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Dozens of parents and keiki rallied in the rain at Paia Elementary on Monday against a lottery process - suspended the day before - that they said would deny some of their children the right to a Hawaiian language immersion education.
Following last week's protests in Wailuku and at the school, and a number of disgruntled emails from parents, the school announced Sunday that the lottery, which had been scheduled for Monday morning, had been postponed indefinitely.
The lottery was to select 40 of the 53 applicants from out of the school district to enroll in the Hawaiian language immersion program at Paia Elementary, one of two elementary schools on Maui that offer the program. In notifying the parents, Paia Elementary School Principal Sue Alivado also noted that an additional six students, who registered after the March 1 deadline for geographic exceptions, would not be considered, according to protesters.
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Protesters at Paia Elementary School against a lottery to determine which students could enroll in the Hawaiian language immersion program in the school could be heard inside a ceremony opening the new school cafeteria Friday. The school postponed the lottery indefinitely.
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"This is procedure, the lottery selection, was not to deny anybody anything," she said. "We just needed to figure out if we could open another class, and how we would come up with the resources - supplies, qualified teachers, etc. - not only for the next year, but for the next six years," said Alivado.
But parents opposed to the lottery say the school is denying some children the right to learn Hawaiian, the state's second official language, and if student capacity at Paia has been reached, then the school, state Department of Education and other governing groups should find another solution.
"If it (the Hawaiian language immersion program) is too big for Paia, we should have it at another school, another community," said Kahele Dukelow, one of the parents who helped organize Monday's rally. "We should have it all over the place."
Paia Elementary is one of only two elementary schools on Maui that offer Hawaiian language immersion programs, the other being Princess Nahienaena Elementary in Lahaina.
Paia Elementary currently has about 186 students enrolled in its Hawaiian language immersion program. The school has nine teachers - two for each grade from kindergarten to 2nd grade, and one for each grade from 3rd to 5th. The ideal teacher-student ratio is 1 to 20, according to Alivado, though a teacher can take up to 25 students without requiring additional support staff. Even if both Hawaiian language immersion kindergarten teachers took on their maximum capacity next year - 25 students each - the school would still need to hire additional resources.
But Dukelow and other parents pointed out that no English-speaking children were being turned away or entered into a lottery system.
"Our kids should eat at the same time, we're not asking for any more or less," said Dukelow. "All kids should eat at the same time and be full."
But that's not how the school's admission process works, according to Alivado.
"We're not at capacity for English-speaking kids. If we were, you'd have the same process (for GE students)," said Alivado, noting that there were only six classrooms used for English-speaking students, three less than for Hawaiian immersion.
The selection process for the Hawaiian language immersion kindergarten has been postponed "to allow the district office and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to continue their fact findings and data gathering," according to an email sent by the school to parents Sunday.
The school had attempted to implement a similar lottery selection process in 2010, but parent groups protested. Instead of turning students away, the school found the resources to create a second kindergarten class. Many are hoping for a third, which is why OHA is involved.
"If we open a third kindergarten (class), facilities are going to be an issue," said Alivado. "I'm always lobbying for resources behind the scene, but there's not enough commitment to the resources so that I can say 'yes' definitely. . . . It's a continued work in progress."
Alvin Shima, the superintendent for the Central Maui complex, also noted the importance of finding an equitable solution for all.
"We do support the immersion program, it's just a matter of limited resources," said Shima. "Therefore, we need to look at ways as to how we can get resources to the school so another class can be offered."
He said there will be a meeting "within the next couple weeks" that will ideally involve himself, Alivado, a member of the Board of Education, OHA members and representatives from parent groups.
"I don't have all the answers, but I want to involve all the right people in coming up with a solution that will answer these concerns," said Shima.
A formal date for the meeting has not yet been set, though Alivado said she is confident that a solution will be found before the start of the new school year on Aug. 5.
"If there are more students than number of seats in a class, they find the resources to create another class, usually," said Maui state Sen. J. Kalani English. "But in this school, they said they're going to do a lottery for remaining seats."
He called the idea "not well-thought out" and "a poor way to handle the situation." He called Board of Education officials last week and asked that the lottery be postponed, suggesting the school seek funding from OHA for an additional Hawaiian language teacher instead.
He also noted the effect that the protests and rallies have had on young students.
"We did a blessing of the cafeteria the other day, and the kids inside could hear the loud screaming from the protesters outside. They understand Hawaiian language so they understand the negativities and profanities in Hawaiian," said English. "It's just overshadowed what was supposed to be a wonderful blessing for the kids."
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DailyTech reported yesterday on GM's announcement that it had found a buyer for the Hummer brand of heavy utility vehicles. The mystery buyer promised to take on the brand and help expand its international presence. In the process it saved a number of jobs at Hummer plants and helped GM complete a major step toward moving out of bankruptcy.
Now the identity of the mystery buyer has been revealed. Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd., a Chinese industrial firm, will be purchasing the brand and attempting to revive it.
States Yang Yi, chief executive of Tengzhong, "We plan to ... allow Hummer to innovate and grow in exciting new ways under the leadership and continuity of its current management team."
He did, however, hint at changes stating that the deal "will allow Hummer to better meet demand for new products such as more fuel-efficient vehicles in the U.S."
The companies hope to have the deal finalized by September. The deal does not concern the military Hummer technology owned by defense contractor AM General, which licensed the brand name to GM for civilian vehicle purposes. AM General will now, in turn, license the name to Sichuan Tengzhong, which will continue the civilian Hummer development.
quote: 1. I agree on this, everyone should be responsible to the same percentage of income, regardless of class. As it is right now, the lower class to upper middle class are responsible for the vast majority of tax dollars in the country. Some people think they rich are but a majority of the time they have access to so many tax write offs they're paying close to nothing.
quote: 3. I can safely say that more of my check goes towards social security tax than to actual federal income taxes. About 2-3 times more in fact. I'm ok with the eliminating future and continued social security for the current and future working generations as long as they give me the money back that I've already paid into the system that I'll never see again.
quote: Super Rich don't pay thier fair share
quote: I think that requirement for people earning under 50,000 to even file a tax return is ludicious. They pay such a small percentage of the nations income tax (less than 3%) a balance that could easily be made up by increasing the top bracket by a few percentage.
quote: What is their fair share? How much would you like to steal from them? Please, tell me. How much more of their success would you like to penalize so that you don't have to pay any taxes?
quote: You're blaming the wrong people Keeir. Instead of milking the rich, why don't you to go down to the ghetto, and tell those poor people to quit expecting a handout of money, food, and house payments...and go get a F*cking job. Oh, and then tell them that they will pay just as much in taxes as everyone else.


