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After a few days of experimenting with WordPress, I wanted to make some initial observations on the process of importing from Blogger and the advantages and disadvantages I've found so far.
I had already set up a WordPress account before, so I could leave comments on WordPress blogs, so setting up my own blog required only a few clicks. I was annoyed, however, that they only allow letters and numbers in your URL, so I had to go with corthodoxy.wordpress.com rather than c-orthodoxy (as on Blogger). Setting up the blog and choosing a theme was simple, and unlike with Blogger, many of the WordPress themes actually look good unmodified (for a point of contrast, see what my current Blogger theme looked like before I modified it, here). It's a good thing, too, because they let you change precious little about the theme you choose--but more on that in a bit.
Importing from Blogger was also pretty easy. There is a page in the Dashboard specially devoted to importing and exporting, and it took only a few clicks and a bit of waiting for them to transfer all 350+ posts and 990 comments from Blogger. I did have a couple of hiccups: the process seemed to hang up about two-thirds of the way through. So I ran it again and this time it seemed to hang up almost immediately. But when I checked the blog itself I found that all the posts had imported just fine.
The only real problem I had with the import, and it was a minor one, was with the tags. I use a lot of labels on my posts, and I was very pleased to see that WordPress imported them as well. However, for some reason about a dozen posts had one or more tags replaced by a long number. Further, when I had thought the first import failed and tried it again, it was these posts which WordPress re-imported (since it skips those it has already done), leaving me with two copies of each of those posts, one with the correct tags (but no comments) and the other with comments but incorrect tags. I have no idea what would cause such a glitch, but it took a good hour to sort it out. All in all, however, I was very impressed with the importing process and, even if I decide to stick with Blogger, at the least it has given me a backup if I ever need it.
So on to the advantages and disadvantages:
Advantages of WordPress over Blogger:
- The first and most important is the one that led me to try WordPress in the first place--the need to create a usable backup of my content. Blogger makes this both "dangerous and unpredictable" (to quote Ben Linus), but WordPress makes it remarkably easy. Not only was I able to transfer everything from Blogger to WordPress (and this itself is a form of backup), it only took moments to download the entire contents of the blog (posts, comments, tags, pages, etc.) into a nice and small xml file (mine was 3.1mb). To make sure the file is actually usable, I set up a test blog (kenbrown.wordpress.com) and uploaded it, and it seemed to work fine, or should I say: and there was much rejoicing!
- Of less importance but still high on the list of advantages is WordPress' generally more aesthetically pleasing look and feel. I think the WordPress version looks far better and more professional than the Blogger version, and judging by the poll, most of you agree (if you don't let me know). While for long term readers (especially those using RSS feed) the look of the blog is not the most important thing, for first time visitors it can make a big difference to whether they stick around, and I am willing to put up with a few functional limitations for the sake of a cleaner and more professional look.
- While Blogger strips out all the formatting (except hyperlinks) when you copy text into its post editor, WordPress preserves it. Since I often compose my posts in Word and copy them into the editor, this is a huge plus, as it saves me the hassle of either: 1. Manually adding html to the post as I compose it, or 2. Manually restoring italics and other formatting after copying into the editor. WordPress also allows me to add a fold so that longer posts need not take up so much space on the main page (as I've done with this post on the WordPress version), and allows you make posts "sticky" (always at the top of the page).
- WordPress version seems to load faster and more smoothly than the Blogger version.
- WordPress allows much better control over categories and tags. Blogger has only one kind of label system, while WordPress has two, allowing you to put posts in broad categories which are listed at the bottom of page, and provide more specific tags which can be displayed or not (I've got it set to show just the most common tags in a cloud). Since I had collected nearly 600 labels here on Blogger, the ability to organize them in this way was a big advantage for WordPress. Perhaps even better, WordPress allows global editing of tags and categories. I can change the name of a tag once and apply it to every post I've ever used the tag on. I can also convert tags to categories and categories to tags, either individually or all at once, none of which Blogger allows.
- WordPress allows pages (e.g. this one), while Blogger does not.
- WordPress offers much better comment management on the back end, and just added comment threading as an option.
- WordPress only shows real trackbacks, not those annoying fake ones that show up on practically every Blogger post ever since they added their new blogroll widget.
- On the other hand, WordPress places severe limitations on your ability to modify themes, and each theme determines a vast range of settings on your blog. For instance, the theme I am currently using only allows you to change the masthead image--that's it--you cannot adjust the color scheme, fonts, text size, layout, etc. In Blogger this is true to a limited extend. For instance, the template I am currently using allows me to change some aspects of the color scheme but not others, and I have no control over things like column width. But WordPress goes further, tying all sorts of other settings to the theme, like whether archives show full posts or only excerpts, or which widgets you can use. You have to pay $15 a year if you want to be able to modify the CSS, and even then you are quite limited in what you can change.
- Related to this, WordPress offers a much more limited range of widgets than Blogger, and gives you much less control over the widgets themselves. For instance, the only option you have for the blogroll is to add categories. You cannot even control what order the links appear in--it is alphabetical whether you like it or not. If you want to make a separate list of links (as I have for "featured posts") you have to code it manually using the text editor, because there is no option to add a second link list besides the blogroll (at least not in this theme). Similarly, you can add a tag cloud or a categories cloud, but you have no control at all over how many search terms it will include or how to display them.
- Unlike Blogger, with WordPress you are also limited to 3 GB of media; it's $20 a year if you want 5 GB more. I'm not sure how big of a deal this is yet, since it doesn't seem to count the pictures that I had already uploaded on the posts I imported from Blogger (even though it kept them), and even the YouTube video I posted this week is not being counted against my total. But I'm not sure if that is just an error--I coded it in manually rather than using the built in "add video" button, since I didn't notice that button until after I'd done it myself. In fact, the only "media" it is counting right now is the masthead image, using up a miniscule 32kb.
- WordPress (or is it just the theme I chose?) doesn't allow comment previews, which may not matter to some people but to a perfectionist like me, that's kind of a big deal. In fact, you have no choice but to include the comment field on the same page as the post (Blogger lets you choose between several options).
- Finally, WordPress does not allow Java. They have a work-around for YouTube and a few other things, but not for others. For instance, you cannot use GoogleAnalytics with WordPress, which is a bummer, though not a huge deal.
Finally, some things that don't really fall into the advantages or disadvantages categories, but annoyed me just the same. Take them with a grain of salt as I'm certain I've run across at least as many with Blogger over the last 18 months, I've just gotten used to them and so forgotten what they were:
The Dashboard is a bit counter-intuitive, to me at least. The comment emails WordPress sends are much harder to read than those Blogger sends (but on the plus side, they only send emails for other people's comments, not your own). The built-in statistics are very limited, and for some reason they divide days based on GMT, rather than local time (I can't call this a disadvantage because Blogger does not include built-in statistics at all). You can't import WordPress back into Blogger (again, I can't call this a disadvantage because the problem is with Blogger, not with WordPress, but still--it does mean that if you switch to WordPress, there's no easy way to go back).
All in all then, I'm still pretty divided on whether I should switch. I really like the look of WordPress (at least with this particular theme), and the ability to do simple back-ups is a big deal. On the other hand, while individually none of the disadvantages are all that bad, they are not trivial. The limitations on modifying themes and widgets are probably the most annoying, though much less important to me than they would be if Blogger (with its very bland templates) imposed the same limitations. The 3GB media limit may turn out to be a bigger deal, but I don't post that many pictures anyway, and I'm not sure what all will actually be included in that total, so I'm not sure. The biggest thing is just the hassle of making people update their RSS feeds and blogrolls, but that's only temporary. Thus I am leaning towards WordPress, but I'm gonna wait a few more days before deciding and am still eager to hear your feedback.


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Hi have a good break where you of to.
I think making your pets safe and looked after makes the hols a lot better (peace of mind ) Have a good one , read when you get back.
