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RB2 question? Mike Bell or Caddy? Bell looks to the be the goal line back when the Saints get into goal line situations which could make him a good RB2 candidate. However Caddy looks to be the clear #1 RB in TB however he is facing the (better than people think) Pats run defense. I'm leaning towards the guy who will get the carries (like Benson) but I'm not sure what if anything Caddy will put up on the ground. The rest of my team is in my sig.
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QB Tom Brady; David Garrard*
RB Maurice Jones-Drew; Cedric Benson; Mike Bell*; Cadillac Williams*;
WR Reggie Wayne; Wes Welker; Marques Colston; Derrick Mason; Roddy White*; Santana Moss
TE Dallas Clark*; Visanthe Shiancoe*;
DEF Falcons*
K Elam*
I need to pick two of Westbrook (@ Wash), DeAngelo Williams (vs Buf), and Thomas Jones (@ Oak) [and I guess Choice (vs Atl), but he's clearly #4].
I was shocked to see Washington was #4 vs the run, but they are #17 vs RB passing. I'm expected to win this week, so I'm looking for the highest minimum here, not highest potential. I'm leaning Williams and Westbrook, since Jones is kind of up and down, but he's got the better match up...
Rest of the team:
QB: Rogers
WR: Colston, DeSean Jackson, VJackson
TE: Heath Miller
K: Prater (or some scrub, if he doesn't clear)
Def: NO
I need to start two of these running backs...
Matt Forte
Thomas Jones - sat him last week, doh!
Marion Barber
Rashard Mendenhall
Leaning towards Barber against Atlanta and Jones against Oakland. Is Barber healty after that bye week or is Choice going to steal carries and scores again?
Forte has been a bust as my top pick, but he does have a Cincinnati team that just allowed Slaton to get back on track. Mendenhall is studly, but he is goes against that wall in Minnesota and he's not catching his way to victory like Ray Rice.
Owen Daniels vs SF
Heath Miller vs MIN ?
Pierre Thomas v miami, Cedric Benson v chicago, Matt Forte v cincinnati.
Pick two.
10 yards/point running/receiving, no PPR, 6 points touchdown no fumble penalty.


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Welcome Josh. It really does work, for most people.
At 1200-1500 calories with chronic cardio, your body thinks it needs to hold on to all the fat it has. Forget calories. Think carbs.
Hello all,
I ran across this website through Google and was instantly intrigued. A brief background:
I've always been the overweight guy. Not morbidly obese, but definitely not skinny. The chubby guy I suppose. I was around 180 when i graduated high school ten years ago and somehow managed to slowly climb to 220 by the end of 2010.
I lost a brother last year when he was 29, which made me realize that life is short and I better get my butt in gear and turn things around. Since new years I have quit smoking, started a pretty strict low-calorie diet (around 1200-1500 per day), and started a strict workout regimen of what Mark would call "chronic cardio".
I am now sitting right around 180, and still not smoking, so I guess I should pretty darn happy with myself. I am, actually, but the problem is that I've been at 180 for about 3 months now and I can't get off the plateau. In fact, I found this website googling about plateaus and ran across one of the many blog posts that Mark has written about every topic under the sun. I got excited enough that I ran out and bought the PB book last night and am devouring it.
This afternoon I cleared out the cupboards and did some primal grocery shopping and I'm ready to go. I've done low carb diets before, so I'm not really worried. I don't get the carb flu that people talk about, if anything I get anxiety the same way that I used to get from cigarettes. I know that it will pass.
My goals: my ultimate goal is to get to around 160. Originally I wanted to be there by the end of the year, but I realize we are quickly running out of months so this may no longer be feasible. I am going to Costa Rica in five weeks, if I can get close to 170 by then I'll be pretty darn happy.
Also, I have a last addiciton to Red Bull that I need to kick. It's sugar free, not that this is much better since its still full of methylethylgonnakillyas. but at least there's no carbs? Gotta kick it.
My worries: It's hard for me to believe that I can lose weight by REDUCING the amount that I am working out. I've gotten into such a Chronic Cardio routine, that I'm a little worried to slow things down. Any input on that is appreciated.
Well now you know me, hello to all, let's go!
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Welcome Josh. It really does work, for most people.
At 1200-1500 calories with chronic cardio, your body thinks it needs to hold on to all the fat it has. Forget calories. Think carbs.
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UNIVERSITY PARK -- Joe Paterno likes to take jabs at the media, and he had a good and pertinent one Tuesday when discussing new starting offensive lineman Chima Okoli.
Iowa has not just good, but great defensive ends, and JoePa understands that no matter how well Okoli plays at right tackle in his first career start Saturday, he certainly will struggle at times.
"I think [Okoli] will do a good job," Paterno said. "But I'd have to define what I think is good. You guys on Sunday may say, 'Well, so and so missed a block.' Yeah, he's going to miss that block."
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Just like writers will make a mistake from time to time, he added.
"You guys, every once in a while, you ought to check your grammar," Paterno said. "Every once in a while, there's a couple of things in there I say, 'Didn't this guy ever take English?'"
Paterno's point was to judge Okoli based on the entirety of Saturday's game, not just a play or two in which he may look bad.
The reason for that is simple: Hawkeyes defensive ends Adrian Clayborn and Broderick Binns will make a lot of offensive tackles look bad.
Clayborn is one of the best defensive players in the country and a likely first-round NFL draft pick, while Binns also wreaks a lot of havoc.
Okoli takes over at right tackle for Lou Eliades, who suffered a season-ending knee injury against Temple, and he will be thrown to the fire against Iowa.
"Get ready. Here it is. That's literally what I said to myself," Okoli said of playing against Temple after Eliades' injury.
"I was like, 'It just got real. It just got real. Let's get it,'" he added. "There's no more time for being timid or going in there on your tiptoes. You really gotta get in there because it's real now, and everything counts."
Penn State's offensive line has struggled most of the season, and now it's replacing a key position at a tough time with conference play looming.
Okoli began his career on the defensive line, playing tackle the past two years, before moving to offense in the spring. He called it a "shock period" moving over to what he referred to as "the dark side" being on offense.
"I was like, 'Wow, man,'" Okoli said of the move. "It was a little bit of, 'Man, I've gotta learn all this stuff. Now I'm on the dark side.'"
He used to talk trash to all the offensive linemen, but now he's one of them.
He hates to see his friend Eliades get hurt, but Okoli knows what's at stake for him.
"I've been waiting for this since July 1, 2007 when I got on campus," he said. "I came here on the D-line, and it didn't really work out. But now it's really my time.
"Success is when preparedness meets opportunity. I've been preparing myself for my opportunity, so hopefully success will follow."
And how does he plan to have success?
"On the field, you really have to be mean," Okoli said. "This isn't a game where you can afford to go in there timid. That's how disasters happen. I learned tenacity and intensity from Lou, and you can't really put a price on that."
SUBHD: Kersey stays put
Redshirt sophomore receiver Shawney Kersey was not at practice last week and had planned to transfer, but he had a change of heart and returned to practice Monday.
Paterno was tight-lipped about Kersey's situation Tuesday.
"He practiced [Monday]," he said. "Some days, sometimes kids will miss a practice."
Receiver and captain Brett Brackett said, "He's just a young guy, and that's just something that's gonna happen when you're young. You're far from home -- he's from Jersey like I am -- and just trying to keep your head straight and focused on football."
Kersey hasn't caught a pass this season but did catch two TDs in the Blue-White Game.
SUBHD: Red zone issues
Paterno reiterated his comments from Saturday about playcalling being questionable at times in the red zone against Temple.
