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1. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGsuryanm Dec 9, 2009 2:58 AM (in response to Longstone)
Try rescaning hardware in device manager and see if it detects.
2. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGLongstone Dec 9, 2009 4:18 AM (in response to suryanm)
Thanks for the response but that did not work.
3. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGsuryanm Dec 9, 2009 11:46 PM (in response to Longstone)
Per TPS documentation "To use the eSATA ports you must enable RAID support in the BIOS for the Marvell
discrete controller."
4. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGLongstone Dec 10, 2009 4:10 AM (in response to suryanm)
I'll give that a shot, haven't tried it yet.
Thank you I'll post my results.
5. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGjgalinov Jan 10, 2010 2:54 PM (in response to Longstone)
Same problem, enabled RAID on the Marvell BIOS setting now I cant see my BleuRay/DVD SATA Burner anymore...can see my eSATA drives but DVD drive lost! Is it one or the other with this chipset?
6. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGkcampbell Jan 10, 2010 10:36 PM (in response to jgalinov)
From the Intel® Desktop Board DP55KG Technical Product Specification
1.7.1 eSATA Support
The red eSATA connectors on the back panel can be used to connect an eSATA drive.
They can also be used for port replication, which allows the aggregation of multiple
hard drives on each of the eSATA ports. Figure 10 on page 42 shows the location of
the External SATA -compatible SATA ports on the back panel.
The Marvell 88E6145 controller uses the PCI Express bus for data transfer with a
theoretical maximum transfer rate of 3 Gb/s per port. These connectors are in
addition to the six SATA connectors of the PCH SATA interface.
To use the eSATA ports you must enable RAID support in the BIOS for the Marvell
discrete controller. The two internal ports can stay in the default IDE mode if RAID is
not required.
The discrete SATA interface supports the following RAID levels:
The Marvell 88E6145 controller supports single drive non-RAID configurations as well
as RAID configurations. For RAID configurations, you must install the RAID drivers by
pressing F6 during operating system installation. See your operating system
installation documentation for more information about installing drivers during the
installation process.
I would also suggest that you download and look at the Marvell RAID Utility User Guide at http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d975xbx2/sb/mv_raid_manual.pdf.
Hope this helps.
7. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGjgalinov Jan 11, 2010 1:16 AM (in response to kcampbell)
Thanks Keith, but sadly no. I enabled RAID in the BIOS for the Marvell controller and installed the Marvell drivers. I can now see my eSATA drive, but CD-ROM disappeared and I have tried everything to get it back. Switched back to IDE mode, uninstalled the Marvell drivers...nothing worked - it is weird. I actually have it back online, but I had to move the CD-ROM over to the Intel ICH RAID port I had left. I really dont want it there, but had no other choice at this point. It must be something really simple stupid, but I tried for several hours to no avial...any other thoughts?
8. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGsteppinwolf Jan 24, 2010 10:37 PM (in response to jgalinov)
jgalinov, did you ever get this issue resolved?
In my experience so far, documentation, implementation and support for eSATA on the Marvell Controller is substandard at best. Seems to work for some, but frustrated posts around the Internet indicate problems are fairly common on Intel and other motherboards.
My LG optical drive is working (blue SATA port 0), but trying to use the red eSATA connectors has led to one problem after another. eSATA drives work flawlessly on my old computer using a cheap Vantec eSATA PCI card on Intel D875PBZ motherboard. Marvell Controller on DP55KG is a different story.
Upgraded the Marvell driver and set the controller to RAID in the BIOS. The eSATA drive was now visible in Marvell MRU, but only as an unusable, generic SATA device with 0 bytes available. The Marvell Controller is visible In device manager, but no external drive appears under Disk drives.
Next, I found Safe Eject setting in Marvell Controller properties. Enabled it for Port 3 (the eSATA port I was trying to use). Seemed like a good idea, but Windows would no longer boot after that. Booted to the Windows logo and just stayed there. Waited more than 15 mins on one attempt. Windows tried to repair the problem, but only returned a "bad driver" message. Eventually had to go back to last good restore point.
This controller has weakened my confidence in Intel motherboards. I can understand quirks or waiting for fixes when dealing with new technology (e.g. SSD RAID array on the ICH controller, which is working great BTW), but no respectable manufacturer should still have a significant percentage of customers struggling to get eSATA working.
Motherboard: DP55KG
Chipset: P55, INF ver. 18.104.22.1682
Intel SATA RAID Controller: driver RST 18.104.22.1687
Marvell Controller: 88SE61xx, BIOS 18.104.22.168, driver 188.8.131.5203
OS: Windows 7 Pro x64
External HD: WD 500GB WD5001ABYS
Enclosure: NexStar 3
9. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGsteppinwolf Jan 27, 2010 6:43 AM (in response to steppinwolf)
I decided to ignore eSATA on the Marvell controller for now (kind of the way Intel and Marvell seem to be ignoring it) and just be grateful at least my LG optical drive was working. Now several days later, without having touched anything except install the latest Windows updates, I have the same condition as jgalinov. My optical drive has disappeared. Poof, gone! Doesn't appear in MRU or in Device Manager. This drive was working fine for weeks until I ran STOR_AllOS_MRUSetup_18.104.22.16803_PV_Marvell.exe changed to RAID in the BIOS and tried to get eSATA working.
At one point, the optical drive and eSATA attached drive were both showing up in MRU Physical Devices and Topology. When Windows started hanging on boot, I detached the external drive and went back to previous restore point. The restore point was apparently after MRU was installed because it's still there, but I don't plan to go back earlier for now.
Not only is my optical drive not working, but Windows is hanging on boot again. After waiting 3-4 minutes, Windows finally finished booting (note: I had 8-second boot time before installing "updates" for this Marvel controller). Event Viewer shows repeated "Request to PD 4 is timeout." system event warnings from "mv61xx". PD 4 corresponds to Port 3 where I had the eSATA device attached several days ago. So much for Marvell eSATA "Safe Eject support"...
Well, I'm off to see what Intel Support has to say about this.
10. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGljm23 Feb 3, 2010 4:21 AM (in response to steppinwolf)
If anyone has any suggestions on what steps are required to get the eSata ports working under debian lenny I'd be grateful.
What I'm seeing: the external disk is visible to the BIOS but not the OS (/proc/diskstats)
I've spent at least a day on it and can't work it out.
11. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGsteppinwolf Feb 8, 2010 11:47 AM (in response to steppinwolf)
First, let me say most Intel support representatives are very helpful and great to work with. Thanks to all of you for doing the best you could. However, 4 or 5 different technicians were unable to resolve the topic of this thread or the second problem of optical drives disappearing on the Marvell controller after setting to RAID mode and installing 18.104.22.16803 drivers.
Aside from eSATA and optical drive not working, Windows started taking several minutes to boot (previously 8 seconds cold boot). Eventually Windows wouldn't boot at all (stalled at the Windows logo). Finally had to disable the Marvell controller. Everything went back to normal at that point (other than no eSATA or optical drive). I requested escalation to tier-3. Chat support did escalate to "US local support group", but that only resulted in suggestions to try reinstalling Windows (which I had already done once for a different reason) or replacing the motherboard.
