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The New Orleans Saints' high-powered offense gains yards seemingly at will during games. Their ability to dial up big gainers seemingly whenever they need to is a big reason why the Saints have led the NFL in total offense in three of the past four seasons under head coach Sean Payton.
Yet in the 20-17 loss to Tampa Bay they struggled mightily to convert key third downs. On three critical third downs, the Saints came up agonizingly short on pass plays designed to convert the play and move the chains.
Ultimately, those "little things" added up to the Saints' second defeat of the season, and one of the most shocking losses in the history of the franchise.
The most critical, of course, was a 6-yard catch by Robert Meachem on third-and-7 late in regulation. If Meachem drives Aqib Talib farther downfield he gives himself a little more room to make the catch and convert the third down. Head lineman John Schleyer's spot was dubious at best but it never should have come to that kind of judgment decision. Instead of a first down, Meachem came up a foot short. The Saints were forced to punt and Michael Spurlock returned it 77 yards for the game-tying touchdown.
Earlier, Marques Colston made a similar mistake. He should have had a first down on a third-and-5 catch in the left flat but took an unnecessary step backward after making the catch in anticipation of being hit. The false step cost him. It allowed the Bucs defenders just enough time to swarm Colston and stop him a yard short of the first down. The Saints were forced to settle for a field goal instead of keeping the drive alive and going for a touchdown.
Late in the quarter, Meachem also came up a yard short on a third-and-10 near the Bucs sideline. His 8-yard catch on an out route fell just shy of the first-down marker and the Saints again were forced to punt the ball away. With the extra possession, the Bucs put together a nice two-minute drive and scored a field goal just before halftime.
When you heard Saints players and coaches talking about paying closer attention to detail and improving their focus those are code words for plays like this.
"I thought in the first half we did a lot of the things that we wanted to do in regards to establishing a tempo," Saints coach Sean Payton said on Monday."Unfortunately we only did it for half of the game and in the second half there were just too many mistakes that kept us from winning the game. It wasn't one specific area - that's for sure. When you watch it, offensively there were three different times that we came up a yard short on third down and were forced to punt."
The surprising thing about all these fourth-and-1s was that the aggressive Payton chose to kick rather than go for the first down on all three plays. This is the kind of defeat that can resonate with a coach and change his philosophy. Something tells me Payton will go for it in future situations like this.
Then again, it's hard to question the decisions. In each instance, the Saints appeared to be in control of the game. Face it, the Saints receivers needed only to break a route off a foot or two deeper in each instance and the outcome of the game might have changed dramatically. One more step downfield and another drive stays live and the Saints likely never reach overtime. They would probably be 14-1 right now. It was that close.
PLAY OF THE GAME: On the first play of the fourth quarter, the Saints were still in control. They led 17-3 and had the Bucs in the kind of down-and-distance scenario they their defense thrives on: third-and-7 at the Bucs' 29. The Saints showed blitz with nine defenders at the line of scrimmage. The Saints were able to force Josh Freeman into mistakes out of this exact same situation previously but this time the rookie quarterback won the chess match. Linebackers Jon Vilma and Scott Fujita and strong safety Roman Harper rushed the quarterback, while free safety Darren Sharper, who was also showing blitz at the line, bluffed a blitz and dropped into the middle zone of the field. Cornerback Malcolm Jenkins had outside leverage on tight end Kellen Winslow Jr., who was lined up in the right slot. The Saints expected Freeman to try to hit Winslow on a quick pattern and that's exactly what he did. Sharper read the play beautifully - actually too well. Expertly anticipating the slant route, he dropped into the middle zone right in front of Winslow. Unfortunately, he was so eager to jump the route he overran it and Freeman waited a split second for Winslow to run into the clear where he hit the tight end for a huge 35-yard gain. It was Tampa Bay's biggest play of the game. Two plays later the Bucs scored their first touchdown and the comeback was on. "They did exactly what we expected and wanted them to do but unfortunately they were able to make a play," Jenkins said.
CALL OF THE GAME: The Saints used a combination of personnel, alignment and formation to set up the Bucs defense beautifully for their second touchdown, a 30-yard strike off play-action to Robert Meachem. The play was the fifth of the game out of the Saints' "heavy" personnel and formation, a single-receiver, two-tight end set. Fox analyst Daryl Johnston said the Bucs were prepared for the play, which they called a "race route." On it, tight end David Thomas runs a drag route underneath coverage and Meachem runs a post route behind it. Bucs safety Tanard Jackson bit on Thomas' route and Meachem was wide open after the play-action fake to Mike Bell. Just a beautifully executed play and call.
PRESSURE REPORT: Gregg Williams chose to play fairly vanilla against Josh Freeman early. He rarely blitzed, choosing instead to rush just three or four defenders and drop the rest into coverage. After a quiet first quarter, Williams got more aggressive in the second quarter once the Saints' seized the early lead. Their first sack, by Charles Grant, came on a basic four-man rush. The second, credited to Anthony Hargrove, came on the next play when Williams blitzed all three linebackers and pressure by Scott Fujita and Jon Casillas forced Freeman toward Hargrove for the sack. The Saints' third sack came on a similar blitz, when Casillas and Scott Fujita missed clean-shot tackles on Freeman, who was flushed from the pocket, where Will Smith wrapped him up for sack No. 13.5 of the season. The pressure, both from Freeman's backside, led to the final two sacks. Williams finally brought defensive backs Malcolm Jenkins and Roman Harper during the Bucs' two-minute drill before halftime. Another blitz in the third quarter forced a hurried throw by Freeman, which was intercepted by Tracy Porter in single coverage against Bryant.
ZEBRA REPORT: For three quarters, Jerome Boger's crew was solid. Then all heck broke loose in the final 15 minutes. The first shaky call was the last-second timeout his crew awarded Bucs coach Raheem Morris right before the Saints stopped Tampa Bay on a critical fourth-and-1. I couldn't see either official acknowledge Morris on his timeout call before the snap but somehow he was awarded it. The Saints would stop the Bucs on the ensuing try but it could have been a game-changer. It looked like head lineman John Schleyer's spot of Robert Meachem's aforementioned 6-yard catch was about a half-yard short of being correct. He did not give Meachem his forward progress and the spot left the Saints a half-yard short of the first down. It wasn't a great spot but Meachem needs to do a better job of finding the marker and making sure he doesn't leave it up to a judgment call. I thought the crew made a good call on the alleged neutral zone infraction against the Bucs punt return unit on the ensuing play after Meachem's catch. Quincy Black did not make contact with long snapper Jason Kyle and legally returned to his position before the snap of the ball. The Saints linemen needed to "sit" in the instant when Black jumped but they didn't, holding their positions for a second or two before reacting and breaking formation. This resulted in a false start infraction against the Saints, the correct call.
