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Government safety rules are changing to let airline passengers use most electronic devices from gate to gate.
The change will let passengers read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music -- but not make cell phone calls.
The Federal Aviation Administration says airlines can allow passengers to use the devices during takeoffs and landings on planes that meet certain criteria for protecting aircraft systems from electronic interference.
Most new airliners are expected to meet the criteria, but changes won't happen immediately. Timing will depend upon the airline.
New grocery debuts
There's a new name in the Erie grocery business.
Erie's two Valu King stores, which are owned by Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle, have been rebranded as Good Cents Grocery + More.
More than the name is changing, said Dick Roberts, a spokesman for Giant Eagle, which has converted other Value King locations to the Good Cents format.
Like Valu King, Good Cents remains a store aimed at the in-between sector between a discount store and a full-service grocery store.
The new store has more national brands, more specialty items and a larger selection, Roberts said.
McDonald's to sell bagged coffee
Fans of McDonald's coffee will soon be able to brew a cup of it at home.
The world's biggest hamburger chain says it will test selling a variety of packaged ground and whole-bean coffee at supermarkets and other retail outlets starting in 2014. The test will also include single-cup servings.
McDonald's, based in Oak Brook, Ill., did not disclose any other details. But the company already started selling McCafe packaged coffee in Canada in late 2012. Those bags weighed about 12 ounces and cost about $7.
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March 9 - 16. INTERNATIONAL BASEBALL — The official start of the fourth season
of St. Petersburg International Baseball opens with a special tribute to the
city's 100th Anniversary of Spring Training as the Philadelphia Phillies play
Team Canada on Sunday, March 9 at the historic Al Lang Stadium, 230 First St.
S. Game time is at 2:05 p.m. Gates open at 12:30 p.m. Festivities on the field
begin at 1:30 p.m. ($10 Tickets available at the box office on game days.)
Pre-game highlights on Sunday include a welcome and first pitch by Mayor Rick
Kriseman, a special tribute to the world renowned Kids N' Kubs and Freedom
Spirit senior ball clubs, and an appearance by Julia Ruth Stevens, Babe Ruth's
daughter who will be watching from the stands.
At the Monday, March 10 game, Julia Ruth Stevens will be presented with a key
to the city by Mayor Kriseman as the day will be officially proclaimed "Babe
Ruth Day" in honor of the Babe's storied and long history with baseball and
the city of St. Petersburg.
Then on Tuesday, as top first round prospect Gareth Morgan leads the talented
Canadian Junior National Team's best young ball players as they challenge the
pros, Team Canada hosts the Toronto Blue Jays split squad for "Canada Day".
All games feature fun for the whole family and avid baseball fans -- prizes
and giveaways, food and drink specials and kids activities and inflatables at
select games. And, kids can "run the bases" after weekend games! The complete
schedule is below:
Sun. Mar. 9 - 2:05 p.m.
100th Anniversary of Spring Training
Philadelphia Phillies vs. Team Canada
Mon. Mar. 10 - 1:05 p.m.
Babe Ruth Day by Mayor Proclamation
Baltimore Orioles vs. Team Canada
Tue. Mar. 11 - 1:05 p.m.
Canada Day!
Toronto Blue Jays (SS) vs. Team Canada
Wed. Mar. 12 - 1:05 p.m.
Dollar Dogs Day
Atlanta Braves vs. Team Canada
Thu. Mar. 13 - 7:05 p.m.
2/1 Tickets (coupon)(asterisk) and Beer
St. Pete College vs. Team Canada
Fri. Mar. 14 - 1:05 p.m.
Scouts Showcase Game
Faith Baptist (FL) vs. Team Canada
Sat. Mar. 15 - 1:05 p.m.
Optimist Club/Museum Day
Detroit Tigers vs. Team Canada
Sun. Mar. 16 - 1:05 p.m.
2/1 Tickets (coupon)(asterisk) , Kids Run the Bases
Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Team Canada
(asterisk) Two for one coupons will be offered for select games through ads in the
Tampa Bay Times, tbt(asterisk), and at First Friday, Get Downtown on March 7th or
during the St. Petersburg Museum of History's normal operating hours.
All seats are $10/general admission and are available for sale at the St.
Petersburg Museum of History, 335 Second Ave. NE (The Pier approach). Museum
hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.,
closed Mondays. Tickets will also be available at the Al Lang Stadium Box
Office, 230 First St. S approximately 90 minutes prior to the start of each
The 100th Anniversary of Spring Training and St. Petersburg International
Baseball Series is sponsored by the St. Petersburg Sports Alliance, St.
Petersburg Museum of History, Tampa Bay Times and the City of St. Petersburg.
Individual game sponsors include the East West Shrine Game and the Optimist
Club of St. Petersburg.
Location: 230 First St., St. Petersburg, FL
Contacts: Robert Clydesdale (City of St. Petersburg), 727-893-7041
March 14. GAY MARRIAGE — The American Civil Liberties Union holds a press conference to announce major initiative regarding Florida same-sex couples.
Location: Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Dr.
Miami Beach
Contacts: ACLU of Florida, 786-363-2737
March 14. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. WOMEN'S FISHING CLINIC — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission conducts a free fishing clinic for women.
Location: Inlet State Park
905 Shorewinds Drive
Fort Pierce
Contacts: Amanda Nalley (FWC), 850-410-4943
March 15. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. WOMEN'S FISHING CLINIC — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission holds a free fishing clinic for women.
Location: Sebastian Inlet State Park
1425 Florida A1A
Vero Beach
Contacts: Amanda Nalley (FWC), 850-410-4943
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When it comes to the temperatures in the next week, get ready for a roller-coaster ride. The next five days will bring a heat wave with high temperatures above average, in the upper 90s to near 100 degrees for Oklahoma City.
In about six to seven days, a strong cold front is expected to bring below-average temperatures to Oklahoma. Click the image above to see the six-10 day temperature outlook from the Climate Prediction Center.
The area highlighted in blue is the area that is expected to experience below average temperatures from July 16-19. For Oklahoma City, an average high temperature for that time of the year is 94 degrees.
Even though there is a high probability of below-average temperatures, this does not mean the high temperatures will be that low. A high of only 92 degrees would verify as a below-average temperature for this time of the year, even if only by two degrees. None the less, it should feel better than 100 degrees.


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Bipartisan Hope for Immigration Reform
Updated:Barack Obama made immigration overhaul a focus of his State of the Union and, after stalling in Congress for a number of years, there is renewed hope for a bipartisan solution. WSJ's Jerry Seib explains why Republicans might at last come to the table. Photo: Associated Press.


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The mainstream media has latched on to the 3-D printing phenomenon and with that can come disillusionment. Talk of printing out your own shoes or a door knob at home may have caused the public and investors to have unclear views of companies like 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD ) , Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS ) , and Ex One (NASDAQ: XONE ) . In the video below, analysts Blake Bos and Isaac Pino talk about just how important consumer-focused 3-D printing is to the companies, and how investors should view them. Be sure to weigh in below if you think consumer-oriented printers are the key to the future of the companies.
With the U.S. relying on the rest of the world for such a large percentage of our goods, many investors are ready for the end of the "made in China" era. Well, it may be here. Read all about the biggest industry disrupters since the personal computer in 3 Stocks to Own for the New Industrial Revolution. Just click here to learn more.


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A cigar. Also known as a stogie. The word orginates from the men traveling west during the gold rush that smoked cigars. The name stogie refers to the conastoga wagens that the men traveled in.
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A stog is a cigar, not a cigarette. Short for stogie.
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text: GAMEDAY 5 – MAPLE LEAFS Posted by Rick on Oct 10, 2009 20:31 ShareTweet 7:00PM Air Canada Centre There's something about this team that gives the Penguins a hard time at least once a season. Maybe it's the business people on their cell phones in the first few rows of the ACC. Maybe it's the fact that the Leafs usually wear white at home for HNIC games. Maybe it's the extra media attention or the overpriced beer. Whatever it is, the Leafs give the Penguins problems, especially in Toronto. In the last five seasons the Penguins are 3-5-2 when playing in the Air Canada Centre. They've been outscored 43-34. Their only two regulation wins are a 6-4 victory on October 13th, 2007 and a 3-2 win on March 11th, 2004. The also beat the Leafs 6-5 in overtime on February 10th, 2007. And Brian Burke's Leafs are like the Flyers of Canada, so this might not be pretty, but it likely will be high scoring, The Leafs have yet to win a game this season, so they'll be desperate and have something to prove. It's Breast Cancer Awareness night at the ACC and so the game will be "themed pink." This includes the Leafs website: Say what you want about it, but a pink website definitely draws attention to the cause. Speaking of causes, PensHead.com is promoting a charity auction for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Tickets to the Pens First Game at Consol Energy Center and an Autographed Sidney Crosby jersey are among the items up for auction. The Pens lines for tonight's game appear to be the same as usual: Chris Kunitz – Sidney Crosby – Bill Guerin Pascal Dupuis – Evgeni Malkin – Ruslan Fedotenko Matt Cooke – Jordan Staal – Tyler Kennedy Mike Rupp – Craig Adams – Eric Godard Brooks Orpik – Sergei Gonchar Mark Eaton – Kris Letang Jay McKee – Alex Goligoski Marc-Andre Fleury Just because we're onto the next game, it doesn't mean the Hartnell Photoshops have stopped coming in: It could be a crazy night tonight. The Leafs, despite all of the hype surrounding them in the offseason, have yet to win this year and the Toronto media and fans are already all over them. The Pens are coming off of a big win against the Flyers Colton Orr and Eric Godard have probably already planned their fight. He worked against one team of goons, so let's go for two in a row. Do it. Go Pens. ShareTweetPenguins Tickets About Rick View all posts by Rick →


