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Ray Kurzweil's SXSW keynote: Expanding our intelligence without limit
March 16, 2012
Time magazine's Lev Grossman interviewed Ray Kurzweil at SXSW Interactive to a packed house on Monday, March 12, 2012. If you didn't get a chance to attend, science-fiction author (Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears) William Hertling took the careful notes below.
Other coverage of Ray Kurzweil at SXSW :
ReadWriteWeb | Live drawing at SXSW of Kurzweil's keynote
Flip the Media | Ray Kurzweil brings the Singularity to SXSW
Slate | Ray Kurzweil discusses longevity, robot revolts at SXSW
PC Magazine | Ray Kurzweil debunks exponential returns doubters at SXSW
The Atlantic Wire | The SXSWi power ranking Singularity is here
Time Techland | Inside the Kurzweil SXSW keynote on infinite mind power, robotic overlords and immortality
Notes on Ray Kurzweil's SXSW keynote: "Expanding our intelligence without limit."
Source: William Hertling's Thoughtstream
The hippie movement morphed into silicon valley movement. What we have today is the democratization of technology.
You don't need millions of dollars — you can start world-changing revolutions with what you have (11 year old girl starts blog, now at 14 is on the cover of vogue with her own fashion line).
A boy in Africa today has access to more information than a U.S. President 15 years ago.
"Hardware increases exponentially, but software is stuck in the mud" is an erroneous comment by some critics.
Watson is very impressive because it's able to handle the vagaries of the human language.
Made a prediction that computers would beat humans in chess by 1998, and that immediately afterwards we would dismiss chess as a non-significant program.
Watson is dealing with human languages. It master human language by reading 200 million pages of English content.
It can call up any fact in less than 3 seconds.
Some may say that it doesn't understand it: because it is just statistical extraction of data.
But this is exactly how the human brain works.
Watson is not operating at human levels of intelligence yet.
It combines the capability that it does have with natural language, and combine that with what computers are good at: having total recall of all information.
Computers are shrinking at an exponential rate: a 1000x decrease in size and 1000x increase in performance since Kurzweil was an undergrad.
Moore's Law is only one example.
If you measure the basic fundamental aspects of technology, they are very smooth curves over time.
Paradigms shift: from vacuum tubes to IC.
But overall, the curves are very smooth.
It's not just computers.
- It's also smartphones.
- And the bits we move around on wireless networks.
A very important area is biology. It wasn't an information technology problem until recently.
- DNA Sequencing cost: dropping exponentially.
- Growth in Genbank DNA Sequence Data: increasing exponentially.
Our genes are 23,000 software programs running in our bodies.
Health is now a software technology problem. Therefore, it will now be subject to exponential increases.
The world of physical things becoming information technology.
- 3D printing: "print me a Stradivarius."
- Someone printed an airplane and flew in it.
- At Singularity University, we want to print out low-cost housing.
The spatial resolution and precision of brain scanning is doubling.
The precision of brain simulation is doubling.
Is this good or bad?
- Plot of incoming and life expectancy around the world.
- increasing for everyone. divide is still there, but the lowest countries also increased the most.
- Plot of education over time.
Lev Grossman Interview
What do you think of Siri? What does it mean for the landscape of AI?
- It's great. People who complain remind me of the joke about the woman who has a chess playing dog, but complains that it has a lousy endgame.
- It will keep getting better.
Turing test: Is it still the benchmark for recognizing self-awareness? To say that it is sentient is just bizarre. What will it take for people to recognize it as sentient?
- Of all the different proposals, it still has the most credibility.
- But it's not perfect.
- We look like we're heading for a date of 2029.
- As soon as we pass it, we'll probably reject it as a valid test.
- People will accept an entity as conscious and as a person when it seems that way: when they convince us that they have the complexity and subtly to be our equals.
Where is the serious progress going to come from? Is it from Siri? Watson? Somewhere else?
- It's going to come where there is commercial value.
- Watson is understanding sequences of words.
- It would be of tremendous value for search engines to be able to do this.
- In the future, search engines won't wait to be asked, they'll be listening in, and they will pop up information we need.
- We'll get used to having this information pop up in some sort of augmented reality.
Are they going to judge us for our search terms?
- Making judgements is the top level of our neocortex. It's not built in, it's built up over time, based on what we think. We need a whole framework to make judgements.
- These systems will make these judgements: what does Lev Grossman want vs. what someone else wants.
How much confidence do we have that if greater than human intelligence arises, it will want to be helpful?
- Promise vs. peril has been an issue with technology since we had fire: it can cook food, but it can burn down our villages.
- Biotechnology has great promise and great danger: it could be used by terrorists, and it can be used to arrest cancer.
- Genetics Nanotechnology Robotics (GNR): promise vs. peril is a very large issue. It's not as much an us vs. them, but an us vs. us. We have conflicts today between groups of humans. They will add GNR into the tools they use for that conflict.
- We are a human machine civilization. It's going to be all mixed up: we are all enhanced with computer technology.
- We do have conflicts between humans. GNR technology can make these conflicts more harmful.
Should governments be more active in regulating?
- Conflicts come from governments. So they should not regulate.
- We (SXSW people) should be the ones to regulate it.
- Look at the major political power of Wikipedia: it killed SOPA in hours.
When we talk about intelligence expanding, with technology, does it change us quantitatively or qualitatively? Does it change human nature?
- Mammals evolved and have a neocortex. It was the first time we had an hierarchy of information.
- Then we had a mass extinction event.
- Given the radical sudden change in the environment. the mammals survived because they adapted.
- Evolution recognized this, and used it more.
- Now we have a front cortex.
- If you take a congenitally blind person, the regions of the neocortex used for visual end up getting used for more advanced capability of language analysis.
- We have about 300 million pattern recognizers in the neocortex.
- If we extend it, and are able to have even more complex thoughts.
- Backing up the consciousness in the cloud.
My experience of the reality around me and the people around me feels diminished when I am buried in my smartphone during this conference. Is this a zero-sum game?
- There was a big controversy that kids weren't going to learn arithmetic when calculators were invented.
- And in fact, they don't.
- We've outsourced some of our ability to technology.
- It frees up our energy to be able to do other creative things: like the people at the conference.
- We are free to choose how we spend out time and how we organize it.
- You are communicating with other people, either directly or indirectly.
- It has expanded our minds.
- We have a 19th century model of education.
- We should teach our kids how to solve problems
In Paul Allen's essay: published a few months ago, "The singularity is not here," he said the law of exponential growth is not a physical law. It's just an observation until it no longer works. What if we hit a wall?
