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By volunteering at Carnegie Hall as a Music Ambassador, you help us to fulfill our vital mission of providing the transformative power of music to the widest possible audience. Music Ambassadors offer assistance to Carnegie Hall staff, audience members, and the general public in many different capacities. Most of our volunteer opportunities occur during the concert season (approximately October through June).
When you volunteer as a Music Ambassador, you not only get insider access to the world's most famous concert hall, you also enjoy many great perks, including:
Music Ambassadors who volunteer for this program will deliver concert calendars to hotel concierge desks on a monthly basis. When appropriate, the volunteer will engage with the concierge to highlight selected concerts. The typical walking route includes 10 hotels located near Carnegie Hall.
Volunteers pick up the calendars at Carnegie Hall the third week of every month and deliver them to the local hotels; approximately two hours are required to complete the distribution route.
Qualities Needed
Physical stamina; friendly and outgoing personality; self-motivated; interest in Carnegie Hall programming; not averse to walking outside.
Carnegie Hall offers public walk-in and private booked tours during the concert season. Volunteer docents lead groups of up to 20 visitors on a one-hour walk through the Hall, providing insight into the Hall's history and architecture. Individuals who are comfortable with school groups are particularly welcome.
Flexible schedules with emphasis on morning availability for school groups, particularly from March through June.
Qualities Needed
Flexible; sense of humor; vocal and physical stamina; interest in music, history, and architecture; friendly and outgoing personality.
Music Ambassadors who volunteer to greet patrons at Community Programs assist with various events at venues throughout the community, including Neighborhood Concerts, Carnegie Kids, Family Concerts, and other programs offered through Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. Projects include distributing information and helping with audience-development events.
Various days/times as needed throughout the five boroughs of New York City.
Qualities Needed
Friendly and outgoing personality; excited to travel throughout the five boroughs; interest in Carnegie Hall programming.
Greeters complement the front-of-house experience by welcoming audience members to Carnegie Hall presentations in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage and Zankel Hall. Greeters assist regular concert staff and ushers by directing concertgoers to proper venue locations and amenities.
Volunteers must be available to greet at least one concert per month. Most concerts are weekday evenings or weekends.
Qualities Needed
Friendly and outgoing personality; self-motivated; interest in Carnegie Hall programming; not averse to standing outside.
Music Ambassadors who provide staff support assist with both short-term and ongoing projects within the administrative offices of Carnegie Hall. Typical tasks include mailings, organizing materials, and other general office support.
Music Ambassadors are asked to volunteer one or two shifts per week. Shift periods are 10 AM–1 PM on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Other days/times may be added as needed.
Qualities Needed
Detail-oriented and able to follow directions; self-motivated to finish projects; ability to complete repetitive motion tasks.
Music Ambassadors stationed at the Information Desk in the Box Office lobby enhance the experience of visitors to Carnegie Hall by answering questions and pointing out amenities.
Music Ambassadors are asked to volunteer for the same shift each week. Shift periods are generally Monday through Saturday, 11 AM–2 PM or 1:45–4:30 PM.
Qualities Needed
Friendly and outgoing personality; detail oriented; interest in Carnegie Hall programming; not adverse to cooler temperatures; foreign language skills are a plus.
The Carnegie Hall Shop offers special items for sale to visitors, concertgoers, and tour groups. Merchandise includes CDs, DVDs, books, and branded souvenirs.
Music Ambassadors are asked to volunteer one or two shifts per week. Shift periods are flexible and usually occur in the afternoon and during evening concerts; morning shifts may also be available.
Qualities Needed
Should be computer-literate and have an interest and/or experience in retail.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering at Carnegie Hall as a Music Ambassador. We unfortunately do not have any volunteer opportunities available at this time. Interested volunteers are welcome to complete the online application form; completed forms will be kept on file for future review as additional needs arise.
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midori liqueur kanten jelly:
2-3 figs, peeled
juice of 1/2 lemon
2-3 Tbsp water
125 ml Midori liqueur
1 kanten (agar-agar) stick (10 g.)
450 ml mineral water
4 Tbsp granulated sugar
12 seedless green grapes, peeled and halved
12 blueberries
6 small strawberries
3-4 white marshmallows (optional)
1. First prepare the fruits. If using figs, mix the lemon juice and water in a small bowl, dip the peeled figs in it, and drain on paper towels. Cut crossways into 3 to 4 rounds depending on size.
2. Put the Midori liqueur in a small saucepan and heat over high heat for 2-3 minutes until the alcohol has evaporated. Remove from the heat and set to cool.
3. Soak the kanten (agar-agar) in plenty of water for 5 minutes, then drain and squeeze out excess water. Break the kanten into small pieces, place in a saucepan with the mineral water, and cook on moderate heat for 7-8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until it has completely melted. Remove from the heat and strain through a sieve into another saucepan. Place the saucepan on a moderate heat, add the sugar to the kanten liquid and stir until dissolved. Remove from the heat and leave to cool. When it is about body temperature, mix the Midori liqueur. It will set quickly so do not leave for long.
4. Arrange the fruits, and marshmallows if using, artistically in a 560ml/1pint jelly (jello) mould or small clear glasses, and pour over the kanten and Midori mixture. All the fruits rise to the surface; so if you want to avoid this, use half the fruits and half the kanten mixture while warm, leave in the refrigerator for 10 minutes, and then arrange the remaining ingredients on top when the mixture is body temperature. Leave to set for 20 minutes. Kanten liquid sets very quickly so it needn't be chilled. When set, remove from the mould and cut into 4 pieces. Arrange on individual plates and serve.
*Recipe adapted from Nobou Iwaseya, Masterclass in Japanese Cooking
Nobou Iwaseya, the chief chef for all Suntory restaurants abroad, shows how to make green jelly using kanten (agar-agar), a healthy, vegetarian alternative to animal gelatin. This vegetarian version sets quickly at a higher room temperature; so start cooking the kanten after all the other ingredients have been prepared. Midori, probably Suntory's most renowned product outside Japan, is a liqueur made from melon.
You can of course use gelatin for this dessert if you are making it in individual dishes, but if you make one large jelly and cut it into four, kanten is a much better choice as it is easier to cut in straight lines. Midori is a strong liqueur; so boil to evaporate all alcohol content before use otherwise it won't set properly. You can use any fruit or combination of two or three kinds in this beautiful green jelly.
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Forging a new path forward on climate change
As world leaders convene in Doha for this year's UN Climate Change Conference developing countries are looking for ways to maintain momentum for change to help them transition to climate-smart growth.
When it comes to delivering improved, cost-effective infrastructure and services – a precondition for green growth – public-private partnerships (PPPs) are one way forward. At a recent event co-sponsored with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Doha, we shared our unique perspective on public sector efforts to attract and leverage private sector climate finance through PPPs.
Some key takeways from the event include:
- PPPs help tap new money for infrastructure: Since the 2008 financial crisis, governments have limited financial resources to devote to capital expenditures and expanded public services. Involving the private sector offers a solution.
- PPPs boost efficiency through cost savings and shorten delivery periods. They also spur innovation by bringing in private sector know-how.
- PPPs facilitate projects under one umbrella: When it comes to climate initiatives, PPPs can efficiently organize and consolidate the numerous and complex arrangements that make a renewable energy (or any other climate-related) project work.
- PPPs allow for appropriate allocation of supply and risk demand to the private sector, reducing taxpayer costs.
- Since 1989, IFC has been the only multilateral institution providing advice to national and municipal governments on designing and implementing PPP transactions to improve infrastructure and access to basic services such as water, power, agribusiness, transport, health and education.


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The Hope College Concert Series will present Sleeping at Last, Denison Witmer and Jeremy Larson on Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
Sleeping at Last is to headline the night, drawing not only from the group's past successful albums "Ghosts" and "Keep No Score" (featuring the song "Quicksand" as seen on "Grey's Anatomy"), but also from the band's latest full-length album "Storyboards," released in September. "Relevant" magazine has said of the album, "'Storyboards' has depth and layered meaning - proof that the trio from Chicago is less interested in writing catchy music and more concerned with making great art."
Also performing will be Denison Witmer, who is a Philadelphia-based singer, songwriter and musical affiliate of Rosie Thomas and Sufjan Stevens; and Springfield, Mo., artist, Jeremy Larson, now touring with Sleeping at Last.
Tickets cost $10 for the general public and $5 with Hope College I.D., and are on sale at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.
The doors will open at 7:30 p.m. the night of the concert.


