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X performance is extremely difficult to quantify, and there is a large amount of work to be done in this space. The following are some collected notes on what needs doing.
Discussion and questions about work in these areas should be held on the xorg mailing list.
Transport Performance
In General
X is a fairly compact protocol, with the exclusion of image transport which is done uncompressed. The dominating factor in many aspects of X performance is transport latency - how long it takes for a response to make a round trip. This is exacerbated by the design of Xlib, which is effectively synchronous for most of its operation.
XCB is an effort to rearchitect the network layer of X to hide latency by providing an asynchronous interface to the protocol. The effort is stabilising rapidly, and needs both wider testing and for toolkits to be ported to it.
Over the Network
While XCB addresses the latency requirements of X, there is no great solution to the bandwidth requirements. Several good (and not so good) solutions do exist.
- The SSH suite allows for tunnelling X sessions over a secure channel, which can also be compressed. This is adequate for technical users, but it is suboptimal for terminal servers and novice users.
- The LBX protocol is generally inadequate for modern X usage. See the linked paper for details. LBX is no longer built by default in 7.1.
- Xpra acts as compositing window manager to forward individual windows from a virtual server to the client that connects to it (over sockets, tcp or ssh).
- NX is a software compression suite based on the earlier DXPC protocol. It also leverages ssh to provide security services. There are open issues regarding integrating it into the base suite - licensing being among them, as much of NX is LGPL, version 4 is now closed-source.
On the Local Machine
Several commercial X servers use shared memory transports on the local machine to improve performance. Rik Faith researched shared memory transports for the DRI project several years ago. The conclusion then was that it would improve performance for those operations where the time to render the request was dominated by the transport latency, and then by less than 10%.
This may not be true anymore. The balance of the typical machine's memory architecture has shifted, and many operating systems provide advanced high performance synchronization primitives (like futexes on Linux) that may address some of the sync overhead he experienced. This would be an excellent research project.
Driver Performance
2D Rendering
The Important Bits
Most of the core X protocol's rendering routines simply do not get used very often. This is not so much because they are slow, but because they aren't useful on the modern desktop. Empirically, better than 90% of the drawing operations that X sees today are solid fills, blits, and Render operations. Attempting to accelerate 2D operation outside this set is very likely a waste of effort.
XAA is largely inadequate for accelerating modern desktop usage.
- XAA goes to great lengths to accelerate operations like patterned fills and Bresenham lines, which are rarely used.
- XAA's support for accelerating the Render extension is poor, because the design of XAA's memory manager only allows for offscreen pixmaps that are exactly the format of the displayed screen.
- Render acceleration in XAA only works when the source image is in host memory and the destination is in card memory; to be truly performant it needs to be able to handle the case where both source and destination are in card memory. This is the reason xcompmgr is slow; it uses Render heavily, and XAA simply can not make Render go fast.
XAA is really not worth fixing. The better approach is to start from the lessons learned from KAA, the kdrive acceleration architecture, and port drivers over to that (leaving XAA in place for old or unmaintained drivers).
As of about Xorg 220.127.116.11, there is a new acceleration architecture called EXA that achieves this. EXA is derived from the KAA code, but has been ported to the loadable server design and includes some additional features for improved performance. UXA is a variation on the EXA theme that assumes a unified memory architecture and kernel memory management support.
The ExaStatus page contains the current driver support status.
EXA continues to be tuned for performance. In particular, the pixmap scoring and migration algorithm is still fairly naive. The lessons learned from tuning EXA will apply to Xgl servers as well in the future.
Framebuffer Layout
Most modern graphics cards can be run in either linear or tiled framebuffer modes. Linear modes are simple, you start in the top-left corner and move to the bottom-right, all the way across a single row before changing rows. In tiled modes the framebuffer is broken up into a series of small tiles, usually 8x8 or so, and memory is laid out such that the first 64 pixels belong to the first tile, then the next 64 to the second tile, etc. You can think of linear framebuffer being a tiled framebuffer where each tile is 1x1.
Tiled framebuffers have a performance benefit because they better model the layout of objects on the screen. They give better locality of reference because each tile is packed tightly in memory, where in a linear framebuffer you might have to skip a thousand pixels ahead to get to the same horizontal offset one line down. Since your spatial locality is better with a tiled framebuffer, your working set fits in your cache better.
Despite this, X's framebuffer cores use linear modes, even if the framebuffer appears to be tiled from the GPU's perspective. There may be a performance benefit to making the system framebuffer shadow match the GPU's tile layout. The wfb software renderer is designed to allow this, but no (open) driver is seriously using it at the moment.
Framebuffer Access
In general, framebuffer reads absolutely kill performance. Any XAA replacement should do as much work as possible in the write direction only. For the cases where framebuffer reads are unavoidable, the new acceleration architecture should make it possible to use DMA to transfer data out of the framebuffer. EXA has hooks for DMA support.
Even when DMA is unavailable, it is usually more performant to tranfer large blocks of data in and out of framebuffer memory rather than operating on single pixels at a time.
Thrashing can occur when mixing operations that the hardware can accelerate with ops it can't. It remains an open question as to how to best deal with this. EXA/UXA take the attitude that the card can accelerate pretty much anything you throw at it, which seems pretty reasonable.
Algorithmic Issues
EXA's Render acceleration is adequate, but lacks support for a few things. Source-only pictures (solids and gradients) are currently not accelerated in hardware. Source IN Mask OP Dest combination could be implemented in multiple passes for cards that only have one texture image unit. External alpha is basically unaccelerated.
Trapezoid rasterisation in Render is not hardware accelerated. It's not even clear that it can be. The software implementation has been reasonably well tuned, but could certainly be better.
3D Rendering
DRI Drivers
TODO: Fill me in.
Mesa Core
The observation about tiling for 2D also applies to Mesa's software rasteriser.
Interactive Performance
Because the X server is single-threaded, any operation in the server that takes a significant amount of time to complete will make the server feel laggy. This is common for the Mesa software renderer and the software Render code, but any part of the server could trigger this in theory. While we should work to maintain fast execution of all code paths, there may be significant benefit to reworking the server to be multithreaded.
One of the worst performance issues X has is making opaque resizes fast. Since the window manager is in a separate process from the application, there are two round trip cycles involved, which makes the latency issues described above worse. There are several possibilities for working around this. One is to move responsibility for window decorations into the client. Another would be to load some portion of the window manager in-process with the X server.
Perceptual Performance
Most X drivers do not synchronize their drawing to the vertical retrace signal from the monitor. (To be fair, very few windowing systems do this consistently, even MacOS X.) This leads to a tearing appearance on some drawing operations, which looks slow. If the vertical retrace signal could be exposed through the SYNC extension, applications could defer their rendering slightly and reduce or eliminate tearing. This requires extending each driver to support this, as well as adding a little support code to the server itself.
