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Philadelphia, PA – Weather plays a part in every golf tournament. At the four major championships, weather and course conditions need to be perfect.
The Unites States Golf Association likes the courses that host the U.S. Open to be firm and fast. The East Course at Merion Golf Club won't get anywhere near that condition this week.
Over 3 1/2 inches of rain fell at the course on Friday and more storms drenched the course on Monday. The rain from the storms dumped more rain on the course than it normally sees in the entire month of June.
The USGA has a doomsday plan in place in case the 11th green floods, which nearly happened on Friday. Tournament officials have kept two holes on Merion's West Course in tournament shape in case one or two of the East Course holes flood and are rendered unplayable.
The forecast calls for the possibility of more storms on Tuesday, and possibly strong storms on Thursday. From there, though, the weather should be perfect.
High temperatures around 80 degrees with overnight lows in the 60s. There are two bad things in those perfect conditions.
The lack of wind and lack of blazing heat will keep the course from completely drying out. Unless there is more rain, the course will not get watered the remainder of the week after all the rain it has taken on.
The fairways will be softer than the USGA would like, but even if players find the short grass off the tee, that doesn't mean they'll find the green with their approach shots.
The players will be tested right out of the gate. With a different set-up at Merion, the players will start on the first and 11th instead of the first and 10th, and there is trouble in play on both opening holes.
Number one is a dogleg right with out of bounds long and left of the green. It would take a pretty bad shot for a professional to knock it OB on the first, but the 11th has a lot of water to challenge the players.
Prior to the Open, the fairway on the 11th was shifted to the left, which brings more trees into play. A stream borders the green on the right and long.
What will benefit players on both holes is the softer conditions. If the greens were firm and fast, especially the fifth and 11th, players could roll their balls right off those greens and into hazards.
ESPN analyst Paul Azinger brought up a good point last week on a conference call with the broadcasters. Azinger said, "You have to remember one thing. Guys start nervous and end relaxed, and then when it comes crunch time, they are ending nervous on Sunday."
Those opening two holes might not look like much to a pro, but add in the nerves factor and you'll see shots you rarely see from top-notch golfers.
With the softer conditions through the week, the first 13 holes may play easier than the USGA had hoped, but the final five holes are where the course will show its teeth.
I would know. The day media members were invited to play the course, it rained hard all morning. Thankfully, I teed it up in the afternoon, but it was still difficult.
As an 11 handicap, I thought I played the back nine pretty well. Then, I added up the scores and realized I was 9-over par through 9 holes. That may be close to the norm for someone with my handicap, but I was displeased and perturbed.
I've heard predictions of 5- to 10-under par will be the winning score. With the soft conditions, scores go even lower than that. Two of the things that will help protect the course are the thick rough and the speed of the greens.
If the greens get up to 13 or 13.5 on the stimpmeter, it won't matter how close guys hit their approach shots. The greens will be slick and tricky.
Just the way they normally are at the U.S. Open
Harris English broke through at the St. Jude Classic on Sunday and won his first PGA Tour title. He did so in come-from-behind fashion to make it all the more impressive.
The 23-year-old's problem? He was too far down in the world rankings for the win to get him into the field at Merion this week.
English soared 55 places to No. 84 in the latest rankings. He needed to get inside the top 60 in the rankings to qualify for the field at Merion.
Only one player qualified in that manner, Kyle Stanley. He moved inside the top 60 in the world rankings a week ago thanks to a third-place finish at the Memorial.
So he misses the water-logged course at Merion this week. But, he still gets to go to Augusta National next April.
* Merion superintendent Matt Shaffer and his expanded crew will have their hands full getting the course in playable shape after all this rain. He'll be up to the task, but the course won't play as the way the USGA or the members would like.
* Dan Quinn, who spent parts of two seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, is back caddying for Ernie Els this week. Quinn has been honing his game of late as he prepares to defend his title later this summer at the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe. Quinn will be looking for his sixth title at that event.


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Edye Evans Hyde of the Hope College music faculty has been named the 2011 Musician of the Year by the West Michigan Jazz Society.
An instructor of vocal jazz at Hope, she was honored during an awards banquet on Monday, Sept. 19, at The Watermark Country Club in Grand Rapids.
The recognition in conjunction with the award also includes a three-page feature about her in the group's September newsletter, "Jazz Notes," which celebrates her as "leading lady of theatre and song."
Edye Evans Hyde has been teaching and performing jazz, blues and pop music for more 30 years in West Michigan, Los Angeles and Asia. A 1975 graduate of Creston High School in Grand Rapids, she holds a bachelor's degree in music education from Aquinas College, has taught K-12 vocal music, and also served as the assistant director of admissions at Grand Rapids Community College.
She has shared the stage with world-renowned blues singer Linda Hopkins, pop singer Michael Bolton, actress Connie Stevens, the late Ray Charles and Cuban trumpet player Arturo Sandoval. She has also appeared with The Grand Rapids Symphony and The West Shore Symphony performing songs from her acclaimed CDs "Girl Talk" and "Lady with A Song."
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FAYETTEVILLE, NC – The York College softball squad opened their 2012 season with an 11-5 setback to Emory & Henry in the opening round of the Methodist University Early Bird Tournament in Fayetteville, NC on Friday. The Spartans' scheduled game against Methodist University was unable to be completed on Friday and will now take place as part of a triple-header on Saturday.
The Spartans' year got off to a rough start as the Wasps struck for three runs in the bottom of the first inning, knocking York ace Brittany Therres from the game after just 0.2 innings of work.
Emory & Henry tacked on three more runs off freshman Sara Thacker in the bottom of the second as the Spartans were staring at a 6-0 deficit.
The Green and White finally got on the board in the top of the third. Junior Hannah Hugel opened the frame with a single to third. Freshman Cara Rubinaccio followed with a bunt single to put Spartans at first and second with no outs. Senior Brittany Schlorff drilled a single to left center, scoring Hugel and pushing Rubianccio to third. After a strike out, freshman Carly Farr scored Rubinaccio with an RBI fielder's choice. Farr was safe on the play and went on to steal second, putting runners at second and third with one out. Schlorff came around to score on a Wasp error as the Spartans cut their deficit to 6-3.
The inning continued as Erin O'Leary singled to short, plating Farr with York's fourth run. Junior Cory Urkuski singled to left, scoring Sarah Harris as the Spartans trailed just 6-5 at the end of the inning.
Unfortunately for York, the Wasps weren't done scoring, denting the plate once in the third and twice more in the fourth and fifth innings as the Spartans fall to 0-1.
Jennifer True earned the win to improve to 1-1. She tossed seven innings, allowing five runs on nine hits with three strikeouts and two walks. Therres took the loss as she allowed three runs on five hits with one walk in her two-thirds of an inning stint. Thacker struggled with her control as she walked five in her 3.1 innings of action. She allowed six runs on seven hits with a pair of strikeouts. Urkuski finished the game with two innings pitched as she allowed two runs (one earned) on two hits with two walks and one strikeout during her stint.
The Wasps were led by True as she was 2-for-3 with three runs scored and an RBI. Bethany Anderson was 2-for-4 with four RBI. Jenae Morrissey and Sylvia Robbins each had two hits and a run scored.
Schlorff led the Spartans as she was 1-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI. The Spartans had nine different players record a hit but all nine hits were singles.
York returns to action on Saturday as the weather has forced them into three contests for the day. The action kicks off with the conclusion to the Methodist game at 10:00 am followed by a 2:30 game against Roanoke followed by a contest against NC Wesleyan.


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Robert Junior Vann, 63, of Coalfield, died Friday, March 16, 2012, in Methodist Medical Center, Oak Ridge.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert and Rosie Jane Vann.
