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Not all things are the same, just look at the history of the Lancia Fulvia. While the sedan version would continue in production for a decade, its smaller coupe brethren would become famous, making Lancia famous on the streets, as well as, on the forest roads of International rally events.
Lancia would first introduce its HF model Fulvia coupe in 1965. And it would be noted right away that the model car had been designed with racing very much in mind. In many ways, the HF Fulvia would bear a similarity to Alfa Romeo's coupe. Both would feature rather advanced engines, all-round disc brakes and other competitive design layout features. However, while the Alfa seemed particularly suited to circuit racing, the HF Fulvia would be particularly focused on rallying.
The HF Fulvia would be particularly suited to rallying. First of all, the design of the car would lend itself to being considered a rally car of a special pedigree. Lancia would introduce its sedan model in 1963. However, it would be the coupe model introduced a couple of years later that would become the basis for the rallying effort.
Lancia was still to be acquired by Fiat. Therefore, the company's reputation for engineering first was still well intact. The HF Fulvia Coupe, therefore, would be a mixture of beautiful styling and impeccable engineering and build. The result would be a small, contemporary coupe with solid performance.
By the early 1960s, car manufacturers were experimenting with the idea of front-wheel drive. Lancia would be no different. The Lancia four-cylinder engine would be suspended in front of the front axle and in front of the aluminum transaxle. From there, the drive would be sent to the wheels.
Lancia had developed its venerable narrow-angle V4. At 13 degrees of angle, the engine would be evolved to include two overhead camshafts and helped to fill in the space in between the banks of the engine. In an effort to reduce the center of gravity the engine would then be canted at 45 degrees. To many, this would give the mechanical layout of the car a very elegant touch. Mated with twin Weber, twin-choke carburetors, the 1.6-liter engine would be capable of producing 160bhp when properly tuned.
Combining the engine performance with solid handling from the independent front suspension and live rear axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs, the HF Fulvia Coupe would go on to win the International Rally Championship in 1972. The car would also help to make Lancia the most successful manufacturer in rally racing history.
One works Lancia Fulvia Group IV rally car would be chassis 2272. Completed in early 1973 with a Scocca Alleggerita (lightweight) body, chassis 2272 would compete as a works rally car throughout the 1973 season. Registered in Turin and numbered TO 233323, this particular chassis would take part in the San Remo Rally where it would be driven by Lampinen to an 8th place overall finish. Also, in 1973, the car would take place in the Rally of Switzerland, as well as, the Monte Carlo Rally where it would earn yet another 8th place finish at the hands of Kallstrom.
Following its rallying career, the car would remain on its original registration until it became the property of Beni Italo in 1977. In the years following being sold not much is known about the car. However, today, the car is presented in its period rallying livery with the iconic Marlboro adorning the car.
The restoration of the car didn't stop with the livery. In fact, the car comes with gold-painted wheels and such period correct features as the wired retaining pins on the boot-lid and large Cibie spotlights. The large tachometer, lack of a speedometer, rally timer and quick-access fuse box only go further to take the onlooker back to a day when the HF Fulvia dominated the International Rallying scene.
A former works car, 2272 certainly is a highly desirable example of the coupe that helped to create the Lancia rallying legend. Boasting of a successful racing history and a lightweight body restored to period correct livery it would be little wonder why the Lancia Fulvia 1.6 HF Group IV Coupe would be expected to draw between €140,000 and €160,000 heading to auction.
'Lot No. 389: 1973 Lancia Fulvia 1.6 HF Group IV Coupe', (http://www.rmauctions.com/featurecars.cfm?SaleCode=MC12&CarID=r415&fc=0). RM Auctions. http://www.rmauctions.com/featurecars.cfm?SaleCode=MC12&CarID=r415&fc=0. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
'Lancia Fulvia Coupe HF (1965)', (http://www.autozine.org/Archive/Lancia/classic/Fulvia.html). Autozine.org. http://www.autozine.org/Archive/Lancia/classic/Fulvia.html. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
'1969 Lancia Fulvia HF Competizione News, Pictures and Information', (http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z1172/Lancia-Fulvia-HF-Competizione.aspx). Conceptcarz.com: From Concept to Production. http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z1172/Lancia-Fulvia-HF-Competizione.aspx. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
By Jeremy McMullen
In 1963 Lancia introduced the Fulvia at the Geneva Motor Show. It was designed by Antonio Fessia and intended as a replacement for the Lancia Appia. The Fulvia was a front-wheel drive vehicle where its predecessor, the Appia, used rear-wheel drive configuration. The longitudinal engine was mounted in the front. The suspension in the rear was a solid axle with a panhard rod and leaf springs while the front was independent with wishbones and leaf springs. Disc brakes were placed on all four corners of the car.
The DOHC V4 engine was designed by Zaccone Mina and mounted forward at a 45-degree angle. The 1091 cc engine was capable of producing between 59 and 71 horsepower depending on the configuration and compression ratio. The HF model had a 1216 cc engine and produced between 80 and 88 horsepower.
In 1969, Fiat took over production of the vehicle.
In 1972, a Fulvia was victorious at winning the International Rally Championship.
Throughout its life span the vehicle could be had in a number of body-styles and configurations. In 1963 a compact four door was introduced and dubbed the Berlina. In 1967, a GT version of the Berlina was available and featured a more powerful 1216 cc. engine. The GTE soon followed in 1968 with a 1298 cc engine. A shorter version was available in 1965 and dubbed the Coupe. The rally version Coupe HF was introduced in 1965 and featured a 1.2 and 1.3 engine. Later, a 1.6HF became available, as did a sport version which was a 2-seater sports car.
Both on the track and on the streets, the Fulvia had a successful career.
By Daniel Vaughan | Jul 2007
Many carmakers stand out in the collective memory of vintage auto enthusiasts as having built exceptionally well-engineered cars. Porsche and Lotus, for instance, each built cars not just with passion but also with mathematical precision and distinct purpose. One of the best-engineered marques of automotive history has often been forgotten, though.
It was the carmaker that made pioneering advances in technologies that have today become ubiquitous, including the 'V' engine configuration and unitized body construction. It was the carmaker so concerned with building cars to its own high standards that it ignored the principles cost-effectiveness and doomed itself to financial ruin and a takeover by Fiat. It was the carmaker that, even under Fiat's control, realized sparkling rally success with a car that would have looked at home on Mars. The name of this carmaker, once Italy's most technically advanced brand, is Lancia.
