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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Thad Matta knows who he can rely on. Tom Crean is still trying to figure it out.
That, besides a serious chasm in athleticism, is the major difference between the Ohio State and Indiana University basketball teams. The Buckeyes have had success and understand how to win. The Hoosiers have not and are still searching for answers.
And that's not a good place to be 23 games into a season.
"There's no excuse for us not playing better; we just don't have anything in the tank to fall back on," Crean said after IU (9-14, 3-8) lost its fifth in a row, 69-52 to No. 13-ranked Ohio State (19-6, 9-3) at Assembly Hall on Wednesday night.
"We don't have enough successes this year or last year to understand that they can be OK when they hit a tough stretch. We've got to continue to work with this team mentally. We've gone to the well a lot with them in the sense of them being up and excited about games, and we ran out of air tonight."
Ohio State closed the first half on a 12-0 run to take a 34-20 lead. The Hoosiers were within 22-20 on Christian Watford's 3-pointer with 6:03 to play and had two possessions to tie or lead, both ending on missed 3-pointers by Devan Dumes. Those started a six-minute stretch in which IU went 0-for-6 from the field and committed seven turnovers.
"We just didn't have enough spirit to fight through that," said Crean.
The Buckeyes led by as many as 25 in the second half.
Junior center Dallas Lauderdale matched his career high with 14 points and added eight rebounds and seven blocked shots, and senior backup center Kyle Madsen established a career high with 11 points for Ohio State.
Sophomore William Buford led the way with 21 points, despite missing a windmill dunk attempt, and the junior Turner had 10 points, seven rebounds and six assists in 21 minutes — after sitting out the final 17:25 of the first half with two fouls.
Watford had 15 points, Jordan Hulls 13 and Verdell Jones 11 for IU, which struggled from the field (20 of 54, 37 percent) and the foul line (seven of 14, 50 percent).
"It's not the physical part; it's the mental part," said Crean. "There's nothing magical about it; you have to keep working through it."
Crean has tried a variety of combinations, with nine players seeing significant action in most games. Matta's top six are probably the best in the conference, and he often doesn't go past them — though Turner's foul problems changed that somewhat on Wednesday.
You do what you have to do, Matta said, but you rely on those that you can count on.
"College athletics, you can't feel too good or feel too bad," said Matta, whose team has won five in a row to move into a first-place tie in the Big Ten with Michigan State, Purdue and Illinois. "The next game is coming down the pike, and there's a lot of basketball yet to be played."
Crean said that's what IU must understand, too. The Hoosiers now hit the road to play No. 11 Wisconsin (18-6) on Saturday, then return home for No. 10 Michigan State (19-6) on Tuesday. Neither of those clubs is going to be happy after home-court losses to Illinois and Purdue, respectively, two nights ago.
Even before the Ohio State game, IU guard Jeremiah Rivers had warned, "We can't get caught up in this tornado."
But the Hoosiers then were turned every way but loose by Lauderdale, a 6-8 junior with the bulk of an NFL defensive end, and the rest of the Buckeyes.
"When you get to this stage of the season, everybody's strong, everybody's fast, everybody can execute their offense," Lauderdale said. "The biggest thing is mentally. Where's your mind at? Coach stresses that a lot. Mental toughness is that thing that can get you over the hump."
Right now, that hump must look like a mountain to the Hoosiers, who won't be favored in any of their final seven regular-season games.
"Seven days ago we played one of the best teams in the country (Purdue) to a three-point game, so it's not like we can't compete," said Crean. "If I hadn't been through last year, I'd be in a panic mode — but I'm not.
"We're not that far, though after a game like this we also know we're not that close."
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Dirty Leprechaun Mountain Biking Rally showcases city's trails
CORPUS CHRISTI - Robert Smith usually enjoys riding his black mountain bike on the steep hills that blanket central Texas.
Shortly after sunrise Sunday morning, he took his passion for biking to a lesser-known spot in Corpus Christi during the Dirty Leprechaun Mountain Biking Rally.
"The trail itself was pretty intermediate, but it's a good trail for Corpus Christi. You're not going to get much more difficult in this area," Smith said.
Race organizer Junior Arguelles hoped the event would boost awareness of riding trails in the area, particularly a network of paths that volunteers have developed during the past year and a half on the city's Southside.
"We've been riding back there for a few years, so I want every one to know it's out there and you don't have to go to Austin or San Antonio to find good trails," Arguelles said.
Beginners who tackled the 4.5 mile course in Oso Creek Park were required to complete one lap, intermediate level participates rode three laps and experienced riders five laps.
Registration also was available the morning of the ride, which Arguelles believes bumped participation.
The number of registered riders the night before the event topped out at seven, but increased to more than 20 on Sunday morning.
"People really pulled through and it went a lot better than expected," Arguelles said.
Most showed up in nondescript riding gear, but some got in the spirit of the holiday and lived up to the event's name.
Larry Herrig was crowned the Dirty Leprechaun when he showed up to ride with mismatched green socks and a shirt declaring himself "Larry the Large Leprechaun." His top hat and red-dyed beard finished off the ensemble.
Mike Cartier opted out of wearing a costume, but his GoPro HD Hero video camera was strapped to his helmet and captured the intermediate division ride. He plans to upload the video to YouTube soon.
Organizers hope to make the rally an annual event if interest continues.
"As long as I have the resources available, I am going to do the rally," Arguelles said.
The event raised almost $450, which will be split evenly between Bikes for Kids and a charity benefiting Lou Gehrig's disease.
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Forgive me if you have heard this one before.
A priest, a rabbi and a state legislator walk into a bar. The bartender says to them: "Is this a joke?"
