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My view for a while now has been that SSD performance is good enough. We have good controllers from Marvell, SandForce, Samsung, and now LAMD. Indilinx's upcoming Barefoot 3 controller will probably join them, and there's also the possibility that more will come out of nowhere like the LAMD controller recently did. There are still some bad controllers on the market, but there are enough good ones and enough competition at all stages that no one can gouge you with monopolistic prices.
Sure, you can run benchmarks and find that this SSD is 20% faster than that one in such and such particular scenario. But that doesn't matter anymore, at least for consumer use, as the good ones are all so fast. Debating whether you need this SSD or that one for performance reasons is like asking whether a GeForce GTX 680 or a Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is better for watching videos on YouTube.
Reliability still matters, but there are plenty of options that are both reliable and fast. That leaves the price tag as the only good reason to get a hard drive anymore. If you need a terabyte or more of capacity, hard drives are cheaper by more than an order of magnitude.
Initially, there was SLC NAND flash. This is NAND flash in which each cell can have two different levels of charges stored, so that the cell can hold one bit of information. NAND flash moved to MLC a long time ago, and SSDs quickly adopted it. This means cells have possible levels of charge, so that each cell can hold two bits of information. Today, there are only a handful of SLC SSDs.
TLC means that a cell can have eight possible levels of charge, which allows a single cell to hold 3 bits of information. Having 3 bits in the same space that used to have 2 bits means you an give 50% more capacity for a given cost of production. That's not going to close the price gap with hard drives all by itself, but it's movement in the right direction.
While TLC NAND flash has been available for quite a while, there are problems with reliability. Eight possible levels of charge means narrower gaps between each possible amount of charge. The actual charge on a cell is some integer multiple of the charge of an electron, of course, but the way NAND flash works is to measure the charge and then round it to a charge level that corresponds to a particular combination of bits.
The problem is that you can't have an exact charge level stay that way forever. For reasons of quantum mechanics, electrons leak out (or in) and change the charge level of a cell. If this happens to too many electrons in the same cell, reading the data later will give the wrong value. The closer the meaningful levels of charge are to each other, the fewer electrons have to leak out to give wrong data.
There are a variety of ways to combat this to some degree. There is a lot of redundancy built into NAND flash, just like hard drives, so even if one bit does get flipped, it will be detected and corrected. The state of various cells is periodically refreshed, so that even if the charge has drifted slightly from the intended value, it will be erased and rewritten with the proper charge, and usually before it can cause the wrong data to be read. That's not new to TLC NAND flash, as SLC and MLC had to do so as well.
But TLC requires more of it to maintain reliability. And SSDs are generally believed to require much greater reliability than a simple USB flash drive that you buy for $10. Losing your OS, programs, and primary copy of your data is a much bigger problem than having a USB flash drive die, since you probably weren't relying on the latter for anything critically important.
Samsung isn't the only SSD vendor that will use TLC NAND flash, of course. The cost advantage is large enough that they'll probably all jump on board soon. OCZ has been talking about it for a while already, though they commonly talk about upcoming products months before they launch. But today's public launch of the first TLC SSDs, and from a reputable vendor at that, is a major sign of progress.
As with die shrinks, Samsung says not to expect prices to crater instantly. It takes a while to ramp up production of new products. But this should eventually mean that you get 50% more SSD capacity for a given price tag than you would have with MLC flash. And that's a big deal.
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I would imagine 3 bits is harder to work with then 2 bits. There is not way to keep an power of 2 size for the SSD.
They've done it for a long time with USB flash drives. The NAND flash chips are designed to be TLC, so if you want to make, say, a 32 Gb chip, you don't need exactly 11453246123 2/3 cells. You go over that slightly and waste a handful of extra bits, and then sell it as a 32 Gb chip.
NAND flash doesn't need the speedy random access of DRAM. I'd assume that DRAM chips are always powers of 2 of everything because there are low level optimizations that make random reading and/or writing faster, though I don't know that for certain. If you can access memory 1 ns faster in DRAM, that's a big deal. 10 ns could be the difference between blazing fast and unsellable garbage. But for NAND flash, a 10 ns difference in random access time is basically a rounding error.
It may be harder for most people to conceptualize, but electronics don't care. If you think about it a bit differently:
Instead of looking at it bit by bit, with each storage device holding exactly one bit, you just conglomerate them. Each storage "unit" holds 24 bits (3 bytes), and consists of a group of 8 tri-state diodes. The drive firmware usually doesn't get asked for a single bits worth of information at a time anyway - usually it's in chunks of 512B-32k (file system cluster sizes), so it just fills up it's buffer with 3B chunks at the lowest level, rather than single bit chunks. It probably does this at some much larger size than 3B anyway.
You do realize that the only benefit of TLC is cost cutting right? SLC is still the fastest type of NAND FLASH memory, it is also the most enduring one.
TLC offers about 40% of the performance you would get with SLC, and much lower endurance(less IOP Life Time, especially for tunnel-injection which is used for write operations) which means you DO NOT want it in your HDD, it will mainly be used for thumb drives, and other non critical applications, and for low-end and cheap HDD's that would be sold to the uneducated masses.
Originally posted by DOGMA1138
I prefer to think of it as more capacity for the same price rather than a lower price for the same capacity. But yeah, that's the point of TLC.
And it's not just that it "will be" used in USB flash drives and such. It already is. They already have four bit per cell NAND flash, too. What's new here is TLC in a real SSD.
Cost cutting is a big deal, too. The only reason people still use hard drives is the price tag. (Well, I guess I shouldn't discount ignorance.) So long as SSDs continue to scale with Moore's Law, more and more people will decide to buy just an SSD and skip the hard drive. A few years from now, if you can get a ~500 GB SSD for $100, do you really need a hard drive?
