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I'd always suspected that a conference's national reputation was dependent on its top teams. But I'd never really had a chance to test that theory with the ACC because, well, it didn't really have any TOP teams, at least not in the national sense.
This year that's all changed. Two top five teams! A third in the top 10! The only power conference with three unbeaten teams!
All of which makes it easy for folks to ignore the steep drop-off after the league's four ranked teams.
Alas, I cannot look away. I must plunge past, and delve all the way down to No. 14, sorting out all the ACC's teams along the way. Am I bringing along the Wheel of Uncertainty for the ride?
You bet I am.
As I told Hayes Permar in this week's podcast - which will be out later, so don't fret - I was fascinated by my Twitter feed as the BC-Clemson game went into the fourth quarter with the Tigers still trailing BC.
Normally, you'd figure other ACC fans would be lining up behind the underdog, rooting for the upset. Instead, I saw a lot of tweets of the "PLEASE DON'T CLEMSON THIS, CLEMSON!" ilk.
Apparently ACC fans really, really wanted to see the ACC Game of the Century come to fruition. And they also recognized how much the national media would chortle if the dream matchup of Clemson and FSU was ruined a week in advance by the plucky Eagles.
It didn't happen, as Tajh Boyd led a methodical drive for the go-ahead score and Clemson's defense slammed the upset door shut with a strip, sack and score.
Still, it left me a little shaky on Clemson. I almost moved the Tigers down to No. 2 because of its close shave (as well as the failure to put away N.C. State, which is now looking like a team that is ... not good.) But in the overall power rankings equation, body of work still plays a part. And Clemson's win over Georgia is still enough to give the Tigers the top spot, but just by a fraction.
Not that it really matters. We'll know for certain who the ACC's top dog is after this Saturday.
Record: 6-0, 4-0 ACC
Previous Rank: 1
Last week: Won 24-14 over Boston College
This week: Saturday, 8 p.m. vs Florida State
I'm moving closer and closer to picking the Seminoles to win on Saturday. I think FSU's a more complete team. But I keep wondering how Jameis Winston will handle playing by far the toughest opponent of his young career in what will be by far the most hostile environment he's been in.
On the other hand, have I seen any indications - ANY? - that Winston is the type of player who would freeze up when the spotlight gets blazing hot? On the contrary, he seems to have a Manziel-like ability to flourish in those situations. (Am I allowed to use the words "Manziel" and "Winston" in the same sentence?)
Prediction: By the end of the week I'll be riding the Jameis Winston bandwagon into Death Valley. Which would mean I'd look kind of stupid for having Clemson at No. 1 and FSU at No. 2 in my power rankings. I fully realize this. But right here, right now, I'm just not at that point. So, FSU stays at basically 1a.
And if you think this is a subconscious way of me essentially hedging my bets on both sides, well ... you're probably right. It's a fence straddle that will probably have this result:
Record: 5-0, 3-0 ACC
Previous Rank: 2
Last week: Bye
This week: Saturday, 8 p.m. at Clemson
If Florida State does win at Clemson, we could have "ACC Game of the Century: The Sequel" on Nov. 2, when the Hurricanes travel to Florida State. All the Canes have to do to stay unbeaten between now and then is win at UNC on Thursday night, and then at home against Wake Forest on Oct. 26.
But if we've learned anything in our years watching ACC football, it's that when we start hoping for such scenarios we get, well ... let down.
Logic would dictate that Miami's high-powered, balanced offense would shred UNC's porous defense and that UNC's offense simply doesn't have the playmakers to keep pace.
But even though ACC football added all sorts of things during expansion, it has yet to import logic.
Record: 5-0, 1-0 ACC
Previous Rank: 3
Last week: Bye
This week: Thursday, 7:45 p.m. at UNC
Virginia Tech defense is awesome, and completely smothers quarterbacks. Virginia Tech's offense looks good at times, not so good at other times, and fails to establish a ground game. The end result is that the Hokies still grind out a win. Not a pretty win, but a win nonetheless.
(I'm putting that on a save string. Expect to see it again in future power rankings.)
Record: 6-1, 3-0 ACC
Previous Rank: 4
Last Week: Won 19-9 over Pitt
This Week: Bye
I'll admit, I was a bit relieved when the Terps managed to stave off Virginia. It's not because I've got a soft spot for Edsall and the Terps. It's just that I shuddered at trying to pick the No. 5 team in the power rankings (and also a new No. 14) if Maryland had dropped the game.
Kudos to the Terps for surviving without starting QB C.J. Brown, who's been cleared to return to practice now after missing the UVa game with a concussion. But frankly, offense wasn't the issue against the Cavaliers. In fact, backup Caleb Rowe threw for 332 yards. The running game should pick back up when Brown returns to the lineup, but the pressing issue for the Terps this week is to figure out how the previously anemic Cavaliers offense managed to churn out 505 yards.
That's 933 yards in offense Maryland's defense has conceded in the past two weeks. The previously salty D is starting to seem a little kind of like this ...
Record: 5-1, 1-1 ACC
Previous Rank: 6
Last Week: Won 27-26 over Virginia
This Week: Saturday, 3:30 at Wake Forest
Moving up two spots after a loss? That's how we roll in the ACC Football Power Rankings!
