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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- Z. Mason (Nashville, Tenn.) powered the Chattanooga Mocs (5-8) to the Dr Pepper Classic Championship with a 76-69 win over Utah Valley (7-9) Saturday evening. Mason, who earned tourney MVP honors, posted a career-high 26 points while tying his high of 13 rebounds.
The UTC win overshadowed one of the great individual performances in McKenzie Arena history. UVU's Holton Hunsaker scored 37 points hitting eight three-pointers in a duel with Mason and the Mocs. Hunsaker's 37 are the most by an opponent in the Roundhouse since Tennessee State's Darryl Brooks' 42 on December 8, 1989, a 102-98 TSU win.
It was a nip-and-tuck battle throughout. The Mocs' largest lead was seven, while their biggest deficit was four. After Alex Bran (Memphis, Tenn.) put UTC up 47-45 with 13 minutes remaining, the Wolverines struck. Hunsaker hit a three followed by an Alfonzo Hubbard steal and layup to flip the scoreboard to a 50-47 UVU advantage.
Mason scored two layups and on a fall-away jumper to put the Mocs back up one, 53-52 with 9:06 to go. Nick Thompson tied it up with a free throw nearly a minute later before Mason made it a two-point game with another mid-range jump shot with just over eight minutes remaining.
Hunsaker answered with a three-pointer a minute later swaying the margin back in front by one. That was matched just 14 seconds later by Ronrico White (Knoxville, Tenn.) for the Mocs. Mason scored on UTC's next possession thanks to Sam Watson's (Knoxville, Tenn.) work on the offensive boards to make it a four-point game again.
White started and ended a 10-2 Chattanooga run with three-pointers to put his squad up 65-58 with a little more than five minutes to play. Utah Valley would not go away. The Wolverines closed to within three, 67-64, on Taylor Brown's trey, but the Mocs made it count at the free throw line. UTC hit nine of 12 in the final two minutes while playing tight defense to claim the win.
Gee McGhee (Baton Rouge, La.) chipped in 11 points and a career-best nine rebounds for the Mocs. He made nine of 12 from the charity stripe. White also scored 11 with three assists.
Hubbard added 12 points for the Wolverines. Ben Aird matched Mason for game-high honors on the boards with 13 to go with four assists, four blocks and three steals.
The Mocs opened the game strong leading by five three different times early in the game. It was 16-11 on a Mason layup at 11:36 when UVU made its move. The Wolverines went on a 9-0 run to take a 20-16 lead at 8:37 on a Hubbard layup.
UTC turned the tables with an 8-0 run of its own for a seven-point lead, 30-23, on a layup by Drazen Zlovaric (Novi Sad, Serbia). Utah Valley snapped out of a six-and-a-half-minute stretch without a field goal by scoring the last four points, all by Hunsaker, to send the game into intermission with the Mocs up three, 30-27.
High Point (5-7) claimed a 76-74 win in the consolation game over Austin Peay (4-10). John Brown led the Panthers with 25 points and six rebounds, while Allan Chaney added 10 points and five boards off the bench. The Govs were paced by Anthony Campbell's 23 points and nine rebounds. Will Triggs (14), Chris Horton (13) and Travis Betran (10) also scored in double digits for Austin Peay.
Mason as MVP was joined on the All-Tournament Team by White. Hunsaker and Nick Thompson made it from UVU. Brown (High Point) and Campbell (Austin Peay) rounded out the squad.
It was the 15th Chattanooga Dr Pepper Classic crown in 23 years of the event. It's also the fourth time in five years John Shulman's charges kept the trophy at home.
The Mocs are off until next year traveling to Atlanta to square off with Georgia Tech on Wednesday, January 2. Game time is slated for 7 p.m., and it will air on ESPN3 online.
Listen to the exciting play-by-play from "Voice of the Mocs" Jim Reynolds on ESPN 105.1 the Zone in Chattanooga, or world-wide on GoMocs.com. MocsVision has the live audio (Free) action online. You can follow @GoMocsMBB on twitter for news, notes, stats and links to game notes, live stats and more.
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Originally posted by Quizzical
Not quoting this, too long(did not read it all i think too confusing) and buzzwords are killing meh...
edit: bleh some one commented had to quote...
You're view or Moores law is way too text book, die shrinks do not work as simply as that, since SiO replacements methods do no transfer immediately to smaller scale fabs, also many aspects of the die cannot be minimized, control asics, cache, and other elements do not scale as much as the transistors, also when you see a 32NM fab process it does not means the smallest gate transistor is 32NM
Also the "NM" does not matter, the number of nano meters in the fabrication process actually has nothing to do with the size of the transistors ;)
The XX nano meters you read on the press release is the average distance between identical discrete SRAM elements, that's it, In Intel's 65NM process for example, the average gate size of the MOFSET transistor about 30-35NM depending on point of time in the cycle, while the overall length of the transistor was around 160-180nm.
High school computer science was quite long time ago but power consumption of the processor is more dependent on the design of the processor it self(e.g. implementation of sleeping gates), and the chemical process of the silica it
When any semi conductor manufacturer switches to it does it to increase the yield per wafer, in many cases actually have the same power consumption, or even higher one due to leakage, and not being to implement some chemical process into the higher resolution lithography.
If you look at mil-spec chips some of them are still made at the 300nm range, with most of them today made around the 120-180 line of processes, yet they achieve much better power consumption, noise / EM internecine resistance, and even higher logical density in some cases than commercial IC's, when you care less about the cost per unit, and can afford to stick with a single process and perfect it you get much much better results. Intel has no reason to do so, since if can shrink your die size from 10mm to 5, you get 4 times more cores per wafer(based on a 300mm one).
The N2800 has a 6.5W and the N2600 has a 3.5W TDP, also TDP is not power consumption so not sure why you mentioned it, the N2800 has a power consumption of about 8-10W when its under high load, the N2600 has about 5-7W, thats the one they released for tablets, and ultra thin netbooks, the D series was meant for low power desktops, and cheaper stuff, and has 12-14W power consumption.
And again honestly you're view of the whole market is way different than what most consumer want, or need, i do not need a tablet i can play Crysis on, even if i had one i would not do it, if i have enough time to play Crysis ill do it on my PC, Laptop(Gaming one), or Console.
Tablets, Smartphones, Laptops/Desktops, have their own role, and there is no need for any more overlap than the basic ability to access my data, and my basic workspace.
