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I'm based in Houston, Texas. Energy capital of the world.
It's the end of the world as we know it. That's what the U.S. wind power industry is saying to itself these days. And they aren't talking about some Mayan doomsday nonsense.
On Jan. 1 the federal production tax credit on wind investments expires. For the past 20 years the credit has offset about 30% of the cost of building wind turbines. Add to that the "renewable portfolio standards" for green energy mandated by 29 states, and as a result we've seen wind farms spring up across the country. Since 2007 nearly 40% of all the new electricity capacity built in this country has been wind. Wind now generates roughly 3.5% of U.S. electricity.
Don't expect wind's share to climb beyond that level any time soon. The end of the tax credit could very well mean the end of the wind industry.
According to the federal Energy Information Administration, the "levelized cost" of new wind power (including capital and operating costs) is 8.2 cents per kWh. Advanced clean-coal plants cost about 11 cents per kWh, the same as nuclear. But advanced natural gas-burning plants come in at just 6.3 cents per kWh.
But it could be getting a lot worse for wind. A fascinating new report by George Taylor and Tom Tanton at the American Tradition Institute called "The Hidden Costs of Wind Electricity" asserts that the cost of wind power is significantly understated by the EIA's numbers. In fact, says Taylor, generating electricity from wind costs triple what it does from natural gas.
That's because the numbers from the EIA and wind boosters fail to take into account a host of infrastructure and transmission costs.
First off — the windiest places are more often far away from where electricity is needed most, so the costs of building transmission lines is high. So far many wind projects have been able to patch into existing grid interconnections. But, says Taylor, those opportunities are shrinking, and material expansion of wind would require big power line investments.
Second, the wind doesn't blow all the time, so power utilities have found that in order to balance out the variable load from wind they have to invest in keeping fossil-fuel-burning plants on standby. When those plants are not running at full capacity they are not as efficient. Most calculations of the cost of wind power do not take into account the costs per kWh of keeping fossil plants on standby or running at reduced loads. But they should, because it is a real cost of adding clean, green, wind power to the grid.
Taylor has crunched the numbers and determined that these elements mean the true cost of wind power is more like double the advertised numbers.
He explains that he started with 8.2 cents per kWh, reflecting total installation costs of $2,000 per kw of capacity. Then backed out an assumed 30-year lifespan for the turbines (optimistic), which increases the cost to 9.3 cents per kwh. Then after backing out the effect of subsidies allowing accelerted depreciation for wind investments you get 10.1 cents. Next, add the costs of keeping gas-fired plants available, but running at reduced capacity, to balance the variable performance of wind — 1.7 cents. Extra fuel for those plants adds another 0.6 cents. Finally, tack on 2.7 cents for new transmission line investments needed to get new wind power to market. The whole shebang adds up to 15 cents per kwh.
As Taylor figures it, natural gas would need to cost upwards of $20 per mmBTU before gas-fired power would cost as much as wind.
Granted, the American Tradition Institute is a right-wing nonprofit that in the past has railed against climate scientists and sought to discredit Global Warming fear mongering. That doesn't mean Taylor's calculations are wrong, just that everyone on the pro-wind side ought to read the report and chime in with their critiques.
The American Wind Energy Association says that the wind sector employs 37,000 and boasts 500 factories building components. Even with new anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese makers of wind turbines, the AWEA says that if Congress fails to extend the production tax credit for wind, many of those jobs could be eliminated and factories closed in early 2013. That's how important these tax credits are to wind's viability.
Taylor and Tanton figure that at the current price of natural gas, and before counting any subsidies or transmission costs, ratepayers are paying about $8.5 billion more this year for electricity from wind than they would have paid if it were gas-fired power. That amount doesn't even include the cost of the direct federal subsidies.
What's more, ratepayers will have to shoulder that cost for as long as the turbines are in operation. That's $8.5 billion a year that ratepayers are forking over to subsidize a less efficient, more expensive technology; $8.5 billion that could otherwise be invested in natural gas electricity, or better yet, nuclear.
Just think, in South Carolina, power company Scana and its partners are investing about $11 billion to construct two 1,100 mw nuclear reactors on roughly 1,000 acres. To get the same amount of electricity out of wind (remember that turbines operate at an average of less than 50% capacity because of wind's intermittancy) and you'd need more than 1,700 turbines stretched across 200,000 acres, for an upfront investment of $8.8 billion. The nukes might cost more upfront, but they last longer, they provide reliable base load power and they emit zero carbon.
The fossil fuel industry-funded ATI report has already been debunked here:
Regarding your land use figures for wind versus nuclear, wind's actual land use is a few percent of the figure you cite because the space between wind turbines can continue being used for farming, ranching, or whatever its prior use was. You also ignore the massive amount of land that must be despoiled in mining or drilling for any fossil or nuclear fuel.
Finally, you ignore the massive government subsidies that have gone and continue to flow to the fossil and nuclear industries. If you don't believe me, you can use the nuclear industry's own tally:
Michael Goggin
American Wind Energy Association
"…you ignore the massive government subsidies that have gone and continue to flow to the fossil and nuclear industries…"
Mr. Goggin makes an apples and oranges comparison. It's like saying that California eats more food than Vermont. Unlike fossil fuels, wind power is for electricity only. Try painting a drastically different picture by pursuing that metric using a common denominator, like:
1. Subsidy dollars per BTU of overall energy created.
2. Subsidy dollars per MWH of electricity generated.
Wind power by either metric is disproportionately subsidized.
Like clockwork, enter AWEA. Perhaps the most ironic statement in Mr. Groggin's post is this one: "The fossil fuel industry-funded ….."
Take a look at AWEA's board: chock full of fossil fuel wind-profiteers.
He may just as easily have said "I, Michael Groggin, am heavily subsidized by the fossil fuel industry, so disregard everything that follows".
Michael's distortion of the land use impacts of wind energy is typical of the deception so common among wind-o-philes. "Just keep talking about the 2-3 acres per turbine taken out of ag production or hacked out of mountain ridge tops and maybe no one will notice they are 50 stories tall, decimate endangered species, have maybe a 12 year lifespan and are ineffectual in protecting the environment."
Groggin also routinely speaks as if his turbines are interchangeable with baseload fossil plants. If so, he needs to have a talk with another AWEA board member, Germany's E ON (Yes, Germany):
"Wind energy is only able to replace traditional power stations to a limited extent. Their dependence on the prevailing wind conditions means that wind power has a limited load factor even when technically available…. Consequently, traditional power stations with capacities equal to 90% of the installed wind power capacity must be permanently online [and burning fuel] in order to guarantee power supply at all times"
900MW fossil online to make 1000MW wind feasible.
(This also means wind's land use impacts must be added on top of the existing fossil and nuclear fuel land use impacts. Or E ON is lying.)
So now, who do we believe? Fossil fuel generator and AWEA board member E ON? Or fossil fuel subsidized Michael Groggin?
And it is striking that Groggin references the nuclear industry.