"Maybe the play selection has to be a little better, throw a little earlier in some downs and things of that sort," he said. "But overall, I don't want to go berserk. I think we've got to be solid when we get down there."
SUBHD: JoePa the motivator
Paterno spoke to Evan Royster early last week and again before Saturday's game, telling him both times to keep his head up and keep fighting for extra yards.
That was one small example of how JoePa is still very much involved in what's going on with the players.
"I wouldn't say we're extremely close because he's got a lot of people to worry about," Royster said. "But he always knows what to say to get you going. That's what you look for in a head coach. He's got so many people to worry about, but he knows what to say and can get people fired up."
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The hardest thing to get used to this season is the Gary Kubiak actually saying critical things about individual players on the team instead of just coach speak and platitudes.
Usually, I am not a fan of coaches that "send messages" in the media, but I don't think that is what he is doing.
He just seems to just be saying some of what he is thinking. He says it to his players and he says it to the media.
He can do that because he has an open door approach with his players that started the first day he had a team meeting. To understand more about his way of doing things, I suggest you read this HoustonTexans.com article from last March talking about his first group meeting with the players.
Here's an excerpt:
"If it's any indication, this morning I thought it was one of the better speeches I've sat through from a coach," offensive lineman Zach Wiegert said. "He took the podium off the stage and got down and talked to the players on the floor. He said my office is always open. Come up if you ever have anything. I think that helps.
"Players like to see the fact that they can go to the head coach. If there is a problem, it can get stopped right with him. Guys being mad about something in the locker room talking about it, that doesn't help the team out. He's been a player. He knows how that stuff works. I have a real confidence that guys will take to him and like his system."
Fellow offensive guard Steve McKinney also appreciated Kubiak's open-door policy.
"We really have no reason not to have full confidence in him right now," McKinney said. "He's not going to waste our time. He's going to have a purpose for everything we do in the meeting room and out on the football field. That's a good thing. A lot of times as a professional athlete, the season is long and it can get pretty monotonous. It's nice to have a coach come in and say, 'Hey, we're not going to just meet to meet. We're going to come in and get our work done. We're not going to waste your time doing it.'"
One of the qualities that many players found refreshing during Kubiak's speech is his humility. He doesn't need to puff his chest to express his points. In fact, he's so unassuming that defensive tackle Travis Johnson thought it was a prank the first time Kubiak contacted him.
"I remember the first time he called me I thought someone was playing on my phone," Johnson said. "I was like, 'Stop (messing) with me. This isn't Gary Kubiak.' He's a real down-to-earth guy. I'm really looking forward to playing for a guy with such enthusiasm and such a love for the game."
Kubiak treating the players as professionals means that he treats them as men, is honest, lets his expectations be known and criticizes when those expectations are not met. I like the way that John McClain put it in his recent blog post about Kubiak:
Members of the Denver organization, including former players and coaches, used to tell me that Kubiak was a whole lot different behind the scenes, that he was outgoing and animated and gave some emotion-filled speeches. They said he kept that part of his personality out of the public eye. I had a hard time believing it, but now I see they were right. He jumps on players, and he doesn't play favorites. And his language, well, he must have learned those words at A&M.
One of the big stories of camp is that Kubiak is being tough on all his quarterbacks, including David Carr. The very specific, critical coaching is something that Carr has welcomed, though I am not sure how happy he must have been with the metric death beams coming out of Kubiak's eyeballs after the first series in the Rams game.
The criticism is not limited to the quarterback position. Throughout camp, he has rewarded players with playing time if they have been practicing well. This is consistent with his key principle of training camp–that competition in camp makes all players better and creates more depth.
So, even going into the third week of camp, if he is not happy with play at a position, he is still encouraging training camp battles to find who will become a starter at a position. For example, it appears that the only players that Kubiak feels comfortable suggesting will be offensive line starters for opening day are Zach Wiegart and Mike Flanagan. All the other line positions, there is still a battle to see who will play.
If you have read his camp quotes, he has been both praising and critical of just about every part of the team. Actually coaching them. In previous years, it always seemed like who got playing time was dependant on where someone was drafted and salary cap commitments and not preseason work Though some of that might end up coming into play, the rhetoric and the preseason playing time says otherwise.
The only time I recall Coach Kubiak not publicly challenging a player involves Kris Brown. Brown has missed two preseason mid-range field goals. During Kubiak's coach show on SportsRadio610 on Monday, he was asked about Brown and said that he had complete confidence in his abilities. Oh really?
I'm guessing Kubiak says this because: 1. At this point and with the salary cap commitment to Brown, it is pretty clear he is going to have to be the kicker of the Texans; 2. Kicking is a position that demands confidence in what you are doing, so Kubiak is just supporting the guy who is going to be playing for him. Or maybe he just really believes that.
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A group of local musicians is living in the past. Gazpacho is taking people back to one of the best decades for music, the 1980's. Sean McDonald got in his own time machine to "Bust a Move" and found many are still "Livin' on a Prayer."
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An Open Letter to the Two Dudes at Kroger Who Didn't Know What Day It Was.
Dear Two Dudes,
I know you're only asking because you've got that box of beers there, on the next self-checkout carousel over, and you're not sure if it's legal to buy alcohol today. Can't buy it on Sundays down here. Let's ignore for a second that the beer aisle is darkened and uninviting on Sundays, so you would've had some warning if it were Sunday. Maybe you just don't trust your environment to warn you that way. That's probably some kind of wise.
No, what I want to say is this: Cheers, dudes. Cheers to your freedom. Cheers to your unfettered existence, not tethered to earthly constraints and mundane strictures like days of the week. Seriously. You're out here trying to abide by our alien rules, when really you're so unencumbered and relaxed, so fucking free, that you can lose track of whole days. They slide by as nameless bundles of hours. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and the world spins, but you don't divide that experience up into anything so cutting and severe and categorical as a day.
Who's to say what Wednesday or Saturday even means? Who's to say that those names have power over you? Who you are doesn't change based on the day. What you do doesn't depend on the day. You're just living—floating, maybe, or gliding. Something airy and serene.
Truth be told, I'm sort of flattered that you asked us. Something about your shamanic detachment, your floating ethereality, suggests that you can spot an asshole. You know better than to ask someone judgmental, someone too tightly wound to tolerate your insouciance. That you asked us what day it is suggests that we're cool enough to understand that sometimes you just don't know. Sometimes, these things, they get away from us. We're all just organisms trying to get by, right? Little ships on choppy seas.
It is Friday.
Warm regards,
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Crowley City Council suspends fluoridation
By: Howie Dennis
CROWLEY - The Crowley City Council met Tuesday night to consider a variety of motions including the suspension of the fluoridation of Crowley's water until further research could be done and a motion to advertise for bids for a new roofs at the Central Fire Station and the North Crowley Fire Station.
The meeting was missing four of its members including Vernon 'Step' Martin who was in DeQuincy representing the city in other matters.
The meeting began with public hearings the first of which was to amend the budget for the city of Crowley for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2009 and ending August 31, 2010. The council agreed to pass the ordinance.
During the Utility Committee's report Mayor Greg Jones said that LAWCO had agreed to suspend putting fluoride in Crowley's water supply until further research could be done on the matter. The matter has been brought up before the council on a couple of previous occasions.
While local dentists and state and federal dental organizations have agreed that the practice of putting fluoride in the water supply was not dangerous, there are obviously many who are still uncomfortable with the issue.
Councilman Elliot Dore brought a booklet containing facts about fluoridation with him to the meeting.
"I urge each of you to read this booklet," said Dore. "It is filled with facts on the matter."