There's also the question of, suppose that you're only willing to spend $80 for an SSD, and want to know what you can get with it. It used to be that you couldn't get anything decent for that price. Then you could get ~30 GB and install your OS. Then you could get ~60 GB and install a bunch of programs in addition to your OS, though generally not large once. Now you can get ~120 GB and install nearly whatever you want, though not necessarily everything you'd like to install all at once. Give it a couple more years and you'll be able to get ~240 GB and install everything on the SSD without having to prioritize much. The more you can fit, the more tempting it becomes.
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Hello Quizzical, always enjoy reading your posts. Been so long since I've posted (if I ever have) that I had to retrieve my password so that I could ask you a question. I build my own computers, and on my current I used a crucial 256 ssd, a sata 3 one (they had just come out), as my boot disc, and keep games and music on a 1T sata 3 hard drive.
I have heard of some new type of use for an ssd...something to do with holding oft-used info or something to speed things up? Perhaps as a type of virtual ram or something? Do you know anything about this? Wondering if its something that would offer me more speed. Not sure if it's a regular ssd or some new type with a defined purpose.
Thanks for any answer!
jeff in san diego
edit: ah i see it is my fifth post
You're probably thinking of using SSDs as cache rather than as a normal drive.
There are two basic things that you can do with an SSD. One is that you can use it about like you would use a hard drive, except that it will be a lot faster. Naturally, you prioritize some by putting programs on the SSD and videos or music or other bulk data on your hard drive, but you still use the SSD fundamentally like you would use a hard drive--as opposed to system memory, a tape backup drive, a DVD drive, etc.
The other is that you can use the SSD as cache for your hard drive. The idea is that software watches which hard drive sectors get loaded from your hard drive a lot and stores them on the SSD. Then in the future, when it wants to load something, it checks first to see if it's on the SSD. If it is, it grabs it there and doesn't touch the hard drive. If not, then it has to load the data from the hard drive as normal.
The idea is that as you use your system a lot, it figures out what you load, and the things you load the most are on the SSD. If you can only fit 5% of your data on the SSD, but that accounts for 50% of hard drive accesses, then half of the time you get the speed benefit of an SSD. And the other half, you have to put up with a slow hard drive. Until you defragment your hard drive, at which point, it completely loses track of what needs to be cached and has to start over, so you get hard drive only speeds for a while. And if you never defragment the hard drive, then the hard drive accesses end up getting really, really slow.
A cache SSD can also be used as a write cache. The idea here is that when you save something to the hard drive, it writes it to the SSD immediately, and then tells the OS that the write is done and it can move on. And then later, it gets around to writing it to the hard drive when it has time.
The main reason to get an SSD as a cache drive is that people who aren't sophisticated enough to understand installing programs on the SSD and bulk data on the hard drive can have software automatically kind of do that for them. Some will argue that if all you can afford is a small SSD, using it as a cache drive lets you get more benefit than if all you could install is the OS. I disagree, but can understand it if all that you can afford is a ~30 GB SSD. But if you can afford 60 GB (which can be had for as little as $50), you're better off using it as a system drive and prioritizing what you want on the SSD.
And if you've already got a ~240 GB SSD? There's no plausible reason for you to consider using an SSD as a cache drive in a desktop or laptop. A cache drive in a system with a large budget could make sense for certain server workloads (and you can actually get them built into a RAID controller), but that's not consumer use.
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Thank you! My ssd is 256, and the only thing on it is windows7. Everything else goes on the hard drive, and that only holds current games (gw2, bf3,LotRO), so it's got plenty of space on it. I've never defragged the ssd of course, and I haven't been able to find the command that works with Crucial to do the ssd-type defrag. Not sure if it's done automatically on my ssd.
Thanks for explaining the ssd cache system! Sounds like I don't need to worry about doing that.
edit- oops forgot i did install gw2 to the ssd, but i still have 159g free.
No i will not spend 80$ on an SSD with very limiting MTBF and lower perfomance, to me that would be 80$ down the drain TLC still will not bring you to real high-cap drives for cheap.
For my main drives i have 15K and 10K RPM SAS drives in RAID 0(i use 0 since i do a full stripped image backup every week any how), 2x160GB for OS and critical applications, and 2x320GB for games and such, they still out-perform just about any SSD there with much higher reliablity. For my long term data storage i use regular high cap SATA drives(3x2GB) atm.
I also have a small mini PCIE 16GB SLC HDD which i scavanged from an "old"(4months old) work laptop which i use for SWAP.
SAS drives had, and somewhat still are faster on sequential reads which for gaming is pretty much the most important thing, random reads, and combined IO is only important for general OS operations or specific high perf applications(e.g. databses).
I did bought an Intel X-25 at the time, 64GB for 1K US, did my benchmarks with 85-90% loaded drive at the time and the performance was just bad, even with the price drops on SSD which also brought lower performance especially in the mid-range SSD's it's again not worth it, it would still cost me 2-3K US to switch from regular magnetic SAS drives to SSD's.
FLASH memory in general is comming to it's end, inductive circuts have much higher minimization barriers than conducted ones, for FLASH to evolve you need to start fabricating complex compositve nano materials with high induction index and high tollerance, and it's just not plausible not today, and not in the forisable future, it's physics not engineering.
On the otherhand memristor's are evolving rather well, and unlike NAND flash which is based around a single technology(floating gate transistors), there are currnelty 3(or well 5 since spin based MR's have are split into 3 sub-groups) commercially viable technologies to make them, which means more competition and more possibilities which result in better commercial viability.
So if all goes according to plan and the first commercial MR based chips will be out in mid 2013, there is a good possibility that i will never have to spend 80$ on 1980's tech..
Originally posted by Blakheart
Don't be afraid to install other stuff on the SSD. You probably have a number of small programs that take very little space, so that their space requirements basically amount to a rounding error. You might as well put those on the SSD to benefit from the speed. Web browsers also see a lot of benefit from being on an SSD, as they involve a lot of small file reads and writes.
