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TOKYO (AP) — Threatening lawsuits and protests, opponents are gearing up to fight a decision by Okinawa's governor that could pave the way for a new U.S. military base on the southern Japanese island.
TOKYO (AP) — Threatening lawsuits and protests, opponents are gearing up to fight a decision by Okinawa's governor that could pave the way for a new U.S. military base on the southern Japanese island.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel welcomed Friday's decision, calling it "the most significant milestone" so far in a long-running battle to realign U.S. forces in Okinawa.
The new base is designed to reduce the impact of the heavy U.S. military presence in Okinawa by replacing another base in a more congested area, but opponents want the operations moved off Okinawa completely.
"What the governor has done is unforgivable," Yuichi Higa, the head of the assembly in Nago city, said in a phone interview. Nago would house the new base.
"Residents who are opposed will surely resort to the use of force, such as blocking roads, to stop this from happening," Higa said.
Hiroshi Ashitomi, head of a Nago group opposing the base, said his organization would file a lawsuit challenging the governor's decision.
Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima on Friday approved the Japanese Defense Ministry's application to reclaim land for the proposed American base on Okinawa's coast. It would replace the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma air station in Ginowan city.
But Nakaima later told a news conference that he would continue pressing to move the Futenma troops off Okinawa entirely. He has asked that Futenma be closed within five years, and the new base wouldn't open until 2022 under current plans.
"My thinking remains it would be fastest to relocate outside (Okinawa) prefecture to a place where there is already an airport," he said.
U.S. defense officials told reporters that troops could move to the new base sooner if it's ready earlier. They were not authorized to talk publicly about the issue and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The new base is part of a U.S.-Japan agreement that would also move 9,000 Marines off Okinawa, including transferring 5,000 to Guam.
Hagel said the effort to realign American troops in Okinawa was "absolutely critical to the United States' ongoing rebalance" to the Asia-Pacific region.
"Moving forward with this plan will reduce our footprint in the most populated part of Okinawa ... while sustaining U.S. military capabilities vital to the peace and security of the region," the defense secretary said in a statement.
The debate over the future of Futenma dates to 1996, when the U.S and Japan signed an agreement to move its operations elsewhere in Okinawa. In 2006, the two countries agreed to relocate the base to a relatively unpopulated area called Henoko in Nago city. But after the Democratic Party of Japan took power in 2009, it raised the possibility of moving the base off Okinawa. While it later agreed to the Henoko plan, the proposal energized a movement to move the base elsewhere.
U.S. Sen. John McCain, a top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, called Nakaima's decision a major achievement "after 17 years of hard work and setbacks."
About half of the 50,000 American troops in Japan are based in Okinawa, and many residents complain about base-related crime, noise and the risk of accidents. Some feel the island is bearing an unfair share of the burden of protecting Japan from attack.
A key factor could be the outcome of a mayoral election in Nago next month that pits an opponent of the Henoko plan against a supporter.
"The governor is taking a risk putting the prestige of his office behind the project," said Jun Okumura, a political analyst and former national government official. "I still don't see the project going forward without the consent of the Nago mayor, but I see that this improves the chances of success."
The rise of China's military is reinforcing in the minds of some Japanese the need to have a strong defense, though it's unclear whether it's enough to sway public opinion in Okinawa.
"The government of Japan is poised to take whatever measures are necessary to maintain a strong deterrent while reducing the burden on the people of Okinawa," said the government's top spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.
Suga expressed his gratitude to Nakaima for what he called a "bold step."
The politically difficult decision came only after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Nakaima in Tokyo on Wednesday and offered him a package that included pledges of increased financial assistance for Okinawa.


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Monday, January 11, 2010
24 comments:
- Ann said...
How picturesque. These photos just make me smile - freezing weather in Florida, so what can I say.
- January 11, 2010 at 9:13 AM
- Elizabeth said...
Just think how aesthetically beautiful the snow is, as it settles in for the duration. And, why use the snow blower, or shovel it? This way, you'll be extra happy when spring comes. Besides, Florida is cold, too. Is this global warming, for sure?
- January 11, 2010 at 10:25 AM
- Steve Blood said...
You have fallen for the trap. This is precisely why Costa Rica looms large.
- January 11, 2010 at 12:40 PM
- Ann said...
Bah, humbug!
- January 11, 2010 at 2:53 PM
- Dwight said...
These two photos are gorgeous. Besides tons of bugs in Florida, many foreigners in Costa Rica. Have to become fluent in Spanish in either case.
- January 11, 2010 at 3:24 PM
- Steve Blood said...
- January 12, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- Judy said...
That word does not qualify you!
- January 12, 2010 at 2:30 PM
- Steve Blood said...
- January 12, 2010 at 2:44 PM
- Steve Blood said...
OK, I can't find what I was looking for to add to this but does anyone see where we're going here? Think Sunday evenings.
- January 12, 2010 at 3:07 PM
- Dwight said...
Does it matter, as long as we keep going?
- January 12, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- Ann said...
Sunday evenings? Popcorn, Jack Benny, Amos and Andy, not wanting to think about Mondays, snug as a bug in our little house in Penrose? Oh, you are suggesting that our first writing exercise be Sunday nights???!!! Or am I missing the point?
- January 12, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- Steve Blood said...
si, cy, sue, sew... Jack Benny. I couldn't find an audio.
- January 13, 2010 at 3:20 AM
- Dwight said...
Steve, can I steal your two photos? I'll give you credit for where they came from.
- January 13, 2010 at 8:56 AM
- Dwight said...
Florida is a foreign country. please stay in the US of A.
- January 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM
- Louise Blood said...
Good memory, Steve, on the "si, Cy..we would get such a good laugh over that, no matter how many times we heard it, it was always funny. Good to know you speak Spanish. I can see my teaching of "Madre esta viniendo" made a great influence on your education.
- January 13, 2010 at 10:30 AM
- Louise Blood said...
