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Illinois State women's gymnastics posted the 16th best grade-point average out of all the NCAA women's gymnastics squads in the country.
The Redbirds earned an overall team grade-point average of 3.48 and gained recognition from the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women by being named a Scholar All-America Team.
Six members of the ISU women's gymnastics squad were named Academic All-Americans by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women for recording a 3.5 grade-point average last year or a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5.
The six student-athletes include Jenna Bossle, Kristyn Bossle, Kimberly Caron, Samantha King, Sydney Kennedy and Samantha Ward.
Jenna and Kristyn Bossle, Caron and King earned unblemished 4.0 grade-point averages. Kennedy posted a 3.9 grade-point average and Ward registered a 3.7 grade-point average.
"I am very proud of our six women who were recognized because we constantly focus on how our students are doing academically," ISU head coach Bob Conkling said. "No. 16 is good and our goal is to keep improving academically as a team."
Utah posted the highest grade-point average out of all the NCAA women's gymnastics teams with a cumulative team grade-point average of 3.7.
Texas Women's came in second place in terms of cumulative team grade-point average with a 3.76 grade-point average. Southeast Missouri State posted the third best cumulative team grade-point average with a 3.69 grade-point average.
Western Michigan came in fourth place with a 3.66 cumulative team grade-point average and Brown finished with the fifth best cumulative team grade-point average in NCAA women's gymnastics with a 3.63 grade-point average.

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CORINTH – The Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau/Tourism Council voted Tuesday to offer a compromise budget to Corinth and Alcorn County, hoping to help the two agencies needing funding while not decimating their own programs.
The CVB/tourism council voted unanimously to have CVB Executive Director Kristy White revise the budget to allocate $75,000 for the Crossroads Arena and $75,000 for Crossroads Regional Park, to be used for advertising, promotion and capital projects upon approval by the tourism board.
Alcorn County supervisors and Corinth aldermen have been pressuring the tourism group to allocate $250,000 for Crossroads Arena operations so the two government bodies can reallocate funds they have budgeted for the arena and redirect those funds to the park.
Under tourism board members' understanding of the tourism tax law that allocates 1 percent of the 2 percent tax for tourism promotion and 1 percent to retire the arena debt, none of the tourism tax funds can be used for operations.
"The law reads, 'The proceeds of said tax shall not be considered by the city or county as general fund revenues, but shall be dedicated to and used by the council solely for the purpose of carrying out programs and activities designed to attract tourists to the city and surrounding area,'" said board member Glennan Grady. "That seems pretty clear."
Grisham agreed.
The CVB/tourism council has carefully evaluated the few capital projects it has funded in the past, and those have mostly been at the park. By increasing the amount of money already allocated for marketing and promotion at the arena and doing the same for the park, Grisham said maybe the city and county would agree to go ahead with their current funding budget at the arena.
These changes, board members agreed, would meet all groups' objectives without killing any CVB programs, particularly trade shows.
"It took us five, six, seven years to get our name out there to these groups at the trade shows, and if we stop that now we'll have to start all over," said board member Ricky Maracle. "There are bus groups and people coming in here now who have never been here before. To me that's a key to our success."
In early August the CVB submitted a budget of $567,000 to the city and county, with funds paid from the city's tax collections to the CVB in monthly installments.
Neither the county board nor the city board has met as a full body to discuss the CVB/tourism council's budget in detail. Meetings of city and county board members have been conducted behind closed doors without notice to the public or the press, including a suddenly called meeting on Friday.
CVB officials have been told that unless they allocate the full $250,000 to the arena, a joint meeting of city and county boards will be held and writing of the CVB budget will be taken out of their hands.


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Lt. Gen. Richard Mills, shown here during a 2012 interview, is being investigated by the Defense Department Inspector General. A complaint filed alleges the head of Marine Corps Forces Reserve retaliated against a Marine whistleblower. (File photo)
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The Defense Department Inspector General is investigating whether a three-star general retaliated against a Marine major for speaking-up as a whistleblower after he was punished by the Corps for having secret materials on his personal computer.
The IGs whistleblower reprisal investigations department told Maj. Jason Brezler, a Reserve officer, in an Aug. 19 letter that theyre looking into whether Lt. Gen. Richard Mills, the commanding general of Marine Forces Reserve, retaliated against Brezler by making him appear before a board of inquiry late last year. While not mentioned in the letter, the board recommended that Brezler be discharged from the Marine Corps.
Brezler previously told members of Congress and law enforcement officials that warnings he raised 17 days before a deadly attack at a Marine Corps base in Afghanistan were allegedly ignored. The IG will now examine allegations that Mills retaliated against Brezler for working with those officials, Brezlers lawyer said, which was initially reported by the Washington Post on Friday.
A spokesman for Mills deferred questions about the investigation to the IGs office. As a matter of policy, the IG does not discuss, nor does it confirm or deny investigations.
In 2012, while a reservist in New York, Brezler received an email from Capt. Andrew Terrell asking about Sarwar Jan, a corrupt Afghan police chief with connections to the Taliban and a history of child sex abuse. Jan gained access to a base and Brezler, who knew Jan from a past deployment, sent a warning from his personal email account rather than a classified communication network.
Brezler later self-reported his email and helped investigators look into the possible breach, but that investigation revealed he had over 100 secret documents on his personal computer. The Reserve officer said he incidentally brought the files back with him after a deployment because limited computer resources forced Marines to use their personal computers and digital storage devices.
Seventeen days after Brezler sent the warning from his personal email account, Ainuddin Khudairaham, one of the teenage boys on base with Jan, grabbed a rifle and killed three Marines and wounded another. Ainuddin was later convicted and sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison.
After the attack Brezler spoke with the members of Congress and law enforcement about the security risk and he alleged went unheeded, said Kevin Carroll, a lawyer representing Brezler. As a result of his cooperation with these officials, Carroll said, Marine Corps brass started a series of events that resulted in Brezler appearing before a board of inquiry that resulted in a recommendation for dismissal.
Marine Corps officials did not comment for this article but they previously said that Brezler was brought before the board for having classified documents on his computer.
Major Brezler suffered whistleblower retaliation, to silence him and attempt to discredit his protected statements to Congress, law enforcement and the Inspector General about Sarwar Jan, and the preventable August 10, 2012 murders of Marines at Forward Operating Base Delhi in Afghanistan, Carroll said in a statement. Major Brezler, a decorated Fallujah and Helmand veteran, did the right thing, kept faith with his fellow field Marines, told the truth, and should be allowed to stay in the Corps he loves. And the families of the murdered ... Marines deserve the full truth about their loved ones deaths, for which they have waited over two years.
Carroll, with the firm Quinn Emanuel, is representing Brezler pro bono.
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Words cannot describe how much we LOVE japanese food. Our dream is to live in Japan and have Japanese food all day everyday one day. I know we will. But as for now, we are exploring different japanese restaurants all around the world. One of our favourite japanese restaurants in Toronto is ND sushi & grill. They do not offer crazy special sushi, but the fish is very fresh with a little bit of twist. This is how ND sushi & grill captures people's hearts.
We first ordered agedashi tofu. It was very crispy and fresh when it came to our table. Although the sauce was not very salty and slightly tasteless, I was able to taste a strong taste of tofu.
We then ordered spicy sashimi bibim. It was very impressive and highly resembled Montreal Kazu's Salmon & Tuna Bowl which we loved so much. The spicy sashimi bibim came with greens, a generous portion of sashimi, rice and a bowl of special sauce that tasted like the bibimbap spicy sauce with a hint of sesame. When mixed together, they tasted surprisingly good! The special sauce really complemented the sashimi. It was not too spicy and even helped to bring out the fish and greens' freshness. The texture of greens, sashimi and rice mixed together was very interesting and unexpectedly harmonizing. We really enjoyed this dish. One of the best from ND sushi & grill.