During the Zoning and Annexation Committee's report a motion was passed to increase the required parking spaces for two family dwellings from one to two spaces for each unit.
Also, during the Zoning and Annexation's report, three motions were passed regarding trailer and mobile home parks in the city limits. The first of which was to prohibit the establishment of any new trailer or mobile home parks within the city limits. The second motion which was passed was to prohibit the expansion of land areas for any existing mobile home parks in the city limits. The third motion passed was to verify an ordinance which said that two trailers or mobile homes on the same parcel of land would constitute that land as a mobile home park.
During the Public Building Committee's report, a motion was passed to advertise for bids to repair/build new roofs on the Central Fire Station and the North Crowley Sub Fire Station.
In the resolutions report, city attorney Tom Regan said that Crowley Police Chief K.P. Gibson could sell some used Kenwood radio based units and portable radios at his own discretion.
Also, during the resolutions portion of the meeting the council agreed to write a letter of resolution to support the offshore drilling moratorium in alliance with other cities in the state.
Alderwoman Laurita Pete dissented stating that "we don't know exactly how this will affect the safety of the people and the environment."
The next regularly scheduled committee meetings are scheduled for Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 4 p.m. The next city council meeting is set for Tuesday, August 10.


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It may see a sub-forum when the time comes.
May see one soon actually who knows.
Its only the second day of November..ten more days till Galaxy.
I know that time line means nothing, since the Brawl one was way out before the game is, but still.
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I'd really like to get a Dan Wesson CBOB for my everyday carry gun, but next in line is a Colt Lightweight Commander. The only thing I'm concerned with is the weight difference, with the CBOB being 34oz. and the Colt being 27oz. Hoping some of you can comment on how noticeable the extra 7oz. would be.


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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:20:56 -0500
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You have the unique distinction of being registered on the degrib mailing list (all 1984 of us). Please email me if you want to unregister. The latest version of the program is on:
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On 2/27/2007, the following elements were added to the NDFD for the CONUS and sub sectors: Convective Hazard Outlook, Probability of Tornadoes, Probability of Hail, Probability of Damaging Thunderstorm Winds, Probability of Extreme Tornadoes, Probability of Extreme Hail, Probability of Extreme Thunderstorm Winds, Total Probability of Severe Thunderstorms, Total Probability of Extreme Severe Thunderstorms. (TIN 07-05)
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I've just finished putting together (on Tuesday 2/27/2007) version "1.85" (last one that I announced was "1.84" on 11/3/2006). Sorry to take so long sending this release note out, but surgery on a broken leg slowed things down.
This release focused primarily on handling the new SPC grids, but included some needed upgrades (particularly upgrading the g2clib library and emapf library, and improving the code for the change in daylight savings)
1) Added support for the SPC grids.
2) Upgraded to NCEPs g2clib-1.0.4 library (from version 1.0.2), and fixed a glitch in the memory allocation in g2_unpack2.c.
3) Upgraded to most recent version of the emapf-c library.
4) Overhauled clockstart.c to improve clock.exe, and added support for the 2007 change to daylight saving time
5) Added support for labeling analysis error grids in the RTMA
6) Enabled Wind Gust and Tropical cyclone winds for -DP. Need to investigate the -DC option with tropical cyclone winds.
7) Fixed an indexing glitch in Grib2DataProbe which caused it to be unable to handle multiple -DP points.
8) Thanks to a user, I fixed the bi-linear interpolation. I had been interpolating by holding y constant, but accidentally used the values as if I was holding x constant.
9) Thanks to a user, I fixed some bugs in strTrimRight() and strTrim().
10) Modified the categorical units to consistently use ';' instead of ',' to allow for easier parsing
11) Adjusted genprobe to grab nhemi data as well if the point falls in PR or CONUS since 'nhemi' entirely covers the CONUS and PR sectors.
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Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia
This article uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to describe the patterns and determinants of private interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income during the post-Soviet transition period, with a particularly severe decline occurring in the fall of 1998. Sharply declining fertility, increasing mortality, and past demographic catastrophes have left a population that is both young (few elderly) and old (one of the oldest working-age populations in the world). Informal networks in Russia are likely to take on distinctive characteristics as the country's economic institutions are underdeveloped and there is a very limited social safety net, while household structure closely resembles that found in much wealthier countries. Although it is often assumed that the elderly in Russia are a highly vulnerable economic group, we actually find that transfers flow strongly from elderly and "empty-nest" households to households in the early part of the life course. This is especially true for older households in rural areas. Descriptive statistical models show a tendency toward increasing net transfer outflow as households age, expressed first through declining transfer receipt and later through increased giving of transfers. Although the tendency toward net transfer outflow slows down for the elderly, we also find that elderly pension income, which proved more consistent through the initial posttransition period than wages or other public transfers, are redistributed to younger households.
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2.5 GHz One M8 beats the pants off Galaxy S5, Xperia Z2 and G Pro 2 in benchmarks
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1. MarkArigayo (Posts: 240; Member since: 18 Dec 2013)
With Galaxy S5, Samsung will enter declining era. Samsung no more.
4. ianbbaa (Posts: 305; Member since: 20 Mar 2013)
If or not Samsung fan, but honestly, what does that all new ONE m8 to offer...i dont care benchmarks....M8 is even worse when we saw its expectations to be skyhigh-end device...its just FLOP - even that bulls***t camera is flop like it was on the first ONE. Bulky 5" incher, crappy camera...high price...
27. sgodsell (Posts: 3619; Member since: 16 Mar 2013)
I find it funny that the new HTC one (m8) will beat the pants off the new Samsung S5. Especially since the new S5 is using faster DDR3 ram vs the new HTC one is still using older and slower DDR2 ram. I guess we will have to see when both are available to the public.
34. TechFreak123 (Posts: 85; Member since: 25 Feb 2014)
According to Anandtech's review of the HTC one m8, HTC still cheats in benchmarks as opposed to Samsung that stopped since KitKat came out.
48. true1984 (Posts: 823; Member since: 23 May 2012)
so you're saying the s5 doesn't do that? yeah ok
52. Taters (banned) (Posts: 6474; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
I don't understand this cheating thing. If you want to know the general performance, use the phone. If you want to see the peak theoretical performance, run a benchmark.
This cheating thing is ridiculous. If the phone can run an app/benchmark that high, then that is fair. How is that cheating? They could theoretical program any app to run that powerful, after all a benchmark app is still an app....
Also who is to say Apple and Microsoft don't do this as well? The only way we know about this benchmark behavior is because Android is open enough for us to test these things. So why the media chooses to punish Android for being and open and champion Apple for being discreet is beyond me.
42. jellmoo (Posts: 1583; Member since: 31 Oct 2011)
Er... you realize that this is specifically the Asian iteration of the M8, right? The NA and European version is highly unlikely to best the S5 in terms of benchmarks.
(Not that the benchmarks really mean anything, but I digress...)
54. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
The One M8 uses DDR3.
29. sum182 (Posts: 229; Member since: 19 Nov 2011)
How is it a flop? The battery lasts longer than the G2 (which has the fancy new battery setup), Its killing in benchmarks, which means performance is great, Sense 6 is VERY Sexy (i flashed it on my DNA yesterday.....its niiiiccceee) and uniform now...and actually pretty close to stock which is why i like it, and untill you hold one don't judge it (you may have, idk), i think it feels great in hand just like all of HTC's phones.
I will say the camera is a disappointment, but that's about all i can say i'm sad on about this devices. So for people who don't care about having THE BEST pictures, its perfect
36. robert26101 (Posts: 107; Member since: 21 Mar 2014)
Really you're just a hater. The reviews for the HTC one m8 are all good. The camera is the only thing that reviewers are giving a thumbs down.
8. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
Yeah you can wish that but its not going to happen.
14. tech2 (Posts: 3451; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
Because they lost on benchmarks ?!
20. Aploine (Posts: 426; Member since: 24 Oct 2013)
That should bring some balance to the force, for now.
Is HTC checked for benchmark cheating codes though?
I don't say that they cheat. Just asking.
32. tech2 (Posts: 3451; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
Yes they do !
...and as far as I know only Samsung has rectified their mistake unlike other OEMs.
49. true1984 (Posts: 823; Member since: 23 May 2012)
does it matter? how does a benchmark score translte into acual performance?
18. SamsungELITE (unregistered)
benchmark can be cheated as what I have read somewhere in the internet, just look at the phone's feature and specs to offer not in the benchmarks mainly.
63. jb.telecom2014 (Posts: 3; Member since: 18 Mar 2014)
Well do you know the benchmark of note 3 octacore kitkat vesrion it shows 35798 ....and plz wait for retail unit of s5 .it will bang all the phones ...m8 is just piece of metal and bulky....
2. Duketytz (Posts: 534; Member since: 28 Nov 2013)
Oh no. Brace for impact from the Samsung's fans~
9. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
More like brace for the handful of HTC fans coming to defend a dying company..↑
21. SamsungELITE (unregistered)
haha you're right!
13. tech2 (Posts: 3451; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
Samsung fanboys are no where close to Nokia and Sony fanboys in numbers.
47. Chris_Bakke (Posts: 235; Member since: 23 Jan 2013)
3. gabriel2 (Posts: 22; Member since: 27 Sep 2013)
the last time the galaxy note 3 outperformed the lg g2 despite having i higher clocked cpu and a higher ram they started and investigation on the out come so how come the HTC One out performes the s5 with the same spec atleast samsung is not running in the spec war again this year
5. tiara6918 (Posts: 2036; Member since: 26 Apr 2012)
Were are those commentators who said the m8 wasn't good in performance huh?Not so fast,is it?
11. hung2900 (Posts: 956; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)
Samsung is reported to remove cheat code in benchmark, HTC hasn't.
16. papss (unregistered)
HTC was never reported to cheat bud.. That was LG and Ss
25. Commentator (Posts: 3684; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
46. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1522; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
HTC has been cheating since day one, still doing it:
6. tiara6918 (Posts: 2036; Member since: 26 Apr 2012)
Btw, pa with your m8 review can you add the 2.5ghz variant? It can lead to confusion with some readers if they see the performance varying from one unit to another
7. nbringer (Posts: 180; Member since: 11 Sep 2012)
Bah, reading the title I expected much bigger difference...
26. Commentator (Posts: 3684; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
Well, how much could you really expect from a 0.2 GHz increase?
10. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
No one cares about benchmarks except those that get butt hurt easily.
22. true1984 (Posts: 823; Member since: 23 May 2012)
thats a lot of people. like the ones who complain about the RAM
12. Lt.Green (Posts: 397; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
Who cares!? They can all run every app in the Play Store anyways.
15. me.si (Posts: 17; Member since: 27 Mar 2014)
That is not true
I mean the Benchmark of Xperia Z2
That is more than this
17. jefski2003 (Posts: 4; Member since: 25 Feb 2014)
My tmobile N3 non root scored 36181
31. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Yeah mine scored about 36,000 too.
38. romeo1 (Posts: 718; Member since: 06 Jan 2012)
my z ultra about 35500
so im a bit confused here about how these phones with the better chipset perform like this or is it because there just non retail versions?
19. true1984 (Posts: 823; Member since: 23 May 2012)
so, just overclock the new one to 2.5 GHz if you care about the benchmarks then
23. AbhiD (Posts: 67; Member since: 06 Apr 2012)
huh! why to even buy HTC one anymore?
Z2 just smothers it.
Even the dual camera setup on one turns out to be a pure gimmicky sh*t
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43. jellmoo (Posts: 1583; Member since: 31 Oct 2011)
Of course the Z2 smothers it. The bloody thing is huge! You could probably smother a bear with the Z2, it's that big!
44. AbhiD (Posts: 67; Member since: 06 Apr 2012)
The bloody HTC one is as big as Z2 and even thicker than it despite of having weaker internals in every aspect
45. jellmoo (Posts: 1583; Member since: 31 Oct 2011)
Don't get me wrong, the M8 is indeed overly large as well, but the Z2 remains a hair taller and quite a good bit wider than the M8.
24. xrahul007 (Posts: 3; Member since: 24 Feb 2014)
Benchmarks are like daydreams, forget them. Htc M8 is a brilliant phone, but Xperia Z2 betters it by huge margin...
28. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 3718; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
Good, enjoy this score for sometime coz final S5 units are on the way.
30. ckoch125 (Posts: 192; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
So a phone with the latest chip clocked at its max out scores said chip clocked lower? You don't say... And I wouldn't call it "beating the pants off" by any means.
33. winter_hat (Posts: 110; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
Where's iPhone 5s?
35. newbey123 (Posts: 573; Member since: 19 Mar 2012)
Waiting the arrival of my M8. Can't wait to get my hands on it. Good job HTC. One to rule them all.
37. sniper1087 (Posts: 508; Member since: 31 Dec 2011)
I can't believe people still care about benchmarks, if it doesn't stutter, and performs smoothly all the time nothing else matters.
39. _Bone_ (Posts: 2154; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
And the Asian S5 beats the pants off the Asian M8.
BTW, Anandtech revealed that the M8 is "subtly cheating", Samsung on KitKat however does not.
40. GamasK (Posts: 22; Member since: 27 Jun 2013)
SM-G900H Exynos galaxy s5 score around 38000 too, i've tested at indonesia last week
41. cornerofthemoon (Posts: 590; Member since: 20 Apr 2010)
Deserving or not the S5 will probably be the winner. Samsung still has the marketing muscle.
50. LeBrownJames (Posts: 201; Member since: 17 Mar 2014)
Don't worry Sammy fans. S5 will release its S5 Plus with overclocked CPU and it will crush all those benchmark scores! Thing is it will exclusively be in Korea so just enjoy it on paper.
51. LeBrownJames (Posts: 201; Member since: 17 Mar 2014)
This benchmark thing is just plane stupid. All those scores are nonsense. In reality, you won't even notice a single difference when it comes to everyday life usage. Benchmarks are just marketing gimmicks. Good specs, good build, and good camera - that's what important in choosing a smartphone and not those benchmarks.
53. JMartin22 (Posts: 1969; Member since: 30 Apr 2013)
Uhh, any phone with the same chipset has the same overall potential. So I don't know how a featured score of the M8 (which is not the highest) beats the pants off any phone. Especially when they all have the same potential
61. true1984 (Posts: 823; Member since: 23 May 2012)
by using less resources
55. JerryTime (Posts: 468; Member since: 09 Nov 2013)
Why can't we all just agree that for Android Flagships, they're all beasts, and offer different features sets that are great in their own rights. I personally think they're all solid devices that all have their own niche that appeals to different sets of customers. Not just fan boys. Don't get it twisted, they're not iPhones.
56. true1984 (Posts: 823; Member since: 23 May 2012)
im starting to question phonearena's reporting since the 2.3GHz version of the m8 got 37000+
57. bugsbunny00 (Posts: 2054; Member since: 07 Jun 2013)
they cheat...
