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The blanket octopus can rip a poisonous tentacle from a Portuguese man-o-war and wield it like a sword to ward off enemies as it soars through the ocean trailing its webbed cloak behind it.
Vampyroteuthis infernalis, the vampire squid from hell, has been egregiously misnamed. This poor little thing – more like a wallflower or a tumbleweed than a devil from hell – is sometimes reduced to defending itself by biting off its own arm tip. Then the tip floats off, sparkling its blue lights in the darkness and luring away the enemy.
The giant Pacific octopus with its eight huge arms can pass a baseball or golf ball all the way down its arm, from sucker to sucker, with apparent ease, like the way we grasp small items with our thumb and forefinger. If you're feeding them, beware. All those suckers can easily grab the food pan and carry it away. And they have a lot more suckers than you have fingers and thumbs.
Octopus dexterity is a thing of awe. One veterinarian saw an octopus undo its own surgical sutures. Divers off the Pacific Northwest Coast have seen male octopuses stand on undersea rocks in the cold salt water, stretching two arms out before them like antennae, apparently searching for that perfect female.
Cephalopods – squid, octopus, cuttlefish and nautiluses – have been around for millions of years. The word "cephalopod" means "head-foot." Some scientists believe that we humans separated from cephalopods, evolutionarily speaking, perhaps more than 700 million years ago. That's hundreds of millions of years before the Cambrian Explosion, when so many life forms radiated throughout our planet's oceans.
Given that long divergence, we should be very different species. And we are. In some ways. Cephalopods are invertebrates, animals without skeletons. They usually have eight arms, some have a couple tentacles too. These appendages attach not to the main body; instead, they encircle the animal's mouth like some kind of living beard. Many cephalopods can change the color of their skin almost instantaneously. Some, like the fabulous cuttlefish, look like flashing neon lights.
These guys are weird.
And yet – they are a lot like us, in some very basic ways. For one thing, we both have similar brain cells. For almost 100 years, scientists have used the giant axon of a little squid, Loligo pealeii, to study how our own brains work. In most animals, the neuron is the cell that's the central processor of the world outside the body. The neuron has a main body and an axon, a long thin living tube that extends from the main body somewhat like a thread or a wire.
Our own axons are gossamer-like, delicate and easily damaged. It's difficult for researchers to work with them. But the little squid's axons may be as thick as a pencil lead. They are visible to the naked eye and are easily handled. By studying how the squid axon works, scientists have learned quite a bit about how ours function. They hope to apply some of what they've learned to finding cures for diseases like Alzheimer's.
Recently, as our understanding of cephalopods has improved, we've begun to wonder: Are these animals intelligent? It depends on how you define "intelligence."
James Wood, a teuthologist (cephalopod scientist), imagined creating an intelligence test for humans, by an octopus:
"So the octopus thinks: 'All right. I'm going to make an intelligence test for humans, because they show a little bit of promise, in a very few ways.' And the first question the octopus comes up with is this: How many color patterns can your severed arm produce in one second?"


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2011-W Uncirculated Silver Eagle Scheduled
The US Mint has added a release date of September 29, 2011 for the 2011-W Uncirculated Silver Eagle.
Previously, the coin had been listed as "TBD" on the scheduled product listing and "early fall" on the tentative product page. Although an exact date has now been published, it still remains subject to potential change.
The product is an additional collectible version of the American Silver Eagle, following the proof coin released on June 30. The uncirculated version carries a finish similar to the bullion coin and is struck on specially burnished blanks. The coins also carry the "W" mint mark to denote production at the West point Mint. As with other Silver Eagles, the coins are struck in .999 fine silver with a weight of one troy ounce.
The last collectible uncirculated silver eagle was released back in 2008. The product was canceled for the following two years, as the US Mint struggled to meet demand for bullion versions of the coin. Under previous law, the US Mint was required to produce the bullion coins in quantities sufficient to meet public demand. Since they were not meeting full demand, they sourced all silver planchets to the production of more bullion coins and canceled some collector versions of the coins. The law has since been changed to allow some flexibility for the production of collector coins.
Pricing and ordering limits for the 2011-W Uncirculated Silver Eagle have not yet been published.
When last available in 2008, the collectible uncirculated Silver Eagles were priced at $25.95 each. The same year, the proof version was priced at $31.95. During the year, the market price of silver ranged from a low of $8.88 per ounce to a high of $20.92. The cumulative average for the year was $14.99.
The currently available 2011 Proof Silver Eagle is priced at $59.95 based on a market silver price of $37.50 per ounce.
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Paul Signals Openness to Discussing Changes With Immigration Bill Supporters
Sen. Rand Paul said he cannot support a bipartisan Senate immigration overhaul bill in its current form, but he is open to discussions with the bill's supporters on what it would take to win him over.
"My suggestion to those in the Senate who are in charge of the bill is come to people like me who want to vote for it, but who are not quite there yet and say to us, 'What would it take to bring you along?'" the Kentucky Republican said after addressing a meeting of two conservative Latino groups.
He cited the way Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, sought to be courted for his support. That resulted in an increased number of visas for high-skilled workers, "which made the bill better," Paul said after speaking to the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles.
While Hatch supported the bill coming out of the Judiciary Committee, before he votes for the bill on the floor, he said, he still wants it to include amendments requiring payment of back taxes and mandating that newly legalized immigrants who get green cards wait five years before beginning to access benefits under the new health care law (PL 111-148, PL 111-152).
Paul said he has concerns over caps on visas for agriculture workers. The Senate bill would provide up to 337,000 visas for farm workers over three years, which could be determined by the Agriculture secretary.
"A lot of people come to this country to pick crops and we need them to pick crops," Paul said. "But if we set a cap that is below what the market asks for, then we will have another generation of people coming in here illegally. So I think what we need to do is make sure that we don't set the cap such that we don't have enough workers."
Border Specifics
Paul also wants the bill to specify what the border security plan will do to secure the border. Currently, the bill only charges the Department of Homeland Security with developing and deploying border and fencing plans.
"Instead of saying to the administration, 'Okay, you guys fix the border' we should just write it into the legislation and do it," Paul said.
Paul also plans to offer an amendment that would require making the path to citizenship in the bill conditional on Congress voting on whether the border is secure, requiring completion of a border fence in five years and establishing protections to prevent the federal government from establishing a national identification card system for citizens.
"After an inspector general has verified that the border is secure, after year one the report comes back and is voted on by Congress, this is where my plan is different from anything else out there," Paul said. "I say we begin documenting the workers, but that documentation is conditional on the border being secure." He said only a limited number of people would be legalized each year as the Congress votes on the report. Depending on the vote, more people would be legalized. "It's going to take awhile," Paul said.
His "Trust but Verify" amendment would also require Congress to write and enforce a border security blueprint rather than relying on DHS to come up with a plan. The amendment would provide new national security safeguards to track the holders of student visas and those provided asylum and refugee status.
"This is the real part of my amendment that makes the bill stronger: We vote each year on whether the border is becoming more secure," Paul said.
But one aide to a Democratic member of the bipartisan group of senators who drafted the bill said it is not likely that those members will reach out to Paul to get his support.
"In theory, Sen. Paul's support would be great to have," the aide said. "But there is little in what he has offered to show that he wants to support the bill. His vote would not be crucial to have."
Paul said many of the Republicans who are currently opposed to an immigration overhaul supported it in 1986 and need to be reassured that things will be different this time.
"They feel like they were tricked," Paul said, adding that taking discretion away from the DHS and voting each year would go a long way toward providing needed assurances that the law would be effectively enforced.
Some supporters of an immigration rewrite are wary of Paul's amendment because they argue that it would endanger the path to citizenship by leaving it to the vagaries of politics.
Paul said he understood that concern but added, "I don't want to vote yes and then find out in 10 years everybody is pointing their finger at me and saying, 'There are 10 million more people here, why did you vote for that crummy bill?'"
While Paul said that he would support the bill if his amendment is adopted, he also said he is open to discussions with the bill's authors.
"There is no reason why this bill can't be made better," Paul said. "If this is not about politics, if this is truly about passing immigration reform and making our system better, what they ought to do is come to people like me, who are open to it, and say, 'What can we do to work with you?' So far I haven't gotten that. We'll see."
Paul also said he had problems with the E-Verify provision. Under the bill, all employers would be required to use the employment verification system — known as E-Verify — to check that job applicants are lawful for employment.
Paul said he thinks it is onerous to businesses and could result in more hiring of white workers as business look to avoid the problem.
"I don't think we should force businesses to become policemen," Paul said. "I'm a minority in that and it may be something I have to live with in the bill."


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The Only Cure
You must be level 12 or greater to do The Only Cure. This quest is part of a series of unrelated Daedric Quests.
