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Haven't those poor people suffered enough!? Now they have to endure a visit from the-liar-in-chief!
When Obama was elected he promised "change," but who knew the change he meant was into socialism!? Those of us who knew how radical this man was, and, is did not vote for him. His policies have been aimed at destroying business both big and small. Will the people in NJ put this man in for another four years? I don't have high hopes that NJ will make the right choice.
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Jackets best Northwood three at a time
Tre'von Watson put on an electrifying shooting show, hitting six three-pointers, including a 4-for-4 streak in the first 2:25 of the game, to lead Lee County (11-1) to a 67-56 win over Northwood (3-6) in Saturday night's last semifinal game of the Yellow Jacket Holiday Basketball Classic.
Watson finished the game with 23 points. The 6-foot point guard thrilled most of Lee County's Main Gym in a fast start for all of the Jackets.
Center Dewaun McEachin scored two hoops inside and Watson had a trey in between for a 7-0 Jacket start in the first 1:07.
Watson made a three from a few feet beyond the top of the key, then pulled up a drained a deeper shot from the left wing. He was left open and hit another from the left wing, by now with the Yellow Jacket bench and fans loving it, for a 16-2 Lee County lead.
The Jackets kept the lead ticking up three at a time, but with three-point plays in the lane by Keaun Toler and McEachin, making it 22-4. Namique Farrow's three-pointer at the horn ending the first period made it 25-13 Jackets.
Northwood settled down, and the Jacket shooting mostly cooled off, the rest of the way but the Jackets maintained at least a nine-point advantage.
"We take pride playing at home and it was good to get off to that kind of start," said Lee County head coach Reggie Peace. "You're not going to shoot like that for a whole game, but you've still got to maintain your defending and rebounding and we've got to work on that."
Watson was so hot he banked in a three-pointer from the right wing while getting fouled. He finished the four-point play for a 36-21 Jacket lead with 3:19 left in the half.
With the half running out, the Jackets ran a set play for Watson and he made a three from the left corner a couple ticks before the horn giving Lee County a 44-23 halftime lead.
In total, Lee County made seven three-pointers, including the four-point play, and three more three-point plays in the half.
Ti Pinnix and Kadarus Rone led a Charger attempt to make a game of it in the second half. Both scored five points in a 10-0 run bringing Northwood to a 46-33 deficit shortly into the third period.
The Jacket stemmed the run, but a couple Charger trips later, Pinnix drove strong to the hoop for a hoop and the fourth foul on McEachin. Pinnix made the free throw and the Chargers trailed by 12.
Toler, subbing in for McEachin, answered with two baskets on nice moves in the paint. Toler wound up scoring nine of his 12 points in the second half.
"Keaun made some big baskets when we needed him," Peace said. "We've got to keep him out of foul trouble, though."
Toler fouled out with a little more than four minutes left. McEachin fouled out with 1:29 left in the game and Lee County ahead 65-53.
The Chargers chipped to a nine-point margin a few times in the fourth quarter. Each time, Lee County found a way through Northwood's trapping efforts for baskets.
With the lead at nine, the Jackets missed two one-and-one chances at the line. Northwood couldn't get within six or seven as the clock went under a minute and, instead, Watson stole a pass at midcourt, then was fouled and made two free throws with 0:38 left.
Watson had seven rebounds, four steals and four assists to go with the long-range bombing.
"He was on fire and it was big to get out to a start like that," Peace said.
"Then we kind of let our guard down," he said.
Northwood is too good of a team, Peace said, to let that happen.
"They're a big, physical, rugged, but also very athletic team. We knew they'd get back in the game. We put them on the line too much, which is a credit to them, and they made the foul shots and stayed in the game," Peace said.
Pinnix scored 17 of his 22 points in the second half and the Charger point guard had five rebounds and four steals. Rone had 13 points, eight rebounds and four steals.
McEachin scored 16 points and got eight boards while Toler added 12 points. Hunter Jackson scored seven points and Farrow had five points.
Lee County will play former Tri-Nine Conference foe Cary (7-3) in the Classic championship game at 8 p.m. Monday.
The Imps edged Carrboro 60-56, in a game which went down to the final seconds, in Friday's opening round, then defeated East Chapel Hill 60-45 earlier Saturday evening.
Northwood will play East Chapel Hill in the third-place game at 4 p.m. Monday.


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This week, the Barbershop guys discuss a series of comments by Newt Gingrich suggesting that underprivileged kids could improve their work ethic by cleaning school bathrooms. Also, after nearly 30 years and numerous appeals, Philadelphia prosecutors are no longer seeking the death penalty for convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.


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As with all of my Motivation Monday posts---this is just how one person did it---there are so many ways to get fit and reach your goals---with that said, here is Jill's story!
Jill is 27 years old, lives in Canada and works as a Group Benefits Customer Care Representative.
she was170lbs on the left and 145lbs on the right
Hi V! Thanks for the congratulations. It's rewarding! I'll tell you first of all that I've never been a big gym person. Last summer my doctor prescribed me a medication that made me gain 30lbs instantly. I got really puffy, bloated, uncomfortable and self conscious. I joined the gym back in September and saw no results in 6 months...In fact, I gained. I was starting to believe that either I was doing something wrong or I was just going to continue to grow, no matter what I did to prevent it. One night I was at the gym and I saw (or I thought I saw!) my friend Dr. Heather Voisin (disclaimer: Voisin is affiliated with the brand ISAGENIX). It turns out it wasn't her, but I was so excited that I came home and emailed her how I thought I saw her and how excited I was! Needless to say, she was telling me about this amazing cleanse she was doing to help release some of the unwanted waste from our bodies and that weight loss was one of the perks. Awesome! I needed to know more so we set up a date.