P. S. The pictures are incredible. How much snow did you get? Do you have snowshoes?
- January 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM
- Dwight said...
I remember "undelay" or however you spell it from the beet fields; i.e., move your self along.
- January 13, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- Elizabeth said...
"Ondelay" was surely not a true Spanish word! Of course, we can't leave out skillibutty when we talk about languages, can we? And yes, we always laughed so hard at Jack Benny. Now, we see an occasional TV show, and I wonder where all the fun went.
- January 13, 2010 at 1:24 PM
- Ann said...
That Spanish word worked for Steve and me as we rode our super fast bicycles past the migrant workers in the beets. However, we always added "Muchachos " (SP?). If Mother had known what we were doing, I suspected we would have been in big trouble.
- January 14, 2010 at 1:13 PM
- Steve Blood said...
Yes, to those siblings who asked if they could use the photos. There are three more of them on my facebook.
- January 15, 2010 at 8:27 AM
- Dwight said...
So far I am not your friend.
- January 15, 2010 at 10:03 AM
- Ann said...
Me either.
- January 15, 2010 at 8:51 PM
- Dwight said...
The pixel level in your facebook post is too low to steal. Can you post the third photo on Penrose? Thank you. These are great winter pictures. I thought Ann was your friend.
- January 16, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- Judy said...
What about me?
- January 21, 2010 at 2:55 PM

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Prior to my 'Repotting Career Change' to HERS Rater, I served as Administrator of a 36,000 sf skilled nursing facility, from 1983 - 2009. I purchased a lot of new furnaces over the years. We were heated and cooled with residential style hvac units. I had 21 units ranging from 2 tons to 5 tons of AC.
I have replaced units due to cracked heat exchangers, and bad compressors. I have replaced squirrel cage fans that got out of balance. I have replaced units due to age and due to Hail Storms.
I have not experienced a blower fan motor failure, or heard of them among my fellow administrators. I have experienced motor failure of the ventilation fans that are required by state and federal law to run 24/7. These routinely fail, and must be replaced.
The ventilation fans meet a requirement to maintain a depressurized difference from common areas to patient rooms, to bathrooms. This is an infection control issue, and secondarily a odor control issue.
I think running a 400 CFM (per ton - so 1200 - 1800 CFM) fan to provide fresh air instead of a 60 or 100 CFM balanced ventilation system is not good building science. it is certainly not good energy efficiency and energy management.
Most furnace blower fan motors are only 3/4HP to 1.5HP and only draw .5 amp to 2 amps at most. The coast of running that 24/7 a year is only $50 for the year if your electric company charged you $.09 a kilowatt hour. By turning it off and on with it in on auto you might save $5.00 a year. The coast is minimal.
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Palate: Typically clean Hakushu mouth feel. Immediate hit of pepper. Licorice, lime juice, subtle earthy peat, some peanut shell bitterness, strawberry chocolate, menthol.
Finish: Is short-medium on pepper, lime juice, strawberry chocolate then fades to green apples.
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Contact lenses are small plastic or glass lenses placed directly on the eye to correct vision.
Leonardo da Vinci is credited with the idea of contact lenses. However, it took until 1888 for German physiologist Adolf Fick to design and fit the first successful contact lens. Fick's lenses were large, fitting over the entire eye. They were made of brown glass, and could only be worn for a few hours. Lenses like this were useful for treating certain eye conditions.
Glass-blown lenses were the only form of contact lens until the 1930s. The development of acrylic plastic allowed the manufacture of hard plastic lenses, which were much lighter than glass ones.
Contact lenses remained large, sitting over the entire eye, until smaller and lighter 'corneal' lenses were developed in 1949. They only sat on the cornea rather than across the whole eye, which meant they could be worn for longer.
In 1959 two Czech chemists developed a special soft plastic known as a hydrogel. This led to soft contact lenses during the 1960s.
While many people wore contact lenses rather than glasses, certain eye conditions can only be treated with contact lenses. However, contact lenses themselves can cause some eye conditions if they are over-used or not cleaned properly.
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N Efron and R M Pearson, 'Centenary Celebration of Fick's Eine Contactbrille' Arch Ophthalmol., 106 (1988), pp 1370-1377
R Heitz et al, The history of contact lenses (Oostende: J.P. Wayenborgh, c2003)
C Fryer, 'The birth of modern contact lenses' Ophthalmic Antiques International Collectors Club, 63, pp 11-12
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TRUCKEE, Calif. — Officers with the Truckee Police Department responded to a different type of vehicle break-in Wednesday evening.
According to a press release from the department, a juvenile black bear gained entry into an unlocked truck on the 11500 block of Saint Bernard Drive in Tahoe Donner "and promptly got stuck in the vehicle when the door shut behind it … officers arrived and quickly released the frightened bear."
There was significant damage to the interior of the truck, according to police, as well as bear scat left inside.
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Some good points and I'm all for diversity in interface design where appropriate.
Thing is, for all the crimes that happened in the name of the Web2.0 aesthetic, a useful visual language has emerged that for some use cases, is absolutely right.
Trends come and go, and for a while the whole aqua thing worked while we all had candy-coloured iMacs sat on our desks. Sure it got cheesy and was over-used and looked terrible when executed badly.
But what fell out of that though was some really useful patterns/conventions for (amongst others) buttons that actually looked like buttons, navigation that looked like nav, larger more legible type, good use of whitespace and GUI chrome that gets out the way of content (as it should).
Users have come to learn these references/patterns and they love consistency.
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The Sudanese officials claim that 4 Israeli jets bombed the complex killing 2 Sudanese citizens in the attack. It will not be the first if it is true, it could be the second or the third Israel would do such a thing. Tel Aviv did not comment on these accusation from its side.
Aside from Tel Aviv and Khartoum there is a huge debate in Cairo about what happened not because it could be a possible aggression against the sovereignty of another country but because many people how these alleged Israeli jets reached to Sudan ??