SCOUTING REPORT: Tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. proved to be a major matchup problem for the Saints. They tried a variety of players and coverages on him in an effort to hold the Pro Bowler in check. At various times, cornerback Malcolm Jenkins, safeties Darren Sharper and Roman Harper and linebacker Scott Fujita covered Winslow. Winslow showed he was too physical for the defensive backs and too athletic for the linebackers. Even when the Saints double-teamed Winslow on third down he still was able to make some big plays. His 35-yard catch and run on the first play of the fourth quarter was the Bucs' biggest play of the day. He beat double coverage by Jenkins and Sharper to convert a critical third-and-7 and help set up Tampa Bay's first touchdown. He finished with four catches for a team-high 74 yards.
DIDYA NOTICE?: An ominous comment by Fox announcer Kenny Albert after Garrett Hartley's field goal made it 17-0 midway through the second quarter. After noting the 3-pointer gave the Saints 500 points on the season, making them the 12th team in NFL history to reach the threshold, Albert said, "They're not done." Added Johnston, "Not by a long shot. There's still 6:37 left in the second quarter."
- I hexed Thomas Morstead last week when I mentioned his streak of 11 consecutive kickoffs into the end zone at the Superdome. His opening kickoff was taken by Michael Spurlock at the 2-yard line.
- The Bucs ran right at rookie weakside linebacker Jonathan Casillas on first down and then took advantage of his aggressiveness with a misdirection play around left end to convert a third-and-1.
- The Saints showed a 3-4 alignment for a down on each of the Bucs' first two series just to give rookie quarterback Josh Freeman a different look and keep him guessing. They employed a similar strategy for their game at Tampa Bay.
- The Saints came out determined to establish the run. They ran the ball six times in their nine-play opening drive.
- A really good sign for Saints fans, Reggie Bush made a very decisive plant and cut near the sideline. It was on his right knee, not the left one that's been giving him problems, but still, it was a nice that left Aqib Talib grasping for air and turned a 5-yard gain into a 10-yard gain.
- A punishing lead block by left guard Carl Nicks on Pierre Thomas' 8-yard touchdown run. Nicks took out defensive tackle Chris Hovan at the point of attack, then drove linebacker Barrett Ruud 5 yards into the end zone on the second level to clear a path for Thomas.
- Darren Sharper set the NFL season record for interception return yards thanks to some indecision on a crossing route by Bucs receiver Antonio Bryant, who squatted in a open spot in the Saints' zone rather than continue his crossing pattern. On the play, the Saints double-teamed tight end Kellen Winslow with a zone blitz drop into coverage by nose tackle Remi Ayodele.
- Lynell Hamilton converted a third-and-1 with a physical 2-yard run. Interesting, he was used instead of Mike Bell in that short-yardage situation.
- Fullback Kyle Eckel made the first catch of his Saints career on the second drive, an 8-yard gain on a little swing pass in the right flat.
- A missed opne-field tackle by Mike McKenzie allowed Milo Stovall to turn a 7-yard reception into a 29-yard gain on the final play of the quarter.
- A poor throw by Freeman was all that prevented a big pass play to Winslow on the first play of the quarter. Winslow beat cornerback Malcolm Jenkins in single coverage on a crossing pattern and was wide open but Freeman threw the ball behind the tight end for an incompletion.
- Freeman was fortunate to recover his own fumble after Charles Grant stripped him from behind for a sack on a second-and-17 play. Freeman made a very athletic play to recover the ball with a scoop of his right hand as he was being tackle by Grant. If Freeman doesn't make the play, Will Smith is there to recover it and perhaps make a nice return.
- A nice lead block by David Thomas on linebacker Geno Hayes helped spring Pierre Thomas for a 26-yard gain. It looked like Pierre Thomas injured his ribs during the run when safety Tanard Jackson buried his helmet into his ribs on his left side. Thomas broke three tackles on the run, which equaled his longest run in the past eight weeks. He returned one play later to carry for a 4-yard gain then left the game and did not return.
- The Saints did not commit their first penalty until the final seconds of the first half when Tracy Porter was whistled for illegal contact.
- The Bucs went to a "Bear" 46 defensive front on the second play from scrimmage and used it sporadically with success throughout the second half.
- The Bucs had the Saints' screen pass diagnosed throughout the game. They flared a defensive end to cover Bush on a third-and-4 attempt on the Saints' first drive of the quarter and Brees was forced to hold the ball and take a sack on a blitz by Hayes, who came clean through the middle of the Saints' line. An obvious protection breakdown on the play.
- Classic Gregg Williams move to produce a big red-zone turnover on Tampa Bay's first series. He blitzed linebackers Casillas and Vilma and forced a hurried throw into tight single coverage. Free safety Darren Sharper read the "hot" route and would have intercepted the slant to Bryant and Porter has perfect leverage to make a play on the ball in the end zone in front of Bryant. Great strategy and execution.
- Hamilton caught his first pass of the season, a 12-yarder over the middle to make it 15 different players with a pass reception this season.
- A few plays later, Hamilton burst around right end, made two Bucs miss at the line and raced 19 yards downfield. It was the longest run of his career. Tampa Bay defensive end - that's right, defensive end - Tim Crowder made a big-time hustle play to run him down from behind.
- A poor decision by Reggie Bush on a third-and-10 screen pass in the left flat led to a 10-yard loss. The play was designed to go left and Bush had blockers and a ton of open field in front of him yet he ill-advisedly chose to reverse field back to the right, straight into the teeth of the Bucs pursuing blitzers. The play was set up for a big gain but instead took the Saints out of field goal range. That's one Bush would like to have back.
- The punt marked only the third time all season the Saints have punted on three consecutive possessions. They also did it at Buffalo and a week earlier to start the game against Dallas.
- Great, alert play by gunner Courtney Roby to down Morstead's punt at the Tampa Bay 2. After racing into the end zone, he came back into the field of play and established position before downing the ball.
- Not sure what kind of coverage Malcolm Jenkins was in on when he played 10 yards off Brian Clark on a third-and-1 and let Clark slip inside for an easy pitch-and-catch and first down after the Bucs were bottled up at their own 11-yard line.
- Really poor effort at getting off blocks by the Saints linebackers and secondary on Cadillac Williams 23-yard touchdown run. I'm not sure he was even touched on the play.
- The Saints' screen passing game really was out of sync in the game. Lynell Hamilton lost 2 yards on another one when Barrett Ruud dissected it and knifed through two Saints blockers to make the big hit behind the line of scrimmage.
- A nice play by Hayes to strip Colston of the ball after a 16-yard reception. Another example of a great hustle play from a Bucs defender from behind.
