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Building a dynasty – the Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s
When thinking about dynasties in the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys of the mid 1990s cannot be far from the conversation. The dynamic skills of a well drilled offence coupled with a hard hitting defence led the franchise to a staggering 3 Lombardi trophies in a 4 year period, picking up the title in 1992, 1993 and 1995.
This in itself is impressive but as a Minnesota Vikings fan it is doubly hard to take, given that the foundations for this success can, in part, be traced to the mammoth trade that took Herschel Walker from the Cowboys to the Vikings. In exchange for Walker and a handful of low round draft picks the Cowboys received 4 players and 8 picks, including first round picks in 1990, 1991 and 1993 and second round picks in 1990, 1991 and 1993. A bumper haul that coach Jimmy Johnson used to help shape his franchise, directly or indirectly using these picks to draft WR Alvin Harper, DT Russell Maryland, safety Darren Woodson and the NFL's all time leading rusher Emmitt Smith. Not a bad haul, especially when compared to the bust that Walker became in Minnesota!
With the Cowboys recently being named as a road team for the 2014 International Series in the UK, now seems a good time to look at that team in more detail.
Marshalled by Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman, himself a number 1 draft pick on 1989, the Cowboys transformed themselves from a struggling outfit at the end of the 1980s into a consistent challenger in just a few years. Offensively Aikman was ably supported by running back Smith, wide receivers Michael Irvin (another Hall of Famer) and Harper, TE Jay Novacek, FB Daryl Johnston and a strong offensive line, led by Nate Newton. Aikman had a bumper year in 1992 (en route to the Championship), passing for 3445 yards and 23 TDs. Smith averaged over 1500 yards on the ground in this period, passing 20 rushing TDs in both 94 and 95, whilst Irvin, Harper and Novacek proved reliable targets for Aikman and a constant aerial threat.
Defensively there were also star names to call on, such as star defensive ends Charles Haley and Leon Lett, the aforementioned Woodson and Maryland and for periods of the Cowboys dominance, linebacker Ken Norton Jr and defensive back Deion Sanders.
Superbowl successes came via a blowout 52-17 victory over the Buffalo Bills in 1992, a 30-13 victory in 1993's rematch with the Bills and 27-17 triumph over the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1995.
The first victory over the Bills came following a 13-3 regular season record and playoff victories over the Eagles and the 49ers. In the Superbowl itself, the Cowboys could thank MVP Aikman who threw for 4 TDs and a QB rating of 140.6, Smith's 108 yards and 2 TDs on the ground and Irvin's 6 catches for 2 TDs.
In condemning the Bills to a 4th Superbowl defeat in 1993, the Cowboys followed a 12-4 regular season record with playoff wins over the Packers and 49ers (again). Victory in the Superbowl came courtesy of MVP Emmitt Smith's 132 yards a 2 TDs rushing (to add to his league MVP award) and a strong defensive performance.
After a year's gap in 1994 (which ended in an NFC Championship game defeat to the 49ers) the Cowboys returned to winning ways in 1995 when a 12-4 record and playoff victories over the Eagles and Packers took them to a showdown with the Steelers. On this occasion the Cowboys could thank 2 interceptions from MVP Larry Brown and yet more TDs from Smith.
1995 saw the last of the Cowboys' Superbowl wins – but a franchise that was able to show such dominance over a sustained period in the NFL is sensational. The Cowboys of the early 90s deserve their place among the greatest teams to ever play the game and should be remembered as such.
If only the Vikings had kept those picks and got in the same players, we could be talking about a whole different story! Not that I'm bitter……..


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Definition of comrade in English:
Syllabification: com·radePronunciation: /ˈkämˌrad, ˈkämrəd
- 1A companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization.More example sentences
- The characters are old college comrades who have been there for each other through everything - or so they thought.
- Since those heady days, the trade union has seen a sharp decline in popularity and membership as well as bitter divisions among former friends and comrades.
- The AGM commenced with a minute's silence as a mark of respect to former members, family members and comrades who had passed away during the previous year.
