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"Menifee's Main Event" is an amateur boxing championship tournament being held here in Menifee this weekend. Amateur boxers of all ages participate in this tournament every year. This is the fifth year it has been put on in Menifee.
Proceeds from this event are donated to St. Jude's Children's Hospital and the Riverside County Boxing Club. This year's event takes place this Saturday, June 8 from noon to 9 p.m. and Sunday, June 9 from 1-8 p.m. at the Valley Wide Park and Recreation Center on La Piedra Road.
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Many brilliant developers are working on improving the current implementation of Ruby and on creating alternatives. I was curious about their current respective speeds, so I installed and ran some benchmarks for the most popular implementations. In this article, I'm sharing the results for the community to see.
My tests were conducted on an AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ processor, with 1 GB of RAM.
The tested Ruby implementations were:
The operating system that was used for all – but Ruby.NET – is Ubuntu 6.10 (for x86). Ruby.NET currently runs on Microsoft Windows only, therefore I've used Vista with the .NET Framework 2.0 and have also run Ruby 1.8.5-p12 on Windows as a means of having a more direct comparison with Ruby.NET.
Ruby 1.9, JRuby, Rubinius and Cardinal were all installed using their respective latest development versions from trunk.
The 41 tests used to benchmark the various Ruby implementations can be found within the benchmark folder in the repository of Ruby 1.9. The following is a list of the tests with a direct link to the source code for each of them:
The following table shows the execution time expressed in seconds for Ruby 1.8.5 on Linux, Ruby 1.8.5 on Windows, Ruby 1.9 (Yarv/Rite) on Linux, JRuby on Linux, Gardens Point Ruby.NET on Windows, Rubinius on Linux and finally Cardinal on Linux.
Below is a chart which shows the average and median values, visually:
Of course, the bold green values indicate a positive performance, so for example Cardinal was 4 times faster than Ruby 1.8.5 on Linux for the test vm1_swap, but it was also 18 times slower for so_matrix (therefore in red).
I won't provide too many personal considerations but rather let you enjoy the numbers. Generally speaking though, Ruby on Windows was about 1.5 times slower than on Linux. Yarv (merged in the development version of Ruby) is clearly the fastest by a long shot. This is good news (there are hopes for a fast Ruby 2.0), and it is not an unexpected result.
Ruby.NET and JRuby had similar performances and were able to execute most of the tests. It is clear though that they will need to focus on improving their individual speeds in the coming future, in order to be ready for prime time.
Cardinal wasn't able to complete most tests, and was extremely slow in some others. However on a few occasions, it also showed decent results (beating Ruby 1.8.5 in 3 tests). Rubinius was extremely slow too but correctly handled a larger amount of tests than Cardinal was able to (and it was significantly faster in executing so_sieve.rb).
I'd like to conclude by saying that all the people involved with these projects are doing an amazing job. And while some implementations show that they are in an early stage of development, it is in no way detrimental of the great effort and work done by their developers, nor attempts to predict their future success or failure. So once again, great job guys, all of this is nothing short of exciting!
UPDATE 02/21/07: Wow, it looks like this article received a lot of attention and naturally I'm glad it did. Slashdot linked to this and traffic sky rocketed, giving major exposure to all these projects.
Most importantly, I initially thought I'd run another batch of tests in 3 months time, but given the amount of feedback that I've received, I'll carry out another test run fairly soon to incorporate many of the insightful suggestions and requests that were received.
By the way, Ruby 1.8.6 is out in preview, and some of you sent me emails asking to test it out. Running the test shows that it's usually slightly faster than 1.8.5 and it seems to notably speeds up recursion based tests. The next test run will have details for Ruby 1.8.6 as well.
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Very intresting, thanks for doing this Antonio
Great to see how the different implementations compare. It is also another example of the speed boost Yarv will provide.
In another comparisons I saw, Ruby was actually the fastest scripting language, between PHP and Python, when used with YARV.
The new JRuby compiler stuff should make it a lot faster.
Awesome benchmarks. Ruby 2.0 is going to be fantastic then! Thanks so much for doing this.
I was worried Yarv was not going to be fast enough, your tests show otherwise, I will sleep better
Michael Silver:
Would you care to publish the url? Seems interesting.
Very interesting results, and very promising for JRuby. I'd like to point out the following details about the JRuby results:
– We've only recently started to work on performance; so these numbers actually look pretty good to me.
– This is JRuby in interpreted mode, compared to YARV, Ruby.NET, and Rubinius running with compiled code. Our prototype compiler has shown we can improve speed many times.
– Some of these are IO bound, and our IO subsystem is in bad need of improvement. But we know what's wrong, and we know we can fix it.
– We've focused on correctness, which counts for a lot. We're the only alternative implementation that can run Rails out of the box. Now for the next
But it's great to see these numbers and see how we compare. It will motivate us to continue working (and I see from the mailing lists and IRC channel that's already happening
Just wanted to drop a note to let people know they shouldn't worry about rubinius. The project is so young that we've not yet begun to perform any of the normal speed optimizations such as selector caching. These optimizations are now being added, and I'll ask that hopefully the tests be rerun against rubinius soon with these in place.
Hi Charles,
thank you so much for stopping by and adding details and a good contribution to the discussion. I'm glad that you found this post somewhat useful. I believe JRuby is very promising, in fact it's always a part of my slides whenever I present Ruby and Ruby on Rails to meetings and conferences.
Hi Evan,
thanks for commenting. As I wrote in the disclaimer "… some of them haven't been optimized for speed yet", and Rubinius, being a fairly young project, is one of them. I plan to re-run these tests periodically so there will be plenty of space for testing improvements.
Also, feel free to drop me a line by email whenever you feel like Rubinius is ready for another test.
PS: we're being slashdotted, so hopefully this will give more exposure to each single project as well.
I'd just like to say thanks, Antonio. It's exciting to see just how much Ruby 2.0 is going to improve over the current codebase. I'm really happy to see just how much Ruby is spreading, and to see that not only YARV, but other great projects working to better the language. I'm looking forward to seeing the stable 2.0 release, as well as what JRuby and Rubinus can do as well.
These numbers have me totally psyched for Ruby 2.0. Thanks for pulling them together.
Your background-repeat does not work in IE7.
Your background-repeat does not work in IE7.
Thanks Drew, I'm aware of the issue and I'll try to fix it soon.
How did you calculate the values for the final table? I'm a bit confused by it.
The mixture of negative values and no values between -1 and 1 suggests to me some sort of mixture of subtraction and multiplication that probably wasn't intended.
If we're going by "how many times faster it runs" then I would expect 0.5 to mean it took twice as long and 2.0 to mean it ran twice as fast, calculated by taking the baseline and dividing it by the particular value.
Also, I think a geometric mean would have been a better choice so that if one odd test runs 20 times faster and another one takes 20 times as long, the average doesn't get artifiically skewed toward the larger value.
The mixture of negative values and no values between -1 and 1 suggests to me some sort of mixture of subtraction and multiplication that probably wasn't intended.
Hi Grant,
I set the formula to generate a conventional positive value for improvements over the current interpreter, and a negative value to indicate how many times it was slower (taking Ruby 1.8.5 as 1 time). Therefore if you get 1.5 times in green, it means that it was 50% faster, while a -1.5 times in red indicates that it took 50% longer. Perhaps a more common convention would be +0.5 and -0.5, setting Ruby to zero.
Also, I think a geometric mean would have been a better choice so that if one odd test runs 20 times faster and another one takes 20 times as long, the average doesn't get artifiically skewed toward the larger value.
Given the skewed distribution, I've also provided the Median. A geometric mean would have yielded results that were slightly different but comparable to the Median.
I know scripting languages emphasize startup times, but the tests might want to consider the JIT factor. The exact testing methodology isn't described, but possibly the JRuby and Ruby.NET implementations are suffering from starting a larger more generic VM and having a JIT kick in part way through the run. A longer running program that amortized for such 'boot up' time might favour such implementations a little more.
Thanks for running these comparative tests. These results, along with future test runs will be invaluable in guaging the progress of the different implementations of Ruby. It look forward to seeing the results in 6 and 12 months. Ruby is not going away and the veriety of implementations will only allow for wider adoption…
To all the projects: Keep up the excellent work!! It is much appreciated by us mere users in the trenches.
It seems suspicious that most of the Windows' times are slower on what are mostly non-I/O tests.
Ruby.NET works on Mono in Linux, I have not tried recompiling it, but the binaries published work out of the box with Mono 1.2.3
It seems suspicious that most of the Windows' times are slower on what are mostly non-I/O tests
How so? It's well known that Ruby is slower on Windows, man.
I must say I do worry more about the fact that all implementations except 1.8 on linux and yarv failed to run valid code. What kind of "Error"s did You encounter?
Ruby.NET works on Mono in Linux, I have not tried recompiling it, but the binaries published work out of the box with Mono 1.2.3
Miguel, thank you very much for stopping by and pointing this out. Rest assured that Ruby.NET will be tested on Windows and on Linux through Mono in the next test run.
Did you build an optimized version of Parrot to use with Cardinal? By default, Parrot builds with all optimizations off and with all debug flags on. This makes it slower but makes development a lot easier.
To build an optimized bird, pass the "–optimize" flag to Configure.pl:
perl Configure.pl –optimize && make
Cardinal is still in its very early stages, so I don't expect anything remarkable yet, but this should make a difference.
To build an optimized bird, pass the "—optimize" flag to Configure.pl:
perl Configure.pl –optimize && make
That's a good suggestion Matt, so far I've used the installation instructions provided by each candidate, to be fair to everyone.
Perhaps Cardinal should indicate this default option in their README. I'll keep this in mind for the next test run and hopefully we'll see some improvements.
I must say I do worry more about the fact that all implementations except 1.8 on linux and yarv failed to run valid code. What kind of "Error"s did You encounter?
There were all sorts of errors from 'stack level too deep' in a recursive method, to serious but rarer errors like Segmentation Faults.
Many of these implementations are early versions, so I wouldn't worry too much.
JRuby and Ruby 1.8.5 on Windows failed app_answer and app_factorial with a 'stack level too deep' error. This doesn't happen if the number of recursions required is lowered. JRuby also failed so_ackermann for the same reason and raised a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError while executing vm1_swap. JRuby didn't show any serious problems, and neither did Ruby.NET.
Thanks for this. Between Rails and YARV, Ruby should really grow in adoption.
In my last post, I failed to give the URL for a speed test comparing Ruby with other languages including yarv:
Not scientific at all, but the Ruby numbers are consistent with this blogs comparison.
really nice tests! Ruby is hot this days.
Can you add XRuby implementation?
How about memory usage stats? Not everything is solved with faster execution.
Antonio: With rubinius did you bench the first run (compiling of bytecode included) or after a second run (.rbc generated)? At the moment Rubinius only supports bytecode interpration.
I would be curious to see the benchmark results on Windows XP instead of Vista. There are many things that actually run slower on this marvelous new shiny OS…
I also agree with the comment about taking into account the startup/JIT time of the various platforms.
when will 2.0 be released?
can we run yarv now?
I'm pretty excited about the Ruby support in objective c 2.0 (apple's rewrite of cocoa). I can see a renaissance of mac desktop apps inheriting from the experience of today's web-app crew. And what if it becomes relatively simple to port your web app to the mac by just putting your ruby code into a cocoa app? That could get interesting.
I think its clear that the success of textmate is due to rails, but I also think that the success of rails is partly due to the use of textmate in that first screencast. The bright colors and snippet expansion were hard not to love. And I definitely associate the mate with rails – it helps us write our sites, it even helped David write basecamp. To some degree, textmate catalyzed rails, which catalyzed Ruby. Now I think they'll combine forces to catalyze not just a new generation but a new lineage of desktop apps. And maybe rails 4.0 will be written on one of them.
If you can find a way to meaningfully test the implementation of Ruby in objective c 2, great.
This is a very exciting time for Ruby indeed. Great work here.
I'd be interested to know what options you are using to launch the JVM when testing JRuby. As you probably know, a Java 5 JVM will by default limit itself to (I believe on your platform) 64m of memory on a non server class machine. The command line parameter -Xmx=512m can be used to raise that value. This will probably eliminate your OutOfMemoryExceptions on heavily recursive code.
There also is an option to increase the JVM stack size e.g.
Comments from Mono creator is fun .. sorry Miguel, nobody trust mono has any future I am affraid … and especially not ruby fans :o) Well, if you add up GPL Java, not Java fans I think … so only .net fans ? Well, yes, if running on MS Windows with MS VS :o)
Opensource is just about liberty !
Thanks for providing this comparison. It's good to know that YARV is a) successfully running all these tests and b) kicking butt performance-wise! It sounds like my ruby app servers are going to get a bit of a rest in a few months time.
Did tests on Vista include the time it takes to click OK on all the UAC prompts? 😀
Another YARV rival in the performance's comparison:
LuaJIT is JITted Lua scripting lang. like
YARV is JITted Ruby scripting lang.
Thanks to Antonio for compiling the stats. So far in the Ruby.NET project we have only been concentrating on getting rid of the "error" lines. We will be doing performance when we have more interop and RoR working.
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Thanks to Antonio for compiling the stats. So far in the Ruby.NET project we have only been concentrating on getting rid of the "error" lines. We will be doing performance when we have more interop and RoR working.
That's definitely a sound approach. Thank you for stopping by, Prof Gough.
Using the raw time values to compute the median isn't a appropriate here because the different tests' times vary quite a bit. It would probably be better to normalize the times by dividing each by a "standard" running time and then compute the median off of those values. The most obvious choice would for the standard running time would be that of the current stable Ruby implementation.
The computation of the mean could also benefit from the use of normalized running times.
Great job dude! I'm looking forward to seeing JRuby improvements in the next test. When will it be?
Nice work. I would also be very interested in a memory usage comparison.
The code for fib(n) isn't exactly correct.
def fib(n)
if n < 3
fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
It produces fib(0)=1, it should be fib(0)=0
This produces correct result for all n.
def fib(n)
if n < 2
fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
Hi Jabari,
you're correct, whoever wrote the test missed the degenerated case. This of course, does not affect the performance results. =)
Could you please zip all the source code and let it available for download.
I am sorry, SVN helped me to get the source code.
This is great work!! Thank you, Antonio!! I would add one note. When you are summarizing the relative performance statistics — reducing the results for all of the benchmarks to a single relative performance number for the implementation — you want to compute the *geometric* mean of the ratios! See the paper "How not to lie with statistics: the correct way to summarize benchmark results", which can be found at
Another way to look at this is to take the logs of all the ratios, do your descriptive/summary stats on the logs, and then take the antilogs of the summaries. So you could compute "geometric medians" or even do a Tukey jackknife.
By the way — I just returned from the Mountain West Ruby Conference and talked to the jRuby, Rubinius and Parrot/Cardinal implementors. I've thrown another benchmark into the mix, which you are welcome to pick up from RubyForge using
svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/cougar/MatrixBenchmark
Oh yeah:
1. My matrix benchmark runs about 4 times as fast with YARV as it does with "stock Ruby".
2. 1.8.6 runs it about 11 percent faster than 1.8.5
3. If you look in the project, it also *profiles* the Ruby interpreter on the benchmark using "gprof". I'd be really interested if someone would merge the profiles of all of these benchmarks for YARV and stock Ruby. If the other environments are implemented in C, this could be done for them too. I'm somewhat tied up in another project right now, but I've volunteered to mentor for Summer of Code, and if a student wants to pick this project up — profiling the Ruby interpreter — I'd be happy to give it away.
Thank you very much M. Edward, your tips on statistical reporting are very appreciated and I'll try to include them in my next test run.
Hi Antonio!
in your next test, please include the factorial of 6120
Antonio, thanks for these benchmarks. Did you ever think about setting these up as automated benchmarks? If it could check out the source for each imeplentation nightly, run the benchmarks, and then automatically update the graphs and charts we'd be able to watch the progress as they improve.
Great stuff Antonio!
I was worried Yarv was not going to be fast enough, your tests show otherwise, I will sleep better
why it's always writing NULL in empty fields?
Beck ham, please stop posting the same question over and over. NULL fields appear only in IE. You can get a decent browser here: "http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/":http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.