- Tony Siragusa accurately pointed out the two-gap technique employed by the Saints defensive line, which basically asked them to occupy blockers and allow the linebackers to flow to the ball and make tackles. Another example of the Saints coaching staff uncharacteristically playing it safe in this one. Not their usual M.O.
- Just a tremendous sequence of short-yardage defense by the Saints late in the fourth quarter. First Remi Ayodele and Vilma stopped Williams for no gain, then Vilma made an outstanding solo tackle on Graham, which was negated by a last-second timeout by Morris. Then Charles Grant made an athletic play to bat down Freeman's pass Graham in the right flat for an incompletion.
- Several things went wrong for the Saints on Spurlock's punt return. First of all, gunner Greg Fassitt was knocked to the ground in pursuit, a major no-no for the lead gunner. Pierson Prioleau and Jeff Charleston also lost their footing while trying to corral Spurlock along the wall, then newly signed Herana-Daze Jones missed an open-field tackle and Spurlock was off to the races. It didn't help that umpire Carl Paganelli blocked Morstead's path to Spurlock near midfield but I don't think the rookie punter had the angle or speed to catch the fleet-footed return man.
- Bush made an incredible individual effort to avoid tackles by Hayes and Talib on a 9-yard reception and get out of bounds to stop the clock and preserve the Saints' two timeouts during the two-minute drill at the end of regulation.
- Ruud showed why he's a Pro Bowler with his play to break up a nice pass on a seam route to David Thomas on the Saints' final drive. That was a very athletic play, the kind a middle linebacker in a Cover-2 scheme needs to be able to make.
- The snap and hold Hartley's missed field goal looked clean, but the kicker appeared to rush his approach a split-second faster than normal and yanked the kick to the left.
PERSONNEL PACKAGES: The Saints' struggles to stop the Bucs offense contributed to the Bucs' 36:15-30:39 advantage in time of possession. The Saints had the ball for only 61 snaps. They were fairly conservative with the number of personnel packages, alignments and formations they used. Part of that was design. Payton said the club wanted to get back to establishing the run in this game. And part of it was necessity. Tight end Jeremy Shockey and receiver Lance Moore were on the inactive list and running backs Pierre Thomas injured his ribs in the second quarter and did not return. Consequently, the Saints used only six personnel groupings. The vast majority of those were their "nickel," or three-receiver package (23 reps), and their two-tight end set (15). They also ran the ball effectively out of their "heavy" formation with one receiver, two tight ends and a fullback (10 reps). Thomas' injury opened the door for Hamilton to see some of his most extensive action of the season. He played nine reps, including eight in the second half when he assumed a lot of Mike Bell's short-yardage work.
Here's a look at the Saints' personnel packages on their 61 offensive snaps:
3WR/1TE/1RB - 23 out of 61
2WR/2TE/1RB - 15 out of 61
1WR/2TE/1RB/1FB - 10 out of 61
2WR/1TE/1RB/1FB - 6 out of 61 plays
3WR/RB/FB - 6 out of 61
3WR/2RB - 1 out of 61


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2003 Season Preview
There is a calming factor that radiates among the returning players, coaches and especially the fans of the Texas Tech baseball program. Probation is over.
After four years of NCAA imposed probation on the entire Texas Tech Athletics Department, the Tech baseball program will have its full allotment of scholarships back after playing with three less than its competition since 1999. For most programs that suffer scholarship reductions due to NCAA penalties, the probation period is not a pleasant time. Texas Tech, however, did not miss a beat during the probation period as the Red Raiders advanced to the NCAA Tournament all four seasons and never finished lower than fifth in the Big 12 regular-season including two second-place finishes the last two years.
The Texas Tech Red Raiders enter the 2003 baseball season in a "reloading" mode as head coach Larry Hays looks to continue the success that Tech has come to enjoy over the last eight seasons and permanently erase the stigma that was placed on his teams over the last four seasons.
Hays, currently the fifth winningest active coach in the nation, has been in this reloading position before and his Red Raiders have always responded. In 2001, Hays had only one returning position starter yet he led that team to a second-place finish in the Big 12 and a runner-up spot behind Cal-State Fullerton in the NCAA Regionals. This year mirrors 2001 in that Texas Tech will have to replace its entire starting infield due to graduation but unlike 2001 the Red Raiders return two starters in the outfield and all three starting pitchers that will help give the team some needed experience.
The fall baseball season was one of the most competitve off-seasons in recent history as all positions were considered up for grabs making the competition very intense. The intense competition was exactly what Hays wanted.
"We told our players at the beginning of fall practice that we are going to have a new attitude," said Hays who is now in his 17th season at the helm of the Red Raiders. "Before the department was put on probation, we really had things going on our end but three less scholarships every year for four years really hurts. Our goal was just to maintain our program and try to be in the NCAA's at the end of the year. That time is over. With our scholarships back we want to be in the race to win the Big 12 and make it to Omaha. I told our players that no spots are guaranteed to anyone and we will play the guys who show us the most intensity and desire to win. I was really pleased with the competition that came out of fall practice and I think the intensity that ensued will help us this spring."
In the middle infield, there are five players who made their cases for starting jobs but the Red Raiders will have to work hard to replace last year's First-Team All-Big 12 shortstop Gera Alvarez. Christian Colonel (American Falls, Idaho/Southern Idaho), a ninth-round pick in the 2003 MLB Draft, is one of Tech's top infield recruits and can figure in at second, shortstop and possibly third base. Colonel was an All-Conference selection both years at the College of Southern Idaho and hit .390 his last season there along with nine home runs. T.J. Bruce (Bellflower, Calif./Corritos C.C.) and Josh Haney (Midland, Texas/Midland College) both had excellent fall practices and freshman Ryan Riddle (Midland, Texas/Midland) had a successful transition from the high school ranks to the Div. I level. Doug Beck also figures into the mix with this group but most likely at the second base slot.
At third base, junior college transfer Clint McGill (Chowchilla, Calif./Fresno City College) had an impressive fall outing and came out of camp as Tech's best candidate for the position. McGill was a First-Team All-Conference pick last season and earned First-Team Northern California honors after posting a .368 batting average and 15 doubles at Fresno City College.
Behind the plate, Texas Tech will get its first-ever all brother battery as Cooper Fouts (Las Vegas, Nev./C.C of Southern Nevada) is the leading candidate to replace last year's Second-Team All Big 12 catcher Willie Durazo. Fouts, the younger brother of starting pitcher Nathan Fouts, comes to Texas Tech after one season of junior college at the Community College of Southern Nevada. Fouts, who played in a wood bat league last year, showed good hitting in the fall and excellent defense and should anchor the catching duties for most of the season. Fouts will be backed up by sophomore Madison Edwards (Midland, Texas/Midland) who made a few brief appearances behind the plate last season in backup of Durazo.
