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In any case, whatever, its a game. And yeah, I was not good at it, and constantly ended up causing situations that I didn't foresee.
In fact, of the "decision points", I found the Tower to be one of the most straightforward. There was a distinct "bad" and "good" choice. "Bad" is killing everyone, even though they all seem normal. "Good" is giving them as close to a clean-bill-of-health as they are ever going to get.
As opposed to "Do I support the usurper or the incompetent?" and "So... murderers or assclowns?"
I am tempted to do another run of DA:O at some point. I've been considering Baldurs Gate, but I kind of really want to replay DA:O and maybe even give DA2 another shot.Steam: Gundato
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Wow. I try to enter an arcane address in Dredmor, which then crashes the game on account of a missing texture. Steam then gives me an achievement because the game crashed, and when I start it up again it refuses to let me in the dimension it just booted me out of.
For a game that's supposed to be a gentle introduction to roguelikes, it is frustratingly buggy.
Re-installed World of Tanks again, played a few battles, ooohed at the prettiness and new tanks, then realised its even more grindy than I remembered and even joining the SEA region means that I still have high ping. Will uninstall again alas
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Coming across therecent news about the release of DayZ and Arma II developers from Greek jailmade me think of playing DayZ. After a little consultation with friends, Imanaged to get a hold of the game.
I could not believethe learning curve was that hard though. After running around the fictionalRussian state called Chernarus for three hours, I finally met my first death inthe game. Escaping the beach alive was morethan enough victory for me. I was able to pull myself free from bloodied armsgrabbing me and managed to lose my pursuers in the dark thickets. But not after inflicting mortal wounds on me, andafter taking some time how to use a bandage, my character was bleeding out.
The first lesson thegame tells you is to stay out of sight. This I did, but another critical lessonis to find an excellent defensible position immediately after firing a shot asit attracts hordes of undead right away. This game teaches lessons the hardway, but in a fun manner.
The third-personcover-shooting perspective is especially useful for me as it gives a bettersituational awareness.
Overall, the DayZ isterrific survival game. I say this is one of the most enjoyable games I haveplayed so far.
Sometimes, it's abit frustrating though when hackers get in the way by doing some session-endingexploits. I know the developers are doing something about minimizing thesehacking exploits but at times they can get really annoying.
But just the same, Iwould recommend this game to anyone I know.
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XCOM. The bugs are getting noticeable, and annoying. I fly a unit with archangel armor on top of a SHIV, and the SHIV can't move for the rest of the mission. I grapple to the roof of a corridor on an alien ship, and I can't reposition the unit on the roof, even though it is bordered by a blue line and I can run across it to jump back down. I don't like being invited to be tactically creative only to be held up by stupid bugs.
Finished Dragon Age:Origins and Awakening. Oh boy, the combat drags on forever and there's very little challenge even on nightmare. And it didn't play nice with my 64x Windows 7 and kept crashing every now and then. I thought the game had more in common with the first Mass Effect than with Baldur's Gate and the like for some reason, even without the dialogue wheel.
Overall, I don't think it was bad, but I'm bored of the Bioware mechanic of you have to gather allies = go to each of their places and solve all their problems before they commit. This has been done much better in Mass Effect 3, in Dragon Age you are helping Elves who can't kill a few werewolves .. but they commit an army to your cause. Oh, they say, we are going to call the other clans! Well why didn't you call them when you were about to get wiped out then, you idiots. I guess I'm just annoyed when the reason the guys can't help me is a thing they could have fixed if they actually had the ability to help me.
Then started Dragon Age II, because I wanted to see if I was too harsh on my first try, quitting after prologue. Let's just say I wasn't. I think I'll preorder the third, because whatever they do, it can't be worse than this. I mean, they learned from ME 2 and put some customization back and the combat is good enough that you can actually have fun playing multiplayer. So at least they are trying... a bit.
I think the real problem with Dragon Age 2 is the stupid camera that you can't zoom out to control the battlefield. Then some guys spawn behind you and kill your mages. They tried very hard to make it like 3rd person action game but failed, hard.I understand the guy is telling a story and you're playing that so it doesn't really need to be realistic but the anime style combat animations is another thing I disliked.
But I will finish it, because I have a few days at home with no work ( or money ) so it's not like I have anything better to do.
Finished Bastion last night, incredible game. Reminded me of many things, but the most prescient I think was Pixar's Up. Both are tragic and discuss heavy issues in a way which is neither maudlin or po-faced. Both are touching without being cutesy or saccharine. Both are more or less tonally perfect, with not a moment wasted, and use various motifs (visual and audio) topowerful effect. Both are truly excellent examples of and exercises in powerful story telling.
*** Spoilers if you haven't played through Bastion follow***
I also was blown away by the manner in which Bastion examines war. That it did it all was a surprise to be honest. I would never have expected anything like that through looking at screenshots or hearing the synopsis of the game. You expect to be saving some princess or something but end up navigating the path to war and genocide instead.
Unlike other games which focus on the immediate violence and personal moral implications, Bastion casts it as something which destroys society as we once knew it. It is a...well, a calamity. Nothing is the same after. The world is reshaped. But the further you go towards the frontier the more you uncover the past and see how war and expansive greed seemingly defined Caledonian society,how this came to pass, how the senseless makes sense.
It's a fusion of the ordinary, prejudice, beauty, culture, constant violence and elemental destruction. It doesn't ask that you register that it's sad or point like a lecturer at how very bad it all is either; the sadness and devastation and waste is inherent in the game itself and its protagonists, it's inevitability inherent in the fact that almost every instrument you can interact with has been designed to help cultures better kill each other. The narrator talks about weapons and what they can do with a candour which you don't find in many other games. Most other games don't make a big thing out of a sword or a gun, as they're part of the everyday gaming vocabulary,nothing special. Bastion lingers over the destructive capabilities of it's arsenal and then goes on to indicate that these aren't there for you to get through a fairy tale and splat baddies but relics of a violent culture who used them with regularity and with pride, and who designed them with such in mind. A society where nobody bats an eyelid at a kid defending the frontier against the nation's enemies. As you progress all you see of Caledoniais greed and war and hubris and inevitable conflict. And all this is told through incidental dialogue and narration and exploration and interaction. Sophisticated themes told with clarity and detail in a way which is also very specific to videogames.
Blows the histrionics of the like of Spec Ops and other WARRR games out of the window in regards to why people kill each other in my opinion. It isn't enough to just show people killing each other while talking about how bad that is in isolation-there's nothing bold or insightful in that. Few people doubt that it is bad and unpleasant. What's scary about war isn't that bad things happen-bad things happen all the time- it's that something happened to make the perpetration of so many bad things an understandable consequence, that we ever got to that position in the first instance, that war could ever be considered as something worth pursuing. Bastion does all that, with the subtlety and assurance that makes it's own war seem so rational in the first place. It presents intesnely warlike civilisations who are nonetheless defined by far more than being militant somehow. Just like most warlike powers in history in fact.
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Soo... did you evacuate or you trap yourself in a time loop?
Evacuate. Not really sure why. I did what felt like was the hardest thing to do, as though that's a reliable barometer for making that sort of decision. I agonised over it for a while, likewise with the earlier choice. What it came down to I think was following someone else's voice for the first time. I'm not sure why that made sense to me, just did. I was unsure about the narrator after a while. Liked him, but didn't trust his judgement. Quite happy to spend the rest of my days with his bourbon soaked tones though.
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I felt like the loop would have solved nothing; that it was a trap. It would have invalidated everything the survivors went through and made it meaningless.
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I loved the final decision in Bastion, contemplated it for quite a while before finally committing. In the end, I evacuated. The world of Bastion was fundamentally broken in a way that guaranteed its destruction no matter what happened; there was no point in going back only to deal with another war with the same results. May as well start over.


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There's nothing like the warm smell of gingerbread to make a home feel properly festive. We show you how to bake some deliciously spicy Christmas treats, and how to construct your own gingerbread house.
By Diana Pilkington
When you think of the smell of Christmas, what comes to mind? Mulled wine brewing on the stove, perhaps, or the sweet scent of pine trees?
One thing's for sure. The warm, spicy aroma of gingerbread wafting from the kitchen makes a home feel instantly festive.
And as fans of the Great British Bake Off will know, it can also be formed into fabulous houses and structures that put your creative skills to the test. Gingerbread Coliseum anyone?
The custom for building gingerbread houses is thought to have originated in Germany, but has taken off in the UK in recent years. Lakeland, which started selling a gingerbread house kit in 2011, has seen a 38% increase in sales this year, and Sainsbury's, which launched its own version for the first time this year, has had to order in more because sales outstripped predictions. "They've gone down a storm," said a spokeswoman for the supermarket.
This year, BBC Good Food Magazine has broken with its usual tradition and featured one on the front of its big festive issue.
"We normally put a cake, a pudding or a turkey on the cover, because they are iconically Christmassy. But we decided to do something completely different this year," explains editor Gillian Carter.
Not only do these sweet structures tap into the key trends for both baking and handmade crafts, but it seems we Brits are keen to take our home-baked creations to a more intricate level as we get more confident in the kitchen.
Ms Carter adds: "It's also a fantastic Christmassy project for people to do with their children during the school holidays.
