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Massive Parallelism and the Duality of Humpty Dumpty
Disclaimer: Some of the following has been so over simplified that it is hardly recognizable by those that have been truly instructed in the black arts. But the oversimplification is necessary in order to put me, Tracey, these AI-complete problems, and this multicore business in proper context.If we can just look past the controversy over true identity and nature of Humpty Dumpty to see him as the conflicted fellow he was. Then we won't have far to go. For those that don't remember here's one rendition of the poem:
Sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty
Had a great fall
All the kings horses and
All the kings men couldn't put Humpty back together again.
In this rendition of the poem, Humpty is some kind of egg. I remember when I first read it as a child, I pictured one of those large Pterodactyl eggs from the Flintstones. The rumor has it that Humpty was huge. For some reason most of my mates at the time thought it was a chicken egg, but in either case the dilemma would be the same. You see, Humpty was both complicated and complex at the same time. That fact is what would make any attempt by the king's horses and men to put Humpty back together totally futile. Herein lies the rub, I know it seems kind of weird to describe Humpty as a system, but he was. He was a system that could be described as both complicated and complex. And it is important that we distinguish the two.
In very loose terms:
A complicated system is a system made of many interrelated and interacting parts in which the system's functioning as a whole can be understood and predicted as a sum of its parts. That is, we can look at each part's functionality and combine the functionalities together, and although difficult and painstaking we can explain and predict why the system functions the way it does.
A complex system is a system made of many interrelated and interacting parts in which the system's functioning as a whole cannot be understood or predicted simply as a sum of its parts. Some how the whole system is greater or different than the sum of its parts. Although we may be able to understand the functioning of the parts individually, somehow when they are combined they produce functionality that cannot be understood, explained or predicted simply by looking at the original parts.
Humpty Dumpty as a snapshot of an egg (source code if you will) can be understood from a physics and biological point of view with enough effort. Egg shells, egg yolk, all made of molecules and the molecules are all consisting of massive amounts of atoms, and the atoms consisting of kinds of particles, that get stripped down into all of these vibrating strings (so they say). The biological view could explain the cell growth cycle and the synergy happening between the egg shell, the egg yolk, DNA, and the function of the nurturing parent. All this is very complicated indeed. But with enough work we can explain in a general sense what Humpty is and make a few predictions about how his source code works. But Humpty, the dynamic living process of an egg (runtime object if you will) is another story altogether. Although we can describe, explain, and predict Humpty's functional parts from a physics or biological point of view, somehow there is something more to the living egg that escapes us. That's why if we shatter a living egg, the prospects of putting it back together as it was with the life unaffected is a very, very, tough (if not impossible) row to hoe, which makes Humpty a complex system. An egg is more than the sum of its parts (at the least the parts that we understand at this time).
Excuse me while I stretch, but Humpty Dumpty's duality is very similar to one of the dualities found in software. Especially software that involves massive parallelism, and deep concurrency among agents or tasks. Take the notion of a complicated class definition and hierarchy that implements, tasks, threads, mutexes, locking, interprocess communication, semaphores, shared memory constructs processes, etc.,vif we look at the design of the entire system and how it fits together and we deconstruct the hierarchy, operating system functionality, network functionality (on paper), and study the functionality of the parts of the class hierarchy, although complicated, we can still explain and from a software design point of view predict the software's behavior. But if you look at that same class hierarchy as a collection of runtime instances within the context of an executing operating system and network, then we find the system is complex. That is somehow the system is greater or different than the sum of its parts. Our ability to predict, or even totally explain its behavior becomes difficult.
If we run with the analogy a little longer, the complicated nature of Humpty can be dealt with using solid software design and engineering methodology. However, the complex nature of Humpty requires a paradigm shift in order for us to be able to understand, explain, predict and thus control his behavior. We are certain that constructing and controlling true massively parallel systems will require such a paradigm shift. The reality of massively parallel computers, and the trend toward goal driven, emergent software will produce systems that have this dual nature. With extreme effort we'll understand the class definitions, but the runtime instances will escape us. Which brings us back to me and Tracey's adventure along the yellow brick road of AI-complete problems.
Most of the problems that Tracey and I are working on right now, are suspiciously complex. We naively believe that access to cheap multicore soon to be massively multicore computers will some how help us on our way to see the wizard. To be honest, we can hear some of our mates laughing at us at the symposiums and colloquiums. But we have a paradigm shift in our pockets and we are comforted with two things.
- First, is a statement by a famous and often laughed at physicist:
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them.
- Second is a well-known fact:
He who laughs last, laughs best.


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Tried this new vintage the other night:
1. Bucklin Zin OldHillRanch/SonomaVlly (Est: 1885; Est: 1852; 14 acres/two dozen grapes: Zin + Grenache/AlicanteBouschet/PetiteSirah/Mourvedre/Syrah/Carignane/Tempranillo/Tannat/GrandNoir + others; http://www.BuckZin.com; 571 cs; 15.6%) 2009: Very dark color; intense blackberry/boysenberry/Zin slight menthol/pungent/ozone/metallic quite dusty/OV complex nose; soft/lush/smooth slight toasty/oak strong dusty/OV very strong blackberry/boysenberry/Zin/briary very spicy lovely/complex flavor w/ some tannins; very long/lingering very strong blackberry/boysenberry/briary/Zin strong dusty/OV slight menthol/pungent/toasty/oak finish w/ modest tannins; does not show any alcohol whatsoever; one of the best Bucklin Zins I've had; a classic OV Zin w/ good structure & balance. $32.00 (SFW&S)
And a wee BP:
1. OldHill is, of course, the vnyd that JoelPeterson/Ravenswood made famous. The vnyd was planted in 1851. It was abandoned and purchased by OttoTeller in 1981. He returned the overgrown vnyd to health, against the advice of UC/Davis folks, and started selling to Joel. The Ravenswood OldHill was almost always my favorite RavenswoodZin. The Bucklin family eventually bought the ranch and WillBucklin is the winemaker. Their vine by vine vnyd map is pretty amazing:
The Bucklin OldHill Zin I've always liked quite a bit but didn't think it was of Carlisle level. This '09 struck me as the best Bucklin/OldHill I've had and of the caliber of most of the Bedrock Zins. I'd love to see what Mike or Morgan could do w/ these grapes. Will also makes a MixedBlack and a Bambino/OldHill Zin that are both pretty good as well. Truly one of Calif's great OldVine vnyds.

