text: Back to list Friday, October 25, 2013 - 11:35 AM Meinl Cymbals Introduces Three New Byzance Models Meinl is proud to add three new Byzance series models to its range.The new Byzance Extra Dry 16" Medium Thin Hihat is hand hammered from B20 bronze in Meinl's own Turkish cymbal factory. Living up to their name, Extra Dry series cymbals are extremely dry, with low-pitched, trashy and short sounds due to their unlathed surface and extensive hand hammering. "We've received a lot of feedback from our customers and artists requesting that we add this particular model to our assortment," says Meinl Cymbal Product Manager Stefan Mueller. "Big-sized hihats have become very popular over the last few years. They offer a full bodied sound with a lot of low end and volume, yet stay controllable and focused."The new Meinl 16" Byzance Extra Dry Medium Thin Hihats are recommended for Rock, Funk, R&B, Jazz and similar styles. They are also great for studio work. Meinl's new 14" Derek Roddy Signature Hihat combines an Extra Dry cymbal and a Brilliant finished cymbal in one hihat. Depending on the player's sonic preference, each cymbal can be used either on the bottom or on the top. This makes the 14" Serpents Hihat a very versatile instrument that fits every musical situation."The Serpents hats are the perfect hihat for me," says Derek Roddy. "They have an oversized sound without being…well, oversized. A super fuzzy sound when played open and an articulate and crisp sound when played closed. Need another sound for another type of gig? Then turn them over and experience a totally different sounding set of hats that is much softer and less dramatic. They fit in every musical situation. Truly the most versatile hihat I have ever played."A special video produced by Derek Roddy in which he demonstrates his new Serpents Hihat is available on meinlcymbals.com or on Meinl's youtube channel. New in Meinls Byzance Vintage series is a new 10" Splash. It features a sandblasted surface which gives the cymbals a soft feel and distinctive matte finish. Sandblasting also enhances the dryness of a cymbal and shortens its sustain, which are the naturally preferred characteristics of a splash cymbal. This new Meinl splash cymbal offers a trashy splash sound, has an ultra fast response and quick decay. It fits into any music that isn't in the upper decibel levels. A great asset for any percussion set up too.


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STIRLING Mortlock had been willing to risk further damage to his troublesome calf and miss the Melbourne Rebels' final two games of the season so that he could play his final game in Australia last night at AAMI Park.
The Rebels skipper had been in serious doubt for last night's game and admitted that had it been a less significant occasion, he would most likely not have played.
But as things turned out, Mortlock, who will retire after the end of this season, played the first half of the Rebels's clash against Queensland, and was last night confident that he would tomorrow join his teammates travelling to South Africa for the team's final two games of the season against the Lions and Stormers.
"It actually went a lot better than I anticipated, so it looks like I'm going to South Africa which is really positive," Mortlock said.
"We ummed and aahed about everything and at the end of the day I said we were going to roll the dice and that's exactly what we did, and thankfully everything seemed to go as well as it could, so (it's a) very good result from my perspective.
"Hilly [coach Damien Hill] and the medical staff backed my call and if I didn't have confidence I could [play] I was definitely going to pull the pin."
Hill said: "My instructions to the medical staff was that if he could play he should play. I think this team performs better when Stirling's on the field leading them".
But the news was less positive for James O'Connor who, in his first game since lacerating his liver in round nine, aggravated a hamstring injury.
Hill said O'Connor would have scans today but was unlikely to travel to South Africa, with his place being taken by Lloyd Johansson.
"I'm not sure of the extent of James' injury but it doesn't look good," Hill said. "We'll have to wait for the scan but on my layman's observation he won't be touring but we'll wait and see."
However, he said, while Kurtley Beale, who entered the game with sore ribs suffered in the Wallabies' Test against Wales last weekend, finished "battered and bruised, he would be fit to play next week".
Queensland coach Ewen McKenzie said there was no concern over Quade Cooper, who came off the field after half-time and was seen icing his leg. He said Cooper, who has recently returned from a long-term knee injury, had taken a bump to his lower leg and had been replaced as a precaution.
McKenzie said, despite a 30-minute period after half-time when the Rebels scored two tries, he was satisfied with the Reds' performance which takes them to 49 points, level on the Australian conference table with the Brumbies, who play Western Force tonight, but with a better points difference.
"There was just a patch there where we gave them some counter-attack and Beale at 10 [where he moved after O'Connor left the field] made a big difference to them. He made things happen for them as he does," McKenzie said.
"There was a period of the game when we were just holding on but we actually defended pretty well. There was some pretty good and courageous last-ditch defence, but ideally we wouldn't have put ourselves in that position."
Meanwhile, Mark Gerrard, one of the Rebels most consistent performers during the club's first two years, revealed that he would return to Japanese rugby, where he played before joining the Rebels, at the end of the season.

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I have been a long time trial by fire griller/smoker but recently purchased a new smoker to get a little more serious . I'm still no expert but I am very happy with my first attempt at a Boston Butt.
I wanted to smoke something we could enjoy all week and that might make a busy weekly schedule somewhat less difficult, so I decided to try a pork roast. I wanted to try something new so I picked up Steve's Sauces, Rubs and Marinades and found my plan for the weekend smoke.
I mixed up a batch of his Puerto Rican Pig Powder and my wife selected a 4lb Boston Butt and the match was made. I rubbed the powder all over the boston butt and let it sit for an hour while I prepared the grill. I would have liked to let it sit over night so the flavors would have more time to blend, but like always we were running short on time. I smoked it for three hours while making chicken and potatoes for the evening meal. When I took the butt off the grill and we sampled it the chicken was set aside for lunch the next day and we had the most juicy and flavorful pork ever.
We ate it again the next night and then had pork sandwiches later in the week. This was a major success. I am looking forward to my first beer can chicken this weekend with one of the as yet unselected rubs in his book. This is going to be a great adventure.


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Stroud League Division Two
Dursley Town Res 2 Horsley United 2
A CONTROVERSIAL late penalty robbed Dursley of what would have been only their second league victory of the season as their winless run extended to 13 games.
Looking set for their first three points since August, Town saw victory snatched away when Ricky Swift was harshly penalised and Horsley converted from the spot.
The hosts had made a good start and took a 20th-minute lead when Lee Thomas crossed to the far post and Bruno Goncalves headed the ball past the goalkeeper.
However, the visitors scored a soft equaliser on the hour mark when Pete Dykes appeared to get his angles wrong and an 18-yard shot crept into the corner.
Dursley went back in front 15 minutes from time when Goncalves did well on the right and his low ball across the face of goal was converted by substitute Kyle Ward.
Just when victory looked assured, though, Swift was pulled up for doing no more than out-muscling his opponent in the box and Horsley levelled from the penalty spot.
Dursley: P Dykes; D Clark, R Swift, M Workman; Antony Nash, A Forgione (J Minett 85), L Thomas, L Peters (M Humphrey 80), J Warner; L Crosbee (K Ward 70), B Goncalves.
Goals: Goncalves (20), Ward (75).
Division Five
St Nicholas Old Boys 3 Dursley Town 3rds 1
DURSLEY were left nursing a palpable sense of injustice after their hopes of spoiling St Nicholas' 100 per cent league record were ended in controversial circumstances.
Town had an opening goal disallowed with the game goalless on the hour mark and then saw fortune favour the home side as they took their 12th victory in 12 games.
Beaten 11-0 by the same opponents last month, the visitors bolstered their ranks with four first-team players, whose scheduled match at Star had been postponed.
St Nicholas dominated the game from the first whistle, but were unable to break their stubborn opponents down and were hit on the counter-attack on the hour mark.
Curtis Mills stole in between defender and goalkeeper to lob the ball into the net, but the offside flag was raised, his effort was disallowed and the hosts scored instead.
Dursley conceded a free-kick out of frustration and, when Keith Watson could only parry after Rob Lyon deflected the ball towards hit own goal, the home side pounced.