We also ordered two rolls – Blue Ocean & Spicy Rainbow Roll.
The blue ocean roll had hokkaido scallop, tobiko, avocado & cucumbers. This roll had a rather light taste and the main source of flavour was the freshness of the scallop. The tobiko gave a pop of flavour when you bit it. Overall, this roll highly contrasted with the spicy rainbow roll and I found myself eating them alternatively to cool down the hotness of the spicy rainbow roll.
The spicy rainbow roll had seared tuna, salmon, butter fish layered on top,wrapped around prawn tempura, and most importantly, spicy oil drizzled on top that made this roll oh-so special. I have never had spicy sushi/roll/handroll like this kind. The spiciness did not hit me until I almost finished the piece of sushi in my mouth. Therefore, I was able to taste the actual flavour and freshness of the fish and the richness of the omega 3 oil after the sashimi was seared before savouring the spiciness of the oil. This was truly an amazing roll.
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Sapphire overclocks the HD7950
Subject: Graphics Cards | February 20, 2012 - 02:48 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: sapphire, hd 7950, hd 7950 OC, factory overclocked, cape verde, amd
There are a lot of custom Cape Verde boards to chose from, with varying clock speeds and custom coolers which is great for those who like something unique out of the box. X-bit Labs received an overclocked HD7950 board from Sapphire which sports both a 100MHz overclock on the GPU and a custom low noise cooler. The back of the card is fairly normal, with a dual-link DVI-I port, one HDMI 1.4a connector and two DisplayPort 1.2 ports available. Overclocking potential on the card was impressive, with a final 1.15 volts allowing stable performance at 1100MHz GPU and 7360 MHz effective on the memory and a temperature of 74C at full load thanks to the cooler. Even better is the fact that the cooler operates relatively quietly even at that high overclock.
"Today we are going to review a graphics accelerator with phenomenally efficient cooling system with very low noise, high performance and superb overclocking potential, which even some Radeon HD 7970 graphics cards could wish for."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- XFX Radeon HD 7770 Super Overclocked Edition Video Card Review @ Hardware Secrets
- ASUS Radeon HD 7750 1GB GDDR5 Video Card Review @ Hi Tech Legion
- AMD Radeon HD 7750 Video Card Review @ Hardware Secrets
- XFX R7770 Black EditionS Super Overclocked (FX-777A-ZD) @ Bjorn3D
- AMD Radeon HD 7750 CrossFire Review @ eTeknix
- ASUS Radeon HD 7770 DirectCU 1GB GDDR5 Video Card Review @ Hi Tech Legion
- HIS Radeon HD 7750 1GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix
- ASUS Radeon HD 7770 DirectCU 1 GB @ techPowerUp
- MSI Radeon HD 7770 OC 1 GB @ techPowerUp
- HIS Radeon HD 7750 iCooler @ Guru3D
- HIS Radeon HD 7750 iCooler 1 GB @ techPowerUp
- HIS Radeon HD 7750 & HD 7770 CrossFire @ techPowerUp
- XFX HD 7770 Black Edition Super Overclock 1 GB @ techPowerUp
- PowerColor Radeon HD 7770 1 GB @ techPowerUp
- XFX Radeon R7770 Black Edition Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 CrossFire Review @ eTeknix
- AMD ATI Chips Comparison Table @ Hardware Secrets
- Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Arctic Accelero S1 Plus Passive Cooler @ Kitguru
MSI's Alex Chang Speaks Up
MSI was founded in 1986 and started producing motherboards and video cards for the quickly growing PC market. Throughout the life of the company they have further diversified their offerings to include barebones systems, notebooks, networking/communication devices, and industrial products. While MSI has a nice base of products, they are still primarily a motherboard and video card company. In the past 10 years MSI has become one of the top brands in North America for video cards, and they have taken a very aggressive approach to design with these products.
I had the chance to send MSI quite a few questions concerning their video card business and how they develop their products.
What is your name, title, and how long have you worked at MSI?
My name is Bob, and I'm…. actually, I'm just Alex Chang. I'm the Associate Marketing Manager. I've been with the company for 2 years.
Typically how long does it take from the original reference design card release to when we can first expect to see a Twin Frozr III based card hit retail? How much longer does it take to create the "Lightning" based products?
Historically, we've seen the introduction of a non-reference thermal solution within 2-4 weeks of product launch. As an example, GTX580 was launched in November 2010, and by December there was already a reference PCB GTX580 w/ the Twin Frozr II cooler.
In the case of Lightning cards, the development timeframe is longer due to more R&D, validation, and procurement of components. With GTX580, the timeframe was around 6 months, but moving forward MSI is pulling in the launch timeframe of our flagship products.
Can you effectively patch up a Bulldozer?
Subject: Processors | February 17, 2012 - 01:52 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: fx-8150, FX, cpu, bulldozer, amd, 990fx
AMD's $270 flagship processor, the 3.6GHz FX-8150 had a mixed reception as the hype which lead up to the release built up our expectations to a point that the processor could not live up to. Part of the disappointment has been blamed on the Windows 7 thread scheduler, which AMD described as not being optimized for their architecture, which lead to the release of hotfix files KB2645594 and KB2646060. TechPowerUp revisited their benchmarks to see if these patches effectively increase the performance of multi-threaded tasks; single threaded tasks are dependant on processor speed so they should be unaffected by the patches.
"After settling on the market, with all the quirks and bugs supposedly fixed, all the hype and disappointment blown away, we put AMD's FX-8150 under the scope. Benchmarks are done with and without the Windows 7 hotfix and in depth overclocking should resolve any doubts you have about AMD's flagship processor."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- AMD A8-3870K and Sapphire HD6450 FleX @ Kitguru
- The Opteron 6276: a closer look @ AnandTech
- AMD A8-3870K Unlocked Llano APU Review @ Hardware Canucks
- The Workstation & Server CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Intel Core i7-3820 vs. Core i7-2700K and Core i7-3930K @ X-bit Labs
- Intel Core i7-3820 3.6GHz Processor Review @ Legit Reviews
- Intel Core i7-3820 @ Techspot
- Intel Core i7-3930K @ OC3D
Podcast #189 - AMD Radeon HD 7750 and 7770, Mechanical Keyboards from Rosewill, Windows on ARM and more!
Subject: Editorial | February 16, 2012 - 03:49 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: WOA, rosewill, podcast, nvidia, Intel, gpu, cpu, amd
PC Perspective Podcast #189 - 02/16/2012
Join us this week as we talk about AMD Radeon HD 7750 and 7770, Mechanical Keyboards from Rosewill, Windows on ARM and more!
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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, and Allyn Malvantano
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- 0:00:29 Introduction
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- 0:01:45 AMD Radeon HD 7770 and 7750 Cape Verde GPU Review
- 0:20:15 Rosewill Second Generation Mechanical Keyboard Review: RK-9000, RK-9000BR, RK-9000BL, RK-9000RE
- 0:23:20 ASUS Transformer Prime TF201 Keyboard Dock Review
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MSI Computer, and their all new Sandy Bridge Motherboards!
- 0:27:45 WOA! We wanted Windows 8 on ARM details. We got them.
- 0:31:00 Intel Haswell Processors To Launch In First Half of 2013
- 0:37:25 CTO Eric Demers to Leave AMD
- 0:41:15 OCZ Launches Z-Drive R4 CloudServ 16TB Solid State Storage System
- 0:46:00 Asustek? Your Ultrabook orders are ah pulled.