How did you decide on what kind of eating and workout plan you were going to commit to?
Dr. Voisin was telling me about the importance of cleansing and there is a reason that traditional diets never work. Toxins are stored in our fat cells. If we can remove the toxins, we can remove the fat as well. So, I decided to do a 30 day nutritional cleanse with ISAGENIX. Along with my new cleanse, I was already going to the gym. I picked up a 4-day-a-week schedule while on the cleanse to kick-start my weight loss. I was losing approx 4lbs / week in toxic waste from my cells.
Did you gradually start eating better and working out or did you go full force from the start? I went full force into the 30 day cleanse. It is a combination of nutritionally dense meal replacements with healthy snacks and a healthy meal every day.
Tell us about what your weekly workouts look like I do a lot of the stepper and the bicycle. Alternate days (or lazy days) I do weights. Sometimes I do a combo of both. Depends on how I feel. The odd time I go swimming and I always go for a steam after!! Usually I go approx 3 times a week and I am usually doing my cardio/cool down for approx 45 - 60 min.
Tell us about what a typical day of eating looks like for you
Breakfast: I have a shot of this awesome drink called "Ionix Supreme". This helps start my day off properly and helps with the stress. Next I have a Vanilla shake with a sprinkle of cinnamon for extra flavour.
Snack: Hardboiled egg, 2 x sliced turkey meat, 2 x non-processed cheddar cheese
Lunch: Another shake for my lunch.
Dinner: I honestly eat whatever I want for dinner. Mind you, it's not fried or fast food. I eat normal things like skinless chicken, pasta, veggies etc. but the quantities are small and just enough to make me feel full.
Beverages: I mainly drink water. Coffee with milk. Sometimes I cheat and drink ginger ale every now and again because I love the carbonation.
What are some of your favorite healthy snacks?
I enjoy eating fruit. I've taken a recent liking to blueberries. I usually have them in my fridge along with raspberries. I catch myself eating them when I watch tv instead of chips or cookies. I find cutting the fortified sugars makes me not even crave them. Instead when I have a sweet tooth, I go for those blueberries!
Were friends and family members supportive of your new healthier lifestyle? My family and friends were very supportive. Some were skeptical because sadly North Americans do not know very much about cleansing. Most if not all other countries do some form of cleansing and we are one of the unhealthiest nations in the world so there has to be a link. Some of my close family members joined the cleanse with me and have been just as successful with their results as mine. Rewarding!
What advice do you have for a woman who would like to be healthier but lacks the motivation? What caused you to finally have the drive to succeed?
I think the best advice I could give for someone else would be to make the drastic change right then and there. Don't make gradual changes because it's easy to fall back into old habits. You know you need to do something for your health. Don't start tomorrow. Start today. Get the ball going. It becomes habit. As much as I didn't want to join the gym, I knew I had to. Once I started noticing the results, I became driven. During my cleanse, people were starting to notice the weight come off on a weekly basis. That's amazing!!!
What can you do now that you weren't able to do before you lost the weight and got fit?
I have never told anyone this, so this is a little uncomfortable for me, but I got to the point where my thighs were so big that I couldn't even cross my legs when sitting down. I didn't even know that was possible. Believe it or not, I found that very upsetting. I can clearly say after I released 25lbs (and still losing!) I can fit into some of my size 4 jeans again (from a size 8-10) and cross my legs :) The other things I have noticed is that I am not in pain while sitting at my desk job from my stomach hanging over my pants. I didn't even realize being overweight for my height caused physical discomfort. What a horrible feeling. On the benefit, my stamina is higher and my energy levels are greater as opposed to when I wasn't being active.
What are your goals as you continue to pursue a healthier lifestyle? My goals to continue to pursue a healthier lifestyle is to continue to use these ISAGENIX products. They really are the reason for my success in the weight loss, energy level increase and stamina. I now help other people reach their goals. I am so thrilled with my results that I want others to feel and look as great as I do!
Honestly, losing this weight. I never ever thought I could have gained weight, let alone take it off. I'm still in the process of releasing some more toxins and waste from my system, but I know what it is that I need to do and I have the tools to succeed. Anybody can do this.
What are some of your best "stay on track" tips?
This is something I'm trying to figure out myself right now. I just told my dad the other day that I think I'm going to try running (which I hate running), but I need to change up my routine and give it a fair shot at trying to melt those pesky pounds that don't come off! Who knows, maybe I'll turn into a runner?!
If you'd like to learn more about the products Jill used in addition to exercise, please see this link. Thank you so much for sharing your story, Jill! If you have any questions for Jill, please leave them below and I will ask her to come and answer them.
Disclaimer: I am adding this due to the response I've gotten about this post. I want to make it clear that I am not affiliated with Isagenix nor do I advocate for cleanses of any kind, by any brand. I am sharing one person's experience in using this product as part of a 30-day challenge to get on a better path to health and fitness. I do not have anything against using a cleanse for a short period of time in combination with eating real, whole foods and working out ---with the ultimate goal of learning to eat healthy and exercise and have a healthier lifestyle overall, for the long run. I do not promote or advocate the long-term use of cleansing products and have never used, and do not plan to use cleansing products of any kind.


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Arizona Is Exhibit 'A' On Need For Clarity
Lecturer in Law Dan Siciliano is quoted in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram commenting on a new Arizona state law that requires Arizona businesses to electronically verify the legal status of all employees:
"Businesses are confused about what they need to do and how to go about doing it," says Dan Siciliano, chief executive officer of LawLogix, a Phoenix-based software company that helps businesses file the employee verification documents. "It's a bit daunting for small- to medium-sized companies, and we're now getting dozens, if not hundreds, of calls now that the law is here."