However, the visitors responded quickly and in style when Ash Pearce met Jake Dolbear's shot-cum-cross with a diving header that looped over the goalkeeper.
St Nicholas continued to get the rub of the green, though, a soft free-kick leading to a well-taken second goal before the hosts were able to add an offside-looking third.
Dursley: K Watson; D Minett, D French, N Hart, J Stevenson; L Jones (J Aldridge 88), R Lyon, M Sims, A Pearce, J Dolbear (T Clark 80); C Mills. Not Used: R Cox.
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Hosted in the Bethesda Exhibit Hall at QuakeCon 2014, eight teams — some with close bonds, others created on the fly– competed for the BATTLECRY Inaugural Tournament title. In a mini-documentary featuring developers from BattleCry Studios and combatants, we follow the tournaments final four teams: Hoagies for Hunger, The Art of Warfare, Ultimo Continue, and Team Impromptu. You can guess which team we named based on their last-minute formation.
In the end, there could only be one winner. Watch the video above to find out who claimed the title. To everyone that competed and watched the tournament… thanks for being a part of history!
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Children need vitamin D for bone growth and development. So do babies developing in the womb. This is because vitamin D helps us absorb calcium.
Serious vitamin D deficiency can cause rickets, delayed motor development, muscle weakness, aches and pains, and fractures.
Vitamin D deficiency in adults has also been linked to osteoporosis, some cancers, heart disease and diabetes.
If women don't get enough vitamin D during pregnancy, their children might develop neonatal hypocalcaemia (not enough calcium in the blood) or rickets later in childhood.
You need sunlight on your skin for your body to make vitamin D. You get about 80% of your vitamin D this way.
The amount of sun you need depends on where you live in Australia and the time of year.
But no matter where you live, you have to be careful about how much sunlight you get on your skin. Too much sun can lead to sunburn, skin damage and even skin cancer.
How much sun is enough?
In Brisbane and Darwin, right through the year, a few minutes most days of the week should be enough.
In Canberra, Perth and Sydney:
In Adelaide, Hobart and Melbourne:
Other factors affecting how much sun you need
People with naturally very dark skin need 3-6 times more sun to make vitamin D than the amount fair-skinned people need.
It's important to note that there is no conclusive Australian or New Zealand data on how much sunlight children need for good levels of vitamin D.
To get more information and advice about how much sun is right for you, speak with your GP.
Be sun smart
Spending too long in the sun isn't good for your skin, so it's important to use sun protection.
During summer, especially between 10 am and 4 pm, make sure your child stays safe in the sun with sunscreen, a hat, sunglasses, clothing that keeps the sun off and access to plenty of shade.
Most children won't get enough vitamin D from food alone.
But food with lots of vitamin D can add to the vitamin D your child gets from sunshine.
Foods naturally containing vitamin D include fresh fatty fish (salmon, herring, mackerel and sardines), mushrooms, liver and egg yolks.
Some foods have vitamin D added to them. These include margarine and some low-fat milk and dairy products. All infant formula contains vitamin D.
Children might be at risk of vitamin D deficiency if they:
Signs of vitamin D deficiency include rickets, delayed motor development, muscle weakness, aches and pains, and fractures.
Talk with your GP if you're worried about your child's vitamin D levels, or you're pregnant and think you might have low vitamin D.
Your GP can order a blood test, which is the best way to check vitamin D levels.
For mild deficiencies, your GP might say that your child needs to get a bit more sun.
If you or your child has a severe vitamin D deficiency, your GP might say you or your child should take vitamin D supplements, as well as getting more sun.
If you or your child can't get more sun, the GP might say that taking vitamin D supplements is the best thing to do. You might take a vitamin D supplement in one large, single dose, or you might take a supplement for several weeks or months.
You can also talk to a dietitian about vitamin D supplements.
Solariums aren't recommended as way to improve vitamin D levels or to treat vitamin D deficiency. Solariums can cause skin cancer.
A baby's vitamin D stores go up during development in the womb and go down after birth until the baby starts getting vitamin D from sunlight along with diet.
If a pregnant woman has low levels of vitamin D, she might not pass on enough vitamin D to her baby.
Breastfeeding babies don't get much vitamin D from breastmilk, because breastmilk doesn't have much. And if a breastfeeding mum has low vitamin D, it can be even harder for her baby to get enough vitamin D. It's even trickier if the breastfeeding mum lives further south in Australia and it's winter.
If you have any concerns about whether your baby is getting enough vitamin D, you can talk with your GP about using a vitamin D supplement. Doctors often say a daily supplement of 400 micrograms (μg) is good for mothers who are breastfeeding babies at risk of vitamin D deficiency.
It's still OK for you to breastfeed your baby if you're taking a vitamin D supplement.
Infant formula has higher levels of vitamin D, so formula-fed babies don't usually need a supplement.
Most cases of rickets in Australia are in children who have dark skin. This is because women who have dark skin – particularly those who wear covered clothing – have been found to have a high risk of vitamin D deficiency and don't pass on adequate amounts of vitamin D to their children.
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Netgear Selects Broadcom HPAV Solution for Powerline Productsby Ganesh T S on 1/7/2013 6:00 PM EST
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RealBeast - Monday, January 07, 2013 - linkIt would be nice if they would address the universally evident under performance by powerline products. On the 500Mbps models, the best you get on the same circuit two side by side outlets with no other devices on that line is around 80Mbps, then every manufacturer blames it on lousy home wiring. At any distance around 40Mbps is amazingly high for the 200/500Mbps models, and I'm not talking about crossing buses. Reply
winterspan - Tuesday, January 08, 2013 - linkAgreed. These products are great in the since that if you can't run Cat5 in your house, it's really your only options for network-based media streaming of HD content, but you are totally right that they are WAY slower than advertised. Similar to 802.11N advertising 300+mbps and only getting 60-70...
On a related note, If anyone is looking to setup a low-cost home media strategy, I just did the following and it worked out great!
1) Get a Zotac ZBOX Nano (I got the one with AMD E-series CPU/GPU)
2) Install OpenElec on the ZBOX. It is a lightweight linux distribution built solely to run XBMC on a media center PC. Download the installer, it'll make a bootable USB stick --- 5 minutes later you are up and running. (http://openelec.tv/)
3) Setup a network drive to store all your media which the ZBOX will access over the network. In my case I just used my older desktop PC. Obtain your media however you wish (Torrent, Usenet, Rip DVDs, etc) Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Tuesday, January 08, 2013 - linkI have a 100mbps powerline adapter and it is about 5 times as fast as my ~50mbps wifi. I have 2 computers hardwired to my router and one on the powerline adapter. It is actually just as fast with file transfers as the hardwired computers. Reply
loreeselmer - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkYou mean those marketing performance numbers are "guaranteed not to exceed" numbers? I'm shocked! :-)
The 200 Mbps number means 100 in each direction, so 100 Mbps is the theoretical max for a unidirectional transfer. If you have more than two adapters forming a network and multiple transfers running concurrently, they'll share the available channel bandwidth.
I've been able to sustain 75 Mbps throughput for large file transfers using the 200 Mbps products, this is in a normal work environment over building wiring with the adapters in different rooms. Not the numbers on the box, but not bad.
One nice aspect of HomePlug devices is that they tend to work at a degraded data rate in the presence of a noisy channel, as opposed to simply failing to connect. The HomePlug OFDM scheme is very robust. Reply


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Q. As a process engineer for my company, I am currently working on a project in which I will be introducing and adding a new painting procedure to our current painting facility. The biggest problem that I have come across is how to provide masks and fixtures for the many different shapes and sizes of parts we produce.
Are there common practices used that I should become aware of? Do you know of any vendors or suppliers that could be of value to me? I couldn't find what I wanted on the Internet. —T.T.
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Hey everyone I have read countless forums for the last two days trying to figure this out myself before I posted the question so any help is really appreciated.