Exelon, the US' largest nuclear operator and also a wind developer, formerly enjoyed a prominent seat on AWEA's board. But when Exelon objected to extending wind subsidies further, using arguments not dissimilar to the Tanton/Taylor study, AWEA unceremoniously tossed Exelon overboard in a closed door meeting; a meeting Exelon was not permitted to attend.
Surprisingly, Groggin didn't trot out the green jobs argument in this post. Perhaps he lost his script? It is the same script uses by fellow AWEA-bots David Ward and Kevin O-Rourke.
You see, they all have a vested interest in extending tax credits for renewable energy in the name of job creation. Why? It will protect the green jobs they value most: their own.
And no industry has a greater stake in preserving wind tax credits than the fossil fuel industry. They, from BP to Duke to FPL to E ON, are among it's largest beneficiaries.
It is time to give Mr. Groggin a well earned retirement by ending the multi-billion dollar/year Federal Production Tax Credit for wind energy once and for all.
Land area per turbine is .25 acres per turbine. For this the farmer gets paid which helps him or her to sustain their farm.
The "footprint," which is typically around 0.25 acres per turbine, does not include the 5-10 turbine diameters of spacing required between wind turbines. Because of this spacing, the area included within the perimeter of the wind farm will be larger. However, it is important to note that the land between the turbines – minus the "footprint" area – is still usable for its original purpose. For a more detailed analysis of land use by wind farms, please see Land-Use Requirements of Modern Wind Power Plants in the United States.
Wind energy is only able to replace traditional power stations to a limited extent. Their dependence on the prevailing wind conditions means that wind power has a limited load factor even when technically available…. Consequently, traditional power stations with capacities equal to 90% of the installed wind power capacity must be permanently online [and burning fuel] in order to guarantee power supply at all times"
900MW fossil online to make 1000MW wind feasible
Here is a study for North Carolina. Computer simulations show only 6% backup is needed. THis can be done with fast acting natural gas turbines that can come online in less than 15 minutes.
It is time to give Mr. Groggin a well earned retirement by ending the multi-billion dollar/year Federal Production Tax Credit for wind energy once and for all.
A very cost effective solution to AGW (anthropogenic global warming) is wind and solar. The future costs of AGW are staggering if not capped in our emissions. The best bargain there is, is renewable energy implemented in a very rapid fashion. With assistance for a few more years wind energy does not need support and can be implemented rapidly on its own. Time is of the essence due to the warming effects of co2 on our climate.
"Land area per turbine is .25 acres per turbine."
This is for the base only. Exelon Wind's lease language permits 2-3 acres per turbine to come out of production. This includes access roads, etc. Add in lay down pads and substation footprints, often 20 acres or more, and the turbine project proposed for my area would have taken more ag land out of production than any other industrial project except one: our ethanol plant. And the 45 turbines once proposed for our area could have been replaced by a single semi-trailer mounted gas turbine that could fit easily inside your average dairy barn. On a MWh per acre basis, wind is a profound loser.
"Here is a study for North Carolina. Computer simulations show only 6% backup is needed. This can be done with fast acting natural gas turbines that can come online in less than 15 minutes."
I am glad you concede the requisite fossil/wind combination. Do you also concede that the cost of that natural gas firming plant should be added to the LCOE of wind?
And your model is interesting. But I quoted E On Netz. They do not need models. They operate German utility grids AND wind projects. I see your study and raise it with real world empirical data. :)
"A very cost effective solution to AGW (anthropogenic global warming) is wind and solar. The future costs of AGW are staggering if not capped in our emissions. The best bargain there is, is renewable energy implemented in a very rapid fashion"
This is an assertion, not evidence. And it is not highly regarded by James Hansen, the father of AGW hysteria:
"Suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy."
Whatever one believes about AGW, wind and solar have no chance of making any meaningful dent in the CO2 emissions that are alleged to be the culprit. I say alleged because the IPCC is slowly adding more credence to solar forcing playing a larger role in global warming than once believed.
When you think subsidies the correct measure is $ per mWh delivered. On that basis wind is getting very high subsidies. Why does the rest of the electrical industry get so much? They produce a lot more mWhs.
I am glad you concede the requisite fossil/wind combination. Do you also concede that the cost of that natural gas firming plant should be added to the LCOE of wind?
we have the equivalent of coal capacity in natural gas. None needed to be built.
The cost of continuing business as usual is huge. By year 2100 there is a cost savings estimate of 8 trillion dollars
There is widespread belief that nuclear energy is low-cost and low-priced which is only because it is heavily subsidized and tax-exempted. Once these exemptions and subsidies are removed, which sure will be as happened with the other energy forms, its price will sky rocket. The largest nuclear energy producers amassed huge profits from their long-functioning plants but electricity prices did not come down. The energy is there and the profit, but the profit goes to a few hands; the burden of keeping waste becomes that of future generations. Statistics show that the more nuclear energy is produced, the more highly priced it becomes. But, when the more wind energy is produced, the lesser has its price become. It is because nuclear monopolies controls governments unlike renewable energy producers and have a free hand in deciding at what price their product is to be sold even while enjoying subsidies, and at what rate their price is to be raised each year which is about 10 percent now. The question is, without state subsidies, exemptions and concessions, how are nuclear plants viable? In many countries, local communities and local administrations run economically and environmentally viable small renewable energy plants without setting up elaborate grids. They do not dictate their laws or command governments what policies are to be adopted in the energy sector. But that is not the case with nuclear energy sector. Because their plants need huge amounts for construction and they possibly own their distribution grids, they consider governments their slaves, which they actually are, and dictate terms, rules, laws, even while enjoying state concessions. Why should this go on for more years and in more countries? Because there are already established other energy production forms which do not enforce political and economic slavery, why rely on and retain a rich slave master who is unsuitable to the modern-day world? It is irrational and illogical that energy makers function as policy makers also. Power makers delegate their representatives to the policy making body; top government officials in the policy making body joins the energy makers when they retire, which causes these heavy state subsidies, exemptions and concessions to nuclear energy makers. First they work in the government, lobbying for the company; then they work in the company, again lobbying government for the company. Perched in their positions which we mistake for governmental, for the past decades, they have been crying out loud that unless nuclear energy is there, the world will fall into darkness. 15 percent of energy produced in Germany in 2009 came from renewable energy sources. This could be made to 50 percent in the world in 2020 and to 100 percent by 2040. They also have been demanding extension of the life period of their reactors, for they would bring steady profits without further investment, and for, they would be there to defeat move to turn to safe renewable energy sources.
This post ignores one basic fact: most wind developments are being built by utilities that are also nuclear and fossil operators.
Wind subsidies do not balance out some mythical David v. Goliath battle among energy producers. They are just Goliath's latest means of fleecing ratepayers and taxpayers.
Remember: it was Enron that drove the rebirth of the wind industry rent-seekers in the US. Need I say more?


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One summer when I was in college, I tried my hand at gardening. I have to admit that I don't exactly have a green thumb, but I worked hard to nurture my little garden and watched in excitement as my flowers blossomed.
My dog at the time, Bella, must have been watching in excitement, too. In her eyes, she finally had the perfect spot to bury her bone.
