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Intel X25-M SSD: Intel Delivers One of the World's Fastest Drives
by Anand Lal Shimpi on September 8, 2008 4:00 PM EST
Index How SSDs Work The Flash Hierarchy & Data Loss How Long Will Intel's SSDs Last? What Happens When Your SSD Fails? The Generic SSD Enter the Poorly Designed MLC Delving Deeper The Generic MLC SSD Problem in the Real World A Lack of DRAM or a Lack of Cache? Overall System Performance with SYSMark 2007 Real World Performance with PCMark Vantage Application Loading Performance Game Load Performance The Killer App: Multitasking Performance Power Consumption & Battery Life Final Words
Be sure to read our latest SSD article: The SSD Relapse for an updated look at the SSD market.
No one really paid much attention to Intel getting into the SSD (Solid State Disk) business. We all heard the announcements, we heard the claims of amazing performance, but I didn't really believe it. After all, it was just a matter of hooking up a bunch of flash chips to a controller and putting them in a drive enclosure, right?
The closer we got to release and the more time I spent with competing products, the more I realized that Intel's biggest launch of 2008 wasn't going to be Nehalem - it was going to be its SSDs. If Intel could price them right, and if Intel could deliver on the performance, the biggest upgrade you could do for your PC - whether desktop or notebook, wouldn't be to toss in a faster CPU, it would be to migrate to one of these SSDs. Combine Nehalem and one of these mythical SSDs and you were in for a treat. But that was a big if...Intel still had to deliver.
We already talked about the drives back at IDF. The Intel X25-M and the X18-M, available in 80GB capacities, 2.5" and 1.8" form factors (respectively) with 160GB versions on the way. Today we are allowed to share performance data and pricing information, one of which is more impressive than the other. Intel will be selling the X25-M at $595 MSRP through OEMs and channel vendors, although I hear the street price may be lower.
Both of the -M models are based on Intel's MLC flash, while a X25-E using SLC flash will be due out by the end of this year. I'll detail the differences in a bit.
The pricing is rough, that puts Intel's X25-M at cheaper than SLC drives on the market but more expensive than MLC drives. Your options are effectively to get a 128GB MLC drive, an 80GB Intel X25-M or a 64GB SLC drive. But as you can expect, I wouldn't be quite this excited if the decision were that easy. Over the next several pages we're going to walk through the architecture of a NAND flash based SSD, investigate the problems with current MLC drives (and show how the Intel drive isn't affected) and finally compare the performance of the Intel drive to MLC, SLC and standard hard drives (both 2.5" and 3.5") in a slew of real world applications.
If you want to know the ending first I won't make you wait. Intel absolutely delivered with its first SSDs. After I completed my initial testing of the drive I sent AnandTech Senior Editor, Gary Key a message:
"I think Intel just Conroe'd the HDD market."
Honestly, within 6 months I'd expect it to be just as important to have one of these drives in your system, as your boot/application drive, as it was to have Conroe in your system back in 2006. The only issue here, the only problem I have is the price. I was hoping for something much lower from Intel and although the pricing is justified based on the performance, it ensures that the X25-M like most high performance SSDs, remains a luxury item.
While the X25-M isn't the world's fastest storage device across the board, it is among the fastest. And in the areas that it does dominate, it does so unbelievably well. The other great thing? You've got one of the world's fastest hard drives, and it can fit in your notebook.
Let's get to it.
How SSDs Work Index How SSDs Work The Flash Hierarchy & Data Loss How Long Will Intel's SSDs Last? What Happens When Your SSD Fails? The Generic SSD Enter the Poorly Designed MLC Delving Deeper The Generic MLC SSD Problem in the Real World A Lack of DRAM or a Lack of Cache? Overall System Performance with SYSMark 2007 Real World Performance with PCMark Vantage Application Loading Performance Game Load Performance The Killer App: Multitasking Performance Power Consumption & Battery Life Final Words
Alleniv - Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - link
I report this new review about X25-M, that takes in consideration a comparative with other SSDs and also with HDDs, with several benchmarks ? http://www.informaticaeasy.net/le-mi...m-da-80gb.h...">http://www.informaticaeasy.net/le-mi...m-da-80gb.h... Reply
Bytales - Saturday, January 03, 2009 - link
You said this: For example, let's say you download a 2MB file to your band new, never been used SSD, which gets saved to blocks 10, 11, 12 and 13. You realize you downloaded the wrong file and delete it, then go off to download the right file. Rather than write the new file to blocks 10, 11, 12 and 13, the flash controller will write to blocks 14, 15, 16 and 17. In fact, those four blocks won't get used again until every other block on the drive has been written to once
By this i understand that a bigger capacity SSD, for instance 320 vs 160 will have more blocks and hence you will need more writes to deplete the number a write cycles the SSD was designed for. So for SSD bigger means even longer lasting. IS this TRUE ? Reply
lpaster - Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - link
Can you overclock this SSD? Reply
Sendou - Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - link
There are optimization methods available for SSD's which can mitigate performance loss through genuine usage over time.
One such is Diskeeper's HyperFast Technology.
There is a white paper regarding HyperFast available at:
http://downloads.diskeeper.com/pdf/Optimizing-Soli... Reply
BludBaut - Thursday, March 31, 2011 - link
I read the pdf article you linked from Diskeeper.
Based on the information Anand has given in his articles about Intel's technology, Diskeeper's "whitepaper" sounds like crap advertising by a company who's afraid their technology might be considered not only useless but detrimental to use with SSDs. I'm inclined to agree since Diskeeper's own results show a 4x write loss by just *one* "optimization" while Anand's article clearly suggests that the proper design (which he says Intel has accomplished) eliminates the need for Diskeeper's service.
Until I find more thorough examination of the facts, Diskeeper's remarks make me distrust them.
On the other hand, Anand's article definitely sounds not just like a puff piece for Intel, but qualifies in my mind as advertising. Wonder how much money Intel has spent on Anandtech? That's not to suggest that anything is misrepresentative (well, it wasn't meant to sound that way, but keep reading and you'll find the one-sided praise will later be partially retracted and I don't know the end of the story yet), but we all know that advertising always leaves out the negatives.
(Reviews shouldn't sound like advertisements but anyone who's been reading magazine reviews for 30 years knows that's frequently the case. The reviewer's bills get paid by the manufacturers' of the products he's reviewing. But, the reviewer is objective of course. It's a matter of journalistic integrity. Yeah, I believe that. Don't you?)
One such negative was the promotion of the life of the drive. "20GB a day for five years"? Anand praises Intel for multiplying that by five to "100GB a day for five years" but then tells us that they'll only guarantee the drive for three years and has the audacity to suggest we'll likely have a recourse "if we can prove" ... -- how is anyone going to prove how many GBs a day they put on their computer? The annoyance of trying to keep track is not something 99% of people would do.
Did you do the math to see how long it takes to write 100GB to a drive with a write speed of 200MB/s? Eight minutes and twenty seconds is all it takes.
Well, that's great if all you use your computer for is reading articles, checking the news and sales prices and sending email. The drive should last as long as your computer. But if you love video (who loves video???), it's a different story entirely.
There's another negative that, though first denied, eventually was acknowledged. More than six months later, Anand reports back and says essentially, 'Intel is still the best but the performance does degrade with time and I don't know why.' If he's explained it since then, I've yet to read it.
So, for those just reading the article, don't get so encouraged that you start drooling. The article has a tendency to make one think, "What am I waiting for? I want one of these puppies!" Unfortunately, Intel's technology isn't as rosy and bulletproof and Anand made it sound. Reply
kevonly - Friday, November 21, 2008 - link
I hope you do some benchmark on Samsung's new 256GB SSD. Hopefully it's as good as Intel's. Reply
its read/write speed is 200/160 mb/s. Will it sustain that speed in a multi applications running environment?? Reply
read/write speed is 220/200 mb/s.
scotopicvision - Monday, November 10, 2008 - link
The article was an amazing read, fantastic, and well done thank you. Reply
D111 - Saturday, October 25, 2008 - link
Legacy OS like Windows Vista, XP, and Applications like Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, etc. have built in, inherent flaws with regard to SSDs.
Specifically, optimizations of these OS for mechanical hard drives like superfetch, prefetch, etc. tend to slow down, rather than help performance and is unnecessary to speed up reads in an SSD, but slow it down with unnecessary writes of small files, which SSDs are slower than a regular hard drive.
Things like automatic drive defragmentation with Vista does nothing for SSDs except to slow them down.
Properly optimized, even low cost 2007 generation SSDs test out as equivalent to a 7200 rpm consumer grade drive, and typical SSDs made in 2008 or later tend to outperform mechanical hard drives.
The tests done here have done nothing to "tweak" the OS to remove design hindrances to SSD performance, and thus, have no validity or technical merit.
The test, as presented, would be similar to installing a 19th century steam engine on a sailing ship, and observing that it is rather slow ---- without mentioning the drag and performance hits caused by the unused sail rigging, masts, etc.
See the discussion here for a detailed discussion of SSD performance tweaks and what it takes to make them perform well with legacy OS and Applications.
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdispl...">http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum...display....