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Hi All - Hope that everyone is well (both people and pets). Been away on hols so have a lot of reading to catch up with everyone and find out what you are all up to. We went to Menorca Bob and it was absolutely wonderful - had such a good relaxing time (want to go back again before the end of the year). I was happy to get home though to see the cats and the chickens. I am very happy to report that everyone was fine on our return. The cat lady had done a marvellous job and the chickens were spoilt rotten. I really think Violet and Rose were glad to be home in their own little run. When I let them out of the "cat carrier" (that's how they travel, in style) they ran around making lovely little happy noises and immediately had a dust bath. It was lovely having our little family back. Will catch up soon and do a proper post.
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Hi everyone - Hope you are all well and your flocks are thriving and enjoying this sunshine. Looking forward to a long weekend now (begins at 5:00pm today) and am hoping that this nice weather stays - although I must admit the chooks do get a bit hot. It's amazing that they seem to do better in the cold weather than on really hot days. I don't like to see them walking around with their wings partly open and beaks open, but I suppose it's the only way they can try to stay a bit cooler. Rose & Violet thankfully seem to be doing well without Mary, although they like to spend as much time as possible with me. I really believe that they missed her a lot to begin with, but thank goodness they have each other. I've always known that these chickens are clever, but Rose and Vi know how to open the door of their run. I have two locks on the run door, top and bottom. When I am in and out feeding, watering, cleaning etc. I don't bother to put the locks on. Between them they know when the lock is off and work together with their beaks to open up the door (I kept wondering how they were escaping) and them I caught them red beaked!! Clever girls!!!! Well, I am hoping for a nice weekend with lots of chicken and garden time (and cat time) and I hope everyone else is in for a nice time to. I also need to take some more photo's to post (have been a bit lapse her lately) so will try to do that as well this weekend.
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I have visions of your hens standing on top of eachother to reach the locks!
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
--Immanuel Kant
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Hi , sure do watch for any opportunity to be naughty .
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Me too
The Pink Ladies..Audrey, Veronica, Charlie, Blossom,Merle-Oberon & Lauren-Bacall ,Cyd-Charisse,Ingrid-Bergman,Georgia,Madeleline,Myfawny & Monica-Rose
The Peds…Suranne,Miriam,Jennifer,Nancy,
,Ivy,Bjork & Vorky
Sunny Clucker was ere July 12-21 2012
Sunny Clucker was ere July 6 2016 to Sept 9th 2017
Sunny Clucker is here , rehomed Aug 18th 2018/
Remembering my girls in the Elysian Fields, Diary Section
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These girls are so clever. They watch me to see if I put the locks on. If I do, they don't even attempt to try to open the door. If they notice that I haven't put lock on, the pair of them open it together with their beaks!! My husband witnessed it yesterday and couldn't believe how clever they were.
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Blimey, that's impressive.
I always reckoned Ginger was my bright one, she always seemed to be taking everything in, but I wouldn't have expected that level of problem solving. You'll have to watch out or they'll be in your kitchen, raiding the fridge.
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My girls enjoying a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon gardening with Mum.
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ah good chickeny fun! they're looking very nice, their feathers look almost laced, must be the sunshine.
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Mathetes posted this Washington Times story in a comment and I had to use it.
Sometimes, watching a Democrat learn something is wonderful, like seeing the family dog finally sit and stay at your command.
With President Obama back in office and his life-saving "fiscal cliff" bill jammed through Congress, the new year has brought a surprising turn of events for his sycophantic supporters.
"What happened that my Social Security withholding's in my paycheck just went up?" a poster wrote on the liberal site DemocraticUnderground.com. "My paycheck just went down by an amount that I don't feel comfortable with. I guarantee this decrease is gonna' hurt me more than the increase in income taxes will hurt those making over 400 grand. What happened?"
Shocker. Democrats who supported the president's re-election just had NO idea that his steadfast pledge to raise taxes meant that he was really going to raise taxes. They thought he planned to just hit those filthy "1 percenters," you know, the ones who earned fortunes through their inventiveness and hard work. They thought the free ride would continue forever.
So this week, as taxes went up for millions of Americans — which Republicans predicted throughout the campaign would happen — it was fun to watch the agoggery of the left.
"I know to expect between $93 and $94 less in my paycheck on the 15th," wrote the ironically named "RomneyLies."
"My boyfriend has had a lot of expenses and is feeling squeezed right now, and having his paycheck shrink really didn't help," wrote "DemocratToTheEnd."
"BlueIndyBlue" added: "Many of my friends didn't realize it, either. Our payroll department didn't do a good job of explaining the coming changes."
[…]The Twittersphere was even funnier.
"Really, how am I ever supposed to pay off my student loans if my already small paycheck keeps getting smaller? Help a sister out, Obama," wrote "Meet Virginia." "Nancy Thongkham" was much more furious. "F***ing Obama! F*** you! This taking out more taxes s*** better f***ing help me out!! Very upset to see my paycheck less today!"
"_Alex™" sounded bummed. "Obama I did not vote for you so you can take away alot of money from my checks." Christian Dixon seemed crestfallen. "I'm starting to regret voting for Obama." But "Dave" got his dander up over the tax hike: "Obama is the biggest f***ing liar in the world. Why the f*** did I vote for him"?
If there was one thing that conservatives made clear on our blogs over and over again, it's that Obama could only get $80 billion a year by restoring the Clinton-era tax rates on people who earn over $250,000 per year. All the conservative bloggers knew that we had run up over $5 trillion in deficits during Obama's first term, and that a few billion wouldn't put a dent in it. You have to wonder how these liberals are informing themselves before voting. Do they pay attention to actual numbers, or is it all just emotional for them? Everyone knows that the Democrat Party is the party of higher taxes, and everyone should have known that they would never be able to pay for all of their spending by taxing only the top earners.
UPDATE: Nancy Pelosi, who would like to get rid of the debt ceiling completely, has now called for more taxes in future fiscal cliff deals. Surprise, surprise – this is the only way that they can pay for the trillions in spending.


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File and directory folder loss reasons:
File deletion.
The file system is displayed as "RAW".
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PTFE seals
In most cases, small diameter PTFE seals are shipped on a tube that maintains a nominal seal inside diameter (smaller than shaft diameter) during storage. Therefore, they should not be removed from the shipping tube until immediately prior to installation. Also, if quality inspections must be done, SKF recommends that the shipping tube remains in place. The seal inside diameter cannot be accurately measured anyway after manufacturing as the PTFE lip configuration changes over time as it relaxes.
PTFE formulations used for radial lip seals are generally more aggressive and abrasive to the shaft than standard elastomeric materials. Therefore, PTFE sealing lips require a surface hardness value of 58 to 62 HRC. An alternative to a hardened shaft surface is the use of an SKF wear sleeve, manufactured to the same high standards such as the inner rings of SKF needle roller bearings, offering an excellent sealing surface.
In applications where PTFE seals will be retaining a lubricant or be fully flooded with a fluid, the seals should be installed dry. In applications that run dry or will be starved for lubrication, the sealing lip should be pre-lubricated with a grease appropriate for the temperature conditions of the application.
At temperatures above 300 °C (570 °F), all fluoro elastomers and PTFE compounds give off dangerous fumes. This can occur, for example, if a welding torch is used when removing a bearing. Although the fumes are only produced at such high temperatures, once heated, the seals will be dangerous to handle even when they have cooled down. If it is necessary to handle PTFE or fluoro elastomer seals that have been subjected to the high temperatures mentioned above, the following safety precautions should be observed:
If there is contact with your skin, this should be washed with soap and plenty of water. Wash your eyes with plenty of water if these materials get into your eyes. A doctor should always be consulted. This also applies if the fumes have been inhaled.
- Protective goggles and gloves should always be worn.
- The remains of seals should be put in an airtight plastic container marked "Material will etch".