I can look back on that scenario now and laugh, but at the time it was a little frustrating to see all of my hard work dug up by the paws of my dog. Now that summer is upon us again and seasonal gardens are sprouting up, I thought I would offer some tips on protecting your plants and your pets.
Do your research: Before you even consider planting a garden, it's important to keep in mind that many plants and pesticides are dangerous and even deadly to our pets. Toxic plants include daffodils, lilies (especially for cats), yews, laurels, laburnum, azaleas, foxglove, philodendrons and rhubarb, garlic, onions, chives, grapes and tomato plant leaves. I recommend checking the ASPCA website before getting started on your garden. They offer an in-depth list of toxic and non-toxic plants and include photos to make identification easier.
Certain landscapes also pose dangers to our pets. Avoid cocoa mulch, which contains the toxic element also present in chocolate, and be careful with rocks and mulch, which can become stuck in your dog's digestive tract if ingested and can be hard on your pup's paws.
Pesticide-free zone: Use fertilizers and pesticides as sparingly as possible and consider using natural ways to fight pests and weeds. If you do use chemicals, keep your pets away from the area altogether.
Sturdy plants: I learned the hard way that dogs are good at tearing up new plants. Larger plants are sturdier and less likely to be disturbed. Some attractive, sturdy plants include peony, creeping phlox, verbena, coneflower, black-eyed Susans, Shasta daisy, Liriope, Russian sage, Mexican primrose, serviceberry, ninebark, mock orange, dogwood, lilac, pine, butterfly bush and quince.
Thorned bushes will discourage some dogs, but be careful not to plant varieties with long, sharp points.
If you prefer smaller plants, try using a tomato cage or something similar to protect them. Pieces of driftwood are a great natural option for keeping your dog away from planted areas.
Give your pets a space of their own: Create a path in your garden so your dog doesn't have to run through your sensitive plant beds. Use soil rather than mulch or gravel, since dogs see loose materials as the perfect place for digging.
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Using this morning's Senate Benghazi hearings as an opportunity to burnish his Tea Party credentials as he prepares for a 2016 run for the presidency, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul informed Secretary of State Clinton that he not only would he have fired her over the terrorist attack had he been her boss, but that the terrible events that occurred in Eastern Libya stand as "the worst tragedy since 9/11."
Really? The worst tragedy since 9/11?
What took place in Benghazi was, indeed, a great and terrible tragedy as four Americans lost their lives—possibly avoidably—in the service of their country.
What's more, I have not hesitated, in this column, to criticize the Obama administration's handling of the information flow in the days following the attack on our outpost in Benghazi.
However, Senator Paul's performance in this morning's Senate hearings reveals that he is far more interested in scoring political points and making headlines through the tragedy that is Benghazi than he is in learning the lessons of history or showing even the smallest shred of maturity when it comes to convincing us that he has what it takes to be the President of the United States—which he oh so clearly does not.
Were Rand Paul capable of forming a coherent thought on what has truly been our greatest tragedy following 9-11, he might have been considered the following—
Casualties in Iraq
The Human Cost of Occupation
American Military Casualties in Iraq
In Combat
|American Deaths
|Since war began (3/19/03):
|Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03) (the list)
|Since Handover (6/29/04):
|Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09):
|Since Operation New Dawn:
|American Wounded
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Over 100000
Bear in mind that these horrifying numbers—compiled in a war that nobody can really find a single good reason for having fought—do not include the many people in the families of those listed above whose lives are also forever tragically altered—each of whom suffer the same pain of loss as the families of the four souls lost in Benghazi.
Nobody should ever understate the great tragedy in Benghazi.
However, Rand Paul's desire to score points and show himself to be a 'tough guy' serves only to reveal how incredibly unprepared and unqualified he is to be holding elective office as a County dog catcher let alone considering a run for the highest office in the land.
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"However, Rand Paul's desire to score points and show himself to be a 'tough guy' serves only to reveal how incredibly unprepared and unqualified he is to be holding elective office as a County dog catcher let alone considering a run for the highest office in the land."
Rand Paul only said what alot of Americans would have liked to tell Hillary Clinton.
Seriously "Dude" is Obama really Presidential material?
Senator Rand is posing as a stalking horse for the party. Secretary Clinton is a clear front running candidate in the next election. The wannabes are taking their shots as if in doing so, parallels will be drawn to them.
When you've got nothing, you scheme it up.
Rand Paul is more knowledgeable in history, economics, philosophy and the law than 95% of the senate. He is also the only man in the senate who delivers 10 minute speeches without pausing or referring to his notes like everyone else. His IQ score is about 20 points higher than any off those other gansters in the senate. The only reason that people on this site criticize him his because he has different ideological viewpoints.
Obama and Hillary are puppets for the rich who have been running America since its inception. They just tell the ignorant masses what they want to hear. "We're going to close guantanamo! Repeal the Patriot Act!" More innocent women and children have died abroad under Obama than that scumbag Bush.
Can't you make the case that all your Iraq numbers are a result of 9/11 and the subsequent war on terror. I would also like to add that you are a huge Obama apologist and that your articles are almost unbearable to read. One can only assume that you continue to be published by Forbes simply because of the large amount of negative comments your articles recieve. Any publicity is good publicity …
The article is a ell written analysis of to what extent this politician (??) will go to to make political hay out of a tragic event. He was at the hearing solely for political reasons; not to find ways to help the STATE department protect our emissaries abroad!!!
Clearly you are so tragically misguided by your leftist ideology that you cannot discern the difference between a tragedy like Benghazi and the deaths of our heroes that fall in combat. Benghazi served to capture the utter and complete ineptitude that this administration so clearly represents through the endless supply of incompetent and actually unqualified officials. Now, while the many soldiers who have lost their lives in combat in Iraq is undoubtedly a tragedy, it is fundamentally different than people needlessly losing their lives simply b/c of an utter absence of competent leadership. If you truly cannot see the difference and the point Rand Paul was making, then there probably isn't much hope for you anyway. The fact that you said the recent statements by him demonstrate that he is unqualified to be president only serves to demonstrate how uniquely unqualified you are to be lamenting on matters such as this.
Be nice to just get the full story and not have either a lack of questions by Democrat's or as the author implies a over statement of facts. I just want to know why the people in Benghazi did not get proper help and support and who is to blame for that?


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Hardcore punk band Cancer Bats have released their newest record, Dead Set on Living, and have kicked off their tour as of this month. We wondered what it would be like to spend a day partying with a band like this that tours the world, so we asked them about living and drinking on the road. Be sure to check out Cancerbats.com for all tour dates and follow @CancerBats on Twitter for insights from their travels.
When you're playing gigs in America, which cities do you look forward to partying in the most?
Portland, Oregon, is one of our favorite towns to play and hang out. They have the best coffee in the whole country at Stumptown, where they roast some serious beans and make an amazing Americano. Playing shows there always rules, the kids who come out to shows are rad and tear shit up!
Austin, Texas, is another favorite of ours. The punk scene there is crazy and our good friends in the Krum Bums always take good care of us and make sure the shows rip! El Chilito is the best hang for good coffee and breakfast tacos. Red7 is the bar we always play and everyone who works there rules.