"I really feel like we have a lot of great players in the infield who can hit the ball and play great defense," said Hays. "We have always put our best defense on the field first and let hitting take care of itself. I feel like this group of guys will step up to the challenge and make a big impact."
Joining these three players on the mound will be a talented group of pitchers who can either take over starting jobs or provide long relief out of the bullpen. Freshman Randy Gattis (Mesquite, Texas/Mesquite), a 39th-round pick in the MLB Draft this summer, had a good fall along with juniors Jeff Karstens (Spring Valley, Calif./Grossmont J.C.), Aaron Albus (Baytown, Texas/Ranger J.C.), Chris Hansen (Las Vegas, Nev./C.C. of Southern Nevada) and Andrew Martin (San Diego, Calif./Grossmont J.C.).
The biggest key for new pitching coach Brian Strickland will be to find someone to replace last year's First-Team All-Big 12 closer Steve Rowe. Rowe went 10-2 last season with eight saves and a 1.51 ERA so replacing him will be a difficult task. Aaron Jones (Torrance, Calif./El Camino J.C.) and Chris Hansen showed signs of taking over the closer duties during fall practice but the position is still wide open.
After finishing in second-place in the Big 12 the previous two seasons, this year's group of players are ready to take the next step and bring back the Big 12 Championship to Dan Law Field. With a solid group of returning players and a talented group of newcomers, the Red Raiders just may get their wish.


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The Great Ruby Shootout measures the performance of several Ruby implementations by testing them against a series of synthetic benchmarks. Recently I ran Mac and Windows shootouts as well, which tested a handful of implementations. However this article reports on the results of extensive benchmark testing of eight different Ruby implementations on Linux.
The setup
For this shootout I included a subset of the Ruby Benchmark Suite. I opted to primarily exclude tests that were executed in fractions of a second in most VMs, focusing instead of more substantial benchmarks (several of which came from the Computer Language Benchmarks Game). The best times and least memory allocations out of five runs are reported here for each benchmark.
All tests were run on Ubuntu 10.4 LTS x86_64, on an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40 GHz, 8 GB DDR2 RAM, with two 500 GB 7200 rpm disks.
8 implementations
The implementations tested were:
JRuby was run with the –fast and –server optimization flags.
Synthetic benchmarks cannot predict how fast your programs will be when dealing with a particular implementation. They provide an (entertaining) educated guess, but you shouldn't draw overly definitive conclusions from them. The values reported here should be assumed to be characteristic of server-side — and long running — processes; they should be taken with a grain of salt.
Time Results
Please find below the execution times for the selected tests. Timeouts indicate that the execution of a single iteration for a given test took more than 300 seconds and had to be interrupted. Bold, green values indicate the best performer out of each test.
Warning: The bm_primes.rb benchmark was originally written to aid the development of the Prime class. As such in 1.9.2 it was rewritten in C, which makes it a poor representation of implementation performance. This benchmark will removed in the future.
If you are not interested in the individual test results, the information presented in the table above is summarized directly below:
Ruby 1.9.2 JRuby Min. : 0.013 Min. : 0.382 1st Qu.: 3.258 1st Qu.: 3.051 Median : 4.543 Median : 4.997 Mean : 9.262 Mean : 9.180 3rd Qu.: 8.573 3rd Qu.: 8.969 Max. :45.009 Max. :48.850 MagLev Ruby 1.9.1 Min. : 0.351 Min. : 0.015 1st Qu.: 2.140 1st Qu.: 3.387 Median : 6.069 Median : 6.205 Mean : 9.100 Mean :10.860 3rd Qu.: 9.266 3rd Qu.:11.559 Max. :51.221 Max. :46.849 Ruby 1.8.7 IronRuby Min. : 0.708 Min. : 3.601 1st Qu.: 5.102 1st Qu.: 10.505 Median : 8.380 Median : 12.912 Mean :18.785 Mean : 26.539 3rd Qu.:24.793 3rd Qu.: 36.115 Max. :75.653 Max. :135.204 Rubinius REE Min. : 0.484 Min. : 0.584 1st Qu.: 3.087 1st Qu.: 4.343 Median : 9.636 Median : 6.660 Mean :13.232 Mean :15.036 3rd Qu.:17.674 3rd Qu.:21.336 Max. :73.050 Max. :61.960
For the sake of convenience, I also produced a box plot from the successful data points:
There are a few considerations based on these results that I feel are worth mentioning:
Memory Results
The following table shows the approximate memory consumption for each implementation when running each benchmark:
Ruby 1.9.2 Ruby 1.9.1 Min. : 4.320 Min. : 4.580 1st Qu.: 4.378 1st Qu.: 4.695 Median : 6.285 Median : 6.920 Mean : 20.795 Mean : 15.669 3rd Qu.: 10.162 3rd Qu.: 11.383 Max. :171.500 Max. :100.570 Ruby 1.8 REE Min. : 3.040 Min. : 8.220 1st Qu.: 4.290 1st Qu.: 9.682 Median : 7.745 Median : 15.565 Mean : 20.698 Mean : 27.014 3rd Qu.: 11.273 3rd Qu.: 38.620 Max. :103.520 Max. :125.910 Rubinius MagLev Min. : 37.63 Min. : 81.74 1st Qu.: 39.78 1st Qu.: 82.52 Median : 45.48 Median : 83.53 Mean : 65.70 Mean : 96.29 3rd Qu.: 58.22 3rd Qu.: 98.10 Max. :215.33 Max. :175.85 JRuby Min. : 49.04 1st Qu.: 71.23 Median :176.72 Mean :169.41 3rd Qu.:209.04 Max. :404.06
And finally, in graph form:
A few considerations on memory:
Linux Vs. Windows
This shootout and the Windows one were both performed on the same machine, thus we can compare how the same implementation perform under different operating systems. The only adjustment that's required is the timeout. Every result longer than 60 seconds from this shootout needs to be considered a timeout, because the previous shootout did so as well.
It is commonly believed that Ruby performs much better on Linux than on Windows (with the exception of IronRuby). Let's find out if these test results confirm that notion.
Ruby 1.8.7:
Ruby 1.9.2:
Finally, in chart form (yellow entries are on Windows as indicated by the labels containing W):
To use a beloved MythBusters expression, this myth is confirmed.
Note: As requested by a few commenters, here is a comparison of IronRuby as well (.NET 4.0 Vs. Mono 2.4.4):
In conclusion, let me just state that it's nice to see several implementations getting faster. Ruby 1.9.2, JRuby, MagLev and Rubinius are all becoming serious competitors and working their respective ways closer to a similar performance level. If you think these benchmark shootouts are becoming boring, then the results are becoming more stable and predictable. I suspect that as time goes on, performance will not be the real distinguishing factor when choosing a Ruby implementation, other features will be.
