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Michael Qualls sank a 3-pointer with 4 seconds remaining to lift Arkansas to its first road victory of the season in a 77-75 win Saturday that ended Vanderbilt's four-game win streak.
Qualls finished with 17 points for the Razorbacks (15-8, 4-6 Southeastern Conference). Coty Clarke added 14, Rashad Madden scored 12 and Mardracus Wade had 11.
Rod Odom scored 22 points and Kyle Fuller had 20 for the short-handed Commodores (13-9, 5-5), who have only seven scholarship players. Fuller's two free throws with 11.6 seconds left gave the Commodores a 75-74 lead, and Odom missed a jumper on the buzzer.
Fuller hit one of two free throws and Siakam made an inside bucket as Vanderbilt went ahead 71-68 with 3 minutes left after a 12-0 run. Madden's 3-pointer, however, ended the Razorbacks' drought and evened the game again.
Damian Jones scored 12 points for Vanderbilt, and Dai-Jon Parker had 11 including 3-for-4 from 3-point range.
The Razorbacks' hot shooting (15 of 22 for 68 percent the first 16 minutes) and full-court press (nine first-half steals) wore on the Commodores' small roster. Vanderbilt played only eight including a walk-on due to injury, dismissal and departures.
Parker picked up his fourth foul with 16 minutes to go just after his 3-pointer pulled the Commodores within 51-48. Wade's three-point play on the foul pushed Arkansas back out to 54-48, and Bobby Portis stepped out for a 3-pointer for the largest lead at 57-48.
Fuller did a flip after being fouled on the break following Siakam's block, the basket dropped in and Fuller -completed the three-point point play to cut it to 68-62. Vanderbilt then tied it after Siakam had two big defensive plays, stealing an interior pass before Odom's 3-pointer and taking a charge before Jones powered it in for a tie at 68.
Clarke had 11 first-half points on the way to a 20-17 Razorbacks lead, including nine straight during an 11-5 run.
Arkansas scored seven straight points for a 27-19 lead on Qualls' first 3-pointer and two steals off the press that led to Jacorey Williams' back-to-back baskets. But the Commodores retook the lead 31-30 with a 12-3 spurt including four free throws by Fuller and consecutive treys by Parker and Fuller.
Arkansas regained the lead 33-31 on Wade's 3-pointer, and stretched it to back out to seven points with Portis and Kingsley along with Madden's 3-pointer.
Vanderbilt, coming off a dramatic 64-60 victory over rival Tennessee, went up early 8-5 on Odom and Parker 3-pointers followed by Parker free throws. The loss ended the Commodores' longest win streak since the 2012 postseason.


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So this winter break, I am taking a course to become an Advanced PADI diver with my sister and my dad. We have all been scuba diving / snorkeling a couple times, but obviously nothing too deep since we aren't certified. I'm pretty excited but I obviously have some concerns about deeper diving (the bends, nitrogen narcosis, etc.). I'm pretty sure there's nothing to worry about since we'll be accompanied by a PADI certified instructor the whole time and we'll learn about all the precautions and stuff.
Was just wondering if anyone on Sociocide has any experience with scuba diving and such and feels like talking about all things scuba! (I doubt if I'll get any responses but I thought it'd be worth a try anyway). I've been wanting to get certified for a pretty long time so I'm moderately psyched.


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International Pop Overthrow wraps up its 2013 Chicago visit with three showcases this weekend. There are seven bands each on Friday and Saturday night; six bands on Saturday afternoon. For the full schedule, with links to all the artists, check out the IPO website.
Nick Peay is a singer-songwriter who loves The Beatles. Peay's from Louisville, KY and according to a Facebook post, he'll perform with fellow citizens The Uncommon Houseflies tonight (Thursday, April 25th) at IPO-Chicago. He'll be performing as The Nick Peay Band when he opens for the fest Friday night. His latest EP, Life And Love And Us, features him playing ukulele.
MariZen is set to release its fifth CD, When The Sun Goes Down, on June 1st. Led by vocalist Mari Scott, the five-piece band describes its power pop sound as "like a charging freight train." Chances are, they'll be charging through some songs from the upcoming album tomorrow night.
IPO-Chicago veterans Panoramic And True also have a brand new release to draw from; Wonderlust is now available in vinyl and digital format. They're ambitious musicians who describe their mix of garage, 1960s soul, and British Invasion as "rock music with a wide-angle lens." New tracks like "Haunted" and "A Hold On On You" on the Panoramic And True BandCamp page bode well for tomorrow's live performance.
Temporary Pharaohs have only been around for about a year, but they're already regulars on the Chicago club scene. The lineup changes from time to time around founding members Chris Kulwin and Cody Carpenter. Indie rock songs like "Moon Over Miami" and "Sarah Swati" mix shimmering guitars with experimental arrangements.
Indie rock band The Break is currently working on a second release, so it's possible it will be trying out some new material at the Red Line Tap tomorrow night. The Break might be the youngest band at this year's IPO-Chicago, judging from their YouTube videos, but these guys have energy and poise.
The trio Lights Alive compares its self-described "Stadium Punk" to Paramore. Newcomer Devon Carson handles lead vocals, and founding members guitarist-vocalist Adam Instefjord and drummer Dave Vazzano have several years of performing together. Lights Alive recently shared some brand new songs on its Facebook page.
There's not a lot of serious info regarding the quintet The JoyRyders on their Facebook page, but their MySpace profile states they play a mix of originals and cover versions. Videos of the band performing live underscore the notion that these guys know how to party.


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|Delizique, Hyndland Street
My gorgeous wife Nicola has been working away in London over the last week so we had made the decision that when she was back that we would enjoy a day out today, providing that the weather wasn't as horrible as it has been over the last few weeks.
With the sun splitting the skies, we made our way to the Riverside Museum, the new home for Scotland's Museum of Travel & Transport. This was our first trip to the transport museum since it moved from the Kelvin Hall to the £74 million modern site on the River Clyde and we spent almost four hours wandering around the 3000+ vehicles and other paraphernalia.
We hadn't expected to spend so long at the museum and when we left after a few hours, it was already past our normal lunchtime. We were in the West End, we knew that finding something to eat wouldn't be too difficult so jumped back in the car and made our way towards the Hyndland area where a little deli/cafe called Delizique is based.
We arrived just after 3pm to an already busy cafe, in fact had we arrived any later, I think we would have been eating takeaway sandwiches in the car!
The interior of Delizique is dominated by what looks like a replica of 'The Tree of Hippocrates', and a scattering of mishmash tables and chairs all with a view of the open kitchen pass. Delizique attracts a wide spectrum of diners all flocking to sample home baking, sandwiches and fresh salads. The speciality of the house is their famous 'Big Piece', a giant home baked focaccia sandwich, think of the biggest chopping board that you've seen then think of a sandwich that same size and you've got the starting point for the 'Big Piece'. The filling changes daily depending on the mood of the chef, today's filling was poached salmon with dill, tartare sauce, rocket and lemon. If you're happy with the sandwich filling of the day, they simply cut a big piece from the chopping board.
|Chorizo, sun dried tomato & mozzarella pizza
Delicious as the 'Big Piece' sounded, we had come in from a cold winters day and wanted something that could warm us up. The menu consists of boards of meats, cheeses and salads, plus a wide choice of home cooked pizza. We opted to share a Chorizo, sun dried tomato and mozzarella pizza, and a Greek Salad between us.
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The 8" pizza (£7.50) was cooked to order with a crisp base topped with smoky slices of thick cut chorizo, succulent pieces of sweet sun dried tomato, and torn pieces of creamy mozzarella, all drizzled with peppery extra virgin olive oil. The Greek salad (£4) was a huge pile of rocket, tomato, red onion, cucumber, peppers, and olives, tossed with crumbled Feta and olive oil. All the dishes at Delizique are served on rustic wooden boards.
The boards that we were served were fantastic! The fresh flavours from the salad were a great counter to the rich chorizo from the pizza, and the portion sizes were generous for the price. To accompany our lunch, Nicola had a bottle (330ml) of Lorina French pink lemonade, whilst I had an espresso once we had finished our food. Delizique are guilty of one of the things that really annoy me about lots of cafes, they seriously mark up the cost on their bottled soft drinks! I appreciate that they have a business to run, but i think charging £3.50 for a bottle of lemonade is seriously over the top!
That said, our lunch cost £17 and we both left feeling well fed and watered. So much so that we didn't have room to squeeze in any of the delicious home baking that we passed on the way out. Next time I'm in the area I'll be swinging by for a coffee and cake, there's a rhubarb and custard tart with my name on it!
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CHICAGO — Despite impressive 25 percent growth of its products and services revenue, slow new member sales may have sabotaged Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. quarterly financials.
The company reported net revenues of $241.5 million for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2003. This compares to net revenues of $243.1 million for the third quarter of 2002. Net income for the third quarter was $4.7 million, or $.14 per diluted share, compared to $7.2 million, or $.22 per diluted share, in the prior year quarter.
"This quarter, Bally continued its strong performance in most key areas, though we still experienced softness in revenue generated from new memberships," said Paul Toback, chairman, president and CEO. "In addition to the downward pressure we have experienced over the last several quarters due to the weak economy and competition, the August blackout and the September hurricane placed additional pressure on membership trends during the quarter. However, I remain confident that the changes we have made over the past six months have begun to set the stage for improving membership sales.