I have my vanilla forums on GoDaddy and I downloaded the plugin and uploaded to my FTP File Manager inside the plugins folder where all the other plugin are sitting. I then go to my dashboard inside the vanilla forum, check the plugins and nothing shows up.
Is anyone able to walk me through the process of simply installing a plugin?
Appreciate any help with this. Cheers Michael
You must UNZIP file .
Open the folder..
Upload contents ie... in the zip folder, there is a main folder called eg. dave
you upload that NOT the zip !
check if your config folder is writable (CHMOD 777) as well as all of the files within.
Wow thanks for the very fast reply. But how do I do that?
I use flashfxp to perform all of my remote transactions. Simply browse to your folder in your favorite FTP client, right-click on 'config', CHMOD 777, apply to all subfolders/files
Guys there is where things get so confusing. I was told I could not use FTP and had to go directly into GoDaddy and alter the Vanilla Forum files there. I actually dont even use FTP so thought that was just fine with me. So is there a way I can do this directly within GoDaddy?
sounds like you need to contact GoDaddy then....a host that won't let you have your own FTP server daemon running is a joke. Let this be your lesson for choosing GoDaddy.
No nothing that GoDaddy said I just something I was told. Anyway I have Filezilla so are you able to tell me what I should in that? I am the most basic of newbie so any detailed step is really helpful.
I will say I did go into file zilla, found the forums file, went into config.php. I right clicked on that and it said "Please select the new attribute s for the file "config.php". All boxes inside that are ticked except "Write" in "Public permissions" and there is a Numeric value of 775 showing. Is it that I should change to 777?
Thanks again. Cheers Michael.
It is not the permission of the config, it is the permission of the plugin, if it is not showing up.
First make sure that all the files are contained in the uploaded folder compared to the original, if not , them make sure the files, and folder have chmod 755.
grep is your friend.
So I have gone inside the FTP file manager inside my host. I went to directory under forums/plugins and I uploaded the plugin file which is now sitting there with all the rest of the plugins that came with vanilla when I installed it.
I then went into filezilla when to forums/plugins and right clicked and changed the file attributes to 777. I then did the same in forums/uploads but changed that to 755. I then went to forums/plugins/whosonline and changed that from 705 to 777.
I then went back to my dashboard/plugins but the plugin was not added. Im sure you are all giving the correct directions but Im just not sure what Im doing wrong?
Are you using custom theme....?
I'm using the Vanilla version 184.108.40.206 by Mark O'Sullivan that came with it when I installed.
Show us a link if you can
what is the plugin you UPLOADED but isnt showing
plugins must be uploaded to forums/themes/
Ok just uploaded it the forums/theme unziped it, checked in filezilla and can see that the file is there but then it does not show up dashboard with all the other vanilla plugins. I then changed the file permission from 705 to 777 but still nothing.
sounds like you have a PATH issue which should be simple to sort out.
goto forums > themes > cache > and delete all .ini files
I don't have a cache under forums > themes > cache
but I do have it under
forums > cache
Inside there I can see 9 files with .ini like "a_converstations_contriller_map.ini"
Is it those files I should delete. Just thought I should double check before deleting the wrong thing.
BTW I really appreciate you taking the time to help me so thank you!
Create a cache folder in themes folder.
Chmod the cache folder to 777
Bad Info ( ignore )
here is a snapshot of a themes folder for one of our forums.
Apologies your themes folder is default, so in forums > you should see folder structure like the image
Yep. That is the way my forums folder looks like. So does that mean I should go ahead and delete those file inside the cache with .ini?
yes ( only the .ini files though )
cache folder should be chmodded to 777
in that same folder can you open htaccess file ( be careful not to change anything )
Do you see a line like this:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L]
If you do thats cool, just being nosey .. if you dont... we can move on
I deleted 9 .ini check filezilla then 4 more appeared "local_map.ini, c_library_map.ini, a_dashboard_controller_map.ini and a_dashobard_library_map.ini" I changed cache folder from 705 to 777 but when I check it again it shows as 705.
I see this in htaaccess
RewriteEngine On
# Certain hosts may require the following line.
# If vanilla is in a subfolder then you need to specify it after the /.
# (ex. You put Vanilla in /forum so change the next line to: RewriteBase /forum)
RewriteBase /forums/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L]
yep looks fine.
Ok are you on shared host ? Because if you havent the "remote" permissions to change folder permissions , this could be the issue.
If you log out of ftp and back in, and view properties of cache folder it should be 777
If it isnt, put a support ticket in with GoBaddy
Hehe GoBaddy.
Fortunately I don't need to contact them (well yet anyway).
I logged out of the FileZilla and back in went to forums > cache right clicked and it is now showing as 777.
Download a plugin from here something you dont have, Unzip.. And upload to your plugins folder.
Then go into dashboard and see if its there
Ok it has to be something I am doing wrong. I downloaded postcount-plugin and uploaded it to forums > plugins without using FileZilla ie just uploaded directly into FTP File Manager inside GoDaddy.
The plugin showed up as postcount_plugin-1-0-2.zip. So I then clicked unarchive where I was given the choice of destination where I selected /forums/plugins/postcount I left the box ticked that said "Overright existing file" selected ok and then postcount file appeared as a directory file type. I then went back to the dashboard and still nothing. I mean could it have anything to do with the fact I'm using Wordpress?
You must UNZIP file .
Open the folder..
Upload contents ie... in the zip folder, there is a main folder called eg. dave
you upload that NOT the zip !
Ah I knew I was doing something wrong. Ok so when I download then open the whosOnline plugin I see 4 items. "class.whosonlinemodule.php, defualt.php, whosonline.js and a folder called views"
So do I simply upload each of those one by one to the plugins folder or just the contents of the views folder?


text: CONGRATULATIONS to the Brothers Cazimero, 2007 Na Hoku Hanohano Award Winner for Christmas Album of the Year…. With over thirty years of incredible success, The Brothers Cazimero have made a permanent imprint on the face of Hawaiian music. Having won over 30 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards (Hawai`i's equivalent to the GRAMMY®) and a GRAMMY® nomination for their 2005 release, "Some Call It Aloha… Don't Tell," The Brothers Cazimero have become legends in Hawai`i's music industry. Along with their contemporary and traditional Hawaiian albums, The Brothers Cazimero have also built a best-selling Christmas collection. "Caz Christmas" promises no less and shines with innovative musical and vocal arrangements of standards like "Jingle Bell Rock," and "A Christmas Love Song." Hawaiian favorites like "The Merriest Hawaiian Christmas" add to the magic of every moment shared with family and friends. Add to that, a song for every season, "Feels Like Home" and you've got the holiday blockbuster of the year, one that will remain in your collection forever! It's just not Christmas in Hawai`i without The Brothers Cazimero!


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ASCO Annual Meeting
June 5, 2011
Studies of two different drugs may change treatment for patients with advanced or metastatic melanoma. Advanced melanoma is stage IIIC or IV and cannot be removed with surgery, and metastatic melanoma has spread to other parts of the body. One study showed that the drug vemurafenib increased survival for patients with advanced melanoma when compared with chemotherapy. Vemurafenib is a type of targeted therapy, a treatment that targets the cancer's specific genes, proteins, or the tissue environment that contributes to cancer growth and survival. Specifically, vemurafenib targets mutations (changes) to a gene called BRAF, which is found in about half of all melanomas.
The 675 patients who participated in this study received treatment with vemurafenib or the drug dacarbazine (DTIC-Dome), the standard chemotherapy for melanoma. After around three months, the patients who received vemurafenib were 63% less likely to die from melanoma and 74% less likely to have the cancer worsen than the patients who received standard chemotherapy. In addition, melanoma growth slowed or stopped for 48% of the patients who received vemurafenib, compared with nearly 6% of the patients who received chemotherapy. These results were so promising that researchers recommended that the patients receiving dacarbazine switch to vemurafenib part way through the study.