Seriously, why not? If we all agree that Clemson and Florida State are the class of the conference, then why shouldn't we award the Eagles for battling both teams into the fourth quarter?
I'm definitely in the Addazio fan club (I already was, but I went ahead and re-upped my membership for next season as well), but I do have one minor quibble. With BC trailing 24-14, out of timeouts, with 6:35 left in the fourth quarter, the Eagles faced a fourth-and-two on their own 27.
The Eagles lined up to punt, a move that appeared to startle Clemson, which then took a timeout. Coming of the timeout BC again lined up to punt. The Tigers remained convinced that surely the Eagles wouldn't do this and didn't even bother to put a man back to return it. Nope, BC punted.
I don't get it. You need two scores, you have no timeouts left. You only have two yards to go for a first down. Yes, if you don't make it, Clemson gets the ball deep in your territory. But the threat of giving up more points to Clemson is a minor concern at that point. You need to score and to do that, most of the time you need the ball. You only need two yards to get a first down. GO FOR IT!!!
Just a strangely un-Dude-like decision by Addazio.
Record: 3-3, 1-2 ACC
Previous Rank: 8
Last Week: Lost 24-14 at Clemson
This Week: Bye
The only folks in the Steel City who benefitted from Pitt's offensive line performance - or rather lack of performance - against Virginia Tech were headline writers.
You could have gone with "Pitt QB Takes Savage Beating" or "Hokies D Savages Panthers." (Before you roll your eyes - and I know you were just about to - you should try describing a game in the limited space headline writers have. It's an art form, I tell you).
The point, as our Pitt Insider eloquently explained this morning, is that the Panthers are doing a lousy job of keeping QB Tom Savage upright. Yes, Savage has also played a role in holding on to the ball too long. There's plenty of blame to go around, but regardless (switching to coachspeak) it is what it is.
Look for the Panthers to take a two-pronged approach:
1) They've got to give Savage more short route options, or at least encourage him to start looking for those options.
2) They've got to make sure their next QB is more mobile. The days of QBs standing in the pocket like a statute are gone. You've got to be able to run if you're the signal caller. The rough treatment of Savage this season is Exhibit A for that argument.
Record: 3-2 overall, 2-2 ACC
Previous Rank: 7
Last Week: Lost 19-9 at Virginia Tech
This Week: Saturday, 7 p.m. vs. Old Dominion
I'm ... I'm ... I'm starting to lose faith in Paul Johnson. You have no idea how much it pains me to admit that.
I spent much of the preseason and the first three weeks of the season trumpeting Georgia Tech's possibilites.
"You KNOW Tech can run the ball this season! Just wait til you see what CPJ does now that they have Vad Lee and can throw it too!", I would blather on to whomever would listen.
It turns out, the Jackets can do ... less, actually. As our Georgia Tech Insider wrote yesterday, it seems that the Yellow Jacket offense has too much going on and that Johnson's usually adroit play-calling may be suffering as a result.
And that new and improved D? It's given up 83 points in the past two games.
Oh and Clemson and Georgia are still on the schedule.
But hey, you're still no. 8 in our power rankings! So there's that!
Record: 3-3, 2-2 ACC
Previous Rank: 5
Last week: Lost 38-20 at BYU
This week: Saturday, 12:30 p.m. vs. Syracuse
My apologies, Orange. I was wrong. I didn't know much about you coming into this season except that you'd lost your head coach and your star quarterback. So I callously threw you down in the basement of these power rankings to start the season. Actually you were one step above the basement, which at that time was occupied by ... BC.
(Pauses to go back and delete preseason power rankings.)
Anyway, you showed me that all the times head coach Scott Shafer said "hard-nosed," he wasn't just spouting cliches. You went into Carter-Finley and you ran the ball. Then you ran it some more. And then you ran it again. All to the tune of 362 yards rushing and a 24-10 win over N.C. State.
And you somehow won despite losing the turnover battle, committing more penalties and running 34 fewer plays. Not sure how that works, but hey, it did!
So again, I'm sorry. Please accept this single-digit ranking as a token of my apology.
Record: 3-3, 1-1 ACC
Previous Rank: 12
Last Week: Won 24-10 at N.C. State
This Week: Saturday, 12:30 p.m. at Georgia Tech
A friend of mine, while apparently watching Thad Lewis play QB for the Buffalo Bills last Sunday sent me an email asking "If you were a QB heading to college, why wouldn't you go play for Cutcliffe?"
He's got a point. Whatever QB arm David Cutcliffe touches seems to turn to gold. First it was Thad Lewis. Then Sean Renfree. Heck, even third-stringer Brandon Connette looked dangerous during his time taking snaps. And when starter Anthony Boone finally returned from injury, he showed zero signs of rust, completing 31 of 38 passes (81.6%) against Navy for 295 yards and two scores.
But you've sort of come to expect that from Duke. What you probably didn't see coming was the Blue Devils' much maligned (and fairly, I might add) defense holding Navy's potent ground attack to just seven points.
Real progress or just a one-game anomaly? We'll see this Saturday in Charlottesville. It's a huge game for Duke's bowl hopes.
