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The Italian press were unanimous in their praise for Juventus as they ended an impressive campaign by setting a European record 102 points on Sunday. The Italian Serie A winners, who had already surpassed the Scudetto record of 97 points held by Inter Milan, beat Cagliari 3-0 in Turin to become the first Italian side to win all its home games in a given season.
Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport saluted Juve and showed a photograph of the Bianconeri players celebrating on the pitch after the game. Their main headline said: "102, the record." That was followed by a sub-headline that read: "The Bianconeri make it 19 out of 19 at home and for the first time an Italian club surpasses the 100-point mark."
Turin-based sports newspaper Tuttosport also paid tribute to Juve with the headline: "Juve 102, no-one like you. The scudetto of records." Sunday's victory was Juve's 33rd in 38 games, a record in Italy's top flight.
All the more impressive is the fact that the Turin outfit conceded just 23 goals while scoring 80 this season. Juve's feat has made the front page of national newspaper La Repubblica, which wrote: "Juve reaches 102, never a scudetto like this one."
Rome-based newspaper Corriere dello Sport applauded the work done by Juve coach Antonio Conte, who has yet to confirm if he will continue at the helm of the Turin giants next season. The 44-year-old Conte has led Juve to a third straight scudetto in his third season in charge.
Corriere's front page has a photo of Conte celebrating on the team bus during yesterday's parade through the streets of Turin with the headline: "Conte, stay!" Corriere's sub-headline reads: "All the Juve fans are there for him." National newspaper Tuttosport's editorial 'Making history, committing suicide' focuses on the contrasting fortunes of the two Turin-based clubs.
While Juve fans celebrated on the streets of Turin, supporters of their city rivals Torino were left in tears as their team failed to win in Florence on the final matchday to secure sixth spot. Toro's Alessio Cerci had a last-gasp penalty saved to see their hopes of clinching the last Europa League qualifying spot vanish.


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Posted at: 11/13/2012 11:41 AM
Updated at: 11/13/2012 7:31 PM
By: Robin De Wind
The Wegmans LPGA Championship will return to Locust Hill in 2013. But the future of this major in Rochester has been up in the air since the two-year contract to host the event expired after the 2012 tournament in June.
If you are a golf fan, Rochester will be the place to be next summer with Rochester hosting two titles, the best in men's and women's golf will be on display.
The Wegmans LPGA Championship set for the first week in June, and the 95th PGA Championship will be hosted by Oak Hill Country Club in August.
Locust hill has hosted an LPGA event since 1977 and had hoped to announce a contract extension in July to continue hosting this major. The timetable was pushed back to October and negotiations continued until Tuesday's contract extension announcement was made.
Local LPGA officials didn't have any real explanation for why the discussions went on as long as they did. Wegmans Spokesperson Bill Strassberg says the company is proud to be the tournament sponsor, but Wegmans is not interested in going to back to sponsoring a tour stop, it wants to stay at a major status.
The LPGA has been trying to expand its brand across the U.S., but it has been difficult finding cities that offer community support in the way Rochester does.
Jerry Stahl, tournament co-chairman, "A couple of years ago, it was agreed that events on this tour had to become a more international tour which it has become. I think there are as many outside issues involved but I think there's great progress I think they're still struggling with the economy and supporting golf tournaments."
Costs for the tournament have continued to increase since Wegmans became the primary sponsor in 1998. The long-term future of the tournament may ultimately depend on having additional or other sponsors step forward.
The purse for the LPGA championship will be announced next week when the LPGA officially announces it's 2013 schedule.

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New eco hostel with vintage style is nearly located at BTS sky train (Bearing station) just walk 1-min long. In this place, you will feel relaxed and calmed. We have the attraction surrounding: for example, BITEC Convention center, Imperial deparment store, 24 hr convenience store,midnight pub and restaurant.
Weve provided free wifi internet and beverage for you. You can see the movies on LED TV


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Over the past two weekends, the Laurel Mill Golf Club held its annual Club Championships. The golfers were flighted according to their handicap. They then competed in a 54-hole stroke play tournament.
ST. MARYS – The Elk County Catholic Crusader golf squad picked up a pair of wins on Wednesday afternoon as they defeated the Johnsonburg Rams and the Kane Wolves in a tri-match held at the St. Marys Golf Club. Elk Catholic won the match with a score of 211. Johnsonburg had a score of 219, while Kane had a score of 260. The match featured eight golfers from Elk Catholic, five from Johnsonburg and six from Kane; however, only the top five scores from each team counted for the match.
A spark to the upcoming season may have come at the end of last year's 10-game slate.
A 20-18 victory by the Elkers over Clarion-Limestone ended the 2010 football season with a win and varsity head coach Mark Heindl said he saw that momentum from the off-season to preparation for this season. He noted his appreciation for the 2010 seniors and the work they put into the program and teaching this year's team members.
JOHNSONBURG – The Johnsonburg varsity football team looks to be at a disadvantage this season with reportedly only 21 players on the team and a new coaching staff but first-year head coach Jesse Schreiber is welcoming all the challenges.
"One challenge that we face is that we're a very inexperienced football team with losing 12 seniors to graduation," Schreiber said. "Two returning players are unable to play this year, one because of a transfer and the other due to medical issues, and both of those hurt badly.


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Are You Ready For a $1,000 Chocolate Easter Egg?
Posted on March 22, 2013
Easter is vastly approaching and what better way to celebrate Jesus rising from the dead than by getting a delicious $1,000 chocolate Easter egg? Master French Chocolatier Thierry Atlan has created this beautiful masterpiece and it's actually going to be sold in New York and New Jersey dessert shops called Sugar and Plumm.
I mean from the looks of it this Easter egg seems like it could have been made at a Baskin Robbins–no offense to anyone who works there Anyways, for $1,000 I hope people are getting their money's worth. Even if they are using the most rare or the most "fancy-shmancy" of chocolates, or if the ingredients they use are from the hills of Mount Zion, I certainly can't justify paying that much money for something that will be eaten by 5 year old kids in a day.
I suppose Easter is no longer about the celebration of the risen Jesus, but more of how businesses can make money by selling $1,000 chocolate Easter eggs. Trying not to make a political statement, but COME ON! There are chocolate Easter eggs that come in bulk which can be bought at a grocery store for 5 bucks! OK that's my 2 cents on the matter. Happy Easter everybody!


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SAN ANTONIO - The suspect in the alleged abduction of his girlfriend's 7-month-old baby already was a wanted man.
A police report shows David Kellum, 25, had several warrants out for his arrest when police said he took his girlfriend's baby from her arms and drove off, leading officers on a wild chase.
The baby's mother called 911 around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday after the confrontation with Kellum in the 100 block of Hickman Street, police said.
"She did not want to get into the vehicle with the suspect due to his level of intoxication, said Officer Matthew Porter, spokesman for the San Antonio Police Dept. "She was trying to go back into her apartment with the child and the two began to struggle over the child."
A Bexar County sheriff's deputy was the first to spot Kellum, in the area of Interstate 35 and San Pedro Avenue, the report said. He, along with SAPD officers, tried to stop Kellum several times to no avail, the report said.
"The suspect was all over the road, taking substantial risks, putting his life in danger along with that child," Porter said.
Porter said officers backed off from following Kellum several times for the safety of the child. He led them on a chase along I-35 to Highway 90, exited at Cupples Road, then doubled back onto Highway 90 to I-35, the report stated.
"The route that the suspect was taking led officers to believe that he was trying to get back to the initial scene," Porter said.
Officers finally managed to stop Kellum outside the apartment building where the trouble started.
They said the child was not hurt. Kellum was arrested on several charges, including driving while intoxicated with a child under the age of 15, and evading arrest.