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This is the best-known "pazo" in the municipality of Touro. It was founded at the beginning of the 18th century and features a chapel in the Galician baroque style.
The "pazo," also called A Casa Grande de Andeade, has all the characteristic elements of "pazo" constructions: coat of arms, chapel with an 18th-century Compostela altarpiece, dovecot, washhouse, ornamental fountain, spacious gardens, oak grove and entrance bordered by rows of plane trees. It was restored in 1995 using original materials and noble wood, and is now used as rural tourism accommodation and the venue of events and banquets.
How to get there
Pazo de Andeade is located in the parish of the same name, and in the village of Casa Grande. It is easily reached from Touro by way of the AC-240 road, on the way towards Arzúa, passing through the parishes of Touro and Quión. In the latter, you take the CP-0605 road towards Turces that passes in front of the "pazo."
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John Gruber's Daring Fireball is the homepage for Mac nerds. Even top Apple (AAPL) brass tune in regularly. And it's a real business, too, now in its fourth year as Gruber's full-time gig.
Daring Fireball's influence was in full display last week, including the rarest of public responses from an Apple executive.
Last Tuesday, Gruber broke the news that an iPhone dictionary app called Ninjawords had apparently been censored by Apple. This at a time when Apple is getting the most flack it's gotten in years -- mostly because of its sometimes heavy handed management of the iPhone App Store, which has even drawn an official FCC investigation.
In a roughly 1,000-word post, Gruber explained how Ninjawords' developers has just been through a two-month back-and-forth with Apple over their $2 dictionary app, which was having trouble getting into the App Store because of language that Apple deemed offensive. "Apple censored an English dictionary," Gruber asserted.
Within a day, more than 20 publications had noted Gruber's report, ranging from PC World to top gadget sites like Gizmodo and Engadget, to this publication.
But the most important response came from Apple headquarters. Not only did Gruber's report draw an official reply from Apple, but it came in the rare form of an on-the-record e-mail from Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing head. That simply doesn't happen very often.
In his e-mail, Schiller explained why Gruber's assertion was off-base -- Apple had not, actually, censored anything -- and that the developers had actually removed the bad words themselves. But he also wrote to Gruber about baseball: "Schiller, a Red Sox fan," Gruber writes, "ended with a postscript to let me know he's looking forward to the Red Sox-Yankees series that starts tonight in New York."
It's that kind of rapport with developers, Mac fans, and Apple employees -- Gruber is arguably the best-sourced Apple writer in the business -- that's helped turn Daring Fireball from a hobby into a real business.
Gruber likely pulls in $125,000 in annual revenue from the site (and potentially much more). Income sources include ad revenue from The Deck, a minimalist ad network; self-sold RSS sponsorship with a $2,500 per week published rate; and "membership," which is basically an annual t-shirt drive. Expenses are not high: Web hosting, trips to a few conferences a year, and, of course, Mac computer equipment and an iPhone.
Indeed, Gruber has effectively created a job as one of the few self-sustaining, solo Web "columnists" out there -- a job that didn't exist five years ago. (Others include Jason Kottke, Dooce's Heather Armstrong, etc.) The downside -- from a business perspective, at least -- is that no one will want to buy that business from you. Once the founder leaves -- or needs to take more than a few days off -- it has lost much of its value to readers.
John, reached by e-mail, wouldn't comment on how much money his site makes, but he says it provides his full-time income. He says the site has recently been close to averaging 2 million monthly pageviews and about 250,000 monthly unique visitors -- including some very important ones at Apple headquarters. He also estimates about 150,000 subscribers to his RSS feed.
Very impressive, especially for a one-man media company. A coy one, at that: "Sounds corny, but I don't focus on numbers," Gruber is quick to add. "I just try to write good stuff."
Photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid via Flickr


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It has long been since just the residents of Bavaria counted the days until September: what began as a wedding celebration has grown into the famous Oktoberfest, the world's largest beer festival, complete with one-litre beer mugs, Bavarian oompah-pah music and lederhosen.
A procession of horse-drawn carriages laden with beer kegs announces the start of the annual beer festival at the end of September. Lords and brewers proudly accompany the procession to their beer tents on the Theresienwiese. Dressed in lederhosen, the mayor of Munich kicks off the festival by serving the first beer. After his promising remark of "O' Zapft is!", which roughly translates as "the keg is open", the endless stream of beer starts to flow.
Beer is the beverage of choice in the 14 party tents on Theresienwiese, in the centre of Munich. When you order a beer, you will be served a one-litre mug, filled to the brim. Nevertheless, the tents do differ from each other. The Schottenhammel tent is the most traditional tent where students and artists gather. The Paulanerbräu tent attracts a slightly older crowd and features lovely decorations. At the Winzerer Fähndl archer's guild, freshly hunted game is as important as the beer. The best beer is served in the Augustiner Festhalle: brewed by Munich's oldest brewery, the beer is served from oak kegs. You will not find any beer or benches in the Kufflers tent: here guests sit on wooden seats and sip wine, cider and champagne – just like in a wine garden.
The Oktoberfest evolved from the wedding celebration of Bavarian King Ludwig and Princess Therese in 1810. These days, the event begins in September as the weather is a little bit milder. The celebration is filled with traditions. The golden Oktoberfest beer, served in a 'Maß' or a one-litre mug, is accompanied by snacks such as pretzels and 'Hendl', roasted chicken. In the party tents, brass bands play Bavarian music.


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- One of the highest bridges in world still standing, park spokeswoman says
- Evacuation orders issued for about 9,000 people over 55 square miles
- "My family is scared and trying to remain calm," a Colorado mother says
- The Royal Gorge Fire southwest of Colorado Springs also isn't contained
Sad. Helpless. Shaken.
That's how Morgan Pace felt as she drove past a large plume of smoke near her home in Monument, Colorado, which is about 20 miles north of Colorado Springs. It wasn't an isolated fire, but a large and growing conflagration that has spurred thousands to flee their homes.
"It was just surreal," said Pace, a CNN iReporter.