Based on the closet scenarios the Israeli jets used our skies to jet in to Sudan and you can imagine how this unconfirmed scenario is causing controversy in Egypt. When I think about Israeli jets could have come from two other ways according to my basic understanding : From the Mediterranean to Libya then to Sudan or From the red sea to Sudan.
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Apple's CarPlay iPhone integration system will be first seen in Volvo, Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari cars, the company said Monday.
CarPlay, which lets iPhone users access their phone's functions through a car dashboard, will start in those three car brands and spread to others later, including BMW, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia, Mitsubishi, Nissan, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota.
"CarPlay brings your car and iPhone together for a thoughtful experience that lets drivers focus on driving, while also tapping into everything they want to do with their iPhone," the company said.
The integration also uses Siri for an "eyes-free" experience that reads aloud messages and accepts voice commands.
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Cloning an entire drive?
I've had this question for some time, but have never asked...
There is an article from the OpenBSD Journal which covered cloning drives:
The author advocates using dump & restore on each partition, but if cloning the entire drive is the goal, why not simply back up the c partition?
Well if by C drive you mean /root partition then no you cant just backup your root partition. Things like usrland apps and /etc configuration files are all items that most people like to back up; at lest generally. Dump/Restore works great on BSD systems. If you are wanting a more universal way to "clone" your hard drive the dd command works wonders. Heres a small example: http://www.linuxweblog.com/dd-image
Last edited by Eam404; 8th July 2008 at 07:57 PM. Reason: Fsck
Again, given that /dev/wd0c or /dev/sd0c both covers the entire disk and is accessible, why not clone it instead of each individual partition?
Thanks for bringing this up and I've always wanted to find a way to clone drives. One way is using g4u but I want to clone a drive by using the same box. Is it possible to just go into single user mode, mount the two drives:
# mount -a /dev/wd0
# mount -a /dev/wd1
then use the copy command:
# cp /dev/wd0 /dev/wd1
Is this possible assuming both drives are the same capacity.
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installboot(8) as the article suggests.
For one revzalot, /dev/{wd0,wd1} don't exist.. and you can't use "cp" like that either.
To backup a partition, I use either tar or dump, if I'm trying to recover something.. like lost data off a friends thumb drive or w/e, I duplicate the partition with dd...
$ dd if=/dev/rsd0i of=partition-image.img
Then work on the image instead of risking the drive..
NAME dump - filesystem backup
From one of my systems
$ disklabel wd0 # Inside MBR partition 0: type A6 start 63 size 81915372 # /dev/rwd0c: type: ESDI disk: ESDI/IDE disk label: WDC WD3200AAKS-2 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 38913 total sectors: 625142448 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # microseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds drivedata: 0 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 81787372 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 b: 128000 81787435 swap c: 625142448 0 unused 0 0 i: 204796620 163830870 unknown j: 256509855 368627490 MSDOS
I have some other OS's installed
]fdisk wd0 Disk: wd0 geometry: 38913/255/63 [625142448 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *0: A6 0 1 1 - 5098 254 63 [ 63: 81915372 ] OpenBSD 1: A9 5099 0 1 - 10197 254 63 [ 81915435: 81915435 ] NetBSD 2: A5 10198 0 1 - 22945 254 63 [ 163830870: 204796620 ] FreeBSD 3: 05 22946 0 1 - 38912 254 63 [ 368627490: 256509855 ] Extended DOS
dump is not so smart it can backup NetBSD, FreeBSD and the extended DOS partitions in one go
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
What J65nko posted *should* be common knowledge, I'm not even going to comment on Eam404's reply.
Welp, I guess thats what I get for not reading the whole post...
I hope there's no problem necroing this thread since it's a sticky.
For the record, cloning an entire disk through the c partition can be done, using dd(1), HOWEVER, this can be dangerous. There's this post from 2001* by Randy Lewis, it basically says:
Example: +----------- bytes/sector value / +------- sectors/cylinder value / / % dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c bs=512x4520 count=7931 <cr> / total cyliders to copy value -----+
First, the obvious, dd is dumb, it shouldn't be run on a mounted/live disk. Incomplete files, inconsistent fs and partitions marked unclean since they were never unmounted are to be expected. Which means the clone will have to be fscked before use.
Second, OpenBSD 5.0+ (AFAIK) uses disk UIDs, fstab by default doesn't have /dev/sd0 in it, it has the ID of the disk instead. The clone, since it's an exact copy, will end up having the same DUID as the original, not good if the clone isn't pulled out of the system right away. The ID can be changed using disklabel(8)'s "i" command in the editor.
On the other hand, assuming two identical disks, reboot the system from a live cd (single-user works too I guess), run dd, pull out the clone and keep it in storage, and you've got a full system backup ready to go in as long as it takes to change a disk.
Didn't actually try this last part yet, but there's no reason it shouldn't work, right?
* Can't post links. The post can be found at marc.info /?l=openbsd-tech&m=100765187914137&w=2, or just search for "Re: Cloning OpenBSD disks (amended / expanded explanation)" on google.
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There is a certain mindset with football coaches and to a lesser extent with the football players that they will never admit that a coming game is a pushover. This is the kind of mindset that has Alabama coach Nick Saban talking about Tennessee-Chattanooga like they were the second coming of Pete Carroll's USC Trojans.
As fans we are not tied to this type of language when looking at a potential blow-out. I'm in a pick'em league on yahoo.com and for this week's game tens of thousands of fans are favoring the Texans 99% to the Jags 1% in the straight up league. On shadier radio shows on Saturday morning this would be the cold stone lock of the year (just call this number and for FREE I will tell you who will win this one and while you are at it – sign up for my "service").
Anyways – there is hardly any way you can slice or dice this puppy that the Texans won't win. And while it should feel like a trap game – it just does not feel like one. Of course, I don't get cut, fired or yelled at on Monday if things don't go well. I'm just a fan.
