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- Cattlemen show surprise interest in expansion
- Feed prices expected to moderate
• The big picture is that beef cow numbers dropped 3 percent last year, and this will mean a smaller calf crop in 2012 that will keep cattle slaughter small for 2013 and 2014.
• If heifer retention continues to grow in 2012 and 2013, beef supplies will not increase until 2015.
• So the modest heifer retention now is actually a price-enhancing factor in the short-run with the bearish implications not occurring until 2015 and beyond.
Although beef supplies will be very short for several more years, the USDA's Cattle report indicates that the very early stages of beef cattle expansion have begun as beef heifer retention has increased a modest 1 percent, said Chris Hurt, a Purdue University Extension economist.
"However, the big picture is that beef cow numbers dropped 3 percent last year, and this will mean a smaller calf crop in 2012 that will keep cattle slaughter small for 2013 and 2014.
"If producers follow through with more heifer retention in 2012 and 2013, slaughter supplies will decline over the next two years and increase finished cattle prices even more," he said.
There have been two dominant drivers of cow numbers in recent years.
The first was the dramatic increases in feed prices after calendar year 2007. The beef industry couldn't pass higher feed costs on to consumers in 2008 and 2009 but instead had to suffer negative margins.
Poor returns led to liquidation of beef cows, which has continued into the current report.
The second large driver was the drought in the southern Plains in recent years that caused further liquidation of cows due to lack of pasture and forages.
"The impact of these two factors resulted in U.S. beef cow numbers dropping 3 million head, or 9 percent, since 2007.
"Every region of the country has reduced beef cow numbers since 2007," he added.
In the past year, the impact of the drought was felt most heavily in Texas where beef cow numbers were down 660,000, representing 13 percent of their herd.
The second largest impact was in Oklahoma where the cow herd was reduced by 288,000 head, or 14 percent, last year.
The cows that were liquidated from the southern Plains in 2011 went in two directions.
"First, cow slaughter was high all year, indicating that many went directly to packers. However, a portion moved to areas that had better pastures and forage supplies.
"The biggest recipient was likely Nebraska where cow numbers were up 112,000 last year, but also Iowa with cow numbers up 55,000 and Colorado up 22,000 head," he said.
There are now indications that the longer-term trend of cow liquidation driven by high feed prices may be coming to an end. This is because beef supplies have now adjusted downward and cattle prices have adjusted sharply higher.

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Somewhere there must be a theory stating that the amount of configuration knowledge required is directly proportional to the need for using said configured service. This is certainly often the case with printing.
True, the configuration interfaces have steadily improved in the past few years. However, administrators still need a fair bit of knowledge to understand which particular software bits they need to make the most of the features of a particular printer. Additionally, the vast array of software available often confuses new users. As an example, there are more than 300 print applications available in the ports collection. Where exactly does one start?
In the next few articles, I'll explain some basic printing terminology. I'll also discuss some of the available applications for each printing component and cover some of the pros and cons of each application. Throughout, I'll demonstrate applying this knowledge to an example printer.
If you haven't already, take some time and skim through the printing section of the FreeBSD handbook. While you may not understand everything, that section will still give you a good overview of the printing process on a Unix system. If you're new to hardware, you'll also find the "hardware setup" and "troubleshooting" subsections very helpful if you're having problems physically setting up your printer.
Let's start with the various components available when setting up your printer. Regardless of the operating system, the main printing software component will always be the spooler. This piece of software receives your print request, known as a print job, and places it in a print queue. As the name suggests, a queue is a lineup of jobs waiting for their turn to receive access to the hardware printer. The spooler monitors both the queue and the printer. As the printer becomes available, the spooler sends the next job for printing. Once the print successfully completes, the spooler removes the job from the queue and moves on to the next job.
Your FreeBSD system comes with
lpd, the original Unix spooler.
Another popular spooler, LPRng (LPR new
generation), is available in the ports collection.
Both spoolers use the printer capability database located in
/etc/printcap for configuration. Did you notice that the bulk of
the printing section of the handbook deals with the proper configuration of
this file? That's for good reason; all printing components rely on the spooler,
which calls them based on their appearance in the spooler configuration file. Depending upon your particular printer, it may be easier to create this file
manually or use a printer configuration tool to create the necessary
/etc/printcap entries. I'll discuss both methods shortly.
Technically, a configured spooler will allow you to access your printer. You'll often want additional components, though. After all, your printer isn't very useful if it can only print gobbledygook or unformatted text with all of the appeal of plain ASCII on a terminal. It's also rather disappointing if your particular printer model comes with a slew of features, none of which you can access.
One of the required components is usually
Ghostscript, especially
if your printer was created for the home market. Most Unix programs assume that
your printer speaks the PostScript printing language found in PostScript (which
usually means expensive) printers.
Ghostscript provides a collection of print drivers. A print driver provides the necessary translation between programs and the language spoken by your particular printer. It also includes the command set required to access the features provided by your printer. Additionally, a print driver often uses a PPD (PostScript Printer Description) file to understand the capabilities of a particular printer.
LinuxPrinting has an excellent article on the interaction of PostScript, Ghostscript, print drivers, and PPDs.
Another useful component is the magic, smart, or input filter. This software recognizes different print formats and sends a job first to a necessary conversion program. Such filters usually come with a configuration utility, allowing for a fairly easy setup. Example filters from the ports collection include:
Finally, your window manager may also provide a printer subsystem that includes a printer setup utility. For example, KDEPrint gives detailed instructions for using KDEPrint, and Gnome provides the Gnome Print Manager.
OK, now that we're aware of the various pieces, where do we go from here? Let's start with a checklist:
Depending upon which ports you've installed on your system, you may or may not already have Ghostscript. To see if you do:
% gs -v
GNU Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-05-17)
Copyright (C) 2003 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
Note that the name of the Ghostscript executable is
gs. If you
receive similar output, you have Ghostscript. If for some reason you don't keep
your ports up-to-date, double-check that your version of Ghostscript is the
latest available from the ports collection. Since Ghostscript is a collection
of drivers and the maintainers constantly add new drivers, you do want a recent
version of Ghostscript.
If you instead receive an error message about a missing command, install Ghostscript:
# cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu
# make install clean
During the install, you'll receive a menu asking which portions to install. If you want, deselect the drivers you don't need. If you're not sure, stick with the defaults.
Next, you need to research the availability of a print driver for your particular printer model. This will let you know if there is an available Unix print driver and provide clues regarding the best route for installing and configuring that driver. Start your search at the Un*x printer compatibility database.