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Excitement dwells amidst the Stephen King fan community. Hushed voices are whispering, necks are turning (almost to the point of cranking), while others (the shorter ones) are standing on their toes, trying to steal a glimpse or two because they know it's coming—they hear the soft, almost nonexistent hum of the engine of a Mercedes Benz approaching. The King is back.
The gap and silence have not been lengthy, thank goodness. After the great success of Dr. Sleep, not too long ago, and Joyland before, Stephen King is scheduled to release a new book titled Mr. Mercedes in June of this year, showing the constant reader (and the distant one) that after writing over 60 books, he isn't done telling stories.
The story seems to unfold in the early hours at some job fair in some "Midwestern city", where a Mercedes Benz appears amidst the heavy fog, crashes though the awaiting crowd, injuring many and killing some, only to disappear back into the blanket of fog.
Detective Bill Hodges, clearly the protagonist, is initially assigned to the case. However, as the crime becomes cold due to the expansion of time, and due to the lack of leads, the case becomes stale and no one gets arrested.
Time moves on.
Bill Hodges is now a retired cop when he receives a bizarre but disturbing letter from someone claiming the Mercedes crime. In addition, the letter's crazy writer also reveals his plans of carrying out an act of terror so outrageous that it will kill thousands. In turn, Bill is lured out of retirement. He becomes passionate about the whole ordeal and determines himself to catch this killer before he strikes again big.
Although the waiting period hasn't "really" been that long, to some extent, the lovers of SK fiction feel as if it has been a small piece of eternity. And although the waiting room has been filled with other reading material that we occasionally flip through, in order to keep our minds busy while we wait, our main focus remains on the next SK book, which in this case, Stephen King has promised to deliver to us in a Mercedes Benz this June.
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On Thursday, February 21 a committee of Toronto City Council heard from numerous deputants regarding the critical loss of shelter beds and other basic services for homeless persons in the downtown.
Council opted to do nothing.
On Wednesday, February 27 a homeless Aboriginal man was found dead in an unheated stairwell in the downtown. It was the coldest night of the year with a wind chill of -27 Celsius. Another homeless man suffered serious injury from the cold on this same night.
This death and scores of others could have been prevented over the years, had Council acted to preserve emergency resources and put more effort into defending and adding to existing housing stock. Instead, they have willfully opted to do nothing – or worse, to systematically cut resources at a time when the need is more desperate than ever.
A memorial plaque outside the Church Of The Holy Trinity near Toronto's City Hall bears the names of more than five hundred other women, men and youth who have died needlessly on the streets of Toronto over the past twenty years – a list which is actually far from complete, but which nonetheless serves as a graphic testament to the willful negligence of Toronto City Council and all other levels of government. Not a month goes by where several new names aren't added to this growing list.
This morning, with yet another winter storm looming, citizens gathered at City Hall with the intent of delivering a written statement to Council members as they held their monthly sitting. Close to fifty people gained access to Council chambers and part of the group began circulating among the seated members with copies of the statement.
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It is inexcusable that a city of Toronto's wealth knowingly allows this kind of preventable carnage to continue on its streets. Rather than accommodating a clear, desperate need, Council responds with deeper cuts to basic services in each passing year while funneling ever more funds into paying the same cops who violently cleared Council chambers this morning, and who harass and abuse homeless people on a daily basis.
Just last month another young Aboriginal man, a psychiatric survivor, was shot and killed by Toronto police over the theft of a small amount of fruit from a food store and because he was allegedly carrying a small knife. Why is the city funding this kind of carnage rather than ensuring people are sheltered?
On top of all this our Chief of Police is lobbying to put Tasers in the hands of every cop in the City of Toronto at an estimated cost of $8 million dollars, while investing a smaller sum into basic resources for homeless people would make this and many other police expenditures unnecessary.
It is becoming clear this and other levels of government are pursuing a deadly priority of social cleansing, containment and control at all costs rather than investing in strategies or resources that would accommodate at least basic human needs and ensure that people not only enjoy an inalienable right to life, but to live with dignity.
This is a war against our most vulnerable citizens that has been waged for generations but in recent years an escalation has occurred that will result in many more casualties unless the governments waging it are held to account and the neo-conservative agenda driving it is defeated – once and for all.
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Any way you spin it, $500M is a lot of money.
Typically, even the biggest game studios don't shell out that kind of money for games. But, that changes with Activision's upcoming title "Destiny".
A budget of this magnitude is completely unprecedented. In fact, the only game that even came close to this $500M budget was "Grand Theft Auto V", which came in around $265M, just over half of "Destiny"'s budget. And that was for an established franchise. The same is true for the four runner-ups: "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" at $200M, "Star Wars: The Old Republic" also at $200M, "Final Fantasy VII" at $145M, and "Max Payne 3" at $105M.
So what is it about "Destiny" that has Activision ready to shell out really big bucks?
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The world of "Destiny" is going to be expansive, with many destinations and variations on the gameplay. The trailer footage that's been released thus far doesn't give us much in the way of specifics, but it does draw up some notable comparisons. The characters, ships and weapons are reminiscent of BioWare's hit "Mass Effect" trilogy. The barren, dystopian landscape might remind some of Gearbox Software's "Borderlands". And the vast, open landscape draws relatively obvious comparisons to Bethesda's "Skyrim".
Everything that's been released regarding "Destiny" thus far makes one thing clear: this game is a massive undertaking and is likely to be a new kind of open world gaming that will keep developing over the next decade, and if Activision's financial vote of confidence is anything to go by, it's going to be spectacular.


