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One of the most important and complicated insider games in politics moves back to the Alaska Supreme Court this week with an appeal by the Alaska Redistricting Board of its method for redrawing the state's legislative map.
In a petition filed Tuesday, the board is asking the high court to overturn a decision by a Fairbanks judge that the board failed to first rely on state law for drawing up "one-person, one vote" districts before adjusting them to prevent Alaska Native votes from being illegally diluted.
Native voting rights are protected by the U.S. Justice Department under the federal Voting Rights Act. The Alaska Supreme Court has previously ruled that the Voting Rights Act should be applied only after state requirements are met.
In its appeal, the board said the decision by the Fairbanks Superior Court judge, Michael McConahy, amounted to improper interference in its duties. In addition to asking it to overrule McConahy, the board asked the Supreme Court to take over the review of the entire redistricting process rather than send it back to the lower court.
As redistricting grinds on without a final map of the state's 40 House and 20 Senate districts, it's looking more likely that the 2012 election will be held under an interim plan. Last week, Gail Fenumiai, the state elections director, notified the redistricting board that her division must be given new district boundaries by May 14 if it is to conduct the Aug. 28 primary.
If the Supreme Court schedules oral arguments in the board's appeal, they'll be held the week of May 21.
Anticipating an unlikely resolution in time, the board also asked the Supreme Court to approve an interim plan -- basically an earlier district map that failed to pass court challenges.
Redistricting is a once-a-decade exercise that attempts to redraw political boundaries to reflect the population movements measured by the U.S. Census. The typical pattern in the United States has been the shift of population -- and political power -- from rural areas to urban and suburban ones. Alaska has seen a double shift, from the Bush to regional and urban centers, and from Southeast to the Railbelt, especially the Mat-Su region.
It's also a time for the political party in power to attempt to engineer district boundaries to improve its election chances till the next census. The term "gerrymander" stems from the contorted, salamander-shaped districts drawn by Massachusetts Gov. Eldridge Gerry in 1812 to help his party.
Alaska's Constitution tries to limit that kind of abuse by requiring district shapes be "compact." But it also provides for a political makeup of the five-member Redistricting Board by granting two appointments to the governor and one each to the House Speaker and Senate President, all of whom are Republicans this time around.
The fifth appointment is made by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and his choice was a Democrat.
Two of the most regular audience attendees of board meetings have been state Republican chairman Randy Ruedrich and Democratic Party executive director Kay Brown. Brown said the party is having trouble recruiting candidates because of the unsettled districts. Ruedrich said he isn't having that problem.
The original plan put two Democratic senators from Fairbanks into the same district, Joe Paskvan and Joe Thomas, but that district was challenged -- and changed. Now Paskvan is the sole incumbent of his district, while Thomas has to face another incumbent, Republican John Coghill of North Pole.
As currently mapped, two other members of the Senate bipartisan majority coalition will also face off, Republican Bert Stedman of Sitka and Democrat Albert Kookesh of Angoon. The board put two Anchorage Democratic House members together, Mike Doogan and Chris Tuck, but Doogan is retiring anyway. Two Republican House members from Southeast were also put together, Peggy Wilson of Wrangell and Kyle Johansen of Ketchikan, but Johansen is on the outs with his party and wasn't a member of the Republican-led House majority.
The city of Petersburg in Southeast last week asked the Redistricting Board to stick with the current district map for 2012 and not switch to an interim plan that would only be changed again for the 2014 election.
"Redistricting gets complicated as it goes and everybody gets confused when you change election districts," said City Clerk Kathy O'Rear. "Let's not force them to do it twice -- let just do it once and do it right."
But Taylor Bickford, the board's executive director, said that would be unfair. Population has shifted from Southeast to the point where it should lose a House district, he said.
"If we were to use the current plan as an interim plan, we'd be violating the federal constitution," Bickford said. "You'd be violating the preeminent rule of redistricting, which is one person, one vote."
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By RICHARD MAUER
Anchorage Daily News


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Kind of loud during the night (slamming doors, etc).
Friendly staff - nice little pool. Price was good
Traffic noise from road. not many amenities
Beautiful room.
The staff (bartenders) could not complete the check-in process, nor could they find our room key.
The fireplace the bed air conditioning coverup picture. Cute room
Not convenient for people with disabilities. Restaurant staff not trained well about hotel issues. Room dirty on check in. Discussed with owner. Parking a block and 1/2 away. Adult hotel for peace and relaxation yet night time lounge next door for young people very loud music late at night and bar fights out side window at 1:30 am. No visitors allowed. Clump of hair in tub and drops of blood on tile floor by toilet.
Location is super
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Location was great. Room spacious. Liked the outdoor seating.Staff friendly and helpfull
Matress was noisy when moving around. Missing tv remote, had to borrow from another unit.Not thrilled with brushing teeth and cleaning up in kitchen sink.Wish office was open more than from 4-8 for customer service, directions, etc.
I have to say., it was horrible! no staff around to even complain to ,very disappointed! will not be back.
Charming bed & breakfast style lodging. (Hotel employee) is friendly and gracious host going above and beyond for my dogs and I during our short stay. Such a great value. We will be returning often.
Everything exceeded expectation, no complaints.
Loved that they put us in the back building; we heard no road noise at all. The motel itself was very quiet.
Not much of a view, but we didn't really care. Would have liked a couple of firmer pillows.
Keurig coffee maker and a great election of coffees
Expired creamers that made me waste two cups of coffee. And flavored creamer? Boo.... That's the only issue I had.
Location, right on the Lake Chelan
Room was very nice, comfortable, with a view
All amenities, in the room, plus indoor and outdoor pools with jacuzzis
Close to the town, although not really an easy walk.
Julian, at the front desk. He was Top Notch, and a big help.
Tom, at the front desk, too. Very helpful.
Goose poop in the Lakeside Park. Unclean for sitting on the grass or beach w/o a lounge chair, and walking.
Almost no internet or reception on the cell phones, and wifi was not reliable.
Staff at the front desk was not knowledgeable and/or did not help to find information for alternate travel methods to get out of town. My car broke down, so I needed some special help, especially with such poor phone and internet. The ladies at the front desk just gave me web sites. The men, Julian and Tom, assisted as much as needed!
It's the hub of a town on a Great Lake in one of the great spots in all of Washington. All the rooms are view rooms. It's February and it's awesome here and I paid 115 for my room. That is a bargain beyond bargains. The restaurant is excellent and the bartender is now my friend.