Survivors include his wife, Linda Beck Vann, Coalfield; two sons, Jonathan Vann, Oliver Springs, and Robert "Ham" Van, Clinton; two daughters, Tasha Cahoon, Kingston, and Robin McIlwain, Oliver Springs; and a stepson, James Vanover.
Betty Jo Hensley, 52, of Loudon, passed away Saturday, March 17, 2012, in Roane Medical Center in Harriman.
She was of the Baptist faith. Her hobbies included being a ham radio operator and assisting emergency management in that capacity.
She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Rosie McPherson.
She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and sister.
Juanita Ledbetter Elmore, 78, of Harriman, formerly of Goose Creek, S.C., died Friday, March 16, 2012, in Harriman Care and Rehabilitation Center.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Scott Ledbetter and Elizabeth Collins Ledbetter.
Survivors include two daughters, Cheryl Patton, Kingston, and Charlene Holbird, Goose Creek; and two sons, Daniel Elmore, Taylors, S.C., and Tim Elmore, Oliver Springs.
Chester H. Edwards, 81, of Harriman, passed away Friday, March 16, 2012, in Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge.
He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He was a member of Clymersville Baptist Church of Rockwood. He was a 50-year member of Machinist Local 480 of Oak Ridge. He enjoyed his hobbies of yard work, yard sales, fishing and craft making.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Al J. Sr. and Nellie Scott Edwards; a grandchild, Stephanie Hinds; and a sister, Mary Ruth Edwards.
Martha "Louise" Turpin Briggs, 88, of Panama City Fla., previously of Harriman, passed away Saturday, March 17, 2012, in Emerald Shores Rehabilitation Center.
She was born June 23, 1923, in South Harriman, daughter of the late John and Mary Jane Turpin. She was a remarkable woman and wonderful wife, mother and grandmother. She cherished her family and friends, and before her illness, enjoyed golf, fishing, gardening and carpentry. She endured the ravages of Alzheimer's disease more than 12 years with dignity and courage.
Isa Bea Hall Yates, born Feb. 4, 1924, and lived most of her life in the Ponders community in Roane County, passed away Thursday, March 15, 2012.
A member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Harriman, she also loved to go to Ponders Community Church.
Steven Clay Wright, 48, of Spring City, passed away suddenly Tuesday, March 13, 2012, in Knoxville.
A truck driver for more than 30 years, he was an avid NASCAR and racing fan. He was a member of Salem Baptist Church in Greenback, Rhea Springs Lodge 310 F&AM in Spring City, and Mountain View Chapter 358 OES in Maryville.
Lisa Alana Tarrance, 51, of Oakdale, passed away on Saturday, March 10, 2012.
She was born on July 27, 1960, in Rockwood, a daughter of the late Jack and Rose Marie Ferguson. She was a lifelong resident of the Roane County area.
In addition to her parents, she is also preceded in death by her son, Eric Shawn Tarrance.
Rolland Floyd McGhee, 72, of Rockwood, went home to be with the Lord early Friday, March 16, 2012, at his home.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Grace Rodgers McGhee; and a sister, Mary Ruth Nichols.
Wesley Willis Harris, born on Jan. 30, 1927, passed away on Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at age 85 in Knoxville.
He was so dearly loved and will be missed by those he leaves behind, most especially his wife of 64 years, Eileen. They were married in Dayton, Ohio, after his service in World War II and made their home in Tennessee.
He was preceded in death by his son, Mark.
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The president of Spain's powerful northeastern region of Catalonia on Saturday formally called an independence referendum, the latest secession push in Europe and one of the most serious challenges to the Spanish state in recent years.
"This referendum will not be held because it is unconstitutional," [Soraya Saenz, deputy prime minister of spain] told reporters during a rare Saturday press conference.
It seems like the Catalans have gotten sick of Spain's refusal to hold a referendum, and unilaterally declared one of their own. If they secure an independence vote and the Spanish government refuses to acknowledge it, this could turn ugly.


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(CNN) -- Coaching the Mexican national team is proving to be a difficult assignment.
When Mexico parted company with Victor Manuel Vucetich and replaced him with Miguel Herrera on Friday, it marked the third time in a month El Tri changed their football manager.
Vucetich didn't have much time to mold the side, as he was only brought in when interim boss Luis Fernando Tena got the boot. Tena himself inherited the position after Jose Manuel de la Torre received his marching orders earlier in September.
Vucetich won his first game 2-1 against Panama, needing a late goal to earn all three points, but lost his second 2-1 at Costa Rica.
Mexico, a proud footballing nation that has appeared in the last five World Cups, won men's Olympic gold in 2012 by topping Neymar's Brazil and captured the under-17 World Cup in 2011, only scraped into a World Cup playoff when fiercest rival the U.S. scored two goals in injury time to beat the Panamanians 3-2 on the road.
Had Panama hung on for the victory, it, not Mexico, would have faced New Zealand next month in the two-leg shootout to reach Brazil.
Vucetich, who has 25 years of coaching experience, likely didn't help his cause ahead of the game against Costa Rica when he labeled his team "arrogant."
"In our game, sometimes we exaggerate, we become arrogant," he told reporters. "I think this is the moment that we should reflect and show, above all, on the pitch that we need to win."
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Mexico's struggles in qualifying came as the U.S. topped the group, Costa Rica finished second and Honduras claimed the third and final automatic World Cup spot.
While Mexico reached the second round in South Africa three years ago, Honduras was last in its group and Costa Rica didn't qualify for the tournament.
On paper Herrera, a former defender for the national team, should lead Mexico to Brazil since New Zealand is ranked 79th by FIFA and Mexico stands 24th but the recent disarray won't hurt the Kiwis' chances of playing at a second straight World Cup.
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Chemical Company of Malaysia Berhad (CCM) became the first pharmaceutical company to obtain the renowned 'Halal Malaysia' certification for its range of health supplements under the brands CHAMPS, Flavettes, Proviton and Naturalle in 1999. This accomplishment is certainly a significant milestone to be proud of as the Halal certification manifests the high safety, efficacy, quality and hygiene aspects of CCM's products.
As part of CCM core business values and the commitment towards enhancing quality of life, CCM provide products that are consistently of high standard and quality. Further to its vision and mission, CCM aspires to perform the fardh kifayah (collective obligation/duty) by making available Halal products to everyone worldwide.
CCM is the largest Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) - Pharmaceutical certified manufacturer in Malaysia with an expanded range of Halal certified products of more than 100 including over-the-counter (OTC) products. Its business expansion over the past years have also allowed CCM to provide a wider range of health supplements under the brands Donna, Natberry, Chewies and many others.
CCM's serious commitment in advocating the Halal concept is applied consistently with its Chemicals Division becoming the first ISO certified chemical manufacturer to obtain the Halal certification in 2004 for its liquid Chlorine, Sodium Hydroxide, Hydrochloric Acid, Sodium Hypochlorite, Polyaluminium Chloride (PAC) and Ferric Chloride which are supplied to numerous industries like water treatment, oleochemicals (including edible oil), food and beverages in Malaysia and the international market. Recently in April 2010, additional products of Calcium Nitrate and Nitric Acid were also certified Halal by JAKIM.
Though currently Halal certification is not extended to the fertilizer products, CCM Fertilizers Division's products (which are mineral based) comply with the Halal standards of hygiene and quality and are safe for use as plant nutrients. CCM Fertilizers Division is the only compound fertilizer manufacturer in Malaysia to have received both SIRIM MS49 and MS ISO 9001 quality awards.
