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HP Mini 311: Netbooks get IONby Jarred Walton on 11/22/2009 3:00 AM EST
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takbal - Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - linkI turned the net upside down to find some comparisons in gaming with Acer AS1410 vs ION. None found, although there are plenty of videos on youtube about the ION-powered Samsung N510, showing games which look perfectly playable, while there are barely any for the 1410 or the 1810.
And then came the surprise: the only comparable benchmarks I found were for Doom 3, where the N510 is said to have around 28 FPS while the 1810 had about 12 FPS, although it was with the SU3500 CPU. N510 costs £380 here while the Acer 1810TZ costs £430. Twice the performance is pretty good for less the price, isn't?
So whatever the specs on paper, probably the reality is that GPU-limited games are perfectly playable on ION, and having a CPU 2x-2.5x stronger usually counts less than having a stronger GPU. It would be nice to see clear and I hope you will do a fair heads-on comparison on games in that upcoming article.
And exactly what does the 2x more powerful CPU helps? Video encoding is something I never do on the move. If I really-really need to, I can just simply remote into my quad i7, and I do it quicker than anything here. Actually, the review at http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=1923">http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=1923 says about the 1410:
"When officially benchmarked, the Core Solo SU3500 is about 20 percent faster than an Atom N270 at 1.6GHz, but 'real world' it felt about the same."
If I add to this that N510 has bluetooth, matte screen and a much better keyboard imho, until somebody shows strong arguments against, my vote is currently for the ION.
takbal - Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - linkSome more found with 3DMark03. Sources:
Acer 1410 SU3500: 1529
Acer 1810T SU7300: 1543
and the dual-cores seem to perform worse as they are lower clocked.
Compare it the N510's result which is 3470, more than 2x better.
You may hate Atom, but looks like that for gaming ION wins hands-down over current CULV platforms. For other purposes, I am fine until Atom can play all videos, run a text editor, office apps and remote desktop, which it does. Oh, and add decent Linux support, too. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, December 03, 2009 - link3DMark is NOT a game. At all. Sorry. I include is mostly because the earlier versions in particular are great "theoretical gaming" benchmarks -- they show what the GPU can do when CPU performance isn't much of a factor.
The reality is that many games do a lot of work on the CPU. There are games that don't run acceptably on a 1.3GHz dual-core CPU (Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Call of Duty World at War...) and that CPU is still more than twice as fast as Atom. As you can imagine, that makes Atom very questionable on all but the least demanding games, even when paired with ION. Reply
CZroe - Friday, November 27, 2009 - link"The HP Mini 311 is one of the first netbooks to ship with NVIDIA's ION platform. The question everyone's... "
"The question everone's [asking]" is, where is the question? ;)
This is gettting ridiculous. Anandtech has had truncated opening statements for as long as I can remember with no continuation inside the article. If you can't fix it, stop typing up opening statements that don't fit! Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, November 27, 2009 - linkYou'd need to look at the "Mobile" tab to get the full abstract. Here it is:
The HP Mini 311 is one of the first netbooks to ship with NVIDIA's ION platform. The question everyone's asking is: does ION improve the netbook experience? The answer is yes, but there are other questions we still need to address. Reply
rwrentf - Friday, November 27, 2009 - linkI don't know why the review sites seem to be ignoring this (I can't find a decent review anywhere), but what about the HP Pavilion dm3z? The specs I've been able to find specify a 4-5 hour battery life, 13.3" display, Radeon 4330 graphics (on the high end, but low end is still Radeon HD 3200), 7200rpm hard drive options, and a dual core AMD Athlon X2 Neo processor. There's a sweet system for $650 AR at the egg (just search for dm3 - 4GB, 320GB 7200rpm, and Radeon 3200 graphics). If you're already talking about close to $500 for this HP netbook, it's not a lot more, and it sounds like it would be enough for me to retire my real notebook. Please review it if possible. Reply
rwrentf - Friday, November 27, 2009 - linkIf you go to Amazon you can get just about the same machine (with Windows 7 home) for $550 Reply
noquarter - Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - linkI'm curious to how well these Ion netbooks handle popular MMO's, specifically World of Warcraft or Lord of the Rings Online, any chance to test those and maybe Eve? Reply
zxc367 - Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - linki want gigabit ethernet too! 100bit fails!
Roy2001 - Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - linkAnd what's the point to watch HD movies on a netbook? 18fps with 800x600 and lowest quaility for game, that's a joke. 18fps == 0fps. Reply
hybrid2d4x4 - Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - linkExcellent review! Looks like you hit all the important points and I like how the game selection is more relevant to this class of notebook. IMO, this raises the bar for comprehensive notebook reviews. Kudos! Reply
OhHenry - Monday, November 23, 2009 - linkHow come they don't give smaller SSD like 32GB or 40GB as an option. I honestly don't need 160GB for a netbook; I do not know what to even put on it. They offered a 80GB but it was quite expensive. On a second note, wouldn't a SSD increase the battery life as well? Reply
chrnochime - Monday, November 23, 2009 - linkAre you sure the samsung nc510 has the DX10 ION? Read elsewhere that the NC510 also has the ION LE, something about keeping the cost down. Reply
piroroadkill - Monday, November 23, 2009 - linkYou end up paying more for Ion, getting worse battery life, and still have completely useless gaming performance.
Seems like a lose-lose to me. I guess it's useful for video acceleration, but that seems like a pretty fringe case for a netbook Reply
araczynski - Monday, November 23, 2009 - linklooks like exactly the kind of junk HP likes to push at a price point that would leave anyone with half a brain scratching their head, wouldn't have expected anything more from them. Reply
Jaggins - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkI would like to see if an older game like Eve online or WOW would run on these ION netbooks. Reply
Lunyone - Monday, November 23, 2009 - linkI think they would be fine, just only when you get into RAID situations (or where there are alot of people and things going on). I think normal solo/small group playing should be fine. I haven't experienced it myself, but I used to game on WoW with a P3 800 mHz w/onboard graphics (Intel Extreme II, I think). Now mind you this was before the first expansion and the laptop wasn't all that special either, but the Atom would be about equivalent to a p3 at 1.6 gHz (if my reading is right). Reply
therealnickdanger - Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - linkGreat article, I was contemplating buying this, but now I'm not so sure. My ONLY gaming requirement is Halo PC (multiplayer). It's an old game, but has some quirks when it comes to its demands on CPU performance. So I really need to know what the 311 can do with this game. I'll mail you a copy if you'd like.
The game also has a timedemo mode. Just add
to the command line. It takes about a minute to rum. Reply
Devo2007 - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkA few days ago when ASUS announced their new dual-core Atom-based netbook, I ended up thinking that a CULV-based laptop would be a better idea (especially since that netbook has a 12" display, and only a 5 hour battery life).
Good to see I'm not alone in this line of thinking. :) Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkExactly. This isn't really for you, but for anyone else reading that's still wondering I've got numbers. The review is still pending, but just as an example:
Acer Timeline AS1810T-8679:
"63Wh" battery (11.1V, 5.27Ah/5600mAh)
Core 2 Duo SU7300 (1.30GHz)
Cost: http://www.onsale.com/p/5887001?dpno=7958665">$600
Battery Life
Idle: 592 minutes
Internet: 461 minutes
x264 720p: 259 minutes
Internet Minutes/Wh: 7.42
TMPGEnc MPEG4 CPU Encode: 18.04 FPS
Compare that with the Mini 311:
Battery Life
Idle: 362 minutes
Internet: 290 minutes
x264 720p: 225 minutes
Internet Minutes/Wh: 5.47
TMPGEnc MPEG4 CUDA Encode: 18.04 FPS
TMPGEnc MPEG4 CPU Encode: 7.27 FPS
So here's my point (spoiling my own upcoming article). For $600 you can get a Timeline 1810 that's about 2.5 times as fast in the CPU department, it has twice the RAM, it comes with Win7 64-bit, and battery life is anywhere from 15% to 65% better. Oh yeah, and while the CPU is "10W TDP", you'll note that the HP Mini 311 and the Timeline 1810 both have roughly the same size battery (the Timeline's is about 12% more capacity). For Internet use, the result is 35% better relative battery life.