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Great article, I'm glad to see 1.9.2 getting pretty close to par with JRuby. And as you mentioned Rubinius is coming along. Thanks for the work.
All the 1.8 implementations are seriously outperformed by the 1.9 implementations on bm_primes.rb. This is due to a difference in algorithm between 1.8 and 1.9 standard libraries, not to underlying VM speed.
If the 1.8 standard library were updated to the 1.9 algorithm, the differences between implementations would likely be similar to other math heavy benchmarks.
Would you consider adding MacRuby 0.6 to the shootout?
There's an error in your chart. Rubinius is faster than MagLev on bm_fannkuch.rb, so you need to switch the green in that row.
I think the reason REE used so much more memory than 1.8.x is that its garbage collection settings are tweaked to let ruby allocate many times as much memory before it performs garbage collection, and allocates many times as much memory when it needs to grow the heap. The goal was pretty much to optimize it for massive, memory-hungry rails applications.
The benchmarks game measurements are also made on 2.4GHz Q6600 with Ubuntu™ 10.04 – but most Ruby implementations are only measured on x86 rather than x64
Perhaps x86 versus x64 is the explanation for JRuby bettering Ruby 1.9 in the benchmarks game?
Perhaps the much longer run times in the benchmarks game versus "The Great Ruby Shootout" provides the explanation?
It is as Burke said, the difference in REE memory usage can be explained by the default GC settings. Another thing that might play a role is the tcmalloc memory allocator, which releases memory back to the OS at a much slower rate than the normal system memory allocator but is generally faster.
Thanks for posting this. If and when you run another shootout, would you consider also testing IronRuby with Microsoft's .NET runtime? I'm very curious to see how well it performs compared to Mono.
The prevailing wisdom seems to be that mono lags behind the Microsoft CLR (and the JVM) in various areas, so is the reason IronRuby is slow IronRuby's fault, or is it just mono?
It seems a bit dubious that you'd test IronRuby only on mono on linux. I initially thought "OK, maybe he's only got linux boxes" but then you go and include a bunch of windows tests? If you've already got a bunch of windows benchmarks set up, why not run IronRuby on the Microsoft CLR?
OK, I see at the bottom of the comments there is a link to a previous benchmark, comparing IronRuby on Mono vs the Microsoft CLR; At a glance it appears that IronRuby on windows is over twice as fast as on mono.
It would be nice if these values were included in the Shootout results – to leave them out gives an unfair impression of IronRuby.
The casual observer is not likely to realize that there is such a difference between the CLR and Mono, and simply infer that IronRuby has terrible performance, when this appears to be the fault of Mono rather than IronRuby
Thanks to all those who have put in the effort to improve the performance of the various Ruby implementations. I'm eagerly anticipating the release of Ruby 1.9.2!
It's really excellent to see all these implementations showing such good numbers.
I'm especially impressed when you compare IronRuby on Windows to the numbers for JRuby (even on Linux) – it's really close!
Rubinius seems to be doing excellently, and 1.9.2 is also still showing progress, it's all so positive.
There's some really swift options available for everyone, all the implementors should be congratulated.
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Great shootout. The new .NET CLR IronRuby results are amazing. Would it be possible to add this column to the general results/graphs? It looks like it's the fastest implementation on a number of benchmarks.
Actually, it would also be great if you could post the results in a Google Spreadsheet, then we can do it ourself
No rdoc benchmark?
A couple of notes:
1) even though jruby uses tons of RAM, it manages that RAM efficiently, and avoids slowdown for larger apps. I think I'll add a benchmark to show this fact a bit better.
2) jruby can start quickly–for me on windows it only takes about 1s if I use the faster_rubygems gem.
Thanks for the nice shootout.
Hello folks,
I am late to this fascinating discussion.
A bug in Mono's runtime caused IronRuby to enter a code path that calls Debug.Log too often which slows down the code by an order of magnitude.
We did not find out about these errors until recently, due to a mistake on my side. The Microsoft IronRuby team reached out to us months before they released the latest IronRuby, but I never noticed their email until it was too late where they raised a number of bug reports and pointed out some of our limitations.
I only looked at this about two weeks ago while clearing my mail queue and we were able to fix these problems quickly. We have gained the performance back and these fixes will be in our upcoming Mono 2.8, or are available today from GitHub's Mono (http://github.com/mono/mono).
The Microsoft guys were kind enough to file the bugs that they identified in Mono and we have fixed almost all of them now. There are a couple of them that we are still working on.
That being said, with Mono 2.8, you can expect the IronRuby test suite to run 10 times faster (not sure about this benchmark, but if someone emails me the instructions, we can look at testing it as well).
There is also a nice performance boost from using our new GC (also available on github, and on the upcoming 2.8 release) depending on the test we get a 10% to 40% performance increase (this is from an email from Paolo who tried some of the tests on this page).
We still have a few unoptimized code paths in Mono that will likely impact IronRuby performance on Linux, but they should be fixed eventually. Our goal is to match the .NET performance on equivalent hardware.
will it not benefit ruby's speed if we use a true compiler rather than use an interpreter ?
Is there any difficulty to make a compiler?
@my22301 yes it would be faster, but Ruby is tricky because it does runtime setup of methods, so it wouldn't be easy…
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game measurements have now been updated for Ruby 1.9.2 and it still seems that JRuby is a little ahead on both x86 and x64 – so why doesn't it look like that in "The Great Ruby Shootout (July 2010)" ?
Could it really be that "The Great Ruby Shootout (July 2010)" results are that badly broken from the Ruby 1.9.2 Prime benchmarks being rewritten in C ?
Please re-run the statistics with Prime excluded as a sanity check.
Can you do a new benchmark so we can see the current state?
please kindly do another benchmark for 2012 ^^
thank you very much
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would you please benchmark for 2012 or when mri 2.0 released? ^^ thanks
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Billy Knott's Woking will be looking to extend their unbeaten run to four as the Cardinals host Nuneaton on Saturday.
Knott, 20, started his first game since recovering from an injury last time out as Garry Hill's side drew 1-1 with Braintree in the Conference Premier.
Nuneaton travel to the Kingfield Stadium lurking dangerously above the drop zone in 18th place, whilst Woking could make a dramatic late push for the play-offs, despite only being promoted from the Conference South last season.
Meanwhile, Jordan Pickford will be looking to continue his fine form as Alfreton travel to Braintree knowing a win will all but ensure their status in the Conference.
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I'm a bit behind on my reading of wine news, but as I was catching up this evening I stumbled across this nice article reporting on the environmental impact of wine production. Of course, like all industries, it's impossible to imagine wine production to be a zero-impact or even low-impact business when it comes to the environment. Here in California we've heard more than once about the detrimental effects that large scale wine production can have.