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The 4-Skins
|The 4-Skins
The classic 4-Skins line-up, McCourt, Pear, Jacobs and Hodges, outside Tower Hill tube station, 1980
|Background information
|Also known as
|Gary Hodges' 4-Skins
|East End of London, England
|Oi!, Punk rock
|Years active
|1979 – 1984
2007 – present
|Clockwork Fun
Secret Records
Syndicate Records
G&R London
Randale Records
Clockwork Firm
|As Gary Hodges' 4-Skins
Gary Hodges
Graham Bacon
Tom Brennan
Sedge Swatton
|Past members
|Hoxton Tom McCourt
Roi Pearce
Paul Swain
Ian Bramson
Gary Hitchcock
Steve 'Rockabilly' Pear
John Jacobs
Tony 'Panther' Cummins
Pete Abbot
Steve 'H' Hamer
Mick Geggus
Andy Russell
The 4-Skins are a working class Oi! punk rock band from the East End of London, England. Originally composed of Gary Hodges (vocals), 'Hoxton' Tom McCourt (guitar), Steve 'H' Hamer (bass) and Gary Hitchcock (drums), they formed in 1979 and disbanded in 1984 – although new line-ups formed in 2007 and 2008. Many of their songs dealt with violent topics, but the band has claimed they were discussing the realities of inner city life, not promoting violence.[1] Other 4-Skins song topics include police harassment, political corruption, war and unemployment.
Initially the band members had known each other from football, or from following bands such as Sham 69 and Menace. Most of the original four band members were or had been skinheads, thus the double meaning of the band's name. However, Steve Pear had a rockabilly style, and Hoxton Tom McCourt — who was a suedehead — was one of the leading participants of the mod revival.[1][2] Prior to the release of the band's debut single, "One Law For Them", The 4-Skins contributed songs to the first three Oi! compilation albums, alongside bands such as Cockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer, The Business and Angelic Upstarts.[3] The 4-Skins went through many personnel changes during their five-year existence, with only bassist/songwriter 'Hoxton' Tom McCourt being present in every line-up of the band. Other former members include Roi Pearce, who was also the frontman of The Last Resort, and Paul Swain, a guitarist who later joined the white power rock band Skrewdriver.[4]
In 2007, the band reformed with two original members — lead singer Gary Hodges and bassist Steve 'H' Harmer, plus guitarist Mick Geggus and drummer Andy Russell of Cockney Rejects. This line-up recorded two songs, "Chaos 2007" and "Glory Days" for the compilation album Kings of Streetpunk,[5] released by the independent record label G&R London.
2008 saw Hodges form a new version of the band under the name Gary Hodges' 4-Skins. This line-up played three shows – one in Berlin at the Punk and Disorderly festival, in Allentown, PA at the East Coast Oi Fest[6][7] and as the headlining act on the final day of the Blackpool Rebellion punk festival in August 2008.[8] Two newly recorded tracks were also released for free on The 4-Skins' official web page. Both were covers of Slade songs – "Cum on Feel the Noize" and "Thanks for the Memories". Following this, the band decided to continue recording and touring. On 4 April 2010, they released a studio album, The Return, on German label, Randale Records.[9]
Band members[edit]
- Hoxton Tom McCourt (guitar)
- Gary Hodges (vocals)
- Steve 'H' Harmer (bass)
- Gary Hitchcock (drums).
- Hoxton Tom McCourt (bass)
- Gary Hodges (vocals)
- Steve 'Rockabilly' Pear (guitar)
- John Jacobs (drums)
- Hoxton Tom McCourt (bass)
- Tony 'Panther' Cummins (vocals)
- John Jacobs (guitar/keyboards)
- Pete Abbot (drums)
- Hoxton Tom McCourt (bass)
- Roi Pearce (vocals)
- Paul Swain (guitar)
- Ian Bramson (drums)
- Gary Hodges (vocals)
- Steve 'H' Harmer (bass)
- Mick Geggus (guitar)
- Andy Russell (drums)
- Gary Hodges (vocals)
- Bakes (bass)
- Big Tom (guitar)
- Sedge (drums)
Partial discography[edit]
- The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins (Secret Records (SEC 4), 1982)
- A Fistful Of...4-Skins (Syndicate Records (SYN 1), 1983)
- From Chaos to 1984 (Live) (Syndicate Records (SYN LP 5), 1984)
- The Return (Randale Records (RAN 050), 2010)
- A Few 4-Skins More, Vol.1 (Link Records, 1987)
- A Few 4-Skins More, Vol.2 (Link Records, 1987)
- The Wonderful World Of The 4-Skins (1987)
- The Best Of 4-Skins (1989)
- The Best Of The 4 Skins (Harry May/Link Records, 1997) – limited edition including 7" singles
- Clockwork Skinhead (2000)
- Singles & Rarities (Captain Oi! Records, 2000)
- The Secret Life of the 4-Skins (Captain Oi! Records, 2001)
- History Of... (Double CD, Taang Records, 2003)
Singles and EPs[edit]
- One Law For Them/Brave New World (Clockwork Fun (CF 101), 1981)
- Yesterdays Heroes/Justice/Get Out Of My Life (Secret Records (SHH 125), 1981)
- Low Life/Bread Or Blood (Secret Records (SHH 141), 1982)
- Turning the Past into the Present – The 4-Skins, "Thanks For The Memories"/Evil Conduct, "The Way We Feel" (Clockwork Firm/Randale Records (655321 CF-001/RAN 47), 2009)
Compilation appearances[edit]
- "Wonderful World", "Chaos" – Oi! The Album (EMI, 1980)
- "1984", "Sorry" – Strength Thru Oi! (Decca Records, 1981)
- "Evil" – Carry On Oi! (Secret Records, 1981)
- "One Law for Them", "Yesterday's Heroes" – The Secret Life of Punks (Secret Records, 1982)
- "On The Streets" – Son of Oi! (Syndicate, 1983)
- "Clockwork Skinhead", "Plastic Gangster", "Summer Holiday" - Lords Of Oi! (Dressed To Kill, 1997)
- "Glory Days", "Chaos 2007" - Kings of Street Punk (G&R London, 2007)
- ^ a b The History of the 4Skins
- ^ A Fistful of Feedback
- ^ Oi! the Web Site
- ^ Skrewdriver reviews, music, news - sputnikmusic
- ^ Official Cockney Rejects website
- ^ PuNk AnD dISoRdErLY - The Festival
- ^ Downtown Sound Productions |
- ^ Rebellion Festival News
- ^ "4-skins news". The Official 4-Skins Website. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
External links[edit]
- The 4-Skins on Myspace
- The 4-Skins at AllMusic
- 4-Skins discography at MusicBrainz
- The 4-Skins discography at Discogs
- The 4-Skins fan site with bio, lyrics and discography.
- "Oi! – The Truth" history of Oi! with information about The 4-Skins
- 4-Skins interview from Rising Free zine
- 4-Skins profile at Nostalgia Central
- G & R London website


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Miners 2, Bucs 0
A sacrifice fly from Christin Stewart in the fifth inning and an RBI single from Brenden Farney in the seventh inning was all the offense the Mat-Su Miners needed in a 2-0 win over the visiting Bucs on Tuesday.
Miners starter Philip Orr struck out four in six innings for a win at Hermon Brothers Field. Relievers Beau Hilton and Drew Smith completed the shutout, Hilton pitching the seventh and eighth and Smith closing in the ninth.
Taylor Ward recorded the Bucs' only hit.


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Titan - Texas Instrument Test AutomatioN
Titan Tool
Titan framework provides a solution for Testing activitis on target boards running Linux OS.
It is developed on Java lenaguage and this provides the feature of run on both, Linux and Windows host machines, only if a Java Runtime Environment is installed on the host machine.