Looking ahead, management said it expects further progress on all fronts of the company's operating strategy, but cautioned that new membership initiatives will require time to reverse the decline in new customer joins.
"With all of our other operational initiatives progressing well, signing up new customers and continuing to retain the ones we have will continue to be priority one in the foreseeable future," Toback said. "While revenue and earnings will continue to be similarly affected in future quarters until the trend in new memberships is reversed, we are confident that we are building the framework that will give us the best opportunity for sustained long-term growth."


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☼ ☼ ☼ Sacred Harp Sing | Nelson – Second Sunday
December 8, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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NO experience is necessary. If you think this sounds interesting, we'd love to have you come listen and give it a try. We will have several extra books to lend for the session. If you've sung shape-note songs in the past and are ready for more singing close to home, we're eager to meet you and have you join us, too.
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Photo from The Spongetones website.
The four songs on today's post illustrate how lead vocalist-guitarist Jeff Murphy of The Shoes couldn't have anticipated the mixed bag he'd wind up with when he bravely asked a variety of musical artists to participate on his Christmas compilation, Yuletunes. Incidentally, this thoroughly enjoyable disc is still listed as available on the Black Vinyl Records website.
"The Saddest Time Of The Year" comes from Spooner, the Wisconsin-based band that featured lead vocalist-guitarist Duke Erikson and drummer Butch Vig long before they formed Garbage with dynamic Scottish chanteuse, Shirley Manson. The haunting arrangement, and Erikson's guitar playing in particular, make this reflection on disappointment and loneliness at Christmas even more melancholy. It's not a song to play while exchanging gifts, but its poignant message might make you consider the plight of the less fortunate among us.
The Cavedogs were a Boston band that according to Wikipedia, often mixed comedy with its catchy pop music. That's certainly the case with "3 Wise Men And A Baby (Xmas Song)," a funny and ambitious epic that begins with a sound bite of Burl Ives' talking snowman from the Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer animated special. About halfway through, the guitar-driven song abruptly shifts into a lounge act reminiscent of the bit Bill Murray used to do on Saturday Night Live. The rollicking finale finds the band singing "alleluia" against a backdrop of George Bailey scolding his kids in It's A Wonderful Life.
The Spongetones take us to a much more tranquil place with their acoustic-based, innocent fantasy "Christmasland." While they had shown an ability to mimic The Beatles on their own albums, here The Spongetones craft an old-fashioned Christmas tune with a delicate melody and intricately layered vocals. It was great to hear via the Absolute Powerpop blog that Spongetones members Jamie Hoover and Steve Stoeckel have just released a new CD called English Afterthought that follows in the Spongetones tradition.
Listening to "A God Of My Own" by the Chicago trio 92 Degrees requires some thought since it's a complex look at religious beliefs at what is undoubtedly the most commercial time of the year. The lyrics, "You go your way and have a Merry Christmas/I'll go my way and have a Merry Christmas," express a tolerant attitude that's sometimes lacking when it comes to matters of faith. With its ringing guitars, the mid-tempo "A God Of My Own" has the British Invasion influence the band tapped into on its 1990 EP, Money Makes The World Go 'Round. 92 Degrees would go on to record a first-rate full length debut a few years later, and the original line-up still makes the occasional live appearance to this day.
Coming up in Yuletunes - Part Three: Holiday romance, holiday heartache, and family traditions.


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Snow again in the forecast
It's going to snow. It's winter, you've got to expect that.
Snowfall totals have been revised upward, with 4 to 8 inches now forecast for a wide swath of the state, and 3 to 6 inches expected along the shore and in the northwest hills of Litchfield County.
Extreme eastern Connecticut could see more than 8 inches, WTNH-TV meteorologist Gil Simmons said. The storm will still leave the state looking more like a Currier and Ives engraving than an Arctic expedition.
Simmons had called for between 1 and 4 inches for much of the state in his early morning forecast, but said he revised it after studying computer models that show a closer track to Connecticut and a more intensive system.
The snowfall will move from west to east across the state, beginning between 10 a.m. and noon and winding down about 8 hours later. "This is not a large storm, but there will be snow everywhere in the state, even along the I-95 corridor,'' the WTNH meteorologist said.
The National Weather Service, meanwhile, continued to call for between 1 and 3 inches of light, flurry snow, but hadn't updated its forecast since 3:30 a.m. Friday.
Today, though, is clear and cold, with a stiff wind from the northwest making it seem even colder. Although temperatures are in the upper 20s throughout the region at 6:30 a.m., the wind chill makes it really feel like 19 degrees in Milford and 16 in Shelton.
Temperatures will climb above freezing during the day Friday and drop about 10 degrees at night. Sunday and Monday will be dry and cold, and New Year's Day will be slightly warmer, with a high temperature in the mid-30s, under partly cloudy skies.
The outlook for New Year's Eve is cold with temperatures dipping in the teens after the sun sets on 2012.


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Great works of art are not easy to review. They are not common like the cesspool of bad art. Bad art is easy to deconstruct, to show how pathetically horrible they are. "So bad it's good" exists because these works are so bizarre, so extraordinary that they become unique. Bad art is never unique its badness. In contrast, great works of art always end up redefining what 'good' is, so any review of a masterpiece will never be analytical and conclusive. It always end up chasing something that we can only grasp a piece of, like a poet looking at a beautiful line he wrote and knowing he can never write a worthy poem of it.
Kaiba is one of those artworks. I say it deliberately. Judgment of it is not confined to anime. It transcends media, reaches something so deeply human and awe-inspiring that it becomes a part of you. Do not expect a rational explanation of why this anime is better than pretty much anything. If we understood completely why it's so good, we'd have masterpiece dropping from the skies. I can try, though.
The key to understanding Kaiba is understanding how it tells a story, specifically how it takes advantage of the personal nature of fiction. All art, including fiction, is personal. It is a product of human thought, a translation of your entire Being – your experiences, philosophy, unconscious, passions – into some kind of experience that another being can take on. Kaiba is a ridiculously expressive work. Every scene is imbued with emotion. Every object says something about what it represents. It's so emotionally draining because of that.
Memory is the big topic, but Kaiba isn't just about memory. In a cliched way, it's existentialist, asking what we are. Its answer is memories, but memories are also information. The anime explores this intersection of information that defines us. Notice the symbols. When memory isn't converted to information, it is organic and free – it is lifelike memory eggs. These are also tiny, fragile and fleeting. The memories float away and are easily lost.
The roe is us, so they use to show how tiny we are when death strikes. When a character dies, their bodies become liquid and vanish completely. The 'self' becomes just a bunch of yellow pieces floating way. It expresses the loss of death, how death completely erase us and we become nothing. The memory chip – a drill-like thing – can also die so easily, if it's lost it's gone forever. Sure, we can try to capture those roe or to protect the chip, but it's so difficult. It's an expression of how fragile we are.
Yet converting ourselves into information makes us so much easier to control, and easier for us to control others. Altering other people's memories is a sci-fi trope, but this anime is concerned with how it affects everyone, how it affects our personal lives. We see the small results of this – how erasing someone's childhood erases who they are and they end up becoming nothing but a memory. How this power to change personal reality blurs into thinking we can change reality itself – a direct link to megalomania and tyranny.
Our memories are our personality. Once we control them, edit them, change them all lines break down. The world of Kaiba looks funny by design, but that's because how the people experience it. People can also put their memories into a whole new body. In one episode this results in a world where bodies are manufactured like clothes. Its reality is grotesque, a mass of weird shapes that's disorientating. Somehow we ended up creating a more chaotic reality than nature.
Leaning towards a socioeconomic critique of society, the anime shows a world in which memories – selves – become products. So a character sells her own body with hopes that her memory will be kept. Selves are no longer precious. This society isn't painted with strokes of black to show you how evil rich people are. Rather, to illustrate the chaos of it, we see selling your own body and putting yourself in a chip is no guarantee. You're relinquishing control of yourself, your grip on the world.
Yet this 'information' is never just 'information'. Consciousness was the result of accumalating all these pieces of data and connecting them. So we're never really dead, and using memories this way is using people as objects. The anime is deeply concerned with living things. In a gallery of memories, the people who own these memories cry out to be released.
Everyone's concerns are always personal. Although the characters are simple, they have motivation and a humanity. A sheriff who really wants a girl at first seems like a greedy bastard, but he's a person. That's his wants, and when we see this want doesn't make him just an asshole but a good person we're encouraged to sympathize with him. In the end, he's a 'human' being – with people he loves, things he wants, and dreams lost when death comes.
Although there are antagonists, the series always reminds us that they're people in the most simple way. People want power, but not because they're evil. They want it because they're human beings, so we see the ringleader of the resistance crumbling to tears when he realizes what he's done. He had to erase memories that painted him in a bad light, but the result was losing a friend.