Sure, the 1810 I just listed costs $600 and the HP Mini 311 I'm comparing it with goes for about $480. (Unless you really want to save the ~$100 and get XP with only 1GB?) If you get the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...">Acer AS1410 (or Gateway EC1435u), you're closer to $400 and you still get 2GB RAM and Win7 (64-bit no less, though with only 2GB that's not a huge deal). A 1.2GHz SU2300 is still going to be at least 75% faster in CPU tasks than Atom N280.
You can try to make an argument for GPU performance over CPU performance on other laptops, but with Atom the CPU deficit is just so huge that outside of video decoding (something you get with GMA 4500MHD as well) and perhaps CUDA apps, it just doesn't matter much. Reply
ninjackn - Monday, November 23, 2009 - linkI think a more fair comparison would be to mention all 3 tiers: netbooks, netbooks with video acceleration and CULV laptop. Netbooks have tempted me for a long while but the lack of ability to watch practically any video have long been a turn off from them.
The ION netbooks are something like $100 more over a netbook without video acceleration. That $100 gets me the ability to watch youtube, hulu, 1080p H264 content and play games like plants vs zombies, WoW or Quake Live. Then for another $100 more I can get a laptop that can possibly do the same but have better battery life, build quality and start office faster? The $100 more is seeming less appearing, especially since it is a non-primary system.
It seems like an interesting trade off, a weaker GPU and more powerful CPU (CULV + 4500MHD) or a strong GPU and weaker CPU (Atom + ION). The ION is defiantly a stronger GPU than the 4500MHD but I'm interested as to how the balance of CPU/GPU will play out in benchmarks for reasonable games.
Also, if you buy a mini 311 with Windows 7 then it comes equipped with the full ION. Granted that ION LE really IS a full ION with the DX10 disabled through drivers but it can be enabled either through a BIOS hack or forcing full ION drivers. The Windows Experience Index score for gaming jumps from 3.9 to 5.4 I'm curious how that plays out (311+full ion vs timeline for "light" gaming).
As for video playback I have no idea if the 4500MHD is any good for H264 decoding. All I've heard about it is from forums or comments and I would really appreciate if there was a more definitive source (anandtech) discussing the matter. I glossed over the flash 10.1 article and it would seem that either are fine for youtube or hulu but what about videos we acquired through other means?
And talking as a "typical" anandtech-reader/power-user type of guy: The ion is more interesting over the 4500MHD because no apple laptop comes with a 4500MHD but they do come with a 9400M.
JarredWalton - Monday, November 23, 2009 - link4500MHD provides enough GPU acceleration of x264/H.264/Flash decoding that when combined with a CULV CPU you can easily watch 1080p videos.
The real comparison is Acer 1410/Gateway EC1435u (essentially the same thing) vs. the HP Mini 311. All are ~$400 base price, with a slight advantage in specs (i.e. RAM) to the Acer/Gateway CULV laptops.
I can't say for sure how the Celeron SU2300 stacks up to the Pentium SU4100, but half the cache and 100MHz should mean it's about 80-85% of the performance. That should still be enough for video decoding (I'll verify with Flash 10.1 on SU4100 in the next couple days).
For graphics, GMA 4500MHD is about 1/4 the gaming performance of 9400M, but Atom really holds 9400M (ION) back it seems. If the 9400M can only run at ~1/3 it's regular gaming performance because of CPU bottlenecking, we have a real fight. If it's more like 1/2 speed, it's not as close.
I'll be looking at all of this in the next week or so.... Reply
AstarothCY - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkThe HP Mini 311 is multitouch-capable. Yes, the Windows 7 models ship with a driver that inexplicably does not recognize multitouch gestures, but if you install the following driver, they will work:
You may experience an issue with the function of the left touchpad button being unset from "Click", causing some issues after you wake up from hibernate, just make sure it is set properly. HP should really release a proper Mini 311 ALPS driver for Windows 7.
BelardA - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkYeah, it sucks that some idiots decided that WE would want glossy LCD screens for our portable computers. *I HATE THEM*.
But there are notebooks with WindowsXP & Windows7 with excellent matte screens.
They are called THINKPADS. Some of the cool-looking, lower end SL series has non-glossy screens. And the other series: R / T / X / W come with matte screens by default (Some are/were optional gloss).
So starting at about $550 (SL) or a typical SL / R with core2duo at $600~700 are matte screens.
I love my ThinkPad, and the screen was the #1 reason I bought it for $650. Many of my friends buy them now because of the screens and of course the quality. Something that HP can't touch.
BTW: I also like netbooks... for $250~300, willing to deal with the glossy. But it looks like a ThinkPad Netbook may come out and it has glossy :( (rumored)
cgramer - Monday, November 23, 2009 - linkFWIW, the Asus Eee PC 1000HE has a matte screen, though its case is as glossy as any of them (i.e., a fingerprint magnet). Reply
AstroGuardian - Monday, November 23, 2009 - linkThinkPads are marvelous piece of technology. Definitely untouchable by competition. But costly also! Reply
fokka - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkdell (and afaik hp) buisnes-lineups also offer matte sceens, though at least in the dell vostros, they arent that great considering viewing angles, contrast, colour. Reply
Etern205 - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkThe HP mini 311 uses DDR3 not DDR2 as you guys have stated in the specifications table. Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkSorry... typical cut/paste typo. :) Reply
irev210 - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkLots of talk between comparing the Acer 1810 to the ion platform.
You can get the 399 dual core celeron CULV for 399 in the acer timeline 1410.
The HP ion platform vs the Acer celly CULV platform is a no brainer comparison, as they are both 399.
Acer celly CULV is by far the best value in the netbook space atm. Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkI have a Timeline 1810 for review, so I actually have practical hands-on experience. Plus, when you consider the RAM upgrade on the 311, and a few other sundry extras, you quickly get a more realistic base price of $450 to $500.
At that point, comparisons with anything from the 1410 (and the Gateway EC 1435u I mentioned) through the $650 Timeline/EC models are all valid. Unfortunately, I don't have the $400 laptops in for review. I can come up with a fairly reasonable idea of how they'll perform, however, and the Celeron SU2300 is by far the best option for a small netbook right now. Reply
QChronoD - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkDo you guys run a default calibration on all of the displays before you test them or are those numbers OOTB? Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkThose numbers are using ColorEyes Display Pro to calibrate the LCDs. I have tried in the past to come up with an "out of box" result, and either the LCDs are all horrific (typically Delta E will average around 12 to 15), or I'm not doing the test properly. Without a way to be 100% sure what was going on, I decided to just stop doing those tests.
Ultimately, I think most users will adapt to however a display looks, unless they're really serious about color quality. When we're looking at netbooks, I think the vast majority of users never really pay attention to the LCDs. Obviously, I do pay some attention, but unless a display is really good I'm not going to spend much time on that area. Right now, most of the laptop LCDs are junk. Reply
hyc - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkAmen to that. I find it incredible that vendors are selling 15" displays with only 1366x768 resolution. (While these 11" netbooks have the same resolution.) When I buy a 50% larger screen, I expect 50% more workspace, not 50% larger pixels. WTF... Reply
Lord 666 - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkI own two HP 311 Mini's (one custom built and other 1037NR from VZW)and one HP 1151NR from VZW and can say the keyboard and touchpad placement were compromised on the 311s from older versions. The smooth keys and angle due to 6 cell make it challenging to type on than the 1151's matte finish and flat bottom. Plus, the left/right mouse buttons on the bottom make it tough to click compared to 1151.