- 1.1 (also comrade-in-arms) A fellow soldier or serviceman.More example sentences
- It is but a matter of time before many more of our fellow Army Reserve comrades-in-arms will be called to replace and augment those who have already answered the call.
- Tattoos in the civil wars symbolized allegiance to military commanders and comrades-in-arms rather than to the local community.
- The soldier and his comrades-in-arms moved deeper into enemy territory, encapsulated in their tank.
- 1.2A fellow socialist or communist (often as a form of address).More example sentences
- Long before the revolution, he knew what he would do with those of his socialist comrades who opposed him.
- A very important privilege, comrades, has been taken away from you.
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- The alternative to this is not the cosy, comradely little agora of the ancient Athenians but streets filled with thousands shouting in favour of contradictory wishes and guided by neither agreed ethics nor law.
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mid 16th century (originally also camerade): from French camerade, camarade (originally feminine), from Spanish camarada 'roommate', from Latin camera 'chamber'. Compare with chum1.
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Breathing New Life – An IBM i "Growth Play" & Full Support for Lotus Connections/Sametime on IBM i
Posted by: Steve Pitcher
Breathing New Life – An IBM i "Growth Play" & Full Support for Lotus Connections/Sametime on IBM i
There's an amazing opportunity for IBM here.
In preparation for a full Sametime Unified Telephony (SUT) Lite deployment, over the last two weeks I've been installing Sametime 8.5.2 components piece by piece. I'll admit, it's a bit of a challenge because of the sheer magnitude of the product suite. You've got a good number of components of the entire solution that run natively on IBM i:
- Domino 8.5.2 server acting as an LDAP server
- Domino 8.5.2 Sametime Community server
- Websphere-based components
- Sametime System Console
- Sametime Proxy Server
- Sametime Meeting Server
- Sametime Gateway Server
Then, you have the other components that you need to run on either Linux, Windows, Solaris or AIX:
- Sametime Media Manager
- Sametime TURN Server
- Sametime Bandwidth Manager
- SIP Edge Proxy Server
These servers entail deploying either additional hardware or carving out Linux/AIX partitions on the IBM i. That's not a huge problem. A great feature of Power Systems is the ability to run additional operating systems alongside each other. But what if you are a long time IBM i customer who has no Linux or AIX expertise? What if you don't want to extend your business servers to Windows? In order to partition Linux on my IBM i I will have to IPL (reboot) the IBM i server…not a big in terms of learning curve but it makes installing software more complicated than it has to be. In order to leverage existing skills, minimize training, cut operating system licensing and maintenance costs…ideally you'd want to run all Sametime components natively on the same IBM i partition.
I've also been investigating IBM Connections since the idea of social business is a hot topic. Sadly, Connections does not run natively on IBM i. That means a lot to me. A lot of IBM i customers, when looking for new software, probably ask this as their first question: "Does it run on IBM i?"
Yesterday I was a guest on This Week in Lotus (episode 63) with hosts Stuart McIntyre and Darren Duke and fellow guests Lisa Duke and Sharon Bellamy. They were kind enough to accept my suggestion to discuss deploying IBM Collaboration Solutions (i.e., Lotus) on IBM i. I spent a little time preparing to do most of the talking on the subject but those folks were not only receptive to the idea of running IBM Collaboration Solutions products on IBM i, they were advocating it as a very valid solution. Darren and Sharon especially seemed very fond of the IBM i. We spent a fair bit of time talking about IBM Connections having zero native support on IBM i and Sametime only offering support for a portion of the product.
With the recent success of IBM i and Power Systems, I was still very surprised when I read, and strongly urge you to read, Chris Maxcer's recent interview with IBM's Ari Kugler, Director of Business Development and Business Unit Executive for IBM i. Ari talks about the recent success of the IBM i brand and how he expects "double digit growth for the platform install base this year." Phrases like "critical to the Power brand," "growth play" and a "new renaissance around an integrated platform" inspire consumer confidence of IBM's commitment to the IBM i.