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Q: I booked a flight on Emirates Airlines from Buffalo to Manila, with connections at New York JFK and Dubai. The flight from Buffalo to New York JFK was on JetBlue, but I bought the entire trip through Emirates on one ticket and with one reservation number. I had 2 1 / 2hours to make the connection at JFK on the outbound flight, but the JetBlue flight was delayed and I missed my onward connection. Emirates was very helpful in getting me to Manila on other airlines with minimal inconvenience. However, when I showed up for my return flight from Manila back to Buffalo I was informed that my entire return itinerary had been canceled because I was deemed a "no show" on my New York to Manila flight. Emirates got me to Dubai, but I ended up stranded in Dubai for 22 hours, eventually getting on a flight from Dubai to Dallas, then Dallas to Pittsburgh (which I paid for myself) and then had a friend pick me up for the drive back to Buffalo. All in all, it took me 65 hours to get home. By the way, Emirates refused to provide meals or a hotel while I waited for nearly a full day in Dubai. My question: Why was my return flight canceled even though Emirates was aware of the "misconnect" at JFK on my outward journey and what, if anything, can I do about this? Am I entitled to denied-boarding compensation per U.S. law?
A: Oddly, yours was not the first story like this in my inbox this week. There was also the woman flying on Air Canada connecting in Toronto to a British Airways flight. Both of you ended up missing your outbound connection and being labeled as "no shows" on the return.
First, let me say this. Neither of you had enough time to comfortably connect. Two-and-a-half hours is not enough time to make a domestic-to-international connection at New York's JFK (or Toronto Pearson), especially in winter over the busy holiday travel period. You should never accept such a tight connection. Next time, insist on the maximum layover you can get (four hours sounds about right). If your first flight is on time, great. Enjoy the airport. Read a book. Get a day pass to the lounge. It's worth it. Second, if you do miss your connection, do not get on the rebooked connecting flight without a printout of your complete new itinerary in hand, showing a confirmation of your return segments. Assume that the airline will cancel all of your return flights (even though they're not supposed to do that). Don't wait until you show up for the return to discover you're stranded.
Now to your specific situation. No, U.S. denied-boarding compensation does not apply in Dubai. Why was your return flight canceled? I contacted both Emirates and JetBlue, and although both are now offering some sort of compensation, I have to say I'm not satisfied and neither should you be. (Emirates is offering to pay for your out-of-pocket expenses, which is great, except it doesn't compensate you for the agony of a 65-hour ordeal getting home; JetBlue is offering a $100 credit, to which I say "big deal.")
Each airline, in the most polite possible terms, is blaming the other for not "protecting" your return flights. Emirates' customer service claims that "It is the responsibility of the inbound carrier (in this case JetBlue) to protect a passenger's booking when they become aware of a delay which could result in a missed connection." Emirates further claims that their representative who booked you on alternate flights (on Delta and Gulf Air via London and Bahrain) did attempt to reinstate your return booking, but your seat was snapped up by another traveler "due to the busy holiday season." JetBlue is saying that they, too, attempted "to find passage on any one of our 20 partners" but were unable to do so, at which point "Emirates stepped in to assist by confirming your travel on another carrier .. Emirates indicates that a communication issue failed to recognize your outbound flight as flown."
I think the key words here are "failed" and "communication." As soon as your inbound JetBlue flight was recognized as being late (perhaps even before you left the ground in Buffalo) both airlines should have realized that you would miss your Emirates connection from JFK, and both should have immediately worked to protect your return flights. Whether because of human error or poorly coordinated computer systems, this was not done. I think you're entitled to a refund of the return portion of your flight homeward. And I'm shocked that Emirates refused you hotel and meals in Dubai, and made you pay your fare from Dallas to Buffalo. I thought they were better than that.
George Hobica is founder of the low-airfare listing site Airfarewatchdog.com.
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The state legislators representing Orange County unanimously asked a state water agency to approve Poseidon Water's permit to build a desalination facility in Huntington Beach, according to a statement by Poseidon Water.
The Thursday letter to Coastal Commission Chairwoman Mary Shallenberger stated that "the Huntington Beach Desalination Plant is a critically needed and environmentally responsible solution to the county's water supply needs. We urge your immediate approval."
Assemblyman Allan Mansoor (R-Costa Mesa), Sen. Mimi Walters (R-Irvine) and Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) were among those who signed the letter.
Democrats in the county also back Poseidon Water, the Connecticut-based company that recently changed its name from Poseidon Resources, according to company spokesman Brian Lochrie.
"We're extremely excited to get bipartisan support for the project," Lochrie said. "I think it's a big deal and it shows the strong level of support that we have throughout the county for this important water reliability project."
The letter states that though Orange County is using less water than in previous years, it "must import 50% of its water from the Colorado River and the State Water Project in order to meet the demands of our constituents and keep our economy strong."
The letter comes weeks after the Orange County Water District voted 8 to 0, with two members absent, to extend its confidentiality agreement with Poseidon to study the possibility of buying water from the desalination plant, director Cathy Green said.
Green said the confidentiality agreement — which essentially makes Poseidon's private research on the plant available to the water district — isn't new, as the two have had an agreement since April 2010. Directors voted July 24 to extend it to April 7, 2016, and to create an Ocean Desalination Citizens' Advisory Committee to provide input on the desal project, she said.
"We just want to make sure that we are doing our due diligence," Green said.
She added that though their research on feasibility of buying water from Poseidon may be done behind closed doors, all actions on the matter will be made in public.
It was earlier reported in the Daily Pilot sister paper the Huntington Beach Independent that underground pipelines could possibly run through Costa Mesa. Lochrie said it could still be an option should other agencies and cities decide to buy from Poseidon.
He added that the Coastal Commission hearing regarding Poseidon's permit should happen some time in the fall.
The desalination plant, projected to produce about 50 million gallons of water daily, may be an alternative that OCWD is looking at to prepare the county for water shortages in the future, but some believe Poseidon's product isn't needed.
Former Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook, who has followed the topic closely, said many urban water management plans in Orange County say the county has enough water until 2035. She doesn't understand why legislators would support the project.
"It's interesting that you have all these legislators who are saying, 'You guys need to approve this project,' but we don't have any cities who actually want the water," she said. "These guys are clearly not keeping up with current events."
Huntington Beach Councilman Joe Shaw has opposed the project as well and is bringing an item to Monday's council meeting asking the dais to send a letter to OCWD expressing an opposition to the confidentiality agreement.
"I don't think any body of officials, elected or appointed, should having any confidentiality agreements with preparations or any other group," he said. "They should do everything in public so that the public sees everything and that public scrutiny is always there."
Shaw said he believes state legislators don't have all the information regarding the project to make an informed decision.
"Most of our elected officials who have signed that letter, I don't have that much faith in their abilities anyway," he said.


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Origin: Moud or Birjand
Northeast Iran, southern part of the province of Khorassan, Moud is located southeast of Birjand. The most important knotting locations around Birjand are: Dorokhsh, Moud, Asiaban, Pirkhast, Darb Abbas, Derakht-e Tut, Seyyedan, Sirkouh.
Patterns: Exclusively floral, à great many all-over designs, mainly Herati.
Colours: Very rich contrast, due to the use of red, bleu and Ivory.
Knot density: 2.500 - 5.600 noeuds/dm².
This provenance flourished for thr first time around 1930 where outstanding rugs where knotted for the Shah's palace of Khorassan. Its good réputation penetrated all the way to Birdjand. Encouraged by this, new patterns were developed with high quality materials. Up until then, there was no uniform pattern in the Birjand region; each village knotted its own unique design.
Around 1950, Amini creates the medaillon pattern with its high-contrast colours, wich is still among the most-sold Moud designs today. Sadly, somme immitators want's to benefit from the good reputation of Amini, instead of using high-quality materials, as Amini has done, they resorted to inferior wool. As poor quality rugs clearly constituted the majority, the good reputation was destroyed within a short period of time. Nevertheless, high-quality goods are still being produced with appelation "Moud" small town from which cames the good reputation of Amini.


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Brian Roewe is an NCR staff writer. He began with NCR in Novemeber 2011 as a Bertelsen intern, and is a graduate of Saint Louis University and Rockhurst University. Brian has reported on a wide range of topic for NCR: among them, parish closings and reorganizations; labor issues; clergy sex abuse; marriage equality; Catholic education; and the occasional sports story. Additionally, he edits the Eco Catholic blog and reports on environmental developments in the church and the U.S. He has received numerous awards for his writing, most recently in in the 2014 Catholic Press Awards placing second for his coverage of excommunicated former priest Greg Reynolds of Australia, and third in sports journalism for a story on a rumored all-Catholic athletic conference in college sports (print edition exclusive).