However, compared to the older 1151 there are many advantages (screen size, larger stock battery and RAM, easy access to internals) and the reason why I picked up a second HP 311. The HP 1151 is being traded in tomorrow. Reply
fokka - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkjarred, you act like an atom limits the performance/experience even in simple day to day applications. i have to admit, i had similar gripes before my gf got her asus 1005hah, but now i learned, that this standard atom-netbook is delivering quite well in everyday tasks.
(of course) i had the pleasure to set this thing up installing software etc and i also did a lot of web-browsing and not even in this new youtube 1080p video-sample (fullscreen) i had slow-downs while bettery life was exceptional (8-10h) because i could use the super-power-save mode.
boot and hibernate etc also were much faster than on our standard notebooks (dell vostro c2d).
so while atom is extremely slow in raw numbers compared to other cpus, the everyday tasks of the average user dont suffer from this limitation.
just want to make things clear ;) otherwise excellent review, thanks! Reply
Mint - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkNot to mention that for more compute intensive operations (other than games and multimedia authoring) there's always VNC or remote desktop. Works well for a bunch of engineering and scientific software.
Netbook+desktop is a very good alternative to a single power notebook, and often comes in cheaper and more portable to boot. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Monday, November 23, 2009 - linkI bought this dv6-1154tx for INR 67,000 (approx. US $1400) when I joined uni this year. Should have got a $1000 desktop and a $400 netbook instead. Now I'm stuck with this notebook for another couple years or so at least. Reply
Lonyo - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkI got an Asus 751h with the slower 1.33GHz processor, and apart from being sluggish on Youtube and some other unnecessarily intensive sites, for what I actually use it for, writing papers in the library, it's perfectly functional.
Most of the time is spent checking websites for resources, looking at pdfs and using Word 07, and for all those tasks it's fine.
Sure I can't encode stuff, but who would dream of doing that? Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkBut have either of you tried something like a Timeline 1810? I have, and I can tell you that the experience is better than Atom -- quite a bit better in many instances. It's not just about raw, CPU intensive performance; the 1810 boots faster (marginally) and loads applications faster. Trying to open a dialog while a video is decoding as one example is horrible on Atom -- better to pause the video first.
Basically, Atom *can* do what you need, but so can just about any other CPU currently out there. Reply
yyrkoon - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkI would have to agree.
I picked up a Toshiba Satellite L305-S5921 for $399 free shipping. It only had 2 GB of RAM, and came with Vista home premium, so of course I purchased a 4GB kit at the same time ( both from the egg ).
I have not personally owned a netbook, but a friend of mine bought one for his wife, and I have to say it was dog slow. Boot times ranged around one minute, and the initial XP Home bootup was more like 3 minutes. I literally booted it up, walked away, did a few things, came back and it was still booting . . . Price at the time was slightly less than the notebook I purchased.
I have since retrograded to XP pro because the system was not directx 10 capable anyhow, and for me this would be the only reason to use Vista. Anyways, I do play games, and it will play games like GTA San Andreas maxed settings ( except 16 bit color ), at the native resolution, with no AA. It hardly ever stutters, usually only when I have background tasks running. What it will not do however, is play the most recent game titles well. I am fairly certain it would handle WoW just fine ( although I do not play it personally ).
As for non gaming tasks, it is hard to know you're using a laptop ( performance wise of course ). That is every day productive applications like Office 2007, or web browsing etc. It also has no problems playing movies, even HD content from YouTube. Used as a development machine, or the like, of course it would do things like compile applications slower. This is to be expected. Encoding movies would likely suffer as well.
Anyways, my point is; I can not see spending the same, or more money on a netbook , when you can purchase a laptop that will run circles around it. That is; Unless you think you're cool because you have an uber small PC. Or perhaps you have a legitimate reason such as being away from an electrical outlet for long periods of time. Or the power available to you is very minimal ( read: limited solar/wind power, or like the poster above who spends lots of time in the library researching and writing papers ). Reply
yyrkoon - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkSorry, I meant if this system were used to encode video, or compile application that it would be slower than most current desktops . . . Reply
fokka - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkno, i havent tried a timeline and -of course- the experience is better than the atom. the experience on my 2ghz c2d 2gb ddr2 5400rpm hdd dell should be even faster, at least in cpu-intensive apps, but the main advantage of the atom aint processing power, its a tdp of 2,5w and the low price, while delivering _enough_ power for most browsing, office and media-scenarios.
i have nothing against ion, culv or c2d, im just saying atom is good enough, at least for a secondairy computer.
what we also have to consider is, that we, writing and reading a tech-site, are power users, we can overstress even the fastest desktops. average joe would a little bit less demanding, i think.
thanks for the answer, anyway ;) Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkThe thing is, CULV are 10W TDP and will typically use less than that, so if you can get that for the same price why not? Atom needs to be cheaper, like around the $300 mark, and in many cases it is. The HP Mini 311 isn't one of those designs, unfortunately. Also, even with Atom I'd like 2GB RAM, and the 2GB netbooks are all pushing into CULV pricing territory. Reply
fokka - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkso 10w are 4 times 2,5w and since both these numbers mean the tdp, i think atom lies beneath 2,5w most of the time.
also, i spoke about atom in general, not in an ion netbook for 400$+, maybe i would get culv for that price, too.
i think we can settle this one down and resume that atom just aint powerful enough for _you_ ;) for me, my gf and millions of others it is.
in the end its about what you wanna do whith your machine and what you wanna pay for it.
and the 2gb you want to see in netbooks can easily be upgraded in most models
peace, it was a pleasure discussing with you :) Reply
voltronn - Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - link
I recently got a little samsung NC10, and strangely, its taken over from my main powerhouse PC. Its just so handy, I can read the morning news while I eat breakfast at the table like a civilised human being. When I come home in the evening I just carry it down and plug it into a 22 inch monitor and watch tv/films. I press the ON button and within 7 or 8 seconds I can browse. Also, the battery life is key, because I don't have to keep the damn thing plugged in all the time.
Of course its fiddly and a little slow, but its just so handy, and it isn't some giant hulk or eyesore that takes up half my room.
If they can make them a little more powerful without upping the weight or loosing battery power then these little netbooks will be indespensible. Reply
gaidin123 - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkI read this article on an Acer 1810T. It's a great notebook and the $400 1410 with the su2300 is an even better value. If you are in the market for a net/notebook you owe it to yourself to compare this line with whatever else you're looking at.
One great surprise was that the thing supports simultaneous extended desktop on both the hdmi and vga ports (disabling the notebook screen) for multimonitor setups. The 1810T at least does 1080p x264 content using dxva in mpc-hc just fine. Reply
ET - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkThe comparison to the 1810 Timeline is a good one, and I'd love to see a review comparing performance of that notebook. Looks like we're at a point where netbooks have grown big enough and notebooks have grown small light and inexpensive enough that the distinction is blurring. Which I think is how things should be. Making a point to benchmark netbooks/notebooks of similar dimensions together might help sort out this market. Reply
ET - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkHopefully you'll have an ASUS Eee PC 1201N for review. The dual core Atom might make a difference when it comes to gaming.
For games, I think that it'd be nice of you could try out WoW. Playing MMO's is an obvious "net" activity. When I was playing City of Heroes, I used to want to play it while on the road, on my Fujitsu P1510D. Horrible experience, I can tell you, although it at least worked. Reply
StevoLincolnite - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - linkMight I add that it is possible to enable Direct X 10 on the ION LE? Just by forcing the drivers to think it's a regular ION will make that happen, it also comes with a small performance boost.
Might be worth checking out. Reply
scott1202 - Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - linkThis is a very good laptop also it looks very attractive and all the functions are easily performed.The screen is wide and the Mini 311 comes with a 6-cell battery standard I was surprised to find that despite the large high resolution screen, and Nvidia ION, the Mini 311 has some pretty good battery life. Some more Sources: http://www.laptopadapterac.com Reply


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First of all, I can't thank you enough for all the emails asking what happened to me. It's good knowing that you are appreciated not to mention, missed!