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AMD has a prototype tablet using a trinity A6 APU running windows 8. As of right now nothing really looks to come close to matching it in performance. I believe it was built by Compal if you want to check it out.
Originally posted by Wizardry
Wait until you see what the next generation of tablet chips can do. It's going to be a huge jump when you have chips actually meant for tablets, rather than just using a cell phone chip (not enough performance) or a laptop chip (too much power consumption).
As for operating systems, I expect Apple to eventually be reduced to a niche player, just as happened with desktops and laptops and is far along the way in happening with cell phones. Apple brings some important innovations, but then within a few years, competitors are able to match them with cheaper prices and more open platforms. I somewhat expect Google Android to end up as the dominant tablet OS, for basically the same reasons that it has it has become the dominant cell phone OS.
Windows 8 tablets will also occupy a niche, with their main selling point that they can run all of your normal Windows hardware. You can use it like a tablet for web browsing, then plug in a keyboard and use it like a laptop and run all of your normal laptop software. As some people keep insisting, that's not really what people want in a tablet, and to a considerable degree, that's true. That's why Windows 8 tablets will only occupy a niche (for the people who want a tablet that is also a functional laptop), and the vast amount of software won't make Windows 8 the dominant tablet OS.
Wandering off in a different direction, I think Nvidia has ambitions about Tegra-based laptops, eventually with discrete GeForce cards. They haven't announced it, and it's really just speculation on my part. But they're a graphics company, and need to survive in a world in which integrated graphics has already eaten up the low end of graphics and is moving toward eating up the mid-range. And now that integrated graphics are built into the same chip as the CPU, you can't do integrated graphics if you don't do the processor.
Originally posted by GrayGhost79
ULV Ivy Bridge crushes it in CPU performance, though it loses badly in GPU performance. But they both suffer from the same problems: 17 W is really too much for a tablet. And they both have a bunch of bits burning power without doing anything productive in a tablet.
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Originally posted by Quizzical
The battery life was actually pretty good. The GPU performance is why nothing comes close and the GPU is the biggest limiting factor with tablets.
I'm not saying there isn't a lot of room for improvement but I truly think the Llano/Trinity route is the best hope for viable tablet CPU's or rather the APU route in general.
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I have an original iPad. I have a not-insignificant list of gripes about it, but really, "Not fast enough" is not one of those gripes.
I don't think the "next generation of tablet chips" is what the tablet revolution is waiting for to take off. The tablet revolution has already happened. It wasn't CPU horsepower that made it happen - it was a shift in thinking about the purpose of a tablet. It had failed for years because everyone just assumed that tablets would replace a laptop and take over many of the same functions.
Apple may or may not be a significant player in the future - they don't really have a great track record of maintaining a lead in anything, but they have an outstanding record of innovating and capitalizing on that innovation (oddly enough, that also was tied directly to SPJ, and he's no longer there to drive that, so time will tell if anyone else can pick that up). That doesn't really have anything to do with the future of the tablet - it has everything to do with the fact that Apple single-handedly defined the tablet, and what consumers want to do with one (although it took them two tries, the Newton didn't quite have the technology yet). A smart phone processor proved to be more than enough horsepower, and a smartphone OS more than capable enough (from both Apple and Google) - what we are seeing now are just refinements and iterations.
Microsoft may be able to catch up in the same manner they typically do - by throwing enough money and resources at it that they eventually get on the boat (Office and Xbox both were years behind their counterparts, but were able to become market leaders with this philosophy) - but that hasn't always worked for them. If they continue to try to push "Replacement for the PC" - which they may be doing with their general purpose OS - they will continue to lose, and lose badly no matter how much capitol or resources they throw behind it (ala Bob or Zune).
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FLOPS, MIPS, IPC, clock speed, benchmarks - pick a metric relating to general processing performance. Horsepower.
And if you really want to get technical, there is a direct conversion of watts to horsepower as a unit of power (1hp = 745.7W), and you can calculate, based on the Performance per Watt (an important metric in today's standards) to actually derive a relevant horsepower statistic for a piece of silicon, rather than just a straight conversion of power consumption or TDP.
However, I am using it in a general sense to convey the amount of processing power available.
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I actually still like MMORPGs
CPU power is so far from holding back tablets and smartphones this is laughable. Do you realize even the majority of the most advanced games on iOS still run on the iPhone 3GS and the first iPad will run them even better. They will be scaled back a bit, but the point is nothing will test the current A6 until well after it has already been replaced.
Remember, developers can't instantly produce boundry breaking software moments after a new device is released.
Originally posted by Fendel84M
And the most advanced games for NES still run well on my very old NES. The "most advanced games on iOS" aren't anything remotely resembling advanced, as neither the hardware support nor the software support is there. In constrast, the "most advanced games for tablets" will likely be getting a lot more advanced soon. Would you argue that there was no need for the SNES or Sega Genesis (or any subsequent consoles) on the basis that NES games ran fine on an NES?
Unlike iOS, Windows 8 has a lot of advanced games that will run. For example, nearly all of the games listed on this site, though many will be unplayable unless you plug in a keyboard, mouse, and/or gamepad. And it's not just games, either; do you think Apple's war on Flash is because Flash would run just great on various iDevices if only Apple would enable it? Slower software makes a need for faster hardware far more obvious.
None of these games can run on Windows 8 RT which is destined for tablets :P The tablets that will actually run Windows which is not windows 8 RT will cost much more money than what is reasonable to spend on a tablet, the prices will probably be at least around the ultra book price range(900-1100US+).
Windows 8 RT is great for tablets for people that need a decent office app, and satisfied with running metro or .NET micro edition apps only(the latter needs a "hack" to actually run).
Also since you cannot run any unsigned applications on Windows 8 RT, and the fact that it will be impossible to change the OS due to the mandatory UEFI secure boot option i doubt any one that owns an android based tablet will want to switch to it other than to get a better office suite.
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Originally posted by Wizardry
I myself am not a fan of eco-system that is apple, there are things I like about IOS but mostly the eco system and fan boys drive me nutz!
Originally posted by DOGMA1138
Sure doesn't look like ultrabook prices to me. Do you think Windows 8 will be $400+ more expensive than Windows 7? For that matter, you'd be able to buy that tablet and then install Windows 8 on it if so inclined.