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Saturday night. The SAG Awards kept a window open when they supported this Oscar seasons film favorites, like "American Hustle". The film won best honors, at the 20th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Saturday night in Los Angeles, Shrine Auditorium. Star Bradley Cooper spoke on behalf of the ensemble, which also includes Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence and Christian Bale. Bradley Cooper hailed director David O. Russell as "the epitome of the actor's director." Actress Jennifer Lawrence didn't give an acceptance speech at this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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The Butler".
From ABC TV, "Modern Family"..ah..ugh..what again, because of Sofia Vergara's assets. Which is why, "Modern Family's" star accepted because according to co-star, Julie Bowen, "America loves that hot Latina boob...oops.. that hot Colombian actresses boobs." And of course sos, cast members chuckled behind Sofia, stop it Julie B. Sofia;"Because after 5 seasons, still, me..barely speak English not so good", hmm...what there isn't a learning anex in that pretend TV town. Sofia Vergara said the award menn-et-ed, so very..very muush, as she thanked the show's creators and writers, the crew, the network.Finally saying,"And of course,"my boobs and I, are going to party now! ""Modern Family" standout Ty Burrell also deserved to join that party,because he won top prize for Best Actor in a Comedy.
"Breaking Bad" won the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Drama, Saturday night, "Breaking Bad" Bryan Cranston scored the Best Actor in a Drama Series trophy for "Breaking Bad." With that he immediately launched into an impromptu rendition of "I Won a SAG Award.""Saying the only thing that got me through my life,was dreaming,that one day, I could actually make a living as an actor."
The Best Actress in a Comedy award went to Julia Louis-Dreyfus for "Veep".
Maggie Smith won the SAG Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for "Downton Abbey"
Helen Mirren earned the accolade for Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries for her work in "Phil Spector."
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SAG Awards Show highlights came when major acting honors went to Cate Blanchett for her role in Woody Allen's"Blue Jasmine"
And hey..hey,Matthew McConaughey won for"Dallas Buyers Club." Who admits to recently find some characters that I can humble myself to their humanities and get feverishly drunk on their obsessions." His co-star Jared Leto,in who plays the gaunt transsexual Rayon.Jared Leto, received the award for supporting actor for his performance in the Texas HIV drama "Dallas Buyers Club."
Morgan Freeman,introduced SAG's lifetime achievement award, he presented to 82-year-old "West Side Story" Oscar winning actress, Rita Moreno.Whose career has spanned Broadway, television and music the much-honored Latina legend danced to the podium before a standing ovation and was so extremelyy happy, that she let out a gleeful cursing. Hoping that the man with the button caught that, Rita Moreno serenaded the SAG audience with a few bars from "This Is All I Ask": "And let the music play...As long as there's a song to sing...And I will stay younger than spring."
For SAG's show closing presenter Ben Affleck didn't get to wrap up the show, in a Kanye West-style moment, pushed Affleck aside,as the credits started rolling, Cuba Gooding Jr. ran up and said, "Happy MLK! Happy MLK weekend!"Starting Monday's holiday off ,enjoying his special contribution.