I know, it's not very funny and it's actually quite insulting to priests and rabbis to be linked to state lawmakers — particularly if they serve in the Tennessee General Assembly. Those vaudevillians in Nashville have really put on a show this year, but not everyone is laughing.
The GOP supermajority in both houses of the Tennessee Legislature was racing last week to wrap up its business. These last few hours of a legislative session can be the most dangerous. It's when bad bills are often passed in the wee hours of the morning.
Actually, it will be even more frightening next spring when the 108th General Assembly comes to a merciful end. Whatever business that is not finished this year can be taken up when lawmakers return to Nashville in January (wine in liquor stores, for example). Next year's session is when the real buffoonery is likely to occur. It is an election year — a prime time for the lawmakers to crank up their antics.
There was a time when lawmakers like Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, and Sen. Frank Niceley, R-Strawberry Plains, were treated as brief comic relief on Capitol Hill. Today, the Tinfoil Hat Caucus is setting the agenda.
No wonder so many Tennesseans shudder at the thought of what would happen if Niceley's bill to allow the General Assembly to select nominees to the U.S. Senate is passed. Can we truly trust a body so paranoid that some of its members mistook a new mop sink in the state Legislature for a Muslim foot-washing bath to make such a decision?
I recall what a fellow reporter on Capitol Hill told me years ago: "Gridlock is good. It slows down bad legislation."
He had a point. Unfortunately, as we've seen in Washington, D.C., in recent years, gridlock can also lead to stalemate. Back two decades or so, when my colleague made his comment about gridlock, the Tennessee General Assembly was still controlled by Democrats.
Before there was the monogrammed cowboy boot-wearing Ron Ramsey serving as speaker of the Senate, there was the cosmos-quoting John Wilder. The two men had little in common except for their support of business and commerce. Wilder once remarked that the primary business of the Senate should be to promote business interests in Tennessee.
Years ago, it wasn't surprising to see Republicans and Democrats in the Senate forming coalitions on certain issues. For an example, take an issue like workers' compensation. Republicans and a few Democrats, who supported business interests, often lined up on one side, while a few Republicans and Democrats, who leaned kindly in the direction of trial lawyers, lined up on the other side. There were no such coalitions to be found during the recent debate on Gov. Bill Haslam's major overhaul of workers' comp in Tennessee.
I do give the Republican leadership of the House and Senate credit for wrapping up their business quickly this year. The fewer days this bunch of lawmakers spends in Nashville, the better off we all are. And that's no joke.
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Just over a week ago, the folks at the San Pedro Playhouse were wrapping up their nationwide, seven-month search for a new president and CEO and were on the verge of making an offer to a guy from the West Coast.
Then Lee Cusenbary, interim chairman of the board, happened upon a bio for Classic Theatre co-founder and executive director Asia Ciaravino. Impressed, he dug a little bit deeper, and the more he learned about her background, the more he felt that she just might be a good match for the theater.
He called her up, and she agreed to meet with him and members of the playhouse search committee in the back room of the Palm restaurant. They chatted for nearly three hours.
"When I was talking about what I felt theater could be, it was like the room lit on fire," Ciaravino said. "Everybody got it. We all had this shared vision."
By the end of that interview, it was pretty much a done deal: "We had no choice but to hire her," Cusenbary said.
Ciaravino will step into her new post May 1.
"The message here is, the grass is not always greener on the other side," Cusenbary said. "We did look everywhere. And I feel confident that there is no one better for this playhouse at this time than Asia."
Among the things that impressed him and the search committee was the one-two punch of Ciaravino's solid theater background and her master's work in nonprofit management. (She's finishing up that course of study this semester.) She is the director of alumni and advancement relations at Our Lady of the Lake University.
"Rarely do you find somebody who has the theatrical arts background and the business experience together," Cusenbary said.
Alongside the search to replace Di Ann Sneed, who left the theater last fall, the theater's board spent the past few months drawing up an ambitious strategic plan. Among other things, it calls for enhancing the theater's youth programs, improving production values and adding a black box theater.
"I'm so excited to get in there and meet the staff and be part of all that stuff," Ciaravino said. "With any new energy, the dynamic changes. I know that I can positively impact that team."
The goal, she said, is "to create the highest quality theater in San Antonio at all levels. I really think we can raise the bar together and make it the best place to work in the city."
Leaving Classic, which is heading into its fifth season, is difficult, she said.
"But I knew that this was around the time that I needed to step away so that it could grow ... I think every organization needs new blood, especially when they're young. I will always love Classic; it was my baby, and I put thousands of hours into it. I'm very proud of what we've done. I know it will continue and morph into something different. And I want it to grow. Theater is a dead art if it doesn't grow."


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Banning Gang Colors is a Post-Hoc Solution. East Boogie Should Ban Single-Parent Homes
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The most recent solution conjured up by Mayor Alvin Parks and the cops: Ban gang colors, then lock up kids spotted on the streets during school hours. Other proposals: Shut down the nightclubs, get rid of the illegal guns.
But other American cities allow citizens to wear certain shades of blue, own firearms, and run nightclubs, and they don't look as post-apocalyptic as East Boogie.
How about this: Forget the post-hoc solutions, and start way earlier by banning single-parent homes. Because there are tons of them, and obviously these kids need more guidance.
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A quarter of them are led by a husband-wife team.
But 64 percent -- almost two-thirds of all family households in East St. Louis -- are led by a woman with no husband present. Most of these women are trying to raise kids under 18, the figures show.
Any parent, in any locale, already has the giant responsibility of instilling morality in a kid, making sure he does his homework and keeping him from running with the wrong crowd. But in East St. Louis, many women must shoulder this burden all by themselves -- in an already bleak economic situation.
