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After failing to cross midfield on their first drive, the Broncos faced a third-and-4 on their second possession. Peyton Manning, given more time with the protection of all-pro left tackle Ryan Clady, fired a 9-yard strike to Demaryius Thomas. It triggered a 14-play, 61-yard drive with four third-down conversions, including three by Thomas.
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The Broncos' first scoring drive represented a counterpunch and a clock crunch. Denver's march logged 9 minutes, 9 seconds, longer than any drive last season. The longest a year ago lasted 7:08, covering 13 plays and 80 yards against the Patriots in the AFC championship game.
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Broncos left guard Orlando Franklin was in the middle of everything. He jawed with several Seahawks and attempted to take on the entire defense after Ronnie Hillman's 1-yard TD.


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Since 1947, Friendship Stateline Freewill Baptist Children's Home in Eldridge, Ala., has been caring for children, and over the years, they have nurtured more than 800 children.
For more than three decades, Friendship Stateline Freewill Baptist Church has been proactively raising funds for the children's home, but for nearly a decade, the church has been holding an annual benefit singing to help raise funds for the care of children and expenses related to the children's home.
The 9th Annual Benefit Gospel Singing for the children's home will be held on Saturday, Oct. 19, beginning at 7 p.m. Marvin Morrow of Cypress Inn and Denise Hopkins-Jaco of Toney, Ala., are the featured singers this year.
There is no charge for the event, but a special offering will be received during the singing. All proceeds raised will benefit the children's home.
In addition to its annual fundraisers for the children's home, church members purchase Christmas presents for the children, and many members drive to Eldridge where they celebrate the day with them. They also recognize the children on their birthdays.
"They bond with them year after year and correspond with them," said Charles Marable, field representative for the children's home. "We try to give them a loving environment."
The home's motto is "Investing today in the heart of tomorrow."
"The Children's Home in Eldridge provides a haven of hope for hurting children that come from all types of challenging domestic situations.
"The foundation for our existence is James 1:27, where God says, one evidence of pure religion in His eyes is to 'visit (look after) the fatherless … in their affliction.' In essence, we are trying to be a 'father to the fatherless'," said Danny Williams, FWBCH director of communication and development in a past newsletter.
For more information about the benefit, contact Pastor Rusty Lincoln at (256) 423-4429 or Jerry Hopkins at (256) 828-0386.

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Mark Slaga
Stepping in for the retiring Jere Brown is Mark Slaga, who will take over at CEO of Dimension Data Americas. Slaga has spent 13 years with the company, most recently as COO of Dimension Data Americas, and also served as chief technology officer and senior vice president of solutions. Prior to Dimension Data, he spent several years at EB Networks and RPM Consulting.


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Another late penalty - another road loss.
The old cliche remains true - bad teams find a way to lose and the Senators are finding ways not seen since 1996, the last year they were permanent fixtures in the basement.
A Matt Ellis goal just 15 seconds in to the first period told us all we needed to know about how this game would go. A 32 second spurt in the 2nd period when Jason Spezza scored twice was the only time this game was in doubt.
The road trip from hell isn't even over and the Senators season is already toast. Even a person like myself who was tending on the negative side of things couldn't foresee the trip being this bad.
On the positive side, Spezza played a great game and never seemed to give up. Brian Lee continues to impress with his puck-moving ability and his calmness, characteristics that were strangely absent during his first stint with the team this season.
Brendan Bell was flying out there tonight. I don't know if he was disobeying Craig Hartsburg's system by jumping into the play so much or if Hartsburg has loosened the reins, but Bell was a major threat out there, especially in the third period with the game on the line.
The other incident of note will no doubt be the Jarkko Ruutu bite on Sabre enforcer Andrew Peters. I thought at first that Ruutu had actually bitten off the guy's digit the way Peters reacted.
It's a suspension for sure but probably only 2 games or less. If anything, Ruutu has provided the bulk of the entertainment for the Senators thus far.
His free-agent signing is one thing that Bryan Murray can be congratulated on. It would have been nice to have Ruutu earlier in the decade when the Senators were losing four straight playoff series to the Leafs but.... better late than never.
It was interesting to hear Chris Neil say the other day that perhaps the team was too serious and that having a little more fun might improve the mood and eventually the results.
I tend to agree. The atmosphere around this team seems even more negative than it was last year and listening to sports radio shows is just an exercise in hearing fans wanting to "punish" the players ad nauseum.
The fans aren't having fun. The players aren't having fun. Only Ruutu is having fun because he's in his own solar system.
Maybe the guys need a pat on the back once in a while, not just from the fans but from the ultra-serious Hartsburg.
Who's going to want to play here in the future if the conditions are so hostile and negative that nice "aw shucks" guys like Spezza are treated like criminals by the media and fans?
It may seem strange but I'd wager that once the post-season is completely out of the picture, the team will actually play better because they'll be looser and not worried about making mistakes so much.
First it was Andrej Meszaros not missing a game after getting 64 stitches in his face.
Now...gasp!... another ex-Senator defenseman who apparently wasn't good enough to play in Ottawa is starting to round into form according to Larry Brooks.
"Coach Tom Renney was not a slave to matching against Sidney Crosby. Indeed, the head coach pretty much rolled his lines against the NHL's frustrated favorite son, but he did send the Wade Redden-Dan Girardi defense pair out against No. 87 as much as possible.
Redden was excellent; strong and composed. Indeed, No. 6's game has improved slowly but surely over the last 10 days. If he hasn't quite found it, he certainly doesn't appear lost anymore.
"So much of it for me is getting the mental part of my game in focus and getting into the intensity of the competition," Redden said. "Earlier I was guilty of expecting it to come, and waiting for it to come."
Weren't these guys supposed to be bums?
What will really grind the naysayers is that Redden is on his way to the playoffs for the 12th straight year (he's never missed the playoffs) and Meszaros is still on his iron-man streak (he's never missed a game to injury) while the Senators can't even make a pass out of their own zone, let alone get to the post-season.
Who knows? Maybe the currently injured Filip Kuba will re-join the Lightning and Meszaros when he leaves Ottawa as a free-agent with no compensation this summer.


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Teen Read Week: (Grades 7-12) The Library, in conjunction with the American Library Association, invites you to celebrate "Teen Read Week" (October 13-19.) "Seek the Unknown @ Your Library" is the theme of this year's national initiative to encourage teens to read for the fun of it. Free bookmarks and reading lists for teens will be available all week in TeenSpace. Teen Read Week activities co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
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Dependency hasn't just been the name of the game in Whitman County athletics. It's how the game has survived.
Bigger farms, retreating towns and shrinking enrollments turned longtime rivals into new-age partners. Hyphens became equipment as necessary as helmets and gloves. Old nicknames were shelved. Old grudges, too. Well, most of the time.
And there's no going back.
Just a temporary reminder of how it was.
Playoff football reaches the semifinal stage for Washington high schools this weekend, and among the teams a step away from the Gridiron Classic is Rosalia.
Not Rosalia Hyphen Something or Something Something Slash Rosalia.
Just Rosalia.
The Spartans travel to Pasco for a Saturday evening rematch with Touchet in one of those 8-man delights that make college football's spread-offense revolution look like a game of Old Maid.