Certainly, if you want ultrabook hardware, then you'll pay ultrabook prices. But that includes $225+ for the CPU alone, as opposed to the $40 that AMD charges.
But returning to the original premise of this thread, neither that APU nor ULV Ivy Bridge are really what you want in a tablet. Intel's Haswell will be the go-to chip if you want an ultrabook experience in a tablet form factor, while AMD's Temash will be the thing to get if you want something more budget-friendly, or perhaps if you want video drivers that actually work. Unlike any x86 chips on the market now, those will be architectures designed from the start with tablets in mind.
We will get baby steps in that direction before the real solution comes, though. AMD launched their Z-60 APU (basically the same thing as linked above, except with USB 3.0 and a 4.5 W TDP) yesterday, and Intel is reportedly going to ship very low quantities of a 10 W bin of Ivy Bridge.
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I don't Forum PVP. If you feel I've attacked you, it was probably by accident.
A tablet that does what I would use it for doesn't need to run Windows. For me that negates any value in a tablet ready Win8.
The only thing that could pull me towards using a tablet for more than basic web and apps would be a tablet + gamepad with console quality GPU and a $250-ish price point.
Hahaha ROFL thats a tablet? sorry when you're talking about 3.3lbs, that's not a tablet, that's heavier than my Ultrabook ;)
Microsoft Surface, and Surface Pro will be good examples, the Samsung Slates although the current ones are still a bit heavy(still under 2 lbs) are good example too... Nothing stopping you from buying a "Tablet" today with 5-6hours battery life(while working/surfing w/ WLAN) and with much better performance than that MSI poj, heck the Samsung Series 7 slate will give you a Core I5(ULV ofc), a bigger screen, and under 2lbs all in one package. The problem is the price...
And again with the name calling.. :P
I don't want tablets to be heavy, i don't want tablets to have fans in them, i don't want tablets to be bigger than 7-8", i want cheap devices(300-400" or under), that i can turn them off, forget about them and they will still work....
AMD's does not have a real SOC, Intel does, and honestly even then i would still go for an ARM SOC any time of the day.
Running windows on a Tablet is the lazy way out, i do not use a Tablet the same way i use a PC, i should get applications that allow me to take advantages of the usage form, form factor, mobility, and user interface instead of selling me the same old junk saying that i can always connect a keyboard to it.
The app on a tablet needs to give you the same functionality as it does on PC while providing you with a complete new interaction experience, and allow the user to actually take advantage of using a tablet and not to minimize the "disadvantages" of using one.
Any thing else is just lazy and both from a developer and consumer point of views is completely unacceptable.
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Originally posted by DOGMA1138
Well yes, that's the whole point of the thread. The hardware isn't ready.
Hondo isn't an SoC because it's a laptop chip crammed into a tablet. And that's a problem, for a lot of reasons. And it's a problem that Temash will fix, except that it isn't ready.
And, of course, Ivy Bridge isn't an SoC, either. Haswell will have an SoC variant, but that's not ready yet, either.
Clover Trail Atom is an SoC, but with graphics performance that is absolutely dreadful. You can argue that you don't need that much graphics performance, but you do at least need a little. Silvermont Atom will massively overhaul the whole Atom architecture, but that's not ready, either.
Plenty of ARM vendors offer an SoC, of course. But Windows 8 needs x86, not ARM. Windows RT is the ARM version, and that has problems of its own, such as a complete lack of software support.
For the benefit of others who may be confused, SoC = "system on a chip", meaning one chip with the CPU, GPU, memory controller, SATA ports, USB ports, and everything, rather than spreading those functions across multiple chips inside the device.
You can do a lot more in a device if you can have a bunch of separate logic chips to handle different functions. That gives you a lot more versatility, as you can make independent choices of the CPU, GPU, SATA controller, USB controller, and so forth that you want. It also has production advantages, as the various chips can each be made on process nodes well-suited to them, and if one chip is defective, you don't have to throw out all of them as you would if you combined them all into one huge chip. So there's no real point in having an SoC for a desktop, when it's easy to scatter a bunch of chips across a 12" x 9" motherboard.
But an SoC is very desirable for tablets or cell phones, as having everything in a single chip means you don't need a bunch of space for separate chips. It means you don't have to cool a bunch of separate chips. It means you don't have to burn a bunch of power letting separate chips communiate with each other. Burning several watts to allow various chips to communicate with each other doesn't matter much in a desktop, but it's a big problem in a tablet when you want the entire device to have a total system power consumption of only several watts.
The graphic performance of the Atom SoC's is on par with other tablets, i have no issues playing andorid games, flash, and Full HD videos on it at all.
I don't need more than that, i'm not going to play Crysis on my tablet, and tablet games are looking good enough for what they provide.
Take a look at the PSVita, or even the 3Ds they are bearly selling hardware or games even tho they support much better graphics than most mobile phones.
For the type of games that people can play on the go thats sufficient, and as poor as the Atom SOC(Power VR 5XX) GPU is it is still much better than what AMD/Intel used to have for what you would need on a tablet, a 6250 is just a horrible GPU it can bearly play high bit rate HD films, no flash acc, and it's raw performance are not that far from a Power VR, i don't care if it supports SM3, 4, or 56 since it just can't backup it's on paper specs with real world performance.
Ah, Cedar Trail/Clover Trail uses PowerVR graphics instead of Intel graphics. I hadn't caught that. Reviews found that it performs very poorly in general applications (the Radeon HD 6250 that you malign gives several times the performance), but presumably it has fixed function blocks to handle things like video decoding. I don't know if it will be able to handle the standard Windows desktop, which is something earlier versions of Atom graphics choked on. That presumably can't be done in fixed-function blocks like video decoding can.
All "GPU"'s which Intel put out for the Atom platform were PowerVR SGX based, the newer ones are quite similar to what you get in a PSVita, or an Ipad(3nd/3rd gen) these days.. The GMA500/600 which is what most people had in their Netbook could run windows XP well, and run Linux even with desktop effects with more than reasonable performance. PowerVR 545 at 400/650Mhz which is what Intel clocks it to these days, will give you pretty much the same fill rate(2-3.5Gpixels/s) that a 6XXX will which is the only really important factor for desktop rendering.


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Right wing Ryan Maki scored the game-winner, 4:22 into overtime after a face-off in the Wolves zone sent the puck straight across the ice near the goal line. Maki reached around Krog in front of the net and poked the puck, which bounced off Chicago's skater and past goaltender Drew MacIntyre to give Milwaukee (3-3) a 5-4 win.
