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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -LSU kicker Colt David played soccer most of his life.
Now Steve Spurrier and a multitude of football fans know David can make plays with his hands as well and his feet.
No. 2 LSU put one over on the Ol' Ball Coach, scoring on a fake field goal and piling up 290 rushing yards to defeat No. 12 South Carolina 28-16 on Saturday.
The fake widened LSU's lead to 21-7 at halftime, deflating a South Carolina defense that had kept LSU within a touchdown on David's 42-yard miss a drive earlier.
Next time, the Tigers set up from 32 yards, but the holder, quarterback Matt Flynn , tossed a no-look flip over his shoulder to David, who ran for the score with ease.
''It was pretty close until then and that just put another dagger in them,'' David said. ''It always works (in practice). We felt confident with it. I've been playing soccer all my life, but I also can catch footballs.''
LSU coach Les Miles said he only wanted to get a first down and took no special joy in using a trick play to beat Spurrier, a master of offensive trickery himself.
''We would have liked to have gotten the first down without having to use that play,'' Miles said. ''It was there and it was certainly executed well.''
Jacob Hester 's power and Trindon Holliday 's speed were key for LSU on the ground and its dominant defense did the rest with two interceptions and a pair of stops on fourth-and-short yardage situations. The Tigers' hard-hitting defense unsettled Spurrier to the point he switched quarterbacks several times.
''We had to try something different,'' Spurrier said. Blake Mitchell ''maybe didn't do all that poorly, but we had to give (Chris) Smelley a chance. We're going to give him a chance next week and see what happens.''
LSU held South Carolina to seven points for most of the game, with South Carolina getting a field goal and late touchdown when the result was no longer in doubt.
There were heavy hits all over the field, including one in which Craig Steltz flattened Jared Cook to break up a long pass over the middle. Cook stayed down for a couple minutes before coaches got him up and off the field.
''We just tried to dislodge them from the ball,'' Steltz said. ''If we can't catch it, nobody can.''
Meanwhile, Holliday wound up with a career-high 73 yards rushing, including a 33-yard touchdown, while Hester finished with 88 yards and a score.
The Gamecocks' tandem of standout running backs, Cory Boyd and Mike Davis , combined for only 27 yards and one TD by Davis. Because of sacks, South Carolina's net rushing total was only 17 yards.
Smelley ended up with the best passing numbers for the Gamecocks, going 12-of-26 for 174 yards and a late 1-yard TD pass to Kenny McKinley . He was intercepted by Chevis Jackson , while Danny McCray intercepted Mitchell to set up the fake field goal.
''They are obviously a big strong team that controls the line of scrimmage,'' Spurrier said. ''We couldn't run the ball very well at all. ... We're just not a real smart bunch right now.''
Spurrier came in 11-1 against LSU, and early on it looked as if he still might have the Tigers' number.
Mitchell bounced back from a couple of vicious sacks and, with the help of an LSU facemask penalty, he drove the Gamecocks to a 7-0 lead on Davis' 1-yard run.
It was only the second score LSU had given up this season, and it was the first time the Tigers trailed in a game.
With the remnants of a tropical depression soaking Tiger Stadium, the field became sloppy and hindered the passing game.
Mitchell bobbled several snaps in shotgun formation and receivers for both teams slipped on cuts.
It was less of a problem for LSU, which subbed in Ryan Perrilloux for designed quarterback runs. The Tigers wound up with 217 yards rushing in the first half, Holliday with 61 and Perrilloux with 54.
There was nothing Spurrier could do, and he watched with increasing frustration as LSU piled up the yards. During LSU's second scoring drive, he threw a note pad when Hester ran for 8 yards on third-and-3. When Keiland Williams bit off another 15 yards, Spurrier turned his back to the field, pulling off his headset as he paced anxiously and threw his hands up.
Those rushes set up Flynn's 1-yard TD pass over the middle to Richard Dickson to make it 14-7.
Then came the fake field goal, on which Flynn had the option to abort and opt for a kick. He stuck with Miles' original call when he saw the Gamecocks lined up as if they intended to go for the block.
Ironically, Spurrier wanted a more conservative field goal defense designed to snuff out fakes, but caved in to assistants, who were emboldened by David's earlier miss and the wet conditions.
LSU ''executed it perfectly,'' said Spurrier, who would certainly know. ''Give those guys credit for that.''
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Kind of a slow march to the championship. We're luck LSU has been able to live up to pre-season hype. Then again, one loss will stink the situation up. Why doesn't college football have playoffs? I can't stand that.
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The Gamecocks have to really good RB's and the Tigers kelp them in check, they also have a good defense and we scored on them, hell we won the game and that''s all that matters to me right now...
LSU plats at Tulane in the Superdome, I saw that it will be on ESPN2...
Sandwich game but the Tigers should put them away early..
The fake field goal with Flynn was the best I think I've ever seen, the timing was perfect, I'm sure they practiced the hell out of that play because it worked perfectly..
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Does anyone else feel like Les is not showing LSU's "A" game?
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Types of Garden Windows
Looking at the Different Types of Garden Windows
Garden windows aren't actually at garden level like basement windows. They're set high to capture the sun's rays. These windows are designed to look like display cases that protrude from the exterior of the home. Garden windows are common in kitchens, but they can be added to any room. Most are used for growing plants or vegetables, while others serve as extra shelving space for dishes or knick-knacks.
Garden windows add additional light and fresh air and they're easy to install. Because they're exposed to the elements more than other types of windows, the material must be chip-, crack-, and peel-proof.
When shopping for garden windows, choose insulated glass to increase energy efficiency and aluminum for better heat resistance.
Garden windows are available in two main shapes. Vertical windows are good for slender openings and horizontal are better for larger ones. The different types of garden windows are:
- Awning garden windows are hinged at the top and bottom. Most swing out, but swing-in styles are an option. They open from the bottom for ease of use, which comes in handy if the window is installed over a kitchen sink or counter.
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His sudden surges of eloquence which amazed people who he met before he became a power in politics is scarcely ever heard now. By the time his ascendency over his party was complete he had fixed in place the persona that characterised him henceforth: calm dignified and sphinx-like. Only his flashing eyes gave life to the face;his talk being measured, grave epigrammatic and delivered in a deep equable tone.
He was a master of prose and in his lifetime his novels were much talked about. He was also a master of verbal duel in which he never chopped where he could slice with his nimble wit.
None of his novels is a work of genius but they are the works of a genius. He had the poetic temperament without the poetic talents. His novels are so many attempts to reveal his feelings in his evolutions as a statesman. Lack of flesh and blood in his characters were to a certain extent saved by his coruscating wit.He once wrote:' Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety."
In his twilight years, whenever his illness and his duties permitted,Dizzy continued to dine out and deliver some deathless quips. Once when he was asked whether he read a novel that was making a stir, the author of Vivien Grey, Alroy, Coningsby, Lothair and Sybil replied," When I want to read a novel I write one."
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The first broadcast season of Futurama consisted of nine episodes that aired on the Fox Network in the United States from March 28, 1999 to May 18, 1999. The original order of thirteen episodes was split, with the last four episodes airing as the first four episodes of the second season
|Original airdate
|1 - 1
|Space Pilot 3000
|D.X. Cohen, M. Groening
|R. Moore, G. Vanzo
|March 28, 1999
|A pizza delivery boy named Philip J. Fry accidentally stumbles into a cryogenic tube on Dеcember 31, 1999 and awakens on New Year's Eve in the year 2999, where he meets a mutant career counselor named Leela, an alcoholic robot named Bender, and his distant nephew Professor Farnsworth.
|2 - 2
|The Series Has Landed
|Ken Keeler
|Peter Avanzino
|April 4, 1999
|After delivering a package to an amusement park on the moon, Fry shows Leela how to appreciate the celestial body while Bender and Amy must try to recover the keys to the Planet Express ship.
|3 - 3
|I, Roommate
|Eric Horsted
|Bret Haaland
|April 6, 1999
|Fry gets kicked out of the Planet Express building and tries to find a place to live. When Bender's antenna wreaks havoc on the TV reception, Bender is kicked out of their new apartment and Fry must decide whether or not a place to live is more important than his best friend.
|4 - 4
|Love's Labours Lost in Space
|Brian Kelley
|Brian Sheesley
|April 13, 1999
|Leela meets Captain Zapp Brannigan on a mission to rescue animals from a hollow planet, depleted of all the dark matter that once filled it, on the verge of collapse, but Brannigan jails the crew for interfering. This episode sees the introduction of Nibbler.
|5 - 5
|Fear of a Bot Planet
|H. Lombard, E. Gore
|P. Avanzino, C. Baeza
|April 20, 1999
|Bender delivers a package to a Chapek 9 inhabited solely by human-hating robots and becomes an idol to them.
|6 - 6
|A Fishful of Dollars
|Patric M. Verrone
|R. Hughart, G. Vanzo
|April 27, 1999
|When Fry discovers that he's a billionaire thanks to a thousand years of compound interest on 93 cents, he uses the money to buy back things from his the 20th century. This includes spending millions on a can of anchovies, which are extinct in the year 3000. Mom, head of Mom's Friendly Robot Company, wants the anchovies for very different reasons.
|7 - 7
|My Three Suns
|J. Stewart Burns
|J. Lynch, K. O'Brien
|May 4, 1999
|Fry becomes emperor of a Trisol of water-based beings after he accidentally drinks the former ruler, Bont.
|8 - 8
|A Big Piece of Garbage
|Lewis Morton
|Susie Dietter
|May 11, 1999
|A 21st-century garbage ball threatens to fall back to Earth and destroy New New York. Fry saves the day with his 20th-century garbage-making skills.
|9 - 9
|Hell Is Other Robots
|Eric Kaplan
|Rich Moore
|May 18, 1999
|To break his addiction to electricity, Bender finds religion by becoming a member of the Temple of Robotology. But when he reverts to his old ways, he is sent to Robot Hell.