This was obviously not tier-3: No in-depth questions, tracing or dumps; no curiosity about what could be causing these problems; no specific reason for asking me to go through all the trouble of rebuilding my system. I asked if there were any cases on file where these particular Marvell controller issues were fixed by reinstalling Windows or replacing the motherboard. Response: "...we do not have records on other people having the same issue, this seems to be an isolated case." If Intel or Marvell engineers don't know about customer problems with the Marvell controller, what chance is there a fix will ever be released? (That's a rhetorical question BTW.)
I refuse to rebuild a system I just spent many hours building over the holidays--just to see what happens. So what to do? No choice but to experiment some more on my own. Guess what? I found a workaround!
What ended up working on my system (specs posted earlier) was simple: Move the optical drive off the Marvell controller to an available SATA port on the Intel controller. Then re-enable Marvell discrete controller and set it to RAID in the BIOS; reinstall the latest Marvell RAID drivers if they were removed; go to Device Manager -> Storage Controllers -> Marvell controller properties and enable Safe Eject on port 2 and 3 (eSATA ports). Reboot once more and you're golden (at least it worked for me).
The result on my system was:
- LG optical drive is working again.
- eSATA is finally working on my DP55KG board!
- I can hot-plug/remove an eSATA device with no problem (some report problems with hot-plugging eSATA on Marvell 88SE61xx)
- Windows boot times are fast again--maybe 16-20 seconds instead of 8, but that's expected due to device detection on the secondary controller.
- Performance (small file copy, listing hundereds of files, etc.) on the eSATA drive is very quick. (Sorry no measurements or very large files yet.)
I might have read about someone else moving their optical drive off the Marvell controller on a non-Intel motherboard. After reading complaints in so many forums, I can't remember. (Just Google "Marvell eSATA".) Only remaining problem now is sleep mode command is apparently not passed through to the eSATA drive. When the computer goes into hybrid-sleep the external WD drive never spins down. I can live with that for now.
12. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGsteppinwolf Feb 8, 2010 12:19 PM (in response to steppinwolf)
My apologies for such a long post (above). The first half is mainly about Intel support apparently being largely unaware of customer problems with eSATA and optical drives on the Marvell controller. (Am I the first to open a support case on this?). The second half is a configuration that worked for me and a few others from what I've read on the Web.
Update on item 5 (eSATA performance): I copied a 42.7 GB file from an eSATA/Nexstar 3 attached WD5001ABYS to my Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB RAID-1 array. Avg. sustained transfer rate was just under 30 MB/sec. Discussion on eSATA transfer rates should be done in a different thread, but this is roughly half of some of the better real-world transfer rates out there. Don't think the WD5001ABYS is a problem. But the Nexstar enclosure, Marvell controller (as implemented on the DP55KG), eSATA cable and, some say, antivirus software could all be contributing factors. (Note: write caching is enabled on the Spinpoint array.)
13. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGEandori Feb 9, 2010 4:43 PM (in response to steppinwolf)
My apologies if somebody already stated above what I'm stating in this post, I don't have time to go read all the above posts. But here's some facts.
Marvell 6145 Controller controls 4 ports on Kingsberg. 2 blue internal SATA ports (which support IDE, and RAID boot) and 2 eSATA ports on the back panel (which only work with RAID for boot). After booting, both IDE and RAID should work in any of the 4 Marvell Ports because the OS-Driver is far more intelligent then the Option ROM which loads during BIOS POST.
Here's a few more facts...
- You can't do a RAID array between Marvell SATA ports, and Intel P55 chipset SATA ports.
- When in RAID mode, single drives are basically working in AHCI mode and some drives might not support that mode very well.
- Loose SATA cables can cause a huge amount of issues, including nearly everything I read above. Remember, a solid SATA connection is not just feeling solid in the socket... but the actual pins on the connector are making contact.
- If you have 6 or less drives on internal SATA connectors... just use the Black PCH SATA ports. Just use Marvell for eSATA on the back panel.
- Be sure you are using the latest Marvell OS drivers.
Hope that helps,
14. Re: Can't Get eSATA to work with DP55KGsteppinwolf Feb 11, 2010 10:00 AM (in response to Eandori)
Edwin, since you didn't have time to read the last post, let me summarize that a workaround has already been found (at least it worked for me): Move optical drives off the internal blue Marvell controller over to a black Intel SATA port.
Your list combines facts from existing documentation with what sounds like hard-earned experience, so it may help the OP or others. Thanks.
The point I'm concerned about (directed at Intel and Marvell, not you) is: " If you have 6 or less drives on internal SATA connectors... just use the Black PCH SATA ports. Just use Marvell for eSATA on the back panel." Well first, on the DP55KG there are only a total of 6 black Intel SATA ports, so if you have 6 drives on there already, you're out of luck for this workaround. But the main point is, I have not seen this mentioned in product documentation and Intel support didn't seem to be aware that optical drives attached to the blue Marvell SATA ports potentially interfere with eSATA. At the very least, this should be added to the readme file under known issues. If Intel engineers ever become aware of the issue, they can investigate various combinations of internal and external devices on the Marvel controller.


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Jimmie Johnson started Sunday as one of the drivers facing scrutiny for a winless NASCAR Sprint Cup season after 11 races.
He will wake up Monday morning with no such worries.
Johnson overtook Matt Kenseth with eight laps to go in the Coca-Cola 600, and then held off Kevin Harvick for the victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Kenseth finished third.
Johnson started the day on the pole and finished in front. Johnson now has a record seven victories, 13 top-five finishes, 17 top 10s and four poles at this track. He's now won three of those races from the pole. No other driver had won from the pole here since 1998 until Johnson did it again on Sunday.
"There are more people fretting about things than myself," he said. "I mean, what, 12 races? Give me a break."
Exactly. Anybody who didn't think Mr. Six-Time Champion was going to get into the Chase for the Cup playoffs was either delusional or hated the fact that Johnson has been the most dominant driver of the last decade.
Johnson, who is trying to defend his title from 2013, now joins Hendrick Motorsports teammates Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jeff Gordon as guys who have essentially punched their ticket into the NASCAR playoffs.
"Yeah, they know we're awake," Johnson said of the competition. "In winning, it doesn't matter who you are. The No. 4 car [Harvick] has had that momentum this year. They've been able to go out and execute and show a lot of speed and win. Hopefully [we're] heading that way and we can get those other people thinking about us."
Although Johnson entered the race seventh in points, there was increasing pressure from outside forces because of his winless streak. The revamped Chase format places a huge premium on winning races in order to advance to the 10-race playoff schedule.
"It's great to win, but believe me -- and I promise you -- all the hype and all the concern and worry, that was elsewhere," Johnson said. "That wasn't in my head; there are plenty of voices in my head, I'm not going to lie! We've had great races and we've had opportunities there in front us and had stuff taken away. And we've had bad races; I have to be honest about that too."
Johnson's victory capped a long day with historic implications. Kurt Busch became only the fourth driver in racing history to compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.
Busch pushed through the physical demands, but his NASCAR horsepower wasn't as strong. His engine blew several cylinders on Lap 273 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, preventing him from completing the daunting daily double: the Indianapolis 500 in the afternoon and then driving in the longest race of the NASCAR season at night.
"It's like the car just swallowed three cylinders all at once," Busch said of his engine failure. "Those things happen in motor sports. It was a good battle, though. I was hoping to do 1,100 miles today. I can't let what happened here dampen the mood of what happened in Indianapolis."