As an example, I have an HP OfficeJet 4110. Fortunately for me, there is an entry in the database for this printer. Hopefully, your particular model will be here as well. (If you're in the market for a printer, check out Suggested Printers for Free Software Users for practical advice on choosing a printer).
Click on the hyperlink for your model to receive a detailed description of the features and quirks provided by the driver. Before proceeding, carefully read through the driver description to see if there's anything you need to know. I made note of the following:
libusb will allow me to access my printer's
scanning feature.
Armed with this information, my next stop is the FreeBSD Ports search engine to see if
there are any related FreeBSD ports. A search for
hpijs and
hpoj shows a port for each.
For now, I'll install the
hpijs driver; once I've configured my
printer, I'll experiment with
hpoj and that black ink patch.
# cd /usr/ports/print/hpijs
# make install
Note: Always check the ports collection for your driver. The print drivers
that come with Ghostscript are compiled into its binary. Sometimes you'll need
an additional port as a Ghostscript add-on to access the printer's full feature
set. In my case,
hpijs is an add-on to the
ijs driver
compiled into Ghostscript. I don't need
hpoj for printing per se,
only for accessing the scanning features of my all-in-one printer.
Once you have Ghostscript and any necessary drivers installed, double-check that your FreeBSD system sees your printer. The FreeBSD handbook has explicit instructions for testing a printer connected to a parallel or serial port. However, my printer uses a USB interface. Since USB is hot swappable, I can plug my printer into an available USB port without having to first shutdown the system. As soon as I make the connection, my console (Alt F1) shows this message:
ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard officejet 4100 series, rev 2.00/1.00,
addr 2, iclass 7/1
ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
Which is an encouraging sign.
Note: If your message instead shows
ugen0 (the generic USB
driver) message, you probably removed
ulpt support from your
kernel configuration file. Rebuild your kernel with
How you proceed is a matter of personal preference. My favorite
configuration utility is
/usr/ports/print/apsfilter, as it provides
an easy-to-use, lightweight text interface. Michael Lucas wrote a
detailed tutorial on using Apsfilter.
If your recommended driver is compiled into Ghostscript, you'll find
configuring and testing your printer a breeze with Apsfilter. It will
automagically create the correct entries in
/etc/printcap for
How do you find out if Ghostscript includes your driver? Once you've
installed Ghostscript, type
gs -h. You'll receive a page of
output, so you may want to
grep for your particular driver name.
In my case, searching for
hpijs will fail but searching for
ijs will succeed.
Unfortunately, Apsfilter isn't the best approach for this particular printer. My recommended driver is an add-on to Ghostscript and Apsfilter is a script that lets you choose from the drivers compiled into Ghostscript. It would take a lot of trial and error on my part to find the closest driver in that list. I'm not really into a lot of trial and error. Besides, I want to take full advantage of the correct driver.
Instead, I'll take a look at what came with that
hpijs port I
# more /usr/ports/print/hpijs/pkg-plist
%%PORTDOCS%%@dirrm share/doc/hpijs
That's not much to work with, a binary without a man page and a
readme that
assumes I'm installing using CUPS. (I'll discuss CUPS in greater detail in the
next article). Since I don't want the overhead of CUPS for a local printer,
I'll try a different approach. Since I didn't include the
directive in my
make install command when I built the
hpijs port, I still have its working directory:
# ls /usr/ports/print/hpijs/work
Bingo! I've hit pay dirt. This directory contains the
foomatic-rip script as well as a directory of PPDs that includes a PPD for my particular model of printer.
What exactly is
foomatic-rip? It is a foomatic
script that understands a database of all known printer drivers, even those not
compiled into Ghostscript.
While it may seem counterintuitive, it looks like my easiest course of
action is to edit
/etc/printcap manually, telling it to use
foomatic-rip and my printer's PPD file.
First, I'll need to copy those files from the work directory to more
reasonable locations. I'll place
foomatic-rip in the directory that contains programs installed by ports, and the PPD into a subdirectory of
# cd /usr/ports/print/hpijs/work/hpijs-1.5
# cp foomatic-rip /usr/local/bin/
# mkdir /etc/foomatic
# cp ppd/HP-OfficeJet_4110-hpijs.ppd /etc/foomatic/
Next, I'll create a spooling directory called
to hold the print jobs sent to my OfficeJet printer:
# mkdir /var/spool/lpd/OfficeJet
Now, I'm ready to add the following lines to
Even if you don't have to create your
/etc/printcap file
manually, it's important to understand the contents of this file so that you
can troubleshoot your printing system.
man printcap will always
show you the meanings of the various capabilities (for example,
if, and
sd). Let's pick apart this
The default printer is always
lp. It can have as many nicknames
as you want to give it, as long as you separate them with the pipe character
|). Here, I've given the nickname
OfficeJet. Note
that every line in this file (except for the very last one) ends with
:\ and every line (except the very first one) begins with
:lp in the second line refers to the physical device where the
printer attaches. Since mine is a USB printer, it uses
:af gives the full path to the accounting or PPD file.
:if gives the full path to the input filter. Here, I use
foomatic-rip. If you instead use
apsfilter, the entry
it creates for you will refer to
:sd gives the full path to the spooling directory.
:sh stands for suppress header, so the spooler will not create
a header page with the print job.
Once I've finished configuring
/etc/printcap, I need to tell
lpd that its configuration file has changed:
# /etc/rc.d/lpd restart
I'm now ready to try printing a test page. From the command line as a regular user, I'll ask for a print out of my printer configuration file:
% lpr /etc/printcap
Excellent, my printer starts to make printing noises. My console (Alt F1) also gives messages showing that foomatic-rip is doing its thing.
For my next test, I start an X session where I'm using KDE as the window manager. I open up the Firefox browser, click on the File menu -> Print Preview, and see that this function works. I then successfully print a web page from my browser.
I next try to print a specified page from an OpenOffice document. Again,
success. See how the various programs on a system all rely on a properly
/etc/printcap file? With this file setup correctly,
you should be able to print from any application.
In the next article, I'll experiment with that
application. I'll also discuss CUPS and demonstrate its usage.
Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.
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Due to being pregnant I am having to start offering more solids and have lots of questions since we have been doing very few. Any opinions or suggestions on how you prepare foods and what brands you are using would be great!!
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What a great nation of people to care so much for their children to challenge federal access to educational information. They truly do care about their children!!