CCM intends to play an important role in developing the Halal Standards for its various manufactured products, collaborating closely with key Halal industry organisations such as JAKIM (Department of Islamic Development Malaysia), HDC (Halal Industry Development Corporation), the Department of Standards Malaysia, SIRIM, World Halal Forum (WHF) and International Halal Integrity (IHI) Alliance. CCM believes that these standards will assist in alleviating the challenges that come with the expanding Halal industry albeit the different regulatory requirements in registering products in various countries.
With CCM Halal Policy as the guiding principle and the strong commitment from the top management via CCM Halal Council and its employees, CCM is focused towards strengthening its Halal integrity, together with continuous capacity building and intensive marketing activities to become the Halal Supplier of Choice worldwide.
CCM aspires to contribute significantly to the domestic and global Halal industries through its three Divisions by continually expanding its market presence which is currently in more than 30 countries.


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The lights have been burning all night at the Capitol this past week, a sure sign that the political race is not always won by the swiftest.
Endurance counts, too.
"It's tough," said Assistant House Majority Leader Leon Lillie, DFL-North St. Paul. "I run marathons. … I don't think the public appreciates how hard it is at this point of the game, the lack of sleep."
After a long Saturday, Lillie and his colleagues in the House worked straight through to 7 a.m. Sunday, debating a bill that would allow child-care workers and home-care assistants to vote on whether to unionize. They had a few hours to nap, shower and change before they went back at it early Sunday afternoon.
The Senate pulled an all-nighter Tuesday-Wednesday debating the same bill, setting a record for 17 hours on a single bill that the House is threatening to equal.
This is unusual but not unheard of. As the session nears its constitutional deadline — this year it is midnight Monday — every moment of floor time is needed for priority bills. A dissatisfied minority can take its own sweet time or deliberately gum up the works.
Or, as is the case with the unionization bill this year, they can focus their antipathy on one bill.
There is no real filibuster at the State Capitol, but there are what might be called amend-a-thons. The majority can halt debate by voting to "call the question," but it is considered a "nuclear option" and rarely used.
In both of last week's all-nighters, GOP opponents peppered the union bills with stacks of amendments. In each case, unionization opponents rose early and often, debating things such as the 14- or 18-point font in union cards. Looking at the size of the typeface on a card early Sunday morning, Rep. Ron Kresha, R-Little Falls, asked the sponsor: "Are you absolutely sure there is no way this would ever be changed below that?"
A Twitter hashtag was born: "#fontgate."
High jinks abounded. During a 2 a.m. standing vote-count called a "division," normally a matter of a minute or so, House Speaker Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, assumed a comfortable sitting pose and left the GOP members standing for seven excruciatingly long minutes.
Weariness runs deep. Rep. Ron Erhardt, DFL-Edina, said he once wrecked his car while driving home exhausted after an all-nighter, and still worries about the safety of the practice.
Former House Minority Leader Marty Seifert, a Republican from Marshall who left in 2010, said poor time management from the majority gives minority members lots of power. "The clock is your best friend at the end," Seifert said. "We felt like we were in control of the floor the last two days of session."
In both overnighters, members had to be at or near their desks because every vote was needed. Outside the chamber, pro- and anti-union child care providers kept vigil, as if they had to match the endurance of the legislators.
Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, was facing a possible trifecta Sunday night — a second straight all-nighter, to be followed by a finale ending at midnight Monday. "You'd rather space things out in a more efficient and timely manner, but I guess this is the nature of the place," Urdahl said. "Things tend to all come together at the end."
Staff writer Rachel E. Stassen-Berger contributed to this report.


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More than half a century on from former Pasadena and UCLA star Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barrier in professional baseball, who would have thought that the mirror in which American society's racial problems are reflected would still be sports so many decades later?
That this is still the case was hammered home by the Donald Sterling situation that has so consumed first the local and then the national conversation — and yes, the media, in which all around the country the story of the racially hateful comments by the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team became front-page news.
One colleague says he knows people who have no interest in sports, or think the Clippers are ships, but yet this issue has resonated with them, and they say they want Sterling out as team owner.
But Sterling, a billionaire lawyer and real-estate mogul, has been hounded by racial issues for years. He was sued for refusing to rent apartments to African-Americans and Latinos. Real questions have been raised about his getting awards from local civil rights organizations for apparently doing nothing more toward the great goal of achieving racial harmony than writing large checks. Why was nothing done about Donald Sterling's racism until it hit his involvement with sports?
Now, there's a firestorm. Why? What is it about sports that bring out such strong feelings? Related issues include the ongoing controversy over the very name of the Washington Redskins football team, as well as other teams that use the names of actual Native American tribes. Connected as well would be the issue of gays in sports, one of the very last places in society where coming out is a big deal.
We want to know your opinions on why real-world issues when played out in professional sports become such a larger part of the national debate. Does the fact that serious situations have been plunked into what should be merely games make them seem more serious? Are sports a proper crucible for cultural change?
What do you think?
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Merry ChristmasDecember 23, 2003
Off to enjoy family and friends for the holidays. I leave you the gift of links! Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Festive Kwanzaa, and so on. Whatever you celebrate, and even if you don't, enjoy the rest of 2003.
- 8 Comic Books
- Andrea Piernock's festive Zen Garden entry.
- 7 Packs of Smokes
- Excellent Flash-based snowflake creator.
- 6 packs of Two-four
- 12 year old Alex Miller's playground. The next generation is already getting started!
- 5 Golden Toques
- I worked with Rafael Ebron on the mozilla.org redesign a few months back. He's competing in Ironman Canada 2004, and looking to raise $7,500 for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. A festive round of layoffs at AOL leaves him in a poor spot to meet the goal; consider giving a few bucks and spreading the word.
- 4 Pounds of Backbacon
- Mini iPods? Could it be? What makes me suspicious is the proposed 'body colours'. Call me a skeptic…
- 3 French Toast
- Flash paper airplanes. Arrow keys and space to control, 1-4 for special actions.
- 2 Turtlenecks
- Derek Powazek on learning to love the Tree
- And a Beer… in a tree
- Bob & Doug MacKenzie's original 12 Days. A Canadian Classic.
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Excellent! As a non-Canadian fan of the Bros. MacKenzie I really got a chuckle from the reference…you hoser ;-).
Happy Holidays and good cheer.
Great post! Regarding the mini iPods, I think the fact that they are possibly offering different body colors makes it MORE believable. A $99 product will appeal to a much wider market. "Adults" can still get the classy white iPod and kids will want the cool colored ones that parents may be more willing to buy.
Plus, with iTunes on Windows Apple really has to get into the affordable player space or let other manufactures saturate the market.
Anyway, I could be dead wrong, but the mini iPod might match their iBook and eMac line quite well. It will be interesting to see what happens and what others think.
I just saw on PBS tonight Barra McNeils Cape Breton Christmas Special. It's mostly celtic and traditional music. I like ^_^. Quite heart-warming and joyful.
Bob and Doug are the best - but do you have the action figures? They come complete with lots of little beer cases and bottles. Classic.
Happy Holidays Dave!
Ah, Bob and Doug… Haven't seen them in a long time! Hilarious stuff…
Thanks a thousand times for the link!
An excellent song, done by one of the best acts to come out of SCTV. Poor show, all but forgotten now….
"Poor show, all but forgotten now…."
I beg to differ. SCTV is played in Canada on The Comedy Network and I still watch….I'm sure many others do too… I don't know if it's carried in the US or not…
Dave, I'm travelling too, but I'm stopping by the daily reads to wish their authors a happy holiday season. Take care.
Mele Kalikimaka a Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!
(Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!)
I tried to understand the Canadian skit, really I did. I read it a couple of times. I think you might have to be Canadian?
Merry Xmas from a confused Aussie.
PS. Thanks for the information and inspiration throughout the year Dave, have a great holiday.
Thanks Dave for the mention. Hope you have a great Christmas, and you know I'll visit in Canada when I do run this thing.