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Waterfront room close to the hot tub.
Room was too noisy.
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Eczema is a red, rough, itchy rash usually found on an infant's cheeks. It may spread to other parts of the body, such as behind the knees and in the bend of the arm. It is often caused by allergies to foods, but you're right that the culprit is often not apparent. Think about whether your baby ate any new food recently or, if you're breastfeeding, whether you ate anything new. In the meantime, to treat the skin, keep it moist with a gentle cream such as Eucerin. If the inflammation is severe, your doctor can prescribe Elidel, a nonsteroidal cream. (Although many cases of severe eczema are treated with topical steroids, doctors prefer not to use these on the face since they can cause discoloration and a slight thickening of the skin if used for long periods).
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Originally written on Inside the Bills | Last updated 10/31/11
ORCHARD PARK, NY - NOVEMBER 29: George Wilson #37 and Drayton Florence #29 of the Buffalo Bills walk through the tunnel to the field before the game against the Miami Dolphins at Ralph Wilson Stadium on November 29, 2009 in Orchard Park, New York. Buffalo won 31-14. (Photo by Rick Stewart/Getty Images)
It didn't take long for the Bills to shift their attention to the New York Jets. Less than an hour after their shutout win over the Redskins, George Wilson was already talking about getting ready for their division rival. "This week is huge," he said. "We go back into the division for what we call two-fers. By beating a division opponent you essentially go up on them two games." It's clear that Wilson and his teammates are on a mission to reach the playoffs as they're focused on winning each game as it comes to put themselves in the best position possible for a postseason berth. "We have to continue to challenge ourselves and be able to win our division so we're not having to depend on anybody," he said. "We know going into Ralph Wilson Stadium later in the season it becomes a bigger challenge for our opponents to deal with. We know the advantage that we could possibly have going down the stretch. So we just have to do our part to put ourselves in the right position as the season draws
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Wedding planner and star of TLC's "Wedding Island", Sandy Malone, stopped by to share her experiences with our grooms.
Just because a groom isn't very involved in the wedding planning doesn't mean he doesn't care. Sure, for some it does – they just want to be told where and when – but for most grooms today, a more active role is what they'd like to be taking. And although this may be true, some honestly feel like they can't because of work, school or travel commitments. But don't feel too badly guys. I've had grooms plan entire weddings when their bride was in medical school or serving overseas. I've also had a number of grooms who were on active duty themselves, and could barely participate in the wedding planning (not get back from deployment until a few weeks before the big day). They're all totally off the hook, in my opinion. Although, you'd be surprised how many of them did participate in choosing menus, music… via online communication with their future bride. I even have a groom who is a merchant marine and the bride doesn't even know where he is half of the time. But when he's home, we scramble to schedule the conference calls that involve things he really cares about (venue selection, the bar and the welcome party). This groom WANTS to be a part of the planning, so we do our best to make it work.
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Lane Kiffin: My mouth gets me in trouble
Lane Kiffin.
Vilified. Controversial. Funny?
"My 5-year-old daughter, Landry, for some reason, tries to get under my skin all the time," said the new coach for USC, who along with other Pac-10 coaches visited ESPN's campus in Connecticut on Wednesday. "She likes to run around and say her favorite person in the NFL is Al Davis. I don't know where she got that idea from."
Davis is the Oakland Raiders owner who hired Kiffin in 2007 -- making him the youngest head coach in modern NFL history -- and then, a year later, fired him and then went on national TV to rake him over the coals.
"It wasn't me who told her that!" said Kiffin's wife, Layla.
Kiffin quipped: "Hey, I don't think she's part of the interview. She's eating."
Is this the new Lane Kiffin, the coach who has stepped in it a little too much and talked about it a little too much?
"It doesn't fit my personality to be quiet," said Kiffin, who has come under fire at every stop in his coaching career. "I don't want to keep saying 'no comment' to everyone. So I'm very open and to a fault. It's really hurt me over time."
You think?
The son of legendary NFL defensive coach Monte Kiffin, Lane parlayed five years with USC as an assistant coach into 20 games as Oakland Raiders coach, one year at the University of Tennessee and now the head-coaching position at one of the most storied programs in the nation. And he left those previous two coaching jobs under acrimonious circumstances.
Page 2: Why in the world would you put yourself through this today?
Kiffin: "It's just part of the job. This is the world I live in. Right, wrong, indifferent. I just need to get to next week. That's when we get to practice."
Do you realized you're hated?
"That's your world. I don't hear that stuff. That's not what I deal with on a daily basis. In this profession, people tell you what you want to hear most of the time. That's 99 percent of the people I deal with. They tell me everything is great. I don't have to hear from bloggers or writers out there. I don't deal with it."
Come on. Seriously? The Tennessee Titans -- and USC alum Jeff Fisher -- are suing you and you have a suit still against the Oakland Raiders!
"I don't picture it as Jeff Fisher suing me. I've had a conversation with him. He understands what took place, and I think he feels better about it. Lawsuits are involved, so I can't really talk about those things. Yes, it makes things difficult when I try to answer questions."
I don't think you'll be vacationing in Knoxville, right? What do you say to the Vols fans?
"You have to be confident in yourself. At Tennessee, I knew we did the best job we could. While we were there, we made progress and we were going in the right direction. The roster, when we left, was much better than when we arrived. Yes, I know it wasn't perfect timing."
What about that infamous press conference?
"Looking back, I should have listened to my advisers. They told me I shouldn't have done anything. I should have just left. But I felt really connected to that local media. They had been extremely positive toward us. I wanted to go above that. I didn't want to just get on the plane and take off. I had planned to have a sit-down with local media explaining my decision -- off the record -- and then give a prepared statement. But it backfired. No one had the patience. If I had a chance to do it over again, I would have just done nothing and left."
Ever want to go back to the NFL?
"I love where I am at. I don't know whether I'd want to go to the NFL. Here, I can build my roster from recruits. I don't have to worry about salary cap and free agency."
Can you talk about USC and the past few weeks?
"It's a tough situation to talk about that because of all the sanctions. Our recruiting hasn't suffered. It's going to be a big challenge for us. But it's still a powerful place, a great place to get a degree. We can move forward. It is my dream job. When I had that opening press conference, I said it then and believe it to be true."
Layla chimed in: "We were just happy to get back. Our kids were born here. This is our home."