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Care and Cleaning Recommendations
DO NOT USE ANY ABRASIVE CLEANSERS OR PADS, SHARP INSTRUMENTS, OR ACIDIC CLEANSERS TO CLEAN YOUR SHOWER ENCLOSURE. These can permanently damage your glass and hardware finish. Use only products recommended for glass and anodized aluminum or plated brass hardware. In some cases, cleaners can be destructive to silicone seals. Always follow the manufacturers' instructions on the labels of household cleaning products. If in doubt, contact the manufacturer.
There are many variables that will affect the frequency at which you will need to clean your shower glass and the effort involved. Humidity, water temperature, degree of water hardness, and even the type of soap you use, all contribute to the build up of mineral deposits on your glass. The best way to keep the sparkle is to clean your glass daily.
Untreated glass should be maintained by wiping down, or using a squeegee daily to reduce the potential for damaging water spots. Unless you are meticulous in the use of the squeegee, however, you will find over time, a build up where the squeegee missed – usually a band at the bottom of the enclosure, or around the door hardware. When using a spray glass cleaner, make sure that it does not contain ammonia, as this can damage the finish on your hardware. If you can find Comet Heavy Duty Bathroom Cleaner in your store, it is a cleaning product recommended by the Bath Enclosure Manufacturers Association based on its cleaning effectiveness and gentleness on metal. If you neglect your shower glass for an extended period of time, the mineral deposits will eventually build up and etch the glass. At this point, no amount of cleaning will improve the appearance.
Sealed Glass that has been treated with Diamon-Fusion®, needs only a quick rinse with cool water after each shower to facilitate most of the water running off. The drops that remain can be removed and dried easily with a soft towel. It is a minimal investment of time, and the need for chemical cleansers is drastically reduced, saving the environment and your pocketbook. If you wait a long time to clean your enclosure, or have particularly hard water, you will see a build up of soap scum and mineral deposits. Don't worry, Diamon-fusion is preventing them from seeping into the glass and will make it easier to clean, than if the glass were unprotected. The use of a wet nylon body scrubber on the wet glass can be used to loosen any sticky spots. Then rinse and dry. Even after extended periods of neglect, your glass can be brought back to like-new condition by using a small amount of Diamon fusion restoration powder on a moist soft towel. Rub in a circular motion where the stains are. Rinse and dry. Now spray with Diamon-Fusion revitalizer, rub it on and polish it off with a micro fiber towel.
Sandblasted Glass. On a shower enclosure, sandblasted designs are typically found on the outside of the unit. Oil from your hands can leave this glass looking blotchy. We recommend sealing this type of glass to ease the burden of cleaning. Whether sealed or not, when cleaning sandblasted glass, you should concentrate mainly on the soiled areas. You will need a clean, soft, lint-free cloth, and an ammonia-free spray glass cleaner. Spray the soiled area lightly with the glass cleaner. Dry the area by lightly rubbing in circular motions until the moisture disappears.
Hardware. The best way to maintain the finish on your shower door hardware is to wipe it down after every use with a soft towel. This way, it will not collect mineral deposits that will require cleaning. If you are unable, or just don't want to wipe down the hardware after every use, a weekly cleaning is recommended. Mix a couple of drops of mild liquid soap such as Ivory, into a cup of warm water. Using a soft, non-abrasive cloth, proceed to clean the hardware. Rinse thoroughly with clean warm water and dry.
Vinyl seals for frameless doors should not require frequent cleaning, however, the drip rail under your door will require more frequent cleaning than other vinyls. You can easily clean the door sweep and your vinyl seals. Snap them off and use a cloth with warm water and a little bleach. Dry your shower sweep and vinyl seal, then just snap them back on again. It's relatively easy and inexpensive to replace these vinyls when necessary. Just snap them off and bring them to our shop for a replacement, or we can come out for a service fee to replace them for you.
Mirrors in your bathroom are best cleaned at least once a week with an ammonia free spray glass cleaner and a soft cloth. Rather than spray the cleaner directly onto the mirror, it is recommended that you spray a soft cloth and then wipe the mirror clean. This will eliminate the potential of the liquid penetrating the back of the mirror and attacking the silver backing. Other products to keep away from your mirrors include chlorine, alkali, and acetic acids (vinegar).


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Adair, Lou H. The Sims site: analysis of the tool assemblage & cultural inferences. MSU Press, 1972. 70 pp.
Arthur, D. Little, Inc. The opportunity for industrial development in Benton, Houston, & Humphreys counties, TN: report to the Area Development Administration. Cambridge, MA, n.p., 1964. 135 pp.
Benton County, 1980-1987: an economic analysis. Nashville, TN Dept. Emp. Sec., 1988. 12 pp.
Biographical directory, TN General Assembly, 1796-1969 (Benton County, Preliminary #13). Nashville, TSLA, 1970. 36 pp.
Bishop, David L. Dickey ecology station, Benton County, TN. Clemson U. thesis, 1979. 34 pp.
Families & histories, Benton County, TN, 1836-1992. Marceline, MO, Walsworth Pub. Co., 1992. 2 vols.
Goodspeed's history of TN (Benton County, pp. 832-846, 935-954). Goodspeed, 1887.
Hershey, Robert E. Mineral resources summary of the Seventeen Creek quadrangle, TN. Nashville, TN Div. Geol., 1966. 24 pp.
Lewis, Thomas M. N. Eva, an archaic site. Knoxville, UT Press, 1961. 174 pp.
Lewis, Thomas M.N. "The Nuckolls site." TN Arch. 14 (1958), pp. 61-79.
Peacock & Associates. Future plan, 1969-1990, Benton County, TN. Murfreesboro, 1969. 167 pp.
Robbins, Charles D. Old 23rd district: a genealogical & historical sketch of the people who settled the old 23rd district of Benton County, TN, including the Lick Creek community. Paris, the author, 1984. 99 pp.
Runions, Iza L. TN teacher in IL. Mechanicsburg, IL, The Minuteman, 1988. 47 pp.
Seeber, R. Clifford. A manual of public service agencies in Benton [& other] counties in TN, August, 1942. Murray, KY, TVA, 1942. 118 pp.
Smith, Herschel K. The compendium. N.p., 19--? 84 pp.
Smith, Jonathan K. Benton County. MSU Press, 1979. 136 pp.
Smith, Jonathan K. Benton County, TN, heritage notes. Memphis, R. H. Harris, 1975. 114 pp.
Smith, Jonathan K. Cowell's Chapel in Benton County, TN & its pioneer families. Memphis, Padmoor, 1978. 167 pp.
Smith, Jonathan K. Historic Benton: a people's history of Benton County, TN. Memphis, the author, 1975. 283 pp.
Smith, Jonathan K. An historical survey of the road system of Benton County, TN. Memphis, the author, 1976. 88 pp.
Smith, Jonathan K. A history of Benton County, TN, to 1900. Memphis, J. Edge Co., 1970. 151 pp.
Soil survey, Benton County, TN. Washington, D.C., US GPO, 1941, 1953.
TN Dept. Transportation [county maps] issued periodically.
US Geol. Survey [topographic maps] issued periodically. Quadrangles: Poplar Creek, McKinnon, Manleyville, Big Sandy, Harmon Creek, Bruceton, Camden, Johnsonville, Seventeen Creek, Rockport, Hustburg, Holladay, Sugar Tree, Daniels Landing.
Community information, Big Sandy, TN, Camden, TN. Jackson, West TN Industrial Assn., n.d.
TN Valley Authority. Social & Ec. Research Div. Analysis of the community readjustment problem in the town of Big Sandy. Knoxville, TVA, 1939. 39 pp.


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Sugar Creek Opera presents 'Cold Sassy Tree"
The 11th Annual Sugar Creek Opera Festival this weekend finds professional artists presenting "Cold Sassy Tree" at the Central High School Auditorium in Clifton.
Saturday's performance is at 7:30 pm. Dr. Phil Hayes explains the opera is performed for the first time in English, rather than a foreign language with sir-titles..........
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Gauguin. Tales from Paradise
MUDEC - Museo delle Culture di Milano
28 October 2015 – 21 February 2016
Organized by 24 ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 Ore and curated by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, the exhibition "Gauguin. Tales from Paradise" features approximately 70 works from twelve international museums and private collections, together with artefacts and pictures documenting the places visited by the artist. Next spring the Glyptotek will show a version of the exhibition back in Copenhagen, based on the experiences of this Danish-Italian collaboration.