Established in 1906, Lancia quickly earned a reputation for being one of the most innovative carmakers in the world. In 1922 the radical Lancia Lambda was introduced, powered by a V4 and built using unitized construction. Decades later, Lancia's innovative spirit was still alive in the company's products, proven by the Aurelia of 1950 that featured the world's first mass-produced V6 as well as a rear transaxle and rear inboard brakes.
Lancia's expensive pursuit of engineering excellence ended when Fiat took over the debt-laden company in 1969. Before the Fiat takeover, though, Lancia was able to introduce a model that combined crisp Italian styling, capable performance, and advanced technology in a light and lithe package. That model, the Fulvia, was introduced in 1963 and continued in production for years after Fiat took control of ailing Lancia.
The Fulvia was a small, front-wheel-drive Lancia powered by a V4. With sales that surpassed 300,000 units, the Fulvia sold in great numbers for a Lancia yet still was not a financial success. It was produced in several variations until 1976.
The first Fulvia, introduced in 1963, was a sedan with styling by Pietro Castagnero. Its tight, boxy shape exemplified the typically clean lines of small Italian sedans from the 1960's. For 1965, a Fulvia coupe was released. The coupe's styling was every bit as pure as the sedan's, yet the Fulvia coupe's shape was more interesting and unique than was the sedan's somewhat anonymous profile. The coupe was also styled by Castagnero, but was an altogether more successful design than the sedan. The Fulvia sedan was produced until 1972, while the coupe remained in production until 1976.
The V4 that powered the first of the Fulvia sedans displaced only 1,091cc, good for a modest 58bhp. By 1964, power was up to 71bhp from the same displacement in the 2C sedan. This added power was by no means overwhelming, but it was a very impressive figure for such an engine of such diminutive displacement. The high specific output of Lancia's V4 was just one example of the high quality of the Fulvia's engineering. The later Fulvia GT (available with 1,216cc or 1,231cc motors) and GTE (1,298cc) were the most powerful Fulvia sedans.
When the coupe appeared in 1965, it used a V4 with displacement increased to 1,216cc. Output was at a hearty 80bhp. As the coupe aged, Lancia continued to provide sportier trim levels with even more powerful engines. Of these sportier trims, the 1.6 HF was the most impressive. It made 115bhp out of 1,584cc and, thanks in part to its 5-speed gearbox, could reach 112mph.
Another Fulvia coupe variant was the Fulvia Sport. This model was built by Zagato between 1965 and 1972, and featured aerodynamic styling by Ercole Spada coupled with powerful 1,216cc, 1,298cc and 1,584cc engines. Aluminum alloy was used in the construction of Fulvia Zagato bodies (though only early models featured all-alloy bodies), resulting in a lighter car than the Fulvia coupe.
The Lancia Fulvia, in sedan, coupe, and Sport forms, was successful in motor racing. The most notable racing achievements of the Fulvia range were accomplished by coupe models, which were used extensively in rallies. The highlight of the Fulvia's racing career came in 1972 when a Fulvia Rallye 1.6 HF won the International Championship for Manufacturers rally series.
The Fulvia was arguably the last true Lancia. Though Lancia produced some incredible vehicles while under Fiat control, none of them had the classic combination of refinement and innovation that characterized pre-Fiat models. The Fulvia remains an excellent choice for buyers looking to discover the Lancia mystique at an affordable price.
Vanzetti, Piero. 'Lancia Fulvia.' Piero Vanzetti's Lancia Fulvia Site n. pag. Web. 15 Jun 2010. http://www.alma.it/vanzettip/fulvia/fulviae.html.
Wood, Jonathan. Great Marques of Italy. London: Octopus Books Limited, 1987. 151-183. Print.
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Instead of another entry in the catalog of exciting, innovative, gritty melodic rock for which Switchfoot has been justifiably heralded, Fading West is a disappointing, dreary, misguided exercise in tweener-oriented commercial music making. From start to finish the album is drenched in lush overkill production and cotton ball keyboards, turning every track into bubblegum void of passion. The crunchy hooks that previously announced a Switchfoot song had commenced are completely absent from this recording, replaced with purposeless and irritating cutesy vocal loops first bringing songs in, then repeating throughout the track with ever-increasing aggravation each time they come around.
What is even more distressing is that beneath the production lies nothing salvageable. Whereas Switchfoot has become one of the most dependable creators of fresh -- or at least fresh-sounding -- songs in recent years, Fading West has not one single genuinely memorable tune. It careens from recycled bits of earlier work to weak imitations of whatever may be currently popular, making no effort toward originality. It is the kind of record one grows tired of due to having heard it all many times previously even before listening to it all the way through, should one persevere that far.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The University of Idaho women's golf team slipped a couple spots but still is in contention at the annual Price's Give 'Em Five Intercollegiate.
Idaho fired a 297 Tuesday for a two-day 587 - four back of second-round leader Kansas and one back of Colorado State.
Kaitlyn Oster had the low round of the day for Idaho with a 71, which, with her opening 73, puts her at 144 and in a tie for third. Rachel Choi and Leilanie Kim are tied for 11th with Cassie McKinley in a group tied for 25th. Kristin Strankman is tied for 34th.
Choi and Kim matched 147 with McKinley at 150 and Strankman at 152.


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Feb. 18, 2000
Senior Larissa Fontaine turned in an astounding performance for the Cardinal Friday night at Burnham Pavilion, taking first place in every event to lead Stanford to a 195.35-193.5 victory over Cal. Friday was also senior night, a night to honor the seniors in their final conference home match of their collegiate career, and Stanford's three seniors and captains Fontaine, Sarah Harding and Kim Young were honored in a ceremony following the match.
Against Cal, Fontaine dominated the meet, taking the vault with a score of 9.825, the bars with a score of 9.925, balance beam with a 9.9, the floor with a 9.95 and the all-around with a total score of 39.6. The Cardinal swept the bars, with Katy Herbert taking second (9.875), Jen Exaltacion and Abby Gair tying for third (9.85), and senior Sarah Harding placing fourth. On the beam, sophomore Katy Herbert took second with a score of 9.8, and senior Sarah Harding placed second on the floor with a score of 9.9. Sophomore Katy Herbert took second place in the all-around with a new career high of 39.15.
Stanford will remain at home to host BYU on Monday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. in Burnham Pavilion. The match against the Cougars will be the Cardinal's last home meet of the 2000 season.