About nine months ago, I began working on my second book. This story is the tale of my exploits on the golf course and it is entitled,
"LIFE is an Unplayable Lie".
Being as last June marked the 25th anniversary of my "winning" the title of "America's Worst Avid Golfer", I thought that now was as appropriate a time as any to compose a tell-all biography documenting the unbelievable 2 1/2 decades that followed.
I tried to juggle my book writing and blog writing, but the further I got into my book, the more difficult it got. Then, in February, I was contacted by "Golf Channel" as they invited me to go back down to the TPC Sawgrass to have another go-around at the legendary 17th hole.
If I may jog your memory, this is the famous hole where I lost 27 balls en route to shooting a 66 on that one hole, thus cementing the life-long title that I now possess.
My wife and I traveled back to Ponte Vedra for a few short days and the result was the video that is available here entitled "Remembering Angelo". My producer for this shoot was a young man by the name of Dominic Dastoli who did an amazing job coordinating the entire event. Dominic later commented to me that he felt that this video represented the "best work of his career". I'll let you be the judge of that.
Not only did Dominic secure the use of the TPC course, he also managed to have a PGA official, the TPC's official starter, as well as legendary former commissioner, Deane Beman on hand to participate as well!
Needless to say, I was blown away by the folks at the TPC and the video was shown by "Golf Channel" as a part of their week-long coverage of the Players Championship.
It was totally an unbelievable coincidence that at the same time that I was writing a book, that the final chapter would land on me courtesy of Dominic and the folks at "Golf Channel".
When I came back from Florida, as you can imagine, I became completely immersed in and obsessed with completing my book which at that time was about halfway finished. Meanwhile, as I pounded away nonstop at my keyboard, consumed with completing it, I was unable to keep up not only with sports, but composing my sports blog as well.
As I write this, my book is now about 80% complete. The stretch run will involve more writing but the lion's share of the work will involve the task of copy reading, editing and polishing the entire manuscript. After I've finished doing that, I'll do one final pass-through to insure that "no stone has been left unturned".
Trust me, after spending eight hours a day writing a book, you're too burned-out to compose a story for your blog which can take anywhere from 45 minutes to two hours depending on the story.
So what I'm trying to say is that I apologize for not posting and I hope that once I've completed my book that I'll be able to get back into covering Pittsburgh sports as I always have. In the meantime, I hope you get to watch the video that shows how I managed to get what I called, "The biggest penalty in the history of golf." Also, below I'm going to give you an excerpt from chapter one of...
"Life is an Unplayable Lie".
I'll greatly appreciate your comments!
---Angelo Spagnolo "66"
"Charlie Brown"
"Are you crazy? Do you want people to think that I'm making a joke out of this? No way. There's no way that I'm putting across that path. I'm going to get on that green the way this hole was designed to be played."
That was a conversation I was having with my caddy, over 25 years ago. I had already lost about a dozen golf balls into the lake surrounding the dreaded 17th hole at the TPC Sawgrass course in Ponte Vedra, Florida. My caddy at Sawgrass was a young, part-time real estate agent named Paul Karahalios. God bless him, he thought it would be more fortuitous for me to putt my way down a packed sand cart path near the waterline and then out along a snaking path that made its way out to the green. This was about the most absurd idea that I had ever heard in my life and there was no way that I was going to do it. No way!!!…. What I didn't know at the time was that it wasn't even my caddy's idea! More on that later...
Have you ever become involved in something and later found yourself asking, "How in God's name did I ever get myself into this?" That was me all during the years 1984 and 1985. It was during this time when I unwittingly was laying the groundwork for establishing a worldwide reputation for myself as the worst player in the recorded history of golf…the worst on the planet…the worst golfer who ever picked up a club, yes, the worst who ever lived!
"How do you do this," you ask? "It ain't easy," we often will say here in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
What I'm going to attempt to do in this story is try to explain how all of this came about and the craziness that it became. But as is the case with any good story, I have to first take you back, back, back; All the way back to my days as a young boy growing up in Pittsburgh (sound of harps in background).
I was a pretty happy kid growing up. I was the oldest of three children with a younger sister, Mary, and a little brother, Frank. My parents were hard-working, good people who loved each other and their children very much. We lived in a middle-class neighborhood and we kids all went to Nativity of our Lord Catholic grade school, so religion was always a big part of everything year 'round.
My earliest sports activities were playing in pickup baseball games and of course, playing little league for four years. I loved baseball as a boy and I played nearly every day. I always had my glove on the handlebars of my bike just in case a game broke out. You would have thought that I would have improved after playing so much, but unfortunately, I didn't. That should have been an early clue of things to come for me later. Even though I wasn't some uncoordinated person who was always falling down the steps or something, at an early age I had already displayed a striking inability at playing sports. Any sports.
Normally, when we played pickup games there would only be ten or twelve of us total, so we would have "ghost" fielders. If, say, the fielding team called a "ghost" for left field and the other team hit a ball there, well too bad, you were automatically out. In my case, I was the kid who was always chosen last during the per-game ritual of picking teams. This was because: I couldn't catch fly balls, I didn't throw that great and, oh yeah, I couldn't hit. Other than the fact that I didn't have blazing speed either, I was great.In reality,I should have been a ghost player.
This was very frustrating because I really loved baseball, but I also really stunk. We used to play on a field that we called "The Coal Mines". This was because that's basically what it was, an old strip mine where they had basically cut off the top of a hill. This place had only a backstop, no benches, no dugouts and no fences. If you hit a ball over someone's head, well forget it, you'd be chasing it forever. So being able to hit was a major consideration in these games.
If you ever had to slide at this field, a tremendous cloud of dust would be kicked up and your clothes would be covered in black coal dust. The players would wear this as a badge of honor, viewing themselves as being a gritty player. My mother, on the other hand, would become infuriated at what I was doing to my clothes. She'd often say, "And don't be going to that coal mine." But with every guy waiting outside my house for me to finish practicing my accordion, well, I had already suffered enough of a humiliation for one day already.
Like a rebel without a cause, I went anyway and tried not to slide. Most of the time there was no problem because I didn't get on base that often anyway!
My love of baseball continued into organized baseball. In the "minor leagues" I played on the "Pirates". I seldom got a hit, but one day I lucked-out and made contact. I actually hit a double. I didn't know it at the time, but that would be my career highlight. But most of the time I was an "automatic out". More often than not I was usually looking at simply striking out. My hand-eye coordination was awful, just as it is trying to hitt a stationary golf ball! Naturally, I began "riding the pines" as players do when they stink.
One day we were playing on a field that had benches but no dugout or fences to protect anyone. We were small kids, ten years old, so no one should have been in imminent danger...well one would have thought, anyway. One of my teammates, a righty, was late on a swing. I was sitting on the bench along the first base line, not paying enough attention, when he made solid, albeit late, contact. The result was a hard line drive that hit me directly in my forehead. Since I only had my baseball cap on at the time, the result was the biggest "hit" of my baseball career. I was briefly knocked out.
When I "came to" a short time later, I had a massive welt on my forehead. My firs dubious athletic performance was now history. It was then that the league put in the "Spagnolo Rule": All players at this field not in the game had to wear a batting helmet. My teammates just loved me for that.
The minor league Pirates, just as has been the case for the last 18 years with their modern day brethren in Major League Baseball, were a pretty bad team. However the next year when it came time to move up to the "majors" in our league, I was unbelievably drafted by the best team, the Yankees. They obviously must have been lucky at drafting, because they didn't much of a scouting department if they drafted me.
This team was loaded with solid players: Good hitters, dominant pitchers and slick fielders. My contribution was usually one or two innings in left field. Since there were more right-handed batters and odds were that they wouldn't "get around" on the ball against our pitchers, there were less chances that I'd have to be called on to field a fly ball, unless a rare left-handed batter came to the plate. Hence the reason for "hiding" me in left field.