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How Do I Know If I Have Sleep Apnea?
Nathan Bernardo
Like most people, I'm concerned with the practical needs of everyday life, and therefore research issues of health and livelihood.
You might not actually be getting sleep at night and it might be affecting you during the day.
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When I First Sought Help for My Sleep Problems
I went to the local clinic because I couldn't sleep at night. I couldn't breathe during the day, couldn't breathe when I was falling asleep, and couldn't breathe when I was sleeping. I'd wake up early and couldn't get back to sleep. All day, I was ready to fall asleep. There was more, but later for that.
I came to the clinic with a painful cough, congestion, and extreme fatigue. They measured my oxygen with a pulsometer and it was dangerously low. Too low. They had to send me to the hospital. They said when I left the clinic I had to go straight to the hospital or sign some paper saying I'm not going to go to the hospital; some liability issue I suppose, but the point is, my condition was so bad that I had to go to the hospital.
At the hospital, they also checked my oxygen (and vitals, of course), and immediately put a cannula on me (that's the name of the tube that goes in your nostrils, I learned later) and sent me out to the lobby with a tank of oxygen.
Okay, what's wrong with me?
At any rate, they had to hospitalize me. I was admitted right away because they couldn't bring my oxygen up.
Not going to lie. The hospital stay was nice. I hadn't had that kind of rest in a long time. Nor had I been able to breathe like that in a long time.
The first night they put me on a BiPap machine, which basically forces air into your mouth and nose. Ironically, it feels like you're suffocating when you're using it. At first. Then you get used to it. Then you finally get some sleep.
My doctor had me do a sleep study. I went to his office, he has rooms, each with a bed and TV and equipment for taking data about bodily and brain activity when you sleep.
The technologist puts wires on your legs, body, head (to measure brain activity), a cannula in your nose (to measure breathing, not oxygen) and a pulsometer on your finger to measure your oxygen.
When you can, you sleep, and the technologist finds out what your brain and body do when you sleep.
Long story short, it turns out I couldn't even get past two stages of sleep when I slept without a CPAP machine. To clarify, in sleep, you normally go through three stages of sleep, then go into Rapid Eye Movement (REM) and then you go into a deep sleep where you actually get rest. So, I was not getting any rest. When they put me on the CPAP, the machine that puts air into your mouth and nose so that you can breathe, I very quickly went into REM because the brain and body were starving for it.
I hadn't been getting any sleep this whole time. I was, normally, going through the day, going to work, with no sleep, essentially. I would fall asleep at work, fall asleep when I was at home watching TV in the early evening; on the weekends, I would get up early and soon fall asleep again and more or less sleep my weekend away. All day, I was tired, couldn't do much without being exhausted and being short of breath. It was debilitating.
Sleep Apnea can make you extremely sleepy during the day and cause you to fall asleep while working or just sitting watching TV.
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I Had Trouble Breathing
Before I went to the doctor, when I would try to go to sleep, I would start gasping for air before I would even get to sleep. I would not be able to sleep, I might get a little sleep sitting in a recliner. When I caught a cold it would get worse, and my colds seemed to turn into infections. In fact, Pneumonia is what landed me in the hospital; the combination of Sleep Apnea, Pneumonia and I also have Asthma, seemed to drop my oxygen to a dangerously low percentage. I couldn't do simple things without running out of breath.
I would be short of breath doing things like walking very short distances, picking something up off the ground, closing the car door (seriously, that bad).
Suffice to say, I was confused and shocked by the fact that I was so limited and debilitated. So, if you're experiencing a similar shock for the same reasons, you might have Sleep Apnea.
My Hands Trembled, and I Dropped Things
All of a sudden I was dropping things out of nowhere: my coffee cup, a spoon, a pen. My hands would tremble and my arms would spasm. Why? I couldn't figure it out. But I did think it had to do with my lack of sleep. I felt like my body was always trying to fall asleep, as if I was always starved for rest (which I was).
My Concentration and Memory Worsened
I notice I was having trouble concentrating and remembering things too. I'd miss cut-offs when driving to work, wouldn't be able to remember what I was doing in the middle of tasks. I was exhausted and lack of oxygen was affecting my brain.
I Was Irritable
On more than one occasion, I lost my temper. Over relatively trivial things too; minor annoyances. Again, I think I was mostly exhausted and the brain didn't have the energy to deal with things properly.
I Had Headaches
I had a headache every time I woke up in the morning. Again, this must be due to the lack of oxygen for the brain and the general lack of rest.
Sleep Apnea can cause you to have morning headaches.
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It's Important to See a Doctor
Bottom line, if you have trouble sleeping, especially if you are gasping for air when falling asleep or you wake up gasping for air, it is likely a good idea to tell your doctor and see if you need to do a sleep study.
I do know it's a load off my mind to at least know what's happening. Of course, you will also be on the road to a remedy in the form of the CPAP so that you can finally breathe and get rest at night and have complete days without having to worry about falling asleep in the middle of work or trying to watch your favorite show on TV. And maybe you'll be able to enjoy the weekend without just sleeping through it.
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Q: Java / Ebean And Or Query I'm trying to perform an sql query as so:
select * from conversations where (user_1 = user_1_id  and user_2 = user_2_id )  or (user_1 = user_2_id  and user_2 = user_1_id )

I'm writing it in Ebean as so:
Conversation conversation = Ebean.find(Conversation.class)
                                .where()
                                    .and(Expr.eq("user_1", user_1_id), Expr.eq("user_2", user_2_id))
                                    .or(Expr.eq("user_1", user_2_id), Expr.eq("user_2", user_1_id))
                                .findUnique();

However this gives the following query:
select * from conversation where (user_1 = user_1_id  and user_2 = user_2_id )  and (user_1 = user_2_id  or user_2 = user_1_id )

I've been looking at the documentation, but I'm not getting a clear idea about how to refine the query to match my needs.
Can anyone help?