This anime is in the end about treasuring people. The idea of memory is just a tool to show us how we can lose people, no matter how hard we work to keep them. We put their identity, their whole being in a chip but then that chip is lost. We sell a loved one's body, hoping the salesman will keep the information in a chip. A friend blocks our ambition, so we erase some memories only to realize the whole person is gone. Eventually this anime reaches an important conclusion about being – we need each other, we're social animals, power doens't make up for it.
The castle of Warp is a lonely place. The only person he has is an all-seeing robot. He's not happy and the only thing he can talk about are who to execute. He may be the king of memories, but these are his own memories. What good are they? In a beautiful scene Popo and the resistance at the palace, and it has a huge opening to a black void. That's the height of power to you, a lonely high place looking out into nothing. The only thing that's there are themselves, yet they're craving control.
The romance between Neiro and Kaiba isn't a symbol for romance, but what's really important – connection. Even during oppression, they found something of their own, a precious shared memory that's enough. Separate yourself from the struggle for power. The privileges of the rich to put themselves in memory chips and live forever aren't that worthwhile in the end. Every world touched by this is grotesque, people are lost yet they are still people.
You cannot talk about the art without mentioning the Neverhood, which seems like a direct inspiration for the anime. Both endings and beginning borrow from it. It opens with a man seeing an unknown, bizarre world. The ending includes a darker version of the hero and a gigantic, self-sacrificing robot. Like the Neverhood, the design is cartoonish, nonsensical and imbued with meaning and emotions. Look at the planet where the only thing that matters is the story of two old people. The planet itself is nothing but their tower. The underworld is almost colorless – but almost, since it still has some life in it. The club is colorful and weird but has a dominating shade of purple – a disorientating effect. Vanilla looks like what we expect from an asshole with the fat belly and aggressive face (Only his character later proves to be more). There is even a creature who flies by a propeller and doesn't speak – like the sidekick from old video games. It's as unrealistic as you get, but no scene is without emotional overtones just like life – and that makes it far closer to reality than anything else.
Likewise the soundtrack couldn't be better, a collection of gentle electronic sounds. It fits with the slightly childish designs, but it has the same fragility of the world. A lot of it sounds like Boards of Canada, only it takes it to less nostalgic tones. The soundtrack mostly expresses a reflective, introspective atmosphere, one of both awe and terror. Some tracks are colder and harsher that reminds us that this world is still harsh, a world where selves can be sold. Some tracks have beautiful, intimate melodies to go along with the theme of connection.
There is no other anime like Kaiba, an anime so expressive, where every shot is charged with emotion, wonder, terror and humanity. 'Depth' isn't the right word. It's not an intellectual, symbolic exercise like Paranoia Agent or a psychological exploration like Digimon Tamers yet it's somehow better than these two. Perhaps because it takes anime to the origin of art – the expression, not explanation, of human experience. Nothing I could write would do this anime justice.


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Car Wars is where we pit some of today's hottest cars against each other and then, in a commenting fight to the death, decide which one we'd buy. Today we have two eco BMWs for about the same price.
The BMW i3 debuted recently to great fanfare among people who are not gearheads and simultaneously great dismay among people who are gearheads. It's a $41,350 (before $7,500 federal tax rebate) electric hatchback from one of the most enthusiast-oriented car brands in the world. I love it while my coworker Travis Okulski thinks it's the spawn of Satan.
And by that I mean he thinks it looks like it was brutally sharted out of Baelzebub's asshole, because it looks like an orange and black turd. Okay, he didn't actually say that. He thought it doesn't look weird enough to warrant its disappointingly ordinary ugliness. I, on the other hand, think it looks cool.
He would rather buy a BMW 3 series diesel. It starts at $38,600 for the sedan and $42,950 for the wagon. It comes with a stirring 181 horsepower and 280 lb-ft of torque, you can get it in a manual, and it looks like a real car. I, however, think it's a watered-down bloatmobile.
I would buy the i3. Travis would buy the 328d.
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Fight against climate disruption – 20th Climate Conference (Lima, December 9 to 12, 2014)
Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, will participate, from today, in the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework on Climate Change in Lima.
As Laurent Fabius indicated, three watchwords will guide France's actions: urgency, ambition and hope.
Urgency first of all, because scientific analysis and everyday observation show that there's increasingly serious climate disruption due to greenhouse gases. Sea levels are rising, there's increased hot weather, and the number of extreme weather events is increasing.
The second watchword is ambition. The goal of the Lima Conference is to start identifying points of consensus and define a common approach for determining the national contributions that each country must make during the first quarter of 2015.
And lastly hope, notably because Europe, the United States and China have already made commitments. The Lima Conference is a key step toward reaching a universal agreement on the fight against climate disruption in Paris in December 2015 (COP21). Mr. Laurent Fabius and the French delegation will officially launch preparations for COP21 in Lima on December 12. France is mobilized to ensure the success of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, which will be the largest diplomatic conference ever held in France.


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#RSL Tweets of the Day (@RealSaltLake)
Real Salt Lake @RealSaltLake1h
Best of Luck to #RSL men @KyleBeckerman, @TonyBeltran23, @NickRimando & @al_saborio in today's #USMNT v CRC qualifier in Denver #Brazil14
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also wishing luck to #RSL DF Abdoulie @KennyMansally in The Gambia's road match at Ivory Coast Saturday in WCQ #Brazil14
Best of luck to all of the RSL boys today... But more importantly, stay healthy!
Big game tomorrow, good night. #USMNT #USAvCRC #Believe
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FULL RELEASE: USA v Honduras Tues, June 18 @RioTintoStadium ... //www.realsaltlake.com/usmnt-wcq ... includes #RSL STH pre-sale info
Chris Wingert @wingert1720 Mar
Doc says the foot looks great and he can barely see the fracture anymore. So pumped right now! http://instagr.am/p/XF4izBlRg8/
Video: @bommadog on @FCDallas's @Seitzy1 sitting out the end of the '12 season to donate bone marrow. //www.realsaltlake.com/video/2013/03/21/rsl-insider-4-years-later-rsl-and-soccer-unites-utah-continue-save-lives …
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Get further into power series using the fascinating Bessel's equation.
Look at the advanced way of viewing sin and cos through their power series.
See how enormously large quantities can cancel out to give a good approximation to the factorial function.
Build up the concept of the Taylor series
In this short problem, try to find the location of the roots of some unusual functions by finding where they change sign.
Looking at small values of functions. Motivating the existence of the Taylor expansion.
By exploring the concept of scale invariance, find the probability that a random piece of real data begins with a 1.
Which line graph, equations and physical processes go together?
Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size
Can you find the volumes of the mathematical vessels?
Use vectors and matrices to explore the symmetries of crystals.
Was it possible that this dangerous driving penalty was issued in error?
Explore the properties of matrix transformations with these 10 stimulating questions.
Who will be the first investor to pay off their debt?
Invent scenarios which would give rise to these probability density functions.
Explore the possibilities for reaction rates versus concentrations with this non-linear differential equation
Which pdfs match the curves?
This is our collection of tasks on the mathematical theme of 'Population Dynamics' for advanced students and those interested in mathematical modelling.
Match the descriptions of physical processes to these differential equations.
Why MUST these statistical statements probably be at least a little bit wrong?
Explore how matrices can fix vectors and vector directions.
Explore the shape of a square after it is transformed by the action of a matrix.
This problem explores the biology behind Rudolph's glowing red nose.
Can you make matrices which will fix one lucky vector and crush another to zero?
Analyse these beautiful biological images and attempt to rank them in size order.
Many physical constants are only known to a certain accuracy. Explore the numerical error bounds in the mass of water and its constituents.
Make an accurate diagram of the solar system and explore the concept of a grand conjunction.
Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.
Work out the numerical values for these physical quantities.
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in biological contexts.
How much energy has gone into warming the planet?
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calculate various quantities in physical contexts.
How would you go about estimating populations of dolphins?
Here are several equations from real life. Can you work out which measurements are possible from each equation?
Work with numbers big and small to estimate and calulate various quantities in biological contexts.
Are these statistical statements sometimes, always or never true? Or it is impossible to say?
Are these estimates of physical quantities accurate?
When you change the units, do the numbers get bigger or smaller?
Can you match these equations to these graphs?
Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?
Starting with two basic vector steps, which destinations can you reach on a vector walk?
Explore the meaning of the scalar and vector cross products and see how the two are related.
Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?
Can you sketch these difficult curves, which have uses in mathematical modelling?
Use trigonometry to determine whether solar eclipses on earth can be perfect.
Explore the meaning behind the algebra and geometry of matrices with these 10 individual problems.
Could nanotechnology be used to see if an artery is blocked? Or is this just science fiction?
Explore the relationship between resistance and temperature
Go on a vector walk and determine which points on the walk are closest to the origin.
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Did Julian Assange cause the Egyptian revolution?
If his own public relations are to be believed, the answer is yes. Last week the WikiLeaks founder, who is currently fighting extradition to Sweden where he's being sought for questioning on a rape allegation, released an ironic online fundraising video parodying Mastercard's long-running ad campaign to make his case. (Adding insult to injury, he also announced he's suing Mastercard and Visa for cutting off payments to his operation.)
