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The parson took a deep breath, following the washing of the dishes after the completion of the gourmet dinner he'd prepared (he'd provide the recipe but it would make too many jealous), then he moved into his study, powered up the computer, clicked on PBS, and then selected "American Masters: Billie Jean King."
The program brought memories of how the parson's life changed the day after Christmas in 1967, when his daughter arrived. Three years later, Billie Jean King convinced nine of the top professional women tennis players to organize the Women's Professional Tennis Association. Nine of the top players - Billie Jean King Rosemary "Rosie" Casals, Kristy Pigson, Jane "Peaches" Bartkowicz, Valerie Ziegenfuss, Kerry Melville, Julie Heldman, Nancy Richey, and Judy Dalton - withdrew from the existing professional tennis organization in protest against male player making ten to twenty times as much money in the same events.
Two years later, when the parson's daughter was five, the United States Congress passed Title IX, which provided for the inclusion of women's sports in educational institutions.
In 1973, when the parson's daughter was six, Billie Jean King kicked Bobby Rigg's ass.
You'd think acceptance of women in sports would by this point become a foregone conclusion.
But change in sports comes almost as slow as accepting women int he pulpit. In the 1982, because there was no female soccer team at the parson's daughter's high school, she tried out for the boy's team. On the last day of the tryouts, the coach cut her. At a team meeting of the returning players from the previous year, some of the male players said to the coach, "But, coach, she was better than the ones you accepted." The coach replied, "Yeah, but she's a girl."
Two days later, the parson was in the office of the Assistant Superintendent of Schools, not a good friend but an acquaintance of the parson. The parson said, "Okay, Herman, hear me out on this. First, I'll give you a two statements. And then I'll ask you two questions. the first statement is this: "Coach Jefferson cut my daughter from playing on the soccer team. The second statement is: When the returning players protested she was better than those not cut, he answered in front of eighteen witnesses, 'Yeah, but she's a girl.' Now, Herman, here are the two questions. The first is this: Have you heard about Title IX? The second is this: Do you want to talk to me or my lawyer?"
Two weeks later girls' soccer was institute in the system the parson's daughter was a student. Looking back on it, the parson considers it one of his better moments.
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Sunday night the parson cacooned himself within the covers early. As was his custom on Sunday nights, no alarm was set to rouse him in the morning. On Monday mornings the parson crawled out of bed when the warmth of the covers no longer protected him from the day.
This night he fell asleep quickly. It had been a good day. The people had received his sermon gladly. A couple had talked to him of joining the church. And the Sunday evening Bible study had gone exceptionally well.
That Bible study the parson had resisted for years. Finally, he gave in on the condition that it be an actual Bible study. And so for the last two-and-a-half years almost every Sunday night had involved a study of the Bible. At first there had been some resistance to the parson's methodology. He had begun at Genesis 1: 1 and was proceeding through the books of the Bible, talking of the events that had shaped it, who wrote it, why they wrote it, pointing out the contradictions.
The "Bible-is-the-literal-word-of-God"-folks challenged him on the third week of the Bible. "But," said their leader of that group, "the Book of Revelation says …." The parson cut him off. "Look," said the parson, "when it comes to Revelation, I will bow to your considerable knowledge. With regards to Revelation, you have read it much more than have I. In fact, I try not to read it. It involves some vision of terrible things that are going to happen in the future. I'm a follower of Christ. I concentrate on the wonderful things that are happening now. But, I don't want to ignore your point. As you're aware, we started with Genesis and we're going book by book through the Bible. We should get to Revelation in about, well, let's see, ah, about five years. So, please, hold that thought until then."
They never came back. And so it was on Sunday night the parson and the Bible study participants looked critically at the differences in the stories told by the Deuteronomist storytellers and the Chronicler. The study had ended with the group focusing on the fact that the Chronicler left out anything that might reflect badly on David as an ideal king, especially leaving out the women. But the study ended with the observation that the Chronicler made a slip.
In 2 Chronicles 35: 25, he talks about "all the singing men and singing women" who mourn Josiah's death. So, concluded the parson and his group, the women did have a part to play after all. And supposing this was a Temple activity, the women had a more active part than the Chronicler's version led his hearers to believe.
Monday morning arrived. The parson rose. He switched his iPad on and began to surf the web for the news. After acquainting himself with what was happening, he looked for stories about March madness. There it was on almost every newspaper and magazine available on the device. There were the men's brackets, the rankings, the dark horses, all in the NCAA Men's tournament. The parson spent twenty minutes looking for the brackets, the rankings, the favorites, the dark horses of the NCAA Women's Tournament. He couldn't find any reference. It was as if Women's Collegiate Athletics did not exist.
Amazing, six hundred years before Jesus the storytellers left the women out, and still today few would admit they, also, occupied the court.
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Breaking his new commitment to retirement, the parson had traveled halfway across the state to speak at a civic club meeting. The exception to his rule was a response to the request of an old friend from high school. Now, the club meeting over, the parson walked with his friend Roger Gilbert across the high school football / soccer field. Roger had been anxious to show off the complex to the parson.
"Isn't it great?" said Roger.
"It's certainly impressive," the parson responded. "Isn't this a little expensive, though?"
"Well, hell yes it's expensive, Parson. But over the years we'll save money. No more watering the field, no more cutting the grass, no more fertilizer, no more marking the field before every game. Eventually, it will pay for itself."
"How long is eventually?" the parson asked.
"Well I don't know how long before the cost saving kicks in, Parson. It'll be a couple of years."
"How much did it cost?"
"Well, the total cost, now, mind you this includes ground preparation, installation costs and some minor improvements to the stands, the cost was a little over a half million."
"So, it's going to take more than a couple of years to recoup the cost?"
"Don't be a stick-in-the-mud, Parson. This field is not the envy of every school in this region. When visiting teams show up here they know we're serious about this sport."
The parson and Roger had now exited her field and were walking toward their cars. Roger made his final point.
"Look back there, Parson," he said, pointing to the field. "You have to admit that's an impressive sight."
"It is, Roger; it is."
"Well, I can't figure you out, Parson. You've played sports all your life. I'd think you'd be more responsive to our efforts here."
"You know what would be really impressive, Roger, impressive not only to us used-to-be-jocks but to the entire population?"
"What?" asked Roger.
"It would really be impressive, Roger, if you guys would put this much effort into raising money to keep and recruit better teachers for your kids. Football for you and soccer for me lasted as long as our knees." The parson pointed to the classroom building a block down the street. "But the education, Roger, the education is forever."
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I've been a little busy lately. That's not a complaint. It's an admission of fact. The busyness was not forced upon me. I chose it. Maybe it chose me. All I know is I wouldn't have missed it for the world.The events that occupied my time lately centered around gymnastics, specifically women's gymnastics. And more specific than that gymnastics events in which my granddaughter was a competitor.A few weeks ago I made a pilgrimage to Memphis, Tennessee. That trip brought me to the BBQ and Blues Invitational Gymnastics Competition. Let me make three points about that event. Point one: Dizzy Dean said, "If it's true, it ain't bragging." Point two: My granddaughter came in fourth overall in the competition. Point three: my granddaughter, no doubt because of the superiority of the genetics passed down from my side of the family, competes in an age division well above her own.I watched her. I was astounded at her athletic ability. I could not comprehend that was my tiny granddaughter turning flips, dancing and prancing in perfect harmony with the music on the floor exercise. I wished I could be her as she flung herself in twists and turns from one uneven bar to the other. I held my breath as she flipped above the four inch wide balance beam and came to rest as though it were as wide and the landing path on an aircraft carrier. And I was amazed at how she propelled herself off that vault into the air twisting and turning before landing almost perfectly and tossing her hands upward to signify she'd completed it well.I was hooked. I wasn't just hooked on my granddaughter. It didn't take athletic competition to accomplish that. I was hooked on the sport. I was hooked on the physical prowess of these young women. I was hooked on the thrill of it all.It was no wonder, then, I found myself last week at the Atlanta Crown Invitational Gymnastic Competition. I got there early due to a meeting not lasting as long as I'd anticipated. My granddaughter wasn't scheduled to compete for a couple of hours. But I'd been captured by that competition so I went into the arena anyway.Opening the door to the Gwinnett Convention Center I was assailed by the squeals and the chatter of girls, ages eight to eighteen. My mind processed the visuals of these young competitors texting away to their friends, whispering to each other about passing male teens, and wearing t-shirts proclaiming:Push-ups make you pretty. - Gymnasts don't defy gravity; they defeat it. - Girls can't what? - Why walk when you can cartwheel? - You know you're a gymnasts when boys won't arm wrestle with you. - My boyfriend asked me to choose between him and gymnastics. I miss him. - If gymnastics were easy it would be called football.Okay, yes! My granddaughter was competing. And she did well, really well. But despite that I walked out of that facility wondering if something were not askew. I watched my granddaughter and her teammates as well as the members of the other teams compete. They competed on vault, on floor exercise, on beam, and uneven bars.Suddenly I realized men compete in floor, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal high bar, more and different events than the women.Here's my question: Do you guys seriously think my granddaughter couldn't kick your you-know-what on those other events?