A: Have a look at the JavaDoc (it has an or expression as an example):
// Example: Using an Expr.or() method
Query<Order> query = Ebean.createQuery(Order.class);
query.where(
            Expr.or(Expr.eq("status", Order.NEW),
                Expr.gt("orderDate", lastWeek));

List<Order> list = query.findList();

This perhaps makes it a bit easier to understand why this code:
.or(Expr.eq("user_1", user_2_id), Expr.eq("user_2", user_1_id))

Results in:

(user_1 = user_2_id  or user_2 = user_1_id )

You are, so to speak, using the or expression inside your second condition, instead of between the two conditions.
You need to put the or method first:
Conversation conversation = Ebean.find(Conversation.class)
    .where().or(
        Expr.and(Expr.eq("user_1", user_1_id), Expr.eq("user_2", user_2_id)),
        Expr.and(Expr.eq("user_1", user_2_id), Expr.eq("user_2", user_1_id)))
    .findUnique();

This should put the or between your paranthesises, and an and condition inside them.

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Makara The Mythical Beast
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Makara is an Indian mythic monster, part-fish and part-crocodile which also to be found in the ornamental art of Borobudur temple in Indonesia. Makara has been depicted typically as half mammal and half fish. In many temples, the depiction is in the form of half fish or seal with head of an elephant. It is also shown in an anthropomorphic (abstract form) with head and jaws of a crocodile, an elephant trunk with scales of fish and a peacock tail. As a sea creature, it may have begun as a crocodile, but its iconographic form becomes more and more fanciful the farther it is from any actual experience of sea or deep water animals.
The Makara sculptures that serve as water spouts on the ninth-century Buddhist temple of Borobudur are elephantine, with four unusual cheek teeth that more closely resemble those of a fossil gomphot here than the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus).
According to wikipedia, 'Makara' is a Sanskrit word which means "sea dragon" or "water-monster". In Tibetan it is called the "chu-srin", and also denotes a hybrid creature. It is the origin of the word for 'crocodile' in Hindi, मगर (magar), which has in turn been loaned into English as the name of the Mugger crocodile, the most common crocodile in India. Ridden by the god Vishnu, the Makara is sometimes portrayed as a crocodile; as a dolphin, crab, or shark; or as half fish and half elephant .
Makara Sculpture at Jain Museum, India
Josef Friedrich Kohl of Würzburg University and several German scientists claimed that makara is based on dugong instead, based on his reading of Jain text of Sūryaprajñapti.
An 18th-century Tibetan bronze makara (Tib. chu srin) scrupulously follows the traditional description: Jaws of a crocodile with pointed teeth, scales of a fish, the tail of a peacock, the trunk of an elephant, the eyes of a monkey, and the tusks of a boar.
In astrology, the makara is often translated Water Horse, and corresponds to the western astrological sign of Capricorn. It is serpentine or seal-like, and its elephantine head is often used as an architectural decoration or as a structural bracket.
In Hindu mythology, the makara is also an emblem of Kama, god of love's desire who aims his bow of honey bees that lets fly the flowers of love.
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* A tetralophodon, an advanced gomphot here that lived in India and Java in the Pliocene, 5 million years ago, and survived into historical times.
*The myth of the Makara may be based in part on the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) and t he Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius).
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RYAN CABRERA Announces Release Date For New EP 'Wake Up Beautiful' Out March 3
Posted on January 7, 2015 by Vanessa
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RYAN CABRERA
ANNOUNCES RELEASE DATE FOR NEW EP
'WAKE UP BEAUTIFUL'
OUT MARCH 3
OFFICIALLY IMPACTING RADIO MONDAY (1/12)
ALREADY CLIMBING HOT AC RADIO CHART WITH EARLY ADDS
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RYAN CABRERA has announced today (1/7) that his long-awaited new EP WAKE UP BEAUTIFUL will be released Tuesday, March 3 via Dynamite Music/Caroline. The platinum-selling pop singer, songwriter, musician's first single from the collection, "House On Fire," is out now on iTunes and all other digital retailers, and will officially impact radio this Monday (1/12). The upbeat, feel-good track has received early support from radio immediately following its premiere on SiriusXM Hits 1 and is already climbing the Hot AC chart. In other exciting news, RYAN will hit the road this spring in support of the new music; dates and ticket info will be announced this Friday (1/9).
"It's organic pop music," says CABRERA of WAKE UP BEAUTIFUL. "[Producer] Justin Gray and I hit it off immediately. We were in a room together, jamming on everything. We weren't trying to be anything or fit any kind of mold. It was just music we dug. I started writing all of these fun, positive, and uplifting songs. My whole perception had changed. Every song tells its own story."
RYAN recently shot the music video for "House On Fire" with acclaimed video director Christian Lamb (Madonna, Borgore, Tori Amos). The video was shot in Los Angeles and up along the picturesque California coast, perfectly capturing the song's carefree, live-in-the-moment spirit. Look for the video–which will feature a few surprise cameos–to debut in the coming weeks. A lyric video for "House On Fire" debuted last November; watch it here.
"'House On Fire' is about burning everything down and being crazy while you can," RYAN explains. "You're living in the moment and enjoying everything you do. A lot of people are afraid to let themselves go, be passionate, and express their feelings. You've got to burn it all down—even if just for one night. Let loose and go nutty! It feels great."
The song is a perfect blend of the sound his fans have come to love from RYAN, while also pushing forward to a new, mature sound. His knack for writing infectious and emotive songs remains strong, and "House on Fire" is garnering early support from fans and media. Lucas Villa of AXS.com noted, "With the usual guitar are hints of electronica that carry the singer-songwriter through upbeat track…Ryan sounds poised to set hearts ablaze once again with this shining and free-spirited anthem." (10/23/14) Popdust.com's Jason Scott called the track "an arena-sized rock-tinged anthem," and went on to say, "'House On Fire' is a searing undertaking and hoisted by electronic-dance elements and an ear-worm hook, Cabrera is on to something here. Smashing the Hot 100 is automatic, right?" (10/24/14)
RYAN–known for his massive pop hits including "On The Way Down," "True" and "Shine On"–is also putting the finishing touches on a full-length album that will come later this year. This will mark his first album release in nearly seven years. He is working with a collection of acclaimed producers and songwriters such as Justin Gray (Mariah Carey, Joss Stone, John Legend, Amy Winehouse, Luis Fonsi), DJ White Shadow,aka Paul Blair, (Lady Gaga), Shelly Peiken (Christina Aguilera, Ed Sheeran, Celine Dion), Nathan Chapman (Taylor Swift, Colbie Caillat), Andrew Fromm (Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Selena Gomez) and acclaimed mixers Tony Maserati (Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas, Pink, Lady Gaga, Jason Mraz) and Chris Lord-Alge (Miley Cyrus, Green Day, Avril Lavigne, Daughtry), as well as collaborating with fellow musicians and friends Evan Ross and Travis Clark from We The Kings.
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It looks like Devin Nunes messed up.
His bizarre press conference last week raised a host of questions: Why did the chair of the House Intelligence Committee rush to the White House to claim that the government had "incidentally" collected some of the Trump team's communications in 2016? Why did he insist that these communications had nothing to do with the Trump team's suspected ties to Russia, or Trump's claim that he had been "wiretapped" by the Obama administration? Why did Nunes keep other members of the House Intelligence Committee in the dark? Why wouldn't Nunes identify his source, especially after spending much of Monday haranguing FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers about anonymous sources leaking to the press? And what motivated him to hold the press conference, which damaged his already broken credibility as an impartial investigator and further emboldened those calling for an independent probe?
Over the weekend, more information emerged about the series of events that culminated in Nunes's press conference. Nunes reportedly made a secret trip to the White House the evening before the press conference—the suspicion was that he went there to meet his source. On Monday, he confirmed that he went there but claimed he only did so "in order to have proximity to a secure location where he could view the information provided by the source." He told Bloomberg he went to the White House because it was convenient: "We don't have networked access to these kinds of reports in Congress," Nunes said. But this is not true: As Jake Sherman reported on MSNBC today, there are secure facilities in the Capitol.
Nunes is saying that the optics are bad, and that is all there is to the story. Certainly, secretly visiting the White House while investigating the White House doesn't look very good! Whatever the intention of his meeting or of the subsequent press conference, he's bungled this situation. On Monday, Chuck Schumer upped the pressure and called on Paul Ryan to replace Nunes as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee—a new tactic and an escalation of previous calls for an independent commission.