"It works for the baker who wants to show they can do fancy stuff and will also hopefully attract parents whose kids want to get involved. The whole family can get together before Christmas and spend a weekend making it."
Here's a gingerbread house recipe from Great British Bake Off winner Edd Kimber for you to try at home, along with some other festive gingery treats...
Gingerbread house
(Makes 1 house)
200g unsalted butter
200g soft dark brown sugar
4 tbsp golden syrup
500g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
1tbsp ground ginger
2tsp mixed spice
1tsp ground cinnamon
½tsp freshly grated nutmeg
For the decoration:
450g royal icing sugar
A selection of small sweets
Desiccated coconut
Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/Gas 4 and line two baking sheets with baking parchment. In a large pan over medium heat, melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup together. Meanwhile, sift the remaining ingredients together in a medium bowl. Remove the pan from the heat and pour the butter mixture over the dry ingredients, then mix together using a wooden spoon to form a stiff dough.
Lightly dust the work surface with flour and roll out the dough until it is 4-5mm thick. Create a template using the measurements in the box below, cut out the house pieces and gently transfer to the prepared baking sheets. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until set around the edges and lightly browned. Cool on the baking sheets for 10 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely before using to build your house.
To assemble the house you will need a board, such as a round or square cardboard cake drum, but you could also use a flat plate or even a cake stand. To make the royal icing, which will act as glue, put the royal icing sugar into a large bowl and add 75ml water. Using a wooden spoon, beat together to form a thick paste. Put the royal icing into a piping bag fitted with a medium plain piping tip. Pipe strips of royal icing onto the edges of the gingerbread pieces.
One by one, stick the wall pieces together. To support the house while you build it, put cans next to each wall. Leave the royal icing to dry for at least 1 hour before you attach the roof to the house. Add the roof pieces, supporting the roof edges with cans or books to stop the pieces sliding off while the icing dries.
To decorate, use the remaining royal icing to pipe tiles on the roof and to fix sweets all over the house to make your very own Hansel and Gretel-style house. To finish, cover the board in desiccated coconut, to make a snowy scene.
Measurements for your template:
Draw two rectangles for the roof, each 7.5cm by 10cm.
Draw two rectangles for the walls, also 7.5cm by 10cm.
Create two five-sided shapes for the front and the back of the house, each consisting of a square (with each side 7.5cm long) with a triangle on top. Each diagonal side is 6cm long.
Gingerbread trees
(Makes 20-24)
75g softened butter
50g caster sugar
½tsp bicarbonate of soda
50g golden syrup
2 egg yolks
250g plain flour
½tsp ground cinnamon
½tsp ground ginger
Heat oven to 180°C/fan 160C/Gas 4. Beat together the softened butter with the caster sugar until creamy. Stir in bicarbonate of soda, golden syrup and the egg yolks. Sift in the plain flour and ground cinnamon and ground ginger then bring together with a wooden spoon. Shape into two balls, knead until the dough comes together, then chill for 30 mins. Roll out one ball at a time, to about 2 x £1 coin thickness. Stamp out trees with a 7cm cutter, then re-roll the trimmings. Lift dough onto greased baking sheets and bake for 10-12 mins until slightly risen and golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. Will keep in an airtight container up to a week.
Double gingerbread men
(Makes 12 big gingerbread men)
140g unsalted butter
100g dark muscovado sugar
3tbsp golden syrup
350g plain flour
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
2tsp ground ginger and 1 tsp ground cinnamon
Pinch of cayenne pepper (optional)
2 balls stem ginger from a jar, chopped
To decorate:
50g icing sugar
A few glace cherries (we used undyed)
2 balls stem ginger
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/Gas 6. Line 2 baking sheets with baking parchment. Melt butter, sugar and syrup in a pan. Mix flour, soda, spices and a pinch of salt in a bowl. Stir in the butter mix and chopped ginger to make a stiff-ish dough.
Wait until cool enough to handle, then roll out dough to about 5mm thick. Stamp out gingerbread men, re-rolling and pressing the trimmings back together and rolling again. Lift onto baking sheets. Bake for 12 mins until golden. Cool 10 mins on the sheets, then lift onto cooling racks.
To decorate, mix icing sugar with a few drops of water until thick and smooth. Halve then slice cherries thinly to make smiles, and cut ginger into small squares. Spoon icing into a food bag, snip off the tiniest bit from one corner, then squeeze eyes and buttons, and a tiny smile onto one man at a time. Stick on a cherry smile and ginger buttons. Repeat; leave to set. Will keep up to one week in an airtight tin.
Tip: You can also use raisins, sultanas or Smarties to decorate, if you prefer.
(Makes 30)
250g plain flour
85g ground almonds
2tsp ground ginger
1tsp ground cinnamon
1tsp baking powder
½tsp bicarbonate of soda
Pinch each ground cloves, grated nutmeg and black pepper
200ml clear honey
85g butter
1 lemon, finely grated zest
For the icing:
100g icing sugar
1 egg white, beaten
Tip the dry ingredients into a large bowl. Heat the honey and butter in a pan over a low heat until the butter melts, then pour into the flour mixture along with the lemon zest. Mix well until the dough is combined and fairly solid. Cover and leave to cool.
Heat oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/Gas 4. Using your hands, roll dough into about 30 balls, each 3cm wide, then flatten each one slightly into a disk. Divide the biscuits between two baking trays lined with baking parchment, leaving room for them to expand. Bake for 15 mins, then cool on a wire rack.
To ice the biscuits, mix together the icing sugar, egg white and 1-2 tbsp water to form a smooth, runny icing. Dip the top of each biscuit in the icing and spread with the back of a knife. Leave to dry out in a warm place.
:: Note to editors - This is an amended version of Food Gingerbread including a detail missing from the first transmission.
:: The gingerbread house recipe is taken from Say It With Cake by Edd Kimber (Kyle Books, £18.99).
:: All other recipes are taken from Good Food magazine. The December issue is on sale now, priced £3.70. This credit, along with the magazine cover image provided, must be included with publication of these recipes

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February 19, 2013
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Robert O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English at Columbia University, author of the Billie Holiday biography Lady Day and books on Ralph Ellison and the history of jazz presents a lecture: We Are All a Collage: Romare Bearden, Toni Morrison, Duke Ellington
This talk takes seriously the modernist assertion that we are all collages--as human communities and as individuals. Looking closely at several of Bearden's paintings, as well as works by Morrison and Ellington--we will consider modern ways of making art as part of an ongoing project of "getting ourselves together": of stitching and re-stitching the ties that bind. Southerners and northerners; cityfolk and countryfolk; women and men; black, white, brown, and beige; adults and children: What does modern art art tell us about how we are pieced together?
Robert G. O'Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Dr. O'Meally is the founder of Columbia's Center for Jazz Studies, and Co-Curator of Exhibitions at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He is the author of The Craft of Ralph Ellison, Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, The Jazz Singers, and Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey—the catalogue essay for an exhibition of the artist's collages based on Homer.
He was the principal writer of Seeing Jazz, the catalogue for the Smithsonian's exhibit on jazz, painting, and literature.
His edited volumes include The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Essays on Jazz, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, and the Barnes and Noble editions of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Frederick Douglass.
He was nominated for a Grammy award for his co-production of a Smithsonian record set called The Jazz Singers. He also wrote the script for the PBS documentary Lady Day, and for the documentary accompanying the Smithsonian exhibit, Duke Ellington: Beyond Category.
His articles on music, literature, and art have appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His writing has won Ralph Gleason and ASCAP-Deems Awards.
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If you've seen NBC's coverage of the alpine Olympic skiing events this winter, you've seen the handiwork of a SUNY Plattsburgh communications graduate.
Jim Carr '86 of Carr-Hughes Productions got his start in the studios of SUNY Plattsburgh's own PSTV, working both behind and in front of the camera. He even took the college's equipment on the road, following the hockey team and working with other students and TV stations to get a signal back to campus from places like Bemidji, Minn.
Now, 10 Olympics and four Emmys later, Carr has his own media company and travels the world filming shows that air on networks like NBC, ESPN and the Animal Planet.
"I'm doing what I want to do. It's what I went to school for. You know, people often say, 'How did you learn this?' I say, 'Well, I went to school for it.' I think producing some of the major events I have, like the Tour de France and 10 Olympics and various series and shows over the years, is very exciting. But it's also working with great professionals, like I have over the years. It's a great group of people."
And in that great group of people, said Carr, are a number of other SUNY Plattsburgh graduates.
But Carr is not SUNY Plattsburgh's only representative at the winter games. Another communication studies major, John Daly '08 is now a member of the U.S. skeleton squad. And Daly has been on a roll, winning six races before his journey to Vancouver for the games.
The one-time Cardinal track-and-field star cannot believe his good fortune.
"It feels like I'm still in a dream, and I'm waiting for it to end, but I hope it doesn't," Daly told reporter Josh Colligan of SUNY Plattsburgh's student-run newspaper, Cardinal Points. "... You look back on what you accomplished, and it just astounds."
According to fellow alumnus, Steve Peters '00 G'01, "John had a very good team trial, which was the result of summer training that was just unbelievable. He put in a lot of time and effort. It's really paid off. He's one of the fastest pushers in the world right now."
