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Not so delightful, ten minutes of making a school bus monitor cry. She looks like somebody's grandmother. Kids these days, jeez. Some of them should be sent to bed without their dinner.
What would you do if you found out that your kids acted that way?
Back into the fray: here are some more things folks shouldn't do. Just because your phone has a camera, why do you have to take a photo of dumb shit and then share it with anybody at all?
Of course, if it's something you've made with your own hands, then you should share it, like this live action opening sequence to a popular TV show.
Gary Oldman has thoughts about sticking with what you are excellent at doing, and Just Saying No to the temptation of thinking you can do everything else as well.
If you'd ever listened to the radio as a pre-teen geeknerd and know who Dr. Demento is, then you also know about another fellow who appeared regularly on that program, with his nerdy but funny songs. Here, he interviews Han Solo.
Speaking of large, boozy fat cheek/jaws, but this time, covering it up with a fat beard instead of a huge mass of Jery Curl ringlets like above: Here's a pic and news of Jim Carrey. Sadly, no threequel to Dumb and Dumber for him. Rats.
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God Help You.
God Help Us All.
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First mock in quite some time for me. These picks are always subject to change but should reflect a need being filled, at least for the most part.
Enjoy. :]
2013 NFL Mock Draft
1. Kansas City - OT Luke Joeckel Texas A&M
Could obviously go QB but it's too early to anoint a QB this spot. Grabbing Joeckel can become a couple things. Either a cheaper more talented option if Albert leaves or re-sign Albert, grab Joeckel and go for a decent QB to fill in through FA or trade as a stop gap or grab a guy like Tyler Wilson at the top of round 2 although he very well may be gone by then.
2. Jacksonville - DE Damontre Moore Texas A&M
Jones is a real possibility here as well along with a QB but a true threat on the edge is too long overdue. Moore offers versatility for an odd or even front with a great blend of size, quickness and agility for a 6'4 250+ frame. Gus Bradley understands the value of a consistent edge threat to key the defense and Moore is the most intriguing high-floor/high-ceiling player in the draft.
3. Oakland - DT Star Lotulelei Utah
They could also go DE with Werner or CB but neither of them are the caliber of talent or at least potential Lotulelei possesses. With outstanding strength combined with athleticism reserved for very few athletes his size, Lotulelei is the type of D lineman that a defense can build off of and make those next to and behind him better. An extreme rarity.
4. Philadelphia - LB/DE Jarvis Jones Georgia
Trading back for picks may be the ideal option at this junction but instead they take arguably the best player in the draft here. Watching the tape Jones is an absolute stud on the field. Jones has excellent play recognition and non-stop hustle along with great explosion when rushing the passer. He also plays the run well despite his size. With the uncertainty of Philly going with an odd or even front he fits either very well.
5. Detroit - CB Dee Milliner Alabama
DE may end up being just much of a need of Avril leaves but Detroit must address the CB position. Milliner does not have outstanding athleticism often seen with high end corners but he does possess good height at over 6 feet and 198 pounds and has loads of experience against top-notch competition. Milliner would step on immediately and give Detroit a legit outside defender. DE can be addressed later.
6. Cleveland - DE Bjoern Werner Florida State
Chudzinski probably gives Weeden one more year before drafting a QB who actually has a future in next years draft but here they continue to build what could become a dominant defense. Werner is arguably the best overall defensive end in this draft and has been consistent with his play regardless of who lined up opposite him at FSU. He has uncommon strength for his size and can play in whatever defense Horton decides to implement.
7. Arizona - QB Matt Barkley USC
There are 3 QB's who could go this high but until they truly separate in the months leading up to the draft I'm going a different route. Barkley has been made to seem as if he's this broken, terrible prospect and he's not. Overall he's still the best QB in this draft from a day 1 perspective. Barkley can come in and immediately improve the offense. With Arians penchant for working with good QB's I would expect Barkley to solve their QB problem.
8. Buffalo - QB Tyler Wilson Arkansas
Some may want Smith but Wilson is the better prospect as of now despite his numbers which aren't so bad considering all that shenanigans that went on down there with no OL or any real weapons to throw to. Wilson has a gritty mindset and his teammates feed off of him. Wilson fits what Marrone and Hackett do offensively than Geno Smith. Nassib could feasibly go here as well and continue his study of the offense from Syracuse.
9. New York Jets - OLB Dion Jordan Oregon
With Geno Smith available it's possible they take him here. Well, not this time. Rex Ryan hasn't had an elite talent to rush the passer during his tenure in New York. Here he finally gets a ball of talent-filled clay to mold how he chooses. His ability to not only pass rush but cover as well is what makes him worthy of this pick. A little light. Jordan can add 15-20 lbs. and keep all his athleticism. Combined with the return of Revis this defense might just return to top form.
10. Tennessee - DT Sheldon Richardson Missouri
Warmack has been shown here often but when you lack playmakers in various spots its hard to justify taking a guard here. The Titans have some good pieces on defense but lack a true playmaker on the DL. Richardson compares favorably to Fletcher Cox last year. He's an explosive penetrator and has a great motor to along with his skill set.
11. San Diego - OT Eric Fisher Central Michigan
Time to see if Rivers' time is up or has he truly been a victim of extremely poor OL play. Fisher may not have had gone against good competition consistently but his 6 foot 8 305lb frame shouldn't possess the athleticism that it does. Fisher excels at pass blocking and while needing a bit of time to adjust to the NFL level he'll give Rivers confidence this year.
12. Miami - WR Cordarrelle Patterson Tennessee
Patterson is the most talented wideout in this draft. He has excellent size and is very explosive with the ball in his hands. Tannehill needs a #1 target and CP has all the tools and talent to be that. Experience is his biggest ?
13. Tampa Bay - CB Johnthan Banks Mississippi State
It's time to grab a true heir for when Barber leaves. Banks is tall, rangy, athletic but most importantly for this team is he's aggressive. His addition should at least marginally improve their disgusting pass defense.