Stanford Results
Competitor Vault Bars Beam Floor All-Around Alissa Cooper 9.675 9.75 Jen Exaltacion 9.15 9.85 9.325 Larissa Fontaine 9.825 9.925 9.9 9.95 39.6 Abby Gair 9.6 9.85 9.675 9.8 38.925 Sarah Harding 9.825 9.9 Katy Herbert 9.625 9.875 9.8 9.85 39.15 Kristin Jensen 9.775e 9.7 Becky Meldrum 9.65 9.8 Kelsey Stillinger 9.65 9.25 Team Totals 48.375 49.325 48.35 49.3


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His Way
By Lynn Hirschberg
Published: December 19, 1999
'I don't want to be the angry guy,'' says Paul Thomas Anderson, crouching on the floor of his editing room in a house perched on a hill in Bronson Canyon, just north of the seedy outskirts of Hollywood. This is the ''Magnolia'' house: the entire place is devoted to the completion of Anderson's new film, a three-hour epic about family and responsibility and forgiveness. Anderson, 29, is tall and lanky and has the attractively tousled look of the recently awakened. He is wearing black baggy pants and an untucked white shirt, and he is dragging on a Camel and intently studying a poster for ''Magnolia,'' which he wrote and directed.
He is not happy. Or actually, he is happy, but he's in a rage about this poster, a happy sort of rage fueled by anxiety and passion for his film and, above all, by a zeal for control. This is not an unbecoming state -- there is something beguiling about Anderson's obsessions, most of which revolve around moviemaking. His need to control all aspects of ''Magnolia,'' from the length to the marketing to the theaters the movie will play in, is not unusual in directors, but there is something about this particular movie, which is ambitious and emotional, that has Anderson particularly obsessed. ''I consider 'Magnolia' a kind of beautiful accident,'' he explains. ''It gets me. I put my heart -- every embarrassing thing that I wanted to say -- in 'Magnolia.' ''
It is late October, and a poster and a trailer for ''Magnolia'' should already be in theaters, awaiting the movie's opening on Dec. 17. The film is difficult to categorize, and Anderson and the executives at New Line, the studio that financed and will release the film, are not in agreement on how to market ''Magnolia,'' which is, on a superficial level, a melodrama about a dozen characters and, on a deeper level, a meditation on accountability at the end of the century. Anderson felt New Line's marketing on his last movie, ''Boogie Nights,'' a thrilling film set in the porno world of the 70's, was not all that it might have been, and ''Magnolia'' is not an easy movie to sell. Like ''Boogie Nights,'' it is about intersecting lives, and how chance and coincidence create a fragile sort of order.
The movie is daring in form and content: there are five separate narratives, characters break into song, there are acts of divine intervention. It is long and stars a crew of wonderful actors who have become Anderson's repertory company -- John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julianne Moore, among others -- joined by Jason Robards as a dying patriarch and Tom Cruise as his son, a charismatic sex guru who leads workshops in snaring women. Cruise gives a virtuoso performance, but he is not currently promoting the film, and his image is so buried on the poster that even his agent at Creative Artists Agency, Kevin Huvane, could barely find him. Cruise would have been a great marketing boost, but he felt his fame would overshadow the ensemble nature of the film and, besides, his character is so extreme, so inconsistent with the Tom Cruise trademark that, contractually, he insisted on distance.
''What do you think of this?'' Anderson asks Dylan Tichenor, his editor and one of the two people (the other is his producer, JoAnne Sellar) whom Anderson really listens to. Mostly, he follows his own instincts. Anderson has developed a reputation as a brat and a genius, and it is not difficult to see why someone might come to either conclusion. ''How do I respond to criticism?'' he asks. ''Critically,'' he answers. ''I listen to all criticism critically.'' Which means, when the initial cut of ''Magnolia'' was 3 hours, 18 minutes, he would not trim it to a conventional running length of 2 or even 212 hours. His vision ran at 3 and that was it. ''You have to sit in the movie and really absorb it,'' Anderson explains. ''I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.'' Anderson pauses. ''I was trying to say something with this film without actually screaming the message,'' Anderson says. ''Although three hours may be something of a scream, I wanted to hold the note for a while.''
At the moment, Anderson's sense of mission is focused on the movie's poster, an image of a ripe magnolia flower with cast members' faces superimposed on various petals. ''Can you see them?'' he asks Tichenor. New Line wanted the faces more prominently displayed in a checkerboard behind the flower but Anderson fought for the subtler imagery. Now he is seeing details and omissions and tiny discrepancies that only a parent can see, and the more he looks at this poster, the more enraged he seems to get. The battle excites him -- it's Anderson's chance to convince the world that art and commerce can co-exist, that a three-hour film that is unique and independent in spirit can, if properly packaged, captivate a mainstream audience.
''I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak,'' Anderson says, pacing the length of the room. Even when he's still, Anderson appears to be jumping about. ''It's a maniac gene.'' Tichenor ignores Anderson -- he has great respect for Anderson, but he has seen all this before. And anyway, Anderson's larger fight with the studio is not over the poster, but the trailer. ''This is where I put my foot through the chair,'' he says, bounding over to a stack of machines and putting a cassette into a monitor. ''This is their trailer,'' he spits. As Anderson jumps up and down and swears (and Tichenor smiles), the voice-over begins: ''You can spend your whole life waiting for the truth. Today, for nine people, the wait is over. From Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of -'' Anderson shrieks, ''Don't say my name!'' and throws himself onto the couch.


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TUCSON - The Arizona Wildcats (receiving votes in the ESPN poll) and the California Golden Bears will continue the Pac-10 slate of women's basketball games with a contest at 3 p.m. MT on Sat., Jan. 8, at Haas Pavilion. The Cal game will wrap-up Arizona's first Pac-10 road weekend.
The Arizona Wildcats and the California Golden Bears will meet for the 53rd time on Saturday. Arizona leads the series with Cal, 29-23. The Golden Bears have won nine-straight match ups with the Wildcats. Arizona's last win against Cal, 80-76, came on Jan. 22, 2006 at Haas Pavilion.
The Arizona Wildcats are 11-3 overall and 2-1 in the Pac-10. The Wildcats have three players averaging double-digit points in sophomore guard Davellyn Whyte (14.4), senior forward Ify Ibekwe (14.9) and senior forward Soana Lucet (12.1). Ibekwe leads Arizona at the glass with 10.2 rebounds per game and junior guard Shanita Arnold dishes out 6.0 assists per game. Currently, Wildcat players lead the Pac-10 in rebounds (Ibekwe, 132, 10.2 pg), assists (Arnold, 84, 6.0 pg) and defensive rebounds (Ibekwe, 88, 6.8 pg).