- Obtain a Flawless Ruby
- Obtain a Silver Ingot
- Obtain a Deathbell Flower
- Obtain some Vampire Dust
- Deliver the ingredients
- Inhale the fumes
- Kill Orchendor
Travel to Shrine to Peryite. Talk to Kesh the Clean and he will tell you to bring him the following items:
Silver Ingot (Blacksmith Vendor), Vampire Dust (Haemar's Shame has lots of Vampires, or go to an alchemist vendor), Flawless Ruby, Deathbell Flower (alchemist vendor). Deliver the ingredients to Kesh and inhale the fumes when ready.
When you are done communing with Peyrite, travel west to Bthardamz and clear out the dungeon. After killing the Orchendor, head back to the shrine. Activate the urn and the Daedric god will speak to you. After he has spoken, you'll obtain the Spellbreaker shield as a reward. You might remember it from Oblivion.


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Hands On Asus Eee S101, Just as Slim and Air-y in Person [NetBooks]
We took a look at Asus's Eee S101 today, and as predicted, it's the prettiest looking netbook we've seen since the birth of the category.
It's 2.2 lbs., extremely light and thin, and the chrome finish on the trackpad area is much better looking than the generic plastic of similar models. The 10.2-inch matte screen is compact without straining your eyes, and the keyboard feels bigger than the original Eee's (that or my fingers have gotten smaller to accommodate this segment of the PC industry). The only thing painfully tacky in the S101 is a Swarovski crystal accent on the hinge, but it isn't very obvious until you glance at it.
At $700, it's not exactly cheap for an Atom-powered laptop running Windows XP off of a 16GB SSD, and that's the only configuration you can order up. Still, in addition to its good looks, it's got more inputs than a new MacBook: 3 USBs, a 4-in-1 card reader and VGA video out. It'll arrive in copper brown and graphite; too bad that the champagne paint job, in the Continental's opinion the best suited to accompany the Swarovski accents, won't make it to the US. [Asus]


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All too often, individuals of the libertarian persuasion get caught up in debates over who is "more libertarian" than the other, or who is "actually libertarian." The desire to "out-libertarian" one another can be a fun intellectual experiment born from a desire to take pride in our identity in the face of constant attack by others. And on the surface, it seems like this debate is of serious philosophical merit because it deals with the justification and practical application of the principles of liberty. In "A Bleeding Heart History of Libertarianism," Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi get caught up in this game. A common criticism of the Bleeding Heart Libertarian project is that it is not truly in the libertarian tradition because it does not defend libertarianism according to strict deontological grounds for property rights and because it potentially supports a social safety net and related public policies.
Z&T play the game, arguing that the "benchmarks for ideological purity" of Mises, Rand, and Rothbard should be replaced by a new standard: "[T]he fate of the class who labor at the lowest end of the pay scale under capitalism is an essential element in the moral justification of that system."[1] Since Z&T want push to the side the question of which strain of thought is "is more defensible on philosophic and other grounds," I shall do the same. I will argue that, in terms of the history of libertarian thought, the ideological purity game Z&T have been pulled into is deeply misconceived and should be rejected.
There are three components to a comprehensive political philosophy: justification, principle, and policy. The justification for a political philosophy is the standard used to ground one's beliefs, such as maximizing the greatest good for the greatest number or respect for property rights. Principles are the mid-level values that articulate what a philosophy cares most deeply about. Policy is the practical application of those principles to specific, real-world problems. In daily political life, policy is the center of discussion and concern, dealing with questions like, "Should we raise or lower taxes?" The principles that underlie one's policy positions sometimes come out when people ask, "Should we care more about following the restrictions of the Constitution or helping those in need?" Questions like this deal with the values people hold, which guide policy decisionmaking. The justification of those values is almost exclusively reserved for academic conversations (unfortunately), when people ask questions like, "Should liberty be of greater value than equality? By what standard can we make such a decision?"[2]
The libertarian intellectual tradition includes a wide-ranging diversity of justifications for libertarian principles as well as heated debates over the proper policy prescriptions of libertarianism. From the perspective of justification, the tradition includes the consequentialism of J.S. Mill, the deontology of Robert Nozick, the contractualism of John Locke, the anti-contractualism of Lysander Spooner, the natural rights theory of Ayn Rand, and the social progress of F.A. Hayek. Even labeling these luminaries with a single term to describe their justificatory system seems to not do them justice because it oversimplifies and to a certain extent misrepresents their views. What is important is that they do not share a common justification with one another, or even with themselves at times (as Z&T point out in their original post), but they are all part of the libertarian tradition. There is no single justification of political philosophy that is "pure" libertarianism.
Similarly, there are great divisions of opinion in the application of libertarianism to policy positions. There are open debates on topics like the death penalty, abortion, the ideal tax system, solutions to the damaging governmental education system in the United States, and so on. While many libertarians opposed the invasion of Iraq, Randy Barnett wrote a strong, libertarian defense of pre-emptive intervention.[3] While libertarians agree on things like the need for minimal government, there are many open debates on the specific policy prescriptions a minimal government would entail.[4]
What unifies libertarian thought is a set of commitments to mid-level principles that espouse the importance of individual liberty for all people in all areas of their lives, both social and economic, which must be respected by institutions with the power to use force in both domestic and foreign affairs. Even articulating the fundamental principles at this level will encourage debate amongst libertarians. Does Cato's articulation of "individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace" do it best? Or is it wrong to segment these principles into different areas since "free markets" and "peace" are just different facets of the singular principle of individual liberty? This may too be up for debate, but the fundamental commitment to individual liberty to all individuals, in all areas of a person's life, provides a recognizable framework from which to discuss the meaning and implications of libertarianism.
Z&T do not differentiate between justification, principles, and policy in their analysis of the consistency of various libertarian figures. This is why I agree with Roderick Long's confusion over many of their interpretations and apparent misinterpretations of historical libertarian thinkers.[5] At times, Z&T argue that the purity test involves the justification for political philosophy, particularly with people like Locke, Mises, and Rand. At other times, Z&T argue in the realm of policy prescription, such as when dealing with the social safety net.[6] These are related but separate issues. The shift back and forth between them and the mid-level principles illustrates a natural confusion that comes with playing the ideological purity game.
What's more, the purity game relies on limiting the scope of libertarian thought to particular figures, as Z&T do with Locke and Smith. Yet the history of libertarian thought is much larger and more diverse than that. In The Libertarian Reader, David Boaz argues that "the main thread of libertarianism goes back to the Jewish and Greek idea of a higher law, a law by which everyone, even the ruler, could be judged. The simple idea that the will of the ruler was not the ultimate source of authority…"[7], long before Locke was writing. A sampling of authors Boaz cites as influential libertarians includes Isabel Paterson, Thomas Paine, Frederick Douglass, John Stuart Mill, and Frédéric Bastiat. It would be wrong to claim these figures were "less libertarian" because they dealt with different policy issues or offered different justifications for their beliefs during different time periods.
The principles of libertarianism are what tie these diverse thinkers together and allow us to understand the development of their thought against the background of the intellectual landscape of their time. Locke was responding to Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes, and he drew upon all the tools in his arsenal to do so, including the independence of human beings from the authority of others: "every man has a 'property' in his own 'person.' This nobody has any right to but himself."[8] Bastiat was responding to Rousseau, whom he criticized for seeing, "between the lawgiver and the rest of mankind as great a distance, or rather as great a gulf, as that which separates the inventor of the machine from the inert matter of which it is composed."[9] Smith's targeting of mercantilism continually drew his focus back to the nation as a whole and the strategies for supporting the nation.
The 20th century was markedly different because socialism presented a new challenge to the philosophy of liberty. Prior justifications grounded in natural moral equality soundly defeated claims to the legitimacy of state-sponsored inequality. But socialist argument that legal equality was a threat to equality of outcome presented a new intellectual challenge that required a new response. Especially after the Second World War, the threat of socialism was liberty's intellectual enemy number one. While Z&T describe this as "postwar" libertarian thought, a more apt description would be "Cold War Era Libertarianism." Rand was driven in large part by an opposition to communism. Nozick was primarily concerned with John Rawls and anarchism.[10] A concern for the individual became paramount as the intellectual opponents of liberty focused on the all-encompassing power of the state to control society for the good of the collective.
With the end of the Cold War and the start of the 21st century, libertarianism has had a chance to become more attuned to sources of power that threaten liberty other than communism and appeals to the collective. As a result, many young libertarians are paying more attention to the role that group identity plays in forming our lives and our liberty.[11] BHL is one, but certainly not the only, version of that. If we can glean a historical narrative of libertarianism from Z&T's article, perhaps it would be the following trend at the level of justification for libertarianism:
Society as a Whole –> Individual –> Individual within Society
In other words, up through the 19th century, the primary justification for libertarian political philosophy could be found in the claims it made for social order and the average well-being of the individuals within society. In the Cold War era of libertarian thought, opposition to socialism led libertarians to an emphasis on individualism. With the end of the Cold War, the rise in threats to liberty from government intervention in areas other than economics, and the ability to study the effects of policy not just on the average individual in society, but those on the wider margins, much thought is being given to a concern for the individual in the larger context of their society and subgroups within society.[12]
But even with this reading, it is not the case that BHL is more in line with 19th century thinkers. Their emphasis on the impact of libertarianism on individuals is an influence of the figures they often criticize. While sharing many of their views, BHL figures want to distinguish themselves from the arguments most readily accepted today as developed by Cold War libertarian thought.