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MOBILE, Ala. — A new historic tax credit, approved by Gov. Robert Bentley in May, may help lift the lagging development in Mobile into a new existence.
The antidote could be the state's $20 million worth of tax exemptions provided annually, some say, combined with federal tax exemptions.
Lawmakers approved the program for the next three years, enough time to test the public's appetite.
"Some of the senators wanted to see what the impact would be," said Elisabeth Sanders, president and chief executive officer for the Downtown Mobile Alliance. "We believe that we will be able to show significant projects in that period of time."
The Alliance partnered with another organization in Birmingham to persuade lawmakers to adopt the tax break three years ago. Both organizations hoped to spur interest in their cities' old homes and buildings downtown.
"We sort of naively went up there with this package of incentive bills," Sanders said.
The two groups' argument was simple: Alabama was one of the only states in the region without such a program, Sanders said. Places with deep architectural roots like Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans all provided the incentive.
In 2011, a new market tax credit was passed, which can be used for community development in areas mired with economic difficulty and blight. The historic tax credit was passed a year later.
The program has generated some excitement for downtown Mobile and surrounding neighborhoods.
"It could be a game changer," said Tilmon Brown, a property developer and historic preservation advocate, "with one reserve caveat: We don't have a whole lot of them left."
Other than the Gayfers building on Dauphin Street and the Van Antwerp Building on Royal Street there aren't many large properties, Brown said. The restoration of the Pizitz Building in Birmingham is already lined up to take as much as $5 million, the maximum allowed for a commercial project.
Mobile still has a lot to gain, said Brown, who has worked on historic restoration projects in the past. The scope of activity may be more modest.
Historic restoration conjures an image of grand renovations for property buyers. "They think doing a historic property costs more than doing it new," Brown said.
"You don't have to do a museum-quality project like at Monticello or Mount Vernon."


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Newport blaze displaces 4
UPDATED 12:02 PM EDT May 14, 2013
Two people were injured Tuesday morning trying to escape from their burning home in Newport, Perry County.
The fire started in a Mulberry Street home about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday.
One person jumped from a second-floor window to escape the flames. The victim was taken to Penn State Hershey Medical Center with injuries.
A neighboring home was also heavily damaged. Four people were displaced.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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The Detroit Red Wings play against the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight without the services of Johan Franzen (torn ACL) and Valtteri Filppula on a long-term basis, and the vast majority of the NHL's 30 teams seem to have endured multiple hits from the injury bug, but Red Wings GM Ken Holland believes that the plague of injuries doesn't merit "study":
November 7, CBC Sports:
"I'm certainly aware that there has been a lot of injuries and that you can probably put together a Stanley Cup-calibre championship team just by the players on the injured reserve list," Detroit general manager Ken Holland said.
Holland and the Red Wings have been hit hard with long-term ailments to top-six forwards Johan Franzen (knee surgery) and Valtteri Flippula (wrist).
They have been joined in the league-wide infirmary at different times this season by stars Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Jonathan Toews, Roberto Luongo, Marc Savard, Milan Lucic, Eric Staal, David Booth, Simon Gagne, Eric Cole, Andrei Markov, Jason Arnott, Danny Briere, Andy McDonald, Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Ilya Kovalchuk, Jason Spezza, Paul Martin, Shea Weber, Rob Blake and many more.
There has been an assortment of injuries from concussions (Booth) to strains (Ovechkin) to groin (Gagne) to upper body (Staal) to shoulder (Malkin) to rib micro fracture (Luongo) to broken foot (Kovalchuk) to sliced ankle tendon (Markov).
[H]as the number of injuries this season alarmed enough people in the NHL's power positions to spawn a committee to study the reasons behind the injuries? Holland, who supports a ban on blindside headshots, doesn't think so.
He said he doesn't need a study to explain why a player takes a shot off his foot and has a broken foot. Nor does he need a study on why Flippula broke his wrist when Edmonton's Gilbert Brule finished a check on the Detroit forward, who didn't have time to protect himself as he slammed into the sideboards.
"I think it's the nature of the game," Holland said. "These things tend to go in cycles. "If there were 85 people out with the same injury, then I would say let's study it. But a lot of these injuries are the result of this being a physical game. That's the nature of the game, so you're going to have collisions."


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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Mr. Answer Knows it All (But Sometimes You Have to Ask Better Questions)
This evening, someone reached ResurrectionSong with the search "what is the name of that depressing soviet song?" Which, hey, that's kind of vague, isn't it? I mean, that's like asking the name of that "depressing Russian novel." Really, the field is pretty open from there.
Narrow it down a bit and I'll be happy to give it a shot.
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I believe it's called The Russian National Anthem.
Otherwise called "The Hymn of the Soviet Union." I always thought it sounded like a dirge, though that may have been because I heard it most often during the '80s on the occasion of the latest Soviet president's funeral.
Eight or nine times a week, seemed like.
I usually heard it sung by Russian professional wrestlers.
Whatever it is, I'm sure the lyrics mention snow.
Bang! Say Da Da Da Da!
Tell me yes and let's feed the fire!
Bang! Bang! Say Da Da Da!
Nothing less; I wanna hear a yes.
(Not depressing, just bad, but I never turn down a chance to e-sing Gorky Park songs).
My favorite depressing Russian song:
'Comrade, the Vodka Bottle Is Empty.'
Ok, it might not exist, but it should.
Whatever it is, I'm sure the lyrics mention snow.
That and, as Walter mentions, vodka.
And the lack of food, and of running hot water.
If you were to give me the right odds*, I'd be willing to bet that it was "The Volga Boatmen's song", which is less depressing than it sounds when you sing it.
FWIW, I prefer the lyrics of the "Birthday Dirge" (31 of the approximately 8 billion known verses are shown here: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/birthday-dirge-faq/), which is about as depressing as the tune.
* Of course, if you were willing to give me the right odds, I'd be willing to bet that the searcher was looking for "Don't Worry, Be Happy". But the odds would be a bit different.
I'm guessing it was your recent Cold War refrence to the Sting anthem about the Russians loving their children too--I guess it's depressing in a schmaltzy way. Good lock cracking the code.


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James Hoffpauir
CROWLEY – Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 1 p.m. at Duhon Funeral Home Chapel in Crowley for James H. Hoffpauir, 83, who passed away Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at the Cornerstone Hospital in Sulphur.
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Dorothy P. Hoffpauir of Westlake; one son, Archie Hoffpauir and wife Janine of Waco, Texas; three daughters, Gloria DeGroat and husband Art of Panama City, Fla., Julie Picard and husband J.C. of Westlake, and Margaret Slaughter and husband Jim of Arkansas City, KS; six grandchildren, Stacy Ervin and husband Ken, Timothy Hoffpauir and wife Sheranne, Jeremy DeGroat, Christopher Campbell and wife Stephanie, Joshua Slaughter and Peter Slaughter; eight great-grandchildren, Shannon, Brian and Kenny Ervin, Leanne, Megan and Jaymie Marlow, and Hailey and Liam Campbell.; and a host of family member and friends. Mr. James is preceded in death by a grandson, Johnathon DeGroat; and one brother, George Albert Hoffpauir.
Mr. Hoffpauir served his country in the US Army/Air Force during the World War II and he was a member of Army 8th Air Force.
Visitation will be Friday from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. until the time of service.
His pallbearers will be Timothy Hoffpauir, Christopher Campbell, Jeremy DeGroat, Joshua Slaughter, Peter Slaughter, J.C. Picard, Art DeGroat and Jim Slaughter.
Burial will take place in Acadia Resthaven Cemetery in Crowley under the direction of Duhon Funeral Home of Crowley. Please send personal condolences to www.duhonfuneralhome.com.