In the quarterfinals last week against Colton-Pullman Christian, the Spartans amassed more than 600 yards. By halftime. When the clock finally hit zero in a 76-32 victory, the total was 805 – just on the ground. Craig Nelson had 350 of those, Clay Shelton 265 more.
But then, the Spartans are used to covering ground. Their season of independence has forced them to log 2,000 miles on the bus, a far cry from the 20-minutes-down- the-road days of Whitman County football.
One of those trips took them to Taholah, 420 miles away. Even if they'd wanted to go farther, they couldn't.
That's where the road ends.
But the Spartans have gotten more out of the season than bus butt.
"We've enjoyed this season way better," said Nelson. "We don't have to travel to practice every day. Everything's on our home field. We've bonded more as a team because it's just us."
Yet it's also just temporary.
Until this year, Rosalia's lived the co-op life with the rest of the Whitman County towns, teaming up with Tekoa and Oakesdale for all sports except volleyball and basketball. Last year, the school approached its partners to join in those sports as well for 2013-14, but the other two opted to keep the status quo.
So the district decided to strike out on its own for a year "and kind of figure out everything from there," said football coach Kaleb Madison. Now Tekoa and Rosalia have forged a union for 2014-15; Oakesdale is still weighing its options.
There was a price for this pioneer spirit.
Enrollment would put the Spartans at the 1B level after playing 11-man football in the co-op. With the decision not finalized until May, scheduling among WIAA District 9 schools had already been completed – there was no room in the Southeast 1B inn. That meant playing as an independent, though a deal was struck to allow Rosalia entrée into the playoffs through a play-in game – provided the Spartans finished the regular season above .500.
But the Spartans had to find some teams to play, round up helmets, pads and uniforms and, above all, learn how to do it 8-man style.
"We were scrambling," Madison said.
To fill their Friday nights, the Spartans wound up with dates against schools in Idaho (Troy) and Oregon (Cove and Elgin). They took that daylong trek to Taholah – and got off the bus and beat the Chitwins 65-38, then spent the night and came home. Oakville was coaxed to come east, as was King's Way Christian – a school in Hazel Dell that plays in a 1A league but opts for 8-man football. That makes the Knights ineligible for the playoffs, but they were 8-0 until Rosalia handed them a 38-22 setback.
Adjusting to 8-man offered its share of potholes, too. The Spartans' first venture was a summer camp in Cove.
"The field seemed so much bigger," said Shelton. "There was way more ground to cover by yourself. Miss a tackle and it's a touchdown."
Madison, who played football at Northern Arizona and coached the co-op team the past two years, had never X'd an 8-man O, either. But when the Spartans struggled with a concept, he fell back on his training as a special ed teacher.
"We had 'interventions'," he said with a laugh. "Tackling interventions. Blocking interventions. We had a couple of bye weeks where we could take two hours and just hammer on something and it really helped us get better."
But they were going to be pretty good anyway. Rosalia kids formed the core of the co-op TOR team that lost in the first round of last year's 2B playoffs. With the line coming of age in front of Nelson, Shelton and quarterback Ryan Maley, the Spartans have had only two hiccups – lopsided losses to Troy and Touchet. Now they're the first Rosalia team to reach the semis in 27 years, or make the playoffs on their own since 1997.
"Sometimes you just have to deal with what you're handed and make the best of it," said Madison. "These kids have jumped in with both feet and made the best of it."
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OnLive is also selling its own wireless controller for 40 quid. It provides a more suitable control system for action games.
The Android OnLive app runs on phones as well as tablets
OnLive told me that it hopes to give away copies of Lego Batman for free as a special introductory offer - subject to confirmation - and I have to say that the simple run-and-jump mechanics of Lego Batman worked better on an iPad than the more complex and precise combat sequences of Arkham City.
However, there's always the game controller for that type of game and OnLive's library of almost 200 titles includes plenty of strategy games, puzzlers and other casual games that don't require the superhuman reflexes of a Batman, Catwoman or Assasin's Creed.
Don't like the touchpad? Use a wireless controller
The full list of OnLive games is available at the OnLive website.
From a technical point of view, the OnLive app is a real achievement. However, Android and iOS games tend to be a lot cheaper than most PC games so it may not be easy to convince mobile gamers to sign up to OnLive's monthly subscription plans or three-day rentals when they can just buy Angry Birds Olympic Edition for 69p.
Lego Batman on... Android
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A shopkeeper's son, Mike Fernandez came to America from Cuba in 1964 at age 12. He had unremarkable grades as a student and abandoned college. After a stint in the Army, he sold life insurance in Miami...
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Florida ranked middle-of-the-pack as the 23rd most-free state in the union in 2013, according to the third annual "Freedom in the 50 States" report published by George Mason University's Mercatus Center. Mercatus Center creates the rankings by combining scores for fiscal, regulatory and personal freedom Read more from the South Florida Business Journal and CBS Miami and see the full rankings from the Mercatus Center.
Refusal to expand Medicaid could cost Florida businesses
When it comes to opening up Medicaid to cover more uninsured Floridians, business groups have put forth either lukewarm endorsements or red-hot opposition. What few are publicly raising, though, is this point: Expanding Medicaid could save some businesses a considerable amount of money. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]
Meet the master of business geography
Grant Thrall, Ph.D., pioneered a new field of study — business geography — at the University of Florida. "I just kind of invented my subject area … I had the only program of that kind in the United States," Thrall said. Business geography involves using sophisticated technologies to interpret and analyze data to help businesses make decisions. [Source: Gainesville Sun]
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Americans are dealing with crushing financial pressures — recession, stagnant wages, burst housing bubble, anemic job opportunities, skyrocketing health care expense, gridlocked government and rising global competition. All of it is keeping researchers busy, and the latest studies spell out serious challenges for both younger and older adults. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]
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She is too nice.
One ten minute lesson will just make her more dangerous. :)
This is me at work today.
Yep. I like that.
You know those clickers people use to train their dogs to do tricks? We clicked those on the hours 3 times one day to show solidarity, but really we mostly just clicked the first time.
I work with a lady who was speaking with one of her neighbors and was talking about these guys who supposedly talk down to her (They really don't she's just extremely obnoxious and defensive when people ask that she not be) and she said, "They demeanor me" when speaking about them...
That's amazing.
Are you demeanoring me?
Is that Melissa M.?
Iron Mountain sucks.
I'm tired of a new guy coming into the office each week and asking where the shred cans are located. Look in your fucking handheld, because that's where the directions are located according to the person I keep calling and complaining to.
My name has been put forward to help start up a new project that my company has in Alaska. I'm very excited and really hope I get it as my project is going through demobilization right now.
I received the results of my teams employee survey today. At a minimum, they seem generally happy with their physical space and room temperature.
Highest Rated:
- The people I work with cooperate to get the job done.
- Where I work, people are willing to discuss and debate issues.
- I am satisfied with my physical working conditions (space, heat, light, noise, safety, etc.).
- In my work group, different opinions can be expressed without fear of negative consequences.
- My company is committed to having a positive impact upon the communities where it does business.
Lowest Rated:
- My total compensation is tied to performance.
- Our work processes are well organized and efficient.
- I have sufficient input into work-related decisions that affect me.
- I am satisfied with my opportunity for advancement.