- 0:48:25 Take that Moore! Electron beam etching set to take us to the 10nm process
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Meet the new mid-range; AMD's HD7770 and HD7750
Subject: Graphics Cards | February 15, 2012 - 02:33 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: xfx, southern islands, hd 7770, hd 7750, cape verde, amd, radeon, factory overclocked
The days of the HD 6870 are numbered as today we see the arrival of the new sub-$200 GPUs from AMD, the HD7770 and HD7750. The stock HD 7770 run at 1GHz with 640 stream processors, 40 texture units and 16 ROPs and the 1GB of memory rides on a 128-bit bus at 4.5GHz. The stock HD7750 has a slower core, running at 800MHz and a lower stream processor count of 512 as well as only 32 Texture units, with the memory subsystem unchanged from the HD7770.
Those who were disappointed by the lack of custom coolers and factory overclocks at the release of the HD 7970 will be happy to see the variety of HD7700 series cards. For instance [H]ard|OCP reviewed the XFX R7770 Black Edition Super Overclocked which has a custom cooler, a 120MHz overclock on the core and a 300Mhz on the memory, effectively 5.2GHz. [H] proved that there is more memory headroom available in this card, adding another 1.1GHz without needing to adjust the voltage. For those who are willing to risk upping the power there might be even more speed possible from this card.
You can also catch Ryan's review of the same card as well as an MSI version and a stock HD 7750.
"Today marks the launch of AMD's Radeon HD 7700 series of GPUs in the sub-$200 bracket. We've got a retail XFX R7770 Black Edition Super Overclocked video card just itching to show us what it can do. Will this Radeon HD 7770 based video card hold up to the likes of the Radeon HD 6870 and GeForce GTX 560 Ti? You may be surprised."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- AMD's Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition @ The Tech Report
- Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 Overclocked Video Card @ Pro-Clockers
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 XT 1GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 & 7750 @ Legion Hardware
- XFX & Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 Review @ Neoseeker
- Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 Overclock Edition 1GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix
- AMD Radeon HD 7750 & Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition Review: Evading The Price/Performance Curve @ AnandTech
- AMD HD7770 Cape Verde with "Verdetrol 1GHz" @ SemiAccurate
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 & 7750 Launch Review @ Neoseeker
- AMD Radeon HD 7750 Pro 1GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix
- HIS Radeon HD 7750 iCooler @ Funky Kit
- XFX & Sapphire HD 7770 1GB Review @ OCC
- HIS Radeon HD 7750 Graphics Card Review @ HardwareHeaven
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 and 7750 Video Card Reviews @ Legit Reviews
- MSI Radeon HD 7770 OC @ Guru of 3D
- HIS Radeon HD 7750 iCooler Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 & Radeon HD 7750 @ Techspot
- XFX Radeon HD 7770 Jet Black Edition Super Overclock vs GTX 560 @ HardwareHeaven
- Sapphire HD 7770 Overclock Edition @ LanOC Reviews
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition Video Card Review @ Hardware Secrets
- Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 OC Graphics Card Review @ HardwareHeaven
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 & HD 7750 Review @ Hardware Canucks
- TX3D HD7770 1GHZ Edition Crossfire @ Kitguru
- HIS HD7750 iCooler @ Kitguru
- Sapphire HD7770 1GHZ Overclock Edition @ Kitguru
- AMD Radeon HD 7750 and 7770 @ Guru of 3D
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1 GB @ techPowerUp
Southern Islands Get Small
When AMD first started to talk to me about the upcoming Southern Islands GPUs they tried to warn me. Really they did. "Be prepared for just an onslaught of card releases for 2012," I was told. In much the same strategy the company took with the HD 6000 series of cards, the new Radeon HD 7000 cards have been trickling out, part by part, so as to make sure the name "AMD" and the brand "Radeon" are showing up as often as possible in your news feeds and on my keyboard. In late December we wrote our review of the Radeon HD 7970 3GB flagship card and then followed that up in January with a review of the Radeon HD 7950. In those briefings were told in a general way about Cape Verde, the Radeon HD 7700 series, and Pitcairn, the Radeon HD 7800 series, but without the details of performance, specifications or release dates. We have the answer for one more of these families now: Cape Verde.
Cape Verde is the smallest of the Southern Islands dies and falls into the sub-$175 graphics market depending on card vendors' pricing and overclocking settings. The real question we all wanted to know is what performance levels these new cards were going to offer and if they could be the TRUE successor to popular Radeon HD 5770. While the answer will take pages and pages of details to cement into place, I can say that while an impressive card, I wasn't as excited as I had wanted to be.
But I am getting ahead of myself... Check out our video review right here and then keep reading on for the full evaluation!!
AMD Cape Verde - the smallest of the Southern Islands
GPU companies like to brag when they are on top - you'll see that as a recurring theme in our story today. One such case is the success of the Radeon HD 5770 that mentioned above - it still today sits on the throne of the most adopted DX11 capable GPU on the Steam Hardware Survey, one of our best places for information on the general PC gamer.
While the inclusion of it, as well as the Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850, on this list are great for AMD a couple of years ago, the lack of a 6000-series card here shows us that users need another reason to upgrade; another card that is mass market enough (ala under $200) and offers performance advantages that really push gamers to spend that extra cheddar.
Bring in the Cape Verde GPU...
Continue reading our review of the Radeon HD 7770 1GB GHz Edition and HD 7750 Graphics cards!!
CTO Eric Demers to Leave AMD
Subject: Editorial, Graphics Cards | February 14, 2012 - 02:13 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: demers, cto, amd
An interesting quarter for AMD continues as I learned today that AMD's Corporate Vice President and CTO of the Graphics Business Unit, Eric Demers, has decided to leave the company. Having just had dinner with Eric and other AMD executives last week I am more than surprised about this sudden change since Demers' opinions of the roadmap for AMD were very positive.
First, here is the official statement from AMD:
"Eric Demers, AMD Corporate Vice President and CTO, Graphics Business Unit, has decided leave AMD to pursue other opportunities.
AMD Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster will assume interim responsibility for the Graphics Business Unit CTO role until a replacement is found.
AMD remains fully committed to our critical graphics IP development and discrete GPU products. We have a tremendous depth of talent in our organization, a game plan that is resonating with our customers and our team, and we are continuing to bring graphics-performance-leading products to market. We will attract the right technology leader for this role.
We thank Eric for his contributions to the business and wish him well in his future endeavors."
As is usually the case with these types of announcements, everyone is being very hush-hush about where Demers will finally land though I can confirm that it is neither Intel nor NVIDIA. For those of you in the know about the industry and its current direction, that doesn't leave a lot of other options and we are quite positive he will find a spot that fits his expertise.
Eric's background goes back quite a ways and includes stops at SGI, ArtX, Matrox, ATI and finally AMD. He has been with ATI/AMD since April of 2000 (when David Orton first arrived from ATI) and rose to become the Chief Technology Officer of the graphics division as of mid-2009. I have personally known Eric as one of the best sources of knowledge about GPUs and technology shifts and I will miss being able to question him on the design decisions being made in our industry.
For AMD, this move comes right after the drastic shift announced by AMD's new CEO Rory Read and new CTO Mark Papermaster to turn AMD into an SoC company. I attended that same analyst day and came away from the event feeling upbeat about the direction of the company and the individuals at the helm, Demers being one of them. The loss of Eric's talents will definitely be missed though with the rest of the team intact I don't think we'll see any immediate negative impacts from his departure. Longer term though, we'll just have to see.
The AMD rep I spoke with reiterated that this move had nothing to do with the newly hired executives and wasn't caused by any kind of internal disagreements. Also, Demers did not express any kind of dissatisfaction with the direction of the company from a technological standpoint either. While that is good to hear, you just don't leave a company after 12+ years without some reasons even if that reason is a better opportunity somewhere else.