I can vividly remember playing against the "Pirates" in our major leagues. Unlike their minor league counterparts, this team was really good. In a playoff game in later innings, we had runners on second and third with two outs when it came time for my trip to the plate. I was determined that I wasn't going to strike out and let our team down. I may not have been good, but I was determined, a trait that would rear up its ugly head throughout my sports and business career.
The kid on the mound, Tom Austin, was a hard-throwing, extremely intimidating pitcher. I dug in at the plate and before the first ball was even thrown, the umpire called time out and said, "Son, would you get back off that plate, you're inside of the batter's box!!!"
I dug in again and it was another fastball but this time over the inside corner. I leaned in and took a terrible blow to my upper arm. This kid was the hardest thrower in our league and I got a nasty-looking black and blue mark, complete with the stitches of the ball branded into my arm. But more importantly, I had "taken one for the team." Fighting off tears, I proudly went out to first base while trying to conceal my agony. Meanwhile, our dugout was wild with excitement. We had bases loaded and a chance to win because I had allowed myself to be hit. The next batter, our leadoff man hit a game winning single. I almost felt like I had done it myself. At least I had kept the inning alive! It was a small victory for me, but our team went on to win the league championship. Not because of anything I did, mind you, but because I had allowed a real hitter to get to the plate. But at least I was on a winner. It meant a lot to me.
I began wondering that perhaps baseball just wasn't the right sport for me though. Maybe I'd have better luck playing football? At least I wouldn't have to swing at fastballs.....


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I started last Sunday morning in bed, the way I usually start Sunday mornings: Sitting up, reading loads of articles that had been recommended to me by my Facebook timeline during the past week - some blogs but mostly from newspaper sites - on the iPad or my laptop.
The iPad cost about £450 and the laptop cost a good deal more than that. I probably clipped a few things to Evernote from my work PC as well during the week. My WiFi connection costs me over £20 a month..... all in all, tech companies get paid a lot of money by me to make this lovely Sunday lie-in a good one.
I usually clip articles that I intend to read straight to Evernote (which I pay for) and the only ads I really see are the ones Facebook serve up. Sometimes, if I notice people on Facebook or Twitter mentioning something without linking to it, I'll go over to Google, find out what they're on about and clip the article again for reading, so I do see the odd Google ad as well.
For these reasons (and not because of any deliberate ad-avoidance) I dont see any adverts that are posted next to the articles. It would be fair to say that I don't pay a penny directly or indirectly to the authors or their agents for any of my Sunday morning reading.
I rarely pay in any way for the journalism I consume. I get The Times app on my iPad to read on the way to work. I tried The Guardian one but it was so unreliable, I cancelled it.
My 'Times' purchase is an ill-considered one - and one that I don't get much value from. If I thought about it, I'd switch to the FT instead as I'm not keen on giving the Murdoch clan much of my tin, but I keep it on mainly because it's a fairly painless way for me to salve my conscience about not paying anything to read newspapers.
People like me are destroying the investment base of journalism. The only economic interaction I have with journalists is that their work nudges up the value that I place upon my iPad, laptop, Evernote and Facebook.
Objectively, people like me are far more vicious censors than any Ministry of Truth or any restrictive social convention.
At least they allow some journalism to exist with a sustainable economic base. Do I feel bad about it? No. There would be no point in that.
On the other hand, I would, if journalism as a craft with a collective conscience (and other crafts have these) woke up to the fact that their failure to assert the value of their work needs to be addressed radically.
But until then, there's no point. At the moment, I accept that we have a moral duty to part fools from their money.
Don't get me wrong either. I hate piracy and abuse of people's copyright. I work with film-makers and I know plenty of penurious musicians. I know how much learning, work and craft they put into their product. When some prick digitises their work and puts it on a P2P site - especially when the artist or their agents are either making it available at a price or choosing to exercise their moral rights - I regard this as a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance.
But newspapers are not filled with such craft. Nor do many of the writers have the chutzpah to demand that their work is valued in the way film-makers or musicians do. It would be a tough job to do if they did. After all, the blogosphere has established over the past decade that anyone can produce what a large slice of what most of the journalistic profession describes as the 'craft' of journalism is capable of producing - and that there are literally millions of people are already doing it in their own spare time.
Opinions are like arseholes - everyone has got one and no-one wants to hear any of them. We can all use Twitter to add our own flavour of cynicism and spin to what other people report. But good journalism - investigation, reporting, genuine educated insight - still needs to be funded. Unless it is, it becomes the exclusive terrain of those who would benefit in other ways from doing this work. As the professions of PR and journalism merge, this is already increasingly the reality here.
Good journalism won't ever be 'crowdsourced' like the Unicorn Cult of Wikipedians imagine it will be. When a 'journalist' copies the 'exclusive' work of a real journalist and reprints it without attribution, a profession with any sense of itself would hound them out of that profession. We're back to that 'craft conscience' issue. The missing component of all of the post-Leveson hand-wringing here in the UK has been journalists putting their hands up and saying "we have collectively failed - we have stood by and watched our profession degrade and it's time we did something about it."
That's the problem. It's not a profession or a craft that has any collective conscience. As such, it doesn't have the legitimacy that it needs to demand that its products are valued. Journalists seem to do little by way of demarcation between themselves and PR people these days. If it did, the profession and its industry would at least have the self-respect to be able to kick back against the scornful undervaluation of their work as much as the music and film businesses have.
But journalism is barely a profession or a craft anymore - except (ironically) the sort of stuff that people bother to clip to Evernote having read it in their Facebook or Twitter timeline.
What to do about this? It's hard to know where to start. You'd expect a craft that had a collective conscience to at least be discussing this. There is no question that the demand for real reporting and insight is larger than ever before. Other industries that have had their demand boosted by the arrival of the Internet have increased their revenue. But as long as it is the convention to give all of the content away to anyone with a browser and to allow search engines to index all of it without charge, no market can ever emerge.
Musicians like Camper Van Beethoven's David Lowery have been saying this for some time. Journalists need to start demanding the erection of a paywall around their work. They need to start insisting that Google pays something to index their content - as a single supplier that dominates the market, it exercises monopoly powers here and it should either compensate for the damage that this does to journalists, or be broken up.
It's time for writers to stop being conned into creating demand for tech kit. They deserve a slice of that cash we all spend on hardware / services / WiFi. I don't particularly want to see paywalls, and I don't think that a functioning market will ultimately need them either. But until they exist on all titles that pay journalists and Google have to pay to index what is behind them, no-one is going to incentivise publishers to take them down. There will be no functioning market for journalism until paywalls are at least introduced. Doing so may concentrate a few minds wonderfully.
If such paywalls existed, personally, I'd pay a fair few quid a week to my ISP if they could route me around them. I wouldn't mind paying a bit to services like Evernote for the added value I get from clipped stories.
Newspaper sites could be negotiating deals like this - if they erected paywalls, but at the moment they can't. For some reason, I can't remember the last time I heard a journalist attacking publishers for not creating paywalls. Why is this? Even though good journalism is a valuable craft, perhaps the fact that few people perceive it to be so means that no-one is prepared to make the argument?
The failure to articulate a collective journalistic conscience is at the heart of this problem.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to complain about it.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Journalism needs to develop a collective conscience if it is to survive
Posted by Paulie at Sunday, February 10, 2013
Labels: Copyright, Journalism
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- George Timothy Shutt said...
Great article. Thoroughly enjoying your blog,
In regards to my own reading habits, I often view articles via their original website, therefore seeing adverts around the edges. I've also noticed that some newspapers are frequently using video news, which also has adverts before the video starts.
Intriguing article. Keep up the good work!