- I have the opportunity to grow and develop at my company.
1. They're not paying me enough
2. Work does not come to me in smooth, even increments.
3. They don't do what I say
4. They're not paying me enough
5. They're not paying me enough
After reviewing a few hundred resumes for 2 open positions that we have, I was just told that recruiting for both positions is on hold.
Crack that whip, Ivy!
i've been having fun with post-its all week. i can't believe how much i've changed since yesterday. holy fuck my brain hurts. we had to pack up at the end of today for our move to the new area and i felt like collapsing. i kinda like that my job is that challenging. also that everyone appreciated my sense of color coordination and ability to be consistent with how i write things on post-its lol.
http://www.ideapaint.com/ installed
I've done about 6 jobs with this product, it is amazing. We put it in a few classrooms at USC
I had to call Ceridian because I can't get a function to work in their system and their online help guide isn't helping. This is something I NEED to get done this morning. I followed the prompts to "open a new case" and patiently waited on hold for 30 minutes. A person picks up and I tell her my issue. She tells me that she needs to transfer me to Benefits. I wait on hold for about another 30 minutes and a FUCKING ANSWERING MACHINE PICKS UP!
that is terrible
i bought 150kg of garlic powder if anyone is in need.
Wow, that sucks, Robin.
There's a lady I've been in correspondence with about compliance issues who refuses to email me about some document revisions I need to do because "it's too much typing". That is the dumbest thing I've heard since one of our admins fucked up an order "because someone was talking to [her]".
It sounds like she cannot form a coherent thought on paper.
A person that I work closely with can't draft more than one sentence in an email, and never uses punctuation.
Pretty sure this lady that walked past me a couple minutes back crop-dusted. Pretty gross smelling. Woman farts are the worst.
Got a sort of promotion by default today. Pointed out the ways in which my manager was pissing me off and was thereby given a third of his duties. Is this normal?
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The events simple concept is to take normal park boxes and arrange them one after another to create an abnormal, tremendously difficult, yet ridiculously fun to ride Super-Box.
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During winter storms communication is even more crucial than normal. When area roads become snow covered our road crews are not only responsible for clearing our streets, they also become part of the first responder team.
According to Marion County Emergency Management Coordinator Jeff Anderson communication and cooperation between these different entities this morning made it possible for first responders to be able to get to multiple rescue calls.
Anderson says an ambulance was paged to an address southeast of Pleasantville this morning for a rescue call at a residence and 911 dispatchers were informed that the emergency crews may have trouble getting to the home due to the several inches of snow that fell overnight. Anderson then contacted the Secondary Roads Department to see if any crews were in the area that could assist in clearing the way for the ambulance. Fortunately, he says there was a motor grader near by and by the time the ambulance got there they were able to access the home without an issue.
Later this morning the Knoxville Fire and Rescue Department and Indiana Township Fire and Rescue were paged out to a rescue call in Pershing where they too needed a snow plow to help clear the way. Road crews then went out of their way to make sure the ambulance could get to the address of the emergency.
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The National Weather Service is forecasting 6 to 9 inches of snowfall from Thursday's winter storm. The Weather Channel, dubbing the powerful low pressure system "Winter Storm Q," is calling for 6 to 12 inches.
But despite the uncertainty in the snowfall forecasts, they both agree the storm will be yet another to be reckoned with.
Weather Service Forecast
The NWS office in Johnston is still calling the storm "significant," and is forecasting widespread moderate to heavy snowfall across Iowa Thursday and Thursday night. This, combined with a strong easterly wind will contribute to "significant impacts across much of Iowa," according to the most recent forecast.
Timing: snowfall is expected to begin falling in Central Iowa during the mid- to late-afternoon hours with the heaviest snowfall expected to occur early during the storm, particularly during the afternoon commute.
• Snowfall: accumulations will range from 6 to 9 inches with locally higher amounts possible.
• Winds: easterly winds will increase to 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph Thursday afternoon before diminishing in the evening.
• Visibility: snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hours during the period of strongest winds will reduce visibility to a quarter mile or less for a period of several hours.
• Impacts: conditions will deteriorate rapidly as the snowfall begins; travel will become hazardous due to poor visibility and roads rapidly becoming icy and snow packed.
Third 'Named' Storm
So far this winter, the bulk of measurable snowfall in Jasper County has come from two storms that were named under The Weather Channel's new winter storm notification system: "Draco" and "Magnus." This storm will be called "Q."
The Weather Channel's forecast is very similar to that of the National Weather Service, but differs on snowfall accumulation. It also projects the storm's arrival to be Thursday afternoon in Central Iowa.


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Submission + - Washington's Exploding Manholes Explained? (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Drive around Washington, D.C., and the phrase "passing gas" takes on a whole new meaning. Researchers who mapped methane concentrations on the streets of the nation's capital found natural gas leaks everywhere, at concentrations of up to 50 times the normal background levels. The leaking gas wastes resources, enhances ozone production, and exacerbates global warming—not to mention powering the city's infamous exploding manholes.


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If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve!
I think it looks pretty bueno.
"I can make all the stadiums rock."
-Air Supply
Si. Es muy bueno.
Someone tweeted a picture of this from Redsfest.
I haven't bought a Reds jersey in years, but I absolutely plan to own a "Los Rojos" jersey by the start of the season.
Cincinnati Here We Go.
26 Years and Counting...
I teach at a school with a large Spanish-speaking population. The kids and their families are quite excited by the new jersey.
The apparel market is international. And regardless of where it's at right now, the regional percentage of folks with Hispanic roots is only going to grow in the next decade.Originally Posted by Always Red
Plus, why not? Sports is supposed to be a pleasant diversion. Throwback jerseys, jerseys from the future, foreign language jerseys, neckties, footie pajamas, ladies' intimates -it's all good.
Wait until the year after next year.
Los Rojos...I hate
Rojos (just plain Rojos)...I love.
I wish they'd drop the "los" part, unless they're going to start putting "the Reds" on the front of our jersey.
Could be worse, I think the Lakers go with "Los Lakers" while the bulls and heat go w/ "los Bulls" and "los Heat".
I'm not sure what the spanish word for "laker" is, but having a red and black jersey that just said "Toros" would be cool. I suppose one that said "Caliente" (is that the right word, been a long time) wouldn't be so cool.
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I'd buy a der roten jersey for sure.
Especially if you added an umlaut over the "o" to make it look like a surprise.
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Interim Central Peninsula Hospital Chief Executive Officer Rick Davis is staying put.
The Central Peninsula Hospital Board of Directors announced Monday Davis would be the facility's new CEO.
"Rick Davis brings an impressive resume' as a hospital administrator," Loren Wiemer, CPH Board President said in a press release. "We have tremendous confidence in his ability to lead us on our quest to become a regional medical center focused on improving individual and community health, while achieving national standards of excellence."
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If stan van gundy is avaialble i think we should def go after him. casey is a likable coach but a young team needs a vet coach imo.
If stan van gundy is avaialble i think we should def go after him. casey is a likable coach but a young team needs a vet coach imo.
