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Hewlett-Packard's workstation line includes the x4000, which has a number of configuration options. For our testing, HP delivered a top-of-the-line machine with two 2.2GHz Xeon processors, 4GB of RDRAM memory and a FireGL4 graphics card, running Red Hat 7.1.
Our company is a visual effects production company. From our inception we had been using SGI workstations for both interactive desktop use and for batch rendering. About two years ago we began using generic Linux workstations for batch rendering, but we were still using SGI machines for artist workstations. We now feel that the maturity of both Linux and the newer hardware solutions are to a point that they can provide far better artist workstations at a reasonable cost.
We tested this x4000 as an artist workstation, as well as a batch renderer. We installed a wide range of software and performed a representative set of tasks over the course of three weeks.
As described above, the configuration is as follows:
two 2.2GHz Xeon processors, with 512KB cache each
four 1GB RDRAM
FireGL4 graphics card
3¼-inch floppy
Lucent Winmodem
Intel Camino 2 Chipset (aka 820e)
two 53c1010 Ultra3 SCSI adapters
Intel 82557 Fast Ethernet
Tehama Chipset AGP Bridge
Seagate ST318406LW disk, about 16GB
DVI-HD15 adapter cable
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Red Hat version 7.1, kernel 2.4.3-12smp
Hammerhead's in-house graphics software
Shake by Nothing Real
Maya by Alias|Wavefront
RAYZ by Silicon Grail
Most of the software that we use was developed in-house and has been ported to Linux from the SGI/IRIX environment over the last couple of years. Installing this software on the x4000 was trivial; everything copied over and worked perfectly with no changes. This is a tribute to the maturity of Linux and the expertise of HP and ATI in building compatible systems.
The x4000 was shockingly faster than the machines we had been using (admittedly old SGI O2 computers). While it is unfair to compare the x4000 to SGI machines made three years ago, it is still revealing. The x4000 with the FireGL4 graphics board could display both 2-D and 3-D information on the order of 30-50 times as fast as our old O2s. Changes by a factor of two or four are amazing, but by a factor of 40 is astonishing.
In the visual effects business, it is often true that 2-D performance is as important as 3-D performance. Much of the work involves working directly with hundreds or thousands of high-resolution film frames, doing rotoscoping by tracing the outlines of regions of an image, tracking features from frame to frame and playing back high-resolution images to examine these frames in motion. The x4000 with the FireGL4 had the best performance I have ever seen, displaying more than 250 million pixels per second. At a resolution of 1,600 × 1,200, it could display 130 frames per second. There was sufficient processing power available to do fairly complex color correction on the fly and still get better than real-time performance.
While our test machine had only a 100-baseTX network card (based on the Intel i82557 chipset), it was dramatically faster at reading frames from our file server than our other Linux boxes, often approaching 10MB/sec over NFS. This allows the animators to be much more productive, as they are not waiting so long for the next image to load.
Of course, 3-D performance is also vitally important; and it is no surprise that this x4000 gave a stellar performance in this area too. In simple tests viewing independent polygons, the machine would render 2.5 million polygons per second. One can use Alias|Wavefront's Maya to edit 100,000 polygon models with true interactive performance. In general, the 3-D performance was so astonishingly better than the performance of our SGI machines that there was no comparison whatsoever; it was also dramatically faster than the RADEON and GeForce cards on our other Linux machines.
For the three and a half weeks that we had the machine, it was used almost nonstop as a rendering server. The 2.2GHz processors were, on average, about 1.4 times as fast as the 1.3GHz Athlon processors in the rest of our renderfarm. The huge 4GB of memory allowed us to render far more complex scenes at once than we could with our other smaller computers.
The SMP capabilities of the machine were a pleasant surprise, in that the performance was almost perfectly double that of a single-processor machine. Rendering two frames took almost exactly the same time as rendering one; there was little contention for shared resources. Furthermore, the SCSI disk offloaded the processor, allowing the CPUs to run at full speed even during heavy disk access—something not found in commodity ATA-based systems. An artist could use one processor for background rendering, while doing interactive work with the other processor without much contention.
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e4 e6 d4 d5 nc3 bb4 e5 c5 a3 bc3 bxc3 Ne7 f4 qc7 be3 nf5 Kf2!? is my opening. Anyone up for a tourney?
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Those are both actual lines. I want made up lines to have fun tsesting. But if you have any ideas, please comment. 8 people preffered for tourney, 4 will do.
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Alabama Wins In SEC Thriller
The Journal provides minute-by-minute analysis of the SEC Championship game between No. 2 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia. Pete McEntegart offers commentary on the game and the CBS telecast from Los Angeles and Rachel Bachman contributes from the Georgia Dome.
You'll pardon Alabama coach Nick Saban if he doesn't consider the four-team playoff that looms in 2014 as a particularly big deal. After all, the three times he has taken the Tide to the SEC championship game, it has functioned as a de-facto national semifinal with the winner all but guaranteed a berth in the BCS title game.
That was the case when Alabama faced the Florida Tebows in 2008 and 2009 in No. 1-vs.-2 showdowns, splitting the two contests. And it will be the stakes today when the second-ranked Tide face No. 3 Georgia in the Georgia Dome for the right to play Notre Dame in Miami for what could be the SEC's seventh straight BCS title. For the Tide, having to win two "playoff" games starting with the SEC Championship is old hat.
Last year, of course, the Tide didn't even need to bother with the SEC title game, somehow receiving a bye right into the BCS championship where it avenged its only loss to divisional foe LSU, which bludgeoned the Bulldogs 42-10 in Atlanta a year ago.