But what about smaller productions, we might say to ourselves? A mom and pop winery, maybe in the Old World -- they can't pollute that much, can they?
That was precisely the question that a group of researchers from the University of Palermo and a cooperative winegrower named Saverio Lo Leggio decided to answer. Lo Leggio owns and operates a Sicilian winery named Milazzo, which produces about eight thousand cases of wine each year. In the interest of science, and with a good conscience, Lo Leggio allowed researchers to track and measure every aspect of his wine production for two years in an attempt to quantify exactly how much waste, pollution, and other environmental effects were created by his small operation.
The results were somewhat surprising. Each year, his operations generated more than 25,000 pounds of plastic waste, 12,500 pounds of paper waste, tens of thousands of gallons of wastewater, and more than three thousands pounds of sulfur dioxide gas, among many other byproducts.
That's a lot of waste, and he didn't even have hundreds of diesel burning helicopters flying around to keep his grapes from getting damaged by frost.
Lo Leggio has already been able to take many measures to drastically reduce these numbers now that he knows they exist, and is working to wipe some of them off the map, through wastewater reclamation, and more.
It's heartening to see studies like this and winemakers willing to explore the possibilities for lessening their impact on the environment. Of course, winemaking is pretty innocuous compared to say, manufacturing computer chips, but every little bit counts. And of course, it makes for good PR.
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WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.—Sadie West is standing in the spacious foyer of a luxury home deep in Porn Valley wearing only black lingerie and heels. She is the star of this morning's scene for Third Degree's sixth edition of Miles Long's Nylons series.
Long is sitting on the floor with his digital camera about 10 feet away from West, directing her movements.
"Wowsers, yes, yes. Stay there. Don't move. That's wonderful," he says. "I think we have a box cover in there."
There is light jazz music playing on the small set. Long's production assistant Jimmy and makeup artist are the only other people in the home when I arrive about 11.
After Long gets his shot, West steps outside onto the back patio for a smoke.
She tells me that Long has directed her before—early on in her career, which started about a year and a half ago. She says she recently signed on with agent Mark Spiegler after her exclusive contract with New Sensations ended.
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West, a contender for AVN's Best New Starlet award in January, tells me she has about 50 scenes on her résumé. The 21-year-old says that "life is a journey" and that she is doing "what I want to do."
"I'm not going to stop my hustle," she adds.
A few minutes later, Mr. Pete rolls into the driveway in a white luxury sedan with rims. Once inside, he greets West warmly.
"What's up? We meet again," she says to him as they hug.
Jimmy offers Mr. Pete an Egg McMuffin, and he replies, "Thanks, I just ate fast food."
Long decides that he wants to shoot the sex scene right on the circular stairwell that provided the background for the still photo shoot.
He tells me the scenes in this movie are more than just a girl wearing sexy nylons.
"I try to match the girl with the outfit," he says. "And a lot of the focus is on the nylons during the sex. I look for girls with a nice butt and long legs because you can't focus on the nylons without that."
As Long makes final lighting adjustments and checks his equipment, West starts blowing Pete in the living room to get him ready for the scene. The fluff is an unexpected perk for the 29-year-old veteran, but West gets into her job.
Forty minutes later the two are fucking even when the camera isn't rolling.
"I can always tell when it's a good scene when the talent forgets that they're on a set," Long remarks.
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No injuries were reported, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The clerk, a 25-year-old woman, told deputies that a man walked into the hotel lobby around 10:45 p.m. and asked about room prices. He then drew a semi-automatic hand gun from a baseball bat bag, according to the report.
"He pulled the gun with his right hand and calmly laid it on the table," the clerk wrote in a statement.
He told her he would not hurt her, according to the report.
He took $512.98 from the register and safe, according to the report.
During the robbery, a car pulled up to the hotel, and the man told the clerk to say the hotel had no vacancies, according to the report. The clerk complied, according to the report.
Before leaving, the man tore the VCR and phones from the wall, according to the report. He then bound the clerk with rope, according to the report.
"He told me to count to 50 and he would be long gone," the clerk wrote in a statement.
Eventually, the clerk ran across the street to another hotel and called authorities, according to the report.
Deputies searched the area, but no suspects were found, according to the report. A similar incident occurred in Flagler County the same night, according to the report.
The following was compiled from police reports collected from the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office (SJCSO), St. Augustine Police Department (SAPD) and St. Augustine Beach Police Department (SABPD):
What: Doorway steps and an air conditioning unit. Value: $1,100. Where, when: A mobile home on Underwood Avenue in Hastings, between Monday and Wednesday. (SJCSO)
What: TV, computer and cash. Value: $1,005. Where, when: An office on the first block of Sawgrass Village Drive, Tuesday or Wednesday. (SJCSO)
What: Wallet and its contents. Value: $180. Where, when: Albertsons on State Road 312, Wednesday. (SJCSO)
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I am head-over-heels for Relics New Tot's Table. It is of amazingly high quality, is super sturdy, and built to last. One thing I quickly noticed about this table is that it is quite heavy – perfect for creating lasting memories as your little one scribbles away or creates their next amazing Play-doh sculpture.
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STANFORD, Calif.- No. 4 Stanford answered its first loss in nearly a year with its ninth shutout of the season in a 4-0 victory over No. 13 USC on Saturday afternoon at Taube Family Tennis Stadium.
After dropping a hard-fought 4-3 decision to No. 3 UCLA on Friday for only its fourth home loss since 1999, Stanford (14-1, 6-1 Pac-12) bounced back with a quick and decisive victory over USC (14-6, 5-2 Pac-12).
The Cardinal earned a split of its homestand against the Southern California schools, which promised to be one of its final hurdles before postseason play begins in May.
Stanford captured the doubles point for a 1-0 lead, surrendering only five games combined while posting victories at the Nos. 1 and 3 spots.
Similar to Friday's match, Stanford received immediate boosts from Carol Zhao and Caroline Doyle. The Cardinal extended its lead to 2-0 following a 6-2, 6-3 victory from Zhao on court three, then received a 6-4, 6-2 triumph from Doyle on court six. Both rookies are Stanford's hottest players as of late, with Zhao having won 14 in a row while Doyle is riding a 12-match winning streak.
Leading 3-0, Kristie Ahn provided the clincher with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Zoe Scandalis at the top spot of the lineup. One day after suffering only her third loss of the year, Ahn notched her team-leading 25th win of the year.
The remaining singles matches were abandoned.
Stanford returns to action on Friday, April 11, at Oregon in a 12 p.m. start.