Busch did just fine for a guy driving in his first IndyCar race, finishing sixth.
Busch tied his current NASCAR team owner, Tony Stewart, and Robby Gordon with the highest finish in the Indianapolis 500 for a driver attempting to complete both races on the same day.
Busch arrived via helicopter -- accompanied by his girlfriend Patricia Driscoll and her son -- at Charlotte Motor Speedway at 4:53 p.m. local time but not make it to the drivers meeting, forcing him to start at the rear of the field.
He did manage to get in a 20-minute catnap and also replenished his fluids with 1 1/2 bags of a saline solution.
"Overall, I can stand here with a smile knowing that I gave it my all for six months trying to get to this point," Busch said.

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Wow! Can you believe it's back to school time? Time to start planning dinner menus, activity schedules and back to school lunches. I especially pay close attention to that school lunch prep because school lunches have to be enticing enough to be eaten and hearty enough to keep my kiddo full until his school day concludes.
One of my most effective tips to keep school lunches from being traded is to make them fun. I'm still incorporating healthy and delicious ingredients but with a little bit of creativity and a few simple tools, you can turn a boring lunch box into a festive meal.
Fun lunches are easy to prepare. First, figure out what you can prepare that is simple to transport without making a mess. Foods such as quesadillas, empanadas, wraps and sandwiches travel easily in backpacks and lunch sacks.
Since August is National Sandwich Month, I decided to prepare one of the most popular and easy to assemble school meals for my son's first day of school lunch: a ham and cheese sandwich! But this isn't a regular ham and cheese sandwich, this sandwich has a few special ingredients that make it pretty spectacular.
Salsa rosa is a perfect spread for any sandwich. It's tangy, flavorful and easy to prepare. It also makes a great dipping sauce for kabobs, and other simple appetizers.
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Assembling a fun school lunch or a bento box, can be a bit tricky. Always make sure every space in the box is filled with something yummy. Berries, raisins and nuts make great space fillers that are healthy and easy to eat. Cut sandwiches, tortillas and quesadillas in fun shapes. I love my star cutter because it is the perfect size to cut through a large sandwich. If you have small cookie cutters, use them to cut cucumber, carrots, and cheese shapes to make your creation more attractive. Use colorful, layered salads or baby greens as a compliment. Fresh fruit, crackers and cold pasta make great sides as well.
If you are packing a hot side dish as part of your bento box, make sure the dish can be microwaved separately. You wouldn't want to warm up your rice packed in the same container as a crisp green salad with avocado.
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¾ cup strawberries, chopped in bite-sized pieces
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DRAIN hot water and transfer egg to a bowl filled with cold water.
PEEL the egg and transfer to a fun egg mold. Close mold and let it sit for 5 minutes. Carefully remove from mold and set in bento box.
COMBINE mayonnaise, ketchup and lime juice in a small bowl. Stir to combine.
SPREAD mayonnaise/ketchup on sandwich slices. Add cheese and ham slice. Using a large star shape cutter, cut sandwich and place in bento box.
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Everyone loves pudding. You can make it at home from scratch. You can buy a powder mix and prepare at home more easily. Or you can buy a ready-made pudding.
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Now you can pack the fun into your child's lunch, without the guilt. Snack Pack offers more than 20 flavors that contains no preservatives or high fructose corn syrup, and are made with real, non-fat milk.
Sounds cool!
Let's see what the nutrition label and ingredient label say. Just to make sure. OK?
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Unfortunately, Snack Pack's website offers the talk, but does not walk the walk. Nutrition information is available for some of its products, but no product has an ingredient list available online.
Here is the ingredient list (thanks to Tamar, a fooducate community member, for sending them over to us):
Nonfat Milk, Water, Sugar, Modified Corn Starch, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, less than 2% of: Cocoa (Processed with Alkali), Salt, Calcium Carbonate, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Yellow 5, Yellow 6.
WTF? Pardon our French, but how in the world can this company tell parents not to feel guilty when their products use trans fat and artificial dyes?
And what's this "made with real milk" talk, when the #2 ingredient is water !?! Yep, the product uses real milk, but it uses lots of water as well (to save money?), thickens it using the corn starch, and binds it with the milk and other ingredients using Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate,an emulsifier.
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Thread: I'm an idiot. Aikido vs. Judo.
6/21/2005 2:16pm, #1
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I'm an idiot. Aikido vs. Judo.
I know nothing of Aikido or Judo. Searching on the internet turns up pretty bland, floating descriptions. They are both grappling arts, yes? They both have alot of groundwork? What are some traits of both, how are they alike, and which is more prone to Bullshido/Mcdojos?
Which do you prefer, and why?
... I'm sorry. I really would like some info on them for the purpose of crosstraining, because apparently, here in New Orleans we have a decent Aikido and Judo school. I appreciate any advice, comments, links to more info, etc. etc. :\
6/21/2005 2:26pm, #2
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Aikido does not have groundwork for the most part. Most people here will tell you to do judo. I agree with them.
Personally, I love judo. The training is very practical and you get a lot of practice using the various techniques on fully resisting opponents. There is a lot of hard contact free sparring, which is integral to learning how to fight.
6/21/2005 2:26pm, #3
In terms of cross-taining, Judo will be more useful, sooner. The nature of Judo is for competition, so that you will learn techniques you can use, and then practice using them sooner than much of Aikido.
In terms of what could be more rewarding to you personally?
You'd have to try both, and decide for yourself.
Go do judo.
6/21/2005 2:28pm, #4
I know it's long, but read through the "'resistant Aikido Clips" thread at the top of this board. Especially the first 10 or 12 pages. That will probably tell you more than you ever wanted to know about Aikido.
6/21/2005 2:28pm, #5
Yeah, judo. It's trained harder and has groundwork. Make sure it's got a good distribution of throwing and groundwork, and does a reasonable amount of randori.
All I've heard of aikido is of compliant partners and impractical moves. And skirts.Mr Politically Correct GIJoe6186:
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I predict that this thread will degenerate into a "judo is better because they practise in an 'alive' manner, whereas fruity aikidokas like to get co-operative, hold wrists (not hands) and sing kumbaya in japanese"
But let me get cursory. Aikido is about dis-engagement and evasion and ending a conflict without hurting yourself and your assailant. It emphasizes flexibility, agility, internal sensitivity, breathing power, timing, and redirecting and exploiting a commited opponent's energy. As far as ground game goes, suwariwaza is the closest you'll get.
Judo on the other hand is purely engagement and is much more 'physical' and 'external' than aikido. Flexibility, agility, and strength are important, but not as important as positioning (for a throw). A lot of people will tell you here that BJJ's newaza originally came from Judo (as transmitted by Maeda) so the ground game is solid in Judo.
See what fits your personality and your body's capabilities, and stick with it.
6/21/2005 2:32pm, #7
Judo is better because you train alive, with a fully resisting opponent.
Whereas Aikido teaches you first and foremost to be a good Uke and fall for your partner when they finish their technique.
As for the bullshit about positioning your body, if you don't have position and technique down, you aren't throwing.
Let's foget about the ground work, Aikido sucks,Originally Posted by Sifu Rudy Abel
6/21/2005 2:33pm, #8
6/21/2005 2:35pm, #9
Judo wins.