So, as long as Mayor Parks is in the business of irrational (and probably unconstitutional) bans, he should try one that starts before it's too late: Arrest any father that ducks out of his responsibility to his kids.
(By the way, we're obviously exaggerating here; but we're not the first ones to harp on the problem of single-parent homes. See our feature on Halbert Sullivan and the Fathers Support Center, which ran last summer.)
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RUTLAND - The Annual Stuffed Animal Shelter was held December 4 and 5th at Depot Park in Rutland. Rutland radio station Z-97 partnered with Broc to collect new toys for underprivileged children this holiday season.
The first year they collected over 300 toys, the second year they collected over 600 and this year they doubled their previous record- making the community stand out as a very giving community at this time of year.
"This year was an amazing year for the Stuffed Animal Shelter. Lots of stories, lots of laughter, excitement and in the end we helped, through BROC, put thousands of smiles on the faces of kids in this community," said Promotions Director Amanda Begins. "We never really set a goal in terms of dollars or number of toys at the start of the toy drive. Our overall goal is always to help make a child's holiday season a little bit brighter. However, we always keep a tally of how many donations are received just to build the excitement and to see how many kids we've helped. This year we collected over the course of two days 1,340 books, toys, dolls, stuffed animals and we also collected $140 in gift cards and cash. The variety of the donations was outstanding. People really responded to our call."
The Z-97 website explains the reason behind working tirelessly this season to help out: "Can you imagine cancelling Christmas? No lights, no presents, no big dinners, no tree. The harsh reality is that there are people in our community that live with that reality and not by choice. There are families that barely have enough money to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. Christmas presents are just a fantasy."
Radio personality Frankie-G explained the origins of the event. "WSYB has its Christmas Fund, WJJR has Stuff-a-Bus and Z-97 has Stuffed Animal Shelter. We are able to help some children in our community who may not otherwise have a present this holiday," he said.
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|Omaha Reads selection recognizes World War I centennial
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This year the nation recognizes the centennial of the First World War. The sacrifices of men and women on the home front, as well as the violence and hatred that swept across America during World War I (WWI) are addressed in Omaha Public Library's 2014 Omaha Reads selection, The Meaning of Names (2014) by Karen Gettert Shoemaker.
Each year, Omaha Public Library (OPL) encourages the community to join together in reading one book as part of the Omaha Reads campaign. Omaha Reads promotes literacy and provides the City with a common theme to discuss. One book is selected through a public vote and promoted through book talks, an author visit, and related programs. The Meaning of Names follows the fictional story of Gerda Vogel and her family in 1918. Even the quiet calm of Nebraska farm country cannot shelter the American family of German descent from prejudice, violence, and a plague unlike the world has ever seen.
Shoemaker will speak at the German-American Society, 3717 S. 120th St., on Wednesday, September 3, 6:30-8 p.m. in the South Hall. The author will discuss her book, and copies will be available for purchase and signing following a Q&A session. This free event is open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. Shoemaker resides in Lincoln, Neb. and mentors young writers through the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Master of Fine Arts in Writing program. Learn more about the author at karenshoemaker.com.
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Additionally, a series of WWI posters will be on display at Millard Branch, August 18-September 30. OPL received the posters from the Government Printing Office as a member of the Federal Depository Library Program. Since 1878, OPL has received documents and other materials printed by the government for public use. The posters were issued to bolster support for WWI by encouraging American citizens to plant victory gardens, economize resources and support U.S. service members fighting overseas. The posters can be viewed any time during regular library hours, Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., and Friday through Sunday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
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County appeals school funding verdict
The Union County Board of Commissioners today filed an appeal of a recent jury verdict that awarded Union County Public Schools an additional $91 million dollars in fiscal year 2013-14.
The Board of County Commissioners had appropriated $85.2 to the Union County Board of Education for fiscal year 2013-14. There was a difference between what was budgeted and what was requested of $9.2 million. However, a jury awarded the Board of Education not only the $9.2 million difference but an additional $81.9 million on top of that.
"We cannot allow a verdict that would destroy our schools, bankrupt our businesses, and squeeze every single taxpayer in our county to go unchallenged," said Union County Board of Commissioners Chairman Jerry Simpson. "This decision would devastate businesses, seniors, taxpayers and children."
"We are not going to sit by and have 12 jurors determine the future of our county," Simpson said. "If taxpayers want to spend that kind of money and deal with the consequences of that kind of spending, then all the voters of Union County should decide to go down that path. This decision would harm our businesses, our schools, our families to the core."
During the trial $210 million in unencumbered fund balances were identified in county accounts, however, since the verdict Board of Commissioners Chairman Jerry Simpson has issued a statement claiming that those fund balances have been spent or "earmarked" for other projects.
County officials this week have repeatedly deflected requests from The Enquirer-Journal for verification of the spending of the fund balances or for an interview to discuss the fund balances and whether and how they have been "earmarked."
County Manager Cindy Coto said today the county's available funds from the general fund balance are $26.7 million, which is less than one-third of the judgment. Fully expending these funds would leave the county less than two months of operating capital in reserve for emergencies or economic crisis.
She also noted that during the trial, the Board of Education attorneys suggested that the Board of County Commissioners use the user-fee funded Water and Sewer Utility Fund to pay the Board of Education's request. This should not be done because these funds are assigned to fund utility projects identified in the $426 million water and sewer master plan, and to help offset future rate increases.