Scouting the Golden Bears: The California Golden Bears are 9-4 overall and 1-1 in Pac-10 play. They have three players averaging in double-digit scoring: DeNesha Stallworth (15.5), Layshia Clarendon (13.8) and Talia Caldwell (10.6). Caldwell also paces the Bears at the glass with 8.6 rebounds per game. Golden Bear players lead the Pac-10 in steals (Eliza Pierre, 45, 3.5pg) and offensive rebounds (Talia Caldwell, 55, 4.2pg). As a team, Cal leads the Pac-10 in three-point FG defense (.227) and offensive rebound percentage (.429).
In this week's Associated Press Top 25, Baylor, Connecticut and Duke, respectively, hold the top three spots and Stanford sits at No. 4. Of the Pac-10 schools, Stanford and UCLA (No. 12) are ranked and Arizona State and USC are receiving votes. In this week's USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Top 25, Baylor, Connecticut and Duke, respectively, hold the top three spots and Stanford sits at No. 4. Of the Pac-10 schools, Stanford and UCLA (No. 11) are ranked and Arizona State and Arizona are receiving votes.
The Wildcats picked up their first Pac-10 loss on Thursday after falling to the No. 4/4 Stanford Cardinal, 87-54. For the third-straight game, junior guard Shanita Arnold led Arizona in scoring. Against Stanford, she had 13 points to go with her two rebounds and three assists. She was the lone Wildcat to score in double figures but senior forward Ify Ibekwe (8), junior forward Taylor Dalrymple (8), sophomore guard Davellyn Whyte (9) and junior guard Reiko Thomas (9) were not far off. Ibekwe paced Arizona at the glass with eight boards.
Arizona will conclude its first Pac-10 trip with the California game on Saturday. Next weekend, the Wildcats will face in-state rival Arizona State on Sun., Jan. 16, in Tempe. The Wildcats return to McKale Center Jan. 20 and 22 to face Washington and Washington State, respectively.
All Wildcat games can be heard live on KTUC AM 1400. All broadcasts will start 15 minutes prior to tip-off for the pre-game show. Entering their third season calling Arizona Wildcat women's basketball games will be Derrick Palmer (play-by-play) and Alysiah Bond (color). Live stats are available at ArizonaWildcats.com. Live video is available at CalBears.com.


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The increased complexity of parallel applications on modern parallel platforms (e.g. multicore/manycore, distributed or hybrid) requires new insight into development processes. This complexity also necessitates the use of advanced methods and techniques supporting developers in creating parallel applications or parallelizing and reengineering sequential legacy applications.
This special issue is focused on high-quality research dealing with the challenges of the software development life cycle for modern parallel systems. It seeks articles that advance the state of the art in different phases of parallel software development, covering software engineering aspects such as requirements engineering and software specification; design and implementation; program analysis, profiling and tuning; testing and debugging.
In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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- Refactoring and reengineering for parallelism
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Ali Jannesari is the head of the multicore programming group at the German Research School for Simulation Sciences and RWTH Aachen University in Germany. His research interest is mainly focused on software engineering for multicore systems, including automated testing and debugging of parallel programs, parallelism discovery and parallelization methods, auto-tuning, and parallel programming models. Performing empirical studies towards the challenges that multicore developers are facing is another major interest of his. Dr. Jannesari has a PhD in computer science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the ACM, and the German Computer Science Society.
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Walter F. Tichy has been professor of Software Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (formerly University of Karlsruhe), Germany, since 1986, and was dean of the faculty of computer science from 2002 to 2004. Previously, he was senior scientist at Carnegie Group, Inc., in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and served six years on the faculty of Computer Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. His primary research interests are software engineering and parallelism. He is currently concentrating on empirical software engineering, tools and languages for multicore computers, and making programming more accessible by using natural language for programming. He earned an M.S. and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and 1980, resp. He is director at the Forschungszentrum Informatik, a technology transfer institute in Karlsruhe. He is co-founder of ParTec, a company specializing in cluster computing. He has helped organize numerous conferences and workshops. He received the Intel Award for the Advancement of Parallel Computing in 2009. Dr. Tichy is a fellow of the ACM and a member of GI and the IEEE Computer Society.
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Felix Wolf is head of the Laboratory for Parallel Programming at the German Research School for Simulation Sciences in Aachen and a full professor at RWTH Aachen University, where he teaches parallel programming. His research concentrates on parallel programming tools. In particular, Wolf is a principal designer of the performance-analysis tool Scalasca, which is installed at numerous HPC centers around the world and which has been successfully applied to optimize academic and industrial codes. Wolf has published more than 90 refereed articles in journals and conference or workshop proceedings. He has obtained research funding from European and American funding agencies including BMBF, DFG, DOE, EU, Helmholtz Association, and NSF.
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It is a bit too late for lettuce and radishes from seed; if you wish to raise those vegetables this year you should probably be looking towards a fall planting; and that is a good thing anyway. Too often fresh fall crops are ignored. But it still may not be too late for some spring favorites here in Zone Six. Even cabbage, broccoli and kale may still be within reach.
It all depends on your local garden supply store and nursery.
Pay their live plant section a visit and see if you can find cabbage plants, kale and the rest which are healthy and large. Ignore undersized, limp or yellowed veggies; at this point you would be wasting your money. If you find big healthy ones however, scoop them up and get them in the ground immediately with a large dose of water and a little general purpose fertilizer.
Give these plants lots of tender loving care; scrupulous weeding, regular watering and as soon as it looks as though they are established give them a protective layer of mulch.
You may still find yourself enjoying spring favorites which have been planted only today.
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Brennan would disagree with that characterization. Neither she nor Kolodny is calling for an outright ban on prescribing opioids for chronic pain, but they would like to see them used only as a drug of last resort—and only with careful monitoring by a physician trained in addiction-risk management. They want patients properly informed about the drugs' dangers, and prescriptions tracked in a way that allows both health and law-enforcement professionals to monitor the use—and abuse—of these powerful medicines.
The White House has called for a new opioid-risk-management plan for doctors by the end of this year and for prescription drug monitoring programs in all 50 states by 2014. As More went to press, 37 states had some sort of monitoring program in place; 11 had passed legislation authorizing such programs, but they were not yet up and running.
BRIDGET BRENNAN WANTS TO MAKE SURE her prosecutions matter in the widest possible sphere. It's all part of what she calls a holistic approach. In addition to mandatory physician training, better monitoring and stronger legislation, her wish list includes, not surprisingly, a vigorous public education campaign—not only about how to use opioids wisely but also about how to dispose of unused pills safely (for tips, go to more.com/drugs).
Even as she targets a more elite type of dealer, the "pill mill" doctor who dispenses misery instead of succor, Brennan is already thinking ahead to the collateral damage, brainstorming with her network of rehab providers and law-enforcement colleagues on how to help the patients of the physicians she's about to bust. The team decides to ask the city health department to create flyers to hand out to patients as the doctor is taken away.