"We played a strong hockey game. I like the way we battled back," said Wolves Head Coach Don Lever. "We had things under control in overtime and then the puck goes in the back of the net off our own player's stick. It's unfortunate."
Milwaukee got on the board first, 2:46 into the contest with a marker from center Ben Guite. Tristan Grant wrestled the puck away from a Wolves player along the boards in Chicago's zone and sent a pass across to Maki, who centered it for a streaking Guite to snap past Chicago goaltender Peter Mannino.
The Admirals made their lead 2-0 with 5:51 left in the first period when Marty Murray scored off a face-off in the Wolves zone. The puck kicked out and slipped under the stick of a Wolves defenseman and Mark Santorelli picked it up and got a shot off. Mannino blocked it but couldn't recover to stop the follow-up by Murray. MacIntyre (0-1) came in the replace Mannino following the goal. Chicago (3-3) responded to narrow the edge to 2-1, 71 seconds later when Pohl took a pass from Krog and one-timed a wrister from the slot past Dekanich.
Dekanich (3-3) posted 22 saves for Milwaukee.
Right wing Chris Mueller made it 3-1 in Milwaukee's favor at 1:53 of the second period when he took a pass from Andreas Thuresson in the right face-off circle and flung it past MacIntyre. Twenty-eight seconds later, defenseman Teemo Laakso gave the Admirals a 4-1 lead when he slipped a shot past MacIntyre after a defensive breakdown in front of the Wolves net.
MacIntyre made 11 saves in 50:13 of duty in taking the eventual loss, while Mannino stopped four of six shots in the first 14:09 of the contest.
Right wing Joey Crabb helped pull the Wolves back within two, 4-2, with his team-leading fourth goal of the postseason at 5:42 of the middle frame. Defenseman Noah Welch knocked an Admirals skater off his feet and Crabb collected the puck, walked in and fired a long blast past Dekanich.
The Wolves will host Game 7 at the Allstate Arena on Monday, April 26 at 7 p.m.
Chicago 1 1 2 0 -- 4
Milwaukee 2 2 0 1 -- 5
First Period---1, Milwaukee, Guite 3 (Maki, Grant), 2:46; 2, Milwaukee, Murray 1 (Santorelli, Thang), 14:09; 3, Chicago, Pohl 2 (Krog), 15:20. Penalties---Crabb, Chicago (charging), 0:32; Yonkman, Milwaukee (roughing), 0:32; Weller, Chicago (boarding), 9:47; Scatchard, Milwaukee (hooking), 11:09.
Second Period---4, Milwaukee, Mueller 3 (Thuresson, Mi. Santorelli), 1:53; 5, Milwaukee, Laakso 1 (Murray), 2:21; 6, Chicago, Crabb 4 (Stapleton, Vishnevskiy), 5:42. Penalties---None.
Third Period---7, Chicago, Krog 2 (Stapleton, Pohl), 9:51 pp; 8, Chicago, Pohl 3 (Oystrick, Stapleton), 13:00 pp. Penalties---Sipotz, Chicago (hooking), 1:32; Ford, Milwaukee (hooking), 8:55; Chelios, Chicago (high-sticking), 10:00; Laakso, Milwaukee (interference), 12:42.
Overtime---9, Milwaukee, Maki 2 (unassisted), 4:22. Penalties---None.
Shots on goal---Chicago: 6-9-7-4--26. Milwaukee: 6-5-6-3--20. Power plays---Chicago: 2-3. Milwaukee: 0-3. Goalies--Chicago, Mannino (4-6), replaced by MacIntyre (11-14) at 14:09. Milwaukee, Dekanich (22-26). A---3,817. Referee---Terry Koharski. Linesmen---Aaron Mills and Roger Behling.


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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Chance Price won the fourth installment of this year's Player of the Week contest sponsored by Tony Pope State Farm Insurance of Mount Pleasant between Wando, Palmetto Christian and Bishop England football players.
Price, a senior defensive back with Wando, was coach Jimmy Noonan's pick after he had six solo tackles, three assists, four ball deflections and an interception during the Warriors' game against rival Summerville, Sept. 20.
Price has been a force in the defensive secondary this season. He has recorded 16 solo tackles, six assists, nine ball deflections, an interception and a touchdown.
With the win, Wando evened the friendly contest series lead at two wins apiece with Palmetto Christian. Bishop England's Nick Shiver came in second place by just nine votes.
Every week during the high school football season, you vote among six players – two from each of the three East Cooper programs – for who you think is most deserving of the title of Player of the Week.
The voting process is done entirely online at www.MoultrieNews.com/POTW. Reporter Tyler Heffernan chooses one player from each of the three teams and each team's respective head coach picks one player from his team.
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Lawton Fosberry: The junior linebacker led Bishop England in tackles with nine solo and one assist during the shutout win over North Charleston.
BE coach John Cantey's pick
Nick Shiver: The senior tailback had three carries for 80 yards and a touchdown, one touchdown reception for 37 yards and a 96-yard interception return for his third score.
Tyler's PCA pick
Joe Sweatt: The sophomore defensive lineman led the team in tackles with seven, caused two fumbles and one sack during Palmetto Christian's win at Colleton Prep.
PCA coach Jim Daniel's pick
J.T. Waters: The senior quarterback had seven total touchdowns (four rushing, three passing), 280 rushing yards and 215 passing yards during the Eagles win.
Tyler's Wando pick
Mat Norman: The senior linebacker had four solo tackles, six assists, including two tackles for a loss, and a pass deflection during Wando's game at Fort Dorchester.
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Love Scott: The senior defensive lineman led the Warriors in tackles with five solo, five assists, including three tackles for a loss, and a pass deflection against the Patriots.
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Bill addresses new post-Irene blow to businessesBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | April 03,2013MONTPELIER Job losses in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene were in many cases temporary, lasting only as long as it took businesses to repair damage from the flood.
The financial impact of those layoffs has been more lasting, but lawmakers may have found a way to soften the blow.
When it comes to calculating the cost of unemployment insurance, businesses can count on one cardinal rule: The more people you lay off, the more youre going to pay. And thats turning into a real problem for companies that fell in the path of Irene, many of which had to temporarily send workers to the unemployment lines.