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A devastating technical glitch could crush the next generation of wireless technology before it even launches. With trillions of dollars and millions of jobs at stake, one company with the "5G fix" could put as much as $234,770 in your pocket this year. But Wall Street vultures are circling... you'll need to move quickly or risk missing this $5 bargain.
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GBX 770
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MA: GBX 697.24▼
Volume6,697 shs
Average Volume27,251 shs
Market Capitalization£78.34 million
Sopheon plc designs, develops, and markets software products with associated implementation and consultancy services in North America and Europe. The company's software products comprise Accolade, Accolade Express, Accolade Cloud, Accolade Go, Accolade Integration, and Accolade Accelerators. Its solutions provide support for innovation planning, road mapping, idea and concept development, process and project management, portfolio management and optimization, and resource planning, as well as analytics, collaborative workflow, product lifecycle management, and stage-gate automation. Read More…
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Current SymbolLON:SPE
Webhttp://www.sopheon.com/
Phone+44-1276-919560
Annual Sales£31.68 million
Cash FlowGBX 179.50 per share
Book ValueGBX 258.40 per share
Employees147
Market Cap£78.34 million
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What is Sopheon's stock symbol?
Sopheon trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "SPE."
How often does Sopheon pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Sopheon?
Sopheon declared a dividend on Thursday, March 21st. Investors of record on Thursday, June 13th will be paid a dividend of GBX 3.25 per share on Friday, July 12th. This represents a yield of 0.33%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 13th. This is a positive change from Sopheon's previous dividend of $2.50. The official announcement can be viewed at this link. View Sopheon's Dividend History.
What price target have analysts set for SPE?
0 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Sopheon's shares. Their forecasts range from GBX 1,425 to GBX 1,425. On average, they anticipate Sopheon's share price to reach GBX 1,425 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 85.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Sopheon.
Has Sopheon been receiving favorable news coverage?
News headlines about SPE stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Sopheon earned a coverage optimism score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Sopheon.
Who are some of Sopheon's key competitors?
Some companies that are related to Sopheon include TECSYS (TCS), Microgen (MCGN), Wandisco (WAND), Covata (CVT), Seeing Machines (SEE), IDOX (IDOX), Eckoh (ECK), Oxford Metrics (OMG), Gresham Technologies (GHT), 99 Wuxian (NNW), Smart Parking (SPZ), Sanderson Group (SND), SPECTRA SYS COR/SH SH (SPSY), iSentia Group (ISD) and Netcall (NET).
What other stocks do shareholders of Sopheon own?
Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Sopheon investors own include GALAPAGOS NV/S (GLPG), Pharming Group (PHGUF), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), Myokardia (MYOK), Laboratory Corp. of America (LH), Pacira Biosciences (PCRX), NVR (NVR), Southern (SO), Burford Capital (BUR) and Bilby (BILB).
Who are Sopheon's key executives?
Sopheon's management team includes the folowing people:
Mr. Barry K. Mence, Exec. Chairman (Age 66)
Mr. Andrew Lloyd Michuda, CEO & Exec. Director (Age 64)
Mr. Arif Karimjee ACA, CFO, Fin. Director, Sec. & Exec. Director (Age 52)
Mr. Paul Heller, Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Ronald Helgeson, VP of Corp. Communications
How do I buy shares of Sopheon?
Shares of SPE and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.
What is Sopheon's stock price today?
One share of SPE stock can currently be purchased for approximately GBX 770.
How big of a company is Sopheon?
Sopheon has a market capitalization of £78.34 million and generates £31.68 million in revenue each year. Sopheon employs 147 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Sopheon.
What is Sopheon's official website?
The official website for Sopheon is http://www.sopheon.com/.
How can I contact Sopheon?
Sopheon's mailing address is Dorna House One, Guildford Road, WOKING, GU24 9PW, United Kingdom. The company can be reached via phone at +44-1276-919560.
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Where i must install manually SSDT.aml in this case ?
SSDT.aml should be placed in Extra folder on the parent HDD where you install OS X.
Update of mountain lion or ..?
...or what? Of corse, update for ML what else... or if need to be more specific, latest Combo update for ML, heh!
Does this work for Revision 1.1 of this motherboard?
If revision 1.1 haves the same audio and Ethernet chipset, than it should work!
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and i get only 6000 on Geek Bench Score, I`ve read and search a lot and seems that this board makes my cpu run only at 1.600.
How could i fix it? i think the problem is using a sandy cpu over a ivy board.
I read somewhere that i could fix it using a ssdt.aml, but i dont know how, could you help me? THANKS AGAIN!!
I think everything, less audio, should work. I just bought this MB and you try install it on next week. After test I could answer if it works with sure.
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Well, installed, both apps... per... with i7 II & 10,7.4 and boom the graphics, are in perspective, but still has to boot from USB, and MB, Rj45 still no works... and front HD audio no work. all the same... seem to improve the Graphics only. think i will live with it... not using the front house audio, and can use a PCIe for the net... and kinda like booting from the USB... unless i loose it or the kids pulls it out and flushes it... Oh well... the i7 sandy is a rocket ship. Cheers visit us at Audiohipster.
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What version of the motherboard do you have? If its rev 1.1 then you will never get the on board LAN connection to work. It has been updated since 1.0 and there are no ktexts for it. There are several other ways like a wireless or LAN card that work oob.