"The bottom line is that if this verdict stands, it will cost taxpayers a bill of $64.4 million for just a single year," Simpson added. "That's a property tax increase of 27.7 cents. To Union County families that means a home worth $100,000 would receive an additional tax bill of $277, and for a home worth $400,000, the additional tax bill would be $1,108. An unplanned tax bill of that size for any family would be catastrophic. The Board cannot let this verdict stand and devastate our residents, our families, our businesses and our most vulnerable, like the elderly and those on fixed incomes. The Board of Commissioners will fight this verdict to the end for the people of our community."


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CORPUS CHRISTI - City of Corpus Christi contractors will be installing pedestrian accessibility ramps on Friday at two locations.
Southbound traffic on Carroll Lane between Staples Street and Gollihar Road will be reduced to one lane for two weeks. Eastbound traffic on Gollihar Road between Kirkwood Drive and Sequoia Street will be reduced to one lane for two weeks.
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i want to discuss about a problem i had : opengl rendering does not work with last nvidia legacy drivers on my system
black screen on some opengl apps
- glxgears is working
- tux racer not
- googleearth not
The card
nForce 2 IGP, which means an GeForce4 MX integrated
The driver version
More datas to help find the problem
- i am not the only one to have this problem.
At least, i found posts 102717, 94458, 85888, 86705, 85257
- old driver versions were working (i can't remember which one, but if i am not wrong, the problems appears in the periode of composite support)
- exactly same symptom on windows with 93.71 driver
. if i use google earth in opengl : no texture on earth => "transparent" earth
. if i use it in directx mode, it's working
I hope that these informations will help to resolve the problem and thank you for attention
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KINGSTON, R.I. -- May 22, 2000 -- If you searched for a recent graduate
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Friendly, bright, and enthusiastic, Kelly graduated this month with a
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"URI is a top research institution," she enthuses, "and
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Research is a passion for the 21-year-old who just accepted a full scholarship
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"One of the main reasons I wanted to investigate URI was its world-renown
psychology program. This is where Dr. James Prochaska, the Dr. Freud of
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Kelly's freshman year was a tough transition for her. She missed her
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Evansville African American Museum to display signature 'Herblock' pieces
"Higher Education in Mississippi," a 1962 cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Herb Block, is among work featured in "The Long March," a traveling exhibition opening Tuesday in the Evansville African American Museum.
The cartoon depicts the government's decision to send in federal troops to enforce racial integration in Mississippi's public schools in 1962.
The exhibition, which focuses on civil rights struggles in the United States, features 20 panels of cartoons, text and photographs about the work of Block, the syndicated Washington Post political cartoonist who signed his work "Herblock."
Block was barely 20 when started in 1929 as a political cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News and the Newspaper Enterprise Association Service. Seventeen years later he joined The Washington Post, where he worked until his death in 2001. In that time, he created cartoons dealing with the administrations of presidents from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush.
His work won him three Pulitzers and he shared a fourth. He was the only living cartoonist to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the only one to see his work displayed in the National Gallery of Art.
The exhibition will remain up through Oct. 2 in the museum at 579 S. Garvin St. The Evansville African American Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students, with special group rates available.
For more information on the museum, call (812) 423-5188. For more on Block, visit www.herbblock.org online.
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text: Toronto, ON (WBEN) Jon Bon Jovi's Toronto-based group has reportedly put in its last chance bid for the Buffalo Bills. The Toronto Sun's John Kryk says the re-bid was submitted late last night. He reports while a decision on whether Bon Jovi stays in the running could come at any time, don't expect either the rocker or the Wilson trust to make any sort of announcement. The group's initial bid was rejected Tuesday for having too low an offering price and not enough assurance the team will stay in town.


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Wisconsin Department of Justice State Fire Marshal's Office Determines Blanchardville Fire Origin to be Undetermined
BLANCHARDVILLE - Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and State Fire Marshal Tina Virgil released conclusions about the origin and cause of the fire that took the life of four individuals and destroyed the Silver Dollar Bar early Monday morning in Blanchardville, Wisconsin.
"I am saddened at the loss of life, particularly so close to Christmas," said Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. "This is a profound tragedy and my heart goes out to the families and friends of those who perished. Blanchardville has been dealt a hard blow. I do however, wish to commend the efforts of Blanchardville's Fire Department and their neighboring fire services and medical response units. I commend Sheriff Scott Pedley and his staff for their efforts over the last few days."
The State Fire Marshal reports that the official cause of the fire is classified as undetermined at this time. The State Fire Marshal's Office has concluded the area of origin was determined to be located in a void space separating the second and third floors of the structure in the building's center.
Investigators did not observe any indications of foul play. There was no evidence discovered that this was a set fire. Investigators found no evidence of any other suspicious circumstances.
The scene was released by law enforcement to the insurance company as of 1:30 p.m. today. The structure is a total loss. A professional structural engineer brought in to evaluate the structure has determined, for safety reasons, that the building should come down.
The cause of death for all four was smoke inhalation/carbon monoxide poisoning according to the coroner.
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Alba Associates are taking bookings and calls for collaboration for their first WCR event of 2010 to be held in Oldham.
Wired City Reconnected events are 'collaborative networking' events aimed at the digital/creative media and ICT business interested in potential collaborations, aiming to stay away from boring sales pitches.
The events are facilitated and provide a bespoke matching & introduction service to ensure that your business gains the maximum opportunity to meet new potential partners and contacts.
Businesses are being sought to address the follow collaboration requests:
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The Greater Toledo Area Chapter of the American Red Cross teamed with Columbia Gas of Ohio to urge families to be safe this winter when heating their homes.
"Home fires are the leading cause of disaster in out area. We respond to an average of four fires per week and that becomes more frequent in the winter months," said Jodie Tienvieri, communications manager at the Red Cross. "We know as it gets colder people are going to turn to alternate heating sources, which we don't recommend."