How can I get Titan?
There are to ways to get started on Titan, downloading the source code or using Precompiled Binaries.
Source Code
Titan source code is being maintained on a git repository, so if it is easy to access the code if git tool is already installed in the host machine.
Titan repository is being hosted in the following web page: http://dev.omapzoom.org/?p=cristopherson/titan-development.git;a=summary
Download the Source Code
The following commands will get the latest titan code:
- git clone git://dev.omapzoom.org/pub/scm/cristopherson/titan-development.git
- cd titan-development/
- git checkout -b m-titan-v4 origin/m-titan-v4
Precompiled Binaries
The project files page contains precompiled Titan release wich can be taken and used as needed. Depending of the Titan version, some functionality and features will be available.
Executing Titan
Uncompressed the precompiled version
After downloading the precompiled version, uncompress the tarball in your local machine.
For Windows users Winzip Pro 10.0 version supports uncompressing *.tar.gz files.
For Linux users just execute tar -xvfz $titan-version.tar.gz in your command line.
To run titan the following requiriments are needed:
Java Runtime Environment
Titan uses the Java Standard Edition Runtime Environment 6 (JRE) technology which can be downloaded from Sun Microsystems here:
http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp (Useful for Windows users)
Phidget Library (Windows user)
Phidget dll file need to be downloaded from the phigets home page.
Below is the direct link to download the needed library:
Uncompress the zip file in the host machine and look for the following file: phidget21-windevel\x86\phidget21.dll
This file should be copy into $Titan_Root_Folder\libraries\
Run Titan
- On Windows machine, do double-click on start.bat or Titan.exe files
- On Linux machine, run the start.sh script.
After that, Titan Interface should be displayed and ready to work. Run Titan using Netbeans.
Run Titan using Netbeans.
Titan code has been developed using Netbeans IDE and using this powerful tool Titan can be developed according to the user needs once that the source code has been downloaded. Please refer to the following section for further information.
Developing Titan
The following information is also available in the README file which is downloaded with the source code.
- Clone de repository: the repository can be cloned in your local machine
using the following command:
git clone git://dev.omapzoom.org/pub/scm/cristopherson/titan-development.git
- Check if you have Java SE Runtime Environment version 1.6, type in
msdos console
c:\> java -version
If not available download latest JDK from java.sun.com. JDK 6 Update 18
is working fine.
- Download Netbeans IDE: this step is highly recomended since all titan
development has been done using this tool, you can download it from the
following web page: http://www.netbeans.com/
- Open three Titan Projects: Titan has three main folders, each one is a
Netbeans project. You can open it using this IDE.
Select: File > Open Project, and look for these three projects.
- Fix System library dependency: Titan requires some extra libraries to
manipulate some special devices as serial ports. These libraries are located
in the Linux Sharepoint.
Linux Baseport > Shared Documents > Automation > TITAN (TI Test AutomatioN)
> source and download the system_libraries.tar.gz in your Desktop.
Inside, there is a folder called libraries, that folder should be copy in
the Titan_GUI folder.
- Fix Project Dependency: Some projects have dependencies to another ones.
To fix this just do a right click in the project, a pop menu is going to be
Select "Resolve Reference Problems", a Dialog is going to be displayed.
Click "Resolve" button then "Add Project" and look for the project that
is missing.
- Fix java library dependencies: Titan has some library dependency since not
all the API's are included in the Standard Java package.
You can download this libraries from the sharepoint.
Linux Baseport > Shared Documents > Automation > TITAN (TI Test AutomatioN)
> source > libraries
Dowload each library in your Desktop. To fix a java library dependency just
do a right click in the project, a pop menu is going to be displayed.
Select "Properties" option, a Dialog window is going to be displayed.
Select "Libraries" option, click "Add library" button, another dialog
window is going to be displayed.
If the library does not exist, click on "Create" button, a new Dialog
window will be displayed. Type the name that you want, click on "OK" button,
another dialog will be displayed.
Click on "Add Jar/Folder" button, look in your machine the jar that you need
to add.
After that, the java library is already registered, look for it in your
"Available Library" list, select it and click on the "Add Library" button.
You will see the library added in your project.
- The dependencies that need to be fixed in order to developt Titan are the
following ones:
Titan_Common depends on
Java libraries:
Titan_DevelopmentBoard depends on
Java libraries:
Titan_GUI depends on
Java libraries:
- Select Titan_GUI as main project, do a right click on Titan_GUI project
and look for the "Set as Main Project" option.
- Press "F6" key to run Titan
Choosing a Device Under Test
WebServer? and Phidget DUT
In order to use the WebServer? DUT the target board should have the capabilities to run commands using a webserver assigned to it, if there is not support like that, this DUT can not be used.
In order to use the Phidget DUT a special hardware should be connected to the board, this hardware can be found in the phidgets home page: this is the model that Titan uses: http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?category=9&product_id=1014
Go to the menu Tools -> Settings -> Device under test and select WebServerSdpBoard? or PhidgetBoard?. Click OK.
In the next window you need to configure your device under test properties. When you are done click Save.
Serial Port Configuration
This is the typical configuration that is being used in your minicom or teraterm terminal to communicate with the board trough serial port.
- Port: com1
- BaudRate?: 115200
- Data Bits: 8
- Parity: None
- Stop Bits: 1
- Flow Control: None
U-boot Environment
This configuration can be taken from the board u-boot environment
- Bootargs: Same as used at u-boot prompt
- Bootcmd: The command used to boot the board
Board IP Options
- I'am using dhcp: Select this one if dhcp is running in the network
- IP Address (Disabled if dhcp is enabled): The IP address that th target board has assigned.
- Netmask (Disabled if dhcp is enabled): The Netmask used by the host machine.
- Gateway IP (Disabled if dhcp is enabled): The gateway used in the network
- Server IP: The place where the kernel image is locaed if kernel is booting from NFS.
- Webserver (Unavailable if PhidgetBoard? is selected): The webserver used to send commands to the board.
Prompt Settings
- Board: The board type which are supported and will be identified while booting.
TelnetConnection? DUT
Go to the menu Tools -> Settings -> Device under test and select TelnetConnection?. Click OK.
- Telnet Connection Settings
- TelnetServer?: The target board IP address.
- Telnet Port: The port used to establish the connection, by default is 23
- Login Required: Mark this option if login is required.
- Login User: The user to use to access the target board. Only enabled if login required option is selected.
Test Descriptors
What is a test descriptor?
–A test descriptor is an XML file that tells Titan how to run a test.
–It contains important information like:
- •The unique test id
- •An overview of what the test does and the authors.
- •How Titan will execute the test case.
- •How Titan will know when a test failed.
- •How Titan will know when a test passed.
Choosing a test provider to get the test descriptors
We need to feed Titan with the test descriptor files specifying a test provider.
Go to the menu Tools -> Settings -> Test provider and select localtestrepository. Click OK.
- The local test repository test provider implementation reads the XML files present in a folder in your hard disk.
- In the next window you need to select in which folder are the test descriptor files. Titan comes preconfigured to look in the test_descriptors folder in the Titan installation files so it is safe to click Save without changes.
- You can put new test descriptors in that folder at will.
After clicking Save the main window will refresh showing the test descriptors found by the selected test provider implementation
Running a test in Titan
After clicking Save the main window:
- To select the tests you want to run just click in the checkbox of the test in the tree. If you want to select an entire branch click on the parent node instead of clicking each test.
- You can see a brief summary of the test you have already selected in the bottom panel of the main window.
- To run the tests press the Run tests button in the main window (below the test description).
You will see in a new window to see how the tests are executing within Titan. When the testing is done a PDF report will be generated with a detailed information of what happened during one test execution. The path where you can get the report is shown in the Titan log.