60. morijoon (Posts: 25; Member since: 27 Mar 2014)
the samsung is master of cheat


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Estelle Getty Zings for Her Supper as Bea Arthur's Zap-Happy Mom on Golden Girls
The only thing quicker than Sophia's wit is Getty's amazingly successful transition from stage—she starred on Broadway in Torch Song Trilogy—to TV. She recently won a Golden Globe award for best actress in a comedy (shared with Cybill Shepherd) and had her TV career validated with an appearance on The Tonight Show with Joan Rivers. None of that compares with the stunned reaction she receives when people meet her and tell her how great she looks for her age. The thing is, they think she's a shriveled 80 when in fact she's a frisky, funky 62. No matter. She still looks good for her age.
"Somewhere under five feet" and "somewhere under 90 pounds," Getty could be mistaken for Dr. Ruth's purse. She settles into the couch of her tastefully transient two-bedroom Hollywood apartment and sighs. Her hair is neatly coiffed, her clothes are hip, and her manner is a shade shy of uptight.
If she's funny and cranky on Girls, she's only cranky in person. She's hypersensitive about what people are saying about her and wants to clear the air. No, she's not jealous because her co-stars get more attention. No, she doesn't think of herself as a scene stealer. And no, she doesn't think she's a rotten wife because her husband of 38 years, Arthur Gettleman, 62, still lives in New York while tending to his retail glass business. They see each other during the show's four-month hiatus and pay a monthly telephone bill "bigger than the national debt." "I get defensive because I get asked the same thing all the time. What does he do while I'm away? Well, there are men in business who go off for months all over the world and nobody asks their wives what they did while their husbands were away," she says testily.
Nobody would ask except for one small kink: She shares her apartment with actor J. David Krassner, who appeared with her in the touring company of Torch Song. The arrangement smacks more of Jewish mother than red-hot mama. "When you're as short as I am, it's nice to have someone reach things," she cracks. But she never confuses her TV persona with reality. "It's not a mother-child relationship. I don't need any more children." Harvey Fierstein, who wrote Torch Song and played her son in it, doesn't believe it. "What does she mean she doesn't want to be anyone's mother?" rasps Fierstein. "I forgot to send her a Mother's Day card once and she didn't speak to me for three weeks."
The arrangement doesn't seem to bother hubby Arthur, who married her, he says, because "I found her witty, charming, perfectly informed, smart and shorter than me. [He's 5'2".] Sometimes I miss her greatly and sometimes I don't. But I'm glad that she is living with someone and not alone."
For a woman who has made a career out of playing mothers—she was Cher's in Mask and Barry Manilow's in last year's TV movie Copacabana—she has surprisingly few good things to say about motherhood. (She has two grown sons, Barry, 36, and Carl, 33.) "No, I wouldn't claim I enjoyed it," she says. "It was the days of Dr. Spock and everything was so regimented. You stayed home and never left. Fear kept me from enjoying my children." She pauses. "It was such a chore being a mother in those days. Terrible. Awful. No fun at all."
Yet she could be ferociously good at it. Remembers son Carl, who now works with his dad. "In 1968 I was a student at Columbia during the demonstrations. One day we took over the dean's office and after a while the phone rang. It was my mother! To this day I don't know how she knew where I was or how she got through. When I got on the phone she wanted me to think about the ramifications that this might have on my career."
Perseverance has always been her mantra. The daughter of Polish immigrants, she grew up Estelle Scher on New York's Lower East Side. From the time she was 5, she says, "I wanted to be Claudette Colbert." Her father, who at that time ran the glass company that Arthur now oversees, could barely support the family but scrounged up the 25 cents a week she needed for acting lessons. When she was 18 she tried working as a stand-up comic in between waitressing shifts in the Cats-kills but failed miserably. Audiences were aghast at a woman comedian and she bombed. Her parents encouraged her to trade in her stand-up job for a sit-down one, and she found work as a secretary. "I would think of myself as an actress who worked in an office, but actually I was a secretary who worked in the theater," she says.
She took six years to raise her sons before returning to work on off-off Broadway. There she might have languished had friends not taken her to Fierstein's off-Broadway drama called Widows and Children. Afterward she went backstage and told him, "You're incredibly talented—why don't you write yourself a mother and I'll play her?" Within a year, Torch Song opened on Broadway with Fierstein and Getty. Estelle played the role for about five years. "I love everything about her except her broiled chicken," gushes Fierstein.
After Torch Song she kicked around Hollywood doing guest spots on shows like Cagney and Lacey and Fantasy Island. When she auditioned last year for Golden Girls, the producers thought she was too young for the part. Only after her fourth audition, when she arrived dressed as Sophia, did she win the role. "She's not fully aware of what makes her special, which is what makes her special," says one of the show's directors, Terry Hughes. Producers of the upcoming comedy Mannequin, with Andrew (Pretty in Pink) McCarthy, think she's special too. She starts work on that movie next week.
Getty, a natural worrier, has always been the sort of person who can find the cloud in every silver lining. "People who make it to the top when they're young have to worry about staying there," she says. "The nice thing about making it at this stage is that I don't have to worry about staying up here that long." Sophia would be proud.
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multidimensions within multidimensional arrays..??
Hi there experts,
Probably a bit of a stupid question...
Was wondering if it is possible to create a multidimensional array with sub multidimensional arrays.
So for eg: the array would look something like the one below:
array01 - 2D array
array02 - 1D array within array01
array03 - 3D array within array01
ax1/2/3 - all 1D arrays within array03
Thanks, appreciate it.
Re: multidimensions within multidimensional arrays..??
Yes, but you'd need to use structures/classes; you can't do it with the simple array syntax. Array dimensions are simple numbers; you can't have an array of dimensions.
However your "spec" doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. You seem to be trying to define array01 as 2D by 3D, that's a bizarre object which is 2D down one side and 3D down the other. If you mean array01 is a 2D array that contains 1D arrays and 3D arrays then you'll need to use polymorphism (array01 would be a 2D array of "base", from which array02 and array03 would be derived).
So if array01 is a 2D array of array02's and array03's, and array03 is a 3D array of 1D arrays, and array02 is a 1D array of 1D arrays, which is one possible way to make sense of your post, then you might get something like this:
// array01 contains both array02s and array03s so we need a base to derive them from
Re: multidimensions within multidimensional arrays..??
First, a quick re-write of your "spec". (I'm assuming this is what you meant.)
a1[ a2[ b1 ] ] [ a3[ ax1[ b2 ] ] [ ax2[ b3 ] ] [ ax3[ b4 ] ] ]
a1 - 2D array
a2 - 1D array within a1
a3 - 3D array within a1
ax1/2/3 - 1D arrays within a3
b1/2/3/4 - indices
Exactly what you have will work just fine, except that it is not correct to say that a2 and a3 are "within" a1. They are simply being used as indices for a1.
If that is not what you mean, then I agree with xpi0t0s that your "spec" makes very little sense. If a1 is 2D, it needs two indices. Where are they if they aren't a2 and a3? The same for a3: if ax1/2/3 aren't its indices, then where are its indices?
If you really want the "sub-arrays" to be "within" other arrays, xpi0t0s has demonstrated the polymorphic version. Another version is something like this (with 5 as an arbitrary size):
struct {
Re: multidimensions within multidimensional arrays..??
Hi, firstly thanks for all the comments.
Sorry for the vague representation, but below is what i meant:
a1[ a2[ b1 ] ] [ a3[ ax1[ b2 ] ] [ ax2[ b3 ] ] [ ax3[ b4 ] ] ]
So oogabooga - your first representation is right, thanks.