Record: 3-2, 0-1 ACC
Previous Rank: 13
Last Week: Won 35-7 over Navy
This Week: Saturday, 3:30 p.m. at Virginia
If I'm Miami, I'm a bit nervous about heading to Chapel Hill on Thursday night.
First, it's a Thursday night game, so the Tar Heels will likely have the sort of raucous home atmosphere they haven't had during all those noon Saturday games they always seem to get stuck with.
Second, UNC's in this weird place where Larry Fedora can play both the a) OUR BACKS ARE AGAINST THE WALL!! card and the b) WE STILL HAVE SO MUCH TO PLAY FOR!!! card.
A) is obvious. The Heels are 1-4 and clearly lacking in confidence. You know how these things work with players ranging from 18-22 years old - you can reach a certain point where things spiral rapidly downward. One more loss might get UNC to that point.
On the other hand ...
After this game here are the Heels' opponents: BC, N.C. State, Virginia, Pitt, ODU and Duke. Win this one and UNC could springboard itself to a thoroughly respectable 8-4 season!
If nothing else, Fedora's got plenty of pregame speech material. Now, does he have any answers for Miami's offense?
Record: 1-4, 0-2 ACC
Previous Rank: 10
Last Week: Bye
This Week: Thursday, 7:45 p.m. vs. Miami
Hayes Permar and I got into a debate about the Demon Deacons during last week's podcast. He thinks the win over N.C. State was sign that Jim Grobe is in the midst of another masterful coaching job and that Wake's on an upward slope this season.
I'm more skeptical. I think the problems run deeper than that and that one win over State doesn't mean a whole lot. (I think State's subsequent home loss to Syracuse bolsters my argument.)
Who's right? Who's wrong? Tune into Wake-Maryland to find out!!!!!
Did I sell it hard enough? No?
Record: 3-3, 1-2 ACC
Previous Rank: 11
Last Week: Won 28-13 over N.C. State
This Week: Saturday, 3:30 p.m. vs. Maryland
I really wanted to believe in State after its strong effort against Clemson. But man, losses to Wake and Syracuse ... you sort of need those if you're going to make a push for a bowl game.
Fortunately, State now has a bye week and should have starting QB Brandon Mitchell back when the Pack is next in action. Unfortunately, that next game is ... at Florida State.
Record: 3-3, 0-3 ACC
Previous Rank: 9
Last Week: Lost 24-14 to Syracuse
This Week: Bye
I rarely get angry when I'm watching ACC games because I don't have a dog in the fight. But I got irritated with Mike London late in UVa's loss to Maryland.
First, the Cavaliers had a 4th and 1 at the Terps' 8 with just over 7 minutes remaining and a 23-20 lead. To me, that's your moment to seize control of the game. If you punch in a TD there, game over. Instead, they went for the FG and lo and behold Maryland marches down for a TD and retakes the lead, 27-26.
But I get that on some level. I mean, it's defensible.
After Maryland's score though, UVa marches down into Terrapin territory. The Cavaliers reached the Maryland 27 with just over a minute to play. The next three plays: Kevin Parks run for two yards; Parks run for one yard; David Watford keeper for a loss of a yard.
All of which is well and good if you're extremely confident in your field goal kicker. One problem: UVa was playing with its backup kicker, Alec Vozenilek. He pushed the kick wide right and the Cavaliers went down in heart-breaking fashion.
Watford later claimed that the defensive end crashed down so hard on Parks' second-down carry that he immediately called for the zone read to be run again, a play that then backfired. Still, three straight runs is three straight runs. I don't get it.
On the bright side though, Watford played his best game of the season, throwing for 263 yards and running for 35. And Duke's next. So there's cause for optimism UVa fans.
But I wouldn't blame if you're still ticked off right now.
Record: 2-4 (0-2 ACC)
Previous Rank: 14
Last Week: Lost 27-26 at Maryland
This Week: Saturday, 3:30 p.m. vs. Duke


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I'd like to add the "Tags" block to ALL of my pages on the right column. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Also, is there a way to have "featured products" with Magento and have them show up on the home page? It looks like they're done in plain html in the demo store from the admin, but I was curious if this can be done without the use of the CMS and if it would be fairly simple to implement. Like adding a field in the database for "Featured" and then writing a simple function to display them on the front page.
Thanks in advance!
About tags: for now you can edit app/design/frontend/default/default/layout/main.xml, find this text (approx. line 190):
<!-- Mage_Tag --> <reference name="left"> <block type="tag/popular" name="tags_popular" template="tag/popular.phtm"> <action method="setTemplate"><template>tag/popular.phtml</template></action> </block> </reference>
<reference name="right">
For the products on home page, i'm not sure how you want it to look like, but for default category tempate: in app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List.php replace function _getProductCollection with:
protected function _getProductCollection() { if (is_null($this->_productCollection)) { $collection = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer'); if ($this->getShowRootCategory()) { $categoryId = Mage::getStoreConfig('catalog/category/root_id'); $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId); $collection->setCurrentCategory($category); } $this->_productCollection = $collection->getProductCollection(); } return $this->_productCollection; }
{{block type="catalog/product_list" show_root_category="true"}}
I dont get it, how can I add to product FEATURED status after that?