- Moore's law will come to an end: but that's just the fifth paradigm. Before we had transistors, before that we had vacuum tubes, before that we had mechanical computers.
- Paul is confusing the end of one paradigm with the end of all growth. We'll go on to another paradigm.
Have you been wrong with your predictions?
- In terms of the underlying capabilities: everything has stayed right on the curves.
- In terms of social predictions: those are harder. I rate myself as 86% correct on my social predictions… Like having self-driving cars.
According to a research presentation at the Singularity Summit large year: the complexity of even a single cell is immense, and it will be impossible to simulate it all.
- There is massive redundancy. When we look at how much information is encoded in the genome, you realize that the connections are redundant.
- In the cerebullum you have connections wired together 10 million times. Massive levels of redundancy.
- You could say a forest is incredibly complex, but there is fractal redundancy.
How confident do you feel that the kinds of marvelous benefits that are coming will be available to the 99%?
- You have to take a lot of comfort from where we are today.
- Twenty years ago, if you took our a mobile phone, that was a sign that you were an elite. They were big and heavy and limited functionality.
- Now they can do so much more, and are small, and they are in everyone's hands.
- Every field is being empowered by increasingly inexpensive and increasingly powerful tools: music, health, etc.
- They will make their ways into our bodies and brains, but that's an arbitrary distinction.
- I don't see a tremendous power being given to an elite.
Say you're graduating from college right now. What would you want to do to get yourself ready for the decades to come?
- All of our education needs to encompass doing as a centerpiece of the curriculum.
- If I was a student, I would be at an institution where that was how it was done.


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It's a sad truth that you can't see everything you want at a major film festival and I was bummed that I missed Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz when I was at TIFF. However, I rested easy in the knowledge that movie starring Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen would probably find distribution and now it has. Magnolia has sent out a press release announcing their acquisition of the relationship drama and plan to run it through the festival circuit before releasing it into theaters in early summer 2012.
For those unfamiliar with the film, Williams plays a woman who's married to a good-natured cookbook author (Rogen) but then she finds herself attracted to a handsome artist (Luke Kirby). I really enjoyed Polley's previous flim, Away from Her, and I'm glad I'll be seeing Take This Waltz in the not-too-distant future. Hit the jump for the full press release.
Magnolia Pictures Takes US Rights to Sarah Polley's TAKE THIS WALTZ
New York, NY – October 17, 2011 – The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnolia Pictures announced today they have acquired US rights to TAKE THIS WALTZ, the eagerly anticipated new film written, directed and produced by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and acclaimed actress Sarah Polley. Starring two-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby and Sarah Silverman, TAKE THIS WALTZ is an insightful, sophisticated film about a young woman struggling to choose between a husband that she loves and another man that she has fallen passionately in love with. Magnolia did the deal with TF1 International.
TAKE THIS WALTZ was produced by Susan Cavan along with Sarah Polley, and premiered last month at the Toronto International Film Festival. Michelle Williams plays twenty-eight-year-old Margot, happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), a handsome artist that lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable. Warmly human, funny and bittersweet, TAKE THIS WALTZ deftly avoids romantic clichés and paints an unusually true and unsentimental portrait of adult relationships.
Magnolia plans a robust theatrical release in early summer 2012 in all major US markets, bolstered by a prominent film festival presence in regional fests leading up to the release. Additionally, TAKE THIS WALTZ will be distributed through Magnolia's successful Ultra VOD program.
"With TAKE THIS WALTZ, Sarah Polley has more than lived up to the promise of the wonderful Away From Her, and proven herself a masterful, sensitive chronicler of the human condition," said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles. "The entire cast is revelatory in unexpected ways and we think audiences will be surprised and delighted by this very special film."
Said Sarah Polley: "Magnolia has distributed some of my favourite films of the last few years. It is an honour to have our film counted among their incredible list of titles. Their enthusiasm for the film is very exciting and we can't wait to begin working with them."

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|Boston University Terriers | CIT First Round
|Tuesday, March 19, 2013
|7:30 p.m.
|Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
|TV | Radio
|CollegeInsider.com | Hounds Unleashed
|Series Record
|Series tied, 1-1
|Last Meeting
|Loyola 69, Boston U. 56 – February 19, 2012 in Baltimore
Game Data
Loyola University Maryland will begin play in the postseason for the second year in a row on Tuesday, March 19, when it hosts Boston University in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) First Round.
Tip-off is slated for 7:30 p.m. in Reitz Arena.
Postseason Firsts
The game will mark the first time in Loyola's Division I history (since 1981-1982) that the Greyhounds have played in the postseason in consecutive seasons after making the NCAA Tournament a year ago.
It will also be the first Division I men's basketball postseason game to be hosted on the Evergreen Campus.
Loyola's berth in the CIT is also its first in the five-year history of the event.
Watch Or Listen
CollegeInsider.com will carry Loyola's broadcast of the game live and free of charge on its website.
Fans can also listen to the action on LoyolaGreyhounds.com where Gary Lambrecht will call the play-by-play, and Jim Chivers will handle analysis duties.
CIT Information
The CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament made its debut in 2009 as a 16-team tournament that included schools from mid-major conferences. In 2011, the tournament expanded to 24 teams, and it grew again this year to 32.
Teams in this year's event will play in an unbracketed first round, and the tournament will be seeded and bracketed following those 16 games. Second Round play begins March 22 at campus sites.
Series History
Loyola and Boston University will meet for the third time when the teams take the floor Tuesday. The series is tied, 1-1, after Loyola picked up a 69-56 victory on February 19, 2012, on its home floor in Bracketbuster play.
The teams will become regular foes beginning in 2013-2014 when Loyola and Boston University become the ninth and 10th members of the Patriot League.
In the 2012 meeting, the Greyhounds shot 71.4-percent from the floor in the second half, and Robert Olson scored 12 of his team-high 17 points in the second half, all on 3-pointers, and Loyola pulled away after leading 29-28 at halftime. Dylon Cormier added 14 points, and Erik Etherly had a game-best six rebounds.
The Terriers won the first meeting, 71-51, in the first round of the Sports Foundation Classic on December 27, 1996, in Tampa, Fla.
Jason Rowe led the Greyhounds with 16 points and seven assists in the game, and Erik Cooper scored a career-high 15. Tunji Awojobi finished with a game-high 25 points and 12 rebounds for the Terriers.
Last Time Out
Dylon Cormier converted a 3-point play with 2:42 left in regulation to pull Loyola within a point, 53-52, but his points were the Greyhounds' last of the game, and Manhattan came away with a 55-52 win in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Quarterfinals on March 9 in Springfield, Mass., at the MassMutual Center.