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Matt Damon, who has been in Italy shooting his upcoming drama, The Talented Mr. Ripley, turned up at the Venice International Film Festival to promote Rounders, his new movie about gamblers. But unlike his character, a law school student with a passion for cards, Damon himself majored in English at Harvard. So what's his favorite romantic work of literature? After a bit of hemming and hawing, Damon told us, "Shakespeare's sonnets." When asked to name his most romantic experience in Venice, Damon says it was tooling around town with his mom. Quoth he: "To me, she is the most beautiful woman in the world."
For three consecutive days this fall, Prince Charles, who turns 50 on Nov. 14, will be quite the party animal. Although he was treated to an early birthday bash by his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, at Highgrove, their family estate, I'm told that three more shindigs are in the works: On Nov. 12, Charles will attend a Hampton Court Palace gala; on Friday the 13th, Queen Elizabeth will throw a soirée for hundreds of her son's closest mates at Buckingham Palace; and on Saturday, he will celebrate quietly with a private dinner for those nearest and dearest, including Camilla Parker Bowles.
Since the death of his wife, Linda, in April, Paul McCartney has turned down all interview requests. So the folks at PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) were surprised when the singer's office called to offer them an exclusive interview with McCartney for their quarterly magazine, Animal Times. The Q&A with the former Beatle appears in the magazine's fall issue, which will be published shortly after Linda's Sept. 24 birthday, and deals mostly with the couple's vegetarianism. "When I was growing up in Liverpool, we had national service, so I was due to go into the army," says McCartney. "I was dreading it....
I realized I'd have to learn to kill. So I used to go into the woods and kill frogs. I figured if I couldn't kill a frog, how was I ever going to bayonet a man? When I realized I was mistreating animals...that was the turning point. I made a decision one day in the woods: National service or not, I'm stopping this. I saw what lunacy it was, and I apologize to all the frogs."
Producers of CBS's new action-comedy Martial Law don't expect the show's star, martial arts legend Sammo Hung, to take a lot of sick leave. On-the set recently, Hung, playing a top cop from China who joins forces with the LAPD, sprained his ankle during a fight scene, leaving crew members worried that he was out of commission. As he got back on his feet, though, Hung—who has broken countless bones—explained that "a sprained ankle to me is like a paper cut to you." With that he went back to work and finished the scene.
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Who Are These Fake Catholic Groups?
By Anne Hendershott
Some of the biggest supporters of the current health reform bill—replete with public funding for abortion—are self-described "progressive" Catholic organizations, such as Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Catholics United, and Catholic Democrats. These Catholic organizations, along with the Catholic Health Association have created confusion for Catholics because at the same time the USCCB has strongly opposed the current health care reform bill because of its inclusion of public funding for abortion, these Catholic organizations are providing "official" Catholic support for the bill.
This duplicity should surprise no one. In 2008, these so-called Catholic organizations encouraged Catholics to elect Obama because he would reduce the rate of abortion by addressing poverty as the "root cause." Supporting and publishing a study by a Notre Dame professor which erroneously claimed that the data demonstrate that reducing poverty reduces abortion, they convinced many Catholics to support Obama's strategy. Unfortunately, the study was quietly removed from the Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good website after the election when its faulty methodology and erroneous conclusions were pointed out by several social scientists. Professor Bailey, the first author of the initial study, removed his name from the revised report. Joseph Wright remains as the sole author—and is listed as Chairman of the Board of Catholics United on the Form 990 EZ submitted by the organization in 2007.
Now these organizations are providing the same propaganda on funding for abortion in the health care reform bill. But, this time they have placed their people inside the Obama administration. Witness the appointment of Alexia Kelley, the co-founder and director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. Last year, Obama tapped Kelley to direct the federal Health and Human Services Department's Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. For the progressives, she is a perfect choice because for almost a decade, Kelley worked for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops on the Campaign for Human Development. During the years that Kelley worked for the Campaign for Human Development, more than seven million dollars of parishioners' donations were awarded to the notorious ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).
While at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Kelley teamed with Catholics United leaders, James Salt and Chris Korzen, in the 2008 campaign to neutralize the abortion issue by casting it in pro-Democratic Party terms. Salt and Korzen have plenty of political experience, as well. Salt's political work has involved overseeing the Kansas Democratic Party's dubious "faith outreach" efforts, including what he calls "messaging work" for the pro-abortion Kathleen Sebelius and the development of "faith-based messaging resources."
On its website Catholics United describes itself as "a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting the message of justice and the common good found at the heart of the Catholic Social Tradition." But prior to helping to found Catholics United, Korzen worked for several years as a union organizer for SEIU. Like Salt, Korzen has been a strong supporter of Kathleen Sebelius and organized support for her nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services by garnering signatures in an online petition entitled "Catholics for Sebelius."
On its website, Catholics United describes itself as a 501(c) (4) non-profit organization—eligible to accept donations. But, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good emerged in 2005 as a kind of sister organization to Catholics United. A 501(c) (3) organization, donors can claim a deduction against personal income tax when they donate money to Catholics in Alliance. Reviewing the 2007 IRS 990 forms for both Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and Catholics United raises some questions, because Chris Korzen is listed as having received $84,821 in compensation for 40 hours per week from Catholics in Alliance on the group's 990 Form—even though the Catholics United website claimed he was the director there during the same time period.
Soros, An Early Donor to Catholics in Alliance
Despite their inability to engage in extensive lobbying, Catholics in Alliance has been extremely successful in attracting large donors. Never a friend to the Catholic Church, George Soros, one of the earliest donors, contributed $50,000 to Catholics in Alliance in 2005 and another $100,000 in 2006 through his Open Society Institute. Likewise, Smith Bagley, a major Democratic donor and fundraiser, whose wife, Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, is Chairman of the Board of Catholics in Alliance, came close to matching Soros with grants from his family's Arca Foundation. With a long history of supporting progressive organizations like ACORN, the Gamaliel Foundation, People for the American Way, and Planned Parenthood, Arca contributed $50,000 to Catholics in Alliance in 2007 and another $75,000 in 2008.
The new US ambassador to the Vatican, Miguel Diaz, is another example of the Obama administration's alliance with liberal Catholics. A member of the Catholics in Alliance Speakers Bureau, Diaz functions as a "theological consultant" for the organization. While Diaz has no published statements on abortion or embryonic stem-cell research, his affiliations, board memberships, and willingness publicly to endorse pro-abortion Democrats like Kathleen Sebelius suggest that he is part of the Church's contingent that wishes to "move beyond" the "divisive" abortion issue and elect pro-abortion Democrats.
After the controversy emerged within the Catholic community over Notre Dame's invitation to President Obama to give last year's commencement address and receive an honorary degree, Catholics in Alliance published a full-page ad in the South Bend Tribune entitled "Catholic Leaders and Theologians Welcome President Obama to Notre Dame."
It is likely that this strategy will continue, as former Gamaliel Foundation community organizer Victoria Kovara was tapped to replace Alexia Kelley as executive director at Catholics in Alliance. Obama got his start in community organizing at Gamaliel. It is another Soros-funded organization that has been successful in creating local community organizations willing to use confrontational tactics to gain power in progressive causes. Currently Gamaliel has enlisted religious leaders to lobby for health care reform as "a theological imperative." It might be time for the Bishops to begin to distance themselves from some of these so-called "Catholic" organizations. At this point, there is little Catholic about them—except their names.
Anne Hendershott is chair of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program at The King's College in New York City, and the author of Status Envy: The Politics of Catholic Higher Education (Transaction).


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It has been a while since my last post, mostly because of a combination of getting Maple 14 ready to ship and a lack of meaty topics to write about. I am trying to get back into the habit of posting more regularly. You can help me achieve my goal by posting questions about parallel programming. I'll do my best to answer. However for now, I'll give a brief overview of the new parallel programming features in Maple 14.