- Comply with the safety precautions included in the material safety data that can be provided upon request.
If there is contact with your skin, this should be washed with soap and plenty of water. Wash your eyes with plenty of water if these materials get into your eyes. A doctor should always be consulted. This also applies if the fumes have been inhaled.
Installation procedure
PTFE lips do not have the same elastic properties as rubber lips, which makes them more susceptible to damage. Therefore, special care must be taken during installation and handling to prevent damage and help ensure proper operation and function. Shaft features such as keyways and splines, as well as drill holes, ports and sharp-edged shaft steps have the potential to damage PTFE lips. Whenever possible, these obstructions can be covered by using thin-walled installation tools made from plastic or metal.
PTFE lip orientation during installation will determine the installation method. Installation is more difficult when the shaft is installed against the PTFE lip (fig 1 and fig 2). This type of installation becomes even more complicated when the hardware is difficult to access or visually obstructed and may not be possible if an installation tool cannot be used. In any case, when the shaft is installed against the PTFE lip, SKF recommends the use of an installation cone or "bullet". SKF can quote and manufacture installation cones if detailed drawings of the shaft and sealing areas are provided. In lieu of installation cones, longer than normal lead-in chamfers on the shaft would be required. However, shaft features that could damage the seal (keyways, etc.) must still be covered, possibly with tape.
Some seals have two PTFE lips facing opposite directions. In this case, installation is always against one of the lips and an installation cone is recommended.


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Jones Finds Niche On Creighton's Team
Junior Big Part Of Bluejays' Success
Creighton's basketball team is now 17-2 and they've won seven in a row. One reason for that is Josh Jones.
Jones has grown up, in a basketball sense, right before our eyes. First he played at Omaha Central and now is a key contributor for the 18th-ranked Bluejays.
Jones is a sparkplug and a terrific quote, but most importantly, he's comfortable in his role on a team that's on a roll.
"I am not worried about my shots," Jones said. "I'm just worried about knocking them down when I have to."
The fourth-year junior admits he'd love to shoot more, but he's more concerned about the bottom line.
"Knowing when and where to take the shot is crucial, because a lot of times I could have taken the shot, but it probably would have hurt us in the long run, so I am just valuing those things more for the betterment of the team," he said.
Jones biggest improvement is on the defensive end of the floor. He played a huge role in Wednesday's win at Missouri State.
"He's much better," said Creighton coach Greg McDermott. "He still has room to grow and he drifts once in awhile on that end of the floor, but he's really, really made good stride."
"The word 'maturity' is understanding when and where to play my role," said Jones. "I have always understood the concepts of basketball, I just didn't know when and where to do what I am supposed to do."
The Jays take on Indiana State on Saturday at the Century Link Center with a 2 p.m. tipoff.


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SportsCopyright: RWTH Aachen
The RWTH Sports Center offers university employees and students a comprehensive range of more than 90 different sports and over 500 courses, most of which are free of charge.
The Center hosts extensive leisure and sports facilities such as gyms, fitness rooms, weights rooms, a pool, a beach sports area, a football field, a modern running track as well as tennis courts. For sports such as climbing or riding, the Sports Centre cooperates with various sports centres in and around Aachen. Most water sports courses offered by the Sports Centre take place at Wildenhof, a university-owned property the Rursee lake. For more information, please visit University Sports and Recreation.
In addition, RWTH Aachen University has a very active staff sports association, which offers a range of sports and activities, from volleyball, football and table tennis to water sports and even the card game skat. Taking part in sport is a great way of meeting colleagues from different disciplines and departments. Partners of RWTH employees can also participate in the sports on offer.
The city of Aachen has numerous private sports centres and gyms, tennis, squash and badminton courts, an ice rink and a climbing wall. There are also several golf courses within easy reach of the city, five indoor swimming pools and one outdoor pool.
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And she says she's not a con-artist squatter, she's a victim.
"I didn't get lunch breaks, I didn't get coffee breaks, I didn't get any holidays. Basically, I was working 24/7," she told Los Angeles' KNX 1070 news radio. "They were the ones that were trying to exploit me, as if I was some poor migrant worker from a foreign country that they could just exploit and work 24/7."
The saga began back in March when Marcella Bracamonte hired Stretton as a nanny to take care of her three children and to help out with household chores.
But the relationship soured after a few months, and what happened next depends on who you ask. Bracamonte says she fired Stretton, but Stretton says she quit.
"I wasn't fired, unless you can be fired after you quit," she said in the radio interview. "I quit two days before they fired me. And I gave 30 days of notice, which we had agreed to."
CNN reached out to Bracamonte for reaction to Stretton's radio interview but had not heard back Monday evening.
However it went down, a California judge sided with Stretton, ruling that the Bracamontes did not terminate the nanny's employment in a legal manner.
Stretton refused to leave the Bracamonte home in Upland, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, and police told the family they couldn't force her out without an eviction notice.
Even the Bracamontes' attorney says the ruling was correct by law. "She has absolutely every right to stay in the house at this time," Marc Cohen told CNN. "Under the law in California (eviction) can take 30 to 45 days."
The family said Stretton threatened to sue if they tried to force her out.
CNN discovered that Stretton is on the California's Vexatious Litigant List, a list of people who continually bring legal action, regardless of merit, against others with the sole intention of harassment. CNN found dozens of lawsuits filed by Stretton in California over the years.
There were signs Monday night that the impasse was nearing an end.
Marcella Bracamonte told CNN's Sara Sidner that Stretton -- who is currently sleeping in her car, while all of her belongings remain inside Bracamontes' home -- offered to move out over the July Fourth weekend.
But Bracamonte said that can't happen. "We're going to a wedding, it has been planned for a year," she said. "My sister is getting married on a cruise ship and we're going."


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So John Powell has decided to be Shawn Michaels this month, deciding to take a vacation instead of doing the job. So you\'re stuck with me this month as VENGEANCE IS MINE!!!!!! (I\'ve always wanted to say that.)
I don\'t know if the apathy I am sensing from you is for me covering or at the thought of two matches with McMahons in them, but last night�s Vengeance Pay Per View in the other side of the Rockies from me in Denver, Colorado was the best PPV offering since Wrestlemania.
Unlike last month\'s Bad Blood that relied heavily on skits involving co-GM\'s Bischoff and Austin, Vengeance kept the action to the ring and it paid off.
The main event of the evening featured Kurt Angle hitting his Angle Slam on The Big Show, then catching Lesnar in the move and getting a surprise pinfall. Kudos to the three SLAM! Staff who guessed this one, because I didn\'t see it coming.
The no disqualification match started off with a stare down between Angle and Lesnar, before they both went after Show. The big man sent Kurt to the outside and chokeslammed Lesnar right off the bat for a near fall. Show dominated early on in the match with clotheslines and power moves. Lesnar came back with a shoulderblock off the second rope and tried for the F-5 but Show powered out of it. Angle retrieved Garbage Can lids and the dynamic duo took turns nailing the big challenger. Show came back and went for the Double-Chokeslam, but Angle and Lesnar teamed up to chokeslam him. Lesnar hit a proper F-5 on Show later (as opposed to the usual more DVDish version).
As the match continued, Angle ended up busted open. Show sat Lesnar on the top and started to climb. Angle\'s distraction provided for the first surreal spot of the match, as Lesnar slid to the mat and hit a running powerbomb on The Big Show. Angle broke up the pinfall with a chair shot, then took Lesnar out with a chair to the head busting him open as well. Angle and Show end up on the outside, and another holy crap moment happens with an Angle Slam through the Spanish announce table.
Lesnar and Angle crawled into the ring and made it to their feet, trading blows back and fourth. Lesnar teased an F-5 over the top rope to the floor, but instead just tosses Kurt over the top. Back in the ring, Lesnar took the sick looking face bump out of the German Suplex, but came back with a spinebuster. A bodyscissors was broken up by Show, who then hit the double-chokeslam. Lesnar kicked out, Show covered Angle for another two. After an ankle-lock was broken up, they went into the finish to end the spectacular match.