"Twenty secure phones to assist in staying anonymous? $5,000. Fighting legal cases across 5 countries? $1 million. Upkeep of servers in over 40 countries, $200,000. Donations lost due to banking blockade? $15 million. Added cost due to house arrest? $500,000," intones a voice-over, as footage pans around Mr. Assange's work area, presumably in the British mansion where he's been under house arrest.
Then the camera zooms in on laptop footage of the Jan. 28 clashes on Kasr al Nil Bridge in Cairo. There, unarmed demonstrators fought riot police to get across the bridge to Tahrir Square, and won. It was the moment when the world realized that Egypt's democracy protests were snowballing into the biggest challenge ever to Hosni Mubarak's rule. (This paragraph was edited long after posting. I'd originally thought it was the 6th of October Bridge. Helpful readers pointed out my error - here's the full footage that the Assange ad appears to have borrowed from.)
The camera pans up on Assange, looking like the cat who ate the canary. "Watching the world change as a result of your work? Priceless. There are some people that don't like change. For everyone else, there's WikiLeaks." The ad has been viewed 400,000 times so far.
The problem with the ad's climactic assertion, of course, is that it isn't true.
The Egyptian revolution came after a decade of bubbling protest, of political organization at great cost and risk to the few who got involved. The Egyptian left had spent years trying to create a strong independent labor movement (independent unions were outlawed under Mr. Mubarak).
Others spent years trying to build bridges between secular activists and the Muslim Brotherhood, seeking to find common cause against Mubarak. And the blossoming of online blogs and later social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter had been taken to with gusto by Egypt's young revolutionaries. All of this provided the impetus for the mass protests that took Mubarak down, both in street savvy and online know-how.
To many of these activists, ascribing root credit to Assange or WikiLeaks in their revolutions is offensive. The claim first emerged after the Tunisian revolution ousted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and kicked off the so-called Arab Spring in January.
I didn't think it made much sense then, notwithstanding the assertions of Internet utopians. Monitor correspondent Kristen Chick spent weeks covering the Tunisian revolution, and she told me then that not a single person had mentioned WikiLeaks to her.
Blake Hounshell at Foreign Policy told me the other day that he's spoken to some Tunisian activists who think the release of US diplomatic cables that showed the US was as aware of the Ben Ali family's corruption as everyone else emboldened protesters. But he emphasized "some." (I've not been to Tunisia myself).
But Egypt was my patch for five years. While I don't claim any vast expertise, I found Assange's expansion on WikiLeaks role in the Arab uprisings over the weekend, particularly in the case of Egypt, stunningly obtuse. He spoke at the Frontline Club in London on Saturday, in a talk moderated by Democracy Now's Amy Goodman between Assange and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
Asked what role Wikileaks had played, Assange said that "it's difficult to disentangle" and then quickly added "I lived in Egypt during 2007, so I'm familiar with the Mubarak regime and the tensions within the Egyptian environment."
He went on: "Actually, I was staying at that time... in Miss Egypt's house, and Miss Egypt's house – other than having paintings of Miss Egypt all throughout – was clustered right between the US Embassy and the British High Commission, with a van outside filled with 24 soldiers in front of my front door, so for the sort of work we were doing, this seemed to be the sort of ultimate cover if you'd like, right nested amongst this."
How long was he in Egypt? Erin Snider, an acquaintance currently finishing up her PhD on the political economy of Egypt, told me that Assange had stayed at the flat she shared with three other people (an early version of this post misspelled Erin's name). None of them were Miss Egypt, though the landlady was the mother of Miss Egypt, 2000. Erin recalls one photograph of the Egyptian beauty queen in the flat, not many.
Assange was invited by Erin's roommate, who met him at a conference in Kenya that year. But he and his entourage of five turned out to be such terrible house guests that they were kicked out after a week. Erin, who says she never saw any evidence that they were linking up with Egyptian activists, thinks they left Egypt soon after. As a reporter in Cairo at the time, I certainly never heard anything about Assange.
But Assange says he garnered deep insights into Egyptian society while in the country then. "At that time you didn't feel in most areas of Cairo the presence of dictatorship. In fact if you look out on the streets, men go to work, they go to the cafes to have sheesha in the afternoon... in fact, the economic basis and the technological basis to Cairo seemed pretty much the same as London, if you compare it to Australian aboriginals."
I'm not sure I understand his comment on Australian aboriginals, but the fact that he didn't "feel the presence of the dictatorship" is, well, odd, particularly for someone interested in revolutionary movements. In 2006 and 2007, the government was in the midst of a massive crackdown on Egypt's nascent democracy movement. It was jailing political opponents at a clip not seen in decades, and was jailing and torturing online activists who were using their blogs to post videos and details of police abuses.
(Here's a story of mine from May 2007: Egypt targets web-savvy opponents; and here's one from that September, Egypt extends crackdown to press. In the second piece, I wrote: "The jail terms for Mr. Eissa and three other antigovernment journalists are the latest in a cascade of repressive measures by the Egyptian security state in the past year seemingly designed to tighten the government's control as speculation grows over who will succeed President Mubarak.")
Yes, it's true that people were going to work and living their lives in those days. But that's how it is in most dictatorships, for most of the people, most of the time. But even in one of those pleasant sheesha cafes, you didn't have to work hard to feel the dictatorship. All you had to do was ask a political question to have the jovial stranger sitting next to you go quiet and dart his eyes nervously about the room, to see who might be eavesdropping.
In hindsight, the crucial groundwork for the Egyptian revolution was being laid in those days, the whole country well aware that the aging Mubarak couldn't hang on forever. The local press wrote about this, particularly the emerging online citizen journalists. The foreign press wrote about this on an almost daily basis. The US State Department acknowledged the deteriorating situation in its annual human rights report. Yet Assange saw none of this.
He said Saturday that Egypt's roughly 20,000 political prisoners that year "could gain no traction in the Western press. And yet others, such as in Iran, we hear about all the time. It's very interesting that Egypt was perceived to be a strong ally of Israel and a strong ally of the United States in that region, so all the human rights abuses, political abuses that were occurring every day in Egypt simply did not get traction."
I'm certainly not one to let the press off the hook for its failures of emphasis, or the greater ease with which the abuses of regimes hostile to the US – rather than those deemed friendly – get in to the US press. But his statement is simply not factually true. Those stories got a lot of traction (what that traction was worth, is another thing. I generally think the importance of international press coverage lies at the margins, perhaps nudging the attitudes of Western policy makers, but that 95 percent of what matters is done by the people of a country seeking change).
So here's my own Mastercard take: "Hundreds of thousands risking their lives to face down a tyrant? Expensive. Taking credit for it from a London mansion? Cheap."


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Philmont On My Mindstevejb68 on December 13, 2013 in High Adventure, Program, Training
Some of my favorite Scouting memories are from my trips to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. I have been lucky enough to attend Philmont six times: once for scoutmaster training and five times on a trek with the Boy Scouts of Melrose Troop 68. Needless to say, Philmont holds a special place in the heart of this long time Scouter.
It has been ten years since Troop 68 has planned a high adventure trip, so at Wednesday's committee meeting I brought up the idea that we should start planning for one. We discussed briefly each of the four national bases, the approximate costs of each one, and transportation issues. We talked about the two to three years of planning and fundraising required for this type of outing, and how it would give the younger Scouts something to look forward to as they get older.
Of course, I am partial to Philmont. The Charles Sommers Canoe Base would be the closest and least expensive. The Florida Sea Base would be a fantastic adventure but also the most expensive, probably. We talked a little about the Summit in Virginia, but we did not have much information about that base yet. The committee decided to bring it up to the Boy Scouts to get their opinions.
The theme of the Scenic District's January roundtable is High Adventure. I am going to have to try to get our scoutmaster and maybe a few Scouts to attend this meeting. In fact, one of our Scouts participated in a Philmont trek this summer so I am going to ask him to come to the meeting and give us a brief summary of his experience.
Talking about Philmont at the committee meeting. Upcoming theme about high adventure bases at the next roundtable. Add to this that I was watching the Philmont Documentary Collection DVD this week and you can see that I have been thinking about Philmont a lot recently.
On Thursday I received a surprise when I looked through my mail. There was a letter from Philmont Scout Ranch. Talk about timing! I thought it was a brochure about the treks available for Boy Scouts. My surprise grew when I discovered it was an invitation to attend the Philmont Training Center in the summer of 2014. I was grinning from ear to ear.
I called Bob, my district executive, to ask him about this. After all, you do not get an invitation unless your council recommends you. He explained that my name was on the short list that the council thought might be interesting in attending a course at the ranch. He also told me that he was thinking about attending a course himself. If I decided to attend, and our courses happened to be the same week, we could drive down together.
As I hung up the phone I could not help but think about all the Philmont related coincidences that happened this week. Add to this that 2014 would be the 30th anniversary of my first trip to Philmont (for training) and the 10th anniversary of the last time I attended the ranch (for a trek with the troop).
It almost seems like I am being called back to those starlit skies above, those aspen covered hills, and the country that I love. Is it time to return to Scouting's paradise?