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I mentioned in my burger macaron post that I was going to abandon the French meringue method of making Parisian macarons and try the Italian meringue method instead, but I think I might have been a bit hasty. I really don't want to use an Italian meringue based recipe. I don't want to deal with making the caramel and digging out my candy thermometer. I also have a tendency to get those sugar threads all over the place when I am pouring the syrup into the egg whites. I know I'm supposed to pour the molten hot syrup onto the side of the bowl and not onto the whisk, but I somehow manage to get it on my Kitchen Aid whisk attachment anyway.
So after reading Ms. Humble's many macaron experiments (where she used both French and Italian meringues), I decided to give the French meringue method one more try using Ms. Humble's macaron recipe.
The thing about macarons is that there is not one single recipe that will work for everyone. The brand of ingredients, folding method, oven, pan liner (silicone or parchment), thickness of baking sheet, weather/humidity, and the list goes on. I've been trying to find that one recipe that will consistently work for me in my kitchen with the brands of ingredients I use and the equipment I own. I thought that since Ms. Humble lives in Seattle and the weather up there is similar to San Francisco's I might have a better shot at success using her ratio of egg white to almonds to sugar.
I also decided to beat the heck out of my meringue per Mardi's instructions until my whites looked like this:


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Medical News
Wall Street Journal Examines So-Called "Salvage Therapy" for People With AIDS Whose Illness Is Not Responding to Treatment Options
May 3, 2006
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined "salvage therapy," a "last-ditch effort" HIV/AIDS treatment that an estimated 40,000 drug-resistant people living with the disease in the U.S. are taking after other antiretroviral regimens have failed. According to the Journal, many people with AIDS using salvage therapy have lived with HIV/AIDS for more than 20 years and began treatment in the late 1980s and early 1990s using monotherapy, a single-drug treatment (Chase, Wall Street Journal, 5/3). Monotherapy -- which was used before combination therapy was initiated in 1996 -- gave HIV only one challenge to mutate past and has created a virtually impossible obstacle for researchers to develop effective HIV/AIDS-related therapies for those who have developed drug resistance (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 1/20). According to the Journal, there is no "single recipe" for salvage therapy, and some physicians use older antiretroviral drugs to attempt to control the virus or try to gain access to experimental treatments. Because of salvage therapy, most of the 40,000 people in the U.S. with drug-resistant HIV strains are "for now, hanging on," the Journal reports. However, Nelson Vergel, an HIV/AIDS treatment advocate in Houston, estimates that about "20,000 are in dire need" of a new treatment. Steven Deeks, an associate professor at San Francisco General Hospital who is currently studying 300 people taking salvage therapy, said rapidly switching from one drug regimen to another, a practice that was common in the early 1990s, spurred the development of drug-resistance. "We need to stop switching [drug therapies] so aggressively," Deeks said, adding, "We need to hold still until we have a number of new families of drugs." According to the Journal, Gilead, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Pfizer and Schering-Plough are leading the development of new experimental antiretroviral regimens. According to Vergel, new drugs may be available as early as this summer and spring 2007 (Wall Street Journal, 5/3).
Back to other news for May 3, 2006
This article was provided by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. It is a part of the publication Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report. Visit the Kaiser Family Foundation's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.


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January 30, 2008
LOS ANGELES - The Financial Times released this week their 2008 rankings of the global top 100 Full-Time MBA programs. Financial Times ranked UCLA Anderson ranked eleventh in the United States and Anderson is again the number-one-ranked public university business school in the survey. Last year, UCLA Anderson ranked tenth in the U.S. (the school was ranked #13th in 2006 and #17 in 2005). Globally, UCLA Anderson ranked twenty-fifth.
The global rankings also placed UCLA Anderson number-one in Entrepreneurship, for the fourth time in six years.
The Financial Times' rankings include 43 international MBA programs (three more than last year) and 57 U.S. MBA programs. International programs have become more prominent in the FT rankings, with 14 international schools and 11 U.S. schools including UCLA Anderson comprising the top 25.
The biggest factors in the FT rankings is "salary today" -- the average salary in US dollars three years after graduation adjusted for industry variations, and the percentage increase in salaries from the beginning of the MBA to three years after graduation. Both metrics reflect weighted averages across the 2005, 2006 and 2007 surveys. These two metrics comprise 40 percent of the total ranking score. The rankings also include several faculty, board, student and research metrics, as well as significant attention to the international profile of the school.
UCLA Anderson was also in the top ten in "Top Salaries In Finance" with a #8 rating.
Read more about the Financial Times rankings on the FT Website.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the very best business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty are ranked #1 in "Intellectual Capital" by BusinessWeek and are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,600 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 35,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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Entry-level attorneys may join the Environmental Tort Litigation Section via the Attorney General's Honors Program either directly after graduating from law school or after completing a judicial clerkship. Lateral hire into the section after at least one year of practice is available through experienced attorney hiring.
Law students are encouraged to apply for internships made available through volunteer legal intern recruitment and the Summer Law Intern Program (SLIP).
For more information about working with the Civil Division, please visit the Civil Division's Employment page.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is an Equal Opportunity / Reasonable Accommodation Employer. Except where otherwise provided by law, there will be no discrimination because of color, race, regional, national origin, politics, marital status, disability, age, sex, sexual orientation or on the basis of personal favoritism. DOJ welcomes and encourages applications from persons with physical and mental disabilities and will reasonably accommodate the needs of those persons. DOJ is firmly committed to satisfying its affirmative obligations under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to ensure that persons with disabilities have every opportunity to be hired and advanced on the basis of merit.


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A former Ford executive's self-published paean to CEO Alan Mulally includes a few thought-provoking nuggets.
I can't wholeheartedly recommend Ford Motor Company: The Greatest Corporate Turnaround in U.S. History, by Gerhard Geyer.
The book is a recounting of media coverage of Ford's rebound under Mulally, leavened with lines from American pop music and Geyer's reminiscences about his youth in Nazi Germany and the opportunities that America offered him.
Geyer is a retired 30-year Ford veteran. His work at the automaker included business planning, corporate strategy, business development, product planning, divestitures, and the negotiation of joint ventures and licensing deals.
Despite Geyer's decades at Ford, the 518-page book doesn't offer any behind-the-scenes tales of an insider. And the repeated quotes from MSNBC, Fortune, Forbes and, yes, Automotive News get tiresome.
Praise, more praise
But the main problem is the constant hagiography.
Geyer can't go two pages without another round of effusive praise for Mulally. He clearly thinks the Ford CEO deserves several Nobel prizes and sainthood. At one point Geyer writes, "Actually, I am convinced that Mr. Mulally can walk on water!"
To quote Dave Barry, "I'm not making this up!"
But Geyer also includes some points worth repeating.
He considers Lincoln so weak as to leave Ford with one and a half brands, and says it remains to be seen whether Ford Motor can return Lincoln to its status as a viable franchise. He notes, "None of the top ten world automotive companies are one-brand entities."
He says he would have kept Mercury alive for two more years "until the Lincoln product pipeline is supercharged to the nth degree."
Turf wars again?
In one of the few insider comments, he writes, "High-level former colleagues told me that … any executive who puts roadblocks on the free flow of information gambles with his or her career."
And in a section devoted to the questions hanging over Ford's future, Geyer asks, will we see "internal rivalries and turf wars again with the unsettling struggle for leadership when Mr. Mulally nears retirement?"
Anyone who has seen Ford Motor up close knows that it used to be rife with internal rivalries, and information was jealously guarded within each faction's turf. Ending all that has been one of Mulally's extraordinary accomplishments.
But, as Geyer notes, the real test is whether those changes will endure.


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Some owners of the GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus are finding out that they have a new update waiting for them this morning, albeit a minor one. The latest update for Google's flagship phone leaves the device on Android 4.0.4, but ups the build number to IMM76I, from the older IMM76D. As for what's actually new, some GNex owners are reporting that this fixes the intermittent signal loss issue that'd been affecting some on IMM76D, as well as remedying smaller issues like occasional lock screen lag when using automatic brightness. (Be sure to let us know in the comments if you notice any other changes on your Nexus after applying the update.)
And for any neckbeards out there keeping track of technical stuff, it seems the new software leaves the phone's baseband as it was, while including a fresh kernel built last Friday.
The update should be pushed out to GSM Galaxy Nexus owners over the next few weeks, if earlier release patterns are anything to go by. If you want to manually update (and have the "yakju" variant of the Galaxy Nexus), you can follow our usual instructions to do so, swapping out the old OTA URL for this link right here.
Thanks, Scott!
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text: The programs inside spec are open source. For example 458.sjeng is the free sjeng 11.2 version, which we gave a 150MB hashtable and fixed a few old bugs which the compiler guys noticed past years when testrunning specint2006. Lucky there were more bugs in compilers than in the code to be fixed. It's simply nearly impossible to license for example my diep's source code to spec. Not because i would mind those compiler guys have my diep's source code, as it will only have a positive effect that their compiler gets fast for my code. But competitors will be able to simply buy a cheap spec license and see my source code. As a result only non-commercial code will show up in spec. That's the only disadvantage of spec, and it is a non-solvable problem in gametree search. So apart from this single problem, and the 2 year unnecessary delay to create the testsuite, what they do is pretty good idea in terms of benchmarking. Someone without ties to a company must make a benchmark for systems, and let's face it. 95% of all persons on this list are totally subjective, some because they are paid by some company and therefore will only see that company or one of its business partners as best, and again others are still believing too much in the past where the hardware field advances quickly. So someone must do objective testing with software of what is faster. Then you get a compiler problem. So you need source code. In all that spec is doing a reasonable good job compared to others. Find me 1 site that 'tests' hardware that's objective. Spec is the best compromise. Vincent ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Jacobs" <gdjacobs at gmail.com> To: <beowulf at beowulf.org> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] SPEC CPU 2006 released > Mark Hahn wrote: >>> The new SPEC cpu suite has been released, and initial results >>> are posted to: >> >> is this one still stupidly not open-source? > > I don't think SPEC has any open source benchmarks. > > As far as I can tell, SPEC groups derive income by licensing their > benchmarks to integrators and such (although I know SpecViewPerf is free > to use). I would think they also have issues with proprietary 3rd party > software within their benchmarks. > > I think they could be supported in the same manner as OSDL, but they are > not, so no open source from SPEC. > > -- > Geoffrey D. Jacobs > > Go to the Chinese Restaurant, > Order the Special > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >


text: hi ya andrew On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > The very sturdy 18" x 26" 16 gauge aluminum cookie trays (sheet pans) > are $9 each, you can get customized flat metal for about that same ( $10-$15 ) costs too if you did all the work ( measuring and generating a usable autocad drawing that they can plug into their cnc machine ) - for the guy that wondered how come people can't draw autocad drawings properly for mounting a motherboard, it is in fact very tricky business ... as tolerances is measured down to 0.001" and if its a little off, some of the nuts/standoffs can ruin their expensive equipment or more realistically, your 1U power supply will not properly fit into the 1U chassis without stretching/bending the metal - drawing (random/close enuff ) lines and circles and bends is trivial ... doing it properly requires prior experience with the target sheet metal shop machines and k-factors and material thickness and hardness and other whacky stuff including thickness of paint for the shelf .. i'd bend a couple ears for rackable mounts ( ie rack shelf with holes for motherboard ) - but that bend for the ears will add a few bucks to the costs it'd look "better" than the cookie tray ?? the fun for the cookie tray method is to have it like a blade, that it plugs in and power up by itself .. no cords/wires other than ethernet, and even that can be plugged into a custom nic-backplane we've been debating doing that cookie-cutter drawing ( shelf w/ ears and holes ) and gpl' the sucker even so those of you with (cnc capable) sheet metal shops can make your own shelf c ya alvin