14. Carolina - DT Johnathan Hankins Ohio State
Not much explanation needed. Someone needs to be added to improve this run defense. Hankins would without a doubt improve that and allow Kuechly and Beason to make more plays. Hankins' presence should allow Johnson and Hardy to improve their numbers as well.
15. New Orleans - DT Sharrif Floyd Florida
A true interior pass rush presence inside next to Hicks. Steps must be taken to improve a defense that ranked dead last by a HUGE margin in yards allowed. Floyd offers versatility as well due to his quickness and overall strength to disrupt both the run and the pass.
16. St. Louis - OG Chance Warmack Alabama
The Rams have a gift fall into their laps with arguably the best G prospect to come out in quite some time along with Iupati a few years back. Warmack will come in right away and have a tangible impact on that offensive line.
17. Pittsburgh - ILB Manti Te'o Notre Dame
Bringing in Te'o here gives them a yet another presence in that linebacking corps. He's big, strong instinctive and plays all 3 downs. This past season he's shown a real nose for the ball more-so than his earlier years. A leader on and off the field despite that crazy girlfriend story.
18. Dallas - OG Jonathan Cooper UNC
This could end up being a DE or even a QB but for now they grab the athletic Jonathan Cooper to shore up the interior of that line. Not the strongest man but he's this classes most technical and athletic guard. An instant upgrade.
19. New York Giants - DE Barkevious Mingo LSU
Mingo is a bit hard to gauge as far as draft slot but here he falls to the Giants and they add him as insurance for their pass rush. Mingo may not be an every down end but he will help the front four put fear into offenses hearts on obvious passing situations.
20. Chicago - TE Tyler Eifert Notre Dame
You want to be quarterback friendly, Trestman? Get the man another weapon. Eifert is the best all around tight end. Has prototypical size, adequate speed, block and pass catch ability similar to Kyle Rudolph. Nobody will be worth taking when they pick next and he should be a 1st down convert machine.
21. Cincinnati - S Eric Reid LSU
The Bengals don't have many glaring needs but safety is definitely one. Eric Reid will battle Matt Elam and Kenny Vaccaro for the top safety spot but Reid is an undeniable leader on the field and shines through with his play. Not the elite type of prospect but he's more than good enough to be a fixture at safety they have been searching for.
22. St. Louis (WAS) - WR Keenan Allen Cal
The run game got it's upgrade earlier now it's time the pass game does as well. Allen should come in and lock down the #1 spot on that receiving corps and be a go-to for Sam Bradford. With great hands and a knack for big plays if Allen played on a more prominent team he'd have a lot more hype.
23. Minnesota - WR DeAndre Hopkins Clemson
"Nuk" had himself a spectacular year for the Clemson Tigers while playing across from arguably the most talented WR in the country in Sammy Watkins and outplayed him. Watkins himself has great hands as well as route running. Understands coverages well is clutch. With or without Harvin, Hopkins will help take pressure off AP. Ponder's last year to show he's the long term answer.
24. Indianapolis - OL Barrett Jones Alabama
Indy needs help all over the OL with the exception of LT. Barrett Jones excelled at tackle, guard and center at Alabama and he can plugged in immediately, most likely at C and become Luck's right hand man when making protection calls and adjustments.
25. Seattle - DL Ezekiel Ansah BYU
Seattle needs some form of pass rush on the front four other than when Clemons is in and healthy. Ansah is extremely raw but that also means he has no bad habits and can be formed by Pete Caroll and new DC Dan Quinn who has done a great job with defensive lineman everywhere he's been. Ansah can line up virtually everywhere on a 4 man front. He's shown how tremendous of a football player he can be if coached up well. Insurance policy if Irvin doesn't pan out as Clemons' replacement.
26. Green Bay - LB Alec Ogletree Georgia
Some speed and tenacity is needed in the middle of that GB defense and Ogletree brings it. Very fast and seems to make plays on a consistent basis. Not bulked up enough to be a true gap filler but he is more talented than what is currently on the roster there. Should be able to make plays behind Raji.
27. Houston - WR Justin Hunter Tennessee
Johnson isn't going anywhere anytime soon so this pick should FINALLY give Houston a true #2 opposite Andre. Hunter suffered a torn ACL last season and returned to put up solid numbers at Tennessee when he was clearly still hindered. He could be gone by this point because Hunter is a WR in the mold of A.J. Green-not quite as talented-but he understands the game and can high point with the best of them. This former track star has the ability to take over for Andre whenever he decides to hang em up.
28. Denver - DT John Jenkins Georgia
Some beef is needed in the middle of that defense. Working alongside Wolfe along that line and collapsing the pocket will make Miller and Doom even more lethal. Jenkins isn't too much of a pass rusher but he's big and strong enough to drive offensive lineman back.
29. New England - DE Alex Okafor Texas
New England needs a true pass rushing threat and has for quite some time. Okafor offers versatility but is best suited for a 4 man front. He plays with a relentless motor and has a decent repertoire of pass rush moves. Not the most explosive but he is a hard worker who should fit in well in New England.
30. Atlanta - TE Zach Ertz Stanford
Whether or not Gonzalez returns this has to be the pick if he's available because Gonzalez will retire. If not this year then next. Ertz is the best pass catching tight end (arguably) in the draft and is in the same mold of Tony. He's an overall tight end. He block downfield, on the edge and is a force in the pass game. A perfect replacement at this point.
31. San Francisco - DL Jesse Williams Alabama
Some of the DL are getting long in the tooth or are liabilities to leave via free agency so they grab a replacement here. Williams is massive and extremely strong in the mold of a Red Bryant. Williams will come in and play NT and be an incredible presence given the fact he has Bowman and Willis to fly around and make even more plays while he occupies blockers. Has the raw strength to collapse the pocket.
32. Baltimore - S Matt Elam Florida
Reed doesn't have much time left and there's no inside backer worth taking here. Elam isn't the biggest guy but he can be a true center fielder and impacts the game in every facet. A worthy heir once Reed decides he is finished.