Fear and anxiety were common Wednesday in much of central Colorado thanks not just to one, but two major wildfires that have threatened lives and property.
Pace, a 38-year-old mother of four, is among tens of thousands affected directly and indirectly by the Black Forest Fire.
So, too, is Lisa Aggarwal. After a sleepless night, she packed up and left her Colorado Springs home on Wednesday -- a hot and blue sky day, except for the looming smoke -- along with her three young children.
"My family is scared and just trying to remain calm," Aggarwal, another iReporter, said Wednesday.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the Black Forest Fire had spread to 8,500 acres -- none of which were considered "contained" -- according to the Colorado Office of Emergency Management.
"We have some very unpredictable conditions," El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said at an early media briefing. "Priorities are saving lives (including) protecting first responders and firefighters."
At an afternoon update, he said the winds had shifted and moved the fire in two directions. He anticipated the fire would continue to grow by 3,000 acres.
Mandatory evacuation orders, which extended over a 55-square-mile area, affected about 9,000 people in more than 3,400 households.
Thankfully, as of Wednesday afternoon, there were no reports of casualties, but one person might be missing, Maketa said.
Still, at least 92 structures were labeled as lost.
Alicia Welch had two reasons to worry: Her son was out at a day camp before the flames forced them to head home, and her husband was still out hiking in another endangered area with Boy Scouts.
"He said that a lot of the boys, the Scouts he knew what was going on. The leaders care about their families and what's going on at home," Welch told CNN, her comments cut off as she broke down for a moment, overwhelmed with emotion.
The Royal Gorge Fire, meanwhile, is burning on the other side of Colorado Springs, about 55 miles to the southwest.
Authorities downgraded the number of acres burned from 3,800 to 3,100 late Wednesday. It was less than half the size of the Black Forest Fire. But it likewise was 0% contained and had damaged at least three structures, the state office of emergency management reported.
It triggered the precautionary evacuation of some 905 inmates from the Centennial Correctional Facility, located in Canon City, between midnight and 9 a.m. Wednesday. Most of the inmates are "special needs" -- meaning they receive medical treatment -- said state corrections department spokeswoman Alison Morgan.
The famous Royal Gorge Bridge that spans the Arkansas River is still intact but needs to be inspected before it can reopen for tourists, a spokeswoman for the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park said.
The suspension bridge, which is 956 feet above the river and among the highest in the world, is made of more than 1,000 wooden planks.
"We did not know until today whether the bridge was still standing," Peggy Gair said.
Gair says fire at the park burned a visitor's center, a tramway building, a carousel and several restaurants.
There were other fires in the state as well, including in Grand and Huerfano Counties. Statewide, officials warned that such blazes have proven tough to handle due to a combination of factors.
"Fire severity is extreme as reported in multiple areas," the state office of emergency management said, "and fires are escaping initial attack, as evident by the number of large fires."


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Telluride taps Geoff Dyer as guest director
The Telluride Film Festival has named Geoff Dyer guest director for its 2012 edition.
Dyer will select a series of films to present at the festival, which will hold its 39th edition this year.
A British author of novels such as "The Search" and "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi," Dyer has also explored film subjects in his nonfiction work. He recently published "Zona," a look at the making and meaning of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 science-fiction film "Stalker." The author's jazz study "But Beautiful" won or was shortlisted for a number of literary prizes.
Dyer will curate a selection that will be announced at the start of the festival, along with the rest of the lineup.
Telluride has a history of choosing eclectic guest directors--in addition to more traditional choices such as Erroll Morris and Alexander Payne, it has also tapped Salman Rushdie and Stephen Sondheim in past years.
The festival, which takes place Aug. 31-Sept. 3 in the Colorado resort town, is often a platform for award-season contenders. In the past few years, movies such as "The King's Speech," "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Shame" got a boost at the festival.
Telluride: Jennifer Garner Spreads "Butter"
George Clooney Makes Waves with "The Descendants"
Telluride: Michael Fassbender exposes more than skin in 'Shame'
--Steven Zeitchik
Photo: Geoff Dyer. Credit: Getty Images


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There are so many great tattoo designs for girls these days it is really amazing. In fact there are so many great looking tattoo designs for girls these days that it can be hard to narrow down the choices and find something that works for you. Two of the most currently popular trends for tattoo designs for women are tattoos for foot and sleeve tattoo designs. If you are looking for a tattoo design for either of these super sexy locations here are some great ideas.
Tattoos For Foot
Of course the foot is a small area or canvas to work from so if you are truly considering getting a foot tattoo you should try and find a design that can be small and not too intricate. If the design is too intricate it will late fade and blur.
Star Foot Tattoo - One of the most popular options these days are the star foot tattoo. The stars have always fascinated people and human throughout our short time here on earth. There are so many mysteries behind stars that they can make a great and highly symbolic tattoo.
Flower Foot Tattoo - Anther great option is to get a flower foot tattoo design hat you like. There are so many different possibilities with a flower tattoo design. One should start by deciding what is important in their life that holds meaning and significance for them. Then they can locate a great looking flower that symbolizes those things.
Sleeve Tattoo Designs
Sleeve tattoo designs can be done as a full sleeve going from wrist to shoulder. A half sleeve ranging from elbow to should and a quarter sleeve tattoo which is typically just done around the shoulder and upper part of the arm. More and more women are choosing to get sleeve tattoos or what is called getting sleeved. Here are some of the more popular ideas and tattoo design styles for feminine sleeve tattoo design.
Koi Fish Sleeve Design - The koi fish is obviously a very traditional and Japanese tattoo design that used to be done very large in full body tattoo suits worn by the Yakuza. However, today many women are getting this traditional tattoo with the beautiful new colored inks available these days.
Floral Sleeve Designs - Another popular option for women is a floral tattoo. This could be anything from a gothic looking vampire flower or a lotus flower symbolizing a journey and transformation typically religious but these days just a great classic tattoo design.


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New Movies: 'Pacific Rim,' 'Grown Ups 2′
Two wildly different offerings hit theaters this weekend. The first is a sci-fi/action/thriller about monsters fighting giant robots; the other is the sequel to a surprisingly successful comedy featuring a set of four men acting like children.
'Pacific Rim'
Giant monsters vs. giant robots. That's really all there is to it. If you like that sort of thing, you'll probably like this movie. If not, stay away.