In the other study on melanoma, researchers looked at ipilimumab (Yervoy) combined with dacarbazine as the initial treatment for metastatic melanoma. Ipilimumab is a type of immunotherapy, which is treatment designed to boost the body's natural defenses to fight cancer.
This study included 502 patients with metastatic melanoma who either received ipilimumab plus dacarbazine or a placebo (an inactive treatment) and dacarbazine. After three years, almost 21% of the patients who received ipilimumab and dacarbazine were alive, compared with around 12% of patients who did not receive this drug combination.
What this means for patients
Both of these drugs are major advances in the treatment of advanced or metastatic melanoma, one of the most deadly forms of cancer, and give patients with melanoma two new options for treatment that are better than the previous standard therapy.
"Vemurafenib is the first successful melanoma treatment tailored to patients who carry a specific gene mutation in their tumors, and could eventually join ipilimumab to become one of only two drugs available that improves overall survival in advanced cancers," said Paul Chapman, MD, lead author of the study on vemurafenib and Attending Physician in the Melanoma/Sarcoma Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
The side effects of vemurafenib include rashes, sensitivity to light, joint pain, and low-grade non-melanoma skin cancer. Because vemurafenib has not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it may not be available outside of clinical trials.
The ipilimumab study is important because it is the first time patients with metastatic melanoma have been able to survive for three years with therapy. As lead author Jedd Wolchok, MD, Director of Immunotherapy Clinical Trials and Associate Attending Physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, explains, "It's one of the advantages of immunotherapy. The immune system is a âliving drug,' able to adapt itself to changes in the tumor that might otherwise lead to resistance when treated with chemotherapy or a pathway inhibitor." Ipilimumab and dacarbazine side effects include increased liver enzymes, diarrhea, and a rash. Ipilimumab was recently approved by the FDA as a treatment for advanced melanoma.
Questions to ask your doctor
- What stage of melanoma do I have?
- What are my treatment options?
- Will targeted therapy or immunotherapy be part of my treatment plan?
- What treatment plan do you recommend? Why?
- What are the side effects of this treatment? How can these be managed?
For More Information
Understanding Targeted Treatments


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More than ever, I recognize the truth of Mark Twain's famous quote, "when I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." You see, my son has reached the apathetic age of 14. According to him, I am neither funny nor terribly smart. Thankfully (again – according to my son) I provide an ample supply of food and access to a vast array of technology.
My son and his generation of 'assumed network access' are engaging and interacting in a very different way. While my wife and I still hurry to get our chores down by 9pm on Wednesday night, so we are ready to watch our favorite show, Modern Family, my son casually hits the DVR or slides out his multi-function, touch screen, always connected, "thing-a-ma-bob" and watches what he wants, when he wants, where he wants.
I, too, find myself slipping into this world. What with my laptop, BlackBerry and iPad, I am now motoring around the web, consuming content whenever and where ever I please. I ease my blackberry out of its holster with such ease and skill that even Wyatt Earp would be proud. But all of this trekking and traversing across the web has to make it hard for a marketer to target me, to find me, to inspire me to take action. I am not sitting in the living room during 'prime time', watching 'must see TV' anymore. I'm on the go.
Chief Marketing Officers clearly have a tough job. An ever increasing number of their customers are thriving, existing and lurking in the web. So, CMO's need to find their customers – live where they live – and insert their message in a compelling and emotive manner. As media budgets continue to rotate to the web, today's marketer must create, deliver and optimize campaigns that deliver results, increase revenue, enhance customer satisfaction and improve brand awareness – and that enthrall the customer. The customer experience is the heart; the life pulse of this movement. When I look at Adobe's end-to-end assets, we are incredibly well positioned with our technology and our partnerships to help the CMO find me and pull me in. And if you desire to learn more about Adobe's role in shaping customer interactions and conversations, then please join us in New York on August 24th and 25th. We have a rockin' event planned and would love to see you there: http://engagewithadobe.com/welcome.html


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CAR giant Honda's Swindon factory has been forced to shut down for another day tomorrow after bad weather delayed deliveries of parts.
The factory near South Marston halted production on Wednesday when container ships delivering components used to build the cars struggled to cross oceans churned up in the bad weather.
The hostile conditions delayed many shipments through Europe, including to Southampton where the parts will need to be delivered before coming on to Swindon.
Despite the delays, normal production is expected to resume on Monday.
A Honda spokesman said: "The parts are on a container ship which has been delayed due to bad weather along its route in the UK."
The closure is also not expected to severely impact on Honda profit margins, with workers recovering the lost time – and pay – over the next few weeks.
The spokesman added: "The interruption will not affect customer orders as the factory will recover the lost production over the course of the next few weeks."
Many of the workers on the factory's production lines were sent home as a result of the hiccup but it will not have a huge impact on Honda's 3,000 workers thanks to an agreement between the car manufacturing company and workers' union, Unite.
Jim D'Avila, Regional Officer for Unite, said: "What we have in place is an agreement with Honda since 2009.
"In 2009 in the middle of the recession Honda decided to close the factory for three months and stop production because they were producing 200,000 or so cars a year and they weren't being sold.
"We drew up a Working Time Agreement which means if there is a reason to close the factory then the workers will still be paid.
"Then if at other times some time in the future they need more people to work they can make up the hours then. They won't be paid again for it because they have already been paid, but it means that their wages are protected."
Rosemary Wells, spokesman for the Swindon Chamber of Commerce, said: "I'm sure this sort of thing is happening all over the country because of the weather, which must be affecting a large number of businesses.
"Let's hope they can come to some solution soon."


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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has cited two produce businesses, including Market 52 Inc., after they failed to pay for produce.
Market 52 Inc., Kingsburg, Calif., failed to pay a total of $842,429 to nine sellers for 48 lots of produce bought from July 2011 through November 2011, a violation of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, the USDA announced on May 7.
The company, which previously did business as Premier Pacific Trading, Visalia, Calif., before filing for bankruptcy in January 2012, has been embroiled in ongoing negotiations to settle millions of dollars in debts owed to dozens of produce suppliers.
Market 52 surrendered its PACA license in February 2012, but on Dec. 3 the USDA announced it had filed an administrative action against the company for $842,429 in unpaid debts.
As a result of the citation, Market 52 Inc. can't operate in the produce industry again or apply for a PACA license until April 20, 2015.
The sole responsibly connected principal, Jerald Downs, also cannot work in the industry for a year, and then only with the posting of a USDA-approved surety bond.
The USDA also cited Lucas Brothers Inc., Riverview, Fla., for failing to pay nine sellers at total of $242,386 for 42 lots of produce. Consequently, the company's license has been suspended for two years. The responsibly connected principals are Orfanel Lucas and Victor Lucas.
Administrative action
The USDA has filed a PACA administrative action against Liborio Markets Inc. for allegedly failing to pay its suppliers.
Liborio Market, Los Angeles, allegedly failed to promptly pay nine sellers a total of $123,345 for produce bought between July 2010 and June 2012.
Liborio Markets also has been entangled in a multimillion-dollar bankruptcy case since last year, when a judge ordered the company into a Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in July 2012.
The company will have the opportunity to request a hearing in the PACA case.
Bond posting
Plainbridge LLC, Montvale, N.J., has posted $500,000 with the USDA in order to obtain a PACA license.
Plainbridge LLC is the buying entity for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Inc., and posted the bond after The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Inc. went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings beginning in December 2010.
The USDA will hold the bond for three years.


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Seagate Announces the First SATA 6Gb/s 2TB Driveby Gary Key on 9/21/2009 12:00 AM EST
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chartguy - Friday, October 16, 2009 - linkThe Barracuda 7200.7 was introduced back in 2003. It quoted a sustained transfer rate of 58 MB/sec. Six years later, they're only up to 138MB/sec with the Barracuda XT. That's nowhere near "Moore's Law" growth.