There's no need for defragmenting an SSD. The reason defragmentation was invented in the first place is that it takes a long time for a hard drive to stop reading, physically move everything to a different spot, and start reading again. The idea is that if you move the pieces of a file around so that they're all together, then the hard drive can at least read a complete file without having to stop to reposition. But even in the extreme corner case where all files are broken into 4 KB clusters that are scattered randomly about the drive, an SSD will still be fast (tens of MB/s, as compared to under 1 MB/s in some tests for a hard drive).
Nope, you can keep on spending $300+ on those 15k rpm drives based on 1950's tech.
And you need to define "outperform" - there are a lot of different metrics.
But for most people, the most important metric is Random I/O. Not even you 15k drives in RAID 0 are going to beat a basic consumer level SSD in Random I/O.
Here's a benchmark from a Seagate Cheetah 15k 300G SAS (actual data from a newegg user):
Not bad at all. Here's the Samsung 840 Pro (from Anandtech), mentioned in this article:
Random Read: 100K IOPS
Even the least expensive TLC SSD's have an MTBF that will generally give them about 3-5 years of useful life. The MTBF may be different, but guess what, all drives regardless have a rough lifespan of about 3-5 years.
Just to put some numbers to it:
Also nice to factor in, Energy Use (which translates to heat)
Also, sound:
Shock (not so important in a desktop, but still pertinent)
Pricetag, with the caveat that the 840 is a brand new drive, and prices have yet had a chance to stablize (this is it's release retail price). Other SSDs based on other technology can be found much cheaper (although the same can be said for hard drives, the Cheetah is probably the cheapest 15k RPM SAS drive you can get, they escalate very steeply from there)
Seagate Cheetah SAS 300G: $209 (with $20 off) - x2 if you want to RAID0
Originally posted by DOGMA1138
You're doing it wrong. Unless you have a very unusual usage model (e.g., mostly spend your time recording videos), a single good SSD would dramatically outperform your RAID arrays. 15K RPM hard drives cost about as much per GB as SSDs, so you're paying SSD prices without getting SSD performance.
Sequential read and write speeds simply don't matter very much for most purposes. Or rather, they matter, but basically everything, including lowly 5400 RPM laptop hard drives, is fast enough that increasing sequential speeds even more barely matters.
The bottleneck that hard drives have is random reads and writes. Rather than getting 100 MB/s in sequential reads, a hard drive may be unable to do even 1 MB/s in random reads. Using 15K SAS hard drives reduces this a little bit--but only a little. RAID 0 doesn't help much with random read times, either. But a good SSD beats a hard drive here by about two orders of magnitude.
And yes, small file random reads are a very common usage model. In fact, that's what you're doing right now: web browsers have to read and write a ton of small files. Most games have a ton of small files that they need to load, too.
Maybe NAND flash will stop scaling with something analogous to Moore's Law sooner than various other things. But it's commercially available today, and works today. It's not some pie in the sky, maybe it will work eventually technology.
If SSDs are 1980s technology (I'm guessing that you're referring to when NAND flash was invented), then hard drives are 1950s technology.
The random Writes are handled by the RAID controller, which has 1024MB DDR2 as main memory for cache. The SAS drives are fast enough for random reads on their own. And again with RAID0 i get about the same sequential speeds as SSD's at a fraction of the cost, the SAS drives were bought when the then brand new Intel X-25 cost over 900US... they come with a 7 year warranty, and onsite next buisness day service from the local segate rep.
The SAS Drives mainly serv for my VMM's and for table swap files.
Also the MBTF for Mechanical Hard Drives and SSD's is really not comparable directly, mechnical drives usually have a MBTF which is based on spin time and the major life expectancy killer for them are spin ups and down i.e restarts, with SSD's every IOP takes a toll on the drive, the MBTF for SSD's is calculated with unrealsticly low IOP count, about 25-30% of the nominal IOP rate that you're comp has on average. It's the same thing as battery life for mobile devices yeah 30 hours with no WIFI, 3G, and the screen brightness set to 10% @ 10c room temp... Unless you restart your computer about 30-40 times a day there is little you can do to actually shorten the MBTF of a mechanical drive these days, with an HDD the more you use it the faster it will die.
Fraction of the cost? Really? How much are those 15k drives a piece - and don't forget to factor in the price of that RAID card either.. because most SSDs are just using onboard SATA3.
And let's look at today's SSD prices, the X-25 hasn't a main stream SSD for a good while now, is listed as Discontinued by Intel, and I can't even buy them new any longer... I quoted the retail price of the Samsung 840 above, and it's considered a pricey SSD by today's standards.
I'm going to leave the rest of your post alone for now, except to say that SSDs are limited in write cycles, you can read from them all day long (so just saying IOP is false - only write ops affect the load count), and that write cycle limit is extremely high when you take into account things like load averaging and excess capacity.
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SSD are really nice piece of technology., but currently they are dead-end technlogy. Future SSD's replacement will have to be done using diffrent technology are there are quite a few getting ironed out already for some years.
Of coourse I am talking about ~8-10 years on consumer market, so I am not disencouragining anyone to buy SSD.
I myself I am planning to get one.
PS. Quizz - DRAM and some of other technologies don't suffer from what NAND is suffering. In example they don't have finite number of writes. Of course that does not mean that they are unlimited, but technology is not pre-defining it.
There are two things - first many of other technlogies are way more expensive. Secondly Fabs to make low processes are finite and there is usually more demand for low mn fabs than there are avabile, so prototype / new / niche technologies are usually made & tested using like 120 mn + technologies from really long ago that increase their price even more for those few things that are actually avabile to buy.
So SSD's are great piece of equipment and there is still room for improvement and seriosuly I think many people should consider to get one - in medium-long run - it is dead end and we need other technology.
Originally posted by Ridelynn
I'm strongly skeptical of the IOPS numbers there. That's 4 KB "random" read/write speeds not far shy of sequential speeds, which shouldn't be physically possible for a hard drive. There are some benchmarks out there that claim to be "random" reads and writes, but don't often manage to make the hard drive stop and wait for the drive heads to move elsewhere, the way that real programs commonly would.