A new function has been added to the Task Programming Model. The Threads:-Task:-Return function allows a parallel algorithm implemented on top of the Task Programming Model to perform an early bail out. Lets imagine that you have implemented a parallel search. You are looking for a particular element in a large set of data. Using the Task Programming Model, you've created a bunch of tasks, each searching a particular subset of the data. However one of the first tasks to execute finds the element you are looking for. In Maple 13, there was no built in way of telling the other tasks that the result have been found and they they should not execute. In Maple 14, the Return function allows one task to specify a return value (which will be returned from Threads:-Task:-Start) and signal the other tasks that the algorithm is complete and that additional tasks should not be executed. Tasks that are already running will still run to completion, but tasks that have not started executing will not be started.
You may have noticed that there is a race condition with Return. What happens if two tasks both call Return in parallel? Only one of the values will become the value that is passed to Threads:-Task:-Start. I suppose I could say the "first" value is the one that is used, but really, what does that mean? If you call Return, then the value passed to Return should be an acceptable result for the algorithm. If you call Return more than once, any of those values should be valid, thus it shouldn't matter which one becomes the return value. That said, the Return function does give some feedback. In the task that succeeds in having its value accepted, Return will return true. In all other tasks that call Return, it will return false. This allows the code to know if a particular result was or was not accepted.
Maple 14 also adds the Task Programming Model to the C External Calling API. This means that you can write your algorithms in C and make use of the Task Programming Model. The C API is similar to the Maple API, with a few differences. In particular, you need to create each child task individually, instead of as a single call to Continue, as you would in Maple. As well, because it is C code, you need to worry about a few details like memory management that are handled automatically in Maple. Using External Call is fairly advanced, so I won't go into too much detail here. If you'd like to see more details of using the Task Programming Model in External Calling, I can write a seperated post dedicated to that.
As with every release of Maple, we spent some time trying to make our existing functionality faster and more stable. For parallel programming, we reduced the overhead of using the Task Programming Model, as well as reducing the locking in the kernel (which should help improve parallelism). Of course many bugs have been fixed, which should make parallel programming more reliable in Maple 14.
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The couple said their vows under an awning decorated with white flowers in front of 110 guests, including family and friends from their native Ontario.
Once the groom had kissed the bride, guests tossed rose petals at the newlyweds as they walked back up the aisle.
After the wedding, guests were treated to an outdoor cocktail hour before the reception, including a sit-down dinner, under a tent on the estate. In contrast to the all-white ceremony, the reception had a red theme, with centerpieces of red roses and other flowers.
The couple's first dance was to the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris."
Lavigne, 21, and Whibley, 26, have been together for two years, and became engaged in Venice, Italy, in June 2005, while Lavigne was on the last leg of her European tour.
In late 2004 Lavigne started sporting a small pink heart-shaped tattoo with the letter "D" on her right wrist, supposedly for her guitarist-singer-lyricist beau.
When Whibley was spotted wearing a silver band on his left ring finger earlier this year, he shot down rumors that the pair had already tied the knot, telling Teen People, "I've been practicing (playing guitar) with it. … It's fun to mess with the press."
The bride has been especially busy these past few months. Besides preparing for the wedding and giving voice to a possum in the animated film Over the Hedge, Lavigne has a third album in the works. (Her first two albums were 2002's Grammy-nominated Let Go and 2004's Under My Skin.)
Of her new album, she told PEOPLE in May, "there's going to be some love songs on there. That's what I feel, so that's what I'm going to end up writing."
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There's a recent PNAS paper by Rahmstorf and Coumou (discussed by Rahmstorf at RealClimate, with a followup). You can also find a few other discussions online. The virtue of their paper, as I see it, is a nice mathematical analysis of how one should expect the frequency of records to change as the baseline climate changes. They apply their analysis to two cases of recent interest: global temperatures and the Moscow heat wave.
Conflict of interest disclaimer: I received my Ph.D. under Randall Dole while he was at MIT, and I've hooked up with he and his colleagues at NOAA on an investigation of the 2011 Texas drought. Rahmstorf and Coumou say in their paper: "Our results thus explicitly contradict those of Dole et al., who did not find any basis for anticipating the Russian heat record of July 2010." So obviously I'm interested in the Rahmstorf and Coumou paper. Meanwhile the NOAA group that wrote the Dole et al. paper has maintained a web site with additional analyses in response to published criticisms. So let's dig in.
In their application of statistics to the Moscow data, they introduce a new calculated quantity: the probability that a heat record is because of a warming trend. They define this as the probability of a heat record with warming minus the probability of a heat record without warming, divided by the probability of a heat record with warming. So, for example, if 5 records were expected in a given period with warming, and only 1 would have been expected without warming, 80% of the expected records (4 out of 5) would not have occurred without warming, and therefore any given record can be said to have an 80% chance of being "due to the observed warming trend". And indeed, their analysis of the Moscow data gives 80% for the chance that a new record would be due to the warming trend.
I have some quibbles with the numbers, and I may discuss those quibbles at a later date. But I see no flaw in the basic approach to estimating what fraction of new records are attributable to non-stationarity in the climate.
My major objection is not with anything in the body of the paper, but in the abstract. The last sentence of the abstract states: "For July temperature in Moscow, we estimate that the local warming trend has increased the number of records expected in the past decade fivefold, which implies an approximate 80% probability that the 2010 July heat record would not have occurred without climate warming." The first half of the sentence is fine, but in the second half they attempt to apply their probabilities to a specific record.
The statement would be correct (ignoring numerical quibbles) if we knew nothing more than that a record had occurred, but we do know much more. We know the record was far above any previous record. We know from their Figure 1E that the record was far above the non-linear trend line that represents the changing climate. Indeed, we know from their Figure 1E that the record was farther above the changing climate baseline than any previous temperature value.
This means that even if the climate was stationary, that is, even if the non-linear trend line was perfectly flat and there was no climate warming, July 2010 would have set a record. Now, it's an open question whether the 2010 weather pattern was caused by climate change or was made more likely by climate change. Rahmstorf and Coumou don't address that issue; they only look at the time series statistics. And, purely in the context of the time series analysis, with their basic assumption that the "noise" is independent of the "trend", the 2010 July heat would still have set a record without climate warming.
I found a similar result in my analysis of the record-setting 2011 Texas summer heat: climate warming made warm temperatures more likely, but the dryness was so extreme that the record would have been broken anyway, just not by such a large margin.
If you're going to apply the Rahmstorf and Coumou framework to specific records, I think the proper way is to ask the question: was the record so far above the present-day climate that it would have broken the previous record even if the climate hadn't changed, or did the record actually need the help of a changing climate to break the previous record? As the climate warms, warm temperature records become more common, and most of those records wouldn't have happened without the warming climate. But some record events are so extreme that they didn't need the help of a warming climate to surpass the previous record. The 2010 Russian heat wave and the 2011 Texas heat wave appear to be two such examples.


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StoneRidge Receives Honor
The Bobby Weed-designed StoneRidge Golf Club received an Honorable Mention citation in Golf Magazines list of Best New Courses You Can Play in its March issue. The Best New Courses features a variety of styles and price ranges in the listing; StoneRidge is an upscale daily fee course located in Stillwater, Minnesota, near St. Paul. According to the National Golf Foundation well over 350 new facilities opened in 2000.