Loyola trailed by four at halftime, as many as 13 in the first half and 14 in the second, before Cormier drew the Greyhounds the closest they had been since the game's opening minutes.
Cormier finished with a game-high 14 points, and Anthony Winbush added 12 points. Cormier also had a team-best seven rebounds, while Winbush pulled down six. Rhamel Brown led the Jaspers, who advanced to the MAAC title game, with 12 points and 12 rebounds.
Postseason History
This year's bid to the CIT marks the first time in Loyola men's basketball's NCAA Division I history (since 1981-1982) that the Greyhounds have gone to the postseason (defined as competition following the designated conference tournament) in back-to-back years.
It is just the third time overall in school history that the program has achieved consecutive postseason appearances.
The Emil 'Lefty' Reitz-coached teams in 1946-1947, 1947-1948 and 1948-1949 advanced to the NAIA Division I Championships, and the final squad during that period also went 3-1 in the 1949 National Catholic Intercollegiate Tournament.
Two years later, Reitz's teams had a two-year stretch of postseason competition, playing in the National Catholic Championship following the 1951-1952 season before going 1-1 in the NAIA Division I Championships at the end of 1952-1953.
At the Division I level, Loyola has played in the 1994 and 2012 NCAA Tournaments.
All told, the Greyhounds are 5-8 in postseason play entering the game against the Terriers.
All-MAAC Honors
Last week, Dylon Cormier and Erik Ethelry became the first pair of Loyola men's basketball teammates to earn All-MAAC First Team honors in the same season.
Etherly earned the honors for the second year in a row after averaging 16.2 points and 6.3 rebounds per game during the regular-season.
He also blocked 27 shots and recorded 39 steals in 26 games. Etherly led the Greyhounds in scoring 11 times and has tallied 10 or more on 22 occasions, 20 or more 10 times.
Cormier has led the Greyhounds in scoring all season and enters the CIT first round with a 16.5 points per game average. He has scored in double digits in 28 of the 31 games he's played this season and led the team in scoring 14 times.
In addition to his scoring, Cormier leads the team in total assists (77) and is second in the MAAC in both total steals (58) and steals per game (1.8).
Etherly's Career-High
Erik Etherly closed the 2012-2013 regular-season with a career-high 30 points on Sunday against Manhattan, becoming the first Loyola player since Jamal Barney on February 16, 2009, to finish with 30 or more points.
Etherly made a career-best 11 field goals on 18 attempts and could have even more points except for going 8-of-15 from the free-throw line.
The graduate student started the game by missing his first two shots, and three of his first four, but he misfired on just four more shots in the final 35 minutes of action. He scored 19 in the first half on 7-of-11 shooting.
Etherly Over The Last Seven Of The Regular Season
Erik Etherly's 30-point effort in the regular-season against the Jaspers gave the graduate student five games of 22 or more points in Loyola's last seven outings and three-straight with 23 or more.
He scored 25 versus Siena on February 8, 22 at Marist two days later, 26 at Tennessee State on February 23 and 23 last Friday night at Iona..
During that seven-game stretch, in which Etherly also scored nine at home versus Canisius and 11 at Siena, he is averaging a team-best 20.9 points. He is shooting 55.4-percent from the field during those games.
Scoring Off Turnovers
Loyola has increased its point production off opponents' turnovers over the past 11 games, tallying 232 over that time period, an average of 21.1 per game.
In the first 22 games of the year, the Greyhounds scored just 304 points or 13.8 per game.
During the last 11 games, Loyola's opponents have committed an average of 14.8 turnovers per game, 163 total. In the first 22 games of the season, opponents turned the ball over 276 times, an average of 12.5 per game.
Loyola's steals have also risen from 6.6 to 8.7 per game between the first 21 and the last 11 games.
The Greyhounds, however, scored only seven points off turnovers in its MAAC Quarterfinal loss to Manhattan, the fewest they scored in that respect since December 1 in a loss to Florida Gulf Coast.
Three In The 20s
Three Loyola players scored 20 or more points on March 1 at Iona as Erik Etherly and Robert Olson both posted 23, and Anthony Winbush finished with 20.
It marked the first time in Jimmy Patsos' nine years as Loyola head coach that the Greyhounds have seen three players reach 20 in the same game. The last time Loyola accomplished the feat was on February 16, 2002, when Donovan Thomas scored 27, B.J. Davis had 21 and Lucious Jordan added 20 in an 88-78 win at Saint Peter's.
Winbush On Target In Career-High
Anthony Winbush's 20 points at Iona marked a career-high for the fifth-year senior and the first 20-point game of his career. He did so while only missing two shots, going 10-of-12 from the field. His 10 field goals and 12 field goal attempts were also career-highs.
Prior to that game, Winbush's career high was 17 points, a total he had reached twice. The last time he scored 17 was on December 18, 2008, at Bucknell during his freshman year at Loyola.
His previous season-high was 16 in a game that he shot made 5-of-8 field goals, including a pair of threes, and 4-of-6 free throws against Saint Peter's on December 8, 2012, at the IZOD Center.
Winbush has now scored in double figures seven times this season, and the Greyhounds are 6-1 in those games.
Olson's Last Eleven
Robert Olson has been the Greyhounds' second leading scorer over the last 11 games, averaging 15.5 points per game during that stretch. He has scored in double figures in nine of the 11 games, has four games of 20 or more and five with better than 17.
During the run, in which Loyola is 7-4, Olson has shot 41.6-percent from the field and 39.5-percent from 3-point range. Those numbers represent improvements over the 37.8-percent from the field and 28.3-percent from 3-point range he shot in Loyola's first 21 games.
Olson has made two or more 3-pointers in all but one of those games, and he has connected on four or more in four of the 11 games.
His stretch has raised his scoring average from 11.3 through 21 games to 12.8 entering the CIT First Round.
Season-High In Assists
Loyola dished out a season-high 23 assists against Iona in New Rochelle, N.Y., against Iona, eclipsing its previous best of 19 on January 17, 2013, at home in a win over Marist. The 23 assists are tied for seventh-most in school single-game history.
R.J. Williams led the way, tying his career-high with seven assists, and Dylon Cormier also tied his career-best with six. Erik Etherly passed out five, Anthony Winbush had three, and Robert Olson distributed two.
Since Williams' return to the court on January 17 against Marist, Loyola is averaging 13.8 assists per game. In just 14 games, he has moved into fourth on the team with 54 assists, and his 3.8 per game top the Greyhounds.