Peters knows what he's talking about. The superintendent of recreation for the City of Plattsburgh, who was a skeleton athlete himself and who has worked for the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation in Lake Placid, N.Y., and Park City, Utah, and, in that role, Peters became acquainted with many of the individuals who are now hitting the slopes at the games.
But more than that, Peters was an impetus behind the creation of the federation's new technology program, through which Peters helped design an experimental sled – the sled Daly will be taking down the Olympic track.
"He tried it. He liked it, and he was faster on it immediately, which is rare in this sport," said Peters. "We only had it tested two and a half weeks ago. So it's brand new. It's quite a leap for him to actually even use it, which shows how good it really is."
According to Peters, who graduated with a bachelor's in communications and a master's in administration and leadership, his school experience really set him up for his current success.
"A lot of what I've had to do is to sell the technology program to the CEO of the Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, to the U.S. Olympic Committee and to our athletes, and I've really relied on my communication experience to be able do that," said Peters. " ... My experiences at the college helped to put it together. I'm a proud grad of Plattsburgh. That's for sure."
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As close as we can tell, 29 states have produced players who have earned at least one cap for the U.S. Women's National Team. That number could move to 30 this week. As the only uncapped player on this year's Algarve Cup roster, forward Natasha Kai will make history for her home state if she gets into a game and becomes the first-ever player from Hawai'i to play for the full U.S. Women's National Team.
Hawaii is a place of beautiful, lava-covered landscapes, lush jungle, rolling sugar cane fields, juicy pineapple, beautiful white beaches and tasty waves.
It's paradise.
But for all the amazing things that Hawaii has to offer, the 50th state has never produced a player who has earned a cap for the full U.S. Women's National Team.
That may change during the 2006 Algarve Cup as forward Natasha Kai of Kahuku, Oahu, will suit up for the United States.
Like most players from the 31 states that have yet to turn out a player for the U.S. Women's National Team (a list that also includes Wyoming, North Dakota and Mississippi, to name a few), Kai has overcome some steep odds to get where she is today.
She did not have the benefit of a traditional youth soccer environment that players from California, Texas, Florida and other soccer hotbeds enjoy. She played just one year in the Olympic Development Program and never played for a U.S. Youth National Team before getting her first shot with the U.S. U-21s in 2004.
Kai was born and raised on Oahu's famous North Shore and had a better chance of becoming a professional surfer than a soccer player. Luckily for the USA, she was out surfing three-footers one day, took one look at a 10-footer suddenly rolling towards her, prayed she wouldn't die, and somehow got back to the beach. That ended her career as a big wave surfer.
She describes the neighborhood in which she grew up as "out in the country." There were no malls, no movie theatres and no suburban soccer fields, just corn fields and shrimp farms. It's very difficult to play soccer while dodging corn stalks or stepping on shrimp.
Kai started playing club soccer only when she entered high school, but that necessitated an hour drive to the windward side of the island to play for Kailua AA. She was also a guest player on occasion for the Leahi Soccer Club, and got to play in the Surf Cup in San Diego. Still, the opportunities to play at a high level were scarce.
In fact, after high school, Kai was pretty sure she was not only done with soccer, but her formal education as well.
"I got some offers, but to be honest, I had a negative attitude about going off to college, a bad attitude," said Kai, who also admitted apathy towards her academics. "I just didn't want to play anymore. The only motivation I had was to play sports. That kept me in school."
A remarkable athlete with tremendous speed and leaping ability, Kai played volleyball, ran cross-country and track and was a point guard on the basketball team at Kahuka High School.
On the track, she ran the 100 and 200 meter dashes, along with the 100 and 300 meter hurdles (for which she set the state record as a freshman). She also competed in the high jump, long jump and triple jump. Her best high jump was 5 feet, 6 inches, still a Hawaii state record.
But as high school came to an end, an unmotivated Kai decided she needed some time to sort out her life's direction. She took a year off - from school, from soccer, from life - and didn't touch a ball at all during that time. She went surfing, hung out with her friends, and got a job working at BYU-Hawaii in the cafeteria, where she helped wash dishes, serve food and cook in the bakery.
While she enjoyed her time away from school and soccer, after a year, she knew that it was time to "get my act together." After some soul searching, she came to the realization that she was ready for college, and the University of Hawaii.
But it was only a college career that she was focused on.
"In Hawaii, there is only high school and college, that's it," said Kai, who would become the all-time leading scorer for Hawaii and the Western Athletic Conference. "In the back of my head there was always doubt about ever taking soccer beyond college. You pretty much have to go to the mainland and a top-notch school to get noticed for the national team. I thought there was really no way anyone from Hawaii was going to get an opportunity."
That all changed after a stellar sophomore year that saw her pound in 29 goals and lead the nation in scoring. That performance raised eyebrows even on the mainland, where then-U.S. Under-21 National Team head coach Chris Petrucelli called her into training camp at the beginning of 2004.
That year, she led the U-21s in scoring with 12 goals, with six coming in international play, as she helped the USA win the 2004 Nordic Cup in Iceland. She scored three times in that tournament, including a pair against Germany that pushed the U.S. through to the title game.
Her performance with the U-21s was an amazing accomplishment. A girl from Hawaii had come together with the top female college players in her country and done more than hold her own.
"I was really nervous, because it was my first time (with the national team)," said Kai, who speaks with a fairly thick Hawaiian accent and sometimes, to her teammates' amusement, drops into the local Pidgeon English. "I was not comfortable around anyone. I was kind of left by myself and I was kind of the runt in camp being from Hawaii. I really had to prove myself. At first, I was so nervous that I was messing up all the time. Coach Chris called me in my room and he said, 'I know you're nervous, but you need to prove to me you belong here. Just go out there and show me what you've got.' I just basically had to play to my strengths, my speed and scoring, and show the coaches and the players what I had to offer and why I was chosen to come to the camp."
Her newly launched national team dream was dealt a setback when she fractured her clavicle in November of 2004 during the last two minutes of her final college game at the WAC championships. Then, called back into the U-21s in January of 2005, she hurt her shoulder badly again, also at the end of the last game on the closing day of camp. This time, she needed surgery to repair shredded ligaments. They also put screws in her shoulder. That ended her year and maybe, she thought, her national team career.
But Kai possesses athletic gifts that are not soon forgotten, and U.S. U-21 head coach Jill Ellis called her into a training camp in January of 2006. She did well enough to earn Ellis' recommendation to U.S. head coach Greg Ryan, who invited her into her first Women's National Team camp in February. With a strong performance at camp, she then made the Algarve Cup roster, and is now on the brink of making history.
"I feel honored to be the first one from Hawaii," said Kai, a free spirit with nine tattoos and a personality emblematic of Hawaiians' friendliness and zest for life. "I am representing Hawaii and the United States and of course, that means a lot. If I get to play, it will put a big smile on my face, but it's not about me. I want to do well for this team, this country and my state."
While her game currently resembles the freshly cut sugar cane of her home – raw, but with some tantalizing sweet qualities - Kai is still adjusting to the speed and sophistication of the international game. But if she does get into a match, it will be proof that players can make the national team through untraditional means, as long as they have unusual talents.
"Every time I talk to kids at camps and clinics in Hawaii, I tell them that they can look at me as a role model, but I'm just opening the doorway and the pathway for coaches to see what kind of talent there is on the islands," said Kai. "My thing is that you have to dream big and set big goals. My goal was always to play for the national team, even though I didn't know if I'd ever make it. Right now, I'm living my dream. Sometimes you can get off track in life, but if you have the heart, and belief in yourself, you never know what can happen."
It's a good lesson, not only for little girls from Honolulu, but also for young players with big dreams from towns like of Laramie, Fargo and Biloxi.


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PHILADELPHIA - Another preseason poll was released earlier this week for men's lacrosse, this time by Lacrosse Magazine. And once again, the rankings contain the University of Pennsylvania program. Lacrosse Magazine has the Quakers at No. 17.
This ranking comes on the heels of the Inside Lacrosse Face-Off Yearbook, which put Penn at No. 11 and listed seniors Brian Feeney, Zack Losco andMaxx Meyer as Preseason All-America honorable mention.
Penn is one of four Ivy League teams in the Lacrosse Magazinepoll, behind Princeton (6th) and Yale (11th) and ahead of Cornell (18th). Overall, the Quakers' 2014 schedule featuresseven teams ranked in the Lacrosse Magazine preseason poll -- in addition to the Tigers, Bulldogs and Big Red, Penn will also face Duke (1st), Denver (4th), St. John's (19th) and Villanova (20th).
Lacrosse Magazine will preview one team from its preseason rankings each day leading up to the start of the season. Penn's preview will be published on Thursday, Jan. 16.
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Adobe Livecycle Workbench provides a great tool for executing BeanShell scripts.
BeanShells sripts allow executing a piece of code on the fly. The best part of BeanShell scripting is that it doesn't have unnecessary syntactic sugar which complicates and increases the learning curve. Rather one can simply use his/her java skills and write down the code and run it on the fly on a LiveCycle running server.
This mostly comes handy when one wants to execute a code quickly on the server but wants to avoid creating a project in an IDE and going through all the hassles of collecting the dependent jars in class-path and thereafter instantiating ServiceClientFactory and providing server details to connect.
Since the script gets executes within VM, hence it doesn't require the pre-requisites such as providing the dependent jars or server detail configurations.