Sadly, storage throughput has become the chokepoint of computing performance. Given the massive increases in areal density, it's hard to understand why transfer rates haven't gone up more, but that's the reality of it. Reply
sgoyeche - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - linkSpeaking of Moore's law, why not do what AMD has done in going from 1 processor on a die to 4 processors on a die? In the case of mechanical hard drives, why not build striping into the internal workings of a single hard drive? Have each platter of a multiple platter hard drive perform as if it were multiple single-platter hard drives, but contained in a single 3.5 inch hard drive case? This would no doubt require a new standard (SATA IV / SATA 4 perhaps), new controller and new data connections etc, but could in theory quadruple the speed of 4 platter hard drive... Is this not viable, or is it simply the musing of one who has had too many cups of coffee today? Reply
sgoyeche - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - linkFurther to my previous post, a quick google seach yielded a patent "US Patent 7324301 - Striping data simultaneously across multiple platter surfaces" found at http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7324301/descript...">http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7324301/descript... that describes striping within a single hard drive. It will be interesting if it is commercialized.
Von Matrices - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkAre there going to be any reviews of any mainstream (i.e. < $150) mechanical hard drives in the future? It's great to know about the best SSD's and top-of-the-line mechanical HDD's, but I would like to see a some reviews of drives targeted toward the lowest price per GB. The reason I say this is that there are so many 1TB drives on the market (5, 4, 3, and 2 platter models) and no other site I know of has any reviews of the 2 platter 1TB models. While the 2 platter drives would be expected to be the fastest of all the 1TB models, a comparison would be great. Reply
Akkuma - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkAgreed. I just got myself two Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TBs and there is next to no news, other than they were going to be released, or reviews about them. Reply
v12v12 - Monday, September 28, 2009 - linkWhat about storagereview.com? I'm glad larger drives are coming out, b/c I have so much media/data coming in everyday from video editing/archiving I do; my concern is defrag times. These drives take extremely long times to defrag, putting lots of stress on the drive while it's essentially not useful till it's finished.
___Sure I love how mechanical drives are really pushing maximal capacities, BUT the latency innovations have not caught up with the price of just larger platter densities. It takes forever to do anything with these drives regarding scanning and general maintenance. A full virus scan on a mechanical 2TB drive would be insanely long. I can't wait for solid state drives to archive mechanical drives for good! Reply
chizow - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkWhat's the point of increasing external transfer speeds to SATA 6Gb/s on a 7200RPM mechanical HDD limited to 140MB/s STR and maybe 200MB/s max burst? Its like putting a 200mph speedometer on a moped. SSDs need SATA 6Gb/s, 7200RPM drives may never exceed 300MB/s. Kinda surprised this wasn't mentioned in the blog post at all, its clearly a useless checkbox feature to help sell this drive. Reply
afkrotch - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkIt's called cost. One interface for all drives, versus 3 interfaces for all drives.
Features. New NCQ with QoS for audio/video streaming. Something that I'm sure would get a lot of use when it's slapped onto a 2 TB hdd. Better power management.
I wouldn't consider this like putting a 200 mph speedometer on a moped. I see it as putting a roof and stereo on a moped. It might not be faster, but it's got other perks.
Gaining higher performance isn't limited in simply adding more speed. If that were the case, the P4 would still reign supreme. Reply
erple2 - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkWhile it is true that there isn't that much of a benefit to adding these 600 MB/s interfaces on a 7200 RPM drive, there is still a benefit. If you break down the time it takes to get from platter to the CPU, there are essentially 4 things that have to be done:
1. move head to relevant point on platter
2. read data off platter into data buffer
3. transfer data from buffer to host SATA controller
4. transfer data from host SATA controller to some memory buffer for reading by the CPU
The slowest (by a significant chunk) is 1 and 2 (probably 1 is slowest). They've improved step 3 which does ultimately reduce the amount of time it takes to read the data. However, the first rule of optimization is to speed up the slowest component. In this case, it's moving the head to the relevant point on the platter, and reading the data off the platter. I think that improving that will net far more advantage than just improving step 3 (which is what SATA3 does).
It's more like putting a high performance muffler/tailpipe on a small-displacement non-turbocharged car. Sure you have all the airflow you'd ever need, but in the grand scheme of things, it just doesn't do that much at all. You're _much_ better off putting a turbo charger on the engine to boost performance. Well, various arbitrary restrictions on what you may or may not do to a car for a particular race may not allow turbos, but that's a different story than what we have here. Reply
chizow - Monday, September 21, 2009 - link
It's more like putting a high performance muffler/tailpipe on a small-displacement non-turbocharged car.
Ya its like putting a Nitrous banger on a lawn mower. Not the ride-on type, one of those self-propelled 15cc rabbit hoppers. ;D Reply
Casper42 - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkAlso keep in mind that SAS controllers have been upping their speeds to 6Gbps for the past few months now, and with STP in place, you could easily drop a few of these drives into an environment where you have a mix of SAS 15K and SATA 7200. Reply
faxon - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkcouple of them actually. first off, drives with this interface will have double the cache read/right speed of drives using SATA 3Gb/s, and since a large majority of the IOs hard drives do will fit in this cache, it will increase performance pretty significantly in these situations. as for why they put it on the platter drive at all, my guess would be that they are planning faster products with this interface, and they want to test the controllers out on drives which wont be significantly hindered if the controller isnt capable of performing where they need it to for a higher performance drive Reply
plague911 - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkAny one know why manufactures don't put a huge cache on their hard drives? I could be wrong but with the battle going on with SSDs and HDs a 256MB cache would be a nice feature that would potentially not add that much to the cost? Reply
chizow - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkHehe you guys are funny, the only amount of cache that will make any difference is measured in GBs, and then they'll call them SSDs.
Seriously, look at current drives and the negligible advantage gained from 8 > 16 > 32. 32 > 64 will be even less significant.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it'll be a great HDD with the 500GB platters, high STR, and high capacity (I have two of the 7200.12 1TB drives), but lets not kid ourselves, if you're buying them for SATA 6Gb/s and 64MB cache and undoubtedly paying a hefty premium in the process, you've been Jedi mind-tricked by marketing checkboxes! ;) Reply
Ipatinga - Monday, September 21, 2009 - link"Seagate is also launching a new version of their SeaTools software that will allow users to short stroke the drives for increased performance, at the cost of capacity."
How is Seagate going to do that? As far as I know, short stroke only increases performance with benchmarks (since you are benchmarking the fastest part (outter one) of the drive (platter) (depending you the capacity you limited the drive)).
But hey... if Seagate is smart enough to say this XT with 6Gb/s is going to rock your world and there are people that believe blindly in marketing teams... what the hell right? Reply
Voo - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkWhy should only benchmarks profit from using the outer tracks?
Even modern OS try to install themselves there because it's a noticable performance boost. Reply
StraightPipe - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkShort stroking is all about increasing access times.
Affects performance, not just benchmarks.
The whole idea is to buy a 2TB drive and only use 5 or 10% of the disk (or whatever portion you like)
jp7189 - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkCall me goofy, but I'm pretty sure short stroke uses the inside tracks. That's how the 15k RPM short stroke drives do it. It's about reducing head movement and rotatational latency. It takes forever (relatively speaking) for data to come back around at the outter edge vs. much quicker at the inner edge. Reply
davekozy - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkThe whole platter takes the same amount of time to go around so a bit of data would take the same amount of time to come back around on the outer tracks as on the inner tracks.
Since the outer tracks are longer they are moving faster then the inner ones so more bits pass the head per second increasing the transfer rate.
At least I think that's how it works and why short stroking uses the outer part of the discs. Reply
afkrotch - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkCorrect. All you have to do is look at the transfer rates of a CD to understand how short stroking works.
Course if a drive changes it's rotational speeds to keep a constant transfer rate between the outer tracks and inner tracks, then short stroking doesn't work.
I'm assuming CAV is how these drives would rotate. Reply
Nihility - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkShort stroking should be a feature of the file system. Put data that is mostly unused at the end and so the drive spends most of its time in the high performance area.