Representing the Navajo Nation are Superintendent Andrew M. Tah; Vice President Rex Lee Jim; and Dr. Kalvin White. (Photo courtesy Navajo Department of Diné Education)
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A Memorandum of Understanding signed January 10 between the Utah State Board of Education and the Navajo Department of Diné Education (NNDODE) will give the Navajo Nation access to assessment data for Navajo students in third through 12th grades.
The nation feels this will help enable better evaluation of the success of Navajo students in Utah public schools. The data will also be used to establish a baseline so interventions and alternatives can be recommended for Navajo students.
"We care for the education of our children. We also understand the importance of education in the lives of people," Navajo Nation Vice President Rex Lee Jim said at the meeting. "We know what it means to have access to data. Data is critical for the development of curriculum that is appropriate and that is effective and efficient. "
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I know this is a star driven league, but Melo and Amare, if you look at their shot charts, do the EXACT same thing - hit midrange jumpers and get into the paint, then draw fouls.
They don't particularly complement eachother taht well.
Again, guys like Gerald Wallace, Iguodala, etc. would be better fits...
Besides, I've also said Melo would be a better fit with NJ anyways, slower offense that is already good at D and needs a primary scorer.
Our primary scorer is already Amare, whose, what 2nd in the league in scoring already?
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I am 62 years old and have decided to test my poor old little grey cells with trying to learn Python.
Having been told it is a good language to learn.
My only problem I have so far is that having programmed years ago in Basic that uses subroutines I can not see how to call subroutines in Python or indeed if they are used.
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Kerry: Time running out for Palestinian state
WASHINGTON Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress on Wednesday that it was urgent to try to revive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians because time was running out for establishing an independent Palestinian state.
I believe the window for a two-state solution is shutting, Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. I think we have some period of time, in a year to a year and a half to two years, or its over.
Kerry recently returned from his third trip to the Middle East since assuming his duties as secretary of state in February. His testimony Wednesday morning was his first appearance before Congress since taking up his post.
Kerry acknowledged that relations between Palestinian and Israeli leaders were burdened by deep distrust, and he said it would be challenging to try to undo years of failure.
He asserted, however, that negotiating a peace settlement was possible, provided it was done carefully. I believe we can, he said.
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When the cheers subsided, a wave of apprehension passed through the room. "Who should do the deed?" Ferrandini asked his followers. "Who should assume the task of liberating the nation of the foul presence of the abolitionist leader?"
Ferrandini explained that paper ballots had been placed into the wooden chest on the table in front of him. One ballot, he continued, was marked in red to designate the assassin. "In order that none should know who drew the fatal ballot, except he who did so, the room was rendered still darker," Davies reported, "and everyone was pledged to secrecy as to the color of the ballot he drew." In this manner, Ferrandini told his followers, the identity of the "honored patriot" would be protected until the last possible instant.
One by one, the "solemn guardians of the South" filed past the box and withdrew a folded ballot slip. Ferrandini himself took the final ballot and held it aloft, telling the assembly in a hushed but steely tone that their business had now come to a close.
Hillard and Davies walked out into the darkened streets together, after first withdrawing to a private corner to open their folded ballots. Davies' own ballot paper was blank, a fact he conveyed to Hillard with an expression of ill-concealed disappointment. As they set off in search of a stiffening drink, Davies told Hillard that he worried that the man who had been chosen to carry it out—whoever he might be—would lose his nerve at the crucial moment. Ferrandini had anticipated this possibility, Hillard said, and had confided to him that a safeguard was in place. The wooden box, Hillard explained, had contained not one, but eight red ballots. Each man would believe that he alone was charged with the task of murdering Lincoln, and that the cause of the South rested solely upon "his courage, strength and devotion." In this way, even if one or two of the chosen assassins should fail to act, at least one of the others would be certain to strike the fatal blow.
Moments later, Davies burst into Pinkerton's office, launching into his account of the evening's events. Pinkerton sat at his desk furiously scribbling notes as Davies spoke.
It was now clear that Pinkerton's period of surveillance—or "unceasing shadow," as he called it—had come to an end.
"My time for action," he declared, "had now arrived."
By the morning of February 21, Lincoln was departing New York City for the first leg of that day's travel to Philadelphia.
Pinkerton had already traveled to Philadelphia by this time, where he was putting the finishing touches on a "plan of operation" he had devised in Baltimore. It had been only three weeks since he had met with Felton in the Quaker City.


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I would like to point out for the readers, if they are not already aware (as clearly the local media doesnt see fit to make the issue of this that it should) that Attorney General Sorrell is one of seven state attorneysgeneral suing the EPA to further restrict the use of wood-burning heat sources.
Apparently, it has not occurred to him that many rely on this inexpensive source of heat in an area where a substantial amount of heat is needed in the cold winter months. What, I would ask, is the purpose of further strangling struggling Vermonters? Perhaps those that struggle to pay their bills in this crumbling, doomed economy are not his true concern? Does he truly believe that stopping the use of wood heat would have any impact on global carbon emissions?
First of all, China is the planets biggest pollution problem, and like it or not they do not care. Second, the generation of electricity and transportation are the two biggest sources of carbon emissions in the nation (non-fossil fuel combustion accounts for 6 percent of total emissions nationwide).
So we will further increase our reliance on foreign oil (because we know the EPA is already strangling the economy by restricting domestic production) or well heat with electricity (the biggest polluter)? More senseless legislation, in the name of the environment, that will (at best) be a net zero change in emissions.
At the worst, well end up creating more emissions, while still expanding an already dysfunctional government bent on controlling every aspect of your life while running the economy into the ground. I would challenge Mr. Sorrell to go door to door in rural Vermont and explain his intent in this suit. Better yet, I would urge everyone to reach out to him and express their opinions, as I doubt he will have the nerve to seek them himself.
He may not respect our opinion, but he should still have to hear it.
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New London - Nothing says summer like a string of perfect beach days.
So when the first official weekend of the season came and went at Ocean Beach Park, it did so without ceremony - just another set of glorious, sun-abundant, 70-something afternoons, marked only by the sights and sounds that have filled it for days now: hundreds packing the sand, crowds of brave souls neck-deep in the frigid water. Like a floor of towels and a Technicolor forest of umbrellas is its natural state - as if it's always been this way.
As if just three weeks ago, it wasn't pouring rain for 24 hours straight, the shore sodden and the creamery shuttered, the parking lot abandoned, the carousel empty. April showers still in full onslaught, long past their welcome. Summer slipped in unnoticed, and on Sunday, it's as if it never left.
By early afternoon, the cars have spilled over onto the stretch of grass next to the parking lot. A small crowd waits patiently at the window of the Boardwalk Creamery. A little boy with saltwater-sticky hair, hardened into spikes, looks troubled as he deliberates.