This quote made my day: "I really think to a large extent, customers, developers, and even to us, in IBM, we've forgotten just how tremendous the platform is and we have kind of reawakened and realized the potential, and we've come to the same strategic realization that customers want an integrated platform, that has the ¬performance, security, and some of the new market ¬realizations—these were discovered by IBM, and we have a 20-year lead and a proven platform we can build up on."
Last month IBM named 50 people in it's Champion Program for Collaboration solutions. One of the benefits of the program is direct access to IBM employees who are designers and leaders of the products we all use and advocate the use of.
Given the timing of my Sametime installation and Connections investigation, I immediately took advantage of this.
In the past few weeks I've been very fortunate to have some communication with IBM product leaders (Mac Guidera and Marlon Machado via the IBM Champion program) regarding the porting of, respectfully, Connections and Sametime components to IBM i. IBM's opinion is that the customer demand for IBM i support just hasn't been that high. Customers haven't been beating down the doors to run a Connections server on their IBM i. Sametime 8.5.2 customers are willing to use Linux on a partition or a standalone server to handle the audio/video components, while running the base Sametime servers natively.
But that doesn't mean that customers wouldn't run it on IBM i. It also doesn't mean IBM won't offer IBM i support. You've got two wallflowers here folks, and they're both not asking each other to dance.
Perhaps the one avenue that needs to be explored by IBM is the ability for customers, whether existing or potential, to deploy their entire messaging, social business and collaboration infrastructure (including audio/video) on the back of one IBM i partition running on Power Systems.
Think about that. It's an unbelievably strong statement and it works from both a marketing and customer satisfaction perspective. The security, stability, multi-versioning capabilities of Domino, the central point of management (install base Domino code for a release once and upgrade each server in minutes), the minimal licensing costs, the minimal energy costs of using one server, etc., etc., etc., make it a darn good case. Can you run 99 Domino servers under 1 Linux or AIX partition like you can with IBM i? Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think so. What kind of OS licensing costs do customers with brigades of Windows-based Lotus servers have to suffer compared to IBM i? Lotus and IBM i are a fantastic combination and really should be tied to the hip in all aspects.
Or at the very least, IBM should give us the choice.
If you're an IBM i or Lotus customer (or both!) then how can you make a difference?
- If you're an existing or potential IBM i (or existing System i or iSeries) customer and you want to run all components of IBM Connections, IBM Sametime or Lotus Notes Traveler on your system, then click here.
- Speak up when you're at a Lotus or IBM i user group meeting
- Get an account and use the forums in the Greenhouse
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Game of the Year: World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
by JR Sutich
World of Warcraft won our Game of the Year Award last year, and it has successfully defended that title in 2007. Joining Warhammer Online as a back-to-back winner was no small feat, however. Lord of the Rings Online did give the MMO from Blizzard a good run, but in the end, LotRO had to step aside and let the juggernaut that is WoW rumble past.
It wasn't just the fact that there are at ten million paying customers or that over one-third of them bought the Burning Crusade expansion that helped WoW win again this year. World of Warcraft also succeeded in making the larger non-gaming population aware of the MMO industry as a whole. From a Toyota commercial that debuted during college football broadcasts to mentions in several network television shows and now with commercials starring a variety of pop-culture icons, Blizzard has used WoW in such a manner that will only reap rewards for everyone operating or developing an MMO.
While the Burning Crusade expansion did add a great deal of content to World of Warcraft, the original game did get its share of updates. The most notable, or notorious, of these was the patch that made it easier to gain experience and lowered the experience necessary from Levels 20-60. Many saw this as a desperation move in order to get players to buy the expansion or to stop them from moving on to other games. It seems to have worked, as now many of WoW's competitors are making their own changes to adjust the time and manner in which players gain experience.
World of Warcraft is WarCry's 2007 Game of the Year for being an industry leader not only in subscription numbers, but for also blazing the trail that other games will follow into the next year.
Honorable Mention: EVE Online (CCP)
By Dana Massey
It wasn't a perfect year, but CCP Games launched two new expansion packs in 2007 and continued to grow their game in a way unlike most other MMOs in the market. The combination of the two expansions, steady growth and the way they've set their game up for a longevity few other MMOs appear to boast, made this a serious contender for Game of the Year.