Minneapolis is an amazing town that we all love rolling through. One bar we go to every single time we're there is the Triple Rock Social Club. It's an amazing punk rock bar that has a great venue attached to it. They have amazing food and the jukebox fuckin' can't be beat. Every band that plays there knows they're going to be well fed or blackout drunk or both. When we played there with Gallows in '08 it was hands down the best show of the whole tour. NOFX even wrote a song about it!
What bars and nightclubs are you sure to hit up when you're touring?
When we're in New York there's this amazing bar called Saint Vitus that we rage at every time we're in town! It's run by the raddest dudes and any day of the week it's the craziest party! They have bands that play there all the time and the whole place explodes. Easily the greatest bar in all of NYC, if not the whole US of A!
Anytime we're in Vancouver, BC, we always stop by The Morrissey to hang out. It's a nice chilled-out bar with an awesome vibe and tons of solid bros that hang out there. Sometimes after being in loud metal bars every single night of the tour it's nice to be in a spot that's a little more relaxed and you don't have to yell over the music.
Santiago in Leeds, England, is our hang whenever we're on tour there. All our friends work there and we can hang late. It's an awesome gnarly bar that plays some epic tunes. Sometimes when you're on tour you want to go to a loud place; you have to yell over top of the music and get really rowdy with a pack of BMX dudes.


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I can't believe we're getting a summer. This is the first 'summer' I remember since 2006. No, really – I'm not kidding. And I'm doing everything I can to make the most of it – because who knows when the next time we get a summer will be?
Sunshine just brings out the best in me. I love being less like the colour of milk. I love all the fruit and veg that is coming into season. I love walking to and from work. I love driving a car with the windows down blasting out Noah and The Whale. I love sitting in the sunshine reading a book. All the books I've not finished I'm now working on – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, Stephen Fry in America and catching up on Corduroy Mansions and 44 Scotland Street series by Alexander McCall Smith. I've got a pile of books on my to-read list. Some in a pile on my shelf. Some tormenting my wallet as I fight the temptation to purchase them. My current 'handbag' book is a series of essays by F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Cruise of the Rolling Junk.
I'd heard a new Mimi's had opened not far from where I work, and so with the sun still in the sky and the centre bizarrely quiet (we're usually quiet in June-August, but June was insanely busy for some reason) I left work at 4 p.m. and went to investigate. A chocolate raspberry brownie purchased, I went to get the airlink bus home but decided to make a detour. A detour into the South end of Princes Street Gardens, sit on the grassy slope and eat my brownie and read Rolling Junk. I ended up having a wee power nap in the evening sunshine.
It did my soul good.
Yes, life is still busy and crazy. I'm making new friends, and catching up with old connections. I collected my Fringe tickets today as well. People keep asking where I'm going on holiday. The truth is I have no plans as I try to save pennies – but then I guess my 'holiday' will be enjoying everything Edinburgh has to offer this summer.
I realise the summer is flying by. Almost 2 weeks down already. There's so much to do until then – not least of which getting this open college course completed.
And I still need to pick a Quote for this week!


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Bengals' 'D' helps keep Colts winless
The Bengals matched their victory total from last season and ended a seven-game losing streak against the Colts in Sunday's win.
Colts always struggling to find cornerbacks
With 2010 third-round pick Kevin Thomas a healthy scratch for the first five games, the Colts' difficulty in stocking their roster with capable cornerbacks is painfully apparent, according to AFC Whispers.
Colts' Pollak making case to remain a starter
OG Mike Pollak's recent solid play as a starter might be solidifying his status with the Colts for the long term.
Headless horsemen: The state of the Manning-less Colts
Struggling to persevere with star QB Peyton Manning sidelined by a lingering neck injury, the Colts' hierarchy ponders potentially dramatic alterations
Colts promote RB Evans
The Colts signed RB Darren Evans from their practice squad on Tuesday and waived OT Michael Toudouze.
Colts bring back DT Muir
The Colts signed DT Daniel Muir, who played with the team from 2008-2010, and cut OT Mike Tepper.
Cassel leads Chiefs in comeback win
Chiefs QB Matt Cassel threw four touchdowns as Kansas City overcame a 17-point deficit to beat the Colts 28-24.
Painter to start for Colts Sunday
Colts QB Curtis Painter will start again for the injured Kerry Collins Sunday against the Chiefs.
Colts' linebacking corps making noise
The play of the Colts' young linebackers has been a bright spot amid a turbulent start to the season.
Colts place DT Foster on I.R., shuffle roster
The Colts placed DT Eric Foster on I.R. in one of many moves the team announced Wednesday.
Report: Colts OT Ijalana could be done for 2011
The Indianapolis Star is reporting that Colts rookie OT Ben Ijalana damaged the ACL in his left knee and could miss the rest of the season.
Giants sign CB Tryon
The Giants added a cornerback Tuesday, signing free agent Justin Tryon, who was cut by the Colts last week.
The First Fifteen: Week Five
Here's an early look at the Week Five action, the first shortened (and the bye isn't coming at a great time for a few teams) week of the 2011 NFL season.
Freeman, Blount rally Bucs past Colts
Josh Freeman threw for 287 yards and a TD, LeGarrette Blount ran for 127 yards and a score, and Tampa Bay beat Indianapolis 24-17 on Monday night.
Colts' Foster carted off field with leg injury
Colts DT Eric Foster was carted off the field late in the second quarter of the Monday-night game in Tampa with what appeared to be a serious leg injury.


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Valpo's Boys of Summer Open Season Saturday at Austin Peay
Tuesday, February 19, 2008As Valparaiso University takes the field for the 2008 season, the Crusaders will be riding the momentum that carries over from a successful 2007 finish. Head coach Tracy Woodson's squad finished 22-34 a year ago, tying the most wins for a Valpo team since 2001.
This year the Crusaders will be a youthful bunch as the Brown and Gold moves to the Horizon League. Woodson returns 20 players from last season, but just four position starters. Valpo will rely on young arms on the mound while looking for offensive production from a variety of newcomers as the Crusaders look to finish in the top half of their new league in the inaugural season.
Valpo's starting rotation will be very young. A pair of right-handers will make their way to the top of the Crusaders rotation. Freshman Bryce Shafer is a power pitcher who set the school record for strikeouts and saves at Northfield High School in Indiana. Alex Berry was an All-State selection in Illinois and transferred to Valpo from Olney Central Junior College.
John Snelten returns to the starting rotation after missing all of last season due to injury. He was 4-1 for the Brown and Gold during his first two years with a 4.42 earned run average as a sophomore.
Ranko Ivetic and Derek Smith will also see some action for the Crusaders in the starting rotation. Ivetic started nine games last season as a freshman, striking out 26 while Smith appeared in two games before suffering a season-ending illness.
Southpaw Jon Gulbransen will also get the call for Woodson after striking out 407 during his career at Fox Valley Lutheran High School in Wisconsin, including 152 as a senior.