Checking the auto-generated results
The automated report is a PDF file which contains a list of the executed tests and their results. By clicking on each test you can see a detailed summary.
A test result is determined in the following way:
- Green means the test passed If the pass condition happens
- Red means the test did not pass If the fail condition happens. It doesn't care if the pass condition happens or not.
- Blue means the test had a timeout If the test time reaches the specified timeout and the run actions have not finished yet.
- Orange means Titan couldn't determine a result so it marks it as unknown If the pass and fail conditions didn't happen and the timeout was not reached.
A test result is determined in the following way:
What is NOT Titan?
- It's not a development tool.
- It's not a debugger.
- It's not a bug fixer tool
What does NOT Titan do?
- Titan cannot determine the visual or auditive quality of the tests. Surely it can help to automate the testing process but in this cases a human should validate the test results.
- The devices under test implementations currently support Linux only (no Windows Mobile support).
FS Titan Setup for Android
This setup is intended to be followed on Linux machines but it can be applivable on Windows as well.
Download the FS
Several Precompiled FS can be found in the following link: releases
For this purpose we are going to use the following Android FS: link
Uncompress the FS
Execute the following command:
# tar xvfz OPBU_BR_AFS_L25.INC2.6_DailyBuild_x0124169_2.tar.bz2
Working on SW mode
Needed to get the UI if you are compiling your own kernel image.
Go to your AFS folder
# cd myfs/
# vim init.rc
Look for SGX service.
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Living on the Lamb
Get to know a few of the the Pacific Northwest area's lamb suppliers, and even meet some at the lamb fests taking place around the region this fall—and for the truly hardcore foodie, get schooled about lamb butchery.
Making a Splash in McCall, Idaho
By James Patrick Kelly From the July/August 2010 issue McCall is a popular destination for Boiseans, who make the 100-mile trip north to this resort town for weekend recreational fun. During the winter months there's exceptional skiing and snowboarding at Brundage Mountain, but summertime is when McCall heats up with a splash riot of water sports on Payette Lake—and all that wakeboarding, canoeing, and river rafting makes one hungry. The local dining scene shines brightly with a trio of new places to enjoy a leisurely bite before jumping back in the lake. Chef Gary Kucy, formerly of Tamarack Resort in nearby Donnelly, heads up the kitchen at Rupert's at Hotel McCall. Here he melds Southwest influences…


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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Staff Sgt. Jose C. Rangel, 43, of Fresno, Calif., died Jan. 23 in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, of non-combat related injuries. Rangel was assigned to the Army National Guards 1106th Aviation Classification Repair Activity Depot, Fresno, Calif.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Bates College women's track and field team had a number of athletes qualify for regional championship meets on Saturday at the non-scoring MIT Coed Track and Field Invitational.
Sophomore Allie Goldstein (Needham, Mass.) finished second in the 3,000-meter run in 10:50.80, a time that qualifies her to compete in the New England Division III Indoor Championships next Saturday and for the ECAC Championships in March.
Senior Meredith Anderson (Swampscott, Mass.) long jumped 15-7.50 for fourth place, qualifying for New Englands.
Sophomore Jen Marino (Methuen, Mass.) ran the 400-meter dash in 1:03.83, finishing fifth and qualifying her for New Englands.
First-year Jenna Ligor (Denmark, Maine) qualified for New Englands in the 800, finishing second in 2:23.45.
Other highlights of the meet included junior Amy Rosania (Rye Beach, N.H.) winning the 1,000-meter run with a time of 3:14.66 and first-year Ngoc Pham (Sharon, Mass.) coming in second in the 5,000 (19:41.11).
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Cameron's skills are not limited to tennis.
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As Rafael Bear revealed in his column [3] this week, Ed Miliband has been taking tennis lessons, possibly to keep up with our already-quite-good-at tennis prime minister. But he's entering a dangerous game. It turns out David Cameron's tennis skills are merely the tip of a giant iceberg of sporting talent. Here are some further classes for Miliband to enrol himself in...
1. Badminton. Aamir Khan once described the sport of badminton as "like ballet dancing, requiring a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement". But his definition was too restrictive. Sometimes it can also be like Morris dancing.
2. Cricket. David Cameron plays cricket. He is so not scared of that ball. Small boy looks on, possibly in awe.
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ORNL prepares for a leap in computing power
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Titan will combine two very different types of processors and will require users to adapt their applications accordingly.
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ORNL's Center for Accelerated Application Readiness is working with six world-class applications that to show how Titan's combination of GPUs and CPUs can revolutionize computational science.
Titan's leap in power will result from the addition of thousands of graphics processing units. GPUs provide a major boost in computing power without a corresponding increase in the electricity required to run the system. Photo: Jason Richards
When Titan is available to users in the first half of 2013, it will have a peak performance of 20 petaflops, or 20,000 trillion calculations each second, making it more powerful than any computer now in existence and six or more times more powerful than ORNL's current Jaguar system.
This leap in power will come from a new approach to computing: the use of accelerators. Titan will use thousands of graphics processing units, or GPUs, which have been developed since the 1980s to improve the video performance of computers and the look and feel of computer gaming. The addition of GPUs in supercomputing provides a major boost in computing power without a corresponding boost in the electricity required to run the system.
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For decades, advances came from shrinking transistors to fit more onto a sliver of silicon. Chip-makers did an admirable job of this; indeed, when Intel co-founder Gordon Moore famously predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors on a processor would double every two years, he was looking forward only a decade. Clearly he underestimated the industry he helped to found.
Nevertheless, advances have slowed in recent years.
"Since 2004, microprocessors have not gotten any faster on single-core performance," notes Buddy Bland, project director for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). "But Moore's Law, which people interpret as saying performance will double every 24 months, is still alive.
"So how do you reconcile these two statements? Moore's Law has gone into adding more transistors, and those additional transistors have been used to add more cores. You get more performance on the processor through more parallelism, not through increased single-thread performance."
In home computers, this approach can be seen in dual-core or quad-core chips. In the largest supercomputers, it can be seen in systems that incorporate hundreds of thousands of computing cores. Jaguar, for instance, incorporates 18,688, 16-core processors to reach a total of 299,008 separate processor cores.
Titan has been developed with the recognition that even this level of parallelism has limits. Traditional computer chips, known as central processing units, are fast but power-hungry. If supercomputers are to move beyond the petascale to the next major milestoneexascale computers capable of a million trillion calculations per secondthey must find a more energy-frugal way to do it.
"The traditional microprocessors are optimized to make single threads go really fast," Bland explains, "but at a cost of using more power per calculation than necessary. There are several ways being developed to get more parallelism without increasing the power consumption of the processors dramatically, and one of those ways is using GPGPUs, or general purpose graphics processing units."
Researchers moving from single-core to many-core computers had to break their calculations into smaller problems that could be parceled out separately to the different processing cores. This approach was known as parallel computing. Accelerators are pushing parallelism by allowing researchers to divide those smaller problems even further.
"These processors have many, many, many threads of execution," Bland explains. "Each one runs more slowly than a traditional CPU thread of execution, but you have so many of them that it allows you in aggregate to get much higher performance at a similar power consumption."
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Titan is transitioning from Jaguar in two phases.
The first was completed in February 2012. In it, Jaguar's AMD Opteron processors were upgraded to the company's newest 6200 series, and the number of processing cores was increased by a third, from 224,256 to 299,008. In the process, two six-core processors were removed from each of Jaguar's 18,688 nodes, or connection points. At the same time, the system's interconnect was updated and its memory was doubled to 600 terabytes.
In addition, 960 of Jaguar's 18,688 nodes received an NVIDIA GPU. This portion of the system, known as TitanDev, gives OLCF staff and selected researchers a platform for testing approaches to GPU computing (see sidebar: "Preparing users for Titan").