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I agree, it would be nice to have both though
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In order for SVG's offensive system to work: we would need A) a big man down-low who is capable of offensive rebounding and pubacks (alas Dwight Howard), and B) 4 other shooters who are capable of shooting 3's on the floor. Both of which we don't have. Also, let's not forget he's a horrible coach when it comes to defense. The only reason he was able to tread water with the Magic for multiple seasons was because he had the DPOY on his side (Howard) for years.
I love the Van Gundys. If you can get one of them to sign here then I am in. s&w can you get stan to sign here?
Not going to happen. SVG will be signed by the time Casey's contract expires.
I was at work talking about this with some co workers and we all agreed that we like Casey and he is a decent head coach but we also agreed that there are better coaches to be had for a young team like ours ... I personally love both gundys ... just wanted to see what u guys thought about it
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Fire... Casey.. It's not working clearly and he has a good deal of the blame... This team needs a thorough makeover and a part of that is a head coach with a resume. The only credibility this team ever had was with Lenny Wilkins who was the 2nd winningest coach in NBA history so they should go down that route again.
Casey offence is terrible..... Only surpassed by the lack of defense being played this year! I really don't know why I feel the need to have my heart ripped out every two days while watching this Raps team!
he can probably find a better job than this
again, still dont understand all the casey hate. its the PLAYERS that suck.
2017 is OURS!
Red Aeurbach couldn't get this group of guys out of the basement, so what would firing casey do? there are some pieces here, but they still need to develop. a lot of us are so mad but really, BEST CASE scenario at the start of the year was FIGHTING for a playoff spot. not MAKING the playoffs. i myself thought we'd be a shoe in, obviously i, and the rest of us were DEAD wrong
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Washington - It is a seemingly immutable law of modern Republican rhetoric that the word"regulation" can never appear unadorned by the essential adjective:"job-killing."
As in nominee-in-waitingMitt Romney, after winning the Illinois primary: "Day by day, job-killingregulation by job-killing regulation, bureaucrat by bureaucrat, this presidentis crushing the dream."
Or House SpeakerJohn Boehner denouncing "the president's job-killing regulatory agenda"last month after the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new limitson coal-fired power plants.
Or Minnesota RepublicanRep. Michele Bachmann who, during her presidential campaign, said EPA shouldbe renamed the "Job-Killing Organization of America."
Hating regulationis an old argument, but the phrase is a relatively new trope. A Nexis searchof U.S. newspapers and wires shows that the words "job-killing regulations"appeared just a handful of times in 2007 -- but several hundred times in2011.
This inflated rhetoricis often accompanied by bad science -- or, perhaps more precisely, inherentlyinexact science badly used. Opponents of a particular regulation tout inflatedprojections of the regulatory body count, more often than not financedby the affected industry. Ditto, by the way, for those on the other side.
For example, whenthe EPA last year issued rules to limit mercury and other power-plant emissions,the industry-backed American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity estimatedthe regulations would trigger the loss of 1.44 million jobs.
At the same time,the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of MassachusettsAmherst concluded that the rules would instead create 1.46 million jobs through retrofitting old plants and switching to newsources of renewable energy.
The EPA itselfcame up with much more modest predictions -- that the rules would createabout 50,000 one-time jobs and another 9,000 additional jobs annually.All in the broader context of a rule that the agency estimated would deliverannual net benefits of between $166 billion and $407 billion from cleanerair, including avoiding as many as 51,000 premature deaths annually.
Lesson One: Ifyou plug your cherry-picked assumptions into your preferred model, it'seasy to obtain the desired result. Lesson Two: Jobs are only part of thelarger picture.
A new report fromthe Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School ofLaw attempts to bring some economic rationality to the regulatory discourse-- however quixotic that might be in the current political environment,not to mention in a presidential election year.
The report is titled"The Regulatory Red Herring: The Role of Job Impact Analyses in EnvironmentalPolicy Debates." Yet somewhat surprisingly, Michael Livermore, theinstitute's executive director, does not oppose factoring job impact intothe cost-benefit analysis. Rather, he argues for adopting a more sophisticatedapproach than the prevalent knuckleheaded assumption -- my words, not his-- that increased regulation inevitably results in fewer jobs.
If an employer'scosts increase as the result of a regulation, Livermore notes, that isanother way of saying that the employer has to hire workers to, say, installnew technology while other employers hire workers to produce the new equipment.
In a healthy economy,the cost of layoffs should be transitory, as workers quickly find new jobs.In an economy like the current one, the impact of such layoffs may be morepersistent -- but any new jobs created may be more significant since, ina soft labor market, otherwise unemployed workers may be hired.
Can these cross-cuttingimpacts be accurately measured in a dynamic economy? Perhaps more importantfor the current discourse, is it possible to have the jobs and regulationdiscussion without ignoring the inherent limitations of economic modeling?
"The jobsimpact analysis is important and we should do it, but the way it's discussednow is completely wrong," Livermore told me.
First, he said,"we talk about the jobs impact on the one hand and the other impacts(such as health and safety improvements) on the other hand, and they'retreated as apples and oranges." Instead, he said, "we need tointegrate the jobs impact into the broader cost-benefit analysis."
Second, Livermoresaid, is a failure among those doing the analyzing to disclose the assumptionsand limitations of their models -- and the willingness of politicians (andthe media, for that matter) to treat the resulting figures as gospel ratherthan guesstimate.
"The realproblem is the way they're used in the political back and forth,"Livermore said. "They're used as sledgehammers to beat up the otherside."
No surprise there.But a useful reminder at a time when the phrase job-killing has becomemind-numbing.


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With a solid foundation of commitments from defensive players already on the recruiting board, Virginia Tech picked up its first pledge Tuesday from an offensive player for the class of 2015.
Deshawn McClease, a 5-foot-10, 175-pound running back from Oscar Smith High in Chesapeake, had Tech and Maryland as his two finalists. He went with Tech, according to Oscar Smith coach Richard Morgan.
McClease, who is No. 12 and the only running back in this year's Daily Press Fab 15 rankings of the top 15 class of 2015 recruits in the state of Virginia, also has scholarship offers from Old Dominion, Louisville, Duke, North Carolina, Purdue, Wake Forest, Indiana, Temple, Marshall and Charlotte.
Last season, he ran for 1,558 yards and 28 touchdowns. In his career, he has gained nearly 3,100 yards and scored 55 touchdowns. He should threaten the Tigers' career records in both statistical categories, which are held by current Tech running back J.C. Coleman.
McClease is the ninth commitment for Tech's '15 class. Tech's first eight commitments in the class were defensive players. Feb. 4 will be the first day recruits can sign a letter of intent.
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Guest opinion: A betrayal of public trust
September 27, 2013
On Sept. 18, 2013 at their final budget hearing, the Lee County Board of County Commissioners betrayed the public trust....
Why is that the city of Cape Coral which produces probably 24% to 27% of the total Lee County residential tax revenue had ZERO land assets purchased and set set aside? %0 cents of every taxable dollar and the residents in this city have to pay for 2020 program and all its own parks? Ray what did you do for us to take some of the tax burden off the residents of Cape Coral. While not the entire problem you were not part of any solution.
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Mr Juda paid for wallowing in the slime pit of politics. I voted for him for years, but handing the wealthy ball club owners 80 million in working class sweat equity (the political equivalent of the oldest profession) jolted me into reality. He tried buying lands with the 2020 fund, but one or two men can't move mountains.