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DEKALB, Ill. -- The 23rd ranked NIU Huskies earned their 23rd consecutive Huskie Stadium victory on Saturday, defeating Akron 27-20 before a Homecoming, sellout crowd of 23,595. The win set a new MAC record for consecutive home victories, breaking a tie with Marshall (1997-2000).NIU improved to 6-0 with the victory and the Huskies are 2-0 in the MAC, while Akron dropped to 1-6, 0-3 despite a game effort that stretched Northern Illinois to its limits. "We're real happy with the win," said NIU Head Coach Rod Carey, who improved to 6-1 as the Huskies' head coach. "We had opportunities out there offensively and we left them on the field. We weren't executing offensively and obviously there are a bunch of things we have to get corrected."I was really, really happy with our defense," he continued. "We've played good defense; they have the ability to carry us and today they did." The Huskies held Akron to just six points after the first quarter and 372 total yards in the game, the lowest total by a Huskie opponent this season. The NIU defense combined for nine pass breakups in the contest. Akron struck first with a 9-play, 71-yard drive to take a 7-0 lead. Kyle Pohl connected with Mykel Traylor-Benn for 34 yards to put the Zips inside the NIU 10 and Jawon Chisholm finished off the drive with a touchdown from a yard out giving Akron the lead four minutes into the contest. It took NIU less than a minute to answer, going 74 yards in six plays, using just 59 seconds off the clock. The big play of the drive was a 25-yard Lynch to Juwan Brescain (Mississauga, Ont., Canada/Culver [Ind.] Academy) connection. Lynch capped the NIU drive with an 18-yard touchdown run as the Huskies evened the contest, 7-7. Following a three-and-out by Akron, NIU took its first lead of the day on a 42-yard field goal by junior Tyler Wedel (McFarland, Wis./McFarland). The field goal capped an 8-play, 41-yard drive for the Huskies.NIU increased its lead to 10 with 4:52 left in the first quarter on a 25-yard pass connection from Lynch to sophomore tight end Desroy Maxwell (Evanston, Ill./Amundsen). A 19-yard rush by junior Cameron Stingily (Romeoville, Ill./Romeoville) put the Huskies within striking distance at the Akron 25, but NIU faced a third-and-10 when Lynch found Maxwell for the score. A pair of long pass receptions helped Akron pull back within three, 17-14. Pohl connected with Jerrod Dillard on the opening play of the drive for 42 yards. On the next play, Pohl hit L.T. Smith for 21 yards to the Huskie two-yard line. Three plays later Chisholm dove over the pile for his second score of the day as Akron cut into the NIU lead. Defense dominated the second quarter as the Huskies and Zips combined for just 132 yards and seven punts. Neither team scored in the second quarter, the first scoreless quarter of the season for NIU, as the Huskies took a 17-14 lead into the locker room. On its first possession of the second half, NIU pushed its lead back to 10. Junior wide receiver Tommylee Lewis (Riviera Beach, Fla./W.T. Dwyer) went 16 yards on an end around on the second play of the drive, followed by a 40-yard Lynch to Lewis connection to move the Huskies into Zips territory. Three plays later, Stingily finished the drive with a nine-yard touchdown run to give NIU a 24-14 lead. Senior quarterback Jordan Lynch (Chicago, Ill./Mt. Carmel) was 16-of-35 through the air for 220 yards and a touchdown. Lynch also had 15 carries for 83 yards and a score. Stingily had 21 carries for 80 yards and a touchdown in the contest. Lewis finished with a team-high six receptions for 58 yards. Still leading by 10 early in the fourth quarter, senior safety Jimmie Ward (Mobile, Ala./C.F. Vigor) came up with the only turnover of the game, intercepting a Pohl pass along the sideline at the Akron 30-yard line. It was the fourth consecutive game with an interception for Ward.The Huskies got down to the Akron three, but were forced to settle for a field goal from 21 yards out by Wedel to take a 27-14 lead with 11:19 to play in the fourth quarter. With 5:27 left, Akron cashed in an 18-play, 75-yard drive with an 11-yard touchdown pass from Pohl to Tyrell Goodman for the Zips' only points of the final three quarters. The extra point was blocked and the Zips trimmed the Huskie lead to seven, 27-20. Following a Huskie punt, Akron turned the ball over on downs as Ward had a pass breakup on fourth down, giving the ball back to NIU with three minutes to play. After a Huskie field goal attempt was blocked, giving Akron one more chance with no timeouts left and 1:15 on the clock. The Zips got one first down, but then four straight incomplete passes gave the ball back to NIU and secured the Huskie victory. The Huskies will return to action next Saturday, Oct. 19, as they travel to Mount Pleasant, Mich., to face Central Michigan. Game time against the Chippewas is scheduled for 2 p.m. CT and will be broadcast on ESPN3.


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"Swimming" my way to a strong core. / Photo: J. Booth
Strong core = strong running.
A strong core increases a runner's efficiency, endurance, and balance, and decreases fatigue and strain, as detailed in A strong core makes a strong runner (March 2010). Finding the time and motivation to work the various muscles that make up the core can be a challenge. The Jersey City Running Fitness Examiner is devoted to creative ways to improve running performance and make the most of available resources.
An as-seen-on-TV solution.
In other words, I'm too lazy for the few minutes needed to pop in a fitness DVD and I'd never spend the money anyway. Surprisingly, my television provided a solution: Comcast's On Demand Sports & Fitness channel offers workouts organized by categories, including "Abs" -- and hope of reigning in my expanding midsection and grumbling about the extra expense of digital service. There are at least twenty workout options from which to choose and selections change about monthly. Brief descriptions provide information on instructor, style (e.g., pilates-, yoga-, and dance-inspired workouts), and duration (from 10 to 30 minutes). Ab workouts on my time and in my own living room meant no more excuses, so I committed to doing one 10- or 20-minute workout daily before running.
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There are many worthy workouts available but the Incredible Abs series led by Cindy Whitmarsh ranks high. The seven 20-minute workouts require only floor space and an optional hand weight (though workout #7 requires a stability ball) and work all sections of the core with moves much more inspired than endless on-the-floor crunches (e.g., simulated "swimming" while maintaining the plank position, as pictured above). The challenging pace of the cardio and toning intervals means efficient calorie burning and muscle strengthening in 20 minutes. Cindy Whitmarsh's cheer is motivating without being annoying -- important when performing hard-core exercises meant to "shred" your core (my numerous "Ugh"s and "Are you kidding?" confirm the intensity).
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L.A. Times' The Envelope discussed with director Pete Docter the opening sequence of Pixar's UP -- the silent montage which unveils the main character's life prior to his decision to attach balloons to his home and fly away south.
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On whether or not the sequence was always envisioned as being silent:
"Actually, no. Bob Peterson originally wrote a series of very short scenes, two or three on a page with dialogue, and the characters were completing each other's sentences and other snippets that showed how well matched they were. And as we went into storyboard, Ronnie Del Carmen, who was our head of story, took on that sequence at the beginning and said, "This would be really great if it was silent." We sort of resisted for a while, but it was a classic case of, as I believe Mark Twain said, "I didn't have time for a short letter, so I wrote you a long one." Over time, we were able to know what we absolutely needed to see in the scene, and what we could cut out."
On what was important to Docter in conceiving the montage [spoiler alert]:
"From a "feel" standpoint, it was the sense of a life lived, and not only the highs, but the lows. That's why we put in a couple of dark moments, like their not being able to have children, and of course, her passing away, so the scene didn't feel like a total Pollyanna thing. It actually feels more real, and I think that's how you remember life being like. We also talked early on about most of us grew up in homes where our folks were taking Super-8 films of our family. And when you go back and look at those, they're also silent, but there's something powerful about having no sound. Conversely, we also have audiotapes of our families, which have no picture, and that's equally powerful, because in either case, there's something asked of you as the viewer or listener - you're actively engaged by creating this missing element, so it comes to life in your own head."