As far as I understand it (and as far as I would like to do) the above described a way to show the entire root category on the homepage. Although Im not entirely sure how that is done above, I am currently wondering how one would show only certain featured products on the homepage. What would it take to do that? Any specific help is very much appreciated I guess i should write my own FeaturedProducts block inside the catalog module? Then add this block in a reference to 'content' in the main.xml in the default layout ? Or will it then show up in all cms pages? Then i guess I must somehow make sure that it only shows up on the homepage cms, is this what the above '{{block type="catalog/product_list" show_root_category="true"}} ' is tryng to do? Actually I dont understand this notation.
Please, any input is very much appreciated
Anyone ?
Ok, im understanding it a bit better now. The above way indeed shows the products added to the root category on the homepage (this thus is a way to make products featured: add them to the root category). However, if i would like to add the featured products block via the xml, i would think that could be done by:
<reference name="content"> <block type="catalog/product_list" name="catalog.product.list" before="-" show_root_category="true"/> </reference>
This however gives a bunch of errors: somehow the show_root_category property is not correctly set on the block. Magento team, any idea why not? Then if this works, the following question. How to make sure (via the main.xml) that a block *only* shows up on the homepage? Or, but i think this is easier, *only* shows up on cms pages?
@seldon: try this:
<reference name="content"> <block type="catalog/product_list" name="catalog.product.list" before="-"> <action method="setShowRootCategory"><value>true</value></action> </block></reference>
Hi Moshe,
I am using the code snippet you mentioned above for featuring items on the home page. Its working for the 13700 release.
As I said this works fine, however I would like to display more columns at a time on the home page and remove things like the add to cart button, etc. Can I isolate those changes for the home page? If so what's the best place to start looking to tweak the page.
Basically I want a variation of the grid, but I want to customize it only for the home page.
@jmayer: In new release you should have Custom Layout XML textarea under Content textarea in CMS page edit.
Here you can put XML layout updates in same format they are in main.xml, and they will affect layout for this specific CMS page.
In default theme Add to cart button is customizable only by changing templates it is shown on.
Can you post a quick down and dirty sample of this code?
Thnx Moshe, I did it a bit differnt now though. I modified the CMS Helper (how can i override helpers?) renderPage method and added the following code:
if ($content = $action->getLayout()->getBlock('content')) { $block = $action->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/page')->setPage($page); $content->append($block); if ($page->getIdentifier()===Mage::getStoreConfig('web/default/cms_home_page')){ $content->append($action->getLayout()->createBlock('catalog/product_featured', 'catalog.product.list', array("show_root_category"=>true))); } }
Moreover I created my own block 'catalog/product/featured, containing:
class Mage_MelrowCatalog_Block_Product_Featured extends Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List{ public function __construct() { parent::__construct(); $this->setTemplate('catalog/product/featured.phtml'); } protected function _beforeToHtml(){ parent::_beforeToHtml(); $this->getLayout()->getBlock('product_list.toolbar')->setTemplate('catalog/product/featured/toolbar.phtml'); return true; } }
And i needed a modified toolbar template, so i created my own toolbar template.
I hope this helps anyone who wants to do it like this. What do you think of this way Moshe?
Hi Moshe, I'm having installing an Magento on an XAMPP lokalhost. And on my folder C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\design\frontend\default\default\layout there is no main.xml file. There is only tpss_captcha.xml File. I found that under the Path: magento\app\design\install\default\default\layout. Tell me where is the right main.xml file for that example please.

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The programme, which will fund additional US military rotations to Europe, will need congressional approval.
The US would also "step up partnership" with countries such as Ukraine and Moldova, he added.
That $1 billion is needed at home in the United States – after all, the US government is running a $1 trillion deficit each year under this President.
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In France, the US leader will take part in ceremonies to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
President Vladimir Putin is also invited, but the White House has already made it clear that the American and Russian leaders will not hold formal bilateral talks.
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Congress will have a greater impact on the massive defense budget this year, looking afresh at many programs long thought to be a sure thing. This includes the Army's multibillion-dollar modernization program, the controversial Future Combat System (FCS).
A high-tech series of air and ground vehicles linked by a wireless network, FCS has faced criticism before for being expensive and complicated. Lawmakers have previously been quick to cut funding from the program. But senior defense officials acknowledge that this year the system is facing real trouble.
"The program is really in jeopardy, and I think it's on the ropes," says one senior officer, who wished to speak anonymously and only on background because of how sensitive the issue has become.
The fiscal 2009 budget released last week included $3.6 billion for FCS, continuing a program now thought to cost $120 billion by completion.
But recent comments by members of Congress, analysts, and even the Defense secretary himself, indicate all that money may not stay there long.
"Frankly, it is hard for me to see how that program can be completed in its entirety," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Senate panel last week. "But I think that in light of what are inevitably going to be pressures on the defense budget in the future, I think that that one is one that we will have to look at carefully."
