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Intel's SSD 910: Finally a PCIe SSD from Intelby Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/12/2012 3:00 AM EST
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radium69 - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkCan't seem to find it in the article, but what about the warranty?
Even Intel consumer SSD's seem to have a good warranty, so I wonder what they can offer for the enterprise market.
$3500 USD for a nice drive is worth considering, don't know about the buying part though. Reply
zdzichu - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - link90k IOPS doesn't seem to be much. Single SSD can reach 75k-80k already. And milion IOPS F5100 is still untouchable. Reply
Sufo - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkWhy mention the F5100. It's not even vaguely within the same price bracket at around $100/GB.
You get 4x the reads and 8x the writes for 23x the price so it's only worth considering if you can afford it and really need it. Reply
Jaybus - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkWith the exception of the outstanding endurance, the Z-Drive is better performing and only about 20% more expensive. Granted, endurance is very much a factor in its intended market and lower cost always helps. Reply
Samus - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkI can't believe they left out AES-128 support. Fail. Reply
pheadland - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkUh, these are drives intended to be installed in rack-mounted servers in secure machine rooms. They don't need to be encrypted. Reply
madmilk - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkIs there really a compelling reason for AES support on the drive? I mean, with AES-NI extensions present on all the new Xeons and Opterons, it seems rather redundant. Reply
jjj - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkActually it's pretty lame but at least it's cheap for the targeted market.
The Micron drive you mention and the Marvell/OCZ native PCI controller sound a lot more interesting. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - link1) How does linear feet per minute differ from cubic feet per minute? Linear implies something 2 dimensional, which I'm struggling to understand how it'd be able to cool anything.
2) The non-encryption situation may be the largest factor in limited sales, especially if this is targeting the enterprise market.
3) It's nice to see ~1TB drives around the same price as the original mainstream MLC SSD offerings Reply
lukarak - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkWell, as i understand it, you could have two cases, one with 100 cubic feet per minute, the other with 200, but because the second case is three times the size, the cooling would be less efficient. Linear measurements are the same for any case size so you can't miss. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkYes to your points, but no to your last sentence. That's like saying CFM is the same for any case size. Linear feat/minute is more vector-based (directional speed), whereas CFM is volume based. They're both measurements regardless of case size.
If you have something spinning really fast, but is really small, it's going to have a fast LFM, but low CFM. Because it has a high LFM, doesn't make it better. Inversely, you can have a really big fan (high CFM), that doesn't spin that fast, much like a ceiling fan. It generally doesn't blow fast enough to move paper on a desk, but it does move the air in the room.
So, I'm saying both measurements are important. Reply
tilandal - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkCubic feet are a measure of volume. Linear feet is just feet. Linear feet per second is a measure of air speed. Speed are related by the cross section the air is moving through. A 10CF/M fan blowing through a 1 Square foot opening moves air at 10F/M. If its through a .1 square foot opening its moving 100F/M. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkRight, there's a missing order of magnitude (volume).
I guess if the fan is blowing the heat away from the device then CFM isn't as important and linear speed makes sense because it's how quickly it can dissipate the surrounding radiated air. Reply
Senpuu - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkVolume is not an order of magnitude [ex: 10000 (10^4) is one order of magnitude less than 1000 (10^3)] .
As an example, let's say you have a 10CFM mounted over the fitted intake of a closed case with our Intel SSD positioned in front of a 4"x4" exhaust. That's 10 ft^3 of air that is being brought into the case that needs to be exhausted through a 4"x4" hole every minute. That hole is a (1/3ft)^2 or 1/9 ft^2 cross section. 10 ft^3 of air goes through that hole every minute (a measure of volume / time), but it does so at a rate of 90 ft / min (a measure of distance / time). 90 ft/min < 100 ft/min minimum in the SSD spec, so you'd have to increase the fan CFM (by increasing the RPM or replacing the fan) or decrease the exhaust opening to ~3.79"x3.79".
Fans are rated in terms of CFM and not LFM because LFM is a function of system geometry and location whereas CFM is only a function of fan geometry and RPMs. As you said though, local heat transport is best expressed in LFM. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkVolume is an order of magnitude. It's adding a third dimension. For instance, when converting a 4"x4" square (4 sq. in -or- 4 in^2) to a cube (4 cu. in -or- 4 in^3 -or- 4"x4"x4"), the volume is exponentially bigger than the surface area.
In math, magnitude is difference in relative size. A 2D figure is an order of magnitude smaller than a 3D figure.
That said, you've given a good example. CFM=LFM x Area; or, Q=V x A. I'm still unsure why LFM is preferred over CFM. However, your last point is incorrect. CFM isn't only for fans, and the rotational velocity of the fan is only one variable that could go into creating air flow. Fan's have fins that are angled and push air, the length and degree of their angle are also very important. So is the material, and it's resistance to the force of air against the fan as it spins.
CFM is the flow rate, which applies to air/water/anything that's 3D. LFM is only the speed (velocity), as you put it, the distance over time. Agh. I give up on understanding the purpose, perhaps because the heat isn't always constant in one part of the board, or to be able to use that figure in other form factors (difference size chips). Reply
FunBunny2 - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - link-- I'm still unsure why LFM is preferred over CFM.
Look at the card. With 3 boards, there's no "volume" to speak of. It needs fast "exhaust" to cool it. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkI think that makes the most sense - how quickly you can displace the air that cushions the board.
I was thinking that's a factor in CFM, which it is, but I wasn't thinking about the significance of that factor. That is somewhat bewildering because I even explained it in my ceiling fan example: low velocity, high area - sure you're moving a lot of air in a minute, but between revolutions there is stagnant air.
I apologize - I did not mean to take up all the comment space in what should have been addressed in the forums. Reply
Senpuu - Monday, April 23, 2012 - linkVolume is not an order of magnitude and I have never in my time with the sciences and maths heard it used as such. Cite me any respectable reference where it is used as such and I'll gladly cede the point.
And, since we're nitpicking and being technical, my last point is only slightly incorrect, as I should not have used the word 'only'. There are other factors -- such as the rigidity of the blade, which is a function of the geometry and the material properties, as you pointed out -- but the angle, length, etc are all part of the fan geometry, which I stated. And I never said that CFM was only for fans. I did say that fans were rated in terms of CFM though, which is true.
I thought the purpose was clear for LFM...? It's giving you an airflow requirement in order to transport sufficient heat away from the component. When air cooling something, the idea is to bring in cool air from outside the case at a certain temperature and pass it over a hot component, thereby cooling the component and heating the passing air as it gets sent out the exhaust. The only pertinent information they need to tell you is how fast that air in order to accomplish that task (assuming standard room temperature for intake air). Reply
double0seven - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkI'm just a 2nd yr college student, and you seem to be an actual engineer of some kind or something, but I notice a couple things wrong with the example you give. First, the SSD is positioned in front of the 4"x4" exhaust hole, and the fan is at the intake. Thus, the 90 ft/min you are calculating only occurs on the outside of the case, not at the heat source in question. However if the fan were simply reversed, your example would be more correct.
More important is your proposed solution of reducing the exhaust opening in order to meet the spec. Think about this intuitively; how could that possibly result in more heat dissipation? It may make the math work, but the big picture here is that a certain amount of heat is being generated, and a certain amount of air is needed to dissipate the heat. The spec may be given in LFM, but that's ok, cause you're an engineer, and you know how to convert it to CFM! Reply
Metaluna - Monday, April 16, 2012 - linkRight. The air is only in contact with the heatsink for a short period of time. So there isn't much heat transfer beyond the small boundary layer between the heatsink and the airstream. The size of that boundary layer is a function of the velocity of the air close to the heatsink (I believe this is called the near field in fluid dynamics). The only thing that matters is that, the more frequently you can 'replace' this boundary layer (LFM) with new cold air, the more heat you can remove.
So as has already been said, specifying the air velocity, in combination with ambient temperature, is more useful when you are looking at the cooling needs of one specific component in isolation.
Where CFM becomes important is in the bulk movement of the heated air out of the case. If you don't do this, then the ambient case temperature rises. This means the temperature of the air passing over the heatsink rises, and less heat can be removed. There are so many variables introduced here, though, that it's almost a useless spec. Reply
EddyKilowatt - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkLinear feet per minute is the chip-centric view of the cooling situation. The chip (and chip maker) doesn't care how many cubic feet are moving through your box... it cares how fast cool air is moving over its surface and helping it get rid of heat. You can almost think of it as a wind-chill requirement.
The chip maker's job is to spec how much air speed (wind chill), and at what temperature, is needed to keep the chip cool. Your job as a system builder is to provide the necessary air speed to each chip (or device) in your box. The tools you have to work with are your box volume, fan flow rate, and the design of the airflow paths within the box to get air at a low enough temperature, flowing at a fast enough rate, past each device in your system. Reply
SetiroN - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - link90/38K IOPS at $2000 sound anything but "awesome". Especially considering that those figures seem to be the sum of two 'physical' drives.
Anand should be a little more objective when it comes to Intel SSDs. Reply
ImSpartacus - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkThis isn't a consumer drive. You can't even boot from it.
The customers interested in this drive aren't as price sensitive as us. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkBooting is a big problem, but the fact that you can't encrypt it is an even larger concern. Reply
FunBunny2 - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkUmmm. Most industrial strength RDBMS encrypt before writing, so not necessarily. Reply
Sivar - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkThey do, but at a cost of greater CPU overhead or additional hardware requirements.
I suspect Intel understands the importance of encryption, but opted for higher performance and lower TDP first. Most enterprise hard drives do not encrypt data, so this isn't as big a deal as one might think. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkAgreed on all the above. Besides, if someone really wanted to get it, they eventually will. Reply
zanon - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - link
This isn't a consumer drive. You can't even boot from it.
Honestly, that's really irrelevant. If Intel was completely alone, then sure, they might seem better, but they aren't. There are multiple other competing solutions from other companies in the PCIe SSD space, and 90K IOPS really isn't very impressive at all. The OCZ ones are all above 200K, the ioDrive 2s can push above half a million (and that's for 512b, not 4k), etc. Even with highly incompressible data, Anand's own tests do not indicate that we'd expect to see a factor of 3 drop.
Intel's solution appears to be useful for sure, but application specific. It's a matter of weighing things like endurance, support, and load type against overall performance. That doesn't mean it can't be competitive, but the unalloyed praise does seem a little strong. It seems to be just plain a reasonably strong first card, but there's nothing in particular that goes "Wow!" about it. Reply
ats - Friday, April 13, 2012 - linkPeople need to really stop comparing numbers when they don't understand what the numbers are that they are comparing.
Companies tend to quote a wide variety of I/O numbers. almost all are limited span numbers and many are not steady state numbers. Intel for the enterprise class devices always quotes FULL SPAN steady state random I/O numbers. These WILL be significantly lower than partial span peak I/O numbers but actually much closer to what products will actually deliver in the field over the lifetime of the product.
These full span steady state numbers are typically 10x or more lower than the partial span peak I/O numbers for a given devices.
The numbers that Intel are quoting are actually very good for FULL SPAN STEADY STATE random I/O. Reply
Kjella - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - link"as a single drive with a 200GiB (186GB) capacity"
200 GB (base 10) = 186 GiB (base 2), if you're going to use that notation at least do it correctly.... Reply
Sabresiberian - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkA gibibyte isn't a base 2 number, but a number derived from powers of 2. Base 2 numbers only contain 1's and 0's.
If you are going to correct someone and sneer at them for their usage ("at least do it correctly"), I suggest you know what you are talking about and spell correctly.
;) Reply
Juddog - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - link7 - 14 PB is a sick amount of endurance for an SSD - it seems like everybody here is focusing on the IOPS but the endurance of 7 - 14 PB is just crazy for an SSD. Something like that would make an excellent longer-term investment; a lot of companies are still hesitant to jump into the SSD market for their servers because of the endurance issue.
The only reason I mention this is that I've personally spoken with infrastructure guys / DBA's that won't invest in SSDs because of the reliability factory - they want something that will take a constant beating in terms of IO at a constant rate. Reply
SQLServerIO - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkI'm very happy with the endurance. As a DBA who has had solid state in production systems for the last four years if you REALLY understand your write load you find that endurance of 1TB to 2TB is good enough for two to three years of heavy use. Even "heavy write" databases see 20% writes vs reads. Fusion-io rates some of their cards at 32PB of write endurance but do cost a bit more :) Reply
FunBunny2 - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkFolklore says that SSD death is more predictable than HDD, modulo infant mortality. Have you found this to be true? Reply
rs2 - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkI just love it when a ~$4000 component is considered to have "fairly reasonable" pricing. Reply
FunBunny2 - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkCompared to STEC or Fusion-io or Texas Memory or Violin, yeah, it is. Whether it's a relevant part to this site's gamers, is the other question. Reply
Sabresiberian - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkExactly; the readers of Anandtech.com aren't all "gamers", Anandtech never pretended to be a "gamer" site, and many enthusiasts build for actual business and scientific work, not just playing games.
This thing isn't for me; I build as an "enthusiast gamer". The Revodrive is the best solution I know about, for my purposes and in PCIe form. This device is clearly intended for a different use (I was hoping it would be more like the Revodrive, but it's not). Not knowing much at all about building that kind of serious machine, I can hardly expect to comment knowledgeably on the price (except by paying attention to what others, who are knowledgeable, post here).
;) Reply
Zstream - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkSo, the best solution would be to have a raid-1 setup with two regular spindle drives and move the "golden images" to this SSD? Reply
quanstro - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkif you compare against six 80gb ssd 320s, you would get
a bigger drive (480mb) more iops (237k) more throughput
(1440mb/s) and lower cost ($834). and if you need more
capacity, you can add capacity in small hot-swappable
the 320s would also be bootable and offer aes-128 and
could fit on most any motherboard-based controller.
i'm not sure i see where a pci-e attached controller would
offer a better solution than regular ssds yet. Reply
ShieTar - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkYou forgot to mention the 3.6k writing iops of that solution. And the endurance that is lower by more than a factor of 100.
Also, I would expect a significant percentage of the potential customers to put more than one of these boards into one server. Server-Boards come with up to 7 PCIe x16 slots, and you can not connect 42 ssd 320s to a motherboard controller. So you need to be putting SAS-Controllers into our PCIe slots anyways.
So, if nothing else you save yourself dozens of cables which can fail, and you save the space of the 42 SSDs, which helps with the cooling. Reply
quanstro - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkthe anandtech review of the 330 gives 66.3mb/s for 4k random writes.
from that i get 16.9k iops/drive or 101.8k iops for 6. that's
that's better than the write iops even than the intel spec sheet
gives. (by >25%)
i would point out that the standard ipass cable gives 4 ports per cable,
and you will need pci-e slots for nics if you wish to actually serve up
many tens of ssds worth of data.
i certainly would go with 4x8 (36) ssds + a few 10gbe nics versus a
pcie-attached ssd solution. Reply
FunBunny2 - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkDon't these numbers be retrograde? Aren't R/W speeds supposed to be converging? Reply
PyroHoltz - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - link"The 910 will ship with a software tool that allows you to get even more performance out of the drive (up to 1.5GB/s write speed) by increasing the board's operating power to 28W from 25W."
I want to overclock my SSD, that's cool...or is that warm? Reply
Casper42 - Friday, April 13, 2012 - linkIt has nothing to do with Overclocking.
PCIe offers 2 different common power levels.
25W (x4 and x8 slots) and 75W (x16 slots)
If you put this card into a 25W slot, they want to make sure you are not going to overload the slot.
However if you put it into a 75W slot, they are offering a way to increase the draw to 28W which is probably the max the card draws based on its design.
Fusion IO cards do the same thing but also offer an aux power input that can connect to a Molex connector for additional power. I think they may be moving this to PEG power instead as Molex is less prevalent in major OEM Servers (HP/Dell/IBM). Reply
Makaveli - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkWould you annoying children go back to playing wow!
Complaining about the price tag because you cannot afford it. This is for enterprise customers not for you to be running Benchmarks to stroke your Epeen get over it.
For once I would like to come in here and read comments from professionals in the industry and not complains from children that won't buy it because its not $1/GB.
THIS DRIVE IS NOT FOR U! Reply
daos - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkThank you Makaveli! 42 SSD's? What a joke... Reply
mckirkus - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkThis device as well as a mid grade HDD should be included on some of your storage benchmarks to give a sense of how much better SSDs are than HDDs and to show how far consumer grade SSDs have to go. At some point IO will no longer be the bottleneck in PCMark type benchmarks. Reply
Zstream - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkI would like to see this as well but I would prefer higher end stuff. Like raid 1/10/5 and virtual desktop performance using such components. Reply
Southernsharky - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkI don't see why the price is considered good at all. A price should reflect actual costs and I can't imagine that switching to a PCI card really added anything to the price. If anything, I would think this should lower production costs, at least in the future. As for a premium for new tech.... nothing here is really new. We are talking about merging existing technology here. A PCI card is not expensive. Reply
rscoot - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkYou realize that the physical cost of the components on the motherboard are only one input into the total cost of the product right? Enterprise products have much longer warranties, generally tend to have better support, and go through a much more thorough validation process compared to consumer grade hardware.
Literally your argument amounts to: Why does this 24 port managed cisco switch cost 10x as 5 5 port linksys switches!?!?!? Reply
WeaselITB - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - link<protest> But Linksys and Cisco are the same company! </protest>
I kid, I kid ... just couldn't resist. :-)
-Weasel Reply
dlitem - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkJust like you'd never pay for more than ~2c per a gallon of Coke, since even that is probably more than the manufacturing price of the stuff?
Value and price are different things. If this thing can replace a full rack of spinning disks powering some high-activity database, it could be considered cheap as dirt. Regardless of the manufacturing cost. Reply
neotiger - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkFor a PCIe card I'd expect much more than 90K IOPS.
A comparable PCIe card Z-Drive R4 is much better at 250K- 400K IOPS
As it stands right now, 90K IOPS is no better than a Vertex 4. Reply
Makaveli - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkSo would you rather put a couple Vertex 4 in your server then....... Reply
euler007 - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkMaybe he doesn't like his job. It would be more subtle then spilling your coffee inside the server. Reply
neotiger - Saturday, April 14, 2012 - linkNo. But I'd rather put in a Z-Drive R4.
Maybe you should learn to read the entire post Reply
ats - Saturday, April 14, 2012 - linkThe Z-Drive has lower performance in the same test conditions. Reply
Casper42 - Friday, April 13, 2012 - link1.28 TB Fusion IO does 150K IOPS and costs $25K retail.
So 800GB and 90K at 1/5th the price isn't actually so bad.
Enterprise drives also usually measure IOPS in a mixed workload environment. Not sure how that affects the numbers but your Vertex 4 number is most likely Read or Write but not mixed. Reply
ats - Saturday, April 14, 2012 - linkNo, a comparable Z-Drive R4 is at 48K write IOPS. Don't confuse best case write IOPS with FULL SPAN STEADY STATE RANDOM WRITE IOPS. Reply
theeldest - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkI'd like to know if those IOPS numbers are sustained over time or peak.
If you look at OCZs drives (or anything with a sandforce controller) your IOPS pretty quickly fall far below what the drive is rated for because garbage collection can't keep up.
If the drive doesn't drop as much during sustained operation than it's a much better deal.
Anand, when you finally get to test this drive can you do a sustained test? It's unrealistic for consumers but in the enterprise space there are more people that would actually benefit from seeing that comparison.
(by sustained, I mean high random/sequential read & writes for at least double the time it takes to write to all blocks).
I remember a benchmark where the Vertex2 EX dropped from 50k IOPS to 15k IOPS after 12 minutes.
Consumer benchmarks != Enterprise benchmarks Reply
papapapapapapapababy - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - link
silly question: my GA-H61M-S2V-B3 has slow SATA 3Gb/s and only 3 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots ( hey it was a gift) ... can i plug something like this the single - vga- PCI Express x16 slot? ( using the om-board video of dat awesome G530 ) what about other PCI Express 2.0 x1 SSDs? are there any out here? what about a review of the Z-Drive R5, supertalent corestone? etc. THANKS. Reply
ggathagan - Friday, April 13, 2012 - linkCost of a new motherboard with two 6Gbps ports: $120-$140 (GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 or GA-Z77MX-D3H)
Cost of two Samsung 830 Series 256GB SSD's for RAID0 disk: $600
Cost of 400GB Intel 910: $1929
Intel 910 (400GB)
Random 4KB Read (Up to) 90K IOPS 80K IOPS
Random 4KB Write (Up to) 38K IOPS 36K IOPS
Sequential Read (Up to) 1000 MB/s 520 MB/s
Sequential Write (Up to) 750 MB/s 400 MB/s
Samsung SSD 830
Random 4KB Read (Up to) 80K IOPS
Random 4KB Write (Up to) 36K IOPS
Sequential Read (Up to) 520 MB/s
Sequential Write (Up to) 400 MB/s
Figure on a RAID0 setup roughly doubling your performance.
I just saved you about $1200! Reply
papapapapapapapababy - Friday, April 13, 2012 - linkAlready have the motherboard, plus they cost twice as much or even more over here... so you didn't answer shit. also i already have the bandwidth, hate the sata BS limitations and legacy hdd form factor. and im not particularly interested in this monstrosity ( or any kind of raid silliness) just a good PCIe 2.0 x1 @ 88NV9145 silicon. any suggestions? Reply
nexox - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkLooks like people are awfully hung up on the 4KB IOPS specification, which just isn't that important for the enterprise market. I've found that the manufacturer specs on a drive are almost useless in predicting relative performance for a given application. Enterprise customers benchmark, with their application-specific data patterns, for each application. Lower-spec Intel drives frequently come out ahead (in my tests, anyway,) because Intel seems to design drives that perform well in the real world, not just on synthetic benchmarks (4KB IOPS, for instance.)
Obviously I can't tell from the specs here, and I haven't gotten a 910 to benchmark yet, but I would bet that latency figured (magnitude and consistency,) especially after the drive has run out of erased blocks, are far nicer than similarly-priced alternatives. Most consumer drives (and low-end enterprise drives based on related controllers) suffer from (relatively) large pauses, and ugly interactions between write activity and read latency, which is quite a turn-off for many enterprise users.
Compared to the FusionIO MLC devices, these look cheap enough to be almost disposable, and they shouldn't have any irritating user-space processes hogging CPU like the FusionIOs do.
Use of the standard LSI controller is also quite nice, because when you've got a system that works, adding kernel modules and / or binary drivers can really be a huge pain, and incur lots of extra testing.
And no, I don't work for Intel, and I'm not an Intel fanboy - off the top of my head I can't think of a single piece of Intel hardware that I own personally, though I'm sure I've got an old Pentium 4 or something lurking in my junk pile. Reply
Makaveli - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkYour experience and testing mirrors something a co-worker of mine told me.
In the testing he has done the intel drives usually do far better regardless of the benchmark numbers sandforce likes to throw around. Which easily sway consumers that looking at bar graphs all day long. Reply
rimsha - Friday, April 13, 2012 - linkcheck more detail
http://www.gadget-mag.com/intel-ssd-910-series-wit... Reply
blanarahul - Saturday, April 14, 2012 - linkHonestly i absolutely hate the idea of a RAID-on-card solution. I wish Intel would use the P320h conroller, make t's own firmware, validate it and create a super duper cool ssd.
But i also want OCZ to use their Kilimanjaro platform for making consumer ssds like Revodrive or Vertex. I would absolutely love to have a PCIe-to-NAND ssd in my computer. Reply
RaptorHunter - Sunday, April 22, 2012 - linkSo the 400GB cost $1929 and only gets 1000MB/s ???
Couldn't you just buy 4 128GB normal sata SSD drives and raid them together. That would give you almost 2000MB/s for only $600 Reply
x0rg - Tuesday, May 08, 2012 - link910 is not bootable?? So sad.. The system hard drive with OS on it is a bottle neck. OK, I'll wait... Reply
Jon Severinsson - Saturday, July 21, 2012 - linkNote that "not bootable" does not mean you can't use it for your system drive (/ on Linux, C:\ on Windows), only that you need to load the bootloader (and possible OS kernel) from somewhere else.
Configuring this on Windows is tricky (but possible), but on Linux putting the bootloader and OS kernel on a separate disk it is a standard install-time option, and installing just the bootloader on a separate disk (or usb stick or whatever) is also trivial (though getting it to read the kernel from a disk not supported by BIOS/EFI is a bit tricky).
That is either approx. 20 kiB (bootloader) or approx. 15 MiB (bootloader + OS kernel) you need to load from somewhere else *once* on boot. Not exactly a performance bottleneck... Reply
tech01 - Thursday, March 19, 2015 - linkHow are we calculating performance in Intel 910 e.g. 2 GB/s on sequential read?
As per above information 800GB 910 has PCIe2.0 x 8 can reach up to 4GB/s. Reply