2nd Round
33. Jacksonville - QB Geno Smith WVU
34. Kansas City - QB Ryan Nassib Syracuse
35. Philadelphia - S Kenny Vaccaro Texas
36. Detroit - LB Arthur Brown Kansas State
37. Cincinnati - RB Giovani Bernard UNC
38. Arizona - OT Lane Johnson Oklahoma
39. New York Jets - QB Mike Glennon N.C. State
40. Tennessee - OG Larry Warford Kentucky
41. Buffalo - WR Terrance Williams Baylor
42. Miami - CB Xavier Rhodes Florida State
43. Tampa Bay - WR Tavon Austin WVU
44. Carolina - OL Dallas Thomas Tennessee
45. San Diego - CB Jordan Poyer Oregon State
46. St. Louis - OT Kyle Long Oregon
47. Dallas - S Tony Jefferson Oklahoma
48. Pittsburgh - NT Brandon Williams Missouri Southern
49. New York Giants - CB David Amerson N.C. State
50. Chicago - OT D.J. Fluker Alabama
51. Washington - CB Logan Ryan Rutgers
52. Minnesota - DT Bennie Logan LSU
53. Cincinnati - LB Khaseem Greene Rutgers
54. Miami - DT Sylvester Williams UNC
55. Green Bay - RB Eddie Lacy Alabama
56. Seattle - DL Margus Hunt SMU
57. Houston - NT Kawann Short Purdue
58. Denver - S D.J. Swearinger South Carolina
59. Baltimore - WR Da'Rick Rogers Tennessee Tech
60. San Francisco - DL Joe Kruger Utah
61. New England - OLB Chase Thomas Stanford
62. Atlanta - OT Oday Aboushi Virginia
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I just don't think Werner is a fit in a 34 defense. Would rather go with Jordan or Mingo.
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Don't like this Cardinals mock. Barkley is nowhere near the ability or potential to be a top 10 pick and I'm not a fan of Johnson
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Don't like this Cardinals mock. Barkley is nowhere near the ability or potential to be a top 10 pick and I'm not a fan of Johnson
Not only that but Barkley doesn't fit Arians vertical offense.
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LuckyNumber11 wrote:
Don't like this Cardinals mock. Barkley is nowhere near the ability or potential to be a top 10 pick and I'm not a fan of Johnson
Not only that but Barkley doesn't fit Arians vertical offense.
Johnson is better than what on that squad right now and at minimum would be serviceable which would count as an upgrade for them.
On to Barkley,he had better zip and strength than given credit for. His arm is strong enough to make all the throws required in that offense and he throws one of the best deep balls around. He has a grasp of how pro offenses are ran and doesn't get mouth credit for te veteran-like things he does at this stage. He doesn't get enough credit. He'll show why he deserves to be the first QB selected.
Also has been reported that people around the league view him as the top QB in this draft due in part to those intangibles.
Appreciate the feedback, guys.
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Great Titans 2 rounds and great explanation. You were spot on.
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Werner doesn't fit the 3-4
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WhODaT888 wrote:
AZCardinalsFan wrote:
LuckyNumber11 wrote:
Don't like this Cardinals mock. Barkley is nowhere near the ability or potential to be a top 10 pick and I'm not a fan of Johnson
Not only that but Barkley doesn't fit Arians vertical offense.
Johnson is better than what on that squad right now and at minimum would be serviceable which would count as an upgrade for them.
On to Barkley,he had better zip and strength than given credit for. His arm is strong enough to make all the throws required in that offense and he throws one of the best deep balls around. He has a grasp of how pro offenses are ran and doesn't get mouth credit for te veteran-like things he does at this stage. He doesn't get enough credit. He'll show why he deserves to be the first QB selected.
Also has been reported that people around the league view him as the top QB in this draft due in part to those intangibles.
Appreciate the feedback, guys.
People don't look at how well Potter and Massie played the last half of the season. We need an interior lineman before we need a Tackle. Potter was serviceable and Massie was exceptional.
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Not terrible for Minnesota, but I think...
1. Ogletree
2. Da'Rick Rogers (or Woods)
...would be a better draft.
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Great first round pick for the Bears! Pugh in the 2nd round is a bit of a reach IMO. Would much rather have DJ Fluker OT from Alabama.
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Not a fan of this pick at all.
Well you can't read so how smart can you be....
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Fluker in the 2nd and its perfect
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I'm fine with the Te'o pick now that it does look like he was not a part of it. Of course who knows what more odd details will come out.
Brandon Williams is too high for me in the second. I like him but not there. For me Sylvester Williams would be the better NT there if the Steelers go that way. Eddie Lacy is someone that I would like in the second. The Steelers didn't have a running game last year and Mendenhall looks like he is on the way out. Chase Thomas or a safety would be other options too.
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Jones has injury and weight room effort concerns. he's not a top 5 pick.\
vaccaro is fine.
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Anna Kendricks are always nice.
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I like this for the Eagles. The jury is out on Jones' health but I think he's going to be fine.
I'm a fan of Vaccaro too.
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It was not the extraordinary public spending spree of the election campaign that sank Labor but the sustained private consumption binge that Australians have been on for the past decade.
Booming house prices coupled with unprecedented levels of consumer debt have left most Australians absorbed by their own material circumstances, with little room left for thoughts of building a better society.
Driven not by financial need but by the very aspirations that Mark Latham has lauded, Australian households are in debt up to their necks, and that has meant hundreds of thousands of people have looked at their partners across the kitchen table and said: "If interest rates go up by a couple of per cent then we're stuffed."
Having the bank foreclose on you must be one of life's more unpleasant experiences, especially if you have measured your success and place in society by the pile of things you own.
Sure, the economists said that interest rates were no more likely to go up under Labor than the Coalition, but why take the risk if nothing else really matters to you?
And that is where we have got to in Australia after 20 years of creeping affluenza, an era in which materialism and the attendant self-absorption have invaded the daily consciousness of most Australians.