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GLASTONBURY, CONN. (May 2016) - High school seniors from Clinton, Cromwell, Deep River, Durham, East Hampton, Higganum, Middletown, Moodus, Old Saybrook, Portland, and Westbrook were recognized as the state's top scholar-athletes at the 2016 Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS)/ Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) Scholar-Athlete Banquet sponsored by McDonald's. A 33-year sponsor of the program with a longstanding commitment to educational programs in Connecticut, McDonald's joined CAS/CIAC to honor the following local students as the best of the best in the state at an awards ceremony held at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville, Conn. on May 1. This year, the banquet achieved a tremendous milestone - it honored its 10,000th Scholar Athlete.
• Meghan Lindsey and Albert Viglione, The Morgan School, Clinton
• Emma Randazzo and Paul Campbell, Cromwell High School, Cromwell
• Acacia Bowden and Colton Kinney, Valley Regional High School, Deep River
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• Tyler Williams, Xavier High School, Middletown
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• Erica DeBarge and Jacob Winakor, Portland High School, Portland
• Anna Schneider and Christopher Brainard, Westbrook High School, Westbrook
"McDonald's is proud to partner with CAS to honor the best and brightest high school scholar-athletes from all across Connecticut. We congratulate the state's top students who stand out and excel in their academic and athletic achievement," said Scott Taylor, McDonald's owner/operator and president of the Connecticut and Western Massachusetts McDonald's Owner/Operator Association.
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Xavier beats Marquette 68-65 to reach semis
NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Martin scored 19 points and Semaj Christon added 18 to lead Xavier to a 68-65 victory over Marquette on Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament.
The third-seeded Musketeers (21-11) will face second-seeded and 14th-ranked Creighton in the semifinals on Friday night. The Bluejays advanced with an 84-62 victory over DePaul.
Both Creighton and Xavier were making their debuts in the Big East tournament.
Matt Stainbrook scored down low with 4:32 to play to give Xavier a 57-51 lead and that would be the Musketeers' last field goal of the game as they went 11 of 14 from the free throw line to hold off sixth-seeded Marquette (17-15), which lost its fourth straight.
Deonte Burton had a career-high 23 points for the Golden Eagles and Todd Mayo added 21.
Mayo hit a 3-pointer with 24 seconds left to bring Marquette within 65-63. Christon went 1 for 2 from the free throw line on consecutive possessions around a missed 3-point attempt by Mayo.
Mayo scored with 2 seconds left to make it 67-65 but Stainbrook made one of two free throws with .9 seconds left for the final margin.
Christon came into the game with 984 points and he joins Byron Larkin as the only sophomores in Xavier history to score 1,000 points. A unanimous first-team All-Big East selection, Christon had his career high of 28 points earlier in the season against Marquette.
Marquette, which was trying to reach the semifinals for the third time, shot 57.8 percent from the field (26 of 45) but committed 15 turnovers which Xavier turned into 15 points.


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The Samsung Intensity III is a simple feature phone from Verizon that is equipped with a sliding QWERTY keyboard. Though it's low-tech (it has a mere 2-megapixel camera and a 2.4-inch screen), it satisfies military specs to withstand extreme temperature changes, fog, humidity, dust, and solar radiation.
Unfortunately, it's not water-resistant, which is something people tend to look for in a rugged phone. And even though it'll only cost you $80 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year contract (the price drops to $50 if you buy online), its unimpressive specs and design flaws set this handset back.
The Intensity III is 4.41 inches tall, 2.12 inches wide, and 0.57 inch thick, and weighs 4.06 ounces. It has a petite frame and lightweight plastic build that make it hard to believe it meets any military specs. Though it's easy to handle and fits comfortably in front and back pockets of jeans, it also feels and looks incredibly cheap, and is one of the more unattractive keyboard phones I've seen.
On the left side of the device is a volume rocker, and up top is a 3.5mm headphone jack. To the right is a button that activates a voice-dialing feature, powered by Nuance Communications. It also activates a "fake call" feature (more on that later). There's also a microSD card slot that's covered with an attached plastic door, and there's a shortcut camera key. At the very bottom is a Micro-USB port.
The display is 2.4 inches with a 240x320-pixel resolution. It can show up to 262,000 colors, and its color depth is 18-bit. Needless to say, with numbers like these, the image quality is below par. Photos appeared grainy and streaky, wallpaper and icons showed heavy aliasing, and colors captured on video weren't as vibrant as their real-life counterparts.
Above the display is a in-ear speaker and to the left are two soft keys that change function depending on what you're doing with your handset. These are activated when you slide the keyboard out and the screen switches to landscape mode. Below the screen are two sets of keys. The top portion consists of two more soft buttons, and send, speakerphone, center-select, clear, power/end, and navigational keys. The bottom portion is your standard alphanumeric keypad. If you press and hold the pound key, however, you can quickly put your phone on vibrate.
The QWERTY keyboard underneath the device's display has four rows of keys that light up when in use. In addition to that, there are four navigational arrows. There are a few shortcut buttons too, including ones for bringing up your favorite contacts, texting, and searching your device.
The sliding mechanism of the keyboard is sturdy and snappy. But while the keys themselves are decently sized, they're relatively flush with the surface of the device, making it hard to feel around for them. My hands are already petite enough, and I ended up typing mostly with the tips of my fingers.
The back of the device hosts a 2-megapixel camera. Below it is a small reflective circle for vanity shots, and to the right are two small slits for a speaker. The back plate has a gray, texturized diamond pattern with industrial tablike designs running along its sides. This aesthetic and the strip of rubber that goes along the handset's edges were the only things that let me and other people know that, oh, yeah, this is a rugged device. Using a small indentation up top, you can pry the back plate off with your fingernails to reveal a 1,000mAh battery.
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The Samsung Intensity III comes with the bare minimum amount of task management features. When you press the menu button at the bottom of the screen, you'll see nine animated icons for your contacts, messages, recent calls, browser, media center, e-mails, navigator, pictures, and settings.
After you select Settings & Tools, you can access the device's built-in voice command feature, its four calculators (including a normal one, one for figuring out tips, and one for conversions), its calendar, its alarm or world clocks, its stopwatch, and its notepad.
Under the media menu, you can play your stored music, download ringtones, and buy more apps and games. Two games, Midnight Pool 2 and Tetris, have been preloaded.
There's also Bluetooth, picture messaging, an Opera Web browser, VZ Navigator (a map and navigation feature that costs an extra $9.99 a month on top of your data plan), and a mobile e-mail client, where you can add your Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, or AOL account.
In addition, there is the very useful fake-call feature that sounds exactly like what it is -- it simulates an incoming call. To activate it, press the voice command key on the right of the device four times. After a few seconds (or 3 minutes, depending on how long you set the wait time), the phone will light up and ring. You can set it up to make sounds after you take the call, and you can even customize a fake contact to display on the screen. This is perfect for awkward dates, uncomfortable parties, and just about any other situation when you need a quick excuse to jet.
All this is powered by a 480MHz processor. Due to the low specs, it takes a few seconds to open apps like the camera, click through menu icons, and transition to the home screen. Saving a photo or recording takes a noticeable beat and the shutter lags a few seconds after you click the physical button.
Camera and video
The handset's 2-megapixel camera features five shooting modes (including continuous and panoramic shooting), three resolution options, a brightness meter, five white balances, three exposure metering options, four color effects, a night shot, a timer, three photo qualities, and a grid feature on the viewfinder for all you rule-of-thirds enthusiasts.


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Sorry for the day off…
Well, it wasn't a day off…but I didn't get around to posting yesterday. We managed to win, so I contemplated not posting today but let's be honest, this can't have anything to do with it.
I did, however, give Eric Collins grief for losing his first two games on the air with us and then having the team pick up the win in the finale, which was on MLB Network. He promises to do better on his next trip and he and Steve Lyons will continue to post new entries on their blog (Steve had his first last night).
And by the way, our annual reminder to get out the vote for All-Star Balloting is upon us. Make sure you vote up to 25 times on MLB.com…anyone who does gets into a lottery to come down to the field, watch BP, and meet one of the Dodger All-Star nominees (not that we need to entice you all to vote, right??)
Here's tonight's lineup in Colorado:
Furcal, SS
Hudson, 2B
Manny, LF
Ethier, RF
Loney, 1B
Kemp, CF
Blake, 3B
Ausmus, C
Stults, P
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No need to entice, Josh, but I'll gladly accept any incentives that might get thrown our way 🙂
i'll take any incentives too! 🙂
russell gets the day off.. our lineup is so well put together that he can take actual days off now..
should pay off in the long run.. we need him to get going first though..
Glad to se Martin out of there. He should take the time to get his head screwed back on right. Compared to Andre, Billz and Kemp, Martin seems to have put his improvement in reverse, and he better wake up.
I think there will be a lot of runs scored tonight against the Rockies………….the Dodgers are going to kill the ball! GO, DODGERS……………..DODGER BLUE THROUGH & THROUGH!!!
I was not going to vote yet because I feel that is a small sample size and is TOO early to vote but since you put it that way Josh, I am going to vote then :-).
and I agree with Russell getting a day off. I felt he should have gotten a day off in Houston .
Good idea to let Russell sit while he is slumping. Ausmus did well last time.
Hope for good offense today and a good day for Stults.
That's the lineup I wanted a first where Martin bat 8th but still think it should be Kemp ahead of Loney. Martin should had rested last game don't want anyone who is slumping to see in Coors Field. That is one way to bring out of your slump.