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I put together this strawberry party for my seven year old client. I wanted it to be crisp, bright and clean. We decided to work with a preppy plaid print and color palette of lime green and pinks rather than traditional red.
Lunch was served in personalized gable boxes and the girls served themselves strawberry milk, strawberry soda or strawberry lemonade. The backdrop for the dessert table was a personalized framed poster that matched the rest of the printables. The girls ate all things strawberry: cake, cupcakes, shakes, ice cream and cookies. I made yards and yards of circle garland in two shades of pink to hang above the drink and dessert tables. The cake also had similar garland on it.
After lunch, the girls made strawberry eggs, strawberry pies in mason jars and went on a strawberry scavenger hunt.
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Part 1 of Using Images in Posts: Branding, First Impressions and Happiness
By admin on Jul 11, 2007 in Blogging Tips
Ever since using a RSS feed reader, I have found my self with the problem of thinking "who was it that wrote that post on such and such…". The reason I find myself forgetting who wrote something has a couple of possible explanation related to RSS, and hopefully not my lack of memory.
1. Information overload. Using an RSS reader means I get read a lot more content than previously and while this is a good thing over all because I absorb more information, I am forced to be more selective and for some reason my wiring is telling me that remembering who wrote what is expendable.
2. RSS feeds look essentially the same. They really are Really Simple Syndication and all the hard work the author has put into making his blog look original is wasted on an RSS feed. This is where images come in.
First Impressions
It's fairly common knowledge that the first thing people look at when viewing a webpage are the eye-catching images. Therefore if an image is place 'above the fold' at the top of a post it hold a large amount of power.
An image should be any combination of these:
Images do not have to be the 'logo' of your site in order to brand it. Dosh Dosh makes us of "cute anime girls" at the beginning of every post and as a result this has become part of the Dosh Dosh brand. I consider each Dosh Dosh image to be fairly similar. However, as long as an image has a certain quality about it, it could be in the way it was photo-shopped, the thinness of its border or even the size and shape. Put simply, using a consistent style of image in each post is branding and gives a blog a distinct look. I will be implementing this technique with future images.
In an RSS feed this is especially important, which is why I am stressing the importance of using images in posts because in the RSS feed they have even greater significance placed on them, because there are no sidebars or headers to distract the reader.
This is also known as reader enjoyment and is the use of images further down a blog post. I like to use 1 image 'above the fold' and another below, i.e. to rarely have an area of the screen where there is only text. People can say "the content should be good enough on it's own" and although that may be true, including a well chosen image doesn't make the content any worse. Most readers will like having an image to break up the solid text, especially since bloggers are a generation of scanners and selectors.
The Vital Part
People say "a picture can speak a 1000 words", I say that misses out the most important part, that pictures speak 1000 words in a shorter space of time to reading 1000 words. Without the time dimension that phrase is meaningless. Putting all this together almost creates a mathematical formula:
First Impression x Amount of (quality) content absorbed during the first impression = Chances of becoming a loyal reader
I hope you can see where I am going with this, if an image can convey more information in a set period of time and is the first thing a visitor looks at then the image is arguably the most important thing on the page.
If chosen wisely and consistently, images can be used to brand a blog as well as making reading a little less like hard work. Blogging is all about getting across a message, what could be better than with an image.


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I just bought a used Walther P22 and since I have no plans to buy a suppressor for a .22, so this is up for sale, lest I be tempted to fill out a Form 4.
Its a Gemtech thread adapter for the P22 to allow the use of a suppressor. 1/2-28 threads. Includes adapter, thread protector cap. Selling for $45 + $6 shipping on Gemtech's website. So I will ask $40 shipped or $35 picked up in Mesa, AZ.


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INDEPENDENCE —If Cavaliers center Shaquille O'Neal is going to return to action prior to the playoffs, it won't be before the regular-season finale against Atlanta.
That was the word from coach Mike Brown following a light practice Wednesday at Cleveland Clinic Courts.
Brown was asked if there was any chance O'Neal, out since injuring his right thumb on Feb. 25 in Boston, would play Sunday against Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic and said no.
He was then asked if O'Neal would play in the season finale Wednesday against the Hawks and said there was a "better chance," but quickly added he didn't "know what the percentages of that are."
"If he can go and blow it out (conditioning-wise) a little bit, I'm all for it," Brown said. "At the end of the day, I'm not going to rush anybody."
O'Neal, who once again turned down an interview request, has started participating in scripted parts of practice, but the 38-year-old has not yet been through full-blown contact drills.
The 7-foot-1, 325-pound center appears to be in very good shape, however, and the Cavaliers are not overly concerned about having to re-adapt to his presence should he not play before the playoffs.
"We'll be OK," shooting guard Anthony Parker said. "Some of the sets might be different, but it's not like this is the first time Shaq's been with the team."
With O'Neal still out and guards Delonte West (minor back spasms) and Daniel Gibson (sprained mid-foot) also not expected to play tonight in Chicago, Brown expects to keep his starting lineup intact.
"I don't have a ton of ballhandlers after that besides Mo (Williams), LeBron (James) and A.P.," the coach said. "I've got to be a little careful who I sit out."
A home game against Indiana the following night will likely be a different story, with James, Williams, Parker and/or Antawn Jamison all possibilities to get the evening off.
"I'll sit some guys Friday," Brown said. "It's a back-to-back. A lot depends on who plays a lot of minutes (tonight)."
After the Pacers game, the Cavaliers host Orlando on Sunday and Atlanta on Wednesday, with the playoffs to begin that weekend.
"We can use this time to get better, but also to get a little rest," Parker said. "We'll see how Coach walks that line.
"I wouldn't mind (sitting out). If Coach asked me to sit down, I wouldn't have any objections. But I also wouldn't mind playing."
Prior to a win over Toronto on Tuesday, Brown said the Cavaliers, who have locked up home-court advantage throughout the playoffs, would treat their remaining regular-season games as "high-level practices."
The reigning NBA Coach of the Year went home later in the evening to see his picture and quote splashed across the screen on SportsCenter, but reiterated Wednesday he would not "compromise" his players in an all-out attempt to win in the regular season.
"I respect everybody for taking my comments and running with them," Brown said. "It was kind of cute."
About LeBron
James, who had 19 points against the Raptors, lost his lead in the league scoring race later in the evening when Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant had a season-high 45 in a 140-139 overtime loss to the Utah Jazz. Durant is averaging 29.9 points. James, the reigning scoring champion who has claimed retaining the title is not important to him, is at 29.7.
James is averaging a league-best 31.0 points on the road this season. He is attempting to average 30-plus points away from home for the third straight seasons.
The small forward is 1-of-15 on 3-pointers over his last four games, including an 0-of-9 performance Sunday in Boston.
Telfair time?
With West and Gibson expected to be sidelined tonight, there's a chance Sebastian Telfair will be active tonight for the first time since being acquired in the Feb. 17 trade that brought Jamison to Cleveland. Telfair, who is coming back from a serious groin injury, had not been cleared to play by team doctors as of Wednesday afternoon, but Brown said the point guard was "close" to being ready.
With a win tonight, the Cavaliers will tie the franchise record for road victories in a season set a year ago. Cleveland is a league-best 26-13 away from home.
The Cavaliers (61-17), who won a franchise-record 66 games last year, are the first team to record the best record in the NBA in back-to-back years since the 1995-96 and 1996-97 Chicago Bulls.
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The exhibition, "Dialogues on Urbanization: Emerging Landscapes", examines landscape architecture in the age of planetary urbanization and opens with a reception on Mon., Mar. 23 from 4:30 to 6:00 to be followed by a lecture by landscape architect Adriaan Geuze, Co-founder of West 8, Rotterdam at 6:30 p.m. in S. R. Crown Hall – College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Empty chairs for members of Congress and prospective witnesses are seen behind Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2002 prior to a House Ethics Committee hearing. Traficant told a House ethics panel considering whether he should be expelled from the House that he was innocent of the fraud, bribery and tax evasion that a jury convicted him of, and that he is being persecuted by the Justice Department.
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An 8 GB iPhone 4 may be the iPhone Nano everyone's waiting for
Ever since Apple got into the phone business, there seem to have been people wanting, crying for, or even demanding an 'iPhone Nano'. This mythical beast has so far managed to live entirely in people's imaginations. But, as we approach the release of yet another iPhone (5, 4s, or whatever it will end up being called), the cries for a 'Nano' version are strong yet again.
So here's the thing. Apple could, of course, decide to release two new iPhones this September. With tens of billions of dollars of cash, Apple can pretty much do anything it (or, better said, Steve Jobs) wants to. Just as the Nano crowd has begged for so long, one of the new models could be the usual incremental update to the previous iPhone (which is the iPhone 4).
The other device could very well be a cheaper iPhone. And Apple could even call it Nano, although the similarity that it would have with the other Nano product in Apple's portfolio would stop at the fact that it's cheap. Anyway, Apple could go ahead and create a plasticky contraption, slap a small screen on it, and launch it into the (mostly developing) world. It could do all this, although it probably won't.
See, just as Florin explained yesterday, Apple has the habit of keeping the old model iPhone around when a new one gets released. The older model is usually sold for $99.99 with a two-year contract in the US, which is precisely half of the price of the new device. So if you want an iPhone, but don't necessarily want to fork out $200, you can get the older model cheaper. That is happening right now too. The iPhone 3GS can be had for a mere $49, even.
So it's conceivable that Apple will do the same thing with the iPhone 4. But it could go even further. As per Florin's logic, Apple could sell the 16 GB iPhone 4 for about $250 unlocked, and give it away for free with a new contract, while still making a small profit.
Or, if it wanted to sell it even cheaper (or make more money in the process), Apple could decide to launch an 8 GB iPhone 4. The reduced storage space would probably not be a deal breaker for those eager to be a part of Apple's ecosystem, and it would allow Apple (well, its Asian partners) to make the device for even less.
And it turns out that's exactly what's happening. According to Reuters, Apple's partners are busy building an iPhone 4 with 8 GB of internal storage space. The 8 GB drive is being manufactured by a Korean company and the phone is expected to launch within weeks. Both of Reuters' sources seem to have mentioned that the resulting iPhone will be cheaper than before, so Apple's intent here is pretty clear. It's almost a certainty now that Apple will announce this cheaper iPhone 4 version in September, and that it will ship alongside the new iPhone.
Of course, Apple could announce the new iPhone, the cheaper iPhone 4 as well as an even cheaper iPhone Nano, but… three new(ish) products at once? Somehow I don't think that's plausible, given Apple's reluctance to launch more than one new phone per year. So, for all intents and purposes, this 8 GB iPhone 4 may just turn out to be the iPhone Nano that everyone's been waiting for.
However, for Apple to realize the dream of all those iPhone Nano preachers, it has to do one more thing. See, the 'discounted old model' policy has been enforced in the US, and perhaps some other 'big' developed markets. Yet a cheaper handset, as good as it is to drive some sales in such markets, is most important in developing markets, where it could just be the only Apple product most people will ever afford to buy. Therefore, launching this 8 GB iPhone 4 in such markets is critical. As is keeping its discounted price and not letting partners set the pricing. If it does that, then Apple will be able to truly enter the smartphone mass market.