20-Win Season
The February 23 victory at Tennessee State was the Greyhounds' 20th of the 2012-2013 season, marking the second time in as many years Loyola has reached the 20-win plateau. It is the first back-to-back 20-win seasons in school Division I history (since 1981-1982) and just the fifth overall.
Loyola previously put three-straight 20-win seasons together from 1946-1949 under the direction of head coach Emil "Lefty" Reitz.
More Than 60 Years
The last time the Loyola men's basketball program won 20 games in back-to-back seasons, 1948-1949, the following things were going on in the world, 63 years ago:
Harry Truman began his first full term as President of the United States.
Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman premiered on Broadway.
NATO was formed.
The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League merged to form the NBA.
The first jet-powered airliner, the de Havilland Comet, took flight.
Another 20-Point Game For Cormier
Dylon Cormier recorded his second-straight 20-point effort at Tennessee State, making 7-of-16 field goals and 5-of-7 from the free-throw line against the Tigers. He has led Loyola in scoring throughout the season and is currently sixth in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference with 16.6 points per game. Cormier has scored 15 or more 20 times this season.
Cormier earned Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Player of the Week honors on February 18 after averaging 20.5 points and 4.0 steals in wins over Canisius and Siena the weekend prior. He led all players with 24 points, going 9-of-10 from the free-throw line at Siena, and he also tied his season-high with five steals.
He has consistently raised his game since his freshman season. Cormier averaged 8.1 as a freshman in 2010-2011, 13.4 last year and 16.5 this season. His rebounds per game have also risen from 3.0-3.3-4.5, as have his steals per game (0.8-1.6-1.8) and assists per game (1.1-1.8-2.3). He currently is second in the MAAC in steals (58) and steals per game (1.8).
Moving Up Career Charts
In the game at Iona, Robert Olson became the 22nd player in school history to score more than 1,200 points in his career. He also moved into 20th all-time at Loyola and enters the MAAC Championships with 1,219 career points.
The MAAC Quarterfinal was the 124th game played of Olson's career, moving him into a tie with Brian Rudolph for most games played in school history.
Elsewhere on the Loyola career charts, Olson is now second in 3-pointers made (204) behind only Marquis Sullivan's 281. He is also 22nd in field-goals made (415), third in 3-pointers attempted (537), 16th in assists (228) and seventh in steals (117).
Overtime Under Patsos
In Jimmy Patsos' eight-plus seasons at Loyola, the Greyhounds have played just 10 overtime games, but they have won nine of them. The only loss in nine overtime games came during 2009 against Coppin State.
This year's squad is 3-0 in extra time this year, winning at Rhode Island and Niagara at home versus Fairfield.
Three Overtimes In A Season
The last time Loyola played three or more overtime games in a season was 1990-1991, the program's season year in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. That year, the Greyhounds played extra time at Saint Peter's and Niagara (four overtimes, the longest game in program history) and at home versus Iona and Saint Peter's (three overtimes).
Six Over 10
Prior to the February 2 game at Niagara, Loyola had not placed five players in double figures all season. Against the Purple Eagles, six Greyhounds – Robert Olson (23), Dylon Cormier (15), Julius Brooks (14), Anthony Winbush (13), Erik Etherly and R.J. Williams (11 each) – scored 10 or more points.
The last time six Loyola players scored in double figures was on January 30, 2011, when the Greyhounds topped Iona, 88-85, in overtime at home.
Brooks' Big Shot
Julius Brooks made the game-winning layup with time expiring on February 2 at Niagara, giving him a career-high 14 points. He made a career-best six field goals in just seven attempts, and he also finished with eight rebounds.
He has set or tied his career-high in scoring three times this season, first setting a new standard with 12 against Mount St. Mary's on December 15 before tying that mark against Marist on January 17.
Brooks has logged four or more rebounds 14 times this season, and the Greyhounds are 12-2 in those contests.
Hit On 70
Despite its loss at Iona on March 1, the Greyhounds are 8-3 this season when scoring 70 or more points in a game. Their only losses when scoring that many or more came at home against Iona and at Canisius and Iona.
Over the last two seasons, Loyola is now 18-4 when it scores 70 or more. Its only loss of that kind in 2011-2012 was in an 83-79 defeat at Rider.
Record-Tying Defense
The 41 points Loyola yielded at Manhattan tied the Greyhounds' Division I record for fewest points allowed in a game. Loyola, which joined Division I in 1981-1982, allowed 41 points on two other occasions, a 43-41 win over Marist College on February 23, 1984, and a 58-41 victory at Dartmouth on November 24, 2009.
The 14 field goals by Manhattan were the fewest yielded by a Jimmy Patsos-coached Loyola team.
Opponents Under 50
The Manhattan game was the third time this season Loyola has held an opponent to fewer than 50 points. The Greyhounds did so in the November 9 season-opener against Binghamton (45) and on November 17 against Norfolk State (49).
Loyola twice held opponents to sub-50 performances last season: February 3, 2012, against Rider (46) and March 5 versus Fairfield (44) in the MAAC Championship Game.
Over the nine years Jimmy Patsos has been head coach at Loyola, the Greyhounds have held opponents under 50 points nine times, all Greyhound wins. The nine games have all come in the last four seasons.
Cormier, Etherly Score 1,000th Points
On Monday night at Fairfield, Erik Etherly and Dylon Cormier became the 33rd and 34th players in Loyola men's basketball history to reach 1,000 career points as Greyhounds, and they did so in the same game, a feat never before accomplished at Loyola.
Etherly scored his 1,000th on a layup just 15 seconds into the second half at Fairfield, and Cormier followed suit on a 3-pointer from the left corner 8:07 later.
1,000 Points In the Same Game
Prior to the Fairfield game, through unofficial research, the last time a school had two players reach 1,000 points in the same game was nearly five years ago when Fernandez Lockett and Todd Babington of Austin Peay hit the plateau on March 7, 2008
However, it took just 24 hours for it to happen again as North Carolina State's Richard Howell and Lorenzo Brown got to 1,000 in the Wolfpack's 86-84 loss at Wake Forest on Tuesday night.
And Olson Makes It Three
Erik Etherly and Dylon Cormier were not the first Loyola players to score 1,000 in a career this season. Robert Olson reached the mark on January 6 against Saint Peter's.
It is the first time in Loyola's 103 seasons of men's basketball that the program has had three players with 1,000 career points at the same time.
Three 1,000-Point Scorers In MAAC History
Since the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference was founded in 1980, this is just the sixth instance of a team touting three players with 1,000-plus points at the same time.
Iona (2000-2001, 2011-2012) and Siena (1999-2000, 2009-2010) have accomplished twice, while Loyola joins Niagara (2004-2005) with a one-time occurrence.