OK, are you ready for this season?
"This first year is most difficult and extremely challenging. That's why I'm in the office all the time. I told Layla that it only will happen for the first year. Then again, I've been saying that for three years in a row."
Is this the new funnier Lane Kiffin?
Lynn Hoppes is Senior Director of Page 2 and Commentary for ESPN.com.


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Add 2 ounces gin (preferably Tanqueray) to a highball glass filled with ice. Squeeze in 1-3 lime wedges to taste, then add them to glass. Add 3-4 ounces tonic water; stir to combine.
Gin & Tonic (or G&T) is probably the easier drink in the world to make; however, the cheaper gins are probably better for this drink as the tonic mix usually masks the gin taste. Use the Tanquerey for a Martini.


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I think they are right, but he obviously is a sick person with no degree of self respect for anyone.
Originally written on The Victory Formation | Last updated 7/12/13
According to a report from TMZ, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez will stay in solitary confinement for his own protection at the Bristol County Jail. Hernandez is accused of the first-degree murder of Odin Lloyd has been jailed since being arrested on June 26. As we previously reported, the alleged murderer was placed in solitary right after he was booked — fearing violent inmates might view the former NFL star as a "prize." But officials vowed to review Aaron's situation and would consider moving him if they felt it was safe. But officials met yesterday and a rep for the jail tells TMZ … after serious discussion, they decided NOT to move Hernandez, believing it would be in his "best interest" to stay. The insinuation — he's still in danger. The jail rep says the ex-NFL star is "doing well" behind bars … and hasn't had any problems so far. This certainly isn't surprising. Hernandez is a high-profile person, and at the moment, he hasn't been convicted of anything and could be seen as a target. Also, there may be concerns due to the alleged connections to gangs, and there could be issues with that in general [...]
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Why would he be in danger, after all he's in with his own kind now...murderers and criminals.
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A device for data stream analyzing that is able to recognize different data streams and then start processors or functionalities to store or check data in a data stream. The device includes a processor means and a program memory, making it possible to parse a data stream in a way that is controlled by an interchangeable program. There will be no need for changing the hardware. This could save time and money for companies responsible for providing, maintaining and updating network switches. The device also includes a multiplexable data stream delayline for receiving the data streams, and multiplexing means for connecting different parts of the data stream to the processor.
1. A device for analyzing a data stream comprising:
a delayline that receives the data stream and maintains a predetermined number of the latest incoming bytes of the data stream;
a control unit that keeps track of the location of a specific byte in the delayline and generates a tag corresponding to the specific byte;
a processor that parses the data stream by requesting the specific byte using the tag; and
a multiplexer coupled to the delayline that receives information corresponding to the location from the control unit and thereby retrieves the specific byte from the delayline for provision to the processor.
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a base address register for the processor to enable code to be reused by recognizing a given pattern even if it starts at different positions in the data stream.
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17. A method for data stream analyzing comprising the steps of:
receiving a data stream and maintaining a predetermined number of the latest incoming bytes of the data stream in a delayline;
keeping track of the location of a specific byte in the delayline;
generating a tag corresponding to the specific byte;
parsing the data stream by a processor that requests the specific byte by its tag: and
retrieving the specific byte from the delayline for provision to the processor in accordance with information corresponding to the tracked location and in response to the request by the processor.
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This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/738,720 filed on Dec. 15, 2000 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,002,983 which claims priority to Swedish application serial no. SE 9904685-6 filed on Dec. 17, 1999.
The present invention relates to packet switching, more specifically to data stream decoding and data stream analyzing.
In the field of data and computer communications there is an increasing need for high speed/high bandwidth products. Prior art references relating to packet switching and more specifically to data stream decoding and pertinent to the present invention include: U.S. Pat. No. 5,509,006, JP 6/276198, EP 767565, EP 953897, and U.S. Pat. No. 5,594,869.
The problem of extracting address information in a switch from a packet in a data stream is in the prior art solved by applying masks on the content of one or more delay lines to filter out the required information. One disadvantage with this approach is the difficulty to adjust the switch to new communication protocols, because the masks are hardware implemented. Another disadvantage with the prior art is that the data in the delay line is only accessible at a certain position or certain positions, instead of being available all the time they reside in the delay line.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a device for improved programmable datastream analysis in the context of packet switching. In the context of this document a datastream can be any type of data stream, e.g. a bytewise Ethernet datastream in a computer network, including an Ethernet packet with different combinations of contents.
The invention relates to a device for data stream analyzing. Said device is able to recognize different data streams and then start other processors or functionalities to store or check data in a data stream. Special features are: a compare processor, a compare instruction memory, a data stream pipeline, a multiplexer and a multiplexer control unit, making it possible to test packet data under program control using several instructions and under several clock cycles even though the data is moving forward in the pipeline and even though other bytes of data are entering the device.
The invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
The invention is preferably implemented as an integrated circuit (IC) having an electrical interface to the outside. The invention comprises a number of physical or logical units as illustrated in
When a data stream enters the device of the invention, it is passed through a delayline 1, preferably a 23 shifts deep and 1 byte wide shift register. As long as a byte resides in the first 16 positions it can be accessed by the compare processor 5, which basically will act as a packet parser. The compare processor 5 is responsible for decoding the packets. It is also connected to a compare instruction memory 4 which inherits the parsing code.
One characteristic property of the invention is that every incoming byte in the data stream is numbered with a tag. When the compare processor 5 asks for a specific tag the multiplexer control unit 3 delivers the byte located at the right position.
When the compare processor 5 has come to some kind of conclusion it might want to report something to a result field or an option field, see below. This is done by starting up a save sequence. A start address for a save sequence will be sent from the compare processor 5 to the save engine 6. Said save engine 6 examine the incoming address and decides if it is a save regarding the result field or the option field. According to this decision the address is placed in either a bit save fifo register 61 or a stream save fifo register 62 respectively.
The bit save unit 7 has three functions: it can set bits in the result field, perform checksum control and length control.
The stream save unit 9 executes the instruction that saves the option field. Said stream save unit 9 also inserts the result field into the stream and regulates a number of control signals.