The following example demonstrates a simple "Hello World" code written in BeanShell script and executed on the LiveCycle server.
I've written a cookbook recipe for invoking various User Manager APIs through BeanShell scripting which one can find at,
1. Connect the Workbench to a running LiveCycle server.
2. Create a new Application. Specify the name of the Application and click on Finish button.
3. Create a New Process under the Application.
4. Mention the Process name and click on Finish button.
5. A Process SwimLane will be opened on the right side. Drag the Activity Picker and attach it to the "Default Start Point".
6. Once done, a "Define Activity" pod comes up. Enter the Activity name and search for "execute script" in the Find box.
Else, the Execute Script activity can also be found by navigating to "Foundation->Execute Script 1.0" under Service tab.
Click OK.
7. Once done there will be a new window opened on the left side with the name "executeService Operation". Click on the button in the Input box.
This will open up a Text Area where the code to be executed can be written.
8. Enter the code with proper imports and click on OK button. Then click the Save button on the top left corner or press CTRL+S.
9. Goto the Applications tab in the left top corner. Right click on the relevant process and click on "Invoke".
Click OK on the screen where it asks "Check in all files". Click OK on the next screen where it notifies of "No Input Variables".
10. Look into the server logs of the application server on which LiveCycle server is running. The output will be printed in the INFO level logs.
The above was a simple example to show the working of BeanShell script in LiveCycle through Workbench.
But in Enterprise world the script would be interacting with inputs from different processes and returning processed results to further joining processes.This can be achieved through patExecContext object which is explicitly available to the script.
An example can be found at,


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I'm working on a mobile website.
When I run the W3C CSS validator in CSS3 mode, I get about 78 errors.http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
When I run it again but I set the profile to "mobile", I get over 500 errors!
Most of the errors are of this type :
I don't really understand, to me these CSS rules are OK to use. Worst case scenario they could generate a warning of some of the mobile browsers don't understand them but why give me errors?
The client is asking us to reduce the number of errors, and I think there are a few things we can improve indeed, but I have no intention of removing border-radius or box-shadow!
Thanks in advance for your help
What is your development environment? Browser? Code Editor? etc. How do you test your pages, especially for cross-browser/UA compatibility?
Your message doesn't ask for help in any of these areas, it seems to ask for validation of your attitude. I disagree with your attitude. Sounds shallow. Mobile agents do not support the same range of css properties as desktop agents; and html5 and css3 are still works in progress. On the other hand, if the finished page renders properly across the desired target audience, then the client might need to learn more about the conventions used by the validator and how they are applied.
Semantics (terminology) or problem (poor UA support)?
My 2c
Thanks Ronpat for your answer although I'm not sure I deserve the tone.
I'm quite new to mobile development so I'm just trying to understand why I'm getting so many errors. The website is to be viewed on smartphones and I actually thought that smartphone browsers were on average more evolved that some of the old desktop browsers.
We're getting a really good grade on W3C mobileOK Checker http://validator.w3.org/mobile/
So I'm just surprised that so many properties such as border-radius or even inline-block are seen as errors by the W3C CSS Validator in "mobile" mode.
I gave the link to that service in my question, so that answers yours about how I test my pages (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/)
To tell you the truth I'm working as a project manager on this project which was already built before I joined the company. I used to be a front-end dev so I understand HTML/CSS. The client has asked for improvements they're entitled to but I'm running some tests to see what we could improve and optimize.
I didn't expect to have to "optimize" or even remove things like border-radius.I would think that, just like on desktop browsers, if a browser doesn't support border-radius it would just render square corners. Why generate an error? I'm trying to make sense of this, that's all.
I'm wondering what to say to the client because I don't think they'd want to give up border-radius or box-shadow.
No disrespect intended; just expressing an impression. You sounded a little naive at first. I now see that you have more responsibility and experience than I imagined.
IF the properties that the validator flags as "errors" are being rendered properly in the target user agents or are degrading properly, then I would explain that to the client. If they are not, and the client still likes the visual effect, then other (older?) methods are probably available. I would guess that programming for mobile agents is a lot like programming for the widest range of desktop browsers (brands and versions). One just has to learn what works where. I suspect that might seem like quite a learning curve at first.
border-radius for example is new and still being implemented by vendor specific prefixes in some browsers that have not yet been programmed for the "standard" syntax. I imagine the evolving mobile market is hard to keep up with. There may be a site somewhere that lists which css properties are compatible with which mobile OS's.
It would probably be more helpful if someone else would enter this conversation with you who has experience programming for mobile devices as mine is almost nil.
Best wishes.
Remember that validators are pretty dumb, and just check your site against some rules they have. If they haven't been told about CSS3, for example, or vendor prefixes, they will go all wobbly at the knees, when in fact there's nothing wrong with these at all.
The validators are handy for alerting you to any serious problems that may affect page rendering. But if the pages render fine, the validator is otherwise useless. Getting worried about validator results when the page renders fine is misguided. The key is not to show clients these results, as they are likely to get freaked over nothing.
[edit]I admit I don't do "mobile" validator checks much, but I assume they are telling you about the more basic mobile devices. Those devices are pretty limited in what they can display, which is why some people these days are advocating "mobile first" design, which involves serving up a pretty basic version of a site that will work on the simplest devices, and then adding in more CSS for smarter devices like smart phones and desktops—excluding IE < 9, of course. :lol:
If you serve up something simple to simple mobiles first, you can avoid the horror of seeing your desktop site run through the mobile validator.[/edit]
Validation is a means to an end and should only be used as a guide for you to check that the errors it produces are applicable to your situation. If you look at the errors and understand why they are errors you can either ignore them if not relevant or fix them if they are pertinent to the project.
The mobile profile is a very basic profile mostly a subset of css2.1 but not all of css2.1. It is there to check the lowest denominator and should really only be used for the most basic of devices and not as a guide to how code will render on all devices. The mobile world is speeding ahead so you can't base an iphone's capabilities by checking out the mobile profile. You would need to use the most modern profile of css3 as the iphone understands those as well as any modern desktop browser (or perhaps more so). I don't think the validator will ever catch up with mobile devices anyway as new devices arrive daily and when that mobile profile was written it knew nothing about the devices out there at present.
In the end the validator can tell you nothing about how your code will render on a device only if the code conforms to a certain profile. Many valid documents will render horrendously if the author has coded the page incorrectly. You can build a wall with bricks but if you don't align them properly the wall will fall over.
As an aside you can set the w3c validator to generate only warnings for vendor prefixes and thus take them out of the equation anyway.
Thanks to the 3 of you for your help.
@ralph.m, I didn't show the errors to the client, they showed them to me To be honest I didn't even know there were different settings to the CSS validator until now...
@Paul O'B that's what I was hoping to hear, so this is meant for really basic phones, which we are not targeting in this project. It's a responsive website for smartphones and tablets (there is a separate desktop site) so I don't think we can be expected to pass this validation. Plus the client wants fancy things so it's not just basic text.
Plus, as I mentioned, we're getting a good grade on W3C mobileOK Checker (between 80% and 88%). Could be improved, but not bad.
So I know what I've got to do, I will explain to the client that this validation is only useful if we're catering for the lowest denominator, which we are not.
Thanks again


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Samsung SSD XP941 Review: The PCIe Era Is Hereby Kristian Vättö on 5/15/2014 12:00 PM EST
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bharatwd - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkHope something with these speeds comes in sata express.........however im gonna pick one of these as soon as it becomes available....im planning to buy z97 anyways :) Reply
mikeangs2004 - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linksata is being replaced by m.2. You're outdated Reply
Galatian - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkNo, you are...he is talking about SATA Express...M.2 is essentially the small form factor connector of SATA Express. Reply
Babar Javied - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkSo use SATA Express when the M.2 is just as good? Also, you don't have to worry about the ugly SATA Express.
I am still a little unclear on how SATA express works exactly but from what I understand is that SATA Express requires two PCIe lanes and only operates at x2 speeds whereas this can use the x4 lane. Plus, the M.2 form factor is much smaller than 2.5" used by SATA SSDs. Not that there isn't enough room in a desktop/laptop for a 2.5" drive but if there is no difference in performance why not get the physically small drive?
Again, i could be wrong about the lane speeds so please correct me if I am.
thanks Reply
basroil - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkM.2 is a form factor and connector specification, it supports SATA Express, like in this case Reply
SirKnobsworth - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkNot quite - SATA express defines an interface for PCIe x2 and 2 SATA ports to share the same pins one one connector. This particular flavor of M.2 just happens to implement PCIe x2 and SATA, but on separate pins. Reply
basroil - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkMeant to say SATA Express supports M.2 rather than the other way around. And it's not just PCIe x2, the M.2 format currently supports up to x4, but the intel chipset and SATA 3.2 don't support above x2 just yet. In M.2, SATA is B and M keys, while PCIe is A B E and M (x4 ) keys, so SATA and PCIe do share some pins (but like you said, not in all cases) Reply
Galatian - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkI don't really think it has anything to do with the Intel chipset. The mainboard manufactures are free to allocate the FlexIO how they like. They can use up to 8 x PCIe lanes, but of course have to reduce the SATA and/or USB ports then. Also the PCIe lanes are used for other things as well like the Intel Gigabit Ethernet port I think.
