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Duke basketball vs. Clemson updates
Duke 68, Clemson 40 (FINAL): It wasn't always pretty here in Cameron—neither team hit a FG for about five minutes to start the game—but the Blue Devils took control after that and smothered Clemson to remain undefeated.
Quinn Cook finished with a career-high 27 points, doing so on 11-of-15 shooting. Ryan Kelly didn't play in the second half after aggravating a leg injury in the first half.
And yes, walk-on Todd Zafirovski played in the second half. The Crazies chanted "Z-Fence" for Todd, who entered the game near the end, as did Marshall Plumlee.
Clemson finished just 15-of-52 from the field.
Duke 60, Clemson 37 (3:25 , second half): The Blue Devils increased their lead to 23, and Cook has led the offense. He has a career-high 18 points and has been remarkably efficient, making 9-of-11 field goals for 21 points. He's 3-of-5 from beyond the arc in the process.
Also, another highlight play: Amile Jefferson recorded a nice steal and was fouled in transition, converting for the 3-point play. The Crazies went absolutely wild, Cook motioned to pump up the crowd and the atmosphere here is buzzing.
Duke 49, Clemson 34 (7:47 , second half): Duke is still leading comfortably, but the most encouraging play of the last few minutes was a Plumlee layup, recording just his second field goal of the game. He is 2-of-8 from the field and 2-of-4 from the line.
Still, he has done a lot to contribute while he has struggled to score. He has a team-high 12 rebounds, also adding four assists, a block and a steal. He didn't get an assist for it, but he just set up another bucket—dishing to Cook after a post move, finding him for a jumper.
Duke 44, Clemson 28 (11:10 , second half): First an update on Kelly: He has a right leg injury and is not expected to return tonight.
The Tigers pulled in within 12 with their fullcourt press frustrating Duke. After they stole an inbound, an absolutely livid Coach K called a timeout, clearly not pleased with the turnovers. The press forced one more turnover, with Plumlee giving it away.
Duke was able to open the lead back up thanks to the shooting of Curry. He has found a way to score tonight, even with hands in his face. Cook has been scrappy on the offensive end too—he actually leads Duke with 13 points and has done so on 6-of-8 shooting, pretty notable on a night when both teams have struggled to be efficient on the offensive end.
And, even though Mason has struggled to score (still has just four points), he has four assists and 12 boards.
Duke 34, Clemson 18 (15:47 , second half): Strange development from the beginning of the second half: Ryan Kelly, Duke's leading scorer from the first half, was absent as the second half began. Hairston took his spot on the floor. Kelly returned to the bench a minute or two into the half, but has not returned to the floor.
With eight points in the early going, Clemson has nearly has many points as it did all of the entire last half. Plumlee is still struggling on the offensive end, had it knocked away from him once. He wanted the foul and was frustrated by the no-call.
Duke 25, Clemson 10 (halftime): Duke played tough defense all half and held Clemson to 10 points. Clemson was 3-of-25 from the field (12%). It wasn't pretty for Duke either—the Blue Devils finished 9-of-31 from the field (29%) and just 4-of-9 from the foul line.
The story for Duke is the White Raven, Ryan Kelly. He has 12 points and seven rebounds. Mason Plumlee has grabbed 10 rebounds already, though he has just four points. He should be commended, however, for his two beautiful assists that set up 3-pointers for Kelly and Cook.
Notable halftime stats:
- Clemson 3-of-25 from the field (12%)
- Duke 9-of-31 from the field (29%)
- Ryan Kelly with 12 points and six rebounds.
- Mason Plumlee with four points on 1-of-7 shooting, but with 10 boards and two assists on 3-pointers.
- Blue Devils with just three turnovers.
Duke 16, Clemson 6 (6:43 first half): Chant from the Crazies: "Ryan's winning." He has eight points already, and the Tigers have just six. He entered tonight hitting 50% from long range, he's 2-of-2 tonight.
He has been consistently stretching out opposing defenses and exploiting double teams on Mason.
And not much has changed for the Tigers... they are 2-of-16 from the field.
Duke 13, Clemson 6 (9:41 first half): Hey, these teams remembered how to score! Plumlee scored Duke's first point, hitting 1-of-2 from the line and that seemed to open the floodgates for both teams.
Cook started off with a pretty back door lay in. The loudest the Crazies got was on an alley-oop slam thrown home by Plumlee, but the big-man did more as a passer than scorer to get things going. Twice he had the ball in the post and found guys for open 3-pointers. First he found Kelly, then he found Cook. If teams are going to collapse on him, that's what he has to do. He showed great vision on both of those dimes. Plumlee also has six rebounds already.
Devin Booker highlighted the limited Clemson offense with an emphatic dunk.
Duke 0, Clemson 2 (15:05 first half): That's right... Duke hasn't scored.
If you want to know anything about the first few minutes of play, know this: Devin Booker scored the game's first points with 17:37 to play. Mason Plumlee started the game an ugly 0-of-3 from the field, Kelly is 0-of-2 and Curry is 0-of-3. The team as a whole is 0-of-9 and 0-of 3 from 3-point range.
'Sheed had two free throw attempts. He missed both.
It's not as if the Blue Devils have been turning it over much—they have just one turnover in the first five minutes. They just aren't hitting shots.
Things aren't much better from Clemson, they haven't hit a field goal either. The game's lone points have come on two Devin Booker free throws.
Pregame: Welcome folks, thanks for tuning in with Duke basketball set to tip off against Clemson at 7:02 p.m. tonight.
Duke: G Quinn Cook, G Seth Curry, G Rasheed Sulaimon, F Ryan Kelly, F Mason Plumlee
Clemson: G Rod Hall, G Adonis Filer, F Milton Jennings, F K.J. McDaniels, C Devin Booker
Check back here for live analysis throughout the game and follow @dukebasketball on Twitter for instant updates. Here are some pregame observations:
- According to basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy, Duke has a 95% chance at winning this afternoon, projecting a 73-54 score.
- The spread on the game in the sports books is Duke (-15.5) with the total set at 131.5.
- Among the funny notes from the Cameron Crazies' cheat sheet tonight: Chant "Trevor's Better" at Devin Booker, whose older brother Trevor played at Clemson from 2006-10. Chant "Puff, Puff, Pass" instead of the usual "Boink, Boink, Pass," at Milton Jennings, who was arrested on marijuana possession charges in November 2012. That was Jennings' third suspension in 13 months.