So the Coalition victory reflects nothing more than the narrow-mindedness and preoccupation with self that characterises modern Australia after two decades of market ideology and sustained growth.
Private greed always drives out the social good. Not even engagement in a dangerous foreign war, exposed as being based on lies, and the threat of terrorist attacks can bounce people out of their financial preoccupations.
It has been particularly disquieting to witness the total disengagement of large numbers of young people who seemed barely aware that an election was on. Clueless and unconcerned to the last, they had mumble about voting for John Howard simply because they could not think of a reason for doing otherwise.
The depoliticisation of our education systems coupled with the mindless narcissism of consumer culture in which these young people have grown means that, while despair for the future of democracy is warranted, we should expect nothing more.
Ironically, Labor actually put out some policies during the election campaign that differentiated it from the conservatives, policies that were aimed at a fairer society that took away some of the more outrageous middle-class handouts of the Howard years. The schools policy was the best example, but even this was a victim of Labor's schizoid campaign. In the dreams of aspirational voters, Mark Latham's ladder of opportunity leads to Cranbrook or The King's School.
Building a better society through a fairer distribution of educational resources is not so appealing if you hope to benefit personally from the prevailling injustice. In fact, it does not look like injustice, but "opportunity".
Of course, the relentless promotion of self-interest and the rejection of the politics of social progress is no more than we should expect from the Liberal Party. It is, after all, the essence of liberalism. Liberals have always maintained that asserting individual freedoms, not building a better society, is the object of politics, although one of the founders of liberalism, John Stuart Mill, could see the danger of ending up where we are today. In 1865 he wrote that he was not persuaded that "the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels are the most desirable lot of humankind".
These qualities of the aspirational society he saw as the "disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress", regrettably a phase that has been much more enduring than Mill could have imagined.
A Newspoll survey commissioned two years ago by The Australia Institute found that nearly two thirds of Australians believe that they "cannot afford to buy everything they really need". Even among those in the top income group - the richest people in one of the world's richest countries - half say they cannot afford all they need.
This sense of deprivation in a country that enjoys extraordinary affluence is constantly re-created by the advertisers and social pressure, and endlessly reinforced by politicians of both sides who talk ad nauseam of "struggling families" and devise policies that pander to the imagined woes of the middle classes.
As long as Australians are preoccupied with house prices, credit card debts, interest rates, tax cuts and getting ahead - in other words, as long as they define their success in life by money - Labor will never win, except by mimicking the Liberal Party.
But there is cause for hope. Not far beneath the surface most Australians have a gnawing doubt about the value of a money-driven life. The Newspoll survey also found that 83 per cent of Australians believe that our society is "too materialistic - that is too much emphasis on money and not enough on the things that really matter".
For they suspect that the money society is at the root of the decline in values - the disposable relationships, instant gratification, moral laxity, selfishness, corporate greed and the loss of civic culture.
It is in showing the link between the money society and the decline in values, and then painting a picture of a new society that is less selfish and materialistic and more devoted to the "things that really matter", that a new politics can be forged.
Clive Hamilton is Executive Director of The Australia Institute.


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The government has cancelled its own flagship solar energy project because the Department of Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) proposed cuts to solar feed-in tariff incentives will make the scheme unviable.
That is the charge from "stakeholders" who contributed to a Whitehall project to assess the potential for fitting solar panels across the government estate, following a workshop on the topic at the Cabinet Office last November.
BusinessGreen has learned that the project was quietly cancelled last month, just a week after the government launched a controversial review of feed-in tariffs for solar installations with over 50kW that proposes deep cuts to the incentives of between 40 and 70 per cent.
At the original Cabinet Office meeting in the autumn, Whitehall departments were told how hospitals, council buildings and other land owned by the government could earn additional revenue through the feed-in tariff scheme by installing solar panels on roofs and unused land.
Government procurement body Buying Solutions also began work on a more detailed solar project proposal on the back of the meeting.
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"All stakeholders were told that it has been decided not to proceed with the Solar PV Project because of the impending changes to the FiTs for solar PV and therefore it wouldn't be prudent to continue," said Katie Moore, co-founder of the Solar Club, a community whose members are planning to invest in a solar project.
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Speaking to BusinessGreen following the launch of the review, Climate Minister Greg Barker insisted that it was not the government's intention to bring an end to larger solar installations. But he maintained that cuts to incentives were necessary for projects with over 50kW capacity in order to stop larger projects eating up the bulk of the available feed-in tariff funding for smaller household solar installations.
The proposed cuts are currently subject to consultation, but the decision of the government to axe its own solar project ahead of the results of the review will fuel fears across the industry that deep cuts to incentives will now be finalised.
In response to questions about the scrapping of the solar project the Cabinet Office referred BusinessGreen to the Buying Solutions procurement body, where a spokeswoman confirmed that the project had been cancelled. However, she declined to give a reason as to why the initiative had been ditched.
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Comprised of 63 people, moved from other divisions within ELSYS, Director Joe Brooks says the new division was necessary, with the amount of integrated support stations and test infrastructure projects the lab is receiving. Three existing branches within ELSYS—Defensive Systems Branch, Test Systems Branch and the Robins Research Branch—will now be located within this division.
"The division will be responsible for building and support of test equipment and facilities for the U.S. Army and Air Force," Brooks said, adding that the lab had already been assisting with these customers' projects. "We have rebalanced ELSYS to handle the growing work."
Principal Research Engineer Adrienne J. Harrington, whose combined tenure with GTRI equals more than three decades, will head up this new division, Brooks said. "Adrienne has led this type of work within ELSYS for many years," Brooks said.