That way you get high performance and the storage capacity you need. Long term archives of documents and photos that you only need once a year will be kept on the inner tracks where they prevent data that is used more often from being placed there. Could be done as a part of the weekly defrag. Reply
apriest - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkShouldn't a good defragmenter put data on faster parts of a drive already? I would also expect a well designed controller to do the same. This seems more like a way of avoiding an issue than brilliant engineering. Reply
Casper42 - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkNot to mention all you have to do is create 2 partitions on the drive to achieve the same thing.
Rather than Short Stroking the drive to something like 500GB, just create a 500GB partition and then another 1.5GB partition.
The 500GB will be fast and the 1.5 will be slower.
Don't want the 1.5 to get in the way? (steal IOPs) Then don't partition it and just leave it unused.
Its not rocket science. Reply
Tuor - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkExcepting an unexpected failure, I don't intend to buy another HD. My next drive is going to be a SSD. It seems to me that by next summer, maybe earlier, SSD prices will come down to the point that there will be little reason to buy a HD.
Yeah, this drive is 2 TB, which is huge... but I don't need that much space. Even if I stuck all the games I own on my HD, I doubt I'd even hit 1 TB. Yeah, there are certainly people that can make use of such a drive, but I think most people, when they look at the transfer speeds and other factors that a SSD brings to the table, are going to forego a bigger drive in favor of a SSD that is faster and has no moving parts.
Next year I think the SSD will come into its own, and I'm putting off any purchase of data storage until then. I'm sure I'm not alone. Reply
afkrotch - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkLittle reason for you to buy a regular hdd, but not little reason for me.
I currently have 7 TB of storage with 4 TB of external storage for backups. I already need to purchase some more external storage, as I've broken the 4 TB mark in data. I give it another year, before I'll need to increase from 7 TB.
I can't even imagine getting an SSD for my OS drive. I couldn't feel a difference going from a 7,200 rpm drive to a Raptor. Maybe games loaded faster or something, during loading, I'm watching a TV show on my other comp during a load sequence. I usually notice well after the load has completed, that it actually completed.
I'd rather build a new computer with a 2TB hdd, than buy multiple SSDs just to hit 2 TB. Then the leftover money, I'd buy some hookers and play blackjack. Reply
Tuor - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkI did mention that I know others will actually find use for such a huge amount of storage space. It's just that I think that the vast majority of people will not need that much space any time soon. Maybe I am underestimating the amount of data most users need, so you guys could be right and I am lowballing things.
But if I am right about this, then it seems to me that Seagate and those that follow are going to find it increasingly difficult to market HD drives over SSDs as the latter begin to mature and the economy of scale begins to take effect. I think we'll have a good idea by next summer. Reply
Fanfoot - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkActually, I agree with you. Personally, I'll be putting at least two drives in most of my systems--an SSD boot/application drive, and a spinning disk media drive. But I don't think I'm remotely typical. I think most people's needs will be fulfilled by a single drive, and that drive will be an SSD reasonably soon. The prices still need to come down quite a bit though.
Will a typical user choose the $100 500GB drive, or the $300 80GB drive? I thinks its obvious they'll choose the 500GB drive for now. Eventually though as prices come down and capacity creeps up, they'll realize they'd rather have a $100 SSD even if its 1/2 or 1/4 the size of that rotating platter, given that they probably don't need all the space that platter offers... Reply
strikeback03 - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkAnyone who keeps lots of photos or rips/downloads videos is probably not going to be using SSDs for all their storage anytime soon. That may not be you, but I'm sure there is a group with multiple terabytes worth of videos on HDDs. Reply
QChronoD - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkExactly!
I've been ripping all my DVDs to hdd so that I can easily browse through everything. (still looking for a better interface box, 360-MCE is slow and doesn't play the majority of my anime)
Right now I have 3x 1.5T hitachi's that are each about 60-80% full.
I think I'll hold of on upgrading those until they either fail or there are 10TB drives out.
OT - Does anyone know a site that has a good comparison of the more popular media boxes and has a good list of what does/doesn't work on each? I'm looking at the new PCH C-200 cause it seems to play everything ever invented. (except HDDVD) Reply
somedude1234 - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkTry MPC Club for info on the various devices: http://www.mpcclub.com/">http://www.mpcclub.com/
I have an iStar Mini (same chipset & FW as a PCH), PS3, and a DLNA-capable Samsung TV. I can stream to all of them using PS3 media server (really really great software): http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/">http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/
IMHO, from an interface standpoint, it goes PS3 > PCH > DLNA-TV (my sammy at least). It shouldn't surprise you that the more powerful devices have much better & smoother interfaces.
Also, for some reason the url and quote features aren't working for me right now. Reply
afkrotch - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkRip your DVDs into a format that either the 360 or PS3 can read. From there, you can just use the console as your front end. Reply
usacodeman - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkI would. I'm feeling the squeeze on a 1.5tb drive now... Reply
iwodo - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkCome On. We need some super speedy SSD. Last time i heard there are already SSD in Lab doing 700MB/s waiting for SATA 3.0....
Any news on that? Reply
kjboughton - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkHey, what's the operating temperature range specification? Reply
omgroflmfao - Monday, September 21, 2009 - link[quote]May-60[/quote]
MS Office auto replaces "05" with "May" in certain situations.
I'm assuming, then, that the operating temp spec is 5 to 60 C.
This seems to be fairly standard.
I guess the editor is out on vacation. Oh wait...what editor? Reply
TGressus - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76p_ncbffCE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76p_ncbffCE Reply
Aeternum - Monday, September 21, 2009 - link"While still short of the maximum theoretical 600MB/s transfer speed of the SATA 6G specification, it will provide enough burst bandwidth for these first generation 6G hard drive"
Well i dont believe anyone expects to hit the theoretical maximum anyway so 500 will just have to do :) Anyway this will be awesome for my home server in 6 months when the price drops and the mobo's are set up with the new 6G. Reply
Doormat - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkIf I can buy an SSD next summer that does 500MB/s read and write, I'm not going to complain that its not 600MB/s. Reply
Anonymous Freak - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkSATA 2.0 (aka SATA 3Gb/s) had a few improvements other than just raw data transfer speed going for it. Does SATA 6Gb/s have any other improvements?
If not, then what is the point of this drive having the new connection, when the maximum transfer rate from the platters to the host isn't even 1.5Gb/s, much less 3?
On the newer SSDs, where raw data transfer rates are getting high enough to saturate SATA 3Gb/s, it makes sense to move to 6GB/s, but not for 7200 RPM spinning media. Even 15,000 RPM spinning drives can't even get close to 3 Gb/s. (And barely exceed 1.5Gb/s.) Reply
afkrotch - Monday, September 21, 2009 - link[quote]If not, then what is the point of this drive having the new connection, when the maximum transfer rate from the platters to the host isn't even 1.5Gb/s, much less 3?
On the newer SSDs, where raw data transfer rates are getting high enough to saturate SATA 3Gb/s, it makes sense to move to 6GB/s, but not for 7200 RPM spinning media. Even 15,000 RPM spinning drives can't even get close to 3 Gb/s. (And barely exceed 1.5Gb/s.) [/quote]
Becausing only making one interface is cheaper than making 3 different interfaces. Why make Sata 1.5, Sata 3.0, and Sata 6.0, when you can just making Sata 6.0.
If all we cared about is whether or not a hdd can push the bus, we'd still be sitting on PATA 133. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkIt lets them fill the disk cache twice as fast. This is the same primary advantage that SATA3GB had over it's 1.5GB ancestor when it first was supported. Reply
Doormat - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkIts a starting point. Some drive had to be first to get to 6Gb/s, and it was Seagate.
The most interesting feature is isochronous transfer mode - basically a mode for transferring data off at a certain rate (for movies or music). USB already has this feature.
The only other feature is a new standardized connector for 1.8" drives. Reply
iwodo - Monday, September 21, 2009 - linkOne Port Multiple Devices can finally take off. You can use 1 SATA 3.0 port for 2 - 3 DVD / Blu Ray or other Optical Disc Devices without worrying bandwidth.