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Hartford Stage Announces the 15th Anniversary Production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, 11/23-12/29
What do you get when you combine 3000 pounds of dry ice, 200 pounds of plastic snow, 33 presents under a tree, and a seven pound goose? You get 15 years and 661 total performances of Hartford Stage's thrilling and heartwarming holiday production of A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas.
Hartford Stage, under the leadership of Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts, today announced the full cast and creative team of the 15th Anniversary of A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas, by Charles Dickens, adapted and originally directed by Michael Wilson, directed by Maxwell Williams, on stage November 23 to December 29.
Seen by over 287,000 people since its inception in 1998, Hartford Stage's A Christmas Carol has rapidly become the theatre's most popular production of all time and Connecticut's favorite yuletide entertainment.
Hartford Stage brings the magic of Dickens' heart-warming classic to life in this Connecticut holiday tradition. The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, the heartless miser who discovers the true meaning of the holiday season after a Christmas Eve haunting, features all of Charles Dickens' beloved characters: Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Ghosts take flight and soar across the stage, carols are sung and snow falls capturing the spirit of a Victorian Christmas forever warming the hearts of adults and children alike.
Bill Raymond, currently on screen in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, returns for his 13th season as Ebenezer Scrooge for all evening and weekend matinee performances. Raymond's credits include the films Summer of Sam and Michael Clayton, and the HBO series "The Wire." Gustave Johnson will again lead the talented cast as Scrooge for the student matinee performances.
Local youngsters Ethan Pancoast and Fred Thornley IV, both of whom appeared this summer in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel at Goodspeed Opera House, will rotate the role of Tiny Tim. Pancoast is a third grader at West Hill Elementary in Rocky Hill, and Thornley attends first grade at Noah Webster Micro Society Magnet School in Hartford.
The cast will also include Curtis Billings (Fred, Young Scrooge), Robert Hannon Davis (Bob Cratchit), Rebecka Jones (Mrs. Fezziwig, Mrs. Cratchit), Sarah Killough (Wendy, Fred's Sister-in-Law, Begger Woman), JohAnna Morrison (Bettye Pidgeon, Spirit of Christmas Past, Old Josie), Michael Preston (Mr. Marvel), Alan Rust (Bert, Mr. Fezziwig, Spirit of Christmas Present), Noble Shropshire (Mrs. Dilber, Jacob Marley), Charlie Tirrell (First Solicitor, Undertaker), and GillIan Williams (Fred's Wife, Belle).
Also, from The Hartt School, Caitlin Blauvelt (Rich Lady), Josh Boscarino (Teen Scrooge), Dakota Dutcher (Dick Wilkins, Spirit of Christmas Future), Kelsey Flynn (Female Swing), Sarah Kozlowski (Ghostly Apparition, Citizen of London), Lars Lee (Male Swing), William Macke (Party Guest), Andrew McMath (Party Guest), Seth Peterson (Second Solicitor, Fiddler), Matthew Reddick (Lamplighter, Fiddler, Mr. Topper), Tara Reuter (Martha Cratchit), and Hannah Spacone (Nichola).
The Children of A Christmas Carol include Tiana N. Bailey, Tailanae Brantley, Lauren Cassot, Abi Conner, Meg Conner, Jacrhys Dalton, Rachael Dalton, Tyra Harris, Andrew Holland, Daniel Kemple, Daniel Madigan, Marisa McKee, Emily McLean, Abigail McMillian, AdIan McMillan, Dermot McMillan, Eric Stephen Murphy, Benjamin Olsen, Eliza Polukhin, Ankit Roy, Aleksei Sandals, Brandon Szep, John Henry Wenz, and Tilden Wilder.
A Christmas Carol features scenic design by Tony Straiges, costume design by Zach Brown, lighting design by Robert Wierzel, original music and sound design by John Gromada, choreography by Hope Clarke and musical direction by Ken Clark. Derric Harris will serve as dance coach; Sarah Killough asdance captain; Gillian Lane-Plescia as dialect coach; and Christina Pellegrini asyouth director.
Since its arrival in Hartford, A Christmas Carol has garnered rave reviews not only from audiences, but from critics as well. The Hartford Courant calls A Christmas Carol at Hartford Stage, "the most sought after holiday experience going . . . It widens the eyes and hearts of children while redelivering adults to the most magical Christmases of their lives." The Wall Street Journal raves, "Outstandingly well-performed - a merry medley of trap doors, flying ghosts and sound effects that tickles the senses."
The production runs November 23 to December 29. Evening performances are weeknights and weekends at 7:30 p.m. Matinee performances are Sundays and selected weekdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m. For specific schedule of performances or to buy tickets for A Christmas Carol, call the Hartford Stage box office at860-527-5151 or visit www.hartfordstage.org.


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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by Bowdown27, Feb 5, 2013.
Yeah, I do. It was a poor attempt at comedy on my end.
I don't rage. Never have, never will.
If they cut Free now they save almost $3M on the cap, after June 1st it jumps to $7M saved.
He's probably not willing to take the kind of paycut needed to be a backup.
Can't have a backup counting 11 mil against the cap bro. I wouldn't be surprised to see us rework a deal with Free.
If true this is a good step in the right direction. As long as Jerry can find the right replacement. Parnell could play the position if needed this year.
I say draft heavy on the OL and DL this year. Add a safety too.
He looked like he was on roller skates. If he is cut, who will help Tony up after he gets sacked. Free was All Pro at that.
they will designate free at June cut and release him now. so he can find a new team before teams have filled their ol holes
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Eskimo, I think Free had the dreaded double whammy last year for any O-lineman - he had no base (strength) AND his footwork was terrible. You can be a decent RT lacking one of those, but both? You're done.
Shoulda let Tampa overspend on him.
He had some good film an starts to indicate he was ready but this year he got exposed.
Now we're back to the plug and pray approach with Parnell.
This team has no idea what a QB or Olinemen looks like.
tall, stiff, slow, and rich
hope he catches on somewhere and improves--hate to think that last year would define anyone's career
all my friends are positive and upbeat and not "I told you sos".
But I'm glad you told me so. You are correct. Good post. We just can't be friends.
RedBaLl ExPreSS
I will save you the heartache and not say it
I still say we should inquire about the progress of former Panthers' #1 draft pick Jeff Otah.
Leave no stone unturned.
Is there any kind of link to this "Rumor" or can anybody substantiate this?
:laugh2: GOOD:laugh2: See ya Doug Free!!!!!!
As best I can surmise, one sports writer posted an assumption that many people have that Free will be released, then the rest of the gossip chain (aka: facebook/twitter) repeated it as "will be released" which in turn constitutes "many sources".
Doug Free:
Keep, then cut before 2014:
2013 Cap Hit = 11.175M
2014 Cap Hit = 4.175M
Cut now and designate as "June 1 Cut":
Cap Hit Now = 8.35M
Cat Hit After June 1st = 4.175M
2014 Cap Hit = 4.175M
Basically, they save 7M against the 2013 Cap and 7M in real dollars by cutting him.
If there is, in fact, any truth to this then I think that the Cowboys have to be looking at a Vet to bring in. There is no RT in this draft that can come in day one and be the starter assuredly. No way that the Cowboys could be counting on the draft to fill that position at this point. We haven't even had the combine yet. They would have to be thinking about FA. Either that or there is no truth to this rumor.


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Reggie Forrester has worn many hats in local government and the legal system.
Dorothy Shinafelt leads an organization that does much more than just teach people to read. Through its programs, the Gainesville/Hall County Alliance for Literacy helps people become more educated so they can get better jobs, make more money and, ultimately, help provide better skilled workers for local businesses. The alliance's biggest fundraiser, the annual Spelling Bee for Literacy, is Tuesday night.
Cheryl Christian leads one of the best "good news" stories in Hall County. As executive director of Good News Clinics, Christian oversees the largest free medical clinic in Georgia, serving more than 1,000 patients a month. A cadre of physicians volunteers at the clinic, which has been held up by Gov. Nathan Deal and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle as a model for the state and nation to follow.
