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Representatives of the Syrian Arab Republic Embassy visited Limkokwing University on 19 December to discuss educational expansion for Syrian students.
His Excellency the Chargé d'Affaires a.i., Tamin Madani, expressed the embassy's interest in encouraging more Syrian students to study in Malaysia to expand their multicultural awareness and global networking exposure.
"I have heard so much about this University and it has been taking good care of the Syrian students here," said His Excellency.
"The purpose of this visit is to get to know this University," he added.
"I heard about this University even before arriving in Malaysia."
He also said he was deeply was impressed by the University's global representation, harmony and diversity.
"I was very pleased to see the transformations that students have gone through. The uniqueness of this university is not like anything I have seen around the world."
According to him, Limkokwing University has helped Syrian students by providing them with the opportunity to discover new technologies and ways of thinking.
"New opportunities such a practical opportunities are what we need in Syria," he explained. "Innovation is something that we need to bring back home."
"For them to get introduced to this kind of multiculturalism, it gives them more knowledge to manoeuvre around the world."
Currently, Malaysia hosts more than 3,500 students from Syria with 300 currently studying in Limkokwing University. Students at Limkokwing are exposed to new technologies and new cultures which would enable Syrian graduates to return with their knowledge of multiculturalism and innovation back to their country.
Limkokwing University accommodates students from over 150 countries. The multicultural exposure and industry focused educational programme enables students to adapt to new technology and different work ethics.


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How's it going? I was just wondering how long of a wait Ben Hrillo has and what I have to do to get on it? Thank you very much and keep up the awesome work!
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BEN!!! Please contact me you did some work for me a couple of years back in Anaheim…I want you to do more work on me!!!(you did a heart on the inside of my left arm..)
Went into Tattoo Room in Simi Valley and Sean is gone! Tattoo'd a heart and dragonfly on my chest last year and would like to get some more work done. Any availability Dec 21,22,23 of 2011? Nothing big that would take a long time. Girlfriend also wants some small work done on ankle.
I am wanting a micro tat of a ladybug with rebel flag wings right behind my ankle bone. I was wondering about what size it might end up being and also an idea on price. Also my daughter is 16 and wants a matching one on the top of her foot, do you tattoo minors? Thank You Clarissa Kirby
Hello there, I live in South San Diego but was really interested in getting a tattoo from Ben. I see from the other replies he's usually there from Sunday through Tuesday. Is this still his schedule? I wanted to make sure he was there when I drop by and set up an appointment. Also, how long is the current wait looking like? Let me know, otherwise I'll just hope he's there Tuesday. Thanks.
Just wondering if Ben is planning
any trips to europe.
I live in the UK and would love one of his beautiful girls.
Thank you
I would like to make an appt. with Ben Grillo for 2 small finger tattoos; both of my hands, 1 tattoo on each middle finger. Don't exactly want to divulge to much in an open post, but each tattoo is geared toward the lowrider scene.
Interested in getting a tattoo done but I was curious how you guys charge whether its by size or detail or however…Would love to hear back! Thank you!
When can I come in and see Sean? I live in Alpine. The sooner the better. TY
Is Ben still not taking any appts? I am not able to come into the shop, I live in Oakland but I wanted to come down to get a piece on my middle finger.
Do you have a way I can send a picture? I have tattoo of a woman on my left arm I would like a estimate ball park of about how much to turn her into Santa Murete Merry Christmas Grant. I would like Mr. Grillo to do the work
Hi, I was wondering if you guys did cover up work. I have a super NAR tattoo on my side that I hate.
Does Ben have any spots open for the Fresno Convention?
I saw the tatto Ben did of the bull terrier and I thought he would be the perfect artist for my wifes cat memorial tattoo. I have a few pictures and various ideas. I would like to know rates and schedule availability. Also contact info to see if this would be a design he would do. Let me know, thanks
Hi ,
When Ben is for the KK in germany does he have time for any tattoos at saturday or sunday? That would be great.
And please send us the Emailadress from Ben, then we contact him,
Thank you
Hi, I will like to make an appointment with Ben Grillo for the tattoo convention of London on September 2013. Will it be possible?
Just curious if your shop would be doing any $13/Friday the 13 sales next Friday?
I messaged your facebook page but email would probably be better.
Stumbled upon Ben Grillo's work, thought it was cool his name was Grillo like mine. Looked into his work. I see he does AMAZING tattoos and lives in CA.
I live in Nor Cal. About 9 hours away. I have a very busy schedule since I'm usually in DC for college.
If you could please email me about a tattoo for me I think it would be awesome to be tattooed by another Grillo.
Main idea is a huge chest piece that includes my shoulders. Polar bear, Octopus, Lamp, and sun rays.
Like I said dates are an issue so we'd have to really plan it out. I'm rarely home in CA, usually just around holidays.
I'm really pumped and hope it will work out. Thanks for your time!
I was looking into a mico tat of a honeybee. Looks like Ben's the best around and was wondering the possibility of getting an appointment. I was looking to get a honeybee on the back of my right triceps as realistic as possible. I live in Ventura but you give me an appointment and I'll be there! Thanks for your time.
hola soy de la ciudad de mexico y me gustaria ver cuando y cuanto me podria hacer una cita para un tatto en san diego verdad o cuando viene a mexico
I've how talented Ben Grillo is.My husband and I would like to schedule an appt with Ben.
can i have ben grillo' mail
Does Ben ever make trips to New Jersey?
I have been trying to book with Ben since September for an appointment in February…I have sent him a picture of what I want, we've emailed directly and he has yet to respond back to me regarding scheduling. I understand and appreciate how busy he is, but I would really like to book for February PLEASEEEEE! I have been waiting 3 years now to get some work done by him and this tattoo in Feb. is for my big scarry 40th birthday. Could someone please find just a bit of time to reply to my multitude of emails so I can just get on the books…..please?!
does anyone at the shop do cosmetic tattoos, as far as like eyebrows? my wife has been looking with no luck.
Hello, I called earlier about having a tattoo at 4pm tomorrow, so here's the reference picture link! http://www.inkdancechinesepaintings.com/goldfish/picture/2361006.jpg
For the tattoo, I was thinking of having just 4 fish swimming from my elbow to my wrist.
Thank you!
Yoooo! ^^ Was just wondering… Are you going to be attending The London Tattoo Convention in sept?
If so where can I book?
How can I set an appointment with Chris Yvon
I will be in California May 20-24th and would like to get a micro realistic lady bug by Ben, any openings?!
I'd like to get on Ben's waiting list. I'm in no hurry … I'm in Northern California but I can come down for an appointment when he has time … I have friends fairly close by. I have a small hummingbird tattoo on my wrist. I still want a hummingbird tattoo on my wrist but a much, much better one …
Are you guys doing the Friday the 13th tattoo special?
Hey Ben, great work. I would love to get some work done by you but unfortunately I am in Florida. Are you gonna be around here any time soon by any chance?
Thanks a lot!
Im currently looking around for the best place to get my first tattoo. I want a medium sized one on my forearm in color, it's an island setting in memory of a family member. About how much would you charge for something like that? I have sketches of it that I can email as well…also, would I have to be put on a waitlist or no?