Update on 2/14/2012 @ 11:53pm EST: According to this update from TheVerge.com, Demers may in fact end up at Qualcomm, the largest SoC vendor on the planet.
We're hearing rumors that Demers will actually show up for work at Qualcomm, an interesting choice indeed: the company purchased AMD's mobile graphics division and Imageon media processor back in 2009. You now know it as Qualcomm Adreno, and it's the graphics solution in all Snapdragon-powered tablets and phones.
Meet AMD's new CEO
Subject: General Tech | February 14, 2012 - 12:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, Mark Papermaster, fad, Financial Analyst Day, Rory Read
If you haven't had a chance to read through The Tech Report's breakdown of AMD's Financial Analyst Day and the speech that the new CEO Rory Read gave. Rory replaced long time CEO Dirk Meyer at the helm of AMD after the large shake up AMD underwent late in 2011 and this was one of his first chances to describe his vision for AMD and the market in 2012. He spend a fair amount of time on low power processors and ultramobile form factors, describing his vision of AMD outflanking Intel at that market segment. With a history of lower pricing and recent low power processor families, he sees Brazos as a much better alternative than Intel's Ultrabook and especially the anemic Atom line. He also discussed ARM, not only as a possible future competitor for what used to be be AMD and Intel's exclusive turf as well as possible future competition for AMD's planned SoC products. Read on for more.
"AMD has a new management team and a new direction. They recently shared their vision for the company's future, and we were there, listening and then chatting with new CTO Mark Papermaster. Read on for our report."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Google Wallet falls open after casual hack @ The Register
- RIM extends its free Playbook offer @ The Inquirer
- Ultrabook prices to drop 20-30% in early March to April @ DigiTimes
- AMD to release six Trinity chips by October @ The Inquirer
- Intel, Nvidia to showcase latest technologies at MWC 2012 @ DigiTimes
- HP previews ProLiant Gen8 servers @ The Register
- Two interesting demos at AMD FAD 2012 @ SemiAccurate
- GK104 pops up in the wild @ SemiAccurate
- Toddy Smartcloth Screen Cleaner @ TechwareLabs
- Trendnet TPL-307E2K Powerline Adapter kit @ Rbmods
- VMware's Virtual GPU Driver Is Running Fast @ Phoronix
- easyCover Nikon D90 Camera Case @ TechwareLabs
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Working from home comes with a host of stereotypes and assumptions that the rest of world places on people like myself. I am often accused of working in my underwear, not showering through day-long stretches, not working and instead playing games all day and of course, being a drug dealer. And NOTHING perpetuates that vision from the outside world like an overnight UPS package arriving with the sound of rattling pills inside. This is what greeted me after my delivering smirked away:
In preparation for an upcoming graphics launch AMD thought up a pretty interesting marketing campaign geared around a "Verdetrol 1GHz" drug that will apparently help the reviewing community "enhance performance". Hmph.
Actually contained within are 28 jelly beans (get it, 28nm???) of a flavor I can't quite detect though I am guessing they are somehow related to this. And of course, these pills are for "external use only" - a healthy warning.
The telephone number is listed as 905-555-7770 so you can probably guess what the hubbub is all about.
And while the directions state to take one tablet daily by fan intake, we were never one to conform.
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Cowboys expect CB Mike Jenkins back next week for three-day mini-camp
IRVING — Cowboys cornerback Mike Jenkins is still a no-show at the Cowboys' voluntary organized team activities, but coach Jason Garrett expects him to be at Valley Ranch next week for the mandatory three-day mini-camp.
Garrett called Jenkins' OTA absence "a missed opportunity for him." Jenkins has been rehabbing from off-season shoulder surgery in Florida and is disgruntled about his status with the Cowboys. Jenkins wants to be traded, but the Cowboys haven't accommodated him.
Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan called Jenkins' absence disappointing.
"He's coming off an injury, so it's always best to be around the team that has you so our training staff is up to speed with him, we're up to speed with him, we're starting and teaching this defense at a slowed-down pace, our guys are getting it, everybody is understanding the situation," Ryan said. "He's missing out on a lot."
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Starkey: Pirates erred on Sano
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Watching that incredible play-in game between the Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday, I couldn't help but think of the Pirates.
I thought of how a generation of Pittsburgh sports fans has never experienced the unique drama of a high-stakes baseball game involving their team.
I thought of how the tight-budget Twins have won five division titles since the turn of the millennium.
And I thought of Miguel Angel Sano, the elite Dominican prospect who elected not to sign with Pirates or the mighty New York Yankees but with the Twins, 10 days ago.
Somehow, some way, the Twins got the job done.
Somehow, some way, the Pirates didn't.
According to Sano's agent, Rob Plummer: "The Twins were the one team that followed my instructions to a tee."
Other teams, including the Pirates, might have topped the Twins' $3.15 million signing bonus, but Plummer liked the way Minnesota did business.
Maybe the Pirates paid for recent regimes having such a paltry presence in Latin America. Clearly, though, they made mistakes.
The key is whether they learn from those mistakes.
Things started well. The Pirates were first to make Sano an offer - $2 million on July 2. Plummer told them he would not negotiate until Major League Baseball completed its investigation into Sano's age.
MLB did not reach a definitive conclusion as to whether Sano is 16, as he claims. The Pirates were satisfied he was telling the truth, based on their own investigation.
The Pirates made another offer in late August, $2.6 million.
"We were again told by the agent that he would tell us when he was ready to negotiate," general manager Neal Huntington said Thursday. "And that day never came."
Why didn't it• Likely, because the Pirates were too aggressive and did not adhere to Plummer's demands, namely these:
• He did not want teams contacting Sano or his family.
• He wanted all the bonus money up front.
The Pirates contacted Sano and his family several times, against Plummer's wishes, and offered the money in three installments.
The Twins waited out the process and made one firm offer.
The Pirates' director of Latin American scouting, Rene Gayo -- who called Sano the best prospect he's ever seen -- regularly made contact with Sano and the family, Plummer said.
Huntington explained that the Pirates "did something we do in every big-dollar negotiation, whether it's a major-league free agent, a drafted player or an international player, and that is include the player in the process. ... There's obvious motivation for the agent to try to exclude the player from the process."
Perhaps, but this is the issue: Every negotiation cannot be the same.
How can the rules of engagement with a drafted player -- where the team has exclusive negotiating rights -- automatically be applied to an international prospect, who is essentially a free agent?
To compound matters, I've heard people compare the Latin American landscape to the Wild West when it comes to competing for prospects. Conventional rules do not apply.
The Pirates should have stayed away from Sano and his family and waited for their cue from Plummer.
Plummer says he kept Sano and his family informed throughout the process and at one point asked them which team they would choose if he could get an equal offer from the Pirates and Twins.
"Everybody said the Twins," Plummer said.
The Pirates wanted to pay in three installments in order to protect their investment, Huntington said, in case something went awry with Sano's documents.
That is understandable, but if the family wanted the money right away, the Pirates should have taken the risk, especially when they had concluded Sano was, indeed, 16.
The good news is that the Pirates were willing to spend $2.6 million and possibly more. The bad news is that their new $5 million Dominican training academy still doesn't have a high-profile recruit.
The Pirates better find a way to deal with Plummer, too, because he is noted for representing big-time Dominican prospects.
"I will have no problem working with the Pirates," Plummer said, "as long as they follow the guidelines I put out for each individual player and make sure negotiations go through me and not the family."