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The parson was hanging out with his friend, Dr. Gary, pastor of Saint John's United Methodist in Augusta, Georgia, the oldest still worshiping congregation in Georgia. Gary and the parson had been friends in seminary. That friendship was cemented when the two discovered a phrase in the school's catalog that read, "Class attendance is not a perquisite for a passing grade." The two had taken that literally and adjourned to the pizza establishment across the street.
Gary was on his way to speak at a church in Tennessee. He'd stopped to visit his old friend along the way. Now the two sat on a bank overlooking some soccer fields not far from the parson's abode. Below them a game between two girl's U-14 teams was in progress. The parson watched intently as he and Gary talked. Two of the girls below attended his church.
The parson and his guest had enough time to catch up on their individual activities since last seeing each other as well as share plans for coming years. And then the game was over. The girls the parson had come to see were victorious. He and Gary waited to greet them.
"Hi, Parson," shouted Susan, who played sweeper on the team. "Thanks for coming."
"It was fun," said the parson. "This is my friend, Gary. He was really impressed with your team."
"Thank you," Susan said to Gary.
"You're a good player," Gary replied.
Rhonda, Susan's best friend and a midfielder on the team now ran up.
"Hi, Parson,' said Rhonda. "Hi, I'm Rhonda," she said to Gary.
"I'm Gary, I'm glad to meet you," Gary replied.
"Did you ask him?" Rhonda said to Susan.
"Not yet," said Susan.
"Ask me what?" the parson asked.
"Okay," said Susan, "you used to coach soccer in college, right?"
"I did," the parson admitted.
"So, if Rhonda and I wanted to get a soccer scholarship for college, what will we have to do?"
"Make good grades," said the parson.
Susan smiled, "I know that, Parson. I'm talking about a soccer scholarship."
"I am, too." said the parson.
"Okay, okay. You sound like Mom. But what else?"
"You have to master the basics," the parson said.
"Like what?" asked Rhonda.
"Well," the parson asked. "How many times can you juggle the ball without missing."
"Maybe twenty," said Susan.
"Yeah, twenty or sometimes thirty," Rhonda said.
"Keep practicing until you can do it a couple hundred times," the parson replied.
"But, Parson," Rhonda protested. "You don't ever have to juggle the ball that much in a game."
"You're right," the parson said, "but if you can juggle it two hundred times in practice you'll always be able to do it one time in the game."
The parson and Gary rose from their seats, brushed the grass off their butts and headed to the car. Halfway there, Gary commented. "I don't know squat about soccer. But I know a good sermon illustration when I hear it."
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We're now just a little over two weeks from the start of the college football season, and Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron says his team's quarterback race is wide open.
Last week, Orgeron said that Seth Adams was pulling away from the rest of the pack. Adams has received the majority of snaps in the preseason and has been running mostly with the first team.
However, Orgeron added that redshirt freshman Michael Herrick and senior Brent Schaeffer are still in the mix, and a decision on a starter may not come until the Rebels hit the field in their season opener September 1 at Memphis.

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The decisions by Lok Adalats are final and binding.
New Delhi: In a significant order, a Lok Adalat in Delhi has ruled that even a second wife has the right to maintenance for herself and their child.
The ruling came while the court heard the case of a Delhi Police constable who is accused of polygamy.
The policeman had illegally married a second time in 2003.
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I have to admit that I have a secret love affair with the Canadian Football League. With the start of the new football season, I am openly declaring my feelings for the CFL with 11 things (In honor -- or
as they write in some parts of the Great White North -- of their 110 yard football field) that I love about that game.
1. Its football betting in July. Need I say more?
2. Its fast and fun to watch. Three downs instills a sense of urgency on the offense even on first down. The wide receivers are allowed a running start. Its heavily dependent on the pass. The game moves fast.
3. Its very winnable from a sports betting perspective. There are only eight teams in the league. That is less than one major college football conference. It just does not take much effort to become familiar with the dynamics of the league.
4. Recognizable names. The CFL is littered with former stars from the college football. Last year's leading passer was Darian Durant of Saskatchewan. You may remember his tossing passes for North Carolina a few years ago. His Roughriders lost for the second season in a row to Montreal in the Grey Cuy. The Alouettes are led by QB Anthony Calvillo who enjoyed a fantastic senior season at Utah State many moons ago. The leading rusher last season was Winnipeg's Fred Reid who was a product of Mississippi State and the SEC. I could go on and on.
5. Televised games. The NFL Network usually televises the Friday or Saturday night game. This point should not be underestimated.
6. The CFL schedules their games at
times for sports bettors. Looking for a bailout game Sunday night? The CFL usually has a game. Their Friday night game has a similar type of appeal (and prestige) as does Monday Night Football for the NFL.
7. The CFL teaches and reaffirms basic handicapping principles. Football is football. Teams have off-weeks letdowns, they have overachieving efforts based on emotion, they bounce-back from setbacks, etc. etc. Seeing these familiar tendencies play out in a different league helps teach or reaffirm sound handicapping fundamentals that can be applied to all other sports.
8. The trials and tribulations of summer and winter. There is something endearing about a football league that begins in the blazing summer heat of July but concludes in the bitter cold of the Canadian winter. Some teams are built for a certain climate but struggle at other times of the season. Watching this drama unfold is interesting and can be quite profitable.
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If you use Verizon, watch yourself. Obama's NSA is, too.
Hopefully, today's scandal candidate isn't more news the president learned from the same reports you and I did:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to a highly classified court order disclosed on Wednesday night.
The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April, directs a Verizon Communications subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services, to turn over "on an ongoing daily basis" to the National Security Agency all call logs "between the United States and abroad" or "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls."
The order does not apply to the content of the communications.
Verizon Business Network Services is one of the nation's largest telecommunications and Internet providers for corporations. It is not clear whether similar orders have gone to other parts of Verizon, like its residential or cellphone services, or to other telecommunications carriers. The order prohibits its recipient from discussing its existence, and representatives of both Verizon and AT&T declined to comment Wednesday evening.
That's the top of The New York Times' version, which properly credits the British newspaper, The Guardian, for breaking the story. Glenn Greenwald had the first-news byline last night.
Obama officials, White House and FBI, declined to comment last night, although, as The Times notes, they "did not deny the report, and a person familiar with the order confirmed its authenticity." Today, "a senior administration official" is defending the phone record collection as necessary to protect Americans against attack. (This rings a bell, doesn't it?)
Such information is "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats to the United States," the official said, speaking on the condition of not being named.
"It allows counter terrorism personnel to discover whether known or suspected terrorists have been in contact with other persons who may be engaged in terrorist activities, particularly people located inside the United States," the official added.