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American Airlines Launches New Daily Flight to Madrid From Dallas/Fort Worth
FORT WORTH, Texas, May 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amid the fanfare of flamenco dancing, Spanish food and music, American Airlines today is launching new daily nonstop service from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to Madrid, Spain (MAD). American is flying the route with its 225-seat Boeing 767-300 widebody aircraft in a two-class configuration.
The inaugural departure, Flight 36, departs DFW at 5:30 p.m. and arrives in Madrid at 9:55 a.m. the next day - a flight lasting approximately 9 hours, 25 minutes. The first departure from Spain, Flight 37, will depart Madrid at 1:10 p.m. Saturday and arrive at DFW at 4:45 p.m. the same day - a flight lasting approximately 10 hours, 35 minutes. All times are local.
"We are delighted to inaugurate this new service between DFW and Madrid," said Dan Garton, American's Executive Vice President - Marketing. "This flight is about opening up new business destinations, new leisure destinations, connecting cultures, and bringing forth new economic opportunities that previously did not exist."
Garton noted that American made the investment in this new route because of the belief that American's Joint Business Agreement and antitrust immunity application with British Airways and Iberia will be approved later this year. Once approved, Garton said he believes it will be the first of many other opportunities to enhance and expand connections between the United States and Europe, including DFW and North Texas.
Madrid will be the 34th international destination served by American and American Eagle from its Dallas/Fort Worth hub, depending on the season. With its oneworld® Alliance partners, the new service will also provide convenient and seamless travel to 87 destinations served nonstop beyond Madrid into Europe, Africa and Asia.
From DFW, American and American Eagle operate approximately 740 daily departures to more than 150 nonstop destinations. Among American's nonstop international destinations from DFW are cities in Argentina, the Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Guatemala, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Panama, the United Kingdom and Venezuela.
"We applaud American Airlines for adding this important international destination to the DFW portfolio," said Jeff Fegan, CEO of DFW International Airport. "This new flight will add more than $130 million to the North Texas economy every year and provide our passengers hundreds of new connections through Madrid's Barajas International Airport.
American, a founding member of the global oneworld® Alliance, also serves Spain with two other daily nonstop flights - to Madrid from Miami International Airport and to Barcelona from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
"This is terrific news for the citizens of Dallas and all of North Texas," said Tom Leppert, Mayor of Dallas. "This flight is certain to increase business and tourism between Spain and Dallas and deepen our relationships with this important trading partner."
"This is another clear example of DFW Airport's significance here at home and abroad," said Mayor Mike Moncrief of Fort Worth. "Madrid is a wonderful city, and we in North Texas are proud of this important connection. It will boost our local economies and unlock global opportunities with a lasting impact for those on both sides of the Atlantic."
To celebrate, American is offering a special AAdvantage promotion on the new route between DFW and Madrid, offering up to 10,000 AAdvantage bonus miles for round trips booked through May 31, 2009, for travel between May 1, 2009 and May 31, 2009. Customers can earn 10,000 bonus miles in Business Class and 5,000 bonus miles in Economy Class. AAdvantage members should go to www.aa.com/offers and register prior to travel, as well as obtain further details and restrictions on the offer.
About American Airlines
American Airlines, American Eagle and the AmericanConnection® airlines serve 250 cities in 40 countries with, on average, more than 3,400 daily flights. The combined network fleet numbers more than 900 aircraft. American's award-winning Web site, AA.com®, provides users with easy access to check and book fares, plus personalized news, information and travel offers. American Airlines is a founding member of the oneworld® Alliance, which brings together some of the best and biggest names in the airline business, enabling them to offer their customers more services and benefits than any airline can provide on its own. Together, its members serve nearly 700 destinations in over 140 countries and territories. American Airlines, Inc. and American Eagle Airlines, Inc. are subsidiaries of AMR Corporation. AmericanAirlines, American Eagle, AmericanConnection, AA.com, We know why you fly and AAdvantage are registered trademarks of American Airlines, Inc.
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After decades of waltzing with the Arabs it is time to put an end to peace talks with them. Everyone knows what the violent ones really want (and the violent ones will eventually take over), and that is the right of every sovereign state ... the right to have an airport. And that means the arrival of tens of thousands of "volunteers" armed with small weapons. The IDF planes, tanks and artillery will be useless in the street-to-street fighting that will ensue for fear of killing Jews. The inevitable bloodbath will be unacceptable, even though Israel will prevail, and the political situation will be worse. The only way to have a two-state solution is Gaza for the Arabs, and Israel including the entire West Bank for the Jews. A solution no one will even consider now.
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Beal talked with KStateFans.com about his growing interest in the Wildcat program thanks to the recruiting efforts of Andre Coleman.
"It's a big time program," Beal said of Kansas State. "They play a high-tempo, spread offense. That's really the kind of offense I want to play in. They began recruiting me in January right after I transferred from Wheeler. Coach Coleman came to watch me practice in the spring and then offered in the next couple of weeks. Coach Coleman played at Kansas State himself and told me his head coach is still there and he's a great football coach.
"The things that impressed [Kansas State] was my straight-line speed, my strength, and that I have good, soft hands. Coach Coleman tells me if I go to Kansas State he'll help mold me into a complete player."
Being going to Hillgrove, Beal starred at Wheeler (in nearby Marietta) making 43 catches for 855 yards and seven touchdowns in 2012. As a junior he was named first team All-Cobb County. Some of his bigger offers include Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Missouri, N.C. State, USF, UCF, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, and, of course, Kansas State.
"I was recently at Dawg Night at UGA," he shared. "It was okay, but too many people there in my opinion. I went to Mizzou for a 7-on-7 tournament. Our coach's son, Eddie Printz, goes there. I liked it and plan on going back for an official visit. I'm also going to Kansas State and Wisconsin. I haven't made it yet to either one of those schools, but I'll be going there for sure. I'd like to make all five official visits but I'm not sure yet about the last two.
"I really want to play in a spread offense. That's important to me but not the most important thing. I'd like to study engineering, so having a good program in that is a must although I'm not yet sure what type of engineering I want to go into. My goal is to come in and play quickly so location can't be a factor for me. "
Powder Springs is only about 12 miles from Marietta in the Atlanta metro area. Beal says the transition to a new school for his senior season hasn't been a difficult one.
"I've known a lot of the players since middle school," Beal said on his new team, the Hawks. "It's more of an accelerated workout. I feel like I'm doing well fitting in. I had a great spring and improved my route running. My goal is to break the school's receiving record for a season."
N.C. State nabbed Beal's teammate, Bradley Chubb, in June and have increased their efforts in landing Beal as well. Beal said he wanted to make his decision prior to his senior year of high school, but will likely now wait until he has made his official visits. An exceptional student, Beal also holds an offer from Yale.
"I'm not scared of anybody," says the bulky, 200-pound wideout. "I play strong and fast and if it's in the area, I'm going to go up and get it. I'd say I'm pretty sure-handed."
"I want to break the school receiving record this year," proclaims the reigning all-Cobb County offensive selection. "I think I can do it with the extra games in the playoffs."
Before Beal becomes a Hawk record holder though, the future engineer plans to pledge his commitment to a collegiate squad.
"At first I was thinking about choosing on Signing Day in February," admits Beal. "Now, I think I want to get it over with, maybe before, if not during, my season."
"North Carolina State Kentucky, UCF"


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Housed in the wing of twentieth-century Palazzo Marcello, just 3 minutes from AD Place, this bright and modern apartment of 70 sq. mt. is ideal for long stays or for families, its design is inspired by the essentiality of white and functionality, allows for a comfortable stay to a maximum of 4 adults. The apartment has a fully equipped kitchenette, LCD TV, free wi-fi, and a comfortable seating area and a bathroom with shower, hairdryer and toiletries, a guest room and pull-out bed in the lounge.
AD Gold
this large apartment of 110 square meters is ideal for families looking for exclusive comfort in a unique environment. In the historic palace of Ca Marcello, just 3 minutes from AD Place, Gold apartment can accommodate up to 6 adults, has in fact 3 bedrooms, including the master bedroom with a king size bed and direct view of the canal of Rossini has two bathrooms with toiletries, painted both bathrooms, one with shower, the second bath in retro style, spacious living room on the canal side, LCD TV, free wi-fi, fully equipped kitchen and dining room.
AD Chic!
Jewel in the crown of the AD Venice brand, this apartment is second to none to the most prestigious suites in Venice. The AD Chic, housed in the first floor ("piano nobile") of Palazzo Marcello, has a total surface area of about 180 square meters , two double bedrooms with exceptional quality finishes , a bathroom with shower, and a huge open space of about 86 square meters. The high ceilings enhance the momentum and the magnitude of this unique housing solution, the seven gothic windows in the living area flood the house with light and among the four balconies, two overlook the canal of San Luca with its merry coming and going of gondolas and their singers.
The master bedroom has been created in what was once the room of portraits and silvers of counts Marcello , in which we kept intact all the chalks and stuccos in gold leaf, while the second bedroom with private balcony is covered throughout its height in Rubelli golden tapestry.
Equipped with floor heating and air conditioning, AD Chic has a fully equipped kitchen, plasma TV and an iPod docking station, free WiFi, pool table, security door and safe.