"We wanted to make sure we had something tangible to give the people who were in the office that day," says Brennan. "Information on where they could go for treatment. That's what I mean. You don't just make your arrest and that's the end of it."
I ask Brennan if she would call herself a crusader on the prescription drug issue. "Crusader?" she wonders. "See, I won't consider myself a crusader on any issue because I'm always a little skeptical. I never go all the way over to the edge. However, I would say on this topic, I feel like I'm a voice out in the wilderness. Like I'm shaking people and saying, 'Wake up. Don't you see what's going on?' "
*UPDATE: On May 3, 2012, the board of directors of the American Pain Foundation voted to dissolve the organization. The announcement on the organization's Web site cites economic difficulties. On May 8, the Washington Post reported on the launch of a Senate Finance Committee investigation into "the relationship between makers of narcotic painkillers and the groups that champion them," adding that it was unclear whether the group's announcement was related to the investigation.
UPDATE: In July 2013 the CDC announced that prescription painkiller overdose deaths among women had risen more than 400 percent since 1999 (compared with 265 percent among men). The report said that women ages 45-54 have the highest risk of death.
Nanette Varian is a features editor at More.
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There have not been many successful "frat party" movies thus far. Animal House is considered the ultimate fraternity movie, and Old School was the only other successful one since then really. But expect Neighbors to enter that exclusive club as it's one of the funniest comedies I've seen in some time, and I find it even funnier than those 2 movies I just mentioned.
We're used to Seth Rogen playing frat-boy types in movies like Knocked Up and Pineapple Express. But here it's the younger Zac Efron who steps into the role of an actual fraternity president as Rogen plays a family man this time around. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne play parents living in a very nice neighborhood with a baby. They're not exactly boring people who don't know how to have fun, but they do prefer some peace and quiet for their baby in particular. So when they see a bunch of rowdy fraternity kids move into the house next door, they decide to greet them and make friends so that the frat boys might be considerate of their situation. Efron's character seems to like them immediately and just asks them to promise him that they'll come to him when the fraternity is too noisy rather than calling the cops.
The married couple have a good time hanging out with the guys at their first party and Seth Rogen is the perfect guy to play a parent who can still fit in at a frat party. But after that first night, the parties continue and the couple find themselves having a hard time getting the frat boys to quiet down. Soon enough, they find themselves calling the cops and Efron's pretty-boy frat leader feels betrayed. Next thing you know, war has been waged between Delta Psi Beta and the two parents next door. This is where the movie really becomes fun to watch. You never know what one side is going to do to the other.
The fraternity in particular do a lot of funny things on their own like throwing a party in which they dress up as different Robert De Niro characters. And the scenes that take place at their big blowout parties at night make you wish you were right there with them. The director definitely captures the feel of what it's like to be young and careless and just having a good time. The film also throws in a little message about what happens when you do nothing but party without studying in between though too. It doesn't hurt that they also managed to find one of the cutest babies ever to play the baby the couple is trying so hard to protect. This film should be a big hit due to its many laughs and just a fun story in general. I definitely recommend it; Neighbors opens on May 9 and it's hilarious.


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Creating virtual set?
Hi, we have inherited (long story) a Tricaster Studio, I have been playing with the unit for a few days and I got to understand it pretty well. The thing now is virtual sets, the unit comes bundled with stock Virtual Setts and the virtual set pack 1. I want to create my basic virtual set, I understand that I have a few options:
* LigthWave + Pluging, that will give me complete virtual set creation freedom.
* Liveset creator, that will give me a three layer virtual set with the talent in the middle, no shadows, reflections or camera angles.
* Buy an already created studio, or order a customiced one.
Is there any other option that I am missing ?
I just want a basic background with a virtual monitor coming from DDR and the talent in front, no reflections or shadows.
Do I need LigthWave to do that ?, Is there not a cheapest way to do it?
Thanks for your help.
You pretty much have it right but I'll add;
- Work with a LiveSet creator who can except a photoshop file that they would convert to a LiveSet (with some work involved on their part) for a fee.
- Purchase a used VT [5] card and install it on a Windows machine which includes Aura, a paint program with LiveSet plug-in.
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The "T"-Body Cars: Chevrolet Chevette and Pontiac T1000
As you all very well know, General Motors and other car companies use an alphabet letter to denote a body style, usually used by two or more divisions. When the unreliability of the "H"-body Vega became obvious, GM went looking globally to replace the Vega by rebadging a "T"-body from elsewhere in the world. First built in Brazil in 1974, the "T" car was eventually made as the Vauxhall Chevette, Opel Kadett, Isuzu Gemini, and Holden Gemini. It was also called the Pontiac Acadian in Canada. Briefy, it was even made as a pickup truck, the Chevy 500.
Launched by the Chevrolet Division in 1976 as the Chevette and in 1981 as Pontiac's T1000, this is a truly "love-it-or-hate-it" car. I bought this then-new 1978 model for reliable transportation and easy campus parking, as well as something to remember my 21st birthday by. Originally available in America only as a 2-door, "Rally" and "Woody" packages were also offered. A 4-door came along in 1978, and those two trim packages were dropped. All were hatchbacks. There was a station wagon that was never available here, but I think it would have been a hit at that time. In 1978, the Pinto and Monza wagons were still available and selling strong--though their days were ultimately numbered.
The Chevette/T1000 interior was, well, "sparse" at best. Vinyl seats were standard; the optional plaid cloth pattern featured in my car was both comfy and stylishly indicative of when Disco ruled the land. In fact, this was the first set of cloth seats I ever had. They convinced me that cloth seats are the way to go, since vinyl or leather seats are hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and usually don't last as long unless, of course, they are fine Corinthian. This was the standard interior; the upgraded digs were as scarce as hens' teeth.
All Chevettes had the exposed, hard, painted metal upper door edges to bang your arm on, a trait common to cheap cars and trucks. The one-piece plastic door panels were deceiving. At first they looked like stitched and padded panels, but any touch would find them almost as hard as the aforementioned door edges. The carpeting was nice enough, even covering the hatch load floor.
The mini console was handy, but the dash was a disaster. Only one size radio was allowed, and DIN-sized choices were very limited in 1978. Under-dash FM converters combined with the standard AM radio were the cheapest fix. How else could you hear "Funkytown" with no static? Gauges were also virtually non-existent. All "T" cars had the 85-mph speedometer, fuel gauge, and smaller holes for idiot lights and a place for a clock. There was an optional tachometer and volt gauge, but again, try to find a car with those options. Amazingly, on the 2-doors, the rear side windows were hinged and latched! So what was in the cabin seemed to be done fairly well. Squeaks and rattles were few except for the noisy, poorly fitted hatch area.