So Larry (OneTexFan), Crimedog and I (Dan P) decided to visit this likely romp by giving our opinion on a mix of mostly relevant and some, not so relevant questions. Enjoy and please chime in with your thoughts and answers.
Q: Arian Foster has 12 TDs on the season. Jacksonville's offense has 12 TDs total. How historically bad is the Jags offense?
Crimedog – Historically bad in the history of the NFL? Or of the Jags? Considering the Jags haven't been around too much longer than the Texans as compared to say, the Bears, I'd go with Jags history. In which case it's historically bad.
OneTexFan (OTF) – How hysterically bad is the Jaguars' Offense? The Offense led by plain Blaine? I really shouldn't be so hard on the little feller. Is it the Jacksonville Coaches' fault that he isn't living up to his pre-draft billing or is it that his supporting players that need to be reinforced? Jeeze, …thinking about all of this makes my head swim. The Jags got this guy named Blackmon in the 2012 Draft as their 'go to' Wide Receiver. He's one of the guys who can help bail out Gabbert. No, wait! Hmmm, maybe the guy just needs time to develop, like Blaine does. Actually, I think that the Jacksonville Jaguars are a team on the rise. Can they get much worse?
Dan P – Maybe this is more tied to how good Arian is going. The Jags are on a pace to score more pts than 3 teams last year – so it's not like worst ever. However, it is unusual to be last in pts, yds and 1st downs (though the expansion Texans did this in 2002). I'd tend to agree with CD and OTF – historically and hysterically bad for the Jags.
Q: Blaine Gabbert is questionable for the Jags this week. Would you rather face Gabbert or Chad Henne if you are the Texans?
Crimedog – Like the question above, Gabbert is a big reason the Jags offense is historically bad, so yeah, I'd much rather face Gabbert.
OTF – If I were on the Texans' Defense, (cue the laugh track), I would want to play against the best player(s) at all time. That being said I think that Chad Henne is the better of the two QBs. But Blaine still needs his time on the field of play in his quest for development. I know when I see a good Quarterback in football. Give the Jags two, three years and they just might have one.
Dan P – After looking at his numbers – Gabbert is not near the problem he was last year, but with MJ-Drew mostly out and not a lot of other weapons around him – he's still not good. On the positive his completion rate is up to 58%, he has more TDs than Interceptions (9 to 6) and has done better in the fumble department (14 last year – only 4 so far this year). On the negative side – there must be a lot of dump-offs, because he only averages 5.8 net yards/attempt. I'd say this is a wash – we will beat whichever QB shows.
Q: The Jag's offense is last in the league in points scored, point differential, yards gained, 1st downs and net yards / passing attempt. Their defense is 26th in points and yards allowed, 28th in allowing 1st downs and next to worst in allowing rushing TDs. Is there any way(s) that they win this game on the road?
Crimedog – Short of a major meltdown of the Texans like we've never seen, I don't see it. Obviously if we turn the ball over enough times and give them enough second and third chances to score, or let their special teams or defense score, we could find ourselves in a bind. The Jags have always played up to us, even when they've struggled, so never take any game for granted based on the numbers.
OTF – Yes, they could actually win this game. All of the Houston Texans just might oversleep, or get lost on their way to Reliant Stadium. The team might get a case of massive stage fright and be unable to take the field, and then the Jags win by default.
The only way that the Texans could lose this game is to NOT put in any effort at all. If the Texans keep their collective heads on straight they WILL win! It all comes down to 'how many points will they win by'?
Dan P – I'm the guy who wrote "It's a Trap" heading into the Jets game and it came close to being true. I don't see it here. The Texans have shown great focus no matter who they play. I will be surprised if this is not a 20+ point lead in the 3rd quarter. Like CD says – only TO's and special team or defensive scores can keep this close.
Q: Are Dick Deguerin and Rusty Hardin the only two lawyers allowed to work on high profile cases in the Houston area?
Crimedog – I don't think they're the only ones, but because of their success and notoriety they're obviously the most sought after by those that can afford them. I know I wouldn't be able to afford either so hopefully they're not the only ones, not that I have any intention of ending up in a high profile type case.
OTF – Ask Jackie Chiles, he's a better judge of talent in the area than I am. (Readers note: I had to remind myself by googling that Chiles was Kramer's lawyer on Seinfeld – nice reference OTF!)
Dan P – These guys seem to get more TV face time than some of the local media. I guess success breeds more success (and huge fees and TV time).
Q: How important is it for Ben Tate to return and ease the load on Arian?
Crimedog – I thought Forsett showed flashes of being a very capable back-up, but over the past few weeks against better defenses he's shown to be just a man. We need Tate healthy and on the field.
OTF – If Ben Tate isn't 100 percent he should take another day off. Foster should start (Of Course), but with Justin Forsett and Jonathan Grimes as backups, the Jaguars will have their hands full. Everyone does say that Arian Foster is being overused this year in the Texans' Offense, but IF the team Doctors give him a clean bill of health (After Thorough Testing), …keep him in the game! However; as much as Foster is a key player in the quest for a Super Bowl Championship, I am concerned about his overall well being.
Dan P – Last year Tate had 8 games (including 2 starts) with over 60 yards rushing. This year in the 6 of 9 games that he has played he has a lone 74 yard effort above 60. He's important not only to ease Arian's load, but to also give the defenses a different look to worry about. After rushing for 942 yds last year – he is on a pace for around 300 yds this year. They don't necessarily need him in this game, but they need the "good" Tate back for the stretch run and playoffs.
Q: In the last 6 games the Jags have not gained more than 69 yards on the ground. Maurice Jones Drew is supposedly out for this game. What is your over/under on Jaguar rushing yards this week?
Crimedog – I'm going to go with 44. Four is my favorite, and lucky, number.