His sister's order arrives before the cup of cotton candy-flavored Mini Melts he settled on - a cone of soft-serve vanilla. He reaches up with grabby hands.
"No," his mother scolds, "that's Sissy's. You can't have that."
Next to them stands a little girl whose rainbow sprinkles-coated cone matches the rims of her sunglasses. A little smear of melted vanilla pools in the indent of her chin. Overhead, a plane tugs along a banner featuring the image of a plastic cup of iced Dunkin' Donuts coffee and the accompanying text, "You look hot down there."
"Eat up, honey," the girl is instructed. "It's gonna melt."
Here, under a sky that's clear save for some faint wisps of cloud, past the frozen treats, there are four spots to survey - the rides, the sand, the water, and the arcade.
On the carousel - a dollar a token, three tokens to ride - a blonde toddler with stubby pigtails appears unsure atop a blue elephant. Moments later, she trades up for a handsome white steed with a pink and teal saddle. When the ride lurches to start, her mouth drops open.
Just outside the gate, a girl her size, head to toe in pastel seahorses, gazes on wistfully.
"Get to the car, Stella," her mother says.
"I want to watch the horses," she pleads, to no avail.
The sun-weary grab some shade, relaxing on benches beneath the metal awning at the edge of the boardwalk. But on the sand, they lap it up, idle bodies appearing to be permanent fixtures, glazed with a sheen of sweat and sunscreen. All around them, the detritus of a well-planned beach excursion - coolers, bejeweled sandals, armchairs, blankets.
A girl in a bikini demonstrates a flawlessly executed back flip for her family; one dozing sibling misses it.
"Wait, did she do it?" he asks, lifting only his head.
"Do it with no hands!" crows another.
One man in the lap of luxury dangles a perfect bunch of green grapes above his face, plucking them off one by one - one for the little one, one for him.
Down closer to the shoreline, a seeming army of lone toddlers, arms swaddled in floaties, bottoms plunked on the sand, are on a mission to fill their buckets or dig. An older group of four girls delegates sandcastle duties - patting, fortifying, scooping, molding. So far, their diligence has yielded a soggy, doughnut-shaped fort with a stick impaled in its concave center.
"Our back wall's gonna cave!" one of them warns, as the encroaching tide licks ever closer.
Just beyond them, the water is dotted with white, wobbly sailboats. Adults grimace, toe the chilly froth; the children seem universally undaunted, splashing in head on, squealing with delight. Their parents snap quick photos on their phone cameras as their baby fish emerge, grinning, from the sea.
Back up around the boardwalk, the arcade beckons away from the swelter with neon signage, a dark haven of artificially cold air.
A couple of kids work the candy crane in one corner. But on the other side, the door is swung wide open, back out into the sun again.
And on a day like this - another perfect beach day - who wants to be inside?
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Advice from a former NFL player
By Roger, Pure Matters
My cleats are hung up and the rust has started to spread on my mini Lombardi Trophy (it's a replica.) I retired from Pro Football in the fall of 1995 and I have a few words of advice to pass along -- from one player to another -- to those entering the NFL this year as well as to all the seasoned veterans.
Guys, be smart and play the game like it's supposed to be played. This unique opportunity will have a lasting impact on you until the day you die!
Let's get some things out in the open: sign autographs regardless if you get a residual income from a company that thinks they control you! It's important to the game -- remember back when you were a little kid? It matters.
Stay out of trouble so you won't have to call a press conference to tell perfect strangers that you're sorry! Keep your nose clean. The days are limited regardless if you play one year or 10 years -- it will all be a warm comforting memory soon. Be a hero, be an Ambassador for the greatest game in the world. People are watching your every move and the most important spectators are watching with their eyes wide open: the kids! Play the game for 60 minutes, play it between the whistles and play it with reckless abandonment! Clean and fair play is what we, including ex-players, want to see.
The dumbest play in football is when players fight. One player takes a swing at another with his bare hand or with a open hand to the helmet. Did you hear that? To the helmet: a hard plastic top with thick padding on the inside and a face mask made of one or more rubber coated metal bars. Not only do you have a busted hand and probably out for four weeks but it's a 15 yard penalty against your team. You want to fight? Pick up some boxing gloves.
Let's go old school at the end of the game. Win or lose, let's line up in a straight line and shake, slap, bump or even barely touch hands and show off the game's most precious element: sportsmanship! You won't find this word in the new Collective Bargaining Agreement that was just signed before the start of last season.
Sportsmanship is the single most valuable thing I have taken from my experience playing the game. Our 8-year-old son is headed to a new school and their motto is: "Be Honest, Do Your Best and Help the Other Fellow." If we can demand this type of behavior from young boys shouldn't we expect that type of mentality from grown men? It's a new season with new players. Will these newcomers embrace this childhood game still being played all over the world or will they come up short? Only time and a 16-game season will tell.
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Montee Ball and Wisconsin are heading back to the Rose Bowl after an overwhelming performance the Badgers hope will make people forget they finished third in their division.
Ball rushed for 202 yards and three more touchdowns Saturday night, leading the Badgers to a 70-31 rout of No. 14 Nebraska for a third straight Big Ten championship and a third consecutive trip to the Rose Bowl.
All Ball and his teammates wanted was an opportunity to show critics who claimed they didn't belong in the league title game that they were wrong.
"We kind of set our minds before the game that this is our game," Ball said. "The running backs were going to set the tempo."
Did they ever?
Ball ran for 202 yards and three touchdowns, broke the Football Bowl Subdivision career rushing touchdowns record, tied the FBS record for most games with two or more scores, topped the 5,000-yard mark and was named the game MVP.
Not a bad night for a guy whose numbers weren't even the best on the team.
Melvin Gordon opened the scoring with a 56-yard TD run and had a career-high 216 yards on nine carries. Three different Badgers threw passes, including running back James White who ran for 108 yards and four TDs and threw for a touchdown on the first pass of his college career.
It was the most improbable Big Ten title in Wisconsin's three-year run. The Badgers are the first five-loss team to reach the Rose Bowl, and became the first Big Ten school since Michigan in the late 1970s to earn three consecutive tickets to Pasadena, Calif.
"As my AD tells me all the time, you haven't one won yet," coach Bret Bielema said. "We're going out there to win. That's the mission, and I appreciate all the fans coming out to Madison East."
Indiana has quickly become a second home for the Badgers.