When we were mucking out businesses after the flood, I dont think anybody was thinking about what this was going to do to their unemployment experience ratings, said Rep. Alison Clarkson, a Woodstock Democrat.
An experience rating reflects an employers track record with layoffs. Companies whose employees began to claim unemployment benefits immediately after Irene only recently began to see the effect on their rates.
Clarkson said some businesses in her district have seen fourfold increases in what had already been a significant part of their payroll expenses. She introduced legislation this year to scrub from employers ratings any post-Irene layoffs that could be attributed directly to the flooding.
Tuesday, the House gave preliminary approval to a modified bill that would provide credits to employers that have seen their unemployment rates increase as a result of Irene.
The legislation would also apply to two other federally declared flooding disasters that occurred earlier in 2011 one on Lake Champlain, and another in Barre, Berlin and Montpelier. The legislation would insulate employers only from the first eight weeks of Irene-related layoffs.
No one knows yet exactly how many businesses have suffered Irene-related bumps in unemployment insurance rates. But Labor Commissioner Annie Noonan said that without the bill, businesses affected by Irene, and other eligible disasters in 2011, could collectively see their unemployment expenses rise by as much as $8 million.
Noonan said Vermont has to balance the financial needs of businesses still recovering from Irene with the consequences of failing to pay off an outstanding debt taken out by the state when its unemployment trust fund ran out of money at the height of the recession.
If Vermont doesnt pay off its debt to the federal government by November, then all businesses in the state will see a penalty levied against them.
Ultimately the goals are not to tip the apple cart over on repayment of the loan, or putting off the recovery of our (unemployment trust fund), Noonan said Tuesday. We want to do what we can do for businesses within the constraints of what the fund can absorb without causing a mess.
Noonan said she thinks the plan passed by the House has found that balance. But reaching out to businesses is no small task. Lawmakers have appropriated $60,000 for postage and mailings to every business in the 12 counties that came under federal disaster declarations in 2011 and for the additional staff time that will be involved in handling claims.
Rep. Bob Bouchard, a Colchester Republican, said that while the plan will offer some relief, it wont entirely solve the problems being faced by businesses that were surprised in March with higher-than-expected quarterly unemployment insurance bills.
While those businesses will receive credits on future unemployment payments if the legislation passes, Bouchard said, they still have to pay the full freight now.
We know that a lot of businesses are going to have to borrow money to make this payment, he said.
If the legislation makes it into law this year, businesses may be spared similar fallout in the future. The bill passed by the House would direct the Department of Labor to hold harmless a companys experience rating from any layoffs related to events that earn federal disaster declarations.
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Solaris Password Policy
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The following information is for a Solaris 9 system, although it should be applicable for Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8. Solaris 10 has much better password controls built-in, obviating the need for third-party PAM modules.
Password Aging
New Accounts
/etc/default/passwd is the file related to password aging on new accounts.
- MAXWEEKS= is the maximum number of weeks a password may be used.
- MINWEEKS= is the minimum number of weeks allowed between password changes.
- WARNWEEKS= (not present by default) is the number of weeks' warning given before a password expires.
Existing Accounts
/usr/bin/passwd is used to modify password aging on existing accounts. passwd does not update the last password change field (field 3) in /etc/shadow, so passwords could expire immediately after running it.
User hutchib was already created with no password aging (MAXWEEKS= in /etc/default/passwd). To configure the following:
- A minimum of 7 days between password changes.
- Password expiration after 90 days.
- Begin warning about password expiration 14 days in advance.
# /usr/bin/passwd -n 7 -w 14 -x 90 hutchib
What happens when your password expires?
When your password expires, you are allowed a "grace login" where your old password is accepted, but you must immediately change your password. After changing your password, the connection is closed and you must login again.
WARNING: Your password has expired. You must change your password now and login again! passwd: Changing password for hutchib Enter existing login password: New Password: Re-enter new Password: passwd: password successfully changed for hutchib Connection to host closed.
Password Length and Complexity
Minimum password length is configured using the PASSLENGTH= value in /etc/default/passwd.
The default Solaris install does not provide pam_cracklib or pam_passwdqc. If the default password complexity rules are insufficient, these PAM modules (preferably pam_passwdqc) should be used.
Default password complexity rules from passwd(1):
Passwords must be constructed to meet the following require- ments: o Each password must have PASSLENGTH characters, where PASSLENGTH is defined in /etc/default/passwd and is set to 6. Only the first eight characters are signifi- cant. o Each password must contain at least two alphabetic characters and at least one numeric or special charac- ter. In this case, "alphabetic" refers to all upper or lower case letters. o Each password must differ from the user's login name and any reverse or circular shift of that login name. For comparison purposes, an upper case letter and its corresponding lower case letter are equivalent. o New passwords must differ from the old by at least three characters. For comparison purposes, an upper case letter and its corresponding lower case letter are equivalent.
Password History
Password history--i.e., preventing re-use of old passwords--may be enabled using the third-party PAM module pam_history[1]
Example: Prevent re-use of each user's last 24 passwords.
- Install the COMSpamph package.
- Create a password history database that will store 24 passwords. Without this step, only 5 passwords would be stored.
# /usr/local/sbin/mkhistory -c -h 24
- Configure PAM.
Relevant entry in bold in /etc/pam.conf:
other password required pam_dhkeys.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_check.so.1 other password requisite pam_history.so.1 history=24 func=$1$ other password required pam_authtok_store.so.1
The history=24 option sets the password history to 24 instead of the default 5. This is actually not needed, as the value specified in mkhistory supersedes this value, but it prevents a syslog error message.
The func=$1$ option is used to store the passwords in MD5 format in the password history database. By default, they would be stored in crypt format with only 8 characters of significance.
The func= option is only available in COMSpamph for Solaris 9 and later. See the Documentation and release notes for more information.
Problems with pam_history
Although the pam_history module works in preventing password re-use, I experience the following two problems on my Solaris 9 SPARC system.
- /usr/local/sbin/mkhistory always returns a last change date of the epoch.
# /usr/local/sbin/mkhistory hutchib: Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969
- A non-descriptive error message--"Please try again"--is returned when attempting to re-use a password in the history.
$ passwd passwd: Changing password for hutchib Enter existing login password: New Password: Please try again New Password:
Account Lockout
Account lockout after a number of unsuccessful authentication attempts may be enabled using the third-party PAM module pam_login_limit[2]. In this example, accounts are locked out for 30 minutes after 5 failed login attempts. During this 30 minutes, any authentication attempts for the user account, both successful or unsuccessful, will reset the 30 minute timer.