Not that I really know the difference, but those paper airplanes were made with Director, not Flash. My flash-equipped browser wouldn't play them. (And I really don't want to install yet another plugin.)


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NL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES: GIANTS v PHILLIES
October 23, 2010
Charlie Manuel
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: Game SIx
Giants – 3
Phillies - 2
CHARLIE MANUEL: First of all, I'd like to -- I'd like to congratulate Bochy. I have known him a long time. Does a good job. He's a good manager. His team played very good.
And they deserve to move on and I hope they go and win it. I felt like it was a good series but they played us real tough and they earned everything they got and I want to congratulate them.
Before you asked me questions, I would like to acknowledge our fans. I looked up there in seventh and eighth inning they were standing up and they were, they backed us all year long and for about the last four or five years they have been really special.
And we appreciate them coming out and giving us support like they do and like they've been great.
Q. How upsetting is it you get into their bullpen in the third inning and you can't score a run in the sixth inning against all their relievers?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Sometimes the way the game goes and the way you play and things happen, we had chances, we just couldn't cash in on them. We couldn't get the big hit. I talk about it every night during the season. Every night I say basically the same thing about like the team gets the big hit or makes a pitch or actually makes a play, especially late in the game where the games are tied or one-run game or things like that, those are usually the teams that wins. Tonight the game was traveling there. And what's his name, the shortstop, he hit a home run there on a fastball out away from him, looked like a fastball and that was a big blow there late in the game. And that stood up.
We had a chance, felt like Ruiz made the line drive and turned into a double play, but that's something -- that's baseball and that's the way it goes and it's hard to explain sometimes. Yeah, it was a good game, but at the same time we come out on the short end of the stick and they deserved to win.
Q. How disappointing is it when you look only two runs on the board and this has been a problem all year and going back to Spring Training you had high expectations with seven All-Stars in the lineup.
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think everything was right. I know our guys and I know we can hit better than that. And we definitely got to improve on it next year, and actually come back and play like basically hit like we can. We're capable of putting up more runs and having higher on-base percentage and the whole works, our numbers are down.
We had injuries and things like that, but there again, excuses are in this game that don't hold up. Like we've got to put -- we've got to do it, we've got to do what we're capable of doing. And I think when you look back at our team, that would probably be probably the downside of our club this year. We were very inconsistent in our hitting, and at times we didn't score enough runs.
Best pitching that we've had, and we've got -- we got a bright future for us. I see a big future. I mean, we still -- I think we're right in the period of two or three years, like we definitely should compete and like always have a chance to go where we want to go.
Q. Oswalt in and out of trouble most of the game but got out most of the time, could you talk a little about his performance, putting you in position to win the game?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Yeah, I feel like start of the game he threw a lot of fastballs. And I felt like by the third inning, they started kind of looking for him and putting wood on him. I haven't really gone back and looked at the game. Looked to me like he got some balls in the middle of the plate. I felt like the pitcher that like got -- that was a big hit at that time. And then all of a sudden he kind of settled in, started mixing some change-ups and breaking balls in and he had good stuff.
But at the same time they were very aggressive with him and they were definitely sitting on fastballs. But he did a good job. He took us to a good -- actually a real good place in the game. You know, the Giants are definitely -- they've got a better offense than what people think. They're scrappy and they've got some experience, more experience than you realize. And I'll tell you, they played us tough. And when the games are close like that, they're good in those games and their pitching's good.
Q. You guys had the best record in the majors. Is there an emptiness that you will not be able to kind of validate yourselves in the World Series?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think, yeah, I think it is. I think that our ultimate goal, of course, was to go to the World Series and win. And like we did not get there. And I just left our clubhouse, and you could tell without a doubt I know every guy in there -- and they were -- they were disappointed.
But at the same time, too, like that can also work for you sometimes. Like we come back with the idea that you'll be more determined and work harder and improve and I think we're capable, like I said, for the next two or three years of reaching our goal and definitely accomplishing what I think we can do.
Q. You had a lot of injuries this year, and the guys did come back. How much did those injuries, when they came back, really hurt them?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think we never actually, what I call, getting our offense clicking. Although I've seen signs of Utley and Howard and Rollins, some of those guys that were hurt, I've seen them at times look like they're going to hit, like be themselves and hit like they can, but for whatever reason we could never get our offense clicking.
It always went up and down. We hit a hot streak, especially after Houston a couple of years swept the series from us, and from that period on we started winning a lot of games. We weren't blowing people out and we weren't really like hitting like we can. Although, we got hits at the big time in the game. I felt like we played really sound baseball.
But there again, like it seemed like we never put up runs like I know we can.
Q. Did you think the ball was out off of Uribe's bat, was opposite field? Did you think it was out?
CHARLIE MANUEL: You know what, when that ball goes up and I saw -- I saw Jayson Werth go toward the fence with his back to me, I go: Oh, no. That's what I said. I go: Oh, no. That's kind of what happens.
Q. If Jayson Werth doesn't come back next year, what was it like managing him and watching him develop over the last few years?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think when he first came here he came here with a lot of talent. Pat Gillick always liked him, and he definitely was the one that kind of like wanted him and kind of persuaded him to like to come with us.
It took him a while to really, I think, adjust to our team and really kind of get things going. I think that he was like he needed to play. He hadn't played in like a year, year and a half or something. And once he got started, he earned a spot and he actually beat Geoff Jenkins out of right field, and like he earned a spot to play. And he definitely enjoys playing here. And he's been a solid player for us. And he's got a ton of ability.
Q. A couple of times tonight you had runners on second, nobody out, obviously bunted Ibanez over there at one point. But to not get those runs home, what does that do for a club over the course of a critical game like this?
CHARLIE MANUEL: What happens in a game, it takes -- it kind of takes its toll on you, and you start -- actually you start trying. And you start trying too much. You start trying to do too much. And you get tense at the plate, and it becomes even harder, I think.
I was a player and I know. And it's kind of how I look at it. But at the same time I think I look at all of our players and I know how much they want it. And for some reason it just didn't happen for us.
We had a big season, and that definitely cannot go overlooked. I feel like we played as hard as we possibly could all year. But we just didn't generate the offense that I know that we're capable of.
Q. The organization obviously made a long-term commitment to Ryan Howard this season. He was very productive again. But how concerning are all the strikeouts going forward, tough in a lot of strikeouts this series, the World Series last year? Is that something that's correctible for him?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think we always probably -- I think when you look up, I think the production, if the production is there, you can tend to get away from strikeouts. But I feel especially after Ryan got hurt that he didn't find his swing. I feel like I know that he's a better hitter than what we saw at the end of the year.
And I kind of looked at that like somewhere along the line somebody was going to pay Ryan Howard. For as good a hitter as he is, he'll be okay.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, Charlie.
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November 29, 2001
Los Angeles — UCLA's year-to-year report on the impact of the Internet released today leaves little doubt that going online is now a mainstream activity in American life that continues to spread among people across all age groups, education levels and incomes.
However, the study also found that enthusiasm for e-commerce is down, broad concerns remain about Internet privacy and security, and television is the primary victim of increasing Internet use.
"We are beginning to see a vivid picture of behavior concerning the Internet," said Jeff Cole, director of the university's Center for Communication Policy, a research unit in UCLA Anderson that is affiliated with the College of Letters and Science.
"By returning to the same people we talked to last year - and will talk to in future years — we are transforming our 'still photograph' of American life from our 2000 study into a 'moving picture,'" Cole said.
"These findings are creating an unprecedented look at how the Internet is changing social, cultural and economic behavior," Cole said. "We can see the impact of the Internet on last year's non-users as they become this year's new users, on modem users as they move to broadband, and on last year's users as they gain a year of online experience. We are even able to see some patterns of behavior within that tiny portion of people who stopped using the Internet, to see if they stay offline permanently, or, if and when they return, what brought them back."