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Day 3: After breakfast we will explore the Rolous Group; Lolei, Preak Ko and Bakong temples. Then back to Siem Reap for lunch. By now you may start to be getting "templed-out", so we'll do something a bit different in the afternoon - taking a trip to the Floating Village on the Great Lake of Cambodia to see people, schools, hospitals, communities, fish and crocodile farms, workshops and more – a glimpse at authentic modern-day Cambodia basically .


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as of now I'm thinking abt Jeevan Pramush or Jeevan Vaibhav, please advice me on it or you can suggest me any other option.
Dear Ram Radhe, as you are out of India, you can not purchase online term plans. Even offline term plans 'll not be offered by many insurers. Better to purchase it from the country of your current residence if you are going to live there for at least next 8-10 years.
frankly speaking I'm new to all of these and thought LIC is more secure as compared to other companies.
FYI – I'm outside India, it'll be very helpful if you suggest any term life plans which are more reliable and I can buy online.
Dear Ram Radhe, why are you interested in LIC policies only? Any specific reasons? I'm not advising any product here. First I want to know your thought process.
Actually I was planning to invest for next three years as I can see confirmed investment options from my budget till year 2016.
Also can you please suggest few useful links / options in mutual funds. Is it possible to buy online.
It is possible to buy mutual funds online. Check AMCs like Quantum, HDFC, UTI etc.
Please stay away from these policies. If you can invest 17,000 per month (3 lakhs in 3 years) in a good balanced mutual fund which will give you 10% returns each year for only 3 years and stay invested for the next 7 years you will get 13 lakhs. If you stay invested for next 12 years you will get 21 lakhs.
If you can invest each month for next 10/15 years you will earn much more.
Get yourself pure term life insurance, at least 15 times your annual income and start investing.