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Metro Detroit restaurants are joining forces Wednesday for a fundraiser benefiting the family of fallen West Bloomfield Police Officer Patrick O'Rourke.
Officer O'Rourke was shot and killed on September 9th, 2012 while responding to a call at a West Bloomfield home. O'Rourke, 39, was the first officer killed on duty in the history of the West Bloomfield Police Department.
Tables For 4 is inviting the public to dine out for lunch or dinner at participating restaurants that will donate 25-percent of their day's proceeds to the O'Rourke family.
Participating restaurants include:
- Bacco Ristorante, 29410 Northwestern Highway, Southfield (248) 356-6600
- Joe Vicari's Andiamo Italian Steakhouse, 6676 Telegraph Rd., Bloomfield Twp. (248) 865-9300
- Detroit Prime, 32769 Northwestern Highway, Farmington Hills (248) 737-9600
- Assaggi Bistro, 330 W. Nine Mile, Ferndale (248) 584-3499
- The Hill, 123 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms (313) 886-8101
- Morels, 32729 Northwestern Highway, Farmington Hills (248) 254-3840
- Dino's Restaurant-Lounge-Catering, 22740 Woodward Ave., Ferndale (248) 591-3466
- Le Chef Bistro, 32621 Northwestern Highway, Farmington Hills (248) 932-1300
- Beans & Cornbread, 29508 Northwestern Highway, Southfield (248) 208-1680
For more information about the restaurant fundraiser or to join the effort, go to http://www.mattprenticeculinaryexperience.com.
Donations can be made to the Officer O'Rourke Family Trust at any Bank of America branch or online at http://www.westbloomfieldhero.com.
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Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper Salad
Fresh tomatoes and roasted red peppers are tossed in an almond and sherry vinegar dressing to create this side salad. Instead of roasting the peppers, use store-bought jarred peppers.
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- 3 ounces crusty bread, torn into bite-size pieces (2 cups)
- 2 teaspoons plus 3 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil (for toasting of bread)
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 2 teaspoons sherry vinegar
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped natural almonds
- 2 medium tomatoes, cored and cut into 1/2-inch wedges
- 2 roasted red bell peppers, cut into 1/2-inch strips
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley leaves
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. On a rimmed baking sheet, toss bread with 2 teaspoons oil and season with salt and pepper. Spread bread in a single layer and bake until golden brown, about 7 minutes. In a large bowl, combine remaining 3 teaspoons oil, sherry vinegar, garlic, and almonds. Season with salt and pepper and stir to combine. Add tomatoes, roasted peppers, parsley, and toasted bread. Toss to combine.