From the sounds of it, Plummer and Gayo have a terrible relationship. Huntington says Gayo will remain the Pirates' point man in Latin America and that the team is confident it can recruit elite players there.
I wonder.
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Judging by the first two practice sessions they are still way off the pace. I think they might just have to break a few more curfews, and update's coming from the previous car, that smacks of panic, I thought they were two very different cars and that was the reason for MP4-28 in the first place.


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San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Alexi Amarista's RBI single in the 10th inning gave the San Diego Padres a 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday.
It was San Diego's third straight walk-off victory in extra innings and its fourth straight win overall.
Will Venable started the 10th with a single off Jamey Wright (4-4) and stole second base. Amarista's winning hit to center field followed Yasmani Grandal's RBI single in the 12th inning to beat the Dodgers on Friday and Rene Rivera's RBI hit in the 10th against Milwaukee on Wednesday.
The Dodgers lost for the third time in their last five games and had their lead in the NL West trimmed to 2 1/2 games over San Francisco.
Padres manager Bud Black was ejected in the 10th inning by first base umpire Clint Fagan for arguing that Yasiel Puig didn't check his swing on what would have been an inning-ending strike three.
When told by a member of the media that it also could have been a called third strike, Black said, "I thought there were a number of ways to go on that one."
(Puig struck out anyway, ending the inning with a runner at second base.)
"That was a really pretty critical part of the game when you're talking about Yasiel Puig with Matt Kemp at second base in the 10th inning," said Black.
Zack Greinke threw eight strong inning for the Dodgers, striking out eight in another good performance against a division foe.
The Dodgers came up with two big defensive plays in the late innings to keep the score tied.
In the eighth, catcher Drew Butera picked off pinch-runner Cameron Maybin at second base after Rivera led off the inning with a double.
There were runners at first and second base with no outs in the bottom of the ninth when reliever J.P. Howell snared Grandal's sharp line drive at the mound and threw to second base for a double play. Brian Wilson came in to get the last out.
Padres starter Ian Kennedy didn't give up a hit until the fifth inning and helped his team on offense, too, with an RBI double to the right-center field gap in the third inning that scored Rivera.
That stood as the game's only run until Gonzalez teed off on a Kennedy fastball with two outs in the sixth inning for his 19th homer of the season.
Greinke is 8-0 in 11 starts against the NL West this season and 4-0 in seven
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NORTH KINGSTOWN ŌĆō In the season finale for both teams, South Kingstown took the 2014 Turkey Bowl from rival North Kingstown 28-7 at the Perry Athletic Complex Thursday morning.
KINGSTON- In their first season with head coach Daynia La-Force, the URI womens basketball team has shown a competitive spirit and fighting attitude early on. The Rams have improved to 3-3 on the season, and have won two games in a row this past week during the LIU Turkey Classic Tournament.
Rams head coach La-Force knows these victories really help the team early in the season.
NARRAGANSET--Bianca Spinazzola is a key performer for the Florida State womenŌĆÖs swim team both as an individual and as a member of the 200 and 400 medley relay team.
Spinazzola, a junior from Narragansett (Narragansett High), competes in freestyle, butterfly and backstroke races for the Seminoles but she was part of two relay teams that sparkled in the recent Georgia Tech Invitational.
SI.com's Andrew Perloff and Aaron Nagler take stock of four of the NFL's top contenders.
KINGSTON- The University of Rhode Island WomenŌĆÖs basketball team will start the 2014 season Nov. 14 with a new coach and a new "winning mind" philosophy.
Coach Daynia La-Force has brought her nearly 20 years of coaching experience to URI and has been rebuilding the defense and offense to improve the womens basketball program.
PROVIDENCEŌĆö It was a dream come true for the Chariho unified volleyball team this past week during their Division III playoff run.
After finishing in second place for the last two unified volleyball seasons, Chariho didnŌĆÖt want to disappoint this time around.
In the opening playoff round, the Chargers defeated fifth-seeded Westerly to be able to move onto the semifinal match versus top-seeded North Kingstown. The defeat against the Bulldogs was the teamŌĆÖs second victory against the team during the 2014 campaign and that rallied the charge this past Thursday and Sunday.
EAST GREENWICHŌĆö With the Chariho field hockey team finishing the regular season in first place of the Division II-South standings and Cumberland just coming up short of the first seed in Division II-North behind Classical, it was bound to be an extremely competitive semifinal playoff match between the two teams this past Thursday night at East Greenwich High School.
COVENTRY ŌĆö As successful as the undefeated Coventry girls soccer team was this season, the reality was the OakersŌĆÖ Division II quarterfinal opponent, No. 9 Chariho, came into SaturdayŌĆÖs match with more playoff pedigree.
While the Chargers reached the Division III semifinals in 2012 and also won a first-round playoff game this season, the Oakers hadnŌĆÖt won a playoff game since Donielle Mattoon scored the game-winning goal in the 2006 Division II final against Prout.
PONAGANSET- The Cross Country season came down to one final meet on Sunday afternoon at Ponaganset High School. The sleet and rain couldn't slow down these runners, as the Boys and Girls Cross Country teams gathered for one more race to see who would qualify for the New England Regional Race next weekend.
For the Girls, La Salle Academy repeated as State Champions, winning the meet by 56 points.
PROVIDENCEŌĆö The Avengers football team is riding a four-game winning streak entering last SaturdayŌĆÖs contest with Hope at Hope High School. That streak continued in dominant fashion with a 34-0 rout of the Blue Wave.
It was a messy, muddy game in Providence on Saturday and that forced both teams to rely heavily on using a rushing attack to carry themselves to victory, yet the Avengers were the only team that successfully executed moving the ball down the field on offense.


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This morning, Peter Bienart at The Daily Beast urges President Obama to name a Mom to the United States Supreme Court, if for no other reason that working mothers need assurance that they can in fact "have it all." Prior to reading this, I was unaware that neither Sandra Day O'Connor nor Ruth Bader Ginsburg has any children. Sonia Sotomayor's personal history was well-documented during her recent confirmation hearings.
Luckily, Canadian mothers-who-happen-to-be-lawyers have had several role models in this regard. While Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, didn't have any children, it's hardly surprising. Our current Chief Justice, on the other hand, has a son. The two other women who sit with her on the court, Justice Rosalie Abella and Justice Louise Charron, also have children.
Now if they would only tell us how they managed to become such accomplished jurists while raising their children...
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Apr 16, 2010
It's been a couple of weeks since I blogged, but I don't have any big topic to discuss. Just a few random thoughts.
This picture really makes me laugh. I noticed it when we were out for a walk a couple of weeks ago. Does Kym know she's "loe'd"? I mean, if you're going through all the trouble to graffiti a bridge, at least spell it right.
Life with the kids has been pretty good. I know it sounds trite, but I really have a lot to be thankful for. Mia has started to sleep in her crib regularly and she'll sleep sometimes for 6 hours in a row, so no complaints in that department. The weather has been pretty iffy here for the past week or so, which has meant that we haven't been getting out too much.
Once a week we go to the library where Gavin sits at the one of the computer stations and pretends he knows what to do with the mouse. One day I was using the self-checkout to check out our books and one of my books wouldn't register with the system. A lady tried to help me and when she took the book Gavin gave her this glare and said, "Hey, that's my mommy's book!". She gave him a look like he was the rudest little boy she'd met and I was torn between telling her to relax and chastising him. I told him that the lady was helping Mommy and that he should apologize, but she didn't appear mollified. Whatever. If you're personally offended by what a two-year-old says, then you have bigger problems than what I have time to deal with.
Anyway, baby is crying. Gotta go.