The upgrade increased Jaguar's peak performance from 2.3 to 3.3 petaflops.
The second phase of the upgrade will begin in October 2012. At that time the 960 accelerators will be removed, and most of Titan's nodes will get one of NVIDIA's next-generation Kepler GPU processors added to the existing AMD processor. Each of the Kepler chips will be capable of more than a trillion calculations each second, or 1 teraflop, and the new system as a whole will have a peak performance of at least 20 petaflops.
During this process the OLCF will also replace its file system. Bland says the target for the new system is to move a terabyte of data each second, making it 8,000 times as fast as a typical business Ethernet connection.
As the countdown to Titan winds down, facility staff are working overtime to ensure that the new system will be delivering valuable results from day one. TitanDev has proved important in this effort, giving the facility's staff scientists and its most sophisticated users a chance to try out approaches to the new architecture.
Bland notes that the first stepidentifying more effective ways to divide large problems and spread them out among the available resourceswould pay off even without the accelerators.
"We've done a lot of work to help those applications expose more parallelism. In doing that, we have typically doubled the performance of the application before you even use the accelerator, and when you add the accelerator we're typically seeing another doubling of performance," Bland says.
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Remo Controlled Sound Players UNITE!!!!
You know how they make "Black dot", "White Dot", & "Clear Dot" controlled sound heads? Well, it's more then just a color scheme...
The dots are 5mm, 3mm, and 2mm respectively.
The clear dots would make Great rezo heads.
Anyways, just wondered how many C.S. users are out there and if you used any different color dots ect. Peace...
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As a guy who really started playing in the '70s - I keep threatening to go back to black dots, top and bottom and on the bass drum. I just might this time, but with the black dot on the white heads - I recall seeing the 1973 Slingerland catalog with kits prominently displaying white -black dot heads. I do miss that sound a bit!
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I'm usually content with nothing more than a humble Emperor for both snare and tom batters. They currently reside on 6 snares and 4 toms and I have no plans to fix what ain't broke.
However, I really don't like the sound of an Emp on my maple free floater.....just can never quite get "that sound" out of an Emp on that particular drum. It's the only drum I own that has a CS black dot on it. I'm glad I bothered to try it out rather than just muffle the Emp and be done with it. It focuses the overtones nicely, yet there is still plenty left there to get some nice textures just outside of the dot.
I note that Brady snares come stock with a CS head. Love the sound of those drums as they are, so when I finally scrape together enough cash to complete my snare collection with a jarrah block, I'd imagine I'll see no reason to change that one either.
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I've been a big fan of the coated CS with the reverse dot on my snares for a while. I like a medium to tight snare side head with a medium tuning on the batter, so I can get a nice crack in the center and a more open, buzzy sound outside of the dot. If you look at my main snare it has wear marks right at the inside of the dot on the left side (where I hit for most songs), another one dead center, and also just outside the dot on both sides (where I do ghost notes and buzz rolls).
I've never really tried them on my toms. I was happy with clear PS3's for a while, then went with coated EC2's, but they aren't really doing it for me. Back to the PS3 for me.
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To My ears, the BLACK dot on toms gives the sound a "harder" attack, if thats makes any sense. Not necessarily MORE attack, just harder. (Think Jon Theodore, Billy Cobham, and half of the drummers in the 70's ect.)
I haven't tried the C.S. on snare for a while, I ended up ripping the dot off, so it was just an Ambas. (: But that was a while ago on my PDP snare...I will try it on my Acrolite shortly.
I am just dying to try the Remo Controlled sound Smooth White w/ White dots (Yes yes yes!)
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I love the sound of a black dot on my snares. Never tried a clear though.
I play Gretsch Drums, Remo Heads, Sabian Cymbals and Vic Firth AC 2b's wood tip
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Actually, if you want to hear a great example of what black dots sound like, check out Tony William's solo on Sister Cheryl from the Live in Tokyo CD, maybe there's some YouTube footage on it, but the audible difference between the dots and regular heads is well, different. It sounds a little more flappy on some of his toms, but it sounds great.
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I think the Clear dot has a fatter tone than the Black or White.
Does make a good reso on floor toms, or if you want a deep tone on toms.
I used a Clear Clear on a floor tom I wanted extra deep sounding, and it was perfect.
I think the Clear has the "softest" attack sound of the 3 colors, and I agree the Black is "hardest".
On the snare, I like the top dot heads better than the usual CS coated (underside dot).
The top dot is the same size as a clear CS (BUT, if I remember correctly, the coated with Clear Bottom Dot uses the smaller dot).
I use the Coated Emp with Top Dot on 8 of my 11 snares (coated Emp with Clear dot that's coated).
I used to play the Coated Amb Top Dot for a couple years, but by mistake an Emp came in and I loved it--that was 6 or 7 years ago. It's been my main snare head since.
One even lasted almost exactly a year on one of my BB's. It just still sounded good after all that time, so I never changed it.
SW with Black Dot on the snare...kinda "slappy" sounding tensioned to where I liked the feel for me with it.
Lower, it sounded cool, but the feel was mushy for me.
I have a SW White dot, but haven't tried it yet.
The Clear with Clear dot sounds cool on the snare. Fatter tone with it than the others I think...always sounded good on Neil Peart's snare...
Another cool sounding dot head is the old Carmine Appice Aquarian head (without the extra ring). The snare head doesn't have the extra ring, but the toms did.
I used them a long time ago, before they changed the film. They were a nice sounding model head. I liked them better after I peeled off the outside ring sticker.
My band Artificial Agent here: http://drummerworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116637
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And yes, Neil swore by those Clear C.S. on his snares. Wonder why he stopped using them...
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A clear Ambassador has a pretty "smooth" tone to me, and the dot head gives more character to my ear.
You can get different tones (at different spots) that's more noticeable to my ear.
The top dot for me gives more of an overtone that I like to use over a regular head.
Most people seem to want that "one solid sound" without a lot of ring. I like to play just off the dot and get that "tonk", but, I still want it not too out of control.
Playing in the center of the dot head gets me that solid, "one tone" sound, but to my ear it's fatter sounding than a plain head.
SW Dot heads always sounded cool on Cozy Powell's drums!
I haven't tried them on my toms yet, but I put them on my 10x14 (got a few different 14's to try out), and it sounded cool. A Clear dot bottom, will definitely sound fatter than a clear Amb on the bottom IMO.
A SW with white dot would give the traditional look like a coated, with more pronounced attack/cut--and the two tones sound (on & off the dot).
The Clear, Clear Dot is just a fat sounding head to me.
From having that head as a top, and trying it as a bottom, I think a CD/CD combo would give a throaty, softer cutting sound with a lot of thick tone.
Neil started with the trad grip, and the Freddie stuff, so he probably wanted that Ambassador feel and classic sound. A standard head has more bounce too.
It still sounds like "Neil" to me, but it's not as fat sounding as the "Old #1" with the Clear Dot head.
His snares have more cut than before, but you can still tell it's him and his overall sound.
My band Artificial Agent here: http://drummerworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116637
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The Mapex Saturns I play at church have black dots on the tom batters and a coated reverse dot on the snare batter. They sound very good.
I had black dot heads on my Gretsch Catalina Club Jazz toms, but I did not care for the sound too much. I put a coated G2 on the floor tom batter and the coated G1 head that came with the set on the 12" tom. I am not a fan of coated heads, but that is what I had. I will go the EC2's over EC Resonants when finances permit.
Mark Wellman
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So just say I want more "umph" and bottom end from my floor tooms (that currently have ambos as rezos heads), would using a Clear dot / clear Rezo or Clear dot / Smooth white Rezo give me that extra low end?
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The Clear Dot has the lowest tone to my ears, so having the clear head with a clear dot is what I would use.