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Before I went on my healthy eating streak, one of my favorite times of year was the day after Valentine's Day, and the day after Easter. Why? All the candy is on HUGE discount!
Naturally, as I'm shopping for the essentials the other day in Target, I can't help but walk by the Easter candy isle. It's a sugar candy land! I resisted purchasing treats, but, that doesn't mean I can't dream about them.
My favorite Easter candy?
Peeps! But, I only like the yellow chickens. Yes, my OCD gets to me a little too much sometimes! I don't know what it is about the little yellow bundles of marshmallow goodness, but I love 'em! And, I only like them at Easter… I never want Christmas or Halloween Peeps. It seems like the sugary creations are a love hate food, you never find anyone who's in between on Peeps.
Check out this "Peep" show. It's well worth your time to see the creative diorama's people come up with!
Another treat I'm crazy about? Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs. Those things are the BEST! especially when they're frozen.
And, why not combine marshmallow and chocolate into a marshmallow filled chocolate sculpture of something. Love it! I usually like the chocolate shaped bunnies with goo inside.
I also like Robin's Eggs… aka… Whoppers. And, Cadbury eggs.
What are your favorite Easter candies and why? Leave your favorites in the comments section below!


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Tonight, April 28, Carson Daly kicked off "The Voice" by introducing each of the coaches. He also announced that Rixton was going to perform their single, "Me and My Broken Heart." The group then took the stage.
Kat Perkins was up first, with "Landslide." Blake thought it was refreshing to see Kat break it down and do a performance like that to show her softer side. Usher said she executed with precision, and the performance was like a winding road. Shakira didn't know Kat had that in her, and she could see she was inspired by Stevie Nicks. Adam was so happy they got to share the song and said Kat is a blissfully perfect, amazing singer he is glad to have on his team.
After being instantly saved by America last week, Tess Boyer was back this week with something to prove, as she sang "Ain't It Fun." Adam said Tess looked comfortable, and they got to hear the side of her voice they had been missing. Blake challenged someone to find one part of that performance that wasn't dead-on pitch perfect. Usher agreed with Blake. Shakira was so happy and proud and told Tess she killed it.
In between the performances, Carson moderated Twitter and the typical banter between Blake Shelton and Adam Levine. This time, Blake meant business: he tweeted out Adam's personal cell phone number. Adam didn't believe him at first, but he later warned Blake that he had it coming, and that was not cool at all when his phone was constantly ringing.
Audra McLaughlin took on "You Lie." Usher told Audra it sucks that he can't do that, and the performance took her to another plateau as an artist. Shakira said Audra wasn't going anywhere and would be in the top five this week. Adam said it was a world class vocal performance and was as good as any performance can be ever. Blake said Audra grabbed everyone and made them pay attention to her with that performance.
Josh Kaufman sang "This Is It." Shakira thought soulful renditions might be his sweet spot, and he was really impressive. Adam regretted his decision to let him go and was very angry, but he told Josh this was good news for him – he loved him because of his unique and powerful voice, along with his tone. Blake said if he wasn't looking, he could have sworn he was listening to a record. Usher was blown away by Josh's unique voice and accurate execution of the notes.
Christina Grimmie performed "Hold On, We're Going Home." Blake said Adam got even with him for the "phone number thing." He thought Christina did what they all hoped to accomplish as coaches and artists – going from singers to artists. Usher said making the song her own wouldn't only make Drake proud, but it'd also earn her a spot in the finals. Shakira said it was Christina's best performance by far, and her personality was starting to come through. Adam added that the vocal performance was incredible, and she fearlessly made the artistic choice to do the song her own way.
Jake Worthington sang "Run." Usher was proud of Jake for coming out and performing every week, and he goes up there with a great spirit. Shakira felt Jake had come so far in the competition and was a real contender. Adam commented on Jake being a pleasant and wonderful guy. He said Jake tells them a story. Blake added that it was a solid performance technically, he lays his heart on the stage, and he is always Jake.
Blake admitted to feeling bad about giving Adam's cell phone number, so they played footage of Blake answering the phone during the commercial break. Adam told Blake to keep his phone and said it was his burden now. He also said his revenge would include a fork, small spaces, and human poop. (Hmm).
Bria Kelly sang "I'm With You." Shakira thought the song allowed Bria to challenge herself on a different level and display her vocal ability. Adam wanted to be critical because Bria is one of his favorites – he didn't feel she was totally connected to the song, and he wanted to see more of the things he loved about her. Blake said it was like a completely different artist up there and didn't hear anything bad. Usher said it was the type of performance that took Bria away from her standard. She needed to continue to grow in the competition.
Delvin Choice sang "Bright Lights." Blake said Delvin keeps taking it to the next level with his power and passion. Usher thought it was a step outside what he normally does, and he brings out the gospel every time. Adam said they tried to do something the audience wasn't expecting and use them in the song, and they were shocked.
Kristen Merlin was up next, with "Let Her Go." (No mic problems this week). Adam was so happy the mic stayed on the entire time and said she was always really good. Blake wasn't sure when he heard she wasn't singing a country song, but that was his favorite performance from her so far. Shakira saw a true artist on stage and added that Kristen had grown so much in such little time.
Sisaundra Lewis closed the show with "Oh Sherrie." Usher said the cheering audience was speaking for everyone at home, and she gave an incredible performance. Adam told everyone to look up and joked that there used to be a roof in there, but it was gone – they were going to need a new roof, but he thanked Sisaundra for blowing it off. Blake said she sang the crap out of the song and made him look so smart. Adam chimed in and said she achieved something so rare.