The Glyptotek collection of works by Paul Gauguin is one of the world's most comprehensive, and this exhibition features no less than 35 of the Danish museum's Gauguins – along with significant works by Cézanne, Pissarro and Van Gogh. It is the first time that such a large part of the Glyptotek Gauguin collection is displayed outside of the museum.
Among its highlights is
Vahine no te Tiare (Woman with a Flower), one of the first paintings which the artist sent back to France from Tahiti in 1891, as an ambassador of a new and radical art, "made in Polynesia".
Besides the significant works from the Glyptotek "Gauguin. Tales from Paradise" includes outstanding masterpieces such as
Self-Portrait with Yellow Christ (Musèe d'Orsay, Paris),
Mahana no atua (Day of the God) (Art Institute of Chicago
The art works on display will allow visitors to recognize and analyse the sources of Paul Gauguin's art, which range from the folk art of Brittany to Egyptian, Peruvian, Cambodian and Javanese art, to the life and culture of Polynesia. By examining some of the artist's masterpieces in the light of these sources of inspiration, the exhibition aims to illustrate his peculiar and original approach to "primitivism".
Through the display of a series of works and artefacts created by Paul Gauguin during his travels – real and imaginary – the exhibition aims to highlight the originality of his life-long quest for "the primitive". Gauguin's interest in other cultures took the form of a constant search for original material that could be integrated and merged with his own creations. Ranging from paintings and wooden sculptures to ceramics and engravings, the works illustrate Gauguin's "primitivism" as an artistic vision, lifestyle and journey to escape from contemporary society, in the pursuit of a different world, a pristine one pregnant with ancient meanings and inhabited by ancestral powers and spirits.
The variety of artistic means of expression employed by Gauguin is itself proof of the creativeness and complexity of his vision. The works on display show how Gauguin's imaginative and unique approach may serve as a prism through which to rethink the conventional Western view of "primitivism" according to new and unexpected perspectives.
Paul Gauguin's fascination with "the primitive" represents a recurrent theme in his artistic production. His approach springs from a deep-seated desire to make a break with the conventional rules of the society of his day and the criteria of French Impressionism, in order to attain a higher degree of truth and genuineness in both life and art. Gauguin's personal view of the "primitive" as the primordial power governing the world, as the fundamental essence of human nature, led him to artistically combine a vast range of figurative sources distant in space and time.
Alongside his initial interest in European medieval art, Gauguin was soon drawn to the search for something more authentic than contemporary European culture. This urge led the artist first to Brittany, a land of age-old traditions and simple ways of life, and then to Martinique, an island with an exotic and pristine nature. Following his discovery of traditional artefacts from the French colonies at the 1889 Universal Exhibition, Paul Gauguin travelled further and further, reaching the islands of French Polynesia. Here he pursued his dream of leading a primitive, ancestral existence, in which art and life, symbol and vision, are combined into a single reality.
"Gauguin. Tales from Paradise" is curated by Line Clausen Pedersen and Flemming Friborg, respectively the curator of the Department of French Art and the Director of the Glyptotek.


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For Kenneth Page, all that he had built his dreams around vanished in a cloud of Central Texas dust on that terrible day this past March. That was the day his wife, Ardes, loaded up his beloved dog in the truck Kenneth bought her as a wedding present and drove right out of his life.
It was a bitter shock. Kenneth thought things were coming together for once. Sure, it had been awhile since the then-45-year-old ex-con and Bellmead, Texas, native had drawn a steady paycheck, but the longhaired, red-bearded, aquamarine-eyed mechanic knew that would come sooner or later. He was a fiercely hard worker and an extremely capable small-engine mechanic. Any day, things would get better, and the Page family-Ardes, Kenneth and their little half-breed border collie Cisco Aloysius-would turn the corner.
But man, did this economy stink, and no one needed Kenneth's services, either as a mechanic or as a driver of forest tractors. And one day Ardes-a night clerk at a motel on Interstate 35-said she wanted to spend some time with her grown kids. It was a ploy. She bailed permanently.
She'd never liked the house they'd had to move into in Thrall, Texas. She'd been happier in the one they had before in Taylor, which was closer to Austin, but when Kenneth lost his job and the rent had gone up from $650 to $850, they had to move further out into the sticks. A friend later told Kenneth the house was a jinx on couples.
"She just couldn't make it anymore," Kenneth said, months later. "I'm not saying she didn't believe in God, but maybe she should have taken more stock in blind faith."
At the time, Kenneth was beside himself. Man, did he ever love Ardes and Cisco. Not only did he buy his wife that truck, but he also took her name at their wedding. (More unusual than that, Page was not Ardes' maiden name. For the record, Kenneth's own birth name is Woolard.) And as much as he smarted at the loss of Ardes, these days it's talking about Cisco that really stings. Page says the little mutt had real personality: He loved the music of Santana and would howl along with the old-time country hoedowns of the Soggy Bottom Boys of O Brother, Where Art Thou? fame. Cisco was also fiendishly smart and could obey multi-step commands, such as "Go get the leash and take it to mama." And Cisco was affectionate: Page swears he awoke one night in bed to find little Cisco petting him with his paw.
And then one day, after less than a year of marriage, it was all gone. He was left with nothing save for some bills he couldn't pay and a broken-down old Harley-Davidson. Within a few weeks, he and the hog were bunking out in a storage building in the suburbs of greater Waco, where Page was born and raised. He called Ardes, once and only once, to beg for one more chance. She said no. And that was all Kenneth needed to breathe life into the dream...
He knew that he had to get a move on, get rolling somewhere, quit letting the devil set up his workshop in that too-long idle mind of his. Page had wrestled with some demons over the years—he cops to a youthful bout with speed, and his fondness for beer was such that it both cost him his upper front teeth and actually helped land him a lengthy stretch in the state pen in the '90s. Kicked around as Page was, a lesser man might succumb again to those vices. After all, it's not often that a man hits the honky-tonk heartbreak trifecta: losing your wife, truck and dog on the same day. Rarer still is the man who can take that whirlwind of haymakers and get back off the canvas.
Kenny Page is that rare man, and like most rare men, he was sustained by a dream. And as the sting of his abandonment faded, as he came to grips with the fact that he had survived the brunt end of all those calamities—"Man oh man, couldn't she have at least left me with the dang dog," he often thought to himself in his moments of weakness, and "Why did she have to tell me she was sending him to the pound?"—his long-germinating dream took root in his soul and shot some shoots up out of its barren wastes.
After all, there was no time like the present for him to get that riding lawn mower and ride it all the way to Florida. Talladega, Florida, to be exact, where he wanted to host a tailgate at a big NASCAR race with warm sodas and hot dogs boiled in his lawn-mower engine. His niece told him his trek would probably make the Guinness book. Page thought he might serve as a role model to his mopey, unemployed nephews. And maybe he could get some work out of the deal somehow himself.
Bobby Simek, a former coworker Page calls his best friend, says that Page once shared this vision with him about five years ago, when the two had worked together for Rusty Greer Equipment, and long before his failed marriage to Ardes. There, the two labored insane hours repairing engines and clearing out brush for pipelines for Greer, the former Texas Rangers baseball great. At one point, Simek was laid off and laid up at Page's house, where he was crashing for the time being.
"He just told me one day he wanted to ride a lawn mower from Texas to Florida," Simek chuckles. It was typical Kenny, Simek says. He also liked to say he was going to buy a canoe and put it in the headwaters of some northern river and float down to the coast. Neither idea seemed to be much more than idle talk. "I was like, 'What?' Come on!"
Simek thinks the world of Page. Simek was his shop manager—he both hired him and served as his superior, and he says that Page was "one of the more dedicated workers I ever had." He recalls that he and Page would work from 7 in the morning until midnight, and Page, who was living behind the shop in a company travel trailer at the time, would stagger off to bed, sleep a few hours, and head right back to work. They called him "Turbo" around the shop, and Simek says that there is little Page can't accomplish if he sets his mind to it, especially if it is something that has to do with small engines.
But to ride a lawn mower from Texas to Florida? That still sounded crazy, even for a guy like Page. "I thought he was full of shit," Simek says. "I guess not."
Indeed he wasn't. While Kenneth Page never did make it to Talladega, Florida—which of course doesn't exist—he did ride a lawn mower all the way to the Sunshine State.
When he left, and throughout much of the early part of the trip, Kenneth Page had a hard time articulating why he wanted to undertake this journey. There was some talk about setting the world record, and at other times he would say it was about finding a job. He would say that the EPA was hiring lots of people in Florida for oil-spill cleanup, but why would he need to ride his lawn mower all the way there? And how did that jibe with the fact that he had told Simek about this dream of his all those years ago?
People he met along the way were left wondering. "I don't really know what drawed him to Florida," said Dan Culler, a mechanic he met in French Settlement, Louisiana. "It sounded to me like he just wanted to get away."
"He just didn't have a real good reason to stay here, I guess," said Christina Miller, Page's niece and someone who was privy to his dream in the development stages.
Another person he shared his dream with early on was Nikki Watson, a manager at the Dollar General store in Elm Mott, Texas, another little town just north of Waco. She said Page would come in her store often and the two of them would "talk and talk and talk." (And Page is a world-record talker.)
"He is an outstanding man," said Watson. "He is so pure-hearted. I would love to see good things happen for him, and hopefully because of this. He's doing something that hardly anyone would do. He left here with hardly any money and nothing but a dream and hope."