Holding Opponents Under 60
The Greyhounds limited Siena to 51 points, the 12th time this season they have held an opponent to 59 or fewer on the scoreboard. Loyola has won all 12 of those games. Including the 2011-2012 season, Loyola has held opponents to 59 or fewer 23 times, all victories.
Cormier Getting To The Line
Through 31 games played this season, Dylon Cormier has shot 215 free throws, an average of 6.9 per game. He has made 73.5-percent of those shots, a total of 158.
He has already surpassed his made free throw total from a year ago when he made 108-of-160. In his two-plus seasons at Loyola, Cormier has made 319-of-454 (70.2-percent) from the line.
Guards To The Boards
Dylon Cormier and Robert Olson, Loyola's starting guards, are third and fourth on the team in rebounding this season with both averaging 4.5 per game.
Olson has pulled down five or more boards 16 times this year, and Cormier has reached or exceeded that total 12 times.
Winning Combinations
Loyola is now 13-1 when it shoots 45-percent or better in a game, and the Greyhounds are now 15-3 when scoring 65 or more points this season. Loyola is also 13-1 when holding opponents to 59 points or less.
High Marks
The Loyola men's basketball team scored the highest amongst squads in the State of Maryland in the most recent NCAA Graduation Success Rate report. The Greyhounds checked in with a 91-percent GSR, tops among the state's nine Division I schools, for players who entered the school between 2002-2005.
Century Mark
Head Coach Jimmy Patsos became the third coach in Loyola history to win 100 games when the Greyhounds defeated UMBC, 73-63, on the road last season. Patsos, who is now in his ninth season, took over a team that finished 1-27 during the 2002-2003 season. He won his 100th game in his 215th career game.
Last season, Patsos moved into third-place all time at Loyola in victories, trailing only Lefty Reitz (349 wins, 1937-44, 1945-61) and Nap Doherty (165, 1961-74).
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Since taking over as head coach in 2004, Jimmy Patsos has put an emphasis on recruiting locally, and it has never shown as much as on this year's roster. Four players – junior guard Dylon Cormier (Cardinal Gibbons), junior forward Jordan Latham (City) and sophomore guard R.J. Williams and freshman forward Josh Forney (St. Frances) are products of schools within the city limits.
Six more players played in high school within 50 miles of Loyola, as the crow flies (thanks daftlogic.com): Jarred Jones, John Carroll, 20.5; Tyler Hubbard, Montrose Christian, 32.6 miles; Robert Olson, Georgetown Prep, 33.9; Anthony Winbush, T.C. Williams, 43.7; and Erik Etherly, Annandale, 47.9.


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I have a lot of CDs but I have no idea how many I actually have. I probably own somewhere between 2500 and 3500 but not having an actual count, and inventory, bothers me. I'm a very anal person when it comes to my music collection, so much so that even my wife thinks I'm crazy!
As many of you have read before, I bought a house and moved in on Halloween 2006. When I was in my apartment, I had three beautiful wood CD cases that showcased my collection. Those cases didn't fit in my new master bedroom (low ceilings) so they lie on the floor and keep things organized to a point. Before that, my collection resided in the moving boxes.
Everything is organized meticulously so I know where everything is but sometimes the mind fails and I forget what I actually have. The last few times I've gone out on CD hunts, I've brought my Want List but I didn't have a "master list" of what I own. I can spend hours in a record store finding hidden treasure but sometimes I forget if I have some of the things I'm finding. I used to have a list that I made in 1998 using Microsoft Works, I updated it everytime I acquired a new album. Unfortunately, that list was deleted and I would have to start from scratch, an ominous task with thousands of albums and so little free time. Nontheless, I have decided to make a "master list" of my collection.
Late in 2006, I purchased the Collectorz Music Collector software and I actually started putting CDs into the database. I'm up to 256, a small fraction of what I have! So I have decided to make this my project for 2008 and my hope is that I will be able to post a full and complete list here at Heavy Metal Addiction.
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Posted: Thu 21 Jan 2010, 19:48
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Since this laptop has only 5 minutes battery life, power failure is an irritation as the power lead also tends to fall out from time to time. So I figured out how to write a script to run every 30 seconds to monitor the power and pop up a dialog warning of power failure, before the battery gives up. This has saved me on several occasions.
yes I did that too as there is no built in ability it seems.
How do I go about that mike? I'm always afraid when I go messing with making partitions.
If there is a spare usb socket and a spare usb format it as swap and plug it in before booting and see if it gets detected..
now I'm hyjacking thee thread and will get carted off by moderators in white coats whilst screaming I love vista and want bill's babies...
I'll give it a shot mike. Thanks. I'll let you know how it comes out.
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Fujitsu Lifebook p2110
circa 2001
867mhz Transmeta "Crusoe" processor
40GB Fujitsu MHV2040AT UDMA4 HD (21.15 MB/Sec xfer rate)
Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2212
ATI Rage Mobility PCI onboard graphics driving a 16 bit 1280x768 display
Intersil PRISM Wireless LAN PCI card
RealTek RTL8139(A)-based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
Triple booting Win@K Pro SP4, Xubuntu 9.10, Puppy 4.31
The box was a pass-along, from the mother of a friend who had upgraded to a faster machine and wanted to see it go to a good home. As delivered from Fujitsu, it had a 30GB Toshiba drive and Win XP Pro SP2. She commented it was "slow slow slow" Running XP Pro in 256MB of RAM made that no surprise. Win 2K Pro runs a
better in 256MB,. but takes 7.5 to 8 minutes to boot.
Xubuntu runs but is extremely sluggish.
Puppy 4.31 is installed on an ext4 file system, in a full install with separate 512mb swap partition. Puppy itself is fairly sprightly, but third party apps like Firefox 3.6 and Open Office 3.2 are slow loading.
Pretty much everything works. Puppy drives the screen through Xorg, and handles the 1280x768 display that is the best the video will do. (The Windows ATI driver does 1600x1200, but as a 1280x768 window panning over a 1600x1200 virtual screen. I'm just as happy Puppy doesn't support that...)
Net access is normally via CAT5 cable to a port on my router, but Puppy detects my wireless card. It took a bit of fiddling to get it to see my network: the default choices in the Network Wizard didn't see it. Once I told it to look for a broadcast SSID, it saw my router.
Still can't connect via wifi at home, however: Puppy seems to support WEP and WPA, but not WPA2. since I normally connect via cable at home, I don't really care.
The biggest issue with the box is arthritic disk I/O, resulting in slow loading of large programs. I
theoretically up the RAM to 384MB (the max Fujitsu says it will take) and swap in a faster HD, but this is mostly an experiment to see what I can wring out of ancient hardware, and I'm disinclined to spend money on it.