The Red Cross urges individuals to be cautious when using space heaters, fires and other heating sources this winter. The Red Cross recommends keeping flammable material such as paper, furniture and bedding at least three feet away from heating equipment.
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Two weeks ago Thursday Union College sent out its annual "Congrats, you got in" letters to a select group of applicants. About 30 or so percent of them traditionally take the college up on its offer to attend.
The same week many of those students got that letter, something unprecedented happened: tiny Union College, the one the national media consistently tags with (N.Y.) after its name to locate the school and differentiate it from the seven other institutions of higher learning with "Union" in its name, earned its first berth in the Frozen Four — Division I hockey's equivalent of the Final Four.
What will be the impact of the Dutchmen's historic run on the ice for this historic college?
"I didn't factor into my yield projections a bump for this press and this attention," said Matt Malatesta, director of admissions, financial aid and enrollment. "So I'm curious. It was not part of my calculus. I can't even guess."
What if it's a 5 percent bump in those wanting to come? Ten?
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It's doubtful Union College's inaugural appearance in the Frozen Four will have that kind of overall impact on the school. It's likely it won't match that of Siena after the Loudonville college made three straight NCAA men's basketball tournaments from 2008-10. Applications more than doubled compared to five years earlier, and donations to the athletics fund rose more than $200,000, to $469,000. The link between the basketball team's success and the increased interest and generosity seems clear.


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Hyundai closes in on the 2025 fuel standard with a refined gasoline engine. If only they did a better job with Bluetooth.
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EPA fuel economy standards bear little resemblance to the real-world. The government's 54.5 mpg rating is more like 40 mpg.
Will 56 mpg fuel law force luxury cars out of US market? July 11, 2011 at 9:34 am
Take a longing look at your neighbor's Land Rover or Mercedes-Benz S-Class. Within a decade, they could be goners from the US market.


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August 4, 2015
PENTAGON (AP) - The Pentagon's top military officer says that
any Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would be a
high-risk move that could further destabilize the Middle East.
But the Joint Chiefs chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen, is refusing
to say what Israeli leaders told him during meetings last week
about any intentions to strike Iran.
Mullen says "opening up a third front right now would be
extremely stressful" on the U.S. And he says he believes that Iran
would be able to interrupt ship traffic through the strategic
Strait of Hormuz, but wouldn't be able to sustain a blockade.
He wouldn't address military intelligence that some suggest
indicates that Iran will be able to acquire surface-to-air defense
capabilities and have the ability to enrich enough uranium to
create a nuclear bomb by the end of the year.
President Bush said today that the first option in dealing with
Iran should be diplomacy.
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By Gerry J. GilmoreAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2004 Inadequate oversight for U.S. forces logistics contracts in Kuwait and Iraq "is a serious problem," the chief of the U.S. General Accounting Office told House members here today.
"As has been the case for many decades," David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, observed, DoD earns an "'A-plus' (for) fighting and winning armed conflicts, but they're a 'D' on economy, efficiency, transparency and accountability" in managing contracts.
Walker and Neal P. Curtin, director of defense capabilities and management for the GAO, testified before the House Government Reform Committee about contract operations in Iraq.
Some government contractors have come under congressional scrutiny for alleged overcharging of services provided to service members deployed in the Middle East.
Walker acknowledged that most troops serving in Iraq and Kuwait are satisfied with contractor-provided services. "But, I do think cost is important," he added.
For example, Neal noted that when a troop food vendor in Kuwait was replaced with another, the government's bill dropped by more than 40 percent for the same service.
Walker noted he'd expect some contracting mistakes would be made during turbulent wartime situations. But, he added, he "also would expect that some of the checks and balances would hopefully correct" some potential contracting miscalculations.
"There has to be a balancing" between expediency and cost in military contracting operations, Walker said, "to make sure we can accomplish our mission."
Founded in 1921, the U.S. General Accounting Office is a legislative branch agency. The GAO seeks to improve the performance and assure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American taxpayer.


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Letter: Sevierville officer punished for trying to fight corruption
So there's this police captain, see? Been with the force for 30 or so years. Knows the ropes. Sees someone altering a police document. A crime. Reports it to the assistant district attorney. Reports the potential crime to the local prosecutor.
Good job, officer!
Except ... instead of a pat on the back, a citation, even a promotion, he gets demoted two ranks and his pay cut $7,000 a year. What's wrong with this picture?
According to a city mouthpiece, he circumvented his chief. And whistleblowing is bad if reported to someone not directly elected by voters. Huh? This is the city's defense? Not that a mistake or false report was made. No, they don't dispute that.
It's that the police captain didn't play by the unwritten rules: Don't squeal on your fellow officers, even if they are dirty. Don't go outside the department with the dirt. If you do, you will pay dearly.
Bless your heart, officer. If only more of us were so brave and honest.
Damn the corruption in our midst. Who will stand against it? In modern America, if you fight "the man," you get audited by the IRS. You get investigated by the FBI. You might even get harassed by the local police.
Who will stand up?
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Integrity, Honesty and Virtue Quotes
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"The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture aught below, is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe." Bertrand Russell
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world." Albert Camus
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." Thomas Alva Edison
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." Samuel Adams
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." Albert Einstein
"Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith
"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong." Henry George (1839-1897)
"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." George Orwell
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others." Lewis Carroll
"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can." Thomas Carlyle
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." Paulo Freire
"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." Hannah Arendt, political philosopher, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906
"When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe; he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime." Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1793
"By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy—indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction." William Osler (Canadian Physician, 1849-1919)
"My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years." Kurt Cobain (1967-1994), American musician and singer of the grunge rock band Nirvana
"Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand." Bodie Thoene
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention." Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist
May I remind the Nobel laureates who have signed this appeal of one of Jean-Paul Sartre's main reasons for voluntarily declining the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964: "It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form."