From committing to the idea to actually getting on the road was a bit of a journey in itself. First, there was this small matter: Page did not own a lawn mower. He did have that Harley, though, and he found a man in Austin who was willing to make a deal. He swapped the hog straight up for a beat-up old Murray with a streak of rust a foot wide on the hood. The man did throw in a trailer to go along with it. Page rode it up from Austin to Waco. "When he got to our house, that motor was already going bad," Miller said. She and her family gave him another, slightly less worn-out motor, along with a push mower for him to put in his trailer.
Page needed the push mower because once he got going, he planned to finance the trip by mowing lawns as he passed through. (Other friends gave him an old Weed Eater, too. Page charged $20 per yard.) But first he needed to get together a nest egg, or "startin' cash," as he called it. After all, Mow Murray, as he named his vehicle, would need some extra gas and oil, and Page would need some Ramen noodles and Chef Boyardee. "He kept tellin' me, 'When I get 60 bucks I'm outta here, 60 bucks I'm gone.' That was all he needed, I guess," Miller says.
There were a couple of false starts. One night Page's friends and family had a big send-off, but the next day found Page still stuck in the Waco 'burbs. And he remained stuck, day after day, until finally about two weeks had passed. Miller explained that there were a couple of times he managed to raise the $60, only to see it slip through his fingers because of engine trouble. He believes his Murray just didn't like his hometown. "This thing blows up in Bellmead," he says. "I told her, 'Just let me get out of Bellmead and I'll never bring you back.'"
The Murray must have listened because after a few such words of encouragement, Page managed to raise and hold the cash. And finally, on May 30, much like a homesteader would on the eve of leaving for the Oregon Trail, Page hitched up the trailer, fired up the Murray and rode around saying his goodbyes. "I may never come back, so that was important," he explained later.
"And then he told us, 'I'm out,' and at 8 o'clock that night we all said 'Bye!' and he was gone," remembered his niece.
There was also that talk of the "Guinness book" with this trip, but whoever told him he had a crack at that with a jaunt as short as this was sadly misinformed. Back in 2001, an Illinois man named Gary Hatter rode a custom-built Kubota in a vast, Continental semicircle, one that stretched a full 14,594.5 miles, from Maine to the West Coast and back to Daytona Beach, Florida. Hatter passed through every state in the lower 48, and for good measure gallivanted off on side trips into Canada and Mexico. By contrast, Page's trip was only about 700 miles.
Hatter and Page are eerily similar men in some ways. Both are gearheads, and when they climbed aboard their mowers, both were also 46-year-old ex-cons with rotten luck and some terrible decisions in their past. (Page's offenses were mostly alcohol-related, while Hatter was convicted of kidnapping an ex-girlfriend.) But that's pretty much where the similarities end. These lawn-mower journeys might as well be two different forms of transport. Hatter's ran on publicity and gasoline while Page's ran on things like desperation, ingenuity and self-reliance. Hatter's was a novelty. This was survival.
Hatter's trip was publicized from the get-go. The whole thing seemed meticulously planned in advance. He sold little checkered flags to raise money for his cause—which was himself. (He needed expensive surgery on his back.) He was feted all along the way with free motel rooms and restaurant dinners. His son followed him in a Chevy as a sort of support team. His brand-new Kubota mower had a roof, for heaven's sake, and Hatter even boasted about never cutting grass on the trip. It may have been a long trip, but it was a joyride compared to what Page put himself through. (When told that Hatter drove a Kubota on his trip, Page dismissed it as a tractor and not a real lawn mower at all.)
First, for Page, Florida was less a destination than it was a direction, a sort of Shangri-La where work would be easy to find and he might finally find permanent peace of mind. The image of Florida you got in talking to Page had a sort of Steinbeck-meets-Will Ferrell, Talladega Nights of Wrath feel to it, with a tinge of Ponce de León's mysticism.
Maybe Page was seeking his own personal Fountain of Youth. Ponce de León would certainly recognize his navigational techniques. Not only did Page not carry a GPS, he learned to get by without even a paper map. He seemed to have no idea how long the journey would take, mentioning once something about "maybe making it to Florida by October." And then there was the whole Talladega thing. Page is a big fan of Ricky Bobby—he even stenciled "I wanna mow fast" on the back of his trailer—but he seemed to have come away from that fictional biopic believing that Talladega was in Florida instead of Alabama. It was not until Page reached French Settlement, Louisiana, east of the Mississippi River, that he was put straight on that geographical misunderstanding.
"He told me he was headed to Talladega, and I asked him if he meant Tallahassee, and he said, 'Yeah, I think that's it,'" chuckles Dan Culler, a Louisiana mechanic and part-time minister. (Eventually, Page settled on Pensacola as his destination, as it was the first major town in Florida.)
"He's pretty unsure about a lot of things," Miller said. "Wherever the wind pushes him, that's where he goes."
He wasn't whoring himself out to the media, and it almost goes without saying that he didn't tweet his trip. While he had a cell phone for the duration, he rarely managed to load it with minutes. He braved elements like brutal, unrelenting Dixie heat and sudden cloudbursts with no protection whatsoever. (Asked what he did when it rained, Page laughed and said simply, "Get wet.")
His mower was a rust-bucket factory model with a Frankenstein monster engine of salvaged scrap parts and usually at least two tires that were completely bald. He joked that he wanted to install a fake car alarm on it just so it could make that little chirp-chirp sound and people would think he was a big deal. Page slept wherever he could—inside a car wash one night, another night in a donated jail cell, but mostly under the stars near his mower, often parked in truck stops, Walmarts and rest areas, and instead of free restaurant fare, he ate lukewarm Ramen and SpaghettiOs straight out of the can.
"I didn't want this ride to be easy," he said, from a roadside in Waveland, Mississippi. "I was in it for the long haul. It ain't worth the ride if you don't go through pain and suffering, you know? I think people think it's interesting that I'm working my way down there and all the miseries that goes with that. And it's got its good points. You see the stars at night and meet some great people."
Rattling along on Mow Murray, the rattletrap engine's vibrations coursing through his arms and up through his haunches, he also had plenty of time to think. When he wasn't worrying about his oil level or the contents of his gas tank or the condition of his bald tires, sometimes music would pop in his head, especially Beatles songs. He says that the sight of a fresh roadkill started him humming "Rocky Raccoon"; at other times, a break in a rainstorm would have him whistling "Here Comes the Sun."
And at other times he would wax philosophical: "I ride past all these empty houses. You can tell people were living there not too long ago. Maybe there's a swing set in the yard or something, but you can tell nobody lives in 'em anymore, and that this economy has got 'em. Those poor people have got nothing now.
"At least I've got this."
From Waco, Page headed due east to Rusk, where he turned south toward Beaumont, where he made his big turn toward Florida. (Somewhere in East Texas, he picked up a truly epic case of poison oak, one that made his forearms look like Popeye's, if Popeye's forearms were made of welt-covered chicken skin.)
In Lufkin, he met Dr. Bryan Pool, a chiropractor who hired him to cut his grass. Page asked him for $20. Pool thought that was too low, so he wound up giving him $40, plus a $10 tip when he found out about Page's mission. "He did a really, really good job," Pool said. Pool was so impressed with Page and his dream he called The Lufkin Daily News, which sent a reporter out. So far, that was the only substantial media attention Page's trip garnered, or at least that made the Internet.
Mow Murray was officially classed as a slow-moving vehicle, so Page could ride it on the shoulder of any highway so long as it sported an orange marker on the back. He had few hassles from the cops until Louisiana State Police intercepted him just before he attempted to ride his mower across the Atchafalaya Swamp Parkway. "Three of 'em were cool about it, but one of 'em said he was gonna confiscate my mower," a chastened Page said a day or so later. He wound up riding in a trailer for that leg of the journey. (Once on the other side, Page drove backward and forward to make up the lost distance. At the time, he still believed the world record was in reach.) In fact, Page learned to like the police a little on this trip: Some slipped him cash, while others allowed him to sleep in jail as a guest.
That was a first, but Page is no stranger to a jail cell. You could say that if Kenneth Page didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have any luck at all. He's the first to admit he brought some of his bad mojo on himself, but the stories he has to tell just leave you shaking your head and chuckling ruefully to yourself.
There was that time back in the '90s when he got his third DWI, which by law is a felony. "My wife at that time came from a little money," he says. "She was a RN. She liked to go out and drink in bars. Me, I liked to just stay home and drink in front of the TV. So that was what I did. She went out and came home drunk and wanted to fight, so I had to leave just to get away from her. Well, what did I do but come up on the only stop sign in Waco that was covered by branches, and I rolled right through it and hit a car."
While out on bond for that charge, and after the hard-drinking RN had left him, Page says he got arrested for "burglary of a habitation that wasn't a habitation." He was initially apprehended by the property owner, an acquaintance of his. "He said, 'Kenneth, I knew if your wife ever left you, you'd screw up.'" Nevertheless, the man said that if Kenneth put back the stuff he had tried to steal, he would let him go. Unfortunately, a patrolling sheriff rolled up on the scene and was not so forgiving. Nor was the judge presiding over his felony DWI case. Page got 10 years in prison.