The un-Composited model of X operation requires many round trip operations to redraw areas when they are exposed (window move, etc.). It is important that X be able to make Composited operation fast in the future.
Platform and Operating System Support
On x86 hardware, MTRRs are used to specify the memory access policy for ranges of memory. Setting the framebuffer to write-combining has a significant performance benefit. However, on PCIE systems, there are more memory ranges than MTRRs. PAT stands for Page Attribute Table, which allows you to specify the access policy for individual pages at a time.
Other platforms may have similar memory access mechanisms.
As mentioned above, OS-specific synchronization primitives could have significant performance benefit for shared memory transports. These include futexes on Linux and possibly doors on Solaris.
High performance graphics increasingly requires some kernel support for synchronization and security reasons. The DRM provides this support for Linux and BSD systems, but it could reasonably be ported to other suitable platforms like Darwin and Solaris.


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Instructor Cynthia Care will teach about the care of chickens in a "Happy Eggs" class from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at North Mountain Park.
Care will cover how to set up a free-range environment for poultry, how to provide safe nighttime housing, how to keep a flock healthy, and raising chicks and ducklings. There will be time for questions.
Those interested in attending should register at www.ashland.or.us/register or call the North Mountain Park Nature Center at 541-488-6606. The class is available for ages 8 and older and costs $15.
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The Colonial Theatre is an older 2 level vaudeville type theater that seats about 850 people. It also had a 20 foot open orchestra area in front of the stage which made it perfect for dancing. The show was not sold out and in fact was about 2/3 to 3/4 full with open areas in the back and in the balcony.
A smokin intro, "Whipping Post" started the show off at a quick pace that soon became feverish. Then things slowed down with an a Capella of "Sweet Adeline" before segueing into TMWSIY where Mike then really shines in "Avenu Malkenu". After a standard Bouncing, "Possum" gets the momentum back up to a feverish pace. "Metal Bagel Death" Is more of a gag than a song. It seemed that Trey was planning on dedicating "Reba" to Keene Bagelworks. However, Fishman being a prankster announces "Metal Bagel Death" then beats on his kick drum yelling "Bagels!" while the crowd and the rest of the band look at Fishman laughing. YEM has a great moment where Trey leads Mike into Parliament's "Flash light" and proceeds to funk up the rest of the song. This is followed by a solid "Lizard's"
The second set opens with the 6th "Runaway Jim" ever played. This early version includes an extra verse in the lyrics. I believe the verse is: "Ran away again on the night he died"-"I knew I'd be with him on the other side". Give it a listen and decide for yourself. It's an interesting look back to when the band was still perfecting the song as that verse was dropped by fall of that year. "The Sloth" and "Uncle Penn" are solid. Next, this early "Tweezer" (7th time played) is a dark loose jam with the band screaming the lyrics and bantering throughout the song. Staying loose, the band then make a nice segue into rockin "Bathtub Gin". "Caravan" is another great listen where everyone takes a lead but Mike really shines while jamming out to this Duke Ellington favorite. Fishman then takes center stage to appropriately sing "If I only had a Brain", because he totally messes up the order of the lyrics until reminded by his band mates where the song begins. "Highway to Hell" is a great rock and roll ending to the set but the band seems to over reach singing the high notes. A galloping Antelope starts the encore before the appropriate show cool down of "Contact" concludes it.
Overall looking back at the show itself, I can understand why I fell in love with Live Phish. The band was on fire at most times while being goofy at other times. You combine that with the intimacy of the venue and the friendly crowd and it provided me with everything that you could possibly want in a first show. It's no wonder I'm still seeing this band after almost 22 years.
The soundboard to this show is widely circulated which should make this an easy must have for any phish head looking for early shows to even out their collection. My rating is 4 Stars but I'm biased. It was my first show after all.


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China Now Leads in Total Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Says Report
June 27, 2007
Here's one area where the United States is happy to come in second place: in carbon dioxide emissions. According to a new analysis by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, China surpassed the United States in total carbon dioxide emissions in 2006. While China's emissions were about 2% below the U.S. emissions in 2005, the U.S. emissions decreased slightly in 2006, while China's emissions increased by 8.7%, making them 8% greater than the U.S. emissions. According to the report, China produces about 44% of the world's cement, and the high energy use of this industry is a key factor in the country's high carbon dioxide emissions. See the agency's press release.
The Dutch agency later tried to place these figures in perspective, noting that on a per capita basis, the United States still produces roughly four times as much carbon dioxide as China, at about 20 tons per person. The agency also noted that a substantial part of China's emissions are due to its production of goods for export to industrialized countries. Current greenhouse gas agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocol, do not address which country is ultimately responsible for the emissions generated in one country while manufacturing a product for use in another country. See the agency's follow-up press release.


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August 21, 2006
The trial of MCG doctor Mohammad Ali Behzadian began today.
The doctor of pharmacology is accused of causing the death of an 18-year-old Lakeside High School student in a head on accident on River Watch Parkway three years ago.
News 12's Domonique Benn was in court today.
Brandon Layton's family says he had his whole life ahead of him, and now no one will ever know what he would have done or who he could have been.
Vickie Boudreau is holding on to something that is very fragile: her faith.
"Our life and our whole future rest in twelve men and women's hands."
A jury will decide whether dr. Mohammad Ali Behzadian is guilty of causing Brandon Layton's death.
In court today, prosecutor Danny Craig questioned several witnesses about the night of February 28, 2003.
Wheeler: "We were driving and I looked up and noticed a car going in the wrong direction and they hit straight on," said witness Amanda Wheeler.
Witness Carmen Taylor testified, "My husband said he's driving on the wrong side of the road so he swung over to the right and he passed us on the left side."
An EMT who was one of the first to arrive on the scene described going to Dr. Behzadian's car: "Smell of alcohol, a sweet smell."
The defense says Dr. Behzadian drank one glass of wine that night, and that one glass would not have impaired the doctor.
Brandon's family thinks otherwise.
"I think it's going to prove him guilty," said one family member. "You can't argue with blood work or toxicology reports."
And a mother who stayed with the fight three years took the stand in hopes of final justice.
Kathy Layton testified that 5:30 p.m. on February 28 was the last time she saw Brandon, when she took him to pick up his car from a paint and body shop.
Months ago she told News 12 she stood in Brandon's hospital room and promised him that she would not stop until Behzadian was brought to trial.
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ANTIOCH -- A state appellate court has upheld a Contra Costa Superior Court judge's decision stopping the Antioch school district from establishing a district-run charter school at Dozier-Libbey Medical High School.