Still I think for a top of the line mainboard it makes more sense to go for the x4 implementation and have a few SATA ports less. Reply
basroil - Friday, May 16, 2014 - link"I don't really think it has anything to do with the Intel chipset."
The chipset does currently support only 2 lanes since the 3.2 specification is meant for 2 lanes, and Intel RST only supports 2 lanes. ASRock bypassed the chipset in it's 4 lane implementation, so it has nothing to do with flex IO (which is the chipset allowing more USB3.0 or SATA, or other things). Reply
SirKnobsworth - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkRight - x4 from the chipset would probably work just fine but you couldn't use it as a cache. Reply
TelstarTOS - Saturday, May 17, 2014 - linklike basroil said. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkThey need to stop being greedy. Compared to Samsung's own SSD 840 Pro, it has less parts, so it should cost them less to produce it. Yet the price is double? That makes it a pointless product, especially if it cant even beat an 840 pro at random I/O. Reply
dstarr3 - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkFirst generation product on a mostly new interface. There's some R&D to be paid for. Reply
JohnBooty - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkIt's a niche first-gen product, with R&D costs. If ten or twenty engineers, testers, and managers spend a year on this that's easily a few million dollars in R&D right there. Probably more in the tens of millions of R&D, all told. Reply
nathanddrews - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkPeople still think this way? Reply
JeffFlanagan - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkOn the Internet you can find people who think in any way possible, or don't think at all. No matter how insane, foolish, and disconnected from reality a belief is, there are hundreds or thousands of people who will believe it. See the countless Republican fake outrages and religion as extreme examples of the phenomena. Reply
purerice - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkJF, keep politics and gender studies professors' talking points out of this, please. Up till then you had a good point. Reply
darwinosx - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkYou just told us your own political opinions silly boy.
Apple has been using PCIE SSD's for two generations of Macs now which oddly was not mentioned in this article. Samsung and I think Toshiba have been making them for Apple which probably explains why this one booted from a Mac. Reply
yaedon - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link@JF: A well-respected tech blog like Anandtech is no place to vent your opinions of politics or religion. There are plenty of political and religious blogs available on the internet if you feel compelled to discuss those topics. Reply
critical_ - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link@purerice & @yaedon: I've never understood the desire to squelch these comments in a nation that values free speech. If you don't like it then don't read it (and don't respond). Reply
nathanddrews - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkThey weren't trying to squelch his speech or impugn his rights, rather give him advice as to where he could take those opinions so they would be better appreciated. "Free speech" isn't some magical phrase that suddenly allows you to say whatever you want whenever and wherever you want. Valuing free speech doesn't mean you have to value dumb comments on websites, even this comment that I just made! :-P Reply
Babar Javied - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkThis site needs a "thumbs up" or "like" button because I'd like to "like" your comment good sir. Reply
Sabresiberian - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkHmm yeah it's a matter of etiquette, not "free speech". Those topics tend to derail discussions, turn them into heated arguments which add nothing to a discussion unless they are pertinent. It is bad internet manners to bring them up in any form when the topic has nothing to do with them.
As far as not reading the post - well. that would make sense in an ongoing discussion, where it could easily be seen that the comments were not going to be interesting to the reader before he had read them. This kind of post though - it is impossible to know the poster will go too far for you until he has. :) Reply
yaedon - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link@critical: I would love to go on a long and well-thought-out diatribe on common misconceptions of the First Amendment in response to your comment, but the comment section of a tech blog is simply not the appropriate place for that and would continue to distract me, you, and everyone who reads the comment from our common interest in computer tech. I fail to understand how entreating someone to observe good manners so that all people can enjoy this fine tech blog is inflammatory. Reply
vFunct - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linklol he totally didn't know that businesses have fixed costs and not just variable costs. Reply
email@example.com - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkWell I do not concur. Both the PCIe and SATA interfaces are not new by any means. And as for the SSD technology, well that too is not new. The development costs are much lower that one would think. Pretty much a new PCB with layout testing. That's it. It's just old tech on a new PCB, since SSD on PCIe has also been around quite a while now too.
Opportunistic behavior dictates price first and foremost, and I do not believe the device is peppered with Samsung blessed gold which could justify such an expensive PCB. Reply
nafhan - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkIn general:
Price = cost where they will sell the number of units that maximizes profits.
If they priced it lower, they'd be doing that out of greed, too. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link"If they priced it lower, they'd be doing that out of greed, too."
Brilliant! Reply
RobElk - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkThis uses multiple controllers to reach that speed, so it is means more parts, not less. Reply
jimjamjamie - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkLooking forward to these hitting mainstream, though it will be quite strange plugging storage drives into PCIe slots.. Reply
Impulses - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkCan't wait for the "is it ok to sandwich this SSD between my two scorching hot R9 290?" posts! Reply
pipja - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkrofl can't wait for that day to come, but then it'd be some R1000 980750235 something :p Reply
LordOfTheBoired - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkIsn't the R1000 980750235 just a rebadged 7770? Reply
Antronman - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkClearly you haven't tested any Fusion iO products. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Saturday, May 17, 2014 - linkFusion IO doesn't make any drives that are aimed for the client market. Reply
snark9a - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkCan I install one in my 2013 rMBP? Reply
SirKnobsworth - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkNo. Apple uses a proprietary connector so an M.2 SSD won't fit. I believe aftermarket solutions are becoming available though - maybe from OWC? Reply
darwinosx - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkAftermarket solutions for Apple devices have been available for a long time. Reply
Penti - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkThey still does not have one for PCIe-based Macs. Reply
BMNify - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link"They still do[es] not have one for PCIe-based Macs"
so, just get the pci-e card above and use that or even a generic pcie to pci converter and you can install them in your PPC mac, and other systems too, weather they would be accessible booting anything other than a linux PPC distro is another matter OC Reply
Penti - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkMacs with PCIe-based SSD's, obviously you could run a discrete PCIe-card (SSD) in a Mac Pro (but that would be SATA/RAID-based not PCIe). PCIe AHCI-based SSD's are only available directly from Apple and made by Samsung and Sandisk, and is only used in recent MBAir, MBP 13/15 and new Mac Pro as well as recent iMacs. There are no third party solutions yet. For previous generations there are solutions and before their own SATA-card SSD they used 2.5-inch drives everywhere except in the Airs. For the 2008/2009 MBA with 1.8-inch drives there are solutions available too. At PowerPC based macs you have either SATA or IDE natively. They just haven't figured out how to produce a PCIe-based SSD for the Macs yet. Over at OWC or anywhere else. Reply
RamCity - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkJust in case this part was missed in the review here, the XP941 is widely compatible (when installed with an adapter) in the pre-2013 Mac Pro's - all the way back to the 2006/2007 models. The Barefeats.com review is worth a look if you want more information.
http://barefeats.com/hard183.html Reply
Penti - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkThe thing I was referring too is that it's not compatible and neither has any compatible modules been made yet for the PCIe-based SSD's of the newer Macs. While earlier SATA-based Apple-custom cards had third party solutions that worked. XP941 is obviously used with a early 2009 Mac Pro with boot-support in the review. So we have number right here. PPC-based systems wouldn't boot it however, even if you might get a Linux-system to recognize it. Which is so far off topic that it's incredible. Reply
Penti - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkObviously when they have figured out the new connector from Apple the PCIe based controllers should run fine over there on third party cards. Now they just don't exist yet. Like for the thread starters MacBook Pro. Reply
Penti - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkAnd a early 2013 MBP with SATA-based SSD can use after market SSD's, but not the ones with PCIe yet. Reply
Hrel - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link256GB SSD, about $100. This one is over $300. Increased speed is nice, but it doesn't matter until they can do it at a better price, closer to the SATA prices the better.
I'd be willing to be an early adopter at $200, but I couldn't recommend it to most people until it dropped to $100. I've only recently been able to start recommending SATA SSD's to normal people who don't obsess over every new computer tech. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkYeah.. at 3 times the price you'd be far better off using 2 or 3 regular SSDs in RAID - unless you don't have the space and SATA slots for that, like in a mobile workstation. Reply
Babar Javied - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkRemember when SSDs first came out? they were expensive. But they steadily came down in price and I am sure this will too in due time. Keep in mind that this is new tech and bond to be expensive at first... hell, there is isn't even proper support for it yet. Reply
JoyTech - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkThe benchmark tests only lists results for 512 GB version of Samsung SSD XP941. Are the results same for 256 GB and 128 GB? It is really confusing that this article and previous ones, don't provide those results! Reply
hulu - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkSecond page of review, fourth paragraph, states they were only able to aquire the 512 GB version, since as an OEM product Samsung isn't sampling the drive to media.
Always helps if you read the entire story before commenting! Reply
JoyTech - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkIn that case, the reviewer better leave out the 128 & 256 GB out or mention the exclusions on first page, not 2nd page, 4th para; a good reviewer should make it easy for readers to access info, not act as lawyers and read the fine print!
Also, I forgot to mention that their SSD bench marks have same problem (http://anandtech.com/bench/SSD/730), where they leave out Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250 GB, which is perhaps the best selling SSD in the market now. Very few people give a crap about 1 TB products, which is so proudly displayed in the bench! Reply
Kristian Vättö - Saturday, May 17, 2014 - linkThe first page is just an introduction with no mention of the XP941 anyway. It wouldn't have fit the context there and in the end I at least like to think that the reader reads the whole review and not just a paragraph or two. It's rather hard to write something for a reader who reads a part here and part there.