It did sound fat on the floor tom I used it on. It was on a 16 and it was a low, fat tone.
I had a Black dot on top to see what that was like, and that was a pretty nice sound.
Not as much attack and flat tone. It was a bit deeper, and I could keep the tension I liked with out it going "boing".
The smooth white head is kinda in between a clear and a coated reso.
Not quite as open as a clear, but not as warm as a coated.
The SW is pretty nice as a reso, but I wouldn't use it with a dot head on top.
The SW can get some different tones (after this while of using them) going, and they can get a weird tone in the mids if you aren't careful.
Overall, they are nice, but they can get touchy it seems. I'd rather not deal with it, so next time I'll just use a clear or a coated Ambassador reso again.
That's what I've experienced anyway.
My band Artificial Agent here: http://drummerworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116637
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Hey all, here's an example of what I like so much about the black dots. Check Tony Williams out here, especially his solo at 2:10. That liquid-y sound can only be attributed to the dots, I say.
I'm gonna make good on my threat to go back to the dots!
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Just want to give you guys an update.
Tried a Coated C.S. with Dot on TOP on my "Blackrolite" and it sounds AMAZING. Very Punchy, full at low volumes, and if I tune it up high, I can get that Chad smith / Stewart Copland "Crack!" sound. One of the most versatile snare heads out there IMO. Right there with a coated Ambo.
Ok now about the bass...Clear C.S. with Black Dot. Can you say punchy? It has a really...how would I put this, square, Hard attack. Yet has really good Bass response. This head has tons of personality. Not as versatile as my smooth White PS3, but definitely has a specific tone that I would not be able to get with my PS3. I love it.
Oh, and my Floor toms have some C.S. on the Bottom Side, the dot is see-through clear. Wow, all I am going to say is these babies RUMBLE THE HOUSE. It is almost as if these rezo heads took all the high end, overtone-y, nastiness, and then transformed that into sweet low end rumble. My floor toms are actually Louder (I dont know how thats possible.)
And of course I have already used the Clear C.S. black dots on my toms, and they have very focused, Hard, Punchy, Classic, Full sound. Just very classy sounding.
These Remo Controlled Sound Heads are Insane. No wonder so many classic drum tones have been Executed with these heads. TRY SOME!!!!
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Whether you are new to your business, or planning a rebirth to expand your business, a Product Launch is an easy way to propel your business to what is seemingly instant success. When I think of some of the bog companies with the greatest product launch I can't help but think of Steve Jobs. Remember those colorful iPod ads with white headphones posted everywhere? People had no clue what he was selling, but everyone wanted a pair. This article will teach you how to create the same buzzworthy attention for your product, opportunity or service.
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Leading Up to the Scream
The world is one stressful place. Being in Tsarist Russia and the lower middle class. I am a rather tall fellow and I am told that I am rather androgynous. The ridicule from people as a child was demoralizing and I decided to separate myself from others from that. I have a different perception of things from the average person. I find beauty in a freshly crafted blade or horseshoe, rather than things that "normal" people find beautiful. They scare me to death. I have encountered situations that still to this day make me cringe: the sight of a baby puppy, a meadow of flowers, but the worst was the sunset on January 22, 1892.
I would leave my house each morning, wearing my black clothes while heading off to the blacksmith shop. The black on the clothing, of course, to contrast the remnants of the burnt coal dust. I was a hardworking man and made a good living. I had to be to make a living. Most days, people would mainly need a horse shoe After a long hard day in the pit, I start home. My home was lakeside, past the pier which I fished on in my youth, and not much of interest was en route to or from my work. Then, I would head to the tavern for some time, getting the news from the other men who gave me their acquaintance. I wouldn't say that they were my friends, but I could not say otherwise.
On the frightful day of the 22nd, it started out like the others. I went to my job and exhausted myself. I returned home that day to see the most dreaded of things. As I passed the pier, I looked to the sky and was scared half to death. The sky looked as if it were on fire! A bright orange covered the sky. I grabbed my face and screamed. Others around me were amazed in the so-called beauty of this event. One man actually was painting in my direction. I quickly ran home and hid under my bed, Expecting the world to catch fire at any second.
It turns out that the world did not end on that date. Though, to my embarrassment, the local painter captured my pose during my scream. It made me look smaller than I did and I don't think he knew whether or not I was a man.
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Easton Hit and Run Update
State Police in Houlton say the car involved in a hit and run collision with a horse drawn carriage in Easton Monday afternoon has been located. More details are expected on Tuesday. The accident happened at about 3 o'clock this afternoon. A horse drawn buggy was traveling south on Route 1A when a car struck the buggy, pushing it off the road onto a lawn. The 16 year old male driving the buggy was thrown but not injured. The buggy was destroyed by the impact. Fortunately the horse was not injured.
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Spring is the greenest time of year
The beginning of life is not to fear
But sometimes being gren with envy
Clouds our thoughts so we don't see
Being green can mean so much
Come on don't be out of touch
You can look green when you're sick
And be green when you know not the trick
The grass is always nicest green
And every year that's wht is seen
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DURHAM – A bicyclist was hurt about 7:05 a.m. Monday when he was hit by a vehicle near Structure House Drive at Pickett Road, police said.
He suffered injuries that do not appear to be life-threatening, police spokeswoman Kammie Michael said. She said police have no description of the vehicle and that no charges have been filed.
Tahitian pearl necklace stolen
DURHAM – A Tahitian pearl necklace and an 18-carat yellow-gold diamond ring were among property stolen Jan. 4 from a residence in the 100 block of West Main Street.
Also taken were a camcorder, 40 Vicodin tablets, valium, 14-carat yellow-gold and diamond cuff links, a sapphire and diamond ring and a bracelet. Total value of the items was $11,856.
In other Durham crime:
- A Family Fare BP in the 1000 block of West Main Street was robbed Jan. 4, and $300 was taken.
- Burglars hit a house Jan. 7 in the 100 block of Edgemont Lane and stole a Wii video game console, video games, a television and jewelry worth $2,300.
- Hector Miguel Agilar-Farias, 20, of North Miami Boulevard, was arrested Saturday and charged with assault on a female, assault on a child under 12 and assault on a handicapped person. He was in the Durham County Jail Monday under a $3,500 bond.
- Willie Russell, 37, of North Maple Street, was arrested Saturday and charged with cyber stalking.
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CHAPEL HILL - Police charged a 31-year-old man with driving while impaired Friday after he lost control of his car and crashed into a guardrail near Southern Village.
Police charged Guillermo M. Hernandez of 1105 Hwy 54 Bypass, R-7, Chapel Hill, with DWI. He also was charged with driving without a license, driving without insurance, careless and reckless driving, improper registration, leaving the scene of an accident and having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle.
He refused to give a breath sample, so police got a search warrant to obtain a sample of his blood to test for alcohol, according to police report.
Hernandez was driving south on U.S. 15-501 at 80 mph in a 45 mph zone when he lost control on a curve, according to an accident report.
Hernandez and his passengers jumped from the vehicle and ran away. Police caught Hernandez on Copperline Drive.
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Rick Nash had a goal and assist in the first period, and Ryan Callahan had a pair of assists as the New York Rangers hung on to eighth place in the Eastern Conference with a 6-1 victory over the Florida Panthers on Thursday night.
Derick Brassard and Nash both scored power-play goals, with help from Callahan in the first, and Mats Zuccarello found the net for the second straight game to give the playoff-hopeful Rangers their sixth win in nine games (6-2-1).
Zuccarello scored in the second period and then added his second of the night with 4:49 left in the game when he tipped the puck in after Brad Richards raced it up ice and fed in front. Brassard made it 5-1 just 1:24 later with his second of the game, with an assist from Nash, and Richards pushed the lead to five goals with 1:24 remaining.