While it goes unstated in the article, an obvious motivation for Z&T is to defend themselves against contemporary critics who want to challenge their break from the Cold War strain of libertarian thought. Yet many attacks on BHL are not motivated by serious philosophical scholarship, but by an antiquated theory of social change that required libertarians to associate with conservatives to defeat the threat of communism. The suggestion that libertarianism can be grounded in philosophical justifications or policy prescriptions more aligned with the left than the right is frightening to those who have grown accustomed to a particular way of viewing the world for nearly half a century.
BHL's commitment to the mid-level principles of liberty, not its justifications or policy prescriptions, inducts it into the libertarian tradition. Its scholars do not need to defend their status by driving a wedge between other libertarian thinkers. Just as it is wrong for hard line deontologists to claim that you can only be a libertarian if you take self-ownership as your axiomatic starting point, it is also wrong for certain groups of Objectivists to claim libertarianism is philosophically committed to no underlying justification beyond principles. Claiming a certain justification or set of policies is "more libertarian" than another doesn't make sense, not because there are no justifications or policy prescriptions for libertarianism, but because libertarianism includes a diversity of strains of thought with competing justifications and policy prescriptions. Libertarianism is a commitment to a set of principles of political philosophy, leaving much room for debate over the justification of those principles and the policy implications of those principles. Individuals outside the libertarian tradition often attempt to essentialize libertarian thought as a monolithic program of justification, principles, and policies. It is much easier for them to (mis)understand and so reject libertarianism that way. However, it is not an accurate description of our school of thought, and it is especially not something that should be encouraged by libertarian thinkers themselves.
What does this mean for the future of libertarian scholarship? Instead of arguing over who is "more libertarian" based on the justifications they make or the set of policies they advocate, greater value would come from clarifying the principles of human liberty, then analyzing what the most philosophically apt justifications for those principles are, and the best way to apply those principles to the problems facing people in their time. Instead of looking to the past to exclude arguments for the advancement of liberty, we should draw upon the rich intellectual tradition given to us, and from there debate what is "most defensible on philosophic and other grounds."
Participating in the libertarian tradition is worthwhile, but it is not an end in itself. To put it in more personal terms: I am a libertarian because I care about liberty, not the reverse.
[1]Z&T do not explicitly state that this is their intention, but it is the apparent goal given their emphasis that BHL "has better claim to [the] title [of traditional libertarianism]" and that "classical liberalism, not axiomatic libertarianism, is the true heir of the liberal tradition."
[2]It is not just that the mid-level principles determine the policy prescriptions, though. The justification of principles guides their policy prescriptions with insights to what the principles mean and how they can understand situations.
[3]Barnett, Randy. "Libertarians and the Iraq War." Wall Street Journal. July 17, 2007.
[4]It is easier for libertarians to agree on what the philosophy does not mean.
[5]Long, Roderick. "In Praise of Bleeding Heart Absolutism." Cato Unbound. April 4, 2012.
[6]The anarchist strain of libertarian thought seems to most eagerly embrace this maneuver: a principled opposition to the state means full-on opposition to the state. If you don't agree that the existence of the state is immoral and unjustifiable, you are a statist, no matter the arguments or positions you proffer. While this may support their criticism of the Rothbardian tradition, this doesn't fully fit Z&T's account, as Mises and Rand strongly opposed anarchism.
[7]Boaz, David. The Libertarian Reader. The Free Press: New York, NY. 1997. pp. xi-xii.
[8]Locke, John. The Second Treatise on Civil Government. Prometheus Books: Amherst, NY. 1986. p. 20.
[9]Bastiat, Frédéric. "Property and Law." As Bastiat put it, the legislators put themselves over the people, and Rousseau put himself over the legislators; see "The Law."
[10]Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia was as much a response to Rothbard's defense of anarchism as it was to Rawls' Theory of Justice. Gordon, David. The Essential Rothbard. Ludwig Von Mises Institute: Auburn, AL. 2007. p. 124.
[11]See commentary by Students For Liberty leaders on feminism and race studies for a sense of what the next generation of libertarians are thinking about. Costa, Moriah. "Why Libertarians Should Embrace Feminism." Students For Liberty. January 20, 2012. Padilioni, James. "The Law Perverted: A Libertarian Approach to Black History Month." Students For Liberty. February 1, 2012.
[12] On this reading, neoclassical libertarians are developing the nonideal theory of libertarianism that supplements the work in ideal theory done by the postwar intellectuals. Nozick's procedural account of justice argues that the ideal system of justice is based on the legitimate acquisition and transfer of property rights. However, he leaves the theorist wondering how we should best resolve violations of this line of property acquisition or transfer, especially ones that occurred long ago. He posits an ideal world for us to strive for, but with little guidance for how to reach it in our very nonideal world. Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Basic Books: USA. 1968.


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Secrets to Saving Air while Scuba Diving
By Selene Yeager
Do you consistently run through your gas supply faster than other divers on the boat? Do you frequently have to end the dive before the rest of the group? What's going on? And what can you do about it?
First, you can stop beating yourself up over it. People are different. Those with slower metabolisms will — other factors being equal — use less oxygen. Small divers have to use less energy than big ones to swim forward, so they also use less oxygen. Nature doesn't distribute her gifts equally, and you may never be the stingiest sipper of gas on the boat.
On the other hand, most of us can reduce our gas consumption and thereby extend our dives. We can be better, even if we can't be the best. Typically, divers waste air in one or more of these three ways:
- By leaking it before it gets to their lungs, thanks to free-flowing octos and worn out O-rings.
- By using more energy than necessary. Using energy means using air, because oxygen is necessary to burn the calories that make energy. Every bit of unnecessary exertion costs you psi.
- By getting less than maximum benefit from each breath. When divers breathe inefficiently, they exchange less oxygen for carbon dioxide with each breath, so they need to take another breath sooner.
Here are 18 tank-stretchers to try, starting with the obvious first step.
Fix the Small Leaks
Even a tiny stream of bubbles from an O-ring or an inflator swivel adds up over 40 minutes, and may be a sign of more serious trouble ahead anyway. You don't think you have leaks? Do you have eyes in the back of your head? Ask your buddy to look behind you to be sure. A mask that doesn't seal is another kind of leak in that you have to constantly blow air into it to clear out the water. It's also a source of stress, which needlessly elevates your breathing rate and thereby reduces your breathing efficiency. Does your octo free-flow easily? That can dump a lot of air quickly. Detune it or mount it carefully so the mouthpiece points downward.
Dive More
Inexperienced divers are famous for burning through their air supply at a furious rate. The reason is anxiety. A new diver is understandably nervous, and his body's automatic response to danger is to raise his metabolism, his heart rate and his breathing rate. It's hard-wired, the body revving its engine to be ready for fight or flight, though the result is a lot of air cycled through his lungs but never used, just dumped into the ocean.
You may not be a new diver, but unless you dive almost every week it's still an unnatural activity, and your body isn't as happy as you are about putting its head under water. Dive more — your body will get used to the idea, and you'll breathe less.
Take a Class
Any class, almost, will reduce your gas consumption just by making you feel more accomplished and therefore more comfortable. But the best bet is probably a class to improve your weighting and buoyancy control. When you get that dialed in, you can control your altitude mostly with your lungs, so you're not squirting that valuable gas into your BC and then venting it to the ocean. Most important, you can now forget (nearly) about the mechanics of diving, drift like a fish, and relax.
Sleep More, Party Less
Be well rested on dive day. Fatigue is stress. If you start the dive already tired, your body has to work harder to overcome the extra burden, so you breathe harder. A hangover is stress too. You may think you're sober in the morning, but in fact, alcohol and other drugs affect your physiology the next day. As SSI instructor Jim Bruning puts it, "Your body does what your mind tells it to. If you had a good night of sleep, your body and mind are going to be much more relaxed, much calmer."
Be Early
If you're late to the boat, running to get your gear on board, worried about the hard looks of divers who were on time, stuck with the least-convenient gear station and generally playing catch-up all day, you're giving yourself unnecessary fatigue and mental stress. You start the day breathing hard and never have a chance to calm down. On the other hand, if you're early to the boat, early to gear up and early to the dive briefing, you'll conserve your energy, feel confident and relaxed, and your breathing will remain slower.
Swim Slowly
The energy cost of speed is even more than you might think because it's an exponential function proportional to the square of the speed. So swimming twice as fast requires four times as much energy and air. But the reverse is true, too: Swim half as fast as you do now, and you'll use only one-fourth as much air.
Stay Shallow
It's physics again. Because your regulator has to deliver air at the same pressure as the water, a lungful at 33 feet (two atmospheres) takes twice as much out of your tank as does the same breath at the surface. At 99 feet (four atmospheres) it takes twice as much as at 33 feet.