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A storage unit, a garage, a car, a professor's office and a tent on a campsite.
These are only a few of the 24 Irvine spots where Richard Newton bunked over two years in the early 1970s.
This nomadic life — the yearning to feel out new surroundings — sparks inspiration.
"The seed of my ideas comes from other places and, I suppose, works with my restlessness — I'm always going somewhere," he said. "I have personally found that the most interesting part of life is to be exposed to other people, cultures and places — to somehow step completely out of where you come from and immerse yourself in someone else's world."
Newton, who has off and on for the past decade called Pasadena home, will be at the Laguna Art Museum at 7 p.m. Thursday. The event, titled "Some Poets," is a screening of 11 short films he created between 1969 and 1987.
The museum and UC Irvine — Newton's alma mater — also hosted between 2011 and 2012 "Best Kept Secret," which was part of a regional exhibition called "Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980." The upcoming series traces Newton's life from Laguna Beach in the '70s, to downtown Los Angeles from the mid '70s to late '80s and then to Hollywood, where he lived until the '90s.
"Each place that I lived affected the film I was making, or the films that I was making reflected where I was," Newton explained, adding that the work depicts his progression while adapting to different environments.
A two-minute color movie, "coming into the 'vine," will be up first at the Laguna Art Museum. Newton shot the film in 10 minutes in 1969 on the UCI campus without actors or a script. Like other films he created at the time, this one is silent save for Santana's song "Jingo."
Others in the pipeline are "In Vivo," all 14 minutes and five seconds of which were created at Crystal Cove, Laguna Beach, Point Ferman, San Pedro and USC; "The Artist Landlord," a depiction of Newton's artist friends Chris Burden, Gina Pane, Barbara Smith and Charles Hill relaxing in his loft; and the U.S. debut of "The Weirdos," a vignette of Hollywood musicians including John and Dix Denney, Cliff Roman, Willy Williams and Art Fox of the eponymous band.
Along with the opportunity to interact with the filmmaker, viewers will be regaled with full movies and snippets portraying everything from transvestites to contemporary artist Paul McCarthy reading a poem to chiseled adonises in "Lamy Men."
'More of a gypsy'
While mulling over the source of his wanderlust, Newton points to his turbulent youth.
As the child of parents who split up, he was left with "serial baby sitters," until one day his mother decided not to return at all. Once his relatives got word of his whereabouts, the 5-year-old was handed off to the Newton family, who took him in without a formal adoption and with whom he stayed till he was 18.
Newton, who is now 64, was born in a leap year and claims that this provides a perfectly valid reason to say he's 16.
"I never had a place of my own, so that probably tends to make me more of a gypsy," he said.
Growing up, Newton recalls not questioning the state of his life — he simply did what he was asked to — but that stopped when he got older. Now, hints of being abandoned as a child show up in his work, he said, although subconsciously.
"Just like I move around a lot, I change my name a lot," said Newton, who donned the pseudonym Ric Marin upon embarking on his career as an artist. "So besides the fact that I don't seem to know where I belong, I also actually don't know what my name is. Fortunately, I guess I have art to attach all this stuff to."
Newton started out as an engineering student in college and was tapped to work at North American Rockwell in the summer of 1967. This job coincided with the Vietnam War and street demonstrations.
As an active participant in these protests, Newton was one day struck with the realization that he was "working for the wrong team" by constructing bombs. Drifting from sciences philosophy, he changed his worldview and, in the process, connected with local artists.
Today, 44 years later — a number that causes Newtown to exclaim, "Oh my God!" — he continues to reflect upon society and communicate his thoughts via art.
"Most of my work has some kind of social, personal or political context," he said. "I guess you could easily say that I'm not making art about art — I'm only making art about life."
Art over Walmart
Newton, who likens his "artist films" to the visual representation of a painting or poem, recalls a trip he took last year to Tromsø, Norway, to participate in the 13th International Ibsen Conference. The organizers deviated from a well-defined path of inviting scholars and instead called upon four artists — one each from Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States.
While there, Newton's 1987 creation "The Former Miss Barstow with every Tom, Dick, and Harry" — on display at the Laguna Art Museum — won praise as a modern take on Henrik Ibsen's 130-year-old production "A Doll's House."
Discarding and repurposing is a recurring theme in Newton's work that also shows up in the materials he employs. By recycling supplies and even human experiences, he infuses castoffs with "a new life, a new identity and a new home." This rings true in "Yucca Flat," an installation constructed from bread, broken beer bottles and flattened tin cans at New York's former Public School 1, which is now owned by the Museum of Modern Art, as well as "The Grotto" on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles.
Although married for 22 years, Newton admits that it's hard to maintain an ongoing relationship, not only because artists are more often broke than not, but also because they need a lot of emotional support.
"There are times when it seems like it would be better to be a Walmart greeter, because there would be some sense that there's a practical reason why I would be getting up in the morning and going to that job," said Newton, who said his wife sometimes reveals that she has no idea what he's up to or why.
Luckily, she is a kindred spirit who is on the move as much as he is and is currently in Ethiopia trying to figure out what she wants to do next, he said with a chortle.
Ultimately, Newton's every venture is driven by a desire to communicate.
"What I enjoy the most is when viewers — across a broad spectrum of ages and backgrounds — somehow find something in what I have done to relate to themselves," he said. "I want them to be able to step in and feel something."
If You Go
What: "Some Poets — Short Films from 1969–1987 by Richard Newton"
Where: Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach
When: 7 to 8:45 p.m. Thursday
Cost: Free for museum members, free for nonmembers with museum admission
Information: (949) 494-8971 or lagunaartmuseum.org