The decision keeps the health care-themed magnet school status quo until a final determination is made about the teachers' plans to convert Dozier-Libbey into an independent charter school free of district control.
Any charter changes would not happen until the 2015-16 school year, if at all.
"It affirms what we have felt all along; that the district's dependent charter petition is invalid," said Robert Young, one of the lead teacher petitioners.
Antioch Superintendent Donald Gill said the ruling wasn't a surprise given that injunctions of that nature are rarely overturned. However, the court did keep open the chance for a full appellate hearing later in the school year, he said.
"We were compelled to at least make an attempt. This is just a part of the process, and it gets us to a hearing," Gill said.
Antioch Unified filed its own charter petition in March at Dozier-Libbey to thwart the teacher-led petition -- a novel move for California that has raised questions and concerns among those who follow charter school-related efforts.
The Contra Costa Board of Education rejected the Dozier-Libbey teachers' autonomy bid in May, leaving about a five-month window to decide whether to appeal to the state board of education.
Teachers said this week they are in the process of preparing an appeal to go before the state in the fall, including making some tweaks to its language.
It was initially thought that they would have to meet an August deadline, but after being told the earliest the appeal could be heard is October, Young said they decided not to rush.
"We were able to take a deep breath, let it sit and recharge the batteries, then worry about taking the next steps," he said.
The court decision is the latest chapter in an issue that for months has divided the Antioch community.
Sara Hall-Cottrell, new president of the school's PTSA, said she hopes the appellate decision is "a step toward establishing normalcy."
"I think that's what most people want. In the long run, it's got to be about teaching the kids. All of the 'is it a charter,' 'is it not a charter' stuff is taking away from the focus on the students," she said.
Representatives from the district and Dozier-Libbey teachers held several meetings in June, including a couple with the district's teachers union attending, to discuss a "common ground" compromise, but those talks stalled.
Both sides have indicated they would be willing to continue discussions in August.
In the meanwhile, plans continue for the start of school.
Interim principal Scott Bergerhouse said this week he has completed the main schedule of who will teach what, and has started communicating one-on-one with teachers to introduce himself.
Young said he hadn't heard yet from the principal about next year's plans, but knows a few teachers have.
"It's kind of a waiting game," he said.
An autodialer sent messages to parents last week notifying them that registration for students is Aug. 4. Bergerhouse said he plans to send out a letter of introduction soon to families.
One of the main goals, he said, is to obtain the trust of the Dozier-Libbey community and have its trust in his leadership.
"It's been a real positive so far and everyone has been welcoming," Bergerhouse said. "I think we all want what's best for the kids -- providing a real sound education."
Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulburgarino.


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Cops: Masked driver in truck with stolen NH plate nearly ran down police officer in Hingham dealership parking lot
Dearth said the pickup truck was registered to a company in Milford, but someone had taped a New Hampshire license plate over the truck's Massachusetts plate. He said the New Hampshire plate had been reported stolen.
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MUNDAY, W.Va. - A battle against cancer showed Donna Steigleder the power of persistence.
In 1988 at the age of 25, Steigleder - a nonsmoker - found herself coughing up blood and on the hunt for the correct diagnosis. Her final diagnosis would be lung cancer.
Steigleder shares her story for Lung Cancer Awareness Month in November.
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Donna Steigleder, left, with her husband, Shane.
Steigleder said when she was growing up her parents smoked but the carcinoid tumor is usually found in the stomach not the lungs. After a series of misdiagnoses, Steigleder said she was not prepared for the outcome.
"It was a shock," she said. "I had been married one year."
Steigleder was living at home and attending college when she began coughing up blood and dealing with bouts of shortness of breath.
"I went to the doctor and he said it was asthma, and I was treated for that for four years," she said.
While working in a pet store, Steigleder began to cough up blood more often, running a fever and becoming severely ill. Alarmed, she started on her journey of medical discovery.
Over five years, she said, the illness took its toll on her.
"My cousin, who was an X-ray technician, said I needed to get a second opinion so I got a second opinion," she said. "They gave me antibiotics for two weeks."
Steigleder of Calhoun County said the other doctor acted like he thought she was looking for a reason to not work.
"I was not trying to avoid work," she said. "I was working at the time and I never missed work except when I was so sick I couldn't go."
At first all of her doctors diagnosed her with pneumonia but she knew there was more. Steigleder was referred to a pulmonary specialist who discovered her lungs were only working at half capacity.
With this discovery Steigleder was finally correctly diagnosed with a malignant carcinoid tumor in her lungs, she said. She was told the only option was to remove two lobes of her lungs.
After the diagnosis things moved quickly.
"I had surgery at United Hospital Center in Clarksburg," she said. "What I had was so rare the oncologist at first admitted he knew nothing about it and had to research it.
"At the time only the Mayo Clinic was doing any work on it."
Steigleder said the only thing known was she had a tumor and after a sample was sent to Virginia she was told she had cancer. She also learned the cancer had spread to three lymph nodes.
In the quarter century that has passed, Steigleder said, followup examinations show there have been no problems associated with the cancer.
"The only difference is while most people have three lobes in their right lung I only have one," she said. "The surgery was three days before my birthday."
Steigleder had to choose between two doctors to do the surgery.
"I was told one would take out two ribs and the entire right lung and the other would take only affected areas and no ribs, so that was an easy choice."
At the time the only treatment for what she had was surgery, no chemotherapy or radiation.
Since her surgery and treatment, Steigleder has learned a lot more about cancer.
"The Internet taught me more about the cancer," she said. "Back then there was no way to access the information as easily. I found out a lot more, and it's probably better I didn't have the Internet back then; it would have been more scary."
After surgery she had followup visits every three months and then every six months and then once a year. She said at first it was frightening.
Steigleder said she finds it easier to talk about what she has faced with diabetes and cardiac problems. Since then, she said she has lost many friends and family to cancer, including her mother-in-law, mother, friends and parents of friends.
Steigleder started talking about her experience through a friend who worked with the Lung Association of West Virginia and he asked her if she was interested in telling her story.
Steigleder said her experience shows people need to be more proactive about their health care.
"I could have died," she said. "We all need to be proactive in health care; no doctor should mind you questioning them."
Today, Steigleder works for Northern West Virginia Rural Health Education Center, a nonprofit organization working to get doctors to come back to the area.
"We tell them patients are not textbooks," she said. "Each patient is different."
Creating awareness for lung cancer will help to save lives, Steigleder said.


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Alabama television station back on air after outage
Published: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:33 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:33 p.m.
BIRMINGHAM | WIAT-TV, a CBS affiliate, is back on the air after a signal outage disrupted service to some of its viewers in central Alabama.