Aikido focuses on timing and footwork to break the other guy's balance and apply throws or joint locks.
Judo focuses on getting a good grip to break the balance. Throws often use the hip or legs (as opposed to aikido). Judo throws tend to be much higher-percentage.
Aikido has no groundwork to speak of. Techniques are practiced kneeling, but they don't actually WORK kneeling, and aren't really supposed to either.
Judo has groundwork that focuses on pins and escapes, with some armbars and chokes, but not as much emphasis on submissions or transitions as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, for example.
Aikido has weapons (staff, sword) that are practiced in kata (forms and drills). Judo doesn't.
Aikido practice is generally cooperative partner drills and cooperative technique practice. If you resist too much, you're considered a bad uke. There is little improvisation, practically none below black belt level.
Judo has cooperative practice to learn and drill the technique, as well as live wrestling (randori), which is a great workout and improves the applicability of techniques tremendously.
If you want to hang out with hippies and philosophise about peace and harmony (nothing wrong with that), do aikido.
If you want applicable martial skills, do judo.There are no wrong threats, only wrong answers. (Strategy game truism)
6/21/2005 2:37pm, #10
Judo. next.You are a total Douchbag. Train more, post nevermore.
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The U.S. Treasury Department said it will maintain the size of its two-year and three-year note auctions and also keep the amount of longer-term bond issuance unchanged from the previous quarter.
The Treasury will auction $27 billion in three-year notes on Aug. 12, $24 billion in 10-year notes on Aug. 13, and $16 billion in 30-year bonds on Aug. 14, the department said in its quarterly refunding statement released today.
Next week's auctions of notes and bonds will fall to $67 billion, compared with $69 billion last quarter. The sales will raise $9.3 billion in new cash.
"Based on current fiscal forecasts, coupon auction sizes will remain steady going forward," the department said in a statement today in Washington. "Treasury will continue to monitor projected financing needs and make appropriate adjustments as necessary."
Treasury is maintaining its borrowing even as budget deficits are projected to narrow. That's because the gap is forecast to widen again in later years, Millan Mulraine, deputy head of U.S. research and strategy at TD Securities USA LLC in New York, said before the statement.
"They want to ensure maximum flexibility going forward," Mulraine said. "They don't want to cut coupon issuance now only to increase it in the future."
Cash Balances
The Treasury said it will review its cash-balance policy after the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee recommended increasing its cash cushion. It is conducting the review after events such as Superstorm Sandy and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks disrupted debt auctions.
The committee, which represents investment funds and banks, discussed the historically low levels of volatility in financial markets and concluded that "monetary policy and regulatory changes have contributed to the decline."
"Liquidity providers have declined in number and capacity, making the system less able to deal with unexpected volatility," according to minutes of the panel's Aug. 5 meeting.
Separately, a Treasury official told reporters today that dealers offered mixed reactions to the idea of selling securities with maturities of more than 30 years.
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The Treasury also said today it will conduct small-scale buybacks this fiscal quarter to test information-technology systems. It said the buybacks don't signal any change in policy.
Treasury's borrowing needs this quarter fell to the lowest level for the period since 2007 as a stronger economy boosts tax revenue.
The U.S. economy grew at a 4 percent annualized rate from April through June. That pace matched the average growth rate from July through December of 2013, which was the strongest six months in a decade.
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Hey all. I'm working on the exercises for chapter 27 in BBG and I've run across something I can't figure out.
In the translation exercises, #5 is this:
Παυλος δε και Βαρναβας διετριβον εν Αντιοχεια διδασκοντες και ευαγγελιζομενοι μετα και ετερων πολλων τον λογον του κυριου.
What I don't understand is why ευαγγελιζομενοι is passive - i.e. why it uses μενοι instead of οντες as an ending. My first thought was that maybe the verb is deponent, but looking it up in my lexicon, it does not appear to be: the lexical form is ευαγγελιζω.
In the answer key, here's what it says this sentence should translate as:
But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord with many others also.
Teaching and preaching seem to be parallel there, so why do the participles use different endings? What am I missing?


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Sandnes is a town in Rogaland. Sandnes is part of the flat geographical area Jæren that goes from Brusand in the south to Randaberg in the North. The village of Hommersåk is covered separately.
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Sandnes train-station is located on the Jærbanen railroad [5]. Both local and express trains stop at Sandnes.
Bus no 9 goes from Sola Airport Stavanger to Sandnes.
Get around
There are buses going inside and outside of the county limits. Local buses are all organized by the Kolumbus organization.
All of downtown are within walking distance. Bicycles can be borrowed for free at the bus terminal during office hours. The local government has invested heavily in bike paths -these are usually paved with a red material and can either be right next to the pedestrians' pavement or on the opposite side of the road.
All the local taxis use the meter. It may be slightly cheaper to show up at the bus terminal to get one than to call them and have them shop up at the hotel that may be meters away.
All new commercial buildings have to be wheelchair accessible.
Sandnes has several restaurants with both local and international cuisine.
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Back in December, we reported that there was a fifth Naruto Shippuden (or eighth Naruto movie) in the works. Not much information was released, and still details are a bit sparse, but the Japanese television network, TV Tokyo, has released a title – Naruto Shippuden Movie: Blood Prison! The headline of the movie is "Naruto is Jailed, What on Earth Happened!?" As you can see from the trailer below there is some kind of incident with the Raikage that leads Naruto to jail on the account of "murder".
Along with the release of Naruto Shippuden Movie 5: Blood Prison, there will be a short special that will go along with it titled "Naruto vs Konohamaru: The Burning Chunin Exam". Not much is known about that either, but based on the title, we can predict both Naruto and Konohamaru have the Chunin Exams on their mind. Generally the short specials that come out with the Naruto Shippuden movies are humorous, so we don't anticipate anything serious.
Both Naruto Shippuden Movie 5: Blood Prison and the Naruto vs Konohamaru special are slated to hit Japanese theaters July 30, 2011.


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As front-line workers in HIV prevention, it is important to understand what prevention strategies clients are using and how they understand the risks associated with them.
A common HIV prevention strategy used by gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) is known as "serosorting" and involves limiting all -- or just "high-risk" -- sexual activities to partners who have the same HIV status. For example, an HIV-negative person may choose to only have condomless sex with other people who are HIV negative or an HIV-positive person may choose to only have condomless sex with other people who are HIV positive. This strategy is used in the context of different types of relationships, such as stable, casual, monogamous and non-monogamous relationships.
This article focuses on how often serosorting is used, how well it works, and what can be done to make it work better.
Serosorting is quite common among MSM in Canada and other parts of the world.
Research from the United States, Europe and Australia shows that 14% to 44% of HIV-positive MSM and 25% to 38% of HIV-negative MSM engage in serosorting behaviours.1 In a 2009 survey of MSM in Vancouver, serosorting was reported by 50% of HIV-positive MSM and 34% of HIV-negative MSM.2 Furthermore, in a national survey of HIV-negative and HIV-positive MSM in Canada, condomless sex was more common in casual and regular relationships where a partner was believed to have the same HIV status and less common in relationships where a partner was believed to have a different HIV status.3
The perception in the MSM community on the effectiveness of serosorting is mixed. In the 2011/12 Male Call Canada national telephone survey of men who have sex with men, respondents were asked how effective they think serosorting is.4 According to the study, 50% of respondents thought it was effective and 50% thought it wasn't effective.
