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Published: 10/4/2012 4:48 PM | Last update: 10/4/2012 11:09 PM 'Kind of kid we win with'Salthawks' Higgins is mentoring as much as playing with young lineup.Numbers are numbers.To Hutchinson senior safety Tanner Higgins, the numbers 5, 6, 1, 4 and 0 mean little - though he's often associated with them.
But watching Higgins on the gridiron belies any notion that his frame would be a disadvantage. In fact, the plucky third-year starter for the Salthawks stacks up quite well. "He's just a tough kid," Hutchinson coach Randy Dreiling said. "Honestly, when he was a sophomore (and) he started, we looked at other people and finally we just said here's a kid we think has the intelligence, the savvy and probably the guts to play as a sophomore despite being 132 pounds or whatever he was. That's just the way it worked out." Dreiling and Co. haven't been sorry since. Higgins was a vital cog on last year's defense, helping the unit hit its stride late when Hutch made its dash to the Kansas Class 5A state championship and put up some impressive numbers - 98 tackles and five interceptions - along the way. And, speaking of vertically-challenged athletes, Higgins teamed with 5-foot-7 defensive tackle Najahaun Tipton-Wylie to provide the leadership necessary for the young unit to flourish. It's competitors like Higgins and Tipton-Wylie who, no matter their measurables, find their way on the field in Dreiling's program. "We try to play our best guys over on defense, our best athletes who are capable of making plays, save (for) maybe our quarterback and sometimes our fullback," Dreiling said. "When you're looking at your best athletes, we don't necessarily look at size. "The first thing we look at is will they hit and can they run. We try to plug them in some place." And with the myriad of injuries that have shelved many of the Salthawks' defensive starters, keeping Higgins' steadying presence on the field has been vital. He, too, has had his share of ailments this year, breaking his wrist in Hutch's 6A sub-state basketball tournament in March and injuring his shoulder in a 56-0 win over Campus on Sept. 7. But he's bounced back from both. Even with inflammation in his rotator cuff, Higgins played a few downs against Kansas City, Mo., power Rockhurst on Sept. 14 and has been back in the lineup since. He had 10 tackles and a quarterback hurry against Newton on Sept. 21 before notching 16 stops (11 unassisted) and recovering a fumble in last week's 35-10 loss against Salina South, which dropped the Salthawks to 3-2 on the season. Hutch is 1-2 over its last three games and both defeats have come at home - first to the out-of-state Hawklets and then last week's rout. Sandwiched between the two was an uninspiring 48-29 victory in Newton. The bigger issue here is that undefeated Derby - heralded as one of, if not the best team in 6A - will be at Gowans Stadium at 7 tonight chasing its sixth victory behind an offense that is averaging 42.4 points per game. But Hutch isn't dwelling on what it would've, could've and should've done against Salina South - only what it will do against the Panthers. "Coach Dreiling has done a pretty good job of keeping us calm and making us realize that game is in the past and there's nothing you can do about it anymore to change it," Higgins said. "He said it this week - whether we would've beat Salina South by 50 or whether we lost to them, we still have to come out this week and prepare for Derby. Come Friday night, the game last Friday is not going to make any difference at all." And if Hutch wants to get back on track, they'll have a chance for a big win to point them in the right direction tonight. Beating Derby would not only reassert Hutch's prominence in the Class 6A title hunt, but also show this squad has the fortitude to pull itself out of a tailspin. "We've just got to regroup," Higgins said. "We can still accomplish what we want to accomplish. That's the ultimate goal." For those inside the program, the sky is not falling. Granted the Salthawks are in unfamiliar territory with two regular season losses on Gowans' turf, but vying for a state crown is still attainable and realistic. Wins and losses aside, Dreiling said this season feels like last year. After having an inexperienced defense last season, the Salthawks are retooling the unit with younger players again since the injury bug has bit veteran defensive starters at every level including D-lineman Kolton Blea, linebacker Blake Sims and safety Tyler Cox. The onus is on Higgins to keep the defense on an even keel while guiding an influx of young talent in new spots. With senior starters Trae Boese, Jarrod Dawson, Jared Gagnebin and Shaquille Henderson still standing, Higgins and his fellow veterans will be mentoring as much as playing. "It hurts losing leaders like Blake and Kolton," Higgins said. "You not only lose their experience and play-making ability, but you lose their leadership and that's huge. That's one thing we had strong coming in this year was experience and leadership. With all the starters being out, we lost a lot of that. That just means older guys have to step up even more and younger guys have to try to come in and fill the injured people's shoes." Many of those new faces will be thrown into the fire against the Panthers but they won't be asked to do anything differently than the veterans. The proverbial drawing board doesn't enter into the equation for Hutch because this is a scheme that has worked and - in the words of its players and coaches - will work again. "We're getting back to the basics, making sure everyone knows their assignments," Higgins said. "It's worked for the last seven, eight years so we have to fix things and make them work." For most teams, success hinges on running the ball and playing defense. Hutch is no different. Higgins factors into both sides of that formula since he also sees time at running back (he has 102 rushing yards and a touchdown on just three carries), and Dreiling is counting on getting more out of less. Size-wise that is. "I wish he was 200 pounds or 150 would be great," Dreiling said. But at the end of the day the Salthawks' coach knows numbers are just that. Numbers.
"(Higgins) is the kind of kid we win with."
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Thermometers come in a variety of styles. Understand the different types of thermometers and how to pick the right thermometer for you.
By Mayo Clinic staffChoosing the thermometer that's best for your family can be confusing. Here's what you need to know about the most common thermometers.