The delayline 1 preferably comprises a 23 shifts deep, 1 byte wide shift register. The 16 first positions of the shift register is reachable from the compare processor 5 through a multiplexer 2. The two last positions are connected to the two save units 7, 9 (bit save and stream save). The stream save unit 9 is actually only using the very last position, and only the bit save unit 7 needs the last two positions because the checksum control works with 16 bits at a time. There are five positions that are prevented from being accessed by the parsing function of the compare procesor 5 and by the save units 7, 9 (bit save and stream save). The reason for a delay before the byte stream arrives to the save units 7, 9 is that all start addresses sent from the compare processor 5 to the save units 7, 9 are queued in a fifo register. Depending on how many save sequences in the queue and how long they are, this might in some extreme situations generate an error. This is because vital data already have passed through the delayline before a save sequence is started. The actual delay needed to secure that no such error occurs is 4*64=192 clock cycles. 64 is the maximum length of a save sequence and 4 is the maximum of start addresses waiting to be executed. However, simulations have shown that five delay cycles are enough, since all save sequences normally written are very short.
A characteristic function of the invention is that it automatically keeps track of where a specific byte has its location in the delayline. The programmer only needs to specify which tag, i.e. which number the byte has, where the first byte in a packet is number zero, the second is number 1 and so on. This is why every byte arriving to the delayline 1 should be tagged (numbered). The tagging operating could easily be done by just adding an extra field in every shift in the delayline 1 inheriting the byte's tag. But this is disadvantageous in two aspects. First, much silicon would be used to implement the extra field in the delayline 1. Second, when the parser wants to look at a specific tag it would take a lot of time if every shift had to be searched to find the wanted tag.
Instead, the present invention has solved the above problem by making a part of the delayline multiplexable; said multiplexable part of the delayline preferably includes the 16 latest incoming bytes. Worst case for the length of a packet is 1 byte (erroneous), but since the first 12 bytes always contain the OSI Media Access Control address (MAC-address), no useful information can be extracted if the packet is shorter than 13 bytes. These packets will force the compare processor 5 to begin with the next packet at once and their DV (data valid) signal will be unset so the rest of the device or a switch will never see it. With a limit of at least two clock cycles (bytes) between different packets it is possible to guarantee that never more than two packets exist at the same time in the delayline 1.
According to the ethernet standard the 1FG (Inter Frame Gap), which means the distance between packets, is at least 20 cycles, but a smaller distance is always desirable. E.g. a minimum distance of 6 cycles makes it possible to easily extend the device to be able to take care of SONET frames (An alternative ISO-OSI Layer 2 frame instead of ethernet).
The position of a requested byte is located according to the expression
In the above expression "p" is the position of the wanted byte in the delayline; "tagfield" is the value of the tagfield register (321 or 331); "lastfield" is the value of the lastfield register (322 or 332) and "wanted_tag" is the position of the wanted byte relative to the beginning of the packet.
A TU 32, 33 also generates a 'tag_error' signal if the requested tag never will be available or 'tag_soon' if the requested tag has not arrived to the delayline yet.
The controlling statemachinc (CS) 31 is responsible for selecting a free TU (32 or 33) for an arriving packet and to pause the compare processor 5 when no new packets are available. The CS 31 will unselect a TU (32, 33) when the TU generates an 'end_of_packet' signal. An unselected TU (32, 33) will be reset to prepare it to receive the next incoming packet. The CS 31 is also controlling the TU multiplexer 34 to change its state every time the compare processor is asking for a new packet.
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All instructions are executed in one clockcycle, except in two cases. This is possible because the compare processor unit receives two instructions every clockcycle from the compare instruction memory 4 which is of the double ported memory type. This features decreases the total amount of clock cycles needed for the compare processor 5 to parse a packet, thereby decreasing the needed size of the delayline. Some instructions are able to start save sequences. Said instructions have a field that tells what address in the save instruction memory 8 shall start the execution. Save address 0×00 will not generate a start of a save sequence.
The compare processor 5 must know when a new parsing is started so the registers 51, 52, 54, 55 can be reset. Therefore, when parsing of a packet is done, there shall be a 'jump_and_save' instruction with jump adress 0×7f (=last compare instruction memory 4 address). When this is detected it resets and starts looking for a new packet. If the compare processor 5 gets the signal 'too_short' it is reset. Further, a 'tag_soon' signal pauses the processor 5 and a 'tag_error' signal forces it to begin with the next packet.
The save engine 6 takes the address sent from the compare processor 5 and determines if it is the start address of a bit save sequence or a byte stream sequence. Thereafter, the address together with the current value of the base register 54 is put in the specific fifo 61, 62, The value of the base register 54 is needed for all save instructions that are using tag numbers. When the device according to the invention is programmed, a constant is written to the save engine 6 to tell where bit save sequences end in the save instruction memory 8. This feature exists because it is hard to tell how many instructions are needed to the different parts and it is more expensive to map two memories than one twice as big.
The bit save unit 7 writes to the result field 76. The result field 76 preferably consists of 24 bits or 3 bytes. It is controlled by the save instruction memory 8 and orders other units to execute the instructions. The executing units are:
The checksum unit 73 executes a checksum control instruction which performs a 16-bit one complement addition. The unit needs to know what tag to start the execution from (Tag) and how many bytes the checksum should cover (Length). If there are checksum errors (i.e. the sum differs from 0×FFFF) the unit writes to the result field 76. Further, this block need the value of the base register 54 as it was when the compare processor 5 sent the start address of the current save sequence.
The bit unit 74 executes a bit save command which bitwise "xor"-ise one selected byte in the result field 76 with the data field. In other words, all bits which are set in the data field will invert the corresponding bit in the result field 76. It is only possible to invert one specific bit one time per packet, this is because e.g. an OSI Layer 3 error could be found in many ways, but if the bit which indicate a Layer 3 error is set an even number of times, this would look like a correct Layer 3 packet in the result field 76. The address field indicates which byte of the three possible bytes in the result field 76, should be written to.
Length Error
The length error unit 75 is the most complex unit and investigates lengths in a packet and is used with one or more length control instructions. In a network there might occur packets that have been cut off. This causes many kinds of errors, e.g. if layer 4 is shorter than two bytes the result field 76 should indicate Layer 3 error but not Layer 2 error. The length error unit 75 consists of two identical checkboxes and one controller. A checkbox needs to know at which tag to start the measurement from, what kind of comparison it is supposed to perform (more, less, equal or not equal) and what length to match this comparison to. If a checkbox detects a length error, a field which is part of the instruction indicates which bit, of four possible bits in the results field 76, should be written to. As with the checksum unit 73, this unit 75 also needs the value from the base register 54 as it was when the compare processor 5 sent the start address of the current save sequence.