In June, CCP launched Revelations II and in December, Trinity was added to the already successful MMO. The first expansion built in several gameplay improvements and new mechanics, including "heat", which allows players to overload ship modules for an added bonus, and most importantly, overhauls the game's tutorial, which addresses a common complaint that EVE is often too hard for new players to get their heads around. Trinity, though, really sealed the deal for EVE Online. It completely overhauls the game's already impressive graphics, adds loads of brand new ships and more.
As of the end of the year, CCP boasts 200,000 subscribers. It's a modest number, but makes it one of the largest Western subscriber MMOs on the market. The number is even more impressive when charted over the game's 4 year history. It has steadily piled the subscribers on to become the second largest virtual world on the planet. Controversies aside, it was a good year for CCP's flagship.
Past Winner
- 2006: World of Warcraft
It was a fun year here at WarCry and we once again thank all of you who read us over the year. We look forward to another great year in 2008.
Congratulations to all of our winners!


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Syracuse, NY -- Former Syracuse University All-American and NFL defensive end Tim Green will be part of a live debate in Manhattan next week.
The question - Should college football be banned?
Green, who played eight years with the Atlanta Falcons after leaving SU, will join Jason Whitlock, a national columnist for Fox Sports, in arguing that the game needs nothing more than a few reforms.
They'll square off against the team of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and "Friday Night Lights" writer Buzz Bissinger and the New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell, author of "The Tipping Point" and "Blink." Bissinger will flag the corruption he sees decaying college football from the inside, while Gladwell will tackle the sport's medical risks.
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If you've recently invested a significant amount of money and effort to design your building around LEED guidelines in order to receive that coveted LEED certification, you probably don't want to hear someone tell you that your building might not actually be very "green". But in recent months, a number of articles and studies have been published which argue that LEED buildings in particular aren't living up to their hype. As designers, it's our job to stay up-to-date on the latest sustainability rating systems and guidelines, so what's our take on the LEED debate?
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The first part of the acronym represents leadership in energy efficiency, so it's a cause for concern among the building community when we start hearing reports that some LEED buildings aren't performing so well when it comes to energy consumption. If you were to Google "LEED Buildings Energy Consumption", you'd find a number of results pertaining to LEED buildings being outperformed – in terms of energy consumption and efficiency – by buildings designed in accordance with other rating systems and guidelines such as Energy Star, ASHRAE Advanced Energy Design Guides, ASHRAE Standard 189.1 and ASHRAE BEQ. One notable article is a New York Times piece identifying the Federal Building in Youngstown, Ohio, as one of the aforementioned LEED-certified culprits that doesn't measure up to the minimum Energy Star requirements, but some argue the criticism is faulty since the building was certified before LEED had specific energy standards for efficiency. Another study by the National Research Council Canada analyzed 100 LEED-certified commercial buildings and found that, on average, the buildings used 18 to 39 percent less energy than equivalent non-LEED certified buildings. But in spite of those savings, when it came down to individual buildings, "between 28 and 35 percent of these LEED buildings were actually using more energy than equivalent conventional buildings – suggesting that predicted improvements are often only partly realized." The question that comes to mind: how can a building be considered a leader in energy efficiency when its energy efficiency components wouldn't meet the requirements of a building designed to code minimum?
Even though some LEED buildings may not be the most efficient when compared to other rating systems, these buildings still have lots of great sustainability elements. Plus, the LEED system's tremendous popularity has forced other rating systems to step up their game. ASHRAE is a great example of a standard that once focused only on energy efficiency but is now broadening its focus to include many more elements of sustainability. The original ASHRAE 90.1 is considered to be the foundation of all things energy-related, but ASHRAE has now released Standard 189.1 which is worded quite similarly to LEED. The latest standard includes requirements for transportation, site selection, building materials, recycled content and the like. Sound familiar? ASHRAE's goal is for its Standard 189.1 to eventually be adopted by state and local governments in an effort to make green building design a requirement. New certification programs like ASHRAE's, and other programs that are being developed and altered, will ultimately serve a similar purpose as LEED in focusing on whole building sustainability, and they already promote an increased focus on energy conservation in a sometimes more palatable, code-friendly manner. As LEED 2012 continues to develop, we will see how far ahead the USGBC wants to be.