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TRP- Technical Response Planning Corp.
based in Houston, TEXAS (USA)
Technical Response Planning Corporation (TRP) is an industry leader in providing world-class emergency, business continuity, and security planning services and systems. TRP's staff is comprised of industry and public responders and other professionals dedicated to providing experienced consulting services. In addition, TRP's strong technical staff is well versed in ...
FAB-TECH Incorporated
based in Colchester, VERMONT (USA)
Fab-Tech manufactures PermaShield Pipe (PSP®), a revolutionary hybrid fluoropolymer coated stainless steel duct system recognized worldwide as the premier solution for corrosive and hazardous fume exhaust needs. PermaShield Pipe is a fully engineered, modular fume exhaust system that combines the reliability of stainless steel with the superior corrosion resistance of ...
G&W Electric Company
based in Bolingbrook, ILLINOIS (USA)
G&W Electric has been a global supplier of electric power equipment since 1905. Our product offerings include overhead and underground distribution switches, Lazer® Automation solutions, reclosers, distribution and transmission cable accessories, and current limiting system protection devices. Our products are designed to the latest industry standards and backed by over ...
Harger Lightning & Grounding
based in Grayslake, ILLINOIS (USA)
Harger has been providing solutions to the lightning protection and grounding industries. We have experience in all facets of these markets including engineering, systems design, product manufacturing and installation. Our engineering department provides design services for engineers and contractors domestically, as well as internationally. We strive to stay on the ...
Federal Steel Supply Inc
based in Chesterfield, MONTANA (USA)
Steel - Federal Steel Supply has been the preferred steel provider of the global community since 1979. Federal Steel is proud to support the manufacturing industry, a cornerstone of a thriving American economy. We supply steel, carbon, metal, alloy and stainless steel products to a variety of manufacturers in the United States and worldwide. We supply manufacturers in oil ...
Black Coral Inc
based in Ottawa, ONTARIO (CANADA)
Despite all the technology available today, first responders and military personnel still don`t have the tools to effectively collaborate during emergency or tactical operations. This challenge is exacerbated in multi-jurisdictional and multi-agency situations where no one has the same communication system or standard operating procedures. Black Coral provides geospatial ...
Oxford Hydrotechnics Ltd.
based in Oxon, UNITED KINGDOM
H2Ox - Oxford Hydrotechnics is an innovative company specialising in advanced resin injection and grouting techniques. Our core services include Leak Sealing, Soil Stabilisation, Structural Reinforcing, Ground Water Control and Disaster Recovery. The main processes seal leaks through existing structures and control ground water flows, even major incursions that sometimes ...
ATR Inc.
based in Spring, TEXAS (USA)
From interactive computer-based training to performance support to dynamic simulation, and compliance solutions, ATR provides a range of integrated products and services helping our customers operate their facilities and operations safely and more efficiently.
Andrich International Ltd
based in Warminster, UNITED KINGDOM
Founded in 1987, Andrich International Ltd organises its own and assists others, in organising seminars, conferences, exhibitions and events.
Butyl Products Ltd.
based in Billericay, UNITED KINGDOM
We are a UK based engineering company specialising in the design, development and manufacture of liquid containment applications. The delivery of quality is central to our business and is underpinned by a rigorous approach to our supply chain management solutions. Our tank kits are dispatched complete with assembly instructions, tools, accessories and repair kits. Packed ...
based in GERMANY
DHL is the global market leader in the logistics industry and "The Logistics company for the world". DHL commits its expertise in international express, air and ocean freight, road and rail transportation, contract logistics and international mail services to its customers. A global network composed of more than 220 countries and territories and about 285,000 employees ...
Elfab Limited
based in North Shields, UNITED KINGDOM
As a global manufacturer of rupture discs, explosion vents and associated detection systems. Elfab have over 70 years' pressure management experience working with a range of blue chip organisations across the globe. Elfab's customers are predominantly found in chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas and food processing industries. However, Elfab's technology is also used in ...
Ideabytes Inc.
based in Ottawa, ONTARIO (CANADA)
Ideabytes is focused on providing the highest quality in Products and Services that improve efficiency by 30% or more. For you to be our customer, we need to provide value; Value in Price, Value in Quality and most important Value in Service. Since 2009 – we service Tier 1s and SME`s, and every one of them has been extremely satisfied. A feat that is difficult to achieve ...
ILF Consulting Engineers (ILF)
based in München, GERMANY
ILF Consulting Engineers (ILF) consists of several international and independent engineering and consulting companies. ILF helps demanding customers successfully execute complex industrial and infrastructure projects. Today, the ILF companies rank among the world`s leading engineering firms in the areas of their core expertise. ILF has main offices in Innsbruck and ...
SENES Consultants India
based in ahmedabad, INDIA
SENES Consultants Limited is pleased to announce that the company has merged with ARCADIS, a publicly traded company (EURONEXT: ARCAD) effective 21 March 2013.ARCADIS is an international company providing consultancy, design, engineering and management services in the fields of infrastructure, water, environment and buildings. SENES, and its affiliated company DCS, have a ...
AFRISO-EURO-INDEX GmbH
based in Güglingen, GERMANY
AFRISO, founded by Adalbert Fritz in Schmiedefeld/Thuringia, Germany in 1869, is an innovative, medium-sized company with a total staff of more than 1000 worldwide, more than 550 of which are employed at the five German sites. Traditionally, we manufacture measuring and control devices for temperature and pressure. For more than 50 years now, we have also been producing ...
based in Reston, VIRGINIA (USA)
ACADEMI, a Constellis company, is a global provider of sustainable training solutions and secure logistics management. We believe that the right combination of training and support will enable security forces across the globe to create and maintain safe environments for their nations to thrive in. As a result, we are committed to sharing best practices through ...
Knick Elektronische Messgeräte GmbH & Co. KG
based in Berlin, GERMANY
The name Knick has been recognized for outstanding quality in the manufacture of electronic measuring instruments for more than half a century. Back in 1945 the company's founder, engineer Ulrich Knick, began with the manufacture of high-precision zero-point-stabilized DC amplifiers. These devices enabled the production of reliable laboratory pH meters and other precision ...
Italmanometri s.r.l.
based in Cavriago (RE), ITALY
Italmanometri was founded in 1967 in the province of Reggio Emilia, Italy, with the precise aim of manufacturing pressure gauges. In order to recognise and distinguish its products, Manelli created a unique brand: the letters G and M joined by a pressure gauge pointer. Today this brand is used to mark Italmanometri products in the European and extra-European territory. ...
Grace Industries, Inc.
based in Fredonia, PENNSYLVANIA (USA)
Grace Industries, Inc. is headquartered in Fredonia, PA, and was founded in 1974 by company President, James Campman. Since then, they have been providing revolutionary and technically advanced life safety devices throughout the United States and worldwide to more than 30 countries. The Company's mission is to provide customers with total Solutions for Life Safety while ...


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TM Systems (www.tm-systems.com) has introduced the next generation of its DubStation for use in the ADR environment. The DubStation II, which is being displayed here at the NAB show, incorporates all of the features of the original DubStation - used for more than three years by dubbing facilities - but provides full screen video displays for LCD, Plasma and all projection systems currently available.
According to TM Systems (SU7819) president Ken Lorber, "It became obvious, shortly after introducing the DubStation to the Los Angeles professional marketplace, that many of the features used in language dubbing have direct application for the ADR process, used so heavily in the posting of films and television programs. What had been lacking for the ADR process was the ability to project full screen composite video combined with accompanying text. That upgrade was the basis of the spin off of the DubStation II. The new release now provides that feature and continues to offer the only integrated picture and text imaging available in the industry."
Actors no longer need to shift focus between paper scripts and projected images. The dialogue is configured directly below and on the same focal plane as the film or video. Dialogue can be accessed instantaneously, with no need to input timecodes. Creation of a character dialogue list, in pre-production, automatically enables lines or "loops" to be accessed sequentially and repeated infinitely in session.
Long before Wayne Brejcha, the creative director of Chicago-based Calabash Animation, was animating commercials for such advertising icons as Lucky the Lucky Charms leprechaun and the Trix rabbit, he ...
April 2, 2014
Last month, we looked at studios that specialize in "broadcast design." I recently had a chance to connect with the folks at FX Networks, which faces a constant challenge in attracting viewers to its ...
July 9, 2012
My entire sound-mixing career can be traced back to the tuba. Sounds crazy, right? Let's rewind to the fourth grade in mid-'80s upstate New York (cue flashback sounds).
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Dogma Crumbles as Kasich Fights Own Party to Tax Ohio's Drillers
After ousting Ohio's Democratic governor in 2010 by promising a "business-friendly" climate, Republican John Kasich on March 14 called for higher taxes on oil and gas drillers and environmental rules that his administration says no other state requires.
As a result, Kasich, 59, a former U.S. congressman, Fox News commentator and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. investment banker, is fighting his own party over a plan that he says would ensure that Ohioans, not just out-of-state corporate shareholders, benefit from an energy boom.
"I'm the party line now, you know?" Kasich said in a March 29 interview in Columbus, the capital. "I've never been uncomfortable with traveling a lonely road. I think that's what leaders do."
Ideology hasn't constrained U.S. governors even as it defines national politics. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has spent months rejecting a national health-care plan similar to one he backed -- and bragged about -- as Massachusetts governor. Politicians who still head states, however, often pursue a pragmatic course.
New York Democrat Andrew Cuomo changed public-employee pensions despite opposition from unions and the state's Democratic comptroller. Michigan Republican Rick Snyder has said he won't push laws curbing labor even as neighboring Republicans Scott Walker in Wisconsin and Mitch Daniels in Indiana plunged ahead.
Free to Operate
State politics is less polarized and governors can pursue initiatives outside conventional ideology, said John C. Green, a political-science professor at the University of Akron.
"Governors are not as doctrinaire in their policy proposals as their parties are," Green said in a telephone interview.
The need for governors to balance budgets or respond to local constituencies also can cause them to buck national parties, as when Republican Jan Brewer of Arizona backed a sales-tax increase in 2010 to ease a $3 billion deficit, said Chris Whatley, deputy executive director of the Council of State Governments in Washington.
"National politics is out there as a background factor, but ultimately what it comes down to is they are making decisions based on very local constituencies and state boundaries, not national litmus tests," Whatley said in a telephone interview.
Love for Shale
In Ohio, companies including Chesapeake Energy Corp., Devon Energy Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp. have begun drilling in the Utica Shale geological formation. The gas play will support 65,680 jobs and add $4.9 billion to the state's economic output by 2014, according to a study released Feb. 28 by the Ohio Shale Coalition.
Under Kasich's proposal, drillers would pay a tax as high as 4 percent on the market value of what they extract. That would fund an income-tax cut. Drillers also would face regulations such as having to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The current tax is 20 cents per barrel of oil and 3 cents per 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas, according to the Taxation Department.
Kasich is promoting his proposal at public events by holding up two dimes to demonstrate the tax, and he said one energy company told him it expects to take a trillion dollars worth of natural resources out of Ohio. An income-tax cut would help individuals and small businesses, Kasich said.
"Either Ohioans get the advantage, or they ship the profits out of the state and reward their investors," the governor told reporters March 19, referring to oil and gas companies. "It's just that simple."
Pushing Populism
Two days after Kasich unveiled his plan, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives tabled it. The move was backed by groups including the Ohio Liberty Council, a coalition of Tea Party organizations.
They echo complaints by the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, a group with more than 2,200 members, that Kasich's plan would stifle nascent development.
Kasich could cut the income tax without forcing drillers to pay for it, and his "populist" regulations aren't needed, said Jerry James, the association's leader and president of Marietta-based Artex Oil Co.
"It's all about good politics," James said.
Kasich, who faces re-election in 2014, is trying to improve his image after 62 percent of Ohioans voted last November to repeal a law he championed to limit collective bargaining by public employees, said Dale Butland, a Columbus Democratic strategist.
The New Kasich
The governor's approval rating was 42 percent in a Quinnipiac University poll released March 28, his highest mark in the Hamden, Connecticut-based university's surveys. His low point was 30 percent, both shortly after taking office and in March 2011, a week before he signed the bill curbing union bargaining.
"He's attempting to give himself a makeover and say, 'Oh, I'm a nonpartisan kind of guy,'" Butland said in a telephone interview.
Kasich, who said that he fought his party as chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee in the 1990s, said he's doing what any good company's chief executive would do because "anything that stands still dies."
Kasich rejects the argument that his plan will limit development. Nor will he call it an increase, instead saying he's "modernizing" the severance tax. Grover Norquist, who as head of Americans for Tax Reform has persuaded politicians to sign no-new-taxes pledges, blessed the plan as "revenue neutral," Kasich said.
Who's This Guy?
Kasich also moved to protect the state's environment with tougher regulations on drilling and its wastewater. Fracking involves injecting chemical-laced water underground to free gas reserves, a practice opponents say may foul drinking water.
New rules are needed because "if Ohioans lose confidence in our ability to protect public health and safety, this potential boom will fizzle," James Zehringer, director of the Natural Resources Department, testified in a March 28 state Senate committee hearing.
The Ohio Environmental Council is "pleasantly surprised" by Kasich's approach and is "going to keep working with this guy," Jack Shaner, the Columbus-based group's deputy director, said in a telephone interview.
Business groups that endorsed Kasich in 2010 haven't taken a position on his tax plan.
Roger Geiger, executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business/Ohio in Columbus, said that while he's "a little surprised" that Kasich is taking on the oil and gas industry, the governor is "not afraid of his shadow."
"In the last two administrations, we had governors that were afraid to be bold and afraid to be creative and innovative," Geiger said in a telephone interview. "No matter what you think of this governor, I don't think you can say he's not being bold and creative and innovative."