New York had a lackluster 4-2 loss at Philadelphia on Tuesday that allowed Winnipeg to get even in points in the tight Eastern race. The Rangers (22-17-4) have five games left.
Henrik Lundqvist made 34 saves for his 20th win of the season. Even in this lockout-shortened, 48-game season, Lundqvist reached 20 wins for the eighth straight time.
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Several times in earth's history continents have collided to form supercontinents only to later break apart. Geologist Ross Mitchell discusses a new study in Nature that predicts in 50 to 200 million years time the Americas and Eurasia will collide to form a supercontinent over the Arctic.
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A reception on Friday at Emory University to celebrate the work of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the years after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. could have been more poorly timed, but not by much.
All week long, the president of Emory, James W. Wagner, had been trying to control the damage done by a column he wrote for the university magazine. In it, he praised the 1787 three-fifths compromise, which allowed each slave to be counted as three-fifths of a person in determining how much Congressional power the Southern states would have, as an example of how polarized people could find common ground.
It was, he has since said, a clumsy and regrettable mistake.
A faculty group censured him last week for the remarks. And in a speech at Friday's reception for the campus exhibition, "And the Struggle Continues: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Fight for Social Change," Dr. Wagner acknowledged both the nation's continuing education in race relations and his own.


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My Shot: Eddie Merrins
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Every great golfer I've known has had powerful forearms. You can't play the game at the highest level without them. Tiger has terrific forearms. Nicklaus' were tremendous. The best I saw belonged to Doug Sanders. He was just a medium-length hitter, but his backswing was extremely short, and it was incredible how much speed he generated with his forearms--the right forearm in particular. When he flexed that thing, it was like touching granite. The good news is, you can develop them. Squeezing and relaxing the steering wheel while you drive will help. So will squeezing a rubber ball while you watch TV. Strong forearms can take you a long way in this game.
Very rarely do you see a golfer whose swing isn't predicated on some aspect of their physique. There are players with large hands, players with strong legs or broad shoulders, long-armed players and players with strong trunks. They quite naturally take advantage of the best part of the anatomy. I've seen only one golfer who used every part of his body: Ben Hogan. Every part of Ben's body contributed equally to his swing. Now, Ben had a fast tempo to his swing, and there are players whose swings might have appeared to be more fluid. But from head to toe, Ben's swing had the most balance. It's why all the good players loved to watch him. He didn't waste anything. Every part of his body played a role--an equal role--in his swing.
I just wrote a book, Playing a Round With the Little Pro, and in it I say that you don't want to think about your score while you play. You have no idea what you're going to shoot before you tee off, so what good does it do to worry about it before you finish? That was Greg Norman's big downfall. Had he gone out and related to Old Man Par in the final round of the '96 Masters, there's no way Nick Faldo would have overcome that six-stroke deficit and beaten Greg so handily. Greg's obsession with winning got in the way of his playing. Relate to par--the winning will come.
Never think of your left arm as "straight" during the swing. The arm is designed to extend naturally during the swing, just as a boxer's arm straightens when he throws a jab. The arm can't lengthen if it starts out straight and tense. The "straight left arm" is a myth that will only take the athleticism out of your swing.
All a teacher can do is help the player help himself. All I ask for is a student who truly wants to learn. Give me that, and in short order a better player will begin to emerge. The desire to learn is everything.
The most important change in golf over the last 35 years has been for the better. When I was a boy traveling to junior tournaments, I couldn't help but notice the looks many men gave me as I walked through the train and bus stations with my golf bag on my shoulder. It was a contemptible look, one that conveyed the feeling that golf was a sissy game and I was a sissy for playing it. In those days, real athletes played baseball and football. Blue-collar men regarded golf as a game for the shy and weak. This continued, I think, up through the mid-1970s, which is fairly recent when you stop and think about it. It's a good feeling now, knowing we golfers were right about our sport all along.
Fiscal conservativeness is almost a prerequisite for working for the U.S. Golf Association. The story goes that Bill Campbell, when he was serving as USGA president, was invited to play at Augusta National. On the first tee, he walked over and began swishing his ball in the ball washer. The member he was with remarked, "Bill, that ball washer has been there for as long as I can remember, and you're the first man I've ever seen use it." Now, I'm not saying USGA people are cheap. Far from it. But if they visit your course, there's a good chance your ball washers are going to get a workout. They feel a golf ball is built for mileage and not distance.
About 10 years ago my golf game had fallen into a state of disrepair, and I was determined to get to the bottom of what was wrong. Feeling my hand-eye coordination was at fault, I sought out the best ophthalmologist I could find, Dr. Robert Hepler. After a consultation, he wrote me a letter explaining he would conduct a thorough examination. He wrote that I should bring a driver to the appointment, and I thought that was so insightful--he didn't ask me to bring a putter or a 5-iron, he wanted me to bring the driver, which tends to reveal the slightest flaws in your swing.
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When Dr. Hepler saw me and the club, he started laughing. "No," he said, "I meant for you to bring a driver so you would have a ride home after the appointment." The story got around fast, and I became the laughingstock of the community. Dr. Hepler was a big help--he mounted the driver on his office wall. Like a big fish.
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Maine Delegation Meet with Great Northern Representatives
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Representative Mike Michaud issued the following statement Wednesday after a meeting in the U.S. Capitol with representatives from Cate Street and Great Northern Paper:
"We had a productive meeting with the leadership of Cate Street and Great Northern Paper in which they stated that they have a plan for restarting the mill in East Millinocket with the hope of returning some workers by May 1st. We look forward to reviewing the plan and staying in touch with Cate Street as they implement it.
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For all the talk you'll hear over the next two days about "tsunami," historic rejection of the president, five alarm fires and a collective national yearning for the GOP, the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll offers something much more mundane: an economic downturn that has produced the same kind of electoral volatility as every other economic downturn. A stat that stood out for me: of the voters who say they are likely to vote Republican this cycle, the percentage who call it a protest vote against president Obama: 15. The share calling their vote a protest against Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats: 20. A protest against Obama and the Dems: 10. And the share calling it an affirmative vote for the GOP: 48 — just one point under the likely voter total preferring the Republican Party. Meanwhile, registered voters are essentially split down the middle between the two parties.
The upshot: the more excited party — Republicans, prefer that Republicans win the day. Well knock me over with a feather. The poll, which you can read for yourself here, has a lot of interesting data in it, most of which you won't hear much of between the superlatives that will be tossed around about the "Republican wave" today, tomorrow and for the rest of the election news cycle. As a result, the fun house mirror the tea party Republicans (and Sarah "gosh, if the country needs me…" Palin) look at themselves in will only get goofier over the next few days. So in the interest of full poll disclosure, here's some of what you'll miss:
- The right track/wrong track numbers are bad – 31/60. That's not as bad as it has been — in October 2008 they were 12/78. But they are bad, and have been heading in the wrong direction for two years. That's bad for Democrats and the president. But it could be worse. Even with those numbers, the president's approval rating stands at an historically decent 45 percent among registered voters — and 44 percent among "likely" voters. And the president's numbers continue to be better than either political party, or — wait for it — the media darlings of the tea party movement (who are still being represented, for some reason, as separate from the Republican Party):
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- As for control of Congress, registered voters prefer it to be GOP controlled versus Democratic controlled by a scant margin: 46-44, while likely voters split 49-43.
But at the District level, registered voters say they are more likely to vote for a Democrat over a Republican by a slim, but real margin of 44-41. Among likely voters, the "tsunami" is such that those voters say they're more likely to vote for a Republican by a single point: 44-43.
- According to the poll, a very un-tsunami-like 40 percent say Republican control of both houses of Congress would be a good thing, versus 34 percent who say it would be a bad thing, and 22 percent who say it would make no difference.