Helen Dunn has seen it all - literally - at West Hall High School. She's been the librarian at the school since the doors opened 25 years ago. While a lot has changed since 1988, Dunn says the school in many ways is just the same, a place where faculty and staff truly care about their students and where students help keep her young.
J. David Earnest says his job as executive director of Challenged Child & Friends is the job he's worked his entire career to get. He calls the school a "remarkable setting" and marvels at how the facility helps students with special needs get ready to go off to a regular school. And he's grateful for the daily successes - both big and small - that happen in the school.
Cece Conrath says she's always been a performer at heart, and after watching two different performances of Les Miserables, she was hooked on theater. Now she takes that enthusiasm and shares it with students at Lakeview Academy in Gainesville. Recently, Conrath won the Outstanding Theater Educator Award at the Georgia Thespian Conference in Columbus, an award given annually to just one teacher in the state.
Lee D. Highsmith sees Junior Achievement as a way to give young people a vision for their future. As executive director of Junior Achievement of Northeast Georgia, Highsmith oversees a variety of programs that last year touched more than 7,000 students.
Darla Eden took office as Hall County's new tax commissioner just as a new law governing motor vehicle taxes was about to take effect. So she's spent much of her first two months in office explaining the law, which took effect Friday, and its impact to taxpayers. But she has big goals in mind for the office - expanded hours and better customer service among them. Today, The Times asks Eden five questions about the tax commissioner's office, the new law and her vision for the future.
Tim McDonald has spent his entire life in Gainesville, so he knows the Northeast Georgia region well. It's knowledge that helps him greatly in his role helping boost economic development here. As Lanier Technical College's vice president of economic development, McDonald is continuing a long tradition of using the college as a catalyst for development.
Ann Nixon started building with Habitat for Humanity of Hall County five years ago, becoming a full-time builder three years ago. Now she's the organization's executive director. Her biggest challenge will be how to not only sustain the program, but to grow it. Habitat will be partnering with Hall County to rehabilitate existing houses for new homeowners.
A former Hall County jailer was released on a bond "of his own recognizance," stemming from charges of felony sexual assault.
Tuesday is showtime for Charlotte Sosebee, the director of elections for Hall County.
Music has been a part of John LaForge's life for as long as he can remember. He was in musical theater in high school, sang in his first opera in college and has taught music to high school students.
When Rick Aiken came to work at the local humane society 24 years ago, it was days away from closing. Today, the Humane Society of Northeast Georgia is a thriving organization, having served millions of pets and people in those years. Now Aiken is preparing for retirement, and today, The Times asks him five questions about life as a shelter director and what life in retirement may bring.
Mitchell Hamilton is new to this area, coming here just a few months ago to serve as a recruiter for the United States Marine Corps. But already he says he loves it here, calling Northeast Georgia a very patriotic area that fully supports the nation's military.
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Saturday I checked the mail and discovered I had received a "Special Pre-Release Sample" of Dizzy Pig's new seasoning Mediterraneanish. Unfortunately, at the just that moment, Mrs. G arrived home with fixin's for chili so I wasn't able to try it until last night. I had a pork tenderloin that I needed to use so I gave it a 2 hour brine in 4 cups water, 1/4 cup salt, 1/8 cup sugar, 8-10ish peppercorns, a few bay leaves and a pinch each of cumin and Mediterraneanish. After two hours, I rinsed it off, patted it dry and rubbed it down with DP's new rub. I had my Mini set up at 400F and no wood for smoke as I wanted the flavor of the rub to shine through.
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Univ. of Delaware women aiming for March
The Blue Hens team is tearing through the CAA and has its sites set on making another run at the NCAA tournament in March.
With no major league professional sports programs in
While the UD football program's future is uncertain following the dismissal of head coach KC Keeler, expectations are high for the women's team, in hometown superstar Elena Delle Donne's final college season.
"Our fans are phenomenal" says Delle Donne. "As we started to win more games last season, you really started to see this place fill up and it's been incredible."
Hens guard Jaquetta May says the support is even more evident on the road. "I notice the most when we're away. There are many people that travel to our away games. We flew out to
With an undefeated record so far against opponents in the Colonial Athletic Association, the Hens are poised to make a follow up run to last year's appearance in the NCAA tournament. In 2012, the Hens won their first round game as a no. 3 seed before getting upset in the second round by 11th seeded
"Yes, we want to be here in March. Yes, we want to be playing in front of our home crowd, that would be a dream come true for the players and for this coaching staff," said Hens coach Tina Martin. "But there is a whole lot of work to do done before that can become a reality."
The process of making that dream a reality nearly crumbled at the start of the season when Elena Delle Donne suffered a flare up of Lyme disease that limited her ability to practice and play. "I've been getting a lot better and I've been responding a lot better after games," says Delle Donne. "Before I wasn't responding at all, and I was basically bedridden, so I'm doing far better."
The team struggled early without Delle Donne in the lineup, in part, because it was so unexpected. "I think at first not having her play kind of put a slippery slope, if you will, to our team because we weren't kind of expecting it and we scrambled," Martin says. "Now that it's happened, certainly we'll be more prepared, if it happens again, we don't want it to happen again, but you know certainly it was a lesson learned by everybody and now we just want to keep everybody healthy."
For the rest of the team, Delle Donne's early absence called for lots of adjustments. "We had some things that threw us off a little with Elena getting sick and we didn't win the games we thought we should've," says May. "I feel like now we're coming together more, we're working more as a team and we're learning how to work together to win."
That learning process continues with a team trying to make one last push led by one of the best basketball players
"Elena making the decision four years ago certainly helped the program because she was the highest profile athlete in the state of
Delle Donne's star continues to rise, from throwing out the first pitch at Phillies Opening Day to winning a gold medal at the World University Games, but the highest profile athlete in
"Immediately after college basketball is over the draft is pretty much the first week after the final four games. So hopefully I will be at that draft, getting drafted to some team and then I'll be flying out to that city and playing for a WNBA team."
And she's confident the health struggles that slowed her start to the season will soon be a thing of the past. "My doctor and I are both very hopeful and she has been having me on incredible treatments that restored my health. So I believe in her, and I believe that I will be healthy."
But for now, Delle Donne and the team are focused on continuing their winning ways in the
For Martin, it's all about pushing the team to make sure the final year of Delle Donne's tenure at
"I'd like to finish it in the right way. I hope the rest of the team wants to finish it in the right way. But again, that's going to take effort and that's going take sacrifice from some of these kids and hopefully they're willing to do that."
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London, Sep 4 (IANS) A majority of men wish to die before their wives bid them goodbye in this world, but hardly anybody wants to die for their country, a study has found.
A study of 1,005 adults, conducted by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair, showed 70 percent of men would want their wives to outlive them.
Women were slightly less likely to want to be outlived, with 62 percent of women saying they would want to die before their husband, Daily Mail reported.
Fifty-five percent of the people overall said they would give up their lives for their children. But hardly five percent said they would die for their country.
The poll was part of a mortality-themed study, which also looked at other questions about death and dying.
Asked which celebrity they would like to bring back to life, 35 percent mentioned Princess Diana, followed by 14 percent who chose Steve Jobs and 11 percent stating Michael Jackson's name.
Family members were the people most participants said they would give up their lives for, with 55 percent choosing children.
If they were given a choice, 12 per cent said they'd die for their spouse, ten per cent would give up their lives for their parents, ten per cent would die for their religion, and only five per cent said they'd die for their country.