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Mr Smith goes to . . . the circus [1]
Trapeze artists amidst the dung-reeking gloom
Trapeze artists amidst the dung-reeking gloom
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''Here with our poodle parade, will you please welcome Miss Kitty Roberts!" At the ringmaster's cry, a woman in a Lurex pants suit runs out from behind a curtain leading five small dogs and kicking up sawdust with her high heels. The animals mount a silver dais, the dog furthest on the left yawning ostentatiously. As the woman's charges shiver and scratch themselves, you see that the backdrop of their podium is a lattice that spells out K-I-T-T-Y. One of the stars of the parade gets up on its hind legs and pedals a child's scooter. The wonder of it is that the dog could do it at all, as Dr Johnson would have said if he'd had a ringside seat at Bobby Roberts's Circus.
In the dung-reeking gloom, rain comes through a hole in the big top and children laugh when a Shetland pony refuses to jump a bar. These are difficult days for circus folk. It's a Saturday evening, but only about a third of the seats are occupied. Small children watch raptly enough but, in a reversal of the old saw about teenage rebellion, their older brothers and sisters have run away from the circus. In the ring, the disobedient pony fails to faze his groom, none other than Bobby Roberts himself, in his own way the most accomplished equestrian in these islands. There is not even a suggestion of a wobble in Roberts's unfortunate Les Patterson rictus. In the intermission, members of the audience pay to have their pictures taken with Bobby and Anna the elephant. The circus travels all over the country, says Bobby, quartering in Peterborough for the winter.
"Are you from there?"
"I'm from everywhere," he says, cementing my fond ideas of circus turns born in trunks.
Behind the hot dog counter, and a necklace that says "Bitch", is a familiar face. "Weren't you the lady with the poodle parade?" Kitty confirms that she is one and the same. She is tenth-generation circus people, she says, her children are eleventh. Whichever school is nearest to the big top, that's where they have their lessons. I say something modish about how difficult this must be for them.
"No, they like it. We've even got school kids coming here," she says. Kitty indicates the girl who's standing beside her flipping burgers, and says that she's on work experience.
"Oh, you live locally," I say to the girl.
"No, I'm from Nantwich," she says, referring to a town last glimpsed from a wing mirror a fortnight earlier.
"That's great! So you're living in a caravan. Are you in with the fire-eater or the lion-tamer?"
"Behave! She's 15," says Kitty. "She's with her nan." The burger-flipper's grandmother is a useful dancer, it seems. Kitty says that the circus doesn't make a profit. "We only break even, but what else are we going to do? I've got to go," she says suddenly, abandoning a finger roll. "I'm back on in a minute."
"What are you doing?"
"Oh, I'm helping my husband. He walks downstairs on his hands."

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Nope, not at all. Much more creative ideas that I'll be talking about in a few weeks. FYI, I hate the FTP usage of bank slots, bags, etc. I've always been player-focused and while I know the players don't always agree with me or my decisions, I can tell you that the multi-tiered sub model I'm thinking about will be seen by many as "about F-ing time.." I won't guarantee everyone will love it but the fact is it won't cost players more than they are paying now and it won't create multiple tiers of players in the way so many of the FTP games do now. Think of this as a test of my motives/motivations. If you think what I'm proposing is a "money grab" hate on me all you want but on the other hand, you think it is good/great/doesn't suck ass, please feel free to say so. :)
Agreed. If we can get 30K subs, it is sustainable for a small studio. Back when I had to raise the money for Dark Age of Camelot, I told our investors that 50K subs made it a sustainable business if we were smart. I still believe that.
I agree, By today's standards, our PvE then was laughable but by the standards of 2001, it was anything but that. If the situation was different, I'd consider adding PvE but for all the reasons I've talked about here and elsewhere, I'd rather focus on RvR/Housing/Crafting and get it to the players.
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Told my wife it was video games or drugs, booze, and hookers. Guess I get to keep on playing.
So offcial forums or will mmorpg.com be the main outlet for dev/player interaction ?
I dont mind either but i hope we get serious interaction from someone simillar to Sanya [back in the day] as a sort of liason between the devs/players.
Devs say over and over how the will have open channels with the community, but this continually is one of the first "promises" to be broken.
I wish the best of luck with this, and i plan to support it with more than just my wallet.
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Hey Mark I know you said no pve but one of the greatest things in pre TOA DAOC was darkness falls and the fighting over it , have you thought about putting in something similiar? I remember many many great fights inside DF in legion raids and clearning out stealthers. It was a great concept and really made the game a lot of fun.
I wish it was all of EA's fault, it would make my life so much easier if I could just say "EA blah-blah-blah" and summon the troops with the rallying cry of the indie developer versus the evil publisher. But that would be a bunch of disengenuous crap and it would prove I've learned nothing over my career. People, companies,etc. make mistakes and the smart ones try to learn from them. I think I've learned quite a lot over the last 8 years.
I do truly thank you for the kind words, it means a lot to me. I won't let you down.
What I will say is that I find the idea of "50 v....." to be the exact opposite of what I want this game to be.
Thank you for your support here and hopefully on Kickstarter. I won't compromise on the vision I have for this game. If people like it and want to support it, cool, it goes into production. If not, it doesn't and we make another game. And since our supporters would have to share the vision, well, appeasing them means simply sticking to the vision. Perfection achieved. :) Truly though, while games do evolve during development, I know that in this case, the core principles of the game will not be subject to change since I'm the guy running the show this time (again) and I'll be putting up some of the money too it kind of gives me a little more authority. :) Thanks for your interest!
Thanks so much for all the kind words. I'm no messiah, not perfect and I'm sure I'm piss someobody off (I probably already have by just posting here) but I won't mislead the community. Too often I found myself in the position of checking to see if we could do "X", saying "X" was going to happen and then later be told that "We can't do X, we need to do Y now or...." and I had to deliver the bad news. Never f-ing again, ever. Now, I made some bad calls (talking about crafting before it was done, trying to be too creative with WAR's initial vision, not taking a long vacation sabattical when my mom died in 2007) but I never intentionally misled the players and I never will but please understand, I will make mistakes because I want to take some chances with this game and not just try to clone DAoC/WoW/etc. Again, thanks for the kind words and thoughts.
Thanks so much, that means a lot.
I can promise that the graphics will not be what you'll see in the best FPS games nor even some MMORPGs, Andrew is focusing on frame-rate for larger scale battles rather than the pretty. This game will only work if it is an open and persistent world game where we can gets lots and lots of people beating the heck out of each other without it turning into a slideshow (again). :)
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Yep. Some of mine as well. I can't ask people to put some of their money in if I'm not willing to do the same. Well, I could actually but I won't, that would be wrong. I've never been risk-adverse and I'm not starting now.