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Why Polls Were Mostly Wrong
Princeton's Sam Wang had to eat his words (and a cricket) in 2016. He talks about the impacts of the pandemic and QAnon on public-opinion tallies in 2020
By Gloria Dickie on November 13, 2020
Credit: Joseph Prezioso Getty Images
In the weeks leading up to the November 2016 election, polls across the country predicted an easy sweep for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. From Vanuatu to Timbuktu, everyone knows what happened. Media outlets and pollsters took the heat for failing to project a victory for Donald Trump. The polls were ultimately right about the popular vote. But they missed the mark in key swing states that tilted the Electoral College toward Trump.
This time, prognosticators made assurances that such mistakes were so 2016. But as votes were tabulated on November 3, nervous viewers and pollsters began to experience a sense of déjà vu. Once again, more ballots were ticking toward President Trump than the polls had projected. Though the voter surveys ultimately pointed in the wrong direction for only two states—North Carolina and Florida, both of which had signaled a win for Joe Biden—they incorrectly gauged just how much of the overall vote would go to Trump in both red and blue states. In states where polls had favored Biden, the vote margin went to Trump by a median of 2.6 additional percentage points. And in Republican states, Trump did even better than the polls had indicated—by a whopping 6.4 points.
Four years ago, Sam Wang, a neuroscience professor at Princeton University and co-founder of the blog Princeton Election Consortium, which analyzes election polling, called the race for Clinton. He was so confident that he made a bet to eat an insect if Trump won more than 240 electoral votes—and ended up downing a cricket live on CNN. Wang is coy about any plans for arthropod consumption in 2020, but his predictions were again optimistic: he pegged Biden at 342 electoral votes and projected that the Democrats would have 53 Senate seats and a 4.6 percent gain in the House of Representatives.
Scientific American recently spoke with Wang about what may have gone wrong with the polls this time around—and what bugs remain to be sorted out.
[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]
How did the polling errors for the 2020 election compare with those we saw in the 2016 contest?
Broadly, there was a polling error of about 2.5 percentage points across the board in close states and blue states for the presidential race. This was similar in size to the polling error in 2016, but it mattered less this time because the race wasn't as close.
The main thing that has changed since 2016 is not the polling but the political situation. I would say that worrying about polling is, in some sense, worrying about the 2016 problem. And the 2020 problem is ensuring there is a full and fair count and ensuring a smooth transition.
Still, there were significant errors. What may have driven some of those discrepancies?
The big polling errors in red states are the easiest to explain because there's a precedent: in states that are historically not very close for the presidency, the winning candidate usually overperforms. It's long been known turnout is lower in states that aren't competitive for the presidency because of our weird Electoral College mechanism. That effect—the winner's bonus—might be enhanced in very red states by the pandemic. If you're in a very red state, and you're a Democratic voter who knows your vote doesn't affect the outcome of the presidential race, you might be slightly less motivated to turn out during a pandemic.
That's one kind of polling error that I don't think we need to be concerned about. But the error we probably should be concerned about is this 2.5-percentage-point error in close states. That error happened in swing states but also in Democratic-trending states. For people who watch politics closely, the expectation was that we had a couple of roads we could have gone down [on election night]. Some states count and report votes on election night, and other states take days to report. The polls beforehand pointed toward the possibility of North Carolina and Florida coming out for Biden. That would have effectively ended the presidential race right there. But the races were close enough that there was also the possibility that things would continue. In the end, that's what happened: we were watching more counting happen in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada.
How did polling on the presidential race compare with the errors we saw with Senate races this year?
The Senate errors were a bigger deal. There were seven Senate races where the polling showed the races within three points in either direction. Roughly speaking, that meant a range of outcomes for between 49 and 56 Democratic seats. A small polling miss had a pretty consequential outcome because every percentage point missed would lead to, on average, another Senate seat going one way or the other. Missing a few points in the presidential race was not a big deal this year, but missing by a few points in Senate races mattered.
What would more accurate polling have meant for the Senate races?
The real reason polling matters is to help people determine where to put their energy. If we had a more accurate view of where the races were going to end up, it would have suggested political activists put more energy into the Georgia and North Carolina Senate races.
And it's a weird error that the Senate polls were off by more than the presidential polls. One possible explanation would be that voters were paying less attention to Senate races than presidential races and therefore were unaware of their own preference. Very few Americans lack awareness of whether they prefer Trump or Biden. But maybe more people would be unaware of their own mental processes for say, [Republican incumbent] Thom Tillis versus [Democratic challenger] Cal Cunningham [in North Carolina's Senate race]. Because American politics have been extremely polarized for the past 25 years, people tend to [end up] voting [a] straight ticket for their own party.
Considering that most of the polls overestimated Biden's lead, is it possible pollsters were simply not adequately reaching Trump supporters by phone?
David Shor, a data analyst [who was formerly head of political data science at the company Civis Analytics], recently pointed out the possibility that people who respond to polls are not a representative sample. They're pretty weird in the sense that they're willing to pick up the phone and stay on the phone with a pollster. He gave evidence that people are more likely to pick up the phone if they're Democrats, more likely to pick up under the conditions of a pandemic and more likely to pick up the phone if they score high in the domain of social trust. It's fascinating. The idea is that poll respondents score higher on social trust than the general population, and because of that, they're not a representative sample of the population. That could be skewing the results.
This is also related to the idea that states with more QAnon followers experienced more inaccurate polling. The QAnon belief system is certainly correlated with lower social trust. And those might be people who are simply not going to pick up the phone. If you believe in a monstrous conspiracy of sex abuse involving one of the major political parties of the U.S., then you might be paranoid. One could not rule out the possibility that paranoid people would also be disinclined to answer opinion polls.
In Florida's Miami-Dade County, we saw a surprising surge of Hispanic voters turning out for Trump. How might the polls have failed to take into account members of that demographic backing Trump?
Pollsters know Hispanic voters to be a difficult-to-reach demographic. In addition, Hispanics are also not a monolithic population. If you look at some of the exit polling, it looks like Hispanics were more favorable to Trump than they were to Clinton four years ago. It's certainly possible Hispanic support was missed by pollsters this time around.
Given that the presidential polls have been off for the past two elections, how much attention should people pay to polls?
I think polling is critically important because it is a way by which we can measure public sentiment more rigorously than any other method. Polling plays a critical role in our society. One thing we shouldn't do is convert polling data into probabilities. That obscures the fact that polls can be a few points off. And it's better to leave the reported data in units of opinion [as a percentage favoring a candidate] rather than try to convert it to a probability.
It's best not to force too much meaning out of a poll. If a race looks like it's within three or four points in either direction, we should simply say it's a close race and not force the data to say something they can't. I think pollsters will take this inaccuracy and try to do better. But at some level, we should stop expecting too much out of the polling data.
Gloria Dickie is an environmental journalist based in British Columbia, Canada. Her work appears in National Geographic, Wired, the New York Times, and elsewhere. Follow Gloria Dickie on Twitter Credit: Nick Higgins
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WHO CAN APPLY FOR O-1 VISA?
An O-1 visa is a nonimmigrant-working visa for aliens of extraordinary ability. U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) classifies aliens in the arts as O-1B. To successfully apply for this visa, aliens in the arts should be prominent in their field. To establish prominence the artist (also known as the beneficiary of the petition) must have evidence of public acclaim and distinction. This includes published press about the beneficiary, or evidence of exhibitions or awards. Prominence is also established with recommendation letters from experts in their field, which will also support the beneficiary's credentials in other ways.
How Long Can I Stay with an O-1 Visa?
O-1 visas are issued for a maximum of three years. After that, O-1 visa status can be extended on a year-by-year basis. Beneficiaries can also apply at the U.S. Consulate in their country to extend their visas in three-year increments if they can show they have three years of new events scheduled. Successful applicants should be prepared to justify why they need to be in the U.S. for three years to complete an event (or series of events). A three-year itinerary of events will be prepared, and these events should be confirmed in writing. An example would be a letter from an art gallery that confirms that the artist will continually exhibit at the gallery over the three-year period.
To apply for an O-1 visa a foreign national must have an employer in the U.S. or a U.S. agent as his or her petitioner. Foreign nationals are not allowed to self-petition for an O-1 visa. You, the foreign national, are considered the beneficiary of a petition filed by someone else – your employer or U.S. agent.
An employer agrees to pay you directly for your services, and in many instances the employer will withhold certain taxes from your earnings. This is a traditional employment relationship and works very well with professionals who are traditionally employed by a company, firm or institution. Examples include architects and museum curators. There are also instances where a company is a petitioner and the beneficiary is an independent contractor (where taxes are not withheld and the artist files his or her own taxes at the end of the year). Employment can be full-time or part-time. The employer can confirm a series of assignments at a specific rate, or it can confirm a range of assignments and even a range of rates. USCIS has been shown to be extremely flexible with their acceptance of a variety of relationships. But a key to successful application is having these confirmed assignments stretch over the entire duration of the visa period.