Georgia is back for more, and unlike last year Mark Richt's squad doesn't have to content itself with playing spoiler. Richt has won two SEC titles (in 2002 and 2005) but that was before the SEC's Vortex of National Domination began. He has never reached a BCS title game. A win tonight would go a long way toward changing his image as a good-but-not-great coach of a good-but-not-great program.
Saban and the Tide, obviously, have been here before. That's the reason most folks seem to think they will win today. Richt and the Bulldogs have 60 minutes to turn that conventional wisdom on its head. And even without a "real" playoff yet, today's stakes couldn't be any clearer.
Keep checking back as we await kickoff in Atlanta.
Hello from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, where if you're not wearing red or houndstooth or both, you're probably a foreign-exchange student or lost.
Georgia is on the field doing calisthenics to a high-pitched whistle, Alabama is running routes into the opposite end zone and SEC fans are enjoying the seats they paid $500 apiece for.
This is a huge day for Georgia, which I called Miss Congeniality in a story this week for its close-but-no-crystal-football drought of national championships (the last was in 1980). But it's also big for Alabama, which early this season seemed like it could at least bother an NFL team if not beat it. Now, the Tide must beat the Bulldogs to reach the national title game.
Georgia players just walked in a field-width line toward an end zone packed with their fans, their helmets aloft, as Richt lifted his arms to pump up the crowd. If the Dawgs aren't up for this game, they never will be.
With kickoff approaching, it's time to spill some of the SEC's dirty little secrets. The conference's current reputation as King of the World rests not solely on its six consecutive BCS titles, but upon the conviction that it's stocked the deepest with quality teams and thus whichever school emerges as SEC champion must have, by definition, traveled a tougher road than any team in the nation. However that latter contention has been undermined by two facts brought into sharper focus in this year's expanded SEC: 1) The conference's underbelly this season was soft, gooey and surprisingly large, and 2) Some SEC teams – notably the two playing today – played significantly easier conference schedules than others.
In 2012, the SEC fielded a clear "Big Six" of top teams that was evenly divided between the East and West Division – Georgia, Florida and South Carolina in the East; and Alabama, LSU and Texas A&M in the West. Those six teams, which all rank in the BCS's top 10, combined for an overall conference record of 39-9, with all nine defeats coming against the other five. Yes, that means that the Big Six were a combined 30-0 against the "Little Eight," which this season included such recent luminaries as Auburn (2010 BCS champs) and Arkansas (ranked No. 10 in the preseason).
With the SEC expanded to 14 teams in two seven-team divisions, schools now play just two cross-division games rather than the three that they played through 2011. That meant that the most games that any Big Six team could face against its brethren in 2012 was four (two from one's own division and two from the other) and the fewest was two (only the two divisional games). Here's how many contests the SEC's Big Six ended up playing against the other members of the 2012 ruling class, and their record in those games:
Florida: 4 games (3-1)
LSU: 4 games (2-2)
Texas A&M: 3 games (1-2)
South Carolina: 3 games (1-2)
Alabama: 2 games (1-1)
Georgia: 2 games (1-1)
It's no coincidence that the divisional champs meeting today are also the ones who were fortunate enough to play fewer games against the other elite SEC squads. Of course, hard-luck Florida and LSU had their chance to win their way into this game by beating Alabama and Georgia, respectively, straight up. So this isn't to suggest that the Bulldogs and Tide didn't earn their way to Atlanta; they did. Yet it's simply incontrovertible that they also traveled a significantly easier path than some of their peers, as is inevitable when conferences grow so large that schedules are forced to become increasingly unbalanced.
This phenomenon has been pointed out before, of course, particularly by Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier with regards to Georgia. It was just last year, remember, that while playing one more cross-divisional game, the Bulldogs still managed to avoid the West's Big Three, which then included Arkansas along with Alabama and LSU. Georgia enjoyed similar scheduling fortune this season, as noted above. That's a big reason why South Carolina has beaten Georgia head-to-head in consecutive years but failed to win the East.
Now Alabama seems to have joined Georgia in living a charmed life. In fact the Tide was originally scheduled to play Georgia in 2012 and 2013 before the addition of A&M and Missouri necessitated new schedules. Instead Alabama faced Tennessee and Missouri (combined SEC record of 3-13) from the East this season, and next year will draw Tennessee and Kentucky (combined 1-15) while West rival LSU, for instance, will play Florida and Georgia (14-2). These days more than ever, it's great to be the Tide.
Very true about Georgia's and Alabama's cushy schedules this year, Pete. Pat Dye, the former Georgia player and Auburn coach, said this week that these teams had by far the easiest schedules among the SEC's power teams. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that they're both here today.
Georgia's band just spelled out its name on the field, then marched off, flanked by three separate platoons of bespangeld women.
Now here comes Alabama's band, behind a giant line of flag-carriers. The number and variety of dancing girls attending SEC bands never ceases to amaze me.
I'm not much one for predictions, but I'm pretty sure I spotted American Idol season 5 winner Taylor Hicks in the bar of an Atlanta hotel last night. He's from Birmingham, Ala., so I think that augurs well for the Tide.
It's tough to tell which team's fans are in the majority here, since Georgia's fire-engine red is pretty close to Bama's crimson. There might be more Georgia fans here, but it's close.
A man two seats away from me in the pressbox wearing a bowtie and brown houndstooth jacket tells me, "Alabama fans got here first." I'm not going to argue with him, y'all.
Verne Lundquist just said that when Georgia and Alabama "look in a mirror," they "see the other" team. I'm not sure he knows how mirrors work.
No offense, but if I looked in the mirror and saw Verne Lundquist, I'd be pretty terrified.