The other incredibly hyped match of the night was one-legged wonder Zack Gowan against Vince McMahon. Although at times slow, it was not nearly as awful as predicted and was a well-structured match. Vince overpowered Gowan during much of the match, and did the sensible thing by working on his leg. When Gowan retaliated, he had the crowd behind him as he hit one legged dropkicks, second rope legdrops, and Asai moonsaults. A moonsault only got a two count for Gowan. McMahon went for a chair late in the match and mistakenly held the sharp edge of the chair towards himself instead of the flat end when Gowan hit a one-legged Van-Daminator. The result was a nasty gash in the side of Vince\'s head that literally spurts blood. Zack missed corkscrew moonsault and McMahon made the cover for the pin. Gowan received a standing ovation from the crowd after the match. We know what wonders that did for Chris Benoit�s career.
The next WWE pay-per-view is Summerslam, presented by RAW and Smackdown on August 24th.
Jason Clevett resides in Calgary, Alberta and is a frequent guest on the Ringside Manner Radio show, including the post-PPV show available now at their website, http://ringsidemanner.tripod.com/


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The National Archives and Records Administration-Northeast Region is tucked away in the heart of Manhattan, in the nation's cultural and financial center. The artifacts of our country's diverse history are preserved in more than 65,000 cubic feet of carefully organized and managed records. The Northeast Region oversees an enormous variety of valuable information, from court records and military documents to immigration records from Ellis Island. Records held by the region date from 1685 to 1983, and many of them are unique—they do not exist anywhere else in their original form. Between 11,000 and 12,000 visitors visit the facility each year to take advantage of research and archival services and workshops. These visitors include historians, legal researchers, designers and architects learning from past mistakes and successes, and devoted family historians seeking clues about their ancestors. The archives staff, led by director Robert C. Morris, lends expert assistance to all these researchers.
Friday, September 25, 2009
National Archives: The Northeast Region
Ancestrymagazine.com has just posted Exploring the National Archives in New York City, a helpful "visit to the National Archives and Records Administration–Northeast Region," with thumbnail sketches of its quite various collections. The piece, written, I believe, by Ted Naanes, commences:
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The National Archives Northeast Branch are an essential place for legal researchers. The Ancestry article focuses on genealogical resources, but case files for NY, NJ, CT, and a few other states are also located there. Even more in earlier days than now, a large number of important cases came through the District and old Circuit Courts for the Southern District of New York, and every document filed in these cases is waiting to be discovered there.
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The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department operates a state fisheries habitat restoration program, using recycled Christmas Trees to make fish-friendly habitats. Some lake bottoms are void of the natural structures that fish like to hide in, says Gabe Gries, a fisheries biologist with the department. Some of that is natural, but property owners also have contributed by removing fallen trees they consider unsightly or clearing vegetation close to the shore to create sandy beaches.
The project, which is paid for with the money raised from fishing licenses, drops the recycled trees into lakes, creating "habitat improvement structures" where fish can hide and find food. During an experiment in a Massachusetts lake, state biologists saw a fivefold increase in the number of fish caught around sunken Christmas trees compared to other places in the lake, according to Todd Richards, a fisheries biologist in the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game.
Christmas Trees are used in lakes and ponds all over the United States to help create natural habitats for fish.


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A former wig designer for rapper Nicki Minaj sued the performer Friday, accusing her of walking away from business plans, then making money by selling wigs based on his designs without permission.
The lawsuit filed by Terrence Davidson accuses Onika Maraj, who uses the stage name "Nicki Minaj," and Pink Personality LLC of breaking implied contracts, reneging on discussions to launch a reality TV show and a wig line, and misappropriating his wig designs. An attorney for Davidson, Christopher Chestnut, said the designer has suffered at least $30 million in losses.
"She lied, cheated, she stole from him," Chestnut said. "That's a misappropriation of his intellectual property."
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A representative for Minaj did not immediately return a message seeking comment. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
Davidson, who lives in Georgia, said in the lawsuit that he started working as Minaj's hair stylist in early 2010. He created multiple wigs for the rapper, known for her flamboyant hairpieces, that she wore to a preshow for MTV's Video Music Awards, during media appearances in London and for the music video "SuperBass."
Davidson said he turned down a contract for a reality TV show at the urging of a Minaj representative. At the time, Davidson said he was discussing doing a joint reality TV show with Minaj and launching a line of wigs with the music star. But months passed, and Davidson said Minaj and her team shut him out. He stopped working as her stylist in early 2013.
He says Minaj took his wig designs without his consent and used them to start her own wig line.
The lawsuit arrives a week after Minaj came under fire for using a famous photo of Malcolm X with a rifle in his hands and juxtaposing it with a racial slur for her new song.
Minaj posted the photo on her website and Instagram page, and received criticism for how she used the Malcolm X image. It's for her new song "Lookin (Expletive) (Expletive)." The title uses the N-word.
After she was roundly criticized on social media circles and beyond for what many saw as disrespect to a revered icon, she offered an apology Feb. 13 on Instagram to the estate of Malcolm X — who was assassinated 49 years ago this month at age 39.
She also said that the song's artwork "is in no way to undermine his efforts and legacy."


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The New York County district attorney's office said a New Jersey man has been arraigned in the violent confrontation last weekend between the driver of a sport utility vehicle and a group of motorcyclists in New York in which a Lawrence man was injured, breaking both his legs.
Christopher Cruz, 28, of Passaic, N.J., was charged with unlawful imprisonment in the second degree and reckless driving, according to the complaint filed against him, which was released by the office of District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney said Cruz was not required to enter a plea, but his lawyer said in court that his client denies the charges.
Cruz allegedly drove a motorcycle that slowed down in front of an SUV, which then came to a stop in the early moments of an incident that quickly spiraled out of control Sunday.
The detective filing the complaint said that a video posted to the Internet showed Cruz pulling in front of a black SUV driving north on the Henry Hudson Parkway and "slowing his motorcycle down while looking behind him in the direction of said vehicle."
The video also showed Cruz's motorcycle and the SUV making contact and the SUV stopping with numerous motorcycles around it, blocking its movement, the detective said.
The detective said he showed the video to Cruz, and Cruz "stated in substance" that he was the person on the motorcycle. The detective also noted that the speed limit on the road is 45 miles per hour.
The highway incident sparked a wild confrontation and chase, according to police and footage of the incident, which allegedly ended with the motorcyclists slashing the SUV's tires, smashing its windows, and attacking the driver.
Bail for Cruz was set at $1,500 cash or $15,000 bond at a hearing Wednesday before Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Abraham Clott.
The judge ordered Cruz to surrender his passport and suspended his driver's license, the district attorney's office said in an e-mail.
H. Benjamin Perez, Cruz's attorney, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
The district attorney's office also said that it would not prosecute a second man who was arrested Tuesday, "pending further investigation of the entire incident."
Karen Friedman Agnifilo, chief of the district attorney's trial division, said in an e-mailed statement: "We are taking Sunday's crimes extremely seriously, and will proceed with charges in a manner that enables us to build the strongest cases possible.
"After we investigate the facts and each person's individual actions, we will know what charges can be supported by the evidence," the statement read. "There is still a tremendous amount of investigation to be done."
The Lawrence man, Edwin Mieses Jr., 32, who was one of the group of people riding motorcycles, is recovering in a New York hospital.
He does not face charges. The driver of the Range Rover SUV, which also contained the man's wife and toddler, has also not been charged.
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Bal Thackeray, flagbearer of Marathi chauvinism, is no more
Published: 17th November 2012 05:07 PM | Last Updated: 17th November 2012 11:02 PM | A+A A-
Shiv Sena chief Bal Keshav Thackeray, Maharashtra's militant flagbearer of Hindu nationalism and regional chauvinism who did not hesitate to resort to mob tactics to have his will enforced, died here Saturday. He was 86.