As for the 250GB 840 EVO, it is in the bench but we haven't run Storage Bench 2013 on it. That's because the test itself takes around 24 hours to complete and with the strict review times we don't usually have the time to test all available capacities. Reply
critical_ - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkParadoxically, my problem with the M.2 form-factor is the number of sizes available to manufacturers. My Dell Venue 11 Pro tablet has a 2260 size 256GB SSD by Lite-On. There have been lots of firmware issues. The best thing would be to swap it out with a Samsung or Intel variant. However, there isn't much selection out there and 2260 is an oddball size. I'd like a 1TB mSATA SSD but it doesn't exist.
Lenovo was smarter in this regard. Their Yoga 2 Pro uses the newer connector for the wireless card but the SSD is plain old mSATA. This allows me to pick from a variety of options without size concerns.
I know I'm ranting and it is still early in the M.2 game but I hope manufacturers settle on providing high capcities in the 2242 and 2260 sizes with plates (like half mPCI-E to full mPCI-E) to allow them to fit in bigger slots. Reply
Babar Javied - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkGetting a smaller drive to fit into the bigger slot is easy. As you said, this can/should be easy with the use of "plates" or "expansion cards". So give it some time and you should have lots of options for your device. Should the 2260 size still remain an oddball, you can always get a 2242 size with extensions to help it fit into the bigger slots Reply
dstarr3 - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkAll due respect to the awesome performance the new interface promises, I still feel like it's going to be a while before the 6Gbps bottleneck makes my computer feel frustratingly slow. Reply
darwinosx - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkRead the benchmarks or ask someone who has been using PCIE SSD on a Mac for some time now. It's much faster and noticeable. Reply
Calista - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkBut also highly depending on what you're doing. Maybe most people are accepting a slight drop in performance in exchange for less issues with compatibility and the option of moving the drive to a second machine down the line or mounting it in a usb cabinet. Reply
Sabresiberian - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkI have 2 issues with PCIe as a storage interface, at this point in time.
First is that, for me, as a high-end gaming PC user, the number of PCIe lanes to the CPU is already limited. SATA lanes are not since I simply don't use that many storage devices. The second is cost. A few weeks ago I bought 2 480GB Sandisk Extreme II's for $300 each, and just saw them for $260 each listed on Newegg - so, for less than the cost of a 512GB XP941 I can get around twice the storage at similar speeds if I install using RAID 0 using current high-end SSD devices.
Until Intel and/or AMD decides to provide more direct PCIe lanes and the cost comes down, PCIe SSDs are just an interesting upcoming technology, for me. :) Reply
SirKnobsworth - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkAt least on an Intel platform, you wouldn't normally be using lanes from the CPU for a storage device (which are usually dedicated to graphics) - you'd be using lanes from the chipset (of which there are usually 8). Reply
Ninhalem - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkI'm going to ask a slightly noob question: would it be possible to use these drives with the Z77 series if there was an update to the UEFI bios to recognize these drives in addition to Samsung providing the right drivers? Reply
wownotown - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkI have used a OCZ Revodrive for the last 2 years and love the performance over PCI-Express. Now that this is native with no bridge, it should be nice. Hopefully boot times improve with this tech. One the OCZ, you have a BIOS which adds 8 or more seconds to the boot time, which is nothing to complain about too much, but it would be nice to just boot into the OS, without the additional delays. I little pricey for me, but once competition enters the market, they will have to drop prices. Reply
landerf - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkCould you please alert Samsung to the fact consumers will want these in black PCB color. As soon as one starts doing it the others will follow. Reply
dstarr3 - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkI'll never understand why anyone gives a toss what the inside of their computer looks like. Reply
pipja - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linksome people have naked setups... Reply
Jay77 - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkDoesn't one of the new Asrock Z97 boards have an M.2 connector that runs at pcie 3.0 x4? Stick that thing in there and see if boots! Reply
RamCity - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkOn page two of this review, Kristian confirmed that the XP941 is bootable in the ASRock X97 Extreme6. They'll have a separate review of that motherboard in a review soon. Reply
RamCity - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkI mean ASRock Z97 Extreme 6! Reply
BMNify - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkMR city, do you happen to have any of those Everspin ST-MRAM DDR3 DIMMs has to hit equal density with consumer DIMMs aka these or their updates http://www.extremetech.com/computing/140318-eversp...
id like you or anand (not while he's dunking biscuits in his tea OC :) to test them two/four sticks etc today and confirm they are far faster than NAND etc.... please Reply
RamCity - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkLooks like interesting tech! Maybe there'll be a sneak preview at Computech in July.
Rod Reply
BMNify - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkrod, if you go ,as well as Everspin, look out for Crocus Technology Russian MRAM HW makers ARM licenced their IP , and Avalanche Technology too Reply
RamCity - Monday, May 19, 2014 - linkYes, I will be going to Computech. I'll add those vendors to my visit list and check out what they are up to if they have a booth. Reply
RamCity - Monday, May 19, 2014 - linkI mean Computex! Reply
Jay77 - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkI suppose I should read more than the first and last pages if I'm going to make comments. Reply
Babar Javied - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkThere is a mistake/typo in "Performance Consistency & Trim Validation" under the "Trim Validation" section. Below the first graph in the said section, you have wrote "doesn't treat PCIe drives the same even if the utilize the same AHCI" when you ment to say "even if THEY utilize the same AHCI" Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkFixed. Thank you for pointing that out. Reply
BMNify - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkso basically you gimped the one and only raid 0 test by not doing it in windows or even better simply boot any linux iso/usb stick and formatted the ssd-xp941 WITH the samsung "F2FS" file system for maximum speed as that is written especially for ssd Reply
Kristian Vättö - Saturday, May 17, 2014 - linkI did RAID the XP941s in Windows as well but the results were similar so I figured that there is no need to report the results separately. Reply
rocky12345 - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkI like that there are extra speed speed in these new devices but it seems everyone is so stuck on more speed more speed..lol I am sorry but when a standard SSD can boot a windows 7 in about 6 seconds when are people going to be happy. My Asus laptop has a SSD in it & boots in about 6 to 7 seconds & things like firefox open even before my finger un-clicks the mouse button to open firefox. now everyone is saying standard SSD is to slow..lol to funny. What I would rather like to see is bigger SSD drives at a better price. We already have good speed but the big drives still cost to much for most people when they can make a 1TB SSD at about the same or just slightly more than a standard hard drive then maybe they should be more worried about all these new extreme speed drives but if they make standard SSD drives go the way of the doo doo bird then we are never going to see low priced SSD anything because they will always be treating anything SSD related as new tech just a thought. Reply
BMNify - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link"but it seems everyone is so stuck on more speed more speed..lol I am sorry but when a standard SSD can boot a windows 7 in about 6 seconds when are people going to be happy..."
well obviously speed is not for you, but how do you expect current non volatile ram to lower in price if they don't bring out newer kit to replace it at today's higher price points !
im not sure you understand the driving forces here as regards people wish for faster data access, we really need/WANT a so called "universal non volatile ram [such as those Everspin ST-MRAM DDR3 DIMMs referenced ]" sooner than later at equivalent ddr3 2400,wideIO2,HMC speeds and configurations so we can start to take better advantage of the higher data throughput and data manipulation these bring to the table, its not good enough to x264 encode UHD content in real time right now, then and only then will we start to consider we are starting to get close to enough general speeds, ALIMO.... YMCV Reply
McTeags - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkI think there is a spelling mistake in the first sentence. Did you mean SATA instead of PATA? I don't know all of the tech lingo so maybe I'm mistaken. Reply
McTeags - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linkPlease disregard my comment. I googled it... Reply
BMNify - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - linksata-e[serial], sata[serial], pata[parrallel] ,SCSI [several, and chainable to 15+ drives on one cable, we should have used that as generic] ,shugart these are all drive interfaces and there are more too going back in the day.... Reply
metayoshi - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link"It's simply much faster to move electrons around a silicon chip than it is to rotate a heavy metal disk."
While SSD performance blows HDDs out of the water, the quoted statement is technically not correct. If you take a single channel NAND part and put it up against today's mechanical HDDs, the HDD will probably blow the NAND part out of the water in everything except for random reads.
What really kills HDD performance isn't the just rotational speed as much as it is the track-to-track seek + rotational latency of a random workload. A sequential workload will reduce the seek and rotational latency so much that the areal density of today's 5 TB HDDs will give you pretty good numbers. In a random workload however, the next block of data you want to read is most likely on a different track, different platter, and different head. Now it has to seek the heads to the correct track, perform a head switch because only 1 head can be on at a time, and then wait for the rotation of the disk for that data block to be under the head.
A NAND part with a low number of channels will give you pretty crappy performance. Just look at the NAND in smartphones and tablets of today, and in the SD cards and USB thumb drives of yesteryear. What really makes SSDs shine is that they have multiple NAND parts on these things, and that they stripe the data across a huge number of channels. Just think RAID 0 with HDDs, except this time, it's done by the SSD controller itself, so the motherboard only needs 1 SATA (or other like PCIe) interface to the SSD. That really put SSDs on the map, and if a single NAND chip can do 40 MB/s writes, think about 16 of them doing it at the same time.