The revelation raises fresh concerns about President Barack Obama's handling of privacy and free speech issues. His administration is already under fire for searching Associated Press journalists' calling records and the emails of a Fox television reporter as part of its inquiries into leaked government information.
Expect a key element of the Obama defense to be that this wasn't "warrantless wiretapping," which the Bush administration was so criticized for conducting. Obama's NSA had a warrant from the FISA judge, which, to his supporters, could make this tolerable. If not, "Bush was worse" might suffice. (And this might be a cleaner, neater way to keep up with nettlesome reporters without going through the whole search warrant process.)
One irony when contrasted to those Bush era fights is that the Bush administration insisted it was targeting only foreign suspects. The Obama era expansion clearly targets Americans or phone customers "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls."
Another irony was that USA Today, which broke the Bush era story in 2006, had to walk back much of it and acknowledge that it could not prove some key allegations.
And a final irony is that among the fallout from the Bush era fight was that Congress handed "the White House a major victory … by voting to broaden the government's spy powers after giving legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program."
Voting with the Senate majority in February 2008 was then-candidate Barack Obama.
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ARM Releases Cortex-A72 for Licensing
On February 3rd, ARM announced a slew of new designs, including the Cortex A72. Few details were shared with us, but what we learned was that it could potentially redefine power and performance in the ARM ecosystem. Ryan was invited to London to participate in a deep dive of what ARM has done to improve its position against market behemoth Intel in the very competitive mobile space. Intel has a leg up on process technology with their 14nm Tri-Gate process, but they are continuing to work hard in making their x86 based processors more power efficient, while still maintaining good performance. There are certain drawbacks to using an ISA that is focused on high performance computing rather than being designed from scratch to provide good performance with excellent energy efficiency.
ARM has been on a pretty good roll with their Cortex A9, A7, A15, A17, A53, and A57 parts over the past several years. These designs have been utilized in a multitude of products and scenarios, with configurations that have scaled up to 16 cores. While each iteration has improved upon the previous, ARM is facing the specter of Intel's latest generation, highly efficient x86 SOCs based on the 2nd gen 14nm Tri-Gate process. Several things have fallen into place for ARM to help them stay competitive, but we also cannot ignore the experience and design hours that have led to this product.
(Editor's Note: During my time with ARM last week it became very apparent that it is not standing still, not satisfied with its current status. With competition from Intel, Qualcomm and others ramping up over the next 12 months in both mobile and server markets, ARM will more than ever be depedent on the evolution of core design and GPU design to maintain advantages in performance and efficiency. As Josh will go into more detail here, the Cortex-A72 appears to be an incredibly impressive design and all indications and conversations I have had with others, outside of ARM, believe that it will be an incredibly successful product.)
Cortex A72: Highest Performance ARM Cortex
ARM has been ubiquitous for mobile applications since it first started selling licenses for their products in the 90s. They were found everywhere it seemed, but most people wouldn't recognize the name ARM because these chips were fabricated and sold by licensees under their own names. Guys like Ti, Qualcomm, Apple, DEC and others all licensed and adopted ARM technology in one form or the other.
ARM's importance grew dramatically with the introduction of increased complexity cellphones and smartphones. They also gained attention through multimedia devices such as the Microsoft Zune. What was once a fairly niche company with low performance, low power offerings became the 800 pound gorilla in the mobile market. Billions of chips are sold yearly based on ARM technology. To stay in that position ARM has worked aggressively on continually providing excellent power characteristics for their parts, but now they are really focusing on overall performance and capabilities to address, not only the smartphone market, but also the higher performance computing and server spaces that they want a significant presence in.
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AMD Zen Diagram Leaked and Analysis
Subject: Processors | April 27, 2015 - 06:06 PM | Josh Walrath
Tagged: Zen, Steamroller, Kaveria, k12, Excavator, carrizo, bulldozer, amd
There are some pretty breathless analysis of a single leaked block diagram that is supposedly from AMD. This is one of the first indications of what the Zen architecture looks like from a CPU core standpoint. The block diagram is very simple, but looks in the same style as what we have seen from AMD. There are some labels, but this is almost a 50,000 foot view of the architecture rather than a slightly clearer 10,000 foot view.
There are a few things we know for sure about Zen. It is a clean sheet design that moves away from what AMD was pursuing with their Bulldozer family of cores. Zen gives up CMT for SMT support for handling more threads. The design has a cluster of four cores sharing 8 MB of L3 cache, with each core having access to 512 KB of L2 cache. There is a lot of optimism that AMD can kick the trend of falling more and more behind Intel every year with this particular design. Jim Keller is viewed very positively due to his work at AMD in the K7 through K8 days, as well as what he accomplished at Apple with their ARM based offerings.
One of the first sites to pick up this diagram wrote quite a bit about what they saw. There was a lot of talk about, "right off the bat just by looking at the block diagram we can tell that Zen will have substantially higher single threaded performance compared to Excavator and the Bulldozer family." There was the assumption that because it had two 256-bit FMACs that it could fuse them to create a single 512 bit AVX product.
These assumptions are pretty silly. This is a very simple block diagram that answers few very important questions about the architecture. Yes, it shows 6 int pipelines, but we don't know how many are address generation vs. execution units. We don't know how wide decode is. We don't know latency to L2 cache, much less how L3 is connected and shared out. So just because we see more integer pipelines per core does not automatically mean, "Da, more is better, strong like tractor!" We don't know what improvements or simplifications we will see in the schedulers. There is no mention of the front-end other than Fetch and Decode. How about Branch Prediction? What is the latency for the memory controller when addressing external memory?
Essentially, this looks like a simplified way of expressing to analysts that AMD is attempting to retain their per core integer performance while boosting floating point/AVX at a similar level. Other than that, there is very little that can be gleaned from this simple block diagram.
Other leaks that are interesting concerning Zen are the formats that we will see these products integrated into. One leak detailed a HPC aimed APU that features 16 Zen cores with 32 MB of L3 cache attached to a very large GPU. Another leak detailed a server level chip that will support 32 cores and will be seen in 2P systems. Zen certainly appears to be very flexible, and in ways it reminds me of a much beefier Jaguar type CPU. My gut feeling is that AMD will get closer to Intel than it has been in years, and perhaps they can catch Intel by surprise with a few extra features. The reality of the situation is that AMD is far behind and only now are we seeing pure-play foundries start to get even close to Intel in terms of process technology. AMD is very much at a disadvantage here.
Still, the company needs to release new, competitive products that will refill the company coffers. The previous quarter's loss has dug into cash reserves, but AMD is still stable in terms of cash on hand and long term debt. 2015 will see new GPUs, an APU refresh, and the release of the new Carrizo parts. 2016 looks to be the make or break year with Zen and K12.
Edit 2015-04-28: Thanks to SH STON we have a new slide that has been leaked from the same deck as this one. This has some interesting info in that AMD may be going away from exclusive cache designs. Exclusive was a good idea when cache was small and expensive, as data was not replicated through each level of cache (L1 was not replicated in L2 and L2 was not replicated in L3). Intel has been using inclusive cache since forever, where data is replicated and simpler to handle. Now it looks like AMD is moving towards inclusive. This is not necessarily a bad thing as the 512 KB of L2 can easily handle what looks to be 128 KB of L1 and the shared 8 MB of L3 cache can easily handle the 2 MB of L2 data. Here is the link to that slide.
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Moore's Law Is Fifty Years Old!
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards, Processors | April 19, 2015 - 02:08 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: moores law, Intel
While he was the director of research and development at Fairchild Semiconductor, Gordon E. Moore predicted that the number of components in an integrated circuits would double every year. Later, this time-step would slow to every two years; you can occasionally hear people talk about eighteen months too, but I am not sure who derived that number. In a few years, he would go on to found Intel with Robert Noyce, where they spend tens of billions of dollars annually to keep up with the prophecy.