If he was still in office I expect he would have went along with this theft and given 5 million plus to Hertz. He may have gone along w/robbing Lee Tran and I bet at some point he said incentives (dollars the working class must pony up) for business "helped the tax base and created more revenue from jobs" than the net economic/infrastructure impact. Ray, we know business pays politicians back in their campaign coffers (a few cents on the dollar it costs us).
I say engage, Mr Juda. Help breath life into honest debate uncontaminated by the corporate media. Or do you hope for a come back. We know what that means.
Removal from the infected zone wasn't enough.
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ConJob 2020 was to be a temporary program. It had noble origins, by design no doubt. Once the cash began to flow the career liars, cheats, & sociopaths moved in. It has reduced the amount of taxable land in the county and increased property taxes privately held parcels. The program overpaid for properties that no doubt benefited something or someone other than its stated intent. After years of corruption they placed a "freeze" on acquisitions. But the money kept flowing in. All that money! So we'll just steal it outright says the current commission, no much of a surprise there. The program as acquired nearly 25,000 acres (nearly 40 square miles) and has fueled the religion of environmentalism locally, enough already! The sun sets every day, it is time for 2020 to sunset. Mission accomplished.
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Which pristine portion of Cape Coral do you want them to buy, Lightswitch?
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Hey Betty Crocker your buns are burning. You are telling me in all of Cape Coral their is no pristine land. How about along the Blue Way. Orlando built a park on one edge of a river. Plenty of wildlife from birds to alligators. Plenty of natural flora with bike and walking paths. Point is the 2020 program purchased NONE in the entire is 17 years this program has been in existence. Guess the wrong PEOPLE owned the land. I guess you would like more city purchased and developed parks with more quota being paid to the state (like $876,000) for scrub jay habitat? Wake up and small the wildlife droppings!!
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Public trust, Ray states... The 20/20 program was implemented through a non-binding referendum in 1996 which was only to last 7 years. The commissioners continued to approve the collection of the tax even after the 7 year period expired. The funds collected continue to build, including those allocated for maintenance, at a rate far in excess of the need. Ray championed the County for doing the same with the General Fund reserves, where they over collected for many years, essentially getting an interest free loan from the taxpayers which they are still using to balance the budget. The public trust of which he speaks was betrayed many years ago by past commissioners who voted to continue the program without authorization by those now living here. Put it on the ballot as a referendum item in 2014, and let the voters determine where they want to trust the commissioners...
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Ccrider- referendums don't yield chunks of campaign funds. Wealthy Sports Team owners and car rental execs do. Besides, given the faith based nature of Republican voters (SWF is mostly so-called conservative Republicans) they vote as they are instructed from the pulpit. They don't need no stinking facts or studies.
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How does this advance the Republican goal of balancing the budget?
This is local politics. Need to keep the money flowing into NASA to keep the constituency happy, regardless of your party affiliation. Plus NASA's budget vs. the entire budget is close to nothing. Just like that recent budget "cut" the republicans were bragging about was like less than 1% savings on the entire budget. I guess you could say the victory is that it didn't go up, but whatever. Still seems pretty crappy.
This is local politics. Need to keep the money flowing into NASA to keep the constituency happy, regardless of your party affiliation. Plus NASA's budget vs. the entire budget is close to nothing. Just like that recent budget "cut" the republicans were bragging about was like less than 1% savings on the entire budget. I guess you could say the victory is that it didn't go up, but whatever. Still seems pretty crappy.
Exactly. NASA's budget [wikipedia.org] has generally been less than 1% of the national budget for well over a decade. Even if you cut all of NASA, is wouldn't have equalled the number of billions claimed for the most recent budget cut. NASA's budget was never was truly huge either, peaking at 4.4% during the Apollo era. I think people have historically overestimated just how much money is currently spent on NASA, all things considered.
That being said, this is not what we need at the moment. When NASA achieved the moon
Oh ya... it's getting close to election time again. This is just the first gentle tug of it's grandstanding gravitational pull into the singularity known as US elections.
Fool me once...shame on you! Fool me 8 or 9 times, shame on me.
I'm guessing it's like the last 'humans should go the moon and then to mars' effort
The folks from Florida complain because they're seeing the shuttle program shutting down, and don't know what to do
Yes, there should be requirements to do interesting things, and that helps to drive people, but getting humans int
"To the Moon, Alice!"
All the co-sponsors have major NASA operations in their states. Rep. Rob Bishop has repeatedly tried to save ATK Technology in Promontory, UT, the exclusive manufacturer of the solid rocket boosters used in the space shuttle program and the biggest employer in his district.
The largest employer in his district is the Weber County School District, but otherwise I'd have to agree with your position on Rob Bishop. The guy is a sell-out, and is partly responsible for a $3 billion earmark (nearly the only one in the current budget) for the "SLS" launch system (often dubbed the "Senate Launch System") to essentially restart under a new name the Ares V project.
It is useful to note that the ATK plant was in his Utah State House of Representatives district before he was elected to his current seat in Washington, thus has a rather cozy relationship with the people in that company as well as many neighbors who work for them as well.
One legitimate issue that needs to be addressed is in terms of how to keep domestic production going for the Ammonium Perchlorate [wikipedia.org], which is a vital chemical needed for general defense purposes. That is the primary chemical used in solid rocket boosters, and is used for most of the ICBMs in the arsenal of the United States (as well as the missiles in submarines). Right now, those missiles aren't being built, so there is a need for at least somebody, somewhere, to be using this chemical so that the factories making this rocket fuel can keep going for when the ICBM fleet needs to be refurbished for the next generation (the fuel is unstable and does need to be replaced periodically).
My personal solution to the problem: Rather than disguising a NASA program as something other than a make-work jobs program to keep the factory workers at these chemical plants employed, why not simply get into the business of making 4th of July fireworks and literally give these "missiles" to every city in America for their annual celebrations? $3-$4 billion would make a whole lot of fireworks, and it could at least be enjoyed for pure entertainment purposes by most Americans if they want to see their tax dollars literally burned up every year. You could even keep rocket developers busy, where they would be able to "test fly" their designs on a regular basis. That is much more to say that to have a bunch of rocket developers design a vehicle that will never fly due to an eventual shift in priorities, political parties, and mismanagement that usually accompanies most NASA rocket development projects.
... if he didn't have a purely selfish agenda because it would just happen to directly benefit his state/district economically long before we'd even get there, and even if it gets cancelled later and we don't.
Here's an idea, we can launch all of our seniors to the moon and get rid of our Social Security and Medicare spending deficits. Call it "Use Space to Make Space" program. Maybe redefine AARP as the "Astronaut Association for Retired People."
in order to promote exploration, commerce, science and United States preeminence in space
Translation: "to restart the space race, bring in jobs to my home state, and billions of dollars in spending to defense contractors."
Translation: "to restart the space race, bring in jobs to my home state, and billions of dollars in spending to defense contractors."
I realize this is
Oh, wait. This is slashdo
A socialist like Kennedy wanting to get to the moon by a socialist government program, I can understand. But a Republican? Surely we should just wait until GE or Boeing just picks up and goes with private money and objectives. It will be much more efficiently run, and no taxpayers will be robbed to give a (literally) free ride to socialist astronauts.
