blind, I cried for my dad, who rushed me to the hospital. Turns out, I was in the early stages of contracting meningitis (an exotic disease that infects the brain/spinal cord, thus the photophobia). During my intake, they realized that I was also in the late stages of TYPHOID. I had to spend a week and a half in the hospital (the end of summer break), getting gawked at by a bunch of Missouri doctors who weren't used to the Oregon Trail diseases. Because America.
Good job, India. Well played.
When I was 13 years old, my brother and I were in a bad car accident that led to 3 broken femurs between us and a few week stay in the hospital. About halfway through our stay neither of us had a bowel movement. So the nurse had to give us a suppository in hopes of speeding up the process. FUN! A nurse's finger up my ass! Unfortunately, I was in too much pain to enjoy it.
Fast forward to the same evening and both of us felt the urge. Our parents were out to dinner and our poop anxiety led us to be too embarrassed to tell the nurses that we had to go. So we waited an hour or so until they got back. Immediately when they entered the room we told them and they retrieved bed pans for us. Bed pans are the WORST. There is no possible angle to make pooping with a bed pan comfortable. I find it hard to believe that modern technology hasn't advanced past stupid bedpans. (Sidenote: PEEING in bed is great. Sometimes I wish my femur was still broken so I don't have to get up in the middle of the night to pee) Anyway, I was at it for 15-20 minutes sweating and agonizing in pain. I felt like I was giving birth. Finally, I was able to prop myself up high enough off the bed to get the rest out. And when my Dad took the bed pan he showed me my masterpiece with this smirk on his face. I'm not exaggerating to say that I had let loose a softball size shit. SOFTBALL!
I'm 25 years old now and realize that it doesn't matter what I do the rest of my life. Nothing will top the pride my father felt towards me that day.
About fifteen years ago I went on a church-sponsored mission trip to a poor city in central Mexico. In the week prior to the trip, we were bombarded with standard anti-Montezuma's Revenge instructions. Don't drink the water. Don't open your mouth in the shower. Brush your teeth with bottled water. Anyway, after losing my luggage in the Mexico City airport, tramping around the mountains of Mexico for three days in a Mexican XXL I Heart NY t-shirt that was basically a body glove, drinking my first several dozen Mexican beers, and eating all manner of roadside tacos, my intestine decided it had had all it could take.
The morning we were supposed to leave, I woke up with a tremendous stomach ache. Sharing a room with an adult sponsor (a long-time friend of my parents) who was already packed and ready to go when I woke up, I waited until he went downstairs to head into el banos. Several minutes into an unsuccessful attempt at a morning deuce, I realized I had to hurl immediately. Boxers around my ankles, I pivoted. The effort expended to vomit was enough to jar loose what to this day remains my only experience with explosive diarrhea. Uncontrollable vomiting persisted for nearly a full minute before I could turn around and see that I had created a small lake of liquefied shit on the floor of this Mexican hotel bathroom. Hungover, gripped with the first stage of a terrible case of food poisoning, and in desperate need of a shower, I threw a towel over this lake of shit and got in the shower. Fun fact - the boxers that were ruined in the initial poopsplosion were the only underwear I had. Going commando on three different airplanes with the 'rhea might be the worst thing ever.
After my shower, I left all the money in my wallet on the bathroom counter and went downstairs to head to the airport. On the drive to the airport I managed to hurl twice, once on the carphone of the Suburban we were taking to the airport, once out the window and all over the side panel of the car. The three girls in the far backseat were traumatized.
I never told a soul about this incident for five years.
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Former Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt made waves this week when he called the U.S. House of Representatives spectrum auction legislation "the single worst telecom bill" he's seen.
The legislation, which would severely restrict the FCC's ability to place conditions on spectrum auctions, is seen as a non-starter in the Senate where a bipartisan group of senators including John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) have signaled strong opposition to the House approach to authorizing spectrum auctions. In this interview, we ask Hundt to outline his major objections to the House bill and describe what he would do differently to make more spectrum available.
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Outline your primary objections to the spectrum bill as it's currently written in the House.
The first one has to do with the bidding eligibility rules. The reigning auction theorists such as Paul Milgrom, along with many others, have learned over the last 20 years by studying spectrum auctions and many other auctions that the most important thing in any successful auction is to define carefully who is eligible to bid. The auctioneer needs to focus primarily on that, and it could mean setting conditions such as whether you have enough money in the bank to pay for the spectrum, whether you promise services to poor people or people living in rural America, or it could mean that are you are willing to have a competitor.