In a statement, CBS42 President and General Manager Bill Ballard said repair work started early Tuesday morning and was completed without any setbacks. The signal was disrupted Sunday night and the cause of the outage was unclear.
Officials say DirecTV, Dish Network, and other cable customers were impacted by the outage. Representatives say AT&T U-verse, Bright House Networks and Charter Communications customers were not affected by the signal disruption.
According to the Nielsen Station Index, WIAT-TV serves more than 700,000 households in the Birmingham, Anniston and Tuscaloosa area.
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Several East Bay athletes put on a show during the opening round of the North Coast Section football playoffs last weekend. Here's a look at some of the top individual performances from the first playoff football games of the season.
JOE MIXON, Freedom -- Mixon had his best game of the season, rushing for 281 yards and seven touchdowns to lead the No. 10 Falcons to an upset 55-17 win over No. 7 Foothill in Division I. Teams have stacked the box all year against the five-star running back recruit, but Mixon found a way to run wild against the Foothill, a team that held him to under 100 rushing yards when they met in nonleague play earlier this year. In the rematch, he had 208 yards and five TDs at halftime. Mixon also helped disrupt Foothill's passing game from his defensive back position.
NSIMBA WEBSTER, Deer Valley -- The Wolverines' dual-threat quarterback accounted for six touchdowns in a 49-21 victory over Castro Valley. He passed for 155 yards and rushed for 112, passing for three scores and using his feet to reach the end zone three times in the Division I win. That including a dazzling 51-yard rushing touchdown in which he eluded numerous tacklers in a tight space.
MATT WINAKER, San Ramon Valley -- The Stanford-bound baseball player guided the Wolves past WACC champion San Leandro 42-24 in the Division I tournament. The QB was 16 of 21 for 324 passing yards and five touchdowns. He was also a perfect 6-for-6 on PAT tries.
ERIC HAYNES, Northgate -- Haynes, a two-way force for the Broncos, rushed for 263 yards and four touchdown in a 41-29 win over DVAL rival College Park in Division II. He scored the Broncos' first three touchdowns of the night and had 172 yards at halftime. He then scored the go-ahead touchdown for Northgate early in the fourth quarter on a 5-yard run.
MITCH DANIELS, Concord -- Daniels threw four touchdowns passes for the third straight game, helping the Minutemen top Newark Memorial 50-25 in Division I. He completed 14 of 23 passes for 304 yards to go along with his four TDs.
BRETT MERRILL, Acalanes -- Merrill made big plays on both sides of the ball in the No. 7 Dons' 49-10 rout over No. 10 Sonoma Valley in Division III. He had six receptions for 139 yards, including three touchdowns. On defense, he had an interception and forced a fumble.
ADARIUS PICKETT, El Cerrito -- Pickett returned the opening kickoff 84 yards for a touchdown and rushed for two more first-quarter scores in an easy 64-8 rout of Tamalpais in Division III.
THEMAN TAYLOR III, Valley Christian -- Taylor accounted for 262 yards of offense and five touchdowns to help the Vikings beat St. Bernard Catholic 50-18 in Division V. He was 6 of 10 for 160 yards through the air and rushed for 102 yards on 10 carries. Taylor passed for three TDs and rushed for two.
JASON HINTON, Moreau Catholic -- Hinton set a new NCS record with 473 rushing yards in a 54-50 loss to Piedmont. He carried the ball 51 times -- close to a NorCal record -- a scored five touchdowns.
ATU OHUAFI, Piedmont -- Ohuafi helped the Highlanders avenge a nonleague loss to Moreau Catholic by tallying 150 receiving yards and scoring five touchdowns in a 54-50 win over the Mariners in the Division IV playoffs. He scored on offense, defense and special teams -- two receiving, one rushing, one interception return and one kickoff return.


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SACRAMENTO -- In his budget news conference last week, Gov. Jerry Brown had a lot to say about how he produced California's first deficit-free budget in years. As he prepares for this week's State of the State, here's another installment of "Jerry Brown: In his own words."
On PBS: "I really feel more equipped, physically, intellectually and spiritually, to do this work than I ever have at any other time in my life."
Contact Steven Harmon at 916-441-2101. Follow him at Twitter.com/ssharmon. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.


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June: 28
Johnny B. Fishman Jazz Ensemble,
Wednesday, 06/28/1989
Nectar's, Burlington, VT
Notes: During the summer of '89, the members of Phish as well as Russell Remington and others performed a weekly series of performances of jazz standards under the moniker "The Johnny B. Fishman Jazz Ensemble." This is the only specific known date and was first reported by phish.com. There is no known recording or setlist.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Dave Grippo, Russell Remington


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Definition of free association in English:
free association
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1 Psychology The mental process by which one word or image may spontaneously suggest another without any necessary logical connection.
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- Before I started drafting the piece, I sat down and wrote out about two pages of free association, just listing images that fit with two of the themes of the story.
- The exercise was a game and might be compared to free association of words.
- In addition to that, this time I have more of an idea of what to expect in terms of the style in which the book is written, the whole stream of consciousness, free association thing.
1.1A psychoanalytic technique for investigation of the unconscious mind, in which a relaxed subject reports all passing thoughts without reservation.
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- As anyone who has honestly experimented with free association knows, the technique inevitably and rapidly brings to mind topics about which one is emotionally concerned.
- Psychodynamic therapists developed techniques such as free association where patients are encouraged to say whatever comes into their minds, and the therapist interprets the associations.
- This is achieved by the technique of free association, whereby one starts with a dream image and allows one's thoughts to associate to it in complete freedom.
2The forming of a group, political alliance, or other organization without any external restriction: the right of free association
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- Whether this argument is persuasive depends largely on how we evaluate two kind of claims, and in particular how much we defer to two claims made by organizations alleging free association violations.
- A second advantage of industrial democracy was that it demanded more than free association: it called for a measure of self-determination as well.
- Formally, Puerto Rico is a commonwealth in free association with the US.
free-associate verb
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- After trying hypnosis and other forms of suggestion, Freud discovered that a patient could alleviate his own problems by free-associating, thereby bringing these memories to the fore.
- He invited his patients in effect to talk to themselves, but aloud, in his presence, to be almost unaware of their words - that is, to free-associate, to speak without censorious vigilance whatever happened to cross their minds.
- I couldn't do that now, because my brain isn't able to free-associate as wildly as it could then.
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19.03.2013 - Geneviève Almouzni will be handed over the prestigous FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award in July.