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NHTSA: Mass In-Car Alcohol Sensor Deployment is 5 Years Away
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Convincing consumers to embrace a device which could raise prices and have false positives is challenging
humanity's favorite social lubricant
, is an ever controversial
research topic
with some
calling it the deadliest drug
, and others pointing to studies that
suggest moderate alcohol consumption enhances learning
(perhaps the real-life version of the "Ballmer curve"). But one thing that most can agree on is that
intoxication and cars are a dangerous mixture
I. NHTSA: Five Years to Commercializing Driver Intoxication Detection
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) -- an agency of the
U.S. Department of Transportation
(DoT) -- has been working a coalition of manufacturers (the
Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety
(ACTS)) to
produce an advanced in-car sensor
that would refuse to start the vehicle if it detects the driver is intoxicated.
The system they're developing is dubbed "
Driver Alcohol Detection System for safety
" (DADSS) -- perhaps a well intentioned play on the nation's largest anti-drunk driving activist organization
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
The government and activist groups want to make sure a drunk driver can never get in a car and drive in the first place. [Image Source: CNN]
After nearly $40 USD in federal funding ($5.8M USD in 2008, $2M USD/yr. in 2009-2010, and ~$10M USD in 2011-2013) and five years of progress, that project is approaching the end of its first phase, and a technology demonstration has been promised.
a letter
to the CEO of top automotive manufacturers, NHTSA Chief David Strickland said that significant progress had been made on the private-public collaboration. With two "very, very effective" prototypes from separate OEM partners produced, he believes a commercial product is within reach. On how soon we will see such a device, he comments, "We probably have another five years of work to go. It will be available as an option by manufacturers, and I think it's a real way forward."
II. Motivations
Why build such a device? The motivation is actually surprisingly straightforward.
Government statistics
from 2010 reveal that drunk driving is the number one crime in the country, with 1.4 million driving under the influence (DUI) or driving while intoxicated (DWI) arrests a year. Of fatal car crashes approximately half of the drivers involved were under the influence of alcohol or other psychoactive substances.
To try to curb drunk driving, the government by 2009 had instituted nearly 150,000
in-car interlock systems
] to habitual DUI offenders. An interlock system won't allow a vehicle to start without having the user perform
a breathalyzer test
Drunk driving remains the nation's most common crime and a key factor in roughly half of car crashes. [Image Source: DWI Blog]
While functional, interlock systems are far from perfect. First, if a non-drunk passenger (or even companion riding separately) blows into them, they can start the car, even if the driver is drunk. Second, they are too expensive and invasive to deploy to all vehicles.
One solution would be to have a more general alcohol detector that scanned the entire air content of the car, but again this would be problematic as drunk passengers could trigger a false positive. And such a solution would be more expensive, likely, as it would require the detection of smaller quantities of airborne alcohol versus a system that isolates a driver's breath (e.g. the interlock).
From a big picture perspective, the number of people in the U.S. still choosing to drive drunk and being able to do so clearly illustrates that the deterrents to date -- DUI fines, prison time, and in-car prevention systems -- aren't stopping drunk drivers often enough.
II. Show Me The Prototype
The NHTSA/industry program launched in 2008, with $5.8M USD in federal funding. It has
focused on two different emerging technologies
near-infrared (NIR) tissue spectroscopy
and distant breath spectroscopy. The former technique would require the driver to press their finger against a location. Eventually this could perhaps be embedded into the steering wheel. The latter method would be remote, requiring no direct contact as it measures the amount of alcohol in the exhaled breath from a distance. Differentiating between driver and passenger intoxication, though, requires strategic sensor placement, multiple sensors, and filtering algorithms.
After five years Congress is still funding the program, but desires some sort of results. Mr. Strickland has promised a working prototype will be demonstrated by the end of the year. He comments, "A tangible result of that work will be demonstrated later this year, when a research vehicle including both touch-based and breath-based detection technologies is available for further evaluation. I have referred to it as a 'moonshot' for traffic safety with initially long odds but the potential for dramatically powerful results if we are successful."
Working prototypes are expensive, bulky, intrusive, and can yield false positives. (The DADSS "TruTouch" tisue NIR spectroscopy system is shown.)
If the NHTSA and ACTS can pull of a successful demo, they next have to plan out and agree to a path for Phase II -- the path to commercialization. MADD National President Jan Withers praised the progress thus far, stating, "Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, DADSS for short, is our hope for the future to ELIMINATE drunk driving."
That said, figuring out a route to commercialization requires many parties -- automakers, insurers, consumers, civil liberties groups, activist groups (e.g. MADD), and the government -- to all agree to a route they can all live with. Balancing often competing interests (e.g. the desire to reduce auto fatalities versus the consumer demand to not have a device that produces false positives or raises vehicle prices) makes this project a "moonshot" indeed. But it'll be interesting to watch what the coalition brings to the table as Phase I concludes.
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Tallahassee, FL - Is it a coincidence that since Florida State defender Kristin Boyce arrived in Tallahassee the Seminoles have gone to three straight NCAA Tournaments? Is it a coincidence that she has started more games than any other player on the FSU backline since 2000 and in that time FSU has allowed the fewest goals in a three-year span in team history? Although winning and defending are both team concepts, few in Tallahassee would argue Boyce's role in both of those successes.
"Boyce has always been a winner. She went to four or five national championships at the club level and then the first year she is in Tallahassee, we go to the Sweet 16. She means a great deal to this team," said Florida State head coach Patrick Baker. "She has wanted to win at every level and she brought that mentality to us here from day one and ever since she has been here we have won."
The Austin, TX native is a two-time SoccerBuzz All-Region third team selection leading the Seminole defense from her left back spot. She is the school's all-time leading scorer among defenders and she has led her team into the Sweet 16 in two of the last three years yet the national spotlight has missed her. The senior doesn't want to be recognized individually but many at FSU think she hasn't received anywhere near the credit she deserves.
"Boyce has been such a mainstay for us on the left side and from the outside looking in, is probably the most underrated player on our team. I thought it was a crime that she didn't garner All-ACC honors last year," said Baker. "It is funny you can make all region and not make all conference.
"It is always tough for defenders to get recognition and even tougher for wide backs compared to center backs. If you think about how many times she gets the ball in our possession oriented style and is able to link up with midfielders and forwards, how many times she makes overlapping runs and gets into the attacking third, she is a player."