Siciliano, who also is a professor of law and economics at Stanford University School of Law, says he believes most companies want to comply with the regulations but had hoped that court challenges would have put off enforcement for a while. "If a state makes special rules that apply only to that state on issues of immigration, it will be difficult to determine the impact to that state because they are competing with all the other states economically," he says. "The argument is that some businesses say they will be deterred from operating because it will be more bureaucratic, while others say it will create a [more] level playing field. In the end, I don't think we know which way it's going to go.
"This is why immigration enforcement and regulation needs to be handled by the federal government," he says.


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McGinnis: James Rolfe — In praise of a nerdWritten by Jeff McGinnis | | email@example.com
It's virtually impossible to quote the subject of this column in a family newspaper. It seems like every other sentence he utters is laced with some form of profanity, with a variety and creativity that approaches a vulgar art form. He is ranting about what he hates, which is much. He always wears a white, button-down shirt and glasses, with a front pocket jammed to the brim with Sharpies. He is a nerd. In fact, he is the Nerd.
The character's name is the Angry Video Game Nerd. As portrayed by creator/filmmaker James Rolfe and loved by thousands of fans on the Internet, the Nerd is both an embodiment and parody of the world of retro video gaming. His Web show is dedicated to analyzing old games (his subjects are almost all from the '80s and early '90s), finding all the flaws inherent in their construction, then ripping them to shreds in as funny and profane a way as possible.
The first question is obvious: Why would anyone spend so much time harping on the flaws of a product now decades out-of-date? But that's part of the joke, of course. His over-the-top criticisms are based in reality, sure, and anyone who played the titles he discusses will spend much time nodding in agreement. But the level and longevity of his anger push his commentaries from simple criticism into outright absurdity.
The character was born out of accident. Rolfe, as he has discussed in numerous interviews and documentaries, has been a filmmaker for most of his life. He was always trying new ideas and seeing what happened. One day in 2004, he made a video where he verbally ripped apart the classic Nintendo game "Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest." The goal was not a franchise, but simply a joke for friends.
Two more angry reviews followed, and for years, almost none outside of Rolfe's circle would see what became known as the "Angry Nerd Trilogy." Finally, in 2006, Rolfe's friend and frequent collaborator Mike Matei (known to fans by a nickname which also cannot be printed here) convinced him to post the videos to YouTube.
The titles struck a chord with gamers. Before he knew it, Rolfe was at the center of one of the most popular franchises on the Web. He still ranks among the 100 most subscribed channels of all time on YouTube, despite the fact that new episodes have been exclusively posted to GameTrailers.com for years. The show recently celebrated the release of its 100th episode.
How can a show built seemingly on one joke maintain popularity for more than 100 installments? A number of reasons. For one thing, Rolfe is first and foremost a consummate filmmaker. The Nerd's escapades are not as simple as constantly showing him ranting about an old game. The episodes frequently feature action sequences, sight gags, visual effects, an overarching storyline, guest stars and more. Though Rolfe's core concept is relatively simple, he doesn't take that as a cue to be lazy.
Rolfe has also used his platform to do more than simply bash the bad of the gaming world. He also takes time to celebrate the good, reviewing classic games and analyzing their impact, as well as explaining to fans unfamiliar with gaming history the story behind some of the most rare and fascinating titles.
Beyond simply poking fun at the industry's failings, the Nerd also reminds his fans why they love games in the first place.
The series is influential in another way, as well. Rolfe has made more than 300 films, by his count. Like many on the independent scene, he has struggled with the issue of distribution — how can you get new material made outside of the studio system?
Rolfe's amazing success in posting his videos online, both on YouTube and his own website, cinemassacre.com, reaffirms the possibilities of the new era of entertainment.
If an artist wants to find an audience, he or she is no longer constrained by the shackles of conventional distribution. Artists can take their work to the people directly. The channels are there, and they're open to everyone. If someone wants to see what you do, you can find an outlet to deliver it to them. This is the greatest lesson to be taken from Rolfe's success. His most famous creation is vulgar, hilarious, obscene, insightful, occasionally childish — and an inspiration to creative minds everywhere.
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How do you measure the sound of something if it makes no sound? Ask ORNL.
The Navy prefers to call its subs "quiet underwater weapons platforms." What little noise they do make must still be monitored in operational tests, both to improve designs and to ensure that the craft are operating to specifications. The testing requirements presented engineers with a challenge: how do you measure the sound of something if it makes almost no sound? Ask ORNL. The U.S. Navy has relied on ORNL's Instrumentation and Controls Division's expertise in electronics, real-time computer applications, and systems integration to develop state-of-the-art acoustic measurement systems.
ORNL has been working with the Navy on a special program for the past 6 years called AMFIP IIthe second phase of the Acoustic Measurement Facilities Improvement Program. According to Randall Wetherington, who heads the program in the I&C Division, ORNL has devised ways to "measure the undetectable" for its sponsor, the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Carderock Division.
The system uses several arrays of hydrophone sensors--laceworks of underwater microphones suspended from buoys--to gather sound from the craft as it goes by. Computers process the sound signatures to extract the signal from background noise. "Waves and wind cause an ambient noise level in the ocean," Wetherington explained. "This new technology can detect noises below this ambient level. It's like a TV satellite dish in that the array, like the big dish, focuses the energy, which amplifies the sensor signals. As you add sensors, with their placement based on sophisticated math and geometry, you get more signal gain over a large bandwidth."