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The Mega Millions winning numbers are on the rise. Tonight's winning Mega Millions jackpot is worth an estimated $216 million, or a $119 million onetime payout.
According to a Mega Millions report on Feb. 26, no one matched all six numbers in last Tuesday's drawing, but over 2 million in prize money was collected by players from coast to coast including two $1 million dollar winners. The winning million dollar tickets were sold in Arizona and Maryland.
In case you missed it, the winning numbers in last Tuesday's drawing were 12, 18, 25, 35, 66 and the Mega Ball was 15. For the third straight drawing the multiplier was 5x, which made for some nice payouts.
According to a Michigan.gov lottery update on Feb. 28, nearly 75,000 winning tickets were sold for the last drawing, including twenty six $500 winners, four $5,000 winners and one $25,000 winner.
One thing to keep in mind folks, always double and triple check your tickets. Too many people disregard their tickets once they hear no one has hit the jackpot, when in actuality you may be holding on to a nice cash prize.
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There are many changes happening at the Oakhurst Branch Library and many new services are available to the public. Thanks to grants, upgrades and the long-awaited expansion of the facility is now underway.
Remodeling construction has begun on the old fire station attached the library that was vacated in 2010. It is now being transformed into a nearly 2,000 square foot community room complete with two ADA approved bathrooms and a hallway connecting it to the library. A new staff lounge is also being added.
There will be two covered porches that trucks can back up to for book drop-off and the Friends of the Oakhurst Branch Library will have a new area for book processing and storage. It is due to the efforts of the FOBL that the expansion is possible.
"We would not have received the grants if the Friends hadn't partnered with us," Branch Manager Dale Rushing said.
The Oakhurst Branch Library received a $200,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Community Facilities funds in 2010 for the remodel and the Friends matched the grant with $80,000.
Once completed, the community room will be free to use for non profit groups and available to all groups for only $25 for a meeting. Rushing hopes to host a variety of events in the new community room -- from children and teen activities and the summer reading program to guest authors, writing classes and book clubs.
The old community room, the Sue Rhu Room, is now a children's reading room and library. Although the transformation is not yet fully complete, the room, along with the entire library, has new carpeting thanks to a Chukchansi community grant. The room also has new shelving thanks to Jim Elliott. Plans are still underway for redecorating the area and Rushing said they will partner with the Oakhurst Kiwanis Club for new preschool books.
The library has also created a new area for teens with two two computers -- one laptop for regular Internet research and a desktop computer with a program called Advanced Workstations in Education on it, offering educational games. There are also two computers with AWE software in the children's area.
"Teens are very important to us and we want to reach out to them," Rushing said.
There are also two computers in a separate corner of the library with Rosetta Stone English as Second Language program on it. These computers have no Internet access and are solely for learning English. The library has partnered with the Mountain Area Literacy Council for this and the Friends purchased the Rosetta Stone programs.
The library is also updating the books it has to offer and weeding out old books that haven't been checked out for a year or more, replacing them with new books. There is also a section of best sellers available for rent and a section of books for sale -- both sponsored by the Friends.
The library also has four new security cameras, a new heating and air conditioning system and a fifth public computer that were purchased through a Chukchansi grant.
And thanks to the Friends, Wi-Fi is now available to the public as well as the Madera County Law Library extension which is open noon to 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
The library remodel has provided new money saving features. There is new lighting thanks to an energy efficiency grant from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District to upgrade lighting for all county owned buildings thanks to Bill Hayter, Madera Grants & Program Management. This will save the library about $3,000 a year on its electric bill.
In addition, there are new energy efficient windows thanks to Central Valley Community Bank, Wells Fargo, United Security Bank and Yosemite Bank who, together, donated $2,800. The new windows will help keep out heat during the summer, cold air during the winter and conserve energy use.
Rushing said she is hoping for all landscaping to be done sometime next spring. That landscaping will include an ADA approved sidewalk from the front door of the library and around the building to the new community room. Some of the cement for the project has been donated by Outback Materials.
"Several years ago the Oakhurst Library began to update, modernize and move forward with innovative ideas, wish lists and hope," Rushing said. "All this is slowly becoming a dream come true because of the overwhelming generosity of Friends of the Oakhurst Library, our volunteers who give hours of their time each week, the generous gifts given to the Oakhurst Library by local businesses, community clubs and most of all, the caring support of the citizens of Oakhurst. That support allows us to make a difference."
The outside of the library is also being repainted and volunteers are being sought. Those interested can call the library at (559) 683-4838.


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Keenan Cornelius has quickly become one of the biggest names in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competition scene. From his start to his leaving Team Lloyd Irvin, to his transition to training with Andre Galvao and Team Atos, the world still watches as Keenan continues to climb to the top.
If you have been following the modern ju jitsu game for a while now, you know that Keenan Cornelius is a name that everyone is talking about. I actually had the good fortune of rolling with Keenan about 8 months before his grapple-fame ensued, and seeing how far he's come since then (around 2 years ago now), it makes his current raise all that much more stunning.
His total domination of his opponents in recent years has left many people asking, "why is he so dominant, and what makes him so dominant? Is it his training? Is he just naturally talented?"
In my eyes, Keenan's success has been characterized by an other-worldly training envionment, immense persistence, and a creative, innovative game. Techniques like his mystery pass and 50/50 armbar are just the start of a game that is both "Modern" and "outside the box of Modern" at the same time. Let's take a look at a few interesting positions.
The Mysterious Guard Pass (Used on Paulo Miao and Others)
When we see or view something as mysterious, we are immediately drawn to it, and that is exactly what happened when Keenan Cornelius showed the jiu jitsu world a guard pass that rocked the socks off the entire community.
Not only has he hit this "mystery pass" in competition, but he has also done it more than once.
If you haven't seen this particular "mystery pass", then watch it down below. Here's the match where he first executes it on Paulo Miyao during the finals of the brown belt absolute division. Check it out, it happens at about the 6:37 mark:
Seriously awesome guard pass…
If you slow it down and watch it very carefully, like we did, you'll notice a few things:
Keenan closes the distance, and brings his right foot in towards Paulo's left leg, stomping it to the ground. Doing this slightly moves Paulo's hips away from Keenan.
As Keenan stomps Paulo's left leg down with his right foot, he passes Paulo's right leg across his body from left to right, in a leg drag type fashion. After he does this, he quickly drops and settles his hips to the mat in order to keep Paulo from recovering his guard back.
Essentially, this is a variation of the leg drag pass, which we see a ton of competitors using these days.
Instead of dragging the leg to one side and settling the knee in between your opponent's legs for control (like we see most people do), he uses the stomp on Paulo's leg to clear it out of the way, executes the actual drag, then quickly drops his weight to the mat for consolidation of the guard pass.
Here's another match where we see him hit the same pass.
The match is from the Boston Open, where he faces off against fellow brown belt, Gianni Grippo. The pass happens at about the 6:12 mark:
The pass happens so fast that it's somewhat hard to see in real time.
Again, he is just stomping the far leg, dragging the near one, and quickly settling his weight down so Gianni cannot recover his guard.
You can tell that timing has a lot to do with the success of this technique, and quite frankly, Keenan times it perfectly.
So there you have it. The mystery pass, not so mysterious anymore, but nonetheless impressive and dominant!
Sneaky Submissions
Along with some seriously sneaky guard passes, Keenan also possesses some seriously sneaky and unique submissions as well.
In the 2013 IBJJF Pan Ams, Keenan had a particular match where he pulled off a spectacular kneebar. What makes this particular kneebar so impressive is the fact that he hits it after being taken down and forced into a scramble.
Here's the clip. It happens at the 3:30 mark in the video:
Keenan initially comes at his opponent looking to throw him, which he almost does, but is then put to the mat by his oponent's grip on the pants near the ankle.
As Keenan's opponent looks to jump on Keenan's back, Keenan rolls over his shoulder and captures the left leg of his opponent.
He is then able to bring the foot to his shoulder, and finish the kneebar. A very sneaky submission from a disadvantageous scramble position.
Another crazy submission that Keenan seemed to pull out of nowhere was when he faced Joao Miyao at the 2013 IBJJF European Championships.
With little time left in the match, Joao looks to secure a tight achilles lock on Keenan, looking to get the win by submission.
Instead of Joao walking away with Keenan's foot, he ends up sleeping on the mat. How, you ask? Just watch:
As Joao Hail Mary's for the submission, Keenan is able to make his way up the back of Joao and sinks in an ezekial choke. It looks for a moment as if the choke is not working, but after a few seconds, it's very evident that the choke was super tight.
Another match where he pulls this ezekial choke out of thin air is when he faced off against Sinistro at the 2012 IBJJF Atlanta Open.
Check it:
It's a pretty vicious ezekial choke, but what makes this variation interesting is that Keenan hits it from an arm triangle type position.
Most ezekial chokes we see are from the top position, putting pressure on the anterior part of the neck and throat. This variation takes place when your opponent is facing the ground and you are making your way to their back.
Keenan executes this choke after hitting a leg drag pass, causing Sinistro to turn away and expose the lateral side of his neck.
In another match between Keenan and Sinistro from the 2012 IBJJF No Gi Worlds, Keenan pulls off another crazy choke from the back. It's almost identical to the one we just watched him hit in Sinistro, only its a no gi variation.
Sinistro looks to defend from the back mount, but unfortunately brings his left arm a bit too high above his head while defending. This allows Keenan to shoot his left hand across both the arm and the neck of Sinistro. To finish, he then locks his left hand to his right bicep, and brings his right hand to touch his ear.
These are some examples of some very sneaky and creative submissions from Keenan Cornelius, as well as some great techniques for passing the guard.
At the end of the day, these particular aspects and techniques of Keenan's game are just samples of a more complex labyrinth, but they help understand the kinds of trends and style that we'll expect to see even MORE developed in his coming years as a Black Belt.
For more info on Keenan's game, check out our eBook of match breakdowns and awesome strategic / technical breakdowns.
Keeping being a student of the game, and talk to you soon!
-Daniel Faggella
Keenan photo above taken by Gil Gomes. Learn more about his photos here: www.jiujitsupictures.com! (Great stuff)