The stream save executing unit 9 has only one save instruction to handle, a byte stream save instruction. Said instruction is used to save to the option field and includes a start tag number, a length and an six bit wide address to tell were in the option field the selected bytes are to be written. Besides of this it also inserts the result field 76 as soon as all bit save instructions are executed.
The electrical interface of a preferred embodiment of the invention to the outside world is described in conjunction with
The output interface includes output terminals for a serial byte stream together with some control signals. The control signals include a data valid (1 bit), an option field address (6 bits), a store and a halt signal (1 bit each). The store signal tells if the current byte is to be stored in an option field, the halt signal together with the store signal tells if the stream out is the inserted result field. The address bus allows addressing in the option field.
A typical application for the present invention is for packet switching in a computer network together with a packet switch by extracting information, especially addresses, from the packet headers, because it is possible to test data using several instructions and under several clock cycles even though said data is moving forward in the delayline (1) and even though other bytes of data are entering the device. One of the features of the invention is that the decoding of the protocol is programmable. This is a major advantage because new or different types of protocols can be handled by just reprogramming the device. There will be no need for changing the hardware. This could save time and money for companies responsible for providing, maintaining and updating network switches.
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1. Prepare the grill.
2. Marinate the sirloin steak with 2 tablespoon of Cajun seasoning.
3. Also marinate the calamari buttons with 1 tablespoon of Cajun seasoning.
4. Once done place the steak on the grill and cook for 10 minutes on both sides, turning them once in a while.
5. Once done remove and the grill the calamari buttons and grill for 15-20 minutes.
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Hard-hitting safety that can make some highlight-reel thumps. Comfortable playing in the box, and can come up and meet the ballcarrier in the hole. Shows good closing burst on the ball. Shows some ability to keep things in front of him when covering the back or tight end in the flat.
Mistake-prone and takes a lot of bad angles which lead to missed stops and big plays. Undersized, and tries to lower the shoulder instead of wrapping up. Can get run over by bigger backs and does a poor job breaking down in space to make the stop. Tackles too high at times.
Valai makes some big hits, but makes many more mistkaes. A three-year starter that has a similar frame and physical disposition as Bob Sanders, but lacks Sanders discipline and instincts when it comes to defending the run. Doesn't make enough plays in coverage to really like him as a regular on defense.
Valai's hitting ability might impress a team enough to give him a shot and if that translates to playing on special teams then he can stick at the next level. But he's not smart enough or disciplined enough to really be trusted on regular defense. He'll throw his weight around, but takes too many bad angles. Almost every Wisconsin game I saw last year he made a mistake that wound up giving up a touchdown or a big run/catch by taking a bad angle or missing a tackle. In a Cover-2 scheme, he might be able to get by, but he's a run-defending safety that you can't trust defending the run. Which is a bad mix.
Valai could work as a reserve strong safety in Atlanta because he'll have opportunities to play in the box. But lacks the range and speed in coverage to really have much of a chance there. So unless he shines as a special teams player, he'll be hard-pressed to be more than an average practice squad player. Eventually guys with better size, speed, and range will come along and push him off the roster.
Valai probably isn't worth drafting because of his limited upside on defense. At best, you can hope for him going late in the seventh round and making a roster as a special teams player.
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Speed: 3.0
Tackling: 2.5
Coverage: 2.0
Ball Skills: 2.0
Range: 2.0
Jay Valai, SS, Wisconsin
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BOSTON (AP) Austin Rivers won his first NBA game against his father as the New Orleans Hornets beat coach Doc Rivers and the Boston Celtics 90-78 on Wednesday night.
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This was supposed to be the season that South Carolina receiver Alshon Jeffery became even more unstoppable in the Gamecocks' push for an Southeastern Conference title. Instead, five games in, Jeffery is struggling to make plays for No. 18 South Carolina. Jeffery was an all-SEC first-team performer a year ago and set single-season school records with 88 catches for 1,517 yards. He was on cover of Sports Illustrated's college football preview issue this summer and the 6-foot-4, 229-pound junior was expected to fly past those numbers and lead the Gamecocks (4-1, 2-1 SEC) back into the league's championship game. But Jeffery isn't close to last year's numbers with 19 catches for 332 yards as the Gamecocks prepare for Kentucky (2-3, 0-2) on Saturday.
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|5 , separated
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
Sift cake flour and salt together four times.
Set aside.
Add lemon rind and lemon juice to egg yolks.
Beat until very thick.
Beat egg whites until very stiffpeaks form.
Fold sorbitol into egg whites.
Then fold in egg yolk mixture.
Sift the flour mixture, a fourth of it at a time, over the top of the egg mixture.
Gently fold the flour in after each addition.
Pour into a 9 in. (23 cm) ungreased tube pan.
Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 60 minutes or until done.
Invert pan and cool completely.
Remove cake from pan.
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As a hearing child of deaf parents, Richard Ladner saw firsthand the impact of communications technology on his parents' lives.
"Back in the early 1970s, they got their first teletypewriter," he said. "It was a very big box, the size of a computer, but it opened a new world for them."
Now a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, Ladner sees another world opening with MobileASL, software he developed with six other engineers at his school and Cornell University. MobileASL allows deaf and hard-of-hearing people to "chat" over their cell phones in American Sign Language via two-way, real-time video.
"Speaking in sign language," Ladner said, "is a lot more natural -- and faster -- than texting," which is how deaf people communicate on cell phones. "Signing is like having an alternative that is a natural language."
Not that bringing ASL to a U.S. cell phone was an easy task: The low bandwidth on the standard U.S. cell phone network, coupled with the low processing power of most mobile phones, posed obstacles when it came to streaming video at rates fast enough to transmit intelligible sign language. In Europe and Asia, where higher bandwidth 3G networks predominate, cell phone signing is already under way in Sweden and Japan.
"The big challenge has been, how can we process enough frames per second on the cell phone in real time so we can actually have a video that people can understand," said Eve Riskin, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington and the principal investigator on the project.
The team got around these barriers through video compression technology that selectively reduces the amount of data needed to show video images.
The key, though, lies in reducing data in the right areas.