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MÉRIDA, Mexico — Until this winter, Mérida had just been a busy city I passed through on my way to the ancient Mayan ruins.
Then, in mid-December, I made it my destination.
I pretty much had to: I'd been hearing the city's name all fall, from house-hunting shows on TV to acquaintances in Minnesota trading tips about winter getaways. Even my new dog groomer turned out to be renovating a house here.
Was Mérida, the capital of Yucatán state, going to be Mexico's next big Yankee magnet — a new Ajijic or San Miguel de Allende?
I needn't have worried, though the city offers Americans many temptations: warm weather, cheap building stock, good healthcare, inexpensive insurance, property taxes a fraction of what they are at home, free cultural events and a trove of builders, woodworkers, blacksmiths and stone masons who do quality work for prices Americans can't quite believe.
Mérida was particularly appealing on weekend nights when the narrow streets around its central plaza were closed to traffic, music flooded from the sidewalk cafes and people of all ages went strolling in the warm evening air. I went too.
Maya girls from Chiapas state were carrying armloads of embroidered shawls, hoping someone would buy them. Artists had watercolors and beaded jewelry spread out for sale. Food-cart vendors were making cheese roll-ups to go. And the drivers of Mérida's romantic horse-drawn carriages, their white-painted rigs decorated with roses, were patiently waiting for fares.
I knew this was the crowded center of a city of a million people, but it felt as sweet and safe as a village in the countryside.
In all the evenings I spent walking there, nobody hassled me. Nobody hassled me by day, either, which gave me the rare joy of being a tourist without feeling like one.
This sense of safety wasn't an illusion, and "it's to Mérida's credit," said Brent Marsh, a New Zealander who leads house tours for visitors, including prospective home buyers, for the Mérida English Library. "People from farther north — Monterey and Mexico City — are moving their families here for safety."
Geography plays a role in this: The Yucatàn Peninsula lies too far east to be on the drug-smuggling routes running north through central Mexico.
But then, the Yucatán has always stood apart from the rest of the country. The Spanish conquest took longer here, and bloody resistance flared up again in the mid-1800s. And until the 1950s, when good roads arrived, it was easier for people to get to Paris than to Mexico City.
In the 19th century, when Yucatecan landowners began to get rich raising "green gold" — henequén, a big, tough, agave-like plant that yields good fiber for rope — the only way they could get it out was by ship to Europe, which was where wealthy families sent their children to be educated.
When the ships returned, they carried ballast that changed Mérida's architecture, said Keith Heitke, a former New Yorker who leads house tours for the English-language publication Yucatán Today.
Iron rails from European train lines replaced termite-vulnerable ceiling beams, French red tiles covered the roofs, and ceramic floor tiles took the place of carpets.
Isolation also helped the old culture survive. Today, more than 6 million people identify themselves as Mayan. Mayan dialects are widely spoken in the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Yucatán and Quintana Roo and southward into highland Guatemala and Belize.
Mérida's centro historico is now one of the biggest historic districts in Latin America, and local government favors preserving old houses to protect the city's authentic character. That alone might make locals look on the newcomers kindly, but they probably would anyway.
"The Yucatán people are very accepting," said Evalynne Engle, who moved to Mérida from Nevada with her husband in 2006. "I mean, they accept us gringos."
Local people also seem to appreciate those efforts to save the old houses, even though 20 years ago, "you couldn't give these houses away," Engle and other expatriates told me.
Younger people were tired of crumbling walls, termite infestations, peeling paint and balky plumbing. They moved out, and centro became, as one man put it, "the place where Grampa lived."
Now, in the leafy neighborhoods to the north, there are suburban-style homes, high-rise hotels, multiplex theaters, car dealerships and familiar names: Starbucks, Home Depot, Wal-Mart.
But the old city core is still a tight network of one-story façades set shoulder-to-shoulder and flush to the sidewalk, street after street, block after block, neighborhood after neighborhood.
Except for their paint jobs — mostly pastels — all the old houses looked alike to me. There was no way to tell what they were like inside, and their simple architecture made the streets look alike too — walled and blank like rows of low fortresses.
Which is exactly what they were, Heitke said.
The best example is also the oldest: Casa de Montejo, which dominates one side of the central plaza. It was completed in 1549 for the family of the city's founder, whose last descendant didn't move out until 1978.
The floor plan derives from the Romans, Heitke said: The walls are too high for intruders to scale, and everything else is hidden inside. Repeat that pattern, and the result is a grid of long, narrow houses, each with a small front on the street and only one way in.
"Close those doors up," he said, "and you're very safe."
Inside, the rooms become lower toward the back. That's where the original kitchen would have been, the servants' quarters, the toilet, the horses, dogs and chickens.
These days, that's where new owners put the swimming pool.
Some of them are snowbirds; others are absentee landlords who live in the U.S., Europe or elsewhere in Mexico. But others are full-time residents — expats who have built new lives in Mérida.
John Prentice Powell, for example, a Texas-born interior designer, painter and former model, had worked in New York and Paris before he and his partner discovered Mérida 10 years ago on a two-month-long search through Mexico.
Since then, the men have renovated about a dozen houses, some for other owners, a few for themselves, and the city is home. "I don't think I'll ever go back," Powell said.
Dave Thom, the Minneapolis dog groomer, first saw Mérida on a break from a beach vacation nearby. In 2005, he bought a 5,000-square-foot 19th-century house with original floor tiles and interior plasterwork and — not to be taken for granted here — working electricity, running water and a usable kitchen.
Thom has been renovating it ever since, supervising during his vacations from the States and trusting his workmen the rest of the time. The white-trimmed, salmon-pink façade was restored first, thanks to a city program that covers the cost of labor if the homeowner pays for materials.
The expats I met said they feel welcome in Mérida, not resented, as Americans often do in more Yankee-fied places. In this city, there are too few to make a dent: "I've heard 2,000 to 4,000," Heitke said, though nobody knows for sure.
"Mérida's not Americanized," Engle said. "It's more of an advantage to come here than to go to San Miguel. It's still Mexico."
On my last night in town — it happened to be Dec. 21, the day the 5,125-year-old Mayan calendar ended — I took a final stroll through the streets near the plaza grande. The regulars were there, but over the music from the cafes, I caught a weirder sound, high-pitched and quavering. An aggrieved soprano, maybe? Nope, just a white-haired guy in a straw hat, sitting on a box and running a home-made bow back and forth across the edge of an old-fashioned saw blade.
"My father teach me," he said in English, guessing I spoke it. "I learn by ear — all by ear! I have 1,000 songs! Listen — 'Casablanca' song!" I gave him a few coins, and the whine of the musical saw followed me for a long time as I walked away. He was playing the old song that begins, "You must remember this..." By then, I was sure I would.


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Pro surfing and school don't mix.
At least not the kind of school that requires its students to show up on time, spend most of the day in a classroom and then go home and do homework into the afternoon and evening.
That's why so many up-and-coming surfers are home-schooled. That's not a bad thing, and sometimes it can be even better than public schooling.
But for those who do go to school and also try to grow a professional surfing career, much credit should be given.
Taylor Pitz was featured in this space last September as she decided to skip the Assn. of Surfing Professionals Women's World Junior Championships, instead choosing to move into the dorms and begin school at UCLA.
There's another surfer who is making it work these days as well — Newport Beach's Chase Wilson. Wilson, 20, graduated from Newport Harbor High and is now attending UC Santa Barbara.
Wilson is not only doing it, he's doing it well.
Wilson has been surfing in the ASP Men's Star Events in Australia the past few weeks and is making a mark. At the Breaka Burleigh Pro in Burleigh Heads, Queensland, earlier this month, Wilson placed tied for 13th and earned $1,500. It was the second highest finish of any U.S. surfer, including Hawaiians, behind only Kolohe Andino.
He dropped to 73rd last week in the Australian Open, but that was a highly-rated 6-star event. He also placed 17th in the Billabong ASP World Juniors event in January, tied with fellow Newport Beach surfer Andrew Doheny.
And Wilson is on the alternate list to compete in the Burton Toyota Pro next month, another 6-star event in Australia.
More on Windy City surfer case...
Turns out, Kelly Slater was right. Surfing is not a crime.
At least not this time. A judge in Chicago dropped all charges against cold-water surfer Rex Flodstrom last week when Flodstrom agreed to perform 20 hours of community service by March 19.
"My lawyer and I deliberated on whether to take the 20 hours or take it to trial a month later," Flodstrom told Surfline.com. "He said we'd almost certainly win the case, but in the slim chance that we didn't I would get a misdemeanor on my record and a fine."
Flodstrom was arrested in January and charged with disorderly conduct, two counts of violating a Chicago Park District ordinance and one count of being in the park after park hours. He was handcuffed and taken to jail in his wetsuit after police waved him out of the water in Lake Michigan.
Slater was vocal in his support via Twitter, but he did not show up for Flodstrom's hearing despite rumors he would. Laguna Beach's James Pribram, though, was right by Flodstrom's side.
Though Pribram favored taking it to trial, he was Flodstrom's most staunch supporter. In news interview videos of Flodstrom that aired nationally, Pribram could be seen standing next to Flodstrom.
Pribram was instrumental in 2009 in convincing the city of Chicago to allow surfing at four beaches off Lake Michigan in the Chicago area. Flodstrom, however, was arrested at Oak Street Beach, which was not one of the four surfing-allowed beaches.
Gunning Down Under for 12th world title
Slater, 40, will begin defense of his ASP World Tour title Saturday with the first contest of the season on the Gold Coast of Australia. Well, sort of.
Slater has been coy about his intentions in each of the past few years, saying he'd make a decision whether or not to go for it based on his performance in the season-opening Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast.
Typically he does well — he won it last year, and also in 2006 and 2008.
"There have been years when this approach has been a little frustrating but it's also sort of a wild-card way of deciding," Slater said on the ASP website. "I've had good success on the Goldy and this year should be fun again. I can't wait to be there. I'm undecided as to whether I'll apply full time (to the 2012 ASP World Title Series). That's probably no secret. I'll go by feel and whatever feels right internally, I'll stick with that."
Translation: He's in. He would love to win at age 40, and cap his career with his 12th world title exactly 20 years since his first.
JOE HAAKENSON is an Orange County-based sports writer and editor. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I haven't blogged for a while. Seems like every time I started to something came up. I've been all over the place research wise since my last blog. I started to look at my Wayne Co. Illinois cousins and got side tracked from that with an email of a possible cousin related by marriage to the Owen family my Monroe's married into and maybe this person was a descendant. Best we can tell for now is no relationship proved but that doesn't mean there isn't one. We agreed to keep in contact.
My Hobson research hasn't gone much of anywhere but I have had continued contact via phone and email with my "new" second cousins. So... this is basically positive news.
I need to step back and look at where I was when I last blogged and my recent emails. Then I'll have a better idea what to write. I've worked on several projects and if I tell you about them maybe you have something to contribute - or maybe some of it will help you with your research.
Today I'm in a situation I don't want to be in - I'm a potential juror for a case that is estimated to last 9 weeks and if it goes into a penalty phase it could be another 3 weeks. I can't say anything beyond this. I don't want to be on this (or any) jury. I've been on several juries in the past and feel I've already "done my civic duty" and don't want to be on another one. And of course my spinal arthritis makes it difficult for me to sit or maintain any physical position for an hour (some times less) without pain/ache. So far the court wants me to come back for another interview on September 30. Ugh!
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This past Saturday, six members of the Sweetwater High School Band traveled to Lubbock to audition for All-Region honors. All six students were selected All-Region. Sweetwater had the third most students out of twenty-eight participating schools.
Students making All-Region were junior Laura Duclos – baritone, junior Briana Rosas – trombone, freshman Clay Kitchens – trumpet, sophomore Stephen Le – French horn, Sophomore Chase Scott – alto saxophone, and sophomore Crysten Ivy – clarinet. The All-Region Band will present a concert at Lubbock-Cooper High School on Saturday, January 29th.
During the fall, All-Region contestants worked on two etudes and 8 scales, refining their music to a competitive edge. "Preparing and performing this music is a big challenge," remarked Crysten Ivy. "I'm pleased with the results. Our hard work really paid off!"
Three of the Sweetwater students ranked high enough to advance to All-Area competition, which will be held in Lubbock on January 7th. All-Area winners were Stephen Le, Chase Scott and Crysten Ivy. On January 7th, the top competitors will be named as members of the Texas All-State Band.
Finally, two of the students won "fist chair honors", by being ranked in first place out of all competitors on their instrument. These students were Chase Scott and Crysten Ivy.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City real estate heir who admitted killing his neighbor in Texas a decade ago has had another run-in with the law.
Police say Robert Durst was arrested Friday outside his Harlem home on a trespassing violation. They say the 70-year-old son of real estate mogul Seymour Durst showed up at his brother's midtown Manhattan home in June after being told to stay away.
In 2001, Durst was arrested as a fugitive and admitted killing his neighbor in Texas and dumping the remains into Galveston Bay. He claimed self-defense and was acquitted of homicide charges.
Durst hasn't returned a phone message. His New York lawyer's name is unavailable. His Texas lawyer declines to comment.
Durst's family runs The Durst Organization, a privately held billion-dollar real estate company that owns several New York skyscrapers.