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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Content for briefs is selected from e-mail submissions to Community Editor Amy Edgett at email@example.com. Visit www.sierrasun.com to events for the online calendar. Please limit descriptions to 50 words. E-mail for print submissions may be 150-300 words. Items published in the print edition news space permitting.Help Todd gather glassesTodd Lemma, Jr. from the Custom Learning Academy is collecting glasses for One Sight, an organization that donates eyewear and sun protection world wide. Please drop off your unwanted glasses to the Custom Learning Academy in Tahoe Donner, The KidZone Museum, Plumas Bank, CoffeeBar, or the Unique Boutique by Nov. 16.Dog Training Classes atSavvy Dog Training and Education CenterCalling dogs of all ages! Puppy Socialization and Adult Manners/Basic Obedience classes are starting Wednesday Nov. 14. Puppy II Basic Manners for older pups starts Thursday, Nov. 15. Find more information about all classes on-line at www.thesavvydog.net or call 530-448-9808. Instructor Carla Brown, CPDT is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and Canine Good Citizen Evaluator for the AKC. The Savvy Dog Training and Education Center is located at 11448 Deerfield Drive, C-1 in the Deerfield Plaza by Truckee Bagel in Truckee.Learn Italian with AnnaAnna Goodwin is a native-born Italian and has been teaching Italian for seven years in Tahoe City and Truckee. Both Beginning Italian I and Intermediate Italian I will be taught at the Coffeebar in Truckee, Monday and Wednesday nights, 6:30 p.m. The cost is $185 for an eight-week session. Beginner began Nov. 12; Nov. 14 for intermediate levels. A book will be needed: "Italian Now!" and can be purchased through Amazon.com for $10. In order to assimilate the Italian language in the most effective way, Goodwin has developed a unique method of teaching called the building a "casa" program. To sign up or for more information, contact Goodwin at 530-587-6054 or firstname.lastname@example.com essential oil workshopOn Wednesday, Nov. 14, Denise Kowal of Tahoe Naturals will join Kindred for a session focused on using natural botanicals and pure essential oils, 10015 Palisades Drive, Ste. A4, Truckee, Martis Village Complex. Students will learn the process of making lotion/lip balms with each student choosing their own essential oils. Students will home their custom creation to enjoy. Includes healthy snacks. Students will need to bring a water bottle for all sessions and a sack lunch for full day sessions.Pre-registration is required to have supplies available.For more information and registration call Kindred at 530-205-7336, email email@example.com, visit www.kindredtruckee.org or like them on Facebook.Sugar Bowl announces early openingA recent winter storm that surprised mountain operators with significantly more snow than originally forecasted has allowed mountain crews to ready the mountain for opening weekend. Sugar Bowl announced they will open the 2012/13 ski season with weekend operations on Nov. 17 and 18, offering 1,500 vertical feet of top-to-bottom skiing and riding off the Disney, Nob Hill, Christmas Tree and Lincoln Express Chairlifts. Access to the mountain will be via the Village Gondola, operating 6 a.m.-6 p.m., with Village-side operations only. Village food and beverage will be operational, and Village Tickets will be open to accommodate ticketing and pass needs. Special Tickets will also be open on the Mt. Judah side to assist with any season pass purchase and/or fulfillment needs. Lift tickets will be $80/day. Current operating plans call for a midweek resort closure, reopening Nov. 22-25. Visit www.sugarbowl.com for operational updates (including opening plans for Royal Gorge Cross Country Resort, also available on www.royalgorge.com). Call 530-426-9000.Mindful Movie Mondays at Sawtooth Ridge CafeEvery Monday a different independent film will be show on a wide variety of topics. Doors at 7 p.m. with the film beginning at beginning at 7:30 p.m.Nov. 19, "The Awakening;" Nov. 26, "Black Whole;" Dec. 3, "2012 A Return to One;" Dec. 10, "Beyond 2012;" and Dec. 17, "Save Our Mountain Towns." Updates to come after the holiday break.Socializing is strongly encouraged before and after each film. The event is free and open to the public. A full bar menu and dessert will be available purchase. Visit Sawtooth Ridge Cafe on Facebook for a full schedule of movies and request the showing of a independent film.Sawtooth Ridge Cafe is located at 877 N. Lake Tahoe Blvd. in Tahoe City. Call 530-583-2880 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SawtoothRidgeCafe.Learning, loving and sharing at the Kings Beach LibraryThursday Nov. 15, 2-3 p.m. Doug Greenwood of Alpensoftware will teach a computer class entitled "Getting the most out of your time Online." Learn how to find what you want quickly, explore some fun websites and learn a bit about social networking. Please call to reserve a spot at 530-546-2021. Become an Adult Literacy Coach. Make a difference in someone's life. Help adults achieve their goals by strengthening their reading skills. Placer County Adult Literacy Services will provide training, then match you with a learner and provide the materials for success. You may help your student with reading, writing or GED preparation. You could also help someone find a new job or start a career. Training is Saturday, Nov. 17, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Please call 530-546-2021 to sign up. Join the Library Book Group. This month's book is "Roughing It" by Mark Twain. Meet to discuss the book on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2 p.m. at the Library. Every Thursday, come snow or sun, Kings Beach Library hosts "Preschool Storytime," 10:30-11 a.m. In a lively, silly and casual environment work on multi-sensory pre-literacy skills. Read books, sing songs, learn nursery rhymes, and do a fun and easy craft. Kings Beach Library, 301 Secline St., Kings Beach, 530-546-2021.Truckee High School Project GraduationTV raffle announcedWin a 51" Samsung Flat Screen HDTV and help support a safe, supervised, and sober graduation night for the 2013 senior class.The prize was generously donated by Charlie and Nancy Riley, owners of the Truckee Sears Hometown Store. Purchase $10 tickets at Truckee Sears Hometown Store, Renewal Dermatology and Laser, The Office Boss, Glow Salon, and Dickson Realty.The drawing will be held Nov. 30, 2012 at the Downtown Truckee Tree Lighting Ceremony at the train station.For more information contact Mary Corley at 775-815-0324 or firstname.lastname@example.com Optimist Club Christmas Tree SalesThe Truckee Optimist Club announces 2012 Christmas Tree Lot and sales Nov. 25-Dec. 23 at the Truckee Crossroads Shopping Center, corner Highway 89 and Deerfield Drive. All profits go directly to youth activities, programs, and scholarships for the youth of Truckee. There will be a very nice selection of locally cut Red Firs (silvertips) as well as Noble and Grand fir trees shipped from the club's grower in Oregon.Tree sales will begin on Sunday, Nov. 25 and will conclude on Sunday, Dec. 23 (or once the last tree is sold). Visit www.TruckeeOptimist.com for hours of operation or call 530-559-1466.The tree lot is manned by Truckee Optimist Club members, youth from schools and teams that benefit from the proceeds, and by other community volunteers. All profits are included in the Truckee Optimist Club annual budget of nearly $50,000, which goes directly to youth activities (both educational and recreational), major scholarships, and grants for Truckee Youth.Breakfast with Santa & Craft Bazaar 2012Snow has already made its presence felt and the holiday season is approaching fast. The Tahoe City Parks and Recreation Department is excited to announce its 2nd annual Breakfast with Santa & Craft Bazaar at Rideout Community Center, Saturday, Dec. 1, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. This family event, co-sponsored by the Tahoe City Rotary Club, will be a warm addition to holiday festivities.The pancake breakfast will be served 8:30-10:30 a.m. with the Craft Bazaar running until 12:30 p.m. There will be photo opportunities, letters to Santa, craft projects, and of course, Santa with a sack full of gifts for the kids! Be sure to bring your check book to get a jump start on the holiday shopping. Price is $3 if you register in advance and $5 at the door.For more information or to register contact Shaun, Recreation Coordinator for the Tahoe City Parks & Recreation Department, at 530-583-3440.SVPOA Fall Mixer to discuss development plansThe Squaw Valley Property Owners Association invites members and guests to a Fall Mixer on Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Resort at Squaw Creek to hear the latest about the Squaw Valley Village Development plans.Jennifer Montgomery, Placer County Supervisor, will discuss the Development Plan from a supervisor's point of view. Alex Fisch, the county planner responsible for the development project, will discuss steps involved in the project implementation. Comments or concerns which are addressed to Jennifer or Alex before and during the gathering will be included in the public comments on the NOP. Chevis Hosea, manager of the development, will also be available to answer questions concerning the project. There is no cost for SVPOA members to attend the Mixer. Cost for non-members is $10. A social hour, 5-6 p.m., will precede the presentation, 6-7 p.m.Free introductory piano lessonsTahoe Music Institute is offering free lessons to introduce students to the Simply Music piano program, taught by Stephanie Fountaine. Introductory sessions will be held on Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. Sessions are open to students of all ages, and no previous musical experience is necessary. Tahoe Music Institute is located at 2810 Lake Forest Road in Tahoe City. Call Shauna at 530-581-0618 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information or to register. Limited seats available.