The deputy director of the Institut Curie in Paris, France has been recognized with €10,000 for her outstanding research in the field of epigenetics, especially the role histones and chromatin assembly in gene activity control. Almouzni started her professional career in the laboratory of Marcel Méchali, where she managed to identify critical molecular mechanisms regulating DNA replication and chromatin assembly. After completing a CNRS research assistant position in 1991, she moved to the lab of Alan Wolffe, a scientist who turned the chromatin field into a mainstream research subject. In 1994, Geneviève Almouzni was awarded a junior investigator grant of the CNRS and started as a junior group leader at the Institut Curie. Recently, she received an ERC Advanced Investigator grant and obtained a Laboratory of Excellence grant from the French Ministry of Research.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/people/bio-people/2013-01/genevieve-almouzni.html


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The Silverthorne Town Council tonight is expected to take another step toward forcibly acquiring private property needed to extend the Blue River Trail.
Council members will consider a resolution intended to clarify specific aspects of a previous resolution the town passed in 2011 that granted it the use of eminent domain to acquire easements along the Blue River Trail. Since that resolution has passed, the town has gone through litigation and a special election regarding the private properties in question.
Assistant town manager Ryan Hyland said this latest resolution "updates the slight changes in alignment to the trail and acknowledges the outcome of the litigation by further defining what the overlay is that's needed."
The Blue River Trail project is a long-standing one, the construction of which goes back as far as the 1980s, developing in segments over the years. The trail runs through Silverthorne at an approximate length of three miles from Silverthorne Elementary to the Dillon Dam, where it then connects with a countywide paved trail system. Much of the trail is paved, 10 feet wide and ADA accessible, for non-motorized use. The latest portion of the path that the town hopes to develop sits between Willow Grove Open Space, near Mesa Drive, and town hall.
Most of the segment 5 path runs through an easement along the river, is unpaved and used as a walkway. Town plans call for the path to be paved or converted into a boardwalk in parts, which would make it a multi-purpose recreational trail, allowing for bicycles and other types of traffic.
"The community has seen the Blue River Trail as being the most recreational amenity for its citizens for a number of years," said Mark Leidal, community development director for the town, citing past town surveys.
Owners from seven of the nine properties along segment 5 of the trail voiced opposition to the development plans. A litigation process in early 2012 brought up specifics regarding what exactly the town was allowed to do in a public walkway easement. The judge ruled that "public walkway" did not include bicycles.
"We have the rights to install a public walkway and maintain it, but we don't have the rights to install and maintain it in a way that bicycles could use," Hyland said.
For the town, this means that in order to complete the project, it must layer another easement on top of the existing public walkway easement that would allow for bicycle use. This is referred to as "vertical rights," meaning no additional land beyond the original easement is required.
In a few locations, the town has also expressed a need to expand slightly out of the current easement and looks to acquire these "horizontal rights" from property owners.
In these cases, the property will remain in possession of the original owners, but the town will have certain rights on it.
"They have to maintain the rights to allow people to flow through there, but they own the property and it's their property," Hyland said.
While several of the owners of the properties in question have settled with the town, some have not. In addition to the litigation process they gathered enough signatures on a petition to call a special election proposing to revise the town charter to limit the use of eminent domain. If changed, the town would have been required to ask for voter permission before exercising eminent domain. The amendment was defeated 612-288.
"I think everyone acknowledges that eminent domain is not a fun way to have to get a project done, but in some cases, unfortunately it's a necessity to meet that community goal," Hyland said. "The council has always seen eminent domain as a tool of last resort."
Charles Crowley and his wife, Virginia, own one of the property lots along segment 5 of the trail. He has been fighting against its development and said he will continue to fight.
"We don't think they have the right to do this," he said.
Crowley said that developing the trail behind his house into a bicycle trail will not only affect the value of his property, but change the way that he and his family can use the land.
"We bought that place because we could walk down to the river. We could walk to the shore of the river on our property, and that's the whole key to it," Crowley said.
He's also worried about the impact of having more people come through his property.
"It's stressful because people walk through there now, (about) 20 people a day, walking their dogs, but if we get bikes coming through, my 2-year-old grandson is not going to be able to play out in my backyard," he said.
Though he said he is tired of the effort that comes with fighting the issue, he will continue to do so.
"It's going to affect our lifestyle and our property values. They're not going to compensate us enough. They can't give us enough money to account for what they're taking from us," Crowley said. "We don't want the money. We just want peace and quiet."


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New Dallas program will help find work for military veterans and the long-term unemployed
A new program just launched in Dallas to help unemployed people who are 50 or older and military veterans – two groups that have had a hard time returning to the workforce since the recession began in late 2007.
Dallas is the first stop in a 10-city rollout of the Platform to Employment (P2E) program, which launched in Connecticut. The program was announced today.
Participants will go through five weeks of training, including skills assessment and financial coaching, and then start an eight-week subsidized internship at a local company that could turn into a full-time job.
The P2E program received national attention after being featured on CBS' 60 Minutes television show a year ago. Joe Carbone, president of The WorkPlace Inc. regional Workforce Development Board in Bridgeport, Conn., started it in fall 2011.
In Dallas, Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas will run the public-private program with help from The WorkPlace and the YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas. The AARP Foundation, Citi Community Development and the Walmart Foundation — will grant at least $950,000 total to finance the initial expansion 10 cities, according to the parties.
The Dallas program will start with 24 participants who were chosen based on criteria, including: being out of work for at least 26 weeks, actively seeking work and responsive to the program. Four are female veterans age 30 or younger.


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IAmNiki wrote: I mean this with no pointedness or sarcasm when I ask this, but Projo is right leaning? I'm asking out of curiousity because my experience with that newspaper has only been the reading I've done casually when I randomly decide to pick one up.
Sage Francis wrote: Yet, they gave coverage to a reasonably small gathering of people protesting "Obama's Wars." I wonder if they'd give such coverage if Bush was in office and there were protests against his wars. Wait...there were protests against his wars. Did the Journal cover those?
I hope this makes us think about the impact these gatherings make and to what ends. Be thankful yall didn't get lumped in with the Tea Party because there's a thinline between their look (as well as slogans) and your own.
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Hotel magnate Bill Marriott remembers a simple lesson he learned from Dwight Eisenhower in 1954 that has been a guiding principle in his leadership philosophy while building Marriott International into one of the largest lodging chains in the world.
The guidance came during a visit to the Marriott family home in Virginia by the president, who had invested in the Marriott family's business when it went public in 1953 ($10.25 per share), and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. The guests and their hosts were trying to decide whether to go outside in bitter cold temperatures to shoot quail or remain inside by the warm fireplace.
"What do you think we should do?" the former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces asked young Marriott, an ensign on leave from the Navy.