The House bill says that the FCC cannot do that. It's a repudiation of the smartest auction theorists in the world. The House bill, intentionally or not, repudiates all our expertise, wisdom and world-leading success in auctions by saying that the FCC can't define bidding eligibility.
The second issue has to do with another aspect of bidding eligibility. Many years ago when I was a spectrum auctioneer, we decided to auction spectrum for satellite radio. Sirius and XM were the winners. We decided that there would be two licenses in the auction and that the same firm could not buy both. So if you bid and won on one you weren't eligible to buy the second. The House bill would say that that's impermissible and that you couldn't stop one firm from buying both. The House bill will say that there can never be a rule that says one bidder can never buy anything. The American people should go like, "What? There's a rule against having competition, a rule against having innovators compete against each other?"
And the third thing is that when you have multiple firms building new networks, you're also going to have more investment than if you have just one firm. So by having rules against competition in the House bill, it reduces overall investment and it reduces jobs.
I've also read that the House bill bars the FCC from paying for spectrum and then opening it up for unlicensed use. Can you comment on that?
I was the guy who created the idea of unlicensed spectrum. Several technologists and economists came to me and said that we need spectrum for short hops between computers and cable connections. That technology became known as Wi-Fi and it completely transformed the Internet experience, as everybody who has a computer knows.
Intel and other computer companies then didn't have to go to the cellular carriers and ask for and pay for permission to use their spectrum for Wi-Fi in airports and homes and everywhere else. When you log onto an airport you aren't paying to use any spectrum that somebody owns. And now everyone wants to move on to new versions of Wi-Fi that are faster, such as the networks being built on white spaces spectrum, and so that provision barring the FCC from assigning more unlicensed spectrum is anti-consumer, it's anti-computer companies and anti-software companies. There's no good policy argument for it.
What are your thoughts on the spectrum bill currently proposed in the Senate?
The general outline is good; it does not have the unfortunate restrictions that I've described to you. My big worry is that the Senate will be forced to make impossibly difficult choices, like if the House won't extend the current payroll tax rate unless the spectrum bill is passed, or the House won't allow for a national public safety network unless the rules are tilted toward monopoly. You could say it would never happen, but it happened last year when it came to raising the debt ceiling.
Given that spectrum is a finite good and that consumer demand for mobile bandwidth has been increasing astronomically, do you think the wireless data industry is just naturally oligopolistic?
Well, no. Actually it's the opposite. First, as long as the Justice Department doesn't allow mergers that allow too much consolidation in most markets, you will see four, five or six companies in the same market all make money. As a bonus, we also see innovation, very low prices and innovative new biz mods. You can't find a bankruptcy among established wireless carriers going back the last 10 years. And then if you move to talking about the area of unlicensed spectrum, we see not just five or 10, but hundreds of devices that use unlicensed spectrum and compete with one another.
It would be better for all carriers and all society if unused broadcast spectrum was made available for not just a couple of big companies but for all companies. There are some broadcasters who would be happy to sell spectrum. What we're having now is a classic Washington fight where we get no outcome at all because they're fighting over one small slice of the pie and therefore they don't want the pie to be baked at all.
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I'm very sympathetic to AT&T on the following topic: Congress should allow the FCC to auction the scarcely used broadcast spectrum and all companies, including AT&T, should get some. If he's frustrated that he can't get into that situation, I don't blame him. Now, it is not the FCC's fault. It is the U.S. Congress, for the last three years, that hasn't been able to get anything done.
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In the past few weeks, more than 1,200 internal State Department cables have been made public by WikiLeaks and received worldwide attention, including regular front-page coverage in The New York Times and countless other news organizations, including MSNBC.
But the Obama administration's attempt to stop people from reading them continues unabated, creating mounting confusion and head-shaking among bewildered federal employees.
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That follows similar action by other federal agencies: The Library of Congress (where Congressional Research Service analysts work) and NASA, for example, have actually blocked access to the WikiLeaks websites from employee computers.