- And another important data point: asked whether they are mainly voting to send a message, or voting for the person they think would be best for the office, a whopping 22 percent say they are voting to send a message: less than the 28 percent who say they support the tea party — while 71 percent say they are simply voting for the person they think is best for the job. Again, keep in mind that Republican leaning voters are more enthusiastic, and so of course, they are also more likely to think a Republican is "best for the job…" though not by much.
- And now for what I think are the most important numbers in the poll. Asked "if you could send a message along with your vote for Congress as to what your vote means in this election, what one or two things would you say?" and given a first and a second choice, here's how things shook out:
The bottom line is that the volatile electorate isn't new. Long gone are the days after the Depression when Democrats held onto Congress for two generations. We've changed control of Congress three times since 1994, and we'll likely continue to lurch back and forth in this deeply divided nation. Let's see how the polls shake out, but I reject the notion that Americans suddenly woke up this year with a deep seated desire to punish the president. People are filled with economic anxiety and unsure about which party can dig us out. And Republicans, who have been told by the pundit class all year that they will win back Congress, are excited about voting. But Democrats are getting more interested in voting too, and we're seeing that in the early vote. Most importantly, if this is an historic realignment in favor of the GOP, then Democrats should not be able to win anywhere tomorrow — they should lose every contested Senate seat, including in California, Connecticut and Delaware, no matter who the candidate is. And nobody believes that's going to happen.
Meanwhile, for some historical perspective on our volatile electorate, do read this.
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Once one of Nigeria's best right-backs, ex-Super Eagles and Barcelona player, Gbenga Okunowo, who is back home with Sunshine Stars, reflects on his time in Camp Nou and Eagles, reports 'TANA AIYEJINA
The way and manner journeyman Gbenga Okunowo's promising career nose-dived into the doldrums still baffles a lot of Nigerian football followers.
The 32-year-old seemed headed for the top when Shooting Stars Sports Club signed him on from defunct Exide of Ibadan in 1995.
It was just a matter of time before European giants Barcelona signed him on as an 18-year-old three years later. Okunowo made his debut against Real Mallorca under coach Louis Van Gaal and started eight games. He played another six as a substitute as Barca won the league.
He also started five of Barcelona's six games in the Champions League that season playing against clubs like Bayern Munich and Manchester United.
Following year (1999), the right-back helped the Flying Eagles reach the quarterfinal of the U-20 World Cup on home soil.
He was also part of the national U-23 team that reached the last eight of the 2000 Olympic Games losing to an Ivan Zamorano-inspired Chile. Earlier, he had helped the Super Eagles reach the final of the Africa Cup of Nations, losing to archrivals Cameroon on penalties in Lagos.
It was a Cinderella tale for the youngster. But all that came to a sudden end when he quit Barca. Reports had it that Okunowo had less playing time and had to leave for Benfica on loan after the arrival of Dutch right-back Michael Reizeger from AC Milan.
But he insists he didn't quit Camp Nou because of the Dutchman.
"I didn't leave because of him (Reizeger)," he told SUNDAY PUNCH. "I wanted to move forward and become the best where I played and that I did in Portugal. It was only my commitment with the national teams that restricted my playing time at Benfica.
"You know then I was with the U-20, U-23 and the Eagles and it was rigorous playing in different competitions."
Okunowo also played for Badajoz in the Portuguese second division and Ionikos in Greece after he was released by Barca in 2002.
His fortune also nose-dived with the national team after 13 caps for the Eagles.
He joined Romanian champions Dinamo Bucharest on a free transfer in 2003 but he played just two games and cancelled his contract.
Since then, he's played for Tirana (Albania), Metalurh Donetsk (Ukraine), Stal Alchevsk (Ukraine), VB Sports (Maldives) and Waltham Forest before he popped up at Nigerian Premier League side Sunshine Stars of Akure in January.
Before his return to Nigeria, Okunowo had tried out with Polish side Odra Wodzislaw in 2010, in an attempt to return to topflight football, but nothing came of it. He also tried out at Norwegian clubs without luck.
But Okunowo is philosophical about his plight and rather than mull over the circumstance he found his career, he is a happy man.
"My best moments were playing in Europe for great clubs like Barcelona, Benfica, and in Romania, Ukraine and Greece. I enjoyed playing there because there was good welfare package. We only thought of football and nothing else. Now that I am back home, I will do my best and leave the rest," he said.
As a member of the 1999 Flying Eagles that were tipped to win the U-20 World Cup on home soil, Okunowo says inadequate preparation and pressure were the team's major undoing as they crashed out to a Malian side that had Barca midfielder Seydou Keita in the last eight.
"Our preparation for the tournament was not so good and it was a little bit difficult because some players played under pressure as the host nation."
At the Sydney Olympics, Okunowo and his teammates also crashed out when it mattered most, as Chile hammered the national U-23 team, then the defending champions, 4-1 in the quarterfinal.
He said, "The problem in Sydney was that we had key players who were given red cards and we also had several others injured. I was injured in our first game against Honduras and couldn't play. We should have reached the final and probably won the gold again but we had about four first team players out against Chile."
The creative player also came close to winning the AFCON in 2000 in Lagos, save for a penalty shootout defeat to Cameroon but Okunowo is very proud to be part of the squad that had some of the country's finest players of this generation.
"I enjoyed being part of that team. The squad had true professionals who knew what to do at the right time. If we have that kind of team again, we will become the best," he said.
So where did it all go wrong with him in the Eagles?
He gives an answer, "You know everybody have their personal problems. I went through a lot of family problems and injuries. If some players had the problems I had then, they won't be playing football again.
"You know in Africa, you have difficult family problems. Some want you down, some want you up. If I were to talk about what I passed through, I won't stop talking for days. It was a hectic period for me but I thank God for helping me overcome."
One of the player's most weird signings was when he put pen to paper for Waltham Forest, a club eight levels below the English Premier League, in 2009. It was a shock contrast of fortunes for the player but he explains the reason for the move.
"I didn't play for the team. The owner of the club is my friend and I used the club to collect my contract from an Arab club. That was the reason why I signed and trained for Waltham."
Okunowo still has fond memories of his Barca days. Playing alongside Rivaldo, Gabri, Xavi, Pep Guardiola and other stars at the club came with its challenges after he left Camp Nou.
"It was fantastic playing at that level and I enjoyed every moment of it but it was difficult for me when I left because my standard was higher wherever I went. Everybody expected the best from me because of the kind of players I played with in Barca.
"I am highly attached to Barca. I still talk with my good friend Xavi. We had lunch together in October."
He said present coach Guardiola, who has taken the Catalans to new heights, was always going to excel as a coach.
"I played with Pep and I am not surprised at his achievements as a coach. When he was playing as a defensive midfielder, he was in control of the players on the pitch. He was a leader; so it was expected of him to succeed as a coach."
On his impression about the domestic league, Okunowo said, "Football is played with power in the league. Before I left for Europe, it was more technical than power.
"There is the issue of welfare. The problem is if you don't pay players, you can't achieve anything. We need sponsors for clubs. We play away games and we travel on bad roads for 15 hours. How can you perform? It's not the fault of the clubs. The likes of Leventis and Abiola Babes had sponsors."
Okunowo is also not happy with the attitude of Nigerian players.
He said, "What I see in Nigerian players is that they believe they have arrived. The likes of Kolo Toure are still learning but once a Nigerian player plays one game, he starts walking around like a king."
Okunowo has played against the best strikers in the world but he will never forget the day he encountered Manchester United twin strikers Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke in a Champions League match in 1998.
"I had a problem playing against the duo; maybe it was because of my inexperience then. They were the best in the world then and they went on to win the cup. Cole and Yorke were in top form and they pushed me to the wall," he summed up.