Directed by Guillermo Del Toro
Starring Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Idris Elba, Charlie Day
'Grown Ups 2'
It's the last day of school, and it looks like the kids may be the ones teaching the eponymous grown-ups a lesson or two. If you liked the last one, you'll probably like this one.
Directed by Dennis Dugan
Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Members of the Senate Finance Committee met Tuesday with treasury secretary nominee Tim Geithner over concerns involving his personal taxes and the immigration status of a former housekeeper, transition officials said.
Timothy Geithner has been nominated for the post of treasury secretary in the Obama administration.
The Geithners employed a housekeeper whose employment authorization document expired about three months before she stopped working for them in October 2005, according to a written statement from the Senate Finance Committee.
Later, the housekeeper, who is married to a U.S. citizen, was granted a green card, transition officials said.
The second concern involves Geithner's taxes while he worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to a statement released by the committee, Geithner failed to pay self-employment taxes while the IMF paid him from 2001 to 2004.
In 2006, the Internal Revenue Service audited Geithner for tax years 2003 and 2004, and he paid $16,732 for the taxes and interest for those years, the statement said. After Obama nominated him for treasury secretary, Geithner voluntarily amended his taxes for 2001 and 2002, paying $25,970 for those taxes and interest, the committee said.
The presidential transition team told Finance Committee staff about Geithner's taxes early last month, the committee said.
As an international organization, the IMF does not withhold money from employees' paychecks to pay Social Security and Medicare. U.S. employees are required to pay them on their own.
Robert Gibbs, the incoming White House spokesman, called Geithner's tax issue a "common mistake."
"The president-elect chose Tim Geithner to be his treasury secretary because he's the right person to help lead our economic recovery during these challenging times," Gibbs said in a written statement. "He's dedicated his career to our country and served with honor, intelligence and distinction. That service should not be tarnished by honest mistakes, which, upon learning of them, he quickly addressed."
The Finance Committee said it would continue to review Geithner's tax returns and other information ahead of a nomination hearing.
"When errors or issues of concern are discovered, transparency is vital to allow members of the committee and the entire Senate to fully review and assess the relevant information before hearings and votes occur," the committee said.
"I believe that these errors, although serious, do not rise to the level of disqualification. He is an extremely competent man," said committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Montana. "The errors were, in my judgment, honest mistakes. He did not in any way intentionally make those mistakes."
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, also said the mistakes were "not at all disqualifying."
"Tim came to the committee, admitted he had made some mistakes, and was very contrite," he said. "I continue to strongly support his nomination and given the tough economic conditions, hope we can confirm him as quickly as possible."
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Hattiesburg Campus
Characterized by history and tradition
Southern Miss' main campus sits on 300 acres in the heart of Hattiesburg. More than 180 buildings dot a landscape that has been transformed into a pedestrian-friendly environment for students, employees and visitors.
From the minute you step onto campus via the Centennial Gateway, there's a sense of place characterized by history and tradition. From the rustic, industrial feel of the Power House Restaurant to the ultra-modern Trent Lott Center, the campus has a character and charm all its own in the heart of an urban setting.
The original campus plan is the work of architect R.H. Hunt of Chattanooga, Tenn., whose design laid out a grand vision for the college. His work is still visible throughout the historic core of campus that encompasses the five original buildings erected for its opening on Sept. 18, 1912.
College Hall, Forrest County Hall, Hattiesburg Hall, the Honor House and the Ogletree Alumni House still stand today as testament to the institution's legacy and unique campus identity.
A place where learning, research and social engagement take place, the campus provides indoor and outdoor gathering spaces. The Thad Cochran Center and Union Complex form the hub of student life, housing the main dining facility on campus as well as the university bookstore.
The renovation of the old power plant into the Power House Restaurant provides a unique venue with outdoor seating across from Cook Library, where students enjoy a Starbucks coffee shop and lounge area. Adjacent is the Centennial Lawn, an open space where all can enjoy studying or just relaxing.
The campus master plan provides a guide for enhancing the pedestrian experience, preserving historic buildings and providing open spaces. And sustainable practices are incorporated into the construction of new buildings to conserve energy while moving the campus toward the goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050.
Notable campus landmarks
- The Aubrey K. Lucas Administration Building, completed in 1930, is the home of the offices of the university president and other members of the university administration.
- The Bruce and Virginia Wilgus Fitness and Wellness Trail is conveniently located adjacent to the Payne Center and provides leisure and exercise opportunities for the entire family in a safe and well-maintained environment. Fully lighted, the trail includes park benches, maps and Code-Blue Security phones.
- The Trent Lott National Center for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship houses the university's Department of Economic and Workforce Development, the University Foundation and the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security.
- Century Park South is the university's newest residential complex, opening in 2014-15 with 954 beds for students, as well as a state-of-the-art campus health facility, the Moffitt Health Center. Century Park North, a four-residence-hall complex that opened in 2010, features 865 beds.
- Located just three miles from the main campus is the university's 521-acre innovation and commercialization park, The Garden. The park's signature building, The Accelerator, is home to the Mississippi Polymer Institute, the National Formulation Science Lab and several other small companies in the building's business incubator.
- Joseph Anderson Cook Memorial Library, named for the school's first president, still serves as the university's main library, housing books, periodicals and other collections.
- The All-American Rose Garden, located at the front of campus, was granted Public Rose Garden accreditation in 1975 by All-American Rose Selections Inc.
- The Payne Center is home to the Recreational Sports department and is a state-of-the-art fitness facility with an indoor track, basketball courts, weight rooms, classrooms and more.
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Litigation Release No. 19629 / March 29, 2006
Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release No. 2402 / March 29, 2006
SEC v. Eric Tyra, Scott Wynne, Peter Berman, and Scott Carey, Civil Action No. CV-04-P-1052-S (N.D. Al.)
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that on March 28, 2006, the Honorable R. David Proctor, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, entered a Final Judgment As To Defendant Scott Wynne, enjoining him from future violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, Sections 10(b) and 13(b)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rules 10b-5, 13b2-1 and 13b2-2 thereunder, and from aiding and abetting violations of Sections 13(a), 13(b)(2)(A) and 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act and Rules 12b-20, 13a-1 and 13a-13 thereunder. Wynne consented to the entry of the judgment without admitting or denying the allegations of the Commission's Complaint. The court ordered a civil penalty in the amount of $25,000, and prohibited Wynne from acting as an officer or director of any issuer that has a class of registered securities for a period of six years.