The USNS Hayes is a specialized ship that is home to the instrumentation systems used in the Navy's acoustics tests.
Much of the signal processing hardware and software for I&C Division's AMFIP II system is currently aboard the Navy's laboratory research ship the USNS Hayes, which is currently ported at Cape Canaveral, Florida. When test runs for submarines a re scheduled, the Hayes sails to the test course set up in Exuma Sound, which lies in the middle of the Bahama Island chain. There the arrays, which have more than 1000 individual hydrophone sensors each, are placed to pick up sounds from the vessels as they pass through the course. Long umbilical cables connect the arrays to the rest of the system, which is located aboard the Hayes.
The Navy's test course is located in the Bahamas within a corner of the fabled and mysterious Bermuda Triangle. Researchers in the AMFIP II program like to point to this fact, although few express reser-vations about working after dark.
The radiated noise emanating from the Navy's submarines, called the acoustic signature, is normally low enough to be masked by the natural background noise of the ocean in a conventional hydrophone setup. The next generation of nuclear submarines the SSN 21 Seawolf operates below this natural background, requiring the world's most advanced underwater acoustic measuring system to ensure that its acoustic emissions remain below design limits and thus stay hidden beneath the vast ocean.
Like a number of ORNL researchers involved in the AMFIP II project, Randall Wetherington (left) and Andy Andrews have made a number of trips to the Bahamas' Eleuthera Island, which lies near the Navy's test course in Exuma Sound.
The initial problem, says Andy Andrews, deputy program manager in the I&C Division, is how to measure something that makes virtually no sound. "Staying hidden is part of the submarine's job," Andrews says." Acoustics is one of the few ways these ships can be found. The craft in the Trident class can be the length of two football fields and not make any noise as they go by. Our systems help characterize the normal acoustic signature of the vessel as it runs through a course of instrumentation. Our system is not classified, although the data it generates are. If you know what a vessel's acoustic signature is, you could develop ways to detect it."
As are many a sailor's, shipboard accommodations aboard the Hayes are spartan.
Wetherington likens the AMFIP II system's acoustic feats to a familiar scenario: "It's the Tennessee-Alabama game at Knoxville in the last minute of play. The score is 28-27, and Alabama, who has just scored to come within one point, is lined up to try for a go-ahead two-point conversion. Imagine the crowd noise from about 100,000 people. Now, sitting near the 50-yard line is an English professor with a heart condition who, in times of stress, calms himself by reciting aloud Edgar Allen Poe's Annabelle Lee.
"This acoustic technology could pick the professor's poem out of all of that crowd noise."
Electronics and Hot Rod Chips
The ORNL researchers' efforts have focused on three main areas--telemetry and underwater electronics; beamforming, or signal processing; and system integration, or, more simply, making it work. More generally, they've designed and built electronic instrumentation and developed a processing system that takes the data and generates information in a usable form.
AMFIP II's instrument arrays feature numerous hydrophones and sophisticated underwater electronics.
The telemetry system was a challenge to the I&C AMFIP II team because of the large number of signals from the sensor arrays that must be acquired, conditioned, and transmitted. These signals have a very wide bandwidth and must be transmitted over a long distance. The system required the identification and use of emerging technologies that arrived on the market at the same time that the design effort was initiated, making AMFIP II truly state of the art. The AMFIP II team had to clear technical hurdles presented by power distribution, heat dissipation, high-speed and high-resolution signal digitization, and very high-speed data multiplexing combining information cascading in on multiple lines into a single line suitable for fiber-optic transmission.
Resembling a huge, mechanical Portuguese man-o-war, the AMFIP II sensor array is hoisted over the water by technicians aboard the Hayes. The latticework of hydrophones more than 1000 for the system is strung above pressure vessels containing instrumentation.
"We used a 'hot rod' multiplexer chip developed by DARPA that combines information on 40 lines into a single line," Andrews said. "Our success in identifying new technologies produced significant cost savings for the Navy. For instance, we convert signals from the hydrophones to digital data almost immediately, which gives us very high-resolution signals, and then transmit the data by fiber-optic cable to the test ship. We identified a $20 digitization chip that will do tasks that used to cost $3000 per channel. We built three systems with more than 1000 channels eachone channel for each sensor."
Along with combing the marketplace for available electronics, the AMFIP II team also oversaw a large subcontract effort required by the construction of around 1300 multilayer printed circuit assemblies of 50 different designs, 22 equipment chassis, and countless cables and test fixtures. All of this, as well as automated test equipment to verify that they were all working properly as they were being made, had to be designed, fabricated, and integrated into the final system.
When something breaks, as is apt to happen in a network of thousands of hydrophones, AMFIP II features a built-in diagnostic system that enables the technicians to quickly pinpoint the trouble, right down to the dead hydrophone or defective integrated circuit. A major advantage of the system is that sensors can be monitored and diagnostics can be performed aboard ship, a luxury much appreciated by technicians who would otherwise have to hoist arrays of a multitude of sensors and instrument cylinders aboard to troubleshoot. "It takes an incredible amount of computer power just to do the testing," Andrews says, but it's obviously worth it. The system also allows operators to monitor system degradation in the circuitry that is immersed in the salty, high-pressure environment.
Signal Processing: On the Beam
The beamforming, or signal processing, capabilities of AMFIP II produces the high-quality measurements and acoustic images of the submarines. The image beams are computed in real time for up to 35 frequency bands simultaneously. The data from the hydrophones bobbing in Exuma Sound pours into the Hayes at a mind-boggling rate of 165 megabytes per second. I&C Division researchers Eva B. Freer and Bill Zuehzow have been instrumental in developing the algorithms and structure that bring all of the data into a usable configuration.