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A new Islamic college opened its doors in California with plans to educate a new generation of Muslim American leaders. The founders hope to build an institution that will train scholars, professionals and religious leaders to serve the country"s fast-growing Muslim population, which now numbers in the millions.
The three founders of the school are all leading Islamic scholars. Hatem Bazian is a Palestinian-American who teaches Islamic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Zaid Shakir and Hamza Yusuf are American converts who spent years studying Islam overseas before becoming leading Muslim scholars in the U.S.
Students take classes in subjects such as Islamic ethics, Islamic finance and Muslims in America, as well as courses one finds at a traditional liberal arts college -- sociology, philosophy, linguistics, astronomy.
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Police want to speak to this woman about pickpocketing offences across London including in Croydon, Wandsworth and Kingston.
Madona Hamzie is wanted in connection with 10 theft offences where the victims were followed from banks to bus stops or onto buses, where they had money stolen from them.
They include an offence on October 14 last year where an 88-year-old blind man was followed for more than 30 minutes from a bank in Hammersmith and onto a route 220 bus in Wandsworth.
While he was on the bus a thief took £1,700 from him.
The thefts the police want to speak to 18-year-old Miss Hamzie about took place between March 26, 2011, and January 14 this year.
Anyone with any information is asked to call PC Sam Livsey on 07787 669281, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 quoting reference 131761.
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Stamp featuring Pirates' Stargell top seller among baseball legends
A commemorative stamp featuring former Pirates slugger Willie Stargell finished as the top seller in a four-way race featuring some of the most iconic players in baseball history, the Postal Service said.
The Postal Service said it sold more than 8.2 million Stargell stamps since May — 11,320 more than one featuring former Boston Red Sox great Ted Williams, the last player to hit at least .400 in a season.
A stamp with Joe DiMaggio, the former New York Yankees outfielder who once hit safely in a record 56 straight games, finished third with sales of almost 8.1 million. Customers bought 7.8 million stamps featuring former Cleveland Indians outfielder Larry Doby, the first black player in the American League.
Stargell, nicknamed "Pops," hit 475 home runs and led the Pirates to two World Series titles in his Hall of Fame career from 1962-1982. Stargell died in 2001.
The Postal Service's Stamps Batted In race began in earnest July 20 and concluded with the end of the World Series on Oct. 28.
Tad Kelly, a Postal Service spokesman in Pittsburgh, said Stargell came from behind to win. Williams and DiMaggio were far ahead of the pack from late May through July 20, when customers could order the Major League Baseball All-Stars Forever stamps before they went on sale to the general public.
"It's another feather in the cap for Pittsburgh. It shows the way we support our sports teams and revere our sports legends," Kelly said.
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Also pictured, inset, is the cover of one of his recent books, Classic Cycle Race Routes, which includes details of the tough Etape du Dales ride, a 112-mile ride that starts and finishes near Grassington. For more details about Chris's work go to chrissidwells.com
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Relatives of a teen who was shot while playing basketball at a local park said the 16-year-old is now paralyzed from the waist-down.
The shooting happened after 5 p.m. Monday evening inside an Orlando basketball court.
Witnesses told police the shooting was an accident. Police said the shooter had a gun stuck in his waistband. While he was playing basketball, someone bumped into him and the gun went off when he was checking it, said police.
Relatives said Mario Whitehead, 16, was playing basketball when he felt the single gunshot. His brother raced to the park to help.
"He was laying on the court. So, I went over there, held his hand, tried to keep him calm because he was really scared," said Marvin Giles, the victim's brother. "He just kept telling me, 'Don't stop talking to me. Just keep talking to me.'"
Giles said his brother was shot in the shoulder. Relatives told Local 6 doctors have been unable to remove the bullet, and he now is paralyzed.
While his family is thankful he is alive, they know the bullet could have hit anyone in the large crowd.
"It could have been anybody," said Giles. "It could have been my youngest brother. It could have been me. It could have been anybody. Yeah, it's scary."
Orlando police said the shooting was likely an accident, but relatives believe the shooter had no business bringing a gun into a crowded park, and they think he should be behind bars.
"I think that everyone needs to be honest and put it out there," said Rosalyn Smith, the victim's aunt. "He needs to be off the streets. I don't know why they're protecting him."
Police said they are still questioning the shooter, and while they have not made any arrests, charges are still possible.
Relatives said Whitehead plays at the park daily, but he told his brother after the shooting that he did not want to return again.
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Are you rising today? Are you joining the 1 Billion? Typically, Valentine's Day festivities make me a little nauseous. I'm a big fan of V-day--don't get me wrong! Love the monologues, love my vagina, and I have a deep appreciation for all of the amazing Vagina Warriors out there. But the typical candy-packed, triple priced flower, consumer-driven hype seems a little silly. I'd rather feel loved and valued and show that love in return on an everyday basis, than rush at the last minute to find a commodity that's going to prove my love.
Thankfully, there is an amazing alternative to all this. 1 Billion Rising is the worldwide celebration of power and vision of women and girls who have had ENOUGH of patriarchy. NSVRC staff will join the rising locally this evening for dancing, singing, and loving at the local LGBT Center. We'll be loving the idea of a violence free world. We'll be celebrating a future where intimate relationships are based on love and respect. We'll be imagining a world where conflict rape is a thing of the past. We'll be rising in support of safe, happy, consensual awesome sex. This is the reason why our staff comes to work every day! This is what we're after!
If you'd like to forgo the yearly homage to capitalist cupid, grab your latest loves, and go on a date that could change the world, check out the 1 Billion Rising site for events near you. If nothing is planned, start the rising! Don your red, pink, or black and make a statement. There's nothing like a spontaneous dance party to fill your space with joy.