As the LEED rating system continues to evolve and as other rating systems and guidelines like ASHRAE begin to enter into the sustainability race, our responsibility as design professionals remains constant: push the envelope and inform our clients of the best, most cutting-edge strategies and technologies to improve building design and performance. We must all work together to produce truly energy-efficient designs that deliver on our commitment to a sustainable future. As we continue to work toward the goal of "net-zero energy" buildings set forth by renowned architect Edward Mazria in The 2030 Challenge, we realize that energy efficiency has never been more critical than it is today.
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Do American doctors make too much money? Probably, according to an insightful New York Times article.
The difference in physician compensation between the U.S. and Europe is staggering, outweighing even the most frequently cited villain in healthcare cost inflation, prescription drugs, which cost 30 percent to 50 percent more in the U.S. than in Europe. Average salaries for physicians in the U.S. range between $200,000 and $300,000 a year, while European doctors are paid between $60,000 and $120,000 a year. Meanwhile, the disparity between what primary-care physicians earn and what specialists earn is growing ever larger.
Is physician compensation the only reason healthcare cost inflation outgrew the economy for the umpteenth year running? No, but it's a big piece. The reasons healthcare costs in this country are growing faster than the economy are both simple and complex.
Here's the simple:
- Specialty physicians are paid dramatically more than family practitioners.
- Specialty physicians are paid best for ordering expensive treatments on their patients.
- No physician is paid particularly well, if at all, for offering advice or routine examinations. When's the last time your physician office called you and told you it was time to come in for a physical?
- Doctors, by and large, are responsible for paying huge malpractice insurance premiums.
- Physicians go to school in a high-stress environment for years making nothing, and in most cases work several more years making very little, all the while racking up significant debt.
- Like so many of us, doctors play the hand that's dealt them. The system pays them for procedures and interventions, so that's the way they practice medicine.
So the bottom line is that doctors are not the villains of our system. On the whole, they're just acting upon the incentives that are placed before them. The real culprit is how we pay them. Pay-for-performance measures enacted by private insurers, and even by Medicare recently, could be a good first step toward evaluating a doctor's performance and paying him or her more based on how healthy their patients are. But implementation of such plans has been complicated, heavy-handed, and has placed heavy administrative burdens on physician offices and hospitals for tracking data that may be considered important by one payer and unimportant by another. Add to this the fact that many health plans, even nonprofit ones, are trying to maximize their own margin, and you have doctors who are rightly suspicious that such ideas aren't built with the foundation of improving a patient's health, but rather with the payer's best interests, in mind.
A letter from a reader last week unintentionally confirmed that physicians respond to such measures like a balloon. Squeeze one end and the other gets bigger. Squeeze them on physician fees and they make it back on self-referral on things like imaging. He accused me and others of not understanding this concept: An orthopedic surgeon who has become accustomed to making $700,000 a year "now sees his income eroded, for no apparent reason, to $500,000." We understand, Howard, we just don't know what to do about it! And how much is enough? But anyone who thinks this theoretical self-interested physician will automatically cut back his supplemental income if physician fees were restored to 1987 levels is fooling himself. He'll no more junk his MRI machine than Bob Nardelli, who botched the CEO job at Home Depot, will give back his stock options.
The point is that the rate of healthcare inflation is unsustainable. What's the breaking point? Nobody knows. But if your nation's economy is growing at 3 percent and healthcare costs are growing at 7 percent, it doesn't take long statistically before the economic model breaks down catastrophically, leaving us with a genuine crisis.
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Effective fall 2008, all undergraduate students are limited to four course withdrawal-passing (WP) grades during their academic career at UGA. Withdrawal grades (W or WF) accumulated prior to fall 2008 will not be counted in the application of this policy. Transfer grades of W, WP, and WF, i.e., any withdrawals earned at an institution other than UGA and a grade of WM assigned for a military withdrawal, are not considered in the application of this policy.