To enable account lockout:
- Install the COMSpamll package.
- Configure PAM.
Relevant entries in bold in /etc/pam.conf:
Lines preceding pam_login_limit must be a sufficient control. The order of pam_dial_auth and pam_unix_auth are switched to accommodate this. If not specified, the default count_limit is 3.
login auth requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 login auth required pam_dhkeys.so.1 login auth required pam_dial_auth.so.1 login auth sufficient pam_unix_auth.so.1 login auth required pam_login_limit.so.1 count_limit=5 timeout_account=1800
ssh does not use the PAM login service unless UseLogin yes is defined in sshd_config. ssh uses the sshd PAM login service if it's defined, or other if not.
other auth requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 other auth required pam_dhkeys.so.1 other auth sufficient pam_unix_auth.so.1 other auth required pam_login_limit.so.1 count_limit=5 timeout_account=1800
The following line in bold resets the failed login count after a successful login.
other account required pam_login_limit.so.1 count_limit=5 timeout_account=1800 other account requisite pam_roles.so.1 other account required pam_projects.so.1 other account required pam_unix_account.so.1
The following optional line in bold resets the failed login count after a successful password change. Without this line, if an administrator resets the password, the user will still have to wait timeout_account seconds until the password is unlocked. Or, the administrator could manually run /usr/local/sbin/login_account -c user to clear the counter.
other password required pam_dhkeys.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_check.so.1 other password requisite pam_history.so.1 history=24 func=$1$ other password required pam_authtok_store.so.1 other password optional pam_login_limit.so.1
OpenSSH Changes
If you are using OpenSSH:
- Make sure PAM support is enabled by setting UsePAM yes in sshd_config.
- You may want to disable password authentication by setting PasswordAuthentcation no in sshd_config. Without this, you will be prompted two additional times for your password if your account is locked (although you still won't be able to authenticate).
With PasswordAuthentication yes:
$ ssh hutchib@host Password: Password: Password: hutchib@host's password: Permission denied, please try again. hutchib@host's password: Received disconnect from 10.209.180.14: 2: Too many authentication failures for hutchib
With PasswordAuthentication no:
$ ssh hutchib@host Password: Password: Password: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive,hostbased).
Solaris SUNWssh Package Notes
- The appropriate directive to enable PAM with SUNWssh is PAMAuthenticationViaKBDInt yes.
- At least with pam_login_limit with Solaris 9 SUNWssh, a pam_login_limit failure is generated even before a password is entered.
$ ssh hutchib@host hutchib@host's password:
Before even entering a password, /usr/local/sbin/login_limit on host counts one login limit failure.
# /usr/local/sbin/login_limit hutchib: 1 Tue Dec 11 12:01:41 2007 No Timeout Set
syslog message:
Dec 11 12:01:41 host sshd[20260]: [ID 122574 auth.notice] pam_login_limit(auth): Unsuccessful attempt 1 for user 'hutchib'
Therefore, an appropriate count_limit for this server is 7:
* 1 -- ssh user@host * 2 -- Failed login attempt 1 * 3 -- Failed login attempt 2 * 4 -- Failed login attempt 3; disconnected * 5 -- ssh user@host * 6 -- Failed login attempt 4 * 7 -- Failed login attempt 5
Storing Passwords in MD5 Format
With Solaris 9 12/02 and later, user passwords may be stored in a format other than crypt_unix by modifying /etc/security/policy.conf. Changing the default encryption algorithm allows passwords to have more than 8 significant characters; with crypt_unix, password and password1 are the same password.
To begin storing user passwords in crypt_bsdmd5, make the following change in /etc/security/policy.conf.
#CRYPT_DEFAULT=__unix__ CRYPT_DEFAULT=1


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It's safe to say the Phoenix Suns have not gotten off to the kind of start defensively as they would have hoped.
Head coach Alvin Gentry and his staff put a renewed emphasis on improving the team's defense during camp and preseason, but so far the Suns haven't been able to translate their hard work and preparation to success on the court.
The Suns' defensive efficiency percentage is tied for 25th in the league with a 104.5 rating, a number that more than highlights the deficiencies in that area.
Team President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby told Arizona Sports 620's Doug & Wolf Wednesday he has had a revelation about the Suns' struggles to defend the hoop.
"One thing I find so interesting about basketball is that it's a game of trust and I think our problems are not physical as they are, they are not even mental so much as technical," Babby said. "What [the problems] boil down to listening to [Gentry] and his communications with the other coaches and with the team is nobody's quite yet able to trust that the person who has the responsibility behind them is going to be there to do it."
Babby believes the result of the mistrust on the court has been sloppy play and schematic errors.
"Until they have that [trust] they overreact to certain situations and the rotations aren't necessarily proper and the defense isn't as cohesive as we'd like it to be," Babby said.
The Suns welcomed many new faces this season and a learning curve was surely expected. Babby feels once the players have a chance to bond more not only on the court, but off the court as well, the team's play will reflect that newfound chemistry.
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The flagship sedan in the Volvo line-up, the 2015 S80 delivers luxury amenities with the efficiency of a turbocharged engine power.
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A safe and quick car, the 2014 Volvo S80 has been updated on the exterior and in the interior of the mid-size entry-level luxury sedan.
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Significant figures
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The significant figures of a number are those digits that carry meaning contributing to its measurement resolution. This includes all digits except:[1]
- All leading zeros;
- Trailing zeros when they are merely placeholders to indicate the scale of the number (exact rules are explained at identifying significant figures); and
- Spurious digits introduced, for example, by calculations carried out to greater precision than that of the original data, or measurements reported to a greater precision than the equipment supports.
Significance arithmetic are approximate rules for roughly maintaining significance throughout a computation. The more sophisticated scientific rules are known as propagation of uncertainty.
Numbers are often rounded to avoid reporting insignificant figures. For example, it would create false precision to express a measurement as 12.34500 kg (which has seven significant figures) if the scales only measured to the nearest gram and gave a reading of 12.345 kg (which has five significant figures) . Numbers can also be rounded merely for simplicity rather than to indicate a given precision of measurement, for example to make them faster to pronounce in news broadcasts.