OTF – Dan, you want to trap me with this question, right, so you can laugh when I blow it? Ok, being that on any given play a Defensive player can be caught off guard, out of position, slips on the field or some other reason, …any Running Back can explode given THAT chance. It can happen, doubtful in Jacksonville's case, but possible. I think that the Jags have a shot at 50 yards on the ground. Your prediction, my friend?
Dan P – I can foresee a Jaws bloodbath in the water at Reliant. 50 yards. (And Larry I wrote this down before I ever saw your answer – great minds think alike?)
Q: Multiple choice question – Cecil Shorts is:
a) The Jags chief accountant
b) A character from a Monty Python skit
c) A second year WR out of Mount Union (Pierre Garcon's college) who is the Jags only real offensive weapon with 561 yds / 4 TDs and an impressive 19.3 yds/catch.
Crimedog – Man, I knew I should've watched more Monty Python as a kid!
Dan P – None of the above – I think he is a guest character on SpongeBob SquarePants.
OTF – The answer of course is C, Señor. The Wide Receiver has had two recent games with over 100 yards gained. Isn't that a nice surprise for Jaguars' fans.
Q: Who is more Zen cool – Arian Foster or new Houston Rocket, James (the Beard) Harden?
Crimedog – Arian is the epitome of swag, he makes eating meat cool for vegans.
OTF – Zen cool? I assume that it all has to do with facial hair or is it in attitude? Flip a coin, flip a coin.
Dan P – Both guys are quiet and thoughtful, but there is something about Arian that is just "different" in a new and refreshing way.
Q: Which of the following Texans' team records is most likely to fall?
a) Most points scored – 390 in 2010 / 250 pts so far in 2012
b) Least points allowed – 278 in 2011 / 143 pts so far in 2012
c) Least turnovers made – 18 in 2010 / 8 so far in 2012
d) Most turnovers forced – 30 in 2004 / 18 so far in 2012
Crimedog – "E" all of the above.
OTF – Wow! That's a headscratcher. I would go for C, least turnovers made. Perhaps you should have added 'All of the above'. Now, that would be great to see.
Dan P – I do think they will get them all, but if you put a gun to my head for the most likely – it would be a) Most points scored. They could be close after this week – haha.
Q: Who would be the toughest Texans AFC playoff foe – the Pats, Steelers, Ravens or Broncos?
Crimedog – As long as Tom Brady is playing, I would still have to defer to the Pats.
OTF – With all four of the teams' QBs healthy and considering how many points an Offense can score, and with how the respective Defenses have done, …my personal pick for toughest opponent would be the Broncos. I really think that Peyton Manning is on a mission to prove that he remains the 'real deal'.
Dan P – At the moment I am a bit more afraid of the Broncos, because along with Peyton they have a real live defense. Maybe after we play the Pats I will have a different point of view.
Q: What is your prediction for the final score of the Texans – Jags game?
Crimedog – I've been waiting for a shut out for a very long time. So I'm going with my prediction that the Texans shut the Jags down, especially without MJD. Texans 34 Jags 0
OTF – Well, after giving it a little more thought I'll shave one point off of my earlier prediction of a Texans' 31-7 victory, to a Texans' 31-6 victory. No touchdowns for the Jags, just a couple of field goals.
Dan P – Gary always goes safe in these type of games – 29-7 Texans.
Q: Game time conditions on Sunday will be in the low 70's with 0% chance of rain. Open or close the roof?
Crimedog – I say leave it open, so long as it's not raining.
OTF – Just because of the noise factor I like it much better with the lid on the jar.
Dan P – If they don't leave it open on a perfect weather day – then Mr. McNair should pay the taxpayers for the difference in cost between a fixed roof and a retractable one.


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New York, NY – The national semifinal games of the men's NCAA Tournament will be broadcast by TBS for the next two years.
CBS, which had been the television home of the Final Four since 1982, will still air the national championship game in 2014 and 2015 before the two networks begin alternating coverage.
Under the lucrative 14-year agreement signed with the NCAA in 2010, CBS and TBS will broadcast the entire Final Four in alternating years, starting in 2016. TBS will air the national semifinal games and the championship game in 2016, followed by CBS in 2017.
"From the beginning, our partnership with Turner Sports has exceeded every one of our expectations," said CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus in a statement Tuesday. "Today's news represents another win-win arrangement that continues to help us extend the reach of this marquee property by combining the resources of our two organizations. As we have done since 1982, CBS is pleased to showcase the national championship game in 2014 and 2015."
TBS will also begin coverage of two of the four regional final games starting in 2014. CBS previously had exclusive rights to those games.
"Since the inception of our partnership, I don't think we could have envisioned such a seamless collaboration between our two companies both in front of and behind the cameras," said TBS president David Levy. "We are thrilled to have the opportunity to televise the Final Four national semifinal games and two of the Elite Eight games on TBS beginning next year, and for the network to televise its first national championship game in 2016."
The CBS-TBS partnership began in 2011, allowing every game of the men's NCAA Tournament to be televised on either CBS, TBS, TNT or truTV.


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In computing, FLOPS or flops (an acronym for FLoating-point Operations Per Second) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations. For such cases it is a more accurate measure than the generic instructions per second.
Although the final S stands for "second", singular "flop" is often used, either as a back formation or an abbreviation for "FLoating-point OPeration"; e.g. a flop count is a count of these operations carried out by a given algorithm or computer program.
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FLOPS can be calculated using this equation:[1]
- <math>\text{FLOPS} = \text{sockets} \times \frac{\text{cores}}{\text{socket}} \times \text{clock} \times \frac{\text{FLOPs}}{\text{cycle}}</math>
Most microprocessors today can carry out 4 FLOPs per clock cycle;[1] thus a single-core 2.5 GHz processor has a theoretical performance of 10 billion FLOPS = 10 GFLOPS.