"To get a sense of how much information that is, a 3.5-in. floppy disk holds 1.4 megabytes," Freer says. "That's 115 full high-density floppy disks per second for each array!"
The Navy's nuclear submarines run through a course to be monitored by the AMFIP II system's sensors. The staggering amount of data generated by the sensors is manipulated by the system's signal processors and powerful computers to produce the acoustic signature of a craft that makes almost no noise.
"The custom electronic equipment aboard ship preconditions the data using more than 40 billion fixed-point instructions per second from embedded digital signal processing chips. This preconditioning is done even before the supercomputers process the data. The ability of this system to collect a multitude of signals and increase their gain with the computer algorithms enables the system to raise the submarines' image from the ocean's background noise."
As might be imagined, handling data from thousands of instruments takes a huge amount of computing power. Devising ways to handle and analyze the amount of sensor data coming in at this rate takes very specialized programming, and that is a specialty of I&C's Real-Time Systems Group. I&C Division was home to a 40-gigaflop supercomputer--for a time the biggest at the Laboratory to perform the signal processing algorithms. The result of all of this data crunching is the image of a ship, or at least its sound image.
Building and Debugging
A sizable portion of the electronics for the AMFIP II system is housed in thick-hulled pressure vessels built to stay watertight in deep water. The system's printed circuit assemblies, which are contained in the vessels, number over a thousand.
Because part of the system operates in seawater at considerable depth, it must be well built. The hydrophone arrays feature thick-hulled cylindrical instrument packages that are custom made by the Navy and pressurized with helium, which conducts heat away from the electronics. When something does malfunction, such as a sensor going out, it can be detected and compensated for aboard the Hayes. Calibration of the system can also be done remotely.
"Close to half of our effort is for testingproving that the system is working and debugging it when it doesn't," Wetherington said. "In all, the I&C Division and subcontractors have put about 30 years of conceptual development and prototyping, 20 work-years of software development and integration, and 10 years into electronics design, integration, and tests. We've also fabricated and performed quality assurance checks on 1300 multilayer printed-circuit assemblies."
The AMFIP II system consists of components and software from seven commercial suppliers, ORNL researchers, and three subcontractor teams. Putting together a product of the complexity of AMFIP II from these diverse sources required careful systems integration. "An important aspect of this project is the teamwork," Wetherington says. "ORNL had 147 staff members who worked on the effort. Our sponsor was very supportive and worked as a member of the team. We also had top-notch support from several subcontractors, including Planning Systems, Inc.; Cray Research, Inc.; Colonial Assembly and Design; and the University of Tennessee."
The I&C Division's AMFIP project began in 1986; the first acoustic processing system that ORNL developed was delivered in late 1989, and AMFIP II began soon after. The meticulous and ongoing attention to detail and project planning came to fruition again in October 1994 when ORNL successfully delivered and installed the first portion of the new AMFIP II measurement technology. The remaining components were installed in July 1995. The Navy sponsors have indicated that they intend to apply the technology to other tasks throughout the fleet. The acoustic signaling technology is also being considered for medical applications such as diagnosing a malfunctioning heart through its acoustic signature.
AMFIP II evolved from a project that played to the I&C Division's strengths in instrumentation, computing, and systems integration. The team of researchers also proved themselves in adapting to new projects and identifying when to go outside the Laboratory. They identified new technologies and coordinated a complex effort that involved six large organizations and a variety of engineering disciplines from electronics to high-speed computing. The astonishing stealth of the Navy's "quiet platforms," Wetherington said, made necessary the awesome amounts of data and the electronic and computing expertise and toil involved in harnessing that data. "All of that effort has been needed to lift one analog signal, a submarine's acoustic signature, up out of the ambient noise of the ocean."
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fix spelling mistakes in WWN #301
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@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Its main goal is to break drill bits. It
While the patch fixes the conversion bottleneck for various games it doesn't handle 8bit paletted which is used by games like StarCraft as OpenGL doesn't -support this by default. The second patch which I attached aswell adds -support for this. On cards (atleast all nvidia cards from geforce 1 to the +support this by default. The second patch which I attached as well adds +support for this. On cards (at least all nvidia cards from geforce 1 to the fx) that support the opengl paletted texture extension this extension is used. It makes StarCraft very fast atleast on my Athlon XP2000 system with a GeforceFX where the game was slow before. As not all cards support paletted textures I emulated this using a simple fragment shader. (a 1D texture -containing the palette is used as a loopup table) +containing the palette is used as a lookup table)
The attached @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ I can fix the patches and submit them to
Jesse Allen asked some questions about it:
Is Starcraft really that slow? How does this compare with using DGA? - I'm not too sure because its speed vaires. I've been testing + I'm not too sure because its speed varies. I've been testing Starcraft this weekend and it has been plenty speedy. But I do remember when trying to play it multiplayer a few months ago and was burned when it ran slow. In fact it slowed *everyone* down. Not fun. @@ -191,12 +191,12 @@ and the rendering of them.
I think the patch is a reasonable solution to work around various depth conversion problems. For sure it is the fastest way for the conversion as -the videocard basicly does it for free. On my system StarCraft and the +the videocard basically does it for free. On my system StarCraft and the Command & Conquer series (although they crash quite quickly due to threading issues) felt a lot faster, I think that the speed is close to that of DGA.