Digital thermometers
Regular digital thermometers, which use electronic heat sensors to record body temperature, can be used in the rectum, mouth or armpit. The most accurate way to take a child's temperature is to use a digital thermometer, either rectally or orally. Rectal temperatures provide the best readings for infants, especially those 3 months or younger as well as children up to age 3. If you use another type of thermometer to take a young child's temperature and you're in doubt about the results, take a rectal temperature. For older children and adults, oral readings are usually accurate — as long as the mouth is closed while the thermometer is in place. Armpit readings tend to be less accurate than rectal and oral readings.
- Pros. Most digital thermometers can record temperatures from the mouth, armpit or rectum — often in a minute or less. A digital thermometer is appropriate for newborns, infants, children and adults.
- Cons. Parents may worry about causing discomfort when taking a child's temperature rectally. Wait at least 30 minutes after eating or drinking to take an oral temperature. Having nasal congestion may make it difficult to keep your mouth closed long enough to get an accurate oral reading from a digital thermometer. If you plan to use a digital thermometer to take both oral and rectal temperatures, you'll need to get two digital thermometers and label one for oral use and one for rectal use. Don't use the same thermometer in both places.
Digital ear thermometers
Digital ear thermometers, also called tympanic thermometers, use an infrared ray to measure the temperature inside the ear canal.
- Pros. When positioned properly, digital ear thermometers are quick and fairly accurate. Digital ear thermometers are appropriate for infants older than age 6 months, older children and adults.
- Cons. Digital ear thermometers aren't recommended for newborns. Earwax or a small, curved ear canal also can interfere with the accuracy of a temperature taken with a digital ear thermometer.
Digital pacifier thermometers
If your child uses a pacifier, you may want to try a digital pacifier thermometer. Your child simply sucks on the pacifier until the peak temperature is recorded.
- Pros. Your child may not even realize you're taking his or her temperature.
- Cons. Digital pacifier thermometers aren't recommended for newborns. For the most accurate reading, your child must hold the pacifier still in his or her mouth for about three to five minutes — which is difficult for many young children, particularly those who have nasal congestion. Recent research doesn't support the accuracy of temperature readings from pacifier thermometers.
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Tropico 4 Gold Edition video introduces you to Miss Pineapple, other NPCs
A new gameplay trailer for Tropico 4 Gold Edition focusing on the NPCs in the game has been released by Kalypso Media. Called "Meet the Rogues," the video features the offbeat characters you will interact with in the dictator/city sim. Tropico 4 Gold Edition is now available for PC and Xbox 360.
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Tropico 4: Gold Edition posits Trouble in Paradise
I have noticed a compelling correlation between watching Tropico 4 trailers and my desire to bunk off work and play games all day. This Gold Edition business is not exactly helping.
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Atlus to distribute Kalypso titles in the US
Atlus has signed on as US distributor for Kalypso. The European publisher's upcoming slate is now secured for US release – that's Port Royale 3 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 9; Tropico 4: Gold Edition on PC and Xbox 360 on November 1; Omerta – City of Gangsters on PC and Xbox 360, delayed from November to early 2013; and DARK for PC and Xbox 360 in March 2013. Atlus has served as distributor on individual Kalypso games in the past but this it the first time the two publishers have sealed the deal.
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Tropico 4 Gold Edition releases in November for PC and Xbox 360
Tropico 4 Gold Edition will release in November on PC and Xbox 360, and comes with the Modern Times expansion. The title contains over 30 unique missions, over 100 buildings in total, the Council of Ministers, and a sandbox mode for custom games, with improved map and scenario editor. Tropico 4 Gold Edition will release on November 13.


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Members of the Board often disagree among themselves on the severity of risk and the efficacy of benefit, but the tradition remains that the concern of one member is discussed until the majority are satisfied. Each member brings particular strengths to the Board. Members are selected only from among faculty and staff whose independence of judgment is assured, and to represent defined areas and methodologies of research involving human subjects. The larger context is represented by members from the Long Beach regional community.
Following federal standards, the IRB recognizes three types of human subject research proposals, based on the nature and severity of the inherent risk of the research. Two of the categories require review by the IRB. These are the Standard and the Expedited categories. Standard protocol applications are reviewed by the entire IRB, usually in one of their monthly meetings. Expedited protocol applications are reviewed by three-member subcommittees of the IRB. The results of Expedited Reviews are reported, post facto, to the IRB. The third category is "exempt (from IRB review)."
The Standard Category is reserved for research which inherently involves more than minimal risks and where the research subjects themselves are not autonomous, that is, persons not of legal age or persons of legally-recognized diminished capacity to make their own decisions.
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There is one class of human subjects research for which the University policy on human subjects research is not applicable. This is the category of class demonstrations which are defined as "in-class projects" or "in-class exercises." Either or both of the following conditions must exist: (1) the research will not be published, (2) the results of the research are known or are not relevant to the exercise. In addition, there must be no inherent risk to humans in the exercise.
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tcmaboy's Tokyo Auto Salon coverage, 1st installment
Our own tcmaboy from PSTOC is in Japan, and has graced us with some of his own coverage of the Tokyon Auto Salon and the vehicles on display there.
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WARNING: Do not expect too much information. Due to my language limitations this event was more of a photo scavenger hunt than serious research. I went out looking for things Toyota, things race car, and things just plain weird. What information I have comes from looking at the car, matching up logos, and tracking down company names. To kick things off I suppose I should start off with some Toyota-centric items. For those that follow the blog you have already seen the two IS F club racing concepts.
So, what hasn't appeared on the front page? What has Tom been up to all these years? Apparently making Lexus Parts. On display was a LS 460 with some very subtle body parts and an exhaust system.