Here's a review of the same drive:
They found 4 KB random read IOPS of 181 and random write of 391 using HD Tune Pro, and 119 and 118 using IOmeter. You can get different numbers depending on the queue depths, and in the harshest tests, even the best SSDs top out around 10k.
DRAM has the big drawback that it requires power to maintain data. That means if your laptop battery were to go dead (and a DRAM drive would be a constant load, even while shut down), that you would lose the contents of your drive. That is why SSDs use NAND, so they can retain data even while powered off.
Yeah I am fairly skeptical of it as well, but figured I'd use the best numbers I could find out there. They are not from any source of repute:
However, even using these extremely rosey numbers, they don't compare with an SSD, which was my point.
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Originally posted by Ridelynn
Yeah I know. It is volatile memory.
Check out things like MRAM or PRAM. They don't need power and are like flash in this matter. There are many others as well. Even wiki will give you basic idea. Most of them have some drawbacks though either technological, patent ones or diffrent.


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Larry Ettner, who teaches management practices for the Atkinson Graduate School of Management, was recently named vice chair for Mercy Corps Northwest, a Portland-based community development institution with ties to Willamette University.
"The real benefit isn't for me, personally," Ettner says. "My appointment gives students knowledge that there's more to my job than sitting in class. Through Mercy Corps Northwest, I have an opportunity to give back to a community that has already given so much to me."
For the past four years, Mercy Corps Northwest has partnered with Atkinson's Practical Application for Careers and Enterprise (PACE) program, which Ettner manages. The program enables teams of Atkinson graduate students to develop both a business plan and a plan for community service, with guidance from local nonprofit organizations.
Students create and market products or services — donating the proceeds and more than 2,000 volunteer hours each year to their nonprofit and government partners.
Through Mercy Corps Northwest, students have helped shape educational programming for women at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. They've aided immigrants in starting small-scale farm enterprises, and they're helping a Portland neighborhood of renters take part in a private real estate investment.
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Ettner, who has more than three decades of corporate leadership, investing and management experience, joined the board of directors in March. He will serve as vice chair for two years.
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A woman was traveling back to Ranger Drive near Cross after stopping at the IGA in Eutawville when she saw a subject crossing the road.
The woman slowed down to a stop to allow the subject to cross at about 6:15 p.m. on May 7, according to a Berkeley County Sheriffs Office incident report.
The suspect then pulled out a black revolver, pointed it at the victim and told her to get out of the truck.
The woman got out. As the subject got in the truck he noticed her small dog on the front passenger seat. He told her, Get the dog or both of you . . .
The victim took the dog from the truck and the subject fled toward Orangeburg County in her1989 Ford Ranger, according to the report.
The victim went to a nearby Dollar General to call 911. The truck was entered into NCIC. It is maroon in color, has faded decals on the side and is missing the front bumper.
The suspect is a black male, age 20 25, who had short hair and wore a dark shirt and dark shorts, according to the report.
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Board Chairman Preston Hawkins immediately signed the paperwork for the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, which included an intergovernmental agreement with the City of Gray. For the first time, however, the vote for the SPLOST was not unanimous.
The March 3 meeting of the Board of Commissioners began with a zoning item. Zoning officer Tim Pitrowski explained the amendment to the county's comprehensive plan pertaining to accessory buildings. He said a two-piece office trailer that was moved to Rebel Drive to be used for an accessory building brought up the issue.
Pitrowski said the text amendment applies to accessory buildings only in residential districts, not agricultural.
The amendment only allows structures that have been designed and built to be accessory buildings. Manufactured homes, all kinds of trailers, shipping containers, and boxcars would be specifically prohibited.
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The City of Roseville was the first city in Placer County to be honored with the prestigious Bicycle Friendly Community Award in 2008. Municipalities actively supporting bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation receive the award from the Bicycle Friendly Communities Campaign. Roseville boasts more than 90 miles of on-street bike lanes and 32 miles of off-street bike paths. The city joins Davis, Folsom and Sacramento as other locally honored communities.
While honoring Roseville at the bronze level, the League of American Bicyclists cited Roseville Bikefest, a family-friendly bicycle safety event, as an example of the City's commitment to bicycling. The League also cited the City's installation of bicycle lockers for commuters as an example of the City's commitment to bicycling.
The Bicycle Friendly Community designation is awarded by the League of American Bicyclists and considers a community's record in promoting bicycling in five categories: education, engineering, enforcement, encouragement, and evaluation. Only communities with established records in two or more of the five categories receive awards. Since its inception in 2003 the League has given awards to 96 communities in 32 states out of 245 communities that have applied. Platinum, gold, silver, and bronze awards are given twice each year.
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When the NBA and Stanley Cup Finals both finish up, America's pastime takes center stage and Major League Baseball takes over the major sports landscape every July. This summer, McFarlane Toys presents MLB 16, the latest Sports Picks series to showcase the very best players. The new series offers five players making their Sports Picks debuts, and one longtime veteran showing off his new look. It's been a few months since we announced the MLB 16 lineup -- now you get to enjoy the photography. Cameraman, ZOOM IT!
CRAIG BIGGIO: Alex Trevino and Alan Ashby split the catching duties for the 1988 Houston Astros, but rookie Craig Biggio managed to snare enough at-bats to turn some heads. Eighteen seasons later, the 40-year-old mainstay enters Spring Training as Houston's starting second baseman. The seven-time All-Star spent four years behind the plate in Houston, before shifting to second base for 11 seasons (where he won four Gold Glove awards), then to center field for two seasons before returning to second base in 2005. Biggio remains a Houston fixture, and a key component to their quest to return to the World Series.