Opened in July 2000, StoneRidge is a heathland-style design with broad areas of sand, native grasses and scrub. Natural materials, sand bunkers and indigenous prairie grasses give it the look of a course that has been around for many years, instead of months. Wide, rolling fairways are well-suited to playing shots along the ground, like the old courses in the British Isles. The routing encourages walking, with short green-to-tee distances short.
StoneRidge was one of four Weed Design courses that opened in 2000. The others were: the Olde Farm, named Best New Private Course by Golf Digest; the Golf Course at Glen Mills School, which will host a regional qualifier for the USGA Public Links in June; and the Golf Club at Fleming Island, which opened in November.
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The Mighty Quinn Still Swinging
[Editor's Note: Cybergolf's Dave Droschak is in Pinehurst for the 114th U.S. Open. Here's Dave's second report.]
Fran Quinn Celebrating a Putt During the First Round
(Photo by Steven Gibbons - Copyright USGA)
Owen Quinn thought it was "cool" bragging to friends growing up that his father was a professional golfer. And then was the downside, of not being able to share special moments with his dad, who has been a two-decade-long journeyman on the Web.com Tour, traveling from town to town trying to regain his elusive PGA Tour card.
"Sometimes it was like I didn't see my dad in two months, he was gone all the time," said Owen, now a 15-year-old aspiring golfer himself as a high school sophomore in Massachusetts.
The two are making up for lost time this week with a memory of a lifetime. Fran Quinn, who last played in the U.S. Open 18 years ago and entered the hallowed grounds of Pinehurst No. 2 without the sniff of a world ranking, made the cut on Friday with Owen on his bag.
"If you play 25 tournaments a year you are gone for 25 weeks, but when I'm home I'm home and I tried to make up for lost time in those weeks," Quinn said. "That aspect of the job (traveling) is a little bittersweet, but having said that I feel my wife and I have done a pretty good job with what we've accomplished as a family."
The elder Quinn is certainly making "the family" proud. He didn't just make the 36-hole cut but was the U.S. Open media darling on Day 1 with a 2-under 68. He then proceeded to start his second round with two birdies in his first three holes to actually get close to runaway leader Martin Kaymer before fading to a 4-over 74.
Quinn sits at 2-over for the tournament through two rounds on this rigid Donald Ross test. But no matter where he finishes, Quinn knows one thing is certain: He'll be walking up the 18th fairway on Sunday - Father's Day - side-by-side with teenage son Owen.
I talked to both on Friday and they'll convince you the senior Quinn won't be hanging his head either, that he'll be in contention over the weekend.
"I expect to go out and play well Saturday - period," Quinn said. "There is nothing that would tell be otherwise. If I go out and play my game, put the ball in the positions I want, I'm going to have a great weekend."
Of course, we all know how 99.9999 percent of these U.S. Open "feel-good stories" end - badly. I vividly remember Olin Browne and Jason Gore here in 2005. Do I need to continue?
Quinn is 49 years young, having qualified for the 114th U.S. Open in Purchase, N.Y., tying for medalist honors with a pair of 69s. He has limited access on the Web.com Tour as a past champion, where he has won four times and broke the $1 million earnings mark in what is considered the minor leagues of golf.
The most money he ever made in any season on the PGA Tour was $47,199, and has made just 20 cuts in 72 career starts. Coming into Pinehurst, he had played just once this season.
Talk about a journeyman and the ultimate long shot.
"Anybody who has played for 20 or 25 years probably four or five times in their career thought about not playing anymore," Quinn said when I asked why he was standing in front of the media Friday afternoon in such a surreal moment. "I love the game; I know I have the ability to complete and I love the challenge every day of going out and trying to beat the best players in the world."
Quinn got it to 4-under early Friday and was alone in second place, but had bogeys on Nos. 4 and 5, then carded a double-bogey from the middle of the fairway on the seventh - a hole he also bogeyed Thursday. It looked as if Quinn maybe had hit that proverbial wall many "unaccomplished" golfers on a major stage succumb to.
Walking off the seventh green dejected, fans yelled "Let's Go Frannie" from the bleachers and he stepped away from his tee shot to consult with Owen for a second in order to line up his attempt at keeping his round together. "It was a lot of fun . . . I heard it on every hole all day long," Quinn said of the fans.
"We had a four-to-five-hole stretch where we were over par but we got it back on track," Owen said of the front nine. "He basically four-putted No. 7 even though he was off the green, so to get up there and stripe one down the middle on No. 8 I thought to myself, 'OK, he's still there, he's still in it. He's not throwing it away.' "
Walking off the eighth tee the senior Quinn turned around several times to look at the preceding green over his shoulder.
"I was saying to myself, 'How could you be that stupid?' " he said. "If I just did my due diligence and walked under the hole I would have known anything breaking underneath that hole is going off the green. I paid the penalty. It was a careless mental error. My bad and my fault for hitting a bad shot, but that's Pinehurst and that's the U.S. Open."
Quinn played in the 1992 U.S. Open in which Gil Morgan bolted to a 9-under score through two rounds, but didn't finish in the top 10.
"The bottom line is it's the U.S. Open and you're got to play four days," Quinn said of Kaymer's huge lead. "And it's hard sleeping on an eight-shot lead and it's hard playing with an eight-shot lead. I've been there before and it's not easy."
Not in these circumstances, with the entire world watching.
"When you're 49 years old you don't know how many chances you're going to get," his teenage son said. "Being here, 18 years since his last one, is unbelievable. When we got here the first thing we did was go to the range and the second I set foot on the range I was like 'Wow, I am inside the ropes at the U.S. Open. It's an unbelievable feeling.' "
And still, with more golf to play . . . another unbelievable feeling. "I'm just one good round away from being in the mix," said Quinn, his piercing blue eyes staring down some golfing conviction. "That's my goal. I still feel very confident."
After a steak dinner Thursday, the Quinns will be on another quest for chowder and lobstah.
"I got to bed late was my only problem," Quinn said when asked if it was hard to sleep with all the excitement surrounding his Open success. "You know after dinner I had to talk to everybody and then go back to the normal world and talk to everyone back in the house and put out a few fires."
Quinn certainly won't be in a normal or expected place Sunday. Whether he cashes the biggest paycheck of his checkered golfing career is unknown at this point, but he is guaranteed to bank something truly more special.
David Droschak has covered golf in the Carolinas for three decades, mostly with The Associated Press, where he worked for 20 years as AP sports editor in North Carolina prior to launching Droschak Communications, a full-service marketing and PR firm based in Apex, N.C.
Dave, 53, has covered numerous major golf tournaments, including the 1999 and 2005 U.S. Opens at Pinehurst Resort, and is a longtime member of the Golf Writers Association of America. Dave will represent Cybergolf to provide coverage of the historic back-to-back 2014 U.S. Men's and Women's Opens at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina's Sandhills.
Dave was honored with the Sports Writer of the Year award in North Carolina in 2005, and is currently editor of Triangle Golf Today (www.trianglegolf.com), a print and online publication regarded as the "No. 1 Source for Golf News in North Carolina." He is also golf editor for Pinehurst Magazine, an award-winning glossy publication.
Dave grew up in Penn Hills, Pa., about five minutes from famed Oakmont Country Club and was introduced to the game of golf as a caddie at Green Oaks Country Club in nearby Verona, Pa. Dave was the co-captain of the 1978 Penn Hills state championship baseball team, was a pitcher for the 1982 Atlantic Coast Conference champion University of North Carolina Tar Heels, and pitched professionally for two years in the St. Louis Cardinals organization. He is a member of the Penn Hills High School Sports Hall of Fame, which also includes NBA coach George Karl and former four-time Pro Bowl offensive lineman Bill Fralic.
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