Good. Me too. I know that Andrew and the team can pull off the things we need this game to do in order for it to be successful. It's is better to play good than to look good! :)
Thanks for that. EVE is a great game by a great company. If we could be as successful with CU as EO has been, I'd be a happy man. Start small, build over time. I like how that sounds.
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What's this, what's this. Camelot Unchained.
What a weird coinsidence. I recently stopped gw2, and started daoc-uthgad-freeshard. And I was completely surprised how much I loved playing that old version of daoc. All of the great things, and some of the annoying aswell. But the great things outweighed the annoying ones by tonnes.
I started on Uthgard, while waiting for TESO. But with CU in the furture, I'm very biased.
a) matt firor
b) mark jacobs
Please Mark, do me a favor and get Matt on your team, and the pick is easy:-)
Oh and thank you so much for making daoc & WAR, I enjoyed both:-)
Thanks so much. I will stick to the FPs, that's the key to the Kickstarter.
You're welcome. As to Mythic, I'm sure anyone who reads these forums from Mythic will always, like me, appreciate the shout out, even if they have moved on. As to instances, extremely limited for special times/events. It will not, under any circumstances, be like WAR in that regard.
Oh, there will be dragons. MUAHAHAAHA. Sorry, it's late here, that just slipped out. :)
Crafting and housing must be great since they are two of the systems that are not only tied into RvR but also will serve as ways for players to let off steam and/or to widen the core playerbase. We need them to be fun systems for that to happen.
2.5M USD to create and deploy the game (though we did burn some credit cards and I had my name on leases as well).
Thank you, you will soon, in terms of design principles, early concept art, etc.
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"'Im no messiah, not perfect and I'm sure I'm piss someobody off (I probably already have by just posting here) but I won't mislead the community."
Well thank you for that, Mark, if I may call you Mark.
I won't pretend for a second that I wasn't one of the people dissapointed by later DOAC and Warhammer Online, but I also won't pretend that there weren't some very nice memories from both games either. I appriciate your candor and your courage to come post here, considering doing so could be alikend with a pretty boy doing the "full monty" unsupervised in a maximum securty men's prison. So frankly just the fact you have the balls to come and talk to us directly puts you miles ahead of other game makers in my book.
So while I'm not sure exactly how I feel about the idea of Camelot Online, at least I know that unlike many other games I can voice my opinions directly to the man in charge. So by all means please keep talking. And if I like what I hear not only will you garner my spiritual support, but my financial support as well.
If you don't do stupid things while you're young, you'll have nothing to smile about when you're old.
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Mark I just have to say thank you for coming to the forums here and discussing as much as you currently can. I'm sure you're still organizing what and how to release the details of the game giving the impending kickstarter. You're coming across humble and real here even taking it on the chin for some things. Thats going to win you a lot of support for being you know, human and all. I was a huge fan of DAOC though WAR not so much. People have successes and mistakes, I expect no one to be perfect as long as they learn from the mistakes not repeating them.
Will you be active here on the forums going forward? If you want to create a small tight knit crew, and if you're not going to have forums on your own site, I think it would be quite beneficial.
If the Kickstarter is successful we will have:
1) Backers Forums - Open only to backers where they can interact with the developers. Feed them, pet them and if they throw enough peanuts, we'll learn some tricks! :) These will be, as the name implies, open to the backers only and subject, of course, to NDA. I've already told the team that I expect all of them to be there, right along with me, talking and getting feedback especially once testing begins.
2) Offical forums at launch - Yep.
I plan on being my usual hyperactive self on forums (gee, like tonight where it's 2:40 and I've been posting here, Massively, Keen & Graev and YouTube) since I saw the Wizards beat the Knicks) and doing some of the things I did in the past but I also have some new ideas and some old ones as well.
3) As to place like MMORPG, my usual rules apply. As long as stuff stays nive and civil, I'll happly post and continue the feedback loop with the community. In terms of the site itself, well, MMORPG has been kind enough to care what I'm doing and I'm happy to reciprocate. I've always liked talking in places like this I just don't want to have to deal with hate/personal attacks/lies/etc. I won't hate on other developers, other games, posters (almost never other than my infamous "Have a cookie" line) and I simply ask the same in return. I want to hear feedback on my/our ideas, even if it's negative, I just don't want to have to fight a war over an idea or put into the position of having to answer the same question (or worse, attack) again and again.
Thanks so much for your offer and support (and more), I really appreciate it.
I agree. DF rocked.
Matt Firor was a key/crucial member of the team that created Dark Age of Camelot and all our games before that. That game was testament to the power of what a true team could do. Nobody, including me, can take credit for all of that great game and as I have many times, as a team, were much stronger than we were as individuals. It's like you added up 3 + 3 + 3 and got 18 instead of 9. That's what we were able to do back then all of us working toward a single goal, creating a great game and we did. It's why, even beyond my usual "don't criticize other developers" why I want to see TESO be everything it should be, it's because guys like Matt are there working on it.
As to Dark Age of Camelot and WAR, thank you so much, I do wish WAR had been everything I (and others) wanted it to be but I am glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks to all for your questions/feedback/etc. I appreciate it all.
Good night!
Mark Jacobs
Okay, these came in right before I wanted to head out so time for two more questions.
Please call me Mark, it's a lot better than "ASKJAKSJAKS Jacobs AS*AS*A*!" :)
Thanks for what you said, whether about DAOC or WAR and myyself as well. I do hope you like what you hear but if not, maybe when the game launches. I do thank you for considering backing the game though.
You're more than welcome. As per above, I hope to be. As to being perfect, making mistakes, goes with the territory in game developer land. I'm sure we'll make some with CU but if so, we'll correct them. That's the nice thing about being an independent developer again, I can say things like that and then back them up.
More details on our website starting tomorrow. During the week I'll be posting blogs there (as will a few of the team) and following up here and on other sites as well as time permits. We're currently deep in our next version of our current game so my time is a little more limited than it has been but hey, who needs sleep right?
Thanks for the kind words, now it really is time to get to sleep. Lots to get done tomorow.
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Originally posted by Nanfoodle
I Agree 100%
Mr. M.J. sink WAR .. Big tolk bad work. If u search any War "pre Beta" interviews you will understand what I mean. Imo!
A lot of these old school dev's remind me of the classic 30 year old who still goes to frat parties because he doesn't want to let go of his youth. People just put up with the creepy old guy only because he brings booze or drugs.
With these dev's it's like they're all trying relive their past glories, when what the industry really needs is innovation. DAoC was great... ten years ago. If all you want to do is rebuild stuff using the same basic blueprints, then you're really not much of a designer or developr. You're just a construction worker.