Hi, I am interested in getting a small finger tattoo done from Ben Grillos. Is he still at this shop and if so, is he accepting appointments? Thanks.

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Despite the fact that she was recalled in last week's episode of Parks and Recreation, Leslie Knope is still focused on doing what's best for her fellow Pawnee residents in her final 30 days of office. Of course, we all know that something sweet and heartwarming will happen – like Kristen Bell's Ingrid de Forest returning the favor of kindness – and Leslie will keep her spot on the city council, while something delightfully awful will happen to Councilman Jeremy Jamm. Sure, it's predictable, but it's all about how they fill in the gaps between points A and Z.
In this week's episode teaser for Parks and Rec, Leslie brings us back to Lucas Oil Stadium for a little network synergy, as she teams with the Andrew Luck, Jim Irsay, Reggie Wayne and the Indianapolis Colts for the NFL's Play 60 campaign.
What I'm most interested in, though, is Donna rejecting Colts linebacker Robert Mathis, because I'm still trying to predict what kind of man she's eventually going to end up with whenever this wonderful series comes to an end. The easy pick is True Blood and Magic Mike actor Joe Manganiello, because of Retta's love affair with the hunk on Twitter, but I think the show will aim high when the time comes and try to land someone huge like LeBron James. It would at least explain why she likes to visit Miami.


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Love your enemy? Hormone spray may help with that.
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Could inhaling something really help foster world peace, as some hippies claim?
Don't count on it. Yet a study has found that sniffing one special substance may make people feel more sorry for the suffering of outsiders, stigmatized people and outright enemies. That chemical is oxytocin, a hormone already naturally present in the brain and sometimes called the trust hormone.
The study found that even people involved in one of the world's most emotionally fraught conflicts, the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, seem to find a new heart for the other side after they inhale oxytocin.
But the findings also run counter to those of past studies in some ways, suggesting that biologists are only beginning to clarify the function of the fascinating hormone known to play a role in social behavior and bonding in both humans and animals.
"Oxytocin remarkably increased empathy to the pain of Palestinians" among Jewish Israelis in an experiment, wrote researchers, reporting their findings Sept. 22 online in the journalPsychoneuroendocrinology. The increased empathy reduced the participants' "in-group bias," they added-the predominant tendency of people to show more empathy for "those who they perceive as similar to themselves."
In their report, the researchers said they recruited 55 Jewish Israelis. These participants were shown some photos of people in painful situations, such as having a car hood closed on a hand, and other photos of people in non-painful situations. Labels with the photos indicated that the pictured person was from one of three groups. Either he or she was another Israeli Jew; or an Arab-often viewed as the "enemy" group for Israelis; or a European, chosen as a middle-ground group.
The participants viewed the photos after having taken either oxytocin or an inactive substance, and were later assessed for how much empathy they showed to the people pictured.
Oxytocin significantly increased participants' empathy for the Arabs in pain, while leaving unchanged their empathy for the other two groups in pain, the researchers found. That suggests, they added, that oxytocin doesn't necessarily make people empathize more with those they already empathize with.
The experimenters measured viewers' empathy by asking them to rate how much pain they thought the pictured person was experiencing.
Past studies indicate that taking oxytocin helps people overcome shyness, increases their trust in others, and helps them read others' emotional states better. But findings with oxytocin and empathy have been mixed. Some studies have found that oxytocin increases people's empathy for others in their own group-at the expense of those outside the group. That's almost the opposite of the new findings.
So why the inconsistency?
It might have to do with the precise function of oxytocin, said the authors of the new study, Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory of the University of Haifa in Israel, Ahmad Abu-Akel of the University of Birmingham in the U.K., and colleagues. Research suggests oxytocin seems to make "socially relevant information" more vivid in the viewer's mind, they wrote, and the empathy effects follow.
So if study participants have no particular information about the others that they are dealing with, oxytocin might not increase empathy, they argued. This may have been the case with some past studies, where participants were divided into "teams" but not provided any information about each other.
"Our results may have important implications for reconciliation and conflict resolution," the researchers wrote. "While speculative, training Israeli and Palestinian members of the negotiating parties to consciously contemplate the perspective of the other," they went on, could help create "an environment where peace is given a chance."
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- the interaction or cooperation of two or more substances or agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.
- It comes as no surprise that love-devotional paths (e.g., bhakti yoga) and intuitive-insightful paths (e.g., jnana yoga) are naturally intertwined and synergistic.
- Ramana Maharshi, an impressive living example of non-dual realization, strongly encouraged his disciples to explore the love-devotional aspect of Self-realization. Ramana himself was a devotee of Arunachala, a small mountain traditionally associated with the worship of Shiva; he claimed the mountain was his guru and he regularly made devotional circumambulations of it. The quarterly magazine of his ashram is "The Mountain Path."
- Ramana's corollary is Sri Ramakrishna, the most famous bhakta of modern times. He was devoted to loving worship/remembrance of Kali (as Supreme Identity in the Form of Divine Mother). His most famous disciple, Vivekanada, said of Ramakrishna, "He was a bhakta on the outside, and a jnani on the inside; I am a jnana on the outside and a bhakta on the inside."
- Like Vivekananda, whose name means "Bliss of Discernment" (between the essential and the non-essential), I am outwardly a jnani and inwardly a bhakta. Nearly all my writings come off as Zen-like, promoting the sheer, open, non-dual vision. But my total personality certainly does not lack a devotional side.
- My latest book Eye of the Heart is a brief meditation that weds Bhakti and Jnana.


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This refers to Alberta coding criteria. In my daughters school board students with DS are given a code 43 - Severe Multiple disability, where autism and FASD get a code 44 - Severe Medical disability. In a neighbouring school board students are given a code 44.
The funding dollars are the same. It's just a label.
I feel that DS is a medical disability. It is a medical diagnosis and a medical condition - Trisomy 21.
All the disabilities and challenges are a result of the extra 21st chromosome; low muscle tone causes physical delays, speech delays, processing delays.
My feeling is that by being put into the MD category, it is easier to write off our kids, or slide them into an ID category/programming/class. I don't want it. Also, at 5 there is no empirical proof/data (ie IQ test) to demonstrate a cognitive disability at this time.
Just assuming that there is a cognitive disability because duh, Down syndrome, doesn't fly with me. You want to diagnose a learning disability? You need proof. You want to diagnose Autism? You need proof. And if you are going to label my kid as having a cognitive disability you better have some proof other than the presence of an extra chromosome.
If there is no proof for it, I don't want it applied.
It says "ECS children diagnosed with DS in the most severe cases should be reported under code 43. Most severe cases. What does that even mean? How is that an appropriate code for Phoenix when she is functioning very well in her classroom?
Here are some other examples of conditions that students have which fall into the Severe Medical category:
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Cerebral Palsy
Fragile X
Brain Injury
I think my issue with this is that it is another example of how kids with DS are placed in their own category because of their diagnosis and other peoples preconceived ideas about Down syndrome.
If you look closely at the criteria for code 43, DS doesn't even fit. It says "Two or more non-associated moderate to severe cognitive and/or physical disabilities. Non associated.
ALL of Phoenix's delays are associated with the presence of her extra chromosome. They are ALL associated.