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He could be a member of the Federal Government!
dpoly1 - Playing the lottery to save the jobs of those that build, transport, sell & maintain luxury items! -
Eschew Poverty ........... Vote Conservative!
Or even the Federal Courts and other Houses of Injustices.
Your right, with the toilet seat in a nice drafty area, he gets no socks either.
That will serve him very well - a cold toilet seat and socks-less feet facing cold concrete prison floors for the winter.
Since there are 18 months involved at the prison hotels for him, I hope that the guards remember to turn off any air conditioning vents to his cell in the summer months. 80 to 90 degree cell nights will keep him up most nights, and he won't die from it either. An extra heavy duty dampening of his cell room in the summer months, to raise the humidity levels to break the scales, should seal his fate forever, not to ever mess with the elderly.
I think restitution would be much BETTER than jail time.
The prosecutor is overly nice in saying that Michael Santaniello's cheating of his customers and especially the elderly was because of his gambling addiction. Santaniello's experience with cheating his customers appears to be much older than his winning the big one from the lottery.
Since Santaniello could not see himself someday, if he is lucky, in the shoes of the elderly that he cheated, and since Santaniello could not see his uncles, aunts, parents, and other senior members of his friend's families in the elderly that he cheated, Santaniello is most likely not a true human entity, but a cloaked evil spirit masquerading about on earth as a human being, and he was just going about, living out the demonic appointment that he had in his tenure of life on earth.
Hopefully, the Preachers will win him over during the next 18 months behind bars, and convince him, to do more for those that he had cheated, at least from the $35K that he still has coming to him, yearly from the Lottery.
Elderly people should know BETTER than to hand over money before services are rendered. If the old people got scammed out of their money it is their own fault for being so stupid. Santaniello should go free.e
I think Mr Santaniello would agree with that.
In fact, I think he'd give it his wholehearted endorsement.
I hope you never work in a nursing home that I get thrown into.
"Why won't you die?" -----><-----"Huh?"
Personally,I think restitution AND jail time is called for.Anyone who would scam the elderly out of money should serve HARD time!!
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers
Older people come from a generation that trust other people.It's jerks like YOU & Santaniello that need a lesson in life.I volunteer to kick both of your a$$e$!!
18 month behind bars should be a good "treatment" for his illness?
Probably going to be worse. He will have almost 70k waiting for him when he gets out.
"This case demonstrates how addiction, when left untreated, can lead a person to such despair and selfishness that they would manipulate and deceive vulnerable, trusting members of our community who deserve better,"
I pray for the day when a big lottery or state lottery and their officials are finally busted for their corruption as well and the above statement can then be used again.
It'll happen one day. And then, we'll all see what's really been going on behind the curtain.
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Number Pyramid 1Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
This teaser is a mixture of logic and math. In a number pyramid, the numbers 0-9 are each used once and formed into a pyramid, with one digit at the top, and right below it two digits, below those three digits, and below those four, all arranged in pyramid form.
In this puzzle, you will follow the clues given, and using these clues, create a number pyramid. There is only one answer.
1. The four numbers on the bottom row add up to 28.
2. The highest number in row 3 is in the middle, or in the second out of third position.
3. The third number from the left in the bottom row isn't 7.
4. The rightmost numbers in each row, or the numbers on the right side going down, add up to 11.
5. The numbers 0 and 5 are in different rows.
6. The apex of the pyramid, or the top number, minus the leftmost number in row 2, equals 4.
7. The leftmost numbers in the four rows, or the left hand side going down, add up to 20.
HintThe apex, or the top of the pyramid, is 6.
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Row 2: 2, 0
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Celebrate the Inspirational Women of Fair Trade this Mother's Day
This year, World Fair Trade Day falls on the same weekend as Mother's Day (May 13th), highlighting a natural connection between the two holidays and the opportunity to focus on the positive impact that Fair Trade has on the lives of so many mothers around the world. Whether through education, micro-loans, business training or democratic participation, the women who work on Fair Trade farms are empowered to play a strong role in their families, farms and communities.
Almost two-thirds of women in the developing world work without labor rights and social protection. Women do much of the work on small farms and plantations, yet they often still face unequal treatment, discrimination and harassment. Fair Trade is a proven model that addresses these challenges and provides hundreds of thousands of women worldwide with sustainable livelihoods to care for their families and protection from gender discrimination. It also empowers women to become key players in the success of their organizations by being elected to serve on workers' committees or even as cooperative presidents!
Fair Trade and Women Empowerment
Your choice to support Fair Trade provides women from Brazil to Sri Lanka with funds for life-saving health programs, income diversification opportunities, micro-credit, education, leadership training and more.
Here are a few of the Fair Trade social and economic guidelines that protect women farmers and workers:
- Labor rights for all workers with special attention to the empowerment of women through training and capacity building.
- Equally shared decision-making power. Cooperatives are required to address minority population needs, with special attention to women.
- Standards for the health and safety of women, including a minimum maternity leave of eight weeks on full pay, exemption from work that could be a health hazard during pregnancy or while nursing, up to nine months of nursing time, and freedom from sexual harassment.
Building a Better Tomorrow with Fair Trade
In honor of Mother's Day, we'd like to highlight a few inspiring stories about the hardworking, dedicated, compassionate, and inspirational women of the world. Whether it's a single mother on a flower farm in Ecuador or a group of women pioneering a movement for women's associations in Rwanda, these are the women who helped make Fair Trade what it is today.
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Hoja Verde Flower Farm – Cayambe, Ecuador
Let us introduce Joana Quitiaquez, a 22-year-old single mother and flower worker at the Hoja Verde flower farm in Cayambe, Ecuador. Her story is a true testament to the positive effects of Fair Trade in the region. Born into a sharecropping family with five brothers and sisters and an elderly mother, Joana knows what it means to be impoverished in Ecuador. Her mother, Maria, works on a non-Fair Trade rose farm not far from Hoja Verde. There Maria makes much less money, is often forced to work 7 days a week, never receives overtime and has developed asthma from working around greenhouse fumes and pesticides.
For Joana, Fair Trade flowers changed everything. At Hoja Verde, workers not only receive higher wages and overtime pay, they also have access to free eye exams, routine medical screenings and free child care and pediatric assistance. It was through these medical services that Joana's life was saved. Routine exams and quality care ensured that Joana's cervical cancer was detected and treated early on in its development. With her newfound health along with a loan from Hoja Verde's Fair Trade premium, Joana was soon able to buy a small plot of land on which to begin building her own home. "At the other farm [non-Fair Trade], they wouldn't have done this for me," says Joana, "but thankfully, everything turned out OK and I am still here with all of you and I continue to work." In this case, Fair Trade provided the opportunity for Joana to begin investing in her future, in a house that was all her own.
Rebuilding with Fair Trade
Hinga Kawa Women's Cooperative - Rwanda, Africa
A part of the Abakunda Kawa cooperative in the northern mountainous region of Rwanda, Hinga Kawa encompasses a group of women who have joined together in the wake of the 1994 genocide to establish a unified voice for their very own coffee harvest. The more than 100 members offer a support network for one another, illustrating the common thread of determination and courage that connects them. Through collaborative decision making, the women of Hinga Kawa use Fair Trade premiums to improve the quality and quantity of their beans, provide scholarships and supplies that allow children to attend school, establish alternative sources of income, and focus attention women's issues.
"Many of us are widows or orphans [because of the genocide], and those who are married are still responsible for all of the work at home and in the coffee fields because our husbands spend the days in the villages trying to earn money. This is why we formed Hinga Kawa; it is a way for us to sell the coffee that we grew. It allows us to take pride in our work, and it is also a support network. It is a time for us to come together and talk about our hardships with other women who have experienced the same challenges. And it is a time for us to sing and dance... and laugh. For many women, this meeting might be the only time they've smiled all day." – Female Member of Hinga Kawa Cooperative
The success of Hinga Kawa spawned a movement across the sector and now women's associations have begun organizing and preparing to create their own models of empowerment, economic and community development at all the cooperatives. You can read more about the incredible women of Hinga Kawa and their story here.
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Click here to learn more about the women of Fair Trade and the Fair Trade standards that protect these mothers, daughters, sisters and friends that work so hard to bring us the products we love. Celebrate your Mom this Mother's Day by checking out our Fair Trade Mother's Day Gift Guide, giving you an opportunity to choose products that guarantee rights, protections, and a better life for women workers around the globe.