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As an example, Aftergood cites an e-mail he got from one DHS employee who had just received the department's latest missive from Donna Roy, an official in the department's information office. Strictly read, it appears to suggest that department employees and contractors could be guilty of a security violation if they access WikiLeaks cables from their personal computers, the employee noted.
"So, my grandmother would be allowed to access the cables, but not me. This seems ludicrous," the DHS official wrote Aftergood. Aftergood shared the e-mail, with the name of the employee deleted, as well as the Dec. 3 memo from Roy.
"As someone who has spent many years with the USG [U.S. government] dealing with senior officials of foreign governments, it seems to me that the problem faced by CRS [Congressional Research Service] researchers … is going to be widespread across our government if we follow this policy. … I think more damage will be done by keeping the federal workforce largely in the dark about what other interested parties worldwide are going to be reading and analyzing."
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Dirk Nowitzki may have won the most recent NBA player of the week, and will get much of the credit for leading the Dallas Mavericks to a 3-0 week after putting up 30.7 points and 10 rebounds, but it hasn't gone without notice that Jose Juan Barea that has provided the much-needed spark.
With Josh Howard's bum ankle taking him out of the lineup, Rick Carlisle tried a multitude of starting combinations, experimenting with Gerald Green, Antonie Wright, and James Singleton in the starting five.
Those combinations didn't produce the results he was looking for, so Carlisle finally settled on pairing the sub-six-foot Barea and Jason Kidd in the backcourt.
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The move to pair up point guards was a definite gamble, but it was the only roster change that showed positive results on the court. And it's injected new life and raised the energy of a stagnant Dallas team that started the season 2-7, including a brutal five-game losing streak.
Even towards the end of the game of the last three, the Mavs have had Jason Terry in the mix, making for a three-guard lineup - a mix that Carlisle lovingly calls the "bastardized lineup"
Barea has played over 20 minutes in just six games this season, and it's no coincidence that it happens to be the last six games the Mavs have played. He's also started the last three.
The 5-11 guard from Puerto Rico has averaged 15.2 points, 5.5 assists (with only 1.2 turnovers), shot 50% from the field, 41.7% from three, and 80% from the line during the six-game stretch.
"I love Barea," Rick Carlisle said on local Dallas radio station. "He's a little guy that battles. He just battles his butt off, cares about the team, cares about winning, all that stuff."
Dallas has won four of those six games, only losing to the Lakers and San Antonio Spurs last night (in double OT).
The fiery Barea hasn't just been putting up good stats, he's also been produing when it matters. In the last four games Barea hit a game-winning three against the Clippers (W), scored 9 fourth quarter points against Phoenix (W), put up 16 points in a decisive third quarter against the Hawks (W), and 13-fourth-quarter-points to force overtime against the Spurs (L).Long Road to now
This is Barea's third year in the league and it hasn't been an easy road for J.J.
Even though Barea was the CAA Player of the Year and averaged 21 points, 8.4 assists, 4.5 rebounds, and 1.2 steals, he went undrafted out of Northeastern University, mostly because scouts were concerned of whether a 5-11 guard could replicate that success in the pros.
From there, Barea took to the Portsmouth NBA Draft Camp, where he was named camp MVP and set the camp record by totaling 41 assists over three games (13.6 assists per). He would also play in the NBA summer league; dominating and running a unique floor game that saw constant aggression; basically dribbling the ball around until he was able to create a shot for himself or his teammates - and was hugely successful - Barea was picked up by the Dallas Mavericks in 2006.
With that type of energy and mindset, it's no wonder Nowitzki calls Barea the 'Puerto Rico A.I."
"He's fearless. Fearless," Dirk Nowitzki said. "(Barea) gets in there. He's small, but for some reason, he's a great finisher. He always finds the seams and gets to the cup. He's a great finisher. If there are people in there, he can pass the ball out. I just really like that he's in attack mode."
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barea10.jpgYou could certainly consider Tony Parker an expert on lightning-quick point guards. The Spurs' blur was pretty impressed by J.J. Barea's 21-point, five-assist performance last night.
"It looked like he was franchise out there," Parker said. "He was running every single play. He looked a little bit like Steve Nash, dribbling like 100 times. Sometimes it's tough to guard that because you never know what he's going to do."
Barea hasn't displayed anything close to the court vision that makes Nash so special, but you can see the comparison of their 100-mph styles of play. And, given where Nash was as a 24-year-old, it's really not too ridiculous.