So yes, there's no question that the main advantage of SSDs vs HDDs is an electrical vs mechanical thing. It's just simply not true that reading the electrical signals off of a single NAND part is faster than reading the bits off of a sequential track in an HDD. It's a lot of different things working together. Reply
iwod - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkI skim read it. Few things i notice, No Power usage testing. But 0.05w idle is pretty amazing. Since the PCI-E supply the power as well i guess they could be much better fine grained? Although Active was 5.6W. So at the same time we want more performance == faster controller while using much lower power. it seems there could be more work to do.
I wonder if the relative slow Random I/O were due to Samsung betting its use on NVMe instead of ACHI. Reply
iwod - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkIt also prove my points about Random I/O. We see how Random I/O for xp941 being at the bottom of the chart while getting much better benchmarks results. Seq I/O matters! And It matters a lot. The PCI -E x4 interfaces will once again becomes bottleneck until we move to PCI-E 3.0 Which i hope we do in 2015.
Although i have this suspicious feeling intel is delaying or slowing down our progression. Reply
nevertell - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkCan't you place the bootloader on a hard drive, yet have it load the OS up from the SSD ? Reply
rxzlmn - Friday, May 16, 2014 - link'Boot Support: Mac? Yes. PC? Mostly No.'
Uh, a Mac is a PC. On a serious tech site I don't expect lines like that. Reply
Penti - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkFirmware differences. Reply
Haravikk - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkIt still surprises me that PCs can have so many hurdles when it comes to booting from various devices; for years now Macs have been able to boot from just about anything you plug into them (that can store data of course). I have one machine already that uses an internal drive combined with an external USB drive as a Fusion Drive, and it not only boots just fine, but the Fusion setup really helps eliminate the USB performance issues.
Anyway, it's good to see PCIe storage properly reaching general release; it's probably going to be a while before I adopt it on PCs, as I'm still finding regular SATA or M.2 flash storage runs just fine for my needs, but having tried Apple's new Mac Pros, the PCIe flash really is awesome. Hopefully the next generation of Mac Pros will have connectors for two, as combined in a RAID-0 or RAID-1 the read performance can be absolutely staggering. Reply
UltraWide - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkThe random read/write scores are too low for this SSD to make a difference in real world use. I think it's better to wait for the 2nd generation of M.2 to see some more mature controllers with improved IOPS or random read/write speeds. Reply
DaveGirard - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkIt would be nice if you could test one of these in an external Thunderbolt 1/2 PCI chassis. Reply
RamCity - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkThat sure is a good idea, and Rob over at barefeats.com tested the XP941 (installed in a standard PCIe adapter) in a thunderbolt chassis but maxed out one thunderbolt port at 1375MB/s, no matter how many XP941's are installed. To get higher throughput the chassis now need individual thunderbolt ports per SSD installed.
His review is about halfway down here: http://barefeats.com/hard183.html
Rod (vendor rep for RamCity.com.au) Reply
Peeping Tom - Friday, May 16, 2014 - linkThe picture of the M.2 above gave me an idea. It would be interesting if storage capacity could be expanded like RAM using multiple M.2, i.e. plug and play. You insert a new stick and the system automatically expands the current partition to include the new drive (rather than creating new, separate partition). No more SATA/power cables, and it would make the system more uniform with the existing RAM/slot architecture. Would take many lanes though Reply
poordirtfarmer2 - Saturday, May 17, 2014 - linkOr how about the card being lots longer - a daughter card of sorts - and allow for slapping additional SSD modules to it as the user needs (or can afford). Reply
Laststop311 - Sunday, May 18, 2014 - linkWaiting for pci-e 3.0 x4 m2 connectors before buying the rushed tech on and older backbone. Reply
Marucins - Monday, May 19, 2014 - linkASRock Z97 Extreme6 - PCIe 2.0 x4
http://nimg.cdrinfo.pl/2014/05/Samsung-XP941-M.2-S... Reply
Marucins - Monday, May 19, 2014 - linkAny information X99, that will support M.2 and SATA Express?? Reply
Laststop311 - Monday, May 19, 2014 - linkThis drive can only be used in the Asrock Extreme9 board as it's the only m2 that actually uses pci-e x4 right off the cpu instead of the PCH. Reply
Laststop311 - Monday, May 19, 2014 - linkSorry and one of thos big pci-e riser cards that turns any slow into a board with an m2 slot. Defeats the small form factore person tho, Reply
RamCity - Monday, May 19, 2014 - linkThe Lycom M.2 to PCie adapter does a reasonable job with small form factor computers. It has a low-height bracket in addition to the standard height one. Note though, you can't boot the XP941 in any windows PC with one of these adapters as far as we know - it wont show up in the bios as a bootable device. Only in a 2006-2012 Mac Pro under OSX will it be bootable.
Rod Reply
Oscarcharliezulu - Monday, May 19, 2014 - linkNice job anandtech... You detected what country i was reading this from and inserted appropriate text/prices? Great job. Appreciated. Reply
kizh - Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - linkstill running my sandy 2500k that did 4.8 reliably until I updated bios. I bought a z67 board that had a pcie 3.0 x 16 lane as an early adopter. The only thing worth upgrading on it was the graphics so bought a 780 (on accident thought it was a 780 ti) I spent about 24 hours of my time researching making it work on a early version of uefi and trying multiple set ups. Gonna send it back, its not worth upgrading my whole system for this.
Never buying another feature that isn't being used yet, by the time its truly a standard your warranty is over and FU if it got tweaked a little.
Got 2 M2 in raid, no trim ever bothered me. Its fast enough, don't need this. Maybe if a whole system upgrade was as fun as it used to be,
Right now all I see waiting for is a 4k display port standard and some nicer models coming out. I want to throw money at these guys but not for next to nothing,
I'm not rich by any measure but dumped money on tech as a hobbyist. Reply
kizh - Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - linkoh just to clarify I know it would only be pcie 3.0 with ivy, I didn't expect that chip to be such a let down. Still this should have worked at pcie 2.0. Also when I say m2 I'm talking about the model name of my ssd's. not m.2
just some clarifications Reply
sfgebrqy - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linktest Reply
sfgebrqy - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkIgnore this, I was doing it because of spam filters. Reply
sfgebrqy - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - linkI would have bought this in a heart-beat if it weren't for two things:
1) Average/bad 4k random read/write
2) Abysmal 4k scaling with QD
The killer feature for this SSD is without a doubt its sequential performance. Compared to any single SSD alone, it blows it out of the water on the benches, whether
practical or synthetic.
The caveat is "single SSD". RAID 0 can always be used to boost sequentials. Maybe not exactly linearly, but close to linearly. Take a look at the review for 2 Samsung 840
Pros in RAID 0 (page 3). I can't link (or even mention the website) it because the comment filter says its spam, so take a guess and use Google. Sequentials are nearly
doubled for both read and write.
The kicker is that this CANNOT be done for random I/O at low QD. Which is to say, if we wanted better random I/O from XP941s, we couldn't RAID them together to do it. In
fact, RAID typically makes random I/O marginally worse at low QD due to overhead. See the aforementioned review (page 4).
RAID does multiply random I/O at high QD, but with XP941 4k QD scaling non-existent to begin with, it's a lost cause.
Even if we did want to RAID XP941s together, I can't seem to find any tests/reviews of more than two at once, let alone a RAID controller capable of putting more than two
M.2 devices in RAID 0. Meanwhile, there are plenty of RAID controllers capable of pushing 16+ SATA3 devices (albeit bottlenecked at x8 PCIe 3.0).
The bottom line is that if I found out that my current SATA3 SSD RAID 0 array wasn't putting out enough sequential, I could just add a few more SSDs to solve the issue. If I
found out that my XP941 array wasn't putting out enough random I/O, there's nothing I could do to fix it.
If you're in the market for single SSDs and your system can handle M.2, then this is the cream of the crop. If you have RAID arrays though, wait until M.2 becomes more
popular and Samsung pushes a new M.2 SSD with better random I/O performance. Reply
skrewler2 - Sunday, May 25, 2014 - linkSorry late to the party but this part of the article is just ignorant:
"Using an SSD as a secondary drive can make sense for e.g. a video professional where the performance can be utilized as a scratch disk, but otherwise the only real use case for an SSD is as a boot drive"
What the hell? Reply
aviv - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkHey gr8 review
I got question about the graphs
Its log systemic
Does it means when its lower by 1/10 its just half of the value or
In between its linar Reply
brentpresley - Thursday, July 03, 2014 - linkASUS just released a new BIOS today (7/3/2014) that allows for M.2 boot support of the XP941.
I just installed it and the BIOS can see the XP941 in AHCI mode now. Reply
iBurley - Wednesday, December 03, 2014 - linkIf put into the M.2 slot of one of the ASRock Z97 boards mentioned in the review, will this be running at full speed, or would I need an adapter like you tested with to use the full potential of the drive?