In sign language, the hands -- and especially the face, which can convey subtleties in expressions, feelings, even grammar -- are the most important parts of the video image. Through "skin detection" algorithms that can pick out the hands and face in an image by matching blocks of pixels, the data constituting these important areas are transmitted in full for the highest resolution. For less important parts of the image, such as the background, the data packets can be dropped without sacrificing intelligibility.
"We're simply allocating more bits to regions of the video that are more important," Riskin said.
The researchers are now working on a way to identify when someone is signing -- moving his or her hands -- and not signing, or "listening," so that the bit rate can be increased, or decreased to conserve batteries and lessen the "computational burden" when no one is signing.
"Compression takes so much power that it would be nice to know if the person is not signing so that you would not have to send so many frames," Ladner said.
Microsoft, Intel and Sprint have funded the MobileASL project "in little bits" since the project started about three years ago, but the National Science Foundation has supplied the bulk of the money, coming through with $1.1 million in grants over the years. The most recent grant, awarded in August, will go toward a field study that will begin next year in Seattle.
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This module provides a simple way of specifying syntactic constructs that are not implemented via the feature pragma, but are still not compatible with older versions of Perl.
Nothing. Using Syntax::Construct with no parameters is an error, giving it an empty list is a no-op.
"Recursive sort subs" in perl5100delta.
"Defined-or operator" in perl5100delta or "Logical Defined-Or" in perlop.
"Recursive Patterns" under "Regular expressions" in perl5100delta or "(?PARNO) (?-PARNO) (?+PARNO) (?R) (?0)" in perlre.
"Named Capture Buffers" under "Regular expressions" in perl5100delta or "(?<NAME>pattern)" in perlre.
Not mentioned in any Delta. See (?|pattern) in "Extended patterns" in perlre.
"Possessive Quantifiers" under "Regular expressions" in perl5100delta or "Quantifiers" in perlre.
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"Regular Expressions" in perl5140delta and "Modifiers" in perlre.
"Array and hash container functions accept references" in perl5140delta. See also
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"rand now uses a consistent random number generator" in perl5200delta
"New slice syntax" in perl5200delta
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"New b boundaries in regular expressions" in perldelta
"Non Capturing Regular Expression Flag" in perldelta
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Please tell me some of your LO's have done this and been just fine. Our neighbor (who is an Emergency Room PA) took a look and told us signs to look out for, but she said he looks like he is acting fine and the bump looks superficial.Ā
I'm still freaked! LO has has enough head problems his whole little life. I hate that he has two left feet, just like DH! Ugh!


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Chaplain urges public interest in missing baby
Leads in the case of missing infant Bryan Dos Santos Gomes have tapered off, and one Fort Myers minister wants to turn that around.
Since the Dec. 1 kidnapping, Israel Suarez — a police chaplain and director of a Fort Myers assistance agency — has tried to help in the search for Bryan. He has passed out fliers depicting a sketch of the Hispanic woman police describe as the suspect in the kidnapping. He has organized prayer vigils.
He has also spent time listening to Maria de Fatima Ramos Dos Santos, the baby's mother, give her account of the kidnapping. She has repeated the same story over the weeks since her son disappeared, Suarez said, leading him to conclude Bryan may still be in the area, possibly being raised by a woman who took him as her own child.
"That's my view. It might be wrong," he said.
It's the view, though, that police initially presented after the kidnapping, when investigators described the suspect as a desperate woman who wanted a child to call her own at any cost.
But eight days after the kidnapping, Fort Myers Police Chief Hilton Daniels said police had learned that the baby's parents owed money to the human smugglers who guided them to Florida from Brazil in 2005, and that the debt was the likely motive behind the kidnapping.
Since then, Bryan's parents have repeatedly said they don't believe their debt to smugglers has anything to do with why their son is no longer with them.
Suarez, who is a chaplain for the Fort Myers Police Department, made it clear he was expressing a personal opinion when he said at a press conference Wednesday morning that he believes Bryan is being taken care of by a woman somewhere in the local Hispanic community. And he said he sees daily how hard the department is working to find Bryan.
He wore his police chaplain's jacket before beginning the conference, at which he appealed specifically to Spanish-language media for a month-long campaign to keep the image of the suspect and the missing baby prominent.
His hope is that the woman who took Bryan will come to understand the agony she is causing his parents and decide to return him, he said.
Police have described the suspect as a woman about 30 years old, with black, straight hair and light skin. The day of the kidnapping, she drove a black SUV with peeling window tint and spoke Spanish.
Delbert Fair of the Fort Myers Police Department sat next to Suarez at the conference. He said police are looking at all angles in the investigation, and he did not directly answer questions about whether police still believe an unpaid debt to human smugglers was behind the kidnapping.
Fair echoed Suarez's requests for help from the community in the investigation.
"Whether they realize it or not, someone out there has information," Fair said. "We want people to call in with tips. Whether they believe themselves the tips are too small or too big, call in."
But with renewed requests for information from the community — especially from the area's Hispanic community — Fair said several times no one should be afraid of coming forward with information or worry about getting deported.
"They don't have to give their names," Fair said. He said it's possible to collect the $21,000 reward being offered for information that helps lead to Bryan's return and still remain anonymous. Just as long as we get the information."
The most prominent person to come to police so far in the investigation was Brazilian immigrant Valter Coelho, whom police described as a "person of interest" in the case, and who ended up in the custody of Immigration and Custom Enforcement officials after contacting police in December. The Lehigh Acres resident had been under a deportation order for over a year before going to police.
But that doesn't mean other people who might have information should be afraid to come to police, even if they have existing immigration issues, Fair said. Many of the hundreds of tips that have come in so far have been from people in the country illegally, he said.
"I think it was a misunderstood issue," he said of Coelho's deportation, describing Coelho as "not your average individual." He declined to give more detail. "There was a lot more information to that case than we can disclose."
At the time Coelho came forward, police were describing him as a "known enforcer in a human smuggling ring."
Bryan's mother, Ramos Dos Santos, also at the conference, asked for a continued search for her son, in particular asking that doctors in the area closely scrutinize infants brought in for vaccinations at their offices. And she appealed directly to the woman she believes has Bryan.
"I ask that lady to get in my place," she said through a translator. "She has to look at Bryan and realize she did not carry that baby in her womb for nine months," she said.
"Sooner or later the truth will come out."