In the bullpen, sixth-year senior Elliott Gibbs will move into the closer's role after pitching in the rotation last season. Gibbs struck out 40 in 52.2 innings last year and now has 113 Ks for his career.
Sophomore Austin Siwiec and freshman Jarad Miller will be used as late-inning set-up men for Woodson this season. Left-handers Jay Clites and Patrick Bracco will be used as needed as well along with Patrick Paulus and Steve Godawa in long relief.
"Our pitching has a lot of promise with some young power arms led by Shafer and Gulbransen," Woodson said. "If we can get the lead we feel very comfortable with Siwiec, Miller, and Gibbs finishing it up for us."
Senior Joe Lazar and junior college transfer Matt Lenski will share the catching duties for the Crusaders this season. Lazar started 22 games last season for the Crusaders and threw out six potential base stealers. Lenski hit .368 for Madison Area Technical College where he drove in 32 runs and had a .471 on base percentage.
"We have two solid individuals to handle the catching duties this season," said Woodson.
Half of Valpo's infield will be filled with newcomers as the 2008 season opens. Sophomore Josh Wallace anchors third base after a solid rookie campaign. He started 27 games hitting .239, but will look to produce even more in a full-time role this year.
Senior John Guisti was solid defensively last season and will handle the second base duties for one more season for the Brown and Gold. He has showed occasional speed from his position near the bottom of the order, entering his final campaign with 15 career stolen bases.
A pair of freshmen appear ready to start for Valpo at first base and shortstop. Ryan O'Gara drove in a school record 56 runs as a senior at Buffalo Grove High School in Illinois and was a First Team All-State selection after hitting .510 with eight homers. He should see a great deal of time at first base this season. Damon McCormick is slated to begin the season at shortstop. He was an Honorable Mention All-State pick at Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, Kentucky.
Sophomore Brett Bivens and freshman Andrew Quinnette will serve time in utility roles to begin the season for the Crusaders. Bivens got a taste of collegiate ball as a freshman last season, appearing in seven games while Quinnette will be trying to break into the lineup as a rookie.
"Our infield will be young as Giusti is the only upper classmen to lead the way," Woodson said. "We will have a pair of freshman in McCormick and O'Gara along with a sophomore in Wallace at third. Bivens and Quinnette are both youngsters as well, so our future in the infield should be bright."
Valpo's outfield will be the most experienced of any position on the Crusader roster. Jason Brunelli and Zach Rodeghero both had solid seasons last year and will be looking to carry it over into their senior campaigns. Brunelli hit .298 with four homers and 18 runs batted in after spending most of the season in leftfield. Rodeghero, who will also be used as the designated hitter, also has pop in his bat after hitting .295 a year ago. He homered three times and drove in 27, most among Crusader returnees.
Senior Dan DeBruin joined the varsity squad last season and saw action in 19 games, including 10 starts. He will patrol centerfield this season.
A pair of freshmen, Justin Frane and David Klein, will also get a great deal of action in the outfield. Frane led Fort Wayne Carroll High School to a 24-4 mark as a senior.
"We will be relying on our seniors to control the outfield," Woodson added. "We look for Frane and Klein to contribute as well."
Valpo's non-conference schedule will challenge the Crusaders as they ready themselves for their inaugural Horizon League campaign. The Brown and Gold will play their first 23 games away from Emory G. Bauer Field. The season opens February 23 with a three-game set at Austin Peay. The Crusaders will return there the following weekend as well for a tournament before heading to the East Coast for their spring trip.
Valpo will face North Carolina State, Duke, West Virginia and Marshall among others on the two week trip prior to opening Horizon League play on March 21 at Wright State.
The Crusaders will also make non-conference stops at Purdue, Notre Dame, Iowa, and Bradley this season.
The home opener is set for March 28 as the Crusaders host Cleveland State at Emory G. Bauer Field. Horizon League foes UIC, Wright State, Butler, and Youngstown State will also make stops in Valpo during the season while Northwestern will also visit during non-conference play.
The season winds down May 16-17 at UIC before the Crusaders head to Niles, Ohio for the double-elimination Horizon League Tournament, hosted by Youngstown State.
While the Crusaders will be young entering 2008, optimism abounds around the Valpo clubhouse. With several experienced upperclassmen blending with a great deal of talented newcomers, the Brown and Gold will be shooting to move over the .500 mark for the first time in nearly 10 years.
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Beth Kobliner: Young People Have Opportunity
This author says it's not all doom and gloom.
Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, recently stopped by my office to talk about the new edition of her book, originally published in mid-1990s. Since then, the Internet has revolutionized the way people manage their money and a recession has created new obstacles, which is part of the reason why she completely rewrote certain chapters. Kobliner explained why young people, who can be bitter about the current situation, also have reason to think things will get better. Excerpts from our conversation:
How is the current situation different for 20 and 30-somethings compared to what their parents faced?
It's a very different time. If you look at the unemployment statistics for people in their early 20s, it's over 12 percent, not the 8.1 percent of the general population. Many people think that in tough economic times, companies fire older workers. But companies are sticking with more experienced people. When you couple that with debt loads -- the current generation of young people have more debt than any other previous generation at their age -- it makes for a fairly bleak picture.
At the same time, in the late 1990s, personal finance was a tough sell. Now it's easier to make it clear to young people that they need to learn about money.
Is it possible to be optimistic as a young person right now?
When you know it's bleak, you prepare yourself. They're savvier, even though a number of them have lots of credit card debt. They're bitter in some ways but also savvier and realistic. They're paying more attention and realize they need to learn more. I also have the sense they're not going to make the same mistake as the previous generation of overspending on homes they can't afford and getting deeper into credit card debt.
Will young people be forced to delay big life decisions, like getting married, buying homes, and having kids?
Certainly this will result in getting homes later. You need a much bigger down payment now. Finances will play a bigger role in whether you go to grad school. Some young people say they don't want to take on more debt. The highest percentage of young people are living with their parents than ever before, so you might think that makes them less likely to have kids and get married. I think [the recession] will have an impact on delaying various life choices. People won't take the next step.
Is it a bad time to be young right now?
It's a tough time to be young right now. Parents need to have a bit of compassion. I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but there is an opportunity here. The current generation is known as the coddled generation. Their parents would call their teachers and ask, "Why did my child get a B?" As parents face tough times themselves young people will no longer be able to rely on them.
Do you think 20 and 30-somethings will be untrusting of financial institutions for the rest of their lives?
That's one of the scariest parts about all this. Even if you did everything right, you still got punished. That's a difficult situation. I still think, if your company is matching your 401(k) contributions, then it's still a good idea, even if you're putting the money in a money market fund. It's all been mixed up in people's heads. They hear "401(k)" and they think "dangerous place to put money." You might as well be saying 'junk bonds.' They have to learn what to be afraid of and what not to be afraid of.


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Ariel Winter's sister -- and current guardian -- sat down for a deposition with her mother's attorneys, and was hammered with questions about drug use ... TMZ has learned ... but the questions for the most part netted the history of your average Joan.