Almost gametime… even with their humidor, any night in Denver could be Fireworks Night.
Another big night ITD.
Let's see if we can stretch this 1 game winning streak.
Question: Is Joe the oldest manager in baseball?
By the way, I love your new name (oldbrooklynfan), JoePierre……..that name could be me too! lol
Another big start.
I'm liking the looks of tonight so far. Now Stults can relax a little having a lead under his belt.
By the way, hello everyone!!! 🙂
Damn Cook is lucky.
Just terrible that should been at least a couple more runs.
Let's go Stults, get us out of this inning!
Damn I can't really believe Stewart try to hit that.
Man these first innings are really something, we've seen a lot of these big scoring innings lately, lets see who settles down.
Come on Stultz let see your power.
Oh a walk damn are pitchers batting average have to be on top of the league with us having the 2nd best batting average.
I could be wrong, but I have a feeling the Dodgers are going to score a lot of runs in this game when all is said and done.
WTF Manny you knock Ianetta mask off.
Great at bat, Andre!
So far so good! good apporach at the plate working the counts getting 4 walks so far But once again please VOTE for your dodgers they deserve more reprersentation they did have in years pasts! and u know what im talking about! i really want to see a dodger loaded all star at least 5 with bills n brox and kemp ethier and ramirez but we can strech it to 6 or 7 with furcal and martin maybe even 8 with hudson but not at 1b and 3b but please vote
ive already voted 100 times i challenge any of u dodger fans
i have used firstname.lastname@example.com
and firstname.lastname@example.com
25 X 4= 100 i plan to vote around 10,000 by july…
please do your part for our dodgers!
I think we're going to need to score a lot of runs tonight to win. Both of these pitchers don't figure to be around long….nice DP, guys!!!!
And that ladies & gentlemen is why you don't walk the lead off runner. Especially at Coors.
It would be very cool to have an all Dodger starting outfield in the All Star Game.
I also agree with resting Russ. I think it would of been good to sit him one of the nights in Houston so Asmus could of played in front of his old team. I was very surprised that Torre didn't do that.
That is true Bluegirl! I doubt that will happen but it would be sweet!
I also think that when Russ is back in the lineup he should be moved down in the order to the 7 slot. I think Joe thus far has kept him in the 6 in front of Matt so maybe he will see some better pitches.
We've already left a lot of runs out there. These pitchers are like two punch drunk fighters throwing roundhouse pitches….Charlie, you've lived in SoCal too long. A game time temperature of 59 isn't bad for Denver in late April.
Damn I want to see Stults hit.
One last thing. They are getting many runners on via walks & hits. They really need to get some runs scored at Coors. They have 5 walks & 4 hits through 4 innings & only 2 runs to show for it. We need to capitalize on the situations when we have them to take pressure of the bully.
Those are the games that come back and bite you in the tuckus!
Hello there Sky. We are thinking alike!
Indeed we are, dcollins. I've seen too many games lost because a team hasn't taken advantage of another team that's bound and determined to help them out. This game will be decided by the bullpens….why am I not comforted by that thought??
Someone on Dodger Thoughts made a comment tonight, which many have made, that Andre should be in front of Manny, not behind him.. I have to say I agree. Not that Andre hasn't done a great job both in front and behind Manny and in the 6 spot when he was there too. He has been the poster boy for consistency so far this season, but only because for some reason, the Dodger offense seems to be more consistent and potent with Andre in front of Manny. Just my opinion.
Wow I can't believe the start Greinke had so far. He pitches 29 innings with 0 runs.
N/M he gave up an unearned run but it suck good hit Ethier
I bad Aviles felt bad for committing that errors to break Greinke streak. Come on Kemp you're due.
I guess that blows my theory out of the water, lol. Way to go Andre! Seriously, I really do still think they would score more runs in the course of a season with Andre in front of Manny, but I'm not the manager, so as long as they win I don't care.
Damn you're 5/19 yeah you're due Kemp.
Atta a boy Dre! Way to atone for the fielding gaff last inning!
I would also like to see Dre in front of Manny. But Hudson has done such a great job there I can't complain. They have had runners on in the 1st inning or scored runs in the 1st inning many times this year already.
Let's take advantage of this now! Come on Matt. Don't press. Just do your thing!
Talk about navigating through the innings Stults with all this has only given up 3 runs.
Not much difference with Cook, but he's been settling down ,
Everyday Dre strikes again!!!!!
Well Sky… it continues…
I meant I felt bad for Aviles.
We let Cook off the ropes again!!!! Hope it doesn't come back to bite us.
Hello Blue Gang!!!! Exciting game, eh?!!! Andre comes thru again. Right now I think you could flip-flop Andre and Manny and it would be a wash. They are our most consistant and disciplined hitters and feeding off one another. Loney, Martin, Kemp, or Blake are going to have to step it up if we are going to bat Ethier in front of Manny. I think right now Andre is the only reason anyone pitches to Manny. Loney, Kemp, Martin, or Blake are going to have to step it up before we can bat Andre in front of Manny. JMO!!!
We're squandering alot of opportunities again.
Nice throw Ausmus what a surprise that he was running.
Stults struggled but kept us in the game. Good job!! Now its time for the bullpen to step up and gitter'done!!!!
Hello there Wally! I'm actually ok with Dre batting where he is. Earlier in the year I was really wanting him to bat in front of him because of what he did last year.
But Hudson has done a great job there and Dre has done great behind him so that is why I'm ok with it. I do think Dre would have better power #'s based on he has better power than Hudson so when he gets the meaty pitches he'll pop them more than Hudson.
Hey, Jhall! Dcollins, I won't argue that Hudson has done a great job in front of Manny. Stults may not be over-powering, but the thing I like about him is that he seems to have a way to keep the team in the game even when he doesn't have his best stuff. I really hope he stays with the big league club this year. I've always like his tenacity.
Wow this game is like action,action,action and no action, no action no action.
But it's baseball and I love it.
I'll give Stultz credt: he kept us in the game and, if we'd taken advantage of Cook's largesse, he might be in line for a win.
Red pen….."credit"
Hey Colly!!! It would be great to bat Andre in front of Manny. I think he would really go off. Right now though, they would just walk Manny to get to Martin, Loney, Kemp, or Blake.
Of course, if Andre has already unloaded on them, who cares if they walk Manny. Interesting.
One thing we know for sure, Stults can't win this game.
Nice play O-Dog!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seesky, it's seemed like they're on the verge of a breakout inning this entire game. Hopefully, they'll get it done tonight. It was good news to read that Wade should be back soon and I know that many will disagree with me, but I have a feeling Weaver will contribute before all is said and done. I know he's had his ups and downs since he left the Dodgers, but he was always a solid pitcher for them, not spectacular, but durable and gave them a lot of innings when he was with the Dodgers before. I guess we'll see how he does tomorrow in New Mexico.
Correct Wally. Dre would be better but I think the rest of the lineup would be hurt.
Hello there Joe, Bluegirl, Shad & Sky!!
Stultz has done all that could of been asked form him (Other than that lead off walk!!!).
Wally — you said time for the bullpen to step up & get er done… That is an oxymoron with our bully thus far!! There gitter done part at least!!!
LOL Colly!!!!!!!!!
Red pen The get er, not there get er…
With a new pitcher coming in maybe our luck will change.
We have a Houston Street in New York but it's pronounced
Hi Colly
Cheer up gang, it's just one of those games
…..even with this lineup.
You mean Huston
Hey Brooklyn!! How've ya been? Good to see you. Just and aside, but I'm sure you got to see Stan Musial play. I'd like to hear what you have to say about "The Man". I think he is one of the best players to ever play the game. Very underrated. I did not get to watch him play but came to admire his accomplishments because he was my dad's favorite player. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice play, Raffy!
Yup Joe… we are never out of it. I would just to of at least seen a sacrifice fly or even a dp grounder up the middle to score a run when we had the bases loaded & none out!
We just faced Houston Street and we just left Houston!
Nice play Ferk!!! (Da da da. Da da da! ESPN web gem theme)
Damn why couldn't Belsario do that in Houston?
Good Evening ITD readers and writers!!!! I have been getting text alerts letting me know what has been happening. GO DODGERS!!!!!!
Well, looks like Bellisario is OK in the middle innings. Nice job. He just isn't the answer late in a close game.
Hi'Ya Mom/Nelly/June!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you had a wonderful day.
Hello there Nelly…
Sorry about the spelling of Huston.
Shad, he did look a lot better tonight than in Houston, but it's good to see since we'll need all the help we can get with the BP. Joepierre, I didn't realize you and oldbrooklynfan were one in the same. I can't keep up with all these screen names, lol. Hey, Nelly!
No wonder Kemp is batting behind Martin lol
Kemper needs to spend alot more time with Mattingly!!!!
Bluecrew, I was wondering about Wade's impending return. I'm no medical professional by any means but his recovery from bursitus seemed, to me, to be awful quick. Considering Conte's past history of diagnoses, I tend to wonder….. I've never been a big Weaver fan but, if he looks like he can help us in whatever role, I'm all for it….Andre would do well wherever he is in the lineup but, the way the O'Dog is hitting right now and the way others are not, it would be tough to move Hudson. Of course, everything is temporary.