There's absolutely nothing you can do about that except to avoid being deeper than you have to be. If you're making a transit over an uninteresting sand flat to get to the edge of the drop-off, do it at 15 feet instead of at 40 feet, and you'll save air.
Minimize the Lead
If you're overweighted, you have to put more air into your BC to float it and be neutral. The inflated BC is larger and requires more energy and oxygen to push it through the water.
An extra eight pounds of lead means your BC is one gallon bigger when inflated enough to make you neutral. Imagine the extra effort of having to push a gallon-sized water jug through the water.
Adjust Your Trim
If your body is horizontal in the water, when you swim forward, your legs and fins will pass through the "hole" in the water made by your head and shoulders. You'll disturb less water and expend less energy and air.
Many divers, however, swim with their feet lower than their torso and their head higher. Adjust your trim by moving some lead from your hips to your back — to trim pockets on your BC or to your tank.
Seek Neutral Buoyancy
Always being exactly neutral is the key. If you're not, if you're slightly heavy or light, you're constantly using fin power (and air) to maintain a constant depth. If you're not neutral, you can't glide between fin strokes and you can't hang effortlessly. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Class is designed to help you dial in your buyancy and trim for maximum efficiency and comfort.
Streamline Your Gear
All fast-swimming fish have smooth skins with few or no protuberances. That minimizes drag so they can swim with the least energy and oxygen consumption. Divers, by contrast, have rough, convoluted surfaces with all sorts of attachments from scuba tanks to whistles. Anything disturbing the flow of water past your body creates drag and wastes air.
Do your best to imitate the fish. If you don't need a light on this dive, for example, don't take it. If you do need something, try to hide it in a pocket instead of dangling it from a D-ring. Take the snorkel off your mask and strap it to your leg or tuck it under your BC or get a folding snorkel that fits into a pocket. Shorten hoses that are too long. Clip your console close to your body. Suit your gear to conditions: You don't need the bulk of a BC with 40 pounds of lift in the tropics.
Streamline Your Movements
Keep your arms close to your body. Straighten your legs and keep them as close together as your fins will allow. Kick with short strokes so your fins stay within the slipstream of your body. Some fins do require a wider stroke so you have to compromise between efficient propulsion and streamlining. But usually you're better off finning faster instead of wider.
Breathe Deeply
Any oxygen taken from your tank but not absorbed into your bloodstream is wasted. That's the case when you take short, shallow breaths. A large part of the air you take in fills your throat and bronchia, but doesn't reach your lungs before it is expelled again. You have to take another shallow breath sooner because you didn't get much benefit from the first one, and a lot of air is wasted.
Instead, try to inhale deeply, filling your lungs completely with each breath. A deeper breath brings air to more of your lungs' tiny "air sacs" (the alveoli) where gas exchange takes place. It also adds more fresh air to the volume of "dead air" that remains in your lungs, throat and mouth from the previous breath, so the mix is richer. When more alveoli are more fully inflated with fresher air, gas exchange is more efficient: More oxygen is extracted from the incoming air and more carbon dioxide is released. Although each breath uses more air, you will take fewer breaths, and the net effect will be that less air is used. Short, shallow breaths are more frequent and less efficient.
Exhale fully too, so you expel as much carbon dioxide as possible. Anything not exhaled is carbon-dioxide-heavy "dead" air. On your next inhale, that dead air — instead of fresh air–partially fills your lungs. The urge to take the next breath is triggered not by lack of oxygen but by excess of carbon dioxide, so you find yourself inhaling again sooner. On the other hand, a deep exhale extends the time before you feel the need for another breath.
Breathe Slowly
You consume considerable energy just by breathing, by sucking the air in and pushing it out again. To inhale, you have to suck open a demand valve in your second stage and pull gas down your throat and into your lungs. Each inch along the way and each corner the gas stream turns mean friction and turbulence. Both increase the effort you put out in just breathing and decrease the amount of gas that actually gets to your lungs. Friction and turbulence are unavoidable, but the amount goes up dramatically when you try to breathe quickly — just as a faster-moving boat creates a bigger wake. The problem gets worse as you go deeper because the gas is thicker — it's like trying to suck a milkshake instead of water through a straw.
So don't force it. Try for a long, slow inhale until your lungs are full, then a long, slow exhale until they are empty. More air will get to your lungs, it will spend more time there exchanging "good" for "bad," and you will use less energy pushing the air back and forth.
Upgrade Your Gear
Overhaul your regulator on schedule and consider one with lower work of breathing, especially if you often dive deep. ScubaLab tests have shown that the work of breathing demanded by some regs can be three times as much as others, even more. A "hard-breathing" reg not only demands more energy and therefore oxygen just to operate it, your difficulty breathing through it increases your anxiety level and elevates your breathing rate. So it wastes gas two ways.
Get in Shape
Two people climb a flight of stairs. At the top, one is huffing and puffing and the other is breathing normally. The heavy breather is getting more oxygen, but he's wasting a lot of what he inhales because he's breathing so rapidly there isn't much time for gas exchange. It's an adaptation that makes sense only on land where the air supply is unlimited.
Diving can be surprisingly strenuous because water is so much denser than air. Swimming into a current, it's not difficult to elevate your breathing to the very wasteful rate of huffing and puffing. But even much lower levels of exertion will cause your breathing rate to rise. How much it rises and how soon depend mostly on your aerobic conditioning. A diver in better condition will have less increase when the workload goes up, so he will use less air. The other part of getting in shape is to lose fat and achieve a more streamlined shape.
Stay Warm
Even warm water is cold when you're immersed in it, because if it's cooler than about 95 degrees, it takes heat out of your body at a surprising rate. Heat is energy that has to be replaced by metabolism, using oxygen to make it. Getting cold also creates mental stress which, often without your noticing it, increases your breathing rate.
And Just Chill Out
The competition over who uses less air can itself be a problem when divers associate low gas consumption with diving skill, virtue and the right to take up space on the boat. It's one of those self-fulfilling prophecies: You worry about using more air than your buddy, which causes stress, which elevates your breathing, so you do, in fact, use more air.
In fact, a higher rate of air consumption can be caused by many things, some of them fixable and some not. By itself it means little or nothing and is nobody's business but yours and arguably your buddy's — who, we hope, is not out to ruin your day. So if you'd like to reduce your gas consumption, work gradually on reducing your lead, controlling your buoyancy, improving your shape and posture in the water, going slowly, breathing slowly and relaxing. Then forget about it. That alone will help.


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Keeping warm: Coordinated movements in a penguin huddle
To survive temperatures below -50 C and gale-force winds above 180 km/h during the Antarctic winter, Emperor penguins form tightly packed huddles and, as has recently been discovered – the penguins actually coordinate their movements to give all members of the huddle a chance to warm up.
Physicist Daniel P. Zitterbart from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, recently spent a winter at Dronning Maud Land in the Antarctic, making high-resolution video recordings of an Emperor penguin colony.
Together with biophysicist Ben Fabry from Erlangen University, physiologist James P. Butler from Harvard University, and marine biologist Barbara Wienecke from the Australian Antarctic Division, they found that penguins in a huddle move in periodic waves to continuously change the huddle structure.
This movement allows animals from the outside to enter the tightly packed huddle and to warm up.
The results have now been published in the journal PLoS ONE.
The survival techniques of Emperor penguins have long intrigued scientists. One unresolved question was how penguins move to the inside of a huddle when the animals stand packed so tightly that no movement seems possible.
Daniel P. Zitterbart and his team discovered that penguins solve this problem by moving together in coordinated periodic waves.
This was observed by tracking the positions of hundreds of penguins in a colony for several hours.
The periodic waves are invisible to the naked eye as they occur only every 30-60 seconds and travel with a speed of 12 cm/s through the huddle. Although small, over time they lead to large movements that are reminiscent of dough during kneading.
The authors compare the formation of a huddle to "colloidal jamming" and the periodic waves to a "temporary fluidization".
"Our data show that the dynamics of penguin huddling is governed by intermittency and approach to kinetic arrest in striking analogy with inert non-equilibrium systems, including soft glasses and colloids."
Daniel P. Zitterbart is currently developing a remote-controlled observatory to study penguins all year round. He hopes to witness the reversal of the dramatic decline in penguin colony sizes that is occurring in all areas of the Antarctic.
More information: Zitterbart DP, Wienecke B, Butler JP, Fabry B (2011) Coordinated Movements Prevent Jamming in an Emperor Penguin Huddle. PLoS ONE 6(6): e20260. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020260
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BRUSSELS, April 30 (UPI) -- The Belgian army sold military equipment to a company with suspected links to illegal arms trafficking and money laundering, a newspaper investigation revealed.
A yearlong investigation published Sunday by the daily La Libre Belgique said the Belgian army sold 35 helicopters and two airplanes to the unnamed Brussels company from 2009-12.
One of the company's directors, identified by the initials D.V., was suspected by police of being involved in money-laundering and arms trafficking and by the defense intelligence services of trafficking in stolen vehicles, the newspaper said.