Wisconsin is the only Big Ten team with a win at Lucas Oil Stadium and has now won 10 straight in the Hoosier State. It played three games in Indiana this season, rushing for 1,570 yards and 19 TDs while outscoring opponents 170-59 in those three games.
But Saturday was the biggest night of all.
For the first time in school history, the Badgers had two 200-yard rushers. They finished with the fourth-highest rushing total in school history (539) and tied a conference championship game scoring record. Texas also scored 70 points in the 2005 Big 12 championship game.
Nebraska hadn't allowed 70 points since a 76-39 thrashing by Kansas In November 2007. The loss ended the Cornhuskers six-game winning streak, which began after a 63-38 loss to Ohio State, and the 'Huskers simply had no answers.
"What do you do? What is defensive football," Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said before calling the season a failure and apologizing for not bringing home a league title. "It's play your gaps, handle your responsibility, be where you're supposed to be and make tackles, and we did none of the above.
It was a fitting end to a wacky Big Ten season.
Wisconsin (8-5, 4-4) only reached this year's because Leaders Division champion Ohio State (12-0) and division runner-up Penn State (8-4) were both ineligible for postseason play.
But on Saturday the Badgers took advantage of their good fortune by piling up 639 total yards in total offense.
The defense dominated, too. In the first half alone, Taylor Martinez was sacked three times, fumbled twice, losing one and had an interception returned for a touchdown. He finished 17 of 33 for 184 yards with two interceptions and six sacks. He also rushed 19 times for 140 yards, scoring on a nifty 76-yard run, but fumbled twice.
Bielema countered by emptying the playbook and running right over the Nebraska (10-3, 7-1).
"We practiced some of them (trick plays) for a while," Bielema said. "There's probably a couple we haven't used yet either and they'll remain a little secret. James wanted to be recruited as a quarterback all along, so finally had that opportunity to show up out there and just a lot of different things. Our kids had a little bit of fun with it, but it was still the meat and potatoes that got us to where we were."
The onslaught started fast.
Gordon took the ball on an end around, made two cuts and sprinted 56 yards for a 7-0 lead on the fourth play of the game.
On the next offensive play, a falling Kenny Bell tipped Martinez's pass up in the air and Wisconsin's Marcus Cromartie picked it off and raced 29 yards. It was already 14-0 after only 2:07 in.


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Issue 1, 2012
Technology UpdateConstraint Analysis Makes For More Predictable Tapeout
How can design managers save weeks of engineering time without disrupting their design flows? Bernadette Mortell, director of marketing for PrimeTime Suite, Synopsys, explains how a growing number of design teams are using look-ahead timing constraint analysis to reduce the risk of unexpected delays.
The relentless increase in System-on-Chip (SoC) design complexity is forcing many design managers to look for new ways to make the tapeout process more predictable. One way to do this is to ensure that all of the timing constraints inputs are as "clean" as possible as early as possible in the life of the project. This approach makes it less likely that unexpected timing violations will delay the tapeout. Inconsistent, incomplete or conflicting timing constraints can create problems for downstream tools, which can cause them to run inefficiently or never converge. Modifying one constraint to fix a problem on a particular timing path can affect many other timing paths, which means that identifying the root cause of a constraint problem is critical. Manually identifying constraint issues from timing reports is error prone and can take hours, or even days, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the design tapeout schedule.
To be more effective, design teams have to ensure that once the input timing constraints are clean, they don't subsequently introduce new errors as the design progresses.
By cleaning up constraints early, design teams can focus on getting the best possible performance from the design, rather than wasting engineering time having to find and resolve unexpected timing violations.
The Constraint Complexity ProblemImplementation and signoff tools rely on design timing constraints at almost every step of the design process. Unfortunately, the complexity of constraints has grown as process geometries have shrunk, and the number of constraints that design teams have to manage has exploded inline with chip complexity. Timing constraints files can contain hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
Figure 1: Faster signoff with better constraints. Galaxy Constraint Analyzer makes minimal changes to the existing flow, and uses existing scripts (SDC or Tcl) from Design Compiler, IC Compiler and PrimeTime. It can be used for block level design and chip level design through all phases of theprocess, including design planning and budgeting, chip integration, place and route, and final signoff.
Some design managers depend on the skills of their designers to avoid these problems. Overseeing constraint generation and problem diagnosis is the responsibility of the most experienced designers on the team and they have to be constantly involved in the constraint refinement process, which reduces the time they have to work on other critical tasks, e.g. improving overall chip performance.
The experience of the designer impacts the quality of the design constraints, but sometimes, the source of the design constraints file is outside the design manager's control. For example, this might happen when the project uses third-party intellectual property (IP) or requires collaboration with an external design team.
Some design managers choose to delay the process of cleaning up constraints until the point where the design has been mostly completed and bad constraints are beginning to impact the timing results. They try to find and fix constraint issues on a case-by-case basis, but this is a high-risk strategy because it puts more time pressure on the back-end of the design schedule closer to tapeout, when constraint issues can take an indeterminate amount of time to fix. By this time, it is possible that the design team has already performed optimizations using bad constraints, which may take a lot more time to correct.
What is Constraint Analysis?While Static Timing Analysis (STA) tools, like Synopsys PrimeTime, will tell the design team that a design has failing paths, tracing that information back to a problem with a timing constraint requires manual intervention. The design team must decide from the STA report whether a failing path is due to a bad netlist implementation or a problem with a timing constraint.
Constraint analysis tools help designers to find and fix the root causes of timing constraint problems at the start of the project and whenever changes to the constraints are made. Synopsys' Galaxy Constraint Analyzer boosts designer productivity by using look-ahead constraint analysis technology. This technology, which is based on the PrimeTime "golden" timing engine, propagates timing constraint information through the gate-level netlist and checks for structural compliance of the timing constraints with downstream tools like IC Compiler and PrimeTime itself. This approach gives designers a signoff-correlated view of the timing constraints early in the design process, reducing design iterations due to bad constraints.
Galaxy Constraint Analyzer: Fast Timing Constraint AnalysisThe ability to use existing PrimeTime STA timing constraint scripts allows design teams to be up and running almost immediately with Synopsys' Galaxy Constraint Analyzer. Its setup is compliant with other Synopsys implementation tools, and it uses the same interpretation of timing constraints as the Synopsys PrimeTime timing engine to check that constraints are structurally compliant with the downstream tools that will use them. Less experienced designers benefit from the direct and actionable feedback that the tool provides, enabling them to easily find and fix problem constraints and freeing up the more experienced designers to work on other tasks.