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MARTINSBURG - Betty Ballard experienced a mother's worst nightmare Thursday afternoon, when two of her daughters were involved in an alcohol-related accident - a head-on collision that left at least one person dead.
The good news is that it was a mock scenario, part of the annual Prom Promise program held at Martinsburg High, which is staged to remind juniors and seniors about the dangers of drunk driving.
As approximately 600 students watched - many snapping photos or recording videos as the event unfolded in the school's front parking lot - Martinsburg fire fighters used the jaws of life to extricate Ballard's daughter, Tearia, 18, who was trapped behind her car's steering wheel.
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The annual Prom Promise, a mock drunk driving accident held Thursday afternoon for Martinsburg High's junior and senior students, serves as a wake-up call about what can happen when drivers operate a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
A young man in the other car, covered with lots of ketchup to simulate blood, had come through the windshield and did not survive the crash.
Timing is everything, according to Ballard, who said she thought it would help Saturday when MHS students hold their prom in the school's cafeteria.
"I really hope this is a learning experience for all of the students who are getting ready to go to the prom. My kids don't party, but as I listen to them, I think others may be thinking about drinking, so I hope this will change their minds," she said.
It's also important that parents talk to their young drivers and set some ground rules, Ballard said.
"Tearia knows she can't move the car without having her seat belt on, and she also has to pay attention - to what she's doing as well as other drivers. There is no such thing as being too careful, because even one wreck with a fatality is too much," she said.
Watching as one victim was flown away by a HealthNet helicopter and another placed in a hearse, senior Anna Robinson said she was struck by the realism - even though she'd also seen this program last year.
"Seeing it actually happen in front of me makes it so much more real, so it resonates in my mind that this could really happen to someone I know," said Robinson, who plans to major in biology next year at West Virginia University.
"But in my group, we don't drink and we're all riding together in a limo to the prom. I'm not sure how much other drinking there will be - there probably will be some - but hopefully there will be less after this presentation," she said.
Event organizer Amber Stokes, MHS in-school suspension teacher and adult advisor for the Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) club which helped sponsor the program, said it is important to reach teenagers about this type of danger - especially since they don't necessarily understand the seriousness of drinking and driving.
"They are young and at that time, many people also feel that nothing like this could ever happen to them. And while we all make some unwise decisions at some point, students don't always know that a bad decision could be with them for life - or even take their life," Stokes said.
Donnie Grubb, coordinator of WVUH-East City Hospital's Trauma Division, said he and others associated with this program also believe in its effectiveness. A level 3 trauma center, City Hospital receives the majority of these types of accident victims - auto crashes with entrapment or ejection, motorcycle wrecks, drownings and even some pedestrians - in the area and also has transfer agreements with level 1 trauma centers including Inova Fairfax in northern Virginia.
"Seeing the impacts of alcohol-impaired driving makes it all real. It has for me, and hopefully these students now also have a better perspective," Grubb said.
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How has Windows evolved, as a general purpose operating system and at the lowest levels, in Windows 7? Who better to talk to than Technical Fellow and Windows Kernel guru Mark Russinovich? Here, Mark enlightens us on the new kernel constructs in Windows 7 (and, yeah, we do wander up into user mode, but only briefly). One very important change in the Windows 7 kernel is the dismantling of the dispatcher spin lock and redesign and implementation of its functionality. This great work was done by Arun Kishan (you've met him here on C9 last year). EDIT: You can learn exactly what Arun did in eliminating the dispatcher lock and replacing it with a set of synchronization primitives and a new "pre-wait" thread state, here. The direct result of the reworking of the dispatcher lock is that Windows 7 can scale to 256 processors. Further, this enabled the great Landy Wang to tune the Windows Memory Manager to be even more efficient than it already is. Mark also explains (again) what MinWin really is (heck, even I was confused. Not anymore...). MinWin is present in Windows 7. Native support for VHD (boot from VHD anyone?) is another very cool addition to our next general purpose OS. Yes, and there's more!
Tune in. This is a great conversation (if you're into operating systems). It's always great to chat with Mark.
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the updated tools are only available through the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP). MDOP is an add-on subscription to Windows Client Software Assurance. MDOP also contains a lot of other cool tools like Application Virtualization that used to the the Softricity SoftGrid product.
Mark also talks about the next version of Sysinternals in the interview I did with him on TechNet Edge:
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I'd like windows to not do a context swtich on a thread when its doing disk i/o. i want it to hold onto the thread for say 500ms, instead of 20ms as this gives the disk more time to read/write.
If each thread is accessing a file, the whole thing slows down to a crawl as the hard disc read head has to jump to each file every 20ms. It would be MUCH better if the operating system could allocate more time to read a file before it allowed a context switch. say 500ms. that would allow more data to be retrieved from the hard disc, less head thrash, less time waiting for the head to move, and performance would go up greatly.
Just try creating 2 or more zip archives at the same time, then time it again but only doing 1 at a time. Winrar has a feature where it will wait (probably using a global mutex) for other winrar windows to finish before the next one starts.
You can context switch CPU threads till the cows come home, but a phsical device needs more time to read/write when the head arrives.
IO is extremely costly. In most cases, if a thread requests an IO operation, it's going to be hanging around for quite a while for the IO to complete, so it makes sense to curtail the thread's quantum and move onto the next thread awaiting CPU time (i.e.
context switch).
When the IO operation returns (most likely a DMA operation these days), the CPU will be interrupted and the interrupt handler fires, unblocking the interrupt service thread (IST) and releases the CPU. The CPU then works out whch thread to run next. Because the IST is a high-priority thread, it'll most likely get the next quantum and complete the IO operation. Your IO requesting thread will then be reactivated and return.
Forcing the IO requesting thread's quantum to extend (to HALF A SECOND???) will only slow down the machine as the CPU will be able to execute FEWER threads per second because of the largely dormant thread hogging the CPU's time.
The reason that creating two Zip archives simultaneously mgiht be is slower has many factors, including the rotational, seek and data transfer capabilities of the storage device itself, how fragmented your storage device is, whether your device implements some kind of write buffering, etc. And that's not to mention whether you're running single/multiple processors and what else is running on your box.
If it takes longer to create two zips at the same time vs. doing it serially indicates to me that you may be suffering from slow disk and.or high disk fragmentation forcing your Zip tool to create and extend its file in many small chunks, causing lots of disk seeking and therefore slowing you down.
Parallel 23484567924; Serial 10204840629; Parallel was worse. 230% as long as serial.
Parallel 32899454271; Serial 10073167110; Parallel was worse. 326% as long as serial.