The investigation revealed four of 23 Alouette II helicopters assigned to the company arrived in Madagascar in late 2009 and by the next year were being used by the army of President Andry Rajoelina, who had taken power in a coup backed by the military.
The newspaper said the results of the investigation revealed that when it comes to sensitive material, it is likely Belgian military officials don't check if potential buyers are known to the police or intelligence, meaning some types of equipment could easily be used by criminals or terrorists, or sold to groups in problematic countries such as Madagascar.
As part of a refinancing plan, the Belgian army frequently sells off old equipment such as boots, helmets, generators, trailers, as well as helicopters, airplanes and armored vehicles.
The procedures for selling such used aircraft include the same criteria as for other types of weapons systems, Belgian Defense Department spokesman Capt. Bart Ghys told La Libre Belgique.
Because the new owner had headquarters in Belgium, it didn't need an export license on sales of equipment. But, Ghys said, the firm has signed a "final user certificate," in which it is required to seek "appropriate authorization" if it wishes to export the devices themselves or their parts.
But the firm nevertheless exported military equipment without informing authorities and without obtaining a regional export license, the newspaper said.
Despite the use of material by the Madagascar army and the absence of the necessary licenses, the Belgian army and the Brussels firm continued to work together, the investigation said.
In addition to the "demilitarized" Alouette II helicopters, it was also awarded AgustaWestland A109 helicopters and two Airbus A310s.
Even though the aircraft were "demilitarized," they would probably not be used for civilian purposes, Nils Duquet of the Flemish Peace Institute told the newspaper.
"It is unlikely that helicopters sold by the Belgian army, even unarmed, are not considered military equipment," he said. "Moreover, that the army requires an end-user certificate and includes a re-export clause in the contract is a clear indication that the helicopters are considered military equipment."
Records from criminal proceedings indicated D.V. came under the scrutiny of authorities in Charleroi for possible links to organized crime and arms trafficking in 2003.
A police report indicated a company bank account containing $19.5 million was suspected to be the proceeds of smuggling operations disguised as fictitious exports to Madagascar.
The report alleged a boat owned and leased by two companies in which D.V was involved "could be used to transport arms to African countries."
Prosecutors declined to go forward with a case against D.V., who denied to the newspaper that he had committed any crimes.


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Chapter XVIII.—Of the Persons to Whom, and the Time When, Baptism is to Be Administered.
But they whose office it is, know that baptism is not rashly to be administered. "Give to every one who beggeth thee," 8722 has a reference of its own, appertaining especially to almsgiving. On the contrary, this precept is rather to be looked at carefully: "Give not the holy thing to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine;" 8723 and, "Lay not hands easily on any; share not other mens sins." 8724 If Philip so "easily" baptized the chamberlain, let us reflect that a manifest and conspicuous 8725 evidence that the Lord deemed him worthy p. 678 had been interposed. 8726 The Spirit had enjoined Philip to proceed to that road: the eunuch himself, too, was not found idle, nor as one who was suddenly seized with an eager desire to be baptized; but, after going up to the temple for prayers sake, being intently engaged on the divine Scripture, was thus suitably discovered—to whom God had, unasked, sent an apostle, which one, again, the Spirit bade adjoin himself to the chamberlains chariot. The Scripture which he was reading 8727 falls in opportunely with his faith: Philip, being requested, is taken to sit beside him; the Lord is pointed out; faith lingers not; water needs no waiting for; the work is completed, and the apostle snatched away. "But Paul too was, in fact, speedily baptized:" for Simon, 8728 his host, speedily recognized him to be "an appointed vessel of election." Gods approbation sends sure premonitory tokens before it; every "petition" 8729 may both deceive and be deceived. And so, according to the circumstances and disposition, and even age, of each individual, the delay of baptism is preferable; principally, however, in the case of little children. For why is it necessary—if (baptism itself) is not so necessary 8730 —that the sponsors likewise should be thrust into danger? Who both themselves, by reason of mortality, may fail to fulfil their promises, and may be disappointed by the development of an evil disposition, in those for whom they stood? The Lord does indeed say, "Forbid them not to come unto me." 8731 Let them "come," then, while they are growing up; let them "come" while they are learning, while they are learning whither to come; 8732 let them become Christians 8733 when they have become able to know Christ. Why does the innocent period of life hasten to the "remission of sins?" More caution will be exercised in worldly 8734 matters: so that one who is not trusted with earthly substance is trusted with divine! Let them know how to "ask" for salvation, that you may seem (at least) to have given "to him that asketh." 8735 For no less cause must the unwedded also be deferred—in whom the ground of temptation is prepared, alike in such as never were wedded 8736 by means of their maturity, and in the widowed by means of their freedom—until they either marry, or else be more fully strengthened for continence. If any understand the weighty import of baptism, they will fear its reception more than its delay: sound faith is secure of salvation.
Luke vi. 30. [See note 4, p. 676.]
677:8723 677:87241 Tim. v. 22; μηδενὶ omitted, ταχέως rendered by "facile," and μηδἔ by "ne."
677:8725"Exertam," as in c. xii.: "probatio exerta," "a conspicuous proof."
678:8726Comp. Acts viii. 26-40.
678:8727Acts 8:28, 30, 32, 33, Isa. 53:7, 8, especially in LXX. The quotation, as given in Acts, agrees nearly verbatim with the Cod. Alex. there.
678:8728Tertullian seems to have confused the "Judas" with whom Saul stayed (Acts ix. 11) with the "Simon" with whom St. Peter stayed (Acts ix. 43); and it was Ananias, not Judas, to whom he was pointed out as "an appointed vessel," and by whom he was baptized. [So above, he seems to have confounded Philip, the deacon, with Philip the apostle.]
678:8729See note 24, [where Luke vi. 30 is shown to be abused].
678:8730Tertullian has already allowed (in c. xvi) that baptism is not indispensably necessary to salvation.
678:8731Matt. 19:14, Mark 10:14, Luke 18:16.
678:8732Or, "whither they are coming."
678:8733 678:8734 678:8735See beginning of chapter, [where Luke vi. 30, is shown to be abused].
678:8736Virginibus; but he is speaking about men as well as women. Comp. de Orat. c. xxii. [I need not point out the bearings of the above chapter, nor do I desire to interpose any comments. The Editors interpolations, where purely gratuitous, I have even stricken out, though I agree with them. See that work of genius, the Liberty of Prophesying, by Jer. Taylor, sect. xviii. and its candid admissions.]
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Single-use is the future of biomanufacturing: report from Interphex
Speaking to in-PharmaTechnologist at the conference in New York, experts from five Big Pharma firms – GE Healthcare, Pall, Sartorius Stedim, Novasep and IMA – cheered the quick turn-around time of disposable tech.
And whilst some heralded the time and cost benefits of using processing and manufacturing tech once, others championed the new possibilities it creates.
Ian Sellick, director of marketing at Pall, said: "It allows you to throw away some of the old methods of doing things because you no longer have to worry about re-using equipment simply because you're not going to have to use that equipment a second time.
"An example of that is in protein concentration, where you can now concentrate proteins in line without having to worry whether the membranes are suitable for re-use afterwards."
However, whilst it seems throwaway equipment is the dish of the day, Sartorius Stedim key account manager Floris De Smet warned that there are possible stumbling blocks.
He said that companies should be diligent when it comes to the supply chain for the parts.


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Hi all
I've been reading some threads on this forum in the past, and now I decided to register. I am a noob on FreeBSD, although I have played with it for some time (6.x). My old machine is getting too slow, and so I am planning to buy a new one shortly (very shortly: preferably this week). As I've had bad experiences with these 'ready to run' retail systems from the big brands I would like to configure my own one. I've been looking into AMD Phenom X4, I was enthusiastic at first but on reading more and more about it, I'm getting less and less enthusiastic (energy consumption, performance). So I am thinking of buying an Intel anyway. I don't care too much about a little price difference, for me it's important that it's a machine that doesn't bugger me too much with typical 'hardware compatibility problems': I am a noob on FreeBSD, I want to spend my time learning the Unix way of doing things (I've bought two great books on Amazon, they are very clearly written, so I am all excited about starting to learn), not struggling with non-competing hardware. I've seen there are quite some people here who are very knowledgeable, and so I was wondering if you could perhaps give me some advise on what to buy. I am interested in buying A-brands since they have proved to be less troublesome to me. My typical goal will be to run a desktop, although, the further I come in studying the books I bought, the more tempting it might become to try to set up some servers as well. It would concern advise about the - to my knowledge most important - components: 1. Mainboard (including what chipsets to look for, etcetera. I am not technical, so I am actually just typing what I have read elsewhere ) 2. Videocard. I have understood the safest bet will be Nvidia, and since I've always had Nvidia to my complete satisfaction Nvidia would be fine. But then: which one? Which components on it determine what to choose? 3. Processor. Intel, then, but: Dual core, or Quad core? 32 bits or 64 bits? (Are quad cores 64 bits? I've looked and looked but the one site says it is, the other site says it isn't, and the third site (Intel) says nothing at all about it ()). 4. RAM (type, amount) 5. Harddisk (type) 6. PowerSupplyUnit As I said before, both power consumption (#1) and performance (#2) are important to me, next to the A-brands (#1) and running FreeBSD (#1). I know that this is my first post, and I hope you forgive me for my first post being a question right away I will appreciate your advise very much, Thanks in advance,. Ciao, B. (My nick stands for: sandwich with meat and mayonaise, for those of you who might wonder ) |
Well, that depends on the software you want to run?