FCS comprises about 14 vehicles, including unmanned aerial planes and tanks and other ground vehicles. The technology that links them all allows the soldier on the ground to be linked through a transmitter to the senior commander during an operation. It represents one of the most high-tech initiatives for land warfare.
But Congress isn't convinced.
Last year, lawmakers cut funding for FCS as they faced mounting pressure to protect troops in combat. They initially tried to "reallocate" as much as $900 million that was earmarked for the program to help pay for body armor for soldiers, up-armored Humvees, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) trucks, and other war needs.


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Hey fellas,
its freezing cold outside and I just got sumfin in the mail from NESail. Its the Free Air Extra 3D Adrenaline, an EPP 3d plane. its available from http://www.soaringusa.com or http://www.nesail.com I picked mine up right after christmas with some "extra model airplane funds i got for christmas". It was on sale at nesail with a Rotex 25/6/15 brushless motor. Because of the weather, I'm hoping to stay in and build this today. I was hoping someone out there might have one already built and post some pics. The instructions are a bit weak (one page front and back of illustrations). One of my few probs with the instructions is that in one critical area...mounting the stab, I can't see the dimensions that are written on there. If there is anyone out there...Sal from nesail maybe? that has this info, can you plase post it? Its the distance from the center of the stab "axle" to the rear end of the fuse that I need. (actually i might also need the distance of this axle center from the leading edge of the stab...otherwise I'm saying..center of stab?) Anyway everything arrived in great shape, it seems like a good quality kit...I'm looking forward to building and flying it. |
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I had all the other stuff in the "combo" i bought just the kit and motor...a different combo that was on sale for a "nice" price. I plan on using the following equipment: 4 pico bb servos castle creations phoenix 10 3s 1200mah etec lipoly batts I still need... prop? prop saver?/adaptor?...DNA has a nice suggestion...on how to make a prop saver in another thread called DIY Rotex prop saver.. I dug around an I can't find a collar like he used...arghhh the pic on the box seems to have the prop mounted right onto the motor....hmmm reciever/antenna... I plan on using a micro antenna...azarr or litenna still haven't made up my mind... i have several gws pico r4ps....but...they can't let me get flaperon/elevator mix...unless i hack one...i might... otherwise its m5 or berg 5 dsp any1 know who has a berg5 and azarr antenna? that way i don't have to ship from different places... |
Jan 16, 2004, 11:40 AM | |
still looking for help...
anyone out there from free air....NESailplanes... soaringUSA?.... do you have larger plans that have readable dimensions? can't read the dimensions off the 1 page instructions... when mine copied the size of the printlines are larger than the letters...all i see is a black spot that looks like it used to be a number. anyway....tips or pictures of how wires/pushrods are routed, parts aligned such as the flying stab would be really appreciated. |
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17 year old Kathryn Wahnon from Andover is one of 2,550 teenagers and young adults in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to have completed a six to eight-week coaching course in a sport of their choice through the National Lottery funded project. She played basketball in Test Valley School where she won the Southampton League and Hampshire Cup. Kat stopped playing when she left school. However with the introduction of the new girls basketball club founded by Sportivate, she got back into playing basketball. She said 'basketball is the sport I love and I am so glad Andover College has set up this team. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting back into basketball, making new friends and receiving great coaching'.
Sportivate is aimed at 14-25-year-olds who currently aren't playing sport in their own time, giving them the chance to find a sport they enjoy. The young people are then helped to find a club or venue where they can keep taking part in a way that suits them.
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'The impact of Sportivate across the county is fantastic. As the excitement around London 2012 builds it is a great opportunity for us to inspire local young people to try a sport they have never done before or one they are keen to get back into. The important thing is to have a go, to have fun and once they've started to keep it going. We're hoping everyone will find something they really enjoy and that they can take part in for life.' said Penny Woods, Sports Development Manager at Sport Hampshire & IOW.
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Hi everyone. I need some opinions & advice on HDTV's, cable, & Direct TV. I've pretty much decided to buy an HDTV, and thus will need either an HD box, or HD service. I basically have 2 questions. One about the TV's themselves, another about service providers. So here goes.... HDTV's From all that I've read (mostly on CNET.com) about the different options, LCD, Projection, and Plasma, the information & cost has lead me to a 50" Plasma. LCD's (higher quality one's) are more expensive & I'd like to keep the costs under $2000 for a TV. If possible, I'd like to squeeze in a PS3 & TV for that price. The two TV's that come to mind are a Samsung & the Panasonic (both 720p). Most reviews rate these two as the best in their respective class (the Pioneer Kuro rates highly too, but is more $$), with the Samsung getting the edge because of it's slightly cheaper price & USB port, which the Panasonic doesn't have. Anyhow, my bud has the Samsung, and the picture quality is unreal. I actually watched a Bruins game at his house because of the picture. So, my question's are, do you know these TV's? Are they worth it? Is Plasma the right way to go? Should I go 1080p, or is the difference neglible? How is the glare? Did I miss anything? Service Providers Moving to an HD set up requires HD service, or with Comcast, an HD box. I am a former Dish Network customer who now has Comcast. I like Comcast but it is mucho $$. I have no problems going back the satellite as I enjoyed the service. I initially switched because I eliminated my home phone (single guy with a cell phone). Anyhow, Comcast is expensive, and I'm considered switching to Verizon phone & DSL with Direct TV. It'd be a little cheaper, but would give me more channels & recievers for other TV's. My question's here are, should I switch? My bud had Direct TV and his reception always had problems. Which is better for HD? Can you watch different channels on different TV's with Direct TV? I could with DISH. Am I missing anything? Buying a TV Online I almost forgot, does anyone have an advice on whether or not it's wise to buy a TV online? The TV's listed above are considerably cheaper online, than they are at the local electronics stores, like Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. The difference is somewhere in the $300-400 range. That's a good chunk of change that would go a long way toward a PS3! BTW, does anyone know what level phone line I'll need if I move to Direct TV? Would the flat rate plan be ok? Doesn't D TV make toll free calls to itself? Thanks for any, and all advice fellas.