Parallel 33913801872; Serial 10052993466; Parallel was worse. 337% as long as serial.
With FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING things are even BUT both are as slow as the buffered parallel case above. i.e. Now everything is 2-3 times slower than the buffered serial reads. It seems like reading data in parallel disables or cancels out read buffering, on my system at least:
Parallel 34752228822; Serial 34509786165; Parallel was worse. 100% as long as serial.
Parallel 33359695965; Serial 34333134759; Serial was worse. 102% as long as parallel.
Parallel 32994485361; Serial 33712713216; Serial was worse. 102% as long as parallel.
I also made versions which read the entire files in one go, instead of multiple small read operations. (There being a big difference in these cases is why I think there is a problem. The OS appears to be allowing two large reads to compete with each other with the result that they both lose horribly.) These show more variable speed when buffering is enabled, I guess due to the files being cached in memory on subsequent reads (both in the same execution and between executions), but the parallel reads are still consistently slower for me even with the variance. (Perhaps it would be worth trying the tests in reverse order but I've spent too long on this for now and everything so far has confirmed what I saw in the past in cases where there was too much data, and too much time between tests of serial vs parallel builds, for disk caching to have been the only factor.)
Here's my version of the project:
Pre-build exes of the four versons (buffered/non-buffered and small-reads vs one-big-read):
Finally, in case it matters, the 23meg test file. Create 10 copies of it named 0.tmp to 9.tmp in the same dir that the exe is run from:
Well, it'll always take longer to create two zips at the same time than in serial since they are definitely I/O bound operations (assuming your cpu is fast enough) and the two sets of concurrent reads and writes force the disk to seek back and forth between
the two files (this has nothing to do with the fragmentation of those files).
But you're right that his solution is not really the correct one, as it makes no sense for the OS to keep the CPU waiting on an I/O operation when it could be executing some other thread that will actually just use the cpu.
What might make sense (but you'd have to experiment to be sure I think) would be to try to find a way so that you switched to another thread which wasn't disk bound.
WinRAR is very smart to do this, and it makes sense for it's scenario, but the OS can't enforce this generally, since users expect the system to be responsive, which means programs can't be forced to wait for other programs disk-bound operations to complete before they can run (or even perform their own disk i/o).
Perhasp Solid-State devices will make all of this moot, since they don't have seek time. It would be interesting to run the zip experiment against a flash drive.
Why all the videos??? Alot of time I just want to read the paper. I dont have time to go thru the video..
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Windows 7! Hurray!
Does that mean Windows Explorer will no more hang all tasks and go into 'not responding' state while trying to read a CD inserted in CD-ROM drive ?
There are rumors that it can also calculate the estimated time correctly while copying files and does not hang while browsing network... If it's true then Win7 is my dream OS!
Ha ha.... Why don't you download and install the RC build. Then your need to troll will be greatly reduced and your appreciation for Windows greatly increased.
I had a conversation with landy a while back talking about memory management in xp and we were discussing changing how windows pro-actively writes pages to the pagefile in vista
he said there was no cue for that function there might be a hardrive bottleneck between pagefile writes and user writes.
landy said they were thinking about giving this page write a cue policy but hadn't done it in vista, (it was still longhorn at the time of this conversation)
I'm wondering if it was ever done for vista and if not if they addressed that issue in seven
As of Vista and Win7, MM's policies for determining when to write pages out to the paging file do not take into account other disk activity.
shame charles as this is a hit people do happen to notice when they have an abundance of memory
I understand when pages are being written for cause, however nt writes pages pro-actively, long before they're even considered a candidate for release
as I mentioned with landy, (who did say this was going to be considered), this pro-active writing to the pagefile when the system is not under pressure should enjoy a differant policy then when the pages are being written actively
I understand only unique images in ram and not represernted on disc or the network are written to the pagefile however if there is no memory pressure yet there is hardrive use I think it would smooth things out if there was a "no memory pressure policy" for pages that aren't even a candidate for release
Consideration is not definitive.
I'd like to add the idea of an I/O queue to this discussion
Thank You very cool
Yeah windows 7 is just wonderful, and very user friendly I may say.
Thanks again
Even it apparently there aren't many changes on Vista, at least major, the really cool stuff is that because systems got bigger and bigger, this aquisition of a global lock, called the dispacher lock can be the sollution to a lot of threads. Problably be swiching on Windows 7 soon..
I feel smart after watching this interview.
I think this video has helped me to understand how programs work better I would definatly recomend it to a beginer programmer even though it isn't about that at all. Its just the way that he explains the tasks and how win7 manages them now.
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The 24 kids who are over 18 years old will have to appear in court, but the ones who are minors were released back to their parents. The school is weighing its disciplinary actions against the kids. --Jordan Valinsky
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Other elite currencies currently in the SDR basket are the U.S. dollar, the British pound, the Japanese yen, and the Euro, which replaced the German deutsche mark and the French franc in 1999. With the new addition, IMF will weight the dollar at 41.73 percent, the euro at 30.93 percent, the yuan at 10.92 percent, the yen at 8.33 percent, and the pound at 8.09 percent.
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2006 Welcome Back Awards Winners Honored for Helping Reshape the Mental Health System
-- Five Individuals from Across the U.S. Recognized at a National Ceremony--
When Gayathri Ramprasad sought medical help for her depression nearly 20 years ago, she was shocked to find herself in solitude in a hospital room, forced to deal with her darkest moments alone. She remembers thinking, "it's not me who is mad, it's the system." Since then, she has devoted her life to raising awareness of depression and educating patients and professionals on the benefits of treating the whole person, not just the illness. Eli Lilly and Company is proud to honor Ms. Ramprasad, along with four other inspiring honorees, at the eighth annual Welcome Back Awards ceremony in Toronto, Canada, held on Saturday, May 20.
Each year, an independent committee of mental health leaders chooses five honorees to receive a Welcome Back Award for their commitment to helping others in the depression community. Committee member and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego, Rodrigo Muñoz, M.D., comments on this year's unique honorees: "They looked at the mental health system, saw a problem, and sought to fix it," he states. "They have become agents of change -- heroes to those they help and role models to their peers in the depression community."
The 2006 Welcome Back Awards honorees are:
Lifetime Achievement: Gayathri Ramprasad, M.B.A, Portland, Ore.
In the nearly 20 years since Ms. Ramprasad overcame the shame and stigma of depression, she has worked endlessly to ensure that no one feels the loneliness she felt in that hospital room. In addition to raising awareness at local hospitals, she has played an integral role on the national level with several mental health campaigns, including NAMI Walks and the Silver Ribbon Campaign for the Brain. She is currently producing a documentary called BrainStorm: Mental Illness in America. In the fall of 2006, Ms. Ramprasad hopes to fulfill her goal of spreading awareness around the world as she begins a world-tour, Rally for Recovery, starting in India, the country of her birth, where the stigma of mental illness remains prevalent.
Psychiatry: Mark Ragins, M.D., Los Angeles
When a social worker friend was killed by a homeless, mentally ill man in Los Angeles, Dr. Ragins knew the true culprit was a system that couldn't successfully care for its mentally ill. Since then, he's helped build The Mental Health Association's Village Integrated Service Agency, a model mental health agency focusing on patient wellness and recovery instead of patient illness. As the Village's medical director, Dr. Ragins has focused on creating a program that feels more like a second home than a hospital -- where treatment means more than just medication, and patients are partners in the process of recovery. Dr. Ragins also works alongside and mentors workers who reach out to the homeless population in some of the poorest areas of Los Angeles.