Down syndrome fits quite nicely into the code 44 criteria. She has a medical diagnosis (Trisomy 21). This medical condition creates a significant impact on her ability to function in the school environment and she requires extensive adult assistance and modification to the learning environment in order to benefit from schooling.
So why do I care? I care because this coding feels like the same old "Because it's what we've always done" justification for putting kids like mine in a corner. For marginalizing them and for writing them off.
If my child has a medical condition, what is the justification of placing her in a separate category, when her "functioning level" is similar or better than other kids with other medical diagnoses such as autism, cerebral palsy, brain injury or even other genetic conditions like Fragile X?
I don't get it, and frankly, I won't have it.


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"Please Kill Me Again" investigates zombie-dom from the perspective of the walking dead. Bullies get their comeuppance in "The Super List." Lehigh Valley sketch comedy troupe The Flighty Ducks presents three episodes of its web series.
Those are just a few of the highlights of the Greater Lehigh Valley Filmmaker Festival 2012, unreeling Nov. 2-4 at the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at SteelStacks.


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Ginger Bowie of Ginger Snap Crafts created adorable safari cupcake toppers for the theme!
To create the toppers, use your PSA Essentials stamper loaded with colorful ink (our 2-color or 1-color inks are great, we have 22 colors to choose from!) and images from Little Bunny. Stamp onto white cardstock and punch out using a scallop punch. Adhere to colorful card stock that's a touch larger. Glue the toppers onto colorful straws.
This adorable theme was demonstrated in this incredible party I found on Hostess With The Mostess by Blooming Table, head over to their website to learn more about them or visit the full party feature on Hostess With The Mostess.
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Hi guys! I am back! After taking a breather at Maldives for 5 days (actually 4 lang, bitin na bitin!), now I am back to reality once again. Decided to take a break from Twitter too because Twitterworld's been really toxic lately. How's it now, by the way? Do you still remember when everything used to be fun there? When Twitter used to be a harmonious environment for everyone? Haha I know, me neither. Anyway, I just cannot stand people's negativity there lately. I mean, I have enough negativity in my system already to still add and endure those.
a chapter about friends that I wrote last night for the book.
the last chapter in my book! Yikes I am almost done, but you all know it doesn't end there. There's still a lot of reading, editing, and scrutinizing to do. I actually think I might need to rewrite almost half of the content. Hay, I wish it's as easy as writing a blog entry. Yung pwede mo iedit kapag may mali.
Somewhere Only We Know by Keane
Lol yesterday on our flight back to Manila, I was browsing for a movie to watch in the plane and found a romantic-comedy film that I really like– He's just not that into you. I didn't watch the whole movie though, I skipped to my favorite part and got kilig from this Justin Long and Ginnifer Goodwin scene over and over again. Kingina I think I replayed it thrice and still got the same reaction every single time. I was literally shrieking on my seat! I even hit my sister (who was seated next to me) several times because I couldn't contain my kilig feelz! As in, I was even watching it during dinner (with Jecker and Kuya Mike) and inside the car on my way home. Ewan ko ba!
I mean, that look of Justin on 2:15. Ikinagwapo niya talaga yun eh. But really, the song makes this scene 200% more kakilig-kilig than it would've been. One of my faves, Keane's Somewhere only we know
Trivia: Kabisado ko yung linyahan sa scene na yan eh!
if I should blog about my Maldives trip OR work on my last chapter. So torn! On my free time, I am always torn between working on my book or doing something for my blog; revamp the layout, edit videos, write something. (Ang dami ko ng utang!) Meanwhile, pagpasensyahan niyo na muna itong blog ko. We are now looking for a dedicated server/host since my site requires higher bandwidth and much stronger bot blocker. Hassle but I hope to get everything fixed soon!
Freshly cooked waffles! I am having ham with cream cheese, so so good. So happy I can now eat everything I want after a week of deprivation! Nyahaha! Butete tyan is back y'all.
to be back in Maldives soon! Ugh the place is just so beautiful and relaxing,
to finish my tasks for the day. The whole family went out together and I decided to stay here at home so I could work on my assignments. Pero mukhang hindi ko din
matatapos magagawa because My Amnesia Girl's on Cinema One! (One of my favorite tagalog films, next to the old school ones that I really like; Juday-Wowie, Angelu-Bobby, Kim-Dino and suchlike!
last night's sleep wear pa. I just love how I feel like my old teenage self on Sundays. Those days when you can literally spend the whole day in bed, without worrying about anything. I like keeping my Sundays work-free. (because it's supposed to be that way) #gottaloveSundays
the fact that I can now eat normally! I am having a tall glass of chocolate milk tea and a ham&cream cheese waffle now. I remember holding myself back from eating donuts and pizza that my sister was devouring last Sunday afternoon. Now I can eat whatever I want, booyah.
to get a whole body massage. As in, right now.
more time at the beach! Shet, I wish I had another week to spend in Maldives. Babalik ulit talaga ako, promise! (Ipon muna.)
happy and grateful. 🙂
I hope you are all having a peaceful Sunday! Question: Is there any specific topics you want in my book? Let me know and I'll try if I could squeeze them in! 🙂 Have a great week ahead everybody! Stay positive and throw lamps on those people who need to lighten up! Life gets better when you don't worry about much things. Stay on your own lanes. 😉


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This past summer, I put a set of fancy racing wheels on my road bike. They're a study in aerodynamic lightness: deep rims and only as many spokes as is absolutely necessary, all spun from deliciously sexy carbon fiber. I race occasionally and ride quite a lot, so it wasn't too difficult to justify the indulgence. Over the years, I've learned that I'm in tune enough with my bike to detect the sometimes subtle impact that high-end gear can have on my riding experience.
The wheels made a difference immediately. Within minutes, I noticed that the bike was accelerating quicker under power, especially when going uphill. On downhills, I found myself holding a little more speed. Rough pavement felt smoother thanks to the compliance built into the carbon spokes, too.
Put those wheels under a casual rider, and he might not notice. But I am not a casual rider... much like PC enthusiasts are not casual computer users. Enthusiasts spend multiple hours a day sitting in front of systems they've optimized for optimal performance. We're a discerning bunch, and solid-state drives are our fancy racing wheels.
That's right, I just defied this industry's longstanding tradition of car analogies to drag out my 10-speed. Deal with it, because the shoe fits. SSDs speed system performance in ways that are often subtler than the impact of a faster CPU or graphics card. Thanks in part to near-instantaneous access times, solid-state offerings are much more responsive than mechanical hard drives. They seem to never get hung up, an attribute that effectively smoothes out any bumps in the road. At least as far as PC hardware goes, SSDs are also pretty sexy.
Among the solid-state drives available for purchase today, Intel's 510 Series is the fresh new face. The drive comes more than a year and a half after Intel released its second-generation X25-M, and it's just the beginning. Intel says the 510 Series is the first of a number of new SSD products due out this year. One of those drives will feature the long-awaited successor to the flash controller behind the X25-M line. The updated controller is being designed in-house by Intel, but it's not finished yet.
Rather than using one of its own controllers, Intel has equipped the 510 Series with a Marvell 88SS9174 controller familiar from Crucial's RealSSD C300. This is a major shift for a company that has made a habit of tying together its semiconductor products. Seeing a Marvell controller on the 510 Series' circuit board is kind of like popping the hood of the latest Ferrari and finding an engine from Porsche. You didn't expect me to avoid car analogies completely, did you?