Anyone with information about the baby, Bryan Dos Santos Gomes, who is now a little over 2 months old, is asked to contact the Fort Myers Police Department at (239) 334-4155, or to call 911 or a toll-free number, 1-877-667-1296, set up specifically for this case. Those uncomfortable calling the police can contact Rev. Israel Suarez, executive director of the Nations Association, at (239) 332-7575.
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BOSTON, January 12, 2012: A research collaboration between the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Children's Hospital Boston has developed "smart" injectable nanotherapeutics that can be programmed to selectively deliver drugs to the cells of the pancreas. Although this nanotechnology will need significant additional testing and development before being ready for clinical use, it could potentially improve treatment for Type I diabetes by increasing therapeutic efficacy and reducing side effects.
The approach was found to increase drug efficacy by 200-fold in in vitro studies based on the ability of these nanomaterials to both protect the drug from degradation and concentrate it at key target sites, such as regions of the pancreas that contain the insulin-producing cells. The dramatic increase in efficacy also means that much smaller amounts of drugs would be needed for treatment, opening the possibility of significantly reduced toxic side effects, as well as lower treatment costs.
The research was led by Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber M.D., Ph.D. and Kaustabh Ghosh, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral fellow at Children's Hospital Boston. Their findings appear in the current issue of Nano Letters. Ingber is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston, and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Ghosh is now an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside. Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellows, Umai Kanapathipillai and Netanel Korin, also contributed to the work, as did Jason McCarthy, Assistant Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant in Chemistry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Female impersonation need say nothing about sexual identity, but it has for a long time been almost an institutionalized aspect of gay male culture.
Although sparse in images documenting the gay community, pre-Stonewall gay male photography blurs the boundaries between art, erotica, and social history.
Given the historic stigma around making, circulating, and possessing overtly homoerotic images, the visual arts have been especially important for providing a socially sanctioned arena for depicting the naked male body and suggesting homoerotic desire.
Independent films that aggressively assert homosexual identity and queer culture, the New Queer Cinema can be seen as the culmination of several developments in American cinema.
Renowned photographer, teacher, critic, editor, and curator, Minor White created some of the most interesting photographs of male nudes of the second half of the twentieth century, but did not exhibit them for fear of scandal.
The first international fashion superstar, Halston dressed and befriended some of America's most glamorous women.
An artistic movement that grew out of Dadaism and flourished in Europe shortly after World War I, Surrealism embraced the idea that art was an expression of the subconscious.
Film, stage, and television actor Paul Winfield was openly gay in his private life, but maintained public silence about his homosexuality.
Pastor Sean Harris encouraged parishioners to beat their gay sons.
The increasingly ugly battle over North Carolina's Amendment One reveals a cancer at the core of fundamentalist religion and the desperation of the anti-gay movement, which now seems utterly unrestrained by any sense of decency. The supporters of Amendment One have revealed themselves not only as liars and fanatics, but also as advocates of child abuse and violence. The frightening thing is that they may prevail.
The opponents of equal rights routinely lie about glbtq people. They regularly spout discredited "research" from hate groups and simply manufacture nonsensical "slippery slope" arguments to frighten people. However, the campaign on behalf of North Carolina's Amendment One, which would require that the state recognize no relationship other than the marriage of one man and one woman, vividly demonstrates the increasing desperation of the anti-gay movement and its lack of any moral restraint.
The Vote for Marriage NC organization, which is leading the campaign in favor of Amendment One, no longer makes any pretense of conducting a civil discussion of policy. Its campaign is now frankly a campaign against gay people, who are routinely described as "perverted" and "depraved." In addition, it has blatantly made the campaign an expression of religious belief.
Typical of the campaign's spokespeople is Pastor Patrick Wooden of Raleigh's Upper Room Baptist Church. This pastor has an unhealthy fascination with gay men's sex lives and, more particularly, with anal sex. At every opportunity, he claims that gay men have so much anal sex that they have to wear diapers and that "I know of a case where in a hospital a homosexual male had a cellphone lodged in his anus and as they were operating on him the phone went off, the phone started ringing!"
When challenged by Pam Spaulding as to the veracity of these spurious claims, he admitted that they were false, but justified them because, by definition, "homosexuals as a group are defined by who they sleep with" and by extension, since his religious view is that homosexuality is a sin, this is what drives him to speak out. In other words, he thinks it perfectly acceptable to lie in the name of God.
If Wooden and his lies are vile, the sermoneering of Pastor Sean Harris of the Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina is downright repulsive. As the video clip below documents, in the midst of a sermon in support of Amendment One, Harris literally calls for beating gay children.
Perhaps the scariest thing about this video is the fact that the congregation clearly approves of the child abuse advocated by the pastor, and, even worse, the Berean Baptist Church operates a school.
After an outrage across the blogosphere, Harris issued a lame apology. On his MSNBC show The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell analyzes the pastor's apology.
Other ugly incidents in the campaign have included a redneck teenager making a video in which he shoots a "No on Amendment One" sign. That video was removed from YouTube after it attracted the attention of gay activists. But another bigot promptly posted his own contribution to political discourse, this one showing him urinating on a "No on Amendment One" sign.
One would think that the ugliness of these tactics would boomerang against the campaign for Amendment One. Apparently, however, that is not happening. The latest polls indicate that Amendment One will pass even though a majority of North Carolinians say that they are in favor of either same-sex marriage or civil unions, both of which are banned by the amendment.
The problem seems to be that the electorate is ill-informed and uneducated about Amendment One and also about gay people.
Protect All North Carolina Families, the group spearheading the attempt to defeat Amendment One, made a strategic decision not to focus on gay people, but rather to describe the harm it will cause all unmarried families and the state generally, as described here. Their ads have featured almost no gay people, focusing instead on issues such as domestic abuse and on the children of unmarried heterosexual couples.
In his Live from Hell's Kitchen blog, David Mixner lauded the organization's approach, contending that "Many voters, if they feel that it is a vote about approval, will not vote for the rights of the LGBT community. The key is have those who might not fully approve of the LGBT community find a way to overcome their discomfort and give them a 'hook' to vote for full equality."
However, by failing to educate the state about gay people, Protect All North Carolina Families has allowed the opposition to define gay people as depraved sexual perverts and to make the campaign about religious belief.
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Simcha Fisher, who is hilarious because she means to be, or her commenters, a great many of whom are hilarious without meaning to be.
It's hard to decide which is funnier
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- http://hezekiahgarrett.wordpress.com Hezekiah Garrett
Blog did us proud in there though!