Galaxy Constraint Analyzer is fast and can analyze multi-million instance designs in minutes and tens of millions of instances in a few hours. Customers have reported the ability to run constraint analysis 3-4 times in the time it takes to run a single STA analysis, in part because constraint analysis does not have to perform delay calculations in order to analyze the design. It also manages memory efficiently, which enables the tool to handle complete designs. This is important because many constraint issues occur when the design team integrates the lower-level blocks into the top-level. For example, if a designer has incorrectly named a clock, the block-level clock constraint does not correspond to the top-level reference clock, so parts of the design will become untimed. Galaxy Constraint Analyzer helps design teams maintain block-to-top constraint consistency throughout a project, and also helps to ensure that the behavior of two sets of constraints remain equivalent when they are edited, modified, combined or simplified.
Table 1: Runtime and memory use for a range of designs
Once the Galaxy Constraint Analyzer constraint analysis run has completed, designers can view any violations reported in the violation browser. This provides helpful debug information with likely reasons for the reported problem. Clicking on the "execute and show" link in the report will show a context-specific schematic that includes the cells in the violating portion of the design netlist with annotations showing where the violation has been detected and the probable source of the violation. This is a very simple and intuitive way to review violations when compared to the alternative approach of using STA where the only information available to the user is the output timing reports and STA log files. Galaxy Constraint Analyzer avoids duplicating reports of violations.
Galaxy Constraint Analyzer checks constraints against over 100 built-in rules. Significant effort has been made to ensure that each rule identifies real constraint issues and that duplicate reports of violations are not generated as a result of multiple rules flagging a violation from several different perspectives. This was a common problem with the first generation of commercial constraint analysis tools. It was one of the reasons that many experienced designers chose not to use first-generation technology. They had to spend a great deal of time sifting through the thousands of duplicate violations generated without any assistance from the tool to find the root cause of the violations reported. Another omission of the first generation of constraint analyzers was the ability to allow designers to easily define their own custom rules. With this capability available in Galaxy Constraint Analyzer, design teams can create rules that reflect best practice for their particular design application, which may not be a common practice among all applications. These custom rules can be added or deleted at will and eliminate the delay of waiting for the next official release of the software from the tool provider.
Table 2: Some of the built-in rules checked by Galaxy Constraint Analyzer
Beyond Single Design Analysis Block-to-top analysis allows design teams to verify that block-level constraints are correct in the context of the chip – identifying issues such as conflicts with chip-level constraints that would not be visible during block-level analysis.
SDC-to-SDC constraint checking allows design teams to ensure that constraints remain equivalent as they undergo change (original Tcl constraints vs. tool-generated SDC for the same design, for example).
Table 3: Rules table for block-to-top checks
Constraint ExamplesThe following constraint examples help to illustrate the way Galaxy Constraint Analyzer handles real designs.
Case Study 1In this case study, a generated clock has been defined incorrectly. Galaxy Constraint Analyzer reports that the defined characteristics of the generated clock do not reflect its actual behavior in the circuit. Figure 2 describes the logic related to the generated clock.
Figure 2: Logic for case study 1
The source and generated clocks are defined as follows:
create_clock –name clk1 –period 2 [get_ports CLK1] \ –waveform {0.5 1.25} create_clock –name clk2 –period 10 [get_ports CLK2] create_generated_clock –name gclk1 b2/mux/Z \ –source [get_ports CLK1] \ -combinational –master_clock clk1 –add
Galaxy Constraint Analyzer reports the following error:
Generated clock 'GCLK1' has edge relationships with its master clock 'CLK1' that cannot be satisfied. Only paths with a negative sense exist from the master clock to source pin 'b2/mux/Z'. A 'positive' sense is expected.
When such an issue is encountered, there is a risk that the generated clock waveform will be incorrect, the necessary source latency paths might be disabled, and the propagated latency may not be able to be computed. These problems can lead to incorrect and/or unexpected timing results.
Case Study 2In this second example, Galaxy Constraint Analyzer is being used to ensure that the timing constraints defined for block-level implementation and analysis are consistent with those defined for the top level of the design. The key parts of the circuit related to the constraints being compared are captured in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Logic for case study 2
In this case, the set_case_analysis constraint has been used at both the block and top-level on the port 'MODEB' as follows –
Block-level constraint file:
set_case_analysis 1 [get_ports MODEB]
Top-level constraint file:
When these two sets of constraints are analyzed, Galaxy Constraint Analyzer reports that there is a mismatch between the value set on the b1/MODEB port and the value that actually propagates to it from the top level. As can be seen from the schematic above, the value of '1' set on the top level MODEB port is propagated to the MODEB port on the b1 instance as a '0'. This is in conflict with the block-level constraint that forces this port to '1'.
The risk of this conflict is that the block level will not be analyzed under the same conditions as it was created. This might result in inaccurate analysis coverage or even incorrect behavior for the block or the full chip. This is a great example of how Galaxy Constraint Analyzer quickly identifies an issue that may otherwise be very difficult to diagnose.
Project HighlightsMany design teams are benefiting from using Galaxy Constraint Analyzer on their SoC designs. The following project highlights quantify some of the key benefits for three customer projects.
SummaryGalaxy Constraint Analyzer helps design teams clean up their timing constraints at the start of the design and keep them clean throughout the duration of the project. This approach reduces the risk of project delays as a result of surprises at the implementation and signoff phases. Galaxy Constraint Analyzer is easy to deploy within Synopsys flows and fast to run with efficient use of memory. It reduces design risk by making design schedules more predictable, and lets designers spend more time on optimizing and differentiating their designs and spend less time on chasing and fixing timing constraint issues.
About the AuthorBernadette MortellBernadette (Bernie) Mortell is the marketing director for the PrimeTime Suite at Synopsys and drives the development and deployment of Timing and Constraint Analysis products. Prior to Synopsys, she was in the applications and marketing team at Compass Design Automation working on Place and Route and Floorplanning tools, and worked for 10 years as a Physical Design Manager on Data Converter, Amplifier and Linear products and DSP Processors at Analog Devices in Ireland.