Shanelle Gray was grilled last week by Chrystal Workman's attorneys in the ongoing guardianship case for the "Modern Family" star -- and sources connected to Shanelle tell us she was asked if she ever took drugs ... specifically, cocaine.
We're told Shanelle said she tried cocaine only once -- either in 2005 or 2006 -- at a Hollywood party. She thought someone laced it with something bad ... because she got sick.
We're told Shanelle told the attorneys she went to the hospital as a precautionary measure, and was released that same night.
We're also told Shanelle copped to spending a "few days in jail" in Virgina, when she was 19 ... in connection with a reckless driving incident.
And our sources say Shanelle was asked if she ever got a DUI. We're told she said she was pulled over in LA in 2005 or 2006 and was given a ticket on a night when she had "one glass of wine." She says the judge eventually threw out the ticket because her blood alcohol level was so low.
Sources close to Chrystal tell us her attorneys plan to use Shanelle's depo info during the guardianship hearing ... in an attempt to show she is not a suitable role model or guardian for Ariel.
Shanelle is now a 30 something year old mother wife, and whatever she did 10 years ago does not matter. Ariell is still better off with her sister than a mother who does not have her best intrest,
This is NONE of my business to hear very personal things about her life. Are you going to give us her credit score too? TMZ, this is too far. No one should know this but her own family.
Easier to assume most celebrities are druggies. A better question is to ask... "How long have you been clean?"
Wonder how well the mother would do if asked the same questions? Hope Shanelle's attorney can grill the mother.
The attorneys are just as desperate as Workman. Shanelle has grown in those 10 yrs. She is married to an heir of Pepsi, and her and her husband run a very successful business or 2? Ariel is in the right place, she appears happy, well looked after and loved. They need to stop wasting the courts time and money and keep this dingbat far far away from this young lady. I'm sure if they go back 10 yrs. on Workman, and "fine comb" her, we'll be in for some interesting stories too.
the more they try to attack her the more normal she comes across. not to mention honest.
If drugs use as a young adult was proof enough that someone isn't suitable to be the guardian of a teenager,,, well, yeah, no one would be the guardian of anyone.
I get it - Workman is desperate, grasping at straws to get her daughter back, but, frankly, it would make way more sense to her to have an actual sit- down with her children to resolve all of the family issue.
If she keeps doing what she is doing right now (attacking her eldest instead of trying to talk to her), it will just guarantee that she will lost both of her daughters.
Of course she tried weed but she didn't inhale. She's a liar. The majority of people in her age range have experiemented, and not "accidentally" with most of the common drugs of abuse out there. She just happened to get pulled over when she had consumed one glass of wine? She's either a very bad driver, a very good liar, or blew the cop. There's just way too much denial and bullsh1t with all of these excuses. This whole family sounds Effed up to me.
most of us have tried or used drugs at least once, hell, some presidents own up to that. also most young adults go thru a party period, drinking and doing stupid things. she sounds like a well rounded woman who has a mother trying to sell revealing photos of her.
who cares? who are these people?
Way to go "mom". Really pathetic that you would prefer your young daughter to go into foster care than be in the home of someone who loves her and she loves in return. Isn't that why you are trying to discredit Shanelle? The judge has already deemed you are unfit so where do you want Ariel to live? Ridiculously spiteful...
It is so many years ago. Former President Bush was also arrested decades ago and he still became President and a role model.
For all I know even Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton can make a diplomatic career 20 years from now if they can keep themselves alive. Just look at Berlusconi in Italy. He is about to make a comeback and he is for many Europeans a role model.
Who is Ariel Winter? Who is Ariel Winter's sister? Who are any of these people and why should I care about it?
I hear nothing in her depo that paints her as unfit as it's all from long ago, and she has since been a model citizen. Unlike her own mother, she's never had her kids removed from the home over abuse. This is a messy, sad case.
Well, it still seems to me that "Mommy" lost her meal ticket and will go to any lengths to get it back...just saying


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Visiting with Santa Claus each Christmas season is a rite of passage for many children. But for those with autism and others highly sensitive to noise, light and sound the process can be overwhelming.
In 2008, the Dayton Mall started Sensitive Santa. For one day, they open up early, turn off the holiday lights and music and help kids meet Santa on their terms.
Mall Marketing Director David Casper remembers one little girl who wrote Santa a letter but just couldn't hand it over herself.
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About the 4th… and the 19th and the 22nd
My favorite part of our July 4th celebrations is always the reading of the Declaration of Independence on Salem Common or, as on this past rainy Fourth, in the ballroom of the Hawthorne Hotel. It's not the flashiest, or the most fun, or the tastiest of all of our celebratory events, but it's the one that makes me truly proud and grateful to be an American.
Yes, the Declaration is a little long. And I don't personally relate to every offense Mr. Jefferson cited, but it does makes me stop and think. Dann Anthony Maurno brings it to life…and brings home just how frighteningly radical that Declaration was for the Colonists. They considered themselves English after all.
I kept thinking back to the reading of Declaration all weekend, the words and the pure defiance of the act resonating across picnics and parades and fireworks. Thank you, Hannah Diozzi for orchestrating this each year, to the Hawthorne Hotel, and all who participated. If you missed the reading this year, do put it on your calendar for 2015.
Now, about those other dates…
Does July 19th mean anything to you? How about August 19th or September 22nd? Those are the dates on which most of the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed. Again, not merry-go-round moments, but important ones. If you stop by the Salem Witch Trials Memorial behind the PEM at noon on those dates, the staff of the Corwin House (The Witch House) will be holding a brief ceremony to honor those who died, the victims of fear, feuds and a failed judicial system. (Thank you, Elizabeth Peterson and team.)
The Trials are not just a part of our history, but of how we define ourselves today as a city of acceptance and tolerance. In fact, the purpose of the Salem Award Foundation is to bring forward the lessons from 1692 and apply them to contemporary issues of human rights abuses and social injustice.
Why not take a few minutes at noon this Saturday, July 19th. Or mark your calendar for August 19th or September 22nd. Stop by the Memorial for a moment of remembrance and a reminder of the injustices that are part of our world today.
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Panera Bread in Huntington will host its third annual "Take a Bite out of Hunger" food collection drive this month in support of Island Harvest, Long Island's largest hunger relief organization.
Through Friday, Panera Bread is collecting donations of non-perishable food items to Island Harvest by providing guests who drop off one or more can or box before 11 a.m. with a free grilled breakfast sandwich of their choice. The offer is valid at all 22 Long Island Panera Bread bakery-cafes.
"Last year, we grilled up over 3,000 free Grilled Breakfast Sandwiches and collected over 4,500 pounds of food to help Island Harvest provide critical food support for Long Island's hungry," said Greg George, Vice President of Operations for Doherty Enterprises, franchisee for the Long Island Panera Bread bakery-cafes, in a statement. "Year round we package up and donate the bread, bagels, and pastries that remain on our shelves at end of the day to help Island Harvest. During 'Take a Bite out of Hunger,' we invite our guests to help, too with canned goods and other non-perishables."