Note: In this context, sockets is referring to processor chip sockets on a motherboard, in other words, how many processor chips are in use, with each chip having one or more cores on it. This equation only applies to one very specific (but common) hardware architecture and it ignores limits imposed by memory bandwidth and other constraints. In general, gigaFLOPS are not determined by theoretical calculations such as this one; instead, they are measured by benchmarks of actual performance/throughput. Because this equation ignores all sources of overhead, in the real world, one will never get actual performance that is anywhere near to what this equation predicts.
Single computer records
In late 1996, Intel's ASCI Red was the world's first computer to achieve one TFLOPS and beyond. Sandia director Bill Camp said that ASCI Red had the best reliability of any supercomputer ever built, and "was supercomputing's high-water mark in longevity, price, and performance." [2]
NEC's SX-9 supercomputer was the world's first vector processor to exceed 100 gigaFLOPS per single core.
For comparison, a handheld calculator performs relatively few FLOPS. A computer response time below 0.1 second in a calculation context is usually perceived as instantaneous by a human operator,[3] so a simple calculator needs only about 10 FLOPS to be considered functional.
In June 2006, a new computer was announced by Japanese research institute RIKEN, the MDGRAPE-3. The computer's performance tops out at one petaFLOPS, almost two times faster than the Blue Gene/L, but MDGRAPE-3 is not a general purpose computer, which is why it does not appear in the Top500.org list. It has special-purpose pipelines for simulating molecular dynamics.
By 2007, Intel Corporation unveiled the experimental multi-core POLARIS chip, which achieves 1 TFLOPS at 3.13 GHz. The 80-core chip can raise this result to 2 TFLOPS at 6.26 GHz, although the thermal dissipation at this frequency exceeds 190 watts.[4]
On June 26, 2007, IBM announced the second generation of its top supercomputer, dubbed Blue Gene/P and designed to continuously operate at speeds exceeding one petaFLOPS. When configured to do so, it can reach speeds in excess of three petaFLOPS.[5]
In June 2007, Top500.org reported the fastest computer in the world to be the IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer, measuring a peak of 596 teraFLOPS.[6] The Cray XT4 hit second place with 101.7 teraFLOPS.
On October 25, 2007, NEC Corporation of Japan issued a press release announcing its SX series model SX-9,[7] claiming it to be the world's fastest vector supercomputer. The SX-9 features the first CPU capable of a peak vector performance of 102.4 gigaFLOPS per single core.
On February 4, 2008, the NSF and the University of Texas at Austin opened full scale research runs on an AMD, Sun supercomputer named Ranger,[8] the most powerful supercomputing system in the world for open science research, which operates at sustained speed of 0.5 petaFLOPS.
On May 25, 2008, an American supercomputer built by IBM, named 'Roadrunner', reached the computing milestone of one petaflops by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. It headed the June 2008 and November 2008 TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers (excluding grid computers).[9][10] The computer is located at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and the computer's name refers to the New Mexico state bird, the Greater Roadrunner.[11]
In June 2008, AMD released ATI Radeon HD4800 series, which are reported to be the first GPUs to achieve one teraFLOPS scale. On August 12, 2008, AMD released the ATI Radeon HD 4870X2 graphics card with two Radeon R770 GPUs totaling 2.4 teraFLOPS.
In November 2008, an upgrade to the Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) raised the system's computing power to a peak 1.64 "petaflops," or a quadrillion mathematical calculations per second, making Jaguar the world's first petaflops system dedicated to open research. In early 2009 the supercomputer was named after a mythical creature, Kraken. Kraken was declared the world's fastest university-managed supercomputer and sixth fastest overall in the 2009 TOP500 list, which is the global standard for ranking supercomputers. In 2010 Kraken was upgraded and can operate faster and is more powerful.
In 2009, the Cray Jaguar performed at 1.75 petaFLOPS, beating the IBM Roadrunner for the number one spot on the TOP500 list.[12]
In October 2010, China unveiled the Tianhe-I, a supercomputer that operates at a peak computing rate of 2.5 petaflops.[13][14]
As of 2010[update], the fastest six-core PC processor reaches 109 gigaFLOPS (Intel Core i7 980 XE)[15] in double precision calculations. GPUs are considerably more powerful. For example, Nvidia Tesla C2050 GPU computing processors perform around 515 gigaFLOPS[16] in double precision calculations, and the AMD FireStream 9270 peaks at 240 gigaFLOPS.[17] In single precision performance, Nvidia Tesla C2050 computing processors perform around 1.03 teraFLOPS and the AMD FireStream 9270 cards peak at 1.2 teraFLOPS. Both Nvidia and AMD's consumer gaming GPUs may reach higher FLOPS. For example, AMD's HemlockXT 5970[18] reaches 928 gigaFLOPS in double precision calculations with two GPUs on board and the Nvidia GTX 480 reaches 672 gigaFLOPS[19] with one GPU on board.
On December 2, 2010, the US Air Force unveiled a defense supercomputer made up of 1,760 PlayStation 3 consoles that can run 500 trillion floating-point operations per second.[20] (500 teraFLOPS)
In November 2011, it was announced that Japan had achieved 10.51 petaflops with its K computer.[21] It is still under development and software performance tuning is currently underway. It has 88,128 SPARC64 VIIIfx processors in 864 racks, with theoretical performance of 11.28 petaflops. It is named after the Japanese word "kei", which stands for 10 quadrillion,[22] corresponding to the target speed of 10 petaFLOPS.