That was Nash's first season in Dallas, during which he got booed mercilessly at Reunion Arena. He averaged 7.9 points and 5.5 assists in 40 games (all starts) that season. Barea is averaging 7.4 ppg and 2.7 apg this season (20.3 ppg and 4.3 apg in three starts).


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CINCINNATI -- Reds left-handed reliever Sean Marshall, who has been on the disabled list since May 24 with a sprained left shoulder, has had a setback in his throwing program. Marshall last threw in the bullpen on Sunday in Atlanta and was slated to throw to Reds hitters during Thursday's post-All-Star Game workout.
"At the end of the bullpen, he was a little tender," Reds head trainer Paul Lessard said on Friday. "After treatments at the end of the day, he was feeling OK. Yesterday, we were planning on starting our workout with that live BP session, and while he was long tossing and warming up, he was still feeling some tenderness in the back of the shoulder. We shut it down."
A medical exam on Friday confirmed that Marshall had shoulder tendinitis.
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text: Installation RCF Media makes its mark in Novi Sad's Loft Rooftop Situated in Novi Sad's new Promenada Shopping Mall, Loft Coffee & Food Bar is the fourth in the successful Serbian chain, having built its reputation on a carefully designed offering, great location and innovative interior. To that can be added a top-quality RCF sound system. The Loft Rooftop, as the latest operation is known, makes an immediate impression, with its striking interior complemented by unobtrusive but ever-present background music. The sound is provided by a number of loudspeakers from the RCF Media series, supplied by Serbian distributor, AVL Projekt. Specifically it uses the RCF M601 and RCF DPS 604X 4-channel Class D amplification. Signal source is a computer, connected to the system via a Radial USB PRO sound card, with an additional RCF S5012 passive subwoofer providing low-frequency extension. THE LOFT ROOFTOP, AS THE LATEST OPERATION IS KNOWN, MAKES AN IMMEDIATE IMPRESSION, WITH ITS STRIKING INTERIOR COMPLEMENTED BY UNOBTRUSIVE BUT EVER-PRESENT BACKGROUND MUSIC. Further RCF equipment for providing sound in the garden has also been earmarked and will be installed after the siting of the pergola in the open space outside. For this purpose RCF's IP55 weather-resistant MQ 80P-B speakers are an appropriate choice for outdoor installation. However, the installation team faced several challenges during the fit-out. As is often the case, the installation of the sound system had to be completed to a short deadline due to the opening of the Mall itself. But with good organisation, and commitment from their colleagues in the field, AVL Projekt successfully met this challenge. Read more Corporate SIRIUS TAKES OVER RCF DISTRIBUTION IN GREECE RCF has announced the appointment of Sirius Sound & Lighting Systems as its new exclusive distributor for Greece. Sirius Sound is a newly-established company, chosen by RCF as its new strategic partner. Speaking of the new appointment, RCF sales manager Massimo Bruni, said, "We selected Sirius Sound in view of the high technical qualification of their managers, which will help RCF consolidate its primary role in the Greek market." RCF, which this year celebrates its 70th anniversary, boasts a wide range of products in its extensive portfolio, for applications ranging from professional audio for both rental PA and permanent installations, as well as commercial audio. Sirius Sound's mission is to create a solid and long-term business relationship with its customers and support a nationwide network, with the desire to stand out and establish its name in the Greek market. One of its principal aims is in the field of training and seminars in Italy, through the RCF Audio Academy, where targeted seminars are conducted by specialists to promote a high level of understanding and knowledge. Sirius Sound & Lighting Systems sales manager, Mr Giannelos, emphasises the importance of collaboration with a specialised team of experienced audiovisual engineers in being able to provide high-quality technological solutions using RCF tools. Mr Giannelos said, "It is a great honour to co-operate with the best, aiming high to ensure that RCF broadens and strengthens the position it deserves in the Greek market through Sirius Sound & Lighting Systems." The new arrangement is effective from August 5th, 2019. Read more Event Ligabue Start Tour 2019 Olympic Stadium, RomeThe Italian rocker has just finished his Start Tour 2019 which began on June 14th with an impressive stage set up in nine Italian stadiums with his five-piece band. With a 29-year career at the top of the charts and a risky vocal chord operation just over a year ago, Ligabue returns on the stage with his electric guitar, his powerful voice, a brand new stage, and 236 RCF TT+ speakers.The stage is 58 meters long, 22 deep. The backdrop of the stage is a mighty