Not being named an All-American or an All-ACC selection doesn't really bother the laid back Texan. She knows how tough it is to get national recognition playing in the back and how many talented players there are in the college game today.
"It doesn't bother me. When I see the players that are singled out for awards, I think its well deserved. I'm not necessarily in that group yet," said Boyce. "That is just how it is. The players that score the goals get the recognition but your teammates know what you contribute to the overall success and that's most important. The need for individual recognition just depends on the type of person you are. For me, that isn't a motivation."
However, being successful has always been a motivation for Boyce but that was difficult when she was moved to defense at Florida State her freshman year. She was thrown right into the fire starting for the first time against Texas A&M and future WUSA forward Heather Ragsdale.
"I was always a front runner or midfielder when I was playing club until probably my junior year of high school," said Boyce.
Her relative lack of experience hasn't stopped her from starting 60 consecutive games and making 73 starts in the last 74 games. She has faced the college games most dangerous strikers like Aly Wagner, Christine Sinclair, Lindsay Tarpley and Deliah Arrington to name just a few.
"I love facing the best players. I wish I could face a big name forward every game because it is just that much more exciting. I get more pumped up for the games when one of those great forwards comes to town," said Boyce. "I know it is the defense's job to stop them and that is exciting. It is a great way to measure myself and I get a chance to see why one player is better than another. What makes them great."
"Lets face it, the credit for her transition to defense goes to her. She came here in 2000 and there were so many new things going on with this team and we were so excited about her recruiting class. She blended in so well in the back and has never left," said Baker. "I feel so confident with her that when the ball goes into her area I start focusing on another aspect of the game because I know we will be fine with her on the ball. I start looking ahead because I never worry about what she will do."
Although she no longer plays up top, that hasn't stopped the forward trapped in a defender's body from racking up points. She leads all Florida State defenders with eight goals and 20 points in her career. She loves to attack and it is one of the things that separate her from other defenders across the country.
"I have always been pretty offensive-oriented. When I moved to the back that didn't stop me from wanting to get forward whenever I could and do the exciting stuff too, not that defense isn't exciting," she said with a smile.
Boyce knows better than anyone how different the pressures are for forwards and defenders. While she loves making her runs up the flanks, she thrives on the pressure that comes from being in the back.
"There is an obvious pressure that comes with being the last line of defense. If it comes to you, it is your job to stop them from scoring," said Boyce. "When you miss a goal while attacking, people tell you 'good try' and 'better luck next time'. As a defender if you miss, the ball is in the back of the net and it isn't as easy as 'nice try'. I like it. I enjoy it more than the pressure that comes on the offensive side of the ball. There is so little margin for error in the back but I guess I kind of thrive on that."
It would be hard to tell Boyce is under any pressure at all on the field. It is actually hard to tell she really plays with any emotion because of how calm her demeanor is.
"I am a competitive person. Nobody likes to lose. That's just how it is in life. I just think it is important to be calm on the field and have a little composure. You can't freak out in my position because there is added pressure on the back line," said Boyce.
"I give everything I have every time I go out there and if we come up short I know I have work ahead of me to get better. I can't see getting too high or too low after any play. I am going to be upset after a loss or if I haven't preformed as well as I think I could have but you have to learn from that."
Part of the reason she can keep her cool is how successful FSU has been since she arrived on campus in 2000. Coming to a team that had one winning season in five years, Boyce never had any doubts she would win games in Tallahassee. Losing never entered her mind.
"Personally, I never expected anything else but success from the first day I got here," recalls Boyce. "Luckily that has been the case and hopefully that will continue through my senior year. I played on a great club team and had always been a part of successful teams so I just expected the same would hold true here. It was simple for me. If we worked hard, we would be rewarded.
"Looking back now, I definitely think that was a little na?ve on my part. I just don't think anybody really enters a situation and pictures losses and disappointment. You anticipate good things happening."
Good things have been happening for Boyce and FSU since her arrival. The team has been to the Sweet 16 twice in the last three years, they have been to the NCAA Tournament three times, they are 3-0 in opening round NCAA Tournament games and they have already played in the ACC championship final. It is quite a change from a program that was 14 games below .500 in its first five years of existence.
"We have come a long way. Before my class came in the program hadn't experienced a lot of success. Every year since then things have been getting better and better," said Boyce. "I do take pride in that. Everyone wants to feel they are a part of something positive and been able to contribute to making things better. I think every class feels that way."
Boyce has been instrumental in that turn around and not only because of her stellar play on the field. As good as she is on the pitch, she is an even better person off the field.
"I will never forget what she said to me in our post-season meeting after her freshman year," remembers Baker. "I asked her what she was looking forward to as a sophomore. She told me that she just wanted to prove to the coaches and her teammates that she deserves to start again. That was so refreshing to hear. She started as a freshman on a Sweet 16 team and her goal was to come back prove her worth all over again."
"I've known Boyce since we were little runts running around in the Olympic Development Program. Her witty humor put a smile on everyone's face," said teammate and fellow senior Amber Tollefson. "She is always bringing light to a situation and making everyone laugh. She's an aggressive warrior on the field, but a caring, compassionate person off."
Her teammates aren't the only ones who see how special she is. It is almost impossible to miss even over a short period of time. At the Patrick Baker Soccer Camps held every summer Boyce is a camper favorite despite sessions that last only about four days.
"She cares about people. She cares about her teammates and that shows. When she works at our summer camps she gives everything. She never cuts corners and always gives more rather than less," said Baker. "When we do the post-camp intros at the end of the week, she is getting the biggest cheers and claps. Campers want her autograph."
She received the ultimate respect from her teammates in the off-season when she was elected to captain potentially the best team ever assembled at FSU. The Tribe is coming off a season when they set the best record in program history on the way to the Round of 16 at the NCAA Tournament.
If FSU is to take that elusive next step past the Sweet 16, it will be the Boyce-led defense that has to take them there. The FSU backline returns two other starters from last year but Boyce played on the best defense in school history in 2000 and knows it will be a challenge to match that groups accomplishments.