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How cool is it to be two brothers in your 20s, running a thriving Web business out of hip industrial loft space while employing 40 college buddies and childhood friends?
Very cool — until you have to fire most of them.
"It was a big deal. We lost it all in three months," said Darren Hill, now 36, one of the brothers who founded WebLinc L.L.C.
Started as a Web-design e-commerce business in the mid-1990s, WebLinc, now housed in Old City, caught the e-wave, expanding in the excitement surrounding the Internet's then-untapped potential for marketing and sales.
But in 2000 and 2001, the dot-com bubble burst, the euphoria faded, venture-capital money evaporated, and a recession ensued.


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Optimisation of core code
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Posted 08 May 2014 - 09:54 AM
I would like to start looking at the likes of cache misses and cache hits in the program , in specific sections. Using visual studio (professional) how would I g o about detecting these things, and trying to optimise my methods? Note that I know there are better ways to get performance boosts, however this is a leaning exercise.
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Posted 08 May 2014 - 12:16 PM
The Visual Studio team keeps changing their mind about including a profiler. Some editions do, some don't. 2013 includes a profiler, read more here.
There are better and more powerful profilers out there, it isn't one of the visual studio team's competencies.
For my biggest recommendation based on your description, try AMD's CodeXL which is free and fairly new or AMD's older but trusted CodeAnalyst which is also free but discontinued.
There are many other tools in case you want to try them out. Each one has its own strengths and weaknesses.
Intel has vtune, which is not free but extremely powerful, and 'pin tools', which are mostly BSD-licensed.
Often people with a budget for both time and money will use the AMD tools on AMD boxes, and the Intel tools on Intel boxes.
You mentioned Visual Studio, but if you are going cross platform, valgrind, gprof and 'perf tools' are Linux profiling mainstay tools. Two of the Valgrind systems, cachegrind and callgrind, do what you describe very nicely, but are linux only.
The last of the big ones, for better or worse, is the Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit. It is often difficult to use well, and the results are usually very verbose. It is an interesting beast. It either gives you exactly the details you are looking for in great abundance, or a huge amount of data that doesn't help. Combine all those facts and it makes the toolkit frustrating; when learning the tools it is difficult to determine if the enormous pile of data you are looking at is useful or not. I'd recommend it if you are comfortable with performance tools, but avoid it if you are still learning.
Once you have performance metrics in hand, make one single change, then get new performance metrics. ALWAYS verify that your changes give better results, and be prepared to revert the changes in source control if they don't help.
Check out my book, Game Development with Unity, aimed at beginners who want to build fun games fast.
Also check out my personal website at bryanwagstaff.com, where I occasionally write about assorted stuff.
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Posted 08 May 2014 - 04:34 PM
Next up is learning to use a profiler
*prods frob to expand this into an 'intro to profiling' article*
Tristam MacDonald - Software Engineer @ Amazon - [swiftcoding] [GitHub]
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Posted 08 May 2014 - 08:08 PM
Misses? That's pretty much the only other thing I'm aware I should be optimising for. I'm not too concerned about x platform (although my code does work on mac as well, not tested on Linux) but I'm most familiar with windows as a dev environment, so I'd like to start here. I've come across vtune before but figure it's not gonna tell me anymore than the vs profiler with my current level of knowledge.
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Posted 08 May 2014 - 10:46 PM
I haven't used VS's profiler, but the more advanced ones out there will definitely let you configure what statistics/measurements you see -- such as cache misses incurred by each function.
You can get a long way just using theory - look up Cache-oblivious algorithms.
Step through your code and see what the memory access patterns are like. Have you taken cache behaviour into account when designing the code so far? Can it be redesigned so that the memory access patterns are either more linear or have much more locality? Do you run a single algorithm at a time, progressing in stages, or do you jump around a lot with things like calling virtual void OnHit() in the middle of collision resolution?
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Posted 08 May 2014 - 11:43 PM
Can I look at cache hits or Misses?
CodeXL has support for cache line utilization if you run that type of profile session. Make sure you have the current version, the docs say it was added to the program last November. That is why I mentioned both CodeXL and CodeAnalyst, CodeXL is not mature in some ways, so having both is a good option.
Profilers give you numbers, not really recommendations. For cache use, it will give you a percentage called "cache line utilization", also "Total L1 eviction", "Bytes/L1 Eviction", "Accesses/L1 Eviction"
But that brings us to the other issue...
the only thing I could make from it was"here's where your method is spending the most time" which stops being helpful. ... [Cache is] pretty much the only other thing I'm aware I should be optimising for.
Optimizing is an art and science. It usually requires a lot of experience, plus a broad knowledge base about programming generally. You need to take profiler results, a bunch of numbers that give you statistics about performance, and turn them into actionable items. It is rather hard, even for people who do it regularly.
Sampling profilers just pause the program every few microseconds, look where it is, and unpause it. That means numbers are not exact. It also means you need to reason through the system very carefully. Often you will need to get several profile runs where the system is approximately the same, but it will still be slightly different every run, and you'll need to think in terms of generalities, approximations, averages, and Fermi estimates.
So you first run a sampling profile for one second during the middle of the game. You see a bunch of sample numbers. main() is taking 99.93% of the time. That is good, probably. It means most of the time the profiler stopped the program, it was stopped inside the program and not doing some other task. RunPhysics was sampled 44 times, DrawBoard was sampled 42 times, and Sprite::Draw was sampled 1536 times. Is that good? Or bad? Matrix44::Multiply was sampled 52134 times and is taking 47% of the time. Is that bad?
The problem is that the numbers might be good or bad, and it takes a deeper understanding of the system to understand it.
So with RunPhysics 44 times and DrawBoard 42 times, you probably had 45 or so frames. So you think about the frames. Is approximately 1536 calls to Sprite::Draw a reasonable number? It means about Is that about how many times you would expect it to be called? Is it being called too many times? Perhaps you know you have 32 sprites on the screen, and 1536 / 45 = 34, so it is approximately right. Even if the number matches the number of frames, you need to ask the deeper question of if that is reasonable for the hardware. Does that mean 1536 texture swaps? Is that reasonable for the hardware? Does that mean 1536 calls passing raw information over the bus, or is it 1536 calls using data already stored on the card?
You look at the number of matrix multiply operations. The 52134 seems pretty high, it means roughly 1200 matrix multiplies per frame. For only 32 sprites, that is probably a bit high. So you need to hunt down the call stacks to see if there is some unexpected work going on. Is it reasonable for RunPhysics to sample 1142 matrix multiplies per frame?
Is the length of time spent in MatrixMultiply reasonable? You can see that the 52134 samples takes 79472 CPU clocks. Is that good? Is that bad?
The profiler enables you to ask questions about your code. Interpreting the answers gets very tricky.
So let's say you think your MatrixMultiply is taking too much time. You then need to figure out an alternate solution. So you do some search on Google, find a better algorithm written with SIMD intrinsics.
You put the changes in to the program, run the program with the profiler, get to about the same spot in code, run the profiler for about a second, and you get a totally different set of performance numbers.
This time you do the numbers and figure you got approximately 55 frames. MatrixMultiply had 64129 samples and only took 48726 CPU clocks. Well, that is certainly an improvement. It is roughly half the time it used to be. Is that good enough? Can you do better? Since it is an improvement you might as well submit the change to version control. You look it over, figure you don't see how to improve the algorithm you found online, so move on to another item.
Your next oddity is the number of matrix multiplies in RunPhysics from the first run. When you divided it by 45 frames you estimated about 1142 matrix multiplies per frame. This time dividing the total by 55 frames it looks like 1092 matrix multiplies per frame. Again, is this reasonable? You think it is a bit high so you review the algorithms in your physics. After a bit of study you see something that is suspicious. For this thought exercise, we'll say it is a loop where every physics object is tested against every other physics object for collisions. You think that is a bit odd. That's an N-squared algorithm, so each new physics object greatly increases.
You think some more. What are your alternatives. An all-to-all test is pretty bad for large numbers, but in this case you have 32 physics objects. That means about 1024 comparisons. Is that really too much? Your game will never go bigger than that. There are several ways to reduce the number. You could add a spatial tree to only check nearby objects for collisions, but that means writing a spatial tree, keeping it updated on every physics change, and using it in various places. You can limit the tests to only objects marked as having moved, but that requires adding some flags and some extra processing elsewhere.
Continuing the thought, you also have the option to do nothing. Having 1024 tests really isn't that high of a number. The cost of adding and maintaining a spatial tree is pretty high, plus you'll need to spend the time to debug it, so that is probably out. Having a list of "dirty" objects, objects that have moved and require collision tests, it requires more tests than the spatial tree would require, but fewer tests than the all-to-all test. Since objects are frequently moving in your game, you figure that usually 15 to 20 tests will normally be required every frame, so it probably isn't worth the effort right now. You still make a note about it: "// TODO: Possibly add a spatial tree rather than all-to-all comparison." You also make a note on your trusty paper pad, so the code comment doesn't get forgotten in oblivion.
Continuing on since you mentioned cache specifically, you run a new profile sample for cache usage. You find a function that has a high number of L1 evictions. One of your search routines had about 12000 L1 evictions over the sample. So you start asking the questions again. Is that actually bad? Assuming it is actually bad, what techniques do you know that can help fix it?
You need to decide if the results can be improved, estimate how much you can improve them and how long it will take, and decide if the effort is worth it. It means you need to go mentally through your treasure trove of experience. What techniques exist that are cache friendly? Why are they cache friendly? How can we reduce the work? How can we eliminate the work entirely? Might those specific techniques work in this situation? You can also search online, looking for algorithms that match.
And THAT paragraph is the critical one for optimization.
What experience do you have in alternative solutions when the first one doesn't work? Some algorithms you can just plug into a search engine. Let Google find you a well-written matrix multiply, it is such a common algorithm, it is well documented, and there are some really cool implementations out there. But you can only rely on the Internet for a small number of algorithms. The job of programmers is to come up with algorithms to solve problems. Your game is unique, your implementation is unique, there are many unique challenges that nobody else has ever optimized, or if they have, they probably didn't blog about it.
The crux of optimization is that you MUST have enough experience to know alternatives. You also MUST have a knowledge of how all the parts work.
Only having one isn't enough. You may know something is slow but if you don't have the experience to form an alternative solution, you are stuck with the slow existing solution. Or, if you do know some alternative algorithms but you don't know how the parts work know why they have the performance characteristics they do, you are left to just guessing at each of the alternatives without any knowledge, blindly trying them until one hopefully is better.
If you have both experience and broad knowledge, you can use it in optimization. Let's say for some specific sorting condition you might have a lot of background knowledge. You can recall about 20 different sorting algorithms from your studies. Bubble sort is potentially an incredibly slow algorithm, with a large number of potential passes. But if you have a bit of knowledge, such as knowing that your data set is probably completely sorted, and if not sorted then nothing is off by more than a single swap, a slightly modified bubble sort could be your ideal algorithm. You also have knowledge that a single linear pass through the data is very cache friendly. You can take both the experience and knowledge, and construct a single pass algorithm that is based on the bubble sort, but in your specific case due to the pre-sorted collection you can guarantee that a single pass is enough. You can then convert a potentially horrible algorithm into a potentially amazing solution for a specific problem.
But in order to do that, you need both knowledge and experience. With both, you can wrap your brain around problems, figure out alternatives, estimate the costs and benefits of the alternatives, test them out. If they work, submit them, if they don't work, try again.
That is the process. It is also why profiling and optimizing code is a difficult task, usually left to the more experienced developers. There are almost always a few easily identified and easily corrected changes. It is can be obvious that when you have millions of calls to strlen() something is wrong and you can hunt down why. You can dabble in optimization and try to learn the steps. But once the easy stuff is gone, to really do it well requires some fairly rare skill sets, broad experience, broad knowledge, patience, and lots of thinking.
Check out my book, Game Development with Unity, aimed at beginners who want to build fun games fast.
Also check out my personal website at bryanwagstaff.com, where I occasionally write about assorted stuff.