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Coaching Accomplishments
Jamie Christian, one of the top special teams coordinators and receivers coaches in the nation with an award-winning recruiting background, enters his third season at Houston.
In part due to strong recruiting ties in California, Houston and Louisiana, Christian was named to Rivals' top national recruiters list in 2013.
Under Christian's special teams guidance in 2012, Leone earned All-Conference USA honors as he tied the Houston single-season punting record with an average of 45.5 yards per punt. Senior kicker Matt Hogan ended his career with the Conference USA career scoring record with 405 points and set a Conference USA and school record with six field goals against UAB. At receiver, Christian helped tutor Greenberry and Larry McDuffey, both members of the Conference USA All-Freshman team.


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Chattanooga (4-6) at Northern Kentucky (1-7)
Game 11 | Sun., Dec. 15, 2013 | Noon | Bank of Ky. Center | Highland Heights, Ky.
Season Stats | Schedule | Roster | Tickets (Home) | NKU
RADIO: The Mocs Sports Network flagship station is ESPN 105.1 FM the Zone in Chattanooga. Jim Reynolds is in his 34th season as the Voice of the Mocs.
VIDEOSTREAM: Links for live video (free), audio (free) and live stats are available on the GoMocs.com men's basketball schedule page.
Follow the action on Twitter @GoMocsMBB. Get interactive using the hashtags #GoMocs and #CHAOS. Tag @GoMocsMBB with your photos from the game, well-wishes for the team and more.
The Mocs close out the pre-holiday portion of the schedule on the road at UAB (12/18).
- Chattanooga is in the midst of seven of eight games away from the Scenic City. It started with a west coast trip to Reno (Nevada), Los Angeles (UCLA) and Las Vegas (Morehead State/IUPUI). The swing ends Wednesday (Dec. 18) at UAB.
- The Mocs lead the series 7-3. The two teams met twice a year over the final five seasons of DII membership (1973-77). More series notes are on page 3.
- Chattanooga is 92-95 against current Atlantic Sun membership: ETSU 42-32, Jacksonville 2-8, Kennesaw State 4-2, Lipscomb 9-17, Mercer 28-33 & Northern Kentucky 7-3. ETSU and Mercer are joining the SoCon in 2014-15.
- The Mocs lead the SoCon in four categories: scoring (82.4), rebounding (37.8), blocks (4.6) and steals (9.2).
- Z. Mason leads the league in blocks (1.8) and is fourth in scoring (18.6), rebounding (7.5) and FG% (56.8).
- Mason has four 20+-point games this season, all coming in the last six contests (22.3 ppg).
- Mason is shooting 56.3 percent (9-16) from 3pt range over last four games.
- He's shooting 64.9 percent (37-57) overall during that stretch.
- Mason's 41 points and 12 rebounds against Hiwassee is the first 40/10 game on record at Chattanooga.
- Mason is chasing a couple of career milestones. He currently has 802 points and 458 rebounds. He is on pace to become just the eighth Moc of the DI era to record 1,000 points and 500 boards.
- He is now in the top 15 in rebounding passing current student assistant Johnny Taylor (1996-97) who was 15th with 447. Mason is seven behind Darryl Ivery (1985-87) for 14th.
- Mason has 18 blocks this year which gives him 55 for his two-plus years on the hardwood, good for tied for ninth all-time at Chattanooga with Jeremy Saffore (2007-11) and two shy of eighth-place Stanford Strickland (1981-84).
- The Mocs lead the SoCon in steals and not surprisingly four student-athletes rank among the league leaders. Greg Pryor is third (1.8), Gee McGhee tied for fourth (1.7), Lance Stokes seventh (1.4) and Casey Jones (1.3) 12th on the list.
- The squad is tied for 16th nationally in steals (thru 12/12).
- Jones is also ninth in rebounding (5.7), sixth in FG% (54.7) and tied for seventh in blocks (1.0).
- McGhee is 17th in scoring (12.8), 13th in assists (3.2) and eighth in A/TO ratio (1.5).
- Pryor is also 12th in assists (3.3), 10th in FT% (80.6) and 11th in A/TO ratio (1.3).
- Martynas Bareika (41.9) and Alex Bran (40.0) are 12th and 15th, respectively, in 3pt%. Bareika (1.8) is 12th in 3pt FG made per game.
- T.J. Williams is tied for 11th in blocks (0.8).
- Head Coach Will Wade is 4-6 in his first season as a head coach. He is Chattanooga's 18th head coach, seventh of the DI era.
- Wade is 3-1 at home, 0-4 away and 1-1 in neutral site contests.
- He is 0-0 vs. Northern Kentucky, 0-1 vs. A-Sun teams.
- Wade is a 2005 graduate of Clemson. He has worked with current collegiate head coaches Larry Shyatt (Wyoming), Oliver Purnell (DePaul), Tommy Amaker (Harvard) and Shaka Smart (VCU) at Clemson, Harvard and VCU, respectively.
- Wade's staff includes a former head coach, Wes Long (Queens, 2009-13), former Mocs standout Casey Long (2004-07) and Buffalo star Turner Battle. Casey Long was retained from the previous regime. He also welcomed back Mocs great Johnny Taylor (1996-97). Taylor, a Chattanooga native, led Chattanooga to the 1997 NCAA Sweet 16 before becoming the school's first NBA first round draft selection (Orlando). Taylor completed a 15-year pro career and returned to the Scenic City to complete his degree in criminal justice.
- Northern Kentucky is 1-7 on the season.