Side note from the Georgia Dome: The pressbox seats are packed in so tightly that Paul Finebaum of the esteemed Paul Finebaum Radio Network (a.k.a. the Oprah of college football) essentially had to repel into his seat next to me. I'm guessing the Pac-12 Championship game Friday didn't have quite this level of demand.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 14:53 left
Bama takes the opening kickoff back to the 25, which coincidentally is exactly where it would have gotten it with a touchback. That's where the nation's second-rated passer, A.J. McCarron, will lead the Tide out. (Georgia's Aaron Murray is the country's top-rated thrower.)
0-0, 1st Quarter, 12:57 left
On third and 7 from the UGA 48, CB Sanders Commings breaks up a pass intended for Kevin Norwood and Bama will punt. Cody Mandell's boot rolls into the end zone for a touchback. The Tide did get a 20-something yard gain on a slant to Christion Jones that drive, but that was it. Murray will get his first crack from the 20.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 11:42 left
As expected, we're getting a defensive battle so far. Two brief drives, nothing to show for them.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 11:42 left
Quick three-and-out for the Dawgs. That won't help Murray's efficiency rating any. Jones doesn't field the punt, which takes a friendly Georgia roll inside the Bama 20. Viewers sick of the SEC are likely already having flashbacks to the touchdown-less Bama-LSU showdowns of 2011.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 10:50 left
Eddie Lacy picks up 9 and 7 yards on consecutive runs for the Tide. That's one way to keep stud Bulldogs pass rusher Jarvis Jones cooling his heels.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 9:33 left
Interception! Actually it might have been a fumble, but it's Georgia's ball! Jones got to McCarron on third and four, clobbering him from behind and forcing him to cough the ball up. The pigskin landed directly in the gut of Georgia LB Christian Robinson. The Dawgs will take over around the Bama 37 after the first big break of the game.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 9:32 left
The Bulldogs actually start from the 40. Make it the 45 after a false start by RB Todd Gurley. And for the record, the turnover was ruled a sack (by Jones) and a fumble. At least McCarron's QB rating won't be hurt.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 8:00 left
The Dawgs had a potential first down from a screen pass to Gurley called back for a block in the back. Then the crew led by referee Tom Ritter marked off too many yards, which was doubtless met by guffaws across the SEC. (Ritter is viewed by many LSU fans at least as being pro-Bama.) Yet Murray overcomes the setback by finding Malcom Mitchell for the first on third and long to the 29.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 6:22 left
Georgia can't pick up a second third-and-long as Murray is sacked by Xzavier Dickson. (Yes, that's really the spelling of his first name.) That pushes the field goal attempt to 50 yards. Here comes the kick from Marshall Morgan. It's up… and no good! Wide right. So the Tide manages not to give up any point after the turnover.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 6:22 left
That's a huge missed opportunity for Georgia after getting decent field position. Alabama's defense leads the nation with 9.25 points per game allowed. The Bulldogs will be lucky to get such a clear shot again.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 5:57 left
The Tide fires quick passes to each sideline to talented freshman WR Amari Cooper on consecutive plays to put the ball right at midfield. Cooper is a very dangerous player. It's only a matter of time before McCarron looks for him deep.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 3:47 left
Ooh! Bama successfully fakes a punt on fourth-and-3 from the UGA 44, but didn't get the play off in time. Delay of game, five yards. So the Tide will punt for real this time; the Dawgs call a fair catch at the 12. Missed opportunity for the Tide after upback Vinnie Sunseri had picked up enough for a first down.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 2:09 left
Todd Gurley rips off two nice runs for first downs. Good thing too for UGA, because so far the Dawgs are struggling to protect Murray.
0-0, 1st Quarter, 1:06 left
Scoffing at my criticism, the Dawgs give Murray enough time on third and long to fire a strike deep downfield to Tavarres King for a gain of 34 yards to the Bama 34.
0-0, end 1st Quarter
That was the first scoreless first quarter in SEC championship history — 21 years.
0-0, End of 1st Quarter
This time Murray couldn't work his magic on third and 10, failing to connect with WR Rhett McGowan. (Though it's fitting that Georgia has a player named "Rhett.") That was the last play of the first quarter. The Dawgs will face a fourth-and-10 from the Bama 37 after the teams change sides. I don't think Morgan has a 54-yarder in him, but we shall see. Interesting decision.
0-0, end 1st Quarter
On its last two drives, Georgia has made things harder on itself with penalties. It's not the worst-penalized team in the nation — ranking almost dead in the middle at No. 61 in terms of fewest yards penalized per game — but it's not great, either. Meanwhile Alabama is 8th-best with 34.33 penalty yards per game.
0-0, 2nd Quarter, 14:31 left
Bulldogs will punt — fake! Upback Arthur Lynch, a tight end, flutters a pass to Commings for the first down to the Bama 20. Unlike the Tide's earlier fake, the Dawgs got this off in time. Of course then Murray runs out of time at the line on the next play, forcing him to call UGA's first timeout. Oh, college kids, they're incorrigible.
0-0, 2nd Quarter, 14:31 left
Hey, someone wake up Chip Kelly. The second quarter's starting!
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 13:59 left
Touchdown, Bulldogs! Murray fires a strike to TE Jay Rome, who twists into the end zone from 19 yards out. So the Dawgs make the fake punt pay off two plays later with seven points. Morgan's extra point makes it 7-0 Georgia.
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 13:51 left
It's only fair to note that Georgia led last year's SEC title game 10-0 before losing 42-10.
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 12:26 left
Georgia fans are getting LOUD here. The combination of the TD, stopping Bama on the next drive and the home-state vibe has gone straight to their vocal cords. Even on timeouts, there's a loud hum coming from the Dawgs' end-zone fans.