A student- or instructor-initiated withdrawal after the student's fourth WP will result in the automatic assignment of a withdrawal-failing (WF) grade. If a student withdraws from a course and the associated lab taken concurrently, it will be counted as only one withdrawal for purposes of this policy.
Students may drop one, some, or all of their classes during the drop/add period. Courses dropped in this manner do not appear on a student's transcript and are not considered as hours attempted for financial aid purposes. No grade is assigned for such courses. However, a student who wishes to withdraw from a course after the last day of the drop period for a term must withdraw through OASIS. If the student withdraws before the semester's withdrawal deadline and has not yet received four grades of WP, the instructor will be asked to assign a grade of WP or WF. If the student has already accumulated four WP grades, a grade of WF will be automatically assigned.
An instructor may withdraw a student from a course due to excessive absences as defined in the course syllabus. If such a withdrawal occurs after the drop/add period and the student does not yet have four grades of WP, the instructor will have the option to assign a grade of WP or WF. If the student has already accumulated four grades of WP, the instructor must assign a grade of WF.
If a withdrawal is initiated by someone other than the instructor, the instructor and the student will be notified by the Office of the Registrar of the withdrawal. If a student with fewer than four WP course grades is withdrawn from a class prior to the withdrawal deadline, the instructor will have the option to assign a grade of WP or WF.
All probation and exclusion rules apply regardless of the circumstances of the withdrawal. For more information, see General Academic Regulations related to Academic Probation and Academic Dismissal.
No student shall be withdrawn from a course for lack of a prerequisite after the end of one calendar week from the beginning of the term.
If a student experiences significant personal hardship (e.g., medical or family emergency, prolonged illness), the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs (OVPSA) can facilitate a hardship withdrawal from all courses for which a student is registered for the term. A hardship withdrawal cannot be used to selectively withdraw from some courses while remaining enrolled in other courses. If sufficient documentation is provided and a hardship withdrawal is approved by OVPSA, the OVPSA will work with each instructor to assign a withdrawal grade for each course. A hardship withdrawal does not guarantee a grade of WP; it is each instructor's prerogative to assign a grade of WP or WF. A WP course grade assigned due to a hardship will not be counted in the application of this policy.
No refund is available for a reduction in hours due to individual course withdrawals that occur after the drop/add period.
Students should be aware that a reduction in their hours may affect their Student Financial Aid, the HOPE scholarship, athletic and ticket eligibility, University housing accommodations, use of University resources and access to University facilities, immigration status for international students, Veterans Educational Benefits, and the loss of full-time student status, which can lead to health insurance cancellation. Students should contact the appropriate office and their academic advisor with questions about the impact of their withdrawal from a course before initiating a withdrawal. Students who are returning from academic dismissal are advised to consult with their academic advisor prior to withdrawal because violation of the minimum enrollment requirements can lead to a second dismissal from the University. Veterans and dependents of veterans who receive educational benefits must notify the Veterans Education Benefits Area in the Office of the Registrar of any course load reductions.
Please note: once you have withdrawn from either one or more of your courses, you may not add them back.
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To begin OASIS registration:
- Log in at either http://my.uga.edu or http://oasisweb.uga.edu
- When logging in via my.uga.edu, you should enter your myid and password. Click the OASIS button under resources.
- When logging in via oasisweb, you can enter your myid and password or your Student ID Number (SSN) and PIN.
- NOTE: The first time you use OASIS, your PIN will be your date of birth in the format MMDDYY (for example: May 9, 1995 would be entered as 050995).
Changing your PIN:
If this is the first time you have logged on to OASIS, you will be prompted to enter a new PIN.
- Enter your current PIN (your date of birth if this is your first time or if your PIN has been reset: mmddyy).
- Enter your new PIN, then press ENTER. Use 3 – 6 numbers for your PIN.
- Re-enter your new PIN for verification; press ENTER.