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played a million mmo's
so wierd that mark jacobs is posting on these forums, when i started coming on these forums in highschool to kill time reading and posting about DAOC during study hall.
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Originally posted by asmkm22
True ^_^ ... i'm in too (as a player daoc 2001-2007)
Daoc Masterpice is the game mechanics (PVP), that guarantees you a unique PlayStyle.
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Originally posted by asmkm22
I disagree that on the construction worker thing. A developer is what the title implies. He takes a thing that works and develops it further. He is not neccesarily an inventor. Its like saying "OMG, so you are still gonna take an airplane from the US to EU, cmon be more innovative"
I honestly don't think that developers should use their time re-inventing the weel. But I do think they should optimize the weels and the engine of that car. So using same basic blueprints in my world is not a bad thing. Improving on them, that is the key.
Also as Mark stated this will not be a sequal to DAoC, and thereby not a Copy-paste.
Yeah the Booze and Drugs is Camelot Unchained =) I don't drink but I'll snort Camelot Unchained
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Originally posted by EvvNizzled
Couldn't agree more. While a lot of people lament DAoC's pve, i LOVED it!!
I played from beta and even in the classic i loved the pve, in fact it was imo better then SI although i'd concede TOAwas a lot better.
People seem to miss this point completely, the VAST MAJORITY of DAoC players rarely went into full RvR. Many of us played PvE mainly and levelled-up building our characters for the eventual glory of our realm.
I played DAoC for 8+ years and loved every minute of it, but the best times I had were dungeon crawling with new and old friends through the Coruscating Mines and venturing into new zones such as Sheeroe Hills (saying "Hi" to Rory on the hill on the way in became a superstitious must-do for players on my server, even on the way through to Cuuldrach (sp?) en-masse we'd stop to say hi :)
Also, not everyone hated ToA, a lot of playes herald it as DAoC's version of the NGE but it really wasn't. Without the ToA expansion the pve players, aka the vast majority of DAoC players, would probably have become bored eventually.
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Originally posted by Zinzan
I agree.. I will wait to pass judgement as I haven't even seen the model yet, and I am speaking from pure ignorance about this new game, but I can't see a game that doesn't offer a fulfulling alternative to PvP being successful in the pay to play format. But again, I can't wait to be proven wrong.
Let's get one thing straight here, I am about as PvPer as they come. I was a Dread Lord in UO, that game was the mother of PvP and I was a master at it. I pvped all through DAoC beta, I still remember the organized events the Devs had us run to test things out, level restricted PvP groups meeting in a zone to duke it out. I played Mordred for years, if you say you were a PvPer in DAOC and didn't play Mord then I call you a dirty, dirty liar. :)
But even on Mordred I found the PVE to be a lot of fun, and this is coming from a guy that had to get Cloudsong on two different toons, one of the most camped and hardest to get artifact encounters on the shard. DAoC did a great job of balancing the PvE and PvP components, I feel like if you completely strip one away you are balancing the scales to heavily in one direction.
Let's break it down to black and white, I started in UO when I was 14, I am now 29. I was a griefer beyond griefing in my old days.. anyway I could find (both legal and illegal) to ruin the game for other players I would do it. As I got to my DAoC days I had matured a bit and could see the bigger picture. This game was the type of game that attracted and KEPT a quality player base.
To me, a model where you focus only on the PvP will attract a good playerbase, but it won't keep it, only the bad ones. 14 year old EvvNizzled would love that game... 29 year old wants something more balanced. We have seen a lot of great "PvP" MMORPG's rise and fall for making this mistake.
My two cents.
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I actually still like MMORPGs
I used to RP on the Co-op server...this game probably wouldn't be for me then would it?


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A method and circuitry for reconfiguring the links of a PCI Express bus after a user hot swaps a PCI device. A computer system has been initially configured with PCI Express bus links to various endpoints, using the scaling features of the PCI Express standard. If a hot swap occurs, an SMI routine is used to signal a reconfiguration circuit to reroute unused links (or unused portions of links) to one or more other PCI devices.
1. A method of physically reconfiguring links of a PCI Express bus of an information handling system in response to a hot swap, the links being routed to endpoints on the bus, comprising:
using an SMI (system management interrupt) routine to service the hot swap;
wherein the SMI routine generates a link reconfiguration signal;
receiving the link reconfiguration signal at a link reconfiguration circuit; and
switching all or a portion of a link from one endpoint to at least one other endpoint, in response to the receiving step and using the link reconfiguration circuit.
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7. Circuitry for reconfiguring links of a PCI Express bus of an information handling system in response to a hot swap, the links being routed to endpoints on the bus, comprising:
an SMI (system management interrupt) routine operable to generate an SMI signal commanding link reconfiguration;
a controller for receiving the SMI signal; and
switches associated with at least one of the links, operable to switch all or a portion of that link from one endpoint to another endpoint, in response to a signal from the controller.
8. The circuitry of
9. The circuitry of
10. The circuitry of
11. The circuitry of
12. An information handling system capable of allowing "hot swaps", comprising:
a central processing unit;
memory for storing programming executable by the central processing unit;
a PCI Express bus for connecting input/output endpoints to the system, and having a switch fabric and links from the host bridge to the endpoints;
a host bridge for connecting the CPU, memory, and bus;
an SMI (system management interrupt) routine operable to service hot-swaps and to generate an SMI signal commanding link reconfiguration; and
link reconfiguration circuitry for reconfiguring links of the PCI Express bus, and having a controller for receiving the SMI signal and switches associated with at least one of the links, operable to switch all or a portion of that link from one endpoint to another endpoint, in response to a signal from the controller.
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This invention relates to computer systems and more particularly to bus connections for computer systems.
A computer's components, including its processor, chipset, cache, memory, expansion cards and storage devices, communicate with each other over one or more "buses". A "bus", in general computer terms, is a channel over which information flows between two or more devices. A bus normally has access points, or places to which a device can connect to the bus. Once connected, devices on the bus can send to, and receive information from, other devices.
Today's personal computers tend to have at least four buses. Each bus is to some extent further removed from the processor; each one connects to the level above it.
The Processor Bus is the highest-level bus, and is used by the chipset to send information to and from the processor. The Cache Bus (sometimes called the backside bus) is used for accessing the system cache. The Memory Bus connects the memory subsystem to the chipset and the processor. In many systems, the processor and memory buses are the same, and are collectively referred to as the frontside bus or system bus.