Goodyear had a MK X on display all done up complete with booth girl (you wouldn't believe how hard it is to get pictures of the car when the girls are around). The MK X is the successor to the MK II, and shares a platform with the GS. The resemblance to a NASCARed Camry is a bit scary (must be the Goodyear effect).
Gazoo Racing was the primary Toyota representative, and they brought a few shiny toys to show off. Among them were race cars, mini vans, and even an iQ. Packing a giant shoe horn they some how they managed to squeeze an intercooled super charger under the hood of the already cramped iQ.
Continuing down the path of tiny cars was this EV sports concept. It is powered by twin DC motors and a lithium ion battery pack. In a rather interesting twist rather than using the differential to send power to the wheels, a diff was employed to send power from the twin motors to the transmission.
To top things off was this T Sports Concept. I am sure all were excited by the promise of the FT 86 as a return of the small rear drive sports car. This little guy looks equally exciting (though the snowball would have to survive hell first). Front engine, rear drive with a 108 HP engine backed by a 5 speed. While 108 HP doesn't sound like much it should be plenty of fun with a weight target just shy of 2000 lbs. For comparison the AE 86 was several hundred pounds heavier with the 4AG putting out similar HP. Over the years the gold has faded to beige for Toyota, and all I can say is please Toyota polish things up and bring back the golden years.


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The well-known short-story writer Ring Lardner, Jr. wrote the screenplay for La Mortadella, an Italian/French production with mostly English dialogue. The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Madelena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country carrying a huge mortadella sausage which she intends as a gift for her fiancé. U.S. Customs has other ideas, however, and she is detained until she hits upon the idea of sharing the offending foodstuff with the customs officers. Finally allowed entry into the U.S., she grows disenchanted with her fiancé and other men she meets and is only with difficulty able to make her escape to a more agreeable location. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
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American filmmaker Jon Jost enjoys tweaking the noses of those who worship at the altar of conventionalism. He is extremely popular with the art-house crowd, thanks to his reliance upon improvised dialogue and fragmented continuities. Made for $35000, Chameleon dissects the world of drug trafficking; the central character, a Los Angeles dope pusher, is played by Bob Glaudini. Every so often, Glaudini pauses long enough to elucidate his thoughts for the benefit of the audience (the actor is given co-writing credit). Highly recommended for Jon Jost's admirers, Chameleon may leave others wondering what all the shouting's about. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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"B"-movie legend Charles Band cranked out this deadly-dull black magic flick through his then-fledgling Empire Pictures company in 1980, though the film never saw widespread American distribution until its video release five years later. The main character is an ageless glassmaker (Robert Ginty) who, thanks to a feud with the evil sorcerer Delgado (Robert Glaudini) in the 19th century, is not only doomed to live forever but regularly transforms into a barely-seen, werewolf-like monster. A century later (the 1950s, for no apparent reason), Ginty meets a woman at his mountain cabin whom he believes to be the reincarnation of his dead wife (Lucinda Dooling), who was the chief catalyst for the feud in the first place. The climactic battle (sort of) between the rival wizards involves low-budget demons called up by Glaudini from a gateway to hell. Despite a decent employment of attractive woodland locations and occasional bouts of cheap but creative effects, this is a rather tedious exercise, bogged down by slow pacing, shoddy lighting and bland performances by the entire cast. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
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Season Four of Hunter begins as police detectives Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) investigate the seemingly motiveless murder of a skid-row derelict. It turns out that the "bum" was anything but, and that he had been deliberately targeted by a hit man. Despite the interferences of the Feds, Hunter is determined to get the whole truth--and to save the life of the hapless bag lady (Beah Richards) who witnessed the hit. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Hotel Mystays Kyoto-Shijo
3.5 Stars52 Kasaboko Cho Aburakoji Higashi Iru Shijo Dori Shimogyo-ku Kyoto 600-8494
Conveniently located in the Kyoto Shijo, Hotel Mystays is within easy access to most of the city attractions such as Kiyomizu-dera, Heian-jingu Shrine, Nijo-jo Castle, Arashiyama, Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji.
Hotel Mystays features well appointed and spacious accommodation units that are equipped with modern amenities such as air conditioning, hair dryer, iron board, in room safe and telephone.
Guests can enjoy dining modern cuisines served at the onsite restaurant of this property.
Hotel Mystays Kyoto-Shijo provides access to wireless internet services for guests' business requirements. They can enjoy rejuvenating massage at the onsite spa and can explore some of the city attractions such as Maruyama-koen Park and National Museum of Modern Art when leisure permits.
Additional Information
- NOTICE: The renovation work in the hotel restaurant will take place between 10:30AM and 19:00PM from 13 September and 14 October 2013. During the renovation, breakfast at the restaurant may have limited seats and some waiting time. The hotel appreciates guests' kind understanding.
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Hotel Mystays Kyoto-Shijo Guest Reviews (5)
We were going to Japan for the first time. Found the staff to be very helpful, lots of information. The reception is on the second floor, it is very welcoming. The room was spacious(double bed). Comfortable. We could buy our bus pass at the hotel itself. The location of the hotel is a bit far from JR Kyoto Station, and it is not know well to the taxi drivers. If anyone is going here for the first time, it will be good to get a printed Japanese translation of the address to give it to the taxi. Place is well connected by buses, and there is subway station at walking distance.
J Gajanana Shenoy wrote on September 16, 2010
Clean, comfortable hotel with easy access to most major sight. We got a room on the toop floor, great view. Room was pretty small, but we just stayed one night with small luggage so no problem.