The Commission's Complaint, filed on May 21, 2004, alleged various fraudulent practices in connection with the financial statements of Just for Feet, Inc., a large shoe and sports apparel retailer formerly headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The Complaint alleged that Wynne, a vice president at Just for Feet, and others, among other things, recorded on Just for Feet's books unearned receivables and failed to create an adequate reserve for excess or obsolete inventory. The overstatement of income and assets resulting from this misconduct was reflected on Just for Feet's financial statements included in its Form 10-K filed for fiscal year 1998, Forms 10-Q filed for the first and second quarters of fiscal year 1999, and in its registration statements on Forms S-8 and S-4 filed in May and June of 1999, respectively.See also: L.R. 18139 (May 15, 2003); L.R. 18571 (February 6, 2004); L.R. 18575 (February 13, 2004); L.R. 18731 (June 1, 2004); and L.R. 19163 (March 31, 2005); L.R. 19438 (October 20, 2005); and L.R. 19533 (January 20, 2006).


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PARIS -- If you'd told me five years ago that I was soon to bear a disabled child with blood cancer -- for whom I'd have to surrender, possibly forever, career and love life -- I'd have contemplated suicide. Moreover, I would have thought this a level-headed response: not an act of despair but a lucid sort of Swiss-style euthanasia.
I was a driven freelance writer and a headlong romantic with no interest in children. I had always assumed I'd have a husband (or perhaps three) and no kid. It had never occurred to me I might have a kid and no husband. Not me, the expectant mother with the nursery decorated in 12 colors four months ahead of due date. I didn't have a nursery. I didn't even have a separate room in the bohemian studio I inhabited in Paris, where I eked out an income scribbling for America's embattled book reviews.
The fact that I continued my pregnancy was a reckless romantic gesture: It was my Greek partner, not I, who wanted a child and who had implored me to keep this one in spite of our tempestuous relationship and slender means. Almost everybody else sounded the red alert: "You can't have a kid in such unstable circumstances!" they said -- which only hardened our determination. I'll take responsibility for child care! I'll give the child whatever she needs, vowed the father: "And when all the naysayers see that healthy little blond child running over the cobblestone, they'll eat their words." Our child, as it turned out, was not blond; she was not healthy, and the only person running was her dad. He headed for the hills of Crete when his daughter was 16 days old, changed his phone number, eliminated his email account, and instructed his family members to have no more communication with me. From that day on, it was the two of us girls in Paris: the mentally challenged infant and the know-nothing mother. A match made in hell. Or was it? "Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger," writes Andrew Solomon in his often incisive and occasionally exasperating new book, "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity." The arty gay son of pharmaceutical millionaires, Solomon is intrigued by the difference at the heart of parent-child relationships. Why, he asks, in several hundred interviews with exceptional families, "do parents devote themselves to raising children who are nothing at all like the ones they thought they could love?" Why do they commit their lives to kids with Down syndrome, dwarfism, deafness, autism, multiple disability syndrome, cerebral palsy and other "alien" features? And why, most puzzlingly, do they sometimes "end up grateful for experiences they would [once] have done anything to avoid?" Not that many don't contrive to avoid these experiences: In his chapter on Down syndrome, Solomon reminds us that at least 70 percent of Americans with prenatal diagnoses of Down syndrome opt for abortion. (That number would, I admit, have included me if I'd had the diagnosis.)
Another group -- probably larger than anyone thinks -- gives their newborns up to institutions. "I wish I could show you a list of the people who have given up their babies to me," Solomon is told by the head of an adoption agency for children with Down syndrome: "It would read like Who's Who in America." And then there is the exit strategy still defended, rather improbably, by a couple of modern ethicists who, in the tall tradition of Adolf Hitler, continue to support the murder of live handicapped children. Parents who do not want their kids with a disability, argues Princeton scholar Peter Singer, should be allowed to kill them until around age 1. (You sense he could be talked into extending this grace period.) The logic behind this argument is as puerile as it is sinister: "Most women who eliminate an unwanted child will produce a wanted one," Singer claims, "and the loss of happiness of the one who is killed (whose life would have been unsatisfactory) is outweighed by the happiness of the healthy child who follows." Leaving aside the question of whether one can measure happiness in coffee spoons and, more troublingly, compare the real happiness of an existing child to the potential happiness of a nonexisting child, it is a cliché of developmental psychology that kids with disabilities like Down syndrome often outstrip their peers in joie de vivre. Something about their trust, tenacity and tenderness -- as well as their often uninhibited engagement with other people -- seems to equip them for lives that are not darker than the lives of sensitive intellectuals but brighter.
Cut to Paris, fall 2012. I am sitting next to my cherry-lipped, porcelain-skinned daughter, now 4 years old. I step out of the medical transport van that has ferried us home from her preschool and heave her onto the sidewalk. She giggles and extends two fingers to stroke my cheek. Before the driver can pull away from the curb, I gather her against my heart, draw back a few inches, smile in wonder into her radiant smile, and kiss her face and hair and temples as holiday shoppers stop and stare.
Eurydice's and my walks through town are punctuated by spontaneous remakes of Doisneau's "The Kiss" -- except with toddler and mother switched in for boy and girl. Not that things are easy: Before we've covered the 250 yards between the door of the medical van and our apartment building, Eurydice will have darted into traffic three times. Like a few other kids with Down syndrome, she is inhabited by an irrepressible compulsion to break out and explore, which combined with her perfect fearlessness causes me a great deal more stress than many of the better-known problems of Down syndrome. Walking with my child is like trying to corral a kitten. You hold her by the scruff of the neck, or you lose her. Once the French fire brigade returned her when she made off from a playground -- I had turned my head for an instant; she'd gone six blocks in two minutes.
This scruff-holding is more than physical; it is medical and mental. After spending her first year of life with serial lung infections, Eurydice evolved a frequently fatal leukemia -- another risk factor of Down syndrome, albeit a rare one.