On November 15, 2011, Intel demonstrated a single x86-based processor, code-named "Knights Corner", sustaining more than a TeraFlop on a wide range of DGEMM operations. Intel emphasized during the demonstration that this was a sustained TeraFlop (not "raw TeraFlop" used by others to get higher but less meaningful numbers), and that it was the first general purpose processor to ever cross a TeraFlop.[23][24]
On June 18, 2012, IBM's Sequoia supercomputer system, based at the U.S. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), reached 16 petaFLOPS, setting the world record and claiming first place in the latest TOP500 list.[25]
On November 12, 2012, the TOP500 list certified Titan as the world's fastest supercomputer per the LINPACK benchmark, at 17.59 petaFLOPS.[26][27] It was developed by Cray Inc. at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and combines AMD Opteron processors with "Kepler" NVIDIA Tesla graphic processing unit (GPU) technologies.[28][29]
On June 10, 2013, China's Tianhe-2 was ranked the world's fastest with a record of 33.86 petaFLOPS.[30]
Distributed computing records
Distributed computing uses the Internet to link personal computers to achieve more FLOPS:
- Folding@home is sustaining over 20.7 native petaFLOPS as of June 2014[31] or 43.1 x86 petaFLOPS (x86 FLOPS are an approximate measurement of the speed of a calculation on an x86-based processor, different from native FLOPS[32]). It is the first computing project of any kind to cross the 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 native petaFLOPS milestone. This level of performance is primarily enabled by the cumulative effort of a vast array of powerful GPU and CPU units.[33]
- As of July 2014[update], SETI@Home, employing the BOINC software platform, averages 681 teraFLOPS.[35]
- As of July 2014[update], Einstein@Home, a project using the BOINC network, is crunching at 492 teraFLOPS.[36]
- As of July 2014[update], MilkyWay@Home, using the BOINC infrastructure, computes at 471 teraFLOPS.[37]
- As of July 2014[update], GIMPS, is searching for Mersenne primes and sustaining 173 teraFLOPS.[38]
Future developments
In 2008, James Bamford's book The Shadow Factory reported that NSA told the Pentagon it would need an exaflop computer by 2018.[39]
Given the current speed of progress, supercomputers are projected to reach 1 exaFLOPS (EFLOPS) in 2019.[40] Cray, Inc. announced in December 2009 a plan to build a 1 EFLOPS supercomputer before 2020.[41] Erik P. DeBenedictis of Sandia National Laboratories theorizes that a zettaFLOPS (ZFLOPS) computer is required to accomplish full weather modeling of two week time span.[42] Such systems might be built around 2030.[43]
Cost of computing
Hardware costs
The following is a list of examples of computers that demonstrates how drastically performance has increased and price has decreased. The "cost per GFLOPS" is the cost for a set of hardware that would theoretically operate at one billion floating-point operations per second. During the era when no single computing platform was able to achieve one GFLOPS, this table lists the total cost for multiple instances of a fast computing platform which speed sums to one GFLOPS. Otherwise, the least expensive computing platform able to achieve one GFLOPS is listed.
|Approximate cost per GFLOPS
|Approximate cost per GFLOPS inflation adjusted to 2013 US dollars[44]
|Platform providing the lowest cost per GFLOPS
|US$1,100,000,000,000 ($1.1 trillion)
|US$8.3 trillion
|About 17 million IBM 1620 units costing $64,000 each
|The 1620's multiplication operation takes 17.7 ms.[45]
|Cray X-MP/48
|Two 16-processor Beowulf clusters with Pentium Pro microprocessors[46]
|April 2000
|Bunyip Beowulf cluster
|Bunyip was the first sub-US$1/MFLOPS computing technology. It won the Gordon Bell Prize in 2000.
|May 2000
|KLAT2 was the first computing technology which scaled to large applications while staying under US-$1/MFLOPS.[47]
|August 2003
|KASY0 was the first sub-US$100/GFLOPS computing technology.[48]
|August 2007
|As of August 2007, this 26.25 GFLOPS "personal" Beowulf cluster can be built for $1256.[49]
|March 2011
|This $30,000 cluster was built using only commercially available "gamer" grade hardware.[50]
|June 2013
|Sony Playstation 4
|The Sony PlayStation 4 is listed as having a peak performance of 1.84 TFLOPS, at a price of $400[51]
|November 2013
|AMD Sempron 145 GeForce GTX 760 System
|Built using commercially available parts, a system using one AMD Sempron 145 and three GeForce GTX 760 reaches a total of 6.771 TFLOPS for a total cost of $1090.66.[52]
|December 2013
|Pentium G550 R9 290 System
|Built using commercially available parts. Pentium G550 and AMD R9 290 tops out at 4.848 TFLOPS grand total of US$681.84.[53]
|January 2015
|Celeron G1830 R9 295x2 System
|Built using commercially available parts. Intel Celeron G1830 and AMD Radeon R9 295x2 tops out at over 11.5 TFLOPS at a grand total of US$902.57.[54][55]
The trend toward placing ever more transistors inexpensively on an integrated circuit follows Moore's law. This trend explains the rising speed and falling cost of computer processing.[citation needed]
Operation costs
In energy cost, according to the Green500 list, as of June 2011[update] the most efficient TOP500 supercomputer runs at 2097 MFLOPS per watt. This translates to an energy requirement of 0.477 watts per GFLOPS, however this energy requirement will be much greater for less efficient supercomputers.
Hardware costs for low cost supercomputers may be less significant than energy costs when running continuously for several years.
Floating-point operation and integer operation
FLOPS measures the computing ability of a computer. An example of a floating-point operation is the calculation of mathematical equations; as such, FLOPS is a useful measure of supercomputer performance. MIPS is used to measure the integer performance of a computer. Examples of integer operation include data movement (A to B) or value testing (If A = B, then C). MIPS as a performance benchmark is adequate for the computer when it is used in database query, word processing, spreadsheets, or to run multiple virtual operating systems.[56][57] Frank H. McMahon, of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, invented the terms FLOPS and MFLOPS (megaFLOPS) so that he could compare the so-called supercomputers of the day by the number of floating-point calculations they performed per second. This was much better than using the prevalent MIPS to compare computers as this statistic usually had little bearing on the arithmetic capability of the machine.