text: Alfred Glassell's 1,560 pound black marlin is the all-tackle and 130-pound line class record for the species, and it remains the ultimate measure of the sport for every serious marlin fisherman. But his contributions to sport fishing go well beyond that world record. Although Glassell appeared on the cover of a 1956 Sports Illustrated, few of today's billfishermen know much about him, and even fewer are familiar with his other accomplishments. He was the first to boat a black marlin over 1,000 pounds according to IGFA rules and, when he lost the record within a few days, regained it for the second time in a month with a 1,090 pound catch. Although Glassell traveled the world hunting marlin, bluefin tuna and swordfish, his research convinced him he would find his giant quarry in the bait-rich waters off Cabo Blanco, Peru, and on August 4, 1953 he landed the 1,560 pound record fish that would withstand the test of nearly a half-century of tackle and boat improvements. Film footage of Glassell's jumping, tail-walking and greyhounding granders was used in the movie version of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, and his all-tackle record fish hangs in the Smithsonian Institution. Alfred Glassell has spent his lifetime pursuing his passions and excelling in many fields, including the petroleum industry, marine biology research, the collecting of fine art and, unbeknownst to many, freshwater fly fishing. He was a member of the U.S. Team in the International Tuna Cup Matches for seven years, serving as captain of the 1952 second-place team, is a Life Trustee of Texas Childrens Hospital, and Chairman of the Board of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Well-known for his philanthropy in many areas, Glassell has been a particularly generous supporter of marine science, leading successful scientific expeditions around the world for both Yale University and the University of Miami, where a unique research laboratory bears his name. Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., industrialist, sportsman, adventurer, amateur oceanographer, marine biologist, philanthropist, civic leader and patron of the arts, is truly a legend in his own time.


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The methodology for inclusion is to take the upper percentiles based on citation counts[1] of all articles indexed in the Scientific Citation Databases in a 10-year, rolling time period. Each article in the data is assigned to one or more of 21 categories, based on the ISI classification of the journal in which the article was published. Those on the Highly Cited Researcher list constitute (in the terms stated above) the 250 most cited researchers of each category in the specified time period.
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The word "holiday" means "holy day." But there is nothing holy about Halloween. The root word of Halloween is "hallow," which means "holy, consecrated and set apart for service." If this holiday is hallowed, whose service is it set apart for? The answer to that question is very easy-Lucifer's!
Lucifer is a part of the demonic godhead. Remember, everything God has, the devil has a counterfeit. Halloween is a counterfeit holy day that is dedicated to celebrating the demonic trinity of: the Luciferian Spirit (the false father); the Antichrist Spirit (the false holy spirit); and the Spirit of Belial (the false son).
The key word in discussing Halloween is "dedicated." It is dedicated to darkness and is an accursed season. During Halloween, time-released curses are always loosed. A time-released curse is a period that has been set aside to release demonic activity and to ensnare souls in great measure.
You may ask, "Doesn't God have more power than the devil?" Yes, but He has given that power to us. If we do not walk in it, we will become the devil's prey. Witchcraft works through dirty hearts and wrong spirits.
During this period demons are assigned against those who participate in the rituals and festivities. These demons are automatically drawn to the fetishes that open doors for them to come into the lives of human beings. For example, most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches.
I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference.
Even the colors of Halloween (orange, brown and dark red) are dedicated. These colors are connected to the fall equinox, which is around the 20th or 21st of September each year and is sometimes called "Mabon." During this season witches are celebrating the changing of the seasons from summer to fall. They give praise to the gods for the demonic harvest. They pray to the gods of the elements (air, fire, water and earth).
Mother earth is highly celebrated during the fall demonic harvest. Witches praise mother earth by bringing her fruits, nuts and herbs. Demons are loosed during these acts of worship. When nice church folk lay out their pumpkins on the church lawn, fill their baskets with nuts and herbs, and fire up their bonfires, the demons get busy. They have no respect for the church grounds. They respect only the sacrifice and do not care if it comes from believers or non-believers.
Gathering around bonfires is a common practice in pagan worship. As I remember, the bonfires that I attended during homecoming week when I was in high school were always in the fall. I am amazed at how we ignorantly participate in pagan, occult rituals.
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As a person of Mustached American descent, I have lived a lifetime under a veil of scorn and disdain that continues to target the rugged good looks and laser cocksmanship that typifies the Mustached American experience.
Indeed, even today in what is purportedly a more enlightened America, being a minority is in now way easy.
Enter the St. Louis Rams little-known seventh round draft pick out of Missouri. You may be familiar with him. He was the Southeastern Conference's Co-Defensive Player of the Year. His name is Michael Sam.
Oh, and as an aside, a little-known fact about Sam besides having a first name for both his first and last name: He is gay.
No, not happy "gay" like the silent film stars of the silver screen in the roaring '20s. He's gay "gay."
Yes, God forbid. A man who likes other men!
Of course, a variety of reactions rolled in after Sam was drafted and seen kissing his boyfriend on camera as the two celebrated one man's life dream of being drafted into the National Football League. While most were supportive, some could be heard moaning in the rafters. Notably, a foolish strong safety for the Miami Dolphins, Don Jones, scoffed via Twitter after the pick was made and has since been fined and suspended by his employer. Then former Super Bowl champion Derrick Ward was kind enough to tweet, "I'm sorry but that Michael Sam is no bueno for doing that on national tv….Man U got little kids lookin at the draft. I can't believe ESPN even allowed that to happen."
This just in: "no bueno" is not proper Spanish.
Fortunately, however, unlike the way the bigoted clean-shaven masses treated the Mustached American community in the 1980s — publicly shaming our people and forcing us to defecate in Port A Pottys marked "Mustache" — for the most part Sam is being broadly embraced, with the only concern now being that his attention will be too divided to effectively focus on football.
To wit, CafePress is selling apparel reading "Sam I Am. I Am A Ram;" his NFL jerseys are second in sales amongst rookies to only the ass-clown Johnny Manziel; and Opera Winfrey's worthless television network has even announced they will produce a reality television show about Sam's hopeful journey into the league.
Is America changing? Will this nation continue to embrace those who have faced discrimination in the past? If Michael Sam is any indication, we can only assume the answer is a resounding "yes" and that American culture is changing its tune of discrimination.


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October 7th, 2011 | SMWC
The Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Music (SMWC) Therapy Club will host a hair-raising fun time on Saturday, October 29, 2011 with the second annual Halloween Haunted Conservatory. The chilling event will be held at the Conservatory of Music on the College campus from 9 p.m. to midnight.
"Last year, this event brought the music and theatre department together," said Nicole Wieg, music major and co-coordinator of the event. "We want to continue the tradition of providing a fun and safe environment for Halloween lovers," added Weig.
The Haunted Conservatory includes two floors for visitors to experience. Guests will be treated to a short introductory movie, produced by the music and theatre students of SMWC. The students will serve as tour guides and escort the brave to the second floor of frights. Those too young to be spooked will remain on the main floor and visit the children's activity stations. All activities will reoccur throughout the night.
The event is open to the public. Admission is a free-will donation. All proceeds will be used to support the SMWC Madrigals, who will be traveling on 11-day choir tour to France in May 2012. Madrigals will visit many well-known historical sites, sing in some of the greatest churches of France, and visit the birthplace of SMWC founder, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and the motherhouse of the Sisters of Providence in France.
For additional information on the Haunted Conservatory, contact Nicole Wieg at .
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The next-to-youngest son of James Chamberlain and Sarah Runnels Barton, two transplanted E. Tennesseans who married in Johnson Co., MO in 1841 and later relocated to TX in the late 1840s. Lawson married Susan Olive Frey in Caldwell Co., TX, in 1882 before moving northward to settle in Haskell Co. They were the parents of ten offspring: Marvin Terrell; Alvin Cleveland; Robert Pleasant (Pleas); Cora Pearl; Henry Lafayette (Fate); Dora Ethel (Dutch); Nell Ollie; Lonnie Lawson; Ara Burnice (Dink); and Alton Parker (Jack). When they finally retired from farming in the mid-1940s, Lawson and Ollie moved to Lubbock in order to live closer to several of their children.
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