Puppy is a fairly good fit for the low end hardware, and I wasn't expecting a lot, so I'm reasonably happy.
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Posted: Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:02
Post subject: compaq presario r3000
Subject description: older laptop conquered finally
I installed puppy 4.3.1 from live cd on this older laptop. it has (i think) 512 mb ram 800mhz processor w dvd/cd drive. I couldnt get past grub on dvd so i burned a live cd and got it up n running. When i tried to install to hdd it was getting hung with grub something about the way the drive was formatted , if i recall. so after hunting the forums i found the auto installl frugal script that was posted and it worked perfectly. very quick and easy install. I wish the live cd would offer that script it would save MUCH time and HEADACHES. Overall it seems to work very well . I only wanted it for the wife to use for browsing and email on the counter (wired ethernet) .
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Posted: Fri 22 Jan 2010, 18:06
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One of the reasons for keeping Windows is that this computer has a built-in analog modem that lets me use standard phone lines when necessary. Never got it to work under Puppy.
Puppy should work with most/all built-in laptop modems. However, 4.3.1-k18.104.22.168 contains an erroneous version of the driver for many (SmartLink) such modems. The k184.108.40.206 version of 4.3.1 contains the correct driver. If you have either the 126.96.36.199 or 2.6.21.. iso, from it copy /lib/modules/all-firmware/slmodem to the same place in 4.3.1-k184.108.40.206.
If the modem is detected as ttySHSF0 but that does not work, there is a way to fix that (but I need particulars) or you can wait for my imminent new modem fix pack, due shortly in the 4.3.1 bugs thread.
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Posts: 14
Posted: Sat 23 Jan 2010, 00:28
Post subject: How do I Drive the External monitor
Hi, mikeb mentioned he is using an HP laptop where he was able to configure Puppy to drive his external monitor.
i would like to know what steps I should do to replicate that.
i am using an old Dell Inspiron B120 laptop running on Puppy 431 via a USB memory card.
I use Xorg and could not get the external monitor to display an extended desktop, like you can in windows. Right no, my external monitor just displays the same desktop displayed on my laptop's monitor.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Posted: Sat 23 Jan 2010, 07:16
Post subject: My Puppy Laptop
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Puppy 4.3.1 Frugal dual boot with WIN XP
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Posted: Sat 23 Jan 2010, 11:09
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Right no, my external monitor just displays the same desktop displayed on my laptop's monitor.
That's what I had....you need to edit or obtain a /etc/X11/xorg.conf to do what you want and google is the place to look. I was lucky as the suse driver and its xorg.conf enable the external screen as puppy only supported vesa.
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Posted: Sat 23 Jan 2010, 14:12
Post subject: External Display
Thanks MikeB, hopefully someone using the same gear I'm using will come up with a solution.
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Posted: Mon 25 Jan 2010, 04:18
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Toshiba Satellite 1800
Processor: Pentium III 1 Ghz (Coppermine)
Memory: 256 MB
Harddisk: 20 GB
OS: Puppy 4.3.1, Ubuntu 9.04
Puppy runs happily on my laptop. Thanks BK!
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Posted: Mon 25 Jan 2010, 14:39
Post subject: Dell Inspiron 1501
I'm using a two and a half year old Dell Inspiron 1501 that I bought cheap a couple of months ago.Part of the deal was that I had to wipe the hard drive. After playing with an XP reinstall that resulted in a cranky Window$ that acted rather like an old man in a nursing home who had been awakened by the nurse so he can take his sleeping pill. Bad move on M$s part as I had been wanting to try a full install of Puppy for awhile now.
So I did.
Puppy 4.31 and Grub installed with no problem. After that I Installed Ubuntu 9.10 in a dual boot.
The laptop has a 1.8 GHz AMD Sempron and 512M DDr2 SDRAM, Broadcom BCM 4311 wireless card, CD RW/DVD Rom drive and a 60G HD split equally between the OSs, 4 (count em! FOUR! Sorry I love flashdrives) USB 2.02 amd a SD card reader.
Etho works fine however I've only tried the wifi twice once successfully on an unsecured network and once unsuccessfully on a public library network. I haven't taken the time yet to sort that out but I suspect operator head space and timing. Interestingly enough Ubuntu wouldn't recognize the wireless until a driver was installed but Puppy found it right off.
I haven't tried either OS on a printer yet.
Sound works just fine.
Puppy recognizes and readily down loads from my Canon Powershot A590. I haven't tried the card reader yet.
Thus far I am pleased with both the laptop and the Puppy install. I'd recommend this machine to other Puppy users.
Good thread, CatDude. I like playing with used equipment and this info will come in handy evaluating potential acquisitions in the future.
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Posted: Mon 25 Jan 2010, 15:12
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Hello ajlec2000
ajlec2000 wrote:
Good thread, CatDude. I like playing with used equipment and this info will come in handy evaluating potential acquisitions in the future.
My thanks go to you and everyone else, for taking the time to contribute.
I am now looking to purchase a laptop myself, but i have so many questions, i don't know where to start
for example:
1. Are there any particular brands and/or models that are best avoided ?
2. Are there any particular brands and/or models that are highly recommended ?
3. When it comes to CPU's, which are the best to go for AMD's or Intel's ?
4. What about graphics cards, which are least likely to be a problem (driver wise) ?
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Posted: Mon 25 Jan 2010, 15:16
Post subject: Puppy on Laptops
Subject description: My experiences with Puppy on my laptops
First off: Puppy Linux is the best Linux distribution available...period.
My second choice is PC Linux OS, but that's another subject.
I've been fooling around with Puppy for the last 2 or 3 upgrades but the current Puppy did the trick. All the previous versions were nearly impossible to connect wirelessly on any of my old laptops.
When 4.3.1 came out...perfection. That was exciting.
I have two old Toshibas and one Gateway, all of which came with Windows XP. When Puppy Linux 4.3.1 came out I could connect wirelessly and that was the final push that made me recommend it to everyone who showed any kind of interest.
The Toshibas are models 2435 with a 2.4 Intel processor and L25 S1216 which has a 1.6 Celeron. The Gateway is a barebones MX3225 with a 1.5 Celeron.
All 3 laptops work seamlessly with Puppy. And the speed is fantastic. I save my configuration to the hard drives and that makes it easy to boot up and use Puppy.
There have been issues with the soundcards working especially on the Gateway which I'm looking into now.