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A: The exterior of the twelve-sided polygon (dodecagon) original building is made of St. Cloud (Minnesota) Rainbow Granite. The granite from the 1929 construction and the 1999 Sky Pavilion both came from the same vein in a Cold Spring, Minnesota quarry. They match perfectly! The dome is copper. The front doors are bronze and nickel bronze set with beveled glass. The setting sun shines through the beveled glass, which refracts the rays creating a rainbow effect in the Main Lobby.
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First-inning run holds up, as Greensburg Salem advances to PIAA tournament
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No breathing room. No problem.
Jayne Oberdorf pitched a four-hitter and struck out 11, and Greensburg Salem withstood several late Belle Vernon scoring threats to escape with a 1-0 victory over the Leopards on Wednesday in the WPIAL Class AAA consolation softball game at California (Pa.) University's Lilley Field.
Greensburg Salem (16-3) advanced to play Monday in the PIAA tournament's first round, while Belle Vernon (17-7) was eliminated from the postseason.
"No errors, great defense," Greensburg Salem coach Jody Morgan said. "And Jayne was outstanding again."
Greensburg Salem scored the game's only run in the first inning on a two-out, RBI-double by Alyssa Mellinger, scoring Claire Oberdorf, who walked to lead off the inning against losing pitcher Haley Bashada.
Mellinger had two of Greensburg Salem's six hits off Bashada, who struck out six and walked one.
"I can see Greensburg Salem playing in the semifinals of states," Belle Vernon coach Tom Rodriguez said. "(Jayne Oberdorf) is one of the top pitchers around. She kept us off-stride with her changeup. I don't feel too bad losing to her."
Jayne Oberdorf, who lost a heart-breaking, 2-1 decision in the semifinals to Elizabeth Forward in a game in which she carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning, held Belle Vernon hitless until the fifth, when the Leopards got two hits.
But the rally stalled when pinch-runner Kaitlyn Faiola was tagged for the third out after over-running third base following a single to center field by Samantha Peer.
"We were fortunate to win. Our defense carried us," Jayne Oberdorf said.
Belle Vernon couldn't push a run across in the sixth after loading the bases against Oberdorf, who yielded a double to Natalie Bashada and allowed Courtney Seman to reach on a wild pitch after Seman had struck out swinging and Haley Bashada was hit by a pitch.
But the inning ended when Seman was called out after running into Greensburg Salem shortstop Claire Oberdorf as Oberdorf attempted to catch a pop-up for the final out.
"That was the key," Rodriguez said. "We had second and third with one out to start that inning. We should have gotten it done."
In the seventh, Alexis Ellin led off with a double for Belle Vernon, but pinch-runner Nicole Ashcroft was stranded as Jayne Oberdorf got Katie Anna and Peer to pop out and Ashley Seman to line out to Claire Oberdorf for the final out.
"To get out of the sixth and seventh like that was incredible," Morgan said. "I'll go with these girls any day. I'll go with Jayne every day of the week."
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It's not often that you run into a band like Panjea that has a mission statement. Sure, past decades have yielded still-touring acts with strong political overtones going back to Bob Dylan, U2 and Rage Against the Machine. But the more recent wave of acts, with rare exceptions like Michael Franti and State Radio, have opted to leave politics out of their music. Enter Panjea, an Afro-pop collaborative with big goals. Specifically, the group is a "project set on healing the world." The band takes its name from the supercontinent Pangea, and their goal is to use music to unite people as closely as the continents were once united.
GreenBase was lucky enough to catch up with the band over the summer at Rothbury (read the Roth review here), where for most of the weekend band members were scattered all over the giant festival, sitting in with Railroad Earth and State Radio, assisting with the art installations and even teaching the crowd how to play a giant flying monkey drum set. With band members living in New York, Boulder and San Francisco and constantly on tour with their various other projects, it's not often that they all get together in one place. Over the course of an hour, we talked about the fragile political situation in Zimbabwe, the challenges facing the next U.S. President and the opportunities for music to have a positive impact on people and the environment.
The collective, made up of a core group of about six musicians but often exceeding a dozen people in its rare stage appearances, blends political sensibilities with insanely catchy African rhythms and instruments. Listening to the group perform at Rothbury, it was hard to believe that anything this melodic and danceable could be a song of protest. That's partly by design, according to trumpet player and keyboardist Danny Sears.
Sears, like everyone in the band, is truly a musician's musician and definitely knows a thing or two about grooves. Casual music fans might not know these names, but they probably know the bands that Panjea's members have played with. When he's not jamming with Panjea, Sears frequently appears with Railroad Earth, Guster and The String Cheese Incident.
The String Cheese Incident, not coincidentally, is one of the reasons for Panjea's initial success. SCI mandolin and violin player Michael Kang is the most famous member of Panjea. Like almost everyone else in the band, the South Korean-born artist has spent plenty of time outside the U.S., and these experiences have informed both his politics and his music. SCI fans accustomed to the apolitical nature of that band might be a bit surprised to hear Kang speak so passionately about issues like globalization and its effect on the environment.
"Our way of life transcends national boundaries. It's coming to the time where we are not going to have to look at what's going on in our backyards but recognize that the planet is our backyard," says Kang. "It's a matter of just recognizing, being grateful for what we have. The first thing that we all have the power to do is just conserve the stuff that we use."
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Known as one of Alabama's top high school jazz ensembles, the Lab Band has performed in jazz festivals and competitions nationwide and in six foreign nations, amassing some 42 Best-in-Class awards and an all-judges record of 123-2-0-0 in 21 years of competition. The Lab Band has been invited to jazz festivals in Frankfurt, Paris, Vienna, and Shanghai, and in 1982 performed in the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. The Lab Band was named one of the nation's top ten high school jazz ensembles in 1974, and was chosen by the National Association of Jazz Educators to be included on the NAJE's "Project II" album as one of "The Nation's Most Outstanding Jazz Bands" in 1978.
Throughout the early history of the Auburn High School Band, jazz education was fomented through the creation of student-run jazz ensembles, including the "Aristocrats of Rhythm" in the late 1930s, the "Dance Band" in the early 1950s, and the "Blue Notes" in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It wasn't until 1970, though, that Auburn High sponsored a curricular jazz band. In that year, at the behest of a group of Auburn High Band members, director Tommy Goff began teaching a course titled "Laboratory Experiences in Instrumental Music", focusing largely on jazz and other contemporary styles. This "Laboratory Band" soon became a dedicated jazz combo, and performed at its first jazz competition in 1972, winning the Sweepstakes award at the Alabama Jazz Festival in Birmingham. Since then, the Lab Band has kept a busy schedule performing at local, regional, national, and international events, all while promoting jazz, America's only native art form.
Following are a few selections from the Lab Band's performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
A list of many of the Lab Band's awards and honors can be viewed here.
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• 1970s concert
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• 1989 World Music Showcase
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Philadelphia's Zoe Strauss presents a photographic vigil of an America struggling through the final year of the Bush Administration
Strauss' logo is a silhouette fashioned from a snapshot of an 18-year-old Strauss in Nicaragua. She says she wanted to see a revolution up close, wanted to know what it meant. So she flew down and joined a work camp that aided El Salvadoran refugees.
Talking to her among a gallery of portraits, it's hard not to notice that Strauss' America is full of refugees: refugees of the rusted, industrial devolution of closed factory towns, of impossible gender expectations, of class-born cancer, of hearts that crackle with beautiful love the magazines would call ugly. America is a record of dreams lost in the smoke and mirrors of the Bush administration, and of the dreams that will survive it.
Proud people will fight. They'll mobilize to end an oppressive regime. They'll keep screaming for 28 years. They'll remember loved ones by carving the names of the dead into their skin. People want to be seen for what they've endured and what they're willing to do.