Perhaps I should clarify some misunderstandings that some people have. (I -hope I explain it correctly) Basicly DirectDraw provides a mechanism to +hope I explain it correctly) Basically DirectDraw provides a mechanism to directly access the framebuffer of the videocard. This is the fastest way to render 2D images on the screen. Games like StarCraft, Total Annihilation, C&C and lots of others use DirectDraw in this way. Second there's another @@ -206,13 +206,13 @@ then use GetDC/ReleaseDC to get a device the surface. (directly into the video memory)
In case of X direct framebuffer access is only possible through DGA but it -is unsecure and has other issues. When DGA works correctly it can accelerate +is insecure and has other issues. When DGA works correctly it can accelerate games like StarCraft. Further DGA doesn't have any depth conversion issues as it does depth switching. Without DGA the rendering operations need to go through X. Because of limitations of X, depth conversion problems appear when the depth of the desktop and X aren't the same.
-For depth conversion purposes Wine's DirectDraw uses a DIB section. Basicly +For depth conversion purposes Wine's DirectDraw uses a DIB section. Basically all pixels of an image are translated to the depth of X. This is slow and especially for the case when the application requests 8bit paletted mode using a 24bit desktop. In this case a color lookup needs to happen in a @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ StarCraft (much) as for those DIBs were the conversion algorithm stays the same (it can't be tweaked much if at all). So there's not really a way to speedup games like StarCraft for old videocards. Perhaps XShm might be of use but not sure how much it would -help. (think it would only be usefull for GetDC/ReleaseDC games)+help. (think it would only be useful for GetDC/ReleaseDC games)
Pretty much everyone was in favor of any patch that would improve @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ I think that to merge Roderick's and you the best would be to directly hook WineD3D even at the 2D level and not have DDraw hook DDraw's D3D which then goes into WineD3D.
-This way we would have an unified DDraw. +This way we would have a unified DDraw.
Of course, then the problem remains of what to do with older cards :-)@@ -269,11 +269,11 @@ a quite long chain. I abandoned it as to worth considering.
How about moving the current 2D code to WineD3D, and making DDraw running over -WineD3D in any case. Then WineD3D could decide wether to use plain X11, DGA +WineD3D in any case. Then WineD3D could decide whether to use plain X11, DGA or OpenGL for 2D rendering. :)
Maybe we should have a close look at the details of such a thing. I do not -really recommend a ad-hoc attemt, as d3d7->WineD3D was nearly too much. +really recommend a ad-hoc attempt, as d3d7->WineD3D was nearly too much.
Lionel liked the idea:@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ So what's the point of this mail? While by wrapping D3D7 only and leave DirectDraw in ddraw.dll, it has a few ugly drawbacks:
-(There's also some exceptions to this, such as adding in stubbed +(There are also some exceptions to this, such as adding in stubbed functions that cause programs to suddenly break. The right fix is not to remove the stub, but to turn the stub into a complete function.. which may be a lot of work.)
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ once be a problem?>
Apparently Fedora's 64-bit version doesn't provide some of the -32-bit compatbility libraries necessary for Wine. (Which is somewhat +32-bit compatibility libraries necessary for Wine. (Which is somewhat surprising since Wine doesn't have as many dependencies as you'd expect.) Pavel Roskin came up with a script to work around it:
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ Wine crashes the first time it enters/us debug setup from ntdll/relay.c:RELAY_SetupDLL. (Which happens to be a RtlInitUnicode in kernel/module:GetModuleHandleW) . If you exclude the ntdll in relaying, wine - without parameters - does not crash. BUT at soon -as you try running a program it will cracsh when calling a kernel32/* +as you try running a program it will crash when calling a kernel32/* function.
Mike McCormack knew of it as well and mentioned there was a @@ -611,6 +611,6 @@ Try booting with noexec=off. I month ago, but my mandrake crashed - for some obscure reasons - before reaching a prompt.-
So that's where we stand. A problem with a possible workaround, but +
So that's where we stand: a problem with a possible workaround, but insufficient info to have a real fix. Is it a Wine problem? Kernel?


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East Side Principal Josh Wandell uses a Segway to help him make his daily rounds through the school (Tony Duncan/Johnson City Press)
ELIZABETHTON — Long before all the political yard signs started appearing in yards around Elizabethton, there was another yard sign that was very common and still spreads its message amid all the candidates running in the May primary. Those signs read "faith > fear" and expressed support for the struggle that East Side Elementary Principal Josh Wandell has been fighting.
Long before the community rallied behind the Elizabethton Lady Cyclones basketball team on their quest for the state basketball championship, the town had already come together to support Wandell, with its emotional support, its financial support in several highly successful fundraisers, and it its spiritual support though its prayers.
All the support is needed because Wandell has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Through it all, Wandell's uncle, Kelly Geagley, has become the unofficial publicist and organizer for the community's various efforts to provide support.
Geagley has also been with Wandell from the start of his ordeal. He has also been close to his nephew since he was born. Geagley said Wandell was the first nephew in the family and it was natural to shower his love on the new member of the family.
It was easy to continue the love as Wandell grew into a strong and graceful athlete who was an all-state football player at Elizabethton High School and played for East Tennessee State University and the University of Tennessee.
Geagley said Wandell was extremely strong. "He loved running and working out." But his uncle said that was not his greatest strength. "Spiritually and mentally, he is the strongest person I know." His mental strength was evident when he obtained his doctorate. It is also shown by his determination to continue serving his community as a principal for as long as he can. He has made few concessions to the disease. Geagley said one of the few is that he now rides a Segway personal transport that was donated to him.
His spiritual strength is now being shown to Geagley when he accompanies his nephew for visits to specialists in Kentucky.
For Geagley, the visits have been difficult. "There is no cure. All the testing and stuff they do is just to see how much more muscle control has been lost and to help you to slow down the progression of the disease." Geagley admits he was so depressed after one visit he didn't feel like eating, but Wandell's spirits were still high and he encouraged Geagley to eat.