Six months of outpatient blood transfusions gave way to seven months of inpatient chemotherapy. During this period there was no exit from the hospital isolation room for either of us. Several times Eurydice hovered on the edge of death. She lost her long chestnut-colored locks and saw her satin baby chest carved up to make room for three consecutive catheters. Still today, there is a garish scar over her heart across which -- either in obedience to a subconscious sense of theater or in memory of the nurses who applied disinfectant to her wound -- Eurydice likes to smear blood-red lipstick.
It is sometimes said -- and Solomon's book often echoes this bias -- that autism is mysterious, Down syndrome is not. Autists are prodigies, introverts, misunderstood; people with Down syndrome are just dumb and dull. And yet, Eurydice has always been mysterious to me. To this day she does not speak -- or, rather, she does not speak any publicly recognized language. But she has an enormous amount to say, uncanny capacities for observation, and startling social intelligence. In the French-English-German universe she inhabits, she has invented a vernacular all her own in which she makes orations so self-assured, well-inflected, and precisely punctuated by rhetorical gesticulation that strangers often inquire which language it is she's speaking.
Wherever she goes, she brings people together -- imperiously gesturing to cantankerous couples to sit down together and lifting their palms onto each others' thighs, reconciling warring classmates by joining their hands, and charming child-leery adults with flirty smiles and studious imitations of their idiosyncrasies. Her gifts are the opposite of my own: Where I am shy, she is bold; where I am good with (known) words, she is good with drama, dance and music; where I am frightened of groups, she loves them, and the children in her preschool compete hard to sit by her side at lunchtime as the nurses in her hospital petitioned to be assigned to her room.
Am I "cheerily generalizing" as Solomon says of other Down syndrome parents, "from a few accomplishments" of my child? Perhaps I am. But one thing I've learned these last four years that possibly Solomon has not: All of our accomplishments are few.
All of our accomplishments are minor: my scribblings, his book, the best lines of the best living poets. We embroider away at our tiny tatters of insight as though the world hung on them, when it is chiefly we ourselves who hang on them. Often a dog or cat with none of our advanced skills can offer more comfort to our neighbor than we can. (Think: Would you rather live with Shakespeare or a cute puppy?) Each of us has the ability to give only a little bit of joy to those around us. I would wager Eurydice gives as much as any person alive.
As I write these words, it is not clear to me that Solomon has learned all he might have from his 10-year investigation into diverse parenting. He has reached several convincing conclusions, to be sure: "Hard love is in no way inferior to easy love," he writes, and "Diversity is what unites us all." While not risky, these observations are well-articulated and abundantly corroborated. I embrace especially his point on struggle: "The happy ending of tragedies," he notes, "have a dignity beyond the happy endings of comedies." Warriors at heart, we cherish what we've gone to battle for far more than what's been handed to us with a lifetime warranty and a lollipop.
It's when Solomon turns to his own life after hundreds of pages of publicizing the diverse, disabled and combative lives of others that his unreconstructed conventionality emerges most obviously -- and his cowardice. When all is said and done, Solomon mainly wants to bank an A-1 baby. While quickly regretting the "economic privilege" required for the engineering of his perfect offspring, he becomes "extremely deliberate about the egg selection." Having prepared the ground for his reproductive missions by marrying his partner in a "shot-gun wedding" at the ancestral estate of the late Diana, princess of Wales, Solomon sifts donor profiles, consults attorneys and flies around the globe to negotiate optimal parenting conditions.
But when the boy is born and needs a not-uncommon 5-minute CT scan, Solomon is ready to flee. Not merely does he panic, but he finds himself "try[ing] hard not to love" his newborn and has visions of "giving him up into [the] care" of an institution.
All this within moments of a very small question being raised about the perfection of his child. All this from the author of "Far From the Tree." The incident ends up being a tempest in a teapot; Solomon's son is entirely normal and discharged pronto to one of his homes in Manhattan. And yet weirdly enough, Solomon sees himself as an "adversity" survivor as a result of this experience: "I felt something brilliant and terrifying for my son as he lay in that Star-Trek-like CAT scanner," he says. In his own eyes, Solomon has joined the company of heroes: At previous moments, he admits in the last sentence of his book, he'd sometimes doubted the sanity of "heroic parents," but now he was "ready to join them on their ship." It's hard to imagine that parents of disabled and dying children will recognize Solomon's "ship" as their own. Regardless, Solomon's kids (and he now claims three more via the sperm donations he or his partner have made) still have many opportunities to teach him what his interview subjects have only done in part.
I, too, am a slow learner. Every day, Eurydice has a thousand things to teach, and every day I assimilate precious few. One thing I have grasped though is that the more I do, the more I can do. Raising my girl taps resources that did not exist five years ago. In many ways, she's still a baby -- not yet continent, not yet talking. Some days I fear she will go from being a baby to being an invalid. Medical risks are legion with Down syndrome, and they come on quickly.
There are reasons to think the future could be harder -- not easier -- than the present. But while certain experts (repeatedly quoted by Solomon) have suggested that this leads to "chronic sadness" in parents of children with Down syndrome, I find it leads to "chronic carpe diem" -- a chronic desire to seize the day and wring the best possible from every moment -- and from myself.
I know I will not be able to "pass a baton" to Eurydice the way parents sometimes hope to do with their kids. She is not going to take over my "business" or answer my calling: If I want to sweeten the world a bit through writing, I'd better the hell get down to it myself -- the constraints be damned. My child is no baton-bearer; she has her own scepter.
I also know she's unlikely to grow up entirely: She's unlikely to move out at 18 and leave me to my own adventures, so I try to embark on those adventures right now. Toddler in tow, I take every travel assignment I can get from an editor, board every train, scale every limestone fence, and dip my nose longingly into every long-stemmed tulip. It's probably a good modus operandi for all of us.
The joy Eurydice takes in each detail of life is the most infectious quality I've ever known. When she flings her arms around my neck as she does every day, every night, my most recurrent fear is no longer relapsing cancer, no longer early dementia or heart disease or hearing loss -- or even the fact that Eurydice is growing up too slowly. It is a testament to how radically this child has transformed me that my most recurrent fear may be that she's growing up too fast -- that one day she could be too mature to give me those massive, resplendent, full-body hugs.