In the logo, you can't tell exactly what's in the woman's hands, but it isn't a camera. It's Strauss holding an AK-47 assault rifle. She says she chose it because she wants people to know: "I'm in it to win it. I'm down for the revolution," she says. "I'm telling you that right now."
America wasn't only printed in China, it was censored in China. Don't worry, the irony isn't lost on Strauss. The two offending photos showed penises. More interestingly, two of the three penises had tattoos on the tips--one of a Harley-Davidson logo and one adorned with flames. "How crazy is that? It's just penises," Strauss says of the censorship. Switching to another printer would've pushed production back six months, unacceptable for a book timed to publish with the presidential election. Strauss considered leaving the pages blank in protest, but it would've shifted the narrative too much. In the end, Strauss agreed to rearrange the existing photos and AMMO agreed to publish two editions. The second edition, with penises, will publish in about six months. Meanwhile, Strauss posted high-resolution versions on her blog for download and she plans to insert the censored prints guerilla-style at area bookstores. "It's so ridiculous ... They have to be in it. So too bad."
"I am both opposed to patriotism and a proud American. I watch America's Next Top Model and I love it. But why can't I have it all, and fold all the things that I am into my work? I can, and no one can tell me that I can't."
"Hi Tara, Who would have thought that an education in the Pinelands of New Jersey would have yielded such an articulate and insightful wordsmith? Although your Dickensian paradoxes would probably weigh heavy on the ears of majority of liberal educators at your Alma Mater."
"This is an awesome story... wait, it's about me! Tony, you can get my book from the publisher... http://www.ammobooks.com/new/books/america/ or just email me. Thanks for such a great piece, Tara. This has been one of the greatest weeks of my life. This election marks a magnificent achievement for America and I am so proud of us and so thrilled for us. "
"This is an awesome story... wait, it's about me! Tony, you can get my book from the publisher... http://www.ammobooks.com/new/books/america/ or just email me. Thanks for such a great piece, Tara. This has been one of the greatest weeks of my life. This election marks a magnificent achievement for America and I am so proud of us and so thrilled for us."
"I hope your pride comes from the completion of your book, and not Barack Hussein Obama getting elected. That is nothing to brag about. Only the sheep who are not informed beyond the slanted media believe what they have been fed over the last four years. A black man should be elected based on his ability, not his color. Same goes for any other race. The facts are that McCain is a war hero with 30 years experience in politics, and Obama is a two term Senator who has never had his name on a piece of major legislature. He is a cereal box produced by the Democratic Party. A well spoken figure head who should know that his legacy as the first black president is a gray area, pardon the pun, considering his mother is white, and he is a Muslim. Wake me up in four years, and BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"That's a nice touch using Obama's middle name, true. You're really creative, (sarcasm). Thank God you and your crazy friends didn't ruin my party last night because this country is on an amazing high right now, and bigots like yourself have no seat at our table. Good riddance to you, bigot! "
"Tara, Since you wish to make our society better perhaps you can take off your biased glasses and actually inform or remind the public about how to get to the real root cause of our economic troubles. You can start with researching Senate Bill S.190. The "Federal Housing Enterprise Reform Act of 2005". When the Liberal Media asked top Democrats this question, they would say the bill didn't pass and quickly change the subject . The reason the bill didn't pass was because the whole Democratic Party filibusted the bill. That's right the Democrats and the "Annointed One". What was the reason the didn't want to Strengthen Regulatory controls on Clinton's pet company? Because, they wanted to get Low Income (Sub-prime) voters. They did such a nice job ignoring their responsibilities that they Bankrupt about 90% of the people they were trying to help. Obama ran a fantastic campaign, and congradulations to thier party faithfuls. He is a fantastic orator and I wish him luck, but the Liberal Media was so biased they actually elevated the very party and (2005 Senator) that was part of the root cause behind the Financial Tsunami. McCain was right, but he was such a lousy speaker he couldn't get his message across. The Republicans have a lot of work to do, but the Democrats are mirror looks just as ugly. For those of you that think I am spewing a bias, please be reminded that Fannie & Freddy also bribed about 7 Republicans to get the bill cleared off the books (Rejected). Wonder where your 401K went.? Look up the history of the bill. How about it Tara do you have what it takes to be a Fair and Balanced person. Why don't you show some pictures of some Foreclosed Homes and a snapshot of someones previous life savings. If you can't ,I suggest you look up Rupert Kipplings poem "IF". You might learn something about integrity. The most ironic part of this election, is that McCains integrity actually cost him the election. He railroaded Republican efforts to eliminate the filibuster (20023). How is that for ironic!"
"Oh? Using his middle name was as purposeful as the Democratic Party making sure NOT to use it. However you arrived at the notion that I am a bigot, I think the Kool Aid you've been drinking has finally gone to your head. I think "high" is an appropriate word to use considering that all you wanted to do slander me and innaccurately label me a bigot. Why not address the factual statements made in my comment with an intelligent dialogue backed up with facts. Of course there is no room for me at your table. It is teeming with welfare mothers, crack-whores, indigents, and every other pathetic scum with a sense of entitlement, stealing my tax dollars. I am not without empathy. In fact, I am a philanthropist, but as an American who works two jobs just to get by, I want the ability to choose whom I donate to. There is a word for the other way and it rhymes with Hommupism."
"False. President-elect Obama, with or without the emphasis of his middle name, is what could best be described as a non-denominational Christian. However, whether Obama is a Mormon, a Buddhist, or is the second-coming of L.Ron-freaking-Hubbard himself, is inconsequential. Perhaps it would be in your best interest to take a gander at that supposed separation of Church & State issue. It must be difficult, I realize, what with the past Republican administration acting as the hand of god with it's Roman Catholic virtues under the guise of democracy. Second, you can "empathize" all you want, or throw your cash at that whatever charitable cause helps you sleep at night, but know this: No amount of money, earned, donated or otherwise can buy yourself free from bigotry. Third and last: Yes, bigotry. Because that's what you are, a bigot. A hateful, ignorant person hiding beind tax-deductable donations claiming slander. "Kool Aid and crack-whores." Yes, those are the words from a true philanthropist, a real humanitarian. And you have the audacity to speak of entitlement. How's this for a title? Bigot. "
"I love your work and your photo brain child I-95 eight years in and going stronger and I love your attitude, and I love that you have made visual poetry out of south philadelphia - my home. YES YOU CAN! Margie Strosser"
"False. Since we are not in school, and I am not discussing prayer, or removing the word "God" from our currency, separation of church and state had nothing to do with my argument. But once again, you can not speak to the facts I laid out. Well? A two term senator who has not been part of any major legislation or had any foreign affairs experience. Well? Can you? Can you stop distracting the question with empaticism about bigotry? I can be and I am a philanthropist. Just because I don't wish for my government to tell me who needs my money doesn't mean I am a racist. People who can get jobs, should not. Vets, injured defending our country who are disabled and can not find reasonable work, should. Mentally challenged people without families, should. People who reproduce indiscrimantely should not. There is not a bigoted bone in my body. Simply someone who has read their history books, studied economics, and believe in the principles this country was founded on? Do you believe the American Dream is to have countless babies with unnamed fathers and have hard working Americans pay for their government cheese and diapers? These people should be nuetered like animals. Oh, and if Obama is not Muslim, explain this picture. Remember, not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim. How about his ties to Ayers, a known domestic terrorist? And before you spout off your programmed response downplaying their relationship as having once served on a school board together, remember that two years ago, Ayers through Obama his coming out party in his very own living room. So. Stop with the labeling, and name calling, and say something intelligent and factual about these proven allegations. http://www.dequalss.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/obama-muslim.jpg"
"Sorry, one more thing. The Kool Aid comment had nothing to do with racism. You must equate Kool Aid with a beverage enjoyed by group of minorities. That is very racist. I was referring to Jonestown and the sheep that commited suicide following a crazy cult leader. Read your history books, get some original thoughts, and take your head out of your ass. Sheep. BAAAAAAAAAAA"
"Ok, the racist card has been played on and on but now I need to ask, who are the bigots and what are they racist against...the white or black side of Obama?