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No. 4 Stanford 4, No. 13 USC 0
1) No. 10 Ahn/Zhao (STAN) d. Boren/Christian (USC) 8-3
2) No. 36 Davidson/Tsay (STAN) vs. Katz/Olmos (USC) abandoned
3) Doyle/Hardebeck (STAN) d. DeSimone/Scandalis (USC) 8-2
Order of Finish: 3, 1
1) No. 2 Kristie Ahn (STAN) d. No. 26 Zoe Scandalis (USC) 6-2, 6-3
2) No. 39 Krista Hardebeck (STAN) vs. Brynn Boren (USC) abandoned
3) No. 28 Carol Zhao (STAN) d. Gabriella DeSimone (USC) 6-2, 6-3
4) No. 27 Taylor Davidson (STAN) vs. Kaitlyn Christian (USC) abandoned
5) No. 42 Ellen Tsay (STAN) vs. No. 69 Giuliana Olmos (USC) abandoned
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The Legends Celebration pays tribute to luminaries in dance, theater, film, music, and visual arts.
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There are only 3 episodes left of season 10 of "Grey's Anatomy" and then we will bid farewell to Sandra Oh and the character she plays, Cristina Yang. As if that weren't enough drama, there is now information which TV Fanatic shared on April 28 about what the season finale will deal with. In the past, showrunner Shonda Rhimes has delivered a crazy gunman and a plane crash. This year will be something else altogether. There are Season 10 finale spoilers ahead so don't say we didn't warn you.
Just how Cristina Yang will be written out of the show has practically been kept a national secret. When Oh first announced her departure, she told the Hollywood Reporter she wanted her last appearance on the series to be a celebration. After ten years in the role, she wanted her character to have a happy ending in a way that was fitting for Cristina.
"I want us to get to that point where we see this character ride off into the sunset … Playing Cristina and growing her and growing myself in her, I want to usher her into the next section of her life in the best way possible. It's got to be Cristina Yang's happily-ever-after," she explained.
As for the rest of the episode, ABC has released some promotional photos from "Fear (of the Unknown)", however, that give us a peek at what is going on elsewhere in the episode. The photos show an angry looking Owen Hunt, along with guest star Rick Worthy. There are other photos that show the hospital overrun with patients and in some chaos. This could be in reaction to the "possible act of terrorism" we've been hearing about. Here's the synopsis as reported by International Business Times:
"In the Season 10 finale, the doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital bid an emotional farewell to the beloved Cristina Yang. But it's not just Cristina's departure that stirs up the emotions within the walls of Grey Sloan. A "possible act of terrorism" will rock Seattle and "cause chaos at the hospital." Talk about going out with a bang. "Meanwhile, Meredith makes a life changing decision and one doctor receives shocking news, on 'Grey's Anatomy.'"
"Grey's Anatomy" will return Thursday, May 1 at 8 p.m. on ABC with "We Are Never Getting Back Together," and the return of Dr. Preston Burke. The finale, "Fear (of the Unknown)" will air on May 15.
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In conducting the study, researchers Nicolas Gueguen and Celine Jacob of the University of Southern Brittany, in France, instructed 11 waitresses in five restaurants to wear the same tee shirt in six different colors over the course of six weeks.
On any given day, the women wore either a black, white, red, blue, green or yellow shirt. The waitresses were also told to act normally and record how much they received in tips from each customer.
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Krugman turns to his babysitter againBy Mark Thornton
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In today's column on "Money, Wealth, and Models," Paul Krugman lashes out "the Austrianish horde" for being critical of his view "that you can create real wealth by printing more pieces of paper." He is addressing Hans Hoppe's critique of Krugman that as a society you cannot turn pieces of paper into wealth, but not by name. Krugman defends himself by resorting once again to the model of a babysitter coop that failed. According to Krugman:
"all you need to do is think in terms of some kind of model, not necessarily of the mathematical kind. The whole point of the true story of the baby-sitting coop, which brings it down to a human scale, is that it's quite possible for economies to get into a snarl that can be solved by printing more money, or having the government spend more."I have diagnosed Krugman's views not as a theory or model but a phobia here including the babysitter coop model. The authors of the original short paper on the failure of the babysitter coop clearly wrote the paper "for fun" and explicitly warned against trying to apply it in the real world. My research found that:
The babysitter model appears in a four-page comment where the co-authors place their tongues firmly in their cheeks. There have been no citations to the four-page paper since it was published in 1977, as indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information, the most comprehensive source of citations, which reviews over 7,000 sources for citations. You could say that the article was largely written and read "just for fun," and at the end of the article the authors are careful to issue a clear message of caution for the reader to not read too much into the paper, and an explicit cautionary statement to guard against the type of recommendations that Paul Krugman is so famous for making.Shawn Ritenour also has a critique of Krugman's use of the babysitter coop model here.


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SEATTLE - Ho-hum. Keith Price completed his final eight throws and chucked three more touchdown passes.
After UW records of 66.9 percent on completions and 33 TD throws last season, that's not a huge development in a practice.
What was huge Saturday in the Huskies' fullest scrimmage of the month so far: Shaq Thompson.
Huge in playmaking. Huge in presence. Huge in potential impact on Washington's defense -- beginning right away, against San Diego State in the opener.
The freshman from Sacramento, Calif., heralded as the top high-school safeties in the country this past winter, blitzed from a linebacker alignment. He jammed inside receivers off the line and broke up multiple passes as a safety. He even ran back a kickoff. He sprinted 90 yards and it would have been a score -- except for the fact there is never live tackling on kickoffs in UW's intrasquad scrimmages.
Put another way: Thompson showed why he will be one of the 11 starters on defense when the Huskies run onto CenturyLink Field for real two Saturdays from now.
Coach Steve Sarkisian said after Thompson's latest impressive show that it's "definitely a reality" Washington could start the season with five defensive backs in its base defense.
That would partly be to offset the hit injuries have taken to depth at linebacker. That would partly be to counteract spread offenses UW will see this season.
And it would largely be because the 230-pound Thompson's size, skill and performance are forcing him onto the field somewhere. Anywhere.
"It's about putting the best 11 guys out there that we can. We think he's one of the best 11 guys," Sarkisian said. "We're just trying to find a role for him.
"He's just a dynamic football player. What I've been really impressed with him is his ability to really learn the defense, (even) having sat out there a couple days (due to a mild concussion recently). He's a really smart player. He's got a really high football IQ. And then he applies it when he goes out and plays.
"He plays with a big-play mentality, and obviously his closing speed is evident."
So, yes, that might mean an unconventional, 4-2-5 alignment for new defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox. Such a set would highlight the two strengths of this more aggressive unit for 2012: Outside pass rush speed with Josh Shirley and Andrew Hudson; inside run-stopping strength with mammoth Danny Shelton and Semisi Tokolahi, whom Sarkisian singled out for really coming on this week; plus experience and depth in the secondary with returning starters Desmond Trufant, Sean Parker and Justin Glenn.