Thackeray passed away at 3.33 p.m., his doctor Jaleel Parker told a massive crowd outside his residence Matoshri, a Mumbai landmark.
The leader's body will be kept at Shivaji Park to enable party activists and Mumbaikars to pay their last respects from 7 a.m. Sunday, party MP Sanjay Raut told reporters, even as he appealed to Shiv Sainiks to "maintain calm and remain peaceful".
Thackeray's body would be consigned to flames Sunday evening at a crematorium beside Shivaji Park, a party official said.
Though there was no panic or uncivil reaction to the demise in Mumbai, shops and establishments, restaurants and tea stalls shut down, cinemas cancelled shows and functions were called off or postponed.
Outside Matoshri, over 5,000 Shiv Sainiks wept.
Mumbai, Thane and Raigad, considered Shiv Sena bastions, ground to a halt as did the rest of Maharashtra.
The man who for decades lorded over one of the largest states in the country is survived by two sons -- political heir and Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray and filmmaker Jaidev.
A widower, Thackeray's wife Meena and his eldest son Bindhumadhav passed away in 1996.
His nephew Raj Thackeray, once considered his political heir, broke away to form Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, competing with Shiv Sena in espousing rightwing views championing Marathi pride and exclusivism at the expense of other communities in India's richest and most industrialised state.
Bal Thackeray leaves behind a legacy of anti-migrant poison that has been the scourge of Mumbai, the country's financial and entertainment capital.
Bal Thackeray, who made no secret of his admiration for Hitler, started his career as a cartoonist with the Free Press Journal in the 1950s. In 1960, he started a cartoon weekly called Marmik, and used it to campaign for a unified separate Maharashtra state, and against Gujaratis and south Indian workers miagrating to then Bombay.
However, despite allying with the BJP on the saffron plank, Bal Thackeray and his Sena could never reach out of Maharashtra.
However, Balasaheb -- as he was also called -- was instrumental in ending the Congress hegemony in Maharashtra when his party and the BJP allied and formed a government in 1994. Though the two parties shared power in New Delhi between 1998 and 2004, Thackeray never occupied any office.
Balasaheb later began sporting a stylish beard and wore twin bead necklaces in the manner of Hindu gurus and ran the Shiv Sena like a local militia.
Active till the end, Bal Thackeray, who never hesitated to practice his particular brand of street politics, had just days ago on Nov 5 asked party activists "not to permit" the forthcoming cricket matches between India and Pakistan.
In an appeal in party mouthpiece Saamna, he had lashed out at Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde for his statement "to forget the past" and play cricket with Pakistan.
Thackeray was ailing for about two years and was under regular medical treatment at Matoshri. In the last week, his health deteriorated sharply.
According to party leaders, a virtual ICU had been recreated at Matoshri with all emergency equipment and medical and para-medical staff on duty round-the-clock.
Son Uddhav Thackeray was fielding scores of visitors, politicians and showbiz celebrities as this city remained on the edge for the last few days with heavy police deployment outside his residence and in trouble spots around the city.
The leader's influence extended not just over politics and society but also over the film industry, evident from the beeline celebrities made to Matoshri to enquire about his health. The list included Amitabh Bachchan and son Abhishek, Salim Khan and son Salman Khan to Rishi Kapoor and brother Randhir and Lata Mangeshkar.
Following his death, condolences poured in from President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, BJP leaders L.K. Advani, BJP president Nitin Gadkari, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and others, cutting across political lines.


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The U.S. Air Force is moving forward with preparations to take two off-the-shelf light attack turboprop aircraft downrange to fight terrorists next year.
Preparations for the combat demonstration, called Combat Dragon III, are notably far along—especially since Air Force leadership has not yet made a final decision on whether to move forward with the exercise. The Air Force has picked a squadron commander, a designation, and a total detachment size of about 70 people, said Air Force Reserve Col. Mike Pietrucha, light attack adviser to Air Combat Command (ACC).
The service has decided to take four total aircraft downrange—two each of the Embraer/Sierra Nevada Corp. A-29 Super Tucano and Textron's AT-6 Wolverine, Pietrucha said.
"We are preparing as if we're going," he said.
Combat Dragon III would be the follow-on to the Air Force's light attack demonstration that took place this summer at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. The goal of the high-profile experiment was to evaluate four off-the-shelf aircraft for the light-attack counterterrorism mission: top candidates Super Tucano and Wolverine, as well as two "tier two" contenders—Textron's Scorpion jet and L-3-Air Tractor's AT-802L Longsword.
The Air Force released the interim report from the light attack experiment internally on Sept. 21, and leadership expects to make a final decision on moving forward with the combat demonstration by year's end, Pietrucha said.
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Following her sold out Hoxton Hall album launch show last week, we are pleased to announce Blackout as the first single from Anna Calvi's eponymous debut. Full of passionate, cinematic beauty, Blackout is extroverted and highly infectious. The single will be available on 7" (RUG394) and via digital download (RUG394D) from 21st March 2011. You can listen to Blackout below
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With the release of her critically acclaimed debut, Anna Calvi has already established herself as one of the most important and unique artists to have emerged in recent times.
You can catch Anna Calvi's breathtaking live performance (with her intimate backing band consisting of Mally Harpaz on harmonium and percussion, and Daniel Maiden-Wood on drums) on the following dates:
Friday 4th Feb: London, Barfly: HMV Next Big Things – SOLD OUT
Weds 23rd Feb: Dublin, Workmans Club, Ireland – SOLD OUT
Thu 24th Feb: Sheffield, Harley
Fri 25th Feb: Nottingham, Bodega
Sat 26th Feb: Birmingham, Hare And Hounds
Sun 27th Feb: Glasgow, Arches
Mon 28th Feb: Manchester, Deaf Institute – SOLD OUT
Wed 2nd Mar: Brighton, Komedia Bar – SOLD OUT
Fri 4th Mar: Bristol, Cooler
Tues 26th Apr: London, Bush Hall, *extra date added* – SOLD OUT
Weds 27th Apr: London, Bush Hall – SOLD OUT
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The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSDby Anand Lal Shimpi on August 30, 2009 12:00 AM EST
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The Wiper Tool
The only Microsoft OS with TRIM support is Windows 7. Windows XP and Vista users are out of luck when it comes to TRIM, even if your drive supports it, the OS will never send it the command. Luckily there's a workaround, one first popularized by Indilinx - not Intel. Kudos to the Indilinx guys.
It's called the Indilinx Wiper Tool.
The tool asks the OS for all available LBAs (free space as far as the OS is concerned), then feeds the list to the SSD and tells the drive to TRIM those LBAs - prioritizing them for cleaning. It shouldn't touch valid data, the key word being shouldn't. Once cleaned, with no existing data in those blocks, performance goes back to its new state.
It's a very simple solution actually. TRIM works because the OS knows when a file is deleted and it uses the TRIM command to inform the SSD of the deletion. Don't have OS level TRIM support? Well, just run a tool that asks the OS what locations aren't in use any longer. You get the same result, it just takes one extra step: running the wiper tool.
See wiper.dat? It's eating up all available LBAs then telling the controller to TRIM those blocks. Clever.
I tested the Wiper Tool to make sure it worked as promised and indeed it did, I actually showed you the results at the beginning of this story. One pass of the tool and the drive went from used to new performance:
|PCMark Vantage HDD Score
|After TRIM/Idle GC
|% of New Perf
|OCZ Vertex Turbo (Indilinx MLC)
You'll need to get the tool from your drive vendor and it currently works under both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows OSes (XP through 7). I found that it works best in IDE mode; with your controller set to RAID or AHCI I've seen issues where the manual trim process can easily take more than several hours. When running properly it takes a couple of minutes to trim an entire drive.