The decision to use third-party controller silicon makes sense if you step back and realize that Intel is in the business of selling solid-state drives rather than flash controllers. If Intel has multiple new SSD products due out this year, it's not unreasonable to expect some variety on the controller front. Besides, the chip giant says that modern controllers are much improved over the often-flaky initial offerings that the X25-M was designed to combat. Intel is confident enough in the Marvell chip to use it in a high-end SSD.
While Crucial's RealSSD C300 uses a Marvell 88SS9174-BJ2P controller, the 510 Series is equipped with a slightly newer BKK2 revision of the same silicon. When asked how the BKK2 differs from the BJ2P, Marvell told us the newer revision is a "comparable device." According to Intel, the hardware behind the 510 Series' controller chip is identical to what's available in competing products.
What makes the 510 Series' implementation of this particular chip unique is the firmware that comes loaded onto the drive. Intel has optimized the firmware to improve sequential throughput and to make the most of the controller's 6Gbps Serial ATA interface—you know, the one that nicely matches the high-speed SATA ports in new Sandy Bridge motherboards. We couldn't get Intel to reveal any specifics on exactly how the firmware has been tweaked, probably because it doesn't want competitors catching wind of its approach. The firmware tuning present in the 510 Series won't be shared with other SSD makers using the Marvell chip.
|Flash controller
|Marvell 88SS9174
|Flash type
|Intel 34-nm MLC NAND
|Available capacities
|Cache size
|Sequential reads
|450MB/s (120GB)
500MB/s (250GB)
|Sequential writes
|210MB/s (120GB)
315MB/s (250GB)
|Random 4KB reads
|20,000 IOps
|Random 4KB writes
|8,000 IOps
|Read latency
|65 µs
|Write latency
|80 µs
|Idle power
|100 mW
|Active power
|380 mW
|Warranty length
|Three years
Based on the 510 Series' performance specifications, it looks like Intel's firmware fiddling paid huge dividends. The drive's 500MB/s sequential read rate is quite impressive, as is the 315MB/s write speed. Those figures apply to the 250GB drive on a 6Gbps interface. 120GB versions of the 510 Series are a little slower, especially when it comes to sequential writes.
Regardless of drive capacity, the 510 Series promises to churn through 20,000 random 4KB reads and 8,000 random 4KB writes. Surprisingly, those specs are less impressive than the 35,000 random reads and 8,600 random writes offered by the latest X25-M. Crucial's RealSSD C300 claims random 4KB read and write performance of 60,000 and 45,000 IOps, respectively, so it's clear that Intel's optimizations for sequential throughput have cost the 510 Series in other areas.
Intel wouldn't confirm whether wear-leveling or garbage-collection components of the 510 Series' firmware have been tweaked. However, it did concede that, with typical client workloads, the drive's write amplification factor is "about the same" as that of the X25-M. The write amplification factor determines how much flash capacity is consumed by every host write, so it has a hand in dictating a drive's useful life.
The other part of the lifespan equation depends on the flash chips used. Rather than jumping to 2x-nm NAND, the 510 Series uses 34-nano MLC flash chips built by Intel's joint venture with Micron. 16 of these chips dot the 250GB drive we'll be testing today—eight on the top of the circuit board and another eight on the back. The chips conform to the ONFI 2.0 spec, which allows for per-chip transfer rates up to 133MB/s.
Although the Marvell controller's eight memory channels fall two short of the 10 channels provided by the X25-M, the old Intel controller is an ONFI 1.0 affair that caps per-chip transfers at 50MB/s. The 510 Series may have fewer channels, but each one should be quite a bit faster. With 128MB of DRAM memory onboard, the 510 Series also has four times the cache of its predecessor.
As you may have gleaned from the 510 Series' available capacity points, the drives use a typical overprovisioning percentage of about 7%. Users can increase the amount of flash capacity allocated to "free area" (essentially a working space used by the drive's controller) by leaving a chunk of the drive unpartitioned.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Tennis Olivia
Digi Stamp Boutique is our monthly sponsor and the sponsor of our challenge this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. The Grand Prize winner will receive six free digi images of their choice - a really terrific prize for playing along with us this week! Thanks Sally Ann for your generous support.
Tennis Abi" looks just like my niece - it should be called Tennis Olivia! I digitally paper pieced her outfit and headband and the rest was colored with Copics. The papers are digital by Zoe Pearn called Summer Sorbet. I love the bright, cheery patterns.
Sweet Sketch Wednesday team and play in our challenge this week. You'll find the rules for entering on the SSW blog along with a host of wonderful cards created by team to inspire you.
Thanks for stopping by!
7 comments:
- Janice said...
Morning Sharon, another beauty of a card here, will have to learn how to digitally paper piece and the end result is brilliant. What a super card and thanks also for your lovely comments. Jx
- Wednesday, August 21, 2013 2:17:00 AM
- Holly Gwilliams said...
Gorgeous paper piecing Sharon.
Love your bright card.
Hope you have a great week.
- Wednesday, August 21, 2013 8:04:00 AM
- Joanna said...
What a bright, happy card you've made this week! Love all your paper and those sparkly brads are perfect.
- Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:14:00 PM
- Sally Dube said...
Love your card Sharon!! Awesome papers and I love the paper pieces outfit!! So cute!!
Blessings to you!!
- Friday, August 23, 2013 4:51:00 PM
- Kathie said...
Hi Sharon,
Love your card this week, such a cute image and such pretty design papers they are so bright and cheery. Totally perfect for a little girls birthday card. Take care wishing you a great weekend and I hope all is well with you?
- Friday, August 23, 2013 5:38:00 PM
- Linda Anderson said...
Super cute card Sharon! Love all your bright colors and fabulous paper piecing.
- Friday, August 23, 2013 10:36:00 PM
- Emily Lauritzen said...
Love this fun card! Your bright papers are so cheery and that image is adorable!
<3 Emily L.
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John Maxwell's long memory is a special gift in his most recent article, "Cuba, the US and the OAS." In addition, to talking about the OAS decision to rescind the 1962 decision to expel Cuba, Maxwell highlights the US' terrorist past against countries and leaders of Latin America, including, and especially, Cuba. Further, he tells a very personal story about a visit he made to Cuba in 1960 not long after the explosion of "La Coubre," a French ship loaded with Belgian arms that blew up in Havana Harbor as it was being unloaded. The Cuban government suggested that the US' fingerprints were on the catastrophe and the government newspapers hit the streets calling the explosion another "U.S.S. Maine" suggesting that the US had blown up the ship to compel Cuba to accept revision of Cuba's sugar quota.
A huge, nationwide march ensued as Cuba began to count the dead. In the speech he made after the La Coubre explosion, Fidel used, for the first time, the exhortation, "Patria o muerte!" "Frente al monstruoso crimen de La Coubre: ¡Patria o muerte!"
(Picture above: from left, Fidel, President Dorticos, and Che)
Sunday, June 07, 2009
The older I get the more evidence seems to accumulate that the greatest
enemy of world peace and popular enlightenment may be the profession of
Somebody once said that generals are always prepared to fight the last war,
but the truism seems to fit at least as well when applied to journalists.