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Facebook Awaits Index 'Like'
Investors hoping that index funds will give Facebook Inc. FB 0.14 % 's battered shares a lift could be in for a long wait.
When the Nasdaq Stock Market decided in April to shorten the "seasoning" period for any stock to three months from as little as a year, it made the social-networking company, which went public in May, eligible for inclusion in its Nasdaq-100 index as soon as Sept. 1.
Changes to indexes, known as "rebalancing," are closely followed by traders, as additions mean that mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that explicitly replicate them are forced to buy the stock, regardless of its performance. Many funds that are benchmarked against an index buy as well.
But any uplift from joining the Nasdaq-100, which includes Internet and technology giants such as Apple Inc., AAPL 0.78 % Google Inc. and Baidu Inc., BIDU -0.09 % is likely to be months away. Although Facebook's stock-market value, at $52 billion, should easily qualify it as one of the 100 largest Nasdaq-listed companies, the index is only reranked each December.
Surprise additions do happen—but it is only when a company leaves the index because it falls below listings requirements, seeks bankruptcy protection or is acquired, that unscheduled changes are made.
"[December] looks like the most likely time for Facebook to go into the index," a program trader at a large brokerage firm said.
Nasdaq's decision to change its index rules was a major factor in Facebook's decision to give its high-profile listing to that exchange rather than the New York Stock Exchange, a person familiar with the matter said at the time.
A spokesman for Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., NDAQ 0.09 % which operates the Nasdaq Stock Market and the index, declined to comment on index changes. A Facebook spokeswoman also declined to comment on indexing or its impact on the stock.
Facebook may have to wait even longer to be included in the more-widely followed Standard & Poor's 500-share index. That index provider requires at least six months of seasoning and retains discretion over additions to the index, unlike Nasdaq, which bases changes purely on preset numerical criteria. Google, for example, didn't join the S&P 500 for more than two years after its stock-market listing, despite having a market value that would otherwise have qualified it.
"It's not going to be a big deal when Nasdaq adds [Facebook]," said Vijay Singal, a finance professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., who has studied the effects of indexing. "The biggest impact is when S&P 500 adds it."
Inclusion in other indexes hasn't had a lasting impact on Facebook's stock, which has tumbled since its initial public offering. It closed Friday at $19.05, down 4.1% on the day and nearly half its $38 IPO price—despite being added to broad U.S. stock-market indexes from Russell Investments and MSCI Inc.
Investors are focused on slowing revenue growth as well as the company's ability to monetize mobile-phone users. In addition, so-called lockups that prevented some employees and early investors from selling shares have begun to expire, adding to the 421 million already in circulation.
"There are so many other things going on with Facebook right now," said Amy Lubas, technology strategist at Ned Davis Research Inc. "That is trumping any potential positive index benefits."
History suggests that the impact of being added to the S&P 500 is considerably larger, on average, than that for the Nasdaq-100. Companies whose shares were added to the S&P from 2000 to 2010 on average saw a 3.6% increase in the stock price from the announcement of inclusion to the actual addition, according to data compiled by Barclays. The same increase for Nasdaq-100 membership from 2001 to 2012 was about 1.2%.
One reason for the gap is that more money is invested across 89 mutual funds and ETFs that directly replicate the S&P 500's moves—$513 billion, according to fund tracker Morningstar Inc. By contrast, the Nasdaq-100 is followed by just $35.5 billion in assets across 11 funds and ETFs, the largest by far of which is the Powershares QQQ Trust QQQ 0.75 % ETF, known as "the Qs".
For Facebook, the impact of joining any index may be more muted than is typical. In particular, the end of lockups could add two billion shares over the next year will offset some of the index-related buying pressure, said Stuart Thomas, principal at Precidian Investments, which develops ETFs, or funds that can be traded intraday, like a stock. "All the liquidity needed by the indexers will already be there," he said.
Additionally, Facebook's poor stock-market performance could lead some funds that follow the index, but don't track it precisely, to purchase less of the stock than they might otherwise have.
"The Nasdaq-100 is not a lot of stocks. If Facebook is not up to snuff for some reason, people will know that more easily than they would with a bigger index," said Audrey Costabile, vice president in the applied research group at rival index group MSCI.
Facebook's stock has seen brief rises following addition to other indexes, but the gains haven't been sustained.
Russell announced on June 11 that Facebook would be added to the Russell 3000 index, and it was added after markets closed on June 22. Facebook enjoyed its best two weeks of price gains during that time, rising 22% to $33.05. That period also corresponded to the run-up before analysts published their first research on the stock. But Facebook has yet to return to its June 22 intraday high of $33.45, much less its first-day high of $45.
Corrections & Amplifications
An earlier version of this article misstated the surname of Amy Lubas, technology strategist at Ned Davis Research Inc.
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He has the belt and that gives him a something to negotiate.
Maybe Cotto wants more money, Maybe a fight at 147, or he might be using mind games.
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well said nj. I used to cut weight for wrestling back in high school starting at 112, so I know the rigors of cutting. I weigh myself regularly to this day and I can easily lose 2lbs while sleeping.
With Cottos size 145 shouldnt be a problem in 4 months. People are forgetting he's a professional and this is part of his job. Cotto will still have an advantage rehydrating to possiby 160+ while Manny stays around 148 during the fight.
They're also forgetting Manny is also moving up to adjust to Cotto as a WW as it is not as his natural class, people some are still crying for Cotto.
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Manny already agreed to terms, and Roach (or Manny, whoever) is now trying to renig and get the sanctioning body to force it into being a title fight.
Now, if they changed their minds and want it to be for the title after all, fine, but it should be at the weight limit, rather than the catch weight.
This was a ****ty and dishonorable tactic, in my opinion, and I've lost alot of respect for Roach and Manny.
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The point I will try to make u understand is this,Cotto is the welterweight champ,period!!Why does Cotto get the runt share of the money and have to give up his weight and still have to put the title on the line,does Pacman deserve to have everything his way and the welterweight champ nothing,if u can't understand this I pitty u!!!
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cotto has the advantage at weight even if this fight is at 145.
people act as if this is the first catch weight fight in boxing, and that the weight is the only thing that determines a fight.
i don't know why pac is getting **** for wanting to even the playing field a bit. this is a legit fight in which i think cotto should be favored to win, regardless of the agreed weight.
i still don't have a pick. this is one tough-ass fight to call.....
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Good thread TS.
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its gonna worth jack **** if he loses. might as well put it on the line.
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title should be on the line.
in pac's point of view, its his chance to be the first boxer to win 7 belts
in cotto's point of view, his belt ain't gonna worth **** if he loses.
i think cotto is just trying to get a better deal, but when its all said and done, the belt should be on the line.
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Pacquiao vs De La Hoya at 147 no title
Pacquiao vs Cotto at 145 with title
Pacquiao could fight at 147 for a non title fight against De La Hoya but he can't fight Cotto at 147 for a title?
Manny asked for the fight.
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Several weeks ago I saw an interesting post over at Evil Mad Scientist where they'd been making some lemon pickle and I decided to have a go myself. I pretty much followed their instructions, so here are some photos of the process. You can find more on my gallery.
Lime pickle is one of my favourite things to have with a curry and I'm hoping this turns out good.
When the lemons are in the jar covered in salt they release a lot of water which collects at the bottom. It's quite fascinating to see and happens after a few hours. I was unsure if I had enough salt in the jar, and if I were to do this again I'd use finely ground salt rather than sea salt crystals. It probably doesn't matter what salt is used, but I specifically tried to get some without any other ingredients such as anti-caking agents which might affect the process.
Once drained, the lemons had a noticeably softer skin than the limes. I cut the limes into small lumps which might help them soften further.
The jar had a very intense lemony smell that wasn't unpleasant, but was overpoweringly strong and not something you'd want to eat immediately. After draining off the lumps of salt that hadn't dissolved, and once the other spices had been added the mixture had a more even flavour. It was still very strong, but not unpleasant. After a week or so in the fridge the flavours should have developed more.
I did have a problem where one of the lemons had mould growing on it. Closer inspection showed it was where the lemon attached to the tree, so I cut that whole section off and two weeks later there were no other signs of mould.
I think the next thing I'll attempt is some sort of preserved egg. I get six eggs every week and am finding it hard to eat them all before the next batch arrives!