Marriott recalled that his suggestion to stay by the fire was a "no-brainer." But he said he also realized that he had just witnessed one of Eisenhower's strategies for handling not only the supersized egos of World War II but in dealing with everyday people. One of the most powerful men in the world consistently sought out others' advice - even from lowly junior military officers.
"Thanks to that fireside chat with Eisenhower nearly 60 years ago, I've always tried very hard to listen and ask questions," Marriott says in his new book, "Without Reservations: How a Family Root Beer Stand Grew into a Global Hotel Company."
In a recent phone interview from company headquarters in Bethesda, Md., Marriott acknowledged that he's "a long way from perfecting the art of listening," but added that "you can't learn anything when you are doing the talking. If you want a team to support you, to go through fire and brimstone with you, to sacrifice and look up to you as a leader, you've got to be able to listen to their opinions, and to be interested in their opinions, because they know more about the subject than you do."
The 80-year-old executive was more direct in his book: "Sometimes good listening simply requires keeping your mouth shut."
Listen to learn
J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr. speaks with the assurance of a man credited with expanding his parent's Hot Shoppes restaurants and A&W franchise in Washington, D.C., into a global hotel chain.
A few weeks ago, he granted a 30-minute interview to discuss his new book, his family's Utah roots, the importance of taking care of employees so they can take care of guests and whatever else might fit into a half-hour conversation with one of the business world's most respected men.
He placed the call a few minutes early and near the end of the allotted time politely reminded the interviewer that there was time for perhaps two more questions.
In between, he also touched on the importance of family relationships and talked of his love for wife Donna and their four children.
But it was his emphasis on listening skills that stood out. He said adherence to them have been critical to the success of Marriott International, which employs 300,000 people in managed and franchised hotels in 68 nations and territories, operating under brands such as The Ritz-Carlton, Courtyard, Fairfield Inn, Marriott Vacation Club and Grand Residences.
Marriott International hotel chain
Headquarters » Bethesda, Md.
Sales » $11 billion annually
Employees » 120,000 (300,000 in managed and franchise operations)
Holdings » About 3,400 lodging properties in 68 countries and territories
Hotel brands » Marriott, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Renaissance, Residence Inn, Courtyard, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn, SpringHill Suites and Bulgari
Resorts » Marriott Vacation Club, The Ritz-Carlton Destination Club and Grand Residences
Other businesses » Manages whole-ownership residential brands, including The Ritz-Carlton Residences, JW Marriott Residences and Marriott Residences; operates Marriott Executive Apartments; provides furnished corporate housing through its Marriott ExecuStay division; and operates conference centers
Business advice from J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.
Listening » When you open your ears, open your mind, too. Listening is foremost an opportunity to learn.
Training » We can't expect our [employees] to do their jobs well if we haven't shown them how.
Rewards » We [risk] fracturing the team by setting up a reward structure that distinguishes a few disproportionately.
Meetings » The less [the boss says], the less [he or she] sways the discussion. People [should] feel comfortable about raising red flags.
Visits » If I see smiling faces and well-scrubbed surfaces behind the scenes, I know the rest of the hotel more than likely is doing just fine.
Managers » Does she radiate energy and enthusiasm? Does he know every inch of the hotel and grounds? How does the staff react to her?
Decisions » Make a decision and get on with it. If significant new information comes in, be willing to listen and adjust accordingly.
Employees » When [they] are willing to give a guest the clothes off their backs, doesn't taking good care of [them] make good sense?
CEOs » Companies that get into trouble are ones where the CEO never budges from the executive suite and makes decisions without knowing [what's] going on.
In his book he expounded on the topic by writing that "in our company people from all over the world work together every day, so it's particularly important to listen with patience and respect. Someone who is doing their best to express something in a language that isn't their native tongue deserves nothing less."
Selective listening, Marriott contends, is worse than not listening at all. He said in the interview he learned that the hard way in the 1980s when the chain chose to downplay signals that the hotel industry was being seriously overbuilt. The company eventually had to lay off 1,000 workers, mostly in architectural and construction services, but in the interview he was quick to add that the company went beyond simply showing displaced workers the door.
"They were still a part of our family, a part of our organization. We set up a big office and a bank of telephones, and got our senior people from human resources to help develop resumes and put together lists of companies. We found jobs for 90 percent of the people who had been laid off."
Jeff Beck, a professor at the School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State University and a former Marriott employee, says part of the chain's success can be traced to its embrace of the teachings of J.W Marriott Sr., who said that if you take care of your employees, they'll take care of the customers.
"There's been a consistency of leadership, a feeling that this is a company that you truly want to work for over a long time," Beck said. "Both father and son have made a monumental mark on the hospitality industry."
To that, Bill Marriott adds: "People come to work for us and stay with us. The average general manager has been with us 25 years and half started out while they were young. Ninety percent of what we do is serving customers. If they are treated with respect, it leaves a lasting impression. That has helped us build."
From humble beginnings
The company started small, founded in 1927 by Marriott's father, the son of a sheep ranching family in Ogden. Driving a Model T Ford, the senior Marriott and wife Alice had moved to Washington, D.C., and later opened a root beer franchise at 3128 14th St. Together they expanded their business to eateries, fast-food restaurants and food catering, initially selling boxed lunches to airline passengers.
Early financial successes came during World War II, when the Hot Shoppes restaurants were expanded to feed the thousands of workers who moved to the nation's capital to work in defense plants and government complexes.Bill Marriott's first job was in one of those restaurants when he was 14 years old, stapling invoices. By his high school years, he was cooking burgers and mopping floors, learning the value of having firsthand knowledge of the company from every level. That lesson, in turn, has translated into promoting people from within the corporation.
He joined the company full time in 1956, after graduating from the University of Utah - his parents' alma mater - with a degree in banking and finance.
In 1957, the company expanded to the lodging business, opening the Twin Bridges in Arlington, Va., a motor hotel featuring a gasoline station and a drive-in-registration desk. Bill Marriott said he talked his father into letting him manage the hotel, and it's little wonder that the elder Marriott complied. The son embraced his father's vision.
"Dad felt very strongly that the concerns and problems of the people who worked for him were always worth listening to. In his eyes, a successful company put its employees first. I couldn't agree more," he said in his book.
By 1960, the Marriott strategy was to focus on suburban locations near airports and major convention cities. In 1964, at age 32, Bill Marriott was named president of the company's board of directors. By 1981, the company opened its 100th hotel, on Maui.
Marriott International, the largest publicly traded U.S. hotel chain, was formed in 1992 when the corporation split off its Host Marriott Corp., which operated concessions at airports and entertainment venues. Host Marriott later merged with Autogrill SpA and operates under HMSHost Corp., which offers dining and shopping in 112 airports worldwide, including Salt Lake City International Airport.