Take the New York Times editorial on Thursday; it begins, portentously:
"For 50 years, the Cuban people have suffered under Fidel Castro's, and now
Raul Castro's, repressive rule. But Washington's embargo – a cold war
anachronism kept alive by Florida politics – has not lessened that suffering
and has given the Castros a far-too-convenient excuse to maintain their iron
grip on power."
Anyone who knows anything about the history of the last 50 years might be
forgiven for total bafflement.
Let us leave aside the statutory abuse and go to the embargo – which the NYT
describes as a Cold War anachronism which had not 'lessened the suffering .
In the first place, the embargo was originally designed and has been
periodically reinforced specifically to make the Cuban people suffer and to
punish them for not rising up and overthrowing their government. The embargo
is – in terms of international law – an act of war, and it has always been
meant to have that effect on the Cubans. If any nation had declared war on
the US, would the US expect that circumstance to improve the conditions of
the US population?
The embargo is so punitive that it even prohibits medicines and vaccines for
children from entering Cuba. It was and is an attempt to make the Cubans
grovel in their misery and cry "Uncle" – as in 'Uncle Sam'. The fact that
the opposite has happened is not a matter for inquiry by the NYT. Instead,
says the Times:
"So we are encouraged to see President Obama's tentative efforts to ease the
embargo and reach out to the Cuban people. At the same time, we are
absolutely puzzled and dismayed by this week's frenzied push by many Latin
American countries to readmit Cuba to the Organisation of American States.
"Cuba, which says it has no interest in joining, clearly does not meet the
group's standards for democracy and human rights."
The writer is obviously not aware that in the world outside of the United
States, in the United Nations, the margin of support for ending the embargo
has grown steadily since 1992, when 59 countries voted in favour of the
resolution. The figure was 179 in 2004, 182 in 2005 and 184 in 2007.
Last year, apart from the US, only Israel and one or two other superpowers
like Palau voted against the resolution, while Micronesia and the Marshall
Islands abstained.
The delegate speaking on behalf of the European
Union, France's UN deputy ambassador Jean-Pierre Lacroix, said the 27-member
bloc rejects "all unilateral measures against Cuba which are contrary to
common accepted rules of international trade". The Antiguan representative,
speaking on behalf of the 132-nation Group of 77 and China, said the
alliance renewed its call on Washington to lift the embargo, which not only
undermines the principles enshrined in the UN Charter and international law,
but threatens the principles of free trade and investment.
The New York Times is unaware that the Iberian/Latin American nations long
ago welcomed Cuba in from the cold, even holding their 1999 Summit in
Havana. There, the Spanish, Portuguese and Mexican heads of government
criticised what they called Cuba's lack of democracy, but did not see their
differences as unbridgeable.
At that meeting, attended by the King of Spain, among others, the leader of
the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro, defiantly declared that it was "an
impossible task to persuade Cuba that it should abandon the ways of
revolution and Socialism".
"Almost nobody thought Cuba could survive the fall of the Socialist bloc…
but we thought differently and were determined to fight," said Castro.
But even before that, when the revolution was only 25 years old, I happened
to be in Havana during the Malvinas (Falklands) War, when streams of Latin
American diplomats came to Cuba to seek advice from and to pay homage to
Cuba and to Fidel, who had condemned the Thatcher-Reagan aggression – as
they saw it – against hemispheric political integrity.
And when the US condemns the Cubans for their lack of democracy there is an
unconcealed irony in their position, not to say hypocrisy. The so-called
dissidents that Cuba is accused of persecuting are in fact paid agents of
the United States, whose motives may be as innocent as saints, but who are
in fact, under Cuban and international law, working for a foreign power with
whom their country is at war, in a war declared not by Cuba but by the
United States.
The New York Times, like the people Castro calls the Miami Mafia and like
other anti-Cuban forces, does not apparently believe the Cubans have any
right to defend themselves from American attack.
"We understand the desire to fully reintegrate Cuba
into the main regional organisation. But as Human Rights Watch (HRW) argued
this week: "Cuba is the only country in the hemisphere that repudiates
nearly all forms of political dissent. For nearly five decades, the Cuban
Government has enforced political conformity with criminal prosecutions,
long- and short-term detentions, mob harassment, physical abuse and
The people the NYT and HRW are defending are the foreground players in a
multi-level criminal assault on the Cuban polity. Over the years, this
assault has included terrorist bombings such as the sabotage of the arms
ship La Coubre, which exploded in the Havana docks in 1960, killing and
maiming hundreds; terrorist campaigns in the Escambray and other parts of
Cuba; targeted assassinations; biological warfare killing Cuban children
with imported strains of haemorrhagic dengue fever, for instance; economic
biological warfare targeting sugar cane, tobacco and citrus, among others,
with exotic diseases; terrorist bombings of hotels, targeting tourists,
plots to blow up the Tropicana, the world's most famous nightclub and its
audience and cast of hundreds; and the unremitting campaign to kill Fidel
Castro with more than 600 known attempts on his life.
And while we talk about Cuba, let us not forget about the US attempts to
spread democracy in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Nicaragua
and Haiti, among others, leaving the landscape littered with the corpses of
men, women, children, nuns, priests and journalists.
No one can convince me that the Cubans have no right to defend themselves
and their revolution. Had Maurice Bishop taken their advice he might still
be alive. But for some people, for me to say that the Cubans may have a case
is a demonstration of moral and intellectual depravity.
So be it.
Posada Carriles
I happened to be in Havana in 1960 shortly after the ammunition ship La
Coubre had been blown up with huge loss of life. Everybody I knew tried to
discourage me from going. I was sure to be killed.
I wasn't injured or in any real danger, although the night I arrived some
gunmen in a speeding car sprayed the main shopping street with sub-machine
gunfire. The air was charged. The day after I arrived I went for a walk with
my camera and ran into a black Cuban on Monserrate Street, where he lived.
On discovering I was Jamaican and a journalist he told me that he was a
communist, a trade unionist and that though the revolution was not
communist, he approved of it. We walked to the Parque Central, where the
permanent tiled chessboards may have witnessed the genius of Capablanca and
where, on that day – May 20, 1960 – Cuba's official Independence Day and my
own 26th birthday, various patriotic things were happening. Among them a
group of Pioneros – the revolutionary equivalent of Boy Scouts – were
practising for a parade. I began to take some pictures and was quickly
stopped by a tall young man in civilian clothes who made it plain that I was
under arrest.
Monserrate accompanied us to the nearby police station.
I quickly discovered I was in difficulties because I had left my passport
behind in my hotel, the nearby Siboney. But they had no one to go with me to
get it. How to prove who I was?
Because I spoke English I was an American! Monserrate convinced me to scour
my wallet for some form of ID. All I could find was a temporary press pass
to the United Nations from the year before. Monserrate took one look at it
and jumped for joy. See, he exclaimed (in Spanish of course) my friend is
Ingles (English) because the pass said I was a British subject. The Brits
were friends of Cuba.
The week before I arrived, Life magazine had published a spread on Cuba,
featuring the very troop of young Pioneers I had set my sights on.
The photographer had been a black American.
The photo spread had been titled: "Fascism in Latin America?"
As we say in cricket, the Americans had already begun rolling the wicket.