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The human-occupied vehicle (HOV) DEEPSEA CHALLENGER is a one-person submersible capable of reaching full-ocean depth. It was built in Sydney, Australia, by Acheron Project Pty., Ltd., and piloted by James Cameron to Challenger Deep, the deepest spot in the global ocean, on March 26, 2012. In March 2013, Cameron transferred the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to WHOI, forming a partnership to stimulate advances in ocean science and exploration and to build on the remarkable technological breakthroughs embodied in the vehicle.
The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER incorporates many new technological advances that will likely help advance underwater exploration for years to come. Among these is its unique vertical orientation in the water, innovative materials such as the highly sophisticated syntactic foam, and a high-quality video imaging system capable of producing 3-D movies of the seafloor.
The 24-foot (7.3-meter) vehicle has three main sections. The biggest section, the "beam," is made of a new kind of syntactic foam, the only flotation material capable of withstanding the crushing pressures of the deep ocean. Roughly 70 percent of the vehicle's volume is made up of this foam, which is composed of glass spheres embedded in an epoxy resin and which provides both flotation and structural support for the vehicle. Incorporating stronger foam opens the door to making more effective use of the material as a structural element and will help make vehicle designs more efficient.
A personnel sphere is slung below the beam; below that is an array of cameras, samplers, and other scientific gear that the pilot can deploy to carry out scientific surveys and collection while on the seafloor. Its unique vertical design enables the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to descend and ascend rapidly through the water, maximizing time on the bottom and enabling the sub to be recalled quickly if weather on the surface worsens suddenly.
The steel personnel sphere is 2.5 inches (6.4 centimeters) thick and 43 inches (109 centimeters) in diameter. It was designed to withstand the crushing pressure of the deep and was tested to an equivalent full-ocean-depth pressure of 16,500 pounds per square inch (1,138 bars); strain gauges attached to the sphere during testing indicated that the sphere could withstand up to 140 percent of the test pressure.
The sub has two booms—long metal poles attached to the sides of the vehicle that the pilot can deploy hydraulically from inside the sphere. One holds a powerful spotlight, and the other a pair of HD cameras. More light is provided by a seven-foot (two-meter) panel of LED lights mounted on the front of the sub above the personnel sphere that can illuminate up to 100 feet (30 meters) through clear water. These high-ouput lighting systems and non-traditional cameras will provide new views of the deep ocean and help bring a broader appreciation for some of the least-understood parts of the planet.
The vehicle runs on power provided by a bank of 70 lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery packs, each the size of a loaf of bread. There are three main buses of batteries—the sub can lose two and still function. Each battery is housed within a plastic case immersed in a bath of silicon oil and equalized to the pressure outside the sub through plastic bladders, enabling the electronics to be exposed to high water pressure without coming in direct contact with seawater. This avoids having to build heavy, pressure-resistant housings to keep the batteries dry and resulted the largest fully pressure-tolerant Li-ion batteries available for deep-ocean exploration.
Beneath the pilot sphere is a payload bay that can be equipped to gather samples and capture images on the ocean floor. The pilot has a number of research tools available, including a slurp gun—a suction sampler that operates like an underwater vacuum cleaner to collect small, soft-bodied animals. A hydraulic manipulator arm controlled with a joystick from the personnel sphere allows the pilot to collect larger or more durable samples and deposit them in a collection basket or a biobox—a thick plastic box with a close-fitting lid designed to keep samples cool—mounted on the front of the sub. The manipulator arm can also deploy a push-core sampler, a device used to collect samples of seafloor sediment.
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|February 16, 2014
Kennesaw State
|Stats at a Glance
|FG Percentage
|.460 (23-50)
|.407 (22-54)
|3P FG Percentage
|.524 (11-21)
|.500 (11-22)
|FT Percentage
|.731 (19-26)
|.643 (18-28)
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|Defensive Rebounds
|Total Rebounds
|Bench Points
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- 21
- 9
- 6
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- 5
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KENNESAW, Ga. – The Lipscomb men's basketball team showed toughness and resiliency in a battle to get a 76-73 Atlantic Sun Conference road win at Kennesaw State Sunday afternoon.
The win was the Bisons league-leading eight road victory, and improved Lipscomb to 12-14 overall and 7-8 in the conference. The loss dropped KSU to 5-22 overall and 2-12 in the league.
"We came out the first five or six minutes and played great on both ends of the court," Lipscomb coach Casey Alexander said. "We had a lot of energy. It was just a great performance and Martin had a lot to do with that.
"That is what we desperately had to have. We had to kind of regroup and make things happen ourselves. Our guys responded and did just that."
After failing to get in the scoring column Friday at Mercer, Martin Smith opened up the Sunday matinee with a 3-pointer and back-to-back buckets for five quick points. J.C. Hampton followed suit with a three of own to give the Bisons an 8-0 lead just two minutes into the action.
Martin Smith pushed the Bisons lead to 12 at 18-6 after draining a second trey at the 13:30 mark of the first half.
From there, it was a game of runs.
The Owls started to heat up, knocking down three from behind the arc for a 12-2 run over the next six minutes to cut Lipscomb's lead to 20-18.
"Once that initial energy and burst left us, I thought we gave in to fatigue a little bit," Alexander said. "We were asking some guys to play a lot of minutes during that stretch and we lost a little bit of our edge. That opened the door for Kennesaw to get back into it. But we did a great job of staying with it."
Kennesaw State took its first lead at 23-22 on a 3-pointer from Delbert Love with 5:30 to play in the opening 20 minutes.
Talbott Denny responded 15 seconds later with a three of his own to put the Bisons back on top.
Lipscomb extended the lead and took a 35-30 advantage into intermission, getting all points from its starters.
Martin Smith scored 15 of his game-high 25 points in the first half on 6-of-9 shooting.
The second half belonged to stud freshman, Josh Williams.
The Jackson, Miss., native scored 15 of his 22 points on the day in the closing 20 minutes of play. He tied his career-high with nine rebounds and set a career-high with six assists.
"That is a pretty good stat line from Josh," Alexander said. "He was a guy that continued to get it on his own, because we called his number very few times. When we didn't have Malcolm and some different lineups, Josh did a nice job of putting us on his back and getting some buckets for us.
"But Martin deserves a lot of credit for getting us going. His 25 points were critical in this game, because we had to have some scoring."
Williams scored five points early in the second half to give his team a seven-point lead at 42-35.
But KSU was not finished. The final 14 minutes was a back-and-forth affair, with the lead swapping hands five times.
A Love layup capped off a 7-0 run that gave the Owls a four-point lead and forced Alexander to call a timeout.
The young Bisons squad kept their calm and quickly regained the lead, 53-52, on another Williams' three-ball.
Lipscomb built another double-digit lead and looked to put the game out of reach, but the Owls would not go away.
Cam Miller played a vital role in helping the Bisons control the lead down the stretch.
The freshman guard from Franklin, did not score, but snagged a career-high five rebounds and dished three assists.
"I am so thrilled and proud of Cam Miller for responding when his number has been called," Alexander said. "Our coaches continuously say 'Cam impacts practice as much as anybody on a daily basis.' Tonight he got the minutes and performed great. And I want him out there at the end of the game. There is not anything much better than when a coach wants you out there in the end when it is anybody's game to win."
With the Bisons up eight with two minutes to play, Williams looked to put an exclamation point on an already impressive night with a thunderous dunk on a no-look pass from Carter Sanderson.
Unfortunately, the ball hit the back iron and flung high into the air and into the hands of Nigel Pruitt. Pruitt then was fouled on a three at the other end of the court and drained all three shots from the charity stripe to cut the Bisons lead to 75-70.
The Owls had a chance to make it a one-point game but Pruitt made just 1-of-2 at the line.
A Hampton free throw gave the Bisons a 76-73 lead with 19 seconds to play. The Owls got an open look at a game-tying 3-pointer, but touched nothing but air and Lipscomb escaped with the win.
For the game Lipscomb hit 23-of-50 from the floor for 46 percent and drained 11 long balls. Kennesaw State converted 22-of-54 field goals for 40.7 percent. The Owls also hit 11 threes.
The Bisons held a slight advantage at the line, sinking 19-of-26. KSU made 18-of-28.
After clinching a berth in the A-Sun Championship on Sunday, Lipscomb will now return to Nashville for its final three regular season contests, beginning with a 6 p.m. tip with Northern Kentucky Friday Feb. 21.
Alexander talks about the importance of getting the win Sunday before closing the season at home.
"It was huge for us because we haven't played well in the last two games," Alexander said. "The final score was much closer than we wanted it to be, but we found a way to win and that is what this team needed more than anything."
"To bounce back from that and win a game on the road is extra sweet. It is nice now that we get to go home and finish out with three in Allen Arena and hopefully make our mark on the standings."