My 2 cents - plasma look great, but be very careful about "image retention". Be sure to research it when buying your TV, and then know exactly how to treat your TV in order to avoid any image burn-in. A family friend of mine has the Samsung plasma as well, and it is pretty sick. Personally, I think LCD/Plasma is basically a toss-up, so if your preference is plasma, I'd go for it as long as you're aware of the care you need to take to avoid burn-in. At work we bought (through the web) an HD LCD for video editing, no problems at all with the delivery. (Sony Bravia, which pretty much kicks a** as well). As for receiving HD signals, I have no idea about dish, satellite and all that. But, if you buy a TV with a HD tuner in it, you can bypass the box and pick up HD channels without paying the $10 fee a month that Comcast/RCN would make you for an HD box. From personal experience, I have basic RCN cable, no HD box, and am picking up a shytload of HD stations (including cable networks) through my TV equipped with a QAM tuner. I'm not sure if this is the norm, so I'm not sure I can recommend this. To be honest, I didn't expect to pick up anything other than the networks, though in theory, since I'm paying for the standard def channels, I see no reason why I can't pick up the HD if I purchased a TV made to do just that, cable HD box or not. The idea that Hi-Def channels should somehow cost more is just another example of the crap cable companies pull. There's also HD antennas to consider - you'll get the networks in HD, and presumably, the picture quality is superior to cable, which compresses its signals. But you won't get any cable networks, so that might be something you only very briefly consider.
LCD better than plasma and dlp. Dlp takes too much space Plasma is too stiff on power consumption Of the three, plasma screens are generally the most power hungry. Flat-panel LCDs often have a good brightness-to-consumption ratio. If you go with LCD : get the ones that has a better ratio contrast like 9000:1 . I do have a samsung Full HD 1080p with 2 hdmi connectors / 2 AV / 1 computer port /. Other good brands : Sony bravia , Sharp , Panasonic ,OLG.... Remember if its not 1080p Full HD , you ll not take advantage of the PS3 Blue ray oR XBOX 360 HD-DVD. Good luck.
I'd also add plasmas are not very good in well lit rooms or any room with windows. They are really best used in a home theater room that has no windows. They are also much more prone to burn in than LCD or rear projection. There is no way I would play any video games on a plasma and risk burning in any graphics from the game on my screen.


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Software provider Actuate is offering a free way for business units to analyze enterprise data and present the results in a format that is easy to understand.
Software provider Actuate is offering a free way for business units to analyze enterprise data and present the results in a format that is easy to understand.
Salesforce.com is rollling out enhancements to its Salesforce1 mobile application, with new reporting and dashboard capabilities that give users a way to dig deeper and more broadly into CRM data.
Microsoft will soon offer a service aimed at making machine-learning technology more widely usable.
In the NLP (natural language processing) business for a while, Attensity sees an opportunity to get new customers with Q, a visualization tool it says can help non-technical users like marketers find insights in oceans of social media data.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is taking the fight to IBM, Microsoft and SAP in the burgeoning in-memory database market with a new option the company says can deliver dramatic performance boosts without requiring changes to applications.
The upcoming update of Tableau Software's flagship business-intelligence application includes the ability to add a narrative to a report, allowing authors to tell a story about the data being displayed.
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An unusual US tariff on a subsidized Chinese import also challenges communist power in Beijing.
For all the market freedoms that China enjoys, the Communist Party still keeps a grip on basic industries and finance. Last Friday, the US challenged that Marxist idea of state control over the core economy: It set penalties on a Chinese import heavily subsidized by Beijing.
Such a US move might seem minor in comparison to the ballooning trade with China. After all, it simply slaps duties of about 10 to 20 percent on only one product: high-gloss paper. But it is expected to be the start of more US actions against subsidized goods from China – many of which have taken a wrecking ball to US industries and helped eliminate hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs.
With this concrete step, the Bush administration has reversed longstanding US policy that treated China as a nonmarket economy, or the kind in which the government's hand is so strong and opaque that it's difficult to calculate subsidies. These days, however, the state largely uses loans to control hundreds of semipublic enterprises, which makes its role more transparent while still distorting global markets. These loans, which still help the party stay in power, are often not repaid, which has left the government with an estimated $1 trillion in bad debts.