Arithmetic precision can also be defined with reference to a fixed number of decimal places (the number of digits following the decimal point). This second definition is useful in applications where the number of digits in the fractional part has particular importance, but it does not follow the rules of significance arithmetic.
Identifying significant figures[edit]
Specifically, the rules for identifying significant figures when writing or interpreting numbers are as follows:[2]
- All non-zero digits are considered significant. For example, 91 has two significant figures (9 and 1), while 123.45 has five significant figures (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5).
- Zeros appearing anywhere between two non-zero digits are significant. Example: 101.1203 has seven significant figures: 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0 and 3.
- Leading zeros are not significant. For example, 0.00052 has two significant figures: 5 and 2.
- Trailing zeros in a number containing a decimal point are significant. For example, 12.2300 has six significant figures: 1, 2, 2, 3, 0 and 0. The number 0.000122300 still has only six significant figures (the zeros before the 1 are not significant). In addition, 120.00 has five significant figures since it has three trailing zeros. This convention clarifies the precision of such numbers; for example, if a measurement precise to four decimal places (0.0001) is given as 12.23 then it might be understood that only two decimal places of precision are available. Stating the result as 12.2300 makes clear that it is precise to four decimal places (in this case, six significant figures).
- The significance of trailing zeros in a number not containing a decimal point can be ambiguous. For example, it may not always be clear if a number like 1300 is precise to the nearest unit (and just happens coincidentally to be an exact multiple of a hundred) or if it is only shown to the nearest hundred due to rounding or uncertainty. Various conventions exist to address this issue:
- A bar may be placed over the last significant figure; any trailing zeros following this are insignificant. For example, 1300 has three significant figures (and hence indicates that the number is precise to the nearest ten).
- The last significant figure of a number may be underlined; for example, "2000" has two significant figures.
- A decimal point may be placed after the number; for example "100." indicates specifically that three significant figures are meant.[3]
- In the combination of a number and a unit of measurement, the ambiguity can be avoided by choosing a suitable unit prefix. For example, the number of significant figures in a mass specified as 1300 g is ambiguous, while in a mass of 13 hg or 1.3 kg it is not.
- However, these conventions are not universally used, and it is often necessary to determine from context whether such trailing zeros are intended to be significant. If all else fails, the level of rounding can be specified explicitly. The abbreviation s.f. is sometimes used, for example "20 000 to 2 s.f." or "20 000 (2 sf)". Alternatively, the uncertainty can be stated separately and explicitly with a plus-minus sign, as in 20 000 ± 1%, so that significant-figures rules do not apply. This also allows specifying a precision in-between powers of ten (or whatever the base power of the numbering system is).
Scientific notation[edit]
In most cases, the same rules apply to numbers expressed in scientific notation. However, in the normalized form of that notation, placeholder leading and trailing digits do not occur, so all digits are significant. For example, 0.00012 (two significant figures) becomes 1.2×10−4, and 0.00122300 (six significant figures) becomes 1.22300×10−3. In particular, the potential ambiguity about the significance of trailing zeros is eliminated. For example, to four significant figures is written as 13001.300×103, while to two significant figures is written as 13001.3×103.
The part of the representation that contains the significant figures (as opposed to the base or the exponent) is known as the significand or mantissa.
Alternatively: 1. All non-zero digits are significant 2. In a number without a decimal point, only zeros between non-zero digits are significant. 3. In a number with a decimal point, all zeros to the right of the first non-zero digits are significant.
Rounding and decimal places[edit]
The basic concept of significant figures is often used in connection with rounding. Rounding to significant figures is a more general-purpose technique than rounding to n decimal places, since it handles numbers of different scales in a uniform way. For example, the population of a city might only be known to the nearest thousand and be stated as 52,000, while the population of a country might only be known to the nearest million and be stated as 52,000,000. The former might be in error by hundreds, and the latter might be in error by hundreds of thousands, but both have two significant figures (5 and 2). This reflects the fact that the significance of the error (its likely size relative to the size of the quantity being measured) is the same in both cases.
To round to n significant figures:[4]
- If the first non-significant figure is a 5 followed by other non-zero digits, round up the last significant figure (away from zero). For example, 1.2459 as the result of a calculation or measurement that only allows for 3 significant figures should be written 1.25.
- If the first non-significant figure is a 5 not followed by any other digits or followed only by zeros, rounding requires a tie-breaking rule. For example, to round 1.25 to 2 significant figures:
- Round half up (also known as "5/4") rounds up to 1.3. This is the default rounding method implied in many disciplines if not specified.
- Round half to even, which rounds to the nearest even number, rounds down to 1.2 in this case. The same strategy applied to 1.35 would instead round up to 1.4.
- Replace non-significant figures in front of the decimal by zeros.
In financial calculations, a number is often rounded to a given number of places (for example, to two places after the decimal separator for many world currencies). Rounding to a fixed number of decimal places in this way is an orthographic convention that does not maintain significance, and may either lose information or create false precision.
As an illustration, the decimal quantity 12.345 can be expressed with various numbers of significant digits or decimal places. If insufficient precision is available then the number is rounded in some manner to fit the available precision. The following table shows the results for various total precisions and decimal places rounded to the nearest value using the round-to-even method.
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The representation of a positive number x to a precision of p significant digits has a numerical value that is given by the formula:[citation needed]
For negative numbers, the formula can be used on the absolute value; for zero, no transformation is necessary. Note that the result may need to be written with one of the above conventions explained in the section "Identifying significant figures" to indicate the actual number of significant digits if the result includes for example trailing significant zeros.
A common guide often used when performing calculations by hand is as follows.
For multiplication and division, the result should have as many significant figures as the measured number with the smallest number of significant figures.
For addition and subtraction, the result should have as many decimal places as the measured number with the smallest number of decimal places (for example, 100.0 + 1.111 = 101.1).
In a base 10 logarithm of a normalized number, the result should be rounded to the number of significant figures in the normalized number. For example, log10(3.000×104) = log10(104) + log10(3.000) ≈ 4 + 0.47712125472, should be rounded to 4.4771.
When taking antilogarithms, the resulting number should have as many significant figures as the mantissa in the logarithm.
When performing a calculation, do not follow these guidelines for intermediate results; keep as many digits as is practical (at least 1 more than implied by the precision of the final result) until the end of calculation to avoid cumulative rounding errors.[5]
Estimating tenths[edit]
When using a ruler, initially use the smallest mark as the first estimated digit. For example, if a ruler's smallest mark is cm, and 4.5 cm is read, it is 4.5 (±0.1 cm) or 4.4 – 4.6 cm.