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 12:01 left
McCarron is sacked on third and 11 by tackle John Jenkins. Actually it looked more like McCarron was literally swallowed up by the (conservatively listed) 358-pound noseguard. Mitchell returns the resulting Bama punt to midfield. It's all going UGA's way at the moment.
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 11:16 left
The Bama defense wasn't having any of this "momentum" garbage, forcing the Dawgs three yards back over three plays. Collin Barber's punt hops out of bounds inside the Bama 20.
7-0, UGA, 2nd Quarter, 11:16 left
Georgia Safety Sean Williams, after loss to South Carolina and sluggish performance in a win over Kentucky, said, "We're playing too soft as a defense." Well, not today. Alabama has 15 rushing yards and is 0 for 4 on third down.
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 10:52 left
Aaaand of course the Tide responds with a 44-yard pass play and 20-yard Eddie Lacy run.
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 11:06 left
Wow! McCarron does fire deep for Cooper, but frankly the Dawgs saw it coming all the way and free safety Bacarri Rambo was camped under it for what looked like a potential INT. Yet Cooper outjumped Rambo for the ball, resulting in a 44-yard gain. Where's Richard Crenna when you need him? (Sorry, cheap "Rambo" joke.)
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 8:34 left
Ouch! McCarron throws incomplete on third and 6 from the 8-yard line, but UGA linebacker Alec Ogletree smashed McCarron with a helmet-to-helmet shot. The officials throw what looks like a justified flag. Instead of a field goal attempt, it's first and goal from the 4.
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 7:09 left
Man! Lacy pounds into the line on second down from the 1 but is absolutely stood up by the Georgia defense. Actually it was Ogletree again, this time with a clean and punishing blow. Lacy then lost the ball, but McCarron recovered it back at the 5. Now Georgia calls a timeout. It will be third and goal from the 5.
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 6:41 left
Interception! Commings picks it off in the end zone on third down. He simply stepped in front of Cooper, who didn't seem to expect the back-shoulder throw. What a turnaround. So Bama comes away without any points.
7-0, UGA, 2nd Quarter, 5:52 left
By the way, that was the third INT this season for Commings, which ties Rambo for the team lead.
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 5:04 left
The Bama defense forces another quick punt, which Jones fair-catches near the 30. CBS's Gary Danielson says it "feels like" Georgia is leading by more than a touchdown. But the Alabama defense has helped make sure the deficit is only a very manageable seven points.
7-0 UGA, 2nd Quarter, 2:45 left
Tide freshman RB T.J. Yeldon makes his mark on the game with a spinning, tackle-breaking run to the UGA 42. Man, there's a lot of talent on the field tonight.
7-7, 2nd Quarter, 1:59 left
Touchdown, Bama! Lacy bursts off right tackle and rumbles 41 yards for the score. He and Yeldon are a terrific one-two punch. Jeremy Shelley's XP knots the game at 7. Wonder whether Gary thinks the game feels like it's tied.
7-7, 2nd Quarter, 1:59
Talent, you say? The way these teams are playing, it's tough to imagine one from any other conference (or no conference) beating them right now. It would be the football equivalent of dropping a baby chinchilla into a cage of Komodo Dragons.
7-7, 2nd Quarter, 1:37 left
Two quick Murray completions push the ball to midfield. Now the clock is stopped for a Bama injury. The Bulldogs have two timeouts and will dearly like to get some points before the half. UGA will also receive the second-half kickoff.
7-7, 2nd Quarter, 1:15 left
Interception! Murray heaves it deep but it looked like he basically threw it up for grabs. Bama's HaHa Clinton-Dix laughs last by snagging the INT and returning it to out near midfield. Then Murray is absolutely slobber-knockered on the return by DE Quinton Dial. Looks like it should have been a flag, but the officials missed it. But now Bama is in business.
7-7, 2nd Quarter, 0:14 left
Yeldon bulls for the first down on third and 2. The Tide wants to save their timeouts, but that seems penny-wise and pound-foolish when McCarron runs 9 yards and gets out of bounds to only leave Bama with 14 seconds left.
7-7, 2nd Quarter, :05 left
Pete, I believe that "Slobber-Knockered" was the name of UGA the Bulldog's autobiography. Now out in paperback.
7-7, 2nd Quarter, 0:05
Now McCarron scrambles down to near the 5-yard line and Saban finally calls his first timeout. As Gary and Verne note, he must wish he had called one before. Now the Tide will only have one shot at the end zone, and even that is risky since the clock might expire without even getting a field-goal attempt.
10-7 Alabama, Halftime
Saban sends Shelley out to kick the field goal on first down, not wanting to risk the clock running out if the offense runs another play. Shelley's chip shot is up… and good! The Tide takes its first lead as the clock expires on the first half.
10-7, Alabama, Halftime
Given how defending national champs Alabama got knocked around in the first half, including two turnovers by McCarron, the Tide has to be feeling pretty good to be up.
A few first-half stats:
Rushing yards: 152 yards, TD Bama (Lacy), 45 yards, UGA
Passing: 8/14, 94 yards, INT for McCarron, 10/18, 96 yards, TD, INT for Murray
10-7, Alabama, HALFTIME
To answer a question in the comments, Notre Dame ranks 32nd nationally in fewest penalty yards committed per game. I think penalty yardage generally is an overrated stat. But in this game, where yardage is so hard to come by, it could weigh more heavily.
Notre Dame is also 75th nationally in scoring offense, which means it can't afford to give up many yards or points.