Go quietly? Nah
Last March, Bill Marriott entered a new life phase when he stepped down as CEO, noting "I don't think anyone should be CEO of a major business at [my] age." He remains executive chairman, and, like his father before him, keeps up a rigorous schedule of visiting hotels. He noted in the book that his wife was often irritated when the senior Marriott visited because of his habit of running his index finger over the furniture, doorsills and venetian blinds, checking for dust.
Bill Marriott's handpicked successor, Arne Sorenson, served as the company's chief financial officer and head of its European lodging operations. And although that kept with the longtime practice of promoting from within the company, handing the reins to a non-Marriott created a stir inside and outside the lodging industry.
Marriott acknowledged that many had expected one of his four children to succeed him. His eldest, Debbie, 55, was a stay-at-home mother for 20 years before joining the company as head of government affairs. His oldest son, Stephen, 53, performs duties at the company that take into account a rare medical condition that has robbed him of most of his sight and hearing. And son David, 39, who is in charge of 1,200 hotels east of the Mississippi River, is "still young and would need plenty of time and experience to grow into such a big job," Marriott said.
He had expected his second-oldest son, John, to be his successor. Although the 51-year old executive manages the family's real estate investments, he also started his own medical testing company, so, as his father says, he "no longer has to put up with the scrutiny that comes with having Marriott as a last name."
For Bill Marriott, the future holds the promise of him being active in a variety of roles. Whatever the path, he isn't likely to go quietly. In the recent presidential election, he publicly backed the campaign of fellow Mormon and longtime family friend Mitt Romney with a $1 million contribution. Marriott's only sibling, Richard, owner of the Marriott spinoff Host Hotels & Resorts, also gave $1 million. The GOP nominee, whose first name is Willard (after the Marriotts' dad) twice served on the Marriott International board before running for the White House and rejoined it after his most recent defeat.
Despite its humble origins, the Marriott family from its early days in Washington has been connected to powerful people. The mother of Bill Marriott's mother was married to U.S. Sen. Reed Smoot from Utah, who served from 1903 to 1933 and was an LDS apostle.
Brushes with presidents from Eisenhower on down were not uncommon. Bill Marriott's book carries acknowledgements from George H.W. Bush, who calls him "my good friend," and Bill Clinton.
But Marriott insists that his family and the company will always remain grounded. With his children's involvement, he says that Marriott International will still offer the down-home services to hotel guests that have been provided for more than 85 years, "and we'll continue to be a family face with our name on the door."
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NBC's latest bright idea to combat modern technology is to go old school. The network is teaming up with frequent collaborator�Sean Hayes�and actor/writer�Chris Moynihan�for a new sitcom that would air live each week,�Deadlinereports.
Meet the cast of�Dancing With the Stars�Season 19
The series, dubbed�Hospitality, is a multi-camera comedy set in a Manhattan hotel and focuses on the staff that works there. (It sounds a bit like Fox's atrocious 2008 sitcom�Do Not Disturb.) In addition to the show airing live, the commercial breaks would all be live as well.
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The 2013 Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships are set to swing through Squaw Valley from March 20-24, allowing the region to see America's top skiers compete on U.S. soil as they gear up for next year's winter games in Sochi, Russia.
The event will also be an opportunity for Squaw Valley Olympic gold medalist Julia Mancuso, who recently finished second overall in the World Cup super G standings, as well as Olympians Marco Sullivan and Stacey Cook and Olympic hopeful Travis Ganong to compete in a world-class event on home turf.
Squaw Valley last hosted the U.S. Alpine Championships in 2002, which proved to be a great success for Squaw athletes, as Sullivan came in first in the super G and Mancuso came in third in the GS.
"We're absolutely honored to be hosting the 2013 U.S. Alpine Championships," said Andy Wirth, Squaw Valley's president and CEO. "Squaw has a very proud heritage of hosting the Winter Olympics and producing a great number of Olympians and world-class athletes. We are excited to offer unique and challenging terrain for the competitions on what are some of the most spectator-friendly courses that the Alpine Championships has ever seen."
After a successful World Cup season in Europe, the event will welcome World Championship medalists back to America, including Ted Ligety and teen phenom Mikaela Shiffrin. It will also include local rising ski racers Bryce Bennett, Nick Daniels, Keith Moffat, Foreste Peterson and Lila Lapanja.
"It's really cool to see all the great stuff happening at Squaw," Mancuso said. "To have U.S. nationals back just shows the commitment to racing and its roots here in Squaw Valley. It's nice to be able to stay home and race in my backyard — which I also consider to be the best resort in America — so I am psyched."
Mancuso upped her already impressive major championship medal total to eight with super G bronze at the Schladming, Austria, World Championships on Feb. 5. Mancuso owns a record of 15 U.S. titles and is the defending giant slalom and super G champion.
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This springtime recipe for creative play is brought to you by Melissa & Doug, and is written by our Blog Ambassador Valerie Deneen. Enjoy taking your kids' creativity outdoors!
One of the activities my kids look forward to the most every spring is playing outdoors in the sandbox! They can spend hours happily playing together, engaged in their own imaginary world. I love that it is such a simple activity they both truly enjoy. Recently, they opened their own sand play bakery, which kept them very busy!
There was so much to do: measuring, sifting, stirring, baking, decorating, taking orders for custom cakes and cupcakes, and so much more. This sand play bakery was seriously popular with many highly satisfied customers!
Like many forms of pretend play, sand play is a great activity to develop early problem-solving skills. Sand cakes won't mold properly? Try adding a little more water, or perhaps a little more sand. Have a customer who demands colored decorations on her cupcakes? Try adding some flowers or seashells. There are so many possibilities!
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Unbeaten SMC team arrives in Kansas with a swagger
Pioneers confident, focused for national tournament
Published: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
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HUTCHINSON, Kan. — This is not the same Spartanburg Methodist basketball team that came wide-eyed and awestruck into the NJCAA tournament a year ago.
At Hutchinson (Kan.) Sports Arena
Monday games
Game 1 — No. 16 seed North Platte (Neb.) vs. No. 17 Mineral Area (Mo.), 11 a.m.
Game 2 — No. 9 West Florida vs. No. 24 USC Salkehatchie, 1 p.m.
Game 3 — No. 13 Howard (Texas) vs. No. 20 East Mississippi, 3 p.m.
Game 4 — No. 12 Hagerstown (Md.) vs. No. 21 Lee (Texas), 5:30 p.m.
Game 5 — No. 15 Kilgore (Texas) vs. No. 18 Shelton State (Ala.), 7:30 p.m.