After reading all my Pournelle and Niven in the 70's, I've been waiting 40 years for the power of free enterprise to get me a ticket on the Pan Am Space Clipper. I'm not sure what the hold-up is; probably, the corporations are still too highly taxed.
Too subtle...
We can just issue more negative-returning debt to pay for this. We're already trillions in the hole, so let's see just how much debt it takes to destroy an economy.
...the "Federal stimulus for Florida's 15th congressional district to get Bill Posey re-elected" bill.
Unlike the Democrats, right, who are totally busy solving that deficit problem? US seems to be screwed either which way.
If a Democrat had presented this bill the majority of Slashdotters here would be fauning over how this would stimulate the economy, create jobs and advance science. But since the political partisanship here is so pathetic, it's clearly some type of evil corporate money grab.
This site is about as useful for political commentary as a toilet is.
Yes, it's clearly a troll. But the research in closed environments and recycling for space flight have already borne fruit, as have the materials research in lightweight alloys and ceramics used for space flight. Information solar radiation, weather monitoring, and terrain and oean mapping have already paid off the space program costs, including manned spacef flight, by huge factors. Increased communications from the satellite networks have also more than paid for space flight.
Technologies within reach but
Step 1: Mandate that NASA's mission is pure "research and exploration science"
Step 2: Open up the floodgates for private use of space.
Step 3: Remove *ALL* government mandates on NASA other than the four words articulated in step 1.
Step 4: Let NASA do its thing.
End result (hopefully:) We see NASA do pure science, for science sake (robotic missions to planets, asteroids, etc,) we see NASA do supported-by-cheaper-commercially-viable-companies manned exploration. No more "this Senator says he has to have 20 jobs, so we subcontract this minor part out to an incompetent vendor, this Representative says she has to have the bragging rights of this subcomponent being in her district" and so-on and so-on.
Atlantis shouldn't be at KSC, Enterprise shouldn't be in NYC, and Endeavor shouldn't go to CSC. Those are all purely political decisions. Get politics out of NASA, it has caused decades of harm as it is.
You know times are tough. Usually when an election come near the politicians begin talking about missions to Mars.
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The Emmet County Board of supervisors Tuesday approved a utility permit and an amendment to the county five-year program.
The permit approval was to construct utilities on the county highway right of way for Alliant Energy. The work will include installing and replacing several existing poles near 4831 120th St. and relocating service in Section 21 of Lincoln Township northwest of Dolliver.
The board also approved amending the county five-year program for a paving project on 490th Avenue from A34 (270th Street) to the Palo Alto County line.
County engineer Roger Patocka said the project had been approved before had been expected.
The board also held a public comment meeting for a confinement feeding operation construction permit application by Eric Olson. Brian Ritland, from Pinnacle Group, who wrote the permit application, was on hand along with Olson and his father, Dennis, to discuss the application.
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FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – Walking up on stage with shaky legs and sweaty palms, Spc. Aurielle Polynice's journey to making the cut for the 2014 Soldier Show culminated in one moment as the bright lights peered down on her.
It was audition time, and it was her turn to shine.
"I started freaking out; I always freak out at first," she said. "Then I go out on stage, and I let it all go."
Polynice, an unmanned aircraft systems operator with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, sang her way into becoming the sole Fort Hood Soldier in the U.S. Army Installation Management Command's 2014 "Stand Strong" Soldier Show during a live audition at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Feb. 15.
Now, Polynice and her 21 fellow cast members are preparing for their first live show, set for April 18 at Fort Sam Houston, followed by 60 more performances at 37 garrisons across the U.S.
Polynice's journey began three years ago, when she witnessed the 75-minute Broadway-style production for the first time.
"When I saw it in 2011, I thought it was really, really cool," she said. "I wanted to see if I could make the cut. I wanted to represent my unit to the rest of the Army."
Earning the chance to audition live, however, took years of patience.
"I did a pre-recorded video audition for 2011's show, but was unable to put in my packet because of an upcoming deployment," the Lawrenceville, Ga., native said. "I wasn't going to let that stop me from trying again in the future."
She deployed to Afghanistan for a year in 2012 and returned with her sights still firmly set on becoming a member of the Soldier Show.
Soon after redeployment, Polynice sang Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" during 2012's Operation Rising Star, a vocal competition that showcases the talent of Soldiers and their Family members, and made it to the top 10 before being voted off.
This only fueled her fire to becoming a better, more confident vocalist, she said.
"At the time, I was pretty excited just to make it to the top 10," she said. "But soon after, I was already planning on trying out for the next one. I wanted to get better. I wanted to win."
Now part of the Soldier Show, Polynice and fellow cast members have bonded during the weeks of preparation, she said.
"I'm excited to be on the road with the friends I've made here," she said. "After only a week, we've become a family. The 12- to 15-hour days we spend practicing our vocals and choreography have helped us all grow strong together as performers and Soldiers."
Sgt. Quentin Dorn, Army Entertainment's production and stage manager, has closely watched the team come together during the past few weeks.
He has witnessed growth, he said, that has shown the team's ability to potentially put on the best production to date.
"There's something special about this group," the Albuquerque, N.M., native said. "They've bonded extremely well together from the beginning and have fallen easily into their roles. It's amazing how well they work together to shine as one."
While mentoring and observing cast members, Dorn has had a first-hand look at Polynice's improvements in both singing ability and confidence since her arrival at the installation, he said.
"Specialist Polynice is doing great," he said. "She was a little shy when she first auditioned, but we've got her used to singing on stage. She now has the confidence needed to really shine."
With the first live show around the corner, Polynice said she is looking forward to showcasing her skills, one note and dance move at a time.
"It's been a blast so far," she said. "I've learned a lot and am still learning every day. I look forward to performing for my fellow Soldiers, and I'm especially proud to represent my unit."
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Worst Collapse: The UVA women's basketball team (20-10) stormed out to a 17-point advantage and led by 12 with just over five minutes remaining against the ACC tournament's top-seeded North Carolina Tar Heels (26-3) in the semifinal round Sunday, March 6. The Cavs, who had already pulled out a clutch overtime quarterfinal-round victory over Florida State a day earlier, seemed to self destruct down the stretch, though, as UNC made a ferocious come-from-behind charge to close the game on a 17-2 run and deal UVA a gut-wrenching 78-72 defeat. The game wasn't without controversy, however, as Cavalier coach Debbie Ryan told the AP, "Unfortunately in terms of officiating, we're not allowed to comment. I'm not allowed to say how I feel about that."
Best Championship Week: The St. Anne's Belfield Lady Saints capture their second VISGBA Division I state championship in three years in convincing form with a 44-28 drubbing of Bishop Ireton, Saturday, March 5. "I really can't put it into words," STAB's Emily Beirne said. "I think I'm probably the happiest kid in the world right now."
Worst Road Trip: The UVA baseball team finally appeared to have the Wake Forest Demon Deacons under control in Winston Salem Sunday, March 6. A 6-0 lead soon evaporated, however, as Wake (8-7, 3-0) rallied to beat the Cavs 7-6. "It's difficult to win in the ACC unless you get quality starting pitching," UVA coach Brian O'Conner told uvasports.com. "We just need to stay positive and get back out there Tuesday."