The Internet: Popularity continues to grow after the dot-com crash
"Despite the dot-com meltdown, we found that the Internet is more vigorous than ever; a large majority of Americans go online, Internet use continues to increase and growing numbers of non-users expect to go online in the next year," Cole said. "Yet, many issues of concern about the Internet remain from 2000, and new concerns have emerged in 2001."
The 2001 UCLA Internet Report, titled "Surveying the Digital Future," provides a comprehensive year-to-year view of the impact of the Internet by examining the behavior and views of a national sample of 2,006 Internet users and non-users, as well as comparisons between new users (less than one year of experience) and very experienced users (five or more years of experience).
The second year of the UCLA Internet Project compares findings from 2000 to 2001, looking at five major areas: who is online and who is not, media use and trust, consumer behavior, communication patterns, and social and psychological effects.
"The dot-com crash, along with the broad economic decline in 2001, could have created an immense shift in online use, loss of credibility for the Internet among users and dismal prospects for new access by non-users," Cole said. "The broad issue we considered in 2001 was: How did a backdrop of economic meltdown affect users and non-users of the Internet? Would Internet users lose faith in online technology? Would Internet use decline? Did the collapse of the Internet boom affect online purchasing and other use?"
Major Findings: Highlights
Among the more than 100 major findings in the UCLA Internet Report are (page numbers from the report are in parentheses):
Internet users: Broad use, general satisfaction (Pages 17 and 87)
The UCLA Internet Project found that 72.3 percent of Americans have some type of online access, up from 66.9 percent in 2000. Users go online an average of 9.8 hours per week, an increase from 9.4 hours in 2000.
Users of the Internet are generally satisfied with the technology, with the Internet overall achieving a rating of 4 on a scale of 1 (not at all satisfied) to 5 (completely satisfied). The most satisfying feature of the Internet is users' ability to communicate with others.
E-commerce: trends (Page 38, 40, 41, 45, 48 and 52)
"Overall, there is no question that the economic decline in 2001 clearly had an impact on Internet commerce," Cole said. "And, while Internet use remains high, and users have continuing high regard for the Internet, several trends about online buying continue to develop — especially regarding credit card security — that could have major effects on the evolution of Internet commerce."
Internet shopping overall — Online purchasing in general continues to be strong; 48.9 percent of Internet users made a purchase online in 2001, down only slightly from 50.7 percent in 2000.
Shifts from traditional retail — Internet purchasers in 2001 report shifts away from traditional retail buying, but at a lower level than in 2000. More than half of Internet purchasers in 2001 (52.8 percent) say that online purchasing has "somewhat reduced" or "reduced a lot" their purchases from retail stores — down from 65.2 percent in 2000.
Will online buying increase? — A smaller number of Internet purchasers in 2001 than in 2000 say they will eventually make many more purchases online (43 percent in 2001, down from 54.5 percent in 2000).
Pricing online — Internet purchasers do not consider the Internet a hunting ground for bargains. In 2001, 22.8 percent of Internet shoppers agree that prices online are lower than in traditional retail stores.
Sales tax — Of current Internet purchasers, 43.3 percent agree or strongly agree that the addition of sales tax for online purchases would reduce their buying on the Internet.
Concerns about credit card information: A major problem (Page 53)
In both 2000 and 2001, the UCLA Internet Project found deep concerns about privacy among new users and very experienced users alike; prominent among the privacy issues was concern about credit card security.
When asked about the security of credit card information when making online purchases, nearly all users (98.6 percent) in 2001 with less than one year of Internet experience express some concern about credit card information when buying online.
Although concerns about credit card information decline somewhat among very experienced users, the numbers are nevertheless significant; after five years of experience online, the 98.6 percent of users who are concerned about credit card information online declines only 9.5 percent, to 89.1 percent of very experienced users. Of very experienced users, 57.2 percent remain "very concerned" or "extremely concerned."
"Americans have widely divergent views about credit card security when used in traditional purchasing compared to online shopping," Cole said. "Restaurant patrons who think nothing of leaving a signed credit card receipt on a table in a busy cafe are nevertheless extremely concerned about online security.
"Without question, broad shifts in perceptions about Internet security must occur before online purchasing can truly flourish," Cole said.
Privacy (Pages 65–67)
Privacy of information online remains a significant problem for both Internet users and non-users.
"In both the 2000 and 2001 UCLA studies, privacy raises the greatest concern of any issue about the Internet," Cole said. Whether we look at online buying, or the concerns of those who simply access the Internet, concerns about privacy remain at the root of a wide range of issues that affect the Internet.
"How can Internet providers, users and non-users dispel concerns about online privacy?" Cole asks. "The answer to that question is not clear — nor is it yet on the horizon."
Regarding privacy:
When asked if "people who go online put their privacy at risk," more than half (56.5 percent) of Internet users and nearly three-quarters (74.5 percent) of non-users agree or strongly agree.
94.5 percent of all respondents express some concern about the privacy of their personal information when or if they buy online.
When users are asked why they wait as long as 23 months to make their first online purchase, concern about fraud and deception rank among the top reasons.
10 percent of non-users who were once users cite "privacy concerns" as a reason why they stopped using the Internet entirely.
Television: Viewing declines (Pages 32, 76 and 78)
By every measure reported in the UCLA Internet Project, television is the primary victim of the growth of the Internet.
"Without question, Internet users are 'buying' some of their time to go online from the time they used to spend watching television," Cole said. "The only social activity in American households that suffers significantly as a result of Internet use is time spent watching television."
Among the responses to several questions that relate to television viewing:
The study found that Internet users have substantially more types of media than non-users. The only media used more by non-users than users is television.
The biggest gap in media use between non-users and users is in their television viewing time. Internet users watch 4.5 hours per week less television than non-users. And television viewing decreases as Internet experience increases.
23 percent of adults report that children in their households now watch less television than before they started using the Internet.
Most Internet users report that they spend about the same amount of time on non-computing activities at home as they did before they had the Internet. Television viewing, however, showed a large decline.
New Internet users, very experienced users and non-users all report about the same amounts of time involved in activities with others in their household, such as time together having an evening meal, playing games or playing sports with other members of the household.
However, non-users report the highest level of group television viewing (10 hours per week), which declines for new users (9.4 hours per week), and drops substantially for users with more than five years of Internet experience (6.7 hours per week).
Media and sexual content (Page 35)
A new question in the 2001 study asks about the amount of sexual content on television, in movies and on the Internet. Large percentages of respondents say that at least half of the subject matter found in all three media contains too much sexual content.
Respondents who say half or more of the subject matter has too much sexual content totaled 82.4 percent for movies, 80.5 percent for television and 61.9 percent for the Internet.
Non-Users: Why not online? (Pages 26 and 28)
The primary reason why the 27.7 percent of Americans say they are not online is "no computer" or "lack of access to an adequate computer." The number of Americans not interested in using the Internet has declined to 21.4 percent of non-users, down from 33.3 percent in 2000.
Of respondents who are not online, 44.4 percent say they expect to go online within 12 months, up from 40 percent in 2000.
Children and the Internet (Pages 75–81)
When adults are asked about the children in their household and their use of the Internet:
Time online — 88.2 percent say children in their household spend about the right amount of time or too little time online, down slightly from 89.2 percent in 2000.
Grades — 96.5 percent say children's grades stay about the same or improved since using the Internet, about the same as in 2000 (96.7 percent).
Time with friends — 91.8 percent say children spend the same amount of time or more time with friends, down marginally from 93 percent in 2000.