A few years into his sentence, Page had a prison-yard epiphany. "I had two friends in there—or they was as close to being friends as you want people to be in prison—and I was sitting on a bench and a tear came down my eye. They asked me what was wrong and I told him I was done fighting. I was not gonna drink anymore when I got out. I was gonna fly right. I owned all my troubles there and then."
And since then he's pretty much stayed out of trouble. He's worked hard and never asks anybody for anything.
The people he met along the way on this trip were often taken with his drive and energy. "I could tell he didn't have much, but he was doing more than most people," says Ricky Collins, a mechanic at J&J Lawnmower Repair just east of Silsbee, Texas. "He's got a lawn mower and a Weed Eater, and he will work. It's not like he's standing on the side of the road beggin' for something. And he didn't ask me for a thing. I just kinda seen what he had. He asked for a muffler. He said he wanted a used one, and that there was no way he could pay for it, but that he would work it off. And 'course that's what I try to tell my kids—I got five of 'em, and I tell 'em, you can't help someone who don't help their self. So I didn't mind helping him."
Collins said one of his daughters had been to the pen three times because of drugs and his teenage son seemed headed down the same route. They both wanted something for nothing. Page, whom Collins got to know well over a fried-chicken lunch, was willing and ready to pay for whatever help Collins could spare. "He's just trying to get by, I guess, just make enough to get him a pack of smokes, somethin' to eat and a gallon of gas," Collins says. "I never really understood why he was doin' what he was doin'. He never really made that clear. He just, I don't know...I kind of felt for him, I guess."
The idea of the trip resonated with Collins. "I've often wanted to just take off, but I didn't have the funds or the means or whatever and I never done it," he says. He didn't let his envy get in the way of his generosity, though. "When he fired that engine up, I saw it smokin' and rattlin' so I found an old used engine we had and I give him that, so if his fell apart he could piece together whatever out of the two motors," Collins remembers. Page said he would pay by handing out J&J business cards to the people he met. "I figured that would be good advertising, so I gave him quite a few cards," Collins says.
Collins also noticed that Page didn't really seem to know the whole way to Florida, or what exactly he would do when he got there. To Collins, that was pretty much irrelevant. In having even that ill-defined goal, Page was way ahead of most of us.
"That's more than I can say for half of America, you know what I mean? It's pitiful to say, but that's the truth."
"Hey Mister Lomax, this is Kenneth Page. I made it through that town, what's its name? (Muffled voices in background.) Yeah. In other words, I made it over the Mississippi bridge, I made it through Baton Rouge and I'm fixin' to get back on 190 and make it on down the road. I had a little trouble with the po-lice...They kinda got upset that I crossed the Mississippi bridge on a lawn mower, but hey, you know, that's life. Three of 'em were real good about it and one of 'em was kinda crappy."
—Phone message from Kenneth Page
After photographer Jeff Balke and I tracked Page down in Eunice, Louisiana, he was very good about calling me with his progress reports. That was one of the best. He wo uld later say that in a life of riding dirt bikes and motorcycles and hot rods, he had never known an adrenaline rush like the one he got roaring down the backside of that humpback Highway 190 Mississippi River bridge at what he estimates was 55 miles an hour.
A couple of days later, he reported that he was closing in on the Louisiana-Mississippi border. He said that he had gotten rained on near Ponchatoula and was slowed by the roads. "I'm ridin' on gravel, non-shoulder for about 40 miles now," he said from somewhere west of Madisonville, Louisiana.
The next day's call was from Lacombe, Louisiana, and an agitated Page was the bearer of plenty of bad news. He'd blown another engine and several tires. He'd almost fallen down a culvert off the side of a bridge. What's more, the last two towns had been exceedingly challenging.
"Never ever try to ride a lawn mower through Madisonville and, what's that town with the long bridge? Mandeville. Oh God. Blind curves, jumping curbs...I come through Sonic about 80, naw, 30 miles an hour, jumpin' over curbs, drivin' down the shoulder, freakin' everybody out in town. And then I was ridin' behind guardrails and on sidewalks. It was just bad. The Mississippi River bridge was much easier. It's all been exciting today. A camera crew would have flipped out. Ricky Bobby and the Dukes of Hazzard have got nothin' on me. Evel Knievel would have stopped and shook hands with me."
On the message, he said he was in dire straits. His current engine had really bad blow-by. "I don't know if I have enough oil. If it blows it out before I get there, I'm gonna have to idle it really, really slow and try to find a yard [to mow] in the morning."
Evidently he did, because his next report was from the Mississippi Redneck Riviera, where he was tempted by a siren. "A pretty girl stopped me and took pictures of me, and wanted to take me for something to eat at some place called the Bluebonnet Café," he said. She was a homeless girl, he added, and he thought of installing her in his trailer. She was game and headed his way. But then he worried she would drag him into her bad habits. "I've got too much riding on this," he said. "I can't be getting sucked into that stuff. I gave her some money and I knew she probably went and spent it on rum or something. But you can only do so much." (This temptress was not the only woman Page charmed along the way. "How come all the good ones are either married or riding lawn mowers across the country?" sighed another he met later on the trip.)
Around about Gulfport and Biloxi, Page reported scenes of gargantuan debauchery. He said there were 19,000 drunken college-age kids along the seafront, partying at a car show, and they were not just drunk, but hammered. Although he drove through the Mardi Gras-like rumpus on a lawn mower, he didn't have much trouble with them, except that one kid who hurled a bottle at him. "One of his friends recognized me from down the road," Page smiled. "He told his buddy, 'Don't you be throwing bottles at the lawn mower man!'"
Alabama passed pretty much without incident, save for the usual worries about the state of Mow Murray, and those worries intensified once he crossed the state line into Florida. What should have been a cause for jubilation was ruined by mechanical concerns. He wondered if he would ever make it to Pensacola. That part of Florida is full of prosperous spreads—he doubted any of their owners would hire him to cut the grass, and he badly needed money. He was literally rationing his motor oil and was rolling on three bald tires. "I didn't see no yards with junk tractors in 'em, where I could work off a spare part," Page remembered. "You start to worry and say, 'God, if you don't put the right person in my path, I'm gonna have to drag this thing down the road myself."
It never came to that. In a bright, shining moment on June 29 at 9 a.m., Page crossed one last high arching bridge—this one over Bayou Chico. At the apex, there stands a sign reading "Pensacola City Limits." After the Mississippi River bridge, this little Highway 292 span was nothing. And coming down the backside, Page felt safe and jubilant enough to revel in some trick riding. He stood in his seat and hung 10 and then sat back down and turned around and drove it with his hands behind his back. With his beard and long hair, he looked for all the world like one of the trick riders from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show come to life in modern-day Florida. (Having flown in from Houston the day before, I was there to greet him.)
In less than a month, he had made it all the way from Waco to Pensacola. He'd gone through three engines and a bunch of tires. He'd mowed about 10 lawns, worked his way across old Dixie, never accepting out-and-out charity, sleeping under the stars, rebuilding his own engines, living off the fat of the land, and he actually looked better than he did in Eunice a week or so before the end of his trip. His poison oak had abated, leaving his arms looking almost normal. (He joked that he would let mosquitoes bite his arms so he could infect them and thus wreak a weird revenge. Maybe they had sucked the poison oak out of him.)
And there seemed to be a load off his mind, too. He fell in love with some of the bayou country of south Louisiana. He met some really great people. And maybe, just maybe, he finally figured out the real reason he drove from Waco to Pensacola on a beat-up lawn mower. In his mind, it was something like an act of patriotism, a way to give people better perspective on their own lives by looking at life from his perspective.
"At the beginning, there were two reasons I wanted to do this trip," he said. "I thought I could get a job, and my niece said I could get in the Guinness book. I thought if I could do that, I would be a better role model to my nephews."
Though he'd been told that the Guinness record was probably out of reach, he persisted to the end in saying that he might still be in the running. Nevertheless, he knew that even if he didn't set any kind of record, he had lived a great American novel. (I had wished that he would come into Pensacola on Highway 90 instead of Highway 98. Page's quixotic quest could have had no better terminus than the former, as it is known locally as Cervantes Street.)
Squatting by the roadside just inside the Pensacola city limits at the end of the trip, he grew more reflective than I had seen him before. "It's a hard time in our country right now. We're in a depression and it's worse than that—our people are in a depressed state," he said. "I don't care if people dub me Forrest Gump or Mow Dirt or whatever, if somebody may have been fixin' to jump off one of them big bridges and saw me, and then thought, 'Well who is this nut?' and then decided not to, then it was worth it.
"Or maybe somebody would see me when they were on the way to a job interview. They would see me with my feet kicked up on the hood of the mower ridin' down the highway, and that would put a smile on their face, and then they'd walk into that interview happy and get that job."
Pensacola sure needed a smile. The gracious old Spanish-tinged Southern city's other prestigious visitor that very day was Joe Biden, in town to allay concerns about the oil slick, which was then only just beginning to despoil the city's wedding-cake sand beaches and turquoise waters. Dead dolphins were washing up along with tar blobs and oiled pelicans. A restaurant offered "Oil-free crawfish" as a special, but humor, even black humor, was rare. The mood of the city was mutedly apocalyptic.