Hannah Norman wrote on April 6, 2010
This is a new hotel, very chic and charming. The rooms are relatively spacious (for Japan) and very comfortable and modern. The staff are very helpful and speak passable English. The hotel is in downtown Kyoto, right on the bus line to Gion and other sights, and a two block walk to the Metro.
Anonymous wrote on April 3, 2010
Very nice and modern hotel. We had a twin room, which was quite big for Japanese rooms standard. It was furnished in a very modern way. Very nice modern bathroom, LCD TV, nice furniture and comfortable beds. Staff on the reception is very helpful. Some had limited knowledge of English but always did their best to help us. We were very happy that chose this hotel.
Anonymous wrote on October 25, 2009
This is a new hotel and frequented by both locals and overseas tourists and business guests. Quite close to Shijo Karasuma station and bus stop only a few meters away.
Thilak Mallawaarachchi wrote on October 9, 2009
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When the NCAA announced it was embarking on significant reform, it presented an opening for others to present their own reform ideas. When plans for reform started piling up from faculty members looking to rein in college athletics and the media and student-athlete advocates arguing for the professionalization of college athletics, it was not out of the realm of possibility that the NCAA would become the victim of its own reform movement. But a recent and disturbing trend is attacking something more basic and fundamental than the NCAA. Rather than going after the NCAA as an organism, would-be reformers are challenging the cells themselves: the athletic department.
Oddly enough, it was a student-athlete advocacy group, the National College Players Association that first lent credence to the idea:
The FBS non-revenue team expenses show that these schools spend far more than what's necessary to field these teams. BCS schools spend an average of about $350,000 more on each non-revenue team when compared to FCS schools. FBS schools average 18 non-revenue generating teams per campus, which means they spend an average of about $6.3 million/year more than FCS schools on non-revenue generating sports. Schools often question where they would find the money to increase athletic scholarships. But to put this in perspective, if those excess expenditures were evenly divided among 85 scholarship football players and 13 scholarship basketball players, each player would receive about $64,000 without reducing any non-revenue generating players' scholarship or their teams.
Jay Bilas asks about representation of not just athletes from revenue sports, but elite athletes from revenue sports:
Just one athlete per working group does not seem to allow the athlete much of a voice in the process, and one can reasonably question whether the actual experience of the typical "revenue-producing" athlete is fairly represented, let alone the views of the elite revenue-producing athlete.
The NCPA and Bilas nibble at the edges. Cutting back on non-scholarship expenses and ensuring that football and men's basketball athletes with professional prospects are represented are one thing and raise serious questions about what the role of athletics should be in a university. But what Frank Deford is arguing is something else entirely:
I'm all for the wonderful intrinsic values of sport: exercise and competition and team spirit, but especially in these parlous economic times, it would make much more monetary sense to conduct minor college sports on an intramural basis. Would the universities' educational mission be diminished any by that decision? Would good student applicants reject them for lack of league lacrosse games? Come on.
This sounds like it could have been written by one of the professors from Rutgers that had their phone service cut off, as Deford mentions. This does not:
All the worse, the current national model has it that some impoverished kid from the inner city risks concussions and obesity to play football in order to pay for the scholarship of a javelin thrower and the salary of an assistant swimming coach and the plane fare for the volleyball team.
Let's address these ideas one by one.
No one is suggesting that athletic subsidies are not controversial and should not be approached cautiously. But for professors facing budget cuts and students going deeper into debt to while athletics keeps or increases subsidies, does it matter where the money goes? I doubt it makes the student or the instructors feel better when they are asked to do more with less if the money flows to the football program rather than the women's basketball team.
As far student-athlete representation, it is the representation of elite athletes rather than representation of all athletes that would make a major difference. In his wildly popular and well-reviewed critique of the NCAA, Taylor Branch offered giving student-athletes a 20% vote as a change that would have wide-ranging impact on many facets of college athletics. Except last year, even if student-athletes had more votes than the Big Ten, Pac–12, and SEC combined, there was no legislative issue where that many votes would have changed the outcome and the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee's position differed from the Legislative Council's final vote. To get major change, that 20% vote would need to represent only the opinions of a tiny fraction of student-athletes.
When someone pitches the idea of defunding nonrevenue sports or reverting them to intramural status, it undermines their claim that they believe in the value of elite athletic competition. High-level athletics either have intrinsic and/or academic value or they do not. To suggest that the only athletes and sports deserving of investment by universities are those that can produce revenue strips athletics of any intrinsic value, just like saying the only majors a college should offer are ones that draw enough donations and research dollars to support themselves.
This is what President Mark Emmert meant when he said college athletics are not a business. Changing conferences to grow revenue might make business sense, but not if that money is used to keep the wrestling team from being cut or to fully fund scholarships for rowers. President Emmert's comment was somewhat aspirational, as he acknowledged the frenzy of the deal seemed to be overtaking more important considerations.
Even Division I members struggle with this issue. A lot of administrative furniture is being hastily rearranged to increase the maximum value of a scholarship. This will primarily benefit athletes who are already receiving full scholarships in sports with the largest budgets. But Division I financial aid rules still require a student-athlete who is not getting already getting tuitions, fees, room, board and books to give up aid that has nothing to do with athletics because [it counts against team limits][7]. It is an issue that Division I has gone back and forth on as much as cost-of-attendance, but which occurs is under the radar since it rarely, if ever, affects football or men's basketball. That discussion is being put on hold for now in order to provide more for revenue sport athletes.
As often as college athletics is taken to task for looking like a profit-seeking enterprise, it gets chastised just as often for not acting like a business. As the NCAA seeks to blend higher education with elite athletics that people just so happen to be [willing to pay a lot of money to watch][7], there will always be that tension.