If the two of us can avert that catastrophe, I tend to think we can avert them all.
Cristina Nehring is the author of "A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the 21st Century" and "Journey to the Edge of the Light: A Tale of Love, Leukemia and Transformation." She is at work on a book of life wisdom gleaned from her daughter. She wrote this for slate.com.
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Defience wrote:As far as Gingerbread, in order to install Syndicate Frozen, I had to reinstall back to stock firmware which included Froyo EC05. I wish it would've stuck. /me shrugs
I don't actually mind stock but I figured if I'm root....I might as well go custom. Maybe when I do buy my new phone I'll try some custom ROMs again.
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CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson is reportedly "in talks to leave CBS ahead" of her contract in the midst of disagreements with executives over her "wading dangerously close to advocacy" on Benghazi. Attkisson, who has a history of producing shoddy reporting, is getting support from Fox News personalities, with one calling for the conservative network to hire her as an investigative reporter.
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Conservatives see a crusader and truth-teller. Tim Graham of the conservative Media Research Center calls Attkisson "an outlier" among TV reporters -- a hard-nosed investigator of "how our public officials behave and misbehave." Liberals see a partisan tool. "I think Attkisson has completely given herself over to the right and is very happy to be their champion," says Eric Boehlert, a senior fellow at the liberal Media Matters for America organization.
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Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich tweeted today: "Fox News should launch a new investigative unit featuring: @sharylattkisson, @jamesrosenfnc, @JenGriffinFNCand Catherine Herridge." All the reporters referenced except for Attkisson currently work for Fox News. Fox News contributor Jonah Goldberg replied: "Fox Untouchables." Reporter James Rosen retweeted Pavlich.
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Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume -- who helped recruit Megyn Kelly to Fox -- singled out Attkisson for praise on the May 6 edition Special Report with Bret Baier: "I note particularly reporting done on CBS News by Sharyl Attkisson who's a fine reporter as you and I both know. Over the weekend, she was out with a number of different reports. She had another report out today." Hume also praised Attkisson's "very good reporting" on Benghazi on The O'Reilly Factor later that night.
Fox News contributor Stephen Hayes tweeted on May 8: "Much-deserved praise for @SharylAttkisson and her dogged coverage of #Benghazi. Must-follow. http://wapo.st/10pBFBq." A January 28 post on the Fox Nation website has the headline: "Stonewalled CBS Reporter Embarrasses Obama on Twitter"
If Attkisson does land at Fox News, she'd join several other on-air figures who conservatives believed were mistreated by the media. In recent years, Fox News has hired reporter Doug McKelway, Lou Dobbs, Don Imus, and Judy Miller.
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The Oct. 10 issue of the weekly financial magazine Toyo Keizai lists the price earnings ratios (PER) of used properties in accordance with their closest railway stations in the Tokyo Metropolitan, Kinki, and Chubu regions. PER is more commonly used to determine the value of stocks. Toyo Keizai uses it to compare housing as an investment, specifically apartments that are bought to generate income in the form of rent. They use the formula PER = condo price / (monthly rent X 12).
PER is an important indicator since more and more people are investing in rental housing. A lower PER essentially means a better return on investment. What Toyo doesn't mention, however, is that you have to rent the unit out to get any return, and renting isn't as easy as it sounds.
What's most interesting to me, since I'm a renter, is the way the PER shows the relationship between the price of an apartment in a given area and its presumed rental value. Kamakura, for instance, has a fairly high PER of 19. This means that properties are relatively expensive in Kamakura while rentals are relatively cheap; and it isn't difficult to figure out why. Kamakura is a very popular place to live for people who don't have to commute to Tokyo.


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Truth Before Dishonor is currently in negotiations to acquire a new author. This person has a certain star power and has proven elsewhere to be able to destroy the lies of the Loony Left with shock and awe. Amazing has this person's total destruction of the whiny Left's comments been. Truth Before Dishonor has given an offer of authorship here to this particular star, and the star has declared a definite interest. But prior obligations for the month of November and a previously scheduled month of December separation from serious internet activities has pushed back the decision date until January, 2013.
But I strongly hope and believe this particular person of a specific star power will become an author on Truth Before Dishonor in 2013. Stay tuned. If this person does indeed join the ranks of Truth Before Dishonor authors, I guarantee you, you will not be disappointed.
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..in Christ, we are new creations. But don't wrongly believe that we spring forth fully as new creations the moment we accept Jesus. No, we are constantly being renewed in Christ.
When we become a new creation in Christ we are transformed by the Grace of God. Sometimes it is dramatic, and people describe a blessed assurance that they have become brand-new people. Other times we may not notice any appreciable change, and are disappointed.
When Jesus comes into your life, one of the main changes is that your
attention is directed to love for other people and not to keeping the
rules that will somehow make YOU more acceptable to God.
When we face change, I think God is often pushing us to the edge of our ledges, asking us to do what we were born to do - 'spread our spiritual and emotional wings and fly'.
As gay people we have a uniqueness that allows us to perceive both the
feminine and the masculine. We can acknowledge both the strength and the
delicate world that surrounds us. Far from being separated from God, we are
very much in touch with His creation.
I write this to not only share with you a small part of my story,
but to let others know that God's grace is sufficient for you.
Each crisis in our lives is reflected in our spiritual dimensions. When
we hear lies or slander, we are reminded of Christ's truthfulness. When
we see society deliberately split asunder by racial tensions, we
remember that we are all God's children, and each is sister/brother,
mother/father to us.
.. grace means freedom from the bondage of sin and full, unqualified
acceptance by God. No longer am I bound by the negativity of the grace
killers telling me that just because I'm gay, I can't be a Christian. I
know better because I have experienced the miracle of God's grace.
The good news of the Gospel is for all-slave or free, Jew or
Gentile, male or female, and yes, gay, lesbian, or heterosexual. God does not play favourites, so you may
legitimately question the sincerity and the motives of anyone who does-and especially of those who claim to do so
in God's name.
.. here is where many
gays and lesbians are today. They have spent their lives walking the streets
utterly alone. They feel unloved, unworthy, and worst of all they feel like
God never really loved them. They feel like God lied to them.
I saw him in July, but we did not spend much time together. Blaine was dashing here and there. It seemed as if AIDS did not infect him that they had cured him. That was the last time he hugged me, the last time he kissed me, the last time I saw him alive.