The sugar quota was cut while I was there. The revolution was not even 18
months old.
A quarter of a century later I was on the steps of Jamaica House, chatting
with Michael Manley, having just interviewed him for some European radio
station. Somebody burst out of the house with the news that a Cubana
airliner on its way to Jamaica from Barbados had been bombed out of the sky.
Manley's reaction was shock and horrified disbelief. He went inside to phone
his friend Fidel. The horror was palpable. Most of those on the plane were
little more than children, the Cuban junior fencing team, some young
Guyanese en route to medical school in Cuba and others.
Two of the culprits were soon discovered, tried and imprisoned. Another,
one, Luis Posada Carriles, alias 'Bambi' – the mastermind – has since that
day 33 years ago, been under the protection of the United States of America.
American agents have engineered his release from a Venezuelan jail and later
from a Panamanian jail after a failed plot to blow up Fidel Castro along
with several other Latin American leaders and thousands of Panamanian
students in a concert hall.
This terrorist, a CIA asset from the time of the Kennedy assassination,
lives protected in Miami in a country whose last president promised to go
after terrorists wherever they were and regardless of who protected them. No
question of moral or intellectual depravity here, of course. In addition to
the Cubana bombing he was responsible for some hotel bombings, one of them
fatal to an Italian tourist.
Meanwhile, five Cubans who had infiltrated the Miami Mafia and were
supplying information about the terrorists the US said it was committed to
hunt down – people like 'Bambi' – were given long prison sentences in
solitary confinement for taking George W Bush at his word.
Fidel Castro has long made it plain that Cuba has no wish to rejoin the OAS.
Latin America knows this, despite which the OAS members decided to rescind
the 1964 decision. It will mean nothing, practically, but for the Latins it
is a matter of honour.
For them the OAS has been a yanki weapon against all of them, from Arbenz to
Allende to Aristide to Fidel, Chavez and Morales. It does not end.
Their pilgrimages to Havana 25 years ago may have served no practical
purpose either, but for Latin America it helped restore their self-respect.
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Cast - Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, Michael Peña, Jesse Eisenberg, Nick Swardson
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Cast - Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mike Vogel, Allison Janney, Sissy Spacek
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
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I have a lame memory. I'm not sure why. I think it's because my life has been a rather peaceful one scattered with happy mild memories. I do think trauma lends itself to memory retention. There must be some research done on the topic right?
I have had very few traumatic events in my life. And just by writing this for all to see, I am scared. But I'm not known to be superstitious so moving on…..
One semi-traumatic memory I can recall rather vividly happened when I was around 25-years-old. My boyfriend was this hot, sexy, musician, surfer dude who was going out with me for some unknown reason. And we were hanging out with some dear friends, Ricky and Steph, who had actually introduced us. Our friends had already gotten married and they had moved into their new house they had just bought. It all seemed so grown up to me at the time.
We were standing in their garage and I was chatting with Steph as she looked through some boxes, and my boyfriend and Ricky were probably goofing around strumming some guitars.
Steph pulled out a thick, navy, bound book titled "Who's Who in American High Schools – The 1985 Edition." All of us present were proud members of The Class of 1985. (I will pause here so you guys can compose yourselves after you take the time to figure out how old I am.)
So we started leafing through it trying to find our names. After finding Steph and Ricky, we located my name. Did I really pay to put myself in this book, I wondered? I know my parents hadn't sprung for the cost of the book so I was doubtful that I was listed. But there I was….
My glowing accomplishments were listed in fine print for the world to see, and Steph started reading them out loud….
"JV and Varsity Track and Field, National Honor Society, AP Math, English, and History, Thespian with roles in The Taming of the Shrew, The Fantasticks, The Diary of Anne Frank….."
Blah, blah, blah….
Steph suddenly stopped reading and a big, slightly-confused grin appeared on her face, and then she continued….
"Recipient of the 1984 Outstanding Female….MIME….Award!????!!"
"You were a mime?" Steph asked laughing.
And as my mind raced wondering how to justify my existence as an outstanding high school mime, my hot, sexy, boyfriend stopped strumming his guitar and sauntered over to see what all the hooplah was about.
By this point, Steph was doubled over in laughter, and I'm sure I was trying to laugh too because yeah, it was funny after all, right? And I know I never ever turn red with embarassment but I'm pretty sure this was the one time in my life when I did.
I mean, when I was working so hard perfecting the art of miming in my sophmore and junior years in high school rehearsing my extravagant storylines for our high school's mime show, I had no idea it would come back to bite me in the ass like this.
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July 24, 1945: Marsh Watson, county tax collector-assessor, has been named Hale County veterans service officer by county commissioners. The appointment is subject to approval of the director of the state veterans service officer at Austin. He plans to serve in both posts until Jan 1.
--Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald has received word that their son, Sgt. Robert E. McDonald, has been transferred to Manila, in the Philippines. He is with a floating repair unit and has been overseas for seven months.
--Bruce Blair, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Blair, recently enlisted in the U.S. Merchant Marine and has reported to Brooklyn, New York, for training.
July 24, 1955: Robert B. Hawkins will assume duties Aug. 2 as minister at the Ninth and Columbia Church of Christ, succeeding J.P. Crewnshaw, who is leaving after two years to become minister of the East Side Church of Christ in Phoenix, Arizona. Hawkins is minister of the Culbertson Heights Church of Christ in Oklahoma City.
--Plainview first and second graders will get their second injections of free Salk polio vaccine Thursday at the Plainview High School Auditorium, according to Dr. Randall G. Heye. A total of 1,881 from throughout Hale County received their first round of shots, including about 1,200 from Plainview.
--Patricia Lee Rames of Glendale, California, and Ivan Gerteis Wimp of Kress exchanged wedding vows on July 18 in the parsonage of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. The rector, Mack M. Morris, officiating at the double-ring ceremony.
July 24, 1965: Terry Terrell, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Terrell who live southeast of Plainview, is the winner of the District 2 4-H cotton production contest for 1964. His yield was 1,257.6 pounds of lint per acre.
--Fifty dollars in merchandise of the winner's choice is the top door prize during the formal open house celebration of the new location of Stone and Meredith, 2309 W. Fifth. The business, which opened in 1947, is owned by Clyde Meredith and Glenn Stone. Its former location at Sixth and Ash was destroyed in a recent fire.
--A new water fountain has been installed at Unger Library, courtesy of the La Candela Club from funds raised by a book sale during Library Week.
July 24, 1975: Troy Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Thompson and son-in-law to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Thompson, has been re-admitted to East Texas State Chest Hospital in Tyler for an undetermined period.
--Jerry Don Langston, paralyzed as a result of an auto accident more than a year ago in which two other Plainview residents died, received a television set and illuminated clock through the efforts of local Red Cross volunteers.
--PHS teachers Barron Wetsell and Gene Barnett will be among 1,500 high school ag teachers attending a working in Houston beginning Monday.
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I played id Software's Orcs & Elves, because I'm a fan of the first-person dungeon crawler genre.
While not the best entry in the genre (for me), Orcs & Elves is a fun, engaging, fairly addictive Nintendo DS title -- especially since you can easily get it on the cheap (less than $15)
Originally a mobile (phone game), the Nintendo DS version shows its legacy roots, in that more content should have been created for the latter version.