10-7 Alabama, Halftime
Rachel, cynical SEC fans would say that penalty yardage weighs heavily whenever Tom Ritter's crew officiates an Alabama game. In fact few things inflame Southern passions more than conspiracy theories and SEC football. So naturally it's impossible for many to resist a conspiracy theory ABOUT SEC football. And have you heard the one about the SEC head office being located in Birmingham, which is suspiciously close to Tuscaloosa?…
10-7, Alabama, HALFTIME
So it's significant that SEC commissioner Mike Slive just strolled through the pressbox, his fingers tented, muttering, "Ehhhhxcellent"? (KIDDING, SEC fans. Mike Slive always speaks clearly.)
10-7 BAMA, 3rd Quarter, 15:00 left
Cade Foster's kickoff is a touchback. Murray will take over at the 25. And Gary drops a nifty stat: Saban is 48-0 at Alabama when the Tide rushes for at least 150 yards. They have already picked up 152 on the ground.
10-7 BAMA, 3rd Quarter, 13:13 left
Murray hits King downfield on the in-vogue back-shoulder throw for a big gain past midfield. Then two Gurley runs give the Bulldogs another first down at the Bama 22. Now Tide noseguard Jesse Williams is down on the field with an injury. We'll keep an eye on that; the Aussie would be a huge loss.
10-7 BAMA, 3rd Quarter, 12:45 left
Gurley bursts for 16 yards down to the 5. First and goal.
14-10 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 12:09 left
Touchdown, Bulldogs! Gurley powers in from the 4, keeping his feet churning and pushing the pile across the goal line. Terrific run. They're taking a long look at it upstairs, but from the replay it's hard to see if his knee was down in the mass of bodies. Gurley was actually perched on the back of LB Trey DePriest as he went in. Now Ritter says the score will stand. Morgan's XP makes it 14-10 Georgia. Great drive by the Bulldogs to retake the lead.
14-10 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 11:10 left
Lacy breaks a big one on Bama's first play after the kickoff. Gain of 17 yards to the 42. But now Jones, Jenkins and two other Bulldogs meet at McCarron's body in the backfield. Sack, loss of 6.
14-10 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 9:47 left
Cooper picks up a huge first down on third and 13, getting several excellent blocks on a flanker screen. Ball is at the UGA 45.
14-10 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 8:01 left
Lacy smashes for the first down on third and 2. Ball is spotted at the UGA 34 as the Tide is rolling.
14-10 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 9:47 left
Cooper picks up a huge first down on third and 13, getting several excellent blocks on a flanker screen. Ball is at the UGA 45.
14-10 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 8:01 left
Lacy smashes for the first down on third and 2. Ball is spotted at the UGA 34 as the Tide is rolling.
14-10 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 6:31 left
On third and 7 from the 32, Cooper can't hang on to a pass over the middle. The officials throw a flag for pass interference, but Ritter picks it up, saying the pass was tipped. Hard to tell from the replay; could've been a bad break for the Tide. So Foster will try a long field goal. The kick is up… and blocked! Ogletree picks it up on a big hop and runs for the touchdown! That one actually deserves one of Verne's patented "Oh my!" exclamations!
21-10 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 6:31 left
Wow, Bama's field-goal game hurts it again, much like in last year's lone defeat to LSU. Foster is the Tide's "long" kicker, while the much more accurate Shelley is generally solid from shorter distances. It was Foster that missed in overtime last year against the Tigers (and missed his other two kicks as well, though I'd have to double-check that), and it was Foster who just had his kick blocked to turn into seven points for Ogletree and the Dawgs. By the way Gary says the officials did review whether the third-down pass before the kick was tipped, and the replay booth felt there wasn't enough evidence to overturn the call on the field. (That's how it looked to me as well.)
21-10 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 5:25 left
To nobody's surprise, the Tide isn't going to lay down quietly. Yeldon rips off a 32-yard gain to the UGA 26-yard line. All of a sudden, Bama really needs a TD.
21-10 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 4:25 left
The Tide draws another pass-interference call, and this one isn't waved off. First and goal at the 10.
21-18 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 4:19 left
Touchdown, Tide! Yeldon rumbles in from 10 yards out. Saban opts to go for 2, which doesn't seem to be a wise call to me with 4:19 left in the third quarter, but only one of us is paid $5 million-plus a year to coach football. (Hint: It's not me.) Yeldon runs in the two-point conversion as well. Well played, Mr. Saban.
21-18 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 4:19 left
Fans renew the "Roll Tide" chant as what was a shell-shocked Bama fan base roars back to life.
21-18 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 3:04 left
Bama defensive back Geno Smith makes a terrific play to break up a third-down pass. So the Dawgs must punt.
21-18 UGA, 3rd Quarter, 1:45 left left
Lacy puts together two straight spectacular runs, the first for 32 yards (after bouncing out of a would-be tackle by Jarvis Jones) and the second for 15. Man, now he rips off 14 more yards. All of a sudden it's first down at the UGA 13 after just three plays, all runs by Lacy.
21-18, 3rd Quarter, 0:15 left
Now it's Yeldon's turn, and the freshman weaves through the Dawgs defense down to the 2. First and goal. Bama is absolutely running roughshod on the Dawg defense right now.
21-18 UGA, End of 3rd Quarter
Yeldon gets stopped just short of the end zone on the last play of the third quarter. The Tide will have second and goal from about the half-yard line after the teams change sides. Hmmm, think they might run it?
21-18 UGA, End of 3rd Quarter
I was never good at physics, but Eddie Lacy appears to have been excused from its laws today. He just keeps going, no matter what objects are in front of him.
25-21 Alabama, 4th Quarter, 14:57 left
Touchdown, Tide! Lacy leaps over the top. He followed a block by none other than noseguard Jesse Williams, who was making his first return to the field after leaving earlier with a knock to his knee. (Williams is now wearing a brace.) It seems odd to me that if you're worried about the health of one of your key defensive players, you'd insert him on offense. But once again Saban is laughing all the way to the bank. Great, dominating drive by the Bama rushing attack.