In theory, serosorting might be a highly effective strategy to reduce the risk of HIV transmission, since we know there is no possibility of HIV transmission if both partners have the same status (with the exception of superinfection for HIV-positive serosorting -- discussed later).
However, in practice, research tells us something different. While there is evidence that HIV-negative serosorting may provide some protection, there is still a relatively high risk of HIV infection among men using this strategy.
The largest study to explore the effectiveness of serosorting analyzed data from over 12,000 HIV-negative MSM in North America.5 This study defined HIV-negative serosorting as only engaging in condomless anal sex with partners who are thought to be HIV negative. The analysis found that the risk of HIV infection among "serosorters" was 57% lower compared to men who engaged in condomless receptive anal sex with partners of unknown/positive HIV status. However, the study also found that the risk of HIV infection among "serosorters" was 82% higher compared to men who did not have any condomless anal sex.
Other studies have found similar results: that serosorting generally decreases risk compared to using no prevention strategies but has a higher risk compared to using condoms consistently.6-10
The effectiveness of serosorting is likely lower than most people would expect. Incorrect knowledge of one's own, or one's partners', HIV status is the most probable explanation for this lower than expected effectiveness. If an HIV status is different from what was presumed, then the risk of HIV transmission associated with serosorting increases.
Unfortunately, research suggests incorrect knowledge of HIV status is common. There are two main reasons for this: problems with disclosure and false belief about one's own HIV status.
If disclosure of HIV status does not happen (non-disclosure), then the HIV status of a sexual partner may be incorrectly assumed.
For a variety of reasons, including privacy issues and fear of stigma, discrimination, rejection, violence or criminalization, many HIV-positive individuals do not disclose to sexual partners. Indeed, research suggests as many as 30% of MSM living with HIV don't disclose their HIV status to sex partners before engaging in condomless anal sex.11-14 Many HIV-negative MSM also do not disclose their HIV-negative status. Moreover, a substantial proportion of MSM do not ask their sexual partners about their HIV status. In a Vancouver-based survey, 36% of both HIV-positive and HIV-negative MSM did not ask the HIV status of their sex partners.2
Instead, men may make assumptions about a partner's HIV status based on indirect clues rather than directly asking/talking about HIV status (also known as implied/inferred disclosure). For example, some men may base assumptions on a partner's appearance or actions (that is, whether or not they want to use a condom) or the belief that a partner would disclose if their HIV status is different from them.1,15-17
As a result, some HIV-negative men may assume their partners are HIV negative and some HIV-positive men may assume their partners are HIV positive.18 If these assumptions are incorrect, then the risk of HIV transmission increases. Unfortunately, research suggests incorrect assumptions may be common. For example, in a study of recently diagnosed MSM, 21% reported that they were certain the sexual partner who transmitted the virus to them was HIV negative.19 Similarly, in a study of people living with HIV, many (64%) incorrectly thought their sexual partners were also living with HIV.20
While disclosure is an important step in the serosorting process, it only works if the HIV status being disclosed is accurate. While it is relatively easy to be certain of an HIV-positive status (once someone is diagnosed as HIV-positive, their HIV status is known and does not change), it can be more difficult to know for certain if one is HIV negative. Consequently, some men may incorrectly think, and disclose, that they are HIV-negative when they are not.
It is estimated that approximately 20% of HIV-positive MSM in Canada are unaware of their own HIV infection.21 These men may think and disclose that they are HIV negative and engage in serosorting behaviours based on this assumption. For example, a study from Vancouver reported that 50% of undiagnosed HIV-positive MSM thought they were unlikely or very unlikely to acquire HIV in their lifetime (despite already being infected) and 39% reported the use of serosorting to reduce their risk of becoming infected.2 In another study, approximately 20% of men who serosorted said they were HIV negative even though they hadn't been tested in the last 12 months and 16% said they didn't know their HIV status.22
It is important to consider two factors when assessing the accuracy of an HIV-negative status: the time since the last HIV test and the window period.
If someone has engaged in an activity that may have exposed them to HIV since their last HIV-negative test result, then they may actually be HIV positive. Therefore it is important to consider the length of time, and risk behaviours, since the last HIV test.
Even if someone has not engaged in any risk activities since an HIV-negative test result, it is still possible they are HIV positive due to the window period. The window period refers to the period of time from when a person first becomes infected with HIV to when a test can detect their infection. Depending on the test used, the window period can range from two weeks up to three months. During the window period, a test may incorrectly find a person who is HIV positive to be HIV negative. This incorrect test result may lead someone to assume they are HIV negative and disclose this HIV status to partners.
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I am looking for this particular fragrance but it seems pretty hard to find where I live (the Netherlands). I was wondering if you guys know any UK/US webshops that ships to Europe.
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It's fall, and many will agree with me that this is the best time to dust off your most daring and powerfull fragrances. This is the time of year I love because most of the scents I love, don't really do well in the summer. Nobody wants to be choked out by a cloud of Opium pour homme EDP right?!
So about a month ago, as it was getting colder, I took out Givenchy's Pi. I had'nt smelled this for over 8 months and I forgot how good it is! This made me think about what to buy next for
A summer fragrance: Light musk, citrus and light woods.
It's a pretty basic fragrance becouse it feel wattered down. To be honest, I expected more from the S.F. fashion house. Longevity is'nt to good either. 3 to 4 hours.
It's not all bad. This might be perfect for anyone that just wants a light and easy fragrance for just hanging around the house. And this is where the poor longevity come in handy. I usualy spray this on in the
First off: This is a womans fragrance. The only reason I own a bottle was the fact that I blind bought it for only a couple of bucks.
The Serge Lutens house does'nt have many gender specific fragrances. There is not much to say about this scent. It is super sweet, extremely feminine and as the name states: loads of vanille.
Even though there are some womans fragrances that come out pretty well on a men's skin, this is not
You either love it or hate it, but one thing we can all agree on:
this fragrance opened up some serious discussions.
Mostly becouse over the last few years this has been so badly "hyped" that many in the fragrance community quickly wrote this off as "to synthetic", "to feminine" or to sweet. I admit, this is pretty sweet and can come off as femenine (Though many of the scents that came out around that
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July 13. 2013 12:56PM
Police hope photos lead to arrest for Mont Vernon thefts
MONT VERNON - Someone took items, including money, credit cards and CDs, from at least three unlocked vehicles recently, and police released photos from surveillance cameras showing a person who might be involved, police said.
"We think that's the person that possibly went into vehicles or at least ended up with some of the items"
Sgt. Aaron R. Daigneault said Saturday.
He said police have taken three reports from people whose unlocked vehicles were entered and found items taken. Daigneault called them "crimes of opportunity."
Police said someone driving a dark-colored sedan committed the thefts between 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Police released photos containing a man authorities termed 'a person of interest." The photos were taken from the Shell gas station at 620 Amherst St. in Nashua and from Walmart in Amherst.
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FDA issues warning for potential Salmonella contamination in Nature's Deli Chicken Jerky
Although Kasel Associates Industries Inc., makers of Nature's Deli Chicken Jerky Dog Treats, has declined to perform a voluntary recall at this time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Costco stores are working together to remove the products from the shelves. The treats, sold at Costco stores in the Denver, Colo., area with a lot code of BESTBY061913DEN may be contaminated with Salmonella. The FDA is warning consumers not to feed this product to pets.