It works out for the most part, but we have been running into physical issues over the last few years though. One major issue is that, with our process technology dipping into the single- and low double-digit nanometers, we are running out of physical atoms to manipulate. The distance between silicon atoms in a solid at room temperature is about 0.5nm; a 14nm product has features containing about 28 atoms, give or take a few in rounding error.
Josh has a good editorial that discusses this implication with a focus on GPUs.
It has been a good fifty years since the start of Moore's Law. Humanity has been developing plans for how to cope with the eventual end of silicon lithography process shrinks. We will probably transition to smaller atoms and molecules and later consider alternative technologies like photonic crystals, which routes light in the hundreds of terahertz through a series of waveguides that make up an integrated circuit. Another interesting thought: will these technologies fall in line with Moore's Law in some way?
Leaked: Intel Skylake-S Enthusiast Processor and Chipset Details
Subject: Processors | April 15, 2015 - 10:04 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: Intel, Skylake, skylake-s, lga1151, 100 series
Some slides have leaked out with information about Intel's forthcoming 6th Generation Core processor, code named Skylake. We have known that Skylake was coming, and coming this year, but there have been a lot of questions about enthusiast parts and what that means for DIY builders. The slides were first seen over at WCCFTech.com and show some interesting new information.
Dubbed Skylake-S, the LGA (socketed) processor will use a new derivative with 1151 pins as well as a new set of chipsets, the Intel 100-series. Skylake is built on the same 14nm process technology used with Broadwell but will feature a new microarchitecture for both the IA cores and the graphics systems. Obviously you can read the slide yourself above, but some of the highlights are worth touching on individually. Skylake will support both DDR3L and DDR4 memory systems with the enthusiast grade parts likely the only ones to attempt to push the newer, faster DDR4 speeds.
Enthusiasts will also be glad to know that there are planned 95 watt quad-core SKUs that will support unlocked features and overclocking capability. Intel lists an "enhanced" BCLK overclocking with the term "full range" which likely means there will no longer be a need for straps to 125 MHz, etc. A 95 watt TDP is higher than the 88 watt limit we saw on Haswell processors so there is a chance we might actually witness usable performance gains if Intel can get the clock speeds up and above where they sit today with current generation parts.
The use of DMI 3.0, the connection between the processor and the chipset, sees the first increase in bandwidth in many generations. Rated at 8 GT/s, twice that of the DMI 2.0 interface used on Haswell, should allow for fewer bottlenecks on storage and external PCIe connections coming from the chipset.
The new Intel 100-series chipsets will come in three variants at launch: the Z170, the H170 and the H110. The one we are most concerned with is the Z170 of course as it will be paired wit the higher end 65 watt and 95 watt enthusiast processors. Based on these specs, Skylake will continue to operate with only 16 lanes of PCI Express 3.0 capable of running at 1 x16, 2 x8 or 1 x8 and 2 x4 connections. With either DDR3L or DDR4 you will have a dual-channel memory system.
For storage, the Z170 still has six SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports, moves to 14 USB ports maximum with 10 of them capable of USB 3.0 speeds and it upgrades Intel RST to support PCIe storage drivers. Of note here is that the Intel chipset does not include USB 3.1 capability so motherboard vendors will continue to need an external controller to integrate it. Without a doubt the 100-series chipsets will be able to support booting and compatibility with the new Intel 750-series PCIe SSDs, the current king of the hill.
As for timing, the roadmap lists the Z170 chipset and the Skylake-S processor as a Q3 2015 release. I would normally expect that to line up with Computex in early June but that doesn't appear to be the case based on other information I am getting.
AMD's FX-8320E; get in the game for $138?
Subject: Processors | April 7, 2015 - 05:56 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, FX-8320e
Over at Techgage one of the writers recently updated their system, due to budget constraints they needed to stay in the $600-700 range all told which of course indicates an AMD build. They chose the $138 FX-8320E for their processor, along with a pair of GTX 760s, the ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0, 8GB of DDR3-1866 and with storage, power, cooling and case they managed to keep within the ir budget. The question remain is if it is powerful enough for reasonable gaming duties such as Borderlands 2. Read on to see if the recommendation is to go with AMD or the i3-4330 and a low end H97 board.
"Released this past fall, AMD's FX-8320E processor promises to deliver a lot of processing power for those on a budget. It sports eight cores, and as a Black Edition, its overclocking capabilities are unrestricted. But is that enough to make this the best go-to budget processor, especially for gamers?"
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- A10-7800 CPU Review @ Hardware Secrets
- AMD A8-7650k Kaveri @ eTeknix
- A10-6800K vs. Core i3-4150 CPU Review @ Hardware Secrets
Rumor: Intel Is Now Powering Both Surface and Surface Pro
Subject: Processors, Mobile | March 25, 2015 - 09:51 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Intel, core m, atom, surface, Surface 2, Windows 8.1, windows 10
The stack of Microsoft tablet devices had high-end Intel Core processors hovering over ARM SoCs, the two separated by a simple "Pro" label (and Windows 8.x versus Windows RT). While the Pro line has been kept reasonably up to date, the lower tier has been stagnant for a while. That is apparently going to change. WinBeta believes that a new, non-Pro Surface will be announced soon, at or before BUILD 2015. Unlike previous Surface models, it will be powered by an x86 processor from Intel, either an Atom or a Core M.
This also means it will run Windows 8.1.
The article claims, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that Windows RT is dead. No. But still, the device should be eligible for a Windows 10 upgrade when it launches, unlike the RT-based Surfaces. Whether that is a surprise depends on the direction you view it from. I would find it silly for Microsoft to release a new Surface device, months before an OS update, but design it to be incompatible with it. On the other hand, it would be the first non-Pro Surface to do so. Either way, it was reported.
The "Surface 3", whatever it will be called, is expected to be a fanless design. VR-Zone expects that it will be similar to the 10.6-inch, 1080p form factor of the Surface 2, but that seems to be their speculation. That is about all that we know thus far.
Ivy Bridge-E versus Haswell-E and the gang
Subject: Processors | March 17, 2015 - 03:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Ivy Bridge-E, Intel, i7-4970K, i7-4960X, i7-4770k, Haswell-E
TechPowerUp has put together a quick overview of the differences of Intel's current offerings for your reference when purchasing a new machine or considering an upgrade. The older i7-4770K would run you $310 as compared to $338 for the i7-4790K or $385 for an i7-5820K while the i7-4960X would set you back $1025. Is it worth upgrading your machine if you have an older Haswell, or going full hog to pick up the $1000 flagship model? The results are presented in a handy format and while perhaps not an in depth review the results are quite striking, especially the performance while gaming.
"We review the Haswell-E lineup by pitting all its processors against each other and the Ivy Bridge-E Intel Core i7-4960X, Haswell Refresh Intel Core i7-4970K, and Haswell Intel Core i7-4770K. If you are looking to build a high-end gaming PC, or are looking to upgrade, then look no further: This review will tell you which CPU you will want to get to cover your needs."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- A6-6400K vs. Pentium G3220 CPU Review @ Hardware Secrets
- Core i7-5960X CPU Review @ Hardware Secrets
- Intel Core i5 4690K - the 5GHz project @ HardwareOverclock
New Intel Xeon D Broadwell Processors Aimed at Low Power, High Density Servers
Subject: Editorial, Processors | March 12, 2015 - 08:29 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: Xeon D, xeon, servers, opinion, microserver, Intel
Intel dealt a blow to AMD and ARM this week with the introduction of the Xeon Processor D Product Family of low power server SoCs. The new Xeon D chips use Intel's latest 14nm process and top out at 45W. The chips are aimed at low power high density servers for general web hosting, storage clusters, web caches, and networking hardware.