MANNY RAMIREZ 2: Things have changed a bit since our first Manny Ramirez figure hit shelves in 2002. The dreads are longer, the uniform a little baggier, but the ominous swing remains. Boston's left fielder continues to be one of baseball's most feared hitters, and enters a new season ready to send American League ERAs back into orbit. He's got his quirks, but as long as "Manny being Manny" includes the typical damage inflicted at the plate, he'll always have a home with the Red Sox.
SCOTT PODSEDNIK: Seattle couldn't find a spot for him, and Milwaukee decided to replace him -- but Scott Podsednik proved invaluable in Chicago -- as his tenacious hitting and furious base running helped build the blueprint that the White Sox turned into the 2005 World Champions. Chicago's left fielder missed 33 games in 2005, but still remained one of only four players to steal more than 50 bases. While his game is speed, "Pods" showed timely power -- crashing two homers in the postseason to help the White Sox win it all.
GARY SHEFFIELD: Sheffield has played for Milwaukee, San Diego, Florida, Los Angeles and Atlanta, but it wasn't until he signed a free agent deal with the Yankees that he truly found a home. He filled a right field hole left by the retirement of Yankee legend Paul O'Neill, and immediately became the favorite son of the "Bleacher Creatures" that dwell beyond the fence. Sheffield has earned an All-Star slot in each of his seasons as a Yankee, but his ultimate championship goal has eluded him thus far. With a loaded lineup, 2006 could be the year Sheffield and the Yankees return to the Promised Land.
VICTOR MARTINEZ: The Indians' field general commands an enormous amount of respect for a 26-year-old. His effusive personality and rugged playing style have made him a popular player and teammate in Cleveland. The Indians' young squad turned on the jets in the second half last season, nearly securing a playoff berth before fading in the final week of the season. Cleveland should be back in the hunt in 2006, with Victor Martinez helping lead the charge. The Martinez figure is the first-ever regular series figure for the Cleveland Indians.
JAKE PEAVY: From inauspicious beginnings (a 15th round selection in 1999), Peavy shot through San Diego's minor league system, making his Major League debut as a 21-year-old in 2002. He was on his way to a likely Cy Young Award in 2004, before an injury cost him the end of the season. After leading San Diego to the N.L. West title and earning his first All-Star berth in 2005, the Padres' ace is prepared to deliver once again in the 2006 season.
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Ben Henderson vs. Rustam Khabilov headlines June 7th UFC Fight Night in Albuquerque
Former lightweight champion Ben Henderson will take part in a five-round main event opposite Rustam Khabilov this June in New Mexico.
Big news for UFC fans in the southwestern part of the US. June 7th will mark the organization's first ever trip to New Mexico, and the main event has already been confirmed. Former WEC and UFC lightweight title holder Ben Henderson is set for a big clash with Dagestan's Rustam Khabilov in Albuquerque:
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My name is Deb, and I'm mom to Max who was delivered at 31 weeks after I had an eclamptic seizure. I had not been dx with pre-e, because my presentation was rather unusual (extremely low bp, no protein in the urine, no swelling). I was in a well-respected high risk practice for unrelated reasons, so I was being watched by doctors who know what to look for! I plan to try to get pregnant again next Spring, and will not deliver until I am 35 years old.
My understanding is that my risks are higher, and that I should anticipate that if I have certain symptoms I will likely be on bedrest for the remainder of this next pregnancy. Unfortunately, nothing I have found can give me any indication of HOW much higher the risks might be, or if the likelihood of seizure being even more severe exists.
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I'm a huge fan of the audio book. I don't think I could live close to work as I enjoy my commute to much, this is purely due to listening to audio books.
For you other audio fans out there you'll be aware that the reader makes a huge difference to the enjoyment of the story. If I can't find a good reading (unabridged of course) I buy the book and place it on the night stand.
Which are your favorite SK stories in the audio book format, and which readers would you recommend. I sometimes will buy an audio books purely because of the reader (not often but I have done in the past).
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To watch or listen to the action live online, log on to www.chicagowolves.com
The Wolves have recorded 21 goals in their last three outings, the most in a three-game span in franchise history; Chicago is averaging an AHL-high 3.90 goals per game this season, which includes netting four or more in 18 of its 29 matchups.
--- Jason Krog: Netted eight points (2G, 6A) in two games last week, which includes matching a season-high three assists twice and notching a team season-high five points (2G, 3A) on Wednesday ... Posted points in six straight games (3G, 11A) and in 13 of the last 14 (6G, 19A) ... Leads the AHL with 40 points and is tied for first with 28 assists ... Tied for 14th in franchise history with 120 points (38G, 82A) in just 73 career outings in a Wolves uniform
--- Darren Haydar: Notched six points (2G, 4A) in two games last week after being reassigned by the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers on Sunday ... Appeared in a career-high 16 NHL games with Atlanta, notching his first career NHL points (G, 7A) ... Named the 2006-07 AHL MVP after leading the league with a career-high 81 assists and 122 points in 73 tilts with Chicago
--- Brett Sterling: Recorded Saturday's overtime-winner, his fourth career extra-frame marker and his league-leading 18th goal of the season ... Registered a point in six straight games (5G, 2A), which includes a goal in each of the last three ... Ranks fourth on the squad with 27 points in 21 games ... Ranks eighth on the Wolves all-time goal scoring list with 73 markers in 98 career regular-season tilts, which includes leading the AHL with 55 goals during his rookie campaign last year
--- Joel Kwiatkowski: Collected five assists and six points in his last three games, which includes a season-high three assists on Wednesday ... Shares fourth among AHL defensemen and fifth on the Wolves with 23 points (7G, 16A) ... Tied for the team lead with a +10 plus/minus rating
--- Steve Martins: Ranks third on Chicago with 29 points in 29 games, which includes netting his 10th goal of the season in Saturday's win ... Holds third on the squad with 19 assists
--- Jesse Schultz: Held scoreless on Saturday, snapping a five-game point streak (G, 5A) ... Ranks second on the Wolves and is tied for 10th in the AHL with 31 points in 29 tilts ... Holds second on the squad and shares 14th in the league with 20 assists
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--- Chicago's 43 points, the most in club history through 29 games, ranks third
in the AHL and trails only the Rockford IceHogs (45) in the Western Conference; Chicago and Rockford, which has played three more games, match up at the Allstate Arena on Thursday at 7 p.m.