You don't need to run the tool that often (Indilinx drives don't drop significantly in real world performance anyway) and once we get official TRIM support, Windows 7 users won't need to do anything at all. But until then it does provide a nice way to keep your drive fresh.
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drsethl - Monday, March 15, 2010 - linkHi,
just to add to the chorus of praise: this is a superbly informative article, thank you for all the effort, and I hope that it has paid off for you, as I'm sure it must have.
My first question is this. Is it possible to analyse a program while you're using it, to see whether it is primarily doing sequential or random writes? Since there seems to be a quite clear difference between the Intel X25m 80gb and the OCZ vertex 120gb, which are the natural entry-level drives here, where the Intel works better for random access, the vertex for sequential, it would be very useful to know which I would make best use of.
Second question: does anyone know whether lightroom in particular is based around random or sequential writes? I know that a LR catalog is always radically fragmented, which suggests presumably that it is based around random writes, but that's just an uninformed guess. It does have a cache function, which produces files in the region of 3-5mb in size--are they likely to be sequential?
Third question: with photoshop, is it specifically as a scratch disk that the intel x25m underperforms? Or does photoshop do other sequential writes, besides those to the scratch disk? I ask because if it only doesn't work as a scratch disk, then that's not a big problem--anyone using this in a PC is likely to have a decent regular HDD for data anyway, so the scratch disk can just be sent there. In fact, I've been using a vertex 120gb, with a samsung spinpoint f3 500gb on my PC, and I found that with the scratch disk on the samsung I got better retouch artists results (only by about half a second, but that's out of 14 seconds, so still fairly significant).
Thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to answer, and thanks again Anand for such an informative read.
Seth Reply
drsethl - Friday, July 9, 2010 - linkHi again,
just to report back, since writing the previous comment I have bought both drives, vertex and intel (the original vertex 128gb, and the intel g2 x25m). While the Intel does perform better in benchmarks, the difference in general usage is barely noticeable. Except when using lightroom 3, when the intel is considerably slower than the vertex. I'm using a canon 550d, which produces 18mpx pictures. When viewing a catalogue for the first time (without any pre-created previews), the intel takes on average about 20s to produce a full scale 1:1 preview. This is infuriating. The vertex takes about 8s. Bear in mind that i've got 4gb of 1333mhz ram, intel i7 q720 processor, ati 5470 mobility radeon graphics. So it's not the most powerful laptop in the world, but it's no slouch either. I can only conclude that when LR3 makes previews it does large sequential writes, and that the considerable performance advantage of the vertex on this metric alone suddenly becomes very important. With which in mind, I'm now going to sell the Intel and buy a vertex 2e, which will give the best of both worlds. But I'm sure there are lots of photographers out there wondering about this like I was, so hopefully this will help.
Seth Reply
jgstew - Friday, October 8, 2010 - linkI believe you are correct about the LR Catalog being mostly random writes, but I don't think this is a performance concern since the Catalog is likely stored in RAM for reads, and written back to the drive when changes are made that affect the Catalog, which is not happening all the time.
As for the generating previews and Photoshop scratch disk, this is going to be primarily sequential since it is generating the data one at a time and writing it to disk completely. If LR was generating multiple previews for multiple photos simultaneously and writing them simultaneously, then you would have heavy fragmentation of the cache, and more random writes.
Any SSD is going to give significant performance benefit over spindle HD when it comes to random read/write/access. Sequential performance is the man concern with Photos/Video/Audio and similar data in most cases.
One thing you might consider trying is having more than one SSD, or doing this if you upgrade down the road. Have the smaller SSD with fast sequential read/write act as the cache disk for LR/Photoshop/Others and have the other SSD be the boot drive with all the OS/Apps/etc. This way other things going on in the system will not effect the cache disk performance, as well as speed up writes from boot ssd to cache disk, and back. Reply
ogreinside - Monday, December 14, 2009 - linkAfter spending all weekend reading this article, 2 previous in the trilogy, and all the comments, I wanted to post my thanks for all of your hard work. I've been ignoring SSDs for a while as I wanted to see them mature first. I am in the market for a new Alienware desktop, but as the wife is letting me purchase only on our Dell charge account, I have a limited selection and budget.
I was settled on everything except the disks. They are offering the Samsung 256SSD, which I believe is the Samsung PM800 drive. The cost is exactly double that of the WD VelociRaptor 300 GB. So naturally I have done a ton of research for this final choice. After exploring your results here, and reading comments, I am definitely not getting their Samsung SSD. I would love to grab an Intel G2 or OCZ Indilinx, but that means real cash now, and we simply can't do that yet. The charge account gives us room to pay it off at 12-month no-interest.
So at this point I can get a 2x WD VR in raid 0 to hold me over for a year or so when I can replace (or add) a good SSD. My problem is that I have seen my share issues with raid 0 on an ICH controller on two different Dell machines (boot issues, unsure of performance gain). In fact, using the same drives/machine, I saw better random read performance (512K) on a single drive than the ICH raid, and 4k wasn't far behind. I'm thinking I may stick to a single WD VR for now, but I really want to believe raid0 would be better.
So, back on topic, it would be nice to see the ICH raid controller explored a bit, and maybe add a raid0 WD VR configuration to your next round of tests.
(CryastalDiskMark 2.2)
Single-drive 7200 rpm g:
Sequential Read : 123.326 MB/s
Sequential Write : 114.957 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 55.793 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 94.408 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 0.861 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 1.724 MB/s
Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/12/09 2:03:4
ICH raid0:
Sequential Read : 218.909 MB/s
Sequential Write : 175.]347 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 51.884 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 135.466 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 1.001 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 2.868 MB/s
Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/12/08 21:45:20
marraco - Friday, August 13, 2010 - linkThumbs up for the ICH10 petition. It's the most common RAID controller on i7.
Also, I would like to see different models of SSD in RAID (For example one intel raided with one Indilinx).
I suspect that performance with SSD scales much better that with older technologies. So I want to know if makes sense to buy a single SSD, and wait for prices to get cheaper at the time of upgrade. The problem is that as prices get cheaper, old SSD models are no more available. Reply
aaphid - Friday, November 27, 2009 - linkOK, I'm still slightly confused. It seems that running the wipe/trim utility will keep the ssd in top condition but it won't run on a Mac. So are these going to be a poor decision for use in a Mac? Reply
ekerazha - Monday, October 26, 2009 - linkAnand,
it's strange to see your
"Is Intel still my overall recommendation? Of course. The random write performance is simply too good to give up and it's only in very specific cases that the 80MB/s sequential write speed hurts you."
of the last review, is now a
"The write speed improvement that the Intel firmware brings to 160GB drives is nice but ultimately highlights a bigger issue: Intel's write speed is unacceptable in today's market." Reply
ekerazha - Monday, October 26, 2009 - linkOps wrong article Reply
mohsh86 - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkam 23 years old computer engineer..
this is the most awesome informative article ever read ! Reply
Pehu - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkFirst of all, thanks for the article. It was superb and led to my first SSD purchase last week. Installed the intel G2 yesterday and windows 7 (64 bit) with 8 G of RAM. A smooth ride I have to say :)
Now, there is one question I have been trying to find an answer:
Should I put the windows page file (swap) to the SSD disk or to another normal HD?
Generally the swap should be behind other controller than your OS disk, to speed things up. However, SSD disks are so fast that there is a temptation to put the swap on OS disk. Also, one consideration is the disk age, does it preserve it longer if swap is moved away from SSD.
Also what I am lacking is some general info about how to maximise the disk age without too much loss of speed, in one guru3d article instructions were given as:
* Drive indexing disabled. (useless for SSD anyway, because access times are so low).
* Prefetch disabled.
* Superfetch disabled
* Defrag disabled.
Any comments and/or suggestions for windows 7 on that?