Geagley said progress is being made by scientists and he has hope there will be a cure soon. He said Wandell takes his fate much more serenely. "He told me it would be nice to be cured, but if he is not, he will have a perfect body in heaven."
As a faculty member in the Elizabetehton City School System, Geagley said Wandell has good medical insurance, but there is so much that isn't covered by the insurance. It was that reason that the first fundraiser was held last September, a foot race to commemorate Wandell's love for running. The response from the community was incredible and the first-time event became the largest foot race in the history of Elizabethton, with between 1,000 and 1,500 runners.
There have been several fundraisers since then, including a musical event a few weeks ago at T.A. Dugger Jr. High called "Jamming for Josh."
Through it all, Wandell has inspired others with his struggle just as much as he has inspired his uncle. Geagley said Wandell has expressed the opinion that it shouldn't be all about him. Geagley told him "people love you Josh, and they want to help you."
With the warming weather, there are several events in the works over the next several months. There is a "Blues and BBQ" concert in May in which several barbecue restaurants will take part. Geagley said it will be an all-day family event with inflatables for children and good food and music for the entire family.
Another event is being planned by Alex Campbell, a teacher at Elizabethton High School and weightlifter. Geagley said the event is being called "Grunt and Grill" and will feature lifting weights and lifting forks.
The second annual foot race is being planned for Saturday, Sept. 20. It promises to be another success. Geagley said "so many people have come to me and said 'we want to do this for Josh.'"
"I am blown away by all the support this community has given me," Wandell said. "All the mail, all the words of encouragement I have received from people I don't even know. It is what keeps me going."
As he continues to serve as principal, Wandell said he is proud of his community. "This is what makes Elizabethton a special place. It is the love and support of the people. The Lord has used this to restore faith."comments powered by Disqus


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Red Wings mid-day news: Ken Kal, Tigers broadcaster; on H2H3, Alfredsson and Philly
by George Malik on 08/15/13 at 11:27 AM ET
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Among this morning's Red Wings-related news stories:
- According to 97.1 the Ticket, Ken Kal will be calling tonight's game between the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Royals. The game begins at 7:10 PM EDT;
- In charitable news, Herm to Hockeytown 3's pledge page is up (as is their Twitter page), and Winging It in Motown's J.J. From Kansas worked with Ken Daniels' booking agency to encourage Wings fans to pledge to the cause:
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Sportsnet's streaming the Daniel Alfredsson presser
by George Malik on 08/15/13 at 10:54 AM ET
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If you want to watch the Daniel Alfredsson presser, Sportsnet is streaming it in both the U.S. and Canada on their streaming page...
Update: TSN is streaming the presser, too.
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Red Wings overnight report: on the blueline and Howard, a Top 24 and even more Swedish news
by George Malik on 08/15/13 at 04:44 AM ET
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The Detroit News's Ted Kulfan continues his three-part look at the Red Wings' 2013-2014 season roster this morning, following up yesterday's look at the Wings' forwards with an article about the Red Wings' defense. His spotlight shines most squarely upon the free agent signing that allowed the Wings to pursue more balanced offensive output in July instead of overpaying for another defenseman--one Danny DeKeyser:
"The sky's the limit," goalie Jimmy Howard said. "He has so much potential. He stepped right into the lineup and played so well."
The further development of DeKeyser, 23, will likely only strengthen a Red Wings defensive corps that performed well above expectations last season.
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Neil Sheehy says that Damien Brunner's ready to wait for his next NHL opportunity
by George Malik on 08/15/13 at 01:18 AM ET
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Martin Walti on Twitter sent me toward an article from the Die Nordwestschweiz Zeitung's Marcel Kuchta regarding one Damien Brunner.
Kuchta exchanged emails with herr Brunner's agent, Neil Sheehy, and Sheehy says that his client remains committed to signing an NHL deal, and Sheehy says that he understands that he and Brunner will have to wait to land their expected $3+ million payday. What follows is translated German:
"There's a lot of speculation regarding Damien because he hasn't found a new employer. People who believe that he hasn't received an offer because he wants too much money have no idea [what's going on]. Money was not and is not the priority for him. He wants to play where he has the best opportunity. In that sense, nothing's changed," explains the Canadian [agent].
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TSN, Sportsnet will air Daniel Alfredsson's 'goodbye' presser at 11 AM today
by George Malik on 08/15/13 at 01:03 AM ET
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Oh boy. Red Wings forward and former Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson will be speaking from Ottawa's The Royal hospital at 11 AM EDT, and TSN and Sportsnet will be streaming the press conference--presumably to discuss his significant commitment to The Royal's "You Kno Who I Am" campaign--but TSN and Sportsnet have decided to live-stream the broadcast, the Ottawa Sun's Bruce Garrioch and Don Brennan will "live tweet" it, and Brennan explains why all of frickin' Canada will end up hearing what Alfredsson has to say:
The release from the hospital sent out Wednesday stated that Alfredsson -- who ended his 18-year Senators career when he surprisingly signed a free agent contract with the Detroit Red Wings July 5 -- will "take the opportunity to give his thanks to the community and to bring further attention to mental health, which he has so actively championed."
It also said that a "public statement will be followed by a question and answer session" and that there will be no media scrums permitted. But as it is his first public appearance since making the choice to jump teams, Alfredsson will no doubt be pressed to further explain his decision.