The goal of Division I should be to constantly expand and improve athletic and educational opportunities for student-athletes. That means all student-athletes. It means not resting on the laurels of the full grant-in-aid or APR. By the same token, it means bringing more and more sports up to the same level of financial aid and support that the revenue sports enjoy. But what it absolutely does not mean is dismantling or gutting athletic departments to feed two teams.
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A lot of these topics with Hilary Kramer joining us from and -- -- -- an investment strategist an editor and an author of two bucks.
The little book -- big profits from small stocks as well as ahead of the curve.
So congratulations.
Thank you.
And I think you for coming not fashion okay so -- -- that a lot to talk about I just stick with the election.
And you let you you pick stocks for a living and a whole.
Post election now.
Where would you allocate money.
Well if you're looking for specific opportunities that are correlated to President Obama being back in office in the Indian health care sectors this right typically -- health care and be repealed -- this -- Specifically in health care services act which would be looking at.
Are the hospital companies didn't run hospital chains as well as other health care services so.
In my case I like HCA which -- hospital.
Hospital company that is national.
So HC I don't runs hospitals more salads more people have health insurance premium of 35 million more people are going to be insured.
Up in the coming three years.
And so those reimbursements are going to help companies like HCA.
But then -- also companies like to -- test the ticker symbol his TV and -- did he test.
Runs dialysis centers across the country the largest chain of dialysis centers so there's a lot.
And economies of scale that -- is able to push through their network.
Especially because of their ability to it to.
Have a lot more purchasing power.
And then in terms of dealing with insurance companies for reimbursements of HCA deviate either companies that really will do well in the coming years about the health insurance.
Well the health -- this -- a little bit more difficult because we don't know exactly how.
This is going to play out in health insurers may have to take a cut may be forced to insure certain people that otherwise they wouldn't have wanted to ensure.
So it's only time will play out Asia in terms of that -- but there will be some winners and there's going to be some -- -- and why HCA as opposed to some other health -- hospital operators out there will HCA has an excellent shop and trying to reduce a lot of -- in hospital infections.
To bring in hospital lists -- this is a new trend where doctors worked directly for the hospitals themselves as well as.
I'm -- to use a lot of outpatient care outpatient surgical room.
Suites and -- opportunities.
So that -- less beds that are taken so it's really -- efficiencies and HCA really runs.
A tight ship goods health care of their patients.
It's now what about international action we have -- Miami international markets right now may be speaking -- your upstart went and yes okay let's talk that Europe.
In you're there with excellent opportunities.
-- -- companies like Vodafone DOD which -- in the second largest Telecom operator in the world and -- -- our rise and start arriving but also and every eastern European country in Africa.
In a company that's only going to grow larger and don't forget a lot of it Telecom companies and are really almost like banks because they do electronic payment services and -- -- there's.
New forms an ancillary revenues that are coming in temperature tech companies he means SEP.
And big companies.
On the infrastructure space.
You know that could -- be.
You know very very like veolia VE which is a water company that has just been decimated with the the debt load.
But what I really like is Latin America we totally -- Rosie OLA has been the only downhill anything's ballot time to billing and a lot of fun hasn't -- In Europe who really understands companies -- that this is a very well managed company that continues to grow.
But you're not buying in at such.
-- high inflated price we're at something like the only -- water company which is down over 50% in price.
On the has opportunity because we still have.
A problem with water globally and veolia -- is in the water desalination business water filtration systems.
Message is.
For you are up by something that's been beaten down or biased stock that's kind of like staple something -- always gonna -- matter how cash strapped yeah -- currently.
What plumber could -- cuddle me break -- well this is -- this today.
The -- of Brazil I don't really really attractive right now to Latin America and then because Latin America.
The stocks have come down really sharply they're specially in Brazil.
Latin America is considered natural resource rich country oil so logo I feel like me half aluminum -- iron or you.
Whole ordeal -- it's only natural resource at the soonest in the end.
-- -- dropped in China and Latin America dropped as well I think the end in Latin America.
This stocks -- expect trends in the stocks -- become somewhat unpopular here but there's some real growth opportunities Mercado were part of the break -- end EL I.
77 dollar stock -- the eBay.
Of Latin America.
That growth projections are incredible 20%.
Sales growth.
Year over year into not only is -- eBay but also in these other businesses like electronic payments and the -- eBay.
On has PayPal and that's driving the growth of -- -- Is seen here with Mercadolibre there in Venezuela Argentina.
Her reply yeah but Brazil is 55% of their sales Mercadolibre continues to add to gains train.
And could also become a very popular stop.
You know with the with the technical traders that are looking for for growth growth players okay and then on.
You also like some tough on tech companies likes -- yes block is one of my favorite SPL -- it's an opportunity can you thought -- -- -- only.
I didn't -- six the last six months but its longest 26 dollars down from 39 dollars and hits flunking as you.
I'm sure know is going into caves and explained it's that I did not yet that OK OK let's let's kilometers do so as long as PLK.
Is a takeoff on that name because -- -- us -- take all the data meant.
-- accompany me half let's say Macy's has all this information that they have from.
Online orders in web applications.
And and in inventory your own systems as well -- -- from social media.
They'll take that information supply uncle figure out and help a company.
Streamline and focus your sales after as well as their efficiency in terms of processing online monitors and targeting customers.
By taking that data and analyzing stocks come off strongly because now the entire cloud space.
In technology.
Has obviously you know how to really hard time the last few weeks he'd be going into a company that when the market does come back.