Fixed-point (integers)
These designations refer to the format used to store and manipulate numeric representations of data without using a decimal point (it is 'fixed' at the end of the number). Fixed-point are designed to represent and manipulate integers – positive and negative whole numbers; for example, 16 bits, yielding up to 65,536 (216) possible bit patterns that typically represent the whole numbers from −32768 to +32767.[58]
Floating-point (real numbers)
This is needed for very large or very small real numbers, or numbers requiring the use of a decimal point (such as pi and other irrational values). The encoding scheme used by the processor for floating-point numbers is more complicated than for fixed-point. Floating-point representation is similar to scientific notation, except everything is carried out in base two, rather than base ten. The encoding scheme stores the sign, the exponent (in base two for Cray and IEEE floating point formats, or base 16 for IBM Floating Point Architecture) and the mantissa (number after the decimal point). While several similar formats are in use, the most common is ANSI/IEEE Std. 754-1985. This standard defines the format for 32-bit numbers called single precision, as well as 64-bit numbers called double precision and longer numbers called extended precision (used for intermediate results). Floating-point representations can support a much wider range of values than fixed-point, with the ability to represent very small numbers and very large numbers.[59]
Dynamic range and precision
The exponentiation inherent in floating-point computation assures a much larger dynamic range – the largest and smallest numbers that can be represented – which is especially important when processing data sets which are extremely large or where the range may be unpredictable. As such, floating-point processors are ideally suited for computationally intensive applications.[60]
See also
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"University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center". Retrieved September 13, 2010.
Any researcher at a U.S. institution can submit a proposal to request an allocation of cycles on the system.
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External links
- Current Einstein@Home benchmark
- BOINC projects global benchmark
- Current GIMPS throughput
- Top500.org
- LinuxHPC.org Linux High Performance Computing and Clustering Portal
- WinHPC.org Windows High Performance Computing and Clustering Portal
- Oscar Linux-cluster ranking list by CPUs/types and respective FLOPS
- Information on how to calculate "Composite Theoretical Performance" (CTP)
- Information on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Cray XT system.
- Infiscale Cluster Portal – Free GPL HPC
- Source code, pre-compiled versions and results for PCs – Linpack, Livermore Loops, Whetstone MFLOPS
- PC CPU Performance Comparisons %MFLOPS/MHz – CPU, Caches and RAM
- Xeon export compliance metrics, including GFLOPS
- IBM Brings NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Onboard (May 2010)
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The federal government's requirement that broadcasters move to digital TV signals within three years had scores of tiny production houses, public broadcasting stations and university communications departments pacing the aisles at the National Association of Broadcasters 2006 electronics media conference here this week. They attended the event with an eye toward investing in new HD equipment or finding a way to put off upgrading for another year.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — In Monday night's 5-3 win over the Hurricanes, Dougie Hamilton appeared in his fifth NHL game and set up the deciding goal. On Tuesday against New Jersey, Hamilton will make his sixth NHL appearance. By doing so, this career-opening stretch officially will become Year No. 1 on Hamilton's three-year entry-level contract.
The Bruins are just fine with that. Hamilton's days of playing junior in Niagara are over. General manager Peter Chiarelli told Hamilton before Monday's game that he is now a full-time NHLer.
"He has a lot of poise,'' Chiarelli said. "He plays a very mature game. I'm sure inside he felt relieved. But based on how I've seen him play, I wouldn't be surprised to see his game go one way or another, because he's a real poised, mature player.''
Hamilton will move out of the Boston hotel that had been his home since training camp. Hamilton will live with Adam McQuaid.
"I don't know if it's really relief,'' Hamilton said of becoming a permanent Bruin. "Just really overall excitement. It's been my dream ever since I was a little kid to play in the NHL. For me, it's a dream come true. I just want to keep getting better and having fun.''
The 19-year-old has been so poised and productive that management, coaching staff, and even his teammates are projecting a long and fruitful NHL career.
"So Z [Zdeno Chara] will be 41 at the end of his contract,'' Chiarelli noted. "I think he looks at Dougie and thinks he'll be his partner until then.''
Like all young defensemen, Hamilton will have his valleys. But five games into his NHL career, it might not be too early to declare that a handful of teams erred in the 2011 draft.
Hamilton was No. 3 on the Bruins' board. He was their top-ranked defenseman, ahead of Adam Larsson. Edmonton picked Ryan Nugent-Hopkins first. Colorado tabbed Gabriel Landeskog with the No. 2 pick. Had the Bruins owned the third overall pick, they would have drafted Hamilton.
Instead, Florida took Jonathan Huberdeau. New Jersey made Larsson the first defenseman picked with the fourth selection. Hamilton fell to ninth. The Bruins didn't hesitate to make him their property.
Larsson is not on the Devils roster. He is playing for Albany, New Jersey's AHL affiliate.
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"That's a little bit of the reason why we put him there,'' Julien said of Seguin's late-game appearance on a five-on-five, no-goalie power play. "It certainly wasn't because of his board play. It was an opportunity for him to get the monkey off his back. If anybody can blow the zone and get to those empty nets, it's Siggy.''
Before the game, Julien acknowledged Seguin was still struggling with the adjustment to smaller ice. In Switzerland during the lockout, Seguin scored 25 goals in 29 games. He was a force on the wider sheet, where he took advantage of his speed and hands.
The NHL sheet, 15 feet narrower than the international surface, has made for a bumpy re-entry for the third-year pro. Seguin has been blowing the zone early. Opponents have closed on him and reduced his space with the puck.
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In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, Ever Merciful.
Muslims who believe in the Messiah, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (as)
Strangely enough the three great nations of the world : Jews, Christians and Muslims are at variance with regard, both, to the birth as well as the death of Jesus Christ who was born among the Jews.
His Birth
His death
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community declares that Jesus Christ only fell into a swoon on the Cross, but when he was taken down from it, he recovered and migrated to Kashmir, India where he died a natural death at the good old age of 120.