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The first FDA approval of the therascreen KRAS test pairs this companion diagnostic with Erbitux®, a leading EGFR inhibitor marketed in the U.S. by Bristol-Myers Squibb in partnership with Eli Lilly and its ImClone Systems unit. According to the U.S. product information for Erbitux®, KRAS status evaluation using an FDA-approved diagnostic test is used to determine treatment, and the therascreen KRAS kit is currently the only test with this status. Based on the FDA approval for use in metastatic colorectal cancer patients, the current annual U.S. market potential for sales of the therascreen KRAS kit in this indication only is approximately $20 million.
In contrast to laboratory-developed tests (LDTs), the FDA-approved therascreen KRAS test gives healthcare providers a fast, consistent and reliable process to determine optimal treatment for colorectal cancer patients who are candidates for EGFR-inhibitor therapy. The therascreen KRAS kit has been shown to have higher sensitivity (i.e. a lower limit of detection, LOD) for KRAS mutations between 0.8% and 6.4% depending on the assay which is critical to ensuring reliable and consistent data for treatment decisions.
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A new report indicates that snowmelt entering the Gulf of Mexico is the culprit for the mass infant dolphin stranding in early 2011.
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Surges of snowmelt pouring into the Gulf of Mexico may have been a final stress affecting when and where 86 baby dolphins were aborted or died shortly after birth in early 2011, researchers say.
Water temperatures fell in Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound two to three weeks before each peak in infant dolphin strandings, a new research paper reports.
The cold water may have been the final straw for animals already prone to premature birth for other reasons and probably stressed both by the 2010 oil spill and the unusually cold winters that bracketed it, said Ruth H. Carmichael, senior marine scientist at Alabama's Dauphin Island Sea Lab.
"These freight trains of cold fresh water may have assaulted them, essentially kicking them when they were already down," she said.
It's too early to comment on causes or contributing causes, especially since dolphins are still dying at higher rates than normal, said Teri Rowles, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration scientist. She has been studying the deaths of at least 753 dolphins since February 2010 in the northern Gulf of Mexico, where the BP well began spewing oil on April 20, 2010.
"We typically don't come out with a conclusion about contributing factors and causing until it's over and we can sit down and look at all the data and all the analyses together," she said Wednesday.


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Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Rhythm of Raking
5 comments:
- Twig - Love Your Home said...
I love to rake leaves too! Unless its in the backyard. The backyard that is shared by 2 boxers. For me, raking the backyard means that I have to watch out for little "surprises" in the leaves. But if we're talking front yard. It's a welcome chore around my house :)
LOVE. YOUR. BLOG. and your store. Oh my goodness!! - October 1, 2009 at 6:12 PM
- Lisa said...
I love the raking too. It's the bending over to pick them all up that I try to avoid. Last year my neighbor got a blower/vaccume thingy....we all just glared at him. It ruined the moment having to listen to that thing.
Darling photo....is he yours?
Lisa - October 1, 2009 at 8:33 PM
- Bevy said...
"Leaf me alone, I'm changing."
Don't mind me & my silly humor - My first thoughts were on how I could so easily tend to be the same about the messing with the leaf piles. I don't want to be like that. I NEED to let loose too and, just relax. Stop the serious and just have fun!!
So, in that I want to change. So often (where there are needs like that in our lives) it's hard to admit and we would rather be left alone, which really isn't good. We need each other to encourage growth and change and the whatever else it all is.
Blessings to you and yours
in your days and seasons of change.
I am fairly new to your blog and I really love the shop (and your blog). - October 2, 2009 at 4:48 PM
- farmhouse wares said...
Twig, yes, those little surprises can really put a damper on the whole rolling in the leaves thing.
Lisa, That's actually my little girl hiding in the leaves.
Bevy, your humor is perfect for me. Clever too. - October 2, 2009 at 6:29 PM
- The Redhead Riter said...
That is the cutest leaf I have ever seen LOL Such a grand picture!
- October 3, 2009 at 2:30 PM


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In computer science, real-time computing (RTC), or reactive computing, is the study of hardware and software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"— e.g. operational deadlines from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within strict time constraints.[1] Often real-time response times are understood to be in the order of milliseconds and sometimes microseconds. In contrast, a non-real-time system is one that cannot guarantee a response time in any situation, even if a fast response is the usual result.
The use of this word should not be confused with the two other legitimate uses of 'real-time'. In the domain of simulations, the term means that the simulation's clock runs as fast as a real clock would; and in the domain of data transfer, media processing and enterprise systems, the term is used to mean 'without perceivable delay'.
Real-time software may use one or more of the following: synchronous programming languages, real-time operating systems, and real-time networks, each of which provide essential frameworks on which to build a real-time software application.
A real-time system may be one where its application can be considered (within context) to be mission critical. The anti-lock brakes on a car are a simple example of a real-time computing system — the real-time constraint in this system is the time in which the brakes must be released to prevent the wheel from locking. Real-time computations can be said to have failed if they are not completed before their deadline, where their deadline is relative to an event. A real-time deadline must be met, regardless of system load.
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The term real-time derives from its use in early simulation, where a real-world process is simulated at a rate that matched that of the real process (now called Real-time Simulation to avoid ambiguity). Analog computers, most often, were capable of simulating at a much faster pace than real-time, a situation that could be just as dangerous as a slow simulation if it were not also recognized and accounted for.