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Page and I talked a little more. Page speaks in run-on paragraphs and tends to forget what he's told you already and at a pace much greater than Mow Murray's top speed. In other words, Page can be hard to follow, but there was one more thing that came through loud and clear: "This thing"—Mow Murray and the trailer—"is my reality and my life right now."
And then it was time for us to part. I had a plane to catch back home to Houston. Page was the better part of a thousand miles from a home that wasn't even a home anymore.
"Where are you headed now?" I asked him.
"A guy in Alabama said he might have a job for me," Page said. He said BP was offering free HazMat classes. "A friend of mine back in Texas told me he'd get me on the list," Page said. He switched on the engine, turned his rattling Murray around and roared back across Bayou Chico and toward the state line.


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UTeach Dallas Meets Fundraising Challenge, Receives $2 Million
Grants Will Further Advance Math and Science Teacher Training in Growing Program
Dallas-area foundations and industry partners in science and technology have provided $2 million to support an innovative program at The University of Texas at Dallas aimed at training the teachers who will inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, doctors and entrepreneurs.
UTeach Dallas graduate Amiee Himler is a math teacher at Richardson High School.
The UTeach Dallas program prepares undergraduate students majoring in such fields as physics, math, chemistry and biology to be secondary science or math teachers. Established at UT Dallas in 2007 with support from the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI), the program allows students to earn secondary teaching certification while simultaneously completing bachelor's degrees.
On April 3, NMSI awarded to UTeach Dallas a $1 million challenge grant for raising $1 million in matching funds for an endowment and meeting performance benchmarks. UT Dallas and the University of North Texas were among 12 universities nationwide to receive the challenge grants.
"Improving the quality of math and science teachers in Texas is a key step toward building a better-educated, technically savvy workforce, one with the skills necessary to fill – and create – jobs in a technology-driven society," said Dr. Mary Urquhart, co-director of UTeach Dallas and head of the Department of Science and Mathematics Education at UT Dallas. "We cannot thank our donors enough."
UT Austin developed the original UTeach program in 1997 to address science, technology, engineering and mathematics teacher shortages. UT Dallas was one of 13 universities in the first cohort of national UTeach programs, which began enrolling students in 2008. There are now 34 UTeach programs at universities around the country.
David Saba, chief operating officer of the National Math and Science Initiative, announced April 3 that UT Dallas is one of 12 universities nationwide to receive a $1 million challenge grant from the organization for its UTeach program.
NMSI is an organization funded in part by ExxonMobil, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. NMSI's challenge grant initiative for UTeach programs requires that several milestones be met, including raising $1 million for a permanent endowment by a pre-set deadline. If all criteria are met, NMSI provides an additional $1 million for the program's endowment.
"A $2 million endowment will provide the permanent resources needed to plan for even greater growth of UTeach Dallas," Urquhart said.
Enrollment in UTeach Dallas has grown from 24 students in its first semester to its current 350 students. As of December 2012, 21 students have graduated, and all are employed in school systems or science learning centers, or have gone on to graduate school.
"School districts routinely ask us about the availability of our UTeach Dallas graduates," said James "Bill" Neal, assistant director of the program and one of its six master teachers. "Moving forward, UTeach Dallas anticipates 35 new graduates by the end of 2013, and we expect at least 50 new graduates in spring 2014. These 100-plus graduates since the program's inception could potentially impact about 79,000 middle and high school students by 2019."
UTeach Dallas provides tuition reimbursements for the first two courses, paid internships and scholarship opportunities. Beginning with their very first course, students are immersed in local classrooms and given the chance to teach science or math lessons. Throughout the program they receive one-on-one guidance and instruction from experienced master teachers, a cadre of veteran science and math educators who form the program's core faculty. After graduation, UTeach Dallas teachers receive an additional two years of professional development support.
Katie Donaldson, UTeach Dallas master teacher, works with UT Dallas student Anna Slaybaugh to prepare a chemistry lesson.
One of the factors that make UTeach Dallas graduates so attractive to potential employers is their exposure to and experience with advanced classroom technology, which is becoming more widespread in North Texas schools. For example, Texas Instruments provided the UTeach Dallas program with the TI-Nspire Navigator, a wireless system of handheld devices that connects students to the instructor, facilitates real-time interaction with electronic classroom display boards, and allows teachers to instantly assess whether their students are understanding the lesson.
"TI has been an extraordinary partner in UTeach Dallas's efforts to enhance STEM education and teacher training," Urquhart said. "The company has provided resources that give both new teachers and school children exposure to advanced technology."
UTeach Dallas graduate Amiee Himler was a Terry Scholar who earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from UT Dallas in December 2010. She was hired as a full-time math teacher at Richardson High School beginning in the 2011-12 school year.
"Gaining experience with advanced technology as a UTeach Dallas student and being able to use it in the classroom from the get-go made me more hirable," Himler said.
Now in her second year of teaching, Himler said the UTeach Dallas program helped to solidify her desire to teach.
"I was always interested in math, and was good at it, and I also dreamed of being a teacher," Himler said. "But I didn't always get a lot of support for that dream. Within the first three weeks of UTeach, though, I had been to class, was matched with a partner, met a teacher in the field, and was writing lessons that I would teach in another three weeks."
"There is nothing more important to our future than getting more school children excited about math and science. These are our nation's future doctors, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs. They must be inspired by great teachers, and UTeach has become a model for training those great math and science teachers."
Dr. Bruce Novak,
dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dr. Bruce Novak, dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, which houses UTeach Dallas, said great teachers inspire students to perform at their best.
"There is nothing more important to our future than getting more school children excited about math and science," Novak said. "These are our nation's future doctors, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs. They must be inspired by great teachers, and UTeach has become a model for training those great math and science teachers."
To reach its endowment fundraising goal, UTeach Dallas initially raised $500,000 through grants from the Tellabs Foundation, the Greater Texas Foundation and the O'Donnell Foundation. Texas Instruments Foundation came forward with a conditional grant of $150,000 that would only be made if another donor gave an equal or greater amount.
In June 2012, the Dallas-based Hamon Charitable Foundation stepped up with a $350,000 grant. This secured the TI Foundation grant, boosting the UTeach Dallas endowment to $1 million and meeting the NMSI challenge.
"UTeach Dallas is reaching a critical mass," said Dr. David E. Daniel, president of UT Dallas. "Schools throughout North Texas will be able to attract more of the inspirational teachers needed to spark the scientific imaginations of more school children. We thank all the organizations who support UTeach Dallas for their visionary investment in our nation's future."
UTeach Dallas By the Numbers
24 UT Dallas students enrolled 2008
350 students currently enrolled
21 graduates to date – 100 percent employed or in graduate school
35 new graduates expected in 2013
50 new graduates anticipated in spring 2014
79,000 school children impacted by 2019
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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2006 Nissan Titan Crew Cab
The Nissan Titan full-size pickup sets new standards in the segment for innovation, performance and value. Titan offers features that are unmatched in class, such as Wide-Open rear doors (King Cab) that open 168 degrees for nearly unlimited interior access, a high-utility bed that includes an industry-first factory-applied spray-on bedliner, a Utili-track tie-down system that provides ultimate cargo hauling flexibility and an integrated, lockable bedside storage compartment.
2006 Nissan Titan Crew Cab
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"At Nissan we specialize in offering solutions to customers' unmet needs, and Titan is the greatest example," said Mark McNabb, vice president and general manager, Nissan Division. "Our research revealed that full-size truck owners wanted better access to the rear seat in King Cabs, better use of their truck beds and a better solution to drop-in bedliners – Titan delivers on all of the above unmet needs with flying colors."
For 2006, Titan adds minor enhancements. Titan LE models add new standard power folding mirrors with heat, power adjust, auto dim and integrated turn signal, mid-grade audio package adds the ability to play mp3 formatted CDs (standard on SE and LE, optional on XE) and there are other minor package and model improvements. In addition, two new colors are available on all 2006 Titan models – Majestic Blue and Granite.
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The heart and soul of the Titan is pure, unabashed power, with an all-aluminum 5.6-liter V8 engine that produces 305 horsepower* and 379 lb-ft of torque and features a maximum towing capacity of 9,500 pounds for King Cab and 9,400 pounds for Crew Cab (when properly equipped) – as much as some 3/4-ton pickups. Titan utilizes a rugged, fully boxed high-strength all-steel F-Alpha platform for enhanced crash performance and long-term durability.
The standard 5-speed automatic transmission was designed especially for heavy-duty truck use, with emphasis on serious towing. Each component was created for full-size truck application, along with a wide gear ratio to create a high performance control system producing top-class acceleration, power and shift quality.
The use of advanced engine technology such as aluminum block with cast iron cylinder liners, forged steel crankshaft, microfinished crankshaft and camshaft, graphite-coated pistons, 6-bolt main bearing caps, and Super Silent single-stage timing chain result in good fuel economy with no sacrifice of performance.
For 4WD models, Titan adapts an advanced shift-on-the-fly 4-wheel drive system with 2WD/4H/4LO modes with electronic control part-time transfer case.
An off-road package is available with unique lower ratio gearing, class-exclusive** switch-on-demand electronically activated locking rear differential, off-road-style Rancho? performance gas shock absorbers, unique 17-inch alloy wheels with large all-terrain tires, fog lights and lower radiator, oil pan and transfer case skid plates.