- The Norse compete in the Atlantic Sun Conference.
- Dave Bezold is in his 10th year as head coach with a 173-102 record. He was an assistant at NKU for 14 seasons.
- Northern Kentucky's win came in overtime at Tulane (91-86). Its losses include at Purdue (77-76), at Kentucky (93-63), San Diego (75-44), Morehead State (74-61), SE Missouri (79-65), Texas State (70-61) and at UT Martin (79-66).
- Jordan Jackson leads the Norse in scoring at 13.5 points per contest. He adds 4.7 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game.
- Todd Johnson is the leading rebounder (5.4 rpg).
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Under Hot Wheels City lurk the Mutant Machines! The result of a failed lab experiment, these half-creature, half-vehicle machines come to life in the Mutation Lab! This exciting set offers great action and imaginative play. Drive in new ways and try to maneuver over fun terrains with these bendable, connectable, creature-like vehicles. The adjustable platform secures theMutant Machine vehicles in - then drops them down for a suspenseful free fall! Can you make the jump? Don't get caught by the electric snare! Beware, if you time it wrong, you will get skewered by the snare! Make the landing and speed through the tight turn, then soar down the stairs. Platform also rotates backward directly over a Hot Wheels tab where boys can connect more track, allowing them to drop their Mutant Machines off into new adventures. The Mutation Lab expands boys' imaginations and raises stunts and action to new fun - and funny - heights! Comes with one Mutant Machine vehicle. (Other track and play sets not included) Ages 4 and older.


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Will Pregnant Kate Middleton Have a Baby Shower? The Answer Is…
Will pregnant Kate Middleton be getting a baby shower soon? The answer surprised us.
Kate and Prince William's baby will get no shortage of attention and adulation when it arrives, but they won't have a baby shower ahead of time, according to E! Online.
"The Brits don't do baby showers," explains an expert on the royal family. "It is not what they do."
"There is a little superstition involved," the source continues. Apparently, British moms would rather not celebrate the baby until it actually gets here.
There's also another reason for the couple to eschew a shower.
"Plus, William and Kate are very well-aware they are wealthy, and they don't want anything," adds the source. "They can afford their own stuff."
We actually admire this decision, although it would be amazing to see pictures of Kate playing baby-shower games with her pals. (C'mon, Kate - don't tell us you don't wanna play baby bingo!)
However, Kate and Wills have always struck us as a down-to-earth type of couple, so we can see why they wouldn't want a party that's all about them.
Good choice, Kate! But if you need someone to play baby bingo, just let us know.
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A solid August ender is on the horizon in the Vancouver area – The Battle At Hastings IV, presented by Bones Wheels and Lakai. On August 31st at the world-famous Hastings bowl (directions here), a battle for $15,000 will ensue. This event is now sanctioned by World Cup Skateboarding, meaning you'll see some big names from down south making the trip up to Van.
For registration details and general info, click here. Stay tuned for exclusive Concrete x Ultimate Distribution video coverage of the event.
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Even when the Habs were on that winning streak a couple of months ago (it feels so long ago), I was mentally preparing myself to expect the kind of play we have witnessed over the past couple of weeks. Let's just say that the mental prep failed to diminish the frustration and disappointment while watching our team…tank miserably. Some may call the previous description as melodramatic, but need I remind you that I'm a Montreal Canadiens fan?
I was one of the unlucky fans to attend a game at the Bell Centre this weekend. Sometimes I wonder, why should I bother cheering for a team that makes me want to get a refund on my ticket (although I've been fortunate enough to go for free, but you get what I mean)? I deserve to cheer for a team that WINS (I also happen to subject myself to some torture with FC Liverpool…but that's a story for another time folks). Despite watching one of the more boring games of the season, something hit me…
There' something so special about seeing a game at the Bell Centre. I have been blessed with a number of opportunities to watch games in the amphitheater, and I have never passed up on the chance. How could I refuse? Lord knows how hard it can be to purchase a ticket, and yet summon the funds to actually seat your ass down (and don't get me started on the price of food.
MINOR DETAILS (but not really) aside, the atmosphere at the Bell Centre is something people talk about time and time again, and it always lives up to the hype. It's one thing watching a game at a bar, or at home with friends…but it's a completely different story watching the game with 21 000 crazy fans (apart from the boring business men who sit in front…have a little life guys!).
21 000 mostly hungry, self-proclaimed hockey experts cheering and critiquing their beloved team is testament to the love we Montrealers have for our hockey.
It would be nice if the Habs could give back. It would be nice if they could play like a team fans should be cheering for. Yes, if you're a true fan, your devotion to the team is infallible.
Let's just say that I would be willing to be a crap ton of money to watch them if I was fairly certain of seeing a good spectacle. Despite this mini-rant, I still watch them on TV, read up on the latest news surrounding the team, and listen in on the ongoing debates on Briere and many other issues.
Heck, I even take the time to write about them every week!
Why? Because there is something beautiful about uniting yourself behind a group of individuals trying to restore their past pride and glory. This group of men, whatever their skills or shortcomings, represent an integral part of our city and are an important piece to our identity as a Montrealer.
Even if I told myself: " Screw this, I'm going to cheer for the Blackhawks!", I could never genuinely adhere to them. I bleed, you bleed, we all bleed the blue, white and red. Now, after this miniature grammar lesson, let's enjoy the last game against the Hurricanes before some of our boys battle it out in Sochi.
Sit back, relax, and go Habs go, no matter what.