Both users and non-users agree at nearly identical levels that children can gain access to "a lot of inappropriate material" on the Internet. On a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree), users' responses averaged 4.2 and non-users' responses averaged 4.3.
E-mail (Pages 56–58)
Although complaints about bulging e-mail inboxes may seem a common office problem, large majorities of users in 2000 and 2001 do not think that e-mail requires too much time.
Growing numbers of users say that e-mail helps them communicate with people they could not normally connect with otherwise.
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The UCLA Center for Communication Policy created and organizes the World Internet Project, which includes the UCLA Internet Report and similar studies in countries including China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macao, Singapore, Sweden and Taiwan.
The UCLA Internet Project is supported by public foundations and private companies, including the National Science Foundation, America Online, Microsoft, Disney, Sony, Verizon, Pacific Bell, DirecTV, Merrill Lynch and the National Cable Television Association.
To download the full text of the UCLA Internet Report, visit www.ccp.ucla.edu.


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What are Student Cluster Competitions, anyway? A Field Guide
So here's what all the fuss is about: university students build their own supercomputers – that's the "cluster" part – for a live face-off to see whose is the fastest. That's the "competition" part. They're given real, scientific workloads to run and a power limit they can't exceed, and the team with the highest-performing system wins.
These are great programs – chock full of technical challenges, both "book learning" and practical learning, and quite a bit of fun too. There are rules and traditions, just as there are in cricket, soccer, and the Air Guitar World Championships. Whether you've been following the competitions obsessively (sponsoring office betting pools, making action figures, etc.) or this is the first time you've ever heard of them, you probably have some questions… so here's everything you need to know. Listen up; we're only explaining this once.
Student Clustering Triple Crown
In 2013, there will be three major world-wide student cluster events. The United States-based Supercomputing Conference (SC) held the first Student Cluster Competition (SCC) in November 2007. The contest has been included at every subsequent SC conference, usually featuring eight university teams from the US, Europe, and Asia. As the first organization to hold a cluster competition, SC pretty much established the template on which the other competitions are based.
The other large HPC conference, the imaginatively named ISC (International Supercomputing Conference), held its first SCC at the June 2012 event in Hamburg. This contest, jointly sponsored by the HPC Advisory Council, attracted teams from the US, home country Germany, and China. It was a big hit with conference organizers and attendees – big enough to justify expanding the field to nine teams in 2013.
The third entry is the newly formed Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC). The finals of their inaugural SCC will be held this April in Shanghai, China (yeah, the Shanghai in China). At least 30 teams from China, India, South Korea, Russia, and other countries have submitted applications seeking to compete. This competition is sponsored by Inspur and Intel.
How Do These Things Work?
All three organizations use roughly the same process. The first step is to form a team of six undergraduate students (from any discipline) and at least one faculty advisor. Each team submits an application to the event managers in which they answer questions about why they want to participate, their university's HPC/computer science curriculum, team skills, etc. A few weeks later, the selection committee decides which teams make the cut and which need to wait another year.
The teams who get the nod have several months of work ahead. They'll need to find a sponsor (usually a hardware vendor) and make sure they have their budgetary bases covered. Sponsors usually provide the latest and greatest gear along with a bit of financial support for travel and other logistical costs. Incidentally, getting a sponsor isn't all that difficult. Conference organizers (and other well-wishers, like me) can usually help teams and sponsors connect.
The rest of the time prior to the competition is spent designing, configuring, testing, and tuning the clusters. Then the teams take these systems to the event and compete against each another in a live benchmark face-off. The competition takes place in cramped booths right on the tradeshow floor.
All three 2013 events require competitors to run the HPCC benchmark, with an independent HPL (LINPACK) run, plus a set of real-world scientific applications. Teams receive points for system performance (usually "getting the most done" on scientific apps) and, in some cases, the quality/precision of their results. In addition to the benchmarks and app runs, teams are usually interviewed by subject matter experts to gauge how well they understand their systems and the scientific tasks they've been running.
The team that amasses the most points is dubbed the "Overall Winner." There is usually an additional award for the highest LINPACK score and sometimes a "Fan Favorite" award for the team that does the best job of displaying and explaining their work.
While many of the rules and procedures are common between competition hosts, there are some differences:
SC competitions are grueling, 46-hour marathons. The students begin their HPCC and separate LINPACK runs on Monday morning, and the results are due around 5:00 p.m. that day. This usually isn't very stressful; most teams have run these benchmarks many times and could do it in their sleep. The action really picks up Monday evening when the datasets for the scientific applications are released.
The apps and accompanying datasets are complex enough that it's pretty much impossible for a team to complete every task. So from Monday evening until their final results are due on Wednesday afternoon, the students are pushing to get as much done as possible. Teams that can efficiently allocate processing resources have a big advantage.
ISC competitions are a set of three day-long sprints. Students run HPCC and LINPACK the afternoon of day one but don't receive their application datasets until the next morning. On days two and three, they'll run through the list of workloads for that day and turn in the results later that afternoon.
The datasets usually aren't so large that they'll take a huge amount of time to run, meaning that students will have plenty of time to optimize the app to achieve max performance. However, there's another wrinkle: the organizers spring a daily "surprise" application on the students. The teams don't know what the app will be, so they can't prepare for it; this puts a premium on teamwork and general HPC/science knowledge.
Hardware Dreams Spawn Electrical Nightmares
When it comes to hardware, the sky's the limit. Over the past few years, we've seen traditional CPU-only systems supplanted by hybrid CPU+GPU-based clusters. We've also seen some ambitious teams experiment with cooling, using liquid immersion cooling for their nodes. Last year at SC12, one team planned to combine liquid immersion with overclocking in an attempt to clean the clocks of their competitors. While their effort was foiled by logistics (their system was trapped in another country), we're sure to see more creative efforts along these lines.
There's no limit on how much gear, or what type of hardware, teams can bring to the competition. But there's a catch: whatever they run can't consume more than 3,000 watts at whatever volts and amps are customary in that location. In the US, the limit is 26 amps (26*115 volts = 3000 watts.) At the ISC'13 competition in Germany, the limit will be 13 amps (13*230 volts = 3,000 watts.) The same 3,000-watt limit also applies to the upcoming ASC competition in Shanghai.
This is the power limit for their compute nodes, file servers, switches, storage and everything else with the exception of PCs monitoring the system power usage. There aren't any loopholes to exploit, either – the entire system must remain powered on and operational during the entire three-day competition. This means that students can't use hibernation or suspension modes to power down parts of the cluster to reduce electric load. They can modify BIOS settings before the competition begins but typically aren't allowed to make any mods after kickoff. In fact, reboots are allowed only if the system fails or hangs up.
Each system is attached to a PDU (Power Distribution Unit) that will track second-by-second power usage. When teams go over the power limit, they'll be alerted by the PDU – as will the competition managers. Going over the limit will result in a warning to the team and possible point deduction. According to the HPAC-ISC Student Cluster Challenge FAQ, "if power consumption gets well beyond the 13A limit, Bad Things™ will happen…" meaning that the team will trip a circuit breaker and lose lots of time rebooting and recovering their jobs.
On the software side, teams can use any o/s, clustering, or management software they desire as long as the configuration will run the required workloads. The vast majority of teams run some flavor of Linux, although there were Russian teams in 2010 and 2011 who competed with a Microsoft-based software stack, and they won highest LINPACK at SC11 in (appropriately enough) Seattle.
Performance Feats
It's amazing how much hardware can fit under that 3 kW limbo bar. At SC12 in Salt Lake City, the Overall Winner Texas Longhorn team used a 10-node cluster that sported 160 CPU cores plus two NVIDIA m2090 GPU boards. Texas had the highest node count, but other teams used as few as six nodes and as many as eight GPU cards.