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Not long ago, a study published on the online version of the Annals of Emergency Medicine concluded that more than three-fourths of patients in emergency rooms don't understand what staff nurses and doctors tell them about their conditions or the take-home directions they receive.
Worse yet, a whole lot of these patients don't know that they don't know.
It also might be that nurses and doctors fail to give the needed information. Obviously this is not a good thing and can lead to problems later on, as illustrated by this story I heard recently from a friend:
Her elderly mother was taken to an emergency room by her elderly father because the mother had fallen and broken her tibia. The bone was set and, according to my friend, who is a nurse, her parents were sent on their way with no instructions about home care, nor how to help her mother manage with a broken leg. The result was predictable; a couple of days later, her father dropped her mother on the floor while trying to help her transfer. The elderly lady was back in the ER with a broken elbow.
I was furious when I heard this story. I couldn't imagine sending away an elderly couple with obvious needs without so much as an instruction sheet or a list of resources where they could get assistance. I know that nurses and doctors often give instructions, but between the patients' distress and the chaos of the ER, it might be that they can't remember and/or don't understand.
But apparently there is little checking to see if patients really do get it, according to the study out of Northwestern University called "Patient Comprehension of Emergency Department Care and Instructions: Are Patients Aware of When They Don't Understand?"
The investigators interviewed and assessed 138 patients and two caretakers. They checked patients in four areas of comprehension: diagnosis and cause; emergency department care; post-emergency department care; and return instructions. Researchers found that:
• More than half of the patients (51 percent) didn't understand what they were told in two or more categories.
• More than one-third (34 percent) of the "comprehension deficiencies" involved patients' understanding of post-emergency department care.
• Fifteen percent of the comprehension problems involved diagnosis and cause.
• Of all the patients who had problems with comprehension, a whopping 80 percent didn't realize that their understanding was incomplete or inaccurate.
What problems do you have getting patients to understand?
Do you think the information gap is the fault of patients or health care professionals?
What do you think are the barriers to better understanding?
Do you have any tricks to share that might help patients understand their medical problems and instructions?
Tell us what you think.
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Most Patients Don't Know That They Don't Know
Not long ago, a study published on the online version of the Annals of Emergency Medicine concluded that more than three-fourths of patients in emergency rooms don't understand what staff nurses and doctors tell them about their conditions or the take-home directions they receive.


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Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Amelia Sedley Timeline and Summary
- Amelia is born into an upper-middle-class family whose wealth comes from commodities investing. From a young age she is assumed to be engaged to George Osborne, the son of her father's closest friend.
- She is sent to school at Miss Pinkerton's, where she wins many friends even if she doesn't influence many people. When she graduates she takes her friend Becky Sharp home with her for a few days.
- At home, she reconnects with George, who is handsome and self-involved. They form a foursome with Becky and Amelia's brother Jos and go to Vauxhall for amusement. There she meets George's friend Dobbin.
- George tells Amelia that he has disrupted Jos's plan of asking Becky to marry him. She thinks that's a terrible thing to have done but does nothing about it.
- When her father's business starts to suffer, Amelia is neglected by George. She is sad but does nothing about it. (This might be a refrain in her timeline, so get ready.)
- Mr. Sedley goes totally bankrupt and the family has to move to the cheap side of town.
- Though all the Sedley property is sold at auction, Amelia receives her old piano back. She assumes George has bought it for her.
- Mr. Osborne and Mr. Sedley are no longer on speaking terms, and Mr. Sedley orders Amelia to cut off the relationship with George and send him back everything he's ever given her. Amelia sends back his presents but not his letters. Then she takes to her bed and gets sick.
- She makes a sickly appearance when Dobbin comes to visit her.
- As she lies in her bed trying to die from a broken heart, George comes to take her to a church and marry her. They go to Bath for their honeymoon.
- In Bath they run into Becky and Rawdon, also on a honeymoon of sorts. Amelia is jealous of how awesome Becky is in society and the fact that George spends all his time at Becky's house. She is very sad, but does nothing about it.
- The army is called abroad to fight Napoleon, and after some fear and hesitation, Amelia decides to go with George. In Brussels she is a little overwhelmed to meet Mrs. O'Dowd, the wife of the regiment's major, but the woman's kindness wins Amelia over.
- Again she and George run into Becky and Rawdon, who is an aide-de-camp to a general and thus not in the same part of the army that George and Dobbin serve in. Amelia is depressed as soon as she sees Becky because she knows what's coming next.
- Sure enough, George totally abandons Amelia for Becky and spends all his time with her.
- At a fancy ball, Amelia is left to sit by herself in a corner while George dances with Becky. Finally, Dobbin takes a weak and sad Amelia home. There she waits for George, who comes home with the news that the army is going to march to the front in a few hours.
- They kind of make up and Amelia is totally distraught about the war. She tries to help George pack but is unable to even do that.
- During the fighting she hangs out with Mrs. O'Dowd and refuses Jos's entreaties to leave Brussels. As news of the battle trickles in, Amelia helps care for a wounded soldier in George's regiment.
- When she finds out that George was killed in battle, Amelia goes totally insane. She has a mild confrontation with Becky and then loses it completely.
- Dobbin and Mrs. O'Dowd take care of her during the crazy time, which is also her pregnancy.
- When her son is born she recovers her mental health and goes to live with her parents.
- They are poor, and life is hard. Amelia does her best to scrimp and save to outfit her son in fancy clothes and buy him schoolbooks and presents. Her parents resent her for spending money on these things.
- After George's sister sees the little boy, Amelia gets an offer to have her son go live in the lap of luxury with Mr. Osborne, George's father. She wants no part of it, but after her father goes really, really bankrupt she has no choice.
- Dobbin confesses his love to her and she figures out that he's the one who bought her the piano. She's not really into him though.
- After Mr. Osborne dies, her son comes back to live with her and she gets an inheritance that sets her up comfortably.
- She, Jos, and Dobbin decide to go to Europe with George Jr. They end up in the town of Pumpernickel, where they once again run into Becky. Amelia commiserates with Becky about losing her son.
- Dobbin tells Amelia he's had enough of her nonsense and leaves. Amelia is sad, but does nothing about it.
- Becky takes matters into her own hands and shows Amelia a letter George wrote to her suggesting that they run away together. Now that she knows the truth about her dead husband, she is finally released from him. She writes to Dobbin, who immediately comes and marries her.
- They go back to England, where she has a daughter. Dobbin slowly falls out of love with her.


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Urban Environment Project: An Introduction
Welcome to the information hub for the Urban Environment Project. The aim of this multi-disciplinary, inter-institutional research project is to better understand the link between development, land-use change and associated economic and environmental impact within urban regions. The project is based at UCD's Urban Institute Ireland and includes academic partners in TCD and NUI Maynooth as well as a specialist GIS company, ERA-Maptech. We also work with the local authorities and regional authorities in the Greater Dublin Region.
Research Publications are listed here.
Working papers are published on an ongoing basis. Click here to download the most recently published papers.
At the core of the project is MOLAND a land-use computer model (using GIS technologies) which includes socio-economic and demographic information. The UEP focuses on 6 new themes which will be incorporated into the existing decision-support tool.
The themes are:
There is a detailed description of the programme of work for each of these themes as well as for the other parts of the project which deal with applications, deliverables and management.
Whilst the project focuses on the Greater Dublin Region we welcome interactions with our European colleagues and expect that our experiences on the project will be of interest to policy makers, scholars and practitioners across Europe and further afield.


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