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The cat, any cat, introduced into the human emotional system, will cause the human emotional system to rearrange. Because the cat does anything but because of how the cat is emotionally, not. 1. Cats Tend to Be Emotionally Self-Differentiated Most humans call this independence or detachment. It is really the position of self-differentiation to which we all aspire. We admire cats for being able to be standoffish and aloof. What we truly admire is their ability to shamelessly self-differentiate. Those who hate cats most likely are uncomfortable with others who refuse to participate in emotional hubbub in the human system too. They know what they will and will not do and refuse to be trained. They have no desire to win approval but seek emotional support (petting) when they want it and from whom they want it. Self-differentiation is the goal and high water mark of maturity for the Bowen Theory. Cats have it. 2. Cats Do Not Accept Anxiety from Others When there is "drama" between humans, cats usually run off or keep out of the fray by going and hissing into fend-off defensive mode until they can escape. Cats refuse to accept anxiety from others. Cats take care of their own emotional distress. They fight their own fights and never seek to recruit the "gang" or "herd" effect as humans do. 3. Cats Have Learned a Perfect Balance Between Closeness and Distance Cats never become so attached that they can not do without you but never so distant they don't look for you after you have been gone a while. If you are gone an hour or a year it makes no difference. They will react the same to your return in predictable patterns. The longer you are gone the less they may react upon your return. They have found the perfect balance of distance and closeness that humans rarely find. Most humans become so close to each other they fuse either by loving or fighting. Or humans distance from each other in response to anxiety thus keeping the fusion on a distance level. Not cats. Most humans respect the boundaries of a cat much more than the emotional boundaries of other humans! 4. Cats Are Distant but Connected They do their own thing and then, suddenly, it seems, they will arrive into the emotional system with purring and a desire to be petted on their own terms. Try to stop them when they WANT strokes and you will have to get out a broom. 5. Cats Learn This Behavior From Parents If a kitten acts up, the mother never threatens the kittens with the return or retribution of the father: she does the swatting herself. Cats social animals like humans, but even the mother is self-differentiated. She feeds when she feels like it and defends the litter if she is in the mood. The kittens learn it from their parents. The father stands off to the side as a sometimes protector of the litter and the mother attends the little ones without asking a thing more from the father. Humans are fascinated by this closeness/distance balance but we admire it too. While kittens, they show no self-differentiation except when they will pitilessly shove the runt out of the way to get the last suck of milk even though the runt may be starving to death. 6. Cats May Feel Anxiety During Times of Change but They Handle Their Own - They Do Not Triangle Humans admire this and fear it at the same time. Someone who is self-differentiated is frightening to those who are not. The reason for this is because humans tend to be a herding species, especially when there is change or upset in the "normal" way anxiety is handled in the system. Cats do NOT do this. They handle their own anxiety like the elder leader of a lion Pride. When the young lion challenges the Pride leader the leader may put up a ceremonial fight but handles the anxiety. He does not seek to share the anxiety with anyone. He goes off into the distance and watches the Pride move on without him. In Bowen's theory, humans always triangle. We can not handle the common anxieties of life and so we seek out someone to share our anxiety. The anxiety producer-- whether it is a person or a situation or a pressure-- is always the third person in the triangle. 7. Cats Feed on Herds They Never Form Herds Herds "group think" and panic. They run from anxiety or mindlessly attack each other trying to find the panic-making culprit, but they rarely attack the real predator which has been stalking them for days. They tend to herd together to expel the anxiety by attacking it or running from it instead of dealing with it when humans experience anxiety. Cats eat from panicked herds. They do not form herds. They form Prides. Even the name suggests independence and positive attributes. They fail to see the real danger: the cat in the room. For instance, think of the distasteful images on the television documentaries of lions eating water buffalo or gazelles. Notice, if the herd suddenly turned on the cats, the cats would lose. Even if several, maybe just a handful, of the thousands-of-pounds beasts turned on the cats, the limber but vulnerable-to-stomping cats would flee in panic. 8. Cats Can Switch Prides Based on Their Own Self-Interest Selfishness and self-differentiation are not the same and cats seem to understand this. Cats are not selfish. Cats can go from owner to owner, Pride to Pride, without loss of self-differentiation. Because it was not emotionally fused with the last one, give a cat away and it will adapt immediately to the new situation! They don't NEED humans. If they have to, they can hunt. They generally bring the poor beast to their humans to supplement the foodstuffs the humans gather from God knows where if they do choose to hunt. Humans may experience this as selfishness on the part of the cat or self-absorption. Some cats will leave one household and adopt another with seemingly no regrets if the new situation is in the best interest of the cat. 9. Cats Can Act Like Kittens if They Feel Like It This ability to regress is not emotional weakness but the willingness to be emotionally open when they feel like it. There is the key: when they feel like it. Some humans hate cats. An angry human may kick the dog and a dog will cower. Kick a cat and see what happens. Cats can, delightfully, from time to time suddenly act like a kitten!-- Playing with balls and dancing after laser lights moving from a human penlight. When they feel playful or curious, cats can regress. Conclusion: They want herd members who will feel sorry for them, spread the anxiety, start a panic and head off in attack or flight from an unseen and unknown enemy. These are only a few reasons why humans love cats. They reflect the emotional health described in Bowen's Family System Theory and this causes a great division among humans. The sad truth is that self-differentiated people tend to hang together and watch from a distance the weird behaviors of the herds below. Emotionally non-self-differentiated people tend to hang together too. They tend to herd together, serve the anxieties of the weakest members of the herd, and seek togetherness and agreement over anything else. Humans may experience this as selfishness on the part of the cat or self-absorption. Some cats will leave one household and adopt another with seemingly no regrets if the new situation is in the best interest of the cat. Some humans hate cats. Some humans hate this. Notice, if the herd suddenly turned on the cats, the cats would lose. Even if several, maybe just a handful, of the thousands-of-pounds beasts turned on the cats, the vulnerable-to-stomping but limber cats would flee in panic. Some hate cats for the same reason some people dislike self-differentiated people. Like a cat, a self-differentiated person can not be emotionally manipulated, does not fall easily into triangulation, and seems uncaring and selfish to someone who is begging for a partner in anxiety.
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Woody, Jessie, Mrs. Potato Head, Sarge, Etch and Wheezy made an appearance at Emerson Elementary School in La Crosse on Halloween.
Teachers dressed up as those characters from "Toy Story" to teach their students that reading can bring characters to life and the more you read, the more you learn.
"We want everybody to want to love to read and be a part of it and take it home every night and read as much as they can, come to school and be excited about reading," said Jenny Ruetten, a 5th grade teacher at Emerson Elementary who dressed up as Jessie from "Toy Story."
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Vande Voort Headlines All-GPAC List For Defenders
November 19, 2013
(Tuesday, November 18; Sioux Center, Iowa) Seth Vande Voort (Senior; Urbandale, Iowa) heads a list of ten Dordt College football players earning All-Great Plains Athletic Conference post-season honors in voting done by the conference coaches at the conclusion of the football season.