Driving my T1000 was fun, but not exactly exciting. Very soon after buying the car, we put a set of Michelin radials on. From then on, I looked forward to a certain set of "S" curves on the way to work each day, as the "T" was one of the first GM cars to have rack-and-pinion steering ... basically the same unit that went into the "P"-body Pontiac Fiero.
I have to say that the T-body cars' traction in snow was amazing, especially considering they were real wheel drive. During "The Great Blizzard of 1978", I drove the first car with snow pounding the floor pan. The car made it up a steep driveway that a friend's Jeep would not conquer ... with bias-ply tires, no less! (These are not typical results, your traction may vary.) Please don't adjust your sets, that's a black & white picture I took of an ice-encrusted hubcap on the '78 Chevette. Powered by a 1.6-liter I-4, they made all of 70 horsepower at the rear wheels. Power steering and power brakes just weren't needed, as the cars were light enough to steer and stop easily without them.
In 1979, the Chevette received a front-end freshening that would last till the end of production in 1987, including a new hood, rectangular headlights, and a chrome grille. The 1980 model year, the beginning of the Al Franken Decade, brought new rear quarter panels, hatch, and a tail light change, all very attractive for the time. In fact, I'm going to say it here ... the lines were quite similar to the first-generation VW Scirocco, and neither was a bad-looking car back then. As mentioned, in 1981 the Pontiac version was released, gussying up the Chevette by using Pontiac badges, a dark painted grille, lowered body side moldings, and the Chevette's "Custom Exterior" option of extra bright side window trim with matte black painted accents. In 1982, a much-improved hard cloth-covered headliner was used. The pinstripes on the silver car were my doing.
Yes, we owned three of the cars cars shown here. For years we lived frugally, and have seen some payoffs lately by doing so. The two-tone 4-door here belonged to my mother; she drove the car for years, even with a peculiar shudder in the drivetrain. Between 25 and 35 mph, the car had a strange vibration, probably in the driveshaft. We never had it fixed because it was not chronic, and we didn't want to put a penny more into the car than we had to. We just lived with it. Hers was a three-speed automatic, both of mine had four-speed manuals.
All three cars had air conditioning; the heaters worked all right, except there wasn't a bi-level vent and floor setting ... it was either one or the other. So your tootsies froze while your upper body and face were warm or visa-versa, unless you fiddled with the air flow controls every few minutes. But at least her car had rear doors! Getting in and out of any 2-door coupe is tough; try it in one of these microbes. I have avoided buying any 2-door car that has a back seat since I owned a Chevette--even my last pickup truck has four full-sized doors.
OK, that's the good news. So, how could a car that was the best selling car in America in 1979 and 1980 take such a fall from grace? Simple ... in America, GM did virtually nothing to improve or update this car as the Europeans did (a Vauxhall Chevette is shown at left), and the competition simply overran it.
The "T" was hardly cutting-edge when it was new. Other than relocating nameplates, body-coloring bumpers, and adding the mandatory Central High-Mounted Stop Light (CHMSL) third brake light, almost nothing was done. In 1984, Pontiac dropped the "T" designation and simply called the car the "1000".
Dealers also carried only poorly-equipped models on their lots. Goodies like a 5-speed manual, tilt steering wheel, remote control mirror, intermittent wipers, rear defroster, rear wiper, roof rack, nicer interior packages, AM/FM radio, and better wheels were available, but have you ever seen them? If you got air conditioning, tinted glass, and a radio in your "T" car, feel lucky.
Had Chevy and Pontiac updated the cabin and used the items already available in their parts bin to upgrade the cars, the Chevette and T1000 cars would surely have gained more respect in the market. But, sadly, GM's strategy of chopping the price in 1987 to $4,995 to compete with the Hyundai Excel and Yugo GV only placed the "T" cars lower on the automotive food chain.
Then there was the Chevette Scooter. As if the regular Chevette wasn't spartan enough, GM decided to take off all of the exterior trim, cheaply paint the bumpers, limit colors and equipment, remove the glove box door, use unbelievably flat interior door trim, install vinyl flooring and vinyl hatch floor covers, and remove any plastic chrome from the dash. Mechanically the Scooter was identical with other Chevettes, but many options were not available. In 1976, the first year, a back seat was optional. Sigh, what were they thinking? Has a more plain-looking car ever been offered? Thankfully, Chevrolet dropped the Scooter in the 1984 model year.
Quality was another issue. I really enjoyed and occasionally miss the little brown car ... enough that its memories prompted me to buy a T1000 as soon as Pontiac released them. What a mistake! From poor assembly and bad materials to criminally stupid dealer service, this is the car I've most regretted owning in my life.
Almost immediately after getting the car, I had to go to a dealer and receive a fender badge the factory forgot to put on--my first recall! There was not enough material in the headliner to fold over and finish. The dealer scratched the driver's inner door panel, then repaired it by painting the hard molded burgundy plastic which, of course, immediately flaked off. The carpet had a flaw, so the dealer replaced it--the new rug was installed crooked, and the dealer did not reconnect the hand brake lever when they gave me back the car. A strange dent appeared in the hood while at the dealer--it's as if somebody sat on it. The passenger's door had a wind noise, so the idiot at the dealer rolled down the window, put his knee inside the door, pulled the window frame in a bit, thus cracking the paint, and left a dent in the door where his knee was. The list goes on.
Maybe the increase in production volume between 1978 and 1981 explains why the second car was not as good as the first. Just spit 'em out, and we'll fix 'em later. Again, sigh.
So, in my usually worthless opinion, with more standard equipment and a new interior, a "T" car could have been almost fun to own, maybe even springing a cult following. It drove well, was good on gas, and was sold incredibly cheaply. But with options difficult to find and dealers treating their customers and the cars like unwanted stepchildren, it seems like GM wasted a golden opportunity here.
My little brown car was a mountain climber. It's pictured here parked at Newfound Gap in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. You can see the stickers in the window if you look closely. The silver Chevette next to me is a 1976 or 1977 model.
Sorry about the multitude of pictures here, but these things came in a lot of different varieties! Wikipedia supplied the European Vauxhall Chevette photo. The Scooter and 1976 Woody are from The Chevette Photo Gallery. Also at the Chevette Photo Gallery, you can see pictures of Australian Holden Geminis, the Down Under Chevettes. It's fascinating to see how they are both familiar and foreign.