I had thought that the baptism of the Holy
Spirit was another nice myth, but I was struck by a thunderbolt of God's
love. I knew, KNEW, that God loved me, that He made me, and that He
wanted the best for me.
There are many pastors and others who have heard the call to preach the gospel who are muzzled, simply because of their sexual orientation.
Readers sound off on what they like and dislike about Whosoever.
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quest for the divine determines all else. This is the one thing for which you will abandon everything, because God is everything. To
know God, to know what is real, to know the truth, is to be set free.
I fear that modern Christianity, as a religion, has had all the mystery and the wonder removed from it. In its
place is a religion made up of simplistic values, a legalistic bias stressing sin and salvation, and an emphasis on the right
kind of behavior providing entrance to eternal life.
We are being built by God. That is the beauty of the image before us in the scripture lesson today. The prophet seeks to
remind us that it is the everlasting God who is building us.
As Christians judge "disputable matters"
and pass judgement upon those who practice homosexuality, they form a
"stumbling block" that is very spiritually harmful to gay and lesbian people.
Saying that I have faith is easy, simple to do. Anyone can say that they have
faith. But when your faith is tried, when you go through the fires of life and
come out with a better, purer, stronger, tougher faith than when you began then
you know you really have faith.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Golden Eagle women's basketball team will host the Lady Govs of Austin Peay Saturday, Jan. 26 in the first part of an Ohio Valley Conference double-header. Tech is focused on jumping back into the win column after dropping two-straight losses to conference opponents. Tip-off is set for 5:30 p.m.
Tennessee Tech (10-9, 4-2 OVC) vs. Austin Peay (5-13, 0-6 OVC)
Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013
5:30 p.m. CT
Hooper Eblen Center - Cookeville, Tenn.
The Broadcasts
TV: WCTE (Buddy Pearson, Bill Worrell)
Radio: Fox Sports Radio, 106.1 The Eagle (Roger Ealey)
Webcast: OVC Digital Network
Live Stats
Setting the Stage
40 years ago a piece of legislation was passed allowing women the same opportunities to play collegiate athletics as men. On the anniversary of Title IX, Tennessee Tech will celebrate it's revolutionary past on annual Legends Night. It is fitting that two of the oldest OVC members will meet on center stage to compete in what could be a vital win for the Golden Eagles.
The Lady Govs enter the contest winless in the conference while Tech has lost its past two competitions. Both teams are on a losing streak, but one will leave the Eblen Center with a victory. The two teams first met in 1970, prior to Title IX, becoming pioneers of the sport. They have played each other 88 times since that first meeting, and Tech holds a 71-17 edge over the in-state rival.
The game will be a multi-event, headlining State Farm Night, Tech Legends Night, Title IX Night, and OVC's Hoops for Heroes.
As part of the Ohio Valley Conference's "Hoops for Heroes" initiative, two local warriors and their families have been invited to attend the OVC Basketball Tournament in Nashville, March 6-9, with their week's expenses provided from fund-raising efforts by Tennessee Tech University's student-athletes.
A Glance at the 2012-13 Golden Eagles
The Purple and Gold opened conference action with a 4-0 record mirroring the 2001-02 season in which Tech won the OVC Regular Season. Since the perfect start, the Golden Eagles have dropped two-straight games to conference opponents, giving up 89 and 81 points in the past two games to Eastern Illinois and UT Martin respectively.
Despite the losses, the Golden Eagles continue to lead the OVC with a .423 field goal percentage and a .361 three-point field goal percentage. Tech has shot over 50 percent from the floor in three of its past four competitions.
In OVC play, the Golden Eagles have three players scoring in the double-digits. Tech is led by Diamond Henderson with 16.2 points per game, Jala Harris contribuding 15.0 points per game and Lashay Davis adding 10.5 points per game. Harris leads the team averaging 5.0 assists per game in OVC action and collecting 76 assists this season, nearly doubling last seasons total.
The guard oriented team has faced difficultly on the boards, but outrebounded UT Martin Monday night, marking the first time the Golden Eagles have grabbed more boards then their opponent in five games.
Freshman Mariah Dean had a career high seven rebounds in the Golden Eagles last outing, but Tech is led by sophomore T'Keyah WIlliams with 5.4 rebounds per game, and Molly Heady getting ahold of 4.8 rebounds per game.
Tech is averaging 69.8 points, 7.0 threes, 32.8 rebounds, 13.8 assists, 6.8 steals and 2.0 blocks per game in conference action.
A Look at the Lady Govs
Austin Peay has lost six-straight games, all conference, with their last win occuring Dec. 29 over Alabama A&M. The Lady Govs are led by Meghan Bussabarger and Leslie Martinez who average 12.3 and 10.7 points per game respectively. Martinez also leads the Lady Govs with 8.1 rebounds per game.
The Lady Govs are averaging 61.3 points, 34.2 rebounds, 12.4 assists, 9.6 steals and 1.8 blocks per game this season.
Austin Peay is coached Carrie Daniels who is in her sixth season at the helm of the women's basketball program. Daniels was a member of the Lady Govs when they reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history in 1996. Austin Peay lost to Clemson in the first round of the tournament, a Lady Tiger team that was coached by now Tech head coach Jim Davis.
Series History
The Golden Eagles hold a 71-17 advantage against the Lady Govs, dominating the series throughout the 90's and winning a program high 19 in a row. However, the Golden Eagles are 6-4 in the past 10 pairings.
Tech edged a 68-65 win last season in Clarksville in the only meeting between the Lady Govs and the Golden Eagles. The two teams met three times in the 2010-11 season; Tech won two of the three, but lost on their home court 63-57 in regular season action.
The seniors hold a 4-3 record against Austin Peay, while first year head coach Jim Davis is 4-0 against the Lady Govs. Davis first met Austin Peay at the helm of Middle Tennessee when he traveled to Clarksville to defeat the Lady Govs 92-68 and then went on to beat them again in Cookeville 89-58 during the 1986-87 season. Davis faced the Lady Govs 10 years later in the first round of the NCAA in 1996 as head coach of the Clemson Lady Tigers 79-52 and again the following season when Clemson hosted the Lady Govs in a 88-68 victory.