I installed a PCBSD 7 with 7.1 PRE and KDE 4 on a not so really superfast machine and a really cheap graphics card. Works just like a charme, superfast! But if you want to run a dualboot with Photoshop, you probably want something a but more powerful |
RAM, Harddrive, Powersupply, shouldn't matter that much in regard t hardware compatbility, just get stuff that is good enough for the job. And worry more about the hard drive controller being supported.
Graphics wise, nVidia for 32-bit or older ATI cards for either 32/64 should be fine enough. I've used nVidia GeForce 6200, 8400GS, Matrox G220, and ATI Xpress 200M cards without problem under FreeBSD i386 releases. Many others here can comment on 64-bit graphics drivers and (barf) Intels offerings. Unless you go for the 'cheap stuff', I don't think AMD and Intel have any non x86-64 chips left on the modern desktop market ;-), so you should be fairly free on choice of processor.
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They both as integrated GFX: Intel Q35 --> with Intel open source drivers will work almost everywhere. 780G/790GX --> most powerful integrated card ever (HD3200/HD3300) open source drivers currently do @d (RadeonHD) but 3D will come in some time (1 year?). Also Intel Q35 has Intel VT-d extensions. Quote:
Athlon X2 3400e (22W) 2x1.5GHz Athlon 64 X2 3800+ EE (35W) 2x2.0GHz Athlon X2 BE-2400 (45W) 2x2.3GHz Athlon X2 4450B (45W) 2x2.3GHz Athlon X2 5050e (45W) 2x2.6GHz As for Phnemons, there is 'e' series that is very power efficent: Phenom X4 9350e (65W) 2x2000 MHz Phenom X3 8450e (65W) 2x2100 MHz AMD does CPU 'better by desing' but Intel currently wins because of 45nm process High-K Metal Gate design. AMD still uses 65nm SOI which is slower, but AMD CPUs has better features, like Nested Page Tables, Integrated Memory Controller, Tagged TLB. You will find none of these in Intel CPUs, at least till intel Nehalem will engage. For example Intel Quad Core is nothing more then two Dual Cores stick together, and Each core does not communicate with other cores in CPU , but by North Bridge of the motherboard, its like using an email to talk to a friend that is sitting just above you. Imho Intel e6320/e6420 (65nm) are good for everything, has virtualization and is cheap, anything newer/faster then that is ok. If you want 45nm CPU (cooler / faster / less power consumption) then go for e8xxx series. About benchmarks, it depends what you measure, Intel is definitely better for games, but for servers AMD does really good: http://it.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=443 http://it.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=467 http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3335&p=6 http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3335&p=7 http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3335&p=10 You may also wait for AMD's 45nm CPUs Daneb and Shanghai which will be avialable at the end of current year. Quote:
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As for power supplies, you will probably want one that is labelled as 80 Plus http://www.80plus.org/.
They generally cost a bit more. I think I paid an extra $20CDN over a generic power supply for an Antec EarthWatt 380W. It was on sale though. The 80 Plus power supplies don't use as much power and won't heat your house. They are a minimum of 80 percent efficient compared to the 70 percent efficiency* of standard power supplies. * This is an estimate. I'm not sure the accepted number is, but I'm sure it is around 70%. |
I always recommend SeaSonic power supplies ... There are also some other brands which consistently produce high quality power supplies, but the list is rather short and I don't remember any of them out of the top of my head ...
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Thank you all for your responses sofar
I will go and process that, in the morning. When I am fresh again |
http://en.expreview.com/2008/09/23/a...ma-review.html They are supposed to hit the market mid October??? And retail at about $110. What a deal |
These DUAL core Phenom X2 (yes its branded as Athlon but it uses K10 core) uses 95W while QUAD core Phenom X4 uses 65W, not a very good TDP for a dual core CPU running at 2.3GHz. Its assumed that AMD highered the default VCore to make it O/C easier, but I do not accept that anyway, it runs fine at 3.3GHz, but at 2.3GHz it should use 45W at most.
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Yes I am aware of that but phenoms are only branded for triple and quad core processors so they are labeling it athlon. I don't know an awful lot about AMD processors either way. I still think it looks like a decent buy though.
Vermaden, thank you again for your advise. As to the chipsets, I am stuck regarding your advise about 'Q35'. Could I, most impolitely, ask you what to pick here: http://www.informatique.nl/cgi-bin/i...gi?M=GRP&H=033 I'm in your dept already Thank you in advance |
There is one other quirky you should be aware of if you use a discrete nVidia graphics card, the binary nVidia driver and a lot of memory on an Intel chipset and 32-bit FreeBSD. The motherboard BIOS needs support for memory remapping. If it does not, you are limited to 3GB RAM. If it does, you can use an additional 0.5GB (from the 4GB installed). These days 2x2GB are so inexpensive that it makes little sense not to use them.
Of course if you use the Q35 you would use the on-board Intel graphics so this might not apply. That GPU does not have much power, but honestly other than a few Linux games and a very few other things you have little need for 3D horsepower on FreeBSD. There just is not much software that uses it. Also, this applies to 32-bit only. There is no nVidia driver for 64 bits. |
Since this thread was bumped I figure I should update that the Kuma processor that I mentioned earlier in this thread was cancelled AGAIN, now scheduled for Q1 2009:
http://en.expreview.com/2008/10/15/k...-75507750.html AMD seems like it's been terribly mismanaged since the ATI merge. I am an Intel guy mostly but I want to see AMD stay strong and competitive. Also I agree with Carpetsmoker on the power supply recommendation. The last two power supplies I bought have been Seasonics and they run like tanks and have high efficiency. I only stopped using my first one after more than two years because I needed more power. |
About Intel chipsets power usage here is the stats: Abou AMD ones 780G are also very eco, they use about 7W of power. As for power supplies, the most important part while buying them is their efficency, the stat that is almost always omitted (guess why) most of them have very poor efficency. Many people does not understand efficency of power supplies, it works like that. EXAMPLE 1: power supply efficency: 85% computer power draw: 100W power needed to run this computer: 118W Code:
x * 0.85 = 100W x = 100W / 0.85 x ~ 118W power supply efficency: 55% computer power draw: 100W power needed to run this computer: 182W Code:
x * 0.55 = 100W x = 100W / 0.55 x ~ 182W Another part of good power supply is amount of A (ampers) that can be provided for each line, and keeping the ATX standart voltages at high load, but if you buy a power supply that has 80+ efficency, you can be sure that A and voltages will be ok. There is a site that aggregates all 80% and more efficent power supplies, you can use it as a guide which ones are good: http://80plus.com
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Of course, there's still the black windows bug to contend with, making nvidia still annoying - you'll have to turn off OpenGL "effects" in KDE4 or some of your windows will appear all black at times. I'm not sure how things are on the ATI side. My next video controller will be ATI though, unless nvidia fixes the problems before then. Quote:
If you have a lot of money, get an AMD Phenom (quad-core). If you don't have a lot of money, get an AMD AthlonX2. You can get a 5400+ black edition cheap right ($77!) on newegg. Note: all of these CPUs are AMD64 and will run FreeBSD AMD64, but will also run FreeBSD i386. Keep in mind that if you run FreeBSD AMD64, you can use over 4gigs of ram. Running FreeBSD i386, you won't be able to without using PXE, but I'm not familiar with PXE. Generally speaking, this comes down to money. Memory speed probably won't be your bottleneck. Memory is fairly cheap nowadays, too. Go for 4-8 gigs if you can. Kingston's "ValueRam" line is actually very good and inexpensive. Get the highest speed that your motherboard will support. Keep in mind that if you buy an ECC motherboard (this is common if you go for the Opteron layout, not at all common for AthlonX2 or Phenom) you'll want to buy ECC ram as well. Get two identical drives and mirror them for redundancy. SATA300 is what you'll likely want, given what most motherboards support on-board. It's common, too, so it won't be tremendously overpriced. Not really a strong opinion here. I've never bought a power supply that failed prematurely (only one failed at all, and it was pushing 10 years old), and I've gone for some "bargain brand" power supplies as well as name-brand ones. |
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Wow, this takes a lot of time to research So, I've finally selected some hardware, and I would like to run it by you for final 'approval' (). I've attached a picture of my selection so far. There are duplicates in there which I still need to choose between. I will try to explain my thoughts. CPU I understand the preference for AMD that has been mentioned many times here. I appreciate that preference. On the other hand, I see AMD rates below Intel on many tests, both concerning speed but most certainly also, and I feel that is important, on power consumption. Every test seems to read to me 'hmm, it performs worse *and* it has much higher energy use'. So I am more or less tempted to stick with Intel. The Q8200 is a little cheaper than the Q9400, but I've also noticed the Q8200 doesn't have 'Intel VT'. I have no clue is that is important to me: could anybody advise me please? Moreover, Vermaden writes: Quote:
Video Actually, I have no clue which one to take. I've taken good notice of the comments about the black window by mdh, but on the other hand, Nvidia has FBSD-drivers and ATI has not. So I'm tempted to stay with Nvidia, and I've selected three not all the expensive cards. After that, I am lost (): I have no clue how to pick one of the three. They are all GDDR3, but that's as far as my guesses go. Mainboard I've looked up some tests, it seems the P5Q and P5QE are both tested rather well. But which one to choose PSU Thanks for the advise on 80plus. I've selected the Corsair (I thought I've read it has good comments, and it isn't very expensive), and I've added the Seasonic based on the advises posted here. Again: and so, now I am stuck: which one to choose? HDD Actually the 750GB would be fine, but I've noticed the 1,5TB has a slightly lower price per GB. Whichever it will be, I would install two I think. Quote:
Once again, thank you all for your kindness in helping me out: it is much appreciated (!) EDIT: I just noticed the attached picture has been scaled down into something not very readable. Upload on an external host: Last edited by Broodjegehaktmetmayo; 11th November 2008 at 11:02 AM. |
> The Q8200 is a little cheaper than the Q9400, but I've also noticed the Q8200 doesn't have 'Intel VT'. I have no clue is that is important to me: could anybody advise me please?