Currently, Intel has announced two Xeon D chips, the Xeon D-1540 and Xeon D-1520. Both chips are comprised of two dies inside a single package. The main die uses a 14nm process and holds the CPU cores, L3 cache, DDR3 and DDR4 memory controllers, networking controller, PCI-E 3.0, and USB 3.0 while a secondary die using a larger (but easier to implement) manufacturing process hosts the higher latency I/O that would traditionally sit on the southbridge including SATA, PCI-E 2.0, and USB 2.0.
In all, a fairly typical SoC setup from Intel. The specifics are where things get interesting, however. At the top end, Xeon D offers eight Broadwell-based CPU cores (with Hyper-Threading for 16 total threads) clocked at 2.0 GHz base and 2.5 GHz max all-core Turbo (2.6 GHz on a single core). The cores are slightly more efficient than Haswell, especially in this low power setup. The eight cores can tap into 12MB of L3 cache as well as up to 128GB of registered ECC memory (or 64GB unbuffered and/or SODIMMs) in DDR3 1600 MHz or DDR4 2133 MHz flavors. Xeon D also features 24 PCI-E 3.0 lanes (which can be broken up to as small as six PCI-E 3.0 x4 lanes or in a x16+x8 configuration among others), eight PCI-E 2.0 lanes, two 10GbE connections, six SATA III 6.0 Gbps channels, four USB 3.0 ports, and four USB 2.0 ports.
All of this hardware is rolled into a part with a 45W TDP. Needless to say, this is a new level of efficiency for Xeons! Intel chose to compare the new chips to its Atom C2000 "Avoton" (Silvermont-based) SoCs which were also aimed at low power servers and related devices. According to the company, Xeon D offers up to 3.4-times the performance and 1.7-times the performance-per-watt of the top end Atom C2750 processor. Keeping in mind that Xeon D uses approximately twice the power as Atom C2000, it is still looking good for Intel since you are getting more than twice the performance and a more power efficient part. Further, while the TDPs are much higher,
Intel has packed Xeon D with a slew of power management technology including Integrated Voltage Regulation (IVR), an energy efficient turbo mode that will analyze whether increased frequencies actually help get work done faster (and if not will reduce turbo to allow extra power to be used elsewhere on the chip or to simply reduce wasted energy), and optional "hardware power management" that allows the processor itself to determine the appropriate power and sleep states independently from the OS.
Being server parts, Xeon D supports ECC, PCI-E Non-Transparent Bridging, memory and PCI-E Checksums, and corrected (errata-free) TSX instructions.
Ars Technica notes that Xeon D is strictly single socket and that Intel has reserved multi-socket servers for its higher end and more expensive Xeons (Haswell-EP). Where does the "high density" I mentioned come from then? Well, by cramming as many Xeon D SoCs on small motherboards with their own RAM and IO into rack mounted cases as possible, of course! It is hard to say just how many Xeon Ds will fit in a 1U, 2U, or even 4U rack mounted system without seeing associated motherboards and networking hardware needed but Xeon D should fare better than Avoton in this case since we are looking at higher bandwidth networking links and more PCI-E lanes, but AMD with SeaMicro's Freedom Fabric and head start on low power x86 and ARM-based Opteron chip research as well as other ARM-based companies like AppliedMicro (X-Gene) will have a slight density advantage (though the Intel chips will be faster per chip).
Which brings me to my final point. Xeon D truly appears like a shot across both ARM and AMD's bow. It seems like Intel is not content with it's dominant position in the overall server market and is putting its weight into a move to take over the low power server market as well, a niche that ARM and AMD in particular have been actively pursuing. Intel is not quite to the low power levels that AMD and other ARM-based companies are, but bringing Xeon down to 45W (with Atom-based solutions going upwards performance wise), the Intel juggernaut is closing in and I'm interested to see how it all plays out.
Right now, ARM still has the TDP and customization advantage (where customers can create custom chips and cores to suit their exact needs) and AMD will be able to leverage its GPU expertise by including processor graphics for a leg up on highly multi-threaded GPGPU workloads. On the other hand, Intel has the better manufacturing process and engineering budget. Xeon D seems to be the first step towards going after a market that they have in the past not really focused on.
With Intel pushing its weight around, where will that leave the little guys that I have been rooting for in this low power high density server space?
ASUS Announces UEFI Update with Socketed 5th-Gen Intel Broadwell Support for 9 Series Motherboards
Subject: Processors | March 10, 2015 - 10:20 AM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: uefi, motherboards, lga 1150, Intel, Broadwell, bios, asus
ASUS has announced that all current Intel 9 Series motherboards will support the upcoming 5th-Generation Intel Broadwell LGA 1150 CPUs with an UEFI update.
We reported last week that Intel's 5th-generation Broadwell CPU had been demonstrated at GDC using Intel's Iris Pro graphics, though official details about the new LGA versions of Broadwell are not yet public. The desktop variants will no doubt use the same 14nm process technology of the current BGA parts, and it has been rumored that the new CPUs will initially launch in both Core i5 and i7 versions, with the potential for Core i3 and Pentium branded parts to follow (though any potential product information is mere speculation at this point).
It will be interesting to see if the upcoming LGA 5th-Generation CPUs will be able offer any higher perfomance for desktop users compared to existing Haswell parts (such as the i7-4790K), or if there will even be unlocked processors. Considering Broadwell is a mobile-focused part designed for efficency and lower power consumption the chips could offer a compelling solution for small form-factor computers such as HTPCs, as they will presumably provide lower heat and higher IPC than existing parts.
The UEFI updates will go live later today (some updates have already been released) and include all ASUS motherboard models with Z97 and H97 chipsets.
GDC 15: Intel Demos Socketed, LGA1150 Broadwell CPU with Iris Pro Graphics
Subject: Processors | March 4, 2015 - 09:07 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: GDC, gdc 15, Intel, Broadwell, iris pro, LGA1150, core i7
Consumer have been asking for it since the first time Intel announced it, but Iris Pro graphics is finally finding its way to the desktop, socketed market. Shown powering one of Dell's new 5K displays, this processor shipping in "mid-2015", is going to be configured with a 65 watt TDP and will be unlocked for overclockers to tweak. Intel first disclosed these plans way back in May of 2014 so we are going to be approaching the 12-month mark for availability.
It doesn't look special, but this system has the first desktop Iris Pro processor
In a new disclosure at GDC, Intel showed the first 5th Generation Core LGA-socketed CPU with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics. This 65 watt unlocked desktop processor, available mid-2015, will bring new levels of performance and power efficiency to Mini PCs and desktop All-In-Ones. Since 2006 the 3D performance of Intel Graphics has increased nearly 100 fold (Intel 3DMark06 measurements) and powerful form factors from Acer, Medion and Intel's own NUCs are becoming available with 5th Generation Intel Core processors with Intel Iris Graphics.
Under that little heatsink...
Details of this new CPU offering, including clock speed and graphics performance, are still unknown but Intel claims we will have this part in our hands in the near future. This isn't targeted to overtake consumers with mid-range discrete graphics systems but instead will bring users interested in a SFF or low power system with both home theater features and improved gaming capability. Our testing with Iris Pro graphics in notebooks has proven that the gaming performance gains can be substantial, but often the battery life demands have limited implementations from OEMs. With a desktop part, we might actually be able to see the full capability of an integrated GPU with embedded memory.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
..."held in abeyance by a great leaf wall" lines by Nancy Simpson
But do not feel sorry for me. My woods are filled today with multiple shades of the wild flame azalea.
I am "held in abeyance by a great leaf wall every shade of green we can imagine." (lines from "Walking Up With a Friend."
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The floods of September 2004 and January 2005 will not soon be forgotten by Marietta residents or business owners.
But lessons were learned in the process so that, if such an event were to ever impact the area again, the effects wouldn't be so catastrophic.
"We got a lot of experience from the first flood (in September), so we were a little more prepared for the second one (in January)," said restaurateur Nick Pugliese, owner of Tiber Way Grille.
Pugliese's former business, Loose Ties Cafe, was located in the 200 block of Second Street when the floods hit. It was a blow that prompted Pugliese and co-owner Angie Kerr to rethink things.