I am very impressed with how Andre has taken this clean-up role. I was worried it would shake him somewhat, but other than yesterday, which I didn't see much of, he has been hitting the ball very well, and then there's all those walks as well.
Hey Matt Come play with me.
Ausmus is definitely the best hitting back up catcher we've had in a while.
I love Loretta is it nice to have a PH to contribute.
Sweet!!! Way to go Mark!!!
I need some Johnny says gang!!!!!! LOL!!!
L O R E T T A after a double by AUSMUS, glad they showed up tonight.
Sweeney was a great pinch hitter in his day, but it's nice to have one in Loretta whose day hasn't passed him by.
Ausmus and Loretta are a definite improvement over our players in those roles last year….and Loretta delivers again!!!!
Well said BleuFille'!!!!!!!!!!!
jhall – I am doing great!!!!! Just got back from running some last minute errands before heading down to Ward Dear's in the morning. Mariya and Matt are going to his Prom tomorrow night. It's craziness I tell you, but it's fun too. How are you doing?
Yeah Brad and Mark!!!!!
Hi bluecrewgirl – Andre is doing well again tonight I see 🙂
Ausmus and Loretta are a definite improvement over our players in those roles last year….and Loretta delivers again!!!!
Ausmus and Loretta are a definite improvement over our players in those roles last year….and Loretta delivers again!!!!
Ned gets given grief for his moves but he has done some good this year. He hasn't traded away our youth which we all are happy about & this year he has added some good PVL's.
Yes he's made mistakes with Pierre, Schmidt, and Jones as well as some lame trades.
But this year he did ok. For that matter I was all for the Jones move so I can't really fault him for that other than if he saw Jones and wasn't worried about his weight gain.
The pitching on the other hand…
But even in that area he didn't have much in the way of Free Agents to go after.
jhall – I am doing great!!!!! Just got back from running some last minute errands before heading down to Ward Dear's in the morning. Mariya and Matt are going to his Prom tomorrow night. It's craziness I tell you, but it's fun too. How are you doing?
Yeah Brad and Mark!!!!!
Hi bluecrewgirl – Andre is doing well again tonight I see 🙂
sorry for the double post 🙂
Hey dcollins – It's good to see you too 🙂
I'm doing great Nell'!!! Merci mon ami!!! I'm very happy for all of you.
I missed Johnny Says last night, so we need to do it again tonight 🙂
Yes, Nelly, he is doing great. I can't believe how patient and calm he is now and what a great eye he's developed for the strike zone. He sounded very calm and confident when he was on the radio with Ryan Seacrest the other day. I don't mean confident in an arrogant way, just like he feels like he's figured some things out and he's flattered with the confidence Joe has in him. Am I understanding you correctly that your daughter is going to the prom with dogereric's son? If so, that's very cool. I hope they have a great time.
That is good to hear/see jhall, and thank you kindly. We keep going around and around about who actually started this, and every person involved has their own version/perspective.
Come on Andre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have fun down south Nelly. If you go near the Irvine Center an old friend of mine will be painting there on Saturday night. Say hello to him for me. His name is Steve. It's part of some anniversary they are having for the Center. That place is great and I think there is a PF Changs there as well!!!
Let's go Dre!! Pile on!!!
LOL Nelly!! Let's go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Andre hit it hard, just to the wrong place. At least we have the lead now. Time for Brox to put the nail in the coffin.
Yes, bluecrewgirl, that is correct. If asked, they will tell you they have been going out for a little over two months now.
Imagine that 2 out and nobody on base and we get 2 groundhog runs.
Just at the wrong spot Andre. It's okay………..you had a great night already 🙂
Come on, Kuo, make it stand up!!!
time for some Kuo and nice catch Kemp.
dcollins – we won't be in Irvine, but thanks for the info anyway. It sounds like a great event.
Torre there was no point and using him what happen to the blow out game for Kuo
So much for his confidence. Rats!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, that sucked!!!!!!
Neither the Dodgers or Lakers can hold a freaking lead! Frustrating, to say the least.
I like the Irvine Center a lot. There really isn't anything like that here.
BUMMER… Kuo GROOOOVVVVED that one.
Kuo is the set up guy. He is supposed to set up. Up by 2, the 8th is his inning. If he is going to be used this is when he should be used.
He just hasn't produced when called upon.
Agree, Shad. It should have been Broxton time. I know they used him last night, but since Wade will be back soon, a little extra work in the short term won't kill him now. I am still not crazy about Torre's bullpen management.
Geez, with injuries to Wade and Kuroda, all we need is a freaking head case. Unbelievable!!!!
Get him out of there JoJo!!!
Sorry to disagree but Broxton for a 2 inning save after a 5 out save last night. Nope…
They have a team and have to use their team. If Kuo can't do it then they should release him. The problem is he can do it.
I would normally agree with you, dcollins, but when he admits publicly that his confidence is shaken, it doesn't instill a lot of confidence, lol.
Whew!!!! Hey Kuo, you sawed off Helton and got out of the inning. Trust your stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think they want extra innings so they can have more ITD to read later. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL!!!! That's funny jhall 🙂
Loretta and Barmes sat it out all night and were better for it.
This blown save is not good for Kuo.
Maybe we can win it for him.
My Loney has a first name,
Troncoso or Mota should had been in after the 5 outs save.
My Loney has a first name,
It's J-A-M-E-S
My Loney has a second name,
It's L-O-N-E-Y
I love to watch him every day
And if you ask me why I'll say
'Cause James Loney has a way
With H-I-T-T-I-N-G!
By leefink and martinloneykemp
Using him instills confidence. Not using him doesn't. He just can't sit on the bench. Up by 2 is a good time to use him which will instill confidence.
Using Brox for a 2 inning save would be a mistake. They need him for the rest of the series & season. Baseball is a marathon.
Kuo needs to pitch so they can figure out what is his problem. Torre didn't throw the pitches. Kuo did. Torre used him in a good situation to build his confidence. IMO…
Where was the fly ball in the first inning Blake with the bases loaded with 1 out.
Should had stay put Ausmus the run was still going to score.
Love to see the "blue collar workers" come through tonight. Reminds me of the 1988 team when everyone contributed. Definitely a good omen!
Who ever stole the Kuo from 2008 please return him back to us asap than we would give you 1 millions dollar and you can have Plerre for free.
alright Brad!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, we definitely got ourselves a good backup for Russell this time around 🙂
Get ready for Broxton.
Way to go James!
Matt has been horrible tonight. Many unproductive AB's.
I mentioned it earlier & it's really starting to be look like it might be the case, but this is one of those games where you loose by 1 run and you had the opportunity to blow it out early & didn't.
Like the Kershaw game earlier this year.
Let's go Jon!!!
Shad — funny post at 9:36.
We need more than Broxton to stay up. Here's come the Ox.
…….And heeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's Johnny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sigh 1st error on the Odog. Loney could've had that.
Tough play. I agree he should have made the play, but if it weren't for Loney, we wouldn't have the go ahead run, so what can you say?
hahahaha I know dcollins I wonder did anyone see it lol.
1 down, 2 to go – GO BROX!!!
Nice catch Bison!
Nibble… nibble…
Let's go Brox!!!
Let's go!!!
Are you kidding me? How can they booed that. It was obvisiously a strike.
I love baseball!!!
Go Blue!!!!
Damn I hope that played when Odog and Loney should've had won cost us.
Damn look like Broxton won't be available tomorrow.
Damn that was nasty.
What does Johnny say???????????????????????
Woo hoo!!!
Fu Q y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NICE JOB JONATHON!!!
Man, this was the kind of hard fought victory that championship seasons are made of. I know it's a long season still, but a great victory just the same. Way to hang in there, Brox!
That's what I was waiting for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Nelly & Jhall!!!!
What does Johnny say?????
Not bad dodger fans – we are 12-5, Arizona lost to the gnats 5-1.
HEAR YE HEAR YE ONE AND ALL DODGERS WIN!!! Supersub Brad Ausnmus with the winning hit. BROXTON the new Captain K Superhero. THE BIG BLUE WRECKING CREW of Furcal, Manny, Loney and Andre all with two hits. BATMAN HUDSON. Geat catches by Matt Kemp. BENCH BEAST MARK LORETTA. Gutty performance by Eric Stults and BELISARIO. RINGS FOR EVERYONE in 2009!!!
OK, I can't write anymore of this crap. Send me more Cuervo and I'll think about it.
Your more than welcome Trumom!!!!!!!!!!!!
And NO ONE asked Beavette to the prom (picture Pierre sitting dejected at the end of the dugout…)
Would you like some lime with that Cuervo, enchanted?
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!! ALRIGHT ENCHANTED!!!!!! or do we call you Beavndeschenes??????? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More Cuervo coming your way sir.
Way to go Beav!!! You actually do it better.
Why that would be nice BCG – thank you.
BTW, who'd have thought 17 game into the season that JP would only have 11 ABs?
I'm almost starting to gain some respect for Uncle Joe.
I am shocked to be honest. I really thought he wouldn't be able to resist the urge to give Andre or Matt a rest in order to play him.