Primary Care: Joan Esnayra, Ph.D., Arlington, Va.
Dr. Joan Esnayra, a successful scientist, was newly diagnosed with a mental illness when she decided to get a puppy in order to lift her mood. To her surprise, the puppy demonstrated an uncanny ability to signal Dr. Esnayra in advance of major mood shifts, allowing her to work with her doctor to adjust her medication dosage, accordingly. Dr. Esnayra connected with others who reported similar experiences with their dogs and she started an Internet support group. She coined the term 'Psychiatric Service Dog' (PSD) and developed a therapeutic model around training dogs to do tasks such as waking up their owner in the morning, encouraging exercise and even reminding their owner to take his or her medication. She founded the Psychiatric Service Dog Society and has helped thousands of mentally ill individuals learn how to train and use their own PSD. She is conducting research on the efficacy of these canine partnerships and will publish her results in clinical journals.
Community Service: Donna H. Barnes, Ph.D., Washington, D.C.
After losing her son to suicide, Dr. Barnes dedicated her life to taking care of others like herself, to create a community of survivors. She believes education is the most powerful tool in the healing process and the fight for suicide prevention, and has taken a leadership role on several college campuses, including Tufts and Howard University, by developing innovative courses on suicide. Dr. Barnes also focuses on suicide in minority communities, such as Native Americans and African Americans whose suicide rates have increased sharply in recent years.i Upon learning minority communities were not addressing the epidemic of suicide, she co-founded the National Organization for People of Color Against Suicide (NOPCAS), which helps communities of color create an open dialogue about mental illness and suicide prevention, and provides support for those who have lost loved ones to suicide.
Destigmatization: Bebe Moore Campbell, Los Angeles
A successful and established author, Ms. Campbell considered herself an open-minded person, until a family member was diagnosed with a mental illness. Feelings of shame and embarrassment prevented her from providing the love and support that can be crucial to recovery. Having realized the impact of stigma first-hand, Ms. Campbell began using her artistic talents to raise awareness. Her recent novel, 72 Hour Hold, which refers to the amount of time the mentally ill in California can be hospitalized without their consent, received rave reviews and informed millions about the pervasive stigma of mental illness. She also established and grew a chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and continues working to reinforce the idea that recovery is possible.
About the Welcome Back Awards
The Welcome Back Awards was established in 1998 by Lilly to fight the stigma associated with depression and to promote the understanding that depression is treatable. Each year, an independent panel of national mental health leaders recognizes five individuals for their outstanding achievements, and Lilly awards a donation of between $10,000 and $15,000 to the not-for-profit organization of each winner's choice.
For the first time, nominees for the 2007 Welcome Back Awards will be able to nominate themselves as well as be nominated by someone they know. Nominations may be submitted by anyone wishing to be recognized for his or her outstanding achievements in the depression community or wishing to recognize someone else. For more information, call 800-463-6440 or visit www.welcomebackawards.com.
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You may have missed this. But then, that would be understandable.
It seems that along with all the other kernels that popped furiously when the Petraeus resignation began to boil, the whole thing is related to the best new show on TV. Here's how:
If you haven't seen it (and shame on you if that's true), Shonda Rhimes' "Scandal" stars Kerry Washington as a Washington, D.C., "crisis manager." It's based on the exploits and career of a very real woman named Judy Smith who worked in President George H.W. Bush's administration and then became one of the most reliable "fixers" in town, the woman to see if something is about to hit the fan (or already has) and you're in desperate need of a rain slicker. Smith is, in fact, an adviser on the show.
She is, otherwise, a slightly shadowy figure thought to be as secretive as CIA underlings once were (remember that Bush was once a CIA director, just like former Gen. David Petraeus). Photos of Smith, for instance, aren't plentiful. On the other hand, she does write an "Ask Judy" column for the Huffington Post, so her shadow status is hardly total.
Look at the picture accompanying Smith's entry in Wikipedia and she looks every bit as beautiful as Kerry Washington, the first-rate actress playing Olivia Pope, the uberfixer loosely based on Smith.
One good reason, of course, that Judy Smith never became a household word in hypeworld when "Scandal" went on the air is that the show's Olivia Pope is carrying on a long, high-stakes love affair with the Republican president of the United States, who is played by Tony Goldwyn (an actor, in life, no doubt raised amid glamorous tales of power and backstreet romance; he's the grandson of film producer Samuel Goldwyn, of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer fame).
Reports surfaced this week that Smith is plying her real trade with Jill Kelley, the Petraeus family friend who set the whole Petraeus mess in motion when she complained of getting jealous emails from a woman who turned out to be Petraeus' biographer Paula Broadwell, with whom the general finally felt forced to admit had played hanky to his panky.
The story thus far – and these kernels are popping crazily and daily as the oil gets hotter – is that Kelley was just a Petreaus family friend and was not romantically involved with Petraeus. On the other hand, she was involved in a way with Gen. John Allen, Petraeus' four-star successor as U.S. commander in Afghanistan after Petraeus took his four-star self over to be head of the CIA, the role he felt obliged to resign from.
Now then. Let's catch our breath. Popcorn is indeed addictive once you start munching on it, but there's entirely too much of the stuff floating around in the fake butter of this $8 bucket.
It is indeed a very real Washington mess when you have two four-star generals caught in the act of spending far too much time with Big Brass groupies. And when I say time, I mean time. The one absolute stunner of a fact that bubbled out of the mess is that Allen's relationship with Kelley involved 20,000 pages of emails between them, a number which is either an unfortunate misprint somewhere along the way (I'm constantly typing hard enough to produce two letters sometimes in my computer instead of one) or is indicative of an obsessive and downright nutso amount of virtual hoochy-koo (unless, of course, one of them fancies himself or herself a writer and is using the other as a built-in readership of one).
Allen's appointment as NATO chief is now on hold, while the chorus of horse laughs dies down. Its survival seems dicey at best. Petraeus, it seems to me, was absolutely right to resign as CIA director for the utterly elementary reason that no country should ever be asked to trust its intelligence to a CIA director so inept at hugger-mugger that he couldn't even keep an extracurricular affair secret.
(One hesitates to ask, but someone has to: Why on earth was such a public preener and media high-roller appointed the head of our most covert government agency? Shouldn't the person running it be as much of a selfless, faceless bureaucrat and analyst as possible, and not a four-star general used to walking into a room with so much salad on his chest that heads turn everywhere? Is the ability to give congressional testimony the determining factor? Just asking.)
Carefully notice here that I haven't mentioned that Kelley has a twin, whose marital difficulties occasioned sympathetic involvement on her behalf from Petraeus. I'm not really mentioning it – forget I just did – because it seems to me the whole notion of "twin sisters" is a red herring designed to inspire salacious fantasies among those given to salacious fantasies about red herrings.
Also please carefully note that I refuse to make a big deal out of the fact that Kelley – the complainant who reportedly didn't like getting slimed with Broadwell's jealous emails – was the recipient of shirtless photos sent by an investigating FBI agent. It's a truly hilarious detail, mind you, but he really doesn't matter in the main story so just file him away with any other miscellaneous twin sisters that start popping amid the boil.