Trim for SSD. Reply


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Apricot preserves peek out of these buttery, tender sugar cookies. Make them throughout the year with a variety of cookie cutter shapes. —Schelby Thompson, Camden Wyoming, Delaware
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- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1-1/4 cups sugar, divided
- 2 large eggs, separated
- 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 cup ground almonds
- 3/4 cup apricot preserves
- In a large bowl, cream butter and 3/4 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Shape dough into a ball; chill for 1 hour or until firm.
- On a surface dusted with confectioners' sugar, roll dough to 1/8-in. thickness; cut with a 3-in. pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter. Cut a 1-1/2-in. pumpkin from the center of half the cookies and remove (set aside small pumpkin cutouts to bake separately).
- Place on greased baking sheets. Beat egg whites until frothy. Combine almonds and remaining sugar. Brush each cookie with egg whites; sprinkle with almond mixture. Bake at 350° for 6-8 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove immediately to wire racks to cool completely.
- Spread 1-1/2 teaspoons of apricot preserves on the bottoms of the solid cookies; place cookies with cutout centers, almond side up, over filling. Yield: 2 dozen.
Originally published as Cutout Pumpkin Sandwich Cookies in Taste of Home's Halloween Annual 2006, p64
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text: West Virginia DJ listens up to a warning about hearing loss from KISS guitarist By Douglas Imbrogno February 11, 2012 Story Share Courtesy photo Bill France, a world-class KISS fan and Southern West Virginia mobile DJ, has taken up the message of KISS guitarist Paul Stanley about the need to protect one's hearing from overly loud music. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Bill France owes a double debt to KISS vocalist and guitarist Paul Stanley.If you're not as serious a KISS fan as France is, here's an assist: Among the white grease painted faces of the legendary rock outfit, Stanley is the one with the black star painted over his right eye.France's first debt is to Stanley and the band's costumed rock music, since it isn't quite accurate to call the Logan County resident a "serious" fan of KISS's raucous, over-the-top stagecraft.He's a super-fan."Gosh, my first KISS concert was in 1978, and I've probably seen them a couple dozen times," said the 40-year-old France, who teaches language arts and broadcasting at Logan High School."I've met them several times, and I've actually done some artwork they used on their website. I kind of know all the outer circle. A couple of band members know me by my name -- Paul doesn't."That will change later this year. France is supposed to meet the band again this summer during the group's 2012 "Monster" tour. "Paul is going to sign my custom Washburn guitar," he said.The guitar will no doubt earn pride of place in France's impressive collection of KISS memorabilia and tchotkes, which fills a room in his house, including a life-size model of Gene Simmons in full concert regalia glaring from a corner."I'm pretty diehard," France conceded.So, it was with some interest he went to the KISS website in May 2011 and noticed Stanley warning the band's followers about hearing loss from overly loud music -- this from a performer who for decades has sung "Shout It Out Loud" at concerts. For France, it was a wake-up call.He's a busy mobile DJ on the side -- djbillfrance.com is where you'll find out everything about his alter ego, DJ Bill France. He specializes in DJing music for weddings, reunions, birthday parties and -- crank it up, please! -- high school dances."The kids love it loud," France noted.Stanley's message inspired France to have his hearing checked, given how much time he spends in front of blaring speakers, being the sort of DJ who works a crowd. He'd also lately been having trouble hearing students when they asked questions from the back of the room.He had a series of tests done at a Logan hearing center. The news was both good and not-so-good. "They told me my hearing was on the verge of getting bad," he said. It wasn't that he had to have hearing aids. But his ears did show some damage, and it was obvious it came from long exposure to loud music, he said. He was told he needed to start wearing what are called "musicians' earplugs," which he special ordered.The earplugs don't muffle the music but they do stop some of the more damaging frequencies, he said. "I put them on every show. I can wear my headphones with them in. I can hear fine when I wear them. The funny thing is that just within a short amount of time, I can hear better."He used to end his shows and his ears would ring for hours. With the earplugs, that no longer happens. The earplugs have not completely solved the loudness issue, and the damage already done cannot be undone. But he'd never go back on this new line of defense for his hearing."I'll tell you what -- boy, you can really tell the difference after you protect your ears for four to six hours," said France.He has taken to advising his students to turn it down when they plug in their ear buds or to wear earplugs to concerts."I tell my kids every day in class -- they know I'm a DJ -- I say, 'Guys! You're damaging your hearing and you don't even know it.'" France has taken up the banner that Stanley, one of his KISS icons, is now waving.Stanley, who was born with a condition that left him mostly deaf in his right ear, has said this made him especially vigilant about preserving hearing in left ear and that he has always worn earplugs to concerts.He is now on something of a crusade to warn teenagers, advising the use of earplugs at concerts and encouraging them to turn the volume down on their iPods and other music sources. Stanley has been taking part in events sponsored by http://SoundRules.org">SoundRules.org, in connection with the House Research Institute, an organization devoted to improving the quality of life for people with hearing loss."I think what young people don't realize is that when you lose your hearing you don't get it back, and there are easy ways of preventing that from happening," Stanley told a reporter last year.In various interviews, he has pointed out that when your ears end up ringing after a show "that's their way of telling you that it's dangerous."In a May 2011 ABC news interview, he described hearing loss as "insidious," as it usually happens over a period of time. The average rock concert -- KISS shows included -- can top out at 105 decibels, which is loud enough to damage hearing in less than five minutes, Stanley said.DJ Bill France said that now that he has heard the word, so to speak, from the KISS guitarist, he is passing it on to the young people he encounters."If I can influence them," France said, "they just gotta turn it down."Reach Douglas Imbrogno at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-3017. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Trump's Interior Department moves to stop mountaintop removal study 2 Trump rebuffs coal industry; CEO claims promise broken 3 Casto among two people dead at WV jails Monday 4 Ex-DOH engineer, Putnam contractor avoid jail time in kickback scheme 5 Sills settles back in among WVU receivers 'Lend Me a Tenor' shows pace, energy, vague raunchiness Previous Story Best Bets: Feb. 16-22, 2012 Next Story


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The Purpose of Reincarnation
Reincarnation is the idea that death is not the end. After death the soul leaves the body, but, after a temporary rest takes rebirth in a new body. Reincarnation is an integral belief of many spiritual traditions. It is often asked why is reincarnation necessary? The main reason is that Reincarnation gives the soul chance to make slow steady progress towards fulfilling its highest goals.
1. Different Experiences.
From each incarnation the soul takes the quintessence of its experiences. From these different episodes in the evolution of the soul, it is possible to gain a comprehensive understanding of many different experiences. In one incarnation we may have great fame, wealth and power. However, even in this kind of incarnation, we cannot achieve peace of mind and abiding satisfaction. Therefore, in our next lifetime we may have a more ordinary, humble incarnation. We will view life from perspective of both powerful and weak. This will give us greater understanding. These different experiences also give us the opportunity to fulfil our desires.
"In one lifetime on earth we cannot do everything…Now our dearest is God. Do you think that God will allow us to remain unfulfilled? No! God's very purpose is to fulfil each individual and Himself through us. He will have us come back again and again to fulfil our desires."
- Sri Chinmoy [2]
2. Fresh Start.
After a certain number of years we grow old and tired. Quite often people get stuck in a rut, and are content with past memories. As we get older, usually we do not feel like taking on fresh challenges. From a practical point of view the body declines, and it becomes increasingly difficult to fulfil our desires and aspirations. Reincarnation enables us to be reborn with new hope and new life. Furthermore, because we do not usually remember our previous incarnations, we can wipe our memory clear of our unfortunate past experience. We may have been a thief in the past, but reincarnation gives us the chance to mend our ways. No one is destined to remain imperfect forever.