That said, I definitely like the map and touch-screen inventory management implementation, and spellcasting on the DS is pretty slick, even if a bit gimmicky.
You can use the touch screen to navigate, but I recommend the directional pad, and the implementation of the NDS bumpers for turning (a shortcoming in other genre implementations), is much appreciated.
I wish there were more art assets for the NDS version -- that part, in particular, seems necessarily skimped on.
Overall, it's a very playable NDS title, and I recommend it for both fans of the genre, and people wanting to get their feet wet with it.


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Next week is going to be Christmas nearly every day. The Shiwoo should arrive over the weekend. I've alerted building security in case it shows up tomorrow. The Vettrianos should be here around Friday. I don't expect the package from Australia to arrive until the following week. And then I get to go nuts picking out mats and frames. I love that stuff!
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Over the past several years, there seems to have been a widespread shift away from padding in technical mountain bike gloves. Those who advocate thin gloves point to increased bike control and a reluctance to add to the thickness (if not comfort) necessitated by Lock-On grips' plastic inner sleeve. While never a fan of diaper-y feeling gel-padded gloves, as a rider with a leaning toward longer rides I've had a hard time lately finding gloves with a just right amount of padding.
This spring, an unfortunate fall meant the end to my lightweight Troy Lee Air gloves and I was back in the glove market. A pair of Race Face gloves looked good until a freakishly short pinkie made them painfully unwearable for any period of time and as February's 24-hour race approached I started to get desperate. Nothing at any of the local bike shops looked or fit quite right and on a whim I dropped into a local motocross shop (I knew that Fox and other companies' glove lines covered both in the moto and mountain worlds). There, I found a pair of Fox's Dirtpaw gloves.
A moderately-protective glove, the Dirtpaws do a good job of keeping the potentially irritating molded plastic bits away from joints. While nowhere near as well ventilated as the Air, the Dirtpaws are miles cooler than Fox's heavy duty, carbon-knockled Bombers and well suited for cross country and light freeride on all but the warmest days. The fleecy padding sits inside the glove, minimizing added bulk and is outlined by contrast stitching on the palm. When new, the Dirtpaws just plain feel fantastic- soft and lightly padded yet providing plenty of trial feel through the bar. The Velcro-closed wrist is a bit big for my spindly little wrists- but that's a running complaint on my part, the hand section is just right and the fingers are all correctly proportioned.
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Next Stage Arts Project and The Apron Theater Company to present 'What Rhymes with America'
PUTNEY >> Next Stage Arts Project and The Apron Theater Company present "What Rhymes with America" by Melissa James Gibson and directed by Hallie Flower on July 21, 22, 23 and 28, 29, 30 at 7:30 p.m. and a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, July 24.
Tickets are $15, general admission, available online at nextstagearts.org, Phone reservations at 802-387-0071 or get tickets at the door. Next Stage's newly renovated performance space at 15 Kimball Hill is now fully accessible, with an elevator and listening assist systems. There is comfortable seating, excellent sightlines and acoustics, and air conditioning.
"What Rhymes with America" features a sterling cast of seasoned Apron performers: Mark Bateman, Katrina Spenceman, Julia Tadlock, and Kenzie Klem.
A father and his teenage daughter stand on either side of a closed door. Life is unraveling for him, and it is entirely uncertain for her. So begins Melissa James Gibson's poignant, funny play about estrangement and the partially examined life. With her spare style, mordant wit, and compassionate insight, one of the most emotionally penetrating and unique voices in theatre today wonders what rhymes with America.
"This touching, sorrowful comedy [is] full of compassionate wonder at the innumerable ways in which lives can go wrong." – NY Times.
"Gibson writes fluidly and beautifully for that Impatient Age, slowing down our emotional metabolism for deeper scrutiny while speeding proficiently through her scenes, each a sketchlike contrivance, but none of them sketchy." – New York Magazine.
The Apron Theater Company was founded by Karla Baldwin and Hallie Flower. and is Next Stage Arts Project's "theater-company-in-residence." They have wowed audiences with each production with outstanding casts, direction, sets and technical production values.
Next Stage Arts Project, winner, 2014 of a national grant from ArtPlace America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to revitalizing Putney's cultural and economic village center through the programming, development and operation of Next Stage.
Since its founding in early 2011, NSAP has hosted hundreds events including theater, classical, folk, and popular music concerts, films, and a spoken word series.
Information about upcoming events, renovations, the capital campaign, and a wide range of opportunities for support are available at nextstagearts.org.
For more information contact: Maria Basescu, Executive Director, (802) 387-0102 or email@example.com.
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(The Sports Xchange) - Philadelphia 76ers guard Markelle Fultz, the No. 1 overall pick in this year NBA draft, is off to a slow start and his agent claims it is because of a shoulder injury.
Raymond Brothers, who represents Fultz, said Fultz had fluid drained from his right shoulder and plans to visit a specialist.
"Markelle had a shoulder injury and fluid drained out of the back of his shoulder," Brothers told ESPN.
"He literally cannot raise up his arms to shoot the basketball. He decided to try and fight through the pain to help the team. He has a great attitude. We are committed to finding a solution to get Markelle back to 100 percent."
Fultz has played in each of Philadelphia's four games and is averaging 6.0 points on 9-of-27 shooting.
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Phoenix Suns rookie forward Josh Jackson was fined $35,000 by the NBA for directing inappropriate language toward a fan.
The incident occurred with 6:10 remaining in Phoenix's 130-88 loss at the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday. Jackson also was cited for making a menacing gesture on the playing court, which appeared to an imaginary gun gesture toward a fan who was heckling him.
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Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles became the fifth player to be fined in the first week of the regular season when he was handed a $15,000 penalty for an incident with Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams.
With 8:53 left in the third quarter of Utah's 96-87 win on Saturday, Ingles hit Adams in the groin area as Oklahoma City forward Paul George committed a turnover near the paint.
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Atlanta Hawks swingman DeAndre' Bembry underwent wrist surgery and will be sidelined four to six weeks, the team announced.
Bembry fractured his right wrist during last Wednesday's game against the Dallas Mavericks. He had six points and six rebounds in 18 minutes before exiting.
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Symptoms of the virus include fatigue, sore throat and fever and typically last four to six weeks.
Hernangomez, 22, entered this season as the primary backup to Wilson Chandler at small forward. He has played just 13 minutes this season and has yet to score.
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The Los Angeles Lakers announced they picked up the options on forwards Brandon Ingram and Larry Nance Jr. through the 2018-19 season.
Teams have until Oct. 31 to pick up options on rookie contracts and both players now have guaranteed salaries through next season. Ingram will make $5.75 million, while Nance will make $2.27 million.
In Los Angeles' first three games, Ingram is averaging 14.7 points and three rebounds. Nance is averaging 11.3 points and seven rebounds.


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What to Expect When You Open a Brokerage Account
If you're reading this, you may be planning to open a brokerage account. You may wish to invest for your retirement or a child's education, or simply to try to grow some cash you have set aside. This publication explains what to expect if you do decide to open a brokerage account, including what information you will be asked to provide, what decisions you will be asked to make, what questions you should ask your broker and what your rights are as a customer of a brokerage firm.