--That Car Guy (Chuck)


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After the first 2013 pre-season test at the Sepang International Circuit, we've got a good video from the final day of testing where you can check out all the MotoGP riders in action.
The video is based on the finishing order from day 3 starting from Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi, Marc Marquez scrapping off the leather from his elbows and how his Honda RC213V was after his lowside crash and continuing with Cal Cruthlow, Stefan Bradl, Alvaro Bautista, Bradley Smith, the struggling Ducati riders, Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso (who looks as uncomfortable as Rossi used to) and all the way down to Bryan Staring who finished last.
The Repsol Media Service released a video with interviews from Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez who closed out the test in first and fourth, respectively that you can check out after the jump.


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DALLAS (SMU) - The SMU men's soccer spring schedule was announced today by head coach Tim McClements. The Mustangs are coming off of a season in which the team went 10-5-5.
SMU opens the spring season Saturday Feb. 9; the Mustangs face Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo in Houston, Texas. Mustang midfielder T.J. Nelson, who was a key player this past season, was selected by FC Dallas in the MLS Supplemental Draft in mid-January.
The Mustangs will take on Trinity University Feb. 23 in a home game.
The team faces off with rival Tulsa on March 2 at Wescott Field. SMU defeated the Golden Hurricane, 1-0, at home on Oct. 3 on a goal by freshmen Brenden Lee.
SMU takes on Incarnate Word at home on March 23, before wrapping up the spring at Wescott Field against Midwestern State on April 1.
Feb. 9 - @ Houston Dynamo - Houston, TX - 10:00 a.m.
Feb. 23 - Trinity University - Dallas, TX - 7:00 p.m.
March 2 - Tulsa - Dallas, TX - 11:00 a.m.
March 23 - Univ. of Incarnate Word - Dallas, TX - 7:00 p.m.
April 1 - Midwestern State - Dallas, TX - 7:00 p.m.


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Jacksonville's music scene can feel a bit antiquated when searching for concerts to attend. The city's largest entertainment venue, The Florida Theatre, showcases artists suited for older generations or families, like Michael Bolton and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, along with several comedians. While these types of shows draw in a large demographic of north Florida, they certainly do not appeal to an indie music or hip hop fan. Luckily, there are numerous smaller venues booking artists relevant to a younger crowd. On the other hand, as a result of these popular artists performing in small venues, tickets sell out fast. Fans of newer music must plan ahead in this city, or else they will most certainly miss out on these shows. This list serves as a guide to these venues, giving you an idea of where to look for upcoming shows in these genres, as well as a diverse line-up of artists performing in and around Jacksonville in March of 2014. You can also check out Jax Live for an extensive calendar of performances at several of the venues around town.
Iron & Wine at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
Iron & Wine, an indie rock band led by the talented singer and songwriter Sam Beam, is sure to put on a magically harmonious and mellow show. They will be performing just outside of Jacksonville at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall on March 1 at 8 pm. Tickets cost $30 in advance and $35 at the door.
St. Patrick's Day Tour with Dropkick Murphys
If you are looking for some St. Patrick's Day fun around Jacksonville, go check out the American Celtic punk band, Dropkick Murphys, at Mavericks Rock N Honky Tonk on March 6 with Lucero and Skinny Lister. The celebration begins at 6 pm. Tickets start at $25.
2 Chainz at Brewsters Roc Bar
As one of the newest members of Def Jam Recordings, Atlanta rapper, 2 Chainz, has collaborated with a number of successful hip hop artists. His latest album, Feds Watching, was released summer of 2013, featuring major recording artist Pharrell. 2 Chainz is performing on March 29 at the Brewsters Roc Bar at 9 pm. General admission tickets starting at $50.


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Talking to your parents about the end of their life
End of life planning for your parents
It's a difficult conversation for a caregiver and their aging parent to have-- planning for the end of their life.
It wasn't something Linda Burhans spent much time contemplating.
A life lesson learned.
Burhans wrote a book to help others navigate their parents end of life issues after caring for her own terminally mom.
"You need to have some end of life conversation. You need to have a ton of paper work filled out," said Burhans.
Through her support group, Burhans encourages caregivers to connect with each other and share resources.
Family law attorney Bill McQueen said adult children should encourage their parents to designate a healthcare surrogate, draw up a power of attorney and draft a living will. The document will speak for them in the event they cannot.
Over 70 percent of Americans will need assistance with daily living before they die.
It's one of the reasons why Shirley Balter made her end of life wishes clear to her family.
This 83-year-old provided her family, including her daughter-in-law, with a copy of her will. She doesn't want any questions in the end.
Balter said she didn't schedule a big sit down meeting, rather she found ways to bring up the subject in on going conversations with her grown kids.
She found it to be an easier conversation when it's talked about on a regular basis.
Here are some helpful links:
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Buffet Lines: Survival of the Fittest
July 22, 2013 | By Gina Kramer | 6 Comments
Tags: buffets > meals
6 Responses to "Buffet Lines: Survival of the Fittest"
July 22nd, 2013 @ 4:14 pm
People touching and tasting!!! Totally grosses me out!
July 22nd, 2013 @ 4:17 pm
Buffet Lines.
Roberta Gerlach
July 23rd, 2013 @ 11:28 am
Buffet lines would be more efficient and "healthier" if there were more serving personnel who ladled the food for you.(And they will always give you the portion size you want!) Those who do not wash hands, or perhaps wipe them on multiple-times-worn clothes that have not been laundered, are the friends of the norovirus. We always used the Lido deck, but after a noro experience, I was warned by the infirmary on board to avoid the buffet. Cutting into lines is not as bad as those touching everything to see what it feels like. I may be hungry, but on a cruise, never starving, so I can wait another 5 minutes to get my turn. Love to see more servers, less self-serve.
July 23rd, 2013 @ 11:39 am
touching food and being courteous have somewhat of an idea of what you want if you want a taste put it on your plate you can always go back for more
Kimberly Howard
July 24th, 2013 @ 9:45 am
It is better not to think that you're in a line. Try to have some chit chat with a friends in the process.
July 24th, 2013 @ 12:35 pm
Patience, no one will starve!
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They also get it wrong about OpenOffice.org (never take a Microsoft spokesman at face value when talking about its arch rivals) - the spell check on my copy of OpenOffice.org certainly seems to offer alternative spellings when I right-click on the words with a a wavy red line under them.