The local I/O (input/output) bus connects peripherals to the memory, chipset, and processor. Video cards, disk storage devices, and network interface cards generally use this bus. The two most common local I/O buses are the VESA Local Bus (VLB) and the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus. An Industry standard architecture (ISA) I/O Bus may also be used for slower peripherals, such as mice, modems, and low speed sound and networking devices.
The current generation of PCI bus is known as the PCI Express bus. This bus is a high-bandwidth serial bus, which maintains software compatibility with existing PCI devices.
One aspect of the invention is a method of reallocating links of a PCI Express bus. The status of bus endpoints is detected, such as whether the endpoints are populated and how much bandwidth the endpoints need. Based on this detection, all or a portion of a link having unused bandwidth may be switched to another endpoint. The reallocation is performed as a hot-plug event so that no rebooting is required to activate the reallocation
An advantage of the invention is that it helps to overcome bandwidth limitations of the PCI Express bus. Reconfiguration of PCI Express lanes as a response to a hot-plug event permits unused bandwidth to be switched to other devices on the bus without rebooting.
A more complete understanding of the present embodiments and advantages thereof may be acquired by referring to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which like reference numbers indicate like features, and wherein:
In the embodiment of
CPU 10 may be any central processing device. An example of a typical CPU 10 is one from the Pentium family of processors available from Intel Corporation. For purposes of the invention, CPU 10 is at least programmed to execute an operating system having BIOS (basic input/output system) programming.
Host bridge 11 (often referred to as a Northbridge) is a chip (or part of a chipset) that connects CPU 10 to endpoints 12, memory 13, and to the PCI Express bus 17. The types of endpoints 12 connected to host bridge 11 depend on the application. For example if system 100 is a desktop computer, endpoints 12 are typically a graphics adapter, HDD (via a serial ATA link), and local I/O (via a USB link). For a server, endpoints 12 are typically GbE (gigabit Ethernet) and IBE devices and additional bridge devices.
Communications between the CPU 10 and host bridge 11 are via a front side bus 14.
PCI Express bus 17 comprises switch fabric 17 a and links 17 b, by means of which a number of PCI endpoints 18 may be connected. The switch fabric 17 a provides fanout from host bridge 11 to links 17 b, and provides link scaling.
"Link scaling" means that the available bandwidth of the PCI Express bus 17 is allocated, such that a predetermined number of links 17 b, each having a size conforming to PCI Express architecture standards, are physically routed to endpoints 18. Each link 17 b comprises one or more lanes. A link having a single lane (referred as having a ×1 width) has two low-voltage differential pairs; it is a dual simplex serial connection between two devices. Data transmission between the two devices is simultaneous in both directions. Scalable performance is achieved through wider link widths (×1, ×2, ×4, ×8, ×16, ×32). Links are scaled symmetrically, with the same number of lanes in each direction.
PCI endpoints 18 may be peripheral devices or chips, physically connected using card slots or other connection mechanisms. The particular endpoints 18 connected to PCI Express bus 17 depend on the type of application of system 100. For a desktop computer system, examples of typical PCI endpoints 18 are mobile docking adapters, Ethernet adapters, and other add in devices. For a server platform, endpoints 18 could be gigabit Ethernet connections, and additional switching capability for I/O and cluster interconnections. For a communications platform, endpoints 18 could be line cards.
In a conventional PCI Express bus 17, the switching fabric 17 a is a logical element implemented as a separate component or as part of a component that includes host bridge 11. As explained below, in the present invention, the PCI Express bus 17 operates in conjunction with additional switching and control circuitry 19. This circuitry 19 detects the status of endpoints 18 and is capable of switching links from one endpoint to another.
Each link 17 b is illustrated as two pairs of signals—a transmit pair and a receive pair. Transmit pairs are identified as T signals and receive pairs as R signals.
Slots 23 and 24 are designed for connecting card type endpoints 45. Although only two slots are shown, any number of slot configurations are possible depending on the desired scaling (×1, ×4, etc) of the links. Slots 23 and 24 represent physical locations, typically within the computer chassis of system 100, where cards for various I/O devices may be installed. In other embodiments, system 100 could have one or more chip connections in addition to or instead of slot connections. For generality, the term "endpoint connection" could be used to refer collectively to the connection for chips, cards, or any other type of endpoint.
In the example of
For purposes of this description, reconfiguration occurs in response to a "hot-swap" event. A "hot-plug" or "hot-swap" event is initiated by a user of system 100, who adds, removes, or exchanges a PCI express card or other end point 18.
As is known, a "hot-swap" or "hot-plug" capability of system 100 permits the user to add and remove devices (endpoints 18) while CPU 10 is running, and to have the operating system automatically recognize the change. Hot swapping is implemented with SMI (system management interrupt) hardware and firmware, which comprises two parts: an interrupt service mechanism and a SMI routine for interrupt servicing. In today's computer systems, these two parts are implemented as hardware and firmware, respectively, however, other implementations are possible. When the user performs a hot-swap, the interrupt hardware sends a signal to the system CPU 10 that runs the BIOS. The SMI routine then executes in the host to service the interrupt and restore the context of the operating system after the interrupt.
In the case of the present invention, a conventional hot-swap SMI routine is modified to signal reconfiguration circuit 19 to perform a physical link reconfiguration. An example of a suitable signaling means is a GPIO pin.
The SMI routine can use various methods to determine which endpoint(s) get how much bandwidth. As one example, a user-defined profile can be accessed. The user-defined profile could be weighted on parameters such as local storage, network I/O, or local graphics. Alternatively, all endpoints 18 could get equal bandwidth. As another example, an adaptive bandwidth allocation could be performed. Bus utilization is recorded and analyzed for the entire PCI Express bus 17. Bandwidth is allocated based on bus utilization history. Various other approaches to bus allocation could be implemented.
Reconfiguration is accomplished using switches 25 and 26 and a link configuration controller 27. It should be understood that
Link configuration controller 27 may be implemented with a programmable logic device, and may be stand alone logic circuitry or may be integrated with other system logic. For example, link configuration controller could be integrated into host bridge 20.
If signaled by SMI routine 29, controller 27 delivers a signal to switches 25 and 26. Switches 25 and 26 may be implemented with high speed switching devices. Like controller 27, switches 25 and 26 could be integrated with other circuitry, such as with controller 27 and/or with host bridge 20.
In the example of
In the example, Slot 23 is now populated and slot 24 is unpopulated. This status is the result of a hot-swap, which has resulted in an SMI routine that has sent a reconfiguration signal to controller 27. In response, controller 27 has set switches 25 and 26 to switch all of Link B to slot 23.