Eventually, Loose Ties moved to Reno.
"After the floods, there was just no business downtown. There were a lot of factors, but we made the decision to move to Reno because it didn't flood there and Reno didn't have a restaurant," Pugliese said.
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Then: Loose Ties Cafe, 219 Second St., Marietta.
Now: Tiber Way Grille, 10 Tiber Way, Marietta.
Then: All-Pro Nutrition, 246 Front (prior to fires in 2004).
Now: All-Pro Nutrition, 286 Front (during 2004 floods).
Then: Guyz and Galz and Charles Hairdressers, 284 Front St., Marietta.
Now: 123 Third St., Marietta.
Pugliese was just one of many business owners caught off-guard during the September 2004 flood when the National Weather Service at first said the Ohio River would rise above flood stage, then revised that statement and said there would be no flood. The next day the Ohio River rose at a record pace and stopped nearly 10 feet above flood stage at 44.97 feet.
"We had trucks and our stuff was ready to move the night before, but they called it off. So we all just had a couple beers and had fun," Pugliese said.
He received a phone call the next day that his business was under water - approximately three feet of dirty, mucky river water.
Much of the equipment had to be replaced at the establishment, the floors needed recovered and drywall needed replaced, according to Pugliese.
The move to Reno didn't prove fruitful once construction on Ohio 7 started and Pugliese and Kerr decided to try their luck in downtown Marietta once again.
"It was a gamble," Pugliese said of the decision to move to Tiber Way. "But downtown is still the nucleus. We're doing okay."
It was another catastrophe in 2004 that forced All-Pro Nutrition to move from 286 Front St. to 246 Front St., but the fires that burned two Front Street buildings were just a prelude to the flooding.
Owner Rob Gilliand said that he, like others, learned a lot from that fateful day in September 2004.
"We know we're in the flood zone. We know to monitor the river," he said. "We can take our entire store in four-and-a-half hours and reduce it to a shell."
Gilliand credits other merchants and many in the community for his decision to stay right where he is.
"We thought about moving but we really like it where we are," he said.
A long-time Front Street business, Charles Hairdressers, along with its companion boutique, Guyz and Galz, relocated in March 2005 and co-owner Mark Binegar couldn't be happier with the new location.
"We have a parking lot, a lot more room, and we're more contemporary, so this is better than the old building we were in," he said.
Binegar said the new location at 123 1/2 Third St., is more flood-proof and has no basement, something that plagued the old location.
"Every time we had high water, the basement flooded and we just got tired of dealing with it," he said.
The second flood, in January 2005, was the final straw.
Binegar and his partners Chad Clark and Bill Reeder made the decision to combine the stores, pick up and move.
"We love it here," Binegar said.


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We had a great experience with Topdive Bathys in Bora Bora. We did a two-tank dive that was only our second and third dives since being certified. The staff picked us up at our hotel and drove us to Vaitape where their main office is located. We got gear from them then got out on the boat and headed out. Our first dive with near Motu Tapu just past Teavanui Pass in deeper water, about 60 feet. Even before getting the water, our boat was surrounded by reef sharks. Down at the bottom, we saw lemon sharks, a yellow trumpet fish, flounder, plecos, parrot fish and an eel. The colors and diversity of sea life was absolutely amazing. When we were finished, the boat took us to the next spot near Motu Toopua. This was a shallower drift dive, where we followed the guide through beautiful coral reefs. Almost immediately, we saw a massive eagle ray gracefully swimming near the bottom. Swimming through the reef, there were clownfish, anemones, and many other beautiful tropical fish. Then back to the boat. We headed back to Vaitape and they took us back to the hotel. Overall, Topdive Bathys was great. The staff were very friendly and helpful and took the time to ensure we understood how to use the equipment and hand signals and ensure diver safety. Between dive sites, we were given bottled water and fresh fruit. They also have nitrox and more advanced diving as well as certification for those who want to learn. Unfortunately, I don't have an underwater camera so I couldn't take and pictures underwater, but I included a couple from the boat.
Equipment: We rented our equipment from them. It was only a few dollars more; probably much less than the cost of shipping dive equipment.
Address: BP 515 - Vaitape 98730 Bora Bora French Polynesia
Directions: Pickup from hotel; main office is in Vaitape
Phone: +689 60 50 50
Theme: Scuba Diving
Website: http://www.topdive.com/bora-bora-diving.html
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Hawaii Disaster Number HI-00005
Amendment 2.
This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Hawaii (FEMA-1664-DR), dated 10/23/2006.
Incident: Kiholo Bay Earthquake.
Incident Period: 10/15/2006 and continuing through 01/15/2007.
Effective Date: 01/15/2007.
Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 12/22/2006.
EIDL Loan Application Deadline Date: 07/23/2007.
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The notice of the President's major disaster declaration for the State of Hawaii, dated 10/23/2006 is hereby amended to establish the incident period for this disaster as beginning 10/15/2006 and continuing through 01/15/2007.
All other information in the original declaration remains unchanged.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers 59002 and 59008)
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Cracked.com ran a photoshop contest called "If Everyday Life Was Directed By Michael Bay." I would link you to the really funny contest but for the fact that Michael Bay's universe involves stuff that I probably shouldn't link to in a Chronicle blog but that I'm sure you could find on the googles.
Here's one of my favorite entries to the contest by a Cracked.com commenter named "B.D.D."(one that isn't too er non-appropriate):
The reason why I thought of this is that it demonstrates how much a director can have an effect on telling a story.
I ran across a YouTube video that a fan took at the Texans All Access that illustrates this point perfectly. It shows GM Rick Smith on stage, introducing various players. I missed that part of All Access because I was at the Coaches Corner. In any event, it's an interesting video on a couple of levels. The person shooting the video seems preoccupied with the zoom function and added music. Extremely peculiar music in parts. You just have to watch it to see what I mean:
So there you go. I want to thank all of you who provided music suggestions in the last blog post to shake up my sports talk radio-only habit. Hope you find some good stuff there too.
And for you creative types, I would like for you to envision your Houston Texans as directed by Michael Bay–director of the Transformer movies, Badboy movies, Pearl Harbor, The Rock and Armageddon. What would that look like? And/or you can comment on that All Access video.
Trust that I will do a somewhat less silly, more footbally blog post soonishly. Got lots of time this summer.


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Two Oklahoma legislators today urged the federal government to amend regulations that have banned the sale of youth all-terrain vehicles and motorcycles, saying the new regulations that have created turmoil in the industry are also unintentionally increasing the risk of child injuries.
State Reps. Ken Luttrell and Rex Duncan have authored House Resolution 1024 urging the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide a waiver or exclusion for youth all-terrain vehicles and motorcycles from toy lead-limit requirements.
"The lead regulations do not make any sense in this situation," noted Luttrell, D-Ponca City. "I don't think anyone is going to lick a motorcycle engine and get lead poisoning."
The 2008 federal lead regulations, intended to apply to children's toys, have been applied to component parts of youth vehicles, such as the engine, brakes, battery and other parts – making the vehicles noncompliant.
Under the new regulations, most youth vehicles are now illegal. The legislators say that forces children to drive and ride on adult-sized motorcycles they cannot safely handle, increasing the chance of accidents.
"It is of the utmost importance that young riders only ride appropriately sized machines," said Duncan, R-Sand Springs. "To suddenly eliminate the availability of all ATVs and motorcycles designed for riders ages 12 and under will likely cause some consumers to purchase vehicles that are physically too large for young riders. This is a safety issue for children."
In 2008, there were an estimated 100,000 youth bikes sold in the United States according to the Motorcycle Industry Council. Dealers nationally are now stuck with close to $100 million in now-illegal unsold vehicles, according to estimates.
"I fear if this issue is not addressed immediately, irreparable harm will be done to the powersports industry," Luttrell said. "Many of the small dealers and suppliers are already struggling with an unfavorable economy and will not survive the loss of their youth vehicle and parts sales."