--- Saturday's overtime victory improved the Wolves' record in the extra frame to 4-1-2 this season; Chicago's .929 winning percentage after regulation, which includes a two for two mark in shootouts, leads the AHL.
--- The Wolves' 21 wins pace the Western Conference and rank second in AHL.
--- The Wolves have bagged nine power-play goals in the last three games, netting multiple man-advantage markers each tilt; Chicago has netted an AHL-high 45 power-play markers and rank second overall in the league with the man advantage at 23.2 percent (45 of 194).
--- Chicago has recorded 10 goals in the second period over its last three outings; the Wolves are outscoring opponents, 33-20, in the middle frame this season, their largest scoring margin in a single stanza.
Chicago finishes the 2007 calendar year with three games this week, two of which are on home ice. The Wolves have notched a 51-30-3-4 (.619) record in 2007, which includes regular-season and playoff action.
Sat, Dec. 22
Chicago 4, (at) Grand Rapids 3 (OT)
--- Chicago never trailed in the contest before using a Brett Sterling goal with 21 seconds remaining in overtime to earn a 4-3 victory over the Grand Rapids Griffins at Van Andel Arena
--- Forwards Jason Krog (3A) and Darren Haydar (2A) each posted multiple points
--- Netminder Ondrej Pavelec notched 27 saves on 30 shots
Wed, Dec. 19
(at) Chicago 7, Peoria 4
--- Seven Wolves tallied multiple points as the squad used four second period goals to down the Peoria Rivermen, 7-4, at the Allstate Arena
--- Linemates Jason Krog (2G, 3A), Darren Haydar (2G, 2A) and Brett Sterling (2G) accounted for six of the seven tallies
--- Goaltender Ondrej Pavelec posted 33 saves


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"On Friday July 13th, 2007 I resigned from Google in search of new challenges and risks. This was a hard decision to come to and I have been seriously thinking about it for the last few months. In the end I decided (with support from my wife) that I am at the point in my career where I can make risky decisions." [two months later...] "I'm now at facebook and love it! Well I've been here for 2 months now. I have the same kind of excitement about work that I had early on at Google. I can get lots and lots done and the only thing slowing me down is how quickly I can go. What we will do in the coming years is really exciting!" (Pedram Keyani, who left orkut for Facebook)
"A couple of months ago, after three years as a Google product manager, I decided to leave for Facebook. I am writing this note to spread Good News to all the friends I haven't already overwhelmed with my enthusiasm: Facebook really is That company. Which company? That one. That company that shows up once in a very long while -- the Google of yesterday, the Microsoft of long ago. (...) That company that's on the cusp of Changing The World, that's still small enough where each employee has a huge impact on the organization, where you think about working now and again, and where you know you'll kick yourself in three years if you don't jump on the bandwagon now, even after someone had told you that it was rolling toward the promised land." (Justin Rosenstein, ex-Googler)
Now the news is that Benjamin Ling, who worked on Google Checkout and Google SMS, left Google for Facebook. "Ling will be heading the Facebook platform, the software architecture upon which the popular social network is built."
While Facebook's recent growth influenced Google's plans in the social space, it's hard to move fast when you're expanding in so many directions. Organizational inertia can begin to set in, making new product launches more difficult. "People will say, 'That doesn't live up to Google's standards,'" says Mayer. "But, ultimately, Google's reputation becomes a burden," explained Marissa Mayer in a Business Week article from 2005. And Facebook could be just the right place for recreating the initial excitement of working for a company with big goals and challenging projects.
{ Screenshot from a Facebook ad posted by Valleywag. }
October 11, 2007
From Google to Facebook
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A bit of background for newcomers
Joe (aka 'Mac' to his RAF comrades) was my Uncle, but we never met. His precious letters have come into my possession some near-70 years after they were written. It is my honour to transcribe them, and the poignancy of hindsight about what happened to Joe makes this all the more difficult to write, but all the more important that I do. One letter will be posted to this Blog each and every Friday until they are done.
Please see below for a link to Joe's full story and the other letters in this series so far.
In this letter, Joe is now stationed at Stranraer in Scotland, some 5 months in to his RAF experiences. His Air Gunnery School training (phase 4 of his training) has commenced and he has finally got up in the air….
Letter 35 – 14th May 1944
"Same dump!
I'm in bed again!! Thursday.
Dear Mom and kids,
I got your letter of Tuesday evening today with much relief. It seems to me as if one of my letters has gone astray. I'd written again within those twelve days or so. Let me know if you get that letter, it's only a couple of
sheets with just a bit of chat in it.
Well, I've had my mid-term and as far as I know I've passed. I got 70% on guns, not too good on the turret hydraulic system and as for sighting I'm not sure but there's been no complaints about it from my Instructor so far! We get our final exams in 9-10 days so just keep your fingers crossed!
I'm afraid I haven't got much to say this time, my head is full of guns, sighting, turrets and range estimation etc. I am feeling pretty stiff right now as we had our P.T. examination today and the things we had to do were pretty chronic!
I hope you can get me some blades as I'm pretty short having borrowed two off a mate of mine.
I only wished I'd been home when those two fowl were on the go! I told Joe and his eyes lit up immediately! He almost looked intelligent!!! Hope you can get some eggs the weeks I'm home!! It seems ages since I walked up 'our' Grove last but it won't be long now!
Has Aunt Alice had her finger off?! Let me know how Gran is if possible. I wrote to 57 Garratt Street last weekend and I should get some news then!
By the way I am still having dental treatment! The dentist here is known as 'The Butcher'! Blimey he nearly made me jump a mile when filling tooth yesterday.