Titan's responsive handling is a product of its all-steel double wishbone front suspension design and overslung leaf spring (dual rate) rear suspension with shackles mounted along the frame sides to increase departure angle. The Titan comes standard with 17-inch painted steel wheels and 245/75R17 tires or available 18-inch aluminum-alloy wheels (five or six spoke) and 265/70R18 tires. Also available are 17-inch aluminum-alloy wheels and 285/70R17 tires as part of the off-road package.
Power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering is standard, along with 4-wheel disc brakes with Bosch Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) and Electronic Brake force Distribution (EBD).
Full-Size Interior Like No Other
Titan's interior is extremely spacious. With 126 cubic feet, the Titan Crew Cab offers more interior space than any competitive half-ton crew cab model. The Titan Crew Cab also offers class-leading front and rear seat leg room with 41.8 inches and 40.4 inches respectively.
Two interior configurations are available – a standard bench seat with column shifter, which seats six passengers or an optional Captain's Chair Package with two front bucket seats, which seats five passengers and offers a large center console and gated floor shifter.
The center console can hold a variety of beverage containers, including a 1-liter bottle. A 12-volt adapter is equipped in the storage area and can be used as a power source for a phone or other electronic devices. The storage in the center console offers passengers a variety of storage choices, with size adjusted by simply removing or adding dividers. The console's storage box can also accommodate hanging file folders and contains holders for maps, paper, pens and business cards on the console lid.
Among the Titan's many interior features are standard flip-up 60/40 rear seat cushions for added cargo space and flexibility, with grocery hooks on the bottom of the seat cushions. The rear floor was designed to fold nearly flat for maximum cargo utility. The Crew Cab's rear seat is large and relaxing, with a full 24 degrees of seat back angle.
Titan's rear compartment offers ample rear storage, including door storage bins and rear door bottle holders in the armrests and power front windows with one-touch up and down function.
An available overhead console system gives passengers more storage options. The console houses rear audio controls and also contains dampened storage bins for both front and rear passengers for items like sunglasses, CDs, cell phone, PDA or a small tissue box. Crew Cab models offer an optional rear-seat DVD Mobile Theatre System with fold-down 7-inch monitor.
Titan Crew Cab models offer an available power down/up rear window.
Titan features a fold-flat front passenger seat that allows extra versatility and can also be used as a working area. Additionally, power-adjustable front seats with available driver's seat memory system and heated seats provide added convenience, while standard front-seat active head restraints add one more extra element of safety. Titan also offers power-adjustable foot pedals with memory.
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Along with the "everyday innovations" found in Titan's storage and comfort details, the King Cab features a true breakthrough design innovation - a first-in-class** Wide-Open rear door that swings open 168 degrees, providing unprecedented access to the rear seats. Key to the door's design is a hefty, two-stage hinge with four axis of rotation. The door opens first to a conventional 85 degrees, then can be swung the rest of the way up to 168 degrees.
Along with providing a new level of ease for entering and exiting the rear seat, the Wide-Open door allows owners to load packages or cargo in crowded parking lots without having to maneuver between the traditional "trap" of partially opened front and rear doors.
A High-Function Utility Bed
Another really big idea found on Titan, and perhaps Titan's biggest innovation and differentiation from the competition is its cargo bed, addressing truck owners' desire for more utility and flexibility in how they use their trucks' beds.
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First, to overcome the tendency of aftermarket drop-in bedliners to warp or trap rust-inducing moisture underneath, or the relatively high cost and thickness of typical aftermarket spray-on bedliners, a special factory-applied spray-on bedliner was developed. Using a special high durability hard surface resin application, which can be sprayed on complex surfaces, the bedliner helps prevent scratch damage and corrosion to the bed and inner tailgate surface. Thinner than drop-in bedliners or typical aftermarket spray-on applications, the Titan bedliner also maximizes bed volume. It is the first offered by any original equipment manufacturer and is covered by the Nissan warranty.
The second part of the bed utility solution was the development of the Utili-track System tie-down channel system. With this system, five special "C" cross-section rails are mounted in the bed (two channels in the bed floor, and one each on the bed side rails and the bed header panel).
Removable utility cleats slide into the channels, providing a wide range of attaching points for cargo tie-down. The channels are open at the rear of the bed, allowing the cleats to be completely removed when not in use for easy cleaning of the channels with a spray washer or garden hose.
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The 2006 Titan includes a long list of safety equipment, including available front seat side-impact and curtain supplemental air bags that help provide side-impact and rollover protection for outboard passengers (the first available among full-size pickups).
Standard safety features on the 2006 Titan include Nissan's Advanced Air Bag System (AABS) with dual stage front supplemental air bags with seat belt sensors and a front passenger occupant classification sensor, front seat belts with adjustable upper anchors, front seat active head restraints, pretensioners and load limiters, three-point rear outboard passenger seat belts and LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tethers for CHildren) child seat anchor system.
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The 2006 Nissan Crew Cab is offered in three models – XE, SE and LE each with a choice of 2WD and 4WD – and with a long list of standard equipment including a powerful 5.6-liter V8, 5-speed automatic transmission with Tow/Haul mode, power rack-and-pinion steering and 17-inch wheels and tires.
For 2006 Titan will be available in two new exterior colors, Majestic Blue and Granite.
Titan XE models are equipped with a standard split front bench seat (40/20/40 split) with a center seat fold-down armrest storage bin and split fold-up rear seat (60/40 split) with three-point seat belts for all positions and available spray-on bedliner. XE and SE 2WD models are available with a Trac Package (standard on LE) that includes 2-wheel limited slip (ABLS) and front tow hooks.
Titan SE models include standard 5-spoke 18-inch alloy wheels and P265/70R18 tires and chrome steel center bumper, while LE models add 6-spoke 18-inch alloy wheels, standard high-utility bed, leather-appointed seating, Rockford Fosgate®-powered audio system with eight speakers. New for 2006 is an auto climate control system and power folding mirrors with heat, power adjust, auto dim, and integrated turn signal.
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All three models offer an Off-Road Package (4x4 models only), which includes Rancho® performance gas shocks, lower final gear ratio (3.357), P285/70R17 BFGoodrich Rugged Trail tires, 17-inch aluminum-alloy wheels (7 spoke), skid plates (oil pan, fuel tank and transfer case), fog lamps and tow hooks. Both the SE and LE models offer a Utility Bed Package with C-channel tie down system, bed side storage, rear bed lighting and power point and spray-on bedliner; and for 2006, the Titan's Tow Package is offered on XE, which includes receiver hitch, lower final gear ratio, additional 7-pin wiring harness plug, trailer brake prewiring, transmission temperature gauge, extending mirrors and heavy-duty battery.


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ringswraith wrote: I do not see Jane wishing for the Cullens' destruction as something she would want. In all honesty the only person that ever irked her there was Bella. I could see her wanting Bella to be killed, but I don't see her extending that want to the rest of the family.
But the Cullens could be a threat to her position. Jane's only loyalty is to Aro and everything she does is in some way to improve her standing with him. She disliked Bella because of Aro's interest in her - and because she couldn't hurt her. But Aro has interest in Edward and Alice too; Catlisle is an old friend of Aro's. I think Jane is insecure as her master's eyes aren't focused on her. And with a coven half full of vampires who could potentially be her rivals, it only makes sense that she would encourage Victoria's advances - she wants the Cullens out of the way, but not enough to upset her master be destroying them herself.


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well — grokster is out. from the beginning:
We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties.
and from the end:
There is substantial evidence in MGM's favor on all elements of inducement, and summary judgment in favor of Grokster and StreamCast was error. On remand, re-consideration of MGMís motion for summary judgment will be in order.
J. Souter wrote the majority opinion which apparently and not surprisingly developed an "inducement" theory. Breyer concurrence (with Souter & O'Connor) and Ginsburg concurrence (with Rehnquist and Kennedy).
lots of discussions (confession: i haven't had time to read them yet; just the opinion; my thoughts on metablog commentaries may come later tonight):
- Importance of Being Ernest: several postings; notes on the pro-grokster press conference; announcement; pre-grokster commentary; grokster punditocracy; etc.!
- WSJ Roundtable
- SCOTUS blog
- picker mobblog on Grokster & Brand X
- Prof. Eric Goldman covers the blog commentary on Grokster.
my own quick thoughts:
- This outcome is no surprise. It seemed obvious that the Court was going to take a middle position that would take some kind of bite out of Sony; the real question was how big a bite.
- So how big is this bite? The Court established an inducement standard, setting out the facts implicating Grokster et al's knowledge and intent to have copyrighted files copied. The battle for the next few years or decades will be to expand or constrict this standard to the facts of Grokster.
- The inducement standard is treated as part of the contributory infringement standard in one place, (p.12), but elsewhere as a third test parallel to contributory and vicarious.
- The new inducement standard on the one hand might not be horrible, if it is limited to the facts at hand: It was certainly clear that Grokster et al intended to follow in the footsteps of Napster. Modeling your entity after another entity that was successfully characterized as a "bad actor" now looks like not so good an idea.