OASIS Main Menu:
You have reached the OASIS Main Menu screen. Select the Registration Main Menu and press ENTER.
Registration Main Menu: Select Register or Adjust Schedule. If flags exist, you must clear them before you can register. Press ENTER.
To Add a Course:
- Click the Add a Course icon.
- If you don't know the Call Number, use the prefix drop down menu to locate the course prefix. Click "Go." All Open courses with that prefix will be displayed. Press "Proceed" to view more courses. Highlight the course and click "add course." The course should then appear in your schedule. You may also drop a course from your schedule by clicking on "drop a course" and entering the call number at the bottom of the page. While adding courses, if a course goes to your Course Pending area, you will probably need to add an accompanying course (see below for information about Pending courses).
- If you know the Call Number of the course, type the call number and press ENTER. The course will appear on your Confirmed Schedule area in the top right portion of the Register or Adjust Schedule screen. Repeat until all desired courses are scheduled.
- To search for courses by beginning time of the course, click "Go" next to the search by time slot option. Place a check next to the desired time slot and press "Go." Only OPEN sections of the course will be displayed (classes already filled will not be shown).
- To view a worksheet showing your schedule, press the Worksheet tab on the left side of your screen.
Pending Courses: Some courses for which you try to register may be placed in the Courses Pending But Not Confirmed section of the Register or Adjust Schedule screen.
- A class space is temporarily held for 15 minutes allowing you to resolve the situation causing the course to appear in Pending instead of Confirmed. For example, if you are trying to register for CHEM 1211, you are normally required to also take the accompanying lab, CHEM 1211L. When you attempt to register for CHEM 1211, OASIS will place the class in Pending—temporarily holding it for you until you add CHEM 1211L to your schedule.
- When the situation that caused a course to be placed in Pending is resolved, the course in Pending will automatically move to your Confirmed schedule.
- On exiting OASIS, any courses still in Pending will be deleted.
Exiting Registration: Press 'Next Screen' to leave the Register or Adjust Schedule section.
Class Schedule: For your information and as a confirmation of your schedule, print this screen and save the printed copy. Press Exit.
Tuition/Fee Assessment/Waivers: On exiting the Register or Adjust Schedule screen, the Waive Fees screen may be accessed. Students eligible to do so may waive or assess certain fees.
Exiting OASIS: To exit OASIS, click "Exit."
To Make a Payment on your Student Account: You may view and pay your student account online at: https://studentacct.uga.edu/PCSA/index.jsp .
The University of Georgia currently accepts three major credit cards (MasterCard, Discover and American Express) for payment of services rendered. Payment may also be debited electronically from your checking account.
You may also make a payment by:
- Mailing it to the University of Georgia, Bursar's Office, 105 Business Services Office, Athens, GA 30602-4227.
- Paying in person at the same address.
- Placing the payment along with your fee invoice in the drop box outside the Bursar's Office.


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dc.contributor.author | Brogioli, Michael Radosavljevic, Predrag Cavallaro, Joseph R. |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-12T21:29:21Z |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-12T21:29:21Z |
dc.date.issued | 2006-11-01 |
dc.identifier.other | http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=9991041847807109623&hl=en&as_sdt=0,44 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1911/64254 |
dc.description.abstract | This paper presents a hardware/software co-design methodology for partitioning real-time embedded multimedia applications between software programmable DSPs and hardware based FPGA coprocessors. By following a strict set of guidelines, the input application is partitioned between software executing on a programmable DSP and hardware based FPGA implementation to alleviate computational bottlenecks in modern VLIW style DSP architectures used in embedded systems. This methodology is applied to channel estimation firmware in 3.5G wireless receivers, as well as software based H.263 video decoders. As much as an 11x improvement in runtime performance can be achieved by partitioning performance critical software kernels in these workloads into a hardware based FPGA implementation executing in tandem with the existing host DSP. |
dc.description.sponsorship | Nokia Inc. |
dc.description.sponsorship | Texas Instruments |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation |
dc.publisher | IEEE | dc.subject | FPGA DSP Embedded systems Wireless |
dc.title | A General Hardware/Software Co-design Methodology for Embedded Signal Processing and Multimedia Workloads |
dc.type | Conference Paper |
dc.contributor.center | Center for Multimedia Communication |
dc.citation.pageNumber | 1486-1490 |
dc.citation.location | Pacific Grove, CA |
dc.citation.conferenceName | 40th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers |
dc.citation.conferenceDate | 2006 |
dc.identifier.citation | M. Brogioli, P. Radosavljevic and J. R. Cavallaro,"A General Hardware/Software Co-design Methodology for Embedded Signal Processing and Multimedia Workloads," in 40th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2006, pp. 1486-1490. |


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Now I just need them to do a version for Mac. Apparently it's on the way – I guess I could try it on my old computer in the meantime. (Though its kind of steam-powered…!)