As such, you and I both know that Alfredsson's much more likely to address his level of mental health and the mental health of Senators fans and the organization. Brennan repeats the Alfredsson-to-Detroit narrative (Senators owner Eugene Melnyk's comments and GM Bryan Murray's comments sort of included), and I'm going to give him the stink-eye for the next year-plus for good reason:
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Red Wings mid-day news: on Helm, 'scouting' the East and fundraising
by George Malik on 08/14/13 at 12:39 PM ET
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Updated 4x at 1:44 PM: DetroitRedWings.com's Bill Roose delivers good news on the Darren Helm front this afternoon...
And this dovetails nicely with MLive's Ansar Khan's check-in with Wings GM Ken Holland regarding Helm's health:
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Predicting The Atlantic Division
by Paul on 08/14/13 at 08:33 AM ET
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Kevin McGran of the Toronto Star takes a shot at predicting the Atlantic Division...
Detroit Red Wings
Projected finish: Second
Key Additions: F Daniel Alfredsson, C Stephen Weiss
Key Subtractions: F Valtteri Filppula
Relationship issues: Welcome back to the neighbourhood, old friend. With four Stanley Cup championships since we last met in the playoffs, something says you're over the whole "Nik Borschevsky" thing. Word of warning: Leaf Nation isn't.
The Skinny: Oft written off as too old, the Wings seem to embrace life after 40. So Daniel Alfredsson will fit right in, giving the team some much needed scoring punch up front. Stephen Weiss fills a role behind Pavel Datsyuk at centre. He may accomplish more as a No. 2 on the Wings than he ever would as a No. 1 with the Panthers.
read on for the other six teams in the division...
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Red Wings overnight report: on offensive balance, roster issues, Alfredsson and Olympic Z
by George Malik on 08/14/13 at 05:19 AM ET
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The Red Wings may not be able to move any of their "surplus" players at present, but Ken Holland and Mike Babcock sounded optimistic tones about the state of their team on Detroit Sports 105.1 FM on Tuesday. This morning, the Detroit News's Ted Kulfan kicked off a slate of 3 articles looking at the Wings' forwards, defense and goaltending by talking to an optimistic general manager who believes that Daniel Alfredsson and Stephen Weiss give the Wings a much more balanced offensive outlook:
"We felt we had some needs we wanted to fill," Holland said. "We wanted to get more scoring. We were challenged last season to score some goals."
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On shifting blame and the Senators and Red Wings' 'odds'
by George Malik on 08/13/13 at 05:49 PM ET
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The "Why did Daniel Alfredsson leave Ottawa for Detroit?" blame game keeps shifting. First, we were told that Alfredsson was presented with a "blank check" but chose to leave anyway. Then, Senators owner Eugene Melnyk repeatedly suggested that the team chose to acquire Bobby Ryan over retaining Alfredsson's services because the team could not accommodate both players' salaries (at least with Alfredsson not taking a hometown discount).
This afternoon, via RedWingsFeed, Senators GM Bryan Murray claimed to NHL.com's Apron Basu that the Senators could have afforded both players if they really wanted to do so--seemingly shifting blame back onto Alfredsson's shoulders ahead of his press conference with the Ottawa media on Thursday:
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Griffins offer 'puck pass' payment plan for season tickets
by George Malik on 08/13/13 at 05:39 PM ET
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The Grand Rapids Griffins are employing a unique installment plan for season-ticket packages:
The Grand Rapids Griffins and Lake Michigan Credit Union have partnered for the 2013-14 season to bring back the LMCU Puck Pass, allowing fans to buy season tickets now and pay later.
The option is available to both new and renewing season-ticket holders. Fans can purchase their full-season, 20-game or 10-game ticket plans and delay payment with a low interest loan over equal monthly installments.
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The Moment of Racial Sight overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations. Searching for the history of the constructed racial sign, Irene Tucker argues that if people instantly perceive racial differences despite knowing better, then the underlying function of race is to produce this immediate knowledge. Racial perception, then, is not just a mark of acculturation, but a part of how people know one another.
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Referring to the article about the shooting that took place at Carli's (Sanford Herald, March 12, "One man killed in shooting"), I take issue with the comment, "Neither one of these two are law-abiding citizens," [Sanford Police Capt. David] Smith said. "They both have a criminal record."
I will concede that noting both have a criminal record may be a fair statement because that is factual, but "Neither one of these two are law-abiding citizens" was totally unnecessary and inappropriate. You also made it clear that the argument stemmed from an alleged past drug deal, which means you don't yet know what it was about. Even if it was, Capt. Smith, you obviously don't understand that some people are capable of moving beyond their pasts. No one is perfect, and all of us have a past. Some wear suits and ties, and some dress in blue and wear badges. Some have just been lucky to have not gotten caught.
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- Cunningham T, Bothchwey N, Netshandama V, Boissevain J, Firehock K, Learmonth G, Louis G, and Dillingham R (2009). Understanding Water Perceptions in Limpopo Province: A Photovoice Community Assessment. Environmental Pollution and Public Health Track, Third International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering.
- DeMarco D, Kovela S, Smith L, Verella JT, Learmonth G, and Patek S (2009). Agent-based Simulation Model for Predicting Adoption Rates of Electronic Medical Records. Proceedings of the 2009 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium.
- Learmonth G, Dillingham R, Firehock K, Bessong P, Samie A, Maluleke M, Mamba G, Belcher R, Upchurch P, Crihfield A (2009). Water and Health in Limpopo: A Mobile Phone-based Data Collection System. Poster, mHealth Conference, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.
- Huddleston S, Learmonth G, and Fox J (2008). Changing Knives into Spoons. Proceedings of the 2008 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium.
- Learmonth G and Ives B (1987). Information System Technology Can Improve Customer Service. Data Base, Vol. 18, No. 2.
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