The regulations have also had the unintended consequence of reducing child safety on previously sold motorcycles, Luttrell and Duncan say. With parts for all youth vehicles now illegal, many are no longer safe to operate and others could perform improperly.
"The unavailability of youth off-highway vehicles will devastate family OHV recreation and cripple amateur competition," said Luttrell. "All motorcyclists should come to the defense of our youngest riders."
House Resolution 1024 urges the Consumer Product Safety Commission to take a "common sense" approach to implementation of the lead regulations, noting "there should be a waiver or exclusion for products that do not truly present a lead risk to children."
The resolution is expected to receive a vote in the Oklahoma House of Representatives in the next week.


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AbstractMicrofiber-based Bragg gratings (MFBGs) are an emerging concept in ultra-small optical fiber sensors. They have attracted great attention among researchers in the fiber sensing area because of their large evanescent field and compactness. In this review, the basic techniques for the fabrication of MFBGs are introduced first. Then, the sensing properties and applications of MFBGs are discussed, including measurement of refractive index (RI), temperature, and strain/force. Finally a summary of selected MFBG sensing elements from previous literature are tabulated.
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SKINLAB frontman Steev Esquivel has confirmed via the group's official web site that the band were forced to push back the release of their third full-length CD, entitled reVOLT, to May (through Century Media Records) "due to [delays in] mastering and to make sure we have proper set-up time. This means making sure promo material is EVERYWHERE, starting with street teams and Internet teams mounting up and spreading the word (like many of you have already been doing) w/promo CDs, stickers, posters, etc.," and "setting up radio with our first single 'Slave The Way'." As previously reported, reVOLT was recently mixed with producer Andy Sneap and will be mastered on January 17th.
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Absolutely agree on the point of wanting to travel the country to watch football. My group is taking our bye week and traveling to Ole Miss and watching them take on Arkansas. Time to see the legendary grove. We're also considering heading to Kentucky to catch a game this year. We'd much rather see Michigan play one of these teams. Seeing other campuses is too good to pass up.
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The films listed below will be shown on:
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The 3600 building is located on the northwest side of campus. Closest parking is Staff Lots 3E or 1C (and walk through the center of campus). Parking is free and a parking permit is not required for film series attendees.
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"Last Train Home"
China, 2009
Not rated, 85 min.
A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese New Year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower. Directed by Lixin Fan.Friday, March 11
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Three teenagers live isolated, without leaving their house, because their overprotective parents say they can only leave
when their dogtooth falls out. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
"Russian Ark"
Russia, 2002
Not rated, 99 min.
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov.
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"Cinco de Mayo, La Batalla"
Mexico, 2013
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On May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico. Directed by Rafa Lara.


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EAU CLAIRE (WEAU) - It's a memory both agonizing and at the same time inspiring for the Eau Claire Memorial boys hockey team.
A loss in last year's WIAA state semifinals was deja vu, as the Old Abes fell to Wausau West for the second straight year on the doorstep of a championship. At the same time, the loss also motivates the team's players to work harder, so they do not become the ones that fail to make the trip to Madison.
"It pushed us pretty hard this summer," said senior forward Hayden Bowe. "Two years in a row, it's pushed us to work harder."
A third-straight trip to the state tournament is anything but automatic for the Old Abes. Heading into the 2011-2012 season, Eau Claire Memorial is without six players from last year's team, including last year's Mr. Hockey, goaltender Saxton Soley. Luckily for head coach Mike Schwengler, experience is not in short supply.
""Fortunately, our top two lines are the same as they were last year," Schwengler said. "We always try to keep our cupboard stocked."
As the Old Abes look to reload, Big Rivers rival Eau Claire North is getting a fresh start with first-year head coach Jordan Fish. He inherits a program that can only go up. The Huskies did not win a game last year, and have only three seniors and eight returning players back this season.
However, getting the chance to run a program was an opportunity Fish said he couldn't wait to have.
You know, ever since I've been playing and growing up, it was one of those things [that] I wanted to coach," Fish said. "When I was offered, I jumped at it. Getting to know the kids has been excellent."
And while Fish works on getting his team into game shape, his players are eager to put last season behind them.
After going 0-24 last year, you know, it's a disappointing season, and we want to come back and prove that North's a strong hockey program, and we can build up in the future," said Huskies senior forward Seth Suckow.


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This is a discussion on Major rsync issue - overwriting files!!! - Tools ; Hi, I'm having a MAJOR issue with an rsync backup script that is actually OVERWRITING the files that it should be backing up! The thing is, the same script (with different source/destination variables) runs FLAWLESSLY on another file server! Background: ...
I'm having a MAJOR issue with an rsync backup script that is actually
OVERWRITING the files that it should be backing up!
The thing is, the same script (with different source/destination
variables) runs FLAWLESSLY on another file server!
2 OS X client computers running 10.4.11 (1 intel, 1 PPC). both are
running rsync v2.6.3.
rsync is backing up from one firewire HD(afp share) to another,
dedicated backup HD (same situation on both machines.
on the PPC server, rsync runs fine. rotates, backs up, links, logs, etc.
on the intel server, rsync constantly attempts to overwrite the source
files (& has succeeded!), with empty directories. it simpply deleted
the source directory. once it overwrote it with old files from a
previous backup.
2 things i can't understand: A) --delete is NOT being used as an option.
B) the script is identical on both, the only differences being the
source & destination variables - yet they behave completely differently.
Also, on the intel, (which doesn't backup but destroys) the --dry-run
(or -n) option has NO effect - it doesn't dry-run - that's how i lost a
day's data. Also, some of the variable paths are changed by rsycn (tries
to add /Users/admin or some other such location to the beginning of the
path (--link-dest variable, for instance)
the script, in it's entirety is below. Please HELP!!!!
export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
### Properties ###
BAK_DIR=`date +%A`
BAK_PATH="/Volumes/REM Backup/RsyncBackups/REM"
LINK_DEST="/Volumes/REM Backup/RsyncBackups/REM/Daily/PreviousBackups1"
### rsync options ###
OPTS="-Eapztc --links --ignore-errors --exclude-from=$EXCLUDES
--delete-excluded --link-dest=$LINK_DEST"
### Sanity Check ###
echo >> $LOG
echo "*******" >> $LOG
echo `date` >> $LOG
echo "Source is "$SRC_DIR >> $LOG
echo "Backing up to ""$BAK_PATH"/Current>> $LOG
echo "rsync is linking to " $LINK_DEST >> $LOG
echo >> $LOG
### Script Action ###
# Make sure directories exist as needed
[ -d "$BAK_PATH"/Weekly ] || mkdir "$BAK_PATH"/Weekly
[ -d "$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup4 ] || mkdir -pm 750
[ -d "$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup3 ] || mkdir -pm 750
[ -d "$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup2 ] || mkdir -pm 750
[ -d "$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup1 ] || mkdir -pm 750
# Rotate PreviousBackups
rm -rf "$BAK_PATH"/Weekly >> $LOG
mv -v "$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup4 "$BAK_PATH"/Weekly >> $LOG
mv -v "$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup3
"$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup4 >> $LOG
mv -v "$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup2
"$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup3 >> $LOG
mv -v "$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup1
"$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup2 >> $LOG
mv -v "$BAK_PATH"/Current/ "$BAK_PATH"/Daily/PreviousBackup1 >> $LOG
mkdir -pm 750 "$BAK_PATH"/Current >> $LOG
# Run backup
rsync --dry-run --verbose --stats $OPTS $SRC_DIR "$BAK_PATH"/Current/
# rsync $OPTS $SRC_DIR "$BAK_PATH"/Current/ >> $LOG
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Staff profile - Mike Ewing
Prof Mike Ewing
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Professor Mike Ewing was appointed Pro-Vice Chancellor (Executive Dean) of Business and Law at Deakin in March 2014. Prior to that, he spent 12 years at Monash University (as professor of marketing, Head of the Department of Marketing, deputy PVC and Head of Faculty) and 6 years at Curtin University.