A U.S. Agent represents you in occupations where you have more than one employer or are receiving confirmed assignments from more than one entity. U.S. Agents sometimes receive a fee or commission for representing the artist. Some professionals work with artist representatives. Commercial photographers, illustrators and musicians often have artist representatives. An artist representative can serve as a U.S. Agent—but not all U.S. Agents are artist representatives. Some U.S. Agents will solicit work for an artist (for example an artist representative) while other U.S. Agents are not looking for additional work for the artist but are merely confirming the assignments with multiple entities that are required by the O-1 petition. It should be noted as well that there are instances where an employer could additionally serve as a U.S. Agent, thereby allowing a direct employment relationship and also the ability to perform services for other entities.
Contract between artist and U.S. Agent: The beneficiary (artist) and petitioner (U.S. Agent) sign a written agreement detailing the terms and conditions of their U.S. Agent-artist relationship.
Contract between artist and employers confirming the assignments in the U.S.: The companies that will be confirming the events with the artist will sign an agreement that will be submitted with the visa application. This agreement describes the work to be performed by the artist, rate of pay, number of projects per year, and other terms and conditions of the assignment. This agreement will also acknowledge that the artist is represented by an U.S. agent, and that this agent will represent both the artist and employer for work performed by the artist in O-1 status in the United States.
Performed and will perform services as a lead or starring participant in productions or events that have a distinguished reputation, as evidenced by critical reviews, advertisements, publicity releases, publications, contracts or endorsements.
Achieved national or international recognition for achievements, as shown by critical reviews or other published materials by or about the beneficiary in major newspapers, trade journals, magazines or other publications.
Established a record of major commercial successes or critical acclaim, as shown by such indicators as title, rating or standing in the field, box office receipts, motion picture or television ratings and other occupational achievements reported in trade journals, major newspapers or other publications.
Received significant recognition for achievements from organizations, critics, government agencies or other recognized experts in the beneficiary's field, with the testimonials clearly indicating the author's authority, expertise and knowledge of the beneficiary's achievements.
A salary or other remuneration for services that is high in relation to others in the field, as shown by contracts or other reliable evidence.
To satisfy this category you must have either won or been nominated for a major national or international award. The regulations mention Academy Awards, Emmys and Grammys. If you have won an award that is not at this level of a major national or international award then USCIS will most like consider that your award is insufficient for this category. Immigration will most likely not consider grants, residencies, or fellowships as satisfying the awards category. The current trend is that immigration rarely gives credit for the award category. On the other hand, evidence of grants, residencies and other awards are still very important because they help to show your significance.
For this category you must prove that you have had a leading or starring role in events that are considered prestigious. You must also prove that you will be coming to the U.S. to have a lead or starring role in events that are considered prestigious.
An event is something that occurs at a specific time. For example think of a performance in a concert, an artistic exhibition, a runway show, a lecture or a workshop. Judging the work of others can also be considered an event. Events can be documented as prestigious with articles about the event that mention the artist's name. Press releases, invitation cards, catalogs and online mentions sometimes, but not always, prove that the event is prestigious. Promotional material about the event such as advertisements or posters can possibly prove that the event is prestigious.
Most visual artists that are ready to apply for an O-1 have had multiple exhibitions, including solo and group shows. In the past, they could satisfy the events category with invitation cards and a press release about an exhibition. Now (and in recent years) USCIS also looks for clear evidence that the artist had an important role in the exhibition and that the exhibition was in some sense prestigious.
To prove that the artist will have a leading role once they are in the U.S. we often look for press about the venue of the confirmed future event. For example, an art gallery that has been mentioned in the New York Times would be prestigious. We also look for press about the clients that the artist will work for (if the applicant is an art director, for instance). The key to this idea is to document that you are coming to the U.S. to do something and that there is some sort of evidence that this is prestigious. This can be accomplished by showing the venue is prestigious, that the actual event is prestigious or that the clients you will work with are prestigious.
The regulations specifically mention major newspapers, trade journals and magazines as satisfying this category. Put simply, good evidence in this category will include articles about the artist in newspapers that have a national circulation, magazines that have a wide following or trade journals. Feature articles about the artist are most favored. The artist should be prepared to show circulation information or other evidence that the publication is considered important.
Online articles and articles in local newspapers and less well-known magazines may not satisfy the press category, but they can still add value to an application. They may for instance show that events reviewed are prestigious or otherwise add up to demonstrate the artist's prestige.
Some artists, such as photographers and illustrators, will have their name credited with their work in a magazine. Note as well that the artist can satisfy this category with published material that they write themselves. For example, an art critic often writes articles that appear in magazines and newspapers.
A discussion of the artist's press with Eric and his team is essential to satisfy this category and to fortify the application overall to demonstrate the prominence of the artist.
This category has two parts. Applicants must prove that they have had a leading, starring or critical role with organizations that have a distinguished reputation. They must also prove that they will have this relationship with organizations in the US.
For the first part of this category, letters from former employers, clients or collaborators may often demonstrate past critical role. Artists such as designers, architects, illustrators and photographers can satisfy this requirement with testimonial letters followed by materials that demonstrate the relationship. For designers, those materials can be portfolio evidence. For photographers this can include print advertisements. It should be remembered that portfolio materials or commercial print advertisements alone do not demonstrate the critical role. These must be accompanied by some sort of confirmation of the artist's involvement with the project. Hence the letters that confirm the critical role are critical and essential to proving this category. Visual artists can often get a letter from art galleries in other countries that represent them.
This category is often confused with the events category described above. For the critical role category the artist must demonstrate a critical role with an organization. For the events category the artist must demonstrate a leading role in an event.
There may be some overlap but consider this example. A runway model can get a letter showing that he or she was a model on a particular runway show. The runway show is the event and the letter demonstrates the model's leading role in that particular event. On the other hand, a letter from the fashion designer of the event can prove that the runway model had a critical role with that fashion designer based upon their work together. This letter can be potentially more expansive than the letter confirming the model's role in the runway show. It can also discuss other activities with that designer (the "organization") in which the model had a critical or leading role.
The critical role category is a very important category for designers, illustrators, architects, art directors and photographers. It is the appropriate place to show work experience with employers and clients (the "organizations"). Often the critical role is demonstrated with letters of recommendation accompanied by supporting materials.
For example an architect can get a letter from his or her former company. The letter describes the importance of the designer's work with that organization. The portfolio of supporting materials may include 5 to 10 pages that show the designs in print or online press. Sometimes we will use portfolio materials in these supporting pages. Sometimes we will use press about the project to support the letter.
In general this category would document commercial success that is public information. This can include box office receipts, album or book chart success, or articles in trade publications demonstrating commercial success or critical success. Critical success might be differentiated from significant recognition described below since this category would use objective public information about the critical acclaim and the recognition in the Significant Recognition category would come from expert letters or other evidence that might not be public information.
To prove this category we often get recommendation letters from experts in the field to show that the artist is prominent.
Recommendation letters will be the principal way that this category is documented, but we can also submit evidence of awards, residencies or grants. We can sometimes show evidence that the artist is collected by institutional collectors such as museums.
In our office we don't want recommendation letters to merely say an artist is "the best." Instead we want the letters to explain why the artist is the best. Our office has a proven track record of helping artists receive letters that are best tailored for their applications and what is needed in this category.
Artists can show that they are prominent by demonstrating that they sell their work at a high price compared to other artists, or that they are well compensated, or that their work is commercially successful. We can sometimes demonstrate this by providing letters from accountants or letters from the company supplying the compensation (for example a letter from a gallery confirming high prices for artwork and/or a summary of work sold).
According to USCIS regulations, all O-1 visa applicants must receive a no-objection letter from a union if there is a union of that profession. Unionized professions include professional musicians, who generally apply to the American Federation of Musicians for this type of letter. For professionals including fine artists, curators and architects, there is no union, and the applicant can receive a letter from an expert in the field with standing to offer an opinion. This is called a Peer Advisory Opinion Letter. The regulations for this category sound very intimidating but for our firm this is just an additional element that we have to address in putting these files together.
1. You must have a petitioner.
2. You must have confirmed assignments for the term of the visa.
3. You must qualify for the visa.
CONFIRMATION LETTERS: A confirmation letter can confirm an award if you do not have an award certificate or other proof that you received the award. It can also confirm a lecture you gave, a high fashion model's participation in a runway show, or another type of event. These letters will be discussed with Eric on a case-by-case basis.
CRITICAL ROLE OR CONTRIBUTIONS LETTERS: The purpose of these letters is to confirm that you played a critical role with a person, organization, client or event. They can also confirm an artistic collaboration.