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One of the questions I often get from readers is how do select I the traders we profile in our "Top Traders of the Year" annual feature. Much like the successful trades we profile, it is often a combination of quantitative and qualitative elements. At times it can be systematic but it is never completely mechanical.
I always like to talk to traders and try to capture a clear understanding of where they get their edge. When doing due diligence on a manager I want to know what they are doing, how they are doing it and why they are doing it. It is always a red flag for me to come out of a half-hour conversation with a trader without a clear understanding of what he or she is doing or where they get their edge.
Readers often ask, "Is it just based on performance?"
Well no, it is not just based on performance but performance is pretty high up on my list. One of my pet peeves is when analysts like to say 'performance results aren't that important.' Nonsense. Of course they are. Performance, in fact, is the first thing I look it. After all, we are profiling absolute return vehicles so performance is the number one criterion. Of course, we take a nuanced look at performance and measure it on a risk-adjusted basis.
What those analysts really mean to say is that you have to look at performance based on the risk taken to gain that performance, as well as other factors such as correlation to existing investments.
Take our current crop of Top Traders. Their returns where: 26.42%, 10.52%, 10.4% and 10.71% respectively. There were many managers who did better than them on a raw percentage basis but not necessarily on a risk-adjusted basis.
Many years ago Sol Waksman, president of BarclayHedge, taught me how to use some of the unique tools that are part of his database. One enables you to normalize the standard deviation (STD) of a group of managers, which allows you to measure them on an apples-to-apples basis. Or at least closer to an apples-to-apples basis.
This year's Top Traders: Diamond Capital Management, Four Seasons Commodities Corp., Tlaloc Capital (see "Finding winners in a risk on/risk off world,") and Esulep LLC (see "Esulep: A strange place to find non-correlation,") all exhibited solid performance.
After normalizing the STD of these managers with others managers with strong absolute performance, all four showed a higher risk-adjusted-return than most managers earning much higher returns on a raw percentage basis — some several multiples higher.
Of course STD is not a perfect measure of risk as many critics of the Sharpe ratio attest. I also like to look at the upside vs. downside STD. A manager should not be punished for a high STD when most of it is coming from higher upside returns.
While we are basing this designation on the previous year's performance, I probably won't select a manager coming off of a huge down year. I did profile a manager who once had a 90% drawdown but only after his fourth-in-a-row double digit positive year and with a clear understanding of what caused the drawdown.
I do not look at managers who take on greater risk with suspicion — in fact I like looking at managers who venture beyond the current low-risk metric — as long as they are completely upfront with the risk taken to achieve those returns.
In this year's article I spoke to Marty Bergin, president of Dunn Capital Management. I always admired Bill Dunn's aggressive approach and the upfront way in which he describes the risk inherent in his approach.
I was very concerned with the reputation of the managed futures space after reading what I viewed as a very slanted article by Bloomberg earlier this year, where it tarred the entire managed futures space based on the fee structure of certain retail products. Perhaps most disturbing is it came when the industry was down. And even worse for investors, could discourage them from seeking investments that are non-correlated to traditional portfolios just as equities wrap-up an historic five-year bull move (see "Can equities stand on their own in 2014?"). In the story, Frank Cholly points out that bull equity markets often get tired after five-year runs.
It has always been a bone of contention that alternatives in general, managed futures in particular, were viewed as high risk investments only appropriate for institutional investors. While the appropriate retail structure and customer protections are necessary for any investment, it doesn't seem right that only high-net-worth individuals should be able to gain access to alternatives.
The fact that retail investors can be invested in the stock market but not managed futures has less to do with the suitability of the vehicles than the entities who are selling it. If it is a matter of structure, then the appropriate structures must and are being built.
What will the folks at Bloomberg say if we have another year like 2008 when managed futures was virtually the only asset class that earned positive returns and they helped to keep a generation of investors locked into long-only stock and bond portfolios?
And I must comment on the hand wringing over whether trend following is dead. I started at Futures in 2001 during another tough period for trend-followers when many so called experts declared the strategy dead. The current difficulty is the third go around of "Is trend following dead" stories and I am sure there will be more because I am sure the strategy will once again produce strong returns.
While there is risk in all investments, Modern Portfolio Theory teaches us of the benefits of allocating to multiple non-correlated strategies.
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Hole, Daniel, Paul Law & Niina Zhang (eds.). 2002. Linguistics by Heart.
Natalia Gagarina (ZAS Berlin)
Thoughts on Optional Infinitives (in Russian)
Daniel Hole (Freie Universität Berlin)
Three People and a Piano
Paul Law (Freie Universität Berlin)
On the Empirical Basis and Explanatory Adequacy of Linguistic Theory: An Illustration with Pronominal Clitics
André Meinunger (ZAS Berlin)
Argument Ordering in German: Lexical Decomposition of the 'Atomic' Predicate Poss and its Implications for the Hierarchization of Arguments of Ditransitive Verbs
Evelynne Mui (SOAS, University of London)
Adjectival Modification in Cantonese Chinese
Haihua Pan (Dept. of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong)
Null Object Constructions, VP-Ellipsis, and Sentence Interpretation
Wolfram Schaffar (Universität Tübingen)
Typology of Yes-No Questions in Chinese and Tai Languages
Sze Wing Tang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Grammaticalization as Structure Elimination
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Boulder could soon be on a long-fought path to break from utility Xcel Energy, control its own electricity and ramp up clean power. But obstacles await.
For the past decade, the people of Boulder, Colo., have pursued an elusive goal: getting more clean energy into their grid. To do so, they pushed and prodded utility company Xcel Energy to give them a say in electricity decisions.
But nothing satisfied citizens and politicians, so several years ago they organized themselves into a movement for "municipalization," in which the city would split from Xcel and become its own utility. In April, the City Council is expected to vote in favor of pursuing the controversial idea, putting coal-heavy Boulder on the vanguard of efforts to break the monopoly of corporate utility companies.
"Somebody has to stick their neck out and try this," said Boulder Mayor Matt Appelbaum, who believes Boulder will inspire other cities. Already, residents in Minneapolis are preparing a ballot measure by November for municipalization, and advocates in Santa Fe, N.M., are not far behind.
Under municipalization, cities take over utilities' local electricity operations. They buy the wires, substations and meters, run the electrical grid and select which power plants will supply their power. Most Americans get electricity from mainly fossil fuel-generating plants, usually owned by large utilities. Breaking away theoretically gives cities freedom to add as much clean energy as is technically and financially possible.
While some 2,000 municipal utilities exist across the United States, only half a dozen were formed in recent years. Boulder's would be the first established to increase clean energy and combat climate pollution.
Xcel, which operates in eight states and opposes municipalization, denies it's blocking clean energy development in Boulder. The firm is on track to meet an aggressive state requirement that utilities get 30 percent of their energy from renewables by 2020, and it has long been the nation's top wind provider.
"We have always believed that we can help Boulder reach its goals quicker, faster and cheaper with us" rather than through municipalization, said Jerome Davis, Xcel's regional vice president for Colorado.
But the fight is about more than just reaching renewable targets, according to Boulder Deputy Mayor Lisa Morzel, a vocal proponent of municipalization. The goal is to "decentralize, decarbonize and democratize energy," she said. In Germany, those same ideals inspired a 2000 federal law that let citizens produce their own clean power and compete with utilities, helping turn the country into the world's biggest solar market.
Boulder's circumstances made it fertile soil for the effort.
The city of nearly 100,000 people is one of the most politically progressive and Democratic in Colorado. It also boasts an unusually high number of climate and environmental scientists and energy experts working in nearby institutions, including the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Those citizen experts became the backbone of the municipalization movement, volunteering to carry out feasibility studies and educating the community to win residents over.
Alison Burchell, an environmental geologist and one of the movement's founding leaders, said she and others revved into action in the early 2000s when they became frustrated with Xcel's continued investment in coal. The utility gets 60 percent of Colorado's electricity from coal plants, more than the national average of about 40 percent. About a quarter comes from natural gas, 12 percent from wind energy and the rest from nuclear, hydroelectric, solar, oil and biomass.