Meanwhile, back at "Scandal" with its inspiration, Judy Smith, you might ask what good could she do Kelley at this stage? (That's why you should have been watching the show, if you haven't been.)
Apparently, Kelley is delusional enough about the way media swarmers actually work that she thought the fact that she's somehow the recipient of an honorary consul general decree from South Korea might entitle her to the kind of special consideration accorded real diplomats and their families. Whether or not South Korea passes such things out like fliers under wipers in parking lots (I'll bet they do), it's germane to absolutely nothing as paparazzi swarm to get every possible photo and real journalists look to unearth every facet of her life to see what else pops. It should never have been mentioned to anyone because it makes her look even worse than everyone else involved in this whole mess already (even the shirtless FBI agent, who may just have a criminally bizarre sense of humor).
And that's when, according to TV's "Scandal" with Olivia Pope, people call fixers like Judy Smith, who was the coolest and cleverest inspiration for a TV show in many years. (My vote: We need fewer vampires, zombies, cops and lawyers and more crisis managers and PR advisers to undeservedly famous idiots.)
Now that Petraeus is a goner from the CIA and Allen seems toast, the only major questions here are:
1) Will the incoming CIA director be a star-spangled big name or – for more safely it seems to me – someone completely comfortable working in the shadows and testifying to closed congressional committees?
2) How long will it take the opening episode of next season's "Scandal" for show runner Rhimes to allude to the whole Petraeus affair? I'm going to guess right here it happens before the first commercial of the first show.
3) How many episodes will be involved with a wild and delightful fictionalization of it all on the show? I'm guessing a full-scale arc of three.
Anything more would be tacky and vulgar, don't you think?
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I watched Death Note with a few friends who had never seen it before and one of them is pretty sure that L's theme is actually another song thats been used before the anime. I'd never heard it before Death Note but maybe someone else has? I dunno she's obsessing over it and its kinda annoying lol. Any ideas?
But it's fun to play on guitar and piano. Is life reality or is it a mirror image of what you want it to be?
i've play it on guitar hero. not really hard song, but it's quite entertaining. (guitar hero anime)
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The 7 Most Absurd Inventions in the History of Alcoholism
#7. The Cocktail HatPatent #4,681,244
This is a hard hat with more fluid tubes than the human body. It was invented by John D. Geddie, presumably in an attempt to solve his two most common problems: falling off bar stools and hitting his head on the ground, and being subsequently cut off by whoever saw him fall, as well as the guy who rode with him in the ambulance. His solution to these problems is both a testament to his love of booze and a symptom of multiple concussions.
RoboCop has simpler headgear.
The helmet appears to have plenty of plumbing issues, but the grossest part has to be all the residual alcohol left in the tubes in between uses. Before you get to the daiquiri you just poured, you're going to have to make your way through a couple inches of runoff vermouth from last weekend. Of course, anyone who considers the standard glass-to-mouth drinking method too much work probably isn't going to mind.
A more serious problem for the type of person who would own this helmet is the bank of eight tiny controls on the forehead. Any man who is so desperate for alcohol that he will suck sticky liquids through a foot of narrow-gauge pipe should not be trusted to remember which identical knob controls the vodka.
Several vital plumbing connections run through the inside of the helmet where normal people keep their brain.
Eight controls for only six drink reservoirs may seem a bit odd, but keep in mind that the inventor was probably seeing double when he designed it.
#6. BeerbrellaPatent Application #US 2003/0075208 A1
The only way you could not see the problem with the Beerbrella is if you'd already tried to use it and poked out an eye.
Nope, they still can't see the problem.
Three inventors got through seven schematics without realizing that they'd invented an antibeer shield. They're either total idiots or devilishly cunning anti-alcohol crusaders: The Beerbrella itself might only stop you for a second, but clumsily stabbing yourself in the face with this would force bystanders to stage an intervention in the middle of Oktoberfest. They also bring the worst of the world of cocktails to simple beer with a "tropical base" ...
The Thunderbirds built more sensible things around small fake trees.
... which is blatantly unnecessary, because fitting an umbrella to your beer is already ringing a douchebag alarm loud enough to deafen everyone within earshot. Only one of their designs acknowledges that people actually drink beer, including a pivot system and counterweight to double the bottle's weight. And since trash like this is only ever built by the current winner of the "Country With Fewer Human Rights for Workers Than an Ant Colony" award, the only one not designed to poke your eye out is probably going to break after approximately 0.5 uses. We'd make fun of them more, but being the first people in history to prevent beer from working is actually sort of impressive.
#5. Meat BeerPatent #US 7,037,541 B2
Mr. Okada says he just wants to provide new drinks for the world and "achieve a wider range of alcohol content." If only every madman cutting up chunks of flesh and dissolving them in acid was so well-intentioned. Combining leftover meat parts and bizarre chemical experimentation isn't brewing, it's how you build Frankenstein's monster. His patent isn't just meat flavoring; the alcohol itself comes from flesh, presumably so that you can get rage-drunk by ingesting both the spirit of the animal and the madness of the inventor. It's the most idiotically manly way to get drunk short of smashing a bottle of whiskey over a Terminator's head and then licking it off.
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Most beers are already unsuitable for vegetarians because of isinglass -- ground, dried fish bladders mixed into our our magical beer to make it clearer and also sound more like actual witchcraft. This patent uses aqueous animal extract fermented with lactic acid bacteria and yeast, and doesn't involve wriggling maggots because they don't need to make it sound less appetizing.
In fact, they probably couldn't. "Drinking the meat beer" sounds like something you have to do to join a fraternity in hell.
#4. Deep-Fried BeerPatent Application #US2001/0014320 A1
Mark Zable started with "unhealthy food tastes good" they same way Einstein started with "I don't think space is flat," chasing the thought through an insane level of work to a reality-redefining result: deep-fried beer. His patent-pending process blends beer with acid-dissolved bone meal and animal skin, coats it in batter, throws the whole thing in hot burning oil and screams raw hatred at hearts and livers. But those already dead cannot hear. This is less a fried snack than a personal vendetta against the transplant industry.
We're not saying this is a drunken flash of genius scribbled on the back of a napkin four hungry hours into a drinking session, but here's the entire schematic on the front of the patent application.
We're fairly sure sanitary pads have already been invented.
It took Zable three years to work out the recipe because his experimentally fried protosnacks kept exploding. Returning to the same place full of explosions three years running for a ridiculous reason technically means he's an action hero.
Only on a deep-fried beer patent would random stains be a full figure.
The process of frying liquifies the jellied beer, and Zable can see absolutely no problem with a piping-hot dough shell full of liquid. His text describes a fried dough snack with "an aliquot of a beer-flavored component," and honestly, we weren't expecting the guy throwing pizza dough and beer into a deep-fat fryer to teach us new words. We understand that the guy approaching the government with scribbled sketches of things thrown into boiling oil in the name of hungry science has to prove he's not stupid, but by the time you've finished reading about trapezoidal farinaceous wrappings around aliquots, you'll know what "sesquipedalian" means. And still want to try one.


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WOOLRICH — There's a new energy at Woolrich Inc., the "original outdoor clothing company....
I like going to the factory clearance sale and getting jackets for 25 bucks then going into the store and finding the same exact item for 200. I'm pretty sure 80% of my shirts for work say woolrich and cost 5 bucks. Thank you Woolrich for giving back to the community in this way!
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I am happy to hear they are going to bring back the made in America products. They cost more but last much longer and help our own economy. It is tough to find American made clothing and usually it is only available on line, certainly not in a store around here. Well done!