- But on the other hand, the evidence cited in some instances is pretty patchy/sparse:
- The majority opinion cites, for instance, that "Grokster's name is an apparent derivative of Napster." p.7, and again at p.21 ("Grokster's name is apparently derived from Napster…") If that kind of naming can constitute evidence then every e-business and i-product may someday be in trouble.
- The majority also cites attempts to capture / buy relevant search engine keywords. (p.7 & p.22)
- The Court also felt that "the defendants' failure to develop … filtering tools or other mechanisms to diminish the infringing activity … underscores Grokster's and StreamCast's intentional facilitation of their users' infringement." I really dislike this and any other pro-network-policing implications.
- More generally, though, I am still concerned with the dotted line this opinion implicitly draws around design decisions. It should be permissible to design your product around precedents, to avoid clearly unlawful behavior. It can and should be permissible to push that boundary in new directions — new innovation proceeds by pushing old boundaries. In the case of copyright infringement, pushing a boundary too far carries its own risk: that you might fall afoul of that boundary and be found liable for copyright infringement. But here, acknowledging the design decisions is evidence in and of itself of "inducement". That's troubling, because it requires that designers adopt a willful blindness attitude very similar to that which Judge Posner decried in Aimster. And it could make it difficult to defend and describe innovations in court.
- I'm also concerned with the very notion of including an intent-based standard in copyright. Copyright is a strict liability regime. Liability is thus quite broad: any actual infringement creates liability, regardless of intent. Adding an intent-based liability to the further-afield secondary liability broadens copyright even further. The Court did attempt to address this, at p.19:
We are, of course, mindful of the need to keep from trenching on regular commerce or discouraging the development of technology with lawful and unlawful potential. Accordingly, just as Sony did not find intentional inducement despite the knowledge of the VCR manufacturer that its device could be used to infringe, 464 U. S., at 439, n. 19, mere knowledge of infringing potential or of actual infringing uses would not be enough here to subject a distributor to liability. Nor would ordinary acts incident to product distribution, such as offering customers technical support or product updates, support liability in themselves. The inducement rule, instead, premises liability on purposeful, culpable expression and conduct, and thus does nothing to compromise legitimate commerce or discourage innovation having a lawful promise.
Yeah, we'll see. Here's hoping the Court is right in its optimistic assertion that its new inducement "does nothing to compromise legitimate commerce or discourage innovtaion having a lawful promise".
- The Court also played dangerously with the numbers game, citing "the number of infringing downloads that occur every day using StreamCast's and Grokster's software" as a "powerful… argument for imposing liability". At 12. And again at 23: "As the account of the facts indicates, there is evidence of infringement on a gigantic scale, and there is no serious issue of the adequacy of MGM's showing on this point…. "
These lines will certainly appear in content-owners' briefs and attempts to get courts to consider the quantity and volume of infringement — the very standard rejected in Sony.
- The Court states that neither of the Sony uses (recording TV off-air, and librarying programs) was "necessarily infringing". (p.14). So presumably new uses are not "necessarily infringing". But wouldn't this have applied to Napster? Personal file sharing, of degraded-quality MP3s, without commercial exchanges — that was a new use, and not a "necessarily infringing" use. Ah, this is going to beef up the market prong of the fair use test, I bet. Like it needs any more beefing.
- The Court restricts Sony to contributory infringement not vicarious liability. Some courts assumed so anyway, but Posner in Aimster pointed out that it was really unclear. Grokster resolves that unclarity by describing Sony as merely about contributory infringement, not about vicarious liability.
On those facts, with no evidence of stated or indicated intent to promote infringing uses, the only conceivable basis for imposing liability was on a theory of contributory infringement arising from its sale of VCRs to consumers with knowledge that some would use them to infringe. Id., at 439.
at 14. And later at 16-17:
[The Ninth Circuit's] view of Sony, however, was error, converting the case from one about liability resting on imputed intent to one about liability on any theory. Because Sony did not displace other theories of secondary liability …
- On the other hand, the Court seems to want to leave Sony otherwise untouched:
Because Sony did not displace other theories of secondary liability, and because we find below that it was error to grant summary judgment to the companies on MGMís inducement claim, we do not revisit Sony further, as MGM requests, to add a more quantified description of the point of balance between protection and commerce when liability rests solely on distribution with knowledge that unlawful use will occur. It is enough to note that the Ninth Circuitís judgment rested on an erroneous understanding of Sony and to leave further consideration of the Sony rule for a day when that may be required.
at 17.
Added commentary (6/28):
The real problem is that while the Court leaving Sony untouched in name only, the Court manipulated the entire environment in which Sony lived. Sony, as it played out in the real world, stood for the generic proposition that secondary liability for developing & distributing a technology accrued only where there were no "substantial noninfringing uses" to the technology. The fact that Sony was vague on the vicarious / contributory distinction was fine — it created a grander position for the Sony standard vis-a-vis secondary liability generally. Technological development ought not be held hostage either to existing business models or to those who seek to get around the existing business models.
Despite the Court's intentions, Grokster chips away at Sony in two ways: First, the Court hones down the vagueness and wiggle room in Sony by construing it as a contributory case. Second, the Court opens up an entirely new avenue for secondary liability, one with (as yet) no pro-technology out. So, now technology developers, instead of being able to rely on a general, broad principle of protection for multiple-use technologies, have to watch out for both vicarious liability and the new (to copyright) inducement standard.
The protection for technological development is gone. So what if Grokster developed its technology intending to foster copyright infringement? Once the technology is out there, it started being used to, yes, share noninfringing materials. And those uses will continue to grow and evolve. On some level, Grokster the company is merely an agent for technological evolution. But this decision is not aimed at the agent; it's aimed at technological evolution itself. If they had wanted to aim at the agent, then they could have restricted their theory to the inducing acts and words — not to the development and distribution of the technology. How much did Grokster's ad campaigns actually induce infringement? And how much did the mere capability of the technology "induce" infringement? Unfortunately this decision doesn't (at first reading anyway) lend itself to focusing on the acts. It looks at the acts, but it targets the technology.
< / end of added commentary >
- I don't like footnote 13:
It is not only that encouraging a particular consumer to infringe a copyright can give rise to secondary liability for the infringement that results. Inducement liability goes beyond that, and the distribution of a product can itself give rise to liability where evidence shows that the distributor intended and encouraged the product to be used to infringe. In such a case, the culpable act is not merely the encouragement of infringement but also the distribution of the tool intended for infringing use.
- Concurrences:
- Breyer/Souter/O'Connor concur with the majority but disagree with Ginsburg's concurrence (Ginsburg/Rehnquist/Kennedy) evaluating Grokster's potential liability for "contributory infringement". Breyer agrees with the inducement carve-out, but separately finds that Grokster meets the Sony test for contributory infringement.
On the other hand, Breyer regularly cites the quantity in Sony — which suggests that even though he is supporting Grokster in this discussion, he has bought into the quantitative analysis anyway. However Breyer does clearly point out that 10% may not be enough, should not be fixed, and that Aimster was a stricter interpretation of Sony than he would have put forth.
Breyer's opinion is ultimately the most thoughtful and most directly engages the policy balances at stake. And, demonstrates the most familiarity with the record.
- Ginsburg: I really take issue with this concurrence. How can J. Ginsburg say
Here, there has been no finding of fair use and little beyond anecdotal evidence of noninfringing uses. … These declarations (some of them hearsay) include assertions that number of copyright owners authorize distribution of their works on the Internet and that some public domain material is available through peer-to-peer networks.
(at 5) The fact that Rick Prelinger and Brewster Kahle have not personally used the P2P networks is used against them! Merely providing content which they authorized for distribution over P2P networks was not enough. Contrast Sony: If Ginsburg had been writing it, apparently Mr. Rogers' statements that he was happy to have his content copied would not have been sufficient. No, Mr. Rogers would have been required to have actually used VCRs to tape his materials off air.
Apparently all public domain and permissive filesharing constitutes "anecdotal evidence of noninfringing uses". But shouldn't distribution of teachers' guides, satires, etc., count as fair uses? Oh — someone needs to make the compelling case for fair use filesharing! But I suspect nothing would persuade J. Ginsburg. Even blind orphans from Tanzania who get copies of works not otherwise available in Tanzania may not merit a tear if weighed against the all-important interests of large copyright-holding movie companies and cartels.
Ginsburg is pushing for a reconsideration of quantitative factors, which apparently will look at the state of infringement at the moment the litigation is filed. Needless to say this would stifle and kill all sorts of technological developments.
- Breyer/Souter/O'Connor concur with the majority but disagree with Ginsburg's concurrence (Ginsburg/Rehnquist/Kennedy) evaluating Grokster's potential liability for "contributory infringement". Breyer agrees with the inducement carve-out, but separately finds that Grokster meets the Sony test for contributory infringement.


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LinkTest: Parallel MPI PingPong Test-> version 1.2p1 now available (see Release notes)
The Linktest program is a parallel ping-pong test between all possible MPI connections of a machine. Output of this program is a full communication matrix which shows the bandwidth and message latency between each processor pair and a report including the minimum bandwidth. The linktest runs for n processors in n steps where in each step n/2 pairs of processors will perform the MPI pingpong test (e.g. 3 iterations, 128 kB messages). The selection of the pairs is random but after running all steps all possible pairs are covered.
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