25-21, Alabama, 4th Quarter, 14:57 left
As Tide fans celebrate, a side note on the investment of Alabama fans:
A Georgia Dome big screen just showed a Bama fan in the stands wearing a storm trooper outfit. It had a number on it — 14 — that isn't being worn by a current Tide player. I can only assume that the man chose this number by design, so he can report to the sideline if needed.
25-21 Alabama, 4th Quarter, 14:57 left
Rachel, my guess is that the Bama fan's number is in honor of what he hopes will be national championship No. 14 in a little over a month. At the moment, the Tide claim 13 national titles. (Which is about four more than any objective observer grants them, but whatever, Alabama has certainly won a bunch.)
25-21 UGA, 4th Quarter, 13:30 left
Ohhh! Murray fires deep and hits King for 45 yards after a Bama defender bit on a fake. First down at the Bama 11
28-25 UGA, 4th Quarter, 12:54 left
Touchdown, Bulldogs! Gurley slices through from 10 yards out. Danielson catches a hold on Georgia on the replay that wasn't called, which certainly hurts the "Ritter is in the tank for the Tide" theory. Nevertheless, the XP puts the Dawgs up by 3 and we have ourselves an old-fashioned barn-burner. (That can be a literal term in the SEC, such as the Auburn-LSU game years back when an old gym nicknamed "The Barn" caught fire during a game.)
28-25 UGA, 4th Quarter, 12:54 left
Georgia coach Mark Richt has to have aged 17 years in this game. Remember: he has two SEC titles and lot of nice records in his 12 seasons but no national championship. The Dawgs are soooo close right now… but a three-point lead on Bama isn't much.
Indeed, Pete, a 14th (claimed) title is still very much within the Tide's grasp.
28-25 UGA, 4th Quarter, 12:45 left
Fumble! The Tide coughs it up on the kickoff return but manage to regain possession in the resulting scrum. But Dee Milliner shoves a Bulldog afterward for a personal foul. That will back the Tide up to their own 10.
28-25 UGA, 4th Quarter, 11:15 left
The Dawgs simply cannot stop the Tide rushing attack. Two runs pick up 10-plus yards each and two first downs out past the 30. Bama has rushed for over 300 yards. To paraphrase Gary, it feels like the Tide is rolling all over Georgia, yet the Bulldogs lead.
28-25 UGA, 4th Quarter, 7:15 left
The Bulldogs defense gets the stop it desperately needed. McCarron tries to scramble on third and 6 from the Bama 48 but is quickly swamped under. Let's be frank; McCarron has not looked sharp tonight. Perhaps he's saving his magic for the final drive like against LSU last month. Anyway McGowan calls a fair catch around the 5; not a smart play
28-25 UGA, 4th Quarter, 7:07 left
McGowan actually caught the ball at the 8, which is not as reprehensible. Murray misfires deep for King on first down. The Bulldogs obviously don't intend to sit on the lead.
28-25 UGA, 4th Quarter, 5:26 left
Big play! Jesse Williams and his fellow defensive tackle Brandon Ivory, battling his own injury (an ankle), combine to stop Gurley in the backfield on third and one. Georgia must punt. Jones picks it up on a hop and skitters out of bounds at the Bama 44. Good field position.
28-25 UGA, 4th Quarter, 4:01 left
Richt calls timeout with McCarron and the Tide facing a huge third and 5 near midfield. The Bulldogs were late getting some defensive linemen on, which would have necessitated some very large men to sprint 30 yards onto the field and then somehow rush the passer a second later. Good decision to call time.
28-25 UGA, 4th Quarter, 3:35 left
The Tide hand it on third and 5 to Yeldon, who somehow slithers out of a tackle by Shawn Williams and picks up the first down. Yeldon looked absolutely dead to rights.
32-28 Alabama, 4th Quarter, 3:15 left
Touchdown, Tide! McCarron hits Cooper from 44 yards out one play after Yeldon's run. So McCarron answers the bell. What a game. Murry, it's your turn.
32-28 Alabama, 4th Quarter, 2:17 left
On third and 18, Murray heaves it deep but nobody's home. It was a first-down sack by LB Adrian Hubbard to put the Dawgs in that hole. Georgia really has little choice but to punt. Jones makes the fair catch at the Bama 36. Do you think the Tide might run the ball here? Seems like they're good at that.
32-28 Alabama, 4th Quarter, 2:06 left
Two Yeldon runs and two Georgia timeouts (the Dawgs' last two of the game) make it third and 5. The Tide can salt it away right here. Will they run to take off more time, if nothing else?
32-28 Alabama, 4th Quarter, 1:08 left
32-28 Alabama, 4th Quarter, 0:51
The Dawgs pick up a first down, but it takes three plays. Must move quicker. Ball at the UGA 28.
32-28 Alabama, 4th Quarter, 0:43
Interception, Bama! Milliner catches a carom after Sunseri made a big hit. But did Milliner gets his hands underneath the ball? They will take a long, long look at this. They called it an interception on the field, but this might be overturned.
32-28, Alabama, 4th Quarter, :43 left
From the floor of the Georgia Dome, an enormous roar rose up after that would-be INT.
A Tide fan dangled a sign for the TV cameras: "Bring on the Irish. You'll need more than LUCK."
32-28 Alabama, 4th Quarter, 0:45
From the replays, it looks like Milliner didn't catch it; the ball hit the ground first. Ritter is still talking to the replay booth. He overturns it! Take that, conspiracy theorists! And they also add two seconds to the clock. Alas for the Dawgs, they're still back at their own 28.