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Men like John Grimek, Bill Pearl, Sig Klein, Ed "Strangler" Lewis were the icons of their day. Physically impressive as body builders, but powerfully strong lifters. Those guys had it all.
You have read the Train Like A Strongman: Basic Course and you are hooked on the classic magazines like Strength & Health. You are buying up the Arthur Saxon books and old MILO literature. What you need now is the DVD.
Roger LaPointe has spent years studying the literature, training with some of the greats and documenting the tricks of the trade with video. Now you can benefit from his years of study. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. A DVD is worth even more.
Train Like A Strongman DVD Vol. 1 concentrates on "The Upper Body Squat", also known as the Pull-Over and the Power Clean & Press.
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With the Pull-Over you get footage of Bill Pearl's gym with Bill training Roger in some of the finer points of the pull-over. Roger has added additional footage of pull-over techniques you may have never seen performed live. This upper body move brings in the lats, chest, triceps, forearms and stomach. It was considered such a vital move the even Arthur Jones included the pullover machine in his line.
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The Power Clean & Press is such an important move, Roger created an entire couse built around the basic Olympic style moves for the Marine Martial Arts Instructor Trainer Division. Drawing on that much more lengthy live course, Roger concentrates on clean, it's differences with the power clean and the baics of the standing press. You get the additional contrasts and variations of using an Olympic barbell and a globe style barbell. You will learn the advantages of both and the best times and reasons to use each classic tool. Remember, the rotating Olympic barbell was brought into regular use in this country in 1932, so both tools were used in the same gyms by the same guys. Get some of their secrets here.
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Very low on the learning curve on some aspects of B-B-Qing and have 2 intitial questions.
I have been trying to grind my own meat to make hamburrger and wondering if other do this and if so what type of meet do they think grinds the best burgers. I have tried some chuck cuts and some sirloin, and my sirloin tends to be a bit dry (I am sure fat content has something to do with this).
Second, I know expensive steakhouses age their steaks up to 3 weeks in special coolers. Does anyone have a home version of how to age steak? Would a vacuum sealer be a usefull item to use in aging steak? How long do people age the beef for? Do some cuts of beef lend themselves to aging and some you should not age?
Thanks for any insight.
Love the books so far, have the Bible and the Rubs and Sauces book for about 2 weeks.