Vande Voort totaled 71 solo and 55 assisted tackles this season while making a sack and getting an interception. Vande Voort leaves Dordt as its top all-time tackler with 209 solo stops and 196 assisted tackles with six sacks. Vande Voort claims second-team honors for the second time and was a two-time honorable mention selection.
Nine other Dordt players earned honorable mention honors.
Micah Applegate (Senior; Arvada, Colorado) earns honorable mention honors for the second time after getting 17 solo and 19 assisted stops with four sacks in 2013. He leaves Dordt with 36 solo and 42 assisted stops and he played in every game for the Defenders during his four years.
Heath Bonestroo (Sophomore; Hull, Iowa) punted 67 times this season and had a 38.3 yards per punt average with a long of 65.
Jon Gardner (Senior; Carrollton, Texas) earns honorable mention honors for the second time after getting 23 solo and 14 assisted stops with two sacks. The defensive end had 67 solo and 63 assisted tackles during his career and 14 sacks.
Chris McDaniel (Senior; Carson, California) claims honorable mention accolades after making 23 tackles and nine assisted stops at cornerback.
Nathan Morehead (Senior; Sioux City, Iowa) played offensive line for the Defenders this season and started every game the last two seasons.
Camren Pitre (Junior; Carrollton, Texas) earns the honor for the first time after making 23 solo and six assisted stops with two interceptions.
Kyle Scholten (Senior; Inwood, Iowa) earns honorable mention for the second time and appeared in nearly 30 games for the Defenders while fighting injuries. Scholten got the honors for his play on the offensive line.
Darryl Van Grouw (Senior; Meridian, Idaho) had 18 pass catches for 13.5 yards and scored two touchdowns.
Sam Verhulst (Senior; Milwaukee, Wisconsin) caught a team high 27 passes for a 15.0 yards per catch average and had three touchdown passes.
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Yeah but I don't think that's likely to be the reason her career is curtailed.
She was involved in the first sleaze scandal of the Coalition and then after banging on ad nauseam about family values and how her husband was standing by her rebuilding the trust blah blah blah blah
That and she's bloody useless.
that last article is prtty vile
what has the colour of her hair got o do with anyting? The colour of her husband's hair isn't
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Lin basically said that Coach D says there is no wrong play...well yes there is. Making him rely on all the coaching he's had up to now, because you know D'Antoni is not teaching him sh!t. He needs to Coach him, make him a better player. Don't just give him the green light, we saw what that did to shumpert early on, now he's struggling.
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Let's...Go...Lottery! Let's...Go...Lottery!!! Say it with me Knicks fans!
congratulations on LOOKING for dumb things to argue about, lets just enjoy the victory for gods sakes.
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The problem is D'Antoni played homie fro 45 minutes. 8 To's is a gross number. He's gonna burn him into the ground like Amare last year just to save his job....
Yes shooting threes is fine. The three ball has it's place, but by and large MDA wants his point guard to drive the ball into the teeth of the D, run pick and roll, draw the D and finish at the rim, or if it's not there kick or find someone cutting to the rim.
That is the essence of what he'd like to see his PG do in this system. Jeremy Lin is doing exactly that.
Neither you or Fender know what the hell you're talking about.


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Hinchey Applauds Schneiderman for Investigating Accuracy of Claims Made by Natural Gas Industry
Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) today applauded New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for his investigation into whether shale gas companies have accurately described to investors the prospects for their natural gas wells.
In June, Hinchey sent letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) questioning the manner in which both bodies have handled shale gas reserve estimates. The letters followed two concerning reports in The New York Times. One report revealed that rule changes and oversight problems at the SEC may have caused natural gas companies to overestimate their reserves. A separate report detailed the use of data from industry-biased sources and intra-agency disagreements regarding gas reserve estimates at EIA.
Hinchey is a leader in the effort to protect drinking water and the environment from the risks of hydraulic fracturing. He is a co-author of the FRAC Act, which would mandate public disclosure of chemicals used in frack fluid and allow the EPA to regulate fracking activities under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The congressman also authored the appropriations language that led to the current U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study on hydraulic fracturing.
"Considering the reckless way in which hydraulic fracturing has been carried out in other parts of the country, it is important that we understand all of the environmental and economic impacts that would result if drilling were to move forward in our state. That's what I've been working to do, and I applaud Attorney General Schneiderman for taking action to protect our water resources and investigating whether the gas industry is misleading investors and the public about the economics behind shale gas drilling."


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The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Etowah County, Alabama, will hold a signup for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2014 Fiscal Year. This signup will be held on a continuous basis. Any eligible landuser who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, hayland, cropland, or forestland may apply for assistance through this program.
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The top application in each resource concern will be funded first, then the second application in each concern until this process uses up all allocated money.
Approvals will be given to those applications that will provide the greatest environmental benefits in each resource concern i.e., those receiving the most environmental points. Contracts will be developed for approved applications in order of descending environmental points in each resource concern, until all funds are obligated.
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It has been a year since Governor Neil Abercrombie issued an emergency declaration to relocate a growing flock of endangered waterbirds from the Kauai airport.
Take-offs and landings can be risky, when it comes to planes and birds.
Bird strikes are a hazard, and the state has workers on duty to make sure the birds don't get sucked into jet engines.
Wildlife biologists are just now winding down efforts to round up 300 nene and transport them to Maui and the Big Island.
It is Lemuel Illstaron's job to scare the birds away from the runway by firing blanks from his gun.
"The main purpose is just to keep them off the runway. We normally see the nene in here, come winter time. They usually hang out in this area here or over there early in the morning, or late in the afternoon," said Illastron.
We are told there was one close call of a Hawaiian goose getting clipped by an aircraft.
State workers have removed 300 nene from the area in the last few months.
Once the birds were trapped, they were quarantined, to make sure they were disease-free.
"The long term plan is to move as many as possible in the first two years and then when we have drawn the number down to really low numbers, then we will be able to haze the area and prevent the birds from nesting there," said Scott Fretz, a wildlife biologist with the State Department of Land and Natural Resources.
The nene are attracted to the Kauai Lagoons, a golf course development nearby.
"The grasses and golf courses and water are just inherently attractive to nene. Golf courses mow their grass every three days, and nene love the young shoots that come up," said Fretz.
But perhaps, there is added urgency about relocating the flock.
In the last few weeks, the state has set mongoose traps along the perimeter fence and by runway three, because of credible sightings of the waterfowl at the airport and at the Kauai harbor.
Kauai's nene population has done so well, because it has been mongoose-free.
Lihue airport workers are now on the alert, with another target to watch out for.


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