"For over a decade, Panera Bread has been a valued partner helping Island Harvest address the critical issue of hunger right here on Long Island," Randi Shubin Dresner, president and CEO of Island Harvest, added. "Panera's generosity, along with that of their guests, has helped make a positive impact among the 285,000 men, women and children in our communities who know the effects of hunger firsthand—and, for that we are grateful."


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In the post-iOS 6 world, developers now have a choice of using Apple's new MapKit to embed map tiles and location services in their app, or to use Google's newly separate Google Maps SDK along with Google's tiles and location services. Both have strengths and weaknesses, including design and data quality. To compare and contrast Apple and Google's offering, and after speaking with developers, Michael Grothaus at FastCompany reports:
Apple Maps launched with iOS 6, and complaints and general dissent launched precisely 1 second later. It wasn't unexpected but depending where you lived, it was painful. Apple apologized and said they'd work tirelessly to make it right. Today, Jim Dalrymple of The Loop summed up exactly where they've gotten.
PC Magazine's John C. Dvorak has tested three mapping applications available for iPhone and very surprisingly the much maligned Apple Maps came out on top in the tests. The testers were Leo Laporte from TWiT who was using the Waze app, John C. Dvorak who had Google Maps and finally Glenn Rubenstein who had Apple Maps. They each set off with several missions, one of which was to find Apple's 1 Infinite Loop headquarters.
Sam Vermette of The Transit App wanted multi-colored versions of the little pulsating blue dot Apple uses to show your current location in maps, and Apple doesn't expose a public way to do that. So, he had to rebuild it from scratch. Or, in more technical terms, according to Vermette's blog:
Last night Google updated and opened up their SDK making it possible for any developer to use embedded Google Maps in their apps instead of Apple's Maps. According to Google's Geo Developer Blog, some new features are also included in the updated Google Maps SDK for iOS:
There are some rumors going around that Apple is considering the purchase of crowd-sourced mapping app Waze. Apple has a ton of cash, and can certainly buy Waze if that's what both parties want, the way Apple bought Chomp, Color, Polar Rose, Siri, and other companies over the years.
We all know the timeline by now. Apple replaced Google as the location data provider in iOS 6 Maps. It didn't work out as well as Apple intended. Apple was forced to apologize and recommend alternative maps apps. Nokia released HERE maps for iOS. And now Google has released Google Maps for iOS.
According to Google's VP of Geo and Commerce Jeff Huber, the app had been downloaded an astounding 10 million times in the first 48 hours since its release. Now, raw download numbers indicate a high level of interest, but they don't tell us how many people tried them an liked them enough to keep using them.
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NEW YORK — International Business Machines, the worlds biggest computer-services provider, reported a seventh straight sales decline amid plunging demand for hardware, prompting top executives to forgo bonuses this year.
Revenue fell to $27.7 billion in the fourth quarter, the Armonk, N.Y.-based company said Tuesday in a statement. That missed the $28.3 billion projected by analysts, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
IBM, which employs thousands at its Research Triangle Park campus, is shifting to more profitable businesses such as cloud computing and data analytics, aiming to compensate for the hardware slump. CEO Ginni Rometty also has slashed expenses through job reductions and the sale of lower-margin businesses. Though these efforts are making progress, the results led Rometty to opt against bonuses, she said.
In view of the companys overall full year results, my senior team and I have recommended that we forgo our personal annual incentive payments for 2013, she said.
IBMs shares closed at $188.43 before the quarterly report was released. The stock declined 2.1 percent in 2013, making it the only loser in the Dow Jones industrial average.
The company exceeded profit estimates last quarter, helped by cost cutting and software growth. Excluding some items, earnings climbed to $6.13 a share, IBM said. Analysts had estimated $6 on average. The company is targeting adjusted earnings of $20 a share by 2015.
Chief Financial Officer Mark Loughridge, the longest-serving CFO in IBMs 103-year history, retired at the end of 2013. That puts the companys profit goals under the purview of his successor, Martin Schroeter.
IBM is betting on a shift to cloud services, which are delivered online rather than via local computers. But the transition has brought a new crop of competitors and eroded demand for traditional hardware.
In her biggest acquisition since taking over as CEO two years ago, Rometty bought cloud-computing storage company SoftLayer Technologies in 2013 for about $2 billion. IBM plans to spend $1.2 billion on its cloud-services business this year, the company said last week.
The move follows IBMs announcement this month of a new business division around its Watson supercomputer, which can analyze large volumes of data and answer questions in conversational language. IBM will invest more than $1 billion in the unit and set up its own headquarters in New York. Watsons big-data services, which let customers mine vast troves of information, will be run on SoftLayers cloud.
While IBM plans to focus more on SoftLayer and Watson, the company may face challenges in meeting is earnings goals, Maynard Um, an analyst at Wells Fargo & Co., said in a note to investors. He has a neutral rating on the shares.
It has faced some macro and execution challenges and, in our view, has fewer levers to drive EPS without revenue growth, he said.


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Step forward for town centre regeneration blueprint
6:19pm Tuesday 4th December 2012 in News By Andy Walker, Chief Reporter (Darlington)
COUNCILLORS have approved a raft of measures aimed at guiding the ambitious "once-in-a-lifetime" regeneration of a North-East town centre.
Darlington Borough Council's cabinet met on Tuesday (December 4) evening to discuss the principles on which future town planning will be based, following months of public consultation.
Council officers will hold talks with developers on a possible food store in the Northgate area of the town.
Developer Lateral Property Group, which wants to build the supermarket, claims its proposals could create hundreds of jobs in the town.
Plans for the supermarket on the Garden Street car park, behind Northgate, are at the early stage, with a consultation and planning process expected in the New Year.
The plan could also see the see the two parts of Northgate that are currently separated by the inner ring road being reconnected, with members approving spending of £70,000 on feasibility work on remodelling the junction.
Members also agreed to spend £40,000 on a preliminary work on potential refurbishment of the town's historic Covered Market.
The recommendations received cross-party support, with backing from both the ruling Labour group and the Conservatives.
Council leader Bill Dixon said: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape the town centre our children and our grandchildren will inherit.
"If we have got a project we can all support, it has got a far greater chance of success.
"If you try to develop anything in the teeth of opposition, you might get it done, but it is not going to be very pretty."
Conservative leader Heather Scott added: "Public consultation has resulted in some very good suggestions being put forward.
"The Conservative group is wholly behind the plan."
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The current lot running Darlington couldn't run a whelk stall. They are far to interested in the tens of thousands they cream out of council tax for councillors allowances.
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Darlington needs (before anything else) a proper bus station in the centre of town that passengers can stay dry while waiting and changing busses.
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|Women's Swimming & Diving » Schedule » Roster » News » Coaches » 2012-2013 Season Statistics
Valpo Concludes Mid-Con Championships in Fourth Place
Saturday, December 06, 2003Valparaiso University's women wrapped up the 2003 Mid-Continent Conference Swimming and Diving Championships with a fourth place finish on Saturday evening in Indianapolis, Ind.
The Crusaders scored 522 points over the three-day meet while Oakland won the team title with 1,057 points. IUPUI was second with 630 points, followed by Western Illinois with 598 points.