metal structure that supports the three LED screens that recall the two "L" of the artist's name and a huge amount of light sources to create impressive visual effects.The sound system is RCF's trusted TT+ system, consisting of a total of 236 devices, all interconnected to the RDNet management software, now in version 3.1, that controls and monitors every component of the system."We have been using Ligabue's TT + system for a long time and I am very satisfied with the results we get at every concert. Since the introduction of the FiRPHASE algorithms in the DSP, the system has improved the performance even more and always guarantees me the neutral and pleasant sound I am looking for. " The sound system designer Emanuele Morlini describes the audio system: "The main system combines 24 TTL 55-A modules for the MAINS suspended in L & R configuration with 100 Hz cut-off frequency (total 48 modules) plus 12 TTL 36-AS subwoofer modules suspended behind the mains in L & R configuration. Operating in a range of frequencies between 60 and 100 Hz (total 24 modules), they are able to extend coverage on low frequencies over the entire listening area." Twenty TTL 55-A modules have been set up to extend the coverage up to 180° on the Left and Right sides (total of 40 modules). Read more Event Johan & Johan Ljud & Ljus expands further with RCF line arrays Swedish rental company, Johan & Johan Ljud & Ljus, provides a total event technology package from its base in Sölvesborg — and for the past few years the company has progressively turned to RCF for its sound requirements.Run by directors Johan Andersson and Johan Hallberg they started out in 2010 and soon invested in RCF's ART series (ART 312-A). "After the success of that system we decided to look for further RCF solutions," said Johan Andersson.The company then graduated to RCF NXL 24-A point source column speakers. Explaining the rationale, Andersson said, "We decided to buy the NXL 24-A because it's a speaker that we can use on many different types of event—both small and even some larger events."But the company was far from finished with RCF. "We decided to step up to the HDL-30 when we started receiving more inquiries to handle bigger types of event," he continued. "We visited Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt and listened to the HDL 30-A rig, which was on demo, and were happy with the sound." Before making the purchasing decision they reviewed other brands "but we thought the sound [of the HDL 30-A] was amazing, plus it was a very flexible system and easy to rig." Read more Event How to produce hip-hop - big beats, cool rhymes with RCF at beatcon conference Hip-hop is booming on a global scale. During the first edition of the hip-hop producers conference "beatcon" in Düsseldorf (Germany) and gathering in workshops, panels and live performances, the pros of the hip-hop producers scene passed on their knowledge about hip-hop. Beatcon took place for the first time this year and sees itself as an information platform around the production of hip-hop music focusing especially on the technical aspects. Italian sound reinforcement specialist RCF, who supported the event not only as a sponsor but also with the equipment, took care of the sound. On both stages and during the workshops and master classes beatcon trusted in an HDL 30-A line array system, several SUBs, and TT MKII modules.During this first edition of beatcon, taking place in the event location Boui Boui Bilk, the top producers of the scene showed their skills and workflows on two stages - from producing the beats, vocal recording, vocal editing, sampling to studio and live mixing. The culmination of each day was a live performance by an artist on the SNIPES Stage. The event offered a very versatile program that required a PA able to reproduce a wide variety of formats, sounds and situations flexibly. Therefore beatcon chose equipment from RCF. Event service provider Tontechnik Kaufmann with owner Christofer Kaufmann used an HDL 30-A line array system for the SNIPES Stage. 7x HDL 30 modules were placed on 2x SUB 9007-AS (in cardioid mode) left and right of the stage. Additionally, 3x SUB 9007-AS were at the centre before the stage. Two RCF TT 22-MKII served as sidefills. The artists on stage used TT 25 SMA monitor wedges. Because of the event's concept, with live performances, workshops, discussions and dialogues, the event organisers required a PA that delivers perfect results both in terms of music reproduction and speech intelligibility. During the event, the HDL 30-A system and the entire audio installation showed their flexibility and high-performance. Read more Event Uno Maggio Taranto 2019 The Uno Maggio "Free and Thinking" concert in Taranto (Italy) took place, as in previous years, with the spectacular backdrop of the Archaeological Park of the Greek Walls. Dozens of artists alternated on the stage from the early afternoon, including Max Gazzè, Elio, Malika Ayane, Colle der