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Chuck the compass - not safe!
By Meisterbergsteiger
from Portland, OR metro
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Comments about Lifeline Ultralight Survival Kit:
Do not use the compass - it is inaccurate, which could kill you in the outdoors. The needle gets stuck at random locations on the dial. The needle appears to be weighted incorrectly. [*] I threw it away and kept the rest. I mainly wanted a small fishing kit, but the hooks are of a very light gauge. I would have been bettwer off buying individual components. A survival kit should have more robust components. I agree with the other reviewer that [@]make better kits, but they cost more.
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AMK vs. Lifeline
By xootrx
from Albuquerque, NM
Having owned the AMK/Doug Ritter kits, I was curious to compare them with the Lifeline offering. I finally had the chance to examine one closely, and here's what I found: The plastic container on the AMK is much thicker than the Lifeline. The compass, and the whistle are much cheaper quality than the AMK. The Lifeline's matches only give you about 20+ chances to light a fire, while the AMK's Sparklite is good for about a thousand. The AMK has great tinder for starting a fire; the Lifeline has none. The inclusion of the emergency blanket is a plus for the Lifeline kit, but it doesn't include a signal mirror, nor a fresnel lense (which can also be used to start a fire). One the whole, I think the price differential for the AMK kit is worth it. The Lifeline kit would be useful, if you replaced the junk with decent quality components, which would put it much closer to the cost of the AMK. I certainly wouldn't trust my life to this kit the way it comes.
Perfect for day use on the water.
By aspenlve
from Southern Nevada
About Me Casual/ Recreational
I bought this for my day kayaking trips. I had to use the water proof matches and have never got it to repack properly. But it's lightweight and small packaging work perfect for my uses.
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expected quality and more
By ye old awsome person
from Woodland park, Colorado
Most products with this variety would have lower quality for the individual pieces of the kit. in this product, however, the only thing that i have found doesn't work well is the compass. sometimes the needle gets stuck. the waterproof case is nice, and the extra bag in case you can't fit it all back in is great (but not waterproof). the matches can be replaced with a magnesium fire starter, but they work ok.
i am satisfied,but not EXTREMELY pleased
what i like most is the variety of tools in the size of the bag. all tools are very useful. the one tool that i had a problem with was the compass. The needle gets stuck sometimes, but when you have a kit with a large quantity of tools, a few might not work extremely well. if you are good a packing things up .tight, it packs easily.
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Multiuse items in this kit are the best
By KevDon-NC
from Blue Ridge Mountains, NC
With only this kit you can snare and fish then clean and skin. The blade is not as tough as your knife, but will allways be in this kit.The foil has too many uses to list. but folding into a cup to boil is a good start.I reccomend replacing the matches with a magnesium firestarter. Take the fire starter and a cheap but stong knife and ductape wrap them to the outside.The other items are pretty standard.This is a great kit at a great price!!!
Everything you need for a great price!
By Weburn
from Framingham, Ma
This package looks great, just bought it and despite reading the packaging, I was still surprised just how much was in here.The specs of the package are spot on, it's small, light, and has a little bit of room to put in something like hard candy, or a small flashlight.The packaging is waterproof which is great, and although I hope I never need it, I'm confident I could survive much easier with the little bit they put in here!
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