The above example accomplishes "reconfiguration" in the sense that it reroutes existing links, that is, links already been physically routed to various endpoints on the bus. In the absence of the invention, the PCI Express bus would operate in accordance with whatever link configuration was established at initialization of system 100.
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Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Power for delivery tomorrow in Poland slid on increased supply as cross-border exports to neighboring countries were set to halt for most of tomorrow.
Day-ahead power lost 5.9 percent to 182.04 zloty ($57.55) as Poland was forecast to halt flows abroad at all times tomorrow except for 490 megawatts at 7 a.m., 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Warsaw time to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. That's compared with as much as 1,595 megawatts at 7 a.m. today, data from grid manager PSE Operator SA show.
A 460-megawatt facility at the Lagisza plant owned by Tauron Polska Energia SA halted yesterday and will be offline for five days, the company said.
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Next-day contracts on the Czech and Slovak markets settled 10 percent lower at 46.01 euros ($59.50) a megawatt-hour in a daily auction. Electricity for the next day in Hungary decreased 13 percent to 46.54 euros a megawatt-hour, according to the countries' market operators.
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The competition show talent shuffle continues today, with word that Billie Joe Armstrong has signed on to The Voice as a mentor on Christina Aguilera's team. The Grammy winning Green Day frontman explained in a statement accompanying the announcement that he chose The Voice because it is "not molding artists, it's just giving them a little bit of guidance and direction without giving them a complete makeover." Which is to say that it is, by his figuring, as close to punk as these sorts of shows come. Aguilera's not exactly Kathleen Hanna or even Haley Williams, but that's not really been Armstrong's thing for a while now, and he assures that the two are having fun together. And if this means more "Longview" on the tube, well, we'll go ahead and look the other way.
The vying of the different singing competition shows for A-list talent has become a real spectacle this round, with rumors of big names and bigger salaries accounting for most of their between season press. Mariah Carey or Britney Spears are likely draw extra eyes to Idol and The X Factor, respectively, and so it's been fun watching as the bar raises. But it's hard not to wonder what this cycle means for the talent these shows are actually turning out. Should someone be checking in on Jermaine Paul?
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You'll find everything from the sweetest baby's first Christmas gifts to beautiful Hanukkah keepsakes, as well as the coolest presents for hard-to-shop-for dads, grandparents, nieces and nephews, movie buffs, foodies, fans of a certain (ahemcough) popular book that they won't admit to reading…and even for you. We couldn't leave you out!
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When it comes to landing a job in today's economy, local unions want to make sure that kids are ready for the challenges.
The 5th Annual Construction Career Expo is taking place through Friday at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 25 in Rock Island.
It's hammer time in the hall on Tuesday.
All that nail-pounding leads the way to a special session. Eighth graders are exploring careers in the building trades.
"I want to work in construction," said Aaron Burton, 13, who attends Mercer County Junior High in Joy, Illinois.
Burton represents more than 1,200 kids in the program. He wants it to spark his success.
"I just hope that this helps me figure out my decision in what I want to do," he said.
Union apprentice coordinator Mark Hitzner is bonding with students at one of the stops.
"Concrete is not cement," he said.
This masonry lesson is all about the next generation of workers.
"We do need trained, skilled individuals," he said. "And we need them more than ever now."
These hands-on lessons could connect kids with a trade. They're career-building exercises that just might last a lifetime.
Since many kids won't advance to college, trades provide secure alternatives. These are good paying jobs with plenty of potential.
"They know this opportunity is here," said Karen Jones, a school guidance counselor. "They'll remember that it's here for them when they turn 18."
Station by station, they're learning about possibilities and realities.
"Maybe it will push them in the right direction," said eighth grader Madi Prater.
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WORCESTER, Mass. - Junior goaltender Casey McCullion (Philadelphia, Pa.) has been named the Holiday Inn Express Crusader of the Week, for competition from January 30-February 5. McCullion led the Holy Cross women's ice hockey team to a 1-0 victory over Salve Regina on Friday, Feb. 3.
During the win over the Seahawks, McCullion made 22 saves while posting her third shutout of the season. Earlier in the year, she had shutouts in victories over St. Michael's on Nov. 5 (6-0) and Jan. 20 (2-0). McCullion now has an overall record of 3-6-1 on the season, with 280 saves and a 3.17 goals against average.
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The race for the next mayor of Bloomington has begun. The final day for candidates to file is tomorrow. This will be the first election in more than a decade in which Mayor Mark Kruzan is not a contender. Kruzan has announced he won't seek reelection after completing his third term as mayor later this year. Last week Kruzan was in the WFHB studios to speak with William Hosea and Cornelius Wright of Bring It On, our weekly African American public affairs show. We bring you a portion of that conversation for today's WFHB community report.
The anti-vaccination movement has been in the news a lot lately, with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie drawing fire for stating parents should have a measure of choice when it comes to deciding whether or not to vaccinate their children. Voices in the Street hit the street to ask your friends and neighbors what they think about the movement, whether you feel vaccinations contribute to higher rates of autism in children, a parent's right to choose and what are some of the ramifications of this movement.
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By: Jennifer Ann Wilson
North Minneapolis has been in the headlines this summer with plenty of violent crime. We crunched the numbers and found that the 12 neighborhoods that make up north Minneapolis had more than 18,000 crimes in 2013 alone. That includes everything from homicides to larceny and aggravated assault.
Community organizations are working together to change that.
Saturday, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC) partnered with other local non-profits to organize the first "Broadway Day Block Party." It's just one way they are encouraging residents to unite and tell the rest of the metro: Don't believe everything you hear about north Minneapolis; there's much more to this neighborhood than its reputation.
"People come into north Minneapolis, and they're like 'ooooo,'" says resident Amy Mingo. "But it's not like that."
Yes, there's crime and economic struggle, but there's also passion.
"I think it's a community worth fighting for," says Tiana Bellamy, a representative with Neighborhoods Organizing for Change.
"There are good people here," says business owner George Shannon
"People looking for their dream," says Mingo.
And there is progress.
"There's a lot of construction and new build-outs going on. And I feel like that could lead to new employment opportunities, 'cause that's really what the problem is all about," says Shannon.
The organization, Northside Achievement, says a large portion of the north Minneapolis population is under-employed, living in poverty and 25 percent of school-age children are homeless or highly mobile.
There are problems in north Minneapolis that can't be ignored, but there's also beauty that isn't often celebrated.
"The street art and the graffiti and the murals and stuff and all of the art that happens so organically here," says Bellamy.
"I just like how when I'm walking out the door and taking our dog for a walk that people honk their horn and say 'hey,' because they know me, and they see me and that happens everywhere in north," says Mingo.