According to a release by the FDA, In September 2012, a retail sample of a Kasel dog treat product tested by the Colorado Department of Agriculture was found to be positive for Salmonella. An FDA follow-up inspection at the firm found certain finished dog treat products and 34 out of 72 environmental samples positive for Salmonella. As a result, the company recalled one lot of its Nature's Deli Chicken Jerky Dog Treats Oct. 2. That recall did not extend to the lot code covered by this warning. In November, a retail sample of Nature's Deli Chicken Jerky Dog Treats lot code BESTBY061913DEN taken by the Colorado Department of Agriculture also tested positive for Salmonella prompting the FDA to issue a warning to consumers. There have been no reports of illness at this time.
The product is sold in three-pound packages. The lot code number can be found of the back-side of the package on a transparent section immediately following the term "All American Dog." These treats are manufactured in the United States and are not associated with the FDA's ongoing investigation of jerky treats imported from China.
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The following is a sampling of calls received by the Niagara County Sheriff's Office from Wheatfield and Town of Niagara between Sept. 24 and 30.
Monday, Sept. 24
•6700 block of Shawnee Road, Wheatfield, suspicious person. Someone living in abandoned house.
•2300 block of Lake Mead Road, Wheatfield, animal problem. Neighbor's dog attacked another dog.
•Expressway Village, Town of Niagara, check welfare. Report of a 22-year-old female, possibly on drugs, threatening suicide.
Tuesday, Sept. 25
•2000 block of Sawyer Road, Wheatfield, burglary in progress. Possible entry of a Red Cross trailer.
•4000 block of Lockport Road, Wheatfield, aggravated harassment. Complainant reports someone from Florida is calling and threatening to kill him.
Wednesday, Sept. 26
•2500 block of Ferchen Street, Wheatfield, larceny. Hanging plant and black lab welcome mat taken.
•3600 block of Julie Court, Wheatfield, harassment. Male with foreign accent asking personal questions.
•1400 block of Elderberry Place, Town of Niagara, domestic. Woman covered in blood.
Thursday, Sept. 27
•7300 block of Shawnee Road, Wheatfield, trespass. Five men in back yard cutting trees down.
•Ward Road, Wheatfield, check welfare. Male trying to hitchhike on side of road.
Friday, Sept. 28
•7100 block of Shawnee Road, Wheatfield, animal problem. Report of rabid raccoon under back deck.
•7200 block of Williams Road, Wheatfield, property damage. Mirror broken on vehicle.
Saturday, Sept. 29
•6900 block of Williams Road, Wheatfield, injury accident. Vehicle struck pole.
•Mapleton Road, Wheatfield, EMS. A 17-year-old male, difficulty breathing.
•Niagara Falls Boulevard, attempt to locate. Green mini van reportedly struck male on bike.
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CONCONULLY More than 75 people turned out Friday night to drink hot cocoa, sing Christmas carols and mark the beginning of the Christmas season during the town's second Christmas Tree Lighting celebration.
Event-goers warmed their fingers and toes by a roaring bonfire adjacent to the Main Street fire station before heading into the Community Hall for hot cocoa, stories and Christmas carols.
Area resident, singer and storyteller Dayton Edmonds served as the emcee for festivities, which reached its apex with the selection of a child to throw a mammoth switch to light the town Christmas tree in front of the hall.
Children lined up and selected ornaments bearing numbers for a chance to light the tree. Dre'a Jameson, 9, of Omak, won the honor.
"It's kinda good," she said after throwing the switch, bringing the Christmas tree's lights to life outside of the hall. "It was fun."
Jameson said she was just "hanging out with family" at the event, not knowing that she would have the honor of being only the second child to light the town's tree.
With hot cocoa and cookies in hand, children and adults filed back into the hall where Edmonds entertained them with stories and led them in caroling.
"We just lit the Christmas tree," he said. "Let's sing about it."
Organizer Cindy Case said she was ecstatic about this year's turnout.
"I think it's great," she said. "It's a little more than last year and that was a great turnout, too."
The Christmas Tree Lighting is the brainchild of resident Joan Leckvold, city employee and event volunteer Zachary Claussen said.
"She kind of started this thing," he said.
Leckvold missed the event this year as she was returning home from out-of-town travel.
Contacted Monday, she graciously downplayed her involvement.
"I'm the one who takes care of it now," she said. "My husband and I get the tree and keep the ball rolling. It's a fun evening."
She credited Edmonds, Sit'n Bull Saloon and Conconully General Store for making the event a success. The restaurant and store donated cookies and cocoa. She also credited volunteers George Washo and Gordon Moser for gathering wood for the bonfire.
Claussen called the event "awesome," noting it's the first of two Christmas events.
The next, Santa Days, is set for Dec. 14. Santa Days will include a craft bazaar, bonfire, a lighted snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle parades, and, of course, Santa Claus.
Parade participants should be in town by 5 p.m. that day in preparation for events that start at 6 p.m. The parade starts at the top of Mineral Mountain and ends downtown.
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General Manager Chris Antonetti said Friday the club is taking the matter seriously and will let the legal process evolve.
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Monday, May 5, 2014
AMD Unveils Its 'Ambidextrous Computing' Plan
The chipmaker has expanded its licensing technology agreement with ARM Holdings as it seeks growth outside the slowing personal computer industry. It has acquired an architectural licence that allows the company to customise its chip architecture and differentiate its products from others based on ARM technology.
For 2015, AMD is aiming to bring in new markets that can benefit from ambidextrous computing. So here comes
Project Skybridge, a design framework with a family of products headed toward a variety of marketplaces. With Project Skybridge, AMD is briding ARM and x86 systems.
"Before today, AMD was the only company in the world to deliver high performance and low-power x86 with leadership graphics. AMD now takes a bold step forward and has become the only company that can provide high-performance 64-bit ARM and x86 CPU cores paired with world-class graphics," said Rory Read, AMD president and CEO. "Our innovative ambidextrous design capability, combined with our portfolio of IP and expertise with high-performance SoCs, means that AMD is set to deliver ambidextrous solutions that enable our customers to change the world in more efficient and powerful ways."
So starting from next year, AMD will release a low-power 20nm Cortex A57 based SoC with integrated Graphics Core Next GPU. The 20nm ARM based SoC will be pin compatible with AMD's next-generation low power x86 SoC using Puma+ APUs. The ARM SoC will also be AMD's first official Android platform.
Although AMD will not likely release standard socketed desktop boards that are compatible with both ARM and x86 SoCs, a pin compatible design will be used for embedded, BGA solutions.
During the event, AMD executives also offered the first public demonstration of the AMD Opteron A-Series 64-bit ARM Server CPU Codename "Seattle" platform, which supports everything from social media to storage to big data applications. AMD demonstrated "Seattle" running a Linux environment derived from the Fedora Project. This Fedora Project-based Linux environment enables companies to transition to ARM-based servers without the need to integrate entirely new tools and software platforms to their IT environments.