Spla has the opportunity go up really strongly and this is the direction companies need to going to hear company like Macy's.
-- -- union company likes -- to tell you that.
Girls eighteen to 26 are looking at shoes -- accident ends -- can help you.
Go and target girls' eighteen to 26 and get out there and advertise she is so -- you can attractive in bright and it like there's quite quite an attack on the right now okay.
Down quite a bit from the IPO OK so you're talking about data and a cloud.
And tack at this being there the big theme right now -- -- used to be if you are the tech stock with.
China our social -- -- seal it.
You did well but China is not doing so well anymore and neither is -- social media sphere I'll Groupon not love FaceBook.
Are you bullish on China.
And are you bullish on social media.
-- China rate.
Now has -- fiscal and monetary policies in place that will significantly.
Continue to improve.
And and home.
The -- economic force of China's exporting.
The problem with China though of course is.
Ironically because these fiscal and monetary policies it's not internally within China is -- China depends on the US not -- -- the fiscal -- and depend on Europe.
Not defaulting on its credit so China in some -- is held captive now by what happens in the rest of the world.
So so China us China has been very strict and disciplined and has seen a rise that -- in.
In real estate sales.
Do you want had been very strong it's actually just came down -- on four month high -- currency.
-- digits in the past 24 hours so so China isn't cut isn't on an area where I'm investing my money.
And it's not an area where investing in US stocks there in China like I would not right now.
The be rushing into companies like -- news -- Caterpillar.
Even though -- as one of my paper company Johnson Controls when my top paper companies.
Yet they're struggling like China controls Johnson Controls makes auto parts.
For cars right around and Johnson Controls has -- -- big growth driver is China thank you don't have OK so.
China right now is not -- I would be focusing.
A home but what you do you want to be thinking about you going forward in terms of social media.
Is some of the B traditional players and where they could play a bigger part in social media new one of the one of the problems that.
Groupon is happening is that Amazon DMZ and which is when -- my favorite growth stocks right now.
Amazon is now -- with Groupon did they know -- not like they know what you're what what your interest in and they go back and they target you when they give you special offers.
Was was at a regional.
Unto itself at one point.
But just like you know well found its demise because -- -- needed the walled garden.
Of navigating the web.
Once browsers came out it's no different with Groupon there other your other companies -- -- -- -- -- -- -- To target and they have even more information because it is hereby from Amazon so -- with your interests -- -- Groupon acquisition -- it.
He thinks Groupon dead I mean come on don't aren't -- -- -- -- chest.
You knew the final -- -- I've great respect for what they built and when they built it.
But if -- relevant issues sold themselves and it could happen late kayak just sold themselves a straight line rent that's right they knew they were doing.
Right -- that the big players that are.
Capitalizing at monetizing air we have right and having some of the social media.
Will also come of course means social media companies that I really attracted to him -- -- -- the more private -- -- playing out yet it's my second they've got to wrap this up and -- -- -- -- -- next -- -- -- fiscal -- Send -- -- it says there's a 50% chance that we thought.
Fiscal spending cuts and tax hikes on January wanting to your -- Even if we do pull off the fiscal cliff.
I think that there will very quickly within 48 hours he paid bipartisan in.
A negotiation it'll be worked out I don't think we're gonna see tax hikes.
I think we're gonna see spending cuts because RA politician on either side wants to be the one who raised taxes on their constituents.
Harry thank you so much thank you for comment -- -- -- let's say it right now.
Hilary Kramer investment strategist and editor with thinking it's okay and Andre three jets.
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it's also surprisingly complicated to make a PCI interface correctly. in many ways it's far easier to make a SATA device.
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Posted Sep 19, 2009 15:23 UTC (Sat) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312) [Link]
The only way SATA/SAS physical interface would work well for SSDs is to develop an entirely new command set that allowed the off-loading of virtually all the intelligence to the host, i.e. presenting a flash memory interface rather than a disk interface over the serial bus. At that point you really couldn't call it a SATA "disk" any more, it would be more like a large capacity SATA "memory stick". That is the way it should be.
Posted Sep 19, 2009 19:55 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
the black box argument doesn't apply to a open DIY product like was being proposed.
I don't see why the host needs to address the raw flash. the problem is that there is currently zero visability to how the flash is being managed. if you had access to the source running on the device, why would you have to push all those details back to the OS?
Posted Sep 20, 2009 6:55 UTC (Sun) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312) [Link]
I don't think do-it-yourself has anything to do with it - the question is whether the person(s) concerned want to re-implement what other companies are already doing with no obvious advantage, or do something that could potentially run circles around current devices, if only due to the flexibility and performance characteristics of the interface. A single level filesystem ought to outperform one filesystem on top of another filesystem every time.
Posted Sep 20, 2009 8:48 UTC (Sun) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640) [Link]
Other problems with sata (and pci) is that they are incredibly power-hungry busses.
While we have some interesting NAND flash-optimized code in linux kernel (UBIFS), microsofts dominant position in desktop market means they only appear in embedded systems. Instead of using flash-optimized free software filesystems, we attach a cpu on the flash chips to emulate the behaviour of a hard drive - just to keep microsoft operating systmems happy.
How much more evidence do people need that microsofts monopoly stiffles innovation?