Look at the performance ramp from November 2009 to November 2012. In three years, student LINPACK scores went from .692 Teraflop/s to 3.014 TFLOP/s. In absolute terms, that's an increase of 335%. You can also compare it to a loose interpretation of Moore's Law and assume that compute performance doubles every 18 months.
Using this measure, 2009's 0.692 score would double to 1.38 in a year and a half, then double again to 2.77 at the three-year mark. So our student clusterers are doing a pretty good job from that perspective. They also compare favorably to the Top500 list during the same period.
As can be seen on the accompanying table, the LINPACK score of the top system on the Top500 went up by a factor of ten over the last three years vs. the student clusterers, who managed to wring 4.36x more LINPACK bang out of their best hardware.
While the kids are humbled by the results at the top of the list, they're eking out slightly better performance improvements than systems at the median (#250) and end (#500) of the list.
Compelling Competition
Speaking for myself (and probably untold millions of maniacal fans worldwide), these competitions are highly compelling affairs. The one thing I hear time and time again from students is, "I learned sooo much from this…" They're not just referring to what they've learned about systems and clusters, but what they've learned about science and research. And they're so eager and enthusiastic when talking about this new knowledge and what they can do with it – it's almost contagious.
For some participants, the Student Cluster Competition is a life-changing event. It's prompted some students to embrace or change their career plans – sometimes radically. These events have led to internships and even full-time, career-track jobs. For many of the students, this is their first exposure to the world of supercomputing and the careers paths that are available in industry and research. Watching them begin to realize the range of opportunities open to them is very gratifying; it even penetrates a few layers of my own dispirited cynicism.
The schools sending the teams also realize great value from the contests. Several universities have used the SCC as a springboard to build a more robust computer science and HPC curriculum – sometimes designing classes around the competition to help prepare their teams. The contests also give the schools an opportunity to highlight student achievement, regardless of whether or not they win.
Just being chosen to compete is an achievement. As these competitions receive more attention, the number of schools applying for a slot has increased. Interest is so high in China that annual 'play-in' cluster competitions are held to select the university teams that will represent the country at ISC and SC.
With all that said, there's another reason I find these competitions so compelling: they're just plain fun. The kids are almost all friendly and personable, even when there's a language barrier hindering full-bandwidth communications. They're eager and full of energy. They definitely want to win, but it's a good-spirited brand of competition. Almost every year we've seen teams donate hardware to teams in need when there are shipping problems or when something breaks.
It's that spirit, coupled with their eagerness to learn and their obvious enjoyment, that really defines these events. And it's quite a combination.
— Dan Olds


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The Rams are "OK with him medically," NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Thursday, and the sides are "hammering out a deal" and expect to have an agreement soon, "barring any snags." Rapoport reported two weeks ago that Long was seeking $11 million annually, but he might have to settle for significantly less if the Rams don't have serious competition.
It's hard to blame the Rams for taking their sweet time with the most thorough medical exam in recent memory. Although Long recently received a glowing review from Dr. James Andrews, there has to be some hesitance to part with millions of guaranteed dollars after the star's string of back, shoulder, biceps, triceps and knee injuries over the past three seasons.
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DONALD HILL, LEFT, and Matt Clark peek out from behind one of the dozens of inflatable Halloween displays they have in the yard of their North Road home in Whiting. The brothers have spent hours and hours setting up the display, which grows bigger every year.
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October 22, 2007
By ANDY KIRKALDY
FERRISBURGH — The Vermont Electric Power Company has decided not to use a property in Ferrisburgh's Route 7 village as staging area and storage site for more than 400 poles and other equipment for VELCO's new transmission line from New Haven to South Burlington, VELCO spokesman Kerrick Johnson said on Friday.
Instead, VELCO has turned its attention at the last minute to a site in North Ferrisburgh that is owned by the state Department of Building and Grounds and is, at least in the long term, the planned home of a new Agency of Transportation weigh station and highway maintenance depot.
Johnson said earlier this summer AOT officials told VELCO that the agency was still considering developing that site within the next two years.
However, there may have been an internal misunderstanding in the agency. AOT director of communications John Zicconi told the Addison Independent this summer there are no immediate plans to further develop that site. Zicconi said the AOT had to devote limited funding to other needs for the foreseeable future.
"The project remains a project," Zicconi said in July. "But there is no timetable for it at this time."
Last week Johnson said VELCO approached the AOT again, asked more questions, and this time heard that the agency would be open to leasing the site for the two-year period VELCO said it needs the staging and storage area.
Johnson said when VELCO, Buildings and Grounds Department officials and AOT officials realized their needs were complimentary, that talks moved quickly. VELCO may start using the site, which is on the west side of Route 7 just south of Long Point Road, in a matter of days.
"If all goes well, we're hoping to use that site by the end of next week," Johnson said on Saturday.
October 22, 2007
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Members of the local arts community are joining forces to market Middlebury as a destination for arts and entertainment.
The effort is being called "ArtsConnect," an idea that emerged from a series of "Creative Communities Program" forums held earlier this year to find ways of stimulating Middlebury's economy. Resident Nancy Malcolm was a lead organizer of that Creative Communities effort, and is chairwoman of the ArtsConnect committee.
"We want to promote and celebrate the Middlebury area," Malcolm said. "The general idea is to be very inclusive."
ArtsConnect boosters will hold their first of what are expected to be monthly gatherings on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 4:30 p.m. at Carol's Hungry Mind Café. The meeting is expected to attract representatives from Middlebury College, the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, the Town Hall Theater, the Vermont Folklife Center, the Vermont State Craft Center at Frog Hollow, the Middlebury Business Association and area schools.
"This is a way to communicate, to get people together who speak the same language," she said of the various players in the local arts scene.
ArtsConnect participants on Oct. 25 will begin to brainstorm ideas on how to publicize the vast menu of theater, visual arts, music and cultural events that are available in Middlebury. Malcolm plans to suggest some of the following ideas:
• Producing arts brochures that could be left in rooms at area hotels and B&Bs to inform tourists about local arts events.
• Approaching the Middlebury Business Association for help in promotions, such as displays.
• Collaborating with restaurants. Such a partnership could result in "dinner-and-a-show" relationships between theaters and eateries.
MIDDLEBURY — Addison County is in the market for a new chief administrator for its courthouse clerk, though the position must remain unfilled until early January due to a shortfall in the state's judiciary budget.
County Clerk Kylie Dixon resigned on Oct. 1 after a little more than two years on the job. He declined to discuss the reason for his departure, except to say, "I left on good terms."
It was during the summer of 2005 that Dixon succeeded Kathy Keeler, who retired after 25 years as an administrator of the Addison County courthouse.
Candidates have until Friday, Oct. 26, to apply for the clerk's position. A job description on file at the courthouse lists the clerk's duties as including:
• Working with the Superior Court judges to manage the caseload of the court.
• Ensuring court records are accurate and that court rulings and orders are prepared and distributed in a timely manner.
• Assisting all those who use the court in a "courteous and professional" manner.
• Overseeing the proper use of courthouse technology, including computers and audio/video devices.
• Managing county functions, including preparation of budgets, training and supervision of employees, managing selection of jurors and conducting recounts of county elections.
Whomever is picked to fill the job won't be able to start until Jan. 2, 2008. The three-month hiring freeze is due to an estimated $800,000 shortfall in the state judiciary budget.
Vermont Supreme Court Clerk Virginia Lazarus said staff members are working hard to ensure court services are delivered in a thorough and timely manner while they shorthanded.
Special for Sunday, Oct. 19 event
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
BRISTOL — For some, concern for the environment is a lifelong passion, but that doesn't have to be the end of it. A local group is trying to start an eco-cemetery, where the interred are buried in biodegradable caskets without being embalmed, as an alternative to conventional burial methods.