Fomento, CorVeleno, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti, Bugo, and Vinicio Capossela.The entire RCF audio system was supplied by Francesco Epifani of the Phoenix Service, who describes the set-up: "The audio configuration for the event consists of a TTL 55-A vertical array of 16 modules per side and a TT55-A array side consisting of 10 modules per side. On the ground, stage front, were 36 TTS 56-A subwoofers in eight groups of three in line, in a cardioid configuration. For an even distribution of low frequencies over the entire field, the drivers have been distributed with a digital arc with an aperture of 110 degrees. "Six TTL 33-A were also added as front-fill on the front profile of the stage." Epifani continues "The venue is very long, so we added two delay towers, each consisting of six TTL55-A. The distance of the first tower from the main stage is about 55 meters. Regarding the distribution of the signals, I received a pair of stereo signals from the FOH mixer and a pair of stereo signals from the second mixer used as a 'service line'. I also added a mono analog backup signal from both the FOH mixers. These were all transported via a Galileo 616 that I use as the main matrix and from which I send six signals to two Drive Racks placed under the main system via analog transport (Main Left, Main Right, Side Left, Side Right, Sub, Front Fill)."The delay towers were controlled by a single drive rack that received two mono signals, one for each tower. The whole system was managed through an RCF Control8 which allows monitor and control of all the speakers via RDNet. All the processing of the audio signal such as delays, equalization and other interventions, was also carried out via RDNet. Read more Installation PEARCE HIRE FITS RCF HDL 6-A AT OAKHAM SCHOOL DRAMA THEATRE When Oakham School, a historic independent co-educational school that dates back to the 16th century, wanted a new sound system for its Queen Elizabeth Theatre they approached Pearce Hire, from whom it had rented gear in the past, for advice. That was six months ago, and the result has been the installation of an RCF compact HDL 6-A by the Peterborough based company in this 220-seat drama theatre, complete with fixed raked seating.Powered by a 1400W 2-channel class-D amplifier this compact, active line array, packed with RCF's purpose designed transducers, was a logical recommendation, meeting all requirements for vocal intelligibility and with a high dynamic for live and recorded music. Said Andy Howling, who heads up Installation and Sales at Pearce Hire, "The previous system sounded tired, coverage was poor and it was no longer fit for purpose. They needed to upgrade." Theatre technician Phil Norton agreed. "It was time to replace our current system and we wanted something that would be suitable for big musicals and a system that would reflect the excellent standard of our theatre productions." Read more Installation High-End Asia Restaurant IZAKAYA in Amsterdam relies on flexible use of RCF loudspeakers Exclusive restaurant chain IZAKAYA, which maintains several locations in Europe, offers a high-class and sophisticated Asian cuisine and combines it with a bar concept setting new standards continuously. Offering an exquisite gastronomic experience combined with various events IZAKAYA is a true hotspot in Amsterdam. At the beginning of 2019, IZAKAYA renewed its audio system and installed 12 C3108-96 modules in Custom White. The Dutch audio specialist 24/7 Amsterdam was responsible for the technical implementation.The C3108 is an extremely versatile, unobtrusive, full-range 2-way loudspeaker system that integrates perfectly into the atmosphere of the IZAKAYA. With its wide dispersion angle, remarkable performance and efficiency, it offers a wide range of professional applications and is perfectly suited for the mixed use of the location. Due to its compact size, it is predestined for unobtrusive wall mounting or ceiling installation. The system delivers perfect sound and high performance without acting in the foreground within the location - just the way it should be. The mixed use of the IZAKAYA location in Amsterdam as a restaurant, bar, enriched with many events, including live music, demands a lot of flexibility talking about the sound system. Read more Corporate RCF USA // LIVE IN NYC // 2019 RCF USA, together with On-The-Road Marketing, have the ULTIMATE live demonstration experience planned and you're cordially invited!Dates:Tuesday July 23rd, 2019Wednesday July 24th, 2019Location:SIR STAGE 37508 WEST 37 STNEW YORK, NY 10018http://sir-usa.com/city/new-york/Tuesday July 23rd, 2019 (7-10pm)RCF USA // LIVE IN NYC // 2019 starts with an evening of amazing music and great sound! Join us for an informal gathering of live music from 5x Best of Westchester Winners, NAKED SOUL, showcasing three complete RCF HDL line array systems. If you'd like to attend and hear this showcase performance, select the "RCF Show Admission" ticket when you register. When your