Mike's research interests include marketing communications, marketing strategy, brand management, and health promotion. His work has been published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, Social Science & Medicine, the Journal of Advertising Research, the Journal of Advertising, the Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Psychology & Marketing, Psychology & Health, the European Journal of Marketing and Accident Analysis & Prevention, amongst others. Two recent meta-analyses place him in the top two most productive marketing communications researchers worldwide.
Mike has received numerous awards and citations for research including three consecutive UK Academy of Marketing best paper awards, the inaugural Dean's Award for Excellence in Research at Monash (2007), the Silver Medal for the best paper published in the International Journal of Market Research in 2008 and the Market Research Society's David Winton Award for Innovation in Research Methodology in 2009. In 2008, Mike was appointed to the Board of Governors of the Academy of Marketing Science. In 2010, he was made a distinguished fellow of the Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy and appointed to the inaugural international advisory board of the Academy of Indian Marketing. Mike was recognised as a distinguished fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science in May 2012.
Over the past two decades, Mike has taught in Australia, Austria, Brunei, China, the Czech Republic, England, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden and the Philippines. In 2004, he won the inaugural Dean's Teaching Award at Monash. He particularly enjoys graduate instruction and has taught MBA courses at the London Business School, the Helsinki School of Economics/Aalto University, the Rotterdam School of Management, the Australian Graduate School of Management, Lulea University of Technology (Sweden) and Tongji University (Shanghai).
Prior to entering full time academe, Mike was the marketing research manager for Ford Motor Company's South African subsidiary. More recently, he has consulted and delivered executive education programs to such organizations as Coca-Cola (Asia), Hakuhodo (Japan), Unilever (Europe), DSM (Europe), Jollibee (the Philippines), Telekom Austria, Holden, Saab, BMW Financial Services, Argyle Diamonds, Levi Strauss & Co., Ansell, Glaxo Smith Klein, the CEO Institute, Isuzu-General Motors, Nissan and the West Australia State Government. In September 2012 Mike was appointed professor-in-residence for DDB Group.


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Uncle Dave wrote:
> Hi
> I'm the (almost) proud owner of a new Wireless printer (HP 3310) which
> has been a cinch to configure and hook up to my home wireless network.
> Now I'm trying to get my laptop to talk to it but, whatever I try, I
> get the following "Issues Stopping Indstallation" -
> Symantec Settings Manager: Firewall
> Symantec Network Drivers Service: Firewall
> Symantec Event Manager: Firewall
> Symantec Core LC: Firewall
> It then gives advice, basically to disable the firewall before
> continuing. I'm using Norton Systemworks (Premier) 2006 Version:
> 9.00 Build: 103. The XP Firewall is disabled and I've stopped Black
> Ice (i.e. exited). Of course, only being the owner of the laptop,
> Norton isn't about to let me do anything so simple as disable its
> programs and I can't find anything to let me do that. I've tried
> Auto-Protect, Internet Worm Protection and Windows Automatic Updates
> off but the message is always the same.
> Any help as to how I can persuade Norton to let me have control of my
> machine and enable it to talk to the printer would be greatly
> appreciated!
> Thanks in advance
> David
You go to the Windows Services screen and shutdown the Norton service.
You use MSconfig in the Run Box, you go to the Start-up tab, and you
uncheck anything that looks like Norton.


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The mobile devices of Apple still make use of the 30-pin connector, but patents show that Apple could have plans to replace the 30-pin connector on the iPhone and iPad with a magnetic connection. The idea behind this connection is quite similar to the MagSafe adapters that you may already know from your MacBook. It's not the first that Apple is looking for other ways to connect their devices in a safe way, in 2010 there appeared a patent that showed a magnetic connector for the iPad, something which we haven't seen in the current line-up.
The new patent application shows a picture of a iPad 2, with a magnetic cable. Current 30-pin connection ports on the iPhone and iPad cannot be fully closed by the device, making it a easy target for sand, dust and the famous water sensor that is often used to deny an repair request. Users can use the MagSafe connector for charging, syncing of data and listening to music, and according to Apple you can easily close the port with a magnetic piece.
The cables that are currently used on the iPhone and iPad do need some protection. Contact breakers are exposed if the cable is not connected with the device, making it a easy victim for pollution and damages. The magnetic connection also has another beneficial effect; the solution that is being proposed by Apple describes a universal cable, with programmable magnets that determine how many contact breakers are required. Although the idea is original, the question is how the European Union feels about this idea, they require that every smartphone in 2012 comes with a micro-USB charging adapter.


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Michael Frolik got a special delivery from Vice President of Hockey Operations Al MacIsaac on Tuesday. MacIsaac presented Frolik's Stanley Cup championship ring to the forward in Winnipeg.
Frolik was the second-to-last member of the Stanley Cup champion team to receive his ring, as Dave Bolland (TOR), Dan Carcillo (LAK), Ray Emery (PHI), and Carter Hutton (NSH) all had theirs delivered earlier this month. Goaltender Henrik Karlsson (Skellefteå AIK) has yet to receive his ring.
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Somaliland Times has failed in its responsibility to provide unbiased and balanced information to the public
Issue 306
By Ambassador Wubishet Demisi
Dear Editor
I am writing to you to express my surprise and dismay at the news published by Somaliland Times on 24 November 2007 alleging "Jijiga officials persecute Somalilanders" without offering any proof. The allegation made public by the paper is totally unfounded and devoid of facts.
I strongly believe that media has a great responsibility in dealing with highly delicate matters which can erode the sense of mutual trust and harmony among people. Thus media needs a great skill and responsibility especially in a region where we belong. It usually requires thorough investigation, looking at both sides of the coin and some care in its execution. In this regard, Somaliland Times has failed in its responsibility to provide unbiased and balanced information to the public. It is not clear to me why it was felt necessary to instigate hate between two friendly people by politicizing and publishing rumors without verification.
Since the downfall of military dictators in both countries, Ethiopia and Somaliland have heralded a new chapter in their relationship. Our people to people relation is crucial and now is strengthened more than ever before. We need to further enhance it and we would like to see the media including Somaliland Times playing their constructive role for the realization of its noble objectives.
Ambassador Wubishet Demisi
Federal democratic republic of Ethiopia
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We've certainly seen plenty of video hype for the BMW 1 Series M Coupe, what with a variety of BMW-issued clips of the car drifting through the countryside or weaving its way through concrete walls. But for a real taste of what the 1 Series M is like to drive, West Coast Editor Jason Cammisa got behind the wheel in California.
As he explains in this video, Cammisa believes the new 1 Series is the car for drivers who actually enjoy driving. Its compact dimensions, standard manual transmission, and tail-out antics all hearken more to the original E30-generation BMW M3 than the current, V-8-powered M3.
Oh, and don't get him started on people who buy the M3 with its optional M DCT transmission. Cammisa has no time for people who buy an M3 — ostensibly a driver's car — and let a computer decide when to shift gears. That's why he's so pleased that the 1 Series M Coupe offers only a true, shift-it-yourself manual transmission.
Check out the full video review below.


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CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Nevada is no longer threatening to pull out of the Tahoe Compact with California.
The Assembly voted 40-1 Friday to pass SB229. The bill was ushered through the Legislature after Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and California Gov. Jerry Brown announced an agreement to protect Lake Tahoe's delicate ecosystem while also considering the economy when making land use decisions.
The bill repeals a law passed by the 2011 Legislature that paved the way for Nevada to exit the Tahoe Compact created in the late 1960s to regulate development and oversee environmental controls in the Tahoe Basin that straddles Nevada and California.
A regional plan approved in December of last year helped ease some of the concerns that led Nevada to pass the withdraw threat two years ago.