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NEW prop signings Roy Asotasi and Anthony England could both make their Warrington Wolves debuts on Sunday.
Both have been named in a 22-man squad for the friendly against Leigh Centurions at Leigh Sports Village.
Former New Zealand captain Asotasi has joined the club from South Sydney Rabbitohs, while ex-Featherstone Rovers front rower England is looking to follow in the footsteps of Chris Hill by succeeding in Super League after stepping up from the Championship.
For England, it would be his first game since shoulder reconstruction surgery last summer.
They are joined by Stefan Ratchford, who is set to make his comeback after injury in the Grand Final defeat to Wigan Warriors last October.
Other players with Super League experience in the mix for Sunday are Micky Higham, Danny Bridge, Ben Currie, Brad Dwyer, Ben Evans, Rhys Evans, James Laithwaite, Gareth O'Brien, Kevin Penny and Glenn Riley.
Wolves squad to face Leigh Centurions at Leigh Sports Village on Sunday, kick off 3pm: Andy Ackers, Roy Asotasi, Danny Bridge, Jordan Burke, Ben Currie, Brad Dwyer, Anthony England, Ben Evans, Rhys Evans, Micky Higham, Jack Johnson, George King, Toby King, James Laithwaite, Gareth O'Brien, Gene Ormsby, Kevin Penny, Joe Philbin, Stefan Ratchford, Glenn Riley, Ryan Shaw, Tom Walker.


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A base jumper glides through a hangar in a parachute at Tropical Islands in Brand, Germany, venue for the second Indoor Base World Cup. Sixty of the world's best jumpers, from 16 countries, will be competing from November 29 to December 1.
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Did you know?
Nelson Mandela was already in prison when the Lilliesleaf Farm police raid took place.
Liliesleaf Farm was for many years a meeting place and hide-out for top African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) personnel.
Liliesleaf Farm is widely regarded as the birthplace of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), and was the site of the Liliesleaf Farm police raid on 11 July 1963 that resulted in the Rivonia Treason Trials and eventual incarceration of many senior ANC leaders, including Nelson Mandela (who was not arrested in the raid), Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada, Raymond Mhlaba and Walter Sisulu.
The South African Communist Party bought the farm in August 1961 to use as headquarters for their efforts against the apartheid regime. At the same time, the ANC was moving its emphasis away from passive resistance and beginning to focus more on an armed struggle.
The Goldreich family moved in to masquerade as the white owners of the property and Nelson Mandela himself lived here while posing as a cook-cum-gardener under the name of David Motsamayi.
The trustees of the Liliesleaf Farm Museum want this landmark to rival Robben Island as an historical tourism attraction. Its aim is to create a unique facility that will ensure the preservation of the history and legacy of the farm.
The first phase of the Liliesleaf Farm Museum opened in 2008 and the full plan is to eventually have a boutique hotel, conference facilities, museum and learning centre on site.
Currently a number of travelling exhibitions visit the facility which also has plenty of educational projects under way. There is also a 60-seater conferencing facility and resource centre available, with catering provided.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Liliesleaf Farm Trust
Tel: +27 (0) 11 803 7882/3/4
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
How to get here
Liliesleaf Farm is at 7 George Avenue in Rivonia, Johannesburg. It is on many bus and taxi routes, and easily accessible by car.
Best time to visit
Liliesleaf Farm Museum is open from 8.30am to 5pm during the week and 9am and 4pm on weekends and public holidays. It is closed on December 25 and 26 as well as January 1.
Around the area
The Montecasino Entertainment Complex Sandton City
What will it cost
A standard self-guided tour is R65, and a guided tour R110 for adults. Children between the ages of 8 and 17 cost R30 and R70 respectively for self-guided and guided tours. Under 7s are free.
Length of stay
Give yourself at least half a day for the tour.
Where to stay
There are numerous guesthouses, hotels and award-winning boutique hotels in and around the Rivonia area.
What to eat
There's an excellent cafeteria on site at Liliesleaf selling light meals and refreshments.


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The Exploding Box
OMGOSH This is literally one of the most fun projects I've -ever- done. Display photographs to make a fantastic gift that opens when the box lid is pulled and suddenly the sides of the box fold down in petals to reveal up to 20 photographs and hold a small treasure of your liking. AND IT'S FREE!