A system is said to be real-time if the total correctness of an operation depends not only upon its logical correctness, but also upon the time in which it is performed. Real-time systems, as well as their deadlines, are classified by the consequence of missing a deadline.
Thus, the goal of a hard real-time system is to ensure that all deadlines are met, but for soft real-time systems the goal becomes meeting a certain subset of deadlines in order to optimize some application specific criteria. The particular criteria optimized depends on the application, but some typical examples include maximizing the number of deadlines met, minimizing the lateness of tasks and maximizing the number of high priority tasks meeting their deadlines.
Hard real-time systems are used when it is imperative that an event be reacted to within a strict deadline. Such strong guarantees are required of systems for which not reacting in a certain interval of time would cause great loss in some manner, especially damaging the surroundings physically or threatening human lives (although the strict definition is simply that missing the deadline constitutes failure of the system). For example, a car engine control system is a hard real-time system because a delayed signal may cause engine failure or damage. Other examples of hard real-time embedded systems include medical systems such as heart pacemakers and industrial process controllers. Hard real-time systems are typically found interacting at a low level with physical hardware, in embedded systems. Early video game systems such as the Atari 2600 and Cinematronics vector graphics had hard real-time requirements because of the nature of the graphics and timing hardware.
In the context of multitasking systems the scheduling policy is normally priority driven (pre-emptive schedulers). Other scheduling algorithms include Earliest Deadline First, which, ignoring the overhead of context switching, is sufficient for system loads of less than 100%.[2] New overlay scheduling systems, such as an Adaptive Partition Scheduler assist in managing large systems with a mixture of hard real-time and non real-time applications.
Soft real-time systems are typically used where there is some issue of concurrent access and the need to keep a number of connected systems up to date with changing situations; for example software that maintains and updates the flight plans for commercial airliners. The flight plans must be kept reasonably current but can operate to a latency of seconds. Live audio-video systems are also usually soft real-time; violation of constraints results in degraded quality, but the system can continue to operate.
In a real-time DSP process, the analyzed (input) and generated (output) samples can be processed (or generated) continuously in the time it takes to input and output the same set of samples independent of the processing delay.[3] It means that the processing delay must be bounded even if the processing continues for an unlimited time. That means that the average processing time per sample is no greater than the sampling period, which is the reciprocal of the sampling rate. This is the criterion whether the samples are grouped together in large segments and processed in blocks or are processed individually and whether there are long, short, or non-existent input and output buffers.
Consider an audio DSP example: if a process requires 2.01 seconds to analyze, synthesize, or process 2.00 seconds of sound, it is not real-time. If it takes 1.99 seconds, it is or can be made into, a real-time DSP process.
A common life analog is standing in a line or queue waiting for the checkout in a grocery store. If the line asymptotically grows longer and longer without bound, the checkout process is not real-time. If the length of the line is bounded, customers are being "processed" and output as rapidly, on average, as they are being inputted and that process is real-time. The grocer might go out of business or must at least lose business if he/she cannot make his/her checkout process real-time (so it's fundamentally important that this process be real-time).
A signal processing algorithm that cannot keep up with the flow of input data with output falling farther and farther behind the input is not real-time. But if the delay of the output (relative to the input) is bounded during a process that operates over an unlimited time, then that signal processing algorithm is real-time, even if the throughput delay may be very long.
Real-time computing is sometimes misunderstood to be high-performance computing, but this is not always the case. For example, a massive supercomputer executing a scientific simulation may offer impressive performance, yet it is not executing a real-time computation. Conversely, once the hardware and software for an anti-lock braking system has been designed to meet its required deadlines, no further performance gains are obligatory. Furthermore, if a network server is highly loaded with network traffic, its response time may be slower but will (in most cases) still succeed before it times out (hits its deadline). Hence, such a network server would not be considered a real-time system: temporal failures (delays, time-outs, etc.) are typically small and compartmentalized (limited in effect) but are not catastrophic failures. In a real-time system, such as the FTSE 100 Index, a slow-down beyond limits would often be considered catastrophic in its application context. Therefore, the most important requirement of a real-time system is predictability and not performance.
Some kinds of software, such as many chess-playing programs, can fall into either category. For instance, a chess program designed to play in a tournament with a clock will need to decide on a move before a certain deadline or lose the game, and is therefore a real-time computation, but a chess program that is allowed to run indefinitely before moving is not. In both of these cases, however, high performance is desirable: the more work a tournament chess program can do in the allotted time, the better its moves will be, and the faster an unconstrained chess program runs, the sooner it will be able to move. This example also illustrates the essential difference between real-time computations and other computations: if the tournament chess program does not make a decision about its next move in its allotted time it loses the game—i.e., it fails as a real-time computation—while in the other scenario, meeting the deadline is assumed not to be necessary.
Several methods exist to aid the design of real-time systems, an example of which is MASCOT, an old but very successful method which represents the concurrent structure of the system. Other examples are HOOD, Real-Time UML, AADL the Ravenscar profile, Real-Time Java.
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