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I was in a store and I saw some woolrich clothing, and on the tag it said "made in china",
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You want to make the hard decisions? Partner up with the oil industry and start making fire retardant clothing for the oil industry in Woolrich, PA! The sale price is high and it is a sustainable market. By partnering with the oil industry it is a win win situation for both sides. Monitary support for local industry that uses American workers keeping a traditional business alive while creating a necessary product and buying goodwill with the local folks.
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TEMPE, Ariz. – As an NFL head coach or defensive coordinator, Dave Wannstedt never has been in charge of a defense that ranked worse than 20th in yards allowed.
Wannstedt's career average ranking is 9.9 in total defense.
But his Buffalo Bills rank 31st entering this afternoon's game against the Arizona Cardinals in University of Phoenix Stadium.
The Bills have allowed 1,201 yards the past two weeks – two of the three worst games in franchise history and a total that hasn't been seen since the 1950 New York Yankees.
The Bills are allowing opponents to do things previously unheard of in the NFL. The San Francisco 49ers last week became the first team to run and throw for 300 yards in the same game.
Buffalo's defense was expected to be vastly improved, not a laughingstock.
Mario Williams and Mark Anderson were supposed to fortify the pass rush.
They, along with defensive tackles Kyle Williams and Marcell Dareus, were hypothetical run-stuffers. Before the season, Jairus Byrd and George Wilson looked like the best safety tandem in the AFC East. Youngsters such as first-round pick Stephon Gilmore were prime clay ready to be molded.
What does Wannstedt have to say about all this?
One of the most frequent questions I field in chats and my email inbox pertains to why we never hear from Wannstedt. We actually do, but the interview process doesn't lend itself to audience fulfillment.
The NFL media policy mandates coordinators be made available to reporters at least once a week. The Bills, unlike many clubs, allow access to all assistant coaches – not just coordinators.
But the designated time each week is Friday afternoon, when people tend to disconnect from the media, stop obsessing about the NFL and focus on their weekend plans until they check their fantasy lineups Sunday morning.
There's a reason companies and politicians disseminate unpleasant information on Friday afternoons. Nobody's paying attention.
As such, Bills fans wonder why they haven't heard from Wannstedt as much as General Manager Buddy Nix or even CEO Russ Brandon, executives with weekly radio shows on WGR.
With all of the interest regarding Wannstedt's defense, I prepared several questions for a potential Wannstedt interview. Bills coach Chan Gailey and Wannstedt declined The Buffalo News' request for a one-on-one interview with the veteran defensive coordinator.
But as part of his weekly NFL obligation, reporters were given about nine minutes with him Friday afternoon on the Arizona State campus, where the Bills practiced all week.
Wannstedt, unshaven and looking haggard, maintained a stern, optimistic tone in claiming his defense is on the right path and ready to strike today against the Cardinals.
Here is the interview session in its entirety.
Question: How are you holding up?
Dave Wannstedt: I wish this next game was three days ago. I was ready to play again Sunday at 6 o'clock.
Q: How confusing has this season been for you so far?
DW: You know what? The inconsistency has been probably the most frustrating thing for us all. We came out of the, obviously, preseason feeling good. Solid, obviously. There was a transition with a new system and new players and everything. And then [we] got into the season and really felt good. After the Cleveland game and even as far as halftime of the New England game we felt like we were right on track and making progress. And then, you know, we've had a game and a half of disappointment to put it bluntly.
Now, the good news is it's basically the same guys as what we played early in the year. We had a good week of practice. We're refocused. We have to come out here and play as good as we can play this week. And I expect us to. I think we'll play good. I really believe that.
It doesn't take much to lose confidence in this league – as an individual, as a group, as a team. You can get your confidence back, though, just as fast. And you don't get your confidence back, really, on Sunday. To me, you get your confidence back on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. You're going in to take that exam on Sunday, and the better prepared we are, the more confident we are, the better we will play.
Q: To what degree are you concerned that if this continues, you will lose the players or they will lose confidence in the system?
DW: No, I expect us to bounce back this week and play good. I mean, we have proven that we are capable of that both run and pass and pressures and everything that's involved with it. And we just got to get back to doing it; that's all.
Q: What have you been through before that compares to this?
DW: You go through something like this probably every year you coach, to be honest with you. And I know this: From a defensive standpoint, if you continue to give great effort and you know what to do and you got guys that care about it, you're going to play good defense. And we had a great meeting – as disappointing as it was – on Monday, and we went through all the plays and double-checking and making sure that everybody's on the same page.
We've got to go out and play, and we've got to finish the game. We've, obviously, given up over 40 percent of our points in the fourth quarter. There's a lot of reasons for that, but we've got to finish. Sometimes guys get anxious and want to do more than their job. But I'm confident. We've had a good week, and I'm looking forward to playing.
Q: You mentioned that a coach will go through this every year, but the statistics from these last two games haven't happened since 1950.
DW: Yeah, well, I mean, the numbers maybe. But the emotions of it, whether you lose by a Hail Mary pass or you lose by three touchdowns, in my mind you respond to it the same way. That's the key. How are we going to respond? That's what's really going to affect our season, you know?
Q: You've been a coach practically your whole life, but you're also a human being. Does doubt ever creep in that "Maybe I don't have it anymore," or, "Maybe I just don't understand the game like I used to?"
DW: No. No. That's never been a factor, and it won't be. No.
Q: How do you handle this personally?
DW: Just stay the course. Just stay the course. Just keep at it, and we'll get it turned around.
Q: Where's your patience level?
DW: I'm not one to stand up here and say this thing bothers me any more than it bothers George Wilson or it bothers Kyle Williams. I mean, that's selfish. Everybody is hurting the same way and disappointed, I should say. That's why you get it back.
We've put in defensive systems in five places. The numbers and the results speak for themselves. I mean, things haven't changed. You still stop the run, and you still tackle well and you still rush the passer and cover guys. Whether you're a three-man front, a four-man front, two-man front, it doesn't really matter. All that stuff is really, in my opinion, blown out of proportion.
Q: How much do you pay attention to rankings?
A: I really don't. I mean, winning is the most important thing. I don't know where New England and Green Bay were last year, but they ended up winning a lot of games, and at the end of the year that's all that really matters.
Q: Then to what extent would be OK if ...
DW: We've got to win. We've just got to find a way to win the game.
Q: If you were to win 45-43, that's OK with you?
DW: We've got to find a way to win the game. That's the most important thing for our team right now.
Q: How clean has the transition been to the 4-3, given personnel and everything?
A: It has been. I mean, it has been. And I'm going to base it off of it looked pretty clean to me [against] Kansas City – if anybody was at the game. And it looked pretty clean to me the first half [against] New England. We had three turnovers in the game, and they got no points. We go into New England and they got seven points on the board [at halftime], and they got the ball three extra times.
So our defense, we got the same guys, and we're going to do the same thing. We're just going to do it better and faster and for 60 minutes.
Q: How concerned are you that Mario Williams isn't getting the type of pressure you might have envisioned when he was acquired?
DW: He's working, and he is committed and he is on board, and that's all you can ask from a guy, you know? You've just got to believe that if you stay and he continues working like he's going to, the numbers will come, you know? Obviously, you want them all right now. But he's had a good week of practice, and he's looking forward to playing on Sunday.