Why, it just so happens that the ITD flask is filled with Cuervo!!!!!! Skoal, ITD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good evening, all. Exciting game tonight, and the Boys in Blue pull out another one.
I think I finally figured out the bullpen (giving credit to that great pundit, Forrest Gump) – it's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
LOL Beav!!! Who'd have thunk it? Pile with only 11
AB's, the Dodgers with 12 wins, coincidence, I think not!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is sooo true sparkleplenty 🙂
Thanks seesky!!!!
What a coincidence Sky – so am I!!!
LOL Sparky!!!! Got to hit the old rack gang. Catch you all down the road. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WooHoo, win streak!!!!!!!!!!
I think you hit that nail on the head Wally. It was such a waste to let DY go just because they couldn't move JP.
Later Wally!! Come back when I can stay longer.
Good night jhall/Wally – It was great seeing you tonight, and it was good to see them pull this out.
And yes I meant to say that…
Very unfortunate Beav. Can't give Pile away, so we have to bail on DY!!!! Phew is actually costing us more than his ludicrous salary because of the ripple effect it has on our lineup. IGNORANCE!!!!™
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!! I wasn't going to say a thing. I always assume you mean what you say 🙂
Bon Noir mon amies!!!!
Next year it'll be Repko let go.
Tomorrow's game likely will be the same as tonight; enter James McDionald and another box of chocolates.
Good night jhall!! Take Care and God Bless 🙂
If it's not Repko, it may well be DeWitt. I read earlier that our FO had been sounding out a trade for him. If it weren't for Minty Fresh getting hurt, it'd probably have gone down.
Ever wonder what JP does nowadays when he gets to the ballpark early?
Sand the bench so he doesn't get splinters in his butt?
Wear yesterdays socks so it smells like he's been playing?
Practice pouty looks in front of the mirror?
Red pen– sorry, James!!
Well, I'm off (like you all didn't already know that.) Maybe Big Mac will come up supersized tomorrow. Nite all.
LMAO!!!!!!!!! It's the Cuervo talking isn't it? LOL!!!! too funny enchanted 🙂
Actually, I try to think about JP as little as possible.
LMAO!!!!!!!!! It's the Cuervo talking isn't it? LOL!!!! too funny enchanted 🙂
No, we didn't know that!!!!! LMAO!!!!! Good night enchanted – good to see you 🙂
Must be Nells, now I'm starting to see double.
..very funny enchanted 🙂 LOL!!!!
You all crack me up. I love it!
Good night, all!!! Have a pleasant Saturday, everyone!!! Have a good time and safe trip down South, nelly!!!!
Thank you seesky!!!! Have a great Saturday yourself 🙂
sparkleplenty – enchanted's imagination must be something else is all I can say.
Nelly, I think his imagination has been proven to be something else right here.
LOL!!! You couldn't be more correct on that sparkleplenty.
LOL. I'm gonna fold it up for tonight. Happy travels tomorrow, Nelly.
Thank you sparkleplenty. Awesome Dodger win tonight. I am sure we will be seeing alot of those this year, on both sides of the Have a wonderful Saturday 🙂
I lost part of a sentence there……should read..
both sides of the win/lose column.
Good morning All!
Great gutsy win last night when things were not necessarily going so well. It's great to get the right kind of contribution from the bench, and what a difference from last year. I also think that Torre now needs to build some trust with Kuo and pitch him again today if the chance presents itself. I think he needs some steady work as long as he's healthy more than anything else. I don't think you can take a setup guy and leave him on a bench for a week or more. It's too early to give up on him, given the kind of stuff and velocity that he has.
Good Saturday morning ITDland ~ Great win last night for our Boys in Blue………….let's get another win today. GO, DODGERS!!!!!!!!!!
Good morning ITD, Dodger Faithful
Great win last night from the Boy's!!! Stults good job, I would suspect that coming into the cold confines of Coors field after being in the warmer climates, was quite an adjustment.
Outstanding performance's from all, we have a remarkable and scrappy team in the Dodger Blue this year. Our pitching staff has for the most part kept us in the game by keeping the ball in the park, giving the offense plenty of opportunities to get runs across the plate. The starters have kept the team in the game, keeping the opponents
run production down, and we've had a few outstanding starts from Billz , Kershaw and Stults. The bull pen has been scraping their way through the late innings as well. Sure there is room for improvement, but the offense has been within striking distance, and like a team that plays like a team they have come together and accomplished the task. We are 12 – 5 what a way to start the season. regardless of our strength's and weakness's we have pulled together as a team helping each other out and the results so far have been superb.
Lets keep on keepin on Dodgers, we are anticipating your return to Chavez Ravine in the meantime we are cheering loudly from afar.
Enjoy your Saturday everyone and enjoy the game tonight 🙂


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Mile End's Soup Mandel
Serve these crackers on top of The Mile End Cookbook's Chicken Soup.
Reprinted with permission from The Mile End Cookbook by Noah and Rae Bernamoff. Copyright 2012. Published by Clarkston Potter. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
- Yield:makes about 1 pound
- Active time: 1 1/2 hours
- Total time:12 hours
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1/3 cup Schmaltz or canola oil, at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons Diamond Crystal kosher salt
- 1/2 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup water
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
Combine the eggs, schmaltz, salt, pepper, and water in the bowl of a stand mixer with a dough-hook attachment; mix on medium speed to bring the ingredients together, 5 to 10 seconds. Add the flour and mix on low speed until the dough comes together, about 5 minutes. On a lightly floured work surface, roll and knead the dough into a ball. Cover the dough ball in plastic wrap and let it sit in the refrigerator overnight.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Take a golf ball–size piece of the dough and roll it into a very thin foot-long strip. Cut the strip into small pieces (each one about a quarter-inch long). Dust the dough pieces with flour and transfer them to a dry baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough.
Bake, rotating the tray 180 degrees halfway through cooking, until the soup mandel are golden and crisp, about 30 minutes. The mandel with keep, covered, in a cool, dry place for up to 1 month.
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The SanDisk Extreme II solid-state drive (SSD) has a lot more going for it than just being 2.5mm thinner than the previous
In my testing, the new and trim SSD offered fast performance, comparable to that of even the fastest consumer-grade SSDs, while costing well less than $1 per gigabyte. The drive can work with both laptops and desktops, but unfortunately, doesn't come included with a drive bay converter to fit easily in a desktop, which is its only shortcoming, and a minor one.
The Extreme II definitely is an easy recommendation to those looking to upgrade their computer's existing hard drive to a much faster alternative. It currently costs just $230 for 240GB (or $450 for 480GB) with street pricing expected to fall even lower once the drive has been on the market for awhile. For more choices of excellent SSDs, check out the drives on this list.
|Current pricing
|$140, $230, and $450, respectively.
|Marvell 88SS9187 (Monet)
|SanDisk 19nm eX2 ABL MLC NAND
|7mm 2.5-inch design, SATA 3, SATA 2, SATA
|Sequential Read
|Up to 550MBps
|Sequential Write
|UP to 500MBps
|4KB Random Read
|Up to 95K IOPS
|4KB Random Write
|Up to 78 IOPS
|80TB Written
|Five years
|OS supported
|Windows, Mac, Linux
Standard design, advanced configuration, and friendly pricing
At first glance, the Extreme II looks almost identical to the Extreme, both with black cover and a big SanDisk logo in red. Looking closer, however, the new drive is just 7mm thick, similar to most new SSDs, and downright trim compared to the 9.5mm girth of the previous model.
The new thickness means it can now work in certain ultrabooks, in addition to desktops and standard laptops. This is not the thinnest SSD on the market, however, since the
On the inside, the new Extreme II is now totally different than its predecessor. The drive uses the Marvell 88SS9187 Monet controller (as opposed to the SanForce controller of the original Extreme drive) and SanDisk 19nm eX2 ABL MLC NAND flash memory. Not only that, the new Extreme II also use nCache, which was first introduced in the
Beyond those specs, the SanDisk Extreme II is a standard SATA internal drive that supports SATA 3 (6Gbps) and works with all revisions of the SATA standard. The drive is the first high-end SSD I've seen that's priced less than $1 per gigabyte at release, currently costing $230 and $450 for the 240GB and 480GB, respectively. The 120GB is slightly more expensive at $140. Like most SSDs, the price of the Extreme II likely gets lower the longer it's on the market.
(Shorter bars indicate better performance, Measured in dollars, based on current street pricing)
|Cost per GB
Note that, unlike some other SSDs that include a 3.5-inch drive bay converter that helps fit the drive into a desktop, the Extreme II doesn't. This is not a big deal, however, since you can always get a third-party caddy or you might even leave the drive hanging loose inside a desktop's chassis. Since there's no moving parts, an SSD doesn't need to be securely attached to a computer that's not moved around often.
High endurance and top warranty
As all SSDs go, the new Extreme II has finite endurance, called program cycles (read more about them here), meaning you can write only so much data to it before it becomes unreliable. However, the drive has a high endurance rating of 80TB over its lifetime. This means if you write 50GB to the drive every day, it will take about 4.5 years for the drive to run out of program cycles. Most of us don't write more than 10GB to the computer's internal drive per day, and there are many days that we don't write much to the drive at all.