SIGNIFICANCE LETTERS: These are letters from experts in your field who can attest to your significance in your field. While critical role letters will focus on the relationship between the artist and the writer of the letter, significance letters will be broader. They will describe the writer's expertise and then offer an opinion about why the artist is significant in the industry. These letters will essentially describe all of the artist's credentials and career to describe how the artist is prominent.
Translations The regulations regarding translations are quite clear. All evidence that is submitted must be submitted with a complete translation. All translations should be accompanied by a certification from someone who is fluent in both English and the original language. Before translating all articles or other evidence a consultation with Eric's office can give guidance on what is important and needs translation, and what might be considered less important and would not make it into the final application.
Once the evidence has been obtained to document that the alien is extraordinary, and our firm is aware of whom the petitioner will be and the alien's planned itinerary in the United States, we then prepare the forms and cover letters that immigration will need to approve the application. Often our firm needs time to organize the file. We then have the petitioner sign these documents and return them to us. We are then ready to send the file to immigration.
When USCIS receives a file they can approve an application, they can deny an application or they can ask for more evidence. Requests for evidence from USCIS can ask for evidence to help clarify that the artist is in fact extraordinary or to seek clarification about what an artist will be doing in the United States. Once USCIS approves the petition they issue Form I-797 Approval Notice.
Our office will work with the artist on a consular form called DS-160. This application for the US State Department will ask for biographical information and will inquire about prior visas, and seek to uncover any problems that make an applicant ineligible for a visa.
Once the DS-160 has been prepared and generated our office will prepare a packet for the applicant that will include a copy of the petition, an updated letter from the petitioner, a copy of the DS-160 consular form with bar code and the Approval Notice I-797. Additional documents needed may include pay statements from past employers, old passports or other evidence of prior immigration status including I-20s, EAD cards and old approval notices.
In most instances applicants are required to schedule a personal interview at the consulate. This is often not an actual interview, but an in-person appearance at the consulate. Given the heightened border security measures currently under effect, the United States Consulates are on the defensive. They do not want to make a mistake, and the level of scrutiny on applications is at an all-time high. Our office is aware of this complication and we work intensively with all applicants to complete all relevant documentation.
Most often, the consular officer will take the passport and the related evidence and review it. The officer will then return most of the evidence and keep the passport. If the visa is to be issued, the passport is often sent back to the applicant by courier or mail in a period of time ranging from one day to three weeks, depending on the consulate and the time of year.
All applicants are screened for prior arrests and a terrorist watch list. If, as is sometimes the case, an applicant triggers a flag in the database search the consulate will not issue the visa until the issue is resolved. In the case of a mistake this may take a number of weeks or months. If you find yourself in this situation, we will work with you to attempt to resolve it. Through careful screening most issues can be identified at the beginning of the application process. In the case of a mistake, patience and persistence are our principle tools. While the consular sections can make mistakes, they are also fair and they will most often resolve them favorably. This is yet another reason to apply sooner.
After Visa Issued From Consulate - Entering the U.S.
BORDER INSPECTION: Our office advises applicants to take the entire packet that the applicant brought to the consulate with them on the plane in case U.S. immigration officials at the border have any questions about the visa. For example, they may ask about the artist's credentials and ask what the artist will be doing in the U.S. for the petitioner.
When an applicant is already in the U.S. on a visa and wants to switch to O-1 status, the applicant must decide whether to change their status in the United States or apply directly at the consulate. If an applicant has a valid visa and is in status, they may have the right to apply for a change of status to O-1. The advantage is that if the USCIS approves the petition, the beneficiary is then considered to hold O-1 status as opposed to the status they formerly held. For example if they had F1 Student status and filed for change of status upon approval they would be in the US in O1 status. They may begin working for the petitioner and they have the right to stay in the U.S. for the duration of the time approved by CIS. The disadvantage is that this can become extremely complicated and can potentially convolute a petition that is otherwise approvable.
In determining whether to grant a change of status, USCIS takes all elements of an applicant's current status into account. In some instances, the applicant's current status may prejudice the officer who reviews the application. For example: How can a student apply for an O-1 visa? In actuality, many MFA grads in optional practical training may qualify for an O-1 visa, yet applying for a change of status may affect the results of the petition. At the same time the artist will still need to have a consular interview if they travel outside of the US after approval. Eric Shaub almost always recommends consular processing.
In the United States we have an expression: "moving the goal posts." This expression originates from games played with a ball on a field, but it is an apt metaphor for the experience of immigration attorneys who have prepared O-1 visas over the past few years. As recently as 2008 artists were free to prepare their own itineraries to demonstrate what they intended to do in the U.S. In 2009 USCIS made the determination that all events should be documented with contracts. Then in 2014 USCIS became much stricter regarding the evidence of an artist's career. For example, in the past applications could succeed with limited documentation about an artist's participation in events, but the emphasis has shifted now to proving that those events are prestigious. USCIS also wants evidence to prove that the artist will be performing in prestigious events in the United States once they arrive.
The additional paperwork involved in documenting these activities could easily result in a "monster" size application that would be confusing and redundant—and large files are not something immigration is necessarily fond of either. Sometimes we have no choice but to submit enormous files, as there is no concise way of documenting all of the elements. That being said, our focus should be not on creating the biggest file. It should be on creating the best.
During the application process Eric should be made aware of any immigration problems and any criminal activity—including all arrests anywhere in the world. Prior immigration problems and criminal activity can affect an applicant's eligibility for the visa.
Spouses and children of O-1 visa holders can receive a visa called O-3. It does not allow employment but it does allow the spouse or child to live with you in the U.S. through the duration of your O-1.
While it is often possible to apply for a visa in a country besides the applicant's home country, this office recommends the home country. Other consulates often have the opportunity, but not the obligation, to issue the visa. If they choose not to issue it the applicant must get on a plane and fly to their home country.
In the opinion of this law firm, all successful applicants for an O-1 visa should obtain a social security number after they enter the U.S. on an O-1 visa. O-1 visa holders are obligated to pay taxes on the income they earn in the United States. Some countries have tax treaties with the United States that determine where they pay tax. Ultimately a determination of tax residency relates to the number of days an alien spends in the U.S over a period of time. Permanent residents are obligated to pay their global tax in the U.S. Eric Shaub is not a tax attorney, nor is he a tax professional. The opinion here is presented to offer a starting point in the discussion of taxation. Taxation is a separate topic from immigration and all visa applicants are advised to get appropriate opinions from trusted tax professionals.
In many instances, students or exchange visitors who receive grants or scholarships may enter the U.S. on a J-1 visa. If this is the case, they may be subject to Section 212E which requires them to return to their home country for a period of two years before applying for types of visas including immigrant visas (green cards), H-1B visas and L-1 visas. The good news is that if they qualify, J-1 visa holders are not prevented from applying for an O-1 visa. They are not eligible for a change of status, but if the petition is approved, they are eligible to apply for the visa at a consulate outside of the United States.
To satisfy this category you must have either won or been nominated for a major national or international award. The regulations mention Academy Awards, Emmys and Grammys. If you have won an award that is not at that level of a major national or international award then USCIS will most like consider that your award is insufficient for this category. Immigration will most likely not consider grants, residencies, or fellowships as satisfying the awards category. The current trend is that immigration rarely gives credit for the award category. On the other hand, evidence of grants, residencies and other awards are still very important because they help to show your significance.
For the first part of this category, letters from former employers, clients or collaborators may often demonstrate past critical role. Artists such as designers, architects, illustrators and photographers can satisfy this requirement with testimonial letters followed by materials that demonstrate the relationship. For designers, those materials can be portfolio evidence. For photographers it can include print advertisements. It should be remembered that portfolio materials or commercial print advertisements alone do not demonstrate the critical role. These must be accompanied by some sort of confirmation of the artist's involvement with the project. Hence the letters that confirm the critical role are critical and essential to proving this category. Visual artists can often get a letter from art galleries in other countries that represent them.
For example an architect can get a letter from his or her former company. The letter describes the importance of the designer's work with that organization. The portfolio of supporting materials may include 5 to10 pages that show the designs in print or online press. Sometimes we will use portfolio materials in these supporting pages. Sometimes we will use press about the project to support the letter.
According to USCIS regulations, all O-1 visa applicants must receive a no-objection letter from a union if there is a union of that profession. Unionized professions include professional musicians, who generally apply to the American Federation of Musicians for this type of letter. For professionals including fine artists, curators, photographers and architects, there is no union, and the applicant can receive a letter from an expert in the field with standing to offer an opinion. This is called a Peer Advisory Opinion Letter. The regulations for this category sound very intimidating but for our firm this is just an additional element that we have to address in putting these files together.
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