The company also announced its ARM two-year roadmap. Besides the project Skybridg SoCs coming in 2015, AMD's first custom 64-bit ARMv8 CPU core, codenamed K12, is coming in 2016. The low-power K12 is an ARM core designed by AMD. The company did not provide many details, although it is expected to be made using 14/16nm FinFET.


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"Waiting to inhale? Here we go again" (In Our Opinion - April 25) will only result in increasing the growth of street corner cigarette sales known as "loosies."
Consumption of tobacco has been part of mainstream America, transcending generations. Despite the best efforts of government to limit consumption via excessive taxes and smoking restrictions - just like alcohol prohibition in the 1920s — both have been total failures.
Creative entrepreneurs will always provide the citizens desire, regardless of government approval. Consumers have voted with their dollars, making tobacco consumption a multibillion dollar enterprise today.
Our tax dollars would be better used if police and judges spend more time prosecuting those who commit real crimes against individuals or property than going after those who sell cigarettes to those under 21. Law enforcement authorities should be free to pursue those who commit real crimes against citizens and property.
At 18, you are old enough to vote, be a parent, pay taxes, own a car, take out a bank loan, serve in the military and die for your country, but not consume tobacco. It makes no sense.
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HP webOS is a platform powering devices as diverse as the world's smallest smartphone, the HP Veer, to power dual-core HP TouchPad tablet. Underneath it all is WebKit, HTML, and JavaScript, powering both applications and system services. This talk will highlight our next-generation JS application framework, Enyo, and also look at how node.js is used to provide system services and background processing.
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Charter cap trap: A restriction to repeal
March 10. 2014 4:23PM
Current state law limits the percentage of students who can transfer from their existing public school to a charter school within one school year. The cap is set at 10 percent per grade. It should be zero. A bill up for a vote in the House this week would achieve that change.
House Bill 1392 would do nothing more than delete the single-sentence transfer cap from state law. There is no cap on how many students can transfer out of a failing traditional public school and enroll in another traditional school or a private school. The cap applies only to charter schools.
Remarkably, the House Education Committee has recommended passing the bill. In opposition, the minority on the committee wrote, tellingly, "the unintended consequence could negatively impact the public school by depleting a grade level of attendance or curriculum options."
"The" public school? The minority needs reminding that charter schools are public schools. This law restricts the movement of children from one public school to another — at the request of their parents. It is an indefensible attempt to force children to remain in inadequate schools. It should be repealed.


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The task of installing Exchange 2013 Preview isn't particularly onerous for anyone who has installed Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010. All it takes is a little upfront planning and preparation, which no doubt you began after reading yesterday's news about Exchange 2013 and the rest of the Office 2013 suite.
The first thing to emphasize is that this is truly a preview release that is intended to give you an insight into what the final shape of Exchange 2013 might look like when Microsoft has completed development and released the product for general availability. As such, you must not attempt to use the preview in production. Any attempt to do so means that you'll be entirely on your own when you meet the inevitable bugs that characterize prototype software.
Associated with this point is the fact that you cannot introduce Exchange 2013 preview into an existing Exchange organization. The preview depends on a different Active Directory schema and other technical points that make it incompatible with the current releases of Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. Microsoft plans to release updated versions of these products in due course to work alongside Exchange 2013, but you don't need this code to use the preview version for its intended purpose.
Now on to the actual installation, which will take several hours for everything, perhaps up to a day if your hardware is slow (like an underpowered virtual machine) or you have to chase around to assemble all the necessary software.
You'll need to prepare Windows 2008 R2 SP1 or Windows 2012 servers for use with Exchange 2013 preview and then make sure that these servers are equipped with all the prerequisites such as .NET Framework 4.5, the Microsoft management pack 3.0, and various hot fixes. Microsoft has updated their documentation for installing Exchange 2013 on Windows 2012 servers so make sure that you read the latest material on their site before you begin.
The Office 2010 Filter Pack is also needed for the same purpose as it serves with Exchange 2010 – to allow indexing of various types of documents. Do yourself a favor by following the good advice provided by the Exchange documentation team and install the prerequisite software in order. Some, like myself, who have played with fire and installed software in any old order that came into our mind, have lived to regret it. Prepare yourself for multiple server reboots as you install the various components as quite a few occur.
Once your servers are prepared, you can commence the installation of Exchange 2013 Preview by preparing Active Directory. You'll be installing a new Exchange organization into what should really be a completely separate and brand-new Active Directory forest. Don't install Exchange 2013 anywhere near your production Active Directory forest. I know that this is logical and obvious but Microsoft's support personnel will be able to tell you about the many strange and varied approaches that people have taken to software installation, not all of which were sensible and many that led to disastrous consequences.
I typically prepare Active Directory from the command line (always run CMD as Administrator, just to be sure). Exchange 2013 preview is provided as a single self-expanding file. Expand its contents into a suitable folder, open CMD, navigate to the folder holding the Exchange 2013 files and type:
Setup /PS /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms
You'll notice the difference here from previous releases in that Microsoft now forces you to include acceptance of license terms in the command line. Exchange 2013 Setup will work away to extend the Active Directory schema, a task that shouldn't take too long. Once that's done you're ready to the main event. You can run Setup at the command line again if you like or take the chance to run the graphical version of the installation program. I'll describe using this method for the remainder of this article.
Exchange 2013 dispenses with some of the server roles that you've known in previous versions. There's no Edge server here (yet) and the hub transport role has been broken up and divided into code that now lives in the mailbox and client access server roles. In most cases, the best idea is to deploy a multi-role server first and elect to install both the mailbox and client access server roles.
The Exchange 2013 installation program follows the Metro design guidelines and features lots of white space (see below). I guess the designers would say something like "we've removed all of the extraneous rubbish that used to be incorporated into user interfaces to focus the eye on the important items with which the user must interact. A small, but tasteful, Office 2013 logo is included to link Exchange 2013 preview with its companion products."
I've just made all that text up and no one at Microsoft is responsible for any of it. But I bet it sounds believable!
In any case, the Exchange 2013 installation proceeds much like Exchange 2010. I guess this isn't surprising because it seems like this is the Exchange 2010 installation program with a new face. Not a face lift. Just a new face, and one that displeases me at times with its starkness.
For example, when the installation is working away to lay down the files necessary to install the necessary bits of Exchange 2013 that you've chosen, it doesn't tell you very much about what's actually happening. I think that this will cause some concern to administrators who might assume that Setup has gone asleep or is silently looping. If you elect to install the mailbox and client access roles and the management components (a pretty typical configuration), Setup goes through 15 steps to do its work. Each step is known as "Step 1", "Step 2", "Step 3", and so on. It's nice to have a progress bar (but Step 8 seems to stay at 3% for a long time and then at 39% for another extended period), but it would be much nicer if the program provided some additional information like "Installing mailbox role". Those who are curious can investigate the Exchange setup log at c:\ExchangeSetupLogs\ExchangeSetup.log to discover the steps taken to install Exchange 2013.
Eventually the fifteen steps to Exchange 2013 will be taken and you'll have a working server. The fun about exploring all the new functionality like the new Exchange Administration Center (EAC) then commences!
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Many traders these days want to manage their speculative accounts with fully automated trading systems. The basic goal is to find one or more reliable systems to employ. Accomplishing that simple task, however, is not so simple. Reliability is hard to define, particularly when profits are part of the equation. Even if you knew for certain a particular trading system would provide 25% compound growth over the next five years, success would not be guaranteed.