Q: To what degree has youth impacted the defense?
DW: On the outside it is. Aaron [Williams started] six games last year. We all know that. And then Stephon [Gilmore] is a rookie. You try to protect those guys, but there's only so much ... I mean, drop six into coverage and five of them are going to be one-on-one, you know? Last week was a little bit disappointing because I really thought that leading up to that, again, that those guys were coming on. Stephon played really good against New England, you know?
So that's all a part of it. Everybody plays with rookies and young players. We've just got to keep coaching them up and go from there. Go get a win. A win cures a lot of things.
Q: With social media as it is, fan feedback is instantaneous. One of the frequent questions is "Why don't the Bills blitz more?" What is your philosophy on that?
DW: Last week was as much as we've blitzed probably in the last three games if you really want to know the truth. And, you know, if the situation fits, we will. We have it all. It's just a matter of how much. You'd like to be able to create as much pressure as you could with your four [defensive linemen] to help out those young corners and be able to give them some help and not keep them one-on-one. So there's more to it, than just saying, "Blitz," you know what I mean?
Q: Chan Gailey has said he's fine with the defensive game plans, and he's satisfied with the practices. How much do you consider the past two weeks and take it personally?
DW: The last game and a half has been disappointing for a lot of reasons. I've already said that, and I expect us to go out this week and play good.
Q: From a personal standpoint ...
DW: Personal what?
Q: Do you need to do better?
DW: Always. Unless we're winning every week, you're always having to do better.
Q: Is there an example you'd like to share of how you can do better?
DW: No. Not really.
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Reynolds, 34 and Johansson, 26, were married in 2008. Recently, they had "started to lead different lives, and it was harder and harder to come back together and pick up where they left off," the source says. "Scarlett was young when they married. She's a mature person but at points they were just on different pages."
Reynolds, who is filming a movie in Atlanta, and Johansson, who is currently in Jamaica with some girlfriends, remain firmly on good terms, the source says. "They had an intense and loving relationship, and they'll always love and respect each other."
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September 27, 2012
"Presidential Politics: The 2012 Election and the Constitution" is the topic of the Wednesday, October 10 Civitas Forum on Principles and Policies for Public Life at Saint Vincent College at the Fred M. Rogers Center. Hosted by the Saint Vincent College Center for Political and Economic Thought in cooperation with Saint Vincent College's Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government, the forum will feature four distinguished speakers: Thomas Karako of Kenyon College, "The Obama Administration and National Security," at 8:30 a.m.; Henry Olsen of The American Enterprise Institute, "If You Can Keep It: Reflections on the Revolution in America," 9:30 a.m.; J. David Alvis of Wofford College, "Obama and the Progressive Presidency," 10:30 a.m.; and John Yoo of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, "Obama and the Upside-Down Presidency," 11:30 a.m. Admission is free to any or all of the presentations. Reservations are not required. Thomas Karako is an assistant professor of political science at Kenyon College and director of Kenyon's Center for the Study of American Democracy. Arriving at Kenyon in 2009, Dr. Karako began as the Center's director in fall 2011. He received his Ph.D. in politics and policy from Claremont Graduate University. He previously taught national security policy, American government, and constitutional law at Claremont McKenna College and California State University, San Bernardino. For the 2010-11 academic year, he was selected to be an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, during which time he worked with the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee on U.S. strategic forces policy, nonproliferation and NATO. Dr. Karako has published on U.S. defense policy, state politics and executive-congressional relations. He is currently writing on ballistic missile proliferation and on the independent constitutional authority of the president to enter into international agreements.
Henry Olsen, a lawyer by training, is a vice president at the American Enterprise Institute and the director of AEI's National Research Initiative. In his capacity as a vice president, Mr. Olsen oversees the majority of AEI's domestic policy research, including financial, education, legal, energy and health policy. As the director of the National Research Initiative, Mr. Olsen identifies leading academics and public intellectuals who work in an aspect of domestic public policy and recruits them to visit or write for AEI. Mr. Olsen's personal research focuses on the policy and political implications of long-term trends in social, economic and political thought. He is a regular participant in AEI's Election Watch series, Washington's longest running election commentary program, and his written work has been featured in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, and National Review. J. David Alvis is a professor of political science at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. His areas of expertise include the American presidency, constitutional law and American political thought. He has published articles on Progressivism, the Electoral College, and the Obama Presidency. His book on the history of the executive removal power is forthcoming with University of Kansas Press. Currently, he is completing a book on the election of 1912. John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley. He has clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court and has served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security and the separation of powers. Dr. Yoo has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and the Free University of Amsterdam and he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento, Italy in 2006. The winner of numerous legal scholarship and teaching awards, Dr. Yoo is the author of The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 (University of Chicago Press, 2005), War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror (Grove/Atlantic 2006) and Crisis and Command: The History of Executive Power From George Washington to George W. Bush (Kaplan 2010). Dr. Yoo received his B.A., summa cum laude, in American history from Harvard University and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. The Civitas Forum is made possible by a generous grant from the F.M. Kirby Foundation. For more information about this and other lectures in the series, contact Mary Beth McConahey, program manager of the Center for Political and Economic Thought at Saint Vincent College at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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News about a company able to successfully take advantage of the state's ReCharge New York program is encouraging.
After all, it's only been a short time since the demise of the program's flawed predecessor - Power for Jobs.
Mayer Bros., a company that makes apple cider and bottled water, recently celebrated the $5,000-a-month savings from the lower-cost electricity it receives through the program.
Unlike the previous Power for Jobs program, which offered only year-to-year allocations, ReCharge New York offers recipients seven-year contracts. Finally, businesses can do long-term planning.
ReCharge, which Sen. George Maziarz, R-Newfane, sponsored, makes all the difference to Mayer Bros. Company officials held a news conference touting the program at its cider mill and store off Transit Road in West Seneca.
The company's enthusiasm is no surprise.
New York has some of the nation's highest electric rates. Mayer Bros. gets about 6 percent of the electricity it uses at its West Seneca and Barker facilities through ReCharge New York. The deal should serve as a model for other companies.
The effort to attract new business was hampered by the failure of Power for Jobs.
A couple of years ago, the effort to improve it got stuck in the usual political bottleneck.
ReCharge New York has provided reduced-cost electricity to 83 businesses in Western New York so far and more than 675 companies and nonprofit organizations statewide. That's an encouraging track record.
The 455 megawatts of electricity previously used by Power for Jobs combined with another 455 megawatts now used to cut residential upstate electric bills by $2 to $4 a month is clearly a proper way to power the state's economy.
Perhaps even more encouraging is the leadership of John R. Koelmel, president and CEO of First Niagara Financial Group and the chairman of the New York Power Authority. The authority administers ReCharge New York, which sends power from the program to companies and organizations that employ more than 25,000 Western New Yorkers and more than 400,000 across the state.
As Koelmel said, "[ReCharge] is a critically important economic-development tool." It's good to have a Western New Yorker at the helm.


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Some Lehigh Valley students spent the day delivering bags of blessings in Bethlehem.
Students at the Lehigh Valley Dual Language Charter School spent December collecting new and gently used clothing items as part of their Bags of Blessings campaign.
They delivered the hats, scarves, gloves, coats and blankets to New Bethany Ministries on Friday. Some of the items will also go to the Allentown Rescue Mission.
Students were hoping to collect 350 pieces of clothing, but they ending up gathering about 450 pieces.