Can Sarkisian conceive of having five defensive backs in the base defense to start the season?
"Oh, easily," he said. "So much of college football now, we see so many opened-up sets. ... We see so many more three wide-receiver looks, that's almost the norm.
"The unique thing that Shaq things, the versatility he brings, is that he is 230 pounds. Granted, he's a DB. But he's bigger than a lot of linebackers already, as a freshman. So he can almost play as a hybrid nickel, and then as a backer. We can blitz him - he's got great speed coming off the edge.
"I would think that's definitely a reality."
Offensively, Price did exactly what Sarkisian wanted after a slow-paced start Saturday. And not just because he was unofficially 10 for 14 passing and completed his last eight throws before a no-tackle, 2-minute drill. He was 4 for 4 on a touchdown drive against the second-team defense, including a perfectly placed sideline throw for 42 yards following a double, out-and-up move by surging freshman Jaydon Mickens.
Three times, Price followed Sarkisian's preseason orders and threw the ball well out of bounds instead of extending plays while under pressure. On a third down from the defense's 10-yard line, Price stepped up and threw it almost off the goalpost rather than take a sack.
Sarkisian has said in order to keep Price healthier this season he is almost over-emphasizing to him to throw the ball away now, knowing the fourth-year junior will likely fall back to some of his characteristic and uniquely effective improvisation once the action gets real Sept. 1.
"Oh, yeah, get rid of it. You don't want to take sacks in the `red zone,'" Price said.
Then he added with a chuckle: "I got cussed out pretty bad last week (for that)."
INSIDE CAMP: The coach and his QB didn't like the offense's slow pace to begin the scrimmage. There were a couple alignment mistakes, one of which caused a delay-of-game penalty, and some false-start flags. Standard stuff for two weeks into preseason camp, but Sarkisian was demanding urgency nonetheless. "Let's GO! Hurry UP!" he often yelled from the sidelines, wanting to better simulate the speed at which he wants to play during games. "We've got to pick up our tempo. And that starts with me," Price said. ... Sophomore WR Kasen Williams said the delays were partly the result of scrimmaging for one of the first times with the coaches away, on the sidelines, signaling in plays - and from employing impressive, young receivers such as Mickens and Kendyl Taylor. "It flusters people up a little bit," said Williams, who caught Price's first TD in the scrimmage on a jump-ball, back-shoulder throw in the end zone. "I remember being out here last year in this scrimmage and the same thing happened to me. It just takes time, more practice." ... Price's other TD throws were to wide-open TE Michael Hartvigson down the sidelines off a pump fake, and to Cody Bruns to end the no-huddle, 2-minute drill. Bruns deftly dragged his lead toe inside the sideline in the end zone on his catch. ... The Huskies are off the practice field Sunday, returning to it Monday afternoon. ... Sarkisian said he hopes to have Glenn back practicing then. The senior has been out this week with a concussion.


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A couple of weeks ago, Daniel Venditti got a strange call. The accented voice at the other end offered him a uniquely bizarre opportunity, the chance to create a door into fashion. The result of that collaboration takes shape this weekend in the Franklin Shops' storefront windows when Venditti creates a Klimt-inspired couture portrait on a door that will be installed in one of three ground floor fitting rooms at the River District art shop and boutique.
Venditti boasts ties to the New York fashion scene. From the mid-'90s until 2006, the figurative painter, printmaker and sculptor held positions as art and creative director at Vanity Fair, Esquire, Newsweek , Gourmet and Men's Health magazines. Since relocating to Naples, Florida, he's stayed close to the genre, serving as art director at Devious Design Studio in Fort Myers, Presstige Printing in Bonita Springs and City Mattress. As one might expect, his work reflects these influences, and even before the Franklin Shops' Cornelia Reinhardt finished describing the project, Venditti knew that he would use a Gustav Klimt femme fatale as inspiration for his fitting room fashion door.
"I discovered [Klimt] in art school," Venditti explained during an interview last night. "He's just so unique. I thought of him for this project because the era in which he painted is so fitting for this venue. The Franklin Shops evokes the same kind of atmosphere."
Venditti may be the latest, but he's by no means the first to draw a link between Klimt and the world of high fashion. One need go no further than L'Wren Scott's Fall 2013 bon vivant line for an example of Klimt-inspired fashion designs. Scott's gilded art-nouveau fall collection contains distinctive aureate swirls, wriggling serpents and 23-karat gold accents unabashedly borrowed from the Austrian painter's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, which was purchased by Ronald Lauder for his Neue Gallery in New York in 2006 for $135 million (a record that stood for a scant four months). Just as Klimt's paintings often celebrated the female form, Scott's designs feature bold colors and body-hugging silhouettes. But Klimt did more than create paintings that appeal to present day designers and fashionistas.
Klimt collaborated with long-time muse and Viennese couturiere Emilie Floge, suggesting the patterns that she incorporated into her avant-garde designs known as Reformed Dresses that were reminiscent of kimonos and North African tunics. Theirs was one of the first partnerships to bring together art and fashion. Klimt not only painted Floge, he photographed her too, perhaps becoming the world's very first fashion photographer in the process. Eventually, Klimt even tried his own hand in designing dresses and accessories, leaving a legacy of sketches and drawing of his design ideas.
Like Klimt, Venditti has always been fascinated with the human form coupled with an abiding interest in human nature. Both inform his artistic style and reveal much about the artist, his subjects, and his viewers. "But it's important to note that I'm not doing a reproduction," cautions Venditti. "My own style will come through."
That style has garnered Venditti his share of accolades and solo shows over the past few years. In the last half of 2011, his work was juried into two popular shows at daas Gallery, Skin 2011 and Earth: A Cry for Deliverance. In the first half of 2012, he was featured in a solo show titled Paintings & Prints and Incognito, a fundraiser in which 200 local, national and international artists painted 200 original 8 x 10 inch works of art in the Daniels Pavilion at the Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art to benefit Friends of Art, a 1,000-member volunteer support group for the visual arts at Artis Naples.
He followed that with a two-man show in July, 2012 at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, where he teamed with Lyle Bowen for an exhibit called Reflections. In October of 2012, his mixed media work, The Burden, was selected as Best of Show at the Alliance's State of Mind: Politics 2012 show. More recently, he was included in the Davis Art Center's well-attended and critically-acclaimed 5-year retrospective.
Venditti will be painting live in the Franklin Shops window from 2-6 p.m. on both Saturday, February 1 and Sunday, February 2 during ArtFest Fort Myers. The Franklin Shops on First are located at 2200 First Street in the downtown Fort Myers River District. For more information, please telephone 239-333-3130 or visit http://thefranklinshops.com/.