I'm glad to see they've put your income tax right NOW! We have been told that when (and if!) we become Sergeants, WE will be paying income tax too! Blimey aricrew now!!
Yes, I had yet another letter from Marie today and what a letter! You see I'm being optimistic and making a lot of dates for Joe and she's been going frantic as to whether Joe Lee will be too tall or too shortfor her numeous girl friends! She has told me to write to her and tell her how tall he is!! A born match-maker!!! When I told Joe this he went all of a 'tizz-wozz' and got real scared! Oh boy, what a life! He wants to go to the rink most I think. There is a rink not 10 mins from his house so he says.
Mrs Terry must be singing all blooming day now she's heard Les is coming home! I pity you! Tell 'our kid' to mind how he changes gear on that old crock of a bike! It threw me more than once! He's old enough to have some road-sense now anyway.
I may send my skates back to you next week.
Can't think of much more now so here's to the next time and still NO pen.
Your luvin' sun, Joe xxxx
P.S. Bert Thomas sent me his photo the other day or did I tell you?! Summat to throw the darts at!!!"
It sounds as though it's been another tough session of revision and exams, with yet more to follow. No doubt Olive would be feeling proud that Joe is doing so well with the academic demands of the RAF, and he certainly seems to be having fun!!! I've not been able to verify who Marie was (yet), but she certainly sounds like a 'girlfriend' from back home in Birmingham. Watch this space on that one…..!
To read more about Joe's letters please follow this link. There you will find the full selection of letters to date, as well as more information about his beautiful and tragic story.
He was our family hero. He IS our family hero. If I knew how to complete an effective RAF salute, I would salute you now, Joe. Long may your memory live in our family stories. I hope to post a new letter from Joe's correspondence with his Mother here every Friday until they're done. It will be a turbulent and heart-wrenching journey. Subscribe to the Blog to make sure you don't miss any of it.
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Bartender's Choice: Savory Japanese-Inspired Cocktails at Neta, NY
"People talk about how cocktails don't pair well with food," says Aaron Polsky, the man behind the menu at West Village Japanese restaurant Neta. "And sure, maybe cocktails as we know them don't pair with food. But what if there were a paradigm shift?" I've seen other savory cocktails that, say, use vegetable juices, or actually incorporate salt. But Polsky's push much farther into the territory. When was the last time you had a cocktail that made use of sautéed maitake mushrooms; or infused a spirit with bonito flakes? Umami bombs are all over the place. Come take a look at Polsky's favorite drinks on the menu (and a few soon to come). More


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The ankle-brachial index test is a quick, noninvasive way to check your risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD). Peripheral artery disease is a condition in which the arteries in your legs or arms are narrowed or blocked. People with peripheral artery disease are at a high risk of heart attack, stroke, poor circulation and leg pain.
The ankle-brachial index test compares your blood pressure measured at your ankle with your blood pressure measured at your arm. A low ankle-brachial index number can indicate narrowing or blockage of the arteries in your legs, leading to circulatory problems, heart disease or stroke. The ankle-brachial index test is sometimes recommended as part of a series of three tests, including the carotid ultrasound and abdominal ultrasound, to check for blocked or narrowed arteries.
The ankle-brachial index test is done to check for peripheral artery disease (PAD), a condition in which the arteries in your legs or arms are narrowed.
Ask your doctor if you should have this test if you are age 50 or older and have any of these risk factors for PAD:
If you've already been diagnosed with PAD, your doctor may recommend having an ankle-brachial index test to see if your treatment is working or if your condition has worsened. If you have symptoms of PAD, your doctor may suggest you have an exercise ankle-brachial index test to determine if your symptoms are due to PAD or other conditions, such as spinal stenosis. In an exercise ankle-brachial index test, you walk on a treadmill for a short time before your ankle-brachial index is measured.
For most people, there are no physical risks involved in an ankle-brachial index test. You may feel some discomfort when the blood pressure cuffs inflate on your arm and ankle, but this discomfort is temporary and should stop when the air is released from the cuff.
If you have severe leg or arm pain, your doctor may not recommend an ankle-brachial index test. Instead of an ankle-brachial index test, your doctor may recommend a different imaging test of the arteries in your legs.
Generally, you won't need to follow any special instructions before your appointment to have an ankle-brachial index test performed. You may want to wear loose, comfortable clothing that allows the technician performing your ankle-brachial index test to easily place a blood pressure cuff on your ankle and upper arm.
You lie on a table on your back, and a technician measures your blood pressure in both your arms using an inflatable cuff. Then, the technician measures the blood pressure in two arteries in your left ankle using the inflatable cuff and a hand-held Doppler ultrasound device that your doctor will press on your skin. The Doppler device uses sound waves to produce images and lets your doctor hear your pulse in your ankle arteries after the cuff is deflated.
The procedure for performing an ankle-brachial index test may vary slightly, based on your doctor's preference.
Having an ankle-brachial index test is painless and similar to getting your blood pressure taken in a routine visit to your doctor. You may feel some pressure on your arm or ankle when the cuff inflates to read your blood pressure.
The ankle-brachial index test should take only a few minutes, and there are no special precautions you'll need to take following the test. Your doctor will discuss your test result with you.
When the ankle-brachial index test is complete, your doctor calculates your ankle-brachial index by dividing the higher of the two blood pressure measurements at the arteries near your ankle by the higher of the two blood pressure measurements at your arms. Based on the number your doctor calculates, your ankle-brachial index may show you have:
The above numbers are based on guidelines Mayo Clinic uses. The guidelines suggested by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology differ slightly. They suggest a normal ankle-brachial index ranges from 1.0 to 1.4, a borderline index ranges from 0.91 to 0.99, and an abnormal index is 0.9 or lower. If you have an exercise ankle-brachial index test, the ranges for results differ. Talk to your doctor about what your results mean.
Depending on the severity of your blockage, your doctor may recommend lifestyle changes, medications or surgery to treat PAD. Talk to your doctor about your options. You may also need additional imaging tests to see what treatment is best for you.