32-28 Alabama, 4th Quarter, 0:30
Murray fires a strike to King deep over the middle, and King takes a wallop but hangs on. Ball at the Bama 34.
32-28 Alabama, Final
Noooo! Murray has a first and goal from the 8 and finds Chris Conley in the right flat, but Conley has to wait for a deflected pass and is tackled inbounds just inside the 5. The clock expires! The Tide wins! What a finish!
32-28 Alabama, Final
Wow, that final sequence was both a bad break for the Dawgs and a pretty questionable decision. Murray gave the Dawgs a real chance when he hit Lynch, his TE, down to the 8 with about 15 seconds left. The clock stopped briefly to move the chains, and Murray really had two choices: 1) spike the ball to stop the clock, and he'd likely have two shots at the end zone; 2) take a shot at the end zone without stopping the clock, hoping to catch a reeling Tide defense on its heels. Instead, what happened was pretty much the worst option — Murray threw a short pass to Conley at about the 5, not in the end zone. The ball was actually deflected, so by the time it reached Conley, he had lost all momentum and was immediately tackled. He would have been better off dropping it intentionally, but that's a lot to ask of a receiver — trained all his life to catch the ball — in the heat of the moment. Instead Murray HAS to throw that pass into the end zone.
Upon further review, Gary points out that the replay shows that Murray may actually have been intending to throw his pass to Mitchell in the end zone. It only fluttered short to Conley because it was deflected by a leaping C.J. Mosley. So we should give credit to a great play by the Tide rather than scold Murray. What a wild finish to a great game.
32-28 Alabama, Final
Consider that the SEC's rejoinder to those who believe the conference plays boring, "old man" football. Indeed, there were plenty of touchdowns to keep scoreboard-watchers happy, capped by what was almost a miraculous game-winning drive by Murray and the Dawgs.
But in the end, the Tide won this game the way the SEC has tended to win its national titles — with a dominant running game paired with a freakishly athletic defense. The Bulldogs have a beefy, athletic front seven of their own, but they had no answer for Lacy, Yeldon and Bama's offensive line. Then with the game on the line, linebacker C.J. Mosely saved Bama's title hopes by leaping to tip a Murray pass that was targeted for the end zone. When the pass instead fluttered to Conley, he was swamped by Tide defenders and the final seconds ticked off in what must have been excruciating fashion for a Dawgs fan.
Now the anti-SEC crowd must pin its hopes on an unlikely sympathetic underdog: the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. But traditionalists have a matchup for the ages. Do we really have to wait more than a month? Ouch. That game can't get here soon enough.


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Lekan Babalola
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One of the most extraordinary percussionists in jazz and world music today. He started his career playing in the Yoruba christian church owned by his father, Olayiwola Babalola. As his skills as a master percussionist grew, he was invited to join Gasperlawal in 1980. His career continues with performances with the likes of Fela Kuti, Ernest Ranglin, Roy Ayers, Tony Allen, Branford Marsalis, Queen Salawa, Jean Toussaint, Tessa Souter.
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In approving the settlement, Judge Kessler dismissed a challenge from watercraft manufacturers and vendors to an agreement negotiated last December by the Interior Department and the Bluewater Network, a San Francisco environmental group that sued the National Park Service to widen the ban. The Bush administration has endorsed the accord.
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Struggling phonemaker is in for some painful changes
Google Inc. (
) announced the first step in its plans to overhaul struggling
recent acquisition
Motorola Mobility on Monday. As part of the overhaul it will cut 1 out of every 5 jobs at the phonemaker unit, and will close roughly 31 of the 94 offices worldwide.
I. From the First Cell Phone to Near Last
In the wireless industry there is perhaps no company with as long and rich a history as Motorola.
Founded in 1928, Motorola
was a pioneer
in the world of wireless communications, inventing the world's first wireless walkie talkie in 1940 and the first commercial cell phone in 1973. It would go on to play a crucial role as an early maker of mobile devices and infrastructure.
But Motorola's problems have stretched for around a decade and a half as the golden glory of its heyday faded.
Motorola literally invented the cell phone, but almost exited the market amid failing sales.
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Since the late 1990s Motorola has languished, first being overtaken by Finland's Nokia Oyj. (
) and Research in Motion, Ltd. (
) in various markets, then later by young guns like Apple, Inc. (
) and even a revitalized Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
). A minor hit in 2004 -- the RAZR -- quickly became another disappointment after Motorola
failed to continue to push
the design and feature envelope, preferring
self-referential sequels
A friend of mine in the software industry close to the phonemaker recently told me a story of how a former Motorola executive was sent to check out a promising startup as a potential acquisition in 2009. He returned to report that the company was of no real interest.
Weeks later he had quit Motorola and joined the startup. The name? FourSquare.
Motorola had for decades attracted innovators, but sadly stories like that defection were commonplace for the phonemaker as it stumbled through a decade of disappointing earnings which eventually culminated in hard red losses.
Of all the wrong moves Motorola made, the company did make one wise bid, becoming
an early adopter
of the Android operating system, a move that temporarily halted its losses in the smartphone market and gave it a
small breath of life
II. Google's Restoration Begins With Fresh Blood at the Top
Now it's up to Google, makers of Android, to finish sorting out the mess. The software giant bought
a $12.5B USD "fix-me-up"
in Motorola, and now it's tearing down the mildewed walls and uprooting the rotting floorboards. And it's not afraid to start cutting close to home.