"I am excited about this group and it could be one of the best I have played with," she said. "You never can tell though until it is all said and done and you can look at the season as a whole. I am starting to get a better idea of how much we can accomplish as a unit. I hope we can challenge the group from my freshman year in 2000 who allowed the fewest goals in FSU history."
With three years of battles under her belt, Boyce knows that it really takes such a combination of factors to succeed in a game that is getting more competitive every year. But as much parity as there is in women's soccer today, she knows there are a group of teams that seem to be where the Seminoles want to be, in the College Cup.
"When you look at the College Cup, it seems like you see a lot of the same teams there every year. It would be nice if we could crash that party but I don't know if that is going to happen this year. I think it is a realistic goal for this team to advance deeper into the NCAA Tournament than the Round of 16 but it will come down to how much we want it. A lot depends on how hard this team is willing to work and making the right decisions throughout the season.
"I think the next step for this program is just improving and getting a little bit better. We need to just take small steps because this is still a fairly young program. I think it is a mentality more than anything. Believing in our capabilities. There really shouldn't be any doubts in our minds about what we can accomplish as a team."
A trip to Cary, NC is already guaranteed for the 2003 Seminoles since the ACC Tournament will be played at the new SAS Soccer Park but a return trip in December would be the ultimate cap to the senior's career.
"I know what she means to our players, our coaching staff and our program and I am just happy we have one more year with her. She just keeps getting better and better," said Baker. "We have to send our two seniors off on a high note and there are no two seniors that have ever come through our program more deserving of that than Boyce and Amber Tollefson."
"I just want things to end positively. I don't want to put any ultimatums like we need to win this many games or go this far. I want to have fun my senior year. It would be so satisfying for me to end all of my four years on a positive note," said Boyce.
For a player who has doing nothing but perform on the highest level and win everywhere she has been, it is hard to imagine her career ending any other way.


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Hogg Family who changed their names to Church
I am researching the Hogg family which started with William Hogg in NH. My line go from William, Alexander, Alexander who changed his name from Hogg to Church in Vermont in 1804,Joseph Church who moved from VT to Oregon by 1847, Azro B, William, George Dewey.
I would love to share information with any members of this family.
Was your Joseph connected in any way with the Charles Hogg in New Hampshire who changed his name to Church in 1804 also? We are trying to connect that Charles to a Robert who was called his brother in Springfield, New Hampshire. Our side of the family changed their name to Johnson.


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Most enterprises are aware of how cloud computing helps to cut IT costs, deploy systems more rapidly, and increase agility. But what about scientific efforts? Can clouds – built on widely available platforms and commodity hardware – help researchers to do serious science?
The Magellan system, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is a system designed to run technical computing workloads. The system began life as a part of an evaluation effort, to determine if cloud computing was useful for technical computing workloads. This evaluation proved successful, in a variety of interesting ways. Today, the system is being used to push the limits of technical cloud computing.
The initial phase, the Magellan research project, was an ARRA funded joint project between the Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is located. At Argonne, a large scale system was constructed to be operated as a private cloud, to assess the usefulness of this approach to scientists. At NERSC, a smaller system was built to assess a variety of scientific workloads and analyze their suitability to a cloud environment. The combined Magellan resources were made available to about 3,000 scientists and researchers.
"Our goal at Argonne was to assess the maturity of the system software stack, its applicability to scientific applications, and the effects that the cloud model had on scientific users," says Narayan Desai, technical lead of the efforts at Argonne. "We expected to see a performance impact because of virtualization, however it was considerably smaller than we expected for many scientific apps. The first major pain point that we felt was the quality and scalability of cloud software stack."
The Argonne team had begun the project running an early open source implementation of the EC2 APIs, but quickly ran into scalability and stability problems. "Things were fine at small scale, but once we hit about 100 nodes the system had substantial issues. Considering our goal scale was about 700 nodes, this approach just wasn't going to work."
They had to decide their next move. "We looked at a number of other cloud stacks, and that's when we took a serious look at OpenStack," says Desai. OpenStack is a large-scale open source cloud computing initiative, founded to drive community established industry standards, end cloud lock-in, and accelerate the adoption of cloud technologies by service providers and enterprises. As a cloud operating system, OpenStack automatically manages pools of compute, storage, and networking resources at scale and is supported by a vibrant ecosystem of technology providers.
OpenStack projects are built through a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists who are producing the open standard cloud operating system for both public and private clouds. Cloud service providers, enterprises, and government organizations around the world are taking advantage of the freely available, Apache-licensed software to build massively scalable cloud environments.
"We found OpenStack very straightforward to build and deploy," Desai says. Today, the Magellan cloud consists of about 750 nodes, including 500 compute nodes, 200 storage nodes, a number of big memory (1 terabyte) nodes and 12 management nodes. "OpenStack worked and scaled much better than our previous platform," he says.
The team at Argonne also found that the OpenStack cloud proved ideal at creating an environment for prototyping, software development, and testing for large-scale scientific applications that have not been tailored to the traditional HPC environment.
"We have a lot of users who are doing large-scale computational biology on this cloud. The flexibility that OpenStack has given us has made a class of users – those who do a lot more prototyping and development on a regular basis – extremely productive," Desai says. "This was one of the most surprising findings during the evaluation project: scientific users really benefit from direct access to computational resources, with the flexibility to design a full software environment for their applications. Moreover, this benefit vastly outweighs the performance penalties for many application types, particularly in loosely coupled applications. Both of these conclusions were unexpected."
As a result of this project, Argonne decided to continue running the system as a cloud platform after the completion of the evaluation project. "This evaluation has been a big success," Desai says. And the lab is continually training more researchers on how to utilize the OpenStack cloud. "There are a lot of researchers who have gotten lots of science done on the OpenStack cloud, and we're going to keep learning how we can push this cloud further," he says.