I also tried doing the USB pendrive Puppy and it only worked on the Gateway which is the newer machine (about 3 years old) and allows for a USB boot in the bios. But my configurations changed with Puppy on the USB drive and I couldn't connect wirelessly. Which was a disappointment. So I boot up with a mini cd in the optical drive instead
If anyone finds this interesting I can submit more technical detail in a future post. I'm composing this on my Gateway currently.
An interesting thing, too, for me with Puppy. My Gateway has a built-in wifi via Realtek. This wifi regularly has disconnects when I boot up under Windows XP and have taken to using a pcmcia Linksys card which is more stable most of the time.
Under Puppy, I connect regularly with the Realtek wifi and have left the Gateway on for a whole day without getting disconnected once. For me, that's impressive.
For that alone, I love Puppy Linux.
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Posted: Mon 25 Jan 2010, 15:40
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Hello brians3
Welcome to the kennels.
brians3 wrote:
First off: Puppy Linux is the best Linux distribution available...period.
For sure
Thank you for your input, it is most welcome.
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Posted: Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:12
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Toshiba Satellite 4070CDS
Processor: Intel Celeron 366 Mhz
Memory: 64 MB
Hardisk: 4GB
OS: Full install puppy 4.31 + 128mb swap partition
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Posted: Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:45
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I am sure that there are plenty of knowledgeable and more experienced folks on this forum that might disagree with me, but I am kinda' fond of the 3~5 year old business-class Dell notebooks. Just make sure the BIOS allows for booting from USB. They aren't the lightest (best used as a desktop replacement) but I've seen technicians take them apart -- everything is accessible and they seem to last. Had an old Acer laptop for awhile which was a nightmare to disassemble and assemble. A nearby compatriot has a 14" Dell D610 Centrino that I would love to own if he were willing to sell it (he's not).
to install around 2GB of RAM will allow you to run any Linux distro currently available. You will not be buying the laptop with the RAM already installed, of course (too expensive that way).
If you are looking for something that travels well, I think others are better qualified than I am to answer. For my own travels, I have a (now discontinued) Dell netbook (some of the newer Dell netbooks are not so easily upgradeable as mine is).
Although I don't know squat about comparing CPU's or computer brands that I have not owned, scour these forums for those hard-to-load graphics cards. Those are what I would be tempted to avoid. Intel graphics have almost always worked well for me with Linux; some of the Intel wireless drivers are typically compiled into the Linux kernels by default.
Most importantly, Google for a trustworthy review of the kit before you pay your hard-earned money. Some of the older Dells, as an example, had problems with too much heat. I think Dell was even sued at one point for CPU issues. Google is our friend!
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Baby Dylan has arrived, and my heart is bursting with ♥! I wanted to share a few of my fave vegan mommy goodies that have gotten me by these past few weeks. Kalencom diaper bag – I got this as a baby shower gift from my sister-in-law...
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The Forces of Darkness have launched a coordinated assault upon the Free Nations of Magnamund. Their intentions are clear: to overwhelm and annihilate them before an effective counter-offensive can be undertaken.
In THE STORMS OF CHAI, your mission is one of seven that Kai Supreme Master Lone Wolf has initiated to turn back this unprecedented tide of evil before it engulfs all the goodly nations of Magnamund forever.
Will you succeed in your vital quest to retrieve the Eye of Agarash from the city of Pensei and bring it back safely to the Kai Monastery of Lorn, or will you fall victim to the powerful Nadziran Zashnor and the terrible creatures at his command?


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Knicks beat Jazz 92-83 to finish 3-2 road trip
SALT LAKE CITY – Carmelo Anthony scored 34 points on 11-of-19 shooting, and the Knicks pulled away for a 92-83 victory over the Utah Jazz on Monday night that kept them one game back of the final Eastern Conference playoff berth.
Tyson Chandler added 15 points and nine rebounds, while J.R. Smith scored 13 points and Raymond Felton chipped in 12 points and six assists to help the Knicks (32-43) finish 3-2 on its western trip.
Gordon Hayward scored 18 points, Alec Burks added 17 off the bench and Derrick Favors chipped in 13 points and 13 rebounds for the Jazz (23-52), who lost for the 16th time in their last 18 contests.
The Knicks shot 47 percent (33 of 70) from the field while holding Utah to just 39 percent (33 of 85).
The Knicks scored on four straight possessions during a 15-2 run in the third quarter. Chandler punctuated the spurt with a layup, giving the Knicks a 63-55 advantage. They hit 6-of-9 shots to open the quarter.
The Jazz chipped away and tied it at 67 on Burks' 3-pointer over Anthony, but the Knicks turned up the defense to seize control.
The Jazz made just one basket over a 7 ½-minute stretch spanning the third and fourth quarters as the Knicks went on a 17-2 run. Anthony drained a pair of baskets to cap the run and give the Knicks an 84-69 lead with 9:53 left in the fourth quarter.
They jumped on the Jazz quick before quickly fading in the first quarter. The Knicks hit 7-of-9 shots to open the quarter and took a 15-10 lead when Smith drained a jumper and Chandler threw down an alley-oop dunk on consecutive possessions.
The Jazz hit their first four baskets from 3-point range. The third one, from Trey Burke, put Utah in front for the first time at 18-15 and the fourth, from Hayward, put the Jazz back ahead 21-19 after Anthony made a pair of baskets to help the Knicks reclaim the lead.
Burks made back-to-back baskets and then fed Favors for a layup to boost Utah's lead to 40-30.
The Knicks trimmed the lead down at the free-throw line when the Jazz got into foul trouble. They made 5-of-6 free throws before Smith's fadeaway 3-pointer a second before halftime cut it to 49-48.
Notes: The Knicks improved to 7-10 on the season in the second game of back-to-back games. The Knicks also claimed the season series over the Jazz for the third straight season. . Anthony averaged 31.5 points against Utah this season. . Favors had his 23rd double-double of the season and the third in Utah's last four games. . Chandler fell a rebound shy of having his 11th straight game with 10 or more rebounds.


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A lack of communication between crews and leaders contributed to a boat crash that killed an Eglin airman during a training exercise in Pensacola Bay last fall, according to an accident report released Tuesday.
A lack of communication between crews and leaders contributed to a boat crash that killed an Eglin airman during a training exercise in Pensacola Bay last fall, according to an accident report released Tuesday.
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Maj. Garrett Knowlan with the 96th Test Wing was killed Oct. 11 after he was hit by a boat participating in the training.
�Evidence suggested a misunderstanding of command and control responsibilities,� the report said.
Knowlan had been in Pensacola for a three-day parachute water survival training course.
The 32-year-old flight test engineer recently had moved to Eglin from Hurlburt Field and was transitioning to fly F-15s and F-16s, which is why he was required to take the training course. The jets are equipped with ejection seats and frequently fly over water.