Game 6 — No. 10 Coffeyville (Kansas) vs. No. 23 Walters State (Tenn.), 9:30 p.m.
Note: SMC is the No. 2 seed and has a bye until 1 p.m. Wednesday, when the Pioneers will play the winner of Game 5.
These Pioneers were not wowed as they looked out the airplane windows on the flight to Kansas or up at the rafters in the 7,500-seat Hutchinson Sports Arena. These guys seem focused on nothing but victories here in the junior college championship.
In their return trip, the Pioneers bring a No. 1 ranking, a No. 2 overall seed, an undefeated record (32-0) and an unmistaken swagger.
"Last year, it was a big eye-opener," said SMC sophomore Ronell Crockett from T.L. Hanna High School. "We have a lot of guys who have been here before. We have experience. We know what to expect. We're looking to make a lot of noise and, hopefully, win it all."
SMC went 1-2 in the tournament last year, but now it's a single-elimination format with 24 teams. That's added to the increased focus.
"I remember being the underdog and not having much respect because we're such a small school," said SMC sophomore point guard Travis Black from Spartanburg Christian. "But I think that made us stronger. We want to compete again. We know what it's like to play at the highest level."
SMC has a first-round bye and will not play until 1 p.m. Wednesday against the winner of Monday night's game between No. 15 seed Kilgore College (26-4) of Texas and No. 18 seed Shelton State Community College (25-8) of Alabama.
The Pioneers had an hour-long practice Sunday afternoon at the Salthawk Activity Center of Hutchinson High School, across the street from where the NJCAA tournament is being played. And while some teams used their time slots as glorified shoot-arounds, SMC went hard. They pushed and elbowed and yelled and screamed and ran their drills at a pace similar to what they will have in games.
"We're the No. 2 seed. We're going to play like we're supposed to be here and we're one of the best, if not the best," Crockett said. "Last year, it was a big accomplishment just to get there. But this year, getting there was a must. Now we have to make sure we go a lot further than we did last year."
SMC has a roster full of experienced sophomores. Crockett and Jalen Nesbitt (Chapman High School) lead the team with 13.0 points per game. Black averages 8.2 points and 4.7 assists compared to only 1.7 turnovers. Other key contributors are Ben Johnson (17 points in the Region 10 tournament championship game) from Boiling Springs, Kelsey Terry (Westside), Brian Kidd (Chapin) and D.J. Coleman (Sumter), who transferred from South Carolina State and is getting his first taste of the junior college event.
"It will definitely help us having so many sophomores," Johnson said. "Last year, we didn't quite know what to expect. Our job now is to help the freshmen and the newcomers understand what it's all about."
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Riding and gambling will meet this winter on Heavenly turf.
Texas Hold'em strategy will mix with pro-level riding this season in Heavenly Mountain Resort's new High Roller Hold'em big air competition Saturday, April 6. Competitors will need poker skills and pro tricks in a battle for $50,000. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White will host the event.
"I'm going to go all in and say, it's gonna go off," White said in a press release.
Each rider will be dealt two cards, three in the super final, with each card featuring a different trick. The riders will then bet on the trick of their choice and must execute the trick to win that round. The rider who lands the trick with the highest level of difficulty will win that round and qualify for the big purse in the super final.
This will all go down on one massive big-air jump, built on World Cup by park masterminds Snow Park Technologies.
"After the success of the Nike Chosen event last year, you can bet your whole stack that we're going to take the competition and the party to the next level," said Chris Gunnarson, SPT's president. "This format breaks the traditional mold for big air competitions and incorporates a mental strategy to compliment the riders' physical talent."
The competition will be held at night and feature a live DJ, fireworks, laser lights and the Heavenly Angels.
"This is one giant, unprecedented party for both athletes and spectators that only Heavenly can pull off," said Pete Sonntag, Heavenly's general manager.


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Hope is a feeling, an internal movement. If seen in its proper context, hope is part of the light of joy and love that is constantly shining through and illuminating the beauty of life — the awesome dance in which we take part. There is no need to feed it or hang on to it as a distraction or a promise. Instead, strive to see it in context with all of the present moment's thoughts and sensations. It is but a broken branch floating in the middle of the river of the Tao that we can hang on to only momentarily; however, it must not become the totality of our reality.


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Exchange pigeonpea germplasm for sustainable cereal-legume cropping systems suitable for the southern Great Plains region.
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Identify and exchange Pigeonpea cultivars suitable for the summer fallow period in a continuous winter wheat production system. Evaluate pigeonpeas as forage or forage/grain crop for the utilization by humans and/or livestock under the climatic conditions of the Southern Great Plains. Provide detailed climatological data for El Reno, Oklahoma, to ICRISAT.
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Regarding the brouhaha in Eagle politics and Eagle Valley Enterprise article concerning Brandi Resa, I find it disgusting as well.
The board has been allowed to demean and ignore Brandi's questions, such as Scot Webster saying that everyone has a moral compass except Brandi? She was duly elected and some of her constituents feel the same way about Roxie Deane's appointment to the ERS District board. While perfectly legal, it is a bit unusual for Roxie to step up to that position when there are dozens of people as qualified as she to do so. Regardless of its definition, a board for a metro taxing district is responsible for seeing that the developer gets his money back for all his investment in a project, as well as the town getting its share after the bonds are paid off. Roxie's defensive blast came, and the current Board members pounced, when Brandi was not present at the meeting. That was not fair or acceptable. And it casts another shadow on the town board.
When Brandi has asked questions, in particular about the budget and financial mistakes in accounting procedures, the board has tended to ignore the issues. She is a CPA and is totally qualified to ask the questions. She has expressed her concern over the board's fiduciary responsibility to the residents of Eagle. I find it ludicrous that no one is interested in discussing the inaccuracies, either in public or executive session. Is it lack of understanding, or something else? What Brandi is striving for is accountability and openness in government, not private meetings outside the public purview. There is nothing the matter with those goals.
According to the EVE, Scott Turnipseed said he was appalled at at Brandi's behavior and what she has written on her blog. What about Brandi's first meeting as an elected trustee when Turnipseed got up in a wig and performed a comic, degrading personal attack on Brandi? It was disgusting and unacceptable, but the board members did not seem to find it so, nor criticize the embarrassing scene.
The whole town needs a lesson in common courtesy and the board members need to move forward and deal with their responsibility as trustees.
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YES! recommends the Center Ecoliteracy for its sustainable living resources. At the heart of the Center's work is the understanding that guidance for living abundantly is all around us through Mother Nature.
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October 17 is Black Poetry Day. Poetry Foundation offers a bounty of poems, lesson plans, essays, and more to teach students the fundamentals of African American poetry, and poetry in general.
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