registration is approved, please have your confirmation with you when you arrive at SIR studios. Food and drinks will be provided. (21 and older. Street parking and travel fees not included.)Wednesday July 24th, 2019 (9:30am - 5pm)We continue RCF USA // LIVE IN NYC // 2019 with a day of system demonstrations, lead by our product expert and VP of Sales and Marketing, Tarik Solangi. First demo starts at 10am, with additional demos at Noon, 2pm and 4pm. This is a great way to hear various RCF system configurations in an open and controlled environment. We'll have sales and technical staff available to answer your questions. When your registration is approved, please have your confirmation with you when you arrive at SIR studios. Food and beverages will be provided throughout the day. (Street parking and travel fees not included.)RCF.it Registration link --> Read more Installation The Evangeliums Christen Baptist Congregation Paderborn renews with RCF HDL 10-A The Evangeliums Christen Baptist congregation Paderborn is a congregational chapel which maintains its own house of prayer in the German city. For the audio system renewal the congregation, together with audio service provider Musik Aktiv Musikequipment GmbH from Paderborn, decided on a new HDL series line array system from RCF. Musik Aktiv tested several systems available on the market and decided on the HDL 10-A as the most suitable system for this project. The system was planned and designed by the German department of the RCF Engineering Support Group and installed by the community members themselves.Frank Schallenberg, owner of Musik Aktiv, on opting for RCF: "For this project, we use RCF because we appreciate the competent support from their sales department. A decisive point we have experienced with many other projects already installed. The RCF engineers are very conscientious and detail-oriented in all they do plus the quality of the components, no matter in which category, is very high. When using RCF equipment, we experience practically no complaints or repairs. 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The family station wagon has largely been replaced by the minivan. It's ideal, it seems, for transporting precious cargo... but will it protect you in a side-impact crash?
"Side-impact crashes are the second leading cause of death and serious injury," says Brian O'Neill, who heads the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. He adds that these accidents accidents usually happen at intersections. "What can happen is someone coming in the cross street is trying to get through the last minute. They gun it, and whamo! You've got a serious front-to-side crash."
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, funded by automobile insurers, designed a demanding test to try to improve safety and reduce claims. The test simulates what might happen if a small-sized woman gets slammed by a pick-up truck or SUV at 31 miles per hour.
They chose an SUV as there are a lot of them on the road these days. And because they are higher off the ground, a person's head can be right at the point of impact.
The institute tests vehicles with standard equipment and buys them right off dealer lots. The first three minivans come standard with no side-impact airbags.
2005 Mazda MPV
O'Neill says all the readings show the MPV's structure collapses too much, allowing that barrier to come right into the minivan.
Brian O'Neill: The dummy's head is hit by the barrier. We've got high forces on the neck and also very high forces on the torso. It's never certain, but certainly there's enough problems in this crash that a person could die in a crash like this.
As a result, the Mazda MPV gets the Institute's lowest rating — "poor."
2006 Ford Freestar
O'Neill says the 2006 Ford Freestar's structure collapses even more and if the dummy, were a person she would be very badly hurt.
O'Neill: There's high forces on the dummy's neck, high forces on this body region. So a person in a crash like this would sustain some serious injuries.
The Ford Freestar also gets a "poor" rating.
2005 Toyota Sienna
The 2005 Toyota Sienna doesn't come standard with side airbags either, but in this case, O'Neill explains a strong side structure really makes a difference.
O'Neill: There's less intrusion into the compartment. So even though this version of the Sienna doesn't have the airbags, that improved structure compared to the Freestar and the MPV means that the injury risks inside the vehicle are lower.
The Sienna gets an "acceptable," the Institute's second highest rating.
O'Neill: Good structure is very important. There's no question about it. It provides the space for the driver to be protected.Thompson: And if you add an air bag, it'll probably even do better?O'Neill: Absolutely.
Side airbags improve Ford Freestar and Toyota Sienna ratings
In fact, Toyota and Ford paid the institute to do a second test of their minivans— this time equipped with optional side airbags and both do much better.