The Air Force contracts with Naval Air Station Pensacola for the training. Contracted crews from Metson Marine Services had been hired to operate six boats for the exercise.
For the exercise on Oct. 11, students were to be dropped from a parasail into the bay and inflate a one-man life raft.
Knowlan was the first student to begin the exercise, according to the report from the Air Force�s Ground Accident Investigation Board.
He was towed off a launch platform on a parasail. After given the signal, he detached from the tow rope and used the parasail to float down into the water.
He successfully inflated his life raft and was debriefed by an instructor on a nearby pick-up boat.
The boat left him in the water.
Meanwhile, another boat picked up a student who had a knee injury and wasn�t able to perform the parasail practice. He was directly dropped off in the water for the life-raft exercise.
Although leaders of the exercise discussed that morning that they were going to allow the student to participate in the lifeboat portion, they did not communicate to everyone involved in the exercise exactly how it was going to be coordinated, including where and when the student would be put in the water, the report said.
They also did not use the radio to make it clear to all boats involved after the student had been put in the water.
A second student had been launched on a parasail, and then a third boat went to launch a third student.
That boat�s captain reported that he was unaware that the injured student had been put in the water, the report said. The captain misidentified the injured student as Knowlan.
The safety officer onboard noticed two students in the water, but did not communicate that to the captain or continue to monitor the students, according to the report. Instead, he monitored the parasail, which he felt was fundamental to his safety duties.
�His decision to disregard students ahead and look around did not incorporate other facts he also knew: that tow boats routinely pass very near students, that tow boat path can be unpredictable � and that everyone else (on the boat) was already looking backward at the parasail,� the report states.
At 11 a.m., about one minute after starting their tow, the crew felt the boat hit something in the water. They noticed Knowlan�s helmet floating near the boat and realized what had happened.
A rescue swimmer found Knowlan lodged under the boat and reported that he appeared to be dead, according to the report.
He had suffered extensive injuries and died instantly, the report stated.
Investigators found no medical or environmental conditions that contributed significantly to the incident, and everyone involved had required training. Knowlan did nothing to contribute to the accident.
The report states that procedures did not require specific calls about the number of students in the water, and that the job of the safety observer lacks a standardized qualification process.
It was unknown late Tuesday whether any changes have been or will be implemented in response to the report.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Lauren Sage Reinlie at 850-315-4440 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @LaurenRnwfdn.


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Saad taking game to new heights for Blackhawksby Brian Hedger / Chicago Blackhawks
CHICAGO -- Brandon Saad is developing into an elite two-way forward for the Chicago Blackhawks, and the game he helped win Wednesday at United Center might someday be looked upon as the night he made the jump from good to great.
Saad was one of the most dominant players on the ice for the Blackhawks in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final against the Los Angeles Kings, a game they had to win to avoid elimination. He scored in the first period and assisted on Chicago's last two goals in a 5-4 double-overtime win. His second assist was a beautiful feed to Michal Handzus for the game-winner.
But Saad was just as good in areas of the game that aren't as easily noticed.
"He was amazing last night," Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said Thursday at O'Hare Airport before the defending Stanley Cup champions flew to Los Angeles. "I thought he's had some games like that over the course of the season, when he takes it to a different level. He has that ability to play a high-level game, almost like an impact player. Not too many guys make an impact like he did last night. He's had one of those games you'll always remember."
The Kings will probably remember it heading into Game 6 on Friday at Staples Center (9 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, RDS). Los Angeles coach Darryl Sutter will probably try to match his best defenders against Saad's line, which includes right wing Patrick Kane and center Andrew Shaw. That line combined for one goal, eight assists and a plus-10 rating in Game 5, with Saad and Kane assisting on Handzus' game-winner.
Saad, 21, hounded the puck all night, using bursts of speed to check and create plays all over the ice. He controlled the puck and worked in impressive unison with Shaw and Kane in their initial time together during the postseason.
Saad and Kane played together previously and their playing styles often mesh.
"It was a fun game playing with them, too," Kane said afterward. "They're both extremely hard workers. Personally, I thought Saad was the best player on the ice [Wednesday]. He was bringing so much speed and puck protection. He was awesome.
It was nice for the Blackhawks to see Saad take what appeared to be a big step in his career development. After Chicago took him with the 43rd pick in the 2012 NHL Draft, Saad's future has always seemed destined for a role in the Blackhawks' top-six forwards. His size, skill and skating ability almost dictate it.
That's where he played for almost his entire rookie season in 2013, on the top line next to center Jonathan Toews and opposite right wing Marian Hossa, until Quenneville changed it up during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Saad struggled with consistency in the postseason last spring and didn't regain a spot in the top six.
He got a brief look at center on the second line during training camp last fall before Quenneville scrapped that idea during the preseason. Instead, Saad played on either wing for any of the top three lines, fitting in wherever Quenneville put him.
Toward the end of the regular season, Saad was benched for an important game against the St. Louis Blues as a wake-up call. It worked; he bounced back strong down the stretch and has continued his improved play during the postseason.
Saad, who has five goals and eight assists in the playoffs, was solid in the first two rounds. He's turned it up even more in this series with three goals and three assists.
"[I've] felt pretty good all playoffs, but to be able to produce and help out the team in that way, that always helps with confidence and bringing your game to the next level," Saad said. "You always look for new challenges, and any time you can elevate your game and produce and help the team win, that obviously helps out with your confidence and moving up."
Saad's confidence was unmistakable in Game 5. Not only was he a threat with the puck, but teammates and fans could tell he felt in total control just by watching him bang his stick on the ice to call for the puck. He got what he wanted more often than not.
"What I saw last night in him was probably one of his best games I've ever seen him play," defenseman Michal Rozsival said Thursday. "He played with so much confidence. By looking at him, it looked like he wanted to be the guy, the guy that makes a difference in the game, and he did."
Toews, one of the NHL's top two-way forwards, noticed bits and pieces of Saad's toolkit while centering for him last season. He knew those skills would someday manifest into another high-end forward for the talent-laden Blackhawks. This series might be evidence that Saad's time to shine is just about here.
"My biggest thing I saw with [Saad] was not only his skill and ability at his age, but also that element that he always wanted to improve and get better and better as the season went along," Toews said. "I think you see that same kind of idea come in, in a game like last night, where he's never satisfied and he wants to be a difference-maker. I don't know if I can think of a game I've seen him play better than he was [that] night. He was unbelievable. That's what it takes. That's the pace we need to find a way to win against this team, guys like that stepping up."


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