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This article was published 15/1/2013 (1678 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
ASSASSINS, the unsettling Steven Sondheim musical about presidential killers, just won't die.
The 1990 ground-breaker has never found a large audience of Americans willing to accept the message that everyone's right to be happy can include trying to murder the President of the United States. Assassins has also suffered from bad timing, opening during times of war. It debuted off-Broadway in late 1990 during the Gulf War and closed after 73 performances in part because it was accused of being anti-American. A Broadway production was scheduled for 2001 but was cancelled for three years in the aftermath of 9/11.
"It's never been successful," says Adam Brazier, director of a Toronto touring production that is serving as the centerpiece of SondheimFest, opening Thursday.
Assassins has found a more receptive audience north of the border, although it, too, had to overcome unfortunate opening days. Only hours before the Birdland Theatre/Talk is Free Theatre co-production was to kick off in Toronto on Jan. 8, 2011, U.S. House of Representatives member Gabrielle Gifford was shot in the head by a gunman who killed six others. The Winnipeg run again comes a month after Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Connecticut.
"It show that Assassins continues to be incredibly relevant," says Brazier, who will be familiar to RMTC-goers for his work in The 39 Steps and as Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show. "It shows nothing has changed."
As outsiders, Canadian audiences can look at Sondheim's singing and dancing presidential killers -- John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, Lee Harvey Oswald, et. al. -- without having to contemplate some ugly truths about their society.
"It's very difficult for Americans to look upon themselves and comment," says Brazier, who made his Broadway debut in a 2002 revival of Sondheim's Into the Woods. "They are afraid of seeing themselves and their inherent violent nature. I think their economy is driven by violence and war and therefore driven by guns.
"They only want to believe they are right, they only want to see the good in themselves. This show takes the American Dream and calls it out."
Brazier says a true democracy is defined by action and policy, and when it comes to gun control there has been little action and no policy.
"It's a society that's based on fear," he says. "We see it as outsiders."
Sondheim has never been afraid to tackle some unlikely subjects in his musicals. Sweeney Todd was a murderous barber but he upped his killer count in Assassins, which may be his most socially conscious piece.
"Sondheim may seem intimidating to people who haven't done it or are used to Cats," says Brazier. "I've never found Sondheim difficult. It just makes perfect sense to me."
The Free Press News Cafe will host a wide-ranging discussion about the themes of Assassins along with a three-course dinner Thursday at 6 p.m. For reservations call 204-942-6537.
Theatre preview
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Warehouse
Opens Thursday, to Feb. 2
Tickets: $20-$43.50 at www.mtc.mb.ca


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Talib wrote:Are most speakers of Swahili Muslims? The language has become a lingua franca of the region, extending far beyond its original Urheimat.kwami wrote:You'd have the same religious significance for the Swahili.
In Zanzibar essentially everyone is Muslim. And Zanzibar is still a bit separatist. Swahili was partially "de-islamized" by the British, and this has caused some resentment among Muslims. So no, among Christians & animists, many of whom have historically seen Swahili as the language of the Arab slave trade, there is no love lost with the Arabic script, assuming they even know of it, which many probably do not. But it still does have religious significance for the Swahili people, I mean the ethnic Swahili, who are overwhelmingly Muslim.


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"The bomb will not start a chain-reaction in the water converting it all to gas and letting all the ships on all the oceans drop down to the bottom. It will not blow out the bottom of the sea and let all the water run down the hole. It will not destroy gravity. I am not an atomic playboy, as one of my critics labeled me, exploding these bombs to satisfy my personal whim." ~William H. P. Blandy.
"His personal courage, determination, and excellent leadership throughout were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service." ~Second Award of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal (first Gold Star) to William H. P. Blandy, July- September 1944.


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Thank you to reporter Savannah King for an excellent article on Harrison Summerour, the battalion commander of the Corps of Cadets at Riverside Military Academy. We appreciate the attention to an outstanding young man and the publicity for our school, but I must take issue with the headline of the article, "Leading future soldiers," which is inaccurate.
So I was at the gym earlier and conversation turned to Syria. "What do you think we should do?" "I don't know, what do you think we should do?"
All we heard for weeks after the legal shooting of Trayvon Martin was some so-called ministers in Atlanta and elsewhere screaming for justice because they knew before the trial and without ever having attended the trial that Trayvon was murdered.
Obamacare is a premeditated disaster. Insurance will become unaffordable due to the elimination of lifetime benefit caps; the requirement for insurance to pay 85 percent of income on patient care (vs. normal 65 percent); coverage of pre-
Laws that protect animals are being jeopardized by the House version of the national farm bill.
Having taught speech communication at the University of Georgia as a young Ph.D. in that academic field, and having later served as a speech coach for decades, I welcome the widespread celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, given 50 years ago on Wednesday, Aug. 28.
Have you ever wanted to know more about your Hall County law enforcement?
The New Holland Community (Milliken Mill Village) is the home of many senior citizens and families with young children who love their quiet, historic community. The village is over 100 years old, and many people in Hall County have recent and past connections to the mill and its village.
I just recently heard about the tragic story of the young man from Australia who was murdered. He was a baseball player from that country. He was white, killed by three teens, two of them black.
It seems to me that everyone has taken their eye off the ball, to use a favorite phrase of President Barack Obama's. In the alleged "phony scandal" over Benghazi, the issue is not really whether or not a rescue team could have reached the embassy in time.
It is good to know there are still good and honest people around. When my husband got off work last Thursday at midnight, he stopped by the Wal-Mart in Oakwood to pick up milk. Being tired, he left his wallet behind. He didn't notice until he woke up on Friday that it was missing.
The America I knew - I wish I could snap my fingers and bring it back. If I could, I would put God back in our schools. I would give parents back the right to pop their kids' backsides if they got out of line. Policemen and policewomen would go back to remembering taxpayers pay their salary and would not have the right to holler "police!" after they have knocked your door down.
Are we losing the America we had revered since childhood? The America we served, fought for, and so many died for?
I would like to respond to Barbara Butler's letter on Monday regarding the cutting of food stamps. It is a shame that a veteran that has served this once (and hopefully can be again) great nation such as yourself can only receive $16 per month.
In his July 12 letter, Steven Salamon spoke about the need to have a national conversation regarding appropriate limits to government intrusion into the privacy of citizens and their communications. More than once, Mr. Salamon seemed to suggest it was no big deal.
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ASCO Annual Meeting
June 1, 2013
According to a recent study, initial treatment with the drug cetuximab (Erbitux) plus the chemotherapy regimen FOLFIRI lengthens the lives of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer when compared with bevacizumab (Avastin) plus FOLFIRI. The chemotherapy regimen FOLFIRI includes the drugs leucovorin (Wellcovorin), fluorouracil (5-FU, Adrucil), and irinotecan (Camptosar).
Cetuximab and bevacizumab are types of targeted therapy, a treatment that targets the cancer's specific genes, proteins, or the tissue environment that contributes to cancer growth and survival. However, they each target a different method that a cancer can use to grow and spread. Cetuximab and bevacizumab are both commonly used as an initial treatment for colorectal cancer. Cetuximab is only approved for patients with no mutation (change) in the KRAS gene (often called KRAS wildtype), and bevacizumab works for patients with or without a changed KRAS gene, but researchers have not known which of these two drugs is better for patients who do not have a mutated KRAS gene.
As part of this study, 592 patients with a non-mutated KRAS gene received either initial treatment with FOLFIRI plus cetuximab or FOLFIRI plus bevacizumab. Researchers found that it took about the same amount of time for the cancer to worsen, regardless of the treatment used. However, those who received cetuximab lived around four months longer than those who received bevacizumab.
What this means for patients
"This survival benefit is similar to the survival benefit seen in the clinical trials that led to the approval of cetuximab and bevacizumab for colorectal cancer," said Volker Heinemann, MD, PhD, Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Munich in Germany. "We suspected that cetuximab would work better but we didn't know this would translate into better survival."
Questions to Ask Your Doctor
- What type of colorectal cancer do I have?
- What is the stage? What does this mean?
- Will my tumor be tested for a KRAS mutation?
- What are my treatment options?
- What treatment plan do you recommend? Why?
- What are the risks and benefits of this treatment plan?
For More Information
Understanding Targeted Treatments
What to Know: ASCO's Guideline on Tumor Markers for Gastrointestinal Cancers


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Solar System Wall Clock
Sure to please the space aficianado. This clock's black face is silk screened with planetary bodies and their orbits, all centered around the sun. I can see it spurring debates over Pluto's planetary status, and what space even really is. Great housewarming gift for space-people or wall decoration for kids.