Most desktop users will not benefit from a quad core. They cost more and have higher tdp. Very, very few applications will benefit from 4 cores and most people don't run those sort of applications. Also, the "I am a heavy multitasker" argument is BS. I would recommend a Core2 E8400 or higher. Or, if you can afford it then buy all means go for 3GHZ or higher core2 quad or even core i7. > Do I understand correctly that this means the quad cores are actually useless since it will operate as 1 core? No, Vermaden is talking about dual-socket m/c (2 physical processors) where you need a xeon. quad core is a CMP which in practical/layman terms is just like having 4 physical processors. > Actually the 750GB would be fine, but I've noticed the 1,5TB has a slightly lower price per GB. Whichever it will be, I would install two I think. I would go for 2x750 instead of 1x1500 > Thanks for the advise on 80plus. I've selected the Corsair (I thought I've read it has good comments, and it isn't very expensive), and I've added the Seasonic based on the advises posted here. Again: and so, now I am stuck: which one to choose? Both are good. If you can't make up your mind then go for Seasonic. (BTW, the particular corsair 450W model I have heard is very good.) > video I would 'not' recommend the Asus "Silent" models (passive cooling). Last edited by ephemera; 11th November 2008 at 01:19 PM. |
About CPU, I had Q6600 (4 x 3.0GHz) and it idled for most of the time, I switched to used e6320 (2 x 1.86GHz) and I do not see the point to get more, vesides e6320 has only 12W idle power draw so when my box is idle it draws only 62W (checked with wattmeter) and I have only 70% efficent PSU (old Chieftec) so with more efficent PSU it will be even better, at full load it draws less then 90W so its real nice, it also has Intel Q35 chipset. Q6600 and e6320 are "old" 65nm parts so newer 45nm CPUs like e8xxx and q9000 will draw even less power (with EIST of course --> Intel Speedstep enabled in BIOS + powerd). If you need 4 cores power then go on buy and check, you can always sell it on ebay and get dual core later. Quote:
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It means that you will not be able to connect two Q9300 for example on one mother board to have 8 cores (2 cpus), only xeon can do that. Quote:
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If you have too much cash, then change quad core cash into SATA2 VelociRaptor 10.000RPM drive, you wil lgain more speed with that one intead of additional 2 cores. You can also get SSD drive, but stay away from OCZ Core ones. check tests here: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/3...hmarks,24.html Quote:
Audio, Nic and other things on motherboard are mostly not from Intel, but Q35 motherboards often has Intel 10/100/1000 nic (which is good), P35/P45 mostly have Realtek 10/100/1000 which is less god but still works.
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Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can spread to other organs in the body.
The most common sign of melanoma is the appearance of a new mole or a change in an existing mole.
This can happen anywhere on the body, but the most commonly affected areas are the back in men and the legs in women.
Melanomas are uncommon in areas that are protected from sun exposure, such as the buttocks and the scalp.
In most cases, melanomas have an irregular shape and are more than 1 colour.
The mole may also be larger than normal and can sometimes be itchy or bleed.
Look out for a mole that gradually changes shape, size or colour.
Superficial spreading melanoma are the most common type of melanoma in the UK.
They're more common in people with pale skin and freckles, and much less common in people with darker skin.
They initially tend to grow outwards rather than downwards, so they do not pose a problem.
But if they grow downwards into the deeper layers of skin, they can spread to other parts of the body.
You should see a GP if you have a mole that's getting bigger, particularly if it has an irregular edge.
Nodular melanomas are a faster-developing type of melanoma that can quickly grow downwards into the deeper layers of skin if not removed.
Nodular melanomas usually appear as a changing lump on the skin that might be black to red in colour.
They often grow on previously normal skin and most commonly grow on the head and neck, chest or back.
Bleeding or oozing is a common symptom.
Lentigo maligna melanomas most commonly affect older people, particularly those who have spent a lot of time outdoors. They develop slowly over several years and appear in areas that are often exposed to the sun, such as the face.
They develop slowly over several years and appear in areas that are often exposed to the sun, such as the face.
To start with, lentigo maligna melanomas are flat and develop sideways in the surface layers of skin.
They look like a freckle, but they're usually larger, darker and stand out more than a normal freckle.
They can gradually get bigger and may change shape.
At a later stage, they may grow downwards into the deeper layers of skin and can form lumps (nodules).
Acral lentiginous melanomas are a rare type of melanoma that usually grow on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
They can also sometimes develop around a nail, most commonly the thumbnail or big toenail.
Acral lentiginous melanomas are the most common type of melanoma in people with dark skin, but they can happen in people with any skin colour.
Amelanotic melanomas have little or no colour, but may occasionally be pink or red, or have light brown or grey edges.
Cancer Research UK has more information about the different types of melanoma.
Melanoma is caused by skin cells that begin to develop abnormally.
Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun is thought to cause most melanomas, but there's evidence to suggest that some may result from sunbed exposure.
The type of sun exposure that causes melanoma is sudden intense exposure. For example, while on holiday, which leads to sunburn.
Certain things can increase your chance of developing melanoma, such as having:
Read more about the causes of melanoma.
Melanoma skin cancer is the 5th most common cancer in the UK. Around 16,000 new cases of melanoma are diagnosed each year.
More than 1 in 4 skin cancer cases are diagnosed in people under 50, which is unusually early compared with most other types of cancer.
Over recent years, skin cancer has become much more common in the UK. This is thought to be the result of increased exposure to intense sunlight while on holiday abroad.
More than 2,300 people die every year in the UK from melanoma.
See a GP if you notice any change to your moles. They'll refer you to a specialist clinic or hospital if they think you have melanoma.
In most cases, a suspicious mole will be surgically removed and closely examined to see whether it's cancerous. This is known as a biopsy.
A biopsy usually involves removing a small sample of tissue. But in cases of melanoma, the whole thing is usually removed from the beginning.
You may also have a test to check if melanoma has spread to your lymph glands (nodes). This is known as a sentinel node biopsy.
Read more about diagnosing melanoma.
The main treatment for melanoma is surgery, although your treatment will depend on your circumstances.
If melanoma is diagnosed and treated at an early stage, surgery is usually successful.
If melanoma is not diagnosed until an advanced stage, treatment is mainly used to slow the spread of the cancer and reduce symptoms. This usually involves medicines that target specific genetic changes in the melanoma, such as BRAF inhibitors, or medicines that boost your body's immune responses to the melanoma.
Once you have had melanoma, there's a chance it may return. This risk is increased if the cancer was more advanced or widespread.
If your cancer team feels there's a significant risk of melanoma returning, you'll need regular check-ups to monitor your health. You'll also be taught how to examine your skin and lymph nodes to help detect melanoma if it returns.
Melanoma is not always preventable, but you can reduce your chances of developing it by avoiding getting sunburned (even going pink in the sun).
Most people get sunburned while on holiday abroad, or in the UK during the summer while doing outdoor activities such as gardening, sunbathing or playing cricket.
On these occasions you need to be very careful, particularly if you have pale skin and many moles.
You can help protect yourself from sun damage by using sunscreen and dressing sensibly in the sun.
Sunbeds and sunlamps should be avoided.
Regularly checking your skin can help lead to an early diagnosis and increase your chances of successful treatment.
Read more about sunscreen and sun safety.
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Airport Sleep By the Hour Concept Expands
No more trying to get comfortable on a chair outside your airport gate.