Posted Sep 20, 2009 9:19 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
think about the problems that we have in the cases where hardware doesn't use standard interfaces, and the only code that is around to make things work is the closed-source windows drivers.
examples of this are the wifi and video drivers right now (just about everything else has standardized, and I believe that wifi is in the process)
another example s sound hardware, some of it is open, but some of it is not.
if you want other historic examples, go take a look at the nightmare that was CD interfaces before they standardized on IDE.
it's not just microsoft that benifits from this standardization, it's other opensource operating systems (eventually including whatever is going to end up replacing linux someday ;-)
as for your comments about the horrible storage interface designed for rotating disk. drives export their rotating disks as if they were a single logical array of sectors. they didn't use to do this, but nowdays that's what's needed. the cylinder/head/sector counts that they report are pure fiction for the convenience of the OS. what the interface does is lets you store and retrieve blocks of data. it doesn't really matter of those blocks are stored on a single drive, a raid array, ram, flash, or anything else.
Posted Sep 20, 2009 18:59 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
And I suspect, even though I have very little knowledge of SATA, that the ATA protocols used are going to be a very poor match for dealing with non-block devices.
Also on top of that people are talking about handling things that are now currently reserved to drive firmware... For example current harddrives reserve sectors to replace back sectors, right? Well in flash your going to have to record drive memory usage someplace on the device so that if you plug the drive into another OS or reinstall you don't loose your wear leveling information.
So probably the best thing to do is forgo the entire SATA interface and create a PCI Express card so you can create a new interface.
This should allow a much quicker and low-level interface to bypass any and all "black boxes".
The trick is if you want to have low-level access you need to be able to map portions of your flash memory to the machine's memory map so you can access the flash _as_memory_ and not as block devices.
And obviously if your dealing with a 250GB drive you probably don't want to map the entire drive to your system's memory (which I doubt is even possible to have a PCI Express thingy do that and still be able to take advantage of things like DMA). So you'll need some sort of sliding window mechanism in PCI configuration space so that the kernel can say "I want to look at memory addresses 0xX to memory 0xY relative to the flash drive"
Then your probably going to want to have multiple "sliding windows".. for example on a 4-lane PCI E device I would think its possible to be reading/writing to 4 different portions of the flash memory simultaneously. Sort of like hyperthreading, but with flash memory.
So for example if you can write to the drive at 200MB/s then having a 8-lane PCI Express memory device means that you can have a total write performance of 1600MB/s.
Then on top of that you'll want to have a special area of flash memory, with very small erase blocks, that you can store statistical information about each erase block of flash memory as well as real-to-virtual block mappings for wear leveling algorithms to use, and then extra space for block flags for future proofing.. probably in more expensive SLC flash memory so you don't have to worry about wear leveling and whatnot compared to the regular MLC-style flash that you'll use for your actual mass storage.
And of course you'll have to realize that if you want low-level access you can't use existing file systems for Linux.
So no BTRFS, no Ext3, no Ext4 or anything like that. The flash memory file systems for Linux are pretty worthless for large amounts of storage. You could use software memory-to-block translation to run BTRFS on top of it, but you lose the advantage of "one file system", although you still retain the ability to actually know what is going on and be able to do layer violations so that BTRFS's behavior can be modified to optimize flash memory access.
And then on top of that you have no Windows compatibility. So no formatting it as vfat or anything like that. Sure you could still use Linux's memory-to-block translation stuff, but that won't be compatible for Windows.
Posted Sep 20, 2009 19:43 UTC (Sun) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
For example, Intel is feeling good about NAND-over-SATA right now because they have one of the most advanced block emulation layers. They have a competitive advantage and they want to make the most of it. I would be surprised if they made any moves at all towards exposing raw flash to the operating system. It would not be in their best interest.
The big sticking point with any raw-flash interface is Windows support. Pretty much all Windows users use NTFS, which works on traditional block devices. Any company hoping to replace NAND-over-SATA would have to supply a filesystem for Windows to use with their product of equivalent quality. Filesystems can take years to become truly stable. In the meantime all those angry users will be banging on *your* door.
Microsoft might create a log-structured filesystem for Windows UltraVista Aquamarine Edition (or whatever their next release will be called), but I doubt it. I just don't see what's in it for them. It's more likely that we'll see another one of those awkward compromises that the PC industry is famous for. Probably the next version of SATA will include some improvements to make NAND-over-SATA more bearable. And filesystem developers will just have to learn to live with having another layer of abstraction between them and the real hardware. Perhaps we'll finally get bigger blocks (512 is way too small for flash).
Posted Sep 20, 2009 23:36 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
trying to map your flash storage into your address space is going to be expensive, and it also isnt very portable from system to system.
it's already hard to get enough slots for everything needed in a server, dedicating one to flash is a hard decision, and low-end systems have even fewer slots.
there is one commercial company making PCI-E based flash drives, their cost per drive is an order of magnitude higher than the companies making SATA based devices, they also haven't been able to get their device drivers upstream into the kernel so users are forced into binary-only drivers in their main kernel. this is significantly worse than the SATA interface version because now mistakes in the driver can clobber the entire system, not just the storage device.
sorry, I don't buy into the 'just connect the raw flash and everything will be good' reasoning.
Posted Sep 21, 2009 0:38 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
People are kinda confused, I think, about the whole block vs flash thing.
The way I see it Flash memory, in a lot of ways, is much more like memory then block devices. Instead of thinking it as block devices with no seek time... think of it more like memory with pecular requirements that makes writes very expensive.
Posted Sep 21, 2009 1:03 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
on modern systems, it's impossible to directly access a particular byte of ram. the memory chips actually act more like tape drives, it takes a significant amount of time to get to the start position, then it's cheap to do sequential read/writes from that point forward.
your cpu uses this to treat your ram as if it was a tape device with blocks the size of your cpu cache lines (64-256 bytes each)
In addition, if you want to have checksums to detect problems you need to define what size the chunks of data are that you are doing the checksum over.