Non-profits like NOC are on a grassroots mission to improve north Minneapolis from the inside out.
"If people are invested in the community, the community is going to progress itself and make itself a better place for the people that live there," says Bellamy.
NOC organized the first annual Broadway Day Block Party as a way to fuel progress by celebrating the community strengths and building neighborhood pride.
"I think pride is there, but there's no place to openly say, 'We're from north Minneapolis and we're proud,' and this is the kind of event where that can happen," says Shannon with a smile.
Recently NOC organized a group of people in the community to transform a vacant, overgrown lot filled with trash into an organic community garden.
Currently they are working on a program to encourage young people to get to the polls and vote for local leaders in the upcoming November elections.
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Hi Guys i have to use a custom fonts in my web page for that i have generated css in "http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator" but it throw "Error" message when i upload my .ttf fonts. As i guess shows that it blacklisted fonts.
Can any one solve this problem?
Well, you need to make sure that the font's license specifically allows them to be used on the web, many of them require a separate license even if you purchased it for your desktop…Goto google.com/webfonts and see if you can;t find something similar.
i don't have any license for that i have downloaded that from a free site. font is 'Gill Sans MT Condensed Bold'.
You are trying to use a font that isn't allowed to be used in that way. If you want to use it on your website you'll need to get a proper license to do so. http://webfonts.fonts.com/en-US/Project/ChooseFonts?ViewDetails=T&ViewFontID=692595
The font must be pirated.
I personally don't think it's because of this. Unless you entered the option : " I don't have a license" like in Cufon.
seriously, did any of you ever used a license for a Microsoft font? I guess I m an alien and an outlaw.
@seb_z_lite Really =/?
"i don't have any license for that i have downloaded that from a free site"
The font is not free and comes with a license.
We all should be supporting type designers, not steal from them.
I support font designers. I pay for my fonts.And I said Microsoft, if I need Arial Black and I m using Linux, do you think I m going to buy it?. but, Gill Sans MT was created by mr. Gill in 1926. and here it says :
Don't worry, I support designers more than a lot of people, I just knew that somebody was going to interpret that as bragging. Alright, I said too much already. Before I start getting called a troll. Far from that, I dedicated my life to art. I m just worried when people think that a company like Microsoft deserves respect. Do you think they care about artists?
Doesn't matter where Gill Sans is installed. Monotype is the foundry, it sets the rules.
My point was that Gill Sans is not free as the person above said he acquired it for free.
I always check licenses before using fonts…if you don't, even if it is unintentional and the license does not explicitly list that you may use it for web, you are in fact stealing.
fontsquirrel along with google webfonts both have plenty of pre-made resources for free appropriately licensed fonts…I highly suggest you look there…
Personally, i like to use fontsquirrel for generating the CSS but I wouldn't recommend using google web fonts.
Google Web Fonts gets my vote for sure.
I'm just curious to know the reasons to choose Google web fonts?
I don't use Google fonts often, but I can certainly understand @TheDoc's vote. I think the better question would be why you wouldn't recommend Google Web Fonts @ChristopherBurton?
You say that you use Font Squirrel to generate the correct @font-face CSS, but Google Web Fonts also use @font-face. The rendering may not be as nice as Typekit, but it's no different to using Font Squirrel.
Is it due to their selection? Not everyone will have the same tastes as you or I.
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The relationship of post-fire white ash cover to surface fuel consumption
Hudak, Andrew T.; Ottmar, Roger D.; Vihnanek, Robert E.; Brewer, Nolan W.; Smith, Alistair M. S.; Morgan, Penelope. 2013. The relationship of post-fire white ash cover to surface fuel consumption. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 22: 780-785.
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White ash results from the complete combustion of surface fuels, making it a logically simple retrospective indicator of surface fuel consumption. However, the strength of this relationship has been neither tested nor adequately demonstrated with field measurements. We measured surface fuel loads and cover fractions of white ash and four other surface materials (green vegetation, brown non-photosynthetic vegetation, black char and mineral soil) immediately before and after eight prescribed fires in four disparate fuelbed types: boreal forest floor, mixed conifer woody slash, mixed conifer understorey and longleaf pine understorey. We hypothesised that increased white ash cover should correlate significantly to surface fuel consumption. To test this hypothesis, we correlated field measures of surface fuel consumption with field measures of surface cover change. Across all four fuelbed types, we found increased white ash cover to be the only measure of surface cover change that correlated significantly to surface fuel consumption, supporting our hypothesis. We conclude that white ash load calculated from immediate post-fire measurements of white ash cover, depth and density may provide an even more accurate proxy for surface fuel consumption, and furthermore a more physically based indicator of fire severity that could be incorporated into rapid response, retrospective wildfire assessments.
Keywords: black char, fire effects, fire severity, fuelbed, prescribed fire
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As important as the announcement of the location was the news that the Coast Guard itself is backing the plans, critical to launching a successful fundraising effort to pay for construction of the national museum that will recall the rich history of the rescue service.
New London, home to the Coast Guard Academy, is the appropriate place for the museum. And while the city's Fort Trumbull peninsula was formerly under consideration as the locale, this newspaper has more recently argued that a location adjacent to the downtown commercial district was the better choice.
In the selected spot the museum will have easy access to plentiful parking and car, ferry, bus and train transportation. The museum will help generate activity on the city's underutilized waterfront. It will create more foot traffic, vital to the success and growth of retail and restaurant businesses in the downtown. Using the new museum to host marine-related conferences will add to the buzz of activity and improve synergy between the city and the academy it hosts.
While some might argue the redevelopment efforts at Fort Trumbull will suffer without the museum, that does not have to be the case if the city connects the peninsula to the downtown district through a water taxi or pedestrian bridge, as envisioned in the concept plan developed by the Yale Urban Design Workshop.
Efforts to build a National Coast Guard Museum reached a low point in July 2009 when the museum association suspended a fundraising effort to construct the museum in the Fort Trumbull area, dismissing a nationally regarded museum director who had been hired only a few months previously to lead the development efforts. With the nation then in the grips of the Great Recession, fundraising ran aground.
Raising funds will remain a big challenge. John S. Johnson, treasurer for the museum association, tells us the price tag has likely increased from $65 million to about $80 million, as the building will have to go up several stories to accommodate construction on the single-acre parcel. But selection of a site the Coast Guard supports should energize fundraising efforts, said Mr. Johnson, with both former officers and enlisted personnel ready to contribute to telling the story of the service they devoted parts of their lives to.