Julie Fisher (Valparaiso, Ind./Valparaiso H.S.) opened the final day with an eighth place finish for the Brown and Gold. The senior touched the wall in the 200 backstroke in a time of 2:19.81.
Britt Nelson (Cortland, N.Y./Homer H.S.) and Katie Urbas (Ballwin, Mo./Marquette H.S.) finished in fifth and sixth place respectively in the 500 freestyle. Nelson touched the wall in 5:19.47, while Urbas was 5.29 seconds behind her teammate.
The 100 butterfly earned Valpo the most points in the meet. Ashley Seale (Maryville, Tenn./Maryville H.S.) earned runner-up honors with a time of 59.84 seconds while Leah Schneider (Sussex, Wis./Arrowhead H.S.) was right behind her with a time of 1:00.02. Urbas finished sixth in the same event with a time of 1:01.07, while Amanda Gregory (Carmel, Ind./Carmel H.S.) was seventh with a mark of 1:01.95.
Allison Clark (Shorewood, Wis./Shorewood H.S.) turned in a fourth place effort in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:28.74, while Gregory and Schneider finished seventh and eighth respectively in the 100 free. Gregory touched the wall in 55.53 seconds, while Schneider was .54 seconds behind her teammate.
Seale ended the individual events with a fifth place finish in the 200 individual medley. The sophomore finished in a time of 2:15.67.
Valpo's final event of the day, the 400 free relay, earned a third place finish. Nelson, Daniella Trombatore (Redding, Calif./Shasta H.S.), Gregory, and Schneider earned a time of 3:43.60.
Valpo will now take the holiday season off and return to the pool on January 8 when the Crusaders host Hope beginning at 5 p.m. at the Athletics-Recreation Center.
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Now, let's apply a second operation that detects local minima on the computed vector field. Local minima are those places where all vectors are converging (Figure 6). Flagging out the local minima will prevent the mobile robot from stopping in one of them with none of the vectors guiding it out.
Under the stream processing model, operators can be daisy-chained: a second operator consumes the output of a first operator, much like the pipe operator of an operating system. In the example CUDA implementation, you will consume the vector field matrix stored in GPU memory. Sequential local minima detection pseudo-code:
In Parameters: calculated vector field, a decimal threshold Out Parameters: a boolean matrix called "minima" detect_local_minima_cpu(in field, in threshold, out minima): for (y=0 to h): for (x=0 to w): minima[y][x] = (norm(field[y][x]) < threshold)? true : false return
The sequential algorithm takes the vector field as input and fills in a Boolean matrix of the same dimensions with values "true" or "false", depending on whether the length is below a given threshold. Conversely, the matrix "minima" at position (x, y) indicates whether the norm of the vector located at (x, y) is less than the given threshold. Parallel local minima detection:
In Parameters: the calculated vector field, a decimal threshold Out Parameters: a boolean matrix called "minima" detect_local_minima_gpu(in field, in threshold, out minima): x = blockIdx.x * BLOCK_SIZE + threadIdx.x y = blockIdx.y * BLOCK_SIZE + threadIdx.y minima[y][x] = (norm(field[y][x]) < threshold) ? true : false
The output is a field of Boolean values that indicates whether a given point is a local minimum.
At this point, I have implemented four algorithms. You can, of course, download all the source code from our Web site for free and try them out yourself.
So, how does a CUDA algorithm stack up against its CPU equivalent? Next, I compare the parallel versions against their sequential counterparts in order to find out. The hardware used for the benchmark implementation includes:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6320, running at 1.6GHz with 4GB of RAM.
NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT GPU.
Ubuntu Linux 8.10.
CUDA version 2.2.
I implemented all four algorithms in one C++ program that can switch between the CPU and the CUDA versions of the algorithms dynamically. Not only does this make the benchmarking process easier, but it also is a good technique for developing programs that can fall back to the CPU on a computer where CUDA is not supported.
Each of the benchmarks uses different vector field configurations, increasing the size of the field as well as the number of repulsors. The number of attractors always is set to just one. The size of the vector fields are: 16x16, 32x32, 64x64, 128x128 and 256x256. The repulsors are randomly distributed on the field with a ratio of one repulsor per 32 vector field points. Hence, the number of repulsors is 8, 32, 128, 512, 2048 and 8192.
Figure 7 shows the results of the benchmarks. I am using the notation "WxH/R", where WxH denotes the vector field's dimensions and R the number of repulsors present. The execution time is in milliseconds on a logarithmic scale (so a small difference in graph size is actually a much larger speedup than it appears to be visually).
How much faster is the GPU? The speedup is calculated by dividing the execution time of the sequential algorithm by the execution time of the parallel algorithm (Figure 8).
Computation times are the closest in the case of a small vector field. However, even in that case, we get a speedup of 2.5 times just by switching to the CUDA implementation of the vector field calculation. The local minima detection becomes interesting to parallelize only with slightly larger data sets that are more compute-intensive than smaller ones.
On average, the speedup is around eight times for our algorithms. In layman's terms, this means if you have a computation that takes one work day to complete, just by switching to CUDA, you can have your results in less than one hour.
This provides significant benefits for computations that require a user to run a computation several times while correcting the parameters each time. Such iterative processes are frequent, for instance, in financial models.
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Issaquah Police have arrested a man in a Lovers sex toy store robbery that might be linked to a similar incident at a Lovers location in Redmond.
On Tuesday, a male suspect robbed a Redmond Lovers store in the 15000 block of Northeast 24th Street at gunpoint, making off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Detective Sgt. Kevin Nash of the Issaquah Police Department said that the Issaquah Police had been developing leads in an armed robbery of the Lovers on East Lake Sammamish Parkway that happened last Thursday.
"We reviewed the video from Redmond, and to us it looked like the Issaquah robbery," Nash said.
Redmond Police spokesman Jim Bove said investigators here are still reviewing Tuesday's robbery and have not yet officially named the 42-year-old Issaquah man as a suspect in the Redmond case.
"There are many similarities in the two robberies, however, since ours just occurred yesterday we are still gathering evidence and working with their detectives," Bove said in an email. "The robber in both cases had similar clothing, MO, and hit the same store, but we need to find a definitive link before we can arrest someone."
Issaquah Police arrested the suspect Tuesday night in the 22500 block of S.E. 56th in Issaquah, near where he lives in an apartment complex, which happens to be near the Issaquah Lovers store.
Nash said police were waiting at his vehicle when he came up to it. On searching the vehicle, police recovered cash, the clothing he is believed to have used in the robberies, and a black "Airsoft" gun that looks very much like a .380 Beretta semi-automatic weapon, Nash said.
"When I saw it I was like, 'Oh, wow,'" he said, because it looks like the real thing until close inspection.
"You have to think about what effect the gun has on victims," even when it's not real, Nash said.
Nash said it was thanks to good police work by the department's patrol officers and detectives that the suspect was caught. He was booked into King County jail Tuesday night on Burglary 1 charges in the Issaquah heist, and likely will be arraigned Thursday.
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