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Dear gurus,
i find in the material master (MM02 and in the table MARA) the parameter "Low-level code" = 000 , how use this parameter ?
When this value is write? At saving of Bom? Is a setup of customizing for value possible?
Thanks a lot
Daniele Pistilli
Pl go thru the following may be useful
The lowest level that a material appears in any product structure of the
company. The low-level code controls the sequence in which the material
is planned in an MRP run: First the materials with low-level code 0 are
planned, then the materials with low-level code 1, and so on. The lower
the low-level code, the higher the number that is assigned to the
The level that is set in the material master record represents the level
at which the material will be planned. This means that the material will
only be planned once all assemblies in which it occurs have been planned
and exploded.
The low-level code is set internally in the material master record when
the BOM is maintained.
When you create a bom item for a assemblyparts ,the item's low-level code will equal (assemblyparts's low-level code + 1),but if (assemblyparts's low-level code + 1) < bom item then the bom item's low-level code not changed
I think u have got the answer , pl close the thread
Depending upon the BOM structure, System will automatically assign the low level code.
You can see it in Material Master, Information (Blue Button).
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Craft beer lovers take note: Monday night is Grizzly Peak Brewing Company's tenth annual Polar Bear Day. Cold weather warriors are invited to dine and drink al fresco at tables set up in front of the brew pub along W. Washington St. from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, Feb 10.
Grizzly Peak general manager Chris Carrington says the event usually fills up quickly, and many of the seats are full by around 5 p.m. After that people either wait inside for a seat to open up, "or they walk away, dejected."
Some Polar Bear Day participants take the event more seriously than others, and it's not unusual to find beer drinkers in costume along W. Washtington St.
"Some people dress a little crazier than they normally would," said Carrington. "Some people go over the top and will come in full-blown snowsuits."
You might even see more of that this year than other years. Carrington says this is the coldest Polar Bear Day that he can remember.
"Definitely it's the coldest in the last five years," said Carrington. "We kind of throw people a one dollar beer for sitting out in the cold weather, but the last couple of years they've kind of gotten off easy."
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Arvin, late goal lift Admirals to win
Erie Admirals S.C. goalkeeper Ryan Arvin waited a season-and-a-half to make his first National Premier Soccer League start Friday night.
He took advantage of it. Arvin made five saves, capped by the last of three diving stops in the 87th minute, to lead the Admirals to a 1-0 win over the Indiana Fire at Gannon University Field.
"We were on a three-match unbeaten streak. We really wanted to keep that momentum going," said Arvin, who posted his first NPSL shutout.
Arvin stepped in for injured Danny Mudd, and provided a glimpse of what Mercyhurst University fans will see next fall. Arvin, who will join the Lakers as a graduate student after playing his first three collegiate seasons at NCAA Division I Canisius, made all three of his sprawling saves in the final 22 minutes of regulation.
Still, he credited the defense for the Admirals' first shutout victory of the season, especially during an opening half that was dominated by the Fire (4-3-1).
"We held defensively strong for the first 45 minutes. They were on us," Arvin said. "We went in at halftime and regrouped. The boys really put their bodies on the line defending."
Meanwhile, rookie forward Tyler Collishaw waited much less time for a chance to play -- 52 minutes, to be exact. The second-half substitute capitalized on his chance, heading fellow rookie Andre Landell's cross past goalkeeper Eric Dick in the 80th minute to snap the scoreless tie.
"We kept plugging away. I didn't know if it was going to come. I thought we were destined for 0-0," coach Micky Blythe said. "Great ball from Andre Landell. He's been superb all season, and then Tyler with the header. I thought we deserved the win based on that defensive performance in the first half. We went to get them a little bit in the second half."
Blythe said Collishaw was able to enter the game despite dealing with an injury. The Admirals (2-3-2), who are unbeaten in four straight games (2-0-2), also played without two injured veterans -- defender Samuel Oki and forward Karl Jones. But the Admirals, who had 10 first-year players and six with Erie ties in the lineup, held on down the stretch.
They were helped by Arvin's diving stop with 3 minutes left and Nago Mbengue's point-blank shot off the right post two minutes later.
"It wasn't pretty," Blythe said, "but it's effective."
- Notes: Westfield Select, a first-year club, was renamed the Indiana Fire two weeks ago because of an affiliation agreement with Major League Soccer's Chicago Fire.
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I climbed Mt Kilimangaro in ketosis. Yes I realize that weight lifting is a different kind of muscle and yes requires some more carbs if you do it often but don't tell me that someone who can make it to the top of the world's tallest freestanding mountain is not in "respectable" physical condition.[/QUOTE]
You're missing my point.
You don't need carbohydrate to function. You don't need carbohydrate to be a respectable athlete. You don't need carbohydrate to be relatively healthy. A person eating primally in ketosis is going to be much healthier than someone eating a balanced diet on the SAD. However, outside of very rare outliers, no matter how healthy you strive to be in ketosis, you will never be as healthy as you are out of ketosis. Ketosis, no matter what, is always a ball and chain. It is always holding you back. Because it is almost never the state your body wants to be in. You can function well on ketosis, but you will never function optimally. It takes its toll.