The test may not adequately measure the ankle-brachial index if you have severe diabetes or calcified arteries with significant blockage. Instead, your doctor may need to read your blood pressure at your big toe (toe-brachial index) to get an accurate test result if you have either of these conditions.
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The regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Trustees was called to order at 4:30 p.m. by President Sharon Farris. In attendance were Trustees Mary Ann Tucker, Amy McGilvrey, Mary Taylor, Ryan Fehrmann, Roxanne Michels, Jerry Cockcroft and Librarian Teresa Pennington. Absent were Trustees Greg McHenry and Susan Punzelt.
Minutes of Previous Meeting: MOTION: Tucker, second Michels to approve minutes as read. Motion carried.
Nominating Committee: Tucker presented the slate of officers for the 2010-2011 year: President—Farris, Vice President--McHenry and Secretary--Taylor. MOTION: Fehrmann, second Cockcroft to elect the slate of officers as presented. Motion carried.
Finance Report. MOTION: Michels, second Taylor to approve report as read. Motion carried.
Book Committee: MOTION Michels, second Cockcroft to approve 14 titles of nonfiction for purchase through the Lucy Bishop Fund. Motion carried.
House Committee: No roof repair has been done yet.
Librarian's Report (Statistics): MOTION: Cockcroft, second Michels to approve report as read. Motion carried.
Friends of the Library: McGilvrey reported that the next meeting is May 17 at 6:30 p.m. The Friends will be running the annual Book Sale the second week in June. McGilvrey will research "Afternoons With Annie," a program designed to encourage children to read aloud. The program would take place at the library.
Old Business:
*Pennington is in the process of choosing three computers for purchase with the $7800.00 from Phase 1 of the Gates grant.
*MOTION: McGilvrey, second Tucker that the board gives a "100% Vote of Confidence" for Head Librarian Pennington for FY 2009-2010. Motion carried.
New Business:
*The second draft of the Paris Carnegie Public Library Technology Plan FY2011-FY2013 was distributed for review. MOTION: Cockcroft, second Fehrmann to approve. Motion carried.
Librarian's Announcements:
*A photo ad has been placed in the current Edgar Co. "Welcome" directory.
*The library will host a book signing for John Kilgore, author of Echoes From the Past, Wednesday, May 12 at 6:00 p.m. at the library.
*Registration for the Summer Reading Program has begun.
*Next meeting will be Monday, June 14 at 4:30 p.m. in the northeast meeting room.
Meeting adjourned at 5:30 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Mary Taylor, Secretary


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About Los Angeles
The drama of Los Angeles' history would make a great movie, an irony which is not lost on the inhabitants of the entertainment capital of the world.
The first Europeans passed through Los Angeles during 1542 in a Spanish voyage organised by a Portuguese-born explorer. Two-and-a-half centuries later, in 1781, Los Angeles was finally colonised by the Spanish but just 40 years later it was seized by Mexico during the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, more than three centuries after it was first discovered, Los Angeles was purchased by the United States as part of a Peace Treaty and finally became American territory.
At the end of the 19th century oil was discovered in LA, and by 1923 the city was producing a quarter of the world's petroleum. This oil wealth attracted the aviation and movie industry, and shielded the population from the worst of the Great Depression. By the 1930s the city numbered more than one million and was the epicentre of the motion picture industry.
Today the city is home to four million residents, one in every six of whom works in a creative industry. As well as being home to more artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, dancers and musicians than any other metropolis in the world, LA is a global centre for business, trade and technology, and is ranked as the world's third richest city. LA is also a stepping stone to the nearby desert states of Nevada and Arizona, and an entry point to Mexico and Central America.
The performing arts play a major role in LA's cultural identity and the city is synonymous with film stars, movie making and music. Home to Hollywood, the heart of global entertainment, LA plays host to the annual Academy Awards and features more than 1,000 music, theatre, dance, and performing groups within its city limits.
Start your tour in downtown LA at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and a masterpiece of modern design by architect Frank Gehry. Its twisted steel exterior entrances the eyes, while the hall's near perfect acoustics enchant the ears. Then head to Hollywood Boulevard and take in a movie at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. With 200 celebrity handprints, footprints, and autographs imprinted on the theatre's forecourt, you can while away the hours quite literally following in the footsteps of your favourite film icon.
However, there is much more to the 'City of Angels' than celebrity. Take a hike into the Hollywood Hills for a close-up with nature, or travel the Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu before heading deep into the wilderness of the Santa Monica Mountains. For entertainment of a different variety, amuse yourself on the white sands of Venice Beach. Once a 1960s Beatnik hangout, today you can marvel at street performers or chuckle at the posturing bodybuilders of Muscle Beach.
The city also has more than 800 museums and art galleries: explore the delights of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Petersen Automotive Museum, and the A+D Museum, all of which can be found on Wilshire Boulevard's 'Museum Row'.
Dining and Nightlife
LA has a multitude of ethnic cuisines to choose from, including Mexican, Italian, Indian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Thai. Upmarket eateries can be found in the celebrity-centric restaurants of Beverly Hills, Hollywood and West Hollywood, while excellent quality mid-range restaurants and cheap eats can be found in most neighbourhoods.
Nightlife in LA is every bit as impressive as you would imagine. Start your evening at a West Hollywood martini bar or a rooftop lounge in the Valley before progressing to a European-style super club, packed with ϋber-cool Angelenos. For something a little less polished try a Santa Monica beach bar or Sunset Strip music joint, followed by a late finish at one of Hollywood's numerous rock clubs.
Beyond Los Angeles
Around 800km from LA –a short distance in American terms – lies the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. This stunning natural phenomenon is 446km long and reaches 29km at its widest point. Take a scenic helicopter or fixed-wing flight along the rim, or enjoy the adrenaline rush of rafting, hiking or running through the 1,800-metre deep canyon.
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