In 2002, Burchell helped establish a volunteer working group to figure out a long-term renewables and energy efficiency plan for the city. The City Council adopted many of its recommendations, including its first greenhouse gas reduction goal of 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012, which it still hasn't met.
"At some point, we the people have to do our homework, and when we lead the leaders follow," Burchell said. She explained that while municipalization wasn't the group's initial goal, it quickly emerged as a potential way for Boulder to shift to a cleaner energy mix.
By 2004, the group had pushed city leaders to form a municipalization task force, which commissioned a feasibility study.
The work came to a halt in 2007, however, when Xcel offered to bring the world's biggest smart grid project to Boulder if leaders dropped the study. Under its SmartGridCity initiative, the utility installed a fiber-optic cable network and 23,000 smart meters to make the grid more energy efficient and to allow more solar and wind power to come online.
But project costs soared, eventually tripling to $44.5 million—and some plans were dropped, leaving advocates feeling disenchanted. Xcel maintains the ongoing experiment has benefited the grid.
By 2009, the drive to municipalize was back on track. Burchell co-founded a new organization, the Boulder Climate Action Network, and gathered a few dozen local experts to research Boulder's options for minimizing its carbon footprint, including municipalization.
Out of that network grew the Renewables Yes committee, which led several ballot initiatives needed to break from Xcel—including two in 2011 that narrowly passed.
The first gave leaders permission to pursue municipalization, so long as the city could provide electricity at the same cost and with the same reliability as Xcel. The second raised an existing utility bill tax to a total of $10 million over five years to help cover consultant and legal fees expected from municipalization. Xcel spent nearly $961,000 to defeat the measures. Proponents spent about $107,000 to pass them.
Since their passage, the city has convened five working groups to explore the costs, risks and logistics of forming a utility. The City Council will collect their reports in late February and spend two months gathering public comment. In April, councilmembers will vote whether to greenlight municipalization.
If approved, which is likely, Boulder would begin the process of parting from Xcel.
Even proponents admit the effort would be fraught with economic, legal and technical difficulties.
To municipalize, Boulder would have to pay Xcel for its local grid infrastructure, including costs to physically separate the power system from the regional network. It might also have to reimburse Xcel for the investments the utility has already made in power plants and infrastructure to serve Boulder, along with the money it spent on SmartGridCity, energy efficiency and solar power programs.
The price tag will be huge. Not including expensive lawsuits, Boulder estimates it will cost the city about $290 million to start the municipal utility. Xcel puts the tab at more than four times that, or about $1.2 billion.
Under Colorado eminent domain law, Xcel must at least consider the city's offer to buy the system, but the utility has "no intentions or desire" to sell its infrastructure, said Davis, the Xcel regional vice president.
In short, that means years of legal battling in state condemnation court and before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
What about clean energy?
Even if successful, it would take years before the city could add renewables due to the limited number of clean energy installations nearby and high costs of building new ones. Initially, the city plans to swap coal for existing natural gas capacity and then develop and buy more renewable power over time. Profits collected from running the utility could be invested in building solar power plants and in programs to promote efficiency and other clean economy initiatives.
Ken Wilson, a city councilmember and electrical engineer who opposes the municipalization plan, said it won't "really solve any climate problems."
"All that money will get us zero watts of renewable energy," he said. Wilson said a better plan is for Boulder to negotiate with Xcel at the state level to develop clean energy incentives and programs that benefit all Coloradans.
Davis of Xcel said municipalization is a "very risky proposition." He expressed concern that cutting off Boulder from the regional grid would harm reliability near city limits. He said ratepayers in other cities could end up paying more if Xcel takes a financial hit from the takeover, though Xcel would fight to avoid that. And he also warned there are no guarantees the city could ever deliver as much renewable energy as Xcel.
But many renewable energy advocates aren't convinced.
They see cities, and citizens, as natural leaders of America's clean energy transformation, especially of distributed generation—the type of small-scale, locally produced power like rooftop solar that makes up most of Germany's clean energy mix. Utilities in the United States are leery of adding too many intermittent sources like solar and wind, fearing they could compromise their ability to offer affordable rates and reliable service. To protect the grid, they often set limits on distributed generation.
Craig Lewis, founder of the Clean Coalition, a California-based advocate of clean energy policies, said green-inclined municipal utilities like Boulder would allow for more distributed renewable projects. They could also adopt programs like feed-in tariffs that fueled solar booms across Europe—also called CLEAN programs—which pay solar operators a fixed rate to feed clean electricity back to the grid.
"Municipalization is the nirvana," Lewis said. "We're big fans of Boulder and their municipalization process," he noted, adding that his group will do "whatever we can to make sure that it's a showcase for other towns."
Clarification: An earlier version of this article implied that Xcel Energy has "no intentions or desire" to accept Boulder's offer to buy its grid infrastructure. An Xcel spokesperson clarified that it would consider the offer but has no desire to sell its system.


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Monday, June 09, 2008
Props to my homies... yo
This week's blog is not about me so much. I have been hunkered down in the studio with projects and doing family stuff lately. Turned 33 last week, went to Disneyland again, working on wierd conglamoration of art projects, totally cleaned and revamped my studio, etc. No real adventures lately. Just working and stuff. Yawn.
I did go to the Skullphone show at RAM last week. The dumpster pictured above is a nice touch, I wonder if anyone will complain about it's presence right in front of the museum. The mysterious Skullphone infiltrated various parts of the museum, and you really have to look around and explore a bit to find it all. Props to Mr. Skull...
I got to help Skullphone and Jeff Ribaudo a few weeks ago as they made some limited edition mono prints.
And props to my homie Maxx who is off to Japan in a couple days for the debut of his Bearbrick in conjunction with Zac Pac. Sweet. I was this close to going with him last night, but the $1800 plane ticket put a damper on things. Next time homie. If you're in Japan, go check it out...
The real props should go to Rosie and Maxx for the birth of their baby, Maddox Anakin Gramajo!
And props to mi madre- her birthday is today. Happy Birthday mom (yes my parents read this blog).
Props to Wes Anderson. I love "watching" Royal Tennenbaums while I work. Just saw Bottle Rockets and The Darjeeling Limited last week. The missus and I love movies. Just saw Juno (not Wes Anderson of course) the other day finally, some nice David Choe and Tara McPherson art. There was more I think (Kozyndan?). I have to kick myself in the ass, because they asked me too to get them some art for her bedroom and I was super busy and totally flaked. I can't believe myself sometimes. Dammit.
Props to Rachel Tiede for taking a stand. Rachel worked at Art Center College of Design and I knew her as a student and am friends with her husband (we graduated together). Recently the college has had an uprising of sorts, with students protesting the direction of Art Center president, Richard Koshalek. Apparently he is more interested in the various architecture projects (pricey Frank Gehry library) and travelling to Europe than meeting the needs of students- financial aid, better classrooms, parking etc. After taking a stand against Koshalek, Rachel's boss, Nate Young (Chief Executive Officer for the school) resigned in protest. The following week at a student government meeting Rachel defended her former boss and was promptly let go by the school. I don't know all the details but Rachel is cool and I appreciate that she stood up for the students. The tuition is like $15,000 per semester, no joke, students should be of the highest priority. Here's more info:
And finally, speaking of Art Center, mad props to you Donkey! Mark Miller gave you to me as a graduation gift six years ago and we've had some great times over the years. But you're finally falling apart, three of your legs are broken, your ears are busted and your fur is falling out all over the studio. Maybe it's from Shannon trying to ride you all those times. You're busted, broken and I have to bid farewell. I left you near the trash dumpster, and went to lunch, when I came back you were gone! I hope you are warming the hearts of others on your journey! Take care Donkey!
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