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VIDEO: Gerald Green has emerged as a solid contributor for the Suns this season
HANG TIME SOUTHWEST — The dunk was so unbelievable that TNT analyst Kenny Smith hyperventilated to broadcast partner Charles Barkley during the 2008 NBA All-Star slam dunk contest.
"He blew it out, Chuck!" Smith gasped. "Chuck, he blew it out!"
Gerald Green indeed puffed out a candle stuck into a cupcake on the back of the rim. The reigning slam dunk king soared above the cylinder, blew out the flame and flushed the basketball in a single, stunning move.
The joint blew up. Green lapped it up. And for one night, the then-22-year-old Green was no longer just a bench warmer for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Green is now days from turning 28, and he has never been happier. He is worlds removed from that sizzling February night in '08, his cupcake dunk never more meaningless. These days, he is a key contributor for the surprising Phoenix Suns.
The wildly athletic wing wants substance to define the rest of his career, a journey that began as a straight-out-of-high-school phenom, the Boston's Celtics' first-round pick in the 2005 NBA Draft.
A rocky NBA start
Green came out of high school with a remarkable athleticism and a tantalizingly smooth jumper. He was a mostly good-natured but naive kid, a skinny baller from Houston's southeast side. His dunks soon became the stuff of legend.
Still, Green was incapable of thinking the game beyond a playground level, oblivious to the pressures and demands of the NBA world.
"I always treated basketball when I was younger like a hobby, something I loved to do, something that kind of kept me away from doing something bad or doing something crazy," Green told NBA.com during a phone conversation on the team's recent road trip. "It was an extracurricular activity in my life. But once I did it for a living, I still kept treating it as a hobby instead of a job."
After a forgettable 2008-09 season with the Dallas Mavericks, his fourth NBA team in four years, owner Mark Cuban laid out Green's essential flaw in front of an audience of NBA executives and basketball writers at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the context of explaining how valuable advanced statistics can be, Cuban turned to fellow panel member and Celtics assistant general manager Mike Zarren and famously said: "We had Gerald Green. You had Green. He does stuff [athletically] that makes you say, 'Oh My God!' … He just doesn't understand the game of basketball."
Most NBA executives were in agreement. Green just didn't get it.
'The tools to be successful' now
There is irony today in Cuban's comment. In '05, Suns first-year general manager Ryan McDonough was cutting his teeth in the Celtics' front office. He scouted Green extensively and liked what he saw. Boston drafted Green with the 18th pick overall, but two unimpressive seasons later packaged him in the deal to Minnesota that landed Kevin Garnett.
This summer, McDonough traded forward Luis Scola to Indiana for young center Miles Plumlee and Green.
"The way coach [Jeff] Hornacek and I wanted to play, we wanted to go up and down and try to make the team younger and more athletic and shoot a lot of 3s, and Gerald checked all of those boxes," McDonough said. "I think he's proved now that he does have the tools to be successful. It just took him a little while to put it together."
It doesn't mean Green's sharpening basketball IQ is quite Kobe-esque yet. Last week at Minnesota, Green swished a difficult baseline fadeaway in the final seconds, first freeing himself to get the ball and then rising high to release it over the defender. On Monday, he went 2-for-16 in a painful overtime loss at New York to end a disappointing trip at 1-4.
With the Suns needing a bounce-back win at home Wednesday against the struggling Lakers, Green scored a team-high 28 points on 12-for-18 shooting. He grabbed seven rebounds, had two assists and a lone turnover. Now the team's third-leading scorer (behind guards Goran Dragic and Eric Bledsoe), Green has seen his responsibilities increase with the void created by Bledsoe's knee injury.
He has matured over the years, with age and failure, and has been humbled by a journey that has wound through the NBA, Russia, China and the NBA D-League six years after he was drafted. He has gained stability and perspective as a family man with his fiancee, Doris, and their 2-year-old son, Geremiah.
"I think that maturity speaks to Gerald's personal development, but you can also see it in his game," McDonough said. "He's more under control, his shot selection is improved, his defense is improved and he does a lot of the little things that the coaches are asking him to do that he didn't necessarily do before."
A long road back to the league
VIDEO: Gerald Green talks with GameTime about his long road back playing in NBA
Green was 24 and out of NBA options when he left for Krasnodar, Russia, a city in the southern part of the country. The next year he signed with another Russian team in Samara, a bitterly cold outpost about 650 miles east of Moscow.
The first year he went alone. The second time he brought Doris.
"Basketball doesn't have a language," Green said. "When I got on the floor that was the only time I felt I was really able to communicate with the Russians out there. Basketball is easy, that's the easy part being out there. It's away from basketball, when you're living at home by yourself and you're trying to buy a box of food and you can't understand any of the labels; and trying to get from Point A to Point B in Russia. But I felt like if I could overcome that I could overcome anything."
Despite posting strong numbers in Russia, the NBA offers didn't come. As the NBA headed for a lockout in the fall of 2011, Green prepared for a third season overseas, in China. After a month there he was cut. "It was the lowest that I got since I was playing basketball," Green said.
He would sink lower. The Lakers called with an invite to attend their abbreviated training camp after the lockout ended. Green went to L.A., but for five days was unable to practice while awaiting clearance from the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). Then the Lakers cut him.
Green credits Eric Musselman, coach of the D-League's Los Angeles D-Fenders during the 2011-12 season, for his NBA return. Musselman asked Green to play for him with the D-Fenders, the Lakers' D-League affiliate, for a pittance of what he would earn going back overseas.
"And thank God for Eric Musselman," Green said. "He just really had all the confidence in me in the world. He put me in situations to succeed and he was a great coach for me, a great guy, a guy that I will always be friends with."
Musselman couldn't believe it when Green told him that he wanted no part of the dunk contest at the D-League's All-Star festivities that year.
"I remember sitting in our staff meeting and I said, 'I can't believe this guy is willing to just sit in his hotel room while the dunk contest is going on in front of NBA people,' " said Musselman, now associate head coach at Arizona State. "But that's how much that athleticism, that dunking label kind of wore at him."
Musselman pushed Green, prodded him with constant positive reinforcement. He never held him back, but also never let him off the hook. Green lit up the D-League. He was named the 2012 All-Star Game MVP.
It was his last game in the D-League. The New Jersey Nets called.
"Anybody who would have had his background, played at the high school he played at, went directly to the pros, anybody would have his issues," Musselman said. "It just so happens that he was a freak athlete and had like a bionic body. If he didn't have that, I think people would just attribute it to, 'Well, he's young, he's still growing.' I think people gave up on him too early, and what a lot of people would call ill-advised shots or poor timing on shots, that's Gerald — you've got to let him go.
"He is a 3-point specialist. If he didn't have that dunking ability people would think of him as a really streaky guy who could put points up on the board in a hurry and change the complexion of a game. But I think because of his athleticism and dunking and all that, I think people have a misconstrued perception of how good of a shooter he is."
VIDEO: NBA Action: Green makes a big impact with the Nets in 2012
Here to stay in the NBA?
VIDEO: Green shows off his hops during Pacers practice last season
Green signed two 10-day contracts with the Nets, who then signed him for the remainder of the season. Over 31 games, Green played some of the best basketball of his career. He averaged 12.9 points a game and shot better than 48 percent, 39 percent from beyond the arc. After the season, Indiana signed him to a three-year, $10-million contract.
But Green's shooting touch escaped him in Indiana, again opening his shot selection to criticism. Pacers coach Frank Vogel eventually lost patience, and Green again turned himself into an all-flair sideshow. He opted into last seasons's All-Star weekend dunk contest held in Houston, but failed to complete a complicated second attempt.
During Indiana's run to the Eastern Conference finals, he was a non-factor. The same old question — does he get it? — began to crop up all over again. Then, one season into his three-year deal with Indiana, the Pacers were done.
"Indiana gave me a chance, they did give me a chance; I just didn't play well," Green said. "I didn't play like I wanted to play."
McDonough took the low-risk gamble to bring him to the rebuilding Suns, Green's seventh team in seven NBA seasons. On Wednesday, he played in his 38th consecutive game, but just the 310th of his career, the equivalent of less than four full seasons. He's played in just 197 games since those first two, long-ago seasons in Boston.
"I never thought I'd be in the situation [having an NBA career] I'm in now, so I never really understood or really learned how to play or really how to understand the business of [playing in the NBA]," Green said. "I played because I loved to play. I didn't really understand what it took to be a professional. I think by me going overseas and being in the D-League and seeing the different kind of leagues and seeing how those guys grind and put in the work, I understood that it takes a lot of work to be successful.
"So my job is just to go out there and try to give it my all every day."
Green also has learned another lesson. He adamantly reiterates a decision he made months ago regarding the 2014 dunk contest.
"I'm not doing it," he said.