Worst of the Worst: In their regular season finale, the UVA men's basketball team traveled to Tallahassee to take on the Florida State Seminoles to determine who would finish in the ACC's cellar. FSU (12-18, 4-12) had lost nine consecutive games, but despite a late Wahoo comeback, the Noles manage to snap their losing streak, sending UVA to the ACC graveyard with their fifth straight 68-63 defeat Sunday, March 6. "We didn't play well. We played hard, but we couldn't make a shot at times," UVA coach Pete Gillen told the Virginia Sports Network.
Most Consistent Youngsters: As the NBA season moves into its later stages, the young Washington Wizards refuse to show any signs of fatigue. The Wiz may have to kiss the division race goodbye as they trail the Miami Heat by 11 games with just 25 remaining, although they currently hold a record of 33-25 record, standing fourth among the eight playoff seeds in the Eastern Conference.
Most Perfect Starts: Both the UVA men's and women's lacrosse teams picked up key road victories over Syracuse Saturday, March 5. John Christmas delivered a clutch goal in the game's waning moments, as the No. 6 men pulled out a 12-11 upset of the No. 2 Orangemen (1-1). The defending champion and top-ranked women, meanwhile, sound a sharp note as they rolled past No. 12 SU (2-1) 15-7.
The Week Ahead:
vs. MIAMI (16-11, 7-9)
Thursday, March 11 @ 7pm
ACC Tournament Play-In Round
MCI Center in Washington, DC
Last chance for Cavs to save their worst season since 1998-1999 (14-16). Various tickets available through the UVA Ticket Office.
vs. MARIST
Friday, March 11 @ 4pm
Saturday, March 12 @ 1pm
Sunday, March 13 @ 1pm
vs. COPPIN STATE
Wednesday, March 16 @ 7pm
Home sweet home! Hoos hope to regroup at Davenport Field. $6 Adult, 4 Youth.
WOMEN vs. PENN STATE
Friday, March 11 @ 7pm
vs. RICHMOND
Sunday, March 13 @ 1pm
MEN vs. PRINCETON
Saturday, March 12 @ 7pm
vs. MT. St. MARY'S
Tuesday, March 15 @ 7pm
Both the men and women are out of the gates fast this season. $6 Adult, $4 Youth


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The Performance Inspector packages contain suites of performance analysis tools for Linux®, Windows®, AIX®, and ZOS® platforms. These tools will help you gain a better understanding of the performance of your applications and the resources they consume. The tools can be used to help identify performance problems in your application, as well as how your application interacts with the operating system. Performance Inspector works with both Java and C/C++ applications and may be used with the Visual Performance Analyzer.
This documentation describes the maximum capabilities of our tools, which may be reduced due to the capabilities of the platform on which it is executed. Performance Inspector uses the performance counters provided by the CPUs, if available, to measure system events at the process level. The package may also include a device driver, and may use a pinned buffer per CPU along with kernel hooks, to capture performance related information.
The majority of this project is LGPL code, and the rest is GPL. See the Licensing Information section for more information.
You can find tools with similar capabilities to some of our tools in the Linux Trace Toolkit, Oprofile, and dProbes.
The first style is "time" profiling. This style records the address currently being executed by each processor, usually at regular time intervals, but it can recorded when any specific event occurs. At post-processing time, these addresses are converted to symbols and counts of these events are reported for each symbol, module, thread, and process. Because the number of these events can be very small compared to the total number of instructions being executed, the impact on the overall performance of the application being profiled can also be very small. However, time profiling only shows "hotspots", the methods that are being executed most of the time, without giving any indication why those methods are being executed.
The second style is callflow profiling. Unlike the information that was gathered by time profiling, callflow profiling does not merely collect samples of what is happening, it gathers information about every method entry and exit by intercepting the method entry and exit events generated by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or by the HOOKIT library. Thus, it reports not only what methods were executed, but also the context in which they were executed. That is, if A calls B, which then calls C, then the entire sequence A-B-C is recorded. This provides the detailed information that time profiling lacked, but because of the large number of method entry and exit events that must be handled, callflow profiling has a much greater impact on the execution of the application.
The third style is callstack sampling, which combines the best features of both time profiling and callflow profiling when analyzing Java applications. It can only be used with Java applications, because callstacks can not be reliably determined for non-Java applications. Callstack sampling uses events in the same way as time profiling. However, instead of merely recording the address being executed, it records the entire callstack for that thread, as reported by the JVM. That is, if method C is executing when the event is received and C was called by B which was called by A, then the sequence A-B-C is recorded, just as it would have been by callflow profiling. Thus, callstack sampling falls somewhere between time profiling and callflow profiling providing more detailed information than time profiling with less execution overhead than callflow profiling.
The first style is heap dump analysis, which is performed by a post-processor. It reports a variety of information about the heap, including:
The A2N service is used by POST to resolve code execution addresses to symbols in the application being profiled/traced. For platform specific details, see A2N for Linux or A2N for Windows.
The cpi tool measures application CPI or overall system CPI over a specified time interval.
hdump post-processes the information collected by JPROF about the Java heap. It provides a snapshot of references between live memory objects on the heap, in an attempt to locate memory leaks.
hookit is a set of interfaces to JPROF to profile C/C++ applications. It provides a way to instrument C/C++ function entries and exits that allows JPROF to capture call flow. For platform specific details, see HOOKIT for Linux or HOOKIT for Windows.
ITRACE traces code execution at the instruction level and reports code flow. It traces both application and kernel code, including jitted code (compiled by IBM Java's Just-In-Time compiler).
JLM works with the IBM Java Runtime Environment to provide statistics on monitors (locks).
jprof is a profiling agent that is loaded by Java using either the JVM Profiler Interface (JVMPI) or the JVM Tools Interface (JVMTI). It is the primary tool of the package which provides:
Runtime control is provided via RTDRIVER using sockets or via the RTDriver class from Java.
mpevt provides access to pre-defined processor hardware Performance Counter Events. The set of defined events varies by processor type.
msr reads from and writes to any valid processor MSR. This is a powerful, but very dangerous, tool.
post generates human-readable reports from the output of TPROF and ITRACE.
ptt is a user-mode command that allows some control over the Per-Thread Time (PTT) facility, which monitors the amount of time or instructions executed for each thread. You can turn it on and off, read summary information, and dump information about threads (all or subsets) for which PTT data is available.
rtdriver connects to JPROF via sockets to allow runtime commands, such as starting and stopping data collection and dumping collected data to files.
SCS provides a style of sampling using Java callstacks that provides more information than TPROF with lower execution overhead than callflow profiling. It can only be used with Java applications, because callstacks can not be reliably determined for non-Java applications.
skew provides a way to skew/offset the processor Time Stamp Counters on SMP systems. This can sometimes make it easier to determine whether or not back-to-back reads of the TSC occurred on the same processor.
SWTRACE allows applications to write trace hooks to a kernel trace buffer. The swtrace command controls the Software Trace Facility. It supports starting and stopping data collection and dumping collected trace data to file.
TPROF samples code execution and reports "hotspots" in applications and the kernel, including IBM's Java jitted code. Sampling rate and/or event are user-specified.
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A local man was killed in a two-vehicle accident on State Route 31 about ten miles north of Marysville Friday morning around 10:45.