May 7, 2013— -- No more trying to get comfortable on a chair outside your airport gate when you're traveling through Abu Dhabi. The airport announced this week the arrival of GoSleep pods, claiming to be the world's first airport to debut the chairs that converts to a private, lie-flat beds.
Ten sleeping pods are available in Terminal 3 and in the Al Dhabi Lounge in Terminal, with an additional 35 expected later this year.
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After an initial launch phase, the chairs will be upgraded to include Internet access, will include secure storage for luggage and other valuables, and will allow customers to charge their laptops, mobile telephones, and other electronic devices.
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The cost of using the sleep pods is about $12 per hour.
Abu Dhabi might be the first airport to install GoSleep pods, but other airports have before been creative about giving travelers a place to sleep. Munich Airport has Napcabs in Terminal 2. The Napcabs have iPhone or MP3 connection and a USB port plus flight information, a wake-up function, and a place to securely store carry-on luggage.
6:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. €15/hr10:00 p.m. – 6:00 a.m.: €10/hr
Minute Suites are available at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (Concourse B at Gate B15), Philadelphia International (Terminal A-B Link) and Dallas Fort-Worth International Airport (Terminal D at D22). Each suite comes equipped with a daybed sofa, pillows and blankets. There's also a T.V. and workstation. The suites have a one-hour minimum and charge $34 for the first hour and $8.50 for each 15 minutes thereafter.
At London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports and at Amsterdam's Schiphol, Yotel rents rooms by the hour inside terminal gates. Each have showers, flat-screen TVs, showers, free wi-fi and work stations. Prices vary.
And in Dehli's International Airport, $10 an hour will get you a snooze in a SAMS SNOOZE AT MY SPACE sleep pod, found opposite Gate 17 in International Departures.


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It seems like one cultural critic or other is always declaring something dead. In recent years, print media has been declared dead. In the past, punk was declared dead, though many still maintain that punk's not dead. The new book Punk Press: Rebel Rock in the Underground Press 1968-1980 returns us to a time where newspapers, leaflets, newsletters, and flyers were a dynamic way for the punk community communicate. More than just informative, these communiqués allowed punks from all over to covey their ideas and share their city's scene with others.
Punk Press is no kind of exhaustive anthology, but rather collection of fanzine covers, show flyers, with a few articles reproduced for good measure. Mostly this book is about images. What surprised me is that some of these images must have become immediately iconic. I remember a few in this collection as reproductions in fanzines of my own youth.
The title pushes the early date of punk to 1968, but articles inside the magazine challenge that date back even further to 1964, which made me think that trying to pinpoint the birth of punk might be as difficult as pinpointing the beginning of jazz. Most of the works are from the New York, Paris, and London scene. And because the upper period is 1980, by extension we don't get much if any from the West Coast hardcore scene, which came to dominate punk thereafter.
Compiled by Vincent Berniere and Mariel Primois, Punk Press is an interesting look back to a time when the printed word connected and energized an entire subculture. Punk Press is a larger format book, 9 x 13 1/4 , which makes it possible to read the text reproduced within. (This large size also prevented me from scanning these images for you, which is what I usually do. Sorry.) The pages are matte and mimic the original pulp that most of these missives were printed on. Though there is little editorial insight by the authors, the collection of images that they complied do an excellent job speaking for themselves.
Punk Press: Rebel Rock in the Underground Press 1968-1980
by Vincent Berniere and Mariel Primois,
240 pages, paperback
Harry N. Abrams, 2013
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Two East Memphis restaurants soon will have new addresses.
Sekisui is moving from its original location in the Shops of Humphreys Center, 50 Humphreys Blvd., into Circa by John Bragg's space in Regalia Shopping Center at 6150 Poplar Ave., suite 122. Circa plans to relocate west to Chickasaw Crossing, 2855 Poplar, in the space where Ronnie Grisanti's restaurant operated for years.
Both restaurants hope to re-open as early as mid-February.
Sekisui's last day in the Shops of Humphreys Center was Dec. 29. Jimmy Ishii, Sekisui CEO, introduced Memphis to sushi in 1989 when Sekisui opened its doors in Boyle Investment Co.'s multi-tenant building at Walnut Grove Road and what is now the Interstate 240 interchange.
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. in November revealed the possibility of locating its Baptist Center for Cancer Care to the site where the Shops of Humphreys Center now stands. Baptist also desires to expand its Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women facility at 6225 Humphreys.
"They changed the campus plans, so we have to move out," Ishii said.
While Sekisui East's new 3,600-square-foot space in Regalia, also owned by Boyle, is smaller than its Humphreys location, Ishii said it will retain most of the same staff, chefs and authentic Japanese cuisine – with no hibachi or fusion offerings.
"I want to keep focusing to bring the true Japanese food to Memphis," Ishii said. "That's our specialty."
Ishii actually had plans prepared 25 years ago for the exact space in which Sekisui is moving. Circa opened there in 2010 after relocating from Downtown, and Mikasa Japan had a long stint there before that. But in the late 1980s, Boyle recommended Sekisui open in the Shops of Humphreys Center instead of Regalia, Ishii said.
"Boyle moved me to Humphreys because a full sushi bar was risky in Memphis (at the time) and (they didn't think) Memphians would accept the sushi, so they didn't want to do that in the Regalia," Ishii said. "After they saw the success and we were doing well, then Boyle put a sushi bar in the same space and now I'm going back there."
Sekisui has aligned with Wasabi Management Co. Inc. as part of the deal. The group also inked a 4,680-square-foot lease in Bartlett Logistics Center; Colliers International's J. Hickman represented the landlord Wolf Lake Logistics G.P.
Meanwhile, Circa is finalizing plans to relocate from Regalia to Chickasaw Crossing near the Poplar/Union Avenue split, west of the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library. Current restaurant tenants in the shopping center are Sharon's Chocolates & Breads Café and Lenny's Sub Shop.
The 5,850-square-foot space will allow Circa's bar to be twice as big, a private dining area for at least 60 and a total of 200 seats compared to its previous 110 seats. Circa's new digs also provide an area for a new retail line with pastry and baked items, said restaurateur John Bragg.
"Remember the old Café Espresso we used to have by the old Ridgeway Inn back in the old days? I think that kind of offering has been totally absent from Memphis for a while and we have the skills and the people to offer it," Bragg said. "This space over here lets us do that. Its got bigger and better private dining options, too, which is a lot of what we do with the business/entertaining segment."
Bragg said the decision to move from Regalia was a combination of factors. It was "kind of a landlord thing," as well as Circa's wish to take the business in a new direction with its new pastry venture.
"We were kind of wanting to be someplace else; Sekisui needed to be someplace else – kind of a musical chairs let's call it," Bragg said. "Also, I think down the road with Capital Grille trying to come in, Ruth's Chris and Flemings and that real concentration of high-end right in that corner, it might be a better mix for the shopping center to have something lower, more of the walk-up business in there too."
The second-generation restaurant space, having housed Ronnie Grisanti's since the 1980s until last February, was also appealing for Circa.
"This had been a proven, viable location for quite a long time," Bragg said. "What I like about this place is it's centrally located and visible. Being that far out at almost to Kirby, I'd say it limited the frequency of our Midtown customers coming out that way. Now, it's a little more accessible to Midtown and it's more accessible to the Poplar-Perkins, Poplar-Goodlett residential area. My feedback from my vendors and customers has actually been a lot more positive than I thought it would be."
Steven Levy, chief manager with Levy Commercial Realty LLC, is representing Bragg in Circa's lease negotiations. Aaron Petree, vice president brokerage with Loeb Properties Inc., is the landlord rep for Chickasaw Crossing.
Shawn Massey and Gary Shanks of The Shopping Center Group LLC are representing Ishii in Sekisui's new lease at Regalia along with master broker Mike Pettit of Sansone Group in St. Louis. Jon Isbell, Boyle assistant vice president, handles leasing at Regalia.


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Urachal Remnants:
Congenital anomalies resulting from incomplete urachal closure include patent urachus, urachal diverticulum, umbilical urachal sinus, and intra-abdominal urachal cyst. These conditions may be seen in any domestic species but are most frequently a clinical problem in cats, dogs, and horses. Clinical signs and appropriate therapy depend on the type of anomaly. Patent urachus is typically associated with continuous urinary incontinence, urine scalding of the ventral abdomen, and development of bacterial urinary tract infections. Urachal diverticula also predispose to urinary tract infection by serving as a nidus for bacteria. Definitive diagnosis of both disorders is by positive contrast cystography. Treatment consists of surgical resection and 2–4 wk of appropriate antibiotic therapy when indicated. Surgical resection is the standard treatment for umbilical urachal sinuses and intra-abdominal urachal cysts.
Miscellaneous Bladder Anomalies:
Bladder duplication, dysplasia, hypoplasia, agenesis, and exstrophy (congenital eversion) have been reported and are often associated with other urinary tract defects. Diagnosis is by physical examination, observation of micturition, and contrast radiography. Clinical signs and therapy depend on the type of anomaly.