It is possible that the overall length of a ruler may not be accurate to the degree of the smallest mark and the marks may be imperfectly spaced within each unit. However assuming a normal good quality ruler, it should be possible to estimate tenths between the nearest two marks to achieve an extra decimal place of accuracy. Failing to do this adds the error in reading the ruler to any error in the calibration of the ruler.[citation needed]
When multiplying several quantities, the number of significant figures in the final answer is the number of significant figures in the factor having the least number of significant figures (the least precise). For example, given the two measurements 16.3 cm (±0.1 cm) and 4.5 cm (±0.1 cm), the range is: 16.2*4.4 – 16.4*4.6 (71.28–75.44) cm2 and the average is 73.35; however, only two significant figures (i.e. 73 cm2) can be claimed in the result (the area calculated).[clarification needed]
When adding numbers, the number of decimal places in the result is the smallest of the number decimal places in any term. For example, 123 + 5.35 == 128 and 1.001 + 0.0031 == 1.004.[6]
When estimating the proportion of individuals carrying some particular characteristic in a population, from a random sample of that population, the number of significant figures should not exceed the maximum precision allowed by that sample size. The correct number of significant figures is given by the order of magnitude of sample size. This can be found by taking the base 10 logarithm of sample size and rounding to the nearest integer.
For example, in a poll of 120 randomly chosen viewers of a regularly visited web page we find that 10 people disagree with a proposition on that web page. The order of magnitude of our sample size is Log10(120) = 2.0791812460... which rounds to 2. Our estimated proportion of people who disagree with the proposition is therefore 0.083, or 8.3%, with 2 significant figures. This is because in different samples of 120 people from this population, our estimate would vary in units of 1/120, and any additional figures would misrepresent the size of our sample by giving spurious precision. To interpret our estimate of the number of viewers who disagree with the proposition we should then calculate some measure of our confidence in this estimate.
Relationship to accuracy and precision in measurement[edit]
In various technical fields, "accuracy" refers to the closeness of a given measurement to its true value; "precision" refers to the stability of that measurement when repeated many times. The number of significant figures roughly corresponds to precision, not accuracy.
In computing[edit]
Computer representations of floating point numbers typically use a form of rounding to significant figures, but with binary numbers. The number of correct significant figures is closely related to the notion of relative error (which has the advantage of being a more accurate measure of precision, and is independent of the radix of the number system used).
See also[edit]
- Accuracy and precision
- Benford's Law (First Digit Law)
- Engineering notation
- Error bar
- False precision
- IEEE754 (IEEE floating point standard)
- Interval arithmetic
- Kahan summation algorithm
- Precision (computer science)
- Round-off error
- ^ Chemistry in the Community; Kendall-Hunt:Dubuque, IA 1988
- ^ Giving a precise definition for the number of correct significant digits is surprisingly subtle, see Higham, Nicholas (2002). Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms (2nd ed.). SIAM. p. 3.
- ^ Myers, R. Thomas; Oldham, Keith B.; Tocci, Salvatore (2000). Chemistry. Austin, Texas: Holt Rinehart Winston. p. 59. ISBN 0-03-052002-9.
- ^ Numerical Mathematics and Computing, by Cheney and Kincaid.
- ^ de Oliveira Sannibale, Virgínio (2001). "Measurements and Significant Figures (Draft)" (PDF). Freshman Physics Laboratory. California Institute of Technology, Physics Mathematics And Astronomy Division. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 18, 2013.
- ^ Serway, Raymond A. (1990). Physics for Scientists and Engineers: With Modern Physics. Saunders Golden Sunburst Series (3rd ed.). Harcourt School. ISBN 0030313538.
Further reading[edit]
- Subcommittee E11.30 (2013). Standard Practice for Using Significant Digits in Test Data to Determine Conformance with Specifications. ASTM International. doi:10.1520/E0029-08. ASTM E29-13.


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WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2012 Defense Department leaders remain fully confident in the commander of U.S. Africa Command, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told Pentagon reporters here today.
Little said Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, maintain complete faith in the job Army Gen. Carter F. Ham is doing as Africom's leader.
"General Ham is doing an exceptional job leading Africa Command. He has the full confidence of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," he said.
"His decision to retire has been an entirely personal decision to move on," Little said. "People retire at certain stages of their career and that's what's happening in this case."
President Barack Obama announced Oct. 18 his plans to nominate Army Gen. David M. Rodriguez to succeed Ham as leader of Africom, the newest combatant command, which is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. The command encompasses all of Africa and its adjacent waters except for Egypt.
The chairman dismissed alleged reasons for Ham's departure in an Oct. 29 statement.
"The speculation that General Carter Ham is departing Africa Command due to events in Benghazi, Libya, on [Sept. 11,] 2012 is absolutely false," Dempsey said in his statement. "General Ham's departure is part of routine succession planning that has been ongoing since July. He continues to serve in Africom with my complete confidence."
Little also dispelled rumors that Ham will step down from his position next year for any reason other than personal choice.
"There's been a lot of rumor and speculation, particularly in the blogosphere, about General Ham," he said. "And that speculation and those rumors are absolutely, categorically false."
"He will continue to lead Africa Command," he said, "and he is on the job, doing it effectively, and we expect him to do so until he retires and transitions to General Rodriguez -- if General Rodriguez is confirmed by the United States Senate."
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The gay marriage issue made national news last week as the Supreme Court heard two related cases, but it hasn't been a big talking point in the GOP primary. Sanford and Bostic said they support a traditional definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.
Bostic said he would support a constitutional amendment to that effect, while Sanford said he viewed marriage more as a religious sacrament than the business of the state.
"I think we have to have a debate as Americans as, 'OK, let's sort things out," Sanford said. Bostic added, "This is an issue reserved to the states. This is a debate among the people."
GOP voters will go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether they want Sanford, a former governor and congressman, or Bostic, a former Charleston County councilman, to be their nominee for the race to fill the House seat vacated by U.S. Sen. Tim Scott.
During Saturday's show, both also voiced their opposition to Charleston County's half-cent sales tax, which county voters approved in 2004 while Sanford and Bostic were in office. And both expressed wariness about military involvement on the Korean peninsula.
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