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SEOUL, South Korea — Bad weather and the deterioration of internal partitions in a sunken ferry are hampering the search for those still missing in the disaster, South Korean officials said Saturday.
More than three weeks after the ferry sank, 29 passengers remain missing, with 275 bodies recovered so far, most of them high school students.
Internal partitions in the ferry have become waterlogged and started to bend, said government task force spokesman Ko Myung-seok. Coast guard officials said this can prevent divers from entering different parts of the ferry.
Ko also said divers were unable to carry out underwater searches Saturday because of bad weather.
Search teams took advantage of improved weather this past week, but later were hampered by strong currents and floating debris inside the ship. A civilian diver fell unconscious while searching and died on Tuesday.
Only 172 people survived the April 16 disaster. Most of the passengers were students from a high school south of Seoul.
All 15 surviving crew members involved in the ferry's navigation have been arrested on suspicion of negligence and failing to protect passengers. Besides possible freight problems, prosecutors say they are looking into other factors, such as the turn made during the time the ship began listing, ocean currents and modifications made to the ship.
On Friday, Kim Han-sik, head of Chonghaejin Marine Co. Ltd., which owns the sunken ferry, was arrested after investigators raised suspicions that improper stowage and overloading of cargo might have contributed to the accident. Kim is facing allegations that he was aware that the ferry exceeded its cargo limit but didn't do anything to stop it from leaving port, according to prosecutors.


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Real Madrid striker Jose Callejon is ready to leave the Bernabeu, with Brendan Rodgers' Liverpool interested in a move for the player, according to reports in Spain.
The forward struggled to make a long-lasting impression on former manager Jose Mourinho, with most of his 29 league appearances coming from the substitutes bench.
And with Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo in such fine form last season, the 26-year-old striker struggled to gain a regular first-team berth and is now seeking a move away from the Bernabeu to gain frequent first-team football.
Once hailed as one of Spain's brightest young prospects, Callejon was signed by Real Madrid in 2011, having made the move from fellow La Liga side Espanol for a fee of around £4m.
He made 25 league appearances in his first season at Madrid, but like this season, most of these were from the bench. And it seems that Callejon has had enough of featuring from the bench and is seeking a permanent move away from the Spanish capital.
And with the performances of Real Madrid Castilla forwards Jese Rodriguez and Alvaro Morata ever improving, Callejon may be forced further down the pecking order next season if these two players are promoted to the Real Madrid senior team next season.
And it is Premier League side Liverpool have expressed the strongest interest in the forward, whilst Serie A outfits Fiorentina and Napoli are also monitoring the situation of the 26-year-old as well.
If Callejon joins Liverpool, he will join fellow Spaniards Luis Alberto and Iago Aspas to have made the move to Anfield this season.
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Taylor Swift, Rebel, Takes Us Behind-the-Scenes of New CoverGirl Commercial
Taylor Swift has become a bit of a fashion icon to fans, with her familiar and iconic red-stained lips and black eyeliner look being copied by young girls who revere her. In this new, behind-the-scenes footage of her recent CoverGirl commercial, the 'Mean' singer explains that the whole message of her latest cosmetics company campaign is "See Yourself, Be Yourself." So rather than hide behind makeup, use it as a tool to enhance natural beauty.
Swift, who recently admitting to substituting a Sharpie for eyeliner in a pinch, said, "I see it as self-awareness" when it comes to this campaign.
She also admitted, "I try to experiment as much as I possibly can."
For her recent tour, she and her glam squad created nine different looks to incorporate over the course of a two-hour show. "My inspiration for different looks, as far as makeup, comes from things … If I see fans in my meet and greet line, if I see a girl show up in this amazing, shocking teal shadow, I may try it the next night." Hear that, Swift fans? Taylor might crib your look! So make sure you look your best if you get to meet her, since she might borrow your style and that would be the biggest compliment she could ever pay you.
The country-pop crossover star considers herself a "rebel in some ways but not in others. You pick which ways you want to rebel." With that black and silver smoky eye look, which you can see above, she looks every bit the rebel.
It's Swift's job to hawk the CoverGirl products, but she's not overbearing about it. She even offers her tips on how to use the cosmetics and achieve her looks.
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Villa complete Bradley signing
Aston Villa have finally completed the loan signing of United States midfielder Michael Bradley for the remainder of the season.
Bradley has made the temporary switch from Borussia Moenchengladbach after impressing Villa boss Gerard Houllier during last summer's World Cup in South Africa.
He has become Villa's fourth signing of the transfer window after striker and £18 million record signing Darren Bent, midfielder Jean Makoun and on-loan Tottenham defender Kyle Walker.
Bradley will provide competition for the likes of Nigel Reo-Coker, Barry Bannan, Makoun and Stiliyan Petrov in the centre of the park.
Houllier said: "Michael is 23 and is a very hard-working midfielder who can score goals and is versatile.
"I saw him play four times in the World Cup last summer so, in terms of scouting, you cannot say the work has not been done because I saw him just a few months ago.
"We are very happy to have him. Despite his age he is an experienced player.
"He will add to the squad and he will bring energy and legs in midfield when we need it."


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So what will the Jaguars do with the first pick in round two?
Trade it, if they can.
With the first 32 picks already taken, there will be a team that covets a specific player, and that team could offer enough to the Jaguars to get to the top of round two.
If the Jaguars can't trade the pick, the position on which they'll most likely focus is quarterback. And while they expected to be in position to choose between Matt Barkley and Ryan Nassib, the Jags now have Geno Smith in the mix.
Still, with 10-15 players who could have gone in round one now parked at the top of round two, the Jags will open the floor for offers.
They should hope a trade goes through. One year after taking a punter five spots before Russell Wilson and two years after trading up for Blaine Gabbert instead of trading down for Colin Kaepernick, picking a quarterback in this spot would entail playing a shell game, with a distinct possibility that there's no red ball under any of them.


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text: On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Hung Jung Lu wrote: > Hi, > > I am thinking in migrating some calculation programs > from Windows to Linux, maybe eventually using a > Beowulf cluster. However, I am kind of worried after I > read in the mailing list archive about lack of > CPU-optimized BLAS-1 code in Linux systems. Currently > I run on a Wintel (Windows+Pentium) machine, and I > know it's substantially faster than equivalent AMD > machine, because I use the Intel's BLAS (MKL) library. > (I apologize for any misapprehensions in what > follows... I am only starting to explore in this > arena.) > > (1) Does anyone know when gcc will have memory > prefetching features? Any time frame? I can notice > very significant performance improvement on my Wintel > machine, and I think it's due to memory prefetching. If you mean, "when will gcc's optimizer do automatic prefetching?", I have no idea. But, many programmers have been doing manual prefetching with gcc for quite a while. If you don't mind defining and using assembler macros, gcc handles it just fine now. Here's an example: #define prefetch_loc(addr) \ __asm__ __volatile__ ("prefetchnta %0" \ : \ : \ "m" (*(((char*)(((unsigned int)(addr))&~0x7f))))) > (2) I am a bit confused on the following issue: Intel > does release MKL for Linux. So, does this mean that if > I use Pentium, I still get full benefit of the > CPU-optimized features in BLAS-1, despite of gcc does > not do memory prefetching? How is this possible? The Intel compiler produces object files compatible with gcc, and vice versa. I would assume they implemented the library with the Intel compiler, which has full SSE/SSE2 support (including prefetching). They list the MKL for Linux as compatible with both gnu and Intel compilers. > (3) Related to the above: for general linear algebra > operations, is Pentium processor then better than AMD, > since Intel has the machine-optimized BLAS library? I > get contradictory information sometimes... I've seen > somewhere that Pentium-4 compares unfavorably with AMD > chips in calculation speed... Any opinions? > > thanks, > > Hung Jung Lu For the very simple SU3 linear algebra (3X3 complex matrices and 3X1 complex vectors) used in our codes, the Pentium 4 outperforms the Athlon on most of our SSE-assisted routines. See the table near the bottom of http://qcdhome.fnal.gov/sse/inline.html for Mflops per gigahertz on various routines for P-III, P4, and Athlon. Perhaps re-coding in 3DNow! would give the Athlon a boost. For our codes, which are bound by memory bandwidth, P4's do significantly better than Athlons because of the faster front side bus (400 Mhz effective). See http://qcdhome.fnal.gov/qcdstream/compare.qcdstream for a table comparing memory bandwidth and SU3 linear algebra performance on a 1.2 GHz Athlon, 1.4 GHz P4, and 1.7 GHz P7 (see http://qcdhome.fnal.gov/qcdstream/ for information about this benchmark). Don Holmgren Fermilab