3. The Law of Karma.
The law of Karma is a fundamental underlying law of the universe. Basically, the law of karma says; "As you sow so, shall you reap." The law of karma has been explained and emphasised, in many different religious and spiritual traditions. It is the process of reincarnation, which enables the law of karma to fully operate. In one lifetime you may be born in unfortunate circumstances and be deceived by others. These unfortunate experiences can be rectified in a future incarnation. Similarly, if a person was to profit from the exploitation of others, he may be able to escape the cosmic justice in his current incarnation; but, in future incarnations he would experience the effects of his actions. Nobody can hide forever from their own actions. At the same time, not all karma is inevitable. If we have done wrong things in previous incarnations, it is possible for the effects to be nullified or reduced by God's grace, or the intervention of a Spiritual Master.
4. Self Realisation
There comes a point in the soul's evolution, when the entire being; mind, heart, body and soul are aspiring to realise the highest. If we can attain realisation of the Supreme, Transcendental Consciousness, we can escape the cycle of rebirth and death. For example, the Buddha taught that on attaining nirvana it was not necessary for the soul to be continually reborn. However, to attain Self-realisation or nirvana is no easy task. It can take many incarnations to free ourselves from our earthly desires and inherited tendencies. On the one hand, if we aspire most intensely, realisation is possible in this incarnation. But during one lifetime many seekers complete only part of the journey. Reincarnation enables us to make continual progress in the future. Furthermore, to manifest the qualities of the soul can take even more incarnations. As spiritual teacher, Sri Chinmoy says;
"It very often happens that realisation can take place in one incarnation, but for manifestation the soul has to come down again and again to earth. Unless and until we reveal and manifest the highest Divinity within us, our game is not over."
[1] From: Death and Reincarnation by Sri Chinmoy.
[2] Excerpt from Death And Reincarnation by Sri Chinmoy.
Richard became interested in meditation and eastern mysticism whilst studying at University in Oxford. After studying various spiritual traditions he became a meditation student of Sri Chinmoy.


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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Saint Leo University men's cross country team started their weekend off with a sixteenth place finish at the University of Florida Mountain Dew Invitational. The Saturday morning finish signaled the Lions' third race of the season.
Crossing the tape first for the Lions was freshman Carl Dunne, who completed the 8K race in 24th place with a time of 26:04.07, breaking the previous school record by just under two seconds. The finish marks his third consecutive top-25 finish.
Also finishing among the top runners for Saint Leo was Senior Eric Dirth, who came in with a time of 28:23.95 and placed 108th overall, coming in just three minutes shy of his teammate, Dunne.
The Saint Leo talents of Steven Brown, Spencer Mathis, David Hill, Kevin Papac, Matthew Basin, Michael Walker, and Jeff Van Natter also finished the race strong as they crossed the tape within seconds of each other, just ahead of Division I Stetson University.
Despite the strong finish by the Saint Leo Lions, the University of Florida took home the team championship title as they finished the invitational meet with a total of 28 points. The Embry Riddle Eagles featured the top runner of the meet again, however, as senior Evans Kirwa crossed the finish line with a time of 24:14.53, signaling his second consecutive first place finish.
The Lions will compete in their next race on Saturday, September 29, when they host their only home meet of the season. The race, which will take place at the Saint Leo Abbey Golf Course across from University campus, is scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m.
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NO SOONER had the dust settled on her London 2012 adventure, Thornbury judoka Sally Conway was targeting an Olympic medal in four years time.
The 25-year-old took to the ExCeL mat yesterday looking to turn Great Britain's judo fortunes around after disappointing exits from a raft of Conway's compatriots that had gone before her - leaving team chief Densign White to be critical of the squad.
And things looked good for Conway early on, storming into the final 16 of the -70kg with victory over Chad's Carine Ngarlemdana.
However, that was where her journey ended, losing to Dutch European, world and Olympic medallist Edith Bosch.
But after getting her first taste of Olympic action, Conway admits that her capital adventure has left her hungry for more.
"I always knew it was going to be a tough fight as she has been a world champion and has won an Olympic silver medal," she said.
"I have fought her a few times before and have been getting closer and closer so I thought it was do-able.
"I came here to win and I haven't done that so I am disappointed.
"I went out with a game plan and I felt like I stuck to it, but just one little tiny mistake cost me the fight and to come back against a top fighter like that is hard. I tried my best but it just wasn't enough.
"But I take everything I do as an experience and I just go out there to do the best I can do and fight the best I can fight and just concentrate on the performances as I go along.
"But I definitely want that gold in Rio now. I will keep working hard and keep doing all the little things in between but come Rio I will be there looking for gold."
Conway's exit on Wednesday was coupled with Winston Gordon crashing out at the same stage on another disappointing day at the ExCeL for the host nation's judo contingent.
But despite this the home crowd were in full voice in support of Conway, something she hopes lasts for her team-mates too.
"The crowd has been amazing and I couldn't have asked for anything more, it was really special," she added.
"I just really hope they get behind the rest of the team as they are still some good British athletes still to fight and the support really does help and hopefully something good will come out of it."
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I can only plant the seed. Your awakening is solely up to you!!
You did it ! MOuntain dew ad is gone :) and now a word from our sponsor !
Its funny that this thread started with complaining about a Mt. Dew ad and ended with a government conspiracy
Those tin foil hats are invasive!
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A SCHOOLBOY has been excluded after two girls were injured in an incident with a craft knife.
The 15-year-old pupils were treated for injuries, including cuts to the arm, during a lesson.
Paramedics were called to Witton Park High School in Blackburn on Tuesday and gave first aid, before one of the girls was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital.
Following the incident, Dean Logan, headteacher at the Buncer Lance school, permanently excluded a teenage boy in connection with the incident.
Police were then called in and the school's designated police officer PC Vanessa Rushton launched an investigation.
The Lancashire Telegraph understands the incident happened in a technology class.
Officers said there was no suggestion that the incident was premeditated or malicious.
The blade was school property and had not been brought in from home.
Sgt Graham Marshall said: "PC Rushton is working very closely with teachers and staff.
"We have identified all parties involved and the offender will be subjected to a rigorous police investigation."
Police said both victims were yet to be interviewed at length as responsible adults needed to be present.
Their injuries had been described by medics as 'minor' and 'superficial'.
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Our first baby was born with Cleft lip & palate. Should me and my husband take any test before next pregnancy. So we could avoid such situation. If yes, what test should be taken?
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Our first baby was born with Cleft lip & palate. Should me and my husband take any test before next pregnancy. So we could avoid such situation. If yes, what test should be taken?
Hi ibrualfi,
A useful resource on cleft lip and palate is the Victorian Government Department of Health service. This explains that the overall cause of a baby developing a cleft lip and palate in the womb is currently unknown. Genetic factors are only believed to have an effect in a small percentage of cases. Even if you or your husband were born with a cleft lip and palate then there would only be a small chance of passing this condition on.
I think it has to be your and your husband's decision but your doctor should help to talk through the options with you and support you. Remember that there's nothing that you did during the pregnancy that would have caused the cleft lip and palate.
Best wishes,
Thank you LJ
Hello ibrualfi,
I had a baby that was born with a congenital defect and what I've learned is that it's really important to do all you can to help ensure a healthy egg and sperm before conception. There's an excellent article on this site that explains some things you and your husband can do during the 3 to 4 months before you start trying for your next baby. Having great preconception care can greatly increase your odds of conceiving a truly healthy baby and carrying to term.
After my 3rd baby was born with the congenital heart defect, I went on to give birth to two more healthy children who didn't have any congenital defects.
They told me my chances of having another child with the same defect would be slightly higher than the average woman, but with excellent preconception care, I think your odds of having another child with a cleft palate would be less than the average woman.
One thing you may want to keep in mind is that you should act as if you're already pregnant. If you wouldn't be around paint fumes during pregnancy, don't be around them during the preconception phase. If you wouldn't drink alcohol during pregnancy, don't do it before pregnancy.
I hope you find this information helpful and please let me know if you have any questions about what you should or should not be eating or doing during the few months leading up to conception.
Warm Regards,