Obama's heritage is replete with communists. His own mother and father as well as grandparents were so embroiled in communist organizations that they should all wear a red star on their clothing.
Oft times we have used the middle name of Presidents: FDR, JFK as examples so why is Obama and his pals so angry when Obama's middle name is aired. Is it so they refuse to admit that Obama comes from a clearly Muslim background and in fact Rev Wright, the 'so-called' Christian minister, was a Muslim until he 'converted'. His hate to which Obama listened to for many years seems to me no different that that of Louis Farrakhan.
Not once have I heard Obama give a litany of Christian thought but often I heard him extol the greatness of Islam. Or is it that I read more often than those who tinkle down their pants whenever Obama speaks?"
On the corner of McClellan and Fifth streets in South Philadelphia, a group of young boys pass the afternoon executing daredevil flips off a stack of old throwaway mattresses. A woman driving by, novice photographer Zoe Strauss, glimpses the small bodies somersaulting through the air. Startled, she pulls over, and winds up snapping seven or eight quick photographs.
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mohamed hamdy
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Mar 29, 2003 12:20:00
look to this question.
Which two CANNOT directly cause a thread to stop executing? (Choose Two)
A. calling the yield method
B. calling the wait method on an object
C. calling the notify method on an object
D. calling the notifyAll method on an object
E. calling the start method on another Thread object
the answer is C,D ( which i correctly guessed)
but why E isn't right, is calling start of another thread will give the action of calling yield to give the new thread to compete fairly with the caller thread for the scheduler to run it?
Leandro Oliveira
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Mar 29, 2003 14:42:00
from Thread class api:
"Causes this thread to begin execution; the
Virtual Machine calls the run method of this thread.
The result is that two threads are running concurrently: the current thread (which returns from the call to the start method) and the other thread (which executes its run method). "
I agree with you, start cannot cause a thread to stop executing since "
"The result is that two threads are running concurrently"
Dan Chisholm
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Mar 29, 2003 16:08:00
"Which two CANNOT directly cause a thread to stop executing?"
The start method is used to start another thread that appears to be executing simultaneously with other threads. If the computer has only one CPU then only one thread is able to run at any point in time and the thread scheduler will decide which runs and which does not. The thread that invokes the start method will stop if the thread scheduler decides to let the new thread run. Otherwise, the original thread continues to run while the new thread remains in the ready state.
The notify and notifyAll methods can not directly cause a thread to stop running because the notify and notifyAll method have no impact until the invoking thread gives up the monitor that is required by the waiting thread.
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Mar 29, 2003 19:40:00
We don�t know much about what the start method does. This is what we know,
public synchronized native void start();
static JNINativeMethod methods[] = {
{"start", "()V", (void *)&JVM_StartThread},
We also know that invoking the start method of a Thread object in some unknown way and at some unknown time causes the Java Virtual Machine to execute the run method of the object.
And we know that invoking the start method more than once results in an
Otherwise what we say is derived from our general knowledge of how operating systems behave.
E is right or wrong depending on the implementation of the JVM.
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There is no question that the transportation construction industry has benefited from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), a.ka. "the stimulus," but whether the stimulus was a good idea in the first place has been hotly debated.
However, Federal Reserve officials have said that we may need to pump ever more cash into the economy.
In a Reuters report, [1] two Fed policymakers said that more action would likely be needed unless the current economic outlook improves.
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The City High volleyball team completed the regular season with a 3-0 win over Marion on Thursday at City High. The Little Hawks won 25-15, 25-22, 25-13.
"It was a nice warmup for regionals, which start Monday," City coach Craig Pitcher said. "I thought we controlled them very well off our serve."
Michaela Nelson had 12 kills, Alexa Aldrich Ingram had seven kills and four aces, Rylee Price and Allison Fleming each had four kills, Sabrina Rogers had 18 digs, and Ruth Grace had 27 assists.
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One man was arrested after a bench-clearing brawl at a Nassau County spring-league youth football game last weekend and police they're looking for several other people involved in the fight.
Derrick Edmonson Jr., 25, a coach of one of the teams, was arrested Wednesday night at his home in Jacksonville and charged with aggravated battery.
Nassau County authorities told Channel 4 that Edmonson punched a 12-year-old player several times after a questionable call at a game at the Stein-Thompson Sports Complex in Hilliard on Saturday. The boy injured player was treated and released from a hospital.
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Japan remains one of the few developed countries in the world where possession of child pornography isn't a punishable offense. That is expected to change by the end of this month when a bill, which passed unanimously in the Committee on Judicial Affairs last week, is presented to the Japanese Diet's upper house.
A 1999 law known as the Act on Punishment of Activities Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography criminalized the production and distribution of kiddie porn – but no provision was included to make actually owning it illegal.
Unsurprisingly, the possession loophole wasn't an unfortunate oversight – it was done on purpose to protect Japan's manga, anime, and video game industries (The Japanese gaming market alone is worth nearly US$10 billion). This exception for 2D and 3D depictions of child abuse will remain with the passage of updated legislation.
While few mainstream titles include "know-it-when-I-see-it"-esque child pornography, it's quite easy to find books and video games that toe the line (or more accurately, walk up to the line and say, "Hello, line") in stores around Tokyo – especially in the otaku mecca of Akihabara. The wildly popular idol group AKB48, named after Akihabara, includes an ever-expanding cast of girls as young as 13 who appear in various media donning bikinis and lingerie.
"I think the ban is pretty much international lip service, as most of the Japanese child porn out there is animated anyway," Andy Klim, a freelance manga and video game localizer, told Tech in Asia. "If you look at how much money AKB48 makes, you can understand the country's obsession with younger women. I kind of think though that the biggest reason manga, anime, and games are exempt is that that an actual child isn't being hurt in them. My guess is that they see it as a way for people with that problem to get their release without having to hurt an actual child."
Klim, who has been translating content for Japanese companies for more than six years, said that he once was asked to localize a dating simulation game that he described as "essentially a porn game starring high school students."
"We were told to adjust the content as if the end audience was 12 years old," he said. "You had situations though where a 17 year old boy was having sex with 13 and 14 year olds. The way we were asked to translate the material focused on making it legal in other markets. We were asked to change clear instances of sexual contact into hugging, kissing, or petting."
"I don't know how they got around the problem of the in-game images showing what was actually happening," he adds.
The national age of consent in Japan is only 13 years old. However, individual municipalities often instate their own laws – Tokyo, for example, has a Youth Protection Law that raises the age of consent within the city limits to 17.
Japan's pop culture folklore is full of sex and technology – from used schoolgirl panty vending machines (that probably actually existed in the early 1990s) to sci-fi tentacle porn to Oculus Rift-enabled sex robots. Japanese spend approximately US$20 million a year on pornography – third in the world behind China and South Korea and ahead of the US in fourth place.
Only time will tell if the new legislation will have an effect on the number of children that get sucked into Japan's dark side. But still, questions remain over the country's reluctance to clamp down on explicit imagery that, while not directly harming a child, may entice a viewer to seek out warm flesh instead of a comic book or an X-rated video game.


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While more people are buying goods and services now than four years ago, businesses are only beginning to hire back laid-off workers, and there are still three workers lined up for every open job.
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