For now, the focus on the system is twofold. The last year was spent transitioning the system from a testbed into a production grade system. The other major focus is closing the performance gap between traditional HPC platforms and the Openstack platform. "While we expect that virtualization will never be free, the costs are getting low in a lot of areas; we need to gain a better understanding of the performance tradeoffs, as well as techniques for tuning performance in virtual machines."
To this end, Desai's team has been working on building a performance-optimized cloud. Network and storage performance are often cited as key challenges for cloud systems. Scientific workloads often depend on movement of large data sets from site to site for analysis and visualization, so the bottlenecks here would have a substantial impact on daily use of the system.
Their first priority was to assess network performance off system. Using a development deployment of OpenStack, they demonstrated near saturation of a wide-area 100 gigabit Ethernet link. "We were able to demonstrate 99 gigabits of traffic flowing from 10 VM instances at Argonne to LBL across ESNet, the DOE research network," says Desai, "We had expected to need many more instances running across 20-30 nodes, but the fact that our network interfaces were the limiting factor was excellent; that demonstrates the low overhead virtualization can have as well as leaves room for improved node performance. Even more important, all of our network tuning could be accommodated without any modifications to OpenStack."
The team has also been working on improving storage performance. The have built a custom storage solution for ISCSI storage that delivers more than 2GB/s per server. "In aggregate, our storage servers should be able to provide enough bandwidth (12.5 GB/s) to stream data across the 100 gigabit Ethernet link at line rate. Soon, it will be feasible for researchers to dynamically provision cloud resources to move data cross country at tens of gigabytes a second."
Magellan is driven by its applications; its future architecture will be driven by their needs of their workloads. Many early users are bioinformatics applications. For example, one major user of the system is the DOE Systems Biology Knowledge Base, a collaborative effort to build predictive models of microbes, microbial communities, plants, and their interactions. The KBASE project uses Magellan to build data intensive computational methods and services. Another project using the system is the MG-RAST metagenomic annotation system, which assesses microbial communities' composition and metabolic function. Desai's team plans to generalize the system to other application domains over the next year, including cosmology and materials science. Moving forward, the team will continue to work on network and storage performance to power additional compute-heavy and data intensive DOE applications that are advancing scientific understanding in a variety of disciplines.


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UN unites efforts to support national response to HIV/AIDS in Georgia
TBILISI, 19 February 2007: A new UN joint platform to help Georgia in meeting internationally and nationally declared targets for the Universal Access to HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, Treatment and Support and ultimately to contribute to attainment of the Millennium Development Goal for HIV/AIDS in the country was presented today by the UN agencies. Also joining in the presentation of the Programme were Georgia's First Lady Sandra Roelofs and Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs Mr. Vladimer Chipashvili.
The 2007-2008 UN Joint Programme in support of the National Response to HIV/AIDS was elaborated by eight UN agencies - UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, UNHCR, IOM, WFP and the World Bank. The programme is based on the "National Strategy for Universal Access" developed by the Ministry of Health and the National AIDS Centre.
The programme aims at improving national capacity on HIV/AIDS governance, expanding evidence-based HIV/AIDS interventions in support of prevention, treatment and care and at reaching especially vulnerable population groups in Georgia, including the conflict-affected areas.
In particular, the programme aims to improve HIV prevention interventions among most at risk and especially vulnerable children, adolescents and adults who have not been covered by the current national response – i.e. child and adolescent institutions, street children, internally displaced people and refugees most at risk in conflict-affected areas; build the safe blood and blood banking capacities in conflict-affected zones; provide legal and social support and protection for children and adults affected by HIV/AIDS, including extension of the people living in conflict affected areas; and a major initiative for civil society mobilization on HIV/AIDS specifically to tackle the stigma and discrimination issues.
"We are confident that implementation of the proposed UN Joint Programme will enable Georgia to achieve the Universal Access targets and to ensure sustainability of the HIV/AIDS interventions countrywide including conflict-affected areas," said Robert Watkins, UN Resident Representative.
Mariam Jashi, APO Health, UNICEF Georgia
Ketevan Gioshvili, UN Information Officer,
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No one, including Tony Windsor (âWindsor slams Greens support for coal hoaxâ, AFR, January 21) should be surprised at the Greensâ support for the hoax press release from activist Jonathan Moylan.
The Greens have form with this type of activism. Windsor was in the Parliament when Harriett Swift, closely aligned with the Greens, went even further in 2005 in sending a hoax letter and press release purporting to be me, the federal member for Eden-Monaro, that caused great distress to a small business owner.
Gary Nairn Queanbeyan, NSW , Letters


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|netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, James Ketrenos <jketreno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|Re: Device naming for wireless NICs...
|Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:22:04 -0800
|HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
|HP Labs Palo Alto
James Ketrenos wrote : > > If this topic been hashed a lot already, please let me know the > keywords I might search for in the archives to find the threads. > > I've had a few requests by users of the IPW2100 wireless driver to > switch the default interface name to be wlanX vs. ethX. In my prior > searches through the wireless drivers in the 2.6.3 kernel tree, I > couldn't find any that changed from the default. This is my personal rule of thumb : o if the interface use Ethernet frames (i.e. offer Ethernet emulation), then it should be name 'ethX'. o if the interface use 802.11 frames (rawe/native), it should use 'wifiX'. The Aironet driver is a good example of this, for each hardware it offers two interfaces, 'ethX' and 'wifiY'. Personally, I've been converting a few drivers to use 'ethX' and removing 'wlanX' hacks where I saw them.. > I don't mind adding a module parameter to change the default name > (if that is the standard practice), but thought I'd see what others > thing rather than just going off and doing something random. Just point them to : http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/HOTPLUG.txt > Is there a technical or ease of use reason switching away from ethX? > My thinking in keeping it eth was that it then represents a greater > chance of "just working" with most networking scripts and utilities > that may assume ethX is the interface name. Note that the RedHat graphical configuration tool (neat) seems to insist on only using 'ethX' names. Yes, only using 'ethX' is generally safer (principle of least surprise). Have fun... Jean
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