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Rosh Hashanah literally means Head (rosh) of the (ha) Year (shanah) or New Year. The holiday starts at sundown on Wednesday, Sept. 8 this year.
The holiday is celebrated on the first day of the month of Tishrei, the seventh month of the year on the Jewish calendar.
So what's up with that crazy Jewish calendar? Well I thought I'd answer some questions you might have been too polite to ask in the most smart-ass, but accurate, way.
How do I wish someone a good holiday?
That's the No. 1 I'm asked every year.
Happy holidays.
Happy New Year.
Happy Rosh Hashanah.
Have a good few days off! See you Monday!
Also appropriate:
Are you getting together with your family?
You going to Florida for a few days?
Tell me again, is this a happy holiday?
Doesn't God frown on taking a cruise during the holidays rather than going to temple?
You god damn Jews get so many holidays. (However, that's the one I've been greeted with many times by well-meaning … well, you know who you are).


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Chemtrails is a recent phenomenon I started to observe around 2009.
At this time I had very little knowledge about geoengineering or even basic chemistry. I then started to familiarize myself with such phenomenons as they began to occupy further lines of dissipated white lines across unaffected clouds. I then further observed the phenomenon, and noted down the dates of such "phenomenons" taking guess on their physical attributes and noticed they were from man-operated aircrafts or some kind of cloaked aerial origin. (geoengineering, synthetic biology)
WW2 (World war 2) was for me a couple of popular American movie scenes including films and other things dealing with Jews being intoxicated with poisonous gas in concentration camps. I was not very interested in them and neither in the chemotherapy eugenic "science" which resulted in thousands of deaths. (chemotherapy)
Chuck: How much of yourself are you willing to change to get rid of the trails?
Oracle: Seriously what is wrong with you ?
Chuck: I love you! Thats what wrong with me. :)
Oracle: I know... You seem in love with everybody.
Chuck: not everybody love you as much i do... thats for sure :)
Oracle: Fair enough. I have encountered enough psychotics to be sure you're not one of them.
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"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein


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Routine outcome assessment or Routine Outcome Measurement (ROM) is increasingly being adopted as part of everyday clinical practice.
There are a number of factors leading to this development
- The philosophies of evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence both favour the production of clinical outcome data in order to facilitate clinical decision making.
- The development if a number of convenient instruments has meant that clinicans with an interest in exploring the outcome of their work have easy, and sometimes free, access to the appropriate tools
- Purchasers of psychological treatments, whether individuals, or organizations are increasingly calling for data demonstrating treatment efffectiveness.
- Clinical managers increasingly call for such data in order to monitor the services provided
Instruments suitable for the routine assessment of clinical outcomeEdit
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- Tansella,M., Thornicroft, G. (2001) Mental Health Outcome Measures (second edition). London: Gaskell
- Thornicroft, G., Tansella, M. (1996) Mental Health Outcome Measures. Berlin; New York: Springer
- Barkham, M., Evans, C, Margison, E, McGrath, G., Mellor-Clark, J. etal. (1998).The rationale for developing and implementing core outcome batteries for routine- use in service settings ind psychotherapy outcome research. Journal of Mental Health, 7(1).35-47.
- Holloway. K. (2(H)2). Outcome measures in mental health: Welcome to the revolution. British Journal of Psychiatry,181,1-2
- Lambert, .M.. Hansen, N.& Finch, A, (2001). Patient focused reseach: Using patient outcome data to enhance treatment effects.Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 69(2), 159-172.
- Lambert, M., and Hill, C. (1994) Assessing psychotherapy outcomes and processes. A. Bergin and S.Garfield (eds) Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change (fourth edition). New York: Wiley
- National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) (2002) Outcome Measures for Routine Practice in Mental Health Services. London: NIMHE [1].
- Slade, M., Thornicroft, G. and Glover, G. (1999) The feasibility of routine outcome measures in mental health. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 34, 243-249
- Salvi, G., Leese, M. & Slade, M. (2005) Routine use of mental health outcome assessments: choosing the measure. British Journal of Psychiatry, 186: 146-152.
- Sperlinger, D. (2002). Outcome assessment in routine clinical practice in psychosocial services. Measuring Outcomes in Routine Clinical Practice, I. Leicester: British Psychological Society (Division of Clinical Psychology).Full text


text: Hey guys I have been going through my gear regrouping and one thing stands out to me. For the past few trips I have made packing in I have struggled with daily calorie count yet packing light. I normally pack in for five - seven days at a time. I am not quite as high tech as some here but would like to be more efficient when packing in food. What are you guys packing in for meals to get that calorie count. Also how are you efficiently packing that food in your pack. I feel like I need 2400-2500 calories a day to keep up my energy level as I am constantly on the move. I will be honest I have never pack in any freeze dried meals and feel this my be a good way to lighten up the pack significantly. I have packed in some MRE meals but find they are just as bulky but at least they have that calorie count needed. Any tips would be appreciated. Mark


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Here's one of the things I've come to realize by running a great deal of stock screens: Oftentimes, less-than-glamorous industries quietly work their way into prominence, far from the spotlight on tech, apparel, financials and other media-friendly sub-sectors.
This phenomenon came to mind over the weekend, when I noticed the replacement-auto-parts industry has been on the rise in recent months. I'll get to the more well-known names in a moment, but I'd like to start with a look at an under-the-radar name: Dorman Products (DORM), which deals in aftermarket auto parts.
Car aficionados know the company's name, but this is certainly not one that gets much love in the financial press. Yet, during Wednesday's wide market rally, the small-cap stock rallied to an all-time high. I'm not enthusiastic about the potential for individual small-caps in a portfolio -- but, for a more speculative idea, Dorman has some potential.
The stock pulled back slightly Thursday, and is currently finding support above its short-term exponential moving averages. After a solid march upward since September 2011, it would not be out of the question for Dorman to see a significant pullback in the not-so-distant future. Such a pullback could be constructive, as it would mean exits by shareholders lacking in conviction -- so these moves often set the stage for value shoppers to pick up shares at bargain prices.
Dorman is expected to report its fourth-quarter and full-year results next month. For 2012, analysts have pegged earnings per share at $1.87, which would constitute a gain of 20% vs. 2011. This year, earnings are expected to come in at $2.22 per share -- a 19% rise from the 2012 consensus target.
There's been plenty of analysis into the auto-parts industry, with observers citing the explosion in car repair vs. car purchasing throughout the weak U.S. economy. However, much has also been made of the slowdown in business for auto-parts retailers. Shares of AutoZone (AZO), a large-cap that's part of the S&P 500, have struggled since hitting resistance just below $400 last April and May. At this point, the stock is trading below its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, but it has been attempting a rally for the past couple weeks.
Revenue and earnings growth in the name have slowed in recent quarters -- not a hallmark of a stock with rapid price appreciation. Earnings growth is seen at 18% this year and 13% in 2014.
So, for now, AutoZone is a stock I'd leave alone. Not only are the top- and bottom-line numbers showing deterioration, but it pays no dividend -- and, as noted above, the technicals don't exactly scream "buy me" right now. When the stock regains its 200-line, that may be a time to reevaluate a potential purchase. However, for me to really get behind this stock, the sales and earnings performance would most likely have to show an improvement over expectations.
AutoZone rival O'Reilly (ORLY) is faring slightly better when it comes to chart performance. With a market cap of $10.5 billion, this stock is right on the line between mid-cap and large-cap, and it closed Friday at $91.65 -- 1.3% above its 200-day average. Still, its 200-day line is still higher than the 50-day, which is not an ideal situation. In addition, O'Reilly shares have some work to do before they regain the prior high of $108.82.
The company has confirmed it will report its fourth quarter on Feb. 6. For the full year of 2012, analysts see earnings of $4.69 per share, which would be a gain of 23% over 2011.


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LOVE THIS! I'm really not a makeup person. Mascara and chapstick are my exclusive staples for everyday, but I've now added this...! It adds the perfect sweet flush to your cheeks. You look like you've just had 7 min in the closet with your crush, or just saw that special someone who makes your heart skip a beat. Since I'd never tried this product, the $20+ price tag seemed steep for something I might not like, so I bought the sample size for $6. Well worth it and now you can bet I'll be going back for the full-size. Am I blushing? No, it's OOOOOOO-Glow! :)


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Tiny Tots - Honeybees - Center for Science Teaching and Learning
Hours: 9:30am
Ages: TOD
Price: $8
1 Tanglewood Rd. - 516-764-0045
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Description: Kids 18 months to 3 years old can participate in a variety of fun adventures. Some are indoors, others are outdoors, but all in all, kids learn about the world around them.