Information You'll Be Asked to Provide
When you decide to open an account, there will be paperwork to complete. This will include a new account application, which brokerage firms may also call a new account form, account opening form or something similar. This application form will require you to provide some information about yourself, as well as ask you to make certain decisions about your account. As explained in more detail below, brokers use this information for several purposes, including learning about you and your financial needs and meeting certain regulatory obligations. While it may take a little time to fill out the application, it is important to answer the questions on the application accurately. So, be sure to read the application and the accompanying agreements and other documents the brokerage firm gives you carefully—and ask questions about anything you don't understand.
In a new account application, along with other information, you'll likely be asked to provide your:
- Social Security or other tax identification number: The rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)—which regulate the securities industry—require brokerage firms to ask for this information for several reasons. Like banks, credit unions and other financial institutions, brokerage firms must report to the Internal Revenue Service the income you earn on your investments. In addition, under the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, financial institutions may use your Social Security number to verify your identity when opening brokerage accounts in order to help prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.
- Driver's license or passport information, or information from other government-issued identification: This, too, can help your broker comply with its obligations under the USA PATRIOT Act.
- Employment status, financial information—such as your annual income and net worth—and investment objectives: Collecting this information helps your broker to fulfill regulatory obligations. For example, if your broker is recommending investments to you, SEC and FINRA rules require that your broker collect this information. In addition, the information can help your broker determine suitable investment recommendations for you.
Be accurate when you are providing the information requested on these forms. Your broker will use the information to understand your financial needs and to meet certain regulatory obligations. In addition, you are certifying that the information you've provided is accurate when you sign the new account application.
Decisions You'll Be Asked to Make
The new account form will also ask you to make some important decisions about your account, including how you will pay for your transactions, how any uninvested cash will be managed and who will have control over and access to your account.
- Do you want a cash account or margin loan account? Most brokerage firms offer at least two types of accounts—a cash account and a margin loan account (customarily known as a «margin account»). In a cash account, you must pay for your securities in full at the time of purchase. In a margin loan account, although you must eventually pay for your securities in full, your broker can lend you funds at the time of purchase, with the securities in your portfolio serving as collateral for the loan. This is called buying securities «on margin.» The shortfall between the purchase price and the amount of money you put in is a loan from the brokerage firm, and you will incur interest costs, just as with any other loan.
Note: While margin loan agreements are typically used to allow investors to buy securities on margin, some firms allow their customers to take out loans for other purposes. In connection with these loans, a firm might ask the customer to sign a margin agreement. Before you borrow money from your brokerage firm-for any reason-be sure you fully understand the terms, costs and consequences.
Other Account Opening Documents
The new account application may come with other documents-such as a «Customer Agreement,» «Terms and Conditions» or the like. These documents, along with applicable state and federal laws plus SEC and FINRA rules, govern your brokerage relationship. Make sure to ask for copies if you do not receive them and download or print out copies of these for your records if you conduct business with your brokerage firm online.
Be sure to take time to review carefully all the information in these documents, whether you are opening your account in person at your broker's office or filling out your forms at home or online. And do not sign them unless you thoroughly understand and agree with the terms and conditions they impose on you.
Check Out Your Broker
If you haven't already done so, make sure you check out the background of your broker and brokerage firm before you open an account with them. Although a history free from registration or licensing problems, disciplinary actions or bankruptcies is no guarantee of the same in the future, checking out your broker and firm in advance can help you avoid problems. Look up your broker and firm on FINRA Brokercheck by going to https://brokercheck.finra.org or by calling toll-free (800) 289-9999.
Also make sure that the phone numbers and addresses that your broker and brokerage firm give you as their contact information are consistent with those listed in Brokercheck. Fraudulent entities and individuals have been known to steal the identities of legitimate brokers and brokerage firms so that they can get at your personal information!
Questions to Ask
Asking questions will help you to invest wisely and avoid problems. No matter what your level of investing experience, don't be shy or intimidated—it's your money. Here's a list to get you started.
- Is this a margin account or a cash account? Can you explain the differences between the two?
- What choices do I have regarding cash sweep programs? What are the different features, including interest rates and federal insurance coverage? If the firm offers both bank deposits and money market funds, what are the advantages and disadvantages of selecting one over the other?
- Who will control decision-making in my account?
- How often will I get account statements? Who will provide the statements and will they be online or in paper?
Tip: The brokerage firm that you open an account with may not be the one that sends your account statements. You may open an account with an introducing firm, which makes recommendations, takes and executes your orders and has an arrangement with a clearing and carrying firm, which is the one to finalize («settle» or «clear») your trades and hold your funds or securities. There are also firms that take and execute orders and settle trades. If you work with an introducing firm, you may receive statements from the clearing firm. Find out what type of firm you open an account with and who will send you the account statements. You will receive an account statement at least once every calendar quarter.
Tip: Whether the securities are registered in your name or in the name of the brokerage firm can affect how soon you receive your dividends and interest, the ease with which you can sell your securities and the types of communications you receive directly from the issuer of the securities, among other things. For more information, see «Holding Your Securities—Get the Facts» on the SEC's Web site at http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/holdsec.htm.
As You Monitor Your Account
After you open your account, you should monitor its activity regularly. Make sure that you review all of your account statements and trade confirmations for any errors or any transactions that you did not authorize. If you see any evidence of unauthorized trading or errors, notify your broker, broker's supervisor or brokerage firm's compliance department immediately to further protect your rights. Make sure to take notes of any conversations you have with your firm concerning such disputes, to send in your complaints in writing as well and to keep copies of these notes and all communications related to such disputes for your records.
Ask yourself whether your investments are meeting your expectations and goals and whether your goals have changed. Do your investments still appear to be right for you, and what criteria will you use to decide when to sell?


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We may have a future Olympian on our hands -- at least that's what her parents are hoping for.
Sloan Henderson, a 14-month-old from North Salt Lake, Utah, is learning to shred some slopes.
Her father, Zach Henderson, recorded Sloan's first snowboarding attempt at Park City Mountain Resort on Thursday and shared the video on YouTube. She was a natural.
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Sue Thisdell Jones
Sue Thisdell Jones, born February 2, 1965, passed away on March 17, 2011 after a nine year battle with breast cancer.
Sue was a lifelong Glendale resident, and attended local Glendale schools Verdugo Woodlands Elementary, Wilson Jr. High and Glendale High School. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 1987 with a major in Business Administration.
Sue's professional life was spent working for the City of Los Angeles, both with the DWP as well as the Los Angeles Zoo, serving as their Safety Officer. Sue also worked for the March of Dimes and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in the UCLA Athletes' Village.
In September 2007 Sue married Terry 'TJ' Jones in a ceremony aboard the Queen Mary, with many lifelong friends present.
Sue's character was defined by her tireless and long-time dedication to the many organizations with which she was involved. She served as a Tournament of Roses "white suiter" since 1994 and rose through the ranks to the position of Committee Vice Chair. After participating in the YMCA's Youth & Government program in high school she remained a loyal volunteer advisor, staff member and fundraiser to the program, serving most recently as the Director of Research at their annual conference in Sacramento. Sue also remained dedicated to her alma mater, volunteering and leading the University of Arizona's local alumni group, the So Cal Cats. She assisted with the planning of five Glendale High School class reunions over the years.