Posted by Simon Phipps on October 09, 2004 at 04:03 PM JST #
"JDS" is just quite a newcomer in the Linux scene. Do not misunderstand me, I know that it has been around for two years, but comparing it to a standard Gnome distribution or to KDE and considering that distros like Mandrake and Suse have shaped the definition of "Linux Desktop" even befored Sun started contributing to Gnome, two years are only a short time :). <p/> Small question on JDS/Solaris: will it support Gnome 2.6's spatial navigation by default? Well... I am using it in my gentoo box and I love it :)
Posted by Davide Inglima - limaCAT on October 10, 2004 at 11:43 PM JST #
Funny you like the spatial mode of navigation. I personally hated it, it seems to have brought me back to CDE day. But those who have tried it out for a week or so seems to like it. While JDS is only out for less than a year, JDS 1 was shipped in December 2003. Sun has started invovling in GNOME back in 2000 and OpenOffice.Org around the same times. I guess one thing that does not make Sun on Linux a distro because Sun really uses SuSE as the base OS. Were Ximian considered as a distro by others :)
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Gaming with Iron Liz Session 4
And here it is!
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Have you thought of using video chat on Google+? It seems to work pretty well for online gaming.ReplyDelete
Here's a breif blog post by a group using it to play some ye olde school games.
So let's see, in these past two sessions the party has picked the pocket of a woman they're now trying to help, set two of themselves on fire, electrocuted another, whacked yet another's knee on a table, and broken the door of a barn.ReplyDelete
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In all seriousness though I'm loving this campaign.
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The field is set. The United States, Canada, Sweden and Finland each were able to win their quarterfinals on Wednesday for a spot in the semifinals, and now sit one win away from playing for gold.
The top four seeded teams after the preliminary round have all taken care of business to advance, with the semifinals set to be contested on Friday. All four will play for a medal this weekend, but Friday's contests will determine if it will be for gold, or for bronze.
In the first semifinal matchup, Sweden will take on their Scandinavian rival Finland, in a rematch of the 2006 gold medal game.
In similar fashion, the United States will take on their North American rival Canada in Friday's second semifinal matchup; a rematch of the 2010 gold medal game.
But who has the edge?
In truth, these are four vastly different teams, but any could win gold. Here's a look at each of the four remaining countries and what it would take for them to win it all.
#1 Sweden
Of the four teams, Sweden was the only one to win all of their preliminary round matchups in regulation. Despite being without their top two centers (Henrik Sedin and Henrik Zetterberg), their offense has been consistent and their defense stifling.
How have they done it? Two words: puck possession.
The Swedish game is not necessarily about attacking, but is more about controlling. They will make the safe play with the puck instead of trying to force a scoring chance. This frustrates their opponents and makes life a lot easier for goaltender Henrik Lundqvist (who leads the tournament with two shutouts).
Offensively, they are led by defenseman Erik Karlsson (who is currently second in the tournament in scoring). His freewheeling style opens up room for his teammates.
Their defensive core is the strength of this team. They separate opposing players from the puck and aren't quick to give it back after they do.
The one worrisome fact about Sweden, is that unlike the rest of their counterparts in the semis, they have yet to face any of the upper-echelon teams (seeded fifth or better) in the tournament.
If Sweden is able to possess the puck and slow down the tempo, they could suffocate teams on their way to the gold medal.
#2 United States
In all of their games save their shootout win over Russia, the U.S. has dominated their competition.
They do this by turning the game into a style similar to what they play in the NHL (where everybody on their roster typically plays).
Not to be intimidated by the large ice, they play dump-and-chase hockey; using their elite speed to win races to the puck and their physicality to wear teams down.
Offensively, they are opportunistic, and excel at scoring off of the rush. They have the best shooting percentage (16.67) in the tournament thanks, in part, to leading scorer Phil Kessel.
Unfortunately for them, they also shoot the least of the remaining teams. Against elite teams, they may need to find a way to generate more offensively.
They will also need to adjust to playing at the Bolshoy Ice Dome. Thus far, they have played all their games (save the preliminary matchup against Russia) in the smaller Shayba Arena. While Shayba is known for its' very active boards (something the U.S. consistently used to their advantage), Bolshoy is not. They struggled at times to control play against Russia at Bolshoy, something they cannot afford to do against any of the three remaining teams.
If the U.S. is able to play physical without getting into penalty trouble, they may wear down their opponents and capture their first ice hockey gold since 1980.
# 3 Canada
The defending goal medalists, Canada is still surprisingly struggling to find any chemistry amongst their forward lines.
It isn't for lack of trying.
Canada has a staggering 168 shots in their four games, but has scored on only 7.74 percent of them (far and away the worst efficiency of any of the remaining teams).
On the other side of the coin, they have allowed their opponents a tournament low 74 shots on goal.
Canada likes to set up their cycle in the offensive zone, and look to their booming point shots to either score or generate rebounds. Despite their plethora of riches up front, defenseman Drew Doughty and Shea Weber lead Canada in scoring.
Doughty and Weber have combined for seven of Canada's 13 goals. Captain Sidney Crosby has zero.
In all of their contests thus far, they have been able to limit their opponents' chances and pepper their opponents until something went in. The talent disparity will be much smaller going forward, so they will need to be more efficient on offense if they wish to repeat as champions. Some offense from their forwards may also be a must.
#4 Finland
Some people may be surprised to see Finland left standing.
They shouldn't be.
In fact, Finland has been the most consistently successful country since NHL players were allowed to compete in the Olympics in 1998, winning medals in three of four games (one silver, two bronze).
They do this with commitment to team defense.
The do not mind allowing opportunities from the outside, but eliminate second chance opportunities with sound rebound control and punishing anyone who dares attempt to go to the front of their net.
With injuries to Valtteri Filppula, Mikko Koivu and Aleksander Barkov; they are weak up the middle. Something they compensate for with their defense and speed on the wings.
Their offense is predicated on turnovers, and they look for chances on the rush.
Captain Teemu Selanne leads the attack offensively, and still has a deadly accurate shot; but one has to wonder how much tread the "Finnish Flash" has left on those 43-year-old tires.
To be successful going forward, they need to score early, sit back with the lead late and pray their defense holds up. If they can stand teams up at their own blueline, they may bring home gold.
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- United States continue winning ways against Czech Republic, move into semis
- Gudlevskis almost steals the game, but Canada slips by Latvia and into the semis
- Top-seeded Sweden overwhelms Slovenia to cruise into semifinals
- Russia falls to Finland in quarterfinals, fails to medal in third straight games


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Star Hub * ADC Protocol * Direct Connect networks * Pure Java cross-platform software
What is it?
StarHub is a new hubsoftware for Direct Connect Networks. It uses the ADC protocol created by Jacek Sieka and the DC DEV. ADC is the future of DC network and information about it can be found on http://adc.sf.net/ADC.html
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