Posted Sep 21, 2009 9:10 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
on modern systems, it's impossible to directly access a particular byte of ram. the memory chips actually act more like tape drives, it takes a significant amount of time to get to the start position, then it's cheap to do sequential read/writes from that point forward. your cpu uses this to treat your ram as if it was a tape device with blocks the size of your cpu cache lines (64-256 bytes each)
The memory is necessarily read in units of cachelines, and it takes a significant amount of time to load uncached data from main memory, and of course it takes time to latch RAS and CAS, but main memory itself has a jagged access pattern, with additional delays from precharging and so on whenever RAS has to change.
But that doesn't make it like a tape drive, it's still random-access: it takes the same time to jump one row forwards as to jump fifty backwards. It's just that the units of this random access are very strange, given that they're dependent on the physical layout of memory in the machine (not machine words and possibly not cachelines), and are shielded from you by multiple layers of caching.
Posted Sep 21, 2009 8:30 UTC (Mon) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312) [Link]
The good thing about PCI-E for this application is that you can use simple external cables, so you can easily locate your flash units in a different chassis than the CPU. External PCI-E connections are being used for external disk arrays already. *Much* faster than SAS with more than one lane.
Flash is not exactly a byte addressable memory technology, btw, so you still need to DMA to and from host memory.
Posted Sep 25, 2009 22:32 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]
it is very expensive to run all the wires to connect things via a parallel bus, that is why drive interfaces have moved to serial busses
That's not why drive interfaces (and every other data communication interface in existence) have moved to serial. They did it to get faster data transfer.
But I'm confused as to the context anyway, because the ancestor posts don't mention parallel busses.
Posted Sep 25, 2009 22:57 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
that (at least to me) implied the need for a full memory bus (thus the lots of wires)
by the way, parallel buses are inherently faster than serial buses, all else being equal.
if 1 wire lets you transmit data at speed H, N wires will let you transmit data at a speed of NxH.
the problem with parallel buses at high speeds is that we have gotten fast enough that the timing has gotten short enough that the variation in the length of the wires (and therefor the speed-of-light time for signals to get to the other end) and the speed of individual transistors varies enough to run up against the timing limits.
Posted Sep 28, 2009 15:31 UTC (Mon) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]
They described handling flash as if it was just ram with special write requirements. That (at least to me) implied the need for a full memory bus (thus the lots of wires)
That (at least to me) implied the need for a full memory bus (thus the lots of wires)
But the post described doing that with a PCI Express card. PCI-E is as serial as SATA.
by the way, parallel buses are inherently faster than serial buses, all else being equal. if 1 wire lets you transmit data at speed H, N wires will let you transmit data at a speed of NxH.
It sounds like you consider any gathering of multiple wires to be a parallel bus. That's not how people normally use the word; for example, when you run a trunk of 8 Ethernet cables between two switches, that's not a parallel bus. A parallel bus is where the bits of a byte travel on separate wires at the same time, as opposed to one wire at different times. Skew is an inherent part of it.
crosstalk, not wire length
Posted Oct 2, 2009 0:21 UTC (Fri) by gus3 (guest, #61103) [Link]
Posted Oct 2, 2009 17:15 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]
That's good information about transmitting signals on electrical wires, but it doesn't distinguish between parallel and serial protocols.
Crosstalk is a phenomenon on bundled wires, which exist in serial protocols too: each wire carries one serial stream. This wire configuration is common and affords faster total data transmission than parallel with the same number of wires.
Signals having to settle onto the line also happens in serial protocols as well as parallel.
Is there some way that crosstalk and settling affect skew between wires but not the basic signal rate capacity of each individual wire?
Posted Oct 7, 2009 5:47 UTC (Wed) by gus3 (guest, #61103) [Link]
Posted Sep 22, 2009 18:30 UTC (Tue) by ttonino (subscriber, #4073) [Link]
The real file system layer can then more easily handle things like striping and mirroring, which would involve writing the same block with the same identifier to multiple drives.
Maybe the object level store could support the use of directories. These could be applied in lieu of partitions.
Deleting an object would obviously free the used flash.
One advantage could be that the size of each object is preallocated, and that data that belongs in an object can be kept together by the drive. The current situation is that a large write gets spread over multiple free logical areas, and the drive may have problems to guess that these will be later deleted as a single entity.
Posted Sep 20, 2009 20:48 UTC (Sun) by dwmw2 (subscriber, #2063) [Link]
"keep in mind that the same hardware standardization that you are blaming microsoft for is the same thing that let linux run on standard hardware."
The disks, or at least the block device interface, might be fairly standard but that makes no real difference to whether you can run Linux on the system or not. It does help you share file systems between Linux and other operating systems, perhaps — but that's a long way from what you were saying.
NAND flash is fairly standard, although as with disks we have a multitude of different controllers to provide access to it. And even the bizarre proprietary things like the M-Systems DiskOnChip devices, with their "speshul" formats to pretend to be disks and provide INT 13h services to DOS, can be used under Linux quite happily. You don't need to implement their translation layer unless you want to dual-boot (although we have implemented it). You can use the raw flash just fine with flash file systems like JFFS2.
Posted Sep 20, 2009 23:28 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
but think about when linux started. at that point in time it started out with ST506 MFM support and vga video support.
that wasn't enough to drive the hardware optimally, but it was enough to talk to it.
similarly with the IDE/SATA controllers, most of them work with generic settings, but to get the most out of them you want to do the per-controller tweaks.
even in video, the nvidia cards can be used as simple VGA cards and get a display.
the harder you make it to get any functionality the harder it is to get to the point where the system works well enough to be used and start being tuned.
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