The Marysville Post of the State Highway Patrol reports that Remus Brice Jr., 32, of Anna, was driving a 2003 Ford Expedition southbound on 31 when he lost control on the snow-covered roadway and went left of center.
The Expedition collided with a northbound 2012 Freightliner semi operated by Gary Saint-Amand, 34, of Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Brice was pronounced dead at the scene. He was a law student at Ohio Northern University.
Saint-Amand was transported to Union County Memorial Hospital with minor injuries.
Both drivers were wearing their seat belts.
The SUV and the semi suffered heavy damage.
It's the first fatal accident in Union County this year. Troopers continue their investigation.
The Liberty Township (Raymond) Fire Department, Northern Union EMS, and Union County EMA assisted at the scene.


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ANTHONY HOPKINS (Edward Bailey) received an Academy Award for his performance in The
Silence of the Lambs (1991), and was subsequently nominated in the same category for his performances
in The Remains of the Day (1993) and Nixon (1995). He was also given the Best Actor Award by the British
Academy of Film & Television Arts for The Remains of the Day. In 1993, he starred in Richard
Attenborough's Shadowlands with Debra Winger, winning numerous critics awards in the U.S. and Britain.
In 1998, he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Amistad.
In 2012 he starred as legendary movie director Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock.
In 2001, Hopkins starred in the sequel to Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, in which he starred with
Julianne Moore. Directed by Ridley Scott, the blockbuster film grossed over $100 million domestically. He
also recorded the narration for the 2000 holiday season's hit film Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole
In 1998, he starred in Meet Joe Black, directed by Martin Brest and Instinct, directed by Jon
Turletaub, and in Titus, Julie Taymor's film adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus with Jessica
In 1992 he appeared in Howard's End and Bram Stoker's Dracula before starring in Legends of the
Fall and The Road to Wellville. He made his directorial debut in 1995 with August, an adaptation of
Chekhov's Uncle Vanya for which he composed the musical score and also played Vanya. He starred in
the title role in Surviving Picasso and with Alec Baldwin in The Edge, a dramatic adventure written by
David Mamet and directed by Lee Tamahori. The Mask of Zorro, directed by Martin Campbell and co-
starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, was released in July 1998, and Amistad, directed by
Stephen Spielberg, was released in December 1997.
Earlier films include 84 Charing Cross Road, The Elephant Man, Magic, and A Bridge Too Far. The
Bounty and Desperate Hours were his first two collaborations with Dino De Laurentis Company. In
American television, he received two Emmy Awards for The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976) in which he
portrayed Bruno Hauptmann, and The Bunker (1981) in which he portrayed Adolph Hitler.
Born December 31, 1937 in Margum near Port Talbot Wales, he is the only child of Muriel and
Richard Hopkins. His father was a banker. He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School. At 17, he
wandered into a YMCA amateur theatrical production and knew immediately that he was in the right
place. With newfound enthusiasm, combined with proficiency at the piano, he won a scholarship to the
Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff where he studied for two years (1955-1957).
He entered the British Army in 1958 for mandatory military training, spending most of the two-
year tour of duty clerking the Royal Artillery unit at Bulford.
In 1960, he was invited to audition for Sir Laurence Olivier, then director of the National Theater
at the Old Vic. Two years later, Hopkins was Olivier's understudy in Strindberg's Dance of Death. Hopkins
made his film debut in 1967, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in the Winter, starring Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn. He received a British Academy Award nomination and the film received
an Academy Award as Best Picture.
American television viewers discovered Hopkins in the 1973 ABC production of Leon Uris' QBVII,
the first American mini-series, in which he played the knighted Polish-born British physician Adam Kleno
who is ultimately destroyed by his wartime past. The following year, he starred on Broadway in the
National Theatre production of Equus, and later mounted another production of the play in Los Angeles
where he lived for 10 years, working extensively in American films and television.
After starring as Captain Bligh in The Bounty (1984), he returned to England and the National
Theatre in David Hare's Pravda, for which he received the British Theatre Association's Best Actor Award
and The Observer Award for Outstanding achievement at the 1985 Laurence Oliver Awards. During this
time at the National he starred in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear.
Hopkins also appeared in the feature adaptation of Stephen King's Hearts In Atlantis for director
Scott Hicks, the action comedy Bad Company, co-starring Chris Rock, and the box-office hit prequel to
Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, co-starring Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes and Emily Watkins and in
Miramax Films' adaptation of the Phillip Roth novel The Human Stain, opposite Nicole Kidman and
directed by Robert Benton.
He also starred in Miramax Films' Proof, opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, The World's Fastest Indian,
for director Roger Donaldson, All The King's Men for director Steven Zallian and co-starring Sean Penn,
Jude Law, and Kate Winslet, and the crime thriller Fracture, opposite Ryan Gosling. He wrote, directed
and composed the score for his debut independent feature film Slipstream, which premiered at the 2007
Sundance Film Festival, and was seen in Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of Beowulf, for Paramount Pictures,
Universal Pictures' Wolfman, opposite Benicio Del Toro, and Woody Allen's You Will Meet A Tall Dark
Stranger in which he co-starred with Josh Brolin and Naomi Watts.
More recently, Hopkins was seen in the thriller The Rite, and the film adaptation of the Marvel
Comic Thor. Concurrent with his work on Red 2, Hopkins was shooting Thor: The Dark World, also shot in London.
In addition to his busy filming schedule, Anthony Hopkins is also an accomplished composer,
whose work has been performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, he participated as a
composer in the "Festival Del Sole" in Cortona Italy, and recently released a CD collection of his
compositions recorded by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Entitled "Anthony Hopkins:
Composer," the album reached the #1 spot on England's classical music charts.
In 2004 Hopkins started painting, quickly gaining recognition as a prolific contemporary artist.
His work is currently being exhibited in fine art galleries, and has been acquired by prominent art
collectors around the world (to view visit anthonyhopkinsart.com).
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- Product Review (submitted on July 25, 2011):
OMG Stiff and heavy. Still breaking in. Its odd to not be able to feel your shifter or brake lever. Also some chaffing and blisters on feet. I wear a size 10.5 wide. I purchased a size 46/11. The first day I wore the boots, it was very tight on my left foot. I got a blister on my left foot. Afterwards, I coated them with mink oil and put shoe trees/expanders inside them and let them set for a week. I used them again and I got a blister on both Achilles tendons. At least the toe box had streched out some. I hope that when they are broken in they will be my boots of choice. Sometimes you have to swear at it before you swear by it, right?
I am not impressed with the shoe liner or speed lacing though. I'll comment more later if possible.


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When your product is facing serious competition, knowing what unmet need still exists is crucial to planning your next move. But in surveys you find that everyone is reasonably satisfied with all of the key features in your competitor's products and they do not perceive that their experience could be better than it currently is. So how do you identify opportunities that seem not to exist? In this session, using Bing's insight development practices as a case study, we will discuss techniques for gaining deep understanding of and empathy with customer's pain to spur product innovations. We will share insights that we've identified that point to broad cultural shifts in how people think about knowledge that impact what is perceived as trustworthy and what is complete information required to make important decisions. We will share both how we were able to identify these needs and specifically what these needs are in an effort to encourage thinking about how to better meet them. This session is sponsored by Bing.
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