Other challenges will include getting the necessary land use approvals, agreement on details by the adjacent owners of the ferry terminal and Union Station, and support from the state. The project envisions a pedestrian bridge to carry visitors over Water Street, an idea that has proved controversial in the past. Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio recognizes the museum is a top priority for his administration.
This project could provide a great opportunity for the state to become a partner in driving New London development by helping pay for the infrastructure necessary to support this effort.
The museum is probably still several years away, but it suddenly seems much closer to becoming a reality.
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(AP) - CHIPS ARE DOWN: Intel's sales are shrinking slowly, as consumers shift from PCs, to smartphones and tablets. The company is trying to follow the shift by getting its chips into more hand-held gadgets.
INTEL INSIDE: Intel earned $2.47 billion, or 48 cents per share, in the fourth quarter. That was down 27 percent from last year, but analysts expected 45 cents per share. Revenue fell 3 percent to $13.5 billion.
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The Xavier Musketeers beat the Fordham Rams tonight 79 to 66. Xavier extended its all-time record at Cintas Center to 171-23 (.882) over the nearly 13 seasons it has played at Cintas. The Musketeers are also 90-11 (.891) all time at Cintas Center in Atlantic-10 games and have won 52 of their last 53 conference games at home (.981).
Trailing 6-2 with 18:10 left in the first half, the Rams scored 13 of the next 15 points to take a lead 15-8 with 13:05 remaining. Brendan Frazier paced Fordham during the run with eight points, including two three-point goals.
With Fordham ahead 25-22 at the 7:50 mark, Xavier ran off 11 unanswered points to take a 33-25 lead with 4:27 left. Semaj Christon led XU with six points during that stretch.
Leading 48-42 with 10:09 to go in the game, Xavier ran off eight straight points to pull ahead to 56-42 with 8:13 remaining. Jeff Robinson and Justin Martin each scored three points during the streak.
Fordham's Mandell Thomas led all scorers with 23 points. He tied his career high, which he set against Saint Louis this season (2/6/13). Luka ZIvkovic contributed nine points for the Rams. He tied his career high, which also came against Saint Louis.
Semaj Christon led Xavier with 19 points and five assists.
Justin Martin contributed 16 points, one off his career high of 17. Those 17 points came against Robert Morris on December 17, 2012. Martin also contributed three three-pointers and seven rebounds. Tonight was his first game with more than one three-point goal since the Drake game on Christmas Day.
Landon Amos set career highs with five points and five rebounds and his first collegiate basket.
Five Musketeers scored in double figures, as Travis Taylor, Jeff Robinson and Dee Davis had 10 each. The last time five Musketeers scored 10 or more in a game was against Drake on Christmas Day.
The 38 points scored by the Musketeers in the first half are the most they've scored in the first half of a game since the opener against Fairleigh Dickinson. That night Xavier scored 68 in the first half on the way to a 117-75 win (November 9, 2012).
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The continuing scandal of Edward Snowden's flight to China and then Russia (and possibly elsewhere more permanently) has been a diplomatic setback for the Obama administration. But it has not been wholly without its minor diplomatic victories. A phone call from Vice President Biden to Ecuador's President Rafael Correa apparently convinced the latter not to accept Snowden. And a request from President Obama apparently convinced our European allies to ground the Bolivian president's plane out of suspicion Snowden was on board.
Snowden hasn't been extradited, but his options are disappearing and his fate is now in the hands of the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB. And the president did read one aspect of the issue correctly: countries have reveled in rejecting the American president publicly, and so Obama has declined to play too high-profile a role lest he give Vladimir Putin and the others an additional public-relations victory. There was no reason to add (more) insult to injury–but that's exactly what GOP Senator Lindsey Graham would have the administration do. Graham said the U.S. should consider boycotting the 2014 Olympics to be held in the Russian city of Sochi if Snowden isn't extradited to the U.S. His comments have now drawn condemnation from both sides of the isle, as well as the U.S. Olympic Committee:
"If there are any lessons to be learned from the American boycott of 1980, it is that Olympic boycotts do not work," U.S. Olympic Committee spokesperson Patrick Sandusky said in a statement. "Our boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games did not contribute to a successful resolution of the underlying conflict. It did, however, deprive hundreds of American athletes, all whom had completely dedicated themselves to representing our nation at the Olympic Games, of the opportunity of a lifetime."
Graham said the United States should send Russia "the most unequivocal signal I could send them" after Snowden on Tuesday formally requested asylum after spending almost a month in the transit zone of the Moscow airport. Snowden has been charged with espionage for leaking details about two NSA programs that collected information about U.S. telephone calls and international Internet usage.
Alexey Pushkov, a Russian lawmaker, dismissed Graham's remarks as an effort to go back to Cold War times of "mutual boycotts when our two countries looked at each other through, figuratively speaking, nuclear sight." And President Vladimir Putin said U.S.-Russian ties were "far more important" than the Snowden dispute.
Olympic athletes train and prepare their entire lives for the chance to participate in an event that comes along once every four years. A boycott means there would be eight years between American participation in a winter Olympics. The average age of a winter Olympian is usually around 27 years old, making that eight-year gap a career-ender for many. That doesn't mean a boycott is never an acceptable act, but the offense has to fit the outrage.
Does it in this case? Not remotely. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked about it at a press briefing and said it's not even on the administration's radar. The administration likely knows that the boycott threat would probably have the opposite of the intended effect. Most of the countries' teams would shed no tears over the thought of not having to compete with American athletes, and they would probably view Putin as something of a hero for getting the Americans to back out of the competition, leveling the playing field in certain sports.
It would also make the U.S. look petty: we didn't boycott the Olympics in China in 2008, after all, but now that we feel personally insulted we're going to stay home? We should be careful about the precedent, too. An un-extradited fugitive is a low bar for countries to clear if they're looking for an excuse to make a fuss.
So what's happening here? It's most likely an overreaction born of frustration. But unlike during the Cold War, the mistake to be avoided is taking such Russian provocations too seriously. Putin is presiding over a country in various stages of decline, and he would love nothing more than to be treated as though he is more of a threat than he is. That's not to say he's harmless–Russian assistance to Iran's nuclear program and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, as well as invading U.S. allies are but a few of the ways Putin can and does cause real harm.
But it's those actions that call for pushback, not the administration's failed "reset," a policy that quickly became a punch line. If there is information the FSB can get from Snowden, they've probably got it already. He's been living in the transit zone of the airport for about a month, after all. Obama's policies toward Russia have been disastrous and weak, but conservatives need to offer a more serious alternative than boycotting the Olympics over Snowden. It's a good sign that Graham seems to be alone in his proposal.