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Rolls-Royce is looking for employees. The company's Crosspointe site in Prince George County, Virginia, which currently makes rotative parts, has announced plans to build a facility for airfoil production at the same location. To meet the expanded need for personnel, Crosspointe is seeking technical staff members with experience in advanced manufacturing and precision machining, as well as manufacturing engineers with machining-related experience. Interested candidates are invited to an open house at Crosspointe on Saturday, November 10. For more details and to register for the event, go to this page.
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Social Psychology
Social Psychology
Social psychology involves the scientific study of how individuals perceive, influence, and relate to others. The field relies on laboratory as well as field-based research methods in order to generate theories of social behavior. Social psychologists study a wide range of topics and questions including:
Social perception: What affects the way we perceive ourselves and others? Self and identity, attributions, stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination
Social influence: How do we influence each other? Attitudes, persuasion, conformity, group processes
Social relations: What causes us to like, love, help, and hurt others? Attraction and close relationships, prosocial behavior, aggression
Social psychologists take an interactional approach to human behavior that emphasizes how both an individual's internal characteristics (biology, personality) and external environment dynamically shape behavior in everyday settings. Because behavior often has multiple causes, social psychologists use biological, neural, cultural, and environmental perspectives to unravel the mysteries and complexities of human social interaction.
Social psychology has applications in many real-world domains, for example, education, business, government, health and well-being, sports, politics, law, and community development.
Professional Organizations in Social Psychology
Division 8 of the American Psychological Association – the Society for Personality and Social Psychology seeks to advance the progress of theory, basic and applied research, and practice in the field of personality and social psychology. Members are employed in academia and private industry or government, and all are concerned with how individuals affect and are affected by other people and by their social and physical environments.
The Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP): http://www.sesp.org
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Magic. Is that what he calls it?
'Weird' is a matter of perspective.'
But … M C Hammer pants? Really?
(hope he at least washes them regularly.
They didn't have enough magic for M.C. Hammer, Adam, I don't think they have enough for you.
What color is your parachute, or what color are your parachute pants?
I think it's called how to make your neighbors disappear…
I don't want to see him shimmy.
You would think that there would be a good come back to this comic, but alas there is none that can touch this …
♫ "I told you, homeboy (You can't touch this) Yeah, that's how we living and you know (You can't touch this)" ♪
If they stay there long enough the Dust Mites will , er, dust on them. They are messy critters. :-)
Can he do ANYTHING on his own and not have his Mommy do it for him????
He did the American Music Award last year and performed a mix of Gangnam Style and 2 Legit 2 Quit. http://youtu.be/oNCmH2sNY4E
He must make a LOT of money doing whatever it is that he does. I can't think of any other reason his HOT wife puts up with a childish, lazy, fat, balding slob like him.
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PUKALANI - Maui High School girls soccer coach Tony Medeiros drew up a new play Friday called the "open gate" and his team worked on it for 15 minutes.
On Saturday, the Sabers pulled it off when it really mattered.
Tiana Lucas scored on an indirect free kick from about 25 yards out in double overtime as Maui High beat Baldwin 1-0 in a Maui Interscholastic League Division I second-place playoff game Saturday at King Kekaulike Stadium.
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Maika Hanta of Maui High School and Baldwin's Christine Kenagy go for a ball during the first half of the Sabers' 1-0, double overtime win over the Bears on Saturday.
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Baldwin's Christine Kenagy and Maui High's Sariah Kamalani compete for a first-half ball.
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"I saw the goalie was switching more to the back post, so I just tried to curve it in," said Lucas, who fought through an injured right leg.
The Sabers (10-3-0) and league champion Kamehameha Maui will represent the MIL in the state tournament.
"We don't just want to get there, we want to compete," Medeiros said.
On the winning play, Maui High put three players in front of the ball to shield the defense, Mary Lyn Johannes crossed over the ball from right to left and Michelle Gima touched it to Lucas' right foot. Lucas' rocket in the 97th minute went into the net's top left corner.
The play was prompted after the Bears (9-4-0) were called for a high kick.
"Knowing that we had a slight breeze in our favor, if Tiana hits this ball well it could be a chance to score," Medeiros said. "As soon as I saw the foul, I was yelling, 'Set up the play, set up the play.' "
Maui High last went to the state tournament in 1996 - Sabers assistant coach Leilani Abafo played for Medeiros on that team. Abafo has decided not to return next season.
"I did this personally for my assistant coach, coach Leilani Abafo," Lucas said. "She's been like a mother to me and this is her last year and we wanted to go out winning and go to states."
After Lucas' goal, Baldwin had a couple of chances to get the equalizer. Brianne Cremer sent a shot over the post from in close and Kacy-lyn Navarro was just wide left after receiving a pass in the penalty box.
"We couldn't get that goal. We had chances, but we just couldn't put it away," said Baldwin coach Tia Medeiros, no relation to her Maui High counterpart.
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Telkonet reports higher sales, earnings
Energy management technology firm Telkonet Inc. reported a double-digit gain in sales and higher net income in the third quarter.
Net income rose to $513,000 from $10,000 in the same period last year. Earnings per share were break-even in both quarters. »Read Full Blog Post
Associated Bank raises dividend, to buy back shares
The parent company of Associated Bank said Tuesday it has raised its quarterly cash dividend to 8 cents a share, a boost of 3 cents.
The increase in the dividend follows a consistent return to profitability for Green Bay-based Associated Banc-Corp. »Read Full Article(1)
OnCourse Learning buys San Diego online training firm
In its second acquisition of 2012, Waukesha-based OnCourse Learning Co. has purchased Digital University, an online bank and credit union regulatory compliance training firm.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Digital University, which is based in San Diego, provides courses that cover more than 300 topics such as regulatory compliance and customer service for more than 1,000 bank, credit union and utility customers. »Read Full Article
Bergstrom Automotive buys Oshkosh dealership
Bergstrom Automotive has bought Pommerening Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Oshkosh, the Neenah-based dealership group announced Tuesday.
The Pommerening dealership will open Wednesday as Bergstrom Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, but Bergstrom said it plans to move it to a new location in Oshkosh at some point. »Read Full Article
Juneau Ave. bridge to reopen Wednesday
After 15 months of construction, the Juneau Ave. bridge over the Milwaukee River will reopen on Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The event will begin at 10:30 a.m. »Read Full Article
Grafton industrial building sells for $1.9 million
A 42,505-square-foot industrial building, located at 2350-2360 Dakota Drive, Grafton, has been sold to a local investor for $1.9 million.
Hakaduli Properties LLC, which owns several Milwaukee area properties, including the Glendale Business Center, bought the buildilng from CRH Inc. Brian Parrish, of Dickman Co., represented the buyer, and Alex Kasun, of Gerald Nell Inc., represented the seller. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Developer proposes 331 apartments in Menomonee Falls
Fiduciary Real Estate Development Inc. is proposing 331 higher-end apartments for 14 acres west of the former Stolper site in Menomonee Falls, a $40 million project.
The apartments would be north of Roosevelt Drive and south of a planned extension of Richfield Way, west of Patton Drive. »Read Full Blog Post(7)
BMO Harris to donate $600,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs partnership
Tommy Walls and Marina Murphy are part of a unique education pipeline, from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee to Marquette University.
"Your first priority is to come in and get the best grade you can," said Walls, a junior studying social welfare and justice. »Read Full Article(13)


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On 14 Maj, 16:15, jocke.n...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I have upgraded to 3.2.3 from 3.0. Before we have added a custom field
> of type dropdown but we now want it to be a Multiple drop down
> instead.
> From what I can see it is not possible to change type as of now. But
> how should one solve this problem?
> Maybe with editing SQL database after adding a new field? (I am a SQL
> rookie).
> Add a new field and make the old one obsolete have some drawbacks
> since need the old values set in old bugs.
> Best Regards,Jocke
It worked fine changing type directly in SQL


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The NBA draft lottery took place today and an excited Wizards ownership is now looking at the number 1 overall pick. They will most likely be choosing between John Wall or Evan Turner.
Let's look at how the rest fared in the 2010 NBA Draft Lottery:
- Washington Wizards
- Philadelphia 76ers
- New Jersey Nets
- Minnesota Timberwolves
- Sacramento Kings
- Golden State Warriors
- Detroit Pistons
- Los Angeles Clippers
- Utah Jazz (from NY via Phoenix)
- Indiana Pacers
- New Orleans Hornets
- Memphis Grizzlies
- Toronto Raptors
- Houston Rockets
Let the draft predictions begin!
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Guide to Milwaukee summer festivals
If it's summer in the city, you won't be far from a festival. Festival Season starts Saturday with the Highland Games and ends with Indian Summer Festival in September. Get out and enjoy.
Jump to: MAJOR FESTIVALS | FAIRS | CHURCH FESTIVALS | OTHER FESTIVALS | MISCELANNEOUS | SPORTS | CONCERTS | FREE CONCERTS »Read Full Article
Alchemist Theatre's 'King Lear' reigns as family drama
Early in Friday's opening-night performance of Alchemist Theatre's "King Lear," Bo Johnson's aged king called for the map demonstrating his intended division of Britain among his three daughters. Lear's attendants dutifully unfurled it — with the bottom at the top and the top at the bottom. When they tried to hang the map up, it kept falling down.
Director Leda Hoffmann confirmed during intermission that this sequence wasn't planned. But such a topsy-turvy world aptly illustrates the disorder that descends on Britain once the hot-tempered Lear banishes his beloved Cordelia, counting on his remaining two daughters to keep him and Britain safe. »Read Full Article
Check out interactive map of southeast Wisconsin farmers markets
Another beautiful Saturday morning — perfect farmers market weather.
Good thing there are so many of them operating on Saturdays. »Read Full Article


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Has anyone done any work studying the effectiveness of toolbars /
"butcons" in web applications? Specifically I'm interested to know
how intermediate / advanced tools such as those impact customer
conversion rates.
Most web 2.0 apps seem to be a mixture of tabs / buttons, with very
little use of toolbars or menus.