"It's kind of an ecological alternative to being cremated or having their remains interred in a formal cemetery," said David Brynn of Bristol. Brynn is chairman of the board of the Watershed Center, which owns the Waterworks Property on Plank Road in Bristol, the possible site of an eco-cemetery. On Sunday, Oct. 21, beginning at 1 p.m. at the law offices of James Dumont, the Watershed Center will host a public presentation on eco-cemeteries and the feasibility of one in Bristol.
The idea began with a class project by University of Vermont graduate Meghan Bannan, a resident of Essex Junction. "It was a good way to stay environmental when you die," she said.
When Bannan learned about eco-cemeteries during a research project, she became interested in starting one in the area. She discussed it with Brynn, director of Vermont Family Forests and a forester for UVM, and they decided that the former site of the Vergennes waterworks, now owned by the Watershed Center's board of directors, might be a good site.
The Waterworks Property is a 664-acre plot of land on Plank Road in Bristol under a conservation easement. Bannan and Brynn said using the land as an eco-cemetery is probably acceptable under the terms of the conservation easement, but they aren't certain yet. "That's something that has to be looked at in more depth if this goes any further," Bannan said.
AMERICORPS AND VERMONT Youth Conservation Corps volunteer Paul D'Agnolo carries an old tire away from the shore of Otter Creek below the falls in Middlebury last Thursday morning. About a dozen volunteers worked last week to clean up the falls basin area and provide better access to Otter Creek from the Marble Works. The two-day cleanup was an outgrowth of the "Creative Economy" workshops in Middlebury last spring. More photos from the clean up are in the Oct. 18 print edition of the Independent.
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MIDDLEBURY — A Shoreham teen is asking United States District Court to compel Middlebury Union High School to officially recognize the on-campus religious club of which she and other students are members.
The lawsuit sets the stage for a legal test of the federal doctrines relating to the separation of church and state, a fight that backers of the lawsuit — Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) — vowed to take all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
A girl identified simply as "V.O." filed the complaint on Oct. 12 in U.S. District Court in Burlington. The court has granted anonymity to the plaintiff because she is a minor. The Addison Independent knows the identity of the girl, but has agreed — at the request of her parents — to not name her unless she decides to come forward voluntarily or until the court lifts her legal veil of secrecy.
The complaint names UD-3; MUHS Principal Bill Lawson and Addison Central Supervisory Union (ACSU) Superintendent Lee Sease as defendants.
V.O. alleges in her lawsuit that UD-3 officials have unjustly denied the Youth Alive Club the same official school recognition as other district-sanctioned clubs, such as the Gay/Straight Organization; the Arabic Club; the Outing Club; and the Student Coalition on Human Rights.
Officially recognized clubs at MUHS, according to the complaint, can be listed in the MUHS yearbook with an accompanying photo; can have their names listed on the MUHS Web site and in the school's student-parent handbook; can have access to an advisor; and can receive access to district resources, including equipment, supplies and club funding.
By MEGAN JAMES
ADDISON COUNTY — Before moving to East Middlebury last year, Jeff Jones lived in the Caribbean, where he ran a food distribution company for the Turks and Caicos. It was there, a stone's throw from the main island's electricity plant, which ran on low-grade diesel fuel, that he first started tracking the peak oil crisis.
"The plant was a mile and a half away and it was just belching diesel fumes to provide energy," Jones said. Without a dryer in the house, he would try to gauge which way the wind was blowing before hanging his clothes out to dry.
"My clothes would smell like I just got out of the garage after an eight-hour shift working on diesel engines," he said. "This can't be sustainable, I thought."
Since then, Jones has been "ringing the alarm bell" about the rapidly-approaching expiration date of cheap oil, and that's what drew him to Step It Up 2, the sequel to last April's nationwide day of climate change demonstrations led by Ripton author Bill McKibben and a group of Middlebury College graduates.
"What we have to do for one, if we do it right, will help the other," Jones said of global warming and peak oil, the time when half the world's total oil reserves has been pumped out of the ground and people begin to face a scarcity of petroleum.
On Nov. 3, Jones will join area residents in making a second call to the U.S. government to "Step it up: cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050." But this time, the campaign doesn't just offer a goal, but an outline of changes the country needs to make to get there.
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The Egyptian revolution
My wife is asking me what's my analysis of the demonstrations happening in Egypt these days. I have none. This is not the time for analysis, we'll have plenty of time for that later. This is the time for action, for energy, for capturing the opportunity of changing this country. The revolution has already happened, by the mere fact that thousands of Egyptians went out to the streets. Egypt is being brought back from the dead, and Egyptians are waking up from their chronic choma. Having it started makes a success already, regardless of how it ends.
I joined Tuesday's demonstrations starting in the Mohandeseen area reaching Tahrir square. It was a beautiful picture of an Egypt many of us didn't think was possible. But Egypt has already proven it can change, and Egyptians have proved they deserve it. The demonstration was well organized and the number of people who joined was a pleasant surprise. Yesterday was a challenge and the riot police and state security had orders to quell the demonstrations before they get bigger with all the means they have.
Friday afternoon is the next big one after the noon prayers. The state security is on their highest alert, and the people will go pray and come out from every mosque to all the major streets. I will be here tomorrow at noon.
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The citizens of Levy County owe a huge debt of gratitude to both Ms. Lillie Rooks and Ms. Nancy Bell as they retire from service on our Levy County Commission. Ms. Rooks and Ms. Bell have served with high distinction, honor, integrity and good faith for many years.
Ms. Rooks and Ms. Bell generously gave of their time, treasure and talents while ensuring many positive Levy County changes have come to fruition. As the November 2, 2010 election results became final, we sincerely hope these talented women will find alternate ways to serve our community and state.
No Biblical words are more fitting than those in Mathew 25:21, "Well done, thou good and faithful servants." You have been faithful in all things and we share your celebration. May the Lord richly bless and keep you both!
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NFL executive vice president Jeff Pash has some serious problems with the current collective bargaining agreement, foremost being that all those football players shooting themselves in bars get to keep their signing bonuses. Outrage!
Pash appeared on Mike and Mike this morning to do a little management dick twirling. Here's what he said:
"That's a code for saying it's a pretty one-sided deal," Pash said, answering [NFLPA boss DeMaurice] Smith's comments that the players were happy with the last CBA.
"We'll continue on with a system where if a player shoots himself in a bar and goes to jail he gets to keep his signing bonuses. We'll continue on where there isn't testing for growth hormone. We'll continue on with a system where there's four preseason games that if the fans have been clear about anything, they don't want those games," Pash said, detailing why the owners weren't satisfied with the past deal.
What he's saying, I believe, is that under an ideal CBA, signing bonuses would be contingent on players not shooting themselves in bars. A player who shoots himself in a bar would have to forfeit his signing bonus, merely on account of his having shot himself in a bar. There would probably be a clause in the CBA reading something like, "ARTICLE XXXVIII: SIGNING BONUSES FOR PLAYERS SHOOTING THEMSELVES IN BARS," with a subsection for players who shoot themselves in bars but do not go to jail. Needless to say, this is all very eye-opening. I was not aware that players shooting themselves in bars represented so great a scourge that it undermined the current agreement and threatened the league's economic viability. And I am very glad that, on the eve of a hotly contentious labor showdown, an NFL suit can resist the urge to demonize the other side and instead talk frankly about the real issues facing the league — violent greedhead thugs roaming the country's bars, shooting themselves, and keeping the money they made many years prior for signing with their team. One hopes that the players will come to their senses, and a deal can be struck, and everyone can go out and celebrate and somehow not shoot himself.