There are several factors that can contribute to unexpected failure. First, circumstances could require you to take money out in too short a time frame, robbing the system of its ability to profit. Another reason is your personal risk tolerance (or drive for reward) may not mesh with the system's ups and downs. Finally, the system itself may not have been robust from the beginning, and it may fail quickly when faced with changing market environments.
Here, we will examine all three factors and use them to construct a framework for better analyzing trading systems for real-world trading.
Time and reliability
One of the biggest issues with successful trading is knowing your time frame. You must plan both when you will need your money and how much you will need. The time frame and required system growth date are critical.
Another issue is loss penalty. To demonstrate this, we'll use a simple triple moving average system. It trades a small basket of futures: Cotton, mini natural gas, euro, copper, Treasury bonds, mini crude oil. We will use $100 for slippage and commissions, trading one-lots exclusively. We will test from Jan. 4, 1991, to April 16, 2013. We are using 12, 60 and 70 as our three moving average lengths.
The system wins only 38% of its trades. The average winning trade lasts 153 days, whereas the average loser lasts only 55 days. If we look at monthly returns, however, six out of 10 months make money. Our winning months average $7,028, and our average losing month is –$5,805. At first glance, this may seem like a paradox—how can only 38% of the trades make money, while 60% of the months are winners? The answer lies in the role of time. This is a trend-following system; as such, a large percentage of trades shows an interim profit at some point even though (per the rules of the system) only 38% are closed out as winners.
Because the average winning trade lasts 153 days, we can assume we must trade for at least 600 days before we make money. That would be just four winning trade periods. Even though it may seem like a long time (almost two years), it is still a short period measured in terms of trade time frame.


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February 23. 2014 9:55PM
NH Sen. Ayotte: Put pressure on Putin to stay out of Ukraine
Staff and wire reports
A woman kneels in front of a Ukrainian riot police unit Sunday during rallies by anti- and pro-Yanukovich supporters in the city of Donetsk. (REUTERS)
Ayotte: Toughen sanctions on Russia
U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte said Sunday that "now that the Olympics are over, we need to watch the behavior of the Russians," and called on President Obama to pressure the Kremlin to stay out of the battle for control of the government in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian capital of Kiev has fallen to opposition forces; the country's parliament has voted to oust President Viktor Yanukovich, who had the backing of Vladimir Putin's Russian government.
A day after Yanukovich fled to the Russian-speaking east following dozens of deaths during street protests aimed at toppling him, parliament named new speaker Oleksander Turchinov as acting president. An ally of the ousted leader's long-jailed rival Yulia Tymoshenko, he aims to swear in a government by Tuesday that can provide authority until a presidential election on May 25.
The power struggle for control of the Ukrainian government is a battle between forces that want to align the country with the European Union to the west and efforts by Yanukovich and his allies, who have tried to deliver the country into the Russian sphere of influence to the east.
Turchinov said Sunday that while the newly installed Ukrainian regime wants improved relations with the Russians, Moscow must recognize the Ukraine's path toward "European integration" and must recognize "Ukraine's European choice."
Ayotte urged Obama to make it clear to Putin that Russia must not intervene in Ukrainian affairs.
"I believe the President needs to up his game and send a clear unequivocal public message to Putin not to interfere in what is happening in the Ukraine, to let the Ukrainian people determine their future," the New Hampshire Republican told Fox interviewers. "This is an opportunity for the President to really be unequivocal with Putin."
She said Russian interference in Ukrainian sovereignty could bring U.S. sanctions such as expansion of the 2012 Magnitsky Act. The act declared certain Russians persona non grata in the United States after the death of Serge Magnitsky, who died in prison after exposing corruption in the Putin government.
President Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, was asked on "Meet the Press" Sunday about the possibility of Russia sending troops to Ukraine, which Putin had hoped Yanukovich would keep closely allied to Moscow.
"That would be a grave mistake," Rice said. "It's not in the interests of Ukraine or of Russia or of Europe or the United States to see a country split. It's in nobody's interest to see violence return and the situation escalate."
Rice said President Obama had told Putin that the United States and Russia have a shared interest in keeping Ukraine unified and independent.
Ukraine depends on Russia for most of its natural gas and oil supplies. Russia has a naval base at Sebastopol in the Ukrainian province of Crimea.
Policy in tatters
Yanukovich's flight into hiding left Putin's Ukraine policy in tatters, on a day he had hoped eyes would be on the grand finale to the Sochi Olympics. The Kremlin leader spoke on Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose foreign minister had brokered a short-lived truce in Kiev on Friday.
They agreed Ukraine's "territorial integrity" must be maintained, Merkel's spokesman said in a statement.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague was asked if Russia might "send in the tanks" to defend its interests among ethnic Russians in the east and on the Crimea peninsula, where Moscow bases its Black Sea Fleet: "It would really not be in the interests of Russia to do any such thing," he told the BBC.
EU officials offered financial aid to the new government and to revive a trade deal that Yanukovich spurned under Russian pressure in November, sparking the protests that drove him from office after 82 deaths last week, many from police sniper fire.
In addition to any economic assistance the EU might offer, the U.S. has also promised help.
In Russia, where Putin had wanted Ukraine as a key part in a union of ex-Soviet states, the finance minister said the next installment of a $15-billion loan package agreed in December would not be paid, at least before a new government is formed.
Hectic voting
In a hectic round of voting in parliament, lawmakers rushed in some crowd-pleasing measures against the old administration, conscious that those still occupying Independence Square — or the Maidan — remain deeply suspicious of the political class.
They stripped Yanukovich of his abandoned country home near Kiev, complete with ostrich farm and hot tubs, its brash opulence fuelling demands that he be held to account for stealing taxpayer billions.
Turchinov said a government should be in place by Tuesday.
His ally, Tymoshenko, defeated by Yanukovich in a 2010 presidential election and was later jailed for corruption, ruled herself out as interim premier. Freed from a prison hospital on Saturday after more than two years in jail, she may want time to recover and build support before running for the presidency.
As prime minister following the largely peaceful Orange Revolution of 2004-05, which overturned a first presidential victory by Yanukovich, Tymoshenko disappointed many in Ukraine who had hoped for an end to the corruption and failed economic policies that marked the aftermath of Soviet communism.
"In these days the most important thing is to form a functioning government," said Vitaly Klitschko, a former world boxing champion and also a possible presidential contender.
On Independence Square, men were still wandering around with clubs and wearing homemade body armor, helmets and in some cases ski masks and camouflage fatigues.
"We'll stay here to the very end," said one, Bohdan Zakharchenko, 23, from Cherkasy, south of Kiev. "We will be here til there's a new president."


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by Jennifer Brook and Erin Sparling
News organizations are investing a lot of faith and hope into news apps for tablets. Although they have embraced the iPad in different ways, similar design, product, and user experience problems have surfaced. What strategies must be applied to craft design experiences that are more illustrious than the browser? Through taming APIs, feeds, and algorithms, can they entice readers, seasoned and new to make an app a part of their daily news consumption ritual? With stakeholders from both the print and digital world, how do teams surface, manage, and design for divergent expectations? We have made it through the launch, and subsequent updates to, the first news iPad apps and will discuss design considerations and constraints we've encountered through this process.
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