Globally Motorola employs around 20,000 folks -- about as much as RIM did at its peak in 2008. Of those, 4,000 will now be cut. That leaves Motorola with a workforce that will still be more than 50 percent bigger than struggling peer RIM. The cuts will be painful, though, with around 1,300 -- roughly a third -- coming from the phonemaker's home country, the U.S.
Motorola Mobility is a big fixer-upper for Google. [Image Source: HWTN.org]
Dennis Woodside, new CEO of Motorola tells
The New York Times
in an interview that the key to the phonemaker's revival will start with pulling out of markets where Motorola is actually losing money. He comments, "We're excited about the smartphone business. The Google business is built on a wired model, and as the world moves to a pretty much completely wireless model over time, it's really going to be important for Google to understand everything about the mobile consumer."
Google has also recruited Mark Randall, a star up-and-comer from Amazon.com, Inc. (
) (and also a Nokia veteran), who is acting as Motorola's new supply chief. He says that when he came onboard Motorola's parts chain was a mess, but that by using fewer suppliers and 50 percent less parts he will be able to substantially cut costs.
Other key additions include former DARPA chief Regina Dugan, who will lead Motorola's advanced technology group, and Vanessa Wittman -- former CFO of brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan Comp.s, Inc. (
) -- who now steps in as Motorola's CFO.
III. Motorola Has Some Advantages, Even Without Special Android Favors
As every analyst or foe states at
every possible opportunity
it should be interesting to see whether Google shows any signs of favoritism towards Motorola, over its third party Android partners. So far Google's approach seems to mirror Microsoft's handling of partner Nokia -- to
trade employees
, but steadfastly avoid any sort of exclusive product or software offerings.
Motorola has some advantages going ahead. Apple's case against it has
been dismissed in the U.S.
, making it the first of the Android Big Three to be out of that legal nightmare. In the features department, Motorola's phones like the
RAZR MAXX hold the battery life crown
, even beating Apple's perennial battery life performer, the iPhone [Source:
The RAZR Maxx remains king of battery life. [Image Source: Verizon Wireless]
But Motorola must not waiver from releasing high-profile flagship phones or it risks losing the publicity battle with polished market leaders Samsung and Apple -- both kings of public relations hype.
The fresh blood must deliver oxygen to Motorola's atrophying muscles. That much is apparent after the
latest quarter of losses
followed by a new regiment of layoffs and cost cutting.
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I will vote with my wallet... against Motorola
I will vote against Motorola with my wallet. I bought a Droid X in October 2010 and it has been one of the biggest POS devices I've ever owned.
1. No software updates
2. GPS turn by turn flakes out half the time I try to use it. The voice will change to a smooth talking woman and then it will just turn to chimes when I'm supposed to turn. I have to reboot my phone to get turn by turn back and repeat the whole process.
3. Having an SD card in my phone greatly reduces the performance of my phone
4. I can't take pictures without my SD card in the phone. Despite having 8GB of internal memory that is largely unused.
5. When I make a phone call I have to put my phone on airplane mode and then take my phone off of airplane mode to get 3G working again. Every. single. time.
6. The battery will not last through the day with light use.
7. It came loaded with tons of bloatware that I couldn't remove without rooting. (How is this different from iPhone?)
8. I do not have any voicemails yet I have a voicemail notification in my notification bar that I am unable to remove. Yes, I've done tons of research and the answer is always "drop the OS and reload it." No thanks.
9. If I leave my phone on for more than 2-4 days without restarting it the camera app will not load. It will just crash. Before I go someplace I might want to take pictures I always reboot my phone. How stupid.
10. If I want a GPS signal, I have to reboot my phone. Trying to get a GPS signal otherwise is a complete waste of time. I can stand in the middle of a field with the phone in the air on a 20 foot pole and it will search and search and search.
And I could go on. I know these problems are not unique to my phone because my father purchased a Droid X a few months before me and has these exact same issues. I'm sure not everyone does but I also not it isn't a completely isolated case.
As such I'll wait a good long while before I even considering another Motorola phone, if ever.
RE: I will vote with my wallet... against Motorola
You're talking about 2010 technology... you describe typical problems of many Android phones... HTC and Samsung and many of those problems are not related to the manufacture.
So, here is my 2010 Samsung to counter yours.
1 - Barely any from Samsung, but you know you could root it (I don't either - so whatever) Well after a year late.
2 - Half ass GPS
3 - didn't notice, but had to buy in order to xfer files to and from phone since Windwos7 wouldn't talk to the damn thing.
4 - no problems. Defect on your particular phone?
5 - no problems. Defect on your particular phone?
6 - That is all Smart Phones. They are better now than then.
7 - That is ALL USA Smart Phones. Carrier Specific crap apps. But an international version for $500~800. My SONY from 2008 was international, no bloat. Friend had at&t version, had crap but less ring tones and games... otherwise same phone.
8 - no problems. Defect on your particular phone?
9 - Your phone is bad? If defective, most carriers have a 30 day return deal. Also, at&t has a $3 monthly insurance deal to take care of damaged/defective phones.
10 - All Samsung Galaxy S1 (like mine) have crap GPS. A software upate did help... so its only mostly crap GPS.
Why did you get the same phone as your dad?
I'm looking to get the MC Atrix 4G... it feels so much better than Samsung GS3, I know its camera is sub-par - but its $100. If it sucks before the 30 days are up... I may get the SGS3 or Nexus phone.
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The company says retail walk-ins have become a rarity, accounting for only three per cent of its sales at stores in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba.
About 160 full-time and part-time staff will be impacted by the closures.
OfficeMax Grand & Toy currently has more than 1,300 employees.
The company says it has seen ''tremendous growth'' in its online channel over the past several years.
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Finch says they will reassign or re-allocate as many employees as possible to other positions within the company.
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