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Vol. I
Issue 31
Athletics News 5-1-09
Varsity Lacrosse Goes to the State
Varsity Baseball Team to Play 2nd Round of Playoffs
Three Season Athletes Recognized
2009 Scholar Athlete Award
Important Athletic Dates for 2009 -2010
Class of 2010 Senior Sports Ad
On Campus Physicals
Bears weekly roundup
Bears pick up first playoff lacrosse win
Boys track sets new marks!
Bears pick up first playoff lacrosse win
Playing on the road against a team that had won 15 straight games and playing with a history that included no playoff wins, it appeared things were headed in a downhill direction for the HIES boys lacrosse team Tuesday.
Appearances can be deceiving, however, as the Golden Bears knocked off Wesleyan 10-9 in overtime and will advance to face Milton Saturday at Milton at 7:30 p.m. in state lacrosse.
"We surprised them," Coach Mike Thornton said. "They weren't prepared for the intensity we have learned to play with due to the Walton, Lovett and Westminster games.
"Looking ahead, Milton has a lot of talented players, but we can play with anyone when we play our kind of blue-collar lacrosse."
HIES led 8-4, then trailed 9-8 late before tying the score at the end of regulation. Price Barnett won the crucial face-off to start OT; he kicked it to Darius Bowling who fed Joe Byrd for the deciding goal.
Byrd led with three scores on the day. Barnett won 17 of 20 face-off attempts.
Other scorers included Andy Watts with two, Connor Randall had a goal and an assist despite re-injuring his leg early in the contest, Robert Margeson scored two goals and picked up an assist, Chase Brown scored once and Will Byrd had two assists.
Two defensemen had big days – Jordan Miller scored a goal and had an assist and Bowling had the huge assist in overtime.
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There are ways to improve the appearance of the graphed surfaces in three dimensions. I will consider two such techniques here and compare them with the basic center-point projection technique described on pages 3-6.
The first approach directly addresses the second problem posed on page 6: When two facets intersect, subdivide the facets along the line of intersection. The resulting polygons may no longer be triangles, but they must still be planar, and they can be further subdivided to get back to triangular facets.
In the graphing applet on page 2, the triangular facets lie over corresponding triangles in the xy-plane, so for each such triangle in the xy-plane, only two facets, one on each surface, need to be checked for intersection. In the more general case of graphing surfaces described parametrically, though, every facet must be checked against every other facet, even facets on the same surface. Just finding the line of intersection is somewhat computationally intensive -- it amounts to finding the solution line for a system of two linear equations in three unknowns. (Think of the linear equations as describing the planes in which the triangular facets lie.) Even in the simplest case, this would involve some 15 or 20 basic arithmetic operations. Multiply this by either 1600 pairs of facets lying over triangles in the xy -plane, or by over a million pairs of facets in the general parametric case. The advantage of this technique is that the subdivisions would need to be computed only once, before the first time the graph is drawn -- subsequent graph displays can be drawn by sorting the new smaller facets. However, this does not address the first problem (Which facet is in front?) at all, and it would cause what many users would perceive as an unreasonable delay in displaying the initial graph.
The most general approach would involve finding the frontmost surface that must be displayed on each screen pixel. In Tom Farmer's article, "Geometric Photo Manipulation " (JOMA vol. 2, 2002), this technique is called the "z -buffer" strategy. For the record, the projection technique I described in my second article in this series is what Farmer calls an orthographic projection -- he gives usable formulas for both orthographic projection and one-point perspective projection.
For each screen pixel in the graph area, imagine a line perpendicular to the screen. That line intersects the surfaces in some relatively small number of points (except in cases extreme enough to be considered degenerate), and moreover these points of intersection can be strictly sorted front to back. A total sort is unnecessary, though -- a linear pass through the points to find the frontmost one will suffice. Then color the screen pixel with the color of that surface at that point.
The problem here is finding the points of intersection. This will depend largely on the complexity of the surface being drawn. Therefore, subdividing the surface into planar polygonal facets may still be a good idea, since a point of intersection between a line and a plane can be computed relatively easily. Even so, you would need to check every facet for whether it intersects the line. This must be repeated for every pixel -- in the my graphing applet, the graph area is 300 by 300 pixels, or 90,000 pixels. Multiply this by 3200 facets and the number of operations needed to find the intersection of a line and a plane, if you do subdivide the surface, or by the number of operations needed to find the intersection of a line with an arbitrary surface, if you don't subdivide. This must also be repeated every time the graph is rotated, even a little bit. If the center-point projection technique has performance problems during the mouse rotations, this technique would be utterly unbearable.
The only way ultimately to solve this problem and get good, accurate graphs of surfaces would be to speed up the runtime environment using native binary code to do the computationally intensive tasks. This is the approach used by the Java3D extensions to the basic Java runtime environment. However, the Java3D extensions are not widely used among typical Web users, and they involve some potentially difficult installation procedures (depending on the platform).
This drawback is at least partially addressed in the JOGL package, which provides Java bindings to the methods in the OpenGL open-source graphics library. OpenGL is widely implemented and even standard on many platforms, so the typical user would not need to install anything new. The problems shift to the developer, who must deal with some nonstandard tools in order to build the JOGL calls into new software. However, there are still some compatibility issues -- some hardware video cards do not have the ability to implement hardware-accelerated forms of some of the more advanced OpenGL calls, and software versions would run into the performance problems just described. Moreover, both the JOGL/OpenGL combination and the Java3D extensions are designed for the more graphics-intensive object rendering of three-dimensional animations, including textures and lighting, far beyond what is needed for a typical surface graph in a mathematics applet.
So in designing applets to graph surfaces in three dimensions, I have decided to compromise: I settle for a less-than-accurate graph in return for reasonable performance in the rotation operations. If you are already familiar with Java, you may be interested in seeing some annotated source code from the faceted surface applet on page 2.