It's the no pants thing that gets me every time. Skirts I understand. But no pants conjures images of, well, women without their pants on. In the name of modesty.
And that's just hilarious right there! As opposed to lewd. Which means my twisted sense of humor is God protecting my virtue/
- Andy, Bad Person
Oh goodness, is the Pants Debate back? Have I been missing it?
I've been waiting for this day. Let me go make some popcorn.
- http://www.chesterton.org Sean P. Dailey
The thought of the return of this debate makes some people pant, and makes some people skirt the issue.
- Nonymous
The reason no one comments on this is that "Ouch" is too short for the Patheos combox police.
- Dr. Eric
This is what happens when I have to treat a patient before I can make a pants comment, everyone beats me to it.
- beccolina
The people in her comboxes take themselves and life WAY too seriously. They aren't as bad as Marc Barnes' comboxes, but whoa, people are quick to tell Simcha how awful they think she is.
- Blog Goliard
I don't think even the pants debate can ever top the epic insanity of the WWJD thread. (I got called an Obama supporter, secret gay marriage enthusiast, and much more in that one.)
- http://remnantofremnant.blogspot.com priest's wife (@byzcathwife)
Wait ! Are Patheos bloggers allowed to drive traffic to the Register (and visa versa)???
- http://catholicanuck.blogspot.com uxordepp
Simcha had me at the "sola skirtura" comment, many moons ago.
- http://creativefidelity.wordpress.com Dan F.
I missed that one but that's really funny.
One question and one comment:
1) If I had the opinion of Simcha that many of her commenters do (I don't; I love Simcha), I would have stopped reading her after, like, her third blog post. Why do all these people stick around and make such an effort?
2) In a discussion about this post over at "…and sometimes tea," someone actually made the argument in the comments that the Catechism condmemns, always and everywhere, the use of sarcasm and irony in writing. So, basically, GK Chesterton was the worst Catholic ever. It's comments like that that make me wonder whether it might not be such a good thing to encourage everyone to read the Catechism on their own during the Year of Faith.
- http://www.likelierthings.com Jon W
It actually sort of gives me a warm feeling inside to find humorless fundie-types in the Catholic Church, too, just like we used to have 'em in my evangelical days.
- http://hezekiahgarrett.wordpress.com Hezekiah Garrett
Many moons! Still with the no pants…
There everywhere, I tells ya…
- Nonymous
Cut us some slacks, will you?
- http://hezekiahgarrett.wordpress.com Hezekiah Garrett
Its these breeches of decorum which are ruining our society!
(Seriously, if I am cutting your slacks, chances are, you're bleeding to death and I am trying to figure out precisely where. Not to bring you down…)
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Record: 10-6 Streak: Won 3 All-time vs. Denver: 8-19 Last time: Broncos, 31-23, Nov. 2012 The Line: N/A. Wild Card: Houston (home) is favored by 4.5 This week we're taking a first look at the three teams that could come to Denver to face the Broncos in the Divisional Round of the playoffs on January 12th — the Cincinnati Bengals, Indianapolis Colts, and Baltimore Ravens. First up: Cincy. The Cincinnati Bengals are quietly one of the hottest team in the NFL. Winners of their last three games by an average of 10 points, they've also won seven of their last eight games — all but a one-point loss to Dallas in Week 14. The Bengals are built on youth and defense, and it was that defense that helped the Bengals enjoy a three-point fourth quarter lead against our very own 11-win-in-a-row Broncos in Week 9. Who's hot: Bengals defense. The Bengals defense — ranked sixth overall, 12th against the run and seventh against the pass — has scored a touchdown in three straight games. Defensive tackle Geno Atkins has 12.5 sacks, while defensive end Michael Johnson has 11.5, paving the way for this Bengals defense to set a franchise record in sacks with 51. Who's not: Wider receiver A.J. Green. That's not to say A.J. Green isn't one of the biggest up-and-coming playmakers in the league — he most certainly is, and he's utterly dangerous on the field. That "not" is only relative to how Green started the season, and how he's been playing lately. Scorer of ten touchdowns in nine straight games starting in Week 2, Green only has one touchdown since. I bring this up mostly to emphasize the next point — Green is due. Matchup to Watch (should the Bengals advance): Green vs. Champ Bailey. Bailey was effusive with his praise of Green from their last matchup, a showdown of former Bulldogs that saw Green haul nine catches while mostly lining up against the future Hall of Famer. Green's most impressive catch was this 10-yard touchdown against Bailey — not his first impressive touchdown against the orange and blue. If these two teams continue to have success in the near future, we may soon find ourselves calling Green "Bronco-killer." How they come to Denver: Win and they're in. The Bengals are the sixth seed, the lowest seed in the playoffs, and since the first seed Broncos will face the lowest winning seed following Wild Card weekend, a Bengals victory guarantees a Broncos rematch, regardless of the result of the other game. How do you see the Broncos faring should the Bengals come to town? Let us know your thoughts on Cincinnati in the comments.
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This excerpt shows frustrated managers how to transform the power of resistance into a positive force and help you see ways to create your own change management tools.
On February 1, 2003, the Shuttle Columbia burned and was destroyed on reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. An independent commission was appointed to examine the cause of the accident and make recommendations. They wrote that they "intended to put this accident into context." The report went onto say, "We considered it unlikely that the accident was a random event; rather it was likely related in some degree to NASA's budgets, history and program culture, as well as the politics, compromises, and changing priorities of the democratic process. We are convinced that the management practices overseeing the Space Shuttle Program were as much a cause of the accident as the foam that struck the left wing."
If we are looking for one thing—say the technical reasons why an accident occurred—we will limit what we see and risk missing something equally or more important. By forcing ourselves to look more broadly and ask, "What else could it be?" we expand the frame and allow for a broader and even deeper understanding of the problem or problems.
When the world economic crisis hit in 2008, we—the press and the public—looked for who was responsible for this meltdown. We had to have a villain. And there were villains, but by solely focusing on the cheats and crooks, it distracted us from looking at the underlying causes of the crisis. Complexity came later. Context matters.
This excerpt comes from Chapter 5 ("Context Matters") of Rick Maurer's Beyond the Wall of Resistance: Why 70% of Changes Fail — and What You Can Do About It (Bard Press, 2010). This book shows frustrated managers at all levels how to transform the power of resistance into a positive force. The book includes tools for managing organizational change and will help you see ways to create your own change management tools.
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