On ASRock's website, under the port listing for the board, it states "1 M.2 (PCIe Gen2 x2 & SATA, Supports 30mm, 42mm, 60mm, 80mm, 110mm M.2 devices)" but I don't know if that just means the interface or if it would actually go over the PCIe bus instead of SATA. Reply
SERGE 2015 - Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - linkI have AsRock's Z97 Extreme6 and XP941 and it is unfortunately NOT bootable out of the box. As it's been mentioned - once the system boots up using another EFI source, the XP941 becomes visible and can then load whatever been installed on it. This is due to lack of OpROM on XP941. The new Samsung SM951 been declared as "Supports Standard AHCI driver" though. Reply


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Samsung Delve: the Instinct's long-lost brother?
This article contains unofficial information.
source: BGR
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lol um.. #3.. verizon just did XD. The blackberry storm... the phone thats going to murder any other phone out there.
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you peeps are retarded. the glyde is 100% samsungs fault. its bad programming. samsung rep said that a new major update will be out for it soon. Also, said that the Omnia is comming for VZW shortly.
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by shortly you mean next year? I doubt they are going to release it with the Storm, the VX9600, and the Diamond all in Q4
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the iphone doenst rule. Its fun and a little better than the instinct, but overall still bad
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yes it is
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Look for this phone to fill a strategic spot in the line up. Samsung has an amazing phone coming to other carriers but it will not be as affordable as this one. You'll see that the interface on the Delve is fully customizable and as always reliable and easy to use. WM5 is hidden in this UI, like it should be. This will not be an iPhone killer, but you will not be disappointed when you own it, plus you'll have expandable memory via SD and changeable battery so add to the overall experience.
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so, is this a slider or anything? or does it just stay like that?
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What u see is what u get. All access is done from touch screen, 3 front buttons, and buttons on either side.
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I'm on my third Delve in four days. Each one has the same problem. When pairing bluetooth the phone freezes and restarts. I hear about every other word and calls are dropped. The TV on demand (Alltel) is stuck on one channel. Email still not working. I'm waiting to find out if there is a new fix in a few days. If not I'm changing models. The parts of the phone that work are nice, but I didn't buy half a phone. Does anyone know about product fixes or updates?
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This phone for US cellular is great but the only problem is cell reception is HORRIBLE. I dont know if it's just isolated to my phone but if they cant fix it I will be going back to the LG Glimmer.
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I love mine I got it threw us cellular and am satisfied beyond belief so much that everyone in my office and all of my family members are running out to get it as we speak
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well i dont have this phone quite yet but everyone i have known that has had it says its a great phone so overall im excited.!!:)
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Really great article with very interesting information. You might want to follow up to this topic!?! 2012


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Day Two Results (PDF)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Penn men's swimming team had a historic night at the Ivy League Championships, setting four new school records on Friday at Brown's Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center. The Quakers wrapped up the night in sixth place with 478 points, leading Brown (404.5) and Cornell (331).
After an opening race fifth-place finish in the 200 Medley Relay, freshman Chris Swanson dived in for the final heat of the 1000 Freestyle. Not only did his time of 9:01.40 take more than nine seconds off the previous Penn record, but it put him in second place, a mere four-hundredths of a second behind Rob Harder of Yale. Harder had swam his heat earlier in the day, so the two never had the opportunity to go head-to-head. Stephen Carroll finished 12th with a time of 9:13.73.
Another freshman, Brendan Crystal, was the next to have his moment in the spotlight. After swimming a Penn record time of 3:52.30 in the 400 IM, he closed out the finals in 3:56.74 to place eighth.
Rhoads Worster picked up where he left off last year in the 100 Butterfly. After submitting a school-record time of 48.14 at last season's Ivy League Championships, Worster came through with a time of 47.99 on Friday, lowering his record by .15 and finishing fourth overall.
There was no school record for Kyle Yu in the 100 Breaststroke, he'll have to go very low to break the records held by former Quaker Brendan McHugh, but the freshman was impressive with a time of 54.37 in the finals to finish third. He had an even better time in the prelims when he swam a 54.05.
The final new Penn record of the night came in the 100 Backstroke. Set just two weeks ago by Nick Johnson at the Cavalier Invitational, on Friday the new mark was set by Dillon McHugh, who clocked a time of 49.14 in the prelims before submitting a time of 49.51 in the finals to place 12th.
In other events, Sam Ruddy finished 14th in the 200 Freestyle (1:39.50) and the 800 Freestyle Relay team of Bradley Wachenfeld, Ruddy, Worster and Swanson came in sixth in 6:40.36.
The Championships conclude tomorrow with prelims once again getting started at 11 a.m. The finals get going at 6 p.m. in the 1650 Freestyle, 200 Backstroke, 100 Freestyle, 200 Breaststroke, 200 Butterfly, 3-meter diving and 400 Freestyle Relay. The Ivy League will have free streaming video of the finals available here.
Standings Through Day Two
1. Princeton 972
2. Harvard 940
3. Columbia 756
4. Yale 719.5
5. Dartmouth 534
6. Penn 478
7. Brown 404.5
8. Cornell 331
Download: ivy friday finals.pdf


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Rich Chocolate Heart Cakes
This sumptuous cake is scented with a touch of rosemary, which symbolizes remembrance.
- Servings: 4
Source: Martha Stewart Living, February 2000
- 6 large sprigs fresh rosemary
- 1 large egg white
- 1/2 cup superfine sugar
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 11 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 5 large eggs, separated
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 recipe Chocolate Rosemary Ganache
- 1 recipe Hazelnut Praline, (optional)
Separate rosemary into small bunches. Beat egg white with a drop or two of water until it is very loose. Place superfine sugar in a small, shallow bowl. Lightly brush one sprig of rosemary with the egg white. Sprinkle superfine sugar over the damp bunch of rosemary; shake to remove excess. Transfer rosemary to a cooling rack to dry, at least 1 hour. Repeat until all rosemary is used; set aside sugared rosemary. (It will keep at room temperature for about 24 hours.)
Preheat the oven to 275 degrees with two racks centered. In the top of double boiler, or in a heat-proof bowl set over simmering water, melt butter and chocolate together, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes. Set mixture aside to cool.
In a medium bowl, lightly beat egg yolks, and stir them into the cooled chocolate mixture. Add granulated sugar, flour, and baking powder to the chocolate mixture, and stir to combine.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whisk the egg whites just until soft peaks form. Stir one-third of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture to lighten it. Fold the chocolate mixture into the remaining egg whites, just until combined. Spoon the batter into twelve 3 3/4-inch heart molds with removable bottoms. Transfer molds to a rimmed baking sheet. Bake until centers spring back when touched, about 45 minutes. Transfer molds to a wire rack, and let sit 5 minutes. Unmold cakes. (After they have cooled, if not using right away, cover cakes lightly with plastic wrap.)
To serve, place a cake on serving plate. Pour warm ganache over it; sprinkle with praline, if using. Top with a second and then a third cake layer, drizzling each with ganache. Repeat to make 3 more servings. Sprinkle cakes with praline if desired, and garnish with sugared rosemary. Serve.


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For a second straight day, the market had generally positive action -- but also a few negatives. The indices held up well and breadth was solid, but there were quite a few intraday reversals after a brief spike higher early in the day.
That's because there is greater inclination to sell into strength and not as much chasing. A huge number of stocks are hitting 12-month highs, but increased instability in many names is causing problems for the bulls, who were cruising along for a while.
I find it particularly interesting that folks who have been bears for weeks sound less negative now. Capitulation by the bears is one of those contrary indicators that causes you to wonder if we are in for rocky action. This market has been a bear killer all year and what is surprising is that there are any shorts left. It's rather ironic as we had very ugly action in a few places today like Rackspace (RAX), Cliffs Natural (CLF) and Deere (DE).
I'm leaning toward declaring that a topping process has started, but the market keeps coming back just when it starts to crack. The bulls deserve some respect and I'm going to stick with them until they falter a bit more. Now all I have to do is find some new buys.
Have a good evening. I'll see you tomorrow.


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Here We Go Again. Breitbart: NY Times "Ignored" Rev. Wright Story
No matter how many times they say it, the facts still don't change: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright story was covered endlessly in 2008 by the press, including The New York Times.
But that doesn't stop people like Breitbart's Joel Pollak from pushing one of the right's most beloved, albeit comically inept, lies: The liberal media refused to address the Wright story.
Breitbart.com headline [1]:
NY Times Ignored Obama's Wright, Focuses on Romney's Mormon Faith
This stubborn untruth is crucial because the far-right's ongoing obsession [2] with Obama's former pastor [3] only makes sense if conservatives can argue it's a new story and that new information is coming out all the time. They need to whitewash the past [4] because Obama foes have to pretend voters were never informed about Obama's association with Wright and his incendiary rhetoric; that the press hid the truth about Obama.
In other words, there needs to be a conspiracy. Or, Obama was never vetted [5]!
For the record, the Times "ignored" the Wright story so often in 2008 that it managed to publish just 200-plus articles and columns that mentioned both Obama and Rev. Wright, according to Nexis. The Times published more than 126 rticles and columns that mentioned Obama and Wright at least three times each, and 33 hefty pieces that mentioned both men at least eight times each.
As we've noted before, the avalanche of non-stop Wright coverage became so intense in 2008 that at one point the press was covering it more closely [6] that Hillary Clinton's campaign, and she was running for president at the time. Also, just five percent [7] of Americans thought the story received "too little" media attention, according to a CBS/New York Times poll in 2008.
Maybe Breitbart editors just have a different definition of "ignored."
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