O'Neill: The injury measures on the driver dummy are much lower than they were in the case without the airbags.
The Freestar's rating goes from poor to acceptable.
And the Toyota Sienna? A dramatic difference as well. With side airbags, the Sienna goes from an acceptable to a good and best pick, the Institute's highest honor.
But better safety does come at a price: $700 more for the Freestar and $1600 for the 2005 Toyota Sienna, because you have to pay for a whole option package.
However, the 2006 Sienna will have side airbags as standard equipment, and some are already in dealer's showrooms.
Side airbags included
There are other minivans out there whose current models come standard with side airbags. The institute tested some of them too.
2005 Honda Odyssey
O'Neill: The curtain does a very good job of protecting the head. The bag does a very good job of protecting this part of the body. So the driver dummy in this test records no injury measures. So very effective protection.
The Honda Odyssey gets a good rating overall.
2006 Nissan Quest
It too comes standard with head protecting curtain airbags.
O'Neill: This curtain back here for the driver does a very good job of protecting the head.
As a result, the Nissan Quest earns the institute's top honor, "good" and a "best pick."
All these minivans meet "federal safety standards," and score high marks in the "government's side-impact test." Mazda is "disappointed in the results," and Ford, says the Freestar provides "a high level of occupant protection... in real-world crashes."
Thompson: With all of the safety features that are available today, are you surprised that there are still poor performers?O'Neill: Not really. There's still many designs that need to be improved. But they're increasingly good designs for consumers to choose from.


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Royals honored for work in Latino community
Club tabbed corporation of the year by KC's Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
The Royals were honored as the El Dorado corporation of the year by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City on Thursday night.
The award was presented at the 35th annual Noche de Gale Awards Celebration with a crowd of 840 at the Bartle Hall Convention Center in Kansas City. Kevin Uhlich, Royals senior vice president of business operations, accepted for club president Dan Glass, who was attending the baseball Owners Meetings in Chicago.
"In sports you do go to a lot of dinners and you're fortunate enough to be part of a lot of awards ceremonies but, honestly, none of those really stack up to an award such as this," Uhlich told the audience. "Baseball and professional sports have a responsibility to the communities they live in and that comes all the way from Major League Baseball down through the Glass family. Since the Glass family has owned the Kansas City Royals, we've donated more than $6.5 million to charities."
The El Dorado Award is presented to a company that has demonstrated and implemented initiatives that make a positive difference in the growth of Hispanic business and the Latino community.
The Royals were cited for contributing to Hispanic businesses by bringing the 2012 All-Star Game to Kansas City and for several years the team has made a concentrated effort to become involved in the Latino community. The team holds a Viva Los Royals Night each year, highlighting the culture, customs and culinary delights of Hispanics.
During the All-Star week a completely renovated baseball field, largely financed by the Home Run Derby, was unveiled at Mulkey Square Park by Royals owner David Glass, Dan Glass, Royals Hall of Famer George Brett and MLB executives. The field is home primarily to the Guadalupe Center youth baseball program and has been used by the Hispanic community since 1940.
"The Royals also have provided tickets for community youth to attend games throughout the years," said Terry Bassham, CEO and president of Kansas City Power & Light. "Also they've provided baseball equipment to Hispanic youth the last four years and touched the lives of many as they play baseball in our community."
The increasing contributions of players from Latin American countries are felt each year by the Royals on the field; 12, or 30 percent, of the players on the current 40-man roster are Latinos. During the season, many of them patronize Hispanic businesses and attend cultural events. The Chamber also recognized that the Royals are increasing their international scouting efforts to bring even more outstanding young Hispanic players into the organization.
"This was a year in which we were able to do so much because of the All-Star Game," Uhlich said. "The money that was generated and went to charities like Mulkey Park is kind of a once-in-a-lifetime thing. It's important to connect to all of your fan base and the Hispanic fan base has always been good to us. It's a growing part of the market and it's just great that we've been able to work together with them the way we do.
"The work that [Royals director of community outreach] Betty Kaegel does with it is phenomenal. She's well-respected in the community and she's a great representative for the club out in the Hispanic market. The last few years have really been good and we've made great strides in all of our charities."
Editor's note: Royals director of community outreach Betty Kaegel is the wife of MLB.com reporter Dick Kaegel, the author of this story.


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